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"Dubbed Deep Time, the event, soundtracked by Glasgow post-rock band Mogwai, saw the landmark used as a canvas for animated projections taking in 350 million years of history. A planned live stream of the event malfunctioned, but spectators hailed the event as an ""amazing spectacle"". The festival runs until 29 August. A viewing arena was created on Castle Terrace for the show, which marked the start of Standard Life's three-year sponsorship of the Edinburgh International Festival. On social media, Press Association reporter Ben Phillip described the event as ""absolutely spectacular"", while Joanna Keating said it was an ""amazing spectacle"" which ""kicked off the festival in style"". The festival's organisers apologised for the failure of the live stream, but said a video of the event would be uploaded afterwards. Deep Time was developed by the company 59 Productions with academics from Edinburgh University and will also look at the work of renowned Edinburgh scientist James Hutton (1726-1797), often referred to as the father of geology. Leo Warner, creative director of 59 Productions, said: ""Deep Time gives us an opportunity to build on the success of The Harmonium Project and to create a spectacular event that is more deeply connected to the story of the city."" Festival director Fergus Linehan said organisers wanted to ""offer the people of Edinburgh and beyond a spectacular start to the summer festival season"".",A spectacular light @placeholder on the side of Edinburgh Castle has marked the opening of the city 's International Festival .,effect,impact,display,landing,fixture,2
"The seeds of the October 2002 Bali bombing plot were probably sown in a hotel room in southern Thailand 10 months earlier. At a secret meeting of operatives from South East Asian militant network Jemaah Islamiah (JI), Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, was believed to have ordered a new strategy of hitting soft targets, such as nightclubs and bars rather than high-profile sites like foreign embassies. But it was not until August 2002 that Bali was chosen as the place to strike. Profile: Jemaah Islamiah According to Ali Imron, who was jailed in 2003 for life for his part in the attacks, it was at a meeting in a house in Solo, Central Java, that ""field commander"" Imam Samudra announced the plan to bomb Bali, and the main agents in the plot first came together. Bali was chosen ""because it was frequented by Americans and their associates"", Ali Imron said. He quoted Imam Samudra as saying it was part of a jihad, or holy war, to ""defend the people of Afghanistan from America"". In fact, more Australians and Indonesians died than Americans, prompting speculation that the plotters were poorly informed or manipulated by other people. Hambali, who is currently in US custody in Guantanamo Bay, is believed to have been the South East Asian contact for Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. But he is not thought to have played an active part in the Bali plot. Instead, 43-year-old Islamic teacher Mukhlas - also known as Ali Ghufron - was convicted as the overall co-ordinator of the attacks. Prosecutors said he approved the targets and secured financing for the bombings. Mukhlas himself claimed he just gave the bombers religious guidance. He also recruited two of his younger brothers, Amrozi and Ali Imron, to play key roles in the attack. Mukhlas and Imam Samudra are said to have chaired preparatory meetings in western Java during August and September. Ali Imron said that the Bali attacks were originally planned for 11 September, to mark the first anniversary of the terror attacks on the US. But the bombs were apparently not ready in time, and the plans had to be postponed. The details of the attack were finalised in Bali between 6 and 10 October. The bombers apparently all had separate roles. A man called Idris, who was later jailed for another bomb attack, was accused of gathering funds and arranging transport and accommodation for the bombers. Amrozi admitted to buying the chemicals and the minivan used in the Sari Club blast. He also named Dulmatin as the man who helped assemble the bombs. He also said that a man called Abdul Ghoni mixed the explosives. Another man, Umar Patek, was also convicted in June 2012 of helping make explosives. Ali Imron said he helped make the main bomb that was used at the Sari Club. He said a van loaded with explosives had been driven to Sari by a man called Jimi, who died in the blast. A man called Iqbal wore a vest with a bomb in it, which he detonated at Paddy's Bar. ""Their duty was to explode the bombs,"" Ali Imron had said. ""They were ready to die."" Iqbal is known to have died in Paddy's Bar. But Ali Imron also told police that the two bombs exploded prematurely, which could have caught Iqbal out, so it is unclear if he was on a suicide mission. All the individuals detained for playing a major role in the attacks have been sentenced - and Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra were executed in November 2008. Other key suspects are believed to have been killed by police before facing trial. Azahari Husin, a Malaysian who was alleged to be JI's top bomb-making expert and to have helped assemble the Bali bombs, was killed in eastern Indonesian in November 2005. Another alleged bomb-maker, Noordin Mohammad Top, was killed in a raid in November 2009. Dulmatin was killed by Indonesian police on March 2010 during a raid at a Jakarta internet cafe. Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, seen as the spiritual leader of militant Islam in Indonesia, was jailed for conspiracy over the bombings, but his conviction was later quashed. He is currently behind bars on different charges. While the Bali attacks were a team effort, its aftermath provoked different reactions from those involved. Police said Imam Samudra stayed in Bali for several days after the bombing to survey the devastation he wrought and observe the reactions of people he affected. Ali Imron shed tears in court, and repeatedly expressed remorse for his actions. Amrozi laughed and joked about his case, giving a thumbs-up sign when he was convicted. He said he was happy to die a martyr.","Two bombs ripped through the Kuta area of the Indonesian tourist @placeholder of Bali on 12 October 2002 , leaving 202 people dead . Among those killed at Paddy 's Irish Bar and the nearby Sari Club were people from 21 countries , including 88 Australians , 38 Indonesians and 28 Britons . BBC News looks at the background to the bombings 10 years on .",outbreak,resort,island,set,destination,2
"He joined former United teammates on Nobby Stiles Drive earlier to see the street sign officially unveiled in his birthplace in Collyhurst, Manchester. Stiles made 311 appearances for United between 1960 and 1971. The ceremony follows news that the 73-year-old has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Brian Kidd, also from Collyhurst, played alongside Stiles in Manchester United's 1968 European Cup Final win over Benfica. ""It's such a fitting tribute to such a wonderful man,"" he said. ""Couldn't happen to a nicer person or family. ""Nobby was such a clever reader of the game, just like Bobby Moore. ""Some people have selective memories and just think Nobby was a tough tackling hard man. But technically he was very, very good and I honestly think he extended the late, great Bill Foulkes' career."" Former colleague Denis Law played with the diminutive midfielder for the majority of his Old Trafford career before Stiles moved on to play for Middlesbrough and Preston North End. ""It's absolutely fantastic for Nobby,"" said Law, 76. ""I remember him kicking me at Wembley in one game. We were teammates but that didn't stop him."" Stiles' wife, Kay, said it was a richly deserved tribute. ""[Nobby] is delighted and says he can't believe it. He's a very gentle person, never said anything bad about anybody.""",Former Manchester United star and England 1966 World Cup winner Nobby Stiles has been honoured with a road @placeholder after him .,effect,race,died,named,number,3
"Keith Stewart found that the loch goes to a depth of 889ft (270.9m) on sonar equipment he uses. The official maximum depth on the current chart for Loch Ness is 754ft (229.8m). But the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), which is responsible for the official measurements, said it has no plans to resurvey the loch. Mr Stewart's discovery has been dubbed a new hiding place for the loch's mythical monster, Nessie. The MCA is responsible for mapping the sea and deep lochs and lakes around the UK. It does this in order to maintain British Admiralty charts under the UK Civil Hydrography Programme. An MCA spokeswoman said: ""We currently have no plans to resurvey Loch Ness.""",A tour boat skipper has recorded a new deepest @placeholder in Loch Ness on his vessel 's equipment .,drop,school,point,structure,hole,2
"The fast bowler served eight weeks in prison and was banned from professional cricket for five years in 2012. But the England and Wales Cricket Board has now given Westfield special dispensation to play for county second XI or minor counties for 12 months. The 27-year-old is expected to start training with Suffolk on Monday. Media playback is not supported on this device Westfield's first game for the county is likely to be a friendly against his former club Essex, but he is still not allowed to play first-class cricket until his ban expires in 2017. The right-arm paceman, who has been playing for Essex club side Frinton since 2014, was punished for accepting £6,000 to deliberately bowl badly in a one-day game for Essex against Durham in 2009. The ECB reduced his club cricket suspension to two years after he agreed to take part in an anti-corruption programme run by the Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA). ""I'm probably a little bit rusty,"" said Westfield, who has been working as a scaffolder. ""My body didn't used to ache as much as it does now, but I'm training hard and trying to get back my fitness. ""This summer I'll probably get the odd bit of banter, but I'll just have to distance it and get on, just focus on what I'm trying to do, score runs and take wickets. ""I've done wrong. I'm just trying to fix it now and obviously I'm happy I'm back playing cricket."" Suffolk team manager Andrew Northcote said a major reason for signing Westfield was to help inspire the young players the county has. ""Having played against him on the field, he's as hard as nails, everything you want from your professional,"" said Northcote. ""Every time you come across him, you know you're up for a fight, as a coach that's a win-win. ""Off the field, like a true professional, after the game he'll stay around and have a drink, speak to anyone and everyone at the club, both home and away. That's what minor counties cricket is about. ""You say there might be negative publicity, but I would turn that around and say who hasn't made a mistake in their life? To not be given the second opportunity, that's just not fair. ""Tell me that you've lived the perfect life - I believe from what I know of Merv and the people I've spoken to he's going to be a great addition. When speaking to him about the possibility of him playing, he was like a young boy at Christmas. ""I will trust him wholeheartedly to give us everything that I would expect from a professional cricketer. It's great for the youth section and the first team."" The dispensation from the ECB to let Westfield play before his ban expires is in recognition of the education work he has done with the PCA. This week he again addressed the 'rookie camp' of new English professionals in Birmingham, after travelling to South Africa last year to talk to players there. ""Mervyn definitely paid the penalty,"" said PCA assistant chief executive Jason Ratcliffe. ""Of all the players who've fallen foul of the anti-corruption rules in recent years, Mervyn's done more to try to redeem himself than anybody. ""Mervyn's story is very powerful when he comes to talk to young cricketers. Without doubt he's played a massive part in education in England. ""It's fantastic news that Suffolk have taken Mervyn on and testament to how he has conducted himself for Frinton CC, who speak very highly of him as a person around the club and a cricketer."" The PCA concedes it is a ""long shot"" that Westfield would earn a full first-class contract in the future, but it hopes he can put himself ""in the shop window"". The ECB's cricket disciplinary committee chairman, Gerard Elias, said Westfield had ""made a real and substantial effort"" that shows his ""continuing remorse and a genuine desire on his part to repay cricket for the harm caused by his actions"".",Convicted spot - fixer Mervyn Westfield has agreed to play for minor counties side Suffolk as he tries to rebuild his career after being @placeholder for cheating .,signed,sued,jailed,forgiven,sold,2
"Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue team, police and RAF rescue helicopters took part in a search for a possible fallen walker on Y Garn after the black and white Jack Russell was seen near Cwm Cywion gorge. Four members of the Ogwen team climbed steep terrain to rescue the terrier. The dog was then tucked into a rescuer's jacket and lowered to safety. It is not known who owns the dog.",A @placeholder dog sparked a major mountain search after it was spotted on cliffs in Snowdonia .,rescue,controlled,stranded,disabled,barking,2
"Injections that slowly and continuously release HIV medication into the blood are being tested. Early trial data from 309 patients showed jabs every one or even two months worked as well as daily pills - which is how antiretroviral medication is currently taken. The results are being presented at the IAS Conference on HIV Science. Daily antiretroviral medication holds the virus back, prevents HIV destroying the immune system and stops the development of Aids. The success of therapy has led to deaths related to Aids halving since 2005 to around one million a year. Aids deaths halve as more get drugs But the medication is a burden - someone diagnosed aged 20 could end up taking more than 20,000 HIV tablets in a lifetime - and some people struggle, leading to HIV coming back and the virus resisting the effects of treatment. The trial was conducted at 50 centres in the US, Canada, Germany, France and Spain. When people were diagnosed with HIV they were initially given oral therapy to bring the virus under control. Then they spent 96 weeks getting either traditional daily pills, monthly injections or injections every two months. The results, published in the Lancet medical journal, showed that by the end of the study: Side effects - including diarrhoea and headache - were similar in all groups. However, this is still a relatively small trial and a larger and longer-term one is already underway to try to confirm the results. The work was funded by the companies making the drugs: ViiV Healthcare, which is mostly owned by GSK, and Janssen, which is part of Johnson & Johnson. Dr David Margolis, one of the researchers from ViiV Healthcare, said: ""Adherence to medication remains an important challenge in HIV treatment. ""The introduction of single tablet medication represented a leap forward in antiretroviral therapy. ""Long-acting antiretroviral injections may represent the next revolution in HIV therapy by providing an option that circumvents the burden of daily dosing."" The drugs companies are packaging two of their medicines (cabotegravir and rilpivirine) into tiny nanoparticles, which can be injected into muscle. This gives long-lasting protection as the nanoparticles break down and release their medicinal contents into the body. There are 36.7 million people living with HIV around the world and only 53% have access to the current medication. In a review of the research, professors Mark Boyd and David Cooper from the universities of Adelaide and New South Wales, commented: ""[The] study marks yet another remarkable milestone in the evolution of HIV therapeutics."" However, they warned some people may find it easier to have daily pills than having to see a doctor for an injection every one or two months. ""There will inevitably be a trade-off between the convenience of not having to adhere to oral therapy and the inconvenience and discomfort associated with injectable long-acting antiretroviral therapy. ""It is possible that injectable antiretroviral therapy will be more attractive the less one must be injected."" Follow James on twitter.","The "" next revolution "" in HIV could see daily drugs @placeholder with just six doses a year , say scientists .",injected,words,replaced,clashes,deal,2
"New public security laws were introduced in July and allow for fines for a number of offences, including unauthorised protests and photographing police without permission. The photograph of the police car, in the eastern town of Petrer, was posted on Facebook on 27 July. The image was deleted soon afterwards. Police spokesmen quoted by local media and the Associated Press news agency said the force, in Alicante, would pursue the case against the woman who took the photograph, who has not been named. She could face a fine of between €600 (£420; $660) and €30,000. One of the spokesman told the Petreraldia website (in Spanish) that the officers had been responding to an urgent call reporting vandalism, and needed to park urgently. The regional interior ministry office will decide whether to impose a fine or not. Ahead of the adoption of the laws, large protests were held in cities across Spain. The move was criticised by rights groups, including Amnesty International. A panel of UN human rights experts also warned the changes ""threaten to violate individuals' fundamental rights and freedoms"".","Spanish police are looking to fine a woman who photographed officers parking in a @placeholder spot under a controversial new "" gag law "" .",bid,phone,disabled,designated,state,2
"The Indian Twittersphere exploded after Sindhu beat Marin 21-19, 21-16 to take the India Open Super Series tournament in Delhi on Sunday night. The hashtags #SindhuVsMarin and #Sindhu were trending on Sunday and Monday. Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan were among those who congratulated her. Spain's Marin beat Sindhu to the gold medal in the Olympic badminton singles final in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The celebration over Sindhu's victory is also significant as it shows the growing popularity of badminton in a country that famously worships cricket alone. But Sindhu, and Saina Nehwal before her, have been instrumental in bringing badminton to the forefront of public consciousness. Nehwal won a bronze medal at the London Olympics. Most tweets on Sunday and Monday talked about Sindhu getting ""revenge"" for her Olympic defeat to Marin, while others praised her fierce game. The player later took to Instagram to thank her fans and sponsors for her support. She also told the Times of India newspaper that she was happy with her performance as there were no ""easy"" points.",Indians are @placeholder to celebrate badminton star and Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu 's victory over Olympic champion Carolina Marin .,gathered,continuing,battling,poised,cruising,1
"Police said the alleged abuse was inflicted in the 1990s by an adult at Haringey Adventure and Recreation Team that no longer exists. Very little was known about the club, which seemed to have been run informally at the weekends and after-school, the Met Police said. Anyone with information about abuse at the club is asked to contact police. Alternatively, contact Haringey Child Abuse Investigation Team or the NSPCC.",A man has come forward claiming he was @placeholder as a child at a children 's club in north London .,raped,killed,described,treated,viewed,0
"A report published on Wednesday said the leadership team within the prison has been strengthened since they visited last year. The new team is ""focused on stabilising"" the regime. Inspectors said the progress which has been made is ""fragile"". The inspectors welcomed the action taken to ""start"" addressing serious concerns raised in a previous report. But Brendan McGuigan, the chief inspector of Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland, said much more needs to be done. In an interview for the BBC, Mr McGuigan was asked how he would characterise conditions in Maghaberry on a scale of one to 10 last year, and when inspectors returned last month. ""Definitely in May 2015 it was at the bottom of the scale, it would certainly have been a one,"" he said. ""When we went back in January of this year, I would have estimated between a three and a four."" Justice Minister David Ford was disappointed by the assessment, but welcomed the inspectors' conclusion that progress has been made. ""Clearly we would have perhaps hoped it would be a bit better than that,"" he said. ""But given the scale of the problems that were identified and the amount of work which has had to be done, I think the important issue is not just where we are exactly at the minute, but the trajectory we're on, and I have confidence that the team in Maghaberry is making significant progress. ""I think the important thing will be to ensure that progress continues."" While the report on Wednesday says there has been progress, it also makes it clear that they still have significant concerns. Violence in the prison and access to illicit drugs are identified as ongoing problems. ""In my view a significant amount of work remains outstanding to make Maghaberry safer for prisoners and staff and for this to reflect more positively in the outcomes of prisoners and their experience,"" Mr McGuigan said. The report says that while some aspects of primary health care had improved since inspectors visited in May last year, ""it was very worrying that mental health provision had deteriorated as a result of staff shortages and now needed urgent attention"". Inspectors also say the culture within Maghaberry needs to change ""to make it fit for the 21st century"". ""Many staff adhered to the view that prisoners were to be feared and that they could do little to influence prisoners custodial or future behaviour on release,"" the report adds. The inspectors have also taken the unprecedented step of announcing that they will return to the prison a number of times during the next 18 months to oversee the implementation of changes they have recommended. ""We have taken this step to ensure the early momentum found at Maghaberry last month is not lost, and the fragile progress made to date is strengthened so that the Northern Ireland Prison Service does not allow Maghaberry to regress,"" Mr McGuigan explained. Brendan McGuigan said he does not underestimate the scale of the challenge facing the management team at Maghaberry, but believed they are moving in the right direction. ""In May 2015 standing outside the gates of Maghaberry, we had a real sense of despair,"" he explained. ""In January of this year we were given a sense of hope.""","Inspectors who last year branded Maghaberry Prison unsafe and unstable have said the @placeholder has improved , but would still only give it four marks out of 10 .",process,situation,organisation,coalition,world,1
"Activists have been sending leaflets the other way for decades, but it's a long time since the North did this. South Koreans have been told to hand in what they find, and soldiers have been out looking for them. The BBC's Kevin Kim got hold of some of the leaflets and explained what the messages can tell us about the North. These slogans are very direct. I'm not sure if a senior officer just says it and someone jots it down, but they feel spontaneous and lacking subtlety. They are quintessentially North Korean, the sort of language you see in their media and propaganda, right down to details like the colours   and quality of paper used. The leaflets sent up North by South Korean activists are more subtle. Some go into the family history of Kim Jong-un and in the North, where talking about the ""royal family"" is so taboo it can land you in a prison camp, this feeds into curiosity people might have about their leader. The North Koreans have been known to be sexist and racist in the past - they have called President Park Geun-hye a prostitute and have published pictures showing US President Barack Obama as a monkey. Another leaflet dropped on the South had a cartoon of Ms Park in a red bikini being thrown into a rubbish bin as ""human filth"". Most South Koreans don't actually take it that seriously, being a democratic society with diverse political views. South Korea turned on its huge banks of loudspeakers after the North's claim to have tested a hydrogen bomb earlier this month. The North does have its own speakers but they are so faint and unclear even the military along the border can't hear them. What is new is that the North has chosen a different way of expressing its disapproval rather than shooting at the South Korean speakers - which it has done before - or any other direct military action. Officials in the North may simply be trying to influence public opinion in the South, but the military in the South is interpreting the strategy as the North engaging in its own psychological warfare. South Korea really is in a position to up the ante and is considering reinstalling huge light fixtures at the border to display messages as well as vast video screens. The messages are clearly aimed at the South Korean public, the ones most likely to stumble upon these flyers. One man found his car wrecked after a sack full of leaflets fell on it, while one activist who flies leaflets the other way found one lying in his front yard. There are critics of the current president who believe more should be done  to reach out to the North. But the majority of South Koreans just don't care, even after the hydrogen bomb test claim people carried on with their daily life. There was no panic buying, no stock market crashes. People are fairly oblivious to the leaflets, having far more important things to worry about in their busy lives.","In the past few days , North Korea has sent some one million leaflets across the border to the South , @placeholder to helium balloons .",designed,writes,attached,converted,continuing,2
"The wave design artwork was part of a £720,000 scheme to create a plaza outside the station. A new statue of the Jolly Fisherman, the resort's mascot, is also being installed. The sculpture was cordoned off in February 2012 after the accident. Lincolnshire County Council now plans to install metal studs on the artwork to deter people from using it as a ""playground"". But John Byford, from East Lindsey District Council, questioned why it had taken so long for the work to be done. He said: ""Tens of thousands of people still arrived by train to Skegness and that first impression counts. ""We have to have it right for them and it's not been right for nearly two years."" Colin Davie, from Lincolnshire County Council, conceded: ""Quite honestly it's health and safety gone mad - this should have been sorted out a long time ago - but I'm pleased we've now got a solution."" The county has apologised for the delay and is coinciding the work with the installation of a new version of the Jolly Fisherman. The mascot first appeared on a 1908 railway poster advertising the Lincolnshire coastal resort.",A sculpture outside Skegness rail station is to reopen to the public 21 months after it was closed when a boy on a bike was @placeholder trying to ride over it .,circulated,spotted,injured,flipping,called,2
"But an addiction to gambling away from the penalty box cost the former England striker much more than just financial pain. The 55-year-old frittered away ""thousands and thousands"" of pounds, bringing bankruptcy, the loss of three houses, a breakdown in his marriage, a journey into drugs and the lowest point - four months in jail for assault. ""Gambling was my downfall but I have done that all my life,"" Chelsea's third highest goalscorer of all time told BBC Sport. ""It's been an addiction and I don't think it can ever be completely controlled or contained. ""I believe it's in my DNA. It is something in me I would argue that maybe made me the footballer I was. ""It was the drive, the will to win, the need to score goals. When I gamble, it's wanting to win because of the buzz I get from it."" A year after leaving prison following his conviction for punching and kicking a man in a pub, Dixon is ""still very much on the floor"". ""But the only way is up and it's going to be up,"" he quickly adds when reflecting on his new life. The climb seems daunting. His punditry work has dried up for now, but he's paying the bills by working as a heating engineer's assistant - pipe fitting, boiler work and ""various other bits and bobs"". ""However you describe it, I am an assistant,"" he explains. And he hopes the release of his autobiography will be a cathartic process and help him draw a line under the bad times, and get him back working in football. He has plenty of support. The Chelsea fans have been ""magnificent"" and he has been told the door is not shut on him resuming his matchday hospitality work at Chelsea at some point. The Professional Footballers' Association have also been a huge help, but it is an ongoing battle. Bobby Barnes, the PFA's deputy chief executive, told BBC Sport: ""Kerry is an object lesson in how a player can fall from grace. ""But he has also displayed tremendous strength of character because the hardest thing sometimes is to take that step and admit you need help and you have a problem. ""It took a little while, but Kerry has very much embraced what we have been trying to do to help. We have done as much as we possibly can, and continue to do as much as we can, to support him. ""I'm in regular contact with Kerry and Chelsea have been very supportive, in particular chairman Bruce Buck. Bruce and I are in regular dialogue to see what we can do to assist."" The game was good to Dixon. On the pitch there were lots of goals, but the gambling was just as frequent. He scored 193 times for Chelsea, the club he spent nine years with from 1983. Having been rejected by Tottenham and Luton as a youngster, Dixon was soon back in the Football League and had a productive three seasons with Reading. But it was the move to the Stamford Bridge club in the summer of 1983 that brought the best years of his career. Dixon scored twice on his debut and ended as top scorer in the Division Two Championship-winning campaign of 1983-84. The hat-trick of Golden Boots came the following season, sharing the trophy with Gary Lineker. And a pre-Mexico 86 World Cup acclimatisation trip could hardly have gone better at the end of his first season in the top flight, scoring two goals on his full debut in a 3-0 win against West Germany. ""As a debut it was one of the great days of my life,"" said Dixon. ""Playing for England was every kid's dream. On the Panini strikers it was then Kerry Dixon, Chelsea and England. ""To score two against the Germans and beat them was just incredible."" But breaking into manager Bobby Robson's starting line-up was a huge ask. Dixon rattles off a long list of names who won England caps when he was at his peak. ""I played in an era where there was Paul Mariner, Tony Woodcock, Garry Birtles, Ian Wright, Mick Harford, Brian Stein, Paul Walsh, Clive Allen, Tony Cottee, Gary Lineker, Peter Beardsley, Mark Hateley, Steve Bull, John Fashanu and Trevor Francis. But I scored so many goals during that time that he couldn't ignore me. ""Now there is a serious serious dearth of strikers. There's Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy, then you are looking at Danny Welbeck, Marcus Rashford and Daniel Sturridge. And Wayne Rooney, but is he a striker now? The competition is not so great."" Dixon only played six minutes at the World Cup, appearing as a substitute against Poland. And turbulent times followed, both for Chelsea and Dixon. A relegation - after the break-up ""of the best Chelsea team I ever played in"" - and another Division Two winning-season, were once again part of the landscape. So, almost inevitably, was the gambling. ""As a player, everyone had their thing when they finished training - drinking, going to the golf course, the snooker hall or whatever,"" said Dixon. ""I went to the betting shop. ""It's what I loved and what I did. It got totally out of control. Betting accounts and shouting numbers down the phone - it was crazy. ""You can have a game of pool for £1 but I was ending up betting a grand or more on the dogs and horses. I ended up in trouble, thinking, 'What am I doing?'"" Dixon stopped on various occasions but not for long. At one point he gambled away £130,000 in less than a week - a serious amount of money now, let alone in the 1980s. He had to be bailed out by chairman Ken Bates, who did a deal with the bookie involved. It is under control now - partly because he simply does not have the option. But the way Dixon talks about gambling in the present tense is telling. ""I am confident the days of heavy gambling for me have well gone, but I don't know for certain,"" he said. ""An alcoholic says they will never have another drink but they don't actually know."" He left Chelsea in 1992, and did so very reluctantly because he was closing in on the club's all-time leading goalscorer at the time, Bobby Tambling. But he was told he would be playing in the reserves and he desperately needed the money to pay off more debts. ""One of my biggest regrets is not getting the record,"" he said. ""I could have put that record out of sight so Frank Lampard couldn't have beaten it. ""But I didn't want to play in the reserves - that's just not me. And I had obligations - and debts - and the bonuses would have dropped off."" After a miserable time at Southampton came a rewarding near three-year spell at Luton Town - which included facing Chelsea in an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley. ""That was one of the greatest days of my life in football,"" recalled Dixon. ""We lost 2-0, but afterwards it seemed the whole ground was singing my name."" He also played for Millwall, Watford and Doncaster Rovers as a player-manager, before eventually retiring in his mid-40s. Again, partly because of financial necessity, but partly because he simply loved playing. Post-football, the problems moved beyond the gambling, into drugs and eventually to jail. ""I did the crime and paid the penalty,"" said Dixon. ""I am sad it happened but I am not one to live in the past - I will move on and am determined not to let it happen again. ""I haven't become a new person but it has given me a new idea on what can happen and where life can take you. ""Jail is a very lonely place; it gives you a lot of time to reflect on everything, how you will be remembered, how many years you have left and what you will do with them. I have kids, a mother and father and I have responsibility to them. ""It's there on my CV and I cannot change that and I am not proud of it - I want people to remember me for being a good bloke, not an ex-footballer who has gone off the rails and gone to prison."" Barnes said the PFA are well aware of the issues facing players after their career ends. ""We call it the transition period,"" said Barnes. ""When you think about it, footballers were very ill-prepared. There is a lot of work now being done, particularly in terms of our education programmes, to try to ensure that transition from being a player, to being able to carry on with the rest of your life and do something meaningful."" Dixon offers some simple advice. ""Look what can happen,"" he said. ""Look at some old pros who have done their dough and are penniless - me being one of them. And get help if you need it."" Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.","Gambling as a striker brought Kerry Dixon stacks of goals , a trip to the World Cup , plenty of money and legend @placeholder at Chelsea .",lives,events,playing,abuse,status,4
"Ten years ago I got on a tube train. It was a normal day for me. I was going to Holborn for a summer school at the London School of Economics, I wanted to change the world using the experiences from this project. I was 16. I remember the train I was on, it was packed full of people, and I was writing my homework on the train. I was rushing it away because I wanted to spend more time resting at home. I remember the papers with the news about the Olympics. I remember a bang. I remember the smoke and wondering if I could breathe and the panic in people's faces. I remember how people had to break the windows of the train to let air in. There was very little communication between carriages, but I remember one thing. I remember screaming for help coming from the tunnel. I remember 45 minutes feeling like the rest of my life. I cried, holding onto a railing, not talking to anyone, wanting people to talk to me, to help me. I needed help. I needed to get out. No mobile phone signal. I was scared. I didn't know how to talk to anyone - 45 minutes later, we were told to walk along the tunnel, but the train lines were still on. I remember being so scared and walking tentatively down the tunnel. As soon as I got to King's Cross I saw others around me, and walked home. Covered in soot and dirt, crying my eyes out, I ran home. I walked miles. It took two hours. I didn't even know it was a bomb, I thought it was a power surge. My mother greeted me at the door and let me in to watch the news. She returned to work later that day. I went to the bathroom and only then did I notice the soot on my arms, legs, clothes and face. I received no help that day and I still hate the tube, I hate small spaces and I can't stand BBQs. I can only sleep in darkness, no faint lights because they remind me of the tunnels. I thank the staff for all their support: tube workers, paramedics and police. I remember feeling not worthy of medical help and even now I still feel that - now suffering PTSD and severe anxiety and depression. I slipped through the cracks. I wish I had sought help at the time, because right now, it still feels like it was yesterday. Karl Williams was travelling in the same carriage as the bomber. Panic-stricken and in the dark, Karl held the hand of an unknown woman whom he credits with saving him. He has spent the last 10 years looking for her in the hope that he can thank her personally for her support and reassurance. I was in the Edgware Road train that was hit by the blast from the train coming the opposite way. I was in the last carriage. When the bomb exploded I thought we had hit another train and my first thought was I don't want to burn to death. There was a deathly silence for about 30 seconds, then the most ghastly screaming. I took my shoe off and smashed the emergency box to get into the empty driver's compartment, then opened the door onto the track. The compartment was not packed and having the door open to the track gave everybody the security of knowing there was a way out in the event of a secondary explosion. I remember everyone being very calm and one family that stuck in my mind was a husband and wife and young son who had just arrived from Heathrow and were heading up north. A great first welcome to the UK. The paramedics arrived and checked us over and then led us through the mangled debris.  We were then given a blanket and water and taken to the M&S store to be checked over again. I was then released with no details taken and walked through the enormous crowd in Edgware Road. I then walked to Marble Arch where I got a cab home. I have not been contacted since and felt for a while I was suffering from survivor guilt complex. I don't talk about the events of 7/7 as I feel that so many people suffered great loss and hardship and I wouldn't want to put myself in that bracket. I don't feel traumatised by 7/7 now, but occasionally I can still hear those awful screams. Read more stories of the 7/7 victims who just walked away","Ten years after experiencing the @placeholder of the London bomb attacks , survivors of 7 / 7 share their accounts for the first time .",aftermath,consequences,head,demise,horror,4
"All three enjoyed a boost after winning Brit Awards earlier in the week. Smith returned to number one after picking up best breakthrough artist and the global success award. Sheeran - who won best British male and album - rose to number two, while Royal Blood climbed 15 places to number three after scooping best British group. George Ezra, who performed at the Brits ceremony on Wednesday, climbed two places to four. Best international female winner Taylor Swift rose three places to number five - despite having removed her music from Spotify last November, saying free streaming was devaluing music. She is one of the few stars to resist the rise of streaming, which doubled in the UK in 2014 while CD sales dropped by 8%. The Official Charts Company has now devised a formula to add streams from services like Spotify, Deezer and Google Play to figures from the sales of downloads, CDs and vinyl. The formula looks at how many times the tracks on each album have been played. The figures for the two most popular songs are then reduced to prevent huge hit singles distorting the album chart. If an album has more than 12 songs, just the most popular 12 are counted. The adjusted total number of streams for the songs on each album is then divided by 1,000, and that figure is added to the physical and digital sales. Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour sold 38,000 copies in the past week and its streaming figure was 2,900. Ed Sheeran's X sold 35,000 copies and had a ""stream factor"" of 3,400. ""Sam and Ed are both established as genuine superstars now - and the fact that they appeal to fans who buy CDs, snap up album downloads and stream music highlights just how broad their appeal is,"" Official Charts Company chief executive Martin Talbot said. Streaming was incorporated into the singles chart last July. Elsewhere on the chart, the 40th anniversary reissue of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti took it to number six, while Chris Brown and Tyga entered at number seven with Fan of a Fan: The Album. Paloma Faith's A Perfect Contradiction rose from number 33 to eight following her victory in the best British female category at the Brit Awards. The track Madonna performed at the Brits, Living For Love, entered the singles chart at number 26. This week's top five singles are unchanged, with Ellie Goulding spending a fourth week at the top, followed by Hozier; Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars; The Weeknd; and the collaboration between Sir Paul McCartney, Rihanna and Kanye West.","Sam Smith , Ed Sheeran and Royal Blood have taken the top spots in the first UK album chart to count streaming @placeholder alongside sales .",revenue,control,music,points,data,4
"IBF heavyweight world champion Joshua, 26, is making the first defence of his title against the unbeaten American. Joshua, who has won all 16 of his professional fights with knockouts, has only gone beyond three rounds once. ""I think Joshua's thinking of me as a stepping stone and he's going to be sorry about that,"" said Breazeale, 30. Breazeale, who is an inch taller than Joshua at 6ft 7in, is a former Olympian and is ninth in the IBF rankings, below Britain's David Haye. Londoner Joshua, 26, won the IBF title with a second-round stoppage of American Charles Martin on 10 April. Of his 16 fights, the longest has been the seventh-round stoppage of Dillian Whyte in December, to win the British heavyweight title. Joshua won Olympic super-heavyweight at London 2012, in an event where Breazeale lost in the first round. Brezeale added:  ""I think he's had it easy so far, fighting in the Olympics in his backyard, having the judges there in his backyard. Even as a professional, he fought a guy in Charles Martin that really didn't show up on fight night. ""Yes, he's got rid of a lot of his guys in the earlier rounds, but he hasn't been taken into deep waters. Do I want to see him go into uncharted territory? Of course, without a doubt. ""I plan on putting on some extreme pressure and taking Joshua to places he's never been."" Joshua's title defence tops the bill on a big night of British boxing at the O2. George Groves and Martin Murray face each other in an eliminator for the WBA World super middleweight title, Chris Eubank Jr defends his British middleweight title against Wales' Tom Doran, and John Wayne Hibbert meets Andrea Scarpa for the vacant WBC Silver super lightweight title. Whyte, unbeaten Birmingham star Kal Yafai, Olympic bronze medallist Anthony Ogogo, Conor Benn and Felix Cash are also in action.","Anthony Joshua has "" had it easy "" so far in his career @placeholder to Dominic Breazeale , who he fights on Saturday at London 's O2 Arena .",form,dedicated,according,room,added,2
"9 October 2016 Last updated at 00:31 BST The boy, called Ahmed, sent a text message on a phone given to him in Calais by Devon charity worker Liz Clegg, saying he was running out of ""oksijan"" - meaning oxygen. Ms Clegg was being filmed as part of a documentary. She alerted police and Ahmed and 14 adults were found in a container at services on the M1 after arriving from the Calais migrant camp, commonly known as the Jungle. Ahmed is now living in the UK and has been reunited with Ms Clegg. Inside Out South West is on BBC One on Monday 3 October at 19:30 BST and on the iPlayer for 30 days thereafter.",Footage of a call for help from a seven - year - old Afghan boy who was suffocating in a @placeholder lorry has been obtained by the BBC .,burning,school,stolen,sealed,traffic,3
"Regardless of the topic of discussion. ""He's clearly attempting a coup d'etat!"" yells one centre right MP to a lunchtime studio audience on a TV chat show, veins bulging angrily out of his neck. He means Italy's prime minister, Matteo Renzi. He is the current focus of discussion because he just called a referendum on constitutional reform. The campaign kicks off officially this evening but, whatever the political message, this threatens to turn into a Renzi referendum- a vote on the man himself and his two and a half years in office to date. ""Yes, it's risky,"" Prime Minister Renzi told me on Wednesday as we sat in an ornate and frescoed room of Palazzo Chigi, the Italian equivalent of 10 Downing Street. ""But it's impossible to implement change in Italy without risk and I am confident."" I put it to Mr Renzi that David Cameron had been confident too ahead of the UK referendum on EU membership but that he ended up losing the vote and his political career into the bargain. ""Thanks for the warning!"" Mr Renzi laughed. ""But joking aside, I think few Italians will say no to reducing bureaucracy and politicians' salaries. It's good for Italians so I'm not worried."" I found myself wondering if he had seen the latest polls. Newspaper surveys suggest he could be in for a nasty shock come referendum day. As in many other parts of Europe and in the US, an increasingly large section of Italian society feels alienated from traditional politics and politicians, blaming them for economic insecurity and the widening gap between the super-wealthy and the rest. For all his reformist credentials - he came to government with the nickname Demolition Man - Mr Renzi is a career politician in a country where political figures enjoy salaries and perks most of their countrymen can only dream of while ordinary people face spiralling youth unemployment, rampant corruption, a stagnant economy and a migrant crisis the rest of Europe appears to have forgotten. Mr Renzi is viewed by some as being ""just another lying, silver-tongued member of the greedy elite,"" as a factory worker told me. Renzi's political love-triangle over the past year with the leaders of Germany and France didn't do him any favours at home either. Italy used to be one of the most EU-enthusiastic countries in Europe. But no longer. Italians resent the EU for - as they see it - leaving them to deal with their migrant crisis alone. They also blame the euro currency and German-imposed austerity for their economic woes. Mr Renzi is an ardent Europhile. When I spoke to him away from the Italian crowds, he told me there was no alternative to the euro for Italy. He also refused to get drawn into directly criticising Germany. But he had a high-profile spat with Germany and other EU countries just before announcing the date for his referendum. The timing felt rather too convenient and I suspect we can expect more anti-EU posturing before the referendum campaign runs its course. In reality, Mr Renzi is one of the only true EU believers left in European Union leadership circles. He gushed to me about the bloc's historical importance, describing the UK's Brexit vote as sad but also as an opportunity to re-boot the EU, making it ""more about families than finance"". As one of the Big Three in the EU, I asked him if he might end up playing a lead role in Brexit negotiations, assuming they start in the new year. Germany's Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande of France are pre-occupied with looming elections at home and tumbling popularity figures. Mr Renzi said he believed the European Commission would take the lead in talks but that he was keen to start working with ""Theresa"" (May, the British prime minister) to work though all issues. He said he wanted the EU and the UK to remain 'the best of friends"". I put it to him that since he demands flexibility for Italy in eurozone fiscal rules, he should champion flexibility for the UK when it comes to restricting freedom of movement (the access of other EU citizens to UK jobs) if the UK decided to stay in the single market. That, he said, would be impossible. Britain couldn't have a different deal to other EU outsiders. If Matteo Renzi wins his referendum on 4 December, his hand will be much strengthened in Italy and in the wider EU. Should he lose, he could plunge his country in to deep uncertainty, opening the electoral door for Italy's nationalist Eurosceptics. That would be a far cry from the promise of Renzi the Reformer to boost political and economic stability in Italy, the eurozone's third largest economy. Italy could well be the next drama after Brexit on the EU's crisis crowded stage.","Switch on an Italian TV chat show at any time of day or night and you 'll be treated to a staple of @placeholder voices , righteous indignation and rowing .",neighbouring,words,culture,fashion,raised,4
"The Dow Jones finished up 269,48 points, or 1.6%, at 17,409.72. The S&P 500 rose 35.55 points to 2,036.09, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 97.42 to 4,691.87. The rises followed a rebound on European stock markets, with investors hunting for bargains after two sessions of heavy falls. Shares in JP Morgan Chase were up 3.3%. Bank stocks have been hit particularly hard since the UK's referendum result was announced last week. Energy shares climbed as oil prices recovered. Chesapeake Energy shares rose 5.4%, while Marathon Oil was 8.2% higher. Exxon Mobil climbed 2.3%. Airline stocks also saw a rebound. Delta Airlines was up 3.9%, and American Airlines climbed 5.9%. On Tuesday, the Commerce Department revised up its estimate of how fast the US economy expanded in the first quarter of 2016. The agency said gross domestic product increased 1.1% in the quarter, up from an earlier estimate of 0.8%.","( Closed ) : US shares closed higher on Tuesday , recovering some of the ground @placeholder since the UK voted to leave the European Union .",lost,damage,group,following,team,0
"Manx organisation Beach Buddies tackled the problem at Fleshwick Bay following concerns from the public. Coordinator Bill Dale said one of the coves near the beach was found to be ""jammed with plastic"". He added: ""Amongst the find were a number of plastic bands which became infamous when a basking shark was photographed with one around its nose."" About 30 people joined forces with the Beach Buddies volunteers on Saturday morning. ""The area was in serious need of a clear-up,"" said Mr Dale. ""It was the first trip to Fleshwick for a team of our volunteers this year and it was a really big job"".","A stream "" choked by plastic "" on the southern coast of the Isle of Man has been @placeholder up by charity volunteers .",cleaned,named,held,caught,blown,0
"The thylacine has been variously described as a ""marsupial wolf"" or a ""Tasmanian tiger"". This study suggests the latter term might be more appropriate; the animal's hunting strategy was more like that of a big cat than that of a wolf. Details appear in Biology Letters journal. Thylacines once roamed mainland Australia, but their numbers declined as humans settled the continent from around 40,000 years ago and as the dingo was introduced around 4,000 years ago. Eventually, they were confined to the island of Tasmania, which was dingo-free. The species was eventually wiped out during a large-scale eradication effort in the 19th Century and 20th centuries. The thylacine was very much a marsupial, and therefore only a distant genetic relative of dogs and cats. But the latest paper deals with the ecological niche it occupied in Australia. By studying the bones of the thylacine, scientists from Brown University in the US were able to establish that the thylacine was a solitary, ambush-style predator - much like a cat. ""Although there is no doubt that the thylacine diet was similar to that of living wolves, we find no compelling evidence that they hunted similarly,"" said lead author Borja Figueirido, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown, in Providence, Rhode Island. The researchers compared the thylacine's skeleton with those of dog-like and cat-like species, such as pumas, jackals and wolves, as well as Tasmanian devils - the largest carnivorous marsupials living today. They found that the thylacine would have been able to rotate its arm so that the palm faced upwards, like a cat. This increased amount of arm and paw movement would have helped the ""Tasmanian tiger"" subdue its prey after an ambush. Dingoes and wolves have a more restricted range of arm-hand movement. Their hands are - to a greater degree - fixed in the palm-down position, reflecting their strategy of hunting by pursuit and in packs, rather than by surprise. However, this is not a hard-and-fast rule. Some cats, like cheetahs, use speed to catch their quarry, while some dog-like species, such as foxes, rely on ambush to catch their prey. Christine Janis, professor of biology at Brown and a co-author on the paper, said the thylacine's hunting tactics appear to be a unique mix. ""I don't think there's anything like it around today,"" she said. ""It's sort of like a cat-like fox."" While some experts believe the introduction of the dingo played a key role in the thylacine's disappearance from mainland Australia, some of the researchers in the latest study are more cautious. The animals appear to have been similar in several respects - such as their diets - but probably hunted in different ways. According to Professor Janis, the dingoes may have been ""more like the final straw"". The last captive thylacine - known as Benjamin - died in Hobart Zoo, Tasmania, in September 1936.","The extinct Australian carnivore known as a thylacine was an ambush predator that could not outrun its prey over long distances , a new @placeholder shows .",report,heritage,body,analysis,group,3
"In his dressing room at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Douglas Hodge is flicking through a giant scrapbook. On each page, a famous face: Charlie Chaplin... Salvador Dali... Fred Astaire... David Bowie... Mick Jagger... Prince... Michael Jackson. There's even Thom Yorke from Radiohead. ""It's the way he dances,"" explains Hodge. ""He's so tiny and bird-like."" As soon as he knew he had got the role of Willy Wonka, Hodge began collecting pictures of people who might inspire him. As he turns the pages, he pauses at a 1980s photo of David Bowie from his Let's Dance period. ""Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness."" From another page stares French writer Marcel Proust. Proust? ""He was allergic to almost everything he touched and he hardly ever went out of his home."" Hodge closes the scrapbook, and adds: ""They are spurs really, and then you have to forget them all."" The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical, based on Roald Dahl's book and directed by Sam Mendes, officially opens on Tuesday night after a month of previews. The show is one of the most eagerly anticipated in the West End this year, and comes hot on the heels of another musical Dahl adaptation, Matilda, which scooped awards galore and transferred to Broadway. It is Mendes' first project since directing Skyfall, the most successful James Bond film of all time. ""There are so many departments on this show like music, choreography, design and costume - you need someone who's made those big movies to oversee all these collaborations,"" says Hodge. The 53-year-old actor says the single biggest joy has been working with Mendes on ""making something from the ground up"". The huge technical requirements of the show have meant a fair amount of what Hodge describes as ""fiddling and finessing"" during the preview period. The first scheduled performances in May were delayed due to problems with the delivery of a piece of stage equipment. ""When you're making anything brand new you have to factor that in,"" says Hodge. ""Essentially what's happened since the first preview is the Great Glass Elevator has come into the production and I now have a vanishing trick. It's a terribly technical thing, but we wanted to get the story on stage and then keep working on the other things."" When Hodge's casting was announced last autumn he was playing another larger-than-life figure, Cyrano de Bergerac, on Broadway. His next job was perfect preparation for Willy Wonka: reading the audio books of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Hodge never read the books as a child. ""I was talking to my mum about it,"" he laughs. ""She thought they were too scary. I actually read his darker things, the Tales of the Unexpected, when I was an adult. David Rudd, of the University of Bolton, discusses some of the many theories about Dahl's character. ""Many theorists have noted how masculinity is associated with hardness, separateness, whereas the female is seen as softer and more fluid. In these terms, Willy Wonka controls his factory but always keeps a distance. His own form of transport, the glass elevator, is geometric, solid, angular, and completely unlike the more organic forms elsewhere in the building. In this reading, of course, WW gets a son (and heir) without any intervention of females, with all three generations of men in the elevator. Wonka also sits in the tradition of the carnival-esque, trickster figure. The children go into a magic space and learn some quite traditional values and come back renewed. Roald Dahl is often played up as this very subversive writer, but the actual ideological messages are incredibly reactionary: children should know their place. In the book it is the children who like watching TV and eating who come a cropper. Charlie is the meek and mild child - and it's the meek who shall inherit the earth."" ""But it wasn't really part of childhood at all in the way that it was of Sam's or most of the people in the cast. They've grown up on it."" How easily did he distance himself from the big-screen versions of Willy Wonka played by Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp? ""It's a skill that you develop as soon as you become a Shakespearean actor. All my career I've stepped into Hamlet or Romeo or Coriolanus or Titus Andronicus. ""I think the Gene Wilder performance is quite brilliant, but it is filmic. It's a sort of transcendental, druggy laid-back thing that you can't do in a 2,500-seat theatre in a musical."" Hodge begins to laugh. ""I said to someone the other day, I think I look too much like Johnny Depp. Which is not something I thought I would have a reason to say in my life - ever!"" Hodge describes his take on Wonka as ""quintessentially English"". ""He's a brilliant, almost autistic, genius inventor: reclusive, separate and an innocent child. He relates far better to children than he does to adults."" We get onto the subject of Jimmy Savile. Had there been discussions about how to play the role of Willy Wonka in the post-Savile era? ""I don't think that element exists at all in this story,"" says Hodge. ""There's a lack of sexuality about the whole Willy Wonka world which is to do with sweets and toys and imagination and innocence. It would be a real shame if that did impinge on it. ""It's something you have to consider but hopefully it's all honest and true. You instinctively know what's appropriate."" Douglas Hodge's career has embraced stage, TV and film work as well as directing and composing. Nominated for an Olivier Award four times, he won in 2009 for his role in La Cage Aux Folles. A year later he won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for the same role. On the big screen, the actor has starred alongside Reese Witherspoon in Vanity Fair and Russell Crowe in Robin Hood. Later this year he will be seen as Paul Burrell in the Diana, Princess of Wales biopic starring Naomi Watts. He has completed work on his own musical, Meantime, a love story set in Heathrow Airport.  ""I'll worry about that when we get this juggernaut on the road, but I'd love it to come to life,"" he says. For the moment, Hodge has other matters to attend to - such as learning to roller skate for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ""It's nearly killed me. But we haven't put the roller skating in the show yet. ""We just had this idea half way through - and off I went for roller skating lessons every morning. ""I can show you the bruises. But it may be that it's not right. It may be just gilding the lily."" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is in previews and opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 25 June.","As he brings Willy Wonka to life on stage in the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical , actor Douglas Hodge reveals the @placeholder behind his portrayal of one of Roald Dahl 's most intriguing characters .",word,horror,influences,inspiration,continent,2
"Maxwell Marion Morton, 16, was arrested for killing Ryan Mangan in his home near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The suspect used Snapchat - an app that auto-deletes content after a few seconds - to send an image to a friend. The friend took a screenshot and his mother contacted police. Prosecutors said the Snapchat was ""key evidence"". ""[Police] received a copy of the photo which depicted the victim sitting in the chair with a gunshot wound to the face,"" a police affidavit states, according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. ""It also depicts a black male taking the 'selfie,' with his face facing the camera and the victim behind the actor. The photo had the name 'Maxwell' across the top."" The boy also received text messages from the suspect saying: ""Told you I cleaned up the shells"" and ""Ryan was not the last one."" Snapchat has become wildly popular among US teenagers and youth, with many attracted by the fact content shared via the app disappears so quickly. But there are ways to make Snapchat messages permanent - including taking screen captures and using third-party services. Users are alerted when someone takes a screen capture of a message. Maxwell Marion Morton confessed to killing Mr Mangan after police found a 9mm handgun hidden in his home, according to The Tribune-Review. He will be charged and face trial as an adult, police said.",A US teenager has been charged with the murder of a classmate after police said he posted a Snapchat photo of himself with the victim 's @placeholder .,girlfriend,office,future,eyes,body,4
"Kenichi Phillips, 18, was killed as he sat in a car in St Mark's Crescent, in Birmingham, on 17 March. An internal investigation has begun into potential gross misconduct, the Office of the PCC said. Ms Mosquito is reported to have strenuously denied the allegations. The PCC's chief executive Jonathan Jardine said it was investigating ""concerns raised about interference into operational policing regarding an on-going serious investigation"". He said Ms Mosquito had been suspended from her post with immediate effect.",West Midlands Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner ( PCC ) Yvonne Mosquito has been suspended amid allegations she @placeholder the family of a murder victim .,praised,reached,visited,is,targeted,2
"The Teifi Coracle Netsmen have called on other anglers to also catch and release, as concerns mount about fish stocks in the River Teifi. Natural Resources Wales figures show a decline in numbers, with just over 40 declared net catches on the river in 2015 compared to about 115 in 2014. Declared rod catches were down from 300 in 2014 to just over 200 in 2015. An NRW spokesman said the situation was approaching crisis point. ""It is coming to a fairly critical position, especially in light of salmon stocks. ""We're getting very close to being a crisis situation."" Mark Dellar, a licensed coracleman from Cilgerran, told BBC Wales the decision was prompted by ""the decline in the fish we're catching"". He added: ""We want to make sure this fishing style is kept for our children in generations to come."" ""I've been fishing for 15 years with the coracles and there's been a steady decline in salmon stocks over that period of time with numerous things going on in the river... pollution, predation at sea,"" he said. ""All the information we're getting from NRW indicates that salmon stocks are in decline, and we need to try and do something about that."" NRW plans to hold a consultation in May on widening catch and release practices across Wales, to help deal with declining stocks.",Coracle fishermen have said they will start @placeholder any salmon they catch because of concerns about fish stocks .,defending,race,returning,face,questions,2
"Likewise, when German sailor Philipp Buhl takes to the water, he will be able to predict accurately how the current will affect his boat as he whips along Rio's Guanabara Bay. This is because technology - and data analytics in particular - has made great strides since London 2012. ""Real-time data analytics may not seem like a big leap from an innovation point of view, but it has the potential to enable yet more records to be broken in 2016,"" says Dr Helen Meese, head of healthcare at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Data collection and analysis is having an impact on almost every sport. For example, Team GB's boxers have benefited from this type of analysis, using ""iBoxer"" software developed in conjunction with Sheffield Hallam University. The performance analysis system makes use of a wealth of data on Team GB's boxers and their opponents, including detailed fight analysis that reveals threats and opportunities for the fighters, helping them refine their tactics. And the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) has co-developed a database in which Australia's National Sporting Organisations closely monitor approximately 2,000 athletes each week. ""In athlete groups where there is really high engagement with data entry, we have been able to provide coaches with advice on training loads that have seen a reduction in injury and illness,"" says Nick Brown, deputy director, performance science and innovation, at the AIS. ""The tech part of this solution is the database, smart data analytics, and in some cases, the use of wearable sensors to bring in training data."" Professor Steve Haake, director of Sheffield Hallam's Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, has been working with UK Sport since 2000. He says his team's work has moved increasingly towards this kind of data-driven performance analysis. For example, in cycling there is less need to focus on the mechanical aspects, he says, because ""bikes are optimised now - they have bearings and gear sets which are 99% efficient"". Instead, ""most of the work we have done in the last two Olympiads has been interrogating how well these things actually work when you get out there in the field. ""It's about data acquisition and complex databases that draw information from lots of places,"" Prof Haake says. Team USA track cyclists have even been interrogating live data during training using augmented reality glasses developed by Solos. Data collected from bike sensors, such as power, speed and pedal revolutions, are beamed wirelessly to the cyclist's glasses via IBM's cloud platform. As the athletes pedal furiously they can view their key stats without taking their eyes off the track. ""With the ability for the athlete to receive real-time feedback via the Solos smart glasses, they can now adjust on the fly,"" says Ernesto Martinez, a director at Solos. ""For example, if Sarah [Hammer] or Kelly [Catlin] need to meet a specific lap time or power metric during an exchange or portion of the race, they will be able to see whether they are hitting the mark or not and adjust accordingly. ""This real-time feedback and adjustment capability will enable faster riding times."" But the cyclists will not be able to wear the glasses during the Games themselves. Sports the world over are looking to other industries for inspiration, not least the technology and engineering sectors. For example, Sailing Team Germany (STG) partnered with business software firm SAP in 2011 in an effort to arrest the nation's decline in the sport after Sydney 2000. ""The goal is to develop technology that helps the sailors train better, perform better and learn quicker,"" says Marcus Baur, STG's head of technology. A key component of this is building virtual models based on real data, enabling tricky, ever-changing conditions such as currents and wind to be analysed. ""Rio's Guanabara Bay is tidal, which creates a repetitive pattern which we can analyse and draw predictions from,"" says Mr Baur. ""We did more than 3,000 measurements of the Bay to build a tide model and we now have it available at the Olympics."" But coaches and athletes must learn to trust the data, he believes. ""In the final race at the World Championships in Spain in 2014 [German sailor, Philipp Buhl] had access to the information but the coach didn't trust it - our tide model recommended for him to go in one direction and he went in the other direction and lost,"" says Mr Baur. ""Sailors will trust the model a lot more this time around."" Technology is also having an impact on Paralympic sport. For example, BAE Systems - more associated with the aerospace industry - has worked with UK Sport to enable British wheelchair athletes to achieve a 20% increase in acceleration through different racing positions. And US-based design software company Autodesk has been working with German para-cycling champion Denise Schindler to create a 3D-printed polycarbonate prosthetic leg that delivers improved power output for Rio 2016. ""We've been able to create something that is much more lightweight and even more aerodynamic,"" says Paul Sohi, UK product designer at Autodesk. But does access to the best technology give richer countries an unfair advantage? ""Sport lives from the creation of a level playing field on which different people can compete, and if it is just a question of having the right technology bought by the biggest pay cheque then it doesn't make sense,"" says Mr Baur at STG. Prof Haake says it is up to each sport to decide how much technology it wants to allow, but that it is human nature to ""want to see some kind of improvement"". Unfortunately, this desire for competitive advantage has been all too evident in the recent doping scandals. It will be up to the sporting authorities to decide how much tech is too much. Follow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter Click here for more Technology of Business features",When @placeholder Olympic flyweight boxing champion Nicola Adams steps into the ring at Rio 2016 she will know exactly which tactics to deploy to ensure that she wins every fight .,reigning,overtook,announcing,sides,forces,0
"Thousands more had official guest status and got a slightly closer view from inside the spaceport itself. A magnificent morning ascent for the youngest of the Nasa spaceplanes as it began its final mission - the delivery of the $2bn Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument to the International Space Station. There will, however, be a group of British engineers for whom Monday's lift-off was a bitter-sweet moment. These are the people whose technology got dropped from AMS in the year before launch. For those not familiar with this story, let me back up and reprise events. They have some potentially fascinating implications for deep space travel. AMS is one of the most expensive science experiments ever put in space - probably the most expensive. It has taken a group of 600 or so researchers from 16 nations a total of 17 years to prepare it for flight. It promises some dramatic new insights into the origin and make-up of the cosmos. AMS will do this by studying the storm of high-energy particles (cosmic rays) that are hurled at Earth from the deepest reaches of the Universe. Critical to its operation is a very strong magnet. As the particles enter AMS, they will bend through this magnet. How they bend reveals their charge, a fundamental property that says a great deal about the nature of those particles and where they came from. The UK at a programmatic level never got involved in AMS, presumably because it was a space station project (and the UK doesn't engage with human spaceflight), but one British company was contracted to build the all-important magnet. Scientific Magnetics (formerly Space Cryomagnetics) of Culham, in Oxfordshire, spent 12 years developing this super-cooled beast, and it was - so the project leaders on AMS told me - a marvel. It was incredibly powerful and directed its entire field inwards, like an enclosed bubble. From the outside, the magnet appeared as an inert beer can. This was really important because if you put such a device on a shuttle or a space station and it hasn't been carefully designed, it will start to interact with its surrounding - even try to orientate itself with the Earth's magnetic field. Not what you want on a space vehicle. But to cut a long story short, the British magnet's super-fluid-helium cooling mechanism meant that it was only ever going to be a short-lived device. And when the space station's life was extended last year to 2020, the AMS project leaders took the decision to remove the UK magnet and replace it with a less powerful, but much longer-lived, Chinese one. Now, as I say, this is a story with some interesting outcomes. The British magnet is currently sitting in store at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) where AMS was assembled and tested, and there's a lot of interest in seeing its technology put to other uses. The first of these is astronaut protection. The cosmic rays that AMS is trying to characterise are particles that also represent a hazard to humans in space. When astronauts eventually go beyond the space station - back to the Moon, and on to asteroids and Mars - they will need to shield themselves from these high-energy particles. The idea of using a powerful magnetic field to do this job is being investigated Dr Roberto Battiston, the deputy principal investigator on AMS. He told me: ""We continue to work to understand how this technology could be used for future shielding of astronauts undergoing long exposure, for instance at a Moonbase or on a trip to Mars… because this is by far the most advanced super-conducting magnet-design ever built and completed for a space mission. It is not going to fly but it had everything that would allow it to fly. ""The European Space Agency asked me to submit a proposal for a feasibility study and [Scientific Magnetics] is part of it. ""We would design the magnet in a different way to the AMS one.  AMS was designed to have a very strong magnetic field within an inner bore. By modifying the coils and the currents, we can design a magnetic field confined in an external ring surrounding an inner bore that is magnetic-field free. In this internal module will be the habitable part for the astronauts - where they will live. We are talking about something having a diameter of about five to six metres and the length of 10m - surrounded by this magnetic field that is intense enough to bend away cosmic rays coming from deep space."" There are immense practicalities to overcome, of course. These special magnets get their strength because they are superconducting. This means running them at cryo-temperatures, which demands a lot of liquid helium. This has a tendency to boil off over time, limiting the life of your device, which brings us back to AMS. All that said, Professor Battiston is encouraged by the research. He says it should be possible to limit radiation exposure on a Mars flight to something similar to that currently experienced by astronauts on a six-month stay at the space station. The other big space application for which British magnet technology might be useful is in the plasma rockets that could one day propel all spacecraft. These rely on the motion of highly excited gases, or plasmas, moulded by magnetic fields to provide thrust. Although they don't give the initial big kick you get from chemical combustion, their supreme efficiency means they can go on thrusting for extended periods, achieving far more acceleration per kilogram of fuel consumed. Proponents of plasma rockets say they could dramatically cut the journey time to Mars from months to weeks. Scientific Magnetics has already produced a superconducting magnet for a testbed at Ad Astra in Texas, the company at the forefront of this propulsion technology. Steve Harrison from Scientific Magnetics told me: ""These rockets use radio frequency heating to generate the plasma and then the magnets contain the plasma in the same way they do in a tokomak fusion reactor. The magnets are profiled such that they form a sort of nozzle out the back; and because the plasma is expanding and supersonic, it flies out and gives you thrust. For the system Ad Astra has been testing for the last two years, we designed and built the super-conducting magnet."" Similar obstacles to the magnetic shield prevent immediate adoption of the propulsion application as well, especially if the propulsion magnets incorporate cryogenic liquids, but both concepts are definitely worth watching for the future.",It 's thought as many as half a million people crammed the roads and @placeholder outside the Kennedy Space Center to see Endeavour 's final launch .,blood,humour,water,beaches,streets,3
"More than 250 emergency service personnel, as well as Network Rail and South Eastern Trains staff, were involved in the simulation in Bromley. The train crash was created on a section of line between Sundridge Park and Bromely North stations. Volunteers from the Railway Industry First Aid Association played the 100 casualties in need of rescue. Richard Welch from London Fire Brigade said: ""Whilst this scenario may appear worrying and rail crashes are extremely rare, exercises like this are a vital way of practising our skills and ensuring that we are ready should there ever be a major incident in the capital. ""Days like this are a chance for firefighters to practise search and rescue skills as well as testing how we work with other agencies in the event of a major incident.""",A mock train and car crash have been @placeholder in south London as part of a major training exercise .,killed,released,caught,staged,unearthed,3
"The Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation said he was on a new course of antibiotics to treat an inflammation. The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate ""is in good spirits and not in any pain,"" the family said. The first black archbishop of Cape Town played a vocal role opposing white-minority rule in South Africa. This is his third stay in hospital in recent weeks. He was previously treated for an infection resulting from his prostate cancer treatment. Details of his current condition have not been released. Archbishop Tutu retired from public life in 2011 but continues to travel. The archbishop deeply appreciate the prayers and good wishes of so many, said his daughter, Reverend Mpho Tutu. ""While my father was very grateful to the media for its concern, he had humbly requested journalists not to anticipate daily updates on his condition so that he could rest peacefully while receiving treatment,"" his daughter added. Desmond Tutu Profile: Archbishop Desmond Tutu Archbishop Tutu in his own words","South Africa 's Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to spend the next two weeks in hospital , according to a family @placeholder .",body,member,organisation,plan,statement,4
"The list of prohibited items includes street names, flags and monuments commemorating Communist leaders. Russia says it supports separatists in eastern Ukraine because of a ""fascist threat from the Kiev government"". Separately, Ukrainian security officials said they had broken a plot to create a separatist state in Odessa. Ukraine's SBU security service said it had arrested 29 people in and around the Black Sea port who were planning to create a independent region similar to the self-declared rebel republics in Luhansk and Donetsk. A total of 254 members of Kiev's 450-member parliament voted in favour of the propaganda ban. The legislation, which still needs to be signed into law by President Petro Poroshenko, makes it illegal to deny the ""criminal"" character of Nazi and Communist regimes. Ukraine gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and has recently been seeking closer integration with Western Europe. Items prohibited under the bill include the Soviet flag and hymn as well as monuments and historical plaques commemorating Communist leaders, AFP news agency reports. A fragile ceasefire is in force in eastern Ukraine in a bid to bring an end to months of fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces. The Donetsk and Luhansk regions declared sovereign states in April. SBU chief Valentyn Nalyvaychenko told a televised news conference on Thursday that security officers had broken up an organisation preparing to proclaim a similar independent state in Odessa ""within the next few days"". He said the group was planning a campaign of assassinations targeting local politicians to destabilise the city. Officers had seized plans, maps, communication equipment, leaflets and banners, he added. Russia has accused the government in Kiev of being controlled by ""fascists"" and extremists, focusing on Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector. Ukrainian officials announced at the weekend that Mr Yarosh would serve as an adviser to the army chief of staff. The Right Sector first burst to prominence as an ultra-nationalist umbrella organisation, battling riot police and helping man the barricades during anti-government protests last year.","The Ukrainian parliament has voted to ban propaganda and @placeholder for "" totalitarian Communist and Nazi regimes "" in the former Soviet republic .",praise,advocacy,symbols,treats,conditions,2
"Jagdip Randhawa, 19, from Hounslow in London, was punched by professional fighter Clifton Ty Mitchell during a night out in Leeds in October 2011. He hit his head on a concrete path after the assault. At Wakefield Coroner's Court, a jury concluded failings at Leeds General Infirmary contributed to his death. On Thursday, the jury foreman said punches to the head and the treatment in hospital had caused the Leeds university student's death. He said the hospital ""fell significantly below the standards expected and required, which exacerbated the injuries to the head"". ""We believe that serious mistakes and serious errors in judgment were made by a doctor involved in treating Mr Randhawa in Leeds General Infirmary on October 12, 2011,"" he said. The jury concluded the hospital treatment ""did significantly contribute to the death"", but the failings were not ""gross"" and did not amount to unlawful killing in this respect. ""On the balance of probability, we are satisfied that but for the neglect identified, Mr Randhawa would have survived or would not have died when he did,"" the foreman added. Mitchell, from Derby, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for seven years in 2012 after the attack.","A student died after he was placed on a faulty ventilator and @placeholder of oxygen at a Leeds hospital following an attack by a boxer , an inquest has heard .",starved,branch,short,treated,out,0
"Historic Scotland has pledged £500,000 towards the scheme which also has council and private sector support. The project is due to get under way in April and finish in 2021. It will include the refurbishment, improvement and reuse of historic buildings in the town centre. They include Stranraer Museum, the former Harbourmaster's Office and Gillespie's Bakery. Grants will also be available to property owners to allow them to undertake essential external repairs to their premises and contribute to the wider improvement of property condition across the town. Dumfries and Galloway Council said the cash injection would ensure major improvements and restoration of some of the most historic parts of the town.",The final element of a £ 1.7 m investment package has been secured to finance a @placeholder programme for conservation areas within Stranraer .,rehabilitation,packaging,prison,regeneration,date,3
"In a police interview played at the Old Bailey, Elizabeth Curtis, of Cornwall, said she was duped into transferring money from her bank accounts by callers pretending to be police officers. Yasser Abukar, Sakaria Aden, Mohamed Dahir and Ibrahim Farah deny conspiracy to commit fraud. All are in their 20s and from London. A fifth defendant, Mohamed Sharif Abokar, also in his 20s and from London, has pleaded not guilty to converting criminal property. In the police interview, Miss Curtis said she had received a series of phone calls from people claiming to be police officers who told her she had been the victim of bank fraud. She followed their instructions to transfer her money into account numbers given to her by the callers, she added. She said she was stunned to learn the calls were bogus and felt stupid to have been taken in. The court has heard that the alleged £600,000 fraud involved 18 pensioners from across the south of England, including Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Bedfordshire, London and Kent.","A 73 - year - old woman broke down in tears as she described how she lost  £ 130,000 in an alleged phone scam @placeholder pensioners .",suspected,drug,sex,state,targeting,4
"It said the judge said one notice should remain             on Apple's website for at least six months , while other adverts should be placed in various newspapers and magazines. It follows the US company's failed attempt to block sales of the South Korean firm's Galaxy Tab tablets. Apple has not commented on the news. The order did not feature in Judge Colin Birss's             judgement published on 9 July , but Bloomberg said the matter was discussed in the court following the verdict. It said the notices must make reference to the court case and should be designed to ""correct the damaging impression"" that Samsung's tablets had aped the look of Apple's products. ""They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design,"" said the judge at the time. ""They are not as cool. The overall impression produced is different."" However, the judge refused Samsung's request that Apple be forbidden from restating its claim that its design rights had been infringed. Judge Birss said that the US firm was ""entitled"" to hold the opinion that his judgement was wrong. A statement from Samsung said: ""Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims based on such generic designs, innovation in the industry could be harmed and consumer choice unduly limited."" The law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner later obtained a copy of the judgement. It noted that Apple had been told to specifically state ""that Samsung did not infringe Apple's registered design for the iPad"", rather than having to use the word ""copy"".","A UK judge has ordered Apple to publish announcements that Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad , according to the Bloomberg news @placeholder .",shows,report,show,agency,bodies,3
"Known as Ak Saray (White Palace), it was built on a forested hilltop on the edge of the capital Ankara, on more than 150,000 sq m (1.6m sq ft) of land. Mr Erdogan opened the palace on 30 August after becoming president. His AK Party has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade. The palace is bigger than the White House in Washington, the Kremlin in Moscow and even the Palace of Versailles near Paris. Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek, quoted by Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper, said most of the 1.37bn Turkish lira ($615m) cost had been paid, but another $135m had been budgeted for it in 2015. The palace has sumptuous marble corridors and atriums, as well as high-tech systems to prevent electronic eavesdropping. Environmentalists accuse Mr Erdogan of spending public money on lavish construction projects to the detriment of green areas. Activists defending Istanbul's iconic Gezi Park clashed with police in June 2013. Hurriyet says the palace project was controversial because hundreds of trees were cut down to make space for it, in what had been a forest reserve bequeathed to the nation by modern Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The finance minister also said $185m would be spent on a new Airbus A330-200 presidential jet. A presidential aide, Fahri Kasirga, said other presidential properties would be renovated next year, notably the Huber Palace in Istanbul and a guest house in Marmaris, on the Aegean coast. Mr Erdogan has moved out of the more modest Cankaya Palace in Ankara, which will now be used by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.","A controversial new 1,000 - @placeholder palace built for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will cost about £ 385 m ( $ 615 m ) - nearly twice the previous estimate , Turkish officials say .",room,style,set,era,term,0
"IS said they were killed in revenge for Turkish killing of Muslims. Turkey launched a campaign against IS in northern Syria in August and is currently fighting IS around the group's stronghold of al-Bab. The video has not been independently verified. There has so far been no comment from Turkey. The Turkish army previously reported losing contact with two soldiers in northern Syria last month but it is unclear whether either are the men in the video. At least one of the purported victims appears to have been captured by the group as far back as September 2015. Turkish officials did not immediately respond to the publication of the video late on Thursday. IS released the video through a number of its online accounts and through the messaging app Telegram. It showed the two men, dressed in camouflage, caged in open countryside. The pair, collared and chained, were taken from the cage and made declarations to camera before being killed. Several reports suggested that Turkey had limited access to social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube following the release of the footage. However, many users reported no interruption. Earlier this week, 16 Turkish soldiers were killed near al-Bab, in the biggest loss for Turkish forces fighting the IS group in the region.",So - called Islamic State ( IS ) has released a video online which claims to show two captured Turkish soldiers being @placeholder alive .,burned,found,offered,recovered,captured,0
"Since World War Two, and earlier, there was a consensus that trade was about much more than just economics. It was an instrument for peace. Reducing trade barriers sparked growth and prosperity. That consensus is creaking. Global trade can boost economies but it can strip out layers of manufacturing. One of the winners from a year of political upheaval was protectionism. Those broad signature multinational free trade deals face challenges. Donald Trump has signalled that the United States will withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. The trend is towards bilateral deals. Even on the left - particularly in France - voices urge the building of a strong state to protect the country from foreign interests, from globalisation. Nationalism is back. Not in its old form but economic nationalism has resurfaced. Donald Trump has reclaimed an old isolationist slogan, America First. In trade deals, in international relations, the deciding factor will not be policing global order but serving American interests. In the UK, campaigners in favour of leaving the EU offered voters the chance ""to take back control of the country"". It was UK first. In France, the centre-right politician Francois Fillon - and the man most likely to be the next resident of the Elysee Palace - has declared that ""French foreign policy must serve French interests"". ""Let's leave aside,"" he said, ""the dream of a federal Europe."" Former US treasury secretary Larry Summers has spoken of a ""responsible nationalism"". ""It starts,"" he says, ""from the idea, that the primary responsibility of any government is to the welfare of its citizens, not to some concept of international order."" Also making a return - the strongman, the strong leader. Among Donald Trump's circle there is admiration for Putin's ""strength"". We are witnessing the rise of illiberal democracies. The new authoritarians pander to the desire to see order restored in a complex global world. Alongside Vladimir Putin stands Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and, to a lesser extent, Hungary's Viktor Orban. In the wings waits France's Marine le Pen. Some are inclined to add Donald Trump's name to the list. What the new authoritarians share is a contempt for international organisations. Trump dismissed Nato as ""obsolete"" before rowing back. Putin ignores treaties that constrain him and so the international post-war structures are weakening. Isolationism has returned. Both in the US and in Europe there is little appetite for international military campaigns. In Syria it is the Russians and, to a lesser extent, the Turks who are shaping the reality on the ground. The West is leaning inwards. Although the European Union has retained sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine, new leaders are looking to reset their relationship with Moscow. However much it offends their values, the Europeans have been only too willing to strike a deal with President Erdogan of Turkey if he will reduce the flow of refugees to Europe. It is not that the basic values that bind Europe to North America have been discarded but Western liberal democracy appears defensive and uncertain. Recently, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger commented that ""for the first time since the end of the Second World War, the future relationship of America to the world is not fully settled"". National identity matters again. In France, Francois Fillon, the candidate of the centre-right, declares that ""no, France is not a multicultural nation"". In Germany, Angela Merkel insists that ""we don't want any parallel societies. Our law takes precedence before tribal rules, codes of honour and Sharia."" And so, across Europe and across North America, the debate sharpens about integration. There is a shift, a step towards encouraging assimilation, of making new migrants embrace existing liberal values. ""The full veil is not appropriate,"" says Angela Merkel. ""It should be banned wherever it's legally possible."" In Germany, enthusiasm for willkommenskultur - for a welcoming culture towards migrants, has withered. We are told that the lines of refugees heading to Germany in 2015 wont happen again. In the United States, a central plank of the Trump campaign was a promise to move against undocumented immigrants, including a vow to ""build a great, great wall on our Southern border"". As he prepares for office, some of Donald Trump's plans may have softened but the debate over immigration, which was a key feature of the Brexit campaign, will continue to unsettle political waters. Trickle-down economics is back. In America, there will be tax cuts for all, including the wealthiest, in the belief that it will fire up the economy. The Trump administration is planning a massive fiscal stimulus by pumping money into rebuilding America's infrastructure. There will be a bonfire of regulations. In Europe, too, with the calendar marked by crucial elections, the commitment to enforcing further deficit reductions will weaken. It had been thought that the big arguments over global warming had been settled but they are in play once again. The Paris agreement committed the international community to limit the rise of global temperatures. Donald Trump has chosen as his new head of the Environmental Protection Agency a man who has questioned the science of climate change. There will now be a huge fight for the new president's ear as to whether he pulls the US out of the Paris Agreement. All Western governments will struggle with this question: can the state provide protection against globalisation? Millions of people in Europe and North America have given up on established political parties because they doubt they can deliver. So far, the social democrats - the centre-left - have been unable to make insecurity and inequality their theme. The political battle will be fought over who is best placed to help those not being lifted up by the globalised tide. The battle for voters' minds will be fought out in an era of post-truth politics, of fake news spiced with conspiracy theories. In both the UK and the US, the media has struggled with false equivalencies. Experts were dismissed. In America, some of those close to the Trump campaign have tried to redefine truth. It is not the marshalling of facts in pursuit of an objective truth that necessarily counts, they argue. It is the fact that many people believe something, even a conspiracy, that makes it true. The media will be at the centre of this battle of ideas. The anti-establishment campaigners believe they are winning. A senior figure in the French National Front said that the establishment's world ""is collapsing. Ours is being built."" Nigel Farage, the former leader of UKIP, has spoken of a ""democratic revolution"" that has only just begun. Beppe Grillo from the Italian Five Star movement, says ""it is the risk-takers, the stubborn, the barbarians who will carry the world forward"".  Many others see the barbarians at the gates of liberal democracy. So 2017 is set for further battles between two competing visions. On the one hand are those dedicated to defending the nation state and whose instincts are to erect walls against a dangerous and unstable world. On the other, are those who believe in liberal internationalism, in openness, free trade and international institutions.",2016 was the year of the unravelling . Norms were dispensed with . Old ideas were challenged and discarded . Our settled world was @placeholder and we became used to the shock of the new .,enabled,expanded,shaken,sound,modernized,2
"While England were taking on Pakistan in the UAE, South Africa were touring India - both in conditions different to Kingsmead. But whereas England were able to move on from their 2-0 defeat, to put it in a box and treat it as irrelevant to this series, South Africa's 3-0 loss continues to hang over their heads. Alastair Cook's tourists look as though they are enjoying their cricket and are playing it in a good spirit. I was very impressed with their performance. I thought before this series began that they could come here and win, and nothing in Durban has persuaded me to think otherwise. If we consider the issues that have surrounded this England team for a while, they are slowly being addressed and it can be said that they are moving towards their best XI. The fragile nature of the middle order has been boosted by the inclusions of James Taylor and Nick Compton. Taylor has long impressed in the one-day side and showed his worth to the Test team when he was recalled for the third match against Pakistan, while Compton played really well on his return after a two-year absence. This match in Durban, where conditions favoured the bowlers for long periods, suited the type of scenario in which Compton likes to bat. We will see situations when he has to adapt. If England are 150-1 when he arrives at the crease, can Compton play with more freedom? Test cricket is about playing the situation, so we will learn if he can be more positive. In the bowling department, Moeen Ali came back from a tough tour of the UAE with seven wickets to earn the man of the match award. Media playback is not supported on this device His off-spin, which has always been a work in progress, is getting better and better. For him to get 3-47 in the second innings - including the key scalp of AB de Villiers - will give him huge confidence. Spinners are under pressure to get wickets late in the game, when the pitch is deteriorating and conditions are in their favour. Moeen has felt that pressure in the past, but he rose to the challenge here. He should now know that he is capable. For Steven Finn, the remarkable journey from being ""unselectable"" to a potent Test-match weapon continues. Once again, he bowled very well here. He is a real bonus for Cook to have in the side - he simply takes wickets using the unexpected bounce generated by his height. The two issues still outstanding are the wicketkeeper and the opening batsman. Jonny Bairstow is less of a concern because he batted beautifully - timing the ball and scoring more freely than anyone else in the match - and he made up for the missed stumping of De Villiers by stumping Temba Bavuma on day five. Bairstow is a good man to have in the side. He is very upbeat and full of life. He would have probably had a pretty sleepless night thinking about the De Villiers miss, but he took the first opportunity that came his way the next morning. The challenge for him is to continue scoring runs and to eradicate the mistakes from his keeping - he only has to look across the dressing room to see the spectre of Jos Buttler looming over his place. As for the opening spot, the second Test in Cape Town is a big one for Alex Hales, who will know he needs to perform better than he did on his debut in Durban. Before this match, we thought Hales' weaknesses would be a loose technique outside off stump and a tendency to play a needless big shot. His dismissals highlighted both. In the first innings, he flashed at Dale Steyn to give an edge and, in the second, he played nicely before playing a crazy big shot to be caught at long-on. Come Cape Town, England will want to see that he is at least learning from those mistakes. These, though, are small problems for England compared to those faced by South Africa. Quite simply, the Proteas look as though they are hating their cricket. There was no leadership from Hashim Amla. When things are going badly, the captain has to galvanise his team, to inject some spirit and fight. There was none at all. South Africa are still ranked as the world's number one, but they are a team in decline. If Steyn does miss the second Test through injury, then I wonder how they are going to bowl England out. They have so many batsmen out of form and their two stars - Amla and De Villiers - have been burdened with the captaincy and wicketkeeping respectively. There are political issues in their selection process which makes things even more difficult but, even then, parts of their performance were pretty hapless. Look at the way they batted from number five down. Bavuma was stumped for a duck trying to save a Test - what is going on there? South Africa pretty much came straight from India and into the fire of this series. There was little time for change and even less before the second Test. It will be very difficult for them to turn things around. Therefore, England have an excellent opportunity to win this series quite comfortably, so long as they do not succumb to their own inconsistencies. Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Stephan Shemilt",England 's huge 241 - run win over South Africa in the first Test in Durban was partly @placeholder in the respective build - ups of the two sides .,rooted,slowed,conducted,included,seen,0
"The pair were found unconscious in shallow water near Cairns in Far North Queensland at about 11:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Wednesday, police said. The man and woman, both in their seventies, were among a group of 21 French holidaymakers, said tour operator Passions of Paradise. The Courier Mail reported the pair suffered cardiac arrests. The incident happened at Michaelmas Cay, a popular tourist spot about 40km (25 miles) northeast of Cairns. ""The two people indicated they had pre-existing medical conditions before they got in the water,"" Col McKenzie, chief of the Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators, told the BBC. ""The company actually had guides in the water swimming around the snorkellers making sure they were OK."" The man was spotted in distress first, Mr McKenzie said. A lookout pulled him to the beach and tried to resuscitate him. ""Minutes afterward, the lookout who was working on the boat spotted somebody face down in the water, not moving. They swam over and pulled them onto the boat and commenced resuscitation."" Passions of Paradise CEO Scotty Garden gave his sympathy to the pair's family and friends. He said the company would offer assistance to the other travellers. ""It is very stressful for our staff but their priority has been with helping the group,"" he said in a statement. Mr McKenzie said Passions of Paradise had taken more than 400,000 people to the reef since it began operating in 1989.",Two French tourists have @placeholder while snorkelling on Australia 's Great Barrier Reef .,spotted,burned,crashed,died,fallen,3
"The prime minister said Labour had a ""brass neck"" to claim they were on the side of ordinary working families. Under the £350m Conservative plans, the amount of state-subsidised childcare for three and four year-olds would be doubled to 30 hours a week. Labour said it was ""another unfunded announcement"", accusing the Conservatives of ""desperation"". The Liberal Democrats said the plans ""ignore working families with the youngest children"". BBC political correspondent Carole Walker said Mr Cameron was attempting to switch the focus of the campaign to one of his party's key announcement after several days dominated by warnings about the SNP and a future Labour government. The party is likely to face questions about how it would ensure sufficient childcare places are available, she added. Currently, all three and four-year olds in England are entitled to 570 hours of free early education or childcare a year, which works out as 15 hours each week for 38 weeks of the year. The Conservatives said the 30-hour offer from 2017, announced a week ago, would result in more than 600,000 extra 15-hour free childcare places every year. They said the proposal would be funded by reducing tax relief on pension contributions. Labour has pledged 25 hours of free childcare a week and the Liberal Democrats 20 hours, although both parties also plan to extend the offer to younger children. Mr Cameron said his government inherited a ""shocking"" situation, ""where couples were spending as much on childcare as one of them took home in earnings"". He added that ""for many second earners, work didn't pay because the cost of childcare was so high"". A Conservative government would expand on the changes made in the last Parliament, Mr Cameron said. ""If you're a working parent with one child you can rest assured that by the time they're three they'll be able to go to nursery for 30 hours a week completely free,"" Mr Cameron said. ""And we have legislated also for tax free childcare for anything outside that - so if you spend ten thousand pounds on childcare you'll get two thousand pounds back for each child."" But Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: ""Hard-working families will not be fooled by the £600m gap in funding for this policy, as announced last week."" He said Labour had a ""better plan"" including a ""guarantee of access"" to childcare between 08:00 and 18:00 for primary age children. And Liberal Democrat equalities minister Jo Swinson said: ""Tory plans for childcare ignore working families with the youngest children, which could leave some parents locked out of the labour market for years on end."" She said her party would extend early-years education to all two-year-olds and ensure free childcare support kicked in as soon as paid parental leave ended for working mums and dads. ""This will help with the cost of childcare and ensure working parents have a genuine choice about when to return to work,"" she added. The UK Independence Party says it will continue to fund the current free 15-hour a week childcare scheme and in-coming tax-free childcare scheme - although they would de-regulate childcare provision ""to address the shortage places and cut the cost to both parents and the state"". * Subscribe to the BBC Election 2015 newsletter to get a round-up of the day's campaign news sent to your inbox every weekday afternoon.","David Cameron says he will create 600,000 extra free childcare places if he is returned to @placeholder next month .",london,power,contest,work,address,1
"The white paper, launched by Carwyn Jones and Leanne Wood in London, demands full single market access. Ms Wood said on Monday that free movement was ""not a problem"". UKIP's Neil Hamilton dismissed the Labour/Plaid white paper as a ""white flag of surrender"" to the EU. Last week, Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK should leave the single market as she outlined her 12 principles for Brexit. Mr Jones said the plan respected the Welsh vote to leave the EU but would give the UK ""full and unfettered access"" to the single market. He said freedom of movement rules could require EU migrants to have a job offer before entering the UK, adding UK legislation could be enforced to stop workers being exploited. ""Our plan explains how we can strike a balance between the message the Welsh people gave us with the economic reality that we face,"" he said. According to the paper, 79% of EU migrants aged 16-64 in Wales are in employment. The Welsh Government white paper called for: It also called for social and environmental protections, and workers' rights to be maintained, and for transition arrangements to be properly considered so the UK does ""not fall off"" an economic ""cliff edge"". Ms Wood said that, in engaging with the process of drawing up a plan, Plaid Cymru had ""prioritised the Welsh economy"". ""We have done this because two thirds of all of our exports go to the European single market,"" she said. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Mr Jones said it made ""no sense"" to place barriers between Wales and its biggest market. The document follows an agreement between Labour, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats. UKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton dismissed the proposals, saying: ""It's not so much a white paper as a white flag of surrender to the EU before negotiations have actually started. ""If Theresa May were to take this blueprint to Brussels then the EU would get everything they wanted. ""It would mean that we weren't leaving the EU in any meaningful sense at all."" Nathan Gill, UKIP Wales MEP, said the paper proved ""just how out of touch the political elite in Cardiff Bay are with the majority of Welsh voters"". ""The latest YouGov poll released at the beginning of this month showed that the majority of Welsh voters want full control over immigration,"" he said. ""The only way to control the quantity and quality of people coming to Britain is to leave the single market."" Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said he would have tried to reach a wider cross-party agreement but claimed the first minister had not invited him. ""We have a disorganised message coming from Wales,"" he said, adding Europe also needed to respond on the issue of immigration. ""When the single market was created and the tenets that underpin the single market, this mass movement of people around Europe wasn't a consideration,"" he said. ""It is a consideration today."" Mr Davies told BBC Radio Wales that, given Scotland had tabled a paper at the joint ministerial committee on Brexit last Thursday, the Welsh Government plan was ""a bit late in the day"". But the first minister has defended the decision to publish the plan a week after Mrs May set out the UK government's objectives, saying the Welsh plan was more detailed and comprehensive. The leaders' launch comes ahead of the expected decision by the Supreme Court on Tuesday on whether Parliament should have a say before Article 50 is invoked.","The first minister of Wales and Plaid Cymru 's leader have published a plan for Brexit , calling for freedom of movement rules to be @placeholder to whether migrants have a job .",set,linked,offered,forced,written,1
"According to the case filed by Ellen Newlin Chase and Margaret Chase Perry, the show used their mother Ellen's lyrics without buying the rights. The show's characters have periodically sung a lullaby including the lyrics ""soft kitty, warm kitty"". Mrs Newlin's daughters have also sued other media companies over the issue. Calls to CBS and other companies named in the case were not immediately returned on Monday. Mrs Newlin died in 2004, having worked as a nursery school teacher in Alstead, New Hampshire, for about 35 years. Her daughters still live in the small town. The legal case claims that the ""soft kitty"" lyrics written by Mrs Newlin in the 1930s have been used in their entirety on at least eight episodes of the show since March 2008. It says the lyrics have also been used in merchandising, including on T-shirts, mouse pads, mobile phone covers, wallets, air fresheners, fridge magnets, toys and other products. ""The Soft Kitty lyrics are among the best-known and most popular aspects of `The Big Bang Theory,"" the claim states. ""They have become a signature and emblematic feature of the show and a central part of the show's promotion."" According to the claim, Ellen Newlin Chase discovered The Big Bang Theory's use of the lyrics in August 2014, when she was researching her mother's history for an article she was writing and came across a blog post discussing the use of the lyrics on the show. The lawsuit says that in 2007, Warner Bros. Entertainment and the show's other producers decided they wanted to use the lyrics and sought permission from Willis Music Co., a Kentucky-based company that had published them in a book called Songs for the Nursery School. But according to the claim, Willis Music gave permission to use the lyrics without consulting Mrs Newlin's heirs even though the book makes clear that Mrs Newlin was the author of and owned the copyright to the lyrics.","The daughters of a teacher who wrote a poem about a "" soft kitty "" are suing CBS , the @placeholder behind The Big Bang Theory , for copyright violation .",name,team,network,family,corporation,2
"They account for 19% of victims of these type of fraud cases, despite making up less than 9% of the UK population. Directors have been targeted directly by scams owing to the potential for con-artists to steal large sums. Fraud victims are most likely to be aged between 31 and 50, Cifas said. However, the biggest rise in 2016 from the previous year was among those aged 21 and under. The report, by Cifas and LexisNexis Risk Solutions, also warned that fraudsters were attempting to obtain credit files as a pre-cursor to committing identity fraud. Some 47% of recorded identity frauds involving fraudulently obtained credit files from company directors took place in London and the South East of England. In comparison, Wales and the North East of England each accounted for 2% of these fraud cases. The vast majority of identity fraud takes place when a fraudster pretends to be an individual, so as to buy a product or take out a loan in their name. Fraudsters get hold of the necessary personal material by stealing mail, computer hacking, obtaining data on the dark web, and exploiting personal information on social media, according to Cifas. They can also gather it though social engineering, where people give up personal information to someone pretending to be from their bank, the police or a retailer. Cifas advises people to shred important paper documents - and use passwords, privacy settings and anti-virus software on their computers. Source: Cifas","Company directors are the victims of one in five cases of identity fraud , according to fraud prevention @placeholder Cifas .",system,organisation,media,body,analysis,1
"Faustin, a student at a lycée in Laval, north-western France, decided to shun questions on post-war German politics and China's international relations. Instead, Faustin penned a screed about the plight of homosexuals detained and tortured by authorities in Chechnya. But on Wednesday the baccalaureate student received the results: two out of 20 points. The teenager, who identifies as gender-neutral, will have to take a re-sit. ""I am absolutely not surprised,"" Faustin told followers on Twitter. ""I expected it - the important thing was... to talk about what's going on over there."" LGBT activists revealed that more than 100 men were being held in a camp in Chechnya in April - and that some had died after being tortured - because they were gay or suspected of being gay. The news triggered international protests and moves to smuggle victims to safehouses, with some countries offering visas to allow them to escape. Faustin's highlighting of the issue divided Twitter. It was applauded by some. But others saw the action as ill-thought-out. In the essay, Faustin compares international responses to the revelations of homosexual persecution in Chechnya. The essay ends: ""Dozens of homosexual men have been killed in these Chechen camps and outside [the camps] too, like adolescents who committed suicide because their family threatened to kill them because they were gay.""",A French teenager who used a history exam to send a political message has not been @placeholder by the examiners .,adopted,named,criticised,rewarded,interviewed,3
"Hundreds of cars became stranded following heavy rain at Festival No.6 in Portmeirion in September. Gwynedd council said 53 members of staff were called out to work at a Porthmadog leisure centre over two nights where 200 people took refuge. A claim for £7,948.18 has been accepted by the festival, it said. A spokeswoman for the local authority said: ""It is expected that the overall cost to Gwynedd council will be £0. ""A £7,948.18 insurance claim has been submitted by the festival organisers which covers all costs incurred by Gwynedd council, including staff and infrastructure."" The local authority is now waiting on payment. In response, a festival spokeswoman said: ""The overall costs incurred by Gwynedd council will be paid directly by the festival. ""Payment is due to be made before the end of January."" In November, the festival's organiser said it would move the park and ride and reduce capacity to prevent future problems. The new locations for the park and ride will be announced in early 2017.","A Gwynedd festival is paying out nearly £ 8,000 to reimburse a council which @placeholder out after the event 's car park flooded .",knocked,moved,ruled,pulled,helped,4
"Mr Umunna said the party should not ""simply dismiss out of hand those who hold critical views of New Labour"". He added ""solidarity is key"" and the party must ""accept the result"". But asked whether he would serve under Mr Corbyn, he said he had ""misgivings"" about many of his policies. A new grouping of moderate party figures, including Mr Umunna, will meet for the first time next week. This new group, called Labour for the Common Good, will meet when MPs return to Westminster, and is being jointly led by Mr Umunna and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt. BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Mr Umunna was ""at pains to claim this group will not be a faction; a party within a party with the immediate aim of toppling Ed Miliband's successor"". In a speech to centre-left think tank Policy Network, Mr Umunna said his party must support ""our new leader in developing an agenda that can return Labour to office"". Jeremy Corbyn, the bookmakers' favourite, is up against Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall in the leadership contest, with the winner due to be announced on 12 September. Mr Umunna, who withdrew from the contest in its early stages, acknowledged Islington North MP Mr Corbyn had enthused many who had previously been turned off by the party. ""Over half a million people are now members, supporters or affiliated supporters of our party, with hundreds of thousands joining in the last few weeks,"" he said. ""Some have joined in order to thwart the pursuit of Labour values but many more have joined to further the pursuit of those values, including lots of young people. ""At a time when so many are walking away from centre-left parties across the Western world, and many young people do not vote let alone join a party, this is surely something to celebrate. ""It is vital that we embrace our new joiners and harness their energy,"" he added. But Mr Umunna said he disagreed with Mr Corbyn on a range of issues, such as his support for national insurance tax rises, greater public ownership and a downsizing of Nato, while he also had concerns over his stance on EU membership. Asked if he would remain in the shadow cabinet if Mr Corbyn won, the shadow business secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that it would ""completely depend on the programme"" he was asked to endorse. ""If one was asked to adopt all of those positions, I would find it difficult. But you don't only contribute by serving in a shadow cabinet."" Whoever was elected leader, he suggested, would have to adopt policies ""around which a degree of consensus"" could be formed. Speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show, Mr Burnham said he respected the ""positive"" energy that Mr Corbyn had brought to the campaign although he disagreed with him on many things. He also said he would not stand for the leadership again if he lost, saying it was ""now or never"" for him. At-a-glance profiles of the four contenders","Labour 's Chuka Umunna has urged his party to @placeholder around its new leader , in an apparent offer of reconciliation with left - wing leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn .",retire,avoid,work,focus,unite,4
"The sport's commissioner Rob Manfred met Khan on Sunday but no deal was agreed about which teams would play, a spokesperson told BBC Sport. It comes after Khan revealed talks were under way with MLB and the New York Mets to play matches at London Stadium. Plans to host regular season games in London were abandoned in July. ""Commissioner Manfred and the Mayor of London had a very good meeting on a variety of topics,"" said an MLB spokesperson. ""Nothing specific has been determined regarding when a game might occur in London and what teams would participate. MLB has never been played in Europe, but London has hosted games in American football's NFL and basketball's NBA in recent seasons. Khan said earlier on Wednesday: ""We're in discussions about MLB and we want MLB to come to London. ""What we're discussing with Major League Baseball is for them to come here during the summer, which works for us for obvious reasons. They are very excited."" West Ham United are the main tenants at London Stadium, which was built to host the London 2012 Olympics. Khan, who took over from Boris Johnson in May, threw the first pitch at a New York Mets match last week. Three NFL matches will be played in London this season, including at Twickenham for the first time. Khan said: ""This shows London is open and is the sporting capital of the world. The rest of the country can benefit from the sporting events and the rest of Europe as well.""","Major League Baseball says it @placeholder "" a very good meeting "" with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about playing matches in the capital .",held,wrote,enjoys,suffered,has,0
"Police were called to Groathill Road North at about 08:10 on Wednesday following reports of a car being driven erratically. The car, believed to be a Mercedes, then crashed into a caravan in a garden on the same road. The teenager is due appear from custody at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. Two other people are also being sought. No-one was in the caravan when the car crashed into it.",A 17 - year - old @placeholder after a car ploughed into a caravan in an Edinburgh garden has been charged by police .,neighbour,detained,drowned,sports,charged,1
Media playback is unsupported on your device 29 April 2015 Last updated at 13:07 BST The players use their heads to pass the ball along the table before Jon Obi Mikel nods it into a bin. Striker Didier Drogba posted the video online. Watch the video to see the players in action.,Chelsea stars @placeholder John Terry have been filmed performing a head tennis trick at the dinner table .,school,including,show,remains,featuring,1
"Other parts of the north east, Highlands and Islands and rural areas, including Dumfries and Galloway, have found difficulty filling posts. The problems and issues are not simple and straightforward. Nationally, there is an agreed number of places available in teacher training. The funding deal between councils and the Scottish government commits councils to maintaining teacher numbers. In general, the problem is not so much the number of people who are qualified to teach across Scotland as the number of people who may want to work in some parts of the country. By implication, there are people in some parts of central Scotland who would rather be supply teachers or work on fixed-term contracts than take up permanent posts in some other areas. In Aberdeen and parts of the north east, the higher cost of living is an issue. In some other areas, the issue may be geographical isolation or encouraging young people who left as teenagers to begin university to return home. Some councils have schemes to help attract teachers - for instance offering them free or low-cost housing for a few months like Moray - or even encouraging suitably-qualified staff to train as teachers. Potential long-term solutions include schemes to encourage more people from particular areas to become teachers in the hope that they may go on to teach in their own area. There is also the issue of just who can teach in Scotland. To teach in a state school, a person has to be registered with the General Teaching Council of Scotland. It specifies what qualifications and experience candidates from outside Scotland need to have - about 350 people from outside Scotland register each year. One particular issue recently involved graduates from south of the border who had ""learned on the job"" rather than obtained a recognised qualification as a teacher. The GTCS is piloting a flexible approach in Moray which allows provisional registration while people undergo ""top-up"" training. However, in general, the unions would be concerned if any attempt were made to use teacher shortages as a justification for relaxing entry requirements into the profession.",Aberdeen is not the only part of Scotland to @placeholder of difficulties recruiting teachers .,hear,warn,join,protect,suffer,1
"Roscommon County Council said he bought the poison to kill rabbits and had kept it in his shed for the past 45 years. The farmer handed over 4kg of cyanide to environmental experts in response to a hazardous farm waste collection. A chemical expert on site at Saturday's event said it was ""enough to wipe out most of the population of Roscommon"". The council's environmental education officer, Suzanne Dempsey, told the Roscommon Herald that farmers using cyanide to kill rabbits ""would have been a common practice"" in the past. ""The farmer had it in his shed for the past 45 years and had previously sought advice on how to dispose of it safely,"" she told the newspaper. She said the man had kept the material ""well secured"" in containers but added:  ""It was good to get these chemicals into safe hands."" ""We also had a quantity of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, one of the two ingredients of Agent Orange which was used in the Vietnam War,"" Ms Dempsey said. The waste collection was led by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with the involvement of Roscommon County Council and Teagasc (the Irish agriculture and food development authority). Tim Hyde from Teagasc said the collections ""provide an opportunity for farmers to dispose of materials that may be harmful to humans and animals"". He said Saturday's event was the "" biggest turnout for the seven collection days held nationwide so far this year"".","An Irish farmer had stored enough of the deadly @placeholder cyanide to "" kill most of the population "" of his town , council workers have said .",public,teams,body,raising,substance,4
"Michael Davies, 71, from Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, was staying at a hotel in Sandown with his wife Pat when he disappeared on 26 May. His family thanked those who organised and took part in a search on Wednesday. They said they wanted to join in, but it was difficult for them to return to the island from Wales. In a statement released through Hampshire Constabulary, they said: ""The whole family remains in limbo right now. Every day is a struggle as we feel unable to face things and move on."" A police spokesman thanked those who took part in the search, adding that detectives and specialist officers continue to work on the case. There is no evidence to suggest Mr Davies has been the victim of a crime. But there is concern that he may not have access to the blood pressure medication he needs.","The family of a south Wales man , @placeholder on the Isle of Wight , have said they are "" in limbo "" and "" unable to face things and move on "" .",based,called,including,settled,missing,4
"The authorities have been trying since May to demolish the old quarter of Awamiya, saying Shia militants use its narrow streets as a hideout. Activists accuse security forces of trying to force out residents. It is the latest intensification of sporadic unrest in the Eastern Province, which is largely Shia. At least seven people, including two police officers, have been killed in the clashes, Reuters news agency said. Local activists say Saudi forces have been firing randomly towards homes and cars, and that buildings have been damaged or burned in the fighting. ""No one is going out. If you go out, you will be shot by snipers,"" one activist told the BBC. People in the town were running out of drinking water, he added. Some residents have appealed to the Saudi authorities to help them leave and families have been given accommodation in a nearby town, Saudi media reported. Shia residents of the region around the city of Qatif have long complained that they are marginalised and discriminated against by the Sunni monarchy. In May the UN criticised the Saudi attempt to demolish Awamiya's 400-year-old al-Masora quarter, home to between 2,000 and 3,000 people, saying it threatened historical and cultural heritage. The Saudi authorities had imposed power cuts on residents to try to make them leave, said the UN Special Rapporteur on housing, Leilani Farha. Anti-government demonstrations in Eastern Province began after the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, and protests and attacks have become more frequent since the January 2016 execution of the prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr. Sheikh Nimr, a strong supporter of the anti-government protests, lived in Awamiya. In July, Saudi Arabia executed four people accused of carrying out terrorist acts in the Qatif region. In the same month, two members of the Saudi security forces were killed in separate bombings in Awamiya. In June, another officer and two other people died in bombings. During the protests, activists have accused security forces of opening fire on demonstrators, and say others are being jailed or sentenced to death for protest-related crimes.",Hundreds of people have reportedly been @placeholder a town in eastern Saudi Arabia after weeks of clashes between the security forces and armed men .,registered,including,attended,injured,fleeing,4
"Andrew RT Davies accused Labour and Plaid Cymru of ""arrogantly"" refusing to accept ""their world view isn't shared"" by the majority which backed Brexit. He called for a reassessment of how to spend a remaining £1bn of EU structural funding by 2020, claiming Labour had failed to make a success of past aid. Mr Davies also called for a more ""tailored"" system of farming support. Writing for the BrexitCentral.com website, the Welsh Conservative leader claimed Labour was in ""a mess of its own making"" with conflicting views on single market access, and whether the public should be asked to vote again on the terms of Brexit. ""The vast majority of the public just want us to get on with making a success of our new relationship with the EU,"" Mr Davies wrote. ""Unfortunately, whilst my party has moved on pragmatically into the post-referendum era, not everyone is ready."" On the subject of regional aid, Mr Davies said: ""Support for Brexit was at its strongest in areas which have received the most in EU funds. ""That's not ironic, it's a judgement of Welsh Labour's failure to make a success of three successive rounds of structural funding."" On farming support, he said: ""Whilst (the) CAP [Common Agricultural Policy] might have fit when it was created, would we want to repeat its mistakes in the future - or are we better off starting afresh with a new system of support designed and tailored to meet the needs of British farmers and rural businesses?"" Mr Davies also repeated his call to First Minister Carwyn Jones to include his party in ""constructive discussions"" with the Welsh Government on the nation's response to Brexit. ""If the First Minister truly wants to speak for Wales as a whole then he must offer a voice for the majority in this country who took a collective decision to leave the EU,"" he said. On the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme, Mr Jones said it was ""right that all four parliaments should ratify, agree to any deal the UK government comes to"" on Brexit but denied that he had ever called for a Welsh ""veto"" on the terms.","Wales is @placeholder an opportunity to shape the EU debate , the Welsh Conservative leader has claimed .",missing,taking,launched,set,providing,0
"But there are big fines, and BIG fines, and RBS is about to be hit by the biggest one in its troubled history. RBS is one of the last big banks to settle with US authorities over its role in mis-selling risky mortgages, the scandal at the very heart of the great financial crisis of 2008/9. According to RBS shareholders the BBC has spoken to, if the US Department of Justice (DoJ) slaps a fine around the $10bn mark, there will be drinks all round at RBS HQ and the share price will probably go up. RBS itself is loath to offer an estimate as it's worried it may antagonise the very regulators with whom it is in tense and high stakes negotiations. It has good reason to be cautious. Deutsche Bank tried to create a consensus around a figure of $5bn for its own settlement, only to see the Department of Justice get the hump and hit them with a bill for $14bn. That riposte saw Deutsche Bank's share price tumble as a fine of that size was nearly 85% of the bank's market value at that time. The two sides eventually settled on a figure of $7.2bn. RBS had a much bigger share than Deutsche of the sub-prime mortgage market and analysts estimates of the ultimate bill cluster around the low teens of billions. If it is much higher than that, some shareholders think RBS should refuse to settle and instead take the matter to court. That was the approach taken by Barclays who balked at a figure (thought to be around $5bn) for their comparatively small role in the market, feeling that foreign banks were being disproportionately punished by US regulators compared to American banks. For example, Goldman Sachs was a much bigger player than Barclays in this market and settled for just over $5bn. A Barclays insider told the BBC: ""If the gap between what the DoJ was asking and what we thought reasonable could have been bridged, we would have done it but the gap was just too wide."" Barclays decided it would take its chances fighting the US regulator in court - an option no bank takes lightly. We won't know if that was the right call for many weeks or months. That is the same dilemma facing RBS. If the DoJ comes back with a number in the high teens of billions - should it pay or fight? Many shareholders agree that foreign banks are being unfairly punished and would back the bank if it refused to cough up. One told the BBC: ""Justice is not the guiding star for the Department of Justice. You might as well call it the Department of legalised extortion. The US authorities are shaking down the only investment banking competitors to the big US banks."" The Department of Justice declined to comment. But remember, the DoJ is about to get a new boss appointed by a new President. His preferred choice is Republican Senator Jeff Sessions who has courted controversy for his hardline views on immigration but is fairly inexperienced in financial regulation. So the gamble is this. Settle with this lot - who have shown themselves to be tough on European banks - or hope you get an easier ride with the new administration who may - or may not - look more favourably on UK institutions. Whatever choice RBS takes, it will be a massive body blow to a bank already punch drunk with its various regulatory maulings. It was the only UK bank to fail the Bank of England's stress tests in November - in part because of the cloud of this imminent fine. The Bank of England was satisfied that RBS had a credible plan to bolster its finances further but a particularly vicious upper cut from the US won't help. This is the last big impediment between RBS and its attempts to return to normality. Just today we saw Lloyds announce that the UK government was no longer its biggest shareholder. RBS is still 73% owned by the government and is years away from that, but putting all the misconduct and litigation to one side, this is a bank capable of making a billion pounds a quarter in profit. Many may find banks making profits unpalatable but the truth is economies function better with healthy banks that can get on with the job of being their bloodstream, delivering credit to where it is needed. Getting this matter settled will be like having a tumor (size TBC) removed. The operation may well be painful, but only when it's done can RBS truly begin to heal.",""" Bank faces big fine "" is a story so @placeholder out it would almost struggle to make the headlines after years of bad bank behaviour and big misconduct penalties .",rolled,sends,set,carrying,worn,4
"Images of three men - captured on CCTV ahead of the club's 1-1 draw with Paris St-Germain - were released on Friday. Met Police officers said they launched the appeal in support of French police. Chelsea FC has barred five fans from attending Stamford Bridge following the release of a video showing a black man being pushed from a Paris train. The Wave Trauma Centre based in Belfast has said it has suspended a part-time worker following allegations that he was involved in the incident. Amateur video shot at Paris' Richelieu-Drouot station showed a man being pushed from the Metro train while a group chanted: ""We're racist, we're racist and that's the way we like it."" Chelsea has said it will ban the five suspended fans from attending Stamford Bridge for life if there is sufficient evidence of their involvement. A spokesman said the club was writing to the victim to ""apologise unreservedly"", while manager Jose Mourinho has said he was ""ashamed"" by the alleged racism. British Transport Police is also investigating claims of racist chanting at London's St Pancras station by men thought to be Chelsea fans returning from the Champions League match in Paris on Wednesday evening. Superintendent Gill Murray of the BTP said an allegation of racist chanting was reported by a member of the public who was ""disgusted by the behaviour of the men"", who had travelled on the 18:40 service from Paris Gare du Nord. The alleged victim of the Paris Metro incident has been identified as a 33-year-old man, known only as Souleymane S, who said the men who stopped him boarding the train ""should be locked up"". Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's Drive on Friday, he said: ""I felt truly wounded to the bottom of my heart that I really couldn't believe it. ""We're in 2015, aren't we, and we're in France. We're in a civilised country and when you are in a civilised country there are certain things you can't do. ""For me, it's a humiliation. I was humiliated in my country. I was humiliated in front of my family, humiliated in front of my mother and father.""","Three men being @placeholder in connection with an incident of alleged racism by Chelsea fans on the Paris Metro have been identified , the Met Police says .",questioned,charged,placed,detained,sought,4
"The Jesse Window conservation was completed in November following a three-year, £500,000 project. Free guided tours are being offered for the first time on Saturday and Sunday as part of a weekend of celebrations. The window is described as one the most remarkable examples of 14th Century stained glass in Europe It depicts the genealogy of Jesus dating back to Abraham. Lindsay Mann, from the cathedral, said: ""It's the first time visitors are being invited to come in and have tours given by our specialist guides. ""It will focus on the story of the window and also its conservation. The window can now be seen as our mediaeval counterparts intended it to be seen. ""It escaped the reformation, in part due to the sheer scale of it and and its height in the cathedral."" Ms Mann said the free tours needed to be pre-booked via the cathedral's website. A one-day conference looking at the significance of the window and the process of its conservation will also take place on Saturday.",A recently restored medieval stained glass window at Wells Cathedral is to be @placeholder off during an event to celebrate the project 's completion .,taken,called,held,shown,set,3
"The Chicago-born star told Chris Evans on his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show ""the seed was planted"" to take part when she sang on the show last year. Despite admitting she could not dance, the singer said was ""game"" to take part, but had done ""absolutely nothing"" to prepare. The new series begins in September. Olly Murs and Rebecca Ferguson are to perform on the launch show, broadcast on 3 September, it has been confirmed. The 15 celebrity contestants will find out on the show which professional dancer they have been matched with. When she was asked if she wanted to appear on Strictly as a contestant, Anastacia said she replied: ""I'd stink - do you really want me on the show?"" ""I'm serious,"" the 47-year-old told Evans. ""I'm not lying about it at all. I just finished 62 dates on tour so I'm really good at rhythm and sidestepping - as far as to my own music. But… uh oh."" When Evans said it was ""fantastic"" the singer would be on Strictly, she replied: ""You say it's fantastic now - you haven't seen me dance yet."" The singer said she had a ""slew of health issues"" - including Crohn's disease, breast cancer and a heart condition - joking: ""I'm ticking them off, honey."" She added of the dancing series: ""I did it because I wanted to challenge myself on something that had nothing to do with a hospital."" Speaking on the Strictly website, the singer said: ""After my double mastectomy, it stripped away a part of me that I feel I would like to find again. ""This opportunity has come at a perfect time to help me use and get to know my upper body again."" She added she was most looking forward to dancing the Salsa because she thinks she has ""a 28-year-old Latina trapped inside"" her body. Anastacia shot to international fame in 2000 with her debut song I'm Outta Love, which she performed on the Strictly Blackpool special last year. BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty, politician Ed Balls, model Daisy Lowe, former Hollyoaks actor Danny Mac, Kiss FM DJ Melvin Odoom, singers Louise Redknapp and Will Young; and presenters Ore Oduba and Laura Whitmore are the other confirmed celebrity contestants on the show. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","US singer Anastacia says she "" ca n't wait to get @placeholder "" as she was announced as the 10th contestant for Strictly Come Dancing .",interest,fashion,signs,back,started,4
"Could it be a topic that persuades undecided voters on polling day? Always an emotive issue, religious slaughter has become an unexpected political battleground as the general election approaches. Animal rights campaigners have long called for a ban on halal or shechita slaughter, which amongst other requirements specify slitting an animal's throat quickly with a sharp knife while it is still conscious. The British Veterinary Association, the RSPCA, Compassion in World Farming and the National Secular Society all want to see an end to the religious slaughter of animals or to slaughter without pre-stunning. However, in the run-up to the general election, opposition to those methods of slaughter would also seem to have become dog whistle politics: shorthand for targeting a specific religious minority - Muslims - without saying as much. UKIP last week said it would ban all slaughter methods that didn't involve pre-stunning - causing controversy amongst British Muslims and Jews, some of whom warned that any such ban would in effect drive those who observe religious dietary laws out of the UK. For many of the UK's almost three million Muslims, halal slaughter is a strict religious requirement, as is eating kosher for many of the UK's 300,000 Jews. According to the Halal Authority Board, there is a strong strand of religious opinion that livestock should not be stunned before slaughter, but others feel that light stunning is permissible. Its standards permit both types of slaughter, and dictate a number of requirements regarding animal welfare for both. ""If followed properly, both unstunned and stunned are extremely humane forms of slaughter and the evidence to suggest otherwise is completely wrong,"" according to its head of certification, Shaykh Tauqir Ishaq. ""Being cruel to animals is a sin in Islam, and we do not permit any form of cruelty in abattoirs certified by us. ""The discomfort and pain experienced by any animal should be absolutely minimised if not eliminated, and our standards reflect such requirements. ""We have found that all abattoirs we have visited, audited and certified pay great attention to animal welfare from transportation, temporary storage and stunning and slaughtering.  Whilst the taking of an animal's life is not a pleasant one, it is permitted in Islam as long as it is for eating and not sport."" The most recent debate over religious slaughter was sparked off by images released by Animal Aid, showing ""horrifying yet routine abuse"" captured using hidden cameras at a halal abattoir. One worker was sacked and three others suspended after being filmed breaking the strict rules on slaughtering sheep by hacking and sawing at the animals' throats. The men at the Bowood Lamb abattoir in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, could be prosecuted. However, Animal Aid is keen to point out that prior to Bowood, it had filmed undercover in nine other slaughterhouses, all of them practising mainstream ""humane"" killing with pre-stunning. In all but one of the nine, the group recorded ""appalling and often gratuitous cruelty"". Animal Aid's position is that all slaughter involves suffering, so it promotes an animal-free vegan diet. British and EU law requires all animals to be stunned prior to being killed, unless the meat is intended for Muslim or Jewish consumers. However, Animal Aid said it had discovered a ""remarkable weakness in the application of the law"", with the regulatory body, the Food Standards Agency, acknowledging to Animal Aid that any slaughterhouse ""can practise non-stun slaughter without demonstrating that the meat is destined for religious communities."" The Halal Authority Board said that it was ""shocked at the cruel practices that have been filmed and these persons and abattoirs should be held to account"". But it went on to say: ""We also feel that halal slaughter has been especially targeted by certain groups to attempt to discredit humane halal slaughter methods."" UKIP is the only British political party so far to promise to ban the killing of animals for meat in the UK without stunning them first. Halal is Arabic for permissible. Halal food is that which adheres to Islamic law, as defined in the Koran. The Islamic form of slaughtering animals or poultry, dhabiha, involves killing through a cut to the jugular vein, carotid artery and windpipe. Animals must be alive and healthy at the time of slaughter and all blood is drained from the carcass. During the process, a Muslim will recite a dedication, know as tasmiya or shahada. There is debate about elements of halal, such as whether stunning is allowed. Stunning cannot be used to kill an animal, according to the Halal Food Authority (HFA), a non-profit organisation that monitors adherence to halal principles. But it can be used if the animal survives and is then killed by halal methods. Kosher food complies with Jewish dietary law (kashrut), again governing what can and cannot be eaten by those practising the faith. There are similarities in the method of slaughter in that both require use of a surgically sharp knife and specially-trained slaughtermen. Jewish law strictly forbids the use of stunning and meats are not blessed in the same way. Unlike for halal, kashrut does not require God's name to be said before every slaughter after an initial blessing. Kashrut forbids the consumption of certain parts of the carcass, including the sciatic nerve and particular fats. Halal also forbids consumption of some carcass parts including the testicles and bladder. Prime Minister David Cameron, who has said he is happy to eat halal meat, has promised to keep exemptions for religious purposes such as halal and Jewish shechita for kosher meat. However, UKIP said that it was ""about time someone stood up for the rights of the silent majority in the ethical treatment of animals instead of bowing down to those who shout the loudest"". In a statement, the party noted: ""We respect religious groups to carry out slaughter in the UK according to how they define and read their scriptures. ""What we do not allow, however, is for the rights and demands of groups within those religion to override the UK's compassionate traditions of animal welfare. ""We see no reason why religious groups should not take into account the concerns of animal welfare when carrying out slaughter."" The party's agricultural spokesman, Stuart Agnew, was quoted in the Jewish Chronicle as saying that he had been against the policy change, but had been overruled. He told the newspaper that the policy was not meant to ""target"" Jews, but was ""aimed elsewhere - it's aimed at others. You've been caught in the crossfire; collateral damage. You know what I mean."" Shimon Cohen, the campaign director of Shechita UK, hit back at the party. He said: ""This latest move is opportunistic and a disappointing shift from UKIP's previous position, when both Nigel Farage and Stuart Agnew publicly advocated their support for shechita. ""UKIP's new assertion that '[mechanical] pre stunning before religious ritual slaughter is fully compatible with all world religions,' is plain nonsense. ""The Jewish community does not permit any of the industrialised mechanical stunning methods used in factory slaughter. ""By joining the campaign to prioritise 'animal welfare' over the rights and beliefs of the UK's faith communities UKIP has returned to the fringes of mainstream politics."" A Westminster Hall debate in November last year on religious methods of animal slaughter cited figures from the all-party group on beef and lamb that suggested about 90% of lambs and 88% of chickens slaughtered under halal were stunned before slaughter. However, an estimated 3% of cattle, 10% of sheep and goats, and 4% of poultry slaughtered in Britain were not pre-stunned. Some 114 million animals are killed annually in the UK using the halal method, while a further 2.1 million are killed under the shechita method, with the value of the halal market estimated at between £1bn and £2bn. Neil Parish MP, the all party group's chairman, said that there ""is a danger that an outright ban on religious slaughter would not improve the welfare of animals at the point of slaughter. ""At the moment about 80% of the halal meat produced in this country has been stunned. ""Driving our halal and shechita meat industry abroad to countries without our robust animal welfare standards and our supply chain traceability might result in more animals being slaughtered without stunning."" Louise Ellman, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, emphasised the importance of Jewish methods of slaughter and kashrut (Jewish religious dietary laws) to the whole Jewish community. ""It recognises its rights as part of British society as well as enabling individual Jewish people who observe the laws of kashrut to eat meat and poultry. Any interference with their ability to do so would be a gross infringement of civil rights."" She said that the Jewish laws of kashrut were part of a wider concern for animal welfare. ""Shechita is carried out by trained, licensed experts. Animals are killed by a single cut to the throat in a prescribed way from a special surgically sharp knife that is regularly inspected. ""Blood flow to the brain is immediately cut off with consequential inability to feel pain and subsequent rapid death. ""There are too many other rules of kashrut to enumerate here, but it is important to point out that they are all related to enhancing animal welfare."" Mechanical stunning can also have a high failure rate, Mrs Ellman pointed out. ""Many more animals suffer because of inadequate stunning than are killed altogether by shechita. ""The report of the EU Food Safety Authority stated that failure rates for penetrative captive bolt stunning may be as high as 6.6% - 2 million cows. ""It also reported that failure for non-penetrative captive bolt stunning and electric stunning could be as high as 31% - 10 million cows. ""In comparison, the total number of cattle killed by shechita [in the UK] in any one year is 20,000."" The one area where some MPs and lobby groups tend to agree that more should be done is in labelling meat to make clearer to all UK consumers what methods were used in its slaughter, and in ensuring that all abattoirs have CCTV to ensure that the law is complied with. Clearer labelling would also help Britain's Sikhs, who cannot eat halal or kosher meat.",It 's a passionate @placeholder - animal welfare campaigners opposing the slaughter practices of religious minorities .,audience,body,protest,life,conflict,4
"6 April 2016 Last updated at 13:40 BST The two males and two females were undernourished and underweight when saved from north Wales beaches, but are now fighting fit at 40kg (6.2 stone) each. They bade zookeepers a fond farewell at Penrhyn Bay beach, near Rhos-on-Sea. The zoo's director Nick Jackson said: ""It's great to be able to see the seals return to their natural habitat, each in great shape and back where they belong.""",A group of @placeholder grey seals have been released into the wild after a five - month stay at the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Conwy county .,rescued,side,man,fish,carrying,0
"Welsh competitors in Rio won 10 medals, surpassing the seven collected at London 2012. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said Wales is more a nation ""that likes watching sport"" than a sporting nation. She also said budget cuts mean the upcoming Paralympics will not ""move the movement on around the world"". Speaking to BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement, Baroness Grey-Thompson said people ""dip in and out"" of sporting participation. She cited the example of Wimbledon, saying it may inspire people to buy tennis rackets, but keeping them interested in the sport for longer than the summer is the difficult part. ""People call us a sporting nation, but I think we are a nation that really likes watching sport,"" she said. ""But we can't change that and get people active without investment in places like schools."" Newport East AM and cabinet minister John Griffiths said ""money wins medals"" and investment in elite athletics will inspire others to take part. However, he said this must be balanced with investing in communities around Wales to get more people physically active. Mr Griffiths said there are ""very strong"" community-focused schools in some areas. But he wants to see all schools opening up in the evenings and weekends, allowing as many people as possible to use facilities. Baroness Grey-Thompson - who won gold medals at four different Paralympics - said the build-up to next month's event will be ""nerve wracking"". Despite cuts to venues, media centres, the workforce and transport, it was announced that it will go ahead as planned in Rio. ""Transport is a potential problem - with wheelchair issues on how many of them you can fit on a bus,"" she said. ""If I look back to Atlanta (1996), there was burger and chips three meals a day, no accommodation. These things add extra layers of distress. ""But most (British) athletes are laid back. They compete in challenging conditions all year."" However, she said these changes mean her ""high hopes"" for Rio giving massive impetus and exposure to disability sports around the world have now disappeared. She said: ""I'm not sure it will move the Paralympics movement on around the world. ""It won't change the world as I hoped it would.""","Olympics success must be used to change a nation of sports watchers into participants , @placeholder a former Paralympics gold medallist .",even,including,completing,according,citing,3
"Groups of sightseers in Kidlington have been seen posing for photos in front gardens and against parked cars. Locals have no idea why the quiet suburb, about five miles north of Oxford, has become a tourist magnet. Inspector Morse, Love Island and Harry Potter are among the causes suggested for the tourists' interest. The phenomenon was first identified in Benmead Road and the Moors on the Spotted: Kidlington Facebook page. The tourists are a short walk from thatched cottages and an old church, but prefer taking photos of themselves outside modern houses. ""I do find it hilarious, but I am at a loss to understand it,"" one poster said. ""Whose idea was it to turn Benmead Road into a tourist attraction?"" Residents say the groups have been appearing for the last three weeks. ""I have only seen them once. At midday on Saturday a busload of tourists disembarked with their selfie sticks, taking pictures of people's houses,"" said one. ""It is bizarre, these aren't even the oldest houses in the village."" Samantha Anderson said: ""Saw them the other week, they were even in the gardens and at people's front doors."" On Facebook Susan Patton said the town had ""probably featured in an old episode of Morse which has been rerun"". ""Can't think of anyone famous down there?"" Daniel Boon said. People pointed out billionaire Sir Richard Branson and Emma-Jane Woodham from ITV's Love Island had connections to the Kidlington area. Another wondered whether the groups were judging Kidlington in Bloom. Emma Layden suggested: ""Perhaps it's because Kidlington is claimed to be England's biggest village?""","Residents of a village have been @placeholder by the weekly appearance of "" coach loads "" of tourists in their road .",baffled,angered,uploaded,named,criticised,0
"Ruth Davidson and Nicola Sturgeon both demanded apologies from each other while trading blows in parliament. The government has applied for an extension to the deadline for delivering EU subsidies to farmers. Tory leader Ms Davidson said the first minister had ""refused"" to tell MSPs the truth about talks with the European Commission about Friday's deadline. However Ms Sturgeon insisted she had been clear - and said the Conservatives should ""apologise to the people of Scotland"" for not securing extra funding in the confidence and supply deal with the DUP at Westminster. Rural Affairs Secretary Fergus Ewing has confirmed that the government is set to ""fall short"" of its target of having 95% of Common Agricultural Policy payments completed by midnight on Friday. The Scottish government has applied for an extension to the deadline, and could face financial penalties if this is not granted as it forecasts of having only 90% of payments made in time. The European Commission is yet to respond. An extension was granted in 2016, after problems with a new £178m IT system - something which Audit Scotland says still presents ""significant risks and costs for the Scottish government"". Ms Sturgeon has apologised to farmers for ""failures"" in the system, but has come under fire from the Scottish Conservatives after details about the latest application emerged only after the first minister was pressed on the matter at Holyrood. Ms Davidson said: ""Last week I asked the First Minister three times whether her government had contacted the European Commission to seek an extension to the deadline on farm payments and three times she refused to answer. ""There is a reason why I'm raising this again today, it's because there is a principle at stake about the conduct of ministers in this parliament and about the transparency of this government. ""I asked the first minister a simple question in this chamber last week and she refused to tell this parliament what she knew to be the truth."" Ms Sturgeon replied: ""Last week I said we were discussing with the European Commission contingencies around this issue - that is exactly what we we're doing. It is what we continue to do. ""Seeking an extension in case we require that extension is exactly that - a contingency."" Continuing her attack, Ms Davidson said it took journalists contacting the European Commission for the ""facts to come out"". She said: ""Last week the first minister had to apologise to farmers over messing up their payments again. But now she owes the parliament an apology for not being straight about it."" Ms Sturgeon shot back that it was the Conservatives who should apologise, over her government's claim that Scotland is due extra funding in light of the Tory-DUP deal at Westminster, and over the latest round of votes on amendments to the Queen's speech. She said: ""I think there is an apology due to the people of Scotland this week and it is an apology from Ruth Davidson for allowing her MPs in Westminster to do two things. ""Firstly, allowing them to sit back while Scotland was denied the same extra funding that went to Northern Ireland and secondly an apology for being the MPs in the House of Commons last night that voted to block a pay rise for public-sector workers. Perhaps that is the apology people in Scotland want to see."" Elsewhere in the session, Labour leader Kezia Dugdale focused on education, citing figures from the Scottish Parliament's information centre showing reduced spending per pupil in Scottish schools. She said schools needed ""cold, hard cash"", adding: ""Until the first minister commits more funding to our schools using the powers of this Parliament, her promise that education is her top priority is utterly meaningless."" The first minister said Ms Dugdale was ""downright wrong"" about school funding, citing the £750m attainment fund and £120m going directly to head teachers. She said: ""This government is taking tough action to reform our education system, to get more powers into the hands of headteachers and teachers and, crucially, to get more resources into their hands."" Green co-convener Patrick Harvie led his questions on poverty, urging the first minister to ""be bold"" and keep the door open to using Holyrood's powers to  top-up child benefit. Ms Sturgeon said the Child Poverty Bill would be bold, aid said ""the door is not closed to anything that's being suggested"". Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie listed issues facing the Scottish government, including the CAP payment delays, concerns the economy could slip into recession and problems facing police and nurses. Ms Sturgeon responded: ""That proves that Willie Rennie lives in a wee world of his own most of the time. Sometimes it sounds like quite a fun one, so maybe I will join it one day and take some of whatever he is on."" The Scottish Parliament has now gone into recess for the summer, with MSPs returning to Holyrood in September.",The row over the Scottish government 's handling of farm payments has @placeholder on amid heated exchanges at Holyrood .,focused,continued,called,fallen,rumbled,4
"On the occasion of Eid last week, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reportedly sent a box of mangoes to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. But relations were not sweetened as a result. The festival gift came even as India and Pakistan exchanged fire in the disputed Kashmir region, in which at least five civilians on both sides were killed. ""Sharif resorts to 'mango diplomacy' amid cross-border shelling,"" read a newspaper headline. ""Mangoes were delivered to Mr Modi through official channels even as Pakistan was accusing us of flying a drone into its airspace,"" the Hindustan Times quoted an Indian official as saying on condition of anonymity. Mr Sharif sent 10kg of mangoes to Mr Modi, 15kg to Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and 10kg each to former Prime Ministers Atal Behari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh. However, ""mango diplomacy"" is not working: it didn't reduce cross-border tensions, and on Monday, India blamed Pakistan for an attack on a bus and police station in Gurudaspur in the northern Punjab state. Ten people, including a senior Indian policeman, were killed in the attack. And earlier this month, tensions on the border meant that Pakistani soldiers refused to accept sweets on the occasion of Eid from their Indian counterparts. The exchange of sweets between the two countries on festivals is as much a tradition as mango diplomacy - with one difference. Pakistan sends mangoes to New Delhi every year, regardless of the security environment between the two countries, but India does not reciprocate with mangoes. A spokesperson for India's foreign ministry refused to explain why India does not reciprocate Pakistan's mango diplomacy, or give any details of mangoes received by Indian leaders. Sources in Pakistan, the world's fifth largest producer of mangoes, say that it is an annual ritual for Pakistan to send boxes of mangoes to heads of various countries, not just India. Mango farmers in South Asia often send boxes of their produce to important people in their area, an act of sharing as much as showing off. Pakistan, clearly proud of its mangoes, seems to be replicating the tradition of mango orchard owners at a nation-state scale. Sources in Pakistan say the country sent a mix of various local varieties, such as Sindhri, Langda and Chaunsa, which are also found in India. They also include a famous variety called Anwar Ratol. Few people know that Anwar Ratol, too, hails from India. It takes its name from the village of Ratol, two hours east of Delhi. Known as the king of fruits, mangoes originated in the Indian subcontinent, as indicated by its scientific name, Magnifera Indica. It is the national fruit of both India and Pakistan. While India grows over 1,200 varieties of mangoes, Pakistan grows a third of that number. India is the world's largest producer of mangoes, growing nearly eight times the quantity of mangoes that Pakistan does. But it is the quality that is a matter of intense dispute between Indians and Pakistanis. ""It would be a good idea for India to send mangoes to Pakistan's leaders too,"" says former diplomat and Congress party leader Mani Shankar Aiyar. He immediately had second thoughts. ""Having served in the (now defunct) Indian consulate in Karachi, I can tell you that Indian mangoes would have a hard time matching theirs, unless we move in early with the Alphonsos,"" Aiyar said, referring to a particularly sweet variety of mangoes found in Maharashtra. Many Indians proud of their mangoes would disagree with Mr Aiyar, who added that such measures were mere tokenism, fruitless because they do not come along with substantive talks and negotiations. Pakistani political commentator Ayesha Siddiqa agrees with him. ""Mangoes and cricket, these are old tactics used to re-starting India-Pakistan talks. India and Pakistan seem to have nothing new to say to each other,"" she says. Shivam Vij is a Delhi-based independent journalist","In a South Asian tradition , Pakistani leaders send mangoes to their Indian counterparts every year . The fabled ' mango diplomacy ' , however , does not really help lower tensions between the two @placeholder , writes Shivam Vij .",cultures,leaders,neighbours,parties,region,2
"Using a genome editing tool known as Crispr, US scientists inserted a gif - five frames of a horse galloping - into the DNA of bacteria. Then the team sequenced the bacterial DNA to retrieve the gif and the image, verifying that the microbes had indeed incorporated the data as intended. The results appear in Nature journal. For their experiments, the team from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used an image of a human hand and five frames of the horse Annie G captured in the late 19th Century by the British photography pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. In order to insert this information into the genomes of bacteria, the researchers transferred the image and the movie onto nucleotides (building blocks of DNA), producing a code that related to the individual pixels of each image. The researchers then employed the Crispr platform, in which two proteins are used to insert genetic code into the DNA of target cells - in this case, those of E.coli bacteria. For the gif, sequences were delivered frame-by-frame over five days to the bacterial cells. The data were spread across the genomes of multiple bacteria, rather than just one, explained co-author Seth Shipman, from Harvard University in Massachusetts. ""The information is not contained in a single cell, so each individual cell may only see certain bits or pieces of the movie. So what we had to do was reconstruct the whole movie from the different pieces,"" Dr  Shipman told the BBC. ""Maybe a single cell saw a few pixels from frame one and a few pixels from frame four... so we had to look at the relation of all those pieces of information in the genomes of these living cells and say: can we reconstruct the entire movie over time?"" To ""read"" the information back, the researchers sequenced the bacterial DNA and used custom computer code to unscramble the genetic information, which spits out the images. The team was able to achieve 90% accuracy: ""We were really happy with how it came out,"" Seth Shipman told me. Eventually, the team wants to use the technique to create ""molecular recorders"". Dr Shipman says these are cells that can ""encode information about what's going on in the cell and what's going on in the cell environment by writing that information into their own genome"". This is why the researchers used images and a movie: images because they represent the kind of complex information the team would like to use in future, and movies because they have a timing component. The timing component is important because it would be useful to track changes in a cell and its environment over time. Follow Paul on Twitter.","An image and short film has been encoded in DNA , using the units of @placeholder as a medium for storing information .",reference,dna,inheritance,measurement,secrets,2
"The Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football discloses some eye-popping sums apparently involved in football's biggest transfers, from Manchester United's world-record signing of Paul Pogba to Ezequiel Lavezzi's lucrative move from Paris St-Germain to the Chinese Super League. We have delved into the book and put together this quiz from its alleged sums, so get playing.",A book published in Germany this week claims to reveal some of the astronomical sums being @placeholder in world football .,opened,covered,spent,taken,introduced,2
"The first episode of The Grand Tour,  which is being made by Amazon Prime, will be filmed in Johannesburg in July. It will mark the trio's first TV show since they exited Top Gear after Jeremy Clarkson punched a producer. May joked on Twitter that the location was ""chosen by Richard Hammond, who's run out of biltong"". When one South African fan asked if the news was true, Hammond confirmed and suggested the team hold a braai - Afrikaans for barbecue. ""Yes, for real. We'll have to have a Bra, a Bray, a, oh you know, a South African barbecue,"" he wrote. The show will launch on Amazon Prime in the autumn, with each episode's pre-recorded studio items filmed in a different country. Photos uploaded to The Grand Tour's Facebook page show the trio have already begun shooting in Portugal, Germany, Barbados and North Africa. Jay Marine, vice president of Amazon Video Europe, said: ""Given the popularity of Jeremy, Richard and James in South Africa, Johannesburg is a fantastic place to start."" Last year, Clarkson was suspended from Top Gear and later fired by the BBC after he punched Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon. Hammond and May quit the show shortly after. The trio were replaced on the show by former Friends actor Matt LeBlanc, BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans, and an extensive cast of co-presenters. The new series of Top Gear made its debut on Sunday to more than four million viewers and mixed reviews.","The new TV series starring Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond and James May will record its first studio @placeholder in South Africa .",single,audience,title,event,segments,4
"The researchers said the oceans' lowest reaches had untold riches that could benefit mankind enormously, but not if the harvesting were done destructively. The scientists called for a ""new stewardship"" of the deep sea. This would require effective ecosystem management and sustainable methods of exploitation. The researchers said the fishing sector had already initiated some very damaging practices, such as the widely criticised use of heavy-rolling, sea-floor nets, but that there was still time for other sectors to take more sensitive approaches. This includes the imminent development and spread of industrial-scale deep-sea mining. The ocean floor is being targeted as a source for a range of metals and minerals. Part of this is driven by the insatiable appetite for modern technology devices like cell phones and hybrid cars. The battery in a Toyota Prius hybrid car, for example, requires more than 10kg of lanthanum. Large tracts of sea bed have now been licensed to permit the prospecting of manganese nodules, cobalt crusts, massive sulphides to produce copper and zinc, and even phosphates to make fertilisers. Some of these licences are certain to turn into full-mining permissions this decade. ""The deep ocean is a vast repository of resources, and looking over the long term - the next hundreds of years, say - we almost surely are going in there to mine,"" said Prof Lisa Levin, a biological oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in San Diego, California. ""Even if some deposits are not currently economically viable, they probably will be in 50 years from now. ""What we're trying to say is that we need to do this in a responsible way, and if we are going to extract these resources, we need to do it with the least amount of harm to ecosystems, and now is the time to start thinking about how we do that,"" she told BBC News. The researchers made their call for a new stewardship mentality at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Mining of the deep ocean has been talked about since at least the 1970s, but the advance in underwater robotics and rising commodity prices have brought the notion much closer to reality. The International Seabed Authority has so far issued 19 prospecting licences, covering a combined area about the size of Mexico. These licences are held by governments and big contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, which operates in the aerospace, defence and civil sectors, and more requests are pending. Initial surveys have indicated that some of the metal reserves could be very lucrative, producing materials such as copper that would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the London Metal Exchange. But before the extraction can begin, thorough environmental assessments had to be done, said Prof Cindy Lee Van Dover, the director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory, in Beaufort, North Carolina. ""The most effective time to do environmental management is before the mining begins. That mining has not yet commenced, and if we want to get really progressive environmental regulations, we need to do it now,"" she argued. ""That environmental management needs to be informed by science, and that science needs support from international and national agencies to make it happen. It's not cheap to work in the deep sea."" Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos",Scientists have made an impassioned plea for humanity to @placeholder and think before making a headlong rush to exploit the deep sea .,pause,stay,identify,listen,act,0
"Abdelkader Ait-Ouarabi, known as Gen Hassan, was convicted at a closed-door military tribunal on Thursday. His lawyers described him as the victim of a ferocious clan war at the top of Algerian politics. Gen Hassan played a leading role for two decades in Algeria's civil war. Following the military's annulment of an election win by Islamists in 1992, Algeria's Intelligence and Security Directorate (DRS) was heavily involved in the conflict in which it is estimated that more than 150,000 people died. Gen Hassan's imprisonment follows the sacking in September of Mohamed Mediene, who had led the DRS for 25 years. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has led a gradual purge in the country's security elite over the past two years, correspondents say.","Algeria 's former counter - terrorism chief has been sentenced to five years in prison for destroying documents and disobeying military orders , the APS @placeholder news agency reports .",prop,news,state,data,area,2
"An average of 2.43 million viewers tuned in live to see Kem and Amber crowned the winning couple - a huge figure for the network. A further 150,000 watched the show on ITV2+1, and the total number of viewers is likely to rise dramatically when catch up services are included. ITV2 have already confirmed the show will return for another series in 2018. This year's Love Island has been something of a surprise hit for the channel, and has developed a cult following since this series launched at the beginning of June. Last year's Love Island final was watched by 1.3m viewers, while the final of the first series was watched by 737,000 viewers in 2015. Monday night's highest-rated programme was Diana: Our Mother Her Life and Legacy which was on ITV. The documentary was watched by 6.5 million viewers (rising to 6.9 million when ITV+1 figures are included). What's the big deal about Love Island? Why are viewers complaining about Love Island? Five stand out moments from this year's Love Island The secret to Love Island's success Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",The final episode of Love Island @placeholder ITV2 reach its biggest ever audience on Monday night .,sees,reached,helped,faced,watched,2
"Members of Match.com, eHarmony, Zoosk, Christian Mingle and many others had received emails seeking to steal login details for the sites, said Netcraft. The net monitoring firm said the emails had been sent from other websites, hacked to hide the senders' identity. Stolen data would be used to befriend other users in an attempt to trick them into handing over cash, it said. The phishing campaign against dating sites marked a departure for fraudsters, who typically preferred to target banks, said Paul Mutton, a security analyst at Netcraft who investigated the attacks. The attacks were ""massive"", he said, adding that in the past week Netcraft had seen more than 100 compromised sites targeting Match.com alone. So far, he said, it was not clear how sites were being compromised to host the scripts. Websites and servers run by individuals, small businesses, construction firms and telecom suppliers had all become unwitting hosts of the phishing tools, he added. Mr Mutton said just one compromised site he had seen was home to about 800 short programs or scripts that targeted many different dating sites. Each script looked like it had been generated by a ""kit"" bought online. ""Anyone with a very basic knowledge of programming could make use of the kit,"" he said. The scripts are used to craft phishing emails that are spammed out to potential victims. The mails seek to trick people into entering their login names for the dating sites. If successful, the details are passed on to the legitimate login page of a dating website and are also sent to one of 300 email addresses used by the phishing gang. Fraudsters were keen to steal login details for accounts so they could avoid paying the charges dating sites levied before users could swap messages with other members, said Mr Mutton. Using on-site messages the fraudsters hope to befriend others and then try to extract cash to help pay for a non-existent medical condition or to aid fictitious relatives. Significant amounts of cash could be stolen this way, said Mr Mutton, pointing to the case of Karen and Tracy Vasseur, of Colorado, who were jailed in 2013 for stealing more than $1m (£590,000) from 374 people using dating-site scams.","Fraudsters are @placeholder up phishing campaigns that target people who use dating websites , suggests research .",growing,stepping,searching,set,continuing,1
"The letter, on the party's headed notepaper, was brought home by children attending the Saint Francis Primary School in Derrylatinee, County Tyrone. Sinn Féin says the letter, written by candidate Michelle Gildernew, was part of a campaign for better broadband. The Belfast Telegraph has reported that one parent has sought legal advice. Sinn Féin's northern leader, Michelle O'Neill, says the letter was about trying to get improved services. ""Broadband is a major issue for people in rural areas,"" he added. ""It's a a big bugbear, an issue which Michelle has campaigned on for many years, and the party as a whole"". In her letter to the school principal, Ms Gildernew says she would be ""very grateful"" if a copy could be sent home ""with every family"". Mrs O'Neill said Ms Gildernew was the parent of a child at the school and ""was raising the issue with the rest of the parents"". A spokesperson for the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools said neither they, nor the school, had received any complaints.",Sinn Féin has defended a decision to distribute a letter to the parents of school children during the @placeholder election campaign .,organisation,assembly,event,force,public,1
"Marcin Porczyk, 18, was last seen on Wind Street at about 03:00 GMT on Sunday. South Police said he could be injured and called his disappearance ""totally out of character"". Mr Porczyk is about 5ft 9in tall, has short blond, curly hair and was wearing black jeans and a plain green top when he went missing. On Monday, police said they were currently searching Maritime Quarter in the marina, along with the assistance of other emergency services.",Police are searching @placeholder around Swansea following the disappearance of a man in the city .,information,trace,waterways,areas,streets,2
"Although he had not made the squad for the previous qualifier in Slovakia a month before, Oliver Burke still believed his coach Gordon Strachan would swivel on his seat and turn to the recently acquired RB Leipzig signing in the hope that he would change the game. In front of the famous Wembley crowd Burke believed he would be Scotland's hero. Yet the Scotland coach did not pick the 19-year-old talent. In fact, he didn't pick anyone at all until Gary Cahill had made it 3-0 11 minutes later, when defensive midfielder James McArthur was brought on to limit the damage already done. ""I'm sure any player would say that he wasn't very happy,"" Burke told BBC Scotland when asked about that day. ""But really I think I just had to take a step back and realise what I'd done and where I am. ""Obviously I'm still very proud to be a part of the team and at the end of the day it's the manager's choice."" Media playback is not supported on this device Any misplaced assumptions of playing a key role for the national team that night are quickly excused when consideration is made for the hype that has followed Burke to Leipzig over the past eight months. Compared to Real Madrid star Gareth Bale owing to his style of play, and touted as a future Scotland star, the German club were inundated with requests to interview Burke when he first arrived. Despite only scoring his first goal for Nottingham Forest 11 months prior to that night at Wembley, the young talent was already an established name within the European game. ""I was really taken aback,"" said Burke when asked about the attention. ""I didn't really think this was a part of football as much. When you're a young kid you don't see these things. You just see footballers playing and enjoying it out on the pitch."" Despite his new-found fame, Burke had joined a club that stresses the importance of team performances over individualism and was quickly made aware that he had plenty to learn before he would be stealing the headlines in Leipzig, as he had done in Nottingham. After setting up the winning goal against Borussia Dortmund in the opening game of the season, Burke's coach Ralph Hassenhuttl chose to instead note that the player had an ""empty hard drive"" - referring to his reluctance to track back and follow his marker. ""It took me a long while to get used to it and get me up and running,"" said Burke when asked about the re-education he has had since leaving England. ""There are so many little bits in this team. So if you're not doing your job as well as you possibly can then it can cost you in the Bundesliga. That's how tough this league is."" Media playback is not supported on this device Ralf Rangnick, RB Leipzig's director of football, was the man who brought Burke to Germany after watching a video prepared by the club's analytics team of the Forest prospect. After just 10 minutes the former Stuttgart, Schalke and Hoffenheim coach decided he had seen enough. Two weeks later Burke was on a plane to Leipzig sitting alongside Rangnick, as he explained the club's playing ethos. ""When we saw and scouted him we could easily see the weapons he has,"" the 58-year-old told BBC Scotland. ""He's very powerful, very fast and physically strong. He's good on the ball for a player of that size and that tempo. Where he still has to improve is tactically - 'when do I have to do what?' - our style of football is a little bit different from what he was used to in England."" He added: ""Obviously those are things that nobody has told him in the past and he has to learn that. He has improved but there is still plenty of room for further improvement."" Rangnick gives off a headmaster-like demeanour that fits in with the manner in which Leipzig intend to run their club. Buying young, raw talent to develop in to continental stars is the plan at a fledging club backed by the ambitious energy drink makers Red Bull. Despite sitting second in the German top division, the average age of Burke's teammates is just 24.2 years. In Leipzig, the 19-year-old has not joined a normal football club, but instead a purpose-built academy in one of the best football leagues in the world. ""I've loved every moment of it and I just love the fact that I'm getting better and better,"" noted Burke. ""That's what I came here for. I wouldn't want to go to a club not knowing that I'm going to get better than what I was at Nottingham Forest."" He added: ""I've got to take a bit of pressure off myself at times because I do pressure myself, but I'm enjoying it."" Indeed, it may be some time before Burke displaces striker Timo Werner, the 21-year-old German talent who has scored 14 Bundesliga goals this season and just earned a call-up to his national team. Or even 25-year-old Bundesliga player-of-the-year contender Emil Forsberg on the left wing. Yet in Leipzig the Scottish international continues to work hard as the country's most exciting work in progress.","When Adam Lallana 's diving header sailed past Craig Gordon to double England 's lead over Scotland at Wembley Stadium last November , all but one @placeholder on the Scottish bench slumped to a resigned sigh .",focus,back,englishman,show,head,4
"It is the first time such a fine has been issued to the company. No details about the content in question were released by authorities, but the BBC understands the fine relates to material from a political protest account that is critical of the Turkish government. Twitter did not provide a comment. This is not the first time the microblogging site has run into problems with Turkish authorities. Both Facebook and Twitter were blocked in Turkey in April after a court order was issued prohibiting people from sharing images of a prosecutor being held at gunpoint. And in March last year, it was reported that the social network had been blocked in the country after then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to ""wipe out Twitter"" after allegations about his party were published on the site prior to local elections.","Turkey 's @placeholder regulator has fined Twitter 150,000 lira ( £ 33,000 ) for failing to remove "" terrorist propaganda "" .",press,communications,federal,police,county,1
"Worst affected have been the Appleby, Keswick, Kendal and Glenridding areas, where river levels have risen. Defences in Appleby were breached when the River Eden burst its banks, flooding 40 properties and prompting several rescues. The Glenridding Hotel flooded for the third time this month. The Environment Agency has issued 20 flood warnings across England and Wales and six in Cumbria, urging people to take immediate action. Forecasters are predicting conditions to ease into Wednesday, although the Met Office has already issued yellow warnings for rain throughout the region for Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Firefighters used pumping equipment to divert water from an electricity sub station in Appleby. The town's road bridge was closed due to high water levels, as was Keswick's Greta Bridge. The River Eden peaked in Appleby at about 17:00 GMT, the agency said, while it was expected to peak in Carlisle between 22:00 and 23:00. A spokesman added: ""The amount of rainfall forecast would not usually lead to disruption, but with saturated ground and river levels already high, there may be further flood impacts to roads and potentially some properties."" See how we reported the Cumbria floods. Up to 40mm (1.57ins) of rain was expected to fall onto already saturated land across the county by the end of Tuesday, although that was feared to rise to 80mm (3.1ins) in upland areas, according to the Met Office. BBC Weather said about seven months worth of rain has fallen on Shap in the past seven weeks, 65% of the average annual rainfall for the area. Police urged drivers to be aware of surface water flooding on a number of roads, with many only passable with care. The manager of the Glenridding Hotel, Elizabeth Ali, said she felt ""defeated"" as rising water from a nearby beck caused it to flood for the third time this month. She took to Facebook to post: ""The beck is overflowing once again past the bridge and the what was Ratchers Bar and the kitchen is flooding again. Contractors are in trying to save equipment. ""Fire brigade are on their way to help pump out the water we are currently at around 2ft of water ... We just need to smile and carry on. Thanks for all your nice comments."" Firefighters were also called to Keswick Rugby Club to deal with water that was an inch deep on the pitch, Cumbria Fire Brigade said. They also rescued a 70-year-old woman from a home on Howgate Foot in Appleby and pumped water away from a substation. One homeowner in Appleby said she had not expected the town's defences to be breached. The woman called Charlotte said: ""It was pretty torrential in the morning, and then the rain died off and the river rose really slowly, compared to last time the river it was very vicious. ""Normally when it floods it doesn't really affect the homes as much because of the flood defences, but it has gone right over the top of them which we did not expect."" Cumbria Police set up a multi-agency group to combat the heavy rainfall. A force spokesman said there had been reports of motorists ignoring road closure signs which could be ""extremely dangerous"" and put ""lives at risk"". Meanwhile, farming minister, George Eustice, has promised that about 600 farmers already badly affected by the recent floods, would have support payments fast-tracked. Live flood warnings from the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. View the flood map by tapping on the image below Tap here for up-to-date information.",Communities in Cumbria have been flooded again - some for the third time in less than a month - @placeholder torrential rain and high winds .,following,disrupted,soaked,filled,fought,0
"A group of at least four whales were seen north of Hunstanton during the afternoon, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) said. An RNLI spokeswoman said its hovercraft had taken marine life experts to assess the whale which was still stuck in water with a depth of about 6ft (2m). She said: ""It looks quite injured and is in difficulty."" Gary Pearson, who lives in Dersingham, saw the whales at about 16:00 GMT and said he was told they had been there for a couple of hours. ""Two had already got out to deeper water, but two were still in trouble and one got away when I was there,"" he said. ""The remaining one was thrashing around and in distress. It looks like an adult sperm whale to me and I wouldn't be surprised if it was 40ft [12m] long. ""It's probably stuck between these boulders covered in algae which you can see exposed at low tide.""",Rescue teams have been attempting to save a stranded whale just off the Norfolk @placeholder .,hillside,peninsula,area,shore,island,3
"The 28-year-old, who is currently in his native Brazil, said he has been treated like a ""criminal"" and wants to join former club Atletico Madrid. Chelsea boss Antonio Conte texted Costa in June to say he was not in his plans, but Costa says he has been told to return and train with the reserves. ""I don't understand how players can get away with that behaviour,"" said Wright. Spain striker Costa was given extra time off by Chelsea last month, but now claims he is being fined for his absence and is considering legal action or seeing out the remaining year of his contract unpaid in Brazil. The Blues expect Costa to return immediately, resume training, get himself match fit and put himself in contention for selection, because he is still contracted to the club. ""It's disgraceful the way he is behaving,"" Wright told BBC Radio 5 live's The Monday Night Club. ""Surely he's got to come back here, so if the manager changes his mind he's there. He's earning a fortune at Chelsea. Can Atletico Madrid even afford him?"" Costa, who last played for Chelsea in the FA Cup final in May, joined the Blues from Atletico Madrid in 2014 and has won two Premier League titles and the League Cup with the London club. In January, he was left out of the side for an away match at Leicester after he was involved in a dispute with a fitness coach. It followed reports of an offer from China that would have been worth £30m a year in salary. ""Why won't they let me go if they don't want me?"" he told the Daily Mail on Monday. ""In January, things happened with the coach. I was on the brink of renewing my contract and they put the brakes on it. I suspect the manager was behind it. He asked for that to happen. ""His ideas are very fixed and clear. I have seen the sort of person he is. He has his own opinion and that will not change."" ""Antonio Conte has told me by message that I do not follow at Chelsea and that's it. Conte said he did not count on me for next season,"" said Costa in June. That came after the Italian manager had sent a text to his players wishing them a good holiday and telling them to stay fit and Costa replied in a jokey way. But Wright says he cannot understand why Chelsea would want to get rid of a forward who scored 20 goals in 35 Premier League games to help the Blues win the Premier League last season. ""Something has happened,"" added Wright, who played 33 times for England. ""For them to want to get rid of that kind of player, I can't understand how that's come about. I can't understand why you would get rid of definitely 20 goals? It doesn't make sense to me."" Following the text message exchange with Conte, Costa said ""I love to live in Madrid"", despite Atletico being banned from signing players until the January transfer window. ""Why does it seem he is holding all the cards? He genuinely wants to go, but only wants to go to Atletico Madrid,"" added Wright. ""If Chelsea want to get rid of him and get bids for a player they don't want, they're not going to take them? ""I would like to see the text. Show us the text. Then I don't blame him, because I would have the hump over that."" Costa said: ""I have not deleted the message. If people accuse me of lying, I can show them. It was clear, saying that he didn't count on me and wishing me the best for the future. Full stop."" Former Chelsea and Republic of Ireland midfielder Andy Townsend says Conte telling Costa he is not wanted at the club is like Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham telling their star forwards not to return. ""Something else is going on,"" he said. ""There's no logic from Chelsea's point of view to get rid of him. ""You don't send him a text and say 'off you pop, we don't want you to come back'. They don't do that. They don't just turn round with one of their main components and say 'go and find a new club'. ""It's like Jose Mourinho saying to Zlatan Ibrahimovic before he was injured, Arsene Wenger saying to Alexis Sanchez, Tottenham saying to Harry Kane 'don't come back'. It's the hardest thing to do, score goals, and you cannot afford to be that flippant with players like that.""","Chelsea forward Diego Costa 's @placeholder to return to training is "" disgraceful "" , says former Arsenal striker Ian Wright .",offer,refusal,attempt,commitment,strength,1
"Third-round weekend is not to be missed, but for sheer enjoyment I always think the FA Cup first round is very hard to beat. For 32 of the 80 clubs involved in the first-round draw, just getting that far is an achievement. As many as 608 teams have fallen by the wayside over six qualifying rounds before we even get to November's big day. Media playback is not supported on this device In round one, those clubs more used to being relative minnows in the Football League are suddenly turned into Goliaths, all hoping to avoid a slingshot from some sharp-eyed David emerging from the non-league pyramid to grab the headlines. It's a magical transformation which can catapult an almost unheard-of club into the nation's consciousness. This season, that opportunity goes to Warrington Town and Exeter City. Their match will be shown live on BBC Two on Friday 7 November. For me, the weekend of the first round always stirs memories 2005. I've been lucky enough to go to five World Cups and five European Championships in my commentating career, but a game played at the tiny Scholars Ground nearly 10 years ago ranks as one of the most memorable I've covered. It was the year that Chasetown made that journey from obscurity to prime time. Chasetown's ground is a couple of long throws from the M6 toll road at Burntwood and in 2005 they played in the Midland Football Alliance - the ninth tier of English football. They had played six games in the competition before reaching the fourth qualifying round, where they had earned a 2-2 draw at Blyth Spartans. The draw for the first round proper pitched the winners of the replay at home to Oldham. For the Match of the Day bosses looking for a first-round tie to televise live, this was too good to miss. Not much more than a decade earlier, Oldham had been a Premier League club and FA Cup semi-finalists. Blyth had their own special place in FA Cup history when they came within a few moments of reaching the quarter-final as a Northern League Club in 1978. And Chasetown? Well, Chasetown against Oldham seemed too fanciful to be true. Chasetown's manager in 2005 was Charlie Blakemore. He says: ""Knowing that we'd be on Match of the Day if we beat Blyth sent the whole thing into orbit. ""We knew if we won, we would raise 10 times our normal annual income in just one game. No pressure then! ""The night of the replay will live in the memories of all the players, supporters, management, staff and committee members and all their families for the rest of our lives. ""We had supporters in trees, on the fences and on the roof of the stands. It was awesome. We scored the winner with four minutes to go and it was pandemonium!"" Chasetown's game against Gedling Town in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup that season had attracted a crowd of 76. More than 2,000 people had used every vantage point to watch them win that replay against Blyth. Oldham and the people from the telly were coming to Chasetown. Neighbours Walsall printed the match tickets and provided stewards, temporary stands were built and a local firm covered the car park with asphalt to prevent the TV trucks from sinking into the mud. New dugouts were bought, new advertisers battled for perimeter boards and - after torrential rain the night before the match - volunteers and club staff helped to dry the pitch with blowers. Again 2,000 fans crammed inside for kick off - and 3.2m more watched on BBC One as the team from the ninth tier unbelievably took the lead with a goal from Nicky Harrison against an Oldham team 154 places above them in the league ladder. My co-commentator Mark Bright and I could hardly believe what we were describing. Soon, David Eyres equalised for Oldham but Chasetown thoroughly deserved their replay. Charlie Blakemore remembers: ""When we scored, I felt the ground shake - it was absolutely magic. Oldham drew level but we still had a go and 1-1 felt like a win for us. ""That one game brought us hundreds of new supporters and gave the club a profile on which we have improved our ground and facilities. ""We now have a full-time academy with 45 16- to 18-year-olds developing in both education and football. It's no exaggeration to say it transformed Chasetown."" At Boundary Park in the rematch footballing logic finally exerted itself and Chasetown were beaten 4-0, but a club with an average crowd of a little over 100 took almost 2,500 fans north for the replay. That's why they talk about the magic of the Cup. Three years later, Charlie Blakemore led Chasetown still further in the competition, beating Port Vale and taking the lead against Cardiff City before succumbing 3-1 as they became the lowest-ranked club ever to reach the third round of the FA Cup. But that's another story. The FA Cup first-round match between Warrington Town and Exeter City is live in the UK on BBC Two from 19:30 GMT.","The final has the @placeholder trophy and the glory . The semi - finals have the tension and , for the losers , the trauma .",ground,pair,water,coveted,cast,3
"She and her family were told they were going to be resettled. The journey took six days and some in the truck died on the way. ""There was some straw on the floor,"" she told me. ""It was dark, it was cold, it was so hostile. And hardly any space for sitting down. There was a lot of crying, lots of children. And we were trapped. Doors were shut, we knew this was not going to be any resettlement but we had no imagination of course of what was to come."" The doors opened at Auschwitz. There, on the railway platform, Nazi officers separated those chosen to live and work from those sent immediately to die. Susan lied about her age. A prisoner on the platform whispered to her that she should say she was 15. It saved her life, but her mother was sent immediately to the gas chamber. ""There were no hugs, no kisses, no embrace. My mum was just pushed away with the other women and children. The dehumanisation began immediately. I didn't cry, it was as though I'd lost all my emotions."" Soviet forces entered Auschwitz on 27 January, 1945. The Nazis had abandoned the camp days earlier, leaving much of it intact. More than a million people, mostly Jews - but Poles, Roma and political prisoners as well - had been murdered there. Those railway lines - which can be still seen at Auschwitz today - extended to almost every corner of Europe. The Holocaust was not a solely German enterprise. It required the active collaboration of Norwegian civil servants, French police, Polish train drivers and Ukrainian paramilitaries. Every occupied country in Europe had its enthusiastic participants. MPs mark Holocaust Memorial Day Holocaust Memorial Day: What can we learn? Antiques Roadshow sheds new light on ring belonging to Jane Haining iWonder: Why did ordinary people commit atrocities in the Holocaust? After 1945, a great silence fell across the continent. The Jews who survived found that the world beyond the perimeter wire of the camps did not much want to know their story. It was only in the 1960s that popular consciousness began to catch up with the crime perpetrated against an entire people. Holocaust denial persists. The internet is full of claims that the destruction of the Jews never happened. ""Sometimes they want to call themselves revisionist historians,"" says Pawel Sawicki, who works at the Auschwitz site, which now attracts two million visitors a year. ""But they are not. They hate others. This is anti-Semitism."" At the Nuremberg trials after the war, leading Nazis were held accountable for the state-sponsored crimes that had been committed in Germany and German-occupied territories. For the first time, two new terms entered the grim lexicon of wartime atrocity - crimes against humanity and genocide. This is the Nazis' judicial legacy - that from 1945, sovereign states no longer had legal carte blanche to treat their own citizens as they pleased. ""That's the amazing, revolutionary, remarkable change that happened in 1945,"" says Philippe Sands, an international human rights lawyer who has worked extensively on war crimes prosecutions. ""Before 1945, if a state wished to kill half its population, or torture or maim or disappear, there was no rule of international law that said you couldn't do that. The change that occurred in 1945 - as we know very sadly - has not prevented horrors from taking place. ""But it does mean that when horrors occur, there is now at least an objective standard that says to governments, to individual states, that as a matter of international law: 'you cannot do what you are doing'."" Near the blockhouses where Auschwitz prisoners were housed, there is a large open trench about the size and shape of a swimming pool. During the war it was filled with water. Why? It was required by the camp's fire insurance policy. There is something grotesquely chilling about this - that a camp whose purpose was mass extermination would, at the same time, concern itself with sensible precaution and compliance with insurance law. And the company that insured the camp is still trading. There is a warning in this to posterity - to us, here today. As the UK marks Holocaust Memorial Day, Mrs Pollack issues a stark warning about the importance of learning the lessons from history. ""We're not talking about barbarians,"" says Mrs Pollack. ""We're not talking about primitive society. ""The Germans were well-advanced, educated, progressive. Maybe civilization is just veneer-thin. We all need to be very careful about any hate-propaganda. ""This is very important. It starts as a small stream, but then it has the potential to erupt  - and when it does, it's too late to stop it.""","At the age of 13 , Susan Pollack - now a @placeholder grandmother living in north London - was taken from her home in rural Hungary , loaded into a cattle truck and transported by rail through German - occupied Poland .",crowded,fish,retired,growing,single,2
"Andy Robinson's side turned in a display full of guts and determination in appalling conditions. Laidlaw kicked two penalties as the Scots led 6-3 at the interval. Australia dominated after the break but could not find a way past the resolute visitors and Laidlaw sealed a famous win with the last kick of the ball. Media playback is not supported on this device The success ends a run of seven consecutive defeats for Scotland and makes it back-to-back wins over the team ranked second in the world, following a similarly dogged 9-8 triumph at Murrayfield in 2009. The home side had an experimental look, with five new caps starting, but the victory will be a real fillip for Scotland, who play Fiji and Samoa next on tour, as well as providing valuable ranking points. As the rain came hurtling down at the Hunter Stadium in Newcastle, Ross Rennie was first to break in front of the posts but the Scotland flanker's elaborate offload did not find a team-mate. Loosehead prop Ryan Grant, making his Scotland debut, bulldozed his way to within a few feet of the line but the ball squirmed from scrum-half Mike Blair's grasp and the momentum was lost at a crucial moment. With a strong wind behind them, Scotland continued to press and Robinson's men were camped inside the Australia 22. A penalty followed when the back-pedalling home side were guilty of collapsing a scrum but Laidlaw's angled effort from 25 metres was pushed wide in the gusting conditions. Stuart Hogg then put more pressure on the Aussie defence with a looping kick that evaded the grasping arms in gold shirts. However, winger Jospeh Tomane made a great recovery as the ball bounced over the try-line, with Joe Ansbro in close attendance. The Scots were in front on 23 minutes when Laidlaw thumped over a penalty from 40 metres. And a few minutes later, Laidlaw nailed another kick from similar range. ""The first thing that struck me was the disrespect shown to the Scotland team. Our 'little' team was given second-rate status by playing the game midweek and in a far-flung location. The Scotland team won't say anything, but that will have played a part."" Read the rest of John's blog It took Australia 30 minutes to enjoy any meaningful possession in the opposition half after a knock-on from Hogg. Paul Higginbotham was stripped of the ball as the home side inched towards the line but the Scots were guilty of not rolling away at the breakdown and Mike Harris kicked a penalty to halve the arrears. Edinburgh full-back Tom Brown made his first appearance in a Scotland shirt as the first-half drew to a close, with Sean Lamont going off with a rib injury. The second half was just a minute old when Australia had the chance to level and Harris popped over his kick, despite the posts wobbling like jelly in the high winds. On 53 minutes, Harris tried his luck from the halfway line but the ball slammed against an upright underneath the crossbar level. With the Scots under intense pressure, another penalty was kicked to touch, much to the delight of the crowd. As the ball was worked from the set-piece, Australian replacement Rob Simmons crashed towards the line but a cluster of blue shirts did enough to prevent a score, following a review from the television match official. Media playback is not supported on this device A great tackle from replacement scrum-half Chris Cusiter prevented Digby Ioane from jetting away as the Australian winger gathered a cross-field kick and Alasdair Strokosch put in several great hits to repel the home team. Fly-half Berrick Barnes then skewed a drop-goal attempt wide and Harris made a real mess of a long-range penalty. In the final minute, Scotland made a foray into the opposition half and put the Australians under all sorts of pressure from a scrum. Another scrummage followed and this time a penalty was given. Facing a howling gale, Laidlaw managed to slam the ball between the sticks from 30 metres to spark scenes of wild celebration from the Scots. Australia: Morahan, Tomane, A. Faingaa, Harris, Ioane, Barnes, Genia, Slipper, Moore, Palmer, Timani, Sharpe, Dennis, Pocock, Higginbotham. Replacements: Alexander for Palmer (70), Simmons for Timani (55), Hooper for Dennis (65). Not Used: S. Faingaa, Phipps, McCabe, Ashley-Cooper. Scotland: Hogg, Ansbro, De Luca, Scott, Lamont, Laidlaw, Blair, Grant, Ford, Murray, Kellock, Gray, Strokosch, Rennie, Barclay. Replacements: Brown for Lamont (39), Cusiter for Blair (64). Not Used: Lawson, Welsh, Ryder, Vernon, Weir. Att: 20,000 Ref: Jaco Peyper (South Africa).",Greig Laidlaw held his nerve to knock over a penalty in time @placeholder on as Scotland secured their first win in Australia since 1982 .,added,crashing,head,dashed,form,0
"Starr used the Ludwig kit in more than 200 performances after taking possession of it on 12 May, 1963. Last month, Julien's Auctions sold a drum head from a kit Starr played on US television show The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, also for $2.1m. The ex-Beatles drummer has put several memorabilia items up for sale. Also available is a guitar used by John Lennon, which he gave to Starr in 1968, some of the drummer's signature rings and his own copy of The Beatles' White Album, marked as number 0000001. Part of the sale proceeds will go to the Lotus Foundation, founded by Starr and his wife Barbara Bach, which funds and promotes charitable projects aimed at advancing social welfare. According to the AP news agency, the Ludwig drum kit was sold to Jim Irsay, owner of the American Football team Indianapolis Colts. The auction runs from until Saturday in Beverly Hills and also online via Julien Auction's website.",A drum kit played by Ringo Starr on Beatles hits @placeholder Ca n't Buy Me Love and I Want to Hold Your Hand has sold at auction for $ 2.1 m ( £ 1.4 m ) .,including,water,team,drawn,interest,0
"The notes are understood to have been accidentally left in a House of Commons toilet by a junior aide. They suggest the Labour leader was braced for attacks on Labour's relationship with the unions. A row about the alleged influence of the Unite union on candidate selection dominated this week's session. Labour sources have accepted the notes - left near the division lobby in the House of Commons - are genuine. It is understood they were left in the toilet by Jonathan Reynolds, who is Mr Miliband's parliamentary private secretary. The notes include pre-prepared lines on Tom Watson, campaign organiser for the Labour party, one of whose assistants was a candidate in a controversial candidate selection process in Falkirk. Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader Download the reader here The notes, which cover two and half sides of A4 paper, are divided into different headings. They include the lines: ""I'll take Tom Watson over Andy Coulson any day and I'd far rather have Tom Watson working for me who led the campaign on the phone hacking scandal than have brought Andy Coulson into the heart of Downing Street."" Mr Miliband went on to raise Mr Coulson, the PM's former director of communications who is facing charges of phone hacking and bribing public officials during his former career as a journalist, in Wednesday's clash. But he did not mention Mr Watson - a former close ally of Gordon Brown who is Labour's deputy chairman - and also omitted the line in the notes saying the party was ""taking action"" over the Falkirk affair. Unite, the UK's largest union, is at the centre of a row over the selection of a new Labour candidate to fight the next election in the Scottish constituency. Labour's National Executive Committee has taken control of the process from the local party after allegations of interference by Unite and an as yet unpublished Labour report has found evidence of unions packing local membership lists. Labour insist Mr Miliband has moved swiftly and decisively to order an inquiry into Falkirk within hours of allegations being raised, but senior figures have called for the report into the affair to be published and warned it risks damaging the party. Mr Cameron seized on the issue at the weekly session of PM's questions, challenging Mr Miliband on his links with the trade unions and claiming ""we have a situation in this country where we have got one of our political parties where it has become apparent votes are being bought, people are being signed up without consent"". Mr Cameron said Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey, who backed Ed Miliband in the 2010 Labour leadership contest, ""wrote the questions"" for the opposition leader and dictated policy on issues like education and health. ""He is taking his script from the trade unions, who don't like choice, don't like new schools, don't like free schools,"" he said. ""They want to control everything. What we know is that one organisation they have got control of. We see it in black and white - they have taken control of the Labour Party."" In response, Mr Miliband said he was happy to debate the issue of ethics, claiming Mr Cameron had had ""dinners for donors in Downing Street, given a tax cut to his Christmas card list and brought Andy Coulson into the heart of Downing Street"". ""The idea that he is lecturing us on ethics takes double standards to a whole new level."" Unite has threatened legal action against Labour, saying it has been a victim of a ""smear campaign"" and an attempt by the party to impose a candidate from Westminster. Mr McCluskey, who was elected to a second term as Unite leader earlier this year, said Mr Cameron appeared to have an ""obsession"" with him but had ""nothing to say"" on the real issues facing people. ""He also reminded the millions of trade unionists in this country that they are not welcome in the Conservative party, and indeed that they hold trade union members in contempt."" He added: ""There can be absolutely no question about who runs the Labour Party. It is Ed Miliband and he has my full support. ""Yes, there may be issues we disagree on - that is allowed in a democratic party - but Unite is fully behind Ed Miliband."" Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said unions were an important part of an industrial democracy but ""they can't bully and get their way within the Labour Party"". ""It seems what has happened in Falkirk is that Unite have overstepped the mark and they should remember Ed Miliband runs the Labour Party, not Unite,"" he added.",Ed Miliband 's briefing notes for Prime Minister 's Questions - revealing his @placeholder lines of attack against David Cameron - have been revealed .,exiled,control,preferred,planned,home,3
"Jacqui, 43, takes shots from Google Street View - among them a group of nuns in Peru and high-rise flats in Russia - posting images to her 20,000 followers under the pseudonym ""Agoraphobic Traveller"". Since her 20s she has feared busy places and public transport - despite living in central London -  but says the digital age has helped her travel to places she would otherwise never see. ""I'll go anywhere that feels a little bit magical,"" she says. ""They are places that would be incredibly difficult for me to travel to, so inevitably I'm attracted to them."" Jacqui, who was diagnosed with agoraphobia in 2009, chooses remote, eerie places to capture and says she likes anywhere with an ""other-worldly feel"". ""There's a lot of isolation in the shots but there is also colour and hope in there,"" she says. ""The photos I take reflect how I feel and my agoraphobia is part of that."" But her ""thrill"" at discovering faraway places contrasts with her fear of everyday situations. She describes going to the local supermarket as ""a nightmare"" and says she has not taken a Tube train in 10 years. ""I'll start to panic - my palms are sweaty, I have a racing heart, I feel that my feet aren't touching the floor,"" she says. ""Thoughts are racing through my mind - that I'm going to lose control, smash everything in the aisle - and everyone will see."" Jacqui was 23 and living in Australia when she had her first panic attack during a busy day at work. ""No one told me what it was and I thought I was dying,"" she says. ""Later, a doctor said it must've been something I'd had for dinner. ""He blamed it on the black bean sauce - no one was talking about mental health."" Before starting the project in 2016, Jacqui managed to hide her symptoms from everyone except her family. At work, she ran a digital marketing company but only went to meetings in the office which was two minutes' walk from her house. She says finding and posting the images has helped her come to terms with being agoraphobic, which she had felt angry about for a long time. ""Before my anxiety set in I dreamed of being a photographer,"" says Jacqui. ""I'd resigned myself to this never happening."" ""Now I feel that the condition doesn't define me but is within a part of me,"" she says. But does spending hours online posting photos really help her condition? Jacqui admits she ""thought it could be an unhealthy thing to do"" to trawl the internet for hours at a time. But she says it has given her the confidence to speak about the condition and come to terms with it. ""It's only when I started posting these photos I went beyond telling my family and really close friends,"" she says. ""Before, nobody knew,"" she says. ""Now people from all over the world are coming to me sharing similar struggles - it's amazing."" She says many people misunderstand agoraphobia as a fear of open spaces, but she has discovered how varied people's anxiety can be. She has been contacted by an agoraphobic journalist who struggles in a busy newsroom and photographers who may fear travelling to a photo shoot. ""Quite a few young women have asked me for advice,"" she says. ""I tell them about my experience, but I can only offer my viewpoint as I'm obviously not a psychologist."" She adds: ""Everybody's dealing with something and I'm really starting to realise that."" Jacqui now manages her anxiety with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which aims to change patterns of thinking - recently attending her sister's wedding in New Zealand. ""I had therapy which involved a lot of anxiety and not sleeping for three months,"" she says. But she managed the flight after seeing a psychologist, who made her act out her worst fears. ""I pretended to bang down the door of the plane, trying to get out of there,"" she says. ""I realised how funny the situation was, and we both fell around laughing, and when I actually boarded the plane that humour helped me through it."" It was not easy - but she says the trip has given her hope. ""I try to do these things,"" she says. ""There are times when I can't do it and I go home - but I know that is making it worse.""","Jacqui Kenny 's agoraphobia means a trip to the supermarket can trigger an anxiety attack and fears of impending "" catastrophe "" . But she says her Instagram account is helping her and sufferers like her to @placeholder remote corners of the world .",dismiss,write,explore,retire,escape,2
"The van pulled alongside a parked Renault Megane in the footage before reversing and moving it out of the way. The crash happened in Oldbury, West Midlands, the Express & Star reported. The supermarket chain said it was ""very sorry"" for the ""unacceptable incident"" and the car had been repaired and returned. Read more West Midlands stories Car owner Ian Peacock was visiting his uncle on 20 December and heard a ""loud bang and a car alarm going off"" before realising it was his car that had been hit. Mr Peacock said the crash had ""snapped in half his bumper support bar, the lights and smashed to pieces the casing holding the exhaust and the stuff on bottom of the car together"". After speaking to the Express & Star about the crash, Mr Peacock said he had a call from the supermarket's head office who would be sending him a ""goodwill gesture"". ""I'm not bothered about the goodwill gesture but they must have sent it by carrier pigeon anyway as that was last Thursday,"" Mr Peacock said.",Asda has apologised after a @placeholder driver was caught on a security camera ramming a parked car out of the way and driving off .,school,bus,light,delivery,male,3
"Ms Hyslop is to undertake ""an intensive week of activity"" focusing on business, trade, tourism, education and culture. She will meet business leaders in Tokyo and Nagasaki to promote Scotland as a place to invest and do business. The cabinet secretary said Japan was ""a very important international partner for Scotland"". The Scottish government said Japan was one of the top 20 destinations for Scottish exports, and was the seventh largest source of foreign direct investment with Japanese firms employing 6,250 people in Scotland. Ms Hyslop, who previously visited Japan in 2015, will meet senior figures from companies which are already investing in Scotland, such as Mitsubishi, life sciences firm Kyowa Hakko Kirin and medical firm Reprocell. She said: ""Scotland and Japan have much in common - a wealth of expertise, a passion for innovation, a highly educated and skilled workforce, and a desire for increased international collaboration across all sectors. ""There will be much to share and much to discuss during my time there, including providing reassurance that, despite the UK's vote to leave the EU, Scotland remains a progressive, outward-looking internationalist country that is open for business and ripe for investment. ""I'm confident our dialogue will deliver mutual benefits.""","Scottish External Affairs Secretary Fiona Hyslop is to travel to Japan to promote the @placeholder that Scotland is "" open for business "" .",race,health,message,scheme,region,2
"The Shore was filmed on Terry George's family cottage at Coney Island near Ardglass. It stars major Northern Ireland actors, including Ciaran Hinds, Maggie Cronin and Conleth Hill. Mr George was twice previously nominated for his screenplays for Hotel Rwanda and In the Name of the Father. He paid tribute to the people of Northern Ireland after receiving the Oscar. ""Our little film was inspired by the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who after 30 years of war, sat down, negotiated a peace and proved to the world that the Irish are great talkers,"" he said. ""I want to dedicate this to them. ""This is about reconciliation in Northern Ireland, it is really close to my heart."" He also praised his daughter Oorlagh, who raised money for the film and acted as its producer. ""I'd like to thank the Academy because now I don't have to wait for her wedding to tell the world how brilliant she is,"" he said. The Shore is about a man who emigrated to America 25 years ago to escape the Troubles and is now bringing his daughter back to meet his childhood friends, while harbouring a dark secret. Maggie Cronin said she was thrilled to learn of the film's success at the Oscars. ""We were leaping about the place,"" she said. ""It ticks all the right boxes, it looks beautiful and I think it is a film we can all be proud of. ""It was a very good shoot to be involved with carried by some lovely performances."" Northern Ireland Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín said the award was a ""fantastic achievement"" by the Northern Ireland film industry. ""It is wonderful that local talent and hard work is being recognised on the global stage,"" she added. Richard Williams, chief executive of Northern Ireland Screen, said an Oscar triumph represented ""the best possible international industry endorsement for film talent worldwide"". ""Terry and Oorlagh George have done us proud,"" he said. ""With their help, the profile of both the film industry in Northern Ireland and indeed the beauty of our place have received a major boost. ""Hundreds of thousands of short films are produced every year around the world and for Northern Ireland to win one really underlines the world class talent we have working in the industry here. ""The Shore is a beautiful, poignant and funny film."" Danny Moore, of Lough Shore Investments, which helped to fund the film said the company were delighted at Mr George's achievement. ""When Terry first conveyed the powerful vision of Northern Ireland he wanted to communicate to the world, we had no hesitation in getting involved,"" he added. ""For us, The Shore afforded a very unique means through which we could showcase Northern Ireland abroad, both as a place to do business, film or otherwise, and as a rapidly expanding tourist destination.""",Belfast director Terry George is @placeholder after his film The Shore won an Oscar in the live action short category .,resigned,retiring,stepping,celebrating,feared,3
"17 November 2015 Last updated at 14:41 GMT In March, a woman pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour intended to cause harassment, alarm and distress. She was given an 18-month conditional discharge. Ms Heston spoke to BBC Radio Kent after figures showed almost 1,000 hate crimes were reported to Kent Police in the past year.","Evie Heston , from Kent , who is transgender , was abused and threatened by her @placeholder in November 2014 .",involvement,conflict,head,neighbour,family,3
"It is understood that the driver of the bus intervened after hearing that he had the knife in his school bag. The driver talked to the boy, who handed over the knife. The matter was then reported to the school. South Lanarkshire Council said it had taken steps to reassure parents and the school was dealing with the issue ""in a sensitive and professional manner"". The authority's head of education, Des Dickson, said: ""The safety and wellbeing of all children is paramount and the school have taken a proactive approach seeking to reassure parents who have raised concerns. The head teacher and school staff are dealing with this matter in a sensitive and professional manner.""",A six - year - old boy has been @placeholder with a steak knife while travelling on a school bus in East Kilbride .,beaten,caught,reunited,assaulted,struck,1
"Samantha Baldwin, 42, from Newark, was last seen in Nottingham city centre on Monday and is believed to be with Louis Madge, 9, and Dylan Madge, 6. Police said the case was being treated as abduction and confirmed Ms Baldwin did not have legal custody of the boys. There have been several sightings and police are ""open minded"" over whether they had left the UK. A 62-year-old woman and another woman, 36, both arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have been bailed. Updates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire Supt Rich Fretwell said: ""We've had eight sightings across the country, six of those we've discounted, two are still forming part of the live investigation. ""We have an all ports warning in place, that stretches over to Europe, however, there's no indication at the moment that they have left the country, but we keep an open mind. ""We've had numerous sightings... and we will go wherever the inquiries take us. ""The reality is we still do not know where Samantha and the two boys are."" Ms Baldwin has been urged to get in touch to confirm she and the boys are safe. Detectives have been carrying out searches of properties, studied CCTV footage and used number plate recognition technology. Ms Baldwin is described as being 5ft 7ins (1.7m) tall, of a slim build with shoulder length, highlighted blonde hair and green/blue eyes. She has family connections in Lincolnshire and Manchester. Louis is described as having fair hair, a fair complexion and blue eyes and Dylan has straight dark brown hair, a tanned complexion and brown eyes. The two boys also use the surname of Taylor, police said.","The search for a woman who has gone missing with her two sons has been @placeholder out to Europe , police said .",widened,traced,flown,spreading,thrown,0
"Ms Rudd thanked the New Zealand high court judge for her contribution to setting up the inquiry. The investigation was set up in July 2014 to examine claims made against public and private institutions. Justice Goddard was selected after two previous chairwomen quit. In her resignation letter, Justice Goddard said conducting such a widespread inquiry was ""not an easy task"" but ""compounding the many difficulties was its legacy of failure which has been very hard to shake off"". Ms Rudd said in a statement: ""I want to assure everyone with an interest in the inquiry, particularly victims and survivors, that the work of the inquiry will continue without delay... ""I would like to thank Dame Lowell Goddard for the contribution she has made in setting up the inquiry so that it may continue to go about its vital work."" BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds described the resignation as a ""crisis"" for the inquiry. It came on the same day the Times reported that Justice Goddard had spent more than 70 days working abroad or on holiday during her time in charge. An inquiry spokesman told the newspaper she had spent 44 working days in New Zealand and Australia on inquiry business in its first financial year and that she was entitled to 30 days' annual leave. Peter Saunders, from the National Association of People Abused in Childhood and a member of the inquiry's victims and survivors panel, said: ""I personally wonder whether or not we actually need a chair; maybe it is too much of a burden for one person... ""Everything is finally taking off and I don't think we should be too distracted by the unfortunate departure of just one person."" In a statement, Justice Goddard said she was ""confident there have been achievements and some very real gains for victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse in getting their voices heard"". She said she took on the role because of her ""relevant experience and track record in the area"" but it was ""an incredibly difficult step to take, as it meant relinquishing my career in New Zealand and leaving behind my beloved family"". She added: ""The conduct of any public inquiry is not an easy task, let alone one of the magnitude of this. Compounding the many difficulties was its legacy of failure which has been very hard to shake off and with hindsight it would have been better to have started completely afresh."" The inquiry was set up to investigate allegations made against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions in England and Wales, as well as people in the public eye. It had a budget of £17.9m in its first year, funded by the Home Office, with staffing-related costs accounting for 41% of the total. Justice Goddard was receiving a salary of £360,000, an annual rental allowance of £110,000 and £12,000 a year to cover utilities, while panel members were each receiving £565 a day. The original chairwoman, Baroness Butler-Sloss, stood down after just a week following questions over the role played by her late brother, Lord Havers, who was attorney general in the 1980s. Her replacement Dame Fiona Woolf resigned following questions over her links to establishment figures. The inquiry's preliminary hearings began in March at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.  A panel of advisers had also been selected and the inquiry's terms of reference agreed. In February 2017 there will be two weeks of hearings relating to the sexual abuse of British child migrants, who moved to parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth between 1920 and 1970. Public hearings into allegations of abuse relating to Lord Janner are due to start on 7 March and are expected to finish by the end of May. The Labour peer, who died in December, was accused of sex offences against children - which his family deny. 7 July 2014 - government announces independent inquiry into the way public bodies investigated and handled child sex abuse claims. Baroness Butler-Sloss chosen as head 9 July - Baroness Butler-Sloss faces calls to quit because her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general in the 1980s 14 July - she stands down, saying she is ""not the right person"" for the job 5 September - Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf named the new head of the inquiry 11 October - Mrs Woolf discloses she had five dinners with Lord Brittan from 2008-12 22 October - abuse victim launches legal challenge against Mrs Woolf leading the inquiry, amid growing calls for her resignation 31 October - victims' groups tell government officials they are ""unanimous"" Mrs Woolf should quit. She steps down later that day 4 February 2015 - Justice Lowell Goddard, a serving judge of the High Court of New Zealand, announced as the new head of the inquiry 13 July - Dame Lowell's pay is revealed as more than £480,000 a year November - inquiry begins hearing directly from victims and survivors 4 August 2016 - Dame Lowell writes to Home Secretary Amber Rudd to resign from her post","The inquiry into child sexual abuse will continue "" without delay "" and in the @placeholder of a new chair , Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said , after the resignation of Dame Lowell Goddard .",formation,space,absence,middle,process,2
"Doddle is a joint venture between Network Rail and Lloyd Dorfman, who made his fortune from the Travelex currency exchange business. According to Mr Dorfman, Amazon will begin using Doddle in September. Last year Amazon was in talks with Transport for London about using tube stations as collection points. It is not clear how the deal with Doddle will affect Amazon's plan to link up with London Underground. Network Rail and Mr Dorfman are investing £24m in Doddle and hope to expand the business to 300 stations. A pilot operation has been running at Milton Keynes station and Doddle's website said shops in London Cannon Street, Woking, Bromley South, Brighton and Chelmsford stations would ""open soon"". But reaching an agreement with Amazon would be a huge boost for the business. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Dorfman said: ""They're sorting out the systems issues and have agreed to begin using Doddle in September.""","Amazon customers will be able to pick - up their @placeholder from railways stations under a deal struck with a new click - and - collect firm , Doddle .",bills,books,counterparts,tickets,parcels,4
"Teesside Airport station has just two trains a week, both on a Sunday - the 11:05 Darlington to Hartlepool service, and the 12:05 return. Independent travel company Chester-le-Track station master Alex Nelson said the service was ""crazy"". The line's current operator Northern Rail said it was obliged under its franchise to serve the station. It is one of the least used in the UK, behind Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire. Last year there were 16 arrivals and 16 departures from the station, which was built in 1971 to serve Durham Tees Valley Airport. But it ""was never very close by"", Mr Nelson said. Members of Stockton and Darlington Railway youth team and the Royal Society of St George were among 28 passengers who took part in the ""protest"" ""I'm not sure why it was located exactly where it was. ""If you were travelling out on a flight from Teesside Airport you wouldn't want to carry your luggage all the way from the station to the terminal - it's a long way."" The station is situated more than half a mile (1km) away from the airport. Members of Stockton and Darlington Railway youth team and the Royal Society of St George were among 28 passengers who took part in the ""protest"". ""We're just drawing attention to how weird this is. It's a bit of fun,"" Mr Nelson said. Passenger service requirements were introduced as part of the privatisation of British Rail to ensure operators maintained certain levels of provision. Instead of a dedicated service the station could be served by other trains that pass through but do not currently stop, Mr Nelson said. ""It would be a substantially less expensive way of doing it and I'm frankly amazed they don't do that,"" he said. Northern Rail's franchise ends on 31 March, after which the route will be taken over by Arriva.",Train passengers have staged a tongue - in cheek rally on one of the @placeholder 's least used services .,country,night,sport,region,continent,0
"Members of the Unite union employed by the private contractor Suez in Doncaster were planning on staging two walkouts on Wednesday and on 2 September in a row over pay and jobs. The union said the pay dispute had been resolved after a new offer was put to the workers and accepted unanimously. A further meeting to discuss proposed redundancies will be held on Friday. Latest updates and more news from Yorkshire The union said it could not rule out further balloting on industrial action if compulsory redundancies are proposed. Shane Sweeting, Unite regional officer, said: ""It has brought our members above the poverty line now regarding wage increments, so that's fantastic news for people going forward. ""We're still in the position where the workforce is potentially going to be slashed by 50%, which is going to have a devastating impact on the essential services provided to the constituents of the borough."" Nick Browning, of Suez recycling and recovery UK, said: ""In addition to securing a pay award for 2017, the long-term deal struck yesterday also sets in place a sustainable pay mechanism for up to 10 years - linked to the cost of living. ""We would like to thank the residents of Doncaster for their patience and understanding while these negotiations have been ongoing.""",A planned five - day bin @placeholder strike in South Yorkshire has been called off .,collection,community,scheme,regeneration,side,0
"The films are adaptations of a book by Compton MacKenzie, whose story was inspired by the sinking of the cargo ship SS Politician off Eriskay in 1941. The cargo included more than 250,000 bottles of whisky, hundreds of cases of which were hidden by islanders. The remake, starring Eddie Izzard, was filmed across Scotland. Tourism body VisitScotland has now created a map of the filming locations, from the Aberdeenshire villages of Portsoy and Pennan; to St Abb's Head in the Borders; Loch Thom in Greenock; St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife; and the Central Bar in Renton, West Dunbartonshire. The original film was shot entirely in the Outer Hebrides. Jenni Steele, film and creative industries manager at VisitScotland, said: ""Since the novel by Compton Mackenzie was published back in 1947, Whisky Galore has been raising laughs for 70 years. ""Celebrating not only this nation's love for the 'Water of Life' but also demonstrating the warmth, humour and spirit of our people, this new film shows off Scotland at its dazzling best. ""Our handy map will allow visitors to explore the Whisky Galore locations and enjoy a set-jetting holiday around Scotland."" Gregor Fisher, who plays the postmaster, said: ""I've been in this business for 40 years and I can honestly say this was one of the nicest, if not the nicest, job I've ever had. ""There were no negatives about it. On a seven-and-a-half-week shoot in Portsoy, it rained for half a day max, and even then it was very light drizzle. ""Normally when you take over a town, which we more or less did at Portsoy, there's a bit of aggro because you're closing roads and so on, but there was none of that."" ""We were welcomed with open arms to the point that when I expressed an interest in buying some lobster, four lobsters were delivered to my door the next day, free of charge. ""I couldn't believe it. Half the community is in the film. It was a joy."" Tourism Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: ""Scotland is widely recognised as an excellent location for film and TV productions. ""Whisky Galore has been added to the growing list of films shot here. This map allows visitors from home and abroad to walk in the footsteps of the actors and actresses that appeared in the film, and they can also enjoy the spectacular scenery that Scotland has to offer."" The film is released in Scottish cinemas on Friday. The SS Politician was headed for Jamaica when it ran aground on the northern side of Eriskay, in the Western Isles, in bad weather. Scottish author Mackenzie published the novel Whisky Galore in 1947. It was adapted for cinema in a 1949 Ealing comedy.",Tourism bosses hope a remake of Whisky Galore will boost visitor numbers to some of the lesser - known @placeholder of Scotland .,level,state,west,island,parts,4
"He shared his memories of working with the US star on Neil Simon's play, Laughter on the 23rd Floor. ""He was a joy to work with.  I found out on the TV last night after coming back from a gathering and saw that Gene had died. It was a real blow… you obviously read about people you've worked with [who have died] but there was something very special about that period. He was a one-off. I don't think he ever did theatre again. ""And the most extraordinary thing about the man was that he hadn't done any theatre for 30 years when I worked with him. ""I always remember meeting him for the very first time because the character [he played] was full of idiosyncrasies anyway, so of course the joy for him was finding those Wilder-esque idiosyncratic qualities. ""I remember being in this hotel in London doing a demo of that very iconic walk that he did at the very beginning of Charlie when he came out as Wonka with his walking stick. To have him in the flesh here doing it was slightly extraordinary and fabulous. ""He'd been recommended [to me] by Mel Brooks. The play was about the writers who wrote for Sid Caesar (the 1950s host of TV series Your Show of Shows). The character that Gene played was based on Caesar. ""It was Mel Brooks who said [to Wilder]: 'You should go and do it, this is a one-off opportunity.' I think he could see that anarchic quality of Caesar was very similar to Gene. That's how I happened to have this extraordinary privilege of working with him. ""The play also did a little mini-tour starting in Guildford and I went with it.  If [Wilder] walked down the street, people recognised him and they ran to him, he was almost like a god.  I've never been in that situation or had that experience before. It was just extraordinary, people ran across the street to make contact with him. ""It was absolutely the most joyous experience, one learned a great deal from him. He was a very fine actor. He had huge integrity. One can often forget that he actually was first and foremost a stage actor. ""We kept in touch for a short while and then, as happens with all of these things, we lost contact. He went back home. But while he was over here, we had a great deal of connection. We used to have dinner together, my partner and myself and Gene and his wife. He introduced me to Chablis wine, his favourite dry white! ""But it was very sad when I heard the news. It really hit home. I didn't know [he was ill]. He was a very special man in my life."" Roger Haines was talking to entertainment reporter Emma Saunders. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Renowned British theatre director Roger Haines , currently directing Michael Crawford in the West End in The Go - Between , @placeholder the late Gene Wilder during his only British stage run in the 1990s .",describing,succeeded,directed,introduced,masked,2
"Datta Phuge shot into the global limelight in 2013 when he bought a shirt made with more than 3kg of gold and worth $250,000 (£186,943). A money lender based in western Pune, Mr Phuge was called ""the gold man"". Four persons have been detained for questioning. Police suspect a dispute over money led to the murder. The police said some 12 people attacked Mr Phuge, 48, in Pune on Thursday night. One of the suspects had invited Mr Phuge and his 22-year-old son to celebrate a birthday at an open ground in Dighi area when the men attacked him with stones and a sharp weapon. Police said the son had witnessed his father being murdered and had been spared by the alleged killers. ""However, we are investigating how Mr Phuge reached the open ground where he was murdered,"" Dighi police station inspector Navnath Ghogare told the Press Trust of India news agency. Mr Phuge often wore gold all over his body: his knuckles, neck, and wrists were weighed down by signet rings, chunky bracelets, and a medallion. ""Some people ask me why I'm wearing so much gold but it was my dream. People have different aspirations. Some elite people want to own an Audi or Mercedes, and have big cars. I chose gold,"" he told the BBC in 2013.","An Indian man who bought one of the world 's most expensive shirts made entirely of gold has been allegedly @placeholder to death , police said .",strangled,battered,tortured,following,stabbed,1
"Mist caused problems early in the day but Dunlop was quickly on the pace with a speed of 121.65mph on his Superstock. The Ballymoney man then secured pole on the BMW Superbike with 131.783, just faster than Peter Hickman's 131.063. Neil Kernohan won the Dundrod 150 Lightweight race, with Christian Elkin taking the Ultra-Lightweight honours. Ballymena rider Kernohan finished ahead of runner-up Davy Morgan, Paul Robinson, Paul Owen and Olie Linsdell. Elkin repeated his Armoy success of two weeks ago, coming home first on his Moto3 machine, followed by Sam Wilson and Derek McGee on 125cc bikes. Gary Dunlop, son of the late, legendary Joey, claimed a creditable fourth place on his debut at the event, with female competitor Melissa Kennedy fifth. Graham Kennedy took the flag in the National race and David Jackson in the Challenge event. The Dundrod 150 Superbike race was cancelled due to deteriorating visibility after the initial race had been red-flagged following an incident, which was not serious. The leaders had completed two laps, with Michael Dunlop just in front of Bruce Anstey, Ian Hutchinson and lap-one leader Conor Cummins when proceedings were brought to a halt. Meanwhile, New Zealander Anstey clocked the fastest time for Saturday's two Supersport races, edging out Yamaha-mounted Hutchinson by 1.7 seconds, with Manxman Cummins third. The 600cc qualifying session was halted prematurely after an incident at Flow Bog, which resulted in a rider being taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries. A seven-race programme is scheduled for Saturday, with roads closing at 09:30 BST. Superbike practice times - 1 Michael Dunlop 131.783 mph; 2 Peter Hickman 131.063; 3 Bruce Anstey; 4 Ian Hutchinson 130.13; 5 Dean Harrison 129.92; 6 Conor Cummins 129.335. Superstock practice times - 1 Michael Dunlop 121.625 mph; 2 Derek Sheils 120.779; 3 Steve Mercer 120.718; 4 Jamie Coward 120.19; 5 Conor Cummins 119.926; 6 Bruce Anstey 119.508 Supersport practice times - 1 Bruce Anstey 125.94 mph; 2 Ian Hutchinson 124.90; 3 Conor Cummins 124.53; 4 Dean Harrison 124.11; 5 William Dunlop 123.65; 6 Peter Hickman 123.58 Saturday 13 August race schedule - Roads closed from 09:30 BST to 20:30 for Ulster Grand Prix race meeting: Superstock (6 laps), Supersport Race 1 (6 laps), Ultralightweight/Lightweight (5 laps), UGP Superbike Race (7 laps), Supertwins (5 laps), Supersport Race 2 (6 laps), Superbike Race 2 (6 laps).",Michael Dunlop set the fastest times for the Ulster Grand Prix Superbike and Superstock classes in Thursday 's @placeholder practice sessions at Dundrod .,opening,title,conditions,home,delayed,4
"On a night of joy and disappointment, stolen kisses and spectacular performances, who were the real winners and losers at the O2 Arena? While accepting the award for best British male, behatted balladeer James Bay appeared to thank ""my brother Lucy"". However, it transpires that Lucy is Bay's long-term girlfriend. His brother's name is, in fact, Alex. Which only goes to show the importance of punctuating your acceptance speech. Never backward about coming forward, Justin Bieber accosted Adele as she walked up to collect the best single prize, and gave her a good old smooch on the cheek. ""The music industry's a bit like Crufts,"" complained Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis. ""It's all about hairstyles and who's got the best training and pedigree."" ""In guitar music, it definitely feels like there's been a brain drain. There's a lot of [bands] dressing up in parents' clothes and acting out pastiche-like tropes. I'd like to see a return of edgy, unpredictable, wild guitar music."" Drake and Rihannna spent the three-minute performance of Work indulging in the sort of behaviour that would get you thrown out of your local swimming pool. Not that fans seemed to mind. There was a palpable sense of excitement about their performance, especially after Rihanna pulled out of last week's Grammys with bronchitis. ""Rihanna is simply breathtaking,"" tweeted one; while Shuj Starr added: ""I'm literally about to go lay down in my grave... I've died after that performance!"" Adele dedicated the night's most prestigious award, best British album, to ""the love of my life,"" her two-year-old son, Angelo. ""This is all for you peanut, I love you so much,"" she said. ""I love you. I love you."" ""In 2000 STEPS won a @brits Award for Best Live Act,"" tweeted Ian 'H' Watkins during the ceremony. ""They told us we had to pay £500 each for one. I told them to get stuffed!"" Stormzy, Lily Allen, Laura Mvula and Wolf Alice were among the acts to criticise the lack of black and urban nominees at this year's ceremony and, indeed, every single winner on the night was white. But P-Funk legend George Clinton had an interesting perspective on the controversy. ""It's always been that way,"" he told the BBC. ""But it only makes you have to work harder and get better. That's what it takes to become great - adversity."" ""But things are always changing for the better,"" he added. ""Fault is easy to find - but finding a reason to keep on pushing is the hardest thing. And when I can find that reason, I'm satisfied."" And his ambition for 2016? ""To get the whole planet funkin'"". Lorde's faithful rendering of David Bowie's Life On Mars gave viewers the chance to reminisce and reflect on the star's achievements - but the masterstroke was backing her with Bowie's touring band, who last played together on the 2004 Reality tour. Those musicians were: The standing ovation inside the O2 Arena last over a minute, continuing long after the TV show cut to a commercial break. ""Which way am I supposed to face?"", asked Chris Martin, on the podium to pick up the best group prize. ""Where do I look?"",questioned James Bay moments later. ""And where do I look?"", stuttered a bewildered Kevin Parker, spinning in circles as he tried to accept Tame Impala's best international group award. Here's a hint for next year: Face the same direction as the person who just read out your name. The hair flip is an essential weapon in every girl band's armoury - and Little Mix proved they'd mastered the art. Blur seemed in good spirits on the red carpet until one hapless reporter asked what they expected from the David Bowie tribute. ""I never liked him myself,"" said Alex James, walking off in a huff - much to the mystification of his bandmate Graham Coxon. ""Did he say he never liked him?"" he asked, incredulously. ""Oh, right. I loved David Bowie. That was a shock."" Country singer Father John Misty was up for best international male, but his team weren't prepared to build his hopes up. ""My publicist said earlier that 'I have literally no chance of winning that award,'"" he told the BBC. ""So I would just like to sit and anonymously enjoy Rihanna. That's the best case scenario for me tonight."" Perhaps they just wanted to manage his expectations after his recent experience at the Grammy Awards. ""I got nominated for a Grammy for best packaging, which I lost to Jack White,"" he deadpanned. ""If I seem a little low tonight, it's because I'm still reeling from that loss."" Too many of Ant and Dec's jokes fell flat, but the nadir was the moment when Ant ""mistakenly"" appeared on stage in a dress. Because a man in a dress is hilarious, right? Coming so soon after the tribute to Bowie - an artist who did so much to challenge sexual stereotypes - it felt woefully dated. Rock band Wolf Alice were first-time nominees in the best breakthrough category - but singer Ellie Roswell let slip that it wasn't her first ever Brit Awards. ""I worked here five years ago, doing waitressing,"" she confessed. ""It wasn't very nice, because I can't seem to carry two plates at once."" ""I am here at the #Brits,"" tweeted 6 Music's star-struck breakfast show host Shaun Keaveny. ""Justin Bieber just walked past me with a piece of bog roll stuck to his trainer.""","Adele may have @placeholder the board at the 2016 Brits , but there 's always more to the show than the awards .",swept,entered,announced,landed,shocked,0
The train hit the empty vehicle near Uphall station just after 17:00 on Wednesday 14 October. One passenger was slightly injured. The 26-year-old man is due to appear at Livingston Sheriff Court later. A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.,A second man has been @placeholder after a pick - up truck was hit by a train in West Lothian .,launched,delayed,arrested,shot,murdered,2
"Women in England will be able to get Kadcyla through the Cancer Drugs Fund, but the price tag per patient - £90,000 at full cost - is too high to widen access, say the draft NICE guidelines. NICE criticised manufacturer Roche for not making it more affordable. Roche says discussions are continuing, meaning a resolution is still possible. Kadcyla can add about six months of life to women with incurable disease. It is used to treat people with HER2-positive breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and cannot be surgically removed. Roche, recently agreed a significant price discount with NHS England to stop the drug being taken off the Cancer Drugs Fund - a special fund set up by the government to help people in England access costly cancer drugs that are not routinely available on the NHS. But the Swiss pharmaceutical company offered a different, smaller discount to NICE for regular NHS use of Kadcyla (Trastuzumab Emtansine) in England and Wales. NICE says this undisclosed figure is still too high to justify against the drug's clinical merits. Any person currently receiving the treatment can continue until they and their doctor consider it appropriate to stop, however. Kadcyla is not available on the NHS in Scotland either. Sir Andrew Dillon, NICE chief executive, said: ""We recognise that Kadcyla has a place in treating some patients with advanced breast cancer, and we have been as flexible as we can in making our recommendation. However, the price that the manufacturer is asking the NHS to pay in the long term is too high."" Roche and other consultees now have until November 17 to challenge the draft guidance. Roche said: ""We need a unified approach, and, moving forward, it is imperative that we work together to build a pragmatic, flexible and sustainable system for assessing medicines that prioritises clinical value. Only then will we be able to ensure the best outcomes for people with cancer in the UK. ""This announcement comes less than two weeks after Kadcyla was retained on the Cancer Drugs Fund. Roche has demonstrated that, when given the opportunity to come to the table with all parties, we can come to an agreement and do the right thing for patients."" Dr Caitlin Barrand, from the charity Breast Cancer Now, said the news was hugely disappointing. ""It's time that the prime minister showed real leadership on this issue,"" she said. ""People living with incurable cancer don't have time to lose, and a fairer, more flexible system that enables access to the best treatments available on a routine, UK-wide basis is long overdue."" The Cancer Drugs Fund is due to end in March 2016. The government says a replacement is likely to be brought in from April 2016, although there are no details yet.","A life - @placeholder breast cancer drug will not be routinely offered on the NHS in England and Wales because it is still too expensive , says a watchdog .",extending,funded,sized,leaning,limiting,0
"Jason Brian Dalton, 45, was arrested after attacks at three locations on Saturday evening. Two people, including a 14-year-old girl, remain seriously ill in hospital. It has been confirmed that Mr Dalton was a driver for cab-hailing app Uber. Prosecutors are investigating whether he took fares between attacks. One local resident said he experienced a hair-raising ride in Mr Dalton's car shortly before the first incident, which prompted him to call the police. Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting says the suspect is likely to face multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder when he appears in court on Monday. The shootings took place outside a block of flats, a Kia car dealership and a Cracker Barrel restaurant: Uber says it did a background check on Mr Dalton, and police have confirmed that he did not have a criminal record. In a statement, the firm said it was ""horrified and heartbroken"" at the violence. Police said none of the victims had been passengers of the suspect. Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas said the spree was his ""worst nightmare"", adding: ""These are random murders."" Mr Dalton was arrested in the early hours of Sunday following a police manhunt. The suspect did not resist when approached by officers and weapons were found in his car, police said. No motive has yet been determined.",A taxi driver is being held over the @placeholder of six people in an apparently random shooting spree in the Michigan city of Kalamazoo .,state,safety,activities,deaths,body,3
"The Discworld author was a Saturday boy at the site in Beaconsfield, where he borrowed and read countless books. Fans of the writer came from as far as Leeds and Swansea dressed as their favourite characters from his novels. His daughter, Rhianna, said the plaque - commissioned by the town council - was a ""perfect tribute"" to her late father. She added: ""Terry Pratchett the author was born at Beaconsfield Library."" Sir Terry, who sold 85 million books worldwide, died in 2015 from Alzheimer's disease, aged 66. Councillor Philip Bastiman said it was ""only right"" there was a permanent tribute to the author in his Buckinghamshire hometown.","A plaque honouring Sir Terry Pratchett has been @placeholder at the library he credited with his "" education "" .",held,caught,revealed,spotted,unveiled,4
"You'll have heard the expression ""we are what we eat"", but the egg roll suggests it would be more accurate to say we eat what we are. Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, was once the greatest port city on earth. It was the pivot-point of a crucial moment in world history, the moment the flow of wealth from west to east was reversed. Since Roman times, Europe had always been what historian Nick Robins calls ""Asia's commercial supplicant"". It shipped out gold and silver in return for spices, textiles and luxury goods. This is the 17th article in a BBC series India on a plate, on the diversity and vibrancy of Indian food. Other stories in the series: The tiny restaurants delighting Indians with just one wonder dish Tasting India's coveted holy sweet The street food so good, it is waved through airport checks The Indian state that is obsessed with beef fry The dark history behind India and the UK's favourite drink Why this Indian state screams for ice cream Then, in the middle of the 18th Century, that flow stalled and wealth started moving the other way, first a trickle, very soon a cascade. The now infamous East India Company had begun to take advantage of the decline of the Mughal Empire, and was extending its control beyond Calcutta, deep into India itself. The city mushroomed as workers poured in to man the increasingly busy docks. It was hard labour. The marshy riverbank on a bend of the Hooghly river where the company had put down its roots 150 years earlier is still hot and humid. The egg roll evolved to sate the appetite of these men. I don't mean to do down my homeland, but in Britain an egg roll is just that, an egg in a roll. In India an egg roll - a street food even the poorest inhabitants of the city can afford - is something far more luxurious and delicious. Watch as a paratha, a slim disc of unleavened bread baked on a hot pan, is fried with a couple of eggs. This is your canvas. Now see it piled with salad: sliced cucumber, carrot, onion - possibly tomatoes and red or green pepper too.  There'll be a sprinkle of chopped chilli, a dash of mustard oil and maybe a dusting of black pepper. Then there'll be a pinch of the most divisive of all Indian ingredients - kala namak, or black salt. Black salt is a dark-coloured rock salt with a distinctive sulphurous flavour. Indians like it so much they add it to all sorts of foods and drinks - there's even a popular boiled sweet flavoured with kala namak. Whether you like black salt is the real barometer of how deep you've dived into Indian cuisine.  I hated it when I first came to India but, more than a year in, I'm slowly coming round to it. So don't let the black salt put you off. Egg roll stalls offer unlimited supplies of fresh lime, chilli sauce and tomato ketchup to stifle the flavour with, should you wish to. Like Kolkata, the egg roll is a formidable dish.  I once had two for lunch and didn't need to eat again for 18 hours. But Calcutta's dockers were working a lot harder than me. Around 250 years ago, the Hooghly was choked with tall ships. ""We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a more sinister reality,"" writes historian William Dalrymple. ""It was not the British government that seized India at the end of the 18th Century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in London, and managed in India by an unstable sociopath - Clive."" Clive is Robert Clive, then governor of Bengal and head of the East India Company's operations in India. The year 1765 was decisive. That's when Clive, whose portrait still hangs in the British High Commissioner's residence in Delhi, wrested the right to raise taxes in Bengal from the Mughal emperor, Shah Alam. Within five years the company - answerable only to its shareholders, remember - had trebled the tax take, impoverishing the people of Bengal and helping cause one of the worst famines the world has ever seen. A third of the population of Bengal - 10 million people - died, while the company, ever mindful of its bottom line, actually increased tax collection. Along the way Clive acquired a vast personal fortune, but told a House of Commons inquiry into corruption he was ""astounded"" at his own moderation. Meanwhile India, which is reckoned to have accounted for a quarter of global manufacturing when British traders first arrived at the beginning of the 17th Century, saw its riches drained away to the East India Company's London HQ and its markets flooded with British products. At the beginning of the 20th century, India was responsible for just 3% of world GDP. No wonder it has been dubbed the ""unrequited trade"". But now the flow of wealth is changing direction again: the balance of world trade has been tilting back in favour of the east.  And Kolkata is changing too. Buy an egg roll from one of the stalls by the bus station opposite the boulevard of now crumbling colonial buildings in the centre of town. As you eat, start to walk though the city. The extravagant legacies of imperial power soon give way to a more modern metropolis.  There is still poverty here, but as elsewhere in India, there are new buildings, new industries and new hope. The great intellectual tradition of the city lives on in the bookshops and cafes. And the egg roll continues to thrive too, still providing solid sustenance to the dockers' hard working descendants, even if they are now more likely to be hunched over a computer screen than carrying sacks by the Hooghly. If there is an Indian street food you think Justin needs to taste, contact him @BBCJustinR",The Kolkata egg roll speaks volumes about the real @placeholder of the eastern Indian city that devours this tasty snack at every opportunity .,nature,top,heart,centre,head,0
"The Houthi-run government said the hall had been hit by an air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition backing the internationally-recognised government of Yemen. The coalition has denied carrying out a strike, suggesting ""other causes"". Thousands of civilians have been killed since the war began in 2014. The attack targeted the funeral of the father of Houthi-appointed Interior Minister Galal al-Rawishan, an ally of the rebels and of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. One rescuer, Murad Tawfiq, described the scene as a ""lake of blood"", the Associated Press news agency reports. Graphic photos circulating on social media show charred and mutilated bodies. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had prepared 300 body bags. The ICRC's Rima Kamal told the BBC ""several air strikes"" had hit the venue where hundreds of civilians had been present. The damage to the buildings was extensive. A number of Houthi rebel military and security officials are believed to have been killed in the strike. BBC correspondents say their presence could explain why the funeral was targeted, though it is likely many civilians were also there. The government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi is fighting both the Houthis and forces loyal to Mr Saleh. Thousand of civilians have been killed since the Saudi-led air campaign started last March, the UN's rights body says. Nearly three million people have been displaced in Yemen, one of the region's poorest countries, since the war began in 2014. The Houthis took the capital then, forcing Mr Hadi's government to flee. Some ministers have since returned to the city of Aden.","At least 82 people have been killed and more than 500 injured in a strike on a funeral @placeholder in the Yemeni capital , Sanaa , rebel officials say .",home,spot,bound,gathering,river,3
"About 300,000 people had gathered for Eid prayers at the Sholakia field in Kishoreganj district when the attack on a security checkpoint began. Police say four people, including two officers and one attacker, were killed. Last week, militants stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe in Dhaka, killing at least 20, most of them foreigners. That attack was claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), although the government said the attackers belonged to a local militant group. No group has said it carried out Thursday's attack. Eyewitnesses said four militants had used machetes and guns to attack police. The imam leading prayers at the Sholakia field had recently issued a decree against killing in the name of Islam. After the attack, he told journalists: ""The young men who think they will go to heaven [by carrying out attacks] are wrong. They will go straight to hell."" Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told the BBC Bengali service that the high level of preparedness of security forces had prevented an attack on the prayer congregation. ""We have been able to either capture or destroy most of the terrorists,"" he said. Police were investigating the attack and did not rule out ""IS, al-Qaeda, or the Taliban"" as possible groups, ""but we still do not have any evidence to suggest that Bangladeshi militants have any organisational link with foreign groups,"" he added. There have been security fears in Dhaka following last Friday's attack on the cafe. There were tight checks at some Eid services in the capital, with scanners and sniffer dogs used to check for bombs before worshippers could enter, AFP reported. Many people could be seen weeping during the services, while a local cleric issued a prayer to ""protect our children from the evils of terrorism"", AFP added. Bangladesh has also seen a spate of attacks on secular bloggers, gay activists, academics and members of religious minorities, with more than 40 killed since February 2013. Many of those attacks were claimed by Islamic State militants or al-Qaeda affiliates, although the government has blamed local groups and the opposition instead. The opposition denies the claims. Speaking on Thursday, Hasanul Haq Inu told the BBC that recent attacks were ""isolated incidents through which some youngsters are taking the wrong path"". ""Militant terrorism is not a trend in Bangladesh, it is still not a trend,"" he said.","Militants have attacked police @placeholder the largest Eid gathering in Bangladesh , throwing homemade bombs and launching a gun attack .",condemning,forces,guarding,deployed,seized,2
"The CCTV pictures show Ricardo Hunter a few days before his body was found at a mansion in Headley, near Epsom, on 25 July. Surrey Police said it wanted more party-goers to come forward with information about the death of Mr Hunter, who was also known as 40. Three people arrested over his death have been released on bail. A woman was also shot in the leg and a man suffered minor shoulder injuries at the party in Church Lane. The majority of party-goers were from the London area, a spokesman for Surrey Police said. Det Insp Jo Sidaway said: ""Today marks a month since the murder of 34-year-old Ricardo Hunter. ""We have already spoken to a number of people who attended that evening and are urging anybody who we have not yet spoken to, or anyone with information to contact us."" A 27-year-old man from London arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon was released on bail until 15 September. A 28-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, and a 30-year-old woman held on suspicion of assisting an offender, have also been bailed until September.",Images of a man who was shot dead at a @placeholder party have been released as part of a witness appeal .,house,beach,night,flat,pool,4
"A local charity, which works exclusively for those with depression, says while it is becoming less stigmatised there are still barriers which make it less acceptable as a physical illness. As well as calling for greater awareness, Aware Defeat Depression is urging those who are diagnosed to consider alternative therapies as opposed to taking anti-depressants. The charity's chief executive, Siobhan Doherty, said: ""I do believe there is a certain element of society that stigmatises mental illness and depression. ""For example, if I were to phone into work with flu, that would be OK and I would get a few days off. But if I were to phone in and say I have depression, that would be much more difficult. ""That's the challenge. While it is becoming less stigmatised, there is something that doesn't make it as acceptable as a physical illness."" According to 2012 statistics, the number of men and women diagnosed with depression increased in every health trust. More than 2.5 million anti-depressant prescription items were dispensed, about one million more than in 2007. Ms Doherty says they are helping an increasing number of young people men and women as it is an illness that holds no social boundaries. ""Depression can be incredibly serious - there are signs and symptoms from low mood, challenging behaviour, isolating yourself,"" she said. ""But at its very worst depression can take lives. People can take their own life, so there needs to be greater understanding of this dreadful illness."" Among those taking anti-depressants was Sam O'Neill, who at the age of 30 says he has come out the other side. Four years ago, however, he was hooked on medication. ""Depression is just a darkness, a big black cloud that comes over you,"" he said. ""It was like a weight on top of me as if something was holding me down. I couldn't operate as an individual."" Those 2012 figures made Northern Ireland the second highest in Europe for prescribing such medication and the worst in the UK. Siobhan Doherty says people should look to alternative therapies instead of taking medication. The charity is promoting mindfulness - a therapy likened to meditation which is recognised by the national health organisation NICE. ""It's the practice of living in the present. A practice of not looking at the past and not wondering or worrying about what is going to happen in the future. It is about finding peace and calm,"" Ms Doherty said. Mr O'Neill took medication for several years. He attempted suicide twice. He says he felt alone, anxious and scared. ""They interfered with my sleep pattern. I felt drugged up. My mind wasn't clear, it was always hazy. I was told to go to the gym. But I couldn't motivate myself to go. It's all very well your GP telling you to go out and motivate yourself, but sometimes you don't have the energy to go anywhere."" Mr O'Neill decided to come off the anti-depressants - something which should only be managed by a patient's GP. He attended classes organised by Aware Defeat Depression and has been benefiting by participating in a course in mindfulness. ""It focuses your thoughts and your energy all through breathing,"" he said. ""It slows you down. Makes you appreciate the moment. It makes you identify the negative thoughts, but teaches you how not to let them take over."" Siobhan Doherty says promoting mental health is everyone's responsibility. ""I think there is so much going on in society, so much pressure so much stress that we can't deal with everything that's thrown at us. ""It's difficult to find calm and peace. This course in mindfulness helps bring you peace of mind. And we are delivering courses throughout Northern Ireland. Just check on our website.""",Employers in Northern Ireland are being @placeholder to have a greater understanding of mental health issues .,vowed,encouraged,warned,sought,feared,1
"The museum is scheduled to open in the West Yorkshire city in 2020 to mark the 125th anniversary of the code's formation in nearby Huddersfield. The museum will display the sport's historical artefacts within Bradford City Hall. It is to be funded from a range of sources, including private benefactors and government grants, charity Rugby League Cares said. Bradford was selected by a working group chaired by the director of the National Football Museum, Dr Kevin Moore. Bradford club Manningham were founder members of the Northern Union (now Rugby League) in 1895 and won the game's first championship before later switching to football and becoming Bradford City. The city also holds the UK record for the biggest crowd for a rugby match when an official 102,575 spectators watched the Challenge Cup final replay, Halifax v Warrington at Odsal Stadium in 1954. Bradford Bulls have also made six summer-era Grand Final appearances, winning three times. Chris Rostron, of Rugby League Cares, said it had seen the city's ""positivity for this very prestigious project"". Brigid Power, heritage manager for the charity, said: ""We have some fantastic objects and archive material in our collection, which we are continually adding to. ""Our most recent donation has come from one of Bradford's finest rugby league legends, Ernest Ward, whose son Trevor has very kindly donated some of his father's medals, boots and photographs."" Ward played more than 390 matches for Bradford Northern in the 1940s and '50s.",The new National Rugby League Museum is to be @placeholder in Bradford .,staged,introduced,unveiled,based,constructed,3
"Simone Joseph, 36, was arrested after footage emerged of her allegedly abusing passengers on a 206 bus in Brent, north-west London on 13 October. Ms Joseph, from Brent, was charged with causing racially aggravated intentional harassment, Scotland Yard said. She is due to appear at Hendon Magistrates' Court on Monday.",A woman has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence after an incident on a London bus which was @placeholder online .,struck,released,attacked,recorded,circulated,4
"The German discount food retailer has increased its market share to 5.2%, up by 0.7% year-on-year, Kantar Worldpanel reports. Families are driving its sales as they tend to buy more items in one supermarket visit, Kantar said. With 5.1% market share, Waitrose has been pushed into eighth place. ""Ten million households visited [Lidl's] expanding network of stores during the past 12 weeks, with alcohol and fresh produce performing particularly well as the retailer increased sales by 18.9% overall,"" said Fraser McKevitt, head of retailer and consumer insight at Kantar Worldpanel. ""Lidl is growing sales 40% faster with families than with households without children."" The biggest supermarket chains in the UK, by market share are: Since the financial crisis in 2008, the four biggest grocers Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons have faced increasing pressure from luxury supermarket brands like Waitrose, as well as German discount chains like Aldi and Lidl. Grocery market share figures from March 2017 onwards show that UK supermarkets are now experiencing their best sales growth in five years. ""All four of Britain's biggest grocers managed to grow sales for the fifth consecutive period, a run of collective success not seen since 2013,"" said Mr McKevitt. ""However, this welcome period of sustained growth hasn't been enough to entirely offset pressure from the discounters: the big four now account for just 69.3% of the UK grocery market - down from 76.3% five years ago - and that looks set to fall further in the coming months.""","Lidl has @placeholder Waitrose to become the UK 's seventh largest supermarket chain , according to latest grocery market share figures .",upgraded,pushed,beaten,helped,joined,2
"Newport Memorial Hall, in Pembrokeshire, was given the money by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Their project includes plans to create a visitor attraction which is expected to open in the summer. Project manager Siobhan Ashe said she hoped the ""fascinating and rare communal artefact"" would provide greater understanding of our heritage.","Work to @placeholder the only remaining intact medieval pottery kiln in Britain has been awarded £ 170,500 .",enter,develop,protect,show,locate,2
"The Dow Jones rose 27.09 points to 17,902.51, while the S&P 500 gained 5.57 points to finish at 2,081.90. The tech-based Nasdaq added 40.59 points to close at 4,950.82. Oil stocks were hit after a report showed a surprise increase in US oil supplies. A report by the American Petroleum Institute showed US crude oil supplies increased by 12.2 million barrels last week, compared to an analyst estimate of 3.4 million barrels. That sent the price of Brent crude lower by 3% to $56.02 per barrel and the price of US oil - known as West Texas Intermediate Crude - down by 2.8% to $50.89. Shares in oil firms Exxon and Chevron fell by nearly 2%, and were further threatened by Shell's move to buy BG Group in a £47bn deal. Metal giant Alcoa kicked off the start of US earnings season when it reported a first-quarter profit of $195m.","( Close ) : US markets closed slightly higher on Wednesday , after the latest minutes from the Federal Reserve 's March meeting showed the central bank was @placeholder over an interest rate rise .",torn,introduced,overshadowed,traded,taking,0
"The bus collided with a car shortly before 16:00 BST on Cotterstock Road, Oundle. Police said nine children on board the bus were treated by paramedics and taken to hospital. Their injuries are not thought to be life threatening. The driver of the car was also taken to hospital. Officers said the road would remain closed while emergency services continued to investigate.",Nine children have been taken to hospital after a school bus tipped onto its @placeholder in a crash in Northamptonshire .,event,place,side,brakes,rear,2
"The men were told they could not board the Monarch flight to Dalaman at 07:00 BST after arriving at the gate late. The pair ""talked themselves into being arrested"" for being drunk and disorderly, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said. The rest of the family continued with their flight from Manchester Airport. In a Facebook post, GMP said the pair, aged 60 and 27, had ""let the drink get the better of them"". ""The flight wasn't delayed as they didn't get there on time,"" the force said. ""However, the other members of the party did and should be shortly landing in Turkey to enjoy their holiday.""","A father and son who spent "" too much time in the bar "" were @placeholder on a flight to Turkey - despite the rest of their family being onboard .",killed,placed,refused,focus,side,2
"Alun Davies told BBC's Cymru Fyw website ministers would not become a ""permanent banker"" for the 10 centres. The Welsh Government has spent more than £2.4m on them since 2014. Cardiff's centre had a difficult first year, following the closure of its crèche, uncertainty over the future of its bar and struggles to pay its rent. ""I want to move away from the negative discussions,"" Mr Davies said. ""Often it does not reflect what is actually happening. ""I'm confident we can work together in the future and ensure the success of each centre."" Mr Davies - who did not rule out stepping in if centres faced difficulties - added he would be open to establishing new centres if the demand was there. ""My door is wide open to see if we can develop ideas in the future,"" he said. ""But I don't want to see the government running these centres or being a permanent banker - I see the government's role as being in the background and not as a manager.""","New government - funded centres to encourage people to learn and use Welsh will succeed , the Welsh @placeholder minister has said .",constituency,language,head,union,environment,1
"New stations compete in a market once dominated by YLE and established private broadcaster MTV. Pay-TV is provided by pan-Nordic operator Canal+. Finnish law gives every citizen the right to publish printed material, and guarantees the right of reply. Newspapers are privately owned and reflect a range of political views. Finland came first in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders world press freedom index. More than 4.7 million Finns were online by June 2012, a penetration rate of more than 89% (Internetworldstats.com). Finland has made broadband access a legal right for every citizen.","Finland 's broadcasting @placeholder is dynamic . Public YLE , funded by licence fees , operates radio and TV networks .",sector,market,show,situation,body,0
"ABC News reported that DNA, found on food near the campsite, is linked to the two escapees. A pair of prison-issue underpants was also found in the cabin, according to the New York Times. The two escapees, Richard Matt, 49, and David Sweat, 35, disappeared 17 days ago on 6 June. The discovery has shifted the search to an area 20 miles (32km) west of the site of the prison break. They escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, through tunnels, using power tools to escape from their cells. ""We have recovered specific items from cabins and forwarded them to labs and got conclusive information,  but we will not confirm what it found,"" said New York State Police Major Charles Guess at a news conference on Monday. Police had been searching heavily on a rural area close to the Pennsylvania state line on Monday in Friendship, 300 miles (480km) south of the prison. On Saturday police responded to a sighting of two men walking along a railway in the area. That sighting is still unconfirmed. ""No lead is too small for us to investigate,"" Mr Guess said. Prison employee Joyce Mitchell has been arrested for possibly helping them escape and giving the pair the tools. Ms Mitchell was planning on meeting the duo with a getaway car, but changed her mind. Matt was sentenced to 25 years to life for kidnapping and dismembering his former employer in 1997. Sweat was serving life without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy in 2002.",Police hunting for two escaped killers have found evidence in a New York cabin after a witness reported seeing a man fleeing from the @placeholder .,home,water,country,car,coast,0
"Maude White was found dead at the Wyndham Hall Caravan Park at Cockermouth on 27 May last year. Her 72-year-old son-in-law Peter Fairclough and his 43-year-old daughter Jacqueline Fairclough are each charged with manslaughter. They appeared at Carlisle Crown Court, where they were bailed ahead of a trial which is due to take place in November.",A father and daughter have @placeholder killing a 91 - year - old relative at a Cumbrian caravan park .,fled,reported,begun,denied,died,3
"The police were attacked while driving from patrols back to Bungu village, 110km (70 miles) south of the main city Dar es Salaam, local media report. Police say they pursued the bandits back to their hideout, killing four of them in a shootout. President John Magufuli has expressed his shock at the officers' deaths. Police described the attack as ""banditry"" and said that the attackers had stolen weapons. The BBC's Sammy Awami in Dar es Salaam says attacks on police and police stations, where bandits make away with weapons, are relatively common in Tanzania. Home Affairs Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has announced a wide-ranging investigation into the killings, local media report.","At least eight police officers have been killed by unknown gunmen in a late - night roadside ambush in Tanzania , according to the president 's @placeholder .",family,account,bank,order,office,4
"Police have worked with a housing association to run the project on the Beechfarm Estate in Swinton. The government plans to ban the sale of so-called legal highs, which would include nitrous oxide - also known as ""hippy crack"" - for human use. Health experts warn the gas can have dangerous side effects if inhaled. The art project, to run during the summer holidays, will use the containers to create decorative tiles in Margaret's Garden, Kingsley Road. PC Iain Fletcher said: ""We hope this arts project will help us educate the young people in Salford that the abuse of nitrous oxide is not as safe as they may think it is."" Last year, seized cannabis plant pots recovered during a drugs raid were decorated and reused ""to brighten up the estate"", Salix Homes said. Lee Sugden, from the housing association, said: ""We hope this arts project will make young people aware of the dangers and help us turn a negative into a positive by putting the remnants of drug abuse to good use.""","Hundreds of @placeholder laughing gas cylinders in Salford are being turned into public art to "" highlight the dangers "" of young people inhaling it .",committing,people,discarded,pounds,groups,2
"The waste consisting of flat-pack bedroom furniture, toys and clothes was retrieved by officers from the water at Compton Dundon, Somerset on Tuesday. A spokesman said it took four staff two hours to pull out the dumped items, at a cost to the taxpayer of £200. The furniture was taken to a depot to be recycled. In a tweet, the Environment Agency wrote: ""To the person who seems to have lost a full children's bedroom set in Compton Dundon - we have fished it out. ""But where should we return it?"" A spokesman added that throwing rubbish into any watercourse creates a blockage with the risk of further pollution problems. He added: ""It will grow and create further problems and could block Walton sluice in Eighteen Foot Rhyne, posing a flood risk to land upstream.""","The contents of a child 's bedroom have been dumped in a river , sparking an Environment Agency appeal for @placeholder to track down the culprits .",helping,volunteers,causing,police,information,4
"She has been replaced on the ticket by the current MLA, Phil Flanagan, who missed out on selection at a previous selection convention six weeks ago. In December, Ms Gildernew was selected to run alongside sitting MLA Sean Lynch and local councillor John Feely. However, Sinn Fein's ruling council (Ard Comhairle) ordered a revote. The party did not specify why, but it has been reported that concerns had been raised about procedural errors. On Sunday, the new convention, which took place in Enniskillen, replaced Ms Gildernew with Mr Flanagan, who will now stand alongside Mr Lynch and Mr Feely. In December, the outgoing MLA Bronwyn McGahan announced she would not be seeking re-election. However, Ms McGahan did put her name forward for the latest convention but was not successful. Sinn Féin has come in for some criticism on social media for picking an all-male list of candidates. There have also been rumours that Ms Gildernew, a former Stormont agriculture minister, might move to the neighbouring Mid Ulster constituency. Last month, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness announced that he is leaving Mid Ulster in order to seek election in his home constituency of Foyle. In response to the speculation about her moving, Ms Gildernew tweeted that ""Mid Ulster has excellent candidates to replace @M_McGuinness_SF and my heart's in #FST"". She also said that she did not think she would stand as an independent and her de-selection ""could be a blessing in disguise!"" During his time in the Northern Ireland Assembly, Mr Flanagan has been frequently in the news. Last month, he was ordered to pay damages to the Ulster Unionist MP Tom Elliott over a defamatory message on Twitter. Mr Flanagan has also been admonished by the Speaker, Mitchel McLaughlin over some of his comments in the assembly chamber and for not wearing a tie - a breach of the Stormont dress code.",The former MP Michelle Gildernew has been @placeholder as a Sinn Féin candidate for the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency in the Stormont elections .,criticised,hailed,elected,dropped,described,3
"The government says the troops will ""help maintain law and order"" following weeks of violent protests. Local residents say the mine will ruin the environment and damage agriculture in the area if it becomes operational. The company, Southern Peru, says the mine will be compliant with the highest environmental standards. Local residents in the southern Arequipa region have opposed the mining project since 2009. A new set of protests began in March and three people have died since. The latest fatalities are construction worker Henry Checlla, injured during clashes on Tuesday, and a policeman who died on Saturday after being hurt in a protest on Wednesday. The Peruvian government has not ruled out declaring a state of emergency in the southern province of Islay, where the copper reserves are located. ""We haven't lost hope that dialogue is resumed. Meanwhile, we are taking measures to help maintain law and order,"" President Ollanta Humala said. The Mexican owned-company which has been given mining concessions in the Arequipa region of southern Peru, says it will invest approximately $1.4bn (£900m). ""Tia Maria project will use state of the art technology which would be compliant with the highest international environmental and sustainable development standards,"" the company says on its website. The project was put on hold several times over environmental issues, but was given final approval last year.",Peruvian soldiers have been @placeholder near the Tia Maria copper mine after the deaths of a protester and a policeman over the past week .,patrolling,shot,fighting,published,deployed,4
"So Theresa May took to the One Show sofa to catch the tea-time TV audience alongside her husband Philip. She looked apprehensive, but she needn't have worried. Mr May was as careful to avoid gaffes as Mrs May always is. He spent most of the interview turned towards her, nodding vigorously, and murmuring ""mmh"" in loyal agreement. It's the same at home, he claims. Asked whether she was a tough negotiator, he said: ""Well, there's give and take in every marriage. ""I get to decide WHEN I take the bins out. Not IF I take them out."" He added that he did the traditional ""boy jobs"", by and large. Apart, of course, from what's traditionally been a ""boy job"" - being prime minister. He revealed that his wife had first harboured an interest in being PM when she was in the Shadow Cabinet, which she joined in 1999. Although he'd spoken at the Conservative Party conference in his youth, it was Theresa who first embarked on the political career, while he worked in finance. Mrs May revealed one difficult moment for the couple, who don't have children, when she was looking for a constituency - and a newspaper predicted she'd have trouble being selected as a Conservative candidate because of her new baby. She said her mother-in-law had rung up hoping there was happy news. ""So she was disappointed,"" said Mrs May. There were questions about the walking holidays, her childhood at the vicarage, and meeting for the first time. They were introduced at an Oxford University student disco by a mutual friend, Benazir Bhutto, the future prime minister of Pakistan. On first impressions: ""I thought 'what a lovely girl' - it was love at first sight,"" according to Philip. ""Likewise,"" Theresa reassured him. But there were few genuine revelations about the couple's private side. Mrs May certainly looked rather relieved whenever the conversation veered towards politics. Asked about the downside to being married to the prime minister, Mr May insisted it was a privilege, and would go no further than saying: ""If you're the kind of man who expects his tea to be on the table at six o'clock every evening, you could be a disappointed man."" But he added gallantly that she was a very good cook. And then, of course, there was a question about her love of fashion, and in particular shoes - with a close-up of her black loafers with diamante-studded heels. Mrs May confirmed that she did, indeed, like buying shoes.  But she promised there was a serious side to it - and recounted meeting a young woman in the lift in the House of Commons. After admiring each other's shoes, the woman revealed that it was Mrs May's interest in shoes that had turned her on to politics.  A future prime minister in the making, surely. But fashion isn't just for women. ""And what's your shoe-equivalent?"" Mr May was asked. Looking hunted, he replied... ""I quite like ties."" The One Show has invited Jeremy Corbyn onto the show too, as well as other leaders - though he hasn't yet said if he'll bring his wife along.","Politicians always want to "" @placeholder "" with hard - to - reach voters .",mix,connect,sink,inspire,overcome,1
"Transgender protesters forced a halt to debate on the bill on Wednesday. Last month, the state approved a human rights measure banning gender identity discrimination at public facilities. In recent weeks, two other states passed laws ensuring equal access to gender-segregated facilities for transgender students. The bill in Arizona's Republican-dominated legislature would make it a misdemeanour offence to use a public toilet, bathroom, shower, bath, dressing room or changing room associated with a gender other than what is on one's birth certificate. Penalties could include six months in prison. ""If you look like a man and you live your life like a man, you should be able to use a man's bathroom,"" said Dru Levasseur, a transgender rights lawyer for the advocacy group Lambda Legal. But John Kavanagh, the Republican lawmaker who sponsored the bill, said he feared criminals might take advantage of the situation and expose themselves to children of the opposite gender. ""This law simply restores the law of society: men are men and women are women,"" Mr Kavanagh said, according to the Associated Press. ""For a handful of people to make everyone else uncomfortable just makes no sense."" But, Mr Kavanagh added, police would be allowed to use their discretion over whether to press charges if women used the men's room to avoid a long queue. On Wednesday, Mr Kavanagh agreed to postpone a vote on the bill at the start of a hearing filled with dozens of transgender activists. The bill's opponents say it would force transgender people to reveal themselves and risk harassment, ""Most transgender people try to slip through public places without being noticed,'' activist Erica Keppler said. ""This will turn us into criminals."" And advocates say transgender people can find it difficult to change gender on their birth certificates because many states require proof of gender treatment surgery. Meanwhile, other states such as Idaho and Ohio do not allow such changes at all, the American Civil Liberties Union said. It is already illegal to discriminate against transgender people in 16 US states, although the extent of protections can vary, the group added. In an ongoing case, a Colorado family has filed a complaint against the state after their six-year-old, who was born a boy, was banned from using the girl's bathroom at her primary school.",Lawmakers in Arizona are weighing a law requiring transgender people to use public toilets of the gender @placeholder on their birth certificate .,listed,network,war,position,impact,0
"RSPCA Cymru said the rabbits were discovered ""running loose"" at Dyffryn Gardens. Ch Insp Gemma Black said she could not believe it at first, adding: ""It seemed far too topical and I wondered at first if this could be an Easter prank."" The charity said the animals were doing well and could be rehomed if their owners cannot be traced. The rabbits have all been given chocolate-related names - Fudge, Toffee, Caramel, Button, Truffle, Coco and Sugar.",Seven rabbits are believed to have been @placeholder after they were found in the Vale of Glamorgan on Easter Sunday .,dumped,shot,criticised,found,injured,0
"Newsnight had revealed key witnesses were reluctant to give evidence while Rob Semple was part of the process. The inquiry was set up after the suicide of activist Elliott Johnson. Mr Johnson's parents had called for Mr Semple to step down over his links with Mark Clarke, the man at the centre of many of the bullying allegations. Last year Mr Semple became chairman of the Tory's volunteer organisation, the National Convention, with the strong support of Mr Clarke. On Tuesday, the parents of Mr Johnson, the 21-year-old Tory activist whose suicide last September sparked claims of unchecked bullying within the party, told the BBC that Mr Semple should remove himself from any involvement in the inquiry, which is being undertaken by the law firm Clifford Chance. Earlier this week, Mr Semple had insisted he would not step down and was no longer in touch with Mr Clarke, but, in a statement on Thursday, he announced a U-turn. He said: ""As a father myself, the wishes of Mr and Mrs Johnson are paramount to me and, after seeing their interview on BBC TV, I have decided to recuse myself from the board meeting that will discuss the Clifford Chance report. ""As a Conservative volunteer for 20 years, I want to establish the truth of what happened to Elliott. ""I am convinced the investigation will be fair and thorough and my decision must not be regarded as my accepting any suggestion that I would be less than impartial. ""As chairman of the voluntary party, I will be pressing for the implementation of all the recommendations of the investigation."" Mr Johnson, whose son Elliott had complained of being bullied before he died, said: ""This is a victory for common sense. ""Mr Semple has done the right thing, but I still have deep reservations about this whole process. ""The Conservative Party seems to want to control this process which makes people very suspicious about its motives. ""I still don't believe this is a truly independent inquiry."" Fifteen key witnesses to the bullying inquiry had told the BBC they wanted Mr Semple to stand down from any involvement in overseeing the report on the scandal. A number of them also said they would be reluctant to talk to the Clifford Chance investigation while he was still involved. The law firm has been commissioned to file a report that will be considered by the Conservative Party board before it is published. Mark Clarke has always denied any wrongdoing.","A senior Conservative official has @placeholder his role overseeing the inquiry into bullying within the party , following an investigation by BBC Newsnight .",backed,forced,criticised,reversed,quit,4
"Every year in the capital: They are big numbers that require big solutions, along with a big dose of political support. But change of that scale could be hard to deliver. Ten years ago there was a plan to change the way the NHS worked in London, with greater focus put on primary care rather than hospitals. Sound familiar? Called ""A Framework for Action"", it was a plan that delivered some big changes in London with particular success in the new major trauma units and the new specialist stroke centres. It also promised 100 new so called ""polyclinics"" to offer a range of services from new buildings. But the strategy was ditched when the coalition government came to power in 2010. David Cameron's government had its own plan, which promised a boost for local GP services and a move to more care out of hospital. Today the arguments remain pretty much the same. There is wide agreement more care needs to be delivered closer to home and more resources need to be funnelled to primary care and GPs. Experts say a shift is needed to a proper National Health Service that keeps people well and away from a national illness service, that picks up the pieces when they become unwell. But how do you get there? Change in the NHS is expensive and also politically difficult. Moving or cutting services at hospitals for example is often deeply unpopular. Promises made at elections can make you look opportunistic some years later. This issue includes NHS funding, A&E delays, operation waiting times and social care. Campaigners at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north London, will remember David Cameron promising to keep their A&E open before the 2010 election. It is now closed. Services across the capital are currently being reviewed under a process known as Sustainability and Transformation Plans, which assess how the NHS will look over the next five years. There are five of these and all involve moving services around, while some involve the closure or downgrading of A&Es. All involve plans to save millions in the way services are delivered while also spending millions on new buildings and different services. All say that doing nothing is not an option. If the NHS continues to spend in the way it is and deliver services in the way it does now, it will face a funding shortfall of more than £4bn in London alone. If re-arranging hospital services is a challenge, the one facing primary care is just as hard. Shifting the focus to getting patients treated by GPs means finding doctors to deliver that service. A recent survey by the London-wide Local Medical Committees, showed 42% of practices had a GP or practice nurse vacancy, while 45% of practices had a GP who was planning to retire in the next three years. In fact, NHS statistics show the city has the highest number of GPs over the age of 55. ""The situation is worse than I've ever seen it"" Willesden GP Dr Adrian Richardson knows the pressures only too well. His practice nearly closed last year, as three of its partners left, either retiring or choosing to get out of general practice. ""It's sad the situation in this practice was that people felt that options were better outside the practice than in,"" he said. ""I stayed because I didn't feel it was right to leave 15,000 patients without a proper practice."" He blames increasing workloads and paperwork for the extra pressures. ""The situation is worse than I've ever seen it. ""If you ask me about 2016 it will go down as the worst year of my clinical life."" Sorry, your browser cannot display this content. Enter a postcode or seat name All the parties are committing to recruiting more GPs and nurses but doing it quickly is not possible, given the length of time it takes to train them. All the parties are promising more money for the NHS and social care. There are promises too of more money for new buildings and pledges to rebuild an ageing estate. There are promises that may be viewed with some scepticism from those working in the NHS and certainly shared by the Nuffield Trust think tank which specialises in analysing health policy. It said: ""Promises of billions extra for the health service can sound like big sums ... unpicking the pledges from each of the manifestos reveals that the NHS looks set to face a further five years of austerity, whoever forms the next government. ""Whichever party forms the next government will have to face some tough decisions about the future shape of the health service, and how it can continue to meet the needs and expectations of its patients and staff."" Hard choices on the NHS lie ahead for whoever wins the election. What's on offer from the party manifestos: Labour: Conservative: Lib Dems: Greens: UKIP:",The simple statistics for the NHS in London make stark reading and tell you why trying to sort it out and @placeholder it for the future is both incredibly important and extremely challenging .,introduce,seize,protect,develop,change,2
"The £6m development of Shakespeare's New Place marks the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has transformed the Stratford-upon-Avon world heritage site, which was demolished in 1759. The playwright purchased New Place in 1597 when it was the largest single dwelling in the town. Diana Owen, chief executive of Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said: ""We're delighted to be re-opening the most important, permanent Shakespeare anniversary project anywhere in the world. ""Visitors can walk in his footsteps and experience a wonderful new imaginative garden on the site."" New Place reopened to the public after Staffordshire University's Centre of Archaeology dug through the site in Chapel Street. They discovered a hearth, cold storage pit and even a brewery. The Bard lived at New Place for the last 19 years of his life.",William Shakespeare 's @placeholder for the last years of his life has been resurrected as a new landmark .,success,start,home,life,choir,2
"The 49-year-old Filipino man was jailed for life for the murders of two people and the poisoning of 20 others. It is understood the deaths were suspected poisonings but police did not have enough evidence to prosecute. Stockport coroner, John Pollard, said there was nothing at this stage to prove any link to Chua. The inquests were postponed pending the conclusion of criminal proceedings.",Inquests are @placeholder into 11 further deaths at Stepping Hill Hospital following the conviction of nurse Victorino Chua .,set,planned,carrying,directed,headed,1
"Plans for a ""cap"" over the road near the Mitchell Library have yet to be approved. Glasgow City Council said feasibility work could take about 12 months, with the actual design work due after this. The proposal is part of the Sauchiehall Garnethill Regeneration framework that aims to link the city centre with the West End by removing the M8 barrier. A council spokesman said it planned to start procurement for the feasibility work in late spring 2017, with investigations and modelling expected to begin in autumn. Feasibility work will include traffic modelling to investigate how to manage heavily congested roads while making the area safer for pedestrians. It will also include engineering work, site investigations and economic analysis. The council is undertaking comparative research with other cities, including the team behind the Klyde Warren Park in central Dallas. The park, described by on its website as green space made ""out of thin air"", was opened in 2012 and covers the Rogers Woodall Freeway. A final decision on the M8 proposal is expected to be made in the summer of 2018. Glasgow City Council leader Frank McAveety, said: ""This is a truly inspiring project, but also one that is complex as it is ambitious. ""We must get the groundwork right and take time to create something that benefits the city while delivering a new public space that attracts and connects people and places. ""Coupled with the other projects coming forward as part of the Sauchiehall  and Garnethill regeneration project will ensure that we make this a prominent place in the city's life."" Design company Keppie produced the picture to show how the public space over the M8 could look. A council spokesman said the image was just indicative, and the planned location of the park was closer to the top of Bath Street in front of Tay House.",A picture showing how the M8 in the centre of Glasgow might look if covered by a rooftop garden has been @placeholder .,shown,erected,released,lifted,criticised,2
"Katie Redford was due to play the 14-year-old granddaughter of Gail McIntyre later this year. Producers were led into believing the actress was 19-years-old. Her real age is 25. A press release sent out by the ITV soap last week revealed Katie would take up the role in what she described as a ""dream come true"". ""It wasn't [Katie's] idea to audition as a 19-year-old,"" Katie's agent Joanne McLintock told Newsbeat. ""People in the industry do it regularly and she sort of went along with what we said. ""I'm feeling really stressed and so sorry for Katie. It's her first real job and she's a star in the making - she's a very talented young actress. ""I had to have a conversation with casting who said they were very disappointed. Katie is upset but she understands."" Katie was unavailable for comment. It's thought producers of Coronation Street already have someone else in mind for the role. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube",Coronation Street has @placeholder the actress who was due to play Bethany Platt because she lied about her age .,revealed,denied,named,sacked,defended,3
"The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction detected 73 new synthetic drugs last year, compared to just 49 in 2011. The drugs agency said the threats emerging from Europe's drug problem challenged both policy and practice. Its annual report described the EU's drugs problem as ""in a state of flux"". European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstroem expressed concern that a quarter of European adults - some 85 million people - had used an illicit drug. ""We are faced with an ever more complex stimulant market and a relentless supply of new drugs which are increasingly diverse,"" she said. ""The fact that over 70 new drugs have been detected in the last year is proof in itself that drug policies need to adapt to changing drug markets."" Among the 73 new psychoactive substances officially notified for the first time via the EU early warning system last year, 30 were synthetic cannabinoids, which mimic the effects of cannabis, said the European Drug Report 2013, launched at the agency's Lisbon headquarters on Tuesday. ""These products, which can be extremely potent, have now been reported in virtually all European countries,"" it said. In a separate study conducted with the European police agency, Europol, the EMCDDA found synthetic drugs were now often imported in bulk from China and India for processing and packaging as legal highs - rather than being made in secret European labs. But the annual drug report noted more positive developments where established drugs were concerned, reporting fewer new users of heroin, less injecting, and the declining use of cannabis and cocaine in some countries. While the report noted an increase in the number of treatment centres for drug users, however, it highlighted the need for national authorities to put long-term support in place for addicts and former addicts, in the face of public spending cuts. Given the long-term nature of heroin problems in particular, governments will have to invest more on continuity of care and social reintegration, it adds. The agency's unique work analysing data from all EU states and several neighbouring countries is keenly followed by policymakers worldwide, says the BBC's Alison Roberts in Lisbon, not least because of the  eminently global nature of the markets for many illicit drugs.","Synthetic drugs are emerging at an ever faster rate in Europe , says the EU 's drug agency , with so - called legal highs often being @placeholder in from Asia .",recovered,place,poured,sought,shipped,4
"The events are of course not unconnected. The minute the BMA decided to hold a vote on industrial action ministers were always likely to sit up and take notice.  Mr Hunt, it appears, has been away for a few days so a return to the office on the first working day after the ballot announcement was a good opportunity to look again at the contract issue. Whitehall sources indicate that Mr Hunt is keen to meet Dr Johann Malawana, the new chair of the BMA junior doctors committee.  Dr Malawana took on the role on Saturday and his first task was to announce the ballot, describing his members' mood as ""incredibly angry"".  The Secretary of State has every reason to want to meet the new leader, especially one with a mandate for possible protest action. The Government line is that drawing up a new contract is best done by negotiation and that no firm and final offer has been put in front of the doctors. Although wanting to simplify and amend the contract, sources indicate that ministers have not set out detailed demands over which working hours in the week should attract higher payments. The BMA, however, is adamant that the Government and NHS Employers have demanded preconditions, including treating Saturday as a normal working day like Monday to Friday. That's why the association felt it had no alternative to suspending its involvement in talks. Negotiations stalled in October 2014 and the BMA declined to re-enter talks this summer. The Government then said it would impose a new contract on junior doctors in England from August 2016. The Scottish and Welsh administrations have not gone down the same route. Mr Hunt, it seems, would rather avoid headlines about doctors working to rule and routine surgery being cancelled. There was a walk-out over pensions as part of a public sector day of action in 2012.  But you have to go back to the 1970's for the last time BMA members took disruptive action over pay.  Mr Hunt has seen NHS consultants return to the negotiating table over the issue of weekend working.  He will hope very much that the junior doctors can be persuaded to enter talks before a ballot takes place. A roadshow of open meetings for junior doctors planned by NHS Employers has been cancelled.  One, planned for Westminster, was axed with less than five hours notice.  Ministers had probably concluded that such events would be a magnet for protests witnessed by TV crews and a public focus for junior doctors' anger. But as it was, even after the cancelled meeting at Westminster, a few thousand medics still turned out to take part in a lively demonstration on Monday evening. Dr Malawana and his colleagues have accepted Mr Hunt's invitation for a chat at the Department of Health. He has made it clear that the ballot and possible route to industrial action will continue unless the Government can give ""absolute assurances"" sought by the junior doctors. The question now is how far the Secretary of State is prepared to go to get people around the table. On the face of it the two sides are some way apart. Ministers and NHS chiefs want to create a new contract which rewards higher-achieving junior doctors more than the current system allows with automatic increments. They also want a simplified system of payments for weekends and unsocial hours. The junior doctors, by contrast, say they could lose up to 30% of their annual pay with the new contract and be pushed into working excessive hours, putting patient safety at risk. They argue that doctors will head for the exit doors and seek employment overseas, leaving the NHS short of qualified staff. Much, then, hangs on the meeting between Mr Hunt and Dr Malawana.  At stake is the possibility of serious talks over contracts or the first industrial action over pay and conditions by doctors in 40 years.","After a dispute over junior doctors ' contracts which has @placeholder on steadily for a year , there has been a flurry of activity in just a couple of days . The British Medical Association announced it would ballot members over industrial action . The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has invited the BMA junior doctors ' leader to a meeting . And an open meeting convened for doctors by NHS Employers has been abruptly cancelled .",went,rumbled,carried,spent,finished,1
"The call comes amid fears that children are increasingly exposed to online pornography and forced to send indecent images of themselves to others. The charity ChildLine is holding assemblies in every UK primary school to tell children how to stay safe in the digital age. Claire Lilley, of the NSPCC, said: ""We are facing an e-safety time bomb."" Ms Lilley said online abuse was one of the biggest child protection issues of our time. ""Young people tell us they are experiencing all sorts of new forms of abuse on scale never before seen. ""The internet and mobile phones are now part and parcel of young people's everyday lives. They are the first generation who have never known a world without them. ""The benefits are huge, both socially and educationally, but so too are the dangers."" ChildLine says its helpline took some 3,745 calls about abuse via the internet and mobile phones last year, with most callers aged between 12 and 15. Some 250 callers said they were being groomed for sex online. There was also a 70% increase in calls about online pornography with 641 calls, some from children as young as 11 years old. The campaigners also highlighted previous research which has shown that many teenagers see ""sexting"" and hard core pornography as ""mundane"", while cyberbullying is a growing and insidious problem. On Monday the Child Exploitation and Online Protection group (CEOP) warned that paedophiles are increasingly forcing children to carry out sexual acts online. The NSPCC says that schools need to step in as the issue is something that parents struggle to keep up with. It is calling for lessons in all schools on internet safety with young people themselves sharing tips for keeping safe online and more advice for parents on how to talk to their children about the issue - just as they would about being wary of drugs or strangers. It also wants all internet service providers to provide easy systems to allow parents to install online blocks and filters in their homes. However some experts argued against blanket filtering of the internet. Phil Bradley, of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, described it as ""like using a hammer to crack a nut"". He warned that blanket filtering could have unintended consequences such as blocking legitimate websites on sexual health and identity. ""When it comes to the internet... children need to learn how to use it safely and how to differentiate the good from the bad."" A government spokeswoman said web safety was taught in schools as part of the personal, social and health curriculum but it shouldn't just be left to teachers. ""Just as parents would teach their children to cross the road safely, they should also help them learn how to stay safe online. ""The industry also has a vital role to play. Websites children use to network should be fully moderated and internet companies should provide parents with all the tools and information they need - including access to parental controls."" Tips for promoting internet safety are available online on Tuesday, 5 February, which is Safer Internet Day","Pupils as young as five should be given lessons in how to use the internet safely , @placeholder campaigners .",according,urge,leaving,show,writes,1
"Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, 50, is due to appear at a court in Panchkula, Haryana state, on Friday to hear the verdict in a case involving the rape of two women. Parts of Punjab and Haryana have been placed in lockdown and mobile internet services suspended in some areas. Thousands of police and paramilitary forces have been deployed. The high court in the state has asked the government to use force, if necessary, to control the crowds. Ram Rahim Singh denies the allegations, which date back to 2002. The chief of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect dresses up in colourful clothes, with a rock star image. He has published half a dozen music videos and regularly performs at rock concerts, which are attended by tens of thousands of followers. The Dera Sacha Sauda website says it is a ""social welfare and spiritual organisation that preaches and practices humanitarianism and selfless services to others"". The sect claims to have more than 50 million followers around the world and says it campaigns against female foeticide, for reforms for sex workers, runs schools and several hospitals. In recent months, the Dera chief has been mired in controversy, amid allegations that he forced 400 followers to undergo castrations so that they could get ""closer to god"". He also faces trial for murder, charges a spokesman for the sect has denied. He has been opposed by mainstream Sikh leaders, who accuse him of insulting and belittling their faith. The crowds in Panchkula, where the court will deliver its verdict, have sparked a massive security deployment across the city. Schools and offices in the area were closed, trains were halted, roads were blocked and three stadiums were set aside as makeshift prisons in case of trouble, officials said. As many as 200,000 devotees of the highly influential guru have gathered, many desperate to get a glimpse of Singh as he heads into the court. Authorities are concerned and are preparing for a possible public backlash from his supporters. Ram Rahim Singh, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the long-running case, is one of India's most powerful gurus, with a god-like status. He wields considerable political influence and claims to have tens of millions of followers worldwide. Ram Rahim Singh is described by devotees on numerous websites as a saint as well as an author, inventor, scientist, philosopher, philanthropist, peace activist and ""the ultimate humanitarian"".",Tens of thousands of supporters of an Indian guru accused of rape have flocked to the @placeholder of the country ahead of his arrival at court .,north,substance,rest,cities,public,0
"Members voted by 372 votes (51.8%) to 346 (48.2%) against the proposed deal. General secretary Mick Whelan said: ""We understand and support the decision arrived at in a democratic vote."" Govia Thameslink Railway said it was ""hugely disappointing"" as the agreement had ""the full support and recommendation"" of Aslef leaders. ""We have shown a willingness and desire to find a solution to their dispute and we will now, once again, sit down with the union, understand the issues which led to this regrettable decision by the drivers and try and find a way forward to resolving it,"" spokesman Andy Bindon said. Mr Whelan said the drivers' union would now ""seek new talks and work to deliver a resolution in line with the expectations of members"". Live: More on this story and other news from Sussex Aslef members voted on a second deal after members rejected initial proposals in February. They threw out the initial deal by a majority of 54.1% after 11 days of talks between the rail operator and the union. Southern remains in a year-long dispute on the issue with the RMT union, which represents guards on Southern trains. The firm's plan for guards to become on-board supervisors, leaving drivers with the responsibility of opening and closing carriage doors was initially opposed by the RMT union last April. Leader Mick Cash said the move reduced the safety of passengers and staff on board trains and urged Southern rail to put ""safety before profits"". Industrial action began in April 2016, and Aslef members joined the picket in December.",Members of the Aslef union have rejected a deal aimed at ending the long - running dispute over driver - only @placeholder trains on Southern railway .,called,share,operated,increase,express,2
"It was originally thought the value of the items stolen over the 2015 Easter holiday was £14m. But Woolwich Crown Court heard prosecutors are now seeking the larger sum from the five ""ringleaders"" convicted of the robbery. If they do not pay back the sum they face a maximum of 14 years being added to their sentences without parole. The court heard the full confiscation hearing - set to begin in January 2018 - is expected to last around six weeks. The Hatton Garden raid over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend of 2015 was already Britain's biggest ever burglary. The gang raided safe deposit boxes for jewels after boring into the vault of the now defunct Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd. An estimated two thirds of the valuables remain unrecovered. In June 2016 - after the trial - a woman came forward reportedly alleging that she had lost £7m worth of gold in the raid. John ""Kenny"" Collins, 76, of Islington; Daniel Jones, 62 and Terry Perkins, 68, of Enfield; and the group's oldest member, Brian Reader, 78, of Dartford, Kent, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary last year. Collins, Jones and Perkins were each given a seven-year prison term for their involvement in the burglary. Reader, who was too ill to attend the initial trial, was later given a six years and three months sentence. Carl Wood, 59, and William Lincoln, 60, were sentenced for the same offence and one count of and conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property, after a trial. The two men were given six and seven-year sentences respectively.",The value of the @placeholder stolen in the Hatton Garden jewellery raid has risen to an estimated £ 25 m .,independence,goods,weapons,jewelry,table,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device The 21-year-old ran 9.97 secs in Birmingham to become the first Briton to go under both 10 seconds in the 100m and 20 seconds in the 200m. He clutched his leg after crossing the line in second place behind American Marvin Bracy (9.93) and was taken from the track in a wheelchair. Dina Asher-Smith, 19, ran the second quickest 200m by a British woman. Media playback is not supported on this device On a successful day for Britain's sprinters, Asher-Smith finished third in a personal best 22.30 secs. The British 100m record holder was just a hundredth of a second adrift of winner Jeneba Tarmoh and Allyson Felix in second, who both clocked 22.29 secs. ""I'm really happy,"" Asher-Smith told BBC Sport. ""I was looking to get somewhere around my personal best so to run 22.30 is just out of this world."" The pair's performances sated athletics fans in the absence of double Olympic champion Mo Farah, who withdrew from men's 1500m on the morning of the competition. Farah said he was ""emotionally and physically drained"" after a ""stressful week"" that saw a BBC investigation allege his coach Alberto Salazar had been involved in doping. European 200m champion Gemili's form in the week leading up to the race had promised a special performance in Birmingham. He recorded a wind-assisted 9.97secs last Sunday and, on a cloudless day at the Alexander Stadium, set a personal best 10.00secs in the heats, which he went on to better in the final. ""I felt my hamstring go as I dipped, but I'm in good spirits,"" Gemili said. ""British sprinting is really stepping up and I'm glad to be a part of it."" Richard Kilty also set a personal best time of 10.05secs in finishing fifth, while fellow Briton Chijindu Ujah was sixth in 10.11secs. Five Britons had previously dipped under the 10-second mark: Linford Christie (9.87), James Dasaolu (9.91) Chijindu Ujah (9.96), Dwain Chambers (9.97) and Jason Gardener (9.98). He recorded the second quickest 200m by a Briton when he won gold in Zurich last year in a time of 19.98 secs. Elsewhere at the Diamond League event, Olympic champion Greg Rutherford won the men's long jump by equalling his second longest jump ever, a season's best 8.35m leap. Laura Muir set a personal best 2:00.42 to finish second in the women's 800m. It was a race comfortably won by Kenya's Eunice Jepkoech Sum, unbeaten over the distance this season, in 1:59.85. British record holder Tiffany Porter (12.65) came third in the women's 100m hurdles, as did compatriot Laura Weightman (4:06.42) in the women's 1500m. Finally, having initially had what was an African-record throw deemed a foul, Julius Yego's 91.39m effort in the javelin was later declared legal - winning the Kenyan the competition and putting him ninth on the all-time list.",Adam Gemili ran his first sub - 10 seconds 100 m but then fell to the ground with a @placeholder torn hamstring .,weakened,shock,mixed,suspected,deserved,3
"The private member's bill would have pardoned all men living with UK convictions for same-sex offences committed before the law was changed. There were emotional scenes with one MP fighting back tears during his speech. The government, which has its own plans for posthumous pardons, ""talked out"" the bill, which will not now go ahead. Minister Sam Gyimah spoke for 25 minutes, reaching the time limit allotted for the debate. There were shouts of ""shame"" and ""shameful"" from angry MPs as the seconds ticked down and proceedings came to an end. SNP MP John Nicolson said he had secured government support for his bill, which was withdrawn when the Ministry of Justice published its own commitment to a ""Turing's law"" on Thursday. During Friday's debate Mr Nicolson accused the government of trying to ""hijack"" his plans. The government's rival measure, an amendment to the Policing and Crimes Bill announced on Thursday, would grant pardons for those convicted who have since died. Ministers say those who are still alive can go through a ""disregard process"" to clear their names. The government said it would not support Mr Nicolson's Sexual Offences (Pardons) Bill - which proposes a blanket pardon for the living - because it could lead to some people being cleared of offences that are still crimes. ""I understand and support the intentions behind Mr Nicolson's Bill, however I worry that he has not fully thought through the consequences,"" said justice minister Sam Gyimah. ""Our way forward will be both faster and fairer."" Speaking during the debate, Mr Nicolson said: ""I have to ask the House, should we not prioritise the living over the dead?"" His bill would have ""set aside"" nearly 50,000 convictions, about 15,000 of which apply to men who are still alive today. Mr Nicolson says he was motivated by his work as a BBC journalist in the 1990s: ""I made a documentary in the 1990s looking at the discriminatory laws which criminalised gay men. ""There were some shocking injustices. Men were arrested aged 21 for having 'under-age sex' with their 20-year-old boyfriends,"" he said. The bill is intended to set aside only convictions made under: And it would do so only under the conditions that: The debate saw MPs from both government and opposition parties speaking in favour of moving the bill through Parliament. Labour Rhondda MP Chris Bryant made an emotional speech in favour of the bill, recalling gay and bisexual MPs who demanded the right to fight in World War Two, insisting they and others should receive ""something that feels like an apology"". Conservative MP Iain Stewart said that while he would support the government amendment, he believed it wouldn't go far enough. Mr Stewart said: ""We can move forward in a much more symbolic way... a way which will really make a difference to many people in this country."" A 2015 petition calling for pardons for the estimated 49,000 men affected by convictions for consensual gay sex was signed by over half a million people, including the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Turing in the 2014 film The Imitation Game. Another signatory was Turing's great-niece Rachel Barnes. Speaking to BBC News in 2015, Ms Barnes said: ""We've always considered that it is totally unjust that only Alan was given a pardon. ""There were 50,000 other homosexuals who were convicted and not given a pardon. We would really like this to be put right now.""",A bill that would have wiped clean the criminal records of thousands of gay men has @placeholder at its first parliamentary hurdle .,revealed,fallen,died,withdrawn,appeared,1
"The device was described as a ""surface-to-surface medium-to-long-range ballistic missile"", the Korean state news agency KCNA reported. South Korea's defence ministry called it an armed provocation to test the response of US President Donald Trump. North Korea's latest ballistic missile test has been widely condemned. The US, Japan and South Korea have requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the incident. KCNA reported that the test of the Pukguksong-2 missile, a new type of strategic weapon said to be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, was overseen by leader Kim Jong-un. It added that the missile was fired at a high angle in consideration of neighbouring countries. The rocket used a solid-fuel engine, the report said, which gives ballistic rockets greater power and range. The report also said that Kim Jong-un ""expressed great satisfaction"" over the test launch, which it said ""adds to the tremendous might of the country"". South Korea and US officials said the missile flew east towards the Sea of Japan for about 500km (300 miles). The missile reached an altitude of about 550km (350 miles), the South Korean military said. Experts suggest the tests are programmed for shorter distances to avoid a missile landing on Japan. This was the latest in a series of tests in the past year, including North Korea's fifth of a nuclear device. The launch took place at 07:55 local time (22:55 GMT Saturday) from the Panghyon air base in North Pyongan province on the west side of the Korean peninsula. United Nations resolutions forbid North Korea from carrying out ballistic missile tests - part of wider efforts to prevent it becoming a fully nuclear-armed power. South Korea's foreign ministry said that ""North Korea's repeated provocations show the Kim Jong-un regime's nature of irrationality, maniacally obsessed in its nuclear and missile development"". Nato also condemned the missile test, with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urging North Korea ""not to raise tensions further and to re-engage in a credible and meaningful dialogue with the international community"". The European Union joined the criticism, declaring in a statement that North Korea's ""repeated disregard of its international obligations is provocative and unacceptable"". Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, standing next to Mr Trump on a visit to the United States, said the test was ""absolutely intolerable"". As for the US, Mr Trump said on Saturday: ""America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%."" China, North Korea's closest ally, has yet to comment. Beijing has joined in international efforts to press Kim Jong-un to rein in his nuclear ambitions. In January, Kim Jong-un warned that his military was close to testing long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads to the United States mainland, but experts doubt the technology has progressed that far. At the time, Mr Trump derided the claim in a tweet, saying: ""It won't happen."" On a visit to South Korea last week, US Defence Secretary James Mattis said that any use of nuclear weapons by North Korea would be met with an ""effective and overwhelming"" response. He also reconfirmed plans to deploy a US missile defence system in South Korea later this year.","North Korea has confirmed that it "" successfully "" fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in a test @placeholder by leader Kim Jong - un .",marred,shot,visit,inspired,supervised,4
"Millions died when Stalin imposed iron discipline and state terror to root out ""enemies of the people"" and build a communist state. But in the town of Gori, where he was born, the city council recently decided to re-erect a huge statue of Stalin, which the pro-Western government of President Mikheil Saakashvili took down almost three years ago.  It is a sign, historians say, that the country needs to confront its Soviet past. Gori's main tourist attraction is its museum to Stalin. The ornate building, with its collection of heroic photographs and Stalin's death mask, appears frozen in time - a Soviet shrine to the dictator, almost untouched since the museum was built in 1957. But Olga Tochishvili, who has worked as a guide here since the Soviet era, says attitudes towards Stalin are changing. ""In Georgia, most of the old generation like Stalin. They think he was a great statesman, with his small mistakes. Young people don't like Stalin, of course.  Our young people are not interested in history and they don't like Stalin."" But it is not just attitudes. Gori's cityscape has changed as well. The main boulevard, Stalin Street, used to be dominated by the huge statue of the dictator. But it was removed in 2010 by Mr Saakashvili's westernising government - a decision that upset many people in Gori. Nikoloz Kapanadze, who earns tips by helping cars to find parking places in Stalin Street, told me the statue should be returned. ""Everybody wants that, not only me, but the whole of Gori, the whole of Georgia wants the monument to be installed where it was before. I am 65 and I've only heard good things about him throughout my life."" A few weeks ago the city council allocated funds to re-erect the statue at the Stalin museum. The decision seems to be partly the result of a political upheaval in Georgia. Mr Saakashvili's party was defeated in parliamentary elections last October by the Georgian Dream coalition, which wants to repair Georgia's rocky relations with Russia. Gori's new mayor, David Razuadze, from Georgian Dream says Stalin's statue will be re-installed by the summer. By Damien McGuinnessBBC News, Tbilisi Visiting the garden of Georgian pensioner Ushangi Davitashvili is an eerie experience. Life-sized statues of Joseph Stalin poke out from behind bushes. And the brick walls are lined with hundreds of photographs of the former dictator. This is a shrine to a man who is seen in the West as responsible for the deaths of millions of people. According to a new survey by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers almost half of Georgians have a positive attitude towards Stalin. Which doesn't mean there's nostalgia for the former Soviet Union or a risk of a return to authoritarianism. Georgia is a fiercely independent state. And surveys show that the vast majority of Georgians want to join Nato and the EU. But Stalin is Georgia's most famous son. And in a culture which reveres strong personalities, that counts for a lot. ""People in Gori have this feeling that the name Stalin is known in the world and so is their little town…  Georgia is known worldwide because of Stalin. And the position of the previous government, which was basically an insult, was unbearable. And I say, you can condemn Stalin's period, you can condemn political repressions and the old way of life - but you should not touch personalities."" The statue seems to have become part of the tug of war between Georgia's political parties. Over cappuccino in an upmarket cafe in the capital, Tbilisi, Giorgi Kandelaki, an MP from Mr Saakashvili's party, told me the decision to re-erect the statue was a backward step. ""We lost the elections and so unfortunately we have many signs of democratic backsliding in Georgia or flirtations with the Soviet past. And the comeback of this statue is one such symbolic but very worrying sign. And in Gori the decision to allocate funds to reinstate the statue was made not by some private people but by the city council and by the local governor, who represents the ruling council. I think this is a scandalous fact."" Mr Kandelaki, 31, says the statue should have been removed years ago. ""No country that aspires to become a normal country can have a symbol that pays tribute to Stalin. Everyone in the world knows Stalin as the bloodiest dictator in history. And the second reason relates specifically to Georgia. In 1921, when Georgia was a parliamentary democracy, Stalin was the initiator of the Soviet Russian invasion and occupation of Georgia."" But history in Georgia is a complicated business. Lasha Bakradze, a professor of Soviet history at Tbilisi University, recently presented a new survey commissioned by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which found that 45% of Georgians expressed a positive attitude to Stalin. He says the poll shows that Georgia needs to confront and work through its Soviet past. ""Nothing is done to explain to the population who Stalin was,"" he told me. ""It has not been talked about.  Also in school books you don't find explanations about what the totalitarian system was. And so it is understandable why people are still in this Soviet way of thinking, that Stalin was 'Our Boy', a very strong leader."" ""Georgian society has a problem,"" he continued. ""On one side they can have sympathy for Stalin and on the other side the biggest part of Georgians are pro-democracy, freedom and so on. It is very primitive, patriotic thinking. Somebody was famous and this somebody was Georgian."" At the museum, change is coming - if slowly. A small room under the stairs displays the names of a few dozen local victims of Stalin's repressions. But even as further revisions are being discussed, Olga Tochishvili and her colleagues are looking forward to the return of the statue - not for political reasons, but for tourism. ""Many foreign visitors asked us, where is Stalin's statue? I think it will be better to put up the statue in front of our museum for our visitors, because they want to see the statue.""",On the 60th anniversary of the death of Soviet supreme ruler Joseph Stalin there is still controversy over how to @placeholder his legacy in his homeland Georgia .,revive,extend,join,defend,view,4
"In a pilot project, South East Coast Ambulance delayed sending help for certain 111 calls and transferred them to the 999 system, thus gaining an additional 10 minutes to respond. Health regulator Monitor said it had not fully considered patient safety. The trust has defended the project but acknowledged the ""serious findings"". South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Seacamb) covers Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Brighton and North East Hampshire. As part of the pilot from December 2014 to February, the trust transferred some calls between systems to re-assess what type of advice or treatment patients needed and whether an ambulance was really required. How call handling was changed Secamb provides NHS 111 services across the region and responds to 999 calls. Some NHS 111 calls were transferred to the 999 system to give Secamb more time for more urgent calls. The calls affected were in the second most serious category - Category A Red 2 - which covers conditions like strokes or fits but which are less critical than where people are non responsive. Under NHS rules, calls designated as life-threatening are supposed to receive an ambulance response within eight minutes. The trust allowed itself an extra 10 minutes to deal with some calls by ""re-triaging"" patients in the 999 system. Monitor said the project was ""poorly handled"" and there were ""reasonable grounds to suspect that the trust is in breach of its licence."" It has added a condition to Secamb's licence, so that if insufficient progress is made the leadership team could be changed. Paul Streat, regional director at Monitor, said: ""It is understandable that trusts want to explore better ways of delivering the best possible care but this was poorly-managed and done without the proper authorisation and without enough thought given to how it might affect patients."" The trust said it had faced ""unprecedented call volumes"" and ""serious hospital handover delays"" last winter. Chief Executive Paul Sutton said it had wanted to make sure the most ill patients were responded to promptly, but acknowledged that it had not acted in the right way. ""These are serious findings,"" he said. ""We have already begun to take steps to address Monitor's concerns and as part of this process, independent reviews will assess how decisions are made within the trust, governance processes and our approach to patient safety.""",An NHS ambulance trust is being investigated after it @placeholder national response targets to gain more time to assess some seriously ill patients .,sets,discovered,meet,warned,dodged,4
"It announces that one Rupert Harrison - the former chief of staff to the chancellor - is joining the business, as chief macro-strategist for multi-asset funds that invest in equities, bonds and cash. ""Rupert's appointment shows BlackRock's continued commitment to attracting people from a broad range of backgrounds to ensure we have the expertise, knowledge, and cultural perspective to provide solutions for the diverse needs of our clients,"" the message says. Mr Harrison was often known as the ""real chancellor"" in government circles given his closeness to the actual chancellor, his role formulating policy and his ability to brief ministers and journalists on the various schemes being implemented by the Treasury. Mr Harrison, for example, was talking privately about selling the initial chunk of the government's stake in RBS at a loss as much as a year ago. Yesterday, George Osborne confirmed that would indeed be the government's approach. Mr Harrison was also someone quickly persuaded that the Conservative's 2010 position on airport expansion in the south-east of England - ie there wouldn't be a third runway at Heathrow - was not sustainable. David Cameron, with enthusiastic backing from Mr Osborne, subsequently set up the Airports Commission to look at reversing the policy. It will report in the next few weeks, having already proposed that there should be an increase in airport capacity around London. I am told that at Mr Harrison's recent leaving do, George Osborne joked that it had been an honour to serve in Mr Harrison's Treasury. Will Mr Harrison one day return to politics, and realise a long-held ambition to become an MP? Whatever he decides, it seems it will be a long process. Those close to Mr Harrison say he wants to commit to his new life in the private sector for at least a decade before he makes any decisions on where next. But, interestingly, Mr Harrison did decide against joining a hedge fund for his first major job in the private sector - aware that reputationally it might not be the most advisable, given the short term and controversial nature of many of them. His job at BlackRock will focus on considering long-term investment strategies and economic trends across the globe. So, possibly not for the general election in 2020, but by 2025, maybe Rupert Harrison MP will be on the cards.","A very American - sounding "" internal @placeholder "" has this morning landed in the in - boxes of employees of one of the world 's largest fund managers , BlackRock .",group,gut,community,disaster,communication,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device Dyddgu Hywel's third-minute try allowed Wales to reach half-time level, with a pushover from Safi N'Diaye the only reward for French forward domination. A brilliant try finished by Wales prop Megan York proved crucial. Wales also confirmed their place for the 2017 World Cup as Scotland now cannot overtake them. Wales got off to a flying start, as full-back Hywel sped past her marker on an arcing run from the 22 to score after only three minutes. France created a golden chance for winger Caroline Boujard who dropped a cross-kick with the line open, but number eight N'Diaye levelled after 15 minutes with a pushover effort. Robyn Wilkins pushed a 30-metre penalty shot wide for Wales before the French forwards took control, with Wales just managing to hold up them on the line twice. The injury-time loss of lock Shona Powell-Hughes to a yellow card for not retreating from a penalty was a blow for Wales, and France took the lead after 45 minutes when Audrey Abadie was on target with a simple penalty with her fourth shot at goal. But Wales produced the move of the match as wing Bethan Dainton's long break from defence saw Elen Evans on the other flank send York charging down the touchline for a memorable score. Wales were pinned in their own 22 for long periods of the final quarter as France threw on their replacements in search of a breakthrough, but a magnificent defensive performance held the visitors out. Wales Women: Wales Women: Dyddgu Hywel; Bethan Dainton, Hannah Jones, Robyn Wilkins, Elen Evans; Elinor Snowsill, Keira Bevan; Megan York, Carys Phillips, Catrin Edwards, Shona Powell-Hughes, Rebecca Rowe, Rachel Taylor, Sian Williams, Sioned Harries Replacements: Amy Price, Cerys Hale, Amy Evans, Siwan Lillicrap, Alisha Butchers, Jenny Hawkins, Kerin Lake, Adi Taviner France Women: Julie Biles, Caroline Boujard, Elodie Poublan, Lucille Godiveau, Lara Delas, Audrey Abadie, Yanna Rivoalen; Lise Arricastre, Gaelle Mignot (c), Julie Duval, Audrey Forlan, Celine Ferer, Pauline Rayssac, Laetitia Grand, Safi N'Diaye. Replacements: Agathe Sochat, Arkya Ait Lahib, Romane Menager, Julie Annery, Laure Sansus, Camille Imart, Coralie Bertrand, Patricia Carricaburu.",Wales women earned their first win over France since 2008 with a @placeholder defensive performance in a narrow victory in Neath .,shimmering,beaten,fractured,brace,battling,4
"Writing to the Sunday Times, the group say that if the meals were scrapped, the move could harm children's health. The coalition government introduced the meals a year ago for all pupils in the first three years of school in England. But there has been speculation the policy could face cuts under the Conservative administration. Such a move would be ""short-term thinking indeed"", argues the letter, although there has been no word that the meals are under threat in the cuts of between 25% and 40% demanded by Chancellor George Osborne from every government department from unprotected budgets for his spending review. The free school meals budget has cost around £600m each year - but the meals could be vulnerable as they are not part of the per-pupil schools budget, which is protected. The letter, signed by 40 leading health professionals, applauds the government for its ""continued support"" of universal infant free school meals and the School Food Plan which stipulates nutritional standards for meals served in local authority-run schools. ""With one in three children currently leaving primary school overweight or obese, ensuring a healthy, nutritionally balanced school lunch has never been so important,"" it says. The signatories, who include Prof Lord Darzi of Denham, director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, and Prof Sheila the Baroness Hollins, who chairs the British Medical Association's science board, describe childhood obesity as ""one of our greatest public health challenges"". They list health risks faced by overweight and obese children, including insulin resistance, hypertension, early signs of heart disease, asthma and poor mental health. The letter argues free meals could pay for themselves many times over by improving diets and reducing NHS costs. Only 1% of packed lunches meet the nutritional standards which apply to school food, it adds. ""There is evidence that children who eat a healthy school lunch consume more vegetables and fewer sugary drinks and crisps. ""It would be short-term thinking indeed for the government to cut the funding for universal infant free school meals."" The letter says free healthy school lunches for infants are ""the bedrock"" of a ""transformative childhood obesity strategy"" to tackle the marketing of less healthy food and drink, boost food education in schools, encourage companies to reformulate their products and support families in healthier eating. Dr Colin Michie, chairman of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health nutrition committee, said the meals should remain free because everyone would use them. Rates of obesity have soared, said Dr Michie, who added: ""We are now spending billions in the NHS on conditions such as diabetes which we are creating in our teenagers because they are getting overweight. ""Any investment in young children that reduces that rate of pathology in older children and young adults would be terribly worthwhile. This is a small investment and not a big one."" But Jonathan Simons, head of education at the centre-right Policy Exchange, said pilot studies could not find ""any direct impact, purely from having a free school meal on things like childhood obesity or body mass index"". He added: ""So although it sounds like a nice thing to have, the evidence simply isn't there to suggest it is a good use of money in tight financial circumstances."" A Department for Education spokesman said the belief that every child, regardless of background, should have the same opportunities was ""at the heart"" of what the government was doing with school food. ""No child should be hindered because they are not eating a nutritious meal at lunchtime,"" he said. ""We have provided significant financial support to schools to help them deliver universal infant free school meals. We have come a long way and the new School Food Standards mean pupils of all ages are eating good food that sows the seeds for healthy eating for life."" The spending review will be published on 25 November.","Free school meals for infant pupils must be protected and not @placeholder in any budget cuts , say top doctors and nutritionists in a letter to a paper .",sacrificed,housed,injured,address,include,0
"Derbyshire-based Arthritis Research UK is funding a ??260,000 research study at the University of Nottingham. The cordiceps fungus is cultivated in China where it is used as a traditional medicine. An estimated eight million people in the UK are affected by osteoarthritis. The researchers are giving the mushroom as food pellets to rats and mice to find out if cordycepin can prevent pain. Lead researcher Dr Cornelia de Moor said: ""When we first started investigating this compound it was frankly a bit of a long shot and there was much scepticism from the scientific community. ""But we were stunned by the response from the pilot study, which showed that it was as effective as conventional painkillers in rats. ""To the best of our knowledge, cordycepin has never been tested as a lead compound for osteoarthritis pain."" Dr de Moor said if the safety and effectiveness of the compound could be proven, clinical trials could begin within six to 10 years. Cordycepin blocks the inflammatory process that causes pain in osteoarthritis in a different way and at a different stage to existing painkillers such as ibuprofen, she added. She warned people not to try using cordyceps until more is known about the compound. Arthritis Research UK spokesman Stephen Simpson, said: ""Dr de Moor's research is certainly novel, and we believe may hold promise as a future source of pain relief for people with osteoarthritis. ""There is currently a massive gap in available, effective, side-effect-free painkillers for the millions of people with arthritis.""",Scientists are studying the @placeholder of a mushroom that grows on caterpillars to see if it can be used as a painkiller for people with arthritis .,stuff,identities,evidence,properties,genome,3
"Once they had done their work, you might go as far as to replace some of the furniture nibbled by the rodents but you probably wouldn't replace every single item they had touched. Yet that was the approach taken by the New York Times when it cleaned house after its internal network was infested by a more modern nuisance - computer hackers. Every device, be it a laptop or chunk of network hardware, known or thought to have been compromised by the Chinese hackers was thrown out and replaced with a shiny, and more importantly, clean machine. The newspaper wanted to be sure that no trace of the hackers remained. In addition, the NYT beefed up its defences, blocked access from other compromised machines that had been used to get into its network and found and removed every back door into the newspaper's network. The decision to replace computers was motivated by the all-encompassing access that the attackers had to the NYT network. In an article detailing the attack, the NYT said the Chinese attackers had access for at least four months. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security company Sophos, which often helps companies cope with intrusions by hackers, said replacing all those machines was ""a bit extreme"". ""Normally, the most extreme measure is to reformat drives or completely wipe them but even that would be a bit of a sledgehammer,"" he said. Reformatting and wiping drives was sufficient to defeat even those malicious programs that buried themselves deep in the heart of the Windows operating system, he said. ""Usually they would put a clean Windows installation on there rather than chuck out the hardware,"" he added. Mr Cluley speculated that the NYT threw out the machines to reassure partners, employees and others that the intrusion had been dealt with. The lingering problem, he said, was that the NYT was still not sure how its attackers won access to its network. The NYT suspects a so-called ""spear phishing"" attack that sent targeted, booby-trapped messages to a few key individuals. After they had won access to one computer, the attackers may have used that as a lever to pry open other parts of the network. ""It can be very difficult to determine when and where the initial entry point was,"" he said, adding that without firm information about that, throwing out the old hardware might be a reasonable choice. The attack on the NYT was just one example of a growing number of attacks, seen by Sophos and other security firms, said Mr Cluley. While some attackers got in and out quickly when they had stolen payment information, others were content to lurk inside a network for months, seeking out useful internal information including intellectual property, design documents or confidential financial plans. ""This was a long-term operation to steal intelligence and information that went under the radar,"" he said. ""These sorts of targeted attacks that use unknown vulnerabilities do seem to be on the rise."" ""Security starts with knowing what you have,"" said Stephen Schmidt, chief security officer at Amazon's web services told the BBC in an earlier interview. Mr Schmidt is a former FBI investigator who specialised in intrusion analysis. Mr Schmidt said many companies had discovered that one consequence of using cloud-based services was that it forced them to find out everything about their internal network. The very act of shifting from an in-house data centre to an on-demand service can start a powerful discovery process. ""You can see exactly what you have,"" he said. ""There are no more dusty corners that someone can get to."" In addition, because most cloud-based services used standardised hardware and software it was far easier to keep an eye on who was doing what. A similar level of scrutiny was much harder to manage on the infrastructure a company had grown up with, he said. ""In the cloud... by definition you cannot log someone on under the desk,"" said Mr Schmidt.","If your house was infested with mice , the @placeholder are that you would call a pest control firm to get rid of them .",chances,body,message,news,condition,0
"Mullah Mansour was named as the new leader on Thursday, after the death of former head Mullah Omar was confirmed. But a Taliban spokesman told the BBC he had not been appointed ""by all Taliban"", going against Sharia law. The audio message said fighters should unite as ""division in our ranks will only please our enemies"". It also said that the Taliban would ""continue our jihad until we bring an Islamic rule in the country"". The 30-minute recording - in which a crying baby is heard at some points - was released to journalists by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid on Saturday. The first public message from the Afghan Taliban's new leader, Mullah Mansour, indicates that his way of doing things will be different from that of his reclusive predecessor, Mullah Omar, who relied on issuing written statements. The recording is of a speech that he made to a gathering of apparently dozens of his supporters, after his appointment on Thursday. Faced with opposition to his selection from several high-ranking Taliban, the new leader is now focused on consolidating his power and establishing his authority. The speech repeatedly calls for unity and is primarily aimed at calming dissent. Mullah Mansour says that his new role is not a ""kingship"" but a huge responsibility. He is also trying to present himself as a tolerant, forgiving and conciliatory person whose decisions will be ""based on Islamic Sharia"". There doesn't seem to be a major policy shift from the past. In his speech, he sounds relaxed and doesn't seem to be reading from notes. Taliban leaders 'not consulted' Some Taliban figures have accused pro-Pakistani circles of imposing Mullah Mansour, who is known for his support for peace talks, on them. But in the audio message, Mullah Mansour dismissed peace talks as ""propaganda campaigns by the enemy"". At least one Taliban faction would have preferred Mullah Omar to be succeeded by his son. Another Taliban spokesman, Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, said those who elected Mullah Mansour had not followed the rules. ""According to Islamic rule and principles, when a leader dies, a Shura (council) is called, then its leader is appointed,"" he added.","The new leader of the Afghan Taliban , Mullah Akhtar Mansour , has called for unity in an audio message , saying that the @placeholder will continue fighting .",group,rise,country,experience,word,0
"""Had I been president, Captain Khan would be alive today. We wouldn't have been in this horrible, horrible mistake, the war in Iraq,"" he said. The soldier's father, Khizr Khan, said it was a ""cruel"" remark. He is campaigning for Hillary Clinton, who is making her first appearance with First Lady Michelle Obama. The two shared a stage at Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Introducing Mrs Obama, the former first lady said her voice was needed in this election ""more than ever"". Mrs Clinton referred to Mr Trump's ongoing feud with the Khans and accused him of ""rubbing salt into the wounds of a grieving family"". Mr Khan's son Humayun was killed by a car bomb in 2004 in Iraq at the age of 27. Their grief became part of the presidential campaign in July when Khizr Khan made an emotional speech at the Democratic Convention attacking Mr Trump for anti-Muslim rhetoric, as his wife stood next to him. The Republican candidate's reaction, in which he implied the mother was not allowed to speak up, attracted strong condemnation from within his own party. Speaking to ABC News in an interview aired on Thursday, Mr Trump repeated his insistence that their son would be alive, but added he believed the soldier was a ""great hero"". In response, Mr Khan said: ""This is the most cruel thing you can say to grieving parents, that if I was there this would not have happened."" In other campaign developments: Former Illinois Representative Joe Walsh tweeted: ""On November 8th, I'm voting for Trump. On November 9th, if Trump loses, I'm grabbing my musket. You in?"" He later said he was speaking metaphorically about ""acts of civil disobedience"". Mrs Clinton's campaign is dealing with more questions arising from hacked emails published by Wikileaks. The Trump campaign has seized on the latest dump to suggest the line between Bill Clinton's personal income and the donations for the Clinton Foundation has been blurred. Doug Band, a top aide to Mr Clinton, said in an email that he had solicited donations to the foundation and also generated personal income for him through gifts and paid speeches. Who will win? Play our game to make your call",Republican Donald Trump has been @placeholder by the family of a dead US soldier after saying as president he would have kept him alive .,hailed,backed,approached,assassinated,criticised,4
"Wye Valley NHS Trust said its ""wish list"" included redeveloping 75-year-old huts at Hereford County Hospital. Originally introduced as temporary accommodation during World War Two, they are today used as inpatient wards. A trust spokesman said the extent of the work would depend on how much money the Department of Health would allow them to borrow. Wye Valley has appointed Keir as its main partner to deliver the project, which is also expected to see extra beds introduced. Proposals include building a new intensive care unit and outpatient theatres, as well as relocating endoscopy and day surgery facilities. The hospital trust was put in special measures in October after being rated ""inadequate"" by the Care Quality Commission. Medical care and A&E at Hereford's County Hospital attracted particular criticism. Speaking in February, chief executive Richard Beeken said the hospital needed 30 to 40 more beds to help it cope with demand.",A hospital in Hereford could be expanded and see ageing buildings @placeholder under £ 40 m plans .,estimated,replaced,held,generated,brain,1
"It was the tenth most frequent 'how to' question to Google in the UK. The answer Google gives begins with a list of ""12 ways we can cultivate self-acceptance"" from mental health social network Psych Central. Suggestions include ""shush your inner critic"" and ""grieve the loss of unrealised dreams"". Jessica Chivers is a coaching psychologist and author. She said it was important to look at the context in which a person might ask this question. ""We are able to see more than ever before what people are doing. We see an edited view of people's lives on social media,"" she explained. She said it becomes easy to convince yourself that everyone else is having a better time than you. ""Recognise where you are strong and what brought you a sense of meaning, success and happiness,"" she added. Jessica suggests doing ""small things"" that make you feel good like eating healthy food and sleeping well. Play therapist Amanda Seyderhelm works with children struggling with confidence and low self-esteem. She said self-acceptance was about ""not trying to change your flaws"". ""Take responsibility for your wellbeing. Eliminate as much stress as you can,"" she added. She said people can feel shame about who they are. ""It's about being really honest with yourself. If not to a therapist, to yourself in the mirror,"" she explained. ""Accept your flaws and use your voice."" Kim Stephenson is a financial psychologist and said self-acceptance is often linked to low self-esteem. ""You have to ask what it is that you want from life. What do you actually want?"" He said mindfulness can be useful in separating what is real to what people can build up in their heads. ""Everybody is unique. Only you can do what you do, so be the best you, you can be.""","Google has released the most searched for @placeholder of the year , and amongst the US election , Euro 2016 and David Bowie , lots of people were asking "" how to accept myself for who I am "" . So what 's the answer ?",websites,members,sale,topics,signs,3
"NHS bosses have said the unit will be one of 10 hospitals nationally that can continue to provide congenital heart surgery for children and adults. The Leeds General Infirmary unit first came under threat in 2011, prompting a huge campaign to keep it open. City council leader Judith Blake said the news ended a long period of doubt. Congenital heart disease services have been the subject of a number of reviews since a public inquiry at Bristol Royal Infirmary in 2001. In 2011, the children's heart surgery unit in Leeds was earmarked for closure in an NHS review that was eventually declared flawed. It was back under the spotlight in 2013 when surgery was suspended amid concerns about death rates. Later, an investigation found the decision was based on ""invalidated and incomplete data"". Last year NHS England published updated standards for specialist heart care and has since been assessing which hospitals are meeting the new criteria. It has now announced which trusts are not meeting the standards and which need to close services and transfer care elsewhere. Units in in Leicester, Manchester and London have been told to halt complex surgery on patients born with heart problems by April 2017. Five other hospitals providing treatments other than complex surgery will have to stop those services too. NHS England said it would continue to support and monitor progress at Leeds' hospital trust. Julian Hartley, chief executive of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, praised congenital heart disease staff who he said had done an ""outstanding job"" in complying with the ""rigorous new national standards"". Sharon Coyle, chief executive of Leeds Children's Heart Surgery Fund, tweeted: ""Delighted for Leeds heart unit, my thoughts are with Leicester patients and the Brompton.""",The @placeholder of Yorkshire 's only child heart surgery unit has been secured following a long - running dispute about how surgery is provided in England .,title,future,role,operator,location,1
"The Springboks star's leg was in a brace when he returned to Belfast with the Ulster squad on Sunday night. However, Ulster director of rugby Les Kiss said on Monday scans had revealed ""no damage of major proportions"". ""We had really good news about Ruan earlier today,"" said Kiss. ""The scan just showed a couple of things that you would expect with a jar on the knee. ""We'll just need to see how the next 24 or 48 hours go and then we'll take a decision but it looks very positive."" The scrum-half, 32, will leave Ulster at the end of this season after the IRFU refused the province's request to extend his contract for another contract extension after seven years with the club. Ulster need a victory to get their European hopes back on track after the concession of three late tries saw them losing Sunday's opener 28-13. Kiss felt the turning point in Sunday's contest was just before half-time when prop Andrew Warwick knocked on when he seemed certain to score a second Ulster try which would have extended their lead to 15-3. ""If we put that try over the line, it's game over,"" added the Ulster boss. ""We've got to be a little more clinical and desperate to win those moments."" The Australian had no complaints with his team's commitment on Sunday but said the failure to clear their lines on a few occasions in the second half, when faced with Bordeaux pressure, had been punished. Media playback is not supported on this device ""We were never going to put a big scoreline on them. ""We just gave them the access to our try-line for too long and when we tried to get out, we did it poorly a few times. ""That kept giving them a chance with their big forwards who hurt us."" Kiss knows that Ulster must regroup with a win in Saturday's second European game against Exeter to maintain realistic hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages with two games against French giants Clermont coming up later in Pool Five. Clermont hammered the English Premiership side 35-8 at Sandy Park on Sunday as Exeter's early-season struggles continued. Exeter reached last season's Premiership final but they have lost three of their opening six games in their domestic competition.",Ruan Pienaar could still feature in Ulster 's European game against Exeter on Saturday after fears that he sustained a knee injury in Sunday 's defeat by Bordeaux @placeholder .,conditions,eased,teams,results,title,1
"A Spanish court has suspended a ban on the former France midfielder and World Cup winner, 42, coaching Real Madrid Castilla. The Spanish football federation punished Zidane and fellow reserve team coach Santiago Sanchez for not having the required qualifications. Media playback is not supported on this device Real said they would ""pursue every legal avenue"" to overturn the ban. The European champions said Zidane was awarded the necessary licence by the French football federation. He was appointed Real reserve-team boss this summer after working as assistant to first-team coach Carlo Ancelotti last season. Zidane won the World Cup with France in 1998 and was named World Footballer of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003. He spent five seasons with Real as a player after joining from Juventus in 2001 for £45.8m - then a world record fee - and scored the winner in the 2002 Champions League final. Castilla were relegated from the second division last season, before Zidane joined the coaching staff. They are currently 14th in Group 2 of the regional four-group Segunda B, the third tier.",Zinedine Zidane can continue coaching Real Madrid reserves until his appeal against a three - month ban is @placeholder .,expected,recovering,suspended,heard,serving,3
"It has set aside £8m a year to pay for 150 reporters, who will work for local news organisations rather than the BBC. The journalists will cover council meetings and public services and share their stories with the BBC. James Harding, director of BBC News and Current Affairs, said it would strengthen local news coverage. ""As more power is devolved across the UK, it's more important than ever that we cover, understand and hold to account local politicians and public services,"" he said. So far, the BBC has allocated 20 reporters in Scotland, three in Northern Ireland, 11 in Wales and 104 in England, with plans to place the full 150 journalists by 2018. The reporters, who must work for a ""qualifying"" regional publisher, will be responsible for local newsgathering and sharing their stories with the BBC. To qualify, local titles must demonstrate they have a ""previous track record"" of public service journalism, as well as the ability to employ staff. But the ""exact nature of the reporters' duties in Northern Ireland is still under discussion"", the BBC said. In addition, the BBC will share audio and video material, after it has been transmitted, with local publishers under its NewsBank service, launching later in 2017. It will also create a hub for data journalism, funded by the BBC with staff from local titles, with recruitment beginning in the spring. Source: BBC report The plans, introduced with the BBC's new charter in 2017, come as local newspapers continue to face falling print readerships and advertising revenues. According to ABC circulation figures, covering the six months to June 2016, the majority of local titles recorded falling year-on-year sales, including the Brighton-based Argus (down 10.3%) and Manchester Evening News (down 14.1%). Last May, the BBC and trade body the News Media Association (NMA), which represents local and national newspapers and publishers, outlined a plan to create 150 so-called ""local democracy"" reporters. NMA chair Ashley Highfield said the move would ""enhance democracy"" in the British regions, while also keeping up ""competition between different news sources"". He had previously criticised separate BBC plans to hire around 100 local reporters to work with local newspapers, outlined in 2015. Mr Highfield had said that the scheme, where news publishers including the BBC could compete for reporting contracts, would recruit ""more BBC local journalists through the back door"". In a blog post, Matthew Barraclough, the BBC's journalism working group editor, said ""every part of the sector"" had played a part in developing the new plans. ""I believe what we've agreed will extend the reach of BBC journalism and help support local news generally,"" he said.","The BBC has released details of where licence fee - funded local journalists will be based across the country , with jobs being @placeholder in from the summer .",handed,shortlisted,interest,announced,phased,4
"Rebecca Minnock went on the run from her home in Highbridge, Somerset, with her son Ethan for 17 days after a court ruled he should live with his father. The 35-year-old was in the Oxford area when she made contact with Avon and Somerset Police on Friday. Police said no arrests had been made following the boy's return. Ethan's father, Roger Williams said: ""Ethan is safely back in my care now."" Police said both Ms Minnock and Ethan were found ""safe and well"" and would now receive ""the support they need"". ""This will be a matter for the family courts now,"" the spokesman added. Judge Stephen Wildblood QC, the High Court judge dealing with the case, confirmed there would be a hearing at Bristol Crown Court on Monday. Speaking to the Daily Mail before she handed herself in, Ms Minnock said she hoped the decision about her son would now be reconsidered. She told the paper: ""I feel that my time has run out now. My only regret would be the trouble that my family have gotten into, all the police efforts and time I've wasted."" Ms Minnock said her son believed he had been on holiday because they had been having ""normal, fun times together"", such as going swimming and visiting parks. She said she decided to come out of hiding after Ethan asked to see family members. Nicholas Cusworth QC, a family law barrister, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Ms Minnock's decision to breach the court order would be taken into ""very serious consideration"" in future legal proceedings. ""The court will have to decide how to take forward the relationship he has with both his parents,"" he said. ""In circumstances where the court makes an order designed to protect the best interest of a child, for one of that child's parents to undermine that court order deliberately... inevitably will mean the well of trust the court has towards her is going to be at a low ebb at the moment. ""It'll be up to her to demonstrate that she can be trusted in future."" Ms Minnock has been engaged in a two-year legal battle with Mr Williams over contact with their son. In February, a district judge found she had fabricated allegations against him in order to ""frustrate contact"" with his son. A social worker reported that Ethan was not ""emotionally safe"" with his mother, and Ethan had been staying with his father four nights a week since February. Earlier on Friday, Ethan's grandmother was sentenced to 10 days in prison for lying in court about the pair's disappearance. Louise Minnock, 52, was convicted of contempt of court for hiding the fact they were driven to Cheltenham by her partner Andrew Butt, who was jailed for 28 days for contempt.","A three - year - old British boy who was @placeholder with his mother for more than two weeks is "" safely back "" with his father .",charged,stuck,attacked,missing,threatened,3
"BBC Arabic's Marwa Nasser took the views and expectations of Egyptians on the streets of Cairo. I think Morsi will be imprisoned for life, but his supporters won't be silenced. However, nobody really has any effect on politics now. People have lost interest and they just want to live peacefully. If Morsi is given a death sentence, nobody except his supporters would protest. Morsi came to rule Egypt through elections; I do believe he is the legitimate president. I think he shouldn't be put on trial. We should hold those responsible for the killing of protesters accountable, but he himself wasn't the one who did it. I support a prison sentence against Morsi, but not his execution. Those of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders, who incited the killing of protesters, should be the ones executed. People trusted Morsi and gave him a chance. I personally voted for a Muslim Brotherhood candidate in the last parliamentary elections. And when Morsi first came to office, I was hoping he would fix the country. But he treated people as inferior, not as equal. He considered himself a king. It's strange he expected people to help him after that. He should have been transparent with his people and tell them about the problems he was facing. [President Abdul Fattah al-] Sisi was smart when he asked Egyptians for a mandate. It gave him a sort of legitimacy. It's like the tables have turned. We were living in a democracy and had elections, but there was so much pressure. Nobody helped Mohammed Morsi. None of the state organisations were co-operating with him. How could he do his job if nobody else was? When a protester wanted to storm the presidential palace with a bulldozer, the police told him to go ahead. I'm afraid he will be given a death sentence. And such verdict would set people on fire. The verdict against Morsi will be retaliatory. We have seen how people were thrown in jail even though they haven't even been enemies of the state. Many people were given death sentences. Of course Morsi will be given a similar sentence. That will be the end of the Muslim Brotherhood. This verdict and other unfair ones establish a country of injustice. Even expressing opinions peacefully now could lead straight to prison. Morsi can only be held accountable for the killing of protesters after fair investigations. But also many have been killed since the revolution of Jan 25 [2011]. Why hasn't anyone been put on trial for their killing? Those responsible for the killing of protesters since Sisi has been in power should also be tried. I wish Morsi gets punished for killing protesters. The just verdict would be execution in a public square after Friday prayer. I know this will get the Muslim Brotherhood to destroy the country; they haven't stopped trying to ruin it since he was arrested. The brotherhood is supported by many countries. May God be with Sisi; explosions haven't stopped for one day. The verdict would put our minds at peace. I voted for Morsi. I was happy in the beginning, but later I regretted my choice after what I've seen during his one year of rule. Morsi knows nothing about politics. It would be unfair to release him. I feel the state of justice in Egypt is improving since Sisi became the president. Now we feel safe and settled and it's all that we are asking for. Morsi should be given a fair trial and should be treated as any other Egyptian citizen who has committed a crime. All evidence should be considered. But I believe Morsi's trial is politicised. The state is making sure none of the Muslim Brotherhood members are being acquitted, because people would be angry.  The state fears if he's released, another revolution would break out. If he is innocent, then who is responsible for the killing of all these people? If Morsi is given a harsh sentence, not even his supporters will really react. Where are they now? We used to see them every Friday in streets protesting but they have disappeared now. Most of them have decided not to even talk about politics, and the rest are either imprisoned or killed in clashes. Some of my friends belong to the Muslim Brotherhood. They are now afraid for their lives and their families and decided to never take part in politics again. I would be very surprised if Morsi was acquitted. All the rest of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders and the young political activists have been given harsh sentences. They will probably sentence him to death. If they want to give him a milder verdict, it will be a life sentence. Morsi hasn't even influenced life in Egypt when he was a president. A verdict against him won't affect the country now. Morsi wasn't the best person for his post. He was a tool. He wasn't the one planning and running things. I believe he was used by foreign entities like Hamas and Hezbollah, as we hear in the news. It's hard to understand the political situation in Egypt. It's mysterious. It's also hard to judge whether or not Morsi is innocent. I wasn't really bothering myself thinking about it. Mubarak himself and all his men were acquitted though we believed they were supposed to be harshly punished for his crimes. We gave up thinking about it. We had two revolutions and nothing has changed. Morsi's verdict will not change a thing. I expect that Morsi will be executed. I don't like the fact that it's taking such a long time to sentence him. I fear they won't give him the death sentence he deserves. I'm concerned it may be only a life sentence after all these people were killed. Of course the US won't like that. But we do not interfere in their business and they shouldn't interfere in ours. We don't care what they think. Morsi deserves to be executed. People were getting killed at the presidential palace doors and he was inside. We can never compare Morsi with Mubarak in the case of killing protesters. Mubarak never ordered the killing of anyone. It's true he was corrupt, but he never has been a traitor or attempted selling parts of Egypt.","An Egyptian court is to deliver its first verdict in one of the trials of former President Mohammed Morsi . He was @placeholder by the military in July 2013 after mass protests against his rule , in a move which polarised Egypt . He won Egypt 's first democratic elections the year before . Mr Morsi is charged with inciting the killing of protesters , in one of four trials .",ousted,arrested,murdered,launched,attacked,0
"Prince Harry has long argued that the line between his public and his personal life has become almost non-existent. The fifth in line to the throne is now using the media he at times despises to focus on what he says is the plight of his current girlfriend. It's a path followed in the past by his brother when Kate Middleton (as she was then) was the subject of intense interest. But Prince William's appeals were never quite so passionate or quite so detailed. And in going public, Prince Harry has confirmed his relationship of a few months with Meghan Markle. There'll be those in Buckingham Palace who'll appreciate his pain, but who'll question the wisdom of issuing this statement. Prince Harry is appealing to the better judgement of newspaper editors and their readers. Will they listen? Will we listen?",This is a cri de coeur from a prince whose view of the media was @placeholder after his mother died in a car crash as paparazzi photographers were pursuing her .,heightened,formed,named,billed,evacuated,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device The 47-year-old Briton led with a dressage score of 37.0 penalties after the opening day in Rio. Fox-Pitt suffered a head trauma in a cross-country fall last October and only returned to action in April. ""I've had an interesting last few months,"" he said. Why not come along, meet and ride Henry the mechanical horse at some of the Official Team GB fan parks during the Rio Olympics? ""I've been very lucky - I'm lucky to be here. It was very special riding into the arena today. This is my fifth Olympics - they've all been useless! It would be great if this one went well."" Britain lie third behind Germany and Australia in the team competition. There is a second day of dressage on Sunday, with cross country on Monday and team and individual medals decided by the show jumping on Tuesday.","William Fox - Pitt took the individual lead in the eventing dressage and said it felt "" special "" to be at an Olympics only 10 months after being @placeholder in an induced coma following a fall .",held,stuck,injured,released,placed,4
"This may come as a surprise to many in the racing industry who believe that racehorse speed has reached its limit. But researchers say more work is required to determine whether the increased speeds are due to breeding techniques or changes in training and riding techniques. The study has been published in Royal Society journal Biology Letters.. Previous studies had shown that racehorse speeds had not increased since 1950. Many in the race horse industry had concluded that thoroughbreds might have reached the limits of their speed. This raised the question as to whether it was worth horse owners paying large amounts of money to stud farms aiming to breed future winners. So Patrick Sharman, a PhD student at Exeter University and race enthusiast, decided to take a closer look. He found that previous studies were not comprehensive. They only analysed the winning time of a small number of races. These studies included middle distance (8 to 12 furlongs) and long distance (14 to 20 furlongs) races, but excluded sprints (5 to 7 furlongs). Mr Sharman analysed the times from every single so-called elite race involving the very fastest horses between 1850 and 2012, and also included all race meetings since 1997. He found that there had been little improvement in speeds between 1910 and 1975. But since then there has been a steady improvement in sprint races. The average winning time for a six-furlong race over the past 15 years has been cut by more than a second - which is a huge amount by sprint standards. A modern day horse would beat a horse from the early 90s by seven horse lengths. However, there was little, if any, improvement at middle and longer distances. Mr Sharman says that this could be due to the fact that horses are being bred for speed rather than endurance. If that is the case, then speeds at middle and long distances could also be improved if breeders changed their methods. The improvement could be explained by a change in riding techniques since the 1970s - with jockeys adopting Lester Piggott's style of riding with shortened stirrups or improved training methods. But Mr Sharman wonders why there has been no improvement in the longer distances. ""My hunch is that we are seeing a genetic change, with breeders focusing on speed rather than endurance,"" he told BBC News. ""I don't believe that over the longer distances horses have reached their limit."" Brian O'Rourke, the managing director of the UK National Stud in Newmarket believes that commercial pressures tend to favour the breeding of speed. ""Back in the 1970s most horses that would win the Derby would go for the Gold Cup which is two and a half miles as opposed to a mile and a half,"" he told BBC News. ""But since the late 70s and early 80s the thoroughbred industry has become commercialised. Everybody is breeding for speed now because they want precocious horses that run at two (years old) not four. ""They want instant success like flicking a switch, but that does not always happen."" Last year BBC Sport asked leading experts why human athletes were getting faster but horses were not. Follow Pallab on Twitter","Racehorses are continuing to get quicker , a study of winning times @placeholder 165 years of racing indicates .",spanning,celebrating,revealed,exploring,lost,0
"Scott & Charters has been operating from its Fairhurst Drive site in Hawick for more than 50 years. It now wants to knock down its old building and put up a new two-storey structure in its place. A statement said it would allow the company to continue manufacturing luxury knitwear in the town. The works would be carried out in two phases, the first would see part of the existing building demolished but the rest of it retained during construction of the new facility. Once that was completed the remainder of the old factory would be taken down. A new access off Fairhurst Drive would also be formed and a new car park with 27 spaces created.","Plans have been lodged to demolish and replace a Borders knitwear factory to allow for "" future @placeholder and expansion "" .",efficiency,restoration,food,life,growth,4
"New Zealand born, with English parents, Wilding won four consecutive Wimbledon championships, two Australian Opens, and four Davis Cups, before his career was cut short due to the outbreak of World War One. His incredible on court success was matched by his off court cult-following where, blessed with an irresistible mix of good looks and charisma, he became arguably the first superstar of tennis. He reportedly set many hearts a-flutter among spectators, with newspaper reports of a number of women fainting in the Wimbledon crowd, such was his charm. But when World War One began he signed up for the British Army and was killed in action in France in 1915. ""Anthony was an icon and good looking,"" says his great niece Anna Wilding, who is a director, actress and White House correspondent. ""He was like a movie star, but on the tennis court. Tennis hadn't ever had anyone like that, with that combination of charm, decorum and adventure. ""Imagine the Great Gatsby era, but he was the real deal, the toast of society. He stayed with kings and queens and prime ministers. ""At the same time he would camp on the roof of the Monaco Tennis Club under the stars and play tennis the next day. He has been called the James Dean or David Beckham of his day. Women swooned and fainted."" He was seen as something of a pioneer in terms of his training. He never drank alcohol and, unusually for the times, never smoked. He was renowned for his physique, with his Davis Cup teammate Norman Brookes describing Wilding as ""without doubt one of the finest specimens of manhood physically"". The greatest match of his career is regarded as the 1913 Wimbledon final against the brilliant young American Maurice McLoughlin. McLoughlin was the favourite, but Wilding put on a superb performance, winning 8-6, 6-3, 10-8 (there were no tie-breaks at that time). Wilding was ever on the lookout for adventure. He had a great love for motorcycling and would ride around Europe on his Bat-JAP. In 1908 he motorcycled from John O'Groats to Land's End. After the outbreak of World War One, he joined the Royal Marines, allegedly on the advice of Winston Churchill, who was then First Lord of the Admiralty. He remained in the Marines for just a few days and was then attached to the Intelligence Corps, where his knowledge of European roads proved invaluable as he was assigned to the battlefields of northern France. In his last letter, dated 8 May 1915, he wrote: ""For really the first time in seven and a half months I have a job on hand which is likely to end in gun, I, and the whole outfit being blown to hell. However, if we succeed we will help our infantry no end."" The following day, 9 May, he was killed in action during the Battle of Aubers Ridge at Neuve-Chapelle, when a shell exploded near the dug-out he was sheltering in. He was buried the next day, but was later reinterred at Rue-des-Berceaux. He had been due to marry Broadway star Maxine Elliott. Daily Telegraph tennis correspondent Andrew Wallis Myers, in his 1916 biography of Wilding, described him in action: ""Wilding observed and directed the fire, both from the gun platform and the trench, all the time under the hottest counter-shelling."" In 1978, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. But Ms Wilding feels he has not received enough recognition for his achievements. ""Anthony died fighting for the British, not the New Zealanders, so in some ways he drops between the lines. ""He is not celebrated in New Zealand military remembrances nor by the government there, and I feel this is because he spent so much time in the UK. ""Nor do the British seem to claim him as he was from the colonies. It would be nice to see more acknowledgement from the British as he lived there for much of his life and passed away fighting for them. So it's sad in a way, as his story is incredible."" Wilding's obituary stated that even more than the New Zealand All Blacks, he had ""carried the name of the Dominion into regions of the Earth where it was probably unknown until it became associated with his fame"". For Ms Wilding, her great uncle has left a rich legacy, which she wants to uncover more of. ""Anthony's legacy is that he was a true sportsman, a great man, who was a hero on the court and off. We cannot forget he was also a great traveller and adventurer.""","Long before the PR driven age of @placeholder rights and social media , before Borg , Laver and even Perry , Wimbledon had its own matinee idol - Anthony Wilding . Yet despite him being a superstar of his day , and a war hero , why is there relatively little awareness of him today ?",media,school,disability,history,image,4
"The elderly pair, who have not been formally identified, were killed after their car came off the road and fell into Hooe Lake in Plymouth on Thursday. About 60 people attended the service in Hooe near the spot where the crash happened. The chairman of the residents association said the turnout showed the community's ""solidarity to the family"". The death of the local man and woman was a ""tragic loss"", John Wheeler from the Mountbatten & Turnchapel Residents Association said. ""Terrible accident but it's not that anyone round here had not thought of it and said 'it's just an accident waiting happen'"", he said. Plymouth City Council has said it is looking into how safety can be improved at Hooe Lake after local residents called for some form of barrier to be erected to stop a similar incident happening again.",A memorial service has been held for a man and woman who died when their car plunged into an @placeholder .,estuary,island,event,avalanche,earthquake,0
"The doodle references the artist's famous work of a tiger shark pickled in formaldehyde and was given to an unnamed chauffeur as a tip. ""A great drive,"" wrote the artist along the top of the page. The sale came in the same week that critic Julian Spalding said Hirst's work was ""not art"" and the market for his productions would bottom out. ""The emperor has nothing on,"" he told The Independent. ""When the penny drops that these are not art, it's all going to collapse."" However, the sale of the Hirst sketch appears to show that some collectors continue to value his output. It was bought by an anonymous bidder during a sale at International Autograph Auctions in London on Saturday, 24 March. Alongside Hirst's sketch, the autograph book also contained signatures from the likes of Alan Bennett, Julie Walters, Alastair Campbell and Ricky Gervais. Comedian David Baddiel also signed the book, writing: ""To Peter, It won't be worth as much as the Damien Hirst."" The collection was originally valued at £250-350. An exhibition catalogue signed by Damien Hirst also sold for £900 at the same auction. A spokesman for the auction house said an unadorned page bearing the artist's inscription would normally raise about £100. The highest-value lot at the auction was a signed photograph of Marylin Monroe. It was originally given to Jack Cole, who was the star's choreographer on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Monroe scrawled across the picture in light blue ink: ""Jack - You certainly can - and I'm not mad! Marilyn"". The photo was sold for £20,088, including VAT and buyer's premium.","An autograph book containing a sketch of a shark @placeholder by Damien Hirst has sold for £ 4,664 at auction .",painting,drawn,worn,funded,inspired,1
"The recalculation means it will now be considered by economists and the World Bank as a middle-income country, rather than a low-income one. As a result growth for 2013 was calculated to have been 5.7%, up from an earlier estimate of 4.7%. It is now the fourth biggest economy in sub-Saharan African. Nigeria, South Africa and Angola are the three biggest economies in the region. Economic output was calculated to be 4.76 trillion shillings ($53.1bn; £32.8bn) in 2013 after rebasing, up from 3.8 trillion shillings, the minister for devolution and planning, Anne Waiguru, said on Tuesday. Some of the most profitable sectors in Kenya  - communications and property  - were not considered in earlier calculations of GDP which used 2001 as a base year. Authorities in the East African country have now changed the base calculation year to 2009 and revised the annual and quarterly national accounts statistics for the period 2006 to 2013. Standard Chartered Bank Africa economist Razia Khan said the recalculation confirmed ""what we had previously suspected"". ""The economy has demonstrated good momentum and has been growing faster than the official data indicated all along.  It fits with much of the anecdotal evidence available to us - still-robust business confidence and healthy private sector credit growth."" Ms Khan said the rebasing lifted the average per capita income in Kenya to $1,246 ""effectively meaning that the country moves to lower middle income status"". According to the World Bank middle economies are those with a GDP per capita of more than $1,045 but less than $12,746. While the recalculation is expected to lower debt levels and increase foreign investor confidence, analysts said the figure will change little for much of the population. Poverty levels in the country remain at 45.9%, and life expectancy is at 61 years, as estimated by a 2013 World Bank report. Several African countries have recently been reworking their economy figures, a trend which the Africa Development bank has said  will show the continent's economies collectively being one third bigger than previously thought. Earlier this year Nigeria vaulted ahead of South Africa to clinch the number one position after it conducted a similar rebasing of its economy, placing the country's GDP at $522.6bn.",Kenya 's economy is believed to be 25 % larger than previously estimated following a change in the way its @placeholder is calculated .,size,region,population,output,phase,0
"He told the Defence Select Committee ""air strikes alone"" would not destroy IS but could reduce its ability to attack the UK. The Cabinet has endorsed the PM's plan to debate and vote extending air strikes into Syria on Wednesday. Labour wanted a two-day debate and has called the plans a ""rush to war"". David Cameron urged MPs of all parties to back his case for intervention. The government has published the motion to be voted on, which says military action is ""only one component of a broader strategy"" to tackle IS. It says the UK government will not deploy troops in ""ground combat operations"". The motion would specifically authorise air strikes ""exclusively"" against IS in Syria. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is against military intervention but offered his party a free vote on the question after opposition from within his shadow cabinet, many of whom are thought to back Mr Cameron's case for bombing in Syria. Speaking on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show, he appealed to his frontbenchers to ""think again"" and ""think about the consequences and implications"". Ministers had said they would only call a vote when certain they would win. BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said it looked as though Mr Cameron would secure a ""fairly commanding majority"" with a potential single-figure Conservative rebellion offset by the DUP and at least 50 Labour MPs who support air strikes. In his appearance before MPs, Mr Fallon defended claims that 70,000 moderate opposition ground forces were on the ground in Syria. In a country of 20 million people, it would be surprising if there were not this many he said, saying the 70,000 figure was the estimate of the Joint Intelligence Committee. This figure ""deliberately excludes those who are on the extreme side of this fight"", he added. Sitting alongside Mr Fallon, Lieutenant General Gordon Messenger, the deputy chief of the defence staff (Operations), was asked about the ground forces available, saying: ""I don't think we should dismiss them, but nor should we try and invent some coherence where it doesn't exist."" He also cited an estimate of the fighting force of IS as between 20,000 and 30,000, adding that this ""comes with considerable conditionality"". MPs rejected air strikes against Syrian government targets in 2013, but have since backed strikes against IS in Iraq. Ministers say it is ""illogical"" to carry out strikes in Iraq but not Syria as IS does not recognise the border between the countries. Wednesday's entire parliamentary schedule - including Prime Minister's Questions - will be cleared to make way for the debate. But Labour has accused the government of a ""rush to war"" by rejecting calls for a two-day debate. A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said: ""By refusing a full two-day debate, David Cameron is demonstrating he knows the debate is running away from him, and that the case he made last week is falling apart."" ""The prime minister should stop the rush to war to allow for a full discussion of the issues in Parliament. ""Matters of national security are far too important to be bulldozed through the House of Commons for political convenience."" Mr Cameron has said there would be ""the equivalent number of questions we would often have across a two-day debate in one day."" He added: ""I want MPs to be able to have full consideration, to make speeches, to make points, to ask me questions, to examine the government's case."" The prime minister said the vote would be held to ""answer the call"" from the UK's allies, because IS ""is a threat to our country and this is the right thing to do"". Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Benn agreed, saying he had reached the decision to support air strikes ""because of the threat to our citizens and others"". He defended Labour's approach to the question, saying ""people of conscience have reached different views about what the right thing to do is"", and insisted he had not been planning to resign if he had been instructed to vote with Mr Corbyn. Mr Benn said he would ""argue my case from the despatch box tomorrow in a serious way"". Labour MPs are reported to have criticised Mr Corbyn's tactics during a lively meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) on Monday night, with former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said to have accused him of trying to divide the party. Speaking afterwards, shadow energy minister Clive Lewis, an ally of the leader, said: ""If there are members of the PLP that want to bomb Syria and join with the Tories then on their heads be it. I respect that decision in the sense that they've come to the decision they have."" He warned that if the war ""extends with no ends"" the party would be looking at who voted in favour of action and ""when the blame is apportioned, step forward"". One Tory rebel, senior backbencher David Davis, said moderate ground forces referred to by Mr Cameron were ""disparate people, not an army"". He said US air forces were only carrying out seven strikes each day ""because they've not got the targets - they've not got the troops on the ground to find the targets"". Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson questioned the 70,000 figure in a letter to Mr Cameron, calling for a detailed explanation of how the figure was compiled. Mr Watson also requested a ""timeline for peace"", saying many MPs were ""yet to be convinced"" that a ""meaningful political process"" is in place to pull together different groups to secure peace. The UK Parliament's third largest party, the SNP, had also called for a debate over two days. It opposes bombing IS in Syria, while the Liberal Democrats, with eight MPs, have yet to say how they will vote.","The UK is already a target for Islamic State extremists and the threat has "" @placeholder "" , Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has told MPs.",intensified,disappeared,divided,word,written,0
"His performances this summer have established him as a proper Test batsman. It was a great decision to move him up to number six and you can see the confidence that has given him. Stokes was outstanding on Saturday. He was solid in defence but still positive and played good, well-controlled shots. He deserved a hundred and looked utterly crestfallen when he played on off the bowling of Mitchell Marsh for 87. When England took the field later in the day, Stokes was like a dynamo. He is whole-hearted and chases and dives after everything. The one area where he is still a work in progress is his bowling. He often gets compared to Andrew Flintoff, and he is probably already a better batsman than England's 2005 hero but he's some way off being the bowler Flintoff was. At the moment he's a fourth seamer who still bowls a bad ball every over, but if he can work on his consistency without losing any pace, he could become a really top all-rounder. If Stokes looked frustrated to miss out on a hundred, then Alastair Cook looked mortified when he chopped on for 96. When he drove at a wide-ish ball from Marsh, he must have thought he'd struck a boundary, but instead the ball caught the inside edge and Cook was gone. That shows the tiny margins there are in this game. It was an excellent innings nonetheless, compiled using precisely the cautious-but-confident approach Cook adopts when he's at his best. We've heard all about England's new positive style, and there were signs in Cardiff that Cook was trying to follow the trend by being more attacking, but this was the old Cook, and that's the Cook England need. From the horrors of 30-4, England could not have done much more than reaching 312 all out. Australia stuck to their task well, bowled mostly full lengths to attacking fields, and gradually chipped away at the England innings. Marsh now has a real opportunity to cement his place in this team for a long time. He ran in with much more purpose than Shane Watson has been doing and looked like a bowler who wanted to take wickets. Watson used to bowl ball after ball outside the off stump, which was occasionally effective, but his body language was poor in Cardiff and Marsh looks much more sprightly. I wasn't at all surprised that Australia didn't enforce the follow-on. They might have thought about it if they'd blown England out in an hour and a half this morning, but the pitch is slow and flat so Michael Clarke needed to give his bowlers a rest. England are likely to have to survive the best part of five sessions to save the game, but I see no reason why they shouldn't be able to do it. The ball is not doing anything at all. It hasn't spun and even if it does spin it will do so very slowly and without bounce. It's a slow, true pitch and there's no real bounce to terrify the lower order so if England play every ball very carefully they can save this match. The safety-first approach won't come naturally to a lot of the current England players. Modern batsmen like to see scoreboard ticking along. There aren't many Geoff Boycotts out there who are happy blocking ball after ball. But this Test is there for the saving. With a healthy dose of luck, allied to discipline and concentration, England could yet be heading to Edgbaston with a 1-0 lead. Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Sam Sheringham. Listen to Geoffrey Boycott and Jonathan Agnew review each day's play on the TMS podcast, and watch a summary of each day with our Pint-sized Ashes videos.","Amid the doom and gloom of England 's predicament in the second Test , the ongoing development of Ben Stokes @placeholder a welcome chink of light .",provides,became,shared,hailed,grabbing,0
"The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted of attempted murder at Winchester Crown Court. She lured her victim to a quiet area of their Hampshire school and stabbed her in the chest in April. Mr Justice Fraser said the girl, who was 14 at the time, had a ""far darker side to her personality"". She was given a 14 year sentence and will only be considered for parole after 10 years. Her trial at Winchester Crown Court heard the girl was obsessed with mass murders and had compiled a ""kill list"" of 60 people. Mr Justice Fraser said the ""intelligent, articulate young girl"" had watched snuff movies online and had previously planned to kill her mother and brother. She turned up for school on 25 April wearing a bandana and with her mouth cut to resemble the Joker from the Batman film The Dark Knight, the jury heard. She told her 15-year-old victim she had a present for her and to ""close your eyes and put your hands out"". The attacked girl stepped back and although the knife went through her blazer and shirt she only suffered a superficial puncture wound to the chest near her heart. Prosecutors said the girl bore a grudge against her victim who she believed had set up fake Instagram and Tumblr accounts in her name. In a statement read out by the prosecution barrister James Newton-Price, the victim's mother said her daughter is haunted by the attack and has since been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. She said: ""It's a nightmare no-one wants for their child and we're living it."" A psychiatric report found the attacker did not have a mental illness but instead had a personality problem and struggled with empathy.",A teenager who was obsessed with serial killers and school shootings has been @placeholder for at least 10 years for the attempted murder of her friend .,detained,sentenced,suspended,sacked,sold,0
"Corey Whitely bagged his 10th goal of the season for Dagenham, firing in directly from a corner to catch out Barrow goalkeeper Jonathan Flatt after 11 minutes. That lead lasted just under half an hour, before Liam Hughes smashed in a penalty after Craig Robson was fouled in the box with six minutes left of the first half. Moussa Diarra completed the turnaround after 57 minutes, nodding home from Danny Livesy's pinpoint free-kick delivery to secure Barrow's second win in six games. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Barrow 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Second Half ends, Barrow 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Substitution, Barrow. Jack Thomas replaces Liam Hughes. Substitution, Barrow. Akil Wright replaces Shaun Tuton. Substitution, Barrow. Inih Effiong replaces Richard Bennett. Josh Staunton (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Josh Staunton replaces Fejiri Okenabirhie. Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Elliott Romain replaces Jordan Maguire-Drew. Goal!  Barrow 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Moussa Diarra (Barrow). Shaun Beeley (Barrow) is shown the yellow card. Second Half begins Barrow 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. First Half ends, Barrow 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Goal!  Barrow 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Liam Hughes (Barrow) converts the penalty with a. Goal!  Barrow 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Corey Whitely (Dagenham and Redbridge). First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",Barrow came from behind to beat promotion @placeholder Dagenham & Redbridge .,neighbours,helped,beat,chasing,points,3
"The study, by Imperial College London, calculated such eating habits could prevent 7.8 million premature deaths each year. The team also identified specific fruit and veg that reduced the risk of cancer and heart disease. The analysis showed even small amounts had a health boon, but more is even better. A portion counts as 80g (3oz) of fruit or veg - the equivalent of a small banana, a pear or three heaped teaspoons of spinach or peas. The conclusions were made by pooling data on 95 separate studies, involving two million people's eating habits. Lower risks of cancer were linked to eating: Lower risks of heart disease and strokes were linked to eating: The results, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, also assessed the risk of dying before your time. Compared with eating no fruit or veg a day, it showed: The researchers do not know if eating even more fruit and veg would have even greater health benefits as there is little evidence out there to review. Dr Dagfinn Aune, one of the researchers, said: ""Fruit and vegetables have been shown to reduce cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and to boost the health of our blood vessels and immune system. ""This may be due to the complex network of nutrients they hold. ""For instance, they contain many antioxidants, which may reduce DNA damage and lead to a reduction in cancer risk."" However, many people struggle to even eat the five a day (400g) recommended by the World Health Organization. In the UK, only about one in three people eats enough. Dr Aune said the findings did not mean the five-a-day message needed to change. He told the BBC: ""There are many different considerations if changing policy, it's not just the health effects - is it feasible? ""But our findings are quite clear in that they do support five a day, but there are even some further benefits for higher intakes."" Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: ""The five-a-day target is the foundation of a healthy balanced diet and is an achievable way to help prevent a number of diseases. ""Whilst consuming more than five portions of fruit and vegetables a day may be desirable... adding pressure to consume more fruit and vegetables creates an unrealistic expectation."" Not all of the 95 studies that were analysed fully accounted for other aspects of lifestyle, such as exercise levels, that could also play a role in prolonging lives. However, Dr Aune said the conclusions were ""quite robust"". Follow James on Twitter.","Eating @placeholder of fruit and vegetables - 10 portions a day - may give us longer lives , say researchers .",chunks,levels,images,loads,scores,3
"A police officer outlined the case as a man and woman appeared before Strabane Magistrates' Court on various charges. Gyorgy Orsos and Evelyn Covacs, both of John Street, Dungannon, were charged with kidnapping and human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Mr Orsos, 32, was also charged with two counts of raping the woman. The couple, who are originally from Hungary, were also jointly charged with controlling prostitution. The police investigation began after concerns were raised about the safety of a woman in Dungannon, County Tyrone, two days ago. A detective constable told the court that when officers visited a house on Tuesday it was in a poor condition. They noticed locks on bedroom doors, both inside and out, and found boxes of condoms. The court heard there were signs that one room was being used for prostitution. When officers spoke to the alleged victim, she said she had been brought to Northern Ireland from Hungary seven months ago by the two defendants. She told police she thought she would be getting a regular job with income to help look after her family back home. However, she claimed that Mr Orsos raped her on two occasions when she arrived and then she was forced to work in the sex trade. The woman also told police that he smashed her mobile phone and stole her bank cards. The court heard that his 20-year-old co-accused exploited the woman as a prostitute. It was alleged Ms Covacs took her photo, placed adverts on escort websites and organised clients. The woman told police all this was done against her will and both defendants were made aware of this but continued to use her in this way. In addition to the kidnapping, human trafficking and controlling prostitution charges, Ms Covacs is further charged with concealing criminal property that was the proceeds of crime, namely money. Mr Orsos faces additional charges of stealing the alleged victim's bankcard and destroying her mobile phone. A defence solicitor said his clients had no criminal records and both strongly denied the offences. He said they were a couple in a three-year relationship who arrived from Hungary without passports just over a year ago. He said both had made prepared statements to police. Bail was refused. Both defendants will appear again in court in Dungannon on 14 June.","A woman @placeholder by police said she was raped and forced into prostitution after she arrived in Northern Ireland from Hungary , a court has heard .",killed,rescued,lost,arrested,attacked,1
"Hamilton made a mistake on his first lap in final qualifying and was worried he would not be able to make amends when a crash halted the session. But a superb last lap beat team-mate Valtteri Bottas by 0.434 seconds. Hamilton said: ""I had two minutes to get my run. The pressure of that was amazing. I love it."" The Mercedes driver's pole position in Baku was the 66th of his career - only two short of Michael Schumacher's all-time record - but he said he was ""even more excited than I have been for a long time"". When the session was stopped following the crash by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, there were only three and a half minutes left, meaning drivers would have time for only one flying lap at the end of the session. This has been a problem all weekend on the Baku street circuit because drivers have been struggling to get their tyres up to the right operating temperature owing to the low-grip surface and hardness of the tyres. ""It was a great lap,"" Hamilton said. ""We didn't think we could do a single lap time here. It is probably difficult for the public to understand why we are struggling but these tyres are really hard and we are trying all these things to get some temperature in the tyre, weaving like crazy. ""It has always been multiple laps to get the temperature in. ""I made a mistake on my [first] run, the red flag came out and I had two minutes to get my run. I don't know why I like pressure so much."" Hamilton's error on his first lap came at the final proper corner before the mile-long straight. He locked up a wheel and ran wide on the exit, costing himself half a second. ""Qualifying was going so well,"" said Hamilton, who had been fastest in the first and second parts of qualifying. ""I was so on it - Q1, Q2, then Q3 I made that one little mistake and I was so frustrated I had made that mistake and the red flag came out when I was up again on my next lap and I was thinking 'there is no way I was going to be able to do it on the first lap'. ""I was so disappointed because I know you need to be perfect to win this title."" He added: ""It's always really important to get that banker in on the first lap and I didn't do it. Today was a good recovery and I thought I will not allow myself to do that again next qualifying but you learn from these things."" Hamilton heads into the race 12 points behind title rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, who qualified fourth behind team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, both more than a second slower than Hamilton. Vettel said he was confident Ferrari could ""match"" Mercedes' pace in the race. Bottas said: ""We seem to be quick here and with Ferrari's starting positions like it is, nothing else is good other than a one-two for the team.""","Lewis Hamilton said he thrives under "" pressure "" after salvaging a pole position he thought he had @placeholder in Azerbaijan with a "" beautiful lap "" .",gained,finished,returned,blown,landed,3
"The Chairboys won for only the third time in the league this campaign to move up to 19th in the table. ""We've had some tough times lately. We're at the wrong end of the table, I know that,"" said Ainsworth. ""I'll be doing everything I possibly can to build on this. One result doesn't make a season."" Sam Wood and Paris Cowan-Hall found the net for the first time this campaign to put Wycombe two ahead against the Alex before on-loan Southampton midfielder Dominic Gape scored his first professional goal to make it 3-0 before half-time. Scott Kashket then added a brace on his home debut to make it 5-0 before a late Crewe consolation. ""I'm just really pleased we've got a win,"" Ainsworth told BBC Three Counties Radio. ""But I won't get carried away. I didn't get too down when we got beat 4-1 (by Luton), I'm not going too get carried away when we win 5-1. ""I want to get ready for Exeter now and back this up. The fans were great, hopefully we've put a few more on the gate for Saturday and this club can start moving up the table. ""The second half of the season, I'm expecting to be stronger.""","Wycombe Wanderers manager Gareth Ainsworth said there will be "" no way we 'll be @placeholder "" after Tuesday 's 5 - 1 thrashing of Crewe in League Two .",leaving,resting,sacked,delayed,rescued,1
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 7 September 2015 Last updated at 16:34 BST He said the refugees will come from camps bordering Syria rather than those who are already in Europe. Pressure on the government to allow more refugees to come to the UK has intensified in recent weeks as questions about what to do with the huge numbers of migrants and refugees coming into Europe. It's after tens of thousands of people, from places like Syria, Afghanistan, and parts of Africa, have come to Europe in the hope of a better future. In a speech to the House of Commons Mr Cameron said Britain had a duty to help people in need.","The Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that Britain will take an extra 20,000 refugees as part of the response to the @placeholder migrant crisis in Europe .",body,crowd,growing,ground,question,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device Kear was assistant to Malcolm Reilly when Castleford lifted the trophy in 1986, led Sheffield Eagles to one of the most famous final shocks when they beat Wigan in 1998, and stunned high-flying Leeds while with Hull in 2005. So who better to give BBC Sport the lowdown on the semi-final line up in 2017? Media playback is not supported on this device ""Hull are a physical presence in the three-quarters and the forwards, and have Gareth Ellis returning. ""It was a long time before they had success of winning at Wembley, and there's an element with them that they enjoyed it so much in 2016 they will want to get back there this year. ""Their success depends on Marc Sneyd. He's got to really be at the races and on top form for them to have success. ""Ellis is important not just on the field but off it too. He's a leader by deed not by word. It shows how important it is to them and obviously in their last game he was instrumental. He's absolutely vital for them. Media playback is not supported on this device ""Leeds are very close to the standards they have previously set. The fact they're second in the Super League table tells you how close they are to replicating their previous trophy success. They'll fancy themselves for the Challenge Cup and the Super League Grand Final. ""We know they can play fast exciting rugby league with great support through people like Kallum Watkins, meaning they can score from anywhere, but they can nail down highly professional performances that are required for knockout games. ""They base a lot of their cup games on their kicking strategy which, under Kevin Sinfield, was magnificent, but [Rhinos halves] Danny McGuire and Joel Moon demonstrate clever kicking as well. They will know how to win the game."" ""Each is the organiser of their team. They direct them to the right points of the field and most importantly the kicking game in knockout games is immense. Whoever completes sets and kicks best to build pressure will be the team that succeeds. ""I'm going with Hull FC as there's an emotional attachment. I just think they might well nick it."" Media playback is not supported on this device ""Wigan are dangerous, they're getting quality key players back. Sam Tomkins is getting better each week, Joel Tomkins and Liam Farrell are coming back into the back row, hooker Michael McIlorum is getting up to speed, and prop Tony Clubb similarly. ""Key players are getting games under their belts. Those players know what it means to themselves and the club to do well. They'll be aware of the expectations and traditions at Wigan. ""Crucially, they have the experience. Sean O'Loughlin has been there, seen it and done - he has 20 T-shirts! I'm fully expecting a high-quality Wigan performance. Media playback is not supported on this device ""Salford are fourth in Super League and in the Challenge Cup semi-finals - a true reflection of where they are, they've earned the right to be there. ""They'll be disappointed with their last few weeks' form and especially the  performance against Leigh, where Ian Watson said it cost some players a jumper for the semi-final. ""It's inevitable that it has been something of a distraction. Their last semi-final was 1998 and the last final back in 1969. But the day of the game will be the time when the distractions are out of the way and it's the job in hand. They may well come up with an outstanding performance and bag the trip to Wembley. ""One question mark hangs over the possible absence of Robert Lui. Todd Carney can step up, he's a quality player. However, he hasn't played as regularly and the combinations aren't as slick when Michael Dobson and Lui play together. ""Forwards lay platforms, three-quarters score points but it is the halves who direct. The kicking game is as important as possession. ""Dobson will be important for Salford, so he needs to be on his game. The same goes for George Williams at Wigan, and it's down to the half-back to decide the success or otherwise in this game."" ""Wigan are going to come back with the spoils. It would be great for Salford, their owner Marwan Koukash and all the players and staff - they'd deserve it. But for me, Wigan should be short-price favourites.""",Few coaches have the Challenge Cup know - how to match Wakefield Trinity @placeholder of rugby John Kear .,head,series,side,levels,parts,0
"Staylittle, near Newtown, had no mobile connectivity or broadband internet after the line went down in 2015. A permanent mobile phone mast has now been erected, providing full 3G and 4G coverage to the village. Residents and campaigners have described it as ""a huge, positive change for the village"". Villagers were cut off for three weeks after the landline connection went down in August 2015. A 2G mobile mast was later erected, which enabled voice calls and texts, but the new mast will allow villagers to connect to the internet and make calls from wherever they are in the area. Brendan O'Reilly, chief technology officer at O2, said the company was ""working hard to emulate this"" connectivity in other rural villages across Wales.",A Powys village @placeholder one of the remotest in the UK now has full mobile connectivity after it was cut off more than 18 months ago .,saved,being,dubbed,abandoned,caught,2
"The UK-wide scheme was instigated by the Prince of Wales to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen's Coronation. Flower-rich grasslands have decreased by 97% in the UK since the 1930s. New meadows have been created in Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire and work is due to begin in Conwy county. Flagship ""Coronation meadows"" are being identified for each county in the UK so seed from them can be used to create new meadows within the area. The project has received funding from Biffa Award, Natural Resources Wales and Grantscape.",Twelve wildflower meadows have been @placeholder in Wales following a mission to reverse their decline .,placed,held,restored,planted,spotted,2
"They are the claimants, who, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), stand to lose an average of £1,000 a year from April 2016. After losing a vote in the House of Lords, the chancellor, George Osborne has promised to soften the transition to lower tax credits, but without losing sight of the £4.4bn in eventual savings to the Treasury. So what are the chancellor's options, and how will those three million people be affected? Eventually tax credit payments will get smaller anyway, as claimants switch to Universal Credit. But any postponement of the cuts would reduce the £4.4bn in annual savings. So either the chancellor would need to find large cuts elsewhere, or the Treasury would have to live with the deficit beyond 2020. Currently the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is predicting a budget surplus by then. If the cuts are reduced, the chancellor will need to be careful not to break the government's self-imposed welfare cap, which limits the amount of total benefit spending, and which comes into force in April 2016. Tax credits are nothing to do with paying tax. They are a series of benefits introduced by the last Labour government to help low-paid families. There are two types: Working Tax Credit (WTC) for those in work, and Child Tax Credit (CTC) for those with children. Tax credits are gradually being included within Universal Credit, which is being rolled out across the country. The idea of this benefit is to encourage people to work. As an example, most people will need to work at least 30 hours a week to qualify. If you have children, are under 25 or over 60, you will need to work 16 hours a week.  You can earn a maximum salary of £13,253. Currently claimants earning less than £6,420 receive the full entitlement. As they earn above this level, their payments are reduced. To qualify for CTC you need to have at least one child, but you don't need to work.  As an example, those with one child can earn up to £25,000 and still qualify for a payment. For those also claiming WTC, anyone earning less than £6,420 (the income threshold) will receive the full entitlement. For those not claiming WTC, they can earn up to £16,105 before seeing a reduction in their payments The income threshold for Working Tax Credits - £6,420 - is due to be cut to £3,850 a year. In other words, as soon as someone earns more than £3,850, they will see their payments reduced. The income threshold for those only claiming CTCs will be cut from £16,105 to £12,125. Osborne could tweak these thresholds. The rate at which those payments are cut is also due to get faster. Currently, for every £1 claimants earn above the threshold, they lose 41p. This is known as the taper rate. But from April 2016, the taper rate will accelerate to 48p. So for every pound earned above the threshold, claimants will lose 48p. Again, Osborne could tweak the taper rate. There are due to be similar reductions for those who claim work allowances under Universal Credit. Who will be the losers? The IFS has said that three million families are likely to lose an average of £1,000 a year, as a result of the previously announced changes to tax credits. But the government has argued that the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW) will raise incomes for many people when it is introduced in April 2016.  New personal allowance thresholds will also mean many people will pay less income tax. The Resolution Foundation - which campaigns for low and middle-income families - has analysed all the changes, taking into account the NLW and new income tax thresholds. It claims that by 2020, a low-earning single parent, with one child, who works 20 hours a week, and who earns £9.35 an hour, will end up £1,000 a year worse off. A low-earning couple with two children, also on £9.35 an hour, will be £850 a year worse off. However, a childless middle-earning couple will be £350 a year better off, as a result of the new personal tax allowance. Chancellor George Osborne says that anyone who is working full-time on the National Living Wage will be better off, after the tax changes are taken into consideration. However most people claiming tax credits are likely to be working part-time. The amount anyone can earn before having to pay income tax - the personal allowance - rises to £11,000 in April 2016, with the aim of reaching £12,500 by 2020. The Treasury says higher income tax thresholds have saved basic rate taxpayers £825 a year each since 2010, with 3.8 million people taken out of the tax system altogether. The government is also doubling the amount of free childcare available to working parents of three and four-year olds, from 2016. It says 600,000 families will benefit. It will be worth an extra £2,500 a year. The actual level of tax credits, along with all working-age benefits, will be frozen until April 2020. This is scheduled to save another £4bn. If inflation were to continue at its current level of zero, the effect on claimants might be minimal. But inflation is expected to rise again to the target rate of 2% within two years. However, Osborne is unlikely to row back from this commitment, as it is a freeze rather than a cut. Nevertheless, analysis by the IFS suggests that those in work, but receiving low salaries, will be hardest hit by the changes. The calculations were made before taking into consideration the forthcoming NLW, or tax changes. As the chart above shows, those in the second poorest category of workers are likely to lose more than £1,200 a year. By contrast, the richest 10% stand to lose less than £400. Only those in the ninth richest category will gain. In a subsequent analysis, the IFS said the NLW would go 26% of the way to compensating working households for the forthcoming loss of benefits. But it said households with someone in paid work would still end up £550 a year worse off, on average. From April 2017, those starting a family will no longer be eligible for the family element of tax credits - for CTC, that is £545. The equivalent in Universal Credit, known as the first child premium, will also not be available for new claims. In addition, new tax credit claims will be limited to two children. In other words no allowance will be made for a third or fourth child. The government has insisted that no existing claimants will lose money as a result of this change. Again, Osborne is unlikely to change this. The Resolution Foundation says a family with three children, making a claim after April 2017, could be £3,450 a year worse off than under the current system.","Three million people will have particular reason to @placeholder in to the Spending Review and Autumn Statement on Wednesday , as the chancellor announces what is to become of his plans to cut working tax credits .",respond,stay,listen,send,log,2
"Citgo Petroleum, a US-based subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, is named in papers filed with the Federal Election Commission. The revelation comes as the Venezuelan economy appears to be crippled by food shortages, violent crime and inflation. Three people were killed in protests on Wednesday as tens of thousands took to the streets to demand new elections Other major corporations named in the documents include Pepsi and Walmart, which gave $250,000 and $150,000 respectively, while owners of NFL teams or their companies gave more than $5m. Casino owner and billionaire Sheldon Adelson also gave $5m. Venezuela is in the middle of a major economic crisis, which has the oil-rich country flirting with hyperinflation. This Wednesday, street protests demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro resulted in at least two persons shot dead. In this chaotic context, it is perhaps less surprising that Venezuelan media did not seem to dedicate much time to cover the news that their government gave, through a state-owned oil company, a US$500,000 contribution to Donald Trump's inauguration. Still, some analysts in Venezuela are expressing anger at the news. ""We have been experiencing four consecutive years of recession, we have the highest inflation in the world and are facing scarcity in many basic goods. It is scandalous that Venezuela, facing such a crisis, would make those donations to the inauguration of a US president, who at least in theory, is ideologically confronted with the revolution,"" Jose Manuel Puente, a professor of public policy at IESA university in Caracas, tells the BBC. The payment was reportedly made through Citgo, a US subsidiary of Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA. It is not the first time Citgo has been involved in politically controversial activities in the US. President Maduro's predecessor, Hugo Chavez, used the company a few years ago to provide subsidised fuel to low-income citizens in several major US cities. His critics said then it was a propaganda ploy designed to annoy his ideological rivals at the White House. But now the Maduro administration would seem to be in a less confrontational mode towards Washington. The Venezuelan president has recently been quoted saying that Trump has been the target of a ""brutal hate campaign"" and added that he ""won't be worse than Obama"". ""The (Bolivarian) revolution is pragmatic,"" Puente tells the BBC. ""Eighteen years after the beginning of the revolution, the US is still their main trading partner. It is business as usual"".","Venezuela has donated $ 500,000 to US President Donald Trump 's inauguration , newly @placeholder records show .",representing,released,unearthed,promoted,opened,1
"Thirty days ago, the nominated adviser for the holding company, Rangers International Football Club (RIFC), resigned. Trading on the stock exchange was suspended. The company was given 30 days to find a new one. To recap further, a nominated adviser, or nomad, is required by the London Stock Exchange to carry out first-line regulation of a company that's listed on the Alternative Investments Market (AIM) - the junior trading platform for shares in smaller, younger companies and higher risk investors. The nomad has to make sure that the company's governance is in line with stock market rules. The nomad's reputation depends on it. So if the regulated company's governance is a burach, there's blood all over the boardroom walls, complaints are piling in, the auditor quits, accountants warn that there's significant risk that the company may not be able to continue as a going concern, and it's doubtful that the football team can win promotion to a higher-earning league... and so it goes on...  then any sane nomad would be wise to take his camel and stay well clear. And that's precisely what's happened. We're told by the new bosses at Ibrox that the first test by a prospective (unnamed) nomad was passed. That was the ""fit and proper"" test for the directors who took over the club two days after the last nomad quit. And that test was also applied to Dave King, whose South African convictions for tax criminality on a grand scale have cast rather a large shadow over his plans to become the Ibrox chairman. He's staying off the board until approved by the football authorities and the stock exchange - except it looks like the stock exchange test won't be a problem any more. So what are the implications of delisting. Quite a few Rangers fans own small shareholdings following the stock market float in December 2012. It's now much more difficult to sell those shares, though if you can find a buyer, there's nothing to stop you selling. Registering the sale should still be possible. A stock market is the place where buyers and sellers can meet up and do their deals. If there's not much liquidity - that is, it's hard to find a buyer - then the value of the asset goes down. That helps explain why we're hearing that legal action is being contemplated by those who invested in RIFC, and feel let down. They could have expected the AIM listing provided assurance that the company would be competently run. There's now evidence that it wasn't. And the value of shares has fallen from 93p to 17p, then rebounding to 35p when trading was suspended. To help shareholders, the directors of RIFC are putting in place a temporary solution. They've found a broker who can match-make for buyers and sellers. That system is used by Millwall FC shareholders. The next bit of the plan is to join another market. In a previous incarnation (cue familiar protests from those who don't believe in corporate reincarnation as the same football club), Rangers Football Club shares were traded on the Plus exchange. That was before Craig Whyte came along. Plus is now known as ISDX. Arsenal FC shares are traded there (rather better footballing company than Millwall). It's one of two potential trading platforms. The Ibrox statement says both are keen to see RIFC admitted for trading. That may be true. But it's hard to forget that, 28 days ago, Dave King was offering assurances that he had a nomad lined up and everything would be tickety-boo. And ISDX also requires a nominated adviser to work with listed companies and ensure they're sticking to the rules. It's known as an ISDX corporate adviser. Will they also baulk at Rangers' toxic legacy or its chairman-elect's business record in South Africa? The next challenge is getting new investment. Listing on the main stock exchanges adds not just liquidity but also credibility to a company's share offerings. The new directors made clear earlier this week that they want to raise more funds this summer from shareholders, plus new investors. They need to, simply to pay the bills. Being off the Alternative Investment Market means lower costs of compliance and less management time taken up in keeping shareholders informed. But being turfed off is likely to carry a penalty when the company goes fundraising. It's less regulated, so it's probably worth less. The wording of the delisting statement hints that that won't be a problem. Investment is already being lined up with people who aren't bothered about the lack of a listing. That suggests that the small-scale fan investor won't be a feature. It also suggests that the key deal-making is going to be done out of sight of fans, the public and the media. And that's worked really well for Rangers in the past, hasn't it?","It will come as no surprise to followers of @placeholder at Ibrox that it 's back to code SNAFU - that is , the situation is normal , in that it 's all , er , fouled up .",events,pounds,applause,fun,lives,0
"The Championship side also strengthened their grip on third place with a 1-0 win at Birmingham City on Tuesday. ""We needed to have extra bodies in the squad when you look at the number of games towards the end of the season,"" Stam told BBC Radio Berkshire. ""Maybe we will have injuries and suspensions that will stretch us."" Bournemouth striker Grabban, 29, West Ham defender Oxford, 18, and Crystal Palace midfielder Mutch, 25, have all joined on loan until the end of the season. ""We're always looking for quality players in the squad and I think every manager wants that,"" Stam said. ""Reece Oxford gives us an extra defender in the squad, he's a young and very talented player and he has the quality that we need in how we play. ""He's highly-rated and everyone is happy to have him in the squad. Jordan Mutch has the experience that maybe other players in the squad don't have. ""Maybe that will make my life more difficult or perhaps easier in terms of making selection choices.""","Reading manager Jaap Stam believes his three @placeholder day signings , Lewis Grabban , Reece Oxford and Jordan Mutch , will add "" quality and experience "" .",trio,team,side,opening,deadline,4
"About 25,000 properties in Grangemouth, Falkirk and the Lower Braes will join the scheme, which the council started implementing last year. Falkirk Council was the first in the UK to cut general household waste collections to once every three weeks. Under the new system, the amount of waste discarded by households has reduced on average by 2kg per week. Council bosses said the service has led to a reduction of about 400 tonnes of material sent to landfill per month, representing a significant saving in landfill tax. It is estimated that once the whole Falkirk Council area is participating, 9,000 tonnes of landfill material will be diverted to recycling per year, saving £385,000. Letters to residents will be issued from this week to the third phase areas explaining the changes, followed by a detailed information pack. Council environment spokesman Craig Martin said: ""The new service has been a success thanks to the support of residents who have made the effort to recycle more every week, particularly food waste. ""The increase in recycling means a reduction in the amount we pay in landfill charges and this is a saving we can use elsewhere. Last year we spent £2.5m sending material to landfill, much of which could have been recycled. ""We're confident that this final round of changes will be as successful as the first two and look forward to the support shown by our communities.""",The final phase of a project to cut bin collections to once every three weeks is to be @placeholder out in Falkirk .,carries,laid,rolled,phased,ruled,2
"The strike is aimed at pressurising President Joseph Kabila to back a political deal which fell apart week. The deal outlined the creation of a new government paving the way for a general election. Mr Kabila was supposed to step down last year but the vote to replace him was not held. Security forces have been deployed to protect business owners who have chosen to ignore the strike. Mr Kabila's second and final term came to an end last November but he failed to relinquish power, with his government saying elections could not be organised on schedule because of financial and logistical difficulties. Following deadly protests, the Catholic church brokered an agreement to create a transitional government that would oversee the elections, which under the deal were scheduled for December. But the deal fell apart over a disagreement about the proposed power-sharing mechanism, including who would become the prime minister. The Rassemblement, the main coalition of opposition political parties which called the strike on Monday, blames the government for the collapse of the deal. The bishops called on the president to get involved in salvaging the process. DR Congo has a long history of instability and has never had a smooth transfer of power since independence in 1960.","The usually busy streets of the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo , Kinshasa , are @placeholder as the result of a general strike .",celebrating,deserted,known,continuing,describes,1
"They said talking with so-called listeners in Maghaberry Prison was crucial in tackling serious depression. One of the men has served six and a half years of a manslaughter sentence after killing a man in a fight. He does not want to be identified, so we have agreed to call him John. He began using the service run by the Samaritans shortly after being jailed, and last used it two and a half years ago. John has a daughter who was born while he was in prison, and said he struggled to cope without his family and was haunted by what he had done. ""I came into jail for killing somebody and I had sort of no hope in here, and I ended up turning to drugs for the first couple of years and then after that my mental health started deteriorating,"" he said. ""I was really ashamed of what I had done and it took me a few years to deal with it."" John contacted a listener after a prison officer told him the service was available if he was feeling depressed. At his lowest point he met a listener three times a week for a number of months. ""l felt suicidal a lot at that time. I was feeling really bad, really bad,"" he explained. He said the meetings had a huge impact. ""I now see light at the end of the tunnel, I'm making plans for the future. At that time I had no plans, I more or less just had no hope,"" he said. ""Probably if I hadn't been able to contact the listener service I could have maybe self-harmed and stuff like that, so it made a big difference to my life. ""If you're sitting in your cell in despair and you've nobody to talk to, it's just going to keep going over and over [in your mind]. If you've a listener to talk to it takes you out of that frame of mind."" Michael Irwin also used the listener service after being sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug trafficking in 2007. He spent the first two years in a jail in England before being transferred back to Magilligan prison near Limavady. Michael said he struggled during those first two years because he was cut off from his family and friends. He met a listener every night for a month, and the two men became friends. ""The impact of those meetings was amazing,"" he said. ""Daily life in prison is hard. People don't really understand, there's so many pressures. ""It doesn't take much, if you've got all this pent up anger and frustration, with lots of doubts bottled up, it doesn't take much to trigger it. ""If you've got a worry, you can just go and talk to one of these guys. Whenever somebody is just sitting there listening, you can just unravel, get all of your worries off your chest, and they aren't judging you or telling you what to do. ""That made a huge difference. Mentally, it helped me clear the air."" Having turned to a listener for help, Michael later volunteered to be one himself after being transferred back to Magilligan. He said the fact that he had used the service made it easier for him to talk to prisoners seeking help. ""Being in somebody else's shoes or walking the walk, you hear that in prison a lot,"" he said. ""You know, 'how do you know how I feel if you haven't done it, you know nothing about my life'. ""I was able to say, well I sort of do. I was able to relate a hell of a lot more."" Michael said the work was often difficult because of the nature of the stories he was told, but added that he also gained from the experience. ""It can be deeply hurtful, but it can also be very rewarding whenever somebody comes through it and whenever you meet them a couple of days later or a week later and they're going 'what about you mate, thanks for that the other day', and you see the smile on the face. ""It gives you purpose. And obviously that is very lacking in prison, so you hold on to those things."" That sense of purpose helped motivated Michael to pursue education while behind bars and he completed a degree in criminology while in Magilligan. Since his release after serving half of his sentence, he has been studying for a masters in criminology and plans to take it a step further and do a PhD. He also still assists the Samaritans by helping train volunteers who deal with calls from prisoners needing help.",A convicted killer and a drug trafficker have said a @placeholder that uses prisoners to help fellow inmates with mental health problems helped them survive life behind bars .,scheme,phenomenon,deal,experience,company,0
"European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the UK may want to be more ""obliging"" to certain countries to secure future commercial advantages. The EU is keen to maintain a united front and conduct central negotiations. Meanwhile, a leading candidate to be France's next President says he will take a ""pretty tough"" line on Brexit. Emmanuel Macron, who opinion polls suggest could win May's election, told Channel 4 News the UK should not be punished for voting to leave the EU but the EU's interests had to be paramount into the upcoming negotiations. ""We have to preserve the rest of the European Union and not to convey the message that you can decide to leave without any consequence,"" he said. Official discussions on the terms of the UK's exit and its future relationship with the EU are expected to begin in the Spring once the UK has triggered Article 50 - notifying the union of its intention to leave. Prime Minister Theresa May has made clear that the UK will leave the EU's single market and wants bespoke commercial and customs agreements based on tariff-free and ""frictionless"" cross-border trade. She has also made clear that she is prepared to leave the EU without a formal deal rather sign up to a bad one. The final agreement on the UK's exit will need the approval of 20 out of the EU's 27 other member states as well as the support of the European Parliament. However, a future trade deal could need the backing of all EU states. There have been suggestions the UK could potentially exploit divisions within the EU over how hard a bargain they are willing to drive. Several EU leaders have insisted the UK cannot expect a better deal outside the EU than it has now and their priority is to protect the interests of the remaining 27 members. Others have advised against ""punishing"" the UK. Speaking after holding talks with Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern, Mr Juncker said there would be no parallel negotiations and the UK would not be allowed to conduct bilateral discussions in key areas such as finance, telecommunications or chemicals. ""A situation could arise whereby the UK might attempt to or wish to be obliging to certain member states in certain economic zones and certain sectors whereby those countries might wish to provide certain advantages to the UK,"" he said. ""It is in our interests therefore that we don't have any special discussions... with certain individual countries."" Mr Kern said that Europe would not ""capitulate"" to the UK by granting it a better status than it would enjoy if it was still an EU member. ""If you want to be a member of a club you have better conditions, obviously, than if you want to be outside the club,"" he said. The EU's negotiating team will be headed up by former commissioner Michel Barnier. Speaking during a visit to Finland his UK counterpart, Brexit Secretary David Davis, said he wanted an outcome which was good for the EU as well as the UK. ""We're not talking about a break-up, we're talking about a new relationship, that's what we want to see,"" he said. The UK's former ambassador to the EU Sir Ivan Rogers has said the negotiations - which are scheduled to be completed in two years - will be ""humungous"" in scope. Preparatory work has been taking place in more than 50 different sectors, spanning manufacturing and services as well as key industries such as farming and fishing.","The UK should not try to play different EU states off against each other or @placeholder "" special discussions "" in key areas , a top EU official has warned .",pursue,words,control,promised,labelled,0
"Dr Bennie, 51, succeeds Dr Brian Keighley as the leader of the British Medical Association (BMA) Scotland. He said there were pressing issues in the NHS that needed to be addressed whatever the outcome of next month's referendum on Scottish independence. Dr Bennie highlighted the structure of training and recruitment problems. The new BMA Scotland leader graduated from Glasgow University Medical School in 1986 and trained in hospitals in the west of Scotland before taking up a consultant post in Glasgow in 1997. He moved to work in Paisley in 2007. Aberdeen-based psychiatrist Dr Sally Winning and Glasgow-based GP, Dr Alan McDevitt have been elected joint deputy chairmen of the BMA's Scottish Council. Dr Bennie said: ""I am immensely proud to have been elected as chairman of the BMA in Scotland.  It is a great honour to represent and lead my profession at such a unique time in Scotland's constitutional history. ""However, regardless of the outcome of the referendum in September, there are pressing issues in our NHS that must be addressed, especially the future structure of training for doctors and the current recruitment problems across general practice and hospital specialties.""",The @placeholder that represents doctors has elected Glasgow - based consultant psychiatrist Dr Peter Bennie as its new Scottish chairman .,world,organisation,news,body,announcement,1
"The SNP launched its youth manifesto at an event in Cumbernauld, while Labour insisted that a vote for the nationalists will ""put Scotland on the road to a second referendum"". Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson focused on her party's ""biggest ever doorstep campaign"". Deputy Lib Dem leader Sir Malcolm Bruce has been campaigning in the north east. Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy visited a school basketball court in Edinburgh and challenged Nicola Sturgeon to ""come clean on her plans for a second referendum"". He said: ""The priority for SNP MPs after this election won't be improving the economy, it will be planning the second referendum campaign. ""A vote for Scottish Labour will put Britain on the road to a fairer economy. With Scottish votes, Labour can get the Tories out of power, stop austerity, ban zero-hours contracts and end the need for food banks. ""Only Labour can stop the Tories being the largest party. ""The choice is simple - the road to a second referendum with the SNP or the road to a fairer economy with Labour."" Meanwhile Ms Sturgeon joined actor Martin Compston to commit her party to policies ""to support and empower our young people"". The SNP youth manifesto states that 16 and 17-year-olds should be entitled to vote in all elections, as well as pledging to increase the minimum wage for under 18s by £1.20 an hour and create 30,000 modern apprenticeships each year. The party said it would also continue to oppose the introduction of tuition fees for Scottish students at universities north of the border, and that its MPs would vote in favour of reducing tuition fees across the UK. Ms Sturgeon said: ""The biggest investment we can make in Scotland's future is in our young people - and as first minister I am determined to do everything I can to support and empower them. ""We are doing all we can to strengthen and grow our economy to provide more opportunities for young people close to home. ""In numbers at Westminster we go further - pushing for an increase in the minimum wage for under 18s by over £1.20 an hour to ensure more young people are better paid. ""A strong team of SNP MPs will stand up for the rights of young people at every turn and deliver the progressive action that is needed to support more of our young people into work, education or training."" Elsewhere on the campaign trail, Scottish Conservative leader Ms Davidson has been highlighting what she calls her party's ""ground war"". She said: ""This is the biggest doorstep campaign ever run by Tories in Scotland and the best planned, regimented, resourced and recruited campaign we've had since 1992."" Speaking on BBC Scotland's Sunday Politics Scotland programme, Ms Davidson also commented on the issue of a second independence referendum. She said: ""I've been saying since January that Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon are half way down the aisle to a deal, what's this going to mean, is there going to be second referendum? ""And people in Scotland are genuinely worried about this. I have been doing street stalls all across the country and people have been walking up to me and saying they are genuinely scared about this."" For the Liberal Democrats, Sir Malcolm has been campaigning in Aberdeen. He set out Lib Dem plans to build ""a stronger, greener economy to create jobs and protect the environment"".  He said protecting the environment was ""in Liberal Democrat DNA"". Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie also appeared on the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme. He accused the Conservatives of stirring up English nationalism. He said: ""I think it is despicable what the Conservatives are doing in this campaign. ""I think they way they are trying to use Alex Salmond and the SNP to represent Scotland, to demonise Scotland, is festering English nationalism."" What are the top issues for each political party at the 2015 general election? Policy guide: Where the parties stand",Scotland 's political parties are continuing to put their key @placeholder to voters ahead of the general election .,change,positions,messages,counterparts,reaction,2
"The Labour leader told supporters yesterday's local elections were ""disappointing"". Mr Corbyn said ""too many fantastic councillors"" had not been re-elected as the party lost 382 seats nationwide. Meanwhile Theresa May campaigned in the West Midlands after a Conservative win in the metro mayoral election there. Speaking to a rally of supporters in Leicester, Jeremy Corbyn admitted his party faces ""a huge challenge over the next four and a bit weeks"" to win on 8 June after the Conservatives enjoyed the best local election performance by a governing party in 40 years, winning 500 seats. In contrast, Labour under-performed, losing control of key councils in the Midlands and Wales that are set to be important general election battlegrounds while coming third in Scotland. Mr Corbyn's comments came after his shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour must ""come out fighting"" after what has been a ""terrible"" 48 hours for the party. Mr McDonnell, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn, said the party must bounce back from the loss of hundreds of seats in council elections. He told LBC radio its performance was ""really disappointing"" and that its message had to ""cut through"" better in the five weeks to the general election. In other election developments: Theresa May says the election is not in the bag despite strong local gains. The Conservative leader told the BBC ""None of the votes cast yesterday will of course count on 8 June in the general election."" ""I'm taking nothing for granted in the next five weeks."" According to analysis by polling expert John Curtice, if the results of Thursday's polls in Wales, Scotland and 32 county councils in England were repeated nationally, the Conservatives would be on 38%, Labour 27%, the Lib Dems 18% and UKIP 5%, Mr Corbyn said that in spite of the results of the local elections, the general election represented ""an opportunity"" and a ""chance to break free"" from what he termed ""a system that is rigged for the rich"". He also said that the local election results had shown the gap between Labour and the Conservatives was ""not as great as the pundits have been saying."" ""But we still have many people to convince, and we have four weeks to do it."" Mr Corbyn's comments echoed those by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who had urged the party to redouble its efforts over the coming weeks. ""We have to be much more effective in cutting through. Over the next five weeks, that's our challenge,"" he said. In the wake of Friday's results, Labour has been forced to deny a rift between Mr Corbyn and former cabinet minister Andy Burnham, who was elected metro mayor for Greater Manchester on Friday. Mr Burnham was not present at a victory rally in Manchester, attended by the Labour leader. He told the BBC he had had a pre-arranged family event and that Mr Corbyn's event was independently organised. Ian Lavery, Labour's national campaigns co-ordinator, said he was not sure why Mr Burnham had not been there but he wanted to ""dispel this myth that there is a rift between Jeremy Corbyn and Andy Burnham"". He added: ""I think the more that Jeremy gets out there into the community and speaks to people, knocks on people's doors, holds rallies and speaks to people face-to-face, the more that people will warm to Jeremy Corbyn.""","The Labour Party faces "" a huge challenge "" over the @placeholder of the general election campaign , Jeremy Corbyn says .",region,head,impact,whole,remainder,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device The England forward, 26, moved to Anfield three years ago but has been unavailable for 54.8% of his time at the club - that's 614 days missed out of 1,121 spent on Merseyside. Reds manager Jurgen Klopp said after taking over that Sturridge needs to ""learn what is serious pain and what is only pain"". So just how bad is his injury record? Here, with the help of experts PhysioRoom, we take a detailed look at his fitness problems since signing for Liverpool in January 2013: For an accessible version of this story, read here.","As Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge nears his latest return to fitness , it is hard to escape the @placeholder that we have been here before .",country,show,news,feeling,events,3
"The cloned site is online and fully functioning, according to users. The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most visited websites, has been closed since a police raid in Sweden last week. Isohunt, which was banned in the UK last month, says it made the move in order to ""save the Freedom of information on the Internet"". If The Pirate Bay returns, the cloned site will be taken down, Isohunt added. The Pirate Bay offered an expansive list of links to pirated content including films, TV shows and music. The Swedish police carried out a raid near Stockholm last week, seizing servers from The Pirate Bay following an investigation which had lasted ""years"", the force said. While its founders have already been convicted of copyright infringement offences and some have been jailed, the site has proved difficult to close down permanently. In 2012, The Pirate Bay changed its structure to make itself more portable and easy to clone. When he heard about the raid last week Peter Sunde, one of the site's original founders, said that he did not like what the site had become. ""The site was ugly, full of bugs, old code and old design,"" he wrote in a blog post. Mr Sunde went on to criticise the explicit nature of the adverts which appeared on it. ""It never changed except for one thing - the ads. More and more ads were filling the site, and somehow when it felt unimaginable to make these ads more distasteful they somehow ended up even worse.""","Isohunt , a website @placeholder access to mostly pirated material , has cloned the database of its competitor , The Pirate Bay , after it was shut down last week .",forced,called,providing,helped,group,2
"John Bibby feared he would not be able to get wife Katharine to hospital in time because roads out of the Lake District village of Backbarrow were flooded. After reaching Furness General in Barrow, Mrs Bibby gave birth within minutes. The newborn's first name is James after the fictional spy James Bond. Mrs Bibby was due to be induced at Lancaster Hospital on Sunday as she was two weeks overdue. With Backbarrow hit by floodwaters, the couple, both aged 36, were advised to visit the following day. However, when she went into labour naturally at about 14:30 GMT they were told to head to Barrow instead. Mr Bibby said: ""The Backbarrow bridge was completely gone and the only other road out was covered in about three foot of water. ""It was a bit of a panic. If she had gone into labour at say 10am, or on Saturday night, it might have been a home birth and I'm not sure how I'd manage that! ""We got through the main flooded bit, luckily we have a Land Rover, I don't think a normal car would have done it. ""But I had to stop quite a few times when Katharine's contractions got really bad, and tried to speed up in between contractions as much as possible. It did cross my mind that I might have to deliver the baby in the car."" Describing himself as a ""massive James Bond fan"", he added: ""His first name was always going to be James, but we've just given him the middle name Noah, because of his journey through the floods."" The couple have one other child, a two-year-old daughter named Alyssa. Further heavy rain has brought more flooding to parts of Cumbria, just four days after large areas of the county were devastated by Storm Desmond.",A couple who @placeholder through Cumbria 's floods for the birth of their son have given him the middle name Noah .,oversaw,travel,lived,inspired,battled,4
"A misfit who grew up hating school, Ms Amoruso left home at 17, intent on a life of anarchy and getting by for free in Olympia, Washington. She says she received a rude wake-up call one day when she was caught shoplifting (but let off), which she had been doing in order to support her lifestyle. ""I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free,"" she says. Now 30, Ms Amoruso says that her early mistakes were crucial in helping her build Nasty Gal from a simple eBay store selling vintage items in 2006 to a $100m (£60m) business with more than 350 employees selling cool, quirky new and used clothing items to millions of women around the world. ""It was like throwing myself at the wall the way you throw spaghetti - to see if it sticks,"" she says. It goes without saying that Ms Amoruso is not your typical entrepreneur, and certainly not cut from the same cloth as the legions of technology bosses who flock to Silicon Valley in search of funding and riches. After the shoplifting incident in 2003, Ms Amoruso moved to San Francisco, California. A community college drop-out, she developed a hernia and so started work as a security guard checking IDs at an art school - a job she took for the health insurance it provided. Bored, she decided to open an eBay store re-selling vintage clothing after reading a book called Starting an eBay Business for Dummies. She named her eBay store Nasty Gal Vintage, after a song and album by the jazz singer Betty Davis, second wife of the legendary Miles Davis. In her memoir, #GIRLBOSS, she says eBay was a crucial platform because she learned to respond to every customer comment, to really understand who was buying her finds and what they wanted. That helped her beat other vintage sellers because she knew how to style the pieces she found - using young models who were paid a salary of burgers at a local restaurant - to appeal to her demographic. After a spat with rival sellers ended with her getting kicked off the auction platform, she struck out on her own, buying the domain name NastyGalVintage.com (NastyGal.com was initially owned by a porn firm) and communicating with her customers through social media sites such as MySpace and eventually Facebook and Twitter. ""Using social media allowed me to have a conversation with our customers - I would say it was the number one reason we created awareness,"" she adds. That put Ms Amoruso ahead of competitors who were just realising the power of social media to drive business. ""Every other fashion brand out there - including those that I call competitors - are run by mostly old white men, and the customer knows it,"" she says. ""This generation is super savvy - it doesn't matter who you hire to run your social media if the person behind the scenes pulling the strings is far from the customer."" Ms Amoruso says Nasty Gal amassed its 1.2 million Instagram followers and millions of Facebook likes by aggressively styling the firm's clothing in unique looks that ""you can't find at the mall"". She pioneered the idea of styling outfits from head to toe and mixing old and new, expensive and cheap and made sure that Nasty Gal wasn't just a retail website, but a lifestyle that could appeal to a certain type of woman. That has helped to build loyalty - most customers are women in their 20s who return again and again to the site, buying up 93% of Nasty Gal's inventory at full price. Half of the site's business comes from return customers - something almost unheard of in retail circles. Even after Nasty Gal started taking off - moving from a tiny office to a large space in Los Angeles - Ms Amoruso initially resisted taking outside investment, a rarity among tech firms, most of which aren't profitable in their early years. ""I had the luxury of a profitable business,"" she says. That allowed her to wait for the right investor - which took some time. ""When I decided to raise money, every guy was on to the fact that women like to shop as if it was the newest thing. They all had their theses and were ready to invest in any company that was making clothing for women, but there's no soul to that,"" she says. Although she eventually found the right match in Danny Rimer, of Index Ventures, who pledged $9m in March 2012, she still retains a large amount of control, which has allowed her to hire smart people. However, she does add: ""It's only in the last six months that I can say my team has better ideas than I do - and how much of a relief that is."" Ms Amoruso has big plans for Nasty Gal - including opening physical retail stores later this year - and while she knows her rags-to-riches tale of a naive ingenue is appealing, she is careful to emphasise just how much hard work and what she calls ""sweat equity"" got her to where she is today. As she counsels future ""girlbosses"" in her memoir: ""Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.""","The first thing Sophia Amoruso - chief executive of Nasty Gal , the fastest growing e-commerce site in the US - sold on the internet was something she had @placeholder .",revealed,delivered,stolen,written,explains,2
"Countries created to suit the imperial designs of London and Paris are being replaced by patches of territory carved out by jihadis, nationalists, rebels and warlords. The border between Iraq and Syria is under the control of the so-called Islamic State; Syrian Kurds are experiencing the kind of autonomy their counterparts in Iraq have had for years; ethnic, tribal and religious leaders are running territories in Libya and Yemen. As some of the nation states disintegrate, once powerful capital cities become ever more irrelevant. The rest of the world may have embassies in the Middle East but, increasingly, there are no effective ministries for them to interact with. The governments in Baghdad, Damascus, Tobruk and Sanaa are now unable to assert their will across large parts of their countries. ""The states that exist in the region do not really have a monopoly on the use of force,"" LSE Professor Fawaz Gerges told Newshour Extra. That means that some central governments are now relying on militants and non-state actors to defend them. Even the most precious Middle Eastern resource of all - oil - is slipping out of government control. The Iraqi Kurds have been creating a legal infrastructure for oil exports for nearly a decade, while rebel forces in Libya and the Islamic State group have both accrued revenues from the oil industry. While non-state actors find it difficult to sell crude oil, smuggling refined gasoline products is far easier. ""There is a network which crosses religious and ideological borders where you have people buying and selling petroleum, diesel and gasoline products across the whole region,"" says oil industry consultant John Hamilton. ""And it's very profitable."" There are many explanations for the winds of change sweeping through the Middle East. Depending on their point of view, analysts cite the failure of Arab nationalism; a lack of democratic development; post-colonialism; Zionism; Western trade protectionism; corruption; low education standards; and the global revival of radical Islamism. But perhaps the most powerful immediate force ripping Middle Eastern societies apart is sectarianism. Throughout the region Sunni and Shia Muslims are engaged in violent conflict. The two regional superpowers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, both sponsor proxy forces to fight their battles for them. In times past the global superpowers were able to keep the Middle Eastern nation states intact, but it's far from clear that either Washington or Moscow now have the power or the will to reunite countries such as Syria, Libya, Yemen and Iraq. Looking further ahead, the question most Western diplomats are asking is not whether the old order can be rebuilt but whether still-intact countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and even Saudi Arabia can hold the line. Most of the nation states in the Middle East were created in the aftermath of the First World War. The Sykes-Picot agreement and arrangements made by the League of Nations established the borders that exist today. The biggest change since then came with the creation of Israel in 1948. Israel's borders remain a matter of impassioned debate. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new Deputy Foreign Minister, Tzipi Hotovely, recently told members of the Israeli diplomatic corps that they should tell the world that the West Bank belongs to the Jews. Some Palestinians also dream of border change - however it comes. ""They see the chaos in Iraq and Syria and this hideous machine called IS [Islamic State] as potentially the only game-changer that might ultimately call all the borders into question in a way that might eventually benefit the Palestinians,"" says Professor Rosemary Hollis of City University, London. ""Otherwise they see their future as miserable."" The Middle East is facing years of turmoil. Many in the region are increasingly driven by religion and ideology rather than nationalism. For them - whether conservative or liberal, religious or secular - the priority is not to change lines on the map but to advance their view of how society should be organised. For more on this story, listen to Newshour Extra on the BBC iPlayer or download the podcast.","Nearly a century after the Middle East 's frontiers were established by British and French colonialists , the maps delineating the region 's nation states are being overtaken by @placeholder .",life,time,technology,accident,events,4
"This is recommended by a group set up by the Welsh government to look at stemming the language's decline in its heartlands. Ministers should also look at planning decisions' impact on Welsh, they say. Children in Anglesey, Gwynedd, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire should also be educated bilingually. The special group was set up after the results of the 2011 census identified a drop in the number of Welsh speakers in Wales. In two heartland counties - Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion - the language had become a minority. The task and finish group's recommendations will now be considered by ministers. The seven recommendations are: The proposals will now be considered by ministers.","Bangor , Aberystwyth and Carmarthen should become "" city regions "" where economic regeneration goes hand - in - hand with @placeholder in the use of Welsh .",tradition,involvement,interest,growth,inflation,3
"Proton Partners International (PPI) received the part that will fire the cancer-treating beam at its Rutherford Cancer Centre. PPI said the UK's ""most-advanced piece of cancer machinery"" could transform treatment for 500 patients a year. Currently, only low-energy treatment is available in the UK for rare eye cancers. The Welsh Government said proton beam therapy will be available at the centre to NHS Wales patients with certain cancers ""within the next year"". PPI chief executive Mike Moran said it was the ""most strategic health project in this country in decades"". ""It's significant for the people of Wales to have high-energy proton beam therapy available,"" he added. He said the treatment would ""certainly improve"" clinical outcomes and the experience for patients, who up to now have had to spend up to six weeks abroad to get proton beam therapy. The use of proton therapy was highlighted by the case of five-year-old Ashya King, whose parents took him to the Czech Republic for treatment for a brain tumour three years ago. After its installation, the machine will be up and running next year. PPI said treatment at the centre will be available to medically-insured private patients, self-paying patients and patients referred by the NHS. Analysis by BBC Wales health correspondent Owain Clarke This is certainly a coup for those trying to make Wales a hub for health innovation and research. But it is unclear how many of the 500 patients a year expected to be treated at the privately run centre will be from the Welsh NHS. That is because the NHS in England is currently building two similar proton beam centres ""in-house"". Located at established hospitals (in London and Manchester), some argue they'd be better placed to provide more comprehensive, ""wrap-around"" care than would be possible at a stand-alone centre. Discussions between the company, the Welsh Government and Welsh NHS I'm told are well advanced but whatever the outcome of those, as the first centre of its type in the UK, this is certainly a significant development. Proton beam therapy is a highly-targeted type of radiotherapy which can treat hard-to-reach cancers, such as spinal tumours, with a lower risk of damaging the surrounding tissue and causing side effects. About 140 patients a year are sent abroad from across the NHS - mostly to the US and Switzerland - at a cost of around £114,000 each. Experts have said the proton beam clinic in Newport could half that cost, while also allowing patients to remain close to their families while receiving treatment. The Rutherford Cancer Centre opened in February and receives referrals for conventional cancer treatments. PPI is building three more proton beam centres in the UK - in Northumberland, Reading and Liverpool. The firm has received £10m from the Welsh Government's Wales Life Sciences Investment Fund.",A key component of the UK 's first high - energy proton beam machine has been @placeholder to its new home in Newport .,announced,delivered,expanded,transported,added,1
"The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 390.08 points, or 2.43%, to 16,459.72. The S&P 500 climbed 46 points, or 2.43%, to 1,939.36 , while the Nasdaq Composite gained 107.28 points, or 2.38%, to 4,613.95. Global markets were boosted Friday by news that the Bank of Japan introduced a negative interest rate. Data released on Friday showed US gross domestic product in the fourth quarter rose an annualised 0.7%, falling short of expectations. The figures have led to speculation that the Federal Reserve will hold off on raising interest rates again in the near term. ""This basically sets the tone that central banks are going to have to boost the economy,"" said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial. Stocks have fallen sharply in January. The S&P 500 recording its worst start since 2009. Microsoft was a bright spot for the Nasdaq. Its shares gained 5.8% on Friday. Office-supply company Xerox also saw its share price rise 5.6% after it announced it would split into two companies. Chevron shares managed to pull off a modest rise of 0.64% despite reporting its first money loosing quarter since 2002. The company pledged to continue cost cutting measures, including layoffs, to offset the falling price of oil.",( Close ) : Wall Street closed its final trading day in January on a high note buoyed by @placeholder from global central banks .,protests,support,data,recovery,developments,4
"It follows reports that software used to tally results at regional and national level may not be secure. Intelligence agencies have warned the French, German and Dutch elections could be vulnerable to manipulation by outside actors, including Russia. Russia has denied allegations it interfered in last year's US election. The Netherlands will hold parliamentary elections on 15 March - the first in a crucial election year for countries at the heart of the EU. Are Dutch voters really turning to populist Geert Wilders? Will Trump-style revolt engulf Europe? ""No shadow of doubt can be permitted,"" said Interior Minister Ronald Plasterk. ""Now there are indications that Russians could be interested, for the following elections we must fall back on good old pen and paper,"" he added. Broadcaster RTL had reported that electronic tallying software was distributed on CDs to regional counting centres where it was installed on old computers that were connected to the internet, which experts said was not secure. Mr Plasterk said the new vote-counting procedure should not take longer than normal. The anti-immigrant and anti-EU Freedom Party led by Geert Wilders is leading in the polls and is predicted to win more than 30 seats in the 150-seat parliament. Last year, Mr Wilders was convicted of inciting discrimination after coercing supporters to chant positively in response to his anti-Moroccan statement. Russia has been accused of providing backing to far-right movements in Europe.","All votes in next month 's Dutch election will be counted by @placeholder to counter the threat of hacking , the government says .",midnight,monday,sms,hand,mail,3
"Welsh ceased to exist as a professional club when they were expelled from the RFU Championship in January after going into liquidation the previous month. Former Wales centre Parker, 39, will be assisted by former Ospreys and London Welsh prop Cai Griffiths. Welsh's amateur side will represent the club next season in level nine. Parker, capped 31 times by Wales and part of the 2008 Six Nations Grand-Slam winning squad, finished his playing career at Welsh before joining their coaching staff. Welsh, who will play in Herts and Middlesex League 1 next season, have drawn up a five-year plan in their bid to return to the National League structure. ""I want to help get the club back to where we want it to be, and I believe the five-year plan is an achievable one,"" Parker said. ""The first year is going to be the real indicator, but the ambition is definitely there to make the plan a realisation.""",Former Wales Grand Slam winner Sonny Parker has been handed the task of helping @placeholder London Welsh after being appointed director of rugby .,revive,terms,training,prop,signing,0
"Tui plans to sell its holidays under a single brand in a move that follows the merger of the UK business with its German parent. It will take up to three years to complete. The two brands have more than five million customers, with the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Greece the most popular destinations. The Thomson name dates back to 1965. Tui has 30 million customers, as well as more than 300 hotels, 136 planes and 1,800 shops across Europe. Its joint chief executive, Peter Long, said the firm would begin phasing out other European regional brands in the Netherlands and France first. The UK's First Choice and Thomson, which was set up by Canadian media baron Roy Thomson, will be the last brands to go because of their size. The move was announced along with Tui's results, which showed its half-year losses narrowed to 272.6m euros (£195.5m) from 341.4m last time. Like other travel businesses, Tui traditionally makes a loss in the less-busy winter period. Bookings for the summer season were picking up nicely, said the company, with long-haul destinations doing better. Jamaica is popular this year, bookings are up 22% on last year, and Mexico is also attracting more visitors, up 37% over the same period.",The travel firm Tui is @placeholder the Thomson and First Choice travel brands in a revamp of its business .,dropping,acquiring,enjoying,considering,hosting,0
"He told the BBC the EU was ""broken"" and ""undemocratic"" and told the Sun many Labour councillors would ""shock"" Westminster with their referendum vote. Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner has also said he will vote to leave the EU. Labour's leadership is campaigning to stay in the EU and says Labour votes will be crucial in the referendum. Senior party figures including Ed Miliband, Tom Watson and Yvette Cooper are attempting to mobilise Labour voters to back the Remain campaign later, with warnings of what they say is the potential economic impact of a vote to leave. Among Labour voices suggesting the party must do more to get its supporters to back Remain are London Mayor Sadiq Khan and GMB leader Tim Roache. This issue covers immigration and free movement within Europe. But Mr Mann told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: ""It's not that Labour's not getting its message across to Labour voters, it's that Labour voters are fundamentally disagreeing on this issue."" He said he had tried putting the case for and against in public meetings but had ""found it impossible to argue the case for because the EU's fundamentally broken, it's undemocratic and even when you want to get changes - as David Cameron tried - you can't get them"". He said, on immigration, the EU's free movement of people did not allow the UK to plan for pressure on its public services. The Bassetlaw MP, who has been critical of party leader Jeremy Corbyn, denied his stance was anything to do with ""internal Labour Party politics"" adding: ""Jeremy Corbyn is far more in touch on this issue than [former leader] Ed Miliband - hence he's been more equivocal in some of the things he has said."" Tap here to enter your postcode. He added: ""Dennis Skinner has done an article in the Morning Star today - he's one of Jeremy's big supporters."" Writing in the Sun, Mr Mann said many Labour councillors would ""shock"" Westminster with their referendum vote and said a ""people's revolution is under way"" which was about ""returning power to the people"". He wrote: ""It is not sustainable to have 300,000 new people added to the population every year. It has created two kinds of people in this country: the people who gain from this and the people who lose out."" Bolsover MP Mr Skinner told the Morning Star he did not believe progressive reform of the EU could be achieved. ""My opposition from the very beginning has been on the lines that fighting capitalism state-by-state is hard enough. It's even harder when you're fighting it on the basis of eight states, 10 states and now 28. ""What [the EU] should be doing, if it wanted to convince people like me, is have a directive to get rid of zero-hours contracts across the whole of the EU. That's what I'd be looking for."" Sadiq Khan, the newly-elected mayor of London, said on Thursday that Labour had a ""monumental responsibility"" to ensure it mobilised supporters to vote in favour of continued EU membership. ""The worry that we have is, for understandable reasons because a lot of the media attention has been on so-called 'blue on blue' attacks - Boris Johnson versus David Cameron, Michael Gove versus George Osborne - Labour voters have been turned off,"" he said.","Labour MP John Mann has said he will vote to leave the EU and says Labour voters "" fundamentally disagree "" with the party 's official @placeholder .",website,position,future,leadership,team,1
"Registered voters will be able to cast their ballots from 07:00-22:00 BST. Elections are taking place for seats on 124 councils in England and 25 on the Greater London Authority. Mayors of London, Bristol, Liverpool and Salford and 36 police and crime commissioners (PCCs) will be chosen and there is one parliamentary by-election. The seat of Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough has been vacant since the death of sitting MP Harry Harpham in February. Tap here to find out which election is taking place in your area. A third of council seats are up for election in 32 of 35 Metropolitan boroughs including Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sunderland. All but five are currently Labour-controlled. Every seat is up for grabs in the council elections in Sheffield, Knowsley and Rotherham. Voting is also taking place in a further 19 unitary authorities, including three where all the seats are up for election - Bristol, Peterborough and Warrington. There are 70 district councils holding elections. Votes in 79 local authorities will be counted overnight after polls close at 22:00 BST. A further 39 are expected to be declared between 11:30-22:00 BST on Friday, five on Saturday and one, Bristol, declaring on Sunday. Councillors are elected by a simple majority. Mayors and PCCs are elected by voters marking a first and second choice of candidate. If no candidate gets a clear majority the top two go through to a second round and are allocated the second preferences of eliminated candidates. The new mayor of London is expected to be announced on Friday evening, while Liverpool's mayoral result is expected in the early hours, Salford's on Friday afternoon and Bristol's on Saturday. Registered electors with postal votes who have not yet sent them back can take them to a polling station.","Polling stations have @placeholder for voting in England 's local council , mayoral and police and crime commissioner elections .",signed,opened,called,criticised,provision,1
"The event in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, was under threat due to fears a cliff could collapse on to a public footpath. The 250-year-old passage which forms part of Lovers' Walks is used as an emergency escape route during the festival. Derbyshire Dales District Council has now agreed to pay for remedial work costing about £25,000. The authority closed the path along the River Derwent after experts found loose blocks of limestone ranging in size from 1cm to 2m in the cliff. The area affected includes the stretch from New Bridge in Derwent Gardens to Jubilee Bridge. The original Lovers' Walks was created before 1742 and has been used as a public space ever since. Work to make the area safe is expected to take three weeks.",A town 's illuminations which attract thousands of @placeholder every autumn have been saved from the axe .,spectators,tension,guests,people,smoke,3
"During a visit to India David Cameron described the Amritsar massacre as ""a deeply shameful event in British history"".  Writing in the memorial book of condolence, he added: ""We must never forget what happened here."" Although he did not offer a formal apology Mr Cameron was the first serving prime minister to pay his respects at the site in person. The death toll at the massacre in 1919 - when British riflemen opened fire to disperse a crowd - is disputed, with an inquiry by colonial authorities putting it at 379 and Indian sources putting it nearer to 1,000. The killings were condemned by the British at the time - War Secretary Winston Churchill described them as ""monstrous"" in 1920. Prime Minister David Cameron apologised to the families of patients who were subjected to years of abuse and neglect at Stafford Hospital. In a Commons statement on the outcome of a public inquiry into failings at the hospital, he said he was ""truly sorry"" for what had happened, which was ""not just wrong, it was truly dreadful"". The unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients were caused by failings that went right to the top of the health service, inquiry chairman Robert Francis QC had concluded. Mr Cameron announced that a new post of chief inspector of hospitals would be created in the autumn. David Cameron said he was ""profoundly sorry"" for what he called the double injustice of the Hillsborough disaster. He was addressing the House of Commons following an independent report into previously unseen documents about what happened on 15 April 1989. Ninety-six fans died as a consequence of the crush at Sheffield Wednesday's ground, which was hosting an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. The report was compiled by the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which scrutinised more than 450,000 pages of documents over the course of 18 months. The medical advisor on the panel, Dr Bill Kirkup, said up to 41 of the 96 who died could have potentially been saved if they had received treatment earlier. The report also showed police and emergency services had made strenuous attempts to deflect the blame for the disaster on to fans. Mr Cameron said the safety of the crowds at Hillsborough had been ""compromised at every level"". Giving the UK government's response to the Saville Report, produced after a 12-year inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday, David Cameron said the killings that took place that day were unjustified and unjustifiable. He said he was ""deeply sorry"". Thirteen marchers were shot dead on 30 January 1972 in Londonderry when British paratroopers opened fire on crowds at a civil rights demonstration. Fourteen others were wounded; one later died. The report was heavily critical of the Army and found that soldiers fired the first shot. Gordon Brown apologised for the UK's role in sending more than 130,000 children to former colonies, where many suffered abuse. He expressed regret for the ""misguided"" Child Migrant Programme, announcing in the Commons that he was ""truly sorry"". He also announced a £6m fund to reunite families that were torn apart. The scheme sent poor children for a ""better life"" to countries like Canada and Australia from the 1920s to 1960s, but many were abused and lied to. ""We are sorry they were allowed to be sent away at the time when they were most vulnerable. We are sorry that instead of caring for them, this country turned its back,"" he told MPs. Gordon Brown said he was sorry for the ""appalling"" way World War II code-breaker Alan Turing was treated for being gay. A petition on the No 10 website had called for a posthumous government apology to the pioneer who made significant contributions to the emerging fields of artificial intelligence and computing. In 1952, Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a man. He was given experimental chemical castration as a ""treatment"", and subsequently committed suicide. He is most famous for his code-breaking work at Bletchley Park during WWII, helping to create the Bombe that cracked messages enciphered with the German Enigma machines. Tony Blair said sorry for the slave trade, not long before the 200th anniversary of its abolition. His previous statement of ""deep sorrow"" had been criticised for stopping short of a full apology. ""I have said we are sorry and I say it again,"" he said after talks with Ghanaian president John Agyekum Kufuor. The most important thing was ""to remember what happened in the past, to condemn it and say why it was entirely unacceptable,"" Mr Blair said. Tony Blair apologised to the Guildford Four, who were wrongfully convicted of IRA bomb attacks in England in 1974. In a letter, Mr Blair acknowledged the ""miscarriage of justice"" which they suffered as a result of their wrongful convictions. Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick Armstrong and Carole Richardson, were given life sentences for bombing public houses in Guildford, Surrey. Each of them spent 15 years in prison before the convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal in 1989.","David Cameron has described the Amritsar massacre as a "" deeply shameful event "" . Although he stopped short of a formal apology , it joins a number of other events - which predate their arrival in No 10 - that UK prime ministers have @placeholder in recent years .",grown,appeared,poured,tackled,endured,3
"A Liverpool City Council report found the enduring popularity of John Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr still supported some 2,335 jobs in the city. Latest figures from the council show there are about 230,800 jobs in total in the city. So that means about 1 in every 100 jobs in Liverpool relies in some way on The Beatles. That is not bad for a band that broke up in 1970. 1 in 100 jobs in Liverpool are connected with interest in The Beatles 2,335 roles sustained by Fab Four 230,800 jobs in total in Liverpool 1m to 2m visitors a year said The Beatles were why they came This might, however, be an underestimate, according to Professor Richard Evans from Liverpool John Moores University, because the figures do not take into account the marketing value of the brand or the number of people staying at non Beatles-themed hotels. The report also could not put an exact figure on how many visitors a year cite The Beatles as their main reason for visiting. Local entrepreneurs put it at about one million. The Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership, made up of business and council leaders, say it is two million. Tourism is the most obvious place to find jobs connected with The Beatles. According to researchers from the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, about a quarter of a million people a year pay to visit The Beatles Story while The Cavern Club, where the Fab Four made their name, admits 800,000 people a year for free to listen to live music. The childhood homes of John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney also attracted 10,400 visitors between them on minibus tours. Numbers are controlled because the houses are in residential areas. 4 million visitors since 1990 70%+ from overseas 10,400 a year visit Lennon and McCartney's childhood homes 135 staff employed between The Beatles Story, Cavern Club and Fab Four-themed museums And when it came to tours of the places that inspired The Beatles - the Strawberry Field children's home and Penny Lane to name but two - an estimated 15 to 20 coaches a week come to Liverpool for this reason. Out of tour guides who responded to a survey for the report's authors, about a fifth had specific ""Beatles-related qualifications"". One in 10 hotel rooms in Liverpool city centre has either an overall Beatles theme or the building hosts major Beatles events, which the report says is 553 in total. However, there is a big difference between the biggest of those hotels, the 402-room Britannia Adelphi, which hosts events connected with International Beatles Week, and those dedicated to and themed around the band's legacy. The latter includes the 110-room Hard Days Night Hotel, with pictures on the walls and suites dedicated to Lennon and McCartney. The Lennon Suite even has a white piano. There is also the Yellow Submarine, a boat at the Albert Dock painted yellow and branded Fab Four but made as a copy of the submarine in the Sean Connery film, The Hunt for Red October. Additionally, there is the Penny Lane Hotel, the Sefton Park Hotel, home to original band member Stuart Sutcliffe, and Epstein House, once the home of Beatles manager Brian Epstein's father. £13m annual turnover by Liverpool hotels with Beatles themes and events 400 jobs in 6 hotels that host major Beatles events or have band decor 65% of overseas visitors say The Beatles are key reason for staying £23m cost of developing the 110-room Hard Day's Night Hotel (pictured) McCartney founded the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, alongside its principal Mark Featherstone-Witty, in 1996. It cost £20m with the funding coming from McCartney and various other sources. Liverpool Hope University also has a close association with The Beatles, running a ""Beatles, Popular Music and Society"" masters degree. Between them the institutions take about 735 students a year. And those students spend money. About £10.3m a year, in fact, goes into the wider economy. £10.3m spent locally per year by students of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and Liverpool Hope University 15 to 30 students take the Beatles, Popular Music and Society MA at Liverpool Hope University each year £500,000 made by the university from the MA or Beatles-related activity 1,000 international students went to Sir Paul McCartney's LIPA 2006-13 720 full time students at LIPA The overall impact of The Beatles may well be higher than the £82m the academics and economists arrived at. They stripped out economic benefits they said would have materialised anyway and those which benefitted the wider 'city region' around Liverpool or the rest of the UK's economy in general. So how much do The Beatles still contribute to the UK or indeed the world? ""Calculating the equivalent value at national and global level would be a substantial, expensive undertaking because it would involve media monitoring of coverage in many different kinds of media and in the many countries where The Beatles are known,"" the report said. ""The sums involved would undoubtedly be enormous. For example one radio station in Mexico plays Beatles music for an hour every day. Four TV documentaries about The Beatles recently screened in China were watched by 70m and a further 50m viewed them online."" Finding out, then, would be a whole other magical mystery tour.","Forty - six years after they split , The Beatles are responsible for one in every 100 jobs in their home city of Liverpool . That was one of the standout statistics of the @placeholder 's financial legacy released in a report this week . BBC News looks at the numbers behind the Fab Four .",group,region,public,continent,mainland,0
"""I'm always playing weirdos,"" confesses Evelyn Hoskins. The actress, who played a shape-shifter in Channel 4 supernatural drama Misfits, is taking on the lead role of troubled teen Carrie White in a musical adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. It's a well-known story: Carrie, a high school misfit with an abusive and religious mother, uses telekinesis to punish her tormentors. When we meet during rehearsals in an east London church, Hoskins and the cast are working on the infamous early scene when Carrie has her first period at school. Unaware of what is happening to her, she panics and is bullied by her classmates. Even in the informal rehearsal space, it's a powerful scene to witness. ""I knew the film but I'd never seen it,"" says Hoskins. ""I don't do horror. I'm a bit of a wimp. ""It's such a harrowing story. I've never had such an intense role where it's affected me as a person so much."" King's novel was filmed in 1976, with Sissy Spacek as Carrie and a young John Travolta in a supporting role.  A TV film version in 2002 was followed by a cinema remake in 2013 with Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie, and Julianne Moore as her mother. The Carrie musical dates back to 1988 when it was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon. It went straight to Broadway where it received a critical mauling and ran for just 21 performances, losing several million dollars. It returned to New York in 2012, heavily revised by original composer Michael Gore, lyricist Dean Pitchford and librettist Lawrence D Cohen, for an off-Broadway run. And now it's making its first trip to London. ""The musical has had a bumpy ride,"" admits Gary Lloyd, the director and choreographer of the latest version at Southwark Playhouse. ""It's a had a lot of work done to it.  We've been sitting on this for about two years - figuring out what to do with it and what audiences would come and see it. ""Southwark developed a strong reputation for making things work that didn't originally and so it felt like the right time and place."" Lloyd - who directed the West End hit Thriller Live! - says the rewrites have focused on the high school scenes - with the dialogue between Carrie and her mother (Kim Criswell) largely untouched. One scene that Stephen King fans can be sure remains intact is Carrie's final humiliation at the school prom when she gets drenched in pigs' blood. The special effects are being designed by Jeremy Chernick, who worked on the recent stage adaptation of vampire story Let the Right One In. ""He's in charge of the telekinesis and the blood,"" says Lloyd. ""We're not overdoing it, but hopefully it'll be beautifully executed."" ""It's a marriage of special effects and lighting and sound. There's a lot of science that goes into it - we're doing surround-sound under the seats."" Even though she's no horror fan, Hoskins is ready for a nightly drenching in stage blood - and a double helping when there's a matinee. She's already had to film the scene for an online trailer. ""I'm all for it, it's quite bizarre looking down at your body covered in blood, but feeling fine. I'm game."" Lloyd offers a helpful message for audience at the Southwark Playhouse. ""I'd say if you don't want to get splattered in blood don't sit on the first two rows."" So why is he taking the risk of putting on a musical that was a spectacular flop on Broadway more than 25 years ago? ""I was at college when it came out and I got hold of a bootleg copy and I became quite obsessed because I was obsessed with the book,"" he says. ""For it to come around again was a gift. Yes - there's a pressure, but it's an opportunity to get it right. It's about telling it honestly rather than putting on a big production. ""It's as if this was written for us. If anyone comes thinking it's going to another version of the original, hopefully we can turn their minds around."" Carrie: The Musical is at Southwark Playhouse from 1-30 May",Carrie : The Musical was a huge musical flop on Broadway in 1988 . Now it 's back - @placeholder and rewritten - and about to receive its London premiere .,team,eyed,reworked,composed,recorded,2
"Ashley Husband Powton believes the rules should change on allowing private institutions the reduced tax bill. She will put her case to MSPs on the public petitions committee. However, John Edward, who is director of the Scottish Council of Independent Schools, said the charity status test was a stringent one. He explained that private schools received charitable status because they ""deliver charitable purpose like 23,500 other charities in Scotland"". Mr Edward  added: ""And in their case their charitable purpose is the advancement of education and nobody questions the education they deliver and part of that is the test they are put through by the charity regulator to demonstrate what their purpose is."" Private schools serve about 4% of Scotland's pupils. Because of their charitable status, such schools do not pay corporation tax and receive an 80% discount on their rates. Campaigner Ms Husband Powton told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: ""Most elite private schools charge fees of more than £30,000 a year and the average wage in  Scotland is about £26,000 a year, so that shows just how inaccessible these schools are for most people."" She added: ""Private schools represent the very opposite of what a charity should be, that is an organisation that helps the needy and the most vulnerable in society and not already the richest and the most privileged. ""The provision of a few bursaries, and it really is a very negligible amount when you actually look at the figures, cannot be allowed to mitigate the overwhelming reality that for the majority of the population a private school education is far outwith their reach."" However, Mr Edward said that he knew ""for a fact"" that thousands of children would be going to school on means tested bursaries ""right through to 100% of the bursary"". He added: ""The charity regulator was very clear in testing the schools to not just the scale of provision for financial assistance but also making sure that those most in need were able to access the services of independent schools.""",An Orkney woman who wants independent schools @placeholder of their charitable status is taking her campaign to the Scottish Parliament .,stripped,head,parts,benefits,chunk,0
"The signatories, who include Radio 1's Huw Stephens and rugby referee Nigel Owens, wrote to David Cameron saying S4C had already faced cuts. S4C said it had lost 36% of its income since 2010 when the cost of most of its budget was shifted to the licence fee. Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has said it was reasonable to expect S4C to make the same cuts as the BBC. The group's letter, which was also co-signed by presenter Sian Lloyd, singers Caryl Parry Jones and Dafydd Iwan, and British Jamaican poet Benjamin Zephaniah, said S4C made a ""priceless contribution to ensuring a prosperous future for Welsh, the oldest living language in Britain"". Jamie Bevan, chairman of the Welsh Language Society, said: ""The letter reflects the strong support for the channel. ""Welsh is a treasure for so many people across the British Isles, it would be a blow to the cultural wealth of the world if S4C was threatened further.""",A group of Welsh celebrities has called on the UK government to @placeholder Welsh - language broadcasting .,promote,build,allow,protect,suspend,3
"They failed to meet the requirement by January this year falling foul of new regulations in Dumfries and Galloway. A council report said 33 of the 36 councils affected had applied to hold by-elections in July. Two others have asked to delay that date while another is looking at an ""alternate constitutional model"". The situation has prompted concerns about the impact on summer events across the region such as gala days with community councils unable to give out funds. A report to Dumfries and Galloway Council acknowledged the ""disruption"" to the affected communities. It said it was important to place on record the authority's appreciation to the areas which had ""responded so positively"" in progressing with the process for re-establishing community councils. Officers will meet with local people to thank them, explain the background and reassure them that there will be no repeat of such incidents in future.","A local authority has said "" lessons will be learned "" after dozens of community councils were @placeholder for not meeting a constitution deadline .",filed,arrested,dissolved,scrapped,criticised,2
"Of 105 businesses in the FTSE 350 questioned, one in 10 revealed they have no plan to cope with hacking. Digital Minister Matthew Hancock said May's NHS attack showed the ""devastating effect"" of breaches. He urged companies to take advice and training from the National Cyber Security Centre. The Cyber Governance Health Check - an annual survey - found that 54% of company boards said computer hacking was one of the main threats to their business. But 68% of them had no specific training to deal with a hacking incident. The survey found some progress, however, with 31% of boards receiving comprehensive information about computer security risks, compared to 21% in 2015-16. Mr Hancock said: ""We have a long way to go until all our organisations are adopting best practice.""","More than two thirds of companies say their directors have no training in @placeholder to cyber - attacks , according to a government survey .",responding,according,regards,suited,control,0
"The attacker drove a car packed with explosives outside the busy restaurant, a spokesman from the mayor's office told the BBC. Islamist militant group al-Shabab has said it was behind the attack. The group, an al-Qaeda affiliate, is waging an armed insurgency in Somalia. Al-Shabab frequently carries out attacks in the Somali capital. The government, with the help of African Union forces, is fighting al-Shabab to regain control of the country. The militants pulled out of Mogadishu in 2011.","At least five people have been killed and seven @placeholder after a suicide bomb attack on a restaurant near a local government building in the Somali capital , Mogadishu .",show,smoke,killed,captured,wounded,4
"It is easy to dismiss Tuesday's lengthy (8 hours, 24 minutes) meeting of Labour's national executive committee as a festival of navel-gazing, but there is a lot more at stake. The idea that Wales should have its own seat on the NEC has been around for some time. Alun Michael used it as part of his Welsh Labour leadership campaign in 1988. It will now happen, but only after a close vote and a long debate over how the Welsh representative should be chosen. He or she will now be a ""frontbench"" member of the Welsh Assembly, chosen by the party leader in Wales. (Carwyn Jones can currently attend NEC meetings but has no voting rights). The vote was close - 16 to 15 - because supporters of Jeremy Corbyn thought it better that the Welsh rep be chosen by rank-and-file members who might be more in tune with his philosophy than someone chosen by the Welsh party leadership. Welsh Labour will also now take responsibility for its own elections, so the electoral college is likely to survive. One member one vote, with supporters able to pay to take part, is widely seen as key to the election of Jeremy Corbyn and few in the Welsh Labour hierarchy want to repeat the experiment when Carwyn Jones moves on. The leader of Welsh Labour will also get the right to attend ""Clause V"" meetings, where the Labour general election manifesto is signed off. And the Welsh executive will ""administer the procedure and selection of Westminster parliamentary candidates in Wales"". It's not clear whether that includes by-elections, where candidates have often been shortlisted by the NEC. But it could be significant with proposed boundary changes likely to mean some sitting Labour MPs going head-to-head for their own job. Some MPs fear that Corbyn supporters will try to deselect them before the next election in what they would describe as a purge and others see as wider democracy in constituencies with growing memberships under the current leader. Again, it's unclear whether devolving powers to Cardiff would have any impact. The changes add up to a more federal structure within Labour and ""parity"" with Scottish Labour, although its leader, Kezia Dugdale, says it will now have the power to make policy in reserved (i.e. not devolved) areas too. In other news, the polls have closed in the Labour leadership election, with Owen Smith doing little to fuel optimism among his supporters that he might win:   ""I won't be serving in Jeremy's cabinet but I will do what I've always done which is be Labour, vote Labour loyally serve this party, make sure that from back benches I continue to make the arguments I've made during this campaign."" The election result will be declared on Saturday ahead of the Labour conference in Liverpool, where the changes to Labour's internal machinery are expected to be approved by delegates.","As a political anorak , I yield to few in my fascination with the internal rulebook of political parties . I recently spent an enjoyable summer 's afternoon ploughing through the @placeholder of the Welsh Liberal Democrats .",papers,announcement,files,result,constitution,4
"But they are not movie stars or supermodels: they are Hong Kong's A-list ""tutor kings"" and ""tutor queens"", offering pupils a chance to improve mediocre grades. In Hong Kong's consumer culture, looks sell. Celebrity tutors in their sophisticated hair-dos and designer trappings are treated like idols by their young fans who flock to their classes. And they have earnings to match - some have become millionaires and appear regularly on television shows. ""If you want to be a top tutor, it definitely helps if you are young and attractive. Students look at your appearance,"" said Kelly Mok, 26, a ""tutor queen"" at King's Glory, one of Hong Kong's largest tutorial establishments. Her designer clothes and accessories are not just for the billboards; it's how she likes to dress outside classes. But she is also careful to add that she wouldn't be in such high demand if she could not deliver top grades in her subject, English. Richard Eng from Beacon College is often credited with being the first of Hong Kong's ""star tutors"". A former secondary school teacher, he says he got the idea after he featured in photographs advertising his sister, a performance artist. ""In school all the teachers look the same, there's no excitement,"" he said. His own image appears on special ring-binders and folders containing study tips, or pens which harbour a pull-out scroll with his picture and other gifts. Such items became so sought after that they propelled him to near-rock star status among young people. The celebrity tutor phenomenon is a result of the huge growth in out-of-school tutoring in Asia. It is fuelled by highly pressured examination systems and ambitious parents wanting their children to secure places at top universities and high-status secondary schools. In societies where success is equated with good exam results, parental anxiety converts into a ""steady stream of revenue"" for tutoring establishments, according to a study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The tutoring industry, or ""shadow education"" as the ADB calls it, has become very widespread in Asia, fed by the growth in universities and the rising proportion of school leavers aiming for university. Hong Kong University's professor Mark Bray, one of the authors of the ADB study, said a staggering 72% of final-year school students in Hong Kong now go to private tutors. Richer families have always paid for individual tutoring, but the star tutors offer exam tips and revision notes to the less well-off,  studying in groups of over 100. It's not just Hong Kong. Tutoring has ""spread and intensified in Asia and become more commercialised,"" said professor Bray. In South Korea, 90% of primary school children attend such classes. In South Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, tutorial schools use star tutors to attract even more students. ""They have found a way to appeal to young people and pull them in. They create a buzz,"" he said. ""We had this phenomenon of star tutors in Kota as well,"" said Pramod Maheshwari, chief executive of Career Point Coaching School in Kota, Rajasthan, India, a city of residential tutorial colleges which attract students from all over the country. ""It can give you an edge."" But ultimately, he says, expansion of tutoring is driven not by personalities but by ""the inefficiency of the school system"". ""Across India, students' education level is not up to the mark, and millions are preparing for competitive college examinations. It is a huge market,"" said Mr Maheshwari. In China, where private tutorial schools were unknown until the economy opened up in the 1990s, New Oriental Education and Technology has grown to become one of the largest tutoring schools in Asia with around 2.4 million students this year. It boasts 17,600 teachers in 49 cities and an online network of over 7.8 million users. Listed on the New York stock exchange since 2006, its founder Michael Yu (also known as Yu Minhong), became a multi-millionaire on the back of his blend of rote learning exercises, stand-up comedy and motivational speeches. A man from a humble background, who had become an English teacher at Peking University, Mr Yu used the Hong Kong model of employing star tutors to prepare students for tests for universities abroad. Extensive tutoring is sometimes seen as contributing to East Asian countries' high performance in international school comparisons, particularly in mathematics. But professor Bray points out that the high performers in the international Pisa tests (Programme for International Student Assessment) also include countries that do not use much tutoring, such as in Scandinavia. There have also been attempts to reduce the impact of tuition. In the 1980s, the South Korean government issued a blanket prohibition on such private tutoring. It proved to be unenforceable, but it reflected worries that tuition can put too much pressure on pupils, with teachers complaining that pupils were falling asleep in class after long nights of tutoring. In 2009, the South Korean government adopted measures to limit the number of hours students spent in ""hagwons"" or tutorial centres in a bid to reduce childhood stress and increase the level of creative thinking. But the impact has been limited, pushing many tutorial classes online. The government has since realised that the only way to change is to alter the exam culture, reducing the number of university entrance exams and encouraging universities to consider applicants on more than just exam scores. A Singaporean study showed that while tutoring can have a positive influence on the subject being tutored, time taken away from other subjects may lead to a decline in overall academic performance. The ADB report says in all parts of Asia, families are spending a considerable amount of the household income on tutoring. It may contribute to improved achievement for individual students, but it can exacerbate social inequalities. Although there is some evidence of a cultural propensity to pay for tutoring - cities such as Vancouver in Canada and Sydney in Australia with large Chinese communities have a lot of tutoring - this is not the only factor. ""What happens in tutoring depends on what the schools and universities ask for. The parents will respond to whatever they think will get them in,"" said professor Bray. Hong Kong recently shifted from a system similar to GCSEs and A-levels used in the UK to a single examination taken at age 17, leading to an explosion in tutoring. ""There is greater pressure on students because there is only one examination that determines whether you get into university,"" said Kelly Mok. ""With so many tutors in Hong Kong, students don't know who to choose so they go for the 'tutor kings' and 'tutor queens',"" she said. Some students just attend the lectures and watch video recordings of lectures while others purchase add-ons such as personalised interaction with the star tutor or tutor's aide via Facebook or email. But as more students enrol, it can become increasingly difficult to keep up with examination tips learned by classmates. ""Students who would not otherwise have had tutoring may now do so in order not to be at a competitive disadvantage,"" says professor Bray. But Richard Eng denies that tutors are sowing panic. ""Panic comes from the exams themselves. If there was no examination in Hong Kong, no matter what I say or look like, they would not come to me.""",They strike glamorous poses in @placeholder in shopping malls and on the sides of buses .,posters,fashion,public,place,fields,0
"The west London schoolgirl beat nine-year-old Saffy by spelling the word ""eleemosynary"", meaning charitable. Rhea got through to the head-to-head after her mother contested an incorrect answer during her earlier specialist round about Florence Nightingale. Independent adjudicator Olivia van der Werff later ruled it was acceptable. The dispute centred on the question: ""To which medical officer did Florence Nightingale report in the Crimea?"" Rhea's answer Duncan Menzies was initially deemed incorrect. But her mother Sonal, who gave up her job as an obstetrician to help educate Rhea, successfully argued that Nightingale effectively reported to every medical officer. The programme was watched on Channel 4 on Tuesday by an average of 1.3 million viewers, not including +1, according to overnight ratings. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",Ten - year - old Rhea has been named Child Genius 2016 after her mother @placeholder to dispute one of the answers in the Channel 4 show 's final .,intervened,lost,attempting,failed,voted,0
"The former first lady and widow of former President Hafez al-Assad died in hospital, the presidency tweeted. Reports say she was ill for many years and travelled frequently to Germany for treatment before 2012, when she was blacklisted by the EU. Marrying Hafez in 1957, she had five children, three of them still alive. The rise of the Assads She was born into a wealthy family from Syria's Alawite minority from Latakia and rarely appeared in public after her marriage. However, she is believed to have stayed close to Bashar and the other children. She was later reported to have left Syria to join her daughter Bushra in the United Arab Emirates. Bushra moved there after a bomb killed her husband, Deputy Defence Minister Assef Shawkat, in 2012. Mrs Assad is survived by Bashar, Bushra and Bashar's younger brother Maher, a general in the Syrian army. Bashar's older brother Bassel, who had been groomed to take over the presidency, died in a car accident in 1994. The other brother, Majd, died of an unspecified illness in 2009, according to state media.","The mother of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad , Anisa , has died at the age of 86 in the capital Damascus , his @placeholder announced .",welfare,group,funeral,suicide,office,4
"Police said four people were seen trying to drag the device off the wall of the former Nat West bank in Caistor, Lincolnshire, using a fork lift truck. They then tried to load it through the roof of the van in the Market Place at about 03:00 BST. Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them. Live updates on this story and others from Lincolnshire One eye witness said she was woken by the raid. ""They were in balaclavas and they seemed quite aggressive,"" she said. ""They were trying to definitely get the ATM machine out, they were ramming it against the wall ""It frightened me so I ran straight back in, but I could see somebody was holding some sort of weapon in their hand."" The van was later discovered on fire at a nearby farm. It is thought at least one other vehicle was used in the raid.",Four @placeholder raiders ripped a cash machine from a wall then cut part of the roof off their getaway van to get it to fit inside .,masked,ripped,engineers,motorcycle,recovered,0
"But the same sort of methods are being used to try to draw white, British children and young people towards new, extreme, far-right groups. In recent years, the influence of more established, political organisations, such as the BNP and the English Defence League, has declined, leaving the far-right fragmented. Some of the more extreme groups which have developed since have focused their attention on recruiting a new, younger generation of members. Pictures posted online illustrate the attempts of the South Wales British Movement to set up its own youth wing. Children are shown taking part in day trips to various beauty spots, posing with the group's banners and Neo-Nazi emblems. This week, the group's sister organisation in West Yorkshire announced the creation of another youth section, called Young Wolf. But there are serious questions over the adults in charge. In January, South Wales British Movement organiser Richard Harris was jailed for five years, after attacking an Asian man with a glass bottle. According to Prof Matthew Feldman from Teesside University, the far right is going through a period of ""recalibration"". ""Time will tell as to whether or not those groups go towards the modernisation and the suit-wearing slickness of trying to engage in populist politics,"" he says. ""Or down the more extremist route that engages in different types of extremist violence."" At a project in Swansea which tries to educate teenagers seen as at-risk of far-right radicalisation, I met Alan Walton who two years ago was taking part in white-pride marches. He explained to me that his first contact with extremism came through conversations online, which developed into him attending meetings, where the focus was on hatred towards British Muslims. ""They'll talk to you, tell you a few things about their religion and why they shouldn't be here,"" Alan says. ""You just get sucked in so easy when you're sitting there listening to them, and then, boom - you're part of it then."" The anti-Islamic rhetoric is another feature which unites many of the new groups. According to Prof Feldman, they are trying to appeal to a generation whose view of Muslims has been distorted by events in the news. ""They, having grown up in the shadow of 9/11 and 7/7 might be perhaps more inclined to see Muslims, broadly speaking, as the enemy,"" he explains. ""And I think that really has to be addressed as a matter of some urgency."" One victim of anti-Islamic hate crime in south Wales told me she felt there are now no-go areas for her. The police are investigating the most recent incidents where the victim's two young nieces were confronted by two teenagers in a supermarket. ""Sometimes when I want to go to these places I think, will I be verbally abused or will something happen?"" ""It always crosses my mind and I don't want to feel like that. I was born and bred in Wales, and feel this is my home."" The Home Office says its new anti-extremist legislation will tackle all forms of extremism - Islamist and neo-Nazi. Our investigation has shown it will need to find ways of stopping hatred fermenting within a new generation.","Radicalised online and @placeholder to hate - it 's a description many would associate with young , British Islamist extremists .",encouraged,prepare,added,attached,reduced,0
"This compares favourably to a loss of £500,000 in the same period in 2015. However, the pre-tax loss at Ibrox comes in at £278,000; down from the £333,000 from 12 months ago. The main reason for this is ""other charges"" of £450,000 amid its costs, along with losses on ""fixed assets"" and ""player registrations"". Revenue increased by £5.3m year on year to reach £16.3m thanks to bigger attendances, greater income from playing top-tier football and greater sponsorship and commercial income. But operating expenses rose too, by £4.1m to £15.5m. RIFC says additional funds are available if required by the club ""during the current rebuilding phase"". But it intimates that no further investment in anticipated in the financial year ending in June, owing to the team's performances in the Scottish Premiership and the progression to the Scottish Cup semi-finals. A statement on the Rangers website reads: ""The club is well on its way to achieving a sustainable business model while continuing to invest in infrastructure and the player squad.""","Rangers International Football Club has announced an operating profit of £ 300,000 in its unaudited @placeholder for the six months to 31 December 2016 .",bid,website,value,results,history,3
"In a far-ranging interview with the New York Times, the US president-elect was quoted as saying: ""I condemn them. I disavow, and I condemn."" He said he did not want to ""energise"" the group, which includes neo-Nazis, white supremacists and anti-Semites. One of America's top generals, David Petraeus, has told the BBC he would be willing to serve under Mr Trump. The former CIA director, a prominent figure during the Obama era until he resigned in 2012 over an extramarital affair, said it was up to Americans to ""endeavour to help"" the incoming president. Mr Trump, who is due to take over from Barack Obama on 20 January, is still assembling his White House team but has already courted controversy with some of his choices. He has defended his chief strategist Steve Bannon, the former CEO of Breitbart News, bristling at claims that the ultra-conservative site is associated with white supremacists. Alt-right supporters were filmed on Saturday in Washington DC cheering as a speaker shouted: ""Hail Trump."" In the video, Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader, told a conference that America belonged to white people, whom he described as ""children of the sun"". He denounced the movement's critics as ""the most despicable creatures who ever walked the planet"". ""Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!"" Mr Spencer shouted at one point as some members of the audience raised their arms in the Nazi salute. The gathering on Saturday drew protesters who blocked traffic around the Ronald Reagan Building, a federally owned conference centre in the nation's capital. German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern on Tuesday that Mr Trump's election victory could give succour to white supremacists. A senior official close to her described the ""Hail Trump"" video as ""repulsive and worrying"". The city where Trump hates being hated Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads Trump's 'jail Clinton' U-turn backlash ""Breitbart is just a publication,"" Mr Trump told the New York Times. ""They cover stories like you cover stories."" ""If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him"", he said of Mr Bannon. Mr Trump also argued that: Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Trump's spokeswoman said he would not follow up on a campaign pledge to pursue a further inquiry into Hillary Clinton's emails. Later, Mr Trump was quoted as telling the New York Times: ""I don't want to hurt the Clintons, I really don't."" The people around Donald Trump Can Donald Trump get what he wants? The Trump resistance movement builds","Donald Trump has repudiated the @placeholder "" alt - right "" group that celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes .",shadow,fringe,toy,american,words,1
"With an economic recovery in full swing, unemployment falling and real wages finally perking up, the Conservatives had a powerful and optimistic message to sell. However much Labour supporters spat about him, David Cameron was a well-liked leader, with a hefty incumbency advantage. And from the left you can expect much vitriol to be poured on to the Tory press, much of which abandoned all and any pretence of objectivity and walked through the campaign hand-in-hand with Conservative party HQ. Why can Labour take comfort from any of the above? Because another time the economy may not be so ruddy, the electorate may be tired of a Conservative leader, the press may be less influential or more biddable. But it is, to say the least, scant comfort. Step back from the night and the campaign and the structural challenge for Labour that emerges from this night is astonishing. Labour is now brutally squeezed geographically and ideologically; Scotland is solidly SNP yellow; the south of England, bar London, pretty solidly Conservative blue. To lean left so as to appeal to former supporters in Scotland would imperil what remains of the centre-ground supporters who were so crucial to the victories under Tony Blair. Tony Blair's Labour Party won in England when it occupied the centre ground.  He was, of course, aided by a staggeringly inept Conservative opposition. The appeal to those who wanted to get ahead, as well as those who traditionally voted Labour, made Blair's Labour seem like the natural party of government. Labour has to rediscover that magic potion. But to chase after the 'New' Labour voters of southern England may only alienate further Scottish voters clearly deeply unhappy with the way the Blairite party developed. Given the scale and nature of the defeat in Scotland, the temptation for Labour must be to politically abandon its former fiefdom so as to concentrate on re-taking English seats. But it would be a brutal political amputation. There is (even) more bad news for Labour. Throughout the campaign Labour had the upper hand on the ground. The Conservative party is shrunken at the roots, unable to mobilise the numbers for street-by-street campaigning. The so-called 'ground-war' was dominated by Labour, and voters in marginal constituencies reported much more contact with Labour activists than with Conservative counterparts. And it appears to have made no difference at all. As Labour unveiled policy after policy, the Conservatives stuck rigidly to their two messages - that the economy was safe only in their hands, and that Labour would be held to ransom by the SNP. In this ""air-war"", assisted by the pounding guns of Tory-supporting newspapers, the Conservatives triumphed, and all the leaflets and door-knocking in the world appear to have achieved nothing. The defeat in 1992 led - eventually - to a very different Labour party; a party that cast aside its old politics, and reinvented its campaign machine. That kind of reappraisal again faces an exhausted party. Against the backdrop of swirling nationalism, it is for Labour's supporters a depressing and daunting task.","There are , believe it or not , some scraps of comfort for Labour in amongst the @placeholder of the election results .",pages,aftermath,history,wreckage,space,3
"The scientists fear that millions of tonnes of CO2 from forests will disappear from the books if the changes go ahead. Trees are important carbon sinks as they soak up about 10% of Europe's emissions every year. But some countries want to cut more trees down in future without counting the resulting loss of carbon. Europe's forests have been increasing for the last century, and over the last 10 years the equivalent of 1,500 football pitches of trees have been added every day. However accounting for carbon contained in trees is a fiendishly difficult task. Forests can both soak up and emit carbon depending on how old they are, and how they are managed and harvested. As the European Union tries to put in place wide-ranging plans to restrict future carbon emissions, officials want to ensure that accounting for the impact of forests on the atmosphere should be based on sound science. To this end they want to cap the use of forestry at the levels seen between 1990 and 2009. If countries want to harvest more trees in future than they did during this period, the loss of carbon would count towards the country's overall emissions. However several countries including Austria, Finland, Poland and Sweden want a change in these rules so that increased harvesting in the future should not be penalised. The Finnish government says that it plans to increase tree harvesting by almost a quarter before 2030. The Finns argue that they should not have to account for these extra emissions, since the country's forests will still absorb more carbon dioxide than  they release. Industry supporters argue in favour of a more ""flexible"" approach. They say that Europe's forests have increased because of investment from businesses that want to be able to exploit the resource.  Putting in place rules that leave trees standing forever won't benefit anyone, they say. ""In the Czech Republic they have a problem with their forests as they are getting older and older,"" said Sylvain Lhôte, from the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI). ""Those forests were planted right after World War II; they are reaching an age of carbon potential. We need to exploit them or they will decay. ""Will they do this investment in future if they know they can't do this harvesting in the future?"" But researchers in the field are very anxious about the proposed changes. Around 40 forestry experts from across the world have signed a letter arguing that if the rules are amended, it would ""hide"" roughly 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year - equivalent to two-thirds of France's annual emissions. ""What the countries are arguing is that they should be able to use the forests in what they call a sustainable way,"" said Prof Joanna House from the University of Bristol, UK, and a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. ""But it doesn't account for what's happening right now. If you are increasing the harvest rate, you will have less of a stock of carbon in the trees and soils."" The forestry industry argues that a smart accounting system is needed as different parts of Europe have different patterns of growth. A more flexible system would encourage countries like the UK, Germany and France to plant more trees, they believe. They want scientists to take a longer-term view. ""It's a long-term game. You need to be thinking how the carbon sink will behave over the period between today and 2050 and beyond. What are the implications in the long run?"" said Sylvain Lhôte. ""It is a part of the thinking that is a little bit short-sighted."" However, the scientists involved reject that view - they believe they are speaking up for the atmosphere and the planet. ""These forest sinks are quite critical to meeting the two-degrees celsius target under the Paris Agreement,"" said Prof House. ""We can't meet those targets at all without the forest sinks. If a decision is made that sends the wrong type of incentives to protect those sinks - that could undermine the Paris Agreement."" Environment ministers from across the EU will discuss the issue on Monday in Brussels but no agreement on this complex area is expected at this point. Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook",Leading researchers have @placeholder attempts to change the way carbon from trees will be counted in Europe .,promised,published,launched,advised,condemned,4
"Elliott Johnson died in September 2015 on a railway track in Bedfordshire. An inquest into his death heard he had made bullying claims against a fellow Conservative activist. The Conservative Party, which investigated those and other claims, maintains it has shared as much information as possible. Live: For more on this and other Cambridgeshire stories The party commissioned law firm Clifford Chance to carry out an investigation into allegations of bullying and the handling of several complaints about a key activist in its youth campaign. The firm returned its report in August. British Transport Police is continuing to investigate the death of Mr Johnson, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. A British Transport Police spokeswoman confirmed to the Press Association that it has ""made requests for the (Clifford Chance) report but have not yet received it"". Mr Johnson's father Ray said: ""They (the Conservatives) feel they are the guardians of the truth in this matter and they are not prepared to divulge what really happened to my son, to us, or even to the police. ""They are hiding behind the very scant guarantee of anonymity to the witnesses. ""The police want to continue their investigation into my son's death and they are being hampered by the Conservative party and the question is why?"" The Conservative Party said it had released ""as much of the report as was possible"", without publishing information that would lead to the identification of witnesses who gave evidence on condition of anonymity.",Police @placeholder the death of a 21 - year - old activist say the Conservatives have not shared an internal report into bullying despite repeated requests .,question,following,released,probing,admitted,3
"Our world is dominated by the need to control oil. It is often the cause of wars. It can make nations extremely wealthy, while shortages can bring economies to their knees. As oil prices fall around the world, we asked what difference oil makes to you. You have been contacting journalists at the BBC using Facebook and Twitter, and uploading your pictures to the BBC website as well as emailing your experiences. People on Twitter sent @ replies to the @BBC_HaveYourSay account on Tuesday to say how the price of oil has affected them. Maksut Kosker took the following picture, he said: ""I took this picture in Arbil, just one week after ISIS captured Mosul. We faced a huge oil shortage so there were hundreds of vehicles waiting for oil in rest the of Kurdistan."" People posted comments to the BBC World News Facebook page on Tuesday to share their views about the drop in oil prices. Jay Turtle from Oklahoma City, US sent us this picture: People have been contacting us on Twitter throughout the week, explaining how the drop in oil prices has affected them. The UK offshore oil and gas industry has reported its worst annual performance for four decades. BBC News website readers are emailing their experiences: Charlie, UK: I'm in a slightly luckier predicament in that I have a staff position with one of the oil companies working in the North Sea. So might have a better chance of keeping my current 2/3 rota, but I certainly do not want to see any of my fellow workers offshore being forced and believe you me its ""forced"", into a change in their terms and conditions in accepting the 3/3 rota to save costs for the oil and contracting companies. Chris Berridge, London, UK: I have worked in the oil and gas sector for more than 40 years now and have seen several economic cycles in our industry. Since I only have a few years to go I am less concerned for myself but the future of the industry looks bleak for the workers. Tom, UK: I have recently started my career with a large UK based oil and gas company, however, I'm now coming to terms with the fact my career is unlikely to involve me staying in the UK for much longer. Shame to see the decline of the North Sea after a very prosperous 40 years, but it's difficult to see it ever fully recovering. Barry J Clarke, Hemel Hempstead, UK: Amazing isn't it that all the petrol stations from independent through to supermarkets like Sainsburys and Tesco have put their prices up in the last week. Roderic Kyle, UK: We only have to go back to 1980 to 1986 to see the ""deja vu"" with the present situation! I worked in drilling (chief mechanic) in the middle east in 1980. The price was high in relative terms - around $35 per barrel, I think it peaked near $40. The pound was at $2.30. New rigs were being ordered worldwide. By 1983, the price had fallen back. The mobile rig market collapsed. I was offshore India when the rig lost its contract. The only work I could find was in the North Sea as a mechanical technician. My income was reduced by over 60%. In 1986 I was on a platform hook-up when the price of oil fell to below $9 per barrel and the oil company were looking at mothballing the platform. The mobile rig market was dead. The worldwide work force was half that of 1981. This time the North Sea is full of old platforms, requiring large amounts of cash to maintain. I do not think the future is anything but downhill for the industry - except for decommissioning and scrapping, and we shall see whether the oil companies clear up their own mess without bleating and asking the tax payer for help! I'm glad to be out of it! Page created by Dhruti Shah & Victoria Park","Oil dominates every aspect of our lives . It fuels our cars , it is used in the production of our plastic @placeholder , the electricity for our homes and factories and can even be found in the fertiliser used in crop growing .",uncertainty,bottles,leadership,goods,activity,3
"The Nottinghamshire golfer partnered Masters champion Danny Willett on the Sunday at Augusta, then Dustin Johnson on the final day of the US Open at Oakmont. ""I hadn't had those feelings for a while, that buzz and that rush of adrenaline,"" Westwood said. ""It was great to get them back, even if it ended in disappointment."" The 43-year-old stands 39th in the world rankings. He has done well on both previous trips to Troon, finishing tied 10th in 1997 and fourth in 2004, while he came third just down the Ayrshire coast at Turnberry in 2009. The bookmakers see it differently, rating him a lot higher. He is the 12th shortest price on offer at 40-1, shorter than not only Willett but also four comparatively recent former Open winners - defending champion Zach Johnson, Ernie Els (2002 and 2012) Louis Oosthuizen (2010) and Padraig Harrington (2007 and 2008). ""I feel like I'm back to the stage where I turn up fully expecting to play well, a bit like the way when I was winning for fun a few years back,"" said Westwood. Find out how to get into golf with our special guide. ""That's down to the way I'm swinging a club, and the way I am mentally. Hiding in a darkened room and cursing my luck is never going to be my style. ""After putting myself in the frame in both majors this year, I'm sure I'll be a bit more relaxed if I can get in the mix at Troon. ""I've been through so many ups and downs now that nothing's ever going to faze me, and I really like the course."" The former world number one continued: ""I had a great weekend in 2004 when I finished 67-68 and holed a really long putt on the last on the Sunday from 35 feet. In fact, I've played well there both times the Open has been played there."" Westwood has come close to victory so many times in major championships. His total of nine top-three finishes is comfortably the most of any golfer not to have won one of golf's big four events - the Masters, the US Open, the Open or the US PGA. And, on five occasions, he has had to stand by and watch mates from Chubby Chandler's same management team - Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Rory McIlroy, Darren Clarke and Willett - all win their first major. But, in three successive years, from 2011 to 2013, the Open was won by a fortysomething. Phil Mickelson was 43 when he won at Muirfield in 2013. Both Westwood's great friend Darren Clarke (at Sandwich in 2011) and Els (at Royal Lytham in 2012) were 42, while Mark O'Meara was 41 when he triumphed at Royal Birkdale in 1998. Like allowing a good claret time to mature, when it comes to finding the winner of a Claret Jug, turning 40 is clearly not the worst age to be. English golf's big hitters: Along with Westwood (39th), there are currently six other English players inside the world's top 50 all taking up their invites to Royal Troon - Yorkshiremen Willett (ninth) and Matthew Fitzpatrick (43rd), Hampshire's Justin Rose (11th), Bristol's Chris Wood (22nd), Cheltenham's Paul Casey (29th) and Nuneaton's Andy Sullivan (36th). The old-timers: Buckinghamshire's Luke Donald (15 Open appearances), Swindon's David Howell (13), Surrey's Ross Fisher (eight), Staffordshire's Robert Rock (seven) and London's Anthony Wall (six) have all been familiar figures at the Open over the past two decades. The under-exposed: London's James Morrison has only played twice, but has performed well each time (tied 23rd in 2012, tied 20th in 2015), while Southport's Tommy Fleetwood is out to better successive missed cuts in 2014 and 2015. Essex's Matt Southgate (2014) and London's Andrew Johnston (2011) both missed the cut in their one previous Open appearance. As for last week's Scottish Open runner-up Tyrrell Hatton, this will be a fifth Open in six years for the former Bucks, Berks & Oxon amateur - but the 24-year-old from Marlow, now up to 68th in the world, is yet to make the cut. The first-timers: As well as Hampshire amateur Scott Gregory, six English professionals will be making their Open debut - Lancashire's Jack Senior, London's James Heath, Merseyside's Paul Howard, Northamptonshire's Ryan Evans, Watford's Callum Shinkwin and Lincolnshire's Dave Coupland. We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.",Lee Westwood takes his place in the @placeholder at the Open at Royal Troon having enjoyed a box seat at both of the first two majors in 2016 .,field,lead,team,event,world,0
"David Webb, 43, from Cambridgeshire, was injured when the crane tilted and fell at a site in Crewe, Cheshire on 21 June. He died on 25 July as a result of his injuries. David Newall, 36, from Bradford, and Rhys Barker, 18, from Castleford, West Yorkshire also died in the accident. The Health and Safety Executive and Cheshire East Council are investigating. More from Staffordshire and Cheshire Mr Webb was originally from Northampton but was living in St Neots. His father died six days before he did. His family said he died doing a job he loved and was passionate about. ""Dave was a fun loving character who lived his life to the full. He was known for his large personality and sung his way through life,"" a family statement said. The building site, which was formerly part of the Bombardier works complex, belongs to Seddon Homes. A nearby resident said he had seen the crane being used to lift tools when it started to tilt and then fall. The HSE said it is aware of the incident and is working fully with Cheshire Police in its investigation.",A third man has died as a result of a crane @placeholder at a building site .,crowd,landing,arrest,fall,collapsing,4
"Following speculation it was mulling a bid, Zurich issued a statement saying it was ""evaluating a potential offer"". RSA's rise helped to lift the FTSE 100 index 51.43 points to 6,556.56. Shares in Hikma Pharmaceuticals rose 7.6% after it announced it was buying US generic drugs business Roxane from German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim for $2.65bn. GKN also gave the FTSE a boost, rising 6.8% after it announced it was buying Dutch firm Fokker Technologies for €706m (£503m). The UK engineering firm said the deal would strengthen ""GKN Aerospace's market leadership, manufacturing footprint and technology"". Shares in UK broadcaster ITV rose 2.1% after the company reported a 25% increase in half-year pre-tax profits to £391m. Royal Mail shares headed in the opposite direction after an unwelcome delivery from Ofcom. The regulator said Royal Mail had broken competition law when it proposed raising prices for its bulk mail delivery customers. Shares in Royal Mail dropped 14.5p, or 2.9%, to 489.50p. In the FTSE 250, shares in Melrose Industries jumped 10% after the company said it was selling its Elster utility consumption meter business to Honeywell International for £3,3bn. Virgin Money shares surged 11% after the lender reported a 37% jump in half-year underlying pre-tax profits to £81.8m, helped by a big increase in mortgage lending. The bank also said it did not expect a new surcharge on bank profits, announced earlier this month in the summer Budget, to affect growth. On the currency markets, the pound rose after the latest GDP data showed the UK's economy accelerated in the second quarter of the year. The economy grew by 0.7% in the quarter, adding to speculation that the Bank of England might rise interest rates in the months ahead. The pound rose 0.2% against the dollar to $1.5593 and jumped 0.8% against the euro to €1.4133.",( Noon ) : Shares in insurance @placeholder RSA jumped 12 % after Zurich Insurance said it was considering a bid for the firm .,fashion,group,provider,world,region,1
"The words of sports minister Fikile Mbalula, upon Allister Coetzee's appointment as South African rugby's new head coach. As far as encouragement from high up goes, it is certainly unique. But then there is no job in world rugby like being the coach of the Springboks. Only perhaps New Zealand rugby supporters hold the high level of expectation as those who follow South Africa. Quite simply, nothing but being the best will do. And while that is a formidable challenge in itself, Coetzee has been tasked with ""changing the guard"" at the top of Springbok rugby, and is responsible for meeting racial transformation targets in the process. It is a job like no other. The hardest in world rugby? Quite possibly. Either way, Coetzee is embracing the challenge. ""It is a massive responsibility,"" the 52-year-old told the BBC from his offices in Cape Town. ""Managing expectations of all South Africans is not an easy thing. I am under no illusions, it will be really tough. [But] I feel this is the right time for me."" Coetzee, who has extensive coaching experience at provincial and Super Rugby level across South Africa, was an assistant under Jake White when South Africa won the World Cup for the second time in 2007. ""[Being South Africa head coach] has 100% been the dream, but something I never chased. I am now settled, experienced, and have a lot of confidence in myself,"" he said. Coetzee will certainly need self-confidence and a thick skin. Even a coach of the stature of Heyneke Meyer struggled at the end of his tenure with the pressure. A two-point World Cup semi-final defeat by the eventual champions New Zealand was close but no cigar. Meyer was out, and Coetzee is in. ""I think one should embrace the pressure - it will always come,"" Coetzee says. ""If the head coach is a bit nervous that will filter through [to the players]. It makes me excited, and I am looking forward to the challenge."" But what about transformation? Last year the government and the South African Rugby Union formalised their road-map for racial change across all levels of the sport. By 2019 the target is to have a 50% black representation amongst players, coaches and officials from top to bottom - including at Springbok level. However, Coetzee is confident transformation is another issue which can be tackled head on. ""I understand it is a unique situation which our country is in, looking at our past. But I wouldn't want to have it any differently. It is another aspect of South African rugby which one should embrace,"" he said. ""I was with the Stormers for six years, and transformation was never an issue. We won the Currie Cup with the most transformed team, and we were conference champions as well in Super Rugby with the most transformed team. ""I don't look at the colour of players. Transformation starts with oneself, and one's mindset. It's about creating opportunities across the colour spectrum for excellence. ""With the players at my disposal we shouldn't make a big thing of it, because I am fed up with it. It is about making sure that not just the black players and players of colour, but all players in this country, if you are the right person I will have to select you if you perform. And that is all that matters to me."" So will Coetzee's tenure coincide with a significant shift in the style of South African rugby, which has historically been based on the power and size of the Afrikaner? He says the Springboks must evolve, while also maintaining tradition. ""We cannot just chuck away what has been the strength of Springbok rugby, that has to be maintained. We love abrasiveness and the collisions. That will never go away,"" he said. ""But one area where we can evolve is the speed at which we do things. That is what we need to get right. ""The big thing about evolving your game is having the right personnel to do that. It is not something you will see overnight - the game is tough at the top - but if you have the right people and they buy into the plan, then I think we can compete."" Regardless of transformation and the presence of a new coach, South African rugby was always set to enter a new era following the World Cup, with the retirements of three all-time great players and captains, in Victor Matfield, Jean de Villiers and Fourie du Preez. Coetzee accepts replacing such men won't be easy, but will demand that the next captain leads the Springboks from the front. ""We have lost three great ambassadors from South African rugby. But there is a great opportunity for young players coming through,"" he added. ""The captain must be the guy who will always play, who is mentally ready and match sharp. First and foremost he has to help us win Test matches. ""Gone are the days when you have a captain who is there for his media skills. I want a captain who the players have respect for and want to follow."" This new era starts in earnest in June, when South Africa welcome Ireland for a three-Test series. It is only then Coetzee will get a true sense of what lies in store over the next four years. ""Any international job in South Africa is a damned tough job, but I am looking at it as a great opportunity,"" he added. ""We have exciting young talent coming through across the colour spectrum - and that excites me more than anything."" Hear from Allister Coetzee on the 5 live Rugby podcast, where England coach Eddie Jones was one of the studio guests. For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.",""" South Africans are not very loyal . If you get @placeholder by the Irish , we are going to start digging up things we never knew about you . """,produced,beaten,devastated,dominated,bit,1
"The publication of the previously withheld document comes as Labour's ruling body meets to discuss changing the party's relationship with unions. Ed Miliband wants to change party leadership elections to a one member, one vote system. Unite called the report a ""stitch-up"". Last year the union - the UK's biggest - was accused of trying to rig the selection of the party's parliamentary candidate for Falkirk, to replace the outgoing MP Eric Joyce. The Guardian newspaper has published the full report of Labour's internal inquiryinto the allegations, which up until now had remained secret, with the party saying this was to protect a claimant's anonymity. By Chris MasonPolitical correspondent, BBC News This is a political case study of the law of unintended consequences. It began with a punch-up in a Commons bar involving the Falkirk MP Eric Joyce, who later stood down as a candidate for the next election. And it sparked a chain of events that led to a deep and very public search of the Labour movement's soul. This 21-page report - marked ""strictly private and confidential"" - offers an insight into the complex, often baffling series of links between Labour and affiliated unions, and the rules that have governed those links. Its publication is an unwelcome reminder for the party of the mess in Falkirk: the claim, the counterclaim, the frustrated investigation, the lack of clear answers. It's a gift for Labour's political opponents. The 20-page report says ""there can no doubt that members were recruited to manipulate party processes"" during the selection of a candidate for the next general election. It finds some union members were signed up without their knowledge and there were some signs membership forms appeared to have been forged. The report also says there is ""evidence that signatures were forged on either application forms or direct debit mandates or other documents"". The investigation was completed last June. Unite has consistently denied breaking any rules and sources say the full report was full of inaccuracies which the union had no opportunity to rebut. A Labour spokesman said the party had moved on since the row. Mr Miliband is also proposing changes aimed at altering the way the leadership is decided. Labour's governing National Executive Committee meets on Tuesday to discuss his plans for a one member, one vote system. Trade unionists would no longer be able to vote as a result of their automatic union affiliation, but would have to agree to pay a £3 affiliation fee to Labour to take part. A new method of electing Labour's leader - the electoral college, which gives unions, party members and MPs/MEPs a third of the votes each, abolished in favour of one member, one vote MPs have sole nomination rights for leadership candidates and those candidates will need a higher level of support than at present - possibly 15% of MPs All union members will have to 'double opt-in' if they want to take part in a leadership contest. They have to say that they are content to give money to Labour AND that they want to become 'an affiliated supporter' Only full party members - not trade-union 'affiliated supporters' - will choose parliamentary and council candidates Changes to London mayoral selection - Labour's candidate to be selected in the same way as the party leader New leadership rules will be put in place this year - but changes to the party's funding will be phased in over five years Labour will hold a one-off conference next month to approve the changes. At the moment, affiliated unions control a third of the votes in Labour leadership elections as part of an electoral college system, last used in 2010 when Mr Miliband was elected. The proposed changes would give ordinary Labour supporters - as well as party members - more say over who leads them with no individual having more than one vote in a future contest. Mr Miliband has described his proposals for altering the century-old link between Labour and the unions as ""a huge change"". But union leaders have warned of a sharp fall in affiliation fees, with GMB boss Paul Kenny saying the shake-up is not a ""done deal"". Speaking to Labour MPs and peers on Monday, Mr Miliband said MPs would need the support of 15% of their colleagues, not 20% as reported in recent days, to put themselves forward in a future leadership election. He said this threshold would ""strike the right balance between protecting the role of MPs and ensuring a diverse range of candidates going forward"". Conservative chairman Grant Shapps said: ""As this report shows, Len McCluskey's Unite union was trying to rig Labour's candidate selection in Falkirk. ""Yet Ed Miliband has been too weak to investigate how Unite applied their 'political strategy' in 40 other contests and he even had the publication of this report forced on him. ""Instead, all he has done is give the union barons even more power to buy Labour's policies and pick Labour's leader. Nothing has changed.""","There is "" no doubt "" the Unite union recruited members to Labour in Falkirk in an effort to "" manipulate "" the party 's selection of a parliamentary candidate , a @placeholder report says .",gripping,trade,twisted,state,leaked,4
"The Gift sold 3.7 million copies abroad compared with the six million shifted by her debut I Dreamed A Dream. Boyle's record was followed by Sade's Soldier of Love, with 2.3 million, and Mumford and Sons' Brits-winning album Sigh No More, which sold 1.3 million. Muse's The Resistance, released in 2009, was fourth with a million copies. Phil Collins' Motown covers album Going Back, Plastic Beach by Gorillaz, and James Blunt's Some Kind of Trouble all sold 900,000 copies overseas. Take That's Progress - the top-selling album in the UK last year with sales of 1.8 million - clocked up a further 800,000 copies abroad. Lungs, by Florence and the Machine, also sold 800,000 copies, while Rod Stewart's latest Great American songbook collection shifted 700,000 copies. The top four albums in the Music Week list scored top three placings in the US Billboard 200 album chart. Fifth-placed Going Back, by Phil Collins, reached 34 in the US chart but was a huge hit across Europe.","Susan Boyle scored the most successful album overseas by a UK artist for a second year running , research by Music Week magazine @placeholder .",shows,group,suggests,revealed,claimed,2
"Yahoo has won a legal fight that will see papers from a key 2008 court case declassified and published. The 2008 case is widely seen as pivotal in letting the NSA establish Prism and start gathering data on web use. The US government has been given until 29 July to say how long it will need to prepare the documents for publication. Earlier this month, Yahoo filed papers with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisc), seeking permission to publicise the documents it had filed in the original case and the government's response. The Fisc decides whether official applications to carry out surveillance should go ahead. Yahoo took the legal action to show how vehemently it had objected to government requests to hand over data. In addition, it said, the transcript of the 2008 case would reveal more about how the US government had justified its wide-ranging surveillance plan known as Prism. In a statement, Yahoo said the release of the documents would ""contribute constructively to the ongoing public discussion around online privacy"". Details about Prism were revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has now fled the US. The US government has not filed any objections to the plan to disclose the court documents but will review the papers before publication so it can redact information it does not want published. ""The administration has said they want a debate about the propriety of the surveillance, but they haven't really provided information to inform that debate,"" Mark Rumold, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation rights group, said. ""So declassifying these opinions is a very important place to start.""",Details of the official justification for the US National Security Agency 's wide - ranging Prism surveillance programme look @placeholder to be revealed .,continues,needs,set,still,appear,2
"Christopher Halliwell led police to Becky Godden's body shortly after he confessed to killing Miss O'Callaghan. But he was not prosecuted over Miss Godden's death after a judge ruled detectives ignored arrest guidelines. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating and the leading officer has been suspended. It means Miss Godden's family do not definitively know who killed her. The IPCC also upheld three complaints from Miss Godden's family about the way they were treated by police officers. Her father John Godden said he would never put his trust in the police again. ""I'll go to my grave and not know who killed Rebecca Godden and I'll never forgive them for it. Never."" Wiltshire Police said following recommendations from the IPCC, it would be writing to the family to apologise for any distress caused and was reviewing its family liaison officer policies. Halliwell was identified by police as the main suspect in 22-year-old Miss O'Callaghan's murder after CCTV caught him driving outside the nightclub in Swindon she went missing from. Following Halliwell's arrest, he was taken not to a police station to be read his rights but to local beauty spot Barbury Castle by Det Supt Steve Fulcher. Mrs Justice Cox said Det Supt Fulcher's decision to ignore guidelines in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act were ""significant and substantial"". She added the move was intended to create ""circumstances deliberately designed to persuade the defendant to speak"". And it led to Halliwell only facing charges over the murder of Miss O'Callaghan and not Miss Godden, also known as Becky Godden-Edwards, who had been missing for eight years. Det Supt Fulcher said he had made the decision to not take Halliwell to a police station in a bid to ""appeal to the killer's conscience"". The police and Crown Prosecution Service said the murder charge in relation to Miss Godden had not been dropped. Det Ch Supt Kier Pritchard, head of protective services at Wiltshire Police, said that while the charge had never been put in court, ""it is very much our intention to continue the live murder investigation and bring that final closure for Becky's family"".",Wiltshire Police is to apologise to the family of a woman whose body was found during the hunt for murdered @placeholder worker Sian O'Callaghan .,security,office,unit,factory,sex,1
"The 22-year-old striker has joined League Two club Wycombe Wanderers after a prolific 54 goals in two seasons at National League North side Boston United. But enough of the boring football facts. While playing part-time for Boston, he worked in a Grimsby fish factory in a job which included the dubious honours of packing fish food and fish tank lights. ""When you're making fish food using blenders and you get a little bit in your eyes, it's not the nicest,"" he told BBC Sport. Southwell needed to find a job that would support his part-time football career after leaving Grimsby at the end of a two-year professional contract. And it was the factory that he put his heart and sole, quite literally, into. ""You've got to do what you've got to do to earn money. I used to come home absolutely stinking of fish,"" he said. ""A lot of the days I would get out of my house at 08:00 in the morning, then go straight from work at 17:00 to Boston for training and not get home until 22:30. ""Sometimes if I didn't have enough time to get a shower, my team-mates at Boston would smell a bit of the scent on me. ""I've learned the hard way and it's made me realise how lucky you are to be a professional footballer, so I'm really glad I did it."" Southwell's move up to the English Football League will obviously draw comparison with Jamie Vardy, who has gone from non-league to scoring for England at the European Championships in the space of four years. He said: ""You've got to be ambitious and when people prove that non-league to the Premier League can be done, you've got to look at that and think why not me as well? ""If I can score goals, you never know where that will take you. I'll just carry on working hard and let that inspire me."" After finishing a job which included lifting ""heavy, heavy, heavy"" boxes for 10 hours on some days, he is sure he can net goals for the Chairboys. ""The step up is always going to be harder, we know that,"" he said. ""But I still feel like I can score goals. I'll be playing with better players and get better service. ""I'll still get in the right positions and I'm capable of hitting the back of the net, I've proved that, so I'm confident I can still get goals here.""",Non-league players making the step up to professional football always @placeholder us with great stories of other jobs while trying to ' make it ' - and Dayle Southwell is no exception .,improve,provides,force,form,fill,1
"The New York Times has revealed that the former Florida governor identified himself as Hispanic in 2009. It published a voter registration form where Mr Bush had marked ""Hispanic"" rather than ""White, not Hispanic"". On Twitter Mr Bush came clean, ""My mistake! Don't think I've fooled anyone!, after his son called him a ""honorary Latino"". The newspaper posted a fuzzy copy of the form, which it said it had obtained from the Miami-Dade County Elections Department. The Bush camp said it was unclear how the error was made. ""The governor's family certainly got a good laugh out of it,"" spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said. ""He is not Hispanic."" The Republican politician has excellent credentials for his alternative ethnicity. He is a fluent Spanish speaker and his wife, Columba Bush, was born in Mexico. He also spent two years in Venezuela during his early twenties. Born in Texas, Mr Bush is the brother of former US President George W Bush and son of former President George HW Bush. He is believed to be considering seeking the Republican nomination for president in the 2016 elections. He is widely seen as a centrist Republican who can appeal to different demographics, hopefully including Hispanic voters.",Politicians want to appeal to a range of voters but Jeb Bush may have overreached @placeholder the Hispanic vote .,saved,chasing,fled,following,avoided,1
"That's what many of us want to do when we feel our employer is being unfair, but few of us, especially with two young children, have the courage to go through with it. But that's exactly what Kellie Simmons from Manchester did when the company she worked for refused to give her flexible working. Kellie's experience is common for those earning less than £40,000, research suggests. High earning parents who make more than £70,000 a year are much more likely (47%) to work flexibly than those earning between £10,000 and £40,000, according to a poll of 1,000 working parents carried out by the charity Working Families. The research also found the majority of working parents regularly put in extra hours at work, with a quarter saying they worked at least five extra unpaid hours a week. Perhaps more heart-rending, 56% of parents said it interfered with their ability to put their children to bed. ""We know flexible working makes business sense across the salary spectrum, so why should only the people who earn the most be able to reap the rewards?"" asks Sarah Jackson, chief executive of Working Families. ""We want jobs at all levels to be advertised as flexible. And this should be the norm, rather than the exception."" Kellie first broached the idea of flexible working with her employer, a charity in the education sector, when she was on maternity leave with her second child. Initially they said yes and allowed her to work from 9.30am to 4pm - with reduced pay - for six months. These flexible hours enabled Kellie to drop off her children at childcare in the morning and ""see them grow up in the early evening,"" says Kellie. But at work she says she had to endure subtle jibes. ""Colleagues would say things like 'well had you been at the early morning meeting today you'd know about x, y and z.' ""It wasn't an easy environment to work in and I felt constantly under pressure, despite the fact I was contracted to work fewer hours and was getting paid less,"" recalls Kellie. After six months she asked for an extension as her youngest was still only 11 months old. But her company declined and suggested instead that she took an unpaid career break and returned in six months on her old hours. Kellie decided she was not going to put up with the lack of flexible working. Within days of being told flexible working conditions were not an option, she made the decision to leave her job and set up her own business. She gambled her savings on converting a run-down shop on Cheshire's Lymm high street into a modern beauty salon complete with crèche facilities for clients who pop in for a manicure or blow dry. ""It's early days, but it's going well so far,"" smiles Kellie as she juggles 18-month-old Isaac in one hand while overseeing her beauty staff in the salon. ""I can take my eldest boy to school in the morning and pick him up in the afternoon and also take my youngest to nursery three days a week while still earning decent money."" The Confederation of British Industry says employers that don't offer flexibility are short-sighted, arguing it benefits both companies and the wider economy. It says ""offering jobs at every level on a flexible basis will help companies to recruit and retain the people and skills that are needed to compete"". The Federation of Small Business (FSB), which represents small firms, agrees saying flexibility is an important way to retain staff. ""Our research shows 80% of small businesses offer or would consider offering flexible working opportunities to their staff. ""We know three quarters of our own membership currently have at least one member of staff working flexibly, including part-time, staggered hours, home working, or flexi-time,"" says FSB chairman Mike Cherry.",""" That 's it I @placeholder "" .",show,think,quit,see,experience,2
"A thick and acrid plume of smoke drifted up from behind one of the nearby high buildings and the crowd started to realise it was another bomb blast in their city. We heard a sporadic crack of gunfire and then the sound of sirens - as ambulances headed to the scene through the city's congested streets. The huge suicide car bomb had been just the start of the attack. Al-Shabab fighters had used it to breach the front entrance of the Ambassador Hotel and had rushed in, opening fire. It's a fortified residence used by high-profile Somalis and members of parliament - two British-Somali MPs were killed along with around a dozen other people. Many others were injured. It came as a real shock to Maryan Hassan, a British-born lawyer who we were interviewing on the roof terrace when the car bomb went off and the gunfire started. It's just the second big explosion she's experienced since moving to Mogadishu permanently in January. ""It's the same story as everyone else - I came to make a difference,"" she said, talking about the high number of Somalis, like her, returning from the diaspora from places such as Britain, Canada and America. ""My parents were married in London and my brothers and I were all born and raised in the UK, but I grew up constantly knowing I was Somali,"" she said. ""My parents were definitely at the core of why I'm so passionate about Somalia."" With two degrees in law, and a specialism in arbitration, Maryan has already has become the prime minister's legal adviser, but the al-Shabab attack nearby while we talked was a clear reminder of the risks. ""I don't think anyone comes back to Mogadishu and says it's going to be an easy ride,"" she said. ""You're obviously having to come back to a society that you were not raised in, so socially there's a lot more obstacles to overcome as opposed to security."" The security forces had been preparing for an attack. As UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond arrived the fighting at the hotel was still going on. The Somali president and prime minister came to meet him at the heavily-fortified airport rather than at their office in the city. But politics is more promising than security. This year's elections are far from fully democratic, but will be a big step towards rebuilding a new, federal state after 25 years of civil war - as long as they happen. Britain spends £200m ($289m) a year in Somalia on development and security. The foreign secretary explained why. ""We're committed, we've been here for a long time, we have seen some very solid progress,"" Mr Hammond said. ""What's happening here now is making Somalia safer, but it's also making Britain safer. ""It's addressing our security concerns, it's addressing our migration concerns and having a stable and secure Somalia is good for Britain as well as Somalia."" We spent time with the Somali police force and their African Union mentors just as they set up a roadblock and searched cars for explosives. ""The essence of stop-and-search is for us to prevent anything untoward,"" said Supt Eze Therophiles, a Nigerian police commander. ""In the recent past there have been incidents of vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks - that is the trend now,"" he said, referring to car bombs like the one which would go off on those same streets a few hours later. It was just down the hill from parliament. The local commander told us there had been previous assassination attempts on MPs and so they had to protect the building every time it was in session. ""There is not so much risk these days, although the enemy al-Shabab have attacked us several times and we have pushed them back,"" said Lt Jimale Ahmed Ali from the Somali National Police. ""We are very much ready and well armed… we have enough guns here, so we are not afraid."" It's optimism and confidence that things are going to get better, but while Somalia has come a long way in the last few years it's still a very dangerous place. Al-Shabab may have been driven out of Mogadishu and most of the urban areas across Somalia, but they still hold sway in much of the countryside and have switched to insurgent-style attacks. With elections due in a few months, and Ramadan approaching - a time when al-Shabaab traditionally ramps up its car bombs and suicide attacks - the city is on high alert. But still the militants get through. The attack on the Ambassador Hotel killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more. Investigators are still establishing how many gunmen there were, and why after the attack appeared to be over the fighting erupted again and continued until morning. And there's an even bigger challenge facing security services across the country. The African Union's Assistance Mission in Somalia (Amisom) is under pressure. Its 22,000 troops from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda are struggling to switch from the conventional warfare of driving al-Shabab out of towns and villages to coping with countering a violent insurgency. The Somali army and police are a crucial part of bringing security to fill the vacuum after the militants left, as al-Shabab often brought basic, if brutal, justice, law and order. But it's hard to establish trusted national institutions after 25 years of war and in a society still so driven by clan rivalries that the limited elections are still being run along clan lines. There will not be ""one person - one vote"" this year, but the 275 MPs will be elected by fewer than 14,000 people - caucuses picked by elders and divided up favouring the four biggest clans. Full representation is the target for the 2020 elections, and while not ideal, the formation of a federal state - with power devolved to the newly emerging states - is a slow and complicated process. ""Somalia is emerging from one of the most violent civil wars… and it's still facing a potent insurgency from al-Shabab,"" said Michael Keating, the UN's Special Representative in Somalia. ""What it's trying to do is both contain that insurgency and put in place a state - difficult enough after a civil war, but particularly difficult as Somalia is a clan-based society. ""If your baseline is 10 or 20 years ago they have made extraordinary progress. The fact there is a president, four regional states - perhaps a fifth one formed this year - is a tremendous achievement."" Most of those involved in the process expect the elections, scheduled for August, to be postponed by a couple of months - but they are hopeful. Somaliland in the north-west has already declared its independence, although it is not internationally recognised; Puntland in the north-east has a well established state structure; and other emerging regional power centres are forming. The whole federal nation-building project, driven by political rivalries, is on the line if elections fail to take Somalia on the next step towards stability and democracy.",The cool new rooftop pizza joint was buzzing with the hip kids @placeholder selfies and watching the sun set over Mogadishu when the deep crunch of an explosion made everyone jump .,snapping,unleashed,exposed,sparked,water,0
"Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team went to the man's aid in the incident in Clachaig Gully. The man, who was flying a parachute-like wing, was injured and had to be airlifted to hospital by a rescue helicopter. Glencoe MRT said the speed flyer was in a stable condition in hospital and expected to make a full recovery from his injuries. The incident happened earlier this week.",A speed flyer had to be rescued after @placeholder in a gully in Glen Coe.,collapsing,crashing,injuring,jumping,drowning,1
"Liam McAlpine was found at home in Glenrothes on Sunday. It is thought he took his own life. Earlier this week, parents were warned prescription tablets, which could cause ""serious side effects"" and have ""life-changing consequences"", were circulating at Glenrothes high schools. Liam's family said: ""We as a family are devastated by the loss of our beloved son, grandson, nephew and brother Liam McAlpine. ""We wish to be left in private to mourn."" Liam passed away at his home in Elgin Drive, Glenrothes. Inquiries are still ongoing to establish the full circumstances of his death. A report has been sent to the procurator fiscal. Avril McNeill, headteacher of Glenrothes High School, said: ""We are all deeply saddened by the news of Liam's death and our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time. ""Liam was a cheerful, pleasant and likeable pupil with an excellent attendance record at school. ""He will be missed within our school community. Our guidance teachers, psychological and community chaplaincy teams are on hand to offer support to any pupils or staff who may need it."" Det Insp June Peebles, of Police Scotland, said: ""Liam's death is a tragedy and our thoughts are with his family, friends and classmates at this very difficult time. ""We are continuing our inquiries into Liam's death. ""We would ask anyone with information to contact Police Scotland."" On Monday, a letter was sent to all secondary school pupils in the Glenrothes area. It said: ""We have been made aware that prescription tablets are in circulation amongst secondary school-aged children in the Glenrothes area. ""The tablets that we know of are Citalopram, Fexofanadine and Bedranol. ""While there does not appear to be any issues with the composition of these medications, if consumed they can cause serious side effects and may have life-changing consequences. ""It is never safe to take someone else's medicine. If you suspect that your child may have taken any of these you should seek immediate medical attention for your child.""","Police are looking into whether the death of a 14 - year - old boy in Fife was @placeholder to prescription drugs circulating at local schools , it is understood .",thrown,preparing,threatened,according,linked,4
"1 April 2013 Last updated at 13:13 BST In a strong attack, Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister Huw Lewis accuses the UK government of ""coming for ordinary Welsh people"". He also claimed the coalition was setting out to ""make the poor pay the most"" for the banking crisis. But the UK government says the changes are needed and are fair. Guto Bebb, Conservative MP for Aberconwy, said Mr Lewis' comments were ""completely unacceptable"". ""These welfare changes are happening because the previous Labour government was responsible for creating the biggest bust in Britain's economic history,"" he told BBC Radio Wales. Mr Lewis was interviewed by BBC Wales Political Editor Betsan Powys. Devastation claim on benefit changes Welfare reforms fair - Duncan Smith","Changes to welfare and benefits will have a "" destabilising , @placeholder and devastating impact on communities "" , a Welsh government minister has claimed .",damaging,effect,collapsed,group,names,0
"The 1,186 people taking part exceeded the 869 holders of the current record. The fight took place at the annual Another Fine Fest in Ulverston, held in honour of comic actor Stan Laurel, who was born in the town. Ceri Hutton, from Team Pie, said it was ""a moment of pure joy when the pies started to fly"". ""Just the sound of over 1,000 people squealing and laughing,"" she said. ""It's only right that Ulverston, birthplace of comedy legend Stan Laurel, should hold this record."" Organisers have to send evidence to Guinness to confirm the new world record, they said. They said they were confident of validation having followed official counting protocol with a ""huge electronic turnstile"" and thrown nearly 3,000 pies of the regulation size of 16.5cm (6.4"") for one minute. The previous record was set in Belfast in 2015.","More than 1,000 people got "" pie @placeholder "" and broke a world record for the largest shaving - cream pie fight .",fights,disorder,devastated,crowds,faced,4
"Phillip Shortman, 27, from Abersychan, Pontypool, has admitted 10 counts of fraud and will be sentenced on Friday. The charges related to selling a ""non-existent"" phone and vehicle parts on eBay and another website. Newport Crown Court heard he has 17 previous convictions for 77 offences, many related to eBay. In the latest case, Shortman admitted using his five-year-old son's details to sell a bogus Samsung Galaxy S4 mobile phone through the online market place. He arranged for £480 to be transferred into his wife's account, but failed to deliver the phone. Shortman then attempted the same con again, being paid £440 for the same phone. The court was told he then ""attached"" himself to a website selling Suzuki Jeep parts, calling himself Yuppy Bear. The Essex police officer who failed to receive the parts he ordered from Shortman helped fraud officers in Cardiff arrest him. Jeffrey Jones, prosecuting, said the value of his fraud was estimated at £2,065. Mr Jones told the court Shortman had arrived at court with the sum in cash. The court heard one of his previous crimes, committed when he was 17, had 80 victims. He has also been convicted of selling bogus Wales Rugby international tickets, worth £7,000. Nigel Friar, defending, said much of Shortman's offending ""had its basis in immaturity and a lack of understanding of money"". He said: ""Mr Shortman is finally beginning to grow up."" He told the judge, John Jenkins QC, Shortman was remorseful, and ""custody has been imposed on a number of occasions since 2007"", adding ""some would say that has failed"".",A prolific eBay conman has been @placeholder again after failing to deliver a car part to a police officer who ordered it from him online .,suspended,raised,caught,cleared,shot,2
"The Dow Jones was down at 20,659.32, a fall of 42.18 points or 0.20%. The S&P 500 gained 2.56 points or 0.11% to hit 2,361.13 while the Nasdaq put on 22.41 points or 0.38% to 5,897.55. Market watchers said sentiment was influenced by uncertainty over government tax reforms, the pace of US interest rate rises and the formal start of the UK's Brexit process. On the currency markets the dollar was up by 0.04% against the pound at £0.8038 and it was up by 0.40% against the euro at 0.9288 euros. The dollar was helped by remarks about interest rate rises made by some Federal Reserve officials. The US central bank or Federal Reserve System is made up of 12 Federal Reserve Banks around the country. Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said he wants to see further interest rate hikes this year, while Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said the Fed should raise rates three more times in 2017. But while currency markets appeared to welcome the prospect of rate rises, investors in stocks and shares were apparently unmoved. ""The market seems to be unfazed by the fact that the Fed is looking to be somewhat aggressive in raising rates,"" said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Asset Management in Chicago. Oil was also higher. Brent Crude was 1.9% ahead at $52.30 while West Texas Intermediate was up by 2.2% at $49.42. Prices rose after US gasoline stockpiles dropped sharply last week, while crude oil inventories grew less than anticipated.",( Close ) : There was no clear driver behind Wall Street 's somewhat mixed @placeholder on Wednesday .,stay,control,performance,reaction,atmosphere,2
"Scott Lamont, from Glasgow, was heard singing the words of the Billy Boys song on Cathcart Road on 1 February. The 24-year-old admitted the charge at Glasgow Sheriff Court. He was also given an 18-month football banning order and told his behaviour would not be tolerated. Sheriff Paul Crozier told Lamont's lawyer, Joanne Gray: ""Glasgow has developed a good reputation in recent years. ""We had the Commonwealth Games last summer, we haven't had an Old Firm game in years. ""What happened at the first Old Firm game? People like him let Glasgow down."" The sheriff described the words to the song as ""inflammatory"" an said it ""could have led to horrendous violence"". He told Lamont: ""Your conduct on 1 February was the sort of conduct that the authorities had asked football loving fans to refrain from. ""A message has to be sent to those people who would choose to ruin football for the vast majority who want to go to these games, that you cannot behave like this. ""This sort of behaviour will not be tolerated, certainly not by me."" Another man, Alexander Blood, from Saltford in Somerset, was given a community payback order after admitting acting in a racially aggravated manner. Blood swore at police officers and called them ""Jock"". As part of the order he will be supervised for 18 months and must carry out 160 hours of unpaid work. He was also given a three year football banning order.",A Rangers fan who was arrested for sectarian singing while on his way to @placeholder a game against Celtic has been jailed for four months .,start,show,block,attend,address,3
"The League One side took a first-half lead through Andy Jackson, but Chris Kane notched an equaliser late on. But Kane and Michael Coulson both missed their penalties in the shootout for Saints as Brechin prevailed 4-2. The Perth outfit still top the group on seven points, and host second-placed Stirling Albion on Saturday. City on the other hand still have an outside chance of qualifying but require a win at Falkirk in the final round of group fixtures and for other results to go their way to clinch one of the best runners-up spots. Questions were asked about the Saints defence after Brechin took the lead. Chris O'Neil was allowed space and time down the right flank to float a cross deep into the visitors' 18-yard box. Jackson, who began his career with Saints, nipped in between both Steven Anderson and Tam Scobbie to nod the ball beyond Zander Clark. Despite having the bulk of possession in the opening half, Graeme Smith in the home goal was only tested once by a Joe Shaugnessy header that he blocked from close range. Saints boss Tommy Wright introduced Blair Alston, signed this summer from Falkirk, at half-time with the ineffective Craig Thomson making way, and the visitors noticeably upped the pace. Michael Coulson had a volley from 12 yards that he fired straight at Smith. Then only a last-gasp challenge by Dougie Hill denied Kane a clear run through on goal. City almost grabbed a second when the Saints defence failed to clear a corner, but Gareth Rodgers' effort was saved by Clark at the second attempt. Danny Swanson replaced Liam Craig and within seconds of coming on almost scored the equaliser. Bearing down on goal from the left, his effort was tipped just wide by Graeme Smith, who was proving to be a real thorn for St Johnstone as they tried to force their way back into the game. The goalkeeper was in sparkling form as he denied Murray Davidson, Kane and Coulson in succession. The breakthrough eventually came when Graham Cummins nodded a deep cross back into the six-yard box where Kane was waiting to bundle the ball home and set up the penalty shoot-out. Match ends, Brechin City 1(4), St. Johnstone 1(2). Penalty Shootout ends, Brechin City 1(4), St. Johnstone 1(2). Goal!  Brechin City 1(4), St. Johnstone 1(2). Ally Love (Brechin City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Penalty missed! Still  Brechin City 1(3), St. Johnstone 1(2). Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone) hits the left post with a right footed shot. Goal!  Brechin City 1(3), St. Johnstone 1(2). Alan Trouten (Brechin City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Goal!  Brechin City 1(2), St. Johnstone 1(2). Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner. Penalty saved! Finn Graham (Brechin City) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  left footed shot saved  in the bottom left corner. Penalty missed! Still  Brechin City 1(2), St. Johnstone 1(1). Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone) hits the right post with a right footed shot. Goal!  Brechin City 1(2), St. Johnstone 1(1). Willie Dyer (Brechin City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the high centre of the goal. Goal!  Brechin City 1(1), St. Johnstone 1(1). Danny Swanson (St. Johnstone) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner. Goal!  Brechin City 1(1), St. Johnstone 1. Dougie Hill (Brechin City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner. Penalty Shootout begins Brechin City 1, St. Johnstone 1. Second Half ends, Brechin City 1, St. Johnstone 1. Attempt missed. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Goal!  Brechin City 1, St. Johnstone 1. Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Graham Cummins. Attempt saved. Andy Jackson (Brechin City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Substitution, St. Johnstone. Graham Cummins replaces Joe Shaughnessy. Foul by Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone). Willie Dyer (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Brechin City. Conceded by Paul Paton. Attempt blocked. James Dale (Brechin City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Hand ball by James Dale (Brechin City). Attempt saved. Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Finn Graham (Brechin City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Finn Graham (Brechin City). Foul by Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone). Darren McCormack (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Blair Alston (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Corner,  St. Johnstone. Conceded by Graeme Smith. Attempt saved. Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Danny Swanson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Chris O'Neil (Brechin City). Substitution, Brechin City. Alan Trouten replaces Ross Caldwell. Corner,  St. Johnstone. Conceded by Graeme Smith. Attempt saved. Danny Swanson (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Substitution, St. Johnstone. Danny Swanson replaces Liam Craig. Corner,  St. Johnstone. Conceded by Dougie Hill. Brian Easton (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by James Dale (Brechin City).",Brechin City earned what could be a valuable bonus point in a penalty shoot - out after a @placeholder 1 - 1 draw against St Johnstone at Glebe Park .,shock,battling,deserved,table,heated,1
"Ms Dastjerdi was also the first woman minister in the 30-year history of the Islamic republic. While no reason has been given, the dismissal is being linked to her call for drug price rises to fight shortages caused by international sanctions. Mr Ahmadinejad rejected her comments, saying her budget needs had been met. Analysts say international sanctions have done significant damage to the Islamic republic's economy and led to a steep currency plunge. Although they do not directly target medicines, they limit their importation because of restrictions on financial transactions. Prior to her dismissal, Ms Dastjerdi said that because of the rise in the foreign exchange rate, there would be an inevitable increase in the price of medicine. She complained of her department's inability to get access to foreign currency she had been promised. ""In the first half of the current year, the Central Bank has not allocated any exchange for the import of drugs and medical equipment,"" she said. ""We need $2.5bn (£1.6bn) in foreign exchange to meet the needs of the medical sector for the year, but only $650m has been earmarked."" But President Ahmadinejad said in a TV interview that enough money had been allocated to the health ministry. ""No-one has the right to raise the price of medicine,"" he added. Mohammad Hassan Tariqat Monfared has been appointed as interim health minister, the Reuters news agency reports. The EU and US recently announced new sanctions over Iran's nuclear plans. They suspect Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, something it denies. Ms Dastjerdi was the first woman minister of the Islamic republic, although a woman did serve as vice-president for the environment under Mohammad Khatami.","Iran 's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sacked Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi , the sole woman in his cabinet , @placeholder television reports .",state,shadow,assessment,leaving,media,0
"Aldo Saucedo, 19, fatally wounded 18-year-old Natalie Tavares during an altercation outside the nightspot in Dallas early on Sunday morning. Witnesses said his fight with another man at the Tiger Cabaret Club spilled outside. Mr Saucedo allegedly got a gun from his car and tried to shoot the man. The shots missed the man and accidentally struck Ms Tavares, said police. She was taken to the city's Baylor University Medical Center where she was pronounced dead. The shots also hit another female bystander, who was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Mr Saucedo was arrested at the scene and is facing murder and aggravated assault charges.",A Texas man has been arrested after allegedly shooting his girlfriend dead while @placeholder for another man during a fight outside a strip club .,side,dressed,aiming,caring,falling,2
"Her daughter had asked a court to allow medics to stop providing ""clinically assisted nutrition and hydration"". She said her mother was ""completely incapacitated"". Experts said the woman was in a ""minimally conscious state"". Mr Justice Hayden, who heard evidence at the Court of Protection, granted the application, saying his decision was an ""evolution in case law"". The BBC's legal correspondent Clive Coleman said it was the first time a judge had made such a ruling for someone in a minimally conscious state. The woman is being treated in the north of England, but cannot be identified for legal reasons. Mr Justice Hayden was presented with the views of the daughter, other relatives, medics involved in her treatment, carers, independent medical experts and lawyers he had appointed to represent the woman earlier this month. No-one involved opposed the daughter's application. She said continuing treatment would be against her mother's wishes. ""My mum's immaculate appearance, the importance she placed on maintaining her dignity and how she lived her life to its fullest is what formed her belief system; it's what she lived for,"" she told the court. ""All of that is gone now and very sadly my mum has suffered profound humiliation and indignity for so many years."" She added: ""I cannot emphasise enough how much the indignity of her current existence is the greatest contradiction to how she thrived on life and, had she been able to express this, then without a doubt she would."" Lawyers said arrangements would now be made for treatment to be withdrawn in line with national clinical guidelines. Mathieu Culverhouse, a lawyer at Irwin Mitchell who represented the daughter, said the case had been ""distressing"" for those involved. He said the daughter was ""relieved"" at the ruling. He added: ""This landmark decision is the first time that the Court of Protection has agreed to withdraw treatment from someone receiving life sustaining treatment while considered by medical experts to be in a 'minimally conscious state'. ""However, all cases of this kind are decided on their own facts and judges will always examine all the evidence presented to them, including that presented by the patient's family affected, on an individual basis.""","A 68 - year - old woman "" locked into the @placeholder stage "" of multiple sclerosis should be allowed to die , a judge has ruled .",hands,end,first,word,age,1
"Abiageal Peters was born at 23 weeks, weighing just over 1lb and suffering from a ruptured intestine. She became the youngest patient ever to be operated on at St George's Hospital, Tooting. After four months recovering on the neo-natal ward, Abiageal is now back at home in Esher, Surrey, with parents David and Louise. After her sudden birth Abiageal's stomach turned black and her survival was touch-and-go. Mrs Peters said: ""It was like a crash. It was suddenly, 'oh no, she has to go through this'. ""It was like, 'ok she may not survive with surgery - but she definitely won't survive without it'. So we signed on the dotted line and waited. ""We were allowed a quick peek and a kiss before she was rushed off. It was incredibly scary and hard to believe something that small could survive."" St George's is one of the leading hospitals for for paediatric surgery in the country, but it was still a first for surgical staff to operate on a baby so young. Paediatric surgeon Zahid Mukhtar said: ""Her skin and tissues were very jelly-like. If you held them she would start to bleed and, if you can imagine, a baby that size has very little circulating blood volume, so you can't really afford any blood loss. ""But this great team of about 10 people were focusing all their energy on this tiny little baby."" Now Abiageal is finally out of danger and flourishing at home with her family, including older sister Tara, two. Mrs Peters added: ""She's doing brilliantly. We've been told to treat her like a normal newborn; she's not on any monitors or oxygen or anything. But you're still kind of, 'is she breathing?' and just making sure she's OK all the time. ""For her to be so small and to go through all that, she is an absolute miracle."" The reason for the early labour is unknown. Mr Peters said: ""Now she's home it's great, you know. She's had a lot of hurdles in her short life but she seems to have passed through it all with flying colours.""",A baby born four months early has been @placeholder home by her parents after surviving pioneering surgery .,unveiled,praised,taken,reunited,defended,2
"City went ahead in the 27th minute when Rhead headed down Paul Farman's free-kick and Adam Marriott turned his marker to fire home a left-footed effort. The hosts were level two minutes after the break when Ismail Yakubu prodded home from close range after a corner had been flicked on at the near post. Lincoln retook the lead in the 60th minute as a quick free-kick from Alex Woodyard found Jack Muldoon and his cross picked out Rhead, who made no mistake in beating Michael Poke. Rhead then wrapped up victory from the penalty spot in the 72nd minute after Jonny Margetts was tripped. But he missed the chance of a hat-trick seven minutes later when Poke tipped a second penalty around the post after Bradley Wood was bundled over. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Woking 1, Lincoln City 3. Second Half ends, Woking 1, Lincoln City 3. Substitution, Lincoln City. Elliot Hodge replaces Taylor Miles. Taylor Miles (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Lincoln City. Taylor Miles replaces Nathan Arnold. Brian Saah (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Woking. Max Kretzschmar replaces Ben Gordon. Goal!  Woking 1, Lincoln City 3. Matt Rhead (Lincoln City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot. Penalty conceded by Nathan Ralph (Woking) after a foul in the penalty area. Penalty Lincoln City. Matt Rhead draws a foul in the penalty area. Sam Habergham (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Woking. Charlie Penny replaces Dennon Lewis. Substitution, Lincoln City. Jonathon Margetts replaces Adam Marriott. Corner,  Woking. Goal!  Woking 1, Lincoln City 2. Matt Rhead (Lincoln City). Corner,  Woking. Jamie McCombe (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Goal!  Woking 1, Lincoln City 1. Ismail Yakubu (Woking). Corner,  Woking. Substitution, Woking. Ismail Yakubu replaces Fabio Saraiva. Second Half begins Woking 0, Lincoln City 1. First Half ends, Woking 0, Lincoln City 1. Corner,  Lincoln City. Joey Jones (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Goal!  Woking 0, Lincoln City 1. Adam Marriott (Lincoln City). Corner,  Lincoln City. Corner,  Lincoln City. Corner,  Woking. Corner,  Lincoln City. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",Matt Rhead 's second - half brace @placeholder Lincoln started the National League season with a 3 - 1 victory over Woking at Kingfield .,earned,group,ensured,continued,extended,2
"The ruling was made by a case management group after ""an allegation of misconduct (verbal abuse)"" against Minichiello. A British Athletics statement said the ""decision is not subject to any further appeal procedures by either side."" Reports say the allegation was not made by Ennis-Hill. Minichiello coached Ennis-Hill to heptathlon gold at the 2012 Olympics and three world titles before she retired in October 2016.","Toni Minichiello , the former coach of Great Britain 's Jessica Ennis - Hill , has been given a "" @placeholder warning about his conduct "" by British Athletics .",group,written,fair,message,deal,1
"The report, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tracked traits such as weight, kidney function and gum health. Some of the 38-year-olds were ageing so badly that their ""biological age"" was on the cusp of retirement. The team said the next step was to discover what was affecting the pace of ageing. The international research group followed 954 people from the same town in New Zealand who were all born in 1972-73. The scientists looked at 18 different ageing-related traits when the group turned 26, 32 and 38 years old. The analysis showed that at the age of 38, the people's biological ages ranged from the late-20s to those who were nearly 60. ""They look rough, they look lacking in vitality,"" said Prof Terrie Moffitt from Duke University in the US. The study said some people had almost stopped ageing during the period of the study, while others were gaining nearly three years of biological age for every twelve months that passed. People with older biological ages tended to do worse in tests of brain function and had a weaker grip. Most people's biological age was within a few years of their chronological age. It is unclear how the pace of biological ageing changes through life with these measures. Prof Moffitt told the BBC: ""Any area of life where we currently use chronological age is faulty, if we knew more about biological age we could be more fair and egalitarian."" She argued the retirement age may be unfair for those ""working at their peak"" who then had to retire. The researchers said it was unexpected to find such differences so early, but that the findings could help trial methods for slowing the pace of ageing and ultimately have implications for medicine. She added: ""Eventually if we really want to slow the process of ageing to prevent the onset of disease we're going to have to intervene with young people."" Dr Andrea Danese from King's College London said: ""I think it is surprising you can detect these changes in young people. ""This is the first step to detect factors that influence the rate of ageing... very early prevention [of diseases] may be one of the things we will be able to measure better.""",A study of people born within a year of each other has uncovered a huge gulf in the speed at which their @placeholder age .,centre,bodies,infants,counterparts,young,1
"Money was being raised for Coniston and Lochaber mountain rescue teams which ran a 38-day search for the couple. Rachel Slater, 24, and Tim Newton, 27, were caught in an avalanche on Ben Nevis on Valentine's day last year. Pianist Robert Richmond hoped people at the Windermere concert took ""a minute to remember Rachel and Tim"". The grand piano arrived by ferry and was carried on a special frame to Claife Heights, an elevated area above the lake. Jack Metcalfe, a friend of Miss Slater, said she was ""an incredible person"" who was the ""very definition of adventure"". Bringing a piano to the lake was ""a reflection of her personality"", he said. The bodies of Mr Newton and Miss Slater, who lived in Bradford, were found on the north face of Ben Nevis on 23 March last year. The experienced climbers had been missing since 15 February. Michael Richmond, whose father organised the concert, said the couple had ""strong feelings"" about the mountain rescue operation. ""Following their deaths it just really emphasised how badly in need of support mountain rescue are for the phenomenal job that they do,"" he said. Robert Richmond said although he would not normally play a grand piano outdoors the acoustics had been ""absolutely perfect"".",A grand piano has been carried to a point @placeholder a Cumbrian lake to honour two climbers killed on Britain 's highest mountain .,build,overlooking,suffered,caused,wielding,1
"The Fort William Mountain Bike World Cup and Buff 4X Pro Tour takes place at Nevis Range on Aonach Mor on Saturday and Sunday. More than 250 riders and 20,000 spectators are expected in the area over the two days. Police said people should be prepared for delays on the A82. Traffic Scotland has also been warning motorists to expect heavy traffic on the trunk road. Ch Insp Bob Mackay, of Police Scotland, said: ""We're pleased to be supporting the event this weekend but would advise the public to allow extra time for journeys as we are expecting the area to be busy with increased traffic. ""People attending the event should follow the travel advice of the event organisers and use the park and ride facilities in Fort William as there is no vehicular access or parking at the event. ""We will be policing the event and surrounding area and ask that vehicles are parked sensibly as illegally or inconsiderately parked vehicles will be removed if necessary. ""This is to ensure access remains for the event and that the local community and users of the A82 public road between Spean Bridge and Fort William are not unnecessarily inconvenienced.""",Heavy traffic is expected in and around Fort William over the weekend as thousands of spectators @placeholder for a major cycling event .,arrive,gathered,bid,continues,prepare,0
"After she has made sure no-one can overhear us, she tells me about the realities of living in Buenaventura, Colombia's biggest Pacific port. ""Nowadays you cannot move freely between neighbourhoods,"" she says. ""If I tried to go over there,"" she says nodding in the direction of a nearby neighbourhood, ""they would hit me, or disappear me, or kill me."" She says sometimes people in the city's oldest neighbourhood of San Jose, also knows as Sanyu, just disappear. ""They capture them, take them away, chop them to pieces, put them in bags and drop them in the sea,"" she explains. ""Sometimes you come across an arm, different body parts, a head,"" she adds. The ""they"" she is referring to are members of Colombia's notorious criminal gangs. The gangs have been around for years, their numbers swelled by former right-wing paramilitaries who demobilised as part of a peace process but then returned to a life of criminality. But the torture, disappearances and dismemberments of victims which is currently plaguing Buenaventura is a recent development. The escalation of violence is blamed on a turf war between two rival gangs - the Urabenos and La Empresa - for this strategic spot for the drugs trade. According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Thursday, entire neighbourhoods are dominated by powerful ""paramilitary successor groups"" which restrict residents' movements, recruit their children, extort their businesses, and routinely engage in horrific acts of violence against anyone who defies their will. ""In several neighbourhoods, residents report the existence of casas de pique - or 'chop-up houses' - where the groups slaughter their victims,"" reads the document. The HRW researchers say that several residents told them they had heard people scream and plead for mercy as they were being dismembered alive. The fear is that these are not isolated cases. Between January 2010 and December 2013 more than 150 disappearances were reported in Buenaventura; twice as many as in any other Colombian municipality. But with many victims' relatives too scared to speak out, the actual figure could be much higher. The Sanyu resident says no one can be trusted. ""Even eight-year-old kids are involved in the violence. You believe they cannot be evil, but they're evil. You might be talking to your enemy,"" she explains. Evil is a word also used by Buenaventura's bishop, the Right Reverend Hernan Epalza. ""It is as if all the evil of Colombia has gathered here in Buenaventura,"" he says. ""Disappearing and dismembering people? I cannot think anything worse,"" he tells the BBC. Buenaventura's police commander Col Jose Correa thinks these extreme methods are used like brutal calling cards. He says his force has managed to capture or kill a number of criminal leaders and the resulting vacuum has further fanned the violence as lower-ranking criminals use all the brutality they can to assert their authority. But he says he is confident the security forces will soon have the situation under control. Bishop Epalza, however, thinks a more integral approach is needed to combat the poverty and lack of opportunities which he believes feed the extreme violence. He says the poorest inhabitants are being further marginalised by the increasing importance of the port city. More than half of the country's cargo already goes through Buenaventura and the flow is set to increase as Colombia looks for new markets in Asia and tries to consolidate its links with Mexico, Peru and Chile. He says the violence is forcing those at the bottom of the ladder to sell up and leave, something he says may be a desirable effect for some. ""We have to asked ourselves: who's behind all of this, who's fostering all this?"" he asks. Back in Sanyu, the local residents say it does feel as if much of the violence is designed to push them out. Their neighbourhood is one of Buenaventura's poorest. Currently, it is nothing more than a collection of derelict wooden huts built upon wooden pillars on land reclaimed from the sea by the descendants of African slaves which first settled here almost five centuries ago. But its proximity to the water makes it of great strategic value for those intent on smuggling drugs and weapons. And its potential worth could be huge if the city decides to expand the port to this area. Already, residents have started to leave. In 2013, 19,000 people were forced to flee their homes in Buenaventura, ensuring the port city a third place in the list of Colombian cities where forced displacement is highest. But there have been signs that the tide might be turning. Last week people took to the streets to protest against the violence. President Juan Manuel Santos visited the city a few days later and set up a task force to deal with the crisis, promising more security and huge social investments. There seems to be some hope among residents who before only felt fear. But according to HRW executive for the Americas Jose Miguel Vivanco, Buenaventura is just an ""extreme example of a reality that exists in different regions of Colombia"". He told the BBC that the criminal gangs which sprang from the demobilised right-wing paramilitary groups should be a sobering reminder of the importance of a proper demilitarisation of former combatants. On Thursday, government negotiators will begin the 22nd round of peace talks with the country's largest rebel group, the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). So far, they have taken over a year to agree on two items of their six-point agenda. But as the negotiations continue, the hope is that the lessons learned from the flawed demobilisations of the past will mean that Colombia's dreams for the future will not turn into the stuff of nightmare as it did in Buenaventura.",Standing by Colombia 's Pacific shoreline a woman who prefers to remain nameless tells me about the @placeholder that her hometown is experiencing .,chains,horror,country,announcement,change,1
"The UK's benchmark index closed down 203.2 points at 5673.58, and has now entered a ""bear market"" having fallen 20% from its record high in April. Indexes across Europe also tumbled, with Germany's Dax down 2.8% and the Cac-40 in Paris dropping 3.5%. Shares in Shell were down about 7% after it said that annual profits would be slightly below City expectations. Oil shares were also hit by the continued fall in crude prices. Brent crude fell 4% $1.16 to $27.60, while US crude dropped more than 5% to $27.01. Crude oil prices have been falling since 2014 but despite that fall, producer countries have maintained output. On Tuesday, the International Energy Agency warned that oil markets could ""drown in oversupply"" in 2016. Mining shares were also hit hard. Glencore shares fell nearly 10% while BHP Billiton fell more than 7%. BHP Billiton released a production report containing what investors interpreted as gloomy comments about the outlook for commodity prices. Shares in WH Smith led the FTSE 250 higher, with a 5.8% gain. The company said it expects annual profits to be ""slightly ahead"" of expectations, due to strong sales over the five-week Christmas period. On the currency markets the pound was one fifth of a cent higher against the dollar at $1.4178, and one tenth of a euro cent higher against the euro at €1.2990.",The FTSE 100 slumped 3.5 % as investors fretted over global @placeholder prospects and falling oil prices .,activity,growth,beat,warming,team,1
"Sgt Steven William Darbyshire, 35, from Wigan, in Greater Manchester, was shot by insurgents on Wednesday while on security patrol in the Sangin district of Helmand province. The father-of-two was the fourth member of 40 Commando to die in as many days. On Thursday, the MoD announced that four British soldiers had been killed in a road accident in Helmand. A total of 307 UK military personnel have died in Afghanistan since the start of operations in 2001. In a statement released by the MoD, Sgt Darbyshire's family said ""being Royal Marine was Steven's life and [while] growing up it was all he wanted to do"". ""Our world will be a bleaker place without him, his infectious laughter and fantastic sense of humour,"" they said. ""Mere words do not begin to convey the deep grief and painful heartbreak his untimely death has brought to his shattered family and friends."" Sgt Darbyshire joined the Royal Marines in 1996 and served in Northern Ireland and Iraq before being deployed to Afghanistan. His first tour was in 2007 and he returned again in April this year as part of Alpha Company. His commanding officer, Lt Col Paul James, said he was ""a charismatic, loyal, determined and dedicated sergeant with an irrepressible and infectious sense of humour"". Lt Col James said: ""The last time I saw him he was covered in thick mud having just fallen into an irrigation ditch, but he gave me a beaming smile and in the manner that only he could deliver, illuminatingly described his misfortune to all."" ""He never took life too seriously, but he cared passionately for the lives of others. He was a selfless, honest and extraordinarily courageous leader who thrived in the role of troop sergeant."" Known as ""Darbs"" to his colleagues, Sgt Darbyshire had two young sons, Ryan and Callum, with his wife Kate. He was a fan of football, golf and rugby, and had represented the marine corps as a rugby league player. Defence Secretary Liam Fox said he was ""deeply saddened"" to learn of his death. ""The tributes from Sergeant Steven Darbyshire's colleagues paint a picture of a talented marine and an inspirational leader, who has made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the national security of his country,"" he said.",A Royal Marine shot dead in southern Afghanistan has been @placeholder by the Ministry of Defence .,inspired,detained,sacked,praised,named,4
"23 February 2017 Last updated at 07:22 GMT It's all because of something you might have heard mentioned a lot recently: Brexit. Across the whole of the UK most people voted to leave the EU, but in Scotland, most people wanted to stay in it. Jenny went to Glasgow to find out what kids there think now the UK is leaving the EU.",There are going to be some big changes to how the UK deals with its @placeholder in Europe .,obligations,world,neighbours,citizens,experience,2
"They met playing at primary school level and ended up with one of the most enduring and solidly successful managerial partnerships in Scottish football. From schoolmates at Musselburgh Grammar, through their respective playing careers, they joined forces at Berwick Rangers. Jefferies' appointment as manager at Shielfield Park might have been the end rather than the beginning, since his initial instinct was to appoint another friend, Lindsay Muir, as his assistant. Muir, a former Hibernian player, was not ready to stop playing, though, and when Brown phoned to congratulate Jefferies and offer help if he ever needed it, a managerial team was established. There was little time to become accustomed to the demands of the job. Berwick were Scotland's bottom club and needed to be revived. ""We went 22 games without defeat,"" Brown recalls, ""and still finished second bottom."" The catalyst for the team's run was John 'Yogi' Hughes. The management team decided to adopt Wimbledon-style tactics, and move the centre-back up front. ""We went to Cowdenbeath and we drew 3-3,"" Jefferies said. ""Yogi got a hat-trick and two centre-halves were taken to hospital. ""We played the league leaders on the Saturday at Berwick and we drew 4-4. The two centre-halves were taken to the hospital there and Yogi scored another hat-trick. He was a hardy boy."" Strong individuals were important to Jefferies and Brown. They were never afraid to take on challenging personalities, as they showed when they moved to Falkirk and signed the likes of Ian McCall and Simon Stainrod, as well as bringing Hughes back to Scotland from Swansea and also capturing Maurice Johnston and Frank McAvennie. When Hearts came calling in 1995, though, Jefferies could not resist. The job that he took on turned out to be one of drastic rebuilding, although he understood that was required. ""The players had a terrific career at Hearts, but in 10 years they had five managers, good managers, people who had been successful,"" Jefferies said. ""It needed someone strong enough to go in and change it."" Hearts fell to the bottom of the league following a defeat at Falkirk - a result gleefully celebrated by the home support - and Jefferies and Brown, standing in the toilet off the away dressing room at Brockville, decided the time was right to blood some of the club's promising young players and sign some fresh talent, including French goalkeeper Gilles Rousset and Italian defender Pasquale Bruno. ""I said, 'that's it, I've had enough, I'm going to make changes',"" Jefferies said. ""[The young players] had five years of winning the reserve league twice and winning the reserve cup. I said, 'let's see if they're good enough or not', and we never looked back."" The mood at the club instantly changed and Hearts ended the season fourth in the league and in the Scottish Cup final, which they lost 5-1 to Rangers. The progress continued, although there was another defeat by Rangers in the Scottish League Cup final. Those defeats, and a series in the league the following season, all contributed to Jefferies and Brown's greatest triumph, though - the 1998 Scottish Cup final against the Ibrox side. ""I gave [the players] a fact: we'd played Rangers four times in the league and had a lot of plaudits for the way we'd played but they'd scored 13 goals against us in four matches,"" Jefferies said. ""So we needed to change the way we played. Our plan was to let them attack us."" A defensive mindset turned out to be ideal. Hearts scored in the opening two minutes and went on to lift the cup, sparking memorable scenes of celebration back in Edinburgh that night and the following day when the team paraded the trophy in an open-top bus. ""When I got up the next morning I was pretty rough,"" Jefferies said. ""So when I came down, [the hotel had] a little shop and I said, 'you've not got a Resolve have you'? ""This was about half-eight in the morning, and they said, 'no, but Boots in Shandwick Place is open'. ""The place was dead, nobody about, then one person coming along the road, head down. ""He'd be about in his 60s or something, long coat on, long scarf, and I said, 'you've had a good night then'. ""He just half-looked up and said, 'have I had a good night? God bless that Jim Jefferies'. And he walked past me."" There was a frustrating spell at Bradford, seven-and-a-half mostly happy years at Kilmarnock, then a second spell at Tynecastle. Their careers were underpinned by a sense of sound management and team building, even if their ferocious presences on the touchline left the impression that every instruction was hollered in anger. ""Everybody just thinks we shouted all the time,"" Brown said. ""We did it for a purpose, not just because we had lost the rag. ""Every day I worked with Jim was a pleasure. Jim was one of the best man-managers you could meet. ""I did my part at the club and he did his. I regret not one single day, and I miss it like anything.""",Football was the bedrock of the @placeholder between Jim Jefferies and Billy Brown .,table,clash,feud,relationship,words,3
"The car manufacturer announced last year it will make a new luxury car at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. Ministers refused to say how much public money the company would get, prompting an objection by a businessman under the Freedom of Information Act. Ms Denham has given ministers 35 days to send the information to him. In February 2016, Tom Gallard asked the government to ""please provide details of the financial support agreed with Aston Martin to create 750 jobs at St Athan"". The government refused, saying disclosure could ""prejudice"" commercial interests. During the process of Mr Gallard's appeal against that decision, the government argued that publishing the information would affect its ability to ""achieve value for money"" when negotiating with other companies. Mr Gallard argued there was a public interest in knowing how ""large amounts of taxpayers' money is spent so that citizens and taxpayers can decide if it was a good deal or not"". Ms Denham pointed out that the government had publicised financial support given to various companies in the past. She also said that the process of applying for financial support from the Welsh Government was comprehensive and, therefore, the amount another company could get was unlikely to be affected by disclosure of the aid to Aston Martin. The government also argued that disclosure of the information would be likely to ""prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs"", an opinion put forward by First Minister Carwyn Jones. The commissioner decided this was not a reasonable view. The Welsh Government has the right to appeal. A spokesman said: ""We note the Information Commissioner's decision and we are considering our next steps.""","Details of financial support for Aston Martin by the Welsh Government must be published , the information commissioner Elizabeth Denham has @placeholder .",unveiled,claimed,ruled,resigned,requested,2
"The ducklings were reported stuck down a drain in Great Notley, Essex after trailing their mother across a road on Tuesday afternoon. The first two were plucked to safety by firefighters but a third could be heard further down the drain. The RSPCA said he had to be flushed out into a net - an experience which left him ""startled"". How long the ducklings, who are now without a mother, were stuck down the drain is not known. RSPCA inspector Sarah Elmy said: ""We could hear them, but not see them - it was so frustrating ""They had to flush water along the drain to get the little one out - and into the waiting net. ""He was a little startled - but fine, and has now been taken to a local wildlife specialist for care.""",Three @placeholder ducklings had to be rescued from a sewer after falling through the gaps of a drain cover .,people,forcing,abandoned,school,beat,2
"There are some clues as to what might have caused this AirAsia flight to come down, but we won't know for sure until rescuers retrieve the ""black boxes"". There are two on board, normally near the tail which is more likely to survive any impact. One of the boxes uses microphones to record the sounds from the flight deck. Not just the voices of the crew, but also important clues, like the sound of the engines (were they straining? was there a bang?), the sound of alarms going off (stall warnings, low level warnings), even the sound of seats being shifted around if the crew were moving about. The second black box records thousands of pieces of data which tell investigators exactly what the aircraft was doing. Speed, height, power, where the flaps deployed and so on. It's critical to get all of this information before making judgements, for good reason. Five years ago a French airliner, flight AF447, also crashed into the sea without sending out a mayday. Searchers also spotted wreckage days afterwards. And just like the AirAsia flight, they knew the weather had been bad. Back then, investigators even had some data that had been automatically pinged back to land before the crash, telling them there had been a problem with the aircraft's speed. There is also speculation that the AirAsia plane may have been flying more slowly than normal, although it could be irrelevant because if it was climbing then it would be going more slowly anyway. But it wasn't until they uncovered the French plane's black boxes more than two years later, buried deep in an underwater mountain range in the Atlantic, that they finally solved the mystery of what happened to flight AF447. The Air France crash was triggered by bad weather icing up the thin tube that tells the aircraft how fast it's going. The crew didn't know their speed, but critically, it's the way they handled the problem that eventually crashed the plane. They slowed the aircraft down so much that it stalled in mid air without them realising and dropped out of the sky. It also transpired that they hadn't been trained to handle the situation they found themselves in. And the alarms on the flight deck were also confusing in a way no-one had anticipated. The point is, despite several years of speculation and analysis, the final story still surprised everyone, even the experts. With the AirAsia flight it should be much easier to find the black boxes as they are in much shallower water (30-50m rather than thousands of metres with Air France). So there should be answers much sooner. But it once again begs the question: Why is information from all airliner black boxes not streamed in real time to engineers on the ground? If it were, we'd probably have answers already.","Crashes are often complex . A series of @placeholder that on their own would n't bring a plane down , yet combined , lead to tragedy .",burden,ideas,events,control,disbelief,2
"To prove the point, the BBC visited Bury St Edmunds - named after England's original patron saint - to find out there is an international flavour to Christmas even in a Suffolk market town that is hardly a byword for all that is multicultural. ""Pigs in blankets - I mean, really, what are they all about?"" asks Stephanie Gooding. The US citizen is one of a number of women from across the globe who have made Bury St Edmunds their home. But while she is an avid advocate of ""when in Rome..."", she will never be able to accept some of the culinary traditions of a British Christmas. ""For us Americans, Thanksgiving marks the beginning of Christmas and we eat the turkey at Thanksgiving. On Christmas Day we are more likely to have a nice ham, mashed potatoes rather than roast potatoes, and pies instead of Christmas pudding. ""There will be no bread sauce, no sausages wrapped in bacon and no clementines or excessive spicing."" Ms Gooding also takes exception to ""that thick gravy made from greasy drippings"" that is passed around by plate-piling Brits each Christmas. While Americans enjoy their main feast long before 25 December, Russians do not tuck in until after then. Marina Kralina said: ""In England I start our celebrations on the 25th of December with English people and then I celebrate Russian Christmas [Orthodox Christmas Day, on 7 January] with Russian friends. So it is a big festival season. ""The most celebrated day in Russia is New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. People meet at about about 6pm on New Year's Eve and they will start preparing dumplings with meat inside. ""And then at midnight we boil the dumplings and eat them. ""But also on the table there are so many salads for starters. You start at 6pm or maybe earlier and you will finish at 6am the next day, so you need lots of food. ""There will be a Moscow salad with mayonnaise and eight different ingredients and then beetroot salad with gherkins and different vegetables. Also very traditional is caviar on crispbreads or pancakes, lots of pies like fish pies, meat pies, cabbage pies. ""At some point in the evening you will have chicken, because chicken is very popular, and then in the morning you will have some of the leftovers and you keep celebrating and you keep drinking. ""Drinking is very important too!"" Tatiana Abdelgafar, from Bulgaria, said: ""A few years ago we would only have pork on the table and not birds. ""For us, the eve before Christmas is special and we need to have seven different meals on the table and none can have meat inside or dairy products. We will have baklava [a rich sweet pastry] and something like baklava which has pumpkin inside, and whole walnuts, fruits, and salads and beans. ""And the next day, on the Christmas table, you will have only meats and our tables are not individual meals but a lot of dishes to be shared by everyone. Even the bread will have meat in it. Mainly it was pork but now it is turkey. ""And you need to leave this table until morning - you do not clear it away - because it is for Santa Claus or the dead people in your life, in case they want to take something from the table."" Few homes will offer quite such a rich blend of culinary Christmas ""fusion"" as that of Sandra Attolini-Nicotera. ""As far as my Christmas dinner goes,"" she says, ""I have lived so many years abroad, that mine is a mixture of Italian, American, German and English. ""So on my table you are likely to see tortellini [Italian pasta filled with ricotta and spinach] in a chicken soup, a bit of turkey or ham, lots of fruit, pumpkin pie and German stollen."" And then there is Kasia Galdyn, from Poland, who is on the cusp of cooking her first Christmas dinner in the UK. ""We have decided we will mix our Christmas dinner,"" she said, ""with a little bit roast dinner and some meals from Poland. ""On Christmas Eve we will have beetroot soup with little dumplings with white mushrooms and some salad, and dishes like herrings, and maybe some cod and Greek sauce made from tomato puree, onion and carrot. ""Then on Christmas Day we will have a traditional English dinner. In Poland it is traditional to have a pescatarian (no meat, but fish is allowed) meal and we need to have 12 different dishes - to mark the 12 apostles - featuring different types or styles of fish and dumplings with sour cabbage, and we have soups. ""We also set aside one plate for a guest because this is a special evening and anybody could knock on your door and you need to invite them into your family. ""We also have sweets such as poppy seeds with honey and raisins, pastries, gingerbread and cheesecake."" But it is not just the menu that differs from the traditional Christmas dinner in Ms Galdyn's home. It is also the timing. Children, she says, can be seen looking up into the night sky, their eyes hunting for the astronomical version of a start pistol. ""This supper only starts,"" says Ms Galdyn, ""when the first star appears in the night sky.""","The "" traditional "" British Christmas dinner of turkey , roast potatoes , stuffing and sprouts is hardly facing a challenge to its supremacy - but that does n't mean there are n't a whole host of other festive culinary traditions whetting appetites up and down the @placeholder .",land,structures,world,mountain,sound,0
"Glentress Forest gets more than 300,000 visitors a year. The proposals include about 65 cabins to provide accommodation, an enhanced visitor centre, better roads and more parking. The draft scheme will now be subject to a three-month consultation period before it is brought back to Scottish Borders Council for final approval. Stuart Bell, executive member for economic development at the local authority, welcomed the move. ""The Glentress masterplan outlines some of the aspects of how that site could develop and improve considerably in terms of the attraction for mountain bikers,"" he said. ""It also opens up the opportunity for a cabin development which could attract a wider range of family visitors."" He said the development plan could have an impact throughout the Tweed Valley. ""When I go and talk to people in Peebles, it's not really understood that at the moment 300,000 visitors come to Glentress and they're hardly seen in the hills because the landscape can encompass them so well,"" he said. ""As well as that, we've got the opportunities of development and growth further down the river at Innerleithen which could attract many of the visitors. ""People would want to see the opportunity to make a combined visit to the sites at Glentress and the site at Innerleithen. ""The masterplan opens up the opportunity for aspects of that.""",Borders councillors have endorsed the draft of a development masterplan for one of the @placeholder 's key attractions .,region,development,sport,county,public,0
"Union leaders had endorsed the proposed agreement, which would have allowed prison officers to retire at 65, but members voted against it by two to one. The union said it wanted to address ""issues of concern"" with the government. The Ministry of Justice said it was disappointed but would continue talks. It comes after a 12-hour riot at HMP Birmingham last week, described by the Prison Officers Association as the worst since the Strangeways jail riot 26 years ago. Up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales protested last month over claims of a ""surge"" in jail violence but returned to work after a High Court injunction ordered them to end their 24-hour protest. Under the rejected deal, which was approved by the POA's National Executive Committee earlier this month, staff would be able to retire with an occupational pension at 65 - even when the state pension age rises to 68. Pay was proposed to increase by between 0.5% and 1% in each of the next three years, with further loyalty payments of up to £1,000. But almost two-thirds of union members who voted rejected the deal. There was a 52% turnout among the 19,000 eligible prison staff in England and Wales. BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said some prison staff believe they should be allowed to retire with a full pension at 60, as police officers are allowed to do. There are also concerns that pay is still not enough to attract sufficient staff, the correspondent added. The Ministry of Justice said Justice Secretary Liz Truss intends to meet with union leaders in the New Year.","Members of the Prison Officers Association in England and Wales have "" overwhelmingly "" rejected an @placeholder on pay and pensions , the union has said .",advice,action,amendment,offer,accident,3
"Wales beat reigning champions Ireland 15-5 at Ystrad Mynach on Sunday as preparation for this year's competition. The two sides meet in their tournament opener at Donnybrook on Saturday, 6 January. ""We've got to go and re-do that out in Ireland,"" Harries told BBC Wales Sport. ""Going out to Ireland is just as tough as going anywhere away - it's one of the toughest places I've played."" Wales finished fifth in the 2015 Six Nations, fading badly after winning their opening two fixtures against world champions England and Scotland. Ireland, by contrast, won four of their five games to clinch a second title in two years. Harries hopes a repeat of Wales' friendly victory against Ireland could transform their fortunes. She added: ""If we go away and get the win, then I'm sure our mindset can change and the Six Nations will be up for grabs.""",Wales women 's back - rower Sioned Harries has @placeholder her side to repeat their friendly win against Ireland when they meet again in the Six Nations .,coached,helped,quit,challenged,described,3
"The 18-year-old had not been released by the Daggers. He just had other plans. Taking up full-time training as a sprinter, Gemili competed at the London 2012 Olympics just nine months later and won European 200m gold and Commonwealth 100m silver this summer. Dagenham's loss was certainly British athletics' gain. Now, the League Two strugglers are looking to get something back from the world of track and field. Former Commonwealth high jump champion Dalton Grant is hoping his knowledge can assist the Daggers in a strength and conditioning role, using tips picked up from some of the legends of British athletics to help players at the east London club improve their running technique. ""It has come from bits and pieces of knowledge the greats have passed on to me: Linford Christie, Colin Jackson and Daley Thompson - and even Sebastian Coe,"" he told BBC London 94.9. ""I am not trying to make anyone a high jumper or a sprinter. It is the Dalton Grant philosophy. ""The training sessions are things I have done myself over the years, so I know the outcome. It's about understanding your body."" Grant has been working at Victoria Road since September. It might seem a strange move for a man who spent the best part of two decades attempting to propel himself over a crossbar. But for Grant, who competed at three Olympics, coaching footballers gives him the chance to work in the sport he loves. ""My passion was always football but my talent lay in athletics and the high jump,"" the 48-year-old said. ""Once I retired I wanted to find something I was passionate about and where I could pass on my talent and encourage someone to improve. ""Hopefully people buy into what you have to offer them."" Hackney-born Grant arrived back in east London from Fulham, where he had been working with the Championship club's youngsters. Having previously spent time working on the technique of several footballers on a one-to-one basis, Grant thinks many players need to improve their running style. ""Unless you are being coached to run then you can't run,"" he said. ""A lot of footballers run on their heels. You can still run fast with bad technique but you can pick up injuries. ""It's about breaking it down, the mechanics of it, getting strong in the right areas - whether their calves or their hips, and plyometrics. ""They are responding to it well. I am just doing bits and pieces because it is a big learning curve for them."" Encouragement is something the Daggers' players are in dire need of. Languishing 22nd in League Two, just three points above the drop zone, and having been knocked out of the FA Cup by Conference side Southport this week, Dagenham manager Wayne Burnett admitted he understands the fans' frustrations. Fortunately Grant is not a man to shirk a difficult task. ""I like a challenge in life and it is hard, rather than going into a team which is successful,"" he added. ""You need to have structure and belief in what you are doing. Even under immense pressure you still have to be consistent and upbeat. ""Every day I am confident in what I can bring to the table. ""I have experience of going to competitions and losing, with nowhere to hide. I share my experiences to try to help pick the players up."" Interview with Dalton Grant by BBC London 94.9's Jeanette Kwakye.",Three years ago a little - known Dagenham & Redbridge reserve by the name of Adam Gemili @placeholder up his football boots for the final time .,drawn,woke,gave,broken,hung,4
"Matthew Grimstone Parents Sue and Phil and brothers David and Paul paid an emotional tribute to the footballer, who played for Worthing United. They said: ""The family are in total shock at losing our dearest son Matthew so tragically at 23 years old. ""He was the kindest person you could ever meet, with a great wit. ""In his 23 years, we can honestly say he never lost his temper."" The family went on to say that football was his passion in life and he loved working at Brighton & Hove Albion as well as playing for Worthing United. He had also been a referee. ""Matt has been taken from us at just 23 and we still think he is going to walk through the front door any minute now."" Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club say he was on his way to play for Worthing United against Loxwood in the Southern Combination Premier Division at Lyons Way at the time of the air crash, along with his Mavericks teammate Jacob Schilt. Mr Grimstone, 23, worked at the club for the past seven years - starting with the Albion as part of the match day event team at Withdean. Chief executive Paul Barber said: ""Matt's been a very popular member of our ground staff team and has proved to be an absolute credit to the club and his boss Steve Winterburn."" Worthing United FC released a statement, saying:  ""Grimbles was our first team goalkeeper, 23 years of age and a huge talent, quiet and reserved but a brilliant player with a huge potential to go further in the game."" Jacob Schilt Seagulls supporter Mr Schilt was travelling with his Mavericks teammate Matthew Grimstone when their vehicle was hit by the aircraft. Alongside Mr Grimstone, Mr Schilt was part of Worthing United's Sussex County League Division Two championship-winning side last season, and also played for an Albion supporters' team in this year's Robert Eaton Memorial Fund (REMF) match against Crystal Palace at Lewes in April. Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club paid tribute to him, with chairman Tony Bloom saying: ""The thoughts and prayers of everybody at the club are with Matt and Jacob's family and friends at this shocking time. Our thoughts are also with all the people who have lost loved ones in this horrendous accident."" Chief executive Paul Barber added: ""I got to know Jacob as one of the REMF squad, during the coaching sessions we held leading up to this year's charity match against Crystal Palace. As well as being a very good footballer, Jacob is a popular and impressive young man."" Worthing United FC released a statement, saying: ""Jacob, who was 23 years of age, small in stature and a tenacious midfielder, was very skilful with an eye for goal."" ""At this point we don't know how or if we will cope with this. Worthing Utd is a family, part of the football family, we have been moved by the number of tributes to them that we have received form our fellow clubs and from the public."" Mr Schilt and Mr Grimstone attended the same secondary school, Varndean, leaving in 2008. The school said in a statement: ""It is with great sadness that we remember former students Matt Grimstone and Jacob Schilt who died tragically at the weekend in the Shoreham Airshow crash. ""Jacob's father, Bob Schilt, was a teacher at the school from 1989 to 2009 and is remembered affectionately by staff who knew him."" Matt Jones Matt Jones, 24, a personal trainer, was named on Facebook by his sister Becky Jones as one of the dead. She wrote: ""Thank you to everyone who has messaged me. We are devastated to say Matt Jones was one of the fatalities."" Maurice Abrahams Chauffeur Maurice Abrahams, 76, from Brighton, was driving his ""beloved Daimler"" when the plane crashed. It has been widely reported that he was on his way to pick up a bride for her wedding. His family issued a statement through Sussex Police: ""Maurice is a well-respected and loved father and husband. He enjoyed his work chauffeuring his beloved Daimler car and he enjoyed gardening. ""He was proud to have served in the Grenadier Guards and the Parachute Regiment. He served in Cyprus and Bahrain with the UN. In his 30s he served as a police officer with Hampshire Police."" Mark Reeves The family of Mark Reeves, 53, said he died while combining two of his favourite hobbies, riding his cherished Honda motorbike to photograph planes at an air show. He was a computer-aided design technician in west London who fundraised for cancer charities by parachuting and abseiling. His family said in a statement: ""Mark Reeves - motorbiker, golfer, photographer, fund-raiser - but above all else, son, brother, husband, father and grandfather. ""As many times before, he had travelled to an air show and parked up on the outskirts to grab the best photos, but he had never been to the Shoreham air show before. ""We will remember him as a gentle, loving, incredibly giving family man, husband to Wendy, father to Luke, granddad to three beautiful grand-daughters, brother to Denise and loving son of Ann and Kenneth. ""With his family he moved to Seaford nine years ago, drawn by our love of the sea and for Mark in particular, love of the sun. ""He was a sun worshipper and an enthusiastic holidaymaker, travelling to Fuerteventura and Madeira in recent years and would often be seen relaxing with a cocktail in hand. ""We thank everyone who has sent their love, condolences and prayers and while we appreciate that many others will be experiencing similar unspeakable grief in such tragic and public circumstances, that we now be allowed to grieve ourselves in private and in peace."" Tony Brightwell The family of Tony Brightwell, 53, from Hove, said he was enjoying his passion of watching planes and cycling before he died. Outside of being a health care manager for Sussex Partnership NHS and Brighton and Hove City Council, he was an aircraft enthusiast and had learnt to fly at Shoreham airfield. With his pilot's licence, he had attended the airfield many times and was hoping to fly again one day. His fiancee Lara said she is heartbroken that their ""plans to spend their lives in the sun will now never happen"". ""I watched him cycle off into the sun on his treasured ridgeback bike to watch the air show at Shoreham for a couple of hours, but he never came home,"" she said. Daniele Polito Daniele Polito was in the same car as Matt Jones, when the Hawker Hunter plane crashed and exploded on the A27 in West Sussex. Posting on Facebook, his sister Marina said: ""I miss you loads already little (big) bro! Keep making people smile."" Ms Polito said that many people loved her brother and would ""miss him loads"". ""I would just like to say a massive thank you to every one who has supported my family over the last few painful days. ""I am overwhelmed by the kindness you have all shown. I know many people loved him and will miss him loads, ""As long as we keep him in our hearts and memories, he will never really leave us."" Mark Trussler Window cleaner and builder Mark Trussler is thought to have been riding his motorbike on the A27 when the plane crashed on Saturday. His fiancee Giovanna Chirico posted a message on Facebook saying that her worst fears had been confirmed. She wrote: ""Yesterday my worst fears were confirmed and I lost not just my fiance but my best friend, soul mate and sidekick. ""No words can describe how much all ur family and friends r going to miss u. ""So glad I got to spend the last 12 years of my life with u an love u always and eternally."" Dylan Archer Dylan Archer was on a cycle ride with his friend Richard Smith when he died in the crash. Mr Archer, an IT company director, was raised in the Midlands and came to live in Brighton in 1991. He leaves a partner, Alice, and their two sons aged 15 and 12. The family said in a statement: ""Dylan was a kind and loving father, partner, brother, grandson and friend. His dry humour and generous nature will be greatly missed by all who knew him. ""The family are very touched by all the tributes, and thank everyone for their kindness and generosity."" Richard Smith Richard Smith, 26, from Hove, was brought up in Buckinghamshire before going to university in Birmingham. His family moved to Hampshire in 2008 and he worked in a cycle shop in Cosham. He moved to Hove two years ago where he worked in marketing and web development. His family said: ""Richard's passions in life were for his family, friends and his beloved bikes. His boundless enthusiasm was infectious. He was a truly wonderful, caring and loving person. He will be so sorely missed by all who knew him."" He leaves a partner Victoria, parents Julie and Jonathan, and brothers William and Edward. Retired engineer, Graham Mallinson, 72, had been hoping to capture shots of the Vulcan bomber which was making one of its last appearances at Shoreham Airshow when he was killed. The keen photographer from Newick, East Sussex, was described as being ""at the right place at the wrong time, doing what he loved best on a beautiful summer's day,"" when the jet crashed. In a statement, his family said: ""He was the kindest and most generous man, who regularly gave his time to help others. Always loyal and reliable, he was a private and loving family man with a great sense of humour. ""A very caring husband and father who was dearly loved, he will be very sorely missed by all his family and the wide circle of friends who had the good fortune to know him.""","Eleven people died in the Shoreham air crash when a vintage jet crashed on to @placeholder on 22 August . Footballers , cyclists , air show enthusiasts and motorists were among the victims . This is what we know about them .",england,ground,it,sea,traffic,4
"Heritage campaigners objected saying the plan to shut off Library Walk - a curved walkway between the two buildings - closed a right of way. A 1,300 signature petition, was handed to the city's planning committee. The £3.5m scheme, drawn up by Beetham Tower architect Ian Simpson, was approved by the committee on Thursday. The Friends of Library Walk argued that the plan, which would see the walkway closed between 22:00 and 06:00, had effectively privatised public space and robbed the city of a ""much loved"" right of way and landmark. A spokesman for the group said: ""We made clear and well-argued arguments against the proposed development, and a great number of people are now feeling very let down that the most contentious aspects of the plans were only given passing scrutiny by the committee."" He added: ""We're disheartened but not defeated - the fight to save Library Walk does not end here."" Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, said: ""A crucial aspect of the vision in transforming the Central Library and the town hall extension was to link the two buildings as a single complex that would integrate the services across both and deliver radically improved services. ""It is estimated that up to a million visitors each year will use the Library Walk connection once the buildings have reopened and so it is important that we create a quick and easy access, but also a striking and ambitious architectural statement."" The walk is currently sealed off due to renovation work taking place at the library.","Councillors in Manchester have backed a plan to create a "" @placeholder link "" between Manchester Town Hall and Central Library .",glazed,looming,cloud,effect,decline,0
"In a blogpost, security guru Bruce Schneier said ""precisely calibrated"" attacks on key net firms had been seen for over a year. The attacks sought weaknesses in the defences of organisations that oversaw critical parts of the net, he said. He said his ""first guess"" was that either China or Russia was behind the series of attacks. Responding to his comments, one security firm said the range of attacks he described was ""the new normal"" for many organisations. The hackers used well-known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to probe defences, wrote Mr Schneier. These attacks typically seek to knock a site offline by overwhelming it with data. They are often used by extortionists who threaten to cripple a site via DDoS unless its owners pay a fee. Mr Schneier said the DDoS attacks observed against core net firms had a different character. To begin with they were ""significantly larger"" and lasted longer than most such attacks. They were also more sophisticated because the amount of data being directed at victims was slowly turned up. Often, he said, the peak data rate of one series of attacks would be the starting point for the next wave. The attackers also sought to find out what digital defences firms could muster by employing several different types of DDoS attack. ""It's as if the attacker were looking for the exact point of failure,"" he said. Other attacks on the net's addressing system had also been seen that, together with the DDoS probes, revealed a worrying pattern, he said. ""Someone is extensively testing the core defensive capabilities of the companies that provide critical internet services,"" he wrote. Mr Schneier did not reveal which firms had been hit in the attacks as the victims had shared information with him under a guarantee of anonymity. Information gathered on DDoS attacks by net giant Verisign lent weight to Mr Schneier's conclusions. In the latest edition of a regularly issued report, it said it had seen DDoS attacks become ""more frequent, persistent and complex"". Arbor Networks, which helps defend firms against DDoS attacks, said they had been growing in ""frequency, volume, and sophistication"" for many years. Roland Dobbins, principal engineer at Arbor, said it was ""manifestly untrue"" that only state-sponsored hackers could mount the most sophisticated and sizeable attacks. The constant hum of DDoS attacks that swept the net on a daily basis were kicked off by many different actors, he said. ""Some are nation-state actors, some are affiliated with nation-states at arm's length, many are non-state ideological actors, and many are commercially driven criminal actors,"" said Mr Dobbins. ""Irrespective of the identities and motivations of DDoS threat actors, successful defence is demonstrably possible against even the largest and most sophisticated DDoS attacks.""","Unidentified hackers are carrying out a campaign to find out how to take down the net , @placeholder a security expert .",warns,following,according,surrounding,citing,0
"""Listen up,"" splashes the News Letter. The paper takes us to the European Parliament in Strasbourg and reports on the telling off Michael Barnier got from a UUP MEP. Jim Nicholson was speaking in the chamber about Northern Ireland's ""integral roll in the UK"" when he saw the French politician ""twiddling with his telephone"". The Armagh MEP suggested Mr Barnier ""actually listen to the speech"". The paper reports that the two made up later, however, with Mr Nicholson saying they had a ""good and constructive meeting"" in the chief Brexit negotiator's office. Cat lovers, look away now. The Belfast Telegraph reports that three cats who have made the grounds of Stormont their home are the latest victims of the collapse of the political institutions. A security review means a pensioner has been banned from feeding the cats, says the paper. Edna Watters said she was ""broken-hearted"" as she has been caring for cats at Stormont, day-in, day-out, for 30 years. The paper reports it has seen an email from the Stormont Estate Management Unit (SEMU), saying: ""Only those visitors with a valid business reason can access restricted areas of the estate. ""Feeding cats does not constitute a business need,"" it adds. Hence why Edna has been refused entry. But there may be light at the end of the tunnel for the 76-year-old - the cats' homes are to be moved to a more suitable area where she will be free to visit them. The Irish News leads with the news of a spike in calls to a Belfast surgery from patients fearing they will die after a spate of sudden deaths over the weekend. At least three of the five Belfast deaths, one of which was a 16-year old girl, were connected to drugs, say police. Dr Michael McKenna, whose surgery is based on the Falls Road, said one of the people who died was a patient of his and he had been contacted by several people, including a teenager who had taken 20 ""street diazepam"" at once. One headline in the paper strikes a particularly bitter-sweet note. ""Parents whose newborn son died now raffling ex-Tyrone stars boots in aid of hospital baby unit"". Ballinderry couple Sinead and Cormac McIvor's baby Franky tragically died after living for a few days before passing away in February. But the big-hearted couple are hoping to raise money for the Royal's neo-natal intensive care unit in Belfast by auctioning Tyrone GAA star Owen Mulligan's boots. Mrs McIvor said she and her husband were keen to help the unit after the expert care baby Franky received. Talk about building with bricks and Donald Trump might bring to mind US plans for a wall along the border with Mexico, but the News Letter has the story of a Belfast artist who has captured the image of the POTUS using Lego bricks. The creation, which is of President Trump as a teenager, is just one of the subjects of David Turner's latest collection which looks at famous politicians in their ""formative years"". It looks like the piece has already been snapped up by an art collector. The Belfast Telegraph reports that a ""massive quantity of 20p coins"", understood to amount to thousands of pounds, were stolen from a house in Ligoniel in north Belfast on Tuesday. The coins were in two large glass jars. All the papers report on the PSNI's ""action plan"" to recruit more Catholics. However bringing back the 50/50 policy has been ruled out. The Irish News says recent recruitment drives have ""struggled to attract new Catholic officers"". The News Letter says the PSNI intends to start a new recruitment drive targeting ""cold spots"" this autumn. A number of changes will also be made in the recruitment process, it says.",Thursday 's newspaper front pages all take different @placeholder .,directions,shapes,race,control,effect,0
"But thanks to the skill of the Motor Cycle of Union medical team, ably assisted by some of the dedicated 800-strong team of highly-trained volunteers, loss of life was averted. Austrian rider Horst Saiger has recovered from his injuries and will compete again at this year's event, but Crumlin's Stephen Thompson continues his long rehabilitation, which has included having a prosthetic arm fitted. Violet McAfee, the spectator involved in the incident, which occurred between York Corner and Mill Road roundabout during the Superstock race, plans to return to watch this year's event. When it comes to aiding safety at high-risk sports such as motorcycle road racing, flag marshals are among those on the front line, performing an essential function. They are based track-side at the North West, 63 of them, and are strategically placed around the 8.9-mile circuit. That's roughly a flag marshal every 200 metres, and all are in line of sight of each other. The 'flagger' performs an essential function as the eyes and ears of the riders, warning them of conditions up ahead. Their flags range from yellow which means 'slow down and prepare to stop', to red which means 'stop immediately'. A flag with red and yellow stripes warns of a lack of adhesion on the surface of the track. During racing the flag marshals work in conjunction with over 230 road marshals, 120 first aid personnel, a minimum of 10 doctors and nearly 40 amateur radio medical emergency communication (Raynet) operators, to provide the safest possible racing conditions for riders, spectators and residents alike. The human interest stories surrounding the international event this year include a mother and daughter flagging together for the first time in the history of the North West 200. In the past, families have been represented by fathers and sons and even grandfathers, but there has never been an all-woman team. Florence Burns, a nursing auxiliary at Craigavon Area Hospital, and her daughter Naomi have volunteered for this year's event. They have both flagged before, but never at the North West 200, and they will be based be at the entrance to the start-finish area at the paddock. Naomi is a student who hopes to become a drama teacher and she is planning to take an HND in Performing Arts at the South-Eastern Regional College in Bangor in September. In the past she has been handed the responsibility of taking charge of the start-finish flag at the Mid-Antrim 150, Tandragee 100 and Cookstown 100 races and has also performed lap scoring duties. Florence has been involved in road racing in Ireland for over 15 years. The ""buzz and atmosphere"" excites her, but also being part of what she describes as the ""large family"" of racing. She also maintains a keen interest in the welfare of the riders and their families. They are two of the hard-working individuals who work under the supervision of Keith Edgar, the Chief Flag Marshal at the North West 200. This is his second year in the post, but the taxi driver been attending the speed spectacular on the north coast for over 25 years. Keith looks forward to the five road races and more than 20 short-circuit races he attends every year. He does it for the ""enjoyment and craic"", and would encourage more people to sign up and help out. Chief Marshal Cathal Cunning echoed Keith's appeal. ""In the past it's been very much a generational thing, with grandfathers, fathers and sons all helping out,"" he said. ""With just three years to the 90th North West 200 and 13 to the centenary, we're trying to encourage younger volunteers.""","The 2015 North West 200 was marred by a potentially life - threatening @placeholder crash in which two riders were injured , one seriously , and a spectator airlifted to hospital .",horror,vehicle,style,secret,plane,0
"The bag went missing from a a car park by the River Teviot - known locally as the Spetch - near Newton St Boswells on Thursday at about 17:00. It belonged to a kayaker, who had left it underneath a car, and also contained some clothing and a whistle. Police Scotland asked anyone with information to call 101. Inspector Keith Dougal said: ""This bag contains a flare which could be dangerous if it is discharged in an enclosed area. As such we are particularly keen to retrieve the bag and return it to its owner.""","Police officers are trying to find a missing bag containing a rescue flare which they say could be "" dangerous "" in the wrong @placeholder .",team,river,bank,hands,situation,3
"Holroyd, 30, arrives on a one-year deal from Macclesfield Town, having scored 13 goals last season - his best return in four years with the Silkmen. Left-back Jennings, 29, played the second half of last season on loan at Wrexham from Cheltenham Town. His performances persuaded boss Dean Keates to make the move permanent and Jennings joins on a two-year contract.",Wrexham have @placeholder for next season by signing forward Chris Holroyd and defender James Jennings .,hoped,returned,qualified,strengthened,trained,3
"Joaquin Garcia, 69, was fined €27,000 (£21,000; $30,000) after the award brought his long absence to light. Mr Garcia, whose job was to supervise the building of a waste water treatment plant, has since retired. He denies the allegations and his lawyer says he has gone into hiding after suffering a media ""lynching"". Mr Garcia said he had been a victim of political bullying in the job and moved to a post where there was no work to do. He was paid €37,000 a year before tax by a water company run by local authorities in the south-western city of Cadiz. A court found in the authority's favour and ordered him to pay the fine ,which is equivalent to one year's salary after tax and was the most that the company could legally reclaim. He has written to the mayor asking not to have to pay the fine, and will ask for a review of the judgement. Spanish newspapers have dubbed him ""el funcionario fantasma"" - the phantom official. The court heard that the boss of the water company had not seen Mr Garcia for years despite occupying an office opposite his. The water company thought he was supervised by the local authorities and vice versa. The deputy mayor noticed his absence when Mr Garcia became eligible to receive a plaque for 20 years' service. Mr Garcia says he was bullied due to his family's politics, and was sent to the water company to be out of the way. He found there was no work to do there. People close to him told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he was reluctant to report it as he had a family to provide for, and worried that at his age he would not get another job. They said he did go to the office, although not for full business hours every day, and that he dedicated himself to reading philosophy.","A Spanish civil servant who failed to turn up for work for "" at least "" six years has been @placeholder after becoming eligible for a long service award .",caught,discharged,delayed,sacked,rescued,0
"German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, said: ""I remain confident that we will find an agreement today on the payment of the latest tranche."" Lenders are meeting on Thursday to discuss releasing as much as 8.5bn euros (£7.4bn) in funds to Greece. Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said he was ""optimistic"". Greece is facing billions of euros worth of debt repayments in July. Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir said: ""I really hope the Euclid will fly back home with a briefcase stuffed with money."" Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will attend the meeting in Luxembourg. Germany, Europe's largest economy, is the biggest contributor to the rescue and its government has stipulated that in order for more money to be released to Greece, the IMF must join the bailout. However, in turn, the IMF wants clarity on longer term debt relief for Greece once the current funding scheme runs out next year. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, chairman of the Eurogroup, said: ""Today we will give more clarity to Greece and to the IMF (on) how we will move forward, how we will calibrate debt relief needed next year. ""There won't be a figure that rolls out... the figure will only come at the end of the programme,"" he said.",Germany is confident that its @placeholder eurozone neighbour Greece will secure the funding it needs to pay its bills .,struggling,fleet,neighbouring,proposed,home,0
"The child's mummified body was found in his cot in March 2010 - eight months after he was last seen alive. Kimberley Hainey was jailed in 2012 for her son's murder but her conviction was later quashed on appeal. The inquiry found parental neglect was a factor in his death along with failures among social care teams. The fatal accident inquiry was conducted by Sheriff Ruth Anderson at Paisley Sheriff Court. Sheriff Anderson found: ""Having determined that on the balance of probabilities neglect was a contributory factor, the following defects in the system contributed to Declan's death. ""There was no system in place whereby one of the agencies responsible for Declan's well-being was in overall charge and there was no system whereby one named individual was responsible for coordinating all available information. ""This defect resulted in no formal inter-agency meetings taken place, especially in the period from February 2009."" Sheriff Anderson continued: ""Had such systems existed then those responsible for the care of Declan would have been aware of all that was happening and all that was not happening and steps would have been taken to protect him from the risks resulting from Kimberley Hainey's inability to take proper care of her son. ""There was no system in place in relation to obtaining medical information. There was a fundamental lack of knowledge by social work staff at the Royal Alexandria Hospital as to what information they were entitled and how they might obtain it. ""As has been determined, had such information been available, there would have been a material difference in approach to the case by both Family Matters and Health Visitors and decisions taken in the initial assessment process would have resulted in more protection for Declan."" Sheriff Anderson rejected submissions on behalf of Renfrewshire Council that its staff had made ""reasonable professional judgments"" before Declan was born. She said it was known that Hainey had failed to prepare for Declan's birth, had a ""chaotic drug history"" and was drinking heavily ""while on a methadone programme"". The sheriff said: ""Had reasonable professional judgment been exercised, then child protection measures would have been taken."" She added: ""The risks to Declan were never analysed properly."" Sheriff Anderson noted that ""important decisions were taken when no records were available, and no notes or minutes kept"". She said that ""when decision were taken, it was often not easy to understand the basis of which they were taken"". The sheriff said: ""Gillian Turner claimed on the third day of her evidence, having been questioned on the issue of note-taking that she had kept notes of this case and others in a personal notebook, which she later shredded after she left Family Matters. ""If that was truthful evidence, it seems an extraordinary and unprofessional action for a senior social worker to take. ""Notes about cases should be kept in files, not in a personal notebook which is taken from the agency and later destroyed."" Sheriff Anderson said ""there were failures on the part of professionals to communicate instructions in a clear and unequivocal way"". It was noted that unsuccessful supervision visits were not properly communicated between social care workers. The inquiry identified ""defects in the system"" such as a lack of clarity over whether there was a ""lead individual"" in handling cases at the same time as ""the lead agency"". The sheriff also said it was clear that defects also existed in procedures at the time for ""obtaining all necessary medical information"" which would have informed decision making. Sheriff Anderson also highlighted issues with inadequate staffing around the care teams who were in charge of protecting Declan. Andrew Lowe, Independent Chair of Renfrewshire Child Protection Committee, said care services in the area fully accepted the inquiry findings. He said: ""Declan's death was a tragedy. The loss of this young boy demands that all of us examine the findings from this inquiry very carefully and apply the recommendations it contains. ""Much has been done in the five years since Declan's death to strengthen child protection services in Renfrewshire. ""All of us involved in this work recognise the importance of a prompt and thorough response to the Sheriff's findings."" Mark Macmillan, leader of Renfrewshire Council, said: ""We must never forget that Declan's death was a tragedy where a young child needlessly lost his life. ""Children need a home where they are loved and looked after. Providing that safe, nurturing environment has always been and always will be our over-riding goal. There is no higher priority for this council and our partner agencies. ""In recent years, the organisations involved locally have put in place a series of improvements in the way we work together, monitor and act in such cases. We now have new evidence and new recommendations which will support that crucial work. ""Sheriff Anderson has acknowledged the progress we have made in strengthening child protection services."" Annette Bruton, chief executive of the Care Inspectorate said that ""Declan's death was shocking and extremely distressing, and provoked deep sadness across Scotland"". She said the Care Inspectorate would now conduct a full joint inspection of services for children and young people across Renfrewshire with Healthcare Improvement Scotland and Education Scotland. She added: ""During these joint inspections, we routinely look at a number of the recommendations made by the Sheriff in this tragic case, particularly how children are supported by social workers, how vulnerable children get the help they need, how agencies work together and how staff are trained. ""We expect children who are at risk to have regular and appropriate contact with social workers, health visitors and professionals, and support the Sheriff's call for notifications of concerns to be addressed robustly by those responsible for protecting children.""",A fatal accident inquiry has found the death of toddler Declan Hainey may have been @placeholder if care agencies properly supervised his drug addict mother .,exposed,cleared,avoided,denied,discovered,2
"He said he had sent the US evidence of Fethullah Gulen's criminal activities - allegations the cleric denies - in support of an extradition bid. Mr Yildirim insisted that his country was governed by the rule of law. Thousands of soldiers, police and officials have been detained or sacked since Friday's coup attempt. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again refused to rule out reinstating the death penalty for coup plotters if it is approved by parliament. The EU has warned that such a move would see the end of accession talks to the bloc. For now, at least, that seems not to worry President Erdogan, who is seizing the opportunity to tighten his grip, reports the BBC's Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen. Prime Minister Yildirim was speaking after meeting the leader of the main opposition CHP party. He warned people not to act out of a spirit of revenge in the wake of Friday's failed military takeover, saying that would be ""unacceptable"" but whoever had acted against the law would be punished. ""Today we need unity,"" he said. The interior ministry has dismissed almost 9,000 police officers as part of a purge of officials suspected of involvement in the coup attempt. That followed the arrest of 6,000 military personnel and suspension of almost 3,000 judges over the weekend. Many of those accused of involvement are closely linked to the ruling apparatus. Turkey's armed forces have been dealt a significant psychological blow by the attempted coup, and their prestige and status have been damaged. Turks had assumed that coups were a thing of the past. Not only does this latest plot come as a threat to the country's democracy but it has also stymied its ability to act in its key role as a provider of regional security. Read more Reports on Tuesday said President Erdogan's Air Force adviser, Lt Col Erkan Kivrak, had been detained at a hotel in the southern province of Antalya. According to Reuters news agency, 257 staff at Mr Yildirim's own office - some 10% of the total number - have also been removed from duty. More than two dozen generals, including former air force chief Gen Akin Ozturk, have been remanded in custody pending the setting of trial dates. Like Mr Gulen, Gen Ozturk denies any involvement. Mr Yildirim said action would be taken against Mr Gulen's supporters. ""I'm sorry but this parallel terrorist organisation will no longer be an effective pawn for any country,"" Mr Yildirim said, according to Reuters. ""We will dig them up by their roots so that no clandestine terrorist organisation will have the nerve to betray our blessed people again."" Meanwhile, the UN urged Turkey to uphold the rule of law and defend human rights in its response to the attempted coup. In a statement, High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said the mass suspension or removal of judges was ""cause for serious alarm"". He expressed ""deep regret"" at suggestions the death penalty could be reinstated. According to official figures from the prime minister's office, Friday night's coup attempt left 232 people dead and 1,541 wounded.","The Turkish Prime Minister , Binali Yildirim , has vowed to purge supporters of an @placeholder cleric "" by the roots "" in the aftermath of the failed coup .",exiled,organised,estimated,increased,declared,0
"Official figures reveal the stresses and strains being felt during February after torrid times over the previous two months. February's A&E waiting time performance was slightly better than December's and January's, with 87.6% of patients treated or assessed within four hours. But it was still one of the worst monthly figures since records began more than a decade earlier, and it came after a fall in the number of people coming in to A&E units. Once patients got through A&E there could still be long waits. Adding up the number of patients between December and February, who waited more than four hours for a bed after a decision to admit, there was a total of 196,000, which was a 45% increase on the same period the previous year. Delayed transfers of patients who were medically fit to leave continued to cause problems for hospitals. There was a 17% increase in the number of beds not available to other patients in the year to February. NHS England said that in effect around 1,100 beds had been taken out of normal usage compared with February 2016. More than 36% of delays were linked to problems with social care services, the highest since the data was first collected in 2010. With some hospitals reporting that at times over the winter every bed was occupied, it is clear that the service was running flat out and very close to capacity. This in turn affected routine surgery, with bed shortages causing delays to procedures where an overnight stay was required. Hardly surprisingly there was a big jump, of nearly 40%, in the number of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for routine treatment. This might sound like ""same old, same old"" and the story of the NHS being under pressure is hardly new. Whatever the dire warnings, hospitals muddled through. But it is worth noting that the system came under such strain despite intense contingency planning, and demands by NHS chiefs that non-urgent procedures be cancelled for several weeks to clear the decks for emergency admissions. What must be worrying for NHS leaders is that hospitals were full at times, and waiting times were rising, even in a mild winter and with no above-average flu or norovirus cases. A sense of relief must be tempered by concern that the health service may not be so lucky next year. The system runs on very fine margins and it would not take much to seriously rock it. Hospitals and local health commissioners are working hard in most areas to manage patient flows into A&E departments and to treat more people in their local communities. There is a hope that extra investment in social care in England will facilitate the quicker discharge of patients. But two things are clear as summer approaches. Firstly, the traditional easing of pressure after winter does not happen any more as patient demand rises relentlessly month by month. Secondly, it won't be long before hospital managements have to start planning for next winter, aware that they won't be lucky every time.","As warmer weather and the Easter holidays arrive , the NHS in England is @placeholder on what looks like the busiest , some would say the worst , winter on record .",published,looming,set,put,reflecting,4
"Overall, however, the year was quieter on the legislative front - with new Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker making good on his pledge to cut the number of new laws emanating from the EU's executive. Only 23 new initiatives were included in the EU executive's legislative programme for the year, a significant reduction from some years under previous administrations. After their Christmas recess, MEPs at the European Parliament are due to resume legislative work next week. What proposals await their consideration in the coming year? The year ended with the Commission unveiling plans for a new EU border and coastguard to curb the record influx of migrants into Europe. Strengthening the EU's external borders has become a top priority in the efforts to maintain the passport-free Schengen area, with a growing list of countries deciding to reimpose border controls. The new force will have greater powers than Frontex, the existing EU agency. Most controversially, the new body could - in emergency situations - deploy guards to a country's border against the wishes of its government. The regulation to set up the force says the Commission would be able, after consultation with experts, to deploy guards using implementing acts that could not be overruled unilaterally by a member state. The new unit requires the approval of MEPs, along with a qualified majority of national governments, before it can come into force. The Parliament's biggest political groups have indicted broad support for the new force, meaning it is likely to get their approval. Eurosceptic MEPs have criticised the plan as an invasion of national sovereignty, but are not numerous enough to block it. However, the Parliament's second-biggest group, the Socialists and Democrats, has said the new unit will need to be subject to ""real political scrutiny"", and has called for MEPs to be given an official oversight role. It is not yet clear whether the initial proposals - which would allow MEPs to summon the agency's executive director to give evidence - will be enough to satisfy this demand. The task of scrutinising the plans has been handed to the Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, chaired by Labour MEP Claude Moraes. Another new law set to make its way through the European Parliament in the coming months is the Commission's plan to make online TV subscriptions ""portable"" across the EU. The new legislation would allow subscribers to watch TV whilst staying ""temporarily"" outside their normal country of residence, something currently prohibited by so-called geoblocking restrictions. The Commission is keen to get the new rules approved this year, so they can come into effect in 2017 - the same year when a ban on mobile roaming charges is due to begin. At the moment, a number of subscription services - including Netflix and Sky's Now TV - restrict or vary access to those outside their home country. Whilst a number of technical sleights of hand can be used to get round these restrictions, the Commission has argued that extending legal access could provide a boost to Europe's creative industries. However, actually implementing the changes could prove tricky, in both technical and political terms. Some representing independent producers have expressed concern that too much market liberalisation could make it difficult for national or niche distributors to make a living. In addition, it is unclear to what extent the changes would apply to national broadcasters that offer services online, including the BBC. The corporation's iPlayer service has been specifically name-checked in the past by the EU's digital single market commissioner Andrus Ansip as an example of an internet service he would like to see extended. A spokeswoman for the European Commission, however, has confirmed the iPlayer will not be covered by the new rules, since it does not verify a user's country of residence. Despite this, the BBC has said it is ""interested"" in the idea of giving licence-fee payers access to the iPlayer in other EU countries, but said aspects of the new regulations would need clarification. The Commission itself has said that setting up a verification system to make this work could prove ""too burdensome and expensive"". MEPs will no doubt want to specify how this could be done - and who would pay for it to be set up. After years of resistance on civil liberties grounds, MEPs are also set to give their imprimatur to Commission plans to set up an EU-wide scheme for sharing information on airline passengers. Negotiators from the European Parliament struck a deal on the proposals in December, which could be put to a final plenary vote as early as late January. Under the plans, airline companies would be forced to hand over information provided by passengers when they check in for flights, such as their name, contact numbers and credit card details, to the national security authorities of EU countries. The European Commission, as well as national governments, have argued that the information sharing system is a vital tool in the fight against transnational crime and terrorism. The UK is already operating its own programme, whilst a number of other EU countries are building their own systems. The Parliament had initially been sceptical - with the Civil Liberties Committee deciding to throw out the plans in 2013. MEPs later committed to passing the scheme following last January's attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine, but made majority support conditional on agreeing an update to the EU's data protection rules. The latest version of the legislation contains a number of differences to the 2011 proposals tabled by the European Commission. Governments will be able, but not obliged, to apply its provisions to flights within the EU, as well as those between EU countries and those outside the bloc. The data will be stored for five years, but ""masked out"" - effectively anonymised for first searches - after six months. After this, the data would still be available to security services, but would require specific authorisation. National governments had originally wanted all the data to be fully available for up to two years. The end of 2015 marked what some saw as an historic step in efforts to reduce world greenhouse gas emissions, with nearly 200 countries signing up to a UN deal in Paris aiming to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C. EU climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete has hailed the agreement as ""the major multilateral deal of the 21st Century"", but some have questioned whether the largely non-binding commitments will be enough to protect the planet. In any case, the Commission wants EU states to take the lead - and has said that new targets to reduce waste and make better use of raw materials are part of its plans to reduce carbon emissions. MEPs on the Environment Committee are set to start examination of a new set of recycling targets in the coming months. The Commission has proposed that no more than 10% of waste collected by local authorities ends up in landfills by 2030. In addition, it has proposed that at least 65% of this waste is recycled by the same year. However, waste management varies greatly across the EU: 46% of municipal waste is recycled in Germany, for example, whilst only 3% is re-used in Romania. The Commission's solution to this stumbling block is to give certain southern and eastern European nations - including Estonia, Greece and Slovakia - up to five more years to achieve the targets. The EU executive has touted the new rules as ""more ambitious"" than previous proposals which it took out of its legislative programme for last year. However, the Green group, as well as other left-leaning groups, have said they consider the new plans a watered-down version of previous objectives mooted under the previous regime of Jose Manuel Barroso. Some have vowed to call for tougher targets when MEPs get their chance to amend the legislation. Parliament's own resolution on the targets last July proposed higher targets for local authority waste and packaging recycling, and made no mention of additional time for certain member states. It is therefore likely that much negotiation remains before the targets are likely to be given the green light.","The EU faced a tumultuous year in 2015 , with the @placeholder crisis , terror threats and the Greek debt drama placing the 28 - nation bloc under heavy strain .",impacts,migration,currency,words,growing,1
"Clare Cahill, 42, of Coytrahen, Bridgend, and Jade Pugh, 30, of North Cornelly, denied charges relating to alleged falsification of patient notes. Both worked at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital. At Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday, not guilty verdicts were given on 10 counts after a computer log of patient records was deemed unreliable. Both women worked on the stroke ward and denied failing to carry out routine blood glucose checks on patients and fabricating their medical records. On the day jurors were set to hear the case open, the prosecution offered no evidence and the judge ordered them to give the verdicts. Ms Cahill was cleared of six counts of causing wilful neglect between April and December 2012 and Ms Pugh was found not guilty of four counts of the same charge between June and October 2012. Judge Tom Crowther criticised the hospital's failure to have a dependable computer system in place. He added: ""Enormous expense has been incurred with trial preparation - hundreds of hours of time has been spent by experts... which has had a knock on effect of other cases waiting to be tried. ""It matters because two women have been facing a trial which should have been ready earlier. It matters because the families of the patients involved will have had their upset prolonged."" Three other nurses, who worked on the same hospital ward, have entered guilty pleas to similar charges. After the case, a spokeswoman for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board said: ""Our thoughts are with the families of patients involved in these cases, as this must be a difficult time for them."" She said when issues surrounding blood glucometry tests arose, the health board informed and cooperated with police. ""We have not been able to complete our internal disciplinary proceedings until the criminal proceedings concluded. We are now in a position to move urgently with this,"" she added. ""We remain determined to do more, to continually improve, and continue to have a commitment to dealing with issues as they arise in an open and transparent way. ""The blood glucometry test and recording system we use is designed to facilitate good patient care. It is widely used by many other hospitals and internationally recognised. It is continually being improved and updated. ""We are not in a position to comment on how information generated for clinical purposes has been used to support a criminal prosecution, as this is not our area of expertise.""",The case against two hospital nurses accused of wilfully neglecting vulnerable patients has @placeholder .,warned,revoked,ended,collapsed,announced,3
"They might been further bolstered by comments after Prime Minister's Questions, if they had been watching the news this afternoon, when Number 10's spokesman suggested that although it was important still to balance the books, the government understands people are ""weary"" after years of the limit. And, in line with Michael Fallon and Chris Grayling's comments, the government is ready to listen to the case to ""scrap the cap"" - bringing a potential end to the policy that was designed to save £5bn for the public purse by 2020. By teatime however, after the Treasury had slightly less enthusiastically said they were ""open to discussion"", that nurse, social worker, teacher or doctor had slightly less cause for feeling optimistic about a bigger pay rise any time soon. Number 10 had perhaps not changed, but certainly tweaked, their tune - saying when asked repeatedly that the policy has not changed, the independent pay review bodies will report in due course and the government will consider their proposals. So far, so confusing. Neither Number 10 nor the Treasury, who it's suggested were not entirely thrilled with the suggestion,  are ready by the end of this political day to be able to make such a big change, or to give Labour such a big victory. The problem for them however is not just what appears to be a changing mood among some voters, but also very public hints by cabinet members that the cap, becoming painful for some as inflation starts to lift, could disappear along with Theresa May's majority.","Nurse , social worker , teacher , doctor - pretty much any public sector worker in England , Wales and Northern Ireland would have been @placeholder in feeling a bit more chipper this morning , had they had time to listen to comments from the defence secretary or the transport secretary , both hinting that the limit on their pay rises might be about to come to an end .",delighted,succeeded,right,justified,scrapped,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device Only a new world record from Hungary's Daniel Gyurta could deny the 23-year-old gold, while Japan's Ryo Tateishi took bronze. Jamieson, in his debut Olympics, came charging down the final 50m to deafening noise in the Aquatics Centre and closed right up on Gyurta. But the 2011 world champion held on to touch in 2 mins 07.28 secs, just 15 hundredths of a second ahead of the fast-finishing Glaswegian and clear of Tateishi's 2:08.29. Jamieson's compatriot and training partner Andrew Willis was in the medal mix at 150m but paid for his efforts late on to finish down in eighth. Double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima of Japan, aiming to be the first man in Olympic swimming history to win the same event at three consecutive Games, could only finish fourth. But Jamieson's surprise medal - he was only fifth at last year's World Championships, and second at the British Championships earlier this year - brought the best noise of the Games so far from the packed stands. Britain's swimmers have under-performed at these Olympics so far, with just Rebecca Adlington's 400m freestyle bronze to show from the first five days of competition. Jamieson, who came to London as far more of a medal outsider than some of his more illustrious team-mates and set a new British record in his heat, could never be accused of the same crime. He said afterwards: ""I loved it. I had a little more to give after last night. It's so much easier to swim with a bit of confidence behind you. ""I cannot believe I have got 2:07, but I forgot about the time tonight - it was more tactical. I tried to stay on Gyurta's shoulder for the first hundred. I wanted to have everything on the line. ""I was desperate to get on the podium tonight to repay the faith and support we've had. After last night I thought I could win it but he was too strong in the end. ""I had planned for this night and that helped with the nerves beforehand. For so many years I have gone over this in my head. ""Unbelievable swim. Jamieson did everything he could possibly do, he almost ran Gyurta down. That's one of the best swimming races we've seen all week, and it involved a Brit. Well done Michael Jamieson. He has not lost the gold there, but earned the silver. He was just outside the world record. He knocked two seconds off the British record to get the silver - a great swim."" ""I couldn't have done any more. It was everything I hoped it would be - the crowd bringing me down the final 50m was the greatest experience of my life."" Jamieson's medal was the first by a British male in the pool at an Olympics since Steve Parry took 200m butterfly bronze in Athens in 2004. And when he stood on the podium in front of his home crowd, which included Prince Harry and comedian turned charity swimmer David Walliams, the 17,000-strong support roared their appreciation. With Adlington's preferred event, the 800m freestyle, still to come in the pool, Great Britain could yet match the three medals they won indoors in Beijing four years ago. The team's other three medals at the last Olympics came in the open-water events. Media playback is not supported on this device",Michael Jamieson @placeholder the swim of his life to take Olympic 200 m breaststroke silver and smash his own British record .,control,produced,completed,continued,survived,1
"Andrei Lugovoi said the inquiry presented ""invention"" and ""supposition"" and its chairman had ""gone mad"". The inquiry said Russians Mr Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun deliberately poisoned Mr Litvinenko and the killing was ""probably approved"" by President Putin. Russia has accused Sir Robert Owen's public inquiry of being ""politicised"". Sir Robert's long-awaited report into Mr Litvinenko's death found the two Russian men deliberately poisoned the 43-year-old in London in 2006 by putting the radioactive substance polonium-210 into his drink at a hotel. Both men deny any involvement in the killing. Mr Litvinenko died as a result of his poisoning in November that year. 'Supposition, invention and rumours' What Litvinenko report means for UK Russian media dismiss Litvinenko report Mr Lugovoi told the BBC:  ""I've seen the nonsense conclusions of your judge who has clearly gone mad. ""I saw nothing new there. I am very sorry that 10 years on nothing new has been presented, only invention, supposition, rumours. ""And the fact that such words as 'possibly' and 'probably' were used in the report, means there is no proof, nothing concrete against us."" Sir Robert Owen, the public inquiry chairman, said he was ""sure"" Mr Litvinenko's murder had been carried out by the two men and that they were probably acting under the direction of Moscow's FSB intelligence service, and approved by the organisation's chief, Nikolai Patrushev, as well as the Russian president. He said Mr Litvinenko's work for British intelligence agencies, his criticism of the FSB and Mr Putin, and his association with other Russian dissidents were possible motives for his killing. There was also ""undoubtedly a personal dimension to the antagonism"" between Mr Putin and Mr Litvinenko, he added. The use of polonium-210 was ""at the very least a strong indicator of state involvement"" as it had to be made in a nuclear reactor, the report said. What is polonium-210? Mr Lugovoi said there was no chance of him coming to Britain to face criminal charges. ""You know, it's more likely that the moon will become part of the Earth, than that I will be extradited from Russia - it's just impossible. ""You should understand correctly; if London 10 years ago accused me of something that carries a life sentence, what normal person would go to London to prove themselves? ""I'm Russian. Why should I trust you? I trust the Russian justice system."" Mr Litvinenko fled to the UK in 2000, claiming persecution. He was granted asylum and later gained British citizenship. In the years before his death, he worked as a writer and journalist, becoming a strong critic of the Kremlin. The inquiry heard evidence that Mr Litvinenko may have been consigned to a slow death from radiation to ""send a message"". The inquiry's findings were welcomed on Thursday by Mr Litvinenko's widow, Marina, who said she was ""very happy"" that ""the words my husband spoke on his deathbed when he accused Mr Putin have been proved by an English court"". Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK would have to go on having ""some sort of relationship with them [Russia]"" because of the Syria crisis, but it would be done with ""clear eyes and a very cold heart"". Home Secretary Theresa May said the murder was a ""blatant and unacceptable"" breach of international law. She added the prime minister would raise the findings with President Putin at ""the next available opportunity"". Long road to the truth for Litvinenko family","A man accused by a public inquiry of being one of the @placeholder of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has branded the report 's conclusions "" nonsense "" .",killers,death,region,parents,names,0
"Meg Brace's border collie has retrieved more than 20 balls on the open space behind her home in Glemsford, Suffolk. After a public appeal, the Epic Youth Club recognised the balls had been taken from its kickabouts at the nearby village hall. Stuart Ayling, youth club manager, said: ""It's one remarkable pet."" The border collie, called Maggie, soon revealed her skill at retrieving balls and was featured in the East Anglian Daily Times. ""She's sometimes hard to get on with, but she has this talent,"" said Ms Brace. ""My other border collie Gizmo picks up litter from the same playing field and brings it to me to put in the bins. ""I just wish the kids would do it themselves."" Mr Ayling, who runs the youth club as part of the Edens Project based in neighbouring Sudbury, said: ""We have had problems with our footballs being taken to the rec by older teenagers who weren't part of the youth club. ""We used to take several outside at once, so people walking past could easily take one without us noticing. ""They were being kicked into the bushes rather than brought back to us.""",A youth club has been @placeholder with eight of its stolen footballs after a dog found them in bushes that border a playing field .,issued,saved,caught,robbed,reunited,4
"Film fan Michael Holt and friends came up with the idea as a way of paying tribute to the film's director. The idea was raised by Mr Holt at Hartlepool Borough Council's last full meeting. He said he hoped more people would join the campaign. A petition has so far attracted almost 900 signatures. Mr Holt said: ""We're all big fans of Ridley Scott and his films - Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator and of course Boy and Bicycle that was filmed in Hartlepool, his first film. ""We liked the idea of having a statue or a tribute to him and we were thinking 'what would be the best thing to do for?' and the idea of the alien came up. ""It seemed so surreal and unusual a thing to have as a local statue that we were quite keen to get the idea out there and it seems to have been a success with people,"" Mr Holt said. It is hoped the statue would be placed near to the Cleveland College of Art and Design or the Hartlepool College of Further Education. Kevin Cranney, chair of Hartlepool Council's regeneration services committee, said he would be happy to meet the group behind the campaign but thought it would be ""appropriate"" to honour Ridley Scott and his late brother Tony, as both studied in the town. He said: ""I think it is a good idea given the council's plans for Church Street and also the investment going into Cleveland College of Art and Design. However, I think we need to look at this in more detail."" The council has received a £1.2m Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant to revamp the Church Street area, which will be aimed at raising awareness of the history and heritage of the town. ""I thought they [the council] were going to say 'that's an absolutely stupid idea, don't bother', but they were quite interested in it and I'm going to have a meeting with them soon to see how viable it is,"" Mr Holt said. ""It would be an inspiration to aspiring film makers.""","A campaign is under way to get a statue of the alien from the film @placeholder in Hartlepool in honour of Sir Ridley Scott , who studied in the town .",lost,erected,made,slots,set,1
"But as kids up and down the country are digging out their sledges, or hoping to, there is one burning question. Can it really be too cold to snow? Newsbeat takes a look at whether there is any truth in the phrase or in several other well-known weather sayings. Hasn't everyone's mum said this at some point? Many people believe icy temperatures reduce the number of water droplets that can freeze into snowflakes. But according to the Met Office, this is a myth. It can snow even at incredibly cold temperatures as long as there is a source of moisture and some way to lift or cool that moisture in the air. However, exceptionally cold weather is often associated with very dry air, making snow more unlikely. This means that if the clouds mushroom into large cloud ""mountains"", thunderstorms will follow in the afternoon. This is true - if the clouds have developed during the morning, by the afternoon, they will have risen to the top of the atmosphere which results in rain and lightning. This is often true. Red sky - which appears when small particles are trapped in the atmosphere by high pressure - means fair weather is generally headed towards you. This is especially true in the UK where the weather system usually comes in from the west. A red sky at sunset means high pressure is moving in from the west so the next day will usually be pleasant. A red sky in the morning appears due to the high pressure weather system having already moved east, which means the good weather is on its way out. This saying is based on the fact that weather systems tend to move through the UK quite quickly off the Atlantic, so there is some logic to it. But we do still have weather systems that like to hang around all day so it's not really reliable. So if it rains on 15 July, it's supposed to rain for the next 40 days. St Swithin was a bishop of Winchester who died around AD 862. He requested that his remains be interred among the common people outside the church, but in 971, after he had been made patron saint of Winchester Cathedral, his body was dug up and moved to a new indoor shrine. Legend has it that this action displeased God and caused the heavens to open, raining continuously for 40 days. But since records began, there has never been a 40-day drought in the UK during the summer months, and there has been not one instance at any time of the year of 40 consecutive days of rainfall. Even if it sometimes feels like it. This old saying suggests that the weather at the beginning of March is wet and windy but by the end of the month it's fine. While it's true that we're more likely to get strong winds and heavy rain at the start of spring, it's certainly not always the case that the end of March is settled. And, of course, April showers are only just round the corner. This has some truth to it. The air mass that comes into the UK from a north-easterly direction is the Polar Continental, which has been known to create bitterly cold winds and record low temperatures on our shores. If the ash tree shows buds before the oak then the summer is supposed to be a washout. But if the oak buds before the ash tree then the summer should be fine. A survey by the Woodland Trust found that the timings of the first buds appearing depends on the springtime temperatures. Generally oak came first. Using data collected over 250 years it showed that the proverb is no help in predicting summer rainfall. This means that in our UK climate, heavy rain doesn't really last for very long, and it largely holds true. Cloudy and rainy weather can continue for several days at a time but really heavy rain rarely goes on for longer than a couple of days. It's colder when there's a clear sky because there are no clouds to trap the heat in from the earth's surface. Stars are the most clearly visible when the air is very dry and clean. In our case, this kind of air often arrives from the Arctic. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube","Love it or hate it , it 's that time of year when snow is a hot @placeholder - pardon the pun .",heart,audience,life,dream,topic,4
"Holgate Windmill in York reopened in 2012 following a £500,000 restoration project. The 18th century Grade II-listed building currently produces about 50kg (8st) of flour a week which is sold to restaurants and individuals. The money raised is used to help maintain the building. The Holgate Windmill Preservation Society said training more volunteers would help increase the amount of stone-ground flour produced. Steve Potts, chairman of the society and one of three trained millers, said the ancient skill only takes a couple of months to learn. ""It's not a reading skill, it's a doing and learning by experience skill,"" he said. ""We started off reasonably gradually because we're a volunteer group and it's supposed to be fun but we are trying to make more money out of the milling."" The windmill originally produced flour from the 1770s to the 1930s but fell into disrepair until the society began work to restore it in 2001.",A @placeholder group which restored one of the oldest surviving five - sailed windmills in the country is seeking volunteers to train as millers .,world,small,community,clue,science,2
"In September, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced housing associations should be considered part of the public, not private, sector. But the Welsh Government promised to take ""whatever steps are necessary"" to reverse the change, following concerns. Community Housing Cymru (CHC), which represents housing associations in Wales, welcomed its pledge to act. The ONS decision led to concerns that housing associations would no longer be able to borrow the money needed to provide new houses. At the moment not-for-profit housing associations are considered to be in the private sector and can borrow as much money as they can afford, within certain regulations. But CHC fears if finances were overseen by the UK treasury, the associations' levels of borrowing could be restricted, meaning they would not be able to build as many houses. The Welsh Government has promised to provide 20,000 affordable homes over the course of the current assembly term. Housing associations have warned the target may be unachievable unless action is taken to reverse the changes. Stuart Ropke, chief executive of CHC, said: ""We're obviously delighted that Welsh Government have confirmed they'll do whatever it takes to get us back into the independent sector. ""We've got a pact with the Welsh Government that'll see us delivering 13,500 homes towards the 20,000 target. ""We're absolutely confident that can be delivered but we were very clear when we signed the pact that this is one of the pieces in the jigsaw."" A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: ""All Registered Social Landlords (housing associations) in Wales can be confident any issues resulting from reclassification, including any regulatory reform required, will be resolved in conjunction with the sector. ""We will take whatever steps are necessary, including legislating, to protect Registered Social Landlords' ability to finance building and improvements."" The ONS decision was based primarily on the level of government control over housing associations. Steffan Evans, from the Wales Governance Centre, said: ""I think it's a concern but people shouldn't be too worried because, whilst Welsh Government may lose some controls in legislation, it's still likely to have some control over the sector through the work of a regulatory team."" Last year, the UK government brought forward legislation to deregulate housing associations in England following an identical decision by the ONS. The Scottish and Northern Irish governments are considering similar moves in response to the more recent announcement.",A move which could @placeholder new affordable homes being built in Wales will be opposed by the Welsh Government .,limit,present,introducing,install,signal,0
"Irish police began a criminal inquiry after a woman came forward and claimed she had been abused as a child. She alleged she was abused in the early 1990s. The man, in his 60s and originally from Belfast, had been living in Dublin before moving to Alicante in the 1990s. He appeared in court in Madrid on Wednesday. He is now in custody pending further proceedings in connection with his extradition.",An alleged senior IRA figure has appeared in court in Spain after Irish authorities requested his extradition to face charges @placeholder to suspected child sex abuse .,according,used,failed,linked,attempting,3
"The proposed link would include a 3.1 mile (5km) tunnel between the Great Western main line at Slough in Berkshire and the airport's Terminal 5. But Network Rail said a planning application, due to be submitted in the next few weeks, had been delayed until late 2017. Businesses said the link was needed to attract more people to Reading. Nick Halstead, who owns technology business Datasift in Green Park, said the ""disappointing"" delay was making it harder to attract staff. He said: ""The delay is not a good sign for this project and other projects where Reading should be seen as important."" Slough Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart said the delay showed ""a failure of leadership"" by the government and was ""pathetic"". Tim Brownstone, who runs Reading sportswear company Kymira, said the rail link was needed to bring external investment to the area. In November, a review of Network Rail's investment programme by Sir Peter Hendy concluded a number of projects including this one would take longer than planned. Julian Burnell, from Network Rail, said the delay was ""not really anybody's fault""  and changes had to be made following the Hendy Report. He said: ""It's a brand new tunnel, it's an entirely new stretch of railway, and that takes a lot of time and a lot of careful planning."" A Network Rail spokeswoman added consultations with landowners and interested parties in the area also had to be completed. Given the go-ahead by the government in 2012, it was originally planned the new service would be in operation by 2021. The plan would save up to 30 minutes for passengers travelling from south Wales, the west of England and the Thames Valley.",A delay of almost two years in building a new £ 500 m Heathrow rail link has been @placeholder by businesses .,backed,approved,named,introduced,criticised,4
"They gather at a voodoo temple in a dark Brooklyn basement strewn with candles, plastic skulls and half-empty bottles of rum, the remains of a recent ceremony. There, Haitian-American artists come to talk about their faith in voodoo and how it keeps them connected to their homeland. ""The religion is like a glue,"" says voodoo priestess Marie Saintil. ""We attract each other. If a drum is beating, and someone hears it, the next thing you know, this place is packed."" That connection is especially important this month, on the two-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. Since the quake, voodoo has played an important role in the healing process. Many of these Haitian immigrants have found comfort in the faith and community that voodoo cultivates, practitioners of the religion in the US say. Haitian voodoo is an ancient practice that emerged among the first Africans brought to Haiti as slaves in the 16th Century. Unable to practice their own diverse religions openly, the slaves fused them with the Catholic beliefs of the Spanish and French slavers. From these complex beginnings voodoo has become an important part of Haitian culture, especially for those living far from home. Marie Saintil came to Brooklyn more than 20 years ago. ""We advise, we help. Any time of the night and day, we get phone calls from our religious children,"" Ms Saintil says. ""Sickness, family troubles, we are right in there."" The 2010 earthquake left homeless 1.5 million Haitians, some of whom came to the US. About 48,000 Haitians arriving within a year after the quake were given temporary permission to stay, work and send money home, as were about 200,000 who had previously been in the US, according to the US Department of Homeland Security. After the quake hit, Haitian communities across the US came together and used voodoo to make sense of the tragedy. ""This is where the magic happens, beauty happens, the healing happens, counselling happens,"" says Atibon Legba, a Brooklyn-based actor, gesturing to the darkened temple. Voodoo ceremonies do not take place on a weekly basis, like Catholic mass or a Jewish Shabbat service. A voodoo practitioner can request a ritual meeting with a priest or priestess but, more often, ritual ceremonies mark holidays. Practitioners hope to connect with deceased ancestors through a series of songs and prayers. During the singing and drumming, they aim to become possessed by voodoo spirits. ""Voodoo is veneration of our ancestors and also our connection to nature,"" says Brooklyn-based actor Atibon Legba. At a recent ceremony practitioners in the Brooklyn temple celebrated the Gede, an important voodoo spirit who connects with the dead. ""With the knowledge of herbs and stars, we can heal."" Voodoo practitioner Neg Mawon, who was in Brooklyn when the quake struck, explained that by consulting certain voodoo spirits, he finally came to understand and accept what had occurred. ""When it happened, we were doing small groups of networking, trying to comfort each other,"" he says. ""We had so many voodoo ceremonies and musicians who had been playing fundraisers. We had a great support system in New York."" Brooklyn-based photographer Regine Romain visited Haiti two weeks after the quake and attributes many of the miraculous survival stories to the country's faith in voodoo. ""Our spiritual connection is what really helped us get past the tragedy,"" she says. ""I had to really start praying that people would be found.  It is a land filled with magic, and a connection to that which was unseen. ""Whether you're voodooist, Christian, Baptist, Hindu, whatever your background is, there is an understanding that life is not permanent. And in the traditions of voodoo, there is peace that is made with death.""","Two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti , Haitians in America have turned to traditional religious ritual for comfort . Leigh Paterson explains the @placeholder of voodoo ( spelt ' vodou' in Creole ) .",state,experience,power,phenomenon,use,2
"Penglais Farm will have a total of 1,000 rooms, but only 700 will be ready this month to welcome students. The university said developer Balfour Beatty confirmed the remaining 300 rooms will be ready during the 2015-16 academic year. Balfour Beatty has been asked to comment. The unfinished rooms have not been let to students.",Hundreds of rooms at a £ 45 m student halls @placeholder at Aberystwyth University will not be ready for the new term .,development,drugs,line,building,unit,0
"President Vladimir Putin argues that the criminal inquiry is aimed at ousting long-time Fifa president Sepp Blatter from his post. He sees it as punishment for continuing to support Russia as host for the 2018 World Cup. There have been increasing calls to strip Moscow of that privilege, in protest at military action in Ukraine. ""We know the pressure that was exerted on him [Blatter] with the aim of banning the 2018 World Cup in Russia,"" Mr Putin said on Thursday, offering Fifa's embattled leader his firm backing. He then accused the United States of mounting a campaign to ""persecute"" Sepp Blatter for resisting. ""I have no doubt about it at all. It is a clear attempt to prevent the re-election of Mr Blatter,"" Mr Putin said, speaking about the criminal investigation. The comments fit a general trend here for vilifying the US, and demonstrate a conviction that consideration of Russia dominates global decision-making. But Vladimir Putin's tirade also hints at genuine concern over the tournament's future. This week, two prominent US senators urged Fifa against re-electing Mr Blatter as its head, because he continued to back Russia's right to stage the World Cup. Acting as host was a privilege and a boost for Vladimir Putin ""at a time when his actions should be condemned,"" John McCain and Robert Menendez argued. Those actions include last year's annexation of Crimea and ongoing Russian support for rebel fighters in eastern Ukraine. Moscow denies sending troops and weapons across the border, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. A previous appeal asked Fifa to ban Russia from hosting the international event, but Mr Blatter has vowed repeatedly that politics would not ""get in the way"" of football. No Russians have been arrested in the US-led corruption inquiry, but Swiss prosecutors have also revealed that they are conducting a parallel probe into allegations of fraud during the World Cup bidding process for Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022. The results of a previous internal inquiry were never made public. ""Our bidding campaign was held honestly. Russia is not mixed up in corruption, everything is fair for our part,"" Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko assured reporters in Zurich, even as prosecutors sifted through documents seized from Fifa. He insisted that the World Cup here is not in doubt and that the Russian organising committee had pledged to co-operate fully with the inquiry. The decision to award the tournament to Russia is a matter of pride for many and preparations are well under way. But Muscovites are nervous. ""Of course I think it's politically motivated. I hope they can settle this,"" one woman told the BBC. ""A lot of money has already been spent."" That is a key concern: Russia has already cut its budget and scaled back plans, as its economy suffers the twin blows of a depressed oil price and sanctions over Ukraine. ""My understanding is that this is just another form of pressure on Russia,"" another man commented on the Swiss investigation. ""But the decision has been made, so it has to happen now. If there was money involved, let them prove it.""","As the rest of the world debates the exposure of corruption at the heart of Fifa , all the talk @placeholder in Russia is of a conspiracy .",contests,decline,made,swirling,continues,3
"The family was gunned down on Saturday in the single worst incident of ivory poaching recorded in the country. Kenya has recently taken a more aggressive stance against poaching as it tries to combat a surge in demand for ivory from Asia. About 100 elephants are killed each year in Kenya by poachers. Despite a long-standing ban on the international trade, ivory from elephants is often smuggled to Asia for use in ornaments, while rhino horns are used in traditional medicine. Saturday's killings took place in Tsavo National Park, Kenya's largest single continuous ecosystem, which is home to some 13,000 elephants. ""[It] shows the great lengths these criminal cartels are ready to go to get ivory. It's really tragic,"" Kenya Wildlife Service spokesman Paul Udo told Reuters news agency. He said the poaching gang is believed to be made up of 10 people and was being hunted by rangers on foot and from the air. In a statement, the Wildlife Service said that all the elephant carcasses had bullet wounds. The Kenyan government banned trade in ivory in 1989, and levels of elephant poaching subsequently declined, but there has been a rise in the illegal practice in recent years.",Kenya 's Wildlife Service says it is @placeholder a gang of poachers they suspect of killing an entire family of 11 elephants .,showing,considering,pursuing,issued,nearing,2
"An image has been issued of the rider who was at an ""unauthorised motorbike meet"" at which a crash in Corringham left a woman needing her leg amputated. Det Insp Scott Egerton, of Essex Police, said the crashed bike was seen being loaded into a van with ""Essex Vehicle Hire"" on the side. ""This was a really serious crash at an unauthorised motorbike meet,"" he said. ""We need to identify those people pictured, locate them and speak to them. I also want to locate the bike and the van. ""A number of people at this event were wearing black hooded tops with a white logo on the back. I am keen to identify what that logo is, what it refers to, and if it identifies a group they belong to.""",A man who rode a moped while standing up on its seat in Essex is being @placeholder by police .,questioned,hunted,named,explored,launched,1
"Part of London Road - the main route into the town - has been shut since 10 August for barrier works. Some firms claim there has been a drop in trade with residents now opting to shop elsewhere. Network Rail (NR) said the crossing would open by 11 October and there were no plans to permanently close the crossing. However, local taxi driver Jaffa Hassan said signs in the town stated work would continue until 22 October. He said the work was costing him fares, as people were not willing to pay the extra fare to divert around the closure, and described peak times as ""gridlocked"". Ben Jackson, president of Bicester Chamber of Commerce, said traders had noticed a ""drop-off"" in the number of people shopping in Bicester. He also said some residents were now shopping in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, claiming it was ""quicker and easier"". NR said the crossing was being upgraded in preparation for a new service that starts later this month from Oxford Parkway through Bicester to London Marylebone.",Businesses in Bicester say trade has been affected by the closure of a @placeholder crossing .,railway,trade,level,highway,delivery,2
"Arlene, a 15-year-old from Castlederg, vanished after a night at a disco in County Donegal in 1994. Her body has never been found. Trevor Stevenson, a detective sergeant who'd been stationed in Castlederg from 1990 to 1994, described Howard as ""one of the most evil men I have ever met."" Mr Stevenson, a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) told the court he had met and interviewed Howard in Deptford initially on another matter in 1999. Howard told the officer that living in Castlederg was ""a very dark time for him,"" according to Mr Stevenson. ""He said that not a day went past that he didn't think about the terrible things which had happened in Castlederg, and that he was haunted by it."" Mr Stevenson said. ""He said he would see a face in the crowd, the face which would remind him of the girl and bring it all back to him."" Mr Stevenson said: ""I believed he was talking about Arlene.  If you haunt someone you need to be dead."" Howard, 71, had been due to give evidence before the inquest. He died at HMP Frankland in County Durham last October.","Robert Howard - @placeholder of murdering County Tyrone teenager Arlene Arkinson - was haunted by the face of a girl , a policeman has told the inquest into her disappearance .",evidence,lump,confessed,cleared,suspected,4
"The Lychee and Dog Meat festival takes place annually in Guangxi province. Earlier this year, US campaigners claimed that vendors had been told by authorities not to sell dog meat. But stall holders had told the BBC they had heard nothing about this from officials. On 15 May, city officials confirmed there was no ban. Yes. On Wednesday, reports from Yulin said dead dogs could be seen hanging from meat hooks at stalls in Dongkou market, the biggest in the city. There were also reports of a heavy police presence on the streets. One activist in the city told the BBC she was prevented by police from entering the Dashichang market where she believed live dogs were on sale. In previous years there have been scuffles between stall owners and activists trying to rescue the dogs slated for slaughter. The city of Yulin is not the biggest dog meat consumer in Guangxi province though. It is only since the festival started around 10 years ago that the city received national and international attention. It is all about accusations of animal cruelty and changes in attitudes to dogs in China. Residents and vendors say the dogs are killed in a humane way and that eating them is no more or less cruel than consuming pork, beef or chicken. Eating dog is an old tradition in China, South Korea and some other Asian countries. Those in favour of it are upset by what they say is foreigners interfering with local traditions. In Chinese culture dog meat is said to be beneficial during the hot summer months. Even many who do not eat dog defend the practice as long as the animals are not stolen or killed in an inhumane way. But critics say the dogs are transported from other cities in small, cramped cages ahead of the festival and brutally killed. Activists also allege many of the dogs are stolen pets. Protests against the festival come both from abroad and from within China. The number of pet dogs in the country has skyrocketed in recent years with 62 million registered canine companions. This has gradually changed many people's opinion on eating dog meat. In May, US activists had claimed there was a ban on the sale of dog meat this year. This was not the case. The Yulin government has repeatedly said that it does not officially organise the festival so cannot prohibit it. Eating dogs is not illegal in China. The local government is unhappy though about the widespread annual media coverage. In 2016, they banned the slaughter of dogs in public in anticipation of protests. This year, reports said there was less public slaughtering taking place, though the scale of the event was not immediately clear. Activists estimate that in peak years, about 10,000 dogs and cats were killed and eaten during the 10-day festival.","A controversial dog meat festival has begun in the Chinese city of Yulin , despite earlier reports it had been cancelled or @placeholder down this year .",toned,closed,pulled,washed,thrown,0
"He was speaking at a discussion at the MacGill Summer School in Glenties about north-south relationships on Wednesday. Mr Poots also said he was"" not opposed in principle"" to legislative support for the Irish language. Demands for an Irish Language Act were understood to have been a sticking point for parties during power sharing talks in June. In April, DUP party leader Arlene Foster said thank you in Irish during a visit to a school. At the end of the speech Mr Poots said: ""Maireann an chraobh ar an bhfál ach ní mhaireann an lámh do chuir. ""Forgive my broken Irish, but for those of you who, like me, are not fluent it translates to: 'The branch lives on the hedge though the hand that planted it be dead.' ""It's an old Irish saying reminding us of our mortality and that our actions today will live long after we are gone. ""May we work together both north-south and east-west to ensure the best for all these British Isles."" He said: ""Anyone who speaks and loves the Irish language is as much a part of Northern Ireland life as a collarette-wearing Orangeman. ""I want them to feel at home and feel respected and part of society."" Edwin Poots also spelt out his opposition to bilingual road signs, a quota for Irish speaking civil servants or a commissioner with powers to sanction public authorities. When asked if the DUP's position on a stand alone Irish language act had changed, Mr Poots said it was a question of balance. ""We will not have one culture denigrated and another culture elevated, we need to move forward together,"" he said. Mr Poots told the BBC that the DUP would work to ""ensure all cultures are respected"" but that he suspected the ""Irish Language Act is an excuse because Sinn Féin didn't want to do governance in Northern Ireland"". ""They're afraid of making hard decisions on welfare reform for example, and they're afraid to make hard decisions around Brexit and be laboured with that. ""They are after other things, but the Irish language is a useful tool to them,"" he added. Sinn Féin's deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald also addressed the event and talked about the need to restore the power sharing institutions. The Dublin Central TD also hit out at ""effigies of Martin McGuinness"" that were ""burnt on unionist bonfires"" on the Eleventh Night. ""Unionist leaders were silent,"" she said. ""Posters of Sinn Féin and SDLP assembly members were all set alight, as were those from the Alliance Party. ""We need to call out these actions for what they are - this is not colourful pageantry; it is the ugliest side of sectarianism. ""It is a hate crime, and it sucks the hope of future generations,"" she said.",Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) MLA Edwin Poots has addressed a @placeholder in County Donegal in Irish .,rise,bill,gathering,dispute,petition,2
"Revealing his Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4, the actor, who also starred in BBC comedy W1A, said she never talked about her three decades of work for the security service. When he asked her outright, she denied being a spy, he told the programme. He also confesses to having felt intimidated acting with his on-screen mother in Downton, Dame Maggie Smith. He told Kirsty Young his parents met when his father was training as a doctor and his mother as a nurse. She followed him to Singapore and worked for the Foreign Office there When he was about 10 years old and the family were living in London, his mother took a job for three days a week. But he did not ask her about it until much later on. He said: ""We used to drop her off at her office sometimes at Lambeth North. ""I opened the newspaper one day and it said 'Century House MI6 building to be sold' and I looked at the photograph and said, 'Mum, that's your office.' ""And she said 'Mmm, yes dear.' I said, 'You're a spy?'. ""She said 'No, I'm not a spy dear.'"" Bonneville said his mother died just over a year ago. When he asked his father if she ever said anything about her work: ""He said, 'Never, she just went to the office.'"" ""All I know is she didn't have special umbrellas or knives coming out of her toe caps or anything like that, she did just work in the office. ""But I am extremely proud, not only that she found fulfilment in that work, as well as bringing up us kids, but that she never spoke about it."" Her nickname in the valley where his parents retired, he said, was ""the Colonel"", as she was ""a do-er"". Speaking about the Dowager Countess, his character Lord Grantham's mother, played by Maggie Smith, in ITV's Downton Abbey, he said he was ""terrified"" by her high-calibre acting. He said: ""I can remember the very first scene I did with her and I was absolutely terrified, and I think I can remember the last scene with her and I was absolutely terrified. ""She is the most astonishing actress. Her wit is legendary, as you say, and she doesn't suffer fools. And you raise your game, you have to. ""It's great acting opposite her because she's got extremely high standards for herself and expects them of others."" Downton Abbey ran for six series, with the last episode screened in the UK on Christmas Day 2015.","Former Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville @placeholder his late mother was a spy for MI6 , he has told the BBC .",believes,revealed,suspected,says,described,2
"Xanda, a six-year-old lion with several young cubs, was reportedly shot on a trophy hunt. He is said to have died outside the Hwange National Park in northern Zimbabwe. The lion had been fitted with an electronic tracking collar by Oxford University researchers. The BBC's Africa Correspondent, Andrew Harding, reports that at the age of six, Xanda was old enough to be legally targeted by big game hunters. These individuals, many from the US, UK and South Africa, pay tens of thousands of pounds for the deadly pursuit - thereby funding the staff who protect other wildlife in the National Park. It is not yet clear who may have paid to shoot Xanda. A professional hunter is said to have reported the death to the authorities and returned the lion's collar. The alleged killing comes two years after dentist Walter James Palmer, from Minnesota in the US, sparked an international outcry by killing Cecil, a 13-year-old lion who was a major tourist attraction in the area. His home and dentistry practice were targeted by protesters after his identity surfaced in the press. At the time it was reported that the lion had been shot with a bow and arrow and did not die immediately. He was followed for more than 40 hours before being shot with a rifle. Johnny Rodrigues, the head of Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, told the BBC's Newsday programme that the lion had later been beheaded and skinned. Mr Palmer was believed to have paid $50,000 (£32,000) to hunt a lion in Zimbabwe's largest game reserve.","Two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy - hunter in Zimbabwe , prompting global outrage , his son may have met a similar sad @placeholder .",end,race,network,group,legend,0
"The Americans, who were not identified, left the country together with Yemenis hurt in a recent funeral bombing, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. The US thanked Oman for mediating and acknowledged the ""humanitarian gesture"" from the rebels. Yemen has been devastated by a war between government forces and those allied to the Houthi rebel movement. More than 6,800 people have been killed since March 2015, the majority in air strikes by a Saudi-led multinational coalition that backs the president against the Houthi rebels. Speaking in Switzerland after multilateral talks on Syria, Mr Kerry welcomed the development. ""This is something we've been working on for the last days,"" he said. The two Americans were flown to Oman alongside an unspecified number of people injured in the 8 October attack on a funeral hall in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. At least 140 people were killed, most of them civilians. The Saudi-led coalition said it had carried out the attack based on ""bad information"". Meanwhile, a US Navy destroyer in the Red Sea may have been targeted by multiple surface-to-surface missiles fired from Houthi-controlled territory, US officials said. The USS Mason took countermeasures and was not hit, they added. If confirmed, it would be the third such incident in recent days. On Thursday, the US military launched cruise missiles against three coastal radar sites in territory controlled by the rebels in response to two previous failed missile firings against the Mason.","Two US citizens @placeholder by Houthi rebels in Yemen have been released and flown to neighbouring Oman , the US says .",held,driven,abducted,triggered,targeted,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device Five-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan and world number one Mark Selby will feature at the York Barbican, but 2015 winner Neil Robertson will not defend his title after losing in the first round to amateur veteran Peter Lines. Watch the championship live on BBC One, BBC Two, the BBC Red Button, and the BBC Sport mobile app from Saturday, 26 November. Connected TV and online viewers will also be able to choose from live streams of both tables. And if you have missed any of the day's play, you can catch-up with the highlights show and check out further reaction in our 'Extra' programme. (All times GMT and subject to late changes) Live coverage 13:00-18:00 - BBC Two 13:00-23:30 - BBC Red Button and online 13:00-23:30 - Tables One and Two, Connected TV and online (break, 18:00-19:00) Highlights & Extra 05:20-06:10 & 08:10-09:00 - Highlights repeat - BBC Red Button 06:10-08:10 - Extra repeat - BBC Red Button 00:05-00:55 - Highlights - BBC Two (repeated 00:05-08:25, BBC Red Button) Live coverage 13:00-16:30 - BBC One 16:30-18:00 & 19:00-22:00 - BBC Two 13:00-18:00 - BBC Red Button and online Live coverage 13:00-18:00 & 19:00-23:00 - BBC Two Sign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app. You can view BBC Sport output as well as listen to our radio sports programming on the BBC iPlayer. The BBC Sport website is available via desktop, mobile, tablet and app, giving fast and easy access to the live stream, text commentaries, news, reports, schedules, videos, as well as highlights of the day's action. The BBC Sport app is available free on Apple and Android devices. National and regional variations National and regional variations have been included in this list where possible, but please check your local listings for more detailed information.","BBC Sport @placeholder you live coverage of the 2016 UK Snooker Championship across BBC TV , online and mobile app .",brings,show,lost,number,offered,0
"The club will stage the rest of next season's games at Maginn Park if they fail to secure an alternative venue. Derry said the ""only difficulty"" with the Donegal ground is its capacity, which is approximately 2,000. The multi-million pound project at the Brandywell will include a new stand, changing rooms and new playing surface. ""For the greater number of matches, the club believes that the capacity will meet the demand but they realise that in some matches, capacity will be limited,"" Derry added on the club website. ""We are very pleased and grateful to the management of Maginn for the welcome and the flexibility they have shown to Derry City. ""The club is also exploring ways of providing public transport to and from Buncrana for supporters who don't drive or who prefer to go to matches with groups of friends.""",Derry City will play their opening home matches of the 2017 season at Maginn Park in Buncrana while Brandywell stadium is @placeholder .,leaving,retiring,revealed,redeveloped,scrapped,3
"The Ministry of Defence has released pictures of some wearing Santa hats and Christmas jumpers over their uniforms and taking part in carol singing. Thousands of UK military staff are stationed around the world carrying out patrols and anti-terrorism work. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon praised their professionalism. About 1,000 personnel are involved in the campaign against the so-called Islamic State group, with the majority based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. In the Gulf, HMS St Albans and other Royal Navy warships are serving over the festive period. In the South Atlantic, 1,200 are stationed in the Falkland Islands while HMS Protector is on patrol in Antarctica. In Afghanistan, 450 personnel from the Army and other services are supporting Afghan National Security Forces. Mr Fallon said: ""This Christmas our brave servicemen and women are serving overseas and here at home to keep us safe, whether securing the skies, patrolling the seas, or leading in the fight against Daesh [Islamic State]. ""I pay tribute to their determination, professionalism, and everything they have done this year.""",UK service personnel who are unable to spend Christmas at home because they are @placeholder abroad have been sending messages home to loved ones .,believed,claiming,deployed,drowning,still,2
"Orient supporters protested against owner Francesco Becchetti on the pitch and fans were later told the match on 29 April had been abandoned. It was restarted and concluded later. The EFL said it recognises ""the right to protest"" but added it cannot support it if it affected a sporting outcome. The U's beat relegated Orient 3-1 and, while Orient's fate has been sealed, the victory kept Colchester still in with a chance of reaching the fourth-tier play-offs. Following the lengthy delay at the Matchroom Stadium, the players returned to the pitch to finish the final eight minutes of the match behind closed doors. An EFL statement read: ""We would like to reiterate that the EFL recognises that supporters of clubs have the right to protest if they are unhappy and very much understand the frustration of Leyton Orient fans in particular at this difficult time. ""As we have stated, unless our rules are broken, our powers to intervene are limited once owners (""Responsible Persons"") are in position. ""Our rules reflect our position as a competition organiser and are derived to protect our competitions, the format of which thrives on promotion and relegation. ""It is therefore imperative that all clubs play 46 games of 90 minutes to complete a full season and any variation from this brings the legitimacy of the competition into question. ""While acknowledging the right of fans to protest, we cannot support this if those actions 'cross the white line' and affect the sporting outcome. ""The pitch invasion at the Matchroom Stadium was peaceful in its nature but led to the referee needing to take the players off the field. We cannot sit back and allow this to happen and have the credibility of our competition, which is envied the world over, questioned."" As well as the events at Orient on Saturday, the EFL have written to Championship side Huddersfield to ""request their observations regarding team selection"" for the 2-0 defeat by Birmingham City on the same day. The Terriers are already guaranteed a play-off spot and made 10 changes for the trip to Blues, who are not yet safe from relegation to League One. ""It is very much a subjective matter to determine what constitutes a 'full strength' side, however the disappointment of both (Birmingham's fellow strugglers) Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest is understandable,"" said an EFL statement. ""Huddersfield have been asked for their observations and reasons for taking the approach that they did. ""This type of approach is another challenge to the integrity of the competition, albeit a different one to the actions of supporters. We have reminded all clubs this week as to their obligations in this area. ""It has been a difficult week for the EFL and we hope that the final weekend of matches in the Championship and League Two pass without further incident that could damage the reputation of our clubs, their fans or our competition.""","The English Football League have said there is "" no regret "" over the "" difficult decision "" to @placeholder Leyton Orient 's home League Two defeat by Colchester United for two hours .",replicate,achieve,avoid,suspend,investigate,3
"""NewYear2017 word puzzle just for fun: the first three words you see that might define your 2017. What do you see?"" it wrote early on Monday. ""Masturbate"", ""sucker"" and ""testicle"" were among the more printable obscenities in the puzzle. The posts were removed later that day. The online reaction to the puzzle was swift, though it seemed more people were entertained than offended. @Jr_Wang tweeted: ""All words I can see are too dirty, my 2017 got ruined,"" while â€","China 's Communist Party 's official newspaper , the People 's Daily , has been @placeholder online after posting a obscenity - filled puzzle on its English - language social media accounts .",mocked,declared,increased,sworn,placed,0
"The supermarket giant said its overseas division had sold 8.6% of its Lazada stake to Chinese internet giant Alibaba for $129m (£90.6m). Tesco will retain an 8.3% holding in the South East Asia-focused business. The move comes the day before Tesco's annual results, in which it is expected to announce further disposals. The supermarket group is planning to sell off some of its side businesses, including Dobbies Garden Centres chain, coffee shop chain Harris & Hoole and restaurant chain Giraffe, so that it can focus on the main supermarket business, according to media reports. Last September, Tesco sold its South Korean business, Homeplus, for £4.2bn to help shore up its balance sheet and revitalise its UK business. There has been speculation about possible disposals since chief executive Dave Lewis took the helm in September 2014, charged with reviving the group's fortunes. Mr Lewis was parachuted in after the supermarket reported it had overstated its profits by some £263m. Alongside this, like its ""big four"" peers - Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons -  Tesco has been hit by competition from discount rivals Lidl and Aldi. The UK has also seen a broad change in shopping habits, with many customers preferring to shop little and often at small convenience stores, instead of doing a once-a-week ""big shop"". In April last year, the company reported a record pre-tax loss of £6.4bn for the year to February, marking the biggest loss reported to date by a British retailer. Mr Lewis has focused on price cuts and putting more staff in stores in an attempt to revive sales. On Wednesday, he is expected to report a rise in underlying fourth-quarter sales, the group's first quarterly increase for more than three years. Tesco declined to comment on the sale of its side businesses.","Tesco has fired the starting gun on an expected sell - off of non-core @placeholder , with the sale of some of its stake in Asian online business Lazada .",assets,stock,title,stores,drugs,0
"Patricia Grainger was strangled, stabbed and sexually assaulted near her home in Parson Cross, Sheffield, on 10 August 1997. Her body was dumped in a brook in nearby woodland and her killer has never been found. Her son, Daniel, 23, said South Yorkshire Police is not doing enough to find his mother's attacker. Mr Grainger told BBC Radio Sheffield: ""I want the police to do more. It's not an active investigation. ""I don't want 100 officers looking at it, I just want someone to say, 'We're going to try to find this person'. ""My mother was murdered, she was a victim and the person [that did that] is still out there. ""I want that justice served."" Mr Grainger set up a website, whokilledmymum.com, when he was 16 years old appealing for information. The force said the investigation is ""subject to ongoing review"" but it no longer has some of the evidence related to the case. Ch Supt Rachel Barber said a complaint from Mr Grainger is being addressed and new lines of inquiry would be followed up. ""The items of clothing Mrs Grainger was wearing at the time of her death were submitted to the Forensic Science Service and were subject to a thorough examination. As a result, South Yorkshire Police is no longer in possession of these items,"" she added. The BBC asked South Yorkshire Police if it had followed correct procedure in sending evidence to the FSS, which closed in March 2012, but the force did not provide a comment.",The son of a murder victim has @placeholder police on the 18th anniversary of his mother 's death .,grown,denied,criticised,started,informed,2
"Officials said Mohammed Afzal Guru, who had been on death row since 2002, was executed at Tihar jail near Delhi. Afzal Guru had always denied plotting the attack, which left 14 dead. India has stepped up security and announced a curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir, where news of the execution was expected to spark unrest. Executions are very rare in India - Afzal Guru's was only the second since 2004, after Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving attacker from the 2008 Mumbai attack was executed in November. ""This is only about the law taking its course,"" Home Secretary RK Singh said. Hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in towns and cities across Indian-administered Kashmir to try to contain any unrest sparked by the execution. Claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years and two wars have been fought over it. The December 2001 attack was one of the most controversial incidents in recent Indian history, correspondents say. Five rebels stormed India's parliament in Delhi on 13 December 2001, killing a gardener and eight policemen before they were shot dead by security forces. India blamed the attack on the Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group, which it said was backed by Pakistan. Pakistan denied involvement in the attack but relations between the two countries nosedived as their armies massed about a million troops along the border. Afzal Guru, a former fruit seller, was one of two men sentenced to death for helping to plan the attack, although the sentence of Shaukat Hussain was later reduced on appeal to 10 years in jail. Guru was found guilty of arranging weapons for the attackers and of membership of Jaish-e-Mohammed, both of which he denied. Two other people accused in the case, SAR Geelani and Afsan Guru, were acquitted due to a lack of evidence. Afzal Guru's appeal was first refused by the Supreme Court and then the president.",A Kashmiri militant sentenced to death over a 2001 plot to attack India 's parliament has been @placeholder after his final clemency plea was rejected .,suspended,freed,jailed,hanged,tried,3
"The deal will help it step up efforts to map cyber crime in Britain and the rest of the world. Intel Security and Trend Micro will be part of ""virtual threat teams"" who help take down hi-tech thieves. The firms will help expose attacks and the gangs and computer infrastructure they use and abuse. Andy Archibald, head of the NCA's Cyber Crime Unit, said the closer relationship had grown out of collaboration between the law enforcement agency and security firms over the last 10 months. That collaboration had led the NCA to arrest people in the UK involved in manufacturing malware, running money mules who laundered cash or running hosting services that catered to cyber thieves. ""Security firms have a far greater understanding of the threats in terms of what they see on a day-to-day basis,"" he told the BBC. ""They have a massively important part to play in terms of understanding and identifying who and where the threat comes from. ""Traditional law enforcement in response to crime has a victim who reports, an investigation and there's a criminal justice outcome,"" he said. ""But the response to cyber crime has to be more sophisticated than that."" The NCA needed a global view of the threats and attacks hitting people and organisations in the UK and that was data the security firms were able to provide, Archibald explained. In addition, he said, the intelligence would help in cases when it was not possible to identify individuals behind particular attacks - prompting the NCA to target servers or other resources used to carry them out. The detailed data provided by Intel and Trend would be invaluable in helping reveal where attacks were coming from and which machines were being used, he said. Raj Samani, chief technical officer in Europe for Intel Security, said: ""As an industry we get visibility of the most prominent, the most prevalent types of attacks, the countries where the majority of attacks seem to originate."" Mr Samani added that the last 10 months of collaboration between the NCA and security firms on many different operations against cyber thieves and gangs had produced ""remarkable"" results. ""We started off with Gameoverzeus and Cryptolocker, we had Blackshades, we had Shylock, we had Ramnit, we had Simda and we just concluded with Beebone,"" he said. ""There's more to come.""",The UK 's National Crime Agency has @placeholder up two security firms to provide up - to - the minute intelligence about hi-tech crime .,stepped,signed,appealed,broken,picked,1
"The defender, 19, followed in the footsteps of father Paolo and grandfather Cesare by pulling on the armband for Milan's under-19s. Left-back Paolo, 47, won five European Cups and seven Serie A titles over a 25-year career with the Rossoneri. Centre-half Cesare won Serie A four times, the club's first European Cup in 1963 and managed AC Milan and Italy. Christian was given the armband for Milan's Primavera side in a friendly against Novara on Saturday, in honour of Cesare who died a few days earlier, aged 84.",Christian Maldini has become the third @placeholder of his Italian footballing family to captain an AC Milan team .,male,extent,generation,total,level,2
"Oisin Tymon launched the action against the presenter and the BBC after a ""fracas"" last March that left Mr Tymon with a bloody lip. ""I would like to say sorry, once again, to Oisin Tymon for the incident and its regrettable aftermath,"" Clarkson said. The presenter was dropped by the BBC following the assault. Clarkson, 55, added: ""I want to reiterate that none of this was in any way his fault. ""I would also like to make it clear that the abuse he has suffered since the incident is unwarranted and I am sorry too that he has had to go through that. ""I am pleased that this matter is now resolved. Oisin was always a creatively exciting part of Top Gear and I wish him every success with his future projects."" Mr Tymon's lawyers said the case had been settled but did not give details of the settlement. It is understood to be in excess of £100,000 ($140,000), an amount to which both Clarkson and the BBC contributed. The ""fracas"" took place at a North Yorkshire hotel after Clarkson was told there was no hot food available at the end of a day's shooting on location. An internal BBC inquiry found Mr Tymon was subjected to an ""unprovoked physical and verbal attack"" by Clarkson, who called the producer ""lazy"" and ""Irish"" and used a four-letter expletive in the exchange. At the time of the attack, Mr Tymon told police he did not wish to press charges. In the days following he was the subject of sustained abuse on social media for his involvement in the dispute. After Clarkson was dropped by the BBC, his Top Gear co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond also left the corporation. ""The action involving Mr Tymon has been concluded,"" said Mr Tymon's lawyer, Paul Daniels. ""Oisin is keen to put the matter behind him now that it has been brought to a close. Oisin greatly appreciates all of the support he has received, including from the BBC."" ""We are pleased that matters have now been resolved,"" said the BBC in a statement. ""Oisin is a valued member of the BBC who behaved with huge integrity in dealing with the very difficult circumstances last year - a situation in which, as Tony Hall has stated, he was completely blameless. ""Oisin has made an important contribution to the BBC in his 12 years with us, and we hope to see him continue to realise his potential in his role as a development executive. ""We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC."" Clarkson, May and Hammond have since signed up to launch a rival motoring show on Amazon's streaming TV service. Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of Top Gear with a new line-up of presenters that includes Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.","Jeremy Clarkson has apologised to the Top Gear producer he @placeholder after settling a £ 100,000 racial discrimination and injury claim .",spent,disappeared,offended,married,punched,4
"Then she compromised - tabling an amendment designed to sidestep a row. And then almost 50 rebels ignored her instructions. Were she Labour's permanent leader, her authority would be in tatters. But it's not about her; she'll be gone by the autumn. The real question is: could any of her would-be successors persuade the party that welfare must be reformed now? Would they want, or dare, to try? One of them, Andy Burnham, says he's ""firing the starting gun on Labour's opposition"" to the welfare bill, but he didn't vote against it. How come? Labour's compromise amendment said the party ""declines to give a Second Reading"" to the Bill. So Labour MPs who did what they were told last night - Burnham among them - voted for a Labour amendment that said they wouldn't give the bill a second reading, then abstained 15 minutes later when they got a chance to vote for real on whether to give the bill second reading. Confused? That's political compromise for you. Burnham can fairly hint he fell out with Harriet Harman over the idea of accepting cuts and pushed her to change her position - and say he would do things differently if he got elected leader. But the comments below his Facebook posting explaining all this suggest some potential supporters are unimpressed. One reads: ""I am so sorry Andy, but tonight you lost my vote for leadership."" Posts on the net are no certain judge of sentiment, but it's fair to say if George Osborne hoped to create splits, confusion and rancour in Labour's ranks, he succeeded. There have been bigger tussles between left and right in Labour's history, and bigger and more memorable rebellions. But this drama is staged in plain sight, with fresh, young MPs playing leading roles, at the moment the party chooses a leader who may - perhaps - be in place at the general election. In influencing what positions the leadership candidates take, it could help define the sort of party that fights the 2020 campaign. And it could reveal how much space in the centre ground of British politics is left for the chancellor to try to claim for his own.",First Harriet Harman took a stand - saying Labour had to wake up and @placeholder to voters on welfare .,report,returned,chatting,listen,vowed,3
"In analysis of more than 1,600 cases around the globe, researchers said the changes could affect ecosystem services important to humans. More than half of the world's human populations now live in urban areas, and this proportion is set to grow. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ""We found that there is a clear urban signal of big change, and also greater [physical and biochemical] change in urbanising systems compared to natural or non-urban anthropogenic systems,"" said co-author Marina Alberti from the University of Washington's Department of Urban Design and Planning. ""So urbanisation, globally, is clearly affecting things."" Changes in plants and animals included alterations in body sizes, shifts in behavioural patterns and adjustments in reproduction. In a study published in 2008, researchers in France observed a rapid evolutionary change in a plant's seed size in order for it to adapt to urban life. They found that the seeds on Crepis sancta, otherwise known as hawksbeard, were larger on specimens that lived in urban areas, when compared with the seeds from the plants growing in rural settings. As the plant's seeds were dispersed by the wind, the researchers suggested that heavier seeds fared better because they would drop on to nearby soil, whereas the lighter seeds would be carried by the wind, resulting in them being deposited on concrete and tarmac, where it was impossible to germinate. The speed in which this trait was expressed in the urban-dwelling plants surprised the researchers. Professor Alberti said the changes that were observed in more than 1,600 studies were having an impact on evolution and that human activity, in the form of urbanisation, would have a lasting legacy on life on Earth. These findings add weight to the idea that the planet is now entering an Anthropocene epoch, a geological measurement of time  in which humans are having a significant global impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems. Prof Alberti observed: ""The reason these changes are important is because they change ecosystem function, therefore they have implications for human well-being. ""This is because those changes affect, for example, biodiversity but also nutrient cycling, seed dispersal and water purification."" Prof Alberti and colleagues suggested that these changes meant that the alteration in the functions performed by the species, such as food production or the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, would also be modified. ""There have been a lot of studies on individual cities but there had been no studies that considered the global picture to identify a global urbanisation influence on evolution,"" she added. ""We live on an urban planet already. This is a change that has implications for where we are heading in the future. ""We are changing the evolution of Earth and urbanisation has a role, a significant role, in that."" Follow Mark on Twitter","A "" clear signal "" of urbanisation has been identified in the evolution of organisms , which has implications for @placeholder and human well - being .",life,sustainability,environment,praise,knowledge,1
"The RSPCA said the teeth on the female domestic rabbit, spotted by a member of the public in Peterborough, were ""some of the worst"" it had seen. Inspector Justin Stubbs said: ""Had she not been found when she was, she would have likely starved to death."" The rabbit, which has been renamed Holly after the vet who attended to her, has now had the teeth removed. The RSPCA said she should make a ""good recovery"" and will hopefully be rehomed. Her bottom teeth were about 4cm (1.5in) long and protruded from her mouth, with the top teeth a similar length. Mr Stubbs said: ""Who knows how long she had been living stray like this but it could be that someone let her go or dumped her as a result of not wanting to get treatment for her."" The rabbit was found by the side of the road in Sunningdale, Orton Brimbles, on Wednesday. Dr Jane Tyson, rabbit behaviour and welfare expert at the RSPCA, said: ""A lot of people don't realise that a rabbit's teeth grow continuously. ""We recommend rabbit teeth are checked at least once a week to ensure they stay healthy.""","A rabbit whose teeth were so overgrown that it was unable to eat , has been found @placeholder .",claimed,damaged,abandoned,hanged,stabbed,2
"27 September 2016 Last updated at 06:53 BST Well, someone who knows a thing or two about baking is Amari, winner of Junior Bake Off in 2015. So we thought who better than Amari to rate the remaining Bake Off contestants on their skills! Watch her give Ricky her verdict on the bakers - and who she tips as the winner of this series.",Who 's your favourite baker left in the Great British Bake Off @placeholder ?,tent,line,race,list,show,0
"13 January 2017 Last updated at 11:30 GMT The locals in the town celebrate it on the 13th because they follow the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar which is used by most of the UK. Children walk from house to house and sing traditional Welsh language songs. In return they are given gifts, sweets or money. Have a watch to hear about it from the kids themselves.",It might be January the 13 but kids in Gwaun Valley in Wales have been celebrating their version of New Year @placeholder Hen Galan .,called,featuring,shows,involving,space,0
"Clandon Park House's gardens will be open to the public for the next six Saturdays - with visitors able to view the building's ""haunting"" shell. Exhibitions about the house, April's fire and subsequent salvage work will be displayed in marquees. It will be the last chance to see the exterior before scaffolding completely covers the mansion for several years. General manager Alex Bush said the Grade I-listed house, near Guildford, Surrey, remained inaccessible. But she said: ""We know, from the messages of support we have received, that Clandon is a special place for many people. ""We wanted to offer them the chance to spend some quiet time in the gardens near the house, and to share their memories with us."" She said it was a unique opportunity to see Clandon as it is. ""Now largely clear of high level debris, the view of the house from the gardens is a haunting and breath-taking sight,"" she added. The first open day is free to visitors as part of the national Heritage Open Days scheme, with an entry charge on the following Saturdays.",The @placeholder of an 18th Century stately home destroyed by fire are to be opened for the first time since the blaze .,structure,story,body,announcement,grounds,4
"In light-hearted comments to reporters, Mr Bush said he had done a ""disservice to the French"" by using them to mock Marco Rubio's senate voting record. ""I made the mistake of saying that the Congress operates on a French work week,"" he was reported as saying. He said he had since learned that the French work longer hours than the Germans do. ""So, my God, I totally insulted an entire country - our first ally - that helped us become free as a nation!"" Mr Bush said, according to Time magazine. Mr Bush made the original comments during a Republican presidential debate last week. The former Florida governor asked Mr Rubio whether the Senate ran on French time and if lawmakers only had to show up for three days weekly. His campaign spokesman Tim Miller said he had been inundated with emails from French journalists following the debate. Even Gerard Araud, the French ambassador,  responded on Twitter to correct Mr Bush. The French officially work a 35-hour week though many employees put in far longer hours. Mr Bush and Mr Rubio are trailing behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.",US presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has apologised to France for @placeholder their working week to insult a rival .,clenching,allowing,referencing,extending,ending,2
"The Youth Sports Trust report suggests children are not doing enough sport and are at risk becoming addicted to their handheld devices. The charity say they're worried that lots of kids could suffer from health problems in the future and think more needs to be done to improve sport in school. They want technology to be part of PE in schools to encourage more kids to get fit doing things they enjoy. The Youth Sports Trust asked 1,000 five- to 16-year olds what they thought of sports in school. The findings suggested that 75% of young people enjoy PE, but that digital technology can distract children from doing physical activities. As well as 23% of the kids saying they think playing a computer game with a friend is exercise, around one in three said they spoke to their friends more on social media than they do in person. The government said it has given schools £300m to improve school sport, and that PE is really important. Children's minister Edward Timpson said: ""It is pleasing that the Youth Sport Trust's research shows that millions of young people are enjoying PE lessons."" But he added that ""action is needed now to modernise the approach to PE and school sport and in doing so, guarantee the best possible future for generations to come.""",Nearly a quarter of kids see gaming with friends as a form of exercise @placeholder to a new survey .,according,linked,opposed,leads,leading,0
"The trial was told Mohammed Zaman had cut corners by swapping the thickening agent almond powder for the cheaper groundnut powder, which contained peanuts. Although the vast majority of restaurants are safe, a number each year are found to have breached laws and guidelines. BBC News looks at some things to be careful of when ordering food. Since December 2014, takeaways and restaurants have been required by law to let customers know if any of the 14 most dangerous allergens are ingredients in their food. They include peanuts, eggs, milk, fish, crustaceans and mustard. Paul Wilson, who suffered an anaphylactic shock after eating a meal from Zaman's business, died before the change in the law, but the trial heard he had flagged up his peanut allergy to the restaurant and his meal had been labelled as ""nut free"". David Pickering, of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), said: ""Some [restaurants] will have it in a book, some will give you the information verbally. If they can't give you it, don't eat there."" 4,500 UK hospital admissions a year from food allergy 10 food allergy deaths per year 1 in 4 people surveyed said they or a relative had a reaction eating out 8% of children affected by food allergies or intolerances 2% of adults The Food Standards Agency (FSA) says people are often still not given this information. In a recent FSA and Allergy UK survey of more than 1,000 people, one in four said they or a family member had suffered an allergic reaction while eating out. Chun-Han Chan, FSA allergy expert, said the food safety watchdog had translated allergy advice information into several different languages to provide the best possible guidance. She said: ""We want to stop unnecessary deaths and hospitalisations by helping food businesses provide accurate allergy information."" In 2014, the consumer organisation Which? sampled 60 takeaway lamb curries and lamb kebabs in London and Birmingham and found 40% contained other types of meat, with some containing no lamb at all. The FSA then conducted a wider study, published in February 2015, with 84 of 307 samples containing non-declared meat. Of these, one-fifth had used beef instead of lamb. Others contained a presence of beef, chicken, pork or turkey. The law requires food to be accurately described with fines of up to £5,000 enforceable. The FSA described this as ""one of the simplest forms of food fraud"", with spicy sauces often used to ""mask differences in taste"". The CTSI said the move was usually driven by the price of meat. Mr Pickering said: ""Sometimes the takeaway isn't aware of the meat they are actually getting from their supplier. ""People want to know what they're eating, mostly due to their personal preference, but more importantly for religious reasons, as pork or beef are often used as substitutes."" It is not just meat which can be substituted. Other ingredients such as oils, milk, honey and spices are commonly mislabelled to cut costs, according to research published in the Journal of Food Science. Often, the restaurant or takeaway is helpless to spot this if it has been mislabelled by the supplier. Saffron, a key ingredient in several cuisines, including Indian, Spanish, Turkish and Persian, is labour intensive and famously expensive. Spanish saffron, which is known for its high quality, is sometimes actually saffron imported from other countries before being relabelled. Mr Pickering said: ""We're hoping the FSA will be more active in using international intelligence to spot where and when then these substitutes may appear."" The FSA said it monitored ""shortages of raw materials and spikes in consumer demand"" through its Emerging Risks programme. Many of the nation's favourite takeaway dishes often contain artificial colour to make them look as appealing as possible. It is a criminal offence to sell dishes containing excess artificial colour, with food vendors facing fines of up to £5,000. The FSA has long called for the phasing out of artificial colourings, including sunset yellow (E110), allura red (E129), carmoisine (E122), tartrazine (E102), quinoline yellow (E104) and ponceau 4R (E124) because of their reported link to hyperactivity in some children. An EU-wide mandatory warning has to be placed on the labels of pre-packed foods that contain any of these colourings, but there is no requirement for it to be stated on takeaway or restaurant menus. These colourings produce yellow, orange and red shades, but restaurants and takeaways also use natural spices such as turmeric and paprika to provide colour. In 2015, Walsall Council trading standards found seven out of eight chicken tikka or chicken tikka masala dishes tested contained sunset yellow (E110) or ponceau 4R (E124). Mr Pickering said eateries often fail to ""look at the label"", so are not aware of maximum limits. Green hygiene stickers are frequently seen on the front of restaurant or takeaway businesses in the UK, but it is only in Wales where they have to be displayed by law. All eateries are subject to unannounced inspections by local environmental health officers, with a rating of 0 to 5 awarded. The FSA provides ratings for takeaways and restaurants throughout the UK on its website. Poor food hygiene or quality can be reported to the relevant local authority. Mr Pickering said: ""We need information from people - we may not investigate each complaint, but it will help to give us a general picture if certain places crop up again and again."" Earlier in May, the BBC's 5 Live Investigates programme found almost 47,000 fewer inspections were carried out in the UK in 2014 than in 2003, due to factors including reduced council budgets. An anonymous inspector said there were ""fewer officers trying to do more inspections"", with the FSA describing the situation as one of ""growing concern"". As many order takeaways over the phone or online, measures are being introduced to make sure the customer is always aware of hygiene ratings. From November, takeaway leaflets and menus in Wales will have to point customers to the food hygiene ratings website and remind people they have a legal right to ask for the rating when they order. It is expected the FSA will shortly be presenting research to the government to build the case for the mandatory display of ratings in England.",The owner of an Indian takeaway in North Yorkshire has been found guilty of manslaughter after a customer with a nut allergy was served a meal containing @placeholder peanuts .,term,ground,six,brass,community,1
"Footage of dozens of people joining in a song praising brothers Yaya and Kolo Toure was posted online. Collingwood Street was blocked for several minutes at 03:00 BST on Wednesday, police said. The chant uses the tune of 2 Unlimited's 1993 single, No Limit. It originated from the time both players were at Manchester City.  Kolo now plays for Liverpool. It is thought the chanting was started by a Chelsea-supporting friend of a Manchester City fan. The outbreak of dancing came to the attention of Yaya who tweeted his thanks to those who joined in. Police said the ""rowdy"" behaviour could have resulted in injuries. Central neighbourhood inspector Caroline Ord said: ""This type of drunken and disorderly behaviour will not be tolerated by police in Newcastle city centre. ""We want young people to come into the city centre and have a good time but they must behave responsibly.""",Drunk students who brought Newcastle city centre to a standstill while singing and dancing along to a cult football chant have been @placeholder by Northumbria Police .,charged,criticised,seized,stopped,unveiled,1
"Aravindan Balakrishnan believed women were the ""weakest link of bourgeois culture"", a former follower said. His father remarked on the number of women surrounding ""Comrade Bala"" while visiting his commune in the late 1970s. The 75-year-old from Enfield denies charges including four counts of rape and seven of indecent assault. The 64-year-old woman, a former cult member at the Workers Institute commune in south London, told Southwark Crown Court previously that Balakrishnan made her write explicit ""sex diaries"", extracts from which he shared with the group to humiliate her. Under cross-examination, she agreed they had been written as ""love letters"" to the leader, but said it was because of his psychological abuse. ""For him, sex was a weapon for breaking you down so he could rebuild you as this revolutionary cadre"", she said. The woman told the jury on Monday Balakrishnan started off by kissing her before moving on to sexual assault and then having sex with her. She said she felt powerless to refuse because he had ""dehumanised"" and ""psychologically stripped"" her through a barrage of verbal abuse. The trial continues.","The leader of a Maoist cult wanted a "" cadre of women soldiers "" @placeholder to combat the "" sugar coated bullets of bourgeois culture "" , a court has heard .",paid,believed,failed,trained,helped,3
"Dandy Flame, owned and trained by Jose Santos, struggled on debut at Windsor on 11 July, but won by two and three-quarter lengths in the five furlong event on Monday. Santos, based in Berkshire, said he was ""absolutely over the moon"". ""I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a bet on him, but I should have had more,"" he added. Equinoctial won at Kelso in November 1990 at odds of 250-1 and remains the longest-odds winner in British racing. Dandy Flame joins the exclusive ranks of those to have won at 200-1 before - the last is thought to be Lights of Broadway at Taunton in 2012. The horse ""looked clueless"" when finishing last from eight on debut, according to the Racing Post form guide, which suggested a ""massive improvement"" was required.",A novice horse became the joint second longest - @placeholder winner in British racing history at 200 - 1 at Wolverhampton .,priced,class,based,called,named,0
"The 27-year-old scored one and made another before limping off in the 80th minute at Stamford Bridge. Speaking after the match, interim Blues boss Guus Hiddink said Costa had been ""in a lot of pain"" - although it is unclear how long Costa could be out. Chelsea next play away to Premier League leaders Arsenal in a 16:00 GMT kick-off on Sunday. Spain international Costa has scored five goals in five games for Chelsea since Dutchman Hiddink was appointed in December. He was their top scorer last season with 20 goals as Jose Mourinho led to the club to a Premier League and League Cup double, but had scored just four times before the Portuguese was sacked.","Chelsea striker Diego Costa suffered a bruised tibia in Saturday 's 3 - 3 draw with Everton , scans have @placeholder .",released,ceased,shown,returned,signed,2
"Ms Fernandez has been accused of making fraudulent foreign currency transactions last year in the final months of her government. She has denied the allegations and accused the centre-right government of Mauricio Macri of plotting against her. Some of her closest aides are being investigated for alleged mishandling of public funds. ""The harassment by what I call the 'judicial party' has become ridiculous,"" Ms Fernandez said in a press conference after appearing in court. Hundreds of police officers were deployed outside the court building where the hearing took place. Ms Fernandez was charged in May for allegedly ordering irregular central bank transactions in the US dollar futures market. Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio, who is leading the investigation, is a declared opponent of the former president. Last week he ordered searches on several of her family's properties in the province of Santa Cruz in a separate probe on money laundering. Ms Fernandez's supporters accuse Mr Macri of political persecution. Last month, one of Mrs Fernandez's top public works officials, Jose Lopez, was caught throwing bags filled with a total of nearly $9m (£6.7m) over the walls of a monastery in Buenos Aires province. He was arrested on suspicion of money laundering. Mrs Fernandez was married to the late Argentine President Nestor Kirchner.",A judge in Buenos Aires has @placeholder the assets of former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner .,frozen,admitted,acquired,questioned,reached,0
"June Williams, the younger of George Mottershead's children, was 88. Chester Zoo's director-general Mark Pilgrim said news of her death brought ""deep sadness"" and paid tribute to her work which ""cannot be underestimated"". As a child, Mrs Williams was often pictured alongside the zoo's animals in publicity shots for the popular tourist attraction in Cheshire. She also met her husband Fred Williams, who died in 2012, at the zoo and they helped to build the aquarium. In 1930, when she was four-and-a-half, her family moved into Oakfield House, near Upton, where they set up the zoo despite some local opposition. After a short time abroad, they returned to Cheshire and continued to support the zoo's growth. Her childhood experiences were depicted in the BBC One drama Our Zoo last autumn, in which she was played by Honor Kneafsey. Mrs Williams was a consultant on the series, which attracted 5.3m viewers, and even had a cameo role with her son George Williams. ""That June was able to see her family's incredible story told through Our Zoo brought her great joy and experiences that she treasured,"" Mr Pilgrim added. ""We shall miss her and our thoughts and sympathies are with her children, George, Joy and Linda, and her grandchildren, Adam and Emma, of whom we know she was very proud."" Chester Zoo, which is home to about 12,000 animals, attracts 1.4m visitors annually, and has been named the UK's best zoo by users of the travel website TripAdvisor. A book of condolence will be available for visitors to sign from Saturday.","A daughter of Chester Zoo 's founder , whose childhood @placeholder in the BBC television drama Our Zoo , has died .",forces,featured,debut,was,roots,1
"Bermuda's Flora Duffy won in two hours, three minutes and 38 seconds, with Jenkins third and Vicky Holland fourth. Welsh athlete Stanford fell off her bike and hurt her wrist, but British Triathlon hopes she ""will be fine"". Alistair Brownlee won the men's event, finishing ahead of his brother Jonny in second place. The winner finished in a time of one hour, 50 minutes and 33 seconds, just 10 seconds ahead of his brother. He said: ""I need to run about a minute faster, which I think I can do in the next six weeks. ""If I can move my running on it will be my best chance of winning another Olympic medal."" Media playback is not supported on this device Along with Gordon Benson, the Leeds brothers will represent Great Britain at the Rio Olympics, while Jenkins, Stanford and Holland are the three female athletes for the Games in Brazil. Having finished fifth at London 2012, Wales' Jenkins qualified for Rio after victory at the Gold Coast World Series event in April. ""I am really happy to get on the podium today,"" said the 32-year-old. ""I made life hard for myself, I had a terrible swim, but I felt good on the bike and on the run I just kind of hung in there. ""Flora is so strong at the moment. I am actually really happy for her to get the win, I mean obviously I would like to, but she deserves it the way she raced today."" New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt was second in the women's event, 20 seconds behind Duffy. 1 Flora Duffy (Ber) 2:03:38 2 Andrea Hewitt (NZ) 2:03:58 3 Helen Jenkins (GB) 2:04:06 4 Vicky Holland (GB) 2:04:43 5 Ai Ueda (Jpn) 2:04:56 Selected others: DNF Jodie Stimpson DNF Non Stanford 1 Alistair Brownlee (GB) 1:50:33 2 Jonny Brownlee (GB) 1:50:43 3 Pierre Le Corre (Fra) 1:51:30 4 Andreas Schilling (Den) 1:51:47 5 Fernando Alarza (Spa) 1:51:48 Selected others: 10 Adam Bowden (GB) 1:53:05 DNF Gordon Benson (GB)","Rio - bound triathlete Helen Jenkins won bronze at the sixth World Triathlon Series event in Stockholm , but fellow Briton Non Stanford @placeholder out .",edged,carried,set,crashed,missed,3
"Misty the duckling's mysterious disappearance has stressed out other ducks in the group, who were so upset they refused to eat for two days. Owner Chris Gunnill said there had been no sign of a fox and cannot explain where Misty has gone. He has asked people in Lowton, Greater Manchester, to look be on the lookout for the missing bird. ""The other ducks were dead depressed for two days,"" he said. ""They were quacking and they didn't eat."" Misty, an Indian Runner duck, disappeared on Wednesday and would now be about twice the size it appears in the photos. The duckling was living at Lime House in Lowton, where Mr Gunnill runs a garden project for adults with learning disabilities and mental health issues. ""We only had one duckling left from only two hatched as the other eight eggs were still-born deaths, so you can see how important this one little duckling was to us. ""It's a mystery, as we have no clues to its disappearance."" The chickens and ducks are kept for their eggs, Mr Gunnill said. He said the birds also help to calm people down. ""When you've got someone with a mental health issue, you stick a chicken in someone's hands or duck near them and it can potentially calm them down straight away,"" he said.",A reward of free @placeholder eggs for life is being offered for the return of a pet duckling missing for almost a week .,science,body,alert,range,team,3
"New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell admitted to a ""massive memory fail"" after telling a corruption inquiry that he never received the wine. Mr O'Farrell said he could not remember calling businessman Nick Di Girolamo, who sent him the gift in 2011. He acted after investigators unveiled a handwritten thank you note from him. Mr O'Farrell, leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, announced his resignation at a press conference in Sydney on Wednesday. He told reporters that he ""did not seek to mislead"" the inquiry. ""I do accept there is a thank you note signed by me and as someone who believes in accountability, I accept the consequences of my action,"" he said. He added that a new premier would be elected at a parliamentary meeting next week. ""I still cannot explain either the arrival of a gift that I have no recollection of, or its absence which I certainly still cannot fathom. But I accept the consequences in an orderly way."" Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who leads the Liberal-National coalition, said Mr O'Farrell's resignation was a sign of integrity, not corruption. ""Obviously, as we now know, he innocently and inadvertently misled ICAC yesterday and has taken the utterly honourable step of resigning as premier,"" he said. Opposition politician John Kaye said there was a broader lesson in Mr O'Farrell's announcement. ""This is not about Barry O'Farrell, it is about the culture of politics in New South Wales,"" he said. ""Barry O'Farrell was clearly inundated with gifts and donations with lobbyists but he just lost track of what was going on."" Mr O'Farrell received the bottle of 1959 Penfolds Grange Hermitage from businessman Nick Di Girolamo, whose company, Australia Water Holdings, is being investigated by the New South Wales corruption body.","The leader of Australia 's most populous @placeholder has announced his resignation after failing to declare a gift of A$ 3,000 ( $ 2,800 ; Â £ 1,680 ) wine .",government,equality,nation,province,state,4
"Goalkeeper Forde, 37, made 339 appearances for the Lions, but spent the 2016-17 campaign on loan at League Two champions Portsmouth. Full-back Martin, 28, played in 25 league games for the club this season. Midfielders Shaun Williams and Jimmy Abdou have been offered new contracts at The Den, as have winger Fred Onyedinma and defender Shaun Cummings. Nigeria-born Onyedinma, 20, has been linked with a move to Championship side QPR.",Millwall have @placeholder Joe Martin and David Forde following their promotion to the Championship .,extended,reacted,revealed,added,released,4
"A hostile home crowd was stunned into silence as Aaron Ramsey's outrageous chipped penalty gave Wales a precious half-time lead after Sam Vokes' shirt was pulled. The visitors toiled relentlessly to protect that advantage, though they began to tire as they were subjected to exhaustingly long periods of Serbian pressure. Aleksandar Mitrovic made the breakthrough with 17 minutes left, finishing calmly to give the hosts a point they more than deserved to reclaim their place at the top of Group D. The Newcastle striker scored a late equaliser against Wales in Cardiff in November, and his intervention on this occasion was another hefty blow to Welsh chances of reaching next year's World Cup in Russia. They remain third in their group, still four points behind Serbia and the Republic of Ireland with four games left. But given Wales' raft of withdrawals prior to this match and Serbia's dominant display, this draw may well feel like a precious point gained for Chris Coleman's men. Wales' World Cup hopes hung in the balance before kick-off in Belgrade, as they were five points behind the Republic of Ireland, who had drawn 1-1 with Austria earlier in the day. Coleman and his players knew defeat would effectively extinguish any aspirations of qualifying automatically, while a draw would only have preserved them on the condition they won their remaining four fixtures. Their task was made infinitely more difficult by the absence of Gareth Bale. The Real Madrid forward was suspended along with Neil Taylor, while several others were injured. Given those they were without, Wales had to be resilient in the face of intense Serb pressure and an intimidating home crowd. They defended bravely and, after Ramsey's insolent opening goal, had to be at their dogged best to repel chances for Mitrovic and others. However, their immense workload eventually took its toll and a tiring defence allowed Mitrovic the space in the penalty area to fire past Wayne Hennessey at his near post. Serbia had opportunities to score a second - captain Branislav Ivanovic headed one fine chance wide - but Wales dug deep to frustrate the relentless hosts and draw five consecutive games for the first time in their history. Bale's suspension left an enormous void in the Welsh side, and so it was left to their other leading players fill that chasm. Ramsey accepted the challenge with relish. Vokes' shirt was pulled at a corner and, after an initial confusing delay, referee Manuel De Sousa pointed to the spot. There was a deafening din of boos as Ramsey placed the ball, but the Arsenal midfielder ignored the hysteria and audaciously dinked the ball into the right corner, wrongfooting goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic and sparking ecstatic celebrations among the Wales fans. The phrase 'Panenka' is often used to describe similar goals, referring to a spot-kick taken by Czechoslovakia's Antonin Panenka in the 1976 European Championship final shootout. Panenka chipped the ball down the middle of the West Germany goal to seal victory in the cheekiest fashion imaginable and, coincidentally, that was also at Stadion Rajko Mitic in Belgrade. However, Serbia's resurgence meant that Ramsey's moment of impudent inspiration was only enough to give Wales a fifth successive draw, preserving their slim hopes of qualifying for only a third major tournament in their history. Wales boss Chris Coleman on Sky Sports: ""It was a great point. But we were 1-0 up, they weren't peppering Wayne Hennessey. ""You expect a tough game here but we had chances over 90 minutes. You aren't going to come here and play open football, we did that before and you know what happened. We lost 6-1. ""I can't fault the players, they worked so, so hard. Joe Ledley hasn't played for three months and he gave me 90 minutes, incredible. ""We can't seal the deal. Last campaign we saw them out but that's where we are. We weren't standing there biting our nails. It's all to play for. Serbia have got to go to Austria and the Republic of Ireland. It will go down to the wire."" Match ends, Serbia 1, Wales 1. Second Half ends, Serbia 1, Wales 1. Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jazz Richards. Attempt missed. Emyr Huws (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Joe Allen. Nemanja Matic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Emyr Huws (Wales). Nemanja Matic (Serbia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Nemanja Matic (Serbia). Aaron Ramsey (Wales) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Antonio Rukavina with a cross following a set piece situation. Aleksandar Prijovic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Joe Ledley (Wales). Attempt missed. Ben Davies (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Aleksandar Kolarov (Serbia) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Emyr Huws (Wales). Attempt missed. Aleksandar Kolarov (Serbia) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Branislav Ivanovic. Substitution, Wales. Tom Lawrence replaces Sam Vokes. Dusan Tadic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Joe Allen (Wales). Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Branislav Ivanovic. Corner,  Wales. Conceded by Vladimir Stojkovic. Attempt saved. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joe Allen with a through ball. Attempt missed. Nemanja Gudelj (Serbia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Corner,  Serbia. Conceded by Ben Davies. Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nemanja Matic. Branislav Ivanovic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Sam Vokes (Wales). Goal!  Serbia 1, Wales 1. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Aleksandar Prijovic. Substitution, Wales. Emyr Huws replaces David Edwards. Attempt missed. James Chester (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Joe Ledley with a cross. Corner,  Wales. Conceded by Antonio Rukavina. Corner,  Wales. Conceded by Nemanja Matic. Jazz Richards (Wales) is shown the yellow card. Foul by Branislav Ivanovic (Serbia). Sam Vokes (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Jagos Vukovic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by David Edwards (Wales). Substitution, Serbia. Aleksandar Prijovic replaces Filip Kostic. Corner,  Serbia. Conceded by Joe Ledley. Corner,  Wales. Conceded by Matija Nastasic.",Wales ' hopes of qualifying for the World Cup remain intact - but precariously so - after their @placeholder side produced a spirited performance to draw in Serbia .,own,losing,ambitions,depleted,attacking,3
"Garry Barkhouse was so drunk that he did not know what day of the week it was when stopped by police. A court was told the 48-year-old drank a bottle-and-a-half of vodka before getting behind the wheel. A sheriff told Barkhouse he was an ""intoxicated, incoherent, and incontinent individual"". Barkhouse was found guilty of drink-driving after a trial at Falkirk Sheriff Court in January. He was banned from driving for five years and ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work. Sheriff Craig Caldwell told Barkhouse: ""I told you at the trial you should have been nowhere near a car. ""In fact, given your level of alcohol, I'm surprised you could even find your car, let alone open it and get into it."" Barkhouse, was arrested at the wheel of his daughter's Vauxhall Astra after a concerned member of the public called the police at about 16:30 on 21 September last year. Two officers saw Barkhouse drive slowly towards them and park. PC Paul James said it was ""immediately apparent"" that the driver was heavily under the influence. He said: ""He was kind of slumped, slurring his words, and smelling of alcohol. ""He was very unsteady on his feet and I had to physically conduct him to the rear of the police vehicle. ""At that point I noticed he had urinated himself."" Barkhouse, of Links Road, Bo'ness denied drink-driving. He said he had been drinking at a friend's house nearby and had got into the car to get some tobacco. Sheriff Caldwell said he had to weigh up ""two competing versions"". He said: ""On the one hand I have the Crown case, from two sober and professional road policing officers with over 40 years experience between them. ""On the other hand I have an intoxicated, incoherent and incontinent individual who says he wasn't driving. "" Barkhouse was also placed under supervision for 12 months to get alcohol treatment.",A Bo'ness motorist caught driving seven times over the legal alcohol limit has been ordered to @placeholder 250 hours of unpaid work .,intervene,join,complete,control,face,2
"Conservative Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he did not feel Mr Rudd was qualified, adding that he would not nominate anyone for the role. Current Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon steps down at the end of the year. Mr Rudd has responded by releasing letters in which he says Mr Turnbull had originally promised to back him. The three letters, published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, were written by Mr Rudd to Mr Turnbull between April and July this year. In one of them, Mr Rudd says that the prime minister had assured him in November and December last year of his backing. ""Based on those assurances, in good faith, I have been informally sounding out governments around the world in terms of their support for my candidature,"" a letter dated 1 May 2016 says. ""You will appreciate that I would not have been in the business of approaching governments, even informally, had you expressed any doubt about my candidature in any of our previous conversations."" UN secretary-general: The other New York race Will Eastern Europe lose race to lead UN? Earlier on Friday, Mr Turnbull told reporters that his government would not support Mr Rudd's candidacy. ""There is a fundamental threshold point and it is this: Does the government believe, do we believe, do I as prime minister believe that Mr Rudd is well suited for that role? My considered judgment is that he is not,"" Mr Turnbull told reporters. He didn't elaborate on why Mr Rudd was not suitable. A Chinese-speaking former diplomat who also served as Australia's foreign minister, Mr Rudd was a polarising figure within his government, losing the party leadership to Julia Gillard in 2010. He briefly returned as prime minister in 2013 before Labor lost the general election to the conservative coalition. He had been considered a long-shot for the position. Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres recently topped the UN's first informal poll of candidates, followed by Slovenia's former President Danilo Turk. Other top contenders are Argentina's Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra, and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.",The Australian government has @placeholder to endorse former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd 's bid to become the next United Nations secretary - general .,decided,continued,vowed,refused,sought,3
"25 November 2015 Last updated at 09:43 GMT Her journey has been a long and remarkable one. At two years old, she arrived in north London from her native Dominica with her parents and 11 siblings. She rose to become the UK's first ever female attorney general and chief legal advisor. As one of the 100 women chosen  by BBC 100 Women 2015, she spoke to the World Service's Social Affairs Correspondent Valeria Perasso about her work, and solutions for tackling domestic violence around the world. 100 Women 2015 This year's season features two weeks of inspirational stories about the BBC's 100 Women and others who are defying stereotypes around the world. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram using the hashtag #100Women. Listen to the programmes here.",Baroness Patricia Scotland has been a leading figure in @placeholder laws in the UK which have helped to reduce domestic violence by 64 % .,leaving,finding,neighbouring,class,reforming,4
"Denton has joined Bath from Edinburgh after the English Premiership club paid a transfer fee for the 25-year-old. ""That's what happens at a World Cup,"" said Nicol, the former scrum-half who captained Bath. ""You perform well and the big cheque books may open for you. ""That's what happens to the Georgians and the Japanese."" Nicol says Scotland's run to the World Cup quarter-finals will have alerted clubs to Scottish players. ""You could get somebody here much cheaper than somebody who is established,"" he said. ""It's inevitable that we lose a few players and Dave Denton is the first."" Edinburgh are now preparing for the start of their European Challenge Cup campaign this week without Denton, who played 78 times over six years for the capital club. Glasgow Warriors also kick off their tilt at European glory in the top-tier Champions competition and Nicol believes that, after winning the Pro12 league title last season, Gregor Townsend's side have what it takes to do well this term. ""They've got to kick on,"" he said. ""Racing in Paris I think is a good start for them. ""They won last week with a bonus point without playing well. That is the sign of a champion side. ""Edinburgh went far in the competition last season and have now got a taste for it. I expect both clubs to do well this year.""","Former captain Andy Nicol believes it is "" inevitable "" that some of Scotland 's World Cup squad will join Dave Denton in moving from the @placeholder .",tournament,county,country,side,world,2
"Ethiopia has been doing very well over the last 15 years or so. Millions of people have been lifted out of poverty as the economy, jointly with Turkmenistan, has been growing faster than anywhere else in the world. The double-digit growth is obvious from the building sites and the tower blocks rising up on every corner in the capital Addis Ababa. The country has changed a great deal since 1984, when hundreds of thousands of people died of hunger. Those terrible images of famine from more than 30 years ago still haunt Ethiopia. It was a time when war and political neglect turned drought into disaster, and for a government today with grand ambitions it's still a raw wound. Now it's a place with a confidence, only dented when the climate changes. El Nino dried up the rainfall. Drought once again turned the land to dust. It's facing as bad a drought as 1984 over a much wider area. One man I met told me this is the worst drought he has seen in 45 years. I met Ahmed Dubet Roble at a gathering of around 1,400 families in Fedeto. He had travelled from the barren countryside to ask for help. He has lost everything. Also there was Khadija Aden Abtidon, sitting by her little tent of sticks and cloth. ""We lost all our livestock,"" she said, ""so we are here to seek support. ""There's no pasture, no water. We have never seen anything like this before."" In a warehouse in Dire Dawa I saw a huge tower of white maize sacks being loaded into an aid truck by a long line of men. The bags were emblazoned with ""Ministry of Agriculture"". This is food the Ethiopian government had bought abroad, imported into Djibouti, transported via its new electrified railway and was delivering to its people. The country has already committed more than $380m (£260m) of its own money to buying aid and using its new Chinese-built railway that cuts hundreds of miles through the parched countryside from the port in Djibouti. Can Ethiopia’s railway bring peace to Somalia? But for all it has achieved, Ethiopia had to turn to the international community for help. ""The reason why we say we need support is not necessarily because everything is beyond the pale,"" said Communications Minister Getachew Reda, who says they will to everything to stop people dying for want of food. ""But rather, because the best way to maintain the gross trajectory and at the same insulate our people from disaster, is by working with our partners."" Ethiopia has worked hard on building its life savings - its developing economy - and by asking for help now it's trying to protect its family silver. With so many crises around the globe tackled too late, the aid world often ends up rushing the patient to life support having missed the chance to give preventative medicine. What is complicated is the time it takes for money to be given and for the aid to be delivered - here it can take months. Hundreds of millions have been given by international donors, but the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says only 46% of the $1.4bn needed has been given so far. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has less than a third of the money is says it needs to keep the aid coming. ""We need more funding and very quickly - immediately,"" said Oxfam's country director Ayman Omer. ""We need to work simultaneously on saving lives now and preparing for the next harvest. ""Even if the rain does come March to May that will definitely help in terms of water availability, but will not immediately result in harvest. The harvest season is up to November. ""It has been controlled so far, but much more is needed, otherwise we will get ourselves into problems."" The El Nino weather pattern has worsened the drought and if the next rains also fail, far more people will be affected, and those already needing help will need it far longer.",Ethiopia is the world 's fastest growing economy . So when drought @placeholder why did it need international help ?,deal,ended,called,started,struck,4
"He told his party devolution had brought ""peace and prosperity"" and added that he looked back ""with pride at all that we together have achieved"". He said after three years of problems at Stormont, the latest 'Fresh Start' deal means ""politics can work again"". He is to quit as Northern Ireland first minister and DUP leader within weeks. Mr Robinson announced his retirement on Thursday, two days after the agreement was struck between the DUP, Sinn Féin and the British and Irish governments. The Fresh Start document addressed some but not all of the issues that had caused months of political deadlock and placed the future of devolution in doubt. Mr Robinson told the DUP's annual party conference on Saturday ""my work is almost done, and now it is time for the next generation to step forward"". ""I wanted to make sure that I was handing over the reins of a political process that was stable and secure for the long term. ""After a seemingly endless process I am delighted that we have finally reached agreement on the way forward.  We have resolved all those toxic issues that threatened the continuation of devolution."" ""So as I prepare to bow out I do so in the knowledge that the province is on safe ground and this party is in good shape to take Northern Ireland forward."" Read more: Peter Robinson: Timeline of life and career Mr Robinson was cheered and given a standing ovation as he took to the podium at the La Mon House hotel, with many of this party colleagues hugging him and shaking his hand. He told them Northern Ireland's place within the UK is ""secure"" and congratulated them on maintaining their position as ""Northern Ireland's largest party"". ""Ulster is no longer at the crossroads - we're on the motorway and on a clear path to a better future,"" he said. The DUP leader said the Fresh Start deal had removed ""the threat of bankruptcy and collapse"" from Stormont. ""The fundamental block on politics these last three years has been the refusal of some to face up to financial realities and accept welfare reform. ""That impasse soured relations; starved key public services of much needed resources, and threatened the executive with financial ruin. ""This deal ends that uncertainty and removes the obstacles to progress."" Outside the conference there was a small protest from same-sex marriage campaigners who criticised the DUP for blocking a recent assembly vote on the issue. But inside there was nothing but hugs and cheers for the outgoing leader, with some members weeping openly as his last speech drew to its conclusion. Mr Robinson is one of the founding members of the DUP and his political career has lasted more than 40 years. He took over as first minister and DUP leader from the late Ian Paisley in 2008. His formal retirement will not take effect until some time around the end of the year, but he said he intends to remain as a member of the DUP after he steps down.","Peter Robinson has said "" Northern Ireland is a place @placeholder "" in his final leader 's speech to the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) annual conference .",boom,committed,message,transformed,condition,3
"Part of London Road - the main route into the town - has been shut since 10 August for barrier works. Some firms claim there has been a drop in trade with residents now opting to shop elsewhere. Network Rail (NR) said the crossing would open by 11 October and there were no plans to permanently close the crossing. However, local taxi driver Jaffa Hassan said signs in the town stated work would continue until 22 October. He said the work was costing him fares, as people were not willing to pay the extra fare to divert around the closure, and described peak times as ""gridlocked"". Ben Jackson, president of Bicester Chamber of Commerce, said traders had noticed a ""drop-off"" in the number of people shopping in Bicester. He also said some residents were now shopping in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, claiming it was ""quicker and easier"". NR said the crossing was being upgraded in preparation for a new service that starts later this month from Oxford Parkway through Bicester to London Marylebone.",Businesses in Bicester say trade has been @placeholder by the closure of a level crossing .,affected,lifted,held,interrupted,defended,0
"But not everyone in the public eye generates this reaction when they misbehave. Politicians, even the famous ones, seem to be rarely considered in this way. People might react with anger - or just roll their eyes - but the term ""role model"" is rarely used. Why not? As well as selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability and openness, MPs are required by their code of conduct to show leadership - and to promote such qualities ""by example"". This certainly sounds like role model material. But the message isn't getting across, says 20-year-old Chante Joseph, a former member of the National Youth Parliament. Part of the problem is that MPs are ""from a completely different world"" to most young people, she says. ""Young people are not really saying 'I want to be Theresa May when I grow up'."" Miss Joseph points to the lack of votes for 16-year-olds as an example of the disconnect. ""In order for you to have a role model, you need to see something in that person that reflects you, so you think 'I could be like you.'"" MPs are doing good work, she believes, but they ""don't communicate in a way that young people understand"". And they are unlike more conventional celebrities, she thinks, because they try to present themselves as being ""flawless"". Speaker John Bercow has warned of young people being turned off by MPs' behaviour in the House of Commons, particularly during Prime Minister's Questions, when he regularly castigates them for shouting at each other. ""There are people who think culturally the atmosphere is very male, very testosterone-fuelled and, in the worst cases, of yobbery and public school twittishness,"" he said in a 2014 letter to party leaders. ""I don't think we should be prissy about this, but I am not sure we're setting a good example to the next generation of voters."" Far from holding them up as role models, the public has taken a dim view of MPs for a while, says YouGov's Joe Twyman. Trust in MPs has ""slipped away"" with events like Black Wednesday, the Iraq War and tuition fee increases, he says, leaving MPs ranked with estate agents and journalists in people's estimations. And that's not the good end of the scale. ""Very few people grow up thinking they want to be an MP,"" adds Mr Twyman, drawing a contrast with famous footballers. It's a similar message from Heather Wildsmith, who is a youth worker in Leicester and has never heard young people express a burning ambition to be an MP. The 24-year-old thinks politicians are simply not ""relatable"". ""Speaking to a lot of young people in the past, they have strong feelings towards certain topics but are not sure how to address them. ""People do not want to be MPs because they are not sure how to get into politics or they are not sure what MPs do. ""When an MP does something wrong they have to resign - when a pop star does something wrong they are almost celebrated - it's almost as if MPs are perceived as not being human."" If young people don't strive to emulate MPs, age could also be a factor - the average age of MPs has consistently been about 50 in recent decades - although the 2015 intake included Mhairi Black, at 20 the youngest elected politician in Britain since 1667. Her SNP colleague, and Parliament's second youngest member, Stuart Donaldson, says young people are increasingly taking an interest in MPs' work. ""Despite this young people may have a negative view of politicians because they do not feel their views are being properly represented,"" he says. ""There is also still a significant number of young people who do not know or indeed care about what politicians do. ""Politicians should be doing much more to reach out and listen to the views of young people and recognise the valuable contribution they make to society.""","It 's a familiar refrain when a pop singer or a sports star gets into trouble . They are supposed to be a role model , critics say , and they have abused their @placeholder and let everyone down .",counterparts,position,experiences,group,hands,1
"24 February 2016 Last updated at 06:55 GMT The Carolina Dreamer was released into the sea in May 2015 by schoolchildren from South Carolina with a tracking device. The class were able to follow the boat's 4,000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Now they're hoping it might make it back to America from Wales.",A family found a boat washed up on a beach in Wales which had been @placeholder by a school in America .,launched,purchased,attacked,destroyed,injured,0
"Liverpool are yet to open talks with Allen, who was named in Uefa's team of Euro 2016 as Wales reached their first semi-final at a major tournament. But Reds manager Jurgen Klopp is eager to resolve the 26-year-old's future. Allen, who joined from Swansea in 2012, wants first-team games after starting only eight in the league in 2015-16. Liverpool rejected an £8m offer from Swansea City for their former player in June and it is understood the Welsh club are still interested in Allen. Allen is open to the idea of staying at Liverpool should he be guaranteed a more regular starts at Anfield but Klopp preferred Jordan Henderson, Lucas, Emre Can and James Milner in midfield last season. The Wales international has had a rollercoaster Liverpool career since joining the club for £15m in the summer of 2012. He was part of the squad that helped Liverpool gain second place in the Premier League in 2013-14 but has often been the brunt of fan criticism. Allen did score a late equaliser in a 3-3 draw with leaders Arsenal in January 2016 before scoring the winning penalty in a shootout against Stoke City to send Liverpool to a League Cup final against Manchester City. Allen is currently on holiday after Euro 2016 and is not due back in Liverpool training until late July.",Wales midfielder Joe Allen would like his Liverpool future @placeholder this summer rather than wait until his contract expires at the end of next season .,confirmed,signed,sorted,forward,side,2
"2 April 2016 Last updated at 09:43 BST Autism can affect the way you live your life and see the world around you. It's not a disease or an illness, but a condition you're born with. Alex says he finds it difficult to cope in busy environments and can get upset if there are too many people or if it's too noisy. He's been helping to make the film to try and let other people understand more about autism. The BBC's disability reporter, Nikki Fox, went to meet him.",A ten - year - old boy with autism is @placeholder in a new film about what it 's like to have the condition .,built,depicted,starring,based,participated,2
"The Eaton Place surgery closed its doors for the last time at lunchtime because its two partners are retiring. Local Conservative MP Simon Kirby, who had campaigned for it to remain open, said he was very disappointed. NHS England said patients would be able to register with other nearby practices at a drop-in event next week. At least half the patients have already registered with one of the 13 surgeries closest to Eaton Place. NHS England has offered the surgeries a payment of £25 per head for every patient they take. Mr Kirby, the MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, had hoped another GP would take on the practice and said discussions had been so advanced that the recruitment process for new staff had already begun. ""It is particularly saddening that the final discussions between these various groups have not been successful,"" he said. Patients wishing to register with another GP can visit the Wellsbourne Health Centre, in Whitehawk, on 4 March between 10:00 and 14:00 GMT.",Six thousand patients in Brighton have been left trying to find a new doctor after talks to safeguard the @placeholder of their surgery broke down .,integrity,rights,control,number,future,4
"The company said Messenger Lite had the ""core features"" of the full app such as the ability to share text and photos. The app will compete with Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which the company says is used by more than a billion people. One analyst said offering a stripped-back service for developing markets would ""drive adoption of services"". ""Targeting users in emerging markets with 'lite' apps is not a new phenomenon,"" said Jack Kent, of the IHS Markit consultancy. ""Companies such as Google and Line also offer streamlined services for users in emerging markets. ""It makes sense to provide streamlined service to drive adoption of services rather than monetise users immediately."" Facebook was criticised in June after it removed access to messages from its mobile website, in an attempt to steer people to use the Messenger app. Stan Chudnovsky, head of product at Facebook Messenger, said the company found people sent more messages when messenger was offered as a separate app. He told BBC News people also found it easier to discover new features when they were not ""buried"" inside the bigger Facebook experience. The company has slimmed the Messenger Lite app down to under 10MB, so it takes up less space on smartphones with limited storage. That is up to 95% smaller than the full-size Messenger app, which case top 150MB on Android devices. The Lite app will be released for Android devices in Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Venezuela first.","Facebook has announced a "" slimmed down "" version of its Messenger app for @placeholder where older smartphones and slower net speeds are more common .",sale,goods,countries,safety,information,2
"The locals of Halji village in Humla district of western Nepal practise the Drikung Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, which has an 11th-Century monastery at its heart. They are very worried that the Rinchenling monastery - one of the oldest in Nepal and highly revered in Tibet - could be swept away or damaged by floods and mudslides caused by the outburst of a glacial lake on the mountain overlooking their village. For the past five years, Halji has been hit by glacial lake floods almost every summer and the last one, nearly two months ago, damaged two houses and swept away four horses. Several crop fields were washed away and many remain covered with sands, rendering them barren for many years to come. Villagers say the historic monastery now stands only around 15m away from the river bank that has been eroded by flood waters. They fear the next time the Tak Tsho lake bursts like it did this year, it may hit the 1,000 year-old sacred site. ""It is our identity,"" said Kojuk Objang Tamang, the head of Halji village. ""We cannot even imagine about our community without the monastery which is the base of our religious culture,"" he told the BBC. So strong is the community's belief in the monastery that they are convinced that it has saved them from the floods and mudslides so far. ""It is because of the blessings of the monastery that the village is hit by floods at day time only and so there is no loss of human lives because we can run to safety during daylight,"" said Mr Tamang. ""Had it happened in the night when we were asleep, God knows how many of us would have been dead by now. Astrid Hovden of the University of Oslo, who has been conducting her PhD research in Halji, has witnessed how central the monastery is to the community of around 100 households. ""At the night of the flood (last June), after the water level in the river started to get back to normal, the monks performed an elaborate ritual in the monastery to pray for the safety of their village. ""Since the villagers became aware of the problem, they have invited important lamas (priests) from outside to perform rituals to protect their village."" Prayers apart, the villagers have also done whatever they could to save the monastery and their settlement. Although almost all of them are uneducated, they have knocked on the doors of the prime minister's office in the capital Kathmandu, the local authority and the national planning commission. Those efforts had secured some funding, which they used to build defences using rocks and gabion wires to tame the flood waters. ""Every family in our village worked free of cost for the construction of those infrastructures,"" says Tamang. But villagers say that every year, the floods and mudslides hurtling down from the glacial lake - at a height of around 5,300m on the Gurla Mandhata mountain -  become increasingly dangerous. ""Our effort to save the village is proving to be no match for the force of the floods,"" said Mangal Lama, a social worker from the region. Mr Lama and other locals said they hiked up to the area where the Tak Tsho lake is located and found that it is hidden behind a hanging glacier. ""We saw huge cracks on the glacier, and that explained why we used to hear big sounds around the same time in June every year before we were hit by floods. ""Apparently, it appears that the huge pieces of ice sheet from the cracked parts of the glacier might have fallen into the glacial lake which then overflowed, causing floods and mudslides downstream."" Some scientists say climate change has accelerated glacial meltdown in the Himalayas, creating many new glacial lakes and filling up existing ones to dangerous levels. Most of the 4,000 or so glaciers and their lakes in the Nepalese Himalayas are not monitored, like the one above Halji in Humla district. Nepal's National Adaptation Programme of Action, prepared under the United Nations climate convention, has rated the district's vulnerability to glacial lake outburst flood as ""very low"" - something which has been disputed. Mr Lama said some villagers are so frustrated that they are considering going to Tibet across the border to become refugees. ""It takes five days walk to reach the nearest local authority of Nepal while Taklakot (the nearest Tibetan market) is only 12 hours away and moreover the villagers speak the Tibetan language and follow all traditions of Tibet."" Locals say they cannot move the monastery and their settlement to a safe place. ""The moment we move the monastery, its religious and historic value will drop to zero,"" says Tamang. ""And that, in turn, means our century-old intact religious and cultural community will break and it will all be over.""","An ethnic community in Nepal 's remotest Himalayan district , bordering Tibet , says it has been @placeholder to save its unique Buddhist culture from being uprooted by floods from a glacial lake .",poised,struggling,sold,forced,published,1
"Former party leader Mark Durkan, who has been the MP for the area since 2005, lost out by just 169 votes to Elisha McCallion of Sinn Féin. Londonderry's city seat had been coveted by the SDLP since their party founder John Hume was elected in 1983. All 18 of Northern Ireland's MPs have been confirmed with the SDLP and Ulster Unionist Party the biggest losers. At the last general election in 2015, Mr Durkan was 8,000 votes clear of his nearest rival with 42% of the vote. ""I cannot tell a lie,"" he said in his concession speech. ""I cannot say it doesn't hurt but I absolutely want to begin by congratulating Elisha McCallion and agreeing with her that what she has achieved tonight is a privilege, to represent the people of this city."" The Foyle turnout was 65.60% - up from 53.58% two years ago. While not exactly a political newcomer, Ms McCallion only became an MLA at Stormont earlier this year following the death of Martin McGuinness. In an emotional speech after the result, she recognised Mr Durkan's contribution to political life in the North West. ""Mark has been a public representative in Derry for a large number of years and he has served it well,"" she said. ""But I can't not express my extreme delight at being the first ever republican MP ever elected in this city."" Mr Durkan said one of the reasons for his defeat was greater campaign funding by Sinn Féin. He also felt that a reluctance from other parties to engage in a ""progressive alliance"" along pro-EU lines had been damaging. ""We were faced with a huge effort and a huge spend by Sinn Féin, they targeted the constituency very well and put huge resources in here,"" he told the BBC. ""It's a big part of it, if we can't match that spend or that spin."" SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, who also hails from Derry, will now have a big job on his hands to pick the party up from their Westminster whitewash. Stephen Pound, the Labour MP for Ealing North and shadow minister for Northern Ireland, said Mr Durkan's loss from the house of Commons would be keenly felt. ""Mark was without a doubt one of the finest speakers in the House of Commons, he was also the inventor of these incredible 'Durkanisms',"" Mr Pound told BBC Radio Foyle. ""He was one of the few people that made everybody stop rustling the papers and look up when he started speaking, he'll be missed greatly. ""We've lost a unique voice. He was a damn fine speaker and a very, very good friend.""","After almost four decades in @placeholder , the SDLP has lost its Westminster seat in Foyle .",power,accident,clashes,history,politics,0
"Two whales washed up in Hunstanton, Norfolk and four near Skegness in Lincolnshire in January and February. Scientists from the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme are involved in writing a report on the deaths, which will be published later this year. There were not ""significant levels"" of plastic inside the whales, they added. The Daily Mail reported German experts had found 13 dead whales' stomachs and intestines were ""full of plastic"", and the animals had died from cardiac and circulatory failure. Rob Deaville, from the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP), said examinations on the Norfolk and Lincolnshire whales had not found much plastic at all. ""We've been examining cetacean strandings for 25 years, and finding animals that have died from swallowing plastic is highly unusual,"" he said. ""Finding it is one thing, but we have to determine and show it had a pathological impact on the animal and the cause of its death. None of the recent strandings had evidence of that."" In February, director of the Sea Watch Foundation, Dr Peter Evans, said the deaths of 30 sperm whales in the North Sea were probably due to them straying into shallow waters while hunting squid. ""The animals which were first stranded in Holland had quite a lot of a particular species of squid in their stomachs, which they can catch up in the Norwegian Deep."" He said they ""got into danger"" after heading south, possibly following shoals of the squid. Mr Deaville said his team had been working with partners in Europe during the course of investigating the deaths. He said the CSIP was working towards producing reports and papers on the strandings, and there would be ""one or more"" papers looking at the wider European context.",Scientists are still working to establish the cause of death of six sperm whales that washed up on east coast @placeholder earlier this year .,beaches,island,grounds,difficulties,builds,0
"In a phone conversation with US President Barack Obama, he said this was ""unacceptable between friends and allies"", demanding an explanation. The White House said the claims ""raise legitimate questions"". The NSA spied on 70.3 million phone calls in France between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, it is claimed. Officials, businesses and terror suspects are among those believed to have been tracked. The allegations were carried in France's Le Monde newspaper and are based on leaks from US ex-intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. They prompted President Obama to call his French counterpart to discuss the issue on Monday. Mr Hollande said that such practices ""infringe on the privacy of French citizens"" and demanded ""explanations"" from Mr Obama, according to a statement issued by French presidency. A White House statement said the two presidents had discussed the latest disclosures, ""some of which have distorted our activities and some of which raise legitimate questions for our friends and allies about how these capabilities are employed"". It said: ""President [Obama] made clear that the United States has begun to review the way that we gather intelligence, so that we properly balance the legitimate security concerns of our citizens and allies with the privacy concerns that all people share."" Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington would continue ""bilateral consultations"" to address the issue, describing France as ""one of our oldest allies"". ""Protecting the security of our citizens in today's world is a very complicated, very challenging task... because there are lots of people out there seeking to do harm to other people,"" Mr Kerry said. In an earlier statement, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said that ""all nations"" conducted spying operations. ""As a matter of policy we have made clear that the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations,"" she said. Le Monde says the NSA intercepts were apparently triggered by certain key words. The agency also apparently captured millions of text messages. It was unclear whether the content of the calls and messages was stored, or just the metadata - the details of who was speaking to whom. And the paper did not say whether the operation, codenamed US-985D, was still in progress. France's foreign ministry summoned US ambassador Charles Rivkin over the allegations. The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says the outrage is largely for public consumption, because the French government has been accused of running its own snooping operation similar to the US. Who is Edward Snowden? Leaks timeline Le Monde reported in July that the French government was storing vast amounts of personal data of its citizens on a supercomputer at the headquarters of the DGSE intelligence service. The latest revelations follow claims in the German media that US agents hacked into the email account of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Mr Snowden, a former NSA worker, went public with revelations about US spying operations in June. The information he leaked led to claims of systematic spying by the NSA and CIA on a global scale. Targets included rivals like China and Russia, as well as allies like the EU and Brazil. The NSA was also forced to admit it had captured email and phone data from millions of Americans. Mr Snowden is currently in Russia, where he was granted a year-long visa after making an asylum application. The US wants him extradited to face trial on criminal charges.","French President Francois Hollande has expressed "" deep @placeholder "" over claims the US National Security Agency secretly tapped phone calls in France .",disapproval,discussions,words,information,control,0
"British and Irish Lion North, 23, has signed a new contract with Northampton Saints in England's Premiership. The 23-year-old's previous deal was due to expire next summer and he had been linked with a return to Wales. ""We'd all want to see our best players playing in Wales,"" Davies said. ""Why would we want it any different?"" Davies was Scarlets chief executive when North left them for Saints in 2013, and moved to the Pro Rugby Wales role in September 2014. He would like to see players such as North back in Wales to offer a ""return on investment to the regions that have developed them"" as well as to reward fans and to inspire younger players. Davies added: ""From the national squad's point of view, the coaches are very clear that they fundamentally believe that it is a better environment in terms of player management for the players to be playing in Wales. ""They can manage them better in conjunction with the regions."" North, capped 55 times by Wales and also a 2013 Lions tourist in Australia, has appeared 42 times for Saints. There was speculation he might emulate Wales team-mate and former regional colleague Jonathan Davies, who will return to Scarlets from Clermont Auvergne on a Welsh Rugby Union dual contract next season. Former Wales centre Tom Shanklin is also disappointed North will remain in England. ""It's probably good for him personally because he's at a very good club and in a very good league,"" Shanklin told Scrum V Radio. ""But I want to see all the Welsh players back. That's going to strengthen our league and strengthen our product on the field. ""We had some great news Jon Davies is coming back so it's a bit of a shame.""","Wales @placeholder George North 's decision not to return to a Welsh region is a disappointment , says Rugby Wales chief executive Mark Davies .",premier,wing,teams,expects,team,1
"Police said two horses broke free on the anti-clockwise carriageway between junctions 9 for Leatherhead and 8 for Reigate. Another driver towing an empty horsebox helped to secure both animals. It is thought the other vehicle involved in the collision was a white HGV, police added. The crash, at about 09:40 BST, led to delays. Anyone who saw the crash is urged to contact police.",A horse has been @placeholder on the M25 after a horsebox and another vehicle crashed .,overturned,injured,sighted,questioned,shot,1
"Mr Jurado, whose left-wing Podemos party now rules the island with the local MES socialist grouping, describes finding drawers full of unheeded reports on illegal buildings, a 50-year contract with a waste-disposal firm with a binding profit guarantee, and bloated infrastructure plans including roads and tunnels seemingly going nowhere. ""We see motorways and roundabouts with flyovers built where there is little traffic on an island that's just 50 miles long and which should be a paradise. The first thing we are doing is to downscale all the infrastructure projects on the books."" But it is too late to prevent the tide of waste and corruption on an island that is currently hosting the first-ever criminal trial with members of Spain's royal family among the accused. Princess Cristina faces two charges of tax fraud while her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, is accused of fraud and embezzling taxpayers' money. Why is princess on trial in Majorca? Back in the 1990s, the first in a long list of Majorcan political scandals saw Balearic Islands Premier Gabriel Canellas found guilty of accepting a €300,000 (£235,000; $335,000) kickback from the constructor tasked with building a tunnel through the island's northern mountains to the small town of Soller. The conservative Popular Party (PP) politician avoided jail as the statute of limitations expired on his offence, but islanders continue to pay the cost for a tunnel built without any safety lanes and which costs €4.55 to use, despite measuring just 3km. On a bigger scale, the Metro underground in Palma, Majorca's capital, cost €350m but is used by just 1.2 million passengers a year, or just 3,288 passengers a day, the equivalent of a busy bus route. Over the past five years, 16 former Balearic PP politicians and eight members of Unio Mallorquina, a hinge party which joined the PP and Socialists in power in the archipelago, have been jailed for corruption and malpractice. Podemos says it aims to bring transparency to public proceedings, starting by holding the first open island council meetings. But optimism about real improvements in the island's economy are hard to come by as corruption cases mount and the economic crisis refuses to go away. The disgrace of Princess Cristina and her husband, for years the patrons of champagne-fuelled yachting events off the coast of Mallorca, seems to mark the end of an era on the island as the paint peels from the perimeter walls at the royal family's Marivent summer palace. The former duke and duchess of Palma have not dared to use it as their base during their criminal trial. Mariano Chellew, 23, is one of Majorca's horde of jobless youths, with unemployment among under-25s running at 45% in the Balearics as a whole. He said he had spent 18 months sleeping in the streets and is furious at what he terms the abusive labour conditions on offer for young people. ""No-one I know has ever had a contract for longer than three months and mostly you are paid in cash without social security insurance when you do find work. People are sick of this situation,"" says Manuel. But at the city's top yacht-building company, Astilleros Palma, they say they cannot find locally trained people to take up jobs, and have to bring people in from elsewhere. And the crisis and shame surrounding Majorca's corruption has had an impact on business. Anyone with money now prefers not to show it off and focuses instead on basic maintenance, the company says. For Kathy da Costa, a 42-year-old media professional who moved here from Venezuela, finding work has been difficult. ""Majorca is a rich person's paradise but people should look more closely at the other side. Corruption is making people want to go elsewhere.""","When Majorca 's deputy mayor Jesus Jurado entered office last summer on an anti-corruption ticket , he said it was shocking to realise just how much the popular tourist island had been "" looted by a mafia masquerading as political @placeholder "" .",moon,treasures,organisations,prisoners,terrorists,2
"A typical full-time worker now earns more than £25,000, a rise of 5.4% over the year to April. Workers in Wales and the East Midlands earned less, according to a government survey based on samples of tax records. But overall, Northern Ireland wages are about £2,500 below the UK average. The details are contained in the 2015 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The UK-wide survey of employers is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs. It puts the median weekly salary in Northern Ireland at £485, compared to £528 in the UK. Enterprise Minister Jonathan Bell said the increase in wages is ""welcome news."" But he added: ""More needs to be done to promote and retain higher paid jobs in the private sector."" The report said the growth in earnings was widely distributed across industry sectors and occupations. According to the survey, the typical Northern Ireland public sector workers earned £577 a week (up 1.6%). In the private sector the figure it was £429 (up 6.7%).","Northern Ireland no longer props up the UK's wages league table , after pay growth outpaced @placeholder for the first time since 2009 .",inflation,england,expectations,data,wales,0
"Miners were among the gainers, led by a 2.9% rise for Chile-based copper miner Antofagasta. The main loser was private hospital group Mediclinic, whose shares were down 3%. The pound rose against the dollar and the euro as tension eased following the triggering of Article 50 on Wednesday. The pound closed the day 0.45% higher against the dollar at $1.2492, while against the euro it was up 0.82% at the close at 1.16470 euros. Morrisons shares rose 2.15% after Bank of America Merrill Lynch upgraded its rating to ""buy"" from ""underperform"". SSE fell 1.55% after the energy firm said operating profits for 2016-17 at its retail unit were expected to fall. Shares in Marks and Spencer were down 1.22% on Thursday after UBS cut its rating on the retailer to neutral. ""Stocks are still in a bit of a holding pattern with traders lacking a bit of conviction,"" said Jasper Lawler at London Capital Group. In the FTSE 250, shares in AO World fell at first after the household appliance retailer said it was raising £50m through a share placing in order to fund expansion. However, the shares recovered as the morning progressed, and stood 2.25% higher at 141p by the end of the day.","The UK stock market reversed early gains , to close the day with the FTSE 100 share index down 4.2 @placeholder at 7369 . 52 .",points,interest,times,fashion,fun,0
"Smyth was beaten by Paul Hession at the Irish Championships and the Derryman was again some way outside the Olympic standard of 10.18. Hession took the title in 10.37 - .01 of a second ahead of Smyth. Smyth will have to content himself with a place at the Paralympics where he will defend his 100m and 200m titles. Helped by a one metre per second following wind, the Derryman got a great start in the final but was overhauled by Olympics-bound Hession in the final stride. City of Lisburn's Amy Foster won the women's 100m title while there were silver medals for Paul McKee and Jason Harvey in the 400m and 400m hurdles. Foster took a comfortable victory in 11.60 while McKee [47.67] rolled back the years to take a superb second behind Brian Murphy [46.97] in the 400m final. McKee's protege Harvey ran a season's best in the hurdles of 51.43 to finish behind Thomas Barr [50.86] while Barr's sister Jessie won the women's 400m hurdles in 57.33 as she missed out on the Olympic standard of 55.50. Earlier, Smyth had clocked 10.40 to win his heat at Santry. The Derryman clocked times of 10.63 and 10.47 in Loughborough on Saturday. After running 10.24 in his opening race of the season in the US in May, the visually-impaired Smyth's performances have deteriorated in recent weeks and he clocked 10.47 and 10.52 at the recent European Championships. Meanwhile, Derval O'Rourke missed the women's 100m hurdles final because of a muscle spasm after clocking times of 13.20 and 13.23 in Loughborough on Saturday. The injury could be a worry for the Cork athlete ahead of the Olympic Games where her challenge is scheduled to begin on 6 August. Letterkenny athlete Darren McBrearty had to be content with third in the men's 1500m after being overhauled by winner Colin Costello and Eoin Everard in the closing 50 metres. With Ciara Mageean running in Finland on Sunday night, Orla Drumm took the women's 1500m title. Joanne Cuddihy was named athlete of the meeting after winning the women's 400m in a superb 51.89 which added to her 200m victory on Saturday. Steven Colvert was chasing the 200m Olympic standard of 20.55 in Saturday's opening day at the Irish Championships but suffered heartbreak as he was denied by an illegal wind reading. The Dubliner clocked 20.40 in Saturday's first round but the wind reading of three metres per second means it didn't count as an Olympic qualifying time. He later clocked 20.78 in the final, which had another illegal wind reading of 2.8, and his chance of joining Hession in the 200m entry in London has now gone. Colvert's personal best is an agonising .02secs outside the London standard. Olympian Tori Pena won the pole vault with a 4.35m clearance where she finished ahead of Northern Ireland athletes Zoe Brown [3.95m] and Claire Wilkinson [3.55m]. Other Saturday winners included Maria McCambridge [5000m 16:02.50], Kelly Proper [long jump 6.33m] and Brian Maher [10,000m 30:17.06]. On Saturday evening, Mark English clocked 1:46.20 for 800m in Madrid in his final outing before his challenge at this week's World Junior Championships in Barcelona while Brian Gregan ran 46.09 for 400m at the same meeting.",Jason Smyth 's hopes of competing in the Olympics appear over after he missed out on the 100 m standard in his last chance before the London @placeholder .,event,marathon,championships,night,deadline,4
"Last week, one of Australia's most notorious bandits, Christopher Dean Pecotic, was deemed stable enough after a mental breakdown to be removed from a ""suicide-proofed"" observation cell and returned to regular solitary. Pecotic, better known by his nickname ""Badness"", had spent several weeks under suicide watch in the starkest of cells, with neither writing materials nor hanging points, in the maximum security Barwon Prison outside the city of Geelong in Victoria state. This followed the 47-year-old's collapse into despair over being held in solitary confinement for almost four years to date. He faces another decade or more of the same. At Pecotic's lowest ebb of recent weeks, the veteran armed robber and father of a nine-year-old girl stood his mattress against the wall, and, finger-painting with his own excrement (blood and faeces being the only options), fashioned the mattress into a grave-marker. Beneath his name he scrawled a plea to any coroner investigating the death to listen to recorded jailhouse calls to his mother, conversations in which he says that he can endure isolation no longer. Then, in his reeking cell, Pecotic tightened the fabric of his unrippable, sleeveless, canvas smock across his throat, twice choking himself into a black-out but twice spared when his grip relaxed. In vogue with the ""supermax""-style of incarceration that is popular in Australia, Pecotic is totally excluded from the company of other prisoners. He spends almost all of his time alone in an ""isolation cell"". For the brief periods that he is permitted to use a prison telephone or exercise equipment, guards first clear those areas of inmates. The Supreme Court of Victoria's Justice Terry Forrest predicted Pecotic's torment when sentencing him for armed robbery, gun offences and reckless conduct endangering serious injury in 2014. The judge said the term of 14-18 years he was handing down included a discount because of the ""adverse mental health"" consequences likely to result from the ""onerous conditions of incarceration"" that Pecotic faced. ""There is a real prospect that you will be required to serve all or a large proportion of … a lengthy prison sentence in isolation cell confinement for up to 23 hours a day,"" Justice Forrest said when delivering the sentence. In explaining his decision to include a discount, Justice Forrest quoted from psychiatric and psychological reports which attributed much of Pecotic's personality and behaviour to the highly restrictive conditions in which he has been held during his near-lifetime behind bars - conditions to which he was now being returned. Pecotic, who is also known by his stepfather's surname Binse, came to crime early in life, egged on by his petty criminal father, Croatian immigrant Steven Pecotic. He has only been free for about four years since he was first locked up at the age of 13 and declared a ward of the state at 14. His subsequent decades of incarceration have not been served quietly. He has feuded in the yards, been stabbed and slashed, and beaten inmates with tin cans in socks. He famously bashed Julian Knight, the shooter in Australia's Hoddle Street massacre. He has launched hunger strikes, covered himself in faeces to keep guards at bay, and had many stints in isolation. But he has also directed his energies towards more constructive pursuits. He acted as a prison rights advocate, distributing unauthorised prisoner surveys at New South Wales' (NSW) Goulburn Prison and, after release, meeting with journalists and politicians to argue in favour of an overhaul of rehabilitation and post-release assistance programs, and against the long-term use of solitary. In the aftermath of an early 1990s run of escapes (from Pentridge prison in Melbourne and, just weeks later, Parramatta in Sydney) and attempted escapes, Pecotic spent more than three years not only in solitary but handcuffed and shackled whenever he was outside his cell. ""There is no assimilation, no transition, nothing bridging me from an extreme environment where everything is regimented, where you're in a little yard where your mind turns to jelly,"" he wrote in a diary. ""You have difficulty doing just menial day-to-day stuff. You struggle because everything was done for you. Now you're lost."" Released into the community from isolation, he wrote: ""You're a walking time bomb … The inner hate, the inner rage, is all bottled up."" Official guidelines in Victoria say prison managers should aim to move prisoners out of solitary and return them to the main inmate population as soon as possible. Australia has also endorsed the United Nation's Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, known as the Mandela Rules, which prohibit ""prolonged solitary confinement"". Such guidelines are in keeping with a wealth of expert opinion that long-term solitary confinement does profound psychological harm and works squarely against the rehabilitation of criminal offenders. The head of Griffith University's correctional health program, Stuart Kinner, said it was ""beyond dispute"" that solitary confinement caused mental illness. ""If anything, solitary is a short-term management solution,"" he said. Beyond that, it was ""a way of causing a mental health problem or behavioural problem"". The BBC put a series of questions to Corrections Victoria, including whether Pecotic's four years of isolation would end, how many prisoners were held in isolation in Victoria, how many had been held that way for a year or more and how many were released directly from isolation into the community. In response, a spokesman issued a statement that the department was ""unable to comment for operation and privacy reasons"". Pecotic's circumstances were also off limits - the department ""does not discuss individual prisoners"". But a 2014 report obtained under Freedom of Information laws notes that Pecotic's isolation ""is not the result of a prison related incident"", meaning that his behaviour during his current incarceration is not the reason for his treatment. Instead, when justifying his placement, the panel cited his past crimes and previous terms of imprisonment, noting a history of violence and risks of escape, suicide or self-harm. It is hard to know how many prisoners are in solitary, a term generally avoided in Australia. The preferred language includes ""long-term management placement"", ""isolation cell confinement"", ""high-risk management"", or prisoners being held in ""segregated"" or ""protective"" custody. It must be noted that not everyone removed from the mainstream prison population is isolated from all other prisoners. Inmates such as child abusers and former police officers, who would be targets in jail's brutal pecking order, often mingle in secure enclaves. Figures for solitary confinement and related isolation regimes are routinely absent from the plethora of prison reports issued in Australia. Fifteen years ago the NSW Judicial Commission released Protective Custody and Hardship, a report noting how little information was available about restrictive custody.  From the data it could gather, the commission reported that the number of prisoners in ""protection"" was growing at a rate 4.4 times faster than the general prison population. The commission was not able to provide updated figures. Mark Halsey, a professor of criminology at Flinders University, said prisons in Australia tended to inhabit a ""secret world"" that kept the public from knowing what is being done in its name. He said authorities should explain why Pecotic, or any prisoner jailed in such circumstances, was being kept in isolation. ""In concrete, clear terms, what are the reasons that he is such a risk that he has to be kept in such a manner? That's the fundamental question,"" he said. Victoria is this year scheduled to open a A$20m ($15m, £11m), 40-cell addition to Barwon's isolation facilities. When it was announced in 2014, Corrections Victoria described it as a ""major boost"" that would ""build on the prison system's capacity to manage an increasingly complex prisoner population, including outlaw motorcycle gang members, underworld figures and violent prisoners."" ""Bring it on, we need the jobs,"" said local councillor Tony Ansett, calling it a ""good news story"". But the focus on isolation at Barwon and other prisons such as the Goulburn supermax in NSW is at odds with the findings of a seminal Australian inquiry into prisons. Established in 1977 in the wake of riots and allegations of institutionalised brutality in NSW prisons, the Nagle Royal Commission sparked numerous reforms, including the closure of Australia's first supermax, the Katingal unit inside Sydney's Long Bay prison. Originally sold as a humane alternative to the rule of the baton in the state's older stone-walled punishment blocks where ""intractable"" prisoners were sent, Katingal was a high-tech panopticon, an ""electronic zoo"", where inmates were found to have been subject to profoundly destabilising, aggravating isolation. Justice John Nagle concluded that not only were ultra-controlled, escape-proof prisons inhumane and enormously expensive, they also produced an alumni of individuals more embittered and deranged than when they entered. These ""so-called escape free prisons"", Justice Nagle wrote, offered the community ""false security"". Professor Kinner of Griffith University said it was no surprise that long-term prisoners like Pecotic failed to adapt to society after their release. ""That's one of the fundamental issues with the notion of incarceration: we deprive people of their liberty, we don't let them make any choices,"" Prof Kinner said. ""Then we send them out into a community where they're probably extremely disadvantaged. They have lots of challenges, and we tell them to make all their decisions correctly or we'll lock them up again. Doesn't sound very clever when you put it that way, does it?"" Matthew Thompson is an Australian journalist, academic and author.","As controversy rages in Norway about mass @placeholder Anders Breivik protesting against his solitary confinement , Australia 's secretive prisons are increasingly reliant on prolonged isolation , writes Matthew Thompson .",leader,state,fields,transit,killer,4
"Marta and Beatriz both scored twice while Cristiane scored a record 14th Olympic goal to give Brazil their second win in Group E. Lotta Schelin broke through late on to score a consolation for Sweden. USA are also into the last eight after the London 2012 champions beat France1-0. Captain Carli Lloyd scored in the second half, reacting quickly after Tobin Heath's shot had hit the post. Goalkeeper Hope Solo marked her 200th international appearance for the USA with an important save from Marie-Laure Delie in the first half. The USA are top of Group G with six points from two games. They play Colombia in their final group fixture on Tuesday. Canada are into the quarter-finals after beating tournament debutants Zimbabwe 3-1 in Group F. Janine Beckie scored twice while veteran Christine Sinclair added a third for the Canadians from the penalty spot. Canada are top of the standings with six points, two ahead of Germany, who fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Australia. Samantha Kerr opened the scoring before Caitlin Foord added a second, but Sara Daebritz gave Germany hope with a goal just before the break. Saskia Bartusiak equalised with two minutes remaining to earn Germany a point. Media playback is not supported on this device China recovered from an opening game loss to hosts Brazil by defeating South Africa. Gu Yasha and Tan Ruyin got the goals for their first win in Group E. Finally, in Group G, Amber Hearn's clinical first-half finish gave New Zealand a 1-0 win over Colombia. It was Hearn's 52nd international goal - a national record. New Zealand move on to three points in Group G. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.",Brazil women progressed to the quarter - finals of Rio 2016 after beating Sweden 5 - 1 at a @placeholder Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro .,group,level,major,packed,trade,3
"The Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman found the hospital trust and Lambeth Council had failed to share information about ""Mr C""'s next-of-kin in time for them to attend his funeral. The Ombudsman said this had caused Mr C's sister ""shock and distress"". The council and trust have apologised, paying out £650 for distress caused. The Ombudsman found ""a series of errors"" were made by the trust and the council, including the council's loss of an envelope containing documents relating to Mr C's financial affairs, letters between him and his family, and the key to his property. The envelope was found behind a cabinet at council premises after Mr C's sister, Mrs B, independently learned of her brother's death through his GP and contacted the trust. The Ombudsman concluded these oversights denied his family the chance to go to the funeral. Following the Ombudsman's investigation, the trust and council apologised to Mrs B and paid her £650 in recognition of the distress caused and for the loss of opportunity to attend her brother's funeral. She received a further £374 to cover the two months when bills were unnecessarily paid by his estate. Details of the case were made public as part of a wider report on complaints about the NHS. Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman Julie Mellor said: ""We are seeing far too many cases where grieving families are not being given answers when they complain to the NHS, forcing them to endure more anguish and distress."" The report contains basic details of 40 case studies among the 544 investigations of unresolved complaints the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman finished investigating in April and May 2015. A Lambeth Council spokesman said Mr C's case involved ""a very unfortunate set of circumstances"" and the council had since reviewed its processes ""to ensure such a situation could not be repeated"". A spokeswoman for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said it had also reviewed its practices. The spokeswoman added: ""We would like to apologise wholeheartedly once again to the family involved in this case.""",A man who died in King 's College Hospital was cremated without his family being informed of his death after Lambeth Council lost his @placeholder .,behaviour,trust,footing,records,vote,3
"Elmbridge Museum said its ""museum without walls"" initiative would provide its services in a ""more accessible, relevant and cost-effective"" way. The last day to visit the gallery in Weybridge was on Saturday and the website was launched on Sunday. Elmbridge council said Surrey County Council owned the museum building and would make a decision about its future. The borough council said the new website offered a brand new interactive online experience that represented the museum as a whole and showcased its services to various audiences. An ""object in focus"" section offers more information on selected objects and a ""what we're up to"" section looks at projects by the museum team, which is now based at the Civic Centre in Esher. Actual objects will still be displayed at temporary exhibitions across the borough, and the museum will run a schools programme in September. Two exhibitions are currently being held at Thames Ditton Library and Walton Library. The museum's collection is being moved to a purpose-built store, where artefacts will be available to view by appointment.","A permanent museum gallery in Surrey has @placeholder and its collection of 40,000 artefacts can now be viewed online .",unveiled,expanded,developed,claimed,closed,4
"The 50-year-old, identified as Martin, is almost entirely paralysed by a stroke, cannot speak and wants the option to end his life. He had argued General Medical Council (GMC) advice unreasonably stopped help being given to those who wanted to die. But judges ruled the current advice was lawful. Lord Justice Elias and Mr Justice Collins - who accepted Martin had a ""long-standing, considered and settled wish to end his life"" - said the GMC was entitled to base its guidance on the fact that aiding and abetting suicide is a crime in the UK. GMC advice states that doctors should not assist or encourage suicide. ""Where patients raise the issue of assisting suicide, or ask for information that might encourage or assist them in ending their lives, respect for a patient's autonomy cannot justify illegal action,"" it adds. Martin's lawyers argued current GMC advice interfered with his right to a private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It also affected his right to freedom of expression under Article 10 because it prevented him from receiving proper medical advice, they said. One option open to him would be to use the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, but that would require a doctor's medical report covering his medical history, including diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Martin accepted that, in all probability, the doctor providing a medical report or giving advice ""would be committing the crime of assisting a suicide"". Philip Havers QC, appearing for Martin, had argued the GMC should take a more ""compassionate approach"" in line with the director of public prosecutions (DPP). Judges took into account recent changes to the DPP's policy which suggest the chances of prosecution are low for those who provide assistance out of compassion to a person with a ""clear and settled intention"" to commit suicide. But they said it was for the GMC ""to assess what the public interest requires"". And they ruled it was not the function of the guidance to tell doctors ""when they can break the law without realistic risk of fitness to practise proceedings, and the courts could not possibly require the GMC to fashion its guidance that way"". Martin's lawyers said he intended to appeal.",A man with @placeholder - in syndrome has lost a High Court battle over guidelines which prevent doctors from assisting patients to end their lives .,motor,state,body,live,locked,4
"The Swede said valuable personal items and all of his clothing were taken, but added that the Claret Jug, awarded to the winner of The Open, had already been returned to the R&A on Monday. ""I am extremely grateful my family were not in the house,"" said Stenson, 41. ""I am going to try not to let this spoil the week in any way."" Merseyside Police are investigating a burglary in Formby, less than seven miles from Royal Birkdale. Police believe the incident occurred between midday and 14:25 BST and cash, cards, electrical items, clothes and watches were stolen. An R&A spokesperson said: ""We were very sorry to hear about the burglary and have offered any assistance we can provide to Henrik and his family."" Stenson teed off at 09:47 BST on Thursday and finished on one under par. He was a late starter as Friday's second round got under way.",Defending Open champion Henrik Stenson 's rental home was burgled as he @placeholder his first round at Royal Birkdale on Thursday .,continues,lost,played,tackled,hurled,2
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 22 October 2014 Last updated at 16:09 BST The recommendations have been made because some children in England as young as five, have decayed, missing and filled teeth. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, say that teeth brushing in school should take place in certain areas with high levels of tooth decay. They also say free toothbrushes and toothpaste should be handed out for use at school and at home in these areas.","Some primary schools and nurseries in England should @placeholder children brushing their teeth , say NICE , an organisation that gives guidance on health matters .",enjoy,retain,supervise,protect,encourage,2
"Congratulations, you have hit the headlines, writes a student, attaching a newspaper story headlined ""Bengal college to have India's first transgender principal"". ""We salute your courage,"" writes a friend. ""Yes, it has taken some courage. It's been a struggle to be accepted as a transgender professional,"" says Manobi Bandyopadhyay, 51, shouting over the din of heavy traffic down a telephone line from Kolkata (Calcutta). Born into a lower-middle class family - her father was a factory worker, while her mother is a homemaker - Ms Bandyopadhyay went to school on the outskirts of Kolkata before heading off to a prominent city college to study Bengali. She wrote a paper on women's rights and joined a college in a remote village in a Maoist-affected region in West Bengal to teach Bengali. In 2003, she says, she decided to go in for hormone replacement and surgery to change her sex. At work, she completed a dissertation on the role of transgenders in West Bengal, where their population exceeds 30,000. She says her troubles began when she changed her gender and her name in 2006. Authorities refused to recognise the change, and she was denied pay rises at college ""because they could not come to terms with my altered gender"". ""There were taunts at work about my sex change. At home, my parents and siblings were worried sick whether my body would be able to cope with the changes."" Her life - and identity - went into limbo. It took five years and a new government in West Bengal - led by a feisty woman politician herself - to ""recognise my status and give me my identity"", Ms Bandyopadhyay says. ""I have always been popular with my students, but my colleagues and peers were not always so favourably disposed after I changed my gender."" Most of India's estimated two million transgendered people face discrimination, live on the fringes and often languish in poverty. Many are forced into sex work and suffer ostracisation because of their gender. Things have been getting better though. In 2009, India's election authorities allowed transgenders to choose their gender as ""other"" on ballot forms. Last year, the Supreme Court declared the transgender community as a third gender and ordered the government to provide transgender people with quotas in jobs and education in line with other minorities, as well as key amenities. India now has a transgender anchor on a TV news show and a popular talk show host. Earlier this year, a transgender woman became the country's first to win municipal elections and be declared a mayor. At least two states - Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra - have government-mandated transgender welfare organisations for their social inclusion. Authorities in West Bengal have also had a welcome change of heart. A government minister has welcomed Ms Bandyopadhyay's appointment. The vice-chancellor of the university to which the college is affiliated  has described her as a ""fine human being, a good academician and an able administrator"". A newspaper wrote about her visit to the college on Tuesday ""sporting Raybans glasses, curly hair done up in a careless coiffure"". It's been a long, strange trip for Ms Bandyopadhyay: a life-altering sex change in the middle of a teaching career, broken relationships,  adopting a favourite student as her son, writing an exhaustive account of her life, a fun gig on a Bengali version of the popular reality show Big Brother. She loves going to the movies, and lists Michael Jackson as one of her likes on Facebook. Now she wants to run a women's college, and look after her 92-year-old father, who lives close to her new workplace. ""This is a new chapter in her life,"" Debashish Gupta, her adopted son, tells me. ""We are happy and we are tense. People can be very cruel, and want to trip her. Life as a transgender can be an eternal challenge.""",Her Facebook page is overflowing with @placeholder complimenting her for her new job .,fans,messages,catalyst,sound,hazards,1
"The message from Celtic Park, in the wake of the announcement of Ronny Deila's exit at the end of the season, was one of calm and an insistence that they know what's gone wrong and they know what needs to happen in order to fix it. As chief executive, Peter Lawwell has been caught in the fallout of Sunday's loss to Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi-final. There have been calls for his head as well as Deila's, but Lawwell is probably less likely to leave now than he has been at any point in recent times. Lawwell - and all people in his position - think about legacy. They all want to leave on a high, serenaded out on the back of a big feel-good moment. Lawwell is not likely to have Deila as the full-stop on his years at Parkhead, even though Deila was his appointment. That's where the pressure comes, though. His next decision is a monumental one - and he'd better get it right. If he doesn't then you wouldn't bank on him leaving on his own terms. If he does, and a winning manager is the result, then everything else fades away - all the supporter disaffection, all the issues about stockpiling players, all of it. There were huge doubts swirling around Celtic Park in the dog-days of Tony Mowbray's reign but Neil Lennon took over and took things forward. Rangers could scarcely have been at a lower ebb than a 6-1 aggregate loss to a poor Motherwell side at the end of last season but Mark Warburton, in rapid time, turned it around. Good managers are like that. They have a touch of magic about them - they make other problems disappear. The names of possible successors are coming thick and fast - David Moyes is, by the looks of it, fluttering his eyelashes at Aston Villa and Celtic. Lennon has made it clear that he would be happy to talk about a return. Malky Mackay has already let it be known that he would love the job. Alan Stubbs was considered a contender in the media a few months ago, then was written off when Hibs hit the wall, and might yet be a contender again if Hibs win the Scottish Cup and get promotion to the Premiership. Media playback is not supported on this device Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill has been mentioned. Roy Keane was offered the job before Deila and he's on the betting short-list again now. Before this is done, there will be other names - many, many others. Keane's recollection of the summer of 2014 is interesting. It comes from his book, The Second Half. ""I got a call: would I go and have a chat with Dermot Desmond,"" Keane wrote about the time he was approached to succeed Lennon. ""At the end of the chat, [Desmond] said: ""The job is yours.' It was all pretty straightforward. There'd be one or two restrictions, about staff. They'd already picked the man who'd be my assistant, and they were insisting on him. It didn't scare me off, although it did get me thinking. ""It wasn't an ideal start. Were they doubting me already?"" One lesson, of many, that needs to be learned is that the new manager should pick his own staff. Keane's story continued. ""Over the years, when chatting with people about football and Celtic, I'd always said, 'If you're offered the Celtic job, you don't turn it down'."" When he started talking to Lawwell, though, Keane began to have doubts. ""I thought about the Celtic offer. It wasn't rocking my boat. They weren't convincing me - 'Listen, you're the man for us.'"" Keane concluded that had there been a bit of what he called ""give and take"", then it might have been different. ""Celtic didn't give me enough of a headache,"" he wrote. ""They just didn't show me that they wanted me."" It's a moot point about whether Keane would have been any good as Celtic manager, but if that's the manager Desmond wanted then the pursuit of him of was strangely lukewarm. They ended up with a young and compliant manager, a worthwhile gamble but a punt that has led them to this point. Celtic's negotiations with their number one choice would need to be a whole lot more convincing this time around. The situation that they're in now is not dissimilar to the one that Lennon inherited post-Mowbray. Against Rangers - and in too many matches preceding Sunday - Celtic looked like a team existing on reputation alone, tired champions vulnerable to the challenge of hungrier opponents. Lawwell has been pelted with flak but this one is on Deila. Celtic have a battalion of players and, in relative terms, a lavishly assembled squad, but they were sent out on to the field in poor shape. There is an argument - and it's hard to disagree with it - that if Warburton had switched hats, magic or otherwise, and was Celtic's manager, with all those players at his disposal, then the result would have been very different. When it comes to auditing Deila's time as Celtic manager the ledger is lopsided, the debits outweighing the credits to such a vast extent that the Norwegian could have no legitimate excuses when the announcement came. You have to mine the records pretty thoroughly to find the marquee results on Deila's watch. In truth, there wasn't a single one that made you go 'Wow!' There were moments of optimism domestically, but that's a given when you're Celtic manager. In Europe - what Celtic like to think of as their true testing ground - they have gone hurtling backwards. There has been a haplessness in the transfer market that further undermined his position as Celtic manager. The hierarchy at the club have denied, on several occasion, that players were signed for Deila. They say that all players who came in did so with his approval. If that's the case then the charge sheet against him is a long one. Celtic have lost their way, that's obvious. They have given game-time to 34 players in the Premiership this season. Leicester's number, by comparison, is 23. No side in the top three of any of the major leagues in Europe have used anything like Celtic's number in their domestic league. The average is 24. Of course, these clubs can afford to buy ready-made players, dependable talents who don't need to be developed. It's easy enough to operate with a smaller group of players if you're shelling out multiple millions on most of them. Celtic are supposed to be all about development. Fine. Their counterparts might be PSV and Ajax and Feyenoord from the Netherlands or Benfica, Sporting Lisbon and Porto from Portugal or Bruges and Gent from Belgium. Gent made the last 16 of the Champions League. None of those teams have used as many players in their league as Celtic have this season. PSV have used 23, Ajax 25, Feyenoord 22. The strange irony is that for all their bodies at Celtic Park they are ludicrously thin on strikers - effectively they have just one - and, also, some of the talented young players they're wanting to develop have barely featured. Scott Allan has had one start. Ryan Christie hasn't even had one. A good manager can bring clarity to all of this. Finding him is the challenge. Celtic's gamble on Deila has failed. They cannot afford to fail again.","Football @placeholder is littered with examples of seemingly lost causes rescued by a great redeemer , situations that appear hopeless being turned around by somebody who knows exactly what they 're doing .",academy,history,associations,body,pitch,1
"The Chef Watson app offers unique recipes by combining ingredients with data about the way humans perceive food. The app is being launched with food magazine Bon Appetit. The food served up by the cognitive computing platform has had mixed reviews. Last year, Chef Watson was shown off at conferences and other events such as the South by Southwest Festival in Texas. It drew on vast databases - one containing existing recipes, another providing data on flavour compounds in thousands of ingredients and a third with psychological data about how humans perceive different flavours. At the time, IBM said the system demonstrated how computers could be creative, but added that it was also an example of how, in future, humans and machines would work together. Last year, the firm partnered with Bon Appetit to build a more consumer-friendly app using 9,000 recipes supplied by the magazine. It released a trial version of the app to some readers. ""We've been impressed by the creative ideas users have discovered so far - to see not only what dishes they were making, but what common food problems they were solving with the help of Watson,"" said Stacey C Rivera, digital director of Bon Appetit. ""From cutting out gluten to limiting the amount of waste in their kitchen, the Chef Watson app proves that if you give cooks a tool to help them be creative in the kitchen, they will be."" Dr Steve Abrams, director of IBM Watson, said: ""The application of Watson in the culinary arts illustrates how smart machines can help people make discoveries. ""These technologies are being adopted not only by cooking lovers, but professionals in other industries ranging from life sciences to fashion to explore new ideas."" Some of the initial dishes cooked up by Chef Watson were pretty outlandish - such as Baltic Apple pie which included a layer of pork. And there are some pretty bizarre flavour combinations on the app - including Strawberry Curry. Technology news site Engadget has been working its way though the Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson cookbook, which was released a few months ago. While some of the recipes were ""pretty tasty"", it said: ""The chicken-flavoured Old Fashioned... we'd suggest nobody try making... ever."" Watson is increasingly being used to help solve a range of real-life challenges. In May, it was announced that Watson would be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals in the US and Canada. During July's Wimbledon tennis championships - where IBM is the main technology partner - the 3.2 million data points captured will be fed into Watson and new tennis facts will be served up via a human-readable alert, which Wimbledon staff will put out on Facebook and Twitter. And recently, the talks from all previous TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conferences have been inputted into the machine - allowing users to ask a series of questions based on the topics covered.",An app which allows users to @placeholder recipes suggested by IBM 's supercomputer Watson is going live for the public to test .,learn,reduce,download,promote,treat,2
"Surrey Heath Borough Council paid £8m for St George's Industrial Estate in Frimley Road, Camberley. It said the estate was expected to generate income of £560,000 a year and help economic growth in the area. Councillor Moira Gibson said: ""Over the years our grants from government have reduced and we need to bolster the income the council earns."" She said the industrial estate was very successful, with a range of small businesses from printers to car showrooms. It had a small number of vacancies which were expected to be filled easily. Ms Gibson said that, in common with most other councils, Surrey Heath had a property acquisition strategy to supplement income from council tax. ""We have already had a grant from the local enterprise partnership to buy another property in Camberley with a view to development,"" she said.",A Surrey local authority has bought a 23 - @placeholder industrial estate in a bid to increase its income .,class,room,unit,acres,style,2
"At a whopping 9m (30ft) long, Ron the giant fibreglass croc sits proudly at Hartley's Crocodile Adventures at Wangetti Beach in Far North Queensland, which bought the mould for the large reptile from the makers of the movie. Ron is part of the quirky Australian tradition of building big models and monuments, from the Big Banana to the Big Merino and Big Prawn. Ron has a few metres on the largest real crocodile ever caught in Australia - a 5.48m giant dubbed Cassius. But Angela Freeman, co-owner of Hartley's, says tourists ""absolutely love it"". ""The little darling has recently been repainted and refurbished, and has brand new glass eyes bought for him,"" she says. ""He's a great attraction."" There are dozens of large statues in every Australian state and territory that celebrate a beguiling array of mushrooms, guitars, ants, mosquitoes, worms and the outlaw Ned Kelly, and much more. A Christian organisation recently announced plans to build a huge illuminated cross on top of a hill in a remote corner of central Australia. It would be about 22m high and be illuminated on land near the Aboriginal community of Ikuntji, 230km (143 miles) west of Alice Springs. Other monuments salute local produce or industries, such as the 6m Big Miner in Ballarat, while others are marketing gimmicks for shops and motels. ""They pop up all over the place. You're driving along and suddenly you see this 6m-high lobster,"" says Patti McCarthy, who runs Cultural Chemistry, a company providing cross-cultural training for expatriates either moving to or leaving Australia. ""The tourists love them and they all flock to see them, and have their photographs taken with them."" She says the monuments reflect Australia's often mischievous - or larrikin - spirit. ""Anyone would think it was a bit cheap and nasty and in bad taste, but we like it,"" she says. ""Australians have got a great sense of humour and a very laid-back self-deprecating style."" But not everyone is so warmly appreciative. Kent Watson, from Monument Australia, which studies the historical value of the nation's public memorials and statues, believes the likes of the Big Kangaroo, Big Lamb and Big Potato can be a nuisance. ""I find many of them to be unattractive and often a blight on the landscape,"" he says. ""Some communities erect some 'big' structures to emphasise something about their place, such as its agricultural or pastoral produce. I am sure communities had good reasons to build them, and that they serve some purpose, but just as a personal opinion I think they are as intrusive as roadside advertising signs."" Oversized tributes to fruit, wine bottles and dinosaurs are, however, not unique to Australia. Mr Watson points to the Golden Buddha in Ang Thong, Thailand, the Lord Shiva monument in Karnataka, India and Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while his favourite is the towering The Motherland Calls in Volgograd, Russia. The Big Racquet in Barellan in New South Wales might seem rather prosaic in comparison, but it celebrates one of Australia's greatest Aboriginal sporting success stories. The 14m statue, unveiled in 2009, is arguably the world's largest tennis racquet and is a replica of one used by Evonne Goolagong Cawley, a former Wimbledon champion, who was born in the agricultural town 520km from Sydney. So where, when and why did a country's obsession with extravagant monuments begin? We can't be sure, but we're led to believe the tradition may well have been born after two bottles of whisky were consumed by a Scottish migrant and his family in South Australia in the early 1960s. The result was the 5m-high Big Scotsman, also known as Scotty, in the Adelaide suburb of Medindie. He is, appropriately enough, found outside Scotty's Motel. It is owned by Yanka Shopov, a former Bulgarian refugee who came to Australia more than 60 years ago. ""People love it,"" she says of her lofty piper. ""Years ago I remember little kids used to cry if we were booked out and they wanted to sleep under the Scotsman. But the thing is he is very expensive. He is exposed to the weather day and night (and) it costs between A$7,000 (£4,300; $5,400) to A$9,000 to have him painted. It's not cheap but he draws attention to the business here."" Wombats, winches and windmills are also honoured in splendid fashion, along with dead fish, cigars and strawberries. ""Fundamentally, we're probably a little bit on the kitsch side,"" concludes Ms Freeman, from Hartley's Crocodile Adventures. ""Whether you're going fishing and someone says they caught the biggest mud crab or it's the longest road to here, we just have a fixation with big things.""","In the low - budget 1987 Australian @placeholder film Dark Age , a ranger , played by Wolf Creek star John Jarratt , tracks a rogue saltwater crocodile . Four decades on and the film , or more particularly one of its props , continues to scare and enthral .",adventure,series,television,forests,horror,4
"Photographer Eugenio Grosso took pictures of the heavily loaded cars, mainly belonging to Tunisian immigrants who gather to take a ferry to Tunis.  Grosso says that some of them are travelling home for a holiday, while others are professional sellers who go back and forth each week, following in the footsteps of their ancestors. ""All of them carry something to sell. Since the economic crisis hit Europe, numerous immigrants have lost their jobs. By reviving the old practice of sea trade, these people have created a new chance for business and an effective way to deal with the slump."" ""In the era of globalisation, when huge cargo ships move products from one corner of the world to another, these immigrants are modern safe-keepers of a much older custom."" ""As well as their products, these people bring along their traditions and knowledge, contributing to the ongoing creation of the Mediterranean culture."" You can see more work by Eugenio Grosso on his website.","So far this year more than 35,000 people fleeing war and poverty in Africa are thought to have crossed to Europe , with many having died while @placeholder the journey . Yet on a Saturday the port of Palermo is full of cars loaded with goods heading the other way , from Italy to north Africa .",providing,leaving,attempting,following,becoming,2
"But critics say that the government guarantee, that formed part of the second phase of the scheme, has helped to increase prices. With the end of the mortgage guarantee part of the scheme in December 2016, the only remaining Help to Buy programme is the equity loan scheme, which now operates just in England. It applies only to newly-built homes. When did Help to Buy begin? The first phase started in April 2013 in England. This saw the government offering a 20% equity loan to buyers of newly-built properties. These buyers must offer a 5% deposit. When the property is sold, the government reclaims its loan. So if the value of the property has gone up, the government will make a profit. A similar scheme began in Scotland at the end of September 2013, and another scheme for houses of up to £300,000 began in Wales in January 2014. The Scottish scheme only covered properties up to the value of £400,000, whereas the English scheme covers properties up to the value of £600,000. The Welsh and Scottish schemes have now ended. In November 2015 George Osborne announced that the equity loan scheme in England would be extended to 2021. Originally it had been due to end in December 2016. Is there a new scheme just for London? In his 2015 Autumn statement, George Osborne announced that, due to higher property prices in London, the scheme in London will be more generous. Instead of buyers getting a government loan for up to 20% of the property, they will now be able to get a loan for up to 40% of its value. What about the mortgage guarantee scheme? The second phase of Help to Buy, known as the mortgage guarantee scheme, began in October 2013 and ended on 31 December 2016. Under this system, borrowers across the whole of the UK could put down a deposit of as little as 5% of the property price. The lender offered a mortgage covering the other 95%. Lenders could sign up to the Help to Buy scheme and pay a fee to the government, which provided a seven-year taxpayer guarantee covering 15% of the loan value. That guarantee can be called in if the borrower defaults, for up to seven years after the loan was arranged. It was available for all properties - not just new ones - sold for up to £600,000 in the UK. Is there a chance of a return of irresponsible lending? The government says that various rules have been included to ensure this does not happen. For example, no interest-only or offset mortgages will be allowed. The system cannot be used for the purchase of second homes or for mortgages for buy-to-let investors. In addition, lenders must put these borrowers through new affordability checks. These were brought in for everyone to avoid a return of the reckless lending of the last boom. You mention boom, isn't this creating another one? That's the fear from many commentators who say that Help to Buy is simply going to help some relatively well-off people move up the housing ladder. Critics, including Labour, say that this does nothing to tackle the shortage of affordable homes to buy, so it wants more focus on house-building. Treasury officials suggest that the system was designed to correct a failure in the market and stimulate builders to get going again with bricks and mortar. In 2014 the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee limited the amount that banks are allowed to lend on housing. No bank or building society can lend any more than 15% of its mortgages to higher risk borrowers; that is people who borrow more than 4.5 time their annual income .",The government says that it s Help to Buy scheme has @placeholder people trying to get on the housing ladder who can afford mortgage repayments but who have struggled to raise a deposit .,involved,joined,announced,assisted,increased,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device The National League side, 57 places below their opponents, led through Bobby-Joe Taylor's first-half penalty after Niall Canavan fouled Jamar Loza. But Camps' deflected stoppage-time 20-yard free-kick prevented an upset. Maidstone's Anthony Acheampong was sent off after the final whistle for dissent at the award of the free-kick. Rochdale, who had lost their two most recent first-round ties against non-league opposition, had earlier thought they had levelled on the half-hour but Steven Davies' effort was ruled out for offside. The visitors, who had struggled to get to grips with the Stones' artificial surface, enjoyed a strong start to the second half as Davies' clever flick released Oliver Rathbone but he could not beat Lee Worgan at his near post. Davies then nodded just over the crossbar as the visitors began to turn the screw, although both Liam Enver-Marum and Alex Flisher came close to doubling Maidstone's lead. Taylor came within inches of a second as he fired narrowly over with just five minutes left but a moment of quality from Camps ensured the sides will do battle once again for a place in the second round. Match ends, Maidstone United 1, Rochdale 1. Second Half ends, Maidstone United 1, Rochdale 1. Goal!  Maidstone United 1, Rochdale 1. Callum Camps (Rochdale) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Kevin Lokko (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Kevin Lokko (Maidstone United). Andrew Cannon (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. Steve Davies (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Foul by James Rogers (Maidstone United). Andrew Cannon (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Seth Nana Ofori-Twumasi (Maidstone United). Joe Bunney (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Jack Paxman (Maidstone United). Joe Bunney (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Bobby-Joe Taylor (Maidstone United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Substitution, Rochdale. Reuben Noble-Lazarus replaces Nathaniel Mendez-Laing. Foul by Jack Paxman (Maidstone United). Andrew Cannon (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Maidstone United. Yemi Odubade replaces Liam Enver-Marum. Jack Paxman (Maidstone United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Andrew Cannon (Rochdale). Attempt missed. Liam Enver-Marum (Maidstone United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Substitution, Maidstone United. Dan Sweeney replaces Jamar Loza because of an injury. Foul by Anthony Acheampong (Maidstone United). Callum Camps (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Joe Bunney (Rochdale) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. James Rogers (Maidstone United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Callum Camps (Rochdale). Foul by Seth Nana Ofori-Twumasi (Maidstone United). Joe Bunney (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Anthony Acheampong (Maidstone United). Steve Davies (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Alex Flisher (Maidstone United). Andrew Cannon (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Liam Enver-Marum (Maidstone United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Tom Mills (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Rochdale. Jimmy McNulty replaces Matthew Lund. Substitution, Rochdale. Donal McDermott replaces Oliver Rathbone. Bobby-Joe Taylor (Maidstone United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Joe Bunney (Rochdale). Attempt missed. Steve Davies (Rochdale) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.",Callum Camps scored with the last kick of the game to @placeholder League One Rochdale an FA Cup first - round replay against non-league Maidstone United .,ground,table,remain,earn,stop,3
Media playback is unsupported on your device 23 July 2015 Last updated at 07:45 BST The six-hour flight blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It had been delayed for two months by the failure of an unmanned cargo rocket. Footage courtesy of Nasa,"A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying an international team of astronauts has @placeholder with the International Space Station , 400 km above earth .",escaped,arrived,created,docked,merged,3
"The BHA says 30% of jockeys who attend licensing courses never ride a winner, despite money being spent on training. From 1 April, apprentice or conditional jockeys applying to attend a course must undergo a pre-licence assessment. Training places for apprentices will fall to 24 from 48, while conditional places will drop to 16 from 40. The move follows a three-year review. ""The changes ensure our jockeys will have access to significantly enhanced technical, personal and professional training,"" said BHA chief executive Nick Rust. ""A more efficient and extensive assessment process can help aspiring jockeys who have a genuine chance of success to receive the first-class levels of support and guidance they require."" The BHA strategy involved input from the Professional Jockeys' Association, National Trainers' Federation and Jockeys' Employment and Training Scheme.",British jockeys will face tougher @placeholder to enter horseracing as a result of new rules issued by the British Horseracing Authority .,disruption,life,criteria,home,penalties,2
"The man is in a serious condition in hospital days after returning from the Chinese city of Suzhou, officials say. China has confirmed 108 cases of H7N9 since it was initially reported in March, with at least 22 people dead. The World Health Organization (WHO) says this strain appears to spread more easily from birds to humans. The man in Taiwan was brought to hospital three days after he arrived from Suzhou via Shanghai, officials say. He was not in contact with poultry, nor had he eaten undercooked birds while in Suzhou, Taiwanese Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta told local media. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou has ordered the health department to step up prevention measures, says the country's Central News Agency. Experts are still trying to understand the H7N9 virus, and it has not yet been determined whether it could be transferred between humans. ""This is definitely one of the most lethal influenza viruses we have seen so far,"" WHO flu expert Dr Keiji Fukuda said at a news conference in Beijing. ""When we look at influenza viruses this is an unusually dangerous virus."" He added that the WHO team was just beginning its investigation. But he said that based on the evidence, ""this virus is more easily transmissible from poultry to humans than H5N1"", a strain which spread in 2003. Dr Fukuda led a team from the WHO on a one-week China visit to study H7N9, along with Chinese officials from Beijing and Shanghai. The WHO believes that poultry is still the likely source of the H7N9 outbreak in China.","A 53 - year - old businessman in Taiwan has the first case of the H7N9 bird flu virus outside @placeholder China , health officials there have confirmed .",east,northern,mainland,food,drug,2
"Now in his 60s, Othman and fellow villagers in the town of Wana, 22 miles (35km) north-east of Mosul, still depend on the dam as a vital source of water and irrigation for his crops. ""Life is water,"" said Othman, who is proud of his Kurdish roots, adding that his ancestors have lived in Wana for the last 800 years. Sitting on an earth mound on the edge of his field, and puffing on a cigarette, he said his family had been uprooted from the town just once, when militants from the so-called Islamic State (IS) captured Mosul Dam and Wana in August 2014. IS extremists were forced to retreat from the dam after 11 days, and from a number of surrounding villages, following US-led air strikes and a ground offensive by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Dressed in traditional Kurdish clothes and speaking in broken Arabic, Othman said: ""We can't imagine what life would be like if we had to leave our houses again this time under the threat of the potential collapse of the dam."" Inaugurated in 1984 during the era of Saddam Hussein, the dam today is falling into disrepair as a result of neglect over the past 18 months after the Kurds wrested it back from IS. Budget shortfalls due to the slump in oil prices and political rivalry between the central government in Baghdad and the regional government of the semi-autonomous Iraq Kurdistan have hampered urgently needed repairs. There is also a desperate shortage of workers. Half the workforce has left the dam for other jobs on account of not being paid for up to five months. We had special access inside the dam's labyrinth of tunnels to see the urgent problems first-hand. Outdated machinery is still being used to try to stabilise the dam's foundations. The dam's deputy director, Mohsen Yaqoub, showed us samples of soil that had suffered erosion. ""These black parts are the treated cement used to inject into the holes and fractures created by the water that constantly eats away at the unstable foundation of the dam,"" he said. ""The dam is today in danger because of the erosion at the natural gypsum base under the water and serious erosion at the flow gates. ""The joints at the two main gates have been dislocated vertically and horizontally, which could lead to the collapse of the dam but we don't know when. It could happen next month, next year or in five years' time. We actually don't know when."" The Iraqi government has been struggling for more than two years to strike a deal with an international company to undertake the much-needed repair works. Insecurity is scaring away bidders and the economic crisis has forced the oil-rich country to seek help from the World Bank and key allies like the United States. ""We just have empty promises from the international community to repair the dam,"" said Mr Yaqoub, who was previously an engineer at the site for 28 years. ""I met the American advisers and took them in a tour inside the dam. They were just nodding at my detailed scientific explanation of the dangers and the efforts made by us to protect the structure."" Mosul and other northern cities in the path of the river would be vulnerable if the dam fails. At present, locals say they are not aware of any emergency warning systems to deal with a potential catastrophe in waiting. And if this dam collapsed, it would cause massive devastation to entire communities along the Tigris River. Cities such as Mosul, Tikrit, Samarra and even down to the capital Baghdad are the most vulnerable. Massive floods could kill and render homeless hundreds of thousands, the US state department has warned. Asked what he would do if the dam fails, 22-year-old shepherd Amin Jabouri, who tends his flocks close by, had an immediate response. ""We have no other option but to head for a higher ground. Even if there was an alarm system, it would not work for us and we would have to run for our lives.""",Othman Mahmoud al - Barazinj is a farmer who has been living in the @placeholder of Iraq 's largest dam ever since the colossal facility was established in the 1980s .,shadow,colours,footsteps,aftermath,south,0
"On Friday, Athens is due to make a repayment of 300m euros (£218m) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The date may slip, but Greece has to make four payments in June, reaching a total of 1.6bn euros. If it fails to deliver, it will be in default. In the meantime, the game continues. Europe's leaders have drawn up what is being called a take-it-or-leave-it offer. Athens has pre-empted this with a 47-page proposal of its own. The Greek government needs an agreement to unlock the remaining bailout funds and so remain solvent. The international community watches warily. Jason Furman, the chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, said: ""Greece remains a potential accident."" The Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, has returned to Brussels insisting it is now up to Europe to ""adjust to realism"". Some of his ministers back home breathe defiance. ""If there is no prospect of a deal by Friday or Monday,"" said Nikos Filis, ""we will not pay."" In all these twists and turns, the greatest risk for Greece and the eurozone is that events take on a momentum of their own. In April, savers withdrew nearly 5bn euros. Bank deposits have fallen sharply. The frequently delivered optimistic notes coming out of Athens are partly aimed at reassuring nervous depositors. But what if pensioners or public-sector workers began to fear they would not be paid or if there were signs of a bank run? Capital controls would follow, and both Europe's leaders and Athens would struggle to retain control of events. On the most basic issue, there is agreement.  A majority of Greeks want to stay in the eurozone. So does Alexis Tsipras and most of his Syriza coalition. The rest of the EU wants Greece to stay in the eurozone. The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has staked a lot in supporting Greece when others were prepared to contemplate the country leaving the euro. Why then has it proved so hard to strike a deal? The crisis is in part an argument over the meaning of democracy in the EU and the eurozone. Greece was bailed out twice. It got 240bn euros, but austerity, which was a condition of the loans, was widely judged to have failed. The economy shrunk by 25% in six years, an unprecedented decline for a modern economy. Nobody doubted that Greece needed reforming, but the question was whether the medicine was killing the patient. That sense that Greece was a laboratory for a German-designed austerity plan propelled Mr Tsipras's radical left party to victory in January. I was at a rally where he boldly declared that the day after the election would see the start of the end of austerity. It was a promise that could not be kept, because Greece belongs to a monetary union that sets rules. The new Greek government insisted it had a mandate to move away from austerity, but many of Europe's leaders did not see it that way. The German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, said: ""Elections change nothing."" President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said: ""There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties. One cannot exit the euro without leaving the EU."" Mr Schaeuble now says that Syrizia misled voters by promising they could stay in the euro without having to submit to major and painful reforms. ""Perhaps they shouldn't have made election promises like this,"" he said. In the past four months, Mr Tsipras has been learning there is a different kind of democracy within a monetary union. The wishes of the Greek voters have to be balanced with the views of voters in other eurozone countries. The other countries in the eurozone were determined not to allow a popular vote to challenge and undermine the management of the single currency. They insisted that Greece had to stand by commitments made by the previous Greek government. They feared that if they showed weakness, it would only encourage other anti-austerity parties to agitate against the rules. Mr Tsipras came to the conclusion that the EU powers wished ""to make an example of Greece"". He is hemmed in by the promises made to his voters and some in his party who will fight any further reforms. The eurozone, on the other hand, is hemmed in by the mood in its various parliaments, which would have to approve any deal. There is increasing resistance to helping Greece further without verifiable commitments to fundamental reform. The sticking points remain: If Mr Tsipras was to make significant concessions on pension reform, he would face significant opposition from within his own party. €320bn Greece's debt mountain €240bn European bailout 177% country's debt-to-GDP ratio 25% fall in GDP since 2010 26% Greek unemployment rate The Greek Government argues that if the eurozone insists on a budget surplus above 1%, then it will only further weaken demand in the economy. If Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande and the other European leaders push too hard, then Alexis Tsipras might prefer to go for fresh elections or even to hold a referendum, but in the meantime there would be a risk of the country defaulting. Back in 2013, the fear was of contagion - that if Greece left the euro, other countries might follow. Most of those fears have subsided. Officials believe they could manage a Greek exit. Even so, the fallout from a Greek bankruptcy would be in the words of Sigmar Gabriel, the German Vice-Chancellor, ""gigantic"". Which is why a last-minute compromise deal is still the most likely outcome. Even if that is achieved, the Greek crisis does not go away. A deal only buys a few months. The country has debts of 320bn euros. Most of that money is owed to EU governments. Greece's debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio is approaching 180%. So if the immediate crisis wanes, there will be the question of whether Greece will need a third bailout - somewhere between 30bn and 50bn euros. Getting that through the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, will not be easy. So the Greek saga is set to continue even if a typical Brussels compromise emerges at this, the eleventh hour. But the risk is that Athens and Europe's leaders continue to misread each other and an accident happens.","After four months of brinkmanship , Greece faces days full of risk . 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"The show at the Fonda Theatre marked next month's reissue of the 1971 LP that includes Brown Sugar and Wild Horses. The audience on Wednesday included Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Harry Styles, Leonard Cohen and Patricia Arquette. The concert at the 1,300-capacity venue sold out instantly. ""So this is our first show of our tour,'' Sir Mick Jagger told the crowd, according to the Associated Press. ""Tonight we're doing something we've never done before... we're going to do the whole of Sticky Fingers."" The Stones played for an hour and a half, and used its encore to pay tribute to the blues guitar legend BB King, who died last week. ""He was one of our favourite guitarists,"" Sir Mick said, ""a wonderful guy who played with us on a number of occasions."" The Stones kick off their North American Zip Code tour in San Diego on Sunday.",The Rolling Stones have played a surprise gig in Los Angeles during which they @placeholder the entire Sticky Fingers album .,fled,performed,captured,produced,represent,1
"Vladimir Putin compared Mr Comey to US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who now lives in Russia. ""If he's persecuted... we're ready to give him political asylum,"" he said. He again poured scorn on claims Russia had interfered in the US elections, citing an absence of evidence. Overall though, foreign policy took a back seat to domestic issues in this year's Direct Line show - Mr Putin's annual marathon phone-in. For almost four hours, the Russian president fielded calls from across the country. He offered sympathy to dozens of people complaining of miserable salaries, poor medical care and bad roads, and doled out reprimands and orders to regional leaders. It is a well-practised format meant to showcase Vladimir Putin the Benevolent. His opening remarks acknowledged times had been tough and people's incomes had plummeted with more than 13% of Russians now living beneath the poverty line. Mr Putin stressed that the economy was now back to growth, though, and said maintaining that trend was his priority. But with less than a year before presidential elections, some Russians are clearly growing frustrated. One text message flashed on screen informing Mr Putin that three terms in office were enough. Another asked: ""How long will we have to hear 'there is no money, but hang on in there'?"" One text described the whole stage-managed call-in as a ""circus"" while another told the president simply: ""Goodbye, Vladimir Vladimirovich"". After the show, Mr Putin was asked by the BBC about a recent wave of street protests. Mr Putin said that legal protest was part of democracy, but suggested that the anti-corruption campaigner behind them - who he didn't name - was only motivated by self-promotion. Alexei Navalny wants to challenge Vladimir Putin for the presidency. Mr Putin was deliberately vague on his own plans for 2018 but he told the BBC that other world leaders had served a long time in office, describing that as ""fine"" if it was ""within the law"".",Russia 's president has joked he could offer asylum to former FBI chief James Comey if he runs into trouble for leaking @placeholder conversations with the US president to the press .,content,struggling,signs,recorded,action,3
"It has extended to the UK, Canada and other countries where the number of people killed by police is a fraction of that in the US. In the UK, members of Black Lives Matter London marched to the US Embassy. In Canada, Black Lives Matter activists brought Toronto's gay pride parade to a standstill in protest. In Germany, protesters staged a ""die-in"" in Berlin and read the names of black people killed by US police. In the US, the Black Lives Matter movement gained prominence after deaths of black men like Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of police. As the movement has grown, so has its goals and its reach. ""Black Lives Matter is not just about black lives, it is about the quality of black lives,"" says Janaya Khan, a founder of the Black Lives Matter Toronto chapter. Among the protesters in London was Maryam Ali, an 18-year-old student from west London who helped found the movement's London chapter. Ms Ali has never experienced police violence first hand. Just two people have been killed this year by British police, one of them black. US police have killed at least 512 people in the same period, according to a tally by the Washington Post. So what prompts a student in London to throw herself into a protest movement about police shootings thousands of miles away? ""Part of it is solidarity with the US,"" she says. ""I have family in America, and I fear for their lives. They could just been walking down the street and their lives could be be taken away. ""But the UK isn't innocent. There have been police killings here,"" Ms Ali says. She mentions Mark Duggan, a black man whose death at the hands of police in 2011 sparked the riots in London that summer. Like the UK, Canada has relatively few police killings, but Ms Khan says racial bias affects the country's criminal justice system. ""We really have to pay attention to what we mean when we say less anti-black violence,"" Ms Khan says. ""Take our prisons for example; we make up only 2.9% of the Canadian population but 10% of the federal inmate population."" Black Lives Matter Toronto began, late last year, with two goals: express solidarity with what was happening in the US and apply the cause to Canadian issues. To that end, the Toronto chapter is branching out into policy and education. This year it is running a pilot summer school in an attempt to reduce the numbers of young black people getting caught up in crime and to ""teach a history that is more balanced"". The Freedom School was created and is run entirely by the Black Lives Matter chapter and the community, Ms Khan says. ""Some Black Lives Matter chapters focus on policy change and legislation, while others understand that their specific context requires them to be on the streets. The cultures in every city are difference and Black Lives Matter responds to those cultures."" The Toronto chapter sees its place as both on the streets - controversially it brought the city's gay pride parade to a standstill after being invited as guests - and at city hall. It has made specific political demands, including the overhaul of Canada's Special Investigations Unit, which is tasked with holding police accountable but which Black Lives Matter campaigners say is too dominated by former officers to be independent. The chapter has also called for the demilitarisation of Toronto police - an issue that came to the fore in the US when police deployed military-style vehicles and weapons at the Black Lives Matter protest in Ferguson, Missouri. Back in London, the movement is less focused but no less passionate, Ms Ali says. Ms Ali says the issues that drive the Black Lives Matters movement are not limited to the US. ""There is internalised racism everywhere. There is a system that targets young black people because of a stereotype that they are dangerous, without actually looking at who they are. It's a terrifying cycle."" Breaking that cycle is about raising awareness everywhere, she says, whether there are police killings or not. ""We are trying to build an awareness of black lives worldwide, not just for those in close proximity with racist law enforcement."" When she is not at school, Ms Ali is working on organising new protests and actions. ""This is about trying to make a change for those who don't have a voice,"" she says. ""And for me as well.""",The @placeholder of the Black Lives Matter movement to galvanise people concerned about police misconduct has not stopped at America 's borders .,team,power,rise,bodies,duration,1
"The first photo from the set of stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Romola Garai has been released to mark the first week of filming. The award-winning book has sold more than a million copies. Set in Amsterdam in 1686 it tells the story of Nella played by Taylor-Joy who moves to the city to become the wife of a wealthy merchant. Nella is given a miniature version of her new home, which is furnished by a Miniaturist, whose creations start to reflect real events in the house. She then starts to discover the secrets of the house and its inhabitants including her cold sister-in-law Marin, played by Garai. The cast also features Emily Berrington, Paapa Essiedu, Alex Hassell and Hayley Squires. The three part dramatisation is due to air on BBC One later this year. Taylor-Joy, who has starred in horror film The Witch and was nominated for the Bafta rising star award,  said: ""I immediately fell in love with Nella's resilience and am so looking forward to telling her story and helping to bring this magical book to life."" Garai described it as a ""moving and iconic story"" that she was ""truly honoured"" to be part of. Author Jessie Burton said: ""The assembled cast is perfect to the vision I had in my mind's eye in every way, and I know they'll make magic."" Also released this week was the first image of Benedict Cumberbatch from the adaptation of  of Ian McEwan's award-winning novel The Child in Time. In the dramatisation the Sherlock star plays a children's author struggling to find a purpose in life two years after his daughter goes missing. Cumberbatch will also executive produce the 90 minute film, which also stars Kelly McDonald, Saskia Reeves and Stephen Campbell-Moore. It is also being made for BBC One, but a screening date has not yet been announced. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",Filming has started on the BBC adaptation of Jessie Burton 's @placeholder thriller The Miniaturist .,wardrobe,supernatural,period,body,crime,2
"It is understood a man was taken from his home in the nearby village of Ballybogey on Sunday night, before cash was stolen from the Nationwide Building Society in Coleraine's Diamond area. It is believed at least one family member was made to remain in the home with one gang member. The employee was forced to unlock the cash vaults at the office.","A building society in Coleraine , County Londonderry , has been @placeholder in a so - called tiger kidnapping incident .",destroyed,seized,robbed,caught,killed,2
"Internecine strife among Republicans over Donald Trump risked escalating into a political bloodbath as the party's most senior elected member, Paul Ryan, took the extraordinary step of effectively washing his hands of their standard-bearer. Diehard Trumpistas are enraged by Republican bosses shunning their own presidential nominee. During a conference call, one Congressman lambasted them as ""cowards"". Clinton held her biggest campaign event yet, drawing 18,500 people to a rally in Columbus, Ohio, suggesting her base may be rallying round her after Sunday's vicious televised debate. The Democratic candidate also vaulted to an 11-point national lead in an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll conducted over the weekend. Nancy O'Dell, the woman who was the subject of lewd comments in the now-infamous Trump sex-boast tape, said: ""There is no room for objectification of women,"" as she hosted her TV show Entertainment Tonight. The creator of The Apprentice, meanwhile, said he cannot legally release footage from the show, disappointing those hoping for a fresh batch of compromising Trump archive clips. It's not just the Republican establishment that's split - the choice facing the nation has divided households, too, as the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan found out... Following Trump's suggestion that Hispanics in Las Vegas prefer to be called Latinos, BBC Mundo treads carefully into the minefield of US ethnic identity politics. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera examines the murky claim that Russia is trying to hack the US presidential election. And squillionaire Clinton supporter Warren Buffett released his tax details after Trump accused him of exploiting loopholes to dodge paying his dues. 66.5 million - the number of Americans who tuned in for Sunday night's second presidential debate, a sharp fall from the first one two weeks earlier, which attracted a record-breaking 84 million viewers. But this time the two candidates were up against the NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants, which was watched by 16.6 million people on NBC. Yet another member of the Bush clan has come out in support of Hillary Clinton. Lauren Bush Lauren posted a black-and-white photo of the Democratic candidate on her social media accounts with the caption, ""#ImWithHer 🇺🇸"". Her grandfather, former president George HW Bush, and cousin, Barbara Pierce Bush, have recently telegraphed their support for Clinton. Can it be coincidence that Lauren Bush Lauren's father-in-law, fashion designer Ralph Lauren, has dressed Clinton for her big moments during this campaign season? Both presidential candidates will hit the trail in the Florida, which some analysts say could hold the keys to the White House on 8 November. As a legal battle rages over extending voter registration in this pivotal battleground state, Clinton will be on the stump down in Miami alongside former US vice-president Al Gore. Trump will hold a rally at Panama City Beach up in the Panhandle. Who is ahead in the polls? 48% Hillary Clinton 44% Donald Trump Last updated October 10, 2016","With just 28 days to go until Americans go to the polls , here 's your daily election dig , including a divided family of voters in Pennsylvania , why viewing figures from the debate were low , and Clinton @placeholder another Bush clan endorsement .",launched,played,suggest,injured,bags,4
"Political scientist Alexander Dugin is an extreme Russian nationalist closely associated with the Ukraine conflict. The US said it was cutting business ties and freezing the assets of him and others who had destabilised the situation in the east of the country. A ceasefire, albeit not fully observed, has been in place for a month. Russia said it found the new wave of sanctions ""difficult to understand"". ""We categorically do not see any link between what has recently been happening in south-eastern Ukraine and these sorts of actions,"" Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the news agency Interfax. President Barack Obama and European leaders have used sanctions as its main form of retaliation for Russia's annexation of Crimea and backing of separatists groups in eastern Ukraine. ""If Russia continues to support destabilising activity in Ukraine and violate the Minsk agreements and implementation plan, the already substantial costs it faces will continue to rise,"" said Adam Szubin of the US treasury department. Among those targeted for sanctions is former prime minister Mykola Azarov and two other top Ukrainian officials in former President Viktor Yanukovych's inner circle, for ""misappropriation of Ukrainian state assets"". Also included are five officials in the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk's people's republics and the leaders of Eurasian Youth Union, including Alexander Dugin. Mr Dugin, a prominent Russian ultra-nationalist philosopher, has called on President Vladimir Putin to intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine ""to save Russia's moral authority"". The US says the Eurasian Youth Union has ""recruited individuals with military and combat experience to fight on behalf of the self-proclaimed DPR and has stated that it has a covert presence in Ukraine"". A Russian bank operating in Crimea, now the largest banking network in the region, has also seen its assets blocked by the US. In a separate development, the US is preparing to send more non-lethal aid to Ukraine, including unarmed drones, an unnamed official told US media on Wednesday.","The United States has imposed sanctions on 14 Ukrainian separatists and Russians , including an idealogue who has heavily @placeholder the Kremlin .",threatened,expanding,criticised,influenced,joined,3
"Only 800 breeding pairs of corn bunting, confined to parts of the eastern lowlands and the Western Isles, are believed to remain in Scotland. An Aberdeenshire population declined from 134 pairs to only 12 over a 20-year period. A study has found changes in crop management could be to blame. The joint study by RSPB Scotland and Dr Adam Watson, who monitored the corn bunting population, reported that an increase in field size and decrease in weed abundance reduced the availability of safe nesting sites and food sources the species depends on. Dr Watson said: ""When I first studied this population in 1989 it was thriving, and I saw winter flocks hundreds strong. ""To me in 2012, the familiar farmlands seem silent and empty. It is tragic."" RSPB Scotland conservation scientist Allan Perkins said: ""Intensive crop management and removal of field boundaries, resulting in fewer weeds and the insects they support, together with earlier harvesting of cereals and mowing of grass has had a detrimental effect on the corn bunting. ""This is a species that favours low-intensity farming and it is vital that such systems are preserved, or habitats replicated through agri-environment schemes.""","Urgent action is needed to transform the @placeholder of one of Scotland 's fastest declining farmland birds , RSPB Scotland has said .",cast,secrets,fortunes,risk,population,2
"Travis Perkins shares were 6% lower at close after it said summer trading was slower than expected, and that full-year profits would be at the lower end of City expectations. The FTSE 100 was up by 0.44%, or 27.86 points, at 6376.28. Shares in Debenhams rose by 3.27% after the retailer reported a rise in full-year profit to £113.5m. The company also said its chief executive, Michael Sharp, would step down in 2016 as planned, following reports that the board was planning a management shake-up. On the broader share market, the FTSE 250, the estate agent Foxtons fell by more than 8% after it said the central London property market would take time to recover. The company also reported an 8.8% rise in turnover to £43.5m for the three months to September. On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.10% against the dollar to $1.5402 and gained 1.56% against the euro to €1.3811.",( Close ) : Shares in the DIY @placeholder Travis Perkins weighed on the FTSE 100 after the company issued a profits warning .,business,retailer,line,meeting,group,4
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 12 December 2014 Last updated at 15:00 GMT England manager Roy Hodgson joined the Duke of Cambridge to unveil the statue at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, England. The Football Remembers memorial was designed by a schoolboy after a UK-wide competition. The prince and England forward Theo Walcott selected a ten-year-old boy from Newcastle's design following a competition involving more than 30,000 schools. Leah's got more.",Prince William has unveiled a memorial to remember the Christmas Truce in World War One when soldiers from Britain and Germany @placeholder fighting and played football on Christmas Day .,continued,stopped,crowd,died,beat,1
"Strong winds and heavy rain have created sand drifts on Margate's Main Sands, near the clock tower. Thanet District Council has put out signs to notify the public of the possible dangers. Mike Humber, technical services manager, said the sand was much softer than usual and people out walking should be aware of a ""potential issue"". He said the affected area had been filled in to stabilise the sand.",People are being warned not to venture on to @placeholder of a Kent beach after some people got stuck in sinking sand .,show,offer,one,top,parts,4
"Deputy chairman Charles Rolls almost doubled the number of shares he intended to sell following ""significant"" demand from investors. He sold 4.5 million shares at £16.25 each, but retains an 11.2% stake. The tonic water group has seen its share price rise more than 900% since it floated in late 2014. This year alone shares in the group have risen more than 50%. Fever-Tree's international sales have expanded rapidly, and more than 50% of its revenues now come from outside the UK. Mr Rolls founded the company with Tim Warrillow in 2004. It is named after the colloquial term for the cinchona tree, from whose bark the natural anti-malarial drug and core tonic water ingredient, quinine, is produced. The pair wanted to produce an upmarket tonic with no artificial sweeteners, preservatives and flavourings.",One of the co-founders of upmarket mixer @placeholder maker Fever - Tree has netted £ 73 m after selling a 3.9 % stake in the company .,drinks,product,mix,chain,goods,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device After several months in Germany, she has qualified to swim at the Rio Olympics as part of Team Refugee, which was set up by the International Olympic Committee in recognition of the worldwide refugee crisis. You can watch the Team Refugee documentary at the following times. In the UK, on the BBC News Channel: Friday, 29 July at 21:30; Saturday, 30 July at 00:30 and 16:30; Sunday, 31 July at 13:30. Outside of the UK, on BBC World News: Saturday, 30 July at 01:30 and 08:30 (GMT); Sunday, 31 July at 14:30 and 20:30 (GMT); Tuesday, 2 August at 09:30 (GMT).","Eighteen - year - old Yusra Mardini left Syria for Europe on a boat packed with refugees . With @placeholder in sight , the vessel began to sink and she and her sister had to swim the last part of the journey to Greece .",disaster,land,none,people,freedom,1
"On 30 October, world powers meeting in Vienna agreed to a nine-point plan they hope will pave the way for a ceasefire in Syria - but they remain divided on what happens to President Assad. Here is a guide to where the key countries stand: Russia is one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's most important international backers and the survival of the regime is critical to maintaining Russian interests in the country. It has blocked resolutions critical of President Assad at the UN Security Council and has continued to supply weapons to the Syrian military despite international criticism. Moscow wants to protect a key naval facility which it leases at the Syrian port of Tartous, which serves as Russia's sole Mediterranean base for its Black Sea fleet, and has forces at an air base in Latakia, President Assad's Shia Alawite heartland. In September 2015 Russia began launching air strikes against rebels, saying the so-called Islamic State (IS) and ""all terrorists"" were targets. However, Western-backed groups were reported to have been hit. President Vladimir Putin has though said that only a political solution can end the conflict. The US has accused President Assad of responsibility for widespread atrocities and says he must go. But it agrees on the need for a negotiated settlement to end the war and the formation of a transitional administration. The US supports Syria's main opposition alliance, the National Coalition, and provides limited military assistance to ""moderate"" rebels. Since September 2014, the US has been conducting air strikes on IS and other jihadist groups in Syria as part of an international coalition against the jihadist group. But it has avoided attacks that might benefit Mr Assad's forces or intervening in battles between them and the rebels. A programme to train and arm 5,000 Syrian rebels to take the fight to IS on the ground has suffered embarrassing setbacks, with few having even reached the frontline. The Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom says President Assad cannot be part of a solution to the conflict and must hand over power to a transitional administration or be removed by force. Riyadh is a major provider of military and financial assistance to several rebel groups, including those with Islamist ideologies, and has called for a no-fly zone to be imposed to protect civilians from bombardment by Syrian government forces. Saudi leaders were angered by the Obama administration's decision not to intervene militarily in Syria after a 2013 chemical attack blamed on Mr Assad's forces. They later agreed to take part in the US-led coalition air campaign against IS, concerned by the group's advances and its popularity among a minority of Saudis. The Turkish government has been a staunch critic of Mr Assad since the start of the uprising in Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said it was impossible for Syrians to ""accept a dictator who has led to the deaths of up to 350,000 people"". Turkey is a key supporter of the Syrian opposition and has faced the burden of hosting almost two million refugees. But its policy of allowing rebel fighters, arms shipments and refugees to pass through its territory has been exploited by foreign jihadists wanting to join IS. Turkey agreed to let the US-led coalition against IS to use its air bases for strikes on Syria after an IS bomb attack in July 2015. They have though been critical of coalition support for the Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) - an affiliate of the banned Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) deemed a terrorist group by Turkey, the EU and the US. Regional Shia power Iran is believed to be spending billions of dollars a year to prop up President Assad and his Alawite-dominated government, providing military advisers and subsidised weapons, as well as lines of credit and oil transfers. Mr Assad is Iran's closest Arab ally and Syria is the main transit point for Iranian weapons shipments to the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah. Iran is also believed to have been influential in Hezbollah's decision to send fighters to western Syria to assist pro-Assad forces. Militiamen from Iran and Iraq who say they are protecting Shia holy sites are also fighting alongside Syrian troops. Iran has proposed a peaceful transition in Syria that would culminate in free, multi-party elections. It was involved in peace talks over Syria's future for the first time when world powers met in Vienna.","The conflict in Syria has drawn in major global powers , supporting and opposing President Bashar al - Assad and the myriad rebel groups @placeholder against him .",action,control,protesting,held,ranged,4
"The singer said her jaw was injured in the attack in the Shawlands area of Glasgow. The man involved, she said, did not know her and had battered her across the face ""for no reason"" in the confrontation at about 02:00. Michelle McManus established her career after winning the TV talent show Pop Idol in 2003. Speaking of the assault, she said she was ""still trying to process"" what had happened and thanked those who sent messages of support. Ms McManus praised the police, who had been ""fantastic"". She went on to name the man she said had attacked her, describing him as a musician who plays at a bar in the south side of Glasgow. After winning Pop Idol, Michelle McManus has worked as a singer, television presenter, columnist, actress and radio DJ. Her first album, The Meaning of Love, was released in February 2004 and reached number three on the UK albums chart.",Entertainer Michelle McManus has said on social media that she was assaulted by a man @placeholder a guitar case .,strangled,threatening,wielding,fleeing,punching,2
"Manager Francesco Guidolin confirmed the £15m Spanish striker could be out until after the international break. Borja will miss Saturday's visit of Hull, Tuesday's EFL Cup trip to Peterborough and the game against champions Leicester on 27 August. ""It would not be a clever move to play him against Hull,"" said Guidolin. ""It is a little problem. I would like to have him for Peterborough but it is not possible. ""I am not sure when he will be back but maybe after the international break."" Borja may return against Chelsea on 11 September. Midfielder Jack Cork will captain the Swans in Saturday's home game with Premier League new boys Hull. Leon Britton, who skippered Swansea to victory in their league opener at Burnley, is a fitness doubt. Guidolin conceded that Wales left-back Neil Taylor is unlikely to feature on Saturday, but Iceland's Euro 2016 playmaker Gylfi Sigurdsson and South Korean captain Ki Sung-Yueng are set to play. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.",Swansea City record @placeholder Borja Baston will not be able to make his debut for another three weeks because of a thigh injury .,signing,side,pair,striker,centre,0
"BBC Cymru Wales director Rhodri Talfan Davies and BBC director of strategy and digital James Purnell gave evidence to the Commons' Welsh Affairs Committee. They were responding to MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport committee. It had recommended there should be no ""specific"" representative from Wales on a proposed BBC unitary board. Mr Purnell said it was ""absolutely right to have nations' representatives on the unitary board"". Mr Talfan Davies added that previous governors and trustees since the 1950s had a ""track record"" of contributing a ""huge amount"" to the BBC's governance. In a wide-ranging evidence session before the Welsh MPs' inquiry into broadcasting, the BBC bosses were asked about the relationship between the broadcaster and S4C. Since 2013 S4C has received the majority of its income, around £75m, from the BBC licence fee. Mr Talfan Davies said that while there had been ""legitimate concerns"" when the previous UK government introduced the new relationship between the BBC and S4C, he said both broadcasters ""went out of our way"" to establish a ""sensible working relationship"". He said that the new agreement with S4C had delivered ""something greater than what had been achieved previously"", and that he doubted that the successful bilingual TV series Hinterland would have been delivered before the operating agreement between S4C and the BBC came into force. Pushed on the amount the BBC spends on its biggest stars - by committee chairman David TC Davies - Mr Purnell said it had ""significantly reduced"" the salaries of its top talent, but resisted a suggestion that the costs of on-screen presenters should be published as the BBC had to operate within a commercial market. The proposal for an English-language television bulletin encompassing news from Wales, the UK and the world - dubbed the Wales Six - was put to Mr Talfan Davies, who said the idea had to be considered in terms of whether it would have a significant impact on audiences. He cited recent research by the BBC which found that audiences still struggled to understand the political differences that existed between Wales and the UK since devolution, and argued that changes to existing services should be considered alongside proposals for new programmes.",Senior BBC managers have said a representative from Wales should @placeholder to be part of its new management and governance structure .,continue,strive,remain,appear,expects,0
"The net provider will block access with pop-up boxes until decisions are made. In a blog post, TalkTalk adds it will prompt customers to review their settings every year. Sky announced last week that it would activate filters for inappropriate content by default. BT and Virgin have yet to reveal any proposals for automatic filters. Prime Minister David Cameron has previously called on ISPs to offer services with pre-activated filters in the interests of family safety. TalkTalk customers are presented with information about the HomeSafe filter activation in their account settings pages. TalkTalk says 95% of its 4.2m customers have already decided whether to activate the filters. ""We pre-tick the 'on' option, but it's the customer's choice,"" writes TalkTalk spokeswoman Alex Birtles on the firm's blog. ""Filters will only ever be applied if the customer has consented and they're able to change their mind or edit their level of protection at any point."" Those who have not yet visited the settings page will be confronted with a pop-up box if they try to access a web page that would be blocked by the filter, Ms Birtles adds. Like most filters, HomeSafe does not block material accessed via a web proxy or Virtual Private Network (VPN). ""There is no silver bullet when it comes to internet safety and we have always been clear that no solution can ever be 100%,"" said the firm on its website in a section for businesses who feel their sites have been unfairly blocked by the filter. According to the website blocked.org, a project by the Open Rights Group (ORG), around 11% of the 100,000 top websites (according to Amazon-owned analytics firm Alexa) are currently blocked by default filters. ""Censorship should never be turned on by default,"" Jim Killock, executive director of ORG told the BBC last week. ""Filters block all kinds of websites, including some that provide useful advice to children and young people.""",TalkTalk says customers who have not yet chosen whether to activate net filters must opt out of its safety @placeholder if they wish to continue viewing adult material online .,resources,mode,pledge,option,system,4
"Kevin Bishop has had his own sketch show on Channel 4 and appeared on the same channel's Star Stories in 2006, impersonating everyone from Elton John to Justin Timberlake. He recently played Nigel Farage for the BBC and next year he'll tape a new series of Porridge, playing the grandson of Ronnie Barker's original Fletch, after a pilot episode received good reviews. He also writes and is an expert at sizing up a comedy script. ""When I read Once in a Lifetime, there were parts where I thought - this will need cutting a bit,"" explains Bishop. ""Because in the kind of comedy I do, you pare back everything - there can't be unnecessary exposition or any repetition."" He says Harry Enfield, his co-star who plays Hollywood studio boss Herman Glogauer in the Young Vic production, had exactly the same reaction. ""This is Harry's stage debut so, like me, his skills have been honed on screen,"" says Bishop. ""But when we got the play on its feet in front of an audience, we saw why [George S] Kaufman and [Moss] Hart wrote the way they did. It's very fast - but it's not a quick two-minute TV sketch. There are times where the writers need to let the audience know what's going on. So Richard Jones [the play's director] was adamant about stuff staying in."" In 1930, Once in a Lifetime was the first of seven full-length scripts co-written by Kaufman and Hart. Twenty years later, Kaufman would be the director of the musical Guys and Dolls - and in 1956 Hart directed My Fair Lady. The plot concerns a trio of small-time vaudeville performers who, in the early years of talking pictures, move to Hollywood hoping to make it as experts in elocution. The comic potential of glamorous silent stars who have absolutely zero vocal skills was shamelessly recycled much later in the movie Singin' in the Rain. The play was largely unknown in Britain until a hit RSC production in 1979, starring Zoe Wanamaker and Richard Griffiths. That version turned parts of the play into a semi-musical, but this time Bishop has been happy to concentrate on the dialogue. ""You really have to take this play at a click - it's very New York. There's an element almost of farce and the only limitation is how fast physically the cast can deliver the lines. ""I really love the era this play is set in. The recent equivalent to this style isn't on stage - it's TV comedies like Friends and Seinfeld. ""You still get the same pattern in the dialogue: little laugh, middle laugh, really big laugh. And maybe the big laugh will have a physical pay-off. ""Friends was taken slower than our play is: Once in a Lifetime asks its audience to grasp things quickly, in a way TV sitcoms won't generally risk. But the way the dialogue functions, with the snappy comebacks and putdowns and all the insults - that's basically the same."" From 2013, Bishop spent 18 months in the States, working mainly on the TV series Super Fun Night for ABC, starring Rebel Wilson. His wife and young children went too. ""From personal experience I would say that for an actor the way Los Angeles works today really isn't so different from the 1930s,"" he says. Bishop shot 17 half-hour episodes of Super Fun Night before it was cancelled. ""Actually it was a great experience: I'd shipped my entire home to Los Angeles. There was an attempt to do the series as a multi-camera show with a live audience but finally it became single-cam with no audience. But the mechanics there are that there's no straight news about anything. So every single person on set was saying the show was a hit. ""In fact originally I had my doubts about whether it really was a hit, but eventually I bought into what everyone else was saying. So when suddenly the end came, I was shocked. And you see some of the same thing in Once in a Lifetime - people in Hollywood being flattered and pampered and then it disappears overnight. ""Maybe showbusiness hasn't changed that much.  There's a fine line between positivity and denial."" ""In the play, Kaufman and Hart were smart because they created the character May, who's played by Claudie Blakley. She has her head screwed on and sees that a lot of Hollywood talk is just nonsense - so on stage she represents what the audience is thinking. ""When I was living in LA you could say it was my wife who had that function.  I'd started falling for the sweet-talk but she remained clear-eyed about the whole thing."" After his stint at the Young Vic, Bishop returns to a role he thought he'd done purely as a one-off - the follow-up to the 1970s comedy classic Porridge.  There was a single episode in August on BBC One, which got good reviews. Now Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are writing a series. ""When I was approached about the one-off I was delighted - but I was told there was absolutely no chance of a series. In a way that was reassuring, given how brilliant Ronnie Barker had been in the original. Dick and Ian are superb writers and they've already run a few storylines past me. They're still on top form. ""Once in a Lifetime is a great comedy but it's totally unlike Porridge. But there's an overlap for me because shooting in front of an audience with Porridge is more like live theatre and the audience does affect where you go with a line. ""No one believes it, but with Porridge there's no canned laughter at all - what you hear is the real audience reaction.  It's like being at the Young Vic."" Once in a Lifetime is at the Young Vic theatre in London until 14 January. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","When it was first staged , Once in a Lifetime provided exactly the wisecracking @placeholder Broadway audiences expected in the 1930s . Actor Kevin Bishop thinks that 's more often TV 's role today - but he sees a direct line from the heyday of Kaufman and Hart to shows like Friends and Seinfeld .",team,window,humour,side,lost,2
"The financial think tank says maintaining funding at current levels would mean raising spending by £3.7bn. Head teachers have been warning of job losses from budget shortages. But Luke Sibieta of the IFS says: ""A promise to protect schools from cuts will not come cheap."" School funding has been an election battleground - with opposition parties highlighting budget shortages. In a blog for Schools Week magazine, Mr Sibieta says preventing this funding gap would mean a commitment to ""significant additional public spending"" - worth a penny on income tax or 3% of the NHS budget in England. He says it would cost £2bn to protect per pupil spending in the next four years and another £1.7bn to cover additional costs facing schools - representing a 10% increase in the school budget. But head teachers, protesting about inadequate budgets, have published their own research into job losses caused by funding cuts. Heads in more than 700 schools say more than 3,400 posts have already had to be closed, including more than 1,000 teachers. The heads in 14 counties, across the south and east of England, issued a joint statement: ""Head teachers have been warning of an impending crisis in their schools. The crisis is no longer expected, it is under way."" They say that after months of warnings about cash shortages, financial decisions about staffing for September have already been taken. In these schools, 1,107 teaching posts together with those of 1,488 teaching assistants and 820 administrative and support staff have been lost. There are more than 24,000 schools across England - and this count of job losses by head teachers covers the current situation in just over 700 schools. Among heads in these schools, 43% thought their budgets were ""inadequate"" and 49% defined their financial position as at ""crisis point"". Only 8% thought funding levels were adequate or good. West Sussex head teacher Jules White, who has co-ordinated a campaign on school funding shortages, said: ""It is clear that devastating cuts to staffing and educational provision are occurring in thousands of schools across the country. ""In turn, children's' educational opportunities are being blighted by the loss of thousands of teaching and teaching support posts."" In the general election campaign, Sarah Olney for the Liberal Democrats said funding cuts meant ""fewer teachers, larger class sizes and schools unable to afford basic repairs"". She accused the Conservatives of ""splashing out"" on ""divisive pet projects like free schools and grammars, while the majority of schools see spending per pupil fall"". Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told a head teachers' conference that he would tackle the funding gap ""I am determined to lead a government that will give the priority it deserves to education,"" he said. But the Conservatives have defended their record on school spending - saying that school budgets have been protected and are at record levels.","Protecting schools from real - @placeholder cuts in England would mean spending the equivalent of an extra penny on the basic rate of income tax , says the Institute of Fiscal Studies .",cost,group,terms,wing,world,2
"Ofcom's Children's Digital Day research shows that children aged 11 to 15 are watching one hour and 32 minutes of live TV per day. Adults watch two hours and 58 minutes per day, the survey revealed. Older children only consume a fifth of the radio listened to by adults each day - just 15 minutes. The survey by the media watchdog involved a representative sample of 1,644 UK adults who had to complete seven-day media diaries. A sample of 186 primary school-aged children (aged six to 11) and 173 secondary school-aged children (aged 11 to 15) completed three-day media diaries. The study also found that nearly all UK adults reported watching live TV every week over the course of a week (94%). This compared with just over three-quarters (78%) of children aged 11 to 15 and 90% of six to 11 year olds. Older children are spending six times longer than adults watching short online video clips on sites such as YouTube and Vimeo (33 minutes versus five minutes). Children aged between 11 and 16 also spend twice as long communicating via social networking sites than adults each day (52 minutes versus 25 minutes). Overall, three quarters of children aged six to 15 reported playing games on an electronic device (including games consoles and tablets) during the week. This took up a fifth of children's total time spent on media and communications. Only 5% of media time was taken up by gaming among the adults surveyed.","Older children watch half the amount of live television per day than adults , preferring to watch @placeholder online , new research suggests .",show,billions,declines,content,documents,3
"Paramedic John Wood tweeted about the ""surprising message"" which the crew saw from 1,000ft (305m) above ground level over Hewelsfield near Lydney. ""Anyone know the outcome?"" tweeted his colleague James Yates, describing it as a ""unique proposal"". The crew was flying back to the charity's base in Filton, near Bristol, from an operation in Gloucester. ""They're big letters - very easily seen and made out of some kind of sheets,"" said Mr Wood. ""We were quite amused and haven't seen anything like that before. ""It made me wonder about the story behind it. Who put it there, for whom and has it been seen?""",A giant marriage proposal has been spotted in a Gloucestershire @placeholder by the crew of an air ambulance .,pub,town,field,forest,bush,2
"Two Polish men were beaten and knocked unconscious in The Stow in Harlow, Essex, at about 23:35 BST on Saturday. One of them, a 40-year-old from the town died in hospital on Monday. The other man, aged 43, and also from Harlow, was treated and released. Six teenage boys, all from Harlow, have been arrested in connection with the attacks. For more on this and other news, visit the BBC Essex Live page Five of the boys have been released on police bail until October, while a sixth boy, who was arrested after them, remains in custody.","A murder investigation has begun after a man died from @placeholder injuries following a "" brutal "" attack .",life,head,multiple,following,chest,1
"The price has jumped from around £40 per megawatt hour to almost £200, the most expensive in a decade. Demand from cranked-up air-conditioning comes on top of a lull in wind power and gas and nuclear power stations going offline. Gas power stations provide over half the UK's electricity. The day-ahead price of electricity, the amount generators charge to put power into the UK network the next day, has rocketed in the past two days. Power stations put electricity into the National Grid's network and it is sold on to household energy suppliers. Around a tenth of UK electricity is bought by suppliers at the day-ahead price. Wholesale electricity costs make up just under half of household electricity bills. The heatwave hitting the south of England means air conditioning units are being turned up. Demand is higher than average for September and at its highest since April, when a cold snap and snow storms led to severe weather warnings in parts of the UK. The unseasonal September weather has also reduced wind power in the system. And adding to the pressure, the number of gas power stations that have been shut down for planned maintenance is at its highest level since 2009. Unplanned outages at other stations have compounded the problem. Glenn Rickson, head of power analysis at Platts, said: ""It seems to be the straw that broke the camel's back this week."" The surprise rise in demand and a drop in supply has left the UK with less spare power than usual. It comes after concerns about spare capacity going into winter. Usually extra electricity can be drawn in from a connection between the UK's grid and the French network, but the crucial cable is not working properly, limiting transfers. In France, several nuclear power stations are also offline, meaning there is less electricity for the French to sell to the UK. Nick Grogan, an energy industry analyst, said it was ""almost the perfect storm"". He added: ""The price tells you suppliers are looking at the market and saying: 'Is there enough power there?' ""It's rare for it to get this bad."" National Grid admitted the UK's electricity supply was ""a little tight"" but said it was ""completely manageable"". The operator said it was comfortable it had enough power in reserve to keep the lights on. Factories have not been asked to reduce demands on the grid and emergency generating capacity has not been called on. In a statement it said: ""Electricity demand is picking up as we head into autumn, and some power stations are still offline for their summer maintenance programme, which is not unusual at this time of year. ""We are monitoring the situation and have tools and services we can call on if we need them.""",UK wholesale electricity prices for the day ahead shot up as a heatwave in some parts of the country @placeholder push up the demand for power .,helped,growing,picking,plunging,piled,0
"There is not much in Bassingbourn (population 4,000), aside from chocolate-box houses, a couple of pubs, a couple of schools, a newsagent and roadside barrows selling asparagus. But the roar of warplanes and the stamping of military boots have been heard here since World War Two. When the domestic training unit at its barracks shut in 2012, the site was mothballed for months, prompting uncertainty about its future. So, when it was announced that 300 Libyan troops would be stationed there from June 2014, and that eventually 2,000 cadets would come, local people were delighted. The training of Libyan forces was part of an international effort to support the country's democratic transition following the collapse of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime in 2011. But what happened since has ""thrown the village upside down"", said Pat Moore, whose home of 14 years backs on to the barracks on Guise Lane. First there were tales of trainees going missing, being caught wandering in the village and shopping for alcohol at a nearby Tesco store, despite initially not being allowed unescorted outside the gates. Then came the news that the soldiers had been arrested and charged with sex offences after making their way to nearby Cambridge in October. And then came the recriminations. Discipline among the troops had been ""extraordinarily difficult"", said the head of the Army. The government terminated the arrangement and Prime Minister David Cameron told the House of Commons that no Libyans who had been trained at the base should be granted asylum. In December, it emerged the Ministry of Defence had been warned of ""significant immigration, security and reputational risks to the UK"" of allowing Libyan soldiers off the base. Peter Robinson, chairman of Bassingbourn Parish Council, said he had seen photographs of what went on at the base, and had heard allegations of rape among the trainees. ""There was just a lack of control; they could not be disciplined,"" he said. He said the MoD had not allowed evicted community sport groups back on to the base. ""There's a lot of ill feeling now. In the past we've always enjoyed pleasant relations with the barracks,"" said Mr Robinson. ""It won't be the forces that might be stationed there in the future's fault, but they won't be welcomed."" So now, with the base's future once again uncertain, what of those ""reputational risks"" to opinion in Bassingbourn? ""We now hate the MoD,"" said Mrs Moore. ""When we knew they [the Libyan trainees] were running wild, you had to make sure that your doors were locked and there was a time when it was really quite scary. ""It was like letting kids in a sweet shop. They were going mad on the drink."" Recently-retired Mrs Moore and her husband Tom said they first saw the Libyan soldiers when a group came over the fields near their house. After reporting them to the barracks, a number of military vehicles were despatched to look for them. ""The place was like a sieve. There was no security at all outside the actual compound,"" said Mr Moore. ""All of a sudden these trucks came flying past. I flagged them down and said, 'You lost somebody?' They said, 'Yes, we have - there's a bunch of them gone missing'. ""I asked, 'Is this the first night?' And they said, 'To be honest, this has been going on quite a while'. He said in some cases they had been digging under the fence to get out. ""They had vehicles positioned in different areas with soldiers with binoculars trying to look out for them."" Another resident said he saw Libyan men walking along Guise Lane and pointed to a hole in the fence by the barracks' rear gate. The hole has since been covered up, with razor-sharp wire placed on top. Bryn White, who lives with his wife Margaret on Guise Lane, said: ""We saw them running across fields and then we had Transit vans coming down the road trying to gather them up again. ""When they first announced they [the Libyans] were coming we were quite pleased that the barracks were going to be used again. ""But people were getting more and more alarmed and then we got the reports in Cambridge of what had gone on there, which made it a lot worse."" A village hairdresser, who did not want to be named, said customers spoke of soldiers leering at young women jogging in the village; being aggressive to shop staff when they were refused alcohol and hiding from guards in bushes. ""Being in a small little village you wouldn't think anything like that would be going on. We were all really shocked,"" she said. Another resident said trust in the MoD ""would never be the same again"". Mrs Moore said most villagers hoped the base could be used again for troops instead of being sold off for housing, as has happened at nearby Waterbeach, but whatever happens the relationship with the MoD may take years to mend. ""You can't trust them. You can't believe a word they say,"" she said. The MoD has yet to comment on its relationship and reputation within the community. In a report published earlier this year, it said security arrangements at the barracks were ""inadequate"" but concluded ""little could have been done to avert what happened"". After publication, an MoD spokesman said: ""We condemn the incidents that took place in Cambridge and Bassingbourn. ""We accept that communication with the local authorities and community was not good enough and we are now carefully considering how best to implement the report's recommendations.""","The Cambridgeshire village of Bassingbourn and its barracks have a long and deeply intertwined relationship . But does that @placeholder remain , now that Libyan cadets stationed there have been convicted of sex offences in the area ?",affinity,love,miracles,still,link,0
"North Lees Hall, near Hathersage, Derbyshire, inspired Thornfield Hall in the celebrated novel. The Peak District National Park Authority said it expects to charge about £1,200 per month for the three-bedroom property. It appears to be the second time the property has been listed this year. Thornfield Hall was the home of the 1847 novel's hero Edward Rochester. Its real-life counterpart is said to have been visited by Charlotte Bronte several times while staying with a friend. North Lees Hall is, according to an estate agent's blurb, ""situated in spectacular countryside"" with ""stunning historic features of the Elizabethan era"". It has three double bedrooms, two living rooms, and, true to its historic character, also boasts oil-powered central heating. By comparison, the average rental for a three-bedroom house in Bexley, south-east London, is £1,548 per month. It was opened up to the public last year to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the author's birth. The building was taken over by the Peak District National Park Authority after the Vivat Trust, which had managed it since 1988, stopped trading in July 2015. Emma Stone, from the authority, said: ""This is a unique opportunity for someone to live in a beautiful property with huge historical significance. ""It really is a one-of-a-kind with its own quirks and features - living there you could easily imagine you are Mr Rochester and Jane Eyre.""",A Grade II - listed hall that @placeholder Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre has been put up for rent - for less than some London flats .,brings,produced,influenced,contained,lost,2
"The series will cover art's journey on a global scale from prehistoric times to the present day. It is nearly half a century since Kenneth Clark's groundbreaking series Civilisation, about Western art, which will inspire the new commission. Civilisations will cover art from Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. Art historian Schama will present six programmes, while classicist Beard will present two, based on the art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and its Chinese, Iranian and Mexican influences. Historian and writer David Olusoga, who is also making two programmes, will call upon his expertise in empire, military history and the relationships between global cultures. Director general of the BBC Tony Hall said: ""I remember the impact Civilisation had on me when I was in school: it was the start of a lifelong passion for the arts. Inspired by that great programme of the past, we want to excite a new generation."" Beard said: ""I remember watching the original Civilisation with my Mum and Dad and it feels pretty humbling now to be on the other side of the camera. But for me it's also exciting that in Civilisations we will be seeing ancient Greece and Rome in the context of early art across the globe."" Olusoga said it was art on television that inspired him as a youngster: ""When I was growing up on a council estate my family didn't have the money to visit galleries or museums but my mother was able to open up the worlds of art and culture to me through documentaries on the BBC, programmes that broadened my horizons and transformed my view of the world. ""Civilisations is the next chapter in that tradition of TV with the power to change lives."" Civilisations will be shot around the globe, filming in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Alongside the presenters it will also speak to local experts and artists. Filming begins in 2016 and the series is expected to air on BBC Two towards the end of 2017.","Simon Schama , Mary Beard and David Olusoga are to present a major 10 - part BBC Two series on the @placeholder of art called Civilisations .",continent,fate,work,story,subject,3
"""He truly lived and proclaimed the Good News of Jesus Christ and, in doing so, became a role model for all of us. ""As a gifted spiritual leader and communicator, his words touched the hearts of many people, but his ministry was not confined to preaching. ""He walked with his people in their struggles and joys and was most at home out in the streets, parishes and communities of his diocese."" ""Bishop Daly provided an example of priestly ministry which was exemplary, inspired by service of God and the people he encountered. ""His ministry was characterised by his deep love of the people of this diocese, his dedicated visitation of parishes and his constant availability to others. ""The bishops, priests and people of the diocese were blessed to have such a dedicated and faithful priest among them."" ""He was a tremendous force for good throughout the city. ""He would have been very critical of the IRA throughout the 25-year-old conflict. I can understand that as a bishop of a religious order and of a city. ""He was entitled to have an opinion and he was critical of anyone that was involved in the conflict. But, that said at the same time, he was always willing to have conversations about that, he was always willing to look at people's point of view."" ""Bishop Daly's passing will be felt most acutely by those he served tirelessly for almost 40 years. ""Bishop Daly devoted his life to serving and helping others, quietly undertaking a wide range of charitable works in the local community. ""During the darker moments of our recent past Dr Daly made a significant contribution by arguing that violence should be rejected and by articulating a vision based on respect and tolerance."" ""Edward Daly was truly the people's bishop. ""For many outside of Derry, their memory of Bishop Daly will always lie in the iconic image captured on Bloody Sunday. That singular moment captured the man's compassion and courage in the face of violence. It was and remains an image which told the story of his life's work. ""For the people of Derry though, Bishop Daly was iconic for so much more. Our memory will be of a man of many more images not just one."" ""Throughout his long career, he witnessed at first hand many tragedies of the Northern Ireland troubles, but his priority was always to his parishioners, and he was a constant champion of the people of the north west. ""He was an iconic figure in civic life, and he will long be remembered as a cleric who worked tirelessly to promote peace for all. ""I extend my sincere condolences to his entire family circle."" ""As well as being a man of God, Bishop Daly was first and foremost a man of peace. ""He was a key advocate for peace in Northern Ireland over a period of decades. As a pastor in Derry, he strove to heal a divided city. ""He will be greatly missed by all who knew him, but particularly by the people of Derry."" ""He was such a special friend to us, to our family particularly, but not just to our family, but to the whole of this town. ""He was a stalwart throughout his whole life and he did everything he could to help everyone he could. ""For us particularly, for Bloody Sunday, it was such a comfort to know that he was with Jackie in his dying moments."" ""What stands out about Bishop Daly is that he was a towering figure throughout this incredibly traumatic period that we've all lived through. ""I trusted him 100% and I'm privileged to say he also trusted me which meant that at various highly sensitive times in the course of the so-called Troubles I could go to him for guidance, corroboration and direction. ""Some of the things I was able to discuss with him, and he with me, were extremely sensitive."" ""Whilst many will immediately recall the iconic image of him assisting Jackie Duddy on Bloody Sunday, it was only one example of his courage in standing against violence from whatever source throughout the Troubles. ""His work in the 1980s with Church of Ireland Bishop, James Mehaffey, bringing people in the dioceses together to stand against violence has left a lasting legacy in the city to this day, for which both men were recognised only a year ago."" ""He loved the people of Derry and they so loved him and during John's darkest days he knew he could talk to Bishop Daly, he could confide in Bishop Daly. ""That was so necessary at some of those dark, dark moments. In losing Bishop Daly today we have lost such a dear friend. ""Bishop Daly so appreciated the people of Derry, he loved their sense of humour. He admired their tenacity, he admired and empathised with their struggle for justice and he is such a loss to our community."" ""Bishop Edward's attention - at times heroic - to victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, for prisoners and their families, and for all who suffered in any way, was remarkable. ""Even in his years of retirement, he gave generous service to the diocese, both in its archives and in his role as the ever-popular and compassionate chaplain to the Foyle Hospice in Derry.""","Tributes have been @placeholder in for the former Bishop of Derry Edward Daly , who has died at the age of 82 .",unveiled,held,pouring,filled,sworn,2
"Several Scots, including Eilidh Doyle, Lynsey Sharp and Andy Butchart have already met the qualifying standards for the World Championships in August. They require a top-two finish at this weekend's British trials to qualify automatically for Team GB. ""It's probably moving into an unprecedented era,"" Harkins said of the Scottish success. ""People talk about the past when athletics was really good in the 1980s, but from last year and this year we can see that many Scottish athletes are stepping up to the mark and performing with distinction. ""It's not an overnight success, in reality this takes an awful lot of time, hard work and dedication by the athletes and their coaches, and of course their families who support them."" In addition to the two automatic qualifiers, a third place in each event is allocated at the discretion of the British team selectors. Laura Muir, 24, looks set to miss the Birmingham trials after recovering from a foot injury, but will still be selected for the World Championships by virtue of her 1500m Diamond League title in September 2016. Muir hopes to compete in the 1500m and 5,000m in London. ""The exception is if you have won a Diamond League in 2016,"" Harkins said. ""So that would be [Laura Muir], or if you are a defending world champion - then you get a fourth place. ""I would not expect to see Laura at the trials. ""Her selection for the 1500m should be assured. If she wants to do the 1500m and the 5,000m then that would be up to the selectors, I would guess."" The road to London should be straightforward for defending British champion Butchart, since he has already achieved the time needed for the men's 5,000m. The 2016 Rio Olympian also plans to enter the 1500m to aid his preparations for the World Championships. Butchart's participation would boost the Scottish contingent in that event to five, with fellow Olympian Chris O'Hare, Oslo Diamond League-winner Jake Wightman, NCAA champion Josh Kerr, and Neil Gourley already competing. ""This year the pressure is a little bit off because it's only me that's got the standard apart from Mo Farah,"" Butchart said. ""But Mo is not going to be competing this weekend, so it'll just be me. It should be fun and a good event, and it's nice to be back in Birmingham for it. ""We were struggling to find a fast 1500 between now and the World Championships so we thought why not do the double at the British trials and get another race in our legs? ""I'm really looking forward to it, to see how Josh Kerr gets on. He's young and he's ready to go for a good race, but Chris O'Hare and Charlie Grice are going to be hard ones to beat. ""Scots just keep performing year on year - last year was a massive building block for us and this year's going to be even better.""",Scottish Athletics @placeholder director Rodger Harkins believes the sport is at an all - time high in Scotland .,title,news,association,shows,performance,4
"The settlement covers some 3,700 victims who will receive 100,000 yuan ($15,000, £10,400) each and an apology. At a signing ceremony in Beijing, the company expressed its ""sincere apologies"" to the workers. About 40,000 Chinese were brought to Japan in the early 1940s to make up for a domestic labour shortage. Those now eligible for compensation were forced to work at 10 coal mines operated by the company, then known as Mitsubishi Mining Corp. The settlement comes two years after Chinese citizens seeking compensation from Japanese firms filed a case in a Chinese court. Since then, at least two other Japanese construction firms have agreed to compensate victims. Last year, Mitsubishi apologised for using US prisoners of war as forced labour during World War Two. Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the Chinese government was aware of the move. ""The forced recruitment of slave labour was a great crime committed by Japan,"" she said. ""We hope that Japan will take a responsible attitude toward history.""",Japan 's Mitsubishi Materials has agreed a deal with Chinese @placeholder seeking compensation for workers who were used as forced labourers in World War Two .,conduct,investors,showing,groups,helping,3
"Police said a ""scruffy"" white man in his 40s approached the girl on Love Lane at 15:30 BST on Friday, close to Trinity School. Officers said they were ""keeping an open mind"" about a possible link with the attempted abduction of an eight-year-old girl on Tuesday. The girl was cycling on Owen Road when a woman in a car grabbed her arm. Thames Valley Police have said there were ""extra patrols"" in the area. Det Con Snezhanna Lennon said: ""This was a frightening experience for the victim.""",An 11 - year - old girl has been @placeholder three days after an attempted child abduction in Newbury .,killed,named,declared,released,assaulted,4
"The service, provided by the Terrence Higgins Trust for the past 16 years, faces not having its £150,000 contract renewed on 31 March. The county council said it needed to deliver a possible £340m cuts package by 2018. One campaigner said stopping the service would be ""absurd"". Ruari, who has been HIV positive for 15 years, said it had been ""a lifeline"" when he discovered he had the virus and when his partner died. He added the NHS could not provide the same level of service in a 15-minute patient slot and that he himself had had to wait three months for help via a normal GP referral. Jointly funded by the county council and Oxfordshire clinical commissioning group (CCG), the service offers face-to-face support, as well as therapy, prevention resources and respite care. A petition calling for the potential ""dangerous and regressive decision"" to be overturned has been signed by nearly 400 people. The county council, which provides £50,000 of the contract, said it was in the process of saving £290m from 2010 to 2018, and might have to save up to £50m on top of that. The Oxfordshire CCG said it was ""reviewing its options"" regarding its £100,000 funding to the trust. A county council spokesman said: ""More people are living longer healthier lives with HIV and there is less stigma attached to the condition. ""As a result the funding of £50,000 was considered no longer appropriate as service users could avail of other support services provided locally by the county council and their health needs are met by the NHS."" He added no decision had yet been made. The Terrence Higgins Trust said it was ""very concerned"" by the proposals as it would leave ""over 200 people living with HIV with no support services in their area"".",An HIV support service in Oxfordshire could be closed as the county council and the local clinical commissioning group consider @placeholder funding .,renewed,needs,listed,appropriate,withdrawing,4
"The victim was pronounced dead at the scene in Dashwood Avenue, High Wycombe, early on Monday morning. Ashan Hassan, 28, of Dashwood Avenue, has been charged with murder and Usman Ansar, 40, of the same road, has been charged with assisting an offender. Thames Valley Police believe the victim is Zofia Sadowska, 20, from High Wycombe. The force said formal identification had not yet taken place but they were satisfied of her identity. Both men are due to appear before magistrates in High Wycombe later.",Two men have been charged following the death of a woman at a @placeholder in Buckinghamshire .,party,school,property,clinic,constituency,2
"The bird, known officially as LF15, and her partner LM12 bred three chicks in both 2015 and 2016 at the Dunkeld reserve. Lassie arrived back in Scotland on 23 March, six days after her mate. Viewers from around the world have been watching the pair's progress on the Loch of the Lowes live webcam. Charlotte Fleming, Perthshire ranger for the Scottish Wildlife Trust, said: ""LF15 has settled down to begin incubating, and we would expect the egg to hatch in about six weeks' time. ""It's now clear that the pair's attempts at breeding have been a success and they are on track to repeat the hat-trick of chicks that were hatched in both 2015 and 2016.""",A female osprey @placeholder Lassie has laid her first egg of the season at the Scottish Wildlife Trust 's Loch of the Lowes nature reserve .,celebrating,motor,group,nicknamed,based,3
"Now, ahead of the budget on 16 March, the pensions industry is again on the edge of its seat. Amongst the rumours: The chancellor is about to abolish the 25% tax-free lump sum; the maximum annual contribution could be cut to as low as £25,000; or the whole tax relief system could be abolished, in favour of an Isa-style system of tax upfront, but tax free on the way out. So what are the chancellor's options - and which is he likely to favour? At the moment, basic rate taxpayers who pay into a pension get 20% tax relief. Higher rate taxpayers get 40% - and top rate taxpayers get 45%. But higher rate tax relief costs the Treasury some £7bn a year, and clearly favours the well-off. Replacing this with flat-rate relief would be beneficial to most workers, AND save the government money. The lower the figure is set, the better off the Treasury would be, but the smaller the benefit to savers. Options being talked about are 25%, 30%, 33% or, if the chancellor was in generous mood, even 35%. But, as has been pointed out vehemently by the pensions industry, higher and top rate taxpayers stand to lose. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has lobbied hard for this solution, calling it a ""savers' bonus"". But The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has said it would produce little benefit to basic rate taxpayers, especially if set at 25%. Clearly basic rate taxpayers would gain from a flat rate of tax relief, while higher and top rate taxpayers would lose out. But even under the current system, calculating tax relief is a complex matter. Suppose John, a basic rate taxpayer, wants to contribute £8,000 into his pension. To earn that sum, he would have been paid £10,000 gross - ie before tax. The difference - £2000 - is what he gets back in tax relief. £2000 is 20% of the gross, or pre-tax, amount. If John were a 40% taxpayer he would need to make only a £6,000 net payment for a gross contribution of £10,000. His tax relief would be £4,000. The table below provides an indication of how much John would stand to win or lose if we changed to a flat rate system. Top rate taxpayers (45%) stand to lose even more. One idea the Treasury has examined is to make pensions like Individual Savings Accounts, or Isas. Pension savers currently pay no tax on money they put into a pension, but they do pay tax on the money they take out. An Isa system would be the opposite: Income tax would be paid before the money was saved, but it would be tax-free when taken out. If this was chosen, the current 25% tax-free lump sum would also disappear. The huge advantage to this from the Treasury's point of view is that the government would immediately save billions of pounds in up-front tax relief. But to run an Isa system alongside the current system would be horribly complex. And there would be no immediate incentive to encourage people to save more, as the tax benefits would only occur after they had retired. While the former pensions minister, Steve Webb, thinks this option is still a strong possibility, in practice it is unlikely. After all, the title of the Treasury's consultation is: ""Strengthening the incentive to save"". Furthermore one Treasury minister confirmed to the BBC that this will be the main focus of the changes. The amount anyone can save into a pension - and get tax relief - is already capped in two regards: Cutting these limits further would save the Treasury more money. Tom McPhail, pensions expert with Hargreaves Lansdown, thinks a reduction to the Annual Allowance is ""highly likely, possibly down to as low as £25,000"". But reducing it would be difficult for savers who make large contributions near retirement, to catch up on earlier under-funding. As for the Lifetime Allowance, Mr McPhail describes it as a ""perverse irrelevance"", but believes the government may be reluctant to give it up. Many employers offer their staff ""salary sacrifice"". Employees agree to take a smaller salary, in return for increased benefits, including pension contributions. This can mean the employee pays less income tax, while the employer saves on National Insurance contributions. This is widely seen as a loophole, which costs the Treasury a significant amount of revenue. The chancellor could well decide to abolish it, or place restrictions on the way it operates. After an eight-month Treasury consultation - which has the potential to save the government money and improve fairness - it is unlikely the chancellor would choose this option. ""Incredulity meters would explode, jaws would drop and hats would be eaten,"" says Tom McPhail. But equally well, the chancellor may decide not to do anything too radical. Last year's pension reforms are still bedding in, and the government's big idea of auto enrolment has a long way to go. Many small employers, and workers, are struggling to understand those changes. The last thing they want - or the industry can stand - will be another upheaval of the pensions system.","It is less than a year since the government launched what came to be known as the pension "" @placeholder "" - the right for those over 55 to take as much money as they like from their pension pots , subject to tax .",program,act,freedoms,lottery,nonsense,2
"Up to 200 passengers jumped from the train to get back to the platform at Clifton Down station, Bristol. University newspaper Epigram reported students were travelling to a music festival at the time. British Transport Police said they were treating the incident as trespass. Sorcha Bradley, who was on board, said people got off because they felt it was ""the only option"". ""I felt really claustrophobic, I was very scared, I was on the verge of tears,"" she said. ""You expect to get on the train and travel to your destination with no problem. ""We weren't sure if the track was electrified or not so everyone was quite worried, and we were all concerned about another train coming."" A spokeswoman for British Transport Police (BTP) said officers were called to the track at about 15:30 BST following a report of people walking on the line. Its officers helped the group ""off the line and to a place of safety,"" it said. ""We are treating this as a trespass incident - one which caused numerous delays to services in the area and could have put lives in danger - and inquiries are currently under way to identify those involved."" Trains were cancelled between Severn Beach and Bristol for several hours due to the incident. Julian Burnell, of Network Rail, said railway lines were ""inherently dangerous places"", while a Great Western Railway spokesman said railway trespass was a criminal offence carrying a maximum fine of £1,000.","A group of festival - goers "" @placeholder "" on board an overcrowded train had no option but to pull an emergency cord and exit on to the tracks , it has been claimed .",targeted,effect,drowned,trapped,destroyed,3
"One policy comes up quite often: just last week, the Conservatives announced a new set of measures related to school turnaround. That is to say, the aggressive processes used to take schools that have got bad results and turn them into good schools. The usual route for this is the so-called ""sponsor academy programme"". That programme puts private groups - via charities forbidden from profiting from the schools - in charge of them. The first round of them did raise standards at some appalling schools. But it is worth pondering how much difference improving bad schools can make to the rich-poor gap. It is widely known that poor children are more likely to go to weaker schools because our school system is socially segregated, so poorer children do benefit more from turnaround. Take children from the very poorest 1% of England's neighbourhoods - that means the areas with the highest levels of benefit claims. On average, the richest children from the same year at the same state school as those children will come from neighbourhoods in the 55th percentile - just a shade more advantaged than the average. To take this a bit further, you can look at the 6th percentile line. You would roughly expect two of the children in a class of 30 above that line. When you look at that, you find the country's poorest pupils would expect 28 of their 30 classmates to come from roughly the poorest third of neighbourhoods. That is quite significant social segregation. To help visualise it, here is a graph showing the same thing for every child. For example, take a child from the middle of the pile - 50% along the horizontal axis - you can see they would expect to meet no children from roughly the poorest 20% of households or top 15%. The situation for secondary schools is much less stark; secondaries are fewer in number, larger in size and so recruit much more widely. The poorest should not expect to meet the very richest at school, but they do at least get a better spread. Every child can expect to meet children from the top and bottom 15%. That means turnaround is a much more effective policy for closing the rich-poor gap at primary level than at secondary level because the schools are so much more likely to be all-poor. If you had a lever that would successfully turn around the bottom 8% of schools, the effect on children in the poorest quarter of neighbourhoods would be 50% bigger from the primary school programme than for the secondaries. But, given the massive scale of the programme, the movement is not very much for either. The blue line on the graph below shows GCSE results of children from different backgrounds in English, maths and their three best other subjects expressed as a point score - they get eight points for each A* down to one point for a G. You can see that poor children, at left, tend to do much worse than richer children, at right. And the state of the system after that massive, instant turnaround? That's the orange line. Not great. The problem is not that poor children are housed in the relatively small number of very bad schools - it is that they are less likely to go to good schools, in general. So a focus on the very weakest does not do much. Segregation is also not the biggest problem. Social segregation of poorer children into weaker schools accounts for about two of the eight points difference between the richest and poorest 10% of state-educated pupils. The rest of the gap is caused by the fact that poorer kids do worse than their peers even when they go to good schools. Here is a graph which lays that bare. To make it, I've divided up schools into 100 categories, from those getting the weakest results (at left) to the strongest (at right) on the government's rather crude measure of school performance - how many get five Cs at GCSE. You can see the proportion of pupils getting five Cs or better - the orange line - rises smoothly as we go from left to right, from lower to higher performing schools. Then, just below, I've drawn the same line for the same schools in blue. But, this time, it is for poor children only - those eligible for free school meals. You can see how poor children lag everywhere. To close the rich-poor gap, turnaround would help. So would measures to make schools less segregated. But as Mr Milburn's report says, you would still need to focus your attention on all schools. Only a quarter of the gap is segregation. Even in the very strongest schools, those praised by recent education secretaries for their gap-closing, the gap between rich and poor is three to four points - that is roughly the size of the gap between the children that exists when they turn up aged 11. The coalition has introduced new league table measures intended to focus their attention on their poorest students. It's the right idea, but it remains to be seen whether they will work.","How do we open up opportunity for England 's poorer children , in particular ? Alan Milburn , the social @placeholder commissioner , has released a report on the topic .",network,housing,air,health,mobility,4
"We'd been waiting for that. What we did not expect was for him to shoot off across the next 200 metres like a sprinter. We ran behind him, stumbling on the uneven surface. Mr Gupta darted towards an unmanned railway crossing and waving his red flag, quickly shut and locked the gate there. Then he turned towards the train and waved the green flag. The train moved forward, passed the locked gate - and stopped again. Mr Gupta opened the gate and raced back to the driver's cabin, with us closely behind. He could do this up to 16 times over a distance of 68km (42 miles), on a one-way journey. ""It's what I do. I'm the mobile gatekeeper,"" he says. Some 11,500 of the more than 30,000 railway crossings in India are unmanned. Nearly 40% of train-related accidents and two-thirds of deaths on railway tracks - usually happens when people are crossing them - take place at these unmanned crossings. The railways' response has been to shut down as many unmanned crossings as it can rather than staff them with gatekeepers. Or to create 'mobile gatekeepers' like Mr Gupta to do the work of many. We are travelling on the crowded Dhamtari passenger train in the central state of Chhattisgarh. The slow narrow gauge train is better known as the ""labour train"" for it ferries hundreds of migrant workers from nearby villages to the state capital, Raipur, in search of work. It's a nine-station journey from Dhamtari to Telibandha, the last narrow gauge stop in Raipur. Only two or three of some 19 railway gates on the route are manned. ""My job is to open and shut the gates. I enjoy my work,"" says Mr Gupta, who earns less than 20,000 rupees ($331; £205) a month. ""Earlier there used to be permanent gatekeepers for these crossings, but now I have been appointed as the mobile gatekeeper. I used to lay and maintain railway tracks, but I was promoted to this position two years ago."" In the early stations on the route, a ""mobile gatekeeper"" can board one of the rear coaches after seeing the train through at one of the railway gates. With the train yet to fill up, he can sit comfortably. As the train nears Raipur, though, he hasn't a chance of squeezing in. So he has to run up to the driver's cabin and stand there till the next railway gate. India's state-run railways runs more than 12,000 trains, carrying some 23 million passengers daily. Venu P Nair of the National Railway Mazdoor Union (NRMU), a union of railway workers, says the railways have a sanctioned strength of 1.3 million employees, but nearly 200,000 posts are lying vacant and no hiring is taking place though the number of trains has increased as have stations, booking counters and rail tracks. The ""mobile"" role Mr Gupta has been given is a way of keeping recruitment down, unions say. Back on the seven-coach ""labour train"", there are probably twice the number of passengers against its capacity of 400 commuters. They are hanging on at the sides, back and even in the spaces between coaches. ""You should see the train by the time we near Raipur,"" says one worker. ""Then it gets full up at the top as well."" The passengers are entertained by the sight of the two of us, with video cameras, chasing after Mr Gupta at each unmanned railway crossing. ""It's a film shooting,"" declares one, wedged between two compartments. ""They're from Bollywood."" ""So who's the hero?"" yells his companion. ""Never mind the damn hero,"" shouts a third. ""Show us the heroine."" But they talk to us patiently at the stations. Every passenger is a work-seeking migrant from the scores of villages in the region where farming is in a shambles. Why take the train, we ask? With this sort of crowding, you must be exhausted by the time you reach Raipur? ""The train ticket from Dhamtari to Raipur costs just 20 rupees. The bus fare for the same route costs more than three times that.  Journeying both ways by bus could cost more than half of our daily wages,"" says a passenger. ""In the morning train,"" says engine driver Venugopal, ""the maximum passengers are labourers. People from the interior villages board this train and go to Raipur for daily wage work and return in the evening train every day."" ""It's very hard,"" says Rohit Nawrangey, at the Kendri station. He is a labourer who does that journey every now and then, despite owning a tiny bicycle repair shop in Kendri village. ""You can't make enough here to survive,"" he says. Mr Gupta, however, is totally focused on his work, readying for the next gate. ""Open and shut,"" he says, smiling. P Sainath is an independent journalist and author of Everybody Loves A Good Drought","When Kanhaiyalal Gupta jumped off from the engine driver 's cabin with a pair of red and green flags in his @placeholder , we got off the slowing train too .",arms,constituency,hands,hair,name,2
"Wales have been drawn against England, Russia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kazakhstan in their qualifying pool for the 2019 Women's World Cup. In her BBC column, midfielder Jess Fishlock gives her reaction to the news and assesses Wales' prospects. People will talk about the matches against England and we're always going to enjoy playing against a team like them. It's a home nations game and it's going to be great, but equally we have to be realistic and play the game and not play the occasion. I understand why people would have the outlook on life that we're playing for second place and I get it. England are fourth in the world rankings and we are 35th, but I don't really think the rankings mean anything at all. I've seen England struggle against Belarus and other teams that have caused them problems. I fully believe we can cause England problems and can frustrate them if we get our tactics and our game plan right. Is it a write-off that England will beat us? No, absolutely not and I don't care what the rankings say - that is not real life. I also don't think it's a shoo-in that it's England's group for the taking. But you've got to do it on that day or on that night whether it's in Wales or Russia. Against England you never know. I worked with Mark Sampson at Bristol and he's a great bloke and a great manager. He's got a happy group and a happy camp and he's a good guy. We've spoken a couple of times but I doubt he has much time for old colleagues. But that doesn't change the fact that when we play them, we want to beat them. One thing you can say about Mark is he focuses on the team spirit and making it a good and happy place to be. That helped them reach the 2015 World Cup semi-finals. Media playback is not supported on this device It's very similar for us under [Wales manager] Jayne Ludlow. She focuses on our spirit, character and mentality and when you get that right, your football is better. That approach has been successful and I hope it is more successful in this campaign so we can push for qualification. Four of Wales' opening five matches are away from home and it is a tough start. Russia, Kazakhstan and Bosnia can be very difficult destinations, but we've just got to make sure we get our preparations and mentality right to perform well away from home. We can be confident when we play the likes of Russia and Bosnia and Kazakhstan, but it's the logistics, the travel, the food - that type of stuff - that we must be able to deal with. That'll be down to us and. We've got a good group and if we can overcome any off-field issues then we can be pretty confident. There is no doubt in my mind we can get in the top two. We have the players for that, we have the squad for that and we have the staff to get us there and if we don't do that, then it will be a big disappointment. The away form will be vital. It was the bit that really cost us in our 2017 European Championship qualifiers. We lost our first game away against Austria and then went to Israel and drew. At home we had great games against those teams but it was just our early away form that cost us. We have to make sure that's right if we want to get through the World Cup campaign to get to France in 2019. I love playing for my country and I've committed to this campaign and I'll try and get there with everything that I can. It's hard with our season over here in the USA [where the seasons begin in April and end in August] because they don't stop the league for Fifa dates so it's hard to get time away during the season. But I'm 100% committed to this Wales campaign and to be there with the team at the right times at the most important times and help us qualify.","I think it 's a tricky draw , but a good one . The travel we must do is not ideal , but I definitely feel we could have @placeholder something a lot worse and we can be pretty confident going into it .",chosen,found,fallen,faced,achieved,3
"The ammunition, found several weeks ago by other officers, is believed to be from the force's own supplies. The officer is from the unit protecting the Royal Household but does not guard any individual Royal Family member. He is being questioned on suspicion of misconduct in public office and unlawful possession of ammunition. He is in custody at a London police station and will be suspended from duty. Investigators have been searching the officer's home address and the police building where the ammunition was found. The Royal household is aware of the ongoing investigation and the Independent Police Complaints Commission has been informed, police said. Assistant commissioner Mark Rowley announced last week that the Metropolitan Police was reorganising its Protection Command to improve operational efficiency.","A Royal Protection officer has been arrested over ammunition found in personal lockers in Buckingham Palace 's @placeholder , the Metropolitan Police said .",grounds,peninsula,ballroom,future,membership,0
"SuperGroup, the firm's owner, confirmed Julian Dunkerton had completed the sale of four million shares at £12 per share. Mr Dunkerton, who founded the firm in 1985 from a market stall in Cheltenham, will still be the largest shareholder with a 27% stake in the group. Shares in the retailer, famous for its hoodie tops and t-shirts, fell by 6%. Superdry products are sold in over 100 countries and the company runs around 135 stores in the UK. Mr Dunkerton is the group's product and brand director after stepping down as its CEO in October 2014. He was replaced by Euan Sutherland, the former boss at the Co-op, in a move aimed at boosting the operational capabilities of the business.",The founder of @placeholder chain Superdry has sold - off just under £ 50 m worth of shares to fund his divorce .,prop,food,fashion,involvement,intelligence,2
"Thai police dropped the investigation into Patnaree Chankij after an international outcry earlier this year. But the country's attorney general decided to press charges against her under Thailand's lese majeste laws. The 40-year-old had responded to a message critical of the monarchy with ""ja"" (""yeah"" or ""I see"" in Thai). Read more on Patnaree Chankij's case Thailand's lese majeste laws explained The ways to get arrested for lese-majeste in Thailand Patnaree Chankij is the mother of a prominent student activist in Thailand, Sirawith Seritwat. Thailand is holding a referendum next week on whether to accept a new constitution. Sirawith Seritwat has been among those calling for a rejection of the new document.",A woman has been charged in Thailand over a single word @placeholder in response to a Facebook posting critical of the royal family .,house,used,spot,wanted,resulted,1
"The Nightly Show will be launched next year and will be fronted by a different guest presenter every week. Author and comedian David Walliams will host the first week, with more presenters due to be announced soon. The show will go out at 22:00 five nights a week, with the News at Ten pushed back to 22:30 during The Nightly Show's initial eight-week run. The news will move back to its regular slot when The Nightly Show finishes its run. Earlier this year, ITV said it had ""no plans to permanently move the news from the 10pm slot"". Walliams said he was ""thrilled to be the first host for this brand new show"". ITV said the series would feature a ""high tempo mixture of topical monologue, studio games, celebrity guests, experts and VTs [pre-recorded items]"". Episodes will be recorded in London at 18:00 on the evening they are broadcast. Peter Davey, ITV's head of comedy entertainment, said: ""We're really excited about launching this bold new show, and delighted that David will kick off what will be an eight-week entertainment treat for viewers."" Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",ITV is to move it s News at Ten back to make @placeholder for a new daily entertainment programme .,side,deal,home,room,changes,3
"Kirklees Council voted in October to close the Grade II-listed Dewsbury Museum in West Yorkshire. The authority is due to close a second museum, the Red House in Gomersal - which has close links to the Brontes, on 21 December. It said it did not want to close Dewsbury Museum but had to make austerity savings. The museum, which opened in 1896 features a toy gallery and a 1940s classroom. Museum Heritage Manager Linda Levick said: ""We've had a lot of visitors coming to say goodbye on our last day, which is nice but sad."" Kirklees Council said the Dewsbury Museum and Red House closures are part of its museums service reorganisation, which will save £531,000. The council will now see if anyone is willing to take over the running of the building and a decision will be announced next year. However, if no-one comes forward with a viable plan the building may be sold on the open market. Councillor Graham Turner said: ""The council did not want to be in this position. Nobody wants to close museums but we do need to react to these times of austerity and make savings. ""I am sorry people will no longer be able to access these museums, but I can assure you we will do everything possible to look after the collections."" He added: ""Museums are not just about buildings, it's about using the collections to tell the story of our past and how they influence what we do today."" The café will remain open, along with the greenhouse and playground. An information pack about running the building will be available from the end of November.",A museum which was @placeholder at a cost of £ 1 m in 2010 has been closed because of austerity cuts .,renovated,introduced,erected,valued,aimed,0
"Friends of Otley Lido has announced an exclusivity deal with Leeds City Council, which owns the site. The group said it now has 12 months to form plans to raise £5 million needed to bring the lido back to life. Leonie Sharp of Friends of Otley Lido said the plan was to heat the pool with hydro-electric power. The West Yorkshire lido closed in 1993 and became a leisure venue for several years before gradually declining and closing to the public. Ms Sharp said: ""There's no likelihood that we'll be be swimming there in the short term, but the plan is to restore this as an outdoor swimming pool for the local community. ""We plan on having a heated swimming pool, ideally heated from hydro-electric power which would make it economically viable and sustainable."" Supporters wore bathing suits for the announcement at Wharfemeadows Park on Saturday. Friends of Otley Lido, established in 2015, said the site had become ""something of an eyesore, spoiling its picturesque riverside location"". The group said the recent floods caused further damage to the site, and part of the retaining wall had collapsed. There is another lido on the edge of Ilkley Moor, six miles away, which was flooded when the River Wharfe burst its banks in December. Ilkley lido's main pool is freshwater and unheated, with a lawn for sunbathing and picnicking, and an indoor heated pool.","A lido which closed 26 years ago could be @placeholder with a heated pool , a community group has said .",lodged,held,reopened,replaced,fitted,2
"The announcement was made after several hours of negotiations on Saturday. Senior aides to the two countries' leaders met at the Panmunjom truce village on the border. North Korea had threatened ""strong military action"" if the South did not stop border loudspeaker broadcasts that had provoked a ""semi-state of war"". The two sides have agreed to meet again on Sunday afternoon to ""narrow down  differences"" as overnight talks were finally wound up after nearly 10 hours of  negotiations. No media organisations were present at the talks, which took place inside the Demilitarised Zone which divides the two Koreas. South Korea said ahead of the talks that it would be represented by national security adviser Kim Kwan-jin and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo, and the North would send senior officials Hwang Pyong-so and Kim Yong-gon. Mr Hwang is seen by many analysts as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's second-in-command. North Korea had earlier issued a deadline for the dismantling of banks of loudspeakers, which have been blasting news bulletins, weather forecasts and music from the South. It had moved artillery into positions to fire on them. South Korea has evacuated almost 4,000 residents from border areas and warned that it would ""retaliate harshly"". Each side is represented by two members of the inner circle of the leaderships in Pyongyang and Seoul. The difficulty is that they cannot even agree on the facts of the events which led to the current state of heightened tension. It started when two South Korean soldiers were seriously injured by landmines in the so-called Demilitarized Zone between the two countries. South Korea said North Korea planted the mines; North Korea said that was absurd. Both sides say the other then fired the first shot in the artillery barrages. The talks will not diminish the fierceness of the rhetoric between the two halves of Korea, but they may find a way for both sides to walk away safely from a dangerous situation before it explodes. US and South Korean fighter jets have been flying in formation near the border. The US's top military officer has reaffirmed his country's ""unwavering commitment"" to South Korea's defence in a phone call to his South Korean counterpart. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey and South Korea's Admiral Choi Yoon-hee agreed they would ""ensure that the US and [South Korea] continue to work closely with one another to deter further North Korean provocations and defuse tensions,"" a Pentagon statement said. The two Koreas remain technically at war, because the 1950-1953 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. In 2004, South Korea and North Korea reached an agreement to dismantle their propaganda loudspeakers at the border. The broadcasts were part of a programme of psychological warfare, according to South Korean newspaper Korea Times, to deliver outside news so that North Korean soldiers and border-area residents could hear it. Mobilising the propagandists in North Korea","North and South Korea are to hold a second round of top - level talks on Sunday to defuse @placeholder tension , officials from the South say .",credits,group,growing,action,team,2
"More than 300 bags of rubbish were gathered during the beach cleans at Dun Canna, north of Ullapool. The tins were from factory ships, known as klondykers, which would anchor in Loch Broom off Ullapool to process mackerel in the 1970s to early 90s. Almost 50 volunteers were involved in collecting the rubbish. The effort was part of the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Living Seas project.",Tin cans from Soviet - era fish factory ships have been found among rubbish @placeholder from two shorelines in the north west Highlands .,vanish,benefit,arriving,bags,cleared,4
"Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died in hospital on 12 April after becoming unwell. Police said the tablets were believed to contain dinitrophenol, known as DNP, an industrial chemical. Her friend, who wants to remain anonymous, says Ms Parry had begged doctors for help. She said she thought it would be in the public interest for an investigation to take place into the care Ms Parry received, ""to make sure that everything was done to help Eloise, to make sure that if there is another person in her situation we can learn from this"". The Glyndwr University student had initially attended A&E after taking more than the recommended dose of the tablets. The friend explained: ""She took four pills at 4am and then when she woke up she took another four. But she had pushed her body to be able tolerate this and then she pushed it over the edge. She did not intend to kill herself, she did not want to die. ""She sent me a text message saying that she knew she was going to die a few hours before she died and she was alone. ""She knew she was going to die, and she was alone and she was scared. I was about to board a plane and by the time I'd got home she was dead."" The friend said Ms Parry had been in the mental health system since at least the age of 16, she had been diagnosed with a mental health disorder and took medication daily. She had a social worker and regular GP check-ups. But she said Ms Parry needed more help. ""They were very aware. She was definitely on their radar. She did not fly under the radar. Everyone was aware of her problems. There was no secrecy. ""I think she needed to be an inpatient, she could no longer keep herself safe. Medical professionals have a duty of care to keep people safe who cannot keep themselves safe. ""I was with her when she told medical staff that she could no longer keep herself safe and that she needed their help."" Last week, Ms Parry's mother Fiona told Victoria Derbyshire it was ""an awful way to die"" and people should not take the drug ""in any quantity"". An inquest has been opened and adjourned until 2 July by Shropshire coroner John Ellery after a hearing in Shrewsbury. The Wrexham Maelor hospital said it was unable to comment on the case. The Royal Shrewsbury hospital said Ms Parry sadly died when staff were unable to save her and they would be contributing to the inquest. The director of public health in Shropshire, who is responsible for mental health teams and social workers, said they would work with the coroner. West Mercia Police have now obtained Ms Parry's laptop and phone and said they were investigating where the pills came from. Listen to PM on BBC Radio 4 at 17.00 BST. Victoria Derbyshire is broadcast weekdays from 09:15-11:00 BST on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel. Follow the programme on Facebook and Twitter, and find all our content online.",The best friend of a student thought to have died after taking toxic diet pills @placeholder online says she was failed by doctors .,written,bought,documents,evidence,overturned,1
"Kaitlyn Regehr, 30, was travelling home on the 207 bus towards Acton on 6 October when a man grabbed her. She posted an appeal on social media asking people ""to help me find this awesome dude so I can buy him a pint"". The Met Police said they were investigating an allegation of sexual assault and no arrests had been made. Ms Regehr said: ""I was heading home on the 207 and a man grabbed my bum and I moved out of the way. ""Someone saw it and he called the guy out loudly enough for the whole bus to hear and said, 'do you have women in your life? That could be your mother, that could be your sister; she is someone's sister'."" Ms Regehr, a writer and documentary filmmaker, posted her story on Facebook and Instagram. It has received more than 42,000 likes and been shared more than 22,000 times. In the post she wrote: ""I thank you not just because you stood up for me, or because you made me feel safe, but because on your transit home - in this big, potentially anonymous city - you humanised assault. ""You didn't turn away. You took a stand. You said something."" Ms Regehr reported the assault to the police, but said she initially felt reluctant to share her story. ""I just spoke to them and they are looking at CCTV, and in a way - because I didn't see the attack - I said to the police I felt silly reporting it,"" she said. ""But the police were adamant they want to take a stand against it, especially on public transport."" Ms Regehr said she had been on the 207 bus since the assault, but she had not seen the man who helped her. ""The post is being widely shared and people in my neighbourhood are also sharing it - but I have not found the Good Samaritan yet,"" she said. In a statement, the Met Police said detectives were investigating an allegation of sexual assault on a woman on a route 207 bus at about 22:50 BST on 6 October. No arrests have been made and enquires continue, officers said.",A woman who was sexually assaulted on a bus in west London has made an appeal on social media to find a Good Samaritan who @placeholder .,is,fled,died,intervened,feared,3
"Watching him in conversation with Eamonn Mallie for Monday night's BBC documentary Paisley: Genesis to Revelation remains spellbinding, as the ex-DUP leader treats us to his full range from charming humour, through to belligerent defence of the apparently indefensible. His account of his long career from a preacher in gospel mission halls to the dominant unionist leader is punctuated by Eamonn Mallie reminding him of a string of extreme utterances - some Lord Bannside defends, others he has trouble recalling. There is acknowledgment that the old unionist failure to distribute housing fairly and the practice of gerrymandering councils was wrong. The former first minister also backs David Cameron's apology over the Bloody Sunday shootings. However there is no backing away from his role in setting up the paramilitary Third Force and a jaw-dropping comment on the UVF Dublin and Monaghan bombings, in which Lord Bannside says the political leaders of the Irish Republic ""brought it on themselves"". The sense in which Ian Paisley can be considered as much an Ulster nationalist as a unionist is conveyed by his contempt for most of the British secretaries of state he dealt with. John Major might not be impressed by Lord Bannside's description of the mortar attack on his cabinet as they sat inside Downing Street as ""a cracker for the IRA"". The second Eamonn Mallie programme may cause more ripples for contemporary politics as Ian Paisley expands on his resignation as DUP leader and removal as Free Presbyterian moderator - developments which he refers to in Monday night's programme as  being ""kicked in the gutter"" and ""chased out of the church"". However, there is much to ponder in this first programme, including hints at tensions behind the scenes with Peter Robinson whose notorious Clontibret ""incursion"" - in Paisley's view - should not have occurred. At one point, whilst watching the young Paisley protesting about flags (an Irish tricolour on the Falls Road) and leading marches though the centre of Belfast, I wondered which contemporary firebrand might be regaling us with his (or her) memoirs in another 40 years time. We'll have to wait and see, but to watch Ian Paisley you don't have long to wait - the documentary is on BBC1 Northern Ireland at 10.30 pm on Monday night.","It may be five and a half years since Ian Paisley stood down as Stormont 's first minister , but there is no doubt the ' Big Man ' is still box @placeholder .",history,office,name,interest,life,1
"UK government papers from 30 years ago, released by the National Archive, include briefings from David Willetts. He said Scotland benefited from £900m ""over-provision"" compared with England. At the time he was serving in the Number 10 Policy Unit.  He later served as a minister under David Cameron and is now a Conservative peer. In a briefing he wrote for the prime minister, dated 8 January 1986, he said Scotland was a ""juicy target"" for the Treasury to ""pursue"". But he also noted that George Younger - who was Secretary of State for Scotland at the time - was ""reported to be very 'emotional' on the subject"" of cuts and ""may well threaten to resign"" at the prospect. In another document, from the 12 February 1986, he said the position of the Tories in Scotland was ""so bad that it might not deteriorate any further"", and that the ""envious North of England"" might ""welcome an attack on the pampered Scots"", leading to more votes for the Tories. Commenting on the release of the files, SNP MP Stewart Hosie said: ""No one will be surprised at secret Tory plots to slash Scotland's budget."" He added: ""To describe Scotland as 'pampered' and  a 'juicy target' may go some way to explaining why the Tories were wiped out in Scotland.""","An advisor to Margaret Thatcher argued that the "" pampered Scots "" were a "" juicy target "" for spending cuts , according to newly - released @placeholder .",records,reports,data,groups,estimates,0
"The £60m Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre will be located at the University of Manchester. Mr Osborne said it would enable graphene products to be fast tracked from the drawing board to the market. It is designed to complement the National Graphene Institute (NGI) under construction and due to open next year. How sticky tape trick led to Nobel Prize The NGI is also located at the University of Manchester. Mr Osborne said the new centre alongside the NGI put Manchester and the UK in pole position to ""lead the world"" in graphene technology. He said its properties made it ""one of the most important commercial scientific breakthroughs in recent memory"". ""It presents tremendous opportunities with the potential to provide thousands of jobs and billions of pounds of further investment,"" he added. Half of the cash for the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre is coming from clean technology and renewable energy company Masdar based in Abu Dhabi. Graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms packed in a honeycomb structure. It has a range of applications, from drugs that can be delivered to specific cells, to bendable smartphones. Graphene was isolated for the first time in 2004 by Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester. They were awarded the Nobel Prize for their research is 2010.","A second centre for research into "" wonder - material "" graphene is to be @placeholder in Manchester , Chancellor George Osborne has announced .",published,built,introduced,sold,unveiled,1
"Dozens of those taking part in the 88-mile (142km) Wiggle Etape Cymru ride through Wrexham and Denbighshire on Sunday suffered punctures. Organisers of the event said the action was a danger to riders on the day and a menace for drivers for weeks to come. Wrexham council said the event was ""hugely successful"" despite this. The event, in its third year, began and ended at Bangor-on-Dee racecourse, Wrexham, after taking in the Horseshoe Pass in a challenging route involving thousands of metres of climbing. The ride closes some roads for up to eight hours which organisers suspect may be the reason behind the incident. Nick Rusling, of event organisers Human Race, said he understood the temporary closures were ""an inconvenience to some"" but hoped people would find the ""positives outweigh the negatives"". He said: ""It's understandable that this event is not for everyone and it can be disruptive but this event does much for the local economy. ""It's a unique experience for the riders. People come from miles to do it and spend money in the region. It would be foolish to try and sabotage it."" He said the organisers worked with agencies and local people to ensure those who had to make trips along the route on the day such as carers, the elderly and farmers had a motorcycle marshal to accompany them. He added: ""We do understand that it can be prohibitive but it's one day a year with plenty of notice. ""The police were on hand to remove the bulk of the tacks but a lot will stay on the road and affect local people for weeks to come. It's not just the cyclists."" Mr Rusling said a motorbike safety marshal was put out of action after getting a puncture. Wrexham council said it was looking forward to the event's return next year. It said: ""It is obviously disappointing that a small minority attempted to spoil what was a fantastic event. ""We hope that North Wales Police find those who were responsible. ""But this should not detract from what was a hugely successful event that attracted 2,000 cyclists from all over the country."" Clwyd South MP Susan Elan Jones called for those responsible for throwing the nails and tacks to be prosecuted. She said: ""Most people in our area will want to see the thugs behind these appalling acts dealt with properly. We need to have zero tolerance for this sort of yobbish behaviour.""","Saboteurs @placeholder a bicycle event featuring 2,000 riders by throwing tacks and nails on the route in three separate places .",issued,produced,sparked,started,targeted,4
"New York, London, Milan and Cape Town are some of the cities that come to her mind when asked where she would like to see her designs 10 years from now. As a matter of fact, some of her clothes were already shown in the UK capital last year, during the Africa Fashion Week, but she is convinced that this is just the beginning. ""Everywhere where fashion is, I want to be there, and I see myself making it. I'm not doubting on that one. I dream big and I'm dreaming in colour,"" she told the BBC's series African Dream. According to the designer, her passion for fashion was already there as a child when she loved to play with fabrics in the southern city of Blantyre, where she grew up. ""I'd say fashion, I was born with it. I started when I was young, at the age of six. My mum would bath me and dress me, and I would totally change the design of the dress,"" she remembers. ""As I grew older, people liked what I was designing, what I was wearing, so that inspired me and I started working on other people."" She had two second-hand sewing machines that belonged to her mother and she started off with a tailoring business, when she was 24, but she says that fashion designing was still ""a mere hobby"". That hobby, however, helped her to launch her career when she won the Malawi Fashion Edition (FAME) award as country's best fashion designer three years ago. ""I never thought I was a designer until 2010 that I had a lot of clients and I'd design for Miss Malawi, I'd design for quite a lot of people,"" Mrs Alfonso told BBC Africa's Raphael Tenthani. These days her studio - located in her house in an upmarket suburb of the capital, Lilongwe - is a bastion of activity as people organising weddings and other events troop to her for advice. Although designer clothes are not cheap anywhere in the world, Mrs Alfonso says that her prices depend on the client that she is working for. If the product is going to Europe, for example, she knows that she can ask for more money if she uses higher quality fabrics. Back home, however, she can be more flexible with her pricing. ""Our economy right now is not really doing well so… I always use any reasonable resources to accommodate my country, for the people that can't afford the other fabrics, but I still design the same design,"" she explained. Recently, Malawi's currency, the kwacha, lost almost half its value and this has put a strain on the running of businesses. Also, the inflation rate is hovering at around 33% while bank-lending rates are at about 40% in the southern African country. All these factors are presenting extra challenges for people who, like Mrs Alfonso, want to expand their businesses. ""I'm having problems with raising the money to have massive production… to be able to reach my goal, I still need extra 10 machines,"" she said. ""The prices of the fabric have been changing, the prices of everything have been changing; keeping the staff has been a problem because of how to balance up with the economy as it is,"" added young entrepreneur, who has seven employees and many other weavers and tie-dye fabric designers. Despite these challenges, Mrs Alfonso encourages other people to pursue their dreams and start their own businesses. ""I'd advise everybody who has any talent - it's not only in fashion - I'd advise everybody to believe in themselves, and do whatever it takes to make it happen for them because God gives us this blessing but it's only us to start acting on it. ""So if you know that you can do it, don't stop it; no matter how criticism is, work on it because criticism is what makes us best. Believe in yourself and do it, and go for it"". Now that she is 33 and has two daughters, she also recommends parents to support their children's creativity. ""If you see that your child is gifted in a particular area - encourage them to pursue that alongside school. ""If you see a gift in a child - they need to research on that particular field and support the child in every way,"" the award-winning designer who liked playing with fabrics at the age of six said. If you have any questions for Lilly Alfonso, please join her in a live Q&A on the BBC Africa Facebook page from 1600 - 1700GMT on Friday 22 February. African Dream is broadcast on the BBC Focus on Africa radio programme every Thursday afternoon, and on BBC World News throughout the day on Fridays Every week, one successful business man or woman will explain how they started off and what others could learn from them.",Malawi 's Lilly Alfonso dreams about her @placeholder in colours as vibrant as those of the clothes she makes .,future,dress,life,death,experiences,0
"The 50-year-old homeless man was declared dead by a senior doctor in the Indian city and sent immediately to the mortuary - against hospital rules. Patients pronounced dead are supposed to be kept on the ward for two hours in case the doctor has made an error. Doctors said the man, named as Prakash, had a metabolic disorder and was delirious when police brought him in. Local media reported that he was found unconscious at a bus stop. Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Dr Suleman Merchant, the dean of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, said Prakash was an alcoholic who had ""neglected himself"" and had maggots on his face and ears. ""Maggots eat human tissues. Usually dead bodies have maggots. He must have been lying around for at least six or seven days,"" said Dr Merchant. He told reporters that the doctor who examined Prakash had checked the patient's pulse, respiration, and heart. Dr Merchant said the hospital had launched an inquiry into the breach of protocol that led Prakash to be taken immediately to the mortuary. Prakash is in a stable condition in the hospital's intensive care unit where he is being treated for an ear infection and malnourishment, Dr Merchant said.",Mortuary staff in Mumbai were given a big surprise when a man @placeholder up shortly before a post-mortem examination .,woke,set,walked,blew,pulled,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device And this season they swept the board at the Scottish Curling Championships. Eve led her rink to the women's title, younger brother Glen was part of the victorious Brewster rink taking the men's title, and dad Gordon lifted the men's senior title. It means all three will represent Scotland at their respective World Championships - with Eve's team up first when they head to Canada for the worlds starting on the 19th of March. They go in great form and feeling confident. ''We're really looking forward to the Worlds,"" Eve told BBC Scotland. ""When you get the chance to play at the World Championships in Canada - the atmosphere, everything is just fantastic. I know Swift Current (the host city for this year's competition) where I've been before, I got silver the last time so I definitely want to make that one better and get that gold.'' Eve's success is well documented - in 2014 she led her team to an Olympic bronze medal at the Sochi Games. The aforementioned silver at the World Championships in 2010 was bettered by a gold in Riga three year later. There's no doubt the 25-year-old's achievements have come as a result of hard work, but there's one person who she credits for putting her on the road to success - dad Gordon. ''What was really important was that we were never pushed in to it. It was our choice to go and I think that's why we enjoy it more because we turned up and we actually wanted to play and we weren't forced to play.'' Eve and her siblings Glen and Thomas started curling from an early age at Pitlochry Ice Rink. ''I remember me and my brothers just threw stone after stone. We were never off the ice and dad had to drag us away at 10 o'clock at night because we had school the next day. So from a young age that's what we knew what we wanted to do.'' Gordon Muirhead gladly accepts the role he played in introducing his family to the sport. ''When they were little kids I was on the tour and on the circuit in Scotland and they got dragged along, so they were exposed to curling at an early age, and then by the time they were six or seven you could see they were taking an interest. As soon as they were big enough to get the stone up the ice they were on the ice at our local club.'' The eldest Muirhead son, Glen, remembers his introduction to curling with a smile. ''We were born and brought up on it. You're watching your dad succeed and then I started watching my sister succeed and I was winning junior titles, so your goal was just to move that one step higher as you progress in the sport.'' Glen will compete at the men's World Championships in Switzerland next month, and would surely love to emulate dad's success on the world stage. Gordon was alternate for the gold medal-winning Scottish team at the 1999 Championships in New Brunswick, and won silver medals at the World Championships in 1992, 1993 and 1995. Both Eve and Glen refer to their dad as ''an inspiration'', and admit his success helps drive them on in their own careers. ''I think it spurs you on as an individual because you want to go and maybe get one better - so you've got those little bragging rights,"" says Eve. ""You want to get more medals and it makes it lots of fun.'' Glen is also full of compliments for the man who introduced him to the sport - but surprisingly he says he does not feel extra pressure being part of the one of the countries most famous curling clans. ''Maybe it's underlying but I don't think it actually comes to the surface, it's not a pressure that's going to affect me apart from maybe a few sly remarks around the dinner table. But on the whole we're all chuffed to bits for each other and we'll just enjoy it and do the best we can.'' One thing you will not see the Muirheads doing is competing on the same team. Gordon says they tried it once but it is not to be repeated because ''it soon became evident that we were all pretty strong minded.''",The saying '' Keeping it in the family '' could have been made for the Muirheads . Curling is their passion and their @placeholder .,destiny,minds,forte,walls,status,2
"The Big Hoot has seen 89 owls, 5ft 5ins (165cm) tall and individually designed by professional and amateur artists, perch around the city for 10 weeks. An app to accompany the project was downloaded over 13,000 times and people have scanned the owls with phones more than 323,000 times, organisers said. The owls will eventually be auctioned for Birmingham Children's Hospital. They will go on public display again at Millennium Point on 10 and 11 October, before the auction on 15 October. It is hoped the sale will raise £500,000 for the children's hospital. Louise McCaffrey, director of fundraising at the hospital, said: ""We knew it was going to be adopted and loved by the people of Birmingham, but the success of it is more than we could have hoped for."" Schools designed 122 smaller owls which will not be auctioned off, but returned to them as mementos.","Huge decorated owls , part of a city - wide art @placeholder , will be removed from positions around Birmingham later .",deal,movement,uncertainty,field,exhibition,4
"They were alerted after a 14-year-old boy was abused by a De La Salle brother at Rubane House. The details were revealed at the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry. A total of 13 Northern Ireland institutions are being investigated. On Thursday, the inquiry heard that the order removed the perpetrator from the home and he was eventually expelled from the order. An investigation by the De La Salle Irish headquarters deemed the incident ""extremely grave"" and concluded that the brother ""would never again be allowed to have any contact with boys in any school"". In a letter to Rome, seeking the brother's dispensation from the order, he was described as having engaged in ""grave immoral actions with a number of young boys"". The 1964 letter also described him as ""a positive danger to young boys"". The inquiry also heard that details of the abuse were known at police headquarters in Belfast, but the brother was not prosecuted as he had moved to the Republic of Ireland. A Ministry of Home Affairs letter from the time, read to the inquiry, concluded that ""all concerned believed these were isolated incidents"". Another departmental letter, linked to the incident, was marked ""secret"" and in the Northern Ireland Public Records Office, it was labelled ""closed to public"". In an opening submission on behalf of the De La Salle order, the brothers again publicly accepted and said they deeply regretted that boys in their care were abused. The statement said: ""They wish to offer their sincere and unreserved apology to all of those whom they failed to protect. ""The brothers recognise the sense of betrayal that the victims have experienced and the violation of trust caused by certain brothers within the order. ""They recognise that there have been failures to protect the victims."" The HIA inquiry was set up in 2013 to investigate child abuse in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period, up to 1995. About 200 former residents of Rubane House have made allegations of abuse. A total of 55 former residents have come forward to the inquiry to allege that they were physically or sexually abused.","The RUC and @placeholder agencies knew about sexual abuse at a boys ' home in County Down , in 1964 , an abuse inquiry has heard .",government,applause,state,agencies,information,2
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 18 December 2014 Last updated at 17:58 GMT The National Poisons Information Service in Newcastle is one of four units around the UK and says poisoning is a ""major public health issue"". Staff at the centre treat patients who have arrived at A&E and also advise health professionals how to treat and manage cases. The Newcastle unit took 17,000 calls in 2103, with 28% of those involving children under the age of four.","From drugs overdoses to toddlers who have @placeholder e-cigarette refills , a Freedom of Information request has found 12,000 people are admitted to hospital in the North East and Cumbria every year suffering from poisoning .",had,swallowed,died,drowned,called,1
"The move was part of the plans to close Scotland's only women's jail. The women are now housed at Polmont near Falkirk which has seen the number of young offenders held there reduce significantly in recent years. The chief inspector, David Strang, said although there were teething problems they were tackled quickly. His report said: ""The management and staff in Polmont faced considerable challenges in managing the transfer of over 100 women from Cornton Vale to Blair House at Polmont whilst at the same time maintaining delivery of a full regime for the young men they continued to hold. ""Polmont management and staff should be commended for the successful transfer and integration of the women into the new arrangements. While there were inevitable teething problems with such a transfer, these were tackled quickly and appropriately."" He said the arrival of the women at Polmont had not had a detrimental impact on the regime and opportunities for the young men, while the women were able to benefit from accommodation which was more modern than at Cornton Vale and which had in-cell sanitation facilities. The Scottish government announced in February 2016 it was to redevelop Cornton Vale which had been criticised for poor facilities for female prisoners, and had suffered eight suicides in three years in the 1990s. In 2010-11 there were a maximum of 438 women held there, but at the start of May 2017 there were only 68 in Cornton Vale, with other women prisoners at Edinburgh (69), HMP Grampian (34), Greenock (44) and Polmont (66). A spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said: ""Faced with a significant decline in the number of young offenders in Scotland, the decision was taken to decant women from Cornton Vale to allow the complete redevelopment of the site. ""Later this year we expect to begin work on a new 80-place national facility on the Cornton Vale site."" Polmont, which was the only institution for offenders aged under 21 has seen its peak numbers fall from 784 in 2011-12 to 355 in May 2017. One of the accommodation wings, Blair House, was refurbished for women prisoners, with bright coloured paint, the use of colourful and inspiring graphics and upgraded seating in the communal areas. The report said: ""The women were positive about the single cell accommodation in Blair House which benefitted from en suite facilities. ""However, there were concerns raised about the lack of affordable toiletries for women on the canteen list with, for example, shampoo and conditioner for men available at a lower cost than the equivalent products for women. ""It was also reported by women that access to razors was only permitted in the morning for a short period of time. ""Whilst we understand that this was a safety concern, there was little flexibility in the regime that recognised the differing requirements of the female population."" HMCIPS called on the prison service to provide liquid detergent to allow women to wash their underwear in their cells, after washing powder was banned over fears drains could become blocked. The chief inspector's report also looked at the treatment of male young offenders. He praised Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) who work with young offenders to prepare them for release back into the community at the end of their sentence, but said too many were still leaving custody without accommodation, healthcare support and finances in place. ""Of the 82 young men supported by the TSOs, 28 (34%) were liberated without an address to go to. ""In addition to the lack of shelter and security which this represents, it also has implications for their inability to access appropriate healthcare and medications,"" he said. ""These are not issues which are in the gift of the SPS to resolve alone. ""Greater efforts need to be made to provide joined-up support from mainstream service providers, to ensure that young men and women leaving Polmont are not set up to fail.""",The @placeholder of relocating more than 100 women prisoners from Cornton Vale near Stirling has been praised by the prisons ' inspector ( HMCIPS ) .,chances,feat,process,wake,proportion,2
"Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd was raided over the Easter weekend. Lionel Wiffen told Woolwich Crown Court he found the fire escape open twice and ""crept around"" but found nothing unusual, blaming the caretaker. Three men deny conspiracy to commit burglary. A fourth denies conspiracy to conceal or transfer criminal property. Mr Wiffen said he visited his office on the morning of 3 April and found the fire escape ajar, which had never previously occurred. He said he ""crept in"" to ""have a look around"" but found nothing unusual and made sure he locked it when he left. But the following morning he said he found it ""open again"". ""I thought I'll have a go at the caretaker, and find out who he's given a key to,"" he said. Previously Det Con Jamie Day, the first Flying Squad officer to arrive on the scene, said the only CCTV camera in the building caught footage of a man, identified only as ""Basil"", allowing access to the building via a fire escape from the inside. Shortly afterwards other men could be seen entering the building carrying tools, wheelie bins and other equipment. Mr Wiffen also told the court ""there seemed to be a lot of cars parked with people in it...looking over"" in the months before the burglary. The trial continues. Defendants and charges Previously John Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington; Daniel Jones, 58, of Park Avenue, Enfield; Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield and Reader, of Dartford Road, Dartford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary. They will be sentenced at a later date.",A jeweller who worked in the London building @placeholder in a £ 14 m jewel heist has told a court he thought a caretaker had left the door open .,caught,implicated,targeted,disappeared,lost,2
"Participants, including family and friends of footballer Jacob Schilt, set out to complete the journey he never finished. Mr Schilt was among 11 people who died when the Hawker Hunter jet came down on the A27 in Sussex on 22 August. He was part of the fundraising team at the Robert Eaton Memorial Fund (REMF), which organised the memorial walk. The walk began at 10:00 BST and moved from a memorial footbridge in Shoreham, along an A27 footpath, to Worthing United's ground in Lyons Farm. Brett Mendoza, REMF vice chairman, tweeted: ""Today is the day. It's so sad we are doing this, but Jacob this is for you."" Mr Schilt, who played for Worthing United, was travelling to a game with team-mate Matthew Grimstone when they were killed. The charity said it would donate any money raised to Worthing United Youth FC. Later on Saturday, Brighton and Hove Albion paid tribute to Mr Schilt and Mr Grimstone before the match with Hull City. Mr Grimstone worked as a groundsman at Brighton's Amex Stadium. At the request of the families, who were present, there was a minute's applause just before kick-off, the club said. During the applause, two giant shirts bearing messages of condolence were raised and 11 fans held candles and flowers in memory of all the victims. On Friday, it was announced fire crews were to leave the crash site after spending nearly three weeks at the scene. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch wants to interview the Hawker Hunter pilot Andy Hill, 51, from Sandon in Hertfordshire, who survived the crash. His family said they were devastated and deeply saddened by the loss of life and sent prayers and heartfelt condolences to the families of all those affected.",A @placeholder walk in memory of the victims of the Shoreham air disaster has taken place in West Sussex .,drug,sponsored,couple,walking,growing,1
"Images posted on social media showed burning rubbish and parts of the Moria camp being evacuated. The unrest came during a visit by the Greek migration minister and a Dutch minister. The migrants are angry about the detention conditions and an EU deal to return economic migrants to Turkey. Moria camp was visited by the Pope earlier this month. The unaccompanied minors section of the camp was particularly affected by the unrest, AFP news agency reported. About 3,000 people are being held in Moria, waiting to hear what will happen to them. A spokesman for the UN refugee agency said the migrants were ""angry and frustrated"" and there had been a ""surge in violence"" in recent days. Moria was turned into a closed detention centre after the deportation deal was announced. Under the EU-Turkey agreement, migrants who have arrived illegally in Greece since 20 March are to be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if their claim is rejected. For each Syrian migrant returned to Turkey, the EU is to take in another Syrian who has made a legitimate request. Earlier, 49 migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Myanmar became the third group of migrants to be returned to Turkey under the deal.","Clashes have broken out between police and stone - @placeholder migrants at a detention centre on the Greek island of Lesbos , police said .",leaving,aged,cut,throwing,faced,3
"It comes after shadow chancellor John McDonnell said sharing a platform with the Conservatives ""discredits"" Labour. A spokesman for Mr Khan said many Labour voters did not know the party's EU stance, and he would take any opportunity to spread the message. Mr McDonnell later insisted he was not criticising Mr Khan personally. While most Labour MPs support a Remain vote, Jeremy Corbyn is regarded as the most Eurosceptic leader of the party in a generation and the Vote Leave campaign is chaired by a Labour MP, Gisela Stuart. Mr Corbyn is campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU, but he has been urged by some in the party to make a bolder case for membership. Mr Khan made a joint appearance with the prime minister on Monday to launch a Britain Stronger In Europe battle bus and pledge card aimed at persuading voters to back Remain. The show of cross-party unity came after Mr Cameron repeatedly attacked Mr Khan during the London mayoral contest for having a history of sharing platforms with extremists - a claim firmly rejected by Mr Khan. According to a report by Politics Home, Labour's shadow chancellor, Mr McDonnell - who, along with Mr Corbyn, has refused to campaign with the Tories in the referendum, despite being on the same side as the government, appeared to criticise Mr Khan's decision. Asked whether Labour should put aside its differences with the Tories to campaign for a Remain vote, Mr McDonnell was quoted as saying the two parties did not share the same vision of Europe, and accused Mr Cameron of wanting to do away with workers' rights. ""Sharing a platform with them discredits us. It demotivates the very people we are trying to mobilise,"" he is reported to have said at a Labour In for Britain event. However, speaking to the BBC later, Mr McDonnell denied he was criticising Mr Khan, saying: ""I never mentioned Sadiq Khan's name at all."" He said the party had ""learnt the lesson"" of the Scottish independence referendum, when it campaigned alongside the Conservatives. And he added: ""It doesn't help us appearing on platforms with Tories because they have a differing view of Europe. So this is a distinct Labour campaign, and as a result of that I think we'll be able to mobilise Labour votes."" A spokesman for Mr Khan said he had made it ""crystal clear"" he would campaign with the PM for a Remain vote. He added: ""It is deeply concerning that the polls today suggest that Labour voters are unsure where the Labour Party stands on the referendum. ""Sadiq won't miss a single opportunity to make it absolutely clear to those voters where Labour stands on the referendum."" According to a YouGov poll for the Times, almost half of Labour voters do not know that their party is campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU - and thought it was either split on the issue, supporting an EU exit, or they did not know. Labour MP and Remain campaigner Emma Reynolds told the BBC the party had ""a lot more work to do"" to show it was behind a vote to stay. ""What's really important is that we get more Labour voices out there - so that our natural voters, who say they don't know which way we are campaigning, know that we are campaigning to Remain,"" she told BBC News.","Sadiq Khan has @placeholder campaigning with David Cameron in the EU referendum , saying he wants to make it clear Labour supports a Remain vote .",angered,defended,poked,threatened,delivered,1
"The Pirates, who beat Moseley 32-0 on Saturday, announced four new additions on Good Friday, including Exeter Chiefs winger Jack Arnott. The former England Under-20 player has spent this season on dual-registration at the Mennaye. ""We'll have a few more hopefully this week to finalise the squad,"" Davies told BBC Radio Cornwall. ""Then supporters will know where we sit and we can gauge ourselves ready for next season."" As well as Arnott, Dan Lee, Alex O'Meara, and Jake Parker have also agreed new deals, following eight other members of the squad who committed themselves to the club earlier this month. Davies will leave at the end of this season because of budget cuts, with forwards coach Alan Paver and backs coach Gavin Cattle taking joint charge of the side.","Cornish Pirates will finalise their squad for next season later this week , according to @placeholder boss Ian Davies .",join,outgoing,reports,show,offer,1
"Throw religion and faith schools (both public and private) into the mix, a chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, whose own personal faith is at the heart of what he does, and a prominent Christian as Education Secretary, in the form of Nicky Morgan, and perhaps it is little surprise secular and humanist campaigners find themselves at odds with the educational establishment. About a third of schools in Britain have a religious character - but, of the population, according to the 2014 British Social Attitudes Survey: Last week, Sir Michael told the Catholic Association of Teachers, Schools and Colleges of ""an increasingly secular and materialistic society, where young people can so easily have their heads turned and lose sight of what really matters"". ""We are also living through an era marked by seemingly ever greater intolerance of other people's beliefs, views and ways of living,"" he said. ""Therefore, it has never been more important for Christians to stand up for their faith and for the gospel values of love, compassion and tolerance."" But, in the middle of a war of words with Mrs Morgan, the British Humanist Association and National Secular Society do not feel they are receiving much tolerance. The High Court ruled in the BHA's favour over the need for non-religious schools to ensure pupils had the chance to learn about non-religious worldviews, such as humanism or atheism, in religious education. Then, after an investigation by the BHA and the Fair Admissions Campaign showed some religiously selective schools had failed to adhere to the schools admissions code, the government pledged to halt ""vexatious complaints"" by limiting the power to object to parents and councils. The BHA, in turn, has written to Mrs Morgan criticising moves ""to prevent us and other civil society organisations from voicing concerns about the many problems that parents face as a result of discriminatory religious selection within the school admissions system"". Although you entitle your statement ""Parents to get greater say in the school admissions process"", you must know, in truth, that banning civil society organisations from raising concerns about admission arrangements can only give parents less say in the process. The complexity of the Admissions Code means that expertise is required to lodge accurate objections and it is difficult for the average parent to have the time to acquire such expertise, or to see the process through. This, along with fears about anonymity, is why parents regularly come to us and ask us to lodge objections on their behalf. With no body actively monitoring and enforcing compliance with the School Admissions Code, objections from civil society organisations represent one of the few means of ensuring that schools adhere to the law and parents are not unfairly denied places for their children at local schools. It is also encouraging supporters to write to their MP. All this is part of a much wider public battle over identity, belief and belonging, as the nation worries about extremism, what constitutes being British in the 21st Century, community cohesion and the role of religion. While faith appears to be dividing the rest of the world more brutally than ever, and in ways sometimes difficult to comprehend in what many now see as post-Christian Britain. The Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church and others responsible for faith schools say they provide a vital religious, moral and ethical framework in which their pupils can learn and thrive as they develop into adults - whatever their or their parents' faith or lack of it. And even non-religious parents tend to prefer an outstanding faith school to an underperforming non-faith establishment. But that hasn't stopped many quietly - or rather less quietly in the case of the BHA, the National Secular Society, and some rebels within the various religious establishments - wondering whether separating children on the basis of religion is a good way of preparing them for their future, or Britain's future as a cohesive society, however outstanding many of those faith schools may be.","Few @placeholder are as fought over or hotly debated in England as education , not least in a week that saw the UK 's pupils score badly in literacy and numeracy compared with their international peers .",sounds,changes,brains,topics,groups,3
"Mr Christie will serve as one of the transition team's vice-chairmen, according to a Trump team statement. The New Jersey governor has been marred by scandal after two of his aides were convicted in a political revenge plot. Mr Pence will help to ""prepare a transformative government ready to lead from day one"", the statement said. Governor Christie will join Dr Ben Carson, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, retired Lt Gen Michael Flynn, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and US Senator Jeff Sessions as the vice chairs of the transition effort. Other notable appointments, marked in the Trump statement as his ""staff leadership team"", include: ""This team of experienced leaders will form the building blocks of our Presidential Transition Team staff leadership roster, and will work with elected officials and tireless volunteers to prepare our government for the transfer of power on January 20th,"" Mr Pence said in a statement. Mr Trump has also named three of his children and his son-in-law to the transition team's executive committee, raising questions about a potential conflict of interest with his business, the Trump Organization. The president-elect's lawyer said his holdings would be placed in a blind trust under his daughter, Ivanka, and sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr - all of whom were appointed to the presidential committee. But a blind trust would mean placing Mr Trump's finances under the management of an independent party, preventing him from knowing what is in the trust or how it is managed. Mr Christie has been mired in controversy since his two former aides, Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni, were found guilty on nine counts of conspiracy and fraud earlier this month. The two were convicted in connection to a 2013 plot to close parts of the George Washington Bridge to punish Mark Sokolich, the mayor of Fort Lee, for not endorsing Mr Christie's re-election bid. Mr Christie has repeatedly denied any knowledge of the plot, but both Ms Kelly and Mr Baroni testified in court that the governor had known about the lane closures.",Vice - President - elect Mike Pence has @placeholder New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in leading President - elect Donald Trump 's transition effort .,joined,supported,named,replaced,unveiled,3
"Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is working with investors from Qatar to buy a stake in the sport. ""He is very amazing, the way he keeps going. Most of us at a certain age get tired,"" Mosley, 75, told Radio 5 live. F1 owners CVC Capital Partners and Ross's RSE Ventures have had talks but no formal offer has yet been made. Negotiations are at an early stage and the group is just one of a number of potential bidders interested in a potential takeover of the motorsport series. Ecclestone, 84, has been in charge of the sport since 1978 and Mosley feels he will continue in his role even if the ownership changes. ""He is the person who has managed to sell it [F1] everywhere,"" said Mosley. ""I am sure CVC have had thoughts about an 84-year-old chief executive. There is nobody else who does the job as well. ""I said to him the other day: 'Don't you feel tired in the afternoons?' He said that the phone calls come in and the emails come in and that gets adrenaline going. ""He's very interested in what he does and does it very well. Age tends to be flexible."" Former F1 driver Mark Webber recently said the sport is ""not in great shape"", while Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said an independent adviser could help improve F1. However, despite the criticisms, world champion Lewis Hamilton said he still feels ""massively challenged every weekend"". Mosley says the competitiveness needs to be brought back into the sport. ""You want the best players racing as fast as they can,"" he said. ""You don't want drivers thinking about fuel consumption or tyres. ""There have been a few strategic errors. The fundamental thing is that it has become so expensive you can spend what you want. ""The two or threes teams at the top spend what they want, then the ones at the bottom struggle. That interferes with the grid. You need to make the small teams competitive. ""The way to solve the problem is to tell the smaller team you can have more technical freedom but you work in a cost cut. It needs a fairly determined attack on the current structure.""","Former FIA president Max Mosley says Formula 1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone 's role "" wo n't change "" if a takeover of the sport is @placeholder .",overseeing,recovering,predicting,set,completed,4
"Kamel Daoud is the Algerian novelist who came within an ace of winning France's top book award - the Goncourt - last year for his Camus-inspired The Meursault Investigation. He is also an independent-minded  newspaper journalist, who has won as many enemies as friends over the years for his critical articles about the state of his country. But Kamel Daoud has now announced to the world that he is giving up his newspaper work, and will focus on fiction. Why? Because of the frenzied reaction to a piece he wrote in Le Monde concerning New Year's Eve in Cologne. The article in question - entitled ""Cologne - City of  Illusions"" - was a two-pronged attack on the cliches triggered by the mass molestations of women. On the one hand Daoud deplored the far-right ""illusion"" which treats all immigrants as potential rapists. But by far the greater part of his anger was directed at the ""naive"" political left, who in his view deliberately ignore the cultural gulf separating the Arab-Muslim world from Europe. Thus, according to Daoud, Europe welcomes immigrants with visas and material sustenance - but without addressing what really counts, which is the world of values. What Cologne showed, says Daoud, is how sex is ""the greatest misery in the world of Allah"". ""So is the refugee 'savage'? No. But he is different. And giving him papers and a place in a hostel is not enough. It is not just the physical body that needs asylum. It is also the soul that needs to be persuaded to change. ""This Other (the immigrant) comes from a vast, appalling, painful universe - an Arab-Muslim world full of sexual misery, with its sick relationship towards woman, the human body, desire. Merely taking him in is not a cure."" These were strong words, and the reaction came fast. In an opinion piece also in Le Monde, a collective of intellectuals and academics delivered an excoriating attack on Daoud, whom they accused of ""feeding the Islamophobic fantasies of a growing part of the European population."" Daoud, the authors said, had based his argument on a discredited ""culturist"" analysis. In other words, he made Arab-Muslim culture the determining agent in the behaviour of individuals - turning them into little more than ""zombies"". Worse, his call for immigrants to be taught western values was a form of ""re-education"". ""The whole project is scandalous, and not only because of the same old claptrap about the West's mission to civilise and its superior values. ""More than just the usual colonial paternalism… (Daoud) is effectively saying that the deviant culture of this mass of Muslims is a danger for Europe."" But worse was to come for Daoud: the row then spread to the US. The Sexual Misery of the Arab World - Kamel Daoud published in the New York Times Last year Adam Shatz, a leading liberal journalist and editor, wrote a long and favourable profile of Daoud for the New York Times. But now - regretfully but firmly - he turned against him. ""It is very hard for me to imagine that you truly believe what you have written. This is not the Kamel Daoud that I know,"" Shatz wrote in an open letter. What worried Shatz - like the intellectuals (though he hated their ""Soviet""-style public denunciation) - was the link Daoud drew between the events in Cologne  and Islam. ""A few years ago we saw similar events at the Puerto Rico Day parade in New York. There too women were molested. But the molesters were not under the influence of Islam, but of alcohol,"" he wrote. Shatz disputed the idea that sexuality in the Arab-Muslim world  is universally a ""misery"". And he was appalled by the implication that immigrant attitudes to sex and women were a ""sickness"" to be ""cured"". The same language, he said, was once applied to Jews. Born in Algeria on 17 June 1970. Edits the French-language daily Le quotidien d'Oran, for which he writes a column, ""Raina Raikoum"" (My Opinion, Your Opinion). His debut novel, The Meursault Investigation won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman (Goncourt Prize for a first novel). It is a retelling of Albert Camus's 1942 classic, The Stranger, from the perspective of the brother of the Arab killed by Meursault, Camus's antihero. Across social media, the arguments have been raging. For some, Daoud is a hero for speaking unpleasant truths about the culture of North Africa and the Middle East - doubly a hero for saying it not from exile but from his home in Oran. But for his enemies, Daoud is a self-hating Arab who prefers French culture to Algerian, and whose attacks on religion are part-motivated by his own erstwhile flirtation with Islamism. (In the 1980s he was a young militant.) Worse, they say his arguments play into the hands of the anti-immigrants in Europe who can now use them to nurse their own ""illusions"". Daoud says he has had enough. In an open letter to Shatz (a friend whose criticisms he respects), he denounces the academics and intellectuals who earlier denounced him. ""They do not live in my flesh or in my land, and I find it illegitimate - not to say scandalous - that certain people accuse me of Islamophobia from the safety and comfort of their western cafes."" And that is his last word.","If you want a reminder of how fractious life can feel in modern-day Europe , then take a look at the furious row in France over the @placeholder of Kamel Daoud .",region,sound,killing,writings,hands,3
"The service took 9,862 passengers in 2016-17, a drop of 128 following small rises previously, but still only filled half of the available seats. Launched in 2007, it has received about £1.2m of public money annually. A Welsh Government spokesman said the figures were in line with the numbers seen in the previous year and an improvement on 2012-15. Last year, the Welsh Government ordered a review into its viability and in 2014, a report said it was underperforming. In the first two years of operation, more than 14,000 people used the service but that figure has been below 10,000 since. The service has also had problems with its operators. In March, Eastern Airways took over its running after Citywing was liquidated because its Czech operator Van Air had its permission to fly suspended by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). In 2015, the CAA revoked the air operators licence of Links Air for safety reasons leading the firm going out of business. Opposition parties have previously called for the service, which runs twice a day on weekdays, to be scrapped with others have argued it needs better transport links and marketing. A Welsh Government spokesman said: ""Whilst it's true to say that a change in operator does have an effect, the passenger figures for 2016/17 are in line with the numbers seen during 2015/16 and represent an improvement on the annual number of passengers using the service during 2012-15."" 2007-08: 14,133 2008-09: 14,718 2009-10: 9,491 2010-11: 8,719 2011-12: 9,606 2012-13: 8,421 2013-14: 8,679 2014-15: 9,737 2015-16: 9,990 2016-17: 9,862 Max number of seats available per year: 18,720 Source: Welsh Government and Wales Audit Office",An under - @placeholder air service between Cardiff and Anglesey has seen a fall in passenger numbers .,construction,air,editing,threat,way,3
"The latest figures show that between September 2010 and September 2016 police workforce numbers in England and Wales fell by 18,991, or 13%, according to the Home Office. Numbers of special constables and police community support officers (PCSOs) who patrol the streets have fallen by 7% and 11% respectively in the past year alone. These figures are for England and Wales only, because policing in Scotland and Northern Ireland is devolved. In Scotland, police numbers have risen more or less continuously for the past 30 years while in Northern Ireland there has been a smaller decrease since 2010 than in England and Wales. Overall police budgets, excluding counter-terrorism grants, fell by 20% between 2010 and 2015. Since 2015, the overall policing budget has been protected in real terms, but not every force will benefit. But over the same period, the ring-fenced counter-terrorism grant has been rising in line with inflation. In light of the Manchester attack, which left 22 people dead, questions have been asked about whether the police have the resources to tackle the threat from terrorism. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said on the BBC's Question Time programme: ""I have asked the head of counter-terrorism whether this is about resources. It is not. We must not imply that this terrorist activity may not have taken place if there had been more policing."" There has been a large increase in counter-terrorism spending since a specific grant was introduced in 2001-02. How this grant is shared out across police forces has not been made public in recent years for security reasons but the Metropolitan Police force is the national lead on counter-terrorism and is likely to receive a significant share. In Autumn 2015, the then Chancellor, George Osborne, promised to spend £3.4bn extra on counter-terrorism - an increase of 30% - over the following five years. This was to be allocated to several different agencies working on counter-terrorism, not just police forces. Counter-terrorism policing operates as a network with bases across the UK and resources, including officers and other staff, can be allocated where the need is greatest. The National Police Chiefs' Council does not disclose counter-terrorism police officer numbers.","In a speech as Labour @placeholder its election campaign , Jeremy Corbyn said he would "" reverse the cuts "" to police .",approached,defended,resumed,announces,lost,2
"The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) predicted that the UK housing market will slow down over the next three months. In April, landlords and second home owners face a 3% stamp duty surcharge on new purchases. This would slow price rises, Rics said, but only in the short-term. Surveyors still expect house prices to rise by 25% over the next five years. ""Over the past three months, we have witnessed a surge in buy-to-let activity,"" said Simon Rubinsohn, Rics chief economist. ""Investors have rushed to purchase homes before the stamp duty surcharge comes into effect. It is inevitable that over the coming months, April's stamp duty changes will take a little of the heat out of the investor market. ""While there remain significant doubts as to whether the government's plans to encourage a more robust development and construction pipeline will be sufficient to address the housing crisis, long-term price indications for the housing market remain strong."" East Anglia saw the most widespread house price rises in February, Rics suggested. Other surveys have suggested a pick-up in activity by landlords ahead of the stamp duty rises, but there is some disagreement among commentators over what effect this is having on the UK housing market as a whole. Various surveys record UK house prices on a monthly basis, but they all have slightly different methodology. The house price index by the Nationwide Building Society is the quickest to be released. It uses an average value for properties after considering components such as location and size. The survey is based on its own mortgage lending which represents about 13% of the market. A survey by the Halifax, now part of Lloyds Banking Group, is published a few days later. Lloyds is the biggest mortgage lender in the UK with 20% of the market and, like the Nationwide, uses its own home loan data. Figures from the Land Registry are widely considered to be the most robust but are published much later than the lenders' data. It calculates the price change for properties that have sold multiple times since 1995. This survey only covers England and Wales. A survey is of house prices in Scotland is published by the Registers of Scotland, using a simple average of house prices. The Land and Property Services assisted by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency produces a quarterly house price index in Northern Ireland. The official UK statistical authority - the Office for National Statistics - is another well-regarded survey, used for reference by government. It offers a UK-wide regional breakdown. It draws on data from the regulated mortgage survey by the Council of Mortgage Lenders, so excludes cash buyers of property. Housing market sentiment is reflected in the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) survey of some of its members. Various other surveys include a Hometrack review of house prices in UK cities, and a Rightmove survey of asking prices.","The pace of house price rises will slow when tax changes "" take the heat out "" of @placeholder from investors , surveyors suggest .",buying,interest,hostility,recovery,loans,1
"Chinese families said they would pray for the return of their loved ones, adding that they just wanted to know the truth of how the jet disappeared. The authorities promised to carry on searching for the plane. Crews have been scouring vast areas of ocean since the jet vanished on 8 March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. So far, no trace has been found. They believe the jet ended its journey in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles north-west of the Australian city of Perth. A total of 239 passengers were on board, most of them Chinese. Relatives of the missing gathered in Beijing on Sunday to pray for their loved ones. Dai Suqin, whose sister was on board the plane, said there was ""no where to turn to for help anymore"". ""We still have not seen our family members, we are not sure about the information and have no idea what to do,"" she said. ""So we have to pray to Buddha, pray to the Goddess of Mercy for blessings. We have to place our hopes on this and pray for the heavens to help us."" A Malaysia Airlines official said it had been the ""longest and most painful 100 days"" in the company's history. ""We miss our colleagues and friends on board MH370 and we continue to hope and seek answers that will bring us closer to finding out what happened to MH370,"" said company chief Ahmad Jauhari. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was among the other officials expressing sympathy with the families on Sunday. He tweeted: ""On this hundredth day since MH370 went missing, remembering those on board and their families. Malaysia remains committed to the search effort.""",Relatives of those missing on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have @placeholder 100 days since the plane vanished .,died,stalled,fallen,marked,joined,3
"Ten stamps will be on sale on 7 July, marking five decades since the band turned professional. The collection include the band's most famous album covers as well as live performance shots. Pink Floyd became known for its innovative album covers, which were made in collaboration with leading graphic designers and photographers. The album covers that have been made into stamps include The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, Atom Heart Mother, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Endless River. A further four stamps show the band performing live on tour, including one photograph from a concert at London's UFO Club in 1966. Pink Floyd were among the first groups to make extensive use of light shows and projection of films for their live concerts, which increased in ambition over the decades. The band was formed in 1965 by Roger Waters, drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright, later joined by guitarist Syd Barrett. In 1968, guitarist David Gilmour joined the band shortly before Barrett's departure. The stamps are available to pre-order on the Post Office website and will be physically available in 8,000 post offices from 7 July 2016.",A set of stamps celebrating 50 years of British rock group Pink Floyd have been @placeholder by Royal Mail .,criticised,published,sacked,sold,unveiled,4
"On an eventful tour that began with the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi - and then British Deputy High Commissioner Percy Norris - England recovered from losing the first Test to triumph 2-1. 1984-85: India 1-2 England (5 Tests) 1992-93: India 3-0 England (3 Tests) 2001-02: India 1-0 England (3 Tests) 2005-06: India 1-1 England (3 Tests) 2008-09: India 1-0 England (2 Tests) However, they have won just one of their last 12 Tests in India, which is regarded by many players as the toughest of all tours. Ahead of the start of the first Test in Ahmedabad on Thursday, BBC Sport asks a panel of experts why touring India is so difficult, what it takes to win there - and whether England can do it. They are: Mike Gatting: England vice-captain on 1984-85 tour. Scored 575 runs at an average of 95, including a career-best 207 in Madras. Now managing director of cricket partnerships for the England and Wales Cricket Board. Neil Foster: Essex pace bowler who took 14 wickets at 20 apiece despite playing only two Tests in the 1984-85 series. Jonathan Agnew: A seam-bowling replacement for the injured Paul Allott midway through England's 1984-85 tour but played just one tour game. Now BBC cricket correspondent. Rahul Dravid: India legend who retired this year with 13,288 runs at an average of 52 from 164 Tests. Only Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting have scored more Test runs. Part of the Test Match Special commentary team for this series. Gatting: ""It is the toughest tour. It's a place you have to go to and win if you want to be the complete cricketer. ""It is a challenge in so many ways, but it's a lovely place to tour - cricket is such a passion out there and I share that passion. It's a special place. ""It was a huge tour for me in 84-85 - it was the making of me. I realised that I could play Test cricket, that I was good enough."" Foster: ""India was a fascinating country to tour. It was certainly the best tour I went on from an individual point of view. If you get the mentality that it will be a tough tour, then you will struggle."" Agnew: ""The crowds are very excitable - very noisy when India are doing well and very quiet when they're not. It can be quite a distraction on the boundary."" Gatting: ""You'd wander down the street and you'd have 100 people following you, wanting an autograph or wanting to speak to you. ""The thing you can't get your head around is there is so much wealth, yet so much poverty at the same time. 1st Test, Bombay: India won by 8 wickets 2nd Test, Delhi: England won by 8 wickets 3rd Test, Calcutta: Draw 4th Test, Chennai: England won by 9 wickets 5th Test, Kanpur: Draw ""The open sewers, the smell, people with just a bit of clothing on - that's all they own. You can see people living on the streets from your bedroom window. I still struggle now. ""In Nagpur we slept on camp beds - only the captain and the coach had a proper bed. ""And you knew you would get ill from the food or water at some point on tour - you just accepted that."" Agnew: ""I was working in a window factory when I got called up. Two days later I was in Calcutta. ""You roomed with players in those days. You played cards, chatted. It fostered a very strong team bond. You became really good mates. ""You'd pack your luggage off on the train, you wouldn't see it for two days, and then it would turn up at the next hotel. ""The hotels are much more comfortable now and there's much more entertainment, but it's still tough."" Gatting: ""You know you're going to be playing on some turning wickets, so you need to have a really good gameplan when you're batting. ""I used to watch the ball closely, so you know which way it's going to turn - that makes a huge difference."" Foster: ""Nowadays the wickets spin less than they did, but spin will play a big role - even if India don't allow use of the Decision Review System."" Gatting: ""You need to rotate the strike, hit straight down the ground and sweep. Shot selection is everything. ""You have to try and get the bowler to bowl differently, so by coming down the pitch to him, you try and manoeuvre the field."" Dravid: ""In Graeme Swann, England have a world-class spinner, but they will need a couple of spinners. Monty Panesar bowled well last winter, and having someone bowling well with Swann will be a factor."" Foster: ""Conditions vary depending on what part of the country you are in - it could be really hot and humid down south but quite fresh in the mornings up north. 15-19 Nov: 1st Test, Ahmedabad 23-27 Nov: 2nd Test, Mumbai 5-9 Dec: 3rd Test, Kolkata 13-17 Dec: 4th Test, Nagpur ""If it doesn't spin much, you have to be prepared to bowl your overs as a pace bowler. ""You could be looking at two days in the field so fitness is very much an issue. And you've got to be prepared to pitch it up."" Agnew: ""It's hot, relentless cricket. Discipline and patience are key on what will be pretty flat tracks."" Dravid: ""England have some good fast bowlers so it's going to be interesting."" Gatting: ""The younger players will have had a taste of touring India with the England Performance Programme. ""That gives you a good insight but doesn't prepare you for facing Test bowlers. ""If England are to win, a couple of players have got to have exceptional winters. ""India are a talented team and so adept at playing in their own conditions, but they are just as susceptible as England to good bowling."" Agnew: ""India's spinners are decent but I would be disappointed if they ripped through England. ""These series are won by making the most of the chances that come your way."" Dravid: ""England against India is always a high-profile series, so it will be a great one to watch. ""I want to improve every day as a cricketer and fill in the shoes of the greats of Indian cricket. Even if we can achieve 60 or 70% of what they [Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman] achieved it will be really good for the team."" Read more on Virat Kohli here ""The India team will be pretty disappointed with losing 4-0 in England last summer and they will want to correct that with some good performances. ""They have some good young players, but the team is in transition so it's as good a time as any for England to be visiting India. ""It's going to be a big challenge for England but they have the players; they have the team."" You can listen to Test Match Special's ball-by-ball commentary on BBC 5 live sports extra, BBC Radio 4 LW and via the BBC Sport website. There will also be live text commentary on the BBC Sport website, tablets and mobiles, with regular features and analysis from Jonathan Agnew, Alec Stewart and Graham Onions.",It is one of cricket 's most well - @placeholder adages that England struggle on the sub-continent and they begin this winter 's campaign chasing a first Test series victory in India since 1984 - 85 .,established,chasing,style,rooted,worn,4
"Here are some of our favourites from the G20 summit in Germany. Merkel rolls her eyes at Putin? Former US President George W Bush once said that after looking Vladimir Putin in the eye he was able to get a ""sense of his soul"". Perhaps when German Chancellor Angela Merkel did the same she didn't like what she saw. A clip of her apparently rolling her eyes at the Russian president went viral on Friday. It is not clear what they were discussing. Social media users also had fun with this photo of Mrs Merkel and Donald Trump. In an awkward moment, French President Emmanuel Macron appeared unsure where to take his place in the ""family photo"" of leaders taken on Friday. After entering stage left and making his way to the centre of the group, he manoeuvred his way to the far right, next to Mr Trump, hugging and kissing his way to the front row. Some commentators have suggested Mr Macron appeared remarkably eager to engage with his US counterpart, despite previous tense moments between the two. In fact it was the protocol that positioned the two men next to each other. As the newest heads of state in the G20, they were meant to stand side by side at the far end of the front row. It was quite a promotion - Ivanka Trump, the daughter of US President Donald Trump who works as an adviser to him, took her father's seat as the leaders met on Saturday. Mr Trump had stepped away for a meeting with the Indonesian president. BBC Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins said he could recall no similar precedent for Ms Trump standing in. Ms Trump did not seem to make any major contribution to the key session on African migration and health during her father's absence. A photograph of her presence tweeted by a Russian attendee - and later deleted - sparked widespread criticism on social media. Ivanka takes father's place at G20 top table The plane taking Mr Putin to the summit made a detour of about 500 km (300 miles) to avoid the airspace of several Nato members, data from a flight tracker show. According to the Flightradar24 website, the Russian presidential aircraft on Thursday did not fly from Moscow to Hamburg using the direct route over the Baltic states and Poland. Instead the Ilyushin Il-96 300PU flew over the Baltic Sea, Finland and Sweden - both neutral countries - before entering the airspace of Nato members Denmark and Germany. Asked why it had taken that route, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that security during the president's trips was paramount, Reuters news agency said. He gave no details about any security risks posed by other routes. The region is seen as a flashpoint between Russia and Western allies. Much attention was on Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's first face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the G20. As Mr Trump and Mr Putin shook hands, the US president appeared to assert his authority through what body-language expert Mary Civiello called a ""dominant move"".",Even the most @placeholder meetings can be expected to deliver unexpected moments .,word,line,hardened,process,choreographed,4
"Festival Republic, led by Melvin Benn, runs other music events such as Reading and Leeds and has been Operations Director of Glastonbury since 2001. Since then, the Somerset festival has attracted 177,500 people a year. Benn said Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis agreed it was the right time to ""go their separate ways"". In a joint statement, Festival Republic called the separation ""mutual and cordial"", adding: ""Time moves on and now is the time for Michael and the Glastonbury team to pick up the reins again and build for the future."" The promoter will now focus on overseeing its own roster of festivals such as Latitude and growing newer events such as Electric Picnic in Ireland. Benn, who also recently became Chairman of Wembley Stadium, will oversee the selection of a new Operations Director for Glastonbury. He said: ""I am committed to ensuring as smooth a handover as possible. ""It has been a wonderful journey with Michael but Latitude, Berlin, Hove and Electric Picnic, none of which existed in 2002, are my priorities, alongside maintaining Leeds and Reading as the bastions of the festival calendar they are,"" said Benn. ""Not to mention my demands at Wembley,"" he added. Michael Eavis said he was sorry to see Benn go and credited the promoter with helping to create a more professional set-up at Glastonbury. When the pair officially teamed up in late 2001 they quickly introduced stricter ticketing and the £1m 'super-fence' surrounding the whole site, designed to keep gatecrashers out. The local council had made it clear that the festival could not continue without taking action, after police claimed 100,000 ticketless fans managed to sneak in during 2000's three day event. The fence proved controversial among some of Glastonbury's traditional festival-goers, a number of whom had been gaining free entry for years. Problems also arose with local travellers after the ""Battle of the Beanfield"" at nearby Stonehenge in 1985. Wiltshire Police had prevented a convoy from setting up for the Stonehenge Free Festival, celebrating the arrival of the summer solstice. Police officers were accused of using excessive force as travellers took refuge at Glastonbury. Two years later, a police sergeant was found guilty of having caused actual bodily harm and 21 travellers were awarded damages. In 1990, riots between travellers and festival security teams broke out on the day after the festival, over claims they were looting, ending in 235 arrests and £50,000 of damage. ""Melvin definitely earned his stripes running the gates for us during the Eighties,"" said Eavis. ""This was a difficult time dealing with the closure of Stonehenge, the Battle of the Beanfield and the travellers and my attempts to accept them here at Worthy Farm was exciting but very challenging."" The festival, which would have taken place last weekend, returns in June 2013 after taking 2012 off. Tickets go on sale 7 October. ""Looking across the farm at the moment I think we were very lucky to choose a good wet year to take out,"" said Eavis. ""Amazing bit of luck!""","The Glastonbury festival and promoters Festival Republic are to end their @placeholder after more than ten years , it has been announced .",partnership,activities,counterparts,homes,lives,0
"Administrators were called in after the firm got into financial difficulties. A total of 27 staff in High Blantyre and 46 in London have been made redundant. A further seven staff - including four in High Blantyre - will be retained ""in the short term"" to assist the administrators. Team Rock ran a stable of rock music magazines as well as the website www.teamrock.com. Titles and brands include Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Prog, the Golden Gods Awards and the Classic Rock Awards. The company, which has now ceased trading, generated annual turnover of more than £6m. Administrators at FRP Advisory are now seeking buyers for the business's magazine titles and other assets. Joint administrator Tom MacLennan said Team Rock had traded at a loss ""for a significant period of time"". He added: ""The company explored every option to secure the long-term future of the business, however the constraints on the cash position of the business were such that administration was the only viable option. ""The administration presents an excellent opportunity to acquire high profile rock music titles, products and brands that have a substantial global following. ""The brands and assets could appeal to a music publishing business looking to expand its portfolio, or an entrepreneur that sees the potential for developing the brands."" Team Rock, which was founded in 2012, bought the Classic Rock, Prog and Metal Hammer magazines from Future Publishing in 2013. According to the administrators, the company's website attracted more than three million hits per month. The company also owns an extensive archive of video, radio, images and magazines.",More than 70 @placeholder have been laid off following the collapse of South Lanarkshire - based rock music media firm Team Rock Ltd.,members,pictures,groups,journalists,people,4
"Inmates at HMP Oakwood, near Wolverhampton, and Drake Hall, in Staffordshire, carry out market research for insurance companies. The Centre for Crime Prevention said the project was ""incredibly naive"". But the Ministry of Justice said it was a pilot scheme which may be rolled out further if it is successful, and added the prisoners have risk assessments. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice said: ""We do not want prisoners sitting idle in their cells when they should be working towards their rehabilitation. ""We prepare offenders for work inside prison so they can get a job after release - this reduces the chances that they will reoffend in the future, meaning lower crime and fewer victims. ""All prisoners working in call centres are risk-assessed and stringent security measures are in place, with calls supervised and recorded."" She said the small pilots are being monitored and would only be increased to other prisons if they were deemed successful. She added the workers cannot see sensitive information about the people they are calling, such as addresses. The phone numbers of customers are also protected as all calls are routed through a computer. ""At no point can they ask the value of items, record data outside of the secure systems or deviate from a carefully-worded script,"" she added. The spokeswoman could not say whether any other prisons have similar schemes, nor which companies run the ones mentioned above. She confirmed the work is taking place within the confines of the prisons. On their websites, both facilities say work opportunities are available for inmates. Alex Hewson from the Prison Reform Trust said they supported the scheme. ""We encourage this type of scheme because it develops skills that may prove to be useful for the workplace generally, and gives prisoners a greater chance of getting employment on release,"" he said. ""I can understand why there may be concerns but the scheme is risk-assessed and I think it's really important those people get opportunities to help them resettle."" A statement from G4S, which runs HMP Oakwood prison, said: ""The call centre at HMP Oakwood is one of many partnerships we run with businesses, and enables prisoners to work towards apprenticeships and industry-recognised qualifications. ""All the prisoners are carefully security checked and interviewed before working in the centre, calls are made remotely by computer, and every conversation is closely monitored by supervisors. No information from the calls is stored and there is no way any personal information can be used for any criminal purposes."" Oakwood is a male prison and Drake Hall is for female offenders.",Convicted criminals in the West Midlands are being @placeholder to work in call centres inside their prisons .,sought,deployed,linked,urged,paid,4
"It is a year since Ken Cresswell, 57, John Shaw, 61, Michael Collings, 53, and Christopher Huxtable, 34, were killed when the boiler house came down. Relatives are due to visit the site where a memorial will be held later. RWE Npower planned to have it cleared by the end of 2017, but an expert said the collapse had delayed it until 2019. A minute's silence will be held at the site at 14:00 GMT. Mark Coleman, chairman of Coleman & Company, which employed the four victims, said: ""Today is the saddest of days. It is exactly one year since the tragic events at Didcot claimed the lives of Chris, John, Kenny and Mick."" Speaking on behalf of the families, lawyers Irwin Mitchell said: ""The families want to know why this terrible event occurred and we will support them in getting the answers they deserve."" Thames Valley Police said the investigation, which the HSE are also involved in, is continuing on-site. Det Ch Insp Craig Kirby said: ""To date more than 1,300 statements have been taken, over 2,600 physical and documentary exhibits have been collected, along with 60,000 still images and video footage."" RWE NPower has not announced a new demolition contractor and said there was currently no timescale for work being completed. An Npower spokeswoman said ""due diligence"" and consultations with various agencies would have to be completed again once a new firm was appointed. Mark Anthony, editor of Demolition News magazine, said at the moment the site was ""in limbo"". Debris from part of the building brought down in a controlled explosion in July still remains, and the three cooling towers and a chimney also need to be demolished. The four deceased demolition workers were employed by Coleman and Company, which withdrew from its contract in September. The coal-fired facility was closed in March 2013 after 43 years of service, and a major incident was declared on 23 February. The last of the bodies was not discovered until September and the cause of the collapse is being investigated jointly by police and the Health and Safety Executive. Mr Cresswell and Mr Shaw, both from Rotherham; Mr Collings, from Teesside; and Mr Huxtable, from Swansea; will be remembered at the site with the laying of flowers and a period of silence. Mr Anthony said it was ""too early to know what went wrong"" and any prosecution resulting from the collapse might not be concluded until 2020. RWE Npower said a new contractor should be in place ""within weeks"" but there was currently no timescale for work to be completed.","Demolition of the @placeholder Didcot Power station has been set back at least two years after a collapse that left four dead , the BBC has been told .",remaining,body,decommissioned,suspected,power,2
"Animation UK, a lobby group backed by prominent studios, has met Chancellor George Osborne to urge him to introduce tax breaks in next month's budget. They have told him the industry is at a ""critical tipping point"" and could disappear from the UK within years. They say foreign tax breaks and other factors make it cheaper to work abroad. Animation UK said their meeting with Mr Osborne was ""positive and productive"". It follows a warning from Wallace and Gromit animators Aardman, which said it was considering moving production overseas because it was too expensive in the UK. In France, government funds and tax breaks account for almost 20% of production budgets, while Irish tax relief is worth up to 28%. In Canada, tax credits and other public support accounted for 47% of budgets in 2009/10. A Treasury spokesman said the government recognised ""the important role that all businesses - including those in the animation sector - have in building a strong, sustainable and balanced economy"". The government has already taken steps to help businesses by lowering corporation tax and widening measures to stimulate investment, he said. Here, leading figures of the British animation industry explain why they believe it will be a struggle to ensure future children's favourites are made in the UK. Anne Wood co-created Teletubbies and Rosie and Jim. Her latest animations, The Adventures of Abney & Teal and Dipdap, made their debuts on CBeebies last year. Asked whether she would be able launch a production company if she was starting out today, she instantly replies: ""Couldn't do it. Wouldn't be viable. ""When I started, I was one of the first independent companies and we made for Channel 4. You got your full production costs plus a production fee. Now you're lucky to get 15-20% of your production costs and you have to go out and find the other 80%."" The BBC is the only British broadcaster left that spends significant sums on new programmes, she says. ""You've got all of these extra channels but the money for content has gone down."" It is cheaper for TV channels to buy programmes made in countries with tax breaks or in the US, she says. ""We are then abandoning ourselves to North American culture because in North America it's such a big market, so people can make their money back in their home market and let it come over here cheaper."" Ms Wood's company Ragdoll tried once to outsource animation to India, where labour costs are lower, but describes that as ""a complete disaster"" because she had less control over the outcome. ""You lose the confidence and you lose the flair. We have confidence and flair in the UK and that is what's going,"" she said, adding: ""I'm deeply concerned that that heritage and wealth of talent is being eroded to the point of almost disappearing."" Chapman Entertainment created Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car, and director and co-founder Andrew Haydon says three developments have conspired against UK animators. Overseas tax breaks make it cheaper to make programmes abroad, TV stations are paying less for shows while demanding an increasing share of the profits, and the recession means revenues from toys, books and DVDs are down. ""If you put those three together then it just doesn't make it work,"" he says. Of the company's creations, Fifi and the Flowertots, Roary the Racing Car and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion have been animated in Altrincham, Cheshire, with Little Charley Bear made at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire. The desire to retain the same styles of animation means there is an ""overriding need"" to keep those shows in the UK, he says. But the company's founder Keith Chapman, who created Bob the Builder, has been taking new ideas to producers in Canada. ""With brand new ones you'd be slightly mad to be doing it in the UK without a tax break or some sort of benefit,"" Mr Haydon says. ""If we do something that's new, it will be a co-production and it will be an overseas production."" Cosgrove Hall was an animation institution, making classics including Danger Mouse, The Wind in the Willows and Chorlton and the Wheelies in its Manchester studios. It was shut by its owner ITV in 2009, but the studio was recently resurrected by its founders, the late Mark Hall and Brian Cosgrove along with entrepreneur Francis Fitzpatrick. So at a time when the rest of the industry is talking doom and gloom, why are they going back into animation? Mr Fitzpatrick replies: ""Sometimes when things are difficult, the flip side of that is that no one else is starting so there's massive opportunity."" Their new flagship show Pip! will be made in Manchester, he promises. But the UK has ""a big hill to climb"" to compete with countries like Canada, Ireland and France, he says. ""If you spend £1 in Ireland, you will get an immediate tax return of 28p. A French production company can attract up to 70% of the funding [from the government]. ""It's very challenging [in the UK]. Yes it is viable, but it would be so much better if it was on a level playing field. ""If there was more government support, I think you'd find more Thomas the Tanks, more Peppa Pigs, and the upside of that is massive boosts in revenues to the exchequer."" Animation trio Astley Baker Davies are best known for creating Peppa Pig, which is broadcast in 180 countries. Phil Davies and Mark Baker started their careers making short films for Channel 4, which closed its dedicated animation arm in 2002. ""The directors of tomorrow had natural homes to go to in short film-making when they left college, and that seems to have completely disappeared now,"" Davies says. The firm's shows, which also include Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom, are made at their base in Regent Street, London. ""We have a piece of bespoke animation software that we use to animate our series, and without that we just couldn't afford to do it over here,"" Davies explains. ""Before we would have needed 100 or 120 people. Now we've got 30 people. As film-makers we want to be in work and making something, so it's a matter of finding new and novel ways to carry on with production."" Davies says he knows ""many, many people"" who have been lured to countries like Ireland and Canada and his company has been offered ""fantastic deals"" to move production abroad. He has resisted so far because ""it's fantastically difficult to animate at arm's length"". But he adds: ""The next series or the next film that we do? I think the jury's out."" Curtis Jobling, who designed Bob the Builder and created Frankenstein's Cat, describes himself as a ""freelance creative"", coming up with ideas for shows. But in recent years he has turned to writing books because it was too difficult to get animation ideas off the ground. ""I was trying to get my shows picked up and developed by studios but I was getting a great deal of feedback from producers saying they'd love to work with me, but they can't because they've got a limited budget to work to,"" he says. ""Rather than looking overseas I've actually concentrated on the publishing side of things. I've been writing novels for the past couple of years and it hasn't been as attritional as developing animations can sometimes be. ""It is sad when you hear about people going overseas to find work. It's people throughout the industry - jobbing animators, right the way through the production process, to designers and the people who come up with the concepts. ""I know a couple of people who do a similar role to me, coming up with ideas for shows, who now just work out of LA. They've gone over there and they don't bother knocking on doors in the UK any more.""","The British animation industry , which has spawned favourites from Bagpuss to Bob the Builder , is at risk of terminal @placeholder , leading animators have warned .",decline,summit,era,disease,events,0
"The US newspaper said it wanted users to ""feel secure"", adding that it was the ""first major general news organisation"" to make such a move. It acknowledged, however, that it might see a fall in ad sales as a result. Several government agencies, including the UK's GCHQ, have expressed concern about the increasing use of encryption. In November, the British communications surveillance agency's director, Robert Hannigan, criticised social-media companies for frustrating its efforts to monitor terrorists and other criminals. But one expert suggested the body might be more relaxed about the Washington Post's move. ""I can think of scenarios where intelligence agencies would want to monitor what people are accessing on newspaper websites, but I think they would be quite limited,"" said Dr Ian Brown, from the Oxford Internet Institute. ""Having said that, this is part of a much broader trend of apps and services enabling encryption, and of course that does make it more difficult for the agencies that intercept internet communications to know actually what is being transmitted."" GCHQ declined to comment. The Freedom of the Press Foundation called on the wider news industry to adopt the HTTPS encryption protocol in September 2014, saying it would ""protect the integrity of their content and the privacy of their readers"", following allegations about Western spy agencies' surveillance efforts. ""Eavesdropping on people reading the news is a real danger that has already happened, as demonstrated by the NSA and GCHQ spying on visitors to WikiLeaks.org,"" it said. ""And last year we learned how GCHQ employees used a ""Quantum insert"" technique against readers of Slashdot.org, a popular technology news website."" By deploying HTTPS - which can be recognised by the padlock icon that appears in a web browser's window - the Washington Post causes traffic to be digitally scrambled as it is transmitted between the company's computer servers and its users' devices. It said this would not only make it harder for its visitors to be monitored but should also prevent countries from censoring single articles. ""When visitors go to a site using the technology, someone monitoring their traffic can only see the domain they are visiting - not the specific page,"" it said. ""So, a country won't have the option to filter only some content; it would be forced to block an entire site."" The move, however, has consequences for advertisers. They will have to determine whether their adverts will load properly over HTTPS. Some ad platforms are not compatible. As a consequence, some companies may decide to promote their products elsewhere to avoid extra costs. ""Every third party we use on the site needs to be HTTPS-compliant, or it either stops working or the browser will warn about it being insecure,"" said Greg Franczyk, chief digital architect of the Washington Post's website. For now, the security measure is limited to the newspaper's front page, as well as its national security page and its technology policy blog. However, it said the measure would be applied to other parts of its site over the coming months. Other, less mainstream, news organisations have already taken similar steps. Vice News, Techdirt and the Intercept are among those to have already deployed HTTPS technology.",The Washington Post has begun encrypting parts of its website to make it harder for cyberspies and hackers to monitor the @placeholder users are reading .,words,county,pages,stories,risk,3
"Fly-Tipping Action Wales (FTAW) said there were more than 36,000 incidents of illegal dumping of waste in Wales last year. The Welsh government is now consulting on bringing in new measures to tackle the crime. Every 15 minutes rubbish is fly-tipped or illegally dumped somewhere in Wales. FTAW programme manager Gary Evans said: ""It equates to 100 incidents every day. That's far too many. ""The Welsh taxpayer has to foot the bill to clear-up. That money could be far better spent on other services like education and health."" Across the UK, it is estimated that waste crime costs £568m a year in clean-up costs and lost tax revenue. The cost to Welsh councils is approaching £2m a year. Figures obtained by BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme suggest the annual cost to the Welsh fire services of attending waste fires is around £5m. To further the fight, the Welsh government is consulting with the UK government on plans to follow Scotland and introduce fixed penalty notices. Currently cases have to be taken to court, which is expensive and time consuming for councils. Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant said: ""We're very keen to pursue this illegal activity. ""We're saying, 'if you fly-tip in Wales, we are coming looking for you' and we will actively seek to prosecute you. ""We just need to ensure that the consultation comes back giving us the tools to deal with the job.""",On - the - spot fines for fly - tippers could be introduced in a bid to clampdown on the @placeholder problem .,floor,remaining,issue,growing,body,3
"It is still possible to get funding through a scholarship or an award, especially if you're studying in a particular discipline. Criteria can be based on all sorts of things, like academic merit, where you live, what your parents do, whether you're athletic or even how good you are on camera. Here's some of the cash on offer that you might not have heard of - and for more information go to the Scholarship Hub. Vice Chancellor's Award - Liverpool John Moore's University Payment: £10,000 a year for three years This goes to six students with 360 UCAS points or equivalent. You must have put Liverpool John Moore's as your first choice when applying for university. And, the criteria says, you must stand out from your peers through citizenship, sport or performing arts achievements, among other things. Royal Navy Payment: £1,500 a year Students with one or more years left at any university, who want to join the Royal Navy as Royal Marines officers, or officers in the warfare, logistics or fleet air arm branches can apply. And there's a guaranteed job at the end of your course. Yorkshire Ladies Council of Education Payment: £300 maximum If you're female, over 21 and not necessarily from Yorkshire, you can apply for the bursary for attending any UK university. It is, however, only for those who are unable to finance their chosen education course themselves. Armed Forces Bereavement scholarship Payment: Full tuition fees plus maintenance costs This government scheme is aimed at giving the children of those who have died in the service of their country a head-start in life by enabling them to obtain a university degree or further education training. The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers Payment: Up to £3,000 The Cordwainers' BA Footwear Scholarship is awarded each year to a talented student at the London College of Fashion to fund their final project. Scholarships are also given to the top three footwear fashion students in all three years at the University of Northampton. The Stationers' Company Payment: Recent awards have averaged £2,000 each The Stationers' Company's scholarships are geared towards students who intend to pursue a course of study, or educational project, associated with printing, bookbinding, paper conservation, stationery, papermaking, publishing, book selling or newspaper production. It includes those who will work in areas such as advertising, editing, creative writing and website design. National Health Service Payment: Amounts vary - NHS case studies show payments ranging from £490 to £5,920 NHS Student Bursaries are awarded to students on pre-registration health professional training courses, according to the NHS Bursary Scheme, as published by the Department of Health. Student nurses, midwives and other staff such as physiotherapists are entitled to bursaries of £4,500 to £5,500 if they live in London - on top of a grant of £1,000 each year during their training. The course fees are also covered. But get in there fast - the government is overhauling the system, and bursaries for student nurses and other NHS staff in England will end in September next year. Will 'vlog' for cash CastleSmart Scholarship Payment: One-off payment of £6,000 This scholarship is run by the online estate agent CastleSmart. The criteria is wide open - student applicants have to create a video about themselves and upload it to YouTube, talking about what course they've chosen and why, what they hope to get out of it and what their plans are when they eventually graduate. The scholarship says that all fields, degrees and courses will be considered, the key to winning the cash is ""being passionate about your ideas"". Santander Payment: Varies, application must be made to each participating university Santander bank has a long list of universities that it partners with to provide awards and funding. Each student has to apply to their university directly for the Santander cash. The list of partner universities includes institutions such as the University of Bath, through which Santander provides scholarships for high-performing athletes. Another example is the bank's award at Glasgow Caledonian University, which provides a one-off grant of up to £5,000 for students pursuing an idea that's additional to their academic work. Previous winners have used their funding to volunteer on charity projects overseas, work on community activities or develop a business idea. All Ireland Scholarship Payment: £5,500 a year for the duration of your degree in Northern Ireland (funding is also available, with different criteria, for those studying in Ireland). Students applying for this financial aid must be in receipt of the Education Maintenance Allowance, as well as live in Northern Ireland and attend a grant-aided post-primary school or further education college there.",The @placeholder are in and you 've got a place at university . But what if your wallet 's empty and the Bank of Mum and Dad has run dry ?,temperature,classes,mood,culture,results,4
"The strike would have seen 1,000 Arriva Trains Wales services cancelled and affected around 60,000 people. The operator said it would aim to provide a normal service on all routes but there might be ""some minor service recovery issues"" on Thursday. The announcement followed last minute talks with unions RMT and Aslef. An RMT spokesman said members had been instructed to work normally. The unions had argued for better working practices for their drivers, describing conditions for them as ""almost Dickensian"" in some aspects. They also said drivers in Wales were paid less than in other parts of the country and called for parity with counterparts over the border. If last-minute talks had failed, all Arriva Trains Wales services would have been cancelled from 00:01 GMT on Thursday, with no replacement bus services. People travelling to the Wales v Netherlands football international at Cardiff City stadium on Friday evening, may have been affected.","A planned 48 - hour strike by train drivers around Wales due to start on Thursday has been @placeholder , the RMT union has said .",resolved,announced,launched,scrapped,suspended,4
"Barclays said it wanted to accelerate the pace of change at the bank, and the news sent its shares up more than 3%. The FTSE 100 rose 16.90 points to 6,449.11. On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.4% against the euro to €1.3998 was also 0.4% lower against the dollar at $1.5409.","( Open ) : The FTSE 100 opened higher , with shares in Barclays leading the way after the bank @placeholder chief executive Antony Jenkins .",reported,fired,predicted,helped,remained,1
"Care England, a body representing adult care providers, said it was ""deeply concerned"" about the state of the care home market in Essex. It has brought judicial review proceedings over the rates Essex County Council pays homes, which one care provider described as ""unsustainable"". The council said it was committed to ""a sustainable social care market"". Sean Watson, one of the directors of St Michael Homes Ltd in Brentwood, said Essex County Council currently paid £483 per week per resident, compared with private residents who paid £650 a week. ""Lots of care homes who depend on council-funded residents are closing down or providing a poor service and you can't really blame them because they haven't got funding to back them,"" he said. ""This was a growing issue in the early 1990s, but it's much worse now with increasing demand on services for the elderly, and rates the council pays us not going up for years or increasing in line with inflation."" Care England said the review sought to ""challenge the lawfulness of the council's fee setting decision"", adding it believed the council's actions to date were ""a breach of its responsibilities under the Care Act 2014"". For more on this and other stories, visit BBC Local Live: Essex Mr Watson said the lack of funding was likely to put homes off accepting social services-funded residents in future. ""Care homes can't sustain the low fees with all the increases in wages and the Care Quality Commission demanding ever more of the service with no increase in fees,"" he said. An Essex County Council spokesman said the authority could not comment on the specifics of the case because of legal proceedings, but he said it took its obligations under the Care Act 2014 ""extremely seriously"".",A council is facing legal action over the @placeholder of fees it pays to care home providers for looking after residents .,payment,risk,future,sum,level,4
"The 51-year-old woke up just before 07:00 GMT on Sunday in Worthing's Royal Arcade to find flames around his head and face. He suffered minor injuries to his cheek, eyelids and head and was treated by an ambulance at the scene. A 38-year-old man has been arrested by police and bailed while investigations continue. Det Sergeant Simon Smith said: ""The victim tried to chase the man and described him as white, in his 20s and wearing a white hooded top."" Police appealed for anyone who might have been near the Royal Arcade early on Sunday or saw someone running away or acting suspiciously with a red backpack to get in touch.","A homeless man was set on fire and @placeholder as he slept in a shopping centre , police have revealed .",robbed,injured,beaten,dragged,continued,0
"The 130 families live in Alto Adige - also known as South Tyrol - a region that was part of Austria before 1919. Last month the Italian government ruled that children must be vaccinated against 12 common illnesses before they can enrol for state-run schools. Cases of measles have risen in Italy. The highly-contagious sickness is fatal in some cases. Some other European countries, including France and Romania, have also seen more measles cases this year. In some parts of Europe, including Italy, vaccination rates have dropped below those recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The leader of the South Tyrol protest, Reinhold Holzer, said the group had sent protest messages to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, and the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. ""We won't allow our children to be poisoned. Asylum is claimed not just by people fleeing war, but also by people whose rights are being violated,"" said Mr Holzer, quoted by Austria's Der Standard daily. Trentino-Alto Adige, a mountainous Alpine region, is reported to have one of the highest vaccine refusal rates in Italy. In an interview with Radio Südtirol Mr Holzer alleged that some chemicals in vaccines were risky, and said parents should have a free choice about child immunisations, as in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. However, Germany recently announced plans to fine parents who failed to get medical advice about immunising their child. Mr Holzer voiced concern about Thiomersal (or Thimerosal), a mercury-based preservative used in some vaccines, and about genetically engineered vaccines. The UK National Health Service says Thiomersal is not used in child vaccines - and adds that it poses no risk anyway. Conspiracy theories about the health risks of certain vaccinations - largely based on one discredited paper - have spread on the internet, prompting some parents to shun immunisation. Scientific studies have debunked an alleged link between vaccines and autism, as the US Centers for Disease Control point out on their website.",A group of German - speaking parents in northern Italy are so angry about a new @placeholder to get their children vaccinated that they plan to seek asylum in nearby Austria .,scheme,opportunity,law,appeal,requirement,4
"Six minutes left on the clock in this nerve-shredding epic and the Scots' lead was slender indeed as they chased a Rugby World Cup quarter-final berth. Three points separated them from Samoa. Vern Cotter's side had been blasted to kingdom come in the early exchanges, dynamited by their own shortcomings and by a relentless Samoan side that shamed the imposters who went down so meekly against Japan a week earlier. Scotland had constructed an error mountain in a wretched first half, but had fought their way back. They had become dominant in possession and territory. Not impressive, but better than before. Still that gap on the scoreboard was painfully narrow. All over St James' Park, Scots bit their fingernails and watched between the cracks in their fingers. They had penalty after penalty and moment after moment inside Samoa's 22, but they couldn't finish. Six minutes. They rumbled their way to the Samoa posts and yet again referee Jaco Peyper shot his arm up in the air to signal a penalty. It was the 12th the Pacific Islanders had given away in the half and their 19th of the match. No yellow card - incredibly - but a chance for Scotland to widen the gap. It was a decision for Greig Laidlaw. Take the easy three points and make it a six-point game, or go for the scrum and the chance of a try and a 10-point lead. Laidlaw consulted and made the best call of his career. Scrum, snipe, try for the scrum-half. In that moment, a small group of Scotland fans whipped out their bagpipes high up in the main stand and got blowing. The strains of Flower of Scotland were heard. Some of their fellow supporters took pictures of these defiant boys who somehow managed to smuggle banned instruments into the stadium. As this merry scene unfolded, Samoa attacked and scored. Almost as soon as pipes began, they fell silent again. Lord how Scotland needed that converted try. Three points wouldn't have been enough, not when Motu Matu'u went over for a try in the dying minutes, not when Patrick Fa'apale added the extras. Had Laidlaw settled for three, Scotland could have been heading out of this World Cup, in shock and despair. Instead they're moving south, bruised but believing that as underdogs in their quarter-final at Twickenham next Sunday they still have plenty of bite. They face Australia, conquerors of England and Wales on successive Saturdays. A team on the rise. Bizarrely, Scotland have won two of their last three Tests against the Wallabies. In 2009, Scotland won at Murrayfield thanks, in part, to Matt Giteau, still on the scene now, goal-kicking with all the accuracy of Mr Magoo. The second was won in an Australian monsoon in the summer of 2012. Credible, but not all that relevant. Those Wallabies were not as good as this current lot and those games were peace-time matches, little more than friendlies. Scotland will be huge underdogs and that's a mindset that will suit them. They have nothing to lose. The pressure next Sunday will be completely different to the must-win stress of Saturday in Newcastle that almost choked them. Relief was the dominant emotion. Waves and waves of relief. Scotland had been brought to the wire by Samoa and the dizzying brush with death had begun almost from the get-go. After 11 minutes, Samoa scored their first try, running through gaps and beating away tackles and squeezing over in the corner. Scotland responded through Tommy Seymour and from that moment it was madcap stuff. Samoa carried hard and often. They launched their big runners and Scotland couldn't cope. Maurie Fa'asavalu, Jack Lam and Alafoti Fa'osiliva, their fiendish back-row, blasted Scottish tacklers out of their way. When they weren't going direct, they were going wide and exploiting Scotland's ragged defences. Cotter's team had little ball and little composure. Every time the game re-started, they added to their blunder count and invited Samoa on to them. It was a frenzy. Thrilling and, for Scotland, terrifying. Samoa scored, then Scotland scored, then Samoa, then Scotland. In the midst of all this, Ryan Wilson got a yellow card for a stamp - it could have been red - and then Samoa came again. At the break, Samoa had three tries and a three-point lead; 26-23. Scotland's first-half sickness had struck again despite their talk all week of putting the fixes in place. Four poor starts and four recoveries. Whatever has ailed this team in the beginning of these World Cup games you can't fault their character in overcoming the problems they've created for themselves. It was a long road back, though. Oh so long. When they started to apply the pressure, Samoa's only way of hanging on was to break every rule in the book. They conceded five penalties in the first 10 minutes of the second half, six in the first 13 minutes, nine in the first 22 minutes. Scotland had one attacking line-out after another deep in the Samoa 22 and yet they couldn't put them away. They made do with two Laidlaw penalties that gave them that three-point advantage. Three points and tens of thousands of squeaky bums. In trying to ease away on the scoreboard, Laidlaw missed a penalty, then he missed another. We have seen how captains can get it wrong at this World Cup - England's Chris Robshaw will never live it down after his choice against Wales - but in that critical time six minutes from the end, Laidlaw, and his team, got it exactly right. That scrum and that try gave them a buffer - and they needed it. It was a big call. The biggest call. A call that helped them into the quarter-final after missing out four years ago. They'll reset their ambitions now. They'll believe they can be a whole lot better against Australia than they were against Samoa. They'll have to be. The bottom line is that they're through. They've regained their place at the top table of eight nations and, with it, their relevance on the world stage.","Just when they needed it most , Scotland found a pocket of @placeholder that saw them home , a rare moment of clear thinking and ruthless execution that gave them the cushion that they would not relinquish .",excellence,averages,touch,colour,miracles,0
"Police said he was attacked from behind with a knife or a ""similar weapon"" near Karma Lounge bar in Allerton Road at about 21:45 BST on Saturday. The man was taken to hospital where his condition is described as stable and improving. Det Ch Insp Natalie Perischine said it was a ""senseless attack"". ""This was a shocking attack on a man during a busy Saturday night in Allerton,"" she said. His attacker is described as white, aged in his 20s, with short red hair. He was wearing a black padded jacket and dark coloured trousers and trainers.",A 23 - year - old man is in a stable condition in hospital after being slashed across his back as he @placeholder outside a bar in Liverpool .,stood,tried,performs,died,passes,0
"The typical property cost 7.6 times average annual earnings of employees in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The aftermath of the financial crisis saw affordability levels plateau. But now buyers face paying a record multiple of earnings as the affordability gap widens. In 2007, the typical buyer faced paying 7.2 times their earnings on a property, but this was surpassed in 2015 (7.4 times) and again in 2016 (7.6 times). The official figures will make gloomy reading for potential first-time buyers whose wages have stagnated and who now see property ownership become comparatively more expensive. However, borrowing costs are at historic lows with banks and building societies cutting interest rates on mortgages to attract customers. A recent report by Shelter suggested that nearly eight out of 10 families across England are unable to afford newly built homes in their local area. Northampton is the fastest-moving property market in the UK, according to analysis of listings on a property portal. Zoopla calculated the length of time that properties were listed on its website before being marked as under offer. Typically, among towns and cities across the country, properties in Northampton were listed for the shortest amount of time, 27 days. Milton Keynes (29 days) and Croydon (30 days) were next on the list. Regionally, properties on the site came under offer fastest in the South East of England and the East of England (42 days) compared with the longest - Wales - which took 66 days. The ONS figures show that London hosts seven of the 10 least affordable areas to buy a property in England and Wales last year. In Kensington and Chelsea, the typical property costs 38 times the average annual income of residents in the area. In 1999, a home cost 13 times typical earnings. Buyers in Westminster had to pay 24 times typical earnings for the area last year, and it was 21 times multiple in Hammersmith and Fulham. At the other end of the scale, buyers Copeland in Cumbria had to pay 2.8 times typical local earnings for a home. Next on the affordability list were the Welsh council areas of Neath Port Talbot and Blaenau Gwent (both 3.6 times). Property commentator Henry Pryor argues that affordability levels are less relevant for some buyers. ""Up to 40% of buyers do not have a mortgage, they are cash buyers for whom affordability isn't an issue and for whom there is no link to their income,"" he said. ""Half of people who own a home have no borrowings. The unearned and largely untaxed money they have made simply by living in their property isn't recorded in inflation figures but it is a significant part of what maintains house prices and drives the economy."" Roger Harding, of Shelter, said: ""The only way to fix the housing crisis is for the government to get behind a different way of building that brings down the cost of land."" Hello I'm an experiment from BBC News Labs. You can ask me questions about this story, like... Ask an expert about this story Ask BBC News about this story Still got questions? Ask Newsbot",Working people typically face house prices of more than seven times their annual earnings as affordability is increasingly @placeholder .,decreasing,stretched,warned,results,show,1
"Tarsem Singh, 52, died of a heart attack a day after the accident at Nylacast Engineering Plastic Solutions in Leicester in April 2016. An inquest heard the end cap of a pressurised moulding machine blew off and hit him at a speed of up to 80mph, fracturing his chest and jaw. A safety expert said the machine had not been properly risk assessed. The inquest at Leicester Town Hall heard Mr Singh was a ""highly skilled factory worker who loved his job"". The jury was told another worker had suffered hand injuries when the same part flew off on a previous occasion. A health and safety inspector said the machine's risk assessment was not suitable or sufficient and ""someone would have been injured eventually"". The inquest concluded Mr Singh died accidentally. His family are still awaiting the outcome of a Health and Safety Executive investigation into the death. Speaking after the inquest, Mr Singh's son Kuldip Bhele said his death was  ""something we will never get over but it's something we will just have to learn to live with"". Nylacast said in a statement: ""The company and staff remain deeply affected and saddened by the tragic events leading to the death of one of our long-standing and highly respected colleagues and friends.""",A firm has been @placeholder over the death of a factory worker who was hit by a piece of machinery .,questioned,criticised,charged,involved,released,1
"McFadzean, 29, has been linked with a move to boyhood club Sheffield United after making 44 appearances last term. ""If Kyle wants to go, £500,000 is the asking price for the best centre-half in the league,"" said Robinson. ""I don't care about what he thinks. His agent's been excellent, but we've not spoken to Kyle."" McFadzean was a trainee with the Blades, before joining MK in 2014 after spells at Alfreton and Crawley. He helped the Dons win promotion to the Championship in his first season at Stadium:MK, but they were relegated back to League One last term. Meanwhile, striker Nicky Maynard has signed a new one-year deal with the club - but Robinson has been frustrated so far in his attempt to add a winger to his squad. ""[Nicky] was the one I wanted. I didn't hide my desire to sign him,"" Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio. ""One wide player wanted to sign here, but something else came up that we were disappointed by. ""We met a Premier League club last week about one of their players and I'm meeting one on Tuesday to speak about some of their loan players on how we can aid the development of their players, which equally aids and supports the development of the football club.""","MK Dons manager Karl Robinson insists he has not spoken to Kyle McFadzean , following reports the defender has @placeholder in a transfer request .",handed,announced,ignored,resulted,doubled,0
"Bob Keiller is one such. He has announced that he is standing down as chief executive of Wood Group at the end of the year. That's after performing one very important role for any chief executive - picking and bringing on a successor. Step forward: chief operating officer Robin Watson, the company's third chief executive since Sir Ian Wood, each recruited internally. These are not easy times to be steering a energy services corporate supertanker through the narrow straits of today's oil prices. And one can but speculate that Bob Keiller had checked the charts for what lies ahead, before concluding that it ain't going to look any more attractive for some time yet. The share price peaked at 818p in July last year, and following a rocky ride off the back of Brent crude, it's risen to 680p with the succession announcement. Rather than batten down more hatches, and after only three years at the helm, the 51-year old Jedburgh engineer is moving on, powered by his signature restless energy and infectious enthusiasm. He was once named as Scotland's Entrepreneur of the Year, and he was chairman of the Entrepreneurial Exchange. That may seem an odd fit for someone on top of an organisation which was employing more than 50,000 people (now rather less). It's hard to remain as nimble as true entrepreneurs like to be, when on the bridge of the vast Wood Group. That said, Keiller has cast doubt on whether he's of the typical frame of mind for someone who likes serial start-ups. He made his name, and a mid-range fortune, by taking on a neglected corner of the Halliburton Group in a management buy-out, building it up from an Aberdeen base as PSN, and selling it to Wood Group five years ago. For £607m, then chairman Sir Ian Wood got not only the oilfield services expertise in PSN, but also the skill set of its leader, who soon emerged as the heir apparent. His approach to the company has been to find synergy across its divisions, and also to focus on values. In winning contracts across some wild frontier oil and gas basins where baksheesh is expected, Wood Group seeks to stand out as a company with which you can deal straight. Bob Keiller would have the values tattooed on every employee: safety, integrity, innovation, social responsibility and treating people with ""respect, fairness, openness, honesty and without bullying"". There's also straight talking. Bob Keiller told The Herald that his PA is under instructions to pin up on a noticeboard of shame anything he says that's pretentious. The company statement says he is ""retiring"" from Wood Group at the end of the year, but it's unlikely his focus will be on the bowling club, golf course or his studio for painting. (He nearly went to art college instead of engineering at Heriot-Watt.) He's saying only that ""I have several businesses that I am looking to develop"". That looks like a space worth watching. On the subject of Scottish entrepreneurs, the success of Sir Arnold Clark is plastered in bright yellow across so many vehicles that it probably just seems part of the street furniture to most of us, and often taken for granted. So with publication of his accounts at Companies House, it's worth noting that Arnold Clark notched up an 11% rise in sales to £3.27bn, with pre-tax profits above £107m. During last year, it shifted 250,000 new and used cars. It took over dealerships in the Highlands, plus businesses in Leeds and Milton Keynes. At the end of its 60th anniversary year, it had net assets of £679m. And according to the accounts, its highest paid director (the founder is both chairman and chief executive) trousered £3.3m. Sir Arnold has been around a while in the business, but his staff are winning awards for being ahead of the pack with the website and social media. It is a priority to make the company an attractive place for IT developers, with 70 already employed. Moving from its headquarters at a car showroom in Glasgow's Strathbungo, a new headquarters is being built in the west of the city at Hillington. Sir Arnold signed off his 2014 accounts by thanking his staff and business partners - as you might expect - but above all, the ""unwavering loyalty"" of his customers. That's both classy and a reminder of the priority that has built up the showroom empire to its current scale.","Scotland used to have numerous captains of industry . With fewer corporate headquarters , they are rarer these days , and tend to have shorter @placeholder of command .",periods,levels,lines,millions,array,0
"She said the UK would opt out of all 133 EU law and order measures in the Lisbon Treaty and seek to rejoin 35 of them ""in the national interest"". She rejected calls by Tory MPs to scrap the warrant, but said it would be reformed to exclude minor crimes. Labour said the announcement was ""hardly a triumph of repatriation"" and accused Mrs May of being soft on crime. To shouts of ""shame"" from Tory benches, Mrs May said Britain would rejoin the European Arrest Warrant, but said British law would be amended to ""rectify problems and increase protections"" for people wanted for extradition. ""For reasons of policy, principle and pragmatism, I believe that it is in the national interest to exercise the United Kingdom's opt-out and rejoin a much smaller set of measures which help us to cooperate with our European neighbours in the fight against serious and organised crime. ""I also believe that Her Majesty's government must strike the right balance between supporting law enforcement and protecting our traditional liberties. Q&A: European Arrest Warrant ""What I have outlined today will achieve both of those goals,"" she told MPs. Mrs May promised ""additional safeguards"" to stop the European Arrest Warrant being used to extradite British nationals for relatively minor offences. The Extradition Act will be amended to ensure that people can only be extradited if the country seeking them has made a decision to charge and try them, unless their presence is required to make that decision. The law will also be changed to make sure that British citizens cannot be extradited for acts that are not an offence under British law in cases where part of the conduct took place in the UK. She said the UK would also be seeking to opt back in to pan-EU intelligence sharing agency Europol, ""provided that Europol is not given the power to direct national law enforcement agencies to initiate investigations or share data that conflicts with our national security"". The government has tabled a motion for Commons debate next week on the conditions for rejoining Europol, to be held after a vote on the wider plan to opt back in to the 35 measures. Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper accused Mrs May of a U-turn on the European Arrest Warrant, after previously suggesting it was not in the UK's interest. ""Why has it taken the home secretary three years to realise we don't want to go back to the days of the Costa Del Crime, where British criminals could flee to Spain or European criminals could find safe haven here?"" she asked MPs. Ms Cooper said many of the crime and security measures Mrs May wanted the UK to opt out of were no longer in use, had been replaced or had never been used by Britain. ""The home secretary has tried to play Britannia, clothing herself in the union jack, parading powers that she is repatriating from Brussels, but where is the substance?"" she added. She accused the home secretary of jeopardising the fight against serious cross-border crime by playing politics with the issue. The UK will require the agreement of the EU's 27 other members to be able to re-adopt selected measures. Some Conservative MPs have been critical of the pan-European warrant scheme, introduced in 2004 to speed up the extradition process for convicted offenders and criminal suspects across European borders. But the Lib Dems say UK participation in the warrant, which was used to detain and extradite from Italy one of those subsequently convicted of involvement in attempted bombings in London in July 2005, makes it easier to bring offenders to justice and Labour says ditching it would be ""crazy"". The European Commission said it ""respects"" the UK government's choice to opt out and ""welcomes the UK intention to also opt back into certain measures"". ""The commission will clearly need to take the necessary time to assess the indicative list of proposals for opting back in that the UK has outlined. ""The final commission position will be taken after the formal notification of the final list ie after 1 December 2014 and will be based on the criteria set out in the protocol, policy coherence and practical operability of cooperation in this area. ""At first sight, it appears that the UK has looked at the opt-ins in a pragmatic way. The commission hopes that the UK can continue to contribute actively and pragmatically to the EU wide fight against organised crime and terrorism.""","The UK wants to remain @placeholder up to the European Arrest Warrant , Home Secretary Theresa May has told MPs.",bound,signed,build,grew,line,1
"Daniel Fox, 29, from St Helens, was found with a knife wound in Westfield Street and North John Street at about 03:20 BST on Friday. Two women, both aged 18 and from the Rainhill area, have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. One has been released on police bail and one is still being questioned. Police said Mr Fox was attacked outside Dreem Bar where he worked, where staff described him as ""a good guy and a gent"". Paying tribute, his family said he had recently become a carer for autistic children and was ""an outgoing, loving and private person"".","A doorman who was stabbed outside a St Helens bar died as a result of a single stab wound to his @placeholder , a post-mortem examination has found .",death,vehicle,security,home,body,4
"Some have been spotted posing as 1960s pop stars, dancing on TV insurance adverts and starring in comedy shows. But the likes of Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness and the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Christopher Stalford haven't given up the day job just yet. They have just been paired up with their celebrity lookalikes on a new Twitter account called MLAalikes. The account was set up this week by political bloggers Kris Nixon and Conor Johnston. The pair are friends who both write for the Northern Ireland politics website Slugger O'Toole. ""We were just a bit jaded with the amount of content that goes on social media that's critical, that's constantly berating MLAs,"" Mr Nixon told BBC News NI. The 29-year-old blogger said some of the material posted online about Stormont politicians is ""sometimes quite offensive"", and MLAalikes aimed to avoid that. ""We thought, let's just put something out there that's a little bit of fun, that both sides can laugh at,"" he said. ""If you see a funny picture of an MLA that's not offensive, it's not crass, it's not trying to annoy people... you're likely to give it a share."" So far, there has been a positive response from some of those who have featured in the gallery. ""There has been some interaction from councillors and MLAs alike, and the more we do, the more we think they enjoy it,"" Mr Nixon added. ""They're more likely to engage if they don't feel like they're being abused."" Mr Stalford, a South Belfast MLA, has already featured twice - first he was compared to one of the dancers on a well-known insurance advert, and in the second instance, striking a pose reminiscent of his former party leader, Ian Paisley. Imitation is said to be the greatest form of flattery, and the MLA seemed pleased with his DUP doppelganger as he retweeted the post. ""Christopher Stalford obviously engaged quite pleasantly with it,"" said Mr Nixon. It can be hard to be a true original though, and the bloggers admit they were not the first to spot the DUP MLA's Twitter twin in the insurance ad. ""Apparently another MLA, Gary Middleton, had got there before us."" Some of the matches cross the generations, with former further education minister Stephen Farry (45) likened to schoolboy Will McKenzie, one of the main characters of The Inbetweeners comedy show. And for a party that likes to stay on middle ground, the uncanny resemblance of some Alliance Party MLAs to actors from the Channel Four show does not stop there. ""I was at an Alliance Party event the other day where they were all laughing about it,"" said Mr Nixon. ""There's one of Chris Lyttle, the East Belfast MLA, and a character from The Inbetweeners which hadn't been pointed out before."" The bloggers want to reunite more MLAs who were separated at birth from their long-lost celebrity twins and are actively seeking help from Twitter users. However, not all suggestions match up to their standards. ""We've had a few messages in; some privately, some publicly,"" Mr Nixon said. ""Although, we've noticed there has been a tendency to go a little bit offensive. ""Some of the public ones so far, we wouldn't put up.""","Double - jobbing was supposed to be @placeholder out at Stormont , but it looks as though not every MLA got the message .",paid,sold,phased,knocked,rolled,2
"Frustrated local residents and traders dismantled roadblocks set up by ethnic Madhesi groups, letting some vehicles through. The Madhesi groups have been demanding changes to a new constitution which they say doesn't represent them. The result has been severe shortages of fuel and other supplies across Nepal. The Madhesi groups - representing people living in southern plains bordering India - have been holding protest movements demanding their better representation in the new constitution. The protests have resulted in the deaths of over 50 people. The Madhesi groups insist however that their blockade is still in effect. Local officials said that vehicles had managed to pass through for the first time on Friday. ""There is no blockade at the checkpoint right now, and over 150 small and big vehicles have passed through since this afternoon,"" local police chief Raju Babu Shrestha told AFP. Last month, Nepal's parliament approved first amendment of the constitution in order to address some of their demands such as proportional and inclusive representation of marginalised communities. However, the Madhesi groups called it inadequate. They have vowed to reconvene on Saturday to decide what to do in response to the lifting of the blockade. The Nepalese government also accuses India of deliberately worsening the embargo - something India denies. Among the worst-hit supplies have been essential medicines. Read more on Nepal's crisis: Why is Nepal's new constitution controversial? Why India is concerned about Nepal's constitution Fuel crisis threatens Nepal's forests Nepal blockade: Four die in clashes",A vital border crossing between Nepal and India has been opened to @placeholder for the first time in more than four months .,open,foreigners,permission,humanity,traffic,4
"Tobias Ellwood likened the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Londoner Reece James Menzies in Boscombe on 25 July to ""a scene from The Wire"", the hit US police drama set in Baltimore. The Bournemouth East MP fears Somali drug gangs from inner city London are now targeting Bournemouth, and Boscombe in particular. He believes criminals see the town as a soft touch compared to larger cities such as London that have specialist police task forces to combat organised drug gangs. Mr Ellwood said: ""This man was shot in the face from close range. ""A gangland hit like this would have been unheard of Bournemouth two years ago. It's like something from an episode of the Wire, not something that Bournemouth wants to be associated with. ""Police in inner city London are used to chasing down organised drugs gangs with specialist teams so the gangs are now moving to places such as Bournemouth, Southampton and Bath, where the police are not as geared up to deal with them."" Dorset Police's Assistant Chief Constable James Vaughan believes significant progress has been made in Boscombe to curb so-called ""imported crime"" from other cities. Mr Vaughan said Mr Ellwood's views and concerns were ""rightly welcomed"". But Dorset Police said the force was not aware of any particular problem with Somali drug gangs in Bournemouth. Mr Ellwood also wants to see legislation to rid the town of unregulated drug rehabilitation centres, which he believes feed the town's drugs market. He said: ""Dorset is seen as a tranquil place so there are a lot of rehab centres in Bournemouth but a lot of them are not regulated. I could set one up in my garage. ""When people drop out they go back into the fog of the back streets and return to drugs. At the heart of this is Somali gangs from London. ""Somalia is a broken country. The way they do do business there is different to the way we do business here."" Mr Ellwood also wants to see a cap on the number of rehabilitation centres in Bournemouth to prevent other councils from around the UK sending addicts to the town. ""The housing stock in London is exhausted so landlords in Bournemouth are being paid by councils to take on these undesirables, so all the social problems that come with them are moved from the capital,"" he said. ""No one knows how many rehab centres there are in Bournemouth, the borough council was unable to give me a figure."" John Beesley, leader of Bournemouth council, said: ""We recognise that the numbers of unregulated rehabilitation centres in Boscombe is impacting negatively on the area and is one of a number of issues at the root of the problems Boscombe is facing."" Mr Beesley said the council was working closely with the police, Mr Ellwood and other organisations to raise the issue with government. When asked why Bournemouth had so many rehab centres, Mr Ellwood said: ""If you're given a choice of living in Harwich, Reading or Bournemouth where are you going to choose? ""We can't be seen as this vessel where other parts of the country hand off their problem characters. ""I'd like to see extra police resources in Bournemouth to stamp this out straight away."" Mr Ellwood is organising a multi-agency conference to discuss drug dealing in Bournemouth on 21 September at Bournemouth Town Hall. A 22-year-old man who was arrested in connection with Reece James Menzies's murder has been released on bail pending further inquiries.","Somali drug gangs need to be stamped out of Bournemouth according to an MP who believes they were responsible for a "" @placeholder hit "" on a man shot dead in the town .",deserved,planned,double,stolen,body,1
"Scottish Borders Council announced the 13-year deal, worth £92m, with CGI earlier this week. The authority said it would not have agreed the contract if it had any concerns about the company. CGI said it continued to work with the Scottish government on implementing new Common Agricultural Policy reform. The deal between SBC and CGI will bring 200 jobs and a service centre to the Borders. It has been welcomed by the authority's leaders - as well as other local politicians - and the council said it did not have concerns over CGI's role in the IT system designed to administer the new EU subsidy regime. Critics claim the multi-million pound system is not fit for purpose - with farmers still waiting for money usually paid out in December. Audit Scotland, who are investigating, have previously highlighted rising costs as well as risks to both the programme's delivery and its value for money. The Scottish government has blamed the increased cost on ""compressed timescales"" and changes to requirements. A statement for SBC said it was happy to work with the company. ""Our contract with CGI is the outcome of extensive and detailed work to ensure SBC appoints the best provider for its requirements,"" it said. ""We would not be appointing CGI if we were in any doubt about their ability to meet our requirements."" The company issued a brief statement on the situation. A spokesperson said: ""CGI continues to assist the Scottish government in its significant business change programme for the implementation of the new CAP reform.""",A council has said it has no concerns about outsourcing its IT services to a firm involved in a heavily - @placeholder system to process farm subsidies .,regulated,criticised,phased,planned,funded,1
"Amos Yee, 17, will spend six weeks in jail for deliberately posting videos and comments critical of Christianity and Islam. Judge Ong Hian Sun told the court that Yee's actions could ""generate social unrest"". It is the teenager's second prison sentence in two years. Yee was jailed for four weeks in 2015 for criticising Christians, and was accused of insulting Lee Kuan Yew after he posted a video online in which he likened the late Singaporean leader to Jesus Christ. Such actions are considered a serious crime in a country which takes a zero-tolerance approach towards insults of race and religion. Yee, who was accompanied to court on Thursday by his mother, told reporters that his sentence was ""fair"", adding that he was ""very remorseful"". The teenager's latest trial was closely watched by rights groups, who argue that the case threatens freedom of expression. Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch said Singapore now needs to review its approach in dealing with cases like Yee's, who is likely to benefit from the publicity. ""Every time the authorities go after him, it just adds to his online audience,"" said Mr Robertson in an email.","A teenage blogger has been handed a prison sentence after he was found guilty by a Singapore court of "" wounding religious @placeholder "" .",behaviour,drugs,leaders,life,feelings,4
"The Wildlife Estates Scotland (WES) accreditation is given to farms and estates that demonstrate a standard of excellence in land management. To receive the award, estates have to encourage wildlife conservation and biodiversity through careful species and habitat management. Over 20 farms and estates have achieved accreditation in Scotland. Red deer stalking, grouse shooting and salmon fishing are all managed at Balmoral. Richard Gledson, Balmoral's resident factor, said the royal family were ""thrilled"" by the award. He added: ""We are delighted that the estate has been awarded WES accreditation. ""It marks the culmination of a long process to ensure Balmoral meets the high standards of the scheme.""",The Duke of Edinburgh has @placeholder an award on behalf of Balmoral Estate for its wildlife practice .,made,collected,won,opened,closed,1
"The community of Amona accepted a government relocation proposal with 45 votes in favour and 29 against. Sunday's decision comes after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Supreme Court earlier ruled that the homes were built on private Palestinian land. Families living at the unauthorised site, or outpost, were ordered to leave the area in the northern West Bank by 25 December. Messages posted on Twitter by representatives of the Amona community said the decision to accept the government proposal was ""not an easy one"". ""We can definitely say that this decision was the most difficult one we ever took,"" one tweet reads, while another adds: ""All who voted FOR did that with a heavy heart."" PM Netanyahu said the government had ""done the maximum"" to find a solution for the residents of Amona after an earlier proposal was rejected last week. ""Until dawn this morning we made very great efforts to reach an agreed solution on Amona,"" he told ministers at a cabinet meeting. Anyone who remained at the site after the 25 December deadline faced a forced eviction. The latest proposal involves moving 24 of the 40 families living in Amona to new adjacent plots not covered by the Supreme Court ruling, local media report. Mr Netanyahu needs to ask the court for a stay of execution before the new plan is implemented. The issue of how to deal with the Amona site has caused tension within Israel's right-wing coalition government, with some members opposed to its removal. According to the anti-settlement movement Peace Now, there are 97 outposts in the occupied West Bank, and over 130 settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Unlike officially recognised settlements, the government regards outposts as illegal.",Residents of a Jewish outpost in the occupied West Bank have agreed to @placeholder the area just one week before the deadline for eviction .,scrap,close,evacuate,unlock,revive,2
"The two-day event, which started on Saturday, features aircraft including the MiG-15 UTI in honour of Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. In 1961, Mr Gagarin became the first person to journey into outer space. Other displays include the Breitling Wingwalkers, the Tigers parachute team and the Red Arrows. Robert Francis-Davies, of Swansea council, said: ""It's great news for Swansea people and Swansea businesses, helping pump millions of pounds into the local economy over the course of a single weekend.""",Thousands of people are @placeholder in Swansea for this year 's Wales National Airshow .,arriving,stuck,expected,housed,gathered,2
"St Joseph's College in Stoke-on-Trent said if every parent paid the optional £60 per term per child, it would have an additional £196,000. In a statement, it said like all schools nationally it was ""under increasing financial pressure"". The government said it had ""protected the core schools budget in real terms since 2010"". Read more news for Staffordshire In a letter to parents, the school in Trent Vale for 11 to 18-year-olds, said it was ""facing cuts next year of £289,000 in addition to the more than £1m that has been cut"" over the previous five years. It said that meant it had had ""£200 funding cut per pupil per year since 2013 with another £286 per pupil cut from this year's budget"". In a statement, the school said whilst it could meet its ""core"" commitments, the provision of ""the outstanding opportunities that we strive to offer has been supported by parents for the last 20 years via a voluntary payment to the school fund"". It added: ""We have recently reminded parents, as we do annually, of the benefits to their children of supporting the school in this way."" The government said school funding was ""at its highest level on record at almost £41bn in 2017-18"" and that was set to rise, as pupil numbers increase, to £42bn by 2019/20. It said: ""We recognise that schools are facing cost pressures, which is why we will continue to provide support to help them use their funding in cost effective ways and make efficiencies.","Parents at a @placeholder school have been invited to pay a fee every term to help plug a near £ 300,000 gap in funding .",primary,deal,secondary,state,property,3
"The Manchester United striker apologised over ""inappropriate"" pictures of him a day after England's World Cup qualifying win over Scotland. The Daily Mirror has reported the FA found Rooney was invited to a wedding reception and that there was no curfew. Rooney, 31, has been assured from ""high levels within the Football Association"" that he will not be charged. An investigation followed the publication of images in The Sun which it said showed Rooney drunk at a party late on Saturday, 12 November. The FA is also looking into claims several England players were out until late on the same Saturday night after the 3-0 win over Scotland - less than three days before they drew 2-2 with Spain in a friendly. England's players all reported back at 11:00 GMT on the Sunday as they were instructed to, and attended training in the afternoon. England players have since been banned by the FA from having nights out while on international duty.",Captain Wayne Rooney will not face disciplinary action following his late - night @placeholder while on England duty .,term,conduct,attack,survival,speech,1
"Tilly was found to have suffered a single stab wound to the stomach in a field off Broadcar Road in Hoyland near Barnsley on Sunday. The RSPCA and a vet were called after the grey mare was found by a dog walker just before 07:00 BST. Owner Michelle Steeples said she had been left ""devastated"" by the attack on Tilly who was ready to be rehomed. The RSPCA and South Yorkshire Police has launched a joint investigation. ""It was like something out of a horror film,"" Ms Steeples said. Tilly was being cared and trained for by Ms Steeples after getting a reputation for being ""difficult"". ""She was making great progress. She was just about ready to get rehomed,"" Ms Steeples said. Ms Steeples has set up a Justice for Tilly Facebook group and the reward has been offered by a stranger who heard what had happened. ""The vet confirmed it was a deliberate wound,"" she said. ""It was one single stab wound to the underside of her stomach. ""The wound was about two or three hours old."" RSPCA inspector John Lawson said: ""The poor horse, a very sweet small grey mare, was suffering greatly and was put to sleep on humane grounds.""","A £ 1,000 reward is being offered after a horse was stabbed and then had to be @placeholder .",donated,destroyed,sacked,slaughtered,deal,1
"Using lab-based synthetic biology, experiments in bacterial evolution, and mathematical modelling the study finds links between organisms and markets. Bacterial investment crashes and boom-bust cycles are described in a paper in the journal Ecology Letters. The study is the clearest experimental test of a 50-year-old theory relating trade-offs to competitive success. The evolutionary successes of bacteria are plain to see as they are found across the globe, but bacteria may also have something to say about investment success more generally. A research group from the UK and Australia used strains of the bacterium E. coli that were constrained in the amount of resource that they had for growth, but that were also subjected to varying degrees of biological stress. Different strains of E. coli developed covering a range of ability to cope with stress and invest in growth. Externally imposed ""market conditions"", represented by changing salt and acid contents of their environment, influenced the outcome of the ""investment decisions"" made by each bacterium, with success rewarded by survival, and failure leading to extinction. The consequences of the trade-offs between development of stress-resistance, which involves the acquisition of costly proteins, or increasing consumption to grow were recorded in the evolution of the genetic codes of the successful bacterial strains. The observations were used to test and validate mathematical models of bacterial investment booms and crashes. Dr Ivana Gudelj from the University of Exeter was one of the authors of the study, and said: ""We have shown that very different investment opportunities can require different investment strategies. ""These strategies are constrained by the subtleties in trade-offs that are usually invisible or ignored in real markets. The study is a classic demonstration of Darwinian economics and survival of the fittest."" Almost half a century ago Richard Levins first suggested that trade-offs in organisms' investment decisions lead to them exploiting different niches, and this concept may apply both in biological ecology and in financial markets, but it has not previously been demonstrated as clearly by experimental observations. Prof Dan Lovallo, senior research fellow in Innovative Management at University of California, Berkeley, US, was not involved in the study, and commented: ""This paper breaks exciting new ground in the integration of sciences... of interest to multiple fields: economics, finance, business strategy, and biology."" The applicability of the results to real investment decisions in financial markets should probably be treated with caution however, since the markets constructed for the study were simplified to allow testing of the model. They do, nonetheless, show how small changes in market conditions can sometimes correspond to huge differences between optimal strategies.","Colonies of bacteria @placeholder growth against risk , just like financial investors , ecologists have found .",balance,goods,show,fuel,drugs,0
"The studios lie empty, the control rooms dark and locked-up. Outside on the gate flutters a banner reading: ""The workers of Alter are not slaves."" For nine months, this once-popular television station has been occupied by its staff. They man the entrance on shifts, working around the clock. But no programmes are produced and the channel's signal is dead. This is the face of a media in crisis. Two years ago, Alter started delaying the pay cheques of its employees. After four months without salaries, the staff began a go-slow. Some money came, but it soon dried up. Then the strike began in earnest last November. Nikos Spyreas is - or was - one of the technicians on the channel, operating the outside live broadcasts. He used to earn 1,300 euros (??1,025) a month, but has not been paid for over a year. Now he tries to survive on a monthly unemployment benefit of 360 euros. ""I don't pay my bills, I live off loans from my family and I can't pay my taxes,"" he tells me, at the start of a night shift guarding the building. ""Before, we all had a good life but we worked for it. Now we can't afford to go for coffee. Earlier this year, people came to deliver us food here that we distributed among staff."" Alter was a classic example of where Greece and its media went wrong. The owners were tycoons, taking out endless loans to build an empire comprising newspapers, radio stations and television channels. They are accused of tax evasion, for which one of the owners is now in prison. As the recession hit here and advertising revenue plummeted, the channel soon found itself unable to repay what it had borrowed; one estimate placed Alter's debt at 500m euros. Now the employees say they are waiting one more month for payment. Failing that, they will prosecute the company at an employment tribunal, forcing it to declare bankruptcy, for which the staff would receive a small pay-out. ""Alter was a microcosm of everything that was rotten in Greece,"" says Mr Spyreas. ""Going mad with money that it didn't have."" Other media have fallen foul of the same vice as Greece's financial crisis ripples through every sector of society. An estimated 4,000 jobs in the media have been cut since the recession hit. Perhaps the most shocking closure of all was that of the highly respected left-leaning daily Eleftherotypia. Founded after the fall of Greece's dictatorship in 1975, it was the second-most-read newspaper in the country, with more than 800 employees. It was a rare voice of independence and impartiality - a voice silenced arguably when it was most needed. Yannis Bogiopoulos was a sub-editor in the political section until the employees began strike action last December over a lack of payment. Since then he and some colleagues have produced six editions of the paper off their own bat. They hope to restart the publication under self-management and with their own resources. ""The closure of Eleftherotypia is a big loss for Greece,"" Mr Bogiopoulos says. ""It was unlike most media here, which is owned by people with other interests. Most journalists won't say anything against the businesses that have given them loans, for example. We must feel free to report on the politicians who have stolen from the state - Eleftherotypia did that."" He pauses to reflect on what Greece's media scene could yet become. ""We will turn into George Orwell's 1984 if we don't get honest, reliable reporting. Lack of information breeds racism and nationalism. Journalism is part of democracy. If Greece wants democracy, it has to reinvent journalism."" The country that invented the very notion of democracy now ranks just 70th in press freedom in a list compiled by the organisation Reporters Without Borders, dropping 40 places in the last five years. Now, torn by the worst financial crisis in their modern history, Greeks crave an honest source of information. The disillusionment with mainstream media runs deep, with blogs and community radio stations like the online broadcaster Radio Bubble flourishing instead. They have filled the niche, narrating and analysing the complexities of the crisis that much of the established media have failed to do. ""The traditional press has not adapted to the new landscape of the social media,"" says Nikos Xidakis, editor-in-chief of Kathimerini, one of the few other respected dailies here. ""And some of the big media houses are in the grip of business moguls who push their agenda through the press. For too long, the media here has behaved like it was the government: now it is being punished for that."" There is of course an argument that the Greek media scene was previously saturated - that a country of 10 million people simply didn't need a dozen television channels, more than 20 national newspapers and countless radio stations, and that quantity has been prioritised over quality. And so perhaps, like so much in Greece, the media is simply being cut down to size.",Greece 's media have had the challenge of covering one of the country 's most newsworthy periods - the imploding economy and its effect on society . But cuts and falling revenue are @placeholder their ability to cover the crisis .,damaging,examining,encouraged,fulfilling,continuing,0
"It is 10 years to the day since Tania Nicol went missing. Once a sea cadet looking forward to a naval career, she, like Wright's four other victims, had fallen into a world of drugs and - ultimately - prostitution. The 19-year-old was the youngest of the five women murdered by Wright during the winter of 2006. When she went missing on 30 October 2006, her father went ""out of his mind"" with worry. She was found dead at Belstead Brook, Ipswich, three weeks later. ""I had said to Tania once, knowing she was taking some kind of drugs, that you're going to end up in an institution, jail or dead,"" said Miss Nicol's father Jim Duell. The revelation she had been a sex worker was a shock. ""We realised it was the desperation for drugs,"" he said. ""There's a line that you cross, she crossed that line into that life. ""I wasn't disappointed with her. These are daughters, not just things, not sex machines. They are human beings who went to school, who were bright, pretty and innocent, and then they grow up into a world of drugs, evil. It's all out there to corrupt their lives. They fell into corruption."" The retired taxi driver had been an alcoholic up until four years before his daughter's death. A decade on, the born again Christian says his faith has helped him come to terms with his loss. He said he felt ""at ease"" one night when he heard Miss Nicol ""tell him"" she was ""OK"". ""I could've gone on, 'woe is me, woe is me'. If I had to go through it on my own human strength, I don't know what would've happened, I might've gone back to the drink."" Two weeks after Miss Nicol had disappeared, Gemma Adams, 25, was reported missing. Her body was found first, a little further upstream from where police later discovered Miss Nicol's body. Another sex worker, Anneli Alderton, 24, was the next to go missing. She was found a week later at Nacton, her body had been left in a cruciform pose with her arms outstretched. Her disappearance was followed closely by that of Annette Nicholls, 29, who was found in woodland with her body left in a similar pose. Wright's final victim, Paula Clennell, 24, was found just hundreds of metres away. But while Suffolk Police found themselves in the middle of an unprecedented murder investigation, other sex workers continued to work on the streets. One, Jade Reynolds, had only given birth to her son weeks before the killings began. However, her heroin addiction meant she needed to earn money. ""I was frightened for the girls, not necessarily for myself,"" she said. ""Now I'm clean, in hindsight, I look back and I'm embarrassed by myself and I feel guilty about it,"" says Ms Reynolds, who is now aged 33 and no longer working on the streets. ""But at the time the drugs are ruling your life. Personal safety went out of the window."" Similarly, fellow sex worker Jacci Goldsmith continued to take to the streets. She was desperate to avoid going back to an unhappy home life and wanted to earn enough money to get her fix of heroin so she could feel ""normal"". Both women knew four of Wright's victims, but it was the death of Annette Nicholls that affected them most. Ms Goldsmith said the mother-of-one had stopped by her flat on the evening she went missing. But she ignored the knocking on the door. ""She just wanted to come in,"" said Ms Goldsmith, who used to live ""on the beat"" at Canham Street but gave up drugs and sex work in 2008. ""I still hear her shouting through my letterbox, and that's 10 years on."" It was Miss Nicholls' death which also had the greatest impact on Ms Reynolds. ""Losing her tore my heart out,"" she says. ""I've never been so humbled and honoured to know a person like that. ""Even though she was a working girl on drugs, she did everything for her kid, for her family. She had a beautiful soul, a beautiful spirit."" At the time of the murders, there were about 30 sex workers in Ipswich. The notoriety of the case made the town a ""happy frenzy for punters"", she says, as men wanted to ""sleep with an Ipswich prostitute"". Tania Nicol, 19, was the youngest and first of Wright's victims. The former Chantry High School pupil went missing from the red light area near Ipswich Town FC's Portman Road on 30 October. Police divers found her body on 8 December at Belstead brook at Copdock. Gemma Adams, 25, who had grown up in Kesgrave, was the second to go missing early on 15 November. Her boyfriend of 10 years reported her missing after she failed to respond to his text messages. Her naked body was found on 2 December 2006. Anneli Alderton, 24, went missing on 3 December 2006. Her body was found in woodland at Nacton seven days later, deliberately ""posed"" in a ""cruciform"" shape with arms outstretched. The former Copleston High School pupil was found to be three months pregnant at the time of her death. Annette Nicholls, 29, was last seen alive on 8 December 2006. Her naked body was also found in a ""cruciform"" pose, four days later. Her body was found along the Old Felixstowe Road, close to the body of Paula Clennell. Paula Clennell, 24, had last been seen alive on 10 December 2006. She had given a TV interview just days before her disappearance, admitting she was ""wary"" about getting into cars but had to fund her £500-a-day drug habit. She was found dead on 12 December 2006. The town's red light district was focused around West End Road, Portman Road and London Road, where Wright lived. The women said they would charge each ""punter"" at least £20 and would go with them in their cars, by the river, on the corner of Portman Road and Canham Street. In fact Ms Reynolds, who began working on the streets aged 17, had encountered Wright five years before the killings began. She described him as a ""little perverted, nervous and quiet man"" who ""just wanted business"". ""He didn't seem that dodgy,"" she added. ""I had the strangest requests asked by men that you don't think 'that seems dodgy'."" So what provoked Wright, who was 48 at the time and had visited prostitutes for years, to carry out these murders? His father Conrad believes his son may have been ""left damaged"" by his mother leaving when he was young. ""Now Steve at that time would have been eight or nine years old,"" he said. ""Then twenty-six years later, she appears... there was his siblings all saying there's my real mother, all that business, and Steve, he didn't like it. ""You know, that might have left a mark on him, and that turned him against women, I don't know. He didn't want to see his mum after 26 years."" However, the ""excuse"" that Wright was scarred by the family break up is not accepted by criminologist Colleen Moore. ""Lots of people have their parents walk out on them when they are young and of course it is distressing, that's a very natural response,"" she said. ""But most people don't deal with that feeling of abandonment by murdering. ""Steve Wright was not a fool. He was a cruel man who hated women and did what he did because he wanted to."" The Ipswich murders resulted in a clampdown on prostitution and a strategy was set up to eradicate it from the town. Furthermore, the police nationally changed their approach to policing sex work. The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) revised its guidance in 2011, noting that the danger and vulnerability that sex workers face had come to the forefront because of the ""tragic episode of the Ipswich murders"". As a result, sex workers are now seen as vulnerable victims instead of criminals. That was accompanied by a change in the law to criminalise the act of paying for the sexual services of women who are subject to exploitation. Dr Ian Edwards, a criminologist at the University of East Anglia, said: ""The Ipswich murders led to significant changes in the way the police and criminal justice system treat vulnerable women who work as prostitutes. ""New guidance for the police emphasises that vulnerable women should be helped away from prostitution rather than be treated primarily as criminals. ""Part of the strategy for helping exploited women is to criminalise the men who pay for their sexual services, rather than criminalising the women themselves.""","Ten years ago , five sex workers were taken from the streets of Ipswich and murdered in the space of six weeks . Now , the father of killer Steven Wright has urged him to @placeholder . But what impact has his murderous spree had on the family and friends of his vulnerable victims ?",confess,cooperate,continue,join,intervene,0
"Sirena Seaways hit Harwich International Port in Essex as it arrived at about 12:00 BST. Owner DFDS said the vessel would probably be out of service until at least next Saturday. The Marine Accident Investigation Branch said a team was at the port conducting preliminary inquiries. A spokeswoman for DFDS said the ferry was being repaired in a dry dock. ""As a result, it is likely that the vessel will be out of service until at least Saturday 29 June,"" she said. ""We would like to apologise to passengers for any inconvenience caused during this time. ""Our customer services team is working hard to find alternative transportation routes for all passengers booked on to the cancelled sailings."" Eyewitnesses spoke of hearing a loud bang as the vessel hit the quay at the port. The 23,000-tonne ship started to let in water and began listing to its port side. Its crew plugged the hole in the vessel's hull from inside and built a compartment with watertight doors to stem the leak. Lifeboats and coastguard vessels were launched and an RAF search and rescue helicopter was sent to the scene. Police, firefighters and ambulances also attended but there were no injuries reported and no pollution.",Sailings from Harwich to Esbjerg in Denmark have been @placeholder after a ferry with 489 passengers on board hit a quay while docking on Saturday .,suspended,arrested,identified,rescued,launched,0
"Unless the polls are wrong - which they very well might be - and unless there is a late switch in opinion - which there still could be - most players and pundits are now expecting an election that is too close to call and may produce a result which could allow for either David Cameron or Ed Miliband to become prime minister. So, what is obsessing politicians of all parties behind-the-scenes is the debate about what a legitimate government would look like. You might think that's simple - one led by the winning party - but think again. In politics things aren't nearly so neat and simple as that. What's more your definition of what is a legitimate government tends, surprise surprise, to be shaped by how it helps the party you support. So, what are the competing arguments? 1. A legitimate government is led by the party which ""wins"" - ie wins the most MPs and votes Conservatives and their cheerleaders in the Tory press are most likely to argue that the party that ""wins"" has the right to govern. That's because even if they don't win in the proper sense - ie gaining a majority of seats in Parliament - they do expect to get more MPs and more votes than Labour. If that happens they will argue that the prime minister would have the right to stay in office in the eyes of most voters. They may get some support in making this argument from Nick Clegg who has said that the Lib Dems will talk first (but not exclusively) to whoever has the most seats and votes. He may argue - as he did in 2010 - that the public would not tolerate a government made up of parties that came second and third. Even Labour figures such as Ed Balls and Lord (Jack) McConnell have pointed out that the winning party ""normally"" forms a government. They did so to try to persuade Scottish voters that they were taking a risk by voting for the SNP not Labour. But - and it's a mighty big but - the only constitutional test of legitimacy which is recognised by the House of Commons, Buckingham Palace and the civil service is… 2. A legitimate government is one supported by a majority of MPs (of whatever party) You can't be prime minister unless you have the support of enough MPs to pass the laws you propose and to raise the money you need. The tests of this are whether the House of Commons votes for the Queen's Speech - the government's ""to do"" list of new laws for the year ahead - and for its Budget - without which the Treasury would run out of money. So, if - and it is still an if - Labour come second but could govern with the support of, or at least without being opposed by other parties, they will argue that it is not just legitimate but right and proper for Ed Miliband to become prime minister. There is a historical precedent - though not a particularly happy one for Ed. The first ever Labour government came to power in 1924 in just this way when Ramsay MacDonald became PM with the support of Herbert Asquith's Liberals. MacDonald is still seen as a class traitor in some Labour households where his picture hangs but faces the wall. The SNP are leading those who make the case that it doesn't matter who comes first in large part to counter the Labour argument in Scotland that a vote for the SNP is a vote for David Cameron to stay in Downing Street. But last night Nicola Sturgeon also unveiled another argument... 3. A legitimate government must be backed by all parts of the UK Last night Scotland's first minister argued that a government that had only won in England would not be legitimate in the eyes of many Scots. Given that Nicola Sturgeon favours breaking up the UK you might argue that she would, wouldn't she, but she will not be alone. Some may argue that a Labour government backed by the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Northern Ireland's SDLP has a claim to speak for all the people of these islands whereas a Tory-led government would govern on behalf of England alone. Now all these arguments will, in the end, be shaped or made irrelevant by the actual results. The reason politicians are obsessing now is that all party leaders know that there will be a new battle for public opinion which is set to begin in the early hours of Friday morning - which they need to win. Winners and losers. Laughter and tears. Celebrities and the general public. Find echoes of the current campaign on a trip through the archive of elections past. Watch video from the vaults on the BBC News Timeliner Play our interactive hung parliament game","By 10 o'clock on Thursday evening the people will have spoken but the questions which will then @placeholder look likely to be - "" What on earth did they mean by that ? Who actually won ? Who has the right to govern ? """,follow,enable,hold,offer,persuade,0
A goal in the 89th minute from substitute Ronaldo Cisneros was the difference between the two sides in  Incheon. The West Africans finished the game a man down following Alioune Gueye's expulsion for a second bookable offence after 71 minutes. Senegal also went into the match without two key players - defenders Cavin Diagne and Souleymae Aw - who were both suspended. Mexico will now face England in the quarter-finals on 5 June in Cheonan.,Senegal 's young Lions of Teranga @placeholder the Fifa Under - 20 World Cup in South Korea on Thursday after a 1 - 0 defeat to Mexico .,reached,made,exited,claimed,attended,2
"We are nearly entering the final month of 2015 and, while the weather cools down, the Football League action heats up. Here are some of Saturday's best bits. The phrase 'dream debut' might never be more applicable than for Oliver McBurnie's first appearance in a Newport County shirt. The 19-year-old striker, who joined John Sheridan's side from Swansea just before Thursday's loan deadline passed, came off the bench as a 58th-minute substitute with the game against Luton in League Two goalless. What happened next was remarkable. McBurnie found the net three times in the space of 23 minutes to give his side a 3-0 victory over the Hatters, having never previously scored in the Football League. ""I scored a couple of hat-tricks at youth-team level when I was at Bradford, but they didn't let me keep the matchball,"" McBurnie told BBC Radio Wales. ""I think there was a little bit of an argument about whether I was allowed to keep it or not. I was going to have to pay for it at one point, but there's no taking this off me."" At this time of year, everyone is seeking value for money - something fans at Stevenage's League Two match against Morecambe got in abundance. The 2,415 spectators - including 66 who had made the trip from Lancashire - saw seven goals and three penalties, two of which were missed, on a thrilling afternoon in Hertfordshire. After Ben Kennedy had a spot-kick saved by Shrimps keeper Barry Roche, Chris Whelpdale went on to score a hat-trick to make it 4-1 - despite having his own penalty effort kept out by Roche. And there was late drama to come as Paul Mullin showed Stevenage how to do it from 12 yards and Kevin Ellison pulled the visitors back to 4-3, but Teddy Sheringham's men held on to go five matches unbeaten. Sheringham told BBC Three Counties Radio: ""I wouldn't say we got lucky but we were fortunate there wasn't another five minutes after their third goal."" You would think that by the time the chilly nights of December come around most teams would have had at least one off day in the league and found themselves on the losing side. Not Brighton. The Seagulls are still yet to taste defeat in their 18 league matches so far this campaign, with their only loss in 2015-16 coming against Walsall in the League Cup. Chris Hughton's side finished 20th in the Championship last season, but head the table now after goals from March and Bobby Zamora gave them a 2-1 victory over promotion hopefuls Birmingham City. A winding-up petition, an administration petition, a long-winded takeover, a stand still waiting to be developed and players and staff not being paid by the club. That barely scratches the surface of everything that has happened at Northampton Town in the last few months. But, while off the field has been almost chaotic, on the pitch Chris Wilder's side have been storming up League Two. Saturday's home match against Yeovil marked the first under the ownership of Kelvin Thomas - and the Cobblers extended their unbeaten run to eight matches with a 2-0 victory at Sixfields to go second in the table. When a manager leaves his post, quite often you will see a team have a resurgence in form. Not with League One side Colchester United on Saturday. Tony Humes left by mutual consent on Thursday as - according to chairman Robbie Cowling - ""he felt that his presence at the club now was detrimental to the club"". His old side had the worst defensive record in the Football League going into Saturday's match against Burton, and that record did not improve. The U's, under the caretaker charge of Richard Hall and John McGreal, lost resoundingly 5-1 at Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's Albion. Despite the defeat, Cowling told BBC Essex he is ""looking internally first before going external"" for a new manager.","The nights are drawing in , the shops are teeming with desperate bargain - hunters and children will shortly be disappointed by the @placeholder of their advent calendar chocolate .",collapse,loss,price,quality,head,3
"The two sides met in the group stages in the 2014 World Cup, when Netherlands thrashed their opponents 5-1. They also faced one another in the 2010 World Cup final, when Andres Iniesta scored Spain's winner. But Guus Hiddink's men were on top on Tuesday, going ahead through Stefan de Vrij's header and Davy Klaassen struck a second past goalkeeper David De Gea. The game at the World Cup in Brazil last year brought to an end Spain's dominant run in major tournaments, during which they won the 2008 and 2012 European Championships, and the 2010 World Cup. Spain coach Vicente del Bosque fielded an experimental side on Tuesday, with Malaga forward Juanmi and Sevilla midfielder Vitolo making their international debuts. But despite experienced players such as Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas and Arsenal's Santi Cazorla in the midfield, they were unable to prevent the hosts from running away with the match in the opening stages, condemning Spain to a third consecutive friendly loss for the first time since 2001. Netherlands defender Bruno Martins Indi should have made it 3-0 but missed a free header in the second half, with Vitolo fluffing an effort for the visitors as they tried in vain to get back into the contest. With the top two sides from each European group qualifying for Euro 2016, Oranje are currently third in Group A, while La Roja are second in Group C. Match ends, Netherlands 2, Spain 0. Second Half ends, Netherlands 2, Spain 0. Offside, Netherlands. Daryl Janmaat tries a through ball, but Luciano Narsingh is caught offside. Foul by Vitolo (Spain). Ibrahim Afellay (Netherlands) wins a free kick in the defensive half. David Silva (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jonathan de Guzmán (Netherlands). Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Martins Indi. Attempt missed. Álvaro Morata (Spain) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas. Raúl Albiol (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Bas Dost (Netherlands). Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Jetro Willems. Attempt blocked. Vitolo (Spain) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrés Iniesta with a cross. Substitution, Netherlands. Ibrahim Afellay replaces Memphis Depay. Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Netherlands) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Memphis Depay with a through ball. Foul by Álvaro Morata (Spain). Daryl Janmaat (Netherlands) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Daryl Janmaat. Substitution, Netherlands. Bas Dost replaces Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Spain) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raúl Albiol. Substitution, Spain. Andrés Iniesta replaces Santiago Cazorla. Sergio Ramos (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Netherlands). Attempt missed. Santiago Cazorla (Spain) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Attempt blocked. David Silva (Spain) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Vitolo. Mikel San José (Spain) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Georginio Wijnaldum (Netherlands). Vitolo (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Davy Klaassen (Netherlands). Substitution, Netherlands. Jonathan de Guzmán replaces Daley Blind. Foul by Álvaro Morata (Spain). Daley Blind (Netherlands) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Offside, Spain. Álvaro Morata tries a through ball, but David Silva is caught offside. Attempt blocked. Álvaro Morata (Spain) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Silva. Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Daryl Janmaat. Substitution, Spain. Mikel San José replaces Gerard Piqué. Substitution, Spain. Sergio Ramos replaces Mario Suárez. Attempt missed. Vitolo (Spain) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Álvaro Morata. Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Luciano Narsingh. Substitution, Netherlands. Georginio Wijnaldum replaces Wesley Sneijder.",Netherlands scored twice in the first 16 minutes to @placeholder to a 2 - 0 friendly victory over Spain in Amsterdam .,record,ease,hand,get,react,1
"The unions organising the action represent customer service and network technicians. Verizon called the strike ""regrettable"" and said it had brought in 10,000 non-union workers. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke at a protest in New York in praise of the workers. He said they were ""standing up to this powerful special interest"". The workers are members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. CWA representative Bob Master said the new workers would not be able to make up the workload left by those out on strike. ""There's no way that these 10,000 people ... can make up for 40,000 people who have decades of experience [in highly technical jobs],"" he said. The union workers have been without a contract since August and negotiations have stuck on Verizon's plan to cut healthcare and pension benefits over a three-year period. ""It's regrettable that union leaders have called a strike, a move that hurts all of our employees,"" Marc Reed, Verizon's chief administrative officer, said in a statement. During the last contract talks in 2011 workers also went out on strike. A deal was eventually reached through mediation. Verizon said it has asked the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to step in this time around. Mr Master called that move a ""diversionary tactic"". The strike could effect Verizon's television, phone and Fios Internet businesses, is not expected to impact Verizon wireless, which made up 29% of the company's 2015 revenue.","On Wednesday , 40,000 Verizon workers across six US @placeholder went on strike after contract negotiations failed to produce a settlement .",emergency,companies,disruption,states,offices,3
"The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists says press freedom has deteriorated significantly; it cites harassment of journalists and the removal of Ukrainian TVs from terrestrial airwaves and cable networks. Most local broadcasters are pro-Russian. Only Crimean Tatar ATR TV remains more or less critical of the authorities. Major Russian TV channels are widely available terrestrially. Top Ukrainian channels can only be watched online or via satellite. Black Sea TV, once the most-popular TV station based in Crimea, is now only available via satellite and the internet. Radio stations tend to focus on entertainment and operate as local outlets of major Russian broadcasters. Russian print media have expanded their presence. Most leading Moscow-based titles are available at  local kiosks and many have set up offices in Crimea. Very few Ukrainian papers are sold.",Crimea 's media scene has seen major changes since Russia annexed the @placeholder in March 2014 .,country,ground,peninsula,city,rise,2
"Stars on the red carpet at London's Royal Opera House also include homegrown nominees Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley alongside US stars Michael Keaton and Reese Witherspoon. The London ceremony, hosted by Stephen Fry, is the biggest awards event in the British film calendar. Surreal comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel leads the pack with 11 nominations. You can follow coverage of the award ceremony on our live page. Showbiz satire Birdman and Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything are each nominated in 10 categories. Redmayne, who plays physicist Hawking is the bookies' favourite to take the best actor award - though he faces tough competition from Birdman lead Keaton, as well as his rival and friend Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game. Speaking on the red carpet about his overnight success, Redmayne said he was ""just trying to put one foot in front of the other... and enjoy it"". ""The most difficult thing was the fear of upsetting Stephen [Hawking], or Jane, or the children. When we heard that they enjoyed [the film], it was the most wonderful thing,"" he said. ""Their story is extraordinary, and it deserved to be told properly."" Cumberbatch, who plays computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing, has been widely nominated across the film season, but was piped to the post at the Golden Globes by both Keaton and Redmayne. On the red carpet, he called for ""more diversity"" among award nominees, giving a particular nod to Selma star David Oyelowo, who was a surprise omission among this year's Bafta nominees. Cumberbatch described British star Oyelowo's performance playing Dr Martin Luther King Jr as ""flawless"" and ""absolute performance"": ""I just wish he was amongst our number,"" he said. It follows a short-lived controversy last week which saw Cumberbatch criticised for using the term ""coloured"" in an interview on US television. Cumberbatch later apologised prompting Oyelowo to come to his defence, calling the attacks in the press ""ridiculous"". The Imitation Game, about war-time efforts to crack the German Enigma codes, has nine nominations; while coming-of-age epic Boyhood and jazz drumming drama Whiplash are each nominated five times. Pike, who is nominated for her role in Gone Girl, is among the British hopefuls in the best actress category, alongside Felicity Jones and Knightley. On the red carpet, she described her role as ""a wonderful cocktail of a woman to sink my teeth into"". Fellow nominee Jones, whom co-star Redmayne described as ""formidable"", told BBC News she was ""so proud"" of The Theory of Everything, ""I could just keep talking about it forever."" However, US actress Julianne Moore is tipped to win the trophy for her performance as a linguistics professor with early-onset Alzheimer's. The Baftas take place exactly two weeks before the Academy Awards in Hollywood and can often be an indicator of who will go on to win an Oscar. The last six winners of the Bafta for best film have gone on to win the best picture Oscar. Last year's winner, 12 Years a Slave, won two Baftas and three Oscars. Amanda Berry, Bafta chief executive, said 69% of Bafta and Oscar winners over the last 10 years have been same: ""I think that makes us enough of a predictor to be relevant, but not too much the same to be a carbon copy."" Full list of nominees Dan Higgins, editor of Pure Movies, predicts the best film race will be a battle between Richard Linklater's Boyhood - which was shot with the same cast over 12 years - and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman. ""Boyhood is a gimmick film, while Birdman's technical brilliance is unbelievable,"" said Higgins. ""But I think Boyhood will get it."" The best British film category sees marmalade-loving bear Paddington up against Under the Skin's beautiful alien vampire in the form of Scarlett Johansson. The betting suggests a win for The Imitation Game. ""It would be a shock if Paddington won, and I'd love there to be a shock, but I don't think it'll be that one,"" added Higgins. Mike Leigh, whose critically-lauded Mr Turner was frozen out of the main categories, will receive the Bafta Fellowship for his ""outstanding and exceptional contribution to film"". BBC Films, in its 25th year, will receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema award. Rock band Kasabian will open proceedings at the Royal Opera House with a live performance. The ceremony will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC One HD at 21.00 GMT on Sunday.  A special red carpet show will be broadcast by BBC Three, hosted by Edith Bowman at 20.30 GMT. There will be live coverage of the awards on the BBC website from 18:30 GMT.","British hopefuls , including Eddie Redmayne and Rosamund Pike , have begun @placeholder at the Bafta Film Awards .",appearing,gathering,arriving,contest,screening,2
"Rocky, the newt-hunting spaniel, has been drafted in to sniff out the amphibians alongside the route of the planned bypass to the north of Norwich. Natural England has been overseeing the safe removal of the protected great crested newts to secure areas nearby. Ecologists need to remove protected species and other wildlife to safe areas before building work can begin. Specially-trained Rocky is being brought in for a week to ensure none remain along the 12-mile (20km) route. Since the warm spring weather brought the newts out of hibernation, more than 7km (4.3 miles) of amphibian fencing has been used to steer them into bucket traps in the three areas on the route of the Norwich Northern Distributor Road. More newt news and other Norfolk stories The buckets are checked daily by ecologists and any creatures inside are transferred to more suitable habitats away from the development site. So far, more than 340 great crested newts have been relocated together with 450 smooth newts, about 850 toads, 90 frogs and an assortment of reptiles and mammals, including a baby hedgehog. Two-year-old Rocky will be tasked with using his sensitive nose to sniff out any remaining newts. Trainer Aran Clyne, from sniffer dog firm Wagtail UK, said it takes several months to train a dog to identify wildlife. ""It's all about building an association between the newt smell and Rocky's reward, the tennis ball,"" he said. ""Whenever he finds a newt, he gets his ball."" This is Rocky's first foray into newt conservation as he is more used to sniffing out bats, another protected species, on sites designated for new windfarms. Once he has located the wayward newts, they will be moved by hand. Norfolk County Council, who employed Rocky, said: ""Using a sniffer dog is a quick, efficient and cost-effective way of carrying out final checks of cleared areas. Without a trained sniffer dog all suitable areas would have to be laboriously searched by hand by ecologists.""",A sniffer dog has been brought in to help protect a newt @placeholder living along the site of a proposed new road .,community,group,while,life,population,4
"A number of controlled explosions were carried out on a car in Azalea Gardens. A number of items were recovered and taken away for further examination. Police have said they believe it may be linked to a robbery in Dunmurry. On 3 April, three men dressed as postmen, and one armed with a suspected gun, robbed offices in The Cutts area. They assaulted two female members of staff and escaped with cash. The alert began on Friday night. Residents in the area were not moved out, but were advised to stay towards the rear of their homes. ""I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the local community, who have been inconvenienced during the operation, for their patience,"" Det Insp Stephen Harvey said. ""I would appeal to anyone who has information about the robbery at The Cutts, or who saw any suspicious activity in the Azalea Gardens area, to contact police on the non-emergency number 101, quoting reference 1178 of 7/4/17.""",A security alert in west Belfast 's Twinbrook estate has @placeholder .,warned,issued,begun,ended,sounded,3
"PC Jamie Wallis, of Dorset Police, was charged with common assault after allegedly attacking a 30-year-old man at Bournemouth Police Station in April. Bournemouth Magistrates' Court heard the case against the 40-year-old officer had since been discontinued. The officer was removed from front-line duties during proceedings and this will now be reviewed, the force said. A spokesman for Crime Prosecution Service (CPS) Wessex said it had concluded there was ""insufficient evidence to have a realistic prospect of conviction"". Supt Pete Windle, head of professional standards at Dorset Police, said: ""Dorset Police expects the highest standards of professionalism and integrity from its staff. ""We have a duty to thoroughly investigate criminal allegations against our staff, as we have done in this case, the details of which were then passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for their consideration and decision."" PC Wallis, who is based at Winton Police Station, had been due to appear before the court on Friday.",A case against a police officer who was charged with assaulting a man at a police station has been @placeholder .,released,identified,dropped,opened,named,2
"Born at Alltnacaillich, Strathmore in 1714, Rob Donn could not read or write and dictated his poetry from memory in later life. A wall hanging depicting scenes from his life and work is to be created in a project led by Strathnaver Museum and Mackay Country Community Trust. People living in and around Strathnaver are to be invited to help make the piece of craftwork. Donn's poetry continues to be celebrated and studied today. Some of his work has turned into music and performed at Glasgow's Celtic Connections Festival. Strathnaver Museum has been awarded £5,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund's Stories, Stones and Bones programme towards the project.",A Gaelic bard is to be @placeholder in needlework .,taught,used,remembered,unveiled,recreated,2
"The heat has been compounded by chronic power shortages, depriving homes of electricity for large parts of the day. The conditions have placed a particular strain on Iraqis displaced by an assault on Falluja, a UN official said. Average temperatures in June were the highest recorded worldwide - a rise attributed to greenhouse gas emissions. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for June was 0.9C above the 20th Century average of 15.5C. The heatwave in Iraq prompted the closure of all government offices on Wednesday and Thursday, the last days of the working week, and brought life to a standstill in many parts of the country. The soaring temperatures, coupled with shortages of drinking water and electricity, have made life harder for Iraqis displaced by a military assault on Falluja, a town formerly held by so-called Islamic State militants. A UN spokeswoman who visited two camps for the displaced this week told the BBC that many residents were only ""grabbing one or two hours of sleep a night"" because of the heat. Caroline Gluck, from UN refugee agency UNHCR, said people at camps in Habbaniya and Amiriyat al-Falluja were trying to keep cool by moistening their clothes. She added that many families had only brought one set of clothes with them. Several residents had developed pus-filled sores, she said, possibly as a result of the heat and inadequate hygiene. Near-record temperatures have also been reported in neighbouring Kuwait. Across the region, social media users have been tweeting about the heat. @9Khaled5 tweeted: ""#Heatwave_strikes_Saudi A moment of silence for the death of the greatest inventor in history…Willis Carrier, the inventor of air conditioning."" @7510x_ asked: ""Is this heat or has Kuwait entered the [hell] fire?"" @sa113355 shared a video that claims to show a man in the Iraqi city of Basra, frying an egg on the pavement. And @noorhan__ali described the heat as just another test of the Iraqi people's tolerance, alongside ""rubbish internet"", ""attacks by cockroaches"" - and Islamic State.","Government offices have been shut and streets have emptied in Iraq as summer temperatures hit 53C ( 127F ) , @placeholder the highest recorded in the country .",nearing,following,leaving,still,condemning,0
"Goulding, 27, was at Hull KR when he was forced to quit the game on medical advice after suffering a series of concussion injuries. He came through the academy at the Warriors and won a Super League and Challenge Cup double in 2013. ""This club will always feel like home and I'm glad to be back,"" he said. Goulding, who made two appearances for England in 2010, replaces Jordan James who will leave the Super League side.",Wigan Warriors have appointed former centre Darrell Goulding as their youth @placeholder coach after his retirement in June .,head,development,centre,defence,assistant,1
"Eric Aniva, a sex worker known in Malawi as a ""hyena"", was the subject of a BBC feature last week. He told the BBC that he did not mention his HIV status to those who hire him. President Peter Mutharika said the police should investigate and charge him over the cases of defilement he had seemingly confessed to. The BBC's Ed Butler, who covered the story about Malawi's sexual ""cleansing practices"", says in some remote southern regions of the country it is traditional for girls to be made to have sex with a man after their first menstruation. Some of the girls are as young as 12 years old, he reported. What is known as a ""hyena"" in Malawi culture is usually a man who has sex with widows or married women who cannot fall pregnant. ""While we must promote positive cultural values and positive socialisation of our children, the president says harmful cultural and traditional practices cannot be accepted in this country,"" presidential spokesman Mgeme Kalilani said in a statement Mr Aniva would ""further be investigated for exposing the young girls to contracting HIV and further be charged accordingly"", he said. The president had also ordered all men and parents involved to be investigated, Mr Kalilani said. ""All people involved in this malpractice should be held accountable for subjecting their children and women to this despicable evil,"" the statement said. ""These horrific practices although done by a few also tarnish the image of the whole nation of Malawi internationally and bring shame to us all."" Last year Malawi banned child marriage, raising the legal age of marriage from 15 to 18 - something activists hoped would put an end to early sexual initiations. Mr Aniva told the BBC that he planned to stop taking part in sexual cleansing practices.","An HIV - positive Malawian man , who says he is @placeholder to have sex with children as part of initiation rites , has been arrested on the president 's orders .",threatening,paid,feared,preparing,struggling,1
"Parts of the Trent Basin in Colwick, mainly an industrial area, have stood derelict for more than a decade. Now developers Blueprint have started building the first 45 energy efficient properties and are considering continental-style floating homes. The city council, which part owns the firm, said it hopes this will kick-start a wider regeneration of the area. Plans are for about 400 houses and apartments set round green spaces and the old dock. Nick Ebbs, the chief executive of Blueprint, said: ""Imagine a new residential neighbourhood but think continental examples, not suburban but not dense urban, the sort of thing you would find in Amsterdam or Copenhagen. ""(For the dock) we are looking at the possibility of floating homes and of course people using it for leisure. ""There is a lot of industry here still but there are other developers working and in 10 to 15 years the aspiration is for 3,000 homes, it will be transformed."" Graham Chapman, deputy leader of the city council, said: ""We have control of a lot of this land and we haven't had that before. ""For a long time land prices meant the only viable development was high-rise flats and we didn't want that.""","Work has started on a £ 90 m riverside development in Nottingham , designed to @placeholder cities like Copenhagen .",connect,reduce,improve,reflect,protect,3
"Annie Besala Ekofo, 53, and Bervil Kalikaka-Ekofo, 21, were found dead in East Finchley on Thursday. The Met Police said a 24-year-old man was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of murder and is in custody at a north London police station. A 20-year-old man held on Saturday has been released on bail until October. Scotland Yard also revealed Mr Kalikaka-Ekofo had died from a gunshot wound to the head. A post-mortem examination for the University of West London psychology student took place at Northwick Park Hospital mortuary on Saturday, it said. A post-mortem examination on Ms Besala is yet to take place. Detectives earlier launched a fresh appeal for witnesses. They said there was no evidence to suggest the pair were the intended victims but would be exploring whether anyone else linked to their address could have been a potential target. Police were called to Elmshurst Crescent by the London Ambulance Service at about 06:25 BST and found the pair in their flat. Four other people, including a child, were also at the property at the time of the incident but were not harmed.",Police @placeholder the fatal shooting of a mother - of - nine and her nephew at their north London flat have arrested two men .,reporting,seized,following,reported,probing,4
"In July, a vulnerability that affected up to a billion Android phones was made public by software researchers. Google made a patch available, but security company Exodus Intelligence said it had been able to bypass the fix. Exodus Intelligence said the update could give people a ""false sense of security"". Google told the BBC that most Android users were protected by a security feature called address space layout randomisation (ASLR). ""Currently over 90% of Android devices have ASLR enabled, which protects users from this issue,"" it said. ASLR makes it difficult for an attacker to plot an attack, and introduces more guesswork to the process, which is more likely to crash a smartphone than compromise it. In April, another security company, Zimperium, found a bug in Android that could let hackers access data and apps on a victim's phone, just by sending a video message. The company disclosed the issue to Google and provided its own patch for the software, which Google made available to phone manufacturers. Details of the flaw were made public in July, after Google had integrated the patch into the latest version of Android. At the time, Google pointed out that there had been no reported cases of anybody exploiting the bug. On Thursday, Exodus Intelligence said its researcher Jordan Gruskovnjak had easily bypassed the patch and the vulnerability remained. ""The public at large believes the current patch protects them when it in fact does not,"" the company said on its blog. ""Stagefright is the early warning alert to a much bigger challenge,"" said David Baker, security officer for computing firm Okta. ""There isn't a comprehensive update solution for Android, since there are so many device makers modifying the software."" Android is an open source operating system and phone-makers can modify it to use on their handsets. Phone manufacturers are responsible for updating their own devices with the latest software. But many do not, while some companies use customised versions of Android which take time to rebuild when security changes are made. For these reasons, only 2.6% of Android phones are running the latest version of the operating system. ""Other manufacturers like Apple and BlackBerry control both the hardware and software. That means they can patch flaws much more quickly,"" said Mr Baker. Exodus Intelligence said Google had known about the flaw for more than 120 days and still not fixed it. ""The patch is 4 lines of code and was (presumably) reviewed by Google engineers prior to shipping,"" said Exodus Intelligence on its blog. ""If Google cannot demonstrate the ability to successfully remedy a disclosed vulnerability affecting their own customers then what hope do the rest of us have?""","An Android update @placeholder to fix a security hole in the operating system is itself flawed , it has emerged .",attempting,bidding,designed,managed,scheme,2
"Page has been interviewed by the FAW, but no contract has been signed yet. The 42-year-old is first-team coach at Championship club Nottingham Forest after he was sacked as manager by League One side Northampton in January. The former Cardiff City and Watford defender was capped 41 times by Wales in a 10-year international career. If he takes over, Page will succeed Geraint Williams, whose contract was not renewed by the FAW when it expired last year. The former Derby and Ipswich midfielder had been in charge since 2012.",Robert Page is the Football Association of Wales ' ( FAW ) number one target to be the new manager of the Under - 21 and intermediate age @placeholder teams .,international,beat,team,league,group,4
"Taylor, who died aged 72 on Thursday, managed both West Midlands rivals. Striker Mason profited from Villa goalkeeper Sam Johnstone's mistake to bundle into an open net. In an end-to-end-match, Villa's Ross McCormack headed Jordan Amavi's cross over the crossbar as Steve Bruce's side failed to muster a shot on target. It was the first time the two teams had met at Molineux in the second tier of English football, with Paul Lambert's side winning for the third time in five league matches to move up one place to 16th in the table. Defeat for Villa was their first at Molineux in 11 visits - the last coming in May 1978. Despite the lack of goals and quality in the final third, there was plenty of entertainment with fast-paced, counter-attacking play throughout. The game's only goal came through Mason, after Nouha Dicko's cross was parried into his path by Johnstone, and the striker drove into the ground and into the net. McCormack had Villa's best chance of the game in the first half, and later felt he could have had a penalty when Danny Batth pulled back on his shirt. Wolves did have their chances to extend their lead though, with Dicko shooting straight at Johnstone when played in by Helder Costa, before substitute Bright Enobakhare fired wide late on. The evening at Molineux was full of emotion as supporters remembered former England manager Taylor, with chants of ""One Graham Taylor"" and applause in the 72nd minute of the game. He had two spells as Villa boss, winning promotion to and finishing runner-up in Division One in his first stint in charge. It was the second time a Taylor team had finished second only to Liverpool, having done the same with Watford in 1983. Wolves was Taylor's first job after his time with England came to an end in 1993, and he led them to the play-offs before being sacked the following season. And his final stint at Villa Park came in 2002 and 2003, when he left after finishing just three points above the Premier League relegation zone. Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Aston Villa 0. Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Aston Villa 0. Attempt blocked. Ross McCormack (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. James Chester (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Substitution, Aston Villa. Keinan Davis replaces Mile Jedinak. Hand ball by Ross McCormack (Aston Villa). Attempt missed. Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson. Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Attempt saved. George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bright Enobakhare. Offside, Aston Villa. Ross McCormack tries a through ball, but Andre Green is caught offside. Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson replaces Nouha Dicko. Foul by Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa). Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. George Saville replaces David Edwards. Offside, Aston Villa. Sam Johnstone tries a through ball, but Ross McCormack is caught offside. Corner,  Aston Villa. Conceded by Richard Stearman. Attempt blocked. Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Agbonlahor. Andre Green (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Tommy Elphick (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Corner,  Aston Villa. Conceded by Matt Doherty. Substitution, Aston Villa. Andre Green replaces Albert Adomah. Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Jack Grealish. Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Bright Enobakhare replaces Ivan Cavaleiro. Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Matt Doherty tries a through ball, but Nouha Dicko is caught offside. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) because of an injury. Foul by Alan Hutton (Aston Villa). Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.","Joe Mason 's first - half strike was the @placeholder as Wolves beat Aston Villa in an entertaining derby , on a night tributes were paid to Graham Taylor .",difference,hosts,first,climax,mood,0
"Hammers manager Slaven Bilic said earlier this month that Payet did not want to play for the club, but added the 29-year-old would not be sold. But, after rejecting two bids from Marseille and signing Robert Snodgrass, West Ham have decided to sell the France international. Payet joined West Ham from Marseille for £10.7m in June 2015. He excelled in his first season with the London club, scoring 12 goals and earning a nomination for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award. In February 2016 he signed a new contract to tie him to the Hammers to the summer of 2021. He then helped France reach the final of Euro 2016, where the hosts were beaten by Portugal. However, Payet has scored just three goals for the Hammers this season.",West Ham forward Dimitri Payet is set to @placeholder former club Marseille after the clubs agreed a £ 25 m fee .,rejoin,show,close,replace,play,0
"Footage shows the 28-year-old speaking to the head of a Cairo street vendors' union, who reported him to police a few weeks before he died. Mr Regeni was in Egypt conducting postgraduate research into trade unions when he disappeared on 25 January 2016. His tortured body was found in a ditch nine days later. In the video the union head, Mohamed Abdallah, repeatedly requests payments from the student, who was studying at Cambridge University in the UK. ""My wife has a cancer operation, I will do anything as long as there is money in it,"" said Mr Abdallah. Mr Regeni replied, in Arabic: ""Mohamed, I cannot use the money because it is not my money. I cannot use it like that because I am an academic. ""I cannot tell the institution in Britain in the application that I want to use the money for personal reasons."" The student explained he would help Mr Abdallah to apply for a grant or workshop worth ""10,000 pounds"" for union activities but not for personal use. Mr Abdallah said: ""Is there no other way? A way with personal use?"" The foreign funding of civil society groups, including trade unions, is a contentious issue in Egypt. The union leader has confirmed to news agency Reuters that it was him speaking in the video and he had recorded it himself, on his mobile phone, in early January last year. He confirmed, as he has done before, that he later reported Mr Regeni to the police, believing him to be a spy. He told Reuters this was not retaliation for an unwillingness to give him money. He also said the sum discussed was in British pound sterling, not Egyptian pounds. His motivations for filming the conversation are not known. Italian newspaper La Stampa said investigators in Rome believed he used filming equipment supplied by the Egyptian police. Egyptian officials have denied any involvement in the student's death. The local police probe into the killing was criticised last year after sometimes contradictory accounts were issued by the authorities. No-one has been arrested over Mr Regeni's death, although in March Egyptian authorities said they had found a criminal gang responsible for his kidnapping and murder. All the gang members were killed in a shoot-out, they said. The reports were branded ""implausible"" by academics who have criticised the Egyptian authorities. Police initially suggested Mr Regeni had been killed in a road accident, and have since offered little information on the progress of their investigation. On Sunday, Egypt agreed to allow Italian and German experts to retrieve and examine CCTV footage related to the murder. They will try to view footage from a Cairo metro station, where Regeni is thought to have been last seen alive. Egyptian prosecutors said they approved a request from Italy to send in experts, as well as data recovery experts from Germany. In September, prosecutors said that Egyptian police investigated Mr Regeni shortly before his abduction, torture and murder, but the inquiry was dropped after concluding he posed no threat.","Egyptian @placeholder television has aired a video of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni , showing him being asked for money weeks before his death .",state,team,head,prop,centre,0
"South Lanarkshire Council said a batch of Lanark Blue was taken from Errington Cheese and court approval was being sought to have it destroyed. Officials said the cheese had tested positive for E.coli and was ""unfit for human consumption"". Errington Cheese has repeatedly insisted its products are safe and that food safety is its ""highest priority"". As hundreds of cheeses were loaded into vans, the firm said they had raised concerns with the council that there has been a ""mix-up"" in testing. The local authority has also served 21-day detention notices on the cheesemaker's batches of Corra Linn. It said it wanted to carry out further testing to establish whether they are ""unsafe"". Officials are also considering the producer's proposal to put Dunsyre Blue back on the market, so long as it is clearly labelled as a raw ingredient which required cooking. Errington Cheese was linked to an E.coli outbreak in July last year in which a three-year-old girl from Dunbartonshire died.  A total of 11 people received treatment in hospital. In September, Food Standards Scotland (FSS) imposed a ban on all cheese produced by the firm. People were advised not to eat the cheese and to return it to the seller. In a statement, the council said their ""clear and primary objective"" was to protect public health. Michael McGlynn, the council's executive director of community and enterprise, added: ""Throughout this process we have sought to carry out that important duty while acting appropriately and proportionately in terms of the food alert for action issued by Food Standards Scotland and the relevant food legislation. ""We are continuing to do this through today's actions. ""To ensure public health we are removing one type of cheese which tests have identified as unsafe and we will seek to put this cheese before a sheriff asking that they be condemned. ""However, we will continue to undertake thorough testing and analysis to determine whether it is appropriate to allow Errington Cheese to market the remaining products."" The council's action came a week after the Carnwath-based producer won the latest round of a court battle against the sales ban. The interim order was designed to force the council to either abandon the case against them or initiate new proceedings under food hygiene regulations. Food journalist Joanna Blythman, from the Committee for the Defence of Artisan Foods which supports Errington Cheese, said they welcomed the council's action. She said: ""We feel very strongly on the committee that it has to go to court and there has to be maximum transparency and scrutiny of Food Standards Scotland's behaviour in this case so we're really looking forward to seeing the outcome of that. ""As I understand it, there will be senior microbiologists who really understand the science making expert submissions to the court.""",A batch of cheese linked to a fatal E.coli outbreak has been @placeholder by Scottish council officers .,seized,condemned,examined,released,issued,0
"The woman, who wore a pink top and black jacket, dragged the man away after he attacked Robert Hart in Heaton Park at about 21:15 BST on 7 June. Mr Hart, 26, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, died in hospital four days later. An aerial photograph, which shows the area where Mr Hart was assaulted, has been released to urge people to send pictures and video footage to police. Mr Hart was attacked before Snoop Dogg was due to go on stage, his girlfriend Gemma Parry said. Police described the woman as blonde with shoulder-length hair about 5ft 7in tall and approximately 20 to 23 years old. She was with a man about 6ft 1in who was wearing a dark jacket. Det Insp Richard Eales said: ""Several witnesses have pointed towards the fact that this man was at the festival with other people, notably the girl we have described. ""There is a strong chance that the person we are looking for, or the people he was with, could be in the background of those pictures or footage and that may prove invaluable to our investigation. "" A £20,000 reward is being offered by the festival organiser to help catch the man responsible for Mr Hart's death.","A woman @placeholder after a man was knocked unconscious at Manchester 's Parklife Festival , police have said .",killed,fled,drowned,intervened,injured,3
"The England leg-spinner took 0-163 in the first innings of the opening Test against Pakistan - the worst figures by a debutant - but claimed 5-64 in the second innings as his side almost pulled off a remarkable victory. Defeat in the second Test was notable for Rashid's heroics with the bat, although he managed only 1-84 and 1-107 with his strongest suit. Ex-England captain Michael Vaughan has said: ""Now we have a bit of mystery in the side, someone who can bring our attack to life."" With his final-day display in Abu Dhabi, Rashid became the first England leg-spinner to take five wickets in a Test since 1959. Why have successful leg-spinners been so rare? And why do so few English players even bother with the skill? Leg-spin involves spinning the ball away from a right-handed batsman using a full flick of the wrist and fingers. It allows a lot of spin to be put on the ball, but it is difficult to do with any accuracy. ""Leg-spin is by far the hardest thing to do in cricket,"" says former England bowler Graeme Swann. ""The skill level is above and beyond anything else. It is just too hard to be consistent."" The technical demands do not end there. There are several variations, including the googly - which Rashid is good at bowling - involving turning the wrist so the ball comes out of the back of the hand and spins towards the right-hander rather than away. Then there is the bouncier top-spinner and also the flipper, which skids on to the batsman. The bowler's aim is to make all those deliveries look as similar as possible when leaving the hand, so the batsman does not know which way the ball will turn. Australia's Shane Warne was a master of these skills and arguably the greatest bowler - not simply leg-spinner - of all time. He was responsible for the 'Ball of the Century' to England's Mike Gatting in the 1993 Ashes, when the ball swerved towards the leg side, pitched outside leg stump and spun sharply to hit off stump. Leg-spin has never looked quite the same since. Warne is the most prolific leg-spinner in Test history, taking 708 Test wickets at an average of 25.41 during a glittering career that ended in 2007. Doug Wright, England's most prolific exponent, managed 108 - but his last Test was in 1951. In recent times, Ian Salisbury took 20 wickets in 15 Tests at 76.95 apiece from 1992-2000. Chris Schofield was discarded after two games without a wicket in 2000. Scott Borthwick was jettisoned after playing the final match of England's 5-0 Ashes whitewash in 2014-15, having taken four wickets at 20.50. Borthwick was the first England leg-spinner to claim an Ashes wicket since Bob Barber in 1968. And before Rashid, the last England leg-spinner to take five wickets in an innings was Lancashire's Tommy Greenhough - 56 years ago. No. English cricket invented leg-spin and Lancashire's AG Steel is regarded as the first bowler to take a Test wicket using an overarm leg-break. Middlesex's Bernard Bosanquet popularised the googly in the 1903-04 Ashes and leg-spinners were common in county cricket after World War One. Kent's Alf 'Tich' Freeman took at least 200 wickets eight seasons in a row, while Warwickshire's Eric Hollies - who dismissed Sir Donald Bradman in his final Test innings - Derbyshire's Tommy Mitchell, Lancashire's Richard Tyldesley and Surrey's Percy Fender were prolific. In 1930, Middlesex fielded five England leg-spinners in the same side - Greville Stevens, Ian Peebles, Jim Sims, Jack Hearne and Walter Robins - but at Test level leg-spinners got few chances. Freeman, who finished his career with 3,776 wickets, played only 12 Tests. Australian leg-spinner Bill O'Reilly said English batsmen were so poor at playing leg-spin that the authorities ""decided to destroy it"". In 1946 a rule was brought in allowing the new ball to be taken after fewer overs, and in the 1950s counties were asked to prepare green, seaming 'result' pitches. Both moves favoured quicker bowlers. The introduction of one-day cricket in the 1960s, when bowlers' priorities shifted from taking wickets to not conceding runs, is seen as another reason behind leg-spinners' demise. By the early 1980s there were no full-time practitioners in first-class cricket; the last English leg-spinner to take 1,000 first-class wickets, Robin Hobbs, retired in 1981. ""Hobbs would have been a typical county spinner if he had been born 60 years earlier,"" wrote Christopher Martin-Jenkins. ""As it happened, he was for much of his career unique."" Salisbury made his Test debut in 1992, becoming the first leg-spinner to represent England since Hobbs. Although he took five wickets in the match, there was much ignorance about what he was doing. When Salisbury joined the England set-up, wicketkeeper Jack Russell was worried about how to pick his googly, having hardly seen it in county cricket. To help Russell, Salisbury was instructed to turn in one direction at the start of his run-up before he bowled the leg-break and the other before he bowled a googly. ""That messed me up,"" Salisbury said. Hobbs said Salisbury's arrival on the scene was ""like something had dropped from the moon"". England picked and dropped Salisbury, who had the misfortune to play at the same time as Warne, several times over the next eight years. ""I didn't have the same raw talent to be as good as Shane Warne but I could have been 50% better than I was,"" said Salisbury. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) set up a recruitment and training programme for leg-spinners in 1999, with the aim to have one in the Test team by 2007. Those picked to take part in the scheme went to live with Warne's coach, the ex-Australia bowler Terry Jenner, in Adelaide. Rashid was among them. Borthwick, Yorkshire's Mark Lawson and Somerset's Michael Munday broke through, but only Borthwick remains a county player - and he operates more as a batsman than a frontline spinner. Munday, who took 86 wickets at 29.46 in first-class games, was released by Somerset in 2010, aged 25. Lawson, who took 52 wickets at 43.82, last played a County Championship match in 2009; he was 23. English pitches, which do not offer as much bounce as Australian surfaces or as much turn as those in India, have been blamed. But overseas leg-spinners, including Warne, Kumble and Mushtaq Ahmed, have taken hundreds of wickets in county cricket. ""The main problem is nothing to do with pitches or conditions,"" Lawson said. ""It's that we want immediate success. ""As a leg-spin bowler, even up to the age of 28 or 29 you're still going to have good years and bad years."" Even Rashid had to wait seven years to make his Test debut after first being called up to the squad in 2008. In 2005, an out-of-sorts club leg-spinner approached Jamie Barker and Marc Jones, psychologists at the University of Staffordshire, for help. They prescribed a course of hypnosis. This involved the bowler taking 100 deep breaths and imagining walking down a staircase and into a room containing cards with slogans such as ""Express yourself"" and ""Be decisive"". The bowler carried out this self-hypnosis, even locking himself in a toilet cubicle before the start of play. Although he recorded better figures over the next couple of years, the experiment was not continued. Yet Barker is convinced leg-spinners in particular require extra help to deal with the demands of their role, such is their rarity. In 2015, spinners of all types bowled only 21.5% of overs in English county cricket. The ECB's spin coach, Peter Such, is overseeing a development programme designed to create a larger pool of players who could go on to play for England. Warne has offered to work with Rashid, describing him as a ""pretty impressive kid"". But he says captains must learn how to set fields for young spinners and cope with the inconsistencies of a potential match-winner. Trevor Bayliss, the Australia-born England coach, was asked after the first Test why England had been lacking a leg-spinner for so long. ""Usually they are a little more expensive and maybe not quite as accurate,"" he said. ""Maybe English cricket over the last few years has had a bit too much of an emphasis on not going for runs. My belief is that the best way to stop the runs is by taking wickets."" There are some signs of a new generation coming through. Eighteen-year-old Mason Crane - described by Such as ""very talented"" - took five wickets on his championship debut for Hampshire this summer. Josh Poysden, now 24, made his Warwickshire debut this year, impressing Warne and former England captain Michael Atherton with his action. Poysden took a catch as a substitute fielder in the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston. Whether he and Crane will follow Rashid into the full England team remains to be seen. Justin Parkinson is the author of The Strange Death of English Leg Spin: How Cricket's Finest Art Was Given Away.","Adil Rashid has had a @placeholder introduction to Test cricket with the ball , to say the least .",scheme,fine,guarded,mixed,gripping,3
"Hardy said Notts were losing £1.6m a year when he took over in January. But he told BBC Radio Nottingham's Matchtalk programme they were making progress on and off the pitch. ""It is step in the right direction, but it is still a lot of money we are losing every year. The whole business model has to change,"" Hardy said. Under new manager Kevin Nolan, who joined his chairman on the BBC Radio Nottingham phone-in, the Magpies have climbed to 20th in the table and are now 13 points above the relegation zone with seven games left. ""While I am thoroughly enjoying it, the challenge is immense,"" Hardy added. ""It is made very special by the success on the pitch and the great job Kev has been doing, but it has been hard work. ""I don't regret it, but it is much tougher than I thought. I am having a great time - and it helps that we have been successful. If we were in the bottom two then maybe it would be a different story. ""But this is five-year plan and it will be five years before we break even. We have to do more off-pitch stuff, more commercial stuff, to support the football side.""","Notts County will continue to lose money until January 2022 , but owner Alan Hardy has no regrets about buying the @placeholder League Two club .",premier,signing,struggling,balance,motor,2
"Poppy Smart said she reported workmen at a site in Worcester to police after being regularly singled out over the course of a month. Builder Ian Merrett, who admitted wolf-whistling at Ms Smart, said ""no harm was intended"" by his actions. West Mercia Police said it was a matter for the men's employers. Mr Merrett said harrassment accusations had been ""blown out of all proportion"". ""It's always been part of it [the trade],"" he said. ""No harm was intended. It's all got out of hand, no offence meant. ""I can understand her comments. Some girls don't mind it, some girls do. ""I may have annoyed her, I've maybe upset her a bit, but as far as harassment goes, if she'd come up to me or one of the other builders and said 'I don't like it, can you stop it', I'm sure we would have taken that into consideration."" Ms Smart said she had faced whistles and cat-calls from several builders over a few weeks and ""eventually it got to the day where I had enough"". She said it was time the ""culture was brought up to date"" and that she found the behaviour ""intimidating and distressing"". Mr Merrett said he had come forward as other builders, many innocent, had been unfairly shown on television and in news reports. He said the contractor had told employees to stop whistling and the call had largely been respected. ""I've been on building sites since I was 18. Loads of people used to do it [wolf whistle],"" he said. ""If you were sat there with your mates in the sun having a fag and a nice bit of totty walks past, yeah we used to wolf whistle and we never got into trouble for it."" However, he said he would now think twice about doing it again after the ""hassle"".","A builder responsible for directing wolf whistles at a 23 - year - old woman has described the @placeholder as "" a bit of banter "" .",public,dangers,body,country,gesture,4
"Children at Ampertaine Primary School in Upperlands, County Londonderry, adopted the Birmingham side last year, as part of an education project. Facts and figures about the club are used in literacy, maths and PE lessons. However, Villa's 4-0 defeat by Arsenal was a lesson that the club and its young fans did not want to take. Aston Villa is aware of the school's support and the club's staff gave coaching lessons to Ampertaine pupils last year. Villa players have been photographed posing with letters from the children, and with specially designed kits that were presented to the school as gifts. Ampertaine pupils came into school on Saturday for a special screening of the FA Cup final, but had to watch their heroes being shot down by the Gunners. Speaking to the BBC, one boy said: ""I thought Arsenal were the better team in that game, but I think Aston Villa tried hard."" A girl who had Aston Villa's crest drawn onto her face said: ""They played quite well in the first half, but then all the goals were scored in the second half."" Another boy said: ""It was disappointing seeing them lose, coming all the way up to the final and getting everything sorted out for today, but there's still next year."" Despite the school's official links to Aston Villa, there was one young Arsenal fan who found himself outnumbered on Saturday. He remained loyal to the Gunners and said he was pleased with the result but added: ""I'd have loved 10-0."" The school's decision to support Aston Villa was the result of a draw organised by the headmaster, Garry McIlwaine, last year. The outcome of the draw seemed appropriate, as Ampertaine's school uniform is claret and blue, the same colours used by Aston Villa.",A Northern Ireland school that adopted Aston Villa as its official football team has @placeholder the disappointment of the English club 's FA Cup final defeat .,shared,dismissed,extended,joined,condemned,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device Rakish Bingham cancelled out Michael Gardyne's splendid opener for County. The home side regained the lead through a Remi Matthews own goal but substitute David Templeton looked to have earned a draw for the visitors. However, Franks' strike proved decisive and means Accies can not finish higher than 11th in the table. Martin Canning's men could still go down automatically if bottom side Inverness Caledonian Thistle can overcome the four-point difference between the sides in their final two matches. Hamilton's defeat ensures that Dundee are guaranteed Premiership football next season, with Motherwell's win over Kilmarnock also ensuring their safety. Accies will argue they deserved something from this match, perhaps even all three points. This defeat will hurt badly. They dug in after a disastrous start and should have been ahead by half-time. A slice of luck arrived with Bingham's leveller when Ali Crawford's delivery ricocheted in the box and fell perfectly for the striker to slam home. Their fortune ended there in dramatic fashion. Bingham smashed a shot off the inside of the post soon after. It was unlucky but much more was to follow. It seemed Crawford had put them ahead with an outstanding free kick from a central area. It sailed over the wall, away from Fox but clipped the inside of the post and out again. After the break a ball along the six-yard line came through to Greg Docherty, he side-footed from close range for what looked a certain goal but Fox produced an outstanding stop. Docherty and Massimo Donati came close before substitute Templeton quickly restored parity after Jim O'Brien saw his effort smash off a post and in off Matthews. It'd be hard to find a more convincing hard luck story. Hamilton's work rate and commitment was impressive. Their fight under pressure equally so. They also showed they've got ability. What they don't have is three points. They needed them. Jim McIntyre's side initially looked very impressive. They were on the front foot and went ahead swiftly. Gardyne gathered a short corner, ambled to the edge of the box and curled a terrific curling shot into the top corner. It was top quality. It was poor defensively and at that stage Hamilton looked up against it. Franks was unfortunate with a technically excellent volley that flew wide. Christopher Routis twice had excellent opportunities but hesitated at one, then couldn't beat Matthews with the other. Their second goal came from an excellent strike from O'Brien. It cracked off the post and, in utter contrast to Hamilton's earlier efforts, cannoned of Matthews and into the net. When your luck is out, it's out. There was no doubt about the quality of their winner though. Franks sent a tremendous effort straight into the corner to settle a brilliant contest. McIntyre's side remain on target for a seventh place finish which would be a satisfying outcome after missing the top six. The unbeaten run that took them clear of relegation trouble now stretches to seven matches. Ross County manager Jim McIntyre: ""It was a very open game. We started the game brilliantly, scored a fantastic goal through Michael Gardyne, but Hamilton came right back into it. It was one of those nights with plenty of mistakes and lots of goalmouth action. ""We've had our pockets picked here before in Dingwall with late goals. I feel we picked theirs tonight. I feel for Hamilton tonight but it's all about our team doing what we can do, trying to get into that fight for seventh. ""We know that we have the quality that can hurt sides but the doggedness wasn't quite there tonight and that is the side that we need to improve for Saturday. I thought Hamilton's players gave their manager everything. I wish them well for their fight to stay up."" Hamilton boss Martin Canning: ""I can't believe we have lost that game. We have hit the post twice, one rolled along the line and we've had numerous other opportunities. Media playback is not supported on this device ""Their second goal has come off the post, hit our keeper and gone in. That is when you know your luck is out. ""The amount of bad luck we have got tonight is scary. I couldn't ask more of the players. I asked them to be brave and it was one of our best performances of the season. How we have managed to lose that game, I don't know."" Match ends, Ross County 3, Hamilton Academical 2. Second Half ends, Ross County 3, Hamilton Academical 2. Liam Boyce (Ross County) is shown the yellow card. Giannis Skondras (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Liam Boyce (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Giannis Skondras (Hamilton Academical). Goal!  Ross County 3, Hamilton Academical 2. Jonathan Franks (Ross County) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Reghan Tumility (Ross County) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical). Attempt saved. Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Jim O'Brien (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Liam Boyce (Ross County). David Templeton (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Attempt saved. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Daniel Redmond replaces Greg Docherty. Attempt missed. Giannis Skondras (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Reghan Tumility (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical). Foul by Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical). Craig Curran (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Giannis Skondras (Hamilton Academical). Jim O'Brien (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Goal!  Ross County 2, Hamilton Academical 2. David Templeton (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Goal!  Ross County 2, Hamilton Academical 1. Jim O'Brien (Ross County) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Attempt saved. Reghan Tumility (Ross County) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Corner,  Ross County. Conceded by Alexander Gogic. Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Ryan Tierney replaces Rakish Bingham. Attempt missed. Tim Chow (Ross County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Foul by Rakish Bingham (Hamilton Academical). Jason Naismith (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Reghan Tumility (Ross County). Substitution, Hamilton Academical. David Templeton replaces Louis Longridge. Attempt saved. Rakish Bingham (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Foul by Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical). Jason Naismith (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Jason Naismith.",Jonathan Franks struck late on to seal victory for Ross County and leave Hamilton 's hopes of Premiership survival in a perilous @placeholder .,history,spot,state,lifetime,period,2
"The birds kill sticklebacks by striking them against their perches, which softens the spines of the fish, making them easier to swallow. But a kingfisher at Montrose Basin appears to have gone a step further by using the spines to pin three sticklebacks to its branch. The bird's unusual behaviour was captured by photographer Ron Mitchell. Anna Cheshier, Angus ranger at Scottish Wildlife Trust's Montrose Basin wildlife reserve, said the kingfisher visited every day. She said: ""The photographer who took the images didn't realise what he had captured until he took them into the visitor centre the following day. ""It's hard to tell if the kingfisher has hung the fish on the branch accidentally or on purpose, but this is really unusual behaviour that no-one seems to be able to explain. ""We'd like anyone who has seen anything like this before to get in touch."" Kingfishers are found around lochs, ponds and rivers and rely on clean water to be able to dive for small fish and aquatic insects. There are around 5,000 breeding pairs in the UK.",Photographs showing a kingfisher appearing to hang fish out to dry has @placeholder experts at a wildlife reserve .,become,stalled,baffled,escaped,reached,2
"When it is swollen the muddy banks disappear, hiding an unappealing shoreline. The flow of people into this Lincolnshire market town is harder to fathom, its impact is less clear. In the decade since the expansion of the European Union in 2004, thousands came from countries once under Soviet domination to work on the land and in the local factories. There were tensions as that human flow increased. That has given UKIP a boost. The latest opinion poll by Lord Ashcroft showed the party, which campaigns for the UK's exit from the European Union, within striking distance of taking what was once a Conservative safe seat. They have picked up support from voters who have watched their town change rapidly. But the businesses that have benefited from migration - and have started to see the town revive on the back of it - are reluctant to speak out. ""Below the radar there are businesses that do feel it is positive (but) in a small town, you can alienate yourself very quickly,"" says Simon Beardsley, chief executive of Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce. ""Initially there was a mood of scepticism around individuals coming in and the impact that they would make on the town and the economy.  Over a period of time those impressions have changed and the acceptance of migration into the town has changed. ""Without the numbers coming in, the businesses would suffer because predominantly the area is made up of low-skilled, low-wage jobs in agriculture and food processing and there isn't the indigenous population looking to take up those jobs."" Mr Beardsley says many employers would suffer if they couldn't recruit the labour they needed and, even if they were to entice British workers to apply, the higher wages necessary would drive up the costs. Despite numerous BBC requests, we found, with a fierce election contest underway, those employing east Europeans in large numbers all refused to speak about it. ""Most of the land work is taken up by the east Europeans now,"" one young man tells me in a cashpoint queue. He says those who want that work on the land, as he once did, see the arrivals as competition. ""If you were ever stuck for a job there was always land work but it has got a bit more difficult now everybody is having to work more, because they work all the hours God sends. ""The east European gangs will work for a lot less, for a lot longer, than the English gangs."" Big increase Boston has seen a bigger increase in residents from Eastern Europe than anywhere else in England and Wales, according to the 2011 census. In 2001, the town had a population of 55,753, with 98.5% indicating they were white British. In 2011, 10.6% of the town's 64,600 population indicated they came from one of the new EU nations such as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia or Romania. Asked if businesses like immigration because the arrivals had pushed down wages, Simon Beardsley answers obliquely. ""There is a supply and demand issue here in terms of the flood of labour into the market.  Businesses do need the labour, without it they would struggle to do what they need to do, so yes it is potentially a lower cost base,"" he says. Entertaining her daughter in a play park, Jurgita - a qualified Lithuanian environmental scientist who came to do low-skilled factory work and has already been promoted - is reluctant to address the political hostility to the migrants. ""English people are good to me, so I am really happy here. I live my life and if other people want a better life, I don't see a problem that they come. If people want to work - they can do it. If they don't, they should stay at home. There is enough for everybody."" In the pedestrianised town centre, there is a vibrancy not seen in years. ""There are a lot of full shops instead of empty ones,"" says one male resident. ""If they (the east Europeans) disappeared now, there would be a whole street called West Street that would be pretty much empty. It's like Poland down there,"" he says, referring to the once-battered road that has become a totemic indicator of the town's changing character, with its array of Baltic and Polish food shops. One British woman tells me she welcomes the broader outlook the arrivals bring to the town, but she bemoans the pressure on schools and hospitals; a concern mentioned by many here. This issue includes EU and worldwide migration, border controls and rules on work and benefits. Policy guide: Where the parties stand Her friend begins to walk off, but pauses to describe her ""two years of hell"" living next to 12 noisy east European men who, she says, partied 24 hours a day. Another British woman says she fears the town is divided now but she is critical of her own community's hostility. ""If I went to a different country and people were horrible to me and didn't want to speak to me I wouldn't want to speak to them either,"" she says. Len Evans, a fruit-and-veg stallholder on the market, interrupts his sales banter to explain how his traditional customers were ageing and dwindling each year.  Demand for his produce is now driven by the ""fantastic"" new east Europeans. ""They've regenerated the town and the market and they're very good customers and the majority are very nice people,"" he says with a wry smile. ""If the east Europeans weren't here, we wouldn't be here as stall holders."" The chamber of commerce agrees the new arrivals have brought a dynamism to the economy. But many east Europeans are massively over-qualified for the work they are doing and they are competing for low-skilled, low-paid jobs with British people with fewer work opportunities. They are a godsend for employers but viewed with more suspicion by those competing for work, homes and services. Once they have mastered the language, they are likely to move on and up the professional food chain to compete in other sectors and that could imply more immigration to fill behind them. Saulius and Laura are both highly qualified Lithuanian architects.  Laura helped renovate the royal palace in the capital Vilnius and Saulius was a project manager; both lost their jobs in the economic crisis and moved to the UK. Laura looks after their baby while Saulius works in a food factory enjoying, for now, what he calls a stress-free job with regular hours. Both see Boston as ""the start"" of a new UK life-journey and Laura is particularly keen to return to architecture.  It is a pattern repeated in countless interviews with aspirational migrants. But there's a twist.  Laura and Saulius agree their progress in learning the language and integrating into UK society has been slowed by the lack of English people around them to speak to in Boston. ""We can learn Polish more (easily) than English,"" says Saulius. ""There are very few English people at the factory so there is little opportunity to speak."" The migration they and others like them represent has ebbed and flowed over the years. Some locals initially resented the fact that many took their hard-earned wages and returned home with the spoils but that has given way to a realisation that many are now intending to stay. The voters will soon have their say but the east Europeans have come ashore and the waters in Boston are settling. But the key question ""is immigration good or bad for the people of towns like Boston?"" defies all simple answers.",The ebb and flow of the tide is easily @placeholder on the River Witham in Boston .,detected,heard,embarked,measured,reflected,3
"Four ambulances and a paramedic unit were called to an address in Heather Avenue, Alexandria, on Saturday. Three men and two women, aged between 28 and 40 were found to be unwell and were taken to hospital. All five were said to be in a stable condition. A police investigation into the circumstances is continuing. Two men, aged 28 and 36, and a 40-year-old woman were taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment. A 31-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman were also taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. Det Insp Andy Doherty from Clydebank CID said: ""Enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances and how these people came to be unwell. ""However, at this time we believe all five had taken prescription medication mixed with a quantity of alcohol and other drugs. ""I would like to reassure the local community that there was no violence involved in this incident. ""Anyone with information regarding the illegal distribution of prescribed medication in the West Dunbartonshire area is asked to contact Clydebank CID via 101.""","Five people who became unwell at a @placeholder accommodation unit in West Dunbartonshire had mixed alcohol and drugs , police have said .",supported,man,suspected,house,stolen,0
"While one of the main events - Tyson Fury's rematch with Wladimir Klitschko - has already fallen before the curtain has been raised, it's still going to be a weekend packed with excitement and expectancy as Europe hosts some of the world's greatest athletes. How about celebrating it in a different way by taking part in sport yourself? Centre Court will once again be the centre of attention this weekend as crowds gather to see who will be crowned champions and attend the winners' ball but how about gracing the grassy tennis lawn yourself? The simple pleasures of whacking a yellow ball over a net are not to be underestimated! It's addictive and easy to get involved. Many tennis clubs are currently running 'Great British Tennis Weekends' which offer cheap and often free coaching sessions and tasters days. GET INVOLVED: Want to be the next Andy Murray or Serena Williams? Use our helpful guide to take your first steps into tennis or find an event to go along to. COVERAGE: You can follow the Ladies Final at 13:00 BST on Saturday and the Men's Final at 14:00 BST on Sunday - and both are on BBC1. You can also follow the action on BBC Radio 5 live. The curtains will come down on a month of football in Paris this Sunday when the Stade de France hosts the big showdown between France and Portugal in the final of the 2016 European Championship. How about warming up for the big match by giving football a go? You don't have to be the next Cristiano Ronaldo to get involved. There are many options open including youth clubs, ladies teams, walking football, disability football and even volunteering. GET INVOLVED: If you'd like to find out about getting into football - playing or volunteering - read our special guide. And you can find events to go along to here. COVERAGE: Watch the final of the Euro 2016 this Sunday at 20:00 BST on BBC1, follow the action on BBC Radio 5 live and on the BBC Sport website. The F1 season has been heating up and this weekend Silverstone opens its doors to the world as the British Grand Prix rolls into town. The Mercedes duo lead the pack with Britain's Lewis Hamilton trailing leader Nico Rosberg by 11 points. The two drivers, who have clashed on and off the track, will resume their contest in front of an expected crowd of 140,000 on race day. If you feel the need for speed as you watch the action in the Grand Prix there are many ways you can get involved. GET INVOLVED: While you are unlikely to hop straight into an F1 car as your opening motorsport experience, there are many more disciplines waiting to take you on. Click here to find out which is for you. COVERAGE: Tune in to BBC Radio 5 live sports extra for Saturday's qualifying and Sunday's race. The biggest ever team from Great Britain are taking part at the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam. With long jumper Greg Rutherford and sprinter Dina Asher-Smith already winning gold medals, will there be any more British medals this weekend? While the big names are attempting to book their place in the 2016 Rio Olympics you can support them by getting involved in athletics too - it's easier than you think! Running, throwing and jumping is for everyone. Grab some props, head to the park and create your own mini athletics competition. GET INVOLVED: Fancy dusting off your trainers this weekend and giving athletics a go? Here are some tips to get you started and events to go along to. COVERAGE: You can follow the British team with reports on BBC Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website. Football is not the only draw in France this weekend. The Tour de France is also taking place with stage eight from Pau to Bagneres-de-Luchon on Saturday and stage nine from Vielha Val d'Aran to Andorre Arcalis on Sunday. Cycling may seem like hard work watching the likes of Chris Froome and Thibaut Pinot tackle the torrid French route but it's actually a simple sport to get into. It's easy to do, gets you from A to B, and exhilarating to boot. There is less risk of injury than many other sports and an hour-long road race can burn up to 844 calories. GET INVOLVED: Inspired to get on your bike? Take a look at this handy guide to find ways to get into cycling and some events to take part in. COVERAGE: Follow the Tour de France on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra on Saturday and Sunday. But it's not just Europe which is hosting some big sporting events this weekend. Over in the United States it's the biggest event in women's golf as the US Open takes place at CordeValle, San Martin (returning to California for the first time since 1982). The field is led by teenage world number one Lydia Ko and Charley Hull leads the British challenge of Catriona Matthew, Melissa Reid, Hannah Burke, Jodie Shadoff and Pam Pretswell.  If you've never thought of taking up the relaxing sport of golf there couldn't be a better time as many golf clubs are running special 'Get into Golf' sessions. GET INVOLVED: Fancy giving golf a go this weekend? Here's our guide. and some events to go along to. COVERAGE: You can follow the progress of Charley Hull and the field with reports on BBC Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website.",The @placeholder that has been dubbed the ' best weekend of sport ' is finally here .,night,date,body,events,news,1
"The officials confiscated all the company's one-wheeled vehicles and took down its signs after a Silicon Valley-based rival filed a patent infringement claim. The case is set to return to court in a week's time. The Chinese firm, Changzhou First International Trade, told the BBC it did not believe it had broken the law. It claimed it had developed its hoverboard a long time ago and had hidden it until now to avoid it being copied by other Chinese firms. It added that this was the first time it had been involved in such an incident. A spokeswoman for the US Department of Justice told the BBC: ""A court order has been served in a civil case involving private litigation."" She added that while it was not uncommon for the US marshals to be involved in such action, she could not recall another case happening at a trade show. Footage of the incident has been posted online by the news agency Bloomberg. While there are many companies exhibiting hoverboards at CES, the Chinese firm's models - which it calls Surfing Electric Scooters - were unusual for having a single central wheel rather than one at each end. This is similar to California-based Future Motion's Onewheel vehicle, which uses sensors and computer controls to keep the board balanced. ""We have design and utility patents that cover our invention,"" Future Motion's founder Kyle Doerksen told the BBC. ""When we got word that a company was exhibiting a knock-off product, we engaged in the formal process, which involved sending a cease and desist letter and then getting a restraining order, which was then enforced by the US marshals. ""As a company that launched ourselves at CES two years ago, we know that the world is watching. ""And we knew that this was a situation where they could do real damage to our business if we just allowed them to violate our patents."" Changzhou currently lists its device for $550 (£375) on the Alibaba shopping site, which is about a third of the price of the Onewheel. There are two patents involved in the case: ""Punitive measures could include a permanent injunction preventing Changzhou from selling the product in the US, monetary damages including lost profits we can prove due to infringing sales, and even attorney's fees if the court decides it's an exceptionally egregious case of wilful patent infringement,"" said Future Motion's lawyer Shawn Kolitch. He added that Future Motion had patents pending elsewhere including in China, which it hoped to obtain in order to stop Changzhou manufacturing the device. This is not the first controversy hoverboards have faced at CES. Ahead of the event starting, its organiser announced that attendees were banned from using any type of the vehicles to get about its showfloors. Dozens of universities and other institutions in the US had earlier banned their use and most of the country's airlines have also refused to carry them. The problem is two-fold. They have been involved in incidents where people have been injured or killed when the rider lost control. And some of the gadgets have burst into flames as a result of problems with their batteries, leading to concerns that some manufacturers are not following safety standards. Read and watch more from CES and follow the BBC team covering the event on Twitter.",US marshals have @placeholder a Chinese hoverboard - maker 's stand at the CES tech show in Las Vegas .,issued,overturned,raided,used,constructed,2
"Henry Bett, 26, of Hall Lane, Thornham, Norfolk, was driving a tractor involved in a collision with a Fiat car driven by Rebecca Brown, 43, who was killed. Mr Bett, a farmer and the son of Norfolk PCC Stephen Bett, denies causing death by dangerous driving. The trial at Peterborough Crown Court, sitting in Huntingdon, continues. Mrs Brown, of Castle Acre, Norfolk, died when the Fiat people carrier she was driving was crushed in the collision with Mr Bett's Fendt tractor on the West Acre Road at about 15:10 GMT on 4 December 2013. Mr Bett described rushing to the car to find Mrs Brown ""catastrophically"" injured and her son, who had been in the passenger seat of the car, shouting and trying to help her. Asked how he felt about being involved in a fatal collision, he said: ""You can't put it into words. Horrifying."" But he added: ""I do not believe I was driving dangerously."" Police found evidence the defendant had previously taken cocaine. Asked by Lawrence Bruce, defending, if he had been under the influence of cocaine or its after effects at the time of the incident, he said: ""No."" The maximum speed of the tractor was 40mph (64km/h), but on public roads it is illegal to drive tractors above 20mph (32km/h). Mr Bett said he had set the vehicle's speed limiter to comply with the law. Asked why this was at the maximum level when inspected by officers, he said: ""I didn't set it at that level."" He explained in interview that the dial must have been pushed forward as he was thrown on to the dashboard in the collision. The trial, due to end next week, will be heard by 11 jurors after one member was discharged on Tuesday when concerns were raised about her conduct.",The son of a police and crime commissioner ( PCC ) accused of killing a woman in a road crash has told a court he was @placeholder by the crash .,struck,caught,funded,horrified,threatened,3
"The all-rounder, who retired from Test cricket in December, has now decided to end his one-day international career. Kallis, 38, intends to continue playing Twenty20 cricket for Sydney Thunder and Kolkata Knight Riders. Former India captain Rahul Dravid, speaking on the BBC's Test Match Special, said Kallis was ""the Garry Sobers of our generation"". Kallis made his decision after scoring only five runs from his final three ODIs in Sri Lanka this month. ""I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far,"" said Kallis. ""Ï just knew on that tour that I was done. The squad that was in Sri Lanka is an amazing one and I believe they have a good chance of bringing the trophy home in March."" Paul Collingwood, former England one-day captain, tweeted that Kallis ""scored runs for fun, swung it both ways, could hit you in the head and had hands like buckets"". Cricket South Africa chief executive Haroon Lorgat said: ""South Africa has been blessed with one of the world's greatest cricketing talents in Jacques Kallis. ""He is undeniably one of the greatest players ever to have graced our wonderful game and he has certainly been the Proteas' standard-bearer of excellence for nearly two decades."" Former England captain Michael Vaughan also believes Kallis should be remembered as a modern great. ""You talk about Wasim Akram, Sir Ian Botham, Sir Garry Sobers - he is right up there with them,"" said Vaughan. ""He batted all his career in the top four, stood at second slip and bowled fast - he's had a great career. The international game will miss Jacques Kallis. He's been a fantastic cricketer, and a good man too.""",South Africa 's Jacques Kallis has been @placeholder by leading figures after retiring from international cricket .,released,played,praised,replaced,criticised,2
"The 27-year-old Parisian has signed a deal tying him to Vale until 23 December, having been without a club since his release by Swindon Town at the end of last season. ""He's got pedigree,"" said Vale interim boss Rob Page. ""When we found out he was available, we had him in training. ""He has proven he can score goals and hurt teams at a higher level than us."" N'Guessan could make his Vale debut in Saturday's home game against Leyton Orient. Page has now made five signings since being appointed interim manager, as successor to Micky Adams just over a month ago. Defenders Stephane Zubar (Bournemouth), Reiss Greenidge (West Bromwich Albion) and Remi Streete (Newcastle United) have all signed on loan, along with striker Harry Panayiotou (Leicester City). But only Zubar, now suspended for three games after being sent off for retaliating at Joe Garner in the defeat at Preston, has so far figured. Having taken over when Vale were lying 23rd in the League One table, Page's side have climbed five places to 18th, having lost just twice in six matches.",League One strugglers Port Vale have signed much - @placeholder French striker Dany N'Guessan on a two - month contract .,sought,needed,travelled,class,joined,2
"John Roach's home in Stannage Walk was set on fire after a burning wheelie bin was pushed up against his front door. The 67-year-old was treated in hospital following the blaze on Friday but died on Wednesday after being discharged. A post-mortem examination is due to take place, Humberside Police said. A 13-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson.",A man has died five days after being @placeholder from his flat when it was set alight in an apparent arson attack .,punched,rescued,stabbed,thrown,fired,1
"And if you're a Playboy model, with nearly 300,000 followers, why not quickly drop your kit and step right into that shot - butt naked. That is what happened when Jaylene Cook climbed New Zealand's Mount Taranaki. However local Maori say the move was culturally utterly insensitive. The top of the volcano is sacred for Maori. ""It's like someone went into St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican and took a nude photo,"" Dennis Ngawhare, a spokesperson for the local Maori tribe, told the BBC. ""It's a sacred place and something like this is just very inappropriate."" The picture of Ms Cook, herself from New Zealand, was taken when she climbed the mountain a few days ago with her partner. Posted on her popular Instagram account, the picture of her gazing into the distance from the 2,518m peak has clocked up nearly 10,000 likes. ""People might say it's just rocks and earth so how can you disrespect it?"" says Mr Ngawhare. But for the local Maori, the volcano is considered the burial ground of the tribe's ancestor and is itself seen as an ancestor. Traditionally, even just climbing to the top of the peak is inappropriate and only very rarely done for ceremonial purpose. Since the country was colonised by the British, the local tribe often had very little say regarding the mountain - which was named Mount Egmont by Captain Cook - and today accept that tourists want to climb the beautiful volcano. ""It's only recently that we can have some input on what goes on at the mountain,"" the local Maori spokesman explains. ""We simply ask people to please be respectful. This latest case is just another really annoying example where someone obviously didn't know how to behave here."" Mayor of the local Stratford district, Neil Volzke, agrees the move was culturally insensitive. ""I don't think the picture itself is offensive or obscene - it is just inappropriate to take on top of Mount Taranaki because it is a place with great deal of importance for the Maori community,"" he told the BBC. When Ms Cook's nude photo began to draw criticism, she defended herself - saying she did research before and thought taking the picture was not offensive. But local Maori were left somewhat puzzled. ""It's a clash between Western assumptions and indigenous values and beliefs,"" Mr Ngaware says. Previous incidents on Taranaki have also outraged the local Maori community, including a group of hikers taking a barbecue to the peak for a summit grilling session, and people leaving graffiti on the mountain. ""It's a place that should be treated with the utmost respect at all times,"" insists Mr Volzke. This is not the first time that a nude picture on a mountain has drawn condemnation from local communities. In June 2015, a group of Western tourists climbing Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia caused massive outrage and a subsequent deadly earthquake was blamed on their disrespect towards the sacred mountain. It was only after court proceedings, a few days in prison and a financial penalty, that the tourists were allowed to leave Malaysia.","For many people , constantly on the hunt for a striking image to post on Facebook or Instagram , reaching the top of a mountain overlooking the @placeholder might provide the perfect shot .",heart,world,ground,clouds,organisation,3
"The Indianapolis Colts dancer, known as Leanna E, met the 17-year-old and hugged him as he apologised. She tweeted a smiling photo of herself with the embarrassed student. The unidentified boy had jokingly griped in a Snapchat photo that his friend put him next to a black woman, though he used the n-word. ""A week ago I was the victim of a racial slur that was shared around the world,"" Leanna tweeted. ""Today, I chose forgiveness & feel stronger because of it."" The controversy began on 14 December when Leanna and another cheerleader posed for a picture with two students from Western High School in Russiaville, a town 60 miles (96km) north of Indianapolis, during an event to promote a blood donation campaign. Six surprising statistics Why do blacks and whites live in separate areas? The teenager later posted an image to Snapchat with the caption: ""Of course [other student's name] put me next to the [racial slur]."" The photo caused outrage and went viral on social media. Leanna contacted the school principal, not to demand that the boy be punished, but to express concern for his welfare after hearing that he had received physical threats amid all the backlash. ""I just was concerned for how he was handling it, and [Principal Rick Davis] said he [the boy] wasn't handling it well,"" she said. ""That broke my heart to know that."" The headmaster arranged for the two to meet. Leanna went to shake the boy's hand when they met an Indianapolis Colts conference room on Wednesday night, but he instead greeted her with a hug and flowers. ""He actually referred to himself as a dumb kid that messed up and he said he was trying to be funny and wasn't and that he made a mistake and he was sorry,"" she told the IndyStar, ""very sorry for hurting me and others."" The boy's mother, who accompanied him to the meeting, thanked the cheerleader for her forgiveness and told her the boy had not learned such language at home, Leanna said. The cheerleader told the IndyStar: ""I'm at peace with it."" ""I hope that people look at themselves and step back and realise everybody makes mistakes,"" she added. ""Nobody's perfect.""",A US black cheerleader who was @placeholder by a high school student 's racial slur after she posed for a viral photo with him has forgiven the teenager .,embarrassed,beaten,captured,caught,targeted,4
"A draft, submitted last week, sparked controversy over a clause that allows immunity for the generals who seized power in May last year. Also causing concern is a clause which would allow unelected individuals to be appointed prime minister. Thailand has seen almost a decade of divisive political conflict. The previous constitution was abolished by the military after the coup. The current government operates under a temporary charter. ""We have drafted this constitution as it is a reform one, in hopes of leading the country out of cycles of conflicts, disunity and undemocratic fights,"" Gen Lertrat Ratanavanich, a spokesman for the Constitution Drafting Committee, told the AP news agency. ""I'm confident this constitution will provide justice to every side [of the conflict], more than the previous charters."" Under the new draft, future elections will be decided by a proportional representation system that leans towards smaller parties and coalition governments. The upper house will mostly be unelected members; and the charter will allow parliament to choose as prime minister someone who is not a politician or an MP. The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says the probable outcome of the new constitution will be weak and short-lived coalition governments, which would leave more power in the hands of the military and of senior, largely royalist bureaucrats, many of whom supported the coup. The constitutional draft will be debated for six days, our correspondent adds, after which there will be very few opportunities for public discussion. The military has ruled out a referendum but plans instead to seek opinion from a thousand selected respondents in each of Thailand's 77 provinces. Critics say the constitution is aimed at preventing the return of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. He was ousted in 2006, after being accused of corruption and now lives in self-imposed exile. Since then, Thailand has been deeply divided as his supporters and opponents struggle for political control, with the conflict sometimes spilling over into street violence.","Thailand 's military - @placeholder reform council has begun a week - long debate over a new constitution , almost a year after a military coup .",known,funded,picked,controlled,style,2
"Cyprian Okoro, 55, from south-west London was found guilty of five counts of possessing extreme pornography and one indecent image of a child. The Old Bailey heard the videos were of a ""grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise obscene character"". Okoro was bailed for sentencing on 30 September. Some of the five videos featured women having sex with dogs and one woman having sex with a horse. The defendant, of Cameron Place, Streatham, had denied the charges. But, after deliberating for less than a day, the jury found him guilty of all but two charges of possessing extreme pornography relating to bestiality with dogs. The court heard Okoro stored the images on his mobile phone having received them via WhatsApp. He had also moved an indecent video of a two-year-old boy into a password-protected ""vault"" on his phone. Following the verdict, the jury was told it was Okoro's second conviction. In 2014 he was handed a nine-month jail term suspended for 18 months at Norwich Crown Court after a woman made an allegation of sexual assault against him. Judge Richard Hone QC said: ""He is very lucky not to be immediately imprisoned and this was quite a bad case. ""It would be unfair to put him immediately in prison when the first trial gave him a suspended sentence - even if it was frankly, pretty lenient."" Okoro qualified as a doctor in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1986, and received an interim suspension by the General Medical Council in September 2013.","A GP has been found guilty of having a stash of pornography , including a video of a man having sex with a @placeholder .",plot,prostitute,lake,beach,snake,4
"In 2014, Kim Lennon said the smuggling of drugs was rife at Lewes Prison and its wings ""resembled a war zone"". She was dismissed earlier this week following disciplinary proceedings but said she would appeal and had no regrets about speaking out. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said Ms Lennon was not dismissed for being a whistleblower. 'Insufficient staff' Ms Lennon alleged in August 2014 that the drug Spice was being smuggled into the jail. She said officers were supposed to carry out daily cell checks but there were insufficient staff to do so, and that she feared an inmate or prison officer would be seriously injured. The Prison Service denied at the time that staffing levels were unsafe and said there was a ""zero-tolerance approach"" to illicit substances. Ms Lennon was suspended from her job after talking to the The Argus newspaper and the BBC. ""Speaking out has caused me a lot of distress but I don't regret it,"" she said. ""Frontline prison officers are too afraid to speak out because of what will happen to them."" ""I loved my job and I feel like I am being punished for doing the right thing,"" she said. ""I am going to appeal but I'm taking it one day at a time."" The MoJ said it could not comment because Ms Lennon's dismissal was a confidential matter. ""We would not wish to prejudice a possible appeal,"" it said in a statement, adding it took the issue of staff discipline extremely seriously. ""Any unprofessional behaviour will be investigated immediately, with strong action taken and serious wrongdoing referred to the police,"" it said. ""Disciplinary action can range from a verbal warning to dismissal from their post.""",A whistleblower prison officer who raised concerns about conditions inside an East Sussex jail has been @placeholder .,convicted,detained,launched,unveiled,sacked,4
"The former Beatle had been due to play at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, near Raleigh, in June. ""We need to take a stand against this hatred,"" he said in a statement. Cyndi Lauper, however, has opted to turn her concert into ""an entire day to build public support"" to repeal the law. She will be donating all profits from the show on 4 June to Equality North Carolina's efforts to have the law, dubbed HB2, reversed. ""The pressure to repeal HB2 is building and it is beautiful,"" she said. ""In the dark haze of such oppression, people and companies are stepping up to fight back against this unjust law and ensure that all North Carolinians are treated with dignity and respect, especially the transgender community."" Bruce Springsteen pulled out of a gig on Sunday ""to fight against prejudice and bigotry"". Starr added: ""I'm sorry to disappoint my fans in the area, but we need to take a stand against this hatred. Spread peace and love. ""How sad that they feel that this group of people cannot be defended. ""This law opens the door to discrimination everywhere by limiting anti-discrimination laws against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity."" The new law, brought in three weeks ago, invalidated several local anti-discrimination measures that protected gay and transgender people. It also requires people to use public toilets that correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificates. Its implementation has drawn ire from anti-discrimination campaigners, as well as companies including PayPal, Apple and Facebook. North Carolina governor Pat McCrory is now seeking to roll back some of the measures included in the bill he signed, to protect LGBT rights - but not those relating to public toilets in schools and government buildings.",Ringo Starr has joined a @placeholder list of artists and businesses boycotting North Carolina to protest its change to transgender laws .,couple,waiting,planned,growing,race,3
"William Smith's 1815 depiction of the geology of England, Wales and part of Scotland is a seminal piece of work. The first map of its kind produced anywhere in the world, only about 70 copies are thought to exist today. Now, The Geological Society has turned up another in its own archives, ready to celebrate the map's bicentenary. Tucked away in a leather sleeve case, the mislaid artefact was last seen roughly 40 or 50 years ago. ""It just wasn't where people expected it to be,"" said John Henry, the chairman of The Geological Society's History of Geology Group. ""I guess the person who put it away knew where it was, but then they left and that was it - it became lost,"" he told BBC News. In one sense, the map is better for its abeyance because it means it has not been exposed to light, and that has protected its exquisite colours. Smith spent the better part of 15 years collecting the information needed to compile the map. It is said he covered about 10,000 miles a year on foot, on horse and in carriage, cataloguing the locations of all the formations that make up the geology of the three home nations. An estimated 370 copies were produced. The outline of the geography and the strata were printed from copper plate engravings, but the detail was finished by hand with watercolours. The lower edge of a formation is saturated and then the paint is made to fade back to the high edge. It is this colouring technique, combined with the tendency of many of England's rocks to dip to the south or southeast, that gives Smith's map its iconic look. The re-discovered copy comes in 15 separate sheets. These have no serial numbers on them, but that in itself is a clue to the map's position in the production sequence. The first batch in the run is known not to have carried any numbering. Another clue is the geology of the Isle of Wight. Smith changed its depiction several times, and the re-discovered map displays his earliest efforts. The artefact is certainly among the first 50 to come off the production line, and very probably among the first 10. Quite what its value is - that is difficult to say. Possibly in the six figures. The Geological Society has had the map fully restored and digitised. And from Monday, anyone will be able to view it online. The paper version will also go on display at the society's Burlington House HQ in London's Piccadilly. William Smith (1769-1839) is often referred to as the ""Father of English Geology"" - a title bestowed on him by The Geological Society, which at first had been reluctant to embrace his vision. The organisation's first members were drawn from the metropolitan elite, and they took a rather disdainful view of the blacksmith's son turned surveyor. But the big landowners knew his worth. They brought Smith in to help them maximise the worth of their estates - to drain land, to improve the soil, to find building stone, and, above all, to find coal. It is this work that would have brought him into contact with the rocks and with the fossils that would lead him to his greatest scientific contribution. John Henry explained: ""The concept which enabled him to do the mapping and that drove him along almost obsessively was this realisation that specific fossils were unique to a specific stratum, and that you knew where you were in a sequence if you could see what the fossils were. That was the breakthrough. People had been collecting them for a long time and naming them in the Linnaean way, but without any real idea that they were in a sequence. But Smith knew it."" Today, it is called the ""principle of faunal succession"", and this idea holds that because fossils succeed one another in order, rocks containing similar fossils are similar in age. This principle has enabled scientists to construct the geological timescale by which the relative ages of rocks can be measured, and thereby understand the history of the Earth. No wonder Simon Winchester called his 2001 book about William Smith, The Map that Changed the World. Monday, 23 March, is Smith's birth date. Sir David Attenborough is going to unveil a plaque at Smith's former residence at 15 Buckingham Street on London's Embankment. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos",A first edition copy of one of the most significant maps in the history of science has been @placeholder in time for an important anniversary .,launched,prepared,published,gathering,rediscovered,4
"Statistics obtained through a Press Association Freedom of Information request show that in 2013 none of the unmanned aircraft were detected in or around prisons in England and Wales. This rose to two incidents in 2014 and 33 in 2015. Items discovered include drugs, phones and USB drives. The government said incidents were rare. Across the 35 incidents, drugs were discovered at least six times, mobile phones more than eight times and a drone itself recovered in 19 instances. One of the biggest finds listed a drone, drugs, mobile phone, a charger and USB cards at HMP Oakwood in the West Midlands in December last year. Five incidents were recorded as including ""unknown packages"", which the Ministry of Justice said referred to an item recovered as part of a suspected drone incident, with no specific information recorded on the contents. A total of 14 incidents were recorded as ""miscellaneous"", which referred to a reported drone sighting in or around a prison. The MoJ said that where an incident had been listed as this or as ""drone only"", it did not know if the craft was being used for illegal purposes. Six incidents were listed as ""drone only"". The MoJ added that while a drone was not always found, there may have been evidence of a drone having been used, such as on CCTV, or there may have been witnesses. The location where the drones and packages were found varied from different places within prison grounds to just outside its walls. HMP Onley in Northamptonshire had four drone incidents between 2014 and 2015, followed by Lindholme, Ranby and Swansea prisons on three, and Bedford, Wandsworth and Manchester on two. Leicester, The Mount, Whatton, Leeds, Eastwood Park, Liverpool, Norwich, Glen Parva, Huntercombe, Wormwood Scrubs, Full Sutton, Guys Marsh, Long Lartin, Bullingdon, Wealstun and Oakwood prisons all recorded one incident. Mike Rolfe, national chairman elect of the Prison Officers Association (POA), said the use of drones to smuggle in banned items was of ""serious concern"". He called for more staff to tackle the issue, so they could carry out cell checks and prisoner searches to find parcels delivered by drone. The MoJ said it took a ""zero tolerance"" approach to illicit material in prisons. New legislation made it illegal to land a drone in prison or to use a drone to drop in psychoactive substances, it said. And anyone found using drones in an attempt to get contraband into prisons could be punished with a sentence of up to two years. A report published in December by HM Inspectorate of Prisons noted that illegal drugs, legal highs and illicit medications may get into prisons in a number of ways, meaning it is not always possible to quantify exactly how many drugs are making it into prisons. The report stated that ""easy access to illicit mobile telephones makes it possible to plan the drops carefully"".","Drones have increasingly been used to smuggle drugs , mobile phones and other contraband into jails , figures @placeholder .",include,obtained,stated,suggest,added,3
"Italy, Wales' first opponent in the 2017 tournament, have finished bottom of the table 11 times, and Georgia and Romania have been pushing to be included in the top tier. But the 30-year-old, set to win his 46th cap in Rome, believes that would be a premature move. ""I think it's a debate to be had in a couple of years time,"" he said. Italy's captain and talisman Sergio Parisse reacted angrily when the suggestion was put to him during the 2016 tournament. And Six Nations chief executive John Feehan has said relegation will not be introduced in the short to medium term and dismissed criticism of Italy as unfair. Owens expects the Azzuri to pose a serious challenge in Rome, where Wales have lost twice and believes that if relegation is eventually introduced, the teams and players will deal with the issue. ""I don't think any team goes into the competition to finish bottom,"" he said. ""If [relegation] comes, it comes and the focus wouldn't change because no side goes into the Six Nations wanting to win the wooden spoon."" Italy coach Conor O'Shea has made five changes from the team which lost against Tonga in November for the game against Wales. It is also the first time Wales have faced the Italians since the appointment of their new coaching team. ""It's a tough away game, especially Italy first up,"" he added. ""They'll be wanting to build on a good autumn campaign after beating South Africa and they'll have been disappointed losing the last game against Tonga. ""But they've had time now with Conor O'Shea, Mike Catt and Brendan Venter in camp. ""We know hard it's going to be out there and it's all about getting a good performance first up.""",Wales hooker Ken Owens has @placeholder the decision not to introduce relegation from the Six Nations .,backed,appealed,announced,criticised,defended,0
"Dumfries and Galloway Council said some workers were wary of the cars' 100 mile range in the sprawling rural area. It came as new figures obtained by BBC Scotland revealed that the local authority had spent £57,600 on four electric Nissan Leafs since 2011. Yet, in total, the cars have covered fewer than 26,000 miles in that time. A spokesman for the local authority insisted the scheme had been ""relatively successful"" but admitted levels of usage were ""considerably lower"" than for conventional cars in its pool. He added: ""Staff have been asked to comment on use of the vehicles, and 'range anxiety' is certainly a consideration."" Dumfries and Galloway Council was the first in Scotland to add electric cars to its fleet in a drive, partly, to ""inspire residents and local businesses to consider the benefits they bring"". They were part-funded by Transport Scotland as part of a wider scheme to ensure the ""decarbonisation"" of road transport by 2050. But data obtained under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act revealed that even the oldest Nissan Leafs in the fleet had each covered fewer than 10,000 miles in four years on the road. One car built up a mileage of just 1,471 miles over three years. A council spokesman said that the car was allocated to a service department and since the original FOI enquiry, it has been moved to the general pool and now has a mileage of 3,229. In contrast, the best-used car in the pool, a Vauxhall Insignia diesel, covered more than 47,000 miles in two years - at a cost of £2,331.49 a year. A council spokesman said: ""The scheme has been relatively successful in introducing electric vehicles (EVs) to this rural area, although clearly the use levels are considerably lower than for conventional vehicles, which are generally within the range of 10,000 to 15,000 miles a year. ""The EVs tend to be used for shorter journeys around Dumfries rather than for travel to more distant locations. ""The reliability of the vehicles in terms of mileage achievable on a charge has greatly improved since these vehicles were produced, as has the availability of public charging points."" Transport Scotland claimed that increased use of electric cars could lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, improved air quality, noise pollution and public health. They said they could also lead to ""significant"" savings on fuel and other running costs. Electric cars are exempt from vehicle tax but the local authority said it did not hold information about how much it cost to charge the vehicles. £42,124.70 - Funding received from Transport Scotland for the council's four Nissan Leafs £41,662 - The amount spent by the Scottish government on three new charging points in Annan, Dumfries and Castle Douglas £129,483.36  - Total spend on diesel for the council's pool of conventional cars in 2014/15 145 - The number of conventional cars operated by the local authority which are in the ""free"" Band A tax bracket because they emit carbon dioxide emissions of less than 100g/km 18 - Council cars in the relatively low-polluting band B and C tax brackets, costing £20 and £30 a year respectively A spokeswoman for Transport Scotland said: ""The price premium for electric vehicles (EVs) is reducing as volume production increases and as more models come to market.  Used appropriately, EVs can save fleets significant sums on fuel and other running costs, compared to conventional petrol/diesel equivalents. ""Increasing the sustainability of public sector fleets is on-going, for example the current 'Switched On Fleets' initiative offers free, evidence-based analysis to identify new opportunities for the cost effective deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) within Community Planning Partnerships."" What do you think of Dumfries and Galloway Council's use of electric cars? Get in touch by emailing us at dumfries@bbc.co.uk.",A Scottish local authority has admitted that it s staff are reluctant to use its pool of electric cars for fear of being @placeholder with a flat battery .,stranded,diagnosed,presented,dealt,flooded,0
"Reporters from around the world were there too, gently questioning some of those who came. The people of London and visitors to the city came together to remember the people who lost their lives in Wednesday's attack. The word ""solidarity"" was heard over and over again. Candles were laid on the ground and on the steps leading to the National Gallery, then lit in memory of those who died. German-born Michaela Thomas, who has lived in Poplar for decades, came to take part in the vigil, but her husband did not feel safe enough to join her. She said she was there because she did not want terrorism to stop her living her life. Her view was echoed by almost everyone I spoke to around the square. Sister Petronia, a nun from Hackney, put on her London 2012 Gamesmaker jacket to attend. ""I feel everybody in London is the heart of London beating,"" she said. ""When something like this happens, those of us who live here feel the pain. ""People want to come together and express solidarity, and express their desire for peace."" At the front of the crowd, Donnelly Devereaux and her daughter Mary-Katherine Caestecker, both from Chicago, waited for the ceremony to begin. ""We're visiting the city and we wanted to come tonight to show our support, particularly as one of the people who died, Kurt Cochran, was from the US,"" Mrs Devereaux said. ""It's so much more calm here than it would be at home. Everyone's so calm and collected on the tube, and here in the square tonight."" As the bells of St Martin-in-the-Fields chimed, the crowds fell silent. Even the rumble of the police helicopters dimmed while those gathered here paused to think about yesterday's events. Some filmed the scene on their phones, some cast glances across the crowds, but the focus was on three candles on the steps leading up to the National Gallery, above which MPs, religious figures and others stood in a line to pay their respects. As Met Police Acting Commissioner Craig Mackey, Home Secretary Amber Rudd and London Mayor Sadiq Khan addressed the crowds, bursts of applause broke out and people around me cheered when Mr Khan told them: ""Londoners will never be cowed by terrorism"". The minute's silence was impeccably observed - no chatter in the crowd, no phones going off, just people bowing their heads and closing their eyes to remember what happened about half a mile away. The scent of flowers hung in the air from the tributes people had brought with them. As the bells of St Martin-in-the-Fields chimed quarter past the hour, and a siren could be heard in the distance. As the ceremony ended people moved across the square to light candles, I spoke to Danny Lyne, a teacher from the East End of London, who came here after work. ""What happened yesterday has been in my head ever since I found out,"" he said. ""I remember what happened 12 years ago, on 7/7, and this has brought it all back. ""I think it's important to pay respect to those who lost their lives this time, and to give respect to the police - the Met Police in particular don't often get that.""","The people gathered in Trafalgar Square stood together quietly , respectfully , @placeholder by police officers with the rumble of helicopters a constant presence above .",boosted,watched,flanked,followed,leaving,2
"But people in the east and west of Cheshire have been waiting for longer than most to have their say about what happens locally. None of the seats on Cheshire East Council and Cheshire West & Chester Council have been contested for four years now, whereas in many other local authorities there are elections for a third of councillors nearly every year. That's still the case in Warrington, but the borough council there will soon be joining its Cheshire neighbours in using the ""all-out"" system. Cheshire West & Chester Council has been Conservative-controlled since the authority replaced the county council and three district councils in 2009. Since the last contest in 2011, the Tories have had a majority of nine - with 42 seats compared to Labour's 32 and the Liberal Democrats' one. A loss of just five councillors would push the authority into no overall control. With some councillors for both the main two parties on shaky majorities, we could see some significant change. Given that there have not been any council-wide elections for four years, the unknown factor is UKIP. The party won in the Cheshire West & Chester Council area in last year's European elections, and may be expected to win members in some wards. Even in wards where they don't win, they could still have a big impact on who does. On the other side of the county, Cheshire East Council has also been Tory-run since it was established six years ago. They have a much healthier majority here - with 49 councillors, dominating the council chamber in comparison to Labour's 14 seats, the Liberal Democrats' four and UKIP's two. One problem for the incumbent party, though, is the number of independent members who were elected last time, some of whom are popular local figures who represent areas which may seem more naturally Conservative-inclined. UKIP is equally untested in Cheshire East - with the party's two members having defected from the Tories. But with the party coming second to Labour in every seat in Crewe's town council election of 2013, the party will expect a significant share of the vote - even if it's not represented by a huge number of seats. Things are not so exciting in Warrington. With Labour running the authority on a majority of 32 over their nearest rivals the Liberal Democrats, the party will remain the biggest party whatever happens, given only 19 seats will be contested. They can't rely on the Lib Dem vote disappearing, as it's held up in parts of the borough in recent years. With this election happening on the same day as the parliamentary election, it seems likely that the turnout will be up compared to 2011. The hopes for the two main parties in these contests in Cheshire will be that voters tick the same boxes in both elections - giving them an advantage over UKIP and the Liberal Democrats. But that may not be a habit they'd want to rely on for much longer, given how many more people are expected to support UKIP compared to five years ago.","They 're responsible for mending the roads , regenerating our town centres and collecting our bins - but the elections for our local councils have inevitably been somewhat @placeholder over the last few months during the Westminster campaign .",circles,control,gazing,delayed,overshadowed,4
"It found that three out of four people had become desensitised to images showing hunger, drought and disease. Three-quarters thought it was possible to end hunger in Africa, but just one in five believed they could play an active role in achieving it. Of the more than 2,000 people surveyed, almost half suggested hunger as the biggest problem facing Africa. Respondents to the survey said over-exposure to negative media and advertising portrayals of Africa and developing countries in other parts of the world was ""depressing, manipulative and hopeless"". Oxfam chief executive Dame Barbara Stocking said: ""Oxfam has led the way in drawing attention to the plight of Africa's most vulnerable people and we aren't trying to gloss over the problems that still beset so many of them, particularly levels of malnutrition that remain stubbornly high. ""But we've come a long way since the 1980s and Band Aid's Do They Know it's Christmas? We need to shrug off the old stereotypes and celebrate the continent's diversity and complexity, which is what we are attempting with this campaign. ""The relentless focus on ongoing problems at the expense of a more nuanced portrait of the continent, is obscuring the progress that is being made towards a more secure and prosperous future. ""If we want people to help fight hunger we have to give them grounds for hope by showing the potential of countries across Africa - it's a natural instinct to turn away from suffering when you feel you can do nothing to alleviate it."" And when speaking to the BBC, Dame Stocking said a negative image of Africa was ""not the truth"" about that continent. ""Of course, there are floods, droughts, and there is conflict, but that is not in every country at all. And there are quite a number of countries now in Africa that are really doing very well. ""We want to make sure people have a really better balanced picture of what's happening in Africa. Of course we have to show what the reality is in the situations in those countries. ""But we also need to show the other places where things are actually changing, where things are different."" In a separate recent Oxfam poll, more than half of people immediately mentioned hunger, famine or poverty when speaking about Africa.","A negative image of Africa in the UK is harming efforts to raise @placeholder aid in the continent , charity Oxfam has said .",development,deal,food,levels,change,2
"The Portrush golfer, starting on the back nine on the Californian course, birdied the par-five 17th and hit more two birdies on the front nine. He also bogeyed the par-three seventh and is tied for 30th place, five shots behind American leader Sam Saunders. Padraig Harrington is tied for seventh place on four under alongside Phil Mickelson. Shane Lowry will struggle to make the weekend cut, having shot three over through 16 holes on a fog-delayed first round. Dustin Johnson's bid to overtake Jason Day as world number one continued with a first-round five-under-par 66.",Graeme McDowell carded a two - under par round of 69 at the opening round of the weather - @placeholder Genesis Open .,influenced,class,ranked,interrupted,fought,3
"Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rio Ferdinand and Christian Bale may not sound like your typical pink tutu-wearing ballerinas. That's because they're not. But all three have taken ballet classes in the past and are role models for pupils at the London Boys Ballet School, the first of its kind in the UK dedicated entirely to boys, according to its founder James Anthony. The 33-year-old says he hopes to remove the stigma surrounding boys doing ballet. ""Many boys are taking up ballet for the first time and loving it,"" he says. ""I've been inundated with inquiries from boys and young men who want to dance."" The popularity of the school may be part of a trend that is seeing more boys take up ballet and other forms of dance. Royal Ballet School figures show the number of boys who applied for full-time training with it increased by 30% in the past two years. ""There are many more male dancers as role models on stage and on our TV screens which helps to counter some of the perceived negativity around boys taking up ballet,"" says Annalise Cunild from the Royal Ballet School. Elsewhere, probably Britain's best-known choreographer Matthew Bourne recently recruited more than 300 novice dancers for his Lord of the Flies tour, in an attempt to get more young men dancing. Mr Anthony says he started the London Boys' Ballet School, which offers weekend and evening classes, partly because he was too embarrassed to take up ballet when he was growing up in Swansea. ""I really wanted to take up ballet when I was at school but I thought I would get bullied,"" says the former teacher and sports coach. He said he hoped to stop other boys being put off by creating an environment where they do not feel like the odd ones out. ""Boys don't want to go in a class with girls where they end up being the only boy in the ballet class,"" he says. ""It's all about changing the image,"" he adds. ""There's nothing girly about it."" He says boys who are good at ballet need ""huge amounts of strength, confidence, flexibility and athletic ability"". One of the school's star pupils, nine-year-old Ellis Jones, says he was inspired to try out ballet after seeing a dance show and ""wanting to do what the dancers could do"". He says he prefers the boys' school to mixed classes he attends elsewhere because ""you get to focus on strength"". ""It's very friendly and I feel like I've made lots of progress,"" Ellis adds. ""In one day you will learn the equivalent of what you learn in two weeks elsewhere."" Ellis' mother Claire Jones accompanies him from Rustington, in West Sussex, to attend the school in Islington, every Saturday. ""There are only one or two boys in the local mixed dance class, but here, they are able to focus more on boys' dance,"" she says. ""It's not too strict or regimented and the progress he has made has been amazing."" Ellis, who was en route to an audition for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical in the West End that afternoon, says he hopes he might pursue a career in dance one day. ""I'd like to go into acting and dancing and to perform on a stage,"" he says. ""But if you're going to be a good actor you have to dance."" Meanwhile, the school has started running extra classes, including jazz dance, tap dance and musical theatre. ""But it's not just about the classes,"" Mr Anthony says. ""We do regular theatre trips and recently saw Billy Elliot backstage."" And the school has appeared to be receiving recognition from far afield, ever since it opened in March. ""We get emails from all over the world praising us for what we do,"" he adds. ""I had one from a woman out in the sticks in Australia saying her son likes to dance but gets bullied and she wishes there was a ballet school out there."" So could international interest from budding Billy Elliots mean the London Boys Ballet School might put its best foot forward elsewhere? ""It's early days, but you never know,"" Mr Anthony says.","Youngsters gather in a @placeholder in north London for a ballet lesson . But here there are no tutus , pirouettes - or even any traces of pink .",room,river,hotel,house,series,0
"The activists have been banned from Heathrow and will have to do unpaid community work. The barrister representing four of the activists earlier said the group had acted on ""deeply-held beliefs"". They were found guilty last month of aggravated trespass and entering a security-restricted area. During the trial the court heard the protesters' actions caused ""astronomical"" costs and disruption. All the defendants must carry out 120 hours unpaid work, apart from protesters Graham Thompson, Danielle Paffard and Roberto Basto, who have previous convictions and will carry out 180 hours. A Heathrow spokesman said: ""When individuals illegally enter the airport, they cause disruption to thousands of passengers going about their business and when their actions extend airside they endanger lives. ""Heathrow supports the right to peaceful protest, but we will always prioritise the safe and smooth running of our airport."" The demonstration took place last July when the defendants from the direct action group Plane Stupid cut through a fence at Heathrow Airport and chained themselves together on a runway. They were told when they were found guilty they could expect to receive jail sentences. Arguing against a prison sentence Kirsty Brimelow QC, speaking for four of the defendants, told Willesden Magistrates Court they believed they had been ""acting in the public interest"" and highlighted what she called a ""hard-fought for"" tradition of civil disobedience. She said: ""We have come a long way since the days of the suffragettes, since those people would have been locked up and treated appallingly."" District Judge Deborah Wright said her understanding was that ""immense"" costs had been caused by the protest. Prosecutor Robert Short said prosecution costs had reached about £14,000. The defendants:",Thirteen climate change protesters whose demonstration at Heathrow caused 25 flights to be cancelled have been handed six - week @placeholder sentences .,traffic,suspended,age,drug,term,1
"It's 10 years since JK Rowling revealed that Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore was gay in a Q&A with fans. It confirmed speculation that had been around on fan sites for years - all that was known before that was that he had a mysterious, troubled past. Rowling also revealed that when he was young, Dumbledore had been smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a duel. Dumbledore was ""horribly, terribly let down"" she said, and his love for Grindelwald was his ""great tragedy"". We already know Johnny Depp will play Grindelwald in the movie, so many fans are hoping to see Depp and Law in an on-screen romance. Some LGBT fans were upset that JK Rowling didn't mention in any of the books that Dumbledore was gay and saw it as an ""afterthought"". In a blog post on the Harry Potter fan site Mugglenet.com, Elayna Mae Darcy says the upcoming Fantastic Beasts film is a chance to put that right. ""One has to have hope that she will use this opportunity to show us the side of Dumbledore we could never have seen when he was a much older man who had long before been tragically let down by the man he loved,"" she writes. ""We have the chance to witness, in real time, a Dumbledore who is young and vivacious and who, hopefully, both acknowledges his sexuality and gives us a chance to see a well-rounded gay character in a mainstream blockbuster."" She says the Harry Potter author has a responsibility to show the relationship. ""Representation can change people's lives and make them feel seen... Kids growing up right now have a chance to experience one of the most important characters in the entire saga as someone who's confident with who he is."" And she is backed by other fans, who do not want to see Dumbledore's sexuality glossed over. Speaking last year about the second Fantastic Beasts movie, Rowling said we will see Dumbledore as a younger and ""quite troubled man"". ""We'll see him at that formative period of his life. As far as his sexuality is concerned, watch this space,"" she said. But Debbie Moon, Bafta-winning writer of the fantasy series Wolfblood, isn't convinced we'll see any romance on screen. ""Chances on Young Dumbledore appearing even remotely gay in a major studio tentpole? I'll take 0%...""she tweeted. And some fans have pointed out that any gay storyline may cause problems for the film's distribution worldwide. The live action Beauty and the Beast, which featured the first openly gay character in a Disney film, was recently pulled from Kuwait cinemas and faced issues in Malaysia, where homosexual activity is illegal. Russia's Culture Ministry allowed the release of Beauty and the Beast - but children under the age of 16 are not allowed to see it. It was given a 16+ age rating after a Russian MP petitioned Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky to ban it because of the inclusion of a gay character. When pressed on Dumbledore being gay in the second film, Rowling pointed out that is only the second film in a series. ""I would like to say because this is obviously a five-part story, there's lots to unpack in that relationship."" So fans may have to wait to watch the love story and ultimate betrayal unfold. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",The news that Jude Law is to play a young Dumbledore in the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them has led to speculation over the @placeholder of the movie - and whether his character will be openly gay .,direction,secrets,cast,title,life,0
"The Smith Commission also said a share of VAT should be assigned to the parliament, and Air Passenger Duty fully devolved. The commission was set up by Prime Minister David Cameron in the wake of the vote against Scottish independence. Its findings will form the basis of legislation on more Scottish powers. The UK government welcomed the report, but Scottish ministers said it fell short of what the nation needed to flourish. The Smith Commission, which took forward its recommendations in consultation with the Scottish Parliament's five parties - The SNP, Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Greens - recommended that: Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael said a ""stakeholder group"" would now be set up to take forward the recommendations. The Liberal Democrat MP said: ""Having a more powerful Scottish parliament inside a strong United Kingdom will open the door to more constitutional change in the United Kingdom. ""We can achieve home rule all round."" The Scottish government said any new powers were to be welcomed, but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon argued the Smith Commission package was ultimately disappointing because many powers, like the personal tax allowance, corporate taxation and child and working tax credits, would remain with Westminster. Speaking at Holyrood, she said: ""70% of our taxes continue to be set at Westminster, 85% of social security controlled at Westminster - this parliament responsible for less than half of the money we will spend. ""It's not so much the home rule that was promised - in so many respects, it's continued Westminster rule."" IN DEPTH: Smith Commission report But shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran said the Smith report was, ""a promise kept and an agreement delivered."" Speaking in Westminster, the Labour MP added: ""Today's deal is, in fact, more radical and goes further than many had anticipated and on this side of the House we believe the principles we have worked for today - pushing power closer to people - is one that should be followed across Britain."" Mr Cameron said he was ""delighted"" with the report, adding: ""We are keeping our promise to the Scottish people."" He added that proposals for English MPs to vote on English laws were to be published before Christmas. Labour opposes the idea of only allowing English MPs to vote on matters that only affect England, claiming they would create two classes of MPs. Instead, Labour wants more devolution within England. The Lib Dems also favour more regional devolution. These new powers will deliver a stronger parliament, a more accountable parliament and a more autonomous parliament Lord Smith, who chaired the commission, said: ""Taken together, these new powers will deliver a stronger parliament, a more accountable parliament and a more autonomous Parliament."" ""The recommendations, agreed between the parties, will result in the biggest transfer of powers to the parliament since its establishment."" Lord Smith's recommendations will form the basis of draft legislation due to be published by January 25, with the main parties at Westminster pledging to take it forward, regardless of who wins the UK election, in May 2015. Detail, scrutiny, debate, discussion, bargaining, anger, leavening humour. But, as ever, the outcome is launched forth into the febrile soup that is the contest for public opinion. The SNP strategy was to seek to maximise the gain from Smith - while simultaneously preparing to declare that the ultimate package is insufficient. This is the tactical mirror of the approach adopted by the parties supporting the Union which is to argue that true Home Rule has been attained. At Holyrood and in Scotland, the debate will be over whether the Smith report is a boon or a betrayal. That will be a factor - a significant factor - in the Scottish facets of the UK General election in May. If you think today's constitutional changes are only about Scotland, think again. If you think they mark the end of a process of change, think again. If you think they will end the debate about Scottish independence, think again. The proposals to give the Scottish Parliament much more power will fuel calls for.... There are calls - from all sides - for greater devolution within England. The Chancellor, George Osborne, is already offering more control to what he calls the ""power houses"" of the north of England such as Manchester and Liverpool. In Wales, too, assembly members want greater control over their affairs and already Stephen Crabb, the Welsh Secretary, is holding cross-party talks to discuss what this might entail. And in Northern Ireland, Stormont is expecting to be given very soon - perhaps even next week - the power to vary corporation tax so it can compete with the Irish Republic. But there are risks. Some MPs believe that these demands for extra devolution outside Scotland will not - and cannot - be met in full. They fear expectations will be raised that cannot not be satisfied and this will fuel resentment towards Scotland. There are lots of other important new powers being transferred to Holyrood, including the ability to lower the voting age, change speed limits, license frackers, influence the new BBC Charter, and - possibly - change abortion rules. But it is the transfer of big tax and spending powers that creates significant fiscal and economic uncertainties - whose resolution may have serious political consequences. The lynchpin of all this is what the Commission calls the fiscal framework for the new devolution, which includes a number of principles. Perhaps the most important is that at the precise moment that the new powers are devolved, Scotland's budget and the UK's budget should neither be bigger or smaller as a result of this transfer to Holyrood of new spending and taxing powers.","The Scottish Parliament should have the power to set income tax rates and bands , the @placeholder on strengthening devolution has concluded .",ground,body,effect,announcement,report,1
"The house builder said the recent experiences of a significant number of customers ""fell below the high standards they rightly expected"". To tackle the problem Bovis is introducing a series of measures to improve customer service. It announced a 3% fall in pre-tax profits for last year to £154.7m. However, revenue was up 11% to £1,1bn and the number of homes completed rose 1% to 3,977. Shares slid more than 8% to 772p. In its results statement Bovis said its ""ambitious growth strategy"" over the past five years had led to ""progressively developing operational challenges"". ""Our customer service standards have been declining for some time and combined with the delays to production towards the year end, we have entered 2017 with a high level of customer service issues,"" said interim chief executive Earl Sibley. ""Our customer service proposition has failed to ensure that all of our customers receive the expected high standard of care,"" he added. The company said its production processes had not been ""sufficiently robust"" to cope with its growth strategy and resources shortages in the industry. Also it said it had not designed and resourced its customers service proposition and process appropriately to ""deliver a 'customer first' culture"". Chairman Ian Tyler said the measures the group was introducing to tackle the customer service problems meant Bovis would complete 10% to 15% fewer houses in 2017 compared with last year, before returning to normal levels. ""The fundamentals of the business remain strong, with our market positioning reflected in our high quality southern biased land bank,"" he said. In January David Ritchie stepped down as chief executive after eight years in the role, weeks after warning over profits.",Bovis Homes has set aside £ 7 m to compensate customers who were @placeholder houses that were unfinished and had electrical and plumbing faults .,denied,sold,stranded,spent,allocated,1
"It is just gone 7pm and as I enter the bar, I am greeted by a group of men untidily singing the Tom Jones favourite 'Delilah'. I wait for the crescendo in the chorus to subside before I interrupt with questions on the EU referendum.  The mood quickly turns serious and passionate views are rife. Ray Smith, who is retired, is sipping his pint and munching on peanuts with a few of the other lads across from the snooker table. His views are as bitter as his beer when it comes to his anger towards the growing Polish population here who he accuses of taking all the labour jobs. ""I want out to get our country and our borders back,"" he says. Johnson warns of EU migration 'risks' EU referendum issues guide: Explore the arguments Labour clashes over EU referendum ""All the immigrants that shouldn't be here, we can get them all back out.  They're crippling the NHS; our surgeries are packed and you can't get an appointment. ""The mess they leave around the place, they're unbelievable.  A lot of them just don't care, they've got no appreciation for the country at all."" Industry and trade are at the heart of Merthyr Tydfil.  In the 19th century, coal mining revived the economy. It was after World War II that more factories were built in the area to take advantage of the unemployed workforce. It is these factories that have attracted a large Polish population, many of whom now work at the St Merryn meat-processing plant. In the neighbouring room it is bingo night and the rows of chairs are slowly being occupied as the people flood in for what I am told is the town's most popular entertainment. Val Ferguson is in her seventies but is annoyed at the argument that the Polish people are taking all the work. ""I wanted to leave but then my husband and I got talking and now I want to stay in the EU,"" she says. ""Like when they say there are no jobs for our youngsters, I don't understand. ""I got to be honest, some of our youngsters don't want to work. They go around on their motorbikes and don't want to get out there and work.  The Polish are just doing them jobs."" According to figures from the Oxford University Migration Observatory, the number of migrants in Wales has risen substantially over the last decade. Merthyr Tydfil has seen its migrant population increase during the 10 years to 2011 from just 807 non-UK residents to 2,641. It is this backdrop, along with the town's unemployment and deprivation, that is shaping the way in which some people will vote on 23 June. Darren Lock is concerned about the future.  A bricklayer from Merthyr, he says it is sad that his hometown is becoming more foreign with an influx of migrants from Europe. ""They've taken our jobs from us, and it's our culture, it's where we were brought up and where we belong,"" he tells me. ""If you're born in Britain, you know, you should be here. But at the end of the day nobody knows the future and this vote is a gamble but I still think we got to go out."" In the recent Welsh Assembly elections, UKIP took more than 20 per cent of the vote in Merthyr Tydfil - perhaps an illustration of how significant the issue of immigration is to those living here. With Port Talbot's future uncertain, and thousands of jobs there at risk, the mood here seems to have soured as a result. This could be a crucial factor in which box people tick in the up-coming referendum. Brian Thomas, 69, runs the social club and is struck by how many people in the bingo hall want to leave the EU. He said: ""In my opinion, the only thing the Brexit people have going for them is immigration. ""We know it's a problem but it's not an insurmountable problem. It's a problem we can resolve"".","The sky is @placeholder blue and the sun is bursting through the trees . Add beer to that equation and it is no wonder spirits are high inside the Penydarren Social Club in Merthyr Tydfil , south Wales .",deep,sky,turning,clear,sea,4
"It is that sense of a London elite, out of touch with the real world, that has encouraged politicians of all stripes to talk of the importance of localism. David Cameron came to power promising to give local councils much more power. ""Over the last century Britain has become one of the most centralised countries in the developed world,"" he said. ""I am convinced that if we have more local discretion - more decisions made and money spent at the local level - we'll get better outcomes."" But in the spring of 2011, something counter-intuitive happened.  For the first time probably in living memory, central government was bigger than local government.  The number of people in the UK employed by Whitehall overtook the number employed by the town hall. Back in 1963, the earliest year for which I have found figures, local councils employed about two million people, 200,000 more than Whitehall.  Ten years later, and the local authority workforce was close to three million and almost 900,000 greater than central government. Today, though, the situation has almost completely reversed, with half a million more people on the national payroll than the local one. Indeed, the number employed by local authorities has fallen more than half a million since the last election. In many towns and cities, the council was once the biggest employer by far. Nowadays, that's much less likely to be true and may be changing the relationship between local people and the local authority. Councils have become more of a service commissioner than the heartbeat of the local economy. The reasons for this change are varied. Contracting services out to private providers explains some of the fall in council staff numbers. The jobs are still there, for the most part, but the people are no longer employed by the state. Some services are no longer offered by local authorities and are either provided by volunteers or have disappeared altogether. One significant effect has been local-authority-maintained schools converting to academy status.  In the past year, 53,000 teachers and other school staff switched from the local government headcount to central government control.  The creation of English sixth form college corporations also saw 20,000 ""council staff"" reclassified as private sector workers. On the other hand, the reclassification of English FE colleges has seen 176,000 workers move from central government to the private sector - so explaining the widening gap between central and local government headcounts must go beyond education. One big factor is the expansion of the health service. The number of NHS workers - the majority of whom are employed centrally - has gone up from 1.2 million in 1999 to over 1.5 million now.  But we've also seen the privatisation of the Royal Mail and the ""re-privatisation"" of Lloyds Banking Group taking central government workers into the private sector. Does this matter? On the day councils reflect on the impact of further reductions in the grant they receive from central government, perhaps we might also reflect on the changing nature of local authorities. The prime minister is a critic of ""big government"" and yet the number of people employed by Whitehall has rarely been higher than it is today - 2.9 million people. In 1963 it was nearer 1.8 million.",The @placeholder wind of anti-politics that has swept across the Westminster parliament in recent times stems from a conviction that the politicians sitting on warm green leather in the House of Commons are oblivious to the harsh realities of ordinary life .,power,proportion,bitter,swirling,growing,3
"Det Cons Peter Surgay was a family liaison officer following the murder of Clifford Collinge in Nottinghamshire in October 2011. A misconduct panel was told he had a ""volatile"" on-off relationship with solicitor Deborah Bell since 2009. Surgay claimed it was a mostly platonic relationship. Ms Bell went on to act as a solicitor for Stephen Shreeves, who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of Mr Collinge after being found guilty in 2012. Det Con Surgay, 42, failed to report the nature of the relationship, which ""could have potentially compromised a major investigation"", the panel heard. Det Con Surgay sought to downplay the relationship, which saw him and Ms Bell travel abroad to California, Dublin and Germany, and claimed it was ""platonic"" except for a ""drunken fumble"" early on. Chairman of the panel Delroy Henry said: ""Det Con Surgay knew there was potential compromise or conflict of interest."" Richard Wormald, representing Det Con Surgay, argued the offences were at the lower end of the spectrum and said the offences had caused ""no harm"". Det Con Surgay was also accused of misusing police computers, including accessing records of an incident where a car registered in his name was reported for making off from a petrol station without paying - known as bilking. The panel ruled that both allegations of gross misconduct were proven. ""We are not looking at a single allegation but two, and what we are looking at here was a course of conduct not for one day, for one week, but years,"" Mr Henry said.",A police officer who @placeholder the family of a murder victim while having an affair with a solicitor of one of the accused has been sacked .,fled,attacked,supported,reached,admitted,2
"But Mark Major, one of the world's leading lighting designers, believes we're at the early stages of a lighting revolution. Special Report: The Technology of Business Digging for nuggets of gold in data Why tiny cameras are big business Making OATs (Old Age Technologies) TV's white spaces connecting rural Africa ""Changing technology makes me feel very clearly that this is as much of a revolution going on now as perhaps when gas went out and electric lighting came in,"" he says. But what is it that makes something beautifully lit, and what role does technological innovation play in illuminating both our buildings and our state of well-being? Mr Major's work - along with his late partner Jonathan Speirs - is award-winning, credited with enhancing the atmosphere of already iconic structures. It is arguably Speirs + Major's most distinctive work, unmissable to Londoners, that displays this like none other: St. Paul's Cathedral. ""It was a great privilege to work on that project,"" he says. ""Probably one of the toughest assignments we've ever had. It took about five years in its execution to design and have the lighting fully delivered."" The result is a building swathed in soft light - giving the building a sense of serenity in the hustle and bustle of Britain's capital city. Inside, it was an even bigger task. ""When you're dealing with not just a heritage building, but a heritage building of that nature, you realise it was never really designed to be seen under artificial light in quite that way - it would have been seen in candlelight. ""You're placing, in a way, a new interpretation on the building and its architecture after dark, and you have to be very careful how you do that."" As well as tremendous buildings - Speirs + Major also work with more practical locations such as offices or restaurants, and even our streets. ""On a very basic level,"" Mr Major says, ""Well-designed lighting in the streets of cities doesn't just keep you safe and secure, but also can really help to create a pleasant and interesting atmosphere. ""It can bring out the colour and texture of the landscape, it can sort of direct you to places, it can play a number of different roles in the city that are more than simply enabling us to see - good lighting makes our cities more legible. ""And I hope, as a result, more enjoyable."" He envisions a future where streets light up as you walk down them, but get dimmer when no-one's around, saving energy. Not only this, but the light can be used to change the very mood of the street depending on the occasion - a delicate skill. ""We all know the difference between a romantic candlelit supper for two, with that soft, warm, glowing light focal that makes your partner look wonderful, and sitting in a fast food restaurant under fluorescent lighting and what a grim experience that can be."" This type of flexibility would not be possible with traditional filament bulbs. Advancements in light emitting diode (LED) technology means lighting specialists are able to come up with far more complex arrangements. ""We've moved a long way from candles and gaslights,"" Mr Major says. ""LEDs are going to fundamentally revolutionise the way we work with light. ""It's smaller, it's cooler, and the quality of LED lighting has improved so much. Warmer light, broader spectrum, better skin tones, better reproduction of colour - just the overall quality."" But there are downsides with this revolution, he argues. ""The more light we bring into the world, the greater some of the challenges become. ""Research is beginning to rapidly prove that you can have too much of a good thing - we all know about light pollution."" And it's not just human beings who would be affected, Mr Major says. ""Many creatures are adapted to the night - so by bringing along a lot of light we can really impact on their feeding habits, on their breeding patterns and all sorts of things. ""So we can enrich our lives, but we have to be quite careful how we work with this industrial material.""","Kick - started by the invention of the light bulb , the way we illuminate our @placeholder and our lives is ever - changing - particularly in a world where the challenge is to light more , but to consume less energy .",faces,heritage,homes,holds,body,2
"Dean Anthony Evans, 31, from Kempshott, was found lying in Benham Road in Basingstoke, Hampshire, shortly before 05:30 BST on Friday. He was taken to hospital but died a short time later. Two 22-year-old men and a 20-year-old man, all from Basingstoke, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Police described the assault as ""an isolated incident"".",A man who was @placeholder in the street has died from his injuries .,attacked,killed,stolen,injured,bitten,0
"Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce said the 33ft (10m) stainless steel sculpture next to Hull's Beverley Gate relic was like a ""granny's vase"". The gate was where King Charles I was refused entry to Hull in 1642, sparking the English Civil War. Hull City Council said it has submitted plans for ""an engaging piece of art"". The chamber is to request the council reconsider the plan. Live updates on this story and others from Hull and East Yorkshire The statue, called Shadow Gate, is to be positioned between Whitefriargate and King Edward Street. Architects Tonkin Liu said it ""invokes the imagery of the trading ships masts and sails,"" and that ""careful consideration has been made to position the sculpture to minimise any harmful impact to surrounding historical buildings."" Beverley Gate was designated a scheduled ancient monument earlier this year. The chamber has suggested, as an alternative, a statue of Sir John Hotham - the governor of Hull who refused King Charles I entry into the city and its arsenal. During the civil war he was found guilty of treachery and executed in London.",Plans for a sculpture near the remains of Hull 's ancient defence walls have been @placeholder by the chamber of commerce .,raised,unearthed,prompted,criticised,backed,3
"The Avalanche network was used to target online bank customers with phishing and spam emails, it adds. More than a million emails were sent per week with malicious files or links. When users opened them, their infected computers became part of the network. Five people have been arrested, but Europol has not said where. According to Europol's statement: The investigations started in 2012 in Germany, after a substantial number of computer systems were infected, blocking users' access. Millions of private and business computer systems were also infected with malware, giving criminals access to email and bank passwords. The announcement comes after a cyber attack left 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers with their broadband service cut off on Sunday.","One of the world 's biggest networks of hijacked computers has been @placeholder after a four - year investigation , the EU law enforcement agency Europol says .",dismantled,identified,named,reopened,released,0
"Media regulation is practically non-existent. There are competing ""state-owned"" media outlets, some using the same names but supporting rival administrations. Most news outlets are bankrolled by private entities and business interests. Many recently-launched media are based abroad and little is known about their backers. Satellite TV is the most popular medium. Print and online media are dogged by security problems and a poor technological infrastructure. There are few daily newspapers. Most titles have very small print runs. Libya is a very dangerous place for journalists. Foreign media have withdrawn staff and local journalists have been hounded, attacked or killed by militias. In 2015, Islamic State group fighters seized media outlets in Sirte when they took control of the city. The group's Al-Bayan radio is heard on FM in parts of Libya. BBC World Service Arabic broadcasts on 91.1 FM in Tripoli, and in Benghazi and Misrata on 91.5 FM. There were around 1.3 million internet users by 2016 (Internetlivestats.com). By mid-2014, Libya had a Facebook user penetration rate of 3.7% of the population, according to Dubai's Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government.","Libya 's media scene is @placeholder and ever - changing , reflecting the political chaos and infighting of the post -Gaddafi years .",dissolved,undergoing,growing,fractured,drawing,3
"Emma Bryan, 29, hit and shook Ivy Robinson and verbally abused her at Oakfoss House Residential Care Home in Pontefract, Leeds Crown Court heard. Bryan, of Harewood Avenue, Pontefract, was jailed for four months. Colleague Katherine Wallis, 45, was given a 12-month community order after also admitting neglect. The care home's owner said after the hearing it was ""devastated"" to learn of the ill-treatment and had immediately contacted police. Bryan admitted five counts of wilful neglect or ill-treatment while Wallis, of Rhyl Street, Featherstone, admitted one count of the same offence. The court heard the pair dragged Mrs Robinson across her bedroom floor which made her scream in pain before Wallis threatened her with violence. The elderly woman's family captured the five days of abuse in November last year on a CCTV camera concealed in an alarm clock after they noticed she was bruised and traumatised. Richard Butters, prosecuting, said Bryan was filmed swearing at Mrs Robinson and calling her a ""horrible old lady"". The footage also revealed she had failed to give Mrs Robinson her medicine properly and showed her striking her before swearing at her again. The judge described Bryan and Wallis's actions as ""unforgivable and unacceptable neglect and ill-treatment"". Following the sentencing, Mrs Robinson's daughter and son-in-law, Angela and Simon Wood, said: ""To see what Mum was subjected to sickened and horrified us, this will never leave our memories; moreover we feel as though we have let Mum down. ""The decision to install the CCTV came as a last resort and was a culmination of various incidents over a period of months that could not be explained by staff at Oakfoss. ""The final trigger was when Mum became agitated and frightened when it came time for us to leave on an evening. ""She would cry and ask us not to leave. No one knows how long this abuse and neglect had been going on for."" The couple said Mrs Robinson may be moved out of Oakfoss House, dependent on a medical assessment, and they were considering taking legal action against the home's owner, Denestar Limited. Gaynor Saunders, the company's managing director, said: ""Providing our residents with excellent care and quality of life is my number one priority. ""I was devastated to learn that two long-standing, experienced employees who'd been given extensive training in caring for and safeguarding elderly and vulnerable people had behaved in such an abhorrent way. ""I immediately notified the police, social services and the Care Quality Commission and have worked closely with them to ensure the former employees involved face the severest of consequences for their actions. ""Words cannot express how sorry I am, to the resident and family involved, that they have suffered at the hands of people who ignored their duty to provide care and show kindness and respect to someone who was entitled to expect this.""","A care assistant has been jailed for the "" sickening "" mistreatment of an 89 - year - old woman whose family @placeholder the abuse on a hidden camera .",roaming,shone,stranded,watches,recorded,4
"He said the measures were needed to protect democracy. France is marking a year since militants from so-called Islamic State (IS) killed 130 people in gun and bomb attacks around the capital. President Francois Hollande unveiled plaques for the victims, most of whom died at the Bataclan concert hall. Three gunmen entered the venue and fired on the crowd, killing 90 people. On Saturday night, the hall reopened for the first time with a performance by British rock artist Sting. Starting at the Stade de France stadium and ending at the Bataclan,  President Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo visited the six sites targeted in the attacks. Mr Hollande did not speak, saying he wanted the day to focus on remembering the victims rather than on politics. At the Stade de France, the son of victim Manuel Dias, the single person killed there, spoke on behalf of his Portuguese-born father, saying he had been ""proof that integration is possible"". ""Long live tolerance, long live intelligence, long live France,"" he said. But other bereaved relatives chose to stay away from the ceremonies, like Patrick Jardin, who lost his daughter Nathalie at the Bataclan, and said he still felt an ""anger that will never leave me"". As he prepared to visit his daughter's grave after a memorial Mass, he told France Bleu radio (in French) the ceremonies were ""pointless"". ""You don't reply to Kalashnikovs with candles,"" he said, calling for ""measures to make sure it can't happen again"". Among those attending Sunday's commemorations was Jesse Hughes, lead singer of US rock band Eagles of Death Metal, which was playing when the hall was attacked. Hughes caused outrage earlier this year by suggesting security guards had helped the attackers - a claim for which he later apologised. Eagles of Death Metal frontman turned away from Bataclan - BBC Newsbeat Mr Valls told the BBC he kept on his desk the photograph of a friend's son who was killed in the Paris attacks. ""As head of government and as a French citizen I too am permanently marked by what we experienced,"" he said. Speaking to the BBC's Hardtalk programme, Prime Minister Valls said there was a risk of ""attacks of the kind we saw in Nice"", where a lorry driver ploughed through a crowd, killing 84 people on Bastille Day, in an attack again claimed by IS. The state of emergency gives the police extra powers to carry out searches and to place people under house arrest. Mr Valls said the country must remain safe as it prepared for presidential and parliamentary elections in the spring. It promises to be one of the most divisive electoral seasons in living memory, with far-right leader Marine Le Pen tipped to reach the run-off round of the presidential race. Meanwhile, opinion polls suggest President Hollande, a Socialist, is the most unpopular president in French history. The centre-right is due to begin primaries later this month to choose its candidate, with former Prime Minister Alain Juppe tipped to win the ticket. French far-right leader hails Trump win You can see Mr Valls's interview in full on Sunday 13 November and Monday 14 November on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel and after on BBCiPlayer (UK only).","France 's state of emergency imposed after last year 's terror attacks in Paris is likely to be @placeholder , Prime Minister Manuel Valls has told the BBC .",control,delayed,launched,reviewed,extended,4
"Throughout the countryside there are thorn bushes growing all alone in the middle of fields Some people believe that the bushes are the homes of the fairies, and, if anyone tries to cut them down or damage them, it is likely they will die young, or become seriously ill. Earlier we published our archive report from 1964 about the local people in Downpatrick talking about the fate that will befall those who have disrespected fairy traditions by cutting down Fairy Thorns. So where does an incredibly sceptic journalist go to be convinced about fairies? Well my granny Evelyn of course - as I remember her telling about fairies at Matties Rock in Bushmills when we were growing up. She told me everyone in Bushmills knew about the fairies on the rock and that her brothers and sisters were actually a bit scared of them. Our archive report promoted a lots of readers to get in touch with their stories. One listener got in touch with BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme to let us know about a fairy thorn that was growing at Ormeau Golf Club. Denis McKnight, who is the secretary of the club, said it has been there longer than anyone can remember. ""The club was opened in 1893 so it's at least 122 years old and goes right back,"" he said. ""None of our green keepers will touch it or cut it down. They won't even trim it Mr McKnight said that balls had been lost in the tree and never seen again. ""If you hit the tree and don't apologise you're guaranteed to have a bad game,"" he said. ""When people visit the club we have to warn them about the fairy thorn. We tell them to nod to it as they go past and they have to apologise if they hit it."" Although Denis is not aware of any members seeing any actual fairies, even after coming out of the clubhouse after a late night. He said the club used the thorn on their logo for a while and that they will never cut it down. ""It's far too important to us now to try and cut it down,"" he said. Anne got in touch to say that her grandmother-in-law had planted a red thorn tree on their land and then planners would not let her take it down when they were building their new house. ""Obviously it's not just superstitious farmers who are scared of fairies,"" she said. Anne now lives beside the fairy thorn and would not dream of cutting it down. One of the slip roads off the motorway from Ballymena to Antrim at Saucers Hill was built around a fairy thorn as locals didn't want to see it cut down. Maria McCann got in touch to say there is a fairy thorn on Gilford Road and Lurgan and that she makes a wish every time she goes past. One reader even suggested that the ill-fated DeLorean factory may have had an encounter with some bitter fairies and their tree. ""Contractors building the DeLorean car plant at Dunmurry are said to have cut one down,"" they said. So the lesson on Friday 13th is - if you find a fairy thorn. Leave it be.",It 's not a normal task to be set when @placeholder in the newsroom . Go and find out what you can about fairies and Fairy Thorns - of course it 's Friday 13th .,stuck,buried,appearing,change,arriving,4
"Matthew Dick, from London, arranged for puzzle editor Richard Rogan to place the message to his girlfriend Delyth Hughes inside Tuesday's cryptic teaser. It is thought to be the first proposal since the crossword first appeared in the paper 85 years ago. Ms Hughes, who is from Wales, said she was ""dumbfounded"" by the gesture. The couple were celebrating Ms Hughes' birthday in Cornwall when Mr Dick presented her with the proposal. The clues included ""Pretty Welsh girl widely thought not to be all there"" with the six-letter answer ""Delyth"", and ""'Will you marry me', say, that's forward also rude!"", to which the eight-letter answer was ""proposal"". Another clue read: ""Draw up a set of biblical books, ending in Matthew"", while other answers to clues included ""birthday"" and ""wishes"". Mr Dick, 38, said: ""I underlined the words 'will you marry me' which appeared in the clue, and the answer was proposal. My hands were shaking and I put my hands in my pocket to get the ring to propose. The crossword enthusiast said his girlfriend ""looked surprised"" and did not say anything for thirty seconds before jokingly saying ""No"", followed by ""Yes"". He said Ms Hughes, 39, ""thought it was hilarious"" but he ""thought it was less hilarious"". She described the crossword proposal as a ""typical"" gesture for Mr Dick, who she described as ""a smart-arse at the best of times"". ""I was getting a bit teary and emotional, even if I did joke that I wouldn't marry him. I was dumbfounded that he'd gone to such lengths."" Mr Rogan, who lives in Cheltenham, was contacted by Mr Dick on Twitter. He said he believed it was the first time The Times had included a proposal in one of its puzzles. ""We won't be doing it again,"" he added.",A woman has accepted an unusual marriage @placeholder - after her boyfriend proposed using the The Times newspaper 's cryptic crossword .,face,roll,license,arrangement,offer,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device The home team needed to avoid defeat to reach the final at Anfield next weekend but, after taking an early lead, they were comprehensively outplayed by a team that superbly built pressure and cruelly exposed England's weaknesses. England led 6-2 at the half-hour mark after a try from Jermaine McGillvary, but Australia dominated territory and eventually scored when a brilliant pass from full-back Darius Boyd saw Blake Ferguson touch down out wide. The Kangaroos, already assured of a place in the final, opened up a 10-6 advantage at the break and after Sam Burgess failed to collect a pass from Josh Hodgson under the sticks shortly after the restart, they quickly took the game beyond England. Greg Inglis scored from a scrum, Matt Scott barged over and Josh Dugan finished a clinical break as the Kangaroos moved 28-6 in front. Gareth Widdop and Ryan Hall scored for England and Matt Gillett and Valentine Holmes did likewise for the Kangaroos in an entertaining last 20 minutes as the green and gold won by 18 points in front of 35,569. England coach Wayne Bennett has made it clear through this campaign he thinks England have the ability to win at the highest level, but questioned whether they have enough 'smarts'. Bennett was talking about his team's performance at key moments in matches, and England gave penalties away at poor times here, as well as twice failing to find touch after being awarded a penalty - an almost unforgivable failure at this level. There were also examples when England could not quite convert promising openings into points - centre Mark Percival failing to hold a difficult pass in the opening half and Burgess likewise early in the second half - both of which were when the result was still in the balance. And while Australia brilliantly built pressure, it was 51 minutes before England forced a repeat set and their kicking game too often failed to ask questions of the opposition. Yet there were also times when it seemed what separated the teams was not the little details at key moments but a huge gulf in class, with Australia a well-oiled, methodical machine England could not live with. Media playback is not supported on this device Bennett is a coaching legend, having won the NRL title in Australia seven times with Brisbane Broncos and St George, as well as coaching Australia twice and Queensland in the State of Origin. But there has been little evidence of his alchemy during a scratchy Four Nations campaign for his team - his first as coach of England. They failed to build on last year's series win against New Zealand - which came under previous coach Steve McNamara - with a slender one-point defeat against the Kiwis in their opening game and briefly trailed against Scotland before rallying to a 38-12 win. They were unable to resist Australian pressure on Sunday and will need to show a significant improvement if they are to go deep in next year's World Cup. Bennett played three different combinations in as many games in the halves - suggesting he has yet to work out his best team - and found himself the unwanted centre of attention after being accused of not doing enough to help develop the game. It might have been a miserable afternoon for England but it was anything but that for their opponents. Mal Meninga's Kangaroos remain unbeaten in 2016 and have now won their last 11 matches against England, a sequence that stretches back to 1995. They went into match assured of a place in next Sunday's final and fielded arguably their strongest side of the Four Nations so far, with man-of-the-match Cooper Cronk and Thurston together in the halves for the first time. Cameron Smith's team built pressure from the off, completing their sets and playing the majority of the match in England territory. And although England showed plenty of guts and skill in defence during the opening 40 minutes, the Kangaroos pin-point kicking game eventually told and their opponents cracked. England: Lomax, McGillvary, Watkins, Percival, Hall, Brown, Widdop, Hill, Hodgson, Graham, Bateman, Whitehead, S. Burgess. Replacements: T. Burgess, G. Burgess, Cooper, Williams. Australia: D. Boyd, Holmes, Inglis, Dugan, Ferguson, Thurston, Cronk, Scott, Smith, Woods, Cordner, Gillett, Merrin. Replacements: Klemmer, Morgan, Frizell, Thaiday. Referee: Robert Hicks",England were comprehensively beaten by a clinical Australia at London Stadium as their Four Nations campaign ended in miserable @placeholder .,defeats,conditions,prison,fashion,history,3
"The UNHCR said forced returns had ""continued unabated"" despite an agreement earlier this month. Under the deal, any returns would be voluntary and only ""when conditions were conducive"". Cameroon has rejected the accusation and said people returned willingly. According to the UNHCR, more than 2,600 refugees have been forcibly returned to Nigeria from Cameroon this year. Many are unable to go back to their villages in Borno state for security reasons and have ended up in camps for displaced people. In some cases, the UNHCR said, people had been returned ""without allowing them time to collect their belongings"". UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch spoke of ""chaos"" in the returns process and said ""some women were forced to leave their young children behind in Cameroon, including a child less than three years old"". Many of the returnees are now settled in the Banki camp for internally displaced people. UNHCR staff also recorded about 17 people who claimed to be Cameroonian nationals, who it said had been deported by mistake to Banki. It is common in the region to find people who have no documentary proof of their nationality. Cameroonian Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme: ""I strongly deny this accusation"" of forced returns. He said the Cameroonian army had been working ""hand-in-hand"" with the Nigerian army against Boko Haram and any civilians who had returned to Nigeria had done so of their own accord. ""This repatriation has taken place willingly,"" he said. The Cameroonian authorities have previously said Boko Haram militants have been entering the country disguised as refugees. Militants have carried out a number of attacks in northern Cameroon in recent years, often using suicide bombers. The UNHCR said forced return constitutes a serious violation of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1969 OAU Convention, both of which Cameroon has ratified. It called on Cameroon to honour its obligations under the conventions and continue keeping its borders open so as to allow access to territory and asylum procedures for people fleeing the Islamist insurgency.",The UN refugee agency has @placeholder Cameroon for the forced return of hundreds of refugees to north - east Nigeria after they had fled from the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency .,criticised,defended,voiced,opened,announced,0
"It's less than half the size of Cardiff and a fifth of the size of Bristol. But is Newport finally emerging economically with something distinctive to its two Severnside rivals? The city centre has been struggling for years with locals complaining of high business rates, empty shops on the high street and with manufacturing waning. The 2010 Ryder Cup and last year's Nato summit at the Celtic Manor helped put Newport on the map. Building on that, the city has beaten Cardiff to the punch backing plans for a Wales international convention centre, with capacity for 4,000 delegates. Analysis by the Centre for Cities think-tank suggests optimism that the tide has turned but there are still obstacles to overcome. A YOUNG CITY Newport is young: awarded city status in 2002 and more than a quarter of its population is under 19, a higher proportion than either Cardiff or Bristol. The University of South Wales' £35m campus has helped in the riverside regeneration and 4,000 students give a youthful vibe. But there is also relatively high level of youth unemployment - 14.89% in 2011, above Cardiff at 10.87% and Bristol at 9.81% . The proportion of all working adults who are unemployed and claiming Jobs Seekers Allowance in Newport is also greater than its two neighbouring cities. Despite that, the rate of people in employment in Newport is higher than Cardiff but lower than in Bristol. MORE THAN STEEL AND THE DOCKS? Steel may not be as dominant in Newport as it used to be but it is still important. As well as mixed fortunes for Llanwern steelworks, there's Cogent, or the Orb Works making specialist high-value steels for the electrical industry. The former Alphasteel works was re-opened by the Liberty group only last month. Newport's main docks are 150 years old and last week I saw Associated British Ports investing £2.6m in new warehousing. to handle the increase in trade of steel, animal feeds, fertiliser and timber. There has been a 20% increase in turnover overall. Then there is the high-tech sector including electronics company STPS and Airbus's cyber security division. Manufacturing accounts for 11.7% of the work in Newport, well ahead of Cardiff on just 4.4%. The city is ranked in the top third in a list of 63 UK cities. Private firms in the services sector such as Lloyds TSB and Gocompare have also been important, while Admiral has helped boost the city centre's regeneration with new offices opposite the railway station. But public services have dominated the Newport employment map for decades. The Passport Office may be smaller these days, but the Office for National Statistics and the Patent Office are significant employers, with the Ministry of Justice a more recent addition. It means one in three of the Newport workforce is in public services; this is slightly more than Cardiff despite the capital being the centre for the Welsh government, Wales Audit Office and Companies House. DO WAGES GO FURTHER? Putting all the sectors together the value of the work carried out by people in Cardiff and Newport is the same - and the highest in Wales - but significantly lower than Bristol. That gross value added figure stands at £3.25bn for Newport. However, average weekly wages in Newport are lower. Workers earn on average £45 a week less than the average for Cardiff and £60 a week less than the average for Bristol. In terms of what wages can buy, lower house prices in Newport will compensate. The average house price in Cardiff is £30,000 more than in Newport while in Bristol houses are on average £70,000 more. 75% drive to work in Newport 62.9% drive to work in Cardiff 64% drive to work in Bristol 1.45% cycle to work in Newport 3.7% cycle to work in Cardiff 6.2% cycle to work in Bristol COMMUTING More than 40% of the 73,000 working in the city travel in from outside. The planned M4 relief road around the city  will have an impact. However, its route is contentious. Three quarters of people drive to work in Newport, that's more than Bristol and Cardiff. Very few go to work by bike - half the proportion who cycle to work in Cardiff and a quarter of the number in Bristol. STILL GROWING The city is clearly changing and you can't help fail to notice the new housing developments, especially around the River Usk and docks. Figures suggest that the numbers working in Cardiff and Bristol but living in Newport is likely to rise. The number of new house builds started in Newport in the three months from April is already more than for the city in whole of 2010/11. And for the last two years at least it has continued to outstrip Cardiff. Its biggest social landlord Newport City Homes estimates 550 new homes are needed each year for the next five years to keep up with demand. The city is predicted to continue growing - its 149,000 population is set to increase at double the rate of the Wales average and hit 171,000 by 2036. But Cardiff is still the UK's fastest growing city and its population is set to grow even faster - by a quarter within 20 years. WHAT NEXT FOR NEWPORT? For many there's still an emotional and economic attachment to Newport, the steel city. To truly thrive, it needs to build on its success in a range of different industries - like digital and software sectors - without losing its important traditional manufacturing industries. Regeneration consultant Hamish Munro knows Newport well and believes it has to forget about competing with Cardiff and Bristol, which it has tried to do historically. ""It has to create its own niche, it's got a different feel about it and it can be a great alternative,"" he said. In the short term, Newport council is spending money from Welsh government to encourage people into the city centre again - to live, eat and work. Friars Walk shopping development is an important milestone but if you look at Newport council's interactive development map there are other signs the city is progressing - not only in building urban homes but a £5m revamp to the old market. Council leader Bob Bright said Newport's steel industry and docks were ""alive and kicking"" but the city had reinvented itself. He is also conscious there is still work to do to spread wealth to the poorer parts of the city but believes the private sector is the key to drive it. ""We need to create the wealth to mitigate those factors - it will take time but we've started the journey,"" he said.","Newport is one of the UK 's newest cities but it has also been in the @placeholder , squeezed by its bigger neighbours .",process,north,word,shadows,centre,3
"Alongside his solo number ones, he has also enjoyed two chart toppers with Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me - and Rihanna's We Found Love. Other new entries on the chart included club track Walking with Elephants by house producer Ten Walls at number six. Harris was recently named the most successful songwriter in the UK singles chart for the second year in a row. The Scottish singer, songwriter and producer wrote such songs as Call My Name by Cheryl Cole and Rihanna's We Found Love, which were big sellers in 2012, as well as a string of his own hits. The list was compiled by trade magazine Music Week. Meanwhile, Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour held on to top spot in the UK Top 40 albums chart. See the UK Top 40 singles chart See the UK Top 40 albums chart BBC Radio 1's Official Chart Show Robert Plant's latest album, Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar, was the highest new entry on the album chart at number two. It is the 10th solo offering from the Led Zeppelin star. Ed Sheeran held firm at number three with X, followed by Royal Blood - nominated for the Mercury Prize - at 4 with their self-titled debut. Other Mercury-nominated acts benefitted from their inclusion on the shortlist with Kate Tempest's Everybody Down scoring its highest position to date at 115 and Nick Mulvey's First Mind, which climbed 68 places to number 60. Higher up the chart, George Ezra rounded out the top five with Wanted On Voyage, while Bob Marley & The Wailers' 1984 greatest hits collection, Legend, climbed 42 places to number seven.",Calvin Harris has landed his fifth UK number one single with new track Blame @placeholder John Newman .,featuring,inspired,signing,struggling,side,0
"In this series, we are looking at those major questions and by using statistics, analysis and expert views shining a light on some of the possible answers. Here, on the day the latest unemployment figures are released, we focus on what the effect a ""Yes"" or a ""No"" vote might have on the jobs market, north and south of the border. You can follow the referendum story through our Scotland Decides website. And more can be found on..... BBC news website user Maggie McGonigle asks: ""How would fiscal independence specifically work with job creation in Scotland?"" Colin Armstrong and Scott Millar also ask jobs-related questions. For most voters the key test of whether the economy is healthy or not can be summed up in one word - JOBS. If employment is on the rise then it's usually assumed the economy is heading in the right direction. More jobs tend to mean the economy is growing. Lower unemployment tends to mean fewer lives and communities blighted. Shorter dole-queues tend to mean the government(s) of the day can relax a little, safe in the knowledge that a political backlash has been staved off for a while. Older readers may remember the 1979 general election and the Conservative poster campaign, ""Labour isn't working"". That election saw Labour swept from power for years. Many of us recall the fierce political rows during the 1980s, as UK unemployment soared to more than three million. Whether Scotland votes ""Yes"" or ""No"", it really is unclear whether there would be a growing workforce and shorter dole-queues. We're emerging from a long economic downturn. The financial crisis of 2008 saw banks collapse like dominoes, and unemployment soar - not just in Scotland and the UK, but in most Western countries. This economic heart-attack ushered in years of stagnation, with many countries still struggling to emerge from the downturn. Some - like Greece and Italy - are still in recession. The UK, by contrast, has picked up in recent months, and its economy's grown faster than any other country in the G7 group of leading industrial nations. This recovery's taken many by surprise: the IMF and others have had to revise upwards their predictions for economic growth, as the UK's economy performed better than expected. The jobless rate in Scotland has fallen to 6% in the period May to July. That's now just below the rate of 6.2% for the UK as a whole. Unemployment in Scotland has fallen by 35,000 compared to the same period last year. Scotland's economy is now bigger than it was before the crash of 2008. Employment in Scotland - the total workforce - rose by 87,000 in the year, and is at an all-time high. The UK economy has changed dramatically since the 1970s. The labour market is now far more flexible. During the downturn, this helped keep the jobless total much lower than some had feared. Mass unemployment was replaced by widespread under-employment, as people eked out part-time jobs, or seasonal or casual or fixed-term work. The result's been a record level of employment, even if the UK's economy has failed to deliver higher living standards for its citizens. In the last year in the UK we've seen employment rise by more than 800,000. The Better Together campaign argues that a ""Yes"" vote in the referendum puts the UK's recovery at risk, and it claims that political divorce - however amicable - would create barriers to growth. It says uncertainty over a future Scottish currency, tax rates and EU membership threaten the UK's single market, and Scottish companies' ability to trade internationally, with a consequent threat to jobs and livelihoods. However, the Yes campaign says independence would create not risk, but opportunities to grow the Scottish economy and boost the workforce. It claims an independent Scottish government, with all the economic levers at its disposal, would be able to fine-tune the environment for businesses, growth and jobs better than Westminster can do right now. Its supporters point to other small countries - like New Zealand, Singapore and Switzerland - which are wealthy and successful - and ask: ""Why not here?"" Every month, when the official employment figures are released, politicians pore over the data, comparing Scotland with the UK as a whole. Sometimes it seems we're doing better - at other times, worse. But that obscures a key issue. Some argue the right comparison for Scotland to make should NOT be with the whole of the UK - but with its regions. Right now, London and the south-east are generating high numbers of new private sector jobs. And Scotland's economy is performing pretty strongly as well. Other parts of the UK lag further behind. So, whether or not Scotland chooses independence, voters here may well ask in the future: ""How does our level of job creation compare with the richest regions of these islands?"" And the challenge for all our political leaders will be to ensure Scotland's rate of employment and job creation rise up the UK's league table, into the future.","As the people of Scotland @placeholder up how to vote in the independence referendum , they are asking questions on a range of topics .",woke,weigh,lined,work,grew,1
"Cy Sullivan, 26, raped his 42-year-old victim on 27 November 2009. DNA was recovered but there was no match in the national database. But a routine swab was taken when he was charged with assaulting a bouncer in October 2015 and it matched the DNA found at Greyfriars Churchyard. Sullivan, from Shetland, claimed he and his victim had consensual sex, but a jury convicted him of raping her while she was so intoxicated she could not have given consent. He was jailed for five years. At the High Court in Glasgow judge Lady Rae told Sullivan: ""You raped a lady almost twice your age. You took advantage of her intoxicated state. ""She has been left seriously traumatised by what you did and with having to relive what she remembered, and the shame and embarrassment she felt when she was discovered by police in the state of undress that you left her in. She was a stranger to you."" The court heard that the victim was found by police wandering half naked in the cemetery in a confused and drunken state. She described what happened to her as ""a living nightmare."" In evidence, she said she had travelled from her home in the Highlands to attend a conference in Edinburgh and decided to visit the grave of Greyfriars Bobby. The woman said she had drunk at least eight glasses of wine. A police officer who saw her hours later at 05:00 described her as 'intoxicated."" The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was asked by prosecutor Ian Wallace: ""Do you remember leaving Greyfriars pub,"" and she said: ""No. I remember coming round in the graveyard and there was a police lady. ""I was frozen and I was disorientated. I tried for some time to find my way out. ""It was like something happened and I had just come round. It was awful. I just felt awful, embarrassed. I had no clothing on my bottom half."" The woman told the jurors that she had no memory of what happened after she left the pub until the police found her. She was asked if she had any recollection of anyone having sex with her and replied: ""No."" Mr Wallace then said: ""Did you want to have sex with anyone that night,"" and the victim said: ""Definitely not."" Sullivan told the court he had bought the woman a drink and then afterwards had sex with her. He claimed that she appeared fine to him and not drunk. Sullivan was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in May this year and was taken into court in a wheelchair before walking a few feet to the dock using crutches. His defence counsel David Nicolson said: ""His family maintain their support of him, particularly his partner of three years. ""He has a good work record and has only one previous conviction."" Lady Rae placed Sullivan on the sex offenders' register.",A rapist who escaped justice for seven years following a sex attack in Edinburgh 's Greyfrairs kirkyard has been jailed after being @placeholder through his DNA .,caught,stolen,identified,stripped,put,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device What has made this startling late renaissance - confirmed with his straight-set victory over a woebegone Marin Cilic - arguably sweeter still than even those glory days is the doubt. Doubt that he could ever be what he was. Doubt that five years without a Wimbledon title, having once held such dominance that he won five in a row, could be an interregnum rather than the end. Doubt that six months off after his semi-final defeat a year ago, by a man a decade younger, wasn't the thin end of retirement in disguise. Media playback is not supported on this device You watched Federer last year and beyond to be reminded in little passages of what he used to be able to do, and to say that you had seen him doing it. The pleasure of those little living flashbacks came with the melancholic sense that they were the past rather than the present, and that the future would see gentle decay eat away a little more with each year. You loved Peak Federer because he could control a court and find shots and angles that you could barely imagine. And then slowly he became more like you in ways you didn't want: hurting his knee running a bath for his kids, falling face down on the court in futile chase of a Milos Raonic forehand, hair that had once been a ponytail and then bushy starting to creep back like the grass on the Centre Court baseline. When he switched to a bigger racquet in 2014, it was like seeing a flying ace reaching for reading glasses. The decline was long and it was true. After his impregnability was shattered by Rafa Nadal in 2008, two more Wimbledon titles came - but they sandwiched two quarter-finals defeats and were succeeded by second-round humiliation to a man ranked 116 in the world. He could cast magic in hot bursts, pulling Andy Murray apart in the semi-final two years ago, but the spell would not hold, as a dead-eyed dismantling by Novak Djokovic followed in the final. At the start of this year, the doubt was everywhere but in his own mind. First came that astonishing Australian Open final against Nadal in January, when it felt like the Beatles reforming for a one-off gig in 1979, and now this: not a greatest hits tour, but a fresh wonder; not a faded version of a better past, but history remade again. He is the first man in tennis history to reach the final of a single Grand Slam 11 times, and the first man at Wimbledon to win eight singles titles. He has a 19th Grand Slam title, four more than his old nemesis Nadal, seven more than Djokovic, victor in his previous two Wimbledon finals. And he has done it as he did it a tennis lifetime ago: reducing opponents to the role of stooge, their presence on some shots merely to help the composition of the image; footwork that should be frantic to get him anywhere near position, instead taking him there unhurried and unflustered, as if stepping through a loop in time; seeing angles and then making them in a way that would be impressive enough in snooker, computed while ruminatively rubbing chalk on cue tip, let alone sprinting while appearing not to be sprinting. Beautiful to his acolytes, it is also horribly cruel on the men he plays. In his semi-final win over Tomas Berdych, he hit a squash-style forehand pass cross-court that left his opponent, who had played the ideal approach shot and was standing exactly where he should have been at the net, redundant and humiliated. It came in the 10th game of the final set, break of serve already secured, in a game he did not care about winning. Poor Cilic was in tears before an hour of the final had been played, a set and a break down, his hopes heading down the gurgler before he could take any of it in. It made the final a wake as well as a celebration. Against a player like no other, Federer's opponent also has to accept that the crowd will be stacked against them too. There is partisan, and then there is Centre Court when its greatest champion is back for more. Media playback is not supported on this device Wimbledon can appear very pleased with itself sometimes, reclining on its grand traditions, dressing its officials like guests at a Gatsby garden party, spending a little too long looking in the mirror telling itself how good it looks. For some, Federer is part of that: the monogrammed blazers he wore on to court in 2006 and 2007, the 1930s cardigan with gold piping and buttons of the following years. On Centre Court on days like this, the relationship makes better sense. In an arena that combines 1920s design with a 21st-century roof, Federer is both an aesthetic throwback, unfurling that one-handed backhand, serve-volleying when he chooses, and a man at ease in a digital world, his 7.6 million Twitter followers 70 times that of Cilic. You see serious people who otherwise never run scrambling through the corridors to get to their seats. When they do, they are forever teetering on the brink of collapsing weak-kneed into his arms, just waiting for the tiniest nudge from his racquet to start purring once again. Find out how to get into tennis in our special guide. Only on one Sunday every year does Centre Court come to life. Federer has now been at its heart 11 times. The stadium has defined him, and he has garlanded it. Fortune has come his way in the last few weeks. This was the first time in almost eight years that he hadn't had to play one of the other Big Four en route to a Slam final. There was still doubt on Sunday morning, just as there had been when Berdych had been offered six break points in the semi. There was worry among the faithful about what Cilic might do after that US Open thrashing in 2014 and having reached the final at Queen's last month, at least until the match began and a procession ensued. Media playback is not supported on this device But there was conviction again too, with the narrative of the whole fortnight turning on the prospect of him doing it all again, once it was clear that there would be no hoorays about Murray's hip and that the Konta wave would crash against another great old champion. ""At times I thought I was dreaming,"" said the round-cheeked teenage Federer when he beat Pete Sampras, who had won the previous four titles, in the fourth round here in 2001. That is what it felt like again on Sunday, watching him lift the old gold pot to the dark green stands 16 years on, born-again believers all around, Centre Court his once more.","Once with Roger Federer at Wimbledon , it was all about certain @placeholder . You knew the end result and you knew the impossible shots and dreamy moves that would take him there .",nature,applause,wins,perfection,outcomes,3
"Marco Pierre White Jr, 21, pleaded guilty to dishonestly making false representations when he appeared at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court. District Judge Michael Snow told Pierre White Jr he was ""not an honest man"". Pierre White Jr is expected to be sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 8 December. The Court was told Pierre White Jr asked to borrow his ex-girlfriend's credit card to buy food and requested the card to be unblocked. The former Celebrity Big Brother housemate, who gave his address as a hotel in Corsham near Bath, then made several unauthorised purchases to the sum of £2,500, including during a visit to an Apple Store. Prosecutor Robert Chambers said the woman later received an email from her bank about a ""high volume of transactions"". When confronted, Pierre White Jr told her he had been accidentally overcharged at a store, the court heard. He then claimed he needed the card to be unblocked because he had been arrested and needed to pay bail. The woman accused Pierre White Jr of having a ""drug habit"" and claimed she had never been in a relationship with him. But defence barrister Carl Newman said the pair had been in a relationship and she had given Pierre White Jr the card to make purchases in the past. The judge said Pierre White had been given the card voluntarily but couldn't ""suggest he was given permission to go straight to the Apple Store"".","The son of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has admitted dishonestly using his ex-girlfriend 's bank card to buy £ 2,500 worth of @placeholder .",events,goods,food,jurisdiction,conduct,1
"Around £100m will be devoted to Plaid Cymru and Liberal Democrat priorities, including money to treat more patients in the community rather than hospital. There is also a doubling of funding for a scheme to help poorer school pupils. Lacking an overall majority, Labour needs agreement to approve its 2014/15 spending plans, expected to be the toughest since devolution in 1999. The full draft budget, worth around £15bn, will be published on Tuesday afternoon, with AMs due to vote on the final version before Christmas. £50m will be spent on the fund to keep more patients, who do not need to be admitted, out of hospital and treated in the community. A further £9.5m will be used to provide robotic prostate cancer treatment in north and south west Wales and to improve telemedicine services, allowing more specialist consultations closer to patients' homes. £35m was secured to expand a Liberal Democrat flagship policy, the pupil deprivation grant. It currently gives schools £450 for every child eligible for free school meals. This will now rise to £918 per pupil in 2014/15. A £5.5m fund to prevent homelessness amongst vulnerable people was also announced. A joint statement from First Minister Carwyn Jones, Plaid leader Leanne Wood and Welsh Lib Democrat leader Kirsty Williams called it an ""unprecedented £100m agreement"". The deal between government and opposition was announced as public services  braced themselves for spending cuts, expected to be announced a few hours later by Finance Minister Jane Hutt. Local councils had already been warned they will be exposed to more cuts than in previous years. A Welsh government source said ministers were preparing to deliver ""the toughest budget since devolution"". By Daniel DaviesBBC Wales News political reporter There is a new alignment in the assembly and that, I suppose you could say, reduced the options available to Carwyn Jones and his finance minister Jane Hutt. This year Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats joined forces so Jane Hutt had to negotiate a deal that is palatable to both those parties. Local government has been warned to expect cuts and there was a review of health spending over the summer and we will have to wait to see what comes of that. Could it mean more cash for the NHS? Could it mean that the decision to not link health spending to inflation is reversed? But it is a zero sum game. If someone is a winner, someone else will be a loser. John Rae, director of resources with the Welsh Local Government Association, said: ""We estimate we are facing cuts of around 4% after the local government minister warned us we'd be looking at English-style reductions."" Speaking on BBC Radio Wales, he said there had been ""a level of protection"" to local government in Wales, and a study had shown that until now councils in Wales probably had taken ""half the cut that councils in England had faced"". He added that all the councils in Wales had their own priorities, but services in ""discretionary areas"" such as leisure, culture, planning, libraries, highways, street lights and economic development would be affected. The Conservatives have previously criticised Labour for not protecting the health budget against inflation. Spending on the NHS has been frozen in recent years - meaning it has been cut in real terms after taking account of inflation. A review of the health budget was carried out over the summer. Speaking ahead of the draft budget, shadow finance minister Paul Davies AM criticised the situation in the NHS in Wales where ""patients are routinely waiting over four hours to be seen in A&E"". He added: ""For the sake of our NHS, Carwyn Jones must use this draft budget to reverse Labour's damaging health cuts."" In the last two years, Labour has done separate budget deals with Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats. This year, Plaid and the Lib Dems have joined forces to negotiate a deal with the government. An assessment by the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank said the UK government's block grant to Wales in 2013/14 would be around 9.4% smaller in real terms than it was in 2010/11. More cuts announced for the two years after that would take the reduction to 12.2%.",Welsh Labour ministers have agreed a deal with opposition parties to ensure their budget is @placeholder in the Senedd .,writing,passed,set,maintained,met,1
"A spokesman told the BBC the six had been removed from their contracts after claims of misconduct were investigated. Most were US nationals and included staff and private security contractors, the Wall Street Journal reported. Use of hashish by local and foreign staff is not unusual, Afghans who have worked at the embassy told the BBC. The investigation was launched after someone was noticed apparently high on drugs. The embassy said it took ""seriously any incidents of misconduct by Department of State personnel and contractors"". ""In this case six personnel who were found to have been using or in possession of prohibited substances were removed from their contracts and no longer work at the US embassy in Kabul."" The US-led coalition has spent billions of dollars on counter-narcotic efforts since launching the war against the Taliban in 2001. Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, the main ingredient in heroin. Opium production increased by 43% in the past year, United Nations officials said in October.","Six people working at the US embassy in the Afghan capital , Kabul , have been @placeholder for using or possessing illegal drugs , officials say .",imprisoned,held,announced,fired,suspended,3
"RSA shares closed 20.8% lower, making it easily the biggest loser. Overall, the FTSE 100 share index closed 0.08% higher, or 4.6 points, at 6,108.71. Shares in the satellite firm Inmarsat rose more than 1% after it announced a deal with Deutsche Telekom to bring passengers in-flight internet. Deutsche Telekom will supply the 4G, while Inmarsat will supply the satellite access. Meanwhile, fashion retailer French Connection saw its shares slump 8.9% after earnings showed it had fallen deeper into the red. The company reported a loss for the first half of the year of £7.9m, compared with a £3.9m loss in the same period last year. The chairman Stephen Marks describing it as ""a tough trading period"". On the currency markets, the pound was down 0.14% against the dollar to $1.5507 and was up 0.86% against the euro at €1.3859.","( Close ) : Shares in insurance company RSA held back @placeholder on the FTSE 100 , after Swiss rival Zurich abandoned its bid plans .",data,positions,entry,gains,shares,3
"Demonstrators in a march against racism clashed with protesters against immigration, with hundreds of police trying to keep them apart. Several people were arrested for rioting and assaulting police. Police condemned the behaviour of groups of demonstrators during the rallies in the suburb of Coburg. ""There was riotous behaviour and it was appalling,"" Commander Sharon Cowden told reporters, adding there were only minor injuries. The anti-immigration protesters carried banners saying ""No refugees, our home, our future"", according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). They were vastly outnumbered by demonstrators from the anti-racism group, who  hurled abuse such as ""Nazi scum, off our streets"" at them. Immigration has been a campaign issue in the run-up to parliamentary elections in July, though the economy, health and education have taken prominence. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Australia had the world's ""most successful multicultural society"" but it was still ""a work in progress. ""There is more work to do. This is not something to be complacent about,"" he told reporters. This story was updated on 29 May with further details on the size of the demonstration and the Australian election campaign.",Australian police have used pepper spray to break up clashes between two rival groups battling over @placeholder and immigration in Melbourne .,immigration,behaviour,race,conditions,health,2
"People short of cash respond to job adverts and social media posts that promise quick money for little work. Criminals then ask respondents to launder money, by transferring stolen funds into another account or wiring it overseas, for a cut of the cash. Fraud prevention group Cifas said those involved in the fraud risked jail. The maximum sentence is 14 years in prison, and anyone found using their account in this way will see their credit record affected, making it more difficult to get a mortgage, bank loan or mobile phone contract in the future. On top of this, the promised cut of a few hundred pounds is often never paid. Other types of similar fraud include selling a bank account, knowingly making a payment that will bounce, or opening credit card, retail accounts or mobile phone contracts with no intention of honouring the credit agreements. Criminals often target students and unemployed people. New figures show that those aged 21 to 30 are most likely to take part in these so-called ""misuse of facility"" frauds. A total of 31,898 people in this age group were involved during the first nine months of the year, Cifas said. This was a 3.2% rise compared to the same period last year. The biggest rise in cases in the same period was among 31 to 40-year-olds, with the number of people involved rising by 7.1% to 18,978. ""Our figures show that young people are disproportionately at risk of this type of fraud,"" said Simon Dukes, chief executive of Cifas. ""With Christmas only a few weeks away, we want to warn young people, in particular students, to be wary of anyone approaching them in the student union or elsewhere with promises of cash for the use of their bank account. ""Criminals may make it sound attractive by offering a cash payment, but the reality is that letting other people use your account in this way is fraud and it is illegal.""","Young adults are increasingly @placeholder to become money mules - risking a fraud conviction for a few hundred pounds , a protection body has said .",starting,prepared,looking,tempted,expected,3
"Nearly 50,000 immigrants may have obtained English language certificates in the UK, despite not being able to speak it. Wrexham-based Glyndwr, one of the institutions identified, has lost its right to sponsor foreign students. The university said it was ""deeply upset"" by the suspension. Immigration Minister James Brokenshire told the House of Commons an inquiry into abuse of the student visa system found evidence of criminal activity. English language certificates are required for a UK student visa, and the probe followed a BBC Panorama investigation. Of the 48,000 certificates concerned, 29,000 were invalid, 19,000 were ""questionable"" and Mr Brokenshire admitted it was ""likely that the true totals will be higher"". Officers uncovered evidence of ""serious concern"" at some campuses, and the UK government has downgraded Glyndwr University from its status as a ""highly-trusted sponsor"" of student visas. In addition, 57 private further education colleges had their licences for admitting foreign students suspended. Roughly 3,040 of Glyndwr's 8,800 students are from overseas (non-EU). The Home Office said concerns centred primarily ""but not exclusively"" on its London campus, where 2,050 overseas students study. About 680 overseas students are in Wrexham, but Glyndwr also has campuses at St Asaph in Denbighshire, and Northop and Broughton in Flintshire. There are 230 Glyndwr-sponsored students with invalid language test results, which rises to 350 when questionable results are included. The Home Office said existing Glyndwr overseas students could continue studies during the suspension. Those with a visa, but yet to travel, are advised to wait until after the suspension. The university said it was ""deeply upset,"" an investigation was under way and it hopes to get the licence re-instated. It added: ""To be put in this position by external partners is frustrating as Glyndwr University takes its responsibility as a highly trusted sponsor very seriously and is committed to supporting the continuing education of those genuine international students who demonstrate full compliance with their immigration requirements."" Beth Button, president of the National Union of Students Wales, said: ""This action could have grave and irreversible consequences for thousands of students studying at Glyndwr University, through no fault of their own."" The union said it was ""outraged that this news was first announced in the House of Commons"", with students made aware afterwards. Labour's shadow Home Office minister, David Hanson, said it amounted to ""systematic abuse on this government's watch"". Aled Roberts AM, the Welsh Liberal Democrat's education spokesman, said: ""I'm worried about the effect this announcement could have on Glyndwr University's attempts to improve their financial footing."" Immigration minister Mr Brokenshire told the Commons the revelations followed an investigation into the European subsidiary of an American firm called Educational Testing Services (ETS). The ""systematic cheating"" typically involved invigilators supplying or reading out answers to rooms of gangs of imposters being allowed to step into the exam candidates' places to sit the test, he said. A criminal investigation has been launched.",Glyndwr University has been suspended from @placeholder overseas students after a Home Office investigation into alleged visa fraud .,teaching,following,sacked,criticised,recruiting,4
"Regulators have stepped in after big losses in the mainland markets led trade to be suspended early for the first time on two occasions this week. The central bank also set the yuan guidance rate higher to calm markets. The sell-off came as weakening of the yuan led to worries that China's economy was slowing more than expected. The rest of Asia also recovered some losses after the dramatic plunge in Chinese shares had triggered a global sell-off. Markets in Europe and the US made steep losses overnight after trading in the world's second largest economy was closed within the first 30 minutes in the previous session, making it China's shortest trading day on record. On Friday, the Shanghai Composite was up 2.2% to 3,194.08 as investor confidence grew on the new measures introduced by authorities to support the stock market. Regulators suspended the ""circuit breaker"" rule late on Thursday. Analysts said it was creating more panic selling instead of calming sentiment. ""[The fall in markets] looks to have been exaggerated and driven more by fears and regulatory issues around the share market and currency rather than a renewed deterioration in economic indicators,"" said Shane Oliver, investment strategist at AMP Capital. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) set the daily yuan rate at 6.5646 - firmer than the previous day's rate, ending eight days of weakening the currency to boost exports. Investors were worried that China's moves to weaken the yuan would spark a currency war in the region as other countries tried to remain competitive. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up 1.1% to 20,568.58, while Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.4% to 17,836.90. But South Korean and Australian shares bucked the regional uptrend with the Kospi index down 0.1% to 1,901.92, and the S&P/ASX 200 index losing 0.4% to 4,992.10. Shares of Samsung Electronics were up 1.1% despite the tech giant's profit guidance for the fourth quarter missing market expectations.","Chinese shares jumped higher on the first day of trade after a "" circuit breaker "" mechanism introduced to prevent sharp falls was @placeholder .",abandoned,used,lifted,unveiled,boosted,2
"This is 10,000 years earlier than previous evidence had indicated. The extinct animal's bones display distinctive cut marks that can only have been produced by stone and ivory-tipped hunting and butchery tools. Being able to exploit mammoths would have been key to these early settlers' spread and survival in the Arctic. Not only would the great beasts have represented a high-energy food source, but their tusks and bones would have been a source of practical materials in a landscape where there are few suitable rocks from which to make spear tips, and other critical technologies. ""Not all areas - and the location of the mammoth find is among them -  provide good lithic raw material. This is very typical for most of northern West Siberia,"" explained Vladimir Pitulko, who is part of the team that reports the discovery in this week's Science magazine. He told the BBC that everything about the way these Arctic colonisers took down the mammoth demonstrates them to have been ""very skilled and organised hunters and tool makers"". The carcass was uncovered from a steep bank on the eastern shore of Siberia's remote Yenisei Bay, very close to the Sopochnaya Karga (SK) meteorological station. The latitude is 72 degrees North. By way of comparison, the previous firmly dated evidence for human occupation this far north comes from 35,000 years ago. The mammoth has various injuries to its head and ribs, but perhaps the most intriguing is the puncture mark in a cheek bone. Dr Pitulko and colleagues say it was produced by a sharp, robust implement, and from its geometry was very likely delivered when the animal was on the ground. They write in their Science paper: ""This injury itself is probably the result of a missed blow, targeting the base of the trunk. ""This specific hunting method is still practised in Africa by elephant hunters, who target the base of the trunk to cut major arteries and cause mortal bleeding. This blow becomes necessary after the animal has been sufficiently injured, and the SK mammoth displays numerous injuries in the thoracic (chest) area."" The team discusses the mammoth find in the context of other archaeological discoveries from across the Siberian Arctic. The researchers build a picture of human settlers getting themselves close enough to the far northeast of Russia that they could have made an early bid to cross into North America before the last ice age became so severe that the way would have been blocked. This would have been prior to 30,000 years ago. Currently, the evidence in northwest America does not support this, but Dr Pitulko said he and other scientists would continue to investigate the idea. ""These finds change our mind on possible options and this is going to give a new stimulus for further research,"" he told BBC News. ""These finds do not give an immediate answer, but allow thinking about the possibilities."" Dr Pitulko is affiliated to the Institute for the History of Material Culture, at the Russian Academy of Sciences, in St Petersburg. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos","A well preserved mammoth carcass pulled from frozen @placeholder in the far north of Russia proves humans were present in the Arctic some 45,000 years ago .",circles,involvement,land,waters,sediments,4
"Zdenek Makar, from the Czech Republic, died from head injuries near All Saints DLR station in Poplar on Wednesday night. The 29-year-old was charged on Sunday and will appear before Thames magistrates on Monday. Two others arrested, aged 19 and 16, were released on bail until early October pending police inquiries.",A man has been charged with murdering a 31 - year - old after an alleged disagreement at a @placeholder chicken shop .,group,school,house,beach,fried,4
"OpenDyslexic's characters have been given ""heavy-weighted bottoms"" to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds of their readers. A recent update to the popular app Instapaper has adopted the text format as an option for its users. The font has also been built into a word processor, an ebook reader and has been installed on school computers. The project was created by Abelardo Gonzalez, a New Hampshire-based mobile app designer, who released his designs onto the web at the end of last year. ""I had seen similar fonts, but at the time they were completely unaffordable and so impractical as far as costs go,"" he told the BBC. ""I figured there's other people who would like the same thing but had the same issues, and so I thought I'd make an open source one that everyone could contribute to and help out with. ""The response has been great: I've had people emailing saying this is the first time they could read text without it looking wiggly or has helped other symptoms of dyslexia."" The 28-year-old released OpenWeb - a free web browser based on the font - on Apple's iOS app store earlier this year. He then used online adverts to publicise his invention on a series of related sites. Several developers who heard about the innovation subsequently jumped on board, including the creator of Dox on Box, an e-reader for iPads; and the makers of Wordsmith, a stylised word processor for Mac computers. Users have also installed the font onto Android devices, allowing it to be used across a range of software, and the jailbreak community has also enabled adapted iOS devices to install it to permit similar functionality on Apple's mobile devices . However, the inclusion of the font in Instapaper last week is perhaps the clearest sign yet that it is going mainstream. The program - which allows users to save versions of webpages so that they can be read offline - has about two million registered accounts. The app's developer Marco Arment said he had first looked for a dyslexia-optimised font two years ago, but had failed to find one until he discovered OpenDyslexic. ""Given what Instapaper does - capture any web page and present it in a consistent, adjustable, customer-controlled environment - it's a natural fit for bringing improved accessibility and legibility to anyone who needs it,"" he wrote on his blog. Mr Gonzalez said he had also been contacted by The Kildonan School - which specialises in teaching children with dyslexia - to tell him it had started testing the font with its pupils. He added that he had also heard from other teachers in the US and UK who were using the product in a less formal capacity. Although he is happy to see the font spread organically, Mr Gonzalez said he was also trying to encourage some of the major tech firms to support it. ""Sony and Amazon have said they would consider it for their e-readers,"" he said. ""Google is also hopefully going to publish a version to its web fonts directory which would make it really easy to integrate it onto websites without administrators having to upload it to their servers."" According to the British Dyslexia Association (BDA), about 4% of the UK's population has a severe form of the disability. The campaign group welcomed the innovation's spread. ""As a dyslexic, I find this font very easy to read and reduces the effects of visual stress that I experience,"" said Arran Smith, the group's project officer. ""I especially like the spacing between letters, as it is even and regular, which is also recommended within the BDA Style Guide."" There has not been a scientific study to support whether OpenDyslexic works. However, a study by the University of Twente into a similar font - Dyslexie - suggested that it did help decrease some specific types reading errors, but did not improve reading speed. However, the paper acknowledged further research was needed.",A free - to - use font designed to help people with dyslexia read online content is gaining @placeholder .,favour,evidence,jeopardy,ground,answers,0
"The machines that resulted, the Manchester Mark I, Edsac and the Ace, are now well known. Even Colossus, a secret during wartime and for decades after, is now widely recognised as the world's first programmable, electronic digital computer. But not all the UK's pioneers and pioneering computers are as well-known. This week The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park is putting on display one machine, the HEC-1, that was recently discovered in the stores of the Birmingham Museums Trust. It was very popular and successful in its day but is poorly appreciated today. This is ironic in the case of its creator Dr Andrew Booth because, said Dr Roger Johnson, one of the innovations he came up with is ubiquitous today more than 60 years after it was invented. The innovation is the Booth multiplier that helps to speed up some types of calculation performed by a central processing unit in a computer as it handles data. ""There are hundreds of them in a smartphone,"" said Dr Johnson. ""In any chip that has a multiplier, the overwhelming majority will be a Booth multiplier."" Nothing that Edsac creator Maurice Wilkes worked on, nor anything that Tom Kilburn and Freddie Williams in Manchester created has had such a lasting impact, said Dr Johnson who has spent years uncovering and compiling information about Dr Andrew Booth's work. Booth started as a crystallographer at Birkbeck College and turned to automatic calculating machines to help do the complex maths involved in this work. Through his boss at Birkbeck, JD Bernal, he got a six-month Rockefeller Scholarship to Princeton which he spent time talking to computer pioneer John Von Neumann. ""In my view Booth did two key things,"" said Dr Roger Johnson, a computer scientist turned computer conservationist, ""One is the multiplier, the other is that he was the first person to connect a rotating storage device successfully to a computer and read and write data."" In fact, he said, Dr Booth got perilously close to creating the first floppy disk. Unfortunately the disks he tried to adapt for his fledgling computer, paper coated with magnetic oxide used in an early dictating machine, proved too floppy. They deformed at the 3000 RPM he needed to spin them - making it impossible to read and write data to them. Instead, said Dr Johnson, he invented magnetic drum storage that used a small brass drum coated with nickel. It was a world first and the original is now on display in the UK's Science Museum. Both these innovations found a place in the small computers Booth built - the most significant of which was the All Purpose Electronic Computer (APEC). The first version of APEC was built in a barn at the Booth family home in Fenny Compton, Warwickshire. Raymond ""Dickie"" Bird has clear memories of the place, the man and the machine. ""The barn was falling to bits,"" Dr Bird told the BBC. ""It was so rotten that the legs of the chairs we sat on sank in to the woodworm-eaten floor and it was as cold as hell."" Mr Bird and two colleagues were in Fenny Compton to copy the design of the APEC for the British Tabulating Machine Company which was keen to produce a computer of its own. BTM was a market leader in punch card machines but, said Dr Bird, also had a prescient eye on the future. ""They saw the threat early on to their vast market for punch card machines that computers posed,"" he said. As a result it was in the market for a computer of its own and Dr Booth's fit the bill because it was small, relatively cheap, fit for business use and could be manufactured in large numbers. By contrast, said Dr Bird, the other machines being produced in the early 1950s were usually too big, expensive  and specialised for most of BTM's customers. Not so with Dr Booth's machine. ""He wanted a tabulator to use as input and output to the machine he had got and in return he would give out the plans for the computer,"" he said. The penny-pinching philosophy of Booth senior had rubbed off on his son, said Dr Bird, and was reflected in the APEC's design. Though, said Dr Bird, to be fair this approach was borne out of necessity as much as habit. ""Andrew Booth was a very economical man,"" said Dr Bird. ""If something could be done with half a valve rather than one, he did it."" ""He worked with no support from anyone else and designed computers, little ones, to work in his lab,"" he said. ""I took his basic circuits and the core of his logic and built a machine called HEC 1,"" said Dr Bird. ""I engineered it to be manufacturable and serviceable."" ""It was a reliable, low cost machine that could go by the hundreds into business,"" said Dr Bird. ""And it did for we sold more than 100 of the Booth-derived machines.""","After World War II , Britain was a hotbed of pioneering computer research . Work done on automatic ways to crack codes and spot enemy aircraft meant it had a skilled cadre of engineers and scientists equipped with the @placeholder to create powerful and practical computers .",tribute,knowledge,message,reaction,public,1
"The research found that catastrophic collisions would likely occur every five to nine years at the altitudes used principally to observe the Earth. And the scientists who did the work say their results are optimistic - the real outcome would probably be far worse. To date, there have been just a handful of major collisions in the space age. The study was conducted for the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee. This is the global forum through which world governments discuss the issue of ""space junk"" - abandoned rocket stages, defunct satellites and their exploded fragments. The space agencies of Europe, the US, Italy, the UK, Japan and India all contributed to the latest research, each one using their own experts and methodology to model the future space environment. They were most concerned with low-Earth orbit (that is, below 2,000km in altitude).  This is where the majority of missions returning critical Earth-observation data tend to operate. All six modelling groups came out with broadly the same finding - a steady increase in the numbers of objects 10cm and bigger over the 200-year period. This growth was driven mostly by collisions between objects at altitudes between 700km and 1,000km. The low-end projection was for a 19% increase; the high-end forecast was for a 36% rise. Taken together, the growth was 30%.  These are averages of hundreds of simulations. For the cumulative number of catastrophic collisions over the period, the range went from just over 20 to just under 40. Somewhat worryingly, the forecasting work made some optimistic assumptions. One was a 90% compliance with the ""25-year rule"". This is a best-practice time-limit adopted by the world's space agencies for the removal of their equipment from orbit once it has completed its mission. The other was the idea that there would be no more explosions from half-empty fuel and pressure tanks, and from old batteries - a significant cause of debris fragments to date. ""We're certainly not at 90% compliance with the 25-year rule yet, and we see explosion events on average about three times a year,"" explained Dr Hugh Lewis, who detailed the research findings at the 6th European Conference on Space Debris in Darmstadt, Germany, on Monday. ""It is fair to say this is an optimistic look forward, and the situation will be worse than what we presented in the study,"" the UK Space Agency delegate to the IADC told BBC News. ""So one message from our study is that we need to do better with these debris-mitigation measures, but even with that we need to consider other approaches as well. One of the options obviously is active debris removal."" Research groups around the world are devising strategies to catch old rocket bodies and satellites, to pull them out of orbit. Previous modelling work has indicated that removing just a few key items each year could have a significant limiting effect on the growth of debris. Most ideas include attaching a propulsion module to a redundant body, perhaps via a hook or robotic clamp. One UK concept under development is a harpoon. This would be fired at the hapless target from close range. A propulsion pack tethered to the projectile would then tug the junk downwards, to burn up in the atmosphere. When the BBC first reported this concept back in October, the harpoon was being test-fired over a short range of just 2m. The latest testing, to be reported at the Darmstadt conference this week, has seen the harpoon fired over a much longer distance and at a more realistic, rotating target. ""Our tests have progressed really well, and everything seems to be scaling as expected,"" explained Dr Jaime Reed, from Astrium UK. ""We've now upgraded to a much more powerful gun and have been firing the harpoon over 10m - the sort of distance we'd expect to have to cover on a real debris-removal mission. ""Our harpoon also now has a shock absorber on it to make sure it doesn't go too far inside the satellite, and we've been firing it with the tether attached.  It's very stable in flight."" There are some 20,000 man-made objects in orbit that are currently being monitored regularly. About two-thirds of this population is in Low-Earth orbit. These are just the big, easy-to-see items, however. Moving around unseen are an estimated 500,000 particles ranging in size between 1-10cm across, and perhaps tens of millions of other particles smaller than 1cm. All of this material is travelling at several kilometres per second - sufficient velocity for even the smallest fragment to become a damaging projectile if it strikes an operational space mission. Two key events have added significantly to the debris problem in recent years. The first was the destructive anti-satellite test conducted by the Chinese in 2007 on one of their own retired weather spacecraft. The other, in 2009, was the collision between the Cosmos 2251 and Iridium 33 satellites. Taken together, these two events essentially negated all the mitigation gains that had been made over the previous 20 years to reduce junk production from spent rocket explosions. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos","Unless space debris is actively @placeholder , some satellite orbits will become extremely hazardous over the next 200 years , a new study suggests .",mined,tackled,pursued,moving,interest,1
"Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, from London, were told in 2014 that they could not have a civil partnership because they did not meet the legal requirement of being of the same sex. They took their case to the High Court, saying they faced discrimination. But Mrs Justice Andrews dismissed their claim for judicial review. The couple have said they intend to appeal. One of the government's arguments was that now gay couples are able to marry, civil partnerships might be abolished or phased out in the future, and changing legislation before then would be ""costly and complex"". A government spokesperson welcomed the ruling, saying the ""current regime of marriage and civil partnership does not disadvantage opposite sex couples"". Ms Steinfeld, 34, and Mr Keidan, 39, said they wanted to commit to each other in a civil partnership as it ""focuses on equality"" and did not carry the patriarchal history and associations of marriage. However, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 - which applies throughout the UK - requires that partners be ""two people of the same sex"". It grants gay couples legal rights similar to those given to married couples. The introduction of same-sex marriage - which became legal in England, Wales and Scotland in 2014 - has since given gay couples a choice between that and civil partnership. Ms Steinfeld and Mr Keidan argued that, as a heterosexual couple, they did not have the same choice as gay couples and were therefore discriminated against. Current legislation was ""incompatible"" with their right to a private and family life, they said. The government argued that civil marriage was an institution that protected the core values of family life and was entirely egalitarian, and that where the objection was ideological there was no infringement of rights. By Clive Coleman, BBC legal affairs correspondent Some observers will be surprised by today's ruling. An important part of the foundation of modern human rights and equality law is the protection against discrimination on grounds including sexual orientation. The Civil Partnership Act 2004 appears to fly directly in the face of that. It requires civil partners to be ""two people of the same sex"", meaning gay couples can now choose marriage or a civil partnership, whilst heterosexual couples can only marry. However, Mrs Justice Andrews ruled that the different treatment of gay and opposite-sex couples didn't infringe the right to a private and family life enshrined in Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. And even if it did, maintaining the different treatment is justified, essentially because opposite-sex couples can enter civil marriages, which are egalitarian and encompass the core principles of family life. After the ruling, Ms Steinfeld said the government was ""barring us, and many thousands of opposite-sex couples like us, from the choice of forming a civil partnership"". She told the BBC: ""We are very disappointed in the judge's ruling today, which we think undermines equality in the United Kingdom. ""And we know that that disappointment will be shared in the court of public opinion because we have 36,000 people who've signed our change to all petition supporting opening up civil partnerships to all."" Mr Keidan said ""the fight goes on"" and there was still a chance ""for this wrong to be righted in time"". Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who has championed the case for equal civil partnerships for more than a decade, said the ruling was ""a sad defeat for love and equality"". Meanwhile, Ava Lee, campaign manager of the Equal Civil Partnership campaign, said it was time the government reconsidered its position on civil partnerships At a hearing earlier this month, the government said the future of civil partnerships had not been decided. It said it would wait ""to see how extending marriage to same-sex couples impacts upon civil partnerships before reaching a final decision on the future of civil partnerships"". Dan Squires, counsel for the government, said ministers had decided it was ""not necessary to undertake the costly and complex exercise of extending civil partnerships in the interim where they may be abolished or phased out in a few years"". Mrs Justice Andrews said the government was ""acting well within the ambit of discretion afforded to it with regard to the regulation of social matters"". ""Opposite-sex couples are not disadvantaged by the hiatus, because they can achieve exactly the same recognition of their relationship and the same rights, benefits and protections by getting married, as they always could,"" she said in her ruling. She concluded: ""The government's decision to wait and see serves the legitimate aim of avoiding the unnecessary disruption and the waste of time and money that plunging into a programme of legislative reform without waiting is likely to produce.""",A heterosexual couple who want to have a civil partnership rather than get married have @placeholder a legal challenge .,lost,unveiled,overturned,delivered,staged,0
"At Norwich Crown Court, Sgt Nick Lidstone, 54, from Barrington, pleaded not guilty to 19 counts. These include rape, indecency with a child, serious sexual assault, indecent assault and making an indecent photograph of a child. The charges relate to alleged abuse between 1997 and 2014. Mr Lidstone will stand trial on 15 December. The police sergeant, from Heslerton Way, was originally charged with one count of rape and one of sexual assault. Three allegations of rape were said to have taken place when the victim was an adult. Jonathan Goodman, representing Mr Lidstone, who appeared by video link from Chelmsford Prison, did not make any application for bail and the officer was remanded in custody.",A police sergeant from Cambridgeshire has @placeholder sexually abusing a girl from the age of nine .,denied,died,begun,continued,released,0
"Launching the campaign, Mr Jones said voters' decisions were partly based on  party leader's performances. Labour has led the Welsh government since 1999 and Mr Jones has been first minister since 2009. Rival parties said Labour should be judged on its record, after 17 years in power in Wales. Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has previously said of Mr Jones that ""it's me or him"" on election day. Asked whether the Labour campaign was too focused on him, at a launch event in Barry Island, Mr Jones said: ""We're not a cult, we're not UKIP. ""There are two things here - first, we've got our pledges out already, manifesto next week so all that's coming. ""I know full well that people will look at party leaders, and judge whether that person is up to the job - it's the age that we live in. ""So I'm leading from the front, but of course we've got the policies, the best pledges and the best manifesto next week."" Schools, the NHS and apprenticeships have already been named as priorities. Labour is currently the largest party in Cardiff Bay, with 30 of the 60 seats in the Senedd. Mr Jones has previously said it would be Welsh Labour's ""toughest ever assembly campaign"". He defended his government's 17 years of uninterrupted rule in Wales but admitted ""each election gets harder because our record gets longer"". He said his Labour government had ""kept all of our promises"" since the last assembly election in 2011, and it would do the same again if returned to power in May. Asked how his party would avoid a repeat performance of Welsh Labour's poor general election performance in 2015, Mr Jones said: ""The difference is we have more data than we had last year. ""We have more resources. We're in a much better place."" The party suffered a disappointing result in the 2015 general election, recording its second worst share of the vote in Wales since 1918, including losing Gower and the Vale of Clwyd to the Conservatives.","Focusing Welsh Labour 's assembly election campaign on Carwyn Jones @placeholder "" the age that we live in "" , the party leader has said .",change,is,soil,criticised,reflects,4
"Owen Paterson, a former minister and Conservative MP, and John Longworth, co-chair of Leave Means Leave, came to Berlin on Saturday with a clear mission - to persuade German business leaders to lobby Chancellor Angela Merkel to give Britain a good trade deal. They should have been on safe territory. The two men are confident, witty speakers with impressive business and free-trade credentials. Mr Longworth is a former head of the British Chamber of Commerce. Mr Paterson's years spent trading in Germany meant he could open his address with a few remarks in German - which drew an appreciative round of applause - and a well-judged joke about multilingual trade. But it turned out they had entered the lion's den. The laughter from the audience quickly turned to sniggers as they heard the UK described as ""a beacon of open, free trade around the world"". Westminster's decision to leave the world's largest free trade area does not look like that to Germany. When Europe was blamed for spending cuts and a lack of British health care provision, there were audible mutters of irritation from the audience. The occasional light-hearted attempts at EU-bashing - usually guaranteed to get a cheap laugh with some British audiences - was met with stony silence. In another setting - at another time - this gathering of the elite of Germany's powerful business community would have lapped up the British wit. Every ironic quip would ordinarily have had them rolling in the aisles. But British charm does not travel well these days. Rattled by the economic havoc Brexit could unleash, Germans are not in the mood for gags. Britain used to be seen by continentals as quirky and occasionally awkward - but reliably pragmatic on the economy. However, since the Brexit vote, Europeans suspect endearing eccentricity has morphed into unpredictable irrationality. The UK has become the tipsy, tweedy uncle, who after too much Christmas sherry has tipped over into drunkenly abusive bore. When the audience was asked how many of them welcomed Brexit, only one hand went up - and it turned out that belonged to a businessman who wanted more EU reform and was fed up with Britain slowing things down. Brexiteer rhetoric over the past year has often focused on the size of Britain's market and how keen German manufacturers are to sell to British customers. Many leave campaigners remain convinced that German business leaders will force Mrs Merkel to grant the UK a special free trade deal in order not to lose British trade. But that's not what's happening. Instead German firms are remarkably united in their support of the chancellor in her rejection of British ""cherry-picking"" - even if it means losing business in the short-term. When you talk to German bosses they say their top priority is in fact the integrity of the single market, rather than hanging on to British customers. That's because their supply chains span across the EU. A German car might be designed in Germany, manufactured in Britain, with components made in various parts of eastern Europe, to be sold in France. This only works if there are no cross-border tariffs, paperwork or red tape. German companies - more often family-owned and with deeper connections to their regional heartlands - tend to look at the wider picture, sometimes thinking more long-term. They supported Mrs Merkel on sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, even though that meant a blow to trade. The financial hit was deemed less bad for business than worsening unrest in nearby Ukraine. The same calculations are being made over Brexit. This doesn't mean German business is thinking politically, and not economically. But rather, it indicates a wider attitude towards how business can thrive long-term. German business leaders tell you that the British market may be important. But it is only one market, compared to 27 markets in the rest of the EU. Leave campaigners also still underestimate the political and historical significance of the EU for Germany, where it is seen as the guarantor of peace after centuries of warfare. It is tempting to see the clashes between Westminster and the EU27 as one big decades-long misunderstanding of what the EU is. An idealistic peace-project versus a pragmatic free-trade zone. This makes it even more ironic that London may reject the free-trade area it spent so much time creating. Germany was shocked and saddened by the UK's vote to leave the EU. But the decision was quickly accepted in Berlin. ""The Brits never really wanted to be members of the European Union anyway,"" is something you often hear these days. Many Germans now want to just work out a solution that does the least amount of harm to the European economy. Hence the irritation in Germany when British politicians keep rehashing the pre-referendum debate. ""It was frustrating to hear the same old arguments from the referendum campaign,"" one business leader told me when I asked him what he had thought about Saturday's discussion. Germany has moved on, he said. Maybe Britain should too. The Brexiteers might not have persuaded their audience in Berlin. But if they return to London with a better idea of the mood in Germany's business community, then the trip may well have been worthwhile.","The distinguished audience members were too polite to heckle . But the eye rolling , frowns and audible tutting made it quite clear how the Brexiteers ' @placeholder was going down with German business leaders .",message,situation,spot,body,rate,0
"The woman, known only as Ms C, was referred to Perth Royal Infirmary by her GP. The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman said, despite her symptoms, a CT scan was not performed She was sent home, but collapsed weeks later and died in hospital. Its report states: ""Ms C had reported sudden onset of pain in her head and neck with some visual disturbance. ""She was admitted directly to the acute medical unit in the hospital where she was medically assessed by a specialist trainee doctor. ""She was then reviewed by a consultant physician. ""She was subsequently discharged home with the problem felt to be musculoskeletal."" The ombudsman ruled that this diagnosis was ""unreasonable"" as Ms C had no significant headache history. A consultant physician advising him said that she should have had a CT scan, and possibly a lumbar puncture on her first admission. The report said: ""Whilst we cannot say that Ms C's life would definitely have been saved if these tests had been carried out, the adviser (consultant physician) has stated that it was probable that Ms C's condition was treatable."" In addition to issuing an apology, the ombudsman's ordered the health board to ensure patients presenting with headaches are investigated in line with national guidelines. NHS Tayside medical director Prof Andrew Russell said: ""We have been in contact with the family over this tragic event and our thoughts remain with them. ""We will be writing to them again following today's Ombudsman's report. ""We accept the recommendations and have shared them with the appropriate clinical groups to take forward in an action plan. ""As an organisation we take every opportunity to improve and we will ensure we share learning from this across NHS Tayside.""",Tayside NHS Board has been ordered to apologise to the husband of a woman who died after doctors failed to provide appropriate treatment for a @placeholder brain aneurysm .,grade,disabled,major,suspected,planned,3
"And there was much to celebrate. Russia was the undisputed king of gas - the world's biggest producer with the biggest reserves and the biggest exports. But the party has since fallen rather flat. Weaker demand in Europe and plunging natural gas prices have hit revenues, while US and EU sanctions over the country's actions in Ukraine are targeting Russia's energy sector. Add an EU charge of monopoly abuse, increased competition from Qatar and a potential glut of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) flooding the market next year - not to mention the possible unleashing of Iran's vast gas resources if sanctions are lifted following a nuclear deal with Tehran - and the threats are both numerous and real. With state-controlled Gazprom, which dominates Russia's gas industry, one of Moscow's primary foreign policy levers, the stakes could not be higher. As the biggest single supplier of gas into Europe, will Russia's influence on the continent begin to wane, and will she flirt ever more with China to compensate? Most gas contracts are indexed to the price of oil, which has slumped more than 40% since last summer, dragging natural gas prices down with it. Mild weather and cutting off supply to Ukraine following a contract dispute compounded the problem - Gazprom saw profits plunge almost 90% last year, from more than $20bn to $3bn. And with the oil price likely to remain relatively weak for the foreseeable future, revenues will remain under pressure. As Michael Moynihan at energy consultants Wood Mackenzie says, ""the gas price is low and it's not going back to the highs of two years ago"". But low prices are hitting all gas producers. In fact, Mr Moynihan says, a weak rouble is helping to make Russian gas companies, which also include big producers such as Rosneft and Novatek, more competitive - allowing them to make the same profit margins despite falling prices. The question for Gazprom now is whether to cut exports to combat oversupply, thereby supporting prices, or to keep volumes high to protect its market share. Rather like Saudi Arabia in the oil market, the company is perfectly able to withstand a prolonged period of low prices. And there are many other reasons why the outlook for Russia's gas industry is far brighter than at first it may seem. For a start, Russia's gas fields are running well below capacity, according to Irina Gaida from Boston Consulting Group. ""Russia's gas industry has better production potential [than its oil industry] as the gas fields are much younger and are in the early stages of development"". There is, then, plenty of potential to ramp up production when new contracts are signed, as they will be. The US and EU sanctions are primarily targeted at the country's oil industry, for very obvious reasons. Russia provides about 30% of Europe's gas, so it's simply not in the EU's interests to compromise Gazprom's ability to produce and export gas. This month's deal with the UK's Centrica to increase gas supplies by 70% to more than 4 billion cubic metres (bcm) a year provides ample proof of this. Equally, the sanctions are designed to hamper financing and stop Russian companies importing new technologies. But Russia's vast resources of conventional natural gas mean it does not need to develop new techniques to frack shale rocks, and it already knows well enough how to extract gas and build pipelines. If sanctions remain in place over the long term, raising finance may become an issue, but right now they are having little impact on Russian gas producers. The European Commission's charge last month that Gazprom has abused its dominant market position in Central and Eastern European gas markets is also unlikely to undermine the company's stranglehold on European gas imports. As John Lough, of the Chatham House think-tank says: ""The Commission hesitated over whether to pursue this as it was concerned about damaging its gas relationship [with Russia]. ""Gazprom will make a robust defence and then try to seek some kind of settlement."" The likelihood is that a financial penalty will be agreed before business returns to normal. But while Europe's actions are having little direct impact on Russia's gas industry, their indirect repercussions are profound, not least pushing Moscow towards closer ties with Beijing. ""Russia has been talking to China for 10 years about exporting gas, but for various reasons they couldn't find alignment,"" says Mr Lough. ""It has not been prepared to go the last mile, but the pressure to sidle up to China has now increased."" Feeling ever more isolated in Europe and suffering from wider economic sanctions, Russia signed two significant gas deals with China last year. The first, worth $400bn at the time, provides for 38bcm a year from 2018. Construction of the pipeline to transport the gas from East Siberia began in September. A provisional deal for a further 30bcm was signed a month later, with gas potentially being delivered from West Siberia through the Altai region in southern Russia. Some of this gas could, Mr Moynihan says, come from fields that currently export to Europe. The combined 68bcm is half the 140bcm Russia currently delivers to Europe, but when the pipelines are in place, that number could grow significantly. China's demand for energy to satisfy its rapidly expanding economy and increasingly wealthy population is growing fast, while environmental concerns - mainly pollution and water shortages - mean the country needs to reduce its dependency on coal. As Ms Gaida says: ""The share of gas in China's overall fuel mix will rise rapidly. The potential of China far exceeds that of Europe"". And Russia's resources are such that it would have no problem supplying both. There is also the tantalising possibility of a deal with India, another potentially gargantuan market for Russian gas. Any such agreement, however, appears a long way off with no easy route for a pipeline between the two countries. Russia's gas industry, then, dominated by state-controlled Gazprom and with its vast resources and ideal location, seems perfectly placed to overcome the numerous obstacles laid before it. As Mr Lough says, ""I wouldn't underestimate Gazprom - it's a very capable company"". Despite frosty relations with Europe, it will continue to supply gas to a continent that, for now, has little viable alternative, while at the same time helping to satisfy China's voracious appetite for a cleaner alternative to coal. With serious questions about whether Europe can develop a viable shale gas industry at all, let alone in the foreseeable future, and the slow adoption of genuinely clean, renewable energy technologies in many countries, Gazprom, and by proxy Moscow, will continue to hold the trump cards in any negotiations with the EU. US and Iranian gas may offer another way out, but until European countries are able to wean themselves off Russian gas, this will remain the case.","Just two years ago , Gazprom spent a @placeholder $ 1 bn on its 20th birthday celebrations , with Sting and the Bolshoi ballet entertaining President Putin and company executives in a lavish gala dinner hosted at the Kremlin .",staggering,looming,body,reported,couple,3
"Michael Davenport told jurors at Warwick Crown Court the sounds appeared to be coming from the bathroom where Bethany Hill's body was found. It is alleged Miss Hill, 20, was killed by Jack Williams and his girlfriend, Kayleigh Woods, at the flat they all shared in Stratford-upon-Avon. The pair both deny murder. See more stories from across Coventry and Warwickshire here Mr Davenport told the court there had been terrible anti-social behaviour at the one-bedroom flat occupied by Mr Williams, 21, and Ms Woods, 23. Jurors heard he made five recordings between 01:30 and 03:00 GMT on 3 February last year to pass on to the housing association, which ran the block of flats on Hertford Road. Describing events after he was woken by a loud bang at about 01:30, Mr Davenport said he heard ""what I thought was something hitting a wall"". ""It sounded like a head or something hitting a wall,"" he said. During the third recording, which began at 02:21 and lasted for 15 minutes, he said he heard the sound of a female moaning. ""It basically sounded as if somebody was in distress,"" he said. Mr Davenport, who also told the court he had heard a cutlery drawer being opened and closed aggressively, was cross-examined by Michael Duck QC, who is defending Mr Williams. Asked why he had not dialled 999, Mr Davenport added: ""I thought somebody had fallen or they were drunk."" The court was told Miss Hill died of a neck wound inflicted with a blade that was later found dumped in a river. The trial continues.",A neighbour of a woman alleged to have been @placeholder up and murdered said he heard moaning and the sound of a head hitting a wall on the day she died .,tied,blown,rounded,cut,thrown,0
"Television is the main medium for news. Many media outlets have political or religious affiliations. For private media, advertising revenues seldom provide a reliable income. The Iraqi Media Network (IMN) is a government holding company for outlets including Al-Iraqiya TV and Republic of Iraq Radio. The autonomous Kurdistan region has its own established media. Freedom of expression is protected by the constitution. But Reporters Without Borders says armed groups ""have no compunction"" about killing media workers. Jihadist group Islamic State has been systematically persecuting news media and their employees since the start of its offensive in Iraq, says Reporters Without Borders. IS aims to ""monopolise media activity in the territory it conquers. It does not permit the free flow of news and information and only the most courageous journalists dare to transmit or share information."" Foreign broadcasters targeting Iraqi audiences include the BBC, Paris-based Monte Carlo Doualiya radio, and US-backed Al-Hurra TV, Radio Sawa and Radio Free Iraq. Many of them are available via local relays. BBC World Service radio is on the air in Baghdad (89, 96.9 FM) and Basra (88, 90 FM). Almost all homes have a satellite dish and there are dozens of Iraq-focused satellite TV networks. Iraq's internet development lags behind that in other Arab states. There were 4.9 million users by 2016, around 13% of the population (Internetlivestats.com). The most popular social media platforms are Facebook and WhatsApp.",There are hundreds of publications and scores of radio and TV stations . But political and security crises have resulted in an increasingly @placeholder media scene .,fractured,show,changing,extended,centre,0
"The letter was to Lord Myners, the former city minister charged with coming up with a plan to overhaul Co-op Group. With the letter was Midcounties' submission to Lord Myners' review. In forensic detail the submission picks apart the main arguments contained in the initial plans for change. It is also provides stark evidence that here is an organisation that agrees it needs to reform - it just doesn't agree how. ""In recent years Midcounties has observed a failure at the most senior levels in the Group . . . to consistently reflect co-operative values and principles and the best standards of good governance and transparency,"" says the submission, which I have seen. ""This was not just a matter of errors of judgement over particular business decisions but also, more crucially, of a fundamentally flawed vision of the future of the movement which led to risk taking of a kind which was inappropriate and unnecessary in the context of co-operative ownership."" Midcounties is an important player in this game, the largest of the Co-op's independent societies with revenues of £1.2bn and more than 10,000 employees. The dozen independent societies across the UK have more than 20% of the voting rights on the group board and five are represented at group level. What they say matters for the future of the Co-op. The background, as we know, is grim. As my colleague Robert Peston revealed last February Co-op Group is likely to report losses of up to £2bn when it reveals its 2013 figures next week. The supermarkets, pharmacies and funerals business needs to change its model to survive. Many criticise a byzantine governance structure which critics say rewards longevity, skill at internal politics and willingness to attend endless committee meetings, above managerial skills. Over the last decade, Co-op expanded rapidly, buying Somerfield supermarkets and the Britannia building society. Its structure simply couldn't cope. Lord Myners - a non-executive board member of Co-op Group  -  is now on a listening tour, refining his initial proposals which focus on bringing in outside directors and giving the Co-op some of the checks and balances more akin to a publicly listed company. As The Guardian reports this morning, Midcounties has already voted against the reforms, with its president, Patrick Gray, saying that they will not support the ""menu"" that Lord Myners is offering. Mr Gray, whom I spoke to yesterday and who made an appearance on the Today programme and BBC Radio 5 live this morning, is most concerned that by changing the governance structure, the very democratic and ""values-led"" DNA of the present Co-op might be lost. Euan Sutherland, the former Co-op chief executive who resigned after details of his pay were leaked to The Observer, argued that democracy and values might be vital, but without radical change the whole future of the business was at risk. This is a disagreement that goes to the heart of the Co-op debate. As its submission continues, ""Midcounties does not share the view that in a co-operative context member control is incompatible with the needs of a complex commercial enterprise. Indeed, experience in the UK and abroad demonstrates that this is clearly not the case. ""Among the independent consumer co-operative societies, it is demonstrably the case that it is the most democratic that are the most successful in commercial terms, not the reverse."" The clash is one of cultures. Lord Myners is steeped in PLC history, having formerly been chairman of both the property business, Land Securities, and Marks and Spencer. Mr Sutherland was formerly at the retail giant, Kingfisher. Niall Booker, the chief executive of Co-op Bank in which the Co-op Group retains a 30% stake, is a veteran of HSBC. They are coming up against committed independent heads of co-operative societies who have long experience of mutual operations. They are suspicious of where change is leading. ""A fundamental point is that the relationship [between Group and its Co-op members] is not purely commercial,"" the Midcounties submission says. ""All societies are part of the co-operative movement. ""We share a common interest in showing that co-operation is a force for good in society and an important organisational model in itself."" Lord Myners has until a special general meeting of the Co-op Group in the summer to get his proposals agreed. He will have a tough job. UPDATE 13:15 I'm hearing rumblings that the Treasury Select Committee is very keen to call Euan Sutherland to give evidence to its inquiry into the Co-op bank collapse and its impact on the Group's problems. In what would be an incendiary hearing, MPs are particularly keen to ask the former chief executive exactly what he meant when he said that the business was ""ungovernable"" and why he left so abruptly. Mr Sutherland also questioned the viability of the 170-year-old organisation. If it happens - and I believe it will - it will be standing room only.","Sent on 7 March , the covering letter from the Midcounties Co- operative , was suitably polite . "" If you would like further information on the points @placeholder , please let me know . """,raised,concerned,beach,stage,water,0
"The fight will take place in the Briton's home town of Sheffield in May, with Sheffield United's Bramall Lane as a possible venue, according to reports. Brook's promoter Eddie Hearn announced on Twitter that terms for the fight had been agreed. Brook, 30, has not fought since he was defeated by middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in September. He underwent surgery on a broken eye socket sustained during that fifth-round stoppage by the Kazakh - Brook's first defeat in his 37th professional fight. After jumping up two weight divisions to face Golovkin, Brook has elected to return to welterweight and face mandatory challenger Spence, 27. Brook claimed the IBF belt with victory over Shawn Porter in August 2014 and has since defended his title three times against Jo Jo Dan, Frankie Gavin and Kevin Bizier. Spence is unbeaten in 21 professional bouts, with 18 knockout victories. This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser",Champion Kell Brook will defend his IBF @placeholder welterweight title against American Errol Spence Jr.,messages,world,face,control,junior,1
"The Senegal international has begun light training with the team after missing the end of last season. Liverpool travel to Hong Kong for the pre-season Premier League Asia Trophy. ""It makes no sense to take him to Asia because he needs to then do the first steps in team training,"" he told the club's website. ""We will see how we can do it; maybe [some of] the U23s will be here, so when he can start this [training] then we can use this opportunity, but we have to wait. ""He is really, really good. He is close; he is closing on coming back to team training. ""I think he is getting better, but it is how it is after a long time - you need to build a little bit of muscle again in the quad and thigh, which is important. ""There is no risk with him because he is a naturally fit boy and in the moment when he can start to be a real part of the sessions, he will then immediately be fit again. ""We have not all the time in the world, but we have time and we will use it."" Liverpool will play Crystal Palace on 19 July and a second match three days later against either West Bromwich Albion or Leicester City. Senegal coach Aliou Cisse will also be hoping that Mane's recovery continues as planned as the Teranga Lions have two 2018 World Cup qualifiers in August. They play back-to-back matches against Burkina Faso in early September.",Sadio Mane will not travel to Hong Kong with Liverpool as he continues to recover from a knee @placeholder .,strain,operation,training,infection,group,1
"A Cambridge computer scientist cloned iPhone memory chips, allowing him an unlimited number of attempts to guess a passcode. The work contradicts a claim made by the FBI earlier this year that this approach would not work. The FBI made the claim as it sought access to San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone. Farook and his wife killed 14 people in the California city last December before police fatally shot them. The FBI believed his iPhone 5C contained information about collaborators, but its security system prevented easy access. The agency pressured Apple to give it a software backdoor into the phone, and, when it refused, reportedly paid $1m to a security company to retrieve data from the phone. Now, Dr Sergei Skorobogatov, from the University of Cambridge computer laboratory, has spent four months building a testing rig to bypass iPhone 5C pin codes. In a YouTube video, Dr Skorobogatov showed how he had removed a Nand chip from an iPhone 5C - the main memory storage system used on many Apple devices. He then worked out how the memory system communicated with the phone so he could clone the chip. And the target phone was modified so its Nand chip sat on an external board and copied versions could be easily plugged in or removed. In the video, Dr Skorobogatov demonstrated locking an iPhone 5C by trying too many incorrect combinations. He then removed the Nand chip and substituted a fresh clone, which had its pin attempt counter set at zero, to allow him to keep trying different codes. ""Because I can create as many clones as I want, I can repeat the process many many times until the passcode is found,"" he said. Known as Nand mirroring, the technique is one FBI director James Comey said would not work on Farook's phone. Finding a four-digit code took about 40 hours of work, Dr Skorobogatov said. And finding a six-digit code could potentially take hundreds of hours Using a slightly more sophisticated set-up should make it possible to clone memory chips from other iPhones, including more recent models such as the iPhone 6. However, Dr Skorobogatov said, more information was needed about the way Apple stored data in memory on more recent phones. The different techniques could make it ""more challenging to analyse and copy"", he added. Apple has not responded to a request for comment on Dr Skorobogatov's research. Susan Landau, on the Lawfare news blog, said the work showed law enforcement agencies should not look for software backdoors to help their investigations but should develop or cultivate hardware and computer security skills. ""Skorobogatov was able to do what the FBI said was impossible,"" she said.","IPhone passcodes can be bypassed using just £ 75 ( $ 100 ) of electronic @placeholder , research suggests .",power,life,behaviour,components,code,3
"Commons, who scored in the 3-1 defeat at the Aker Stadion, said the incident was ""something that should never be shown publicly on the field"". The 32-year-old's outburst seemed to be directed at assistant manager John Collins and coach John Kennedy. ""I was very frustrated at how the night had gone,"" said Commons on the Celtic website. Media playback is not supported on this device ""However, I did not handle this in the right way. My frustration at losing games and my desire to win will never change. ""I know we are all part of a team at Celtic and I am proud to be part of this team. I want this team to win and I am sure we can come together, work hard and get the results needed to qualify from this group. ""I still have every confidence we can do this and in a fortnight we have the chance to make amends [against Molde at Celtic Park]. That's the motivation now for us all. ""I'd like to apologise for my reaction last night, something that should never be shown publicly on the field."" Striker Leigh Griffiths revealed on Friday that Commons had apologised to the rest of the squad. Manager Ronnie Deila would not confirm if the former Scotland player would be disciplined but, when asked if Commons would be available for selection against Dundee United on Sunday, the Norwegian said: ""Yeah, of course. ""It's very important [that Commons apologised] and I'm happy for that,"" said Deila. ""He came to me and did it at once and that's very good. We have dealt with it and now we have to move on. ""We have to have discipline and stay together and he really understands that. ""I've had many of these situations before - it's not the first time. Different sorts of situations as well. ""I'm confident that I have a good relationship with the players. Everybody's disappointed. We have to speak through things and get better."" Deila was also asked about the supporters' frustrations following the loss in Norway, which left Celtic bottom of Europa League Group A on two points - five behind leaders Molde. ""I understand they're angry,"" he said ""I really understand and I know a lot of people are travelling around with Celtic and have big expectations. We are very, very sorry and disappointed. ""We have to move on and make it good again and that starts on Sunday. ""You will lose football games. This time it was a bad performance, that's why it's even worse to lose. We have to get back on a good performance and the only thing we can do is look forward and do it on Sunday. ""I really believe in what we're doing. The situation is not unbelievably bad. We are top of the league, we are still in both cups, we still have a chance in Europe so there are some positive things.""",Kris Commons has apologised for his angry reaction to being @placeholder in Celtic 's loss to Molde on Thursday .,implicated,included,substituted,named,caught,2
"They include counterfeit Timberland boots, Nike trainers, Adidas hoodies and Ralph Lauren jackets. The fake labels will be removed and they will be sent along with medical and school supplies to villages in Ghana by National Police Aid Convoys. Its founder David Scott said they would go to people in ""great need"". Duncan Smith, Torfaen council's chief officer for neighbourhoods, planning and public protection, said the items could not be redistributed in the UK as brands were concerned about them ending up back on the black market.",About 300 items of fake clothing seized by trading @placeholder officers in Torfaen will be donated to villages in Africa .,union,health,disabled,groups,standards,4
"The singer came on as Frozen's snowman Olaf to sing her song 'Style' during the final concert of her American tour. She even had reindeer dancers. Taylor then surprised fans by bringing on actress Idina Menzel, the voice of Elsa, to sing Let It Go with her. ""I just wish that Idina Menzel was here, dressed as Elsa to sing Let It Go,"" Taylor teased the audience. ""It's a good thing she is!"" Getting her friends on for a duet has become a bit of a thing for Taylor during her concerts. She's been joined by dozens of celebrity mates including Ellie Goulding, Selena Gomez and Justin Timberlake.","Taylor Swift has been @placeholder she knows how to have "" Olaf "" on stage .",declared,sacked,showing,released,nicknamed,2
"Opposite him, behind a small curtain, a sailor who suffered third-degree burns when a boat engine blew up grits his teeth as the dressing covering most of both legs is gingerly replaced. Here, in this tiny charity-run clinic on Antigua's south coast, this is just a regular day for the volunteer medics operating where government facilities fall short. Amid gasps of breath, Sinclair West, who the team believes probably has lung cancer, says he would be dead without this place. The former security guard is one of about 1,000 visitors who flood annually into the donation-dependent clinic, open and on call almost every day of the year. In addition to providing maritime emergency coverage across 500 sq miles (1,300 sq km), the Antigua & Barbuda Search and Rescue team (ABSAR) has become a lifeline for those on land too. People in the sailing hub of English Harbour, which attracts thousands of tourists each year, know better than to call 911 in the event of a crisis. The seven-digit phone number to reach ABSAR has become as familiar as their own. By the time a state ambulance has negotiated its way across potholed roads from the capital St John's, it will have taken 25 minutes to get here, inconvenient for a victim of a minor fall, fatal if it is a heart attack. Mr West has been a daily fixture at the clinic, a short walk from his house, for months. ""He has something in his left lung,"" ABSAR director Jonathan Cornelius explains, ""and he can't get enough oxygen, so he comes and spends several hours here a day using ours. ""The hospital won't facilitate giving him oxygen at home. ""During his last stay there, they put a tube in his chest which they removed before discharging him, leaving an open wound. We spent three months dressing it for him. ""His is not an isolated case,"" Mr Cornelius continues. The reason? A woeful lack of resources and, some say, a lack of care. ""We were quite shocked to see how poor the facilities are at the hospital,"" remarks a visiting medical student, ""and the staff really didn't seem in a hurry to do much."" Antigua's chief medical officer Dr Rhonda Sealey-Thomas said efforts were under way to augment the hospital's emergency services, including extra staff and the establishment of a dedicated urgent care centre, while $10m (£7m) had recently been spent on new high-tech equipment. ABSAR also responds to about 30 search-and-rescue calls a year, anything from missing scuba divers and overdue fishing boats to yachts marooned on reefs, fires and even seasickness. It also plays a vital role in the numerous annual sailing regattas Antigua is famous for. Yet it does not receive a cent from government, save for duty-free concessions on equipment, and is entirely reliant on donations and a smattering of fundraising events to bridge the annual $75,000 it needs to function. Generous benefactors have helped ABSAR acquire its ambulance, two boats and fire truck. Its miscellany of medication is gifted by visiting yachts. Every single one of its dozen responders is unpaid. And now ABSAR faces an uncertain future. Without more manpower, it will soon be forced to cut back on its crucial clinic services. ""We're a victim of our own success,"" Mr Cornelius admits. ""More and more people come to us every year for various treatments. The problem is, they expect us to run like a hospital and we just don't have the resources."" US-trained Mr Cornelius has been working as a paramedic for two decades, initially providing island-wide coverage alone with a pick-up truck. He established Antigua's emergency services himself, creating the clinic after getting frustrated ""sewing people up on the dock"". He regularly works an unsalaried 90-hour week, tending to most calls personally. ""We desperately need volunteers willing to show up for weekly training and be available for call-outs. ""Not everyone enjoys going out on the water at 03:00 in a four-metre swell and 35 knots of wind, so they have to be committed - and half crazy,"" Mr Cornelius adds with a wry grin. Volunteer Kiana Harrigan, 18, says she has dreamed of being a paramedic since she was a child, and testifies to its rewarding nature. ""I always wanted to help people and it sounded so exciting compared to being a nurse,"" she says. ""You see the look on someone's face after you've helped them and they are like, 'Thank God for this person.'""","Sandwiched between a bookcase of medical literature and a stack of promotional t-shirts , an elderly man sits slumped in a chair , one frail hand @placeholder the mask administering his daily fill of oxygen .",gripping,highlights,break,reached,following,0
"So what did they say? Did they even show up? And was it something Donald Trump said? He is in Cleveland, but has been avoiding the convention hall and has refused to endorse Mr Trump. Booed for failing to endorse Mr Trump, though he did congratulate the businessman on winning the nomination. Mr Cruz's words which caused most offense were: ""Please, don't stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution."" Did not turn up in the flesh but sent a pre-recorded video message in which he said: ""Unlike Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump is committed to cut taxes, curb spending, and get our national debt under control... The time for fighting each other is over, it's time to come together and fight for a new direction for America, it's time to win in November."" Told convention: ""I'm proud to support Donald Trump, an extraordinary businessman. The right leader for a time such as this."" Like his father George and brother George W, he is staying away from the convention. In an email to Reuters news agency, he wrote: ""Working out of my office in Miami this week"". The New Jersey governor told the convention: ""We have a man who is unafraid. We have a man who wants to lead us. We have a man who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens... It is time to come together and make sure that Donald Trump is our next president."" Other former contenders Carly Fiorina and Rand Paul were both expected to stay away from the convention, according to US broadcaster NPR. Mike Huckabee congratulated Mr Trump on his nomination in a tweet, and attacked other former contenders for failing to endorse him.","Some of Donald Trump 's @placeholder rivals for the Republican ticket have been back in the spotlight at the US Republican convention in Cleveland , Ohio , with the party waiting to hear how , or even if , they would endorse him .",body,major,defeated,race,position,2
"Players involved in the incident with Morpeth Town, following Newton's 3-2 FA Vase defeat, have also left the club. Dixon was dismissed ""due to the on-going ill-discipline"" of some players. ""It's not been easy but we've acted straight away and want to draw a line under it,"" chairman Allan Oliver told BBC Sport. ""If there are any investigations we will fully take part, but it is difficult to comment further."" Newton Aycliffe, of Northern Football League Division One - the ninth tier of English football - have previously been the subject of a Durham Football Association investigation after Spennymoor Town refused to play the second half of a pre-season friendly in July after the match took an ""aggressive direction"". Oliver said Dixon's departure was related only to Saturday's incident. Morpeth's joint-chairman Gary Munday said the club, who play in the same league as Newton Aycliffe, are in the process of submitting a full statement to the Football Association as the incident is understood to have also been witnessed by the match referee. While the club have not made a complaint to police, they said that if any player was to report an assault they will fully support any investigation. Video footage of the clash at Newton Aycliffe's Moore Lane Park ground against their north east rivals shows a number of players from the home side running towards and gathering at the visitors' dressing room door. Morpeth staff and coaches are said to have kept Newton Aycliffe players back, with at least one member of the home club's staff also trying to keep players out. Oliver and another staff member are also understood to have walked Morpeth players back to their cars after the match. Munday said he ""had never witnessed anything like it at a football match"" and ""applauded Newton Aycliffe's strong stance"" in dealing with the matter internally. However, he fears it could have an effect on the club's support. ""We are shocked and disgusted by what happened,"" he said. ""Morpeth Town is a very family-orientated football club as we encourage our juniors, free of charge to support the club - that grass-root support is the future of football. ""Unfortunately, we have had parents say that they will never take their children to away games again. ""We will try to encourage them back as we do feel that this is a one-off."" The BBC have contacted the FA for comment, but are yet to get a response.",Newton Aycliffe @placeholder their manager Peter Dixon after players from the non-league club fought their way into their opponents ' dressing room .,criticised,called,declared,sacked,informed,3
"The limited-overs specialist will play 14 T20 Blast matches and eight One-Day Cup games. The 26-year-old helped Northants to win last year's Twenty20 competition, scoring 360 runs at an average of 32.7. Meanwhile, Australian Jackson Bird has signed a revised contract at Northants and will play only the first six County Championship matches this year. David Ripley is currently drawing up a shortlist of potential overseas players The new arrangement was agreed with Cricket Australia and allows Jackson to have a pre-season in Australia during July and August. Jackson's final game for Northants will be against Yorkshire at the end of May. Northants chief executive David Smith told the club's website: ""The reduced schedule will see the club try and secure a second overseas bowler for a further six LVCC games. ""Our aim is to find someone that will be able to play in both the T20 Blast and County Championship. ""[Head coach] David Ripley is currently drawing up a shortlist of potential overseas players.""",South African opening batsmen Richard Levi has @placeholder Northants for the 2014 season .,promoted,rejoined,captained,extended,announced,1
"James Rhodes persuaded Supreme Court justices to lift an injunction that had barred publication. The Court of Appeal granted a temporary injunction in October, blocking publication of parts of the book. This was after Mr Rhodes's ex-wife raised fears it would cause their 12-year-old son ""serious harm"". Justices had ruled that Mr Rhodes could not be identified, either in media reports or on social media. Following the injunction, Mr Rhodes asked the Supreme Court for a ruling. Five Supreme Court justices have now ruled in his favour on Wednesday after examining the case at a January hearing. Some reporting restrictions have subsequently been lifted.",A concert pianist has won a legal battle to publish a book giving details of sexual abuse he @placeholder as a child .,denied,described,disappeared,acts,experienced,4
"Their ""collective search"" was hampered but still took place, biologists said. The insects also showed an impressive knack for regaining their footing after taking a zero-g tumble. Researchers want to learn from the ants' cooperative methods and develop search algorithms for groups of robots The ants were sent aloft in a supply rocket in January 2014, and results from the experiments are published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. The team is now beginning a citizen science project where schoolchildren can help collect data from other ant species - in their classrooms, rather than up in space. Speaking to the BBC's Science in Action, senior author Deborah Gordon said that ants have demonstrated their remarkable collective abilities in myriad environments on Earth, but the results from the microgravity conditions of the ISS were something new. ""We had no idea what the ants would do. We didn't know if they would be able to search at all,"" said Prof Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University. As it turned out, although they had a little difficulty maintaining contact as they crawled, once adrift the ants showed a ""remarkable ability"" to get their six feet back on solid ground. ""Sometimes they would grab onto another ant and climb back down... And sometimes, they somehow managed to just flatten themselves back onto the surface. I think the biomechanics of that are interesting,"" Prof Gordon said. The team sent up eight colonies of 80 common pavement ants, housed in small, transparent plastic boxes. Each container had a ""nest"" area where the animals lived. To start the experiment, a barrier was removed that allowed them to explore a new area. After a few minutes, a second barrier was lifted, expanding the available territory even further. ""The idea is to ask the ants to search a small space - and then provide more space and see what will happen when the same number of ants have to use a larger space,"" Prof Gordon explained. Equivalent experiments were also run back on Earth, for comparison. Down on ground level, adding extra space and dropping the ""density"" of ants caused them to adjust their paths, covering more ground and spreading out much more. In this way, nearly every corner of the container was visited by more than one ant within five minutes. The ants in space still did their best to search, moving out into the expanded area as expected - but they were nowhere near as effective as their counterparts on the ground, which had the luxury of normal gravity. Battling to keep their feet on the plastic surfaces, the space-ants tended not to spread out as effectively. And some parts of the new area never even encountered the patter of six tiny feet. ""The ants didn't do as well as they might have in microgravity,"" Prof Gordon said. ""I think that's partly because the effort to hold on led to them moving more slowly, and so they didn't have a chance to cover the ground as thoroughly."" Adding to the problem was the fact that ants kept dropping off the surfaces altogether, tumbling in the air for periods lasting three to eight seconds. So the ants were constantly interrupted in gauging how far apart they were. ""I don't think it'd be that easy to use interactions to keep track of density, because about 10% of the ants at any time were just floating around - and so they were not really available to interact."" When the history-making ants took their first steps in zero-g they were adding one more new environment to an already extensive list. It just happens to be a very new environment. ""There's not been a lot of evolution to shape their collective search in microgravity,"" Prof Gordon said. By contrast, nearly every clime on Earth is inhabited by at least one of the 14,000 species of ant. Different strategies have evolved in different places - for example, the European pavement ants that were taken into space tend to head straight for the edges of their new territory, while a species of Argentine ants, which the team studied previously, tends to work over fresh ground slowly and thoroughly, inch by inch. ""All ants have to perform collective search and we don't know how they do it. There may be very interesting algorithms for collective search that we haven't discovered,"" Prof Gordon said. Algorithms like these could help program robots to search in groups, without the need for a central control centre. And Prof Graham is asking for help to find out more about them. She and her team have set up a website with instructions for school classes to run the same experiment, using equipment they can make themselves, on whatever species of ant are local to their area. ""We hope that kids around the world will try this same experiment with all of the many thousands of species of ants that have never been studied,"" Prof Graham said. She has set up a website for sharing the results and hopes to build up a database of ""how different species solve this problem differently"" around the world. There is no suggestion, yet, that any other species will get the chance to strut its stuff in space. Follow Jonathan on Twitter Science in Action, featuring an interview with Deborah Gordon, broadcasts on the BBC World Service on Thursday at 18:30 GMT.","Ants @placeholder to the International Space Station were still able to use teamwork to search new areas , despite falling off the walls of their containers for up to eight seconds at a time .",carried,eased,dedicated,returned,deployed,0
"The figures, from the Office for National Statistics, showed a 29% year-on-year increase in sex crimes in 2015. The number of rapes was 34,741 and other sexual offences was 68,873, bringing the total to 103,614. The ONS said the rise reflected better recording and ""a greater willingness of victims to come forward"". The increase means the number of rapes and other sexual offences now stands at the highest level since the National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in the year ending March 2003. The ONS Crime Survey for England and Wales also showed an 11% rise in homicides - a category including murders and manslaughter - to 573 offences in 2015, which was the highest number for five years. There was a 27% rise in ""violence against the person"" offences. The ONS said: ""Improvements in crime recording processes by the police are thought to be the main driver of this change."" Firearms offences recorded by police went up 4%. ""This was largely driven by an 18% increase in offences involving imitation and other weapons such as BB guns [a type of air gun] and soft air weapons,"" the ONS said. ""By contrast, offences involving handguns, shotguns and rifles decreased by 1%."" It is the last set of such crime figures before the Police and Crime Commissioner elections as part of next month's local elections.","The number of sexual offences recorded by police in England and Wales in a year has risen to more than 100,000 for the first time , @placeholder has shown .",leaving,body,data,it,group,2
"Company chairman August Oetker was speaking ahead of a new book that studies the history of the family's links with the Nazis. His father, Rudolf-August Oetker, was a member of Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS. Rudolf-August Oetker ran the company, based in Bielefeld, northern Germany, after World War II and died in 2007. ""My father was a National Socialist,"" August Oetker said in an interview with Die Zeit newspaper. ""He didn't want to talk about this time. He said, 'children, leave me in peace'."" He said his father, who had joined the Nazi party in the 1930s, had been influenced by his step-father, Richard Kaselowsky, who was a staunch supporter of Hitler and ran Dr Oetker before him. Mr Oetker said he welcomed the publication next week of the book Dr Oetker and National Socialism, written by a German historian and funded by the company. ""I feel now we know the facts, now the fog has lifted,"" he said. Over the decades, many German companies have come under pressure to come to terms with their links to the Nazis and their actions during the 1930s and 1940s.",The @placeholder of Dr Oetker - one of the world 's biggest frozen pizza makers - has revealed the family firm 's links to Germany 's Nazi party .,state,head,rise,cast,bodies,1
"One, the Tory leader is no fan of the glitz of the TV studio. That's one reason why Number 10 is adamant that she will not take part in TV debates. But two - it's not just down to her very different style, but also, as David Cameron learnt very quickly, front runners in any campaign have everything to lose in those debates, and the underdogs have everything to gain. Downing Street knows they will take a certain amount of flak for the decision not to play ball, and the opposition parties are of course relishing every opportunity to say that the PM is too frightened to defend her record. But right now Mrs May's allies are willing to wear it, rather than broker the risk of taking part, even if the broadcasters go ahead with the programmes without her. What will you hear a lot of from the Tory leader? Well if her very first campaign visit is anything to go by, David Cameron and George Osborne's ""long-term economic plan"" mantra will be replaced by the phrase ""strong and stable"". On the stump you'd be forgiven for losing count of the number of times she used the phrase. One totting-up puts it at 13 mentions. Brexit has undoubtedly set the backdrop for this election, and provided the catalyst for its timing. But the Conservatives plan to win to deliver their version of Brexit by again and again comparing what they claim is the ""strong and stable"" leadership provided by the sitting prime minister, and the alternative put forward by Jeremy Corbyn. Tomorrow he'll make his first big election speech, his first big chance to recast that argument.","At the moment ( although we know Theresa May is very capable of changing her mind ) there wo n't be @placeholder to head TV clashes between the PM and Jeremy Corbyn - or the PM and Nicola Sturgeon , or the PM with anyone else for that matter .",need,set,head,going,time,2
"Some 5,000 people were evacuated and thousands of properties lost power after the blaze broke out under a pavement in Holborn on 1 April. The fire was put out by London Fire Brigade on Good Friday after burning for 36 hours. National Grid said engineers would return on Tuesday. During the loss of power 3,000 properties were affected, according to UK Power Networks. Eight theatres were also forced to cancel performances.",""" All but one property "" in central London has had gas @placeholder restored after an underground fire cut power to thousands of customers .",people,lamps,remains,supplies,conditioning,3
"Rowett was furious after his side lost a two-goal lead to be held 2-2 at St Andrew's to end any hope of making the Championship play-offs. ""We've held on to leads at lot better this season,"" Morrison told BBC WM. ""We're probably far too open - we need to get that bit between our teeth."" Rowett called his side ""unprofessional"" and ""lacking desire"" after seeing Clayton Donaldson's brace cancelled out by two goals in the last 17 minutes, with Greg Cunningham's equaliser coming a minute from time. ""We need to see the game out, especially at home - they had no right to get back into it,"" said 28-year-old Morrison. ""It was very disappointing and a few choice words were said. ""Early on in the season, we had a tighter shape and people were working harder maybe to be more difficult to beat."" Blues went into the game with only a mathematical chance of finishing in the top six but the result has now extinguished their promotion hopes. ""It's a difficult time after such a good season and it turning out the way it has,"" added Morrison. ""It is an anti-climax, the fans are disappointed we're not still chasing the play-offs and that does affect the players but we're still going to put 100% in.""",Captain Michael Morrison says the Birmingham City players have @placeholder the criticism aimed at them by manager Gary Rowett after their draw with Preston North End.,accepted,regained,lost,marked,retained,0
"18 February 2016 Last updated at 12:12 GMT It's from grass called 'hairy panic' that's found in every Australian state. It's 'hairy' as it's got long hairs along the edges of its leaves. It grows really fast and can form tumbleweeds - dead grass with seeds inside - which get blown away and are making a huge mess! One woman said she spent eight hours clearing the weeds, but they blew in again the next day. Some residents are saying that the tumbleweed is coming from a nearby field that a farmer hasn't looked after properly. Whatever the cause, it's making a big mess in the local houses - watch the clip to see for yourself!",Fast - growing tumbleweed is ' @placeholder ' homes in Wangaratta in south - eastern Australia .,building,growing,following,helped,invading,4
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 23 June 2013 Last updated at 13:51 BST Gary and Tracy Richardson, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, joined Church of England vicar Kate Bottley in the pre-arranged flash-mob inspired dance at St Mary's and St Martin's Church in Blyth. The bride spent eight weeks rehearsing the moves at a local church hall.",A vicar in Nottinghamshire has led a disco dance routine at the end of a @placeholder 's wedding ceremony .,woman,night,girl,cliff,couple,4
"They emerged from the marshlands of the Nile in their thousands, as word spread that help had come. Forced by fighting to live on the isolated islands of the Sudd swamps, they have been surviving for months on wild plants. Now they sat on the dry, cracked earth in long lines under a brutal sun - mostly women and children - waiting to register for the food aid which would be air-dropped in a few days time. ""We are only surviving by eating wild honey and water lilies from the river,"" said Nyambind Chan Kuar as she sat with 16 of her children and grandchildren. ""The fighting has been disastrous - children have been killed, they are taking our things, our cattle, our goats, taking everything, even though we have nothing to do with this war."" Each person is given a card that entitles them to 30 days of food rations when supplies arrive. Their finger is then stained with ink to avoid duplication. ""People are dying because of this hunger,"" said Mary Nyayain. ""That's why we are here queuing for these tokens."" The town of Thonyor in Leer County was chosen as the central point for distributing aid after long negotiations with both sides in the civil war. It's one of the four counties in Unity State suffering pockets of famine, which the latest hunger assessment says is affecting 100,000 people. Leer is the birthplace of the former vice-president turned rebel leader Riek Machar which is perhaps why it has been the centre of so much fighting. Thonyor is controlled by the rebels or the ""IO"" as they're known - forces ""In Opposition"" - but the government troops are just 20 minutes up the road. ""The war has been so difficult for us,"" said another woman waiting in line for a cholera vaccination. ""Especially for the old women who are not able to run to the river to survive in the islands. Our cows and goats were taken so that's why we are only able to survive through the food agency."" Under each tree is a different medical post - with health checks for the children. The worst cases of malnutrition are treated straight away. ""You may think this child is actually very healthy - he's fat, he's looking OK,"" said James Bwirani from the Food and Agriculture Organisation. ""But this is just water accumulating in the body and he has not been consuming adequate food for some time."" The child has a distended belly and his face and limbs are swollen. ""If left untreated for between a week to two weeks, this child is going to be dead,"" Mr Bwirani said. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is coordinating this emergency response, expecting about 36,000 people to come in from the swamps for help. But there are many thousands more who are too far away, cut off by rivers or in areas where the government and the rebels have not agreed to provide access. ""For many, many months humanitarian agencies have not been able to make it into this area. This is first time we're doing so,"" said George Fominyen from the WFP. ""Without safety, without assurance of security for the people that are in need and the aid workers, we'll be having a catastrophic situation down the line."" The UN describes this as ""a man-made famine"" - created by the civil war which has divided the army and the country largely along ethnic lines. A political row between President Salva Kiir and Mr Machar led to killings in the capital and fighting which has spread across the country. The war has displaced millions of people, many into neighbouring countries, and 40% of the population now depends on international aid. Mr Machar fled South Sudan in July when a fragile peace deal collapsed. He is currently in South Africa, unable to return but apparently still commanding his troops by phone. Leer county commissioner Brig Gen Nhial Phan said there won't be peace until Mr Machar is allowed back to take part in a proposed national dialogue. He believes President Kiir wants to drive people out of his county. ""The government kills people - their militia is raiding, taking cows, killing and burning the church and the houses, forcing people into the islands,"" he said. There are scorch marks where the market used to be and the remains of a Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic, destroyed when the government forces took the town for two days last November. By getting help in fast, aid agencies hope to pull this region back from famine and stop the famine from spreading - if they are allowed to access to the worst affected areas.","Three years of civil war in South Sudan have driven thousands of families into the marshes of the Nile to hide from the fighting . A famine has been @placeholder some parts . The BBC 's Alastair Leithead has been to the rebel - held town Thonyor in Leer County , where people have been told to gather to get help .",dubbed,discovered,affected,declared,released,3
"So how did the 43-year-old reach this point in his political career? A free thinker, who led the campaign to unseat Commons Speaker Michael Martin in the last Parliament, Mr Carswell has never hidden his disdain for the ""job for life"" culture among some MPs in safe seats and the ""cosy cliques"" that dominate decision-making in government. Most newly-elected MPs put their head down and get on with the job of climbing Westminster's greasy pole. But the Clacton MP, who entered the Commons in 2005, refused to play the game from the start, speaking openly of his ""revulsion"" at the system and how, frankly, he was embarrassed to be an MP. In his book, The Plan, co-authored with Tory MEP Daniel Hannan, he set out 28 steps to ""renew our broken democracy"" and ""get our supine, spineless Parliament off its knees"". He had high hopes that David Cameron, whom he backed in the 2005 Tory leadership contest, would push through some of their proposed reforms - such as open primaries, where all voters in a constituency get to choose party candidates, and giving voters the power to recall their MP if they are doing a bad job. But in February this year he was, along with other maverick backbench Tories, bitterly disappointed to see plans for recall powers dropped by the coalition. He told BBC News: ""This government could have been different, but I think this marks the moment at which it becomes just another administration."" This - together with his belief that the Conservatives were not truly committed to changing Britain's relationship with the EU - undoubtedly fed into his decision to jump ship to UKIP. Mr Carswell has long agitated for a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the EU - an institution he views as being profoundly undemocratic and lacking in accountability. He is an ardent believer in the power of the internet to revolutionise the way we are governed - by smashing open closed institutions such as the EU and handing direct democratic control to the public. He set out some of these ideas in his 2012 book, The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy. In December 2009, he introduced a bill before the House of Commons requesting a public referendum on the UK's EU membership. And in his first week after being re-elected at the 2010 general election, he revealed he intended to force a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon. Among his rebellions, Mr Carswell tabled an amendment expressing concern over the increase in the EU budget in October 2010. Born in 1971, Mr Carswell spent his early years living in Uganda, where his parents worked as doctors in a local hospital. He was educated at the University of East Anglia and King's College London, and worked in digital television, investment management and the Conservative Party policy unit - run by David Cameron - before becoming an MP. He is married to Clementine and has a daughter. In his spare time, he has said he enjoys swimming, running, gardening as well as making quince jelly. Mr Carswell reportedly owns a £655 love seat in deep moss brushed cotton while his father was the inspiration for James McAvoy's character in the Last King Of Scotland, the British doctor who went to work in Uganda and found himself working for Idi Amin. Mr Carswell first stood for Parliament in 2001, taking on Tony Blair as the Tory candidate for Sedgefield. Despite apologising for coming second he still managed to cut Mr Blair's majority by more than 7,500 votes. In 2005 he was elected as MP for Harwich, defeating Labour's candidate by just 920 votes. By 2010 he defeated the same opponent by 12,000 votes - although boundary changes had seen the seat renamed Clacton. During that contest UKIP did not field a candidate, supporting what they saw as the re-election of a kindred spirit. Mr Carswell went on to gain a reputation as an outspoken Tory moderniser, influencing initiatives such as David Cameron's Big Society and campaigning for the reform of parliamentary expenses following the 2009 scandal. He once told the BBC he was attracted to politics because ""our democracy is being undermined, with remote and unaccountable elites making the key decisions that affect our lives"". Adding to his other accolades, the MP revealed on Twitter in January that he had brought down a suspected shoplifter in his constituency. ""You probably don't want to hear this, but I'm your local MP,"" he reportedly told the individual. Mr Carswell's bold announcement may not have been out of character, but he said the decision to leave the Conservative Party has given him sleepless nights. He has vowed to fight on for ""fundamental change in British politics"" - something he now believes only UKIP can deliver. In the by-election on 9 October, Mr Carswell won 60% of the total number of votes cast, and secured a majority of 12,404. Addressing local voters after his victory, he said: ""I resigned from parliament to face this election because I answer first, foremost and last to you. You are my boss. I will not let you down."" ""To my new party I offer these thoughts: humility when we win, modesty when we are proved right. If we speak with passion, let it always be tempered by compassion.""","Douglas Carswell has made history by becoming UKIP 's first elected MP , after winning the Clacton by-election he @placeholder after defecting from the Conservatives with a majority of 12,404 .",enjoyed,runs,triggered,contested,held,2
"It said it had ""received information of possible threats"" at city locations where Western nationals gather. Uganda's government said the US had warned of a possible suicide bomber trying to enter the country. Uganda was under threat because its troops were fighting militant Islamists in Somalia, a spokesman added. In 2010, Somalia's al-Shabab militants carried out a suicide bombing in Kampala, killing 76 people as they watched the football World Cup final. The US embassy said an attack ""may take place soon"". Some planned events had been cancelled at Kampala hotels, it added. Border controls have been tightened to stop the suspected suicide bomber and his accomplices from crossing into Uganda, government spokesman Ofwono Opondo told the BBC. Uganda is a key contributor to the African Union mission fighting al-Shabab inside Somalia. Last September, Uganda was stripped of the right to host an international cricket tournament because of security concerns.","The US embassy in Uganda has warned that Westerners - @placeholder Americans - may be targeted for "" terrorist "" attacks in the capital Kampala .",editing,providing,including,imposed,ranging,2
"The Guardian alleges a payment of about £1m was paid into the account during the race to host the 2020 Games. In March, French prosecutors investigating corruption in athletics widened their scope to include the bidding and voting processes for the hosting of the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. The British newspaper says French police are believed to be studying the allegation. In a statement, the IOC said it had been ""in contact with the French magistrates in charge of the investigation on the IAAF [athletics' world governing body] case, and with Wada [World Anti-Doping Agency], since its start"". It added: ""The IOC's chief ethics and compliance officer will continue to be in contact with all interested parties to clarify any alleged improper conduct. The IOC will not comment any further on the elements of the investigations at this stage."" The Tokyo bid first came under scrutiny in January when the second part of a Wada commission report into corruption included a footnote detailing a conversation between another of Lamine Diack's sons, Khalil, and Turkish officials heading up the Istanbul bid team. A transcript of the conversation cited in the report suggested a ""sponsorship"" payment of between $4m and $5m (£2.8m and £3.4m) had been made by the Japanese bid team ""either to the Diamond League or IAAF"". The footnote claims the Istanbul bid ""lost Lamine Diack's support because they did not pay"". Wada's independent commission said it did not investigate the claims ""for it was not within our remit"". A Tokyo 2020 spokeswoman described the note in Wada's report as ""beyond our understanding"", adding that ""Tokyo's bid was about Japan's commitment to address issues around the integrity of sport"". Lamine Diack, the former president of the IAAF, is already being investigated by French authorities. He was arrested last year on corruption and money laundering charges, over allegations he took payments for deferring sanctions against Russian drugs cheats. His son Papa Massata, who was employed by his father as a marketing consultant for the IAAF, is also under investigation, and a warrant for his arrest has been issued by Interpol. Diack Jr has been banned for life by the IAAF but told the BBC in December he and his father were innocent of the claims against them. The IOC overhauled its rules - and regained trust in the integrity of its bidding process - since the 1999 Salt Lake City bribery scandal exposed systematic corruption. In February, Wada commission chief Dick Pound said he was ""fairly certain"" the IOC was free of organised corruption, but just a month later the French prosecutors opened their investigation into the bidding processes for 2016 and 2020.","The International Olympic Committee has refused to comment on claims that the successful Tokyo Olympic bid team made a "" seven - figure payment "" to an account @placeholder to the son of former world athletics chief Lamine Diack .",directed,given,fastened,linked,dedicated,3
"Raised By Wolves, which was written by Caitlin Moran and her sister Caroline and based on their upbringing, was shelved by Channel 4 after two series. It was one of a number of UK winners at the Berlin ceremony, which drew its nominees from across Europe. BBC Two's Inside No 9, written by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, was named best comedy. In other categories: John Cleese was honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry. In his acceptance speech, Cleese said television executives and channel controllers should place more faith in writers and performers to deliver success. He said: ""When Monty Python was commissioned, we didn't really know what we were going to do but we were trusted. The talent has a better record than the suits, so why don't they bear that in mind? ""The trouble with executives isn't that they have no idea what they are doing, but that they have no idea that they have no idea."" Non-British winners included Swedish public service broadcaster SVT, which won the entertainment prize for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. The ceremony was hosted by BBC radio presenter Paddy O'Connell. The Rose d'Or Awards were established in 1961, honour the best online content and radio and TV shows from the previous year. The awards are open to submissions from around the world. The UK has triumphed in the best sitcom category every year since the awards began, with winners including Friday Night Dinner, Peep Show, Extras, The IT Crowd and The Inbetweeners. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",A comedy series which was @placeholder by Channel 4 has been named best sitcom at the prestigious Rose d' Or Awards .,screened,attacked,staffed,cancelled,dominated,3
"Cambridge United supporter Simon Dobbin, 42, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, was brutally assaulted after his team played at Southend United on 21 March. He suffered a head injury and is critically ill in hospital. His sister Victoria Forsythe said she and her family were ""not in any way upset or angry"" at Southend fans. She said that in fact, they felt ""much the opposite"" as Southend supporters had ""supported us through this tough time and continue to do so"". ""As a family, we are hopeful and are holding on to the miracle that Simon will wake up."" The grandfather remains in a medically-induced coma at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. He also sustained a broken hip and broken nose during the attack in the Essex town's East Street. Police said Mr Dobbin and his friends had left the Blue Boar pub when they were assaulted by a group of men who had come out of another pub. The fight was broken up by police using CS spray. Det Ch Insp Martin Pasmore said: ""He is a decent family man who was simply enjoying a day out. ""It is my intention to identify everyone involved in this sickening attack and bring them to justice."" A fundraising appeal has made nearly £10,500 to help Mr Dobbin's family. Four men, aged 19 to 33 and all from Essex, have been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and released on bail.",The sister of a football fan who is in a coma after being attacked by up to 15 people @placeholder a match has praised rival supporters for their concern .,wearing,wielding,following,holding,attended,2
"The man was seized in the southern province of Daraa, government and opposition sources said. No group said they had carried out the abduction but rebels have targeted the families of officials in the past. Meanwhile, President Bashar al-Assad reiterated that he would not resign, despite growing international pressure. ""To resign would be to flee,"" Mr Assad told Argentina's Clarin newspaper and news agency Telam. Comparing himself to a skipper of a ship in stormy seas: ""The first thing he does is face the storm and guide the ship back to safety."" The president also welcomed US-Russian efforts to hold a peace conference on Syria, but warned that Damascus did not ""believe that many Western countries really want a solution in Syria"". In a separate development, a car bomb blast in Damascus killed three people and injured five. Syria's state media blamed ""terrorists"" for the explosion, adding that experts were working at the scene to dismantle another explosive device. Mr Mekdad's father, who is said to be in his 80s, was abducted in his home village of Ghossom on Saturday, the deputy foreign minister's office was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. According to a Facebook post by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based opposition body which monitors news from Syria, ""regime forces have since detained relatives of a suspect thought to be involved in the kidnapping"". Adding that ""rebel battalions and factions have denied responsibility of the action"", the Observatory noted that an undeclared agreement to cease mutual kidnappings was supposed to have taken effect in Daraa on Friday. Faisal Mekdad has given interviews to Western media, defending President Bashar al-Assad. Last month he told the BBC's Jeremy Bowen that Syria was facing a conspiracy by the West and al-Qaeda to destroy its independence but he insisted the government was ""winning the war"". Since the uprising against Mr Assad began just over two years ago, the UN estimates that at least 80,000 people have been killed and some 4.25 million people have been displaced from their homes.","Gunmen in Syria have abducted the elderly father of Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad , one of the most powerful @placeholder in the government .",events,officials,voices,forces,groups,2
"Amarjeet Singh-Bhakar, 37, died after being stabbed in the neck after a disturbance on Prince Edward Avenue, Rhyl, on 30 April. Two teenage youths have been charged with his murder and are due to stand trial in October. North Wales Police believe a taxi driver may have vital information. Det Insp Gary Kelly said the driver of a light coloured saloon or long-shaped taxi, may have slowed down on the avenue at the time of the incident.",Police investigating the murder of a shopkeeper in Rhyl are looking for a taxi driver who may have @placeholder the fatal attack .,following,organised,suffered,released,witnessed,4
"With talk of resignations, hung parliaments, and maybe even another election, there's plenty going on. Here's a brief guide to current events following the surprise UK election result. The Conservatives won the election. They are the largest party with the most seats - 318. But the opposition Labour party, which lost the election with just 262 seats, is delighted. Why? Because the election is widely being seen as a catastrophe for sitting prime minister Theresa May. She did not need to call this election - it was not due until 2020. But she thought she saw political weakness in the Labour party, due to a perceived division between different factions in the party. Instead, her party lost 13 seats (Labour gained 30), resulting in what Brits call a ""hung parliament"" - which just means no single party has a majority of 326 seats. Now she needs to rely on other parties - in this case, the Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP - to govern. The prime minister and her party are currently hashing out a deal with the DUP to stay in power. The DUP is a Northern Ireland party, which won 10 seats in the election. Those seats are the key to Theresa May forming a government. But the deal is not without its problems. The DUP are hard-line unionists - set against a united independent Ireland, and dedicated to preserving Northern Ireland as part of the UK (the rest of Ireland is an independent republic). The founder of the DUP, Rev Ian Paisley, was a fundamentalist Protestant preacher. While the party isn't as religious as it was in the 1970s, it still opposes same-sex marriage and is anti-abortion. One MP is a climate change denier, and another is a creationist. Those policies are not widely shared by other UK politicians. In short, most other parties have ruled out working with the Conservatives, so Theresa May has little choice. She needs to bring in another eight seats to get over the 326-vote magic number needed to pass laws in parliament. The Scottish National Party (35 seats) and Liberal Democrats (12 seats) both ruled out working with the Conservatives - the SNP even said it would form a coalition just to keep them out of government if possible. Sinn Féin, an Irish republican party, don't take their Westminster seats (and have not done so for more than 100 years). The DUP is the only viable option. Labour and the Conservatives are political rivals, so it's extremely unlikely that they would work together. Their ideologies lean to different sides of the political spectrum, and they have traditionally opposed one another on major spending and social issues. A national united government is not impossible - but it last happened in World War Two, with Winston Churchill's war ministry. To pass laws, all you need is a majority of votes cast on that specific piece of legislation. But to guarantee anything, you need a stable 326 seats (half the parliament's 650, plus one more). Because of the UK election system, it's very common for one party to have more than half of the seats, and form a government all by itself. But now, the prime minister can't do this. That leaves her with two options: But either way, the Conservatives' lead is tiny - just a few seats. All it would take is a handful of MPs to rebel on a controversial vote - say, school or healthcare funding - and the government would be unable to pass legislation. The first chance to make a deal is on 13 June, when parliament sits for the first time since the election. Then there's the Queen's speech - a UK tradition for the state opening of a new parliament. The speech gives details of the government's agenda for the year, and had been due on 19 June but has now been delayed. One of the reasons for the delay is, we're told, because the speech has to be written on a goat-skin parchment (traditionally vellum, but no longer containing actual goat), which takes days to dry - so it would not be ready in time. Many social media users were baffled by the supposed cause of the delay - including the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg. Goats aside, here's the thing - although the Queen reads the speech out loud for the ceremony, it's written by the government. So everything has to be agreed and planned before then. The Queen leaves, and the politicians debate the plan, and the House of Commons takes a vote on it. If things get to this stage, it's incredibly unlikely the speech would fail a vote - it's largely symbolic. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says it's not over yet, but he can only be prime minister if Labour form a government. That's unlikely with the current numbers. Even if Labour gets the support of other parties, it cannot form a majority - not even the narrow, insecure one the Conservatives can. Labour could, of course, try to form a minority government, with all the associated difficulties. Many people think their best chance could lie in another election. There is already talk of a another election. Theoretically, there's a fixed term to this parliament, and it shouldn't end until 2022. But if no-one can form a working government, the UK's rules allow another election to be called. If that happens, expect both sides to campaign hard for seats they narrowly lost, and claim that more votes for them will offer the security that didn't manifest the first time around. A lot of the political commentary is about how unstable a minority government can be. That's because, without a majority, a government cannot guarantee confidence in itself. Basically, to force an election, MPs from the other parties can move a motion in the House of Commons which says: ""That this House has no confidence in HM Government"" (HM, of course, being Her Majesty's Government). If that motion passes, negotiations begin all over again to form another government. If that can't be done in two weeks - another election is called. It's... a little complicated. The DUP is definitely pro-Brexit. They were the biggest sceptics on the EU - at least, until the UK Independence Party emerged. But because of their staunch unionist approach, the party doesn't want any ""special deals"" done between the EU and Northern Ireland. They don't want to be ""special"" or in any way separate from the UK. That's complicated because the Republic of Ireland, to the south, is an EU member and will remain so. Which means there could be a customs or migration border - something both sides want to avoid. The DUP says it wants the border to be as ""seamless and frictionless"" as possible. But it's a complicated issue no matter who is negotiating it.","If you 're @placeholder to understand why 10 MPs from Northern Ireland appear to be keeping Theresa May as prime minister of the entire United Kingdom , you 're not alone .",looking,struggling,going,listen,according,1
"Officers had to intervene when violence flared in the Olympic Park following Saturday's 1-1 draw between the two Premier League clubs. Police escorted Middlesbrough fans away from the stadium while cordoning off some West Ham supporters. The trouble followed recent crowd disturbances inside the stadium. At the first Premier League match at the venue - against Bournemouth on 21 August - some fans arrived with tickets for seats that did not exist, while fighting broke out between rival supporters outside the stadium. West Ham confirmed that 10 fans were ejected from the stadium during the 4-2 defeat by Watford last month. Some of the disturbances inside the ground are believed to be over persistent standing during matches. The club asked E20, which owns the club's London Stadium home, to ensure there is a police presence in the ground after recent trouble. But the Metropolitan Police turned down the request because the £700m ground does not have a ""satisfactory"" radio system. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.",Police had to separate West Ham and Middlesbrough fans after they @placeholder during disturbances outside the Hammers ' new London Stadium .,arrived,failed,lost,clashed,died,3
"Of pupils classified as ""white British"", 94% are in schools with a white British majority. Researchers say schools are more segregated than their local areas. ""We would hope for a much greater level of integration for students,"" said Richard Norrie from the Demos think tank which published the report. The analysis from the Demos Integration Hub and Simon Burgess of the University of Bristol looks at how white and ethnic minority pupils are spread within schools. It shows patterns of pupils being more likely to be taught with pupils from a similar background - in a way that does not always reflect local populations. In London, about 26% of pupils are white British, but 49% of these children are in schools with a white British majority. Children from Bangladeshi, Pakistani and black Caribbean communities are also disproportionately likely to be at school with children from the same ethnic background. About a third of pupils in primary school are now from ethnic minorities, but this study shows that below this average there are very wide regional differences. In seven local authorities in London, there are no white British pupils in a school with a white British majority. While in 71 authorities across England, there are no ethnic minority pupils in schools where they are in a majority. The study examines where there is greatest segregation, in terms of how dissimilar school intakes are to local populations. The top 10 authorities with the highest levels of segregation are mostly in the North and Midlands: Blackburn with Darwen, Birmingham, Haringey, Bradford, Rochdale, Kirklees, Leicester, Oldham, Rotherham, and Manchester. The study does not examine why or how such segregation takes place, on a local or national level, but it says that research shows that this is not simply a reflection of where people live. It points to research that ""schools were more segregated than the local neighbourhoods that they served"". Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Mapping Integration Project at Demos and former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, said this was ""not a story of terrible racial hostility"". Instead, he said, it reflected demographic shifts and a pattern of the individual, localised choices of parents about where they and their children would feel ""comfortable"". ""Most families unconsciously make a choice which tends to line up with their own racial background,"" said Mr Phillips. But he said this tendency towards separation had a negative effect, not preparing children for a diverse society. Mr Phillips said the success of schools in London showed how much children from all backgrounds could benefit from schools with a high proportion of ethnic minority pupils. Prof Burgess said that although schools ""in some places remain highly segregated"", the longer-term trend is that such separation is ""generally declining or is stable"". But Dr Norrie said: ""While we couldn't expect these communities to spread out on a truly equal scale, we would hope for a much greater level of integration for students at the start of their education."" The analysis of ethnicity and education shows that, allowing for socio-economic factors, white British pupils are the lowest achieving group at GCSE level. The study also shows that ethnic minority pupils are more likely to have private tutors, more likely to attend private school and go to a Russell Group university than their white counterparts. Last week, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw said that there needed to be more good and outstanding schools available to white, working-class communities. Sir Michael warned that white low-income families can feel ""abandoned"" and ""forgotten"" by the school system.","A study of ethnic "" segregation "" in schools in England shows 61 % of ethnic minority pupils @placeholder schools where ethnic minority pupils are a majority .",struggling,enter,levels,published,covering,1
"The Italian club have contacted Everton about the Cameroon striker, who only joined the club from Chelsea in August on a two-year deal. Eto'o, 33, has scored three goals in 14 league appearances this season. ""A couple of clubs contacted us in the last 12 hours so I decided to leave him out,"" said manager Roberto Martinez. ""We will see what is best for him and us over the next few days."" Eto'o would become the second striker to depart Goodison Park this month, after Hallam Hope moved to Bury for an undisclosed fee. The veteran striker has previously played for Real Mallorca, Barcelona, Inter Milan and Anzhi Makhachkala during a nomadic career.",Samuel Eto'o could leave Everton after he was left out of the team against West Ham in the FA Cup - amid interest from clubs @placeholder Sampdoria .,reports,including,proved,neighbours,chasing,1
"Why have they moved in a sheep-like way in collectively making these disclosures? Well they all had to consider making this announcement last weekend when opinion polls showed the possibility of Scottish independence was no longer remote. As I have mentioned many times, they had been considering for months how to ensure their main transactions would continue to be in sterling and how to be confident they would still be regulated by the Bank of England and would have access to the Bank's emergency lending facilities (which is a matter of corporate life and death, literally, in a crisis). Without being able to demonstrate such continuity of currency and regulation, there was a risk they would lose access to vital credit and that depositors would take flight. It was not rocket science that the simplest way to secure this continuity was to become properly English, rather than Scottish - especially after the Westminster government and Labour said they would never agree to monetary union with Scotland. Now the probable migration south was implied by Royal Bank of Scotland, for example, in its last annual report (and I was writing and broadcasting about RBS's and Lloyds' plans to become English for weeks before RBS's annual report was published). So why firm up these plans now, rather than the day after the referendum? Well I am told the chain reaction of announcements was started by the leak of Lloyds' plans to the Sun Newspaper - in the sense that RBS got wind of this leak yesterday and then convened an emergency board meeting last night to sign off its own migration plans. And once these two banks had decided that it was right and proper to tell investors about plans to become English if Scotland became independent, every other bank with important Scottish interests had to show its hand - or risk creating damaging market uncertainty. For what its worth, some bankers have seen the invisible hand of 10 Downing Street corralling these bankers to make announcements that have been embarrassing for Alex Salmond and those campaigning for independence. ""There was someone in Number 10 trying to get the banks to co-ordinate on this"" a senior banker told me. But Downing Street says this isn't true. So I cannot tell you if there is sinister Sassenach conspiracy here. What I can tell you is that there are some economic consequences from the relocation, but quantifying them is hard. Vast numbers of jobs would not leave Scotland, although a few high quality ones would. And, along with the relocation of some fund management operations to England, Scotland could lose valuable export earnings. The implications for tax are murkier. Before the crash, the likes of Lloyds and RBS were huge payers of corporation tax. That said, it will be years before they fund any exchequer in this way again, because they are still rebuilding their operations and have accumulated vast losses to shelter any future corporation tax liability. So corporation tax would not have been seen as a big source of income from RBS or Lloyds by either Edinburgh or Westminster for a few years yet. However corporation tax as a potential future revenue stream from the top companies of these banks will  eventually flow to England,  Northern Ireland and Wales, not Scotland, if Scots break away from the rest of the United Kingdom (and by the way, any corporation tax payable on RBS's or Lloyds' relatively small Scottish operations would of course flow to Edinburgh, if Scotland becomes an autonomous nation), By contrast both Lloyds and RBS are big payers of the banking levy introduced by the current government. If the Scottish government had hopes of channelling this to their own coffers, that will no longer happen. Finally there is the biggest source of tax payable by RBS and Lloyds, which is the unrecovered VAT they pay on their costs but cannot recover from VAT charged on their income (because most of their income is interest, on which VAT isn't payable). By the way, because of this unrecovered VAT, RBS is the fourth or fifth biggest taxpayer in the UK. Again the bulk of this VAT will continue to flow to HMRC in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. But, to be honest, I am not sure if Scotland could ever have hoped to secure the lion's share of this. However, in a globalised world of multinationals, working out where tax is paid - if it is paid - is ferociously complicated. That said, in summary the proposed relocation of these banks might reduce the flow of taxes to Edinburgh a bit - but I cannot tell you whether the reduction in tax flows, relative to what Alex Salmond and his colleagues were expecting, would be big.","You might be interested in why so many banks - Lloyds , RBS , Clydesdale , TSB and Tesco Bank - have all said in the past 24 hours that in the @placeholder of Scotland voting for independence they would move their legal homes south of the border or create new English companies for some of their operations .",event,course,space,aftermath,absence,0
"The visitors led 28-0 at half-time as Jodie Broughton scored twice, while Vincent Duport, Krisnan Inu and Greg Mounis also went over. Richie Myler and Willie Mason grabbed second-half tries, while Pat Richards kicked six conversions from seven attempts for a personal tally of 12. Catalans are now two points behind league leaders Warrington. The visitors took the lead when Mason's long run set up a free-flowing move for Broughton to go over, but Pat Richards put the conversion to the left of the upright, Duport jumped over on the left-hand side and Inu set up Broughton for his second, with Richards converting both tries. The hosts had a try overturned for a knock-on before Inu jumped first to a high-dropping ball for the visitors' fourth try and Mounis took advantage of poor Hull defending to score. Richards added the extras on each occasion as Catalans opened up a 28-point lead. Myler crashed over from close range for the first try of the second half, before things got worse for the hosts when Ben Cockayne was sin-binned for a professional foul. Mason placed the ball on the line for a seventh try, while Tony Gigot had a try disallowed for a double movement. Media playback is not supported on this device Hull KR coach James Webster: ""This was a game too far for us. I know the other teams have had the same number of games in the same number of days, but we started below them. ""We've been up for the other games, but the dam burst for us. Some of the players haven't been in the environment before because they have been playing for West Hull or the under-19s. ""We now have nine days to prepare for the cup game against Oldham which will give us time to do some training on the pitch which we haven't been able to do lately."" Catalans Dragons coach Laurent Frayssinous: ""We have a good squad. I have never been worried about what people say about us. ""We want to keep on working hard for each other. Consistency is the key. ""We defended very well as a team. We are getting better and better and so is our technique. ""In the past we have been described as an offensive team but after the last two weeks I am glad to say we are a very good defensive team too."" Hull KR: Cockayne, Sio, Minns, Thornley, Dixon, Blair, Marsh, Mulhern, Lawler, Tilse, Clarkson, Greenwood, Allgood. Replacements: Lunt, Green, Moran, Walker. Catalans Dragons: Gigot, Broughton, Inu, Duport, Richards, Bosc, Myler, Taylor, Pelissier, Mason, Stewart, Anderson, Baitieri. Replacements: Bousquet, Mounis, Elima, Robin. Referee: Richard Silverwood (RFL). Attendance: 6,764",Catalans Dragons ran in seven tries as they moved up to second in Super League with a blanking of @placeholder Hull KR .,struggling,control,murdering,achieving,smoke,0
"The Minton archive, which contains hundreds of designs, drawings and patterns from famous Victorian designers - including Augustus Pugin - had been put up for sale by its former owners Waterford Wedgwood. However, the Art Fund, a national charity, led a campaign to raise the money to keep it in the city. The fund said it was ""delighted"". It said it had been trying to protect the archive from sale at auction and ""piecemeal dispersal"" since it was first put up for sale in 2007. It agreed a price with the archive's current owners, the Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton company, which said it was ""delighted"" the archive would remain in Staffordshire. Minton was a ceramics company which merged with Royal Doulton after World War Two. The archive will now be catalogued and parts of it put on display at the Wedgwood Museum and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke. Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, said: ""For years, the Art Fund has fought to protect the Minton Archive, keeping it in its rightful place in Staffordshire, and bringing it into safe public ownership. ""We're delighted that an archive that incorporates major works of art amidst a treasure trove of industrial history has finally been saved for the nation."" Charlie Stewart, from Stoke-on-Trent City Council, said: ""The archive gives us a direct insight into the lives of Stoke-on-Trent people in the 19th and 20th centuries and is a priceless window into the city's industrial heritage.""","An archive of Victorian pottery designs has been "" saved "" for Stoke - on - Trent @placeholder a £ 1.5 m fundraising campaign .",carrying,needs,awarded,following,launched,3
"Keith Stewart found that the loch goes to a depth of 889ft (270.9m) on sonar equipment he uses. The official maximum depth on the current chart for Loch Ness is 754ft (229.8m). But the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), which is responsible for the official measurements, said it has no plans to resurvey the loch. Mr Stewart's discovery has been dubbed a new hiding place for the loch's mythical monster, Nessie. The MCA is responsible for mapping the sea and deep lochs and lakes around the UK. It does this in order to maintain British Admiralty charts under the UK Civil Hydrography Programme. An MCA spokeswoman said: ""We currently have no plans to resurvey Loch Ness.""",A tour boat skipper has @placeholder a new deepest point in Loch Ness on his vessel 's equipment .,taken,signed,prompted,recorded,issued,3
"Arthur Heeler-Frood also apologised to the police ""for the time they spent looking for me and for the worry I have caused family and friends"". The teenager, from Axminster, Devon, was found ""safe and well"" 10 miles away from his home on Tuesday. He went missing on 6 September, saying he was ""bored"" with his life. More on the returned teenager, and other news Parents Jeremy and Caroline Heller-Frood said: ""We are overjoyed to have Arthur home with us again; tired, grubby and rather smelly but otherwise none the worse for his experiences. We feel extremely lucky that he is safe and sound. ""Many thanks to Devon and Cornwall Police for their professionalism and their tireless search for Arthur."" Arthur's parents also expressed their ""deep gratitude to all our friends and family who have supported us through this difficult time"". He went missing after leaving home for school. The next day his parents received a letter from the teenager saying he would be back within a year and not to try to find him or make him come home. His disappearance sparked a nationwide hunt and appeals to Facebook to help trace him. Arthur took £350 in cash with him, but did not take his phone, passport or many belongings. He was found in Honiton after a person saw him on a train travelling from Exeter and called police. His parents said: ""We now wish to spend some time in private with Arthur to settle him back home and to make some plans for his future.""","A 15 - year - old boy who went missing for 10 weeks said he went to London , Birmingham and Manchester and @placeholder rough at night .",slept,injuring,beat,threatened,sold,0
"The Wrestler star, 62, defeated Elliot Seymour - a former California Golden Gloves champion 33 years his junior. Rourke sent Seymour to the canvas twice in the second round before the referee stopped the fight. The Oscar nominated actor was an amateur boxer before finding fame in Hollywood movies such as 9 1/2 Weeks. The organisers of the match said the boxers were receiving ""large amounts of money"" in fees but declined to give details. ""I'm very happy to be back to the boxing ring. Thank God for letting me do this"", Rourke said ahead of his fight with 29-year-old Seymour. He refused to go into detail about his motivations for returning to the ring, but told Russian TV boxing had ""sort of saved me from myself"". The actor is reported to have lost more than 33lbs (15kg) for the fight, weighing in at 179.2lbs (81.3kg), the same as his rival. Seymour is ranked 256th in the United States and before the fight with Rourke had one knockout and nine losses in 10 bouts. Rourke returned to boxing as a professional in the 1990s and was undefeated in eight fights, with six wins and two draws. However he suffered a number of facial injuries, which required surgery and changed his appearance. In 2008 Rourke won a Bafta and Golden Globe for his role in the film The Wrestler, which told the tale of a former wrestling professional who decided to return to the sport. He was also nominated for a best actor Oscar, but lost out to Sean Penn in Milk.",Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has won an @placeholder boxing match in Moscow after returning to the ring for the first time in 20 years .,end,offer,emergency,event,exhibition,4
"Thousands of athletes of all abilities took part in the new day-long event around St James' Park. Paralympic athletes David Weir and Richard Whitehead also took part in the race which finished outside Buckingham Palace. The Bupa Westminster Mile featured more than 30 races. Farah said: ""I am very happy to be part of this new event taking place on the most famous mile in the world, following the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics in London. ""Such an event inclusive of all age groups and abilities, is a great legacy from the (Olympic) games and an inspiration to all."" Lisa Dobriskey - who in 2009 broke the four minute barrier to move second behind Kelly Holmes on the British all time ranking list for a 1500m race - also took part. The event was organised by the London Marathon in partnership with Westminster City Council. London Marathon race director Hugh Brasher said: ""Britain has an amazing heritage in the mile, with Sir Roger Bannister being the first person to run under four minutes and more latterly the 1980s world record holders Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram. ""We believe that this exciting new event can carry on the great work that London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games did to inspire a generation.""",Double Olympic gold medal winner Mo Farah @placeholder the starting pistol on a series of one - mile races in Westminster .,spent,dubbed,became,won,fired,4
"Primary school-children have covered an area of 2,700 sq ft with the boards at Bude beach in Cornwall. The polystyrene boards were removed from three beaches in the South West in August by Keep Britain Tidy's BeachCare programme. University students will use them to create a more eco-friendly design. Neil Hembrow, BeachCare Officer said: ""If we collected these UK wide we would have a huge warehouse full. ""They are manufactured in China, shipped over 5000 miles and surfed for 10 minutes before breaking and going to landfill - it is such an incredible waste"". BeachCare calculates that if 200 boards were discarded on every beach across the South West, that would equate to over 28,000 boards filling up landfill sites. The organisation is urging people to buy more expensive boards which will last longer.",About 600 broken bodyboards collected from beaches over the summer are being @placeholder high to highlight the amount of waste they create .,held,painted,causing,stacked,declared,3
"The air campaign began a week ago, with Moscow declaring it was targeting positions of so-called Islamic State (IS) and other Islamists. But Turkey and other Nato allies fear the principal targets are Syrian opposition groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad. Russia's Muslims tend to fall into three camps: those who support the Kremlin campaign, those who condemn President Assad and his allies but back actions against IS, and those who support IS. More than 11 million Russians are Muslim, according to official figures that date back to 2011. But experts believe the true figure could be as high as 20 million - nearly 14% of the population. Russia has more than 80 muftis who lead its Muslim community, but their influence and attitudes vary significantly. Almost 6,400 of Russia's 7,000 mosques are controlled by muftis who are more or less loyal to state officials. They supported President Vladimir Putin's decision to start air strikes on Syria - though in their statements pro-Kremlin muftis did not comment on Western allegations that many of the operations targeted moderate opposition groups. High-stakes gamble Risks of air forces from Russia, Syria and Nato operating in close proximity Why? What? How? Five things you need to know about Russia's involvement What can Russia's air force do? The US-led coalition has failed to destroy IS. Can Russia do any better? The close ties behind Russia's intervention But some religious leaders in Russia do question Mr Putin's decision to strike. ""We don't know exactly where the bombs landed, so we can't be sure of anything,"" mufti Nafigulla Ashirov told the BBC. ""However if Russian planes were targeting one of the sides of the civil conflict rather than IS positions - this can't be justified."" ""IS is a force which came to Syria from abroad and people should resist it. However others shouldn't interfere in the civil war between pro-government troops and the opposition. This is an internal matter for the Syrian people. ""And this conflict should not be mixed up with resistance to IS,"" Mr Ashirov explains. Most of Syria's opposition fighters are Sunni Muslims - like most of the Muslims who live in Russia. Meanwhile, the forces supported by Moscow consist either of Alawites, who dominate the Syrian army, or Shias, who include Hezbollah forces from neighbouring Lebanon. These are uncomfortable truths for some within the Russian Muslim community. ""Bashar al-Assad is well known for his actions against the Muslims of Syria,"" complains Muslim activist Ali Charinsky. ""All Muslims are one community, one body - that is why we can't be happy about Russia's decision. None of my friends or the Muslims I know are happy about it."" But the idea of anyone openly protesting against Russia's action is highly unlikely, according to religious activist Ayrat Vakhitov, because of the fear of prosecution by the authorities. He was himself arrested on several occasions by Russian security services in response to allegations of extremism. However, the court ruled in his favour and the Russian security service, the FSB, even sent him an apology. Mr Vakhitov has since emigrated and supports the Syrian opposition while opposing IS. According to the security services, nearly 2,500 Russians are currently fighting for IS and thousands more have gone to join IS from other former Soviet states. But Mr Vakhitov insists few Russian Muslims support IS and their number is declining. ""Those whose friends or relatives have already joined IS support the radicals. They prefer to share their friends' positions,"" Mr Vakhitov explains. ""However, overall IS is losing support in Russia."" He believes the country's Muslims have begun to understand the reality of the Islamic State militant group. ""The beautiful stories they tell are fake.""","Russia 's Muslim community has never been united , and Russia 's air strikes in Syria are @placeholder to stoke existing tensions .",set,threatening,linked,preparing,designed,1
"The Farmers' Union of Wales has urged the Welsh Government to introduce an action plan for young farmers. President Glyn Roberts wants financial incentives and help so older farmers can retire and free up land. Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths said young farmers were a priority. A debate will be held on Tuesday at the Royal Welsh Showground in Llanelwedd, Powys, focusing on the barriers facing the younger generation from taking up farming as a career. The latest Welsh Government figures suggest an ageing workforce - the average owner of a farm holding in Wales is over 60 years old - with just 3% under 35. Mr Roberts said there were ""three important elements"" which needed to be addressed. ""We need land - there have to be farms coming up for rent as someone new coming into the industry is not going to be able to buy - so it's important that council small-holdings are kept,"" he said. Squeezed budgets have seen Wales' local authorities selling off farmland in recent years, a move that has alarmed farming unions. ""I had the chance when I was young to come into agriculture through being a tenant,"" said Mr Roberts, 62. Reversing the loss of council-owned holdings was of ""paramount importance"" he said. ""The government also needs to offer some financial incentive to help young farmers get started,"" he said. The third element he identified was ageing farmers who ""can't afford to retire"". ""They need an incentive too, so that they can step aside and make room for new entrants to come in,"" he said. ""Otherwise the whole industry will become stagnant, without any new thinking coming through."" CASE STUDY:  CARYL HUGHES, 26 Caryl Hughes has recently taken on a 300-acre (1,200-hectare) farm near Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Wrexham. She is set to take over as chairwoman of Montgomeryshire Young Farmers Club in August. She comes from a farming background and needed the backing of her family's business to start out on her own. ""I've been very, very lucky because I had the farm behind me and my parents are very supportive. ""But for those who haven't got that, it's a big struggle. Bank managers are very sceptical about lending money for new farms. ""It's a big worry for young people and we're losing a lot of talented people that are going to find jobs elsewhere in other sectors."" Ms Hughes said she would like to see the Welsh Government taking measures to make it harder for established landowners and big businesses to buy up farmland which could be offered to young farmers. She also wants to see the introduction of a match-making scheme for young and older farmers - an idea already being trialled by the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs. ""You take a farmer looking to retire and link them up with a young farmer.  It's not about kicking them out - it's about getting the skills you need to progress - there's a lot to learn before you can just jump in,"" she said. WHAT DOES THE WELSH GOVERNMENT SAY? Lesley Griffiths said the Welsh Government was working with local authorities to try to ensure their tenant farms ""remain as farms and for the agricultural sector"". ""Since I've come into post, I've made young farmers and new entrants a priority,"" she said.","The farming industry in Wales risks becoming "" stagnant "" unless more is done to @placeholder the younger generation , a union has said .",encourage,receive,replace,protect,undergo,0
"The council gave the go-ahead for the £150m project at East Tullos last week. The incinerator would be used by Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray councils for non-recyclable waste, to reduce the amount sent to landfill. Four community councils raised concerns, but the Scottish government said it did not consider the proposal raised issues of national significance. The project is designed to generate heat that would be used in thousands of nearby homes. It was given the go-ahead by the full city council  - by 23 votes to 14 - despite opposition from campaigners who said it could cause problems with pollution and increase traffic congestion on the already busy Wellington Road. The plant is due to open in 2021.",A controversial £ 150 m energy from waste plan in Aberdeen will not be @placeholder in the Scottish government .,represented,lodged,introduced,built,called,4
"At the annual gathering of central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Ms Yellen said the case for a rate hike had ""strengthened"". The Dow Jones fell 0.3% to 18,395.4 points, while the wider S&P 500 index dropped 0.2% to 2,169.04. The Nasdaq climbed 0.1% to 5,218.92. ""In light of the continued solid performance of the labour market and our outlook for economic activity and inflation, I believe the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened in recent months,"" Ms Yellen said. Banks, which tend to benefit from higher interest rates, saw their shares rise slightly. JP Morgan was up 0.2% and Citigroup rose 0.8%. Verizon Communications was the main loser on the Dow, falling 1.3%. Figures from the US Commerce Department released earlier in the day indicated the US economy grew more slowly than initially estimated in the second quarter of the year. Revised figures showed that the economy grew at an annual pace of 1.1% in the quarter, slightly slower than the first estimate of 1.2%.",( Close ) : Wall Street markets were mixed on Friday after a @placeholder by Federal Reserve head Janet Yellen indicated that an increase in interest rates may be coming soon .,letter,warning,speech,note,display,2
"Joel Richards, from Wednesbury, died alongside uncle Adrian Evans, grandfather Patrick Evans and 35 others in terror attacks near Sousse in 2015. The Birmingham County FA announced the Joel Richards Legacy Fund - a bursary for young coaches, referees and volunteers - at an event in his honour. Joel's family also attended the event. Joel's mother Suzanne Richards said: ""Joel was all about grassroots sport and getting young people into sport, whether it was coaching, refereeing or just playing football. ""It's just nice to feel that Joel's still helping the community, even though he's not here to actually do it himself."" Joel, who studied at the University of Worcester and was a passionate Walsall fan, would have been 21 on 3 August, and had planned to get into coaching in the US after finishing his degree. The Joel Richards Legacy Fund will be available to anyone in the Birmingham area, between the ages of 12 and 25, who need financial support to help them get involved with football. Joel's friend Kirsty Dixon, chairman of Birmingham Country FA's youth council, said the fund will continue his legacy as ""an amazing role model"" for young people involved with football. ""Joel dedicated his time to support as many people as possible, and always knew how to put a smile on your face,"" she said. ""We hope to continue the support he personally provided through the fund, which will benefit many - especially those who need some support to kick-start or help them on their own football journey.""",A fund in memory of a 19 - year - old referee who was killed with his grandfather and uncle in a terror attack in Tunisia has been @placeholder .,released,honoured,launched,praised,unveiled,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device A winner must be declared on the night - as an ice hockey rink needs to be laid at midnight for a match at the same Hallenstadion venue the following day. But what else do you need to know? Media playback is not supported on this device Fifa's 209 nations will gather in Zurich for what is billed as an ""extraordinary congress"". It was called after Sepp Blatter dramatically announced last June that he would step aside after 18 years as Fifa president. The 79-year-old Swiss said he was ""laying down his mandate"", which has led to some concern he may not have actually resigned. However, Fifa officials are confident he will not make an awkward re-appearance - not least because he has been banned from football for eight years over a ""disloyal payment"" of £1.3m to suspended Uefa president Michel Platini. Both men deny wrongdoing and are appealing against their bans. Blatter also has no accreditation to get into the conference hall on the outskirts of Zurich where the congress is being held. There are two big issues to settle. First, the representatives have to agree to a package of reforms designed to eliminate the problems that have plunged Fifa into crisis in recent months and restore its reputation. Then, if and when that is formalised, they have to appoint a new president. Media playback is not supported on this device Given the hype and spin around the election the reforms have been slightly forgotten about - but they are vitally important to the organisation's future. One Fifa insider believes it would be a ""disaster"" if measures to clean up the governing body fail. Specifically, Fifa wants members to agree to term limits for top officials along with disclosure of their salaries. Responsibility for everyday business decisions will be removed from the ""political"" representatives of national associations. The ""executive committee"" will be disbanded. In its place will come a new 36-member Fifa council, which will include a minimum of six women, to set global strategy. The day-to-day running of Fifa will pass to a new ""general secretariat"" - equivalent to a corporate executive board - and the secretary general, effectively the CEO, will be a powerful position. The checks and balances will be carried out by a series of committees, the most important of which will be the fully independent audit and compliance committee. Fifa wants the regional confederations and national associations to mirror their efforts over time and they will place immediate new demands on them, such as annual audits. Media playback is not supported on this device You would think so given Fifa's recent history. However, officials aren't taking any chances. The proposals need 75% approval to be passed. Acting president Issa Hayatou has been very active in spreading the message about the need to adopt the raft of proposals. Hayatou was censured by the International Olympic Committee for his part in the ISL scandal - where the sports marketing company paid $100m (£66.2m) to officials, including former Fifa president Joao Havelange and ex-Fifa executive Ricardo Teixeira, in return for lucrative television and marketing rights throughout the 1990s. Additionally, he has been accused of taking a $1.5m (£1.1m) bribe from Qatar to vote in favour of their bid to host the 2022 World Cup. Both he and Qatar categorically deny any wrongdoing. So it is of interest that Hayatou has been at the forefront of the reform efforts. Hayatou has an unassailable reputation (although not in Europe) amongst large sections of the 209 Fifa nations, despite his alleged wrongdoing. His voice carries weight amongst the ""family"" and the vote should therefore be carried without any issues. Fifa is still in a perilous position with ongoing American and Swiss investigations into the activities of current and former officials. As it stands, the organisation is considered a ""victim"" by the US Department of Justice. But that could change. If the DoJ believes Fifa is not reforming or is carrying on as usual then it could be charged under US racketeering laws designed initially to tackle organised crime. Passing the reforms are therefore vital if Fifa is to continue operating and not be shut down. Yes. This is where it gets complicated. The DoJ and the Swiss authorities are very interested in how the Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 World Cups were awarded and if any wrongdoing took place. If Fifa were to be shut down it could render the contracts for both those tournaments null and void. Geopolitically that could cause huge friction, especially given the delicate military situation in Syria at the moment. In addition, the US is a big ally of Qatar and has a strategic air base there. Given all of this, many question whether there is the political will from President Barack Obama's administration to carry out the ultimate threat. One insider said recently he believes there is pressure on Loretta Lynch, the US Attorney General, not to act in this regard. Far from it. In December, when the US made its second wave of arrests, it issued a superseding indictment. There are 24 unnamed co-conspirators within the document, including high ranking Fifa officials and members of national FAs. Some may be cooperating with the US already, others not. At some stage the US will have to act and a grand jury has been sitting in the US to consider ongoing matters. In addition, the Swiss investigation into the 2018 and 2022 bidding process is ongoing. That enquiry has widened and has resulted in Blatter being criminally investigated. Big question. No one knows right now. If they do take action, the effect that has on the election will depend largely on who is targeted and where. The US is believed to be diverting its attention away from America and more towards Europe, Asia and Africa. It is hard to see the mechanism by which the election could be stopped - but this is Fifa, so let's not rule anything in or out just yet. Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain is still the front runner according to many observers. He has the backing of his own Asian confederation and Africa, though the continents do not vote as a bloc and the ballot is held in secret. However, such political backing from two of the biggest confederations should not be underestimated. The national associations do not want to back the loser either… even though the vote is secret. There may be big swings in the vote between the rounds. Fifa presidency: Meet Sepp Blatter's five possible successors Media playback is not supported on this device The Uefa general secretary Infantino has, according to the 45-year-old Swiss' camp, made gains in recent weeks. They believe he is the man to beat. You may say: 'they would say that, wouldn't they?' Well, yes… but this is the same PR team behind Prince Ali bin al-Hussein's failed election attempt last May. Back then they made very different noises in the build-up, briefing that 40-year-old Jordanian Prince Ali was unlikely to win but would give Blatter a bloody nose. So their bullish confidence with Infantino should not be underestimated. Infantino has strong support in Europe, South America and significant backing in the potentially crucial Caribbean. They also think they will get half the votes in Africa. If that proves true then it's game over. He wins. ""If"" is the key word though. Media playback is not supported on this device Prince Ali lost the support of Europe for this election when Platini announced he was standing. He failed to make gains after the 60-year-old former France captain was banned and Infantino stepped into his shoes. He does have some support - but nowhere near the sufficient numbers required to win. However, Prince Ali could still be a significant player in deciding the eventual victor if he drops out and asks his supporters to back a rival candidate. Frenchman Jerome Champagne will stay on to the bitter end but is highly unlikely to get more than 10 votes. South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale's efforts have been something of a mystery and he has been criticised for running a lacklustre campaign. He went on a joint visit to Robben Island, where he was a political prisoner, with Infantino on Monday. Despite that he says he will not quit. He seems to be playing a longer game - perhaps with his eye on a new Fifa if the current organisation is ever abolished. There are 207 eligible voters, with Kuwait and Indonesia currently barred from taking part. In the first round, the winner needs two-thirds of the available votes. If no candidate achieves that then a simple majority (105 in a 209-nation contest) is all that is required to win. If there is still no winner then a third round will take place and the candidate with the fewest votes in round two would drop out at this point. The candidates will each have 15 minutes to address Friday's congress, which is due to start at about 12:00 GMT. In theory, the first round of voting should start at approximately 13:30 GMT. Fifa estimates each round of voting will take one hour and 40 minutes. A safer bet is two hours, judging by previous elections. So the earliest a winner is likely to be declared is about 17:30 GMT… let's see.",Football 's crisis-hit world governing body Fifa will meet in Zurich on Friday and elect a new leader to try to take the @placeholder organisation forward into a new era .,team,land,transform,damaged,focus,3
"The man who was director of Russia's anti-doping laboratory during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics told the New York Times earlier this year that the Russian intelligence services had helped by devising a way of opening and resealing urine containers previously believed to be tamper-proof. His revelations prompted an investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), which on Monday said Russia had operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the ""vast majority"" of summer and winter Olympic sports. The Wada report has sparked calls for the entire Russian team to be banned from the Rio Olympics. But Russian President Vladimir Putin said it represented a ""dangerous slide towards political interference in sport"" that stemmed from ""one man with a scandalous reputation"", the Moscow Times reports. Mr Rodchenkov was once viewed more favourably by the Russian authorities. Russia won most medals at the Sochi Games and he was awarded a medal afterwards. However last November an earlier Wada report accused him of being ""at the heart"" of doping in Russian sport, asking for and accepting bribes and destroying more than 1,400 blood and urine samples. He was forced to resign and in January fled to the US, fearing for his safety. In February, two former senior officials at the previously Wada-accredited Russian anti-doping agency died unexpectedly. In his interview with the New York Times, Mr Rodchenko said doping athletes was part of his job and his laboratory would have stopped receiving funding if he had not done it. He had previously been investigated in Russia for trafficking in performance-enhancing drugs but said he was not jailed because the Russian authorities had earmarked him to dope their athletes at the Sochi Games. At the time, the Kremlin dismissed his allegations as ""slander by a turncoat"". But Russia's leading sports newspaper Sport Express took a different view, saying Mr Rodchenkov knew ""if not everything, then nearly everything"". He and the documentary maker Bryan Fogel - who helped him leave Russia - wrote to Wada and the International Olympic Committee with an offer of more information about a ""state-mandated doping program in Russia"", according to a copy of the letter posted online by German journalist Hajo Seppelt. Mr Rodchenko, a chemistry graduate, said he had created a cocktail of three anabolic steroids to be consumed with alcohol that helped athletes recover quickly from tough training regimes to be in peak condition for competition races. Meanwhile, he told the New York Times, the Russian authorities appointed an intelligence officer to his laboratory to gain information about what happened to the urine samples taken from athletes, which were contained inside self-locking glass bottles produced by the Swiss company Berlinger. One day the intelligence officer presented Mr Rodchenkov with an open bottle, a vital part of the doping that he alleges took place during the Sochi Games. Under the plan, he says, Russian athletes took photos of the serial numbers of glass containers with their urine in and texted them to the Russian sports ministry. At night, Mr Rodchenkov went to a room adjacent to that containing the samples. A colleague handed them through a small hole in the wall and he got rid of the urine that would have shown traces of steroid use and replaced it with clean urine taken from the athletes months earlier. A total of about 100 urine samples were falsified in this way, he said. What the Sochi operation shows, he says in his letter to Wada, is that the entire global anti-doping system is ""broken beyond repair"".",Grigory Rodchenkov says he created @placeholder to help Russian Olympic athletes perform better and switched urine samples so that they could evade detection .,race,ability,substances,filters,response,2
"Noel Conway, 67, who was diagnosed in November 2014 and is not expected to live beyond 12 months, said he should be free to determine his own death. Mr Conway, of Shrewsbury, had told the court at a previous hearing he faces an ""unbearable death"" because of the law. Two judges ruled against Mr Conway while one, Mr Justice Charles, agreed permission should be granted. Mr Conway said he would appeal against the court's decision, the first case to be heard since the law was challenged in 2014 and 2015 and the only one involving a terminally ill patient. More on this and other Shropshire stories here Mr Conway had hoped to bring a judicial review that could result in terminally ill adults who meet strict criteria, making their own decisions about ending their lives. His counsel Richard Gordon QC, told the court that when he had less than six months to live and retained the mental capacity to make the decision, his client ""would wish to be able to enlist assistance to bring about a peaceful and dignified death"". Mr Conway was seeking a declaration that the Suicide Act 1961 is incompatible with Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998, which relates to respect for private and family life, and Article 14, which enables protection from discrimination. He was not in court in London to hear Lord Justice Burnett and Mr Justice Jay rule he did not have an arguable case to go forward. Mr Conway, who is married with a son, daughter, stepson and grandchild, said he was ""very disappointed"" with their ruling. ""[But] I will not be deterred and will be appealing this decision,"" he said. He said he has ""come to terms"" with the fact he is going to die, but does not accept being ""denied the ability to decide the timing and manner of my death"". ""The only alternative is to spend thousands of pounds, travel hundreds of miles and risk incriminating my loved ones in asking them to accompany me to Dignitas,"" he said. Lord Justice Burnett said it remained ""institutionally inappropriate"" for a court to make a declaration of incompatibility between pieces of legislation, irrespective of personal views. He added: ""My conclusion does nothing to diminish the deep sympathy I feel for Mr Conway, his family and others who are confronted with the reality of living and dying with incurable degenerative conditions such as motor neurone disease."" Sarah Wootton, chief executive of campaign group Dignity in Dying, which is supporting Mr Conway's case, said the law ""simply does not work"". ""Parliament has so far ignored the pleas of dying people like Noel and the overwhelming majority of the public who also support a change in the law,"" she said. Ms Wootton said a Crowdfunder appeal had been launched to help cover Mr Conway's legal costs and it had ""received incredible support"". Commenting on the case, the Care Not Killing Alliance said: ""This is not a day for celebration. This was a troubling case that sought to usurp the democratic will of Parliament. ""The current laws on assisted suicide and euthanasia are simple and clear. They exist to protect those who are sick, elderly, depressed, or disabled from feeling obliged to end their lives.""",A man with terminal motor neurone disease has @placeholder a High Court bid to challenge the law on assisted dying .,sparked,accepted,lost,overturned,backed,2
"Ben Hooper started his 2,000-mile (3,200 km) swim from Dakar harbour in Senegal, west Africa. Mr Hooper's four-month attempt is due to end in Natal in north-east Brazil, next March. The 38-year-old long-distance swimmer from Cheltenham is hoping his sponsored Swim The Big Blue challenge will raise £1m for charity. Other people have attempted the swim, but were not ratified by Guinness World Records. French swimmer Benoit Lecomte was credited as the first to swim across the Atlantic without a kickboard in 1998, but this was not verified. Mr Hooper said he faces hazards such as storms and ocean predators. ""The idea is to get across safely and I think my only real fear is if something goes mechanically wrong with me. ""Beyond that I am not too worried about marine life. I am going into their world, so I need to be respectful,"" he said. ""I've already met sharks and jellyfish and nothing has eaten me yet."" Mr Hooper is swimming freestyle front crawl for up to 12 hours a day, and will have to eat 12,000 calories a day to maintain his strength. He is accompanied by two support boats.  The crews include a medic, body therapist and an official observer who will be reporting back to Guinness. Nigel Taylor-Schofield, captain of one of the support vessels, said before the swim: ""There are not many 'firsts' left in this world and I am looking forward to helping Ben join that exclusive and elusive club."" Mr Hooper has completed 12 million metres (7,456 miles) of ocean and pool swimming in preparation.",A man has @placeholder off in a bid to set the first official world record for swimming across the Atlantic Ocean .,struck,gone,set,tipped,fought,2
"At the half-way point through the Games, here are five things you may not know about the team. When Lauritta Onye threw a shot put 8.40m she not only won gold but broke a word record. The Nigerian Paralympic gold medallist is also known as…. Laury White. Under that name she starred in the Nollywood film Lords of Money in 2015. Her performance skills were put to good use on Sunday night when she celebrated her victory in acrobatic style in front of the cameras. Nigeria's Paralympians already have six golds, two silvers and one bronze medal. That's compared to Nigeria's Olympic team which only took home one bronze for football last month. At the half-way point Nigeria's Paralympic team is 10th in the medal table and top among African countries, whereas the Olympians were joint 78th by the end. At London 2012 the country won 13 medals at the Paralympic Games and not one single medal in the Olympics. And again they came home with more medals in 2008, 2004, 2000 and 1996. A point not missed by some Nigerians on Twitter: Before this Games, the former director of the National Sports Commission went as far as to say that he hoped the Paralympians would ""erase the shame of the dismal showing at the Olympic Games"", reports Nigeria's Daily Trust. Weightlifter Lucy Ejike broke a world record on Sunday to win gold with a lift of 142kg in the women's under-61kg event. It is the third time she has broken a world record - in Beijing in 2008 she broke two during the under-48kg event. The 38-year-old wheelchair user has won three gold medals since she started competing in 2000. Only one of Nigeria's nine medals is not in powerlifting - so far it has five Paralympic powerlifting golds, two silvers and one bronze. That's added to 15 other powerlifting gold medals since Nigeria started competing in 1992. But then the numbers are against the other Paralympians - 14 of the 23 Nigerian competitors are powerlifters. This doesn't appear to be by accident. After the powerlifters came back from the 2012 Paralympics with 12 medals the then Sports Minister Bolaji Abdullahi told the UK's Guardian paper that Nigeria would just put money into a few sports where they have a comparative advantage.","Nigeria 's Paralympic team is @placeholder medals left , right and centre .",awarding,distributing,grabbing,threatening,continuing,2
"Mr Bell will visit its factory in Montreal for talks with management. Advance orders for the new planes have stalled, with the loss-making project now destabilising its wider business. Bombardier employs 5,500 in Northern Ireland and has spent £520m on a new factory in Belfast to build wings for the CSeries. Mr Bell is accompanying nine local firms as they search for new business during a five-day visit. Northern Ireland currently does £360m of export business with Canada annually. ""Canada is an important market,"" Mr Bell said. ""I hope this week will be beneficial to the companies and look forward to hearing of future export successes as a result.""",Economy minister Jonathan Bell will get an update on Bombardier 's @placeholder CSeries aircraft programme during a trade mission to Canada this week .,struggling,show,state,proposed,remaining,0
"""There is one common theme in all of these reforms. It's going to be America First,"" he said in a broad-ranging speech in New York. Here is his plan for the first 100 days: Mr Trump has pledged to appoint judges who will uphold the Constitution and thinks ""radical"" judges that could be appointed by Hillary Clinton would ""virtually abolish"" the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms. There is a vacancy in the Supreme Court because former justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative, died earlier this year. Mr Trump has said undocumented immigrants in the US take jobs that US citizens could have. Controversially, he has also said repeatedly - although not in this speech - that he would build a wall on the southern border that Mexico would pay for, to stop Mexico's criminals and rapists from coming to the US. He also wants to ban Muslims from entering the country in an attempt to prevent terrorism, a move that has provoked fierce criticism from within his own party. Mr Trump has said there should be less regulation of energy production and that the US should drill more for oil and gas. He said the country's energy potential remains ""untapped"". Mr Trump has called Obamacare a disaster and that he pledges to repeal and replace it. He says it is a job-killer and ineffective. Obamacare, which is actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is President Barack Obama's signature law and aims to extend health insurance to those in the country that do not have it. He has threatened to raise taxes on US-based companies that have moved operations overseas, like Pfizer, Ford and Nabisco. He said lowering taxes for all - businesses and people - would create millions of new jobs. Mr Trump declared in his New York speech, wrongly, that the US has the highest taxes in the world. Politifact says it is actually ranked near the bottom among OECD countries. His tax plan would not raise taxes on the top earners in the US. He said Mrs Clinton ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund and that she is responsible for the death of American diplomats in Benghazi, and that she was a destabilising force in the Middle East. Mr Trump has also criticised her use of personal email while working as secretary of state. Mrs Clinton said the speech was ""more hypocritical lies and nutty conspiracy theories"". Trade deals with other countries are ""killing"" the country, he has said, and that he will defend the US against countries that ""cheat"" on trade like China.","Republican Donald Trump has set out what he will prioritise in @placeholder , if he beats Democrat Hillary Clinton in November 's election .",sight,competitions,office,law,criticism,2
"In an air-conditioned room on the third floor of the Pekanbaru mayor's office, 35-year-old Apriyani watches over her sleeping four-month-old baby Gibran. She is one of four mothers who have moved into this emergency nursery set up by the local government this week. Offered to all needy mothers in town, it is an attempt to protect babies from the toxic haze caused by forest fires that has covered the city for months. ""My baby is free from the haze here. It's not like at home,"" said Apriyani, who like many Indonesians goes by only her first name. ""At home my baby just coughs and coughs. Here the room is sealed and there is an air purifier - at home we don't have anything like that."" Air pollution levels in Pekanbaru, in Sumatra's Riau province have been recorded at almost 1000 on the Pollutants Standards Index (PSI). A reading above 100 is classified as unhealthy and anything above 300 is hazardous. The forest fires are the result of land clearing for palm oil and rubber plantations. ""Babies are suffering the most,"" says Apriyani. There are rented cribs, milk and baby food in the shelter as well as oxygen tanks but Apriyani says she doesn't want to stay long. ""I want the government to work harder to make the haze go away so our children don't have trouble breathing all the time. It's really bad for their health isn't it?"" Dr Helda Suryani, the head of the local health service in Pekanbaru says the shelter is for poorer families who are especially at risk. ""Richer people can afford air conditioners and they can evacuate. This is for poor people whose houses we have seen are filled all day with the very dangerous haze."" When asked why it took so long for the government to create this small shelter, she laughs nervously. ""Why a long time? We have been praying for rain and when the military came there were two days of clear weather. But now it's come back. So it keeps going on like this."" But the baby shelter has come too late for at least one young mother. Desi is sitting beside her one-year-old in Santa Maria hospital. He has been diagnosed with a serious lung infection. ""I have kept my child indoors the whole time. I have not been going anywhere because of the toxic haze but still my child has a lung infection. Why hasn't the government done something, anything?"" she asks. ""Is the government waiting for all our children to die from the haze?""","As a thick haze caused by forest fires continues to blanket parts of Indonesia , with Nasa data showing it could be one of the worst on record , one badly - affected town has started a shelter for babies out of the mayor 's office . Pekanbaru is in Sumatra 's Riau province , which has declared a state of emergency amid hazardous levels of pollution . Sari Indriwhy @placeholder to mothers in Pekanbaru .",linked,prepares,speaks,goes,attributed,2
"The FTSE 100 closed higher by 1 point at 6,916. Budget airline Easyjet and Marks and Spencer both closed up more then 3%, while shares in the miners Antofagasta and Rio Tinto led the losers. Bottling firm Coca-Cola HBC rose another 2% after Thursday's 7% lift following better than expected results. On the currency markets, the pound slipped 0.19% against the dollar at $1.2931 and fell 0.47% against the euro to €1.15770.","( Close ) : London 's FTSE 100 was little @placeholder on Friday , as gains by the likes of Easyjet and Marks and Spencer outweighed falls in mining firms .",gains,used,held,finished,changed,4
"The Scots were annihilated 61-21 as England inflicted a record Calcutta Cup defeat to retain the Six Nations title. The final match against Italy will be Cotter's last as Scotland head coach. ""Vern has done a great job and we want to go out and show we're better than we showed at Twickenham,"" Pyrgos said. ""The result was not what we wanted to do for Vern. We're gutted. ""We're a lot better than we showed out there. That's why it's so hard to take. ""I don't think it was the occasion that got to us. A lot of the boys have played in big games before. We just didn't get our job done well enough and that has cost us. ""We know it's hard for the country to take because there was a lot of positivity behind us. We felt that support from the nation. It's just tough right now."" England ran in seven tries in a ruthlessly clinical display against a Scotland side that crumbled under the pressure applied by the hosts, who equalled the All Blacks' world record of 18 consecutive Test victories for a tier-one nation. The Scots' wretched luck on the injury front continued, with Stuart Hogg, Ryan Wilson and Tommy Seymour all forced off with head knocks, while Hogg's replacement Mark Bennett departed with knee and arm injuries. Bennett will miss the Italy match at Murrayfield on Saturday, while Hogg, Wilson and Seymour are being treated for concussion and will be subject to head injury protocols to determine their availability to face Italy. Fly-half Finn Russell and centre Huw Jones, who both suffered knee knocks, and lock Richie Gray, who has a hamstring issue, will also undergo precautionary scans early this week. Much of the build-up to the tournament finale will focus on the curtain coming down on Cotter's reign in charge of Scotland, with Glasgow coach Gregor Townsend taking over in the summer. Pyrgos says the players will be motivated to give their coach a fitting send-off, even if the Kiwi would prefer to keep the spotlight on his team. ""Vern won't want us focusing on him but it will definitely be something in the background,"" Pyrgos said. ""We are conscious that we want to finish his reign in the right way. There's still a chance we can finish second so we have to get ourselves up for that. ""Before Saturday we were fifth in the world rankings, so you can see Vern has given guys a lot of confidence and great direction. ""We have one more game under him and we have got to go out there and do the business.""",Scrum-half Henry Pyrgos wants Scotland to banish the memories of their Twickenham @placeholder show and ensure head coach Vern Cotter departs on a high with victory over Italy .,hopes,horror,signing,status,neighbours,1
"Broadwick Live hope to grow the Abersoch festival from its current 5,000 attendees to 15,000. The London-based festival group also owns Croatia's Electric Elephant and Austria's Snowbombing festivals. A spokesman said they would keep the name but ""invest in the line-up and ramp up the quality."" Glass Butter Beach festival started life as Wakestock, and was founded by the Sensation Group, which also owns Abersoch Life magazine. Alex Barratt, festivals director at Broadwick Live, said: ""We love the Glass Butter Beach name and we love the concept. ""It had lost a bit of money in the past so we thought we could go in there and make it a success."" He said the company wanted to develop an event with an 18 to 23-year-old demographic. ""We are going to keep the Glass Butter Beach concept and name but we will invest in the line-up and ramp up the quality to the next level. ""With that will come a better production and sound quality. We hope to increase the number of people attending to 15,000, but it will be a gradual growth.""",The owners of Portmeirion 's Festival No. 6 have bought a @placeholder 65 % stake in Gwynedd surf festival Glass Butter Beach .,scheme,controlling,combined,flower,bid,1
"That is a notion raised by Daniel Finkelstein in The Times today. This idea - which has fans in Westminster and Whitehall - strikes me as a misreading of the situation in Europe. This idea has arisen because Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, is a game theorist, a type of economist who studies interactions in simplified versions of reality. These stylised scenarios are known, in the jargon, as ""games"". Famous ones you might have heard of include ""the Stag Hunt"", ""The Ultimatum Game"" and - most famously - ""the Prisoner's Dilemma"". One famous game is called ""Chicken"". Imagine two cars racing towards one another. If neither swerves, both drivers lose. If either swerves, however, that person is deemed to lose. This is a bit like the Greek negotiation. Neither side wants to give in first, but neither side wants to end with no deal. This is a hard game to be good at - unless you can send a worrying signal to the driver of the other car. You could try to convince the other driver that you have no control of the car, so they will be forced to move. Rip off the steering wheel and wave it out of the window, perhaps? Or you could behave like you enjoy crashes - or are indifferent to the pain they cause. That, Lord Finkelstein has suggested, was part of the Greek negotiating strategy. Lord Finkelstein wrote: ""Varoufakis believed that if his negotiating partners - the Germans, the IMF, the Commission - concluded he was a bit bonkers, a bit reckless, they would appreciate that he might crash the Greek economy and bring down the whole edifice of the euro on top of him. Persuading your adversary that you are mad is a classic game theory gambit."" I think you can understand the Greek position much more simply: they predicated their negotiating position on notions that turned out to be untrue. Here is another simple idea from game theory: a classic negotiation between two parties is best understood by looking at ideas called the ""outside option"" and the ""inside option"". The outside option is the outcome for each individual if the negotiation fails. The inside option is what you get if the negotiation is completed. Negotiation is usually the process of changing the value of the inside option. If you are trying to buy a car from a salesperson, then the outside option is walking away - keep your cash, take no car and retain the option of starting a negotiation with other salespeople. For the seller, the outside option means keeping the car, having less cash and retaining the option of selling that car to someone else. Fair and free negotiations will usually fail unless the inside option is better than the outside option. If it is better not to agree for any party, they won't. My assumption (largely based on Duncan's great reporting) is that Mr Varoufakis, a few months ago, thought that the outside option for Europe was gruesome. So he could demand a lot, and they would still agree because it would be better for them. For example, we know that he estimated that a messy Greek default would lead to financial contagion: for the sake of not saving little Greece, Europe could make investors worry about lending to Portugal, Spain or Italy. He wrote in 2012 ""the notion that Europe is ready for a Grexit is absurd."" Measures then under way by the ECB could not limit ""the damage on Spain, then Italy etc."" In short, if Europe did not cut a deal, Greece would rip Europe in two. That would make the outside option for Europe a catastrophe. And Mr Varoufakis also assumed that the outside option for Greece was not all that bad. That means his hand, in a negotiation, would be very strong. That is because, quite recently, Greece was running a so-called ""primary surplus"" earlier this year. That means if it got cut off from financial markets because it failed to pay its debtors, it could still keep its public services running. I would presume he also thought the banks would be kept afloat by the European Central Bank: in previous chapters of the crisis, it actually rewrote its own rules to keep the banks open and liquid in Greece. In that situation, Mr Varoufakis thought the damage of a failure to agree would be much worse to Europe than it would be to Greece. And, in that situation, the best strategy for Greece is to wait. This isn't a ""madman"" strategy. It's a quite rational calculation about the outside option. So he wanted to wait for investors to start fretting and fussing, for bond yields to rise, for bank shares to start shedding value and for a credit squeeze to start moving through Europe. If contagion ever made it look like Spain or - heaven forbid - the vast Italian debt could not be serviced, the Eurogroup would race to offer a deal to Greece on good terms. There was a catch, though. All of his assumptions were wrong. First, investors have been very unconcerned by Greek default. They see the politics and arithmetic of Greece as different to the rest of the continent and do not see parallels between them. So the market panics never came. The Eurogroup could afford to wait. Second, Greece nosedived into recession. It is surely not now running a primary surplus. That means that Greece needs help just to run the existing level of public services. That means pain to Greece for not being able to access new financing. It cannot wait. Third, the ECB did not keep Greece's banks going, which means the economy is being suffocated. Every day that this runs on makes the situation worse, businesses being shut down and individuals suffering. This whole scenario is dismal for the Greeks - and worsens every day. In short, the outside option turns out, in the past few weeks, to have been much worse for Greece and a lot less damaging to the rest of Europe than they thought. So the inside option they thought they might be able to extract from the rest of Europe turns out to be much worse than they once imagined. That all strikes me as a simpler explanation of the Syriza strategy than a ""madman at the wheel"" gambit. Indeed, put this argument another way: if you were to pursue that strategy, would you do it like this? If I were pursuing that approach, I would start openly preparing for a messy default and exit from the Eurozone. This is not to say that I think Syriza solely misjudged the economics. Natural allies in Rome and Paris were alienated. Syriza misunderstood what role the US State Department would play. They made it politically difficult for German and Dutch politicians to help them. They also behaved, at times, as though the governments who lend them money do not have their own democratic mandates. But I think a misreading the outside option for the rest of Europe is a major part of what went wrong - not a failed plea of insanity.",Was the Greek negotiating strategy with the Eurogroup @placeholder to convince the rest of Europe that the Syriza government was mad ?,designed,continued,failing,action,show,0
"The memory of the ""Boy from Bassendean"" - a suburb in the Western Australian state capital - is being erased by the local council. He has gone from favourite son to outcast by a simple show of hands at a council meeting. Harris's artworks will be taken down from its chambers and his status as a freeman has been rescinded, while a plaque outside his childhood home was stolen before the local authority could remove it. ""We simply cannot tolerate the horrendous crimes for which he's been convicted,"" Bassendean Mayor John Gangell told ABC radio. And the backlash is spreading. In Melbourne a public mural, the ""Entertainers of the Century"" that features 100 prominent performers, will be changed to paint over Rolf Harris's cheery image. There is speculation, too, that Harris could be stripped of his Order of Australia award, one of the nation's most coveted honours. His conviction comes at a sensitive time for Australia, where the depravity of paedophiles is being scrutinised like never before. A royal commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse continues to uncover a terrible flood of atrocities, and could take years to complete its task. Justice Peter McClellan, who chairs it, believes that victims who have suffered alone for so long are finally coming forward because of high-profile court cases, including the conviction of Harris. ""It is becoming apparent as we do our work that as the issue of abuse is raised and talked about, survivors increasingly feel able to bring their own story to the authorities,"" said Justice McClellan. ""That which may have been kept secret for years may now be told. The burden of guilt and shame which many have felt is lifted by knowing that others who have suffered have overcome their reticence,"" he added. The law firm Slater & Gordon says since Harris's trial began it has been contacted by around a dozen women in Australia and New Zealand alleging they were molested by the TV presenter. ""My understanding is that we're talking about assaults that occurred in those countries going back to the 70s and 80s,"" said lawyer Alan Collins. ""Given what we heard in [Southwark Crown] court, a number of victims have suffered a very profound damage, I would have thought it highly likely that claims would be brought."" Hetty Johnston, founder of one of Australia's most prominent child safety groups, Bravehearts Inc, raised the prospect of further charges against Harris. ""Rolf Harris - icon to inmate. Victims vindicated. Hopefully when he comes out there will be more victims waiting to send him right back,"" Ms Johnston tweeted. Convicted by a court half a world away, 84-year old Harris has felt the full force of media outrage back home. The Australian has detailed ""his most spectacular fall from cuddly establishment showman to jailbird,"" while the Sydney Morning Herald said he was ""always an embarrassing curiosity rather than a national treasure"". Harris was, the paper told its readers, a ""mild colonial boy who simply went bad"".",Australia is racing to distance itself from Rolf Harris as the shamed Perth - born entertainer @placeholder a jail term for abusing young girls .,blamed,produce,received,deserves,starts,4
"In total, 250,000 people are expected to fly in the six-week summer holiday period - 25% up on last year. The figure has been helped by Wales' Euro 2016 football team and fans using the airport for the tournament in France. Over the last 12 months (July 2015 to July 2016), 1,326,923 used the airport.","Cardiff Airport saw a 14th consecutive month of @placeholder in July , with a passenger increase of 17 % compared to the same period in 2015 , it said .",growth,life,activity,homes,operation,0
"Paul Croft, 19, died in hospital in March 2005, a week after being attacked in an alleyway in Pendlebury, Salford. Greater Manchester Police's Cold Case Unit reopened an investigation into his death in 2015. Paul O'Neill, 35, of Broomhall Road in Pendlebury, was remanded into custody by Manchester magistrates. A 28-year-old man from Swinton was charged with Mr Croft's murder in November.",A cold case investigation into the death of a teenager who was @placeholder with a baseball bat has led to a second man being charged with his murder .,beaten,attacked,struck,stabbed,sprayed,0
"The new suspension covers all games including internationals, on top of Uefa's original European ban. The ban is provisional until a final decision is taken by Uefa's control, ethics and disciplinary body. Sakho, 26, tested positive for what is thought to be a type of fat burner after the Europa League win against Manchester United on 17 March. He chose not to challenge the results, with Uefa, European football's governing body, adding he ""did not request the analysis of the B sample"". The date of a disciplinary hearing will be announced at a later stage. The France international and his club had already agreed he would remain unavailable while a Uefa investigation was completed. Sakho's Liverpool team-mate Kolo Toure was banned for six months in 2011 while at Manchester City after testing positive for a weight-loss drug contained within ""water tablets"" recommended to him by his wife. Should Uefa decide on a similar ban for Sakho, it would rule him out of Euro 2016 in France, which starts on 10 June. The suspension will be backdated to 28 April, the day it was issued, no matter when the disciplinary hearing is set for. An £18m signing from Paris St-Germain in 2013, Sakho has played 34 games for Liverpool this season, including 10 in the Europa League.",Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho 's 30 - day suspension for failing a drugs test has been @placeholder worldwide by Fifa .,released,reported,launched,overturned,extended,4
"The move means customers will not be billed the current £18 ($23) monthly charge but only if they commit to an 18-month contract. They will still get a landline connection and phone number, the firm said. Prices will start at £22 a month. However, some experts said the charge is being merged, rather than abolished. ""To be clear, Vodafone isn't really abolishing line rental charges, it's simply combining the charge into its fibre pricing,"" said broadband expert Ewan Taylor-Gibson from uSwitch. ""This is because broadband providers are under pressure from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to change advertised pricing so customers see a cost per month that includes line rental, so Vodafone is stealing a march on its rivals."" Analyst Paolo Pescatore from CCS Insight said it was a bold move, but that Vodafone now needs to think more about its content provision. ""Vodafone's lack of content still represents a huge headache for the company as all of its rivals are bundling entertainment, movies and sports with their broadband deals,"" he said. ""We are moving into a key period when all multiplay providers are trying to entice subscribers with attractive promotions ahead of the new Premier League football season. ""We are expecting a busy second half of the year with Sky's entry into mobile, Vodafone's debut in TV and Virgin Media's new set-top box. "" Shop around for a new broadband deal, and you can easily miss the fact that there's something nasty hidden beneath an attractive offer - the chunky monthly line rental fee. It's something that has been frowned upon as misleading  by regulators such as the Advertising Standards Authority - and many of the broadband suppliers have said they want to see it go. Now Vodafone has made the first move with offers that will see line rental charges abolished - or at least absorbed into one price package - for new and upgrading fibre broadband customers. As a relatively small player that has struggled to make much headway with residential customers, it makes sense for the mobile operator to go first and garner the best PR. It now seems inevitable that the others will follow - and that should help consumers by making the complex deals a little easier to understand. But the UK's broadband market is already pretty competitive compared with many across Europe - it is unlikely that consumers will find they are paying much less overall.",Mobile - phone giant Vodafone claims it is scrapping line rental charges for new and upgrading @placeholder broadband customers in the UK .,local,home,following,banks,its,1
"Bryn Law posted on social media he had resigned from the role with a ""heavy heart"" on Friday evening. In a statement Mr Law said the club was in a ""poor state"" and performances were short of what fans deserved. Wrexham Supporters' Trust, which took over the club in 2011, has been asked to comment. Wrexham lie 15th in the National League - the fifth tier of English football - with only nine wins in their 28 games so far this season. They face North Ferriby United at the Racecourse on Saturday. Mr Law wrote in his resignation letter: ""I remain a supporter of the trust ideal, the notion of the fans being the best people to run football cubs, however I am now beginning to wonder whether it is working in the best way for the betterment of our club?"" Mr Law, whose presidency role has no involvement in the running of the club, said he had great pride in what the Trust had achieved. ""We all want the very best for the club we love, as we know, Wrexham is for life,"" he wrote. The trust board signed a deal to take on the 99-year lease for the Racecourse Stadium last year.","The president of Wrexham FC supporter 's trust has stepped down , questioning whether the fans ' @placeholder was good for the future of the club .",ownership,term,union,response,competition,0
"Gareth Johnson, Tory MP for Dartford, was speaking after a summit meeting called to discuss traffic problems since toll booths were removed. He said congestion at the River Thames crossing also caused traffic delays elsewhere in the Dartford area. Highways England said progress was being made at the crossing. The free-flow payment system, which saw barriers removed and motorists charged through number plate recognition cameras, came into force in November. Thursday's meeting included officials from the Department for Transport, Kent Police, Kent County Council and Dartford Borough Council. Mr Johnson said no one claimed to have a magic wand to solve traffic problems at the Dartford Crossing but getting all parties responsible for running the crossing working together was important. He called for a review of road signs on the approaches to the crossing ""making it clear which lanes are better for lorries"". He said congestion on two roundabouts on the approaches to the crossing also caused ""big traffic issues"" in Dartford town centre. ""These problems will not be completely resolved until another bridge is built which, in my opinion, needs to be located east of Gravesend,"" he said. After Mr Johnson raised the issue in parliament last month, Highways England said journey times had ""improved significantly"".","Improved @placeholder at the approaches to the Dartford crossing would help to solve congestion , the local MP has said .",safety,groups,disruption,signage,lighting,3
"A spokesman told the BBC that classified information was thought to have been stolen, although it is not clear exactly what data was accessed. The North has previously been accused of hacking into banks and media outlets but never the South's military. Pyongyang has in the past rejected allegations of cyber crime involvement. ""It seems the intranet server of the cyber command has been contaminated with malware. We found that some military  documents, including confidential information, have been  hacked,"" a military spokesman told South Korea's Yonhap news agency. It is not clear whether low-grade documents or more important details like war plans were accessed. The military said that the compromised section of its network was isolated once the attack was detected. North Korea is believed to have thousands of personnel involved in cyberwarfare. Since 2010 they have been focusing on application programming interfaces (APIs), which can be designed to attack national infrastructures, North Korean defector and computer science professor Kim Heung-Kwang told the BBC. The North has a track record of alleged cyber attacks in recent years against South Korean government agencies, banks and media companies. An apparent concerted campaign involving the planting of malicious code began in 2014, Reuters news agency quoted police as saying. It was aimed at laying the groundwork for an attack on a massive scale, the agency said. The campaign was discovered in February this year after defence-related material including blueprints for the wings of F-15 fighter jets was stolen. Some 140,000 computers at 160 companies were attacked up until this June, according to police.","South Korea 's military cyber command , set up to guard against hacking , appears to have been @placeholder by North Korea , the military has said .",criticised,established,backed,caused,breached,4
"Although some would say that HMV has sold the UK's largest high street book retailer for a knock-down price, and the group's latest trading results are frightful, I have learned that the group expects to reach agreement with its banks on a new £200m (or so) borrowing agreement within the next two weeks. Or to put it another way, HMV isn't going bust (or at least not this year). Its banks, led by Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, have decided in principle to back the plan of Simon Fox, HMV's chief executive, to revive HMV stores by switching more of their stock into electronic goods, especially tablets (see my note, ""Can HMV reinvents itself"", for more on this). That rescue plan also involves the closure of 40 HMV and 20 Waterstone's stores, of which more than half have already been closed, together with the sale of the Waterstone's business, to reduce debt and the complexity of the group at this challenging time. Formal agreement from the banks is expected by early June, when HMV will send a document to shareholders detailing the reconstruction of HMV and asking for their approval. The assent of the Pensions Regulator is also required, because the single group pension scheme will henceforth be funded by an HMV that no longer contains Waterstone's - so the Pensions Regulator has to be persuaded that HMV isn't being weakened by the sale of Waterstone's. It would be difficult, I think, for the Pensions Regulator to block the disposal of Waterstone's - because the alternative, almost certainly, is that HMV would collapse into administration. And it is hard to see how HMV's current and future pension would benefit from the death of HMV. So much for the good news. The rest of what HMV had to say wasn't exactly cause to crack open the bubbly. Like-for-like or underlying sales at HMV in UK and Ireland continue to shrink at a scary and accelerating rate. So in the 10 weeks to 1 January, they were down 14.1%. Since then, in the 17 weeks to 30 April, the shrinkage has been 15.1% Or to put it another way, HMV's problems run a lot deeper than that horrendous pre-Christmas snow which was blamed by everyone from ministers to business leaders for the weakness of the consumer side of the economy at the end of last year. But in the six stores where HMV has been experimenting with its new tech-heavy format - all those bloomin' tablets - sales were only a bit worse than flat. Result! Here's the bad joke: for HMV it's plainly a case of keep taking the tablets. As for Waterstone's, the Russian purchaser, Alexander Mamut, looks like he may be getting quite a bargain, something a bit better than Waterstone's staple twofers. Viable future? He is paying cash of £53m for a business that was turned round by Mr Fox and his team in the past year.  So in the 12 months just finished Waterstone's made a trading profit of somewhere between £10m and £12m, I understand, up from £2.8m in the previous year. The Russian plutocrat gets 296 stores and gross assets of £283m that are free of debt or any UK pension liability. And annual sales of Waterstone's are about £500m. So HMV's woes may well turn into Mr Mamut's good fortune. That said, book retailing also faces formidable structural challenges from the rise and rise of e-books, online retailers and supermarkets that sell best-sellers. But if the sale of Waterstone's is what it takes to persuade HMV's banks to provide the group with the finance necessary for its survival - and therefore protects some 13,000 jobs - then few will doubt that it was necessary. Here is where HMV hopes that the magic of restoring financial confidence will make all the difference. In just a few months, HMV's net debt has shot up from £130m to £170m, in part because some of HMV's suppliers have been demanding cash for their goods, rather than supplying the DVDs, CDs and the rest on credit. With any luck, once they see that the banks are standing behind HMV, then HMV will be able to trade with them again on normal credit terms. Which would take HMV out of the vicious cycle of rising debt and rising financing costs. Now for the genuinely hard bit, after all that slog for HMV's senior executives led by Simon Fox in winning round the banks. All they have to do is deliver a recovery in sales via an almost total reinvention of the look and stock of their stores, so that next year or the year after HMV's creditors don't change their minds about the group having a viable future.",Sometimes good news comes in a form that does n't really look like good news - and so it is with HMV 's @placeholder on trading and the sale of Waterstone 's this morning .,minds,statement,position,insistence,impact,1
"The pensioner was told he had won £20,000 and was sent a £5,000 cheque, but then told to withdraw the cash and pay it into a Western Union account. While taking him to the bank, the taxi driver grew concerned about the ""lottery win"" and told police. His actions stopped the scam and prevented the pensioner losing £5,000, police said. The 80-year-old had been assured he would be sent a £20,000 cheque once he had deposited £5,000 cash into the Western Union account - an account which police said was untraceable. PC Dale Garner of South Yorkshire Police said: ""This scam is based on the fact that once a cheque is taken to a bank and shown as credited to the holder's account, there is a brief period where it can be withdrawn in cash before the cheque is discovered to be false, and subsequently bounces. ""At this point, the bank would request the money back from the victim."" Police said scammers ""prey on elderly people and take advantage of their trust"", and warned people to beware of anyone contacting them or their relatives being contacted about winning money. PC Garner said: ""The perpetrator in this case was contacting the victim on a daily basis giving him step-by-step instructions of what to do, addresses for the Western Union, down to getting a receipt. ""The only thing the victim knows about the perpetrator is that an 0808 false phone number was given."" The taxi driver was driving the pensioner to withdraw the cash when he heard of the lottery win and raised concerns. He accompanied the man into the bank and approached police officers in Sheffield city centre who reported the scam to Action Fraud and contacted the victim's family.","A "" caring "" taxi driver has been @placeholder for saving an 80 - year - old Sheffield man from a £ 5,000 lottery scam .",launched,jailed,praised,suspended,called,2
"Metal walls + lots of windows = cold in winter. Surely? Yet when it comes to houseboats, this seemingly obvious property equation falls flat on its face. So how do they stay warm in their metal homes? Well, while the catchphrase for bricks and mortar homes is ""location, location, location"", the secret to a cosy winter houseboat is ""insulation, insulation, insulation"". Maureen Phillips and her husband John live on a converted 90ft (30m) Humber keel barge once used for transporting animal feed. In converting the boat, which replaced a previous vessel in West Mersea, they used a highly insulating spray foam throughout. Mrs Phillips said the foam used not only insulated but also prevented condensation. ""And we've got proper central heating and you get a lot of solar gain through the windows,"" she said. ""If you have a sunny day in the winter it can be really warm up here. ""But it can be two or three degrees colder downstairs."" Outside on deck, the Phillips have toughened safety glass shields which keep biting winds at bay. Snowfall around the Phillips' houseboat 'Mojo' does not settle for long because of the salt in the marshes and the water. Of course, that does not mean the wooden walkways and metal deck do not ice up and become treacherous. But Mrs Phillips described winters on the boat as ""great"" and said the view of the marshes from her boat were ""very pretty"". In the middle of the vessel, below deck, is a second living room (the main one being on the first floor). ""We wanted somewhere in the winter where we could hole up and be cosy in the evenings,"" she said. This need to create a ""nest"" in a houseboat is not uncommon, says Alan Wildman, chairman of the Residential Boat Owners Association. ""How we stay warm is a question we often get asked,"" he said. ""The main challenges of living on a boat relate to the supply of utilities. ""Our sewage waste, for example, goes into a holding tank. In itself, it is not a problem, but it is a chore, especially in winter."" The main difference between houseboats and brick built houses, he said, is about the personal responsibility taken by the owners. ""Living on a boat, you tend to take personal responsibility for everything from your water to supply, to power generation to effluent. ""We don't waste water or electricity, for example. ""And on many narrow boats, you have a solid fuel stove. The reward is a very warm home. ""I think people living on boats become far more aware of the resources they use. ""We live in a marina and in winter we can get frozen in. Outside it can get get muddy and slippery and we just have to be very, very careful."" He added: ""The biggest thing we come up against are people who see what we do on a sunny day and assume it is like living in a house, but on water. ""It isn't. Yes, it is romantic, but you really have to want to do it and commit to it,"" Mrs Phillips, who in May started offering up part of the boat for bed and breakfast customers, agrees. ""This is not the sort of place where you can just call out a plumber,"" she said. ""It is not your normal type of home, and it isn't everybody's ideal choice.""","They sit at the margins of land and @placeholder . But while many houseboats are kept for occasional use , some are home to a hardy breed of year - round residents . As winter temperatures bite , what can these hull - dwellers teach the rest of us about staying warm ?",world,sea,conditions,team,applause,1
"Lewis Morgan fired Saints ahead but the visitors had Jack Baird sent off for throwing a punch before the interval. Lee Miller levelled early in the second half, turning in a low cross from Myles Hippolyte, via the post. Bob McHugh and Hippolyte then earned the Bairns maximum points with strikes inside the closing 12 minutes. St Mirren, without a point since October, started in bright fashion and Kyle McAllister had an early effort that drifted wide of Danny Rogers' goal. And when the breakthrough came, it was a goal of outstanding quality. John Sutton knocked the ball down into the path of Morgan, who took one touch and blasted the ball high into the net from 18 yards. The St Mirren defence were coping admirably with all that was being thrown at them before Baird was shown a straight red card after a clash with Falkirk striker Miller. Within two minutes of the second half Falkirk were back on terms, with Miller applying the finishing touch. Despite being a man down, St Mirren looked dangerous on the break but they could not find a way through. Falkirk eventually made their personnel advantage count with McHugh on target from close range after good work by Miller. And victory was secured when Hippolyte evaded a couple of challenges to create space to crash in a shot from 12 yards and lift his side up two places in the table. Match ends, Falkirk 3, St. Mirren 1. Second Half ends, Falkirk 3, St. Mirren 1. Lee Miller (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Gary Mackenzie (St. Mirren). Foul by Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk). Lawrence Shankland (St. Mirren) wins a free kick on the right wing. Substitution, St. Mirren. Calum Gallagher replaces Kyle McAllister. Attempt missed. Robert McHugh (Falkirk) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses the top right corner. Goal!  Falkirk 3, St. Mirren 1. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Attempt saved. Gary Mackenzie (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Luke Leahy. Goal!  Falkirk 2, St. Mirren 1. Robert McHugh (Falkirk) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lee Miller. Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Scott Gallacher. Attempt saved. Robert McHugh (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Substitution, St. Mirren. Lawrence Shankland replaces John Sutton. Substitution, Falkirk. Scott Shepherd replaces James Craigen. Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces John Baird. Attempt saved. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Luca Gasparotto. Foul by David McCracken (Falkirk). John Sutton (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk). Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. James Craigen (Falkirk) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Substitution, St. Mirren. Jordan Stewart replaces Rocco Quinn. Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Rocco Quinn. Attempt missed. Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) header from the centre of the box is too high following a corner. Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Gary Irvine. Corner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Myles Hippolyte. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) has gone down, but that's a dive. Attempt saved. John Baird (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Goal!  Falkirk 1, St. Mirren 1. Lee Miller (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Myles Hippolyte. Foul by Kyle Magennis (St. Mirren). Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Second Half begins Falkirk 0, St. Mirren 1. Substitution, Falkirk. Craig Sibbald replaces John Rankin. First Half ends, Falkirk 0, St. Mirren 1. Attempt blocked. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Foul by John Sutton (St. Mirren).","Falkirk came from behind to move third in the Championship , adding to the misery of bottom club St Mirren , who @placeholder without a league win this term .",was,played,deserved,remain,eased,3
"In the suburb of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray they remember a younger teenager who would go and buy you a drink or a snack if you tipped him a euro. He lived with his parents in a neighbourhood called Langevin, which is leafy if a little rough around the edges. In the corner shop a family friend remembers Kermiche as a child, playing with his son who was the same age. ""But they stopped talking when they hit 16,"" he recalled. A man, who would only give his name as ""John"" said Kermiche was a ""geek"" who loved games consoles and the internet. What we know about church attack France responds with calls for peace and understanding Tributes to Fr Jacques Hamel People in the town knew he had tried to go to Syria, earning him a prison sentence and a place on French intelligence's ""S list"" of terrorist sympathisers. After his release he would only be seen in the mornings, when he wasn't under his state-imposed curfew. ""He would go around saying he supported Daesh,"" says John, using a derogatory name for so-called Islamic State. But the fullest account of the killer's life came from a 20-year old friend who gave her name as Harmony Leroux. She was crying when we met her but launched into a passionate defence of Kermiche. She said they were ""joined at the hip"" for much of their lives, but that he started to ignore her in early 2015. ""He would walk by me in the street and blank me, like he'd been brainwashed,"" she said. Harmony said her friend came out of prison on the day of the terrorist attacks in Brussels in March 2016. She was surprised that the authorities released him at such a tense and emotionally-charged time. ""He came to see me straight after he got out. He gave me his perspective on things. I told him that you couldn't go round killing people in the name of God, that it says so in the Koran."" She believed that she and her friends had talked him into a more tolerant attitude. A fortnight ago they flicked through old college photos together. ""He seemed his old self again. He was respectful of women and full of life,"" Harmony said. ""But we just don't know why he then did what he did.""",The world knows Adel Kermiche as the 19 - year old who @placeholder a church and killed a priest .,sparked,died,stormed,ran,left,2
"Images of Hollie Gazzard with Asher Maslin, who stabbed her 14 times in February last year, are still viewable on Miss Gazzard's Facebook profile. Nick Gazzard said the nine pictures were causing distress and attempts to have them removed had failed. Facebook told the BBC it was unable to help in this circumstance. According to the social media website, its policy is that when a profile is memorialised following someone's death, any changes are not able to be made. Hollie Gazzard, 20, was brutally stabbed while working at Fringe Benefits and La Bella Beauty salon in Gloucester. She later died in hospital. Five months after her murder, Maslin was sentenced to life in prison for carrying out the attack. ""It makes me feel sick when I look at those photos, and to be truthful I try not to go into her Facebook site as I get quite distressed by it"" said Mr Gazzard. Of the nine images, most are only viewable by those who were Facebook ""friends"" with Holly before her death. The online profile was frozen after her death, with Mr Gazzard adding it was a ""real shame"" family and friends could not view it without seeing those nine pictures. Gary Rycroft, chair of the digital assets working group of the Law Society, advised Mr Gazzard to write to Facebook withdrawing the copyright of the photographs, which were taken by Hollie, and asking for the specific pictures to be removed. For the full story, watch Inside Out West on BBC One (West) at 19:30 GMT or via the iPlayer for a month afterwards.","A @placeholder by Facebook to delete photographs of a murdered woman posing with her killer ex-boyfriend is causing her father to "" feel sick "" .",bid,attempt,lifetime,disabled,refusal,4
"As many as 23 civilians were killed in the raid on a village in Yakla district on Saturday, including 10 children, rights group Reprieve says. Yemeni reports say the victims included the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a militant killed by a US strike in 2011. The raid was the first such operation authorised by President Donald Trump. The US military had previously said a Navy Seal, William ""Ryan"" Owens, 36, died and three others were injured. But the US Central Command (Centcom) later said that those killed could include children. Several Apache helicopters were reported to have taken part in the operation, which killed 14 militants, including three al-Qaeda leaders, according to the US military. White House spokesman Sean Spicer told journalists: ""It's hard to ever call something a complete success when you have a loss of life or people injured."" ""But I think when you look at the totality of what was gained to prevent the future loss of life... I think it's a successful operation in all standards."" He made no mention of civilian victims. Earlier on Thursday, Reprieve said a newborn baby was among 10 children killed in the attack. It also cited local reports as saying that a heavily pregnant woman was shot in the stomach during the raid and subsequently gave birth to an injured baby boy who later died. Images of several dead children emerged on social media soon after the attack took place. Earlier this week, Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis told reporters to ""take reports of female casualties with a grain of salt"", adding that they had been ""trained to be ready and trained to be combatants"". But US military Central Command on Wednesday acknowledged that a number of civilians had been ""likely killed in the midst of a firefight"". Mr Trump travelled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Thursday to receive the body of the US Navy Seal, William 'Ryan' Owens, who was killed in the raid. Al-Qaeda has taken advantage of the civil war in Yemen to entrench its presence in the south and south-east of the country. For the past two years, Yemen has been embroiled in fighting between forces loyal to the internationally recognised president, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, and Shia Houthi rebels.","The White House has said a raid in Yemen on an al - Qaeda stronghold that is thought to have killed civilians was a "" very thought - out @placeholder "" .",process,acts,experience,incident,level,0
"An East Midlands Ambulance Service crew found the bin when they tried to leave for hospital in Leicester. Waste fluid had leaked into the cabin, forcing the vehicle to require a deep clean. The ambulance was taken out of service and a second ambulance was called. EMAS said the action could have put lives at risk. The crew was responding to a call in Narborough Road, Leicester, in the early hours of Monday. Police were notified and the ambulance was returned to service the next day. Tim Hargraves, an EMAS manager based in Leicestershire, said: ""This behaviour is disgusting and can ultimately put lives at risk as this vehicle was taken off the road. ""Our crews work long hours in challenging circumstances and deserve to be treated with respect. ""We will work with Leicestershire Police to support enquiries."" A Facebook post on the EMAS page received more than 1,500 messages of support and was shared more than 4,000 times.",A wheelie bin of rubbish was dumped on the front @placeholder of an ambulance as medics treated a patient in the back .,effects,island,floor,seats,deck,3
"The sequel was released in November 1989. And watching it back nearly 26 years later, it's impressive to note how many tech trends it predicted, even if it also contained its fair share of misfires. ""Where we're going, we don't need roads..."" - well, that's one promise that didn't work out. Flying cars have always seemed to be just over the horizon. Boston-based Terrafugia, for example, promised to start selling a model in 2012, but is still trying to get its business off the ground. But while BTTF was overly optimistic about vertical take-offs becoming the norm, it did nail one detail. Listen to the sound effects used for its automobiles as they pass, and you hear the near-silent hum that's become associated with Toyota's Prius and other electric-powered four-wheelers. Throwing your rubbish into a car's Mr Fusion energy converter to provide it with power remains fanciful. But there have been moves towards powering vehicles with waste. Bristol and Bath recently started running buses powered by treated thrown-away food and sewage, and there are efforts elsewhere to convert agricultural waste into a petrol supplement. Furthermore, Biff's payment of his taxi ride with a thumb-print isn't totally dissimilar to how we now hail cars and cashlessly pay for them using Uber, Hailo, Lyft and innumerable other pick-up services. Even the film's iconic hoverboard chase scene is no longer totally outlandish. Lexus showed off a working hoverboard of its own in August, albeit one that relied on a hidden metal track being buried into the ground. More recently, skateboarder Tony Hawk was filmed trying out a rival version, called Hendo, based on similar magnet-based technology. (The less said about non-hovering hoverboards the better.) Barcode registration plates, however, have made little progress beyond the odd April fool. The tech world's current fascination with wearable tech was foreshadowed by Marty's talking jacket. And while today's clothes can't yet blow-dry us when we get wet, some fashion pioneers are experimenting with weaving electronics into their fabrics. So, BTTF's message-flashing police hats have a parallel in CuteCircuit's tweet-displaying dresses, and Nike has even filed a patent for self-lacing shoes similar to those featured in the film. When it comes to our own bodily care, we can't yet exfoliate away the years with a Doc-style ""rejuvenation clinic"" facial. But the 6.7 million botox injections and 1.2 million chemical peels carried out in the US last year suggest many are at least trying. BTTF's drones may only make fleeting appearances, but feel very ""of the moment"". Media organisations, including the BBC, have started deploying camera-enabled aircraft to get new perspectives on the news - even if they might not be comfortable sending them into the kind of crowded situation USA Today's model films in the movie. Dog-walking drones are also a real thing - at least if you believe everything you see on Vimeo and YouTube. Another type of robot featured in the film is a mechanical car fuel attendant. The Netherlands has already tested such a device a few years back, with the TankPitstop project, and Tesla is developing something similar for its electric vehicles. We've, thankfully, been spared Holomax sequels to Jaws. But the film industry hasn't given up on the idea of 3D technologies - its latest pitch is a laser-projection system said to deliver ""brighter, crisper and clearer"" images. Rather neatly, the innovation premiered in London earlier this month with Robert Zemeckis' latest film The Walk - he is, of course, also the director of the BTTF trilogy. Back to the Future II was closer to the mark when it came to home entertainment. A roll-up flatscreen shown in the McFlys' home is reminiscent of the flexible panels LG recently showed off at trade shows, which are rumoured to be featuring in commercial products soon. Meanwhile, voice-controlled televisions are already a reality thanks to smart TVs from Samsung and Sony as well as set-top boxes from Amazon and Apple. We get little hint at what Marty Jr sees via his hi-tech specs in the film, and their brand, JVC, is a much smaller force in consumer electronics than it once was. But several of today's bigger names are betting on various forms of the tech, whether it's Microsoft's Hololens, Facebook's Oculus Rift virtual reality headset or version two of Google Glass. The film's biggest miss, however, is arguably its lack of a smartphone. Marty Jr is even seen using an AT&T payphone at one point - all the more ironic since the company was first to offer the iPhone. It's not that BTTF's filmmakers didn't envision a data-connected world - a Skype-like video chat program features at one point showing off not only the caller but also private details about them - but repeatedly communication occurs via a TV rather than a handheld display. Likewise, it's hard not to feel the film missed a trick by using a newspaper to warn of Marty Jr's impending arrest, instead of a touchscreen. Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - released two decades earlier - had already featured its own ""newspads"". And a campaigner trying to restore Hill Valley's clock tower even seems to be using a tablet in one of Back to the Future II's other scenes. It's hard to be too critical, however, when you consider that the World Wide Web was only invented the same year that the film was released, and Tim Berners-Lee did not create its first browser until the following year. That might explain why CD-Roms and their larger counterparts Laser Discs feature so prominently in piles of rubbish. Similarly, in an age before email even got its name, it's perhaps not surprising that the film's futurists imagined we would want to fax from the pavement. But even that does not quite explain why the McFlys' home has quite so many fax machines. Computer-controlled ovens are still a relative rarity - although a robotic chef was indeed one of the highlights of a recent start-up showcase in San Francisco. Sadly, pizza hydrators are still the stuff of pepperoni-fuelled dreams - and selfie-taking fridges have proved to be scant compensation. BTTF does score a hit with computer-controlled door locks - Yale was the latest to release such a product earlier this month. But the idea of an Ortho-lev machine holding George McFly upside down seems like a rush of blood to the writers' heads - until you realise it was only included in the movie to disguise the fact that a different actor was portraying the character than in the first film.",It 's Back to the Future Day - the date Marty and Doc @placeholder the future in the second of the three time - hopping sci - fi adventure films .,discover,dubbed,district,celebrates,crashed,4
"In 2015, the dog found a home after a Canadian animal adoption group posted a heartrending photo of the young lab mix that went viral. The second owner recently returned Lana, so the rescue group said she was again up for adoption and had until 20 May before possibly being put down. They have since been flooded with some 5,000 emails and adoption offers. ""I'm sure we're going to find her a place,"" said Brenda Dobranski from Rescue Dogs Match in Cambridge, Ontario. ""Third time's a charm."" The organisation admitted ""there is still work to be done"" despite ""tons"" of training when it comes to Lana's behaviour. They say she should ideally be able to spend the bulk of her time outdoors because she is ""skittish"" inside. Ms Dobranski described Lana as being a bit like a cat in that she preferred to keep her distance. ""When you see Lana she reminds you of the type of dog you want to hug and cuddle on the couch with,"" she said. ""She's not that type of dog. She's very touch sensitive from humans, she's just learning now that it's OK to play with other dogs. Right now the trainer that she's been living with can pet her on the head for a few strokes but then you see her body tense up."" Lana's story first made headlines in 2015 when the dog rescue group posted about how she ""shut down"" after being placed in a kennel. Her first adoptive family surrendered her after snapped at one of the owners over food. She found a foster family and then a second adoptive home, but that too was short-lived. While she is described a ""loving and silly"", she can be cautious around new people and ""possessive"" with her food, a behaviour that developed when she was a puppy and the runt of the litter. Rescue Dogs Match says she needs a home with no other pets and no children, and a fenced in backyard. Lana turns three years old this month. Ms Dobranski  said that while Lana's story has tugged on people's heartstrings since first being featured on The Dodo, a website geared towards animal lovers, it is important not to adopt a pet simply out of emotion. ""People just want to save, and that's great - it's absolutely wonderful. But it has to be the right fit for the people as well as other pets and that specific dog,"" she said. Lana was first brought to Canada as a rescue puppy from Mexico. Ms Dobranski says her story helped Rescue Dogs Match raise C$15,000 (US$11,000/£8,500) for the organisation in 2015, funds that went towards medical bills and boarding for all their rescues.","Lana the Labrador , once @placeholder the saddest dog in the world , may have found a third lease on life .",reveals,condemned,dubbed,thought,marked,2
"The remark, in response to a journalist's comments about Americans finding the British way of placing washing machines in kitchens confusing, provoked a (mostly)humorous backlash on social media. Moments after the post one Twitter user asked where exactly in the home the washing machine should be located if a homeowner did not have a utility room to which Ms Allsopp replied: ""Bathroom, hall cupboard, airing cupboard, google tiny laundry rooms."" ""Really? We live in a moderately-sized, four-bed semi and couldn't fit a washing machine anywhere other than the kitchen!"" remarked another Twitter user, while another commented: ""What is disgusting is disrespecting those who have nowhere else to put one. "" Another Tweeter referred to the issue as ""first world problems."" You may also like: Realising the washing machine comment had provoked such a debate, Ms Allsopp attempted to quell the barrage of negative comments directed at her. But the mocking continued, provoking some post-watershed language from the TV presenter, aimed at those who had still failed to grasp she was joking when she said it was her ""life's work"" to get washing machines out of the kitchen. Most got the message as the responses took a humorous turn. Washing machines in many parts of the US and Europe are placed in the bathroom or separate utility rooms, but in most UK homes they are usually found in the kitchen, in part because in the UK there are no electrical sockets in the bathroom and most UK bathrooms could not fit a washing machine. Or maybe there were alternatives, suggested Nick. By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News Team","When it comes to the laundry , it 's all about location , location , location according to TV host Kirstie Allsopp . The presenter of @placeholder programmes has provoked a debate after posting on Twitter that it is disgusting to keep washing machines in the kitchen .",property,drugs,fertility,communications,causing,0
"Take his eye-catching initiative that those working on the minimum wage will be permanently taken out of paying tax by legislation guaranteeing that the tax-free allowance will rise in line with the national minimum wage. This is supposed to show, according to the prime minister, that the Conservatives are the party of ""working people, offering security"". And if you pay no tax, that presumably demonstrates that ""work pays"", to use the great cliche. But Tories have also traditionally been the party that has attacked the ""something-for-nothing society"". And what's odd about guaranteeing that huge numbers of employed people will never pay tax is that David Cameron appears to be comfortable about the notion that these people can enjoy all the expensive services and benefits provided by the state without making even a gesture of a contribution towards them. In fact, the way the policy is framed explicitly underwrites the idea of something for nothing, since the promised tax free allowance is equivalent to 30 hours of work per week on the minimum wage - and a 30-hour week happens to be the level at which households can claim full tax credits or benefits on top of a salary now guaranteed to be tax free. Now to be clear, this is not remotely to suggest that people on minimum wage don't need or deserve help from the state. This is not a point about whether the state is too generous to them. It is about the contract we all make with the state. And there is an argument that says all workers should make some kind of tax contribution, even if it is a fraction of the value of the benefits they receive, simply to foster the idea that - in the words of Mr Cameron's close colleague, George Osborne - ""we are all in this together"", and if we should all pay our subscription for the help we receive from the government. And there is another point. There is a bit of a risk that if too many people and employers get used to the idea that they never need to go to the administrative and financial bother of paying tax, they'll keep their declared earnings at the tax free level - which will either keep them poor or will encourage the expansion of black-market, off-the-books remuneration. So it could be a further depressant to income tax revenues, which have been flat-lining anyway during the economic recovery, and it could stimulate all sorts of unhealthy personal work incentives. And another thing, about the extension of right-to-buy from council houses to housing association homes. The point is that the collapse in the provision of social housing over the past 20 years means that housing association properties tend to be occupied by the poorest and most vulnerable, frequently those on housing benefit. So as my colleague Chris Cook points out, just 23% of households in rented accommodation from a housing association contain someone in full time work, with a further 11% containing a part-time worker. Maybe some of these will be able to afford to buy their homes if they qualify for the biggest discount, of up to 70% of the value of the property - but if they've been in the property a shorter time, the discount is 35% for a house and 50% for a flat. Interestingly a leading Tory pointed me towards the 31% of housing association properties occupied by a retired person. And if they're retired they will almost certainly qualify for the full 70% discount. In other words, this policy could be seen as a bribe to older people to vote Tory and gain a guaranteed windfall of many tens of thousands of pounds by buying their homes at a fraction of its true value. Which could, I suppose, secure a few useful votes in marginal constituencies. It would be interesting to know how many of these housing association homes occupied by older people are in marginal constituencies. Two other points. First, it is slightly odd perhaps that the Tories want to raise a further £1.4bn from slashing the tax relief available to high earners from saving for a pension - partly because it makes the pensions system even more complicated than it is today, and partly because of the negative message it will be seen as sending about the importance of saving for retirement. That said, Labour's recent press notice on its slightly different raid on pension tax relief for the highest paid described its initiative as a crackdown on tax avoidance - which most savers would regard as little short of insulting. But more striking is the distinction David Cameron and George Osborne make between the election goodies they need to finance through tax rises or spending cuts, and those they don't. The distinction, I am told by a senior Tory, is between pledges that continue what the government has done year after year in this parliament and those that are new. That is why, he said, David Cameron has announced a raid on the pension relief received by high earners to pay for the rise to £1m in the threshold for inheritance tax for a married couple. But he said there's no need to fund the promised £8bn of NHS spending increases or £6bn of increases to tax thresholds because these are in tune with what they've done to NHS funding and tax thresholds in the current parliament - and therefore we should trust them to find the money in due course to continue with these giveaways. Except that in the case of the 40% tax threshold, the reverse is true. As every newspaper in Britain has been banging on about for year after year, there has been no substantial real increase in the 40% threshold in this parliament - so all sorts of people who don't think of themselves as rich pay this higher rate of tax. Which means that not coming up with a credible way for lifting the threshold to £50,000 - which Mr Cameron has promised - seems odd and contrary to the Tories' unusual (ahem) fiscal principles. Just for clarification, the threshold for the 40% rate of tax was raised above the rate of inflation for the first time in this parliament in the last Budget.  But this was a first and wasn't a theme of the parliament. That said, I should point out - which I think is obvious, but is not to an irate member of Tory high command - that if you are on low pay you are likely to be pleased to receive a guarantee that you won't pay income tax. Similarly, if you are someone (young or old) living in a housing association property with no wealth to your name, it is better than a kick in the teeth to be told that you are in line for a hefty windfall from your new right to buy your property at a discount of up to 70%. In that sense, and to state the bloomin' obvious, David Cameron and George Osborne are challenging directly the charge that they are only interested in helping the well off. These policies can be seen as addressing directly the idea that there is too much financial inequality in Britain. They represent Cameron and Osborne taking on the guise of One Nation Tories. And the important philosophical distinction is that they believe a fairer society will be built by cutting taxes and privatising institutionally held assets, in contrast to Labour's approach of forcing companies to increase low pay, of breaking up the banks and capping energy prices.",I am a bit @placeholder by some of the economic messages sent out by David Cameron and the Tory manifesto .,criticised,boosted,defended,impressed,puzzled,4
"Dubbed the ""Great Wall of Calais"" by some media, it is an attempt to prevent migrants from trying to stow away on trucks heading for Britain. The 4m (13ft) barrier will run for 1km (0.6 miles) along both sides of the main road to the northern French port. The UK government has said that while it provides money for security, French authorities choose how to spend it. Local authorities in Calais say construction is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The wall will pass within a few hundred metres of the sprawling migrant camp, which charities say now houses more than 10,000 people. Home Secretary Amber Rudd previously told MPs the wall was ""not a new initiative"", but what mattered was making sure the French had the right amount of security to prevent ""illegals"" trying to get to the UK. ""We support the French with money to help them do that,"" she said. ""It is up to them how they decide to secure their borders in Calais and around it."" Numerous fences have been built to protect the port, the Eurotunnel terminal and train tracks on the other side of Calais, and the BBC understands the wall will not replace any of those. The government has refused to confirm the cost of the wall, although reports suggest a £1.9m price tag - to be paid for out of £17m announced by David Cameron earlier this year. But Rod McKenzie, from the Road Haulage Association, previously told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that instead of stopping migrants from boarding trucks, it would just ""move the problem further down the road"". Many of the migrants in northern France attempt to reach the UK by boarding lorries as they approach ports or the Channel Tunnel. In August, BBC footage showed people-smugglers wielding sticks and dragging a felled tree on to the main port road to stop lorries and allow migrants to climb on board. Earlier this month, French lorry drivers and farmers blockaded the main motorway route into Calais in a protest calling for the closure of the camp.",Construction work has begun on a UK - @placeholder wall near the so - called Jungle migrant camp in Calais .,growing,based,funded,made,controlled,2
"Lottery organisers Camelot said the window for claiming the Euromillions winnings closed at 23:00 BST on Sunday. Camelot said unclaimed money would be added to the money in the National Lottery Good Causes fund. Leicester's lord mayor Abdul Osman started a countdown timer to the deadline near the Haymarket clock tower last week but the prize went unclaimed. A spokesman for Camelot said: ""Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticket-holder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has now sadly missed out on this substantial amount of money. ""I would urge all National Lottery players to check their tickets on a regular basis.""",A lottery player who won £ 1 m on a ticket @placeholder in Leicester has failed to claim their prize .,machine,meeting,bought,body,group,2
"Smith, 37, from Aviemore, said an operation to remove a spinal cord tumour came with a high risk of leaving him paralysed from the neck down. He was first diagnosed with a tumour in 2010. After further surgery 11 months ago, the tumour has reoccurred. Smith told BBC Radio 5 Live he wanted to ""give it everything"" to get to Rio. Before competing at cycling, Smith won a gold medal in rowing at the 2012 London Paralympics and was an ambassador for Glasgow's Commonwealth Games. He received news of the reoccurrence of the tumour, which is rare and linked to a faulty gene, during Glasgow 2014. Smith told 5 Live that his surgeon, a former competitive cyclist himself, understood his situation and there was potentially enough time for him to compete at Rio before surgery became unavoidable. The cyclist said: ""It's my dream. ""I would rather live these next 11 months and give it everything I've got to try and make it to Rio than go for surgery now and run the risk of being paralysed from the neck down. ""The risks of surgery are very high."" Smith, who was born with a clubfoot and came close to having his right foot amputated at birth, won a gold medal at London 2012 in the mixed coxed four. A post box was painted gold in Aviemore in his honour.",Scottish cyclist David Smith has @placeholder having lifesaving surgery to concentrate on his bid to compete at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio .,added,undergone,denied,stopped,delayed,4
"After rival Italian tycoon Andrea Bonomi dropped out, Fosun was left as the sole bidder. The price offered to Club Med shareholders values the company at €939m (£700m) Fosun has had its eye on Club Med for nearly five years. But the takeover battle began in earnest in May 2013. Its the longest running bid battle in recent times in France. Fosun used a special investment vehicle, Gaillon Invest, to conduct its bid for the French operator. ""We can now get on with the work we started almost five years ago to support the development of Club Med in France and in fast-growing markets,"" said Gaillon Invest chairman, Jiannong Qian. In recent years Club Med has focused on serving wealthier sections of emerging economies attracting new customers particularly in Brazil and China. Club Med pioneered the all-inclusive holiday resort in the 1950s and 1960s, but has recently struggled amid the economic downturn in Europe.","Chinese giant Fosun has finally clinched control of Club Mediterranee , the French holiday @placeholder , after nearly two years .",heritage,group,team,hotel,venue,1
"The Quartet - the EU, UN, US, Russia - acted after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas submitted his bid to the UN for the recognition of a Palestinian state. Direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians stalled in September 2010. The Palestinians walked out in protest at the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN the core of the conflict was not settlements but the refusal of the Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. ""Within a month there will be a preparatory meeting between the parties to agree an agenda and method of proceeding in the negotiation,"" a Quartet statement said. ""At that meeting there will be a commitment by both sides that the objective of any negotiation is to reach an agreement within a timeframe agreed to by the parties but not longer than the end of 2012."" Q&A: Palestinians' UN statehood plans Palestinian request Why Obama has turned towards Israel The Quartet said that both Israel and the Palestinians should then produce ""comprehensive proposals within three months on territory and security,"" and ""substantial progress"" should be achieved within six months. An international conference to fine-tune all outstanding issues would be held in Moscow ""at an appropriate time,"" the Middle East negotiators added. They said that Israeli and Palestinian leaders were now studying the Quartet proposals. EU foreign policy chief Baroness (Catherine) Ashton said she hoped both sides would react positively to the plan. ""If ever there was a time to resolve this conflict, it is now,"" Lady Ashton said. ""It is now because Israel worries about its security, because the people of Palestine have waited long for their country."" The Quartet unveiled its proposals shortly after Mr Abbas formally submitted the request for a Palestinian state to become a full member of the UN. Addressing the General Assembly in New York, he urged the Security Council to back a state with pre-1967 borders. ""I call upon the distinguished members of the Security Council to vote in favour of our full membership,"" Mr Abbas told the General Assembly, in what was for him an unusually impassioned speech. ""I also appeal to the states that have not yet recognised the State of Palestine to do so,"" Mr Abbas said. ""The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland,"" he said. He added that he hoped for swift backing. Many delegates gave him a standing ovation, and some were clapping and even whistling in support. Hours after receiving it, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon transmitted the Palestinian request to the Security Council. Nawaf Salam, Lebanon's ambassador to the UN and the current Security Council president, said the application would be discussed on Monday. In order to pass, it would need the backing of nine out of 15 council members, with no vetoes from the permanent members, but it could take weeks to reach a vote. Currently the Palestinians have observer status at the UN. Israel and the US say a Palestinian state can only be achieved through talks with Israel - not through UN resolutions. ""I continue to hope that President Abbas will be my partner in peace,"" Mr Netanyahu said in his speech at the General Assembly. ""Let's meet here today in the United Nations. Who's there to stop us?"" he added. President Barack Obama told Mr Abbas earlier this week that the US would use its UN Security Council veto to block the Palestinian bid. BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen says this is significant because the Palestinians may yet apply to the General Assembly for enhanced status if their Security Council bid fails. A spokesman for the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, criticised Mr Abbas' speech. Salah Bardawil said Mr Abbas had deviated from the aspirations of the Palestinian people by accepting the 1967 borders, which he said left 80% of Palestinian land inside Israel. Meanwhile in the West Bank, crowds roared their approval as Mr Abbas demanded UN acceptance of a Palestinian state within pre-1967 borders. ""With our souls, with our blood, we will defend Palestine,"" they said.",The Quartet of Middle East negotiators has urged Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks within one month and aim for a @placeholder by the end of 2012 .,referendum,speech,plot,deal,solution,3
"The domestic flight with 118 people on board was hijacked after taking off from Sabha, bound for the Libyan capital Tripoli. Instead, the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 was diverted to Malta International Airport. It appears the two hijackers are supporters of Libya's late deposed leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Pictures of them kneeling on the tarmac with their hands up appear to show the moment they were arrested by the Maltese authorities. All the passengers - including one infant - and a number of the crew had already been released. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat initially said that the men had been armed with pistols and a grenade - but later tweeted that the weapons appeared to be replicas. Mr Muscat said neither of the men, believed to be of Libyan nationality, had made any demands. He told a press conference: ""The two hijackers have been detained in custody and interrogations are ongoing. The rest of the crew and passengers are also being questioned to ascertain events. ""Once this interrogation process is completed over the next few hours arrangements will be made to send the passengers and the crew members back to Libya with another Afriqiyah aircraft."" Shortly before the incident drew to an end, one man emerged from the plane briefly and stood on the plane steps waving a green, Gaddafi-era flag - adding support to earlier suggestions they were loyalists to the former leader, killed in 2011. Taher Siala, the foreign minister of Libya's internationally backed Government of National Accord, said the hijackers wanted to set up a pro-Gaddafi political party. Airport security in Libya: Rana Jawad, BBC North Africa correspondent, Tunis Airport security in Libya is as lax and chaotic as the country's' politics. Various armed groups who do not have any particular allegiance to any Libyan administration control them all. Over the years there have been several incidents that passengers have become accustomed to, which often go unreported.  This includes planes being delayed because rival armed groups drive up the runway, or even temporarily board them if they have a particular demand or a personal axe to grind. The capital's main airport was burned down during the 2014 rival militia clashes to control it. Libyans already have trouble flying out of their own country, and cannot travel direct to any European country.  European airspace has been closed to all flights from Libya for over two years.  The latest incident will undoubtedly dash any hopes that a change in that reality will take place any time soon. One of the hijackers told a Libyan television station: ""We took this measure to declare and promote our new party."" Initial information had suggested the hijackers were trying to claim political asylum in Malta, the mayor of Sabha, Colonel Hamed al-Khayali, told the BBC. The incident began after the plane took off from Sabha at 11:10 local time (08:10 GMT), landing in Malta two hours and 20 minutes later. Mr Muscat said the passenger list included 82 men, 28 women and one baby. Col Khayali said security at Tmenhant was poor, with a distance of 5km (3.1 miles) travel between the airport building and planes. ""That is an open space and it is possible that along that route something was smuggled on board,"" he said. Malta International Airport was closed and all flights were diverted while the incident was on-going. Libya has been in a state of chaos since the 2011 overthrow of Gaddafi, who had ruled the country since 1969. His removal left warring militias battling for control of different parts of the country, with so-called Islamic State (IS) taking control of areas. Forces loyal to a national unity government, backed by the UN, recently took control of the coastal city of Sirte, which had been a bastion for IS since June 2015.",The hijacking of a Libyan plane has ended peacefully after the men who seized control @placeholder in Malta .,surrendered,remained,died,landed,published,0
"The group were captured by security cameras at the West Grimstead crossing, just outside of Salisbury. Network Rail said 80 trains passed the spot every day, adding how ""incredibly easy"" it would be to be caught out while distracted. A spokesman said trespass was both ""illegal and also dangerous"". He said: ""The last thing we want is for a family to lose their loved one over a selfie, so I strongly urge everyone to use level crossings safely and to stay alert."" It happened as the railway operator was launching a safety campaign to coincide with the start of the school summer holiday season.",Three youngsters @placeholder to take selfies on a footpath crossing a railway line used by trains travelling at more than 80 mph .,people,compete,planned,needs,stopped,4
"Nigel Farage clearly is hoping to be a giant gooseberry in the relationship between the prime minister and the president-elect. But can he take a role? Should he? And does his grinning picture outside the Trump Towers' golden lift actually create any problems for Mrs May? As the PM prepares to give her first big foreign policy speech at the Guildhall, Mr Farage's antics are clearly deeply annoying for Number 10. One source said they were ""maddening"". Mrs May's team had no prior knowledge of the meeting, and found out the same way as everybody else, when Mr Farage turned up at Trump Towers in New York, before posting a picture with a smile as wide as Mr Trump's ego after their meeting, and later apparently enjoying a cigarette break on the balcony of the his penthouse. Just at the moment, when Mrs May's government is trying to get to grips with a new administration - a largely unexpected one - across the pond, Mr Farage pulls off one of his biggest achievements in a career of winding up Conservatives. But let's be clear. Despite a few MPs suggesting the contrary, it is about as likely as Mrs May taking selfies with 10-year-old Barron Trump on the patio outside the Cabinet Room that she will end up giving Mr Farage an official role. But right at the time when Number 10 is trying to organise its visit to Washington DC, after being the ninth seat of government to receive a call from Trump Towers, Mr Farage's mini-break certainly looks bad for Mrs May, implying that he has more clout than she does, that it's the UKIP leader, not the prime minister, in charge of our ties with the US. It matters not, perhaps, because it was Mr Farage, or because of the temporary story about the embarrassment. But because the relationship between the UK and the US matters enormously, and like any diplomatic tie, it is created and maintained through the painstaking application of protocol. The Farage-Trump visit demonstrates, as one diplomat put it, that Mr Trump is ""deeply unorthodox"", that he is not interested in sticking to any convention. That was, after all, a huge part of his political appeal for those who backed him. But for Mrs May, as she embarks on building a relationship with Trump and his team, there's no predicting what he will do. And she has also been criticised from the left, for refusing to condemn some of his most controversial beliefs.  The prime minister finds herself with no map, little guide on how her most important ally will behave. Whether or not Mr Farage keeps popping up, that's a problem she could do without.","There will be "" no third person "" in the relationship between Theresa May and Donald Trump , Downing Street has opined , intentionally or not , @placeholder that famous phrase of Princess Diana 's describing the difficulties in her marriage .",leaving,evidence,echoing,explains,questions,2
"The man wrote a message on the gantry in what appeared to be some kind of protest, after he climbed up at about midday on Sunday. He was arrested for causing a public nuisance when he eventually came down shortly after 16:00 BST on Monday. Leicestershire Police said negotiators talked him down. Part of the man's message alleged that someone ""tried 2 kill me"", and he also referred to ""2 murder attempts"". The motorway was closed southbound between junctions 23a and 22 earlier, and there is still a lot of congestion despite it being reopened. After the man came down, Assistant Chief Constable Phil Kay said: ""This man is now in custody and therefore I am not able to say more at this stage about the circumstances that led him to climb the stanchion and remain there for so long. ""I am relieved that this protracted incident has now come to a safe conclusion, but I do not underestimate the incredible gridlock and massive inconvenience that this incident has caused to motorists throughout the UK."" He added that he would like to express his ""sincere sympathies to the many tens of thousands of people who have been seriously inconvenienced as a result of this incident"". Diversions were in place since Sunday lunchtime, but police said these alternative routes inevitably became ""highly congested"" too.",Thousands of motorists using the M1 have been disrupted by a man who @placeholder on an information board gantry for more than 24 hours .,is,stabbed,appeared,camped,disappeared,3
"It was the first and last time he had communicated with her. ""My most beloved Chun-lan, I was arrested when you were still in your mother's womb,"" said the 1953 letter. ""Father and child cannot meet. Alas, there's nothing more tragic than this in the world."" His daughter only got the letter 56 years later. ""As soon as I read the first sentence, I cried,"" Huang Chun-lan said. ""I finally had a connection with my father. I realised not only do I have a father, but this father loved me very much."" The letters were among some 300 papers handed to Ms Huang's daughter when she applied for documents about her grandfather from government archives in 2008. That led to archive workers finding personal writings, mostly letters to families, that another 179 political prisoners had written before they were executed during Taiwan's ""White Terror"" period of suppression. Tens of thousands of people suspected of being anti-government were arrested, and at least 1,200 executed, between 1949 and 1992. The letters, and the recent election of opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen as president, have renewed calls for a thorough look at this dark period and its precursor, the 228 Incident. This was a 1947 crackdown on protesters who voiced discontent over the then Kuomintang party's rule over Taiwan as it faced defeat by the communists in mainland China. The estimate of the number of civilians killed in the crackdown ranges from 2,000 to more than 25,000 civilians. Experts say a lot remains unknown about both periods, due to a lack of transparency. The government never issued a death toll. It is barely mentioned in history textbooks, researchers say. Historians also say papers may have been destroyed. It was not until 2002 that Taiwan's Archives Act prohibited important documents from being destroyed. Taiwan's president-elect clearly believes that how the country deals with its past will affect its future social and political cohesion. She indicated recently it still had not properly dealt with this period despite the designation of 28 February as a public holiday to commemorate victims of the 228 Incident, and memorials, compensation payments and presidential apologies. ""Only with truth will there be reconciliation,"" she said in a recent speech. ""Only with reconciliation will there be unity. Only then can Taiwan move forward."" She has pledged to seek truth and justice. For victims' families, learning about the fate of their loved ones, while knowing nobody was punished, is difficult to swallow. The many memorials to Taiwan's then President, Chiang Kai-shek, who they see as the biggest culprit, deepen the pain. Lan Yun-jo, whose father was executed in 1951 for writing articles critical of the government in an underground newspaper, learned only through a researcher that his life might have been spared had it not been for Chiang. Her father went into hiding and was not arrested despite a big cash reward offered for his whereabouts. He surrendered after the authorities jailed Ms Lan's mother and Lan, who was a baby then and needed to be breastfed. Within six months, he was executed. ""Under his hands, many jail sentences were converted to death sentences,"" said Ms Lan. While victims' families label Chiang ""the murderer"", others, especially those whose families fled with him from communist China, credit him with liberating Taiwan from Japanese colonial rule. They argue he had to consolidate control over the island and keep it from descending into chaos and falling under communist rule. But most agree his methods were excessive. Some of those arrested did support communism but only because they were repulsed by Chiang's harsh suppression of dissent. Others were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and many were intellectuals who just wanted a more democratic society. The letters expressing love, sadness and regret provide a window into their hearts. Despite facing death, some stood by their beliefs. In one letter, a prisoner wrote to his mother: ""There is nothing more that can be said about what has happened to me. I only ask that you not be sad, that you live happily, and that you be proud of your child, who is sacrificing for this era."" For many families, the letters came too late. In Ms Huang's father's letter to her mother, he deeply apologised for making her a widow at a young age and asked her to remarry. ""When we received these letters, my mother was already suffering from dementia, so she couldn't understand what we were reading to her,"" said Ms Huang, who wants more documents to be declassified. ""This is something we really regret. The truth about history should be revealed.""","The @placeholder before Huang Wen-kung was executed , he wrote five letters to his family , including his five - month - old daughter whom he had never seen .",name,words,word,night,community,3
It was discovered on Tuesday on an embankment by the city's Victoria Dock. Humberside Fire and Rescue Service said it was called at 22:08 GMT and rescued the seal using a salvage sheet. The pup has been named Basil and is now being cared for at the Sea Life Centre in Scarborough. More on this and other Hull stories,A @placeholder seal pup found near a former Hull dock has been rescued by firefighters and the RSPCA .,body,harbor,suspected,stranded,man,3
"Williams, 32, was suspended for four weeks after being sent off in the second Test against the Lions. World Rugby had ruled the game against Counties Manukau and Taranaki on 11 August would not count in his ban. It said it was ""surprised"" by the independent appeal committee decision. Next Friday's match is a 'game of three halves', with the provincial sides meeting in a 40-minute game, before the All Blacks face each team in a 40-minute half. The appeal committee ruled the match had sufficient meaning to be part of Williams' suspension. New Zealand face the Wallabies at Sydney's ANZ Stadium on 19 August. All Blacks assistant coach Ian Foster said common sense had prevailed. He added: ""If people turn up to watch this game, does it look like a match? Of course it does. Is it meaningful? Yes, it is. ""It's not a training run and you think about the Counties and Taranaki players - they're going to be going for it. It's a great opportunity for them and it's 80 minutes played under the normal laws of the game."" World Rugby said in a statement it was surprised by the committee's interpretation of the definition of a 'match' as regulations define that as ""a game in which two teams compete against each other"".",Sonny Bill Williams can play in New Zealand 's Rugby Championship opener against Australia after successfully appealing against a decision not to @placeholder a warm - up match in his ban .,open,attend,include,spend,pick,2
South Wales Police said the 24-year-old was in a serious condition at Morriston Hospital following a disturbance at 00:15 GMT in St Helen's Avenue in the city centre. A 22-year-old local man is in custody.,A man has been arrested after another man was @placeholder with a knife in Swansea .,injured,attacked,bitten,collided,started,1
"Hull-based Martin Williams Ltd took over Penman Engineering near Dumfries in November last year. The number of employees at the time had fallen to just 14 but the new owners said that now stood at 67. Director Chris Williams said that if new work they hoped to secure did come in then numbers would rise further. He said that would also leave them with the potential of a full order book for the next two years. The site on the outskirts of Dumfries employed about 140 staff before it went into administration. Mr Williams said they had completed their first stage of restructuring the company while managing to increase staffing levels. He said they had concentrated on re-employing as many people as possible while building up orders. ""We have had massive support from Scottish Enterprise who have helped us from the day we took over and hold regular meetings with us to offer their support in a lot of different ways,"" he said. ""There are numerous different projects we are tendering for currently internationally and SE have also offered us support with this as well which is invaluable to us."" He said they had faced a number of challenges with suppliers who had lost money when the old company entered administration ""understandably wary"" of doing business with them. ""However, those who support the company will be rewarded in the future as bigger projects come off,"" he said. ""We will aim to put as much money back into the local economy and previous suppliers as possible to enable us to trade freely and have a good reputation in the future, the same as our existing company."" He said that overall he was positive about the direction the business was heading in. ""All in all things are looking good for the future,"" he said. ""It is still a tough climate and with Brexit you just don't know what's around the corner. ""But we are carrying on with what we know best which is to give the customer the best possible service and turnaround time that is also competitively priced.""",Staffing levels could be set to double at a Scottish armoured @placeholder business which was bought out of administration nearly six months ago .,community,shows,vehicle,facility,maternity,2
"The lyrical strains of Almaty's latest pop song reverberates through the city's main Chinese market, lending a distinctly Kazakh feel to what looks like a scene that could easily be from Beijing or Shanghai. Inside, signs in both Mandarin and Kazakh point out directions in the warren-like maze. It's here that I meet Huang Jie, a jovial bear of a woman. She's been running a convenience store in this market for 15 years, selling everything from hairbrushes to soy sauce. She came to Almaty from China to take part in an ice-skating competition, but then stayed on because of the opportunities here. ""They had almost no consumer items [when I came here in 1991],"" she explained. ""So we brought cosmetics, stereo sets, kids clothes, shoes... then we moved on to food, pots, kitchen utensils. And then home furniture, and now even gym equipment. We built it up step by step."" And it's been a remarkable success. All of the products in Ms Huang's shop and in the Chinese market are from China. Most of the time she says she serves a mixture of Russian and Kazakh customers, and has learned both languages to help her sales - but increasingly she and other vendors like her in this market have been getting customers from China, thanks to the One Belt One Road initiative. ""Belt and Road has been great for my business,"" Ms Huang told me. ""Huge numbers of Chinese people have surged into the country to work on construction projects and build infrastructure, and they need my foodstuffs. ""When Chinese companies went to Astana to build the light railway system, a few thousand people came in. When they need to build a cement factory, there'll be another few thousand. And they cannot do without food."" Kazakhstan is sometimes euphemistically called the ""buckle"" in China's Belt and Road vision. It's a pivotal part of the plan. Beijing is setting up dry ports along the borders of this land-locked country, Chinese banks have lent money to Kazakhstan and Chinese companies have been snapping up stakes in Kazakh firms. All of this comes at a price. What does China want? Access to Kazakhstan's mineral resources for one thing. It is blessed with huge oil and gas deposits, and the Chinese are looking for a way to secure their energy needs in the future. The investment has already yielded some very significant gains for the local Chinese business community in Almaty. Bai Hong is chief executive of Talap Munai Services, a mining consultancy based in Almaty. He started the business more than a decade ago after moving from China's Liaoning province. Now it does business deals worth US$200m (£157m) a year. Thanks to China's Belt and Road, he only sees that growing. ""It's already been beneficial to us,"" he said, whilst showing me around his new office. ""Now when we buy substances from China. Thanks to the Belt and Road initiative, the process is much faster. In the past we would need 40 to 50 days to bring just one truckload of substances here, now we can get it in 10-15 days. ""Kazakhstan has given us many preferential policies, like speeding up investment approvals and other frameworks as part of this agreement."" But with that success, has come some suspicion. Last year, massive protests took place across the country against a controversial land reform bill - unusual in a nation where any sort of demonstration is quickly shut down or punished. Most of the people protesting were worried that the new law would end up benefiting the Chinese more than the locals, and in the end it was shelved. ""The general population has a suspicion of Chinese investment,"" Kassymkhan Kapparov, director of the Bureau for Economic Research of Kazakhstan told me. ""They always think there's some strings attached to it. With the recent land reform projects, the main population were suspicious of the Chinese companies buying the land. ""The agricultural sector needs land reform but the public perception of the Chinese threat stopped the government from doing this reform."" The man in charge of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has run things here since 1989. The climbdown on the land reform bill was highly unusual for him, given dissent isn't tolerated in Kazakhstan. But it may be a sign that he's trying to manage the growing public mistrust of the Chinese - a partnership he's cultivated and nurtured. ""The official point of view is full of beautiful statements: China is our good neighbour, our good partner, China is our future,"" Dosym Satpayev, director of the Risk Assessment Group told me. ""But... the ordinary people have a lot of different [opinions] about China because traditionally inside Kazakh society there are a lot of fears about China."" Despite that public perception though, China is still an increasingly important influence here. I visited a Chinese-language school in Almaty where I saw Kazakhs of all ages - some as young as 11-years-old - arming themselves with the language they see as their ticket to a better future. Nurzhan Baitemirov, chief executive of the East West Education Group which owns the language school, started with just one outlet back in 2007. He now runs 17 around the country and plans to open dozens more in the next few years. ""The Chinese culture and language will help Kazakhstan develop into a more sophisticated and powerful economy,"" he told me as he showed me around his school. ""That's why our students come here."" Currently his schools teach three thousand Kazakhs across the country, but that number is expected to grow. ""I know English, and Russian, but everyone knows those languages,"" Alma, a student here tells me. ""But if I know Chinese, a global language, then an employer will look at me twice and think 'hey, that's a good candidate!'"" Whatever the reservations, it's clear that for most Kazakhs, this new relationship with China is unlikely to change anytime soon. Kazakhstan's Chinese dreams are just beginning.","China 's Belt and Road initiative is ploughing through central Asia . The plan , which aims to expand trade links between Asia , Africa , Europe and beyond , was @placeholder in 2013 . What impact has China 's grand plan had so far in Kazakhstan ? I went to Almaty - the financial capital - to find out .",unveiled,fields,published,approved,injured,0
"""The SNP members I see around don't look particularly unhappy to be at Westminster, though of course there is a range of views,"" says Scottish political commentator David Torrance. ""On the whole it's very difficult not to enjoy working there because it's a historic environment, full of atmosphere, and a lot of them appreciate that."" Stewart McDonald is one of those newly elected MPs. He represents Glasgow South and overturned a 12,000 Labour majority to take the seat for the SNP. He had never set foot in the Westminster Parliament before his election, and quickly formed strong views about the institution. ""The main thing that shocks me is just how inefficient this place is,"" says Mr McDonald. ""If the Commons was a quango, it would have been shut down years ago. If it was a business, it would have gone bust in a fortnight."" Former comedy club impresario, and one-time general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party, Tommy Sheppard, is the new SNP MP for Edinburgh East. He insists that there's no risk of he and his colleagues being seduced by the history of their surroundings, which he compares to Harry Potter's school of wizardry. ""I bring friends from my past to look around, and have a drink on the terrace,"" he says. ""Even the most hard-bitten, cynical ones can't fail to be impressed with looking up at Hogwarts. It doesn't do it for me, I've got a healthy distance from it."" Before Philippa Whitford took Central Ayrshire from Labour in May's election, she was a breast cancer surgeon, and has been using her medical training to help her colleagues deal with the stresses of the job. ""As team doctor, I'm having to warn people to cool their jets a little bit, and pace themselves,"" she says. ""It is utterly non-stop. Because of previous things, like expenses scandals, the public have a terrible impression of MPs and think we sit around in the bars all the time. ""Nothing could be further from the truth."" The original 56 MPs who arrived at Westminster in May have seen their number reduced to 54, after two had the whip removed, but they appear to remain a remarkably tight-knit unit, who  socialise together. Their status as the third largest party in the Commons means the group's leader, Angus Robertson, gets to ask David Cameron two questions at each week's Prime Minister's Questions. This has raised their profile as an opposition party, but also led some to question the role of Scottish Nationalist MPs in a parliament increasingly concerned with matters affecting England and Wales only. Traditionally, SNP MPs at Westminster did not vote on England and Wales-only legislation, but they have dropped this rule, enabling them to force the government to retreat on some issues. ""You look at votes that didn't happen, over foxhunting or Sunday trading. It's clear that the SNP MPs are having a direct impact on the legislative programme,"" says David Torrance. ""They said after the election that they wouldn't sit there quietly, they would hold the government to account. I think they have done that."" One of the striking things about the Westminster SNP group is its discipline. None of its MPs have broken their party whip, the instruction which tells members how to vote. During a recent SNP-led Commons debate on Trident, Labour's John Woodcock sparked anger by referring to them as ""robots"". ""We're not that disciplined. We just happen to agree with each other most of the time,"" says Tommy Sheppard. ""A whip means you've got a view, a policy. If anyone felt really strongly, they could happily break the whip. Nobody gets sent to purgatory for disagreeing."" The long-term goal for the SNP remains achieving independence for Scotland. Former First Minster Alex Salmond, now sitting as an MP again, has described a second referendum as ""inevitable"", while his successor as party leader and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that David Cameron is ""living on borrowed time"". According to David Torrance, the SNP are using their platform at Westminster to become a more UK-focused party, and now adopt positions on issues that do not directly affect Scotland. ""They have an ongoing strategy of trying to work on English public opinion, which in some quarters is quite hostile to the idea of independence,"" he says. ""Their aim is to de-stigmatise the SNP, and say we're not as extreme and boisterous and chippy as some newspapers say we are."" In the short term, frustrations remain on the SNP benches over the extent to which the views of Scottish voters are being represented at Westminster. ""I don't feel like I have a stake in this place,"" Stewart McDonald says. ""It really came home to me when we had the debate on Syria. All but two of Scotland's MPs voted against UK participation in air strikes. ""Scotland's view was completely sidelined."" Philippa Whitford is in no doubt that independence for Scotland will be achieved in her lifetime. ""Our long-term aim is 'please get us out of here as soon as possible',"" she says. ""I don't think it's going to be imminent. Maybe somewhere between five and ten years, we'll get another chance."" Until that aim of independence is achieved, the SNP will have to continue to stand for Westminster seats and sit on the green benches of the Commons. So is there a danger of getting a little bit too comfortable? Glasgow South MP Stewart McDonald says he still feels like an outsider and remains determined not lose track of his party's core purpose. ""We want to break up the British state,"" he says. ""Whilst we would argue that it's not radical to want your country to aspire to independence, in this place it's pretty radical, because it's such a conservative old boy's club. ""We don't want to be part of it for any longer than we absolutely have to be."" ""Ultimately, we want Scotland to be an independent country.""","If anyone can resist the historic charms of the Palace of Westminster it should be the SNP - a party that seeks to dismantle the institution it houses . So seven months after they all - but swept the board in Scotland , how are their MPs @placeholder to life there ?",rise,set,adapting,limits,failing,2
"The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, headbutted and punched PC Gwen Louden in the court's foyer on Thursday. It is understood that the officer had facial injuries X-rayed at Dundee's Ninewells Hosptal. The girl admitted a charge of assault to injury at a hearing on Friday. The teenager had been thrown out of the building's main courtroom as a result of her behaviour while other cases were being heard. She was then asked to leave the court entirely before confronting PC Loudon and another officer. David Duncan, defending, said: ""The only question here is her status between now and sentencing."" Sheriff Alistair Carmichael granted bail and deferred sentence until February for social work background reports and an update on an existing community payback order",A 16 - year - old girl thrown out of Dundee Sheriff Court for misbehaving returned to the building and @placeholder a police officer .,shot,attacked,met,spared,posted,1
"Steve McCabe, who said he had given a statement to police, said he was ""nursing a very sore and swollen face"" after he was injured on Monday night. The Labour member for Birmingham Selly Oak later tweeted pictures of two motorcyclists allegedly involved, both wearing helmets. ""Sure somebody recognises these two,"" Mr McCabe said. ""All I need are names & addresses. Send them to me anonymously & I'll do the rest with the police."" MPs from his own and other parties sent messages of sympathy to Mr McCabe, who said the attack took place in Greenford Road, in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham. Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner expressed her shock. End of Twitter post  by @AngelaRayner Jo Swinson, deputy Liberal Democrat leader, tweeted: End of Twitter post  by @joswinson Tory MP Tom Tugendhat tweeted his feelings: End of Twitter post  by @TomTugendhat Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning",An MP was left with facial injuries when he was hit in the face with a brick @placeholder by a motorcyclist .,lost,thrown,attacked,written,mounted,1
"Since the start of the conflict, at least 15,000 Syrians have found refuge in Armenia, according to UNHCR figures. The majority of these are descendents of Armenians who escaped the mass killings and deportations by the Ottoman Turks in 1915, and were given refuge in Syria. At the time, Syria's Deir Ezzor region became a major destination for Armenians subjected to death marches through the desert. But a century later, increasing numbers of Syrian Armenians are now driving to Beirut, where they board flights to Yerevan. Before the conflict, the estimated number of ethnic Armenians in Syria was about 100,000. More than 60,000 of them settled in Aleppo, with smaller communities in Kessab, Qamishli, Yacubiyah, Kobane and Damascus. Many in the Armenian diaspora consider Syrian-Armenians as their ""mother community"". The influx of Syrian refugees into Armenia started in 2012, when over 6,500 people fled. In 2013, the number of Syrian Armenians fleeing reached 11,000 and by August 2015, over 15,000 Armenians had been reported to be seeking asylum in Armenia. For Syria's ethnic Armenians, Armenia represents a safe choice - not only as an ancient homeland and predominantly Christian country - but also one with migration policies and repatriation programme that make it easy for them to settle. The Armenian government has adopted ""special measures"" to help Syrian Armenians. It authorised consular offices in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon to issue citizenship and passports to Syrian Armenians free of charge. But Armenia's own economic woes mean that it struggles to provide accommodation and jobs for the newly-arrived Syrians. State assistance for Syrian Armenians covers mainly education, medical care and the provision of documents. ""We are concerned about the rental of accommodation; this is already a challenge to us. We have to turn to international and benevolent organisations for help because we will face a problem. The flow is too big, we cannot cope,"" Firdus Zakaryan, an official from Armenia's Ministry of Diaspora, said recently. Armenian state officials insist that the plight of even the most impoverished refugees in Armenia pales in comparison with the four million displaced Syrians, many of whom struggle for life in camps and rundown urban areas of Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. Many who have not made it to Armenian cities have now settled in the disputed Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. Robert Matevosyan, head of the district's resettlement department, says more Syrian Armenians are expressing an interest in settling in the area. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.","As Europe 's refugee crisis unfolds , Armenia says it has @placeholder thousands of Syrians , particularly those from the Christian - Armenian community .",enjoyed,grown,hosted,crossed,seized,2
"Evidence of mouse activity, including droppings on boxes of chocolate, was also found at the firm's large Corporation Street store in Birmingham, the city's crown court heard. Poundland admitted eight offences relating to two of its outlets on the same street. The city council conducted checks in February and September 2015. Read more news for Birmingham and the Black Country Poundland, which has its head office in Willenhall, near Wolverhampton, pleaded guilty earlier this year to four food hygiene offences following the February check at the smaller of the two stores on Corporation Street. The company's barrister admitted four further charges on behalf of the firm on Friday relating to the September check of the larger store including an allegation that ""several chocolate items, being Father Christmas figures, had been gnawed at by a rodent or rodents"". The September inspection also uncovered the evidence of mouse activity, the court was told. Further droppings were discovered on shelving in the shop floor area and on a trolley containing food while a hole allowing rodents access was found near pipework. Poundland admitted several specific breaches of EU food and hygiene regulations, including failing to ensure food was protected from contamination. Judge Richard Bond adjourned the case until 20 January after telling the court he needed further time to consider documents provided by the prosecution. The judge said: ""I have been in Poundland myself on many, many occasions. ""We are looking at a well-known limited company where the fines could be quite high.""",Poundland has admitted breaching food hygiene laws after rodent - @placeholder chocolate Santas were found at a store .,used,threatened,hire,damaged,fired,3
"Pompey beat struggling Newport County at home on Saturday to stretch their cushion over fourth-placed Stevenage to six points with seven games to play. ""The gaffer has brought in people who've experienced the pressure in these run-ins,"" Rose told BBC Sport. ""That's important when you get to this stage of the season."" The 29-year-old was a member of Northampton Town's League Two title-winning squad last season before joining Portsmouth in the summer. ""You've got to try and enjoy these moments of these run-ins as they don't come along too often,"" he told BBC Radio Solent. ""The sooner we can get ourselves over the line, we can relax and enjoy it a bit. Portsmouth's only remaining games against rival promotion and play-off contenders are Plymouth at home and Mansfield away. But Rose feels they cannot afford to ease off in any of their last eight fixtures as they look to return to League One after four seasons in the fourth-tier, having lost to Plymouth in last season's play-off semi-finals. ""It's nice having a points cushion,"" he admitted. ""But, it doesn't automatically mean you have a day off. ""We have to keep concentrating and focusing on results and trying to get as many points as we can.""","Portsmouth midfielder Danny Rose believes "" experienced @placeholder "" will help see them through in their bid to secure automatic promotion from League Two .",management,player,heads,failures,experience,2
"They said in advance of their trip that if necessary, they would take the search into their own hands. All debris thought to be from the plane has so far been found in east Africa. The plane disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people on board. It is thought that missing jet is most likely to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. Campaigner Grace Subathirai Nathan, whose mother was on the plane, is making the self-funded journey with six other MH370 relatives - three from Malaysia, two from China and one from France. ""It has fallen into our hands to take on this search upon ourselves,"" she told reporters at Kuala Lumpur airport. ""After repeated requests for mobilisation of a search along the east African coastline, nothing has been done to date."" The families of those on board the flight say that the search for wreckage has not been systematic and that some possible findings appear to have been ignored. The search for MH370 has concentrated off Australia's west coast, but no debris has been found there. It is due to be suspended early next year unless it makes a significant new discovery. So far, at least six pieces have been found in east Africa that are considered certain or highly likely to have come from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. The relatives say they will hand out brochures when in Madagascar that will provide advice to villagers on how to recognise aircraft debris. Their trip will last until 11 December, a statement posted on Facebook by the group Voice 370 said. Voice 370 said last month that it had ""no other choice except to take it upon ourselves to do something to find answers and closure"". Malaysia is in charge of co-ordinating the collection of any suspected debris, most of which has been sent to Australia for examination. The Malaysian authorities in September responded to criticism of delays in retrieving suspected debris, arguing that they were acting on possible discoveries and that everyone should ""allow the experts to conduct the verification processes"".",Relatives of those who died on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are travelling to Madagascar to lobby for the search for debris from the missing aircraft to be @placeholder .,expanded,completed,held,introduced,released,0
"Patrick Freeman, 62, fractured his right shoulder when the tram crashed moments before it reached Sandilands Junction on 9 November 2016. Mr Freeman has to date received £2,000 from Transport for London (TfL). He said he has been advised by a surgeon that he will only recover 50% of the use of his arm. Earlier on Monday, the Rail Accident Investigation Bureau (RAIB) said the seven people who died in the tram crash fell out of windows as they shattered. Mr Freeman was among 16 others seriously hurt in the crash. Mr Freeman, not a regular tram user, was staying in the New Addington area for a few days while refurbishing a house nearby. He told BBC London he received the  payment of £2,000 from TfL on 12 December, but is now seeking full compensation for loss of wages. He said: ""The loss at the minute is about £6,000-£7,000 in wages. I have a little bit of savings... I've had to use that to pay my rent to live on."" He added: ""Its not our fault it happened. Whoever caused it, whatever happened there, it is definitely not the fault of the people on the tram."" A spokesman for TfL said it had paid more than £500,000 in financial support following the crash. In a statement, TfL said: ""We believe all requests for payments made to date from those injured in the incident have been paid and none are outstanding. ""We urge anyone needing further support to contact us straight away for help."" Investigators said initial indications showed passengers were ""ejected or partially ejected"" from the tram. They added the brake was applied two and a half seconds before the crash, suggesting the driver ""lost awareness"". A total of 70 passengers were on board in November, rather than 60 as originally believed, it added.",A self - employed labourer unable to work since the Croydon tram crash is seeking full compensation after @placeholder to pay his rent .,returning,having,struggling,threatening,agreeing,2
"Canadian police say Zehaf-Bibeau was a Canadian-born petty criminal who may also have held Libyan citizenship. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) commissioner Bob Paulson said on Thursday that Zehaf-Bibeau had recently applied for a new passport, and authorities now believe he intended to go to Syria. ""The passport was part of his motivation,"" he told a press conference. ""His application was not rejected. His passport was not revoked. He was waiting to get it and there was an investigation going on to determine to see whether he would get a passport."" Mr Paulson said Zehaf-Bibeau was not among 90 individuals known to Canadian security forces as a ""high-risk traveller"" - contrary to initial reports. Nor was he linked to the Muslim convert who on Monday killed a Canadian soldier in Quebec in a hit-and-run attack. Mr Paulson said Zehaf-Bibeau's criminal records were related to drugs, violence and ""other criminal activities"". He said police were trying to piece together how Zehaf-Bibeau acquired a Winchester lever-action gun, as he was banned from owning firearms because of his criminal convictions. Mr Paulson added that Zehaf-Bibeau's email address had been found in the computer hard-drive of someone charged with a ""terrorist-related offence"", but he did not give details. Court documents show Zehaf-Bibeau was convicted of several petty crimes during the early 2000s, spending several days in jail. He was charged in Quebec for crimes including credit card fraud and multiple counts of drugs possession. In Vancouver in 2011 he was also charged with robbery and making threats. A psychiatric assessment at the time considered him fit to stand trial. Zehaf-Bibeau grew up in Laval, a city north of Montreal in Quebec. Neighbours of his family told broadcaster CBC that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau had been ""a sweet boy"", and that they were shocked by the news. Canadian media said his father, Bulgasem Zehaf, was originally from Libya and ran a cafe in Montreal. His mother, Susan Bibeau, worked at Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board. The two were said to have divorced in 1999. They released a joint statement on Thursday saying ""no words can express the sadness we are feeling at this time"". They said they were ""so sad"" that Cpl Nathan Cirillo, the soldier shot at the National War Memorial, had lost his life and apologised for the ""pain, fright and chaos"" their son created. Susan Bibeau wrote that they had ""no explanation to offer"", saying she spoke to her son over lunch last week having not seen him for more than five years. Police said they seized items belonging to Zehaf-Bibeau from the Ottawa Mission, a homeless shelter, late on Wednesday. The mission's residents told CBC News that he had been seen frequently at the mission over the last two weeks. Shelter resident John Clothier told CBC that Zehaf-Bibeau was ""desperately"" trying to buy a car because his old one had broken down. ""People were trying to help him, but we didn't understand what he was up to,"" Mr Clothier said. ""He acted bizarre, he did. Very bizarre."" Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail spoke to Dave Bathurst, who said he had become friends with the suspect after they met in a mosque three years ago. Mr Bathurst said his friend did not appear to have extremist views at first, but had displayed some ""erratic"" behaviour. ""We were having a conversation in a kitchen, and I don't know how he worded it: he said the devil is after him,"" Mr Bathurst said. ""I think he must have been mentally ill."" They last met at a mosque six weeks ago, when Zehaf-Bibeau said he wanted to ""go back to Libya to study"". He insisted that he was only going abroad with the intent of learning about Islam and to study Arabic, Mr Bathurst added.","Canada is in shock after a gunman shot and fatally wounded a soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa and then stormed into Canada 's parliament before being shot dead . The BBC profiles the suspected gunman , widely @placeholder as 32 - year - old Michael Zehaf - Bibeau .",identified,helped,known,resigned,described,0
"Christina was attacked on a bus on Birmingham's Hagley Road as she travelled to Leasowes High School in Halesowen in March. Pupils at the schools she had attended found different ways of dealing with their grief, including fundraising and tributes on social media. Pupils at two Catholic primary schools, one of which Christina attended, were encouraged to produce a magazine celebrating ""youth and children's young experiences"". Lorraine Sergeant, the mentor at St Patrick's Catholic Primary School in Ladywood, said this helped the children ""channel their memories [of Christina] in a positive way"". ""Even though this was a very sad event, this was a way to show the children that it was not wrong to talk about someone who's gone,"" she added. St Edmund's Catholic Primary School, which Christina attended, is a sister school to St Patrick's, with shared staff and activities. Ms Sergeant said as there were so many children who had been upset by Christina's murder, producing the magazine was the best way to deal with the children's feelings. ""It has helped them come to terms with it - during any counselling with any children who have suffered a bereavement we encourage them to think about the cycle of life."" She said that parents were still able to refer their child for extra sessions of counselling if they felt it would help. The magazine the pupils produced was sold, raising £95. At the request of Christina's family the money will be used for a trophy to be given each year to a child who has made an outstanding achievement in sport. A trophy will be presented each July for 16 years - the number of years that Christina lived.","The murder of 16 - year - old Christina Edkins , @placeholder while on her way to school in the West Midlands , shocked her friends and acquaintances .",spurred,helped,occurred,stabbed,caught,3
"Professor Dame Sally Davies described it as a ""ticking time bomb"". She warned that routine operations could become deadly in just 20 years if we lose the ability to fight infection. Dame Sally urged the government to raise the issue during next month's G8 Summit in London. Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat. It happens when organisms are able to survive medicines aimed to destroy them. Bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics, viruses to antivirals and parasites to drugs like antimalarials. The World Health Organization says 150,000 deaths a year are caused by multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Dame Sally said: ""If we don't take action, then we may all be back in an almost 19th Century environment where infections kill us as a result of routine operations. We won't be able to do a lot of our cancer treatments or organ transplants."" She said pharmaceutical companies needed to be encouraged to develop new drugs, because the manufacture of antibiotics was not viewed as profitable. ""We haven't had a new class of antibiotics since the late 80s and there are very few antibiotics in the pipeline of the big pharmaceutical companies that develop and make drugs,"" she said. ""We haven't as a society globally incentivised making antibiotics. It's quite simple - if they make something to treat high blood pressure or diabetes and it works, we will use it on our patients every day. ""Whereas antibiotics will only be used for a week or two when they're needed, and then they have a limited life span because of resistance developing anyway."" Ray, from Devon, says he is extremely concerned about antibiotic resistance. ""I have recurring Cellulitus. It is affected by bacteria. I've had seven bouts over the last two years. ""My last attack lasted for seven weeks and I had to take a combination of two antibiotics for it because the normal one my doctor normally prescribes didn't work. ""It's always in the back of my mind that next time it might not be treatable. ""We should be continuing our research into different antibiotics, but pharmaceutical companies are governed by money and politics."" Dame Sally said action was needed to overcome this ""market failure"" and pointed to the Innovative Medicines Initiative - an EU funded body whose aim is to promote the development of new medicines. Dr Ibrahim Hassan, a consultant microbiologist at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester, said there are more cases of patients with bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics - meaning there are fewer treatment options. ""All you can hope of is a bit of holy water because you don't have too much option in terms of treatment. ""We're beginning to see that in some hospitals, patients coming in with this infection with no antibiotic that can be used to treat them."" Dame Sally's warning coincides with the publication of the second volume of her annual report which details the burden posed by infectious diseases. Death rates for infectious diseases have declined in developed countries in recent decades due to improvements in hygiene and sanitation, widespread immunisation and effective drug treatments. Bacterial species are divided into two large groups based on the structure of their cell wall and their response to staining with a dye. A Gram positive results in a violet colour while a Gram negative is pink. Gram positive bacteria include Staphylococcus and Streptococcus   Gram negative include E. coli, Klebsiella and Salmonella. But the report says they still account for 7% of all deaths in England and account for one in five days off work. It says in decades to come we risk ""losing the war"" against microbes - and standard surgical procedures such as hip replacements could become riskier, as would treatments that suppress the immune system such as chemotherapy or organ transplant. Dame Sally said it was a global issue for governments, the medical profession, the pharmaceutical industry and individuals. A post-antibiotic future? Read moreWhat are your experiences? She also said the over-use of antibiotics was an issue in animal husbandry, agriculture and fish farming. She urged politicians to treat the threat as seriously as the superbug meticillin (also called methicillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA. Cases have fallen by 80% since 2003 through improved hygiene measures in hospitals. Health officials say other infections have now overtaken MRSA as major sources of healthcare-acquired infections. In particular, cases of E.coli and Klebsiella bacteria have increased by two-thirds in recent years and are now the most frequent cause of hospital acquired infection. Both types of bacteria - known as Gram negative - are commonly found in the gut but can cause blood infections. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland 99,000 cases of blood stream infections were reported in 2011-12.  E.coli alone accounted for 36% of cases compared with just 1.6% due to MRSA. The report estimates that up to 5,000 patients a a year die from Gram-negative blood poisoning each year, half with an antibiotic-resistant organism. Dame Sally said no new classes of antibiotics had been introduced since 1987 whereas new pathogens were emerging every year, and existing bugs were developing resistance to current treatments. A five-year UK Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy will be published shortly which will advocate the responsible use of antibiotics and strengthened surveillance. The Chief Medical Officer said antimicrobial resistance would be put on the government's national risk register of civil emergencies - which provides guidance on potential threats such as terrorist attacks, pandemic flu and major flooding. Dame Sally said she was shocked by the ""woeful education"" in antimicrobial resistance given to many medical students and doctors; she wanted to ensure fewer antibiotics were prescribed, so that they are used only when needed. Dame Sally is not the first chief medical officer to warn of the dangers of antibiotic overuse. In 2008 her predecessor, Liam Donaldson, urged doctors not to use antibiotics to treat colds and coughs as these are caused by viruses and do not respond to antibiotics. In 1999, Sir Kenneth Calman made a similar plea, saying the public had a responsibility not to demand antibiotics.","The danger posed by growing resistance to antibiotics should be @placeholder along with terrorism on a list of threats to the nation , the government 's chief medical officer for England has said .",contemplating,scrapped,spent,offered,ranked,4
"She wore it to his 45th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden in New York, but the garment was so tight she had to be sewn into it. Monroe died less than three months later, and the president died in 1963. The dress was sold in 1999 for $1.26m but Julien's Auctions thinks it could fetch up to $3m (£2.2m) this November. The dress, made of silk gauze and covered in thousands of rhinestone beads and sequins, will go under the hammer in Los Angeles on 17 November. Before then, it will be on show at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey, and the Museum of Style Icons in Newbridge, Ireland.","The flesh - @placeholder dress Marilyn Monroe wore when she breathlessly sang Happy Birthday to President John F Kennedy in 1962 , is to be auctioned .",toned,run,coloured,held,shaped,2
"The incident happened in Silverstream Crescent in the north of the city on Friday morning. It was reported to the PSNI just after 08:00 BST. The Police are treating the incident as criminal damage. The victim lives alone and was very distressed by the incident, a relative told the BBC.",Police are investigating after a @placeholder woman 's Belfast home was attacked with paint .,disabled,single,machine,ignited,treating,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device Trailing 16-13 and with 61 minutes on the clock, captain Sam Warburton spurned a guaranteed three points by opting for a scrum from a penalty in front of the Scottish posts. Wales had trailed since the 12th minute and had rarely threatened the Scottish line since Gareth Davies' early try, apart from Tom James' thrilling 80-yard dash along the left touchline from a turnover. The stakes were high, but the gamble paid off when Jamie Roberts clattered through two tackles from short range. There was nothing subtle about the execution, but the audacity of the call surprised many - including Scotland. Five minutes later George North delivered the killer blow when he swerved and sidestepped past five flailing defenders from 40 metres in another moment of bravado. Captain Warburton felt the gamble was worthwhile. Media playback is not supported on this device ""You just have to have a feel for those things,"" he said. ""It was a banker three points in front of the posts, or do you go for the scrum? ""It is a little bit risky - if you give away a penalty you don't get anything and I felt we needed a try, I didn't think three points was going to be enough. ""We'd have to go back down there and get another three and at that moment in time you just get a feel for it, I felt it was the right thing to do."" If the right thing is turning a three-point deficit into a decisive 11-point lead, then it is difficult to argue. After struggling with a busy and impressive Scotland, Wales effectively killed the game off in a 10-minute period. But that purple patch was not leading either Gatland or Warburton into complacency. Both accepted there is plenty to work on ahead of the match with France, who are unbeaten in two games after their 10-9 win over Ireland in Paris. Media playback is not supported on this device The breakdown, in particular, was a cause for concern, and Gatland accepted Wales had to change their defensive patterns to deal with Greig Laidlaw's sniping runs around the fringes of the breakdown and set-pieces. But the match statistics were some comfort for Wales. After failing to make a single line-break in the 16-16 draw with Ireland, they managed five against Scotland, who nonetheless edged the possession statistics. Warburton expects the French to provide a stern challenge on 26 February, although Wales have won their last four meetings. ""The French have made their best start in a long time and you have to give them a lot of credit for beating Ireland,"" said Warburton. ""I'm pleased we have two weeks to get ready for it. We've had a pretty good record against them in the past four years, but I think they are going to be a different side. ""There won't be much more than a score between a lot of the sides and it will probably go down to the last weekend."" The final day last season saw Wales, Ireland and England throw caution to the wind in a thrilling climax to a memorable tournament, with Warburton's team finishing third despite a record win in Italy. But that's the thing with gambling. It only pays when you're winning.","After all the accusations of negative style and safety - first rugby levelled at Warren Gatland 's Wales team , it took a high - risk gamble to break the @placeholder Scots in Cardiff .",hosts,ground,team,contrasting,battling,4
"Scottish Natural Heritage and Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University examined the sites in St Kilda and North Rona last year. They said the entrances to the caves were teeming with life. The creatures included scorpion fish, jewel anemones and lion's mane jellyfish. North Rona is an uninhabited island that lies off Scotland's north west coast, while St Kilda is an archipelago off the Western Isles. St Kilda was inhabited for thousands of years until 1930 when the last 36 islanders left. Today, scientists, conservationists and workers at a military radar station spend months at a time on the main island of Hirta.",Scientists have released a series of images revealing the colourful @placeholder of wildlife found in sea caves at some of Scotland 's most remote islands .,outbreak,range,group,collections,depictions,1
"Six cameras have been installed in the city centre to catch drivers who use bus lanes illegally. The ""honeymoon period"" begins on Monday but fines will be imposed from 21 June. It is anticipated that more than 10,000 drivers a year will be caught by the new state-of-the-art cameras, which use number-plate recognition technology. Drivers caught illegally using bus lanes could be fined up to £90. The scheme, run by Stormont's Department of Regional Development, is expected to raise about £500,000 a year.","Belfast 's new bus lane cameras come into operation on Monday but for the next three weeks drivers will be @placeholder , not fined , for using the lanes .",built,sold,warned,announced,used,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device At the age of 14, with a taste of what could be in store, future reigning Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic champion Adam Peaty was pretty sure the swimmer's life was not for him. ""I remember it was a Sunday evening and we used to do a double session on Sundays so it was a full training day,"" breaststroke specialist Peaty told BBC Sport from his new training base in Loughborough. ""I was in the gym doing 3,000 reps of everything, burpees and press ups until I was goosed. ""I got into the car and said to my mum: 'I don't want to do this any more, I want to quit'. She said just keep going until the end of the next week and so on each week."" A mother's wisdom involving some cleverly-timed mind games kept the teenage Peaty sweet enough to see the hard work begin to pay off. But the 22-year-old is clear in his mind that his long-serving coach Mel Marshall - now the National Lead Centre Coach at Loughborough - takes considerable credit for his incredible transformation from a kid ""whose times weren't the best"" to the world's best. Marshall's appointment as head coach at the City of Derby Swimming Club in November 2008 was the start of an incredible journey for both of them. ""It was insane when I first started,"" explained Peaty. ""I was making up for time I had lost, I was racing kids who had been racing for ages, who had that experience and fitness on me. ""But as soon as I started to get the ball rolling with Mel, that was when it popped and everything kind of blew up."" In swimming terms, only taking the sport completely seriously at the age of 14 meant he had some catching up to do. Many top-level swimmers have been sampling the delights of six or seven sessions per week and ungodly alarm calls since before they have reached double digits. ""I speak to a lot of kids and parents and they are throwing their kids into 4am training at eight, nine and 10 years old,"" said Peaty. ""It's weird because, for me, I think I have been successful because I haven't had that grilling from a young age."" It is no wonder that swimming is seen as a very young person's sport and that it is commonplace for retirement to come in the mid-20s. Double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington finished in 2013 at the age of 23, while one of the world's best sprinters Fran Halsall called time on a glittering career at the age of 26 in January. ""Some of the best athletes in the world are the late starters,"" said Uttoxeter-born Peaty. ""Maybe they have more energy because they haven't been doing it for so long. ""As soon as I left school, I wanted to do it professionally and here I am. ""I am enjoying it a lot more from 16 or 17, whereas kids who have done it from a young age - sometimes, not always - are burning out at 16 or 17 and want to do other things like hang out with their mates, go to the cinema and at 18 go to the pub."" The rare possibility of a few drinks at the pub was part of the post-Rio partying process. An entire month off was as needed as it was welcomed. And Peaty is feeling the benefit. ""We needed that emotional and physical break so we can repair everything,"" he explained. ""You can have a bit of downtime and enjoy having a little bit of a normal life. We don't drink and eat bad food when we are training. To go and party and celebrate the proper way was so needed."" Another significant change has been Peaty's relocation, which has seen him move house from the Derby area to be within 10 minutes of his Loughborough training base. The improved facilities and cutting down on travelling has been a big help. ""My times are really good for this time of year. It's looking good to say the least,"" he said. ""My performance has gone up again, which is great to hear at the start of another four-year cycle. I personally think I have got stronger. I am lifting more in the gym and am swimming faster for longer."" Marshall concurs. ""In the water he is certainly not holding back,"" said his coach of nine and a half years. ""I am seeing him do things recently that he has never done before. It's very exciting. ""I want to really harness things that are special. We have got a history and have been through a lot together so I want to keep those elements, but I also want us to grow as a relationship. Marshall says Peaty has embraced his celebrity and success but remains grounded and humble. But there are differences. ""He drives a really nice car now,"" she said. ""He has changed but for the better; he copes with the media really well, he gives back to the community, he gets involved in charity challenges, he's a good role model and always has time for everybody. ""In terms of those things you are looking for from an Olympic champion, he really exercises those on a regular basis."" Media playback is not supported on this device There seems little risk of complacency from either Marshall or Peaty. ""Mel is always the first one to ground you,"" said Peaty. ""Even if you think you will have a little bit of a walk, she says: 'Oi you, get in the pool and do this'. That is the way I like it. That is the way to have to work if you want to be professional. ""I want to get into the pool every single day and not care about what I have done in the past. I want to look to the future and this is how I get a better future. That is the way I see it."" The chance and desire to defend his many titles means Peaty has more than enough goals to focus on during the next four-year Olympic cycle. ""It's weird because it's starting again,"" he said. ""It's my second time around. ""I'm getting older and I'm becoming one of the more experienced ones in the group. I'm not that kid who was trying to take on the world and be everything at the same time. ""Now I'm wiser and a bit more experienced. I know where to put my energy and I know where to put my emotions - and hopefully it will come out with more wins."" Peaty says pressure is something that ""pushes him"", rather than holding him back. ""I never ever feel pressure,"" he said. ""I think that was why I could go into my first Olympics, race and get a world record and I could go into an Olympic final and not really treat it as an Olympic final - except from the last 50 where I was possessed. ""You have to open your mind up to that positivity and fill your mind with the positive thoughts. ""And the positive thought this time is I am the Olympic champion, world champion, European champion and Commonwealth champion. ""I have the world record and that is probably what the competitors are thinking about, so it's their thing to worry about and mine to gain confidence from.""","There is no @placeholder 5 am starts , lung - crushing 50 m sprint sets , relentless double training sessions designed to push the body to the limit and the added bonus of punishing gym routines .",sign,title,escaping,attracting,growing,2
"JENNIFER JASON LEIGH Age: 53 Nominated for: The Hateful Eight The character: Daisy Domergue, an outlaw awaiting execution in 19th Century Wyoming. Oscar record: No previous nominations. The critics said: ""The best part of The Hateful Eight is Leigh, who brings mischievous grit to her every appearance."" [Montreal Gazette] ROONEY MARA Age: 30 Nominated for: Carol The character: Therese Belivet, a shopgirl and aspiring photographer in 1950s New York who begins an affair with a glamorous older woman. Oscar record: Best actress nomination for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2012. The critics said: ""There are obvious asymmetries to be discovered in the relationship between a penniless young bohemian and a wealthy, full-grown matron, but Ms Mara refuses to be the ingenue in the arrangement. She is vulnerable and hungry, timid and ferocious, predator and prey."" [New York Times] RACHEL McADAMS Age: 37 Nominated for: Spotlight The character: Sacha Pfeiffer, an investigative reporters at the Boston Globe who helps uncover child abuse in the Catholic Church. Oscar record: No previous nominations. The critics said: ""Rachel McAdams brings her typical resolute intelligence to Sacha Pfeiffer... whether quietly interviewing abuse victims or caught off guard coming face to face with one of the accused priests, she's entirely human and it's telling how often McCarthy chooses to resolve a scene on a look from her."" [IndieWire] ALICIA VIKANDER Age: 27 Nominated for: The Danish Girl The character: Artist Gerda Wegener, whose husband became Lili Elbe, the Danish artist and transgender pioneer. Oscar record: No previous nominations. The critics said: ""How Gerda copes... is even more gripping. She proves astonishingly supportive towards her partner's plight. Vikander eats this all up with a spoon, by turns energetic, winning, raw and compassionate... it seems she can do anything."" [Empire] KATE WINSLET Age: 40 Nominated for: Steve Jobs The character: Joanna Hoffman, loyal assistant to Apple co-founder and tech pioneer Steve Jobs. Oscar record: Won best actress for The Reader in 2009. Three best actress nominations for Titanic in 1998, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in 2005 and Little Children in 2007. Best supporting actress nomination for Sense and Sensibility in 1996 and Iris in 2002. The critics said: ""Don't be surprised if Kate Winslet also gets a nod in the best supporting actress category for her part as Jobs's right-hand-woman."" [Evening Standard]","A look at the best supporting actress nominees for the 88th Academy Awards , @placeholder on 14 January 2016 .",announced,located,scooped,launched,folding,0
"Courts had given the government until Monday 24 April to set out draft guidelines to tackle illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution. But late last week, ministers lodged an application to delay their release until after the general election. They argued that publication would fall foul of election ""purdah"" rules. These limit government announcements with political implications during the election period. But on Thursday, the High Court ordered the draft plans to be published on 9 May, five days after the local elections, but long before the general election on 8 June. The date for publication of the final document remains unchanged on 31 July. Reality Check: Does pollution cut short 40,000 lives a year? Green group wins air pollution court battle During the hearing, government barrister James Eadie QC told Mr Justice Garnham that publication would drop a ""controversial bomb"" into the mix of local and national elections. The new strategy was requested last year, after a court ruled that existing measures to tackle air pollution proposed by the government did not meet the requirements of law. But the High Court decided that purdah was a convention only and did not override legal obligations to clean up the air. Additionally, the impact on public health would exempt it from the purdah rules anyway. Thursday's decision is the latest development in a long-running legal action brought against the government by a group of environmental lawyers, ClientEarth. The campaigners began proceedings after the UK breached EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the air. These limits were introduced by EU law in 1999 and were to have been achieved by 2010. Some 37 out of 43 regions in the UK have been in breach over levels of NO2, one of several nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollutants. Diesel vehicles are a key source of NOx emissions, and NO2 has been linked to a range of respiratory illnesses. Around 40,000 people are estimated to die prematurely every year in the UK because of poor air quality. Reacting to the ruling on Thursday, James Thornton, ClientEarth's chief executive, said: ""ClientEarth is delighted with Justice Garnham's decision. ""The judge listened to the government's claims that it needed to delay taking care of public health, but he rejected them vigorously and is keeping the government to the deadline of releasing the final plan on 31 July."" The government could yet appeal the ruling, which might effectively delay the process anyway. Mr Thornton said: ""I would urge them not to appeal. I would say: 'get to work'. Enough dither, enough delay, clean up the air."" Representing the government, Mr Eadie QC said the application had been brought with considerable reluctance and was not ""some sort of guise or demonstration of lack of commitment to improving air quality"". In April 2015, ClientEarth won a Supreme Court ruling against the government over air pollution levels. That judgment ordered ministers to come up with a plan to bring down air pollution to within legal limits as soon as possible. But ClientEarth was dissatisfied with those proposals, and took the government to the High Court in a judicial review, which it won. London's Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, said: ""I am pleased that the government will now have to face its responsibilities sooner rather than later. ""Ministers were dragged kicking and screaming to face the huge scale of this health crisis, but rather than take immediate action to protect the public they deliberately used the election as a smokescreen to hold back their plan."" He added: ""I hope that after this appalling delay, this Government delivers a strong plan to finally get a grip on this issue and urgently introduces a diesel scrappage fund to rid our streets of the dirtiest cars."" Follow Paul on Twitter.","The UK Government has @placeholder a court bid to delay publication of its air pollution strategy , and must now release it before the June election .",backed,submitted,taken,renewed,lost,4
"The new Velvet Edition dark chocolate bars go on sale in the UK this month. Instead of the Fairtrade mark, it carries the Cocoa Life certification, set up by Mondelez International, the owner of Green & Black's. Mondelez calls Cocoa Life ""a holistic, cocoa sustainability programme in partnership with Fairtrade"". And unlike all other Green & Black's bars, there is no organic label. Glenn Caton, Northern Europe president of Mondelez, said: ""These beans are not available in organic at the scale required for Green and Black's, but I am proud that they are sustainably sourced, independently verified beans from the Cocoa Life programme, of which Fairtrade will ensure we remain an accountable partner for farmers."" Green & Black's was founded on the Portobello Road in London by Craig Sams and Jo Fairley in 1991. Three years later, its Maya Gold bar was the first chocolate in the UK to be awarded the Fairtrade mark. It sources its organic cocoa from the Dominican Republic. All its ranges, apart from the Velvet Edition, will continue to be organic and carry the Fairtrade logo, which is considered to be one of the most widely recognised and trusted ethical brands in the world. Mondelez, formerly Kraft Foods, owns Green & Black's through Cadbury's, which bought Green & Black's in 2005, before being bought itself by Kraft in 2010. Its Cocoa Life branding is now rapidly replacing the Fairtrade logo across all its chocolate products.  By 2019, Cadbury's entire chocolate range in the UK and Ireland - including Flake, Twirl and Wispa - will display the Cocoa Life logo. Green & Blacks said in a statement: ""Cocoa Life, which is independently verified, means Green and Black's will build more and stronger relationships with farming communities and become an accountable partner, not just a buyer. "" The UK Fairtrade label is administered by the Fairtrade Foundation, an independent non-profit organisation, and appears on some 5,000 products. It claims there are more than 1.65 million farmers and workers in 1,226 producer organisations across the Fairtrade system, which guarantees decent working conditions and a minimum price for produce. Last year, it went into partnership with Cocoa Life to create ""greater scale and impact for cocoa farmers and their communities"". It says the partnership means that five times as much Cadbury chocolate will now be made with sustainably sourced cocoa. Fairtrade admitted: ""The cocoa for Cadbury products in the UK and Ireland under Cocoa Life will not be traded according to the Fairtrade Standards of certification."" But it insists farmers will not lose out: ""They will instead receive a competitive price for the cocoa, additional loyalty cash payments plus further investments in projects and support to improve their farming practices and implement community action plans. ""The value of all this will be at least equivalent to that previously delivered under Fairtrade.""","Green & Black 's , which @placeholder organic Fairtrade chocolate , is launching its first UK product without a Fairtrade or organic label .",including,produces,show,pioneered,represents,3
"Speaking before the launch of an anti-bullying film, Dr Sally Holland said she was keen on restorative justice. ""I don't think it's a good idea just to say 'don't do it again',"" she said. ""That's wrong because they don't understand why and I think it's really important people learn about what impact it has."" In a survey carried out by the commissioner last year, of 7,000 children and young people across Wales, the vast majority of seven to 18-year-olds questioned said they wanted bullying to be at the top of her list of priorities. Dr Holland said she was talking to children and young people about how they wanted the issue to be tackled. Her comments come as a powerful anti-bullying film featuring pupils from Dyffryn School in Port Talbot is to be premiered. Called My Life as a Bully, the 45-minute long drama tells the story of a girl who becomes the victim of the school bully and his gang. A group of 19 pupils play a leading role in the film, with the young actors members of the year 10 and 11 drama GCSE group. Isabel, aged 15, who is one of the pupils with a part, said: ""My line in the film is 'no one deserves to be bullied'. ""For such a simple line it has quite a lot meaning behind it."" Fellow pupil Sebastian said the cast and crew had bonded over the experience. ""I'm really looking forward to seeing the story come together, it's been a jumble of scenes in no particular order but it's going to be really interesting seeing them all edited,"" he said. Caroline Michael, head of drama at the school, said: ""It's been a great opportunity for them to work with a professional company, professional actors and see the whole process. Denise Francis, from Baglan-based theatre in education company Firehorse Productions, is behind the film. She said the decision to choose bullying as a theme came in response to demands from schools keen to get the anti-bullying message to pupils through the medium of film and theatre. ""Bullying is probably the biggest issue schools are dealing with. Time and time again when we are going into schools we're told that the biggest issue children want tackled themselves is bullying,"" she said. ""If you see bullying going on or you are being bullied yourself it isn't something to be ashamed of and you should speak out and don't be afraid to speak out."" The film will be premiered at Gwyn Hall in Neath on Saturday, 12 November, and will then be available to schools.","Children who bully others need to understand the impact of their @placeholder , the children 's commissioner for Wales has said .",abuse,hands,parents,behaviour,life,3
"The Western Lowland gorilla was born early in February after her mother showed signs of the potentially dangerous condition pre-eclampsia. She was named Afia and has just cut her eighth tooth, with her favourite foods being avocado and steamed sweet potato. Her keepers say she is ""extremely determined with a strong personality"".","A baby gorilla born in a C-section @placeholder at Bristol Zoo is now 20 weeks old and according to her keepers can be "" very stroppy "" .",condition,pod,operation,estate,room,2
"The temporary break follows the discovery of the body of a third man on Wednesday. Ken Cresswell, 57, and John Shaw, 61, from Rotherham, and Chris Huxtable, 34, from Swansea, have been missing since the collapse in February. Police said the search would resume when recovery work in the area where the body was found was completed. The body was taken from the site yesterday but formal identification has not yet taken place. Emergency services and workers who carried out the search formed a guard of honour as the body was driven from the site in the early hours of the morning. Steve Hall, Mr Cresswell's son-in-law, said the family had been hoping for a breakthrough for six months. He added: ""There's nothing you can do. ""Obviously we are hoping this is him, and not in a selfish way to the other two families, because I'm sure they're hoping it's them as well."" The body of a fourth man, Michael Collings, 53, from Brotton, Teesside, was previously recovered from the site. The building was due for demolition when it partially collapsed in February. The remaining section was brought down using explosives in July.",The search for the two bodies remaining in the ruins of a collapsed building at Didcot Power Station has been @placeholder .,announced,halted,completed,released,launched,1
"Dagmara Przybysz, 16, was pronounced dead at Pool Academy, near Redruth, on Tuesday 17 May. The inquest was told a post-mortem examination had been carried out but the cause of death was not yet available because the toxicology reports were outstanding. The hearing, in Truro, was adjourned to enable the reports to be compiled. The body of the teenager, who was originally from Poland, was formally identified at the Royal Cornwall Hospital by her father, Jedrzey Przybysz, on the day she was found, the inquest heard. For live updates on this story as it develops, click here The academy's principal, Zelma Hill, previously said the teenager was a ""beautiful, bright and creative 16-year-old student with a very promising future ahead of her"". Tributes have also been paid to her on the Pool Academy school Facebook page. Police have not been treating the death as suspicious.",An inquest into the death of a teenager whose body was found at her school in Cornwall has been @placeholder and adjourned .,traced,released,detained,identified,opened,4
"The bailout fund will disburse 8.5bn euros (£7.4bn) to Greece, eurozone ministers said in a statement. The latest tranche of the international bailout will help avert a fresh debt crisis in July when the next €7bn euro repayment of loans becomes due. The payment is still subject to parliamentary approvals in some countries. International Monetary Fund (IMF) director Christine Lagarde said she would propose an approval in principle to her executive board. The IMF wants clarity on longer-term debt relief for Greece once the current funding scheme, worth up to 86bn euros, runs out next year. Ms Lagarde said the IMF was ready to participate to the third bailout programme for Greece after the meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg which capped months of negotiations. However, the IMF could join the programme with a financial support ""in the range of $2bn"" only after a full deal on additional measures of debt relief for Greece, she said. Time was beginning to press for this payment. Greece has repayments on other loans due next month, which it could not otherwise have made. The decision by eurozone finance ministers reflects economic policy actions already taken by Greece and the new commitment by the IMF's managing director Christine Lagarde to recommend that her board contribute financially to this bailout. An IMF contribution was politically important for Germany, especially to strengthen the perceived credibility of the bailout. Another laborious step in this very long (I'll resist any Greek clichés at this point) story. We have got used to delays resulting from Greek politics - a referendum, elections, problems in parliament holding up economic policy reforms that Greece was required to make. This time it was more about German politics and the insistence on an IMF financial contribution while being reluctant to agree up-front the commitments on debt relief that the IMF thinks essential to make the Greek finances sustainable. The result is the IMF agreeing in principle to contribute provided the Eurozone do eventually make a commitment on debt. It's untidy and Christine Lagarde called it second best. And it is not a large contribution that the IMF will make. She suggested it would be about $2bn against a Eurozone commitment to provide more than forty times that amount. The eurozone group welcomed the financial and structural reforms enacted by Greece, including income tax and pension reform. ""I am pleased to announce we have achieved an agreement on all elements,"" Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said. Germany's parliament will discuss the bailout deal on Friday, finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said. ""Greece has to become competitive to get access to debt markets so it can stand on its own two feet,"" Mr Schaeuble said. ""For that Greece has to carry out reforms."" Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos said the agreement would allow market access 'in due course'. ""There is now light at the end of the tunnel,"" Mr Tsakalotos said.",Eurozone ministers have struck a deal to @placeholder the latest tranche of Greece 's bailout cash .,unlock,expand,provide,replace,secure,0
"Saif al-Islam - Col Muammar Gaddafi's second son, and his preferred successor - was here, at our hotel. The day before rebels had said they had arrested him. The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, who has indicted him, confirmed this. And now he was here? Was this another trick, another ploy by government supporters, I wondered, as I stumbled downstairs in the dark. The power was out, it had been since mid-afternoon. Outside the door slammed on a large white armoured vehicle. I could not see through the blacked-out windows. ""BBC, could we have a word,"" I shouted, I thought in vain. But then, as I and another correspondent pressed for them to open the door, it swung open. Profile: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi How Saif Gaddafi seduced the West The Gaddafi family tree Inside, astonishingly, a smiling Saif al-Islam, a mobile phone next to him on the central console of the vehicle. This war has twists and turns. ""Where do you think the balance of power lies in the battle for Tripoli,"" I asked. ""We broke the backbone of the rebels,"" he said. ""It was a trap. We gave them a hard time. So we are winning."" Precisely who is winning the battle for Tripoli, though, is still unclear. In parts of the capital, rebel forces are in control. After their astonishing advance over the weekend, they believe victory is within sight. But pro-Gaddafi troops have been reinforced. A convoy of vehicles was seen driving north past our hotel. Inside were professional soldiers, loyal to Col Gaddafi. Some rebel supply lines into the city seem to have come under attack. Perhaps this is what Saif al-Islam meant when he said ""it was a trap."" In other towns and cities during this conflict, the rebels have advanced only to find themselves surrounded by pro-Gaddafi troops. That may now be happening in parts of Tripoli. It is clear loyalists are fighting back in some areas - and many casualties are being reported. A nurse in the city told the BBC that she was seeing horrific injuries because of the fighting. Saif al-Islam was asked whether his father is safe and well and in Tripoli. ""Yes of course,"" came the reply - almost with a shrug as if it were obvious his father would not have left the capital. He flashed that smile again. ""Let's go, let's go,"" he shouted. The door closed, and off went Saif al-Islam, pumped full of adrenalin, brimming with confidence, and still smiling.","We were @placeholder in the dead of night , by a sharp knock at the door .",greeted,woken,interrupted,discovered,eliminated,1
"The worst human displacement problem the United Nations has ever confronted will be the focus of two major events here aimed at galvanising worldwide action. As this film shows, the scale of the problem is immense: The first event, held on Monday, is a UN refugee and migration summit. The following day Barack Obama will convene his own refugee event on the fringes of the UN general debate, the annual diplomatic jamboree held in New York that draws leaders from all over the world. At the UN event, world leaders will adopt the New York Declaration, a document enshrining certain principles, such as a commitment to share responsibility for the refugee crisis more equitably between member states and to combat racism and xenophobia. Despite its grandiose title, however, the ""outcome document"" is a classic UN fudge. To secure the backing of UN member states, it has been written in often vague and generalised language and lacks binding, concrete commitments. Absent from the document, for example, is a clear commitment to resettle 10% of the world's refugees. A clause on the detention of children was watered down - and one country that pressed for that was the US, which detains undocumented children crossing its southern border from Mexico. Rather than saying that detention should be prohibited, it reads detention ""is seldom, if ever, in the best interest of the child"". More from the BBC At a time when populist politicians like Donald Trump have fuelled anti-immigrant sentiment, western governments have been reluctant to make fresh commitments and to adopt tougher language. The New York Declaration will launch two years of further negotiations aimed at producing two new compacts, one focused on refugees, the other on migrants. But again, this feels like kicking the can down the road. UN officials have defended the summit, claiming it has the potential to be a ""game-changer"". They also point to meaningful language in the New York Declaration on combating exploitation, racism and xenophobia, saving lives en route, and guaranteeing that border procedures adhere to international law. Even putting down on paper the need for more responsibility-sharing between nations is seen as an advance, given that just ten countries host nearly 60% of the world's refugees. While welcoming parts of the declaration, NGOS have been critical overall. Oxfam has called it a disappointing outcome. ""World leaders will meet in New York for speeches, dinners and flashy events,"" says Josephine Liebl from Oxfam's Global Displacement Campaign. ""Sympathy about this global crisis will be voiced, but words need action."" Oxfam would like to see rich countries offer more resettlement places, to expand safe and legal routes to protection and support poorer countries financially. ""The declaration agrees to responsibility sharing in theory, but does little to ensure responsibility sharing in practice,"" says Josephine Liebl. The United States decided to host its own summit, partly due to frustration that bureaucratic infighting between the UN's various agencies was undercutting the organisation's response. Aiming to get more concrete commitments, it has made its own gathering a ""pay to play"" event. Only countries that have made significant new commitments get a seat at the table. Broadly the aims are threefold. First, to secure regular contributions from at least ten new nations, and to get a 30% increase in funding for global humanitarian appeals, from $10bn (£7.6bn) in 2015 to $13bn this year. Second, to urge countries already admitting refugees to double the global number of resettled refugees. Third, to increase the number of refugees in school worldwide to one million. In practical terms, the Obama summit will be the more significant of the two events. Substantive pledges are sure to come from it. At least 45 countries have paid to play, and US officials are already confident they will reach or exceed their targets.  Yet as Josephine Liebl from Oxfam notes: ""It's a one-off event with no follow-up mechanism."" The scale of the problem, which has been brought into such heartrending focus by the refugee crisis in Europe, is immense. But the international response has been inadequate. In 2015, the UN refugee agency projected that 960,000 refugees were in need of resettlement, but that only 81,000 people had been resettled. Some of the world's richest countries have a very poor record of admitting refugees. In 2015, Japan admitted just 19. Brazil welcomed thousands of athletes for the recent Rio Olympics, and hundreds of thousands of tourists, but only 6 refugees. As for Vladimir Putin's Russia, it has admitted none at all. The burden is being borne disproportionately by poorer countries. Almost 90% of the world's refugees are hosted in developing countries. The UN also faces a funding crisis that rich countries have done little to alleviate. The UN aid appeal for Syrian refugees is currently only 49% funded. And that's good compared to the appeal for South Sudan, which stands at 19%, and Yemen, which is only 22% funded. Human rights groups have also condemned some of the harsh, inhumane policies that countries have adopted towards refugees. Human Rights Watch says its has documented Turkish border guards firing on civilians who appeared to be seeking asylum. It has accused Pakistan and Iran of coercing Afghanistan refugees to return to their war-torn countries, in violation of international law. Hungary, which built a barrier on its border with Serbia and Croatia, has used tear gas and water cannons against migrants trying to enter the country. Australia's offshore detention centre on the remote Pacific island of Nauru frequently comes in for strong criticism. The United States, Italy, Mexico, and Greece also detain asylum seekers. ""This is not just about more money or greater resettlement numbers,"" according to Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, ""but also about shoring up the legal principles for protecting refugees, which are under threat as never before."" New York, this great polyglot city, is a highly symbolic setting for a summit on refugees and migration. Over the years, it has been the entry point into America for millions fleeing wars and persecution, who have landed on these shores seeking safer and more abundant lives. In many ways, it is the ultimate city of new beginnings. The criticism of the New York Declaration is that it will not do enough to alter the status quo.","This week the centre of attention for the global refugee crisis shifts from the beaches of Greece , the refugee camps of Jordan , the shoreline of Libya , the fatal waters of the Mediterranean and the battlefields of Syria to the riverside @placeholder of the United Nations in New York .",end,home,rest,parts,grounds,1
"His lawyer Brian Webber told the AFP news agency that a decision over his early release has been referred back to the parole board. The Paralympic star was jailed for five years in 2014 for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp. He has been fighting a lengthy battle to be released early from jail. Pistorius was due to be released in August, but remained in prison after Justice Minister Michael Masutha made a last-minute intervention blocking it. The parole review board - the final recourse for parole disputes - met on Monday to decide if the star, 28, should be allowed out on house arrest. A definitive parole ruling is now unlikely to be made before the athlete in a separate legal process appeals against his conviction on 3 November in Bloemfontein. This ruling could result in him receiving a longer prison term. Mr Webber explained that the parole review board decided to refer the matter back to the original parole panel - the body accused by Mr Masutha of ""prematurely"" wanting to release him in August. There will not be much sympathy for Pistorius because many people felt that the judge erred by acquitting him of murder. The double amputee will have to remain behind bars because while his case joins the lengthy queue of other parole hearings that need to be heard, and there is no indication when this will happen. Legal experts say the decision by the justice minister Michael Masutha to intervene was correct in terms of the law. At the time of his intervention, Pistorius had been granted parole only six months into his five-year sentence. The law states clearly that an offender can only be considered for parole after serving one-sixth of his sentence, in this case 10 months. But because he has now served one-sixth of his sentence, he probably should be released by now. Prosecutors argue that the judge who presided over his trial did not apply the law correctly by acquitting him of murder. The judge instead found him guilty of a lesser charge of culpable homicide - equivalent to manslaughter. Reeva Steenkamp's parents are strongly against Pistorius' possible release, telling an Australian TV channel in August that the Paralympian has ruined their lives. ""He killed her. He admits he killed her. She's dead. Why didn't he just let her walk away? Why?"" Reeva's mother June Steenkamp asked in the interview.",Oscar Pistorius must remain in jail and not be transferred to house arrest after a decision to grant him parole was again @placeholder .,ousted,overturned,challenged,dropped,delayed,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device And yet none of the players disappear down the tunnel. None of the fans leave the ground. Defiant, determined, the 25,000 fans who religiously flock to the mythical south stand continue to serenade their team. Manager Jurgen Klopp joins his players on the edge of the penalty area, where they stand for five minutes in awe, gazing up at one of European football's great sights, the ""Gelbe Wand"" (Yellow Wall), a sea of luminous shirts, scarves and flags. Towers of smoke rise from pockets of fans and waves of noise cascades down the steep terrace and onto the players. This love is unconditional. Moments such as this are why Dortmund are one of the last great romantic clubs. The tickets - and beer - are cheap, the atmosphere is raw and seductive and fans, not finance, come first. When Dortmund reached the 2013 Champions League final, the club received 502,567 applications for 24,042 tickets. The entire city has a population of 580,956. True love, indeed. Football is all encompassing here, it reaches ever facet of life. One fan even leaves the club shop having just bought a Borussia Dortmund-branded lawn mower.  The chance to experience this love affair is attracting more than 1,000 fans from England to every home match. It is a scarcely believable figure, but walk around the stadium and British accents are audible among the 80,000 at Signal Iduna Park. ""We jump on the Channel Tunnel train,"" says Matthew Gerrard, from Kent. ""We make a weekend of it. With tickets, accommodation, transport, this trip will cost £65. When you think it cost me £51 to see the Arsenal game last season, you can see the benefits."" Another group soaking up the beer and bratwurst outside the stadium are wearing Stoke shirts, while there are also fans from Aston Villa, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Port Vale. When you discover that the majority of Dortmund's 55,000 season-ticket holders have paid an average of £9 to see this match, this influx begins to make perfect sense. Jack, a Chelsea fan, is here with two of his friends from London. ""Prices are too high in England,"" he says. ""But here, everything is cheap. It's a better experience for the fan and the atmosphere is incredible."" Dortmund are increasingly aware of the English invasion. The club has even begun to conduct stadium tours in English. ""It's amazing,"" says marketing director Carsten Cramer. ""It's always nice when English fans tell me that including the cost of a flight, two beers and a ticket, they do not pay more than a match in England. ""Why are tickets cheap? Football is part of people's lives and we want to open the doors for all of society. We need the people, they spend their hearts, their emotions with us. They are the club's most important asset."" It is a phrase that many clubs use, but two stories demonstrate why it is, perhaps, far more than words here in Dortmund. In recent months, the club's caterers asked them to increase beer prices for the first time in three years. But Dortmund said no. ""What is the economic sense for the club to increase the price by 10 cents?"" Cramer added. ""For the overall economic success of the club it is not important to increase the price of a litre of a beer. It is still money, but not a lot to the club. But it does affect our fans, if they are spending their money match after match."" Puma, the club's shirt manufacturer, also urged them to increase the price of the kit after three seasons at the same figure. Dortmund, once again, said no. ""We try to be as fair as possible. It is easier to ask sponsors for cash than the fans,"" Cramer says. Dortmund plan to introduce free wifi to all fans inside the stadium from January. Other clubs are doing the same, but not quite in the way that Dortmund are. While the club want to encourage fans to engage with them online, order food and send tweets, once the match starts, they want their fans to put their phones down, use their hands to clap, their eyes to watch and the voices to sing. And to ensure that remains the case, the club are discussing plans to dip the wifi signal once the match begins. Supporting the team is the be all and end all. It is why Dortmund do not sell drinks in their corporate boxes during the game. It is why the stadium announcer demands fans return to their seats in time for the start of the second half. The club could allow fans to spend more money buying food and drink. But not at Dortmund. ""We are a football club,"" Cramer adds. ""If the football doesn't run properly, the rest of the business would not work. The business is part of a train, but not the engine."" Cramer arrives in the room having spent much of the past 15 minutes on the phone to a fan with a complaint - yes, they do exist. ""It is important that the fans know that their concerns are being listened to, that as a club we have a feeling for what they want,"" he says. ""Our CEO is in a deep conversation with the fans, we have five guys who just work for our supporters. Our fans know we care about what they think."" Dortmund fan Marc Quambusch, from Kein Zwanni (Not Twenty), a supporter campaign to keep tickets cheap, admits he is proud of what Dortmund has become, having grown up looking to England as the home of football's soul. ""When I was young, we all watched English football, the Kop and said 'yes, that is what football is all about',"" he says. ""Now, when we go to English football, the stadiums are quiet and we say that it is actually quite boring. If you price people out, you change the atmosphere. If you price people out, it isn't the people's game anymore."" Dortmund's fervent atmosphere is the envy of Europe but it is not there by accident. The club keeps prices low precisely to ensure all areas of society are represented in the crowd. There is no such thing as the 'prawn sandwich brigade' in these parts. ""Prices are also going up here and have gone up in recent seasons. But Dortmund is one of the homes of fan culture now, every type of person in this city can afford to go to the stadium,"" Quambusch adds. ""Not just the old people or the rich. That isn't the case in England."" It is important to remember this is a club run by the fans, for the fans. The Bundesliga's ""50% plus one"" rule requires clubs to be owned by their members. All but three of the 36 Bundesliga clubs are owned or controlled by their members, with Wolfsburg, Bayer Leverkeusen and Hoffenheim the exceptions. It is a model that is the envy of many in Europe, especially when it is so successful, as Dortmund have been since 2010, winning two Bundesligas and reaching the Champions League final. ""You have to find your own way,"" Cramer says. ""I am not that arrogant to think that our way might be the right way for all clubs. Visit the Price of Football calculator to see how much you spend supporting your team. ""This way fits to the core values of our club. We are a very, very down to earth club. ""If you know what your club stands for, it helps you know how to act. But I could put the figures to other clubs and say there you go. It is the Dortmund way, and for us, it is most certainly the right way."" The Dortmund model may not, though, be as attractive for those clubs determined to make money above all else. The amount of money Arsenal generate on match days dwarfs those of the German club, despite having 20,000 less seats. ""This is impressive,"" Cramer added. ""But if we were to ask for prices like this, we would lose the people. And the people are one of the most important assets for our club."" English fans will continue to flock to this unglamorous corner of Germany. It is an intoxicating experience, it is cheap and the football is among the best in Europe. What is not to like? Perhaps it is that Germany reminds English football fans of something they think the game in this country has forgotten. Modern football may be the land of the sporting superstar, but in Germany the fan is king.","Borussia Dortmund 's slogan "" echte liebe "" - or "" true love "" - says it all . The final @placeholder goes at the majestic Westfalenstadion . Dortmund have lost at home .",group,atmosphere,song,whistle,video,3
"The idea would use bone conduction technology, a technique that transmits sound to the inner ear by passing vibrations through the skull. The concept has been developed by ad agency BBDO Germany on behalf of broadcaster Sky Deutschland. It is already proving controversial. Comments posted under a video showing off the concept include ""This is a violation to a person's right to rest"" and ""I think I'd take a sledgehammer to the window."" The Talking Window campaign idea was shown off at the International Festival of Creativity in Cannes last month. The video shows passengers on a German train being surprised to hear ads urging them to download the Sky Go app on to their smartphones to watch streamed video. The audio is created by a special Sky-branded transmitter made by Audiva attached to the windows. ""Tired commuters often rest their heads against windows,"" says the ad. ""Suddenly a voice inside their head is talking to them. No-one else can hear this message."" Details posted online note that bone conduction technology has previously been used in hearing aids, headphones for swimmers and runners, and devices used by magicians to make someone think they have had a message planted in their head. Google also plans to use the tech in its forthcoming Glass headset. BBDO Germany said it had had a positive response to tests using prototype transmitters placed in public transport in Munich and Aachen. ""If our customer Sky Deutschland agrees, we will start with the new medium as quickly as possible,"" spokesman Ulf Brychcy told the BBC. ""At present, this is limited to the German market. If we look into the future: everything is possible. ""Some people don´t like advertising in general. But this is really a new technology. [It might] not only be used for advertising, but also for music, entertainment, mass transport information, weather reports and so on."" A spokeswoman for Sky Deutschland said it had yet to make a decision on whether to run the campaign. Although the firm shares the same logo as the UK's BSkyB's satellite TV service, the two are separate companies, albeit both part-owned by News Corp. BSkyB said it had not been aware of the campaign before the BBC brought it to its attention, and was not planning to launch anything similar.","A German firm is proposing to transmit adverts via train windows so that the sound appears to "" come from inside the user 's head "" when passengers @placeholder against them .",voted,show,lean,group,speaks,2
"The multi-coloured glow appeared in the sky on Monday in the late afternoon, lasting for about 15 minutes, and was seen across the island. Media reports said it was likely a fire rainbow, which occurs when sunlight refracts through ice-crystal clouds. Others have also said it could have been cloud iridescence, which happens when water droplets or crystals scatter light. Fazidah Mokhtar, who works in a childcare centre, told the BBC that she spotted it around 17:10 on Monday (09:10 GMT). ""It started as a small orange circle and then grew bigger and bigger till all the colours came out... It lasted for about 15 minutes and it slowly went off. She said ""all the children in the school, some parents, and other staff were very excited and commenting that it was very, very rare to see such a beautiful and unique rainbow"". The phenomenon prompted jokes online, with many comparing it to a Paddle Pop, a rainbow-coloured frozen dessert popular in Australia and Asia. ""The rainbow bridge is broken,"" joked one Facebook user, while another person asked: ""Is this a case of Monday Rainbows?!""",A rare cloud phenomenon over Singapore has @placeholder people in the city - state .,claimed,endangered,called,delighted,faced,3
"The six remaining high-rise blocks will be brought down in a one-off demolition. Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) said a single blowdown would be less disruptive to local residents. An earlier plan to demolish five of the buildings as part of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in 2014 was abandoned following criticism. Built in the mid-1960s to tackle the city's housing crisis, the flats were once the tallest residential structures in Europe, providing accommodation for almost 5,000 people. Initially they were regarded as the answer to Glasgow's housing problem but in later years became rundown and vandalised. The demolition programme, which changes the city's skyline, is part of GHA's renewal plan. Two previous demolitions have taken place, in 2012 and 2013. David Fletcher, director of regeneration for GHA, said: ""We're working very closely with our contractor and partners on plans to bring down all six remaining blocks in a single demolition later this year. ""Our contractor is preparing the blocks for demolition with work carried out to stringent health and safety regulations. ""We'll continue to work with members of the local community about arrangements for the day. ""We'd like to thank all of the residents again for their patience and understanding during this important part of the community regeneration project."" GHA said the decision to take all six blocks down in a single demolition was taken following feedback from local residents. It said development options for the site once it has been cleared were at an early stage and a consultation would be held over the summer.",The last of Glasgow 's Red Road flats will be blown up by @placeholder explosion later this year .,carrying,struggling,died,crowd,controlled,4
"The event is set to get under way on Friday in Glasgow's SSE Hydro and will run until 1 November. Glasgow has joined an elite list of former host cities such as Tokyo and London, and has welcomed 594 athletes from 87 countries for the competition. A total of 450 volunteers from as far afield as Hong Kong and Australia have been signed up to help run the event. Leader of Glasgow City Council Frank McAveety said: ""Our army of volunteers will be at the heart of the event, carrying out a range of functions and being the face of our great city. ""Glasgow has a fantastic record when it comes to volunteering and they are now up and running and starting to play a key role in what will be the biggest ever World Gymnastics Championships."" The beginning of the championships will see a number of qualifying sessions on Friday, including Vault, Uneven Bars, Beam, and Floor. Event finals will begin on 27 October and competitors will be striving to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The £125m SSE Hydro was host to both the artistic and rhythmic gymnastics in the XX Commonwealth Games in 2014, and has undergone a number of additions in the run up to the World Championships, including bespoke judging platforms and an LED ""mega wall"". VisitScotland's director of events Paul Bush said: ""Scotland is now the envy of many other elite event hosting nations in the talent of our people, the sophistication of our infrastructure and the quality of our facilities, both built and natural. ""The SSE Hydro will present many never-before-seen features for these championships, which will greatly enhance the experience of all spectators in Glasgow and add much value to the price of their tickets."" UK Sports Minister Tracey Crouch said: ""Hosting the World Gymnastic Championships is another coup for Scotland and a real legacy from last year's Commonwealth Games. ""The British gymnasts will get an incredible reception from the fans in the Hydro Arena and ticket sales have been really strong. ""I am delighted that we are supporting the event, through UK Sport, that will further strengthen Britain's reputation for staging major events but also provide a boost to the economy in Scotland.""",Hundreds of athletes are @placeholder in Glasgow for the World Gymnastics Championships .,stranded,preparing,gathering,competing,arrives,2
"It was a stunning result for a party which had seen two previous administrations overthrown by a coup and a controversial court decision, and whose supporters had just the year before been involved in an occupation of Bangkok, which ended in bloodshed. An essential part of Ms Yingluck's winning manifesto was a generous promise to rice farmers. That is at the heart of the legal case against her. Under the new scheme the government was supposed to buy the entire rice crop, and pay 15,000 baht (£350; $450) per tonne, well above the 11,000 baht guaranteed by the previous government. It was wildly popular with farmers. But economists and agricultural experts immediately questioned its viability. The price of 15,000 baht was significantly higher than the global rice price, and Thailand exports more of its crop than any other country - it was the world's number one rice exporter at the time. Its principal rivals India and Vietnam, it was predicted, would simply increase their exports at Thailand's expense, offering a price much lower than the Thai government could, unless it was willing to incur huge losses. And there were many warnings that the scheme was vulnerable to corruption. Six years later Ms Yingluck faces a possible 10-year prison sentence on charges of malfeasance, or dereliction of duty, over the rice scheme. She has not been charged with corruption, but with failing to prevent it, in her capacity as prime minister and as chair of the National Rice Policy Committee. If convicted she could be permanently banned from politics - she has already been banned for five years after being impeached in 2015. Unsurprisingly Ms Yingluck and her party have cried foul. After all her government was overthrown, in 2014, by the same army officers who now run Thailand. They justified their coup by the need to restore order, but had conspicuously failed to offer her support as she faced sustained protests in Bangkok, which had crippled her administration. The military is not seen as impartial, and it wields authoritarian powers, even extending to judicial cases. The rice scheme was inordinately expensive and wasteful. The exact cost, of rice that rotted in storage, that was stolen or improperly sold, is still disputed. But the government estimates it cost the state at least $8bn - some estimates go as high as $20bn, although these include the overall cost of the subsidy, not just losses through corruption and mismanagement. The scheme did raise farmers' living standards, but was almost certainly unsustainable. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence of corruption, although few cases have yet gone to court. The best-known case, in which a former commerce minister and 27 other defendants are accused of an allegedly fraudulent government-to-government deal to sell rice to China, will conclude on the same day Ms Yingluck hears her verdict. Ms Yingluck argued in court that she was not responsible for day-to-day running of the scheme, and that as a key policy platform when she was elected she could not order it to be cancelled. She pointed to what she believes are multiple procedural flaws in the case. Whatever the merits of the case against her, few observers doubt that the military government wants to see Thaksin Shinawatra's political movement weakened before it allows the restoration of some kind of democracy. Ms Yingluck is very popular, and an effective vote-winner. With Mr Thaksin entering his 10th year of exile, his party is struggling to find a replacement leader. But her fate presents Thailand's current rulers with some dilemmas. If she is acquitted Mr Thaksin, who is protective of his younger sister, might be emboldened to push for a greater share of power in a post-election Thailand than the military is willing to accept. An acquittal would outrage hard-line conservatives, and those who led the protests against the Yingluck government. If she is sent to prison, hard-line opponents of the Shinawatra clan would be satisfied, and she would be completely removed from politics. Convicting her would also help the generals to justify their coup, as part of a fight against corruption. But it risks making the telegenic Ms Yingluck into a symbol of resistance for the so-called red-shirt mass movement that supports her. Red-shirt leaders acknowledge that mobilising large-scale protests against a conviction would be difficult under a military government. They have ruled out any repeat of the occupation of central Bangkok that ended so badly seven years ago. But they say they would view a conviction as the first shot in a re-ignited conflict with the military, as an end to any pretence of reconciliation. And they do not rule out localised demonstrations of anger by Ms Yingluck's supporters. This worries the government, because it wants calm in the run-up to the elaborate cremation of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in October. It will also need to be mindful of the wishes of King Vajiralongkorn, who is expected to hold a coronation ceremony not long after the cremation. A possible compromise might be a suspended prison sentence for Ms Yingluck. This is possible if she receives less than five years. Even if she is given a custodial sentence, government legal experts say she can appeal. But that would depend on her. She might choose not to. Behind all of this lies the jostling for a new balance of power once the generals allow an election to take place. In that election, polls suggest Pheu Thai will be the largest party, as it has been in every election since 2001, although the new electoral system will almost certainly ensure it does not win a majority of seats in the lower house of parliament. But the political parties will have to contend with a 250-seat senate entirely appointed by the military, and with a military-drafted reform blueprint for the next 20 years, which all governments are legally required to honour. In this environment no-one is sure who is in line to be the next prime minister.  In the past in Thailand, elected governments were able to concentrate a lot of power and patronage in their hands. That will no longer be the case. Some in Pheu Thai believe it might actually be better for the party to have a spell in opposition - that the first elected government will be so constrained by the courts and the generals it is not a prize worth having. The military itself is factionalised, and it is not clear that the current ruling clique will remain dominant. Another important unknown is what King Vajiralongkorn wants. The intimidating shadow of the lese majeste law makes any discussion of his role impossible in Thailand, but he has already made it clear that he wishes to be consulted on important decisions, and that he is willing to exercise his influence in ways that his father did not. He may prove to be one of the most important factors in reshaping Thailand's future.","Six years ago Yingluck Shinawatra , a novice who had only been in politics for two months , led the Pheu Thai party , founded and @placeholder by her older brother Thaksin , to a resounding election victory .",overshadowed,backed,dominated,funded,run,3
"Although details of the emails have not been disclosed, they have been described as ""highly inappropriate"" and demeaning about female staff members. Three people have been suspended and 14 are under investigation, officials say. This comes after a government report last year detailed several incidents of abuse in the military. Army chief Lieutenant-General David Morrison said this inquiry revolves around the production and distribution of ""highly inappropriate"" material over the last three years. He described the emails - comprising text and images - as ""explicit, derogatory, demeaning and repugnant"". ""I view the allegations that are being made in the gravest light,"" he said, adding that it was worse than the military sex scandal which rocked the country in 2011. He added that the highest-ranking official involved was a lieutenant-colonel and others included majors, warrant officers, sergeants and corporals. At least 90 other people, mostly from the army, are also implicated in the emails, officials say. Lt-Gen Morrison said he has apologised on behalf of the army to at least four of the female victims, who he said were angry and concerned about the situation. Defence Minister Stephen Smith described the conduct of those involved as ""despicable"". Australia began a series of inquiries into its military after an incident in April 2011 in which two cadets from the Australian Defence Force Academy were accused of secretly filming a female cadet having sex and broadcasting it on the internet. The investigation received more than 1,000 claims of sexual, physical and mental abuse dating from the 1950s. The government apologised to victims last year. A separate review by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick warned that women were failing to thrive in the Australian military and were under-represented in it.",Australia 's army has launched an investigation after explicit and derogatory emails @placeholder over the last three years were uncovered .,circulated,clashed,called,control,charged,0
"The internet is changing. From a medium based almost entirely on text, it is now becoming increasingly picture-led. An estimated 1.8 billion images are uploaded every day to social networks such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Good news for aspiring photographers, bad news for blind or partially sighted users who often have no way of telling what is in an image - despite the available modern assistive technologies. But a new service from Facebook, being launched on Tuesday, is attempting to remedy that. Blind people use sophisticated navigation software called screenreaders to make computers usable. They turn the contents of the screen into speech output or braille. But they can only read text and can't ""read"" pictures. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Facebook's servers can now decode and describe images uploaded to the site and provide them in a form that can be read out by a screenreader. Facebook says it has now trained its software to recognise about 80 familiar objects and activities. It adds the descriptions as alternative text, or alt text, on each photo. The more images it scans, the more sophisticated the software will become. Some of the objects the new technology can recognise are: The man behind the development is Matt King, a Facebook engineer who lost his sight as a result of retinitis pigmentosa - a condition which destroys the light sensitive cells in the retina. ""On Facebook, a lot of what happens is extremely visual,"" King says. ""And, as somebody who's blind, you can really feel like you're left out of the conversation, like you're on the outside."" The technology that King and his team have developed uses Facebook's in-house object-recognition software to decipher what an image contains. It has been trained to recognise items such as food and vehicles. ""Our artificial intelligence has advanced to the point where it's practical for us to try to get computers to describe pictures in a meaningful way,"" King says. ""This is in its very early stages, but it's helping us move in the direction of that goal of including every single person who wants to participate in the conversation."" The system currently describes images in fairly basic terms such as: ""There are two people in this image and they are smiling."" Last month, Twitter added a similar function which enables users to manually add their own descriptive text to images. Although the descriptions may be better, it requires users to actively choose to do it, whereas Facebook's new system automatically tags every photo. King and Facebook would like the system to go one step further and use face recognition to identify people in a picture by name with help from their database of users, but others are resisting the idea on privacy grounds. For King, it is a matter of principle - he says sighted and visually-impaired people should have equal access to the content posted online. Sighted people know who is in many of the photos they see, so blind people should also be allowed that same privilege, he believes. ""I feel I have a right to that information,"" he says. ""I am asking for information that is already available to other people to be revealed to me. So I see it as a matter of fairness."" Jeff Wieland, head of the Facebook accessibility team, says the social networking site is investing in accessibility and devising strategies for different communities, to allow them to engage with it. He says the site is ""going to have dedicated teams thinking about how to get all these different communities on-board and connecting with each other. That is the chance for us to be equalisers and to really empower the world"". Hear more from Matt King in Default World, first broadcast on the BBC World Service on 2 April as part of the Identity season. An edited version will be broadcast as an Analysis documentary on BBC Radio 4. Find . Follow @BBCOuch on Twitter and on Facebook or email ouch@bbc.co.uk As people become increasingly connected and more mobile, the BBC is exploring how identities are changing. Learn more about the BBC's Identity season or join the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #BBCIdentity. More Identity 2016 features: The nation in love with country music Camel racing, a market worth millions Why Nigerians melt their gold jewellery in Dubai","As the internet becomes dominated by images , Facebook is launching a system which can "" read "" photos and tell visually impaired people what @placeholder in them .",interfere,happens,appears,happened,tables,2
"The announcement followed a UN-brokered meeting in Nicosia on Monday. President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will relaunch the peace process in Nicosia's neutral buffer zone. Mr Akinci was elected last month. The Turkish-controlled north broke away in 1974 after a brief Greek-inspired coup. A UN envoy, Espen Barth Eide, said the new peace initiative was ""a unique opportunity, an opportunity that will be grasped - it's truly rewarding to work with two leaders with such a strong commitment"". Peace negotiations stalled last October, when the Greek Cypriots walked out in protest at the presence of a Turkish ship prospecting for natural gas off the island's south coast. Correspondents say Mr Akinci is viewed as a moderate who can push forward the talks. In 1974 the island was effectively partitioned, with the northern third inhabited by Turkish Cypriots and the southern two-thirds by Greek Cypriots. The self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is diplomatically isolated, recognised only by Turkey. UN peacekeeping forces estimate that 165,000 Greek Cypriots fled or were expelled from the north, and 45,000 Turkish Cypriots from the south, although the parties to the conflict say the figures are higher. Compensation for those displaced by the conflict remains one of the thorniest issues in the talks.","The leaders of the divided Greek and Turkish @placeholder in Cyprus plan to resume peace talks on Friday , which were broken off last year .",communities,bodies,parties,groups,output,0
"The National Training Federation for Wales asked for all money raised to be fairly distributed. It said it was concerned the UK government levy of 0.5% of payroll costs on large employers would affect apprenticeship programmes in Wales. The UK government said UK nations would receive their ""fair share"". A Welsh government spokesman said the levy was an ""unwelcome new tax burden"" and it would have to carefully consider the impact on its existing apprenticeship system. The levy is due to be introduced in 2017 to fund new apprenticeships.",An organisation representing work training providers has written to the Welsh and UK governments for @placeholder on a new apprenticeship levy .,proposals,comment,clarity,sale,views,2
"So he knows what awaits manager Roy Hodgson and his players in Tuesday's friendly at Celtic Park. Butcher was the patriotic symbol of England and is still remembered for the iconic image of his blood-stained bandage and shirt after playing on with a head injury in a crucial World Cup qualifier in Sweden in 1989. He played in three World Cups, leading the late Sir Bobby Robson's side as they were beaten in the semi-final against West Germany in Turin in 1990. Butcher won the Uefa Cup with his beloved Ipswich Town in 1981 but also had huge success after moving to Rangers five years later, winning three Scottish titles and two League Cups. And after spending much of his managerial career north of the border in charge of Motherwell, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and latterly Hibernian, Butcher understands the special passions that will be stirred by England's first international in Scotland since 1999. Celtic fans may know their magnificent stadium as ""Paradise"" but England will not find a friendly welcome on Tuesday. Butcher says: ""It is the most magnificent arena. There will be a huge noise and great hostility. When I played there in Old Firm games you couldn't hear yourself think or speak. You couldn't make yourself heard to the person five yards away. ""And it will be like this on Tuesday because the Scots have been waiting a long time to get England in their own backyard. Make no mistake, this date will have been marked on every Scotland football fan's calendar since the day it was confirmed. Scotland and England don't do 'friendly' in football. ""It will be manic. When I say hostile, I don't mean physically hostile, it will just be the noise. Wow, I remember one of the most hostile atmospheres I played in for England was against Turkey in Istanbul - this will be Istanbul cranked up another 10 times. ""These games are something special and it will be no place for faint hearts in that England team. I played in the goalless draw at Hampden Park in 1987. I'd just helped Rangers win the title and I thought 'they'll be OK with me - I'll get a good reception here'. ""What a slap in the face I got. What I'd done at Rangers was neither here nor there. I was an England player playing at Hampden Park. I got absolutely slaughtered. No prisoners were taken."" England's last game in Scotland was the 2-0 win at Hampden Park in a Euro 2000 qualifying play-off. And Butcher thinks the long wait will make the Scots even more desperate to win. He says: ""In a sporting sense the Scots love to hate us, that's for sure, and you'll see and hear that on Tuesday. ""England have the same passion but maybe we don't show it as much as Scottish people do. It does mean a lot to beat the English. ""I've spent plenty of time up there and they still always go on about 1967, when they beat England at Wembley a year after we'd won the World Cup, a win they say meant they were unofficial world champions. I used to just tell them I didn't remember that but I remembered England winning the World Cup. ""I used to love the Home Internationals and a lot of my Ipswich team-mates, like George Burley, Alan Brazil and John Wark, played in them. Every year you looked forward to them and the Scotland game was always special. ""When it came to big tournaments, obviously Scotland weren't there for a lot of them so the shirts of our opponents seemed to fly out of the shop window as all the Scots bought the shirts. ""I got pelters when I was up there and England were playing. If England lost a game I would get massive stick but you give it back. You have to give it back. If you were strong and stood up and gave it back the Scots would respect you for that. I've got a lot of time for Scots and loved my time up there - but battles lines are drawn for this game and you know which side you're on."" Scotland have improved steadily under manager Gordon Strachan, losing unluckily away to World Cup holders Germany in their opening Euro 2016 qualifier, then beating Georgia at home before a creditable 2-2 draw in Poland. They went third in Group D with a 1-0 victory over the Republic of Ireland on Friday. Butcher is convinced they will be out to prove their growing pedigree at the expense of their fiercest enemy. He says: ""It will be a cracking game. It will be totally different from the Euro group games but with a real competitive edge because of the rivalry between the countries. ""I don't think Scotland are a physical side - they like to play football. They don't have a Graeme Souness in their team like when I played against them and when we had the likes of Peter Reid, real hard men. Although Scotland have Scott Brown, who can mix it when he wants to. ""I've really been impressed with what Gordon has done there. There are players that George Burley brought in who have matured very well - like James Morrison, who has come on leaps and bounds. ""They have got a good footballing team. They have Everton's Steven Naismith up front, who is scoring goals for club and country and there is Shaun Maloney. They have got good players who have played in big games. Ikechi Anya from Watford has done well, showing great composure with his goal in Germany. ""They have got good results but they have also hardened, solidified as a team."" Butcher was part of BBC Radio 5 live's commentary team in Tallinn last month, when Roy Hodgson's England won against Estonia 1-0. They maintained their 100% record in Euro 2016 qualifying with a 3-1 defeat of Slovenia on Friday - and Butcher is in optimistic mood. ""I've liked what I've seen of England since the World Cup,"" he says. ""England should be looking to be undefeated in their group, even win every game. They've been handed the group with that draw. It's not their fault. ""Everybody's striving to beat England because we're still a big scalp in international football, but they have got to set their own standards and I think they're doing it very well now with Roy and coaches Gary Neville and Ray Lewington. ""I think this team is maturing. There are some very good young players like Raheem Sterling and Ross Barkley, and Wayne Rooney keeps scoring goals. I think friendlies like the one in Scotland will help them gain experience because you have got to stick together when it comes to these games. ""When you get into the nitty gritty of a European Championship you may look back on this Scotland game and say: 'We did it then it that atmosphere. We stuck together and now we can do it again.' ""I'm not sure the old legs would carry me now but I know one thing - when this game kicks off on Tuesday I'd love to be out there.""","Terry Butcher is England 's Lionheart former captain who spent much of his @placeholder career on "" Auld Enemy "" territory in Scotland .",name,form,glittering,hands,playing,2
"The man was injured by accident on ""soft ground"" near Okehampton in Devon, police said. The man was with his 10-year-old daughter the time, officers said. There were no reports she was injured. It is not known how extensively the man was injured, but Sgt Harry Tangye, of Devon and Cornwall Police, tweeted that the early signs were ""good"". An air ambulance was called to the scene after the incident on Tuesday morning.",A man has been injured when he was run over by a JCB forklift handler @placeholder in a field .,standing,crash,down,vehicle,while,3
"The Iraqi army and its allies may have retaken most of this city from the so-called Islamic State, but militants are still active in some areas. By the side of the road, unexploded shells showed how dangerous these streets remain for civilians if they are allowed to return. Many tell harrowing escape stories. Some have been caught in crossfire, others drowned in the Euphrates as they tried to swim to safety. Most of the men have been detained for screening by security forces hunting militants.  Women and children have been staying in camps around the city. The battle for Falluja, 50km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, began in earnest last month, after a seven-month siege by government forces. The assault has been swift compared with previous operations to retake key cities like Ramadi, Rutba and Tikrit. The Iraqi commander leading the Falluja operation, Gen Abdel Wahab al-Saadi, explained how his forces - backed by US-led air strikes - managed to recapture key districts in just four weeks. It was down to ""experience and proper planning"", he said. ""The militants' strategy was based on entrenching their defence lines on the edges of the city, but they suddenly collapsed in the face of our massive force,"" he told me. The Shia brigades allied with the government have been conspicuous by their absence in the districts we drove through - unlike in surrounding areas. Gen Saadi says his orders from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi are that ""only government forces enter the inner neighbourhoods"". The presence of the mainly Shia volunteer units, known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces, is very sensitive in predominantly Sunni cities like Falluja, as it stokes sectarianism amid allegations of abuses committed by some Shia fighters. Falluja: Embattled city of mosques IS may be down but it is not out Islamic State group: The full story We heard the sound of artillery and gunfire wherever we went. ""There are few resistance pockets around the city centre but we will finish them off,"" said Gen Saadi. Asked whether it was safe for our team to visit the government compound, the commander replied: ""Of course you cannot."" ""There is no longer a government compound,"" he said. ""It is flattened. The militants dynamited it alongside many buildings in the city before their escape, and the area there must be full of roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices."" Many homes we saw in districts like the southern districts of al-Shuhada and al-Hayakel were destroyed. Officers say most of the destruction has been caused by the booby traps placed by Sunni rebels and IS militants. It is not possible to determine whether the US-led air strikes or the army shelling have also played a role in the destruction. Most of the civilians in Falluja have been forced to live under IS's harsh rule. They would not dare to revolt. Sunni Muslims suffered marginalisation under the Shia-led government of former Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. But they never imagined that life would be like a nightmare under IS, which took over the city in January 2014. The United Nations estimated that 90,000 civilians were trapped there when the assault began last month. Since the start of the operation, as many as 40,000 people have taken advantage of IS' retreat to flee. Meanwhile, aid workers and volunteers have warned of an unfolding humanitarian crisis  because of the severe shortage of food supplies, water and medicine.",We drove into Falluja on a road that snaked through what was once a wealthy suburb but is now deserted . Many homes have been destroyed . On the rooftops of those buildings left standing were soldiers @placeholder behind sandbags .,including,rocked,blown,manipulating,positioned,4
"Blue Origin protested to the US Government Accountability Office about the process Nasa uses to decide which companies can use the launch pad, either exclusively or sharing it. The GAO rejected the protest and said Nasa had not shown a preference for one approach over another. Blue Origin has not commented on the ruling. Nasa is hoping to lease out Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which has not been used since the US shuttle fleet was retired in 2011. It was the launch pad from which Apollo 11 lifted off for the first manned Moon landing. A spokesman for Nasa said: ""Given today's GAO ruling, Nasa is looking forward in the near future to selecting an industry partner for negotiations to lease and operate the launch pad."" Another company, SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla Motors, is also bidding to use the facility. SpaceX had originally wanted to use the site exclusively but later said it was open to sharing the site. Blue Origin's plans were to share the site. Blue Origin suggested that Nasa's proposal for seeking companies to use the site preferred an option where the site was shared. But after Nasa administrator Charles Bolden made a comment that Blue Origin said showed the agency favoured an exclusive contract instead of a shared approach, the company filed a protest. The GAO disagreed with the protest and in its ruling said: ""There currently is nothing in the record beyond the protester's arguments to show that either approach necessarily is better in terms of meeting the agency's objective of achieving the fullest commercial use of space. ""We conclude that nothing in the language of the [announcement for proposal] favours one approach over the other."" SpaceX has made no comment on the ruling. SpaceX already launches rockets from Cape Canaveral and last year became the first company to dock a commercial craft at the International Space Station, Blue Origin is working on a system, known as New Shepard, that the company says will allow researchers and other passengers to fly to sub-orbital space.",A space company run by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has @placeholder a protest over Nasa 's plans to lease out a launch pad .,organized,announced,launched,lost,signed,3
"The wing of an American Airlines plane clipped the tail of a Southwest Airlines plane, while both were on the taxiway. It happened on Wednesday at 06:05 local time (11:05 GMT) at Detroit Metro airport. Passengers had to remain on board the planes but there are no reports of any injuries or fuel leaks. The Federal Aviation Authority has said it will investigate the incident. Passenger Fletcher Sharpe spoke to the BBC from the airport where he will have to wait until the afternoon for another flight. He said other passengers commented that the planes were close to each other, but he did not believe they would hit each other until the moment of impact. ""All of a sudden we heard a loud crunch and a scraping sound,"" he said. ""I thought we had run over something. I looked up and the right wing had lost a few pieces and the back tail of the other plane was smashed off. ""It was frustrating. I understand that that's a high stress job. Everyone's depending on you and you have a lot of things on your mind. But it just seems like 101 to make sure you have enough room. You learn that in a car, or when you're walking. ""We just happy we weren't in the air."" Another passenger, Jim Bishop, told Fox 2 News Detroit that he had been kept on board for two and a half hours and information was sparse at first. He said: ""It was ten minutes of silence. Nobody said anything. ""Finally it came over the radio that there had been an accident and to stay calm. A steward walked past and I asked him - he said he'd been in the job for 35 years and this had never happened before. He didn't know what to do."" The temperature was below freezing and the Southwest plane was being de-iced when the accident happened. Both planes were Boeing 737s. Southwest Airlines said the plane that had been hit would now be out of service for maintenance. It had been due to fly to Dallas, the airliner said, and 95 passengers would be moved to other flights. In a statement, the airline said: ""We appreciate the patience of our customers as we work diligently to get them safely to their final destinations."" American Airlines apologised to customers for the inconvenience and said the 150 passengers who were on board - also due to fly to Dallas - were being put on other flights.",Two planes have collided on the @placeholder at an airport in Detroit .,ground,way,beach,road,islands,0
"The law - which will come into effect in six months - gives same-sex and unmarried couples many of the rights enjoyed by married couples. Several Latin American countries already recognise civil unions. But only Argentina and Uruguay in South America allow full marriage by same-sex couples. Among others, the new law gives couples the right to inherit each other's property and to receive pension benefits. ''It is estimated that more than 2,000,000 people in Chile are living together. Today we give them the option of having their unions legally recognised,"" said President Bachelet. Gay rights advocates hailed the new law as a step toward full marriage rights. ""We are very happy. From October, couples will be able to have their unions legally recognised by law, something which a few years ago was only a dream, even a taboo,"" said gay rights campaigner, Rolando Jimenez.","The Chilean president , Michelle Bachelet , has signed into law a @placeholder recognising civil unions between same - sex couples .",world,secret,bill,group,community,2
"He usually does - and the nation's affection for him runs deeper than his sporting accomplishments as a result. This history-maker - the first Briton to win eight Olympic medals, after success in the team pursuit in Rio - is different. In a world where sports stars are trained to be run-of-the-mill, told to avoid controversy, Wiggins adds colour to the grey. He can be loquacious and funny, or monosyllabic and detached, but he is never dull. Sir Chris Hoy, a six-time Olympic champion, describes his former team-mate as unpredictable, while Chris Boardman - a gold medallist at Barcelona 1992 - says the 36-year-old is an enigma. ""I've never worked Brad out,"" says Boardman, former technical adviser to the British road and track cycling team. ""He's his own man and doesn't follow a beaten path. ""He's authentic so people enjoy that. It might be messy, you're not quite sure if he's going to swear or be sober, but he's real and in this day and age where everyone is media managed, it's appreciated. ""There's a lesson in there, there's probably lessons both ways with Bradley. Just be honest, tell the truth and people enjoy that."" Wiggins will forever be associated with the giddy summer of 2012, when Britain achieved unprecedented sporting success. He was the main act and will always go side-by-side with the merry memories many have of the period. First was the Tour de France victory, then more glory 10 days' later as he became the first man to win the Tour and an Olympic gold in the same year. ""Wiggomania"" took hold. Wiggins is a star because he is an incredible athlete, the best cyclist these islands have produced, but he does not only entertain when on his bike. There are the quips, the put-downs, the unwillingness to bow to authority. He is his own man. When seated on a golden throne in front of Hampton Court Palace to collect his Olympic time trial gold, the newly anointed national hero flashed a peace sign to the cameras, a moment in itself. But the north London boy, clearly uncomfortable in his surroundings, quickly hopped back on his bike, rode past the ticketed VIPs - later calling it a ""prawn sandwich fest"" - and cycled out of the palace to see his family and the thousands who had gathered on the streets. ""The real fans,"" he described them as. He received a message from the Queen after winning the Tour, but joked it was more of a thrill to be congratulated by former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Later that year were the BBC Sports Personality awards - which the seven-time world champion won, beating a short-list like no other. Wiggins, dressed in dark velour, appeared on stage showcasing his extroverted side, jovially calling Sue Barker 'Susan', making the audience laugh. It was not staged, he was enjoying himself, just like many of us would had we achieved such success. Media playback is not supported on this device In his autobiography, Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas recalls how Wiggins, at the wedding of team-mate Steve Cummings, stole the band's mic to ""entertain the expectant crowd with some impromptu Usain Bolt/reggae rapping and his tie around his head"". ""When he's up, he's a remarkable character to be around,"" adds the Welshman. After being crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Wiggins attended the after-show party and again stole the show, appearing on stage with the house band to play guitar on a Paul Weller classic. He is a sportsman, he could be a rock star, but there is shade to his light. Wiggins is not an eternal entertainer. ""You don't know what kind of Bradley you're going to get sometimes and that's what people find exciting,"" says Hoy. ""Sometimes he can be on great form and other times he doesn't want to talk at all."" In the same chapter of his autobiography, Thomas says Wiggins can eat in the team dining room in silence and leave having not said a word. He writes: ""The foreign riders who don't know him are totally baffled. 'Where Brad go? Where the jokes?'"" Media playback is not supported on this device People can relate to Wiggins because they think they know him. It is easy to reel off that this son of a single mum loves classic guitars and Paul Weller, and has a weakness for brogues, sharp tailoring and scooters. He is a mod and that, for a sportsman, is not the norm. Storytellers are keen to tell you about Wiggins because he is interesting, as well as successful, and he has been around long enough for his tale to be well-known; from schoolboy success to a first Olympic medal (bronze) as a 20-year-old, to a golden ending on his Olympic farewell in Rio. Others, like compatriot Chris Froome - a three-time Tour de France winner - are not held in the same esteem, mainly because his story - born in Kenya, educated in South Africa, based in Monaco - is not so familiar. ""Chris hasn't been racing on a national circuit at home for decades and they haven't had time to get to know him,"" says Hoy. ""It takes time to get that recognition from the British public."" It is Wiggins' relationship with Froome that reveals the five-time Olympic champion is also not everyone's friend. In his autobiography, the 31-year-old accuses Wiggins of hiding behind humour and a ""gruff geezer cloak"". ""We rode around him and his moods like he was a traffic island,"" he writes of his time as Wiggins' team-mate during the 2012 Tour. Mark Cavendish, frustrated at having been overlooked for a team pursuit spot in Rio, claimed last week that Wiggins ""wants to be the hero and all that"". Now in his 37th year and coming towards the end of what has been an extraordinary chapter in his life, there will be no ifs, no buts when Wiggins looks back on a career of plenty. And with success, with age, comes experience. Regardless of his mood, whether extroverted or introverted, Wiggins is, above all, a leader. ""He's got that X-factor which makes him stand out from the crowd,"" says Hoy. ""He has an aura about him when he comes to the track centre and it lifts the team as well. The team see him as a leader and it had a massive popular effect."" In his book Project Rainbow, current Team Sky coach Rod Ellingworth remembers how Wiggins galvanised a worried team at the 2011 Road World Championships with an all-for-one, one-for-all speech on the bus. ""There was total silence,"" says Ellingworth. ""That was the moment I realised that, thank God, Brad was in."" It was a phenomenal turn from Wiggins that helped Cavendish win the road world title that year, a performance which rekindled a friendship that had drifted after the pair finished ninth in the Madison at the 2008 Olympics. Unsurprisingly for a man know for his unpredictability, no-one seems to know what Wiggins will do once he stops pedalling, but whatever he does it will no doubt be on his own terms. ""He doesn't stick to what he should be doing, he sticks to what is interesting,"" says Boardman. ""It's a relative comedown from being a Tour de France winner to riding in a team event only at an Olympic Games, but he chooses the things that interest him and keep him passionate and you've got to respect that. ""Bradley doesn't know what his plans are post-Olympics and that's part of the fun of it with him, but the likes of Bradley are the lucky ones. They can walk away content."" After winning the Tour de France: ""We're just going to draw the raffle numbers now. Thanks for the amazing support the last three weeks. I really appreciate it. It's been a magical couple of weeks. Some dreams do come true. My old mother over there, her son's just won the Tour de France. Thank you everyone. Cheers. Have a safe journey home and don't get too drunk."" On cycling: ""I love it. I'll always be riding my bike. I come from a cycling family. I'll probably be there in 20 years' time marshalling on the corner somewhere for a local 10km. I'll still be in a cycling club. It's pretty embedded."" On becoming famous after his Tour win: ""I left home and nobody knew who I was, in the village even, bar a couple. And then I came back to this overwhelming adulation everywhere I go. It is fantastic, brilliant, it really is - but I wasn't quite expecting the reaction."" After winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year: ""Thank you to everyone who voted. We have had all that jungle stuff and X Factor in the last few weeks, so for people to pick up the phone and vote in half an hour, thank you very much. ""To be ahead of Jess [Ennis] and Andy [Murray], it's probably my greatest sporting achievement. The other stuff you can control; you can't control people voting for you. ""To my nan, the cheque is in the post because you pressed redial so many times. ""There is a free bar round the back paid for by the BBC, so we are all going round there."" Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.",Sir Chris Hoy cried on the podium . Uncontrollably . Daley Thompson @placeholder . Gleefully . Sir Bradley Wiggins ? He does it his own way .,show,dominated,deserves,reflects,whistled,4
"4 April 2016 Last updated at 11:55 BST The footage shows about 15 Barnsley fans in flat caps sitting on the floor of Wembley Way, London, pretending to row a boat ahead of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final on Sunday. Barnsley came back from 0-1 down to win the game 3-2.","A video of Barnsley FC supporters teasing Oxford United fans by chanting "" you only @placeholder when you 're rowing "" has been shared by hundreds of people .",drown,group,suffered,sing,struggling,3
"Police found the cannabis patch, covering an area the size of a football pitch, after a call from a member of the public in Kingston. They found more than 150 plants, some more than 5ft (1.5m) tall. The plants are to be destroyed. PC Sarah Henderson said it looked like ""a small forest of Christmas trees and was complete with a gazebo"". The plants were found near Lower Marsh Lane. ""Whoever set this up used a really remote spot - the only way to get there was a 20-minute walk through wasteland. ""But all their time, trouble and gardening skills will go unrewarded, as the whole lot will now be destroyed by police,"" she said. There have been no arrests and inquiries continue, the police said.",Scores of cannabis plants have been discovered growing in a remote area of disused @placeholder in south - west London .,conditions,forces,land,mining,railways,2
"Faustin, a student at a lycée in Laval, north-western France, decided to shun questions on post-war German politics and China's international relations. Instead, Faustin penned a screed about the plight of homosexuals detained and tortured by authorities in Chechnya. But on Wednesday the baccalaureate student received the results: two out of 20 points. The teenager, who identifies as gender-neutral, will have to take a re-sit. ""I am absolutely not surprised,"" Faustin told followers on Twitter. ""I expected it - the important thing was... to talk about what's going on over there."" LGBT activists revealed that more than 100 men were being held in a camp in Chechnya in April - and that some had died after being tortured - because they were gay or suspected of being gay. The news triggered international protests and moves to smuggle victims to safehouses, with some countries offering visas to allow them to escape. Faustin's highlighting of the issue divided Twitter. It was applauded by some. But others saw the action as ill-thought-out. In the essay, Faustin compares international responses to the revelations of homosexual persecution in Chechnya. The essay ends: ""Dozens of homosexual men have been killed in these Chechen camps and outside [the camps] too, like adolescents who committed suicide because their family threatened to kill them because they were gay.""",A French teenager who used a history exam to @placeholder a political message has not been rewarded by the examiners .,send,kidnap,get,marry,undergo,0
"Davies says that team ethos is at the heart of the current squad's fantastic run of form that has seen them win eight successive matches, one short of what would be a record for the region. ""I actually remember watching the Galacticos and they were a great team,"" he told BBC Wales Sport. ""I think we are just working together."" Davis says the culture of the Ospreys has led directly to their success, with no star players at the region. ""What impresses me about this team is the culture that Steve Tandy has put in place,"" he said. ""And no player is bigger than any other , no player is hogging the limelight "" Australian Davis, who is credited with rejuvenating the Ospreys' defence this season, says the changes have been technical. ""One thing that was never lacking was effort, so we looked at the structural side of things and hopefully I've given these guys a framework where they can make decisions out on the field and make us a difficult side to break down,"" he said. Media playback is not supported on this device Davis thinks all the problem will be ironed out in the ongoing debate about high tackles, following a change in the rules. ""In these early stages there's going to be loads in every game that we can look at,"" he said. ""But I think the referees will start to have a greater empathy and a greater feel and I think they'll find a balance between intent and accident.""",Ospreys defence coach Brad Davis believes the current squad have more than shed the image of ' Galacticos ' once @placeholder with the region .,compared,reunited,met,associated,presented,3
"The mood in Scotland back in 1986 was, according to the historian Professor Tom Devine, one of ""humiliation, bitterness, worry, deep anxiety, insecurity and, perhaps, above all, anger."" In Scotland's football world there was the great sadness of Jock Stein's sudden death on the touchline at Ninian Park in Wales in September 1985. Even now the footage sends a shiver up the spine. Graeme Souness running up the tunnel in panic. Grown men in tears. ""Jock had been in a stressful way all day, he looked drawn, he looked grey,"" says Gordon Strachan, one of Stein's most important players. Stein stands over episode three like the giant he was. ""The guru,"" as Andy Roxburgh calls him. What follows is a journey in disappointment, a trip through the near-misses and assorted horror shows at major championships from 1986 to 2016. It's been 18 years since the wheels stopped turning and Scotland started to fade into irrelevance in international football. There's the angry commentary of Archie Macpherson as the boot boys of Uruguay kicked Scotland out of the 1986 World Cup. ""The scum of world football,"" as Ernie Walker, the behemoth of the SFA, called the South Americans in the aftermath. Media playback is not supported on this device There's the plaintive cries when Juan Cayasso - the Costan Rican who achieved immortality in this country - drives a dagger into Scottish hearts in 1990, a despair that very quickly turned to fury, most of it directed at Roxburgh. There's the black humour of some of the headlines. ""Worst In The World!"" ""Why Are We So Bad?"" ""Frankly, We Stink!"" And then, more to worry about. The changing face of the world in Russia and Yugoslavia - new nations, new competition. The Craig Brown era came. The Euros were held in England in 1996 and he was told by the SFA that Scotland had better be there. Not that Brown needed any telling. ""(Had Scotland not qualified) I would have been so ashamed and embarrassed,"" says Brown. ""I definitely would have emigrated. It was in England, so you had to qualify."" Scotland hit the wall after the World Cup in 1998. At Hampden, they counted the managers in and they counted them back out again. Brown replaced by Berti Vogts replaced by Walter Smith replaced by Alex McLeish. On it went, the only constant being failure to make it to a major championship. Well, perhaps, not the only constant, Drama, of a kind, was never far away. Drama and suspicion and rancour. McLeish remains deeply dubious about refereeing motives in a must-win game against Italy at Hampden in November 2007. Drama, again, in the George Burley era. Terry Butcher was his assistant. ""There was a lot of cliques (in the squad),"" he recalls. ""There was the Rangers group, there was the Celtic group. It was a lot of hard work because you had, with Rangers especially, so many big egos and so many powerful figures."" Steven Pressley, still a Celtic player at the time, was also part of Burley's coaching ticket. ""There was players in there from Rangers and other clubs that maybe felt that having a Celtic player on the coaching staff wasn't right,"" he says. Pressley is critical of Burley but really trains his guns on Barry Ferguson over the so-called Boozegate episode in 2009, the drinking session between qualifying matches for World Cup 2010 and the infamous V-signs to the media that saw the end of Ferguson's international career. Media playback is not supported on this device ""Barry let himself down - the team down - there's no doubt about that,"" says Pressley. ""I think it could've been handled better from within.  Barry's actions were not the actions of a Scotland captain and a top professional."" The managerial door revolved again. Out went Burley and in came Craig Levein - and nothing changed. Levein never recovered from playing a 4-6-0 formation against the Czech Republic in Prague. ""It became a stick to hit me with,"" he says. ""When it comes right down to it, I gave them the stick."" And so a new manager came. From Uefa there was good news about an expanded Euro 2016. Twenty four teams would qualify. According to the vernacular of the time, it was almost harder not to qualify than to qualify. Strachan was the man entrusted with the job of making Scotland relevant again. That dream crashed and burned in Georgia when Scotland suffered a loss that cost them a place in the play-offs. The wait goes on and the grim landmarks on Scotland's unending road back to a major championship pile ever higher. Strachan's team began the qualifiers for World Cup 2018 with a 5-1 win over Malta backed by a PR campaign that says, 'This Time'. 'This Time' for what? More of the same or a new beginning? The nation prays for the latter. It's been too long. Way, way too long. The third episode of Scotland's Game airs on BBC One Scotland on Thursday at 21:00 BST.","Set against a backdrop of the rise of Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative government in Westminster and a terrible @placeholder of Scotland 's manufacturing industry , it is the turn of the national team to enter the story of Scotland 's Game .",advantage,decline,event,beacon,edition,1
"Chief engineer Barry Colford imposed a restriction on ""abnormal"" loads and said it needed to remain until all the truss end links were strengthened. One of the links has since cracked, leading to the closure of the bridge. Transport Scotland said the restriction imposed was not related to the current structural defect. The email was sent to Lesley Hinds, convener of the Forth Estuary Transport Authority - which formerly ran the bridge - in February. Mr Colford said he was banning all vehicles weighing more than 150 tonnes from using the bridge because of analysis carried out about the pressure on key beams. He said he would discuss the matter directly with Transport Scotland, and added: ""The restriction needs to be in place until all the truss end links are either strengthened or replaced. ""This will not be done before 31 May 2015. TS (Transport Scotland) will have to make the decision on what to do with the truss end links after 31 May 2015."" A Transport Scotland spokesman said: ""The restriction on exceptionally large abnormal loads was not related to the present defect on the bridge. ""It was related to potential unacceptable overstress to the truss end brackets and associated welds within the towers. This is being addressed by the ongoing strengthening works. ""Restrictions on loads of this type have little impact as there are very few movements of this size and they are agreed in conjunction with Transport Scotland, local authorities and Police Scotland who escort such loads."" He added that since the start of 2013 only one load of 140 tonnes had crossed the bridge so the additional restriction was a further safety measure that would have minimal impact and would allow hauliers to pre-plan their routes. He said: ""The defect which has resulted in the closure of the Forth Road Bridge was identified in the last few weeks. It was unexpected and not predicted by previous analysis that was carried out by Forth Estuary Transport Authority."" The spokesman added that ""critical maintenance"" had always been funded. It was announced last Thursday that the bridge, which carries an estimated 70,000 vehicles a day between Edinburgh and Fife, would be closed after engineers spotted a crack in a steel truss close to the north tower. It was later confirmed the crossing would have to remain shut until the new year for repair work to take place. A temporary repair  will involve the shear truss end having metal splints attached to either side. Last week, Scotland's Transport Minister Derek Mackay said that five years ago Forth Road Bridge bosses had considered replacing the part of the crossing which has cracked, but decided not to. It was later announced that a Holyrood committee is to examine options for a ""focused inquiry"" into the issues leading to the closure of the bridge. Speaking on BBC Scotland's Sunday Politics programme, Kenneth Gibson, the SNP convener of the finance committee, said: ""Derek Mackay has been quite clear and frank about what the difficulties are and what we are doing to resolve this. ""The first minister made it crystal clear that this problem that was found a few weeks ago was not picked up on previous maintenance because it was only a new flaw in the bridge."" Speaking on the same programme, Scottish Labour's Jackie Baillie said: ""You only need to listen to people on phone-in programmes to understand just how agitated and angry they are with all of this. So that has to be the priority. ""But we do need to learn from our mistakes and we do need the Scottish government to put everything in the public domain, to be transparent and not to engage in ever-increasing amounts of spin to hide the truth from people about cut budgets and cancelled maintenance contracts."" Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie repeated calls for former Forth Road Bridge chief operating officers Barry Colford and Alistair Andrew to provide evidence to any inquiry into the closure of the bridge. He added: ""Reports that have emerged over the past week regarding maintenance budgets and missed opportunities for repair work underline the need for a wide-ranging inquiry.""","The operator of the Forth Road Bridge was told of a need for repairs 10 months ago , a @placeholder email has revealed .",respected,lobby,leaked,second,group,2
"The mother was at Derby Bus Station on Wednesday evening when she was seen slapping the child. Police arrested the 35-year-old mother on suspicion of common assault, interviewed her and gave her two cautions. Derbyshire Police said the child was now being looked after by social care. It is legal for a parent to physically punish a child in the UK if the punishment is ""reasonable"". However, the Children Act 2004 removed the defence of ""reasonable chastisement"" in England and Wales for any punishment towards a child that leads to bruising, swelling, cuts, grazes or scratches. Scotland and Northern Ireland have similar laws. A United Nations report suggested the UK should pass laws to ban parents from smacking their children.","A child has been taken away from a mother who slapped the four - year - old across the face , then swore at and @placeholder a woman who intervened .",sparked,punching,pushed,murdering,raped,2
"David Pearce, from Walsall, was told the news by Chancellor George Osborne, who said the image will be ""recognised by millions in the years ahead"". It features the four plants associated with the four nations that make up the UK. The new coin has the same shape as the old 12-sided threepence piece - not used since 1971. Find out more about the secrets of the coins in your pockets ""I was really excited to hear that I had won the competition to design the new £1 coin but hugely shocked as well,"" said David. ""I heard about the competition through my design teacher at school and I thought I had nothing to lose so I decided to enter. ""I spent a lot of time researching what coin designs looked like and what sort of designs would represent all parts of the UK before submitting my idea and I honestly cannot believe I have won."" His design features the leek, thistle, shamrock and rose, coming out of a royal coronet, or crown. The Chancellor rang the teenager to tell him the news. ""Designing the new £1 coin was a brilliant opportunity to leave a lasting legacy on what will be the most secure coin in circulation anywhere,"" he said ""The competition captured the imagination of thousands of people and David Pearce's winning design will be recognised by millions in the years ahead. ""It was fantastic to congratulate him and other young entrants in person in Downing Street."" David beat competition from more than 6,000 entries and will see his design in circulation in 2017. The £1 is being replaced for the first time in more than 30 years because of fears it is now easier to counterfeit. It will become the most secure coin in circulation because of its bi-metallic construction and new anti-counterfeiting technology, the Royal Mint says. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube","The new £ 1 coin will feature a drawing by a 15 - year - old who has won a competition to design the "" tails "" @placeholder .",race,symbol,side,story,future,2
"""Where duty calls you go,"" he told me from his small office packed with papers in the capital, Kampala, before he left. Our appointment was for 07:30 local time. I arrived 10 minutes early, and he was already working. ""Mentally, you have to be trained first and also practically you need to know, what are you going to do… you use your past experience to protect yourself."" What did his family make of his decision? ""You have to convince them,"" he replied. Dr Amone has treated many Ebola patients and led national response teams in the East African nation, which has become a hub for Ebola experts. Before the epidemic in West Africa, the worst outbreak was recorded in Uganda in 2000. More than 425 people contracted the virus, mainly in the northern town of Gulu. More than half of them died. Since then there have been four more outbreaks. In addition to that, Uganda has had to fight similar viral haemorrhagic fevers like Marbug, Crimean Congo and Yellow Fever. But the government has managed to stop widespread Ebola outbreaks. During the last one in Luwero, central Uganda, there were seven cases and four deaths. What can Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria learn from Uganda's experience? The importance of speed cannot be underestimated. Spotting cases quickly, confirming them as Ebola and sending out teams. At the Uganda Virus Research Institute, overlooking Lake Victoria, in the sleepy town of Entebbe, a small laboratory has been set up to do this. With the help of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientists are receiving Ebola results out within 24 hours. Stephen Balinandi is a laboratory specialist at CDC and has worked on many of Uganda's outbreaks. ""Unlike before when specimens would be shipped to international labs like the US, we are able to test specimens here within a short time,"" he says. ""And we send back the results to the healthcare givers in the field, who are able to properly manage the patients."" But any one of the scientists at this lab will say that their work is futile unless suspected cases can be picked up to begin with. To this effect, the health ministry has educated health workers and the general public on Ebola symptoms. A young team of techies has also created a health monitoring system known as mTrac that helped with the last Ebola outbreak. Using a basic mobile phone, health workers reported suspected Ebola cases and received information on how to help communities. Over the last decade, their response to outbreaks has improved immeasurably, Mr Balinandi says. In earlier outbreaks, medics were forced to rely on little more than a hunch. ""After very many people had died - then there would be suspicion that we are dealing with something,"" he said. Now testing is done earlier in order to pinpoint an outbreak. Public information campaigns are also vital. During an outbreak, messages are sent out telling people how to spot potential Ebola patients and how to stop themselves from catching the virus. This starts at the local level, where leaders and social mobilisation teams go out to speak to those in the affected communities. And, on the national stage, the president himself has been known to get involved. In 2012 when there were Ebola cases in western Uganda he made a statement telling Ugandans not to kiss or shake hands. It quickly made the headlines, and although it became a joke, he got his message across. The public understood that limiting close contact was vital. Local authorities often act quickly closing schools, markets and burying suspected Ebola victims to avoid gatherings. Many Ugandans will admit that their national health system is somewhat lacking, with cases of women dying in labour, drug shortages and poorly resourced health centres. But the fact that public health officials have managed to stage effective responses despite the many limitations should provide an example for the governments in West Africa, which face similar challenges. Dr Amone, who has now arrived in Sierra Leone, feels the first crucial steps that would have limited the outbreak there were missed. ""The fact that you need to accept that Ebola is with you at the beginning is very important, because now the thing has spread out, we're going to have to do fire fighting.""","Dr Jackson Amone , who has tackled several Ebola outbreaks in Uganda , @placeholder to go to West Africa to help his counterparts with the growing crisis in the region .",promising,adding,volunteered,wants,forcing,2
"Nuon Chea, 88, served as leader Pol Pot's deputy and Khieu Samphan, 83, was the Maoist regime's head of state. They are the first top-level leaders to be held accountable for its crimes. Up to two million people are thought to have died under the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime - of starvation and overwork or executed as enemies of the state. Judge Nil Nonn said the men were guilty of ""extermination encompassing murder, political persecution, and other inhumane acts comprising forced transfer, enforced disappearances and attacks against human dignity''. Lawyers for the pair said they would appeal against the ruling. ""It is unjust for my client. He did not know or commit many of these crimes,"" Son Arun, a lawyer for Nuon Chea, told journalists. They will remain in detention while this takes place. The regime sought to create an agrarian society: cities were emptied and their residents forced to work on rural co-operatives. Many were worked to death while others starved as the economy imploded. During four violent years, the Khmer Rouge also killed all those it perceived as enemies - intellectuals, minorities, former officials - and their families. Nuon Chea was seen as an ideological driving force within the regime. Khieu Samphan was its public face. Prosecutors argued that they formulated policy and were complicit in its brutal execution. Over three years the court has heard from some of those who lost entire families to the regime. ""My anger remains in my heart,'' Suon Mom, 75, whose husband and four children starved to death, told the Associated Press news agency. ""I still remember the day I left Phnom Penh, walking along the road without having any food or water to drink."" After three years of hearings, and a summary of charges that ran for 90 minutes, the presiding judge delivered sentencing against the two elderly defendants surprisingly briskly. Both men were guilty of crimes against humanity, both were sentenced to life in prison. Khieu Samphan, the urbane, international face of the Khmer Rouge, was found not to have had authority over those carrying out the worst atrocities documented by the tribunal. Nuon Chea was found guilty on all charges. Both in the end received the same sentence, somewhat academic given that both men are in their eighties, and in poor health. They had insisted on their innocence, dismissing the accusations against them as propaganda and lies. Their defence, though, was dismissed by the tribunal as lacking credibility. Nuon Chea, unable to stand for the sentence, showed little emotion, but Khieu Samphan appeared visibly angry. They had told their families not to come and hear the verdicts. It was in many ways an anticlimactic end to the only official accounting for the horrors of the Khmer Rouge years. The true value of this unique ""hybrid"" tribunal, blending international and Cambodian judicial authority, is still difficult to assess. Justice delayed Outside the court, Khmer Rouge survivor Nou Saota said: ""I feel so happy and relieved. A huge burden has been lifted off me."" Youk Chang, another survivor, told the BBC the verdict was ""a little too late for many"" but said it was vital the trial took place. ""It's important for the young population to learn this lesson so that we can prevent such atrocity from occurring anywhere, not just in Cambodia,"" he said. Rights group Amnesty International, meanwhile, called the ruling ""an important step towards justice"", as it noted ""troubling"" obstacles the court had faced. Some have criticised the slow pace and cost of the court. In 2012, a Swiss judge resigned, saying his investigations into other Khmer Rouge suspects were being blocked. Both Khmer Rouge leaders denied the charges against them. In closing statements last year, they expressed remorse but said they had neither ordered deaths nor been aware of them. In a statement shortly after the ruling, the court said both men had participated in ""a joint criminal enterprise to achieve the common purpose of implementing a rapid socialist revolution... by whatever means necessary"". The pair also face a separate genocide trial. The case against them was split to accelerate proceedings, because of their age. Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime Two other former Khmer Rouge ministers were to be tried with them. Ieng Sary, the former foreign minister, died in March 2013. His wife Ieng Thirith, who served as the regime's social affairs minister, has been ruled unfit to stand trial. Before this, former prison chief Duch was the only senior Khmer Rouge figure held to account, but he was not part of the regime's central leadership. He was jailed in 2010 for running the Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands of people defined as enemies of the regime were tortured and killed.",Two top Khmer Rouge leaders have been jailed for life after being convicted by Cambodia 's UN - @placeholder tribunal of crimes against humanity .,sided,supervised,exposing,backed,air,3
"Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin agreed over the phone to meet in person, Mr Erdogan's office said. The call came after Turkey expressed ""regret"" earlier this week to Mr Putin and to the family of the Russian pilot killed in the incident. The fighter jet was shot down near the Syria-Turkey border in November. Turkey claimed that the jet was warned repeatedly after entering Turkish airspace, a claim fiercely denied by Russian officials. In the call, Mr Putin also called an attack on Istanbul's Ataturk on Tuesday ""heinous"". A spokesman for Mr Erdogan said on Wednesday that ""necessary steps"" would now be taken to mend the damaged ties between the two countries, and to drop restrictive measures on Russians visiting Turkey. ""Reiterating their commitment to reinvigorate bilateral relations and fight terrorism together, the two leaders agreed to remain in contact and meet in person,"" he said. Turkey angered Moscow in the aftermath of the incident by failing to apologise, despite demands from Russian officials. Mr Putin said he had been stabbed in the back and accused Mr Erdogan of collaborating with so-called Islamic State. Russia responding by hitting Turkey with a raft of sanctions, banning import of Turkish foodstuffs and stopping Russian package holidays to Turkey. Mr Putin said at the time the restrictions would not be lifted until Russia received an apology. The Russian Su-24, an all-weather attack aircraft, was flying in skies above the Turkey-Syria border area on 24 November when it was shot down by Turkish F-16s. The plane crashed in the mountainous Jabal Turkmen area of the Syrian province of Latakia, killing the pilot. A Russian marine involved in a helicopter rescue attempt was killed when the helicopter came under fire from local fighters. The navigator in the jet, Capt Konstantin Murakhtin, survived the crash and was taken to Russia's Hmeimim airbase in Latakia by Syrian government forces. Turkey said planes were warned 10 times during five minutes via an ""emergency"" channel and asked to change direction. The Russian defence ministry insisted that the aircraft remained within Syria's borders throughout its mission and did not violate Turkish airspace and received no warnings.",The leaders of Turkey and Russia have spoken for the first time since the downing of a Russian military jet by Turkey @placeholder a diplomatic crisis .,wearing,involving,following,earning,sparked,4
"Greybull Capital has bought the airline from the Mantegazza family which has owned it since the 1960s. More than 90% of unionised staff voted to accept the changes. Two-thirds of the redundancies will be voluntary. The fleet will be reduced from 42 aircraft to 34, and long-haul and charter flying will end by April. The network will specialise in Monarch's scheduled short-haul European leisure routes. Jim McAuslan, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots' Association, said: ""Monarch's continuing presence in the marketplace is good for customers so this new investment is welcome."" He added it was ""in no small part due to the painful sacrifices made by pilots and other staff, who have accepted redundancies and a substantial cut in pay and conditions to help secure jobs."" Speaking on behalf of the family, Fabio Mantegazza said: ""We are very proud to have created one of the most loved aviation brands in the UK over the last 46 years. ""We think that now is an appropriate time to allow new shareholders to take Monarch into the future with secure financial backing and clear strategic goals.""",Staff at Monarch airlines have @placeholder to 700 redundancies and pay cuts of up to 30 % as part of a deal to save the Luton - based company .,taken,written,access,voted,agreed,4
"Reports say one of those arrested is the groom. The footage showed guests singing and dancing with weapons. One stabbed a picture of a Palestinian baby who died in the attack in July. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the ""shocking"" scenes, aired on Israeli television. Wedding-goers could also be heard singing about taking revenge on Palestinians in the video. Police opened an investigation into the events on suspicion of incitement to violence. Israeli media identified one of the suspects as a resident of the Jewish settlement of Kfar Tapuach in the occupied West Bank. The four were arrested on Tuesday, a week after the footage was broadcast. It was filmed at a Jewish wedding in Jerusalem earlier this month. In the clip, young Orthodox Jewish men are seen dancing with knives, guns and fire bombs while singing about revenge. One of the revellers stabs a picture of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha, who was killed in an arson attack on his home in the Palestinian village of Duma. His parents, Saad and Riham, were also killed, while his five-year-old brother, Ali, was injured in the attack. Several youths, whom the authorities suspect of belonging to a ""Jewish terror organisation"", have been arrested in connection with the attack.","Four people have been arrested over a wedding video which showed Israeli revellers apparently @placeholder a deadly arson attack on a Palestinian family , Israeli police say .",celebrating,caught,plotting,inflicted,carrying,0
"The League One side progressed thanks to goals from Steve Morison, Shaun Cummings and Shane Ferguson at The Den. Harris named an unchanged side for the fifth straight game, while Cherries boss Eddie Howe made 11 changes. ""We knew Bournemouth would make changes but we knew they would play the same style,"" Harris told BBC Radio London. ""Whatever 11 they put out there was going to be expensive and talented. ""The scoreline certainly didn't flatter us at all. A couple of players are disappointed they didn't add to the tally today. ""We rose to the occasion. We knew we'd have to fight and defend really well but we knew we were capable of scoring goals today. ""Eddie will say he picked a team that was comfortably good enough to win the game. They just maybe got outperformed.""",Millwall manager Neil Harris says the margin of their 3 - 0 win over Premier League Bournemouth in the FA Cup third round was no more than they @placeholder .,conduct,deserved,feared,doubled,thought,1
"Anyone demanding EU solidarity also had obligations, he said. ""I can't spend all my money on liqueurs and women and then go and ask for your support."" Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said he should stand down. The Eurogroup chief said his message had been misunderstood and he had no intention of resigning. Condemning the remarks as racist and xenophobic, Mr Costa said Europe would only become credible as a common project ""on the day Mr Dijsselbloem is no longer president of the Eurogroup or when there is a clear apology to the countries and peoples who have been profoundly offended by these comments"". Italy's ex-prime minister, Matteo Renzi, took to Facebook to condemn ""stupid remarks against southern Europe, starting with Italy and Spain"". European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the words were ""wrong"". Several Spanish politicians were also offended by the remarks. Gabriel Mato, a centre-right MEP, said the Dutch minister had lost his neutrality and credibility. Another Spanish MEP, Ernest Urtasun, said the remarks were unacceptable and full of ""completely false stereotypes about the countries of the south"". The north of the eurozone showed solidarity ... Solidarity is very important but those demanding it have duties too. I can't spend my money on liqueurs and women then ask for help"" Mr Dijsselbloem insisted his comments, in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, applied to all countries, north and south, and underlined the importance of solidarity and reciprocity within the union. In a statement to the BBC, he apologised for what he termed ""Dutch directness"" that he attributed to a strict Calvinistic culture. ""I regret that my message was misunderstood and I regret that it emerged as north against south. I don't experience a north-south division, also not in the Eurogroup. ""The sentence referring to alcohol and women was about myself. I said that I cannot expect that if I spend my money in a wrong way that I can then ask for financial help."" The Dutch finance minister played a key role in negotiating a deal on the Greek debt crisis and, although part of a centre-left party himself, he was accused by some on the left of promoting austerity policies. His Labour party was the main casualty in last week's general election in the Netherlands, losing 29 of its 38 seats. He will lose his job as Dutch finance minister when a coalition government is agreed in the coming weeks. His four-year term as Eurogroup head is due to finish in January 2018.","The head of eurozone finance ministers , Jeroen Dijsselbloem , is facing calls to resign over comments seen as an attack on indebted southern European @placeholder .",states,show,values,interests,citizens,0
"The Welsh Affairs Committee session, in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, focused on the impact on jobs and industry, aid for poorer areas, the arts and the Welsh language of Brexit. Chairman David Davies said the sessions would help the MPs decide how to scrutinise the Brexit negotiations. ""It is essential to understand the unique impact on Wales,"" he said. In June's referendum a majority of voters in Wales - 52.5% - chose to leave the EU while 47.5% wanted to remain. Blaenau Gwent saw the strongest vote for Brexit in Wales, with 62% support for Leave. The meeting attracted people from across south Wales, not just the immediate area. About 35 people sat down with MPs to talk about their concerns and consider the implications of leaving the European Union. Freedom of movement was the biggest concern, with strengthening devolution coming second. The committee hopes to put views gathered across Wales to the UK government. John Selway, from Caerphilly, who voted to remain, said he felt disappointed with the result and had attended the meeting to find out what was happening with Brexit. The 60-year-old said the referendum had divided his family, and had caused a few heated arguments. ""I feel I have lost some things and people haven't gained anything,"" he said. Leave campaigner Blake Stephens, 16, from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, said negativity had to stop and people needed to be reassured about leaving the EU. He said he thought people had honest concerns about immigration and they needed to be listened to. Monday's event at Ebbw Vale Institute was staged as part of UK Parliament Week, which seeks to raise awareness of and involvement in democracy. A similar event is due to take place at Aberystwyth University on 28 November. Mr Davies, the Conservative MP for Monmouth, said there were still some very difficult views about leaving the EU but there had been ""no surprises"". He admitted the representation of local people's views ""wasn't perfect"", adding the committee needed to be more inventive to get people to the meetings. ""It's difficult to reach out to that section of the population who perhaps feel they haven't been listened to for a long time, and feel if they come to a meeting like this they won't be listened to,"" he said. ""I can honestly say we are listening to everyone and we are listening to people with widely different views."" Outside the meeting, a number of people in Ebbw Vale said they were not aware of the MPs' visit. Anne Millard, 62, said she would have attended if she had known, revealing she had voted Leave to get ""our country back"". ""There's a lot of unemployment here - people can't get any work,"" she said. ""We have lost the steelworks, some big factories have closed, some local people can't get jobs in some of the factories. ""I don't want someone in Europe telling me how to live my life here."" Her daughter Julie Williams, 43, said the EU money given to the area had not been spent on the right things when services were under threat. ""Some of the things are visually appealing, but they are not necessary,"" she said. Caroline Joseph, who runs a cafe and supported remaining in the EU, said: ""Perhaps a lot of people didn't go as they felt like 'what's the point'."" Referring to an EU-funded sculpture of a dragon, she added: ""They said it's going to regenerate the town - how the hell is a dragon going to regenerate the town?""",An inquiry by MPs into what Brexit will mean for Wales has been @placeholder the first in a series of public meetings .,praised,scrapped,urged,holding,unveiled,3
"Looking from the outside at The Leadership College (TLC) with its basic structure and its small classrooms, surrounded by sandy waste ground, it is hard to imagine that this is the same school that has managed consistently to deliver top-class results since its inception seven years ago. Yet last year the school achieved a 92% pass rate in South Africa's national school-leaving examinations - far higher than the national average. That performance is in stark contrast with a finding of the report by the Johannesburg-based Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE), which suggests large proportions of South Africa's graduating students are ""functionally illiterate and innumerate"". The report found that South Africa - one of the continent's richest countries - was performing worse than many far poorer African nations in terms of educating its children. But what makes TLC's achievements even more remarkable is that it is located in Manenberg, a run-down area just 15 minutes from Cape Town's international airport, often in the news for the crime, gang violence and drug dealing that stalks its streets. ""The community itself and the township keep you down if you get into its lifestyle,"" says former head girl Thania Abrahams, who achieved five distinctions in last year's Matric exams. ""For me to rise above that, I had to focus on my goals."" Thania's results were good enough to get her enrolled for a degree in medicine at Stellenbosch University, one of the best tertiary institutions in South Africa. She wasn't the only TLC student to win a place at Stellenbosch: Imraan Ismail got six distinctions and a place to study chartered accounting. Of the 71 distinctions produced in Manenberg last year, all but three came from TLC. TLC is a private school, run by the 2 Oceans Education Foundation, which counts Yusuf Islam, the singer previously known as Cat Stevens, among its patrons. Thanks to its government and charitable funding, the area's academically gifted students can attend for free - even down to school excursions. Many of TLC's learners come from tough backgrounds, broken homes together with a variety of socio-economic problems that plague the townships in which they live. In 2015, no child accepted to TLC came from a household which earned more than 8,000 rand ($640; £510) a month. About 90% of the students are Muslim but the founders stress it is open to all races and denominations. But TLC does not just offer the opportunity to excel in the classroom. The school serves as an oasis of tranquillity as it provides a safe space for the pupils who have free access there to psychologists and occupational therapists - something these children would never otherwise have access to. The health professionals play a key role in helping the learners overcome their often traumatic circumstances which include witnessing murders, armed robberies, abusive relationships or simply a lack of affection at home. Ashra Norton, TLC director: ""What I am particularly pleased about is that learners are now thinking about doing courses in areas like actuarial science, health, physical sciences and engineering."" However, one of the main reasons behind the success of TLC is the strict discipline coupled with the hard work put in by both pupils and teachers. The school's navy and light blue uniform, which is given free of charge to each of the pupils, plays an important part in creating an identity and sense of togetherness in a community where gangs have filled that vacuum for many youngsters. Meanwhile, the school organizes extra lessons in maths and science, as well as in any other subjects that pupils find problematic, over weekends and sometimes during the week for those in their final year. ""Although I'm very happy, I'll feel even better if all the other schools in Manenberg could get similar results,"" says TLC director Ashra Norton, who grew up in the area. The school is doing its part here as well, however: TLC hosts joint tuition programmes with other schools in the area in an effort to help pupils keep up with their work. The 2 Oceans Education Foundation is involved with six other schools in Cape Town, most of them in the poorer townships. Its most recent involvement is with Langa High School, located in Cape Town's oldest black township, which had a Matric pass rate of just 34% last year. ""There is no quick fix solution,"" Mrs Norton says. ""It requires hard work and determination to survive against extraordinary odds. We have a very strong intervention programme in the school starting from their first year in grade eight."" The programme includes providing daily sandwiches or meals that are sometimes provided by sponsors to nearly half of the 625 pupils who come from economically deprived homes. The school has managed to raise the bar for pupils who are now aiming much higher than their parents could ever have dreamed of. ""What I am particularly pleased about is that learners are now thinking about doing courses in areas like actuarial science, health and physical sciences and engineering which was unheard of a few years ago,"" says Mrs Norton.","Manenberg in Cape Town , South Africa , is infamous for its high crime rate , but it is now being associated with academic @placeholder , writes the BBC 's Mo Allie .",expectations,violence,shows,corruption,excellence,4
"Boyce is the Premiership's top marksman with 23 goals - the first player from a bottom-six club to head the scoring charts in the post-split era. The striker's last-day brace ensured County beat Kilmarnock to finish the season in seventh place. ""We could have been bang in it, or in those play-offs,"" Dodds said. ""We had a spell where we hit bottom of the league as well. I'm not taking that away from him, but it's definitely a team game, it's not all about Liam Boyce."" In 34 appearances, the 26-year-old Northern Ireland international has netted 47.9% of County's 48 league goals, out-scoring his nearest rival, Scott Sinclair of champions Celtic, by two. When removed from the corresponding matches, those 23 goals also equate to 26 league points, more than half County's eventual total of 46 in a congested bottom six. ""Boycey is one of those boys, he's meticulous with everything he does,"" Dodds said. ""He went to Werder Bremen, he was eating McDonald's and things like that. ""It was probably because he wasn't educated. He was coming from Irish football. ""He got his chance to go to Werder Bremen because he's a natural goalscorer. He's sitting in the hotel, probably eating junk food, but when somebody educates him, he's that meticulous that he's just grasped it. ""He's come back, bought into the sports science side of things. He's dropped so much weight, he's strengthened, he's sharper, he's just gathered everything the last two-and-a-half years. ""It's turned him into a top player. But that's come from him. We can only say, its available to you. ""In two-and-a-half years, you wouldn't believe the way his body has changed. It's helped him become an all-round better player. ""When you're a striker, a natural finisher, that's always in you, but the strength and conditioning side of it has just made him a special player."" Former Scotland striker Dodds believes Boyce ""could have scored a lot more"" and says his goals have been ""priceless"" to the club. ""It's worth a lot of money just to stay up and a lot of money just to finish best of the rest,"" he said. ""To finish seventh instead of finishing 10th is huge for us in terms of places and prize money. ""I'm not putting it all down to him. It's togetherness that makes Ross County, but he has certainly stood out over the last couple of seasons."" County boss Jim McIntyre has unsurprisingly expressed his desire to keep Boyce, who has a year left on his current contract, in Dingwall. Dodds is adamant it will take a sizeable offer to prise the striker away from the Highlands. ""We would like to keep him for longer, but we can't deny somebody his chance,"" Dodds added. ""It's going to take a lot of money to get him - I'm close with Boycey, we speak about a lot of things, but he's never mentioned leaving the club. I wouldn't deny him his chance, but it's going to take plenty of pennies to get a player of Liam Boyce's calibre. ""[He's] not just a goalscorer, I mean an all-round player. He's so intelligent, he's got unbelievable ability for a big lad, he's a top player."" When asked if County would look for a transfer fee in excess of £1m, Dodds replied: ""It would be up there. Especially for a goalscorer. ""Strikers are special, people pay more money for you. ""I'm not going to say how much because you don't know what team comes in - there might be Scottish clubs, there might be English clubs. ""We'll be speaking to him and we'll see what he's thinking. ""We've never said to him, come on, what are you thinking? We left him, because he was in such a good vein of form, plus we wanted to get the relegation trouble out the way first.""",Assistant manager Billy Dodds admits Ross County may have become embroiled in a battle for top - flight @placeholder without top scorer Liam Boyce .,signing,side,points,survival,title,3
"North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust was one of 11 put into special measures in 2013 after a review found higher-than-expected mortality rates. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said while improvements were being made, serious staffing issues remained. The trust said it was working hard to tackle ""recognised"" issues. Inspectors visited the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven and the midwifery-led birthing service at Penrith Community Hospital between 31 March and 2 April. They found that, despite efforts to recruit more senior doctors, the trust was still short of 50 consultants, with the majority of vacant posts at the West Cumberland Hospital. The report concluded: ""Despite efforts by the trust to improve the numbers of medical consultants employed, there were numerous vacant consultant posts. ""Vacancies were covered by locum doctors in some areas, however the high vacancy rate was having an adverse effect on the timeliness of treatment for patients and meant support for junior doctors was not robust or effective."" There was also a shortage of nurses, especially on medical wards, inspectors found. The report described some elements of medical care at the West Cumberland Hospital as ""inadequate"", adding that improvements were required in several other areas. While inspectors acknowledged that overall progress had been made since a similar visit in 2014, they said the trust would remain in special measures. Trust chief executive Ann Farrar said: ""The CQC has clearly recognised the deep-rooted problems faced by our hospitals, in particular the ongoing fragility of services at West Cumberland, which require NHS system-wide solutions and a clear clinical strategy to be agreed with urgency."" NHS England added: ""We are working with partners to address the challenges highlighted in the CQC report to ensure patients receive safe, high-quality hospital services.""","A health trust , @placeholder over its high death rates , is struggling to recruit enough senior medical staff , a watchdog has said .",criticised,suffering,letting,plunged,presiding,0
"A bus carrying four players to the course took two hours to complete a trip that normally takes 15-20 minutes. Being more than five minutes late usually results in disqualification but officials decided to waive the rule because of ""exceptional circumstances"". World number one Inbee Park carded six birdies for a three-stroke lead. Park was on an earlier bus that, though delayed, arrived well before her tee time. The 27-year-old shot a five-under 67 to move to 10 under, with fellow South Korean Sei Young Kim in second. Halfway leader Minjee Lee slipped seven shots off the pace after a three-over 75. American Angela Stanford, who finished the day nine shots off the lead after a four-over 76, was one of the players on the delayed bus. She tweeted: ""Learning that GPS is a wonderful thing. Hour in a bus and still no sign of the golf course. ""Two hours and 15 min later we arrive. Thank you LPGA for letting us play!""",The final three groups at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico were allowed to delay their third rounds by nearly an hour because of @placeholder .,traffic,results,interest,injury,night,0
"A former member of the Libor compilation team at Thomson Reuters says it regularly warned senior BBA staff about the problem. Its reports regularly highlighted the implausible rate submissions of several banks involved in the Libor process. The BBA denied these had amounted to warnings of wrong-doing. Each day the six-man team at Thomson Reuters would calculate the various Libor interest rates, based on estimates submitted by staff from a panel of banks about how much it would cost them to borrow in the financial markets, in various currencies and for various durations. The highest and lowest estimates were discarded as outliers and the average rate derived from the remaining ones, and then published. The warning reports from the Libor team were passed to John Ewan, the BBA's head of Libor, who now works for Thomson Reuters. The former member of the rate-compilation team - who wishes to remain anonymous - told the BBC that Mr Ewan was given weekly reports, detailing the oddities. ""He [John Ewan] was the watch-keeper at the time,"" the rate-compiler said, ""we would tell him of our concerns."" The rate-compiler explained the process. ""At the end of the week we would send details of these oddities in a report to  the BBA,"" the person said. Every couple of months a bigger report would be sent to the BBA saying 'there is something wrong with some of these banks', the rate-compiler added. Mr Ewan told the Libor team he would look into the repeated evidence of unusual Libor submissions, which were coming increasingly frequently from several banks. ""I wouldn't say he took no action,"" the Libor rate-compiler assured the BBC. ""He took notice of them. Action was taken. But the BBA was not very effectual at the time."" The team where the rate-compiler worked was contracted by the BBA to calculate the Libor rates each day on its behalf. At the height of the financial crisis in 2008 the authorities in the UK and the USA became worried that the daily Libor-setting process was becoming meaningless. The banks were having great trouble borrowing money in the wholesale financial markets. Last month the rate-fixing scandal became public when Barclays was fined £290m by the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic. This was party due to toning down its Libor submissions in 2007 and 2008 to avoid giving the impression it was in financial stress and having to pay higher rates than its rivals to borrow funds. The member of the Libor compilation team told the BBC that, for six months in 2008, it became very obvious that something fishy was going on. ""Definitely, it was a daily thing,"" the former employee said. ""For three-month Libor, one bank might say 4.5%, Barclays 5%, UBS 3.5%."" ""We would ask 'what's all that about?' and phone them up,"" the compiler said. The process of checking the implausible rates even threatened to disrupt the normal publication of the Libor data, with the normal 11:00am deadline slipping to as late as midday. ""You would see the publication times getting later and later,"" the rate-setter said. ""We would get calls from half eleven onwards [from bank dealing rooms] asking 'where are the rates?"" The former employee told the BBC that the suspicious rate submissions to the Thomson Reuters team became particularly obvious after the collapse of the US investment bank Bear Stearns in March 2008, which had to be bailed out by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ""After that all bets were off,"" the Libor rate-compiler said. ""You'd be making calls for half an hour each day, saying 'you've quoted this, other banks are higher, do you want to revise your rate?"" ""A number of banks were quoting wildly differently,"" the person pointed out. The rate-compiler said it became obvious to quite a few money-market traders that something was fishy, because the team would receive calls from traders querying the quotes submitted by other banks. ""It is not possible to hide what was happening,"" the compiler said. ""I think all the guys who were contributing on a daily basis and involved in the trades would have known. ""They would have been saying: 'He's quoting nonsense, why should I be quoting a real rate if he is quoting nonsense?"" the rate-compiler explained. And how many people in bank dealing rooms would have been aware of all this? ""Across 16 banks you've got to be looking at 150 to 160 people [maybe] half that were involved in day to day trading and querying [other banks quoted rates],"" the person said. So far all the public scrutiny has been of Barclays, which became the first bank to confess its role and be punished. With international investigations continuing into other banks, the former Libor rate-compiler confirmed that the authorities are on the right track. The person told the BBC that about four or five banks seemed to be consistently submitting suspicious rate estimates. ""Other individual banks were at it. A good half were playing the game [by the rules], the others were doing false submissions,"" the compiler said. ""[A foreign bank] was the one we were most concerned about. ""Barclays is the first of many - where are the rest of them?"" the person asked. What amazes the former rate-compiler most is that it has taken four years for the problem to be exposed. ""I don't understand why it has taken so long,"" the person said. ""If they sat half a dozen ex-traders together in a room, I am sure within 20-30 minutes you would get all the dark secrets."" In response to these points, the BBA acknowledged that it had been told of some misgivings by the Libor team. ""As part of the process Thomson Reuters queries rates which fall outside normal tolerances,"" said a BBA spokeswoman. ""In 2008 reports from Thomson Reuters were submitted to the independent foreign exchange and money market (FX&MM) committee which was then able to request further information from submitting banks. ""The BBA was at no time aware that rates were being manipulated but, as a result of the overall picture [of which Thomson Reuters' reports played a part] of a widely dysfunctional market - the BBA launched its 2008 consultation,"" she added. During 2008, the BBA initiated a review of the Libor-setting process, a review which it is now known was initially regarded by the Bank of England as wholly inadequate. From the perspective of someone working in the Libor team, the rate-compiler said the BBA did not seem on the ball. ""I think the BBA was totally ineffectual,"" the former employee said. ""It should have known what was happening and should have been jumping up and down. ""No-one was standing up and saying 'this is wrong',"" the rate-compiler added.",The British Bankers ' Association was given weekly warnings in 2008 that the process of setting the Libor interest rates was being @placeholder .,distorted,buried,stopped,marked,delayed,0
"Operating profits at its residential energy supply business fell 11% last year to £553m, from £623m in 2015. The company said this was partly due to a 3% fall in customer accounts, largely in the first half of the year. The owner of British Gas, Centrica, reported a 4% rise in operating profit for 2016 to £1.52bn. ""The big message is that it's very competitive out there actually,"" said Iain Conn, chief executive of Centrica. ""We have seen increased metering and other costs coming through. We lost customers in the first half of last year. We are seeing pressure on our margins because there are 50 suppliers out there."" British Gas is one of the UK's ""big six"" energy suppliers, and there has been concern that these six companies are too dominant, limiting competition. Earlier this month, the energy regulator Ofgem announced a cap on charges for pre-payment customers, and the government is due to publish a Green Paper in April which may further restrict the prices energy companies can charge customers. But Mr Conn said: ""I don't think this market is in any need of further government intervention. ""Standard tariffs are actually good value and our standard tariff is demonstrably good value and I think the government are understanding that this market is starting to change."" However, the government is concerned that two-thirds of all energy consumers remain on standard tariffs, which are the most expensive deals. British Gas recently announced it was freezing its tariffs until August, against a backdrop of rising prices at some other large energy companies. Big six rivals Npower, EDF and Scottish Power have all announced price rises in 2017. Npower was told by the regulator Ofgem to ""justify"" its 15% rise in electricity prices to its customers. Mr Conn suggested some smaller independent suppliers were not making a profit. ""Some of them appear to be offering energy at a loss to them, and I'm not sure how sustainable that is. But some of the more vocal independent suppliers - actually their standard variable tariffs are above ours."" British Gas has also announced a loyalty scheme to reward existing customers. They will be able to get deals on TV packages, boiler maintenance, and reduced energy bills.",British Gas has said the competitive @placeholder of the UK 's energy market was one of the reasons why its profits fell last year .,names,value,nature,position,advantage,2
"Dubbed Mrs Christmas, Betty Ann Jones, 72, has installed 12,000 twinkling fairy lights, a mountain of fake snow and 5,000 toys and tiny ornaments. She has been decorating her home in Pontardawe, near Swansea, for eight years and last year raised £12,000 for charity. Her husband has also built a nativity scene. ""I just love Christmas - and I want everyone else to love it as much as I do. It is well worth a fiver of anyone's money,"" she said. ""I have thousands of beautiful intricately designed ornaments from all over the world but most have come from German Christmas markets. ""I went every year for 16 years and always came home with arms full of unique decorations.""",A grandmother has turned her home into a winter @placeholder for Christmas and is charging people £ 5 to visit .,wonderland,centre,garden,window,unit,0
"He'll be the first Brit ever to do a spacewalk, but other astronauts from around the world have been spacewalking since 1965. In honour of the occasion, we've compiled some of our favourite snaps from the history of spacewalking. 1965: On the 18th March, Russian astronaut, Alexey Leonov, made history with mankind's first ever spacewalk. Nobody knew how the human body would react to being in space, and the equipment was nothing like the high-tech gear worn now. But Leonov made it back successfully after 12 minutes floating in space. 1965: Soon after Russia had made history with the first ever spacewalk, American astronaut, Ed White, became the first American to do the same. It was the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965. 1973: Owen Garriott, became the first astronaut to spacewalk in order to fix a problem with the spacecraft, when he worked outside Skylab, America's first space station. 1984: Bruce McCandless, floated above earth on the first ever 'untethered' spacewalk, that means he drifted over 106 metres away from the spacecraft, without being attached by a rope. He used a special jet-propelled backpack to get back to the safety of the spacecraft. 1993: Kathy Thornton worked to replace an old damaged solar panel on the Hubble Space Telescope. 2001: Someone on the ISS snapped this picture of, Scott Parazynski, as he peaked through the window of the Destiny Laboratory during his spacewalk. 2013: Sunita Williams, made repairs to the International Space Station and fixed a camera to its robotic arm. Sunita holds the record for the woman with most spacewalks, having spent 50 hours and 40 minutes outside the spacecraft during seven spacewalks. 2015: It wasn't just here on Earth that selfies were all the rage - Commander, Scott Kelly, took this extreme selfie during a spacewalk on 28th October. 2016: ........ Good luck Tim!","On Friday January 15 , Tim Peake will be @placeholder outside the International Space Station and taking a walk in space , 250 miles above earth .",built,added,stepping,walking,taken,2
"Back row forward Clive Ross, lock Alan O'Connor and scrum-half Dave Shanahan have signed deals which will keep them at Ulster until the summer of 2019. Hooker John Andrew has agreed terms to remain with the province until 2020. ""As we continue to build our playing roster it is critical that we have depth across these key positions,"" said Ulster Director of Rugby Les Kiss. Andrew, 23, has captained the Ulster A side through their most successful campaign in recent years, having graduated from the Ulster Academy into the senior ranks. The Ballymena man made his senior debut for Ulster in December 2015 against Connacht and has gone on to collect 26 caps for the province. Ross, 27, has made 52 appearances for Ulster over the past three seasons and has featured in 23 of the side's 26 games to date this campaign. The Cork native picked up his first try for the Irish province in the win over Connacht in December. O'Connor made the switch to the Ulster Academy from Leinster in 2012, and has played 37 times to date for his adopted province. Twenty-three-year-old Shanahan's 13 appearances so far include starts in January's Champions Cup pool games against Exeter and Bordeaux. ""All four of the guys have a great work ethic and a genuine eagerness to develop their game, so I have no doubt that they will continue to be key components of our squad for the years ahead,"" added Kiss.",Ulster have been @placeholder by the news that four members of their squad have agreed contract extensions .,boosted,named,backed,approved,revealed,0
"The vehicle, a cross between a small milk float and a large tuk-tuk, spent two weeks completing autonomous loops of a two-mile (3km) semi-pedestrianised area of Greenwich, south-east London. The electric CargoPod has a top speed of 25mph and can do 18 miles on a single battery charge. It can carry only eight crates and is not big enough to deliver large orders. ""We have chosen it to work specifically in this type of environment, where bigger vehicles are not allowed,"" said Graeme Smith, chief executive of robotics company Oxbotica, which developed the vehicle. ""This is not about trying to solve all the delivery problems in the world. ""Over the next two or three years, you should expect to see a lot more vehicles on the road from car companies, from delivery companies, from shuttle companies. ""We're very much at the start of this innovation."" The CargoPod trial was part of a broader £8m research project into driverless technology, using the Greenwich area as a test location. For the purposes of the test, the van's speed was capped at 5mph and two people were inside for safety reasons. It was fitted with three Lidar (laser) sensors and a stereo camera as well as standard sensors used in modern vehicles. In order to complete the delivery, when it came to a stop one of the numbered crate doors would light up to indicate where the goods were stored. The door would then open when the recipient pressed a button. During the demonstration, journalists were not allowed inside the pod while it was on the move. ""The low speed, the lack of traffic, the safety drivers are all part of the test process we need to go through to make sure that driverless tech is really safe to use in the public,"" said Simon Tong, principal research scientist at the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL). Online retailer Ocado has always sought to automate as many processes as possible within its business. The company has previously demonstrated robots assembling delivery orders in its warehouses and is currently developing a humanoid maintenance engineer called Second Hands. Chief technology officer Paul Clarke said driverless delivery was ""a natural stage in the progression of our transport technologies"". ""This technology is on its way. I think we need to adapt to it in the same way we've adapted to cars and other kinds of vehicles driving around us,"" he told the BBC. However, he said, the company's 12,000 human employees were still important. ""We have two human touch points to our service - one is on the doorstep and the other is in our call centres, and they are both very precious to us,"" he said. ""We see this as being about choice. Some customers will want their full order brought to their kitchen table, others may want click and collect, others may be happy to come to the kerbside to interact with a driverless delivery truck."" Aidan Bocci, chief executive of Commercial Advantage, a consumer goods consultancy, said such services were ""absolutely the future"". ""More and more people are living in big cities and this satisfies a massive craving for convenience,"" he said. ""There will be demand, but the question is whether economically you can make it work."" While Amazon is developing a drone delivery service, Ocado had no immediate plans to follow suit, Mr Clarke said. ""Drone technology is very interesting  to us, and we use it quite a lot in our business for surveying and looking around our large premises,"" he said. ""But do I think 35kg [77lb] of groceries are going to be flying over your head any time soon? No, I don't."" While politicians say the UK is at the forefront of driverless car technology - in its election manifesto the Conservative Party said the country was ""leading the world in preparing for autonomous vehicles"" - they are not nearly as visible as they are in places such as California, where 27 car manufacturers are testing vehicles. ""Given the regulatory environment, it's a lot easier to test driverless vehicles in the UK,"" said Prof David Bailey, from Aston Business School. ""Small firms are doing a lot of research, Jaguar Land Rover is doing a lot of research. But the big expenditure is taking place elsewhere.""",Ocado has shown off a prototype driverless van designed to deliver goods at short @placeholder .,level,distances,ground,unit,rates,1
"Another day, another rape, another round of outrage. Yet, more than 630 rapes later this year so far, nothing much will really change. Doctors treating the woman, a paramedic student, who is on life support at a crowded city hospital are aghast. They say this is the ""most grievous"" case of rape they have handled. ""This was much more than rape… They were extensive injuries… It appears that a blunt object had been used repeatedly [by the attackers],"" says one. Sunday night's incident in India's ""rape capital"" was gut-wrenchingly brutal even for a city which has become numb to crimes against women. The mistreatment and abuse of women is a particular problem in Delhi and northern India. A stiflingly patriarchal social mindset, a brazen culture of political power, a general disdain for law, a largely insensitive police force and a rising population of rootless, lawless migrants are only some of the reasons. There must be many others. So if you are a woman - unless you are very rich and privileged - you are more likely to face indignity and humiliation here. In this part of the world where I live and work, people blame rapes on pornography, the influence of foreign cultures and women themselves - for wearing Western dresses and going out with male friends. When another incident happens, the indignant headlines, excited TV talk shows, candlelight vigils, promises by authorities and platitudes by politicians return with familiar gusto. But nothing really changes for Delhi's women. ""It is as if there is a silent conspiracy in this city,"" a woman friend says, ""to keep the women scared."" They say they are not safe anywhere, at home, on the streets, on a bus, on the new metro system, nowhere really. A friend, who works in the media, tells me about life as a Delhi woman. It is infinitely worse for those who are less privileged than her. When she was living as a paying guest in an upscale south Delhi neighbourhood a few years ago, a drunk male cook barged into her room at night, yanked at her bed sheet and tried to attack her. The man fled after she screamed. ""My landlord, a perfectly respectable person on the outside, came up and said I must have been dreaming, that there could not have been an attack. His mother had heard my screams so she believed me. I left the place, and they said they had sacked the cook. When I checked later, I found that the cook had returned and was working,"" she remembers. After she joined salsa classes a few years later, her friends arrived to pick her up for a competition. They were waiting for a taxi when a policeman walked up and challenged the boys. ""You are hanging out with a loose woman,"" the policeman grunted. ""Give me your parents' numbers, we will tell them."" When her friends protested, the policeman went up to the landlady and extracted a bribe. ""They told her they would file cases against her saying she had rented her place to a suspicious woman without a proper rent agreement."" One evening, a few years ago, she was walking home from work when a young man sidled up to her and said something very obscene. She asked him to shut up and walked on. The man ran after her, stopped her in her tracks, and told her bluntly: ""I will pour acid on your face next time you say that."" Then he vanished. ""I came home and began crying. I was scared of going out for the next few days,"" she says. It doesn't help much if a woman is accompanied by a male friend or spouse. Another woman friend travelling with a male friend in an auto-rickshaw was waylaid by a group of young boys in a posh neighbourhood a few years ago. They blocked the auto-rickshaw at a crossing, pointed a gun at her friend and shouted abuse at him. ""They wanted to instigate him, they said he was going out with a prostitute. My friend kept quiet and apologised. They let us go after robbing us,"" she remembers. When my journalist friend travels alone in an auto-rickshaw on the city's mean streets, she keeps having real and imaginary conversations on the phone with friends and relatives. She doesn't take an auto-rickshaw if she finds the driver overfriendly. If she takes a taxi, she texts the registration number to a friend. She keeps phone numbers for  a handful of ""reliable"" drivers whom she can count on to take her home. Delhi's disdain for its women possibly mirrors the city itself, says a cynical friend and long-time resident. A city largely, he says, made up of a deracinated generation of migrants, rich and poor, living in their own worlds in gated neighbourhoods and grimy slums which all make genuine collective action difficult. An ineffective police and a broken justice system make matters worse.","A 23 - year - old woman is savagely attacked and raped by a group of men inside a moving bus and her male friend is beaten up senselessly . Battered and bleeding profusely , they are @placeholder near an expressway in Delhi , where they are found by a passer - by .",dumped,stopped,injured,robbed,drowning,0
"Labour comfortably won the by-election in Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough by a majority of 9,590, leaving Bobby Smith of Give Me Back Elmo - who stood out in the line-up of candidates dressed as Elmo from Sesame Street - in last place with 58 votes. However, there were council seats where double or even single digit margins made all the difference, such as for Labour's Duncan Enright in Witney. He conceded defeat at first, revealing he had ""lost by 70 votes or so"". Within an hour he tweeted: ""Miscount in Witney East, result now in, I win by 70!"" In Cannock Chase, Labour held on to an outright majority by one seat, thanks to winning the Brereton and Ravenhill ward by three votes. Meanwhile in Thurrock, UKIP gained six seats but missed out on being the largest party by just one vote in the final ward declared. The Conservatives' own voters - and a mix-up - nearly cost them a seat in Wolverhampton. An ""error"" saw the party field two candidates in the same ward. The winning Conservative candidate, Udey Singh, received 1,045 votes and was elected to the Tettenhall Regis seat, with Labour's Chester Morrison in second on 970. The other Conservative, outgoing councillor Mark Evans, polled 415 votes. If he had taken just 65 more from his fellow Tory it would have lost the party one of the two seats they were defending. Sunderland has a reputation for being first to declare election results. In 2015 the Houghton and Sunderland South constituency was the first result announced for the sixth general election running. In the 2016 local elections, it was the city council's Pallion ward, won by Labour's Amy Wilson, that came first. Her victory was revealed about 63 minutes after polls closed. The first ballot box arrived at Sunderland's count at about 22:05 BST, with the last results declared at 00:09. 50,312 ballot papers counted 124 minutes between first ballot box arriving and last result declaration 405.7 votes counted per minute 6.8 votes counted per second 19 councillors elected Polling stations were open for 15 hours for voting on Thursday. That meant a lot of stationery, not to mention refreshments for the people staffing them, as Coventry City Council revealed. 2,190 cups of tea drunk in Coventry 1,500 boxes of paperclips It takes hundreds of staff in many areas to be able to run the elections and count the ballots, as BBC WM's Rob Mayor revealed from Walsall. 2,743 seats 124 councils 58 Labour-controlled before vote 39 Conservative-run 4 Liberal Democrat 23 No overall control","From the fastest council count in England to the thousands of cups of tea it takes to get through , here is how election @placeholder unfolded in numbers .",night,data,ground,group,interest,0
"Peter Lenkov said Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park were offered ""unprecedented raises"" but ""chose to move on"". ""It's heartbreaking, but this happens on long-running shows,"" he wrote in a statement posted on Twitter. Kim and Park have appeared in the show since its inception in 2010. According to Variety, the pair had been seeking the same salaries as stars Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan but were being offered between 10 and 15 percent less. In his statement, Lenkov said CBS - the studio behind the reboot of the classic 1970s TV show - had been ""extremely generous and proactive in their renegotiation talks"". ""In the end, everyone tried their best to keep the ohana"" - a Hawaiian word for family - ""intact"". Lenkov went on to stress that Hawaii Five-0 ""has and will continue to showcase one of the most diverse casts on TV"". Production begins next week on the eighth season of the show, which will have its premiere on CBS on 29 September. Kim confirmed his departure earlier this week on Facebook, saying he had ""made the difficult choice not to continue"" after failing to reach an agreement with CBS. ""The path to equality is rarely easy,"" he wrote in a lengthy post in which he encouraged his fans ""to look beyond the disappointment of this moment to the bigger picture"". Park has yet to comment on leaving her role as officer Kono Kalakaua. ""Daniel and Grace have been important and valued members of Hawaii Five-0 for seven seasons,"" said CBS earlier this week. ""We did not want to lose them and tried very hard to keep them with offers for large and significant salary increases."" Jack Lord and James McArthur played Detective Steve McGarrett and colleague Danny Williams in the original TV series, which ran from 1968 to 1980. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",The producer of US TV show Hawaii Five - 0 has spoken out about the departure of two cast members following reports the pair asked to be @placeholder the same as their white co-stars .,hailed,named,described,offered,paid,4
"Another term for it is ""relationship addiction"". People form and persist with relationships ""that are one-sided, emotionally destructive and/or abusive"". Sitting in the atrium of Trump Tower on Tuesday, as Donald Trump harangued the press - well, you know where I'm going. For all the abuse, for all the belittlement, we as reporters show no sign of ending our relationship addiction with Donald Trump. Much of our cravenness is easily explained. It stems from the record-breaking television ratings that Trump has generated and, just as important these days, millions of online hits. A human headline, he more than satisfies the viral requirements of our new media age. At a time when media organisations are struggling still to monetise online news content, and to make the painful shift from print to digital, along comes the ultimate clickbait candidate, a layer of golden eggs. Understandably, hard-pressed news executives are echoing the words reportedly uttered by Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, at her Brooklyn headquarters: ""I've got to get me some Trump."" It has meant that the default setting for cable news channels here is a split screen showing an empty Trump lectern on one side with pundits on the other, bloviating endlessly as they await the billionaire's arrival. As for a Trump news conference, it is rather like broadcasting one of those freeway police chases filmed from a helicopter: car crash television that you want to stay with until the end - though perhaps the more accurate analogy is of security camera footage that captures a street fighter who has no qualms about reaching for the broken bottle. It is unedifying, gruesome even, but also utterly compelling. It explains why none of the news channels cut away from the Trump news conference yesterday, even as it degenerated into a one-way slanging match. Or why none of the reporters present, myself included, simply got up and walked out. Yet the media's Trump relationship addiction is not explained by commercial imperatives alone. Political reporters have a tendency of writing a campaign narrative that comports with the race they ideally want to cover. It's not an invented narrative, as such - we can't simply make up storylines. But I would suggest it's a slanted narrative, which, rather than betraying a liberal bias, reveals a ""great story"" bias. In a reworking of the old newsroom adage ""if it bleeds, it leads"", candidates tend to be assessed on the basis of their journalistic entertainment value. My sense, while covering the 2000 campaign for instance, was that reporters handicapped the race in favour of George W. Bush because the possibility of a son following his father into the White House, with all the oedipal complexity that went with it, was a better story than seeing Al Gore become president. That would have felt like a Clinton third term, absent its charismatic leading man. This tendency was even more pronounced in 2008, during the Democratic primary campaign, when journalists were more excited by the prospect of the first African-American president than the first female president, Hillary Clinton. Everyone wanted to compose their own first draft of that dramatic historical moment. Trump is also a beneficiary of great story bias. Never before has there been a candidate with such journalistic entertainment value. His unexpected emergence meant that we ditched our initial narrative of Campaign 2016, which we had set up a dynastic showdown between a Bush and a Clinton, in favour of a better storyline. The media didn't create Donald Trump, the basis of the ever more fashionable ""Frankenstein's monster"" critique of the press. But we have been more willing enablers than we would care to admit. So while there has been no shortage of critical coverage of Donald Trump, there has been a reluctance to go for his jugular. This tendency is most noticeable in broadcast interviews. Jake Tapper's interview with Donald Trump, in which the billionaire failed to disavow support from white supremacists and said he needed to do more research on the Ku Klux Klan before condemning it, offered a case in point. Tapper, who has done some excellent interviews during this campaign, was tough and probing but did not go in for the kill. An obvious follow-up question would have been ""do you really need to do more research on the KKK to condemn it"" but he did not ask it. As for the interview between Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump, it provides the textbook case study of campaign co-dependency. Kelly rocked Trump in a televised debate last year, with a brilliant and legitimate line of questioning about his misogyny. But when she sat down with him at Trump Tower for a prime time special, and talked about his hate-Tweeting, she described how she imagined him doing it wearing ""a crushed velvet smoking jacket, chaise lounge, slippers"". Jon Sopel, my colleague and compatriot, wrote a terrific blog on the Trump press conference, observing: ""The remarkable thing that has struck me as a British correspondent living in Washington, and who is used to a robust relationship between journalist and politician, is how Trump has been treated with kid gloves."" I could not agree more. The preference in American broadcast journalism is to end interviews on amicable terms. There is not the adversarial tradition of British interviewing, nor a US equivalent of John Humphrys or Jeremy Paxman. Bikers reveal sickly choice for US voters Trump: Illegals treated better than vets What's also striking is that we as journalists do not have the power of old. Trump and other candidates have used Twitter especially, not only to bypass the media but also to become part of the new media themselves. The billionaire's Twitter account has more followers - 8.5 million - than the Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, the Huffington Post or Buzzfeed. He has become a self-publisher, and provided an unfiltered commentary of his own. Trump's strength is a measure of the mainstream media's weakness. That imbalance was evident at the news conference in Trump Tower. He possessed the only microphone. He could drown out every reporter. He controlled who asked the questions, and probably half of the journalists present did not get the chance to do so. Ever the shrewd media operator, he also knew that the cable news channels would stay with it until the end. For another illustration of our comparative powerlessness, just witness the number of stories that have been written about Trump, which in an ordinary election cycle would have been disqualifying - his misogyny, his racism, his incitement of supporters to punch protesters in the face, his cussing, his refusal to release his tax returns, his constant flip-flopping on policy, Trump University, etc, etc. Much has been written about how Trump defies the usual laws of political gravity, but one of the reasons is that modern-day media organisations lack orbital pull. The Trump obsession has affected our coverage in subtler ways, too. Had it not been for our fixation with the Republican contest, we would have paid more attention to Bernie Sanders' extraordinary success. Yet we've downplayed that storyline. This is partly for valid analytical reasons. Early on, it became clear that Hillary Clinton was winning the all-important ""black vote"" - this race has proven again that it is all but impossible to win the Democratic nomination without it - and had the support of so many super-delegates that her lead became insurmountable. But I wonder whether another explanation for short-changing Sanders goes to how Trump has impacted our professional pride. We can cope with being proven spectacularly wrong in one race, the Republican contest, but not two. Absent Trump, journalists would have felt the Bern far more strongly, because it would have been the best storyline on offer. Again, it demonstrates how we as journalists tend to talk up certain narratives and talk down others, of how we are prone to great story bias. Confessedly, I hated being at that Trump news conference, most of which I spent with my arm thrust skyward trying unsuccessfully to ask a question. But I also admit to being enthralled by the most extraordinary election campaign I have ever covered. Like every other journalist, I dare say I'll be back the next time he summons us to Trump Tower. Perhaps, if he continues to be so personally abusive, journalists should stage a walkout. That said, I suspect we'll remain planted in our seats, sufferers of co-dependency, fellow Trump relationship addicts.","Co - dependency is commonly defined as "" an emotional and behavioural @placeholder that affects an individual 's ability to have a healthy , mutually satisfying relationship "" .",commentary,situation,condition,experience,shows,2
"Governor Rick Scott issued the executive order in four counties after samples taken from the St Lucie River tested positive for toxins. The green slime appeared when polluted water was discharged from Lake Okeechobee to prevent flooding. The toxic algae can be harmful to plants, animals and humans. The US Army Corps of Engineers began discharging freshwater from the lake more than two weeks ago. Lake Okeechobee, the largest freshwater body in the state, is contaminated with runoff that includes human waste, animal feed and fertiliser. The process sent millions of gallons of the nutrient-heavy water into the river and triggered the growth of blue-green algae on some of Florida's southern rivers and beaches. Samples taken in the river near Palm City and Stuart tested positive for hazardous levels of toxins. If ingested, the toxic algae could cause nausea and vomiting and rash or hay fever if touched or inhaled. Beaches along Florida's Treasure Coast were closed last week in response to the expansion of the green sludge. Though many of the beaches have reopened, officials recommend that people stay away from the hazardous waterways. Governor Scott blamed the polluted waters on water storage limitations and the federal government. ""Florida's waterways, wildlife and families have been severely impacted by the inaction and negligence of the federal government not making the needed repairs to the Herbert Hoover Dike and Florida can no longer afford to wait,"" Scott said. Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Friday called on President Barack Obama to declare a federal state of emergency and to release funds to help businesses affected by the algae. Mr Rubio and Senator Bill Nelson have also urged the US Army Corps of Engineers to stop the flow of water between the river and Lake Okeechobee. The Army Corps began reducing the flow on Friday, focusing on the Caloosahatchee Estuary and the St Lucie Estuary.","Swathes of thick , algae blooms have @placeholder miles of Florida coastline , prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency .",gathered,declared,released,plagued,revealed,3
"The Walney wind farm, off Barrow, already has 102 turbines and generates enough power for about 320,000 homes. Danish-based developer Dong Energy wants to add up to 120 additional turbines and provide power for about 500,000 more homes. If the Planning Inspectorate approves the project, work on the new turbines could be completed by 2017. When it was officially opened in February 2012, Walney was the largest offshore wind farm in the world. It was built in two phases with the second set of 51 turbines completed in six months - a record for the wind farm sector. If approved, the extended wind farm will cover an area of about 57 sq miles (149 sq km).",Plans which could see a wind farm off the Cumbrian coast more than double in size are to be @placeholder .,completed,reopened,submitted,scrapped,seen,2
"Manx organisation Beach Buddies tackled the problem at Fleshwick Bay following concerns from the public. Coordinator Bill Dale said one of the coves near the beach was found to be ""jammed with plastic"". He added: ""Amongst the find were a number of plastic bands which became infamous when a basking shark was photographed with one around its nose."" About 30 people joined forces with the Beach Buddies volunteers on Saturday morning. ""The area was in serious need of a clear-up,"" said Mr Dale. ""It was the first trip to Fleshwick for a team of our volunteers this year and it was a really big job"".","A stream "" @placeholder by plastic "" on the southern coast of the Isle of Man has been cleaned up by charity volunteers .",targeted,treasure,lost,unearthed,choked,4
"North Wales Police will withdraw reinforcements helping Lancashire Constabulary police the protest at Cuadrilla's site near Preston. The force said it was due to ""high demands"" in north Wales this summer. Praising the decision, North Wales PCC Arfon Jones tweeted: ""Let them pay for their own security."" The force has had one sergeant and six constables at the site, where demonstrations have been taking place since January. There have been between 50 and 80 officers at the site every day, including officers from Cumbria, Merseyside and north Wales. Mr Jones, who is opposed to fracking, said: ""I was told that North Wales Police were sending officers to Preston to assist Lancashire Constabulary in policing the fracking protest against Cuadrilla. ""The force were aware I was unhappy but it was an operational decision over which I had no control as mutual aid between forces is provided as part of national agreement on strategic policing requirements. ""I was told last week that there would be no further deployments after I made representations around capacity issues in north Wales and questioned how could we justify sending officers to Lancashire  in those circumstances."" North Wales Police Deputy Chief Constable Gareth Pritchard said: ""We regularly support colleagues across the region as and when we can and when asked. ""As a force we also benefit from their support and it's only right, when able, we reciprocate."" But he added that ""due to high demands in north Wales over the holiday season"" the force was unable to offer further support. ""Colleagues in Lancashire are aware of and understand this decision,"" he said. Lancashire Constabulary declined to comment.",A decision to stop sending North Wales officers to an anti-fracking protest has been @placeholder by the force 's police and crime commissioner .,welcomed,approved,released,challenged,unveiled,0
"The BBC presenter suffered a stroke in January 2013 and took a nine-month break from his Sunday morning show. Writing in The Spectator earlier this week, Marr revealed his plans to travel to Florida for a new treatment. Marr said the procedure involved having the drug injected into the spinal fluid while hanging upside down. ""I can't run or cycle or swim, and I walk very unsteadily and slowly,"" he wrote. ""I drop things and take ages to get dressed. It's a bit of a sod. So I'm inclined to give new treatments a go."" He added: ""I'm not complaining too much. I can work, drink, see friends, paint, listen to music and irritate my children like before. I'm a lucky fellow."" But, Marr said, he is still semi-paralysed on the left side of his body four years after the stroke, which has encouraged him to try the new treatment. He explained: ""There is a new drug called etanercept, an anti-inflammatory developed for arthritis but now being used in a clinic north of Miami to treat stroke survivors."" He wrote the column before travelling to Florida and has now received treatment. On Wednesday, he told The Telegraph it was still too early to see whether the treatment had had the desired effect, and said results would become clearer over time. This is an unproven treatment for disability after stroke, which has not yet been tested in clinical trials. This means there is no national or international evidence that it is safe and that it works. Etanercept is normally used to treat arthritis. In the case of strokes, the drug has to be injected into the patient's spine when they are upside down so that it gets to the central nervous system as quickly as possible. Small improvements in movement have been observed in a small number of cases after treatment. But earlier this year, the American Academy of Neurology said the evidence was ""insufficient"" to say whether there was any benefit from the treatment. And it said doctors should advise patients that the treatment could have serious side effects. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",Andrew Marr has said he is not yet sure whether a new treatment he received in Florida has @placeholder to alleviate some of the effects of his stroke .,attributed,failed,taken,returned,helped,4
"Security officers found a device at Manchester Airport on 30 January. Nadeem Muhammad, 43, who denies possession of explosives with intent, boarded another flight on 5 February, Manchester Crown Court heard. Jonathan Sandiford, prosecuting, said Mr Muhammad intended to detonate a device on a Ryanair flight to Bergarmo. Mr Muhammad, who was born in Pakistan but had an Italian passport, was questioned by police on 30 January but not arrested. A swab of the device found revealed no traces of explosives. Mr Sandiford said: ""At that stage nobody had realised this was a real device and the defendant was allowed to go on his way."" He told the jury it was only on 8 February when the device was examined again that the bomb squad was called. The explosive was sent to expert Lorna Philp, who found it was a ""crude but potentially viable improvised explosive device"". The device was found to contain nitroglycerine, the trial heard. Mr Muhammad, of Tinline Street, Bury, was arrested when he returned to the UK on 12 February. Mr Sandiford said if wires protruding from either end of the tube had been connected to each other the device would have detonated and experts said it would have been ""unreliable"" and ""unpredictable"". ""The only reason he would have for trying to get that explosive device on to the aeroplane was that he intended to detonate it within the confines of the Boeing 737 aircraft."" He said the prosecution could not be sure if terrorism, suicide or ""another purpose altogether"" was the motive. The device was found within the zip lining of a small green suitcase which Mr Muhammad was carrying, the court heard. When initially questioned he said it may have been placed into his bag by his wife or another person. Mr Muhammad denies possession of explosives with intent to endanger life or property and an alternative charge of possession of explosives under suspicious circumstances. The trial continues.","A man accused of trying to smuggle a pipe bomb on to a plane @placeholder again days later as police did not think the device was viable , a court has heard .",flew,breached,ditch,hold,disappeared,0
"Baroness Campbell, 56, is the former boss of UK Sport. During her time at UK Sport from 2003-2013, she oversaw a rise in the number of British medals won at the Olympics. Kelly Simmons, the FA's director of participation and development, called Baroness Campbell ""one of the most influential people in British sport"". ""I'm really excited about helping shape the future vision and strategy for girls and women's football,"" said Baroness Campbell. ""Great strides have already been made both in terms of grassroots participation and at the elite level and I'm really looking forward to building on the work already done."" She will focus her work on increasing grassroots participation and getting further success for England's elite women's teams. England reached the semi-finals of the 2015 World Cup, eventually finishing third with a 1-0 win over Germany. Campbell, who will start her new role in March, is also chair of the Youth Sport Trust and was awarded a CBE for her services to sport in 2003.","The Football Association says Baroness Sue Campbell 's appointment as its new @placeholder of women 's football is a "" massive statement "" .",generation,adaptation,signing,absence,head,4
"Paul Moffat, 30, of Hopeman, Moray, began abusing the girl when she was just four years old. At the High Court in Glasgow, he wept after he was found guilty of raping and sexually abusing the child between January 2014 and May 2015. Moffat was remanded in custody by judge Lord Matthews and placed on the sex offenders register. He will be sentenced next month. Moffat denied the charges against him and claimed the girl was lying. The court was told that searches of his computer and phone revealed searches had been made for ""pre-teen sex"", ""Lolita"" and ""pre-teen underwear model"". Moffat denied that he had made the searches and claimed anyone could have accessed his phone or computer because they had no passwords on them. The court heard that the offence came to light after the girl told staff at her nursery that Moffat had abused her. Prosecutor Sheena Fraser said: ""The police were called in and the girl then revealed more information to her mother about what Moffat had done."" The young girl did not have to give evidence in court. The jury was shown a video interview of the girl's interview by police and social workers. They were then shown another recorded video of her being asked questions by defence advocate David Moggach. Judge Lord Matthews told Moffat: ""The jury has convicted you of a very serious offence."" After the verdict, he told the jury: ""It was a relatively short case, but a particularly unpleasant one.""",A man who raped a child was @placeholder after his young victim told nursery staff she had been abused .,missing,released,executed,caught,hospitalized,3
"Guildford County Court had granted the order to developer Orchid Runnymede last week. On Tuesday, a High Court judge ordered a transcript of the county court hearing and said any action to evict the Surrey squatters had to wait. Orchid Runnymede said it still believed it would win. The squatters said the decision gave them more time. In a statement, the developers said the county court order was clear on the legitimate rights of private landowners to possession of their land against trespassers. They said the order was ""effective forthwith"", the squatters were refused leave to appeal and steps were taken to begin an eviction - but the squatters went to the Court of Appeal. Orchid Runnymede said the transcript would be paid for by public funds. The company added: ""This is a delaying tactic by the squatters, which is costing taxpayers money."" Ieuan Davies, a member of the Runnymede Eco-Village community on Coopers Hill, said the High Court action gave community members more time to look for other places to live - especially those with children. He said the group had been arguing its rights to be in the woodland under Magna Carta and the Forest Charter, and he said these were the ""rights of the dispossessed"" famously referred to in Rudyard Kipling's poem The Reeds of Runnymede. Mr Davies said he agreed with Orchid Runnymede that the squatters were unlikely to succeed but he said he welcomed the reprieve. ""The law is weighed much heavier in favour of the landowner,"" he added. The county court hearing was held as thousands of people including the Queen gathered at Runnymede to celebrate 800 years of Magna Carta.",A possession order against squatters on land near the Magna Carta memorial is being @placeholder by a High Court judge .,criticised,launched,backed,reviewed,challenged,3
"The 82-year-old, who ruled from 1983 until a US invasion ousted him in 1989, needs to have a benign tumour removed. His lawyer Ezra Angel successfully argued Noriega should be allowed to prepare and recuperate at home, instead of a hospital or in prison. Noriega was jailed in Panama for murder, corruption and embezzlement. He was convicted of the crimes carried out during his rule in absentia and extradited from France to Panama to serve his sentence in 2011. The former strong man and one-time US ally has also served time in the US and France on drug and money laundering charges. Noriega will return to prison once he has recovered, and will also spend time at home before undergoing the surgery. His doctor Eduardo Reyes said it was important he was not taken directly from prison to the operating theatre because ""it is not a simple case"".","Jailed former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega has been granted house arrest so he can undergo @placeholder surgery , his lawyer has said .",brain,cosmetic,health,drugs,prison,0
"Cherie Madge, 42, was found guilty of posting drugs to her internet ""soul mate"" Shaun Bowmer in Penrith, Cumbria. She continued over a period of months despite pleas from Mr Bowmer's partner to stop. He died in February 2016. Jailing her for four-and-a-half years at Carlisle Crown Court, Judge Peter Davies said Mr Bowmer ""may be alive today"" but for Madge. The court heard the pair met in an online chat room ""perhaps as along as 10 years ago"". Though they spoke to each other over the internet and phone, they never physically met. Jurors were told Madge sent Mr Bowmer patient-returned drugs she sourced from her place of work between August 2015 and February 2016. High levels of tramadol and morphine were found in Mr Bowmer's system after his death. Madge, of Harlow in Essex, admitted sending Mr Bowmer tramadol, but denied illegally supplying him with four other controlled drugs - morphine-based Class A Zomorph and Sevredol and Class C diazepam and lorazepam. Jurors found her guilty of all offences. Judge Davies said Mr Bowmer's death was a ""seriously aggravating feature"" of Madge's offending. He told her: ""It is not an exaggeration to say but for you, he may be alive today.""","A pharmacy assistant who illegally sent medication to an addict who then died from "" drugs @placeholder "" has been jailed .",abuse,toxicity,prison,addiction,disorder,1
"There is great concern across Europe about the collapse of bee populations. Neonicotinoid chemicals in pesticides are believed to harm bees and the European Commission says they should be restricted to crops not attractive to bees and other pollinators. But many farmers and crop experts argue that there is insufficient data. Fifteen countries voted in favour of a ban - not enough to form a qualified majority. According to EU rules the Commission will now have the option to impose a two-year restriction on neonicotinoids - and the UK cannot opt out. The Commission says it wants the moratorium to begin no later than 1 December this year. The UK did not support a ban - it argues that the science behind the proposal is inconclusive. It was among eight countries that voted against, while four abstained. Wild species such as honey bees are said by researchers to be responsible for pollinating around one-third of the world's crop production. There is heated debate about what has triggered the widespread decline in bee populations. Besides chemicals, many experts point to the parasitic varroa mite, viruses that attack bees and neglect of hives. After Monday's vote the EU Health Commissioner, Tonio Borg, said ""the Commission will go ahead with its text in the coming weeks"". ""I pledge to do my utmost to ensure that our bees, which are so vital to our ecosystem and contribute over 22bn euros (£18.5bn; $29bn) annually to European agriculture, are protected."" Greenpeace EU agriculture policy director Marco Contiero said Monday's vote ""makes it crystal clear that there is overwhelming scientific, political and public support for a ban. ""Those countries opposing a ban have failed."" An EU vote last month was inconclusive, so the Commission proposal went to an appeals committee on Monday - and again the countries were split on the issue. Some restrictions are already in place for neonicotinoids in France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. The three neonicotinoids are clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam. A report published by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) in January concluded that the pesticides posed a ""high acute risk"" to pollinators, including honeybees. However, it added that in some cases it was ""unable to finalise the assessments due to shortcomings in the available data"". There was ferocious lobbying both for and against in the run-up to Monday's vote, the BBC's Chris Morris reports from Brussels. Nearly three million signatures were collected in support of a ban. Protesters against neonicotinoids rallied in Westminster on Friday. Campaign organiser Andrew Pendleton of the environmental group Friends of the Earth said ""leading retailers have already taken action by removing these pesticides from their shelves and supply chains - the UK government must act too"". Chemical companies and pesticide manufacturers have been lobbying just as hard - they argue that the science is inconclusive, and that a ban would harm food production. The UK government seems to agree with the industry lobby. It objected to the proposed ban in its current form. The chief scientific adviser, Sir Mark Walport, has said restrictions on the use of pesticides should not be introduced lightly, and the idea of a ban should be dropped. The EU moratorium will not apply to crops non-attractive to bees, or to winter cereals. It will prohibit the sale and use of seeds treated with neonicotinoid pesticides. And there will be a ban on the sale of neonicotinoids to amateur growers. There have been a number of studies showing that the chemicals, made by Bayer and Syngenta, do have negative impacts on bees. One study suggested that neonicotinoids affected the abilities of hives to produce queen bees. More recent research indicated that the pesticides damaged their brains. But the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) argues that these studies were mainly conducted in the laboratory and do not accurately reflect field conditions.","The European Commission will restrict the use of pesticides linked to bee deaths by researchers , despite a split among EU @placeholder on the issue .",powers,control,sex,states,members,3
"Murders, corporate manslaughter and deaths abroad are among inquiries that will be handled by the Brunel Major Crime Collaboration from 1 December. Major crime staff will still be based in Gloucestershire but will have to travel on some inquiries. The force said the most serious crimes needed the most resources and said it would mean savings would be made. Thirty major crime staff, including detectives and CCTV analysts, will join 113 from Avon and Somerset and 34 in Wiltshire. The latter two forces have been working together on murder inquiries since 2010. Assistant Chief Constable Richard Berry said ""in this time of austerity"" further collaboration represented a ""smarter way of working"". Det Supt Andy Bevan, lead officer for the Brunel collaboration, said it made sense to investigate murders regionally as ""locally, as Gloucestershire has seen in recent years, murder rates can fluctuate quite dramatically but regionally they are traditionally flat"". There have been 17 murders in Gloucestershire since November 2012. Gloucestershire Police Federation secretary Graham Riley said the investigations took a lot of resources from a small force and collaboration could help. But he said it did not always result in savings and meant officers would have to travel across three force areas, which could mean longer hours. Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Avon and Somerset already share teams in road policing, firearms and police dog units. The news came as, in a surprise announcement in the Spending Review, Chancellor George Osborne said there would be ""no cuts in the police budget at all"". Gloucestershire had been planning for 20% cuts and was expecting to lose 177 officers and 53 police staff by March 2018.",Gloucestershire Constabulary 's murder investigation team will merge with two @placeholder forces from next week .,packaging,growing,demand,conduct,neighbouring,4
"Deserae Turner, 14, was discovered clinging to life in a dry canal last Friday by friends of her family after a six-hour search of Smithfield. Two 16-year-old boys were arrested over the weekend and have been charged with attempted murder. One of the teens allegedly told police the crime was motivated by ""greed"". Police say the two teens - who have not been identified - lured Deserae to a dry canal bed near the Sky View High School in Smithfield under the guise of selling her a knife. But instead, the boys had planned to kill her and take her money, iPod and mobile phone, according to the charges. The ninth grader is in a medically induced coma at a Salt Lake City area hospital, and is ""in the fight of her life"", a family spokesman said. In a prepared statement the family wrote: ""We know that our Father in Heaven is watching over her, and all of us have been touched by her. ""We know that He hears and answers prayers, and we can see His hand at work as Deserae continues to make progress."" Deserae was found early Friday morning by friends who had tracked her location using her mobile phone information, which authorities provided. The case has unnerved the small community. ""This has kind of shaken up our citizens,"" Chief of Police Travis Allen told reporters after the charges were revealed. ""We haven't seen things like this before."" He said many of the girl's possessions were found with the two boys. Police were advised that the original plan was to murder [the girl] using knives,"" Cache County Attorney James Swink wrote in charging documents. But one of the teens also carried a .22-calibre revolver as a ""secondary weapon,"" if the original plan failed, Mr Swink charged. After the boys were arrested, the alleged gunman told them where to find the gun, and the shell casing - which the other boy had taken to keep ""as a memento"". He also penned a letter to the girl's family in which he wrote that he is ""so, so, so sorry"", authorities say. The police later found the shell ""displayed"" on the boy's window sill. Investigators also say they found shoe prints in the soil that match the Nike and Vans sneakers worn by the two boys. ""I haven't seen anything like this case in the 18 years I've worked in Cache County,"" the prosecutor said at Tuesday's news conference.","A teenage girl found shot in the back of the head in the US state of Utah was @placeholder for her valuables and $ 55 ( £44 ) in cash , authorities say .",targeted,searched,seized,forgiven,exchanged,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device Boos were aimed at Bruce, who had his family in attendance on Saturday. He said: ""It's not easy when your family are here and you're abused like that. But it's the game we're in and I've never walked away from a challenge. ""I won't be beaten with it. If others see fit to make a change then so be it but I'm ready for the challenge ahead."" Defeat to Wigan was Sunderland's sixth of the season and they sit just two points above the relegation zone. Full table A mistake from defender Wes Brown allowed Wigan's Jamie McArthur time to steal the ball and set up Franco di Santo for a late winner after Jordi Gomez's penalty had cancelled out Sebastian Larsson's early opener. Despite yet another loss and their precarious position, Bruce is confident his side can turn it around. He added: ""I'm still convinced, no matter what people are chanting or saying, that the dressing room and the players we've got here are a good group and they will turn it around. ""I've got to try to get some belief back among the supporters - it isn't easy at the moment but I've never ducked away from anything or a challenge. ""Of course I can understand their [the supporters'] frustrations. It's happened too many times here and, when you're not winning matches in front of your faithful, of course I'm going to get the brunt of it. Media playback is not supported on this device ""But I'm convinced we're on the right track and nobody is going to change my mind on that."" After Larsson had given Sunderland an eighth-minute lead, the home side had a number of chances to extend their advantage but Kieran Richardson and Brown missed opportunities. Richardson also put a late header wide and Bruce bemoaned his side's wastefulness in front of goal. ""I keep coming out and saying the same sort of thing. We should have won the match comfortably. We've not taken the chances we've had to kill the game off. ""We can't make that same mistake because you don't get gluttons of chances in the Premier League. It has happened too often that we've created the chances but we've not taken them. ""It's not just one or two, it's a host and, when you don't take them, there's an edginess and a panic. ""Then we go a bit gung-ho and we've made a mistake. We've come away scratching our heads and a really frustrating afternoon has turned into a nightmare afternoon.""",Sunderland boss Steve Bruce insists he wo n't @placeholder despite abuse from fans after a home defeat against Wigan .,return,messages,play,win,quit,4
"""My granddad was such a big inspiration that everyone has a little piece of him. The music touched people but it goes deeper than music - it's the message,"" says Nico, who signed for the Washington Redskins as a free agent in May. ""I watch his interviews just to see how he used to be. Everything he did was about positivity and coming together as one. Whenever I get the time, I sit down and think about what I can be doing to help others, but also how my thinking can help me throughout my day and my life."" He quotes the lyric ""none but ourselves can free our minds"", from Redemption Song. ""It's about being a free spirit, accepting that you are in control of how you perceive everything,"" he added. ""That's something I stick with every day. ""You may think something bad but you always have to have that inner voice that keeps tells you - keep going through and you will keep getting better."" Nico's father Rohan was an American footballer too. He played at the University of Miami with Ray Lewis, Warren Sapp and Dwayne Johnson - the Hollywood actor also known as The Rock in WWE. But despite his famous name, Nico's has been a story of hard work. He had to try out for a place with the Redskins - he wasn't picked in the draft, where the elite of the college game are signed up. In the end his dad Rohan was considered too short to make it as a professional. A linebacker is typically much taller than his 5ft 8in. Nico is the same height and plays the same position, at least four or five inches below those who might already be established in a coach's thoughts. This is where the Marley spirit comes in. Nico has carried it from Haiti, where he was born, to Jamaica, which he left when he was four, and from his high school side in Weston, Florida, to the Green Wave college football team of Tulane University in Louisiana. His dad is a busy man. He runs a coffee business with plantations in Jamaica and divides his time between his six other children, including five he had with the singer Lauryn Hill. But like his own father, he made time to get the kids running, competing, staying fit. ""They say the hardest thing is to coach your kids, so my dad did a brilliant job. He never forced it on me but when I got to the eighth grade, that was when I told him yo, this is what I want to do. ""He started to train me, give me advice, tell me things I knew I had to listen to because he had been through it all before. From the 11th grade, that's when it really started cooking for me. ""I ended up getting an offer from Tulane, and at the beginning I didn't even know if I was going to play, but I worked, worked hard, started the first game, and I went from there."" Marley became an integral player at Tulane. He started every one of 48 games over his four years while studying for a business degree. By the time he left, he had become the team's all-time leader in tackles. Smashing into people, hunting the ball down through a melee of powerful bodies - that is his speciality. Helping out with the coffee business can wait. ""Every part of being a linebacker is about your instincts. Finding the ball, making the tackle, covering the defence. I love it."" But with such strong ties to family, how do those closest to him feel about his physical role? Because there is a shadow hanging over American football. It's do to with chronic traumatic encephalopathy - a degenerative brain disease. CTE is associated with memory loss, depression and progressive dementia. It was only last year that an NFL executive publicly recognised evidence that links the impacts suffered by players with such terrible health problems later in life. Perhaps unsurprisingly for a young man who has just found his place on the fringes of the elite, it wasn't really something he wanted to talk about. ""The NFL does a great job, they are finding a way of helmets getting better, teaching us ways to protect ourselves and if you do everything correctly you will be all right. You can get hurt doing anything. I wouldn't say it's dangerous - they do everything to keep us protected."" There is still room for two more Marley family members to enter this story: Nico's mother Geraldine - ""my greatest support system, my rock"" - and his sister Eden, who runs a charitable foundation in Haiti. ""I have a lot of ideas about doing something similar one day but it's about getting them down on paper,"" Nico says. ""My sister doesn't know this but I look up to her so much, she is so selfless. I want to be like her because everything she does is to help others, it's beautiful. ""For now, I'm taking everything day by day, learning the play book, practising hard, listening to the coaches, bringing everything I can to this team."" And then he had to go. Manchester United were about to play in the Europa League final, and I don't think it was a coincidence. He's obviously a fan of that other football. Again, just like his granddad. This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser","Reggae music legend Bob Marley died in 1981 . His grandson Nico , who has just broken into the NFL , is 22 and never met his grandfather . His rise is a story of hard work , family bonds and shared memories of a global icon , not just the @placeholder on the wall .",focus,odds,ground,stars,poster,4
"The research by university specialists found that communities want stronger neighbourhood bonds with the police. The work, known as Rural Connect, was paid for by the force's police and crime commissioner Christopher Salmon. Mr Salmon also said a decision to withdraw the Bobby Van scheme - a free home security service - was a mistake. ""Local policing is vital. I want officers to know and be known in their communities. That way we build trust and confidence,"" he said. ""This research is an important reminder of some old lessons. Local people say the small stuff matters. ""We must tackle the crime and antisocial behaviour that doesn't make headlines but does make their lives miserable. ""Senior officers must encourage the effort needed to build grassroots relationships. They must empower local officers to make judgements."" Mr Salmon will also look at better mobility for local officers, including cycles and mopeds, along with launching a campaign encouraging officers and the public to speak more often.Â","Local police officers with local @placeholder are crucial to helping residents of rural Wales feel safe , a survey for Dyfed - Powys Police shows .",changes,team,knowledge,staff,lead,2
"The 27-year-old had a clash of heads with fellow Englishman Mike Cooper. He lay prone on the pitch for several minutes, while receiving medical care, before being taken off on a stretcher. Burgess later wrote: ""Initial scan results are positive.... feeling extremely lucky tonight."" He was playing his third game since returning to rugby league after a nine-month stint in union with Bath and England. He lowered his head as he ran with the ball but immediately fell to the ground after the collision. The Rabbitohs were trailing 8-6 in the NRL fixture at the time and no more points were scored following the incident in the 58th minute.","England forward Sam Burgess says he was "" extremely lucky "" to avoid a serious neck injury after being @placeholder off and taken to hospital during South Sydney 's loss to St George Illawarra on Sunday .",switched,knocked,sent,forced,carried,4
"Under the plans, a senior police officer would have to authorise police bail for longer than 28 days and a magistrate for more than three months. There is currently no time limit and no need for police to seek approval to get bail extended before charge. The plan to reform the law on police bail would have to be taken forward in the next Parliament, Mrs May said. She said it was ""simply not acceptable"" that pre-charge bail could last ""months or years"". The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said the bail system needed to be ""efficient and proportionate"". Earlier this month, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini backed a limit on the use of police bail. He told MPs how officers and prosecutors ""sat"" on him for 12 months before telling him he would not be charged in relation to an allegation of historical sex abuse. It had previously been proposed that police would have to gain approval from a court for a bail extension after 28 days. But the Home Office said under the new plans extensions could be approved by a superintendent at 28 days, although this would only be allowed up to a total of three months in exceptional circumstances. Mrs May said alongside the measures would be a ""new presumption"" to release without bail at all, which she said would drive down the ""inappropriate use"" of pre-charge bail and ensure that suspects were released under bail conditions ""only where it is necessary or proportionate"". Other plans for the production of guidance and the collection of data on the use of police bail did not need legislation and could be progressed straight away, she said. An Acpo spokesman said: ""Pre-charge bail is an essential tool in securing justice. The police have been clear that we want and need a bail system that is efficient and proportionate, both for victims and those suspected of committing crimes. ""Each and every investigation follows a different path. Less than 2% of arrests result in a person being on bail for more than six months. However, in an increasingly globalised and digitised world some cases are complex... and cannot be rushed.""",Time limits on police bail in England and Wales have been @placeholder by Home Secretary Theresa May .,announced,targeted,cleared,released,extended,0
"Binali Yildirim told reporters in Ankara that more than 3,000 of those sacked were members of the military. They are suspected of links to exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, he said. Announcing a visit to Turkey by US Vice-President Joe Biden, he again urged the US to extradite Mr Gulen. The cleric, a former ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, from where he runs a worldwide network of charities and schools. He denies any knowledge of or involvement in Turkey's first coup attempt since 1997, which left 270 people dead. ""The main element improving our relations with the US is the extradition of Gulen, where there is no room for negotiation,"" Mr Yildirim was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. ""Whether or not the anti-Americanism in Turkey will continue is also dependant on this."" According to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, the Turkish prime minister added that the US stance on extradition was ""getting better"". He said that since the coup attempt on 15-16 July, 76,597 civil servants had been suspended over links to the coup attempt, and 4,897 had been dismissed from their posts, bringing the total number to 81,974. The coup plotters, he said, had their own ""communication network of 50,000 people"". Mr Yildirim said Mr Biden would visit Turkey on 24 August. In another development, reported by Reuters, the Istanbul chief prosecutor's office sent a letter to the US authorities asking for the detention of Mr Gulen.","Some 5,000 @placeholder employees have been sacked and 77,000 suspended in the purge since last month 's failed coup in Turkey , the prime minister says .",federal,state,communications,group,company,1
"Jose Salvador Alvarenga thanked the president of the Marshall Islands, where he was found late last month, before boarding a flight to Hawaii. He says he left Mexico for a trip in a fibre-glass boat in December 2012 with a friend who died on board. He apparently survived the 8,000 km (5,000-mile) ordeal by catching fish, birds and turtles with his bare hands. For fluids, he claimed to have drunk urine, rainwater and the blood of birds. He was rescued on 30 January by people living on the island of Ebon Atoll. ""Thank you for everything the people of the Marshall Islands have done for me during my stay,"" Mr Alvarenga, 37, said through an interpreter before leaving for Hawaii. He will make his way from there to El Salvador to be reunited with his relatives. President Christopher Loeak presented him with a woven garland, the AFP news agency reports. The fisherman had been due to leave last Friday, but doctors said he needed more rest. The family of his younger friend say they want to speak to Mr Alvarenga to find out more about how their son died, and what happened to his body. Known as Ezequiel, he is believed to have starved after being unable to eat raw birds and fish. Three Mexican fishermen were rescued off the Marshall Islands in August 2006 after what they said was about nine months drifting across the Pacific Ocean. They survived on rain water, seabirds and fish. Castaways from Kiribati, to the south, frequently find land in the Marshall Islands after ordeals of weeks or months at sea in small boats.",A castaway from El Salvador who claims he spent more than a year adrift in the Pacific has @placeholder his journey home .,defended,engulfed,begun,described,survived,2
"""So they did the place a favour when they made it a night race. The monochrome outside the track turns black but floodlights and spotlit fountains give the Sakhir circuit a dimension it never had when the race was held in the bleaching mid-afternoon sun. ""Outside the track, the political troubles that led to the cancellation of the 2011 event have been subdued, but the undercurrent of tension remains. ""The circuit itself? Point-and-squirt, long straights, with few demanding corners, situated near an oil field and an airbase a half-hour drive or so south of the capital Manama on this tiny, troubled Gulf island. ""The paddock, festooned in palm trees draped in fairy lights, feels like an oasis. The fantasy works on television. But the realities outside are still there. Out of sight, but not out of mind."" Andrew Benson, Chief F1 writer",""" Yellow . Yellow ground . Yellow buildings . Yellow sky . That 's Bahrain . Everything coloured by sand @placeholder by desert winds .",stunned,helped,blown,marked,captured,2
"But the parents of Kate Stanton-Davies, who died in 2009, said the review did not go far enough and they feel ""no lessons have been learnt"". Their baby was born with anaemia at Ludlow Community Hospital and transferred to Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital before she died. The midwife-led unit is 40 miles away from the nearest paediatric consultant. Rhiannon Stanton-Davies, who had been screened for problems with her pregnancy, said her daughter should have survived. At the inquest into their daughter's death, a pathologist told the court a haemorrhage had occurred ""at least a week"" before the birth leaving the baby extremely anaemic but this could have been corrected by a blood transfusion in the womb. ""The screening clearly wasn't good enough. and I should never have been allocated to the community hospital to give birth,"" Mrs Stanton-Davies said. ""And lessons haven't been learned - the maternity report found that a quarter of mothers giving birth in midwife-led units are still being transferred to a proper hospital anyway."" She added: ""If something goes wrong you have to wait for an ambulance to transfer you. ""In that time you or your baby could die. ""The coroner concluded that if she had been born in a consultant-led unit, Kate could have had a healthy birth and lived."" Following the report, the Clinical Commissioning Group made several recommendations, including providing midwives with greater neonatal resuscitation skills. However, it concluded ""maternity services are safe and of a good standard in Shropshire"". Richard Stanton-Davies said: ""If something happens [during labour] it can be catastrophic. ""Midwife-led units should at least be next to a consultant-led unit, not 40 miles away. ""If paediatric expertise was just down the corridor more babies would be alive now,"" he added.","A report into Shropshire 's maternity care , commissioned following the death of a baby , said @placeholder are "" safe "" .",freedom,lessons,practices,organisations,accident,2
"The initiative began last month in an attempt to crack down on drink-driving. Previously, police needed reasonable suspicion before asking a driver to take a breath test. The new legislation was passed through the Assembly in April, but this is the first time it has been used by police. Police said the introduction of random breath tests meant the number of people detected in the first three weeks of their winter drink-driving campaign had risen by 1.7%, compared to the same period in 2015. During last year's Christmas crackdown, almost 400 people were caught drink-driving by police in Northern Ireland. Ch Insp Diane Pennington said police had authorised 667 checkpoints since their winter drink-driving campaign launched on 24 November. ""Thankfully it would appear that many people are heeding our warnings as there has been a noticeable decline in the second and third weeks, despite the increase in preliminary tests being carried out,"" she said. She added, however, that it was ""difficult"" to accept the figures as a success. ""We shouldn't be detecting anyone drink driving,"" she said. ""It's disappointing that despite our warnings, there are still people who completely disregard the safety of themselves and others by continuing this shameful and incredibly dangerous practice."" Police said they will also be working with officers from the Gardai (Irish police) traffic department in border counties over the Christmas period. ""If everyone slowed down, did not drive after drinking or taking drugs, wore a seatbelt and drove with greater care and attention then, together, we can reduce this preventable carnage on our roads,"" added Ch Insp Pennington.","More than 200 motorists have been caught drink - driving in Northern Ireland since the PSNI @placeholder random breath tests at vehicle checkpoints , police have said .",conducted,trade,body,surrounding,introduced,4
"Jardim, in charge since 2014, described the last three years at the club as ""exceptional"". Monaco finished eight points ahead of nearest rivals Paris St-Germain to be crowned champions of France in 2016-17. ""I feel part of AS Monaco and the principality,"" said Portuguese Jardim, the former Olympiakos boss. Monaco also beat Tottenham and Manchester City on their way to reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League during 2016-17, before losing to Juventus 4-1 on aggregate in the semi-finals. Monaco vice-president Vadim Vasilyev said Jardim had received offers to coach elsewhere. ""He is one of the best coaches in European football and despite other offers he has chosen to continue the adventure at Monaco, which demonstrates our ambition,"" added Vasilyev.",Monaco boss Leonardo Jardim has been @placeholder for steering the club to their first Ligue 1 title for 17 years with a new contract until 2020 .,suspended,praised,granted,rewarded,added,3
"The 150-year-old tree on Vernon Road, Dore, called ""Vernon"" by supporters, is causing disruption to the pavement. Ann Anderson, a campaigner, said: ""To consider taking down a tree of this importance and bio-diversity is absolute madness"". The felling is part of city-wide maintenance project Streets Ahead to upgrade roads, pavements and bridges. Councillor Bryan Lodge said: ""The Streets Ahead tree programme affects less than 1% of the city's tree stock."" Campaigners gathered round the threatened tree which has been adorned with ribbons and slogans to sing protest songs. Protests as other trees were felled in the city have resulted in a number of arrests. Mr Lodge said: "" A tree is only replaced if it's dead, dying, diseased, dangerous, damaging footpaths or roads or discriminatory by obstructing pavements. ""Every tree is replaced on a one for one basis and during the initial five-year investment period of the contract, around 6,000 trees will be replaced out of the city's 4,000,000 trees."" Ms Anderson, of Save Dore, Totley and Bradway Trees, said: ""We don't contest the felling of dead or diseased trees but this tree is healthy, and they're the ones we contest."" The Independent Tree Panel, set up to review the felling decisions, has said: ""It is a very fine specimen, in excellent condition, with a further 150 years life expectancy."" The panel also said there was a ""strong arboricultural case for retaining this tree"". Despite some disruption to the pavement and kerb, a solution could be found, the panel added. In 2016 a High Court judge dismissed a bid for a judicial review into the tree-felling programme.",About 100 campaigners have been @placeholder the life of an oak tree earmarked for felling in Sheffield .,raised,celebrating,monitoring,released,awarded,1
"Reports claim the boundaries may be under threat when Wasps complete their relocation to Coventry this summer. Two of Warriors' six Academy centres are based close to Wasps' matchday home at the Ricoh Arena - at Barkers Butts, in Coventry, and at Warwick School. But Ryan insists: ""There's nothing been decided on Academy boundaries."" Warriors first publicly expressed their concerns over this emotive issue in September 2014, when reports first surfaced about Wasps' initially denied move to the Midlands. That was when Warriors were a Championship club, following their one-season relegation from the Premiership - four months after their expensive Academy expansion project had commenced. Since then, Warriors have spent over £1m further investing in their six Academy centres across the Midlands - and Ryan is adamant that the club will be continuing dialogue with the ruling bodies, the Premiership and the Rugby Football Union. ""Anything that has been said is premature,"" he told BBC Hereford & Worcester. ""The club won't give up their Academy boundaries without a fight, just because somebody has taken a commercial decision to sit themselves in the Midlands. ""There seems to be a view that it can be moved around and the boundaries rejigged but it's not the view of the club. We will be fighting hard to maintain our boundaries. People just go and make decisions and expect clubs like Worcester to sit by the wayside. That's stopped. ""We've no idea where it's going to end up, but I can give everyone reassurance that we'll fight for all the work and investment we've already put in."" Apart from their own central Academy at Sixways, Worcester Warriors have six further regional academies outside the Worcestershire border, to help attract and nurture young talent into the professional rugby union ranks. Two are in Herefordshire, at the Hereford Cathedral School, Hereford and at Luctonians Rugby Club, Leominster. Two are in Warwickshire, at Barkers Butts Rugby Club and Warwick School. One is in Shropshire, at Telford College of Arts and Technology, and the other is at King Edward's School in Birmingham. Prior to Wasps' move to play their matches at the Ricoh in December 2014, Worcester housed the only professional rugby union side in the west side of the Midlands. The Premiership club's catchment areas currently extend to the boundaries with Sale in the north-west, Gloucester in the south-west and in the East Midlands with Leicester and Northampton. Meanwhile, Worcester winger Sam Smith has joined London Scottish on loan for the rest of the season, where his Warriors team-mate Alex Grove is already on loan.","Worcester will not give up the current boundaries of their Academy @placeholder "" without a fight "" , says the Premiership club 's director of rugby Dean Ryan .",side,network,status,words,counterparts,1
"Walter Powley suffered serious burns following a fall at the Western Park View home in Hinckley Road, Leicester, in May 2012. An investigation into his death found the radiator pipes and valves at the home were not covered. It also found the owner was aware that Mr Powley was at risk of falls. During a hearing at Leicester Crown Court, Western Park Leicester, based in Queen Street, Wolverhampton, pleaded guilty to safety breaches. The firm was also ordered to pay £35,000 in costs. In a statement, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said Mr Powley had been admitted to the home four days before being injured. It said he fell in his room and suffered serious burns to his right leg from the radiator pipe and valves, and superficial burns to both legs. He died in hospital eight days later. Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Dr Richenda Dixon said: ""This was a foreseeable and preventable fatal incident. ""The scalding or burning risks from the pipes were long-standing and could have caused injury to any resident,"" he said. In a statement on behalf of Mr Powley's family, his son Colin said: ""We are still devastated, not only by our dad's death, but also how it came about. ""The fact that he died from injuries sustained as a result of, in our view, inadequate care in a place where he was supposedly safer than at home, is heart-breaking.""","A care home has been fined £ 100,000 after an 85 - year - old resident died after becoming trapped between a @placeholder and a radiator .",waterfall,meat,cliff,tree,wardrobe,4
"Aspiring politicians are motivated by a range of reasons. Ditto when they depart. I well recall one erstwhile Labour cabinet minister telling me of an enduring sense of ennui at the prospect of, once more, ""pushing treacle up the hill."" Said minister opted to depart. Mr Baker leaves as he arrived - with a firm note of loyalty to the leadership and comradely support for his party's endeavours. He praises the ability of Kez Dugdale - while noting in passing that she is ""the final leader I have served"". That phrase ""final leader"", of course, summons up - without intent, I feel sure - the difficult and varied history which Labour has experienced in recent years. Richard Baker formerly worked for Help the Aged and he is now returning to the sector to work for Age Scotland. In his closure is his beginning. I wish him well, having always found him companionable, thoughtful and decidedly diligent. However, back to that point about the range of motivations which accompany political decisions. Might Mr Baker's thinking - about the fact and timing of departure - have altered somewhat if Labour seemed better placed to thrive? He spent a prolonged spell on the party's front bench, advocating and arguing. What if there appeared to be a more probable and serious prospect that he might become a minister, announcing and acting? In offering her support, Ms Dugdale notes that she is ""sad to see him leave Holyrood"".  She notes further that he will ""be a major asset"" in the Third Sector, helping ensure improved provision for elderly people in Scotland. Mr Baker is replaced at Holyrood by the next candidate on Labour's list, Dundee city councillor Lesley Brennan. She notes that these are ""challenging times"" for Scottish Labour - truthful and accurate, a good start - but declares her determination to help change that. PS:  Many, many thanks to the mighty Dundee United for securing a well-deserved cup victory on Saturday, my birthday. I was among the enthusiastic crowd cheering the lads on. It was great to see the team come over to the fans at the end. Commiserations to Airdrie. But I should note that they missed a trick - and not just on the park. At half time, hundreds of hungry Dundonians headed to the refreshment stalls only to discover that provision was somewhat under-stocked. Up went the anguished, disbelieving cry: ""They've run oot o' pehs!"" PPS:  Cannot believe that David Bowie is dead.  He was the sound track of my university years - along with Hendrix, Alex Harvey, Lou Reed and the Floyd.","And so it is an early farewell to Richard Baker , the able and amiable Labour MSP . Mr Baker had already announced that he intended to step down at the elections in May . But now he has opted to @placeholder that to take a job in the Third Sector .",drop,accelerate,announce,send,deny,1
"Wentworth, which was bought by the Beijing-based Reignwood Group in September 2014, has told existing members they must stump up £100,000. Annual fees on top of that are to rise from £8,000 to £16,000. James Wyatt said he and other members faced having to pay ""an enormous amount"". The Surrey golf club said membership pricing ""is a private club matter"". Mr Wyatt, who learned of the new fees at a meeting on Tuesday evening, told the BBC: ""You'll have to pay a debenture of £100,000 and if you want to join as a new member it'll be £125,000. ""A debenture is essentially a loan note with no interest on it, but there was some doubt as to whether we're looking at what we all think a debenture to be, or if it is really just a payment to the owners to fund their purchase and improvements in the club. ""On top of that you'll have to pay annual subs of £16,000. ""People were completely shocked."" He said the debenture scheme and increase in annual subscriptions would come in to force in April 2017. Currently, full members pay a joining fee of £15,000. Despite opposition, one of the club's members - who preferred not to be named - said he welcomed the increase, calling it ""fantastic news"". He said: ""Members for years have been asking for improvements to our courses, facilities and services. ""The new investment plans, focused on quality and family, will propel the club forward to become one of the finest golf and country clubs in the world."" The golf club is on the Wentworth estate, in the heart of the Surrey stockbroker belt. Its large houses are home to Middle Eastern royalty, international business tycoons, professional golfers and celebrities. The six-figure cost of membership would make Wentworth the UK's most expensive golf club, although some other exclusive venues worldwide reportedly cost more. The BBC asked three other top UK golf clubs - Royal Liverpool, Sandwich Royal St George's and The Belfry - for details of their membership fees. The first two said as private members' clubs they would not disclose the information, while the Belfry revealed the joining fee for the Brabazon course was £2,000, with an annual membership of £3,250. It's unheard of [the cost of the debenture plan], in this country anyway, and unheard of in the whole of Europe I would think, although years ago in the Far East and some clubs in the United States have had this sort of thing. Whether it will work in Wentworth I really don't know. I'd like to see the reaction from the members, because this is a very bold step. The idea, I'm told, is the club wants to have a very good relationship with those who have houses on the estate, but a lot of them are from overseas, from Asia and Russia and other places. It's a jigsaw puzzle at the moment and I wonder how many pieces will fall into place. A spokesman for the Virginia Water-based club said: ""We will be discussing our new membership categories, including prices, directly with our members."" He said the club would ""invest heavily to significantly enhance and improve its three championship courses"". Mr Wyatt added: ""Money needs to be put into the club, and the money needs to come from somewhere. ""Last night we found out that the money is coming from members' pockets.""","One of the UK 's most exclusive golf clubs is to start @placeholder £ 125,000 to new joiners .",selling,exceeded,charging,offering,fined,2
"This damp squib, a meek loss to struggling rivals Edinburgh, was not the farewell he wanted nor the one his players wanted to give him ahead of his switch to the national side. At the end of a tumultuous era, this was the flattest of finales. The other day, he reminisced about his time with the Warriors and, more specifically, his early weeks. There were no sold-out stadiums back then, no great reason to believe that Glasgow would move forward in the way they have over the span of the Townsend years. Townsend came into Glasgow under a cloud, replacing the popular Sean Lineen, who'd taken the side to two Pro12 play-offs in the previous three seasons. Townsend had been attack coach for Scotland, a team that had no discernible attack. His arrival at Scotstoun, therefore, was not heralded as a bright new dawn. His first game as head coach was a pre-season friendly against Castres in the south of France. Glasgow lost 20-17. His second was another friendly, against Sale at Heywood Road. They lost that one, too - 49-27. Glasgow played a third challenge match before the Pro12 season began - against Exeter at Millbrae. Another defeat - 15-6. Then the Pro12 started and Glasgow went to Ulster in week one - and lost a fourth straight game. Next up were the Scarlets at Glasgow's new home at Scotstoun and Townsend hit on an idea which he tried to sell to his players. ""We'd come off the back of those defeats and we were four in a row,"" said Townsend. ""I tried to do a couple of things and I look back now and they were gimmicks. ""Our first home game - I got this brick and I talked about the Great Wall of China and how one of the emperors had built a section of the wall with 999,999 bricks and he kept the millionth brick just to remind people what it took to build this fortress. ""I had a brick and was using all these metaphors and analogies about how this - Scotstoun - was going to be our fortress - and then we went out and lost to the Scarlets, so the brick was thrown in the bin after that. It was a lesson for me - just be yourself."" Townsend found his feet soon enough. Glasgow won their next six matches, lost two and then won another seven on the spin. They played with ambition. They entertained. In Stuart Hogg, DTH van der Merwe, Sean Maitland, Tommy Seymour and the new cult hero, Niko Matawalu, they had marquee players coming out of their ears. That group scored 32 tries between them that season. Glasgow outscored every other team in the Pro12 and only hit the wall when they lost by two points in the semi-final to Leinster, who went on to win both the league and the Heineken Cup. That 'Great Wall of China' game against the Scarlets at the start of the season drew a crowd of 4,348. Their last home game of the season, against the Ospreys, brought in 6,642. Those numbers would not have registered among the Munsters and the Leinsters and the Ulsters with their vast support, but knocking on for 7,000 people for a rugby match in a football city was a sign of a gathering momentum, on the pitch and off it. Townsend drove a lot of it. Tim Swinson tells a story about trips on the road with Glasgow. The travelling party sit in alphabetical order, so Swinson was always in the same row of the plane as Townsend. Every trip he'd notice his coach reading a new book about a high-achieving coach or club. An autobiography of an iconic leader from American college basketball, a biography of an American football coaching behemoth, a history of Barcelona (whose academy he visited and whose culture he was fascinated by). His favourite was The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a life in coaching. It was written by Dean Smith, the late veteran coach of the University of North Carolina basketball team. Townsend became a human sponge for that stuff. Glasgow added quality as they went along. Townsend introduced Jonny Gray from the academy and found Leone Nakarawa from the Fijian Army side. Piece by piece a jigsaw was being put together. He was also brutally tough at times. By his own admission, Hogg lost the run of himself in that 2013-14 season. He became a Lion in the summer of 2013 and crossed the border from confidence into arrogance in the wake of it. Townsend didn't like his attitude. When he gave him a shot at redemption, against Zebre, he still didn't like what he was seeing and took Hogg off at half-time despite the fact the full-back had scored two tries. Hogg didn't kick another ball for Townsend until the following season. He missed the Pro12 semi-final, a nerve-shredding victory over Munster at Scotstoun in front of a record crowd of 10,000. He was kept in the stand for the final, too. Even though they lost the showpiece heavily to Leinster in Dublin, Glasgow were entering new territory - they were now attracting more than just rugby diehards. A game at Scotstoun became a social occasion, a part of a night out for people who never watched rugby before, but who went and enjoyed the vibe. It was noticeable that more kids started going. It didn't happen by accident. This was how the remarkable rise of the Irish provinces began. Townsend, and everybody in the Glasgow organisation plus Mark Dodson in the SRU, were acutely aware of that. The Pro12 win against Munster in Belfast was the end of stage one of the Townsend and Glasgow story. It wasn't just that they beat Munster in that final, it was how they beat them. They played with elan from the get-go and played Munster off the park. Nakarawa and his telescopic arms off-loading out of the tackle. Hogg reborn as a focused and attacking wonder. Finn Russell and Jonny Gray emerging as international-class players. It was a joyous performance. These were otherwise desperately grim times for Scottish rugby. What optimism existed in the sport largely came from Scotstoun. The Warriors were the beacon of light in a dark time until Vern Cotter's team got some traction - with many of Glasgow's players, all nurtured by Townsend. With success came a problem. Glasgow were always a key supplier of players to the international team, but now they became a factory. It's hard to think of a side in world rugby that is as decimated by the international window as Glasgow. You pay a price for that eventually. This season, there were 13 Glasgow players (nine starters and four replacements) in the Scotland squad that beat Ireland in the Six Nations. In the victory over Wales, there were 10 starters and three substitutes. Through those Six Nations championship weeks - and the November Test series - Glasgow played six Pro12 matches without their international players and lost five of them. They just couldn't build the squad depth to paper over the cracks this time around. Townsend strived for progress in Europe. Before this season he was caught in a loop of one step forwards and two steps back. The dream of a place in the last eight came down to this season - his last chance. He said recently that had the team not done it on his watch then he would have left Scotstoun as an unfulfilled coach. It took five attempts, but they got over the line. Having already taken care of Leicester at home and Racing at home and away they needed a win at Welford Road to make the knockouts. They stormed through with a startling 43-0 triumph. The quarter-final against Saracens was another chapter in Townsend's education. He locked himself in a bunker and prepared meticulously. He says he over-emphasised - perhaps even obsessed - on Saracens and how to stop them rather than getting Glasgow just to play their own game. He blames himself for Glasgow's heavy loss in front of a travelling support of 6,000, an extraordinary number. The season before Townsend was appointed as coach Glasgow failed four times to break 3,000 for a home Pro12 match and only twice broke 5,000. Their average attendance was 4,018. Now they took 6,000 on the road and average over 7,000 at home. There's talk of increasing the capacity of Scotstoun to 10,000. ""Nothing might have worked, because Saracens are so good, but I got it wrong,"" he said, candidly of the quarter-final. He can move into his new job knowing that in five years there weren't many occasions when his judgement was found wanting. In so many ways he raised the bar. Now it's Dave Rennie's turn to raise it higher.",Gregor Townsend 's time as coach of Glasgow Warriors came to an end on Saturday after five years and 147 games . It ended in @placeholder and noise and on - field tributes - and defeat .,accident,violence,sunshine,rain,shock,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device Headed goals from Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Gary Cahill sealed a 3-0 win for England at Wembley, leaving the visitors fifth in Group F. ""I've got to go away and have a wee look at it now and we have a debrief,"" said Strachan. ""It's hard to take in anything, it's not the time to think about it."" The 59-year-old added: ""If you think I'm thinking about myself, then you don't know me. If you think I'm worried about myself, you're completely wrong."" Strachan added that he was ""proud"" of his side's effort and emphasised that he felt the outcome was ""cruel"" on his players given the level of their performance. While he accepted there is a gap in quality between Scotland and England, he maintained - as he has done throughout a faltering campaign - that the players have been wholly committed to him and his tactics. ""I feel really proud about the way they played, they had no fear to their game,"" Strachan said. ""At the same time I feel really hurt they had to go through that last 15 minutes having put so much in and believed in what we were trying to do. ""I came here with a team that got beaten 3-0, 3-1 and barely had a shot on goal, and it was nothing like that [tonight]. That was a braver, a more organised performance, so their families watching them and supporters can be proud of what they did. ""I don't think I can ask any more from what's in their locker. You just need a break every now and then or a wee bit of magic. I feel really down for the lads, but proud of what they tried to do."" Scotland missed two chances to level at 1-0 down and although England eventually ran out comfortable winners, to lose by three goals was harsh on the visitors. ""We're supporters, we watch from the sides and to put that much work in, to stick to a game plan, be brave and try to meet them up the pitch and we give up one chance on target and they score from it,"" added the Scotland boss. ""Half-time, you could see in their eyes they still believe that by sticking to what we're trying to do we can get there, and we go out in second half and have two chances, don't capitalise, then they get their second shot on target. After that it's going to be a long night. We stuck at it and when it gets to 3-0, it's over. You can forget the last 15 minutes."" Strachan made eight changes to the side that lost 3-0 in Slovakia last month. Leigh Griffiths started up front, while Ikechi Anya, Christophe Berra and Lee Wallace were drafted into defence. The manager praised their efforts, but bemoaned the lack of reward for that industry. ""A lot of them have got to be pleased with themselves. Lee Wallace was phenomenal for somebody who's been out of the team for a couple of years. He never said a thing, just got on with it, came in and was brilliant,"" Strachan said. ""There are points where top teams seem to punish us. I've got to say, I don't know if we can work any harder than we do, in terms of playing and training and doing the coaching. ""Stewart Regan said he couldn't believe it was 3-0 to Slovakia and 3-0 to England. We might not be the best in the world, but you get the best out of them. I'm thinking only about them at this moment in time.""",Scotland manager Gordon Strachan says he needs time to reflect on the World Cup qualifying defeat by England and refused to be @placeholder on his own future .,drawn,follow,control,commenting,consulted,0
"Brian Allen, 69, a City Cab driver, is seen having a row with the cyclist on Princes Street and then minutes later waiting for the rider on Regent Street. The Justice of the Peace Court heard the incident happened on 28 August. Allen pleaded guilty to careless driving and assault. He was fined £360 and given nine penalty points for careless driving and admonished and dismissed for assault when he was sentenced on Thursday. Now it is up to Edinburgh City Council to decide whether Allen should lose his taxi licence. Les McVay, City Cabs company secretary, told BBC Scotland they were supporting Allen ""on his past character"" - saying he had held a clean licence for 52 years until now. He said: ""I would like to call on the cyclist to post the full unedited version of the footage. The full unedited version shows the cyclist kicking Brian's door and banging on his window. It is quite abusive at the beginning. ""We can all potentially do silly things in the heat of the moment and I don't know what possessed him but we are standing by him because of his character. ""He is very remorseful and knows it shouldn't have happened. ""I don't have the authority to sack him. He will now have to go to the council and they will decide what happens to his licence."" A City of Edinburgh Council spokeswoman said: ""'The council was first made aware of the incident on Tuesday when the footage was brought to staff attention and we are now actively investigating.""",A taxi driver who attacked a cyclist after waiting for him in the middle of an Edinburgh road with his fists @placeholder has been fined for the road rage incident that was filmed on a head - cam .,team,raised,experience,body,thrown,1
"Helen Winter told an employment tribunal she had used MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, on ""several occasions"" and let two young clients stay at her flat. She is also accused of offering MDMA to one of the young people and taking it in front of them, which she denies. She could face being struck off. Ms Winter admitted she was guilty of misconduct and that her fitness to practice is impaired at a hearing at the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPS). She also admitted testing positive for cocaine in a routine drugs test for Kids Company in 2014. Kids Company collapsed in August amid claims of financial mismanagement and has faced a series of damaging allegations since then. The charity, which is now under the control of administrators, is being investigated by officers from the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse team of the Metropolitan Police Service. Daniel Mansell, the presenting officer, told the HCPS hearing concerns were raised in Kids Company about the registrant's drug use and ""inappropriate interaction with service users"". He said Ms Winter went to the Hidden club in Vauxhall, south London, with her colleague Nicci Shall in January 2014 having purchased some MDMA on the way. Ms Shall told the hearing they were in the toilet when they saw the two young people known as Client C and Client D, both in their early 20s. It is alleged she offered the drug to Client C, who accepted - which Ms Winter denies. Ms Shall told the hearing: ""Helen Winter offered client C and me a dab of MDMA, which I declined. Helen Winter and client C consumed the MDMA."" She said that after she left the club she felt ""awful"" about what she had witnessed and wanted to tell her boss, but was persuaded not to with Dr Winter telling her the clients had ""had a good time and nothing had come of it"". She told the hearing: ""I went to colleagues and they advised me not to take it any further. I stupidly followed their advice and I regret that."" An internal investigation was carried out after she reported the matter to the charity's chief executive, Camilla Batmanghelidjh, but she raised concerns about the accuracy of the subsequent report. She said: ""I do not feel that the investigation report, compiled by witness B, accurately reflects my account of events. ""I challenged the accuracy of the report but was informed by Kids Company that it was an internal document and should remain confidential.""",A psychologist working at Kids Company has admitted taking illegal drugs in the company of young people she @placeholder through the charity .,swept,posed,collapsed,met,fled,3
"Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck feature in McGarry's ""Beatrixpotting"" line-up. Walking Dead's Charlie Adlard and Hellboy collaborator Duncan Fegredo have also taken part. The artists are supporting a student art competition being held in Cumbria. Fegredo has depicted Peter Rabbit as a spaceman, standing in a secret launch pad hidden in the Lake District. ""My aim was to retain the innocence and appeal of Potter's Peter Rabbit, setting him against a dramatic landscape and secret launching pad inspired by The Lakes,"" Fegredo said. The artists have contributed their works to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in support of the Beatrix Potter Reimagined student art competition. The contest encouraged students to give Beatrix Potter a modern or unusual twist and create new work in a comic style. Writer and illustrator Hannah Berry has created a traditional comic strip which depicts Peter Rabbit story as a criminal who steals vegetables. Festival Director Julie Tait described the entries as ""simply stunning"". ""The creativity, skill and humour of the student artwork is just astonishing and to top it all we now have contributions from some of the most talented comic artists on the planet,"" she said. ""Our festival is not only a celebration of the best of comic art, it's also about encouraging the next generation of artists to explore their creative talents."" Students Ian Morris and Ian Fulcher have submitted their own works to the competition - which will see prizes given to the top three entries. Morris's piece sees Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny snub vegetables in favour of playing a games console. The fourth Lakes International Comic Art Festival will run from 14-16 October in Kendal, Cumbria. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Comic artists including Luke McGarry , who created the Trainspotting film @placeholder , have reimagined Beatrix Potter 's characters to mark the 150th anniversary of her birth .",poster,adaptation,crowd,characters,valley,0
"Now, some of these figures will be plucked out of the air, but some of them will be based on serious economic modelling - carried out by folk with brains the size of planets, most likely swimming around in think tanks. Should you believe all of them, some of them or none of them and how do you know which to treasure and which to discard? No, they're a bit more realistic than that. But not much. A lot of people trying to decide whether to vote to leave the European Union or stay in want to know what would happen if the UK left. And the trouble is that we don't know. Honestly we don't. And anyone who tells you they do is lying. Among the key questions to which we don't know the answers are what sort of trade deals the UK would manage to do after leaving, how long they would take to negotiate, how much of the UK's contribution to the EU Budget would be saved, what that saved money would be spent on, whether the regulations that the UK government devised to replace the EU ones were better than the EU ones and what effect all that had on the economy. There are also more subtle effects on the economy that are even harder to measure such as whether a Brexit would create some sort of feelgood factor in the UK economy, or the opposite. Yes it is. Remember the Budget? The Office for Budget Responsibility, which does the forecasts that the government bases its decisions on, made really big changes to the predictions it had made for the economy only about four months before. And that was without a really major event such as leaving the EU to cloud its predictions. Also, that was looking at what will happen in four or five years, while the EU questions has ramifications for decades, during which the global economy could change beyond recognition. The PwC report commissioned by the CBI concluded that the cost of Brexit could be as much as 5% of GDP and 950,000 jobs by 2020, figures heartily disputed by the Leave side. How would they have worked that out? The way it works is that you build a model to predict the future based largely on how particular things happening in the past have affected the economy. For example, your model will be programmed for what effect the pound being weaker or stronger against the euro would have on the economy, or what effect an increase in tariffs on particular exports or imports would have. If you plug in all the right numbers to start with then it might do, but this is where the problems start. Because in order to work the model you have to make some assumptions in order to have the figures to put in. You need to take a view of what trade deals would be done and when, what difference it would make to trade, whether the pound would fall and a whole host of other variables. And the numbers you come out with at the end are enormously sensitive to these assumptions. The margin of error on such forecasts would generally completely dwarf the effects they were trying to identify, if people bothered to try to quantify it. George Box, one of the greatest statisticians of the 20th Century, said: ""All models are wrong, but some are useful."" While the numbers may be of little value, the direction the models predict and some of the assumptions they make are quite interesting. Friday's report from the Centre for Economic Performance said that leaving would be bad for the economy, predicting falling trade because of rising non-tariff barriers to British goods. How big a hit the economy would take, whether it's the equivalent of £850 per household in its ""optimistic"" scenario, £1,700 in its pessimistic one, or between £4,200 and £6,400 per household in the long term is less important. That's the tricky question. Look at how well-respected the people conducting the research are. Look at who has commissioned it and who is paying for it. If it's been commissioned by organisations campaigning for one side or the other then you could reasonably be a bit suspicious of its findings. But that's not necessarily a firm rule. A well-funded, independent group can be just as wrong as a biased one. ""People are not necessarily wrong because they're biased any more than they're necessarily right because they're rich,"" says Will Moy, director of the fact-checking organisation Full Fact. Also, be a bit careful with the question of EU funding. Lots of research organisations bid to do some work for the EU and many universities receive some funding from the EU. Almost none can say they have never received any European money, but it doesn't necessarily mean they are in favour of staying in the union. Then have a look at the assumptions they are making, what they are predicting will happen and whether it seems too pessimistic or optimistic. In particular, make sure the organisation is clarifying what assumptions it has made and how the model works. If not, don't believe it. And remember there's also the option to decide that you don't care what even the finest economists predict, or even that you don't think the economic impact is the most important thing about EU membership. READ MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate","As the EU referendum campaign @placeholder you will be seeing lots of headlines about how much Brexit would cost or benefit the UK economy , or indeed how much staying in will cost the economy .",published,continues,considers,approaches,sounds,1
"Tom Lawrence had put the visitors ahead, cutting in from the left to curl beyond goalkeeper Chris Maxwell. Ipswich keeper Bartosz Białkowski made a series of saves from Paul Gallagher, Callum Robinson and Aiden McGeady. Preston continued to press, with Hugill pouncing with a close-range equaliser. Preston's leading scorer Hugill started for the hosts just two days after Ipswich's second approach for the striker was turned down the Lilywhites. He threatened early on and earned Simon Grayson's side a share of the spoils in a tense climax, which also saw Jermaine Beckford threaten. The draw moves Preston up a place to 10th in the Championship table, while Mick McCarthy's side earn their first point away from home in three games to stay 14th. Lawrence's sixth goal in six games means that only one of Ipswich's seven goals since the start of 2017 has not been scored by the winger. Preston North End manager Simon Grayson: ""It was always going to be tough against Ipswich. They're resilient and well-organised, and we struggled to break them down. ""It wasn't our best performance, but we kept plugging away and asking questions, and in the end we gained our reward. ""I hope he [Hugill] keeps scoring goals, of course. He did well to follow up his couple at Villa with another well-taken one here."" Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy: ""We're disappointed, to be honest. Of course we thought we'd done enough to hang on, but the late goal was a big blow. ""It wasn't the best of crosses at the end, and then sod's law the ball falls to Hugill. To be fair to the lad he tucked his shot away well. ""We defended really well throughout the game, but then to concede so late is frustrating. ""We could have done with a bit better concentration at the back there, but I can't complain too much."" Match ends, Preston North End 1, Ipswich Town 1. Second Half ends, Preston North End 1, Ipswich Town 1. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Aiden McGeady (Preston North End). Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Ben Pearson (Preston North End). Goal!  Preston North End 1, Ipswich Town 1. Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aiden McGeady. Attempt saved. Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cole Skuse. Attempt blocked. Jermaine Beckford (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Corner,  Preston North End. Conceded by Luke Chambers. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Thomas Spurr (Preston North End) because of an injury. Attempt blocked. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Hugill. Substitution, Ipswich Town. Kieffer Moore replaces Freddie Sears. Corner,  Ipswich Town. Conceded by Tom Clarke. Foul by Joshua Emmanuel (Ipswich Town). Jermaine Beckford (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing. Substitution, Preston North End. Simon Makienok replaces Marnick Vermijl. Corner,  Preston North End. Conceded by Luke Chambers. Attempt blocked. Tom Clarke (Preston North End) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a cross. Attempt blocked. Marnick Vermijl (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner,  Preston North End. Conceded by Joshua Emmanuel. Corner,  Preston North End. Conceded by Bartosz Bialkowski. Attempt saved. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jermaine Beckford. Substitution, Ipswich Town. David McGoldrick replaces Brett Pitman. Attempt missed. Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner. Corner,  Ipswich Town. Conceded by Tom Clarke. Foul by Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town). Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt missed. Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from long range on the left is high and wide to the right. Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Paul Huntington (Preston North End). Substitution, Preston North End. Jermaine Beckford replaces Paul Gallagher. Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Foul by Marnick Vermijl (Preston North End). Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the left wing. Substitution, Preston North End. Daryl Horgan replaces Callum Robinson. Substitution, Ipswich Town. Kevin Bru replaces Toumani Diagouraga. Offside, Preston North End. Daniel Johnson tries a through ball, but Paul Huntington is caught offside.","Jordan Hugill scored a last - minute goal for Preston to rescue a point against Ipswich , a side that has twice attempted to @placeholder the striker in the past two weeks .",sign,dismiss,kill,reclaim,improve,0
"Now, it would be the equivalent of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ditching the glamour of their A-list existences for the modest stage of a local amateur dramatics club - and the British couple's return to the UK was described by the BBC at the time as providing a dose of ""knockout voltage"" glamour. Burton had agreed to play the title role in Oxford University Dramatic Society's February 1966 production of Dr Faustus to thank Prof Nevill Coghill, who two decades earlier had championed Burton's acting talent when the young Welshman had a brief stint studying English at the university's Exeter College. Remarkably, Taylor's non-speaking role in the play as Helen of Troy marked her stage debut. During the week the play was staged, the celebrated couple, who had married two years previously, welcomed their undergraduate co-stars into their social world. ""They took over a floor of The Randolph [hotel] where they would entertain every night, and that was great fun,"" said Jackie Keirs, a student choreographer and dancer in the play. At the time Taylor described her involvement in the production as ""sort of like a giggle, really, for me to do"". ""She would come into the wings with her wardrobe lady, her hairdresser, her make-up lady, her bodyguard - then she would come across the stage, Burton would kiss her, [then she would] come out of the other wings and be carried back to her dressing room by the same group of people,"" said Keirs. The atmosphere surrounding the event was ""electric"", said Don Chapman, former drama critic at the Oxford Mail. ""Everybody wanted to get a ticket for it."" However, for the production's assistant director Nicholas Young there was a certain amount of apprehension. ""I sort of wondered whether you could ever ask Richard to sort of 'move stage left', or whether from a great actor it just came naturally,"" he said at the time. ""Like a stage-struck 18-year-old, I was keen that I should have some role or other in this,"" said Richard Carwardine, who played Cornelius and the Pope. ""I don't think I appreciated at the time just how unusual this was."" ""Elizabeth, who did have a fiery temper, was a very, very kind person,"" said Carwardine, who is now president of Corpus Christi College. ""Richard was gracious, amusing, full of anecdotes."" ""They had an aura about them when they were together,"" Keirs said of the golden couple. Carwardine said there was ""great excitement, a lot of speculation as to which of the male undergraduates would be able to get closest to Elizabeth Taylor"". Chapman made it clear in his review of the production that, despite the fact she had no lines, Taylor was the real star of the show. ""Say what you will, it is the presence of Elizabeth Taylor as Helen of Troy - as much as that of Richard Burton in the title role - that will make the Oxford University Dramatic Society's production of Dr Faustus live in the memory,"" he wrote. Carwardine recalled how the generous-spirited Burton ""took me under his wing"" during the production. Burton said of the students at the time: ""The enthusiasm of course of my boys, as I like to call them, at Oxford is infectious and suddenly I feel much younger than my grey and 40 years."" The students' brush with fame was to continue when they were flown to Italy to appear in the film version of the play that summer. ""I remember vividly coming out after the rushes of our first scenes and he [Burton] put his arms around us and said 'boys, you did really well',"" said Carwardine. He added: ""I did go to the premiere - several of the undergraduate members of the cast had their voices dubbed by professional actors, so it was a huge relief to me to discover what I heard coming from the screen was my own voice."" The film was poorly received by critics but proceeds from the stage play were used to create the Burton Taylor Studio in Oxford, which is now a popular venue for student, fringe and children's shows, and a permanent reminder of the time Hollywood came to Oxford. Source: BBC Four - Burton and Taylor",It is 50 years since Hollywood superstars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor took time out of their busy schedules to perform for no money in a student production . What was behind the grand @placeholder and what do people remember of these unlikely events today ?,tour,gesture,secrets,event,title,1
"PSG clinched the title with two months of the season to spare. Edinson Cavani, Javier Pastore and Adrien Rabiot put them 3-0 up inside 19 minutes before Ibrahimovic struck three within 10 minutes in the second half. Matthieu Saunier scored an own goal and Cavani made it 8-0 before Ibrahimovic added his fourth. Laurent Blanc's men clinched their fourth successive Ligue 1 title in style with the biggest away win in the history of the competition. They did it with just one defeat in 30 games after they were beaten 2-1 by Lyon in February, and the latest win took their goal difference to +62 with just 15 league goals conceded. They have won 24 of their 30 games with Ibrahimovic scoring 31 goals in 25 appearances to add to Cavani's 16 in 27. Defeat left Troyes, who had Lossemy Karaboue sent off in the 64th minute, eight points adrift of second-from-bottom Toulouse with a goal difference of -47.",Paris St - Germain were @placeholder French champions with eight games left as Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored four in a 9 - 0 demolition of bottom side Troyes .,killed,reigning,crowned,relegated,beaten,2
"Located on a street in London's Soho district, the historic centre of the city's adult entertainment industry, the entrance is designed to look like a sex shop. Beside the recessed black door, neon lights proclaim ""adult video"", ""peep show"" and ""girls, girls, girls"". In no way would a passerby guess that the venue was a Mexican restaurant - there is no restaurant signage whatsoever. Instead you pass into a gloomy entrance area, and then walk down a dark stairway, until you then finally see the basement restaurant appear. First opening in 2012, La Bodega Negra has been at the forefront of a growing global trend - the rebirth of the ""speakeasy"", bars and restaurants that hide their location. The word speakeasy was first coined in the US during the prohibition era, when the sale of alcohol was generally illegal from 1920 to 1933. To avoid police raids and prosecution, bars that sold alcohol would keep a very low profile. And their customers were told to speak quietly (speakeasy) about them. Fast-forward to today, and with alcohol legal and freely available in most countries, why do some venues want to hide themselves away? And in doing so, how do they, at the same time, go about attracting customers? Will Ricker, owner of La Bodega Negra, admits that ""there is a fine line between keeping something exclusive and generating revenues"". Yet the 44-year-old adds that ""you've got to stand out"" in London's competitive restaurant market, and he says that the sex shop frontage has certainly got people talking. Mr Ricker has also been very successful in attracting celebrities to La Bodega Negra, with rock band U2 hosting a Halloween party in the restaurant a few years ago, and former footballer David Beckham hiring the venue for a party. Such celebrity approval has helped La Bodega Negra become a fashionable place to be seen, and it is packed out most evenings with people happy to pay its premium prices. Berlin cocktail bar Beckett's Kopf is another modern day speakeasy. Located on a quiet side street in the hipster neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg, rather than have its name outside, the owners have simply hung a picture of Irish poet Samuel Beckett (from whom the bar takes its name) in the window. ""We wanted to create an atmosphere of discovery, and bring back the curiosity you have as a child,"" says Oliver Ebert, 42, who opened the venue with his wife Christina in 2004. With no name on display, and reliant solely upon word of mouth to build up business, Mr Ebert admits that it took three or four years to establish a strong customer base. Now as many as 120 drinkers pour into Beckett's Kopf on weekend evenings. For New York-based marketing and branding expert Allen Adamson modern day speakeasies are all about selling exclusivity, which is increasingly desirable to higher-end consumers. ""Exclusivity still drives desire and premium-ness,"" he says. ""Part of effective luxury marketing is some sort of scarcity, or the need to dig deeper to find the story."" Robert Jones from London-based brand consultancy Wolff Olins agrees, saying: ""There's a huge cachet in rarity, obscurity, mystique. Inaccessible means desirable."" In Toronto, Canada, the Libertine is another speakeasy bar which thanks in no small part to its exclusivity is regularly packed out. Instead of having the bar's name outside the venue in the city's West End district, there is a neon sign offering palm readings. ""From the outside it looks like a dive, or a place to get your fortune read,"" says Philipp Dumet, who bought the bar last year. ""[The speakeasy model] caters to our target clientele - the influencers, the tastemakers, the sort of quote, unquote cool kids of the west end, who operate really solely through the internet."" To engage with his customers, and promote the business, Mr Dumet, 29, extensively uses social media services Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Mr Adamson and Mr Jones both agree that the growth of social media in recent years has transformed a company's ability to create positive word of mouth, making it much easier, and cheaper, for would-be speakeasies to built up an exclusive customer base. ""Social media is the rocket fuel that has changed the marketing game,"" says Mr Adamson, while Mr Jones says word of mouth has been ""turbo-powered by social media"". Meanwhile, fellow branding expert Rebecca Battman, says that word-of-mouth marketing ""is now at its most powerful and effective"" and affordable, thanks to social media. However, Mr Adamson cautions that whatever the buzz a hidden bar or restaurant manages to create, it cannot forget the basic need to offer excellent service, drinks and food. ""In today's world, nothing will undo you more than a product that's disappointing,"" he says.","If finding the La Bodega Negra restaurant is n't enough of a challenge , you then have to @placeholder walking inside .",relax,brave,replace,compensate,promote,1
"In the Victorian fairground where the grotesque mixed with the gaudy, where the sound of the barrel organ mixed with the whooshes and bangs of the various rides, there would be the stand where you would be able to lace up a pair of boxing gloves and take on the gnarled and grizzled man mountain who would be waiting for you in the ring. And the crowd would ""ooh"" and ""aah"" as the prizefighter set about you, raining blows down above and below the belt. And so it was in the beautiful Simi Hills in California last night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that the Republican candidates took it in turn to try to give Donald Trump a bloody nose, a cracked rib, a thick lip and black eye. Ideally all four at once. First up, flexing his muscles, and jabbing hard, was Senator Rand Paul on whether Trump had the character to have his hand on the nuclear trigger. ""I'm very concerned about him - having him in charge of the nuclear weapons, because I think his response, his - his visceral response to attack people on their appearance - short, tall, fat, ugly - my goodness, that happened in junior high. Are we not way above that?"" Good shot, Rand, but thwack came the response - ""I never attacked him on his look, and believe me, there's plenty of subject matter right there,"" said Trump. Cue laughter. Next up into the ring was Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. ""Mr Trump. We don't need an apprentice in the White House."" But with a squint of those blue eyes, Trump shot back ""in Wisconsin, you're losing $2.2bn right now. I would do so much better than that."" Jake Tapper, the excellent CNN host, didn't quite say ""roll up, roll up who else wants to take their chances against my boy?"" But he didn't need to. They were lining up. Hold on a minute. What's this? My, my, a lady is getting into the ring. Surely she wouldn't be able to draw blood where everyone else had failed. Well she did. The former Hewlett Packard boss Carly Fiorina had been roundly insulted by Trump when he questioned her suitability because of her appearance. He told Rolling Stone  - ""Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?"" She was stoic and measured: ""I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr Trump said."" And Trump was now visibly back-pedalling. ""I think she's got a beautiful face, and I think she's a beautiful woman."" Her face was acid. She did not flinch. It was a gotcha moment. And ""low energy"" Jeb Bush - as Donald Trump dubbed him -  achieved something similar when he gave a Trump a good kicking over the tycoon bringing Bush's Mexican-born wife into the political debate. Trump looked defensive. He wouldn't give the apology that Bush demanded, but he was discomfited. There was a lot of serious stuff in this sprawling three hour debate. But if you're in a fairground - well you want all the fun of the fair. And once again Donald Trump provided it.  He is still the focal point. But he saw tonight that his opponents are prepared to fight back. And so the circus moves on. So roll up next time to see whether the polls change, whether all those candidates can stay the course. Thrills and spills await us.",The BBC 's Jon Sopel sees presidential hopeful Donald Trump roll with the punches in the second Republican debate in California - until a new competitor @placeholder the ring .,package,joins,marking,entered,contest,3
"The 26-year-old felt some pain in her left foot in the latter stages of last month's training camp in the United Arab Emirates, and a scan revealed a small metatarsal stress fracture. Knight is set to miss five to six weeks but hopes to return in time for the tournament, which begins on 24 June. England's first warm-up game is against Sri Lanka at Chesterfield on 19 June. The England and Wales Cricket Board expects the skipper - who averages 32.58 with the bat in 66 one-day internationals since her debut in 2010 - will be available for that match if her recovery goes as expected. She will wear a protective boot for two to three weeks before resuming light training. The World Cup is set to be Knight's first major tournament as captain after she succeeded long-serving skipper Charlotte Edwards last year. The BBC Sport website will show video highlights of the Women's World Cup, which takes place between 24 June and 23 July.","England captain Heather Knight faces a race to be fit for the upcoming Women 's World Cup , which England are @placeholder .",hosting,leading,entering,announced,set,0
"Rob Howley's team could move into the top four of the World Rugby rankings and Webb could press his claim for a place on the Lions tour to New Zealand. Webb, 28, says the players cannot worry about anything other than the match. ""Going fourth is not something that we will be looking at too much as players,"" he said. The Ospreys player has shrugged off the latest in a long line of serious injuries that have restricted him to only 26 Wales appearances to stake a strong claim to be the best number nine in the Championship. He was named man of the match in Wales' 22-9 win over Ireland, having a hand in two George North tries and setting up the attack which led to Ireland's Johnny Sexton being sin-binned - a key moment in a tight match. After consecutive defeats by England and Scotland, Wales were in danger of falling out of World Rugby's top eight and facing a tough draw for the 2019 World Cup. But after beating Ireland, a sixth consecutive win over France and an England win in Dublin could see Wales ranked as high as fourth and placed among the top seeds for the tournament in Japan - and, if other results go their way, finish second in the Six Nations table. ""After a good performance against a strong Ireland team we know it's going to be a difficult task out in France. ""Our target was to win a Grand Slam, but that went and there is the chance to finish second."" ""We've got a job to do and we need to back up Ireland and go up another level again. I am pretty confident we can do that."" Webb is widely tipped to be in Lions coach Warren Gatland's squad when it is announced in April. But having missed out on the 2015 World Cup, and six Tests during 2016 because of injury, Webb says he is not looking that far ahead. ""I just go into each game looking to enjoy it,"" he added. Media playback is not supported on this device ""The more I enjoy it the better I play. Whatever happens, happens. If it does, then happy days, but I am not going to count on anything. ""The Lions would be the highlight - it is the pinnacle of anyone's career - but I have not thought about it one bit and that is genuine. ""You can't look at it too much because, like I said, I know what it is like to miss out on these things. ""You can't look any further than a big game against France this weekend."" Webb expects France to present as physical and aggressive a challenge as anyone in the championship. Number eight Louis Picamoles is a major threat, he says. ""He is a massive player for them, a guy we need to shut down early,"" Webb said. ""We have fronted up against these big guys during the tournament, England's Nathan Hughes and others. ""We are expecting him to come at us, carry hard, hopefully we can stop him at the gain line, stop his momentum and put in another brutal performance.""",Wales scrum - half Rhys Webb says he is not worried about rankings or British and Irish Lions @placeholder in Paris on Saturday only about beating France .,play,side,selection,meeting,focus,2
"The steps down to Petit Port Bay have been shut ""for the foreseeable future"" due to the undermining of the cliff. Access to the bay is still allowed via the sea. The Environment Department said repair work could not currently be undertaken due to a lack of funds as repairs to coastal defences had been prioritised.",A Guernsey @placeholder has been closed to the public due to damage caused by heavy rainfall earlier this year .,hospital,beach,school,family,panel,1
"Police Scotland said a 200m cordon was put in place near Accommodation Road following the find. A Royal Navy bomb disposal team was called in to carry out the controlled explosion before 16:00. Insp Mark Stephen said: ""It was established the device had no explosive capability, however a controlled explosion was carried out.""",A controlled explosion has been carried out at Aberdeen @placeholder after a suspected World War Two device was discovered .,centre,unit,beach,observatory,ground,2
"The 82-year-old was threatened by two masked men who came to the door of his home in Gillies Lane, Baillieston, at 22:15 on Thursday. The attackers pushed the pensioner and demanded money, before searching the house and leaving empty-handed. Both men were wearing balaclavas and dressed all in black. Police have appealed for information. The men, one of whom is thought to have been wearing a black ""puffa"" or bomber jacket, made off in the direction of Bredisholm Road. Det Sgt Raymond Hunter, from the community investigations unit in Pollok, said the incident was ""very frightening"" for the victim. He said: ""We have been checking CCTV and speaking to neighbours but need to hear from people who may have been in the area at the time. There is a pub at the top of the lane on Bredisholm Road, so we would appeal to patrons from there to get in touch if they saw or heard anything. ""At this time we still have to establish why the man was targeted. The suspects seemed to think he had a significant amount of cash in his home, which was not the case, hence the reason they left empty-handed. ""Whether this was mistaken identity or a rumour, we do not know, but in any case to subject an elderly man in his home to this, is not just wrong, it was cowardly.""",An elderly man has been @placeholder in his Glasgow home during an attempted robbery .,stabbed,caught,injured,assaulted,robbed,3
"The study says girls as young as 10 are forced to marry much older men in countries including Afghanistan, Yemen, India and Somalia. Save the Children says early marriage can trigger a cycle of disadvantage across every part of a girl's life. Conflict, poverty and humanitarian crises are seen as major factors that leave girls exposed to child marriage. ""Child marriage starts a cycle of disadvantage that denies girls the most basic rights to learn, develop and be children,"" said Save the Children International CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt. ""Girls who marry too early often can't attend school, and are more likely to face domestic violence, abuse and rape. They fall pregnant and are exposed to STIs (sexually transmitted infections) including HIV."" The girl who said no to child marriage Europe struggles with migrant child brides Gambia and Tanzania ban child marriages Big money for Niger's child brides The report, called Every Last Girl, ranks countries based on the hardest place to be a girl based on schooling, child marriage, teen pregnancy, maternal deaths and the number of women in parliament. Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Mali and Somalia were ranked at the bottom of the index. The report says girls affected by conflict are more likely to become child brides. It says many refugee families marry off their daughters as a way to protect them against poverty or sexual exploitation. The charity used the example of a 13-year-old Syrian refugee in Lebanon it called Sahar - not her real name - who was married to a 20-year-old man. Now 14, she is two months pregnant. ""The wedding day, I was imagining it would be a great day but it wasn't. It was all misery. It was full of sadness,"" Save the Children quoted her as saying. ""I feel really blessed that I am having a baby. But I am a child raising a child."" The report says girls also suffer during humanitarian crises such as the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone where the shutting down of schools led to an estimated 14,000 teen pregnancies. The UN children's agency, Unicef, estimates that the number of women married in childhood will grow from 700 million today to around 950 million by 2030. The Save the Children's report coincides with International Day of the Girl on Tuesday.","One girl under the age of 15 is married every seven @placeholder , according to a new report by Save the Children .",weeks,signs,seconds,commitments,days,2
"Lord Fowler raised the case in the House of Lords of Jeremy Pemberton, who had his licence to preach revoked after marrying his partner. He called on the government to ""see if there is anything that could be done to help reconcile the difficulties"". Gay marriage is legal in the UK but the Church of England has not accepted it. Mr Pemberton was told he could not work as a priest in Nottinghamshire after he married his partner in April. He was told by diocese officials that clergy must ""model the Church's teaching"". He was also blocked from taking up a promotion within the NHS, where he works as a chaplain. Lord Fowler said: ""Given that there are other clergymen at similar risk, will the minister as a matter of good will look at the position here and see if there is anything that could be done to help reconcile the difficulties?"" The government's women and equalities spokesperson, Lady Northover, said it was a matter for the Church of England. But she added: ""Things can evolve. It is good to see, for example, that we should soon see women bishops."" The Bishop of Sheffield, the Right Reverend Steven Croft, said the Church would be holding ""a two-year process of structured conversations to explore the changing attitudes to human sexuality and their implications for the life of the Church and its disciplines"". In June, The Right Revd Richard Inwood, acting Bishop for Southwell and Nottingham, said same-sex marriage was clearly at variance with the teaching of the Church of England. He added: ""In view of this I have spoken to Jeremy Pemberton and subsequently written to him to tell him his permission to officiate in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham has been revoked.""","The government should consider @placeholder to stop the Church of England sacking gay vicars who marry , a former Conservative chairman has said .",intervening,continues,forced,speak,prepares,0
"President Otto Perez Molina has now handed in his resignation after more than four months of weekly demonstrations demanding that he go. They began after a report was issued in April by the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a UN body created in 2006 designed to strengthen the country's rule of law. In it, several high-profile politicians were implicated in a corruption ring involving the country's customs agency. A second, smaller, investigation relates to a social security scandal and allegations that a company paid bribes for a dialysis contract. Faulty care apparently resulted in the deaths of several patients. Cabinet members have resigned and the former vice-president Roxana Baldetti is now in jail awaiting trial. Mr Perez Molina, who denies the allegations, is now joining her. ""The corruption scandals have acted as a trigger,"" says the International Crisis Group's Guatemala analyst Arturo Matute. ""They've really outraged a significant proportion of the Guatemalan population."" I met Paula outside Congress in downtown Guatemala City last weekend. She was with her parents and two-year-old brother Carlos. They, along with dozens of other children, were colouring in posters that read Free Guatemala, Give us back our money, and Otto Perez, Guatemala doesn't want you. ""If we don't talk about this when they are little they won't have a critical conscience,"" Jimena's father, Julio, says. ""They won't be able to defend their own rights."" The event was organised by the group #JusticiaYa - Justice Now. The movement began on Facebook and organised the first march in April. Gabriel Wer, 33, who works as an administrator in his family's business, is one of the founding members. He puts the success of the protests down to Guatemala having a young population, one that is increasingly connected with technology and new media. ""We've been a society used to silence because of the civil war we were in,"" he says. ""That's changing. We are daring to say what we think, what we feel as a country, as a society."" Importantly, in one of the most violent countries in the world, these have been peaceful protests. JusticiaYa say that has been key to their ""search for transparency and justice"". Guatemala's protests have not been isolated. Neighbouring Honduras has also seen people take to the streets in recent months. Parallels have been drawn between these and the young people who protested in the Middle East during the so-called Arab Spring more than four years ago. Some have called this movement the Central American Spring. Martin Rodriguez Pellecer, the director of well-respected online paper nomada.gt, points to the stripping of the president's immunity for the first time in the country's history. Like in other springs, ""citizens were able to do more than those in power,"" he says. But it is not an analogy that everybody agrees with. ""We don't really have oppressive governments, we have abusive governments,"" says Hugo Novales, a political analyst at the Investigation and Social Studies Association in Guatemala. ""We have a democracy, albeit it's not the best. We have a problem with the quality so I don't think the term Guatemalan Spring is the best."" The UN anti-corruption body CICIG, along with the country's public prosecutor, has been widely praised over these revelations. Eduardo Stein was vice-president of Guatemala between 2004 and 2008, and helped set up the CICIG. ""It shows the measure of how infected the scaffolding of the state was - or is,"" he says. ""Our justice system would have never on its own delved deep into these corruption schemes as they have now."" Its success makes many feel it is too early for Guatemala to go it alone. ""It is like putting on mosquito lotion,"" says Peter Hakim of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. ""You can keep the mosquitoes away but they are still out there. ""The minute the lotion is lost, they will begin attacking again."" Mr Perez Molina's resignation has been long awaited. Now he has gone - and before Sunday's first round of presidential elections, what will that mean? ""The message that it sends is that corruption is not as tolerable as it used to be,"" says Hugo Novales, of the Investigation and Social Studies Association. ""This will set a good example towards whoever becomes president or takes any form of office next year - that institutions are working, that voting counts for something, that politicians sometimes do hear what people request."" These elections may not change politics immediately but what has already changed is the way Guatemalans view politics and its actors.  There is a different future ahead.","Before @placeholder into her dinner last week , six - year - old Paula Menchu made sure she said her prayers . She asked God to grant her peace and a less crooked president .",crashed,burst,fooled,tucking,going,3
"The ex-West Indies captain was fined A$10,000 (£4,900) by Melbourne Renegades for ""inappropriate conduct"" to TV journalist Mel McLaughlin. Gayle hit two sixes before being caught in the deep as the Renegades managed 155-6 from their 20 overs. Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen then plundered 67 not out from 43 balls to get the Stars home in 18 overs. McLaughlin was in the Network Ten studio at Etihad Stadium as the Stars recorded their fourth win from six matches. She was conducting a pitch-side interview with Gayle in the Renegades' previous match when he said: ""To see your eyes for the first time is nice. Hopefully we can have a drink afterwards. Don't blush baby."" Melbourne Renegades said his comments were ""completely inappropriate and disrespectful"" and apologised to McLaughlin and to the public.",Chris Gayle made 21 in his first innings since being fined for asking a reporter on a @placeholder in a live interview .,record,hole,place,point,date,4
"The direct Taunton-to-Trowbridge trip was apparently advertised at the price by Great Western Railway (GWR), from 22 May through to 14 July. It means the journey costs £156-per-mile and passengers cannot travel via Bristol. A GWR spokesman blamed an IT problem for the expensive fare and has since corrected the error. ""We are aware of an IT glitch which has published fares for a first class journey that does not exist,"" the firm said. ""Anytime single fares between Taunton and Trowbridge are available from £12.70."" More on this and other news from across the West of England. The ticket has also been available for 20 June on the website for Trainline, which stressed train fares were set by the rail industry not them. ""On quick investigation, the anomaly fare also appears on GWR's own retailing channels so it would appear that this is a fare setting anomaly, rather than a Trainline tech issue,"" a spokesman said. Consumer expert Martin Lewis told BBC Radio 5's Adrian Chiles these sort of mistakes happen all the time and it is probably a database error. ""If something doesn't look right stay clear,"" he said. ""In an automated world mistakes happen.""","A train ticket between two towns just 64 miles apart has been @placeholder for £ 10,000 by a rail operator 's website .",criticised,awarded,offered,called,launched,2
"Nick Aldridge, 23, was a police constable until he joined city accountants Grant Thornton at the end of August as a graduate trainee, specialising in tax. ""I finished on the Friday at Northamptonshire Police and started here on the Monday,"" he says. Nick got the job against heavy odds. Last year, the company's training schemes had 10,000 applicants for 500 places. Despite a 2:1 degree, his A-level grades ruled him out of most top accountancy companies. Most still require at least the equivalent of three Bs at A-level before they will even consider applicants for trainee posts, either at school-leaver or graduate level. Nick's A-level grades were a B and two Cs. Since 2013, Grant Thornton has relied instead on a series of timed online tests and interviews to whittle the applicants down to a shortlist of about 800 for a final interview. Applicants are scored on their personal and professional achievements, exam grades and on whether recruiters think they would suit the company's culture. ""We regard ourselves as pioneers,"" says senior talent and resourcing manager Richard Waite. Overall, some 20% of this year's trainees are people the company would never have considered under the old system. A series of other top companies have followed suit, but they are still a minority - a factor that left Nick ""depressed"" once he had made the decision to change careers. ""I felt trapped when I was still in the police,"" he says. ""I was looking for a job in accountancy but they were restricted by the grade requirements. ""I even phoned up companies and explained what I was doing - but they said unless you meet the requirements you won't even get through the first stage."" Mr Waite says he too found the old system frustrating. At school and university careers fairs, he was frequently convinced he had met young people who would fit perfectly with the company's ""down-to earth"" culture, only to to be disappointed when they told him their grades. ""Instinctively I knew as a recruiter these people would have been great, but our process was screening them out,"" he says. ""What this is about is hiring the best people. Historically that meant people with a certain academic profile, but some great employees don't fit that profile. ""We want to tap into pools of talent we have not necessarily tapped before."" Lisa Newland, 22, is part of this talent pool. She got great GCSE grades but found A-levels ""heavy going"", got herself a part-time job in a jeweller's and admits she had a bit too much of a good time instead of concentrating on her school work. Her A-level grades, two Cs and a D, were disappointing. She could still have gone to university ""but probably not the universities I had in mind at the time"". ""I went to have a look, traipsed my mum and dad all round the country, and then decided it wasn't for me,"" she says. Instead, she took a clerical job with a smaller accountancy company, commuting to Moorgate daily from her home in Essex for three years. She applied to Grant Thornton's Accelerate Scheme for School Leavers and is now training as a restructuring and recovery specialist for companies in difficulties. Qualifying as a chartered business adviser or accountant takes four to five years for a school leaver and three years for a graduate. Exam preparation must be done on top of working full time. So will people with weaker academic records cope? Lisa admits having been nervous. ""I thought, 'I am going into four years of exams, having not studied for three years, particularly with the grades I got,'"" she says. So far, however, she has passed them all. ""I am a lot more mature than I was three years ago,"" she says. ""This was what I wanted to do, so I make sure I am putting the effort to pass them. Obviously it was challenging, but I have not had a problem."" She describes the company as supportive, providing her with time to study if she needs it. ""We build in workshops and revision classes at weekends and evenings,"" Mr Waite confirms. ""It's also thought sensible to give people dedicated time out of their day jobs to prepare for exams,"" he adds. He describes the company as ""industry leading"" in terms of exam pass rates. A few weeks into his new career, Nick is positive about the change, despite being apprehensive about the exams He says he often ""dreaded... the extreme workload and general lack of support"" of life as a police officer. Getting the new job ""felt like a massive weight had been lifted"". ""There are huge differences,"" he says. ""The general relationship between seniors and the juniors that are starting out is much more positive, even though the hierarchy is there. ""You get a lot more support. Now, I generally look forward to being in work."" Mr Waite says the new approach feels right for the company. ""I believe we have got a much more interesting cohort of trainees,"" he says. ""So you hire people who have interesting stories and interesting backgrounds and are really high performing in many other parts lives, that in previous years we wouldn't have given them the opportunity to tell us about even. ""I think part of being a great business adviser is about being able to grow and maintain really strong and deep client relationships, which is on an equal footing with the technical understanding that comes with being a business adviser. ""I think the people we are hiring now are able to do both well.""",Exam disasters need no longer mean career calamity after a flurry of top companies announced plans to look beyond academic @placeholder . The aim is to tap into a wider talent pool . But will it work ? One city firm made the change two years ago .,excellence,research,centre,results,occasions,3
"Sites such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have been inundated with posts seeking to win the hearts and minds of people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. The Israeli military and the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement that dominates Gaza, have employed increasingly sophisticated methods and techniques to try to build their respective support bases. Since launching ""Operation Protective Edge"" on 8 July, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has posted dozens of updates each day on its Twitter account, which it says provides ""real-time information and updates"". This seems to serve a number of purposes, from live-blogging events on the ground to telling its side of the story. The IDF provides updates on rocket fire from Gaza and the activity of Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system, with tweets such as: ""BREAKING: Iron Dome just intercepted 7 rockets above Ashkelon"". It also posts what it calls the ""Rocket Counter"", giving the total number of rockets fired since the start of Operation Protective Edge. The English-language Twitter account of Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, provides updates on casualties resulting from Israeli air strikes and reports on its own rocket activity, mirroring the IDF's account. The Qassam Brigades operate several Twitter accounts in different languages, including Arabic and Hebrew, some of which have, at times, been suspended. Using the hashtags #GazaUnderAttack, #Gaza, #StopIsrael, and #PrayForGaza, the accounts defend the Qassam Brigades' actions and highlight the plight of Palestinian civilians. In a tweet that appeared to be aimed at the international community, the group said Palestinian casualties were ""not just numbers"". Both sides have increasingly turned to graphics to demonstrate their version of events in numbers and, at times, they have actively engaged with one another in an attempt to disprove a claim. In its tweets, the IDF asks hypothetical ""what if"" questions with accompanying graphics to try to broadcast its message to the international community. The IDF has even created an app, available on its blog, asking people to ""imagine"" if Hamas lived in their country and fired rockets at their hometown. It offers a series of maps that superimposes the Gaza Strip on other countries, including the US or UK, as a way to demonstrate the security threats it faces. The IDF has also referred to popular international events to frame its version of events in the current conflict. Ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup final between Germany and Argentina, the IDF tweeted the number of Hamas rockets fired since the start of the tournament and urged people to ""retweet so that all enjoying #GERvsARG will know"". The use of the football hashtag would have doubtless broadcast this message to a much wider Twitter audience. Philip Howard, professor of communication at Central European University and University of Washington, says Hamas and the IDF both know that they have a wide audience, but that the bulk of their online followers come from overseas. ""The most strategically important part of the audience are the journalists who follow their accounts. They know that a well-placed tweet can help spin news coverage,"" he adds. Hamas has become more sophisticated in its use of social media for two reasons, says Mr Howard. They want to reach out to journalists and leaders in the West and also try to remain engaged with young Palestinian supporters who may no longer see Hamas or the Palestinian Authority ""as their best or only option"", he continues. The IDF and Hamas both post images and videos of the destruction and casualties caused by latest violence. Hamas tends to post more graphic images on its Twitter feed, including the bloodied corpses of children whom they say were killed in Israeli air strikes. Doubts have been cast over the accuracy of some images that went viral on Twitter under the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack . Like Hamas, the IDF is active on several platforms, including the photo-sharing site Flickr. Recent images show Israeli civilians sheltering from rockets launched from Gaza, as well as military personnel. Videos and counter videos have also surfaced, aimed at spinning the same events to each side's advantage. One video posted by the IDF on its YouTube account, entitled 15 Seconds: Not Enough Time, compares the time it takes for athletes to run around a track and the time Israeli civilians have to take cover from incoming rocket fire. The video caption reads: ""During a rocket attack, Israelis living near Gaza only have 15 seconds to reach a bomb shelter. Even the world's fastest man wouldn't make it on time."" Hamas has meanwhile targeted the Israeli audience for the first time with the release of a music video sung in Hebrew and Arabic, the AFP news agency reports. The video, Shake Israel's Security, shows Hamas militants making, transporting and firing rockets at Israel in a bid to turn Israelis against the government. There are also reports that hackers belonging to Hamas took over control of the Facebook page of Israel's Domino Pizza and published warnings in English, Arabic and Hebrew. The hackers wrote in one Facebook status: ""Today will strike deep in Israel, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Ashkelon, Ashdod more than 2000 rockets. We'll start at 7. Counting back towards the end of Israel…Be warned!"" The IDF has also frequently issued warnings to Gazans online. In one recent tweet, it wrote: ""To warn civilians of an impending strike, the IDF drops leaflets, makes personalized phone calls & sends SMSes. How many militaries do that?"" Meanwhile, Hamas officials have offered guidelines on social media use by civilians in Gaza in a video posted online. In it, civilians are told not to publish images of rockets or missiles in central Gaza and to always mention ""innocent civilians"" when writing about casualties. ""There is nothing wrong with publishing images of the injured,"" it adds.","The latest surge in fighting between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip has seen both sides @placeholder the intense social media battle that was seen during the last Israeli offensive on the coastal territory , "" Operation Pillar of Defence "" , in November 2012 .",following,neighbouring,revive,dubbed,blaming,2
"Merseyrail plans to introduce a new fleet of 52 driver-only-operated (DOO) trains in Merseyside from 2020. RMT's announcement over fears for jobs and safety comes amid the latest strike by train drivers for Southern, over the issue of DOO trains. Merseyrail said the new trains would be safer and there would be staff onboard. None of today's permanent guards or guard managers would be forced to leave Merseyrail's employment, the company added. The union's general secretary Mick Cash said its position on DOO ""is perfectly clear... we will not agree to any extensions of DOO and will fight to retain the safety critical role of the guard and to keep a guard on the train"". RMT have set a 26 January deadline for assurances about the role of the guards. It has given the same deadline to Arriva Rail North, which trades as Northern. It fears job cuts and has raised safety concerns, arguing that trains would be less safe because drivers would not be able to see all the passengers while they are boarding and could not provide security during journeys. Merseyrail has estimated 220 guard and management posts will go but said there would be no compulsory redundancies. Mr Cash said Merseyrail had failed to provide the union with assurances that ""new trains will have a second safety-critical crewmember on board"" and ""the guard will be retained on all services"", despite being asked ""on numerous occasions"". ""If Scotrail, which is run by Abellio, the same franchisee that operates Merseyrail, can introduce new trains with guards, then so can Merseyrail. ""And if Stadler, which is building the Merseyrail trains, can build conventionally operated trains for the Greater Anglia franchise, which is also run by Abellio, then it can build them for Merseyrail,"" he added. A Merseyrail statement said: ""The Liverpool city region needs and deserves new trains, which will be modern, safe, faster and comfortable, with more capacity to support the economic growth of a modern city region. ""The new trains will be safer than the ones they replace - and there will still be staff on board focusing on customer duties."" Merseyrail said it was ""surprised and disappointed"" at the threat of dispute, adding: ""There have been no substantive face-to-face discussions between the two organisations on the question of DCO (driver-controlled operations)."" The latest Southern drivers' walkout also centres on the role of the guard on trains. Southern rail strike: What's it about? Southern wants to turn guards into supervisors - in this role they would no longer be responsible for opening and closing carriage doors as this duty would become the responsibility of the driver. The strike finishes at midnight but further strikes have been called for Friday and on 24, 25 and 27 January.","A train operator has two weeks to give "" cast - iron "" assurances that guards will be retained or @placeholder dispute , rail union RMT has said .",face,risk,power,fuel,handle,1
"Clinton's book is a memoir, but it reads like a draft ""of a potential 2016 convention speech"", according to a Wall Street Journal reporter. Regardless of the politics behind it, the memoir, which will appear on 10 June, is likely to do well. The publisher, Simon and Schuster, has printed a million copies. Here are some facts about the book. One possibility was The Scrunchie Chronicles: 112 Countries and It Is Still All About My Hair, Clinton says, according to the New York Daily News' Lisa Marsh. Clinton's struggle to come up with the right title shows that she is a conscientious writer - and has a sense of humour. Perhaps even more important Clinton is thinking about her image, says Marsh, adding that on the book cover she looks like Tina Brown - ""tanned, rested, ready and with perfect highlights"". In Clinton's case, Marsh argues, this means that she looks presidential. In a video released on Facebook, she explains what she means by hard choices, saying that everyone faces difficult choices - and challenges - in their life, such as how to find a good job and then how to keep it. In addition, she says, they face choices about education and ""whether to get married, whether to stay married"". True - but the title she rejected sounds more fun. The book is not for Washington insiders It is written for the common man - or woman, she says. ""While my views and experiences will surely be scrutinised by followers of Washington's long-running soap opera  - who took what side, who opposed whom, who was up and who was down -  I didn't write this book for them,"" she says, according to Politico. ""I wrote it for Americans and people everywhere who are trying to make sense of this rapidly changing world of ours,"" she writes. She says she is hoping to reach out to those ""who want to understand how leaders and nations can work together and why they sometimes collide, and how their decisions affect all our lives"". But maybe not at first. Rather than disdaining Washington insiders, as she claims, she has catered to them, at least in the early stages. An advance copy of her book was sent to a consummate insider, journalist Mike Allen, according to NPR News. On 9 June, the day before the book is available, she will do an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer. It is the first of many interviews and appearances that are designed to promote the book and Clinton's views. That weekend she will sign books at Costco, a warehouse store and one of the nation's most important tastemakers. Part of the book is personal. In an excerpt that appears in Vogue magazine, she writes about her mother, Dorothy Rodham, who grew up poor and started working as a housekeeper at age 14. Much of the memoir, however, focuses on her work at the state department. It seems designed to appeal to potential voters, describing the work she has done in the government. She has not declared her candidacy in the 2016 presidential campaign, but she seems on the verge of making it official. Clinton is unlikely to devote much, if any, of the book to Monica Lewinsky. As Clinton said in a recent interview, according to the New York Times, she has decided to ""move on"" and not dwell on the affair that her husband had with the former intern. She has a huge fan base - and plenty of detractors. One of the most controversial parts of the book is likely to be a chapter entitled ""Benghazi: Under Attack"". In this section she tries to defend her actions after the attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 that killed Ambassador J Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. She also lashes out at those who have criticised her. ""I will not be a part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead Americans. It's just plain wrong, and it's unworthy of our great country. Those who insist on politicizing the tragedy will have to do so without me,"" she says, according to a Politico writer. Her detractors seem unfazed. They are planning to release an e-book, Failed Choices: A Critique of the Clinton State Department, that attacks her account. More are likely to follow.","In Hard Choices , Hillary Clinton is coy about her marriage and other personal matters - but forthright about the role she @placeholder in Benghazi .",spends,takes,played,continues,erupted,2
"Devon County Council changed the traffic flow through Totnes in 2013 to make the area safer. Campaigners took the authority to court and on Monday a judge ordered the council to end the traffic order. However, the council is now seeking permission to appeal and until it is determined, the traffic flow will remain. The legal battles have so far cost the authority £80,000, against a backdrop of the council having to make £46m of cuts, as it deals with a 13% drop in its government funding. Some traders began legal action after they claimed their businesses had suffered following the decision to change the flow. BBC presenter Jonathan Dimbleby was among campaigners who marched with protesters against the traffic changes which meant vehicles could no longer be driven up the High Street from the bottom of the town. A council spokesman said: ""We applied to the court for a stay of the decision to remove the current order, which the judge has granted. ""The stay will remain in place until the Court of Appeal decides whether or not to grant us leave to appeal judgement. ""This means that the current traffic order should remain in place until a decision is made on an appeal. We were concerned about the road safety risks of immediately removing the order and we therefore welcome the decision on the stay."" In March, the decision to reverse traffic flow through Totnes town centre was quashed in the High Court.","A one - way system will remain in place in a Devon town , as an appeal is @placeholder in an ongoing legal battle .",launched,held,trapped,lost,set,0
"The decision was taken despite the 26-year-old running the Olympic qualifying time on six occasions and coming third in the trials. ""I accept I will never win an Olympic medal,"" she wrote on eightlane.org. UK Athletics said they do not respond to individual selection policy when asked for a response. Shelayna Oskan-Clarke and Lynsey Sharp were the only 800m runners named in the Team GB squad for Rio, with a third place left unfilled. ""To leave a space empty on an Olympic team when several athletes have the qualifying standard is an insult to the effort that athletes put in to the sport,"" said Leonard. ""It tells us that the early mornings, icy runs, hill reps, missed parties and every other thing we do, are not worth anything if you're not going to make the Olympic final. ""For me to be told that the space will be left empty despite being third in the trial... makes me feel I am mediocre."" The Chorley athlete clocked 2 mins 2.45 secs behind Oskan-Clarke and Sharp at the British Championships last month, but said the selection decision had left her feeling like an ""also-ran"". She added: ""I am an extra on the stage of athletics and no one cares that I practised my lines over and over - I am not needed and my part has been cut.""",Alison Leonard has @placeholder UK Athletics after she was not selected to compete in the 800 m at the Olympic Games in Rio .,criticised,warned,placed,skipped,questioned,0
"On Sunday, heavily-armed militants stormed an army base in Indian-administered Kashmir near the Line of Control (LoC) with territory administered by Pakistan, killing 17 soldiers. The four gunmen were killed after a gunfight, the Indian army said. Indian army officials told reporters the attack at the brigade headquarters in Uri looks to have been the work of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed. Pakistan's Foreign Office denied the claim, saying India often blames Pakistan-based groups without providing evidence. No group has said it carried out the deadly raid. The Line of Control, a de-facto border between the two countries separating Kashmir, is one of the most heavily militarised frontiers in the world and the incident has sparked fears of a military escalation. The incident has come at a time when Indian-administered, Muslim-majority Kashmir is already in the midst of some of the worst unrest seen in years. In July, the killing of a 22-year-old militant, Burhan Wani, by government forces sparked mass protests and days of deadly violence. The young militant built up a huge social media following made up of what many analysts have identified as a new a generation of disaffected young Kashmiris. His strident calls for Kashmir to decide its own fate also resonated with a substantial part of the population that would like to see independence for the territory. After his death young people demonstrated on the streets, hurling stones at security forces - and police, in some cases, retaliated with pellet guns and rifles. More than 70 people have been killed - mostly civilians. The recent unrest in Kashmir explained Indian army's anger over Kashmir killings Viewpoint: Living in the shadow of Kashmir Viewpoint: Why mass funerals spark violence in Kashmir Why July's Kashmir Killings could have been avoided Concern over Kashmir police's pellet guns Kashmiri Hindus: Driven out and insignificant Kashmir profile The Indian army says that Wani was a militant who belonged to a terror group and incited the youth of Kashmir to violence. And some Kashmiris appeared to celebrate the Uri attack on social media, calling it a retaliation for the crackdown by police. Many others were horrified by the loss of life. The territorial dispute between the two countries has been running for decades, and two out of the three wars fought between the nuclear-armed rivals have been over Kashmir. There have been attempts at peace talks and better relations over the years, but they have often been thwarted by new attacks and old accusations. A resolution has become more urgent in recent years after the rise of a separatist insurgency that began in earnest in 1989. As with every stand-off in Kashmir, the fear of many is that this could eventually escalate into a major clash between two nuclear-armed states. Most analysts believe that is unlikely to happen and that sporadic clashes and diplomatic sabre-rattling are likely to continue. But a key question is, of course, what do Kashmiris want?  With no sign of a solution forthcoming, many believe the action and anger on the streets of Kashmir could end up proving a tinderbox for conflict.",The deadliest militant attack on Indian security forces in disputed Kashmir for years has raised new tensions between India and Pakistan . The countries have been @placeholder in a dispute over the Himalayan region since gaining independence from Britain in 1947 .,launched,killed,held,locked,charged,3
"Special Report: The Technology of Business Businesses tempt customers to be investors How to become your own DIY PR consultant Payback time Rooted in tech Tracking Miss Daisy Michelle Crosby was just nine years old when she had to stand in a court room and tell a judge which parent she wanted to live with, a heart-breaking choice for a small girl to have to make in the most adult of environments. Divorce is considered to be the second most stressful life event most of us will ever go through. For children especially, it can seem like the end of the world. ""I had a clear insight that this is a very broken space. And that moment became the catalyst for me knowing that I wanted to go to law school and I wanted to fix it,"" she says. ""I wanted to make sure that there are no other kids that get put in that position."" She became a lawyer, working with families in the same situation she had found herself in. Thirteen years on, she decided the time had come to go it alone and to try to make the process more collaborative and less painful. After studying mediation training at Harvard, Ms Crosby put her ideas into practice working with families in Boise, Idaho. ""I self-funded it for a few years and watched quite a few families through it. I realised we had something, and then we started to realise that we had identified archetypes,"" she says. ""Even though lawyers were typically treating each case as unique, I could clearly see the patterns."" The final piece of the puzzle was the technology. ""In this day and age, where most of us live with iPhones and iPads, there is no reason why we can't be using these existing technologies to help [families] through this transition. ""So many of the conflicts that happen with families are caused by lawyer miscommunication, or something getting stuck on someone's desk or in a court process."" The result was Wevorce.com. It is a software service that is accessible from anywhere that has an internet connection - so your smartphone, tablet or laptop - because it is held in the cloud. The six-step programme guides families through decisions relating to finances, property, and most importantly, the children. Couples are screened to make sure this is right for them - where there has been domestic violence or abuse, for example, this would not be appropriate. The next step is the creation of an amicable divorce roadmap, working with a legal architect - an attorney qualified to deal with family mediation - and other experts if need be. ""If they don't have a lot of complicated assets [and] they seem to be fairly amicable, they may only need three in-person meetings and they can do most of it online,"" says Ms Crosby. Source: Holmes and Rahe, The social readjustment rating scale, 1967 ""If they have a really large, complicated financial estate, they may need more meetings and it may take a little bit more time."" Because the aim is to keep parties out of the courts, and because of the efficiencies the technology offers, the company says fees range from $3,000 to $15,000, a considerable saving. Couples are also provided with customised educational materials - videos, games or text - that work through different situations, including the realities of co-parenting. ""For example, if one child asks you whether they can get their ears pierced, is that something that you both need to decide together, or is it something that you are okay with one parent deciding? ""The court may not really care, but you as a co-parent are definitely going to care about it. Because the number one source of conflict comes from someone making a decision that someone else thought they had the ability to weigh in on."" The other role of the technology is as a virtual case manager. ""Most attorneys have boxes and boxes of paper, and it requires three touches by the attorney, the paralegal and the assistant,"" says Ms Crosby. ""This technology allows everyone to be seeing where the case is, where it is stuck, what are the remaining steps that need to be done."" Michael Stutman is a partner at global law firm Mishcon de Reya. He is head of their New York office's family practice, has written a book on divorce and is the current president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, New York Chapter. ""People when they are in the midst of this stuff are disabled in many ways,"" he says. ""They are like deer looking at headlights. And they do need people to help them become aware of the options that are available to them."" But this type of approach, like any type of mediation, isn't for everyone according to Mr Stutman. ""There is a whole class of people that are not suitable to this. Areas where there is abuse at any level, whether it is physical abuse, whether it is viciousness in terms of language, whether it is economic bullying, whether it is [emotional abuse], the victim of that poor behaviour should probably not be placed in a circumstance where they can continue to be victimised."" ""And then there are those people who are just very ineffective communicators and maybe they need help communicating. And I don't know if a mediator, this neutral person whose goal is to get an agreement, is the right person there."" Mr Stutman is also keen to stress that, as with any situation, the parties should feel comfortable that their lawyer is competent. ""That doesn't mean you throw the baby out with the bathwater,"" he says. ""I think that there are many people who could probably do well with this kind of a process, and if someone has figured out a way to harness cloud technology to buffer the discussion in some way or guide the discussion, I think that's wonderful. ""I am not threatened by it. I don't think any practicing lawyer would be threatened by it, or should be threatened by it, because I don't think it is meant to take the place of what lawyers do."" The law has traditionally been slow to embrace new technology, meaning there is huge potential for start-ups in the profession. Silicon Valley seems to agree - Wevorce is backed by influential seed accelerator Y Combinator. The Stanford Centre for Legal Informatics (CodeX), a joint venture between the university's law school and computer science department, is another factor to consider, and is behind some of the most successful start-ups aiming to capitalise on the gap. Wevorce recently expanded from being available in only a select group of US cities, to being available across the country. The company has already fielded requests from other countries. For Ms Crosby, the most important indicator of success is their clients. ""We've worked with over a hundred families, and kept all but one out of court, which we are really proud of, because it really allows the families to get back to parenting and not stuck in this difficult transition.""",""" I remember being asked by one of the lawyers : If you are @placeholder on a desert island which parent would you choose to live with ? """,descending,stranded,published,embarked,reflected,1
"The festival, which has been running for more than 30 years, is currently based in the capital's Charlotte Square. It comes after the owners asked the festival to reduce its impact on the space. Officials are also looking at ways to minimise damaging the grass. Nick Barley, director of Edinburgh International Book Festival, said: ""We have been working closely with the proprietors of Charlotte Square Gardens who generously make this private space available for the Book Festival each year, but who have now asked us to reduce our impact on the gardens. ""This year, we are looking at ways of improving our infrastructure to ensure a quicker get-in and get-out to minimise damage to the turf and soil. ""We also intend to take advantage of the opportunities of new technology, digital innovation and development of temporary theatre structures and for the 2017 festival are in discussion with the City of Edinburgh Council and Essential Edinburgh to look to expand into new spaces on George Street which will open up the Book Festival to new audiences.""",The @placeholder of the Edinburgh International Book Festival is looking to spill out on to George Street in a bid to capture new audiences .,audience,wake,home,bodies,focus,2
"Amazon and Alphabet jumped more than 4% each after the bell, following stellar earnings. The S&P 500 and the Dow were little changed. Comcast rose 2.1% to $39.59 after touching a record high of $40.62 as strong subscriber growth brought a forecast-beating profit. The Nasdaq climbed 23.71 points to 6,048.94. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 6.24 points to 20,981.33, while the wider S&P 500 index edged up 1.32 points to 2,388.77. Much of the stock movement came in response to the quarterly earnings that a slew of companies are sharing with investors this week. American Airlines shares plummeted 5.2% after its release on Thursday, which included a 2% revenue increase - and the news it would provide raises to pilots and flight attendants. Rival carriers also came under pressure, with Delta down 1.4% and United Continental down about 1%. United is trying to move past bad publicity over its removal of a passenger from a flight, a case the company said it settled on Thursday. Under Armour shares soared 9.3%, despite the sportswear maker reporting its first quarterly net loss since the company listed on the market in 2005. It reported a net loss of $2.3m for the three months to March after a sharp fall in profit at its North American operations. However, the shares jumped as the loss was not as bad as feared.","The Nasdaq Composite ended at a record high on Thursday , boosted by @placeholder - related gains in Comcast , PayPal and Intuit .",revenue,level,set,customer,results,4
"BlueBox Labs said it was particularly concerning as phone and tablet owners did not need to grant the malware special permissions for it to act. The company added it had alerted Google to the problem in advance to allow it to mend its operating system. Google confirmed it had created a fix. ""We appreciate BlueBox responsibly reporting this vulnerability to us. Third-party research is one of the ways Android is made stronger for users,"" said a spokeswoman. ""After receiving word of this vulnerability, we quickly issued a patch that was distributed to Android partners, as well as to the Android Open Source Project."" However, the many thousands of devices still running versions of the operating system ranging from Android 2.1 to Android 4.3 have not been sent the fix by relevant network operators and manufacturers remain vulnerable if they download apps from outside the Google Play store. BlueBox has dubbed the vulnerability Fake ID, because it exploits a problem with the way Android handles the digital IDs - known as certification signatures - used to verify that certain apps are what they appear to be. The issue is that while Android checks an app has the right ID before granting it special privileges, it fails to double-check that the certification signature involved was properly issued and not forged. Jeff Forristal, chief technology officer of BlueBox, likened the issue to a tradesman arriving at a building, presenting his ID to a security guard and being given special access to its infrastructure without a phone call being made to the tradesman's employer to check he is really on its books. ""That missing link of confirmation is really where this problem stems,"" he told the BBC. ""The fundamental problem is simply that Android doesn't verify any claims regarding if one identity is related to another identity."" To make matters worse, he added, a single app can carry several fake identities at once, allowing it to carry out multiple attacks. Mr Forristal gave three examples of how a faked certification signature might be used to cause harm: BlueBox made headlines last July when it revealed the Master Key bug - a coding loophole that could allow hackers to take control of Android devices. Cybercriminals were later spotted using the technique to target users in China. Mr Forristal said he believed that the Fake ID flaw had the potential to be a bigger problem. ""Master Key did allow a whole device to be taken over... but the user had to be duped into a couple of decisions before the malware would be able to achieve its goal,"" he explained. ""Fake ID unfortunately occurs in a manner that is hidden to the user - there's no prompts, no notifications, no need for special permissions. ""The user can actually be told the app doesn't want any special permissions at all, which most people would think makes it relatively safe. But once Fake ID is installed it's 'game over' instantly."" Dr Steven Murdoch, a security expert at the University of Cambridge's computer laboratory agreed this was a serious flaw. But he added that most device owners should still be able to avoid being affected. ""Google will be looking for people who are exploiting this vulnerability in applications being distributed through its own Google Play store,"" he said. ""So, if that's the only place that you get apps from, you are in a relatively good position. ""But if you download applications from other sources you will be putting yourself at risk."" A spokeswoman from Google confirmed that the company had scanned all the applications in its own store as well as some of those elsewhere. ""We have seen no evidence of attempted exploitation of this vulnerability,"" she added. BlueBox is releasing an Android app of its own that will check whether the host device has been patched.","An Android flaw has been uncovered that lets malware insert malicious code into other apps , gain access to the user 's credit card @placeholder and take control of the device 's settings .",group,body,community,air,data,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device Ward and Lee alternated 10m platform and 3m springboard routines to score a combined 353.85 points from six dives. Russia's Nadezhda Bazhina and Viktor Minibaev claimed gold (413.30) ahead of Ukrainians Iuliia Prokopchuk and Oleksandr Gorshkovozov (396.40). ""That was incredible,"" Ward told BBC Sport. ""Having the crowd here supporting in my home pool was a real help and it's a great beginning to what will be a busy competition."" Lee, who performed two 3m dives and one from 10m, added: ""I'm not a springboard diver and I only learnt the two dives I did earlier this week, but it's a really good start to the competition."" Ward, who dived twice from 10m and once from 3m, has been in impressive form this year, securing Britain a second 10m platform berth for the Rio 2016 Olympics via the Rio test event in February. Lee won individual 10m platform gold at the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku. Both will compete in their individual 10m platform events later in the competition and will pair up again for the mixed synchronised 10m platform event on Saturday. Women's 10m platform pair Tonia Couch and Lois Toulson will bid for European honours on Tuesday at the London 2012 Olympic venue. Olympians Olivia Federici and Katie Clark will compete in the free duet preliminary round.",Britain 's Georgia Ward and Matty Lee claimed team bronze on the opening @placeholder of the European Aquatics Championships in London .,side,soil,ceremony,stage,night,4
"His withdrawal from this week's Safeway Open came as a shock, given his commitment to the event only last Friday. And his decision to skip the California tournament has prompted inevitable torrents of wild speculation over his future. Some are saying he is finished, others claim the 40-year-old is suffering stage fright. Respected Golf Channel pundit Brandel Chamblee suggests Woods is in a decline similar to the one suffered by Seve Ballesteros. And it is sad that such an iconic figure remains unable to compete after 14 months away from the game recovering from multiple back surgeries. But it does feel as though there is a considerable over-reaction to Woods' decision to miss the PGA Tour's season-opening tournament. So much unfounded speculation surrounds the 14-time major champion and this is compounded by his secretive ways which have spawned an industry in conspiracy theories. So let's try to look at the facts. The Safeway Open was the perfect tournament to target for his comeback. Woods owed an appearance to the event (previously known as the Frys.com Open) after being given a release to play in an exhibition event in Turkey four years ago. As PGA Tour events go, it is relatively low key and played on a straightforward course at the Silverado Resort. Woods has been getting stronger and felt he would be ready to play. When he officially entered the event last Friday, it was the PGA Tour rather than Woods' website that broke the news. This is a change from the norm and the player's reluctance to trumpet his return suggests doubts remained even while his entry forms were being signed. Another break from the Woods' modus operandi was his statement of September 7, when he outlined his intended comeback schedule. It is rare for him to detail his calendar but he identified Silverado, the Turkish Airlines Open and and his own World Challenge event in the Bahamas. Woods said he ""couldn't wait to compete again"" but added a significant caveat: ""My hope is to have my game ready to go.…"" It is now clear that his play is currently not of the requisite standard. ""He just didn't feel like his game was where he wanted it to be to be competitive,"" said his close friend Notah Begay. The former Tour pro, who acts as an unofficial spokesman for his illustrious mate, also suggested Woods has not been able to put in enough practice to make his game sharp enough. This could be because the player's recovering but aging body is not up to the intense range regimes of old or it might just mean he still has a long way to go to return to his former standards. Who knows? We can only speculate but what we do know is that such is his celebrity, he cannot make a quiet comeback. This week he would have played the pro-am with basketball star Steph Curry and was to be paired with Phil Mickelson for the first two rounds. Back in 1997 former tennis world number one Andre Agassi had fallen off the cliff in his career and needed to find a way back. His return began at an anonymous Challenger Event with a first prize of $7,200 and next to no-one watching. When Canadian golfer Graeme DeLaet underwent similar back surgery to Woods in 2011 he made his comeback at the rather understated Melwood Prince George's County Open. Woods does not have the option of a return away from the spotlight against players of a somewhat lesser standard. And wherever he comes back, he knows every shot will be analysed to the nth degree. It goes with the territory when you have been the planet's pre-eminent sportsman, but the stark reality is that he is now the world's 786th ranked golfer and it is a very long way back from such a position. This is not the first time he has taken himself out of the firing line. At the beginning of last year he suffered a bout of destructive chipping 'yips' as he missed the cut in Phoenix and withdrew mid-tournament at Torrey Pines the following week. That was in early February and we did not see Woods again until the Masters two months later. The media centre went on 'yip watch' from the moment the four-time champion strolled on to the Augusta practice range. Yet, on a course that puts the biggest demands on short-game sharpness, Woods delivered a polished display with his wedges and collected a creditable top 20 finish. This is a man who won a US Open on one leg back in 2008, his last major victory. If nothing else he is a fighter, as we saw with that extraordinary triumph. Now he is embroiled in a battle to save his career. Pulling out of the Safeway Open is an embarrassment but not the end. ""I will continue to strive to be able to play tournament golf,"" Woods insisted. ""I'm close, and I won't stop until I get there."" On that he deserves to be believed.",So it is now a lack of form rather than fitness @placeholder back Tiger Woods in his fight to compete for the first time since August last year .,turning,taking,holding,swung,rates,2
"Knight was shot in the leg by an unknown gunman at Miami's Shore Club where West was holding a pre-MTV Awards celebration. At least six shots were fired, but few witnesses came forward and no-one has been ever arrested over what happened. Celebrities like Jessica Alba and the Black Eyed Peas were all at the event. Marion ""Suge"" Knight, a controversial figure in the hip hop community, helped launch the careers of rappers like Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg. The 44-year-old is claiming that Kanye West and the club's owners didn't provide enough security to keep people with weapons out of the venue. Knight's lawyer, Marc Brumer, said: ""He had an expectation of security there. How someone came with a gun into a very VIP party, that just doesn't meet the smell test in life."" Knight is also seeking more than £650,000 in damages, which includes compensation for a 15-carat diamond earring he says was lost in the chaos. He also claims that he had to pay £130,000 in medical bills due to a shot that shattered his femur. Kanye West and the Shore Club's owners have denied the claims and a trial has been scheduled for 6 December in Miami. The former Death Row boss went bankrupt in 2006, so if he wins the case he'll have to share the payout with the tax man and his bankruptcy trustee.",Hip hop star Kanye West is being sued by Death Row Records founder Suge Knight over a shooting at a @placeholder party in August 2005 .,birthday,heart,wedding,pool,beach,4
"An old chicken farm by the A3 at Thursley next to the Devil's Punch Bowl was used as a construction site for the Hindhead Tunnel which opened in 2011. Highways England has now said it is a ""useful location"" for a salt storage depot. Neighbours fear ""horrendous"" noise pollution and said officials promised to return the site to agricultural use. Contractor Kier Highways has applied to build a ""winter maintenance"" facility to be used by 38-tonne delivery lorries up to 10 times a day. Tony Kelly, who lives 50m away, said cyclists, horse-riders and walkers use a public bridleway outside the gates. He told BBC Surrey: ""It's unsafe, somebody is going to get hurt, walkers, young kids. It's just the wrong place to have this kind of access. ""Is it really worth impacting an area of outstanding natural beauty and causing distress to the villagers of Thursley when (Highways England) has a compound less than 10 miles away?"" In a statement, Highways England said: ""We used Hindhead Hill Farm for our site compound while we were building the Hindhead Tunnel and have honoured our commitment to return it to agricultural use after the project was completed in 2011. ""We need a winter maintenance depot to help keep the A3 operating safely during severe weather. We think this farmyard could be a useful location for a barn, which is why we are taking forward this planning application.""","Highways officials have been accused of "" breaking a promise "" over @placeholder at a beauty spot in Surrey .",performing,breakfast,stream,land,behaviour,3
"But optimistic technologists assure us relief from this gridlocked hell is closer than we think. And it's all down to the ""internet of moving things"" - cars, buses, bikes, trains, and planes laden with sensors beaming data to a big brain in the cloud. The better we know where everything is, the better we can manage traffic flows and optimise routes, avoiding congestion, accidents and natural hazards, the argument goes. ""The internet of moving things is giving us whole new sets of data,"" says Shiva Shivakumar, chief executive of Urban Engines, a specialist in urban mobility data. ""Delivery companies, taxis, travel cards, smartphones, and connected cars are all pushing movement data to the cloud which we can then mash up with real-world maps to create a space/time engine,"" he says. ""Transport providers from Singapore to Sao Paulo can now analyse journeys trip by trip and understand why a bus was late, spot where there is unused capacity or see opportunities for new routes."" Mr Shivakumar, a former Google engineer, says his firm has been able to help delivery companies in San Francisco optimise their routes in real time, testing different scenarios based on current traffic flows and weather conditions. This type of analysis has led some companies to experiment with mobile delivery hubs, rather than having all goods stored in one warehouse and making all the journeys from there. Taxi firms now know where the most demand is at each point during the day, even the areas where customers tip the most. ""Experience might tell you one thing, but the data might tell you something else,"" says Mr Shivakumar. And in the not-too-distant future, automated travel advisers on our smartphones with access to real-time data from all forms of transport will tell us the best way to reach our destinations, he believes. Mapping firm Here - recently acquired by German vehicle makers BMW, Audi and Daimler - is busy mapping the road networks of major cities around the world using laser technology, or lidar. It has a fleet of hi-tech camera cars much as Google does. This kind of technology can perceive road markings, lane widths, and concrete barriers, says vice-president Aaron Dannenbring, to create a ""precise, reference index of the road system globally"". ""But we also need a dynamic map that reflects everything that's happening on the road. So by connecting other vehicles to our cloud platform we can capture how the traffic situation is changing."" And as more vehicles are fitted with sensors and cameras, the more accurate and useful these dynamic maps will be, he believes. ""Say a number of cars sense black ice on the road, that data will go to the cloud and be analysed by our algorithms. If a pattern emerges a warning will be beamed down to other cars to inform them. ""We think tens of thousands of lives could be saved each year as a result of these systems."" This internet of moving things will also be crucial to the success of driverless vehicles. Rail, too, is benefiting from this kind of movement data analysis. For example, indoor location start-up Pointr is tracking how people move around railway stations to offer navigation tips and live train updates. It is taking part in the Hacktrain innovation programme. Such data analysis could aid the design of stations and ticket offices, while the move to digital ticketing and the integration of rail data with other transport data is bringing closer that ""magic carpet ride ideal - gently wafting through stations without any barriers or friction,"" says Ian Holt, chief executive of rail ticketing website, Trainline. More Cloud Computing features from Technology of Business All this data is also helping government agencies manage transport networks more efficiently. For example, in Los Angeles congestion improved by 10% after the authorities experimented with traffic light timings at busy times of the day. And in Seattle, the government has introduced toll-based charging to manage traffic flows. In time, says Bryan Mistele, chief executive of traffic intelligence specialist Inrix, this type of decision-making will become automated as computers learn traffic patterns and respond to changing conditions. Inrix collects real-time data from more than 275 million vehicles and devices in 60 countries, including anonymised population movement data gleaned from mobile phone masts. Of course, problems in one type of transport can affect the rest of the network. This is why the UK's Gatwick airport is using cloud analytics firm Splunk to predict how incidents could affect peak performance four hours ahead. For example, motorway pile-ups can lead to passengers being late for their planes, causing delays that then affect turnaround times and the number of slots for take-off and landing. Such early warnings could help airport managers decide on staffing levels to prevent huge queues and grumpy passengers. The fly in the ointment for this vision of a unified transport intelligence, however, is that it presupposes common data standards - all moving things accessing and understanding every piece of useful information. But rival manufacturers don't have a very good track record when it comes to openness and sharing. ""We've proposed an open standard for data exchange so that any manufacturer could receive this type of data,"" says Mr Dannenbring. And it is significant that three automotive rivals banded together to buy Here, suggesting that the industry is realising co-operation would be to the benefit of all. But will a tech giant like Apple, rumoured to be developing its own car and known for creating its own closed ecosystems, be willing to share data so readily? There are other issues around data privacy and ownership: whose data is it and what guarantees do we have that speed data, for example, isn't being used to police us in a more draconian fashion? Such concerns aside, the tech utopians do paint an alluring picture of the connected future. ""Once all this tech is integrated with your calendar, your car will automatically know where you're going and how long it's going to take,"" says Mr Mistele. ""It will choose the optimal route, and if you're going to be late it will message the people you're meeting."" Dream of that next time you're in a jam. Follow Matthew Wall on Twitter @matthew_wall","When you 're stuck in a traffic jam wreathed in fumes or @placeholder onto a sweltering commuter train , the promised future of a smart , efficient transport system may seem like a utopian dream .",looming,squeezed,thrown,pulled,writing,1
"The Weston-super-Mare Bemusement park was originally due to go to the so-called ""Jungle"" camp in Calais, France. It has now been donated to Aid Box Convoy, which is taking it to a smaller camp where conditions are said to be ""horrendous"". The fixtures and fittings will be used to build shelters and cooking stations. More than 150,000 people visited the Dismaland exhibition at the disused Tropicana site in Weston. Now, eight vehicles and 20 volunteers will take leftovers from Bristol to the camp in northern France. They are also taking with them five tonnes of donated firewood and some 300 aid boxes containing food, toiletries and cooking equipment. Co-founder of Aid Box Convoy, Imogen McIntosh, said the camp only has basic sanitation and has ""grown from 400 people three weeks ago to more than 1,000, with families turning up every day"". Ms McIntosh said Dismaland organisers changed their mind about sending the camp to Calais when they heard there were other camps in France which hadn't received any aid. She added: ""It has all been taken down now and we are left with huge sheets of wood which we can use to build the shelters. Dismaland is also sending a team of chippies and builders out to the camp, who will be creating any structures that we need with the materials."" The group has also been supported by Bristol-based Arcadia Spectacular - known for its festival fire-breathing spider - which has donated a vehicle and trailer. ""People have been so fantastic, it's been such a brilliant response and so much better than we could ever have imagined,"" added Ms McIntosh.",The @placeholder Dismaland theme park is on its way to a refugee camp in France after Banksy donated it to a group of Bristol volunteers .,lost,dismantled,pair,prop,side,1
"Gavin Thorman, 37, of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, is serving 12 years in jail as ringleader of a drugs' gang. He thought no one would understand his boasts in Welsh on a prison phone at Altcourse in Liverpool but the calls were being recorded and translated, Mold Crown Court was told. The seizure included a VW car, a van and a speedboat. In prison Thorman had bragged about his new contacts, discussed drugs and how he was going to come out ""making millions"". He had told his girlfriend: ""I'm only doing a small sentence so they won't be listening to my calls."" Operation Yonside, which led to Thorman's conviction last year, was one of North Wales Police's biggest probes and led to the seizure of almost £200,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis.","A man who boasted about his crimes in Welsh over a prison phone has been ordered to give up £ 30,000 of @placeholder .",assets,it,emotion,pounds,cash,0
"Wyke, a deadline-day signing from Carlisle, took just 15 minutes to score for his new club as he cancelled out Josh Wright's opener. The striker then played a role in Tony McMahon's goal which put Bradford ahead seven minutes before half-time but Deji Oshilaja's strike earned the Gills a third successive draw. Gillingham took the lead in the 14th minute when Ryan Jackson's long throw fell to an unmarked Wright and he drilled in his third goal in as many games. But a minute later Mark Marshall hung up a cross to the far post where Wyke headed home. The Bantams took the lead when Wyke was fouled on the edge of the area and, after Billy Clarke's free-kick was tipped on to a post by Stuart Nelson, McMahon tucked in the rebound. Oshilaja levelled four minutes into the second half when Jackson's ball found its way to the back post where the defender stabbed home. Wyke had a header cleared off the line by Rory Donnelly with 21 minutes left and Gillingham survived some late pressure to earn a point. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Bradford City 2, Gillingham 2. Second Half ends, Bradford City 2, Gillingham 2. Attempt blocked. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Delay in match Chris Herd (Gillingham) because of an injury. Attempt blocked. Elliott List (Gillingham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Jay Emmanuel-Thomas. Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Rory Donnelly. Attempt blocked. Charlie Wyke (Bradford City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Rory Donnelly. Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Chris Herd. Max Ehmer (Gillingham) is shown the yellow card for hand ball. Hand ball by Max Ehmer (Gillingham). Attempt missed. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Chris Herd. Billy Clarke (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Josh Wright (Gillingham). Substitution, Gillingham. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas replaces Bradley Dack. Substitution, Bradford City. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila replaces Josh Cullen. Attempt missed. Billy Clarke (Bradford City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Substitution, Gillingham. Elliott List replaces Cody McDonald. Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Bradley Dack (Gillingham). Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Rory Donnelly. Scott Wagstaff (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by James Meredith (Bradford City). Substitution, Gillingham. Bradley Garmston replaces Adedeji Oshilaja because of an injury. Bradley Garmston (Gillingham) is shown the yellow card. Delay in match Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham) because of an injury. Attempt saved. Charlie Wyke (Bradford City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Jake Hessenthaler. Attempt blocked. Rory Donnelly (Gillingham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Delay in match Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham) because of an injury. Attempt missed. Josh Cullen (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Attempt missed. Nicky Law (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Foul by Charlie Wyke (Bradford City). Chris Herd (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Charlie Wyke (Bradford City). Jake Hessenthaler (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Jake Hessenthaler (Gillingham).",League One @placeholder chasers Bradford were held to a draw by Gillingham despite Charlie Wyke 's debut goal at Valley Parade .,playoff,side,promotion,championship,points,2
"The classroom is crammed. Four or five children squeeze into 1.5m-long wooden desks with the ones at the end forced to stretch a leg out into the aisle to stabilise them. They are not sitting comfortably but they do seem to be concentrating on the maths lesson. At the front one of the class is working out a conversion of grammes to kilogrammes. The rest of them - roughly 100 11-year-olds - recite the answer in chorus. The teacher walks around the classroom making sure all the pupils are on the same page of the textbook. This is the scene at Nairobi's Olympic Primary School, which once had a reputation for high academic standards. But when the Kenyan government introduced Free Primary Education (FPE) in 2003, the school roll almost tripled, without the facilities and resources expanding as fast. Olympic is in the heart of the Kibera slum area, and the FPE programme gave children there a chance to get an education at no cost. ""Some classes have as many as 120 pupils in one room, handled by one teacher,"" headteacher Caleb Ochieng admitted. But he said that in spite of the numbers, his school manages to perform just above average in the national examinations. This is however a far cry from the days when Olympic was known as one of the best performing schools in Kenya. Mr Ochieng said that without the teachers' hard work the standards could fall further. ""Sometimes you'll find our teachers, even when they are on the road, marking the books. ""During the weekend they are still marking so that by Monday they are done,"" Mr Ochieng added. It is estimated that the country needs 80,000 more teachers to make up the shortfall in personnel. Education Minister Jacob Kaimenyi told the BBC there have been moves to address this. The government has employed 20,000 teachers in the last two years, and plans to add 5,000 more this year, but this is still not enough. ""This country spends a substantial amount of the national budget on education,"" Mr Kaimenyi said. ""It is almost 28%, and [because of this] some people think education is overfunded."" Most of that money goes to pay teachers. Faced with a huge shortage of both teachers and space, some schools have had to be creative. ""We converted some of the [special] rooms like the art room, home science room and the Islamic room, where Muslims were being taught Islamic studies, into classrooms,"" said Peter Kamau, the deputy headteacher at Nairobi's Milimani Primary School. ""Then, we employed Parent-Teacher Association [PTA] teachers, that is teachers who are paid by parents."" ""We have about 10 PTA teachers, because the government cannot cope with the demand for teachers needed to implement the [FPE] programme,"" added Mr Kamau. Milimani School is in a middle-income neighbourhood, and most of the residents there prefer to send their children to private schools where class sizes are smaller, facilities more developed and performance in national exams generally better than public schools. In the poorer areas, like Kibera, the government schools are vital in the effort to raise education standards. ""Most of the children here are very needy - some cannot even afford to buy a pencil,"" Olympic headteacher Mr Ochieng said. The Ministry of Education says it will continue to press the finance minister for more money. ""We all believe that education is key, it's an equaliser and a basic human right,"" argued Minister Kaimenyi. Education researcher Sarah Ruto says many African governments have been willing to introduce basic education for all children. But critics have argued that even though these programmes enabled more children to go to school, there was a lack of focus on the quality of education. Ms Ruto says that Kenya performs best in East Africa for literacy and numeracy skills, but still the average pupil is below the expected level for the previous year group. In Uganda, only 10% of the pupils can read English to the expected level. Figure like these, Ms Ruto says, means that despite education now being available to more people there is little to celebrate.","Kenya has been praised for introducing free primary school education , in line with one of the Millennium Development Goals , but the country is now @placeholder to raise education standards , as the BBC 's Anne Soy has been finding out in Nairobi .",adapting,set,risk,battling,poised,3
"Yet research shows our green intentions are washed away as soon as we step near a toilet. Now a business group has come up with an idea for how to combat this problem - two bathroom bins. The Circular Economy Taskforce, who were brought together by Prince Charles's Business in the Community environment charity, says it could boost recycling. So should two bins really sit alongside your stack of loo roll in the bathroom? Why should people have two bins in their bathrooms? ""It's trying to address the problem that people are less likely to recycle packaging for things we use in our bathrooms than for things we use in other rooms of the house,"" says Jonny Hazell, senior policy adviser for environmental think tank Green Alliance. The Recycle Now campaign points to its statistics, which show that while 90% of packaging is recycled in our kitchens, only 50% is being recycled in the bathroom. ""Often homes have one central recycling bin located in the kitchen, so when in the shower or washing your face it can be tricky to remember to transfer it to that bin,"" it says. ""This is why having a recycling bin or bag in the bathroom might be useful, if there is space."" Business in the Community says two bins could make it easier to separate out the plastics that can be recycled. ""But it doesn't have to be a bin, it could be as simple as a bag on the door handle that you bring down to the kitchen every week,"" it added. Where has this idea come from? While recycling has grown from 12% to 45% in the UK over the last decade, campaigners say the bathroom is an area that needs more focus. The Circular Economy Taskforce came up with the idea as part of its work looking at practical collaborative ways to boost recycling and re-use rates. ""The bathroom is one of the areas that has come up time and time again in the group as somewhere where both business and consumers can make a difference to help us all reduce our impact on the environment,"" says Business in the Community. ""Thinking about how different types of bins could boost recycling in the bathroom is just one example of a potential simple solution that could have a big impact."" Why are people failing to recycle their bathroom products? Campaigners believes it comes down not just to where a recycling bin is located but also to confusion over what can be recycled. Recycle Now says: ""There can also be confusion about what can or can't be recycled with bathroom products. ""For example many people don't realise that bleach bottles can be easily recycled - simply make sure it's empty and put the lid back on. ""Recycling just one bleach bottle saves enough energy to power a street light for 6.5 hours, so the value quickly adds up."" Research from the University of Exeter also found that people who threw away waste in the bathroom saw it as being ""dirty"" and were less likely to recycle it. Going through your bathroom bin to separate out what can and can't be recycled can seem off-putting,"" says Business in the Community. It added: ""There is also a lot of confusion around what can be recycled in the bathroom, for example many consumers are confused by aerosols."" How much recyclable waste comes from a bathroom? A surprising amount. Typical products include: Plastic shampoo, conditioner and shower gel bottles, plastic moisturiser bottles (such as for hand cream and body lotion), glass face cream pots (plus the cardboard packaging they come in), perfume and aftershave bottles, aerosols for deodorant, air freshener and shaving foam, bleach and bathroom cleaner bottles, toothpaste boxes and toilet roll tubes. Is a lack of recycling in bathrooms a real problem? Every little helps, is the message from environmental and recycling groups. ""In general, the less we recycle, the more water and energy we need to use to produce the materials we use in our daily lives,"" said Mr Hazell. Recycle Now says recycling reduces the amount we are sending to landfill and makes use of resources already available rather than making them from scratch. ""Ultimately this means reduced levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere which contribute to climate change,"" it added. ""For instance it takes 75% less energy to make a plastic shampoo bottle from recycled plastic compared with using virgin materials."" Can two bins have a meaningful impact on recycling overall? ""Ensuring you recycle in the bathroom can make a big difference,"" says Recycle Now. ""It would save £135,000 in landfill costs if every UK household threw their next empty shampoo bottles into the recycling bin. ""On top of this, if everyone recycled one more toilet roll tube it would save enough cardboard inner tubes from landfill to go round the M25 38 times."" But what if you don't have the space for two bins? There are other options. Hang a reusable bag on the bathroom door so you can transfer your recyclable items straight into the recycling bin. Or opt for a bin with split compartments which can be used to separate recyclable and non-recyclable items.","Our bathrooms are filled with shampoo bottles , toilet rolls and cleaning products which could easily be put into our recycling bins when @placeholder with .",shows,finished,records,deal,associated,1
"Lee Peters, 51, had been examining a suspicious package - which had been deemed low risk by military experts - which blew up in Afghanistan. It happened in 2011 while he was working for the MoD in its laboratory in Kandahar, carrying out ""routine examinations"" of the device. He has been awarded a six-figure sum. Mr Peters, who also suffered permanent damage to his eyesight, said: ""As soon as I heard the bang that day, I was under no illusion as to what I was facing. ""It was like being in a movie - everything went in slow motion. I knew my fingers were blown clean off but I could barely see. ""I thought if I fainted in there, I would die because there was so much blood. ""It was like someone had put a cloth sack over my head in the dead of night - that's how impaired my vision was,"" he said. The weapon, said to be a replica of a Russian landmine detonator, ripped away his index, third and ring finger down to the knuckle. Mr Peters, from Wrangle in Lincolnshire, said he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder following the blast - but said he was lucky to be alive. He said he was told if the the device had gone off as quickly as it was designed to, ""it would have blown my head clean off"". His lawyer Tracey Benson said the MoD had demonstrated ""shocking negligence"". She said: ""My client should never have come into contact with this item, and we hope that this case will make sure a similar avoidable incident won't blight any other professional's life."" An MoD spokesman said: ""We cannot comment on individual cases, but all claims are carefully considered and where the Ministry of Defence has a legal liability to pay compensation, we do so."" No further details have been given about the size of his compensation payout.",A scientist who lost three fingers when a detonator exploded as he @placeholder it has been compensated by the Ministry of Defence .,missed,realized,feared,handled,continues,3
"The 17-year-old boy and 18-year-old woman were arrested after the 65-year-old was found in Hexthorpe Park in the early hours of Tuesday. South Yorkshire Police said they were released following a post-mortem. Tests and enquiries are continuing to ascertain the full circumstances of his death, the force said. More on this story and others on Local Live in Yorkshire Emergency services were called to Hexthorpe Park at about 04:40 BST. The man was taken to hospital but died a short time later, police said.",Two teenagers arrested on suspicion of murder have been released after tests showed a man found @placeholder in a Doncaster park died of a heart attack .,abandoned,collapsed,dumped,murdered,resulted,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device Story of the match: Iran spent much of the first half under pressure but more than once threatened to inflict what would have been a huge upset. Media playback is not supported on this device Argentina's celebrations at the final whistle were wild and prolonged, while the sight of coach Alejandro Sabella embracing Messi at the tunnel gave an indication of what this meant to the two-time champions. The build-up was dominated by talk of a rift between Messi and Sabella, the captain having expressed his displeasure at the 5-3-2 formation used in the first half against Bosnia-Hercegovina when Messi also scored the decisive goal. Sabella duly reverted to the Barcelona forward's preferred 4-3-3 and was rewarded by his star man at the last. Iran looked devastated at the end but must take immense confidence from a performance that combined defensive resilience with attacking adventure - and from the knowledge they could still qualify. Carlos Queiroz's men actually created the first meaningful chance when Jala Hosseini headed wide from Ashkan Dejagah's free-kick, although Argentina then assumed control. Javier Mascherano and Fernando Gago provided a solid base for Angel Di Maria and full-backs Pablo Zabaleta and Marcos Rojo to support Messi, Gonzalo Higuain and Sergio Aguero. Iran goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi displayed superb reflexes to foil Higuain and save one-handed from Aguero. Rojo then headed narrowly wide, Messi was off target with a free-kick and Ezequiel Garay nodded inches over the bar. The Iran fans celebrated every reprieve like a goal. ""Lionel Messi is the difference in so many games and he's done it again. You know what he's going to do, take a step and curl it, but there's nothing the magnificent Iranians can do. It is just world class."" Argentina were meeting a wall of resistance every time they attacked but Iran's impressive defending ought to have been no surprise - they kept more clean sheets in qualifying than any team at the tournament. And when not thwarting the South Americans' forwards, Queiroz's team again came close to a goal of their own with another Hosseini header. Iran's preparations for the competition had been hampered by political sanctions that affected their funding and ability to organise friendlies, but they looked fully prepared and again came close to taking a shock lead through Reza Ghoochannejhad. Masoud Shojaei surged forward and fed Pejman Montazeri to cross for the Charlton Athletic striker, who would have scored had his header been aimed anywhere other than straight at Argentine keeper Sergio Romero. But the chance served to further bolster Iran's self-belief and after Dejagah had a strong penalty claim rejected by referee Milorad Mazic, the Fulham man was thwarted by Romero's fingertips as he met another Montazeri cross with a powerful header. Messi worked hard to swing the momentum back in Argentina's favour, slotting wide after a quick break and sending a free-kick into the side-netting, while Sabella introduced Rodrigo Palacio and Ezequiel Lavezzi in place of Aguero and Higuain as his side pushed hard for a winner. Still chances came for Iran, however, Ghoochannejhad nearly stealing the win, only for Romero to make a diving stop - and that miss proved costly when captain Messi stepped up with a wonderful finish into the far corner to send Argentina through with a game to spare and keep them on course for a first World Cup since 1986. Match ends, Argentina 1, Iran 0. Second Half ends, Argentina 1, Iran 0. Javier Mascherano (Argentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Amir Hossein Sadeqi (Iran). Substitution, Argentina. Lucas Biglia replaces Ángel Di María. Goal!  Argentina 1, Iran 0. Lionel Messi (Argentina) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ezequiel Lavezzi. Federico Fernández (Argentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Reza Ghoochanneijhad (Iran). Substitution, Iran. Reza Haghighi replaces Ehsan Hajsafi. Attempt saved. Reza Ghoochanneijhad (Iran) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Alireza Jahanbakhsh with a through ball. Attempt missed. Marcos Rojo (Argentina) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner. Corner,  Argentina. Conceded by Jalal Hosseini. Substitution, Iran. Alireza Jahanbakhsh replaces Ashkan Dejagah. Corner,  Argentina. Conceded by Alireza Haghighi. Attempt missed. Rodrigo Palacio (Argentina) header from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Javier Mascherano. Foul by Marcos Rojo (Argentina). Reza Ghoochanneijhad (Iran) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Marcos Rojo (Argentina) left footed shot from long range on the right misses to the left. Assisted by Ezequiel Lavezzi following a corner. Corner,  Argentina. Conceded by Mehrdad Pooladi. Corner,  Argentina. Conceded by Pejman Montazeri. Substitution, Argentina. Rodrigo Palacio replaces Gonzalo Higuaín. Substitution, Argentina. Ezequiel Lavezzi replaces Sergio Agüero. Substitution, Iran. Khosro Heydari replaces Masoud Shojaei. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Andranik Teymourian (Iran) because of an injury. Attempt saved. Ángel Di María (Argentina) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcos Rojo. Attempt missed. Lionel Messi (Argentina) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick. Masoud Shojaei (Iran) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Ángel Di María (Argentina) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Masoud Shojaei (Iran). Ezequiel Garay (Argentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Javad Nekounam (Iran). Corner,  Iran. Conceded by Marcos Rojo. Corner,  Argentina. Conceded by Amir Hossein Sadeqi. Corner,  Iran. Conceded by Sergio Romero. Attempt saved. Ashkan Dejagah (Iran) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Pejman Montazeri with a cross. Attempt blocked. Reza Ghoochanneijhad (Iran) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ashkan Dejagah with a cross. Corner,  Iran. Conceded by Ezequiel Garay. Corner,  Iran. Conceded by Pablo Zabaleta. Attempt blocked. Ehsan Hajsafi (Iran) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Javad Nekounam.",Lionel Messi curled a stunning 91 st - minute winner to send Argentina through to the World Cup knockout stage and @placeholder the excellent Iran of a deserved point .,provide,rob,eliminated,beat,assured,1
"His hat-trick last year brought him level with the late Robert Dunlop on 15 victories and I am confident that he will secure at least the one win he needs to become the most successful rider ever at the event. He is not unstoppable by any means but he has the track worked out, does his homework on a course he loves and is very switched on over the crucial Coast Road section. With the level of opposition as high as it has ever been, it will be far from easy, but he's with a strong team in the Briggs BMW outfit, has a strong package, and is used to pitting his skills against some of the best riders in Britain on the short circuits. Ian Hutchinson and Michael Dunlop will be on board the same brand of machine in the 'big bike' races and both will pose a major threat. In fact, in my view, Hutchinson will be the man to beat at the North West this year - he's performed well in both British Superstock championship races so far and seems completely at home with both his new bike and the Tyco team. I wasn't surprised at the impact he made on the roads on his return to full fitness last year because of the massive amount of drive and commitment he possesses. Michael had a lot of well-documented problems last season but he will be more determined than ever this time round. Everyone knows he is fast and that he'll push hard in every class. He must be regarded as a podium contender in every race, but whether he can occupy the top step will depend on how happy he is with the set-up of his bikes. He's had a couple of run outs at Silverstone and Oulton Park and that track time should stand him in good stead, although his main priority will again be the Isle of Man TT. Peter Hickman missed the North West last year but he is riding very well and the Kawasaki is a really strong bike. He has the talent to be right at the sharp end and despite this being only his second appearance at the circuit, he is capable of springing a surprise. After all, nobody expected him to win at the British Superbike round at Silverstone last month. Lee Johnston is very popular around the paddock and is likely to be a leading contender again in the Superstock and Supersport races. He could make the rostrum in the Superbikes but he is still finishing his apprenticeship in that class. In another year or two he could be a potential winner there too. You can never discount Bruce Anstey, he's a bit of a freak of nature as he only rides at a few meetings each year, but always seems to be capable of being on the pace straight away. I just think his Honda may lack a little bit of pace compared to the likes of the BMWs on a course like the Triangle circuit where top speed counts for so much. John McGuinness and Conor Cummins are also on Honda machinery but the TT in a few weeks' time will be their priority. One big name who will not be at the event this year is Guy Martin and while a number of the fans will miss him, he obviously didn't enjoy racing the course and hasn't really been in the running for top leaderboard positions for quite a while. I think he will still dabble in road racing but he has so much else going on, earning a lot of money doing other things, and has maybe lost his drive. Having said that, if he does decide to continue, he is still very fast and can be on the winning pace on the circuits he enjoys. Steve Plater was talking to BBC Sport NI's Richard Petrie",Alastair Seeley has been the man of the moment at the North West 200 over the last number of years and most of the attention in the run -up to this year 's event has naturally @placeholder on him .,drawn,increased,showered,focused,inspired,3
"It was the Scots' first tournament victory since 2010, drawing them level with Wales on five points. The Welsh had led 14-0 but two tries, one converted, and a late penalty turned the match in Scotland's favour. ""It was a pretty single-minded determination to win this game and they managed to do that, which was great,"" Munro said. ""Hard work, belief in what we're doing, good game-plan, good bunch of players, team spirit - if you've got all those things you're going to go places. ""I'm really pleased for them, I'm very proud of them. They performed extremely well and they deserve it."" Munro's team had opened with an agonising defeat against Ireland, who scored a late try to win 22-15, and then lost heavily to France. ""You learn, that's what sport is,"" said Munro. ""You have to learn from situations that you've been in. ""They were much more level-headed than they were against Ireland. There was a determination to not let Wales win rather than, 'I hope they don't win'. There's quite a difference there."" And, of Sarah Law's late penalty, Munro added: ""I thought, 'she'll get this'. ""She missed a couple against Ireland. She's a pretty determined character and she's been working hard on her kicking. I actually didn't doubt it for a minute."" Law put the result down to greater poise from the hosts. ""We knew, as a squad, that the performances were getting better and better,"" she told BBC Scotland. ""We knew that going into the game if we performed the way we knew we could, we would be able to come away with a win and that's what we did. ""We talked about composure and finishing after chances when we got them and I think that's what was different.""",Head coach Shade Munro praised Scotland 's @placeholder after their battling Women 's Six Nations win against Wales .,resolve,fortunes,criticism,position,form,0
"Phillip Lemonheigh, 60, admitted dangerous driving and three counts of perverting the course of justice. He made his Renault look like a first responder's vehicle, and drove it despite not having a licence, Swansea Crown Court heard. Lemonheigh said he bought the blue light to take his ill wife to hospital quicker. She has since died. The court heard there were a number of incidents leading up to his arrest. On 24 August, 2011 a speed camera recorded him travelling at 68mph in a 50mph zone at junction 40 of the M4. Later, he was spotted speeding on the same stretch of motorway. Then on 8 July, 2013 a speed camera caught him running a traffic light 24 seconds after it turned red at 73mph on the A4119 in Llantrisant and was later arrested. The court heard when the authorities requested details of the driver involved, Lemonheigh sent them driving licence information of a man who lost his licence in 1994 and now lives in Bulgaria. They had no idea how he had that information. Lemonheigh only had a provisional driving licence and already had six points on it. Recorder Peter Griffiths said Lemonheigh had ""a dishonest streak"" and he had no hesitation in sending him to prison. He added: ""You sailed through a red light and you could have caused a very serious accident."" Lemonheigh was given 12 months for dangerous driving and eight months for perverting the course of justice. He was also banned from driving for three years. The College of Paramedics said it is ""increasingly concerned"" about a recent surge in the number of fake paramedics such as Lemonheigh. Richard Webber, a paramedic and director of communications, said impersonating a paramedic should be a criminal offence. Chris Hume of road casualty reduction partnership Go Safe called it ""quite a bizarre case"". He said: ""I think it's a sad culmination of someone who has told a catalogue of lies.  I think the sentence is a severe sentence but I think it is appropriate. It reflects the seriousness of the offence. """,A Neath man who @placeholder his car as an ambulance by fixing a blue light to it has been jailed for 20 months .,admitted,rebuilt,lost,befriended,disguised,4
"Hay Castle Trust bought the site in 2011 and architects have spent the past year working on the project. It will include creating a route which links the castle and Hay-on-Wye town. If Brecon Beacons National Park Authority approves the plans when it meets in March, building work could start at the end of the year and be complete by early 2018.",Plans for a £ 4 m restoration and renovation of a Powys castle have been @placeholder .,scrapped,released,submitted,completed,announced,2
"Fletcher Shipping, of Portlethen, owned four ships for leasing, with support in the past three years from the Scottish government-funded Scottish Loan Fund. It had two other ships on order for nearly £17m, using a loan from Santander bank. But it ran into cash flow problems early this year as the oil price fell. Administrators at PwC said the daily spot price for hiring offshore vessels dropped from £18,000 to only £3,000. Prices reflected oil production firms cutting costs and exploration. The administrators transferred Fletcher Shipping assets to a new company, FS Shipping, in a so-called 'pre-pack' deal. This was financed with £18m, raised through Grovepoint Capital. The main assets of Fletcher Shipping, founded in 2007, were the FS Pegasus, FS Aquarius, FS Pisces and FS Taurus. The pre-pack deal means the operations continue uninterrupted, while shareholders lose out and creditors only recover some of their lending to the collapsed firm. According to administrators, the transaction had no employment impact, as the vessels crews were contract staff working for other firms. Keith Fletcher, founder of Fletcher Shipping, said: ""It is testament to the strong reputation of the crews and personnel at Fletcher Shipping that we have secured the confidence of new investors who have helped us recapitalise our business. ""We have worked hard to keep our fleet working throughout the recent downturn in the North Sea - a downturn which has affected the vessel market more harshly than I have witnessed in 30 years of business. The Scottish Loan Fund is part of the Scottish Investment Bank, which is the investing arm of Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish government's economic development agency. The loan fund is run by Maven Capital to meet gaps in the market for funding company growth. Fletcher Shipping had a £5m investment from public funds over 2012 and 2013, as part of a consortium with the Royal Bank of Scotland and Maven Capital client funds. At the time of announcing the funding package, the head of the Scottish Investment Bank, Kerry Sharp, said: ""Fletcher Shipping is exactly the kind of company the Scottish Loan Fund was established to support. It has excellent potential.""",A drop of more than 80 % in the price of leasing offshore platform @placeholder vessels has forced a north - east Scottish firm into administration .,supply,company,drilling,data,commercial,0
"A ten-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard that five girls were groomed for sex and ""shared"" by nine men from Heywood and Rochdale. The men plied the girls, some as young as 13, with drink and drugs before forcing them to have sex. However, while the arrest and charging of the men - eight from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan - could have been an end to the problem, it was when their trial hit the headlines that more trouble began. In February, a gang of about 100 youths gathered outside the Tasty Bites takeaway in Heywood, which had been mentioned in court as being at the centre of the grooming ring. What followed was a violent and verbal attack which police said was ""misjudged and against innocent members of the community"". Windows were smashed even though the business was, by then, under new management, who have renamed the takeaway. But new owner, Mushtaq Ahmed, said people were outside ""knocking on the windows shouting abusive words - 'we want rapists out, we want this out, we want that out.' ""They were calling us various names as well,"" he said. ""Most of them knew that we had nothing to do with it."" Publicity around the trial - which involved 11 defendants, two of whom have been cleared by the jury - also prompted demonstrations by far-right groups, both outside the court and in Heywood. Police insist the grooming was sexually, not racially-motivated, and the girls were targeted because they were vulnerable not because they are white. Despite this, far-right protesters staged a demonstration in the town almost every week during the trial, eager to exploit any racial tensions. The BNP's Nick Griffin even came to Heywood in an attempt to recruit new members. Stephen Campbell runs a taxi firm that employs nearly 80 drivers, some of whom have given up work through fear of being targeted by demonstrators. ""The staff don't feel safe coming to work anymore,"" he said. ""The drivers are driving around and they're always worrying who's getting in the car next. ""The job totals are down. We've had drivers leaving because they're too scared to work in Heywood. It's generally been bad for business."" Imam Irfan Chishti, from Rochdale Council of Mosques, said he was ""sickened"" by the case. ""It was very shocking to see fellow British Muslims brought to court for this kind of horrific offence,"" he said. ""But I'm glad to see that all segments of the Rochdale community have spoken out about it."" Rochdale Council has been tackling the problem of grooming by running an education programme warning schoolchildren of the dangers of child sexual exploitation. So far, 10,000 high school students have taken part. Emily Nickson, who runs the sessions, said: ""The content of the session is around sexual exploitation - what it is, who it might happen to, who might be a perpetrator. ""We look at online risks and how to keep them safe using social networking sites. We explain young people's rights and we talk about the law in terms of sexual consent. ""It's not a new subject, they already know about it, but we want to make them aware of the actual facts and how to keep themselves safe and less vulnerable."" The sessions are already paying off. One teenager who took part realised that her cousin was being groomed. ""She was being given bracelets and rings and all sorts of jewellery,"" she said. ""After the talk she thought about it twice and thought it was the wrong thing to do, so she walked away from it."" It's too early to say whether the problem of child exploitation has been removed. But the town is determined to move on with a positive message. ""Heywood has always been a welcoming community,"" said Father Paul Daly, a Roman Catholic priest from the Salford Diocese. ""We've got people of different races, people from different parts of the world, people from different faiths. ""It's always been a harmonious community and I think some of what we've seen came as quite a shock really to the people of Heywood themselves. ""Probably it's made us stronger because of that.""",The usually quiet town of Heywood has been @placeholder since finding itself at the centre of child sex allegations that sparked far-right protests and waves of vandalism .,declared,named,troubled,rocked,held,3
"Sharon Edwards, 42, is charged with murdering David Edwards at their home in Chorley, Lancashire, in August. Pictures of Mr Edwards showed him with a black eye and burst lip while his face was described as black and blue. Mrs Edwards told Manchester Crown Court she had been ""protective"" of Mr Edwards and the stab wound was accidental. Solicitor Mr Edwards, 51, was found dead in bed with a chest wound two months after the couple married in Las Vegas Prosecutors said Mrs Edwards' claim her husband had walked into a kitchen knife was ""fictional"". Mrs Edwards previously admitted holding the knife that killed him but denies deliberately pushing it into him. During cross examination, prosecutor Anne Whyte QC challenged Mrs Edwards' version of events. She said: ""It is a wound caused by a knife that has gone 8cm into his chest and you hadn't realised that had happened?"" The defendant said: ""I hadn't realised."" Ms Whyte QC suggested to Ms Edwards she was ""making it up as you are going along"". She said the defendant fully appreciated ""the supreme gravity of what happened"". ""You were busy worrying about yourself,"" she said. Mrs Edwards replied: ""That is not true."" The prosecutor said: ""I'm going to suggest you knew perfectly well you needed an explanation of why you were holding the knife at the time of your husband's fatal injury. ""You were thinking of number one."" Ms Whyte suggested Mrs Edwards had told her husband to ""rewrite history"" and lie about injuries she had inflicted on him. The court heard he had told a doctor and a nurse that his wife regularly assaulted him. In a recording of a conversation Mr Edwards had with his wife, he was heard to say ""we are going to have to refine the excuse for my eye, you know the garage door that we made up, that doesn't wash"". Mrs Edwards said she had only ever slapped her husband but claimed he had not been frightened of her. She told the court: ""I was a loving wife and I was protective of him."" Ms Edwards denies the murder charge. The trial continues.","A solicitor who was stabbed by his new wife had to use @placeholder to disguise injuries on his wedding day , a court has heard .",drugs,makeup,causing,lipstick,evidence,1
"Defender Anthony Stewart, 24, and Nick Freeman, 21, have triggered 12-month extensions to remain at Adams Park. Centre-back Aaron Pierre, 24, has been offered a new deal while the club remain in talks with 32-year-old midfielder Marcus Bean. Meanwhile, Jamal Blackman and Alex Jakubiak have returned to parent clubs Chelsea and Watford after loan spells. Thompson, 36, joined Wycombe in the summer of 2015 when he signed a new two-year deal, which expires in the summer. Wood, 30, has been with the Chairboys since 2012, having initially been plucked out of non-League football by Brentford. Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth said: ""In Garry and Sam we've had two fantastic professionals who have played a huge part in this club's recent progress.""",Wycombe have released experienced midfielder Garry Thompson and left - @placeholder player Sam Wood .,hand,based,team,including,sided,4
"Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns from the world around her. It means we are getting machines that can, for example, teach themselves how to play computer games and get incredibly good at them (work ongoing at Google's DeepMind) and devices that can start to communicate in human-like speech, such as voice assistants on smartphones. Computers are beginning to understand the world outside of bits and bytes. Fei-Fei Li has spent the last 15 years teaching computers how to see. First as a PhD student and latterly as director of the computer vision lab at Stanford University, she has pursued the painstakingly difficult goal with an aim of ultimately creating the electronic eyes for robots and machines to see and, more importantly, understand their environment. Half of all human brainpower goes into visual processing even though it is something we all do without apparent effort. ""No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples,"" said Ms Li in a talk at the 2015 Technology, Entertainment and Design (Ted) conference. ""If you consider a child's eyes as a pair of biological cameras, they take one picture about every 200 milliseconds, the average time an eye movement is made. So by age three, a child would have seen hundreds of millions of pictures of the real world. That's a lot of training examples,"" she added. She decided to teach computers in a similar way. ""Instead of focusing solely on better and better algorithms, my insight was to give the algorithms the kind of training data that a child is given through experiences in both quantity and quality."" Back in 2007, Ms Li and a colleague set about the mammoth task of sorting and labelling a billion diverse and random images from the internet to offer examples of the real world for the computer - the theory being that if the machine saw enough pictures of something, a cat for example, it would be able to recognise it in real life. They used crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk, calling on 50,000 workers from 167 countries to help label millions of random images of cats, planes and people. Eventually they built ImageNet - a database of 15 million images across 22,000 classes of objects organised by everyday English words. It has become an invaluable resource used across the world by research scientists attempting to give computers vision. Each year Stanford runs a competition, inviting the likes of Google, Microsoft and Chinese tech giant Baidu to test how well their systems can perform using ImageNet. In the last few years they have got remarkably good at recognising images - with around a 5% error rate. To teach the computer to recognise images, Ms Li and her team used neural networks, computer programs assembled from artificial brain cells that learn and behave in a remarkably similar way to human brains. A neural network dedicated to interpreting pictures has anything from a few dozen to hundreds, thousands, or even millions of artificial neurons arranged in a series of layers. Each layer will recognise different elements of the picture - one will learn that there are pixels in the picture, another layer will recognise differences in the colours, a third layer will determine its shape and so on. By the time it gets to the top layer - and today's neural networks can contain up to 30 layers - it can make a pretty good guess at identifying the image. At Stanford, the image-reading machine now writes pretty accurate captions (see examples above) for a whole range of images although it does still get things wrong - so for instance a picture of a baby holding a toothbrush was wrongly labelled ""a young boy is holding a baseball bat"". Despite a decade of hard work, it still only has the visual intelligence level of a three-year-old, said Prof Li. And, unlike a toddler, it doesn't yet understand context. ""So far, we have taught the computer to see objects or even tell us a simple story when seeing a picture,"" Prof Li said. But when she asks it to assess a picture of her own son at a family celebration the machine labels it simply: ""Boy standing next to a cake"". She added: ""What the computer doesn't see is that this is a special Italian cake that's only served during Easter time."" That is the next step for the laboratory - to get machines to understand whole scenes, human behaviours and the relationships between objects. The ultimate aim is to create ""seeing"" robots that can assist in surgical operations, search out and rescue people in disaster zones and generally improve our lives for the better, said Ms Li. The work into visual learning at Stanford illustrates how complex just one aspect of creating a thinking machine can be and it comes on the back of 60 years of fitful progress in the field. Back in 1950,  pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing wrote a paper speculating about a thinking machine and the term ""artificial intelligence"" was coined in 1956 by Prof John McCarthy at a gathering of scientists in New Hampshire known as the Dartmouth Conference. After some heady days and big developments in the 1950s and 60s, during which both the Stanford lab and one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were set up, it became clear that the task of creating a thinking machine was going to be a lot harder than originally thought. There followed what was dubbed the AI winter - a period of academic dead-ends when funding for AI research dried up. But, by the 1990s, the focus in the AI community shifted from a logic-based approach - which basically involved writing a whole lot of rules for computers to follow - to a statistical one, using huge datasets and asking computers to mine them to solve problems for themselves. In the 2000s, faster processing power and the ready availability of vast amounts of data created a turning point for AI and the technology underpins many of the services we use today. It allows Amazon to recommend books, Netflix to suggest movies and Google to offer up relevant search results. Smart little algorithms began trading on Wall Street - sometimes going further than they should, as in the 2010 Flash Crash when a rogue algorithm was blamed for wiping billions off the New York stock exchange. It also provided the foundations for the voice assistants, such as Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana, on smartphones. At the moment such machines are learning rather than thinking and whether a machine can ever be programmed to think is debatable given that the nature of human thought has eluded philosophers and scientists for centuries. And there will remain elements to the human mind - daydreaming for example - that machines will never replicate. But increasingly they are evaluating their knowledge and improving it and most people would agree that AI is entering a new golden age where the machine brain is only going to get smarter.　",By 2050 some experts believe that machines will have @placeholder human level intelligence .,plagued,faced,revealed,reached,joined,3
"International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach is urging the tour to adhere to World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) rules. The PGA Tour has a doping policy but it is not as strict as Wada standards. ""I can only encourage the PGA Tour to follow and finally accept the Wada code and to be compliant with this,"" said Bach at St Andrews during The Open. Bach added that he wanted ""a harmonised anti-doping regime there for all the golf players and... a level playing field for all golfers"". Asked if non-compliance might put golf's Olympic future in jeopardy, he replied: ""Of course, we'd have to take this into consideration."" Neither the PGA Tour or European Tour publishes details of the number of drug tests it carries out during a year. Governing body the R&A does not publish details of how many tests it conducts at The Open Championship. Asked earlier this week for a specific figure, R&A chief executive Peter Dawson would only say that the number was significant. Golf is returning to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 at Rio next summer. The sport's ruling bodies were criticised by two-time major winner Greg Norman for not taking the threat of doping seriously enough. The International Golf Federation (IGF) will run the drug-testing programme for the Olympics, beginning 13 weeks before the Games. It will include blood testing (at the moment there are only urine tests in golf), out of competition testing and an introduction of the whereabouts rule. All Olympic golfers - male and female - will have to inform anti-doping officials where they are going to be for one hour each day between 5am and 11pm so they can be tested. Bach added: ""The athletes will have to accept the Olympic standards during the next year prior to the Games and, of course, during the Games the first five will be tested on top of the random-testing and the targeted-testing during the Olympic period."" David Howman, Wada's director general, said on Wednesday: ""No sport can be complacent on the doping issue."" He added that the Wada system was the ""gold standard"" and the best way to ensure that ""clean athletes and the watching public can have full confidence in the anti-doping system"".",The US PGA Tour has been @placeholder over its stance on doping before golf 's return to the Olympics in 2016 .,voted,questioned,stripped,warned,strengthened,3
"However, there is one political bogeyman they both seem to loathe - each has laid into Donald Trump with the kind of language usually reserved for Third World despots, or criminals at the far end of the felony spectrum. Mr Corbyn described Mr Trump's beliefs as ""an affront to common humanity"", while Mr Johnson joked that he would avoid parts of New York, in case he bumped into Mr Trump while there. Such a consensus could leave you thinking there is anti-Trump unanimity in Britain, that his brand of populist, no-holds-barred rhetoric may play well in the Midwest, but that it has no place in, for example, the Midlands. It is a suggestion which angers those Brits who are in fact hoping for a Trump victory and it also confirms their view that the media and political establishment are biased against anyone who challenges their own cosy consensus. ""Trump shoots from the hip, not like a regular politician,"" Lee Waters tells me. ""It's quite refreshing."" We are sitting in a Nottingham pub, where Lee and his friend, Fran Loi, seem relieved that a journalist wants to hear why they find Mr Trump appealing. Both are UKIP activists and both stood unsuccessfully as UKIP candidates in the last general election. They believe Mr Trump is being subjected to unfair criticism of a kind that their own party suffered. ""It doesn't matter what he says, he seems to be vilified,"" says Fran, who particularly approves of Mr Trump's attitude to Russia. ""He says he's going to work with Vladimir Putin, whereas John Kerry wants to cut ties with Russia. We don't want a Cold War."" Lee is attracted by Mr Trump's stand on immigration: ""If you don't know who the people are who are coming in, you don't know if they are good guys or bad guys. He wants strong controls."" Donald Trump's links to UKIP were brought into focus in August, when he was joined on stage by Nigel Farage at a rally in Mississippi. And there has been repeated speculation that the interim UKIP leader is offering campaign advice to the Trump team, with reports this week that Mr Farage would be a personal guest of Mr Trump at the next candidates' debate. However, Mr Trump's support in Britain extends way beyond this one party, according to Jon Stanley, a commentator for the right-leaning think tank, The Bow Group. ""I come from the north of England,"" he says, arguing that many people there will be attracted by the same Mr Trump policies as their blue collar counterparts in the US. ""We've almost got used to deindustrialisation… if you're manufacturing things that can suddenly be manufactured in China, your working class people get absolutely stuffed. Donald Trump thinks he can bring these jobs back."" It is promises like this which have helped propel Mr Trump from joke outsider to serious contender and in the process posed a problem for British politicians, because Boris Johnson is not the only prominent Conservative to have taken Mr Trump to task. Back when he was prime minister, David Cameron called Trump's commitment to ban Muslims from the US ""divisive, stupid and wrong"". ""It's always sensible to be polite about someone who may become president of the United States,"" cautions the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.  While not happy to be called a ""Trump fan"", Mr Rees-Mogg supports some Trump policies and says if he was American, he would vote for Trump simply because he is a Republican. ""I am a Conservative and would usually vote for the equivalent Conservative candidate,"" he says. Asked if some of Donald Trump's comments, like calling Mexicans ""rapists"", put him beyond the pale, Mr Rees-Mogg says British people should not be so judgemental about a democratic process different to their own: ""I think a certain humility about other people's elections is prudent."" Humility is not really in evidence though at Nottingham's Ragland Road bar, certainly not when it comes to Donald Trump. Just down the road from the pub where I met Trump's UKIP fans, the Ragland Road bar displays a very different attitude to the Republican candidate - because spread across the urinal in the men's toilets is a giant photograph of Mr Trump. So wide is the photograph, it is not actually possible for anyone to relieve themselves here, without appearing to make their own, very personal comment on Trump's candidacy. ""Customers think the toilet is absolutely hilarious,"" says the Ragland Road's manager, Ruth Beraki. ""People come in and take selfies and send them all round the world."" She insists the photograph was meant as a joke and should not be taken as a political statement by the bar's owners. Yet, asked why she thinks it is proving so popular, Beraki does not need long to think of the answer. ""There are a lot of people who don't like Donald Trump,"" she says. Listen to Paul Moss's report for The World Tonight via the BBC iPlayer.",There can be few beliefs which @placeholder Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn .,distinguish,link,surround,unite,finished,3
"The nine members of the team, who will compete across the four events, all won medals at last year's World Championships while two have already won Paralympic gold in the sport. Tom Aggar won single sculls gold in Beijing while Pam Relph was part of the victorious mixed coxed four in London. Rachel Morris will compete in her second sport after winning handcycling gold in Beijing and bronze in London. The 37-year-old double amputee transferred to rowing in 2013 and won silver at the 2015 World Championships in France. Relph, 26, is the only remaining rower from her 2012 boat and teams up with debutants Grace Clough, James Fox, Daniel Brown and cox Oliver James. The boat is unbeaten since the 2011 Worlds and the current crew are two-time World champions. ""The team that has been selected is far stronger than any I have been a part of in my six years of rowing for GB,"" Relph said. There is also a new look in the double with Laurence Whiteley and Lauren Rowles hoping to make an impact in their first Games. Whiteley, 24, spent two years waiting for a suitable partner to come along but his patience was rewarded when wheelchair racer Rowles, 18, who has just finished her A Levels, tried out early last year. The partnership yielded a silver medal at the 2015 Worlds in their first major competition together. Squad: Tom Aggar, Rachel Morris, Laurence Whiteley, Lauren Rowles, Pam Relph, Grace Clough, James Fox, Daniel Brown, Oliver James.",Great Britain have named an @placeholder rowing squad for the Rio Paralympics .,offer,named,appeal,experienced,team,3
"The singer gave the record player as a wedding gift to Ellen Marschhauser in Germany in 1959, where he was stationed during his Army service. She and husband Jim Jenkins retired to Cornwall, where she died in 2010. The Perpetuum Ebner Musical 5v Luxus was expected to fetch £2,000, but sold for £4,400 to an overseas bidder at Penzance Auction House. Proprietor David Lay said he had never come across anything that had created so much interest. Mr Jenkins said the record player had also been a ""thank you"" from Elvis to his wife for doing some translation work for the singer's father, Vernon. He said he and his wife had used the record player at parties, but it had been put away in the loft when the needle broke. As well as playing records on it, it is believed that Elvis also used the player as an amplifier for his guitar.",A record player that once belonged to Elvis Presley has sold for double its @placeholder price at auction .,aged,serving,swearing,estimated,lives,3
"The late night ruling means the travel ban will remain suspended until the full case has been heard. The court gave the White House and the states challenging it a deadline of Monday to present more arguments. Two states argued that the travel ban, affecting people from seven mainly-Muslim countries, was unconstitutional. In its appeal, the Justice Department said Judge James Robart had overreached by ""second guessing"" the president on a national security matter. It also argued that only the president could decide who can enter or stay in the US. Is Trump's immigration order legal? Who does travel ban affect? World reacts to Trump order In Friday's case, the Justice Department had argued that states did not have the authority to challenge a presidential executive order. Lawyers for the states of Washington and Minnesota had argued that the ban was unconstitutional because it denied people with valid entry documents the right to travel without due process. It also violated freedom of religion rights by appearing to target Muslims, they said. The next step is for briefs to be filed by both sides for a formal review of Judge Robart's suspension on Monday. The Justice Department could have appealed directly to the Supreme Court on an emergency basis, but it chose not to since the appeal court is moving fairly quickly. If the appeal court decides the stay is valid - perhaps as early as next week - then a Supreme Court appeal is almost certain. In the meantime, everything is on hold. US immigration processes continue as they did before Mr Trump issued his executive order. If it looks like this is bogging down, the president might eventually decide to modify the order rather than try to defend its legality. That's probably the most prudent course, but he's a stubborn man. Iraq, one of the countries named in the ban, has praised the revocation of the travel ban as a ""move in the right direction"", Reuters reported. Iran has also responded to Judge Robart's ruling by saying it would allow a US wrestling team to compete in a World Cup event it is hosting later this month. The US wrestlers were initially denied visas after Iran said it would ban Americans in retaliation for Mr Trump's order. However Mr Trump has called Judge Robart's ruling ""ridiculous"", described him as a ""so-called judge"" and vowed to restore the ban. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell told CNN it was ""best to avoid criticising judges individually"". Judge Robart has served on the federal bench since 2004 after nomination by President George W Bush. Friday's ruling has also seen visa holders from the affected nations scramble to get flights to the US, fearing they have a slim window to enter. The State Department has been reversing visa cancellations and US homeland security employees have been told by their department to comply with the ruling. Customs officials told airlines that they could resume boarding banned travellers. Qatar Airways, Air France, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa and others said they would do so. The ban caused confusion at US and foreign airports when it came into force. It envisages a 90-day visa suspension for anyone arriving from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The directive also suspends the US Refugee Admissions Programme for 120 days, and places an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees. It has led to protests in US cities and around the world.",The US federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration 's request to reinstate a travel ban @placeholder by a federal judge on Friday .,bills,sparked,overshadowed,blocked,funded,3
"Three players and four coaches were placed in quarantine so the side were coached by captain Francesca Williams, 20, and vice-captain Gabby Marshall, 21. Williams, a Superleague winner with Wasps last season, led England to the 75-27 win and her side remain unbeaten. England now face Fiji on Wednesday. The seven members of the party who fell ill are reported to have rejoined the squad on Tuesday morning, 24 hours before their final group game. Earlier in the week, England beat both Wales (69-23) and Grenada (98-25) as they began their attempt to win the tournament for the first time in good form. Following the group stage, all 20 teams will enter a second pool dependent on their original finishing position before the finals on 16 July. England under-21 squad in full: Francesca Williams (captain), Gabriella Marshall (vice-captain), Summer Artman, Imogen Allison, Amy Clinton, Iona Darroch, Sophie Drakeford-Lewis, George Fisher, Vicki Oyesola, Razia Quashie, Jessica Shaw, Chiara Semple.",England Under - 21s defeated Trinidad and Tobago in a Netball Youth World Cup group game in Botswana despite the @placeholder of their entire coaching staff after a sickness bug hit their camp .,fate,absence,form,top,rest,1
"Bilel Ayadi, 34, who is in a medically-induced coma, has been unable to tell detectives how he sustained burns to his torso and neck. He was found walking in Finsbury Park, north London, on 23 March. Mr Ayadi had walked bare-chested for about two miles, police said. He was found in Woodberry Grove at about 22:30 GMT by two security guards, who called police. Appealing for information, Det Con Anwen Clissold said Mr Ayadi would have ""been very distinctive"". ""It may well be that he was already injured as he made his way through the streets,"" she said. ""We are still trying to establish what has caused his burns but what we do know is that a young man has sustained some very serious injuries. I need to find out how."" Mr Ayadi's brother, Abderrezak Ayadi, said: ""Bilel is my brother and at this moment he is lying in hospital with terrible injuries. ""Imagine if this was someone from your family. We just need to find out exactly what happened to him."" Algerian national Mr Ayadi, who has lived in the UK for the past six years, is described as 5ft 11in (1.8m) tall and of medium build.",Images of a shirtless man found wandering the streets after he suffered serious burns have been @placeholder in a bid to solve the mystery of his injuries .,held,launched,recorded,released,injured,3
"Frances Cappuccini suffered a ""gush of blood"" several hours after giving birth to second son Giacomo at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in October 2012. Senior registrar Dr Gabriella Gray said she twice managed to stop the bleeding but there were further complications. Last year the hospital trust and a consultant were cleared of manslaughter. Dr Gray told the inquest she had responded alongside two other doctors to an emergency buzzer sounded for Mrs Cappuccini. She was informed there had been a postpartum haemorrhage, she said, which led her to observe and assess the mother of two. After a second buzzer was sounded around 90 minutes later, Dr Gray said the decision was made to take Mrs Cappuccini back to theatre because there was ""ongoing"" bleeding. She discovered blood clots and removed a 4-5cm piece of placenta still in Mrs Cappuccini's womb, the inquest heard. The 30-year-old schoolteacher also had problems breathing, ""alarming high"" blood-acid levels, and high CO2 retention levels, she added. On Tuesday Mrs Cappuccini's husband Tom told the inquest she endured a 12-hour labour after hospital staff refused an elective Caesarean section. A locum consultant anaesthetist Errol Cornish was cleared of gross negligence manslaughter and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was cleared of corporate manslaughter two weeks into a trial last January. The inquest, at Gravesend Old Town Hall, continues.","A mother who died after an emergency Caesarean section @placeholder more than four pints of blood , an inquest has heard .",team,sparked,containing,lost,light,3
"The case of Renee and Andrew MacRae, from Inverness, remains open and under investigation, Police Scotland said earlier this week. Also this week, the family of the missing two told of their heartache of still seeking closure, but of also a hope they will one day get answers. The four-decades-old unsolved case has had many twists since the day the pair went missing on 12 November 1976. Mrs MacRae, a mother-of-two, was estranged from her businessman husband Gordon MacRae, and involved in a relationship with Bill MacDowell, a married accountant at Mr MacRae's building firm. At 17:00 on 12 November, Mrs MacRae set off in her car with Andrew, who was three, at her older son from their home in Inverness. She dropped her eldest son off at her husband's home, before driving off, reportedly to meet Mr MacDowell in Perth. Mr MacDowell says they never met up. At about 22:00, Mrs MacRae's BMW was found on fire by a passing bus driver about 12 miles (19km) south of Inverness. The car was parked on a loop road that was being used as a lay-by during the construction of then new A9 trunk road. There was no sign of the mother and son and police began their investigation into what would become one of the UK's longest missing persons cases. Journalist Iain MacDonald, who covered the story of the disappearance in 1976 and has continued to do so over the last 40 years, said other motorists reported incidents on the same stretch of road. Mr MacDonald told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie programme: ""Witness told of seeing someone dragging a sheep, and Renee MacRae was wearing a sheepskin coat that night, and another saw a man with a pushchair. ""There was a bloodstained rug recovered from the car but that was it."" In the fortnight following 12 November, more than 100 police officers and large numbers of volunteers searched moorland around the site of where the BMW was discovered. RAF Canberra aircraft flew in to make wider sweeps of the area. ""Searches were made of flooded quarries and of the wide, rough ground which abounds there. Nothing was ever found,"" said Mr MacDonald. The police investigation and their appeals for information continued over the years. More recent developments in forensic science offered new opportunities to examine the case. The year 2004 saw some of the most dramatic developments in the case. New tests were carried out in a laboratory in Aberdeen on traces of blood found in the boot of the BMW. Detectives said the blood was among evidence from the 1970s that experts had been able to ""clean up and amplify"". Also in 2004, police drafted in internationally experienced forensic archaeologists and anthropologists to sift 35,000 tonnes of soil from the disused Dalmagarry quarry, close to where Mrs MacRae's car was found. This renewed effort to solve the case followed up on reports of a smell of decomposing flesh at the quarry several months after Mrs MacRae and Andrew vanished. Mr MacDonald said: ""Police sergeant John Cathcart and a digger driver were investigating Dalmagarry quarry. They got a very strong smell but, he claimed, they were recalled before they got any further because of a lack of funds. ""Over the subsequent years John Cathcart told that story to a number of people, I was one of them, and in 2004 police launched a major operation. ""They spent over £100,000 digging up the quarry in August of that year over a three-week period, moving tonnes of earth and 2,000 or so trees and they found nothing but crisp packets, some men's clothing and animal bones."" Two years later came a fresh twist in the case when police submitted a report to the procurator fiscal naming a person suspected of killing Mrs MacRae and Andrew. Just months later the Crown Office said there was insufficient evidence to take the case to court. But, as the 40th anniversary falls, there is anticipation again of possible further developments. It has been reported that ""an anomaly"" has been detected by ground penetrating radar in the foundations of a bridge near the lay-by where the car was found. However, Police Scotland said this week its inquiries indicated construction work did not start in this area until some time after Mrs MacRae's disappearance. The force said it would nonetheless liaise with contractors involved in the current A9 upgrade in an effort to explain the radar anomaly. On the wider investigation, Police Scotland said this week that it continued to be actively pursued. Det Supt Jim Smith, of the force's Major Investigations Team North, said: ""As in all cases such as these, there is a family quite rightly seeking answers and closure. ""We are determined to do all we can to find those answers, and to that end continue to maintain contact with the family of Christine MacRae and Andrew MacRae as the years go on.","Today @placeholder 40 years since a Highlands mother and her young son vanished . The mystery of their disappearance continues to cause distress to their family , and challenge police .",tackled,breached,centre,recorded,marks,4
"The attack on the 11-year-old, of Stockport, Greater Manchester is said to have happened at Scoutcentrum Buitenzorg camp in Baarn, Utrecht, in the summer of 1985. The victim only reported it to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) in March 2016. Detectives want anyone who may have been at the camp from mid-July to the end of August 1985 to contact them. Det Con Phil Hargreaves said: ""We have followed extensive inquiries and we now want to speak to anyone who was at the camp that summer. ""Even if you didn't witness anything, or have any knowledge of the incident, you may still have information which could be vital to this investigation."" He added: ""We know scout groups from across the UK and Europe visited the camp, so it may be that you are not from the Greater Manchester area but I would still urge you to get in touch.""",An appeal over a British boy scout 's rape in the Netherlands more than 30 years ago has been @placeholder by police .,criticised,refused,released,launched,sacked,3
"The figure and the words ""funded by the UK taxpayer"" will be added to all packs costing more than £20 in England. It is part of efforts to reduce the £300m bill for ""wasted"" medication, which is prescribed but not used. The health secretary said there was no such thing as a free health service and this would reduce waste by reminding people of the cost of medicine. Jeremy Hunt added: ""Everything we are proud of in the NHS is funded by taxpayers, and every penny we waste costs patients more through higher taxes or reduced services."" Neal Patel, from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said: ""We know that around 30 to 50% of patients don't use their medicines as intended and there is around £150 million of avoidable medicines waste. ""Although knowledge of the cost of medicines may play a part its equally important we focus on factors such as peoples understanding of the side effects and benefits from medicines, which will also influence whether a condition is treated effectively or the medicine ends up in the bin."" NHS Confederation chief executive Rob Webster said: ""It is important for the public to be better informed about how money is spent in the NHS. ""We will be interested in seeing more detail about how the labelling policy will be implemented.""","Packets of prescription medication will display how much their @placeholder have cost taxpayers , under government plans .",contents,phones,activities,group,world,0
"About a century ago, Albert Einstein proposed the existence of ripples in the fabric of space-time - as an outcome of his Theory of General Relativity. It took until February this year, however, for scientists to finally announce their detection, using an approach known as laser interferometry. Quite apart from this spectacular confirmation of Einstein's ideas, the discovery also provided the first direct confirmation for the existence of black holes. It opens up a completely new branch of astronomy, offering a way to probe cosmic phenomena that are off limits to other forms of astronomical inquiry. The hope is that this will all lead to a more complete understanding of the Universe and even shine a light on what got it all started - the Big Bang. Humans have been turning amber into jewellery and trinkets since prehistoric times. And it's not uncommon to find ancient beetles, ants and other insects trapped in the fossilised tree sap. But it's unusual to find the remains of larger animals. In June, researchers Lida Xing, Ryan McKellar and others published details of wings from baby birds trapped in 99-million-year-old amber from north-eastern Myanmar. The finds preserved spectacular detail of the feathers and traces of colour, but the best was yet to come. In December, the same team unveiled a dinosaur tail captured in amber from the same region - a world-first discovery. Scientists think the juvenile animal - small enough to have fitted in the palm of a hand - got trapped in sticky sap from the tropical forest that once existed there and could not wrestle free. At the end of 2015, Tim Peake became the first ""official"" UK astronaut to launch into space since Helen Sharman visited the Soviet Mir Space Station in 1991. His mission certainly got off to an eventful start. A few hours after launch, the flight's Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko had to manually dock the Soyuz spacecraft with the space station following the failure of its ""Kurs"" radar system. Then, in January, Nasa announced that Peake would step outside the space station to help repair a failed voltage regulator. He became the first ever person to wear the Union Flag on a spacewalk. But while the walk achieved its primary objective, it had to be called off early when water began leaking into the helmet of colleague Tim Kopra's spacesuit. Major Tim also became the first person to ""run"" the London Marathon from space, attached to the ISS's special microgravity treadmill, before returning to Earth in June. This year, astronomers confirmed the existence of a rocky exoplanet orbiting the nearest star to our Solar System - Proxima Centauri. This rocky world in a next-door system - named Proxima b - also sits within the so-called habitable zone around its star. However, Proxima Centauri belongs to a class of small, cool stars known as M dwarfs. They are quite different to the mid-sized yellow category that our Sun belongs to. Because they are cooler, the habitable zones around M dwarfs are located further in. But this also exposes planets to the harsh radiation by these stars. Just how suitable for life the habitable zones of these M dwarf stars are remains a matter for debate. In September, a team of researchers estimated that Proxima b could be blasted by deadly ""superflares"" from the host star about eight times a year. The search for a compact, thin lens that performs as well, or better, than the bulky, curved types used in cameras and telescopes got a major boost during 2016. A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could be ""game-changing"", according to one of its US inventors. ""The quality of our images is actually better than with a state-of-the-art objective lens. I think it is no exaggeration to say that this is potentially revolutionary,"" said Prof Federico Capasso of Harvard University. These ""metalenses"" work in the visible spectrum but avoid the shortfalls - known as aberrations - inherent in traditional glass optics. In fact, the focal spot of the flat lens was typically 30% sharper than its competition. But just as importantly, because the lenses are flat, they could be manufactured in the same foundries that produce computer chips. This means they could be made on a large scale at a fraction of the cost of conventional lenses. One of the most important robotic spacecraft missions of recent times came to an end in 2016, as the European Space Agency crashed its Rosetta spacecraft into the comet it had been orbiting for two years. Just before that happened, mission scientists announced that they had found Philae, the little lander that had detached from Rosetta and descended to the surface of Comet 67P in 2014. Philae had relayed pictures and science data to Earth, but bounced off the surface and fell silent 60 hours later when its battery went flat. Its resting place had been a mystery, but Rosetta's Osiris cameras spotted the probe wedged in an overhang, explaining why it couldn't get enough sunlight to power its batteries. Europe's other big mission of the year also crashed on its target, albeit unintentionally. Schiaparelli, which was intended to test the technology for landing on Mars, suffered a glitch that caused its parachute to jettison too early. Officials at the agency were concerned that the next stage in the Mars programme - the ExoMars rover - might not receive sufficient funding at a meeting of ministers in December. But delegates eventually decided to stump up the money. Google's Deep Mind wowed observers yet again this year, with more powerful demonstrations of artificial intelligence. In March, the lab's AlphaGo programme beat one of the world's top players of Go - the strategy board game. In fact, Le Se-dol won only one of the five matches against his silicon-based opponent, missing out on a $1m prize. And in a study published in the journal Neuron, researchers from DeepMind collaborated with scientists from Oxford and UCL to probe how the human brain navigates underground train maps. First author Jan Balaguer said the work could help scientists ""design more clever algorithms"". AI expert Prof Noel Sharkey said we shouldn't be too worried about rogue AI taking over the world. But he suggested we might do well to keep an eye on our jobs. Follow Paul on Twitter.","From the first direct evidence for black holes , to a rocky planet circling a @placeholder star , 2016 was packed with amazing science stories . Here 's a selection .",neighbouring,spot,growing,gripping,beach,0
"Operations director John Stoddard, 41, was killed at the Higher Kings plant at Cullompton, Devon, in 2011. Exeter Crown Court heard DS Smith Paper had failed to act on 73 urgent safety recommendations from a report compiled 11 months earlier. The company admitted failing to ensure safe working. Mr Stoddard died instantly when he was pulled into a production line from an upstairs platform as he tried to smooth down paper which was passing through it. The father-of-two was killed 11 months after a firm of consultants had made a series of safety recommendations which were not implemented. These included 33 areas of very high risk which should have been addressed within 24 hours and 40 of high risk which should have been rectified within a week. Judge Francis Gilbert QC said it was a ""serious aggravating feature"" that the company had failed to act on the report. The judge said: ""If the company had corrected the hazardous feature which was later described by their own expert, this fatality would not have occurred. ""The Health and Safety Executive concluded that the risk to operators from thin moving machinery was obvious. ""They say the failure to address so many area of high or very high risk was a failure at the highest level of the company."" Mr Simon Antrobus, defending, said the company accepted full responsibility and offered a public apology from chief executive Miles Roberts to Mr Stoddard's family.","A paper company has been fined £ 400,000 after a number of "" serious safety failings "" led to an employee being @placeholder by a machine .",investigated,rocked,crushed,bitten,targeted,2
"A journalist with more than 13 years' experience covering stories of terror, violence, attending inquests, carrying out death knocks and focusing on the emerging field of ""trauma journalism"", there came a point last year when I was ready to take a step back and deep dive into the world of peace and conflict, which had come to underpin every bit of storytelling I was doing. So earlier this year, I took three months' unpaid leave to take up a Rotary International peace fellowship at Chulalongkorn University, in Thailand. This is a professional development programme for mid-career workers interested in understanding peace and learning conflict-resolution techniques. Fifty people from around the world had been selected for a funded scholarship this year, after a two-part face -to-face interview process and a long paper application system. Global education Get in touch with the Global education series. An article I had written for BBC History several years previously, on why people destroyed cultural heritage, had instigated a real interest in identity politics. The destruction of heritage sites Palmyra, in Syria, and Nimrud, in Iraq, was of real interest - how had we reached a point where monuments were under attack and why? My three months would be spent examining the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, in 2001, the role the media had played and lessons for the future. Peace and conflict study courses are on offer at universities and educational centres around the world - it's a popular subject. In 1948, peacemaker Gladys Muir established what is believed to be the world's first undergraduate programme in peace studies, at Manchester College, in Indiana, in the US. A quick online search for ""peace fellowships"" brings up a plethora of opportunities across the globe. King's College London is currently offering a fellowship for African women, while the United States Institute of Peace has schemes too. The peace fellowship in which I enrolled receives $3.4m (£2.6m) from the Rotary Foundation each year, although the running costs are more than that. Rotary International president John Germ says the organisation invests in the fellowship programme because it gives students ""a tool, to use and pass on - to build a world of hope and peace for all of us"". The foundation also funds master's courses at peace centres in Tokyo, Uppsala, North Carolina, Brisbane and Bradford, but the centre in Bangkok is currently the only one hosting this mid-career certificate. Taking two cohorts of up to 25 a year, the classes are intense and operate on a pass-or-fail basis. My 23 classmates came from 17 different countries and a wide variety of backgrounds - a farmer, development consultants, lecturers, a lawyer, women's rights activists, a government official and people with experience in the United Nations and smaller scale NGOs - all with the same intention of developing our experiences in this field and learning from each other. We had to live together in the same university accommodation and spend a lot of time together. But, as US classmate, Travis Burke, a consultant with experience in Afghanistan, Somalia and Ukraine, said: ""The value of different voices and thoughts can't be underestimated when tackling these major issues."" This particular Thai peace course began as a pilot in 2005. It has been running ever since, producing 203 male and 220 female peace alumni from 78 countries. Each cohort goes on a domestic and international field trip. Class 22 visited Chiang Rai, in northern Thailand, to examine the fight over the Mekong River. We then travelled to Sri Lanka to look at the after-effects of the civil war, which came close to devastating the country. People on all sides, from villagers to fishermen to military staff to government officials, all wanted to share their experiences. The course lecturers include lawyers, Buddhist monks and peace activists. The fellowship also uses its network of alumni as a resource - so who knows which of my classmates will be back in Thailand soon to pass on their expertise. We examined military approaches, the role of storytelling and the media, how women were integral to peace, mediation and human rights, within the designated modules. But the world is moving on, and cyber-warfare is becoming a norm. With fellows raising issues around disinformation and the role of fake media and technology in obstructing peace, the deputy director Vitoon Viriyasakultorn says changes to the course curricular are afoot. ""As well as the changing political environments and emerging issues around the world, it is the right time to revisit the programme to make it more attractive and responsive to the world's changing environments and technologies,"" he says. For some of my classmates, the scholarship has already instigated change. Dan Noel Odaba, who teaches international relations at the United States International University Africa, in Nairobi, is using the skills he learned to help young people in slum areas to learn how to resolve conflict. Sharada Jnawali, from Kathmandu, has 15 years' experience in the development field. For her, the programme provided an immediate networking pool and some theoretical tools to complement the practical experience she had already accumulated, while Jill Mann, a peace activist from Leeds, says it's made her rethink how communities approach peace and conflict. Maybe soon we'll find the words of Benvolio, Tybalt's counterpart in Romeo and Juliet, will be far more influential in a world where conflict dominates the news agenda: ""I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me."" Follow Dhruti Shah on Twitter: @dhrutishah",""" What , drawn , and talk of peace ! I hate the word . "" And with that , in Act One , Scene One , Tybalt , the violent "" Prince of Cats "" in William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet begins a fight that could possibly have been @placeholder .",revealed,claimed,avoided,lost,released,2
"The clip, apparently captured on a passenger's mobile phone in April, was sent to the Sun newspaper. It said the video had been recorded about three miles from the site of the 9 November derailment in Croydon, south London, which also injured 51. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was ""extremely concerned"" by the footage. In the 30-second clip, a driver - who is not the same one who was involved in last week's fatal crash - appears to drift in and out of sleep as the tram moves along. He is seen apparently struggling to remain upright, and passengers can be heard expressing shock as the tram approaches the next stop. Mr Khan said people would be ""understandably very worried"" by the footage, and called for an immediate investigation. ""I will make sure any necessary action is taken, and that all steps are taken to make sure these trams are as safe as possible."" The BBC has not been able to verify the footage for itself, but Transport for London said it was carrying out urgent inquiries. A Transport for London spokesman said it had asked operators First Group to take all necessary action and report back as soon as possible. First Group said it had not previously seen the video, but added: ""If the situation is as it appears then this is completely unacceptable and appropriate action will be taken."" Crystal Palace and Manchester City fans fell silent ahead of their Premier League fixture on Saturday as they paid tribute to the victims of the Croydon tram crash. Both sides and their supporters observed a minute's silence in honour of the six men and one woman killed in the tragedy on November 9. Two of the victims - Dane Chinnery and Philip Seary - were Crystal Palace supporters. In addition to the tram crash victims, the supporters also remembered Harry Davies - a 19-year-old Crystal Palace fans who passed away last month. The tram that overturned on 9 November had been carrying about 60 people. An interim crash report found it had been travelling at 43.5mph in a 12mph zone and found no evidence of any track defects or obstructions. An investigation also found no malfunction of the braking system. The seven people killed in the crash were Dane Chinnery, 19, Philip Logan, 52, Philip Seary, 57, Dorota Rynkiewicz, 35, and Robert Huxley, 63, all from New Addington, and Mark Smith, 35 and Donald Collett, 62, both from Croydon. A further 51 people were taken to hospital, with eight of them suffering injuries described by London Ambulance Service as serious or life-threatening. The driver of the tram was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and is currently on bail.","Footage appearing to show a tram driver @placeholder off at the controls on the same line where a crash killed seven people is being "" urgently investigated "" .",ripped,carried,nodding,held,kicked,2
"The police said most of the 90 people were arrested for protesting in a non-designated area in the city of Gouda. While surveys show most Dutch people do not want to change the tradition, Black Pete is increasingly viewed as an outdated stereotype. The Dutch version of the St Nicholas legend depicts him arriving by boat from Spain with armies of Black Petes. Trouble broke out in Gouda, selected as the city to kick off this year's festivities, during a re-enactment of the arrival of Nicholas and his Black Petes. State TV showed footage of scuffles as protesters unfurled banners reading ""Black Pete is racism"". Police said protesters had been forbidden from demonstrating at the re-enactment, but refused to move away. The Black Pete character is causing mounting controversy in the Netherlands. Last year, hundreds of people staged a protest in Amsterdam. Earlier this year, Amsterdam's regional court said the image of Black Pete ""with his thick red lips, being a stupid servant, gives rise to a negative stereotyping of black people"". The court ordered Amsterdam's authorities to review the festival. However, this ruling was overturned by a higher court. Correction 3 December 2014: This report has been amended to make clear that the Amsterdam court's ruling was later overturned.","Dutch police have arrested dozens of people during a protest over Black Pete , a controversial black - @placeholder sidekick to the local St Nicholas .",clad,faced,skinned,voiced,deal,1
"Seven Shi Tzu puppies and two full-grown lurchers were taken from the property in Glendevon Park, Winchburgh, between 07:30 and 18:00 on Wednesday. The Shi Tzu puppies are tan and white in colour and are worth about £650 each. The lurchers have pale gold rough coats and are working dogs. Police officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward. Con Rachel Royan, of Police Scotland, said: ""At eight weeks old the puppies are too young to have left their mother, who was not taken, and the owners are extremely concerned for their welfare. ""We would urge anyone who saw anything suspicious in or around Glendevon Park on Wednesday to please get in touch as we are keen to reunite them with their owners.""",Nine dogs @placeholder seven puppies have been stolen from a garden in West Lothian .,including,messages,team,side,conditions,0
"Prof Michael Scott announced in November he was leaving some time in 2015. His departure had been agreed for the end of March but he has left his post. The vice chancellor has been granted a leave of absence from 1 January. Deputy vice chancellor Peter Excell will give ""academic leadership"" until an interim vice chancellor is appointed. Sir Jon Shortridge and Derek Griffin, chair and vice chair of the board, will manage the administration of the university. In a statement to colleagues, Mr Scott said: ""The chairman and board of governors have kindly granted me leave of absence to pursue my research and other academic activities from 1 January 2015, although I will be on hand should there be issues which they feel need my involvement. ""I understand interim measures are being put in place to allow this to happen.""",The boss of Wrexham 's Glyndwr University has @placeholder his post .,quit,criticised,reversed,completed,unveiled,0
"2 December 2015 Last updated at 09:17 GMT Emi, 22, wrote The Things She Told Me to reflect her own experiences as a woman, but she hopes it will resonate across the world. The Sudanese-American who originates from Darfur only began writing slam poetry - work that is written for performance and that is often powerful and emotional in tone - when she arrived at university. She is studying anthropology and molecular biology at Yale, and is one of the BBC's 100 Women 2015 Our 100 Women season showcases two weeks of inspirational stories about the BBC 100 Women and others who defy stereotypes around the world. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram using the hashtag #100Women and listen to our programmes here.","Emi Mahmoud , the @placeholder World Poetry Slam Champion , has written a poem for the BBC 100 Women season .",reigning,team,group,crowd,body,0
"Vunipola started in all three of England's Test wins against Australia in the summer, and is likely to again start on Saturday against South Africa, with Joe Marler on the bench. Vunipola, 25, has been one of the Premiership's outstanding performers this season, but wants to improve. ""The biggest message is not to be happy about where we are,"" Vunipola said. ""There is more accountability and responsibility on the individual. Eddie Jones [England coach] keeps sending me texts if I need a nudge,"" he told BBC Sport. When asked whether achieving world-class status was his personal goal, Vunipola replied: ""Definitely. We want to be the best we can be.  For me it's about improving 1% in every area."" Along with younger brother Billy, Vunipola's work-rate and ball-handling skills have caught the eye over the past few months, something he traces back to his upbringing in the Pacific Islands. ""When I was younger, coming from Tonga, I always enjoyed having the ball in my hands,"" he added. ""Growing up with my brother and two cousins, we played rugby against each other a lot."" And the older Vunipola feels that in the modern game, front-row forwards are required to handle like backs. ""You need all fifteen players to be complete players,"" continued Mako Vunipola, who has also played down suggestions his brother could play in the NFL at the end of his rugby career. In an interview with The Times, Billy revealed his desire to try his hand at American Football later in his career. ""He's got to learn the rules first,"" Mako Vunipola said. ""I'm excited for him if he does get the chance, but it's a long time away and he's still got a lot of things ahead of him first. ""So I think he is just running his mouth a little bit.""","Saracens ' in - form @placeholder Mako Vunipola is aiming to become a "" world - class "" player under the current England set - up .",legend,absence,ash,side,prop,4
"He will be replaced by chief operating officer Mark Fields, 53, who has been with Ford since 1989. In a statement, the company said Mr Mulally, 68, will be remembered for engineering ""one of the most successful business turnarounds in history"". Chairman Bill Ford said Mr Mulally had been a ""hall of fame"" chief executive. The succession was widely expected: Mr Mulally had previously announced that he would retire at the end of this year. Ford has posted a profit for nearly five consecutive years under his leadership, and it was the only one of the big three US carmakers that did not have to seek a bailout from the US government during the recession. Mr Fields was named chief operating officer in December 2012. By Michelle FleuryBBC business correspondent, New York The challenge for Mark Fields is how to continue to build on Mr Mulally's formidable legacy and Ford's current success. And they are big shoes to fill. But executive chairman Bill Ford told me Mr Fields ""is up for it"". Mr Fields oversaw the company's international operations, having worked in Japan, Europe and Argentina. He also ran the company's North American operations during a difficult time - experience that will come in handy running a global carmaker. One of his first challenges involves Ford's F series truck. The bestselling vehicle in the US is a major profit-maker for Ford. It's getting a dramatic makeover with a body built almost entirely out of aluminium. But, now that he's behind the wheel, few expect Mr Fields to make any major changes to the 'One Ford' strategy, especially as it's working. The bigger question perhaps is how he will handle his first crisis, when it happens. Executive chairman Bill Ford told the BBC that Mr Mulally is a ""hall of fame"" chief executive. ""There are very few people that brought his skill set, his humility, and his humanity to the job,"" said Mr Ford. Mr Mulally originally trained as an aeronautical engineer, and spent 36 years at Boeing, before he was approached by Bill Ford in 2006. Mr Ford said he still remembered meeting Mr Mulally eight years ago. ""It was a fabulous first day - I look back at it now and realise we were finishing each other's sentences within an hour,"" he said, adding that Mr Mulally should be credited with changing Ford's culture to focus more on transparency and ""dealing with reality"". However, he added that Mr Fields was more than up for the task of leading Ford. Mr Fields, who was passed over for the job in 2006 when Mr Mulally was appointed chief executive, joined the company as a market research analyst in 1989. In 2000, he was made chief executive of Mazda - in which Ford owned a stake at the time - and was later head of Ford's European division. However, Mr Ford emphasized that it was as the head of Ford's North American division that Mr Fields really proved his mettle. ""He took on the hardest job at the company,"" said Mr Ford, noting that as a young leader there were some who thought he would not be up for the task. However, ""he emerged as a leader and gained the trust of his team"". Ford has planned the leadership succession for a number of years, Mr Mulally said, and he brought forward his retirement as ""everything is in place"" for a ""very orderly"" transition. ""We are absolutely fully confident we are absolutely ready,"" he said in a conference call announcing the transition. Mr Mulally will not retain a place on the board after retirement. Analysts say that one can expect ""more of the same"" with Mr Fields in charge. ""Ford has had a renaissance under [Mr] Mulally, but [Mr] Fields has been there the entire time and has been his partner in this vision,"" Edmunds.com senior analyst Jessica Caldwell told the BBC. ""Ford knew [Mr] Mulally was not going to stay on forever - by partnering him up with someone who was already in the organisation, and someone they thought could be a leader, that the best thing they could do,"" she said. ""I can't imagine a better scenario.""","Ford chief executive Alan Mulally , who is widely credited with saving the US carmaker during the @placeholder of the 2008 - 2009 recession , is retiring in July .",worst,remainder,depths,head,wake,2
"About 50 employees downed tools on Thursday afternoon to raise concerns about their December payslips. The workers were then involved in discussions with management. A spokesman from the Ucatt union said a resolution had been reached between the workers and Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors. Work on the project, which involves a workforce of 1,200, continued on Thursday afternoon. The union said in a statement: ""Following emergency talks it became clear that the company was currently unable to assess how much each worker was owed. ""In order to resolve the dispute it was agreed that each worker would receive £500 as an interim payment. ""Each worker's actual holiday entitlement will then be calculated in the new year. ""If it transpires a worker has been overpaid this will be gradually clawed back from future wages in a way to avoid the worker experiencing a major financial detriment."" Harry Frew, regional secretary for Ucatt, said : ""We have brokered a sensible solution to an entirely preventable problem. ""Thankfully once the company recognised the depth of feeling amongst its workforce they worked with us to find a sensible solution.""",Workers on the new Queensferry Crossing who had @placeholder out after a pay dispute have struck a deal with their employers .,died,thrown,set,fallen,walked,4
"For 60 years scientists have known that there was a bright mass on Pluto, but it was only through the increased resolution provided by the cameras on board New Horizons that detailed its distinctive heart shape. The shape, instantly beloved on social media, is believed to have been caused by an impact at some point in history. One side of the heart is smoother than the other. Researchers believe the crater is filled with frozen gases from the atmosphere - namely nitrogen, methane and carbon dioxide. However a false coloured photo from Pluto released by Nasa indicates that the heart is actually broken in two. The colours show different chemical signatures in the image. On the left it is a type of beige while on the right is a mosaic of blue, these indicate that the two parts had different geologic or tectonic origins. The initial image released by Nasa had a reddish hue, something that scientists have long known. It's very different from the other red planet, Mars, in that the colour of the more distant, tiny world is likely caused by hydrocarbon molecules called tholins, that are formed when solar ultraviolet light and cosmic rays interact with methane in Pluto's atmosphere and on its surface. ""Pluto's reddening process occurs even on the night side where there's no sunlight, and in the depths of winter when the sun remains below the horizon for decades at a time,"" according to New Horizons co-investigator Michael Summers. New Horizons has provided more accurate information on the size and scope of Pluto. It's a little bigger than expected, about 80km wider than previous predictions, making it around two thirds the size of our moon. The increased dimensions mean that Pluto is likely to be made of less rock and more ice beneath its surface according to members of the mission team. The reclassification means that Pluto is now officially bigger than Eris, one of hundreds of thousands of mini-planets and comet-like objects circling beyond Neptune in a region called the Kuiper Belt. The relative lack of impact craters on Pluto suggested by the first image could be an indication that the surface of the dwarf planet is renewing, either by geological or atmospheric activity, such as erosion. Mission chief Alan Stern says there is evidence of ""surface activity"" on Pluto, a tantalising hint of earth-like tectonics ""in its past or even its present"". Nasa have dubbed one of the strange, darker regions of Pluto the ""whale"". Researchers say it is unusual to have contrasting bright and dark surfaces on objects in our Solar System, reflecting the fact that Pluto is far more complex than previously thought. Surface temperatures on Pluto are extremely cold, ranging from -172 to -238 degrees C depending on where it is on its 248 year orbit of the Sun. Since it passed the closest point to our star back in 1989, experts assumed that after that the dwarf planet started cooling. Some computer models even predicted that the atmosphere would have fallen as snow and disappeared. That hasn't happened. But the New Horizons Principal Investigator agrees that snow does likely fall on the distant body. ""Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles, it snows on the surface, the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit,"" said Alan Stern. Little light has so far been shed on the moons of Pluto but the coloured image released yesterday indicates that Charon, the biggest, is covered with red material around its pole. Scientists believe that this stuff may be tholins that have escaped from Pluto's atmosphere. Experts believe that the mottled colours at lower latitudes point to a diversity of terrains on Charon. So far little detail has emerged about the other moons of Pluto except more accurate measurements of their size. Very slowly indeed. At a distance of 5bn kilometres from Earth and with a radio transmitter that can only output 12 watts, that means New Horizons is signalling across the Solar System with the equivalent power of a small LED bulb. The transfer rate is achingly slow, around 1kb per second - if things go really well it can reach a dizzying 4kb. That's slow even by 1980s standards. All this means that a black and white picture of Pluto would take over three hours to transmit. Even if massively compressed it would still take around 20 minutes. As Nasa is handling communications to several other missions at one time, it means that New Horizons has to wait in the queue for access to the Deep Space Network, the radio telescopes that communicate with distant probes. Getting all the data from the brief flypast of Pluto will take almost 16 months.","Now that the New Horizons probe has successfully flown past Pluto and confirmed to Nasa that it is all in one piece , researchers can look forward to a "" waterfall "" of images and data from the strange , distant world over the next 16 months . But even though just a couple of pictures from the dwarf planet have been released so far , scientists are learning more from these than they have in years of @placeholder observations by telescope .",attempted,control,words,neighbouring,causing,0
"The final batch of tickets to watch Chris Coleman's side try to secure qualification to the tournament in Russia in 2018 went on sale on Tuesday. As of Monday, 10,000 tournament tickets - which cover all five qualifiers - had gone. That number is now nearly 16,000. Wales face Moldova, Georgia, Serbia, Austria and Republic of Ireland with all games held at Cardiff City Stadium. The first qualifying match is against Moldova on 5 September at the 33,280-capacity stadium. In comparison, the Football Association of Wales sold 12,400 tournament tickets for the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. Coleman has already said the 2018 campaign will be his last as Wales boss - whether or not his team qualify. Tickets have been sold to club members in four staggered sales according to membership eligibility but are not on sale to the general public.","Almost 6,000 extra tickets to watch all of Wales ' @placeholder World Cup qualifying matches have been bought in 48 hours .",weight,home,personnel,crowd,results,1
"Leeds City Council's children's services department was criticised in 2009 after a serious case review into the murder of toddler Casey Mullen. Ofsted found that it did not adequately safeguard children in the city and a restructuring of the department began. Its services have now been rated ""good"" with ""outstanding"" leadership. After its latest inspection in January, Ofsted said there had been ""significant improvements"" across the board. ""Risk and harm are responded to in a timely, assured and well-coordinated way,"" the report said. ""There is a robust and well-coordinated response to children who are missing and/or at risk of experiencing child sexual exploitation. ""Children and young people live in safe, stable and appropriate homes and have sustained relationships with social workers and carers who know them well."" Its findings are in stark contrast to those published after the July 2009 serious case review into the rape and murder of two-year-old Casey by her uncle Michael Mullen at her home in Gipton in February 2007. The review by Leeds Safeguarding Children Board said social services were asked to carry out an assessment of Casey's family because of concerns before she died, but had failed to do so. It said follow-up appointments for Casey were not kept on ""a significant number of occasions"". Ofsted reported in July 2009, and again in January 2010, that services in Leeds did not adequately safeguard children. In March 2010 a restructure began and a new senior leadership team was appointed. Ofsted now says the city puts children and young people ""at the heart"" of its strategy. Judith Blake, the council's executive member for children and families, hailed the Ofsted judgement as a ""fantastic endorsement"".",The care @placeholder for vulnerable children in Leeds has been praised by government inspectors five years after the services were rated inadequate .,trade,programme,provided,jailed,network,2
"The military investigated and found that it was not the missing weapon that disappeared in 1950. The object was found in October by a diver searching for sea cucumbers near British Columbia. Sean Smyrichinsky said he found a large metallic device shaped like ""a bagel"". ""I found something really weird, I think it's a UFO,"" he joked at the time. A fellow diver suggested it could be the missing nuclear weapon that was lost when American B-36 Bomber 075 crashed in 1950. He alerted the Canadian military, who said it may well be the missing bomb. The American military says the bomb was filled with lead, uranium and TNT but no plutonium, so it wasn't capable of a nuclear explosion. On 22 November, the Royal Canadian Navy diverted HMCS Yellowknife to investigate, along with assistance from the diver. After investigating the wreckage, the military determined that the object wasn't a bomb at all, just a piece of steel machinery. ""We are pleased that HMCS Yellowknife was able to locate the object and determine that the object was not an unexploded military munition,"" said Commander Michele Tessier in a statement. Although the military and the diver both had reasons to believe the object was the missing nuke, aviation historian Dirk Septer was sceptical from the get-go. ""It could be anything,"" Mr Septer said shortly after the discovery. ""Whatever he found, it's not the nuke.""",An object found off the coast of Canada which the military believed may have been a missing @placeholder nuclear weapon is actually just a piece of machinery .,school,fire,decommissioned,criticised,planned,2
"The move is in line with recommendations from a review of management and practices at the firm, which is facing a number of scandals. The review was sparked by a former employee's claims the company ignored her complaints about sexual harassment. Uber's board voted unanimously in favour of the recommendations on Sunday. Some of Mr Kalanick's responsibilities could be shifted to other executives. In the email to staff, Mr Kalanick said the decision to take leave, which also comes after the sudden death of his mother in a boating accident, is part of an effort to create ""Uber 2.0"". ""For Uber 2.0 to succeed there is nothing more important than dedicating my time to building out the leadership team,"" Mr Kalanick wrote. ""But if we are going to work on Uber 2.0, I also need to work on Travis 2.0 to become the leader that this company needs and that you deserve."" Mr Kalanick's email did not say how long he would be away from the firm. Analysis: Dave Lee, BBC North America Technology Reporter When that blog post by ex-employee Susan Fowler dropped on a quiet Sunday afternoon, I doubt anybody at the company thought it would lead to this. I certainly didn't. That moment marked the beginning of the crisis at Silicon Valley's most talked about start-up. In the middle of it all, Travis Kalanick, a man who, rightly or wrongly, now symbolises what people feel is the very worst of tech ""bro"" culture. A man flush with money and an unrelenting ambition that slowed for no-one. Until now. Uber's problems were enough, most argued, for Mr Kalanick to make this decision. But coupled with the tragic death of his mother, the 40-year-old is quite understandably not in a position to give the company the attention it so desperately needs. Since I started reporting this story I've been told how this problem is not limited to Uber. It's across the tech industry far and wide. With that in mind, it will perhaps be encouraging to the rank-and-file at every tech firm that this fiasco began with one act: a woman brave enough to speak out. Uber, a ride hailing company based in San Francisco, has been rocked by a series of controversies in recent months, including an investigation of its business practices and a lawsuit from Google's parent company, Alphabet, over alleged theft of trade secrets related to driverless cars. It also encountered pushback when it changed its policies around collecting user data. Its corporate culture has been criticised for being aggressive, and this was inflamed earlier this year when Mr Kalanick was caught on video berating an Uber driver who voiced concerns about fares. He said in response to the video: ""I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up."" Uber: Travis Kalanick's rollercoaster reign His leave follows the departure of other high-ranked executives. Uber last week also said it had fired more than 20 staff and taken actions against others following a separate review of more than 200 human resources complaints that included harassment and bullying. The recommendations released on Tuesday stem from a broader review conducted by the law firm Covington & Burling. The proposed changes include starting performance reviews for senior leaders, reviewing the firm's pay practices, beefing up its human resources department and installing an independent board chair. ""Implementing these recommendations will improve our culture, promote fairness and accountability, and establish processes and systems to ensure the mistakes of the past will not be repeated,"" said Liane Hornsey, the firm's chief human resources officer. ""While change does not happen overnight, we're committed to rebuilding trust with our employees, riders and drivers,"" she added. Uber has revolutionized the taxi industry since Mr Kalanick launched the ride hailing app less than 10 years ago, clashing with authorities as he  expanded the firm to more than 600 cities and a workforce of more than 12,000. Privately held, investors reportedly valued it last year at nearly $70bn. But the scandals have taken a toll on the company's reputation and business, according to reports. A Monday survey of US adults by Morning Consult Brand Intelligence found 40% of respondents had a favourable impression of the firm, down from 49% just a week earlier. TXN Solutions, which tracks consumer spending, also says Uber has lost market share since January, when consumers began a campaign against the company for not taking stronger stance against US President Donald Trump, particularly his Muslim ban. Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein, investors in the company who had pushed for change earlier this year, called the recommendations ""thoughtful and extensive"" and suggested the company was taking the issues seriously. ""Our stated hope all along was that Uber could leapfrog other companies to be a real leader in diversity and inclusion,"" they said. ""At this point we believe that the company deserves some room to put the plan into effect and show us what can be done."" But Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer whose blog prompted the controversy, sounded a more sceptical note. ""Ha! Yeah, they'll never apologize. I've gotten nothing but aggressive hostility from them. It's all optics,"" she wrote on Twitter. ""Remember that this is not about diversity and inclusion, it's about laws being broken. Harassment, discrimination, retaliation are illegal.""","Uber boss Travis Kalanick plans to take time away from the company , and could return in a @placeholder role .",diminished,recurring,neighbouring,heated,phone,0
"I actually thought that before they were held at home by West Ham on Sunday, their fifth draw in their past seven league games - a run that has seen them fall off the pace. But it is not all doom and gloom at Old Trafford, despite United being 11 points behind leaders Chelsea and eight points off the top four. The players are giving everything they can and manager Jose Mourinho is right to complain his side have been unlucky. That was certainly the case against the Hammers. Sunday's game was similar to Manchester United's draw with Burnley at the end of October, in that they came up against a goalkeeper who made some incredible saves. Media playback is not supported on this device Perhaps Wayne Rooney could have come on a bit earlier than the 65th minute against West Ham but, other than that, Mourinho tried pretty much everything he could to break the opposition down. Mourinho mixed up his side's attack by playing more long balls up to Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and used Jesse Lingard in a more central role, with Juan Mata also cutting inside. They dominated the game and had lots of shots and, after conceding very early on, you could not say they really did much else wrong apart from maybe not getting Mata on the ball enough high up the pitch. West Ham deserve some credit but the home side were unlucky. I also thought Mourinho was a bit unlucky to be sent off as well, although nowadays it seems you cross a line when you kick a bottle - everyone who has done so this season has been punished the same way. It is not the first time Mourinho has lost his temper this season - it is linked to what is happening in front of him. On Sunday, if you are the Red Devils manager, you are going to be frustrated with the way the game is going, but it was a massive over-reaction and he must have known he would be sent off. Sir Alex Ferguson, David Moyes or Louis van Gaal would all have been the same as Mourinho - all pretty annoyed. It just comes down to how you show it. Mourinho certainly didn't hide his feelings. I think whoever is putting those bottles in the United technical area should find somewhere else to keep them, because he is only going to keep kicking them if he is angry. He needs to keep a lid on things because the hierarchy at United will not be happy with the way he is behaving. Since he took charge at Old Trafford at the end of May, Mourinho has not been afraid of criticising his players and he is clearly the kind of manager who is not afraid to fall out with them. There is nothing wrong with that but, it seemed as if he made his mind up on too many people right at the start of his time as United boss. Ander Herrera is probably the best example of that. At the start of the season he was not really in the picture but now he is probably their best midfielder. Michael Carrick was also a bit-part player when he should have been far more than that, even with age limiting his appearances. So Mourinho has worked out that some of the players who were out of favour can play a key role for him, even if others like Anthony Martial and Luke Shaw are yet to win him over. He is the manager and he has to go with his instincts when he decides which players he thinks he can get more out of, or he does not think are giving enough. I do feel he has got it wrong with Martial, and Shaw as well, but there is still a way back for them. Mourinho has already shown that he will allow you back into the fold if you react the way he wants you to, and there are not many players in his squad who can say they have not had an opportunity under him. He named Bastian Schweinsteiger in his squad for the first time on Sunday, although he did not get off the bench, so Mourinho is clearly willing to keep trying things too. I think he will get it right but, to make the top four and get back into the Champions League, it has to happen soon otherwise they are going to be even further off the pace. Mourinho has got an incredible CV. As he tells us regularly, he won the Premier League only 18 months ago, not 18 years ago. He is a momentum manager and his Chelsea sides, particularly during his first spell at Stamford Bridge, went on tremendous runs of form. That is not happening at Old Trafford and I think not winning games is affecting their players' confidence and decision-making, especially in front of goal. It seems like they are over-thinking things a little bit when they get chances in front of goal, but Mourinho knows that and will be doing his best to put it right. Not everything is under his control, however. He has shown down the years that he will pick the same 11 players if possible, but at United he has been forced to change his team around. That is partly down to injuries or, in the case of Carrick, the fact he cannot play every game any more. United's involvement in the Europa League has not helped, either. I think it has affected them already, the same as it has done with Southampton. In terms of mental fatigue there is certainly something about Thursday football that changes your whole preparation for the weekend. I remember from my days, playing for Arsenal in the old European Cup Winners' Cup, that Thursday is usually a night where you can relax and look forward to Friday and the build-up to your game. When you are playing, it throws your whole week out. I would never have said it publicly, because it was European football and I had to get on with it, but I did not want to be in that competition. I am sure some of United's players feel the same way. Martin Keown was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.",It is only the end of November but Manchester United 's title hopes are already over - they simply have too much @placeholder to make up .,ground,powers,difference,money,changes,0
"Bassem Youssef was questioned on Sunday over allegations that he insulted President Mohamed Morsi and Islam. Meanwhile, Mr Youssef said that another investigation had been started against him for his most recent show. Later US Secretary of State John Kerry said there were ""real concerns about the direction Egypt is moving in"". But Mr Kerry said he believed there was still ""time for the promise"" of the 2011 revolution to be met. His comments come a day after US State Department Victoria Nuland said the case against Mr Youssef, ""coupled with recent arrest warrants issued for other political activists, is evidence of a disturbing trend of growing restrictions on the freedom of expression"". The FJP said in statement that Ms Nuland's comments constituted ""blatant interference"" and meant that the US ""welcomes and defends contempt of religion by the media"". While referring to ""investigations of excessive antics by so-called satirist Bassem Youssef"" the FJP went on to say it ""reiterates and reaffirms its deep respect for freedom of opinion"". Speaking after news of the fresh investigation against him, Mr Youssef said on Twitter: ""Accusations include spreading rumours and disturbing the 'Peace'."" ""It seems they want to drain us physically, emotionally and financially,"" he added. Mr Youssef has faced several complaints over his show El Bernameg (The Programme), which satirises many public figures. In some sketches, he has portrayed Mr Morsi as a pharaoh, calling him ""Super Morsi"" for holding on to executive and legislative powers. This sketch, among others, angered one Islamist lawyer, whose formal complaint resulted in the current investigation. As well as insulting Mr Morsi and Islam, Mr Youssef is also accused of ""spreading false news with the aim of disrupting public order"". He was released on bail on Sunday, after questioning by prosecutors, and ordered to pay 15,000 Egyptian pounds ($2,190; £1,440). At one point during his arrival at the prosecutor's office, Mr Youssef donned an oversized academic hat, mocking one which Mr Morsi wore recently when he received an honorary doctorate in Pakistan. Mr Youssef is a doctor who shot to fame with his witty lampooning of public figures in amateur videos posted on the internet following the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule in February 2011. He became a household name when his satirical show - likened to Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in the US - began to be broadcast once a week on CBC, one of Egypt's independent satellite stations. Mr Stewart used the most recent edition of the Daily Show to express his support for Mr Youssef. Egypt's al-Watan newspaper reported on Monday that the state body responsible for awarding broadcasting licenses had threatened CBC with the withdrawal of its licence if it continued to broadcast El-Bernameg. However, the deputy head of the body Abd al-Moneim al-Alfy told al-Dustur newspaper that the channel had not been threatened with closure but had been warned ""that one of the programmes on its screens had violated the terms of its licence"".","Egypt 's ruling Freedom and Justice Party ( FJP ) has accused the US of "" interference "" after it @placeholder legal action against a TV satirist .",launched,opened,filed,criticised,escaped,3
"Project Wolf aims to examine the effect large predators have on ecosystems, and not just the animals they hunt. Volunteers working in teams of three ""wolves"" have been moving through woodland at Dundreggan Conservation Estate in Glenmoriston. The groups disturb deer which feed on young trees and other plants. Findhorn-based charity Trees for Life is running the project. It has previously been involved in debates about reintroduction of wolves and lynx, large predators once native to Scotland. The wolf was hunted to extinction in Scotland in the 1700s with some of the last killed in Sutherland and Moray. Alan Watson Featherstone, Trees for Life's founder, said: ""Grazing pressure on young trees by too many deer, today undisturbed by natural predators, is the major threat to Scotland's native forests. ""This is starkly apparent in the surviving Caledonian Forest, where many remnants consist only of old and dying trees because young trees cannot survive the relentless browsing. ""Project Wolf - an innovative answer to this challenge - is supporting our reforestation work by creating a 'landscape of disturbance'. ""By walking through Dundreggan's woodlands at unpredictable times, the volunteers mimic the effect of wolves in keeping deer on their toes and less likely to spend time leisurely eating seedlings and young trees."" Mr Watson Featherstone added: ""This will encourage new trees to flourish - giving them the chance to form the next generation of forest giants that are desperately needed if the Caledonian Forest is to survive."" Project Wolf will run through until the end of summer.",A research project involving groups of people replicating the @placeholder of wolves has begun in a forest near Loch Ness .,head,sound,acts,behaviour,value,3
"But in Wales little is known of the verses or the legendary story of rebellion which inspired their penning. On Thursday, a special celebration of the life of the poet behind the ""Bards of Wales"" will be held in Budapest. Montgomery Mayor Eric Fairbrother said the poem was a ""great link"" between the countries. A Walesi Bardok, The Bards of Wales, tells of their legendary slaughter at a banquet in Montgomery Castle by King Edward 1st, after they refused to sing his praises as their conqueror. Janos Arany wrote the verses after refusing to write a poem celebrating the Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph following a failed revolution in 1848 against the empire. While Arany's 19th Century ballad is still taught in all the schools in Hungary, many living in Montgomery, Powys, have never heard of it. ""Local people know very little about it at all. In fact it is only recently that I have been spreading the word about it,"" Mr Fairbrother told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme, ahead of his visit to mark 200 years since Arany's birth. During the televised ceremony, which will be attended by President of Hungary Janos Ader, Mr Fairbrother will present the honorary status of Freeman of Montgomery to the famous poet posthumously. Prof Robert Evans, Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, said Hungary considered itself similar to Wales, as a nation that had suffered oppression. ""The idea that the bards refused King Edward, that was part of the Romantic culture of Britain in the 19th Century,"" he said. ""It was well known even in Europe but it was picked up by Arany due to [political] circumstances which made it famous."" The poem was only published after Hungary gained independence and is still taught to schoolchildren across the nation. But the ballad is still hardly heard of in Wales and Prof Evans said it only became recognised in recent years after composer Karl Jenkins penned a symphony based on it. Mr Fairbrother said the link between the two nations was more important than ever following the EU referendum. He added: ""In these days of the Brexit situation, it's good to keep furnishing good relations with our neighbours in Europe.""",It is a poem which can be @placeholder off by heart by Hungarians telling of the slaughter of 500 Welsh poets at Montgomery Castle .,rolled,broken,struck,kicked,recited,4
"The money will be used for education services at the  International Bomber Command Centre near Lincoln. A campaign is still under way to raise £3.8m to build the Chadwick Centre where the exhibits will be displayed. The Spire and Memorial Wall of Names at the site were unveiled last year. Air Commodore Charles Clark, of the Bomber Command Association, said: ""We have to do everything we can to ensure the project is delivered whilst we still have some veterans alive."" The grant will help create an archive of thousands of personal stories and documents including recollections of some of the remaining survivors for the first time. Historian Dan Snow said: ""Lincolnshire needs a proper memorial to the service personnel who faced appalling conditions as they did their bit to liberate Europe from fascism. ""There is no other centre in Britain or any other country where the history of the bomber offensive can be preserved, gathered, curated, studied and debated. This centre will be a world leader."" The education service will include specialist schools' packs and an educational online portal. Jonathan Platt, of Heritage Lottery Fund, said: ""There are a wealth of stories connected to Bomber Command that, until now, have never been fully told."" He said the lottery money will help preserve ""a wealth of stories connected to Bomber Command"". 125,000 Aircrew served in Bomber Command 70% of aircrew were killed, wounded or captured 55,573 aircrew killed on operations 25,611 aircrew who died were based in Lincolnshire 59 nationalities, other than British, who made up Bomber Command The Chadwick Centre will be built close to the Memorial Spire and walls which carry the names of those who died in the campaign.",A £ 3 m heritage lottery grant has been awarded to help tell the stories of thousands of men who @placeholder bombing raids from England during the Second World War .,faced,prompted,gained,flew,provided,3
"Ally MacLeod performs in Girls, Strì and Macaroni, a short film made by Iain Wilson from Staffin on Skye. The video is among entries in the running for best mobile short and best comedy. Mr MacLeod has also been shortlisted for the best performance award. The full list of shortlisted films can be found on the FilmG website. Mr MacLeod, 20, a crofter on north Skye and a Skye Camanachd player, added tin foil to a pair of sunglasses and a ""gangsta rap swagger"" to his usual look for the last-minute entry. Mr Wilson, 22, said he started work with Mr MacLeod on the film only a few hours before the competition's deadline for ""a bit of fun"". Held annually, the competition attracted 105 entries - a record since the competition's inaugural year in 2008. Films were sought on the theme of ""strì"", meaning ""endeavour/conflict"". Best Gaelic sports commentary was a new category for this year's contest. The four shortlisted commentaries include Kate Bradley, from Ardnamurchan, for her take on the women's shinty Valerie Fraser Cup Final and Christina MacDonald, from Skye, who commentated on the semi-final of the same tournament. The awards ceremony will be held in Glasgow on 17 February.",A Skye shinty player 's comedy rap has @placeholder to get a video on the shortlist of Gaelic short film competition FilmG.,started,failed,returned,helped,voted,3
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 13 May 2015 Last updated at 09:25 BST Yves Rossy, who goes by the name 'Jetman', and French parachutist Vince Reffet soared together at speed, powered by jetpacks. They put on a world-first aerial display above landmarks in Dubai, including Palm Island. Yves built the specially developed flying suit back in 2006, using four jet-engines, which you might normally find on a small plane. He has already used his jetpack prototype to cross the English Channel and fly over the Grand Canyon and Rio de Janeiro. He said the display in Dunai ""was the culmination of over 20 years of innovation"". 'Jetman' added it ""has resulted in achieving my personal dream to fly free, soaring through the sky.""",The jet - @placeholder pilot has found a friend to fly through the sky at 185 miles per hour with .,controlled,chasing,team,propelled,armed,3
"Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth followed her father into a life in the Anglican church, but when she decided to marry the woman she loved, she had to leave. She married her long-term Dutch girlfriend, Marceline van Furth, in a small private ceremony in the Netherlands at the end of last year, but they went public last month when they had a wedding celebration in Cape Town. ""My marriage sounds like a coming out party,"" explains Ms Tutu van Furth. ""Falling in love with Marceline was as much as a surprise to me as to everyone else,"" she tells me. Marceline van Furth is a specialist in paediatric infectious disease and is based in Holland. She is also an atheist. Prior to the announcement of their marriage, Ms Tutu van Furth's sexuality was never made public, and she had previously been married to a man with whom she had two children. While same-sex marriage was legalised in South Africa in 2006, South African Anglican law on marriage states: ""Holy matrimony is the lifelong and exclusive union between one man and one woman."" Same-sex marriages are not recognised and when it comes to gay clerics, the church is very clear - they must remain celibate. Ms Tutu van Furth feared that her marriage would mean losing her licence to practice as a priest. And indeed shortly after her wedding, her diocese decided to withdraw it. And that is when she said she would hand it back as she thought this was a more dignified option with the same effect. ""It was incredibly sad for me. ""A few years ago I celebrated the Eucharist with my father... and now to be in a position that I cannot serve at the alter with him... I was surprised by how much it hurt,"" she reveals. And while her father, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, now 84, has been very supportive of her marriage, she says she is also very aware that he has to be careful to allow the conversation to unfold as opposed to picking a fight. Despite this, his views on homophobia have always been very clear. In July 2013, while speaking at a UN-backed campaign to promote gay rights, he said: ""I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. ""No, I would say sorry. I mean I would much rather go to the other place,"" he said, equating the campaign against homophobia to that waged in South Africa against racism. Ms Tutu van Furth would like her marriage to help progress what she calls the ""very important conversation'"" that needs to be had in the church regarding same-sex marriage. ""What is so absolute that we can't pass beyond this point?"" she asks. ""Not only do we have gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual people of every description sitting in our pews, to be perfectly honest we have all of those people standing in our pulpits too. ""And yet very often they sit in fear in the pews and they stand in fear in the pulpits because they are not free to fully own who they are and who they love."" She is also keen that the church look at what woman like her at the altar can do to draw the young towards the church. As a lipstick-wearing black woman in robes, she knows that she is not your typical Anglican priest. ""I want that young girl to look at me and realize that is what priests can look like,"" she explains. The Tutu van Furths' careers and children force them to live 9,600km (5,965miles) apart. Mpho Tutu van Furth is in Cape Town running her parents' foundation and her partner is in Amsterdam practising medicine. Living apart, she says, is not ideal. ""We are newly-weds like every other set of newly-weds and it sucks. Living apart is not a good and joyful thing. ""It's a huge challenge to us but we talk umpteen times a day. God bless the internet, we love it,"" she says. They have four children between them, ranging from 10 years old to 19 years old from their first marriages. Ms Tutu van Furth realised that when she fell in love, she would have to make a very difficult choice between being a priest or being with the person she loved. It was, she says, one of the hardest choices of her life. ""I shouldn't have to choose but in the end you always choose love. Everything else will fall into place somehow. When in doubt do the most loving thing."" The Anglican Church in South Africa has indicated that it is looking at adopting pastoral guidelines for members who enter same-sex unions. But it is not clear whether there will be any change when it comes to same-sex marriages of church clerics.","The daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu , Mpho , says part of her was "" @placeholder away "" when she had to relinquish the Anglican priesthood over her same - sex marriage , writes Justine Lang .",defining,stripped,lost,locked,justified,1
"South Wales Police evacuated residents in Herbert Street, Pontardawe, at about 19:30 GMT on Wednesday after the device was brought into the Pink Geranium pub before being taken outside. The Army's ordnance disposal team was called to remove it. Just after midnight on Thursday, police said the bomb had been taken away and the area declared safe.",A World War One bomb which was taken into a Neath Port Talbot pub has been removed and people @placeholder back home .,allowed,walked,suspended,fought,held,0
"Ask someone what they dislike about working in an office and the list will probably be long. It is likely to include: workload, the boss, colleagues, uncomfortable chairs, lack of light, no decent food in the canteen and Arctic air-conditioning. Technology may soon be able to ease the last of these, offering a better working environment by allowing workers to control their heating via a smartphone app. But does that come at a price? Do the sensors that are increasingly making the office environment smarter also mean that workers are under constant surveillance? Welcome to the brave new world of the smart office. Research firm Gartner predicts that commercial buildings will have more than 500 million ""connected things"" during 2016. The biggest driver for this is to improve energy efficiency - currently commercial buildings account for 40% of the world's electricity consumption. By embedding hundreds of sensors in walls, ceilings or even lights, the systems that keep the office running smoothly can be connected and in turn these building management systems (BMS) can be connected to the corporate network and the internet. At Deloitte's headquarters in Amsterdam, workers can control the lights, heating and blinds via an app, while in London building consultant Arup is experimenting with smart desks - embedding sensors in them and hooking them up to smartphone apps to allow people to control lighting and heating. Smarter systems offer huge potential energy savings - estimates range between 20% and 50%. ""A staggering amount of energy is wasted on heating empty offices, homes and partially occupied buildings,"" said Carlo Ratti, who heads up the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Senseable Cities lab. His team is working on a project that measures the number of people in a building and adjusts heating and lighting accordingly - with a view to turning an empty building ""off"", just like a computer goes into standby mode when not in use. He is also working on localised heating and cooling systems, which can provide a precise, personal climate for each occupant using ""an array of responsive infrared heating elements that are guided by sophisticated motion tracking"". ""Individual thermal 'clouds' follow people through space, ensuring ubiquitous comfort while improving overall energy efficiency,"" he explained. That will appeal to anyone who has complained about the air conditioning and comes amid mounting evidence that people do require different temperatures - women, for instance, feel comfortable in heat that is several degrees higher than the ambient temperature preferred by men, according to a study from Dutch scientists last year. Smarter lighting or heating is all well and good when it works but, like most technology, it isn't always fit for purpose. Doug King, a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering and expert on smart buildings, told the BBC: ""There are lots of apocryphal stories about lighting systems being over-ridden by cleaners who don't want to clean in the dark or tales that, if one person is working late, the lights remain on in large parts of the buildings. ""People will do what they have to do to get their jobs done in the level of comfort they need and that may mean hacking the building. They may shut off the systems by sticking Sellotape over the sensors or the building maintenance staff may reset the controls because they simply become fed up with all the complaints."" A case, perhaps, of smart building versus smart human. Concerns about the smart lighting not working could pale into insignificance next to the wider question about what data all the hidden sensors around a building are collecting. Architect Rem Koolhaas has spoken out against the way technology is infiltrating buildings, saying it is ""totally astonishing"" that people are willing to sacrifice their privacy for convenience and describing the rise of smart systems as ""potentially sinister"". He told Dezeen magazine that the use of smart technologies represented the most radical shift in architectural practice for over a century -  architects had become too distracted by the benefits and overlooked the dangers. Most building data is currently collected anonymously but that doesn't mean it could not be used for other purposes. ""You could imagine using data from a building management system to find out when someone is in the office and when they are not,"" said Mr King. British newspaper the Daily Telegraph did just that earlier this year, fitting under-desk sensors to measure occupancy with a view to using the data to make the office more energy-efficient. Staff did not see it quite that way, reacting with anger - while the National Union of Journalists described it as ""surveillance"" and the trial was hastily withdrawn, just a day after it had been announced. It illustrates the fact that smart buildings may mean very different things to different people. On the one hand is the landlord, who wants to make savings on energy and other costs, and on the other are the people who live and work in those buildings and may not appreciate being monitored during their working day - even if it is done anonymously. We need to make sure technology is serving the people who work in such buildings, thinks Arup's director of architecture Nille Juul-Sorensen. ""We have to start with the humans, putting people first and then the technology that can help them,"" he said. And Mr King said there were ways of using data to help usher in a new era of smarter design. ""Ten years ago we were just guessing but now there is an awful lot more data about ways people are using buildings which can be fed back to improve the next ones,"" he said. Increasingly, firms such as Deloitte and Arup are using technologies such as virtual reality to give potential clients an idea about how a building will look before they move in. Ultimately, thinks Mr Juul-Sorensen, designers need to start asking even more radical questions about how we will work in future - is it, for instance, smart to even have an office at all in an era when the internet can connect people in different parts of the world? ""The way we work is very different from 20 years ago and yet we are still basing our design on the old days and then building in a lot of technology. We are designing for the past not the future,"" he said. Read more at bbc.co.uk/tomorrowsbuildings","Over the next six weeks the BBC will examine how our built environment is changing . Tomorrow 's Buildings will look at how technology is making our offices smarter , our homes more affordable and even @placeholder building sites .",better,neighbours,transforming,side,questions,2
"Specialists say eight-month-old Charlie Gard is largely unable to move and has significant irreversible brain damage. His parents want to take him abroad for treatment but doctors say he should be moved to having palliative care. His mother Connie Yates said without the treatment ""Charlie's only alternative is death"". A decision over whether to turn off Charlie's life support machines is being considered by the Family Division of the High Court. Judge Mr Justice Francis said he aimed to announce his decision on Tuesday. He has been told Charlie, who was born on 4 August 2016, has a disorder called mitochondrial depletion syndrome which causes progressive muscle weakness. A lawyer representing Great Ormond Street Hospital said a number of ""world-renowned"" experts agreed life support treatment should be halted. Debra Powell QC said Charlie's father Chris Gard and Ms Yates had given their son ""complete and unwavering"" love and support. However, she said Charlie should not get long-term life support treatment because his quality of life was so poor. A guardian appointed to independently represent the baby boy's interests said he should not travel to the US for treatment. Barrister Victoria Butler-Cole, instructed by Charlie's guardian, said continuing life-support treatment would not benefit Charlie but ""prolong the process of dying"". She said: ""This is not pioneering or life-sustaining treatment, but a purely experimental process with no real prospect of improving Charlie's condition or quality of life."" Baby Charlie suffers from an incredibly rare and devastating disease affecting the genetic building blocks which give energy to cells. The Family Division of the High Court has heard how this mutation in the RRM2B gene generally proves fatal in the first year of life, although children can survive for longer on ventilators. The American doctor who proposes treating Charlie for up to six months has stressed that an experimental drug called nucleoside therapy is not a cure. Such a treatment plan would also require detailed conversations with intensive care specialists about ensuring the baby was medically stable for the long trip to the United States. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London say Charlie could theoretically have been given the treatment here - but they do not believe this is appropriate because he is so ill. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital said the baby received 24-hour care and should be allowed to die with dignity. But Ms Yates said: ""All I ask now is for you to give him that chance for the treatment proposed. ""Charlie's best interests have always been at the forefront of our mind."" A crowdfunding campaign for the trip is about £50,000 short of its £1.3m target.","Doctors treating a sick baby have said his life support should be stopped as his mother @placeholder a High Court judge to give him "" one chance of life "" .",face,body,needs,wearing,urged,4
"The gunmen seized the compound five days ago and have been demanding the release of an opposition leader arrested last month on weapons charges. Supporters of the gunmen have staged rallies nearby and clashed on Wednesday with police, who fired tear gas. Mr Sarkisian urged the gunmen to ""sober up"" and end their ""provocative"" action. In comments reported by Armenian Armenpress news agency, he said: ""No problem will be solved in Armenia with the use of force, raids and hostage-taking. The resolution of the problem will be an important test for Armenia and the maturity of our society."" Mr Sarkisian said the government would act ""in line with Armenia's laws"" if the gunmen persisted, but he gave no further details. The hostage-takers have been demanding the release of Jirair Sefilian, a military veteran of Armenia's conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, who has been accused of illegally possessing weapons and preparing to seize government buildings. In taking control of the police station in Armenia's capital on Sunday, the gunmen killed one police officer and injured two others. They later released five hostages. Those still being held include a deputy police chief. Mr Sefilian has criticised Mr Sarkisian over his handling of the conflict involving pro-Armenian separatists in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has an ethnic Armenian majority. A bloody war erupted after the end of Soviet rule in 1988, and there has been frequent unrest since, the latest in April, when clashes left dozens dead.",Armenia 's President Serge Sarkisian has urged gunmen holding four hostages at a police station in Yerevan to @placeholder their captives and lay down their arms .,surrender,arrest,provide,stop,free,4
"And according to experts the threat is growing as space becomes more and more crowded. Some 23,000 pieces of space junk are large enough to be tracked by the US Space Surveillance Network. But most objects are under 10cm (4in) in diameter and can't be monitored. Even something the size of a paper clip can cause catastrophic damage. ""At the moment we're not tracking stuff that small,"" says Brian Weeden of the Secure World Foundation, a Washington based organisation dedicated to the sustainable use of space. ""And that's important because something as small as a centimetre can cause problems if it runs into a satellite."" Collisions are rare, but half of all near-misses today are caused by debris from just two incidents. In 2007, China destroyed one of its own satellites with a ballistic missile. In 2009 an American commercial communications satellite collided with a defunct Russian weather satellite. As recently as 2015, the debris from that collision forced the crew of the International Space Station to evacuate to the Soyuz capsule. No-one was harmed, but the debris will likely remain in the Earth's orbit for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Scientists are experimenting with ways to clean up space. So far, there is no space vacuum cleaner. And debris have a nasty habit of creating more debris that get exponentially smaller and harder to spot. More than 7,000 satellites have been put into space but only 1,500 are currently functioning. And within the next decade the number could increase to 18,000 with the planned launch of mega-constellations - large groups of satellites aimed at improving global internet coverage. ""That's going to amplify the problems we have with tracking objects, predicting close approaches and preventing collisions,"" says Weeden. ""The problem is going to become much, much harder in the next several years."" Everything travels at the same speed relative to its altitude in space. That's not a problem if everything moves in the same direction, says Weeden, but objects often follow different orbits and can cross paths - a situation known as a conjunction. ""Think of it like all the cars on a highway are doing a hundred miles an hour. If the car next to you is doing that speed you don't really notice it. But if the car coming at you is doing that speed - you'll collide at 200 miles an hour."" Lauri Newman is NASA's traffic cop at Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland. She is responsible for using military data to decide whether the space agency's unmanned craft such as satellites need to be moved to prevent a collision with debris. ""Satellites can protect themselves from things that are smaller than a centimetre by putting up extra shielding,"" she says. ""But the things between one and 10cm - if you can't track it there's nothing you can do."" Satellite technology is essential to almost every modern convenience - from communications to GPS navigation and downloading movies on demand. It's also vital to national security. ""It affects everything,"" says Lt Col Jeremy Raley a program manager at Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. ""So I need to be able to see everything (in space) all the time and know what it is when I see it."" That's why Darpa is leading military efforts to find better ways of tracking space debris. In October last year it delivered a massive 90-ton telescope to the US Air Force at White Sands, New Mexico. The Space Surveillance Telescope is designed to penetrate Geosynchronous orbit (GEO) which is becoming increasingly important. Communications and television satellites in GEO can remain in a fixed position above the Earth, offering uninterrupted service. ""The telescope is a big deal because it can see more objects and smaller objects. And rather than having to take time to look at an object and then look at something else, it can keep track of things on a more persistent basis,"" says Lt Col Raley. But that level of scrutiny costs money and also raises the question of whether the US should share its data to improve space safety overall. That was one of the issues discussed at a recent symposium in Washington organised by the Universities Space Research Association and the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. Experts discussed who should manage space, who should be responsible for debris and whether there should be an agreed set of international guidelines for the sustainable use of space. ""There's a classic public policy, economic question here,"" says Weeden. ""It's like pollution. It might not be worth it for you to pick up your garbage and avoid polluting the river, but there are costs to society if you don't. How do you get people to be responsible when the costs may not be borne by them?"" No single nation or entity is responsible for space although in 1959 the UN set up a Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). ""There are currently 85 countries that are members of this committee and they range from space powers such as the US, Russia and China to countries like Costa Rica that don't even have a satellite in orbit but are an end user of satellite functions,"" says Weeden. ""Getting all of those countries to agree on this stuff is a really difficult challenge."" But with more nations and commercial organisations operating in Earth's orbit and many looking beyond, such issues are becoming increasingly urgent. Do nothing is no longer an option.","Millions of pieces of human - made trash are now orbiting the Earth . Some are tiny , others are large enough to be seen with a telescope , but all pose a @placeholder to space craft and satellites .",challenge,risk,message,generation,deal,1
"Sean Conway's fourth foray began earlier on Friday and involves sailing from Land's End to John O'Groats along the west coast within 72 hours. Mr Conway said: ""I am not really a sailor and I get really sea sick."" The Cheltenham adventurer finished the third stage of his ""ultimate triathlon"" - running 1,000 miles from Caithness to the Cornish landmark - in May. His other adventures have been self-supported, but this time he is being joined by two experienced sailors, skipper Phil Sharp and Alex Alley. Jersey sailor Mr Sharp is using the challenge as part of his training for next year's round the world solo race, the Vendee Globe. As the sailing journey is during December, the crew are expecting some rough, stormy seas. ""By the time we get around Skye and into the Hebrides there's a good chance we will get into some horrible headwinds,"" said Mr Conway. The vessel is a 40 ft purpose-built race boat but has few home comforts. ""There's no toilet, so it's bucket and chuck it,"" explained Mr Conway. ""Our cooking facilities are a little stove, barely a bunk bed, so it is pretty rustic."" The crew sailed seven hours from Falmouth to get to the start line at Land's End for 08:55 GMT when the record attempt officially began on Friday. They hope to arrive at their finishing line by Tuesday morning at the latest.","An extreme adventurer is @placeholder to be the first person to run , swim , cycle and sail the length of Britain .",claimed,aiming,destined,claiming,expected,1
"Leo Stacey died from a rare bowel condition on 6 October 2015 after suffering sickness and dehydration. He had been taken to A&E at Luton and Dunstable Hospital by ambulance but several attempts at inserting an intravenous line into a vein failed. Recording a narrative verdict, Coroner Martin Oldham said: ""Sadly they did not address his hydration or solve the dehydration fully until he died."" Leo's parents, Nathalie Aubry-Stacey, 38, and Marc Stacey, 37, from Harpenden, told Ampthill Coroner's Court they believed he could have been saved. But a paediatrician said staff had done all they could. Dr Jeremy Pryce, a paediatric pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination, said tests showed Leo was suffering from an intussusception of the bowel - a condition where part of the intestine folds into another section, causing an obstruction, and viral gastroenteritis. He said it was impossible to say which came first and what the cause was. In a statement, Luton and Dunstable Hospital said: ""We have carried out a full investigation into how Leo died and have met with his family to discuss the outcome. ""It is clear there were failings in his care for which we have sincerely apologised. ""There were a number of recommendations that came out of the review, all of which have been implemented, with the learning shared across the trust.""",A coroner has @placeholder a hospital after the death of a 10 - month - old baby .,criticised,closed,reopened,settled,lost,0
"Zac Goldsmith hopes to be re-elected as an independent, having quit when the government decided to back a third runway at the west London airport. But the Lib Dems have sought to make his pro-Brexit stance an issue in a seat with many pro-EU voters. The Conservatives had a majority of 23,015 at the 2015 general election. Mr Goldsmith, first elected in 2010, held his seat at the 2015 general election, with an increased majority and 58.2% of the vote. The Lib Dems came second with 19.3% of the vote - having seen a big drop in support since 2010, in common with Lib Dem performance across the country, following five years in coalition. Mr Goldsmith quit in October after the government announced it would back a third runway at Heathrow to expand UK airport capacity. The long-standing environmental activist, who failed in his bid to become mayor of London earlier this year, had pledged during both the 2015 and 2010 general election campaigns to resign  if the government backed plans to build a new runway at Heathrow, the UK's busiest airport. The Richmond Park seat, one of the wealthiest constituencies in the country, which was held by the Lib Dems prior to 2010, is one of many in south-west and west London beneath Heathrow's flight path. Mr Goldsmith has described himself as ""the best bet we have of stopping expansion"" and told the Guardian: ""I believe we will win this battle. ""In addition to the noise, cost, air pollution and appalling congestion implications, the sheer complexity involved in building the third runway means that with the right campaign, it is unlikely ever to happen. ""I will do all I can to make sure of it."" But the constituency, which takes in parts of the south-west London boroughs of Richmond and Kingston-upon-Thames, also voted heavily to remain in the European Union, and the Lib Dems, who also oppose Heathrow expansion, have been making Brexit the dividing issue in the by-election campaign - Mr Goldsmith was among senior Conservatives to come out in favour of leaving the European Union. Lib Dem candidate Ms Olney had some celebrity support from rock star Bob Geldof this week, thanks to her anti-Brexit stance. She told the Guardian that her party was hoping to pull off a huge by-election upset on the back of support from Remain voters. She said: ""Some 35 years ago, Shirley Williams stunned Margaret Thatcher by winning the Crosby by-election. ""Liberal Democrats have a history of famous by-election triumphs, but this would be the most important yet. ""Our victory at Ribble Valley killed off the poll tax. ""A victory for the Liberal Democrats here could kill off hard Brexit."" The Conservatives, UKIP and the Green Party are not fielding candidates. The Tories and UKIP are backing Mr Goldsmith, while the Greens' Caroline Lucas says Lib Dem Sarah Olney is ""the best hope"" of beating Zac Goldsmith and ""denting the government's plans for a painful Brexit"". Writer and railway historian Christian Wolmar is standing for Labour - despite calls from some frontbenchers for the party to stand aside to give the Lib Dems a better chance of winning the seat. Mr Wolmar says his campaign shows there are ""no no-go areas for Labour"", adding that while Mr Goldsmith wanted the by-election to be ""a referendum on Heathrow... the key issue for local people is clearly Brexit"". Here, are all the candidates, in alphabetical order of surname:","The polls have @placeholder in the Richmond Park by-election , triggered by the Conservative MP 's resignation over government policy on Heathrow Airport .",published,measured,clashed,arrived,closed,4
"The best way of seeing this choice is that, if the Tories and Labour deliver their plans, the national debt by 2020 would be £90bn lower in today's money under the Conservatives, but cuts to so-called unprotected government departments would be just £1bn under Labour compared with £30bn under the Tories. Or to put it another way, voters have a choice between considerably less austerity under Labour and considerably more debt reduction under the Tories. Which route is better? I put this to Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS. But he's keen not to sacrifice the IFS's precious reputation for political neutrality. So he did that politician's thing of dodging the answer. But here is a way of making your own mind up. The national debt has doubled to 80% of GDP or national income since the great crash of 2008. Under Tory plans it would be cut to 72% of GDP by 2020, but to just 77% of GDP under Labour. If you think there is a big likelihood of another major economic shock in the next few years, you would favour getting the national debt down faster - because there would be a bit more room for debt to rise in the next recession without turning the UK, in public finance terms, into Italy or Greece. But in order to get the national debt down at that speed, cuts to defence, transport, law and order and social care would have to be very deep indeed. The Tories' fiscal ambitions would see the scale and pace of cuts in these services very similar to what has happened in the current parliament - or around 18% over four years. Now the IFS argues that achieving those cuts in the coming four years may well be harder than in the parliament just ending, without undermining the quality of those services, for two reasons: first, that the simpler efficiency improvements have presumably been made already; second, it will be harder to maintain negligible public-sector pay rises, especially if we see the desired recovery in private sector wage growth. So, to repeat, the choice is between a more robust public-sector balance sheet under the Tories, and public-sector services more like we have today under Labour. That said, the IFS has made an important wealth warning, which is that there are big lacunae in both Tory and Labour plans. In the case of the Tories, we simply don't know how the Tories would make their big departmental cuts, or how they would save their promised £10bn from the welfare bill, or how they would fund £8bn of promised spending on the NHS, or finance £4bn of pledged net tax cuts. Or to put it another way, they may not - in practice - achieve their relatively faster reduction in the ratio of debt to GDP. As for Labour, the IFS is frustrated by its failure to put a more precise date on when it will hit its target of balancing the budget, excluding investment, and whether it actually wants a surplus rather than just a nil balance. But it also concedes that keeping voters to an extent in the dark is nothing new (oh yes) and that we actually have more detail on their respective plans than we had five years ago. PS The IFS says of the SNP that its overall fiscal plans are consistent with Labour's. But it says there is a gap between SNP rhetoric on its determination to end austerity and the implications of its fiscal plans - since it says the SNP would have gentler austerity in the next parliament than the other parties, but longer austerity. Meanwhile the IFS loves the LibDems for giving more fiscal detail than the other parties, & says it would be less austere than the Tories but more austere than Labour. That said, it bemoans the £10bn the LibDems plan to raise from cracking down on tax avoidance and tax evasion - far more than the other parties' - because of the absence of how it would actually do this.",The economic choice @placeholder voters is the starkest since 1992 . That is the assessment of the Institute for Fiscal Studies of the main parties ' deficit reduction plans .,confronting,published,bubbling,loses,lobby,0
"Defender Anthony Stewart, 24, and Nick Freeman, 21, have triggered 12-month extensions to remain at Adams Park. Centre-back Aaron Pierre, 24, has been offered a new deal while the club remain in talks with 32-year-old midfielder Marcus Bean. Meanwhile, Jamal Blackman and Alex Jakubiak have returned to parent clubs Chelsea and Watford after loan spells. Thompson, 36, joined Wycombe in the summer of 2015 when he signed a new two-year deal, which expires in the summer. Wood, 30, has been with the Chairboys since 2012, having initially been plucked out of non-League football by Brentford. Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth said: ""In Garry and Sam we've had two fantastic professionals who have played a huge part in this club's recent progress.""",Wycombe have released @placeholder midfielder Garry Thompson and left - sided player Sam Wood .,experienced,reading,signing,people,prop,0
"Untreated, the condition can increase the risk of a stillbirth and other complications. Most screening takes place at 28 weeks, but a University of Cambridge study of 4,069 women showed the foetus was already affected by then. Charities said gestational diabetes was involved in a ""significant number"" of potentially avoidable stillbirths. Gestational diabetes is common and affects up to 18 in every 100 pregnancies. The extra sugar in the bloodstream acts as ""baby fuel"" leading to rapid growth inside the womb. Most babies are normal and healthy but the condition increases the likelihood of a large baby, which can be difficult to deliver, suffering bone fractures. The babies can also be at higher risks of obesity and diabetes later in life. The study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, showed excessive foetal growth had already started by the usual time of screening. Women testing positive for gestational diabetes at that 28-week stage were twice as likely as other mothers to have an abnormally large foetus. Mothers who were obese as well as having gestational diabetes had five times the risk of a large foetus. Prof Gordon Smith, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website: ""The recommendations are that screening should take place at some point between 24 and 28 weeks, but in practice a lot screen at 28 weeks. ""Our findings indicate that it should be brought forward to 24 weeks and that would still be consistent with existing guidelines. ""And we should possibly be doing a second, earlier, screening test for early onset of the disease - but that needs further research."" There were no signs of large babies at 20 weeks. Dr Daghni Rajasingam, from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: ""This study emphasises the importance of early detection and diagnosis. ""There is growing awareness for the need to screen earlier, but further research should assess the ideal timing of screening and the impact this has on the child's health. ""It is important to emphasise that immediate changes to lifestyle, including a healthy diet and moderate levels of exercise, can have significantly positive effects on a woman and her baby's health."" Janet Scott, from the stillbirth charity Sands, said: ""We know from recent enquiries that failure to screen for gestational diabetes currently plays a part in a significant number of potentially avoidable stillbirths at term. ""Good risk assessment is crucial to avoiding harm to mothers and babies and we welcome these important findings which have real potential to inform better antenatal care for these high-risk pregnancies."" Follow James on Twitter.","Tests for diabetes in pregnancy - which affects the developing baby - are taking place too late , @placeholder scientists .",thought,backed,leaving,argues,warn,4
"It means the London club's Centre Court will hold almost 9,000 people for the June tournament which marks the start of the grass-court season. Queen's has also signed a deal with the Lawn Tennis Association to host the championships until 2026. Tournament director Stephen Farrow said the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event would be ""better than ever"" in 2017. ""Last year we sold out within 24 hours and enjoyed a 20% increase in hospitality sales, so the demand for an increase in capacity is clear,"" he added. Britain's two-time Wimbledon and Olympic champion Andy Murray is the holder and record five-time winner. Next year's tournament runs from 19 to 25 June.","The Queen 's Club will increase its capacity by more than 2,000 @placeholder for the 2017 Aegon Championships .",group,players,proposals,powers,seats,4
"Research by the Local Government Association says subsidised bus services in England have been reduced by more than 12% in the past year. The LGA blamed cuts by the government to councils' budgets. The Department for Transport said it was working with local transport companies to improve services and boost the use of buses. In Britain last year, there were three times as many journeys taken on bus than on trains. But the LGA - which represents councils in England and Wales - found the number of miles driven by council-subsidised buses in England (excluding London) dropped by 12% last year. It says local authorities have been diverting money from subsidised bus services to fund the gap in the Concessionary Fares Scheme, which councils have a statutory duty to provide. The scheme gives pensioners and disabled people in England free off-peak travel on all local bus services anywhere in England. LGA transport spokesman Martin Tett said the figures show ""just how much pressure many local bus services are under"". He added it was paramount the government fully funds the Concessionary Fares Scheme in the Autumn Statement. Mr Tett said: ""Years of underfunding of the scheme has forced councils to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to subsidise the scheme. ""This is now impossible with councils having to make savings while struggling to protect vital services like adult social care, protecting children, filling potholes and collecting bins."" The Department for Transport said it wanted to see services thrive, particularly in rural areas. A spokesman said: ""While decisions on funding for local bus routes are a matter for local authorities, we provide around £250m to support services every year, serving local communities up and down the country. ""Our Bus Services Bill will give councils powers to work in partnership with local transport companies to improve the service passengers can expect and boost bus use.""","Families in rural areas are being @placeholder due to cuts in bus services , councils have warned .",urged,held,excluded,targeted,isolated,4
"The accounts enable first-time buyers to save money free of tax and qualify for a government bonus at the same time. If the proceeds are used to buy a home, the government adds 25% to the total. The figures also show that 2,090 bonuses were paid under the scheme up until the end of May. The average value of the bonuses was £421. Savers used their money to buy 1,490 properties, with the highest interest coming from homebuyers in the North West and Yorkshire. How does a Help to Buy Isa work? ""For the time being, HTB Isa is a no-brainer for those saving toward their first home, even if ultimately their savings are used for a different purpose,"" said Danny Cox of investment provider Hargreaves Lansdown. ""However, from April 2017, the Lifetime Isa (Lisa) will become the savings scheme of choice."" The Lifetime Isa will allow savers to receive a more generous bonus, if they spend the money either on a home or a retirement income.","A total of 555,000 people have @placeholder Help - to - Buy Individual Savings Accounts ( HTB Isas ) since they launched in December , government figures show .",opened,received,attended,reached,taken,0
"Indian detectives believe Ranjit Power, 54, a hotelier from Wolverhampton, was murdered. He was last seen at an airport in Amritsar, Punjab on 8 May. His family feared he had been kidnapped and reported him missing a week later. The Foreign Office has confirmed the death of a British national in India. Local journalist Ravinder Singh Robin told the BBC a local man has been arrested and police are examining a car they think was used in connection with the murder. Mr Robin said Mr Power had been strangled.","The body of a British businessman who disappeared in India three weeks ago has been found in a forest in the Jalandhar @placeholder , police have said .",west,capital,city,region,process,3
"He is also opposed to a third runway at Heathrow, an infrastructure project supported by many businesses. John McDonnell's Who's Who entry talks of ""generally fermenting the overthrow of capitalism"". He may have meant fomenting. Or maybe he was making a home brew joke. To put it mildly, Mr McDonnell is certainly a different character from Ed Balls, his predecessor. Many business leaders are sure to feel very uncomfortable with Mr McDonnell's ""radical agenda"". And will fear that a general ""anti-business"" sentiment will now radiate from the opposition benches. Mr McDonnell has spoken about Britain being a ""corporate kleptocracy"". Those on Mr McDonnell's side argue that, given the mess of the financial crisis, it is high time there was a radical reappraisal of the way markets work and a new look at ways of tackling inequality. At this stage, many business leaders will hold their counsel. One I spoke to last week on the prospect of a Jeremy Corbyn victory in the Labour leadership contest said simply that many of his colleagues did not believe he could win a general election. And at a business dinner I attended with chief financial officers in the retail sector, most expressed a similar view. So, although the impact of a Labour victory would undoubtedly be significant on many businesses across the UK, the probability of that happening - according to those same businesses - is low. It was different when it came to Ed Miliband. Before the 2015 general election, many businesses believed that he could be the next prime minister. That was why the share price of the energy companies fell sharply when Mr Miliband announced in 2013 that a future Labour government would freeze the price of retail energy bills. Share price volatility is less likely this time as many investors also do not believe that Mr Corbyn will be prime minister. And that means that Mr McDonnell will not be chancellor. Another well-connected business figure I spoke to this morning said that it was time for caution. He pointed out that the new Labour leadership had not published any policies and that businesses should refrain from knee jerk reactions to statements made in the past by members of the new shadow cabinet. ""Politicians say lots of things,"" he pointed out with half a smile. He also said that a focus on apprenticeships and young people in employment - favoured by Jeremy Corbyn - would be something high up the agenda, particularly for smaller businesses. As is higher levels of state investment in infrastructure. There is then the issue of Europe. Mr Corbyn appears less committed to the European Union than his predecessors, raising the prospect that both the Conservatives and Labour could split for and against during the referendum campaign. Chuka Ummuna, the former shadow business secretary, said that a lack of commitment from Mr Corbyn to the EU was his reason for quitting his position yesterday. And as David Cumming, head of equities at Standard Life Investments, argued on the Today programme this morning, if both parties are split on the issue that could increase the chances of the UK leaving. Which wouldn't be much welcomed by the many in the City. Of course, many other businesses believe that Britain could flourish outside the EU. Peter Hargreaves, of the retail investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown, said in The Sunday Times at weekend that he would be at the forefront of the campaign for a UK exit. For the moment, many businesses will decide that silence is the best policy when considering how to respond to the election of Mr Corbyn and Mr McDonnell. At least until the new Labour leadership starts announcing what its policies actually are.","This morning , business leaders woke up to the fact that the shadow chancellor is a man who has argued in the past for the nationalisation of the UK 's banking system , a 60 % top rate of tax for those earning over  £ 100,000 , higher taxation for the City , caps on high pay , a rapid expansion of public @placeholder and a "" removal "" of the "" monopoly of the big six energy companies "" .",remarks,culture,finance,ownership,colour,3
"Andre Ayew's header and a sumptuous Jack Cork goal put the hosts in charge after a vibrant first-half display. Christian Benteke nodded in to give the visitors hope, but Ayew's second goal swiftly ended those aspirations. Brad Smith was then sent off for Liverpool, whose hopes of Champions League qualification now rest on winning the Europa League. It is a victory which moves Swansea, who have two games remaining, to 13th in the table and opens an unassailable 11-point gap between them and third-from-bottom Sunderland. With Liverpool playing their first league game since an inquest concluded the 96 fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed, the pre-match tributes at the Liberty Stadium made for a moving atmosphere. On the pitch, Swansea were as impressive against Liverpool as they were abject in their 4-0 capitulation at Leicester in their previous outing. With this match bookended by the two legs of their Europa League semi-final against Villarreal, Liverpool made eight changes as they named their youngest side of the Premier League era with an average age of 23. This was not the first time Jurgen Klopp had selected an experimental team with European commitments in mind, as a similarly inexperienced line-up won comfortably at Bournemouth in April. However, against Swansea, Klopp's side unravelled as their youngsters were overwhelmed. Midfielder Pedro Chirivella endured a torrid first league start, and the 18-year-old was replaced by the seasoned Lucas Leiva at half-time. Chirivella's midfield colleague Kevin Stewart did not fare much better, while young left-back Smith was sent off after receiving two yellow cards. Swansea were already all but guaranteed a sixth successive season in the Premier League, but knew a point against Liverpool would officially secure survival. Soundly beaten by Leicester and Newcastle in their last two games, there was an onus on Francesco Guidolin's side to produce an improved performance - and they did so in style. Media playback is not supported on this device Cork embodied their dynamism with a thrusting display in midfield, crowned by his arcing shot from the edge of the penalty area which gave his side their second goal. The Swans were given a fright when substitute Benteke headed in from a corner to halve Liverpool's deficit. But the home side were never genuinely troubled and, two minutes later, Ayew fired into the bottom corner as Swansea scored three goals for the first time in the Premier League this season. Swansea boss Francesco Guidolin: ""It is an important result for me, for the players, for the club, because this was a complicated season. I'm happy for my players because today they've shown they're not on the beach but very focused on the job. I know my players and I'm proud of them. ""At Leicester, we played well in the first 30 minutes and they were a bit worried, but today we played well and we scored two times. At Leicester we conceded two goals and this is the difference. ""Today we are happy because we won and the table is very good. I played in my career many games in the Europa League and it's difficult to play Thursday and Sunday. This is not right and this is the reason Liverpool, I think, lost the match because it's impossible to be fresh and ready for another important match but we deserved to win."" Media playback is not supported on this device Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: ""We changed the line-up and with this line-up we can play much better football. We could explain a few things and it would sound like an excuse. ""This performance was not enough. We cannot be sure but if we don't concede the third one it's an open game. You can see there was not the body language you need for a comeback, though. ""We deserved to lose, they deserved to win, that's how football is on a bad day. I thought we lost a lot of easy balls, we weren't compact, there were a lot of things we could've done better. If we'd played a normal game, we could have won."" Swansea can rest a little easier knowing their Premier League safety has been secured before next weekend's tough trip to West Ham and a home game with Manchester City on the final day of the season. Liverpool must wipe out a 1-0 first-leg deficit in the Europa League semi-final against Villarreal at Anfield on Thursday to maintain their hopes of qualifying for next season's Champions League. Match ends, Swansea City 3, Liverpool 1. Second Half ends, Swansea City 3, Liverpool 1. Sheyi Ojo (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Jay Fulton (Swansea City). Substitution, Swansea City. Jay Fulton replaces Leon Britton. Attempt missed. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kyle Naughton. Foul by Dejan Lovren (Liverpool). André Ayew (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack Cork. Foul by Christian Benteke (Liverpool). Wayne Routledge (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt blocked. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wayne Routledge. Lucas Leiva (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Neil Taylor (Swansea City). Substitution, Liverpool. Cameron Brannagan replaces Jordon Ibe. Attempt missed. Angel Rangel (Swansea City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner. Corner,  Swansea City. Conceded by Martin Skrtel. Martin Skrtel (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Martin Skrtel (Liverpool). Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the left wing. Second yellow card to Brad Smith (Liverpool) for a bad foul. Foul by Brad Smith (Liverpool). Kyle Naughton (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Leon Britton. Attempt blocked. Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Angel Rangel. Angel Rangel (Swansea City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Sheyi Ojo (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Angel Rangel (Swansea City). Substitution, Swansea City. Kyle Naughton replaces Jefferson Montero. Attempt blocked. Jefferson Montero (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Cork. Goal!  Swansea City 3, Liverpool 1. André Ayew (Swansea City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Attempt missed. Jack Cork (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson. Goal!  Swansea City 2, Liverpool 1. Christian Benteke (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Sheyi Ojo with a cross following a corner. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea City) because of an injury. Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Neil Taylor. Attempt blocked. Kevin Stewart (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne. Attempt blocked. Sheyi Ojo (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Stewart. Sheyi Ojo (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.",Swansea City @placeholder a much - changed Liverpool side to make sure of their Premier League survival .,produced,faced,dismantled,joined,resisted,2
"Ten men have been detained in connection with the incident, which happened early on Saturday morning. But none of them resemble the six alleged attackers who were caught on CCTV burgling the convent before the 74-year-old nun was raped. The nun is being treated in a Kolkata (Calcutta) hospital. ""Time was when West Bengal had a slightly better record than most other parts of the country as far as the safety of women was concerned, but the state is badly slipping on that count,"" says the Hindustan Times. Other papers too have been giving prominent coverage to the ""inhumane and barbaric crime"". Papers have highlighted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed ""deep concerns"" over the incident. The Hindustan Times wonders if religious tensions also played a role in the crime. ""There are various reasons for rape and among them one could be is inter-community tension. In this case, this could have been the most potent one. When there is a dispute between two communities and the administration is found to be slack, one that has a greater local heft tries to browbeat the other by means of calculated violence. And in the process women become soft targets,"" it says in an editorial. The DNA criticises the main opposition Congress party for failing to raise the issue in the parliament. ""A nun was gang-raped at a missionary school and an under-construction church was demolished. It was left to Communist Party leader D Raja to raise the issue after the Congress walked out of the upper house over the so-called snooping incident,"" the paper says. India's BJP-led government has denied allegations by the Congress party that it snooped on its vice-president Rahul Gandhi. Meanwhile, the state government in the northern state of Haryana has banned beef consumption and killing of cows. Haryana has followed the western state of Maharashtra, which has also banned beef and ""cow slaughter"". ""The new law [in Haryana] will also promote conservation and development of indigenous breeds of cows and establish institutions to keep, maintain and take care of the infirm, injured, stray and uneconomic cows,"" reports the NDTV website. The move has sparked anger in a section of the media and opposition parties have also criticised it. ""India is a diverse country and in a diverse country people have different culinary habits. Beef is also a poor man's protein. So, this is nothing else but a political agenda,"" a report on the Zee News website quotes Congress leader Manish Tewari as saying. The Hindu nationalist BJP is the ruling party in both Haryana and Maharashtra states. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.",Papers @placeholder the government in West Bengal state to improve the security of women after the rape of an elderly nun .,rocked,reached,urge,enter,opened,2
"Paul Murphy said damage had been caused to the trawler, Karen, and his crew were lucky to escape unharmed. He said a submarine snagged their nets and the boat was dragged backwards at speed. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it did not comment on submarine activity. Mr Murphy said the incident happened at a point known as the Calf of Man not far from the Isle of Man. The four crew members on board are safe, but said to be very shaken. They made their way back to Ardglass on the boat. Mr Murphy said they reacted quickly to release the safety net. It is estimated it will cost upwards of £10,000 to get the trawler ready to return to sea.","The skipper of a fishing trawler has said the boat was @placeholder by a submarine 18 miles off the coast of Ardglass , County Down , on Wednesday afternoon .",attacked,destroyed,overshadowed,struck,towed,4
"The students were told they would get funding for postgraduate courses at English universities beginning in September 2016. One student told BBC Wales he was ""devastated"" when told of the mistake on the day his first payment was due. Welsh Education Secretary Kirsty Williams called the situation ""totally unacceptable"". The Student Loans Company (SLC), which provides finance for students across the UK, said loans of up to £10,000 had been mistakenly awarded due to ""human error"". For the first time this year, the UK government offered loans for postgraduate students living in England. Many Welsh students who had been following undergraduate courses at English universities applied for the loan through Student Finance England, part of the SLC. The SLC said 68 Welsh students were told they were eligible and received letters of confirmation, but were informed later the loans had been ""incorrectly awarded"". BBC Wales has spoken to three students who had the funding approved in August and September 2016 only to discover later there had been a mistake. Toby Pitts, 21, from Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, is studying for a master's degree in King's College, London, after spending three years as an undergraduate at another London college. He was unsure whether he was eligible when he applied for the loan but his application was approved. When the first instalment failed to appear in his account he phoned Student Finance England and was told he would not be getting the money after all. ""I was absolutely devastated,"" he said. ""I think I was very upset, understandably, to begin with and then very frustrated and that sort of turned to slightly more angry at the system that was in place and the way they hadn't even let me know."" Mr Pitts had already paid the first term's rent and was eligible to pay course fees. He has borrowed money from his parents and taken up a part-time job in order to continue with the course. ""They've admitted they've made a mistake but there's no accountability at all which is really frustrating me,"" he said. ""All the burden, all the pressure of their mistake, has been put on me as a student which is wrong really."" Another student had to leave his postgraduate English Studies course at Manchester Metropolitan University when he was told he was not eligible for the loan after all. James Sutherland, 23, is in the process of moving back to his home in Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, after what he said had been a ""really awful"" time trying to work out what to do. His appeal was rejected and he said he feels like he had ""almost been tricked into wasting a year"". ""It's not so much that the appeal was rejected, it's that they don't seem to be taking any responsibility for the difficulties I had,"" he said. ""If I was told when I applied that I wasn't eligible, that would be fine - I could plan a year, I could find something to do. ""It's more that either they've changed the policy late and retrospectively applied it, or they haven't trained their staff whose job it is to advise students."" The SLC said that to be eligible for a postgraduate loan through the Student Finance England scheme, ""students must have been ordinarily resident in the UK and islands for three years prior to the start of their course and most recently in England, for reasons other than the purpose of study"". Twenty of the 68 Welsh students who were approved for the loan received the first instalment of £3,300 but were then told they would not be receiving any further payments. Another 48 were notified they had been incorrectly approved, before receiving any payments. Former SLC chair Sir Deian Hopkin said the firm was running an ""extraordinarily complex business"" involving £80bn to £90bn, but admitted: ""Maybe that's not a great excuse. ""It's not surprising that there are mistakes and the company has been, to be fair, struggling to get as good a system as it could to deal with this enormous complexity, which keeps on changing,"" he said. The SLC said in a statement: ""This occurred as a result of human error in the interpretation of the regulations when processing these applications. ""If a student believes that the decision Student Finance England made in relation to their funding application is incorrect they have the right to appeal."" Wales' Education Secretary Ms Williams said: ""We have been in discussions with Student Finance England and the UK government urging them to provide help to those affected and make sure no-one suffers financially. ""As a result, the Student Loans Company has assured us that all available options will be used to compensate those who have suffered financial loss as a result of the error."" Welsh Conservative education spokesman Darren Millar said: ""This is inexcusable bungling from the Student Loans Company, whose mistake has scuppered the plans for students already coping with the pressure of not being able to obtain support from the Welsh Government. ""They should be compensated as soon as possible for any losses incurred as a result of this incompetence."" The Welsh Government does not currently offer a similar loan for Welsh postgraduate students but it said it would introduce a scheme for 2017-18. The recent Diamond review on student finance in Wales recommended postgraduate-taught Masters students should get the same level of support as undergraduates.","Loans were "" incorrectly awarded "" to 68 Welsh students and later @placeholder , the Student Loans Company has admitted .",charges,withdrawn,reached,still,team,1
"The Big Lottery fund in Wales said the Wisdom Bank site was funded to share knowledge, and had ""met its targets"". After its funding ended last year, Torfaen council took it over. But the site is currently down because of a ""temporary technical issue"". Mike Harris, a councillor on the authority's audit committee, said continued public funding of the site would be like ""flogging a dead horse"". Big Lottery said in a statement the project aimed to ""harness the experience and skills of people in the 45 to 65 age group for the wider benefit of the community of Torfaen"". ""This will be achieved through the development of a web-based Wisdom Bank providing online, interactive, one-to-one advice and mentoring in a secure private environment. ""Initial support will be targeted at entrepreneurship, employment support for young people who are NEET (not in employment, education or training), care leavers, support for carers and for people with long-term health conditions."" The project aimed to recruit 60 mentors and support 500 individuals. But despite claims it has ""met targets"", Torfaen council said it currently has 340 users. Mr Harris said no more public money should be spent on the site unless it can prove its worth. ""Big Lottery would have looked at the business plan and you have to question their judgement with such a risk,"" he said. ""£250,000 to use a web portal to engage with an audience of 340 doesn't seem good value for me, when you can actually engage with them through social media such as Facebook. ""It's an embarrassment if it continues - I think serious questions need to be asked because now they'll be using taxpayers money to continue with a project. ""If it's a dead horse I'm afraid there are far more worthy causes that money needs to be spent on."" A Torfaen council spokesperson said: ""Torfaen Public Service Board sees the Wisdom Bank as an innovative digital platform for engaging with the local community...the council is now overseeing further development of the platform. ""There is currently a technical issue with the site which will be fixed as soon as possible."" The Wisdom Bank's Facebook and Twitter account have not been updated since last summer.","A website @placeholder £ 250,000 to "" unleash the wealth of wisdom "" of people in Torfaen has been criticised after registering 340 users in two years - a cost of over £ 700 per user - before going offline .",proposed,updated,paying,opposing,awarded,4
"They are accused of not assisting a person in danger, leading to their death, spokesman Sofian Sliti said. It comes after a UK judge said the Tunisian police response had been ""at best shambolic and at worst cowardly"". The attack by student Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 people, most of them British. He opened fire on holidaymakers in the resort of Port El Kantaoui in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State. Police officers near the scene ran in the opposite direction to get more guns while he shot sunbathers and threw grenades, the British inquest heard. Rezgui then went into the Imperial Hotel to kill more people. He was shot dead by police an hour after beginning his attack. Six security guards from the Imperial Hotel are among those under investigation, Mr Sliti told Reuters. So far 14 people have been arrested, 12 people are being investigated but are not in custody and seven more are on the run, Mr Sliti said. The investigating judge ended his investigation last July and the case has been sent to Tunisia's criminal court but no trial date has yet been set, he said.","Hotel security guards are among 33 people facing charges that they @placeholder to help tourists during 2015 's deadly attack on a beach in Sousse , Tunisian officials say .",belong,appears,failed,threatened,speak,2
"It followed raids on properties in Inverness and Liverpool. Police said a 20-year-old man and a 30-year-old man, both from the Liverpool area, were expected to appear at Inverness Sheriff Court. The investigation earlier resulted in £180,000 worth of heroin and cocaine being recovered in Elgin and Inverness. The operation involved Merseyside Police and officers from Police Scotland who said Thursday's activity involved the searches of several addresses in the Inverness and Liverpool areas. Det Insp William Nimmo, of Police Scotland, said: ""This recent activity serves as another example of our commitment to tackle the supply of drugs to the Highlands and Islands and to target those we suspect to be involved in the supply chain. ""This hopefully communicates a clear message that whoever you are and wherever you are from, we will continue to pro-actively target anyone suspected of being involved in the supply of controlled drugs into the Highlands.""","Two men have been arrested and £ 50,000 worth of illegal drugs recovered as part of a probe into organised criminals from the @placeholder of England .",west,church,north,east,island,2
"SNP minister Roseanna Cunningham told her party's conference that the plans would undermine industrial relations. Her plea followed condemnation of the bill by Grahame Smith, the General Secretary of the Scottish TUC. Mr Smith was the first leader of the Scottish Trade Unions Congress (STUC) to address an SNP conference. The UK government wants to impose a minimum 50% turnout in strike ballots - with public sector strikes also requiring the backing of at least 40% of those eligible to vote. Under current rules, strikes can be called if the majority of those taking part in a ballot vote in favour. The Trade Union Bill, which would apply to unions in England, Wales and Scotland, will also: Ms Cunningham told the delegates gathered in Aberdeen: ""It is our view that all the measures within the bill in combination will affect employees' right to strike, change the relationship between unions and organisations negatively, and lead to greater confusion amongst employees. ""This directly impacts across Scottish business and especially our devolved public services in Scotland. I believe this is not a constructive platform upon which we can pursue our ambitions for Scottish workers."" She added that she had considered the proposals ""very carefully"" and believed the only solution was to ""ask that Scotland is excluded from the entire bill"". There were rumblings about the trade union bill at the SNP conference even before Roseanna Cunningham spoke out this morning. At a Scottish Police Federation fringe event, Michael Matheson MSP batted away questions about whether he would block the bill in Scotland if he could. The justice secretary said it would be a matter for the SNP to decide on as a party, but with a resolution on the agenda which described the bill as an ""ideological attack"", the position was fairly clear from the outset. This was underlined when Scottish Trades Union Congress secretary Grahame Smith was given a rapturous reception by delegates as he took to the stage to slam the bill. As well as striking popular chords by railing against the Conservatives in Westminster, he used his speech to urge the huge crowd of activists to join up with trade unions. This will be worrying for Labour, traditionally the party of the unions, which will need their support as it looks for a way to overcome the SNP's continuing dominance and win back Scottish voters at next May's Holyrood election. Earlier, from the conference stage, Mr Smith said the bill raised ""serious questions about the nature of democracy in the UK"". He added: ""It [the bill] should be of concern not just to unions and their members, but to anyone concerned about democracy, human rights and civil liberties. ""The Tories claim that their proposals on ballot thresholds are about outlawing undemocratic strike action. This has nothing to do with democracy. ""I will not take lectures about democracy from a government elected on only 24% of those eligible to vote - and only 10% of those eligible to vote in Scotland -  much less, of course, than the proposed thresholds that they wish to impose on strike ballots."" Renewed call for a BBC 'Scottish six' Who are the SNP's new members? A tour of the SNP's conference venue Brian Taylor: Some disquiet, but SNP still decidedly united SNP conference: Passion and pragmatism Salmond warns against UK military action in Syria Finance minister John Swinney answers your questions",The Scottish government has made an official request for Scotland to be excluded from the UK government 's bill proposing curbs on trade union @placeholder .,grounds,powers,participation,election,network,1
"Students at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich claim the figures, by the acclaimed artist Sir Antony Gormley, resemble people contemplating jumping off. The work is part of an exhibition by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and will be on display for five years. UEA said it ""is proud"" to be hosting ""thought-provoking work"". One student told BBC Look East: ""I really did think it was someone who was going to jump off a building."" Another student said of the cast iron figures: ""I can see why they might startle someone, especially if they haven't been forewarned they're there."" In a statement, UEA said: ""The university is proud to be hosting though-provoking work by an artist of such international acclaim. ""The reaction of the university community... has been overwhelmingly positive and we are sure the three figures will become much-loved focal points in our campus landscape."" Gormley is one the UK's leading artists and is probably best known for his Angel of the North. However, his Event Horizon work  - a touring exhibition which features human forms placed on top of buildings - has previously provoked fearful reactions. In 2010, police in New York received calls from people who mistook human-shaped sculptures on the top of tall buildings for people about to jump. There were similar concerns when the work was shown on London's South Bank in 2007 and the project was cancelled in Hong Kong in 2014 because a banker had jumped to his death the same year.",An art installation featuring life - size human statues on top of university buildings has been @placeholder .,announced,released,launched,completed,criticised,4
"If it is approved, the tunnel will take five years to build and is predicted to give an £800m economic boost to the local area. Currently, passengers from the Thames Valley and Wales have to travel to London Paddington and get a connecting train to the airport. Network Rail proposed building a 3.4 mile (5.5km) tunnel in 2012. The tunnel, which would start at Langley, will connect to Heathrow Terminal 5 and would mean that journeys from Slough to the airport would be reduced to seven minutes and journeys from Reading will take 26 minutes. Currently, bus services are the most direct route to Heathrow. The tunnel would be part a range of upgrade measures on the Great Western Main Line - currently including the £850m redevelopment of Reading Station - which links London, Bristol and South Wales. Network Rail's western route managing director Mark Langman, said: ""The Great Western Main Line is undergoing the biggest modernisation programme since the Victorian era and so it's really important that in developing our plans for the Heathrow link, we take this extensive improvement work into account."" The public consultation, which runs until April, is asking businesses and residents to offer their views on the five-year project, which will require extensive site access at a number of sites around Richings Park, Colnbrook and Poyle. Slough Borough Council's Ruth Bagley, said: ""It is vital that the millions of residents and businesses set to benefit from faster journeys to Heathrow have their say on these updated plans.""",Plans to build a £ 500 m rail tunnel from Slough to Heathrow airport have been put on public @placeholder .,display,consultation,basis,show,appeal,0
"Phil Armes, from Norfolk, was topping 120mph (193km/h) when he lost control and was thrown off his bike in 1995. The 55-year-old, who is now paralysed from the chest down, said he hopes that 20 years on he can ""prove his worth"" and ""get one over on the circuit"". He will carry out a demonstration lap before the main event later. During the 1980s, Armes, from Hellesdon in Norwich, won titles including the 250cc newcomers prize at the 1984 Manx Grand Prix, and the 350 class at the 1986 Macau Grand Prix in modern day China. In 1995 he was slightly on the wrong line and fell off his bike qualifying in Northern Ireland, crashing backwards into a curb. He remembers the crash at the Dundrod circuit, including being rushed to casualty. As well as damaging his back, he also shattered his arm and wrist. Two years ago he got back on his bike again, being one of 65 former Manx Grand Prix champions to ride a celebratory lap at the Isle of Man to mark the TT's 90th anniversary. ""I'm extremely excited and not just a little emotional about it,"" said Armes. ""Having that life-changing crash there 20 years ago, this'll be the first time I've been on that tarmac since, and I just have a feeling that it could be laying the ghost [to rest] - actually proving my worth and getting one over on the circuit.""",A biker who broke his back during qualifications for the Ulster Grand Prix is returning on an @placeholder bike to finish the lap he never completed .,adapted,empty,alleged,display,show,0
"William Thomas, 16, was found hanged at the family's farm in Llangyndeyrn on 22 August - two days before he was due to get his GCSE results. The Llanelli inquest heard his parents have asked police to check his phone calls and text messages but they were unable to without his pin code. The inquest has been adjourned until next year for the phone to be unlocked. His father David Thomas told the hearing: ""If it was the phone of a suspected terrorist I'm sure they would get into it. ""We are clutching at straws to find out what happened."" The schoolboy, a pupil at Ysgol Bro Myrddin in Carmarthen, was described as a brilliant rugby player and all-round sportsman who had been selected to train with the Llanelli Scarlets. The inquest heard he passed his GCSEs with three A-grades, four Bs and one C and was due to return to school to study for his A-levels in September. Parents David and Kelly Thomas said there was no reason why their son would want to end his own life but the phone could contain important information. The inquest heard the phone was sent away to a specialist company but it could not unlock it. Apple were also approached but the phone remains locked and its contents are still a mystery. Carmarthenshire coroner Mark Layton said: ""I believe it's possible to get information off that phone and I will do everything in my power to get that information. ""It may answer some of your questions, it may not. But at least we can try."" Mr Layton said the police would send the phone away again to experts but he could force Apple to come to court to give evidence if necessary. Adjourning the inquest, he added: ""It seems to me that if the family want to know what's on the phone, then they should.""",A couple from Carmarthenshire has urged a coroner to unlock their son 's Apple i Phone to find clues about his @placeholder .,experiences,death,life,activities,identity,1
"Smyth retained his T13 sprint titles at the London 2012 Paralympics after being 0.04 seconds from clinching a 100m spot at the Olympics a few weeks earlier. Visually-impaired Smyth will chase the Rio Olympics 100m mark in a series of meetings in Florida over the next five weeks. ""I still absolutely think the Olympics are possible,"" says the 28-year-old Northern Irishman. ""I ran 10.22 in 2011 plus 10.24 in 2012 and a windy 10.17. I know in 2012 that I should have run the standard. ""I just kept making silly mistakes because I was trying to force it to happen instead of letting it happen,"" adds the county Londonderry man, who became a father for the first time last October a week after winning his fifth World Paralympic title. The IAAF has reduced the 100m Olympic standard to an even quicker 10.16 seconds for Rio - 0.06 inside Smyth's personal best - but the Irishman remains undaunted as he prepares for his season opener in Gainesville on Friday. Oscar Pistorius is the only track and field athlete to have competed at an Olympics and Paralympics in the same year after achieving the feat in London. Smyth, the world's fastest ever Paralympian, says he has travelled to the US in his ""best shape since 2012"" after enduring an injury-affected three years. The Northern Irishman damaged a knee during a weights session in January 2013 and after unsuccessfully attempting to manage the ailment for a frustrating two-year period, eventually underwent surgery 15 months ago. ""I was pulling the bar up from the ground and I didn't get my knee away and I smashed it,"" recalls Smyth, who as an eight-year-old was diagnosed with the genetic condition Stargardt's Disease, which has left him with less than 10% of normal vision. ""I couldn't event squat without getting pain. It just got to the stage where nothing was working after a couple of years trying to manage it, so it had to be surgery."" After the knee operation in January 2015, the four-time Paralympic gold medallist was only able to resume light jogging three months later and while he never considered retirement, he admits he had concerns that his best sprinting days might be behind him. ""You do go through periods of wondering whether you are going to get back to where you were. I was struggling,"" recalls Smyth. However, the unusually late October date of last year's IPC World Championships in Doha gave the Derryman a chance to salvage something from 2015. Progress after the operation was initially slow but by end of August he was racing again and an invitation to compete in a special 100m race in Rio involving Paralympic stars from several disability categories was a further morale boost. With concerns over the Zika virus not yet having surfaced, Smyth was content with both his performance and the conditions in the Olympic city as he won the event ahead of American star Richard Browne. ""I know if I'm beating these guys when I'm not anything like 100%, then I'm always going to be alright. ""Being there exactly a year before the games and seeing the weather, I was pleasantly surprised because temperature wise it was perfect and the people were very friendly as well,"" adds Smyth, who will only defend one title in Rio after the International Paralympic Committee opted to remove the T13 200m from the programme. ""And as regards the World Championships in Doha, they couldn't have worked out better with the later date. ""It was all about going there and winning because that is money in the bank for me."" Smyth opted out of the defence of the T13 200m in Qatar as he rushed home to be with wife Elise, who was due to give birth to their first child. Little Evie arrived six days later but with, by Smyth's admission, Elise taking on the bulk of the baby duties, the sprinter is still getting his ""beauty sleep"". Under the eye of coach Clarence Callender at Lee Valley in London in addition to regular monitoring at the Sports Institute of Northern Ireland, Smyth has had six months of uninterrupted training since Doha in an effort to make up for lost time. Smyth says his ""numbers in the gym"" over the winter and spring were very encouraging as he built up towards a Florida trip likely to prove pivotal to his Olympic ambitions. He has run under 10.30 seconds for 100m nine times and eight of those performances came on the Clermont track west of Orlando from 2011-13 when he was training alongside a group of world-class sprinters which included Tyson Gay. After racing in Gainesville on Friday, Smyth will compete in the first of a couple of Clermont meetings on 30 April. ""For me, it's about giving myself the best opportunity,"" adds the Northern Irishman, who became the first Paralympic athlete to participate at a European Championships in 2010 and then raced against Bolt and company at the World Championships in Daegu a year later. ""The good weather and the good conditions give you the best chances of running the Olympic time. ""If I need to extend my trip, if I'm knocking on the door, I will do that just to give myself every possible opportunity.""",Irish Paralympic star Jason Smyth is convinced Olympic qualification remains within reach four years after he narrowly missed out on joining Usain Bolt in the 100 m @placeholder in London .,event,title,contest,butterfly,entry,4
"Dismaland, a dark theme park, will run for five weeks at the seaside resort. A thousand people received free tickets, but as the remaining tickets went on general sale, the website crashed. Banksy's spokeswoman said the site had received more than six million hits by Friday. A message on the site said ""due to unprecedented demand"" it is currently unable to process online ticket sales, and Saturday and Sunday tickets will only be available on the door. Fans have been questioning whether their frustration in failing to buy tickets is in fact part of the 'Dismaland experience'. The UKBusinessInsider has questioned the functionality of the Dismaland website, which also shows an upside down supermarket trolley. Anthony Hamer-Hodges wrote: ""I guess the misery of queuing and a crashing website is part of the satire #Dismaland."" James Bush said: ""Love that the #Dismaland website keeps crashing and people are complaining about it. Irony really is lost on some people."" Phil Cross tweeted: ""If you are searching for #Dismaland tickets you are very much part of the exhibition already,"" while Stacy Bias wrote: ""I'm guessing the comically terrible experience of trying to get tickets for #Dismaland is pretty much exactly what Banksy was going for."" A spokesman for North Somerset Council said they were trying to establish if the difficulty in getting tickets online was a real problem or a deliberate ploy by Banksy. A few fans camped overnight to secure a place at the front of the queue and by 07:00 BST, two hours before the doors opened, hundreds of people were waiting. One thousand local people received a ticket in return for showing a voucher printed in the local newspaper, the Weston Mercury. Dismaland features work by more than 50 artists, including Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Jimmy Cauty and Bristol-born Banksy, who says he chose the venue himself after walking past the old lido six months ago. Among the exhibits are a distorted mermaid, a dilapidated fairy castle and a boat pond where all the boats are filled with models of migrants, as well as paintings and a beach ball hovering above upturned knives. Many are twists on traditional fairground rides - such as a coconut shy featuring anvils, instead of coconuts. Banksy described the show as a ""family theme park unsuitable for children"". Workmen were seen spray painting the front of the Tropicana to make it look more dreary on Thursday evening. The outdoor pool and leisure facility has been closed since 2000 amid various attempts to either reopen or demolish the structure.","Thousands of people have @placeholder to buy tickets online for a Banksy show in Weston - super - Mare - as hundreds queued to get in to a "" locals only "" day .",taken,returned,fled,struggled,gone,3
"The waves first washed over his glass bubble, then swallowed it, with underwater cameras capturing the slow slide down. Officially, the dive was designed to view an ancient shipwreck on the seabed. But it was also about demonstrating who is boss here now. Vladimir Putin is spending three days in Crimea with a whole delegation of senior Russian politicians and business figures in tow. Kiev has condemned the visit as an attempt to whip up tensions, and underlined that Crimea's only possible future was back with Ukraine. So when Vladimir Putin docked for a moment in Sevastopol, I put that point to him. ""The future of Crimea was determined by the people who live on this land,"" the president replied on the quayside, stony-faced and unequivocal. ""They voted to be united with Russia. That's it. Full stop."" The results of a hastily-called vote on joining Russia did show overwhelming support in Crimea for annexation. But the March 2014 referendum that Moscow hailed as the people's choice, was held with armed men on the streets and in clear violation of Ukraine's constitution. As a result, the US and Europe imposed economic sanctions on Russia, and Crimea's annexation is formally recognised by next to no-one. Still, there is no doubt that the majority here are strongly sympathetic to Moscow. And, for Russians, ""returning"" the region from Ukraine, after its ""loss"" in Soviet times, was a very popular cause. So Moscow has begun pouring in funds to back up its political claim on the peninsula, and to show it cares. The children splashing in the sea and doing press-up contests at the Artek children's camp are already benefiting from that. The sprawling complex cut into the hills was the biggest and most prestigious pioneer camp in Soviet times: a dream destination for the young. Many Russian ex-Artekovites welcomed its ""homecoming"" with nostalgia. The main canteen, sports halls and swimming pool have already been renovated and millions more roubles have been allocated. But Russia is confident its money will not be lost. ""For those who invest here, [Crimea's status] has been decided,"" says director Alexei Kasprzhak. As the linchpin of the local economy, the tourist sector is also due a cash injection. Crimea's grey pebble beaches have always attracted Ukrainians, primarily. Now they have largely stopped travelling here, Russia has been busy promoting the peninsula as the ""patriotic choice"" for a holiday. ""We decided to come as soon as Crimea was ours again,"" Olga explains, adding that she and her son usually holiday in Bulgaria. ""But we wanted to be among the first here,"" she says, though like many she has been shocked by the high prices and admits they are unlikely to come back. ""We can't afford Soviet resorts anymore!"" Olga laughs. For locals too, the price hike under Russian rule has taken some adjustment, although salaries have also grown. But they say many of the other practical problems of living under sanctions are being addressed now. ""People had to make the transition, and it was total chaos,"" hostel owner Natalia Kyrychenko recalls, describing the difficulties of life in a territory that most of the world does not recognise. ""Gradually, normal service is being resumed."" Most of her savings have finally been returned from a former Ukrainian bank; she has a new, Russian phone number and - with MasterCard working here once again - she can get back to online shopping. ""I am sure Crimea will be recognised and this situation won't go on for long,"" Natalia says, hopefully. But other businesses have been hit much harder by the new reality. Dmitry Semyonov used to sell wooden souvenir flasks and honey pots, mainly to buyers in the EU. With that key market off-limits, production in his former tractor-repair shop has all but stopped. He calls the annexation a ""catastrophe"". ""We were pulled out of Ukraine, but we didn't really join Russia,"" Dmitry says. ""We've just been left dangling. When it happened, they said don't worry, the Russian market will open for you. But just sticking on a 'made in Crimea' label gives you no preferences."" So Dmitry and his wife have made the hardest choice of their life, to leave. An ethnic Russian, he plans to move his business to Ukraine, but that is not the only thing he is worried about. ""I don't even want to imagine how things will end here. But I don't want to be part of it. The fuse has been lit. We just don't know how long it will be before the situation explodes,"" the businessman warns. For all Vladimir Putin's efforts to draw a line under the Crimea question then, it remains far from resolved. His actions here have stirred up a storm that is not abating.","It was a typical @placeholder by Russia 's action - man President , Vladimir Putin , clambering into a mini submarine and plunging to the depths of the Black Sea .",attempt,attack,display,visit,reaction,2
"They've lost many hundreds of councillors since 2010 and have now been reduced to one MEP. Nick Clegg has said before that you have to have a thick skin in politics, but when I interviewed him in the wake of these dire European election results it was clear that he was feeling the pain of defeat. Exhausted, red-eyed and pale, Mr Clegg looked like a man who'd been up all night considering his future but he insisted it hadn't crossed his mind to resign, although he would if he thought it would make any difference. The party's strategy going into this campaign was to try to attract pro-European voters with an appeal for an open-minded, generous-hearted Britain, but going head-to-head with UKIP leader Nigel Farage in a TV debate back-fired. For the man with a Dutch mother and Spanish wife - and who speaks five languages - the European project is personal as well as political. He began his career as an MEP and many of those who lost their seats were old friends. When he told me it was heartbreaking to see them defeated, it was obvious he meant it. Mr Clegg knows his party is also being punished for being in coalition with the Conservatives but despite all the calls for a change in strategy from disgruntled MPs, there's no sign that the Lib Dem leader is going to walk away from power. Few Lib Dem MPs seem to think that removing Mr Clegg will help but they are shocked at the Euro results and think it's a wake-up call. One MP, who described himself as an ultra-loyalist, told me there'd been ""a break of trust between us and the people we represent"" and the party had to do more to explain why it was in coalition. Another former minister said they had to re-establish their centre-left credentials and win back those who'd defected to Labour and the Greens. The leadership had to ""stop taking things for granted"" and this MP was extremely critical of Mr Clegg's team of advisers, describing them as ""children"" who'd got the strategy all wrong. Some Lib Dem members have broken ranks to call for Mr Clegg to go, but at this stage it doesn't seem that many MPs share that view. One, who usually needs no excuse for a good rebellion, told me that no-one who'd led the Lib Dems into coalition with their mortal enemy could ever prosper. He'd have done things differently, but says it's not the time to change leaders. They all say, though, that a ""business as usual"" approach from Nick Clegg won't be enough.",Liberal Democrats have @placeholder used to disappointing poll ratings and getting kicked every year in local elections .,condemned,added,urged,grown,signing,3
"Some of the 36 denarii were discovered by Eric Soane using a metal detector during a clean up of discarded tent pegs after last year's Belladrum. A dig led by archaeologist Dr Fraser Hunter uncovered the rest of what was the first Roman coin hoard to be discovered in the Beauly area. Some of the coins date from the mid-Second Century. They will be on permanent display at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery from 16 July. Festival promoter Joe Gibbs said: ""Left-behind tent pegs can be dangerous to stock and can damage machinery. ""We like to get rid of as many as possible. But it was an unexpected bonus to find the coins."" He added: ""Heavy metal isn't generally a genre we go in for at Belladrum, but perhaps we should revise that as clearly there is a precedent, albeit 2000 years ago.""","A Roman coin hoard has been found at the site of a major Highland @placeholder festival , it has emerged .",harvest,power,folk,music,series,3
"That might seem a bit of an exaggeration. After all, the past 50 years in France have seen more than their fair share of affaires. But several aspects of the Cahuzac story do give it an edge - in its cynicism, in what it says about modern French politics, and in its potential repercussions. First of all there is the barefaced effrontery of it all. Jerome Cahuzac did not just lie. He looked France in the eye and lied. In meetings with President Francois Hollande, he insisted he was innocent. In media interviews he said the same. And most shamefully of all, he stood before the gathered representatives of the people in the National Assembly and said, without the remotest ambiguity, that he had never held a foreign bank account. But he had. As the Liberation newspaper put it in its editorial on Thursday: ""To the economic and social crisis in which France currently finds itself... is now added a profound crisis of democracy, so fundamental was the contract of trust between people and government that has now been broken."" And of course aggravating this sense of utter recklessness is the knowledge that of all the government,  it should be the budget minister who has erred. A man who was until two weeks ago exhorting the country to ever greater sacrifices in order to repair the economy has been found to have his own personal loophole to evade those very same sacrifices. What more terrible example of irresponsibility could there be in a democracy? That is one of the reasons why commentators are saying this affair is more serious than it might otherwise appear: because of the timing, the wider condition of the country, what the French would call ""la conjoncture"". The disillusionment that French people feel towards their governing class is already well-documented. Now, just when a newish government proclaims a return to probity after the supposed excesses of its predecessor, the incomers are revealed to be even worse than the ones they replaced. The embittered cry of: ""Tous pourris!"" - ""they're all rotten, the lot of them!"" - has rarely carried such conviction. As Roger Lenglet, investigative journalist and author of the book France and Corruption, puts it: ""Corruption and tax fraud affect French political life far more deeply than politicians and ministers admit. The Cahuzac affair lifts just one little corner of the veil. ""Setting up accounts in tax havens on behalf of our decision-makers - that's become par for the course for those lobbyists who are prepared to cross the red line."" In the case of Jerome Cahuzac, the alleged abuse is all the more glaring because of the way he is suspected of acquiring the funds he hid away. Prosecutors believe the million or so euros that entered his accounts first in Switzerland and then in Singapore did not just come from his hair transplant business in the early 1990s. They think his position as a senior adviser to the health ministry, and then as an independent ""consultant"", may have led to certain sweeteners from pharmaceuticals companies. But the fall-out from the affair will have another victim too - and that is the president himself. Francois Hollande is already in a very weak position because of declining poll figures and the feeling he has not launched any meaningful programme of change. Now he stands accused again of that old charge: vacillation, an inability to take a stand. Why, people are asking, did he stand by Jerome Cahuzac for so long? The scandal first appeared on the Mediapart website back in December. Why did it take so long to appreciate the gravity of the situation? And worse: what if the president, or members of the government, did know, and preferred not to act? Various French media are reporting that, shortly after the story first broke, the domestic intelligence services were asked to assess whether the case against Cahuzac stood up. (It hinged on a secret recording which he denied  was of him.) They concluded that the recording was genuine, according to these reports. So why was nothing done? The government is denying that this intelligence report was ever commissioned, but after all that has happened the press is in no mood to listen. As Liberation says, it is the same old question: ""Who knew what, and when?"" So yes, the answer is that the Cahuzac affair is indeed one of the most serious of the Fifth Republic. The money may be peanuts compared to the Elf affair. Francois Mitterrand may have hidden a secret daughter. Giscard d'Estaing may have taken jewels from Africa. Jacques Chirac used Paris city hall as a political milch cow. But context is all. When the house is rotten, it does not take a tornado to pull it down.",Some are talking of it as one of the worst political - financial crises of the Fifth Republic : a minister @placeholder lying about a foreign bank account .,voiced,caught,sparked,word,addresses,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device The teenagers, who won European gold together last month, scored 323.28 to hold off the challenge of North Korea (318.12) in third, with China claiming gold (352.98). Tim Shuttleworth won bronze for GB in the 5km marathon swimming event, but Olympic champions Jack Laugher and Chris Mears were only fourth in the synchronised 3m springboard. Toulson and Lee were competing in their first global competition as a pair. ""We're over the moon,"" Toulson, 17, told BBC Sport. ""It was quite a long competition but we stayed calm and delivered when it mattered. I still think I could make improvements, but obviously we're happy."" Lee, 19, added: ""It's really difficult when you're a boy and girl pairing but we seem to suit each other really well and I feel like I'm relaxed diving with Lois so it's certainly a good partnership."" Rio Olympian Toulson will next compete in the women's synchronised 10m platform event - alongside 28-year-old Tonia Couch - on Sunday. Lee, a European Games gold medallist in 2015, will feature in the men's individual 10m platform event on Saturday, 22 July. Later, Laugher and Mears were second after four of their six rounds, but two poor routines cost them a podium place. Russia claimed a surprise gold ahead of China, with Ukraine third. Laugher and Mears were looking to complete the set of major diving titles to add to their Olympic, European and Commonwealth successes. ""Finishing fourth sucks,"" Laugher, 22, told BBC Sport. ""We are disappointed."" Mears, whose training time has been limited this year because of a long-standing back problem, denied pressure had impacted on the duo's performance. This was their first major event since they became Britain's first Olympic diving champions, at Rio 2016. ""We didn't feel that stress and we block out what's happened before,"" Mears, 24, told BBC Sport. ""Preparations weren't perfect and you always have niggles but today is a bit of heartache because we really wanted to medal at this event."" Laugher will return for the individual 3m springboard event, which begins on Wednesday. Shuttleworth, meanwhile, described winning a bronze medal as ""amazing"". The 20-year-old finished in a time of 54 minutes 42.10 seconds at Lake Balaton in Budapest. Frenchman and Rio 2016 bronze medallist Marc-Antoine Olivier won gold (54:31.40), with Italy's Mario Sanzullo in second (54:32.10). The Championships are taking place in Hungary between 14 and 30 July. The BBC will have live coverage of the swimming competition on television, online, mobile, app and Connected TV between 23 and 30 July. Diving and swimming commentator Bob Ballard: ""It feels quite gratifying to have marked your card on the emergence of Lois Toulson in my diving preview. ""The 17-year-old from the Leeds club, partnering team-mate Matty Lee, has proved she is a big-time operator. It was nerve-wracking for the pair to go last in the dive order in Budapest, but the way they held their nerve with a back two and a half somersaults with one and a half twists to register 79.68 and secure second place in the final, was mightily impressive. ""The European champions are a pairing to get very excited about with the Tokyo Olympics in mind. ""After the 2017 Jack and Chris have been through, losing their coach to the Australian programme, coupled with niggly injuries that have hampered training and competition, it's not a huge surprise that the Olympic champions finished off the podium in Budapest - but that disappointment will make them even more determined going forward. It's a blip and no more. ""I fully expect this disappointment to be a catalyst for Laugher in the individual event next week.""",Great Britain 's Lois Toulson and Matty Lee won silver in diving 's @placeholder 10 m synchronised event at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest .,contest,title,group,team,mixed,4
"Mrs Foster said:  ""We would like to see the petition of concern got rid of"". Any vote in the assembly can be made dependent on a petition of concern if it is supported by 30 MLAS - meaning the motion will only pass if it has cross-community support. The purpose is to protect one community from legislation that would favour another. Mrs Foster added: ""I think we need to talk about, maybe after the election, getting rid of the petition of concern altogether."" If a petition of concern is presented to the assembly speaker, any motion or amendment will need cross-community support. In such cases, a vote on proposed legislation will only pass if supported by a weighted majority (60%) of members voting, including at least 40% of each of the nationalist and unionist designations present and voting. Effectively this means that, provided enough MLAs from a particular community agree, that community can exercise a veto over the assembly's decisions. A valid petition requires the signatures of 30 MLAs. Introduced as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the procedure was originally designed as a way to safeguard minority rights in the assembly. However, its use has become controversial, and the DUP have been criticised for using the mechanism to stop votes on same-sex marriage being passed, and for preventing motions of no confidence going through. According to figures compiled by an investigative website, The Detail, over a five-year period from 2011 to 2016  the petition of concern procedure was used 115 times. The DUP was the only party with more than 30 MLAS so it presented petitions without other party support. Over the five years, they signed 86 petitions, while the SDLP and Sinn Féin signed 29. The Green Party endorsed four, Alliance three, and the Ulster Unionists two. Speaking to BBC Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster made it clear that she wanted to see change ""We talk a lot about the petition of concern and our opponents talk a lot about the petition of concern,"" she said. ""We would actually like to see the petition of concern got rid of for everything, but I think our opponents would like to keep it for the things they want to to use the petition of concern for and not allow us to use it."" Alliance Party leader Naomi Long has called for reform of the petition of concern. She said the veto was the main reason developments such as same-sex marriage had not yet been introduced in Northern Ireland. ""We need to get it back to its original intent and away from what it has become, which is used and abused to protect parties' selfish interests,"" Mrs Long said.",DUP leader Arlene Foster has told the BBC she would like to see the petition of concern @placeholder at Stormont .,signed,scrapped,heard,crowd,arrived,1
"Andrew Pimlott, 32, was holding a match when a police officer fired the electric stun gun at him in Plymouth, Devon in April 2013. An inquest jury in Plymouth heard two police officers went to a house after Mr Pimlott's father called 999. His father Kelvin said his son had a can of petrol and was going to set fire to the building. Mr Pimlott, who was single and unemployed, died in hospital five days after being Tasered. The hearing was told Mr Pimlott had been served with a restraining order preventing him contacting his parents or going within 100m (330ft) of their home. The Independent Police Complaints Commission told the inquest Mr Pimlott had a history of depression and issues with alcohol. A pathologist told the hearing at Plymouth Coroner's Court that it was not possible to say from the medical evidence whether Mr Pimlott had caught fire as a result of being Tasered or from the match he was holding. Ambulance technician James Dyson, who treated him, recalled a conversation with Mr Pimlott. ""He said he had covered himself in petrol, over his head, and when the Taser was fired it had lit the petrol and clothing that was on him. This was all he remembered,"" he told the court. ""He said he had wanted to end it all. Mr Pimlott did not say he had lit himself. He stated the Taser had lit the fuel."" Home Office pathologist Dr Russell Delaney told the inquest jury that Mr Pimlott died as a result of severe burns. The inquest continues.","A petrol - @placeholder man died after catching fire when he was shot with a Taser by a police officer , an inquest has heard .",soaked,strapped,smoking,affiliated,style,0
"The 2015 general election campaign is virtually over (unless we have to do it all again in a few months). The polls suggest little has changed despite six weeks of frantic campaigning and constant media coverage. The UK leaders' debates have given Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood the sort of UK-wide profile her predecessors could only dream of. You could almost be forgiven for forgetting that neither she nor Nicola Sturgeon is actually a candidate in this election. The Welsh leaders' debates featured another leader who isn't a candidate, Kirsty Williams. The line-up of the debates means few viewers in Wales will have seen many Lib Dem or Plaid candidates beyond those standing in their own constituencies. (Pub quiz question: can you name the deputy leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats?) Five years ago, eyebrows were raised as the Conservatives erected campaign posters in Wales on issues that are the responsibility of the Welsh government. In 2015, all political parties have decided to reflect the views of voters and talk (and make pledges) about devolved issues they cannot deliver unless they are in power in Cardiff Bay. Assembly elections are often dominated by noises off from Westminster, European elections are rarely decided by what MEPs actually do and council elections can be a referendum on the UK government of the day. Perhaps Westminster elections have now become like other elections in which the campaigns feature fierce debates on issues that are not directly decided by the poll. I've spent the last six weeks living out of a suitcase travelling around Wales and acquiring the sort of hotel toiletries collection Alan Partridge would envy in his Travel Tavern days. I'm now heading back to Westminster for the election and its aftermath. I may be some time.",It 's almost time to return the hi-vis jacket and hard hat to the @placeholder department .,english,props,ground,table,heart,1
"All workers are entitled to annual leave and the National Minimum Wage. Employees get additional rights, such as the right not to be unfairly dismissed, maternity rights and redundancy rights. Which category you fall into depends on the type of contract you have and the obligations between the employer and the employee to provide work and accept work. The defining feature of a zero-hours contract is that the employer doesn't guarantee work and the worker doesn't guarantee acceptance of work. So in most cases those on zero-hours contracts count as workers. As the House of Commons Library notes ""the distinction between these concepts is complex and the subject of much debate"". It's not just about the wording of your contract, what happens in practice counts too. If there is a regular pattern of work, which is regularly accepted, then an Employment Tribunal can - and indeed they have - deem the contract to be one of employment. What's the truth behind the politicians' claims on the campaign trail? Our experts investigate the facts, and wider stories, behind the soundbites. Read latest updates or follow us on Twitter @BBCRealityCheck",The employment rights you get depend on whether you are @placeholder as an employee or a worker .,continuing,treating,registered,classed,depicted,3
"In a career spanning 50 years, she wrote more than 60 novels, as well as serving as a Labour member of the House of Lords. Her most famous creation was Inspector Wexford, who appeared in 24 books. But she also wrote more than two dozen standalone novels, and a further 14 under the pen-name Barbara Vine - an amalgam of her middle name and her great grandmother's maiden name. Ruth Barbara Grasemann was born in 1930, in South Woodford in Essex, the only child of Ebba Kruse, who had been born in Sweden and brought up in Denmark, and Arthur Grasemann, who was English. Her childhood was reputedly unhappy, but she rarely spoke of it in interviews, just as she refused to talk about the mystery of her marriage and divorce. She wed Don Rendell, a journalist, in 1953; the couple divorced in 1975 but remarried two years later. They had one son. Rendell herself started out as a journalist on a local Essex newspaper, but resigned after filing a story about an after-dinner speech in which she failed to report that the speaker dropped dead halfway through - she hadn't been there. The first Wexford book, From Doon with Death, appeared in 1964.  It was also her first published novel: she was paid an advance of £75. Wexford - played in the successful television adaptations by George Baker - shared many of his creator's convictions and prejudices, though he was a Liberal Democrat and Rendell always described herself as a socialist.  ""The way he thinks, and his principles and ideas and what he likes doing, that's me,"" she told one interviewer. The books were conventional crime stories, but the settings were contemporary and convincing - and while the novels' structures may have been conventional her way of writing them sometimes was not. ""I have an idea and I have a perpetrator and I write the book along those lines,"" she said in a BBC interview, ""and when I get to the last chapter I change the perpetrator, so that if I can deceive myself I can deceive the reader."" But as well as the Wexford books, she wrote more than two dozen standalone novels, often featuring misfits and deviant characters on the margins of society. And in 1986, she began publishing darker psychological thrillers as Barbara Vine.  They were, she said, more searching, more serious and more analytical than her other books.  And she admitted more than once to being fascinated by other people's secrets. Many of her books did not just present readers with a puzzle but linked murder and crime with social injustice or economic disadvantage. In Rendell's world, the conservative instincts of middle England often helped to provoke antisocial and irrational behaviour rather than keeping it in check. That reflected her own political views.  Appointed a CBE in 1996, she was elevated to the House of Lords as a Labour peer in 1997.  She spoke out against racism, sexism and class disadvantage, and among her achievements as a working peer was the introduction of a 2003 act which made it a crime to send girls abroad to be subjected to female genital mutilation. Fifteen years ago, her fellow crime-writer Val McDermid described her as unique among British crime writers.  ""No-one can equal her range or her accomplishment; no-one has earned more respect from her fellow practitioners. ""The broad church that is current British crime writing owes much to a writer who has... consistently demonstrated that the genre can continually reinvent itself, moving in new directions, assuming new concerns and exploring new ways of telling stories."" And Ruth Rendell herself said of her 40-year friendship with another queen of the genre, PD James: ""Both of us thought more about the characters than the crime.""",Ruth Rendell was a leading member of the @placeholder of writers who took crime fiction and turned it into literature .,death,heart,generation,family,society,2
"Environmental Art Festival Scotland - Off Grid - will be held next to the ruins of Morton Castle, near Thornhill. Five interns have played a central role in organising the event, in a bid to build a wider, young audience to engage with environmental issues. There will be specially commissioned artwork, walks, fireside conversations and food art on display. Intern Ruaridh Thin-Smith said: ""The festival is a celebration of the natural energies and sources of vitality which allow life to flourish - and what better way to celebrate life than to live as young people making a commitment to healing our planet. ""Let's join the digital detox, and learn how to unplug from the status quo grid and recharge our relationship with the earth."" Organisers hope to bring together scientists, artists, environmentalists, cultural thinkers, poets and performers at the free event on 29 and 30 August.","Young people will be @placeholder to have a "" digital detox "" at a festival in Dumfries and Galloway this summer .",prepared,encouraged,expected,claimed,used,1
"Private ownership of broadcast media is prohibited, and the government owns all mainstream media outlets. Cuba is the only country in the Americas not to allow a non-state independent press, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Official media ""serve first and foremost to transmit propaganda for the regime"". The state maintains a tight hold on the media Cuban blogger denied travel visa The US tries hard to reach Cuban audiences. Washington-backed Radio-TV Marti says it provides ""balanced, uncensored"" news for Cubans. Internetlivestats.com says there were 3.1 million internet users by 2014. US-based NGO Freedom House says access to the internet is tightly controlled, and it is difficult for most Cubans to connect from their homes. Bloggers have faced harassment and detention for supporting dissidents, it adds. Cuba is one of RSF's ""Enemies of the Internet"". The authorities have been unable to blame connection problems on the US embargo since a submarine cable linking Cuba to Venezuela became operational, says the press freedom group.",The Cuban media are tightly controlled by the government and journalists must operate within the confines of @placeholder against anti-government propaganda and the insulting of officials which carry penalties of up to three years in prison .,labour,uncertainty,control,laws,power,3
"Special Report: The Technology of Business 2014: The year of encryption Stress test: Are you fit for work? 2013: The year we all went 'mobile' The technology aiming to help refugees Retrofit for purpose: Old buildings get a green facelift That's how many designers and programmers you have on tap when you use a crowdsourcing service such as Appirio. Welcome to the crowd in the cloud. It's like tapping into the collective consciousness of Star Trek's Borg cybernetic aliens. In theory, the work you get back can be better quality, lower-cost, and delivered much faster than if you went through the traditional service provider tendering process. When US space agency Nasa needed to develop a mobile application to help astronauts track their food intake while on International Space Station (ISS) missions, it threw the challenge out to Appirio's army of developers, in the belief that a problem shared is a problem halved. The result was the Nasa ISS Food Intake Tracker (Fit), ""the world's furthest-out field service app"", as Appirio co-founder Narinder Singh describes it. Nasa wanted an app that could help astronauts combat the bone density and muscle loss associated with working for long periods in microgravity, by making it easier for them to record what they eat. The app needed to accommodate voice and single-click data entry for ease of use, as the existing weekly Food Frequency Questionnaire was proving too unreliable and insufficiently detailed, Nasa said. Nasa and Appirio's subsidiary, TopCoder, broke up the project into different time-limited stages - conceptualisation, idea generation, screen design, architecture, assembly and finally ""bug hunt"" - and invited developers to compete for the top prize at each stage. About 7,000 developers contributed to the app in some shape or form, says Mr Singh, with the winners of each stage earning up to $1,800 (£1,300), plus a reliability bonus of a few hundred dollars on top. The final prototype is now being tested on the ISS. Appirio's business model is based on the apparently paradoxical combination of competition and collaboration. Clients subscribe to the service and put projects out for tender via this hi-tech marketplace. Developers compete for the work, but their efforts are peer-reviewed. The best work wins the gig - and the money. ""There is a risk of the developers getting nothing,"" Mr Singh admits, ""but others can look at your work and you may get other offers on the back of it."" Appirio, which raised $60m in venture capital funding from General Atlantic and Sequoia, has clients ranging from large media companies, such as Comcast, to old-school manufacturers such as Otis Elevator and Cessna, the light aircraft maker. The phenomenon of large, distributed groups coming up with better answers than individuals working on the same problem was explored in James Surowiecki's 2004 book The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few. The advent of high-speed broadband and cloud-based computing has made this process much easier to manage, and a number of crowdsourcing agencies have sprung up to exploit the trend. But there is a natural scepticism about the concept, says Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer for Microsoft UK. ""One main question for businesses will be: How can we be sure we're not giving away our crown jewels when we put this kind of work out to tender? Then there are concerns over service-level agreements and quality control. ""And thirdly, there is still this sense of empire in the IT community, with IT chiefs wanting to retain control of all aspects of their business processes."" But he believes all these objections can be overcome if companies are sufficiently open and progressive in their culture. While the web has long facilitated online marketplaces - Elance, for example - where professionals can tout for publicly advertised work, these are morphing into more sophisticated service providers in their own right, thanks to the growing trend towards crowdsourcing. Spiceworks, for instance, is a social network of 4.5 million IT professionals around the world that offers free tools to help them do their jobs and a place to share experiences and expertise. But it also offers ""Spicepanels"" and ""Made in Spiceworks"" services, through which companies can crowdsource an entire product development process from concept to implementation. Jay Hallberg, the company's co-founder and chief operating officer, says: ""This is the largest living, breathing database on the planet. ""Our IT pros community now helps companies design and test their products - we've become their first destination when they want to go to market."" CrowdFlower, whose clients include large companies such as eBay, Autodesk and Unilever, specialises in microtasking - dividing up large, complex data projects into manageable units of work, that can then be farmed out to its five million-strong global army of workers. It offers the platform to allow companies to do this directly, as well as a managed service. ""I think there is a definite trend towards microtasking,"" says Microsoft's Dave Coplin. ""If most of the coding or inputting is fairly basic, the job can be split up into lots of smaller packages and put out to tender on a crowdsourcing website. ""There is a growing market in managing this process and ensuring quality."" Rob Bryant, lead partner in Deloitte's technology consulting practice, agrees, but adds a note of caution: ""Lots of organisations are trying this type of crowdsourcing approach. But the Achilles heel at the moment is that you don't know the quality of work you're getting. ""A number of the platforms have recognised this and have introduced quality control as part of the service."" While we may still be a long way from seeing entirely distributed, cloud-based, crowdsourced businesses, having geeks on tap is proving an increasingly attractive option for a growing number of businesses.","Two @placeholder are better than one , they say . Well , how about 600,000 ?",parties,wishes,phenomena,pictures,heads,4
"NHS England announced a review after local health bosses identified £400m of spending they believe has little or no clinical value. It also includes some types of pain relief and travel vaccines. The proposals could see an outright ban or tighter restrictions on some products being prescribed by GPs. An initial list of 10 products has been drawn up by NHS Clinical Commissioners, which represents local health managers who are in charge of budgets. A number of them are available over-the-counter at a lower price than the cost to the NHS of prescribing them or include drugs for which there are more effective or cheaper alternatives. Evidence submitted to NHS England - and seen by the BBC - argues that the prescribing of gluten-free products dates back to the 1960s when there was not the choice there is now in supermarkets and shops. Cutting back on prescriptions for the 10 products could save the NHS over £100m a year. While patients can be charged for prescriptions, the wide range of exemptions mean only one in 10 items handed out are paid for by individuals. Source: NHS Clinical Commissioners NHS Clinical Commissioners has also highlighted other products which it wants reviewed once the initial batch of 10 have. This includes suncream, cough and cold remedies and indigestion and heartburn medicines, which could bring the saving to £400m a year. That is out of a total bill of over £16bn on medicines once those dispensed by both hospitals and GPs are taken into account. NHS Clinical Commissioners chief executive Julie Wood said ""difficult choices"" had to be made given the unprecedented financial and demand challenges facing the NHS. She said it was important to reduce spending on prescription items that have ""little or no clinical value"". But Coeliac UK chief executive Sarah Sleet said she the move was ""disappointing"", adding not all shops and stores stocked gluten-free products. ""Research shows that budget and convenience stores, which are relied upon by the most vulnerable such as the elderly, those with disabilities and on low incomes, have virtually no provision."" She said not adhering to the diet could lead to serious complications, including osteoporosis. Gill Nuttall, from skin cancer charity, Melanoma UK, also took issue with the move. ""I speak to melanoma patients every day who are receiving life prolonging treatments in melanoma, some of whom suffer some terrible side effects, including extreme reactions to the sun. ""Sun screen has a very high clinical value to those patients."" She said NHS England should think ""very carefully"" before restricting suncream prescriptions. NHS England confirmed the review would begin in April, but did not put any timescale on how quickly a decision would be made. The news comes ahead of a major announcement by NHS England later this week on the future of the health service. On Friday Chief executive Simon Stevens will give an update of his five-year strategy which was launched in autumn 2014 and is now half-way through.","Suncream , cold remedies and gluten - free @placeholder may no longer be available on the NHS in England under a crackdown on "" low value "" medicines .",school,believes,news,groups,food,4
"Some people who do not believe they can pass the test - or those who simply want the UK driving licence document without the effort - are prepared to pay hundreds of pounds to cheat the system. And it is not just the practical test that falls prey to fraudsters; the theory examination has proved open to abuse. This risk to British roads is taken very seriously by the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and its team of 30 fraud investigators. Behind an unassuming smoked glass door in Nottingham the team's leader, Andy Rice, describes the problem of fraud as ""significant"" and ""serious"". He investigates driver impersonation - where stand-ins take tests in place of learners - illegal instructors who are not registered to teach, and corrupt translators who provide the correct answers in exchange for cash. ""Because of the sums involved some people will go to great lengths for this fraud,"" Mr Rice said. People will pay about £800 for someone else to take their theory test or about £1,600 to be impersonated in the practical test, he said. ""Gangs see it as a nice earner and when we started a gang could do 200 to 500 tests before they were caught."" One of the first convictions involved an estimated £1m made in impersonations. Mr Rice said gangs ""employ"" eight to 10 people with ""different looks"" to match the learner's provisional licence photograph. Evidence of money laundering, drug and gun trafficking has been be found at the homes of arrested suspects, he said. Mr Rice managed the investigation that led last month to Britain's first jail sentence for an interpreter, who helped about 200 people to cheat the driving theory test. Chinese interpreter Peter Hui was sentenced to 12 months in prison for correcting answers in tests between 2011 and 2012 in Birmingham. A few weeks later Mandarin translator Allyson Ng was jailed for 12 months for cheating on at least 94 theory tests between 2009 and 2012, mainly in Cardiff. Although a rare fraud, with five translators prosecuted to date, its impact is significant: for each corrupt translator the number of people who pass with that person's help can be in the hundreds. In the first case of its kind, in 2004, an interpreter speaking Tigrinya (a language from Ethiopia and Eritrea) was shown to have given answers in 562 tests. His fraud was committed mainly in London and Birmingham. The Midlands has featured in all the cases where translators have been prosecuted for fraud. In February the government launched a consultation into ending foreign language assistance for the UK driving test. Road safety minister Stephen Hammond said, in addition to the possibility of fraud, allowing interpreters created a potential safety risk, due to people being able to pass the test but not understand important traffic updates. In July two examiners, an instructor and seven candidates were sentenced after a three-year investigation into fraud in Warwickshire. And cheating is not confined to the standard driving licence test. The DSA is investigating an Urdu translator suspected of helping bus and lorry drivers cheat on theory tests in the West Midlands. John Fothergill, former chairman of the Private Hire Drivers Association in Coventry, said cheating is well known to taxi drivers. Until he left five years ago he worked alongside the Taxi Licensing Department in the city. He said: ""I heard of people using mobile phones and sending text messages to get answers in the [taxi] written exams, some drivers definitely got through without all the knowledge they needed to do the job."" Mr Rice said the public can help to tackle fraud by ensuring driving instructors are registered with the DSA, which ensures they are competent and checked. ""The best way to be assured learners are safe is to check the green DSA registration badge on the instructor's windscreen. ""Instructors are in a position of trust, a lot of learners are young adults and for those who operate illegally, without a CRB check, who knows what their background is,"" he added.",Driving tests are a fraught necessity for UK residents who want to drive legally on the @placeholder 's roads - but they can also be a money - spinner for organised crime gangs .,mainland,region,island,world,nation,4
"Fighter aircraft from the US, UK and France dominated the aerial displays, while on the ground many more multi-million-dollar jets and helicopters were on view. Among the 160 aircraft on display at the Dubai Airshow, it is the sleek, shiny passenger aircraft of Boeing and Airbus which Gulf carriers normally order in their hundreds. But alongside these are dotted the sharp-nose cones of fighter jets and the drooping rotor blades of the latest attack helicopters. Inside the exhibition halls, hanging from the roof, are dozens of military drones - unmanned aerial vehicles. Because Middle Eastern airlines such as Emirates and Etihad already have hundreds of airliners on order, manufacturers of aircraft are putting a greater emphasis on their military hardware. Boeing has set out on display the largest variety of defence products it has ever brought to Middle East, including its B-1B supersonic bomber. Lockheed Martin is here in force, and has its F-22 fighter, which made its combat debut over Syria last year, doing aerial displays. More than 90 US companies are participating in the show, and six American states have their own pavilions. And the support it all is a formidable array of top brass  from the US military and Department of Defense. Demand for weaponry is soaring in the Middle East. Take Saudi Arabia, the most powerful of the Gulf states. Last year, it spent $80.7bn (£52.8) on defence - a 17% rise on the year before - according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition of Gulf states fighting in Yemen to uphold the president's rule against Houthi rebels. It is also arming Syrian rebels and carrying out air strikes on the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Other Gulf states - such as the United Arab Emirates - have also increased military spending, mainly to keep pace with Iran, which has recently acquired a number of new hi-tech weapons from Russia. Defence spending across the Middle East rose by 5.2% last year, according to SIPRI. The main beneficiaries of the Middle East's arms build-up are US defence firms. Their sales to Gulf states increased from $7bn in 2007 to $20.5bn in 2013, according to the Washington-based Center for International Policy. Analysts say there is likely to be particular interest at the airshow from Gulf states looking to buy early warning and surveillance aircraft. Boeing has unveiled its maritime surveillance aircraft, the MSA, and its new P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine warfare plane. Both could play a role patrolling the Persian Gulf, which separates the Gulf Arab states from Iran. Boeing is also hoping for large orders for its AH-6 attack helicopter, which becomes operational in 2017. It has already received orders for 24 of them from one, unnamed, Gulf state. ""I expect to see increases in demand for things like rotorcraft platforms where there's a need to move people and equipment to remote areas, and increases in sales of precision weapons,"" says Paul Oliver, Boeing's vice-president for Defence, Space and Security in the Middle East. ""And also to see increases in sales of precision weapons. They've been expending weapons in this region because of the conflicts and I see an increase in demand for these."" Perhaps the fastest-growing market in defence is for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), otherwise known as drones. For the first time, they will be featured in Dubai Airshow's flying displays. According to analysts at the Teal Group, a US aerospace consultancy, more than $90bn-worth of UAVs could be sold over the next decade. General Atomics, a US company, has a $200m contract to supply the UAE with missile-firing Predator drones. Last February, the US government relaxed rules on drone exports. Since then Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, has announced it has been in talks to sell up to 150 of its drones to a variety of states in the Middle East. Cranfield Aerospace of the UK has developed a cheap and simple-to-operate unarmed reconnaissance drone called Cassius which it is trying to market to Gulf states. It will be represented on the UKTI stall at this week's airshow. ""Cassius is not armed with weapons,"" says the Mark Kelk, business development manager at Cranfield Aerospace. ""It is a surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft which can be used to patrol oil installations, oil pipelines and national borders, and which troops in the field can use to see what's over the hill - what they're getting themselves into. ""Whereas the Predator and Reaper drones, which Western military forces use, have to be flown remotely by highly-trained fighter pilots, who are highly-paid and hard to find, UAVs like Cassius are easier to use. ""They fly themselves. All the operator has to do is to touch a point on a map on the computer screen and it flies to where it's told to go. Someone can be trained to use it after going on a two-day course. So it is cheaper to buy and cheaper to operate."" Cheapness is a key issue. Gulf states may be increasingly worried about their security, but they also have another problem. The price of crude oil has plummeted over the past year or so. That has hit the budget of such states as Saudi Arabia, which relies on oil sales for 90% of state revenues. Boeing's Paul Oliver says Gulf States are postponing, or scaling down their more ambitious long-term defence projects. ""I think a lot of them have tremendous reserves, but right now - I think - they are being very prudent. ""They don't know how long this thing [low oil prices] will go on, and they're being very diligent in their acquisitions.""",The opening day of the Dubai Airshow was a demonstration of military @placeholder .,power,excellence,skill,valor,ground,0
"The Executive has sought the devolution of tax powers for years. It is committed to matching the Republic of Ireland's 12.5% rate by 2018. But Mr Ó Muilleoir said they may need to consider reducing it below that. The UK corporation tax rate is currently at 20%. However, the Chancellor, George Osborne, is now pointing to a rate ""below 15%"" to attract businesses when the UK leaves the EU. Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show on Tuesday, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, said: ""I think he has put a horse and carriage through our policy. ""There's no doubt about that because we had two reasons for it, one was to be different from the British rate and be the same as the rate in the south of Ireland. ""We know, especially in north America, that Ireland is viewed very favourably and actually they view Ireland as one island, they are not big on borders. ""And if we had have been able to say, the tax rate is the same across the island, I think that would have been compelling, that's no longer true. ""Unless we go for an different strategy and reduce it ever further, and that will need to be considered.""","The Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has said that the Chancellor George Osborne has @placeholder a "" horse and carriage "" through Stormont 's corporation tax cut plans .",driven,developed,shown,called,suffered,0
"A council report said the move was needed due to a growing shortage of affordable homes in the county. In November, Flintshire council voted to prevent its social housing tenants from having the right to buy their homes. It is also planning to build about 200 new council homes over the next five years. Since January 2005, all council homes sold in Flintshire under the Right to Buy scheme have had covenants placed on them to ensure that the council had the option to buy them back if they came up to sale and before going on to the open market. A total of 55 properties have been sold under the scheme at an average price of £80,080 since April 2010. Council leader Aaron Shotton said the decision was the next ""logical step"" when it came to addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the county. ""This will provide more affordable housing for the residents of Flintshire and provide income to the council by way of rent,"" he said.",Flintshire council has agreed @placeholder to buy back former council houses .,terms,proposals,set,powers,bid,1
"Sandy Saunders suffered 40% burns after a plane crash during an RAF flight. He was sent to Sir Archibald McIndoe, who tried out treatments on his ""guinea pigs"" because he had no book or guide to refer to. Now Mr Saunders wants help to fund a memorial to the so-called Guinea Pig Club. Mr Saunders, 93, from Leicestershire, is one of 18 surviving members of the Guinea Pig Club, which was set up as a drinking club for patients at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, west Sussex, by Sir Archibald in July 1941. Many of the 649 members fought in the Battle of Britain, although many were from Canada, Australia, America and eastern Europe. Mr Saunders, who was treated by Sir Archibald in 1945, sustained severe burns to his face, legs and hands after escaping from a burning cockpit moments before losing consciousness. The aircraft's navigator was killed in the same crash. After waking up in hospital, Mr Saunders, who was 22 at the time, had ""eight or nine"" operations before he was sent to Sir Archibald. At the time, he was having problems closing his eyes as his skin grafts had shrunk. Mr Saunders said before the war, people with extensive burns usually died or were left disfigured. ""It's no picnic to have operation after operation,"" he said. ""The first time I saw my face, which was about two or three months after my burns had healed sufficiently, I was quite shocked and very depressed. ""McIndoe was very keen to restore people not only to an acceptable appearance, but also to be psychologically sound."" Mr Saunders, who was inspired to become a GP after watching Sir Archibald operate, has planned the construction of a £20,000 memorial at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire. A crowdfunding page has been set up to help finance the memorial, which will be unveiled in November. The monument will be a vertical panel of stone, with an inscription of the history of the club. Mr Saunders hopes to have a QR code embedded in the stone so people can scan it on phones or tablets to read the names of the 649 members. ""The camaraderie of all of the members runs very deeply in me, as does my appreciation for the work of the surgeon,"" he said. ""I regard the club as an important organisation in the nation's war history.""",A member of a group of World War Two pilots who underwent @placeholder plastic surgery has begun a campaign for a permanent tribute to the airmen .,wearing,spent,pioneering,lost,admitted,2
"The streets are lined with swanky Fifth Avenue stores, and real estate agents playfully call a $5m house a ""cottage"". It is an Alice in Wonderland world where the real America of high joblessness and housing despair is all but invisible. The economic story of the last decade has only served to make the divide between these worlds more stark. And yet the success of those who holiday in the Hamptons on New York's Long Island is just the logical result of a shared American passion for self-betterment. They have been the winners in what some might call a lost decade. From bust to boom to bust - we look at the US economy from 2001 to 2011, and how it changed America and the world. The facts in video: America's lost decade The winners: Wall Street's billionaires Has Las Vegas's luck run out? How did US debt get so bad? Analysis: a stagnant US economy? The class of 2001 Brazil's boom attracts Americans On one of the most exclusive roads in East Hampton, a long driveway takes me to the discreetly luxurious home of billionaire Ron Baron. He is an investment guru, the chairman and chief executive of the mutual funds company Baron Capital,  which invests in shares for the long-term, unlike most hedge funds. Mr Baron spent $100m to buy the 52-acre plot, which was the largest ever US property deal at the time. The house, the grounds, the pool and the basketball court all overlook the surging Atlantic Ocean, which only this week flooded large parts of the northeastern US in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene. It may be only 50 miles from the working class town of Asbury Park, New Jersey where he started life, but it is a world away in financial terms. Ron Baron is a small energetic man who drily tells me the last decade has been ""acceptable"" in financial terms. In fact, the company more than doubled the money invested in its funds. It now has $19bn under management. But the last 10 years were not as the good as the previous 20 years, when the money was being doubled every four or five years.  Shares are now incredibly cheap, he argues, because fear is everywhere. In 1970, Mr Baron says his net worth was ""minus"", but by 1980 he had earned his first million and founded Baron Capital doing research for hedge funds including George Soros. Originally his goal was to achieve a modest $25m under management. It has been said, of course, that he epitomises the rags to riches American Dream. He agrees that he's living a very different life to his father who was earning around $35,000 by the time he took retirement. ""This wasn't the plan,"" he protests, meaning his billionaire status. ""But yes, I'm incredibly fortunate."" Mr Baron's chosen holiday spot has not suffered the same damage from the housing collapse as happened elsewhere in the US. Prices range from half a million for a starter home to between $15m and $75m for an ocean-front property, according to John Gicking of Sothebys International Realty, who  is a former Wall Street trader. He says property prices went up dramatically in the last decade, though they are now 25% lower than at the peak in 2007. He reckons the market is protected by the fact there are ""higher calibre buyers"", many of them from Wall Street, and says he can tell when the stock market is having a really bad day because the phones stop ringing. Even the rental market is strong. The cost of renting a beach front house for the summer could top $1m. It is not easy to spot millionaires and Wall Street big shots on the street because everyone dresses down in beachwear or shorts. I meet Byon and Marina who are tanned and smiling, crooning ""baa baa black sheep"" to their small daughter on the streets of East Hampton. Byon says it had been a great decade for them as the economy in New York has been very strong. Marina tells me as she works at a hedge fund ""we have benefited from the downside"". She means that hedge funds can successfully gamble on falling markets by short-selling, and volatility is actually good for business. ""I'm hoping,"" she says, ""that if tumultuous markets continue that will only bring good things for the firm I work for."" She concedes that things have changed since she entered the workforce in the mid 90s and that today's graduates are struggling with ""issues we didn't have to deal with"". The drive to create a fortune seems as natural here in the Hamptons as breathing the heady salt-laden air. Taxi driver Jason Damark, 20, hopes to end up running his father's cab business here, and in 10 years time, he wants to move on and own more companies. ""Everyone wants the American dream,"" he says, ""but the secret is actually working for it. I work day and night, he tells me, so I deserve the money."" Do ordinary Americans resent the kind of wealth that Hamptons residents have accumulated? Billionaire Ron Baron doesn't think so. ""Maybe,"" he says, ""they are pleased to see someone doing better because it represents the kind of opportunity they might have for themselves or their children. ""That's what this country's all about,"" he boasts. I ask if it is possible for young people in today's America to do what he did.  ""Absolutely,"" he tells me. More than half the S&P 500 companies were started in recession or depression times. He founded Baron Capital in 1982 when interest rates were 18% and stockmarkets had been falling for years. ""There are,"" he says confidently, ""always better opportunities when times are tough."" It is a winners' philosophy. It may have limited appeal to those who have been plunged into joblessness and poverty by the crisis which many still blame on Wall Street. You could argue it is one of the prime reasons why America became, and is still, the world's number one economy.","In the Hamptons , the seaside playground for Wall Street 's finest , a simple chicken sandwich will @placeholder you back $ 12 ( Â £ 7.40 ) .",set,buy,announce,join,spend,0
"As Sally Richmond took off from Salford's City Airport on Sunday, Jamie Dell and friends laid out the proposal near the runway in rolls of wallpaper. A spokesman for the Barton airfield said Ms Richmond saw it on her return and accepted over the plane's radio. Once she landed, Mr Dell presented her with an engagement ring while down on one knee alongside the cockpit.","A novice pilot has said "" yes "" to her boyfriend after he @placeholder her first flying lesson to ask her to marry him .",gets,allowed,used,scored,swung,2
"The film tells the story of fantastic surgeon Stephen Strange, who thinks his career - and by extension his life - is in tatters after a horrific accident leaves him without the use of his hands. After travelling to a mysterious mountain community to meet The Ancient One - played by a bald Tilda Swinton - he learns supernatural powers that can bend time and space. The Sherlock actor admits he came to the story ""very late"". ""It was a suggestion of a journo in LA who said, during a Star Trek junket, 'You'd make a great Doctor Strange'. ""I went, 'Doctor who?' and he said 'Oh yeah, that too', and I was like no, come on - who's Doctor Strange? He explained it a bit to me and I said, 'Wow, that sounds completely out there.'"" He describes the artwork for the comics, by Steve Ditko, as ""beautiful, psychedelic, other-worldly"" - attributes that could also be applied to the look of the new Marvel film. The role of the ""egotistical, selfish and materialistic"" US neurosurgeon was ""really intriguing"", Cumberbatch explains. ""There were so many pulls for me"" he says. ""The other one really was the element of being an action hero and being an American lead in a film of this size, which was obviously a huge deal for me career-wise."" And what else is there to come career-wise for an actor who can boast a successful television series in Sherlock - which Cumberbatch confirms is likely to return - as well as playing Hamlet on stage? ""I don't have a bucket list,"" says Cumberbatch. ""I never really have apart from Hamlet, actually, and that was more an age thing. I thought, if I'm going to, I should probably do that before I turn 40."" On Sherlock, he adds with a wry smile: ""Yeah, there's more of him. Despite the controversy, the misquotes - as is the way in the clickbait world we live in - I think there will be more Sherlock at some point."" The actor is also ""just getting going"" with his own production company, promising ""really extraordinary projects, in television and long form and also cinema"". Asked if he wants to move into directing, the father-of-one - who recently revealed he is expecting a second child with wife Sophie Hunter - said: ""I'm going to go slowly on that one for now - my life's quite busy as it is."" Co-star Rachel McAdams, who plays Doctor Strange's hospital colleague and former partner Christine Palmer, says she appreciates the fact the role is far removed from the traditional ""love interest"", because the pair have broken up. ""It gave us a real history to start with and seemed so much more mature,"" she says, adding there was ""lots to play with, with a smaller role"". To research the part of Christine, McAdams shadowed a neurosurgeon at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, and worked with a neurosurgeon on the Doctor Strange set. ""He was there every step of the way, helping me do my sutures, practising on raw turkey breasts and oranges and fake skulls and all kinds of weird things,"" says McAdams, whose mother was a nurse. ""That was really fun."" McAdams said it was ""incredibly important"" to have strong female roles, both with the high-powered neurosurgeon Christine and the figure played by Swinton. ""I like that this film is balanced that way and everyone is represented well,"" she says. ""It's a great conversation that's happening more and more and there's a lot more awareness of what an impact women can make in films. ""It's great to see women together in films - they're often isolated. I didn't get nearly enough time with Tilda - she's so wonderful. I'd have liked a lot more."" One of the reasons McAdams wanted to do the film because of its ""quiet depth"" as a ""fresh kind of comic book movie"". ""There's so much philosophy to wrap your head around and it's not banging you over the head with it, but it's really powerful and strong,"" she explains. ""I think it's a very relevant conversation. ""We're coming back to that stuff that came up in the '60s at the time when Doctor Strange was written, getting back to that idea of mindfulness and the power you have over yourself. ""So it seems very timely, I think it's tapping into something that's in the psyche out there. ""I do a really interesting kind of yoga called Kundalini yoga, which is a lot about meditation and chanting. It's great - bringing together the body and the mind."" It could almost be a tagline for the film itself. Doctor Strange is on general release in cinemas in the UK now. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",Benedict Cumberbatch has said he @placeholder at the chance to play an action hero in Doctor Strange - even though he only learned of the character 's existence when a journalist suggested he would be perfect for the role .,looked,worked,arrived,perform,leapt,4
"Sea Watch Foundation researchers in Cardigan Bay have spotted four newborns in the area in the past week. The first calf was photographed on 7 August with the fourth spotted on Wednesday. Cardigan Bay monitoring officer Katrin Lohrengel said: ""We use a technique named photo-ID to identify individual dolphins."" This process involves photographing nicks and notches on the animals' dorsal fins and comparing them to others. Once scientists can identify the mother, they can be sure the calf by her side belongs to her. The team is in the process of comparing photographs to see if another calf spotted near Aberystwyth harbour will take the total to five. ""We have seen four distinctly different mothers with newborn young recently so it feels like a real baby boom,"" said Ms Lohrengel. The animals have all been seen off the coast of Ceredigion.",Scientists monitoring bottlenose dolphins in mid Wales have noticed a baby boom in the @placeholder .,uk,county,race,event,water,4
"Anne Lakey, 55, from Stanley, County Durham, had denied 13 counts of indecent assault on two teenagers in the 1980s. But a jury at Teesside Crown Court found her guilty of all charges after a two-week trial. Judge Howard Crowson warned Lakey to expect a jail term when she is sentenced on Wednesday. He said the type of sentence handed down would be ""inevitable"" but granted her bail as ""an act of mercy"". Lakey committed the offences over a three-year period, with some carried out when she was a history teacher in her late 20s. The teacher, described by prosecutors as a ""sexual predator"", targeted a 15-year-old boy and another victim aged 13 or 14. During her trial, one of the victims told jurors the mother-of-one took his virginity after letting him watch her bathe. Lakey went on to have a successful career and was praised for turning a failing school into one of the country's most improved. But in 2012, one of her victims emailed her school, which led to her being suspended and subsequently reported to police. Det Insp Aelf Sampson, of Durham Police, said the boys had been ""vulnerable victims of sexual abuse at the hands of a woman who had some power and responsibility for them."" ""These boys should have been safe in her company, instead of being damaged by their experience. ""Regardless of whether these boys appear to have been willing participants in the offences, they could not consent by law to what happened."" Lakey had earlier admitted having a sexual relationship with the older victim when he was 18 and she was in her early 30s.",A nationally - acclaimed @placeholder teacher has been found guilty of having underage sex with two boys .,art,head,health,group,science,1
"Some people who do not believe they can pass the test - or those who simply want the UK driving licence document without the effort - are prepared to pay hundreds of pounds to cheat the system. And it is not just the practical test that falls prey to fraudsters; the theory examination has proved open to abuse. This risk to British roads is taken very seriously by the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and its team of 30 fraud investigators. Behind an unassuming smoked glass door in Nottingham the team's leader, Andy Rice, describes the problem of fraud as ""significant"" and ""serious"". He investigates driver impersonation - where stand-ins take tests in place of learners - illegal instructors who are not registered to teach, and corrupt translators who provide the correct answers in exchange for cash. ""Because of the sums involved some people will go to great lengths for this fraud,"" Mr Rice said. People will pay about £800 for someone else to take their theory test or about £1,600 to be impersonated in the practical test, he said. ""Gangs see it as a nice earner and when we started a gang could do 200 to 500 tests before they were caught."" One of the first convictions involved an estimated £1m made in impersonations. Mr Rice said gangs ""employ"" eight to 10 people with ""different looks"" to match the learner's provisional licence photograph. Evidence of money laundering, drug and gun trafficking has been be found at the homes of arrested suspects, he said. Mr Rice managed the investigation that led last month to Britain's first jail sentence for an interpreter, who helped about 200 people to cheat the driving theory test. Chinese interpreter Peter Hui was sentenced to 12 months in prison for correcting answers in tests between 2011 and 2012 in Birmingham. A few weeks later Mandarin translator Allyson Ng was jailed for 12 months for cheating on at least 94 theory tests between 2009 and 2012, mainly in Cardiff. Although a rare fraud, with five translators prosecuted to date, its impact is significant: for each corrupt translator the number of people who pass with that person's help can be in the hundreds. In the first case of its kind, in 2004, an interpreter speaking Tigrinya (a language from Ethiopia and Eritrea) was shown to have given answers in 562 tests. His fraud was committed mainly in London and Birmingham. The Midlands has featured in all the cases where translators have been prosecuted for fraud. In February the government launched a consultation into ending foreign language assistance for the UK driving test. Road safety minister Stephen Hammond said, in addition to the possibility of fraud, allowing interpreters created a potential safety risk, due to people being able to pass the test but not understand important traffic updates. In July two examiners, an instructor and seven candidates were sentenced after a three-year investigation into fraud in Warwickshire. And cheating is not confined to the standard driving licence test. The DSA is investigating an Urdu translator suspected of helping bus and lorry drivers cheat on theory tests in the West Midlands. John Fothergill, former chairman of the Private Hire Drivers Association in Coventry, said cheating is well known to taxi drivers. Until he left five years ago he worked alongside the Taxi Licensing Department in the city. He said: ""I heard of people using mobile phones and sending text messages to get answers in the [taxi] written exams, some drivers definitely got through without all the knowledge they needed to do the job."" Mr Rice said the public can help to tackle fraud by ensuring driving instructors are registered with the DSA, which ensures they are competent and checked. ""The best way to be assured learners are safe is to check the green DSA registration badge on the instructor's windscreen. ""Instructors are in a position of trust, a lot of learners are young adults and for those who operate illegally, without a CRB check, who knows what their background is,"" he added.",Driving tests are a fraught @placeholder for UK residents who want to drive legally on the nation 's roads - but they can also be a money - spinner for organised crime gangs .,request,challenge,issue,recipe,necessity,4
"With Fernando Alonso testing his driving skills at the Indianapolis 500, Jenson Button has answered McLaren's call to hopefully put some crucial points on the constructors' championship board. The chances of that actually happening? Pretty slim. Especially after Ferrari's resurgence in qualifying. So, pick your top 10 race result below... Who will finish in the top 10 at the Monaco Grand Prix?",If there 's one circuit that can coax a @placeholder F1 driver off the golf course and back behind the wheel then surely it 's Monaco ?,bowled,man,point,shock,retired,4
"Psychologists say that holding onto our good memories - and leaving the bad ones behind - helps us to deal with unpleasant situations and retain a positive outlook on life. It was 80 years ago that the idea of negative memories fading faster was first proposed. Back in the 1930s psychologists collected recollections about life events like people's holidays - marking them as pleasant or unpleasant. Weeks later an unannounced request came from the researchers to recall their memories. Of the unpleasant experiences nearly 60% were forgotten - but only 42% of the pleasant memories had faded. This is something which many of us recognise - after a holiday we might reminisce about the pleasant days out and people we met - but forget about how terrible the flight delays were. Later studies of this so-called Fading Affect Bias or FAB were more rigorous. In the 1970s instead of asking people to recall random memories - where people might be biased towards recalling just positive ones - the participants were asked to keep diaries, recording the emotional intensity of their memories. But because around 80% of all psychological research is carried out on American students, it wasn't clear whether the bias would exist in other cultures too. To see if it was universal, Timothy Ritchie from the University of Limerick in Ireland decided to analyse data from samples collected by academics at six universities around the world. These researchers had access to participants from many different English-speaking ethnic groups including African-Americans, Ghanaians, Germans, Native Americans and New Zealanders of both European descent and Maori/Pasifica descent. In all, 2,400 autobiographical memories were included, from 562 individuals in 10 countries. The memories in the different studies were selected in various ways but many involved asking subjects to recall a few positive and negative events including details like the time and location as well as sensory information. The data from New Zealand and Ghana included just men and women under the age of 30 but others like the German and Irish samples included older participants. Most were asked to recall random events from their own lives - both positive and negative. But the German subjects were asked about their emotional response to a single momentous event: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Those recalling their emotional responses to memories were asked to remember them again later after various time lapses - and rate how they felt about them. These are known as the initial effect and the current effect and the difference between them was measured. The researchers found that the FAB occurred in each study, regardless of the cultural background of the participants. The authors believe this study shows that the faster fading of unpleasant memories is a pan-cultural phenomenon and this helps individuals to process negativity and adapt to changes in their environment whilst retaining a positive outlook on life. One group of people which has real problems recalling positive memories is those with severe depression. Dr Tim Dalgleish, a clinical psychologist from the University of Cambridge, tries to help those with serious depression to access positive memories. The technique he has used is known as the method of loci.  This method is thousands of years old and uses visual imagery which you imagine along a route or in a location such as your home. Participants in Dr Dalgleish's study all had severe depression. Because they find it so difficult to retrieve their memories a researcher helped to flesh them out - with details like sensory information such as any smells, colours or sounds. One of the people who took part in the study, Emma Brinkley, found it hard to remember any positive memories. She said: ""Even now when I'm feeling low it's difficult to to call anything positive to mind to cheer you up. It's almost like your brain refuses to allow you to recall it into your consciousness."" Once decided upon, the memories are ""placed"" along a route such as a journey to work or college - or even inside your own home. Dr Dalgleish says this is a vital part of the process ""You set up say 10 points on the route - so the front door, the porch, the kitchen and lounge if it's around your house - and then you choose the memories you'd want to put in your suitcase - the sort of things you'd like to bring to mind when times are tough. ""And you create a bizarre and memorable image that links that memory to each point along the route."" ""You could picture your living room full of sand, with the TV on and the screen having the sea on - the sound of seagulls and the sea. ""And the fact that the sound was in the living room makes it more bizarre and makes it easier to remember than if you just remembered sand on a beach."" It is the kind of technique that memory champions use successfully when performing feats like remembering the sequence of a whole deck of cards. The researchers found that creating this mental map or ""memory palace"" enhanced the recall of the participants - when compared with another group which used a different technique - that of chunking memories into different sets and rehearsing them. The method was found to have lasting benefits, with effects still seen when people were re-tested a week later. Emma Brinkley has been surprised how long-lasting those memories are. ""I find myself on certain days feeling a bit low and so I simply have just put myself through that familiar route and just try to think of some happy memories to try and cheer me up. ""Some days it is more effort than others. But I have found that there has been a real profound lifting of my mood.""","Why do we remember some things well , while other memories fade ? Researchers suggest it could be that good memories persist longer than bad - helping to keep the human @placeholder happy and resilient .",body,centre,race,night,brain,2
"The equipment, which is used to administer electric shocks to cardiac arrest patients, has been set up in the remote village of Wield. The red phone boxes, costing £1 each, have been sited in Upper and Lower Wield, where the combined population is about 250. Each defibrillator can be accessed by dialling 999 for a key code. The phone boxes were reconditioned by villager Terry Frost. The installation and equipment was paid for with a £2,500 grant from rural charity Fieldfare and £2,000 raised by young people in the village. Tom Geddes, a fourth-year medical student at Bristol University, and his brothers organised the fundraising. He said: ""Having lived all our lives in the village, it was nice to do something for the village."" Parish council chairman Brian Collins said: ""The Community Heartbeat Trust gave us advice and guidance on how to install the apparatus and we bought them through the trust. ""Howard Farley from the Hampshire paramedic service gave us a demonstration of how to use them - and it's really easy and safe, you don't need any medical expertise. ""If someone has what looks like a heart attack, you get them to the box, lift up the phone and follow instructions.""",A Hampshire village has installed two phone boxes @placeholder life - saving defibrillators .,pioneering,leaving,containing,following,swapped,2
"Sierra Leone and Guinea both recorded the lowest weekly total of confirmed Ebola cases since August. Liberia, which reported no new cases on two days last week, had its lowest weekly total since June. The death toll from the world's worst Ebola outbreak has reached 8,429 with 21,296 cases so far. According to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) report, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone now all have sufficient capacity to bury all the people known to have died from Ebola. But it said under-reporting of deaths meant that not all burials were being done safely. While cases were decreasing in Sierra Leone, it remained the worst-affected country, with western areas still reporting the most new transmissions, the WHO said. Last week, there were 59 new reported cases in the capital, Freetown. The spirit of Freetown seems to be back with residents in the capital celebrating, albeit quietly, the low Ebola infection figures. For over a week the reported daily infections have been in single figures and on Tuesday there were only two deaths. Like Premier League football fans, people converge at internet cafes and street corners to follow the daily updates. The usually grim faces are now grinning. The ubiquitous blaring of ambulance sirens has also reduced considerably. In fact, the national daily infection rate is around 20 - in November it was 60. ""Ebola is in trouble,"" says Ahmed Turay, a teenager who has not been to classes since July. ""I look forward to returning to school,"" he says, smiling broadly. The eastern district of Kailahun, which first recorded Ebola eight months ago, has had no cases for 35 days and the other former hotspot of Kenema has had only four cases since November. But the authorities are warning all to exercise caution, insisting Ebola is still here. Meanwhile, in Guinea it has been announced that schools and universities are to reopen next Monday after a five-month closure because of Ebola. The BBC's Alhassan Sillah in Guinea says the authorities there are also stepping up Ebola information campaigns as in some areas people are still suspicious of official attempts to fight the disease. Over the weekend, two policemen were killed by villagers who feared they had brought Ebola to the western district of Forecariah. Earlier this month, the outgoing head of the UN team fighting Ebola, Anthony Banbury, said he believed cases of the virus would be brought down to zero by the end of 2015. Ebola basics: What you need to know","New Ebola cases in the three West African countries worst affected by the deadly outbreak of the virus are @placeholder , weekly UN figures show .",demanding,implemented,expected,leaving,declining,4
"Tickets for the 1,000-seat concert venue were snapped up fast. Happy fans posted messages on Mr Ahmadvand's Facebook page saying how much they were looking forward to him coming. But then a local imam got wind of the plans and issued a blistering condemnation in his Friday prayer sermon. It was not Mr Ahmadvand's brand of kitschy Persian pop that the imam was objecting to. It was the fact that the event was open to men and women, and that female musicians would be performing in his backing band. Although both of these things are allowed in Iran, and the concert organisers had the necessary official permission, the imam said the event would undermine Islamic values. ""First they bring female musicians, then there will be female dancers,"" he thundered. ""Soon women will want to sing."" Within days dozens of young men from a local ultra-conservative religious group descended on the concert hall holding protests and prayers. The event was cancelled. Iranian musicians have always had to negotiate a path through strict rules on public performance in the Islamic Republic, but observers say the Mahshahr incident is part of a new trend. This year more than a dozen concerts, lectures and other cultural events have been called off after pressure from hardliners - despite being officially sanctioned by the authorities. It's been happening across the country, at concert halls and on university campuses. In early May a group of more than 700 university professors were so concerned at the effect this was having on academic freedom they wrote an open letter to the president, the head of the Judiciary and the speaker of Parliament. ""Universities have a crucial role in forwarding knowledge,"" the statement said. ""In order to do that they must have sufficient independence to make decisions and sufficient security to think freely."" The statement, which was published by the student news agency ISNA, said academics had been ""deeply offended"" by the recent disruption of a concert at a university in Mashhad. They also highlighted another notorious incident at the University of Shiraz, in March, when violent protesters prevented a member of parliament from addressing students. Ali Motahari, who has spoken out against the detention of opposition leaders in Iran, was attacked by ultra-conservatives on his way to the university campus. Armed with stones, batons and pepper sprays, they smashed the windows of his taxi. The incident, which was lauded by the Imam of Shiraz, made national headlines and pictures of a bleeding Mr Motahari were widely circulated on social media sites. ""Illegal systematic pressure has created obstacles for universities,"" the letter by the professors continued. ""[It has] caused disappointment and a sense of insecurity."" Observers say what's happening is another symptom of the growing tension in Iranian society, between those who support the moderate President, Hassan Rouhani, and others who back religious hard-liners. ""Under [former President] Ahmadinejad there weren't nearly as many concerts and cultural events as there are now,"" says Paris-based political commentator and former Iranian MP Ahmad Salamatian. ""So it's inevitable there are more confrontations now between the middle classes and the radicals."" Mr Rouhani has made it clear he supports more personal freedom. ""The police should focus on enforcing the law rather than Islam,"" he said in a speech to law enforcement chiefs at the beginning of May. It's the kind of message that infuriates hard-line clerics, who in turn can mobilise their supporters to take to the streets to defend the Islamic revolution. These young men are mostly from poor, religious families. They are intensely loyal to the religious establishment and to the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. They're a force the government seems unable to reckon with. At Iran's international book fair, which ended on 16 May, 29 publishers were forced to leave the event after hard-line protests, despite having stalls at the event and official permission from the organisers - the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance. Ministry spokesman Hussein Noushabadi said this had happened despite ""repeated requests"" to hardliners not to interfere in the book fair. Eight books also had to be withdrawn from the event. One was by female poet Fatemeh Ekhtiari. Her ""Collection of Happy Poems plus a few Photos"" was deemed unsuitable because some of the poems had been used as lyrics by Shahin Najafi, a controversial and provocative Iranian rapper now based in Germany. The reason the government is powerless  to prevent hard-line groups disrupting events is that some key institutions answer directly to the country's Supreme Leader rather than to the president. ""There are different groups in Iran related to the Judiciary, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the Intelligence Services, that are not under the government's control,"" says Ahmad Salamatian. ""Whenever a more moderate president is elected, they become more active."" Mr Salamatian told BBC Persian the president is facing many conflicting demands on his time. ""President Rouhani can't work on everything at the same time, and right now he's focusing on the nuclear issue which he hopes will bring economic prosperity, and will strengthen his support,"" he says. ""But no matter what, both Rouhani and the regime know that however slowly, they will have to open the country up."" Until that happens the university professors seem unlikely to receive an answer to their letter, and the disappointed pop fans in Mahshahr might have to wait  some time before they're  offered an alternative date for their concert.",When Iranian pop star Mehdi Ahmadvand announced he would be playing two nights in the small @placeholder - western town of Mahshahr in May there was palpable excitement .,south,series,community,area,wake,0
"It is believed to be a record amount, although it is worth noting that many ransom payments are never made public. Nayana's chief executive revealed that the hackers initially asked for $4.4m, payable in bitcoin. Security experts warned that firms should not pay such ransoms or enter into negotiations with hackers. Angela Sasse, director of the Institute in the Science of Cyber-Security, said that she was surprised both by the size of the ransom and that the firm went public about paying. ""This is a record ransom from what I know, although some will have paid and not gone public. ""It could be that it had to disclose the amount under the South Korean regulatory structure or it could have been done out of a sense of public duty,"" she said. ""From the attackers' point of view, they might have preferred that the firm kept quiet. It is such a large ransom that it might spur a lot of companies to look more carefully at their security."" The ransomware - known as Erebus - targeted computers running Microsoft Windows and was also modified so a variant would work against Linux-based systems. It appears that Nayana entered into negotiations with the hackers, lowering the fee from $4.4m to less than $500,000 although at the last minute, the hackers doubled the negotiated amount to $1m. They are believed to have encrypted data on 153 Linux servers and 3,400 customer websites. An update posted on Saturday said that engineers were in the process of recovering data but added that it would take time. Nayana's chief executive apologised for the ""shock and damage"" of the incident. In an earlier statement, he said that the attack had hit his bank balance. ""Now I am bankrupt. Everything I've been working on for 20 years is expected to disappear at 12:00 tomorrow."" Ms Sasse said that ransomware attackers had grown much bolder in recent years. ""Two years ago, they tended to target individuals or smaller businesses believing that they would have less good security measures but they have found that they can get bigger targets and the pay-off is much larger. It is a lucrative business.""",South Korean web - hosting firm Nayana has agreed to pay a $ 1 m ransom to @placeholder computers frozen by hackers .,force,keep,protect,unlock,improve,3
"As he trudges homeward, a young boy orphaned by the war latches on to him, looking for a father-figure. Once home, the man, Chandra - or Agni ('Fire') to give his nom-de-guerre - comes hard up against the traditions that the Maoists have tried to overturn, and finds resistance against changing them. White Sun, a new film from Nepal, isn't simply a good yarn with a majestic Himalayan backdrop. It holds up a mirror to today's Nepalese society. The second feature by Nepalese director Deepak Rauniyar, the film opens in Nepal this week having won the Best Film award at the Singapore International Film Festival. Already screened at festivals in Venice, Toronto and Busan, it will soon show in Dubai, Rotterdam, Palm Springs and elsewhere. The central point of contention in Chandra's village is how to give a respectful funeral to his deceased father, the late mayor. The taciturn Chandra (played by Dahayang Rai) clashes with his brother Suraj (Rabindra Singha Baniya), who is loyal to the now-defunct monarchy, and with the Hindu priest (Deepak Chhetri) and other traditionalist villagers, creating some very funny moments. Modernity clashes with custom, not least when Suraj drapes his deceased father's funeral shroud in a royalist flag. Just getting the corpse out of the house and to the river is bitterly contentious. Director Rauniyar told BBC News he wanted to show how the bitter experience of the 1996-2006 war still permeates people's lives. ""People like Chandra believe in change, believe traditional law is unfair to everyone else,"" he said. ""But people like Suraj still defend the older generation, even if they agree some rules were discriminatory. Because they [both sides in the war] had no mercy for opposing parties in the past, their past now haunts them."" For anyone who has spent time in Nepalese villages, the film feels astonishingly real - perhaps less surprising given that many of the roles are played by ordinary rural Nepalese. Most striking among these are the two young children - the orphaned boy, Badri (played by Amrit Pariyar) and Pooja (Sumi Malla), daughter of Chandra's wife Durga, who has been left behind for years in the village. Pooja's paternity is unclear but she wishes Chandra is her father. Here lies not just a human tragedy but also a political one, because under Nepal's contentious new constitution, neither child would easily get citizenship. Badri would fail because he doesn't have the paperwork to prove who his parents were. Pooja would fail because a mother cannot, in the absence of a father, simply confer her nationality on her child. ""She would be not be able to do anything,"" said Rauniyar.  ""Job, passport, even renting a room in a hotel requires citizenship these days."" Little wonder that his estranged wife, Durga, tries her best to get him to sign documents saying he is Pooja's father. Durga has already fallen foul of village customs by touching the dead body of her father-in-law. That is not deemed acceptable, because she comes from a low social caste, but she does not care. Asha Magarati, who plays her, says Durga shows that even the civil war, which ""took thousands of lives and disabled and displaced many more"", might have a silver lining. ""Because of war, gender role in our society has changed for good,"" she said. ""Because men went to fight against regime or for regime, women like Durga were forced to take care and responsibility… Durga stands for post-war generation of strong women in Nepali society, at least for me."" Rauniyar - whose previous film, Highway, examined Nepal's culture of political strikes - said that in White Sun he wanted to look at the legacy of the war, but not in a hopeless way. Instead, he wanted to bring three generations together in his characters, ""force them to converse, and see what beautiful can happen"". His symbolism is ambitious: the deceased man's body is a metaphor for the old constitution and royal rule. Consigning it to the past, to history, is difficult. ""The film's characters struggle to get the old man's corpse out of the house,"" Rauniyar said. ""They choose to make life harder on themselves. Whether it's small issues or bigger political issues like our constitution, we don't seem to look for the logical path."" But the film, infused with pathos and humour amid darkness and some violence, does not feel didactic. In his quest to bury his father, Chandra knocks on many doors.  It all ends with a twist.","A battle - @placeholder , world - weary but still young former Maoist guerrilla is summoned back to his native village after his father dies .",based,minded,size,hardened,funded,3
"On my first day delivering parcels for Amazon I soon found that things like tiredness and toilets aren't taken into account when Amazon plans its delivery routes. I would arrive at the Avonmouth depot around 07:30. I only had to travel from Bristol. Other drivers travel from the Forest of Dean and Swindon, one as far as Devon, meaning they have up to a 90 minute drive before they start their shift. At about 08:30 we were allowed into the warehouse to sort and load our parcels. On a typical day a driver has 150-200 parcels to deliver. The drivers then collect a handheld scanner, programmed by Amazon with a route to follow. If all goes to plan the drivers may be on the road by 09:30. Sometimes the parcels aren't ready until much later. The drivers earn a fixed rate per day for their route but nearly every day there was a problem with the scanner, which delayed me. I was delivering in Swindon, so the drive from the depot took about one hour. Once out on the road the job is quite straightforward and sometimes enjoyable. If the customer is at home it's easy. Knock on the door, check the name on your scanner, hand over the parcel and move on. On the whole people are pleased to see you so the customer satisfaction rubs off on you a little. There is no time for chatting though so the interaction with customers is minimal. When I tried to help one customer locate her parcel, my agency supervisor barked down the phone: ""If it's not in your van forget about it and move on. Stop trying to do customer service. You don't have to be nice."" The customer cancelled the order. I tried to do the job as quickly as I could while keeping to the speed limit. I was considered very slow. Other drivers at the depot admitted to speeding. One driver said to get the job done he had to go at 120 mph down the motorway. A few drivers admitted to peeing in a bottle in their van because they didn't have time to find a toilet. Another admitted having defecated in the back of the van on one occasion. Most days I would get back to the depot at around 20:30. I would regularly notice the same faces that I'd seen in the morning back in the warehouse in the evening so I know I wasn't the only one struggling to finish the round in the expected time. Like the other drivers at my agency, I was expected to be available for work at least six days per week. The hardest part of the job was not seeing my family. I would leave the house often before my one-year-old son was up and get back long after he was in bed. Even in that short time it put a strain on my relationship. I can't imagine how people cope over a long period. My favourite part of the job, probably because I was missing my son, was delivering parcels which were obviously presents for children. I would knock and the door and tell the excited adult that they may wish to hide their small person away. I felt like Father Christmas, but he only works one day a year. Oxford-based AHC dismissed claims put to them by the BBC as ""historic and based on isolated examples which occurred over a year ago"" and said: ""Since then we have made changes to the way our checks are carried out and taken a number of steps to improve our ways of working."" The firm said it took road safety and the welfare of its contracted drivers ""extremely seriously"", and that drivers were free to choose when they worked. Amazon said: ""We are committed to ensuring that the people contracted by our independent delivery providers are fairly compensated, treated with respect, follow all applicable laws and drive safely. ""As independent contractors of our delivery providers, drivers deliver at their own pace, take breaks at their discretion, and are able to choose the suggested route or develop their own. ""Our delivery providers have always been expected to pay more than the National Living Wage, and we recently clarified with all of our delivery providers that we expect drivers to receive a minimum of £12 per hour before bonuses, incentives and fuel reimbursements."" * The reporter's name has been changed.",A BBC investigation has revealed some agency drivers delivering for Amazon drive dangerously because of pressure to finish their rounds on time . An undercover reporter worked long hours for one of the many agencies supplying Amazon with drivers and earned an @placeholder equivalent to less than the minimum wage . Here Chris * recounts his experience of one day on the road .,occasion,amount,earnings,salary,allowance,1
"The annual congressional baseball game in Washington was hailed as a rare and welcome moment of unity among lawmakers of both major parties. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise remains in a critical condition, but improving, after the shooting. There were huge cheers when his name was heard around the stadium. ""Not here, but in our thoughts and prayers, Steve Scalise,"" said the announcer before the game, which was won by the Democrats by 11 runs to 2, moving them ahead with 40 wins to 39 in the historic series. However, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said that his team gave the trophy to the Republicans to put in Mr Scalise's office. One of the Capitol Police officers, David Bailey, who was hailed as a hero for the way he helped to subdue the gunman, appeared on crutches. To loud applause he threw the first pitch, which is a longstanding baseball ritual that usually falls to a dignitary or celebrity. President Donald Trump did not attend but sent a video message of support. The game, held at Nationals Park, has been a congressional tradition for more than a century. Both Republicans and Democrats have pointed to the attack as a reason to ease heated political rhetoric. This isn't just a baseball game. It is a rare and genuine opportunity for Democrats and Republicans to put their divisions aside and show those gathered in the stadium and watching across the US, that they are not just politicians - they are people and players. One woman who bought her ticket after yesterday's shooting told me she wanted just one feel-good moment after everything that has happened. Another group of Republican interns described the game as the only thing in Washington that really works. The crowds are holding banners and team colours. Many are tributes and prayers for Congressman Steve Scalise. There may be fierce rivalry out on the pitch, but there are also a number of players who have become fierce friends. The suspected gunman, James T Hodgkinson, died from his injuries hours after Wednesday's shooting. The 66-year-old suspect from Belleville, Illinois, was a volunteer for Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign but whether he was politically motivated is still unclear, investigators said.",US politicians have played a charity baseball game a day after a shooting - as they @placeholder in Virginia - wounded a top Republican and three others .,practised,happened,lost,had,defeated,0
"Mohammed Sufiyan Choudry and Zaiur Rahman, both members of the Luton chapter of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, were caught in an undercover police operation in 2015. Choudry, 23, from Maidenhead, and Rahman, 39, of Luton, were found guilty at the Old Bailey after a retrial. They will be sentenced at a later date. The pair were among a group of five covertly recorded when an undercover officer infiltrated their Luton-based group over a 20-month period before police arrested them. More news from Bedfordshire Bedfordshire Police said the five men attended meetings at a church in Luton and a marquee in Rahman's back garden, during which members praised IS and urged others to support the terror group and travel to Syria to fight. The meetings were attended by up to 80 people including young children. The Old Bailey heard that, during a July 2015 gathering, Choudry spoke of ""40 trucks driving down Oxford Street full of explosives"". He also said: ""A wave is coming. Either be a part of it or you drown."". The five men were arrested by officers from Bedfordshire Police and the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command in December 2015. Three were convicted by a jury in August. Mohammed Istiak Alamgir, 37, Yousaf Bashir, 36 and Rajib Khan, 37, all from Luton, were convicted for their roles in spreading IS ideology. Choudry and Rahman faced a retrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Choudry was found guilty of one count of encouraging support for a proscribed organisation while Rahman was convicted of three counts of arranging/assisting in, arranging/managing a meeting to support a proscribed organisation. All five are expected to be sentenced together at a later date.",Two men have been convicted of organising terrorist @placeholder and encouraging support for so - called Islamic State ( IS ) .,activity,bombings,groups,speeches,names,3
"""Cairo"" was put in quarantine and was due to be put down after being found at Birmingham Airport in a fruit shipment. But after being contacted by Solihull Council, Lina's Cat Rescue took the kitten in, as part of their ""no kill"" policy for healthy cats. Airline, Emirates, is paying for her three-month quarantine stay. Sheryl Leonardi, founder of Lina's Cat Rescue, said: ""We have a strict 'no kill' policy for healthy cats and when contacted by Solihull Council, we were happy to take on the responsibility of all her costs. ""We are so grateful to Emirates for offering to fund her quarantine period, which means this money can now be spent on other needy cats in our care. ""Cairo has another three months or so in quarantine before she can be released into our care, but we do go to visit her and are pleased to announce she's settling in very well."" It is hoped the domestic short-haired kitten will be re-homed once she has been checked by vets.","A stowaway kitten , which survived freezing temperatures in the cargo hold of a jet from Egypt , has been @placeholder by a Derby cat rescue centre .",unveiled,delayed,boosted,identified,saved,4
"This week, the UN said Norway is the nicest country in the world to live - for the 12th year in a row. Its annual Human Development Index, released this week, ranks 188 countries according to life expectancy, education and income or standard of living. Norway ranked top, and also has one of the highest average wages on the list - some $62,500 (£41,900) per capita. For context, this is who came next: The United Kingdom comes 14th, and the US eighth. (We'll bring you the lowest-ranking countries later on.) But is life in the world's nicest country all it's made out to be? Most of those surveyed, mainly Norwegians, said yes. But, for balance, here are some aspects of Norwegian life that don't tick everyone's boxes. Norway has one of the highest rates of personal income tax in the world, at some 39%. It has been even higher - at 47.5%, but is now dropping. Having said that, it's lower than the highest rate in the UK. And the US. And France. If your Norwegian tax bill is bad news, wait until you try to buy a beer. The website pintprice.com, on which drinkers can log how much they have paid for a drink, says a pint (0.57 litres) of beer in Norway is the second-most expensive in the world, at £7 ($10.40). If you want to save some money, head to Tajikistan, where a pint would set you back a mere 30p ($0.45). Norway has the second-highest rate of deaths by drug overdose in Europe - 70 per million, compared to a European average of only 16 per million. Only Estonia has a higher rate, and that is dropping. The high cost of drugs has been cited in studies as a factor in addicts choosing to inject, rather than smoke, drugs to get a more powerful hit. But Associated Press, in a report last month, said leaders of Norway's two largest cities, Oslo and Bergen, were now looking at radical new policies to solve the problem. Anyone driving to a shop to pick up beer might have to remortgage their house. Petrol prices are also among the top few highest in the world, alongside the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Djibouti - today, the average price for a litre of unleaded petrol is around €1.49 (£1.09; $1.61). The reason is those pesky taxes again - but when you bear in mind how much higher the average wage is, the price doesn't appear to be too bad. We're clutching at straws a little here. But the Guardian reported earlier this month that there may be only 30 wolves living in the wild in Norway - and that licences are being issued to hunt 16 of them. There is no risk of the licences not being taken up - 11,571 people have applied so far. Right at the bottom is Niger - with 16 other African countries above it (Central African Republic, Eritrea and Chad are directly above Niger). Syria, wracked by more than four years of civil war, is 134th out of 188. The UN Development Programme, which compiled the list, says the average annual income in Niger is $908 (£605) and children receive, on average, only five years of education. The US State Department warns against travelling to Niger, saying the country is a target of terror attacks, with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb especially active. And on top of that, on Thursday, its president announced a plot to overthrow him in a coup had failed. But is its status as the world's least liveable country deserved? ""I was very surprised to see Niger at the bottom of the list again,"" says Elhadji Coulibaly, a Nigerien presenter with BBC Hausa. ""I was there last month for the first time since 2009 and I saw a lot of good changes. ""When I was young, in a small town, there was one school. Now there are up to 10. There are lots of roads and flyovers being built, modern houses being built, everything growing like mushrooms. ""I am not saying it is 100% perfect, it's not. But it is changing and this is not a fair reflection.""",Norway is a nice place to live . This @placeholder should not come as a shock to anyone .,supply,knowledge,information,life,sounds,2
"The document claims Chris Roberts said he was able to make the plane ""climb"" and ""move sideways"" from his seat. He was escorted from an aircraft by the FBI after an internal US flight last month. Mr Roberts has tweeted that the FBI ""incorrectly compressed"" his research. And he maintains that he carried out his work in the public interest. ""There's a whole five years of stuff that the affidavit incorrectly compressed into 1 paragraph... lots to untangle,"" he wrote. ""Over last five years my only interest has been to improve aircraft security... given the current situation I've been advised against saying much,"" he wrote in a separate tweet. Mr Roberts, founder of One World Labs, is an expert in airline system security issues and is not detained by the authorities at time of writing. He had previously been banned from a United Airlines flight after joking on Twitter that he could deploy the oxygen masks during the journey. He is now being represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The BBC has contacted Mr Roberts, the EFF and the FBI for comment. The FBI document also says he had ""exploited"" the in-flight entertainment systems on various aircraft ""15 - 20 times"" between 2011 and 2014. Mr Roberts gained physical access to it by connecting his laptop via the Seat Electronic Box located underneath passenger seats, the FBI states. In an interview with Wired magazine last month Mr Roberts suggested he only ""sniffed the data traffic"" on those occasions. ""We were within the fuel balancing system and the thrust control system. We watched the packets and data going across the network to see where it was going,"" he said. Other experts in the cybersecurity community say it is not clear whether he really did hack an actual aircraft. The FBI document also says Chris Roberts told them he used Vbox, a virtual environment, ""to build his own version of the airplane network"", pointed out security expert Graham Cluley on his blog. ""If that were true, Roberts might have accessed the plane's systems and data without permission, but perhaps never sent the real live system any commands to mess with the aircraft's journey,"" he wrote. Prof Alan Woodward from Surrey University told the BBC he found it ""difficult to believe"" a passenger could access and manipulate flight control systems from a plug socket on an aircraft seat. ""Flight systems are typically kept physically separate, as are any safety critical systems,"" he said. ""I can imagine only that someone has misunderstood something in the conversation between the researcher and the FBI, someone is exaggerating to make a point, or, it is actually possible and the aircraft manufacturers have some urgent work to do.""",An FBI search warrant states that a cybersecurity professional told an @placeholder he was able to control an aeroplane engine from his seat after hacking the on - board computer system .,message,investigator,agent,american,air,2
"The £750m refurbishment has seen a new concourse, huge atrium and Grand Central shopping complex built. Some passengers said it was stunning and imaginative, with beautiful lines. However, one told BBC News that platforms and trains would still be overcrowded as ""aesthetics don't improve function"". Andrea Robinson also told BBC Midlands Today that she felt the station was ""hideous"", with ""style over substance as usual with modern design"". It is the first major construction project on the station since it was redeveloped in the 1960s. Previously known for being one of the city's concrete landmarks, the station's new mirrored shell is in stark contrast to its past, with its clear roof allowing natural light to pour in. More escalators and lifts have been added to platforms. When it opened in 1854, New Street featured the largest iron and glass roof in the world, but the damage it sustained during World War Two led to its 1967 concrete reincarnation. More than 6,000 tonnes of concrete have now been removed to allow light to fall on to the concourse. Commuter Nathan Webb told BBC News: ""About time New Street got a facelift. City centre needs it."" Anna Baker added: ""Stunning. Can't wait for the whole complex to be up and running. Now all we need are a few practical tweaks - a drinks fountain so travellers can fill their water bottles, and somewhere to park your bottom when the train is delayed."" On social media, there have been many positive and negative reactions as about 170,000 commuters are due to pass through on Monday ready to catch one of the trains that leave every 37 seconds. Thomas Gregory tweeted that he got lost inside the vast complex; while Matthew Bond tweeted: ""Finally, Birmingham has a station to rival any London terminal."" Jerzy Klein, who was commuting from Digbeth to Birmingham Business Park in Solihull, said there were no bins for smokers outside the entrance which led to ""butts building up for months"", although they have mostly been cleaned away in time for the reopening. Birmingham New Street 34.7 Birmingham Moor Street 6.2 Coventry 5.9 Birmingham International 4.8 Birmingham Snow Hill 4.4 Pointing to crowds piling through just one of more than 10 double doors at that entrance, he said the station was still hard to navigate. ""I commute every single day and the way the station is designed, the flow of people is wrong,"" he said. ""Everyone is moving the same way and it is difficult to get to your platform among a river of people. Shopping centre aside, [the revamp] has not improved anything for the commute."" Andrew Mincher, an electrician at Birmingham University who commutes from Great Barr, said he was impressed but that it was ""nice until you look up"", referring to some overhead wiring visible in part of the station. The redevelopment is part of a wider revamp of the city centre with a flagship John Lewis store and the Grand Central shopping complex opening on Thursday. Andy Street, managing director of John Lewis, said it was a great time to come to the city and the new store would draw in shoppers from across the Midlands and beyond. Immy Kaur, of Impact Hub Birmingham, said the city was really proving itself as a place for business to thrive, with its low living costs and ""beautiful soul"".",The new - look Birmingham New Street station was @placeholder by many of the thousands of rail passengers passing through during its first rush hour .,frequented,used,missed,unveiled,praised,4
"Jordi Amat's own goal came before the rain, strong winds and lightning forced the players off in Virginia. Substitute Anthony Grant put the game beyond doubt as Swans boss Francesco Guidolin made sweeping changes to his starting line-up. Swansea beat Charlotte Independence 4-0 in their first tour game. New Swans defender Mike van der Hoorn made his debut after joining from Ajax at Charlotte. Guidolin was unconcerned with the outcome and praised his players for their ""hard work"". He said: ""It's normal in pre-season to have performances which are up and down. ""I think the players have worked very, very hard in this period and in this game as well. ""It was an good test for us because it is important at this stage to get used to the rhythm of games again. ""I am not worried about the results."" Charlotte Independence 0-4 Swansea City Richmond Kickers 2-0 Swansea City Bristol Rovers, Saturday, 23 July 15:00 BST (Memorial Stadium) Swindon Town, Wednesday, 27 July BST 19:45 BST (County Ground) Wolverhampton Wanderers, Saturday, 30 July 15:00 BST (Molineux) Stade Rennais, Saturday, 6 August 15:00 BST (Liberty Stadium) Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.",Swansea City lost the second and final game of their pre-season United States trip in a match @placeholder for 95 minutes by a storm .,played,disrupted,home,contest,race,1
"They have been to America to learn how to perform the operation on patients who have a condition called scoliosis. It has had encouraging results and patients may soon be able to have it in Scotland rather than travelling 3,000 miles to Philadelphia. The Edinburgh team said they had the skills but needed clinical approval. In the UK, about three in every 1,000 children need treatment for scoliosis, which is more common in females than males. The Scottish National Spine Deformity Service (SNSDS), based at NHS Lothian, currently offers spinal fusion operations to patients whose curvature is not corrected by an external brace. This involves using metal rods to produce a straightening of the spine. The operation has been proven to correct the spine and prevent progression of the condition but it can limit flexibility and movement. The new technique, Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering (AVBT), has been pioneered at the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia. Enrique Garrido was one of the spinal surgeons from the Scottish National Spine Deformity Service who visited the hospital to see the procedure. He told BBC Scotland: ""This is, for the first time, a technique where we can control the spine, hopefully, and produce a gradual correction of the spine without a functionally limiting procedure, which is what a fusion operation is. ""It will be less invasive in terms of preserving some spine movement so producing a patient that is less aware of their of their limitations because of a stiffness in their spine."" Instead of metal rods, the US team puts in a flexible band and pegs to straighten the back. Mr Garrido said: ""This is the first time we have seen self-correction of the spine. ""So you inhibit growth on the one side of the spine so it will catch up and straighten out, sometimes to the extent it will over-correct and goes the other way."" He said the Edinburgh doctors already had the skills but health experts needed to decide whether it was the right procedure. The absence of long-term results might make it difficult for the advisory body NICE (National Institute of Health and Care Excellence) to make a decision. Jenny Gillanders is 14 and was diagnosed with scoliosis in September 2016. Her spine was bent to 58 degrees. Her family launched a crowd-funding page to help with the costs of sending her to the US for the new treatment. On the website, Jenny said: ""I am very sporty, I especially enjoy athletics. I have represented the East of Scotland and have won medals at national levels. I cannot run at the moment as my breathing is affected. I wear a painful back brace 20 hours a day to slow my spine curve. I now need a spinal operation to fix my back."" Before she left for the US, Jenny told BBC Scotland: ""I'm excited because my back is getting fixed. I've had this problem for a long time and it's finally come. ""If it was a choice I would much rather be in Scotland so that my family could be around me and my friends but people have been very supportive."" Her mother, Lesley Gillanders, said: ""It does frustrate you that it's not available here because we know that the surgeons are very capable in Edinburgh."" Chris Adams, consultant spinal surgeon at the SNSDS, said: ""The main advantage is still a theoretical one and it is about maintaining movement, which is incredibly attractive to the people we are trying to look after, which tend to be young, teenage, the majority of them girls. ""They tend to be active, doing dance and other things. "" He said: ""What we want is to rapidly get to the stage where we could offer it. ""Patients under our care are already deciding to have this done but at some distance from their home and their extended families. ""We have the skill set here and we are about to get a fantastic new hospital in February next year and we want to get this established as quickly as possible.""",Surgeons in Edinburgh are hoping to become the first in the UK to provide a new technique to treat @placeholder spines in young people .,covered,group,twisted,side,involving,2
"Investigators in Italy are to examine claims that the mafia dominates the distribution of Sicily's Pachino tomatoes. Many food-lovers consider this particularly sweet and juicy variety to be the country's best tomatoes. The investigation follows a popular TV presenter's call for a shoppers' boycott. Pachino tomatoes are widely acknowledged to be tastier than most. So it was a shock to many - especially in a country that takes its food as seriously as Italy - when one of the best-known faces on daytime television accused the mafia of having taken control of their distribution and urged shoppers to stop buying them. The moustachioed Alessandro di Pietro hosts ""Occhio alla Spesa"" (which translates as ""keeping an eye on the shopping"") - a price-watching programme popular with stay-at-home housewives that doesn't usually court controversy. Shoppers, said Mr di Pietro, were being asked to fork out 11 times as much for Pachino tomatoes as growers were being paid. The mafia, he alleged, was pocketing the difference. His call for a boycott has outraged many Sicilians. One, Italian Environment Minister Stefania Prestagiacomo, warned that the claims could destroy the livelihood of up to 5,000 farmers. Italy's parliamentary anti-mafia commission, however, responded to the furore by announcing that it's to launch its own investigation into the claims.",Tomato - @placeholder is not usually associated with organised crime - but that could be about to change .,east,team,tomatoes,growing,wing,3
"She is voicing the female lead in a new film about Russia's last tsar, by the well-known Russian director, Alexei Uchitel. He monitors her efforts from a recording gallery next door, getting the actress to repeat the line over and again until he is satisfied. Matilda isn't due to hit cinema screens until autumn but some Orthodox believers have already declared the very idea of the film blasphemous and want it banned. One radical group even sent hundreds of letters to cinemas, warning they would ""burn"" if they dared screen it. The Kremlin spokesman called that ""unacceptable""; Alexei Uchitel has asked police to investigate. The scandal around Matilda is just the latest instance of Orthodox believers' pressure on the arts, a growing trend which senior cultural figures warn is returning Russia to the days of state ideology and restrictions. The film is based on the love story of Russia's last tsar and ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, before Nicholas married and took to the throne. They met after her graduation performance from the Imperial Ballet School. The dancer herself wrote that the mutual attraction was instant. But Nicholas II was canonized in 2000 by the Orthodox Church, so campaigners say the expose of his personal life is an insult. ""You can't touch saints. You can't show them having sex because that offends the feelings of believers,"" Natalia Poklonskaya argues, a fervent young MP leading the campaign to block the release of Matilda. Her office is decorated with portraits and icons of the last tsar. There's now a pile of complaint letters too, which the MP says grows every day. ""This is not censorship, this is about the violation of people's rights,"" says Ms Poklonskaya, defending her application to the prosecutor's office to ban the film. ""Artistic freedom is not limitless, it cannot impede on the rights of others."" But late last year, Orthodox activists got a performance of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar shut down in Omsk.  Before that, a Wagner opera in Novosibirsk was banned as offensive and the director sacked. Other activists have chosen more direct action. A group calling itself ""Christian State, Holy Russia"" told the BBC its letter against Matilda was not a threat to attack cinemas, though it certainly reads that way.  But a spokesman claimed that ""society"" was angry at a film he said ""spat in the face"" of believers. He also claimed - though we can't verify it - that security officials have checked their organisation, and declined to take action. In September, men in military-type uniform blocked the entrance to an exhibition by an American photographer they decreed pornographic. Inside, a protester on a moral crusade sprayed urine over the walls, shouting that culture should be ""Russian"". That and similar attacks prompted one of Moscow's best-known theatre directors to warn that Russia was living in ""very difficult, dangerous and frightening times"". Konstantin Raikin argued that such groups hide behind talk of patriotism, motherland and morals. In a passionate speech in Moscow, he suggested that their lenient treatment by the authorities suggested someone was itching to turn back the clock to the days of official control of the arts, and censorship. Alexei Uchitel points out that his own film received state funding, which involved what he called ""expert checks"" of the script. He denies that Matilda is in any way insulting. ""Yes, Nicholas II and his family are saints, but it doesn't mean we can't describe their lives before they were tragically killed,"" the director argues during a break in recording. He says he has chosen this topic because he is deeply interested in Nicholas II as a historical figure and argues that the life of the last of the Romanovs must be open to exploration by the arts. ""If you put a label on someone and say you can't touch him, that's just absurd,"" Mr Uchitel believes. He points out that neither Natalia Poklonskaya nor any of his other critics have actually seen the film they claim to be insulted by. Only a short trailer is publicly available. ""I think this is a precedent which needs to be stopped,"" the director says of the attempt to ban his work. ""If not, the prosecutors will soon only be dealing with complaints from MPs who say people have been insulted in films, books and art. Of course I think that's wrong. Categorically!"" Matilda is currently set for release in October, in this the centenary year of the tsars' removal from power. But the fight over the film's fate isn't over. Instead, it is developing into a test case of where Russia sets the limits on artistic freedom.","In a @placeholder film studio in northern Moscow , an actress runs frantically on the spot to whip up her emotions . Eyes wide and panting , she shouts one , passionate line into the microphone .",packed,darkened,suspected,growing,condition,1
"The plan for six wind turbines at Cam Burn, near Coleraine, was voted down at a council meeting in September. But now Mark H Durkan has told the council he has decided to approve it. And the timing means it got planning permission just before an important deadline that affects such developments. It had to have approval by 30 October 2015 to qualify for subsidies before Northern Ireland's renewable scheme was closed to on-shore wind. Those opposed to the proposal had raised concerns about its visual impact on the landscape, proximity to homes and potential environmental implications. There had been 524 letters of objection. Supporters had pointed to the construction benefits, that it would reduce carbon emissions by more than 320,000 tonnes over 25 years, and generate power for 6,482 homes. There had been 896 letters of support. Mr Durkan told the assembly he had called in the decision ""due to the particular difficulties"" arising from the closure of the on-shore wind farm scheme. In an answer to a written assembly question by TUV leader Jim Alister, he said he had ""also noted the potential economic and environmental contribution from this project"". The current minimum target is for Northern Ireland to generate 40% of its energy from renewables by 2020. Northern Ireland currently produces 19.76% of its energy requirements from renewable sources, mostly on-shore wind. Cam Burn wind farm is being built by Oxford-based TCI Renewables, which develops projects across the UK and North America. It has around 20 in Northern Ireland, some of which are at the planning stage. Existing schemes include single turbines and wind farms.","An £ 18 m wind farm , rejected by councillors , has been approved by the environment minister after the decision was @placeholder by his department .",introduced,criticised,attacked,approved,reviewed,4
"Jean Walters' husband Den left a final message on the device before his death from cancer 11 years ago. But the recording, which had slowly deteriorated over the years, eventually stopped working last month. Through an online appeal, her family tracked down the original manufacturer, which managed to fix the bear. When it is squeezed, the bear plays a greeting which says: ""I think you are the best girl in the world for me, love Den"". Mr Walters used the message at the end of letters he sent to his wife when he was in the army. Mrs Walters, 83, who has dementia, said it ""broke her heart"" when the sound box stopped working. ""Even though 11 years have gone by, it was like he never left me"", she said. Mrs Walters' granddaughter Abbie Webb said: ""Having the bear is something which gives her a reminder of him and something about hearing his voice sparks that little bit more. ""When she is having a bad day with her dementia it really helps...hearing something that she heard for many, many years in a row was a comfort to her."" Ms Webb, from Bristol, said they were ""utterly devastated"" but ""got to the point where we though we would have to give up"". After a social media appeal, Ms Webb found the original manufacturer and they agreed to try and restore the voice. ""We then got the most amazing news that the bear had started talking again"", she said. Mrs Walters said: ""I think Den's still there sometimes...it's a bear but he's lovely.""",A widow 's family has captured the moment she was @placeholder with a teddy bear containing the final recording of her late husband 's voice .,filmed,honoured,buried,threatened,presented,4
"Claire Sugden also accepted that the Prisoner Ombudsman report into Sean Lynch's treatment was ""damning"". The minister said ""severe lessons"" had been learnt from the case. The ombudsman said staff watched, but failed to intervene, as Sean Lynch gouged his own eyes out in an ""extreme and shocking"" self-harm episode. Mr Lynch inflicted the self-harm over a three-day period. The report said on the final day, two prison officers watched as the 23-year-old injured himself on more than 20 occasions in an ""ordeal"" that lasted for more than an hour. Prison officers ""directly observed"" the inmate for more than a quarter of the time, the report added. CCTV cameras showed Sean Lynch shouting and crying in pain and banging his cell door, but the officers did not try to stop him. ""Their duty of care was trumped by security concerns that appear to have had little basis in reality,"" said Prisoner Ombudsman Tom McGonigle. Speaking on Tuesday, Ms Sugden said: ""This was an exceptional, exceptional, mental health case and to be honest our officers were not equipped to deal with that exceptional case. ""But moving forward into the future, we need to look at how we can better equip officers to deal with these sorts of cases."" She added: ""It's been said to me that a quarter of my prisoners have mental health issues and that's something we need to look at. ""We need to look at the prison estate - is it fit for purpose - how we're actually interacting with prisoners on a day to day basis."" Ulster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie asked whether a staff level of 31 overnight officers supervising 870 Maghaberry inmates - including the periodic monitoring of up to 25 ""at-risk"" prisoners - was inappropriate as well as inadequate. Ms Sugden said she recognised there were challenges facing the prison service. ""Certainly moving forward I'm keen to look at those challenges and see first and foremost how we can better support our prison officers,"" she said.","Maghaberry prison officers were not equipped to deal with a mentally ill inmate who @placeholder himself , the justice minister has told the assembly .",blinded,tortured,lost,breached,fractured,0
"Instead, their banners unveiled this morning claimed that £350m a week of all our money is being channelled to the EU, and if we left, it could be spent on the NHS. First, the claim itself is not entirely straightforward. Yes, £350m of UK taxpayers' cash goes to the EU each week. But much of the money comes back our way and is spent in the UK to support things like agriculture and research. You can see the BBC Reality Check on the numbers here. There have also been very serious warnings from unions, the health secretary and some health experts about the impact leaving the EU would have on the NHS. Senior Leave campaigners acknowledge privately that the situation is a bit more complicated than the slogan on their banners would suggest. At a campaign event in Manchester tonight, Boris Johnson just about admitted as much to me - although the pro-Leave audience was none too pleased that the question had been put. But they have a very clear political reason for pushing the NHS, even thought it's not an issue you'd normally associate with the debate about the EU. Sources in the campaign tell me that the ears of undecided voters prick up suddenly when they start talking about money that could, as they claim, otherwise be spent on the NHS. The next part of the argument that appeals, they say, is that immigration is putting pressure on the NHS, and of course much of that strain is from EU migrants. They argue it is the most effective way of getting undecided voters on their side. And that is the task of the main Vote Leave campaign. For some in the crowd in Manchester tonight, this referendum has been a very long time coming. Their votes are secure. They are likely to be champing at the bit to come out and vote. But those who will make the difference are the swathes of voters who are yet to make their minds up. Vote Leave believes their arguments about the NHS just might get enough of them on side to get their campaign over the line.","On day one , the official Leave campaign in the EU referendum @placeholder to pick up not the issue of immigration , not the issue of sovereignty , not even the old chestnuts of rules and regulations from Brussels that drive some voters mad .",threatens,chose,pledge,needs,promised,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device It was a first defeat in 11 Wimbledon semi-final appearances for the seven-time champion. Afterwards, the 34-year-old saluted all corners of Centre Court, prompting speculation that he might be bidding farewell for good. ""To be very clear for you, I hope to be back on Centre Court,"" said the 17-time Grand Slam champion. ""It was a thank you for the crowd. That's what I was going through, not thinking that this might be my last Wimbledon."" Media playback is not supported on this device Raonic, the first Canadian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final, will face Britain's Andy Murray in Sunday's final. Federer's semi-final defeat followed a marathon five-set win over Marin Cilic in the previous round, in which he came back from two sets down and saved three match points. The Swiss world number three is enduring the toughest year of his career. He missed the French Open because of injury, bringing an end to a streak of 65 successive appearances at Grand Slam events stretching back to 1999. He has also failed to add to his 88 tour titles this year, suffering his longest drought since 2000, and arrived at Wimbledon having suffered back-to-back semi-final losses in Stuttgart and Halle. Federer, who had surgery earlier this year on the same knee he hurt on Friday, will be 35 next month. He has not beaten world number one Novak Djokovic at a Grand Slam since the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2012, when he went on to win his last major title. ""It's a dream to win my eighth title here but it's not the only reason why I play tennis,"" said Federer, who will represent Switzerland at the Olympics next month, injury permitting. ""I know Wimbledon is important, but it's not everything. I have played 10 sets [against Cilic and Raonic]. It's very encouraging for the season. I was insecure coming into Wimbledon.""",Roger Federer said he had no intention of @placeholder after losing to Milos Raonic in the semi-finals at Wimbledon .,form,pounds,changes,results,retiring,4
"The day of Winston Churchill's funeral - 30 January 1965. Not since the extravagant state funeral for Wellington, in 1852, had a commoner been given such a grand send-off. Although Churchill was a man known for his eloquence with words, his funeral is perhaps best summed up in numbers. A million mourners lined the route in London, while 25 million people in the UK - just under half the entire population of the country - saw it on television. About 350 million viewers, a tenth of the world's population, watched around the globe. Most of those would have seen it in black and white on the BBC, the richness of the visual pageantry enhanced by the distinctive words of Richard Dimbleby. The commentator was facing his own mortality, a victim of the cancer that would claim his life later the same year. Barry Barnes, from Blackpool, chose to witness Churchill's funeral in person. ""I remember the cold and the quietness"", says Barry, "" Despite all those people, it was very hushed"". Barry was just 17, but even for a teenager, Winston Churchill was an important person. The war had only been over for 20 years, rationing for 11. For young people like Barry, whose parents had lived through Churchill's inspirational wartime leadership, the hinterland of the former Prime Minister's historical presence was vast and meaningful. ""He was old, he had made mistakes, but it was a moment I will never forget"", Barry says. The service at St Paul's Cathedral attracted 112 foreign leaders, but still managed to convey the intimacy of a family funeral. Churchill's grand-daughter, Celia Sandys, was among the mourners in St Paul's. ""It was sad, and very moving"", she says. She later recalled the epic journey that followed, down the Thames, when Churchill's coffin was conveyed on board the teak barge, the 'Havengore'. It was a voyage that generated perhaps the most iconic and touching image of the day: the cranes of London's docks lowering their gibs, in an act of unparalleled synchronized reverence. Celia says members of her family could barely believe the sight. ""It was very special"", she says. She had come to know Churchill well in his later years, often travelling with him. ""Not long before he died, I remember him down on his knees playing with a train set, but by the end he was tired of life, he was ready to go"", she said. It was a rather more sumptuous locomotive awaiting Churchill's coffin at Waterloo station on the day of his funeral. Barry De Morgan, the adjutant of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, was in charge of the bearer party whose role was to place the coffin on the train. Newsreel footage captures Barry's nervous demeanour. They had practised, he says, but his men found the coffin heavier than they had expected. ""You don't think about your fears at a moment like that "", he says. ""What I remember is that the crowds were silent. It was very sombre, but a very nice end"". After the delicate manoeuvre to put the coffin on the train, Barry and his party travelled to Bladon, near Oxford, for the private family burial. The contrast between the splendour of the London state occasion and the tranquil setting of an English country churchyard could hardly have been greater. Though the strain of heavy hearts bore down on those present, there was, briefly, a moment of levity, according to Barry De Morgan. During the lowering of the coffin into its plot, he says, one of the pall bearers snagged his uniform on a rope. Later, the sheepish figure at the centre of this mishap approached Barry to inform him that one of his medals was missing. Mortified by the prospect of the offending item being interred along with the great man, Barry quickly headed back to the graveside and recovered it from its unintended resting place, thereby averting an embarrassing footnote to the historic day. ""It's amusing now"", says Barry, ""less so, then"" - an observation Churchill, himself, would probably have agreed with. For historians, Churchill's funeral provided the opportunity to officially bookend an extraordinary life. Those like Professor Sir David Cannadine, one of Britain's most prominent authorities on Churchill, argue he was a complicated man, who had enemies, but in the final 10 years of his life, ""came to be loved, even revered"". But he describes Churchill's funeral as ""a poignant requiem for Britain"". Amid the entirely justified homage, Professor Cannadine says that the event exposed a less comfortable reality for Britain. He says it represented the symbolic moment when any residual claim to empire ended, ""and, as a country, to this day, we're still not sure where we're headed"". That aside, I asked Professor Cannadine if, as a distinguished scholar, he lends his intellectual weight to the ultimate accolade to emerge from Churchill's funeral, that he was the greatest Englishman who ever lived. ""I won't quarrel with that"", he replied. BBC History: The life of Winston Churchill","It was the day Britain came to a standstill , the world watched and an era @placeholder .",reveals,passed,map,unfolded,started,1
"But 2015 has unquestionably been the year of the migrant. The news was dominated for months by pictures of vast crowds shuffling through the borders of yet another European country, being treated with brutality in some places and given a reluctant welcome in others. In some places - Germany, in particular - the warmth of the welcome they were accorded by some groups compared with the hostility from others. In researching a report for radio and television about the migrant phenomenon, I was struck again and again by the realisation that there was nothing new about it. BBC Archive: Migrant crises through history For 100 years, waves of displaced and frightened people have broken over Europe again and again and the images have been strikingly similar each time. In August 1914, cinema audiences across Britain, many of whom had probably thought this kind of thing would never happen in Europe again, watched jerky black and white newsreel pictures of a million or more Belgians trudging along the roads to the Netherlands or France. They carried their children and their most treasured possessions, escaping the German soldiers who had invaded their country. Britain, for its part, took in 250,000 of these Belgian refugees. During the inter-war years we saw similar pictures from Abyssinia, from Spain, from China and elsewhere, as the future Axis powers sought empire and Lebensraum (territorial expansion). And then, in 1945, there were exactly the same sort of pictures of the fearful and the homeless, only this time they were of ethnic Germans, 12m of them, forced out of their homes in Poland and Czechoslovakia and Russia and obliged to seek shelter in a shattered and divided Germany. Closer to our own time, the pictures are in colour, yet they show the identical problem: terrified Vietnamese refugees escaping from the American bombing, or - after the war had been lost - from the victorious North Vietnamese. The boat people, fleeing Communism and racial persecution, flooded into Hong Kong and other safe ports, packed on to frail craft that looked like the ones we've seen this year in the waters off Greece, Italy and Turkey. In the 1970s, Britain took in thousands of the Asian population of Kenya and Idi Amin's Uganda, thrown out of their homes and countries by governments which thought they saw an advantage in driving them away. There was a bit of antagonism to them in Britain as some people greeted them with placards that read ""We Don't Want You"" or, more puzzlingly, ""Go Home"". But the East African Asians received a fairly generous official welcome and quickly helped to transform British life by setting up small businesses - particularly the corner stores which stayed open in the evenings and weekends, long after the traditional shops closed.  The following generation went on to be scientists and teachers and economists - and members of the House of Lords. More recently, in video of a clarity that makes it look as though it was shot yesterday, we can see floods of ethnic Albanian refugees escaping from the ethnic cleansing of the Serbian forces in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999. In the footage they come pouring down the steep hillsides, looking like the Belgians of 1914 and the Germans of 1945, with the dull stare of fear and exhaustion in their eyes. Yet there is one major difference between these waves of migrants in the past and the one we have seen in 2015. Professor Alex Betts, director of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University, explains: ""What's dramatic about today is that this is the first time Europe has faced people coming in from the outside in large numbers as refugees. ""The fact that many are Muslims is perceived as challenging Europe's identity."" European societies are changing very fast indeed as a result of immigration. In London, for instance, more than 300 languages are now spoken, according to a recent academic study and the city's mayor, Boris Johnson. The influx of migrants reinforces people's sense that their identity is under threat. But how can the world deal conclusively with the problem? The former UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, Sir John Holmes, blames poor global governance. ""Other powers are rising,"" he says. ""And the United States doesn't have the influence it once did - Syria is an example of this - so the problem's not being fixed, no-one's waving the big stick and we're having to pick up the pieces."" We have endured an entire century of exile and homelessness and the cause is almost always the same - conflict and bad government. Unless these are dealt with, the flow of migrants will never be stopped.","As winter has @placeholder , the apparently ceaseless flow of migrants heading for Western Europe has eased off .",faltered,settled,opened,approached,grown,3
"Memorial is famous for documenting human rights abuses in Russia. The US embassy in Moscow has voiced concern and asked the Russian government for an explanation. A new Russian law says foreign-funded non-governmental groups (NGOs) linked to politics must register as ""foreign agents"" - a term which suggests spying. In the worst repressions of the Soviet period the label ""foreign agents"" was used to denounce dissidents - or simply political rivals of Joseph Stalin - and could lead to execution. Memorial says inspectors returned to its Moscow offices on Friday, having already seized 600 documents including accounts on Thursday. A statement on the Memorial website said the inspections were directly linked to the new law on NGOs and the targeted groups' compliance with it. Memorial director Arseny Roginsky, quoted by the Russian news website Vesti, said it was ""a complete check on everything concerned with our sources of funding"". He insisted that the NGO law ""will not change our position at all"". ""We won't refuse foreign donations, nor will we register as a 'foreign agent',"" he said. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused foreign-funded NGOs of meddling in politics on behalf of foreign powers. Two investigative reporters from state-controlled NTV television also turned up at Memorial's offices uninvited on Thursday. Memorial complained to police, who escorted the journalists out. Last October NTV broadcast a controversial documentary called Anatomy Of A Protest 2, which alleged that anti-Kremlin protest leaders in Russia were funded by a Georgian MP. The leaders denounced the allegations as a fabrication. NTV is owned by Russia's Gazprom gas monopoly and is seen as close to the Kremlin. A member of the Russian presidential Human Rights Council, Pavel Chikov, said up to 2,000 organisations had been targeted with inspections and searches this month, in connection with the NGO law. Speaking to the Associated Press news agency, he said ""it goes full circle across the whole spectrum - they're trying to find as many violations as possible"". Memorial has a representative on the Human Rights Council - Sergei Krivenko. Four other groups searched by the police also have representatives on the council, the Russian news website Vedomosti reports. The council has complained to Russian Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika about increased checks carried out on NGOs in 13 regions. Last September the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced it had been ordered by the Russian authorities to shut down its operations. USAID has worked in Russia for two decades, spending nearly $3bn (£1.8bn) on aid and democratic programmes.",Russian police and tax inspectors have raided the offices of the human rights group Memorial and other civil @placeholder groups which get foreign funding .,liberties,libertarian,beat,society,group,3
"Pat Bullman and her husband Oliver created a model village in Wicken, Cambridgeshire, over a 50-year period. But after Mr Bullman's death it began rotting away and Mrs Bullman, 80, put out a plea for people to help save it. Two locals raced to the rescue and the village will reopen on what would have been Mr Bullman's birthday this month. ""It has been amazing. There's an awful lot of work that's gone into it,"" said Mrs Bullman, whose unnamed village in the front garden was once an unexpected hit with tourists visiting the county. ""It's the building that's amazed me, how many they've done and how beautiful they look. I'm just waiting to get them outside now so everybody can see them."" Mr and Mrs Bullman started the display with one windmill for their daughter. Over the years they added a fire station, railway station, hotel, fish and chip shop and a church, among others. Mr Bullman was still handcrafting new pieces in his workshop until his death in 2012. After 50 years, a resigned Mrs Bullman feared the village had little future until her plight was highlighted by the BBC and then other media outlets. Beverley Lorking, a 73-year-old retired engineer from Soham who answered Mrs Bullman's plea, said only half a dozen buildings had to be scrapped and built from scratch. ""We have put bases in the bottom, we've put primer on and also a top coat of paint, and we've put rubber feet on them so they sit off the ground to stop water coming in. ""We've put in an awful lot of hours but it's been a joy and a pleasure."" A joyful Mrs Bullman, who wants the new village to be a ""memorial"" to her husband, said: ""I sort of decided I wasn't ever going to be able to do anything and the buildings would just get thrown away as they fell to pieces. ""I just couldn't believe it could turn out like this.""",An unlikely tourist attraction that was @placeholder away in an elderly widow 's garden is brought back to life by big - hearted model citizens .,thrown,washed,crumbling,tucked,blown,2
The man in his 30s had been returning to work from a cafe in Market Street when he was hit by a Cazza's cab at 14:20. Police Scotland said he had now regained consciousness and his injuries were not life-threatening. The man is being treated at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.,A City of Edinburgh Council official is being treated in hospital after being knocked down by a taxi outside their @placeholder in the capital .,flowers,building,activity,offices,house,3
"It could be over in hours - or it could take weeks. That's how unknowable an acute counter-terrorism investigation can be for MI5 and the police. While there is a sense that there has been significant headway in the last 24 hours, we should be careful about reading too much, too soon, into how long it will take Greater Manchester Police and their colleagues to be sure they have dealt with every single possible lead after Monday's events. In recent years, we've got a greater understanding of how the more secretive end of these massive operations play out. At any one time, MI5 is handling in the region of 500 active investigations involving 3,000 ""SOIs"" - ""subjects of interest"" in security world jargon. What kind of resources does MI5 have to throw at those targets? There are around 4,000 people at MI5. Quite obviously, they are not all trained in hiding in the bushes, so it would be fanciful in the extreme to think they are watching all 3,000 SOIs at the same time. What we know about Manchester suspect Manchester attack: The victims And that means they must constantly prioritise and reprioritise. It is a pretty ruthless, and if they make the wrong call, potentially painful process. The 7 July 2005 attack on London was earth-shattering for the security service. During the eventual inquests, it emerged that between MI5 and West Yorkshire Police there had been six potential intelligence strands in which the ringleader had come on to the radar. The service pledged to massively improve its systems. There was a huge reorganisation of itself and counter-terrorism policing to create powerful regional hubs that share intelligence like never before. Since 2013,  18 plots have been thwarted, Whitehall officials say. That's a better strike rate than some of our continental neighbours. But as the workload mounts, as it has done thanks to Syria, so do the chances that something will be missed. Every piece of intelligence that comes into the system - be it from a communications intercept, a public tip-off or another source - must be tested for links to ongoing investigations. And since 2014, we have known how the security service prioritises those investigations thanks to an immensely detailed document published by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Manchester is ""Priority 1"" in the MI5 jargon because there is ""credible and actionable"" intelligence of attack planning. Further down the ladder come: •Those planning to fight overseas •Fundraisers, suspects training in the UK, and people involved in false documents •People of concern who need to be further checked out •People who were previously a threat with a risk of ""re-engagement"" If security chiefs think there may be a bomb-maker on the loose - as is the case at the moment - they will be throwing everything at it. Analysts, surveillance units and specialist teams - who deploy the bugs or secretly search property - are reassigned to which investigation needs them most. The benefits of such a robotic and systematic way of working are plain to see. But along the way, a proportion of the investigations - and therefore the time of teams - will lead nowhere other than to confirm the intelligence was worthless. Take this scenario: Someone calls in to say that Person X is saying scary things and buying hair bleach - a chemical that can be used to make a bomb. A week later, and after an awful lot of effort, it turns out that Person X is opening a beauty salon and it was a malicious call from an embittered former partner. These are the day-to-day challenges of grading intelligence. Since the Manchester operation began on Monday it has sucked in more and more national counter-terrorism resources. It's taken on an international dimension because of the increasingly important link to Libya. Each property search or seizure of a phone opens even more avenues of investigation for the North West Counter Terrorism Unit and colleagues. Some of those avenues will become, in time, entirely separate investigations. And each of these leads will need to be worked to a conclusion, one way or another. And that brings us round to the big question yet to be fully answered in the Manchester investigation: was there a missed opportunity to apprehend Salman Abedi? We know that the killer had been known in some shape or form to the authorities. Muslim community sources have told the BBC that they called the anti-terrorism hotline about his mindset. And we know from official sources that Abedi had been one of a larger pool of ""former"" SOIs whose risk remained subject to review by MI5 and its partners. Wherever he had started in the prioritisation system, he ended up right at the bottom of the list - someone they might need to review in the future if there was ""credible"" and ""actionable"" intelligence that he was re-engaging in terrorist-related activity. But we don't know why he was downgraded - what investigators turned up and how, in the prioritisation system, he was deemed to be of insufficient interest. Were those calls to the anti-terrorist hotline lacking the detail of credible and actionable intelligence? Did they come before or after he was put to one side? Or was it just partial information? Too little to trigger a new probe when there were too many more pressing demands for attention? The answer to that question is key.","The investigation into Manchester bomber Salman Abedi 's connections has already branched out in multiple directions , and the whole @placeholder of tracking people before they commit an act of terror is bewilderingly complex .",nature,millions,proportion,demise,batch,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device But in every other way Sebastian Vettel's victory for Ferrari in the Singapore Grand Prix bore an uncanny similarity with so many of those he took with Red Bull. In drinks-giant blue, Vettel swept all before him for four years from 2010 to 2013, and the pain he inflicted was felt most keenly most often by the historic red of Ferrari and their former lead driver Fernando Alonso. At the weekend, it was Ferrari inflicting the pain, and Vettel its main agent again. The history of the last 18 months has been painted silver, but this weekend the dominant Mercedes cars were inexplicably off the pace - something we will come back to in a moment - and Vettel turned back the clock with what he said was ""one of"" his finest victories. Or did he turn it forward? Vettel went to Ferrari, on the back of the most disappointing year of his career in 2014, in the hope of emulating his childhood hero Michael Schumacher and winning the title with them. Alonso made that possible for him by leaving - because he had lost faith that Ferrari would ever get there. For most of this season, it has looked like Ferrari still had a long road to travel. Now, at least on the evidence of Singapore, perhaps that ambition does not look so far away after all. Media playback is not supported on this device Vettel's win, coupled with Lewis Hamilton's first retirement of the year, puts the German 49 points behind the world champion with 150 still available in the remaining six races. On the face of it, realistically, that is surely too big a gap to bridge. But after a weekend like Singapore anything suddenly seems possible. ""If we have more weekends like this, yes, we can do it,"" Vettel said. ""We have to look at ourselves. We can't control them. We will give it everything - maximum attack and try to make the impossible possible."" Before the weekend, much of the focus had been on whether Hamilton would make his career statistically equal with his idol Ayrton Senna's and take his 41st victory in his 161st grand prix. The fact that Vettel had already reached that mark three races previously - in what was only his 149th race in Hungary in July - had been somewhat overlooked. Now, on 42, he is clear of Senna and has Alain Prost's record of 51 wins in his sights, a fact the Frenchman acknowledged after the race. ""Well done, Sebastian,"" Prost said on Twitter. ""I can see you in my mirrors now."" When the Mercedes cars were first and second in first practice early on Friday evening - with Nico Rosberg ahead of Hamilton - it looked very much like it was going to be business as usual in Singapore. But then things started to get unusual. Hamilton and Rosberg were only fourth and seventh in second practice after the sun had set and the Ferraris and Red Bulls suddenly seemed to have an advantage. Out of the four drivers in those two teams, two were clearly superior to their team-mates - Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo. And the Ferrari had the edge on the Red Bull. Vettel was in stunning form - and his weekend was such a mirror image of so many of his wins for Red Bull that it was uncanny. As so many times in the past, he had the fastest car of the weekend. He felt confident in it. He extracted the maximum from it, with a stunning pole lap. And he controlled the race at will, keeping himself just far enough out of reach of his rivals to be comfortable, turning on his blistering pace only when he needed it. Even before Singapore, how different Vettel has looked this year from the tortured, confused figure he cut in his final season with Red Bull in 2014, when he was more often than not beaten by Ricciardo. Substantially quicker than team-mate Kimi Raikkonen - just as Alonso was last year - Vettel has slipped comfortably into the role of team leader and Ferrari have rallied around his work ethic and relaxed but steely personality. Sterling work over the winter on the car's engine - its biggest weakness last year - elevated them to second-best team behind Mercedes. But the deficit was still large and there was clearly plenty of work still to do. There had been two victories before Singapore, but they came about in specific circumstances - in Malaysia because Ferrari had better tyre wear than Mercedes, got the lead and an advantage through strategy and were able to maintain it, and in Hungary because Hamilton made a couple of uncharacteristic mistakes. In neither race, though, were they demonstrably quicker than Mercedes - in fact in Hungary they were clearly some way off Hamilton's pace. In Singapore, though, the Ferrari was unquestionably the fastest car. It was obvious that it was because Mercedes had slipped back, rather than Ferrari making some giant leap forward. And the question was: why? An upgraded Ferrari engine for the last race in Monza was definitely a step forward - but Mercedes had one, too. And there Hamilton still had a 0.3-second advantage in qualifying and the best part of a second a lap in the race. From the start of second practice in Singapore, though, it became clear that something dramatic had changed. A clear advantage of at least half a second for Mercedes had turned into a deficit of nearly a second and a half - a net loss of two seconds in two weeks. What on earth was going on? The drivers certainly did not know. ""The car is nowhere,"" Rosberg said, ""which is very difficult to understand."" ""Our problem,"" Hamilton said, ""is we just haven't been able to get the tyres in the window. They just weren't switching on."" Team boss Toto Wolff said he believed there must be something awry in the set-up of the car on the unique Marina Bay circuit. ""You need to set the car up in an aggressive way to make the tyres work,"" he said, ""and I guess somewhere along the way at one of the junctions we went the wrong way."" For much of the weekend, the talk from neutrals was how refreshing it was to see Mercedes struggling for once, and other cars at the front. Alonso's McLaren team-mate Jenson Button even said it was ""exactly what F1 needed"". But that did not make it any less perplexing. Could it really be possible that Mercedes could lose so much time just because they did not make the tyres work in the way they should? Engineers up and down the pit lane would say that, theoretically, yes it is. They talked about the difficulty of making these Pirelli tyres work, the ""peakiness"" of the tyre, how ""if you don't get it spot on, then it can be more than the usual few tenths you are off the pace"", as Williams performance chief Rob Smedley put it. But two seconds a lap? On the best car in the business? With what most believe to be the fastest driver? Inevitably, this being F1, conspiracy theories abounded. Some were down to earth - was this something to do with the new higher minimum tyre pressures demanded by Pirelli after the blow-outs of Spa? (Unlikely, given they're not really that different). Others were outlandish - had Bernie Ecclestone ordered Mercedes to be given disguised harder tyres to spice things up for the weekend? ""It crossed my mind,"" Wolff said. ""I have seen a lot of things, but I don't think Pirelli would do that."" The only thing that was clear was that something was up - and no-one could be completely sure what it was. Inevitably, the F1 world looks a different place after Singapore. How could it not? But was this a decisive shift, the first race of a genuine Ferrari revival, the start of an unlikely late title challenge by Vettel? Or was it an aberration, with normal service to be resumed over the rest of the season? There is not long to wait for an answer. On Friday morning, Hamilton, Vettel and the rest will be on track for first practice at Suzuka, preparing for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix. Like Marina Bay, it too is unique - but in a completely different way. Singapore is all heat and claustrophobia, a torture chamber of bumps and sweat lined with concrete. Suzuka is a majestic contrast - 3.6 miles of open swoops and twists that amount to probably the greatest test for a racing driver on the planet. About the only thing the two circuits share is that a mistake will almost certainly be punished with a crash. On the face of it, Suzuka is exactly the sort of place where Mercedes should be in their element. But after Singapore, who can be sure?","The colour of the car had changed , as had the @placeholder in which he conducted the post-race radio exchanges with his team .",studio,ground,fallout,words,language,4
"Scotland's early lead had gone, the sides were level at 1-1 and the frailties at the heart of their defence were evident again. ""It was a crisis,"" said the Scotland manager, earnestly. Crisis was a strong word to use, but it was Strachan's word and it was a revealing one. It spoke not just to the predicament his team were in against a nation ranked 176th in the world but also to Scotland's previous opening days in major championship qualification. The 0-0 draw against Lithuania that got the Euro 2000 campaign off to a grim start. The 2-2 draw against the Faroes in the first round of matches for Euro 2004. The 0-0 draw with Slovenia in week one of the qualifiers for World Cup 2006. The loss to Macedonia on the first day of the campaign to make the World Cup in 2010. The draw with Lithuania that put Scotland on the back foot straight away in the Euro 2012 qualifiers. The draw with Serbia that did the same for World Cup 2014. Scotland failed to qualify for all those tournaments, as if anybody needs reminding. ""Everybody was concerned,"" said Strachan, about half-time in Malta. ""But we had a bunch of lads who could deal with the stress."" Scotland had enjoyed 72.5% possession in that opening half and their dominance of the ball wasn't reflected in a dominance on the scoreboard. This is not unusual when teams play Malta, but it's still unsettling at the time. Lots of possession doesn't always mean lots of goals. Malta can be slapstick but, on their very best days, they can also be stuffy. Strachan would have known that. Maybe that's where the mention of a ""crisis"" came from, a realisation that while the minnows don't win matches, they do have the capacity, from time to time, to frustrate. In the qualifiers for Euro 2016, Italy had 71% possession (and a one-man advantage for 46 minutes) against Malta and yet only scored once against them. In the return match, they had 70% possession and again they broke down their opponents only once. In the same group, Croatia had their issues with the Maltese. They, like Italy, had a one-man advantage, for 59 minutes, and enjoyed 70% of the ball but only scored twice, the second coming nine minutes from the end. In their second game with Malta, they had 64% possession and only won 1-0. Strachan had mentioned their stuffiness in the preamble. At half-time, that fear wouldn't have been far from his mind. In fairness to them, Scotland picked up the banana skin and flung it out of their road. At 2-1, they had retaken control of the game, then they benefited from a horrific refereeing error that gave them a penalty they didn't deserve, a decision that also unjustly reduced Malta to 10 men with half-an-hour left. In the Euro qualifiers, 10-man Malta managed to batten down the hatches against the 11 men of Italy and Croatia but they couldn't repeat the trick against Scotland. Strachan's team got seriously lucky with the penalty and the red card, but they made the most of it. Five goals is a hell of a return when so many would have settled for one, as long as it was decisive. What did Sunday night tell us? It told us that Strachan's favoured centre-halves, Russell Martin and Grant Hanley, had better start playing games for their clubs - they're out of the picture at Norwich and Newcastle - before the next round of qualifiers in October. In a worrying opening half the pair of them were rusty and vulnerable, even to the pea-shooters of Malta. It told us that Ollie Burke has a lot to offer, that in James McArthur's absence, Barry Bannan's surprise selection was justified and that in Leigh Griffiths' absence - and the increasingly perplexing omission of Ross McCormack - Chris Martin scored an important goal to make it 2-1. It also told us that Matt Ritchie's delivery from out wide could be invaluable. Above all, it reminded us that Robert Snodgrass is not just a terrific footballer, but he's also a fine leader - and if there was luck involved in his hat-trick then it was not before time. Injury robbed him of 16 months of his career. The man is due some payback. Scotland's record on the opening day of major championship qualifying campaigns is lamentable, but this team has spared itself the misery of its predecessors. They can look to Lithuania at Hampden on 8 October with a bit of confidence. Like the Malta game, that's a must-win. Lithuania drew 2-2 with Slovenia on Sunday having led 2-0 after 34 minutes. They're already weakened by that result. Scotland can deal them a major blow by beating them next month. Prepare to forget about qualification if they don't. We can only talk in ball-park numbers when trying to figure out how many points Scotland may need to make the play-offs - presuming that England, though hugely uninspired in victory against Slovakia, go on and win the group. Media playback is not supported on this device For the 2014 World Cup, Croatia, Iceland and France made the play-offs with 17 points. All the other nations that made the play-offs could have got there with 18, although some ended up with more than 18. Four years earlier, and because Scotland's group was so lamentably bad - Norway finished second with a feeble 10 points, 11 points would have got a team to the play-offs. That was a highly unusual campaign, though. Over those past two World Cup qualifying campaigns the 16 teams that advanced to the play-offs had an average of 20 points each. That's why home and away victories against Malta and Lithuania are vital. It's why Slovakia and Slovenia need to be beaten at some stage, home or away. Even then, Scotland may need to garner some draws to top up their total. Scotland have been a mile off that standard. In the last three World Cup qualifying series they finished on 11 points (2014), 10 points (2010) and 13 points (2006). Scotland being Scotland, even when they got off to a flier (Euro 2008 campaign) and had nine points out of nine (including a win over France) and 12 points from a possible 15 at the start, they still didn't make it. None of this will be easy, but it's not supposed to be. The encouraging thing is that, on Sunday, they leaped over the first hurdle, an obstacle they usually thunder into before crashing to the floor. The barriers only get bigger from here. But, then, the prize, is pretty huge, too.",The ghosts of failures past must have been @placeholder around Gordon Strachan 's ears at half - time in Malta on Sunday night .,identified,thrown,captured,swirling,draped,3
"An incident took place on Mulcaster Street around 20:00 GMT on Friday and police have launched an appeal for witnesses. Brent Bisson, 27, was arrested and has been charged with grave and criminal assault. He will appear at Jersey Magistrates' Court on Monday.",A man has been @placeholder to Southampton General Hospital after an alleged assault in St Helier left him critically injured .,committed,transported,flown,forced,made,2
"The First Minister's Reading Challenge was launched in 2016 in partnership with the Scottish Book Trust, aimed at developing a life-long love of books. Originally designed for children in primary four to seven, it will now include all primary school pupils. Nicola Sturgeon said the initiative ""has been a fantastic success since it was launched"". The challenge encourages children to choose from a list of 100 books, specially selected by a panel of academics, experts and teachers. There are various awards for the number of books children read, as well as for creative book reviews and follow-up work. Ms Sturgeon announced the expansion of the challenge during a visit to Prestonfield Primary School to mark the 20th anniversary of World Book Day. She said: ""The First Minister's Reading Challenge has been a fantastic success since it was launched last year, with almost three quarters of schools across Scotland taking part. ""Reading is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the Reading Challenge is opening up a world of adventure and fun for young people as well as giving them vital literacy and language skills."" Prestonfield Primary head teacher Fiona Murray added: ""The children love taking part in the First Minister's Reading Challenge and have read a far greater number of books as a result and really pushed themselves to tackle more challenging texts. ""We do lots of buddy reading in school where older children regularly read together with younger children. These opportunities not only encourage a real love of reading and improve literacy but also help children form positive relationships, build confidence and develop a sense of shared responsibility.""","A challenge encouraging Scottish children to read is being @placeholder to reach an extra 173,000 school pupils .",formed,urged,launched,forced,extended,4
"More than 75 artists are taking part in the fourth British Ceramics Biennial, which has taken over the Spode factory, where Josiah Spode perfected the formula for bone china at the end of the 18th Century. The China Hall looks very different now compared to the days when china was being made there, according to David Aspin, who worked in the factory for 45 years and is now acting as a volunteer at the biennial exhibition. ""It was very full,"" he says. ""It was just the gangways that were empty. Everywhere else was full of machinery and people working on machines and things going in out - clay going into the machines and the finished item going into the next process. ""There was the noise from the kilns and it was very hot. They'd be making flat - all flat things like plates and soup plates and saucers - in this area, and in the other part, they'd be making cups."" One of the centrepieces of the biennial is a First World War tribute in the form of a head based on the figure from the Victory Medal, and made from two tons of raw clay. Created by artist Stephen Dixon, it incorporates clay from the Passchendaele battlefield site. Visitors are invited to tie one of 5,608 bone china flowers onto the frame - one for every member of the North Staffordshire Regiment who was killed in the war - and write on attached tag. Stoke was famous for its intricate china flowers. ""There are still a lot of very skilful flower-makers,"" Dixon says. As part of the project, the flower-makers have also trained a new generation in the craft. One of the most popular exhibits is Again, an arcade machine adapted by artist Lawrence Epps to take specially-designed ceramic coins. James Duck's ceramics vending machine offers visitors another interactive experience. Instead of chocolate bars or fizzy drinks, it offers pots - which are likely to smash when they are dispensed. At the height of the ceramics boom in the late 19th Century, there were around 2,000 kilns in the region, and the industry dominated the area's employment. By 1968, 62,000 people were employed in the industry in Stoke. That figure is now around 7,000. The first British Ceramics Biennial launched in 2009 - a year after the Spode factory closed. Biennial artistic director Barney Hare Duke says: ""It's fair to say manufacturing generally in the UK was struggling. ""So it seemed counterintuitive to be talking about setting up a festival celebrating ceramics, and to have the ambition of setting that up in Stoke-on-Trent. But, absolutely, it was the right moment. ""While there was the popular understanding that the industry was in decline, that wasn't the full picture. It was declining but not disappearing."" There has been a resurgence in interest in ceramic art in recent years, Hare Duke believes - thanks in part to artists like Grayson Perry, Ai Weiwei and  Edmund de Waal. ""It has a much greater credibility and popularity than ever before and we're not only reflecting that interest and resurgence, but we're part of that momentum,"" he says. A dozen artists have been chosen from 150 applications for the biennial's £5,000 award competition, while a separate strand features 22 graduates and young artists. Hare Duke adds: ""We're trying to draw peoples' attention to the dynamism of contemporary practice - led by artists. It can inform thinking around manufacture and design innovation, as well as increasing people's critical understanding."" Local councils set up the biennial as part of their strategy for economic regeneration, he explains. ""The really important thing about the long-term view they were taking was that ceramics was their future, not that ceramics was their past,"" he says. The British Ceramics Biennial runs until 8 November.","The famous Spode factory made fine china in Stoke - on - Trent for 241 years until it closed in 2008 . Now it has been filled with ceramics once again - this time by artists who have reinvented traditional pottery to make 3 D @placeholder porcelain , giant clay heads and tumbledown terracotta vases .",record,including,printed,reached,glazed,2
"Zhang Shuguang was found guilty by a court in Beijing of taking bribes of more than 47m yuan ($7.7m; £4.8m) over 11 years. The court heard he used his position to help companies secure rail contracts. He was an associate of Liu Zhijun, the former railways minister who was given a suspended death sentence in 2013. Many officials of different ranks have been charged in recent months after China's leader Xi Jinping called for a crack down on corruption. Zhang was fired from his position in February 2011, soon after Liu was taken into detention. Zhang pleaded guilty to 13 charges related to bribery in court in September. Friday's death sentence was suspended for two years, however, death sentences are often commuted to life imprisonment in China. Zhang was also deprived of his political rights for life and had his property confiscated. His deputy Su Shunhu was found guilty of taking bribes worth more than 24m yuan and jailed for life. Once a very powerful department, China's railways ministry was dismantled in March last year. It came after two high-speed trains collided in 2011, killing 40 people. The incident led to a probe into the industry and many officials were charged with corruption and abuse of power. China has the world's longest network of high-speed rail lines with more than 10,000km (6,200 miles) of track.","The former deputy chief @placeholder of China 's disbanded railways ministry has been given a suspended death sentence for corruption , state media report .",state,prosecutor,member,engineer,millions,3
"He said allowing developers to convert offices into flats without planning permission was robbing people of employment opportunities. A new survey by the Local Government Association suggests firms are being served with eviction notices so their offices can be turned into housing. Mr Pickles' communities department said it was ""providing badly needed homes"". The permitted development rights changes were introduced in May last year and proposals have been put forward to make the move permanent. Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow, Mr Cable, MP for Twickenham, said the policy flew in the face of Mr Pickles' commitment to local decision-making, calling it a ""particularly bad example of central imposition"". ""In an area like mine in south-west London large swathes of commercial property are in the process of disappearing so that people can build converted flats on them. ""Now you could say, 'You're desperate for the housing,' which we are. But it does mean there is nowhere for small firms to operate. ""So we are creating the homes but driving out employment, which is perverse, and it just means you are getting terribly unbalanced development."" The Local Government Association (LGA) survey fond vacant offices had been brought back into use in some areas - but in others more than half of applications had resulted in partly or fully occupied offices turning into flats. Four in 10 of the council planning officers polled said the measures had reduced office space within their area and only 20% thought it had brought vacant office premises back into use. The survey also revealed 60% of councils agreed the changes had reduced the provision of affordable housing. Some 46% of those that responded said that between half of and all prior approvals involved office space which was either partially or fully occupied. Councillor Peter Box, the LGA's housing spokesman, said: ""What was meant to provide a new lease of life for empty offices has, in reality, seen organisations kicked out of their premises so landlords can cash in on the higher rents they can charge for flats and houses. ""High streets and communities have been changed with no consultation of those living and working in them."" A number of authorities have lobbied for and received exemptions from the policy where the measures would have a detrimental economic impact on their areas. But the LGA said the government wanted to end these exemptions - and it warned office space and affordable housing would be squeezed even further if the policy was made permanent from 2016. The survey, which was carried out over the summer, was fully completed by 93 English councils (a 29% response rate), with 19 councils providing incomplete responses which were also included in the survey. Conservative housing minister Brandon Lewis said: ""Our change-of-use reforms are providing badly needed homes such as studios and one-bedroom flats for young people, especially in London where there is a particularly acute need for more housing. ""This is helping promote brownfield regeneration, protect the Green Belt and increase housing supply at no cost to the taxpayer. More housing in town centres also increases resident footfall and supports local shops. ""The Local Government Association simply oppose these changes as town halls can't hammer these regeneration schemes with punishing development taxes.""",Business Secretary Vince Cable has @placeholder one of Eric Pickles ' flagship policies to solve the housing shortage .,outlined,promised,urged,launched,attacked,4
"The parliament in Caracas held a special session to authorise his trip. Mr Chavez had a tumour removed in Cuba in June. He returned there for a first round of chemotherapy last month. The exact nature of his cancer has not been disclosed. The illness has raised doubts about whether he will be able to stand for re-election next year as planned. But President Chavez has said he is aiming for victory, and that he is responding well to the treatment. Speaking to his supporters in Caracas before his departure for Cuba, Mr Chavez said he was ready for more treatment. ""I'm leaving in a better condition, and with this second phase of chemotherapy I will be even better,"" he said.",Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has @placeholder to Cuba to resume chemotherapy treatment for cancer .,vowed,agreed,travelled,retired,flown,4
"The UK doesn't generally do snap elections. Since World War Two, there are really only two other examples of a prime minister going to the country within a year or two of the previous contest. However, there have also been a few occasions which have seen prime ministers who - like Theresa May - made it to Downing Street without winning an election themselves going to the country for a ""personal mandate"". Since 2011, parliamentary terms have been fixed at five years and, even before this, elections were generally only called by prime ministers every four or five years. In March 1966 however, Labour's Harold Wilson went to the country just under 18 months after winning in October 1964. His decision was hardly a surprise. The 1964 election had seen Labour replace the Tories after 13 years, but with only the narrowest of majorities - just four MPs. An avid reader of opinion polls and an acute interpreter of local and by-election results, Wilson timed his strike to perfection. He bagged a majority of nearly 100, albeit one he managed to squander by 1970, when Labour was beaten by the Tories under Ted Heath - the prime minister who took the UK into Europe. By February 1974, however, Wilson was back in Downing Street - and things were even trickier than they had been 10 years previously. Rather than a tiny parliamentary majority, Labour had no majority at all. Wilson was obliged to form a minority administration and hope that it could last long enough for him to convince the country that he really was the man for the job again. Wilson waited just nine months before making that appeal. The result was far from what he'd hoped for - a painfully small three-seat majority which eventually evaporated completely, leaving the government reliant on a pact with the Liberal Party. So, early elections don't always deliver everything the prime minister who calls them might wish for. But what about contests called by incumbents who have taken over at Number 10 without first winning a general election as party leader? Well, here, the outlook is much brighter for those who call the election. Winston Churchill, after suffering at least one serious stroke that was hidden from the public, finally gave way to his successor Anthony Eden in April 1955. Eden wasted no time by calling an election in May - a contest which saw him increase his party's majority from 17 to a very respectable 60. At just under 50%, the Tories' share of the vote was the highest ever achieved in the post-war period. It wasn't enough, however, to see Eden through the Suez crisis, which led to his resignation and replacement in January 1957 by the wily Harold Macmillan. ""Supermac"", true to form, bided his time before seeking his own personal mandate and was rewarded in October 1959 with a 100-seat majority. The third Tory prime minister who initially got the top job by virtue of his support in the party rather than in the country was John Major. He waited 16 months after replacing Margaret Thatcher before calling an election in 1992, but while his victory left the Conservatives with a much reduced majority, he had avoided what two years previously looked like certain defeat. History, then, appears to be on Theresa May's side. But, given the unpredictability of the current political climate, the outcome is far from guaranteed. Tim Bale is professor of politics at the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Follow him @ProfTimBale.","A snap general election has been announced by UK Prime Minister Theresa May , to "" guarantee @placeholder and security "" . But what does history say about her chances of winning a greater majority ?",certainty,organisations,culture,health,unity,0
"It follows a ruling that abortion legislation in Northern Ireland is in breach of human rights law. Currently, termination of pregnancy is only allowed if a woman's life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her mental or physical health. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) brought the case. It wants to extend abortion to cases of serious foetal malformation, rape or incest. The 1967 Abortion Act does not apply to Northern Ireland. Mr Hamilton said the guidelines had been drawn up after consultation with health professionals and would be made public after they had been considered by his Executive colleagues. ""I think the guidelines offer an opportunity to clarify satisfactorily the law as it currently stands in Northern Ireland,"" he said. On Monday, a judicial review found the grounds for abortion should be extended in Northern Ireland. The court's finding has been welcomed by a Northern Ireland woman whose story of her personal experience brought the issue to prominence in 2013. At 20 weeks pregnant, Sarah Ewart travelled to England for an abortion after her baby had been diagnosed with anencephaly, a condition in which the brain has not developed. She told the Nolan Show on Tuesday that she was ""so pleased and relieved that we can get medical attention in our hospitals in our own country"". ""At the start we'll just take small steps and see where we go from here,"" she said. Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin said in a brief statement that he was ""profoundly disappointed"" by the decision and was ""considering the grounds for appeal"". In his ruling on Monday, Mr Justice Horner said women who were the victims of sexual crime and cases of fatal foetal abnormality were entitled to exemptions in the law. He said given that the issue was unlikely to be addressed by the Northern Ireland Executive in the foreseeable future, and that Northern Ireland citizens were entitled to ""have their [European Convention on Human] rights protected by the courts"", the current legislation was in breach of their human rights. The Lord Chief Justice's Office has indicated that the court cannot force legislation to be changed and that the final decision stops with Parliament.",Health Minister Simon Hamilton has circulated new draft guidelines on current abortion law and @placeholder to his Executive colleagues .,practice,changes,guidelines,recommendations,instructions,0
"Luke Judge, from Cornwall, learned of Rufa Fahmi's plight after meeting her uncle while volunteering in Greece. Mr Judge, 34, said the 11-year-old, who previously raised money for cancer patients in Yemen, needed surgery urgently. He spent ??25,000 of his own savings to fund treatment in Paris. Mr Judge said her story had ""inspired"" him. ""When Rufa was nine years old she raised $2,000 (??1,400) for cancer patients in Yemen by selling her paintings. ""So for [her] not to get treatment after raising that sort of money was just too much to walk away from,"" he said. Mr Judge, from Hayle, said hospitals in Yemen did not have the resources to manage Rufa's condition. He secured a visa for the youngster to be treated in Paris after pooling his life savings and raising an additional ??10,000 by calling on ""everyone in my network - doctors, politicians and businessmen."" ""She's been discharged from hospital, is learning to walk again, is learning to eat properly and getting some strength back before her next operation,"" he said. ""We have limited conversation because we don't speak a common language. ""She's always smiling, waving and you can tell she's full of love and energy. She's so inspiring.""","A stranger @placeholder and helped fund a life - saving operation for a girl with a brain tumour who lives more than 3,500 miles ( 5,630 km ) from him .",group,came,team,helped,organised,4
"An underspend of £14m may be returned to the government as it cannot carry funding into the next financial year. Deputy chief constable Drew Harris said a ""lack of clarity around future budgets"" was hampering the PSNI's ability to improve policing. Spending the money unnecessarily would be ""irresponsible"", the PSNI said. The Department of Justice required the PSNI to make significant financial savings before giving it an additional £13m of funding last autumn, it added. ""The in-year pendulum swing of huge budget cuts and significant easements made strategic financial planning virtually impossible,"" DCC Harris said. ""The lack of a facility to carry over in-year underspends, as part of a strategic reserve, is a situation unique to the PSNI in the UK. ""This significantly hampers the chief constable's ability to invest in long-term effectiveness and efficiency,"" he added. The Police Federation for Northern Ireland, which represents rank-and-file officers, called for a rethink of the rules governing the way the PSNI has to return funding it does not spend. Its chairman Mark Lindsay said the money ""should be added to the new and inadequate budget allocation"". ""This money came too late in the day to be allocated,"" Mr Lindsay said. ""We should have the ability to carry forward any underspend so that the service is not placed at a disadvantage. ""We need to have the ability to undertake sensible and prudent forward planning, but we're denied that ability because of this farcical and nonsensical system."" DUP MP David Simpson said senior officers should review their budget plans, adding that the underspend was ""absurd"". ""The public will be astounded to hear that on the one hand the police are cutting frontline services because of budget pressures but at the same time are handing back £14m they can't spend,"" Mr Simpson said. ""While this money may well be reallocated to another department, it does nonetheless raise questions about the police management of their budget.""","The Police Service of Northern Ireland has said that @placeholder over funding cuts has made financial planning "" virtually impossible "" .",notice,uncertainty,action,interest,criticism,1
"Mining giant Glencore dropped sharply, ending down 9.7% after it reported a half-year loss of $676m (£431m), blaming falling oil and metal prices. Insurer Admiral rose 3.8% as investors welcomed results showing first half pre-tax profits were up 1%. The FTSE 100 index closed down 122.84 points at 6,403.45. Other commodity stocks were largely lower, except for Kaz Minerals which was up 6.50% after the central bank of Kazakhstan allowed its currency to devalue. Oil shares suffered after figures showing larger than expected US stockpiles of crude pushed the price of oil lower. US crude fell $1.80 to $40.82 a barrel, while Brent crude dropped $1.75 to $47.06. Among the UK oil firms, shares in BP  fell 1.7% while Royal Dutch Shell dropped 2%. China's stock markets were highly volatile on Wednesday despite government efforts to stabilise them. The Chinese market ended higher after the central bank injected more funds into the financial system for the second day in a row. On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.1% against the dollar to $1.5646 and dropped 0.37% against the euro to €1.4148.",( Close ) : The FTSE 100 fell to its lowest level since January amid concerns about the outlook for commodity prices and Chinese @placeholder .,numbers,pace,conditions,data,growth,4
"In February, clubs agreed ""in principle"" to use the system from next season and those plans were confirmed at an EGM on 6 April. Goalline technology has been used in the Premier League since 2013. It has also been utilised in previous Football League play-off finals. However, this season the technology will be available for both Championship semi-finals, as well as the final at Wembley on Monday, 29 May. ""The introduction of goalline technology is a significant step forward for Championship clubs and reflects the importance of the outcome of every single game in the division,"" said EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey. ""It has already proved successful elsewhere in our competitions and I'm confident it will have a similar positive impact week in, week out in the Championship, starting with this year's Championship play-off semi-finals.""","Goalline technology will be used in this season 's Championship play - offs before being @placeholder in all second - tier matches in 2017 - 18 , the English Football League has said .",introduced,completed,placed,named,allowed,0
"My colleague Peter Barnes has written about some of the underlying reasons why pollsters are getting such different numbers. But knowing why the pollsters disagree does not help the tactical voter (or, less nobly, the punter at the bookmaker) work out which of them is correct. So can we help answer that question using data on where the national campaigns are actually visiting? The intuition here is this: political parties have information that we do not. They spend lots on data analysis and polling. Canvassers feed data back to the central machine, which is used to inform voting decisions. If they are using their campaign resources (or ""politicians"", as they like to be called) effectively, we should see them moving to places where they think the fight is significant. We have been doing this before: I have written before about the fact that Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May appeared to disagree quite fundamentally about which sorts of seats this election is being fought in. That is to say, they are visiting different places to campaign. Both leaders are crossing the country, but not quite in the same way. You can explore where they have been in these maps - but I'll give you my attempt to unpick the patterns below. Sorry, your browser cannot display this map Sorry, your browser cannot display this map To understand the pattern a bit better, let us start with this chart - which is a bit like a swingometer. Each block represents a Tory-facing Labour seat (in red) or a Labour-facing Tory seat (in blue). And each stack of blocks tells you how many seats each party gains if they improve their polling, in two percentage points increments. Seats near the dotted middle line are more marginal. Seats further away are safer. We can then overlay this with black markers, which show all the places that Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May have visited. Here is the state of play, as it stood prior to the Conservative manifesto launch on 18 May. The overall pattern was clear: Theresa May was hammering away with visits which imply she thought the Tories were going to advance a long way. She visited few Tory-held seats, on the right of the graph. But she also visited lots of Labour-held ones, on the left. And it was not just easy marginals that require little swings, either. She even visited seats far to the left of the graph, notionally safe Labour seats. The early May strategy is simple to read: it was in line with the polls at the time. Even the hyper-ambitious trips - such as to Leeds East, where Labour has a 30-point lead - were comprehensible if the Conservatives believed they could hoover up huge numbers of ex-UKIP voters. (That one very safe Tory seat she attended events in is Maidenhead, her own seat.) Jeremy Corbyn's strategy, meanwhile, was harder to read. He visited marginal Tory-held seats, such as Croydon Central. That implied he thought they could make some progress. But he also visited a lot of very safe Labour seats, such as Birmingham Ladywood. It is, at the least, a more complex strategy than the Tories. It might, as I suggested before, possibly have been built around optimising pictures of Mr Corbyn for TV. Since then, though, there has been a squeeze on the Tory lead. YouGov - the pollster which has seen the most dramatic move - implies the Tory lead has dropped from an average of 13 points on the manifesto launch day to around three or four points today. The Tory manifesto - and the U-turn that followed - went down rather poorly. The terror attack on Manchester meant that there have been relatively few visits since the manifesto. But the pattern, such as it is, since the manifesto launch is as below. This suggests Labour appears to be pursuing the same strategy as before. That may reflect the fact that whatever they're doing, it's working at driving up their poll share. It is still that combination of Tory-held marginals like Watford and safe seats like Liverpool Riverside. The striking thing, though, is that it looks, at first sight, like the Tories have reined in their ambitions. And I think that is a reasonable reading of what has happened. Their most ambitious trip has been to Wolverhampton North East - where the Labour lead is under 20 points. They're not fighting the same range of seats as they were before the manifesto launch. They're not going as far to the left of the graph. The scaling back does appear to have coincided with the Tory manifesto launch. You can see that most clearly if you look at visits in the week immediately beforehand. Just before the manifesto launch, they were campaigning in North Tyneside. That is roughly twice as ambitious as their most post-manifesto trip. That said, the Conservatives are behaving as though they still expect to win a decent number of extra seats - and are certainly not behaving as though they think we are heading to a hung parliament. Two other things have remained consistent over the campaign. First, the prime minister continues to run a fairly active defensive campaign against the Liberal Democrats. Since the manifesto launch, she has perhaps been putting more effort into defence against the Lib Dems than the publicly available polling would seem to justify. One seat worth watching is Richmond Park. For consistency's sake, we have listed it as a Tory seat, because it was held by Zac Goldsmith at the 2015 election. But the Lib Dems have since taken it at a by-election. Second - and we have not bothered to draw a graph of this - she has not been to Scotland very much. But one advantage that the Conservatives have over the Scottish National Party is rather simple: they have two leaders. One - the prime minister - can appeal to Scotland's (often ignored) pro-Brexit voters. And one - Ruth Davidson - who can go to other places. That's one of the many reasons why the Scottish results may supply us with our biggest shocks on 8 June. Additional reporting by Jack Evans, Daniel Dunford and Nassos Stylianou.","In recent weeks , there has been a pronounced change in the polls . Not only has Labour eaten up @placeholder on the Conservatives , but we are seeing major variation in estimates between pollsters releasing data on the same day . Are the Tories three points ahead of Labour - or 12 ?",minds,support,messages,votes,ground,4
"Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has indeed had to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable - his government includes the likes of Saleh al-Mutlaq, a Sunni politician banned from the election in March for alleged Baathist connections, and a number of Sadrist MPs, followers of the staunchly Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr. Some of Iraq's key ministries have been left unfilled, notably the three security ministries - defence, interior, and national security - because Iraq's rival factions are acutely sensitive to any suggestion that the country's armed forces could be used to promote sectarianism. The decision seems to have been a necessary compromise to get a new government voted through before the constitutional deadline of 25 December. But even before the cabinet was announced, Mr Maliki's temporary stewardship of the security ministries was coming under fire - notably from the Sadrists. It was the unexpected support of Moqtada al-Sadr, announced in October, that enabled Mr Maliki to hold onto the top job. As recently as 2008, the Iraqi security forces, under the command of Prime Minister Maliki, did battle with Mr Sadr's feared Shia militia, the Mehdi Army. Though both sides deny there was a deal, members of the Mehdi Army have been released from jail in recent months, bringing back bad memories of sectarian violence, and spreading fear on the streets of Baghdad. In Kifah street, in the centre of the city, we met Alaa Abbas, manning a checkpoint with some colleagues. The area is a mixed Sunni-Shia neighbourhood, known for its wholesale tobacco market. During the years of sectarian violence, gangs of kidnappers and killers would roam this neighbourhood, snatching people off the streets, sometimes never to be seen again. Then the government started clamping down on the militias. Alaa Abbas and his men were hired to make these streets safe again. They were personally responsible for putting Mehdi Army members behind bars. Now, Mr Abbas says, many have been released, and he and his men are afraid for their lives. ""They used to come to our area, to kill, kidnap and rob people,"" he says as he looks nervously round the street. ""We kicked them out of here. But now we are back to square one. People are scared. We will all get hurt. We could get killed in the street, because we fought against them."" The Mehdi Army was a formidable force, fighting the Americans and also acting as a Shia militia force during the worst of the sectarian violence in 2005 to 2007. In early 2008, Prime Minister Maliki sent in the Iraqi military to clear the Sadr militia from its strongholds in Basra, Baghdad and elsewhere. After months of fighting, the Mehdi Army agreed a ceasefire, and Mr Sadr officially ordered the militia to lay down its weapons. Some thought Mr Sadr had been defeated, that his power, which had risen so suddenly and with stunning speed after the US-led invasion in 2003, was on the wane. These days the Mehdi Army does not carry guns on the street any more. But in strongholds like Sadr City in Baghdad, they are easily identifiable by their black shirts. Here, on a Friday, Moqtada al-Sadr's resurgent power is obvious for all to see. A group of men, carrying coffins on their shoulders and chanting songs and slogans, parade a life-sized photograph of Mr Sadr through the streets. His picture is on show in other parts of town too. Just a few months ago, such displays would have been unthinkable. But now things are different. One of the pall-bearers, another man in a black shirt who didn't want to give his name, said those coffins contained two Mehdi Army members, killed in a recent bomb attack. ""Yes, many of our members have been released,"" he said. ""But many others are still in detention, either by the [US] occupation force, or they are detained in Iraqi detention centres."" At the start of Friday prayers, the imam read out a message from Moqtada al-Sadr, urging his followers to march in support of a decision by Baghdad city council to close down many alcohol stores and nightclubs. Mr Sadr's exact whereabouts is a secret, though he is widely believed to be studying in Iran. His top representative in Iraq, Hazim al-Araji, says the Mehdi Army is now dedicated to achieving its aims through peaceful means. ""We did not order our followers to burn or attack those places, but we told them to hold a peaceful demonstration,"" he said, dressed in a black turban and black robe. ""Our duty is to propagate virtue and prevent vice without using force. Now is not the time to use force."" There are no official figures for the number of Mehdi Army members released in recent months. Estimates range from dozens to hundreds. And like the Iraqi government, Hazim al-Araji denies that there was ever any deal to let these men out of jail in return for political support from the Sadrists. But there seems to be a threat implicit in the cleric's words. As Moqtada al-Sadr's followers gain in strength and confidence, the fear is there could yet come a time when the Mehdi Army will take up its arms again in pursuit of its strict moral and political aims. Mr Maliki's new government will have to face a number of urgent issues - continuing instability and violence will be priorities, as will trying to pass a long-awaited hydrocarbon law to divide up Iraq's lucrative oil revenues between the various regions. This issue is likely to cause tensions with the Kurdish bloc in parliament. Another controversial question that needs addressing is - what to do about the Americans? Under the current Status of Forces Agreement, all US military personnel must withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011. The US has quietly let it be known that it would be open to the idea of keeping a number of troops in Iraq after that deadline - but only if requested to do so by the Iraqi government. Until now, the government has shown no sign of asking them to stay. And the Sadrist presence at the cabinet table would make such a request politically difficult for Mr Maliki. The Sadrists regard the US military as an occupying force. Indeed Hazim al-Araji told the BBC that the one area where the militia still engages in military activities is in fighting the US presence in Iraq. ""We seek to force them out, even before 2011. So [the idea of their] staying beyond the date set by the security agreement cannot be tolerated."" ""We have called for the withdrawal of the occupation force and we continue to call for that."" Putting together this national unity Government may have been a ""most difficult task"" by Mr Maliki's own admission. But he could find that there are trickier times ahead, as he tries govern his unwieldy coalition.","After more than nine months of political deadlock , Iraq has a new national unity government , divided among the country 's many competing ethnic and sectarian factions , including Sadrist politicians . The BBC 's Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad reports on the @placeholder fears that the return of the Sadrists is triggering in the Iraqi capital .",uprising,gathering,growing,show,grounds,2
"It has been ""good practice"" to offer the coil for a decade. But the National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) says advice on the issue needs to improve. In 2014-15, 95% of women given emergency contraception by sexual and reproductive health services received the morning-after pill. The coil, also known as an intrauterine device or IUD, is effective if inserted within five days after unprotected sex IUDs must be fitted by a specially trained doctor or nurse, at a sexual health clinic or GP surgery. If an appointment is not possible within the five days, a woman may be advised to take the morning-after pill before they have the IUD fitted. Sue Burchill, head of nursing at Brook, which provides sexual health services to about 25,000 under-25s each year, said: ""We believe all young people should be provided with accurate information about the different methods of emergency contraception available in order to make an informed choice about what is best suited to their individual needs, and we would urge local authorities not to jeopardise this by making cuts to funding for sexual health services. ""We know that the coil is the most effective method of emergency contraception available, so we must all continue to ensure that ease of access to this method is increased and maintained across services from a variety of providers."" Prof Gillian Leng, deputy chief executive of NICE, said: ""It is really important that all contraceptive services are providing women with the best advice about contraception. ""We also want to ensure women are told the coil is more effective than the pill as emergency contraception."" Dr Jan Wake, a GP and member of the guideline development group, said:  ""Timing, however, is essential, and women deciding on the coil should make contact with the clinic they have been advised to attend as soon as is possible.""","Women should be advised that the coil is a more effective form of emergency contraception than the morning - after pill , new @placeholder says .",development,group,guidance,era,show,2
"The Supporters' Parliament wants £75,000 to be found for the proposed installation of about 400 rail seats in one section of the stadium. The League One side became the first English club to apply to have safe standing. The club aims to have rail seats fitted and in use before the end of 2017-18. Read more news for Shropshire Rail seating, similar to the system at the ground of Scottish champions Celtic, is a safe standing area featuring retractable seats. Shrewsbury's Montgomery Waters Meadow is 10 years old so is not governed by the all-seater stadiums legislation which permits clubs in Leagues One and Two to keep terraces that existed before 1994. Standing has been banned in England's top two divisions since then. That law change followed recommendations made in the Taylor Report into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans. Joint chairman of the Shrewsbury Town Supporters' Parliament Roger Groves said it was ""extremely confident"" of raising the amount by 12 September. Asked what would happen if not enough money was found by then, he said it was ""not going to fail"" and he thought the planned scheme would ""get good support from a wider audience"" of fans of other clubs who want this to succeed. Mr Groves said more than £6,000 had been raised since fundraising started on Tuesday. Donations are being invited from fans and the public in return for 'rewards' from the club. Mr Groves said if safe standing was installed towards the end of the coming season, it would ""give supporters a taste"" ahead of a proposed first full season of the initiative.",Shrewsbury Town fans have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to @placeholder safe standing at the club 's ground .,treat,join,replace,introduce,secure,3
"Spencer Vaughan, 27, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, lost his claim for damages from the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The High Court ruled the MoD was not liable for his injuries because the accident happened during time off. Mr Vaughan's wife Jodie said even day-to-day tasks are a struggle for him. The Royal Marine was injured in July 2009. Speaking to Jamie Owen on BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme, Mrs Vaughan said they would try going back to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme. ""The main thing he will need is a full medical pension because he can't go out now and work,"" she said. ""He's a tetraplegic so he can't move his legs or core. He's got no hand function so, putting socks on, simple day-to-day tasks are a struggle. ""At the moment he's still employed, but... once his operations have finished he will no longer be employed. We don't know what we'll do for money then. ""He needs somebody with him around the clock. He's very expensive now, just to survive."" Mrs Vaughan insisted her husband was not on a day off when the accident happened. ""They were due to set sail in the afternoon because they were waiting for the wind to change. ""They were told they could go and have a look around, so he and the other marines took the opportunity to go swimming. ""Everybody that we've spoken to, every military personnel, believes that while you're on exercise you're on duty 24/7 and I want to make people aware that isn't the case. ""Before he went to Gran Canaria, he was meant to be given some joining instructions and those instructions would have told him to take out travel insurance. ""The only thing he was covered for was while he was on the boat and sailing."" An MoD spokesman said: ""Whilst we have the utmost sympathy for Mr Vaughan, the MoD is not responsible for the injuries he sustained following his tragic accident and in those circumstances we cannot pay damages from public funds.""",The wife of a marine left paralysed after breaking his neck diving into shallow @placeholder in the Canary Islands says she does not know what they will do for money when his employment ends .,power,behaviour,waters,difficulties,involvement,2
"The 25-year-old ex-Watford, Tranmere, Bolton, Charlton and Burnley forward, who played for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, has signed a one-year deal, with an option to extend it. Sordell scored six times in 25 games for the U's after moving from Burnley. Derby County striker Kwame Thomas signed on Friday on a two-year deal. ""Marvin is a player that the club followed closely last year and was a prime target for us in the summer window,"" said Sky Blues boss Tony Mowbray. ""He performed extremely well for Colchester in the first half of last season. ""He is still relatively young and I see plenty of potential for him to progress with us and make a positive impact."" Sordell would have completed his move on Friday, but for a club website issue preventing them being able to tell their fans about it. At 16:50 BST on Friday, the Sky Blues announced on social media that news of a signing was 'imminent'. But, at 17:10 BST, the wording read: ""Due to an unexpected issue online, we're having to delay confirmation. Sorry everyone - enjoy the rest of your Friday evening!"" Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",Coventry City have made their second signing of the summer by bringing in striker Marvin Sordell following his release by @placeholder Colchester United .,agreeing,struggling,relegated,neighbours,side,2
"Daniel Hazelton, 30, his brother Thomas Hazelton, 26, Adam Taylor, 28, and Peter Johnson, 42, died in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 21 January 2011. A 13-tonne steel structure collapsed on them at Claxton Engineering. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said all defendants had been summoned to appear before magistrates next week. The Hazelton brothers and Mr Johnson were from Stanton near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk and Mr Taylor was from nearby Rickinghall. The defendants are: They are due to appear before Great Yarmouth magistrates on 2 February.",A director and three companies have been charged with safety offences after four men were @placeholder to death on a building site five years ago .,crushed,forced,threatened,sentenced,reported,0
"Various pan-Arab papers refer to a ""coup"" having taken place. Al-Quds Al-Arabi notes that the battle waged by the Houthis against the Presidential Guard ""marked the end of a great historical stage in the history of Yemen"". The Houthis are the ""most powerful dynamic force at present"", it adds. Dailies in Saudi Arabia, the Sunni-ruled kingdom that borders Yemen, are highly critical of the Houthis. ""Treachery hits Yemen"", declares a headline in Ukaz. ""The Houthi strangles Yemen,"" Al-Watan says. Writing in the pro-government Al-Riyadh, Ali Naji Al-Rawi warns that Yemen ""is moving quickly on the path of failure or the Somali model"". In Qatar, the pro-government daily Al-Rayah also strikes a cautionary note, saying: ""The Houthis are risking Yemen's future... via their armed actions and attempts to impose their control over the entire country under an illusionary pretext of protecting the revolution and fighting terrorism."" Egyptian papers also condemn the unrest, with the story making the front page of almost every paper. ""Houthis in presidential palace, Yemeni president 'disappeared',"" says Egypt's private daily Al-Watan. However, Iran's Arabic-language daily, Al-Vefagh, adopts a supportive tone, saying: ""People's committees control presidential palace in Yemen."" Iran's government has been accused of providing financial and military assistance to the Houthis - something it has denied. In Yemen itself, state-owned dailies continue to call for reconciliation and unity. ""President: disagreements will be finally resolved according to agreements,"" reads the main headline in Al-Thawrah. Rasil Umar al-Qurashi in state-owned Al-Jumhuriyah agrees that ""any element that thinks it can subject the country to its hegemony is mistaken... all political parties are responsible for the situation in Sanaa and Yemen in general"". But pro-separatist Southern Movement (Hirak) papers see further justification for independence for the South in the light of current events. ""The current crisis clearly shows that the possibility of forming a civil state in Yemen has become impossible and that the only hope for that is in the South,"" says Muhammad al-Saqqaf says in Aden al-Ghad. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the UN have to take ""a new initiative towards the South and its right to self-determination,"" he adds. Echoing those sentiments, Abdul Qawi Abdallah Baish says in Al-Tariq: ""We now have the legitimacy of the revolution and we may have to resort to the fait accompli even if that costs us one million martyrs to liberate the Arab South and establish the state."" BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.","Yemen makes the front pages of many of the @placeholder 's papers . Several warn that the latest fighting between Shia Houthi rebels and the army , in which the presidential palace was seized and the president 's private home shelled , could push the country to collapse .",public,continent,un,night,region,4
"Welsh have added Darryl Marfo, Harry Allen and Ryan Glynn to their squad for life back in the Championship. Loosehead prop Marfo, 24, is a graduate of the Harlequins Academy and has made 13 Premiership appearances. Ex-Saracens, Harlequins and London Irish hooker Allen, 23, has made five Premiership appearances, while scrum-half Glynn, 23, joins from Jersey.",Relegated London Welsh have announced the signing of three new players to take their @placeholder for next season to 12 .,squad,record,total,deal,futures,2
"Fundraiser Fiona Barnes 54, stole ""tens of thousands"" of pounds from Preston's Space Centre in 2012. She tried to cover her tracks by faking documents indicating the centre had won non-existent grants of up to £800,000. Serial fraudster Barnes also admitted perverting the course of justice after she faked cancer in a bid to avoid justice, Preston Crown Court heard. She also pleaded guilty to theft. Sentencing, Judge David Potter described Barnes, of Brigend, Dunblane, as a ""convincing con artist"" who had committed identical crimes in Scotland. ""Those who trusted you feel utterly devastated by your rank dishonesty, compounded by your deliberate attempt to pervert the course of justice,"" he added. Speaking after the case, the centre's deputy manager Jane Robinson said Barnes' ""unbelievable"" actions had left the it £800,000 in debt. Staff had commissioned contractors to perform building work in the mistaken belief the costs would be covered, Ms Robinson said. ""She knew the nature of the people we were working with and she still did it. ""She'd allowed us to build and extend and have all the work done knowing this money wasn't coming in."" ""With grants you have to do the work and then claim the money to pay the people who have done the work"". Ms Robinson added: ""It was all the builders and the lighting [engineers] we owed the money to who bore the brunt of it. Any one of them could have put us into bankruptcy at any time."" However, the centre was bought out by charitable company Creative Support, based in Manchester, which has secured its future. The Space Centre, which opened in 1993 and has three sensory rooms, is the UK's largest multi-sensory environment.",A con artist who brought a centre for @placeholder children to the brink of ruin has been jailed for 15 months .,abandoned,causing,promising,helping,disabled,4
"Cars flew in a preview of the latest Fast and the Furious instalment, while Zac Efron sported Stars and Stripes underpants in a brief Baywatch tease. A zombie seagull appeared in a ""spot"" for the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film, Dead Men Tell No Tales. And Netflix revealed the next Stranger Things series will debut at Halloween. There were also starry product adverts featuring Justins Bieber and Timberlake and Wonder Woman's Gal Gadot. Here's a breakdown of some of the treats that TV viewers in the US and Canada saw. Though not officially trailing a movie release, Netflix's promo for the second series of its 1980s sci-fi series is already generating blockbuster levels of excitement. Beginning with footage from a vintage waffle commercial, the teaser features the show's juvenile heroes dressed as Ghostbusters and a brief glimpse of a giant spider creature. The adverts ends with a giant ""2"" appearing over the Stranger Things logo, followed by the single word ""Halloween"". ""I am STUPID excited about Stranger Things going Full Lovecraft,"" wrote one excited Twitter user. A submarine, a tank and a giant wrecking ball add up to a whole lot of mayhem in the promo for the eighth Fast and the Furious film. The ""big game spot"" also sees cars tumble out of buildings, plunge underwater and race through New York's Times Square. Charlize Theron, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Britain's Jason Statham all feature in a promo that promises ""the rules have changed"" this time around. Not so much, though, to preclude a leering shot of young ladies' gyrating bottoms. Fleetwood Mac's The Chain provides a propulsive backdrop to the trailer for the latest offering from the Marvel Studios. It begins with a new character - played by The Night Manager's Elizabeth Debicki - asking: ""Just who in the hell do you think you are?"" The promo then sets about re-introducing Chris Pratt's Star Lord, Zoe Saldana's Gamora and the rest of the film's band of unconventional superheroes. Just in case we don't get the message, Bradley Cooper's Rocket Racoon rams it home by announcing: ""Welcome to the frickin' Guardians of the Galaxy!"" The late Johnny Cash is the unseen star here, growling his posthumous version of Ain't No Grave (Can Hold My Body Down). It's a fitting accompaniment to a trailer that features zombie sailors walking on water, zombie sharks marauding beneath it and the aforementioned undead seagull. Johnny Depp - caked in mud and carrying a bottle of rum - makes a relatively late appearance as Captain Jack Sparrow. Confusingly, the fifth instalment in the series will be released on these shores as Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge. You wouldn't normally expect a trailer for a Transformers film to begin with Sir Anthony Hopkins musing on the giant robots' origins. ""You want to know, don't you? Why they keep coming here - to Earth,"" his sepulchral tones intone, accompanied by a ghostly chorister. It's not long, though, before things default to more traditional scenes of helicopters exploding, automatons duelling and Mark Wahlberg firing a rocket launcher. According to director Michael Bay: ""There's never been a Transformers film with the huge visual scope and expansive mythology as this movie."" ""While you're watching the game, they are watching the bay!"" growls the voiceover to the promo to the spin-off to the TV series. The self-referential tone continues with a character looking at an approaching blonde woman and wondering: ""Why does she always look like she's running in slo-mo?"" But the biggest gag is saved to the end when Zac Efron rips off some tracksuit bottoms, revealing a pair of briefs adored with the American flag. ""What are you wearing?"" asks Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson - yes, him again - to which Efron responds: ""Freedom!"" Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Besides Lady Gaga 's half - time show and the game itself , Sunday 's Super Bowl also saw a host of movie blockbusters tout their wares during the ad @placeholder .",race,side,breaks,table,tide,2
"The Shanghai Composite rallied 3% to close at 3,786.57, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng ended up 1.5% at 24,855.12. Mainland shares tested highs last seen in May 2008 as Beijing unveiled plans to construct a modern Silk Road to improve links to Europe and Africa. Investors awaited more infrastructure spending and policy easing. Greater China shares were also boosted after China allowed mainland mutual funds to buy Hong Kong stocks via the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect. In Japan, shares were up despite negative factory production data, which showed the biggest drop in output since June 2014. The benchmark Nikkei 225 closed up 0.7% at 19,411.4. Industrial output fell 3.4% in February from the previous month as companies curbed production due to the Lunar New Year holidays. The dollar was at 119.19 yen, compared with 119.14 yen in New York trade on Friday. Australian shares headed lower with resource stocks weighing on the benchmark index due to record low iron ore prices and sliding oil prices. Iron ore prices hit fresh all-time lows on oversupply worries, while the price of oil tumbled 5% on Friday. The S&P/ASX 200 closed down 1.3% 5846.1, its lowest since 18 March. Shares of Caltex Australia plunged as much as 10.2% after US energy giant Chevron sold its entire stake in the refiner for $3.6bn (£2.4bn), becoming the latest global energy player to exit Australia's refining industry. It closed down 9.1%. In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index ended higher 0.5% to 2,030.04 points. Investors ignored central bank data that showed manufacturing sentiment fell for April, highlighting uneven confidence among businesses.",Asian shares got off to a positive start in a holiday - shortened week with Chinese shares leading the @placeholder 's gains on stimulus hopes .,year,region,side,pace,group,1
Police said the victim was set upon by up to eight men in the Heights area at about 02:00 BST on Sunday. A 30-year-old man was arrested but has since been released on police bail pending further enquiries. Police have appealed for information about the attack.,"A 28 - year - old man has been @placeholder by a gang armed with metal bars and bats in Coleraine , County Londonderry .",assaulted,kidnapped,raped,struck,beaten,4
"That currency plan was the most intense pressure point from the Better Together campaign. It is now acknowledged by independence campaigners that it should be re-thought. Even if it was the right policy, it left the campaign exposed. It was asserted that the UK would have to agree to a currency union, on three hotly contested grounds - with the assertion that sterling was ""an asset"" belonging to all of the UK, it was seen as being in the UK's economic interests, and because Scotland could refuse to take on a share of UK debt if it did not. The main Westminster parties stated they would not do such a deal. And they pushed the SNP's independence campaigners to state what their ""Plan B"" would be. Now Prof Stiglitz has told BBC Scotland the currency proposal ""may have been a mistake"" - not on presentational grounds, but on economic ones. This is consistent with his critique, in a new book, of the euro currency project. He believes it is flawed through a lack of political integration to back up the economic links, and because Germany has enforced fiscal discipline too severely. By contrast, he points out that the USA dollar-zone relies on flows of funds from strong parts to weak. Federal funds can help bail out one part of the country at a time of crisis. Imbalances in America can also be reduced by the flow of people from areas of high unemployment to areas where there are job opportunities. But as Britain's EU vote demonstrates, that has become increasingly contentious. The suggestion put forward by Prof Stiglitz, and being discussed by independence campaigners, is for an independent Scotland to have its own currency. This could float against others, which would let it absorb economic divergence. It could be a condition for entry to the EU - though the professor advises against then joining the euro. It would not be cost-free, however, as currency exchange brings costs of transactions and of the risk of volatility. Setting up a new currency would require a central bank with the backing of currency reserves. It would need to win the confidence of international markets, which could require signalling a strengthening of fiscal discipline. And before that, it would have to win the confidence of the Scottish public. You may recall the question of whether voters wanted their earnings, savings, pensions and loans to be re-denominated in a new currency. If the sharing of sterling ""may have been a mistake"", the alternatives are not easy either. The re-opening of the debate about the currency used by an independent Scotland brings up quite a lot of complexity. Now that the Scottish government's priority is to ensure continued access to the European single market, it hasn't got any easier. Here's why: * A new member of the European Union has to promise to prepare for membership of the euro currency. Only the UK and Denmark have permission not to do so. Sweden is showing no signs of wanting to join, though it is technically obliged to prepare to do so. Some others, such as Poland, are not thought to be in a rush either. * To prepare, a new member has to have control of its own currency, with monetary institutions including a central bank. This should be for at least two years, and is to let the new EU member demonstrate its reliability in managing monetary affairs. * Preparation for membership requires the government deficit to be no more than 3% of Gross Domestic Product, or total output, and government debt below 60%. Last year, official statistics point to a 9.5% deficit on all government spending and taxation in Scotland. UK government debt is around 80% of GDP, and may be about to go higher. An independent Scotland's share of that would have to be negotiated. * There is a case for a country pegging its currency to its main trading partner. For Scotland, by a wide margin, the biggest customer for goods and services is the rest of the UK. For that reason at least, it would make sense to be part of the sterling area (which was the SNP case made in 2014), or committed to maintaining a stable exchange rate between sterling and a Scottish currency. So here's the dilemma for an independent Scotland: stick with, or close to, sterling because that's what the main trading partner uses, at the same time as telling the rest of the Europe that Scotland intends to fulfil the EU membership commitment to join the euro. At the same time, set up a new currency, with no intention of floating it, and perhaps for only two years, while bringing the deficit down from nearly £15bn to less than £5bn. Two alternatives: one is return to the 2014 white paper and the tactic of saying that Westminster would have to do a deal with Scotland on joint control of sterling, whether through self-interest or once threatened with Scots refusing to take on a share of UK debt. Or Scottish government ministers could go to Brussels and around 27 other capitals and explain that Scotland is a special case. It's been inside the EU for 43 years, and ministers argue that it is being taken out of the European Union against its will. Therefore, the case goes, these rules should be put aside, or Scotland should be treated as the successor state to the United Kingdom, and should inherit its eurozone get-out clause.",Joseph Stiglitz is one of two Nobel laureates on the Council of Economic Advisers to the Scottish government . Their status was often @placeholder by the Scottish government in 2014 to back the economic case for independence and for a continued currency union with the rest of the UK .,approved,overshadowed,cited,inspired,launched,2
"But the broader S&P 500 and the tech-based Nasdaq closed lower, ending a busy week of earnings results. The Dow added 0.2% to 21,830.31, while the S&P and Nasdaq were both down 0.1%  to close at 2,472.09 and 6,374.68. Shares in online retail giant Amazon fell 2.56% after it surprised investors by reporting lower-than-expected profits. Profits for the April-to-June period fell 77% to $197m as the company invested in overseas expansion and new products and services. Shares in Goodyear sank more than 8% after the tyre maker's second-quarter sales fell short of expectations and the company cut its forecasts. Goodyear now expects sales at its tyre unit to fall by about 3.5% this year, compared with its previous forecast of no change.",The blue - chip Dow Jones held on to slim @placeholder to close at a third consecutive record on Friday .,gains,people,display,set,night,0
"The 29-year-old helped the Bears win the One-Day Cup last season, scoring 257 runs at an average of 64.25 in 10 appearances in the competition. Evans joined Warwickshire in 2010 and also won the County Championship in 2012 and the T20 Blast in 2014. Sussex head coach Mark Davis described Evans as ""player of great ability"". He added: ""He plays in all formats of the game and is a brilliant acquisition for the club. I believe Laurie's best years are in front of him, and he is driven to achieve his undoubted potential."" Evans has predominantly played white-ball cricket for Warwickshire, but has scored 2,926 runs at an average of 34.02 in first-class cricket. He had a spell on loan with Northamptonshire in 2016. Bears first-team coach Jim Troughton said: ""Laurie has played an important part in our white-ball cricket for several years, but has been unable to secure a regular place in the team for first-class cricket. ""Whilst it's naturally disappointing that Laurie has decided that he no longer wants to play for Warwickshire, we do not wish to stand in the way of his ambitions in the game and we wish him the very best in his career with Sussex. ""We are also aware that he has been keen to move closer to his family in London and being based on the south coast will work better for him.""",Sussex have signed batsman Laurie Evans on a three - year contract after Warwickshire released him a year early from his @placeholder at Edgbaston .,place,role,deal,stay,retirement,2
"The 35-year-old, who has been racing for Red Bull Honda's World Superbike team this year, is being treated at a hospital in Cesena. The American competed in the latest round of the World Superbike championship in Italy last Sunday. He won his only MotoGP championship in 2006, preventing Valentino Rossi from winning a sixth successive title. This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser",Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has been @placeholder after he was hit by a car while cycling in Italy .,injured,released,revealed,retired,sacked,0
"In a video posted on YouTube, the young man can be seen looking bewildered as shop assistant Ken Fernandez presents him with the Wii U. Best Buy deny the act was a marketing stunt. The clip was uploaded by another employee Rahiem Storr, who said the team wanted to ""make a child smile"". Mr Storr does not work at the Valley Stream branch of the store in New York where the video was filmed, but was moved by the footage when it was shown to him and decided to post it online. He wrote that the teenager in the video went to the shop ""every single day"" to play the display Wii U, so staff there had decided to act. ""We bought you a Wii so that you don't have to come in here every day and play,"" said Mr Fernandez in the video. ""Everybody you see here, we all got together and chipped in so that you could have one for yourself."" He reassures the boy that he is serious and says the $300 (£235) console is an early Christmas present. After posting the video Mr Storr received a barrage of abuse.  He then published another video in which he says if viewers have nothing good to say then they shouldn't say ""anything at all"".",Workers at a US electrical shop bought a young customer his own Nintendo games console after he visited daily to play on the store 's @placeholder device .,food,portable,drugs,gaming,demo,4
"They studied 156 stroke patients with different patterns of brain injury. More of those with insular cortex damage successfully gave up smoking and reported fewer withdrawal symptoms than the other stroke patients. Experts say targeting this brain area may help other smokers quit. Most stop smoking medicines currently on the market work by blocking the brain's reward pathways in response to nicotine. And patches and gums aim to lessen cravings by supplying a controlled dose of nicotine as the person weans themselves off tobacco. But post-graduate researcher Amir Abdolahi and colleagues believe the insular cortex could be a valuable new target for quit smoking aids. Therapies that could hone in on this area of the brain and disrupt its role in addiction, potentially with new drugs or other techniques such as deep brain stimulation or transcranial magnetic stimulation, should be explored, they say. ""Much more research is needed in order for us to more fully understand the underlying mechanism and specific role of the insular cortex, but it is clear that something is going on in this part of the brain that is influencing addiction,"" Dr Abdolahi said. The research findings are published in two medical journals - Addiction and Addictive Behaviors. The patients in the study were smokers who had been admitted to hospital because of a stroke. Medical scans revealed that 38 of them had suffered damage to the insular cortex, while the remaining 118 had damage to other parts of the brain. All of the patients were encouraged by their doctor to quit smoking. The researchers followed the patients for three months to see how many actually quit, and how easy they had found it. A few dropped out of the study. Of those remaining, almost twice as many patients with strokes in the insular cortex successfully abstained from smoking for three months (22 out of 32 patients, or 70%) compared with those with strokes in other parts of the brain (38 out of 103 patients, or 37%). And they suffered less from withdrawal symptoms such as cravings, hunger, rage, sleeplessness and anxiety. The findings support those of earlier work by Dr Antoine Bechara, from the University of Southern California, who reported that stroke patients with damage to the insular cortex had said their body had ""forgotten the urge to smoke"". The insular cortex lies deep in the brain and has widespread connections to surrounding regions. Experts believe its primary role is to do with desires and emotions.","A particular region of the brain may drive smoking addiction , say scientists who found stroke survivors with damage to their insular cortex more easily @placeholder the habit .",kicked,effect,handle,avoided,fleeing,0
"Urging parents to email MPs and councillors, the heads told them: ""They are not listening to us and we hope instead they might listen to you."" The cuts mean fewer teachers, larger classes, less choice, less support and fewer opportunities, says a statement on local secondary school websites. The government says school budgets are at their highest level ever. But, the 16 secondary head teachers say every secondary school in the borough faces cuts to staffing and resources as budgets fail to keep pace with costs. ""Will you help protect your child's education?"" the statement asks parents. It says school budgets have been cut by 8-10% over the last few years ""as unfunded pay rises, increased pension and national insurance costs and 'taxes' such as the Apprenticeship Levy have meant schools have less money"". It adds: ""This means cuts in other areas of the school to fund these extra costs. The future looks bleak."" One head teacher told the BBC that government plans to resolve funding inconsistencies between local authority areas through a new National Funding Formula for schools is ""a diversionary tactic"". And even though Sutton is due to benefit under the new formula ""all it will do is partially offset"" wider funding problems, said the head, who asked not to be identified. The move is the latest in a series of campaigns by heads. West Sussex heads wrote to MPs asking where to make cuts - whether through laying off teachers, reducing school hours or closing counselling services. Heads in Cheshire warned of a four-day week, the scrapping of some subjects and the loss of support staff. And North Somerset heads asked Theresa May to reconsider ""retrograde"" plans for new grammar schools. The Sutton heads, some of whom run very high performing schools, say they ""are close to crisis"". They warn that they face a double budget squeeze from both central and local government, with the local council proposing to claw back 0.5% of basic school funding from September to meet other costs. ""Head teachers are not known for their militancy,"" the statement continues. Parents are asked to seek assurances that: Late last year the National Audit Office said state schools in England would have to reduce spending by £3bn by 2019-20. The BBC has approached both Sutton Council and the Department for Education for responses. A Sutton Council spokesman said no-one was available for comment. The Department for Education maintains that school funding is at record levels - £40bn per year in 2016-17, including £2.5bn in pupil premium payments supporting disadvantaged children. The department also argues that the new funding formula will provide a much fairer basis for allocating funds to schools and will give head teachers more certainty over their future budgets and long-term planning.",Heads in the south London borough of Sutton have @placeholder parents in a bid to fight budget cuts .,expressed,lost,prompted,enlisted,died,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device Twenty-four hours on from Usain Bolt's triumph in the men's 100m, Fraser-Pryce repeated her Olympic victory in this same stadium seven years ago as she held off the fast-finishing Dafne Schippers in 10.76 seconds. For Schippers - the former heptathlete who only decided to switch full-time to sprinting in June this year - her silver in a huge personal best of 10.81 brought both vindication and wild celebration. USA's Tori Bowie took bronze in 10.86, but as in 2008 this was the Fraser-Pryce show. Media playback is not supported on this device Just as her compatriot Bolt is the undisputed greatest sprinter the world has seen, so the 28-year-old can lay claim to the same title: twice Olympic champion over 100m, world champion three times over that distance and both world and Olympic titles over 200m too. With her long plaits dyed green and a headband of daisies around her forehead [she owns a beauty parlour in her country's capital, Kingston] Fraser-Pryce did not get her trademark explosive start. Schippers was out faster, but by 50m the Jamaican had opened up a two-metre lead over the tall Dutch athlete, and although Schippers was closing at the death, she had enough to hold her lead through the line. ""I'm getting tired of 10.7s. I just want to put a good race together and hopefully in the next race I get the time I'm working for,"" Fraser-Pryce told BBC Sport. ""I definitely think a 10.6 is there. Hopefully I will get it together."" Canada's Shawn Barber pulled off the shock of the championships so far by snatching pole vault gold from world-record holder and Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie. The 21-year-old's first-time clearance at 5.90 metres put pressure on the French favourite, who jumped 6.05m earlier this year but had to settle for bronze here after three failures at the same height. Media playback is not supported on this device Germany's Raphael Holzdeppe cleared 5.90m on his third attempt but could not improve when the bar was raised to 6m, leaving Barber - whose father George competed in this event at the World Championships in 1983 - with his first global title. Media playback is not supported on this device Vivian Cheruiyot won Kenya their first gold of these championships as she kicked off the final bend to hold off Ethiopian rival Gelete Burka in a slow, tactical 10,000m final. Ezekiel Kemboi, Conseslus Kipruto and Brimin Kipruto bringing home a Kenyan 1-2-3 in the steeplechase a few minutes later. Columbia's defending world champion Caterine Ibarguen retained her triple jump title with a fourth round 14.90m, with no other athlete going past 14.78. But there will be no gold this summer for Keshorn Walcott, Trinidad's 22-year-old Olympic javelin champion, who crashed out in qualifying with a best throw of 76.83m. Britain's Rabah Yousif produced a fine run of 44.54, a personal best by almost half a second, to qualify for Tuesday's 400m final as a fastest loser. Yousif, who came to Britain from Sudan 13 years ago and has an English wife, improved dramatically on his first-round performance as others who had lit up the heats struggled 24 hours on. Team captain Martyn Rooney had set a new personal best of 44.45 in the heats but, perhaps tired, he was unable to reproduce that run and came home sixth in the third semi-final in 45.29, Olympic champion Kirani James (44.16) and Botswana's Isaac Makwala (44.11) the most impressive semi-final winners. Eilidh Child made it through to the final of the 400m hurdles as a fastest loser as Meghan Beesley went out, while Britain's Asha Philip exited the 100m at the semi-final stage and Kate Avery came home 15th in the 10,000m in 32:16.19. Earlier, Britain's Greg Rutherford reached the long jump final, while Christine Ohuruogo qualified for the 400m semi-final.",Double - Olympic champion Shelly - Ann Fraser - Pryce continued the Jamaican sprint dominance of the Bird 's Nest as she retained her world 100 m title in blistering @placeholder at the World Championships .,rain,night,history,fashion,ground,3
"It is hoped the cells, which are able to transform into a range of tissues, will lessen symptoms of incurable brittle bone disease. The trial, starting in January, will be led by Sweden's Karolinska Institute and in the UK by Great Ormond Street Hospital. The stem cells will come from terminated pregnancies. Brittle bone disease, officially called osteogenesis imperfecta, affects around one in every 25,000 births. It can be fatal with babies born with multiple fractures. Even those who survive face up to 15 bone fractures a year, brittle teeth, impaired hearing and growth problems. What are stem cells? It is caused by errors in the developing baby's DNA -­ their blueprint of life -­ that mean the collagen supposed to give bone its structure is either missing or of poor quality. The donated stem cells should provide the correct instructions for growing bone. Prof Lyn Chitty, from Great Ormond Street Hospital, will carry out genetic testing to search for the defects that lead to the condition. She told the BBC News website: ""This is a very serious disease. Our objective is to see if in utero (in the womb) stem cell therapy can ameliorate the condition and the number of fractures."" A type of stem cell which develops into healthy bone, cartilage and muscle will be infused directly into the affected foetuses. Fifteen babies will have the infusion in the womb and again after they are born. A further 15 will only have the treatment after birth and the number of fractures will be compared with untreated patients. Case Study: ­Adam Reynolds Adam, from Farnborough in Hampshire, was born with broken arms and a fracture in his spine. He says his main problem growing up was ""learning to be sensible"" when ""as a kid you just want to run around and have fun with mates"". Whenever he played football he would have to go in goal to minimise the risk. He cannot keep track of how many times he's broken his bones, but puts the figure somewhere between 30 and 40. Adam says he has fewer fractures than other people with osteogenesis imperfecta, but takes longer to heal. In May 2009 he broke his leg. Six years and 12 operations later it has still not fully recovered. His left leg is four inches shorter than his right. ""Day-to­-day life is awkward. If someone stubs their toe on a table they go 'Ow!' - for me it's 'Did I break my toe'?"" he says. But Adam, now 21, does not feel that the condition has held him back in life. Last week he graduated with a first class honours degree in accounting and finance and is already working. He says: ""The idea of a cure coming out or something to help at such an early age is just fantastic news."" Dr Cecilia Gotherstrom, from the Karolinska Institute, told the BBC: ""If we could reduce the fracture frequency, strengthen bone and improve growth it would have a huge impact."" Stem cell transplants appear to ease symptoms in children. Starting even earlier when the bone is developing and growing rapidly has the potential to be more effective. ""In­-the-womb"" foetal stem cell transplants have been tried in two cases of osteogenesis imperfecta. But without a proper clinical trial it is impossible to know how effective the therapy is. Dr Gotherstrom added: ""It is the first in-­man trial and, if successful, it will pave the way for other pre­natal treatments when parents have no other option."" She said muscle disorders such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other bone disorders could one­ day benefit from such therapies. The first infusion will take place 20 to 34 weeks into the pregnancy. This is after the gonads have formed and there should be no risk of the donated cells becoming part of the recipient's sperm or eggs. Any risk of the donated tissue being rejected in the same way as an organ transplant is thought to be low. Commenting on the trial, Dr Dusko Ilic, a reader in stem cell science at King's College London, told the BBC: ""Any attempt to help the patients suffering this terrible, debilitating disease is more than welcome."" However, he warned the disease varied so widely from patient to patient that it could be difficult to prove how effective the stem cells were. He added: ""People with the same type of osteogenesis imperfecta may present a different clinical picture, even within the same family. ""At the same time, cellular therapy is unlikely to work to the same extent in different individuals. ""How will we know whether a milder phenotype (symptoms) in a child that received the treatment is natural or is a result of the treatment?"" The trial will start in January and will recruit patients for two years. Follow James Gallagher on Twitter.",The first clinical trial injecting foetal stem cells into babies still in the womb has been @placeholder .,named,delayed,announced,published,welcomed,2
"BBC Radio 5 live will have commentaries of the big Aintree races climaxing with the National on 9 April (17:15 BST). The BBC Sport website will have reports, a pinstickers' guide, sweepstake kit and live text commentary from 13:30 GMT on Saturday. Correspondent Cornelius Lysaght and website racing reporter Frank Keogh will be in Liverpool throughout the meeting, posting updates on Twitter and giving updates via the live text service. Full race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance) 13.40 The Merseyrail Manifesto Novices' Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 2m 4f 14.15 The Anniversary 4YO Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m 1f 14.50 The Betfred Bowl Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 3m 1f 15.25 The Doom Bar Aintree Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m 4f 16.05 The Crabbie's Fox Hunters' Steeple Chase (Class 2) 2m 5f 16.40 The Red Rum Handicap Steeple Chase (Grade 3)2m 17.15 The Goffs Nickel Coin Mares' Standard Open NH Flat (Grade 2) 2m 1f Full race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance) 13.40 The Alder Hey Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) 2m 4f 14.15 The Top Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m ½f 14.50 The Betfred Mildmay Novices' Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 3m 1f 15.25 The JLT Melling Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 2m 4f 16.05 The Crabbie's Topham Steeple Chase (Grade 3) 2m 5f 16.40 The Doom Bar Sefton Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1)3m ½f 17.15 The Weatherbys Champion Standard Open NH Flat (Grade 2) 2m 1f Full race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance) 13.40 The Aintree Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) 3m ½f 14.25 The EZ Trader Mersey Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m 4f 15.00 The Doom Bar Maghull Novices' Steeple Chase (Grade 1)2m 15.40 The Liverpool Stayers' Hurdle (Grade 1) 3m ½f 16.20 The Betfred Handicap Steeple Chase (Listed) 3m 1f 17.15 The Crabbie's Grand National Steeple Chase (Grade 3) 4m 2½f 18.10 The Pinsent Masons Handicap Hurdle (cond' and amat') (Class 2) 2m ½f","You can @placeholder all the action from the three - day Grand National meeting at Aintree on BBC radio , online , mobile and the BBC Sport app .",get,hear,result,control,follow,4
"The 30-year-old's arrival comes four days after Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme was diagnosed with acute leukaemia. However, a statement on the club website made it clear they had been pursuing Ruddy ""throughout the summer"". ""This is a bittersweet feeling for me - it is good to be here but the circumstances could have been better,"" said Ruddy. ""Having played against Carl over a number of years, I know what a good goalkeeper he is so it would have been fantastic for the club to have had us competing and bringing out the best in each other. ""Now it is a situation where football takes a back seat for Carl and everyone's thoughts are with him."" Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",Wolves have signed once - @placeholder England goalkeeper John Ruddy on a two - year contract after his exit from Norwich .,including,chasing,retired,time,capped,4
"12 October 2011 Last updated at 10:42 BST This poor cyclist was knocked off his bike by an antelope during a race in South Africa. The rather heavy animal jumped in to Evan Van Der Spuy at full speed, sending him crashing to the ground. But amazingly Evan's only injury from the crash was a stiff neck.",Have you ever @placeholder off your bike ? Not like this you have n't !,got,centre,play,fallen,signed,3
"The midfielder's 40th-minute strike saw Dale move up to eighth in League One, leaving the Latics third from bottom. The first half was dominated by the hosts and Joe Bunney saw a free-kick pushed onto the crossbar by Oldham goalkeeper Connor Ripley, while Lund's goal-bound effort was blocked by Cameron Burgess. Lund was not to be denied five minutes before the break when Calvin Andrew picked him out and the unmarked midfielder swept home a neat finish from 10 yards. Before half-time, the visitors finally showed some ambition with Freddie Ladapo racing into the box and holding off the challenge of Niall Canavan to fire goalward, Josh Lillis diverting his effort into the side netting and then saving Burgess' header from the resulting corner. Oldham were better after the break and came close to netting an equaliser when substitute Billy McKay headed over the top while Lee Erwin saw a couple of efforts fly narrowly wide. Callum Camps could have claimed a second for Dale but his cushioned volley from 25 yards out was pushed over the bar by Ripley. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Rochdale 1, Oldham Athletic 0. Second Half ends, Rochdale 1, Oldham Athletic 0. Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card. Joe Bunney (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic). Attempt saved. Joe Bunney (Rochdale) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Josh Lillis (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Billy McKay (Oldham Athletic). Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Calaum Jahraldo-Martin replaces Ousmane Fane. Substitution, Rochdale. Sanmi Odelusi replaces Steve Davies. Attempt saved. Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt missed. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Jamie Reckord (Oldham Athletic). Corner,  Rochdale. Conceded by Connor Ripley. Attempt missed. Joe Thompson (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Peter Clarke (Oldham Athletic) because of an injury. Corner,  Rochdale. Conceded by Connor Ripley. Attempt saved. Callum Camps (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  Rochdale. Conceded by Cameron Dummigan. Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Matthew Lund (Rochdale). Peter Clarke (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Callum Camps (Rochdale). Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Carl Winchester replaces Paul Green. Attempt missed. Billy McKay (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Billy McKay (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Joseph Rafferty (Rochdale). Substitution, Rochdale. Oliver Rathbone replaces Andrew Cannon. Corner,  Rochdale. Conceded by Peter Clarke. Substitution, Rochdale. Joe Thompson replaces Nathaniel Mendez-Laing. Attempt missed. Cameron Dummigan (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Calvin Andrew (Rochdale). Cameron Dummigan (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Cameron Dummigan (Oldham Athletic). Callum Camps (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the right wing. Billy McKay (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Keith Keane (Rochdale).",Matt Lund 's first - half goal handed Rochdale victory against @placeholder Oldham at the Crown Oil Arena .,neighbours,andrew,matthew,john,gary,0
"13 March 2017 Last updated at 17:55 GMT The victors - Team Cherub - made it through to the final after a tight battle, which came down to a judges' decision. The family team are made up of Sarah (captain) aged 12 and Toby (driver) aged 13, joined by Rosie aged 12, and Mark aged 26. Team Behemoth, who lost the round, are one of the most experienced teams in the competition, and have been known for having bad luck on the show. The clip has been shared lots online, with people saying it looks like he was upset to be beaten by children. But Ant explained afterwards that he had walked out because he was annoyed about decisions his team had made earlier to change the robot's design which he thought caused it to lose. Some people have said that Captain Ant's reaction to the news was childish, but Robot Wars' official twitter has defended him, saying that he was just showing his ""passion and care"".","This was the moment that a team captain walked off the set of Robot Wars , after hearing that his team had been @placeholder by Team Cherub .",criticised,targeted,performed,defeated,kidnapped,3
"The service ran between Kingussie and Tulloch Station near Roy Bridge until May 1915 when it was replaced by motorised transport. Mail Coach 100, a fundraising event, will follow the same route. It will involve four teams of horses and be completed in four stages from 3-4 June. The event involving Cairngorm Riding for the Disabled Association will feature the last coachman's pistol, which is kept in Newtonmore. The organisers of Mail Coach 100 said they believed the original service was possibly the last in UK.",The 100th anniversary of what is believed to be the last horse - drawn mail coach journey in the UK is to be @placeholder next month .,opened,observed,recreated,held,awarded,2
"Bentancur, 19, was in Turin on Monday to have a medical before joining the Serie A leaders. The Uruguay Under-20 international is a product of Argentine club Boca Juniors' youth team. Juventus negotiated a purchase option on Bentancur when striker Carlos Tevez moved back to Boca Juniors from the Turin club in June 2015. Juve are six points clear at the top of the table with eight games remaining as they chase a sixth successive Serie A title. Massimiliano Allegri's side are also in the quarter-finals of the Champions League where they face Barcelona over two legs on 11 and 19 April.",Italian champions Juventus are close to @placeholder teenage midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur from Boca Juniors .,bury,beat,signing,replace,star,2
"The note of caution came from senior IMF official Jose Vinals, as he presented the organisation's latest Global Financial Stability Report. But the nature of the danger has changed, he said. Financial stability in advanced economies has improved, but risks have moved towards emerging economies, Mr Vinals explained. The shift in the focus of the IMF's concern partly reflects issues raised in the fund's report about the wider global economic outlook published on Tuesday. One of the key messages in that analysis was that emerging and developing economies are experiencing their fifth consecutive year of slowing economic growth. That is one of the key factors behind the increased risks to their financial stability. Company and bank finances are ""stretched thinner in many emerging markets"", the report says. The IMF estimates there is $3.3 trillion in what it calls ""overborrowing"" by companies and banks in emerging markets. China, Thailand, Turkey and Brazil are identified as countries where credit has expanded markedly compared with past trends. Another issue is businesses with foreign currency debts that could be hit by a strengthening dollar, which makes their debts more expensive to repay in national currency terms.  On that measure, Hungary, Mexico, Indonesia and Chile are particularly exposed. One big question posed by the report is ""can China avoid destabilizing markets while achieving its objectives"", namely moving to a more sustainable rate of economic growth based more on services and spending by Chinese consumers. The problem for the rest of the world is that the transition involves at the very least slower growth in Chinese demand for commodities, especially energy and industrial raw materials. That has already had a marked impact on some emerging economies that supply them and the share prices of companies in the business. The report notes that global financial markets have become more sensitive to changes in China's economic performance and policy. There is no definitive answer to the question, but a pretty clear recognition that the Chinese slowdown does pose a risk to financial stability beyond its own borders. The fact that the focus is increasingly on emerging economies does not mean the IMF thinks all is rosy in the rich countries. There are still legacy issues from the financial crisis, particularly in government finances and the banks in the euro area. But it is striking that the IMF's attention is showing signs of moving away from the direct aftermath of the financial crisis that shook the rich world in 2007 and the years that followed.","The International Monetary Fund has warned that "" global financial stability is not yet @placeholder "" .",assured,reached,justified,complete,flaws,0
"From his schooling to detention after the 1982 coup attempt against retired President Daniel arap Moi, Mr Odinga has remained a mysterious figure in many ways. A son of Kenya's first Vice-President, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, he will be going for the presidency for the third time and hoping that he will be lucky this time. His main challenger in the 4 March election will be Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, Jomo Kenyatta. Mr Odinga's first attempt at the presidency was in 1997 where he performed dismally, coming third. He stayed out of the presidential race in 2002, backing Mwai Kibaki to trounce Uhuru Kenyatta in elections that saw Kenya's Kanu party lose power for the first time since independence in 1963. Mr Odinga and his supporters believe that he was robbed of victory in 2007 when he ran on the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ticket. It was that election that deteriorated into violence leaving 1,300 Kenyans dead and more than 600,000 displaced. Mr Kibaki was Mr Odinga's main opponent. An astute politician and avid campaigner who is known to move crowds using parables and football commentary, Mr Odinga has been the MP for Africa's biggest slum, Kibera in Nairobi, uninterrupted for the last 20 years. His struggle against one-party dictatorship saw him detained twice (from 1982 to 1988 and 1989 to 1991) and he holds the record of being Kenya's longest-serving detainee. Mr Odinga, who celebrated his 68th birthday on 7 January, became Kenya's prime minister under a power-sharing deal to end the post-election violence. His strongest following is among his Luo community in Nyanza in south-west Kenya, where he was born and went to school. But he is loathed by his opponents for his populist tactics. Former Vice-President Michael Kijana Wamalwa once described Mr Odinga's supporters as suffering from ""Railamania"" and those who hated him as suffering from ""Railaphobia"". The 1982 coup and his eventual detention propelled him to national politics. While he denied his involvement in the coup at the time, he conceded in Enigma, authored by Nigerian Babafemi Badejo in 2006, that he played a central role in it. After qualifying as a mechanical engineer in the former East Germany, Mr Odinga had a short stint as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. A wealthy man by Kenyan standards, he has interests in liquid gas cylinder manufacturer, the East Africa Spectre, and ethanol production through the Kisumu Molasses Plan. He also has interests in the importation and distribution of petroleum. He is the only Kenyan politician who has changed political parties each time he has been a parliamentary candidate, leading his critics to conclude that he does not believe in strong party politics. Each time he has moved, Mr Odinga has fashioned himself as a reformist. This time, he has named his alliance the Coalition of Reforms and Democracy (Cord). His first entry in parliament in 1992 he was on the platform of his father's party, Ford-Kenya. Following his father's death later that year, Mr Odinga changed parties to launch his National Development Party (NDP), which he used to run for president and MP. Come 2002, he had ditched NDP and was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which formed the umbrella National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). In 2007, he was the flag-bearer for ODM. Between 1997 and 2007, Mr Odinga went into partnership with Mr Moi, his erstwhile political rival and the man who had detained him. He served as energy minister and briefly as Kanu secretary-general. His alliance with Mr Moi collapsed when he opposed the former president's choice of Uhuru Kenyatta as the party's presidential candidate in the 2002 general election. He bolted and backed Mr Kibaki, who trounced Kanu and Mr Kenyatta. Mr Kibaki appointed him as the minister for Public Works. But a pre-election agreement between Mr Kibaki and Mr Odinga led to a split in the government. He opposed a Kibaki-backed draft constitution in 2005. Mr Odinga, a father of four, was sacked as a cabinet minister. Come the 2007 general election, Mr Odinga positioned himself as Mr Kibaki's main opponent, having mobilised point men in key Kenyan communities - the Luo (to which he belongs), Luhya, Kalenjin and Kamba. He did not succeed in his presidential bid, as Mr Kibaki was declared the winner. Mr Odinga is the front-runner in this year's election, despite having been deserted by his key backers in the 2007 general elections. William Ruto, who mobilised the Kalenjin community to vote for him, is this time round the running mate of Mr Kenyatta, the Jubilee Alliance presidential candidate. His Luhya community point man, Musalia Mudavadi, is also in the race for presidency under the Amani coalition banner. But Mr Odinga has a new ally in Kenya's Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka. Such is their faith in him that Mr Odinga's supporters call him Agwambo (Act of God), and they hope that he will finally rise to the presidency on 4 March.",A biography written about Raila Amolo Odinga was @placeholder Enigma . And in many ways he is an enigmatic politician .,titled,held,spurred,labelled,defeated,0
"It happened at about 09:00 BST on Saturday morning. A man described as about 5ft 11"" tall, of medium, stocky build and wearing a dark hoodie, coat and woollen hat entered the shop carrying what appeared to be a firearm, police said. He made off with money from the till. Police have appealed for information. Det Sgt Moffett said: ""We would like to hear from anyone who witnessed this incident. ""A female member of staff was left distressed by the incident but did not require hospital treatment.""",A woman who was working in a @placeholder outlet in the St George 's Market area of Belfast has been left distressed after an armed robbery .,property,food,chest,petrol,shopping,1
"The disease, caused by a lack of vitamin D or calcium conjures images of peaky looking Dickensian urchins. But figures obtained by the BBC show that in Northern Ireland prescriptions for Vitamin D have more than doubled in the last 10 years. And public health advice for the UK recommends that everyone should take it in autumn and winter. Low vitamin D levels can lead to brittle bones and rickets in children. The figures from the HSCNI show a dramatic rise in Vitamin D prescriptions over the last 10 years: The data does not include Vitamin D bought over the counter. But why have prescriptions rocketed so much in the last decade? We are used to slathering ourselves in sunscreen seeing the burning ball of gas above us as public enemy number one. This is with good reason - malignant melanoma rates have risen over the past 30 years from an average of 103 cases per year in the mid 1980s to 332 cases a year at present. While it may be a given that we need to protect ourselves from harmful UVA and UVB rays, if we are not getting vitamin D from the sun, how can we up our intake? An extensive review of the evidence, carried out by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), suggests everyone over the age of one needs to consume 10 micrograms of vitamin D each day in order to protect bone and muscle health. The Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland published an updated version of its leaflet on vitamin D in August. It highlights the importance of vitamin D supplements for particular groups, including babies, children aged between 1 and 4 years, as well as people whose exposure to sunlight is limited, and those with darker skins. It also outlines new recommendations that all adults and children aged five years and over should consider taking vitamin D supplements during the autumn and winter months. Belfast dietician Gillian Killner says climate and diet are factors. ""It's a very important micronutrient, but also a hormone and we don't get enough of it where we live in the northern hemisphere so we do need to supplement,"" she said. ""In terms of where we get our Vitamin D - the way we eat means we don't eat a lot of fatty fish any more, nor eggs and butter and nutrient rich foods - so without the sunshine and nutrient rich foods we won't be able to achieve it orally. ""That's another reason a baseline Vitamin D supplement is very useful for not only children, elderly, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. Everyone should really consider a supplement if they're not getting lots of sunshine and nutrient rich foods,"" she said. But she was also keen to point out that she thinks intake of the vitamin should be monitored. ""I have been an advocate for it for many years, but it is something you do need to monitor. It is an antagonist to vitamin A."" Ms Killner recommends taking it for six months of the year and having a break in the summer.",Rickets does not have the ring of a 21st Century problem - it sounds more like the @placeholder of a bygone era .,horror,size,fate,tale,death,0
"Conwy council said the service in Colwyn Bay was the first of its type in north Wales. The free wi-fi zone runs from Porth Eirias to the pier. Cllr Mike Priestley, Conwy's cabinet member for communication said: ""We recognise that having access to information quickly is increasingly important, with benefits for both users and businesses.""",A @placeholder and promenade in Conwy is to get a free wi - fi service .,beach,bar,health,deal,food,0
"Prime Minister David Cameron has said he does not think it ""appropriate"" to use the Brussels attacks to further arguments in the EU referendum debate. But the UKIP leader said those campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU had already ""politicised"" the security issue after the Paris attacks. And he told Talk Radio that Brussels was in a ""state of lawlessness"". He also described the city as the ""jihadi capital of Europe"". He added that EU border rules led to ""the free movement of terrorists, of criminal gangs and of Kalashnikovs"". But Lord Hill, European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that concerns over terrorism should be kept separate from thoughts about Schengen - the EU's passport-free travel zone. He said: ""I think there are questions obviously about Schengen, how it's operating.  It needs to operate better."" But he said that the London bombings in 2005 involved ""homegrown terrorists"" and happened despite the UK not being part of the Schengen zone. Former Conservative minister Peter Bottomley - who called at Prime Minister's Questions for people to unite with ""hope not hate"" - has tabled a Commons motion saying Mr Farage's comments ""should be challenged within and outside his party"". Meanwhile, the former head of MI6 from 1999 to 2004, Sir Richard Dearlove, has said ""the cost to Britain would be low"", from a security perspective, if it were to leave the EU. Writing in Prospect magazine, he says: ""Brexit would bring two potentially important security gains: the ability to dump the European Convention on Human Rights... and, more importantly, greater control over immigration from the European Union."" He adds: ""Would Brexit damage our defence and intelligence relationship with the United States, which outweighs anything European by many factors of 10? I conclude confidently that no, it would not."" But Rob Wainright, a former director of Europol, said police co-operation across the EU had improved considerably over the past decade, with the European Arrest Warrant speeding up extradition procedures and the UK having access to the Schengen Information System - a network containing details of hundreds of thousands of wanted criminals and missing people. ""These EU instruments are clearly helping the UK deal with the threats involved,"" he told the BBC. Leaving the EU would, at the very least, he said cause ""uncertainty and disruption to the UK's security interests"". Four Britons were injured in explosions at an airport and metro station in Brussels on Tuesday which left 34 people dead. Security has been stepped up at key sites across the UK, and on Wednesday morning Mr Cameron chaired a second emergency Cobra meeting in the wake of the events in Brussels. In a statement to MPs, Home Secretary Theresa May said the UK and its allies must work with ""greater urgency and joint resolve"" to defeat terrorism. The UK is to hold a referendum on 23 June on whether or not to stay in the European Union. Mr Cameron is leading the Remain campaign, while Mr Farage is a leading figure on the Leave side.","Nigel Farage has insisted he was "" wholly @placeholder "" to link the Brussels attacks and EU migration rules .",justified,dubbed,trying,growing,willing,0
"This Cheshire town of 13,000 people in the middle of the Tatton constituency boasts one of the UK's seven Tesla dealerships. Within 30 yards you can also find a McLaren showroom - there are only five in this country. It's also a very safe Tory territory. Chancellor George Osborne has increased his majority here each year since he succeeded Martin Bell, who held the seat as an independent MP from 1997 to 2001 after beating Conservative incumbent Neil Hamilton on an anti-corruption ticket. Barring anything as sensational as the sequence of events which led to Mr Hamilton's loss in 1997, the Conservatives are confident Mr Osborne will successfully defend what is a handsome majority. Graceful town centre roads in Knutsford like King Street and Princess Street are not full of boarded-up shops. And if you ask people perusing them, many will tell you they've not felt the squeeze in the economy or the bite of council cuts at all. ""Things are prospering along alright,"" according to Paul, a retired barrister I spoke to. ""There's no industry round here that's likely to have suffered significantly, so I suppose other places would be worse off."" Chris owns his own joinery business. Despite the downturn hitting the construction industry hard, he told me: ""I've not felt any downturn. If anything it's getting better - no issues at all really."" Seven-figure house prices are a very common sight in the estate agents' windows here, in contrast to most of the rest of the North West. This is the western tip of the so-called Golden Triangle of millionaire mansions and Range Rovers. It may seem to the casual visitor that Knutsford and its people have been impervious to the economic downturn and the coalition government's welfare reforms, but elsewhere in Tatton there is certainly evidence many are struggling. In Wilmslow a church-run project called Food Friend delivers free meals to those in financial hardship. Its website says: ""Although on the surface Wilmslow and the surrounding area is an affluent one there is still hidden poverty."" And back in Knutsford, the Longridge estate was built in the 1960s to house families from inner city Manchester. Shirley has mobility problems and receives disability benefits. She has lost a portion of her housing benefit because she's deemed to have too many bedrooms. She said: ""What you do get in the benefits just about covers your bills, if you're lucky, and then you've got to find money to eat with."" She told me the impression people have of her town just isn't accurate: ""People seem to think it's a place where everybody is well off and has got plenty of money. It's not always the case"". But, even in this more deprived part of town, there are signs of hope for the future. Amanda and her husband have both been training as nurses whilst bringing up two young children. Despite struggling with the cost of childcare whilst earning the same as most students, Amanda said things have been improving over the last few years. ""I think quite a lot has been done across the country. I think things have been heading in quite a positive direction,"" she told me. The shopkeepers in Knutsford town centre present a mixed picture too. Sarah manages a ladies' fashion shop on King Street, and said economic problems have hit her customers. ""Whilst there are some very wealthy people here it's definitely not immune,"" she said. Across the street Caroline runs the Age UK charity clothes shop, where trade has significantly increased over the last financial year. She said: ""The market in charity shops has changed, it's become more acceptable"" - meaning her increased takings don't necessarily mean people here can't afford to shop anywhere else. While there is plenty of money in Tatton, not everybody has it of course. With unemployment here well below the regional average, and average wages well above, those who say they are struggling seem more than outweighed by those who aren't. Just don't let the sports car showrooms fool you! The following candidates (in alphabetical order) are standing in the Tatton constituency: Stuart Hutton (UKIP); George Osborne (Conservative); David Pinto-Duschinsky (Labour); Tina Rothery (Green); Gareth Wilson (Liberal Democrat)","If you desperately need a sports car , have a six - figure sum burning a hole in your @placeholder and do n't want to walk too far between rival showrooms - Knutsford is certainly the place for you .",pants,pocket,centre,community,hands,1
"The pair entered a house in Dorothy Road, Leicester, at about 10:30 BST on Wednesday, and attacked the man who lived there. They stole a safe containing cash, watches and other items before leaving in a van. Leicestershire Police said they did not believe the raid was racially or religiously-motivated. A video filmed by a neighbour and posted on Facebook appears to show the pair arriving at the house. Det Con Nev Walker said: ""We are keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time and saw the men entering the house, loitering in the area or making off in the van. ""Do you know where the silver van went next? Have you seen any abandoned clothing? Have you heard any rumours about who may be involved? ""Small details will help us piece together information and could prove vital in bringing those responsible for this incident to justice.""","Two men disguised themselves by donning burkas to carry out an @placeholder burglary , police have said .",impact,aggravated,address,adapted,deal,1
"The mothers of Henrique Dubrugras and Pedro Franceschi aren't worrying any more. The two Brazilian teenagers used to spend about a third of their day on screens, but for them it has more than paid off. And while there are plenty of internet entrepreneurs that start young, their story stands out. Now aged 19, they already have a successful start-up, Pagar.me, that employs 30 people and has a multimillion-dollar annual turnover, with scholarships to Stanford University to boot. When Henrique was 12, he was a big fan of the Korean multi-player online game Ragnarok. As his parents did not want to pay for its premium features, he started programming them himself: ""I used to make my own servers so I did not have to pay for the original version."" He subsequently worked out how to make real money on the game through the extra skills he had. At first his parents were a bit shocked, concerned he might be gambling online. Co-founder Pedro Franceschi started even younger, tinkering with software from the age of nine. ""We both started programming computers as a way to achieve things we wanted,"" he says. Pedro wanted to use Apple's new personal assistant, Siri, but she only spoke English. By the age of 15, he had managed to make Siri speak Portuguese. Eventually, aged 16 and 17, the two teenagers met on Twitter. In contrast to a typical teenage chat about music or football, their first encounter was a debate over the relative merits of different text editing software for programming. But they soon realised their ambitions and dreams made them more alike than different. ""That was when our friendship began. Pedro also started to use my text editor. I won the argument and gained a partner,"" Henrqiue says. While he lived in Sao Paulo, Pedro was more than 400km away in Rio de Janeiro, so initially the partnership developed online. In the meantime they were also dealing with the same kind of problems that have beset teenage boys for generations. ""What if I ask a girl from my class out and she says no? It will be awkward still to see her every day after that,"" says Henrqiue, explaining the age-old dilemma. He attended a hackathon and his team came up with a Facebook-based app: AskMeOut. Like Tinder, the platform gave young romantics the opportunity to signal an interest in each other and see whether it was reciprocated without risking face-to-face rejection. Henrique's team won first prize and 50,000 reais (£8,500). But Henrique realised that men and women (or was it boys and girls?) were using the app in different ways: while women were more choosy, men used to click on most of their female contact list. His solution was to only charge male users: since each ""like"" was paid for, they became more selective. AskMeOut was a success, but Henrique wanted a better payment system to go with it. Luckily this was the point at which he met Pedro. The friends brainstormed a solution, at which point Pagar.me started to evolve. Today Pagar.me handles payments worth millions of reais a year, has won a series of awards and attracted 1m reais in outside investment. In short, the platform provides a cheap and simple way for customers to pay for goods online, combining the low cost of a third-party service such as Paypal with the simplicity of paying directly on the vendor's site without having to log in to another system. Pagar.me takes a 1.5% charge from each purchase plus tax of a half a real (8p). Clients also pay a commission that varies between 3% and 5% to Pagar.me partners. ""People did not believe we could create such an innovative product,"" says Henrique. He admits it would not have been possible without attracting the right staff, as well as the support of mentors and their families. Pagar.me's team of 30 are aged between 16 and 45. Yet according to the two co-founders, their relative youth has not affected their relationship with staff. ""We believe that good leaders are those who achieve their targets together with their team. It's not a question of your gender, qualifications or age"", Henrique says. ""Leading a business is a bumpy road, but we were always lucky to be guided by people we admired at tough moments - something that saved us a lot of times during the company's evolution"", he adds. Despite the scale of their success, Henrique doesn't think they are that different from others their age. ""Actually, we are still teenagers. We like playing videogames and hanging out with friends. I think it's getting more and more common for people to pursue their ambitions at an early age. We are just two regular people running our business.""",Many parents look at their teenage boys @placeholder to their games consoles and computer screens and worry about their future .,glued,message,thanks,react,wrote,0
"Success is valued so highly that some people now make their living offering hints and tricks about how to prove popular. Nick Taylor is one such expert at London-based PeerIndex - a firm that crunches data on millions of tweets a week to advise its clients on what works. He stresses a need to start with the basics. Pause to think about your profile picture and description before you start tweeting. ""Pick something personal which says something about you specifically,"" he says. ""Remember the Twitter profile photo is very small so a full-face image is going to be easier to see than a full-body."" ""With your bio try telling people about the sort of things you tweet about, that way they can easily decide to follow you based on shared interests."" Twitter's new layout allows you to add a Facebook-style banner image at the top - so, it's worth thinking about whether you want to use the virtual real estate to post a second larger photo of yourself or another image that tells visitors about your interests. An uncluttered wallpaper that also speaks to your personality can also make your profile seem appealing. But once you have finished fiddling with the layout how should you reel people in? Time to turn to David Schneider - an actor who has starred in I'm Alan Partridge and Mission: Impossible, and who now uses his comedic skills to help brands and businesses boost their Twitter engagement. ""Your perfect tweets will have at least one of the following: information, insight, and humour,"" says the founder of the consultancy That Lot. ""If it has all three then it is going to be incredibly shareable. ""Information is stuff that people want to know. Insight is 'here you are behind the scenes', and humour is humour."" He adds that it is also important to get the right tone, saying successful tweeters usually sound as if they are writing an email to a mate. His colleague David Levin later follows up with a few other dos and don'ts - all helpfully running to less than 140 characters: Twitter etiquette suggests that you should also follow and retweet others. It's not obligatory - a spoof account for the Queen has racked up more than one million followers without doing so. ""One's a leader, not a follower,"" explains @Queen_UK. But parody accounts aside, it can prove wise to appear neither too self-involved nor too trigger-happy. ""The follow-back can become a bit of a game on Twitter, which is not what it's designed for,"" says Mr Taylor. ""You should only really be following someone if you're going to be interested in what they tweet. ""Some users will un-follow you if you don't follow them back after a certain period - but are these really the followers you want in the first place?"" He says there are also a couple of rules to be aware of when using the network's name function. ""If you are talking about someone - especially when you have something bad to say - mention their @ handle - it's rude to talk behind people's backs,"" he explains. ""And remember that any tweet starting with @person will only be seen by the people who follow you and @person, no one else. ""If you want to start with their name but have it seen by others, put a full stop before it. For example: '.@person is great.'"" While breaking through the 1,000-follower barrier can be seen as a sign that you're doing something right, one expert suggests you should not become too fixated on your follower-count. Dr Meeyoung Cha used software to analyse the network's first three-and-a-half years of public posts - a total of nearly two billion tweets. ""Our work is about how individuals, companies, and celebrities exploit social media to increase their influence,"" says the academic at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science. ""What we find is that follower count does not equal influence - in fact it is a bad indicator. ""We came to this conclusion after seeing those with the highest number of followers do not receive the same high level interaction with the audience - like retweets or mentions. ""It takes other qualities to make someone do an action like forwarding your message, engaging in conversations, being talked about."" It seems your Twitter skills can only get you so far. Ultimately it's what you do with the rest of your time that determines your true social status. Or, as Brooklyn-based artist and rapper Cortez told his 30,000 followers last month: ""Why have followers if u do nothing with them? 40k followers & no mixtapes, videos, Merch, shows! Nothing!!!#HustlinBackwards""","Whether you are new to Twitter or a seasoned pro , this week 's announcement of the rollout of a revamped look for the social network was a reminder that you need to make the most of the options it offers if you want to build up your number of followers and keep them @placeholder .",hooked,features,team,growing,defects,0
"Andrew Whitby, 51, from Teddington, south-west London, was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records. He underwent the operation after experiencing health problems associated with a lifelong heart defect. He appealed for people to sign the organ donor register, describing transplantation as ""life-changing"". Figures published by the NHS on Monday show the number of people in the UK donating organs after death has fallen for the first time in more than a decade. Mr Whitby was born with a hole in the heart, which doctors predicted would mean he was unlikely to live more than a few years. He defied expectations and lived normally until the age of 20, when his health began to deteriorate. Mr Whitby developed problems with his lungs and eventually one collapsed, which led to the decision to attempt a heart-lung transplant. When the procedure was carried out in 1985 at Harefield Hospital in north-west London, he was only the ninth person to undergo it in the UK. Heart-lung transplants are relatively rare because there are few suitable donor organs available and priority is normally given to people who only need a heart transplant. Mr Whitby used the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his transplant to draw attention to the need for organ donors. He said: ""My heart-lung transplant has improved and extended my life beyond measure. ""We need more people to sign the organ donor register - without donors, where would that leave people like me?"" Andre Simon, director of transplantation at Harefield Hospital, said: ""Andrew's world record shows how a person's life can be completely transformed through the gift of organ donation.""",A man has @placeholder 30 years since his heart - lung transplant - thought to be the longest anyone has survived after the procedure .,died,reunited,drowned,lost,celebrated,4
"Though the existence and even whereabouts of the alleged ""cyber army"" are no secret, recent media reports appear to have revealed some details of how one of the tools of Russian propaganda operates on an everyday basis. The Internet Research Agency (""Agentstvo Internet Issledovaniya"") employs at least 400 people and occupies an unremarkable office in one of the residential areas in St Petersburg. Behind the plain facade, however, there is a Kremlin ""troll den"", an investigative report by independent local newspaper Moy Rayon (""My District"") suggests. The organisation, which the paper ties to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a restaurateur with close links to President Vladimir Putin who allegedly pays bloggers to produce hundreds of comments on top news websites and manage multiple accounts on Twitter, LiveJournal and other social media platforms. ""[During one 12-hour shift] I had to write 126 comments under the posts written by people inside the building. And about 25 comments on pages of real people - in order to attract somebody's attention. And I had to write 10 blog posts,"" a former employee, Anton, told Radio Liberty. Typical troll accounts, Moy Rayon noted, were operated by people posing as ""housewives"" and ""disappointed US citizens"". To avert suspicions, the fake users sandwich political remarks between neutral articles on travelling, cooking and pets. ""My name is Tatyana and I'm a little friendly creature)). I'm interested in what is happening in the world, I also like travelling, arts and cinema,"" user ""tuyqer898"" wrote on her blog. However, a leaked list of alleged Kremlin trolls published by liberal Novaya Gazeta newspaper suggests that ""Tatyana"" is in fact a fake account. A collection of leaked documents, published by Moy Rayon, suggests that work at the ""troll den"" is strictly regulated by a set of guidelines. Any blog post written by an agency employee, according to the leaked files, must contain ""no fewer than 700 characters"" during day shifts and ""no fewer than 1,000 characters"" on night shifts. Use of graphics and keywords in the post's body and headline is also mandatory. In addition to general guidelines, bloggers are also provided with ""technical tasks"" - keywords and talking points on specific issues, such as Ukraine, Russia's opposition and relations with the West. One recent technical task, former employee Lena told Radio Liberty, was devoted to the murder of prominent Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. ""It was mandatory to convey the message to the people that Nemtsov's murder was a provocation ahead of the [opposition] march and that he was killed by his own associates,"" she said. ""As a result, hundreds and thousands of comments, where this idea is served up under different dressings, emerge under every news article of leading media,"" she added. Despite the efforts of the founders of the ""troll den"", some Russian experts are not convinced there is much point in the Kremlin having an online army. ""The efforts the paid crowd make to create a pseudo-patriotic and pro-government noise on the net go to waste,"" popular blogger Rustem Adagamov told St Petersburg-based news website Fontanka.ru. ""It is TV that changes the public conscience, rather than the internet,"" he added. Internet expert Anton Nosik agrees. ""Internet trolling is not, in the first place, aimed at effectiveness, that is at changing the political views of the audience,"" he told Moy Rayon newspaper. But prominent journalist and Russia expert Peter Pomerantsev, however, believes Russia's efforts are aimed at confusing the audience, rather than convincing it. ""What Russians are trying to go for is kind of a reverse censorship,"" he told Ukrainian internet-based Hromadske TV (""Public TV""). They cannot censor the information space, but can ""trash it with conspiracy theories and rumours"", he argues. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.","Over the past year , Russia has seen an unprecedented rise in the activity of "" Kremlin trolls "" - bloggers allegedly paid by the @placeholder to criticise Ukraine and the West on social media and post favourable comments about the leadership in Moscow .",desire,communication,state,authorities,russians,2
"How different would golf be if Tiger Woods, who turns 40 on 30 December, had chosen to play something else? As the ailing 14-time major champion struggles to swing a club again, he can celebrate this landmark birthday by reflecting that no-one has had a bigger impact on the game. Would modern-day golf be as athletic or back in the Olympics without his influence? ""I doubt it,"" European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke told the BBC. ""All sports progress, all sports move forward. Tennis has changed immensely as well over the years. ""But golf was somewhat slower to adapt to all that stuff. With all the technology we have now, fitness has become a huge part of it and I think Tiger led the way."" The 47-year-old Clarke has played most of his career with Woods as a great friend and rival. ""Because he played so well, so consistently, everybody was trying to figure out what he did. Whatever he was doing was right, so he led the way on many fronts,"" the 2011 Open champion added. Another of those fronts was Woods' economic impact. In 1996, when he burst on to the scene, PGA Tour purses totalled more than $100m for the first time. In the previous six years they had grown at a rate of 3.4%. Then Woods won the 1997 Masters by an astonishing 12 strokes. It was the big bang moment, the first of 14 major triumphs for the then 21 year old. The last of those came at the 2008 US Open and by then the PGA Tour schedule was worth $292m. Prize money inflation ran at 9.3% in that period. ""The results are astonishing,"" said American political scientist Roger Pielke Jr, who carried out extensive research into what he termed the ""Tiger Woods effect"". ""Tiger effectively more than doubled the prize money for every other golfer, adding billions of dollars to fellow players' pockets."" Woods' greatest rival has been five-time major champion Phil Mickelson, who fully appreciates the way this trailblazer brought so much more money to golf. ""It's unbelievable, the growth of this game - and Tiger has been the instigator,"" Mickelson said. ""He's brought increased ratings, increased sponsors, increased interest and we have all benefited."" Players may have been richer but many were shattered by Woods' brilliance during his years of domination. Media playback is not supported on this device Colin Montgomerie insists one of the reasons he never won a major was that his opportunities were so limited by the prolific American. An in-form Woods only needed to turn up to win the biggest titles. There was a sense of inevitability at the 2001 Masters when he completed a two-stroke win over David Duval to hold all four majors simultaneously. No-one else has achieved such a feat and the run began at Pebble Beach in 2000 when Woods won his first US Open with the greatest golf ever played. He was the only man to break par on a course considered too tight for his driving game. Woods put that erroneous notion to bed with a brilliant opening 65 before finishing 15 strokes clear of the field. Here are some of the stellar names, with their major tallies, who finished in the top 20 in California that week: Ernie Els (4), Miguel Angel Jimenez (0), Lee Westwood (0), Padraig Harrington (3), Duval (1), Stewart Cink (1), Vijay Singh (3), Retief Goosen (2), Michael Campbell (1), Jose Maria Olazabal (2), Mickelson (5) and David Toms (1). How much higher might those figures have been had Woods not beaten these players so regularly and so convincingly? Add to the list Spain's Sergio Garcia, surely a major champion in any other era. Following the Pebble Beach triumph, Woods claimed the Open at St Andrews by eight strokes and repelled the plucky Bob May in a play-off to land the PGA at Valhalla. He held all four majors with an average winning margin of 6.5 strokes. ""He was a phenomenon,"" Clarke said. ""He was the young kid coming out to show us what he could do. ""The interest that he brought to the game, the youngsters that he brought to the game, his level of fitness - he brought so many different facets to the game. ""I'm certainly very fortunate to have played in his era."" Woods was golf's poster boy. He was different - a black man in an overwhelmingly white sport - and he became the inspiration for the players who populate the top of the current world rankings. ""What Tiger Woods has done for golf, I'm not sure anyone would do again,"" four-time major champion Rory McIlroy told the BBC. ""Not just how unbelievably talented he was, but what he stood for, where he came from. He brought a whole new demographic into golf and sort of made golf cool again for kids."" McIlroy, along with fellow top-three stars Jordan Spieth and Jason Day, are prime examples of the excellence and athleticism Woods brought to the game. At the height of his powers Woods transcended golf and was the biggest sports star on the planet. He was capable of superhuman achievements like winning the 2008 US Open while suffering a broken leg. Despite his rather reluctant and dour public persona, Woods seemed untouchable in every respect. Apparently happily married with two beautiful children, once his leg was fixed, he would surely go on to smash Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major victories. He was only 32 with a long career of continued domination ahead of him. A year later, though, he stumbled to defeat by YE Yang at the PGA at Hazeltine. Woods had never before been beaten from the front in a major and his aura was severely shaken by the unheralded Korean. He was also hiding the secret of a string of extra-marital affairs that dramatically became public knowledge after he crashed his car on Thanksgiving night just three months later. It was a shattering fall from grace and although he returned to the top of the world rankings in 2013 he has failed to add to his major tally. He was never again the same irresistible golfing force. His body bares the scars of decades of hard physical training. He prepared like an athlete and athletes are usually competitively finished when their 40th birthday comes around. Woods will probably heave one of those middle-aged sighs as he climbs out of his seat to blow out the candles. After three back operations in the past 19 months he waits to see whether he will swing a golf club in anger again. ""Come on, I'm not retired. I'm not done yet,"" Woods protested during his recent World Challenge Tournament in the Bahamas. He was responding to a widespread interpretation of an earlier news conference at which his uncharacteristically frank answers suggested his career might be over. ""I know there will be a time when I will get to rehab, get to start working out again, and I'll do everything I can to get back out here."" Down to 416 in the world rankings, Woods is largely confined to his sofa. He talks, though, of wanting to win more tournaments, adding to a list of 79 PGA Tour victories and to be a playing vice-captain at the next Ryder Cup. The record books suggest a golfer's life is far from over at 40. Vijay Singh, one of the few players to muscle in on Woods' 623 weeks as world number one, won 22 times after his 40th birthday. Ben Hogan, who overcame the effects of a car crash that nearly killed him, won the next three majors after reaching that age in August 1952. Nicklaus had five wins after that landmark, including the three majors that took his tally to his record of 18. And it is Nicklaus to whom Woods has most regularly been compared. But their sporting vocations have differing characteristics. ""Jack Nicklaus' career was so long,"" observed the respected Golf Channel pundit Brandel Chamblee. ""He won his major championships over 24 years, spanned three generations, but Tiger Woods dominated in a way that had never been done before and will never be done again."" Media playback is not supported on this device Chamblee has been one of Woods' biggest critics, particularly regarding the swing changes that marked the latter part of his career. But this eloquent former PGA Tour pro tellingly concludes: ""In my estimation, you'd have to give the edge to Tiger Woods as the greatest player of all time."" It feels as though marking this great champion's 40th birthday has involved writing his golfing obituary. After all, it is only a month since Woods said: ""For my 20 years out here I think I've achieved a lot, and if that's all it entails, then I've had a pretty good run."" He is the master of understatement. ""Pretty good run"" doesn't come close to describing such an astonishing career. Undoubtedly the sport owes Earl Woods a huge debt for pointing his son in the direction of golf because the sporting life that resulted massively changed the game for the better. But is that it? Is he done, before the flames on those 40 candles are extinguished? Woods is surely not alone when he added: ""But I'm hoping that's not it.""","Imagine Earl Woods choosing to put a baseball bat rather than a golf club into the @placeholder of young Eldrick , his toddler son .",cheers,heart,mouth,name,hands,4
"Under Mr Modi's Hindu nationalist BJP, the cow has become a polarising animal and religious divisions are widening. Restrictions on the sale and slaughter of cows are fanning confusion and vigilantism. The recent spate of lynchings in India have disturbed many. Muslim men have been murdered by Hindu mobs, mostly in BJP-ruled states, for allegedly storing beef and, in one case for helping a mixed-faith couple elope. Using data gleaned from news reports, some have argued that such hate crimes have increased since Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government came to power. Party chief Amit Shah has rejected such assertions, saying there were more incidents of lynchings when the previous Congress government was in power. When a prominent journalist said India was becoming a ""lynchocracy"", critics immediately took to social media to say that India had a long history of mob and religious violence and liberals were exaggerating the import of the recent murders. A BJP MP and columnist wrote that there was a ""streak of underlying violence in India's public culture"", and since Independence, ""political violence has been supplemented by flashes of mob violence aimed at either settling scores or securing justice"". I spoke to Sanjay Subrahmanyam, one of India's most distinguished and provocative historians, on the cultural history of violence in India. He told me it would be useful to distinguish between three acts of violence: pogroms (violent riots aimed at the massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group), mob violence and killings to defend social norms. During a pogrom, he said, ""a majority community targets a minority, and the violence takes place on a sizeable scale, in an orgiastic mode"". ""These are also usually repeated incidents. They often are based on systematic mobilisation, as well as systematic targeting. We all know the prominent instances in India. (The anti-Sikh riots in 1984, or the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, for example.) Often, the forces of law and order have a part, either active or passive."" Mob violence, Dr Subrahmanyam says, usually comprise acts on a small scale, which claim to deliver vigilante justice, because the forces of law are feeble and undependable. ""These are your thieves and robbers, or even sometimes when a car accident happens, a crowd gathers, and lynches the driver. Essentially, this is because of the perceived weakness of the law to deliver what it promises."" ""I suspect, but cannot prove, that the kind of people who lead these acts are pathological, and enjoy the sense of power it gives them. I don't believe a psychologically normal person can lead such a mob, though they can be caught up in it willy-nilly."" The third kind of violent crime is what is worrying many in India today. ""The third kind is where a group believes that certain conservative social norms must be defended, even though they are in contradiction with the law. That is, these are people who know that what they are doing is illegal, but still feel it is righteous,"" says Dr Subrahmanyam, who teaches in the US and France. ""This was the case with the lynching of young black people in the US, killings of young couples who transgress caste boundaries in India, the killing of women branded as 'witches', and now the killing of those who are on the wrong side of the beef question."" ""Essentially, these killings are on a small scale compared to pogroms. They have a strong symbolic and even ritual content, and are meant to create fear and thus reinforce the conservative norms."" ""What is happening in India is that the federal government and some state governments are turning a blind eye to these, or enabling them. Of course, this directly undermines the rule of law."" Dr Subrahmanyam believes such violence is happening, in part, because there is a political party, and a set of militant Hindu groups like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad ""who are operating in society to defend these kinds of norms. The same kinds of entities exist in many Muslim societies, and also act in this way"". Dr Subrahmanyam says it is very difficult to end this violence, ""because it is sporadic and unsystematic. It can only be done by increasing social confidence in the law and due process"". The violence, he adds, can be tackled ""essentially by enforcing the law, and delivering exemplary punishments to perpetrators because these are systematic forms of violence, and one can identify and keep an eye on the types of organisations that produce them"". ""But the question remains: who shall guard the guardians?""","Last month Prime Minister Narendra Modi said murder in the name of cow protection is "" not acceptable "" . Hours after his comments , a Muslim man was reportedly killed by a mob who accused him of @placeholder beef in his car .",brain,disabled,transporting,discarded,plotting,2
"The man, aged 70, was working on a farm near East Linton, East Lothian, when the accident happened at about 15:30. Police and fire crews tried to free him, but officers said he died at the scene. A Police Scotland spokesman said there were no suspicious circumstances. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will carry out an investigation to establish what happened.",A man has died after a drainage ditch he was working in @placeholder .,parked,crash,crowd,overturned,collapsed,4
"London Zoo is working with UK regulator Ofcom to test so-called TV White Space (TVWS) technology. TVWS uses gaps in the spectrum assigned for television transmissions. Videos of the animals will be streamed to YouTube 24 hours a day. TVWS uses sections of spectrum either left to act as a buffer between TV signals or space left behind when services went digital. Compared with other forms of wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth and wi-fi, the radio waves can travel longer distances and also travel more easily through walls. The trials are intended to test white space-enabled devices as well as identify what spectrum is available and the processes needed to minimise the risk of interference. It will be used in other projects, including one led by the Oxford Flood Network, a citizen-built wireless sensor network which provides early flood warnings. TVWS has also been earmarked as a way of providing broadband at sea. It will be tested on ferries travelling to the Orkney Islands. However, it has its opponents. The British Entertainment Industry Radio Group has complained that it will pose a threat to the use of radio microphones and other wireless equipment when TV programme makers try to cover events, and could also hamper film production and conferences. At London Zoo, the trial dubbed, Whitespaces for Wildlife, will see cameras and radios installed in the enclosures of meerkats, giant tortoises and otters. Footage will be wirelessly transmitted to YouTube using Google's spectrum database to ensure no interference with existing channels. As well as allowing members of the public to check out what the animals get up to 24 hours a day, it will play a more serious role. ""Remote monitoring of wildlife is a vital conservation tool, from helping us to better understand species behaviour,"" said Whitespaces for Wildlife project co-ordinator Louise Hartley. ""The prototype systems at ZSL London Zoo are already demonstrating that they can transmit high definition video over long distances, confirming their invaluable potential to use wireless connectivity to transform ZSL's (Zoological Society of London) worldwide conservation work."" The technology could be used in areas of the world where poaching and illegal logging are affecting wildlife populations, she added. The UK is leading Europe in the use of TVWS technology. Philip Marnick, Ofcom's head of the Spectrum Policy Group said: ""In a world where consumers' demand for data services is experiencing huge growth, it is essential we find the most efficient ways to share the airwaves."" It is expected to be commercially available in the UK from next year. Update: This report has been amended to include details of opposition to the scheme.","The public will be able to find out what meerkats , otters and giant tortoises , @placeholder at London Zoo , get up to when the visitors have left , thanks to new wireless technology .",aimed,including,housed,valued,detonated,2
"Nigel Rowse, 59, put his hand on the woman's bottom and between her legs and told her he was in love with her. Rowse, of Umberleigh, Devon, admitted sexual assault and received a five-month jail sentence, suspended for two years. His victim said the assault had ""destroyed her confidence"". Rachel Drake, prosecuting at Exeter Crown Court, said Rowse had touched the woman in the firm's store in the city in May last year. She said the woman jumped and told Rowse to stop but he returned a short time later and repeated his behaviour. ""She told him he had problems and he replied 'I'm a dirty old perv and they ought to put something in my tea,'"" said Miss Drake. A disciplinary inquiry led to Rowse being sacked and the police being informed. In a victim impact statement the woman said the assault made her feel like ""a totally different person"" and had caused her stress and anxiety. Warren Robinson, defending, said the incident and its consequences had forced Rowse to reassess his behaviour and attitudes towards women. Recorder Donald Tait told Rowse the stress he caused was ""serious and significant"". ""The woman felt unable to confide in anyone and felt trapped,"" Mr Tait said.","A supervisor for high street @placeholder Wilko groped a woman in a store then told her "" I 'm a dirty old perv , "" a court has heard .",disabled,chain,body,detective,who,1
"Mark Sampson's side will host Italy at Port Vale's Vale Park on Friday, 7 April, three days before meeting Austria at MK Dons' Stadium MK. Their opening match of Euro 2017 is against Scotland in Utrecht on Wednesday, 19 July. England are in the United States for the SheBelieves Cup. There they will face the three top-ranked teams in the world - the USA, Germany and France. They face France in their opening match, in Pennsylvania on 1 March They will then face the hosts and world champions in New Jersey on 4 March, and European and Olympic champions Germany in Washington on 7 March.",England women will play Italy and Austria in April in their last @placeholder games before this summer 's European Championship in the Netherlands .,home,clash,history,international,form,0
"Two customers found the metal in packets of the vegetables in Manchester and Glasgow stores. The Food Standards Agency issued a warning for the affected products, which are the supermarket's 170g bags of the beans with display until dates of 22 April, 23 April and 24 April. A spokeswoman for Morrisons said an investigation was under way. Customers who have bought the product should return them to the Morrisons branch where they were purchased to receive a full refund, the supermarket said. Morrisons said the police had been informed of the two incidents. The supermarket added: ""We have been made aware of two incidents involving metal being found in two packets of green beans. ""The health and safety of our customers is our top priority, so as a precaution, we are recalling the products and are continuing with our investigation. ""The relevant authorities have been informed and we are also talking to the two customers."" A spokesman for Police Scotland said: ""We are aware of an incident in Glasgow and are working with other police within the UK to investigate the matter.""",Morrisons is recalling its own - brand @placeholder green beans after metal was found inside them .,trimmed,named,brand,body,condition,0
"However, the bill would reduce the budget deficit, the non-partisan Congressional Budgetary Office said. Similar legislation passed by the House was also said to leave millions uninsured. Some Republicans have voiced reservations about the plan. But the White House disputed the CBO's figures. Responding to Monday's report, it said: ""The CBO has consistently proven it cannot accurately predict how healthcare legislation will impact insurance coverage."" The report is a review of draft legislation unveiled by the Republican party last week. It is unlikely to be approved by Democrats, who see the proposals as cruel and unfair. The CBO said that 15 million more people would be uninsured by 2018 under the proposed legislation than under current law, largely because the penalty for not having insurance would be eliminated. Donald Trump called the House healthcare bill that resulted in 23 million additional uninsured by 2026 ""mean"". How might he describe a Senate version that only reduces those numbers to 22 million? Less affluent Americans currently on government-managed Medicaid insurance, many of whom supported the president, will see a 26% reduction in their programmes funding over the next decade, resulting in fewer covered and skimpier benefits. That is a tough pill for moderate Republicans, who will be under enormous pressure from their constituents to vote against the bill. There is some good news in the CBO report, of course. Thanks to the cuts, the Senate measure would reduce the budget deficit by a total of $321bn (£252bn) in 2017-2026 - even with Obama-era tax cuts rolled back. The personal health insurance marketplace is estimated to remain largely stable, and premiums will go down (after a spike next year). The bottom line, however, is that the CBO report is a blow to the Senate bill's chances of success. House Republicans weathered a similar beating and rallied to pass their version, so it is much too early to write a political epitaph. That assumes, of course, that their efforts are not undermined by the man in the Oval Office. President Donald Trump's Republican party is struggling to secure the 50 votes it needs to get its bill through the Senate when it comes to the floor. On Thursday, Republicans Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Rand Paul said they were ""not ready to vote for this bill"", but were ""open to negotiation"". Their concerns about the measure include its rollback of the expansion of Medicaid, the public health program for the poor and disabled. Mr Johnson said on Sunday there was ""no way"" there should be a vote on the legislation this week. The Senate bill would slash taxes for the wealthy offering less help for working families to buy medical insurance. Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi earlier warned that ""hundreds of thousands"" of Americans would die if congressional Republicans pass their healthcare legislation. Republicans have rejected the notion that anyone will die as a result of their healthcare plan.","Some 22 million Americans could lose their health insurance over the next decade under a Senate bill to @placeholder Obamacare , a congressional report says .",eliminate,deter,attract,replace,introduce,3
"The charity Pond Conservation says ponds offer more species diversity than any other habitat per square metre. But 80% of them are polluted - mostly by fertilisers and pesticides from farms, and also by run-off from streets and homes in towns and villages. Pond Conservation say it is so hard to clean a pond fed by polluted streams that it is better to start afresh. It wants to create a new generation of clean ponds entirely fed by rain. The man leading the project, Dr Jeremy Biggs, said the plan was less ambitious than it sounded. He told me: ""There are already half-a-million ponds in the UK - that means we only have to create another half-a-million. ""They really are the most wonderful habitat for wildlife that we hope this is going to prove really popular."" I met Jeremy in the heart of the New Forest at a pond he describes as one of the finest in the UK. It is a semi-seasonal pond which in summer resembles a watery bog puddled by horses and cows. It is a mosaic of water and vegetation, overflown by darting dragonflies and skimmed by spiders that walk on water. But as we splash further into the mire, Jeremy says the wildlife will soon be heading in our direction. Moments later dark shapes appear just under the milky surface. In seconds, more there are eight or 10 black torpedoes converge on Jeremy's boot - leeches, fat and hungry. How to build a pond in your back garden It is bizarre and slightly disturbing. Medicinal leeches are perfectly harmless - they just snack and go. But the water is writhing like a snake pit from an Indiana Jones movie. Curious, I wonder how fast a leech could latch on to his hand. Jeremy demonstrates and in just a few seconds, there are leeches all over his hands. He tries to shake them off but they are more persistent and far more numerous than either of us had expected. By the time they are removed, his hand is flowing with blood freed by the anti-coagulant injected by the leeches. It is an incongruous moment as the sounds of children's voices drift through the dappling oaks whilst Jeremy's blood mixes with the milky waters of the pond, providing nutrients for the rare plants below. He assures me that ponds in the Million Ponds Project do not have to feature leeches - and indeed a quick dip with a net pulls out a cornucopia of wildlife from water snails to many types of water beetle, to larvae for newts including the rare great crested newt. Landowners wanting to take part in the Million Ponds Project can bid for funding. The pond has to have clean water; it has not to be planted by the landowner; it must not be subject to features like excessive dog swimming, duck feeding or angling, and it should not be stocked for angling - although natural fish populations are fine. ""There's nothing wrong with these activities,"" he says. ""It's just that they don't help biodiversity and there are already plenty of places where they can take place."" High-quality ponds are a priority habitat under the Countryside Act (CROW). Landowners can get advice on creating new ponds from Pond Conservation. The charity uses pond ecology rather than chemical sampling to assess the quality of ponds. They can tell by the range of species what pollutants are present. Dr Biggs says a survey has shown that 80% of ponds in England and Wales are degraded. They are polluted by a range of factors including nutrients, heavy metals, sediments, biocides, excess fish or excess waterfowl. Only 8% are categorized as ""good"". Two-thirds of ponds are categorised as polluted from the effect of just two agricultural chemicals - nitrogen and phosphorus. In Scotland, only 10% are polluted, and it is estimated that half are in good condition. Follow Roger Harrabin on Twitter: @rogerharrabin",Details of a plan for a million healthy ponds in the UK are being @placeholder to combat decades of neglect .,announced,built,forced,linked,produced,0
"Rutland Mills, an 1870s building complex of about 100,000 sq ft (9,290 sq m), has been derelict since 1999. Plans include residential space, cafes, bars with small retail and business units, said the developer. Councillor Peter Box, leader of the council, said the site's redevelopment was ""the final piece of the jigsaw"". Waterfront improvements to date have included the opening of the Hepworth in 2011. The council has agreed to sell the site next to a weir on the River Calder to property developers City & Provincial Properties PLC. If development is not started in the next two years the council could buy back the site, it said. Mr Box said: ""Regeneration on this scale is never easy to deliver, especially whilst enduring a global financial crisis."" The Hepworth Wakefield gallery opened in May 2011 and is named after sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield in 1903. Completion of the Rutland Mills site is conditional on planning permission.",A developer has been given a two - year @placeholder to start work on a long - derelict mill next to the Hepworth gallery on Wakefield 's waterfront .,deals,permit,bid,appeal,deadline,4
"""People keep asking us, which country's flag is this?"" says one. The black, green and red flag is Afghanistan's and Zia, Islamuddin and Ihsan are - they think - the only three Afghan cricket fans visiting Sri Lanka for the Twenty20 World Cup in support of their national team. ""We want to show the world that Afghanistan is not just about the war, we know other things as well - not just killings or being killed,"" Zia, 28, said, as Afghanistan played West Indies in a warm-up match at the P Sara Oval. ""In this stadium you can see we are just three but we are still trying to show the people the colours of our flag."" Local people have welcomed them warmly. Ziauddin Aryoobi and Ihsan Hashimi have lived in the UK for 12 and 15 years respectively but Zia's cousin, Islamuddin Aryoobi, lives in Kabul. All three have roots in Paktia, south-east Afghanistan. Islamuddin, 26, runs a construction company but says that when Afghanistan qualified for the T20 cup - only they and Ireland had to go through qualifying matches - he knew he would drop all his jobs to come to Sri Lanka. ""First of all, I congratulate all the Afghans that our team is in the World Cup,"" he said in Pashto, his cousin interpreting. ""It's a moment of pride to have come all this way to support our team."" Each player is a hero to him and ""all deserve to be supported equally"", he says. The three men came to cricket in different ways. Islamuddin says he has always liked it. Ihsan Hashimi, 35, learned the game in Pakistan where he spent some of his life - ""we used to play in the street,"" he says. ""Now we've got our own team so it's a big thing."" He is also a rugby fan and his son plays in a rugby team in England called Afghan Lions. Zia is a keen supporter of Chelsea Football Club and knew nothing about cricket when he arrived in Britain. But today, cricket, with its rising popularity, is more than just a game for Afghans. ""It's very important because in so many ways it has united us,"" he says. ""In the north, like Mazar-e-Sharif and those provinces, where they used to call it a Pakistani game, they have now even started playing it. That's a sign of unity for me which is a good sign."" As in the host country, Sri Lanka, cricket is viewed as something that can unite fractured peoples. Zia admits to finding Test cricket boring but finds the T20 format ""perfect"". He helped the others arrange visas and tried to get many more fans to come. For many, the airfare was just too expensive, although others now regret not coming, he says. All three men talk up the chances of the Afghan side, which plays its first match against India on Wednesday, in a tough opening group which also includes England. The Afghan players themselves also sound optimistic. Gulbodin Naib, the 21-year-old batsman, told the BBC's Azzam Ameen that the effort put in by the fans was ""really encouraging - we need to do well in the World Cup for them"". ""India and England are two good sides, but we are confident we can do well against them,"" he says. The national coach, Kabir Khan, believes the game can foster peace by challenging young people into something positive. ""Supporters... come in huge numbers when we play in Gulf countries,"" he told Azzam Ameen. ""These kind of matches always encourage young people to play cricket. They have heroes now by watching these guys play cricket on TV."" Ziauddin Aryoobi postponed a holiday in Kabul to come to the World Cup. Now he will go there after the tournament. ""I hope we'll go to Kabul happily,"" he says, grinning.",They have been @placeholder Colombo and Galle carrying their national flag .,granted,criticised,revealed,exploring,mixed,3
"Williams, 32, had played with heavy strapping on her left thigh throughout the week in Madrid, but aims to return at next week's Italian Open. The American will then defend her title at the French Open, which gets under way in Paris on 25 May. ""I suffered [the injury] during my first-round match,"" said Williams. ""I started to feel better but it is important that I have enough time to rest and recover. It's very frustrating. This isn't the way I wanted to end the week."" Williams had won the title in Madrid for the last two years, and in 2013 she went on be crowned champion in Rome and then claimed her second title at Roland Garros. ""I am planning to play in Rome,"" she added. ""Fortunately, I have a [first-round] bye next week so will have an extra day of rest."" Maria Sharapova, seeded eighth, made it through to the semi-finals in Madrid with a fine 2-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 win over second seed Li Na. The Russian will play Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska on Saturday after the third seed battled past France's Caroline Garcia 6-4 4-6 6-4. Kvitova will next face fourth seed Simona Halep of Romania, who saw off Serbia's 11th seed Ana Ivanovic 6-2 6-2. In the men's event, world number one Rafael Nadal beat sixth seed Tomas Berdych for the 17th time in a row to reach the semi-finals. The Spaniard, 27, extended his eight-year unbeaten run against Berdych with a comprehensive 6-4 6-2 victory. Berdych has won three of their 21 matches but the Czech's last victory came at the same tournament in 2006. ""I brought great energy and intensity to it and that's the best news, that it's my best (on clay) yet,"" said Nadal, who arrived in Madrid on the back of quarter-final defeats in Monte Carlo and Barcelona. ""The things that, historically, I've done well on this surface I managed to do them again today."" Nadal will next face compatriot Roberto Bautista Agut, who beat Colombia's Santiago Giraldo -  - 6-3 6-4.",World number one and defending champion Serena Williams has @placeholder with a thigh injury ahead of her Madrid Open quarter - final against Petra Kvitova .,finished,emerged,escaped,returned,withdrawn,4
"The pair, aged 12 and 14, were held after the 30-year-old was attacked by a group of youths in Grosvenor Street, Cheltenham, on Friday, police said. The victim remains in hospital, police said, with serious but non life-threatening injuries. A third boy, aged 12, has been released without charge. All three boys were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH), Gloucestershire Police said. The force said it was keen to point out the attack was an isolated incident and those involved were known to each other.",Two boys arrested after a man was hit with a baseball bat and @placeholder in a street attack have been released on bail .,wounded,stabbed,raped,involved,died,1
"Thanks to its location and slender shape, Panama enjoys a position as the guardian of one of the world's most important marine trade routes, which connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. For a hundred years the Panama Canal has provided a short cut for ships wishing to avoid the more hazardous route via Cape Horn. Panama Direct Dubbed one of the seven wonders of the modern world, the 77km (48-mile) canal is a feat of engineering that handles 14,000 ships every year along its intricate lock system. Many of these vessels fly the Panamanian flag yet the country itself has a limited history of trade. Panama only has one small shipping line as well as a number of companies providing supplementary maritime services around the ports and canal. Most merchant ships flying Panama's flag belong to foreign owners wishing to avoid the stricter marine regulations imposed by their own countries. Panama operates what is known as an open registry. Its flag offers the advantages of easier registration (often online) and the ability to employ cheaper foreign labour. Furthermore the foreign owners pay no income taxes. About 8,600 ships fly the Panamanian flag. By comparison, the US has around 3,400 registered vessels and China just over 3,700. Under international law, every merchant ship must be registered with a country, known as its flag state. That country has jurisdiction over the vessel and is responsible for inspecting that it is safe to sail and to check on the crew's working conditions. Open registries, sometimes referred to pejoratively as flags of convenience, have been contentious from the start. The first transfer of ships to Panama's register in 1922 involved two US passenger ships wishing to serve alcohol to passengers during Prohibition. More followed as shipowners sought to avoid higher wages and improved working conditions secured through US legislation. After World War Two, Panama's registry grew more rapidly as US shipowners sought to lower overheads while European ones switched flags to avoid high tax rates. As demand rose for open registration, other countries in the developing world formed their own. The US used Liberia's registry to build a fleet of neutral ships during the Cold War. Panama now has the largest registry in the world, followed by Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Hong Kong and Singapore. By last year, almost three quarters of the world's fleet was registered under a flag of a country other than its own. The registry is lucrative for Panama, bringing in half a billion dollars for the economy in fees, services and taxes. However, critics of the system point to the ease of hiding the true identity of shipowners and the lax enforcement of rules and regulations. Luis Fruto, representative of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) in Panama, says the country turns a blind eye to its ""responsibilities in order to acquire higher registration"". The ITF has led a campaign against flags of convenience since 1958. It considers that Panamanian registration is better than some ""from a safety viewpoint, but it remains seriously flawed in areas such as oversight, accident investigation and crew assistance"". Two years ago, Mr Fruto investigated the death of a woman sailor, 22, on her first voyage. She became trapped in machinery that was reportedly faulty and died. The ITF says that, rather than heading for the nearest port as rules dictate, the ship continued to sail for more than two weeks with her body in a freezer. Further investigation by the ITF suggested that some of the shipping certificates had been bought. International legal requirements insist that countries operating open registries inspect vessels, comply with international regulations and investigate accidents and corruption. But critics say that Panama cuts corners in all these tasks, putting maritime workers at risk. Indeed, accidents involving Panamanian-registered ships are high. However, Carlos Gonzalez, former executive secretary of the Panamanian Maritime Authority, attributes this to a numbers game. Panama has the most ships and therefore the most incidents, he says. Since 2008, Panama has cut down on enough offences to move up from the black to the white list of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding, a watchdog comprising 27 maritime administrations from Europe and North America. Yet Panama's registry is consistently beset by allegations of corruption. In 2000, ITF general secretary David Cockroft was able to buy a Panamanian first officer's certificate for $4,000 to navigate a ship - even though he had no maritime skills or experience. Despite repeated assurances that the country was cleaning up its act, Roberto Linares, the head of the Panama Maritime Authority, resigned in June after it was discovered that workers were being certified without the proper qualifications. ""The scandal brings us back to the days that Panama was called a 'convenience flag',"" said Franklin Castrellon, former spokesman for the Panama Canal Commission, an independent agency operating the waterway until the country took over from the US in 1999. New leadership plans to turn things around again. Jorge Barakat, the new head of the maritime authority, said: ""The Panamanian flag is still robust and secure. Whatever kind of non-compliance there is will be reviewed by the administration."" As a commercial venture, Panama's flag of convenience is a success. But according to the ITF, that comes at a cost. It believes the world economy could survive a ban on flags of convenience and the higher costs that it says would follow. ITF secretary Jon Whitlow said: ""There would be some reconfiguration. The positive effects would include better protections and safeguards for seafarers who found themselves once again serving on a national flag ship."" Shipping prices would rise, but free competition has extensively distorted the market, he says. However, defenders of the system say this thinking is outdated and that flags of convenience are here to stay. ""Panama's registry will last for ever,"" said Jorge Luis Sanchez, professor at the International Maritime University of Panama. ""Those who don't like the open registry can opt to do something else with their ships."" Jazmina Rovi, former director of the Panama Maritime Law Association, said unions are better off enforcing uniform standards than eliminating the registry altogether. With the new maritime administrator sworn in last month, it remains to be seen whether Panama will crack down on corruption and safety breaches or continue to live with the taint that still clings to flags of convenience.","Panama , a small nation of just three million , has the largest shipping fleet in the world , greater than those of the US and China @placeholder . Aliyya Swaby investigates how this tiny Central American country came to rule the waves .",fuel,shows,fleets,combined,district,3
"The couple have been hosting a ceremony at their Windsor estate in Berkshire with a number of stars in attendance. David and Victoria Beckham, musician Ed Sheeran and actor David Walliams were among the guests. Mr Furnish and Sir Elton, who have two sons, became civil partners in 2005. The couple's sons Zachary, who was born in 2010, and Elijah, born last year attended the ceremony. One image - showing the newlyweds holding hands, with Elijah standing between them - bears the caption: ""Zachary grabs David's iPhone and takes a photo of his brother while we exchange our vows."" Sir Elton has been including the hashtag #ShareTheLove on his posts on Sunday. Friends of the couple have also been using the tag, with the Beckhams' eldest son Brooklyn writing:  ""Amazing day with family and special friends congratulations Uncle Elton and Uncle David #ShareTheLove."" The teenager posted a photograph of the wedding lunch menu, which included wild mushroom soup with truffle cream, beef short rib and caramelised onion pie and warm chocolate pudding with ice cream. Guests were served Laurent-Perrier champagne. Sir Elton has posted a number of pictures to the photo-sharing website, where he has thousands of followers, including a picture taken at a window showing a garden, with the caption: ""Good morning! Nice day for a wedding"". He later wrote: ""The tables look stunning! We had red roses at our Civil Partnership 9 years ago and they brought us so much luck."" On 21 December 2005, they held a civil partnership ceremony at the Windsor Guildhall. In March, the law was changed in England and Wales to allow same-sex marriage. Sir Elton said at the time he was ""very proud"" of Britain for changing the law. ""Having our civil partnership was an incredible breakthrough for people that have campaigned for a long time - through the 60s and the 50s in England when it was so hard to be gay and hard to be open about it. And it was a criminal act. ""So for this legislation to come through is joyous, and we should celebrate it. We shouldn't just say, 'Oh, well we have a civil partnership. We're not going to bother to get married'. We will get married."" Celebrities gave their reaction on Twitter. Gary Barlow wrote: ""What an incredible day."" Graham Norton said: ""Huge congratulations to Sir Elton John and David Furnish. Married at last!!"" Walliams said it was a ""magnificent"" day, while Hugh Grant tweeted: ""Groom Groom - Britain races into the future. Congrats Elton and David. Congrats enlightened UK."" Guests also included singer Lulu, Burberry chief executive Christopher Bailey, as well as comedian Jimmy Carr who tweeted:  ""#ShareTheLove at the beautiful wedding of two beautiful people. Wishing Elton & David every happiness. X"".",Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish have formally converted their civil partnership to a marriage - with the musician @placeholder the day on the Instagram website .,documenting,representing,being,impact,joined,0
"The government had said that companies should meet the requirements of a 2008 indigenisation law by the end of March. Theoretically, non-compliance could lead to a company losing its license. This was a key part of Robert Mugabe's 2013 election campaign - on the basis that black people were discriminated against during the colonial era. But it has proved controversial, with detractors saying that it could discourage much-needed foreign direct investment. The Reuters news agency quotes the minister responsible, Patrick Zhuwao, as saying that most of the country's foreign-owned banks and mining companies have not submitted their indigenisation plans, adding that he thought they would do soon. But Mr Zhuwao told the BBC that his ministry was currently ""going through submissions made by companies [and] we don't have statistics yet"" on who has complied. Standard Chartered and Barclays are among the banks operating in the country, and Zimbabwe also hosts the mining firms Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum. BBC Africa Business Report editor Matthew Davies says that an attempt to implement the law two years ago was largely ignored, but this time the government is promising action. The indigenisation plan for businesses echoes the country's land reform programme that started in 2000. At that time, the process of transferring around 4,500 farms held by white commercial farmers distributed to nearly 170,000 black Zimbabwean families began. This has been widely blamed for causing Zimbabwe's economic collapse, but a 2010 study by Sussex University found that the programme had had some positive effects, and that the idea that it was a complete failure was a myth. Zimbabwe is currently coping with the impacts of a severe drought.","A Zimbabwe @placeholder for all firms to transfer most of their shares to black Zimbabweans has passed , but it is not clear how many have complied .",group,deadline,movement,rule,request,1
"Each leg is made of concrete and steel and weighs about 300,000 tonnes. Shell has begun preparations to decommission Brent Delta and will seek an exemption from the UK government to leave the legs on safety grounds. Environmental campaign group WWF Scotland said it would carefully examine Shell's final proposals. Shell said it plans to submit a comprehensive decommissioning plan for the Brent field to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) before the end of this year. A spokesperson for the oil giant said: ""As part of this plan, Shell will recommend that the gravity base structures of three of the Brent platforms should be left in place. ""Work is continuing to prepare the Brent Delta platform ahead of its topsides being removed in a single lift operation, which is expected to take place in 2017."" WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said removing, or leaving at sea, oil industry structures was ""not without environmental risk"". He added: ""Given the potential impacts on the marine environment and other sea users, we will be carefully examining the final proposals that go out for consultation. ""The industry pushed the boundaries of science and engineering to access North Sea oil and gas. ""Having made massive profits over the last few decades, it's only right that it should push those limits once again to clean up their potentially hazardous legacy and protect the marine environment."" Scottish Green MSP Mark Ruskell said Shell has the ""money, manpower and ingenuity"" to come up with a safe method of removing the legs. He said: ""Unless there is an overwhelming environmental case for retaining some structures on the sea bed then they should be removed in their entirety.""",Shell has announced it plans to leave the giant legs of its three Brent field platforms in the North Sea when it @placeholder decommissioning work .,approved,reached,completes,began,plunged,2
"Chris Cairns is being prosecuted for perjury after declaring under oath that he had never cheated at cricket during a libel case in 2012. He successfully sued Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi over a tweet accusing him of match-fixing. Mr Cairns, who is also charged with perverting the course of justice, denies all the charges against him. Counsel for the Prosecution Sasha Wass QC said Mr Cairns had been ""the golden boy in the cricket world whom every cricketer wished to emulate"". But his reputation was shattered after Mr Modi accused him on Twitter in January 2010 of match-fixing while playing for the Chandigarh Lions in the Indian Cricket League in 2008. During England's first Twitter libel trial, Mr Cairns said under oath that he had never ever cheated at cricket, which the prosecution claims is untrue. Mr Cairns won damages of $130,000 (£90,000). Ms Wass told the jury it would hear evidence from the current New Zealand cricket captain Brendon McCullum and former team-mate Lou Vincent, who were both ""targeted"" by Chris Cairns to help him fix matches. Mr McCullum, she said, refused to have anything to do with it while Lou Vincent was ""corrupted by him"". Mr Cairns is also charged with perverting the court of justice. It is alleged that he and co-defendant Andrew Fitch Holland, a barrister friend who had given him legal advice, asked a witness to give false evidence. The court heard a tape of a recorded Skype conversation between Mr Fitch Holland and Mr Vincent, who also played for the Chandigarh Lions under Chris Cairns and has admitted being involved in match-fixing. The prosecution claims the conversation was an attempt to induce Mr Vincent to lie to the court in order to help Mr Cairns's case. ""What all of this recognised was that Chris Cairns was indeed guilty of match-fixing,"" Ms Wass said. Chris Cairns and Andrew Fitch Holland deny all charges.","A former New Zealand international cricketer "" @placeholder the British legal system "" , a court in London heard .",following,entered,manipulated,deal,breached,2
"The Metropolitan Police said architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris would be redeveloping its next HQ, at the Curtis Green Building on Victoria Embankment. The Met is leaving nearby New Scotland Yard for the smaller premises in 2015. A key design feature of the force's next base is a public open space, and the iconic revolving Scotland Yard sign will be transferred. A number of architects responded to a design competition launched in May, with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) emerging as the winning firm. Other features of its successful submission include a new public entrance pavilion and extensions to the building itself. As well as the revolving sign, the Eternal Flame and Roll of Honour will also make the journey from New Scotland Yard. The Met said its next HQ would be known simply as Scotland Yard. The move to the former Whitehall police station on the banks of the Thames is part of a plan to sell off about a third of the Mayor's Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC) estate by 2016. MOPAC owns about 500 buildings but has considered selling up to 200 of them including police stations, patrol bases and traffic garages. The sell-off is part of the force's plans to save more than £500m over the next two-and-a-half years. Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said: ""Scotland Yard is an internationally recognised and highly respected brand and the architects' final designs for the building will, we hope, reflect and enhance this status."" Deputy mayor for policing and crime Stephen Greenhalgh said: ""Scotland Yard is returning to its historical home in Whitehall. ""The new, smaller Met HQ will help deliver a 21st Century police force and AHMM's design, which includes a public space, will help Londoners to reconnect with the Met.""",The first image of what the relocated Scotland Yard could look like has been @placeholder .,released,unveiled,found,launched,created,0
"Both sides began the game knowing that victory would see them join champions Burnley in the top flight next season, though a draw was enough for Boro to pip the Seagulls to second place on goal difference. Cristhian Stuani's goal, from Gaston Ramirez's superb free-kick and David Nugent's touch across, put the hosts on their way in the first half. Another free-kick led to Dale Stephens' equaliser, heading across goal at the back post after Brighton had begun the second period in full flow. But Stephens was then dismissed for a foul on Ramirez - and Boro made the man advantage count to retain the scoreline for the rest of the game, including eight minutes of added time. There was no end-of-season sunshine for the packed crowd at the Riverside, as a chilly, murky day greeted the two teams at kick-off - thank goodness then for the red-hot atmosphere in the ground. Boro struck through Stuani and then soaked up Brighton's attempts and threatened on the break, with Uruguay international Ramirez hugely influential before he was withdrawn on a stretcher with a serious-looking leg injury. Stuani, a compatriot of the Southampton loanee, could have had a hat-trick but saw a half-volley deflected over the top and then wasted a fine chance. The Seagulls showed glimpses of their threat in the opening 45 minutes but playmaker Beram Kayal was kept quiet and their forward line was well marshalled, in particular by Daniel Ayala. The visitors emerged with more potency after the break and Stephens' header gave them hope, before the midfielder was then sent off for a fierce tackle on Ramirez just four minutes later. Boro lacked composure without their playmaker and Brighton, desperate for a goal, created spells of pressure but again Ayala, Ben Gibson and George Friend made big interventions. Albert Adomah struck his point-blank shot at David Stockdale as Boro sought the goal to make sure, but it did not matter in the end as the whistle blew to spark scenes of celebration and relief at the end of a sapping, absorbing game. The decision by chairman Steve Gibson to invest in playing staff for head coach Aitor Karanka was justified as two of the imports he helped finance came to the fore in Stuani and Ramirez. It was Gibson's intervention 30 years ago that scraped the club off the canvas with extinction looming and his name was sung lustily by supporters before and during the game. He oversaw the 2004 League Cup win at Cardiff and the run to the Uefa Cup final two years later, but few afternoons at the Riverside will have been as significant as this one. Premier League money, a minimum of £170m, will prove hugely beneficial to a club that have faced tough economic times in their transition to the Championship. It was always going to be tough to turn up and win on Teesside, where only Bristol City and Nottingham Forest had triumphed in the league this season. However, Brighton still have another chance against Sheffield Wednesday in the play-offs - albeit without Stephens, who will serve a suspension for his red card. The Seagulls, like their opponents, know the misery of play-off defeat well having been dumped out by rivals Crystal Palace three seasons ago, and then again by Derby the following season. It will need to be third time lucky if they are to end their 33-year exile from the top flight. We've got a new BBC Sport newsletter coming soon - to receive it from the start, sign up here. Match ends, Middlesbrough 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 1. Second Half ends, Middlesbrough 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 1. Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card. Connor Goldson (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card. Attempt missed. Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stewart Downing. Foul by Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion). Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Offside, Middlesbrough. Stewart Downing tries a through ball, but George Friend is caught offside. Foul by Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion). Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion). Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the top right corner. Foul by Kazenga Lua Lua (Brighton and Hove Albion). Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough). Attempt saved. Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Attempt blocked. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cristhian Stuani. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Dimitrios Konstantopoulos (Middlesbrough) because of an injury. Attempt blocked. James Wilson (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert. Foul by Connor Goldson (Brighton and Hove Albion). Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Kazenga Lua Lua replaces Gordon Greer. Substitution, Middlesbrough. Jordan Rhodes replaces David Nugent. Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Ben Gibson. Attempt missed. Steve Sidwell (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Bruno. Foul by Liam Rosenior (Brighton and Hove Albion). Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion). Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt blocked. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by George Friend. Foul by Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion). Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Steve Sidwell replaces Jamie Murphy. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Substitution, Middlesbrough. Stewart Downing replaces Gastón Ramírez because of an injury. Delay in match Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) because of an injury. Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the red card.",Middlesbrough ended their seven - year Premier League @placeholder by drawing a tense and nervy Championship promotion decider against Brighton & Hove Albion at the Riverside .,absence,title,career,table,reign,0
"It's the sort of thud made in the 1980s by doomed reports promising a ""paperless office"". Anyone who remembers that much-mocked slogan might well shrug off this latest idea as overheated punditry. Or perhaps they should think again, as the world's first completely paperless public library is scheduled to open this summer in Bexar County, Texas, in the United States. Bexar County's so-called BiblioTech is a low-cost project with big ambitions. Its first branch will be in a relatively poor district on the city of San Antonio's South Side. It will have 100 e-readers on loan, and dozens of screens where the public will be able to browse, study, and learn digital skills. However it's likely most users will access BiblioTech's initial holding of 10,000 digital titles from the comfort of their homes, way out in the Texas hinterland. It will be a truly bookless library - although that is not a phrase much to the liking of BiblioTech's project co-ordinator, Laura Cole. She prefers the description ""digital library"" - after all, there will be books there, but in digital form. ""For us this was just an obvious solution to a growing problem,"" she says. That problem was ""explosive"" population growth around  San Antonio, in suburbs and satellite towns way outside the city limits. ""We've had to look to how we provide services to these unincorporated areas,"" she said. ""While the city does a beautiful job in providing public libraries, these can only easily be used by people living there"". San Antonio's book-rich public libraries will be unaffected by the project. Bexar County, by contrast, never had a public library service. ""I think we're at an advantage there,"" Ms Cole said. ""They've never had a library with books - there's not even a bookstore here."" This sets it apart from earlier bookless library experiments at Newport Beach, California, and Tucson,  Arizona - which both reverted to offering real as well as e-books, by public demand. As well as offering digital books to 1.7m people, the $1.5m BiblioTech project has a big community education remit. It will partner with local schools and run digital literacy courses and will stay open late into the evenings. The project's instigator, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, sees it as a pilot for a county-wide scheme. Other sources of funding will be sought to build up the services. Interestingly, Judge Wolff is a keen collector of first editions, the bibliophile ushering in the bookless future: ""But the world is changing and this is the best, most effective way to bring services to our community."" Judge Wolff has cited Apple founder Steve Jobs as inspiration for the BiblioTech. But the project has also gained impetus from the success of the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) bookless engineering school library which opened three years ago, the first paperless academic library. UTSA's director of libraries Dr Krisellen Maloney has worked with the BiblioTech team and sits on its advisory board. Outside Texas, bookless libraries have also made most ground in the academic sector, with the swiftest change in science, maths and engineering libraries. The first such facility in the UK is likely to be at Imperial College, London, which last year announced that over 98% of its journal collections were digital, and that it had stopped buying print textbooks. Even so, it was still paying around £4m per year in subscriptions to publishers, even after concerted efforts to negotiate better digital deals for universities. It's clear that bookless libraries are not a cheaper option for cash strapped colleges and local authorities. Producing digital versions of text books can be even more costly, given that users will expect more regular updating and interactive features. There are some libraries which will never go bookless, because their collections contain books that are important historical artefacts in themselves. Although many of these rare texts are being digitised under schemes such as that run by Google, these books as physical objects remain essential resources for researchers. Christopher Platt, director of collections and circulation at the New York Public Library (NYPL), argued that accessing a digital version of a book was sometimes not enough. ""People travel from all over the world to our library, not just to access an item, but to touch it and feel it to get a sense of it that speaks to the overall importance of the work,"" he said. ""This is not sentimentality, it's an important fact."" However the NYPL is also embracing the digital world with enthusiasm and is deeply committed to offering digital material. Last year the library made 880,000 e-book loans - a fivefold increase over 2008, Mr Platt said. The library has 91 branches around the city, he added: ""If you look at e-book loans as a virtual branch, it would regularly be number two or three in terms of monthly usage."" Contrary to some reports, the NYPL is not reducing its holdings of books - although some 1.5 million books in the stacks of its  famous Central Library building on 42nd Street in Manhattan will be relocated in underground vaults as part of a refurbishment scheme beginning this year. The space will be used to create a ""spectacular"" new public library , but it will not be bookless. ""In fact, far more books will be visible than ever in the past,"" Mr Platt said. But bookless does not mean cheap. Publishers were charging libraries up to five times the normal hardback price for an e-book of a popular title, he said.  And certain types of book - illustrated children's titles, how-to manuals - simply did not work as well as e-books, especially when some library e-readers were still text-only. This was just one of many reasons, he felt, that bookless libraries would not be sweeping the board just yet. A major issue was to obtain guarantees of a consistently good reader experience across all platforms and technologies - something which NYPL, along with 200 other big libraries across north America, and increasingly elsewhere, is working towards in a new coalition, readersfirst.org. In the UK, however, the major issue was not so much bookless libraries but library-less boroughs. Authors have been particularly active in campaigns to resist funding cuts that are leading to public library closures. Children's author Alan Gibbons is a passionate believer in the role of libraries, especially school libraries, but he's also a keen user of the panoply of ""e"" and ""i"" prefixed devices. But he has misgivings about the notion of a bookless library. ""We have to manage the change intelligently. The danger is that reading becomes utterly atomised"". Otherwise there could be the ""obliteration of minority and mid-list authors"". He argues that the library space and the librarian are crucial elements. Books could be replaced by e-readers, but virtual space could not replace library buildings. ""The only issue for me is how new readers are made, and I don't see that happening in social networks."" Working in international schools in China and Thailand, Mr Gibbons noted that even in the most elite schools where very child was given an iPad, the school library, stocked with real books, was seen as an essential resource. Christopher Platt at New York Public Library has another take on the bookless future:  ""It's still early game. We've been 100 years getting the print stuff right, so it could be a while before we get the e-stuff right.""","The phrase "" bookless libraries "" @placeholder with a dull , oxymoronic thud , enough to get the blood of any bibliophile boiling .",starts,arrives,littered,ends,ended,1
"Paul Dadge, 40, shared the news on his Twitter account on Tuesday evening. He was branded a hero after a powerful photo emerged of him helping ""the woman in the mask"" after the tube bombings. Mr Dadge will take on Tory Amanda Milling, who had a majority of nearly 5,000 at the last election. For more Stoke and Staffordshire stories click here On 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers with rucksacks full of explosives attacked central London, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds more. It was the worst single terrorist atrocity on British soil. The photo of Paul Dadge helping then 25-year-old Davinia Douglass dominated the front pages of newspapers. But Mr Dadge has always denied he was a 'hero'. Speaking to the BBC shortly after the terror attack, he said, ""I am not a hero, not at all. ""I just happened to be on the spot and I did what I could to help.""",An ex-firefighter who shot to fame in the wake of the 7 / 7 bombings has been selected to fight the Cannock Chase @placeholder for Labour at the general election .,table,seat,side,electorate,title,1
"Richard Davies, 41, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest after firing at officers in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, in October 2015. The father-of-three said he ""wanted to end his life"" after learning his marriage was over, the hearing was told. The inquest in Peterborough is expected to last two-and-a-half weeks. Mr Davies had been signed off work following difficulty with a colleague and had been prescribed anti-depressants, jurors heard. Local live: read more Cambridgeshire stories here On the day of his death, he made several trips to a nearby shop to buy alcohol and had been carrying a knife. He had a ""long, emotional talk"" with his wife Samantha when she arrived home and things seemed ""fairly normal"" before she left to see her sister. When his children returned from school at around 19:00 BST, he sent two back out to buy wrapping paper and string, jurors at Peterborough Town Hall were told. Mr Davies then tied up a third child, put duct tape over his mouth and locked him in a bedroom. When the children returned, Mr Davies ""brandished a kitchen knife; he was saying that he wanted to end his life,"" assistant coroner Nicholas Moss said. ""Mr Davies threatened to kill the children if they did not do what they were told, so Child A decided to allow Mr Davies to tie him up,"" he added. The inquest then heard how the children managed to make 999 calls and alert their mother. All three escaped through upstairs windows. Police marksmen attended within ""four or five minutes"", with Mr Davies assessed as being ""emotionally or mentally distressed or disturbed"". He then fired a total of six shots from the house, the inquest heard. Mr Moss said that Mr Davies shouted ""f****** shoot me then you c****""', to which an officer replied: ""We don't want to do that to anybody, Richard"". Mr Moss said one firearms officer - referred to as 'I7' - saw Mr Davies reappear at an upstairs window. ""He was concerned Mr Davies was going to fire again and he had no option but to fire,"" said Mr Moss. He told jurors: ""You will need to examine whether other options could or indeed should have been adopted."" The inquest continues.","An @placeholder shot dead by police had tied up his children and threatened to kill himself , an inquest has heard .",individual,intruder,appeal,attacker,engineer,4
"James Isbister caught the 6ft-long ling while fishing off Muckle Flugga on Saturday. Mr Isbister is awaiting confirmation from the relevant authorities of its possible record-breaking status. The fish is currently being kept in his mother's freezer. ""It was a very big fight,"" he said. He said he would keep trying to catch an even larger fish. He told BBC Scotland: ""Muckle Flugga is renowned for big fish. ""It took about 20 or 30 minutes. ""I knew it was a big fish but I didn't realise it was that size - I am 6ft 5in and it's as big as me."" Mr Isbister added: ""It's in my mum's freezer. We had to make room for it, it fills the whole freezer. ""I am a local celebrity at the moment.""",A Shetland fisherman is celebrating after @placeholder in a giant fish weighing more than 67lbs ( 30 k g ) .,reeling,arriving,stuck,taking,drowning,0
"Mr Martinelli is accused of using public funds to illegally spy on more than 150 prominent people. Among those he allegedly spied on are trade union activists, politicians, lawyers, doctors and business people. Mr Martinelli denied the allegations, saying they were part of a vendetta by current President Juan Carlos Varela. The court ordered the arrest because Mr Martinelli failed to appear at a hearing earlier this month. He left Panama in January days before the Supreme Court voted in favour of having him investigated over separate corruption allegations. He is believed to be living in Miami, Florida. The court did not give any details about how his detention would be sought. On Monday, Mr Martinelli tweeted [in Spanish]: ""First round of the political trial: without having been properly documented, without charges, without proper notification and without sentence, my provisional arrest has been ordered."" The Supreme Court launched an investigation into the alleged spying ordered by Mr Martinelli in June. It came after dozens of people alleged they had their phones tapped and that the administration of Mr Martinelli prepared dossiers against them containing intimate information. Among the alleged victims are high-ranking members of the opposition Revolutionary Democratic Party, as well as lawmaker Jose Luis Varela, who is the brother of current President Juan Carlos Varela. Investigators said the wiretaps were carried out by members of Panama's National Security Council.","Panama 's Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Ricardo Martinelli , who @placeholder the Central American country from 2009 to 2014 .",lost,backed,fled,governed,barred,3
"The scale of the production, the quality of the cameras, the epic sweeping shots and the pastiches of old movies - it seemed the show was aimed at the big screen, not the telly. Or a mobile phone, which is how I imagine a lot of people will view it. It opens with a scene so over-the-top and opulent you'd think that the Prince Regent was behind the camera. Think Mad Max meets Easy Rider as we see the three presenters drive across the Californian desert, making their way through a sea of cars all barrelling along to a massive stage that has risen from the sand like a pyramid. They look out of their car windows and smile a cheesy smile at each other. We know what's coming next. Richard Hammond will spin his motor while not paying attention, or James May will be shunted from behind by a guffawing Jeremy Clarkson, or all three will come unstuck and end up in a smoking pile of bent metal. Critics praise Clarkson's Grand Tour Clarkson's show to be judged 'on Twitter' Whatever the device, an amusing comeuppance is seconds away. We know the drill. Except we don't. Because the payoff never comes. The cheesy smiles are not a set up to a joke, but a precursor to them taking to the stage in the manner of rock stars on tour. A huge crowd of cheering fans has amassed at their feet. There is no irony. It feels uncomfortably hubristic. Cut to a large tent with a huge picture window looking out onto the desert, in front of which is a more modest wooden stage, set with a small table. This is their new home, a peripatetic studio that appears in whichever country the show happens to be based that week. Hammond and May sit at the table while Clarkson introduces the show, joshes with the audience about them being American, and uses a TV screen to go through a PowerPoint-type presentation of images about which the three presenters joke. Normal service has been resumed. They go to Portugal to race three fast cars around a racetrack, which petrolheads will no doubt enjoy, but their many fans who are more interested in horseplay than horsepower might find goes on a bit. We're introduced - at length - to a new ""home"" track with a ""not straight"", a grumpy American Nascar driver who takes The Stig's place, and a new format for a celebrity interview - the guest appears to ""die"" before a word is spoken. As ever with these three, the best bits are the banter. Hammond, in particular, stands out. His energy, eagerness to please, and ability to crack genuinely funny off-the-cuff jokes (beyond those that are scripted) are a boon for the viewer, and, one would have thought, Clarkson, on whose shoulders and talent the show rests. May seems more out of sorts. Clarkson has repeatedly said during his round of interviews to promote the programme how much he hates his co-presenters. The assumption that this is a tongue-in-cheek comment, adding a dynamic to the sitcom feel the show has of three middle-aged male characters haplessly going about their business as car journalists. But the screen chemistry between him and May suggests there's a ring of truth about Clarkson's claim, which is not much fun to watch. In future episodes, the cars take a back seat to give the presenters a chance to do what they excel at: being very silly. A trip to Jordan to play in an army training centre is good. There are a lot of laughs, plenty of slapstick, and more film allusions to enjoy. Perhaps this is what they should focus on in the future. Maybe the small screen is too small for them, and their next step should be away from the internet and into the cinema. It seemed to me that Grand Tour is a TV show that wants to be - and quite possibly should be - a movie.",Filmic is the word that @placeholder to my mind when watching the Grand Tour .,sprang,intends,gets,connect,floats,0
"Third quarter revenue rose 3% to £4.59bn, up 4.7%, which it said was its best result for more than seven years. It has also announced a new corporate structure following the completion of its deal to buy mobile firm, EE. That deal brings together the UK's largest fixed-line business and the largest mobile telecoms company. Chief executive Gavin Patterson said: ""BT Consumer had a stand-out quarter, increasing its overall line base for the first time in well over a decade and capturing 71% of new broadband customers."" He added that he was confident they would ""deliver the anticipated cost and revenue synergies"" from its acquisition of EE. Russ Mould, a telecoms analyst at AJ Bell, said BT was in a ""buoyant mood"" following its takeover of EE, but the possibility of having to sell Openreach remained a ""cloud on the horizon"". Openreach looks after the network of cables and wires, that provide phone and broadband services. It is at the centre of a report due soon from the regulator Ofcom, which is reviewing the telecoms sector for the first time in a decade. Critics of BT say it has not invested enough in Openreach, and want it to become a separate business. Ofcom chief executive, Sharon White, has said one option was ""the structural separation"" of Openreach from BT. In January a cross-party group of more than 100 MPs, led by the former Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps, supported a split. Today BT has announced that Clive Selley is to be the new chief executive of Openreach. The company said Openreach had connected a net 494,000 new customers, which is a 32% increase. BT said that under its restructuring there would be six lines of business: Mr Patterson said: ""We will operate a multi-brand strategy with UK customers being able to choose a mix of BT, EE or Plusnet services, depending on which suit them best."" BT's shares were up 3.12% in afternoon trading. Earlier, Ofcom's Ms White also weighed in on the proposed merger between telecoms giants O2 and Three, warning it could lead to higher mobile phone bills for customers. The new company would control two in every five mobile connections and reduce the number of networks to three, she wrote in the Financial Times. ""Many of our concerns relate to competition between operators who own the networks on which mobile phones rely. ""Only these four companies can make your mobile signal faster, more reliable and widely available,"" she added. Only EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three own their own networks. Other providers, such as Virgin rent space on the airwaves. Consumer group Which? has also written to the European Commission to express concern about the planned merger of O2 and Three. Hutchison, the owner of Three, agreed in March last year to purchase O2 from Telefonica for around £10bn. In October, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) asked the European Commission to refer the acquisition for investigation.","BT has posted what it calls a "" strong @placeholder of results "" after seeing a 24 % rise in pre-tax profits to  £ 862 m in the three months to the end of December .",set,flood,generation,end,offer,0
"The PCs, aged 24 and 26, were called to Kingsdown Road, a residential street in Islington at about 18:00 BST on Thursday. One officer suffered a minor head injury and the other sustained injuries to his face and body. A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The injured officers were taken to hospital for treatment. Their conditions are not said to be serious.",Two police officers were injured when a man threw large knives at them as they @placeholder a disturbance in north London .,played,attended,ran,caused,struck,1
"He died aged 66 after collapsing on a busy stage behind his dancers at a late-night concert in Ivory Coast. So ended the life of a man who helped take African pop to a global audience over more than four decades that saw spells of prison too. ""He was the icon of our culture, of our lifestyle,"" tweeted Kinshasa rapper Youssoupha. ""This is a huge loss."" He was born Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba in June 1949 in Lubefu, in what was then the Belgian Congo (now part of the Democratic Republic of Congo). According to French broadcaster RFI (in French), he got his nickname Papa because he was his mother's eldest child. He also took the name Jules Presley later in life. His love of song can be attributed to his mother, who was a professional ""wailing woman"" at funerals, AFP news agency notes in its obituary. His father wanted him to be a journalist or lawyer, RFI writes, but, after developing his trademark high-range voice in religious choirs, he made his debut in the capital Kinshasa at the end of the 1960s. Mixing traditional African music with Western rock, he and his successive bands - Zaiko Langa Langa, Isifi and Viva La Musica - enjoyed hit after hit, including  L'Esclave and Le Voyageur. Shaping Congolese music in the 1970s and 1980s, he made soukous the most popular sound across Africa, and attracted international music figures like Peter Gabriel. ""I do not know if this is a loss for African music because the music does not die,"" said Eric Didia, a promoter of Congolese music in Ivory Coast and friend of Wemba who was at the morgue where his body was taken. ""People can listen to Papa Wemba songs in 50 years, in 100 years,"" he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. Wemba was also an actor, appearing in two films, Life Is Beautiful (1987) and Wild Games (1997). In 2004, Wemba was convicted of people-smuggling in France and spent three months in prison. He was found to have helped Congolese immigrants illegally obtain visas by passing them off as musicians working with him on European shows. A Belgian court convicted him of the same crime in 2012, handing down a fine of 22,000 euros (£17,143; $24,690) and a suspended prison sentence of 15 months. Wemba had also been briefly imprisoned in Kinshasa in 1976 on suspicion of having a relationship with the daughter of a general from President Mobutu Sese Seko's army. In Kinshasa, Papa Wemba was known for his taste in clothing and headed an organisation called the Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People, or sapeurs. Their stylish suits and fedora hats brought a touch of glamour to Central African countries marked by poverty. Hours after the official confirmation of his death, hundreds gathered in Matonge, his neighbourhood in Kinshasa, to pay homage. ""He is our papa,"" Eddy Kilonda, a young man on the verge of tears, told Reuters. ""He was not only a musician. He taught us to dress properly, to be stylish."" Wemba married his wife Marie-Rose Luzolo in 1970 and they had six children","Band leader Papa Wemba will be remembered for a music style that conquered Africa , and a sense of @placeholder that inspired a generation of dandies .",commentary,fashion,identity,death,adventure,1
"Baird led 5-4 overnight only for a tentative start to the second session see him trail 7-6. But a seemingly nerveless four-frame burst, which included a break of 103, took the Devon man through. ""I don't mind chatting. It kind of lightened the mood,"" said Baird, 27. ""It was stressful out there. He was a nice guy. ""He asked me what the table was like because he heard on commentary they weren't very good."" World number 59 Baird was thrilled to have shown his talents on snooker's biggest stage, having been brushed aside 10-2 by Stuart Bingham in his only previous Crucible appearance in 2013. ""I didn't think it was too high quality all the way through,"" Baird added. ""We were both under a lot of pressure. ""I am thrilled with how I finished it, but I don't really know where that came from. I am over the moon. I don't know what happened to me. ""I really wanted to give a good account of myself. Winning never crossed my mind. It has all been a bit of blur, but I just wanted to play well and near how I can play."" Baird took advantage of an outrageous fluked red to win the 15th frame and go 8-7 ahead and he closed out the win with breaks of 103 and 62. His victory, which has guaranteed him £22,000, could see him face Mark Selby in the second round. Selby leads Robert Milkins 7-2. ""It's my biggest pay day by miles and has put me up the rankings a fair bit,"" he said. ""But the money hasn't sunk in yet. ""Playing Mark would be an incredibly tough game. He is the world number one and would be a be a big favourite against me over a long match."" Sign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.",Qualifier Sam Baird said a mid-match chat with a fan in the crowd helped @placeholder him in his shock 10 - 7 first - round win over world number 15 Michael White in the World Championship .,save,aid,relax,inspire,achieve,2
"North and South Ayrshire councils are taking over services run by Premier Home Care (Scotland) Ltd after looking at a number of options. The local authorities are hiring all 97 Premier staff affected by developments. The change will take effect as soon as Premier ceases trading on Friday. Premier has been providing home care services to 219 people in Ayrshire. In North Ayrshire, 104 people receive 1,200 hours of care per week, while 115 receive a total of 884 hours in South Ayrshire. North Ayrshire Council's cabinet member for health and social care, Anthea Dickson, said: ""There were clearly a number of things we had to consider during our detailed talks with Premier Home Care and all other interested parties. ""But our primary concern was always the service users and ensuring there was no disruption to the service both in the short term and as we move forward in the longer term. ""We have a really good track record of care provision and I'm confident that by taking on the service in-house we can move forward seamlessly and continue to provide a high standard of care"". She added: ""I'm also delighted we're able to safeguard the jobs of so many of the Premier Home Care employees."" South Ayrshire councillor Rita Miller, portfolio holder for health and social care, said: ""I'm very pleased that, as far as our service users are concerned, it will be very much business as usual and we're contacting them directly to provide that reassurance. Our focus will be to ensure a smooth and seamless transition over the weekend and the continued provision of the best possible service.""",Two Ayrshire Councils are stepping in to provide home care services for older and vulnerable people after a @placeholder care provider ceased trading .,motor,single,cycle,contracted,battered,3
"In 2015, Charnesia Corley, then 20 years old, had her vagina forcibly searched for drugs after being stopped by police, lawyer Samuel Cammack said. Charges against two officers have been dropped. A federal lawsuit is ongoing. The lawyer wants an independent prosecutor to investigate the case. Police officers had accused Ms Corley, then a college student who had been stopped for allegedly driving through a stop sign, of carrying marijuana. The incident happened at night on 20 June 2015 in a Texaco car park in Houston. The dashcam footage - released by Mr Cammack after the charges against two Harris County deputies were dropped earlier this month - shows her handcuffed while two officers look inside the vehicle. She is then searched, but the view of the camera is obstructed by the open rear-passenger door. Ms Corley is put on the ground, with no clothes below the waist, while a female officer shines a flashlight in her pubic area, in an operation that lasts 11 minutes. The footage does not show the alleged penetration. Ms Corley is then allowed to stand and cover her body. ""One of the officers on the tape, he was talking to a passenger who was already in custody in the officer's car and you could hear him telling that individual 'Oh we are going to find something, even if we have to put our hands on her',"" Mr Cammack was quoted by local broadcaster Fox 26 as saying. ""This same officer body slammed Ms Corley, stuck her head underneath the vehicle and completely pulled her pants off, leaving her naked and exposed in that Texaco parking lot,"" he added, saying that her treatment amounted to ""rape by cop"". ""They then took Ms Corley and placed both ankles behind her ears spread eagle position and started to search for something in Ms Corley's cavity in her vaginal area."" Ms Corley was charged with possession of 0.02 ounces (0.5g) of marijuana and resisting arrest, both misdemeanours. But Mr Cammack said the officers never found marijuana on her, and the charges were later dropped by Harris County District Attorney's Office. Two deputies involved in the incident, Ronaldine Pierre and William Strong, were charged with official oppression, but these were later dropped. Robin McIlhenny, who represents one of the two deputies, said the footage cleared them of any wrongdoing. ""Deputies can't pick and choose what laws to enforce. And they don't know what end of situation going to be when first get into a situation,"" Mr McIlhenny was quoted by local Chron website as saying. ""She was never penetrated, she was never violated in that way or inappropriately handled."" Harris County prosecutor Natasha Sinclair told Fox 26: ""No-one in this office stands by the search the way it was conducted. No-one condones that. No-one thinks it's appropriate. It should not have happened. ""However bad decisions, bad judgment may not rise the level of a criminal offense."" Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a statement quoted by Chron: ""Harris County Sheriff's Office policy prohibits deputies from conducting strip searches without a warrant. In cases in which a warrant is obtained, strip searches must be conducted in a private, sanitary, and appropriate facility.""","The lawyer for a black woman in the US state of Texas has released a police @placeholder which he says shows that she was subjected to an invasive search that amounts to "" rape by cop "" .",record,contest,video,investigation,statement,2
"Property developers Michael and John Taggart are offering a settlement where they would repay less than 1p for every pound they owe. That arrangement, known as an  Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA), would allow them to avoid bankruptcy. The brothers' house-building business collapsed in 2008. Their creditors will vote on the IVA proposal next month. In December 2015, the brothers lost a long-running legal battle with the Ulster Bank.","Two County Londonderry brothers facing bankruptcy owe their creditors up to £ 213 m , the High Court has been @placeholder .",warned,ruled,acquitted,told,reported,3
"He said the risk from inaction might be higher than the risks of taking action. The publication of the minutes, from the behind-closed-doors January meeting, brings it into line with other big central banks. The ECB calls the published record an ""account"" rather than minutes. On the 22 January the ECB launched its QE programme, designed to inject at least €1.1 trillion (£834bn) into the ailing eurozone economy. It said it would buy €60bn bonds each month from banks until the end of September 2016, or even longer. Meanwhile, on Thursday the bank also revealed that its 2014 profits fell by almost a third to €989m ($1.1bn; £730m) from €1.44bn. It said net profits declined as a result of lower income in the current low-interest-rates environment, as well as due to higher operating expenses after it became the eurozone banking supervisor late last year.",The first - ever minutes from the European Central Bank ( ECB ) reveal that chief economist Peter Praet warned members of the hazards of @placeholder the introduction of quantitative easing .,control,following,announcing,delaying,leaving,3
"Derek Forsyth and David Hunter, from accountancy firm, Campbell Dallas, said the venue would close immediately. They will now ""see whether elements of the business may be resurrected"". Glasgow Licensing Board cut the venue's opening times following police concerns about drug and alcohol incidents. The nightclub was its main source of funds. Founded in 1991, the Arches employed 133 staff in full and part time posts. Mr Forsyth said the closure and redundancies were unavoidable. ""The Arches was facing unsustainable cash flow problems and despite an immense effort by the board and funding partners it was clear that administration was the only option for the companies,"" he said. ""As a result of an uncertain future income profile the venue will immediately close. ""The prospect of job losses has been well documented, and it is with great regret that we have had no option but to make 129 members of staff redundant with immediate effect."" Mr Forsyth said a small number of people would be ""retained to assist with the administration"" and his team would work with ""relevant agencies"" to support those losing their jobs, He added: ""We have already contacted various funding partners and stakeholders to consider all options going forward and to see whether elements of the business may be resurrected. ""The Arches is an internationally recognised brand and we would encourage interested parties to make contact as soon as possible.""",Administrators for the Arches venue in Glasgow have made 129 staff redundant after the business @placeholder following the loss of its nightclub licence .,collapsed,group,intervened,head,control,0
"Teri Lau, 28, of Dunclug Park, and Roddy Patterson, 28, of Glendun Drive, Ballymena, had pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm and false imprisonment. They will serve half their sentences in custody and the rest on licence. Paula Wilson, 22, of Main Street, Cullybackey, was sentenced to two years, half to be spent on licence. She had pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting false imprisonment. The trio were originally charged with attempting to kill Adam Robinson, who was 21 at the time, in September 2013, but pleaded guilty to lesser charges. The attack happened after they took part in a drink and drugs binge over 72 hours. In sentencing, the judge said a factor was that Mr Robinson had been left suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. He said the victim truly believed he was going to die when he was left in a bin, unable to see and with limited air to breathe. The judge said this was clearly meant to ""punish, humiliate and demean"" Mr Robinson. He said if he had not been found, the consequences could have been far worse. It is understood that because of time already served in jail, all three will be released soon. Earlier hearings were told that Mr Robinson was only found by chance, when a dog sniffed out the bin, which was propped up against a tree in dense undergrowth and sealed with parcel tape. The pet's barking alerted its owner who then rang the emergency services. Mr Robinson's father Mervyn said he was disappointed by the sentences. He said the trio would be released ""very shortly"" and ""will most likely be back in Ballymena very soon"". ""Adam wants to go down the town in Ballymena and walk about freely, and who knows who he is going to bump into some day when he walks around a corner,"" he said. ""It's tough for him. Ballymena is not that big a town and he realises the possibility of that happening and it probably plays on his mind too, which he doesn't need because he has been through so much. ""It's been very very traumatic for him, so hopefully he can put this behind him.""",Two men have been sentenced to three - and - a- half years for imprisoning a man who was found naked and @placeholder in a taped - up wheelie bin in Ballymena .,stabbed,dumped,robbed,battered,raped,3
"The Rt Rev Peter Ball, who was bishop of Gloucester and bishop of Lewes in East Sussex, faces two charges of indecent assault and one of misconduct. Brighton magistrates were given a letter by his solicitor saying the 82-year-old was not well enough to attend. The case was adjourned to Lewes Crown Court on 23 May. Bishop Ball is charged with indecently assaulting a boy aged 12 or 13 in 1978, indecently assaulting a man aged 19 or 20 between 1980 and 1982 and misconduct in public office between 1977 and 1982.",A court has been told a @placeholder Anglican bishop is too unwell to appear in person to answer allegations of sex offences dating back to the 1970s .,sitting,term,sleeping,planned,retired,4
"The crew of the US-registered Courage tackled the blaze using the ship's inbuilt CO2 system after fire broke out on board on Tuesday night. The vessel, which was heading to Southampton, spent Wednesday afternoon anchored off the Isle of Wight. Specialist firefighters from Hampshire were winched on board to assess the ship before it completed its journey. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said a fire was reported at 22:00 BST on Tuesday when the ship, carrying cars and US military vehicles, was 40 miles off Harwich. The agency aid the fire had been ""contained"" by crew members, who flooded a large area with CO2 to extinguish the blaze, making it inaccessible. The owners, American Roll-On Roll-Off Carriers, said: ""A fire started on board and was put out by the ship's crew. ""We don't know how much damage has been done to the ship or the cargo. ""It is carrying a mix of commercial and US military vehicles and was heading for Southampton anyway.""",A transporter ship that caught fire off the coast of Essex has @placeholder in Southampton .,arrived,docked,collided,destroyed,crashed,0
"The hedgehog, which was attacked in April outside Arena Leisure Centre in Camberley, Surrey, was taken in by Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue charity. Animal welfare champion May, who has homes in London and Surrey, is a long-term supporter of the rescue centre. He owns the land where Percy has been rehomed after being nursed to health. The animal, thought to be about three years old, was put in a bag and swung round in the attack, and had a concrete block dropped on it. Police called to the incident took Percy to Harper Asprey. An operation saved his life but shattered shards of bone had to be removed along with part of a hip joint. ""Fortunately Percy came to us within an hour of the attack and we were able to treat him and prevent him going further into shock,"" said a spokesman for the charity. ""When Percy arrived he was still tightly balled and in shock, but as he relaxed we could see lesions and areas of swelling all over his body. ""The swelling continued in front of our eyes. This is one of the most horrific wildlife incidents we have seen in a long time. ""Percy will be unable to return to the wild as he is unable to curl properly and this would prevent him finding food and make him vulnerable to predators."" The brain damage has left Percy slightly slower than normal but he will be kept in a protected environment. The attacker was prosecuted by the RSPCA and given a nine-week suspended jail sentence with a 12-month supervision order.","A hedgehog left brain damaged after an attack when it was "" @placeholder like a football "" has moved into a garden owned by Queen guitarist Brian May .",kicked,attacked,crushed,hit,insulting,0
"While that might be true of clouds in the real world, those in cyberspace are turning out to be very different entities indeed, especially when it comes to security. Some of them are downright dangerous. The captivating idea behind using a ""cloud"" of computers is that it does away with having a dedicated data centre. Instead, companies get their number crunching done by a benevolent source of computational power that sits out there, somewhere, anywhere, on the net. It's the word cloud itself that is responsible for making this sound much more ephemeral than it actually is, said Martin Borrett, IBM's cloud security adviser. ""There's a misconception that clouds are one thing and they are all fluffy,"" he said, ""but clouds do not have to be nebulous."" Researchers have shown that clouds are anything but misty and mysterious. The computer servers providing that on-tap processing power can be identified, enterprising scientists in Germany and Finland have found. Software tools written by these researchers identified individual servers making up a cloud and interrogated them to find out which chip that computer was running. That was important, they found, because more powerful chips get processing done more quickly. Given that many on-demand cloud services price by the hour, that could add up to a considerable saving. The researchers estimate up to 30%.  Interrogating a cloud to work out how to save money sounds good on face value. But cyber-clouds are not as insubstantial as their name suggests. Unlike their wispy namesake, they can be found and become a target. That's bad because, as cyber-thieves and hackers know, there is a fine line between interrogating a computer and bullying it into coughing up details that help control it or can aid another attack. Researcher Yingian Zhang at the University of North Carolina and colleagues from Wisconsin and security firm RSA have already shown how this can provide a route to attacking and hacking a cloud. The technique developed by the team is complicated, but involves finding out how hard servers are being worked in a particular cloud. ""Because we're sharing the resources there's a possibility some information will leak,"" Mr Zhang told the BBC. That's significant because many cloud providers run the computational jobs from different clients on the same hardware. There's no way for one company to know who its data is sharing memory with. It could be a bank, a bookshop or a bad guy. ""Using the same resources is key to the cost and business model of cloud firms,"" he said. Knowing how hard those servers work under different conditions can give hints about the types of jobs they are being asked to do, he said. ""How much resource is being allocated is dependent on the length of a cryptographic key,"" said Mr Zhang. Knowing how hard a server is working helps infer all kinds of useful information about what type of key is being used. That information is useful to attackers as it could radically cut down the number of possible combinations they have to try to unlock data encrypted or scrambled with that key. The dawning realisation that clouds can be found, interrogated and potentially attacked has given rise to a number of start-ups that aim to secure processing done on those cloud platforms. ""Outsourcing your data cannot remove the obligation to protect that data,"" said Pravin Kothari, head of CipherCloud which provides tools to companies to scramble the data being uploaded and processed in a cloud. Fears about how the security of core business information when it was committed to the cloud had the potential to dampen moves to use the technology, he said. ""Most of the growth in the use of cloud services is happening at the bottom end of the market,"" he said. ""It's small businesses taking it up. ""When you get to large companies people are not comfortable,"" he said, ""And with sensitive applications that's when people get very uncomfortable."" For one of the biggest cloud firms, many of the security worries being flagged up by ingenious researchers are problems that are yet to be seen by the bad guys. Stephen Schmidt, security head for Amazon Web Services said the attack mounted by Mr Zhang and colleagues only worked in the lab. ""Those kind of attacks tend to be more theoretical than practical,"" he said, adding that the many checks and balances on a live cloud service would stymie such an attack. However, he said, that was not to be complacent about the security of computation work being done in the cloud. All day, every day, he said Amazon helped its customers defeat hack attacks of all kinds. In many cases, he said, moving to the cloud helped companies finds out what was vulnerable. ""Security starts with what knowing what you have,"" he said. ""In the cloud because of the way it works, you cannot log someone on under the desk. You can see exactly what you have.""",The word cloud evokes @placeholder of all things soft and gentle ; the kiss of a kitten or the soft touch of a lambswool mitten .,love,type,images,evidence,millions,2
"Artist Alpana Ahuja said she had used bananas and other food to lure Phoolkali to create the artworks. The elephant, who was rescued from abusive owners, dabbed paint with its foot and pressed it against the canvas. India is home to some 25,000 elephants. Their numbers are dwindling due to poaching and habitat destruction. Ms Ahuja told the AFP news agency that she had to catch the elephant in a good mood, dab paint on its foot and press it against a canvas to create giant footprints in bright colours. The money raised from their sale - the paintings are priced between $165 (£99) and $400 - will be used towards elephant conservation, said Babita Gupta, the art director of Delhi's ArtSpice gallery, said. The show coincides with the 10-day festival to celebrate the birth of the Hindu god Ganesh, which begins on Friday. ""The idea in our culture is that the elephant is glorified as Lord Ganesha... yet the animal that represents the lord is abused,"" Geeta Seshamani of Wildlife SOS, which collaborated with the art gallery in the exhibition, said.","Paintings by an Indian elephant have gone on sale at a gallery in the capital , Delhi , to help raise money to @placeholder the endangered animals .",transform,replace,protect,attend,repair,2
"David Buchanan, 18, was ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid community work when he appeared at Guilford Magistrates' Court. He had admitted two counts of hacking and one of impairing the operation of or hindering access to a computer. The parenting site had to reset the passwords of 7.7 million members. Buchanan, of Vann Road, Fernhurst, Surrey, redirected the Mumsnet homepage to a now suspended Twitter profile during his cyber attack last August. He also admitted hacking into his school's internal website. Mumsnet was also subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where an attempt is made to force a site offline by swamping it with internet traffic. Its users were made to reset their passwords as a ""precautionary measure"" following the attacks. The network's founder Justine Roberts, told the BBC Buchanan ""caused a lot of angst. It was pretty scary, pretty worrying."" She said the teenager posted members' email addresses and passwords online, which others could access. Ms Roberts said she hoped he would now ""use his talent in a productive, not destructive way"".",A teenager who launched a cyber attack against parenting site Mumsnet - forcing it to reset millions of passwords - has been @placeholder .,deleted,exposed,sentenced,arrested,revealed,2
"The Association of British Travel Agents surveyed 2,043 Britons and found those aged 18 to 24 were the most likely to go abroad without insurance. It comes after the family of a South Yorkshire traveller in Thailand had to raise £32,000 for his medical care. Overall a quarter of UK travellers are thought to go abroad without insurance. In 2015, 35-year-old Craig Lindley, from Barnsley, fell ill while celebrating a friend's wedding on a Thai island. He was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome - which affects the peripheral nervous system - and was left paralysed He was charged £20,000 for a five-day course of treatment in Bangkok. His ambulance and speedboat from the island to Koh Samui Hospital also cost £17,000. After an online appeal his family and friends raised £32,000 towards his medical bills. The Association of British Travel Agents' (Abta) Mark Tanzer said: ""Rather than having to resort to the kindness of strangers, holidaymakers should make sure that they have the right insurance in place."" Overall, the number of British travellers surveyed without insurance has risen to 25% in the 12 months to May, up from 22% the previous year. Mr Tanzer added: ""Every year, we see cases of people falling into difficulty due to travelling without insurance. ""Often their families have to raise thousands of pounds for their treatment or repatriation and that's why it is so worrying to see an increase in younger people travelling without insurance."" In 2016, Michael Doyle, 29, was admitted to a private hospital in Bulgaria after being diagnosed with blood poisoning. He required dialysis treatment which he received in the hospital, but he passed away before his parents were able to raise about £20,000 required to bring him back to the UK for more treatment. His father John has advised people to get travel insurance. He said: ""Go and enjoy yourself, Bulgaria is an excellent place to go, it's not different from anywhere else in the world but you need to have insurance."" Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spokeswoman Susan Crown said: """"The FCO cannot pay medical bills if you are hospitalised abroad, nor can we fly you home. ""Take out an appropriate insurance policy and make sure you know what it covers you for. It may feel like an added expense but it's very worthwhile if you compare it to what you could end up paying if something goes wrong on holiday.""","About 40 % of young people go abroad without travel insurance , @placeholder medical fees of thousands of pounds if they are taken ill , a survey suggests .",following,risking,including,paying,helped,1
"Brent Stirling returned to the UK after being pardoned by the King of Thailand in 2001, but has twice been caught with heroin since. The 45-year-old admitted dealing the Class A drug after he was caught by police carrying out speed checks on traffic in Perth in September. He was jailed for 27 months. Stirling was jailed for life in Thailand after he was caught drug trafficking in 1994. He spent seven years in a notorious jail known as the Gates of Hell, before he was eventually released and repatriated by the then Scottish Justice Minister Jim Wallace. Having already been caught in possession of drugs in 2008, Stirling was caught out during a police speed check on Perth's Dundee road on 18 September. Officers noticed he was sweating profusely, slurring his speech and seemed agitated. They found £1,400 in cash in his car, along with evidence he had been smoking heroin there. Perth Sheriff Court heard Stirling dropped one bag of heroin as he tried to flee, and three more were found in the police van as he was taken to Perth police headquarters. Further heroin was found in his home at Kinfauns, with the total street value of the drugs adding up to £2,250. Jailing him, Sheriff William Wood said: ""Any sort of involvement in the supply of Class A drugs is particularly serious. It has local, regional and national implications.""",A drug dealer once @placeholder a 100 - year prison term in Thailand has been jailed after he was caught dealing heroin back in Scotland .,suffered,carrying,handed,involving,body,2
"The imaginary Ministry of Truth was where the fictional language Newspeak was created. It was designed to limit freedom of expression, anything that might challenge the Party wisdom. In that tongue, the word truth was taken to mean: 2 + 2 = 5. Far be it from me to suggest that Jeremy Corbyn has had to contort his own true views to keep the peace with his colleagues in Westminster, who are overwhelming backers of the EU. But maybe it takes some rather untraditional arithmetic to add together Jeremy Corbyn's criticism of the EU over the years and conclude that he really and truly does support staying in. Over the years he's said its policies are ""crazy"", not ""moral"", he's accused the EU of taking power away from Parliament, and he's voted against it on multiple occasions. Mr Corbyn can't escape his previous views, and today said he wouldn't ""recant"".  As Orwell wrote, ""the past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time"". But confronting accusations that he has stayed too silent on the topic, Mr Corbyn has today given his clear backing to the campaign for Remain. For Labour MPs who have doubted him, that is what matters. His speech today was though a summary of some of the subjects he cares passionately about and how the power of the EU might help, rather than a full-throated roar of support for the institution. On the environment, on workers' rights, cracking down on tax avoiders - action taken by countries working together is more effective than working alone, he said. He also tried out a new argument that was slightly more unusual - that leaving the EU would leave the UK in the clutches of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage creating some kind of free-for-all for the free market, seeming to suggest that a Brexit would somehow make it more likely there would be Conservative governments in the future. What could also be used by the Leave campaign was his contention that there has not been too much immigration from the EU. He told me: ""I don't think too many have come. I think that the issue has to be of wages and regulation which I included in my speech and it's employers that try to undercut industry-wide agreements in the construction industry and others that are the problem."" There are plenty of Labour voters who wouldn't agree with that, plenty of constituencies where UKIP has nibbled away at the party's support. And for many members of the public, immigration from the EU is a big and real concern. The importance of today though, is that Jeremy Corbyn has made this speech at all. As the party's leader it was, and will be, important in the next 10 weeks that he is on the record supporting the campaign to stay, and visibly doing so. So far spats in the Conservative Party have dominated the conversations around our place in Europe. Labour might have lost the last election, but many of its nine million voters will look to the party for its position on the European Union. And even though Mr Corbyn's support felt rather grudging, few of the high-profile figures are backing the institution with much affection. Staying in is presented as the pragmatic, safer choice, rather than a source of pride and inspiration. He is not exactly alone in supporting the Remain campaign through slightly gritted teeth. Perhaps that's one of the problems that in the coming weeks that the so-called Remainers would do well to address.","George Orwell @placeholder the Ministry of Truth in his novel 1984 in Senate House at the University of London . That was , as the Labour leader joked as he got to his feet , the venue for Jeremy Corbyn 's speech today .",visited,hailed,secured,used,based,4
"Now it is up to Russell Slade and his squad to lift the post-relegation blues which endured last season. Even with the support of owner Vincent Tan, the affable Slade is in one of the most pressurised jobs in the Championship. The way Cardiff cope with a tough looking opening group of fixtures may give us a decent indication of how much that pressure will build. For the most part it was absolutely dismal, an immediate return to the Premier League never looked remotely possible. But there were signs of improvement towards the end. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's frenzied recruitment resulted in a squad of quantity, not quality. He departed after just nine games. Slade, lured from League One side Leyton Orient, was the unexpected choice of Vincent Tan. A section of Cardiff fans remain sceptical - though his main drawback initially appeared to be his name was not Tony Pulis. Slade brought a degree of stability at a club where that is often in short supply, while instigating the owner's austerity measures in slashing the wage bill. Sometimes it was not pretty. But January's return to playing in blue removed a hugely divisive negative, Paul Trollope's arrival on the coaching staff seems inspired and Cardiff's late season form brought an 11th placed finish. The unveiling of their new blue kit this summer, brought the most positive reaction from fans towards the club since promotion to the Premier League. Media playback is not supported on this device Now there is some sort of reconnection, the Bluebirds players need to inspire the supporters and use the fervent backing to help make the Cardiff City Stadium a fortress, as it was in the Championship title season of 2013. The loss of goalkeeper David Marshall - linked with West Brom - would be a real test, but at least Cardiff have defensive depth and no little ability in the impressive Bruno Ecuele Manga. An influential Peter Whittingham would be a real boost, particularly for striker Joe Mason. If Anthony Pilkington and Kigasho Dikgacoi can remain injury free, Cardiff have a sound base. A good start seems essential, not least for Slade to convince the doubters he can cut it at this level - and keep owner Tan sweet. If Cardiff can be challenging in January, the fans will hope the lucrative lure of the new Premier League television deal to start next season will encourage Tan to loosen the purse strings in the winter for the final push. But as Solskjaer and Malky Mackay found - for different reasons - getting to the new year is not a given for a manager. The Championship is a famously tough division. But Cardiff fans will demand their team are in contention towards the end. It's a huge opportunity for Joe Mason. After three loan spells at Bolton he now has the opportunity to call Cardiff City home once again. Mason seems to be the focus of the Cardiff attack and has the intuitive movement and cool finishing ability to prosper. Fingers crossed he avoids injury and Whittingham can supply him with plenty of ammunition.. Simon Moore may have to step out of the considerable shadows of David Marshall and with (hopefully) the Euro 2016 finals to think about it would be great to see Wales international Declan John find his best position, get a chance, and fulfil his obvious potential. Title - 25/1 Relegation - 15/2 Manager sacking - not available Odds supplied by William Hill A roller-coaster, headline-grabbing ride with plenty of distractions - it is what we have come to expect at Cardiff by now. They still need attack and midfield reinforcements before this window shuts, but the squad is fitter, better organised and seems relatively settled. Play-offs have to be the aim but they probably need to strengthen to secure that. Championship: 8th. FA Cup: Fourth round. Russell Slade: ""Our aim? It will be top six despite the ins and outs and whatever goes off. We're trying to keep the group really tight that we've got and we know we can focus on and move forward with and that's important for us. We can't allow anything else to distract us. ""I think we're all on the same page now and we know what's required. ""I'm optimistic, but I think I am that by nature. If we can build on where we were last season when we were in the top six over the last 10 games we have to progress from there, and if we can then the future is going to be bright for the football club."" Former Wales striker and BBC Wales pundit Iwan Roberts: ""To finish top six, I think it is a tall order. You feel for Russell Slade because they haven't got millions to spend, they're going to go in a different direction. ""I think the players have to take responsibility; you can't always hide behind your manager. You need big personalities in that dressing room. ""I think they are good enough though, they've got good players, players who've played in the Premier League.""","For the first time in four seasons , Cardiff City start a campaign in a blue @placeholder .",condition,room,strip,race,uniform,2
"Aberdeen failed last week with an approach for the 25-year-old striker. ""If clubs are interested it's a compliment,"" said Moult. ""In terms of bids and people being interested I'm very, very grateful. ""But it's the club's decision. I've got another year on my contract and they pay my wages."" The former Stoke City trainee moved to Fir Park from Wrexham in 2015 and has been top scorer in his two seasons with the Steelmen, netting 18 goals in each campaign. Moult is recovering from groin surgery and while he insists he is confident of being a success should he join a bigger club, he is not agitating for a move. ""It would be wrong for me to go and kick their door down if they value me a little bit more,"" he added. ""I have come up here, worked hard, scored a few goals and people are interested. I'm very, very grateful, whether I am at this football club or another. This club have been unbelievable for me in terms of my profile and the people have been fantastic for me. ""The manager at the time, Ian Barraclough, sold the club to me as a stepping stone. That's what the club is. ""I believe I can score goals wherever I go. If someone pays money and the board feel that it's going to help the football club move forward financially, then I think I have done well."" Motherwell have tabled a contract extension that would make Moult the best paid player at the club, but he admits the talks have not progressed in recent months. ""It's kind of stood still a little bit. I think the negotiations started at Christmas. A lot has gone one since then, [former manager] Mark McGhee left, Stephen Robinson came in, a lot of new players came in. ""It's a difficult one for myself to sign right now.""","Louis Moult says he always @placeholder Motherwell as a path to bigger things , but insists he will only consider leaving when a bid for him is accepted .",replace,reign,viewed,join,regards,2
"Judge Collin Lamont ruled that Mr Malema's signature song, Shoot the Boer, incited hatred. The song, popularised during the anti-apartheid struggle, refers to Afrikaners and farmers. Mr Malema said he would push for reform to the court system, which he said had not changed since the apartheid era. ""If not being transformed means it's racist, then so be it,"" said Mr Malema, youth leader of the African National Congress (ANC). ""Once again we find ourselves subjected to white minority approval. Apartheid is being brought through the back door."" He said he wanted liberation songs to be protected by law. ""These were the songs of resistance and they will never die,"" he said. A group that campaigns mainly for Afrikaner rights, AfriForum, took legal action to ban Mr Malema from singing Shoot the Boer. On Monday, Judge Lamont said that in post-apartheid South Africa, all citizens are called to treat each other equally and urged the ANC to find new customs which did not bring disunity. The ANC said it would appeal against the ruling. The court's verdict is likely to increase Mr Malema's popularity among black South Africans, making it more difficult for the ANC to discipline him, analysts say. He is presently appearing before an ANC inquiry on charges of bringing the party into disrepute. It follows Mr Malema's call for regime change in neighbouring Botswana. He accused the government in Gaborone of being a ""puppet"" of Western powers. Mr Malema says the inquiry shows he is the victim of a political witch-hunt because of his opposition to President Jacob Zuma. He helped propel Mr Zuma to power in 2009, but now appears to have fallen out with him. The ANC is due to choose its leadership next year, with its president likely to become South Africa's leader after the 2014 elections. Mr Malema wants South Africa to nationalise its rich mines and seize white-owned land. He has praised President Robert Mugabe's land reform in neighbouring Zimbabwe. He is also being investigated by state prosecutors on allegations of fraud and corruption, which he denies.","South Africa 's firebrand youth leader Julius Malema has accused the courts of being "" racist "" after he was convicted of hate @placeholder on Monday .",night,killing,speech,organisation,offences,2
"Santner, 24, broke his finger in only his second game for the county in 2016. ""There is some unfinished business with Mitch,"" director of cricket Steve Rhodes told Worcestershire's website. ""Last summer he was very unlucky. Losing Mitch was a massive blow to our hopes of qualifying. We'd had a good start and him playing all those games would have been an extra bonus for us."" The left-arm batsman and spinner, who made his Test debut in 2015, will rejoin the Rapids following June's ICC Trophy in England. Santner added: ""I really enjoyed my time at Worcester with a great bunch of lads and it was so frustrating for me to pick up that injury in the very first T20 game. ""It's fantastic that I've got the chance to come back again next summer and hopefully I can make up for lost time and make an impact with bat and ball."" In August, Worcestershire signed Australia pace bowler John Hastings as their main overseas player for the 2017 season across all formats of the game.",Worcestershire have re-signed New Zealand all - rounder Mitchell Santner for the 2017 T20 Blast @placeholder .,office,prop,competition,test,table,2
"Chris Norton, who is uploading the photos to Twitter account @UrineWatch, said he noticed men repeatedly using the wall at his premises as a toilet. The businessman, based in Bradford Street, Walsall, said he was shocked to find it happening up to five times every day. Walsall Council is investigating. More on this story and others from Birmingham and the Black Country Mr Norton, who uses the hashtag #walsallwee, said: ""It's been happening for more than two months and I reported it to the council but nothing happened. ""So I decided I had to take action myself because it was getting very depressing to see. ""I thought it was just happening at weekends, but when I saw the footage it was actually happening up to five times a day."" Deputy council leader Adrian Andrew said the authority is looking to establish a public space protection order in the town centre to combat anti-social behaviour. ""Officers are gathering information, which includes Mr Norton's evidence, and talking to other businesses in the area and the police to determine our next course of action,"" he said. ""Both myself and the majority of residents in Walsall are proud of this town. We've worked damn hard to attract investment here and I'm not going to allow the behaviour of a few to cause such a stink.""",A podiatrist fed up with men urinating outside his clinic has installed CCTV to catch them in the @placeholder and posted the images on social media .,race,act,food,region,sea,1
Milford Haven Coastguard said it received multiple 999 calls after the kayaker capsized off Mumbles Pier at 20:15 BST on Friday. The Mumbles lifeboat crew picked up the kayaker and he was taken back to the shore to an ambulance. He was checked by paramedics but was not injured.,A kayaker who was left clinging to a buoy off the coast in Swansea Bay has been @placeholder .,announced,rescued,injured,revealed,released,1
"As MPs again look at the circumstances surrounding a jiffy bag delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011, we look at the background to the inquiry. Read more: No medical records for 'mystery package' Team Sky came under pressure to reveal the contents of the 'mystery' package following a Daily Mail allegation in October 2016. The newspaper claimed a jiffy bag was delivered to Team Sky on the final day of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine - which Wiggins won - by Simon Cope, a former professional rider then working as a coach for British Cycling's women's teams. Cope reportedly made the trip at the request of the team and Dr Richard Freeman, then a medic at Team Sky who now works with British Cycling. He was said to have flown into Geneva Airport, driven for two hours to France to deliver the package before driving back to Geneva, where he was accompanied by the team's former head coach Shane Sutton, and flew back to the UK. UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) then began an investigation into the contents of the package. Team boss Sir Dave Brailsford was already facing questions after Wiggins' use of a banned steroid before races was leaked by hackers Fancy Bears. Wiggins had sought therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for the anti-inflammatory drug triamcinoclone, for allergies and respiratory issues before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia. Brailsford defended the five-time Olympic champion and insisted the team ""do not cross the line"" on performance-enhancing drugs. Media playback is not supported on this device In an interview with Cycling News, Cope said he did not know what was contained in the package he was asked to carry. ""It was just an envelope, a jiffy bag, a small jiffy bag,"" he said. ""As far as I know it could have been pedals in there."" When Brailsford faced the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) hearing into doping in sport in December, he said he had been told by Freeman that ""it was Fluimucil for a nebuliser"". Sutton confirmed the package was for Wiggins, who won the event. Fluimucil is a decongestant which is used to clear mucus. It is legal in sport and Brailsford said it was ""administered on a regular basis"". Former Olympic champion Nicole Cooke, who has been critical of Cope's role in the matter, was unhappy with Brailsford's testimony, pointing out Fluimucil is available freely over the counter in France, costing 10 euros (£8). She also said there were eight pharmacies located within 5km of where the team bus was parked in France going into the final day of the Dauphine. David Kenworthy, the outgoing chairman of Ukad, told the BBC the answers given by figures within British Cycling and Team Sky to the DCMS committee were ""very disappointing"". Kenworthy said: ""People could remember a package that was delivered to France, they can remember who asked for it, they can remember the route it took, who delivered it, the times it arrived. The select committee has got expense sheets and travel documents. ""So everybody can remember this from five years ago, but no-one can remember what was in the package. That strikes me as being extraordinary. It is very disappointing."" When asked about Brailsford's explanation, Kenworthy said: ""Well that's what Dave Brailsford came out with at the hearing. But actually, if you recall, he didn't say: 'I know that's what it was.' He said: 'I have been told that's what it was.'"" Committee chairman Damian Collins MP said: ""There is a considerable public interest in Ukad's investigation and it is also important to our inquiry into doping in sport to understand what they have been able to determine from their investigation. ""The committee has been told by both British Cycling and Team Sky that they have supplied all the information they have relating to this investigation to Ukad. ""However, we need to know if they have received documentary evidence which confirms what was in the package that was delivered by Simon Cope to Team Sky. ""Without this evidence, I am concerned about how it is possible for the anti-doping rules to be policed in an appropriate manner, if it is not possible to review the records of medicines prescribed to riders by the team doctors."" Brailsford has admitted to handling the crisis ""badly"", after providing initial explanations for the delivery to the Daily Mail that later turned out to be wrong. In an interview with the BBC in January, Brailsford insisted Team Sky can be trusted ""100%"". Media playback is not supported on this device When Kenworthy's quotes were put to him, he answered: ""The only extraordinary thing I could see was that he actually commented on the whole process himself. ""There is an open investigation that is still ongoing."" Brailsford refused to confirm or deny whether he or anyone else at Team Sky had been able to provide paperwork to prove the package contained Fluimucil. ""I will give what I have got to Ukad,"" he said. ""I said what I had to say in the DCMS and I am leaving it there. I am leaving it to the right people so they can analyse it and go through the right process. We are contributing everything we have got to the process. ""I can't talk on behalf of British Cycling."" British Cycling says it cannot comment while a Ukad investigation is ongoing. Team Sky have said they are ""confident"" no wrongdoing will be found when the inquiry is concluded. Track cyclist Jess Varnish, 26, was dropped from British Cycling's elite programme last April, after which former technical director Sutton was found to have used sexist language towards her. Sutton was later cleared of eight of nine allegations. British Cycling found he had used the word ""bitches"" to Varnish, but the rest of her allegations - including a claim he told her to ""go and have a baby"" - were not upheld. Sutton resigned after being suspended pending the investigation, but has always denied wrongdoing. British Cycling is preparing to brief riders and staff about an 'action plan' of reforms following concerns over the culture at its performance programme. After Varnish's claims of a 'culture of fear' were supported by other former riders, British Rowing chair Annamarie Phelps was asked to lead an independent investigation into claims of bullying, favouritism and sexism. Her report - described by one senior source as ""explosive"" - is due to be published in the next month.","A ' mystery ' medical package , a courier , a doctor , a world - famous rider and a ground - breaking cycling team . It 's a story of many @placeholder .",parts,mysteries,adventures,country,incidents,0
"The World Happiness Report measures ""subjective well-being"" - how happy the people are, and why. Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and and Finland round out the top five, while the Central African Republic came last. Western Europe and North America dominated the top of table, with the US and UK at 14th and 19th, respectively. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa and those hit by conflict have predictably low scores. Syria placed 152 of 155 countries - Yemen and South Sudan, which are facing impending famine, came in at 146 and 147. The World Happiness Report was released to coincide with the United Nations' International Day of Happiness on 20 March. It mainly relies on asking a simple, subjective question of more than 1,000 people every year in more than 150 countries. ""Imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top,"" the question asks. ""The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?"" The average result is the country's score - ranging from Norway's 7.54 to the Central African Republic's 2.69. But the report also tries to analyse statistics to explain why one country is happier than another. It looks at factors including economic strength (measured in GDP per capita), social support, life expectancy, freedom of choice, generosity, and perceived corruption. Can we all be as happy as Scandinavians? This year's report also contains a chapter titled ""restoring American happiness"", which examines why happiness levels in the United States are falling, despite constantly-increasing economic improvement. ""The United States can and should raise happiness by addressing America's multi-faceted social crisis - rising inequality, corruption, isolation, and distrust - rather than focusing exclusively or even mainly on economic growth,"" the authors said. ""America's crisis is, in short, a social crisis, not an economic crisis."" Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which published the report, said President Donald Trump's policies were likely to make things worse. ""They are all aimed at increasing inequality - tax cuts at the top, throwing people off the healthcare rolls, cutting Meals on Wheels in order to raise military spending. I think everything that has been proposed goes in the wrong direction,"" he told Reuters. The report also suggests that professional ""white collar"" jobs are associated with improved happiness over ""blue collar"" roles - but that having a job at all is one of the biggest factors. And while ""those in well-paying jobs are happier and more satisfied with their lives"", that effect has diminishing returns - ""an extra $100 of salary is worth much more to someone at the lower end of the income distribution than someone already earning much more."" Bristol named best place to live in UK Why it's hard to be a Kevin in France Sesame Street welcomes muppet with autism The report has been published for the past five years, during which the Nordic countries have consistently dominated the top spots. The clear dominance of those countries - and Denmark in particular - has encouraged other nations to adopt the Danish concept of ""Hygge"" - a cultural concept of cosiness and relaxation.","Norway is the happiest place on Earth , according to a United Nations agency report - toppling neighbour Denmark from the number one @placeholder .",position,region,shows,history,group,0
"Leah Washington, 18, and Joe Pugh, 19, both from Barnsley, were among four people badly injured on the Smiler ride on 2 June when two carriages crashed. Ms Washington had a leg amputated and Mr Pugh suffered shattered knees. The event takes place at the Metrodome Arena in Barnsley on 14 November and includes a pea and pies supper. Midlands Air Ambulance, the Royal Stoke University Hospital and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue will benefit from the charity event. Vicky Balch, 20, from Lancashire, also had to have a leg amputated and Daniel Thorpe, 27, from Buxton, Derbyshire, suffered serious leg injuries. Twelve other people were trapped 25ft (7.6m) off the ground for several hours as emergency services attempted to rescue them.",Two victims of the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash will hold a charity night to raise money for the @placeholder that helped them .,family,foundation,organisations,group,country,2
"The Grade II*-listed Victorian main hall is being repainted at a cost of £140,000. Oxford Town Hall on St Aldate's is used as a venue for wedding receptions and council events. It is hoped the work will be completed in time for events planned for September. The town hall is one of central Oxford's most recognisable buildings.  Designed by Henry Hare, it was officially opened by the Prince of Wales in 1897. The ceiling is being repainted for the first time in three decades. The work involves hand brushing and vacuuming the ceiling to remove 30 years of accumulated dust and dirt before it is completely repainted. Richard Clements, of Oxford City Council, said: ""It was getting a little bit tired and the work is part of the overall maintenance plan we have for the town hall. ""Events generate over £500,000 - that's another reason for getting it maintain the hall back in great condition."" Neale Cole, from contractors Mitie, described it as a ""complex job"" with paint having to be carefully mixed to match existing colours. A free standing scaffold has been erected so as not to damage any of the delicate plasterwork on the walls. With painting each bay taking around a week, the work is ""on track"" to be completed by September. The ceiling above the stage and the hall's original Henry Willis organ will be painted last.",A major redecoration project is under way at Oxford Town Hall to restore its @placeholder ceiling .,neighbours,glass,home,plaster,vaulted,4
"Joshua Strickland ""illicitly"" drank alcohol he had brought on to the flight in July. The 21-year-old also threatened a family and a member of cabin crew on the Jet2.com flight from Leeds Bradford to Larnaca, Cyprus, Manchester Magistrates' Court heard. He is due to be sentenced on 25 August. Strickland, of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to being drunk on an aircraft. The court heard when the member of staff attempted to calm him down, the defendant ""began to punch the seats"". He was previously fined £12,000 by the airline and banned for life after the flight was forced to divert to Manchester Airport. Earlier this week Jet2.com published a code of practice on disruptive passengers following collaboration between airlines, airports, the police and retailers.",A passenger @placeholder a lifetime ban by an airline after his drunken behaviour led to a plane being diverted has pleaded guilty .,handed,stolen,caused,escaped,involving,0
"Over the years she's made headlines for drug abuse, depression and spending time in prison but this time it's for her debut in a West End play. Even her casting, as Karen the secretary in Speed-the-Plow, was controversial and critics questioned her ability to do the role justice. And those arguments look set to continue long after opening night. But given this was her first performance in the prestigious theatre district of London, surely she can be excused a few opening night nerves? After the play's press night on Thursday there's been a mixed response to her performance. For starters, at one point Lohan forgot her lines. ""Not the biggest deal,"" said critic Mark Shenton, ""but she's kind of an embarrassment compared to the very professional actors with her."" Ouch. Others were more generous.  The Daily Mirror's Fay Strang says she ""pulled it back"" after fluffing her lines, ""showing she's a true professional."" We'll call it a tie so far. One of Karen's most famous lines is ""I know what it is to be bad, I've been bad"", and Lohan knows a thing or two about that. Her ability to relate to Karen meant many thought the casting was a stroke of genius, but not everyone agreed. Maybe Lilo should avoid the Daily Mail's review.  Their notoriously tough critic Quentin Letts didn't hold back. ""Lindsay Lohan's acting is like that of a not specially gifted schoolgirl,"" he wrote. That's not too bad, but he keeps going: ""The director should be ashamed for even putting on this travesty of art"". A little strong? ""The casting of Miss Lohan was was the work of agents and producers and commercial sharks who thought they could turn a few quid."" ""By any normal measure, what with her lack of fluency, her inexperience on stage, it would have seen her discarded at the first audition."" Wow, let's just say he didn't enjoy it, shall we? Thanks to Lilo this play has had more attention than most before it opened. Her face is plastered across promotional billboards for the play leading to suggestions they were ""exploiting"" her notoriety and emotional past. But as the Independent's Paul Taylor wrote, there's no proof notoriety ""necessarily puts bums on seats"". ""So bravo to Lindsay Lohan for transcending these considerations and turning in a deftly delineated characterisation."" (I think that means she did good.) Put more simply, Taylor said she ""silenced the doubters"". But the opinions continue to be split.  In the Telegraph she ""made her stage debut with a surprising - and smouldering - degree of style"", only to be told she was ""out of her league"" elsewhere. The Daily Express' Simon Edge sat on the fence a little more, saying it ""wasn't a great performance"" but also suggesting it ""wasn't a car crash"", which is good, because she's been in a few of those. But Edge also said the weight of expectation probably didn't help with her nerves. So, was she any good?  Probably best to judge for yourself, but if you want to go and see the play remember this is Lindsay Lohan and car crash or not, tickets will sell out fast. Love her or hate her, Lindsay Lohan is back in the headlines, but we're still not sure if it's good news. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube",Lindsay Lohan has always @placeholder opinion and last night she was at it again .,increased,divided,voiced,mixed,shared,1
"Matt Denton, from Hampshire, estimates his ""very expensive toy"" has cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds. He says a mining company and a marine research organisation are now interested in his design and he hopes it might be used at science fairs. During its development the machine had one outing, at a music festival, where Mr Denton says it was well received. ""It's an entertainment vehicle,"" he said. ""But I hope it will inspire people."" The project was only initially intended to take 12 months, Mr Denton, who usually specialises in small-scale animatronics for the film industry, said. ""After 18 months we tried the model out. We had to completely strip out and rebuild the legs. They were too heavy and complicated. ""I'm a software and electronics engineer so this was out of my area - I had to learn fast."" The robot, driver-operated by joysticks within a cockpit, can only travel at 1.5km/h (1mph) and manage a distance of 5km on a 20-litre (4.5-gallon) tank of diesel. ""It's not about miles to the gallon, it's about gallons to the mile,"" he said. ""It wasn't built to be efficient and fast. It was built to look cool and insect-like and fun."" Mr Denton said he was inspired by science fiction to create the ""walking"" machine. ""But legs are very inefficient - the wheel was invented for a reason,"" he added.",A giant - mantis robot with hydraulic legs has been @placeholder by a designer who spent four years creating it .,saved,produced,unveiled,defended,targeted,2
"Workers fear that profits from the company could be used to fund the £145m tramline extension to Leith as TfE owns Edinburgh Trams. They are also concerned that TfE could sell the firm to a private company. But Edinburgh's transport leader said the council was committed to keeping Lothian Buses in public ownership. Councillor Lesley Hinds said: ""The day-to-day running of our excellent and well-loved Lothian Buses company is, and will still be, the responsibility of the Lothian Buses board."" Lothian buses is one of the last remaining municipal bus companies in the UK. The City of Edinburgh Council's transport committee met to discuss giving TfE a ""wider remit"" to ""integrate"" the city's transport system and councillors voted in favour of pushing ahead with proposals. Ahead of the meeting, Lothian Buses staff protested against the move outside Edinburgh City Chambers. The Unite union, which represents the workers, have urged people to tell their councillors not to go ahead with the plans. Its regional officer Tony Trench said: ""We are extremely disappointed with this decision and are increasingly concerned about the lack of transparency over this process. ""During the meeting it was said that there would be no effect on the day-to-day running of Lothian Buses. But after the meeting, TfE chief executive George Lowder told us that we may end up with one board running both Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams."" But Ms Hinds said this would not be the case and that under Scottish government legislation Lothian Buses board would still be responsible for the company. TfE currently holds the city council's shares in Lothian Buses which has its own management, and reports directly to the council. Mr Trench said Unite's campaign against the changes would continue and said he would be speaking to other Lothian councils that have shares in Lothian buses.",Plans to give Transport for Edinburgh ( TfE ) more powers have been given the go - @placeholder despite objections from Lothian Buses staff .,following,term,flag,back,head,4
"Arcan Cetin, 20, who had been awaiting trial for the mass shooting in 2016, was found dead in the Snohomish County Jail on Sunday night. He had been charged with five counts of aggravated murder, and could have faced the death penalty if found guilty. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of death. According to investigators, Cetin shot five shoppers at a Macy's department store after first trying to enter through the backdoor of a nearby cinema. The shooting spree at the Cascade shopping mall occurred less than three hours after he had sat down for dinner with his stepfather. Surveillance footage from inside the mall shows the suspect opening fire on four woman and one man as they browsed the store. Police say Cetin was inside the mall for less than one minute before he fled the store, leaving the .22 calibre rifle, which police say had been stolen from Cetin's stepfather, on a counter in the cosmetics department. He was arrested about 30 hours later as he walked near to his apartment in Oak Harbor, Washington, according to local media. Prosecutors said he confessed to the shootings, but that he did not reveal a motive. The victims - Sarai Lara, Shayla Martin, Belinda Galde, Beatrice Dotson, and Wilton Eagan - ranged in ages from 16 to 95 years old. Court records show that one year before the shooting Cetin was ordered by a judge to receive mental health treatment after a violent altercation with family members. After attempting suicide, he was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. He had been identified by doctors at the time of having a serious risk of self-harm, and had been receiving court-mandated mental health counselling in the months before the shooting. Cetin was born in Turkey, but had lived in the US since the age of six.","A man accused of killing five people at a shopping mall in Washington @placeholder has been found hanging inside his prison cell , say officials .",city,territory,area,county,state,4
"Tuesday's announcement by Dhoni is the top story in most newspapers and many Indians have taken to social media to express their surprise. The cricketer said he was retiring from Tests ""to concentrate"" on the 50 over and Twenty20 formats. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) called him ""one of India's greatest Test captains"". The 33-year-old, who made his debut in 2005 and was captain for 60 of his 90 Tests, quit after India drew the third Test against Australia on Tuesday. In its lead story Dhoni drops a bomb, The Hindustan Times wonders about the ""abrupt announcement"" and says that experts were surprised as the BCCI announcement came in the middle of Australia tour. The Times of India reports that Dhoni got emotional after breaking news to his team: ""MS Dhoni, always known as 'Captain Cool,' got a touch emotional when he announced his decision in the dressing room. His teammates hugged him and took pictures with the departing skipper."" Discussing his legacy, an editorial in the paper questions ""what will we remember for MS Dhoni""? ""Even if India has had players come from its hinterland before, few managed to make such an impact as MS Dhoni. He infused a belief in small-town folks that they could rise to the very top if they backed their talent. And that would remain the biggest of his contributions to India's Test cricket team over the past decade,"" the paper writes. In a story headlined Dhoni retires Dhoni style, the Indian Express reports that ""a teary-eyed Dhoni gathered his teammates for an impromptu huddle in the dressing room and dropped the bombshell, leaving them astonished and devastated. Then around 45 minutes later, the rest of the world experienced the same shock"". Social media too has been abuzz with the news of Dhoni's retirement with his fellow cricketers and fans taking to Twitter to express their love and gratitude for Dhoni. Cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar applauded Dhoni's ""wonderful career in test cricket"": Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan praised him for his ""courage"": Chandra Sekhar described him as ""a true idol for Indian cricket"": Yash Khandelwal wrote he was ""saddened"" by Dhoni's retirement: Columnist Devinder Sharma, however, said Dhoni's decision was right as it came when the cricketer is at his peak:",Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni 's decision to quit Test cricket has stunned many in his @placeholder .,country,career,position,name,sleep,0
"Experts say a lack of early support means patients are reaching crisis. Data compiled for the BBC by NHS Digital showed that between 2011-12 and 2015-16 the number of patients attending A&E units with psychiatric problems rose by nearly 50% to 165,000. For the under 18s alone the numbers almost doubled to nearly 22,000. These figures represent a small minority of overall A&E attendances - just over 1% in total. But the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said that was likely to be the ""tip of the iceberg"" as these figures just included cases where the primary diagnosis was a psychiatric condition. Patients coming in with self-harm or after an attempted suicide may have been recorded as having a different reason for attending hospital. Some trusts the BBC spoke to said as many as a tenth of patients were attending A&E because of mental health problems. A 999 call comes in. The man says he is ill, he's hearing voices and wants to kill someone. Usually emergency services would be despatched and he'd probably be taken to an already overstretched accident and emergency department. But in Birmingham, the street triage team is sent with a paramedic, police officer and psychiatric nurse on board. By intervening at this stage, they aim to get the patient appropriate help and ease pressures on A&E - the man has been taken there about half a dozen times already in the last few weeks. After talking to the team and physical health checks, it's agreed he'll remain at home and keep an appointment in the morning. The initiative set up by the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust has reduced the numbers in mental health crisis going to A&Es locally. As part of RAID - Rapid Assessment, Interface and Discharge - psychiatric teams are also based in emergency departments. They aim to see people with psychiatric problems within an hour. Dr Peter Aitken, of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said the figures were ""extremely concerning"" ""Years of underfunding has meant these children have not been able to benefit from early intervention."" He said A&Es needed to invest in specialist psychiatric services to ensure people with mental health problems got the right support. ""Mental health presentations to A&E are unlikely to be minor as they represent an urgent crisis point in a person's life,"" he added. Dr Marc Bush, chief policy adviser at the charity Young Minds, said: ""Far too many young people end up in A&E, which can be crowded and stressful, because there's nowhere more appropriate for them to go. ""One of the main reasons that crisis services are so overstretched is that young people who are struggling don't get help soon enough, which means that problems often escalate. ""Unless we see greater investment in early intervention, the numbers will continue to rise."" The figures have been revealed just a day after the prime minister announced a package of measures to support people with mental health problems. A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said: ""As the prime minister has made clear this week - improvements must be made in mental health care both within and outside of the NHS, to make sure people get the support they need before they reach crisis point."" She said extra money being invested in the NHS this Parliament would help ensure improvements take place.","There has been a steep rise in the number of people @placeholder at A&E departments in England with mental health problems , figures show .",affected,lives,arriving,caught,trained,2
"While most commentators appear to agree that Mr Tsakalotos, 55, will be less bombastic than Mr Varoufakis in his dealings with international creditors, some argue that his negotiating stance could even be more hardline. Mr Tsakalotos  is a Dutch-born, Oxford University-educated economics professor who served as minister for international economic affairs before taking over from Mr Varoufakis as Greece's lead negotiator in its debt talks in April. A long-serving member of the governing Syriza party - in contrast to Mr Varoufakis - he was the obvious choice to become the new finance minister. His less confrontational style is certain to be welcomed by creditors - although few expect him to be a pushover. In a rare interview with the French newspaper Liberation last month, Mr Varoufakis argued that Greece's creditors ""did not appear prepared to compromise"" and seemed determined to impose ""unrealistic"" demands. ""Our interlocutors each time insist on pension cuts. It's unrealistic [to ask for that] in a country where pensions have been considerably reduced over the past five years, and where two in three pensioners live under the poverty line,"" he said. Showing the same fondness as Mr Tsakalotos for rhetorical flourishes, he argued in March that Greece was ""not asking for special treatment, but for equal treatment in a Europe of equals"". Mr Tsakalotos insisted that the Syriza government was ""fundamentally pro-Europe"" and that it wanted ""a viable economic programme inside the euro"". A mild-mannered married father-of-three, the new finance minister has spent much of his professional life working as an academic outside Greece, a fact that sometimes comes across in an English tilt to his accent. He returned to his country to work at Athens University in the early 1990s. It was during his time at Oxford University that he joined the student wing of Greece's eurocommunist party, motivated by what he saw as the unjust treatment of the Greek left - who spearheaded the resistance against Nazi occupation - in the civil war that followed World War Two. Mr Tsakalotos will face a stern challenge in his new role at the finance ministry. Correspondents say that his immediate priority will be to get the the European Central Bank to provide an emergency injection of euros before Greece's banks run out of cash - something that it is feared could happen imminently despite more than a week of capital controls. He will then have to persuade eurozone leaders to give Greece another chance at negotiating a bailout in addition to convincing creditors to discuss a restructuring of his country's massive debt. If that fails, Mr Tsakalotos will face the agony of negotiating a divorce that he has always maintained that he does not want to happen - a Greek exit from the euro. Euclid Tsakalotos","New Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos may be less flamboyant than his predecessor Yanis Varoufakis , but his views on his country 's debt crisis are no less stridently @placeholder .",change,held,humour,message,negative,1
"Robberies, thefts, assaults and driving offences were among 290 incidents recorded across England and Wales throughout July. Lancashire Constabulary logged 39 incidents - the highest figure from 29 forces that provided data. The force has reiterated safety advice for fans of the monster-hunting game. A spokesman for Pokemon Go developers Niantic also urged people playing the game to ""abide by local laws"". Pokemon Go: All you need to know Has Pokemon Go passed its peak? Data released to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act revealed officers have dealt with complaints ranging from the disturbing to the bizarre. In some cases Pokemon players have been victims of crime, while others have been accused of committing offences or being involved in antisocial behaviour. Surrey Police attended reports of 30 people fighting after a Pokemon hunt turned into a brawl. Officers in north Wales discovered a man had invited children back to his home ""as he had lots of Pokemon at his address"". In Cheshire, concerns were raised about children walking over graves in a cemetery as they took part in the augmented reality craze. Both Greater Manchester Police and the Met noted incidents of Pokemon ""lures"" being set up, as robbers used the game to distract victims before snatching their mobile phones. British Transport Police recorded two incidents of children trespassing on railways while playing the game, while several drivers have been spotted playing the game behind the wheel. Other incidents were less clear. West Midlands Police referred to someone being ""offered sexual favours"" but provided no further detail. West Mercia Police recorded a ""road accident while playing Pokemon"" but declined to elaborate. A woman contacted West Yorkshire Police concerned that Pokemon characters were trying to ""get into her home"". Cumbria Police received a complaint regarding a picture posted on Facebook, in which ""the image had been altered to depict the person as a Pokemon character"". In another traffic-related incident, officers in Surrey discovered nine cars ""parked across a junction"" while looking for Pokemon. Police in Devon were called to reports of a motorist driving down one-way streets and ""stopping in the middle of the road playing Pokemon"". South Yorkshire Police said a Pokemon player had been punched and had their phone taken by three ""unknown assailants"". West Mercia Police recorded 32 incidents, the second highest total, while the forces with the joint lowest were Thames Valley and North Yorkshire, which each logged two incidents. The majority of forces declined to specify how many arrests had been made, with several citing ongoing investigations. Sgt Neil Dewson-Smyth, of Cheshire Police, said the figures were ""worrying"". ""It was out in America first and there seemed to have been a few problems there. Nationally and internationally I'm well aware of quite a few circumstances that have come up,"" he said. ""But for me the key message is do not play it while driving. It's a fun game, but play safe and don't put lives at risk."" A spokesman for Niantic said the company takes the issue of ""player safety"" seriously. ""We encourage all people to be aware of their surroundings and to play alongside friends or family, especially when you're exploring unfamiliar places,"" he added. ""Please remember to be safe and alert at all times, don't drive and play, abide by local laws and respect the locations you visit."" Lancashire Constabulary said Pokemon players should never trespass on private land or put themselves in any sort of risk for the sake of the game. ""People should avoid potentially dangerous locations that could make you vulnerable to injury or become a victim of crime,"" a force spokesman said. ""Never enter any body of water. Pokemon do not appear beyond the safety of the shoreline. And don't enter derelict structures, unlit footpaths or alleyways.""","Pokemon Go players have been involved in hundreds of police incidents since the gaming app @placeholder launched , the BBC has learned .",crash,game,has,peninsula,phenomenon,4
"Pictures of the tearful goodbyes spread across social media, with many netizens calling for the animals to be saved. The animals have been partially submerged in the water since Monday, when the farm flooded after heavy rain in Shucheng county in Anhui province. Many dozens of people have been killed in flooding along the Yangtze River after torrential rain, and millions of others have been affected. Initial reports said these pigs could not be moved due to environmental protection and epidemic prevention measures. Now local media is reporting that a team has visited the farm and that the pigs have been rescued. In pictures: Stories from China's floods Deadly floods in central and southern China The men in the pictures, named by local media as Li Zuming and Li Jie from the Kang Yuan Agriculture and Ecology Development company, had reportedly raised many of the pigs themselves, and wanted to say goodbye before they left the farm. At the time, they thought they would be leaving them to die. The pictures were shared widely on social media sites like Weibo, where netizens expressed sorrow at the pigs' apparent watery fate. Many also expressed sympathy for the farm employees. ""They look sincerely upset,"" one netizen wrote. ""Why is no one taking care of this?"" However, some also drily pointed out that the pigs would eventually have been slaughtered anyway - and many suggested that the farmers' distress might have been motivated more by the loss of earnings rather than pity for the animals' plight. Anhui News reported on Tuesday that the Xishang Group, an organisation that operates a food and agricultural business in Anhui, had managed to save the pigs. There has been heavy rainfall in the area since last week. The Fengle river has broken its banks in many places in Shucheng county, flooding many nearby villages.  Anhui is amongst the hardest-hit provinces. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang travelled to the province on Tuesday to meet residents and local officials. Reporting by the BBC's Rebecca Bailey.","Photographs of two farmers bidding an emotional farewell to 6,000 pigs who they feared would @placeholder in severe Chinese floods may have helped secure their rescue .",trapped,stabbed,treat,suffer,drown,4
"The victory in Antananarivo followed a 1-0 away win four days ago in the first leg of the preliminary tie and gave the Madagascans a 4-2 aggregate triumph. Madagascar last won two qualifiers in a row when they defeated Comoros 6-2 and 4-0 in a combined 2010 World Cup/Cup of Nations eliminator. The Indian Ocean islanders join Senegal, Equatorial Guinea and Sudan in Group A of 2019 qualifying with their first fixture set to take place in Khartoum in June. North African-based Madagascans scored the goals that gave their home fans a rare chance to celebrate an important victory. Egypt-based Paulin Voavy (pictured) bagged a brace within 17 minutes of the kick-off and Carolus Andriamahitsinoro from Algerian club USMA scored on 80 minutes. Ferreria Soares and Adilson Varela scored for Sao Tome e Principe. On Tuesday, Mauritius and South Sudan have home advantage as they seek to overcome two-goal deficits against the Comoros and Djibouti respectively.",Madagascar won successive Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers for the first time since 2007 by defeating Sao Tome e Principe 3 - 2 on Sunday to reach the group @placeholder of qualifiers for the 2019 tournament .,level,series,a,phase,title,3
"The Kidman cattle empire is Australia's largest landholding, encompassing some of the driest and toughest country Australia has to offer. Its story begins in the 1890s with Sir Sidney Kidman and his elder brother Sackville, who embarked on an ambitious venture that would transform agriculture in Australia. The two brothers wanted to grow livestock in the country's dry centre, supported by Queensland's channel country rivers - the Georgina, the Diamantina and Cooper Creek. The plan was that tropical rain from the north would deliver water needed for farming to flourish in this harsh environment. The Kidmans' ambition, wrote biographer Jill Bowman, was to establish ""a chain of stations that were almost drought-proof, places that when linked together would provide a substantial water supply"". Sackville Kidman died in 1899, but Sidney turned their dream into reality, founding the company S. Kidman & Co the same year. Today the business encompasses 19 properties across the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia. It owns 101,411 sq km (39,155 sq miles) of land in total - that's more than 1% of Australia's land mass and larger than Ireland. One of its properties is Anna Creek, the world's biggest cattle station, which stretches across 23,677 sq km. The Kidman family has owned and managed the business for 116 years. But in April this year it was put on sale for a projected sum of A$325m ($232m; £152.3m). On Thursday however Australia's government decided to block the sale to foreign investors. Selling so much of Australia's outback to foreigners would be against the national interest, Treasurer Scott Morrison said. His reasoning? Part of property is inside the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), a military weapons testing range in South Australia. The country's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said the sale was blocked on national interest grounds and there was no discrimination against any particular buyer. About Sir Sidney Kidman Kidman & Co's business focus has long been on growing grass-fed beef for domestic and international markets. Headquartered in Adelaide, the firm says it supplies about 15,000 tonnes of beef carcass every year to markets around the world. It is not clear if prospective buyers would maintain this focus, but there's no argument they would enter Australia's agricultural scene at a pivotal time. As the mining boom subsides and the country looks elsewhere for economic growth, the business of farming the country's vast land for meat and other agricultural commodities has never been more important. Mr Morrison indicated that the government may be willing to see Kidman broken for sale. So foreign investors may yet possess at least some of its vast cattle empire. Simon Talbot, head of the National Farmers Federation, told the BBC that opening up agricultural growth in northern Australian areas couldn't be done without foreign investment. Even where large agricultural properties were foreign owned, the produce grown on them needed be transported using Australian infrastructure and jobs would be generated for Australian workers, he explained. ""People are starting to realise that as the mining boom is over, agriculture could become the next pillar of the Australian economy - but unfortunately we're not going to get there without significant investment,"" he said.",Two Chinese conglomerates were the last standing in a bidding war to buy an extraordinarily large slice of Australia and its pastoral @placeholder in November .,resources,holdings,history,body,series,2
"Murray beat Djokovic 6-3 6-4 Murray beat Raonic 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (11-9) Djokovic beat Nishikori 6-1 6-1 Murray beat Cilic 6-3 6-2 Nishikori beat Wawrinka 6-2 6-3 Murray beat Nishikori 6-7 (9-11) 6-4 6-4 Wawrinka beat Cilic 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-3) Murray beat Wawrinka 6-4 6-2 Djokovic beat Thiem 6-7 (10-12) 6-0 6-2 Raonic beat Monfils 6-3 6-4 Thiem beat Monfils 6-3 1-6 6-4 Djokovic beat Raonic 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-5) Djokovic beat Goffin 6-1 6-2 Raonic beat Thiem 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 * means qualified for the semi-finals ** Monfils has withdrawn because of injury *** Goffin replaced Monfils as an alternate NB Fixtures and event start times are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. * All online broadcasts are UK only. If you have any questions about the BBC's tennis coverage please first consult our main FAQs page. You can view all our TV and Red Button broadcasts as well as listen to our radio sports programming on the BBC iPlayer. The BBC Sport website is available via desktop, mobile, tablet and app. The BBC Sport app is available free for Apple and Android devices.","Find @placeholder standings , scores and results below following Andy Murray 's victory at the ATP World Tour Finals , cementing his place as world number one at the end of the season .",more,number,group,world,out,2
"The city centre road was closed from Waverley Bridge to the Mound for more than an hour. Officers were called to the 200ft Gothic tower in East Princes Street Gardens at about 14:00. A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: ""We were called because of reports of concern for a person at the monument."" A woman involved in the incident was said to be safe and well. A spokesman for Police Scotland said: ""We can confirm that the incident at the Scott Monument came to a peaceful conclusion at around 15:30."" ""Officers are now working to reinstate traffic in and around the area of Princes Street.""",A section of Edinburgh 's Princes Street has @placeholder following an incident at the Scott Monument .,reopened,resigned,drowned,overturned,fallen,0
"Sir Malcolm Rifkind said the intelligence committee he chairs would act ""without fear or favour"", although some MPs want a judge-led inquiry. It follows a US Senate report which found ""brutal"" treatment of suspects. Downing Street has said some material was removed from the report at the UK's request for national security reasons. But it said no redactions related to British involvement in the mistreatment of prisoners. Sir Malcolm was speaking as Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee - which he chairs - is conducting an inquiry into the treatment of detainees by British intelligence agencies in the decade following 9/11. He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show it would ask the US government if it could see the redacted material. If British intelligence officials were present when people were being tortured then they were ""complicit in that torture"", he added. ""That would be quite against all the standards of this country, it would be something that ought to be brought into the public domain,"" Sir Malcolm added. Denying accusations that the committee would water down its conclusions, Sir Malcolm said the committee would act ""without fear or favour"" and would seek answers from senior minister and former ministers, if necessary. He added: ""If people deserve to be embarrassed, it's our job to embarrass them."" BBC political correspondent Robin Brant said it was ""almost certain"" that ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair would be called by the committee. Former Labour foreign secretaries Jack Straw and David Miliband may also be required to give evidence, he added. However, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told the Marr Show she had concerns that the intelligence committee did not have the capacity or scope to be able to get to the truth. And Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on extraordinary rendition, called for the government to ""reconstitute a judge-led inquiry"". He said it should have ""wide-ranging powers"" and a ""substantial investigative capability"" to look into the UK's role in the CIA's interrogation programme. Clare Algar, from the charity Reprieve, told the BBC that Prime Minister David Cameron had previously said only a judge-led inquiry could get to the bottom of the UK's involvement, adding: ""I think that is still the case."" A 525-page summary of the report, compiled by Democrats on the committee, was published earlier this week - although the full version remains classified. It revealed that the CIA carried out ""brutal"" interrogations of terrorism suspects in the years after the 9/11 attacks. Among the abuses, the committee found: However, the summary contains no reference to UK agencies. When the report was published, Downing Street said any requests for redactions from the UK had been made by British intelligence agencies to the CIA. It said the requests had been made for reasons of national security on intelligence operations - and later added that Number 10 itself had not made any requests for redactions. A Freedom of Information request by the charity Reprieve earlier this year showed the UK government had met members of the Senate Committee on Intelligence 24 times since 2009, although there are no details about what was discussed. Meanwhile, the Sunday Telegraph reported that Defence Secretary Michael Fallon had called for former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to reveal what they knew about the CIA's torture and rendition programme when they were in office. ""It's for ministers in that [former Labour] government to account for their actions,"" he said. Mr Straw told the BBC that he would ""be delighted to give evidence today"", adding that ""as soon as the legal hurdles are out of the way, I fully expect to do so"". The Metropolitan police began investigating claims that UK secret services helped in the rendition of two men to Libya in 2012, and a file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service earlier this year.",A parliamentary committee is to request the US @placeholder over any material documenting the UK 's role in the CIA 's post - 9/11 interrogation programme .,authorities,hands,authority,government,prosecution,1
"Eight-month-old Marley from Hitcham chewed through the tube of glue his owner was using for home improvements. At first he showed no signs of illness, but within a week needed emergency surgery to remove a solid lump of adhesive from his stomach. His owner Beverley King said her pet made a full recovery and was now ""bouncing around"" again. Read this and more stories from Suffolk Mrs King said her husband had been working upstairs when Marley came down with his paws covered in glue. He was taken to the vet to have the glue removed and seemed fine, she said. However he later became ill and had to be referred to a specialist veterinary centre near Newmarket, where the full extent of Marley's mishap was revealed. He underwent a one-hour operation to have the ball of glue removed by a surgical specialist. Mrs King, who slept by his side every night ""just to be on the safe side"", said her pet was due to have a final check up later.",A cocker spaniel has been @placeholder from a sticky end after eating a tube of expanding glue .,suspended,released,recovered,retired,saved,4
"Economy Secretary Ken Skates has written to AMs saying the sites have been chosen from a list of 46 proposals for more detailed scrutiny. They include new suburban stations in Cardiff, Newport, Swansea and Wrexham. The Deeside industrial park, Llangefni on Anglesey, Bow Street near Aberystwyth and St Clears, Carmarthenshire, are also on the list. In his letter, Mr Skates said the first part of a three-stage process had whittled the list of 46 down to 12. ""The more costly work on producing detailed cost estimates for a new station and timetable modelling is only carried out on the highest priorities,"" he wrote. ""The stage two assessment will look in more detail at the strength of the financial and economic case for a new railway station, including advice from Network Rail on deliverability."" Bow Street, Llangefni and St Clears had stations open during the 19th Century railway boom but saw them close in the 1960s in the Beeching cuts, which reduced Britain's rail network by a third.",Twelve new railway stations could be opened in Wales if the plans are @placeholder to be viable .,implemented,reported,continuing,preparing,judged,4
"So imagine what it's been like for Banks, a performer who used to suffer such severe stage fright she would sing with her back turned to the audience. The Californian musician, whose full name is Jillian Banks, first came to attention in 2013 with her London EP - a collection of brooding, vulnerable R&B that earned her a spot on the BBC's Sound of 2014 list. Her debut album, Goddess, reached the top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic, but the star quickly found fame stressful and frustrating. ""I had to learn how to talk to people and tell them what I wanted,"" she says, ""But I felt people weren't listening. I felt really helpless sometimes."" Things came to a head when she took her music on the road. ""The first tour I went on, the guitarist slammed a door in my face. That would never happen now. If somebody treated me like that, they'd be out five minutes later."" The singer's metamorphosis from wallflower to self-professed ""bad mother"" is documented on her new album, The Altar. ""Do you see me now?"" she demands on Mind Games, while on Weaker Girl, she chastises a lover who can't handle ""the way I grew strong"". ""You have to have that mentality in order to survive,"" she says. ""Not only in this business, in life. You can't be like a feather blowing in every direction the wind takes you."" On the phone from Paris, she explains The Altar's backstory and why she keeps a replica of her severed head in a box. Good afternoon, Banks. How is Paris? I love it. I wish I could see more of it today. Is there a country you've fallen in love with while you've been on tour? I love Switzerland. I played the Montreux Jazz Festival and that was one of my favourite places. But also - I don't know if this sounds funny - but when I saw more of America, I realised how different every city was. I always had this idea that Europe would be more exciting to me, which it was, but places like Boston and Seattle and Houston were just as exciting. The Altar is out this week. Is it nerve-wracking to find out what fans think? Yeah, it is. I feel different about it every 20 minutes. It feels like a much more confident record. Did you feel emboldened by the success of your debut album? No! I think I'm very introverted, first of all, so this business was very overwhelming. I was nervous to be around so many different people. I mean, I don't think anybody knows how to tell 50 people on a video set that they want to make changes, especially when they're young.  But I felt, for the first time, like people weren't giving me the respect that I deserved. And when I went into this album, I was feeling the after-effects of that frustration. I had this need to feel empowered. I needed to let go of that person who was afraid to say what she wanted. The videos for this album have certainly been uncompromising. In F With Myself, you're abusing a mannequin that's been made in your likeness. That was the most fun I've ever had on a video set! It represented exactly what that song means to me. I can be my own biggest bully - like, I'm chronically unsatisfied - but I've had to learn, especially over the last two years, to be my own biggest ally. Deciding I wanted to make a prosthetic form of myself and interact with it, it took confidence to say that out loud, even. It's one of those ideas that, I assume, sounded really good on paper - but turned out to be quite bizarre in real life. It was weird! You only ever see a mirror image of yourself, so it was strange to see myself in 3D. But it was kind of therapeutic - especially hitting my own face, because it made me want to be really nice to myself. It was like seeing physically what I do to myself mentally sometimes. What have you done with the head now? I have it still. It smells weird because we lit it on fire, so I keep it in a box. But it's still mine! You should get it out at Halloween and scare some trick or treaters to death. Oh God! That's such a good idea. My mum hated that video, because she hated  seeing me slap my face around. But that means it's good, if your mum doesn't like something. What about you? How do you feel about the songs now they're finished? Are they hard to listen to objectively? Yeah, because it's like reading your own diary entries from the past: Nobody does that. When I'm thinking about a concept for a video, I love going on long walks and listening to the song on a loop. But I would never normally go on a walk and, just for fun, listen to a song like To The Hilt. To The Hilt is especially raw, though. In the lyrics, you describe how breaking up with your muse left you ""drained creatively"". Was it hard to record? It was hard to write, but I'm happy I did and I felt deeply relieved that I got it out of my system. The vocal is very unguarded. I recorded it with  (British producer) SOHN and I did it twice all the way through, then I told him I wouldn't do it any more. So I think it's the first or second take. It was super draining. You've spoken quite openly about how you suffered from depression while making this album. How did it affect your writing? I've struggled with depression since I was younger. It's just how I was wired - but it's not all the time. It usually hits me right before I give birth to something new. On this occasion, it was letting go and becoming this new version of myself. It's like the universe's way of pulling you backwards almost, and you have to fight to move forward. Like emerging from a cocoon? That's exactly what it is. The two years before I made this album, I felt the weight of learning to accept myself as a woman and an adult in this strange society that sometimes makes women feel less powerful than they should. And I don't just write when I'm sad, by the way. Lovesick is a song about falling in love really hard, and it's very uplifting. And This Is Not About Us is a really empowering song. You're part of a wave of female artists - from Beyonce and Grimes to Tove Lo - who are unapologetic about the strength they derive from their femininity. Do you talk to other artists about that? I actually just emailed Feist because we have a mutual friend who thought we would get along. And I met Tove Lo at a festival in Toronto. She was standing side stage, singing all my lyrics. I just thought that was so cool, because for women to support each other and not feel competitive is so important. I already was a fan of her music and everything she stands for. It made me love her 10 times more. I heard you wrote the verses to Trainwreck when you were 14. Most people would cringe at their teenage poetry… It's funny. I actually recently found this old computer of mine that I had when I was young. It had this weird app on it where I could videotape myself, and I listened back to some of the songs and I was like, ""Some of these melodies are really good. I want to mess with them more."" The Altar is out now on Virgin EMI / Harvest Records. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Anyone who 's ever watched a rock biopic knows the music industry can be a strange and intimidating place , even for the strongest of @placeholder .",turf,characters,actors,us,personalities,4
"The 26-year-old Corinthians player has now moved to Chelsea on loan until the end of the season - aiming to rise again. Blues interim manager Guus Hiddink insists the move is not a ""gamble"". Here, BBC Sport analyses whether the Dutchman is right. Rumours were rife at the beginning of the 2008-09 season that Chelsea's new Brazilian manager Luiz Felipe Scolari was doing everything in his power to convince an 18-year-old Pato to join him in west London. The World Cup-winning coach had witnessed the teenager's breakthrough in his homeland with Internacional, his goalscoring debut for Brazil, a one-in-two goal record during his first Serie A season and a call up to the squad for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. 'Big Phil' was sure Pato would be an instant success at Stamford Bridge. The only fly in the ointment? AC Milan were not prepared to sell a striker set to dominate Europe's scoring charts for the next decade and beyond. With hindsight, the Rossoneri would regret not cashing in as they had done with Ukraine legend Andriy Shevchenko two years previously, as Pato's promising career stalled dramatically at the San Siro. Pato was named Serie A Young Player of the Year at the end of the 2008-09 season after ending the campaign as AC Milan's leading scorer. However, during the following season and while still a teenager, his body began showing the strain. A series of muscle injuries, including pulled hamstrings, cost him a place in the Brazil squad for the 2010 World Cup - although admittedly the exclusion of Neymar - then at Santos - was the bigger story. Even the Rossoneri's famed Milan Lab struggled to get Pato fit for any length of time and when an £11.5m bid came in from Corinthians the Italian outfit decided to cut their losses. The Sao Paulo club that gave the world Rivellino - who starred for Brazil on their way to World Cup glory in 1970 - was on a high after winning their first Copa Libertadores title in 2012 and following it up by beating Chelsea in the Club World Cup later that year. Pato joined Corinthians in January 2013, but was out the door again within 12 months. His nadir being a failed panenka penalty (a slow chip down the centre of the goal) in a Copa do Brasil tie against Gremio, the fierce rivals of Pato's first club Internacional, that was saved by Dida, his former AC Milan team-mate. Pato has spent the last two years on loan across the city at Sao Paulo FC, the initial deal taking the attacking midfielder Jadson, now in China with Tianjin Quanjian, in the opposite direction. While the strike rate has dropped to a goal every three games, Pato has been able to avoid any serious setbacks with injuries during his time with the Tricolor. The price tag - a joint record fee for a Brazilian club along with the £11.5m paid to Boca Juniors, also by Corinthians, for Carlos Tevez in 2005 - was continually used to undermine Pato's efforts in his homeland. Undoubtedly the Brazilian has lost some of his pace after his time on the treatment table and the fear factor for opposition defenders has waned, but a new-found mental resilience has kept Pato amongst the goals. Even with partisan crowds forever on his back, the forward refused to shirk responsibility and was always looking to get a shot away. Sao Paulo FC tried to make Pato's move to their Morumbi stadium permanent but Corinthians were keen to recoup more of the £11.5m they paid for the player than their neighbours were willing to offer. Chinese outfit Tianjin Quanjian met Corinthians' valuation and offered the player a salary in the region of £10m a year. Pato refused the move, much to the chagrin of the Corinthians board, but has since signed a contract extension with the Brazilian club. The hope on both sides is that following a successful six-month stint with Chelsea a permanent move will be forthcoming that not only suits Corinthians but also the player's ambitions. The 26-year-old believes he has unfinished business in Europe and Chelsea welcome a striker out to prove a point. Pato has received criticism in Brazil for not capitalising on his talents and not showing enough passion on the pitch. For example, the traits his Chelsea team-mate Diego Costa demonstrates when tangling with opponents are lauded throughout South America. Pato is a different animal, but the goal remains the same - prove the doubters wrong by sticking the ball in the back of the net again and again. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",Alexandre Pato was once one of football 's most @placeholder assets before the Brazil forward 's star waned and he became one of the sport 's unfulfilled talents .,anticipated,trusted,prized,inspired,helped,2
"There is an even greater chance now that we will never know what happened to those 239 people who boarded a flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March 2014 and then vanished. The decision to call off the search - which has scoured 120,000sq km (46,332 sq miles) of sea floor in the southern Indian Ocean - was not entirely unexpected. The three countries involved - Australia, Malaysia and China - had agreed last year that unless they found major new evidence, they would suspend operations. But informed experts and relatives of the passengers are dismayed, saying that this major new evidence does exist, and if they keep looking, they will find it. ""Commercial planes cannot just be allowed to disappear without a trace,"" said Voice370, a group supporting relatives. ""Stopping at this stage is nothing short of irresponsible, and betrays a shocking lack of faith in the data, tools and recommendations of an array of official experts assembled by the authorities themselves."" The 120,000sq km area of Indian Ocean off southern Australia was chosen based on satellite data as the most likely place the Boeing 777 could have come down along what is presumed to have been its flight path. ""They picked the area based on the best information that was available at the time,"" says Don Thompson, a British engineer who is part of the Independent Group, a handful of informed experts around the world who have been investigating MH370 themselves. ""But everything seems to point a little further north-east, which is where the ATSB's most recent review is pointing."" That's the Australian Transport Safety Board, which has been co-ordinating the underwater search. It said in December that there was ""a high degree of confidence"" the plane was not in the specified search zone. That was starting to look fairly obvious, as there was only a fraction of the defined area left to search. But the report also recommended searching a 25,000sq km area to the north of the presumed flight path. It drew on new information by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), which analysed where confirmed debris from the plane washed up and used that to narrow down where it must have come down. The report concluded that ""if this area were to be searched, prospective areas for locating the aircraft wreckage, based on all the analysis to date, would be exhausted"". ""When CSIRO came out with that drift analysis I was really excited,"" says Blaine Gibson. He has become something of a legend in MH370 circles for his self-funded trips to Malaysia, Mauritius and the Maldives looking for answers. He has found several pieces of debris which contributed to the new theory. ""I really thought they would extend the search,"" Mr Gibson said. ""The debris that I and other people have found resulted in very strong scientific evidence and it's been ignored."" Blaine Gibson believes other evidence has been ignored, including reports from people in the Maldives who say they saw something fall from the sky the day the plane vanished. He blames an ""overreliance"" on the early satellite data, which put false hope in 120,000 sq km. ""It's like saying we're not going to look for it until we find it."" The relatives' group, Voice370, says searching the newly defined area is ""an inescapable duty owed to the flying public in the interest of aviation safety"". So will it happen? At the moment there is no indication it will. The search has already cost $145m (£118m) and it's not clear who would be prepared to pick up such a tab again. Don Thompson says China, which has provided one of the specialist search ships, has acquired further equipment in recent months and could perhaps step in. Most of the passengers were after all Chinese. But there's no indication of that as yet. ""It needs a bit of political will to get it going, some sort of organisation so it can lobby the right entities,"" he says. Geoffrey Thomas, aviation expert and editor of the Airline Ratings website, believes the plane will be found, and that it might be a private consortium that does it, including Boeing - who made the missing plane -  and its engine-maker, Rolls Royce. ""It's important from an industry perspective to find this plane because the 777 is the backbone of the world's international long haul fleet,"" he said. ""We need to know that plane is safe. It's possible that it could have been a series of failures that sparked this disaster but we just don't know."" Experts agree that if the search is to continue, it has to happen immediately or never will. ""Dismantling all the infrastructure that's been built up is a tragedy because it will cost millions to re-establish it,"" said Mr Thomas. There are still huge gaps in our information about flight MH370. We don't know why the plane made a mysterious turn to the west about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, and why its tracking was turned off. Mr Thompson points out that the plane would also have crossed five different military radar stations - two in Indonesia, one Thai and two on India's Andaman Islands - but they ""apparently they saw nothing"". Many have speculated about a pilot murder/suicide, but this has been ruled out by most informed observers. There's no evidence pointing to such intentions, and we know from the fact the plane broke up on impact that it was not being controlled at the time. Blaine Gibson says that until the black box or a debris field are found which prove beyond doubt it was an accident, ""we have to be open to the hijacking possibility and the accident possibility"". Perhaps there's even been a cover-up, he says. But he believes that if that's the case, eventually ""someone's going to talk"". ""I think we're going to get answers in my lifetime,"" he says, ""perhaps when we least expect it"". ""I have to put my faith and hope in science, in perseverance and in justice to say that we're going to know.""","The deep - @placeholder search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been called off , without the plane being found .",water,serving,field,sky,era,0
"But it is also border territory - a place largely undiscovered by tourists. For the Cooley peninsula stands shoulder-to-shoulder with south Armagh in Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, this was nicknamed ""bandit country"" - British security forces ventured at their peril. Garda Tony Golden, 36, was shot dead in Omeath, County Louth, earlier this month. His murder has opened a fresh debate about the continuing legacy of paramilitarism and lawlessness in the area. Micheál Martin, leader of the Republic of Ireland's main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, described it in the Dáil as a ""twilight zone"". Garda Golden was shot dead while on duty working on a case of domestic violence, protecting a woman. The gunman, Adrian Crevan Mackin, had been awaiting trial in the Special Criminal Court in Dublin for alleged membership of an illegal organisation. He shot and killed the police officer and critically wounded his former partner, Siobhan Phillips, before turning the illegally-held weapon on himself in a case of murder-suicide. In January 2013, another police officer, Adrian Donohoe lost his life while on duty in the area. His murderers are suspected members of a cross-border criminal gang and have yet to be brought to justice. For this reason, many living in the Cooley peninsula believe that more should be done to protect their home. Johnny Larkin, chairman of the Cooley Peninsula Alert Group, a voluntary organisation that helps fight crime, has written to Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan calling for more police officers. He said Garda Golden had written to the group ""keeping us informed on a continual basis of the numbers dwindling and dwindling"". In the immediate aftermath of the murder, 25 additional police officers were moved into north Louth. However, Ciaran O'Neill,  vice-president of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) which represents rank-and-file police officers in the Republic of Ireland, is not impressed. ""Morale is at an all-time low,"" he said. He served briefly in Hackballscross in the area. ""Sixteen of those transferred gardaí were from another border division, Cavan-Monaghan.  It's robbing Peter to pay Paul,"" he said. Garda numbers across the Republic of Ireland fell because of the property-related economic crash, but now that the Irish economy is the fastest growing in the European Union, there is pressure to increase numbers again. In the recent budget, the Fine Gael-Labour coalition, in advance of the expected Spring election, unveiled plans for an extra 600 officers and the Garda authorities said 5.3m euros (£3.8m) have been allocated to buy 260 vehicles by the end of the year. But GRA President Dermot O'Brien asked: ""Why should we be grateful for the equipment to do our jobs? The 260 new cars are essential pieces of equipment that the government should be providing for us."" He also criticised the closure of 139 garda stations, some in border areas, because of Ireland's economic crash. He indicated that it was time some of the ""over-crowded, dilapidated and unsuitable buildings""  used as garda stations were re-furbished. ""A fully functioning garda station is essential for police work; we cannot record interviews or store evidence in patrol cars. Operations rooms and custody suites are basic tools,"" he said. The Garda authorities said a ""forthcoming recruitment campaign is scheduled to ensure that new gardai will be allocated to frontline duties."" But Mr O'Neill argued that new officers would be on lower wages and would not receive rent allowances like their older colleagues. Senior Garda officers resent any suggestion that not all is being done to combat cross-border crimes such as smuggling and fuel laundering as well as paramilatarism. They said their force, an Garda Síochána, and the PSNI were continuing ""to develop and implement strategies available to dismantle and disrupt criminal networks"". However, local people believe more should be done. Perhaps then, the ghosts of paramilitary shootings and gang crime will be laid to rest and more tourists will savour the beauty of Cooley and what they have been missing.","The Cooley peninsula with its mountain and @placeholder views is an area of outstanding natural beauty and stunning scenery , not far from both Dublin and Belfast .",trade,lake,sea,head,state,2
"The zone centres over the site known as the ""ammunition wreck"" and has a 500m (1,640ft) radius underwater and a 200m (660ft) radius at the surface. The underwater zone means a ban on anchoring, diving and trawling, while the surface ban prohibits vessels. Channel Island ferry operations are expected to be able to continue. Four yellow buoys with orange flashing lights have been put around the area. The Guernsey Coastguard set up the exclusion zone after the Guernsey Harbour Divers alerted the Royal Navy to a suspicious looking object outside the pier heads. This was spotted last week at the wreck site, about 600m (1,970ft) east of the harbour. Navy experts subsequently advised an exclusion zone be created. Ch Insp Nigel Taylor of Guernsey Police said the force's bomb team would be working closely with the Navy over the next few days to make sure the bomb was disposed of safely. Guernsey Harbourmaster Capt Peter Gill said the exclusion zone would have ""a limited effect"" on smaller boats as there was plenty of room for them to come and go while avoiding the exclusion zone. However, he admitted larger vessels such as passenger ferries would have ""limited options"". The Royal Navy's dive team is expected to arrive on the island on Tuesday to inspect the device.","A suspected @placeholder charge , found outside Guernsey 's St Peter Port harbour , has led to an exclusion zone being created until it can be dealt with .",depth,body,group,murder,unit,0
"The 67 year-old driver of a Kia and his 58-year-old female passenger, both from Banbury, died in the collision on the A436 near Stow on the Wold. The crash happened at about 14:30 GMT on Saturday, blocking the road and Sheep Street. A horse was also injured. Gloucestershire Police said the next of kin of man and woman have been informed. The roads that were affected have now been reopened after the vehicles were recovered.",A man and woman have died in a crash between their car and a vehicle @placeholder horses in Gloucestershire .,traffic,struck,fuel,water,transporting,4
"That's the situation facing the owners of Neverland Ranch, the former home of pop star Michael Jackson. They've had the well-known gated estate, now called Sycamore Valley Ranch, on the market since May. So now, after months without a sale, they're targeting Asia's super wealthy. The asking price? About $100m ((£66m) according to a listing on Hong Kong-based Luxify, an online marketplace that specialises in buying and selling luxury items and connecting buyers to dealers. It makes money by charging for listings and all its transactions are completed offline. Launched in March, the privately-owned online firm now has offices in Singapore and London, but says about 70% of its 21,000 active buyers are based in Asia. Which is why co-founder Alexis Zirah says he's confident he'll be able to sell Neverland - most likely to a Chinese buyer. ""We are working online as well as offline to find the right buyer,"" he says. ""You have to remember that Chinese people are the biggest foreign investors in the US property market."" Statistics from the US National Association of Realtors confirm that Chinese investors purchased $22bn worth of residential real estate in the 12 months to March, a 72% increase from the year before. So it's no surprise Neverland is just one of a number of celebrity homes and famous castles listed on Luxify. Last week, the online firm put up Michael Jordan's Chicago mansion, a property the basketball star has been trying to sell for several years. Today's offer price for the 56,000 sq ft property? Just under $15m - or almost half the amount it was first listed for in 2012. In addition to multimillion dollar homes, Mr Zirah and his business partner Florian Martigny list cars, jewellery, wine, yachts and collectibles, but more than half of their products are second-hand. Buying pre-loved luxury items used to be taboo in Asia, but attitudes are changing quickly, especially as regional customers look for bargains online. ""This is completely new,"" says Mr Martigny. ""Two, three years ago, nobody in Asia was buying pre-owned luxury items,"" he explains. ""There is still stigma against it, but it's much less now,"" he adds as he shows off a second-hand Italian sports car that's listed for more than $3m. Globally, the online second-hand luxury industry is still small, but according to a 2014 study by management consultants Bain & Company, it's growing quickly, twelvefold since 2007. Bain & Company's Claudia D'Arpizio estimates the market for second-hand luxury clothing, accessories, watches and jewellery was worth about 16 billion euros ($17bn) in 2014. ""While this market threatens new product sales, it is simultaneously turning luxury goods into durables with an increasingly defined re-sell price, thus increasing their value,"" she says. A rival report from McKinsey & Company estimates that luxury online sales grew by 50% from 2013 to 2014, reaching 14bn euros ($14.8bn; £9.93),  representing 6% of the global luxury market for personal goods. Perhaps nothing else embodies the convergence of luxury, technology and the sharing economy as much as the rise of online second-hand sites like Luxify and Guiltless, another firm that's set to launch a consignment site - a marketplace for people to sell on their possessions. Guiltless was founded in Hong Kong by 25-year-old Yen Kuok, youngest daughter of Malaysian billionaire Robert Kuok and is set to launch in Hong Kong and Singapore in January. Ms Kuok started Guiltless after trying to sell her high-end clothes and accessories to consignment sites in the US, where she attended university. ""They were very keen, but they said they didn't take items from Asia,"" she says. ""In fact, they didn't take items outside Europe or the US. I was quite shocked."" Her site has since collected about 3,000 pieces - mostly dresses, handbags and shoes - of which 40% are second-hand. The rest are new items, usually from past collections. Ms Kuok estimates the goods will be offered at discounts of between 30% and 80% off their original retail price. ""Even if people in Asia don't admit it, they are looking for a deal. They're looking for value for money,"" she says. ""In Europe, people carry an expensive handbag for life. In Asia, people want a new model every year."" Guiltless will launch with six full-time and six part-time employees and has plans to target shoppers like Vinnie Ong - a 25-year-old investment banker working in Hong Kong. Ms Ong says her first luxury purchase was a pair of ballet slipper style shoes when she was 18 from designer Tory Burch. After graduating from university and landing a well-paying job, her enthusiasm grew. She began to buy handbags from brands such as Celine, Valentino, Louis Vuitton and Prada. But after snapping up a pristine second-hand Prada handbag for about half its retail price, Ms Ong says she was quickly drawn to shopping on consignment websites. ""I was getting an almost-new item at a really great price. It was a very positive experience,"" she explains. Ms Ong estimates that she has spent about $10,000 on handbags this year and says about half of them are second-hand. ""I will probably increase my luxury spending as I get older, in line with my spending power,"" she says. Meanwhile, new and emerging business like Guiltless and Luxify are counting on shoppers around the world to do much the same.",How do you sell an iconic celebrity home that 's had it s fair share of bad @placeholder ?,publicity,life,content,times,behavior,0
"The helicopter was earlier said to have crashed north-east of the city, while the plane, carrying 200 passengers, landed safely at Damascus airport. As clashes continued across the country, opposition activists reported heavy casualties in an air attack on a petrol station in north-eastern Syria. At least 20 people died, they said. UK-based opposition activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said many more were wounded in the blast, in a village in Raqqa province. Another group, the Local Coordination Committees said warplanes had bombarded the petrol station near the village of Ain Issa. Seventy people wounded in the attack were taken to hospital in the town of Raqqa, it said. Initially, the Syrian Observatory group said rebels had shot down the helicopter in Douma to the north-east of Damascus, but that claim was not repeated elsewhere. The helicopter's rotor struck the tail of a Syrian Arab Airlines plane, Syrian official news agencies reported. All passengers on board the plane were unharmed, they said. The government has increasingly used helicopters and planes in its fight against the rebels and activists had reported clashes in the Douma area at the time. Last month, rebels said they shot down a helicopter on the outskirts of Damascus. Clashes were reported in several areas of the country on Thursday, including Damascus and the second city, Aleppo. Government forces are said to have overrun several districts in the south of Damascus where rebels have been holding out, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from neighbouring Lebanon. Syrian state TV said at least 100 ""terrorists"" were detained in the densely populated Yarmouk area, an unofficial Palestinian refugee settlement. In the Dutch administrative capital, The Hague, a group of financial experts, foreign diplomats and Syrian defectors is meeting to look for new economic ways of weakening Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power. The group, called the Friends of Syria, is discussing how to make sanctions on the Syrian government more effective and how to track down the Assad government's hidden financial assets. Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal at the meeting said that one of the problems was that not all countries implemented sanctions on Syria. Abdo Husameddin, a former Syrian oil minister who defected from the regime in March, has told the BBC President Assad's extended family may have billions of dollars hidden abroad. ""They are talking about probably more than $10bn (£6.2bn). And there are some other faces in fact hidden beside the regime itself. So all of this money is not directly under the name of Assad himself, but by other names."" On Wednesday, the foreign minister of Iran, Syria's close regional ally, held talks with President Assad, who told him that the attack his country is facing, is not just against Syria, but also against its alliance with Iran and Hezbollah. There was further heavy fighting in Damascus and in the northern city of Aleppo. Amnesty International warned that indiscriminate air and artillery strikes were causing a dramatic rise in civilian casualties in Idlib and Hama. The UN estimates that the conflict has left at least 20,000 people dead. Bomb attacks in Damascus and the largest city, Aleppo, have become increasingly frequent in recent months, with the authorities often blaming them on ""armed terrorist gangs"".","A military helicopter that crashed near the Syrian capital , Damascus , @placeholder the tail of a passenger plane in mid-air , state television reports .",clipped,demanding,surrounded,causing,raising,0
"Hampshire Constabulary has released a video of the woman's story as part of a Valentine's Day awareness campaign. The woman, referred to as ""Jenny"" on the video, lost £20,000 and received a suspended sentence for laundering more than £200,000. Police said romance fraud was ""emotionally destructive"". On the video she explained how she began using a dating website after being single for several years. She started communicating with a ""very caring, considerate"" man who had an image showing on the site and who said he was an IT consultant. ""Very early on in the communication he was telling me how much he loved me, how he wanted to be with me, I suppose I got to the point where I believed everything he said,"" she said. Jenny said they never met and an attempt to contact via webcam failed. She explained that requests for cash began gradually, with the man saying that he needed money while in the Far East on business. Four months later, Jenny had given away £20,000 of her own money. She later began to launder a total of £228,000 when he asked her to open up a bank account to transfer funds from other accounts. She eventually received a suspended prison sentence for money laundering. On the video she said: ""I never thought that I was naïve; I didn't think anything like this could ever happen to me - it could happen to anybody."" The fraudster has not been identified or arrested. Crime prevention advisor Sarah Cohen said the video would raise awareness of the ""callous tactics"" used in targeting users of dating sites. ""The consequences of romance and online dating fraud can be emotionally destructive because offenders prey upon a victim's deepest desires and longing for love."" Online safety advice Source: Action Fraud","A woman who was convicted of money laundering , after @placeholder for an online romance fraud , has warned about the dangers of such scams .",falling,writing,admitting,exposing,searching,0
"Under the plans, unauthorised use of the term would be illegal, as is already the case for the use of the term degree. To legally describe training as an apprenticeship, schemes would have to provide at least a year's training and meet other requirements. The measures will be part of the government's Enterprise Bill. In a statement, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills said the legislation would give the government power to take action if the term is ""misused to promote low-quality courses"". ""If university graduates have their moment in the sun, so should people who undertake apprenticeships,"" Skills Minister Nick Boles said. ""Businesses know their value, so it's high time they were recognised both by the public and in law as being equal to degrees."" The government has pledged to create three million apprenticeships by 2020. To help reach that target, public bodies, including hospitals, schools and the police, will be set targets to take on more apprentices. Last month a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the Local Government Association criticised apprenticeships for failing to tackle youth unemployment. ""There is a big gap between the function apprenticeships should have in our economy and how they're being used in practice,"" said Luke Raikes, research fellow at IPPR said. ""The majority of apprenticeships are being used to train older people, and those who are already employed at their company, instead of taking on young people out of work."" In a statement on Sunday, Labour MP Liam Byrne said the government needed to do more to boost the apprenticeship ""brand"". ""The Tory-led coalition's five years allowed the devaluing of the once proud apprenticeship brand. ""They focused on re-badging in-work training for older workers as apprenticeships rather than helping create proper apprenticeship places for young people. ""Apprenticeships should be a qualification of at least level three and last two years,"" he said.","The government plans to legally protect apprenticeships , so the term can not be @placeholder .",changed,announced,abused,extended,unveiled,2
"Circuit owner the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) is considering giving notice to exercise a contract break clause at the end of 2019. A letter written by BRDC chairman John Grant - seen by ITV News - says a decision will be made by ""mid-year"". Silverstone does not want to lose the British Grand Prix any more than do the 140,000 fans who went there to watch it last year The BRDC's contract with Formula 1 runs until 2026. Silverstone first hosted the British Grand Prix in 1950 and has been the event's permanent home since 1987. Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone told ITV News: ""If they want to activate a break clause, there is nothing we can do. ""Two other tracks have contacted us and we are keen to keep a British Grand Prix, there is no doubt about it, we want to have one."" Three-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart added: ""I think it's a credible threat, not impossible for it to happen. I would be very sad if it did. ""There's no other race track that would be able to host the British Grand Prix."" BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson For anyone who has followed Formula 1 for the last decade or two, another story questioning the future of the British Grand Prix is about as surprising as cold weather in winter. There is no doubt Silverstone's owners the British Racing Drivers' Club mean it when they say they are considering activating a break clause in their contract with F1 which would end the race after 2019. But equally there is no doubt that it fundamentally amounts to posturing - Silverstone does not want to lose the British Grand Prix any more than do the 140,000 fans who went there to watch it last year. The issue is the cost of the 17-year contract - £12m in 2010; a 5% annual escalator means the race will cost nearly £17m this year and more than £26m by 2027. This is small by comparison with Russia, which pays $50m (£40.3m) a year. It's not that far out of line with the new deal signed by Italy for €68m (£58m) over 2017-19, which averages out at £19.3m a year. But Silverstone - almost alone among grands prix - receives no government funding of any kind. No other circuit in Britain is even remotely close to being able to replace it - so ignore any suggestions from F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to that end. The solution lies in new F1 owner Liberty Media, which has made it abundantly clear it wants to retain and nurture the historic European races, home of the sport's core audience, as a bedrock of its new-look F1. Liberty will complete its takeover deal before the end of the first quarter of this year. So expect some time between then and this year's British Grand Prix on 16 July a compromise deal that revises the terms of the contract and secures the race's future.","The future of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone could be under threat because of the "" potentially ruinous @placeholder "" of staging the loss - making race .",consequences,method,risk,costs,change,2
"Winfrey, one of the world's richest women, claimed an assistant refused to serve her in an upmarket handbag shop. She was apparently told one of the bags on display was ""too expensive"" for her. Shop owner Trudie Gotz told the BBC that Winfrey was ""absolutely allowed"" to look at the $35,000 (£22,500) bag, which was kept behind a screen. ""My salesperson wanted to give her the handbag in her hand. But she didn't want to take the bag,"" claimed Gotz. She said her assistant had worked in the Trois Pommes store ""for a few years and takes care of the most spoilt customers from all over the world"", adding, ""she is really a correct sales person"". Winfrey, who stars in Lee Daniels' new film The Butler, visited Zurich last month to attend singer Tina Turner's wedding. Her programme The Oprah Winfrey Show is not shown in Switzerland. Speaking to US TV show Entertainment Tonight, she said: ""I go into a store and I say to the woman, 'Excuse me, may I see the bag right above your head?' and she says to me, 'No. It's too expensive.'"" When Winfrey insisted, the shop assistant allegedly replied: ""No, no you don't want to see that one, you want to see this one because that one will cost too much. You will not be able to afford that."" The star said she left the shop calmly without arguing, but that the experience was proof that racism continues to be a problem. ""There's two different ways to handle it,"" she said. ""I could've had the whole blow-up thing... but it still exists, of course it does."" Ms Gotz did not call into question Winfrey's perception of the events. ""I didn't take care of [Winfrey]. I'm sure she felt like this - but my salesgirl promised me she took care of [her] really the best she could. So it must have been a misunderstanding,"" she said. Ms Gotz said her assistant spoke both Italian and English, ""but her English isn't as good"". ""She tried to show Mrs Oprah the same style in other qualities, because maybe she didn't understand what she wanted."" Winfrey's claims come amid a political row over plans by some Swiss towns to ban asylum-seekers from some public places. The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Berne says human rights groups have likened the plans - which include banning asylum-seekers from swimming pools, playing fields and libraries - to apartheid. Officials say the curbs, which will also see asylum-seekers housed in special centres, are aimed at preventing tensions with residents. About 48,000 people are currently seeking asylum in Switzerland. It has twice as many asylum seekers as the European average. Winfrey's interview is a public relations disaster for Switzerland, our correspondent says.","The owner of a shop in Zurich where US talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she @placeholder racism has called the incident a "" misunderstanding "" .",produced,deemed,encountered,accepts,hates,2
"The estimate for the number of ""super-Earths"" is based on detections already made and then extrapolated to include the Milky Way's population of so-called red dwarf stars. The team works with thehigh-precision Harps instrument. This is fitted to the 3.6m telescope at the Silla Observatory in Chile. Harps employs an indirect method of detection that infers the existence of orbiting planets from the way their gravity makes a parent star appear to twitch in its motion across the sky. ""Our new observations with Harps mean that about 40% of all red dwarf stars have a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone where liquid water can exist on the surface of the planet,"" said team leader Xavier Bonfils from the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble, France. ""Because red dwarfs are so common - there are about 160 billion of them in the Milky Way - this leads us to the astonishing result that there are tens of billions of these planets in our galaxy alone."" The Harps team came up with its numbers after surveying 102 carefully chosen red dwarfs, which are dimmer and cooler than our Sun. The group found a total of nine super-Earths (which are defined as planets with one to 10 times the mass of the Earth), with two judged to be orbiting inside their stars' habitable zones. Putting all its data together, including observations of stars that did not have planets, the team was able to produce an estimate for how common different sorts of planets are around red dwarfs. This assessment suggests super-Earths in the habitable zone occur in 41% of cases, with a range from 28% to 95%. Given how many red dwarf stars there are in close proximity to the Sun, it means there could be perhaps 100 super-Earth planets in the habitable zones of stars that are less than about 30 light-years distant. It raises the obvious question as to whether any of these planets are not just habitable but do indeed host life. Because red dwarfs are relatively dim and cool, their habitable zones are closer in to the star than the Earth finds itself to the Sun. But red dwarfs are known to be prone to stellar eruptions, or flares, which could bathe a nearby planet in X-rays or ultraviolet radiation, and that might make life there less likely. ""We already have ideas to find traces of life on these planets,"" commented co-researcher Stephane Udry from Geneva Observatory. ""If we are lucky to have an eclipse of the star by the planet - it's called a transit - then the light of the star will be going through the atmosphere of the planet before coming to Earth. ""This light will carry information about the chemical composition of the atmosphere. ""If we can see traces of elements related to life such as oxygen in that light, then we could get some clues that there is life on that planet. ""But we will need some big telescopes and probably in space,"" he told theBBC's Science In Action programme. The latest Harps research willappear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics [PDF]. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me onTwitter","There could be many billions of planets not much bigger than Earth @placeholder faint stars in our galaxy , says an international team of astronomers .",contains,control,lost,circling,generating,3
"Adam Simmonds, 40, denied sharing details about a police probe involving Wellingborough MP Peter Bone. The jury at Southwark Crown Court failed to reach a verdict after more than 12 hours of deliberations. It had been a ""very novel, complex and sensitive case"", the judge said. A retrial will now be considered. Mr Justice Green had said the prosecution's case was that Mr Simmonds ""wrongly conflated"" his role as Northamptonshire PCC with his political role and found it ""difficult"" to distinguish between the two. It was alleged he disclosed information about a fraud investigation involving Wellingborough MP Peter Bone. The investigation into Mr Bone was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2014. Defence barrister Mark Harries had told the court Mr Simmonds was ""deeply concerned"" about delays in a decision as to whether Mr Bone should be prosecuted or not. Everything the former PCC had done was ""in good faith"", he added. Mr Simmonds, of Northcote Road in Leicester, was the first PCC for Northamptonshire after his election in November 2012. He held the post until May 2016. He had denied a single charge of unlawfully obtaining or disclosing personal data in the three-week trial. The prosecution asked for seven days to consider a retrial, which was granted. The judge said the case may be ""a court record for the number of notebooks used"".",The jury in the trial of a former police and crime commissioner ( PCC ) accused of breaching the data protection act has been @placeholder .,discharged,jailed,disbanded,accessed,criticized,0
"In a country plagued by sexism they challenged the male-dominated world of trade unions and politics, refusing to allow men to take over their campaign. And what's more, they won. You may well have enjoyed the fruits of their labour.  The women are tea pickers from the beautiful south Indian state of Kerala.  They work for a huge plantation company, Kanan Devan Hills Plantations, which is part-owned and largely controlled by the Indian multinational, Tata, the owner of Tetley Tea. The spark that ignited the protest was a decision to cut the bonus paid to tea pickers, but its roots go much deeper than that. Tea workers in India are not well treated.  When I investigated the industry in Assam last month I found living and working conditions so bad, and wages so low, that tea workers and their families were left malnourished and vulnerable to fatal illnesses. It seems conditions in Kerala are not much different. Part of the women's complaint is that they live in one-bed huts without toilets and other basic amenities and, while they earn significantly more than the tea workers in Assam, they say the 230 rupees (£2.30; $3.50) they are paid for a day's work is half what a daily wage labourer in Kerala would get. But when, in early September, the women in Kerala demanded the bonus be reinstated - along with a hike in daily wages and better living conditions - it was not just a challenge to the company that employs them, but also to the trade unions that are supposed to represent them. The women workers say the male trade union leaders are in cahoots with the company management, denying women their entitlements while ensuring they get the plum jobs themselves. When tea prices collapsed a few years back, and some estate owners abandoned their plantations, the women argue that trade union leaders always managed to keep their jobs. They also say that the trade unions haven't done enough to stop their men from drinking away their earnings without regard for their children's education or the medical needs of their families. And they showed that they could launch an effective protest without the help of the trade unions. When 6,000 women occupied the main road to the headquarters of the plantation company it was organised by the women themselves, most of whom have no history of union agitation. They called themselves ""Pempilai Orumai"", or women's unity. In effect the women laid siege to the Munnar, one of Kerala's most popular tourist destinations. Trade and tourism were brought to a near standstill. Many slogans were directed squarely at the union leaders. ""We pick the tea and carry the bags on our shoulders, you carry off the money bags,"" read one. ""We live in tin sheds, you enjoy bungalows,"" said another. When male trade union leaders tried to join the protest they were chased away.  The women attacked one former trade union leader with their sandals.  He had to be rescued by the police. In another incident they tore down the flag poles outside the trade union offices. They also saw off local politicians who wanted to be seen offering their support. The women insisted they would continue the protest until their demands were met. At first the plantation company was defiant but, after nine days of protest and marathon negotiations overseen by the chief minister of the state, it gave in. It was a stunning victory: a group of semi-literate women had taken on the most powerful interests in the state and won. The women had represented the workforce at the talks and forced management to accept their demand to bring back the 20% bonus.  Meanwhile the male trade union leaders had to swallow their pride and sign the deal the women had negotiated. But the battle isn't over yet. The issue of the pay rise was to be negotiated separately and, when the women's demand for an increase in wages wasn't met, the unions launched an indefinite campaign to raise rates from 232 rupees to 500 rupees a day. In part this was an attempt to seize the initiative back, following the success of the women's campaign. The women have refused to be part of the union effort and launched their own independent demand for higher wages. Earlier this month some male union activists are alleged to have attacked the women's demonstration by throwing rocks.  Six people suffered minor injuries. But the women are determined to continue.  ""We have nothing to lose"", Lissy Sunny, one of the leaders of Pempilai Orumai, told the Indian news website Catch. ""Hunger and suffering are part of our lives. We don't care even if we starve to death. ""But we won't allow anyone to exploit us.  Enough is enough.""","This is the story of an extraordinary uprising , a movement of 6,000 barely @placeholder women labourers who took on one of the most powerful companies in the world .",reveals,published,educated,raged,stranded,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device The Briton, 29, beat Novak Djokovic 6-3 6-4 in London to ensure he will stay ahead of the Serb heading into 2017. ""Now that I've got there, I obviously would be motivated to try and stay in that position,"" said Murray. ""But the majors get me working hard - they really, really motivate me."" Murray, 29, won his third major title at Wimbledon in July, and ended the year on a 24-match winning streak that culminated with victory over Djokovic at the O2 Arena. He will now take a break, including attending his father Willie's stag do, before turning his attention to the new season and the Australian Open. Djokovic is a six-time champion in Melbourne and has beaten Murray in four of the five finals the Scot has lost there. ""When I go away in December to train, I'm training with the Australian Open in mind,"" said Murray. ""Because of the best-of-five-set matches, they're the ones you have to really put in the extra work for and the extra training for. That's what motivates me."" With the year-end number one ranking on the line, and having a 24-10 losing record against Djokovic, Sunday's victory at the O2 Arena was especially significant. ""It was obviously a big, big match against someone who I've played so many big matches against in my career, that would be my main rival really throughout my career,"" said Murray. ""We've played in all of the Slam finals, Olympics, obviously here now, and a match to finish the year number one. It was a very important win for me."" Media playback is not supported on this device BBC's tennis correspondent Russell Fuller Murray showed no obvious signs of fatigue in the early stages, and as he started to play with a little more aggression, Djokovic's errors began to mount. Murray controlled this match as he has virtually every one he has played since May. The win over Djokovic - just his third since Wimbledon 2013 - will allow him to start 2017 on the front foot in their long term rivalry, and as he chases that elusive first Australian Open title. Murray's lead in the rankings may be small for now, but it could be significantly bigger by the spring as he has relatively few points to defend until then. Djokovic, 29, has suffered a slump in form since completing the career Grand Slam by beating Murray at the French Open in June, and was below his best again on Sunday. ""There was no serious chance for me to win today's match,"" said the Serb. ""From the very beginning we could see that. He was just a better player all in all. It just wasn't my day. ""On the other hand, credit to Andy for being mentally tough and playing the right shots, making me play extra shots in every rally. He definitely deserved to win."" His wife has to get some credit, guys. She gave birth this year And Djokovic paid tribute to Murray's wife Kim, who gave birth to their daughter Sophia in February. ""We should all let Andy enjoy this a little bit,"" he said. ""Don't ask him questions about next season. He deserves to be in the moment and to really take everything in that he achieved. ""His team as well, and his wife. She has to get some credit, guys. She gave birth this year. He has travelled all over the place. ""I know how it is with my wife Jelena, what she had to go through as a mother back home with a little baby. ""So, Kim, well done. She's maybe made even a bigger effort than Andy.""",Andy Murray set his sights on @placeholder to his three Grand Slam titles after securing the year - end number one ranking with victory at the ATP World Tour Finals .,record,adding,display,returning,bench,1
"The fast bowler missed the second Test in Cape Town with a shoulder injury as England survived a dramatic final day to draw and retain their 1-0 lead. Fellow paceman Vernon Philander misses out on the next Test, which starts on 14 January, with an ankle injury. The hosts will be led by AB de Villiers after Hashim Amla resigned the captaincy following the second Test. If England win in Cape Town, they will take an unassailable lead in the four-Test series after a 241-run victory in the first Test in Durban. South Africa have also named a 14-man squad for the five-match one-day international series starting on 3 February. Slow left-armer Aaron Phangiso drops out of the squad that won their most recent ODI series in India but batsman Rilee Rossouw is fit again. ""We were highly encouraged by the performance put up by the Proteas at Newlands,"" said selection convener Linda Zondi. ""The very fact they were nearly able to force a win after conceding 600 runs on the first innings speaks volumes for the character of this group. ""We feel we have all our bases covered and also the options that will enable the team to exploit whatever conditions they encounter at the Bidvest Wanderers Stadium and at SuperSport Park."" South Africa Test squad: AB de Villiers (capt), Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Dean Elgar, Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, Dane Piedt, Kagiso Rabada, Rilee Rossouw, Dale Steyn, Stiaan van Zyl, Hardus Viljoen. South Africa ODI squad: AB de Villiers (capt), Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Rilee Rossouw, Dale Steyn.",South Africa have included Dale Steyn in their squad for the two @placeholder Tests against England .,home,tests,sides,remaining,opening,3
"The German missed last week's first test because he had not recovered from a back injury sustained in a crash at January's Race of Champions. A statement from the Swiss team said Wehrlein, 22, would be ""ready to hit the track with the C36"" car on Tuesday. Wehrlein was replaced by Ferrari third driver Antonio Giovinazzi in the first test, the Italian impressing onlookers. Wehrlein owes his drive at Sauber, who use Ferrari engines, to funding from Mercedes, to whom he is under contract. The German company decided against promoting him to the seat left vacant when world champion Nico Rosberg retired at the end of last season, feeling he was not ready after just one year with the now-defunct Manor team. But Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff, who signed Finn Valtteri Bottas to partner Lewis Hamilton in the factory team, wanted to give Wehrlein further time to prove himself. Mercedes has another of its young drivers, Frenchman Esteban Ocon, at the Force India team this year.",Sauber driver Pascal Wehrlein has been @placeholder fit to drive in this week 's final pre-season test in Barcelona .,fined,announced,named,passed,forced,3
"Andrew Shinnie, James Keatings and Chris Humphrey banged in three goals inside 13 first-half minutes. The Midlothian junior side had a moment to celebrate when Dean Hoskins converted a penalty. The one-way traffic continued in the second half with Jason Cummings scoring twice, while Lewis Stevenson, Keatings and Jordon Forster were also on target. The opening 10 minutes were evenly matched but a goalkeeping error gifted Hibs their opener and it encouraged the Leith side to go on a three-goal blitz at the home of their arch-rivals Hearts. Shinnie's 22-yard shot looked like it would be dealt with comfortably by Michael Andrews, but the low effort squirmed through his grasp and into the bottom right corner. Bonnyrigg's 5000-strong support remained noisy before Keatings' delightful strike into the top left corner punctured their enthusiasm. Goalkeeper Andrews could do nothing about that one and all of a sudden the pressure was on the underdogs not to fold, but a third Hibs goal followed soon after. Andrews palmed Stevenson's low shot into the path of Humphrey for the winger to stroke home an easy first goal of his Hibs career. Manager Robbie Horn signalled to his players to be big and to stand up to Hibs' dominance, and left-back Ruaridh Donaldson impressed under pressure on more than one occasion before playing a useful ball to Kieran McGachie. Forster fouled the ambling blonde forward and referee Alan Muir pointed to the spot. Dean Hoskins sent Hibs' substitute goalkeeper Ross Laidlaw the wrong way and all of a sudden the Rosey Posey's support rediscovered their fervour, flags and volume. Another shout for a penalty from a Forster handball, as well as Wayne McIntosh's header wide gave the New Dundas Park side some hope of scoring a second, but Neil Lennon's side also remained a threat and Hoskins had to be smart to clear off the line before the break. Media playback is not supported on this device Hibernian quickly killed off any thoughts of an unlikely comeback with Cummings' scissor-kick and Stevenson's back post tap-in well and truly wrapping the result up by the hour mark. Bonnyrigg were broken further by Cummings' second strike of the game - an easy finish when Andrews could only parry an effort from Grant Holt. Then Keatings completed his brace by converting into the far corner from a tight angle following Martin Boyle's through ball. The rout was complete when Forster got in the scoring act by heading home Keatings' free-kick after a reckless foul by Hoskins on Humphrey. A chastening experience on the day for Bonnyrigg but one they only experienced because of a terrific run in the competition. Hibernian's Neil Lennon: ""The attitude was great and that will give the players a lift. Overall, I'm very pleased and the most important thing is that we are in the next round. ""It was a good day. Unfortunately, we lost our goalkeeper early [Ofir Marciano after a collision], so we are waiting to hear the results of that and we're hoping it's not too bad."" Bonnyrigg's Robbie Horn: ""We just didn't start the game and we gave away some poor goals. I know we are better than that. ""We showed in spells what we are capable of at 3-0 and I thought there was a good shout for another penalty to go 3-2. ""The way Hibs moved the ball was different class."" Match ends, Bonnyrigg Rose 1, Hibernian 8. Second Half ends, Bonnyrigg Rose 1, Hibernian 8. Foul by Darren McGregor (Hibernian). Kieran McGachie (Bonnyrigg Rose) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Grant Holt (Hibernian). Jonny Brown (Bonnyrigg Rose) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Bonnyrigg Rose. Conceded by Andrew Shinnie. Foul by Jordan Forster (Hibernian). Andrew Kidd (Bonnyrigg Rose) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Grant Holt (Hibernian). Alan Horne (Bonnyrigg Rose) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Goal!  Bonnyrigg Rose 1, Hibernian 8. Jordan Forster (Hibernian) header from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by James Keatings with a cross. Dean Hoskins (Bonnyrigg Rose) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Chris Humphrey (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Dean Hoskins (Bonnyrigg Rose). Substitution, Bonnyrigg Rose. Jonny Brown replaces Jonathan Stewart. Goal!  Bonnyrigg Rose 1, Hibernian 7. James Keatings (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Martin Boyle. Substitution, Hibernian. Martin Boyle replaces Jason Cummings. Goal!  Bonnyrigg Rose 1, Hibernian 6. Jason Cummings (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Attempt saved. Grant Holt (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Jason Cummings (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Jonathan Stewart (Bonnyrigg Rose). Jordan Forster (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Kieran McGachie (Bonnyrigg Rose). Foul by Lewis Stevenson (Hibernian). Andrew Kidd (Bonnyrigg Rose) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by James Keatings (Hibernian). Jonathan Stewart (Bonnyrigg Rose) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Hibernian. Fraser Fyvie replaces John McGinn. Substitution, Bonnyrigg Rose. Fraser McLaren replaces Wayne McIntosh. Grant Holt (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Scott Gray (Bonnyrigg Rose). Goal!  Bonnyrigg Rose 1, Hibernian 5. Lewis Stevenson (Hibernian) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Grant Holt. Chris Humphrey (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Wayne McIntosh (Bonnyrigg Rose). Substitution, Bonnyrigg Rose. Scott Gray replaces Lewis Turner. Jordan Forster (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Andrew Kidd (Bonnyrigg Rose). James Keatings (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Jonathan Stewart (Bonnyrigg Rose).",Scottish Cup holders Hibernian @placeholder Bonnyrigg Rose at Tynecastle to ease into the fifth round .,rivals,finding,crowd,group,demolished,4
"The animal was spotted under a seat in a promenade shelter, in Redcar, on Sunday, where it was thought to have taken refuge from rough seas. As people arrived, it began to move away, leading to fears it could end up on a nearby road. The crew moved it to safety and called a marine expert, who released it at the grey seal colony on the River Tees. Dave Cocks, from Redcar RNLI, said: ""We guess the seal had decided to get itself out of the sea, sometime during the night, to avoid the rough waves, with winds gusting at nearly 60mph. ""To start with, it was quite happy to stay snuggled up out of the weather in a corner of a shelter. ""But as more people came along, it tried to get out of the way and we were concerned it might even end up on the road outside the boathouse. ""Two RNLI volunteers used one of the lifeboat's survivor's blankets to swaddle the seal so it could be carried into a quiet corner of the lifeboat station.""","A volunteer lifeboat crew , training on a Teesside beach , ended up offering a helping hand to a @placeholder baby seal .",bank,missing,fuel,stranded,fixed,3
"Two children are still missing after the inflatable dinghy hit a freighter off the Greek island of Lesbos. The 27-year-old who organised the crossing was jailed for four years. The man steering the boat was given a two-and-a-half year sentenced. He had been offered free passage in return for taking the helm. A third man received a suspended sentence. The boat was heading from Turkey to Greece. The case came to a German court because one of the alleged smugglers was arrested in a refugee camp in Burghausen, in the country's south-east. According to the prosecutor's office, at least 46 people were on board and five children were among the dead. The prosecution had pushed for a longer sentence of 12 years and six months for the main defendant, according to German media. However, presiding judge Erich Fuchs called him ""a small fish"" and said the man was a migrant himself who was not trying to make money, according to the Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcasting company. Mr Fuchs said he had taken $100 per person (£77; 85 euros) and the rest of the much-larger fee was passed to a Turkish smuggling organisation. A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.",A German court has jailed two Syrian people traffickers over the @placeholder of 13 migrants in the Mediterranean in 2015 .,grounds,behaviour,deaths,safety,island,2
"If some sectors of the Cypriot economy - finance, construction, real estate, retailing - must inevitably shrink, what other parts could take up the slack? Tourism is one obvious candidate, and a handy export earner for a country that in 2012 collectively spent more than 6% more than it earned. The sector already accounts for about a sixth of the economy. Manufacturing may also have potential, although it would be starting from a much lower base - only 6% of GDP - and has been shrinking up until now. Manufacturers also typically rely on the ability to import parts - something that may prove impossible for local companies so long as international capital controls stay in place and the banking system remains dysfunctional. Unfortunately, both these sectors also face another common enemy: the euro. Cypriot labour costs rose 40% between 1995 and 2008, making it a relatively more expensive place to go on holiday or locate a widget factory, and the main reason why Cyprus has been collectively spending more than it earns. But as long as it remains in the single currency, Cyprus - like the rest of southern Europe - cannot gain a cheap international price advantage by devaluing its currency. That puts it at a permanent disadvantage as a holiday destination to nearby Turkey, for example. Another drawback of being in the euro is that you do not control your own central bank. Whereas the UK and US governments can rely on their central banks to buy up a lot of their debts through their quantitative easing programmes, the countries in the eurozone face much harder budget constraints. Cyprus - like all other governments seeking a bailout - has been told to impose spending cuts and tax rises. As the IMF recently pointed out, imposing austerity in the middle of an economic depression - an increasingly common practice throughout the industrialised world since 2008 - has turned out to be much more damaging for those countries' economies than policymakers (though not many economists) had anticipated. Cyprus is expected to carry out ""fiscal consolidation"" equivalent to 4.5% of GDP, which the IMF study suggests is likely to shrink its economy by even more than that percentage. Industry share of gross value added in 2012 (or 2011 for food & accommodation) Even so, the Cypriot government's debts are still expected by the EU to pile up, peaking at 140% of GDP, a level that many consider both optimistic and unsustainable. All of this is fairly rotten for a government that - like the Spanish and Irish - actually had modest and falling debts before 2008. The country's rescue lenders may, of course, relent in their demands. Cyprus is only the smallest of many countries to find itself stuck between the rock of bank deleveraging and the hard place of government austerity. Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece and, increasingly, France are all experiencing the ugly consequences for their economies. So it could be that Germany soon finds itself in a minority over its demands for more spending cuts. Cyprus does, of course, have some say over its destiny - it could still choose the nuclear option of leaving the euro. Any expectation that Cyprus would leave would result in bank runs, capital controls and huge losses for depositors. Who wants their deposits forcibly converted into a new Cypriot currency and then devalued? But, given that Cyprus already faces all the above, some economists are asking why not just go ahead and leave? At least that way it can enjoy the benefits of devaluing and of regaining a central bank that is able to finance the government directly. The Cypriot public have seemingly turned against the euro - and the popularity of the single currency is on the wane generally across Europe. Indeed, it could be that if Cyprus does end up leaving, it is because depositors anticipate the decision before the government has even made it. To put it another way, if the Cypriot public want out of the euro, who on earth would opt to keep their money in a Cypriot bank account, even if it is backed by the European Central Bank? This is the second in a two-part series on the future of the Cypriot economy. The first looks at how to restore confidence in the country's banking system.","Thinking about the future is hard for many of those @placeholder with the crisis in Cyprus - yet it is essential to consider how an economic recovery could be engineered , and whether this would be best done within or outside the eurozone .",involved,struggling,coincided,forces,content,1
"After a nervy opening, Leicester went in at the break 11-3 ahead when Genge crossed just before half-time. And, with David Wilson in the sin-bin for Falcons, Telusa Veainu crossed to extend Leicester's lead, before Genge went over for his second from close in. Ben Youngs then rounded off the victory with a superb break to earn his side the bonus point. The victory opened up a four-point gap over fifth-placed Bath, who were defeated by struggling Worcester on Saturday. Tigers, under head coach Matt O'Connor at Welford Road for the first time, had begun the day level on points with Bath, and the game looked to be heading to a 6-3 scoreline at the break after two penalties from Freddie Burns and one from Falcons' Joel Hodgson. However, Genge was driven over from close range to put Tigers ahead at the interval, and Veainu finished off a superb left-to-right move off the back of a scrum. Genge then followed up for his second of the match after Dan Cole had been held up just before the line and Youngs, a hopeful for this summer's British and Irish Lions tour, notched his side's fourth to wrap up a straightforward win. Leicester head coach Matt O'Connor: ""I think we have 25, 30, 40% growth in us, so it will be interesting to see how we go in the next two games. ""If we look after the ball four, five, six times better, you are talking about those numbers. We are good enough to beat anyone."" Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards: ""We never look at seventh place, we look at our performance and we were poor. Last week we were fine. We are inconsistent, which is most frustrating. ""When we are on song we play some really good rugby. The players are disappointed because we did not turn up on the day."" Leicester Tigers: Veainu; Thompstone, Roberts, Mermoz, Pietersen; Burns, B Youngs (capt); Genge, McGuigan, Cole, Barrow, Kitchener, Williams, O'Connor, Hamilton. Replacements: T Youngs, Bateman, Balmain, Fitzgerald, Thacker, Harrison, Williams, Tait. Newcastle Falcons: Watson; Goneva, Harris, Socino, Sinoti; Hodgson, Young; Vickers, Cooper, D Wilson, Green, Olmstead, M Wilson, Welch (capt), Latu. Replacements: Sowrey, Harris, Welsh, Witty, Chick, Egerton, Willis, Kibirige. For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.",Ellis Genge 's two tries @placeholder Leicester thrash Newcastle to boost the Tigers ' hopes of a top - four finish .,recovered,group,form,side,helped,4
"Hull held a 12-0 lead in the first half after Mark Minichiello crossed and Gareth Ellis, playing his first match since April, set up Josh Bowden. Darnell McIntosh and Jermaine McGillvary replied, but Danny Brough missed the second conversion attempt. Marc Sneyd kicked the only points of a tight second half as Hull held on. Had host Hull lost, leaders Castleford would have qualified for the semi-finals without playing a match in the Super 8s with victory at Catalans Dragons on Saturday. After Minichiello got in behind the visiting defence, Ellis showed Hull fans what they had been missing during his three-month absence with a sternum injury as his footwork created the space for Bowden to score. Sneyd hit both of his conversions, something which Brough could not replicate, and it proved costly as no points were scored in the second period until the 75th-minute, when Sneyd opted to kick a penalty rather than run it as Hull moved a point above Wakefield Trinity, who host St Helens on Sunday. Hull FC coach Lee Radford: ""It wasn't pretty but it was really intense. We've achieved our goal of making the top four after 23 rounds. ""How we started the game was what we want to take into next week. We had to play for 80 minutes and ultimately we strangled them in terms of possession. ""Our front-line defence was much better and that's what we asked for."" Huddersfield coach Rick Stone: ""The effort was okay and we had courage. But we made too many errors and completed at 63% overall. ""We looked tired and it showed in our execution. As poor as we were in execution, we have to give credit to Hull. ""They are a proud team and were back at home after a month of playing away from home. If we want to beat a team of this quality, we have to execute better. ""Our kicking was poor and they were more selective throughout the whole game. We got our fair share in the second half, but it became a real arm wrestle. ""We had a few chances and they had a few chances but defences were on top in the second half with no tries scored."" Hull: Shaul, Fonua, Griffin, Tuimavave, Talanoa, Connor, Sneyd, Taylor, Houghton, Watts, Minichiello, Manu, Ellis. Replacements: Green, Washbrook, Bowden, Fash. Huddersfield: Rankin, McGillvary, Cudjoe, Gaskell, McIntosh, Brough, Ridyard, Rapira, Leeming, Ikahihifo, Roberts, Ferguson, Hinchcliffe. Replacements: Wakeman, Ta'ai, Clough, O'Brien. Referee: Chris Kendall",Hull FC moved up to third in Super League with a win over Huddersfield in a match between two sides @placeholder of a Super 8s spot .,clear,record,assured,top,bottom,2
"The ride will be one of the most unusual methods of travel for the torch during the 70-day relay. Other North East landmarks the flame will visit include Hadrian's Wall, the Angel of the North, St Mary's Lighthouse and the Penshaw Monument. It will also go through Ashington, in Northumberland, twice in one day. During its time in the North East it will be carried down the coast of Northumberland and around the Tyne and Wear areas before arriving on Teesside. There will be three overnight stops in the area with evenings of celebrations on each night. These are in Alnwick on 14 June, Newcastle on 15 June and Durham on 16 June. The North East leg of the journey will begin at Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland. Councillor Neil Bradbury, from Northumberland County Council, said preparations were already under way for the torch's visit. ""Over the coming months, towns and villages along the route will be planning welcome celebrations on behalf of the surrounding communities so that we can all get involved,"" he said. The flame will be carried through Sunderland on 16 June before heading to Durham for an overnight stop. Councillor Paul Watson, leader of Sunderland Council, said: ""This is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity and a very proud day for Sunderland. ""We want as many people as possible to have the chance to see the Olympic flame as it passes through our city. ""This is a fantastic opportunity for people to be involved in something that will be talked about for generations to come and to demonstrate the warm welcome that Sunderland is famed for."" The Olympic flame will arrive in the UK from Greece on 18 May 2012. The relay will begin at Land's End, Cornwall, the next day and ends on Friday, 27 July in the Olympic Stadium. The breakdown of the locations in Tyne and Wear are: 14 June - Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Bamburgh, Alnwick. 15 June - Alnwick, Hipsburn, Warkworth, Amble, Ashington, Newbiggin-By-The-Sea, Ashington, Choppington, Morpeth, Hartford, Bedlington, Blyth, Whitley Bay, Cullercoats, Tynemouth, North Shields, Howden, Wallsend, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 16 June - Gateshead, South Shields, Whitburn, Sunderland, Low Fell and Chowdene, Blaydon, Prudhoe, Stocksfield, Hexham, Riding Mill, Consett, Moorside, Castleside, Tow Law, Esh, Langley Park, Durham.",The Olympic flame is to be carried on a @placeholder - wire from the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle as part of its journey around the British Isles .,trolley,zip,cross,hand,beach,1
"So it was again today when he met Nicola Sturgeon in Bute House. And yet there is caution too on the first minister's side. Why so? Competing mandates - and sundry thoughts as to how those mandates are most effectively exercised. Both leaders took pains to describe today's talks as constructive.  Yet both leaders retain distinctly different visions as to the final constitutional construct which could emerge. Mr Cameron has, behind him, an overall Commons majority. He has the votes in the House. He could, if he chooses, wield that majority to legislate on Scotland as he chooses. But he knows - and Nicola Sturgeon gently but firmly reminds him - that Scotland tends to prefer discussion to diktat. He is reluctant to resort to an early, overt rebuff in the light of the sweeping gains made by the SNP last week in the UK elections. And so the prime minister offers to listen. He offers to consider ideas advanced by Ms Sturgeon as to further powers - beyond the Smith Commission agreement - which might usefully be devolved to Holyrood. There is, to be clear, little evident enthusiasm in that offer. Mr Cameron makes clear that his preference, his primary concern, is to implement the Smith package in full, through legislation in the Commons. Which is where the divisions lie. Ms Sturgeon wants to go considerably beyond Smith. She wants devolved control of employment, the minimum wage, National Insurance, substantial welfare powers and equality policy - in addition to the control of income tax rates and bands plus a limited share of welfare featured in Smith. And she wants discussion on these matters to proceed via debate within civic and political Scotland - as well as in the Commons.  The two leaders, therefore, differ on substance and process too. Apart, of course, from the small matter that, ultimately, Ms Sturgeon wants to end the Union which Mr Cameron strives to defend. But Nicola Sturgeon is cautious too. She has disavowed gesture politics. She says the people of Scotland want and deserve mature representation by their elected tribunes. Given that, she is unwilling to precipitate a crisis in the talks - at least too speedily. The issue here is exit strategy. She can cajole, she can persuade, she can demand.  But, if the PM says no, what then?  He has the votes in the Commons. Again, down the line, Nicola Sturgeon could appeal once more for popular support in Scotland, citing claims that Westminster has neglected Scottish demands. Equally, if not handled carefully, an early collapse of this renewed process might simply demonstrate that the SNP presence in the Commons - huge and vocal though it is - remains a UK minority, part of the opposition. So Ms Sturgeon will seek to obtain what she can by consensus, by co-operation, by persuasion.  Cautiously.","David Cameron has long since learned , like other prime ministers before him , to tread warily in dealing with the miasma of constitutional , electoral and strategic issues which comprise the @placeholder politic in Scotland .",body,country,secret,island,majority,0
"The technology giant had argued that it was against customer privacy. Victor Collins was found dead in a hot tub in Arkansas in November 2015. His friend James Andrew Bates denies murdering him. Prosecutors think the Echo may have captured fragments of audio from the scene as it listened for commands. The ""always on"" Echo speaker makes recordings of audio it hears from a fraction of a second before it detects a wake word - either ""Alexa"" or ""Amazon"" - and that data goes to Amazon's servers. One witness said music had been streaming from the device during the evening. Mr Bates says he was asleep at the time, and the data may hold clues as to who was with Mr Collins when he died. A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.","Amazon has agreed to @placeholder over data from an Amazon Echo that may have been operating as an alleged murder took place , after the defendant consented .",exclude,hand,go,dismiss,fork,1
"Bradley Simpson was last seen at about 16:00 on Saturday afternoon playing on his bike outside his Lerwick home. He was due to spend the night at his grandmother's house across the road. When he failed to turn up at 20:00 the police were alerted and a search was launched. However, he was found in the back of his dad's van shortly after 22:00. His father had earlier driven the van to a local supermarket at about 18:30, and noticed the door was not shut properly, so he closed and locked it. As the later search continued, Bradley's grandmother Sylvia Woodhouse suggested they check the van, and he was found. She said: ""The later it got, I thought has he fallen and hurt himself, or even been unconscious, it had been raining, it was cold. ""By about 10 o'clock I really though we weren't going to see him again, that he wasn't going to be alive."" Describing the moment when they opened the door and found Bradley, she said: ""I thought I was going to vomit just with the relief from the stress and the worry, and I burst into tears.""",A missing five - year - old Shetland boy who @placeholder a major search was found sleeping in his father 's van .,did,sparked,disappeared,survived,underwent,1
"The one-vehicle collision happened on the B852 between Dores and Inverfarigaig, part of General Wade's Military Road. Police were informed of the collision shortly before 12:40. The road was closed while an investigation took place. The man's next-of-kin have been informed.",A 71 - year - old man has died in a motorbike crash on a road along the @placeholder of Loch Ness .,shores,edge,course,bottom,south,0
"Goosen is reportedly returning to South Africa to become a commercial director. ""We regret that so obviously talented a young player has been misguided and abandoned professional rugby,"" said Racing president Jacky Lorenzetti. ""Racing 92 reserves the right for a judicial follow-up to both Johan Goosen and those who advise him."" Goosen has won 13 caps for South Africa, most recently starting at full-back in his team's 27-13 defeat by Wales last month. He was voted the Top 14's player of the year last season after helping Racing to the French top-flight title. Goosen has struggled with injury during his career but had been fully fit this year and returned to the South Africa side this summer, winning six more caps for the Springboks.",South Africa international Johan Goosen has @placeholder his French club Racing 92 by announcing his retirement from the sport at the age of 24 .,revealed,angered,named,extended,defended,1
"Options include bringing in full restrictions across central roads between 08:30 and 18:30, or limiting charges to the afternoon. Another alternative sees restrictions between 13:00 and 18:30 on all streets except main roads, where charges would also operate in the morning. Councillors have agreed in principle to extend parking controls to Sundays. They will work out exactly how the change will be implemented on Tuesday.",Motorists face @placeholder to park in Edinburgh city centre on Sundays for the first time under new plans .,continues,people,set,forces,paying,4
"The mummy is already a favourite at Maidstone Museum, but scientists plan to use a grant to reconstruct her face and discover more about her background. Ta-Kush is believed to be a 14-year-old girl who died about 2,700 years ago. But museum staff say the results of a CT scan on the mummy and coffin could even rewrite history. They plan to use the £78,700 grant to bring together the museum's Egyptian and Greek collections in a new ancient civilisations gallery. But the centrepiece will be Ta-Kush, who until recently was thought to be called Ta-Kesh. Samantha Harris, the museum's collections manager, said studies by an Egyptologist in Cairo had revealed the girl's true name. ""For over 150 years we've been calling her Ta-Kesh. But she's reinterpreted her name as Ta-Kush, which means the Kushite lady,"" she said. The mummy, which has been at the museum since the 1850s, will be scanned by experts at Kent Institute of Medicine and Surgery (Kims) and the results analysed by their counterparts at Liverpool John Moore's University, who will digitally reconstruct the face, head and shoulders. Lyn Palmer, who is managing the project, said: ""It is going to personalise Ta-Kush. It will mean that our visitors will be able to see what she looks like."" The scientific analysis should also help establish for sure the body's age and even confirm its sex. Ms Palmer added: ""We think she's a 14-year-old girl, but she may turn out not to be. Previous scans of females have turned out to be male."" Work already being undertaken has helped narrow down where she originated to the area around Thebes, details about her parents and her name, gleaned from hieroglyphics on the coffin. Matt Travail, imaging manager at Kims, said: ""It will be completely different from how we scan our patients. The scan itself will be over and done with in five minutes, but a lot of the time... will be spent on the analysis of it and the reconstruction.""","The story behind an almost 3,000 - year - old Egyptian whose mummified body is on display at a Kent museum is about to be @placeholder , thanks to lottery money .",scrapped,restored,unveiled,published,unearthed,4
"William ""Bill"" Lincoln, 60, denies being part of the conspiracy to burgle the safety desposit, in central London. Jewels and precious metals estimated at £14m were taken in the raid over Easter, Woolwich Crown Court heard. Mr Lincoln was arrested in his car on 19 May after leaving the address written on the note, it is alleged. The prosecution has told the court that as he was arrested Mr Lincoln, of Winkley Street, Bethnal Green, was driving away from the Old Wheatsheaf pub in Enfield, where stolen goods from the jewel raid were transferred from co-defendant Jon Harbinson's car to raid ringleader John Collins' car. Previously, Mr Collins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary, however Mr Harbinson denies this charge and also denies conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property. Mr Lincoln was stopped by plain clothes officers and pulled out of the driver's seat as he was leaning over the centre console, close to where the pieces of a handwritten note was found in the passenger side footwell. The note gave the address of the pub, the court heard. Mr Lincoln told the detective who arrested him that he was experiencing pain following a double-hip replacement as well as suffering incontinence. While in police custody at Wood Green police station, Mr Lincoln repeatedly asked to use the toilet, but soiled himself when he was denied the request. Det Con Matthew Benedict told the court: ""They said he could not go the toilet at the moment. And by the time I came back he had already wet himself."" Defendants and charges Previously John Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington; Daniel Jones, 58, of Park Avenue, Enfield; Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield and Brian Reader, 76, of Dartford Road, Dartford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary. They will be sentenced at a later date. The trial continues.","One of the men accused over the Hatton Garden jewel raid @placeholder to tear up a note about the loot transfer when he was arrested , a court heard .",prepares,failed,attempted,refused,helping,2
Officers were called to the address in the Renfrewshire town's Gordon Street at about 20:55 on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said that a 40-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man were found dead inside. She said post mortem examinations had been carried out and both deaths were still being treated as unexplained.,"The deaths of a man and woman whose bodies were found at a @placeholder in Paisley are being treated as "" unexplained "" , police have said .",site,property,river,risk,school,1
"Roy Blackman, 73, was found inside the property on Headcorn Road, Biddenden, on 21 March. A post-mortem examination revealed he died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries. Mark Love, 37, of Frittenden Road, Staplehurst, has also been charged with aggravated burglary. Officers arrested a sixth person in connection with Mr Blackman's death on Saturday. Kent Police said a 41-year-old man from the Maidstone area has been bailed until 1 July. Four other men arrested in connection with the incident remain on bail. Detectives have also released a picture of a firearm resembling one reported missing from Mr Blackman's address. They are keen to locate the BSA SuperTen air rifle, which had a laser sight attached to the top. Anyone with information is asked to contact the force.",A man has been charged with murder after a burglary victim was @placeholder to death at his home in Kent.,hacked,strangled,starved,forced,beaten,4
"Baghdadi has been appointed caliph by the jihadist group, which has seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria. The video appears to have been filmed on Friday during a sermon at the al-Nouri Mosque in Mosul, northern Iraq. It surfaced on Saturday amid reports that he had been killed or wounded in an Iraqi air raid. It was not clear when the attack was supposed to have taken place. In the sermon, at Mosul's most famous landmark, Baghdadi praised the establishment of the ""Islamic state"", which was declared by Isis last Sunday. Experts say the reclusive militant leader has never appeared on video before, although there are photographs of him. ""Appointing a leader is an obligation on Muslims, and one that has been neglected for decades,"" he said. He also said that he did not seek out the position of being the caliph, or leader, calling it a ""burden"". ""I am your leader, though I am not the best of you, so if you see that I am right, support me, and if you see that I am wrong, advise me,"" he told worshippers. Captions in the video referred to Baghdadi as ""Caliph Ibrahim"", a name he has used since the group unilaterally declared him leader of an ""Islamic state"" last Sunday. Earlier on Saturday Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fired two of his top security chiefs following the collapse of the Iraqi army in the north of the country last month. The chief of the Iraqi army's ground forces as well as the head of the federal police both lost their jobs. Meanwhile, extremists led by Isis destroyed at least a dozen shrines and places of worship in Nineveh province in northern Iraq. Shia, Sunni and Christian targets were destroyed, with images of their demolition being shared on social media. More than a million people have fled their homes as a result of the recent conflict, and at least 2,461 people were killed in June, the UN and Iraqi officials say.","Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi , the leader of Islamist militant group Isis , has called on Muslims to @placeholder him , in his first video sermon .",worship,marry,obey,encourage,deliver,2
"New York-based China Labor Watch (CLW) said its investigators would be put on trial at a later date. The group says it has uncovered evidence of pay violations and physical violence at the Huajian group. The Ivanka Trump brand says the company has not made shoes for it since March. However, CLW said it had obtained production schedules for May and June which contained orders for the brand. The Huajian group denies accusations of forced overtime, low wages, and other abuses made by CLW. The accused worked undercover at Huajian factories which CLW says also manufactured products for other brands. Su Heng, Li Zhao, and Hua Haifeng were detained separately in late May after taking part in the investigation. The Chinese authorities said they had been detained for using illegal surveillance equipment. CLW said the trio's actions had not constituted crimes but admitted it had collected a series of pictures and eight hours of video footage during its investigation. Workers at the shoe factories laboured for 15 hours a day, the group alleged, and up to 18 hours at busy times - sometimes finishing at 01:30 and returning to work at 07:10. No overtime was paid, and workers who resigned were not paid, CLW said. ""Management frequently verbally abused and sometimes physically hit workers,"" it added. It also alleges that the company fined workers for being absent, deducted the fines from their pay and fabricated pay slips to show higher amounts than workers were actually paid. Ms Trump has not directly commented on the controversy since it first emerged in May, though CLW said it had written to her on two occasions. She continues to hold a stake in the business but works in her father's White House administration. CLW's director, Li Qiang, said that as the US president's daughter, and holding a White House role, she had ""power and influence"" to directly intervene. ""However, based on what we have seen so far, she has left us very disappointed,"" it said.",Three undercover activists investigating a company which made shoes for the @placeholder line of President Donald Trump 's daughter Ivanka have been released on bail .,growing,fashion,first,disruption,action,1
"He's been called a ""morally bankrupt sociopath"", a ""scumbag"" a ""garbage monster"" and ""everything that is wrong with capitalism."" And those are some of the tamer comments. So how did a rap music-loving, former hedge fund manager suddenly become the target of online ridicule and even death threats? His company recently acquired the rights to Daraprim. Developed in the 1950s, the drug is the best treatment for a relatively rare parasitic infection called toxoplasmosis. People with weakened immune systems, such as Aids patients, have come to rely on the drug, which until recently cost about $13.50 (£8.80) a dose. But Mr Shkreli announced he was raising the price to $750 a pill. The more than 5,000% increase and his brash defence of the decision has made him a pariah among patients-rights groups, politicians and hundreds of Twitter users. Other drugs companies have made similar moves raising the price of niche products, but few have so publicly and so unapologetically answered critics. The backlash became so pitched on Tuesday that Mr Shkreli agreed to lower the price of Daraprim to an ""affordable level"". Martin Shkreli, the son of Albanian and Croatian immigrants, grew up in a working-class community in Brooklyn, New York. He skipped several grades in school and received a degree in business from New York's Baruch College in 2004. At 17, he began his first internship at Cramer Berkowitz & Co, the hedge fund founded by television personality Jim Cramer. In 2006, Mr Shkreli started his own hedge fund, Elea Capital Management. The fund closed a year later after a $2.3m lawsuit from Lehman Brothers, which collapsed before it could collect on the ruling. After Elea, Mr Shkreli started MSMB Capital Management in 2008. The fund would be his launch pad for founding biotech firms including Turing. Turing was not Mr Shkreli's first foray into the pharmaceutical industry. In 2011, he founded biotech firm Retrophin, with the goal of focusing on medicines for rare diseases. He was ousted as head of the company in 2014 amidst allegations he improperly handled legal settlements. A year later the company filed a $65m lawsuit that claimed Mr Shkreli created Retrophin and took it public simply to pay off investors in his old hedge fund, MSMB when the fund went under. Mr Shkreli has denied the accusations. ""They are sort of concocting this wild and crazy and unlikely story to swindle me out of the money,"" he told the New York Times. Turing Pharmaceuticals was launched in February 2015 after Mr Shkreli was forced out of Retrophin. The business claims its goal is to focus on treatments for serious diseases for which there are limited options. ""We are dedicated to helping patients, who often have no effective treatment options,"" a statement on Turing's website said. The company only has two products on the market Daraprim and Vecamyl, which treats hypertension. Mr Shkreli has argued the Daraprim price increase was warranted because the drug is highly specialised; he likened the Daraprim to an Aston Martin previously being sold at the price of a bicycle. The additional profits he said will be used to make improvements to the 62-year-old drug recipe. Mr Shkreli did not take the criticism of his company's actions lightly. On Sunday, he sent out a hostile tweet accusing the media of singling him out.  ""And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me. So I point one back at em, but not the index or pinkie,"" he wrote, quoting an Eminem song. His tone later softened following several TV interviews where he claimed the profits of the drug would be used to create a better product. All of the negative attention may have finally had an effect on Mr Shkreli. His Twitter account, which had sparred with critics for days, went dark and then Mr Shkreli agreed to lower the price. ""We've agreed to lower the price on Daraprim to a point that is more affordable and is able to allow the company to make a profit, but a very small profit,"" he told ABC News. ""We think these changes will be welcomed.""","Judging by social media , Martin Shkreli , the 32 - year - old chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals , may be the most @placeholder man in America right now .",hated,names,honeymoon,annoying,deprived,0
"The stamps will feature characters such as Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker and Yoda and will also feature three scenes from the new film, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. They will go on sale on 20 October.",Eighteen new first class stamps are being released by the Royal Mail to @placeholder the Star Wars movies .,represent,navigate,improve,replace,celebrate,4
"Victoria Allen, 51, threatened to take Brannel School in St Austell, Cornwall to tribunal over the matter. The dispute was settled out of court earlier. She had told the pupil she did not agree with same sex relationships and she was unhappy that the rainbow emblem was used to represent gay pride. More on the teacher row, plus more Devon and Cornwall news Both parties spent the day behind closed doors at Bodmin Magistrates' Court thrashing out an agreement. A joint statement said head teacher Andy Edmonds ""recognised Victoria Allen's right to share her Christian beliefs with students and has apologised for any upset that Victoria Allen may have felt during the disciplinary process"". Outside the court, Mrs Allen said she was made to ""feel like a criminal"" for sharing her ""personal, Biblical beliefs"". She said she believes the rainbow emblem, often used to represent the gay community, should indicate ""God's promise not to flood the world again"". Mrs Allen said the student asked her a direct question about her personal religious beliefs. ""If a child asks my personal opinion I feel I should give it,"" she said. In the statement, Mrs Allen acknowledged that staff ""should share balanced views"". Libby Powell of the Christian Legal Centre, which supported Mrs Allens' claim, said: ""Vicky was asked a question about her personal opinion. ""We know that there are lots of people who disagree with the Biblical view of marriage and they are free to disagree. ""What we want to say is that there has to be space for the other point of view, Vicky's point of view, to be there as well.""",A school has apologised to a Christian teaching assistant it @placeholder for sharing her views on gay relationships with a 14 - year - old student .,campaigned,show,qualify,disciplined,claimed,3
"The sale includes Barclays' retail, wealth management and corporate banking business in Spain. In a statement, Caixa said the deal involved 270 branches and approximately 555,000 new clients. Barclays is reorganising its business by cutting jobs and selling off parts of its European operations. In May, it announced plans to cut 19,000 jobs by 2016, of which 9,000 will be in the UK, as well as to create a ""bad bank"", which included its retail banking operations in Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. The idea behind the ""bad bank"" was to group together businesses no longer considered central to Barclays, with a view to selling them off or listing them on the stock market. ""We were clear [in our update in May] that this business, while not central to Barclays' strategy, could be attractive to another owner - and today's announcement reflects that perspective,"" said Antony Jenkins, chief executive of Barclays. ""Under the ownership of CaixaBank, a leader in retail banking in Spain, these businesses will have a greater opportunity to grow and thrive,"" he continued. The deal does not include Barclays' Spanish credit card operations or its investment banking business. ""This acquisition will enable us to enhance our personal and private banking businesses in Spain, strengthening our counselling offer to our customers,"" said the chief executive of CaixaBank Gonzalo Gortazar. 19,000 Jobs to be cut by 2016 Around 9,000 in the UK 38,800 retail banking 26,000 investment banking",Barclays Bank has agreed to sell part of its Spanish business for £ 633 m to the @placeholder 's third largest lender CaixaBank .,region,country,public,continent,women,1
"Scott Curtis, William Malkin and Rogan Millar were held following the Operation Sylvan probe in the city last October. Malkin, 25, was jailed for five-and-a-half years at the High Court in Glasgow. Curtis, 26, and Millar, 28, were jailed for four-and-a-half years and four years respectively. Malkin, of Dundee, was convicted of being concerned in the supply of the class A drugs between April and October last year. Curtis, of Dundee, and Millar, of Tayport, Fife, admitted the same charge committed between September and October last year. A previous court hearing was told Curtis and Malkin were seen entering a tenement close carrying a cardboard box and bags. Drugs were discovered inside the box and bags during a raid at a flat in the building The court was told Curtis had a knife, a baseball bat and a knuckle duster in his car. The court heard Millar's home was also searched and what appeared to be the remains of a drugs ""tick list"" were discovered. Lady Scott told the men: ""This was a significant operation in respect of class A drugs.""","Three men @placeholder during a police raid that recovered £ 100,000 of heroin and cocaine in Dundee have been jailed .",caught,tortured,people,killed,scored,0
"ECB President Mario Draghi said the bank expected the bloc's economy to shrink by about 0.5% this year, before recovering later in 2013. He said weak consumer and investor sentiment was weighing on growth. Earlier, the ECB held the benchmark eurozone interest rate at the record low of 0.75%, as had been expected. Mr Draghi said rates had been left unchanged due to higher energy prices, rising taxes and the fact inflation fell from 2.5% to 2.2% last month. Interest rates are the main tool used by central banks to influence demand and therefore prices in the economy. Mr Draghi said the bank expected inflation to fall below 2% next year. The target rate is below but close to 2%. Interest rates have been at 0.75% for five months, after July's cut from 1%. The Bank of England also kept its main interest rate unchanged on Thursday, leaving it at 0.5%. The ECB revised down is forecast for the eurozone economic growth in 2013 to between minus 0.9% and plus 0.4%. For 2014, it forecast growth of between 0.2% and 2.2%. Mr Draghi said ""persistent uncertainty"" was weighing on economic activity. He said the bank continued to see ""downside risks"", in particular ""uncertainties about the resolution of sovereign debt issues in the euro area, geopolitical issues and fiscal policy decisions in the United States"". He was referring to the so-called fiscal cliff of automatic spending cuts and tax rises which kick in in the new year and which will push the US economy back into recession. US policymakers are trying to agree a way to avoid the cliff. However, Mr Draghi said a ""strengthening global demand and a significant improvement in financial market confidence"" would help fuel a recovery later in 2013. The eurozone is back in recession as austerity measures designed to reduce debt levels continue to undermine demand and confidence. The economy of the 17-member bloc contracted by 0.1% between July and September, after shrinking 0.2% in the previous three months. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is at a record high of 11.7%. The eurozone was last in recession in 2009, when the economy contracted for five consecutive quarters.","The European Central Bank ( ECB ) has revised down its eurozone growth forecasts for this year and next as "" economic weakness @placeholder into 2013 "" .",burst,shrugged,extends,crashed,swings,2
"The surrogate says they deliberately left Gammy behind, but took his healthy twin sister. The couple deny this. It later emerged that the man had previously been convicted for child sex offences. Officials say they have now managed to reach the couple, but have no major concerns at present. The contact follows days of speculation over the couple's whereabouts. In a separate discovery, nine babies were found in a Bangkok flat, with a lawyer claiming they were all surrogate babies fathered by a Japanese businessman. Child protection officers reached the Australian pair after trying for the past few days. Western Australia Child Protection Minister Helen Morton told Fairfax Radio on Thursday: ""We've had telephone contact with the family and we're in the process of putting other arrangements in place."" The department had no ""major"" concerns at present, but would consider how to ensure the safety of the baby girl, Gammy's sister, she said. She urged the media to give the family ""privacy and confidentiality"" in the meantime, adding that at this stage there was no evidence of anything illegal about the surrogacy arrangements. According to court documents, the man was convicted in the 1990s for the sexual assault of several young girls. However, his adult son, who did not wish to be named, told local media that the man was a ""good father"" who had changed. ""He's just got a massive heart. He's made mistakes, we've accepted it... he's made up for them,"" he said. The case of baby Gammy has made international headlines and caused uproar in Australia. Besides Down's syndrome, the six-month-old has a congenital heart condition and a lung infection. Surrogate mother Pattharamon Chanbua, who has been looking after Gammy, said the couple had asked her to have an abortion when she was told of the child's condition four months after becoming pregnant. She said she refused, as it was against her Buddhist beliefs. Abortion on the grounds of foetal impairment is illegal in Thailand. Ms Chanbua, 21, has said the father met the twins, but only took care of the girl. The parents have told local media in Australia that they did not know of his existence, and claimed that the allegations made by Ms Chanbua are lies. Meanwhile, Thai authorities say they have found six boys and three girls, all aged two or younger, in a condominium in Bangkok. The children were accompanied by several nannies and a pregnant woman. A Thai lawyer told police he was representing a Japanese man, who was father to all the surrogate babies, telling the Bangkok Post that the surrogacy arrangements were all legal. Deputy national police chief Aek Angsananont told Reuters news agency: ""We are questioning the nannies, as well as asking for co-operation from the Japanese embassy, to help conduct DNA testing. ""If the Japanese man admits that all the children are his babies, we would ask him why he wanted to have so many babies."" Commercial surrogacy is not illegal in Thailand, although the authorities are now seeking to tighten regulations. Thailand is a popular destination for surrogacy arrangements, along with the US, India, and Russia. Thailand's medical governing body has recently said that its rules prohibit same-sex couples or single people from engaging a surrogate mother, fees should not be paid, and the surrogate mother must be a blood relative of the intended parents.",Australia 's child protection services have contacted a couple accused of @placeholder a baby with Down 's syndrome to his surrogate mother in Thailand .,finding,abandoning,bearing,causing,introducing,1
"Ex-Sgt William McCall said the barrier separating the terraces and pitch was ""well made"" and ""difficult"" to remove. The new inquests into the 1989 tragedy have focussed on the death of David Rimmer of Skelmersdale, Lancashire. One of the 38-year-old's friends described being ""controlled"" by the surging Leppings Lane terrace crowd. Mr Rimmer was one of 96 fans fatally injured in the crush at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989. In a statement written by sales manager Mr Rimmer's wife Linda Kirby, read by his children Paul and Kate, he was described as a ""lovely family man who adored his children and wife"". Paul and Kate were aged nine and seven respectively at the time of the disaster. The inquests heard Mr Rimmer travelled to Sheffield with Geoff Bridson and arrived outside the ground at about 14:30 BST - 30 minutes before kick-off. They were inside pen four, an enclosure on the Leppings Lane terraces, 10 minutes later. Mr Bridson said the last time he saw his friend alive was when there was a crowd surge. He said: ""There was a sort of movement forward and I was moved to the left and Dave and other members of the party went in different directions. I think he went forward slightly. ""We lost contact with each other then and I did not see him again."" Mr Bridson estimated that they lost contact between 14:45 and 14:50. He said the crowd pressure was initially ""uncomfortable"" before it ""became a lot worse"". The jury was shown footage of fans attempting to lift Mr Rimmer, who appeared to be unconscious, out of the enclosure and over the fence at 15:11. The inquests heard former PCs Andrew West and Andrew Justice went into pen four and battled in vain to revive Mr Rimmer on the terraces. Asked about Mr Rimmer's appearance, Mr Justice said: ""It didn't look natural, it was not a natural colour."" He added that he ""ran out breath"" while giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and that Sgt William McCall took over. Part of Mr Justice's original 1989 statement was read to the court, in which he recalled how fans and police tried to tear down the fence. It read: ""Liverpool fans screaming about fence. We then started pulling at it with bare hands. Bobbies on other side started kicking at it. ""Welds started to break. Tore fence open, pass this man out. See ambulance man on the pitch."" Also remembering the effort to break the fence down, Mr McCall said: ""It was very, very difficult for them at that time. It was very well made, that fencing. ""In the situation that they were in, they did keep going until they managed to pull the fencing away, to find a hole big enough to get people through."" Footage timed at 15:18 showed police officers on the other side of the fence, carrying Mr Rimmer away from the pen. Rajiv Menon QC, a barrister representing Mr Rimmer's family, asked Mr McCall: ""Obviously, if there had been the necessary equipment present to tear that fence down, David could have been removed from that pen very much earlier, couldn't he?"" He replied: ""Yes, I think that's fair enough."" Other officers tried to resuscitate Mr Rimmer on the pitch. The inquests heard he was then carried on a makeshift stretcher to the stadium's gymnasium. The inquests, sitting in Warrington, Cheshire, continue. BBC News: Profiles of all those who died","A Hillsborough disaster casualty could have been @placeholder much sooner had the "" necessary equipment "" to cut fences been available , a jury has been told .",charged,named,rescued,criticised,found,2
"Mufti Abdul Hannan, leader of the Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami, was among those sentenced for the 14 April blasts at a concert to mark Bengali new year. Four of the accused were tried in absentia for the twin blasts. Six others were jailed for life. The trial follows a series of death sentences for Islamists in other cases. Judge Ruhul Amin said the attack on the concert was ""carried out to destabilise the country and create panic"". The Harkat ul-Jihad group considers activities such as singing and dancing un-Islamic. ""We're happy with the eight death sentences but not satisfied with the sentencing of the six people who were given life terms,"" prosecutor Abdullah Abu told reporters, adding that he would appeal. A lawyer for the defendants said he also planned to appeal. The Bengali New Year traditionally sees thousands of people celebrating on the streets, and is the most important festival for ethnic Bengalis in Bangladesh. The Muslim-majority nation saw mass protests last year when several senior Islamists were sentenced to death after being convicted for war crimes in the 1971 independence struggle. Experts said the latest death sentences risk inflaming tensions. Huji has been blamed for a number of attacks in recent years, including a 2004 blast which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, then opposition leader, survived. More than 20 others were killed and 150 wounded. Mufti Abdul Hannan was already on death row for trying to assassinate former British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury in 2005. Mr Choudhury survived, but three others were killed.",A Bangladeshi court has sentenced eight members of a @placeholder Islamist group to death for a bomb attack which killed 10 people in the capital Dhaka in 2001 .,broken,suspected,causing,pioneering,banned,4
"The reigning Olympic champions will run again at 00:00 BST and must beat the time set by eighth-fastest China. Britain's women finished second (41.93 seconds) behind fastest qualifiers Jamaica (41.79) to progress. The US men qualified fastest (37.65) with Jamaica, without Usain Bolt for the heat, fifth fastest and GB seventh. Media playback is not supported on this device A mix-up between Allyson Felix and English Gardner on the second changeover saw the US women out of contention in the second heat. However, they were judged on appeal to have been obstructed after and will race again later on Thursday. ""I think I got propelled at about 20 miles an hour,"" said Felix. ""When a foreign object comes in front of you, it's going to mess up the momentum and the handover."" There was another shock in the women's event as Dafne Schippers made a changeover error, leading to the Dutch - European champions - going out in the heat. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.",The United States will get a second chance to qualify for the women 's Olympic 4x100 m relay final after @placeholder the baton in the heats .,reached,admitting,announcing,dropping,completing,3
"Melanie Hartshorn has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) which causes her skull to sink into her spine. It is so severe the 27-year-old from Cramlington had to take her Newcastle University exams lying down. Her mother Molly said three surgeons in Barcelona had operated for nine hours to fuse her skull to her spine. The surgery cost £80,000 and £20,000 was raised to pay for an air ambulance flight to Spain. It involved fixing her cranium to her vertebrae to allow her to sit up and prevent brain damage. Sections of her daughter's ribs were used in the operation, Mrs Hartshorn said. ""She will be in a medically induced coma for at least 20 hours then they will try to wake her and see how she copes,"" she added. There were no complications, severe bleeding or heart problems, which had been a concern, she said. Miss Hartshorn's condition is degenerative and she has needed multiple operations because her joints dislocate and cannot hold her body together. Mrs Hartshorn said doctors had told her ""they have never seen anyone with such extreme problems"".","A disabled woman who @placeholder her university degree on a stretcher has had a life - changing operation after well - wishers raised £ 100,000 .",collected,spent,launched,finished,suffered,0
"Joseph de Souza, 51, was paid £950 for information about Tracey Connelly's time in prison at HMP Holloway. Last month at the Old Bailey, De Souza, of Holloway, north London, admitted misconduct in a public office. The information he passed on between March 2007 and March 2009 led to four stories in the paper, it heard. His dealings with the paper were uncovered as part of Operation Elveden, the Metropolitan Police's investigation into alleged illegal payments made to police and public officials. De Souza's newspaper contact, Mirror reporter Victoria Ward, is not facing any charges. Peter Connelly, who became known as Baby P after his identity was initially protected, died in August 2007 with more than 50 injuries, despite having been on a social services ""at-risk"" register. Connelly, of Haringey, north London, was jailed for a minimum of five years in 2009 for causing or allowing the death of her son, who was 17 months old. Peter had endured months of abuse. Connelly's boyfriend Steve Barker was also jailed for 12 years for his involvement in Baby P's death, along with their lodger, Jason Owen, who was given an indefinite sentence, for the same charges. Prosecutor Jake Hallam told the court that the first story linked to de Souza to appear in the Daily Mirror, under the headline Bad Girls, involved allegations of a sex scandal at Connelly's prison. The prison officers involved were later cleared of misconduct, but the publicity had a ""profound effect"" on them both professionally and personally, Mr Hallam said. The second story, headlined Tot Death Trial Mum Has Baby, for which de Souza was paid £200, was about Connelly having a baby in prison in March 2008 as she awaited trial. There were two more stories about her as she awaited sentence, headlined Baby P Mother: ""Let Me See My Newborn Child"" and Baby P Evil Mum Cell Move. De Souza was paid £300 and £250 for these stories, the court heard. Mr Hallam said these stories undermined trust and morale. In mitigation, Kathy Ryan told the court that de Souza had lived an ""exemplary life"" and had single-handedly brought up two children. She added he had been suffering from low morale in his job and was under financial strain at the time of his offending. Jailing de Souza, Recorder Christopher Hehir QC also made a confiscation order of £1,118.26p plus £800 in prosecution costs.","An ex-prison officer , who @placeholder stories to the Daily Mirror about the mother of the abused toddler who became known as Baby P , has been jailed for 12 weeks .",escaped,clawed,admitted,contributed,sold,4
"Pamela Munro said: ""We are absolutely devastated that we have lost our beautiful little girl and would appeal for anyone with information to come forward and bring justice for Paige."" The 15-year-old was last seen on Saturday morning at shops in Clydebank. Her body was found on Monday in a wooded area near Great Western Road. The senior investigating officer, Det Supt Duncan Sloan, said the public response to his appeal for information on Tuesday had been ""encouraging"". He said officers had also carried out ""significant door-to-door inquiries"" and were ""in the process of reviewing CCTV which may be useful to help track Paige's last movements"". Det Supt Sloan said officers were ""currently working through all information...passed to the incident room over the last 24 hours"". The public is being asked for help so police can ""piece together Paige's movements between Saturday 19 March and Monday 21 March"", Det Supt Sloan said. ""We know that the last confirmed sighting of Paige was on Saturday morning at about 08:20 at the shop in Fleming Avenue. ""I need to hear from people who recognise her image that we have issued, and who saw her that morning. ""Paige was a very independent young lady, who would routinely make her way to work during the weekend over to Kirkintilloch from Clydebank, taking a bus into Glasgow City Centre on to Kirkintilloch."" The detective said he needed people to come forward with any information ""however insignificant it may seem"". He asked: ""Did you see anyone acting suspiciously in the area of Fleming Avenue on Saturday morning, and crucially, did you see anyone in the vicinity of Great Western Road, near to a wooded area on the A82 on Monday? ""This is a very busy route for cars, and popular with joggers and dog walkers."" Det Supt Sloan added: ""I must reiterate that a team of detectives are working around the clock to try to identify who was responsible for the death of this young girl, however, we need as much information from the local community as we can in order to achieve this. ""If you have any piece of information, no matter how small, please contact the incident room and let us know."" Detectives have also announced a dedicated mobile number which people can text with any information they may have. The number is 07557 540 848. Meanwhile, a shopkeeper who was one of the last people to see Miss Doherty alive also said he was ""devastated"" by Paige's death. Mr Ahmed runs Fleming Foodstore on Fleming Avenue and knows Miss Doherty's family. He exchanged a few words and a wave with the 15-year-old outside his store in Clydebank on Saturday morning. Mr Ahmed told the BBC  she was ""a very bubbly lassie"" who was ""always smiling"" and ""had time for everyone"". He said she ""didn't deserve what she got"". Fundraising web pages set up in the past 24 hours to help Miss Doherty's family have raised more than £14,000. Family friend Lynsay Smith set up one page and wrote: ""All the money raised is to help Pamela, her mum, and Andrew, her stepdad, with any funeral arrangements and anything else to ease the pain that they are going through at this time."" Donations on the page had reached £7,300 by 14:00 on Wednesday. A second page set up by Gail Duncan smashed the target of £3,000 within hours and had raised £6,900 by 14:00 on Wednesday. She said the money would go to Paige's family to ""spend how they see fit in honour to remember Paige"".","The mother of @placeholder schoolgirl Paige Doherty said her family had been "" devastated "" and called for public help in getting "" justice "" for her girl .",state,disabled,murdered,ice,carrying,2
"The animal, described by police as a pit bull, attacked the 52-year-old in Holwick Road, Northern Moor, Manchester at 20:25 GMT on Wednesday. She suffered injuries to her right arm. A 34-year-old man who helped fight off the dog also suffered ""numerous bites"". A witness said about 20 people were ""whacking the dog to get it off them"". Jade Royle, 21, said: ""It was horrible, all the neighbours were out. ""Everyone was screaming. It was scary. She is very lucky to be alive."" The woman and the man were taken to Wythenshawe Hospital and she has undergone surgery. The owner of the dog has agreed to have it put down and an investigation was ""ongoing"", police said. Det Sgt Sandra Callender of Greater Manchester Police said: ""It took a number of people to restrain the dog until police arrived and I would like to personally thank them for their actions. ""Had they not helped this woman and held on to the dog until we arrived then we could possibly have seen more injuries.""","A woman suffered "" severe "" injuries when she was mauled by her son 's dog while walking it for him as a @placeholder , police said .",favour,pet,property,dog,shock,0
"Councillor Ken Gowans said he did not believe The Gathering Place to be a viable concept. About 200 people have opposed it in a public consultation. The arts group continues to review the project, as well as other arts schemes proposed for the city. Highland Council said a new chairperson would be appointed in due course. The Gathering Place would be designed to tilt gently up and down. A child-friendly water feature and a project called River Connections, which involves seating areas and poetry set into stones have also been proposed for locations next to the Ness in Inverness. The public art would form part of the River Ness Flood Alleviation Scheme. The working group includes senior councillors, including Thomas Prag, and local authority officers and involves Highlife Highland.",The chairman of Inverness City Arts working group has @placeholder in a row about a giant see - saw - like art installation proposed for a bank of the River Ness .,held,said,quit,lost,opened,2
"The police ombudsman confirmed that the spray was used during the parade on the Ormeau Road on Tuesday evening. The PSNI said two officers received minor injuries during a ""minor disturbance"". A 26-year-old man has been charged with assault. The parade's organiser said children suffered swollen eyes and lips. Noel Liggett told Good Morning Ulster said the CS spray was ""indiscriminately"" used after police confronted the parade. He said police believed cars were being damaged as the parade made its way up the road, an allegation he described as ""completely false"". ""Around 20 children were on parade with us yesterday, the average age would be six, seven, eight and nine. Around that age group,"" he said. ""I was quite shocked to see many young children in a state of shock. ""Five of them had suffered the effect of CS gas and a number of young children in the band had also suffered the effects of the gas."" Mr Liggett said a ""very frank meeting where both sides put their case"" was held with police after the parade and that he would ""question the common sense"" of police. ""The police knew this was a parade for juniors, there was a lot of young children in the area,"" he said. Writing on Twitter, Mrs Foster said she would be meeting senior police over the incident. Police said a PSNI motorcycle had also been damaged in the incident. A man will appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on Tuesday, 26 April charged with disorderly behaviour and two counts of assault on police.",First Minister Arlene Foster has said she has @placeholder to the chief constable after police used CS spray during a junior Orange Order parade in Belfast .,sought,written,responded,proposed,spoken,4
"Among the latest names announced are 2ManyDJs, Cat Power and Agnes Obel. They join So Solid Crew, Admiral Fallow, Gogol Bordello and Boney M. who have already been confirmed for the event on 8 to 11 June. In total, about 300 performers are expected on 12 different stages throughout the festival. Co-director Meredith Langley-Vine said: ""We can't believe the amazing amount of talented and revered artists coming to this year's Eden Festival. ""It really is starting to attract a stampede of established acts as the festival grows and evolves.""",The Eden Festival has revealed the final @placeholder of headline acts for this summer 's event on the Raehills Estate in Dumfries and Galloway .,element,amount,line,roster,group,4
"BT is paying the money to Deutsche Telekom and Orange to avoid legal action over the issue. The two companies now hold stakes in BT as a consequence of the deal that saw them sell the EE mobile network to the UK company. The charge led to BT's first-quarter profits falling 42% to £418m. In January, BT wrote down the value of its Italian unit by £530m after it said it had uncovered years of ""inappropriate behaviour"". It said it had found evidence of improper accounting practices, leading to ""the overstatement of earnings in our Italian business over a number of years"". The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK's accountancy watchdog, is investigating the auditing of BT's financial statements for the years 2015-17. Separately, BT announced that Marc Allera had been appointed as chief executive of its combined BT consumer business, while Cathryn Ross - currently chief executive of Ofwat - will become its new director of regulatory affairs.",Profits at telecoms @placeholder BT have fallen after it took a £ 225 m charge related to its Italian accounting scandal .,expectations,group,number,ground,trade,1
"If Wydad Casablanca of Morocco defeat visiting ASEC Mimosas of Ivory Coast on Sunday in Group A, Wydad and Zesco will qualify for the semi-finals of Africa's premier club football competition. Zesco have eight points, Wydad seven, Ahly five and ASEC four in a mini-league where head-to-head records count in the event of a tie. Ahly, who needed maximum points to keep up their hopes of progressing, dominated possession for much of the match in  Alexandria. But Zesco, looking for a first semi-finals appearance, were quick on the counter-attack, and frustrated the Egyptians who are managed by former Tottenham boss Martin Jol. Kenya's Jesse Were took advantage of slack marking to nod the Zambians into a sixth-minute lead with  Rami Rabia levelling on the half hour. Were struck again five minutes later, hitting the ball across goalkeeper Ahmed Adel into the far corner. Veteran striker Emad Meteb was brought on in the second half and snatched an 85th-minute equaliser for the Egyptians. His penalty area bicycle kick deflected off Kenyan David Owino, leaving goalkeeper Jacob Banda stranded. The result means that a semi-final place could be secured for Zesco and Wydad Casablanca, if Wydad can beat ASEC Mimosas on Sunday. Wydad, coached by Wales-born former Real Madrid manager John Toshack, want to get back on the winning trail in Rabat. They have taken only one point of a possible six off Ahly after beating ASEC and Zesco. The loss of form by star striker Reda Hajhouj must be a worry as he has fired four straight blanks in group matches after scoring six goals in six qualifiers. Since shocking Ahly in Alexandria, 1998 champions ASEC have faltered, losing away and drawing at home against Zesco. Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa have won Group B thanks to three consecutive victories, leaving Zamalek of Egypt and Enyimba of Nigeria to fight for the second semi-finals spot. Five-time African champions Zamalek beat Enyimba away and one point from the return match in Cairo Sunday will guarantee their progress, if only on head-to-head records.",Record eight - times African champions Al Ahly of Egypt are facing elimination from the 2016 African Champions League after being @placeholder 2 - 2 at home by Zesco United of Zambia .,dominated,held,named,eliminated,replaced,1
"The emergency services had been called to the property on Hutchison Road at about 10:25. Ambulance personnel attended with police officers and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives said the death is being treated as suspicious. They are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident. Det Ch Insp Alwyn Bell said: ""Our thoughts are with the young woman's family at this incredibly difficult time and officers continue to offer them support. ""The investigation into the full circumstances surrounding her death continues, however we're not currently looking for anyone else in connection with this. ""Anyone with information who has not yet spoken to officers is urged to contact us.""",A man has been @placeholder by police following the death of a 21 - year - old woman at a flat in Edinburgh .,detained,shot,criticised,interviewed,named,0
"Police had tried to arrest Ray Whelan four days ago but he was not at his exclusive Rio de Janeiro hotel. Mr Whelan, director of Match Hospitality, denies any wrongdoing. An international gang is suspected of acting at as many as four World Cups, earning about $90m (£52m) per tournament. The gang is believed to have made money by acquiring and illegally selling on VIP tickets and hospitality packages. Match held the rights to sell hospitality tickets for the World Cup. Mr Whelan turned himself in to judge Rosita Maria de Oliveira Netto. He has been rearrested by police and is expected to be taken to a detention facility. According to a spokesperson for Mr Whelan's lawyer, Fernando Fernandes, Mr Whelan said: ""I can finally start my criminal defence."" Mr Whelan has been indicted with 11 other people. He was briefly arrested on 7 July but was released after questioning. Then last Thursday, police said they went to Mr Whelan's room in Rio's Copacabana Palace hotel but he was no longer there and they were told he had left an hour earlier. In a statement, Match said Mr Whelan had simply left the hotel with Mr Fernandes before police arrived. It said: ""We do not believe that the term 'fugitive' is appropriate under the circumstances as he is presently with his lawyer."" Hundreds of tickets and large amounts of cash have been recovered during the police operation, which gathered evidence via phone taps. Based in Zurich and in Cheadle, Cheshire, Match Hospitality describes itself as ""the professional services company appointed by Fifa to provide ticketing, accommodation and event information technology services to Fifa"". Its packages for games at Brazil 2014 ranged from $700 (£410) up to more than $100,000. Of some roughly 3 million tickets available at the 2014 event, it was given about 450,000 to sell to hospitality clients.",The British boss of a Fifa partner firm being investigated over alleged illegal World Cup ticket sales has @placeholder to a judge in Brazil .,gone,fallen,appealed,risen,surrendered,4
"It warns the closures threaten ""the fundamental principles of a universal NHS"". Waiting times at local A&E departments increased sharply after those at Hammersmith and Central Middlesex Hospitals were closed. The report says the reorganisation had no ""up-to-date business plan"". More on this story and other news from London Consultation was inadequate and departments had been shut without providing adequate alternative healthcare, it added. It said: ""Overwhelmed and inconsistent"" GP services are ""clearly failing to meet demand across the region"". But a spokeswoman for NHS London said patients now had better access to GPs and that more A&E consultants and nurses had been recruited. The Independent Healthcare Commission for North West London, led by Michael Mansfield QC, found the 'Shaping a Healthier Future' (SaHF) plan would cost at least £1bn, with ""spiralling management and consultancy costs"". Cutbacks had been aimed at the most deprived communities, and many vulnerable patients were now forced to travel to hospitals with poor public transport links. The commission was particularly concerned about plans to close the ""exemplary"" maternity unit at Ealing Hospital. The SaHF programme had failed to consider the fast-growing population of North West London and the rise in the number of over-60s. It had sought to save money in anticipation of NHS cuts that had not transpired. •The decision to close Ealing maternity unit should be reversed immediately •Reopen the A&E department at Central Middlesex Hospital •The National Audit Office should undertake a review of the programme's value for money •A new public consultation is needed as the proposals have changed significantly •Substantial investment should be made in GP and out-of-hospital services .•Ealing and Charing Cross hospitals must retain full 'blue light' A&E services for the foreseeable future The plan aimed to redirect patients to Urgent Care Centres, but the commission said there was ""widespread confusion"" among GPs, consultants and patients about what the centres could do and who should go there. It said they should be co-located with A&E departments wherever possible to avoid ""fatal consequences"". NHS London defended the plan, saying patients were already benefitting from it. ""We now have eleven community hubs open across North West London, which provide a range of health and social care services in one place, closer to people's homes. ""Part of the improvement plan includes additional investment to modernise and increase capacity in our hospitals and community sites.""","The "" deeply flawed "" decision to downgrade several North West London hospitals must be @placeholder , according to a report by Michael Mansfield QC .",halted,reviewed,introduced,considered,lost,0
"Dominic Preece, 17, fell between a platform and a train at Droitwich Spa Station on 12 May. His partner, Tom Holford, said doctors told him his actions had saved his boyfriend's life. Mr Preece's mother Kerry is calling for improved safety at the station. London Midland said it was investigating. See more stories from across Herefordshire and Worcestershire here Mr Preece was chasing after a train to retrieve a bag he had left onboard when he fell. Mr Holford was alerted by another passenger and jumped on the track to help the teenager and wrapped him in a coat. ""I didn't even think about whether another train was coming. It didn't seem real,"" he said. ""I found him with his arm hanging off. The doctors said I saved his life."" Mr Preece, who has learning difficulties, is still in hospital after having his left arm amputated. His family has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a prosthetic limb for Mr Preece, who wants to work with horses. ""With Dom's special needs, without the use of a limb would make it harder for [him] to cope,"" his mother said. ""Dominic's left-handed and he's lost his left arm, so he's now struggling."" Ms Preece said she would like to see a smaller gap between trains and the platform. ""You get off the train and the gap is horrendous. You have to jump from the train to the platform,"" she added. London Midland, which is responsible for the station, is looking into the full circumstances of what happened. A spokesman added: ""This was a very tragic accident and our thoughts go out to Dominic and his family"" In a statement, Network Rail said it was, ""committed to looking at ways to further improve safety"". British Transport Police said under normal circumstances passengers should refrain from trespassing on the line and in the past ten years, almost 170 people have lost their lives by going on the tracks.",The partner of a teenager who lost his arm after falling on to a railway track has described the moment he @placeholder him .,presumed,disciplined,rescued,encountered,found,2
"A cursory search on YouTube showed him the reason for their concern. A doctored clip of Holocaust film Schindler's List called ""What John Donahoe's doing to eBay"" had superimposed his name on to a Nazi guard shooting a Jewish prisoner. The prisoner had been labelled as an eBay seller. This incident happened in 2008, just a few months after he'd taken the helm and announced dramatic changes to both the charges the online auction site made for listing items and its feedback system for customers and sellers. ""I thought, 'Oh my god this is personal.' That was like one of those gut check moments - is this worth it? It wasn't perfectly obvious at that moment."" Six years on it's easy to say it was worth it. The changes Mr Donahoe made have shifted eBay from being an online auction marketplace to a full blown e-commerce operation. Last year 73% of the items on its website were sold at a fixed price, rather than via auction. And over the past five years, its shares have surged by 441%, compared with the Nasdaq's 213% rise over the same period. Mr Donahoe says if he could go back to 2008, he would have tried to communicate his vision more clearly, but he would still make those changes because that was his job. ""There is always a new normal because the pace of technology innovation is changing and consumer behaviour is changing. So our leaders have to be comfortable that their job is to continuously drive change."" It is not only tech firm bosses that face this reality. The biggest part of any chief executive's role is to ensure that their firm is able to thrive or at least survive, regardless of external circumstances. Any change, such as a downturn in the economy or a structural change in the industry in which it operates, means the firm will have to respond and perhaps shift, at least to some degree, how it operates. In the case of US healthcare services firm Cardinal Health, the entire industry was changing due to a significant demographic shift with the older population expanding rapidly, and sharp growth in some health issues such as obesity. Five years ago, the firm decided to sell off a significant and lucrative part of its medical products business, leaving it with what at the time was perceived as the less profitable parts of the business - largely medical services and some products. Chief executive George Barrett was brought in to lead the firm just ahead of the sale, and had to drive the shift which he admits was ""difficult"". ""We had to reinvent our perspective and say look, this service business can be innovative, can drive high growth and can be extraordinarily valuable in a system going through a big change."" But it also had to tell investors that as a result of the change, profits would be down in the first year, before growing again. Despite a tough initial period, Mr Barrett says being so upfront about the changes and communicating their impact clearly helped. ""Getting through that difficult time was easier because people felt that we were taking the actions we needed to take, we weren't going to wait... we were going to move aggressively."" Four years of consistent profits growth and shareholder returns have also helped appease investors. At Cardinal Health, making such a dramatic change obviously paid off, but it can be hard to judge how quickly to implement change. After listing on the stock market, Chinese entrepreneur Wang Chuanfu decided to make a dramatic change to BYD (short for Build Your Dreams) - the firm he founded originally to make batteries for mobile phones. He used the funds from going public to expand its remit to making electric cars. Suddenly instead of selling to companies, it had to start selling to consumers - a completely different proposition. Mr Wang said initially he moved too fast, opening too many distribution centres, many of which made a loss. Getting its rate of expansion right took three years to fix, but the firm, which now counts Warren Buffett as an investor, has continued to grow and says it plans to bring four of its models to the US by the end of 2015. ""It was a good path, [I] just had to persevere through it,"" he says. This feature is based on interviews by leadership expert Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig and Evy Barry.",EBay chief executive John Donahoe knew something was up when his firm 's security team advised him not to attend a conference for sellers on safety @placeholder .,centre,grounds,life,topics,networks,1
"Former Chelsea defender David Stride had been in charge of Southern League Bashley for just 40 days. The New Forest club's newly appointed board have named former manager Steve Riley as Stride's replacement. ""It's absolute codswallop. The club already had someone in mind to replace me, but waited two weeks before telling me,"" Stride told BBC Sport. Bashley have lost all four of their pre-season friendlies so far, failing to score a goal and conceding eight. Stride, 57, had only been in charge for two of those matches. ""We made a tough decision to change things around now rather than the possibility of having more upheaval during the season,"" chairman Tim Allan said. Stride made 35 appearances for Chelsea between 1978 and 1980 and also played for Leyton Orient and Millwall in the 1980s. He was appointed by Bashley on 17 June, but five and a half weeks later and after a change of club chairman, he is out of work. ""I've got no hard feelings, but sadly the club weren't man enough to tell me earlier,"" Stride added. ""I was given the guarantee I'd be left alone for a season to take sole charge of football matters, but I'm gone after just two games.""","A non-league manager has been @placeholder for "" a run of poor pre-season results and lack of player signings "" .",called,cited,hailed,suspended,sacked,4
"The Swedish telecoms equipment maker said Apple was still using Ericsson's patented technologies even though it did not have a licence to use them. Ericsson said it had offered to conduct arbitration talks with Apple but that offer had now expired. The lawsuits have been filed in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. Apple has yet to comment on the legal action. ""Our technology is used in many features and functionality of today's communication devices,"" said Kasim Alfalahi, Ericsson's head of intellectual property in a statement. He said the dispute had already been going on for two years and was ""confident"" the courts would help resolve the matter ""fairly"". The dispute revolves around technologies Ericsson developed for second and fourth generation mobile networks and handsets. The patents in dispute are believed to cover accessing apps on phones, the streaming of video to handheld devices as well as chip design. Ericsson owns more than 35,000 patents covering mobile technologies. The latest legal action follows the filing of lawsuits in America in February by Ericsson in response to an Apple complaint over the complexity of the technology patents. In 2014, phone maker Samsung paid Ericsson $650m (£421m) to end a dispute over patented technology. Analysts estimate that if the courts side with Ericsson it would get payments of up to $725m annually from Apple.","Ericsson has filed lawsuits in three separate @placeholder , alleging Apple has not kept up with technology licence payments .",ground,lawsuits,countries,incidents,region,2
"A pioneer of the women's game, Gore was involved in football for more than 60 years and scored the first official goal for the England women's team. She died on 9 September, aged 71. Former Everton and England player, Kelly McDougall, who played in the match at Walton Hall Park, said the ""fiercely determined true sportswoman"" had been her inspiration. ""[Sylvia] was pivotal in the women's game and drove it forward, never stopping in her determination to push for equality, recognition and the highest of standards,"" McDougall said. McDougall said Gore took her ""under her wing"" aged five. She thanked the ""warm and caring"" woman with ""a heart of gold ""who gave her ""the direction and belief"" that she was good enough. ""The game has lost an amazing sportswoman and person. We will never forget you and all that you did for us and we truly thank you for giving us the belief to follow our football dream,"" she said. Born on Merseyside, Sylvia Gore started playing for Manchester Corinthians in the late 1950s. She played through the Football Association's 50-year ban on the women's game and continued to be involved when the FA took over the Women's Football Association in 1993. Known as the ""Denis Law of women's football"", she once scored 134 goals in a season. In 1972, Gore scored England women's first goal during a 3-2 victory against Scotland in Greenock. After her playing days Gore was Wales manager, an FA Women's Committee member for 20 years and was named Manchester City Women's FC Club ambassador in March. She was made an MBE in the 2000 New Year honours and inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame in 2014. Listen: BBC World Service Sylvia Gore - Women's Football Pioneer Women's football's forgotten heroes",Some of women 's football 's biggest names have @placeholder the life of Sylvia Gore at a memorial match .,named,revealed,celebrated,taken,proved,2
"DUP MP Sammy Wilson told the BBC Monday's shooting was part of an ongoing paramilitary feud in the area. The victim is understood to be a high-profile loyalist. Mr Wilson said things had escalated to the point where one side ""in broad daylight and unmasked had taken the opportunity to try to kill"". There has been an ongoing feud between loyalist factions in Carrickfergus for months, and Mr Wilson said there was a chance of retaliation in the area. ""There is no point in me or anyone else appealing to the two sides to back off, the police should make quick arrests and put people behind bars to send out a message that if this continues then people will be caught and they will serve long times in jail,"" he said. The gun attack happened at Pinewood Avenue in Woodburn on Monday afternoon. The ambulance service received a call at about 14:15 GMT following reports of a man with a gunshot wound, and he was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. DUP MLA David Hillditch said: ""When guns are brought on to the street in broad daylight in a heavily built up area, it only brings home the dangers that are involved in this type of feud. Alliance MLA Stewart Dickson said the attack had ""cast a shadow"" over the area. ""Any attack of this nature where a weapon is discharged is incredibly scary for the community,"" he said. ""Who knows what the risks are - obviously an individual has been seriously injured, but on top of that there there are people living in houses locally, there are schools and businesses in the area that are vulnerable to this type of attack. ""It is absolutely appalling."" The shooting came after a serious assault on a door man at a nearby bar on Sunday. Two brothers and another man from Carrickfergus appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with attempted murder.","A man who is in a critical condition after being shot in the @placeholder in Carrickfergus , County Antrim has been named locally as George Gilmore .",neck,crowd,face,ground,centre,0
"Consumer Focus Wales found many people thousands of pounds out of pocket due to high rents, poor maintenance and site operators blocking home sales. The Welsh assembly will consider proposals for reform later this month. But a park operators' group said most were law-abiding and that authorities should enforce existing laws. About 5,000 people in Wales live in the bungalow-style homes on caravan sites. There are about 3,500 mobile homes located at 92 residential park sites across Wales with the highest concentration in Powys, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. They are a popular choice for older people on a low fixed income and looking to downsize who are attracted by the perception of secure communities of similarly-aged residents, often in a tranquil rural setting. But the Consumer Focus Wales survey due out later this week found concerns about a range of issues. The survey, entitled ""Park Life"" found 62% of respondents experienced problems with the running and management of their site over the past five years while 29% had problems with maintenance, safety or security. It also found concerns about electricity supply, cost or billing while 33% felt their pitch fees were not fair or reasonable. Key concerns surround ""sale blocking"", a practice whereby site owners use their right to veto the sale of a mobile home unit to their own financial advantage. Almost half of respondents said they did not feel people on their site were able to sell their homes freely and without interference, with some reporting harassment and intimidation. The watchdog spoke to more than 250 residents and all 22 local authorities in Wales along with the police, voluntary sector organisations and the park homes industry. A private members' bill, led by South Wales West AM Peter Black and aimed at reforming the civil legislation surrounding mobile home sites, is due to go before the assembly later this month. New legislation from the UK government is also in the pipeline, following a long-running campaign by park home residents across the UK. Rhys Evans, senior director of Consumer Focus Wales said: ""We would like any new bill to overcome the current barriers preventing effective enforcement. ""Any new enforcement regime needs to be dynamic, robust and have the legal powers to punish unscrupulous site operators, protect residents and provide a greater incentive to raise the standards of the industry."" Police evidence has shown that the sales blocking veto has served to attract rogue site operators into the park homes industry, something Consumer Focus Wales wants scrapped. One park home resident told BBC Wales: ""I think the myth needs exploding that we're a kind of trailer trash, that we live in caravans and we shouldn't really be doing what we're doing, probably living here for 10 months and going to a hotel for two. ""If we were regarded as full-time people living in full-time homes, we should be automatically entitled to all the considerations which people over the road take for granted."" The British Holiday and Home Parks Association said the majority of sites were well-run, and stressed that it was for local authorities and police to enforce existing laws more effectively to protect residents. In a statement, it said: ""The next step, we believe, must be to address the issue of enforcement and, if additional legislation is still considered necessary, to frame this in such a way that the extra protection it affords residents does not unfairly penalise the decent, honest and caring park owners which constitute the vast majority of this industry."" The Welsh Local Government Association said it welcomed the move towards new legislation and admitted current legislation fails to give park homes residents the same rights as other home owners.","Residents of mobile home sites suffer unscrupulous , intimidating or even criminal @placeholder from site owners and operators , a watchdog report claims .",behaviour,differences,attacks,data,cheers,0
"The Louisa sank on 9 April as it lay at anchor in calm seas off Mingulay in the Western Isles. The bodies of two crew members have been found. The skipper is still missing and presumed dead. The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said salvaging the boat would aid its investigation. The crabber is being taken to a dock on Clydebank. The bodies of Chris Morrison, 27, from Harris, and Martin Johnstone, 29, from Halkirk, Caithness, were found following the sinking. Skipper Paul Alliston, 42, from Lewis, remains missing despite a massive search. Only Lachlann Armstrong, 27, from Stornoway, Lewis, survived after swimming ashore.",A crab boat that sank with the loss of three fishermen has been @placeholder on the instructions of accident investigators .,named,called,published,raised,placed,3
"In the past few days, his forces and their allies have begun offensives clearly aimed, initially at least, at regaining ground they lost to an alliance of non-Islamic State (IS) rebels since early this year. The main areas currently in the sights of the regime and its allies are the Sahl al-Ghab, a large plain between Hama and Aleppo, and the mountains of northern Latakia province. The rebels' penetration into these areas, following their capture of the capital of Idlib province in late March, represented a potentially deadly threat to the core of the regime's holdings, including the heartland of Assad's minority Alawite sect along the Latakia coast. With President Assad publicly ringing the alarm bells - no doubt with an eye on the Russian and Iranian galleries - Moscow and Tehran decided to do what was necessary to prevent a collapse and shore up their strategic ally. Since the imminent threat was being mounted not by IS but by the new Army of Conquest coalition of mainly Islamic rebel groups, backed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, it is not surprising that it seems to be those factions that are receiving most of the attention of Mr Putin's air strikes, as he tries to ""stabilise the legitimate authorities"" as he himself put it. Reports from on the ground, which match the areas mentioned in Russian military statements, indicate that most of the air strikes are being carried out in direct support of the offensives on those two strategic fronts, although a few have been launched at IS targets in Raqqa and elsewhere. IS militants are not located in most of the areas the Russians say they are hitting, though fighters from al-Nusra Front - the official al-Qaeda branch in Syria - are. Al-Nusra is generally teamed up with the other groups in the Army of Conquest and other alliances on the ground, making it hard to isolate it and deal with it separately. It clearly hasn't been a rout, despite intensive air strikes. The government forces and their allies have made some progress, capturing villages in northern Hama and southern Idlib provinces, but at a price. A top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, Gen Hossein Hamedani, was killed in northern Syria and buried with much ceremony back in Iran at the weekend. A senior commander from the Lebanese Hezbollah forces is also among those reported to have died. As the Americans and their coalition allies have found in operations in both Iraq and Syria, air support can be a crucial factor helping to hold the line or tilt the balance, but cannot win the battle unless teamed with cohesive, motivated ground forces, and even then progress can be slow against a stubborn enemy. But the Russian intervention and escalation of Iranian involvement were greeted with alarm and outrage by Syrian opposition groups, which called on their international backers to step up their support. A popular Saudi-origin cleric linked to al-Nusra Front, Abdullah al-Muhaysani, called on all the rebel factions to rally and launch an immediate counter-offensive on all fronts. If they lost the initiative to the regime and the Russians, he warned in an internet video, they would risk ""a series of collapses, and their future would be frightening"". The logical response to the Russian move would be for the Americans and their regional allies - Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia - to escalate further their support for non-IS rebel groups, something that is already reported to be happening. So the stage is set for an intense contest as the Russian-Iranian-government alliance strives to ""stabilise the legitimate authorities"". How far they might want to push that may depend on the degree of resistance on the ground. Their primary goal must be to secure the areas deemed essential to the regime - ""useful Syria"", the core cities, from Deraa in the south through Damascus to Homs, Hama and the Latakia coast. Driving the rebels out of ""their"" half of Aleppo in the north might be desirable but may turn out to be a tall order. Would the situation then be ripe for negotiations on a settlement? President Putin seemed to hint in that direction in his TV interview at the weekend, when he said that his intervention was also aimed at ""creating the conditions for a political compromise"". Significantly, he also at the weekend held a meeting with the Saudi Defence Minister, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who is backing some of the groups now being bombarded by the Russians. There was no overt meeting of minds - the Saudis continued to insist that Bashar al-Assad must go, while for the Russians, he remains his country's legitimate leader. But the fact that they met, and both expressed a desire to keep up the dialogue, was interesting. Such amiable contacts are likely to wither away, however, should the Russians and Iranians decide to try and push beyond a redressing of the balance, and pursue ambitions to dominate the whole country. That could be a perilous route for them to take. Saudi Arabia regards itself as the custodian of the region's majority Sunni population, which could increasingly demonise both Moscow and Tehran, quite apart from revenge scenarios involving Islamist militants, thousands of them from the Russian or ex-Soviet territories. Inflicting a crushing defeat on the Western-backed rebels, even if it were possible, would also risk pushing them literally and politically into the arms of IS. So an eventual stable stand-off might be a more desirable result. But the degree of ""compromise"" involved in any potential settlement may depend on what balance is struck in the direct and proxy battles now getting under way on the ground.","Since the Russians waded in with air and missile strikes , and Iran stepped up its support on the ground directly and through Shia militias from around the region , Syrian President Bashar al - Assad 's @placeholder and under-manned army clearly has a new spring in its step .",colour,battered,side,team,affiliate,1
"The ""Read On. Get On."" report said children who fell behind could feel the impact for the rest of their lives. It said they were less likely to gain good qualifications and go on to further education. The coalition behind the report aims to have all 11-year-olds reading well within a generation. Organisations such as Save the Children and the Scottish Book Trust are part of the coalition. They want to see parents reading to young children for 10 minutes a day. Their report said that 40% of families in the lowest income bracket had fewer than 10 children's books at home and fathers from these households were half as likely to read with their children at age two as fathers in the highest income households. It said that this impacted on children later in life as those who were read to often as toddlers were more likely to become keen readers themselves. The Read on coalition said there were 220,000 children living in poverty in Scotland and they expected this number to rise. Neil Mathers, head of Scotland at Save the Children, said: ""As a country we cannot continue with a situation where one in five poor children are not reading well at the end of primary school. It is unfair. ""We know that getting every child reading well at 11 cannot happen overnight but it is possible within a generation if we work together. ""Read On. Get On. is a mission to galvanise the nation so that parents, grandparents and volunteers play their part in teaching children to read. We want every child to be given a fair and equal chance to learn to read well, regardless of their background."" While children are still reading books, the report found that the most commonly read material by children is now text messages, with websites and e-books growing in popularity.","One in five children from poor families in Scotland leaves primary school unable to read well , @placeholder a group aiming to tackle poor literacy levels .",following,according,citing,including,causing,1
"It is France, after all, so there was applause for the winner.  Good manners count for a lot here.  Scattered applause, to be sure, and understandably half-hearted, but the gesture was there, and many of those gathered in front of TV screens in the bars around the Bataclan on Sunday night were determined to be philosophical rather than bitter. ""Of course we wanted to win,"" said Floris, leaning against the railings of a nearby metro station as he absorbed the news. ""We are very disappointed, everybody is sad… ""But we were all together tonight.  All the country was together behind France, and that's the sort of thing we will never forget: even if we lose, we are together, we are French, we are happy to be French."" Portugal stun hosts to win Euros We threw away great chance to win title - Deschamps The coming together of this country was a poignant moment for many, because this tournament was always about more than football for France. It was about lifting the sense of gloom that has permeated the nation since the terror attacks last year; it was about healing the divisions running through the nation; and it was about proving that France could keep its people secure. On that last point, the authorities here will be enjoying a moment of relief.  In the run-up to the games, 100,000 security personnel were drafted in to provide protection, and public excitement here was muted amid fears of another attack. But aside from some inter-fan violence in the early stages, few of the security fears around the Euros have materialised, and the Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said on Monday morning that the tournament had been ""a success"" despite the high security threat. Neither have long-running strikes and protests affected games too badly, nor the floods, nor any of the other grim cycle of challenges that France has faced over the last 18 months. But the terror attacks, economic crisis and worsening social division here have taken their toll, and it has sometimes felt as if everywhere the French looked, the picture seemed dark. The traces of last year's attacks were woven through this competition too: the appearance of the president to watch the national team at the Stade de France brought back memories of the night they played there on 13 November, when suicide bombers blew themselves up outside. The sister of France's star striker, Antoine Griezmann, survived the siege at the Bataclan that night. The Bataclan itself, just down the street from where Floris and his friends were commiserating on Sunday night, is still boarded up.  But all along this boulevard, the terraces were packed, the crowds refusing to give in to their fears. ""I was very happy that everything went well during this Euro,"" said Floris. ""We were all outside, you know, we weren't at our homes.  We go outside, watching the game, because we are free, we are French and we are happy to be here."" Striking comments from a losing fan, but then from where France stands, almost everything did go well during the Euros.  They did not get the trophy, but they stayed safe. The games, billed as a prime target for terrorism, showed that attacks weren't always inevitable, and that it wasn't only disaster that could bring the country together. If only for a month, this tournament gave France permission to feel good again.","France is recovering from its defeat by Portugal in the final of the European Championships in Paris . But despite the loss of the trophy , the host nation walked away from the National Stadium on Sunday with a more highly - @placeholder achievement .",tank,prized,strapped,publicized,pound,1
"Officers were called to the school in South Lanarkshire on 21 December. It is understood parents were notified about the incident before the end of term. South Lanarkshire Council said it was aware of the incident. Police said a decision had still to be made on whether to refer the matter to a social work-led team or the Scottish Children's Reporter Administrator. A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: ""An 11-year-old male pupil at a primary school in South Lanarkshire has been referred to the Youth Justice Co-ordinator (a police officer within the Restorative Justice Department) for alleged drugs offences. ""A decision has still to be made as to disposal - whether a referral to the Early and Effective Intervention Co-ordinator - a multi-agency team with a social work lead - or a police report to the Scottish Children's Reporter Administrator.""",A primary school pupil has been reported to police after allegedly being @placeholder with cannabis in class .,diagnosed,sprayed,caught,injected,credited,2
"The airport operator raised an action against the council over work at Sumburgh Airport. It had contracted the council to provide engineering works and services for a runway extension project. The Court of Session has ruled that HIAL had not left it too late to make a claim for payment. The council said it now expects the case to go to a full hearing. The court action raised in 2011 originally sought declarations that there had been a breach of contract. It alleged defects had arisen and not been remedied. There was no conclusion for damages. HIAL maintained the extent of the alleged loss could not properly be assessed. But it added a further amendment later seeking payment of £14.2m plus interest from the council. Shetland Islands Council maintained the claim for payment came too late. But judge Lady Scott said the terms of the action gave fair notice of the claim to the council. Lord President Lord Gill, sitting with Lord Menzies and Lord Drummond Young, have now rejected the council's challenge to that ruling. Lord Gill said: ""It is not disputed that if the claim can be said to have been made only when the amendment was allowed, the claim has prescribed. ""The short question therefore is whether the declaratory conclusions in this action constituted the making of a relevant claim."" He added: ""On a fair reading, the summons left the defender (the council) in no doubt that a claim was being made, that it was a claim for payment and that precise quantification of it would follow in due course. ""It was plainly a claim in part-implement of the defender's alleged obligations, being a definitive step in the process of enforcing them."" Shetland Islands Council said the case was now likely to proceed to a full hearing. In a statement, it said: ""The appeal court in Edinburgh has ruled against Shetland Islands Council in a technical legal matter over the Sumburgh airport runway extension dispute with Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. ""The issue before the Court of Session was whether or not the airport authority was time-barred from raising a claim for payment. HIAL initially raised the court action against the council claiming, among other things, defects in the design. ""The decision on this preliminary matter means that the case is likely to proceed to a full hearing. The council will not comment further at this time.""",Shetland Islands Council has @placeholder the latest stage of a court action in a £ 14.2 m dispute with Highlands and Islands Airports ( HIAL ) .,ordered,reported,initiated,defended,lost,4
"Producer prices in China fell at their slowest rate in 16 months in April, while consumer prices climbed 2.3% in the same month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 222.44 points to 17928.35. The  Nasdaq composite rose 59.67 to 4809.88, while the S&P 500 climbed 25.70 to 2084.39. After slipping on Monday, oil prices also rose as wildfires in Canada continued to force suppliers to halt production. OPEC president Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada said on Tuesday that he expected the oil market recovery to continue as global demand increased in the second quarter of the year. The US benchmark West Texas crude gained 2.8% to $44.66 a barrel and Brent crude climbed 4.5% to $45.60. As a result Exxon Mobile shares were up 1.6%, while Hess rose 5.9%. Shares of Southwestern Energy climbed 7%. Oilfield servicing company Schlumberger saw its share price rise 1.8%. ConocoPhillips shares price climbed 2.9%. Disney shares were up 1.2%. The media giant releases its quarterly earnings report after markets close. Shares of ecommerce firm Amazon jumped 3.4% after an analyst report raised its outlook for the company. On Tuesday, Amazon also launched a new video publishing website intended to be a rival to YouTube.",( Close ) : Wall Street markets had their biggest gains in two months following a global rally set off by positive Chinese @placeholder data .,sales,news,refining,inflation,dollar,3
"Sarah Sands, 32, is accused of murdering Michael Pleasted, 77, weeks after finding out he was charged with sex assaults on two children under 13. Mr Pleasted was stabbed at his Canning Town home while awaiting trial. Ms Sands told the Old Bailey she was frightened by his behaviour. She denies murder. The court heard Ms Sands befriended the pensioner and regularly cooked for him but on learning about the charges went to advise him to plead guilty to avoid the children having to testify. She said she had drunk two bottles of wine and a small bottle of brandy before visiting Mr Pleasted's flat on 28 November and took a kitchen knife, hammer and wrench with her ""for safety"". She told the Old Bailey that when Mr Pleasted opened the door he ""smirked"" and said his accusers were liars. Ms Sands told the court: ""He was so cold. The man that I thought I knew never behaved like that. ""I was frightened. He was meant to listen to me."" She said she took the kitchen knife out of her handbag and held it to ""show him he could not talk to me like that, that I knew him, that I loved him"". She went on: ""I just had it in my hand and I poked him with it in the front and that's when we both realised at the same time what had happened and he grabbed me. ""He was frightening me and I pushed him away and I left. That was it."" When asked whether she intended to cause Mr Pleasted ""serious harm"" she replied, ""No. I did not stab him, I didn't"". The court heard Mr Pleasted crawled into his hallway before collapsing and bleeding to death. Ms Sands handed herself in to police the following morning. The trial continues.","A woman stabbed her elderly @placeholder eight times after he "" smirked "" at her when she confronted him about child sex charges , a court has heard .",neighbour,status,offer,faces,son,0
"It follows a blog by a UK-based IT consultant who detailed how his Smart TV was sending data about which channels were being watched. His investigation also indicated that the TVs uploaded information about the contents of devices attached to the TV. It could mean LG has broken the law. The Information Commissioner's Office told the BBC it was looking into the issue. ""We have recently been made aware of a possible data breach which may involve LG Smart TVs,"" said a spokesman. ""We will be making enquiries into the circumstances of the alleged breach of the Data Protection Act before deciding what action, if any, needs to be taken."" When the consultant - Hull-based Jason Huntley - contacted the South Korean company he was told that by using the TV he had accepted LG's terms and conditions, and that any remaining concerns should be directed to the retailer who had sold him the screen. But when the BBC contacted LG, it indicated it was looking into the complaint. ""Customer privacy is a top priority at LG Electronics and as such, we take this issue very seriously,"" said a spokesman. ""We are looking into reports that certain viewing information on LG Smart TVs was shared without consent. ""LG offers many unique Smart TV models which differ in features and functions from one market to another, so we ask for your patience and understanding as we look into this matter."" Mr Huntley said he had first come across the issue in October when he had begun researching how his Smart TV had been able to show his family tailored adverts on its user interface. Digging into the TV's menu system, he had noticed that an option called ""collection of watching info"" had been switched on by default, he said. After switching it off, he had been surprised to find evidence that unencrypted details about each channel change had still been transmitted to LG's computer servers, but this time a flag in the data had been changed from ""1"" to ""0"" to indicate the user had opted out. ""That's a terrible implementation of the idea,"" Mr Huntley told the BBC. ""It still sends the traffic but labels it saying I didn't want it to be sent. ""It's actually worse, I think, than if they'd not offered the opt-out in the first place since it allows the user to believe nothing is being sent."" He had then attached an external hard drive to the TV's USB slot, expecting that the screen might simply report that he had been watching material from an external device, he said. Instead he had found the name of each media file stored on the drive - including photos labelled with his children's names -  had been sent back to LG. He had confirmed this had been the case by creating a mock video clip that he had named ""midget porn"", which had then showed up in unencrypted traffic sent back to LG, he said. Mr Huntley suggested that even if LG had never inspected the data, it could still pose a security risk as hackers could take advantage of the practice. ""I can't prove that this was being actively logged by LG, but nevertheless it was being transmitted in the clear across the internet's backbone to wherever the servers are located,"" he said. A spokesman for LG said the company intended to comment further ""shortly"".",LG is investigating allegations that some of its TV s send details about their owners ' viewing habits back to the manufacturer even if the users have @placeholder a privacy setting .,lost,activated,welcomed,criticised,launched,1
"Irish Water, the country's water utility, is rolling out the quarterly billing to 1.5m customers on a phased basis over the next eight weeks. The system went live on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the first 39,000 bills will be issued to customers. But Irish Water has said that it anticipates mistakes will be made. It said the billing process is a ""significant task"" and it expects there will be errors in its database. On Tuesday, Irish Water confirmed that it had asked around 11,000 customers who submitted payment details in writing or over the phone to re-submit the information. It said that 9,000 customers who gave details of direct debit mandates over the phone were asked to re-submit them in writing, following concerns over data protection. Another 2,000 customers who submitted payment details in writing were asked to do so again, due to ""errors"" in transposing customer details online. Staffing at a call centre in Cork has been increased to 750 to deal with customer queries during the initial billing period. Staff at Irish Water and their customer service agents have been involved in a dry run on the billing system for several weeks. Elizabeth Arnett, Irish Water's head of corporate services, acknowledged that mistakes could be made. ""We expect to face challenges, particularly when we have incomplete customer information or unregistered customers,"" she said. ""In these cases we may not have the right billing details and it's possible that the details we have may not be 100% correct."" Initial charges will be 40 euros (£29) for a single-adult household and 65 euros (£47) for a two-adult household. Annual bills will not exceed 160 euros (£117) for single-adult households or 260 euros (£190) for households with more than one adult. A total of 1.7m bills will be issued, including to those who are not customers of the utility, such as to people on group water schemes.",Households in the Republic of Ireland will @placeholder their first bills for water services on Wednesday .,file,open,show,continued,receive,4
"Police said more than 200 young people gathered in the Falls Park and City Cemetery area on Saturday night. They said a number of them threw stones and bottles at police. The rubber floor of the nearby play park was ripped up and pieces of it used as missiles to throw at police. Two teenage boys were arrested. Police said that on Friday night a similar number of young people were gathered in the same area and a teenage girl was arrested. ""We would ask parents to know where their children are and to play a role in preventing them from becoming involved in behaviour which could see them end up with a criminal record,"" the PSNI said in a statement. ""Damaging a play park which is used by the whole community is unacceptable and is the kind of anti-social behaviour that adversely affects the quality of life of those people who want to use it. ""Going forward, we will use all the opportunities available to us to address anti-social behaviour - and that means working closely with local residents and other agencies. ""This work includes enforcement, making arrests, and education - helping our young people understand the impact this type of activity can have on victims."" The police said the three teenagers who were arrested were ""dealt with by way of community resolution notices or CRNs, meaning that they were required to acknowledge the unacceptable nature of their actions and apologise for them"". They added that a condition of the CRN imposed on one of the teenage boys, is that he is not permitted to enter Falls Park unless accompanied by an adult. Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey told BBC News NI on Sunday that a co-ordinated approach was needed to tackle the issue. ""It is happening too often, it is damaging the park and it is costing public money,"" he added. ""More importantly, it is sickening people when they see the damage and hear of the bad activity going on. ""What we have to do is keep working with the young people, with the police and with the council management to make sure that we can keep the anti-social behaviour to a minimum, if not eradicate it.""",The police have been @placeholder in west Belfast after they tried to break up a crowd of teenagers who had gathered at Falls Park .,handed,attacked,placed,shot,detained,1
"The widow of Lee Gaunt said her husband had predicted something ""catastrophic"" would happen hours before the death of Stephen Hunt in 2013. Mr Gaunt was found hanged at Stalybridge Fire Station in October. Caroline Gaunt said that following his colleague's death her husband ""went into meltdown"". She told the hearing the fatal fire in Manchester's northern quarter had ""changed his life and mental state completely"". Ms Gaunt said her husband ""could see all the failings on that job"" and felt ""somehow he had contributed"" and should have raised his concerns. When he returned home after the blaze he was distressed and said he felt the incident was being managed badly, she added. The next morning he discovered his colleague had died. Ms Gaunt told the inquest her husband subsequently suffered nightmares and was suicidal. She said he had sought medical help and, two weeks before he took his own life, had told a station manager he was suffering from stress. The inquest also heard Mr Gaunt had been informed he might be called as a witness at the inquest into the death of his colleague. Peter O'Reilly, of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, said his colleagues had been ""devastated"" by Lee's death. He said: ""We have tried to encourage all our staff to look out for and look after each other, ensuring support is available for anyone who needs it.""","A firefighter who hanged himself "" could n't @placeholder "" after one of his colleagues died tackling a blaze in Manchester , an inquest has heard .",achieve,recover,died,stop,function,4
"The investment is the first deal to be signed during Saudi monarch King Salman's Asian tour, and is expected to help boost profits at Petronas, which has been struggling with low oil prices for the past few years. The visit is the first by a Saudi king to Malaysia in more than a decade, but the ties between the two nations run deep. The Saudi connection came up in Malaysian politics as recently as last year, when Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said that the $681m found in his personal bank account was a gift from the royal family, and not money embezzled from funds linked to the state investment fund 1MDB. The Malaysian anti-corruption commission cleared Mr Najib of all wrongdoing. However, his critics say the Saudi Arabian excuse is just a convenient cover - and several international investigations into the matter continue. Meanwhile, King Salman is expected to head to Indonesia, Japan, Brunei and China as part of his tour of the region. But behind the cheque book diplomacy is the kingdom's desire to extend its influence in the region and attract Asian investors to Saudi Arabia. 1. Scratching backs: Saudi Arabia is looking for ways to diversify its economy and reduce its dependence on oil. The kingdom has been hit by the twin challenges of trying to reform its economy at a time when it has been losing money from falling oil prices. Investing in nations such as Malaysia may not yield much in terms of reciprocal investment, but watch out for any announcements when King Salman is in China and Japan. Riyadh has already invested in a $45bn technology fund with Japanese firm Softbank, and, according to analysts, the Saudis are looking for investments in logistics, infrastructure and technology from Tokyo and Beijing. 2. Keeping customers: It's not just about bringing investment into Saudi Arabia - it's also about maintaining business in Asia for Saudi crude. The big prize is China - which has overtaken the US as the world's biggest importer of oil. Data from 2014 shows that it sources most of its energy needs from the Arab kingdom. But Russia and Iran are fast gaining ground, and China has been investing in oil fields in both nations. Riyadh will be keen to ensure that it remains the top supplier for Beijing. 3. Potential investors: Saudi Aramco, the Arab kingdom's state-run oil firm, is heading for a public share sale in 2018. According to reports this would be the world's biggest share flotation, although there has been some doubt cast on the valuations. Nevertheless, this trip is very much about drumming up interest from Asian investors into buying a 5% stake in Saudi Aramco. There has also been talk of an Asian share listing, although that has yet to be confirmed. 4. Don't cry for me Washington: The US has traditionally been Saudi Arabia's most powerful ally, both in terms of trade and politics. But Donald Trump's recent anti-trade stance may have unnerved some in the kingdom, which could explain why a trip to Asia was planned before one to Washington. Reaching out to Muslim majority nations such as Indonesia and Malaysia makes sense for the Saudis as it won't just be conversations about investment in physical infrastructure - but also about investing in religious pilgrimages and schools. 5. Investment extends Islamic influence: Traditionally Saudi aid and investment into Malaysia and Indonesia has come through the Saudi government, religious charities and foundations. But in recent years, there's been growing concern in some quarters over the resultant increase in Wahhabism in South East Asia, at a time when the region is going through what some have termed an Islamic revival. In Indonesia, human rights groups have pointed to the funding of ultra-orthodox clerics in mosques who often have views that are at odds with the archipelago's interpretation of Islam. In Malaysia, Marina Mahathir, the daughter of Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, has said that Malays are losing touch with their identity and in danger of undergoing an ""Arab colonisation"" - in the way they dress, speak and practise their faith. Saudi Arabia may be keen to deflect this criticism: note that the trip also includes a stop in Indonesia's predominantly Hindu island of Bali.","Malaysia 's Prime Minister Najib Razak has announced that Saudi Arabia is investing $ 7bn ( Â £ 5.6 bn ) in an oil refinery in the country , a project that will be @placeholder up by Malaysian oil company Petronas .",honoured,drawn,followed,stepped,set,4
"Instead, the foreign secretary will focus on forging a UK-US free trade Brexit deal when he meets senior members of the president's team. Britain is said to be ready to forget the spat after the US agreed not to repeat claims GCHQ wiretapped Mr Trump. GCHQ said the claims made by the White House were ""nonsense"". Mr Johnson will meet with congressional leaders and members of Mr Trump's team in Washington, including chief strategist Steve Bannon and senior adviser Kellyanne Conway. Officials said he will not raise the diplomatic row which was sparked when White House press secretary Sean Spicer repeated allegations GCHQ spied on Mr Trump for Barack Obama. The UK is said to be satisfied by reassurances from the US that the claims - described by GCHQ as being as ""utterly ridiculous"" - will not be repeated. Officials hope Mr Johnson can carve out a role as a link-man between No 10 and the White House, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale. On his three-day visit to the US, the foreign secretary will attend a summit of countries fighting so-called Islamic State and chair a meeting of the UN security council. He will also host a UN event on female empowerment around the world, aimed at giving women better access to schools, jobs and democracy.","Boris Johnson will @placeholder discussing claims the UK 's intelligence agency spied on Donald Trump when he visits Washington later , officials say .",keep,join,show,avoid,continue,3
"Justin Welby told the Mail on Sunday the UK needed a united negotiating strategy for exiting the EU. He said the commission should be under Parliament's authority, chaired by a senior politician. Cabinet minister Priti Patel rejected the idea and said ministers were focused on getting ""the right deal"". Formal Brexit negotiations began last Monday in Brussels. Key subjects to be negotiated include the status of EU nationals and Britons living elsewhere in the EU, the size of any ""divorce"" bill and how the UK will trade with the EU once it leaves. In his article, the archbishop wrote that - with a hung parliament - there was ""an understandable temptation for every difference to become a vote of confidence"". But he said that would be a ""disaster"", as British negotiators would not have ""confidence in their backing from the UK"". He claimed a commission, with parties from the whole political spectrum, could ""hold the ring for the differences [in opinion] to be fought out"". It should be under the authority of the Commons, and chaired by a senior politician, but without the authority to bind Parliament, he said. ""We need the politicians to find a way of neutralising the temptation to take minor advantage domestically from these great events,"" the archbishop wrote. He added that Britain's decision to leave the EU was the third time in two centuries that the UK had to ""redefine the place of our country in the world"". But International Development Secretary Priti Patel rejected the idea of a cross-party commission. She told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics: ""I think the point is, this isn't about commissions. The public voted last year to leave the European Union. Our job as government now is obviously securing the right deal for the country and not rerunning those arguments of Remain and Leave from last year."" In the same article, the archbishop said the Grenfell Tower fire - and the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London - had ""brought out the best of communities in crisis"". ""Communities have staggered, stumbled and pulled themselves up,"" he wrote. ""I am so proud and grateful to be part of a country where people at Westminster rush to treat a man who has just tried to kill them, where an imam ensures the would-be killer whose van is still resting on one of his congregation is protected."" The UK is due to leave the EU by the end of March 2019.","The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the prime minister to set up a cross -party commission to "" draw much of the @placeholder "" from Brexit negotiations .",country,blame,public,poison,world,3
"The Idle Women project, aimed at addressing ""the urgent need for women's space"" and providing ""a radical redress of power, acknowledgement and voice"", has been put together by caretakers Rachel Anderson and Cis O'Boyle. It centres around the Selina Cooper, a renovated barge with both a living area and an arts space which will travel the canals for the next two years, giving women a chance to ""take off armour and just relax and breathe a little"", Anderson says. ""We start with the canals but it's definitely about addressing the urgency for change that is needed across the board. ""In part, this a conversation about the arts and a woman's place in the arts, but it's also about our place in everyday life - the way we constantly have to consider our security. Whether that's walking home at night or in our relationships with men, and the things that we have to navigate in terms of inequality or our role as mothers. ""The issues for women are everywhere and it's really important that we have a space to just be. It doesn't have to be about looking at those issues. ""I think the starting place always has to about women and women's capacity to breathe, so let's take it from there and see what impact that has."" The idea for the project came while the pair were working in ""a very patriarchal way"" in London, which O'Boyle says left them jaded and feeling ""a little bit like going down with a sinking ship"". As a result, they thought about where they could put the energy that would have been put into a big production, into ""something that has some value"". After realising the limitations of a farm - both financially and in terms of how many women they could connect with - O'Boyle says they struck upon the idea of doing something on the waterways. ""We toyed with it for a while, took a trip on a friend's narrow boat and realised the canals were an extremely male-dominated space, so we thought 'why not start a revolution on the canals?'."" In doing so, O'Boyle says they are following in the footsteps of the women who gave the two-year project its name, and who worked on the canals in World War Two. ""They did all the heavy labour while soldiers were at war and at the time,"" she says. ""It was Inland Waterways, and they had a little badge which said IW to get on and off the barges and into secure places - they were immediately nicknamed Idle Women."" Anderson continues: ""When we found out about that, it tapped into other women's histories that we don't really know about - and it feels really important to learn. ""Being here in Lancashire, we've also learned about the women who worked in the coal mines and the women that worked the land - these are really important parts of our history that are not forefronted or celebrated."" Even the barge's name taps into that, coming as it does from a suffragette who began life as a child labourer in the area's cotton mills and went on found a maternity hospital and speak for the local women in parliament. ""She was this incredible woman with this incredible contribution to society, but she's relatively unknown,"" Anderson says. ""We want to bring history into the forefront as well as talk about our future - to acknowledge ourselves in a more full way."" To do that, the Arts Council-funded barge is going to spend two years travelling around Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and West Yorkshire, working with women's groups where it moors and housing seven artists-in-residence along the way. The first to take up that post is photographer and visual artist Martina Mullaney who, along with her daughter Cecily and dog Max, will spend two months on board. She says the barge is ""a gift... a lovely space that frees me up to be able to think about making artwork"". Importantly for her, it is also somewhere women can gather: ""Those spaces are fewer and fewer and art-only spaces for women haven't really existed since the 80s. ""This is a space where women can put our other experiences to one side. Women feel, on a daily level, really hassled by patriarchy and the system, and sometimes it's just a joy to get a break from men. ""That's not because anyone is a man-hater, but it's tough fighting constantly - whether it's wolf whistles or sexism at work or other such things. ""It's a luxury to think 'while I'm on this boat, I put the outside world aside'. I suppose I could do that at home, but now I can consciously think about what it means to not invite a male into the space."" Anderson says Mullaney and the other residents, including theatre director Mojisola Adebayo and multimedia artist Karen Mirza, were chosen because they ""represent an aspect of arts practice and socially engaged practice that is undervalued in the mainstream art world"". ""We're starting to think of it more as a co-dependent practice because the truth is artists cannot make work without other people,"" she says. ""We're interested in artists that recognise that. There's a really big misconception that artists work in isolation - it's totally inaccurate. ""Artists always need inspiration from others - the extent of how they acknowledge that varies - but we are really interested in forefronting how we work together to create and feed each other."" Some of those who will be coming to the project will have been directed there by Lancashire Women's Centres, who work with women needing many different kinds of support. Training co-ordinator Moya O'Hagan says she was drawn to the barge because ""it's always useful to have women-only spaces"". ""We can't offer a lot of out-of-hours provision so it's great to direct women to because it's here all the time. And it's flexible, it can move to where women want it,"" she says. ""The idea is really new and innovative and it's just got this relaxed sanctuary feel to it. It's like a real retreat - a safe space that feels creative. Anderson says she and O'Boyle want the barge to become a treasured space to the women that use it and hope that by the time the project is completed, they ""will have created a space for women to use in a way that they want to or need to"". ""We're already seeing that. It's overwhelming how many women are feeling in touch with us all of the time,"" she says. ""We have a very broad range of ideas of how women can get involved - whether they come and have a cup of tea with us one day or whether they come to everything that we do. ""For two years, between Blackburn, Barrowford, Dewsbury, Manchester and St Helens, this area will have this network that know each other through art, and that feels so important.""","From carrying coal to transporting tourists , the canals of the North have taken a variety of @placeholder , but a new barge is bringing something unusual to the waterways - a women - only arts centre .",lives,events,loads,action,form,2
"Celtic dominated the first half without reward, Scott Sinclair having two efforts saved well by Scott Bain. But Brown found a way through early in the second half, lashing in a loose ball with his left foot from close in. Sinclair tested Bain again after the break while stubborn Dundee only fleetingly threatened. They remain on six points while Celtic maintain their four-point advantage over Aberdeen. Celtic had vast tracts of possession but, for once, they were not sharp enough to convert mountains of ball into mountains of goals, as they have done so often domestically this season. Their European exploits in midweek - the 3-3 draw with Manchester City - took a lot out of them, for sure. Their hosts offered little threat themselves but they were focused at the back. That will give Paul Hartley some encouragement in difficult times. Celtic were dominant but this was a day when Sinclair's goal rush - one in each of the past six league games - was halted, when Moussa Dembele failed to threaten and when Leigh Griffiths and Patrick Roberts, off the bench, could not add to Brown's goal. This was far more mundane fare for the Celtic captain compared to the stellar cast list he came up against on Wednesday, but Brown was as tuned in and as professional against Dundee as he was against City. He was the one who broke Dundee's resistance and that was appropriate because he was the best player on the field until that point. Celtic were not anywhere close to their best, but Brown did what needed to be done. Having been held goalless in the opening half - the first time that has happened in the league this season - Celtic probed and Dembele did great work to create the moment from which Brown scored. When the ball broke loose from the striker's attempt on goal, it was Brown who was there to drive home. This was Dundee's seventh game without a win, a run that has brought just three points from a possible 21. That's bottom-two stuff, if it continues. It is not hard to have some sympathy for Hartley, though. His team defended pretty well, but he does not have much in front of goal. For all of Faissal El Bakhtaoui and Yordi Teijsse's work-rate, they cannot be expected to fill the giant boots of the departed Kane Hemmings and Greg Stewart. El Bakhtaoui and Teijsee have scored just one league goal between them this term. Their only chance against Celtic was a tame close-range header from Teijsse. At this point last season, Hemmings and Stewart had seven. They scored 30 in the league overall - 56% of Dundee's total. Hartley has a seismic job on his hands to fill that void. Match ends, Dundee 0, Celtic 1. Second Half ends, Dundee 0, Celtic 1. Darren O'Dea (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Moussa Dembele (Celtic). Nir Bitton (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Mark O'Hara (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic). Attempt missed. Kieran Tierney (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Substitution, Celtic. Stuart Armstrong replaces Scott Sinclair. Substitution, Dundee. Rory Loy replaces Danny Williams. Nick Ross (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic). Substitution, Dundee. Nick Ross replaces Nicky Low. Attempt blocked. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Darren O'Dea (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic). Substitution, Celtic. Patrick Roberts replaces James Forrest. Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Yordi Teijsse (Dundee) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by James Forrest (Celtic). Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Foul by Yordi Teijsse (Dundee). Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) header from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner. Attempt saved. Yordi Teijsse (Dundee) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Yordi Teijsse (Dundee) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic). Substitution, Dundee. Craig Wighton replaces Faissal El Bakhtaoui. Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Tomas Rogic. Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Foul by Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee). Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Attempt blocked. Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner,  Dundee. Conceded by Kieran Tierney. Darren O'Dea (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Moussa Dembele (Celtic). Goal!  Dundee 0, Celtic 1. Scott Brown (Celtic) left footed shot from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Scott Sinclair. Second Half begins Dundee 0, Celtic 0. First Half ends, Dundee 0, Celtic 0.",Captain Scott Brown @placeholder Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic went into the international break with another three points at Dundee .,scored,struggling,ensured,grabbed,enjoyed,2
"The Victory Medal belonged to Pte William John Boaden of the 3rd Battalion Devonshire Regiment. It was found in a farmer's field in Porthcawl by a team of metal detecting enthusiasts. Researcher Stephen Lyons then tracked down Pte Boaden's family in Tiverton, Devon, where he was born in 1897. But it is still not known how the medal came to end up in the field. Pte Boaden signed up on the outbreak of the First World War aged 17. His regiment served in France and Belgium, Mesopotamia, Salonika, Macedonia, Egypt, Palestine and Italy. The medal is badly damaged but Pte Boaden's name and regimental number are still visible. Chris Jeffreys made the discovery after sitting down on a fallen tree to take a break from metal detecting. ""I didn't have many finds that day,"" he said, until his detector picked up a ""beautiful signal"" around the tree. ""The area had been covered dozens of times before, so whether the tree falling disturbed something I don't know. ""It's the first medal I've found,"" he added. ""I was overjoyed."" Keen to unravel the mystery of how the medal ended up in the field, Mr Jeffreys and his fellow metal detecting enthusiasts appealed for help to find out what happened to Pte Boaden. A First World War expert based in Cwmcarn, researcher and historian Stephen Lyons answered the appeal. Following a tenacious and at times pain-staking research, he tracked down daughter-in-law Moira Boaden and his grandson Stephen Boaden living in Tiverton, Devon. Mr Jeffreys recently met them to present the medal. Mrs Boaden said she was ""delighted"" as she never knew of its existence and that the family ""will treasure it"". ""It's so interesting hearing all the history of my father-in-law."" Stephen Boaden said he had nothing of his grandfather's, not even a photograph, until recently. ""It was a very nice surprise,"" he said. ""To find out so much information about what he went through and who he was - it gives him a personality."" He added that the medal was not just something that belonged to his grandfather, but was ""evidence of his service to his country.""",A war medal found in a field in Bridgend county has been returned to its rightful owners almost a century after it was @placeholder .,spotted,captured,unearthed,emerged,awarded,4
"Pop Recs Ltd hosted in-store gigs by acts from Franz Ferdinand to James Bay. It also earned the group an award for Britain's hardest-working band from the Association of Independent Music. Drummer Dave Harper, who runs the shop, is now looking for a new site. ""We need to be somewhere else,"" he said. ""Not existing is not an option."" The band opened Pop Recs Ltd to sell their own album in 2013 after realising there were few bricks-and-mortar stores left to sell it. Housed in the city's former tourist information office, it was originally only meant to be open for a few weeks. But the band kept it going and their DIY attempts to buck a music industry decline gained support from other independent artists. It also became a community hub, hosting regular music tuition plus poetry, stitching and toddler groups. Now, however, they have moved out after Sunderland City Council, which owned the building, sold it for student flats. Pulled Apart By Horses played the shop's final gig on Saturday. Harper said he was looking at one possible new premises, and that comments from the shop's regulars had made him realise it was important to reopen. Things like the poetry group, which has 40 members, and the Saturday morning ""stitch and bitch"", will ""stop happening here"", Harper said. ""That's absolutely terrifying because, if you walk around this city, and if you don't want baked pastry goods or go to a charity shop or cash a cheque or put a bet on, I don't know what people do. ""I'm standing here with grease on my hands and I hadn't cried for years until I realised this place was done, and people were saying pleasant things about it. It's really driven home so acutely what this place has meant to people."" Members of shop's the regular meetings have told him that the groups help with their mental health problems, he said. ""They feel comfortable here and they don't feel comfortable anywhere else that's state sponsored or medication related,"" he said. ""I didn't know we were doing this. ""People have just come and told us recently, and that was infinitely more upsetting, yet satisfying, that we were achieving things we didn't even realise under our own noses."" The band have always known the council was trying to sell the building, Sunderland City Council's cabinet secretary Councillor Mel Speding said. ""That has now been secured with its development into student accommodation. ""This is in line with council objectives to see more people living and working in the city centre and, in the interests of council tax payers in these financially challenging times for local authorities, it secures a capital receipt. ""Naturally, with the success and popularity of Pop Recs, the council and others have been looking at ways and means of continuing and securing a similar venture elsewhere in the city centre.""",A record shop opened by indie band Frankie and the Heartstrings in their home town of Sunderland two years ago has @placeholder after the premises was sold .,reopened,gone,returned,fallen,shut,4
"Canadians spent $19bn, more than double the previous year, much of it in the sunny southern state of Florida, the National Association of Realtors said. Purchases by foreigners increased 32% from April 2016 to March 2017. They accounted for about 5% of the US housing market. The National Association of Realtors report was based on a survey of about 6,000 real estate agents. It looked at sales of existing homes between April 2016 and March 2017. Foreigners living in the US and abroad - including recent immigrants, people on visas and investors living abroad - accounted for roughly 284,455 homes sold in that time, up 32% from the prior year, the report said. Much of the activity occurred in the second half of 2016. But demand from foreigners may be cooling this year, said Lawrence Yun, an economist for the association, an industry group that represents real estate agents. ""Stricter foreign government regulations and the current uncertainty on policy surrounding US immigration and international trade policy could very well lead to a slowdown in foreign investment,"" he said. Foreign purchases represented a record $153bn, or about 10% of the existing home sales market, the National Association of Realtors said. Foreign buyers typically paid about $300,000 - well above than the US median sales price of about $235,800. About 10% bought homes worth more than $1m. Measured in dollars, Canadian investment hit a new high, the report said. Almost two-thirds of Canadian purchases were expected to be used as holiday homes or as investment properties. About three-quarters of buyers paid in cash. Mr Yun said fast-rising property values in Canada, particularly in some cities attractive to foreign investment, such as Toronto and Vancouver, may have led buyers to consider the US. A strengthening US dollar may have added pressure to act, he said. Buyers living outside the US represented 42% of the foreign purchases. Chinese buyers accounted for about 40,570, or 14%, of the purchases, up 39% from the prior year. They spent $31.7bn - far more than any other country. Canadians accounted for about 33,800, or 12%, of the purchases, rising 26%. Mexicans made 28.516 purchases, or 10%, an increase of nearly 60%. Buyers from the UK made about 12,870 purchases, up 40%. Most of the Chinese and Mexican buyers lived in the US, while UK and Canadian buyers were more likely to keep a primary residence abroad, the report said.","Canadians @placeholder from high prices at home helped fuel an increase foreign home purchases in the US , according to a survey of US property agents .",recovered,jumped,suffered,buying,reeling,4
"John Lumsden Donaldson, 61, is well aware of what those organisations have been going through. His business was ""virtually closed down for 24 hours"" when he was the victim of a similar attack. And it was only the efforts of his computer programmer son Mark which got his business back up and running. ""It's not just the big companies that have been attacked,"" John told the BBC. ""We were attacked on Thursday 4 May."" When John opened his doors that day as usual, he had little idea of the problems that lay in store. He runs an auction company in Spain, where he lives in Formentera del Segura. It is a small business, employing fewer than ten people. ""None of the software would work on our network of computers in the office,"" he said. ""I thought my son might be updating the network."" He rang his son to check. ""Within five minutes he rang back and told me to unplug the servers and close down the system. ""He said we were being hacked."" John's business had been targeted with ransomware - software which infects vulnerable machines, locks data away and demands payment to unencrypt those files. ""They didn't take anything from us. They just wanted $500 (£390),"" John said. ""I said we should just pay. But my son said there was no guarantee they would unencrypt the files after we had paid and they might ask for more money."" John's business uses two servers in England and two physical servers in Spain. All four use Windows operating systems - those in England running the newer Windows 10; those in Spain using an older iteration of Windows Server. ""They locked up our system files so we couldn't run any of our software or access customer data. We could not pay our customers. ""I was worried about the security of our clients but they didn't access any of that part. It was our physical servers in Spain. ""They found a backdoor in Windows Server through our telephone line."" John and Mark worked overnight to resolve the problem. ""Even now we still have issues,"" John said. ""According to my son it's all linked to old Windows software. ""I really felt for our customers. It was a bit embarrassing to say the least. ""Thank God I had my son."" By UGC and Social News team",Organisations worldwide have been @placeholder to get systems back online after a massive ransomware cyber - attack .,urged,scrambling,deployed,continuing,vowed,1
"The options for the north-west area of the M60 are part of government plans to boost transport links in the region. It is part of a Department for Transport (DfT) and Transport for the North (TftN) study that found average peak-time speeds of less than 15mph. More work is needed to make a case for the various proposals, TftN said. The report, which includes other road studies for the North of England, is due to be published by the DfT, with the findings feeding into the Autumn Statement on Wednesday. Chancellor Philip Hammond will give an update on a number of government spending projects, including transport upgrades. The Treasury has said an extra £1.3bn will be spent UK-wide to tackle congestion. The road study for the the north-west section of the M60, aimed at tackling ""high traffic flows"",  has considered the following options: A report on the progress of TftN and the DfT said: ""The packages would provide significant improvements on the M60 and wider transport network within the study area. ""They would address the existing and future problems, and should be considered for further development."" The Greater Manchester Combined Authority - which represents the 10 borough councils - is due to note the TftN Strategic Studies update on Friday. TftN is due to issue a report on priorities and costs, and benefits of its studies across the North in April 2017.","A new link road joining two motorways , an orbital corridor and junction @placeholder are being considered to tackle congestion in Greater Manchester .",widening,group,plastic,1,3,0
"She died of heart failure and stopped breathing as her grandson and nursing home workers stood by her side. Tomohiro Okada, an official at her Osaka nursing home, praised her for achieving a healthy long life. ""She went so peacefully, as if she had just fallen asleep,"" said Okada. ""We miss her a lot."" Okawa, born in Osaka on 5 March 1898, was recognized as the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records in 2013. Okada said Okawa lost her appetite about 10 days ago. The daughter of a kimono maker, she said at her birthday celebration that her life had seemed short. Okawa married her husband, Yukio, in 1919, and they had two daughters and a son. She is survived by four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Her husband died in 1931. She was 47 when World War Two ended. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube","The world 's oldest person , a Japanese woman @placeholder Misao Okawa , has died a few weeks after celebrating her 117th birthday .",called,dubbed,labelled,reached,titled,0
"At the European level, the EU's supposed common asylum and immigration policy has been stretched to breaking point. While politicians and the media have inappropriately characterised this as a ""migrant crisis"", the overwhelming majority of people are coming from refugee-producing countries. Europe has a proud history of protecting refugees - it created the modern refugee regime after the Holocaust. This tradition is under threat. Europe needs to provide asylum, but it also needs to take a global perspective. Only a tiny proportion of the world's 20 million refugees come to Europe: 95% are in the countries that neighbour conflict and crisis, mainly in developing regions.  About 3.5 million Syrians are in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. More than 500,000 Somalis are in Kenya. More than two million Afghans are in Pakistan and Iran. It is ultimately in these regions that a significant part of the solution must be found. Conventional responses focus on providing humanitarian assistance. But this is not enough. Host countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, and Thailand are overwhelmed and increasingly closing borders. Refugees are often left dependent, ""warehoused"" in camps and without the right to work for many years.  Given this situation, many people want to move onwards. The real challenge is not how we stop people coming to Europe; it is how we create innovative and sustainable global models of refugee assistance. One approach is to reconceive refugees as a development issue rather than simply a humanitarian issue. Refugees have skills, talents and aspirations. At their best, development-based approaches to refugees have the potential to provide ""win-win"" opportunities for refugees, host countries, and donors, until refugees are able to return home. In our recent research in Uganda, we have shown how refugees can contribute economically to host states. Unlike many other countries in the region, it has adopted a so-called ""self-reliance strategy"", allowing refugees the right to work and a significant degree of freedom of movement. In urban areas and settlements, refugees engage in a diverse range of entrepreneurial activities. In Kampala, for instance, 21% of refugees run businesses that employ other people. Far from being dependent on aid, 96% of refugee households have some independent income source. This shows that given the right policies, refugees can and will help themselves and contribute to host societies. Historically, there are examples of how Europe has supported development-based approaches to refugee assistance. One neglected example comes from Central America where, at the end of the Cold War, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. The international community adopted an initiative known as CIREFCA, which between 1987 and 1995 created opportunities for refugee self-reliance across the region. The premise was that through targeted development assistance, opportunities could be created for both host communities and displaced populations. Health, education, and infrastructure projects were funded mainly by the then European Community across the entire region. In total, about $500m (£321m) was spent on 72 development projects across seven countries. Mexico, with a significant number of Guatemalan refugees, recognised that it had areas of under-developed land. With European money for agricultural projects, it agreed to provide self-reliance opportunities and local integration for Guatemalan refugees. The outcome was that refugees were able to contribute to the agricultural development of the Yucatan Peninsula in ways that are now well-documented. Today, similar untapped opportunities exist. Just a 15-minute drive from the now famous Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan, home to 83,000 refugees, is the King Hussain Development Area. It was intended to support Jordan's manufacturing base but currently lacks labour and inward investment. If the Zaatari refugees had access to employment opportunities within such spaces, alongside host nationals, it might offer a way to support Jordan's national development strategy while incubating the post-conflict Syrian economy. Europe could contribute through development assistance, backing trade concessions, and inward investment. Although not a substitute for sanctuary in Europe, the EU needs a comprehensive global refugee policy. The response must include better cooperation within the EU among the 28 states on sharing responsibility within Europe. It has to include articulating to the public why we should take refugees ourselves - in terms of ethics, law, economic and cultural benefits, and the symbolic importance of reciprocity. But it also requires a plan for how to sustainably support refugees in other parts of the world. Prof Alexander Betts is the director of the Refugee Study Centre at Oxford University, and the author of Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement. He spoke to the BBC World Service's The Inquiry programme, which is broadcast on the BBC World Service on Tuesdays from 12:05 GMT/13:05 BST. Listen online or download the podcast.","Europe is facing a mass influx of refugees from outside the region for the first time in its history , as people @placeholder persecution and conflict in countries such as Syria and Iraq . And its politicians are struggling to find a coherent response .",dressed,shows,flee,fear,attended,2
"Stacey Burrows, 16, and Lucy Pygott, 17, were out training in Aldershot, Hampshire, when they were run over by Michael Casey on 8 November. He admitted causing their deaths by dangerous driving. Casey, 24, said he had been distracted because a colleague had been sick in his car earlier that evening. Winchester Crown Court heard the soldier had been driving his black Ford Focus at 40mph in a 30mph zone near his barracks and had been looking at his colleague's vomit in the moments before hitting the girls. Casey, of St Paul's Road, Tottenham, London, said he then looked up to see a red traffic light at the crossing and ""felt"" a collision and saw the two girls in the road. The court heard that in a police interview Casey admitted drinking three or four pints of lager as well as a two-pint pitcher of a cocktail called Godfather which contained three 25ml shots of Jack Daniels and the same amount of Disaronno Amaretto. The court heard a friend who was on the crossing in Queen's Avenue with the girls had shouted at them to run when he realised the car was not going to stop. Lucy, who was from Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, had won a 3,000m bronze medal at the European Youth Championships in July while Stacey, from Farnborough, was the Hampshire under-17 3,000m champion. In an impact statement read to the court, Lucy's mother, Lisa Pygott, said: ""Mr Casey has broken our precious family, we are lost without Lucy. ""The British army trains soldiers to kill - Mr Casey killed with his loaded weapon of a hot-hatch car."" Mrs Pygott described seeing her daughter's bloodied body after the crash and said: ""That image traumatises me, it will stay with me until I die. No parent should ever have to see their innocent blameless child pointlessly killed."" Stacey's father, Lee, told the court he had just dropped his daughter off at the athletics club when he heard the crash. He said: ""I heard a loud bang and screams and ran down the steps frantically looking for Stacey only to be stopped by one of the parents who told me, 'it's Stacey'. ""Then I saw Stacey lying in the road with people trying to help her. I felt I died with Stacey that night, I cried with fear and I froze with shock."" Sign-up to get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning Casey, who pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, was also disqualified from driving for 10 years. His six-year jail term means he should be released on licence after three years. As the sentence was announced, Stacey's mother shouted from the public gallery: ""I do not get my daughter back in three years, do I?"" Following the hearing, an Army spokesman said: ""All those who fall short of the Army's high standards can expect to be dealt with administratively up to and including dismissal from the service.""",A soldier who was over the alcohol @placeholder and speeding when he killed two teenage athletes has been jailed for six years .,country,tail,limit,use,drug,2
"19 January 2016 Last updated at 17:01 GMT Last year, the Oscars were called out for having no black nominees. Actress Jada Pinkett Smith and director Spike Lee say they won't attend this year's awards - because of the lack of diversity. The president of the Academy, who runs the Oscars, issued a statement saying she was ""heartbroken"" about the comments and said that they are already working on including a wider range of people in the organisation.",The biggest film award ceremony in the world is being @placeholder for not recognising non-white actors .,sought,criticised,sold,developed,judged,1
"In February thousands of fans protested against plans to charge £77 for some tickets in the club's new main stand. ""Ticket prices are an issue in England,"" said owner John Henry. ""That may foreclose further expansion."" A fans' group called the news ""disappointing"", adding it would like clarification on the situation. Liverpool's redeveloped main stand has increased Anfield's capacity to 54,074. That is an increase of about 8,500 seats and plans for the next phase of the redevelopment would see the Anfield Road end extended, adding another 5,000 seats. But Henry said: ""I don't know if there will be a next step."" Last season, Henry's Fenway Sports Group apologised to fans and reversed plans to increase ticket prices after supporters staged a walkout during the 2-2 draw at home to Sunderland. ""These comments are a little surprising and disappointing for some supporters."" said James McKenna from the Spirit of Shankly fans' group, who were involved in February's protest. ""There is outline planning for the work and it seems a little disingenuous that we have never been told that ticket prices would impact the decision to redevelop the Anfield Road end. ""At a time when the club has increased revenues, to suggest that making an extra million pounds or so would prevent further expansion going ahead is a little strange; maybe John Henry should clarify what he means."" Meanwhile, Henry says Premier League owners are ""not happy"" at Uefa's plans to alter the way Champions League prize money is distributed. Uefa wants to give more money to clubs who have historically performed well in the competition. That would benefit five-time winners Liverpool and other European giants such as Real Madrid, who hold the record with 11 titles. However, it would lead to a decrease in cash for sides like Manchester City, who have never won the competition. The changes were only agreed by a small number of club officials and Uefa prior to them being unveiled in August. ""They unilaterally made changes to the market pool and there should have been I think more discussion,"" said Henry, whose club did not qualify for European competition this season. ""But I can tell you that the [Premier League] owners were not happy... at least among the clubs that I speak with."" Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.",Plans to expand Anfield further may not go ahead because Liverpool are worried about fans being @placeholder by the ticket price rises needed to fund it .,inspired,urged,criticised,angered,welcomed,3
"Ministers said relatives of people who were seriously ill or had to stay in hospital for a long time should be given free parking or reduced charges. Concessions should also be offered to people with disabilities and NHS staff whose shift patterns meant they could not use public transport, they said. Labour accused the coalition of dropping plans to scrap the charges. Hospital parking policies are set by individual NHS trusts. The Department of Health guidance made it clear trusts were responsible for the actions of private car parking contractors running facilities on their behalf. The guidelines also recommended hospitals should use ""pay-on-exit"" schemes so motorists pay only for the time they use in a hospital car park. And they say trusts should waive fines if a visitor or patient overstays through no fault of their own, for example because treatment took longer than planned, or when staff have to work beyond their scheduled shift. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: ""Patients and families shouldn't have to deal with the added stress of unfair parking charges. ""These clear ground rules set out our expectations, and will help the public hold the NHS to account for unfair charges or practices."" Mr Hunt had come under pressure from Conservative backbenchers to put an end to ""rip-off"" costs. As part of that campaign, Harlow MP Robert Halfon sent Freedom of Information requests to almost 400 hospitals in England. The data he collected shows big differences in average costs across the country. London had the highest charges, with an average of £20 a day and more than £130 a week. The lowest charges were in the East Midlands, where parking costs were £3.50 per day and £11 per week. Mr Halfon described the announcement as a ""massive step forward"" but said he wanted to see charges scrapped altogether, at a cost of £200m. ""Hospital parking has become a stealth tax on the vulnerable,"" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. ""The stories that we've had of people not being able to use the machines so they haven't been able to see their dying relatives is quite horrific and we have to make a change."" Ben Ruth, who received two parking tickets as he visited his dying father in the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, said the experience left him feeling ""sickened"". He had left his car in a parking bay on the road immediately outside the hospital, which offers free parking for up to two hours. As he was with his father, he went over the allocated time and, he said, it was ""not an option"" for him to leave to move the car. ""The second [ticket] was stuck on the windscreen when I left the hospital ward just after my father passed away,"" he said. ""I've rarely felt such rage as I felt right then. After the exceptional kindness of the medical staff in my father's ward, I felt grievously assaulted."" In total he was fined £50 which he was able to get back after an appeal. Macmillan Cancer Support said some patients were paying ""extortionate"" charges ""in order to access treatment for a life-threatening illness"". Welcoming Mr Hunt's announcement, Duleep Allirajah - head of policy at the charity - urged hospitals not to ignore the guidance. ""Hospitals must... commit to implementing the guidelines as a matter of urgency so that cancer patients do not continue to pay unfair hospital parking charges,"" he said. Analysis: Roger Harrabin, BBC News Some hospital parking stories sound outrageous, and charges are indeed a burden on some drivers. But the issue is complex. The poorest in society and the elderly are most likely to get sick, but the least likely to drive. They are often saddled with long expensive bus journeys to out-of-town hospitals easily accessed by motorists. Should the NHS provide minicabs for patients or visiting relatives without cars? Campaigners complain about the cost of NHS staff parking, but many hospitals are on expensive prime land. Car parks take up space that could be used for wards, and free parking would effectively subsidise drivers. What's more, hospitals like other major employers, are under pressure from councils to reduce driving to cut congestion and pollution. And how would hospitals replace the lost income from parking charges? It's not simple. Parking has been free for patients, visitors and staff in Scotland since 2009 but charges remain at three car parks built under private finance initiatives in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. All but four hospitals in Wales have stopped charging for parking. Those that require payment have been told to abolish charges once their contracts with private parking firms expire. Patients with certain chronic conditions in Northern Ireland do not have to pay to park. Ahead of the 2010 general election, the then Labour government promised to scrap car parking charges - a move described as ""unworkable"" by the coalition when it came to power. ""Jeremy Hunt needs to take responsibility for the fact that since then, one in four hospitals has increased parking fees,"" shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne said. ""Any action to ease the burden of car parking charges on patients and their visitors is welcome. When people go to hospital, the last thing they want to worry about is parking fees.""",Hospitals in England have been told to cut the cost of parking for certain @placeholder under new government guidelines .,areas,information,action,places,groups,4
"Supermarket Morrisons cut the price of diesel by up to 2p per litre, and Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's followed the move with their own price cuts. The last time diesel was cheaper than petrol was 2001, according to analysis by Experian Catalyst. Morrisons said lower wholesale diesel costs meant it could pass on savings. Mark Todd, petrol director for Morrisons, said: ""This is a milestone in motoring and many younger drivers won't remember the last time that diesel prices were lower than unleaded."" Pump prices are influenced by factors including the distance from oil terminals and refineries, so not all diesel prices will be lower than petrol, the supermarkets said. In July 2001, diesel cost 77.92 pence per litre on average, compared with 77.94 pence for a litre of petrol, according to Experian Catalyst data. A month prior, diesel had been as much as a penny cheaper per litre, and a price difference of just under two pence was found in 2000. There may be some delay until UK motorists see the price dip among all competitors. Experian Catalyst said the on Sunday UK average prices narrowed to 117.10 pence per litre for petrol and 118.33 pence for diesel. Diesel is normally more expensive than petrol per litre for a variety of reasons, according to the United Kingdom Petroleum Industry Association. While most recent investment in refineries UK has been for unleaded petrol production, more efficient engines mean petrol demand has been decreasing since the early 1990s, depressing prices by comparison to diesel, it says. However, increased supply of diesel from refineries outside the UK is likely to be the reason behind this recent price flip, according to the RAC. ""With the price of crude oil standing at $56.50 and the pound relatively strong against the US dollar - the fuel trading currency - there is scope for further price cuts of up to 4p per litre off diesel over the next fortnight, and unleaded may even benefit from a slight reduction too due to the continued oversupply of oil,"" said RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams. ""Drivers of unleaded petrol vehicles should not feel short changed - what we are seeing is the diesel pump price coming down to a level closer to what it should be due to the effects of greater refining capacity in the Middle East."" Wholesale prices for diesel have been cheaper than petrol since 27 May, the RAC said. As crude oil has become cheaper, both petrol and diesel prices have fallen too. However, petrol prices have fallen more slowly allowing diesel to become cheaper, says James Challinor, research director for research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie. This is caused in part by demand for petrol from the US. ""Fundamentally it is strong demand for European gasoline [petrol] from the US and West Africa that is supporting the wholesale"" petrol price, he said. Refinery outages in Latin America are creating demand for exports of US petrol into that region, which in turn leads European petrol to be exported to the US, he added.","The price of diesel has fallen below petrol at some supermarkets for the first time in more than a decade , after the big @placeholder announced price cuts .",fuel,cities,chains,company,five,2
"Shareholders of Newport rugby club will decide the issue on 9 May with a 75% majority required for approval. Davies and WRU chief Martyn Phillips met Newport RFC supporters on Monday. ""It's difficult to gauge because we can't be certain how many will attend on the evening,"" said Davies. ""We don't know how many proxies we will receive and what the mood of the room will be. ""The shareholders are as informed as they can be about what is being proposed and what the consequences are of going one way or the other."" The WRU already owns 50% of the Dragons but plans to take control of the region as well as the stadium. Davies has previously warned that the Dragons and Newport RFC could face going into liquidation if the deal is not agreed. The deal on offer would see: Davies said the meeting on 24 April was intense, but felt the mood was more positive since the full details of the proposed takeover had been made public. He also claimed that, when asked, a large number of people present confirmed they were Newport RFC shareholders and eligible to vote. Rugby has been played at Rodney Parade since 1877, but the ground requires improvements. It is currently used by the Dragons, Newport RFC and tenants Newport County AFC football club, who play in League Two of the Football League. Davies, a former Wales international and captain, felt the meeting was better informed than those he had attended before. ""The period that followed the announcement, before we could issue the information, I think that period was full of rumour and speculation as to what alternatives might exist,"" he added. ""From a Newport perspective there was probably a view of the 'can we explore going alone' option. ""There was not an awful lot of focus on that (at the latest meeting). ""This is not about plan A or option A or option B, this boils down to a single proposal and the consequences of supporting it or not supporting it. ""There will not be any further meetings with the stakeholders ahead of the night in question, but, between now and then, I will certainly be looking to keep the issues alive, make sure the key issues are understood so that there is no room for complacency or doubt when it comes to the night in question and that we have a good turn out."" Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones believes the WRU will do all in their power to make of a success of the team if the takeover goes ahead. Jones said: ""The conversations and meetings I've been involved in - they'll (WRU) want this to work. ""They'll want this to be 'look what we've done to the Dragons'. ""They're not about failure. I'm convinced of that.""",Newport Gwent Dragons chief executive Stuart Davies says he can not @placeholder the outcome of a vote on a proposed £ 3.75 m take over of the region and Rodney Parade by the Welsh Rugby Union .,following,affect,predict,replicate,accept,2
"The researchers believe that the nature of the attack makes the Chinese government the only realistic source. After five days, it was understood on Tuesday evening that the attack was decreasing in intensity. The Chinese government said it was ""odd"" that it had been accused of being responsible. GitHub said that it had first detected a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack - when a site is flooded with traffic, threatening to force it offline - last Thursday. Four separate security researchers have said that international web traffic to sites that use analytics tools provided by search firm Baidu was being hijacked in China. According to analysis published by Erik Hjelmvik of the firm Netresec, when browsers requested script from the Chinese firm's servers, as they normally would, malicious code was inserted into the reply. ""The upshot is that people from around the world... had their traffic redirected to swamp GitHub,"" Prof Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey told the BBC after verifying the research. It is alleged that the attack was targeted at two pages on GitHub: one created by the anti-censorship group Greatfire.org, the other a Chinese-language edition of the New York Times. Both are banned by the Chinese authorities. Mr Hjelmvik's analysis was backed up by similar research published by Insight Labs, a global group of security organisations. Their conclusions were ratified by both Rik Ferguson, from the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, and Prof Woodward. In a blog, Mr Hjelmvik described the attack step-by-step: The method could be used on a multitude of sites that passed into and back out of China, the researchers said. ""Any site that makes the request for a cookie related to Baidu's analytics, that request could be replaced with malicious code,"" said Mr Ferguson. Mr Hjelmvik told the BBC that, because the various internet service providers used by the foreign internet users were seeing the same results, the attacker could only be an entity with overarching control of telecommunications across China. That, he said, made the country's authorities the most realistic suspect. In a press conference on Monday, the Chinese foreign ministry's spokeswoman Hua Chunying was asked for her response to reports that her government was behind the attack. ""It is quite odd that every time a website in the US or any other country is under attack, there will be speculation that Chinese hackers are behind it. I'd like to remind you that China is one of the major victims of cyber attacks,"" she said. ""We have been underlining that China hopes to work with the international community to speed up the making of international rules and jointly keep the cyberspace peaceful, secure, open and cooperative. ""It is hoped that all parties can work in concert to address hacker attacks in a positive and constructive manner."" The BBC understands that the attack appears to be weakening and GitHub is now said to be operating ""at 100%"". A GitHub spokesman reiterated its earlier statement, highlighting that the attack was the ""largest DDoS"" in the site's history.","Internet users outside China are unwittingly @placeholder in a long - running cyber - attack on the coding site GitHub , security experts have said .",locked,monitored,participating,evidence,portrayed,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device The Welsh county's One-Day Cup match against Hampshire on Sunday was abandoned following concerns about the ""dangerous pitch"" at Cardiff's Swalec Stadium. The decision was taken after Hampshire batsman Jimmy Adams was hit by a rising delivery, after Michael Carberry had also been struck. Morris confirms that the ECB has interviewed the umpires, both captains and coaches, as well as Glamorgan head groundsman Keith Exton. Glamorgan are also conducting their own investigation and will be refunding admission costs to any spectator wishing to be reimbursed.",Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris tells BBC Wales ' Ashleigh Crowter that England and Wales Cricket Board officials have been @placeholder their dangerous pitch .,postponed,preparing,cleared,examining,suspended,3
"A study carried out at Edinburgh University suggested that playing to a youngster's competitive streak was likely to result in a third of them choosing more healthy foods. And it indicates that girls are more likely to respond to competition in vegetable-eating than boys. The study involved more than 600 pupils aged six to 10 in 31 English schools. For the ""individual"" scheme, pupils were given a sticker if they chose a portion of fruit or vegetables at lunchtime, or brought one in as part of a packed lunch. They were given an extra reward if they picked, or brought in, more than four of the foods over the course of a week. In the ""competition"" scheme, a second set of pupils were also given a sticker for choosing a portion of fruit and vegetables, but were split into groups of four, with the youngster in the group who had the most stickers at the end of the week gaining an extra reward. There was also a control group that was offered no incentives for eating fruit or vegetables. The researchers, from Edinburgh, Bath and Essex universities, found that the results differed by pupils' age, gender and background. However, overall, offering pupils incentives increased their consumption of the foods, with the competition having a greater and longer-lasting effect than the individual scheme. Prof Michelle Belot of Edinburgh University said: ""They would take about one fruit and vegetable per week at lunch. An increase of one per week is quite a lot. ""A week after we removed the incentive scheme, it continued for most groups of children. ""We came back after six months and we didn't see any 'backfiring'. There is some work in psychology which shows if you reward children it can sometimes backfire, so afterwards they eat less. ""We were quite concerned that this may happen, but we didn't see that happening at all.""","Children will eat more fruit and vegetables if the @placeholder is made a competition , according to research .",country,process,prize,ground,answer,1
"Council officers found mouse droppings on the shelves and cereal and sugar packets gnawed by rodents during a visit to the Enfield site in May 2016. Asda admitted three food safety and hygiene breaches at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in January. It was fined on Friday and ordered to pay £4,843 in court costs. The depot, in Southbury Road, distributes food to online customers across London and Essex. ""It beggars belief that a national retailer would allow food to be stored in an environment where rodents are running riot,"" said Daniel Anderson, Enfield Council's cabinet member for environment. ""It is simply unacceptable for customers to be exposed to the potential risk of harm because a company cannot get its house in order and store foodstuff in a safe and hygienic manner."" A spokesman for Asda said the depot had invested in and improved its pest management control. He added: ""The conditions found at our Enfield home shopping centre in May 2016 were completely unacceptable and we are deeply sorry that on this occasion the strict processes we have in place failed at a local level. ""We would like to reassure all our customers that immediate steps were taken as soon as the issue was flagged last year to restore the high standards that our customers expect from us.""","Supermarket chain Asda has been fined  £ 300,000 for food safety breaches after inspectors found dead mice and flies at its north London home @placeholder depot .",offices,data,centre,delivery,unit,3
"Six fire appliances were sent to the McKechnie Jess factory in Port Glasgow Road when the alarm was raised at 03:22. A spokeswoman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said about 35 firefighters were tackling the blaze, and there were no casualties. Diversions were in place, though HGVs were advised not to use these.",The A8 is @placeholder in Greenock due to a factory fire which broke out in the early hours of the morning .,closed,held,designed,stuck,rescued,0
"The Scottish Conservative leader said she wanted to build consensus around a Brexit deal that put economic advancement at its heart. She also dismissed reports that Scots Tories might ""break away"" from the main UK party. The Scottish Conservatives won an extra 12 seats in Thursday's election. The performance of Scottish Tories was in marked contrast to that in England and Wales where Prime Minister Theresa May lost her majority in the House of Commons. Ms Davidson spoke to reporters in Stirling as she showed off the 13 Scottish Conservatives who will now take their seats at Westminster. She said: ""I'm going to make sure that along with the 13 MPs we're sending to Westminster, we put Scotland's case forcefully and make sure that we deliver for Scotland and make sure that the union delivers for Scotland too."" She added: ""I want to ensure that we can look again at issues like Brexit which we know we are now going to have to get cross-party support for - and move to a consensus within the country about what it means and what we seek to achieve as we leave."" Asked what she meant with her call for an ""open Brexit"" she said: ""I've never believed in the terms of hard or soft Brexit. ""I want to talk about open or closed - and as someone who believes in open politics, that's about making sure we tear down barriers rather than put them up. ""It's about making sure we put free trade and economic advancement at the heart of the Brexit deal as we leave."" She also said she had received assurances from Theresa May that any deal with the Democratic Unionist Party would not erode LGBTI rights in Northern Ireland, and that the UK government would use its influence to ""advance"" those rights. Earlier she had taken to Twitter to dismiss a report in the Daily Telegraph that she wanted to ""tear her Scottish party away from English control"" . The paper, which stands by its report, said there were tensions during the campaign, and that Ms Davidson's aides were working on a deal to set up a separate organisation in Scotland. Pressed on the issue in Stirling, she said: it had been decided when she became leader that ""we would have complete autonomy over policy, candidates, campaigning, finance, which is what we have... but we would take the Conservative whip at Westminster and that is exactly what is going to happen"". Ms Davidson also  confirmed she had given her ""full support"" to Mrs May staying on as prime minister. Earlier the SNP's cabinet secretary for finance and the constitution, Derek Mackay, insisted his party had won the election in Scotland, despite seeing its number of MPs fall from 56 to 35. He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: ""The 2015 result was incredible, very difficult to repeat - but we won more seats than all the other parties put together."" He said it was too early to say whether the SNP would now ""park"" its demand for a second independence referendum after 60% of Scottish voters backed pro-union parties. ""Of course we will listen and reflect. It's too premature to say what we would do next around that,"" he said. ""We will continue to deliver good governance for Scotland, stand up for Scotland in the Westminster parliament, make sure we can get the best possible deal for Scotland in terms of the negotiations on Brexit."" Scottish Labour demanded Nicola Sturgeon ditch plans for a second independence referendum. James Kelly, who was the party's election campaign manager, said: ""Nicola Sturgeon has some very serious questions to answer now. ""She must categorically drop her plans for a divisive second independence referendum and get back to the day job. ""Across the UK, the election showed there is huge support for Labour's vision for investment in our public services, and Nicola Sturgeon needs to accept that she has been too distracted by the constitution for too long.""","Ruth Davidson has said she will argue Scotland 's case "" forcefully "" to the prime minister after major Tory @placeholder north of the border .",standards,gains,events,attacks,shadow,1
"But racist advertising has form, and not just in China. The scene: a young Chinese woman is doing her laundry. In walks a black man, with some paint stains on his face. They look at each other suggestively. She puts a tab of detergent into his mouth.... ...and then shoves him into the washing machine. Hey presto! He emerges a fair-skinned Chinese man. The lady doing laundry is apparently delighted by this development. It has appalled many on Facebook and other forums over the last 24 hours. But the ad itself is about a month old, having appeared on television and been shown at cinemas in China. At that time it didn't cause much of a furore with cinema-goers. But then it was shared by US expat Christopher Powell, a musician with the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, and by DJ Spencer Tarring. Although the story was not covered widely by Chinese media, there were hundreds of comments on Chinese social media, with some calling the advert ""awkward"". One user, @YY_CodingBear, said: ""My lord. Do Chinese marketing people not have any racial education?"" However, another user said they did not see any problem with the advert. ""I don't know much about the advertisement,"" the owner of Qiaobi laundry detergent, who identified himself as Mr Xia, told BBC Chinese's Grace Tsoi. He said he did not realise it was racist until it was pointed out to him: ""To be honest, I didn't really pay that much attention to the advertisement."" It mirrors an Italian advert for detergent, equally fraught with ethical issues, that does just the opposite - by washing a white man to black to advertise ""coloured"" laundry powder. The Darlie brand of toothpaste is called ""black man toothpaste"" in China. Darlie toothpaste used to be known as ""Darkie"" toothpaste, until it was rebranded. The significance of the name change was lost on many, analysts say. And recently in Hong Kong, an insurance advert showed a man dressed up like a Filipina domestic helper, with a blacked up face. It did not amuse Hong Kong audiences. A few years ago a well-known Chinese beer brand, Harbin, invited basketball star Shaquille O'Neal to endorse the beverage, presumably to expand into the global market. The US NBA competition is massive in China, and stars like Kobe Bryant are hugely popular, so it shouldn't have been a controversial move. But on Tianya, one of China's most popular forums, some netizens weren't happy, with some posting overtly racist and discriminatory comments. Certain posts called for a boycott because it was endorsed by ""a black man"". Some of the comments touched upon Aids and described Africans as orangutans. However, experts say, that does not mean that Chinese think of themselves as the most superior, with some saying Caucasians enjoy a higher status in certain quarters. There is a history of cultural bias against people of dark skin. Barry Sautman, a political scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, believes it shows the particular problems China has dealing with portrayals of race. ""It is not a question of Chinese not having anti-racist consciousness. They do."" In 2008, a World Public Opinion poll about government action to prevent racial discrimination interviewed people from 16 countries. China came second - 90% of Chinese respondents said racial equality is important. The small number of Africans living in China does not help. According to the latest census, only 600,000 foreigners are living in China, a small portion of them black. So the vast majority of the 1.3bn population has no experience interacting with black people. China's government is trying to change attitudes towards Africans. State media have promoted several stories about warming China-Africa relations, and lauded African people who have successfully learned Chinese. The 'white ideal' is also a pan-Asian phenomenon Controversial whitening adverts are part of the beauty scene right across Asia. In the Philippines, once colonised by Spain, white skin is associated with mixed ancestry. Annual beauty polls are conducted to rank the best whitening soaps, treatments and lotions. In Thailand a ""racist"" skin-whitening ad was withdrawn earlier this year after being condemned as racist. Of course overtly racist advertising has been found in Britain and the US as well. British and US advertisements for Pears Soap dating from the early 19th Century pushed the racist stereotype of black skin as dirty and white as somehow pure and desirable. Reporting by the BBC's Grace Tsoi, Vincent Ni, Heather Chen and Kerry Allen.",A Chinese laundry detergent advertisement is causing widespread outrage online and is being dubbed the most racist commercial to be @placeholder .,unveiled,screened,produced,sold,tackled,1
"They said it was the ""last chance"" for self-regulation of charity fundraising. The new regulator is being set up following scandals last summer, when unscrupulous fundraisers were accused of targeting old and vulnerable givers. MPs said most charities did not engage in such practices. But the behaviour of some had damaged the reputation of all, they said. MPs on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) heard that some charities, including Great Ormond Street Hospital and Macmillan Cancer Support, made it impossible for donors to block further communication from them or other charities. Vulnerable and elderly people were seen as ""fair targets"" by some organisations, and information sold by some charities ended up in the hands of scammers, MPs were told. Fundraising practices came under scrutiny in 2015 after the death of 92-year-old Olive Cooke, one of Britain's longest-serving poppy sellers. She killed herself after complaining she had been plagued by requests for donations from charity fundraisers - more than 200 letters in one month alone. While her family said that did not contribute to her death, it did highlight the plight of vulnerable people at the mercy of unscrupulous fundraisers. Samuel Rae, 88 - a former army colonel with dementia - was another victim. Charity fundraising companies sold his details on to other companies, including fraudsters who targeted him for £35,000. Nick Booth, from London, told the BBC News website he was targeted with cold calls from a charity. ""I was phoned out the blue by what sounded like a double-glazing cold caller,"" he said. ""She expected my bank details for a standing order. Age Concern was mentioned, but only in the monotone of someone reading out terms and conditions. ""When I said I wasn't sure about giving complete access to my bank account to a complete stranger, she said, 'Oh, so you don't like helping old people, eh?' I'm never giving my details out again."" Peter Anscombe, from Somerset, said: ""As a charity trustee, a deputy chair of a charity, and as a regular donor I am dismayed at some of the heavy selling techniques across the sector. ""I have personally stopped giving to some charities as a result of their aggressive approach. The intensity of people chasing you for money just grows and grows."" The MPs said charity trustees who had permitted scandalous fundraising methods were either ""incompetent or wilfully blind"". Chairman Bernard Jenkin said: ""This is the last chance for the trustees of charities, who allowed this to happen, to put their house in order. ""Ultimately, the responsibility rests with them. No system of regulation can substitute for effective governance by trustees."" He told the BBC that charities were ""apologetic"", but there was not yet a ""proper understanding... that it is fundamentally trustees who are responsible for setting the tone of their organisation"". ""Their values should extend to everything they do, not just the charitable objectives,"" he added. Rob Wilson, minister for civil society, said: ""I have made it clear that the sector has one last chance to prove that self-regulation can work, but I am willing to step in and impose statutory regulation if necessary."" The government's response to the scandals was to set up a review which recommended a new regulator of fundraising. Former Big Lottery Fund chief executive Stephen Dunmore was appointed in December as interim chief executive of the new regulator, responsible for setting up the organisation. It will replace the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB), which has welcomed the call for trustees to take more responsibility for fundraising activities. Like the FRSB, the new body will be based on self-regulation - meaning charities themselves develop and enforce standards and rules of behaviour. Sir Stuart Etherington, who chaired the review, said it was important not to ""lose sight of the principle of self-regulation in fundraising on which everyone is agreed"". ""I am not persuaded for this reason that it is appropriate for the fundraising regulator to report to a government body,"" he added. Paul Farmer, chairman of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, which represents charity leaders, said the new regulator had the ""full support"" of charities and should ""make sure that the poor practices of a tiny number of charities don't happen again"". He also said charities had ""looked really carefully"" in recent months at their procedures on using donors' data.","UK charities ' fundraising activities could be @placeholder by law unless a new voluntary regulator succeeds in cleaning up the sector , a committee of MPs has warned in a report .",controlled,affected,criticised,scrapped,threatened,0
"Police have made an urgent appeal to her mother to get in touch. The baby is safe and well. The baby was found inside the disabled toilets at Silcock's Amusement Arcade on Neville Street, at about 19:00 on Thursday. It is thought the birth was unsupervised and there is concern for the mother's health. The child is being looked after at Ormskirk Hospital, where staff have named her April. Merseyside Police said the mother may need medical help. The force has released a CCTV image of a woman - believed to be the mother - who they are trying to trace. Det Insp Mike Dalton, said: ""Our primary concern is for the health of the girl's mother. She is not in any trouble. ""I would urge April's mother to urgently come forward or at least seek treatment, as she could suffer medical complications, which are potentially very dangerous."" A 24-hour phone line has been set up by the hospital in order for the mother to make contact.",A newborn baby girl has been found @placeholder inside a toilet block in an amusement arcade in Southport .,stabbed,stuffed,abandoned,crying,hidden,2
"It is estimated to have cost emergency services a further one million pounds. Nicholas Muton climbed up over a stretch of the motorway in Leicestershire at midday on Sunday. He eventually came down shortly after 16:00 BST on Monday. The 45-year-old appeared at Leicester Magistrates' Court charged with causing a public nuisance. He did not indicate how he intends to plead, and the case was sent to crown court for a plea and case management hearing on 13 July. The prosecution told the court about the estimated cost to the emergency services and wider economy, but they did not explain how this cost had been calculated. They said the cost to the wider economy may turn out to be more than £28m once it has been investigated further. Part of the southbound carriageway of the motorway was closed while negotiators tried to talk Mr Muton down. Mr Muton, who has no fixed address, was remanded in custody until the next hearing.","A 28 - hour closure of part of the M1 after a man @placeholder an information board gantry cost the wider economy at least one million pounds an hour , a court has heard .",stole,spot,scaled,produced,lost,2
"Last Thursday's outage caused sites including Foursquare, Reddit and Quora to go offline, some for days. EC2- Elastic Compute Cloud - provides processing power and storage to companies that do not have their own data centres. The apology comes after a week of silence on the matter. Amazon is giving users a 10-day cloud services credit, whether or not they were affected. Cloud computing is a fast-growing business that is becoming essential to increasing numbers of businesses and individuals, who use it for remote storage of data. It offers individuals and businesses the ability to rent virtual storage space. Cloud providers like Amazon host websites and other data in server farms. • Cheap: IT provider hosts services for multiple companies; sharing complex infrastructure is cost-efficient and you pay only for what you use. • Quick: Basic cloud services work out of the box; for more complex software and database solutions, cloud computing allows you to skip the hardware procurement and capital expenditure phase. • Up-to-date: Most providers constantly update their software offering, adding new features as they become available. • Scaleable: You can grow quickly because cloud systems are built to cope with sharp increases in workload. • Mobile: Cloud services are designed to be used from a distance, so if you have a mobile workforce, staff can have access to most of your systems on the go. Cloud computing goes mainstream A statement on Amazon's website said: ""We know how critical our services are to our customers' businesses and we will do everything we can to learn from this event and use it to drive improvement across our services."" Amazon promised to ""spend many hours over the coming days and weeks improving our understanding of the details of the various parts of this event and determining how to make changes to improve our services and processes"". In a detailed technical explanation the company described what had gone wrong with its data storage process. It said there was a problem when changing a network configuration, which caused its primary and secondary systems to fail and overload. Amazon then had to stop the system and restart it, including physically moving servers. Amazon's statement on Friday said: ""Everything looks to be getting back to normal now."" It concluded with: ""Last, but certainly not least, we want to apologise.""","The online retailer Amazon has apologised for a fault in its web hosting service EC2 , which @placeholder out many well - known websites .",knocked,carries,lashed,played,brings,0
"Edin Dzeko scored early in each half - the first inside a minute - and Yaya Toure added a third in stoppage time as City moved into second place and within three points of Chelsea with two games in hand. Media playback is not supported on this device It was another sobering and thoroughly miserable night for United manager David Moyes as, for the second home league game in succession, the current gap in quality and strength between the reigning champions and their rivals was emphasised as City followed Liverpool by winning 3-0 and with plenty to spare. City's hugely impressive display cut short Moyes's hopes of sparking a late run in this disappointing season and now they face a fight to even finish in the top six and claim a place in the Europa League. Manuel Pellegrini's side have no such problems as they cruised to victory to complete an emphatic double over their arch-rivals after a 4-1 win at Etihad Stadium earlier this season and now move towards this weekend's game at Arsenal in ominously confident mood. Yaya Toure completed 55 of his 60 passes in midfield (91.7%), scored his side's third goal and created three scoring chances (Source: Opta) City started at blistering speed and were ahead inside a minute. In a blur of action Rafael's fine tackle stopped David Silva and when Samir Nasri's shot came back off the post Dzeko was perfectly placed to score. United were torn apart by City's movement and creation and it took a fine diving save from goalkeeper David De Gea to stop Dzeko adding a second in front of the Stretford End. As the half progressed City did not maintain their early pace and United, while clearly inferior, were able to at last find a foothold in the game but wasted two good opportunities when Marouane Fellaini shot tamely at Joe Hart and Juan Mata sidefooted over the top from a good position. ""Put simply, United were a mess against City. They looked and played like a team in disarray, led by a manager struggling horribly to get to grips with his task."" The giant Belgian was involved in a contentious moment when, while in possession himself, he senselessly elbowed Pablo Zabaleta and somehow escaped with only a yellow card from referee Michael Oliver. United made a change at half-time when Tom Cleverley, who not surprisingly struggled in an unfamiliar role on the right flank, made way for Shinji Kagawa - but again City were faster out of the blocks and increased their lead after 56 minutes. Dzeko was the scorer once more, showing great composure and technique to send a sidefoot volley high past De Gea at his near post - the signal for City's elated fans to start doing the ""Poznan"" celebration. Media playback is not supported on this device It had been another unhappy night for £27.5m summer signing Fellaini and it was no surprise when he was substituted and replaced by Antonio Valencia after 66 minutes, a move that was well received  by United's fans. City keeper Hart had rarely been tested but he showed good reactions to block a flick from Danny Welbeck as United searched for a way back into a contest where they had been outplayed for long periods. United had never looked like claiming anything from this game and the scoreline was given a more realistic appearance in stoppage time when Toure scored his 21st goal of the season with a low finish.",Manchester City increased the pressure on Premier League leaders Chelsea by disposing of Manchester United with almost embarrassing @placeholder at Old Trafford .,casualties,information,conditions,injuries,ease,4
"Bale, 26, scored the winner as Wales beat Belgium 1-0 in a Euro 2016 qualifier on their way to reaching a first major tournament for 58 years. Before Friday's rematch in Lille, the Real Madrid forward believes Wales have improved since their last meeting. ""From that night, we have gone up to another level,"" said Bale. ""We've taken our game on with playing more games in our system, gelling even more. It was a changing moment for us. ""It was my most important Welsh goal, especially at the time of qualifying. ""It was an important goal for me personally on my 50th cap and for the team. It also gave us that belief that we can take on and beat the big teams."" Bale feels Wales could have a psychological advantage over Belgium after beating them in qualifying. ""We're like their bogey team, aren't we?"" he said. ""Hopefully that edge gets into their heads, you never know. ""We will definitely draw on those qualifiers, it gives us more knowledge on them. ""But we understand what they are about, how they work, and we will hone our game plan to try and stop them but help our attack."" Wales' second-round win over Northern Ireland and England's defeat against Iceland means Chris Coleman's side are the only home nation left in the last eight in France. Wales' only previous appearance at the quarter-final stage saw them beaten by Brazil in the 1958 World Cup. With a first semi-final at a major tournament just one win away, Bale says he and his team-mates grasp the significance of Friday's match against Belgium. ""We know about the quarter-final in 1958 but since then it's definitely the biggest game in Welsh football,"" he added. ""This is our time to shine. We're the only home nation left in the competition, which is an amazing achievement in itself. Media playback is not supported on this device ""We're very happy, very proud and we'll be flying the flag for Wales."" Belgium are currently second in the Fifa world rankings, as they were when they lost to Wales in Cardiff in 2015. Coleman's men have since slipped to 26th but are riding the crest of a wave at Euro 2016, only their second appearance at a major tournament. Bale has been central to their success. Having scored seven of Wales' 11 goals in qualifying, the former Tottenham forward has contributed three goals and an assist in France. Belgium manager Marc Wilmots highlighted Bale and Aaron Ramsey as Wales' ""two top players"", though Bale has warned there is more to his team. ""We've got fantastic players in our team all the way through, even on the bench to come on,"" he said. ""Whatever they want to concentrate on that's fine but we know we have more than two good players. We've a very good team and we're not in last eight for no reason.""","Gareth Bale says Wales have @placeholder their game to "" another level "" before their European Championship quarter - final against Belgium .",responded,warned,added,lifted,lost,3
"Fifth-placed Argyle have drifted three points away from the top three after going 3-0 down by half-time. A Matty Cash strike from 25 yards in between Clevid Dikamona and Christian Doidge headers had the Daggers flying. Plymouth replied as Peter Hartley headed in and Graham Carey curled home, but it proved too late.",Plymouth 's League Two automatic promotion hopes were dealt a massive blow as they lost to @placeholder Dagenham & Redbridge .,overcome,relegated,champions,control,neighbours,1
"Sir Stephen Bubb headed the review which was prompted by the Winterbourne View care home abuse scandal in 2011. His analysis, published in November, urged the closure of some in-patient facilities and more community services. England's chief nursing officer said improvements must be made ""at a fast but safe pace"". Neglect and abuse of patients by staff at Winterbourne View, a private residential hospital near Bristol, was uncovered by BBC Panorama. Six people were jailed in 2012 and five given suspended sentences. Sir Stephen said that although the number of people being discharged from Winterbourne-style institutions was now greater than those being admitted, ""it remains abundantly clear that a revolving door of discharges and admissions will continue unless a closure and transition programme is acted on"". He said although NHS England had made it a ""top strategic objective"" to improve conditions for people with learning disabilities, ""the pace of change remains slow, and this is unacceptable"". Sir Stephen, who is chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), said there appeared to be ""no dialogue"" between NHS England and third sector providers, such as charities and community organisations, about how to deliver the transition. He said this six-month review should be treated as a ""warning call"" ahead of a ""formal stock take of actions"" in a further six months' time. ""The core recommendation of my report was the need to close these institutions as quickly as possible and you can't close them until there is good strong community provision - people with learning disabilities and their families deserve action now,"" he said, ""There's huge scepticism that anything will happen. NHS England needs to prove them wrong. ""And until I see action on the ground I will continue to (hold the) government to account."" He called for an independent taskforce to be set up to get the third sector organisations involved. His report published in November - Winterbourne View - Time for Change - offered 10 recommendations, including a ""charter of rights"" for people with learning disabilities and/or autism and their families. Sir Stephen said he welcomed the Care Act, which came into effect in April and includes rights for those receiving care and those who provide it to their loved ones. He also welcomed the Department of Health Green Paper on the rights of people with learning disabilities and/or autism, along with the commitment made by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens to publish a full transition programme in the autumn. In a joint statement, Jan Tregelles, chief executive of Mencap, and Viv Cooper, chief executive of the Challenging Behaviour Foundation, said change would not happen unless community services were improved. ""This must include investing in a highly skilled community workforce to support children and adults with a learning disability to meet their individual needs,"" they said. Jane Cummings, chief nursing officer for England and chairwoman of the Transforming Care Delivery Board, said: ""All the agencies involved in this work are clear that while a great deal of progress has been made we still have lots to do to transform and improve care for people with learning disabilities. ""We are committed to driving through changes at a fast but safe pace, we are on track to do so, and I will be setting out the closure and reprovision plans in October as previously announced.""","The author of a review into the care of people with learning disabilities in England has reported an "" absence of any tangible progress "" since he @placeholder it .",claimed,handled,leaves,issued,deemed,3
"Photographer Eugenio Grosso took pictures of the heavily loaded cars, mainly belonging to Tunisian immigrants who gather to take a ferry to Tunis.  Grosso says that some of them are travelling home for a holiday, while others are professional sellers who go back and forth each week, following in the footsteps of their ancestors. ""All of them carry something to sell. Since the economic crisis hit Europe, numerous immigrants have lost their jobs. By reviving the old practice of sea trade, these people have created a new chance for business and an effective way to deal with the slump."" ""In the era of globalisation, when huge cargo ships move products from one corner of the world to another, these immigrants are modern safe-keepers of a much older custom."" ""As well as their products, these people bring along their traditions and knowledge, contributing to the ongoing creation of the Mediterranean culture."" You can see more work by Eugenio Grosso on his website.","So far this year more than 35,000 people fleeing war and poverty in Africa are thought to have @placeholder to Europe , with many having died while attempting the journey . Yet on a Saturday the port of Palermo is full of cars loaded with goods heading the other way , from Italy to north Africa .",crossed,contributed,linked,migrated,escaped,0
"The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's son is the first member of the UK Royal family to have his first birthday marked by a new coin. The third in line to the throne and future king turns one on 22 July. The design of the sterling silver piece was approved by his parents; his great-grandmother the Queen; and Chancellor George Osborne. It bears the heraldic royal arms and the year 2014. Prince George was photographed at the weekend walking with the help of his mother. Shane Bissett, director of commemorative coin and bullion at the Royal Mint, said: ""We felt there could be no more fitting design to mark the first birthday of our future king than the royal arms - the arms of the monarch - minted in honour of the future heir to the throne. ""The choice of a silver coin is significant too, as the precious metal is closely associated with newborn babies... ""Crossing the palm of a newborn baby with silver is a way to wish them wealth and good health throughout their life, whilst the £5 coin is a favourite for royal celebrations."" The coins will be a limited mintage of 7,500 and will cost £80 each from the Royal Mint. The heraldic royal arms incorporates the four quarterings of the royal arms, each contained in a shield, as well as a rose, thistle, leek, a sprig of shamrock and a crown. It was originally created for the Queen and was last used on a coin struck for the British Exhibition in New York in 1960. George's birth and his christening were also marked with commemorative coins.",A commemorative £ 5 coin is being @placeholder to honour the first birthday of Prince George of Cambridge .,launched,explored,introduced,produced,unveiled,3
"Scientists who discovered the fossil have dubbed it the ""kite runner"". Ten capsules tethered to its back appear to contain juvenile progeny, all at different stages of development. Reported in the journal PNAS, the many-legged, eyeless, 1cm animal is not directly related to any living species. ""There isn't an animal today that it's essentially related to,"" David Legg, a palaeontologist from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, told BBC News. ""It's what we refer to as being on a stem lineage. So it belongs to a group that would have evolved and diversified before the modern groups did."" In fact, Dr Legg added, although it clearly had the segmented body and exoskeleton of an arthropod, it was quite a job to figure out precisely where to position the little beast on the evolutionary tree. ""Often you can look at a particular animal and say, that belongs to this group or that group. This one - we had no clue."" The fossil was dug up from a site in Herefordshire before being taken to Oxford and computerised. This process involved grinding away the specimen, slice by slice, and photographing each of those sections to assemble a 3D reconstruction. Then, with this outlandish animal on their screens waggling its legs, long antennae and tethered capsules at them, Dr Legg and his colleagues set about categorising it using ""compositional phylogenetics"". ""You take its anatomy, code it into a data set and then run probabilistic methods on it, which will tell you how likely it is that something evolved in a particular way,"" he explained. This process suggested that Aquilonifer spinosus (""aquila"" means kite and the ""-fer"" suffix means carry) was a mandibulate: it belongs to the same broad group as modern insects, crustaceans and centipedes - but is not a direct ancestor. ""Nothing is known today that attaches the young by threads to its upper surface,"" said co-author Derek Briggs, from Yale University in the US. ""Modern crustaceans employ a variety of strategies to protect their eggs and embryos from predators - attaching them to the limbs, holding them under the carapace, or enclosing them within a special pouch until they are old enough to be released - but this example is unique. ""It shows that arthropods evolved a variety of brooding strategies beyond those around today - perhaps this strategy was less successful and became extinct."" Before settling on the unlikely conclusion that they were tiny, floating, prehistoric prams, the team did consider other explanations for the attached pods; they might have been smaller, parasitic creatures of a different species, for example. But being tied on to Aquilonifer's tough and rather inedible shell would be a peculiar strategy for a hungry parasite. It was the variety of shapes seen among the 10 tethered babies that Dr Legg found most convincing. ""We see them develop and begin to resemble the adult form more and more, as they get bigger,"" he said. ""I'm definitely convinced that that's what they were."" Follow Jonathan on Twitter",A 430 million - year - old @placeholder creature apparently dragged its offspring around on strings like kites - a baffling habit not seen anywhere else in the animal kingdom .,sea,food,female,school,series,0
"7 February 2017 Last updated at 07:41 GMT Nikki is also a vlogger and spends a lot of time on the internet. So for Safer Internet Day, we thought it was a great opportunity to speak to her about how she stays safe online and deals with ""haters"" who say nasty things. Check out her interview with Ricky to see what she had to say...","You may @placeholder Nikki from CBBC 's Junior Bake Off , which she won last year .",meet,recognise,know,treat,distance,1
"The Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2013 questioned about 1,500 people. The survey said that 41% of people were in favour of the Scottish government policy to charge a minimum unit price for alcohol. The research found 35% were against the policy and 22% had no strong view either way. Of those who were against the policy, 17% of people said they were ""strongly against"". There was even less certainty among those in favour of the policy, with just 15% ""strongly in favour"". The research was part of an annual survey of social and political attitudes run by ScotCen Social Research since 1999. The questions on alcohol were funded by the Scottish government and managed by NHS Health Scotland. They want to track changes in attitudes to drinking alcohol from 2004 and 2007 when the questions were last included in the survey. Scottish government ministers claim minimum unit pricing for alcohol is vital to address Scotland's ""unhealthy relationship with drink"". They want to curb excessive consumption by raising the price of high-strength booze. However, the flagship legislation, which was passed in 2012, could be delayed for another two years after the Scotch Whisky Association's legal challenge was referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Scottish government wants to set a 50p rate per unit of alcohol, which would mean the minimum price a shop or supermarket would be allowed to charge for four large cans of beer would be £4.40, a bottle of wine would be £5 and a standard bottle of vodka £13. Between 55% and 66% of adults thought the suggested minimum prices for beer, wine and vodka were ""about right"". Just under half (46%) of the people surveyed thought supermarkets sold too much alcohol at very cheap prices. The Social Attitudes Survey also asked people how much price was an issue when buying alcohol. About 65% of adults said price did not prevent them from buying as much as they liked. Attitudes to minimum pricing varied across different groups with women more likely to support it than men. People educated to degree level were much more likely to approve of minimum pricing than those who were not. Support for the policy was lowest among higher risk drinkers and highest among non-drinkers. People who expressed the view that alcohol causes Scotland ""a great deal"" of harm were also likely to strongly support unit pricing. The three most commonly mentioned reasons for supporting minimum pricing were preventing health problems, stopping young people drinking and tackling problem behaviour. People not in favour of minimum pricing said it would not make a difference to heavy drinkers who would drink ""whatever the price"". They also thought the policy was unfair as it ""punishes everyone for what some drinkers do"" and it ""punishes those who are less well off"".",A new study of Scotland 's attitudes to alcohol has suggested people are slightly more in favour of @placeholder minimum unit pricing than against .,introducing,paying,plotting,leaving,power,0
"The date was set at an Old Bailey hearing, which the 87-year-old, who has dementia, was excused from attending. If the judge decides the peer is fit to plead, a full trial may take place. If not, a ""trial of the facts"" will take place on 22 February, where a jury will decide if he committed the abuse, with no finding of guilt or conviction. A back-up date has been set for 5 April. At Tuesday's preliminary hearing, Mr Justice Sweeney said the disclosure of evidence in the case and updating of medical reports would continue in the meantime. Lord Janner is accused of 15 counts of indecent assault and seven counts of a separate sexual offence against a total of nine alleged victims in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He denies the allegations. BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said it was expected Lord Janner would not be considered fit to plead in a full criminal trial. A ""trial of the facts"" is a relatively rare procedure normally used in cases where a defendant poses a danger and needs to be hospitalised for the safety of themselves and others.","A judge will decide at a hearing on 7 December whether Lord Janner , who is facing child sex abuse charges @placeholder three decades , is fit to plead .",spanning,injuring,includes,aged,carrying,0
"Manchester's Christie hospital will be the first NHS unit to provide the treatment, meaning patients needing PBT will no longer have to go abroad. Up to 750 patients will use the new unit due to open in August 2018. University College London Hospital (UCLH) is due to open its own PBT centre in 2020. The government has invested £250m into building the two new NHS centres. Currently, only low-energy treatment is available in the UK for rare eye cancers. Last year, the NHS sent 210 patients abroad for PBT - mostly to the US and Switzerland - at a cost of about £114,000 each. The 90-ton machine - called a cyclotron - weighs more than 11 double-decker buses but is no bigger than a family car. The building it will sit in has had to be reinforced with 270 separate timber, steel or concrete posts to support the structure. It uses charged particles instead of X-rays to deliver radiotherapy for cancer patients. The treatment allows high-energy protons to be targeted directly at a tumour, reducing the dose to surrounding tissues and organs. In general, patients suffer fewer side effects compared with high-energy X-ray treatments. It can be used to treat spinal cord tumours, sarcomas near the spine or brain, prostate cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer and some children's cancers. Sources: NHS England, Cancer Research UK Erin Birdsey from Northwich, Cheshire, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour aged six, was sent abroad by the NHS to the US for PBT treatment. Erin's mum Rachael, said: ""At the age she was... to be able to spare as many healthy brain cells as possible, which [PBT] does, it makes such a difference. ""To have [PBT] so close to home, and be able to receive that treatment and carry on a lot better than taking 10 weeks out of your life and going to another country, that can only be a positive thing."" The use of PBT was highlighted by the case of five-year-old Ashya King, which received global attention in 2014 when his parents were briefly detained after taking him abroad for the treatment. Against medical advice in Southampton, they took Ashya - who had a brain tumour - to receive PBT treatment in the Czech capital of Prague. The NHS ultimately agreed to fund his care. Professor Tony Lomax, deputy director of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Northern Switzerland, who is originally from Salford, has advised the NHS on bringing the treatment to the UK. He said: ""Probably for some patients modern radiotherapy is extremely good. But with [PBT] we can take on more complicated tumours and with children we really want to reduce the radiation dose to the normal tissue so I think this is where the technique has a fantastic advantage."" PBT is also being made available in private clinics in the UK. Proton Partners International (PPI) opened the Rutherford Cancer Centre in Newport in February, and it will be open for PBT early next year. PPI is also building three more proton beam centres - in Northumberland, Reading and Liverpool. Chief executive Mike Moran, said: ""We will treat NHS, private medical insurance and self-paid patients. The NHS is planning assumptions on 1% of patients who currently receive radiotherapy requiring proton beam therapy, which is 1,500 patients."" However, Mr Moran said he believes a greater proportion of patients need PBT. ""We're building a network of centres... It gives patients more choice.""",The machine that will enable the NHS 's first proton beam therapy ( PBT ) unit to treat cancer patients will @placeholder later .,undergo,entertain,begin,benefit,arrive,4
"Innogy Renewables UK Ltd had been proposing a hydroelectric scheme on the River Conwy, near Betws y Coed in Snowdonia National Park. But on Wednesday it said it had decided to shelve the Conwy Falls project. The application had been due to be considered by Conwy council planning committee next week. Innogy Renewables UK said the decision to withdraw the application was made following a late request for additional information. It said that Natural Resources Wales' river basin management plan for western Wales had been updated last December, including a change to the sensitivity of salmon fisheries, following which further information had been requested. The project, providing power to 3,200 households, attracted opposition from environmentalists, anglers, canoeists and businesses. The firm has previously said it would have had a positive impact on the environment but campaigners were worried half an acre of the centuries-old Fairy Glen Wood would be destroyed by the build. In March, the park's authority turned the plans down, asking for clarification on ""minor issues"". Innogy Renewables UK Ltd said it would now consider its next steps. Conservation charity the Snowdonia Society said it was ""relieved that the immediate threat to the wonderful Conwy Falls and Fairy Glen has passed, but concerned that it could resurface yet again"".",Controversial plans for a £ 12 m renewable energy project at a Conwy county @placeholder beauty spot have been withdrawn .,pool,waterfall,scheme,school,wildlife,1
"The charity said it spends about £15,000 per year cleaning up after illegal fly-tippers and litterers. It said it had seen ""significant"" fly-tipping in rural Aberdeenshire, the Scottish Borders and East Lothian. The trust said urban sites in the central belt, including Dundee and Irvine, were the worst affected. Other items dumped on the reserves included tyres, carpets, mattresses and building and plumbing waste. The trust said the total cost included staff time and hiring contractors to remove large items and hazardous substances. Further costs were incurred by putting preventative measures in place, including installing height barriers to the trust's car parks. Head of reserves Alan Anderson said: ""Fly-tipping is illegal and it poses a danger to both people and wildlife. ""It's sad that some thoughtless individuals are dumping their waste on our reserves, forcing us as a charity to use our supporters' money to clear up after them. ""Unfortunately the actions of a few people mean that many of our staff and volunteers have to spend a great deal of time clearing up rubbish when they could be working on more important projects such as creating and restoring wildlife habitats.""","Fridges , @placeholder - out vehicles and asbestos were among the items dumped in Scottish Wildlife Trust nature reserves last year .",take,burned,carried,set,rolled,1
"In a move which could cost up to £6bn a year, the Treasury will guarantee to back EU-funded projects signed before this year's Autumn Statement. Agricultural funding now provided by the EU will also continue until 2020. But critics said the guarantee does not go far enough and there was ""continued uncertainty"". Voters backed leaving the EU in the 23 June referendum but Prime Minister Theresa May has indicated the UK government will not trigger Article 50, which would begin a two-year process to leave, during 2016. Mr Hammond said EU structural and investment fund projects signed before the Autumn Statement later this year, and Horizon research funding granted before leaving the EU, will be guaranteed by the Treasury after the UK leaves. The EU's 80bn euro (£69bn) Horizon 2020 programme awards funding for research and innovation and is open to UK institutions while the country remains a member. The chancellor said the government was ""determined to ensure that people have stability and certainty in the period leading up to our departure from the EU"". Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said: ""We welcome Phillip Hammond's decision to agree with Labour's calls for EU structural funds to be protected post-Brexit.  This will help to give some reassurance to communities and businesses right the way across the UK"". But he added that Labour ""urgently"" want to hear the chancellor ""speak up on the importance of keeping Britain's membership of the European Investment Bank"". The Treasury said it would assess whether to guarantee funding for certain other projects ""that might be signed after the Autumn Statement, but while we remain a member of the EU"". Organisations such as universities bidding for EU funding before the UK leaves would have that money underwritten by the government. At present, farmers receive subsidies and other payments under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). They get about £3bn a year in subsidies, with the biggest farmers pocketing cheques of £1m. The grants are given for owning land and also taking care of wildlife. The National Farmers' Union (NFU) said the Treasury's announcement was ""positive"" for farming. Its president Meurig Raymond said: ""I hope that this short-term certainty will help to deliver longer-term confidence and this is exactly what farm businesses need now."" The Country Land and Business Association (CLA), which represents more than 32,000 farmers, landowners and other rural businesses, said the move was ""vitally important"" but called for a ""world-leading"" domestic funding policy to be drawn up and ready for 2021. The structural and investment funds that will be guaranteed include CAP pillar two, the European Social Fund, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Regional Development Fund, including European Territorial Cooperation. Examples of projects that have received or are due to receive regional development fund money include: President of the Royal Society - a fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists - and Nobel laureate, Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, also welcomed the funding announcement. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was something ""we have been arguing consistently for"" since the referendum result. But Sir Venkatraman added: ""Our hope is that any grants that are awarded while we are still in the EU should be allowed to complete."" Scotland's Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said the announcement ""falls far short"" of what is needed, saying: ""A limited guarantee for some schemes for a few short years leaves Scotland hundreds of millions of pounds short of what we would receive as members of the EU."" Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones said: ""This guarantee only covers about half of the regional funding due to Wales and does not provide the long-term certainty needed and which was promised ahead of the referendum."" And Northern Ireland Finance Minister Mairtin O Muilleoir said that while some applicants for EU funds will be helped, it left a ""question mark over scores of other vital projects"". Lord Porter, chairman of the Local Government Association, said the funding commitment ""falls well short"" and stressed that ""local areas need certainty around the future of all of the £5.3bn in EU regeneration funding promised to them by 2020"". ""The continued uncertainty risks damaging local regeneration plans and stalling flagship infrastructure projects, employment and skills schemes and local growth,"" he said. The National Trust said that there was ""continued uncertainty should new applications be restricted beyond this autumn"". British Chambers of Commerce acting director general Adam Marshall called for ""the delays that many worthwhile projects face in the approval process"" to be ""cleared away - especially given the fact that the Treasury guarantee only covers projects signed by this year's Autumn Statement"". The UK currently pays money into the EU budget, which will stop once it formally leaves. In 2015 the UK Government paid in £13bn; EU spending on the UK was £4.5bn, meaning the UK's net contribution was estimated at about £8.5bn, or £161m a week. The UK private sector receives a further £1-1.5bn annually in EU funding.","EU funding for farmers , scientists and other projects will be @placeholder by the Treasury after Brexit , Chancellor Philip Hammond has said .",investigated,scrapped,honoured,replaced,opposed,3
"Stephen Hammond said job roles would change when the paper system for car tax discs is scrapped in October. The minister allayed fears about job losses in a letter to Swansea East AM Mike Hedges. Mr Hedges said the minister's response would ""give comfort"" to DVLA employees. Concerns over the future of some of the 5,000 workers at the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency centre were raised in October after Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement. The chancellor announced that the tax disc would be replaced with an electronic system in October 2014. The new system will allow people to pay the charge by monthly direct debit. Mr Hedges had written to Mr Hammond asking for clarification of the government's intentions. In his response to Mr Hedges, Mr Hammond said: ""It is likely that the introduction of a direct debit scheme may mean there will be a natural reduction in the amount of refunds received, in addition to the withdrawal of the tax disc. ""This may mean changes to job roles and the need to train on new processes. ""Any reductions in numbers of people needed for these activities will be managed through redeploying to other growth areas of the business."" Mr Hedges welcomed the minister's assurances. He added: ""Whilst disappointed that the changes will reduce the number of job opportunities at the DVLA, I can see the advantages of both paying by monthly direct debits and not having to show a tax disc. ""I am pleased the minister is committed to redeployment rather than redundancies and I am sure this response will give comfort to many concerned DVLA employees.""","Staff at Swansea 's DVLA @placeholder will be redeployed rather than face redundancy after changes to the way motorists pay their car tax , a UK transport minister has confirmed .",intelligence,offices,depot,hopes,plant,1
"Plans to knock down 271 terraced houses in Toxteth and replace them with 154 new homes were blocked by the government last month in order to preserve its ""Beatles heritage"". Communities Secretary Eric Pickles vetoed plans as the site includes Ringo Starr's birthplace. The £15m Welsh Streets project had been recommended after a public inquiry. The scheme was approved by the council's planning committee in August 2013 but was called in for a public inquiry by Mr Pickles. Assistant mayor and Liverpool City Council cabinet member for housing Ann O'Byrne said: ""We are not prepared to stand by and see Eric Pickles ignore local people and his own independent planning inspector. ""The long-suffering residents of the Welsh Streets have now been waiting more than a decade for new homes and we are standing up against this unacceptable political interference from Whitehall. ""This scheme was carefully developed and supported by the vast majority of local people in a thorough and detailed consultation."" Under the plans, The Beatles' drummer's former home at 9 Madryn Street was due to be refurbished, along with 36 other properties, although other terraced houses on the road would be demolished. A letter giving the reasons for Mr Pickles' decision said the proposals were ""short sighted as regards the future tourism potential of Madryn Street"". Other reasons given included: Liverpool City Council had until the end of Friday to appeal against Mr Pickle's decision. As well as Madryn Street, the scheme encompasses Wynnstay Street, Voelas Street, Treborth Street, Rhiwlas Street, Powis Street, Pengwern Street, Kinmel Street and Gwydir Street. Sources differ on how long Starr lived at Madryn Street before his family moved to nearby Admiral Grove, where he was living as a teenager shortly before The Beatles shot to fame.",A decision to halt the demolition of Liverpool 's Welsh Streets area has been @placeholder by the city council .,approved,backed,unveiled,challenged,released,3
"You never said that, but all your friends on Facebook think you did because a profile claiming to be you has said it. At a glance the account could be yours too. From photos, to status updates, to your date of birth, the account is rich with information which has been lifted from your profile, which is public. It is so convincing many of your friends have accepted a friend request. The problem is that you have no control over what the account pretending to be you says, or who it says it to. After being granted rare access to Devon and Cornwall Police's Hi-Tech Crime Unit, Newsbeat has learnt this scenario is becoming more frequent, particularly for young people. It's thought weak privacy settings combined with a rise in professional trolls who have the time and resources to steal your identity is to blame. An anti-bullying group has told us replica accounts have sent death threats or told people ""to get cancer"". There have been incidents where people have been beaten up or were scared to leave their house after offensive messages were sent from an account pretending to be them. Replicating a profile is all about piecing bits of information together, like a jigsaw. The more pieces there are, the more believable the account will be. While you can never completely stop a troll from stealing your identity, here are some things you can do which will make a troll's life a bit more difficult. The best way to protect your profile is to make it completely private so only people you know can see it. However, even if your account has the highest privacy settings, if a couple of your friends have Public accounts and accept Friend Requests from strangers then a potential troll could still access your photos or comments. By editing your account so only your Friends can see your Friend List it will be harder for a troll to work out who you know. If you want to see how strangers view your Facebook profile click on View As (see above) and it will show you. We think Rachel may want to reconsider how much she is sharing with the world and keep it amongst her ""Friends""... Sorry. There's nothing wrong with letting people know where you are when you have taken a photo; if you are capturing the Eiffel Tower it can feel almost essential. However, photos can soon add up, and if you do not keep an eye on your Instagram Photo Map and it is open to the public it soon becomes clear where you live, work and socialise. That's handy for a troll. You can edit what pictures appear on your map by clicking on them. If you don't want any locations on any of your images you can make the switch on your privacy settings. It's one thing tweeting that you are rocking out to Taylor Swift at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015 and the message confirms to the world you are in Norwich. It's a bit different if you are at home and decide to tweet about Rita Ora on The Voice and the message confirms to the world exactly where you live. To remove your location from a tweet choose Security and Privacy on the Account tab and untick Tweet Location. You may need to re-enter your password, but once you have done that you can tweet away from the comfort of your home, happy in the knowledge that only the people you want to know where you live, do. The beauty of Snapchat is you take photos which you feel are important, for ten seconds or so, and then they disappear. But are you sending these pictures to your Friends or to Everyone... If your Privacy Settings looks like this, you can change it so only your Friends can see your photos. It's also important to be careful who is on your friends list to make sure you are only sharing your photos with those that you want to. Detective Constable David Wright from Devon and Cornwall's Hi-Tech Crime Unit told Newsbeat: ""There are people with time and resources who have embarked on almost a career in creating an online presence pretending to be someone else. ""I don't want to be too sinister because social media is supposed to be fun, but sometimes we do need to think about what we are sharing online."" Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube","Your friend Monica calls you , agitated and angry , asking : "" Why did you @placeholder that horrible thing about Ross ? ! """,predict,deals,write,whisper,reveal,2
"The current policy allows families to address sexuality in private and no further action will be taken, it added. Eleven volunteers and leaders, with a range of ""perspectives and opinions"", were chosen to undertake the study. Critics, including some board members, say they support internal change and gay members should be allowed to join. Jim Turley, chairman and chief executive of consulting firm Ernst and Young, and Randall Stephenson, head of the US telecoms company AT&T, were two of the organisation's board members who said they would support a change in policy. Announcing their conclusion, the Boy Scouts cited support from parents as a major reason for keeping the policy. ""The vast majority of the parents of youth we serve value their right to address issues of same-sex orientation within their family, with spiritual advisers and at the appropriate time and in the right setting,"" Boy Scouts chief executive Bob Mazzuca said. ""We fully understand that no single policy will accommodate the many diverse views among our membership or society."" The panel was unanimous in its decision and a Boy Scouts of America spokesman told the Associated Press it was ""absolutely the best policy"" for the group. A lesbian mother from Ohio, Jennifer Tyrell, who was removed as a scout den leader and treasurer in April because of the policy, said in a statement: ""A secret committee of 11 people can't ignore the hundreds of thousands of people around the country - including thousands of Eagle Scouts, scout families, and former scouts - that want the ban on gay scouts and scout leaders removed."" Ms Tyrell was due to deliver a petition to the group's headquarters in Irving, Texas, asking to be reinstated. In 2000, the Boy Scouts won a ruling from the US Supreme Court that allowed them to ban gay members whose conduct, they said, violated the group's values. Boy Scouts of America, founded in 1910, said that at the end of 2011 it had more than one million adult members.","The Boy Scouts of America will not change its policy of @placeholder gay scouts and scout leaders , following a secret two - year review , the group says .",providing,excluding,honoring,remaining,shares,1
"Not often, I bet. Yet, as Claire Woodcock, strategy manager at digital agency, Razorfish, says: ""Adults are no different to children in that we learn best through play."" Gamification - using elements of game play to make people engage more with brands, products and company diktats - certainly seems to be thriving. But is it more than just a gimmick? Kingfisher, owner of the B&Q, Brico Depot and Screwfix brands, believes so. It adopted gamification to raise awareness of pensions and savings among its 36,000 employees. Communications agency Teamspirit created a gaming app for them called ""Bolt To The Finish"" involving characters from the fictional Bolt family collecting coins and being chased by a nut (of the metal variety). As staff play, the game educates them about pensions saving. For instance, the younger you start saving for a pension the better, so the younger character Sanjay has a less challenging time than an older character. ""The game was educational whilst entertaining, and encouraged players to think about pensions in a different way - great for changing behaviour,"" says Banafsheh Ghafoori, pensions technical and communication manager at Kingfisher. ""In terms of the game itself, the statistics have been great, with the leaderboard element encouraging replays and reinforcing the messages."" As a result, the group saw a 20% increase in the number of staff choosing to save into their pension at the maximum contribution level, says Ms Ghafoori, while 78% said the game had encouraged them to think about saving for the future. Gamification can generally be considered successful if it gets people doing something in which they previously lacked motivation, argues Lauren Ferro, gamification consultant and doctoral researcher at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. But she takes it one step further: ""For me, success is when people are changing their behaviour beyond the novelty - they are able to develop lasting changes."" As well as changing behaviour, gamification is being used to assess behaviour - in recruitment, for example. When software company SAP wanted to recruit from a wider range of people, it worked with business consultancy The Chemistry Group to create a game combining social media with personality assessments. Players log in to the game via their Facebook accounts and data on their Facebook ""likes"" is correlated with their game behaviour, and data from other assessments, to create a personality profile. ""The gaming tool gives a better experience for applicants by helping to show what it would be like to work for SAP so they can see if it's right for them and, at the same time, allows us to see if this candidate is right for us,"" says Matt Jeffrey, SAP's vice president head of global sourcing and employment branding. He says that in future the tool will allow SAP to tap into latent talent by engaging with people who might not have any immediately relevant experience. ""It will tell them where they could fit into SAP and invite them to apply for a job,"" he says. Gamification is also used to incentivise customers to use a product more often. For example, Romanian app developer, T-Me Studios, launched its Redraw Keyboard in September to replace the standard keyboard on Android devices. The new design aims to enhance productivity through tools such as instant translation and Google Docs integration. Users can also personalise their keyboards with different branded themes and emojis. But T-Me rewards users for the time they spend using the keyboard app. ""The more they type and the more emojis they use, for example, the more rewards they get,"" explains Ioanina Pavel, the firm's head of content and social media marketing. The rewards translate into coins that can be used to access more tools, while a leaderboard pits users against each other and encourages competition. Since launch, the keyboard has already amassed more than 1.4 million users, with 300,000 of those using it every day. ""The gamification feature is one of the most popular features of the Redraw Keyboard,"" says Ms Pavel. Gamification has certainly matured, says Brian Burke, analyst at research consultancy Gartner. ""A few years ago it was scattergun - people were trying to apply gamification to everything and clearly that had limited success,"" he says. ""Marketers saw it as a shiny new object and they all wanted some, but that has really slowed down."" Ms Woodcock agrees that businesses are starting to see past ""gimmicky campaigns"" and understand why gamification is useful. ""We're starting to see companies apply gamification to hard problems, particularly to help people with their finances,"" she says. ""From start-ups like Cleo AI, which gives you a running breakdown of your finances, to traditional business like Aviva, who have just launched a pensions calculator which uses gamification principles, companies old and new are embracing game design techniques."" Nurses have even been using a board game - The Drug Round Game - to help sharpen up their skills. A general rule of marketing is that the more engaging advertising content is, the more successful it will be. And games can certainly make ads more fun. Aflac, one of the largest insurance companies in the US, worked with video platform Innovid to develop its ""Save the Duck"" game involving clicking on leaks as fast you can to earn points. The engagement rate was 67% higher than Innovid's industry benchmarks for interactive video, and 431% higher than traditional pre-roll ads, the company says. Viewers spent 75 seconds engaging with the content, on top of watching the 30-second video. ""One of the keys to getting it right is to make sure the gaming element is not at the expense of the message the advert is trying to convey,"" says Tal Chalozin, Innovid's chief technology officer. In other words, identify clear objectives and then work out whether Monopoly or Minecraft will float your audience's boat. Or even their duck. Follow Technology of Business editor Matthew Wall on Twitter Click here for more Technology of Business features","How often does your boss @placeholder you to play Minecraft , or demand that everyone convene urgently in the boardroom for a game of Monopoly ?",promised,command,summon,providing,introducing,2
"The stones are believed to have been carved by members of an ancient people known as the Picts, who thrived in what is now Scotland from the 4th to the 9th Centuries. These symbols, researchers say, are probably ""words"" rather than images. But their conclusions have raised criticism from some linguists. The research team, led by Professor Rob Lee from Exeter University in the UK, examined symbols on more than 200 carved stones. They used a mathematical method to quantify patterns contained within the symbols, in an effort to find out if they conveyed meaning. Professor Lee described the basis of this method. ""If I told you the first letter of a word in English was 'Q' and asked you to predict the next letter, you would probably say 'U' and you would probably be right,"" he explained. ""But if I told you the first letter was 'T' you would probably take many more guesses to get it right - that's a measure of uncertainty."" Using the symbols, or characters, from the stones, Prof Lee and his colleagues measured this feature of so-called ""character to character uncertainty"". They concluded that the Pictish carvings were ""symbolic markings that communicated information"" - that these were words rather than pictures. The Kingdom of the Picts Prof Lee first published these conclusions in April of this year. But a recent article by French linguist Arnaud Fournet opened up the mystery once again. Mr Fournet said that, by examining Pictish carvings as if they were ""linear symbols"", and by applying the rules of written language to them, the scientists could have produced biased results. He told BBC News: ""It looks like their method is transforming two-dimensional glyphs into a one-dimensional string of symbols. ""The carvings must have some kind of purpose - some kind of meanings, but... it's very difficult to determine if their conclusion is contained in the raw data or if it's an artefact of their method."" Mr Fournet also suggested that the researchers' methods should be tested and verified for other ancient symbols. ""The line between writing and drawing is not as clear cut as categorised in the paper,"" Mr Fournet wrote in his article. ""On the whole the conclusion remains pending."" But Prof Lee says that his most recent analysis of the symbols, which has yet to be published, has reinforced his original conclusions. He also stressed he did not claim that the carvings were a full and detailed record of the Pictish language. ""The symbols themselves are a very constrained vocabulary,"" he said. ""But that doesn't mean that Pictish had such a constrained vocabulary."" He said the carvings might convey the same sort of meaning as a list, perhaps of significant names, which would explain the limited number of words used. ""It's like finding a menu for a restaurant [written in English], and that being your sole repository of the English language.""",A linguistic mystery has arisen surrounding symbol - inscribed stones in Scotland that predate the @placeholder of the country itself .,end,middle,knowledge,traces,formation,4
"The joint-venture company they own, Samarco, does not have enough resources to cover the potential damages, estimated at 20.2bn reais ($5.2bn; £3.4bn), the judge ruled. Samarco owned the dam, which held back waste water from iron ore mining. It burst last month, flooding a vast area and killing at least 13 people. Anglo-Australian company BHP Billiton and Vale, from Brazil, said they had not been officially notified. Judge Marcelo Aguiar Machado's ruling was published on Friday. The two companies will also have to implement ""immediate damage-mitigating environmental measures"" or they will be liable to a daily fine of 150m reais ($38m; £25m), ruled Judge Machado. On 28 November the Brazilian government filed a lawsuit against Samarco for the environmental damage caused by the accident. Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said the accident in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais had ""a huge impact from an environmental point of view"". The village of Bento Rodrigues was totally destroyed and the toxic mud generated by the 5 November dam collapse polluted drinking water over a vast area. The money will be used to compensate the victims and help repair the environment. ""It is not a natural disaster, it is a disaster prompted by economic activity, but of a magnitude equivalent to those disasters created by forces of nature,"" said Ms Teixeira when the lawsuit was filed. About 500km (310 miles) of the Rio Doce - one of Brazil's most important rivers - will have to be dredged in parts, vegetation replanted and fresh-water springs cleared, she said. Less than a week after the accident, Samarco had its mining licence suspended. It also agreed to pay 1bn reais (£170m; $260m) temporary compensation to the victims.",A federal judge in Brazil has @placeholder the assets of mining giants BHP Billiton and Vale in the country over the deadly collapse of a dam .,revealed,examined,reached,called,blocked,4
"The Mosquito plane was wheeled out of its hangar at The de Havilland Aircraft Museum in London Colney, Hertfordshire, at 14:45 GMT. Geoffrey de Havilland Jnr, the son of the manufacturer, first flew the plane at that exact time on 25 November 1940. Museum chairman Alan Brackley said the unveiling was a ""wonderful day"". Scores of volunteers have spent five years working on the overhaul after an inspection revealed some areas of concern. The plane, largely made from plywood and balsa, has been re-assembled and repainted in the same colours as when it was decommissioned by the RAF in 1943. Designed and made on the site of the museum at Salisbury Hall, it made its maiden flight from de Havilland's factory hangar at Hatfield. ""It looks better than when it was rolled out of the hangar in 1940 - it looks absolutely superb,"" said Mr Brackley. ""I've been here since 1979. I started off as a volunteer and I helped look after the prototype and would wash it. ""The volunteers have worked for the love of it and when I came here I felt privileged to just be able to touch such an historic plane."" The prototype, number W4050, is said to have been the fastest of all Mosquitoes. Used to test engines and not laden with the armoured plates of battle planes, it could fly at more than 400mph (644km). The Mosquito was regarded as the most versatile war plane and was used for fighting, bombing, reconnaissance and pathfinder missions. The test aircraft, which is no longer airworthy, has been on display since 1959 when former Royal Marine Major Walter Goldsmith bought Salisbury Hall.","A @placeholder prototype of a World War Two plane dubbed the "" Wooden Wonder "" has been unveiled exactly 75 years after it made its maiden flight .",treasure,complete,halt,restored,suspected,3
"Some, including Kellogg's Frosties and Coco Pops, contain three-and-a-half sugar cubes or more per 40g serving, Public Health Liverpool (PHL) found. A seven to 10-year-old's recommended maximum daily allowance is six cubes. Kellogg's said it had recently reduced sugar in Coco Pops by 14% and added the recommended portion size for its cereals was 30g. How much sugar is hiding in your food? A spokesperson said its ""long-term sugar reduction programme"" had also seen sugar reduced in other cereals like Special K and Bran Flakes. The Liverpool campaign Save Kids from Sugar has broken cereals down into ""high"" and ""medium"" sugar classifications and also recommends healthier options. Too much sugar in a child's diet can lead to obesity, tooth decay, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some common cancers, PHL said. Figures from the government's National Child Measurement Programme, showed more than a fifth of reception class pupils in England were classified as overweight or obese in 2015-16, with that figure rising to a third for year six children. 1 in 5 reception age children in England are overweight or obese 1 in 3 children in year six 44% of year six children in Greenwich, the highest in England 31% of reception children in Middlesbrough, the highest in England 14% of reception children in Kingston upon Thames, the lowest in England 25% of year six children in Richmond upon Thames, the lowest in England Almost a third of five-year-olds in Liverpool have decayed, missing or filled teeth, with two children a day under the age of 10 having to be admitted to hospital to get teeth removed, PHL said. More than 23% of year six children are obese in Liverpool and almost 40% are overweight or obese, it added. Source: Public Health Liverpool Over the next three months posters and leaflets will be put in health centres, dental surgeries and hospitals in Liverpool. The public health team will also be working with school breakfast clubs and holding events aimed at educating parents. Parents can log on to Save Kids From Sugar to calculate how much sugar their children are consuming. Source: Public Health Liverpool Councillor Tim Beaumont said: ""It is a myth that breakfast cereals are a healthy choice. Some are, but most are loaded with sugar. Families simply don't realise how much is in them."" Director of Public Health Dr Sandra Davies said: ""Most people don't have the time to read labels when racing around the supermarket to complete their weekly shop and so we have to support them to make healthier choices."" A Kellogg's spokesperson said: ""We have a long tradition of helping improve the health of the nation - whether that's adding folic acid in our foods to combat birth defects to reducing salt - and we take our responsibilities seriously. ""That's why Kellogg's is committed to providing people with less salt and sugar in our foods. Our actions will have reduced sugar from the UK's diet by more than 2,000 tonnes by the end of 2017."" A Nestle spokeswoman added that ""providing clear nutrition labelling has long been a focus"". ""We agree that we all have a role to play in limiting the amount of sugar children consume... and we continue to look for opportunities to make further improvements."" Liverpool-based children's charity Kind said it ""fully supported"" the campaign to help people ""make the right choices"". ""Obviously, there is a major problem with the fact that a percentage of our children live in households that are struggling financially. It is often very difficult for parents to buy the healthy option when budgets are so tight,"" it added.",Health officials have @placeholder and shamed what they say are the most sugary breakfast cereals .,opened,named,mocked,praised,embarrassed,1
"The importance of a candidate's fashion image in a world which revolves around branding and marketing cannot be overstated. Most candidates, like politicians the world over, employ stylists. It is part of their job, and part of their budget. In her Twitter biography, Mrs Clinton describes herself as a ""pantsuit aficionado"". She will mostly be seen in trouser suits - a businesslike style that would do as well in a boardroom as in the White House. No surprise then that on the night of her acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, she wore her trademark pantsuit. It is early days, and no fashionista has yet ventured to name the label, but much has already been made of the colour. White for purity, white for angelic, white for new and fresh, white for White House. But also the colour of the suffragettes, as social media users were quick to point out: The message: Mrs Clinton breaking through the US political glass ceiling is the modern-day equivalent of suffragettes clad in white, fighting for women's right to vote. In the course of her political career, she has learnt to embrace fashion as an essential tool. ""There is no template for how women politicians need to look on political stages. That's where it gets tricky, "" The Daily Telegraph fashion director Lisa Armstrong told the BBC. ""But she's pretty much got her look sorted now. She's incredibly groomed, she's on top of her hair,"" she says, ""and that's important because humans are biologically programmed to make very quick decisions. The message is sent across instantly."" One week earlier, her Republican opponent Donald Trump made his acceptance speech in the template for male politicians: A simple blue suit, a white shirt, and a Republican red tie. For male candidates, choices are simpler, scrutiny less harsh. All he needed was the colours of the US flag, patriotic in style and colour. Though not, perhaps, in price tag. Mr Trump has a penchant for expensive designer suits. One of his favourite labels is said to be Brioni, one of the world's most prestigious couture houses. You may not be able to tell, but his hair is the product of intensive, expensive styling. As most politicians know, it is not advisable to spend a lot of money on clothes. And those that do, tend to be criticised for it. ""If a politician wears expensive labels, the public will absolutely eat them alive,"" stylist Corey Roche told The Business of Fashion magazine. Hillary Clinton certainly got a dressing down for wearing a $12,485 (£10,000) Giorgio Armani jacket at the New York Primary, revealing her ""disconnect from the everyday woman"", the New York Post complained. But maybe that is only for female politicians. Donald Trump suffered no such fate. He also appears to get away with wearing labels that are not fully in keeping with his ""making America great again"" slogan. Apart from Brioni, he favours Armani and German fashion house Hugo Boss. Before Hillary Clinton there were no female presidential candidates, but America's first ladies have always taken to wearing US labels, to support home-grown talent and manufacturing. Michelle Obama, for example,  has done more than most to promote US designers, wearing Maria Pinto (2008), Tracy Reese (2012), and Christian Siriano (2016) for her speeches at the Democratic Convention. Luckily for Mr Trump, a male candidate or president will always lose the fashion limelight to his spouse. Melania Trump wore a figure-hugging white dress as she spoke to the Republican Convention last week. She got it on the internet for just over $2,000 (a bargain for some). The style appealed and it sold out minutes after she spoke. Much has been made of the shape of the dress. ""The Trumps are not afraid of using her sexuality if it helps to win votes,"" Lisa Armstrong says, pointing at Donald Trump's pride in his wife's breasts, and Melania's history on the catwalk and posing nude for GQ Magazine. A candidate's wife clearly has a lot more freedom than a female candidate. Perhaps the most striking thing was that the dress was not by a US designer, but by Roksanda Ilincic, a Serbian-born designer based in London. It was described as a faux-pas, and had it not been for parts of the speech she was accused of copying from Michelle Obama, the critique would have been harsher and more copious. Contrast this with Bill Clinton's low-key fashion appearance as he made his speech to the Democratic Convention on Wednesday night. Fashionistas are describing his navy blue suit as ""a fetching pantsuit"". Other details in his attire included a cobalt blue tie, and a little lapel badge spelling Hillary in Hebrew. Smart, but not overpowering was the verdict on social media. The magazine Quartz put it like this:  ""As a fashion moment, it might have been a little underwhelming, but as a historical one, it was not. Clinton's look stated clearly:  I'm with her."" It seems Bill Clinton got his message across.","Hillary Clinton wore a white pantsuit on the last leg of the @placeholder to the White House . Many column inches have been spent on the image of the candidates and their spouses , almost as much as on their political message . So what were they trying to say , and did it work ?",response,drive,country,race,chance,3
"US conglomerate GE is bidding $17bn (£10bn) for Alstom's energy business. The deal still needs regulators' and Alstom staff representatives' approval. The French government agreed to support the deal, which will involve the state buying a 20% stake in Alstom, and other steps to protect French interests. A rival offer from Siemens-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was rejected. GE chief Jeff Immelt said the deal would be ""good for France, GE and Alstom"". If approved, the deal is expected to be completed in 2015. Reports say it would be GE's largest ever industrial acquisition. Under the deal, GE will sell its railway signal business to Alstom, and set up three joint ventures with the French company. The joint ventures would cover Alstom's power grid business, renewable operations, and nuclear steam turbines. Alstom employs about 18,000 people in France. The government had asked for assurances that French energy and transport interests and jobs would be safeguarded. It plans to acquire a controlling stake in Alstom by buying shares from French group and main shareholder Bouygues. However, the government wants to pay market price (28 euros per share) while Bouygues is demanding about 35 euros per share.",The board of French rail and energy group Alstom has unanimously @placeholder to accept an offer from General Electric .,changes,set,voted,refused,defected,2
"Elizabeth Denham announced the review amid concerns over allegations involving an analytics firm linked to a Brexit campaign. It follows calls for an investigation into claims that Leave.EU had not declared the role of Cambridge Analytica (CA) in its campaign. The Electoral Commission says its powers do not extend beyond the UK. But Ms Denham said: ""Having considered the evidence we have already gathered, I have decided to open a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes. ""This will involve deepening our current activity to explore practices deployed during the UK's EU referendum campaign, but potentially also in other campaigns."" The probe was sparked by Labour's Stephen Kinnock, a remain campaigner, who called on the Electoral Commission to look into links between Leave.EU and CA. Claire Bassett, the commission's chief executive, said, while it had ""very clear rules"" governing the permissibility of donations and printed materials, such as campaign leaflets, it has no power to stop overseas individuals or governments using social media to influence British elections. ""At the moment the rules apply to print media - so if you get a leaflet through your door, that should have an imprint on it which makes it clear who's produced that leaflet and where it's come from so you know who's campaigning for your vote,"" she said. ""At the moment those rules don't extend to social media and we've recommended that that should happen."" But quizzed about how far the electoral watchdog could go to prevent individuals or governments attempting to influence British elections via data analytic companies which target voters, Ms Bassett said: ""If something is happening outside of the borders of this country and is not part of any of the regime we're responsible for, it's not something we can cover within our regulation."" Ms Denham said it was ""understandable"" that ""political campaigns are exploring the potential of advanced data analysis tools to help win votes"", but said the ""public have the right to expect that this takes place in accordance with the law"". ""This is a complex and rapidly evolving area of activity and the level of awareness among the public about how data analytics works, and how their personal data is collected, shared and used through such tools is low,"" she said. ""What is clear is that these tools have a significant potential impact on individuals' privacy. ""It is important that there is a greater and genuine transparency about the use of such techniques to ensure that people have control over their own data and the law is upheld."" Ms Denham said the investigation was a ""high priority for her team"" and that she was ""conscious"" that it coincides with the general election campaign. The probe follows an Observer investigation suggesting there were links between data analytics firms, a US billionaire and the Leave campaign in last year's EU referendum. A Cambridge Analytica spokesman said the firm was happy to help the watchdog with any inquiry into the use of data analytics in politics but that it had had ""no involvement"" in the EU referendum. The Electoral Commission found the Tories spent £1.2m on Facebook campaigns during the 2015 election - more than seven times the £160,000 spent by Labour. The Liberal Democrats spent just over £22,000. Leave campaigners spent £3.5m with a technology company called Aggregate IQ. Vote Leave said it allowed them to target swing voters online much more effectively and efficiently. But BBC media editor Amol Rajan said that while huge amounts of money were being spent by political parties online, not everyone was ""transparent about their ambitions online"". ""We know that millions and millions of pounds have been spent by various people - foreign forces, sometimes extremists - who are politically advertising online trying to influence elections and they are not regulated,"" he said. ""The fact is the technology is changing very fast but the law hasn't kept pace. ""When it comes to broadcast advertising, we tend to know who's advertising, how much money they are spending and they tend to do it within certain social norms, but when it comes to political advertising online, it's very unclear who is spending the money and to what end.... ""The point is we simply don't have clear regulations that require people to be transparent. The implication is that they might be foreign forces; they might be very wealthy individuals who are having a material impact on elections in western or non-Western democracies and we simply don't know about it. ""It seems pretty obvious if we regulate political advertising in other spheres we need to think very hard about the impact of political advertising online too.""",A probe into the political use of private data has been opened by the @placeholder commissioner .,european,information,deputy,chief,force,1
"The UN says the arms were part of legitimate consignment for its mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Drugs tests carried out on a substance found around some of the UN vehicles were negative, the police said. The vehicles were allowed to be reloaded on board before the ship left, but the police have retained the arms. The rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, which were among the weapons found inside the UN vehicles, would be delivered under Kenyan escort to Indian peacekeepers in DR Congo, Mombasa County police commander Francis Wanjohi said. He said it would be too dangerous for the MV Hoegh Transporter to continue its journey if it was common knowledge there were weapons aboard, because of the threat of piracy. The ship had been sailing from Mumbai in India, but its final destination is unknown. The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in Mombasa says the dramatic midnight raid on the vessel after it had docked on Thursday night involved several elite Kenya police units, including the narcotics squad and the criminal investigation department. The whole port was shut down and people asked to leave as it searched the ship, he says. The UN's Nairobi office said the misunderstanding over the weapons, often stored in vehicles for to avoid damage in transit, was down to a clerical error. It said although the weapons were not declared in the manifest, a separate declaration accompanying the military vehicles was attached. A UN spokesman further explained new vehicles often had anti-humidity powder put around tyres for long shipments. Hoegh Autoliners, the owners of the ship, were contemplating suing the state for damages and defamation, a lawyer representing them in Kenya, said. ""The hullabaloo was so much ado about nothing,"" Cliff Ombeta told Kenya's Star newspaper. UN's mission in DR Congo is one of the organisation's biggest peacekeeping operations, with nearly 20,000 personnel.",A Norwegian ship detained in Kenya 's Mombasa port for more than a week on suspicion of carrying drugs and illegal weapons has been @placeholder .,identified,released,cleared,postponed,declared,1
"Durham County Council now owns all the county's bus stations and has promised ""greater co-ordination"" of services. ""Better facilities and improved maintenance"" of the site are also planned, including the replacement of vandalised seats, it said. There had been disagreement between the council, the bus operator and the previous owners of the site over who was responsible for repairs. Although money was available, the council could not carry out any work until now because it did not own the site, it said.",Peterlee bus station has been @placeholder by the local authority .,approved,unveiled,launched,bought,released,3
"Labour's Jeremy Corbyn accused the PM of ""dodging"" a head-to-head showdown and the Lib Dems urged broadcasters to ""empty chair"" her. Mrs May sprung a surprise by announcing she would seek a poll on 8 June rather than wait until 2020, promising ""strong and stable leadership"" if she wins. MPs are expected to back the early election in a vote on Wednesday. Live TV debates took place for the first time in a UK general election in 2010, and the experiment was repeated in 2015 using a range of different formats. Asked about the snap general election, a Number 10 source said: ""We won't be doing TV debates."" Mr Corbyn said the PM's stance was ""rather strange"", adding: ""I say to Theresa May, who said this election was about leadership, Come on and show some.' ""Let's have the debates. It's what democracy needs and what the British people deserve."" Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron added: ""The prime minister's attempt to dodge scrutiny shows how she holds the public in contempt. ""The British people deserve to see their potential leaders talking about the future of our country."" A BBC spokesman said it was too early to say whether the broadcaster would put in a bid to stage a debate. Drawn-out negotiations were needed between the political parties and broadcasters before the 2015 debates could take place. They included a seven-way party leaders' TV debate, which was watched on ITV by an average audience of 7 million viewers. In 2010, 9.4 million viewers tuned in to the first of three clashes between the then Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem leaders. Broadcaster David Dimbleby, who hosted leaders' debates on the BBC in both 2010 and 2015, said a refusal to take part in TV showdowns with her rivals could be ""rather perilous"" for Mrs May. ""I don't think other parties will refuse to take part in debates, and I wonder whether Number 10 will stick with that, because it  may look a bit odd if other parties are facing audiences and making their case,"" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.","Theresa May will not take part in TV debates ahead of the @placeholder general election , a Number 10 source says .",planned,power,growing,race,neighbouring,0
"Mr Trump is blitzing the state with five rallies while Mrs Clinton is also swinging through the Sunshine State. Early voting by mail began in Florida weeks ago, with over a million people having already cast their votes. Mrs Clinton holds a narrow three-point lead over Mr Trump in Florida, according to a new CBS/YouGov poll. The former secretary of state had 46% of the vote compared with Mr Trump's 43%, the poll found. Recent polls have put Mrs Clinton well ahead of her Republican rival both nationally and in several battleground states. A new CNN/ORC national poll put Mrs Clinton six points ahead among likely voters, at 51% to 45% in a head-to-head with Mr Trump. Polling in Republican strongholds including Arizona, Georgia and Utah have also shown closer-than-expected races. But speaking at a rally in St Augustine on Monday, Mr Trump, said: ""Folks, we're winning. We're winning. We're winning."" He once again blamed the media, which he described as being composed of ""thieves and crooks"" and ""almost as crooked as Hillary"", and said the system is ""corrupt and rigged and broken"". Pollsters also came under fire, with Mr Trump claiming the hacked emails of John Podesta showed the Clinton campaign chair was ""rigging the polls by oversampling Democrats"". The Republican nominee also hit out at his rival's use of a personal email server while secretary of state, saying the FBI and Justice Department had inappropriately let her off the hook. ""We have to investigate the investigation,"" he said. And he addressed the latest allegation of sexual misconduct from Jessica Drake, a 42-year-old adult film star who said the Republican nominee grabbed her and kissed her without permission 10 years ago. ""And she's a porn star... Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before,"" he said, adding that he will sue all the ""liars"" after the election. Meanwhile Clinton ally Senator Elizabeth Warren lashed out on Monday against Donald Trump at a New Hampshire rally over comments that he has made about women, saying that the candidate ""disrespects - aggressively disrespects - more than half the human beings in this country."" ""On November 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes, to get you out of our lives forever"", Mrs Warren said, referring to a comment made by Mr Trump in the final debate, where he called Mrs Clinton ""such a nasty woman"". She also hit out at Mr Trump over his obscene remarks about women, which emerged in a 2005 videotape. ""He thinks that because he has a mouthful of Tic Tacs he can force himself on any woman within groping distance,"" she said. ""Well I've got news for you Donald Trump. Women have had it with guys like you."" Despite his slip in the polls, the Republican candidate received his first major newspaper endorsement on Sunday from Nevada's largest newspaper, The Las Vegas Review-Journal. ""[Mr Trump] promises to be a source of disruption and discomfort to the privileged, back-scratching political elites for whom the nation's strength and solvency have become subservient to power's pursuit and preservation,"" the endorsement said. Several newspapers broke with longstanding traditions of backing Republicans or abstaining from presidential endorsements altogether to support Mrs Clinton, with many noting a marked stance against Mr Trump. Who is ahead in the polls? 48% Hillary Clinton 44% Donald Trump","Polling stations have @placeholder for early voting in the key battleground state of Florida , where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain in a tight race .",opened,raised,gathered,asked,opted,0
Language group Mynyddoedd Pawb (Everyone's Mountains) fear that Welsh place names are gradually being replaced by English titles. The group wants the Welsh assembly to persuade the Welsh government to bring place names under planning control. Opponents have argued that English names are more accessible for tourists. The group has cited examples like Snowdonia's Cwm Cneifion and Twll Du. Cwm Cneifion is known as the Nameless Cwm and Twll Du (Black Hole) is also called The Devil's Kitchen. The Welsh government said it was committed to promoting the Welsh language but added the planning system was about land use and not the correct place to address the issue.,Campaigners fighting to preserve Welsh place names have taken their @placeholder calling for action to the assembly .,time,activity,posts,places,petition,4
"The 40-year-old woman was left in a critical condition following the attack by a man police said was known to her. Police praised up to five men who ""bravely"" went to her aid in a ""dangerous and volatile"" situation. A 41-year-old man arrested at the scene remains in custody. The victim was attacked in Sutton Coldfield shortly after 15:00 GMT on Friday. Passers-by flagged down police on Trinity Hill, Sutton Coldfield, shortly after the attack. Two of the five suffered minor hand injuries and required hospital treatment. As it happened: Birmingham and the Black Country Local Live Chief Insp Julian Harper, incident manager for West Midlands Police, confirmed a knife was used in the incident and said one man initially went to help the woman before being joined by four other men. He said officers were ""working hard"" to piece together the incidents before the assault and praised the men for intervening. ""[They] bravely stepped into what was a dangerous and volatile situation, with complete disregard for their own safety and I commend them for their actions,"" he said. West Midlands Ambulance Service said the woman was airlifted to hospital.","Doctors @placeholder a baby who is said to be "" doing well "" after its pregnant mother was attacked and stabbed in a West Midlands street .",hire,help,delivered,staged,aged,2
"The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four appeared in bookshops in the summer of 1949.  Set in an imaginary future where people are controlled by surveillance and propaganda, it follows the story of a minor government employee, Winston Smith, who is arrested and subjected to monstrous brainwashing techniques for harbouring thoughts of rebellion. Few modern works proved so irresistible so quickly. In the US, a radio version appeared within months and the first screen adaptation was on American TV as early as 1953.  The following year, the BBC shot another version.  Now Bourne Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass is attached to a new cinematic manifestation of Orwell's unsettling world, where personal liberty has disappeared and thought can be a crime. A decade ago came an opera at Covent Garden and the latest stage adaptation has just finished its run in the West End. Yet Northern Ballet, based in Leeds, is the first company to grasp the challenge of a full-length Nineteen Eighty-Four in dance.  The choreographer is Jonathan Watkins. ""Of course the way people use language is a part of what Orwell engaged with.  But there are a lot of concepts in the book and I have to accept that I can't get it all into two hours of ballet.  That would be true of any stage adaptation.  We concentrate on the relationships between individuals and between different groups. ""At the same time I don't automatically assume our audiences will know the action in advance.  Almost everyone knows the title but some people only have a vague idea of what actually happens in the book."" Watkins worked with dramaturg Ruth Little to pick out the narrative line the ballet should follow. ""We're pretty true to the narrative arc and the Winston Smith character remains at centre.  I was keen the narrative action should be very clear.  I've been delighted when people sat in on rehearsals who didn't know the story at all but could easily follow what was going on.  That's part of my job."" The BBC watched final rehearsals at Northern Ballet's rehearsal studios, before the cast headed over the road to the West Yorkshire Playhouse where public performances start this weekend. Tobias Batley (as Winston Smith) and Cuban dancer Javier Torres were performing an intense scene dramatizing Smith's ambivalent relationship with O'Brien, the senior party member who tortures him but who, perhaps, he also needs.  For now the cast is still dancing to the music in recorded form: At the Playhouse a genuine orchestra awaits. Alex Baranowski's score is cinematic and each step is crammed with tension.  Music and choreography combine to create a sense of dread. It's a relief to talk to Toby Batley later when he's amiable and surprisingly relaxed. ""There is pressure on a dancer when you're originating a big new role that no one's ever danced before.  But I quite like the fact that our first performance is also the press night, with all the critics and the VIPs."" ""At first I thought that my character Winston was a bit opaque.  But I came to see that what he does is really brave: He stands up against the power of the party, which is personified by O'Brien.  And he has an emotional relationship with Julia -  which people sometimes forget. ""Love is a massive theme in Nineteen Eighty-Four although it's not in any conventional sense a love story.  It's up to me and Martha (Leebolt), who dances Julia, to communicate the power of the relationship.   Big Brother commands love for the party.  And there's almost a kind of love between Winston and O'Brien - there's something weird between the two men that's maybe a form of Stockholm syndrome."" Batley says it was a great moment when the cast first heard Baranowski's score on CD. ""It's not like dancing a Nutcracker, where the dancers all know the score already.  I was puzzled beforehand what genre Alex would write in.  So it was a huge relief because immediately you can picture yourself dancing to what you hear. ""Moments of the score are quite lyrical and the pas de deux at the end of Act 1 is very passionate.  But there are also the scenes in the cell with O'Brien which are dark and disturbing. At 31, Alex Baranowski's credit is increasingly cropping up as a composer for the stage and elsewhere.  Credits range from the Young Vic theatre in London (A Streetcar Named Desire) to indie band The xx, collaborating on orchestral versions of their music. ""The idea for the ballet was Jonathan's,"" he says. ""I knew I enjoyed working with him - we did Kes last year in Sheffield.  But I'd never read Orwell's book and when I did so, I could hear a musical journey in it straight away."" He says the basic storyline emerged chiefly in discussions between Jonathan Watkins and Ruth Little.  ""And it's the same with the music: It's a long discussion between me as composer and Jonathan as choreographer-director."" ""Sometimes Jonathan would hear some little thing I'd written which he wanted me to expand or try a bit differently.  There could be a moment for a clarinet which he'd see possibilities in - or he'd get excited about something I'd barely noticed.  It's a great way to write. ""When I started I thought I'd listen to the big Russian composers but I soon realised it's not about emulating anyone.  It's only worthwhile if you're creating something new."" Baranowski says his score had to represent the element of love story between Winston and Julia.  ""But that doesn't mean you have to write a huge love theme: Their relationship is tentative. ""There is a lyricism there but the moment's a bit staccato too.  That makes it quite hard to write - but also liberating."" Northern Ballet's production of 1984 opens in the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, on Saturday 5 May, then tours the UK until next year.",Northern Ballet know the huge name - recognition for George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty - Four will help draw audiences to their new stage version . But choreographer Jonathan Watkins has had to take a story focused on the @placeholder of politics and the use of language and make it all work with music and dance . He explains how the production came together .,process,fate,issue,nature,level,3
"Bus operator Lothian Buses is to use a fleet of 30 new vehicles on the route through St John's Road in Edinburgh, an air quality management zone. The Euro 6 Volvo double-deckers will operate on Service 26, which runs between the west of the capital and East Lothian. All buses on the route will be low emission by the end of 2018. A report published last year showed that 65 microgrammes of nitrogen dioxide per cubic metre were detected in St John's Road in 2015, making it the most polluted in Edinburgh. The new vehicles are part of a £7m investment. Lothian Buses said the fleet would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25%, nitrous oxides by up to 98% and particulates by about 75% compared with the existing fleet. The buses will also have USB charging points on board. Richard Hall, managing director of Lothian Buses, said: ""St John's Road has always been a main artery within the city that we had earmarked for improvement and investment. ""The introduction of 30 new low-emission buses to this route, combined with our ongoing fleet replacement strategy BUS2020, ensures that we as a business are doing our part to improve air quality across the city. ""Buses are the lifeblood of the city and economy, transporting thousands of customers every day."" The announcement was welcomed by City of Edinburgh Council and Friends of the Earth. Charity campaigner Emilia Hanna said: ""We welcome Lothian's launch of a cleaner 26 route along the St John's Road corridor, which is Edinburgh's most polluted street. ""Air pollution is still a public health crisis in Scotland, responsible for over 2,500 early deaths each year. Buses are a key part of the solution to air pollution and are essential for the majority of Edinburgh residents who do not travel by car. ""One full double-decker bus can hold the equivalent number of passengers as 75 cars can, so buses are a clear winner when it comes to tackling congestion and toxic air pollution, especially when they offer a clean and comfortable experience.""",Low - emission buses are being @placeholder for journeys along one of Scotland 's most polluted streets .,called,introduced,substituted,held,utilized,1
"The female parrot, called Charlie, was stolen in the early hours of Tuesday from Timperley Aquatics Pet & Reptile Centre, in Greater Manchester. ""I'm disgusted,"" said shop owner Graham Ralston, who said he thought Charlie must have put up a fight. The thief smashed the store window with a wheelie-bin. ""A member of the public saw the bird being manhandled on a bike and she wasn't best pleased as she was making a hell of a racket,"" said Mr Ralston. ""Charlie must have put up quite a fight, the thief had brought a bag but had to leave it in the aviary,"" said Mr Ralston. He said the macaw was affectionately known as Baby, and was a shop bird and not for sale. He said he often walked round the store, in Stockport Road, Timperley, with Charlie on his shoulder. ""She is a great character, she loves me and I love her - when I go in the shop and say 'Hello Baby' she responds 'Hello Baby',"" he said. ""She will sit there and dance and say 'Hello Baby' when she gets excited.""","A green wing macaw worth £ 2,000 has been stolen from a pet shop by a burglar who @placeholder with the bird on the handlebars of his bike .",collided,wrote,loaded,credited,fled,4
"Inserting the stick into the apple causes a little bit of juice to leak and that moisture, trapped under the candy layer, becomes a breeding ground, a study shows. To be safe, consumers should eat them fresh or store them in the fridge. The study in mBio was prompted by an outbreak in the United States. In January 2015, a few US companies voluntarily recalled their caramel apples after routine testing at an apple-packing facility revealed contamination with listeria. A total of 35 people had become infected across 12 states in the autumn and winter of 2014. Thirty-four were admitted to hospital and seven died. Listeria contributed to at least three of these deaths. Researcher Dr Kathleen Glass at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Food Research Institute said: ""It just didn't make sense to us that people would get sick from the apples. So we wanted to investigate."" Her team tested a batch of apples to see what factors might allow the bacteria to grow and thrive. They swabbed the skin, stem and base of some Granny Smith apples with the same strains of listeria that had been linked to the US outbreak. Next, they pushed wooden sticks through the stems of half of the apples. Then they dipped all the apples into hot caramel using either the sticks or tongs. The apples were allowed to cool and were then stored at either room temperature or in a fridge. Compared with the other apples, the ones on sticks that had been stored at room temperature grew lots of the bacteria. Neither caramel, because of its low amount of water, nor apples, because of their acidity, are normal breeding grounds for listeria. But together they can create a perfect growing environment for any bugs trapped in between, say the researchers. Dr Glass said: ""It's low risk but it's not no risk. I don't want people to be worried, but it can happen, depending on how they are stored."" It's not clear if the same is true for toffee apples. ""That hasn't been studied,"" she said. A Food Standards Agency spokesman said: ""Refrigerated storage and shelf life are key food safety controls to prevent listeria growth.""","Caramel - coated apples can be riddled with listeria - a type of bacterium that causes diarrhoea and vomiting and , rarely , meningitis - @placeholder scientists .",warn,style,coloured,lashed,called,0
"But unlike her peers in the east Belfast school, seven-year-old Sala-Joy is blind. She is not unusual, however, as many blind children in Northern Ireland are educated in mainstream schools. A project which aims to help children like Sala-Joy - and their parents - get the most from education has been awarded almost £700,000 from the Big Lottery Fund. The Family Insight project is run by Angel Eyes NI and the Royal National Institute of Blind People NI (RNIBNI). Sara McCracken founded Angel Eyes NI after her own twins, who are now 11, were born blind. ""My twins are now at mainstream school with a statement of special educational needs,"" she said. ""But for parents the system can be quite daunting, and, as sight loss is very rare, the chances are that many schools and pupils won't have encountered sight loss before."" According to RNIBNI, there are more than 2,300 children and young people who have some form of sight loss in Northern Ireland. The majority are educated alongside pupils in mainstream schools. According to Sala-Joy's father, Gunther, that brings many challenges. ""Things like mobility, knowing her way around the school and how to get there and interaction with the other kids can all be difficult,"" he said. ""Sala-Joy needs a bit more assistance in finding friends, knowing what's going on and being able to join in with things."" Sala-Joy has a full-time classroom assistant, and works with the aid of a braille machine in class. Her fellow pupils have learned to spell their names in braille using her machine, and their efforts are proudly displayed on the classroom wall. Headteacher Philip Monks said that staff in Lisnasharragh have learned how best to help Sala-Joy in class, in the canteen and in the playground. ""We, as a school, were very keen to welcome her and to meet her needs,"" he said. ""As a school we have learned from her in many different ways."" Angel Eyes NI is using part of the five-year funding to employ a specialist worker who will focus specifically on providing educational guidance. ""We want to help visually impaired children access the curriculum like their peers,"" Ms McCracken said. ""Parents of blind children want their child to do their best educationally, like any other parent. ""Sometimes they don't fully understand all the support there is out there."" And although Sala-Joy's education journey is only beginning, she knows where she wants it to end. ""I'm longing to be a teacher,"" she said. ""I'm in a really good school, so I've decided to work in a school too.""","Like many of her P3 classmates in Lisnasharragh Primary School , Sala - Joy Storbeck enjoys spelling , playtime and winning good @placeholder points for her table .",behaviour,looks,game,commentary,fuel,0
"Mary Burrows, who was chief executive of Betsi Cadwaladr health board, moved from Colwyn Bay, Conwy county, to London two months ago. She is staying with her son while she receives treatment for breast cancer. ""Treatments that have not been approved by Nice are not routinely available in Wales,"" a health board statement said. A £200m-a-year cancer drug fund was set up in England in 2011. There is no similar fund in Wales. Mrs Burrows said her consultant in Wales advised her to go to the Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey, for the next stage of her treatment because the drug she needed was not available in Wales. She called the situation ""distressing,"" adding: ""A lot of people can't just move their family to another UK nation. There needs to be a debate across all of the UK about how we fund these treatments. ""Not just cancer treatments; advanced technologies and surgeries coming through that people will want to access."" Mrs Burrows left her role with the health board last January. She said she had ""arguments with myself"" about the fairness of the Welsh government policy and if having a cancer drug fund takes resources from people with other illnesses. Mrs Burrows' husband died two years ago of advanced melanoma after he was also unable to get treatment in Wales, she said. Now she is calling for more investment in the NHS ""across the board"". A Betsi Cadwaladr spokeswoman said: ""Where a clinician wishes to use a treatment that has not received Nice approval, they can make an application to the health board under the all-Wales individual  patient funding request process. ""These requests are con­sidered by an expert panel. Because each patient is different, each case has to be individu­ally assessed.""",A former @placeholder of a Welsh health board has moved to England in order to get a cancer drug .,head,offer,body,member,shadow,0
"The computers, which were in a carrier bag, were briefly left on the main concourse at Wolverhampton station. Police said the equipment had been specially built for the children and their family were distraught. British Transport Police (BTP) has released images of a man officers want to talk to following the theft on the afternoon of Sunday 14 May. Read more news for Birmingham and the Black Country The devices were briefly left on the main concourse at about 13:00 BST, a man watched this happen and he walked over to the bag and picked it up, police said. He walked out of the station ""right past the victims"" and the machines were ""not easily"" replaceable, a spokesman added. Police said a family had been ""left distraught"". Investigating officer PC Jason Walters said: ""Thieves may think that they're not harming anyone when they take things like phones or laptops - but in reality, it can cause untold upset and disruption to a person's life."" BTP said it believed the man on the images, with a ""distinctive tattoo"" on the back of his head, had information that could help the investigation.",Laptops that help two disabled children to @placeholder have been stolen from a railway station .,survive,communicate,speak,sleep,flee,1
"8 January 2016 Last updated at 07:58 GMT One of the latest drone prototypes on show looks a bit like a helicopter and allows a passenger to sit inside of the drone. It's controlled by a tablet and the passenger can choose their destination on it. The drone, which has 8 propellers, takes between 2-4 hours to charge and would last for around 23 minutes flying time.","Tech companies have been unveiling their newest gadgets at a massive tech show @placeholder CES in Las Vegas , America .",following,reduce,show,featuring,called,4
"Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt wants them to provide qualified teachers in specialist subjects to state schools; share their expertise to help state school students get into top universities and to run joint extra-curricular programmes with local schools. A future Labour government would change the law so that any private school that is found not to meet a new 'Schools Partnership Standard' will lose an existing taxpayer subsidy - in the form of business rates relief. This could cost a school anywhere from a few tens of thousands to a few hundreds of thousands of pounds. In a speech setting out the policy, Mr Hunt will say that ""we have seen the limitations of asking private schools politely…the time you could expect something for nothing is over'."" This is an acknowledgement that this is far from the first time private schools have faced demands to do more. The last Labour government - when a certain David Miliband was schools minister - threatened to abolish the charitable status of private schools which failed to co-operate with government efforts to improve the state sector. Even David Cameron has criticised what he called the ""apartheid"" between the two education sectors as he urged private schools to sponsor academies. Labour say only 3% have done so so it is time to turn the pressure up. Taking on private schools is always a popular cause in Labour circles. Equally it always produces howls of outrage from the small but influential group of people whose children are educated in them. The fact that this policy is being proposed by the privately educated Dr Tristram Julian William Hunt, who went to the fee paying University College School (generally known as UCS) in Hampstead will, no doubt, earn Labour's shadow education secretary praise and condemnation in equal measure.",""" Step up and @placeholder your part . Earn your keep "" . Or you 'll pay more in tax . That is Labour 's new message to private schools .",scrap,body,play,change,replace,2
"The chancellor blamed the slowdown on a ""dangerous cocktail"" of global risks and said the UK had to ""act now so we don't have to pay later"". He announced an extra £3.5bn in spending cuts - and sparked controversy by warning of the risks of EU exit. But Labour contrasted a lowering of corporation tax with cuts to disability payments. Key Budget announcements include: The £530m raised by a tax on the sugar content of soft drinks - the equivalent of about 18-24p per litre, the government says - will be spent on primary school sports in England, with the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland free to decide how to spend their share. Mr Osborne's sugar tax announcement sparked a big fall in the share price of soft drinks makers but it was welcomed by TV chef Jamie Oliver, who has been campaigning for such a move. The tax will be levied on the volume of the sugar-sweetened drinks companies produce or import. The Office for Budget Responsibility says it could result in a ""pretty substantial price rise"" on products - as much as 80% on, for example, a two-litre bottle of own-brand cola. There will be two bands - one for total sugar content above 5 grams per 100 millilitres; a second, higher band for the most sugary drinks with more than 8 grams per 100 millilitres, with the levels yet to be set. 35g The amount of sugar in a 330ml can of Coca-Cola (7 teaspoons) 30g The recommended max. intake of sugar per day for those aged 11+ £520m The amount George Osborne expects the sugar tax to raise Examples of drinks which would currently fall under the higher rate of the sugar tax include full-strength Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Lucozade Energy and Irn-Bru, the Treasury said. The lower rate would catch drinks such as Dr Pepper, Fanta, Sprite, Schweppes Indian tonic water and alcohol-free shandy. BBC health editor Hugh Pym said the tax had come as ""a bolt from the blue"" - particularly as Downing Street had opposed the idea last autumn. It was attacked at the time by some Conservative MPs as ""nannystate-ism"". Read more about how it will work How has Osborne's spoonful of sugar tax gone down? In his biggest Parliamentary test to date, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn delivered the Opposition's response, describing Mr Osborne's Budget as ""the culmination of six years of his failures"" which had ""unfairness at its core"". The Labour leader said the financial proposals failed on productivity, investment and in tackling inequality - and gave tax cuts to the wealthy while disabled people lost more than £1bn. But he welcomed Mr Osborne's sugar tax, which will be introduced in two years' time and will not apply to fruit juices or milk-based drinks. Announcing the move, Mr Osborne said:  ""I am not prepared to look back at my time here in this Parliament, doing this job and say to my children's generation: 'I'm sorry - we knew there was a problem with sugary drinks. We knew it caused disease. But we ducked the difficult decisions and we did nothing'."" Political editor Laura Kuenssberg: Can Osborne defy political history? Economics editor Kamal Ahmed: Osborne stakes reputation on 2020 surplus Business editor Simon Jack: Small businesses are the winners Political correspondent Iain Watson: Corbyn gets mixed reviews Mr Osborne said the UK was still on course to clear its deficit by 2019/20 thanks to the extra spending cuts. But in a move that has angered Conservative colleagues who want the UK to leave the EU, he cited the Office for Budget Responsibility's view that the UK would be ""safer, stronger and more secure"" if it remains in. Tory MP and Leave campaigner David Davis said: ""The real risks for Britain lie in remaining within the EU."" Mr Osborne's package includes a £1.5bn plan to turn all state schools into academies. In other Budget announcements, Mr Osborne committed £300m for transport projects, although almost half of the money committed was announced in the Autumn Statement. The lower growth forecast from 2.4% to 2% in 2016 was driven by a reduction in the OBR's productivity forecasts. The OBR also said the government was going to breach its own welfare cap in every remaining year of this Parliament. The additional spending is mainly caused by more people than expected being eligible for disability benefits, with the  Personal Independence Payment (PIP) scheme costing £3bn more than expected in July. Cuts aimed at saving £1.3bn were announced last week. There will be new action to tackle overseas retailers who store goods in Britain and sell them online without paying VAT - and new tax free allowances for ""micro entrepreneurs"" who rent their homes or sell services through the internet. Reforms to business rates will mean 6,000 small businesses pay no rates and 250,000 have their rates cuts from April 2017, said Mr Osborne. He announced a major overhaul of the North Sea tax regime aimed at helping the UK's oil and gas industry, effectively abolishing the Petroleum Revenue Tax. The SNP's deputy leader Stewart Hosie welcomed the move - but criticised the overall Budget package, saying Mr Osborne had ""failed to tackle the debt, the deficit and the borrowing as he promised"" and urging him to abandon austerity and invest more in growth.",George Osborne has unveiled a tax on sugary drinks in a wide @placeholder Budget dominated by gloomier growth forecasts .,ranging,neighbouring,deal,set,planned,0
"""The world has changed profoundly"", Prof Keep told the BBC. ""If you'd been able to take a skilled manual worker from 25, 30 years ago in the Tardis and bring them to now, they would be astonished at what's happened to the kind of jobs that they used to be doing"". Professor Keep was commenting on pay levels revealed in the first part of BBC Radio 4's series The New Workplace. To help understanding of the changing workplace, Whitbread, the large British-based hospitality and services company, opened its doors to the BBC at all levels of the company. Once famous for Whitbread's Best Bitter, with all the industrialised, unionised processes required to manufacture beer, Whitbread has transformed itself over the past 20 years. Today Whitbread owns Costa Coffee, the largest chain of coffee shops in the UK, Beefeater Restaurants and the fast-growing budget hotel chain Premier Inn. Whitbread has 45,000 employees, yet is run by a strategic management team of just 60. The company is now ""very lean"", Louise Smalley, Whitbread's Human Resources director told the BBC. Ms Smalley has been with Whitbread for 18 years. She says new technology is a key reason Whitbread's former layers of middle management disappeared. ""Often you needed middle management to collate the data"", Ms Smalley said. ""Technology has enabled that to happen instantly. That's a world away from what we had historically so we don't need those middle management layers."" Like most companies in its sector, Whitbread no longer recognises trade unions. Whitbread has always paid above the national minimum wage, but otherwise pay in the company is set by supply and demand. According to Jim Slater, Managing Director of the Costa coffee shop chain, there is no shortage of potential workers. ""Last year we opened a new store in Nottinghamshire,"" Mr Slater told the BBC, ""and we had over 200 applicants per position in that store"". Even in hot-spots such as London, Brighton or Bristol, Mr Slater says, ""We always are inundated with applicants for jobs"". Mr Slater told the BBC that the functions middle managers used to perform are now carried out much closer to the workplace. Staff in each Costa coffee shop use small tablet computers to track and plan staff hours, supplies and sales. The information is instantly available to Mr Slater and to Whitbread's senior management team. Listen to The New Workplace on BBC Radio 4 Saturday 1 August 12:00pm  (repeated Sunday 2 August 9:00pm) Or listen again on the iPlayer ""We offer enormous amounts of training and development,"" Mr Slater told the BBC, ""and the chance to experience a big business like Costa, and then move up the job grades and the pay bands accordingly."" Coffee shop staff may now be responsible for the functions of the former middle managers, but Mr Slater acknowledges it is at far lower pay differentials than before. Narrow differentials for additional responsibilities apply across Whitbread's businesses. When Stuart Mapplebeck was recruited by a new Premier Inn in Halifax, he was one of the city's small army of young ""Neets"" - people not in education, employment or training. When he started, Whitbread paid him just above the national minimum wage, now £6.50 an hour. Today, after in-house training, Mr Mapplebeck is a reception team leader. He is now also directly responsible for recruiting and supervising 10 Premier Inn staff. For these additional responsibilities, Mr Mapplebeck is now paid £8.16 an hour - equivalent to around £17,000 for a 40-hour week. Whitbread today doesn't require qualifications. Instead, the company looks for people with the right attitude and a commitment to customer service. ""If you come to work for Whitbread,"" Mr Mapplebeck told the BBC, ""there's three main things that you need to be: genuine, confident, committed. ""Money matters to everybody,"" Mr Mapplebeck added. ""But it's definitely not the focus for me. I would rather go to work and love my job than focus just solely on the monetary aspect."" Czech-born Eva Duskova, the assistant manager of Costa Coffee Beaconsfield, echoed that view. ""I would say that I have got confidence in what I am doing,"" Ms Duskova told the BBC. ""I love the responsibility and I know that the rest of the team in our store are listening to me when I am trying to help them. It is a really good feeling"". At Oxford University, Professor Ewart Keep is not surprised that among the Whitbread staff the BBC met, there appeared to be little complaint about the small differentials workers are now paid for additional responsibilities. Prof Keep says the same is true across large parts of the new British workplace - particularly in the lower-paid service sector. ""We've down-shifted the expectations that a lot of people have of what they're going to get out of work,"" he told the BBC. ""Vast rafts of workers in retail, cleaning, hospitality, social care are not unionised and it's much easier for a lot of employers particularly in the service sector to offer wages that are not far above the national minimum wage."" Following Chancellor George Osborne's budget announcement of a new national living wage of £7.20 for workers aged 25 or over from next April, employers will be required to pay lower-paid staff more. Whitbread Chief Executive Andy Harrison says about half his 45,000 staff are over 25. Although he says Whitbread has for many years supported raising the national minimum wage, Mr Harrison says he was surprised by the extent of the chancellor's increase. ""A good proportion of our employees over 25 will benefit from the new living wage,"" Mr Harrison told the BBC. ""We will need to finance those pay increases through investment in improving quality and value."" Mr Harrison says the new living wage means Whitbread's present pay differentials will have to be rethought. It will also encourage the company to step up its already extensive programme of in-house training. ""As the cost of our people increases,"" Mr Harrison told the BBC, ""it will provide an additional incentive to invest in training and technology, so that we can use people more effectively. Training increasing skills which increases people's productivity, their output, which delivers a better experience for our customers and more value for our shareholders"". But Whitbread is unlikely to experience much pay pressure from staff - at least if Stuart Mapplebeck is typical. Mr Mapplebeck now aspires to run his own Premier Inn - being responsible for the entire hotel operation and managing around 30 staff. And the pay he now hopes to get for that? £18,000 a year. Michael Robinson's series The New Workplace starts on Saturday 1 August on BBC Radio 4 at 12:00pm.","People expect far less from their employers than they did a @placeholder ago , says Ewart Keep , professor of education , training and skills at Oxford University .",school,group,generation,week,millennium,2
"Durham County Council withdrew its previous plan after it was called ""over-ambitious"" by an independent inspector. Though the inspector's report was quashed by the High Court, the council said it would start the plan again. The old plan had been to build 31,4000 homes and create 30,000 jobs by 2030. The cabinet is being asked to confirm the new plan when it meets next week. Work on the old plan started in 2009 but last year inspector Harold Stephens said it was ""unsound"" and assumptions about job growth were ""very ambitious"". In a report to the cabinet, corporate director of regeneration Ian Thompson said there would be three stages to the new plan, which would cover the period until 2033. He also said the information used to draw up the old plan would need ""updating"" and there would be public consultations with a view to submitting the new plan to the government in December 2017. Neil Foster, Durham County Council's cabinet member for economic regeneration, said: ""The council and its partners fought for the plan because we believed that it was essential in ensuring that our county did not get left behind. ""The position we now find ourselves in is unique so we are extremely pleased to announce that, after a lot of hard work, we now have a way forward for the County Durham Plan.""","The creation of a plan for the future development of County Durham will start again , seven years after the @placeholder first began .",collapse,word,power,process,work,3
"Chechen Muslim clerics met on 3 April, two days after the paper's revelations, and said the report had insulted their faith and the dignity of Chechen men. ""Retribution will catch up with the true instigators, wherever and whoever they are,"" their resolution said. Novaya Gazeta says it amounts to a call for ""reprisals against journalists"". ""We urge the Russian authorities to do everything possible to prevent actions aimed at inciting hatred and enmity towards journalists, who are doing their professional duty,"" the paper said. On 1 April it reported that more than 100 people had been detained in Chechnya on suspicion of being homosexual, and that at least three had been killed. The Russian LGBT Network, in touch with victims in Chechnya, told the BBC that the report was true. Homophobia is rife in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus republic. Authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov is fiercely loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin. A spokeswoman for the LGBT Network said detainees were tortured with electric shocks and beatings at a prison near Argun, 20km (13 miles) from the city of Grozny. ""All the people arrested are homosexual men or perceived as being gay,"" said Natalia Poplevskaya. Ramzan Kadyrov has denied the allegations, calling them ""lies"". His spokesman Alvi Karimov said there were no gay people in Chechnya. The Chechens' spiritual leader, Mufti Salah-haji Mezhiev, confirmed that ""retribution"" was part of the resolution adopted at the special Muslim meeting in Grozny on 3 April. ""There will be retribution!"" he told the Russian news website RBC. ""Allah will punish those who slandered the whole Chechen nation and Chechen Republic's clerics."" Novaya Gazeta's 1 April report said the detainees included some influential Muslim clerics close to Mr Kadyrov, and two well-known Chechen TV presenters. In an open letter to the mufti, the paper's chief editor Dmitry Muratov said his journalists would continue investigating human rights abuses in Chechnya. ""We did not insult - nor had we the slightest intention to insult - the Chechen people,"" he wrote, urging dialogue. Chechens have been linked to two murders of Novaya Gazeta reporters who investigated crimes in Chechnya - Anna Politkovskaya and Natalia Estemirova. But much remains unclear about those contract killings, and that of Boris Nemtsov, an opposition politician who was shot dead in Moscow in 2015 and also exposed corruption and organised crime in Chechnya. The LGBT Network says it is helping people to flee the persecution in Chechnya and accuses the Russian authorities of ignoring the abuses. If Russia fails to prosecute anyone, it says it will file a case at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.","The Russian daily Novaya Gazeta says it is @placeholder by a Chechen Muslim call for "" retribution "" after the paper reported violence against gay men in Chechnya .",appalled,condemned,funded,alarmed,monitored,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device The nine-man Team Vestas Wind crew were stranded after crashing on a remote coral reef, before being picked up by a coastguard boat and taken to Mauritius. Shore crew chief Neil Cox, said: ""We've had nine guys sitting on a sand pit in the middle of the Indian Ocean. ""The coastguard was asking me to warn the guys that the reef is riddled full of sharks and barracuda."" The seven-strong fleet was making its way from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi - the second stage of the nine-leg race. The leading teams are due to complete the 5,185 nautical mile route and arrive in the United Arab Emirates capital around 13 December. The team, skippered by Australian Chris Nicholson, 45, will try to rescue their damaged boat and re-join the nine-month global race - possibly in time for the start of stage four in Sanya, China, in February 2015. Nicholson said: ""I'm really disappointed. On the other hand, we have to realise how fortunate we are. ""It's clear that human error is responsible for the shipwreck, there's no avoiding that. And as skipper, I take ultimate responsibility. ""The past four days have been very challenging for all of us, and I am extremely proud of the whole crew's professionalism, composure, and endurance."" The 65-foot boat crashed on Saturday and was left with a badly damaged stern. The crew had to wade through knee deep water to a dry position on the reef and wait until Sunday morning. The local coastguard took them to a small deserted islet called Ile du Sud, popular with shark-watching day-tourists, but with no lines of communication to the outside world. A weekly fishing vessel which navigates the 430km, day-long trip from Mauritius to the islet, completed the rescue.",A shipwrecked crew have been rescued from shark - @placeholder waters during the round - the - world Volvo Ocean Race .,priced,filled,size,inhabited,style,3
"Mingfei Ma married Yuchen Li a few weeks before he boarded the airliner. He had just received his engineering doctorate from Cambridge University, where she is still a student. His widow said the discovery of debris believed to be from the Malaysian Airways plane had not brought families any closer to knowing what happened. She told BBC Look East: ""I strongly disagree with the Malaysian authorities who said the discovery of debris is 'closure' for the families. ""It's not even the beginning of closure - it is just the beginning."" The aircraft, which had 239 people onboard, was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014 when air traffic control staff lost contact. For more than a year Dr Li's widow continued to hope the man she married in February 2014 was still alive, but on 29 July airliner debris was found washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. The Malaysian authorities believe it is from the missing aeroplane, but French experts examining the finds have stopped short of confirming the link. Dr Li's wife, who returned to Churchill College in Cambridge in October to continue her doctorate in architecture, said: ""It's not only about finding the plane, it's about why it was there. ""I do want to find a reason for the crash and the authorities need to put more effort into the investigation."" She paid tribute to her ""amazing"" husband, who received his engineering doctorate from Churchill College in January 2014. Dr Li was flying to Beijing to begin a new job and to support his wife's family, with the intention that she would join him in China following her graduation. She said she was ""so grateful"" but she would ""always regret"" the decision. .","The wife of a passenger on flight MH370 has called on the Malaysian authorities to "" put more effort "" into finding out why the plane @placeholder .",collided,show,announced,sank,disappeared,4
"An online server at the Pensions Regulator has been faulty since Wednesday at least, the BBC understands. Some of the businesses concerned could face fines as a result of missing registration deadlines. The regulator said any difficulties would be taken into consideration. However, it could not guarantee that all fines would be waived, a spokesman said. One business owner told the BBC he had been trying to register since Monday, but that the server had been down since then. His deadline is less than a week away. Small and micro businesses - those with between one and 49 employees - are having to sign up for auto enrolment pensions. Under the law, anyone who pays an employee over the age of 22 more than £10,000 a year has to provide a pension. In a statement the the Pensions Regulator said: ""We are aware of a technical issue affecting some functionality on our website. ""We are working hard to resolve the issue as soon as possible. ""Anyone with concerns about their automatic enrolment pension duties should contact our helpline on 0345 600 1011. Each case will be discussed on an individual basis.""",Thousands of small businesses ordered to register for auto-enrolment pensions face fines after part of the regulator 's website @placeholder .,closure,programme,fails,crashed,team,3
"Leslie Rourke, 71, is thought to have used at least 12 cans of inflammable foam to treat damp in a confined cellar at a home in Newark, Nottinghamshire. The fumes were ignited by either a cellar light or freezer motor, killing Mr Rourke and his daughter-in-law Jeanette Rourke, 40, on 19 May. A coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. The victims' family said in a statement after the inquest: ""Both Les and Jeanette are missed daily by us all and we will never forget them. ""The family is relieved that this is all over and are pleased with the verdict."" Nicholas Rourke, son of Mr Rourke and husband of Mrs Rourke, was injured in the explosion and pulled out by rescuers. Giving evidence at the inquest in Nottingham, he said the expandable foam was labelled inflammable but not explosive. They had bought 18 cans of it to fill up the coal chute in the cellar to get rid of damp, he said. Mr Rourke said the cellar door and other windows in the house had been left open to provide ventilation while his father did the work. He said that he ""did not have a clue"" what had happened in the moments after the blast, but did remember being carried across the street by people who pulled him out of the rubble. He was treated at hospital for a broken chin and facial cuts. A woman and two children were also treated for smoke inhalation, and several people had to move because their homes were damaged. The statement from the victims' family added: ""We would also like to thank the committee formed after the disaster for their support to everyone affected by this unbelievable tragedy. ""Nick would also like to thank the kind and brave people who helped him out of the rubble.""","Two people were killed when fumes from DIY work @placeholder up and caused an explosion , an inquest has heard .",walked,picking,set,built,grew,3
"The man spotted smoke coming from an upstairs window at the house in Tower Street, Heywood about 03:50 BST. He kicked the door in and rescued one woman, aged about 50, who was trying to extinguish a chip pan fire. After leading her to safety, he stacked up the bins to help her daughter, 29, as she dangled from a window ledge. Greater Manchester Fire Service watch manager Colin Moran said: ""This guy did a very good job to lead the woman to safety and try and rescue her daughter. ""He had gone to investigate a smoke alarm he could hear. He kicked the door in and kept his head below the smoke as he tried to make contact with people inside."" Firefighters used two hose reels and a high pressure fan to deal with the fire, which damaged the kitchen and caused smoke damage in the rest of the house. The women were treated for smoke inhalation.","A mystery hero who made a "" wheelie - bin ladder "" to rescue a woman from a burning house in Greater Manchester has been @placeholder by firefighters .",praised,honoured,launched,unveiled,found,0
"Group leader Mohammed Alamgir, 37, was jailed for six years for inviting support for IS at the Old Bailey. Speeches made by Alamgir and four other men in Luton were secretly recorded by the officer, known only as Kamal. Judge Michael Topolski QC said he had displayed ""considerable resourcefulness and even greater courage"". LIVE: Updates on this and other Bedfordshire news He said the evidence he had gathered had played a ""pivotal role"" in the case and that it was not difficult to imagine the fate ""that might befall him had he been exposed"". The court heard how the men had made speeches at a marquee and a church hall. The judge described how Alamgir, of Kenilworth Road, Luton, spoke in June 2015 at St Margaret's Church ""of the sun setting on the British Empire and the sun trying to rise on the Islamic State"". Sentencing him, the judge said: ""You are in my judgement deeply committed to an a extreme and violent Jihad mindset. ""You are in that sense a dangerous man."" Rajib Khan, 37, of Biscot Road, Luton, was jailed for five years, and Yousaf Bashir, 36, of Dane Road, Luton, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison. Mohammed Choudry, 23, of Laggan Road, Maidenhead, was jailed for four years. Judge Topolski said: ""In the cases of Alamgir, Khan, Bashir and Choudry, I am entirely satisfied that they revealed in their indicted speeches and indeed elsewhere, opinions which were clearly supportive of terrorism and specifically of IS."" The court heard how Ziaur Rahman, 39, of Ferndale Road, Luton, was also convicted of arranging the meetings at which there were children present. He was sentenced to two years and six months.",A judge has @placeholder an undercover police officer who infiltrated a group of British supporters of so - called Islamic State to gather evidence .,lost,praised,denied,hired,avoided,1
"He is one of five people who will examine the Individual Patient Funding Request (IPFR) process, Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said. Mr Williams, from Bangor, moved to England when he was told Cetuximab was not available in north Wales. Concerns have been raised that a postcode lottery exists in the system. ""The review will concentrate on the number of panels, the clinical exceptionality criteria and take account of the patient's perspective,"" Mr Gething told AMs on Tuesday. ""The panel is independent of the Welsh Government and encompasses a range of expertise and knowledge."" The other members are Prof Peter Littlejohns, Prof Phil Routledge, Dr Ben Thomas and Professor Chris Newdick. The review was a key part of the deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru which allowed Carwyn Jones to become first minister. Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid's shadow health secretary, said: ""After initially rejecting Plaid Cymru's calls for a fairer system, today's announcement is an admission by the Welsh Government that it was wrong to ignore our calls."" Mr Williams said he was pleased with the appointment: ""I can go in there with a service user's perspective, that's what I am hoping to bring to the panel."" Mr Williams, who had been given two years to live after being diagnosed with bowel cancer, said he was in remission at the end of 2015. However he wrote on his Facebook page last July that three tumours had returned to the liver and some have spread to the lungs. He said he was undergoing treatment and added: ""I feel well and ready for it once again.""",Cancer patient and campaigner Irfon Williams will sit on a review of how drugs not normally available on the NHS in Wales can be @placeholder .,launched,introduced,accessed,controlled,unveiled,2
"The drawings were made by a young artist called Laurence Fish for MI5's counter-sabotage unit. There is an incendiary bomb designed as a Thermos flask, an army mess tin with a bomb hidden beneath the bangers and mash, and a high-explosive device concealed in a can of motor oil. There is a magnetic limpet mine for a ship's hull which explodes when detached. And there are timing devices ranging from the highly complex to the remarkably simple - like a test tube full of dried peas which expand as they absorb water and push two contacts together. All were unpleasant weapons dreamt up by German sabotage experts to spread havoc among their British enemies. The exploding chocolate bar, it is rumoured, was intended as part of an assassination attempt on Winston Churchill - though how it was supposed to reach him, and how the Germans might ensure that it was Churchill himself who tried to break off a slab, rather than a member of his family or his staff, isn't clear. The 25 drawings, exquisite examples of 1940s draughtsmanship, were commissioned from Laurence Fish by Victor Rothschild. Rothschild and his secretary (later his wife) made up two-thirds of MI5's tiny counter-sabotage unit. The third member was a seconded police detective inspector, Donald Fish. When Rothschild was looking for someone to document the disguised and booby-trapped devices he was uncovering, Fish suggested his son, a self-taught draughstman who had learnt his trade before the war working for Alvis cars. The idea was that the drawings would serve as a kind of manual for anyone who had to defuse similar devices. And there were plenty of them. The historian Nigel West, who has written several books on espionage, says: ""The Germans during the Second World War were very keen on destroying ships and their cargoes leaving neutral ports for the United Kingdom. ""The idea was to starve Britain into submission. And they created some very ingenious devices which could be smuggled aboard ships and placed in the cargo holds with long-term timers: they wanted the ships to catch fire or to sink whilst out at sea."" Rothschild was a larger-than-life character, a scientist and self-appointed expert on many things, who as the fourth Baron Rothschild later became head of Prime Minister Edward Heath's pioneering Think Tank. He was also brave. He won the George Medal for defusing a booby-trap device concealed by the Germans in a consignment of onions which had come by ship from Spain via Gibraltar. A Royal Navy lieutenant had lost an arm and an eye tackling a similar device. Rothschild gave a running commentary over a field telephone as he worked, so that his secretary could take notes and keep a record of every step he took, in case something else went wrong. ""Rothschild was immensely generous with his family's money,"" says Nigel West. ""He didn't draw a salary; he almost certainly paid Fish for the illustrations himself; he made his family house up at Tring available to MI5 officers who were bombed out of their houses in central London. ""And when MI5 needed an office in Paris upon the liberation, Victor just simply made available one of his mansions."" Rothschild, who was a lieutenant colonel, commissioned drawings from Laurence Fish, a humble aircraftsman, via letters stamped ""Secret"". They show evidence of a close working relationship. ""They got on so well together,"" says Fish's widow, Jean Bray. ""It was an amazing combination. ""Rothschild had very great respect for Laurence... I don't know why, but it worked well."" Fish kept the letters. But the drawings vanished. Rothschild had his favourite framed and hung it on the wall of his study. A couple of others were known from photographs.  Otherwise, nothing. Then a few weeks ago, members of the Rothschild family were clearing out their house in Suffolk when they discovered a sheaf of drawings in ""deep storage"" in a chest of drawers. Rothschild's daughter Victoria realised what they were and got in touch with Jean. In the 1950s and onwards Laurence became a successful poster artist, graphic designer and landscape painter, putting his wartime work behind him. ""It was interesting work obviously,"" Jean told me, ""and it must have been very concentrated work, but he wasn't going to make any money out of it so as soon as the war was over he'd got to do something that earned him a penny."" In her husband's old studio at the top of their home in the pretty Gloucestershire village of Winchcombe she showed me the pile of drawings, carefully wrapped in brown paper, cardboard and tissue paper, that Victoria Rothschild Gray had sent her. The exploding chocolate bar may be the most famous, but Jean's personal favourite is an exceptionally intricate 21-day timer involving a rotating disc. At the top, it says, in especially bold letters, ""Do not unscrew here."" At the bottom, equally bold, are the words: ""Unscrew here first."" Now Jean hopes that a museum or archive will agree to take the pictures: freehand precision drawings made long before the age of computer-aided design, and a fascinating record of fiendish wartime ingenuity","Drawings of wartime boobytrap bombs , including an exploding chocolate bar and devices intended to sink ships , have been @placeholder after 70 years .",saved,unearthed,recaptured,rediscovered,published,3
"The pet, named Jack, was brought into Maria's Animal Shelter in Probus, Truro, and left Sandra Taylor needing stitches in her hand at hospital. He was also biting members of staff and running after them if they interfered with his cage. He is now with a foster carer where he is being encouraged to ""have a more positive attitude to humans"". 1 Space and exercise - the  minimum acceptable size of a hutch according to the Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund is 6ft x 2ft x 2ft with an attached exercise area of 8ft x 4ft by 2ft high 2 Areas to hide and retreat - often their hutch 3 Proper diet - unlimited hay and grass 4 Free from fear - due to their keen senses rabbits can quickly make fearful associations Jack started showing his wayward side about three weeks ago. Maria Mulkeen, who owns the refuge at Probus, said: ""He started nipping people and got worse. ""I was outside feeding other rabbits when I heard screaming and a volunteer was being chase around and being bitten by Jack. ""I have never seen a rabbit do that before - he was like a psychopath. Even if we were cleaning out his hutch he would come over and attack you."" She asked Cornwall animal behaviourist Carol Valvona for advice and she recommended one-to-one care. Jack is now staying with foster carer Sandra McIlduff from Tresillian. Ms McIlduff said: ""He is getting better. I have picked up on what stresses him out. If you move too quickly around him he doesn't like it he thinks you are going to grab him. ""He's actually a big softy if you get down to his level."" Ms Valvona said: ""The most important difference between the rabbit, and dogs and cats, is it is a prey animal. ""If your whole life revolves around avoiding becoming someone else's lunch, you will be on the alert and easily scared.""",A violent lop - eared rabbit is being treated for aggressive @placeholder after biting staff at an animal refuge .,action,disorder,behaviour,advice,dogs,2
"Jeremy Corbyn turned up for his coronation at the QE2 Conference Centre in London, entirely hidden from view, and borne along by a crowd of very young Corbynistas in red T-shirts, bearing the slogan ""JezWeCan"". They sang The Red Flag. Next to me, a Labour MP of about Corbyn's own age smiled the least-amused smile I've ever seen. ""Look at them,"" he said. ""So young, so white, so middle class. They're all like that!"" Seemed harsh. True, they didn't look much like the crowd of workers, peasants and intellectuals in that famous picture, meeting Lenin off his sealed train in Petrograd. And, anyway, Jeremy Corbyn has always knocked around with a corps of grizzled left-wing veterans - some of them may have been on the platform in Petrograd, for all I know. Corbynmania was swelled by those fed up with the same-old, same-old Labour politics - all politics -  the evasive answers, the compromises, the failure above all to deliver change, however defined. When those young, singing zealots put their hero down and headed into the hall, I caught a glimpse of Jeremy Corbyn's face. He looked bewildered. Perhaps he should have foreseen this moment. Perhaps we all should have. In Brighton, at the Labour conference, they'll greet Jeremy Corbyn rapturously, and a lot of them will actually mean it. Some, like me, remember the most chaotic days during the 1980s of Labour's close combat between its left and, well, not-quite-so-left-wing leadership Just now, Labour's rival wings are circling each other, warily. A lot of Labourites will demand unity, which is impossible. They may get a sort of armed truce, but who knows how long that'll last? It's fascinating to watch. As a lover of political spectacle, I have to admit at least part of me feels like a 10-year-old at a funfair. These conferences are shorter nowadays. The Conservatives, in Manchester, that's a four-sets-of-socks job. Will David Cameron try to occupy the centre-ground that's come up for grabs? I can't help feeling one of his biggest tasks may be trying not to laugh out loud at his good luck - as he sees it - in Labour's choice of leader. The polls say many people see Cameron as most prime ministerial. He's also sometimes seen as a bit of a public school bully, and he'd do well to avoid encouraging that perception. As for George Osborne - we'll watch him  through the lens of future leadership contender. Cameron won't fight another election, and suddenly his chancellor rather looks the part. Until recently, he seemed too cold, sounded even posher than he is - and as heir to a 17th-Century baronetcy he's pretty posh already. He drops his ""aitches"" from time to time, his suits seem sharper, he's slimmed down and worked out. He somehow looks a lot more like Special Agent Bodie, from the old TV cop show The Professionals and less like Lord Fauntleroy's older brother. Other contenders? Boris Johnson connects with people like no-one else can. He never says he's dreaming of the top job. But he is. And he's competitive. A few years back, a TV producer tried to arrange a celebrity boxing match: me in one corner, Boris in the other. It never happened, thankfully: but close your eyes, and picture him: with his stocky build and mop of white hair, he might almost be a negative transparency of Smokin' Joe Frazier. In Bournemouth, the Liberal Democrats will be daring to dream a Labour lurch to the left might help them reoccupy some ground in the centre. Their leader, Tim Farron, is a nice guy and an old-style Liberal. A man after the activists' own hearts. Some coalition veterans doubt his fitness for the harsh realities of government. But that problem - if it is one - is a long way off. And like him, they seem to love a scrap against heavy odds - which is just as well. I suspect history will be kinder to the Lib Dems than the voters were in May. It could scarcely be harsher. Woolly socks for the SNP in Aberdeen, I suppose. Not even the chilly winds gusting off the North Sea will cool the passion of a party riding high. At the general election, the single dot of Labour red left on the Scottish map looked like a fleck of blood on the carpet at a murder scene. Their leader, Nicola Sturgeon, owns Scottish politics just now. Jeremy Corbyn's encouraged people to judge his impact on next May's Scottish elections. Not sure that's wise. I need to go sock shopping. The UK Independence Party, in Doncaster, will be well worth a visit. It always is. The backdrop to all of this has changed. The yearning for something different is strong, and it goes beyond the Labour Party. Could Corbynmania last longer than a lot of pundits think - even catch on? If it does, it'll defy all conventional wisdom, given Corbyn's pure-left ideas, the headwind of a hostile media, and the ideological chasm that separates him from so many of those he'd call ""comrade"" if only they'd let him. Will Labour, and with it the effective opposition good government and democracy needs - will all politics as we've known it -  be torn to pieces while we find out? I'll admit the thought makes me a little queasy. I've said I love funfairs. And I do. But I was always sick on the roller-coaster.",Going through my sock draw and @placeholder out the ones with holes - ready for the conference season - I thought back to a moment when I felt I 'd arrived in an alternate reality .,climbed,throwing,kicked,sit,filling,1
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 6 October 2014 Last updated at 02:08 BST The discussion started with a look at the latest coverage of the international efforts to defeat the Islamic State group. A story featured on the front page of the Daily Mirror, Metro and Guardian about the death of a woman suspected of sending abusive messages to the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann was also examined. Another talking point was the reports of the demands being made by the Liberal Democrats over the tax policy of any future coalition government it would be part of.","Andrew Harrison , editor of Esquire Weekly , and the author Dreda Say Mitchell @placeholder Monday 's papers on the BBC News Channel .",reviewed,are,control,helped,following,0
"The team has been unable to take daily sea readings after fights broke out over food between the bears who settled near the Fyodorov weather station, on Vaygach island in Russia's far north. The team failed to scare the bears off with flares and have no other weapons. The Russian government has pledged help, the WWF conservation group says. Polar bears in Russia live all along the Arctic coast from Murmansk in the west to Chukotka in the east. Scientists have observed a gradual rise in bear attacks on humans in recent years.",Pictures show how polar bears have @placeholder a team of Arctic meteorologists working in a remote corner of Russia .,besieged,released,infected,uncovered,murdered,0
"Kim Jong-un, the youngest son, has been unveiled as the nation's heir apparent, appearing alongside his father at a series of recent high-profile events. His elder brother, Kim Jong-nam, 39, lives overseas in China and Macau. His comments are highly unusual in the secretive North. But he is not thought to have influence inside the country. He was once thought to be his father's likely successor, but fell out of favour when he was caught trying to sneak into Japan in 2001 using a false passport. ""Personally, I am against third-generation dynastic succession,"" Kim Jong-nam was quoted as saying by Japanese TV station Asahi. ""But I think there were internal factors. I think we should adhere to it if there were internal factors involved."" He added that, ""For my part, I am prepared to help my younger brother whenever necessary while I stay abroad."" By Chris HoggBBC News, Beijing These comments are not an attempt to challenge the succession. Kim Jong-nam's careful to offer his younger brother his full support, while admitting he feels uncomfortable with the idea of a dynastic transfer of power. In Pyongyang there is a sense that this succession process is well under way now. Last weekend may have been the first chance many North Koreans have had to see the man they call the young general, Kim Jong-un, the current leader's youngest son. But observers there believe the country's leader Kim Jong-il did a deal with the military to try to ensure a smooth transition several months ago. He's clearly not a well man. But the longer he can last, the more chance he has of securing the succession for Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-nam lives in China and in the gaming resort of Macau, near Hong Kong. Although a member of the ruling family, he is thought to be no longer part of the inner circle that runs the country. In a rare interview last year in China, he said he had ""no interest"" in taking power. North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-il took over the reins of the country after the death of his father Kim Il-sung in 1994. In recent weeks he appears to have designated his youngest son Kim Jong-un his successor. The youngest Kim, who is thought to be about 27, was made a four-star general and promoted to a key position in the ruling Workers' Party last month. He was unveiled to an invited audience of the world's media last weekend during celebrations to mark the 65th anniversary of the ruling party. He would take the Kim dynasty rule over the nation of 24 million into a third generation. He would also inherit a weighty legacy. North Korea is locked in a dispute with the West over its nuclear weapons programme and is struggling to revive its crumbling economy.",The eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong - il says he @placeholder a dynastic succession that would see his younger half - brother take power .,suffered,proposed,launched,opposes,posted,3
"Eighty three jobs were put at risk when Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) failed to find a bidder for the power station in Uskmouth, near Newport, in May, 2014. But SSE confirmed the station's sale in December, 2014. New owner, Simec Group Ltd, says it will be converted to biomass fuel. The station, which was built more than 50 years ago, was described before its sale as the UK's least efficient coal-fired power station. Hong Kong-based Simec said it had restarted production at the station and hopes to employ more staff as production increases.",The company which @placeholder the UK 's oldest coal - fire power station after it closed says it has since re-employed more than 40 staff .,attended,became,retained,bought,owned,3
"The 17-year-old, whose bedroom was plastered with Third Reich paraphernalia, was arrested after sharing images of the ""viable"" explosive on Snapchat. Jurors heard the boy described Mrs Cox's killer Thomas Mair as ""a HERO"" in an online post. He was cleared of a charge of preparing acts of terrorism. The boy, who cannot be named because of his age, will be sentenced on 13 February. Live updates and more stories from across Yorkshire Trial judge Mr Justice Goss told the court he was concerned about ""a very disturbing mindset in this young man and unusual and worrying behaviour"". Counter-terrorism officers arrested the boy at his home in July after a member of the public reported him to police. Officers found the improvised explosive device (IED) inside a desk drawer and an army bomb disposal expert was called out to make it safe. Jurors also heard his bedroom was covered Nazi regalia, including a swastika flag and the symbol of the Waffen SS. During his trial, the boy said he had built the bomb using plastic casing and sparklers months before posting the images. Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson said the device was not high-powered but had ""the capacity to cause shock and injury and damage to property in the immediate vicinity"" if it had exploded. Prosecutors also claimed the boy had been intending to carry out a terrorist attack, pointing to a series of online messages, including one which appeared to threaten Muslims. However, the boy told the court he wanted people to think he was ""planning an attack"" but had no intention of doing so. Asked what the point was of making something he did not use, he replied: ""Not sure. I don't really know. It was kind of a pointless thing to do."" During his trial it emerged the boy was a member of the ""secretive neo-Nazi"" group National Action. The court heard he would dress in Nazi uniform in order to ""offend people"" during online video conversations.",A neo - Nazi teenager who @placeholder the killer of MP Jo Cox has been found guilty of making a home - made pipe bomb .,inspired,rang,becomes,helped,praised,4
"You are driving along the road when the dotted white line that has been your companion - separating your car from oncoming traffic - suddenly disappears. One theory is that you will slow down, making the road safer. The first trials to remove the central white line from roads were held in the UK more than 10 years ago. Wiltshire County Council stopped repainting some lines when roads were resurfaced between 1997 and 2002. The authority concluded there were safety benefits to removing it on roads with a 30mph or less speed limit. White lines have since disappeared on about 20 roads in the county. More recently sections of three roads - one in central London and two in Croydon - had their lines removed as part of a small trial, which began 2014. Transport for London (TfL) suggested there has been a ""statistically significant reduction in vehicle speeds"" as a result of removing the central markings. Speeds reduced by as much as 8mph in one road, it added. In Norfolk, trials have been held in rural villages and are being expanded into built-up areas. Tracy Jessop, assistant director of transport at Norfolk County Council, said removing central lines in village locations can reduce speeds and influence drivers' behaviour. ""In most cases we've noticed some positive impacts on the road network. There has been reductions in speed,"" she said. Ms Jessop added experiments have been extended to roads with cycle routes that cross cities. So why do people slow down when there is no white line? ""Drivers change their behaviour because they no longer feel that they have their own lane, so they tend to be more attentive, more cautious, and that does reduce the speed limit,"" said Ms Jessop. ""It does also reduce their journey time because they all become a little bit more aware of people around them and that has been very helpful also for casualty reduction."" A report by TfL on the trial in London suggested white lines gave drivers a ""psychological sense of confidence"". One theory, it added, was that removing the line introduced ""an element of uncertainty, which is reflected in lower speeds"". Alan Bristow, director of road space management at TfL, said the trials in London were still being ""monitored closely to understand the longer-term effects"". He said the results had been ""positive"", but added: ""There are no plans for any widespread removal of road markings."" Edmund King, president of the AA, said he had asked followers on Twitter whether central white lines should be removed and people had told him the idea was ""absurd, balmy and crazy"". Mr King said faster roads ""definitely"" required central lines, adding that new cars fitted with lane departure systems also required white lines. He said schemes could work on ""smaller, quieter roads"", but warned geographical differences could be ""confusing to road users"". He said the concept of ""shared space"" on roads comes from Dutch engineer Hans Monderman, who removed traffic lights, lane markings and evens curbs in some towns and cities. ""In medieval Dutch villages, with little through traffic, it can work well and pedestrians and cyclists can interact with drivers,"" Mr King said. But he added: ""It depends on the road whether it will work or not."" Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, warned highways authorities ""have to get the balance right"". ""Most deaths in the UK take place on rural single carriageways and white lining is a key tool in the road designers' armoury and should remain as an option to treat routes with a poor record,"" he said. ""Throw in the need for new connected cars to be able to read the road and the vision needs of an ageing driving population and the case for white lines is still very strong.""","White lines along the centre of roads have been removed in parts of the UK , with some experts saying it @placeholder motorists to slow down . So is it the beginning of the end for the central road marking ?",caused,added,encourages,advised,linked,2
"The European Space Agency has engaged Astrium UK to make a follow-on to the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS), which feeds data into multi-day forecasts. Up to three units will be purchased, which would value the business at £135m (155m euros). The new instrument, to be known as the MicroWave Sounder (MWS), will have significantly improved performance. Science Minister David Willetts announced the deal at the UK Space Conference in Glasgow. MWS will measure the temperature and water content sitting at different altitudes, in clear or cloudy skies. It is fundamental information needed by the computer models that look at what the weather is likely to be several days ahead. Forecast skill in this area has seen marked improvement over time, with the three-day forecast as good now as the 24-hour prediction was 30 years ago. The current MHS instrument was designed for the Metop series of spacecraft. The first of these satellites, Metop-A, was launched in 2006; a second platform, Metop-B, was sent up last year; and a third, Metop-C, is due to go into orbit in about 2018. But such is the long lead-in time required to design and build meteorological satellites that Esa has already started the procurement of the replacement series, for operation in the 2020s and 2030s. This Metop-SG (Second Generation) system will be a multi-billion-pound endeavour, with nations across Europe asked to provide various instrumentation. MWS will be Britain's major contribution. It will do broadly the same as MHS, only better.  It will have 24 sensor channels versus the current five. MWS will also incorporate the observations of another Metop first-generation instrument called Amsu (Advanced Microwave Sounding Units A1 and A2), which makes additional temperature profiles of the atmosphere. Three MicroWave Sounders will be produced, with an option for a third instrument likely to be picked up to ensure data continuity deep into the middle of the century. MWS production will be led from Astrium's Portsmouth factory, but key contributions will also come from southwest England companies SEA Ltd and JCR Systems Ltd, the Rutherford Appleton Lab in Oxfordshire, and Queens University in Belfast. ""Metop-SG is actually a pair of satellites, and MWS will be an instrument on one of those satellite models,"" Andy Stroomer, the head of Earth observation at Astrium UK, told BBC News. ""Our contract is for two instruments with the possibility for a third; and the figure you see quoted of 155m euros is the value of three instruments. ""It's really great news for Portsmouth.  We have the heritage from MHS and now we've got the opportunity to carry all that on."" The contract award to Astrium also represents part of the ""geo-return"" due to the UK for promising to invest Metop-SG. As a member state of Esa, Britain has committed £81m (94m euros) to the R&D programme overseen by the Pairs-based agency. This should ensure UK companies get work on other aspects of the spacecraft in addition to the microwave sounders.  Overall, Metop-SG will be led from Germany and France. The eventual operation will be managed by Eumetsat, the intergovernmental organisation charged with running Europe's weather platforms. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos",UK @placeholder will build one of the key instruments on Europe 's next - generation polar - orbiting weather satellites .,engineers,government,formula,centre,picture,0
"Allegations against the witness, who is in her 70s, and cannot be identified, have been made by seven former pupils at Termonbacca home for boys and girls. She is the first nun to give evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA). It was set up to investigate allegations dating from 1922 to 1995. The inquiry heard on Wednesday that the nun and another member of the Sisters of Nazareth order looked after more than 50 boys at the home in the late 1950s. Local authority homes: • Lissue Children's Unit, Lisburn • Kincora Boys' Home, Belfast • Bawnmore Children's Home, Newtownabbey Juvenile justice institutions: • St Patrick's Training School,  Belfast • Lisnevin Training School, County Down • Rathgael Training School, Bangor Secular voluntary homes: • Barnardo's Sharonmore Project, Newtownabbey • Barnardo's Macedon, Newtownabbey Catholic Church-run homes: • St Joseph's Home, Termonbacca, Londonderry • Nazareth House Children's Home, Derry • Nazareth House Children's Home, Belfast • Nazareth Lodge Children's Home, Belfast • De La Salle Boys' Home, Kircubbin, County Down The inquiry heard the nun had no formal training in childcare. Seven former residents have accused her of a variety of physical offences, including hitting them when they wet the bed. She denies all the allegations. Two more nuns are due to give evidence to the enquiry on Wednesday afternoon. The HIA is examining abuse claims in NI's children's homes and juvenile justice institutions. It is investigating claims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, as well as childhood neglect. It began hearing evidence in January. The public hearings stage of the inquiry is being held in Banbridge, County Down, and is expected to last for 18 months. During that time, it is due to hear evidence from more than 300 witnesses, including former residents who claim they were abused as children, the people who ran the institutions, health and social care officials and government representatives. The inquiry's remit is limited to children's residential institutions in Northern Ireland. So far, it is examining claims against 13 children's homes and borstals.","A nun who @placeholder at a children 's home in Londonderry has denied the physical , emotional and psychological abuse of children in her care .",volunteers,worked,beheaded,resides,held,1
"Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) found the construction and retail and wholesale sectors had ""a relatively successful"" first three months of the year. But nearly half of manufacturing firms reported a decline in orders. And about 45% of firms in financial and business services said profits declined over the quarter. SCC's latest quarterly economic indicator also suggested that the tourism sector enjoyed strong sales, but companies were less confident about future performance and profit margins. Construction firms indicated a growth in profitability, with 50% of all respondents reporting that overall sales revenue had increased over the quarter. More building companies said they anticipated growth to continue in terms of sales revenue, employment and investment over the next three months. But they reported that skills shortages remained a challenge for the sector. Firms in retail and wholesale reported growth in sales and investment, with an increase in online sales boosting optimism. About 45% of businesses in the sector said they expected growth in sales to continue in the current quarter. A similar percentage of manufacturers experienced a decline in orders following a strong quarter at the end of 2015. However, the majority of respondents expected orders to increase or remain at the same level over the next three months. Nearly half of all financial and business services firms who took part in the survey said profits over the quarter declined. But SCC noted ""a clear distinction between the performance of oil and gas sector businesses, which are continuing to report weak performance and non-oil and gas businesses which are reporting positive trends"". SCC chief executive Liz Cameron said: ""This detailed picture of the Scottish economy after the first three months of 2016 shows that business performance is inconsistent across a range of sectors. ""As Scotland prepares to head to the polls for next month's Scottish Parliamentary elections, we know that our economy is on a knife edge between growth and recession and that the prospects for the future are unclear. ""In these circumstances, it is imperative that our new Scottish government puts the economy at the centre of its plan for government over the next five years, systematically addressing those factors under the Scottish Parliament's control that could be used to make Scotland the most competitive place in the UK to do business.""","Business performance is "" inconsistent "" across the Scottish economy , according to a @placeholder quarterly survey .",trade,race,mixed,level,respected,4
"The phones with this fault were manufactured between September and October 2015, it said in a statement. Affected devices will suddenly stop working even though the handset's battery has plenty of charge. Anyone with an eligible phone who takes up the offer will get a free replacement battery for their handset. In its announcement, Apple urged customers who believe they have a faulty phone to contact an Apple store, an authorised repair shop or the firm's support line to start the process of getting a new battery. A ""limited serial number range"" was affected, it said. Phone owners should back up data and then wipe it all off the handset before surrendering it for the replacement, it added. Phones with cracked screens might have to be repaired before Apple would go ahead with swapping the battery, it said. Apple added that mobile operators would not be taking part in the replacement effort. The AppleInsider website suggested that the fault with the iPhone 6S could be traced to people charging their handset with generic chargers rather than Apple's own-brand ones. Using one of these third-party chargers damaged circuitry which meant the amount of charge in the battery was not being reported correctly to the phone's operating system. Apple has not confirmed if this is the cause. The battery swap programme comes only a few days after Apple announced a separate offer intended to fix a fault on the iPhone 6 Plus. That problem meant that the touchscreens on some handsets steadily became less and less responsive if they had been accidentally dropped on to a hard surface a few times. Gadget sites traced the cause to chips used to drive the touchscreen that came loose after an impact.","Apple is offering to replace the batteries of a "" small number "" of i Phone 6 S phones with a fault that makes them unexpectedly @placeholder down .",stepped,worn,shut,team,fastened,2
"The man was diagnosed with the rare tropical disease after flying into Glasgow on Tuesday. He was returning from Kabul in Afghanistan. He was  transferred on Friday to the Royal Free Hospital in London on a special RAF isolation aircraft. A spokesman for the hospital confirmed on Saturday morning that the man had died. The Royal Free Hospital houses the national specialist centre for the management of patients with hazardous infections. It is the first case of CCVHF to have been confirmed in the UK. The patient had originally been admitted to the specialist Brownlee unit in Glasgow's Gartnavel General Hospital less than three hours after returning to the city on Emirates flight EK027 from Dubai. He had driven home from Glasgow Airport using his own vehicle before seeking medical help. Two passengers sitting close to him on the flight from Dubai are being monitored as a precaution. But a further two passengers who were also contacted by health authorities do not require any follow-up, Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board has said. Public health consultant, Dr Syed Ahmed, who is coordinating the investigations into this case, said: ""The risk of person to person transmission of Crimean Congo Viral Haemorrhagic Fever is very low as it can only be transmitted by direct contact with infected blood and body fluids. ""It is not a virus which is transmitted through the air. ""The monitoring of these two passengers is purely precautionary and is in line the national guidance for the management of cases such as this."" The health authority has said the risk to all other passengers was ""extremely low"" but advised anyone with concerns to contact NHS 24. CCVHF is a zoonosis - a disease found in animals that can infect humans. Outbreaks are usually linked to contact with blood or body fluids from infected animals or people. Onset is sudden, with initial symptoms including high fever, joint pain, stomach pain, and vomiting. Red eyes, a flushed face and red spots in the throat are also common. As the illness progresses, patients can develop large areas of severe bruising, severe nosebleeds, and uncontrolled bleeding.",A 38 - year - old man who @placeholder Crimean - Congo Viral Haemorrhagic Fever ( CCVHF ) has died in hospital .,contracted,disappeared,carries,suffers,spent,0
"For the most part, it is not this weekend's federal election, but a monumental vote far away in the United Kingdom. ""Now that exit [or] whatever you call it has happened in Europe it is a bit of a worry over here,"" said Peter Evans, a middle-aged voter from the nearby suburb of Freshwater. ""We're not sure what is going to happen, but we've got troubled times ahead."" This was by no means a scientific enterprise, more a random collection of opinions, but the vast majority of those we quizzed on a chilly afternoon this week were concerned by Brexit and its potential implications for Australia. ""People want to see stability and confidence in a world market that is a little bit unstable, and Australia has been very stable for quite a long time,"" added Carol, a retail worker from Sydney. Britain's decision to leave the European Union prompted Australia's political leaders to re-emphasise their economic security credentials ahead of the election this Saturday. The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, who leads a centre-right coalition government, urged the nation to trust him. ""Given that we are living in a world of great opportunities, but also great challenges and uncertainties, now more than ever Australia needs a stable, majority coalition government with a strong economic plan,"" he told reporters. Meanwhile the opposition Labor leader, Bill Shorten, drew unflattering parallels between the prime minister and his besieged British counterpart. ""Mr Turnbull just says because there has been an upset you should vote for him. The problem is the nature of the upset we have seen arises out of weak leadership and a divided government. ""What we saw there is David Cameron hostage to the right wing of his political party, compromising his own beliefs, providing weak leadership. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?"" he said. Australia is a country in transition. As a long and lavish mining boom comes to an end, this land of 24 million people is banking on a reinvigorated construction industry, along with manufacturing, agriculture and the services sector, including tourism. In parts of Sydney, cranes are silhouetted in the sun as a swathe of new apartment blocks gradually emerge, alongside upgraded transport links. For decades immigrants have been been part of Australia's economic success story, and times are good for Morteza Poorvadi, a 32-year-old refugee who fled Iran in 1999 when his mother was accused of being an Iraqi spy. He has a degree in mathematical science but now runs a small company fitting showers and kitchens. ""Right now business is booming, especially in [the] building industry in Sydney,"" he told me at a construction site near the home of the 2000 Olympics. ""The government started to realise that mining is not there forever and they needed to start looking at a new way to create work, to create wealth for our country. The more migrants we get to come to Australia the stronger our economy is becoming."" The last time Australia slipped through the trap-door into recession was in the early 1990s, and voters expect their next prime minister to have a firm plan to ensure future prosperity. There is, though, only so much governments can do to keep the good times rolling in an age of globalised trade, capricious exchange rates and competing national interests. But Professor Rodney Smith from the University of Sydney believes political leaders are able to create frameworks for success. ""Australian governments, like governments in most places around the world, have fewer mechanisms to control the economy than they once did. ""But they can still influence economic factors, particularly through infrastructure investment, through the sorts of trade deals they strike with different countries, and, more indirectly and in the longer term, through things like education,"" he told BBC News.","It 's a bright day in winter at Manly , one of Sydney 's seaside gems , and Australians have one pressing political matter on their @placeholder .",hands,minds,future,plate,charm,1
"Trinity led 16-10 at the break after tries from former Cas centre Joe Arundel (2) and stand-off Jacob Miller. Cas had mustered two first-half scores by Greg Minikin and Oliver Holmes But they added six more after the break through Andre Savelio, Luke Gale, who also kicked seven goals, Junior Moors, Ryan Hampshire, Minikin and Holmes. It was a debut try for forward Savelio, who only joined the Tigers on loan from St Helens on Wednesday, but Cas lost Rangi Chase with a back problem while Super League's leading try scorer winger Denny Solomona pulled out with food poisoning.. Wakefield, who lost centre Bill Tupou, second rower Jonny Molloy and loose forward Mickey Sio with injuries, managed just one score in the second half, from winger Reece Lyne, while Liam Finn failied to add to his two first-half kicks. The Tigers' storming finish, in which they scored five tries in 22 minutes, secured a fourth successive derby win to climb a place into sixth above Wakefield. Trinity drop to eighth thanks to Widnes beating fifth-placed Catalans, although they were all already guaranteed a top-eight finish ahead of the Super 8s split. But for Salford's six-point deduction, the injury-hit Wildcats would have ended up in the Qualifiers. Instead, they can now turn their attention to next Saturday's Challenge Cup semi-final against Warrington at Leigh Sports Village  - and their bid to reach a first Wembley final for 37 years. Wakefield coach Chris Chester: ""We had one guy fit on the bench for the last 35 minutes and that really hurt us. We had a front-rower (David Fifita) who played 65 minutes in the middle which was a great achievement. ""It was a good even contest for 50 minutes then we get a penalty, miss touch and we give a penalty away and concede. It took it away from us. ""I'm not overly disappointed because there was bags of effort out there but we just ran out of troops, and Castleford were too good for us. ""Bill came off with a hamstring injury, Jonny Molloy has got a pectoral issue and Mickey Sio got a sternum injury so those three couldn't come back."" Castleford coach Daryl Powell: ""It's been an incredible effort for us over 23 rounds. 14 players couldn't play today. It's been really tough. ""So for us to end up finishing sixth is an awesome achievement. I'm really proud of the players. We'll reap the rewards in the long run from what's happened this year."" ""We were a bit helter-skelter at times but it was really pleasing how we grabbed the game in the second half. ""Savelio did really well. He's trained with us a couple of times and he handled himself really well. He's a good player. I've always rated him - and he fitted into our team really well."" Wakefield: Jowitt; Lyne, B Tupou, Arundel, Hall; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Sio, Fifita, Walton, Ashurst, Molloy. Replacements: Crowther, Arona, Moules, A Tupou. Castleford: Hampshire; Flynn, Crooks, O Holmes, Minikin; McShane, Gale; Springer, Milner, Patrick, Mariano, Millington, Moors. Replacements: Savelio, T Holmes, Cook, Maher. Referee: Joe Cobb (RFL).",Castleford ran in eight tries to win the Super League derby at @placeholder Wakefield and move above their West Yorkshire rivals in the table .,neighbours,helping,royal,stadium,bishop,0
"Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is considering the job losses in a bid to save £14.7m over four years following government funding cuts. Authority chairman David Acton said the service was being ""stretched to the limit"". The plans will be discussed by the fire authority at a meeting on Thursday. Mr Acton said that repeated budget cuts were having a ""massive impact"" on the fire service's ""resilience"". ""It puts people more at risk, it puts our businesses at risk and there's no doubt it's a real challenge for us as a fire service to be able to cope,"" he added. ""We know exactly what we need on the ground and the government are falling short in terms of that."" Mr Acton's concerns were echoed by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) which has urged the service to reconsider the cuts at a time when deaths from fires are rising. Gary Keary, secretary of the FBU in Greater Manchester, said: ""We urge the service and local politicians to think again about these drastic frontline cuts that will undoubtedly lead to lives being lost."" Assistant County Fire Officer Dave Keelan admitted the job losses would ""impact on fire cover, response times and our service as a whole"". ""The FBU is right when they say fires and deaths from fires are rising,"" he said. ""It is a challenging time for us and we have been talking to local people in the last few months to consult with them about how we move forward to meet their needs,"" he added.","Plans to cut about 250 firefighters in Greater Manchester would "" put people at risk "" , the chairman of the @placeholder 's fire authority has warned .",region,night,assembly,mainland,country,0
"Local authorities across the Yorkshire and Humber region have teamed up with key partners to come up with a 12-year plan to build on the platform the Grand Depart will give cycling as a sport, means of transport and way to keep fit. The plan, dubbed ""Cycle Yorkshire"", was launched at Welcome to Yorkshire's annual conference in Harrogate on Thursday, 100 days before the start of Le Tour. Further details of the legacy plan will follow in the coming months, with an announcement of the much-anticipated legacy bike race, which should visit parts of Yorkshire missed by Le Tour this summer, believed to be imminent. Gary Verity of the tourism body Welcome to Yorkshire said: ""We're going to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with British Cycling and the organisers of the Tour De France for a new race in Yorkshire from 2015 onwards. ""We're very excited about that, we're very excited to have two partners of this calibre to work with us to deliver what we hope will be an ongoing race that will be here a lot longer than I am. ""If it outlives me then that will be fantastic."" What connects this race with all the other initiatives under the ""Cycle Yorkshire"" umbrella is the goal of matching the cycling revolution London achieved after it hosted the 2007 Grand Depart and 2012 Olympics. As well as the economic boost from staging those two major events, the capital has witnessed a huge uptake in cycling, which has brought a range of health, social and transport benefits. Yorkshire is expected to enjoy the lion's share of at least £100m in economic benefits from the 2014 Grand Depart, but the region's leaders are also keen to see more people commuting by bike, riding for fun and fitness, and a major boost in cycling tourism. According to the latest Department for Transport figures from 2011, 13% of adults in Yorkshire and the Humber ride at least once a month. The legacy plan is to increase that to 16% by 2018, and 18% by 2023. It is also hoped the number of trips made by bike in each local authority will be a fifth higher in 2023 than in 2012, that the number of competitive and non-competitive events will rise, and that a third of all cycling activity in 2023 will be by women. And finally, it is hoped that the region's cycling casualty rate stays below the national average for the next 10 years. What the ""Cycle Yorkshire"" plan does not mention, however, is money, and it is clear that much of this will depend on current levels of funding, private sponsorship, the voluntary sector and combinations of all three. A good example of the latter, and a likely template for Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive Gary Verity's ""bike bank"" scheme, is Streetbikes, a Kirklees-based initiative that uses recycled bikes to teach children how to ride, or get adults riding again. With an annual budget of just £50,000, Streetbikes has been able to give away 2,500 bikes, train 40 mechanics and teach hundreds of people of all abilities and disabilities how to ride. That budget, most of it from Kirklees Council, Asda and Fujitsu, runs out next March. That said, there is a huge amount of good work being done across the region, with some leading employers actively encouraging staff to ride to work, award-winning safety campaigns and new infrastructure such as the £29m ""cycle superhighway"" between Bradford and Leeds, and the £1.1m outdoor velodrome at York Sport Village. The trick will be to pull all this together into a coherent plan of action so that Yorkshire's Grand Depart is remembered as more than just a weekend of good sport and global attention.","Free access to a bike and training to use it , a regional cycle hire @placeholder and a new world - class race are the main legacy promises from the organisers of the Tour de France 's visit to Yorkshire .",programme,group,side,network,service,3
"The Food Standards Agency said the websites selling 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) were shut down in the last year. But a BBC investigation has found hidden sites on the so-called dark web were still selling the products. DNP is an industrial chemical licensed for commercial use but not for human consumption. In April 2015, Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury took diet pills she had bought over the internet. Later that day she was dead. Sean Cleathero died in October 2012 aged 28, after taking an illegal slimming pill in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. His mother Sharon Ayres, said: ""Why would people still want to take it anyway, whether they think there is a safe dose, because there isn't a safe dose?"" Former Prime Minister David Cameron raised the issue in the Commons following the death of Sarah Houston who died in Leeds in 2012 after she had taken pills containing DNP. The BBC investigation found a number of suppliers were marketing DNP as a diet product for human consumption. A number of samples were bought online and sent for laboratory tests which found they contained about 40% DNP - a potentially lethal amount. Jon Griffin, analyst for Kent Scientific Services at Kent County Council, said: ""You're not being able to control your body temperature, at 40 per cent that danger rises significantly, this has got some potential in there for very serious repercussions. ""Worst case scenario would be death."" The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seized £1.4 million worth of unlicensed dietary medicines in 2015-16, £960,000 more than two years before. Lynda Scammell, senior policy manager at the MHRA, said: ""The internet offers access to a vast number of websites offering products marketed as 'slimming' or 'diet' pills. ""Many of these pills will not be licensed medicines. That means their contents are unknown and untested. Chances are they simply will not work, but they may contain dangerous ingredients,"" she said. ""The consequences for your health can be devastating.""",Around 19 websites believed to be selling diet products containing a chemical linked to a series of deaths in the UK have been @placeholder down .,tracked,broken,watered,closed,torn,3
"The two victims were overwhelmed by the current of the River Ungwasi, a police spokesman has told the BBC. It is not clear how the pastor and the other worshippers involved managed to survive, the BBC's Odeo Sirari says. They are members of a local church, Shalom, which is part of the charismatic Christian movement. Africa Live: Updates on this and other stories Baptism in a river rather than in church is seen as a way of re-enacting the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan. The ceremony is a symbol of washing away sin and the start of a new life.",Tanzanian police have detained a pastor after two worshippers drowned while being baptised in a river near Rombo in the @placeholder of the country .,space,east,region,west,north,4
"The 93 licences to explore 159 blocks of land could pave the way for more controversial hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Parts of the Yorkshire, the Midlands, and the North West have been opened for exploration. There are also licence blocks in the South of England and Wales. Around 75% of the exploration licences relate to ""unconventional"" shale oil and gas, which typically requires fracking. Today's licences give rights to companies to explore for shale oil and gas, but do not give automatic permission to drill. Planning permission to build rigs and drill land needs clearance from local or central authorities. Earlier this year, councillors in Lancashire rejected shale gas firm Cuadrilla's application to drill a handful of shale gas exploratory wells. There would be too much noise and the impact on the landscape would be too great, they said. But the final decision will be made by central government.",The Oil and Gas Authority has awarded a raft of new licences to explore for oil and gas on the @placeholder of the UK .,island,borders,construction,side,mainland,4
"Capel Celyn disappeared and 70 residents lost their homes in order to provide drinking water for Liverpool. The lake officially opened on 21 October 1965. Former residents of Capel Celyn, who were children at the time of the flooding, were among the crowd who attended the march. Plaid Cymru's Dafydd Wigley, who was also present, said the flooding of the valley was a defining moment in Welsh history.","Over 400 people have attended a rally to mark the creation of the Tryweryn reservoir , @placeholder by flooding a village in Gwynedd 50 years ago .",leaving,followed,formed,triggered,inspired,2
"Emojis, which are symbols that help described feelings or emotions, are used by millions of people around the world in texts, online chats and on social media. The new list of additions are expected to be available from the summer of 2016. It comes just a month after the unveiling of the Unicode 8 update which included additions of emojis with different skin tones and a taco. Here are some more fun Emojis in the new list:","Thirty eight new emojis will be @placeholder next year , including clown face , wilted flower and "" call me "" hand .",created,launched,released,revealed,built,2
"Rock, one of the most famous black comedians in the world, was hosting during a year when race - specifically, the lack of diverse talent nominated for awards - was at the forefront. For the second year in a row, no black actors or actresses received nominations. Films showcasing black actors, directors and screenwriters were largely ignored - despite what many critics saw as award-worthy efforts in films like Beasts of No Nation, Straight Outta Compton and Creed. The January nominations spurred a viral hashtag - #OscarsSoWhite - in which activists and moviegoers took to social media to bemoan the lack of diversity. Viewers were eager to see how Rock would address the controversy. He could not be accused of side-stepping it. He opened his monologue by talking about race, and then returned to the theme throughout the night. ""Well, nobody can accuse Chris Rock of avoiding the elephant in the room,"" wrote The Washington Post's Aaron Blake. But was it funny? His early jokes received a mixed response from those watching at home, and some uncomfortable laughter from the show's live audience, especially as he seemed to imply a lack of representation at awards shows was not a serious issue. ""Why now?"" he asked, noting that for 71 of the 88 years in which an Oscar ceremony was held, there were no black nominees. ""Say '62 or '63... black people did not protest,"" he said. ""We had real things to protest; you know, we're too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematographer."" Some felt these critiques were too dismissive - in fact, people did protest over the lack of diversity at the 1962 and 1963 Oscars - while others were impressed that the grassroots activity around #OscarsSoWhite managed to so strongly influence the show. ""Why would you expect Chris Rock to show up and suddenly be Angela Davis?"" asked the sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom on Twitter. ""You changed an entire disclosure. [Why] does it matter if Chris got jokes? You. Won."" Indeed, some said such jokes were to be expected. ""Worth remembering that there's always been strains of conservatism in Rock's comedy,"" wrote NPR's Gene Denby. As the monologue went on, the jokes continued, leaving some to wonder if Rock's humour was going to be one-note. ""Is it possible that @chrisrock will be make EVERY joke refer to #OscarsSoWhite in some way?"" wrote NY1's Pat Kiernan. Others said that such a routine could be instructive.  ""If you're feeling awkward and possibly left out of some of these jokes, THAT'S THE POINT,"" wrote The New York Times' Dave Izkoff. The one bit everyone seemed to agree fell flat involved Clueless actress Stacey Dash. Dash, who is black, had spoken publicly against the protests, and suggested that people should instead boycott shows like the NAACP Awards and BET Awards, which showcase actors of colour. Rock brought her on stage briefly, naming her the director of the Oscar's minority outreach programme. Some people just didn't get it. But those who did weren't laughing.  ""Who thought that was a good idea?"" wrote CNN's Brian Stelter Rock received high grades for addressing the controversy while still keeping the tone light -  though some people though he focused too much on black actors and not other underrepresented groups. ""Why did Chris Rock keep referencing black ppl as if #OscarsSoWhite wasn't about the lack of [people of colour] representation, not just black folks?"" asked the Nightly Show's Franchesca Ramsey But by the end of the night, he had won most viewers over. ""There were some awkward missteps but Chris Rock never let viewers forget the issue of diversity,"" tweeted the educational group Feminist Frequency, who noted that Rock signed off from the telecast by saying ""Black Lives Matter"".","Hosting the Oscars is always a high - pressure job . For Chris Rock , who emceed the 2016 ceremony , there was more at stake than whether his jokes would @placeholder .",appear,collapse,land,live,show,2
"Artist Spencer Tunick photographed 3,200 people at sites around the city on 9 July for the Sea of Hull project. The images will go on show at the Ferens Art Gallery, in Hull, as part of a new exhibition called SKIN. The Sea of Hull was commissioned by the gallery to mark Hull's 2017 UK City of Culture status. Live updates on this story and others from the Humber region Participants in the project will be invited to a special preview event attended by Tunick at 18:15 BST before the exhibition opens to the public on Saturday. Speaking in 2016, Tunick said: ""The Sea of Hull installation was one of the most fantastic projects I've ever done, and it was inspiring to be able to intertwine the city's maritime heritage against an urban backdrop throughout the whole piece."" The exhibition will include three of Tunick's photographs that have been bought by the gallery, while the Friends of Ferens Gallery are set to launch a crowd funding bid to buy a fourth. Hull City Councillor Terry Geraghty said: ""This bold and ambitious exhibition is one of the gallery's major highlights for 2017, in addition to the esteemed Turner Prize later this year."" Other artworks going on show at the gallery include works by Lucian Freud and sculptor Ron Mueck. A preparatory study for Edouard Manet's controversial Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe will also feature in the exhibition, which runs from 22 April to 13 August.",Photographs featuring thousands of people posing naked and painted blue at @placeholder across Hull have been unveiled .,times,school,water,organisations,locations,4
"Brookes, originally in the squad before having to undergo surgery in December, proved his fitness in Friday's Premiership match against Wasps. He will replace Henry Thomas, who had been an injury replacement for Brookes. The 20-stone tight-head has won 15 caps and could start in Saturday's Calcutta Cup match against Scotland. England head coach Eddie Jones is expected to announce his matchday squad on Thursday. Backs: Mike Brown (Harlequins), Alex Goode (Saracens), Chris Ashton (Saracens), Jack Nowell (Exeter), Anthony Watson (Bath), Marland Yarde (Harlequins), Elliot Daly (Wasps), Ollie Devoto (Bath; injury replacement for Manu Tuilagi, Leicester), Jonathan Joseph (Bath), Sam Hill (Exeter; injury replacement for Henry Slade, Exeter) Owen Farrell (Saracens), George Ford (Bath), Danny Care (Harlequins), Ben Youngs (Leicester) Forwards: Dan Cole (Leicester), Paul Hill (Northampton), Matt Mullan (Wasps), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Kieran Brookes (Northampton), Mako Vunipola (Saracens), Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter), Jamie George (Saracens), Dylan Hartley, Maro Itoje (Saracens), George Kruis (Saracens), Joe Launchbury (Wasps), Courtney Lawes (Northampton), Josh Beaumont (Sale), Jack Clifford (Harlequins), James Haskell (Wasps), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins), Matt Kvesic (Gloucester; injury replacement for Dave Ewers, Exeter), Billy Vunipola (Saracens)",England have added Northampton 's Kieran Brookes to their Six Nations squad after the @placeholder made a swifter than expected recovery from a knee injury .,prop,player,side,ground,englishman,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device The champions, who are also out of the League Cup, are 15th in the table following Saturday's 3-1 home loss. Asked if he thought it was his last game in charge, he said: ""No, I don't."" The 52-year-old told BBC Sport: ""The fans aren't stupid. They know how much myself and the players are trying."" Listen: I’ll turn Chelsea around if they allow it – Mourinho Listen to all the goals from Saturday's game Mourinho has never lost more than six league matches in an entire league campaign as Chelsea manager, and says both he and the team will continue to battle. ""The fight goes on, but sometimes there are fights very impossible to win. You go to a fight with different ammunition,"" he added, having been photographed in discussion with his coaches on the pitch after the match. Chelsea made the perfect start when Ramires headed them into the lead. But two goals from Philippe Coutinho and a third from Christian Benteke gave Jurgen Klopp's side the three points. In the BT Sport interview, the Portuguese manager looked visibly shaken and responded with questions about his team's performance and his future by repeating, ""I have nothing to say"". And in his BBC interview, when asked about Liverpool midfielder Lucas not receiving a second yellow, Mourinho responded with, ""I don't speak"" before adding in his news conference later that he feared he would be reprimanded if he did express his views. ""I am punished if I tell you,"" he said, as he awaits the outcome of two disciplinary matters. He then cryptically added: ""And what happened in the second half, everything was the consequence of a crucial moment. Everybody in the stadium saw, the players felt it. What happens is now a consequence."" Mourinho said his relationship with the press would change in the build up to last week's defeat against West Ham. It was in reaction to the reporting of him being filmed by members of the public using mobile phones. In Saturday's news conference, he added: ""As professionals the players are not getting the respect they deserve. We are not going to have a great Saturday dinner. ""I am sorry about lack of respect for professionals. You are intelligent guys. At the next press conference I will bring you nice glasses and you will see things in a better way."" BT Sport reporter Des Kelly: Jose, a 3-1 defeat after a fabulous start to the game, the game just got away from you then? Mourinho: I have nothing, nothing to say. Kelly: Nothing to say about the game at all? Mourinho: Nothing, nothing to say. Kelly: Nothing to say about the Lucas (Leiva) decision that left him on the pitch? Mourinho: Nothing to say, I have nothing to say. Kelly: The Diego Costa clash? Mourinho: Nothing to say, I am so sorry, I have nothing to say. Kelly: Do you not think it's time to have a chat to the fans to give them some message, an indication of your thinking? Mourinho: They are not stupid. Kelly: We heard them chanting your name. Mourinho: The fans are not stupid. Kelly: You did say before this game that you were not worried, are you a little bit more worried now? Mourinho: Worried about what? Kelly: Your future, your own position at the club, the backing of the board? Mourinho: No. Kelly: Nothing about the game at all? Mourinho: No. Kelly: No individual performance you would like to pick out? Mourinho: No. Kelly: Nothing about the performance going ahead? Mourinho: Nothing. Kelly: Nothing about the way we could fix it? Mourinho: I cannot say. Kelly: Thank you for your time Jose.",Manager Jose Mourinho believes he will be given time to turn around Chelsea 's @placeholder after Liverpool fought back from a goal down to inflict a sixth Premier League defeat this season .,chances,control,head,retirement,fortunes,4
"It said ""ultimately we don't control the roads"" and urged vehicles not to cut through Axbridge, in Somerset, but to ""stick to the main road"". Mayor Ian Laken said road works caused by digging up the A371 ""will have an impact on the town"". The £27m project involves laying 30km of new water main from Barrow Gurney to Cheddar to supply 280,000 homes. Ben Newby, from Bristol Water, said: ""It's a very narrow piece of road there and could cause all sorts of problems - so people really need to stick to the main road. ""We apologise in advance for the disruption. It is inevitable with a scheme of this size but we do need to put the pipeline in to secure the supply for now and for the future."" Mr Laken said: ""The major concern is how it will impact on the town and the traffic. There's only one way in and one way out into Axbridge. ""If the road works take place on the bypass, thereby shutting one lane and having traffic lights, people may use it as a cut-through. This will snarl up the town. ""We can't stop people coming through the town but we would ask people not to use it as a shortcut."" He said they had ""expressed their fears"" to Bristol Water and said the company had been ""extremely positive in liaising with us"". A public meeting is taking place at Axbridge Town Hall at 19:30 BST.",Bristol Water is warning drivers not to use a town as a shortcut while a 30 km ( 19 mile ) pipeline is @placeholder .,expected,open,stuck,built,working,3
"The 22-year-old was one of 20 people who suffered burns when the substance was sprayed at the Mangle E8 club in Hackney, east London on Monday. Arthur Collins, 25, from Hertfordshire, the boyfriend of TV celebrity Ferne McCann, is wanted for questioning. Investigating officers have arrested three people in Hertfordshire. A 33-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences and is in custody in a north London police station. The others were held when officers went to Mr Collins' home in Broxbourne and found a cannabis farm and illegal firearms. A spokesman for Hertfordshire Police said the 54-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis. One of the victims of the acid attack on Monday night told BBC 5 live: ""It was just a normal night out. To be involved in something like that… it annoys me, especially when you're just minding your own business and just going about what you normally do."" She added that she was not aware of a fight or argument breaking out until she was burned. ""I didn't clock until I got burned which is annoying because If there is an argument or a fight then my natural instinct is to walk away. I don't get myself involved in anything like that. ""So if I heard an argument I would have walked away straight away but there wasn't an argument, there wasn't a fight. The minute it happened was when I knew. I thought water had just been thrown or alcohol or something like that."" The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, added: ""My burns and what I've got are not ideal and I hate the fact that they are going to scar and that I'm in pain with them. ""But I think what upsets me more is the fact that you are seeing young girls my age and even young men my age that have got scars on their face that you know are going to scar and make a massive impact on their life."" Ms McCann has appealed for Mr Collins to go to a police station. Scotland Yard believe the acid was sprayed at two men, but hit others, following a dispute between two groups. The injured men, aged 24 and 29, remain in a specialist burns unit hospital in Essex, both in a serious but stable condition. A 22-year-old woman, who was also injured, said the men were black, but their faces were turned white by the acid. Det Insp Lee McCullough said the ""noxious substance used"" was still being analysed. Two other men, as well as Mr Collins, are wanted for questioning over the attack although police have not released any further information about them. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from the LoveJuice event. These were reported to include three stars of The Only Way Is Essex - Jamie Reed, Jade Lewis and Chloe Meadows. The company behind the event tweeted it was co-operating with the police investigation. The acid attack is one of three similar reports made to police in London over the past week. On Good Friday a carjacking victim was sprayed with a ""noxious substance"" in Bow, while an 18-year-old man suffered possibly life-changing injuries when he and another woman had a corrosive substance thrown over them in Fulham.","A woman who was sprayed in the face with acid during an attack in an east London nightclub has been @placeholder in one eye , police have revealed .",identified,injured,released,held,blinded,4
"Cameron polled 60% of the vote as he held his seat and declared ""a very strong night"" for his party. Labour's sole victory came in Oxford East as Andrew Smith increased his majority by 7.5% to more than 15,000. In the marginal of Oxford West and Abingdon, Conservative Nicola Blackwood retained her seat comfortably. There were also Conservative wins for John Howell in Henley and Ed Vaizey in Wantage. Meanwhile, the UKIP vote almost trebled across Oxfordshire's six constituencies, whilst the Lib Dems polled about 50,000 fewer votes in the county, compared with their 2010 performance. Mr Vaizey said he was ""thrilled"" to hold on to his seat. ""I'm very, very pleased with the Conservative result. It's absolutely tremendous. ""We have to repay that trust. The public has given us a mandate now and we have to make sure we use it effectively for the country."" Mr Howell said: ""I'm feeling absolutely elated actually, quite emotional, but then I've just massively increased my majority."" The final result came in Banbury, where a new Tory MP was declared in Victoria Prentis following the retirement of Conservative Sir Tony Baldry. ""I'm thrilled that people have voted for us and are pleased with the long term economic plan and the way things are going,"" she said. Speaking after the count in Witney, David Cameron said it was ""clearly a very strong night for the Conservative Party"". He said: ""I think we've had a positive response to a positive campaign about safeguarding our economy, about creating jobs, about a record in government over the last five years but above all a plan for the next five years. ""My aim remains simple - to govern on the basis of governing for everyone in our United Kingdom. A re-elected Nicola Blackwood told BBC Radio Oxford her new majority of almost 10,000 was down to ""the massive support"" she received from campaigners in the constituency. ""They've been out in all weathers and really helped us win here,"" she said. ""I want to make sure we continue to deliver on everything in the constituency, but I also want to make sure we have a louder voice nationally."" Labour's only win in Oxfordshire came for Andrew Smith as he held on to Oxford East for his party. Mr Smith paid tribute to his terminally ill wife Val for all her support during the campaign. ""The result is a vote of confidence not simply in me, but in the way Oxford Labour as a whole does politics,"" he said. This is reflecting in miniature the national picture we're seeing of the Lib Dems' collapse. In the last election they were second in most Oxfordshire seats. This time around that's completely fallen away and they polled almost 50,000 fewer votes. If you look at Banbury, for example, their vote has fallen by 14.5%. That's a pretty huge drop. There's also been a big drop in Oxford West and Abingdon, which has led to Nicola Blackwood increasing her majority by much more than even the Conservatives thought she was going to.",Prime minister David Cameron was re-elected as Witney MP as the Conservatives held on to @placeholder across Oxfordshire .,heads,show,wins,hand,power,4
"It is part of plans to release government papers after 20 years instead of the current 30 year rule. The 1987 papers show the then Secretary of State Tom King recommended the closure of Harland and Wolff shipyard. The details were contained in some of the almost 700 files released on Friday by the Public Records Office (PRONI). In 1987, the Belfast shipyard was in major financial difficulties. Eventually the yard was saved by a management and employee buy-out. The 1987 papers also reveal that the Irish government was keen to see the demolition of the Divis Flats complex in west Belfast. They believed it would reduce support for the IRA. And some papers detail the security measures around the trial of several IRA members who had escaped from the Maze Prison a few years earlier. 1987 also saw the continuation of the unionist campaign of civil disobedience against the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement. The year began with the launch, by Ian Paisley and Jim Molyneaux, of a petition to Queen Elizabeth calling for a referendum on the agreement. On 14 February, the document, containing 400,000 signatures, was handed in at Buckingham Palace. It was duly referred to the NI Secretary of State, Tom King, who rejected its central demand. June saw the return of the Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher in the UK general election. The chief beneficiary in Northern Ireland was the SDLP, which increased its vote at the expense of Sinn Féin and succeeded in unseating UUP MP Enoch Powell in South Down. More than 100 files from 1987 remain closed, the majority of which are individual prisoner files. Graham Jackson from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland said: ""Annually since 1976, official records held by PRONI which were 30 years old have been reviewed with a view to making them publicly available (""the 30 year rule""). ""In September 2011, the NI Assembly accepted a Legislative Consent Motion to reduce the time limit for release from 30 years to 20 years (""the 20 year Rule""). ""The 20 year rule is being phased in over 10 years, with two years worth of records being reviewed and released each year. ""This is the third year of the phasing-in period; which see the records of the NI departments and the NIO with terminal dates of 1987 brought forward for review and release in August 2015 and the records with terminal dates of 1988 brought forward in December 2015.""",Government papers from 1987 have been released 28 years after @placeholder as part of phased changes that are being introduced .,developing,publication,extinction,drawing,clues,1
"Paul Nicoll stole from pensioners aged up to 83 in Arbroath, Dundee, Perth and Auchterarder over a four-month period. Dundee Sheriff Court heard he helped an elderly woman into her house with her shopping before making off with money. Nicoll's solicitor told the court: ""He accepts there is no realistic sentence other than imprisonment."" Depute fiscal Saima Rasheed described a series of incidents that started two days before Christmas last year in Arbroath, where he stole £200 from a man's home. He stole £40 from a 78-year-old woman in Arbroath in February, before targeting a 70-year-old woman in the town the following day, being found in her home before he could steal anything. The court was told that Nicoll's spree escalated in April when he was found in the home of a 68-year-old woman in Auchterarder, Perthshire, and that of an 80-year-old woman in Perth on the same day. A week later he was found in a 68-year-old woman's home in Dundee and on 18 April he stole £560 from an 81-year-old woman in the city. The court heard that Nicoll stole from another four pensioners during April. Nicoll, 45, admitted 11 charges of theft and being found in dwelling houses without lawful authority whereby it may be inferred he was there to steal. Defence solicitor David Duncan said: ""He accepts there is no realistic sentence other than imprisonment. ""He knows he has a debt to pay to society."" Sheriff Alastair Carmichael jailed Nicoll for a total of 35 months. He said: ""You accept a custodial sentence is inevitable here. You are correct. ""It seems you deliberately targeted the houses of elderly and vulnerable people. ""The ages of the victims range up to 83. ""You preyed on these people.""",A thief who travelled the @placeholder of Scotland deliberately targeting elderly and vulnerable victims has been jailed for almost three years .,number,age,body,group,east,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device Olympic champion Yarnold is taking a year away from the sport, whilst Deas' previous best result was second. The former eventing rider was in second place after the first run, but produced a stunning second to claim gold. ""Winning a race at the top level for my country is something I've dreamt about for a long time,"" said Deas. ""Last year was a breakthrough season for me and I've been saying all summer that I just want to kick on and keep improving, so this is a big confidence boost."" Deas, who was second in Calgary and third in St Moritz last season, finished in a combined time of one minute 57.84 seconds, ahead of Germany's world silver medallist Tina Hermann (+0.04). Hermann's compatriot Jacqueline Loelling (+0.17) was third while Britain's Donna Creighton finished 11th, 1.25 seconds behind Deas. Elsewhere, 2004 Olympic sprint relay champion Mark Lewis-Francis (left) finished eighth in his competitive bobsleigh debut, having joined the GB set-up in September. He partnered pilot Bruce Tasker in the two-man competition at the season-opening Europa Cup event in Winterberg, Germany. ""I definitely felt a real buzz when I was standing on the start line and, to be totally honest, I loved it,"" Lewis-Francis told BBC Sport. ""It's obviously very different to athletics, but the feeling you get in terms of representing your country and the sense of satisfaction you get from doing it well is exactly the same."" The event also marked Olympic pilot John Jackson mark his return from injury after a year away. After placing 21st in his first two-man competition back on the ice on Friday, he went on to claim European Cup silver with his four-man crew of Bruce Tasker, Ben Simons and Brad Hall on Sunday. Lamin Deen - pushed by Joel Fearon, John Baines and Andrew Matthews - rounded off the opening weekend of the skeleton and bobsleigh World Cup in Altenberg with a strong sixth-place finish in the four-man competition. ""It's been a super Sunday for the squad on both circuits,"" GB Bobsleigh performance director Gary Anderson told BBC Sport.. ""They performed when it really mattered and sent out a message to all the other nations that we intend to be challenging for the podium wherever we race this season."" Media playback is not supported on this device","Britain 's Laura Deas @placeholder that there is life after Lizzy Yarnold by claiming a first World Cup title at the season - opening race in Altenberg , Germany .",showed,believes,hopes,admitted,announced,0
"Each of them wanted a ticket to the concert. But for some, the venue, a stadium in a suburban area of Mumbai, was too far to travel, and for others tickets were too expensive, the best reportedly priced at 75,000 rupees (£905; $1,165). But that did not dampen the spirits of the fans, popularly known as Beliebers, who chose to follow the concert on TV and social media. And then local media reported about an exhaustive list  of things Bieber wanted in Mumbai. Some described the list - which included a washing machine, glass-door refrigerators and a jacuzzi - as bizarre. But this too did not deter his diehard Indians fans from supporting him. So it seemed nothing could go wrong for Bieber in India... at least not until he performed. Looking at the euphoria before his concert, nobody expected any negative feedback. But some felt that the singer lip-synced some of his songs, and that did not go down well with his fans. Many have taken to Twitter to express their feelings about the singer's performance. Justin Bieber has not made any comment. Some fans, however, chose to defend Bieber, saying Indians should not feel offended because they are used to Bollywood stars lip-syncing songs recorded by professional playback singers. And some are also upset about the choice of his casual clothes on stage. And finally, Bieber reportedly left India shirtless, and it didn't go unnoticed in the media... or maybe he was just changing his shirt?","When pop star Justin Bieber 's Mumbai concert was @placeholder , his Indian fans went into a tizzy .",rammed,announced,pictured,held,fired,1
"Both sides began the game knowing that victory would see them join champions Burnley in the top flight next season, though a draw was enough for Boro to pip the Seagulls to second place on goal difference. Cristhian Stuani's goal, from Gaston Ramirez's superb free-kick and David Nugent's touch across, put the hosts on their way in the first half. Another free-kick led to Dale Stephens' equaliser, heading across goal at the back post after Brighton had begun the second period in full flow. But Stephens was then dismissed for a foul on Ramirez - and Boro made the man advantage count to retain the scoreline for the rest of the game, including eight minutes of added time. There was no end-of-season sunshine for the packed crowd at the Riverside, as a chilly, murky day greeted the two teams at kick-off - thank goodness then for the red-hot atmosphere in the ground. Boro struck through Stuani and then soaked up Brighton's attempts and threatened on the break, with Uruguay international Ramirez hugely influential before he was withdrawn on a stretcher with a serious-looking leg injury. Stuani, a compatriot of the Southampton loanee, could have had a hat-trick but saw a half-volley deflected over the top and then wasted a fine chance. The Seagulls showed glimpses of their threat in the opening 45 minutes but playmaker Beram Kayal was kept quiet and their forward line was well marshalled, in particular by Daniel Ayala. The visitors emerged with more potency after the break and Stephens' header gave them hope, before the midfielder was then sent off for a fierce tackle on Ramirez just four minutes later. Boro lacked composure without their playmaker and Brighton, desperate for a goal, created spells of pressure but again Ayala, Ben Gibson and George Friend made big interventions. Albert Adomah struck his point-blank shot at David Stockdale as Boro sought the goal to make sure, but it did not matter in the end as the whistle blew to spark scenes of celebration and relief at the end of a sapping, absorbing game. The decision by chairman Steve Gibson to invest in playing staff for head coach Aitor Karanka was justified as two of the imports he helped finance came to the fore in Stuani and Ramirez. It was Gibson's intervention 30 years ago that scraped the club off the canvas with extinction looming and his name was sung lustily by supporters before and during the game. He oversaw the 2004 League Cup win at Cardiff and the run to the Uefa Cup final two years later, but few afternoons at the Riverside will have been as significant as this one. Premier League money, a minimum of £170m, will prove hugely beneficial to a club that have faced tough economic times in their transition to the Championship. It was always going to be tough to turn up and win on Teesside, where only Bristol City and Nottingham Forest had triumphed in the league this season. However, Brighton still have another chance against Sheffield Wednesday in the play-offs - albeit without Stephens, who will serve a suspension for his red card. The Seagulls, like their opponents, know the misery of play-off defeat well having been dumped out by rivals Crystal Palace three seasons ago, and then again by Derby the following season. It will need to be third time lucky if they are to end their 33-year exile from the top flight. We've got a new BBC Sport newsletter coming soon - to receive it from the start, sign up here. Match ends, Middlesbrough 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 1. Second Half ends, Middlesbrough 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 1. Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card. Connor Goldson (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card. Attempt missed. Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stewart Downing. Foul by Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion). Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Offside, Middlesbrough. Stewart Downing tries a through ball, but George Friend is caught offside. Foul by Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion). Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion). Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the top right corner. Foul by Kazenga Lua Lua (Brighton and Hove Albion). Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough). Attempt saved. Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Attempt blocked. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cristhian Stuani. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Dimitrios Konstantopoulos (Middlesbrough) because of an injury. Attempt blocked. James Wilson (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert. Foul by Connor Goldson (Brighton and Hove Albion). Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Kazenga Lua Lua replaces Gordon Greer. Substitution, Middlesbrough. Jordan Rhodes replaces David Nugent. Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Ben Gibson. Attempt missed. Steve Sidwell (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Bruno. Foul by Liam Rosenior (Brighton and Hove Albion). Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion). Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt blocked. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by George Friend. Foul by Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion). Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Steve Sidwell replaces Jamie Murphy. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Substitution, Middlesbrough. Stewart Downing replaces Gastón Ramírez because of an injury. Delay in match Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) because of an injury. Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the red card.",Middlesbrough ended their seven - year Premier League absence by drawing a tense and nervy Championship @placeholder decider against Brighton & Hove Albion at the Riverside .,display,control,promotion,replay,title,2
"Dear Donor family, In 1990, when I was just 23, I developed renal failure and started peritoneal dialysis. I was a nurse in a busy Glasgow hospital, which I loved. Then I started dialysis. I would dialyse four times a day. I was so tired and was sick a few times a day, not eating and my weight dropped to six stones. My blood count was six instead of 12. I was unable to go out with friends as I couldn't stand for more than 20 minutes without needing to sit down. I continued to work and then just go home and rest. My social life was non-existent and at one point I couldn't see this getting any better. However, three years later, I was just about to start my shift at work when the sister came running up to me and told me not to get changed. There had been a phone call, I had a transplant match. My lovely colleague Michelle took me to the hospital. I had surgery about four hours later and was walking about within 48 hours. I Six days later I was home, feeling hungry and full of energy. This has changed my life enormously, I am so grateful for the decision made by you. You were able to make a decision to donate your child's organs while going through such a traumatic time yourself. I will always remember you and have often been in awe of your decision. I am 49, married, a mum to a lively 9-year-old and I'm still a nurse. None of this would have been possible without your amazing gift of life. My transplant birthday is 31 August which we celebrate every year - 23 this year! Pauline Dear Type 1 Diabetes, You arrived completely out of nowhere. A horrible monster that has taken up residence with my son. You're aggressive and harmful and you won't go away. You follow my son everywhere. You're there when he eats, you're there when he plays, when he goes to school, and even while he sleeps. I can't control you monster, I can only adapt everything in my life to cater for you and ""manage"" your existence. Why couldn't you have chosen me instead of my sweet innocent child? I wish I could take you from my son but I can't. Instead, I watch your every move. I anticipate your next attack, and prepare to manage your fury. We feed you insulin several times a day. Sometimes that's enough but sometimes there's no telling what you will do next. There are no rules. You keep quiet for a while and just as I think I have got some kind of control you will strike! We got a machine that makes the balance between life and monster less painful but it's still there, forever waiting. I pray that you will leave and never come back. The new machine allows me days where I can almost forget that you're here, and then other days where I catch myself looking at my beautiful boy carrying this heavy monster on his back and it makes me weep. I almost mourn the past. The freedom and innocence that have gone will never return. I check my son regularly to see what damage has been caused by the monster who chose to live with us. Daily we prepare for battle. Daily we pray for an antidote that will kill the monster and free my son of its burden. For now, my son is strong and wise but I fear the day he leaves our home to live on his own with the monster. A parent wants to protect their child, but I have to watch as my son battles 24-hours-a-day. This is his life. I can only stand on the sidelines and offer my support and my love. I wish I could offer a cure and rid my baby of this horrible monster. I wish it had chosen me. Angie Dear Father, This letter is a small way to say ""thank you"" for changing my identity forever. When you travelled as a young man from Bangladesh to the UK in the 1960s, leaving your family behind to make a better life for yourself, little did you know the effect it would have on me. When you arrived with a single suitcase, a five pound note and a London address scribbled on a piece of paper, you were taking a big risk. You got a teaching job and integrated as much as possible, notwithstanding the racism of 60s London. You went back to Bangladesh, only to marry my mother, and returned to the UK where my brother and I were born. You wanted us to be British and give us opportunities you never had. You made sure we went to British Universities and have a solid British identity. Although I have a Bengali heritage, which I am very proud of, it is hard for me to claim that I am (with any true meaning) a Bengali. Whilst you took me to Bangladesh several times growing up, it was only for the summer holidays; we never lived there and (in the nicest way) I was treated like a foreigner by my family there. I cannot claim that being Bengali is a major part of my identity, maybe around 10%. The other 90%, I feel British. Give me the ""cricket test"" any day, I'd always choose England. Even though our identities may clash sometimes, your move changed who I am today. So thank you. Your forever grateful younger son. Riad Dear Accident, It was a sunny morning in Cambridge when you changed me.  Crushed but still whole, injured but not dead, damaged but not broken. You challenged me to push my body and mind to their absolute limits as I learnt to walk again three times, when I had to escape the depths of post traumatic stress and when I had to learn to live in the world again. But out of all the pain and adversity, you taught me strength and perseverance. I took the negative and made it positive. I saw how much love was around me that I should never take for granted. You propelled me to push my limits, take risks and never say no. I explored the world, made friends for life and spread my wings like never before. Accident, as much as you hurt me and those closest to me, I have to say thank you. You have made me the strong, independent person I am today. So yes, you changed me, but I am a better person for it. Yours sincerely Sheena Dear Salsa, You changed me. I arrived in London almost six years ago, a young shy Italian woman, with some confidence in her brains and not much confidence in her social or physical skills. Before I met you I didn't really like it here. I found it difficult to meet people and make friends, the city seemed cold and indifferent. I felt, once more, like the odd one out, and wasn't too positive about my future. But then you came along, and amazingly enough you brought with you many smart, funny, sociable and caring people! While dancing I found out it was so easy to start a conversation, make a joke, share a smile. Through your happy, strong beat you showed me how to let go of all my daily worries and stress and just follow the music, follow my lead, follow my body, for hours and hours, five days a week. You opened up doors to me that I didn't even know existed. Now we don't see each other anymore, but that doesn't mean I forgot about you and what you did for me. You will always be my first English (Cuban) love. Marta Dear Epilepsy, When you first arrived I was twelve years old. From a social butterfly to a bedbound haze in a flash. The rules changed and strange new ones became habit: Never bathe alone, walk on the inside of the street, carry limited cash, don't lock the bathroom door and don't go anywhere by yourself. I was told that I wouldn't be able to work or drive. No dignity, no answers, no certainties. A boyfriend? A family? We will see. Children? Maybe. You may overwhelm me frequently but you will not overwhelm my life. I follow the rules you impose in order to be safe. You turned my world upside down but part of me remained. I'm not a teacher as I wished but I have a job and a husband. Soon I hope to have a family. I must be realistic - some dreams aren't meant to be but we'll see. My dreams and aspirations are those which ""normal"" people just have. They aren't wild or imaginative but you've made sure I appreciate the normality I was told I'd never have. You've shaped and enhanced me. Now I'm a fighter - wiser, sympathetic and stronger. I don't despise you as I once did, the hatred has been channelled into a will to defeat you. I now spend my days defeating you rather than being defeated by you. I'll see you again soon. Or maybe not. Yours unwillingly, Jennifer As people become increasingly connected and more mobile, the BBC is exploring how identities are changing. Learn more about the BBC's Identity season or join the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #BBCIdentity.","The donor family , the discovery of diabetes , the salsa classes and the dad ... just some of the people , places and @placeholder you wrote to as part of the BBC 's Identity season .",conditions,silence,events,join,things,0
"But the Tannadice manager thinks the 32-year-old's experience will be a boost to the Scottish Premiership club. Kawashima has agreed to sign subject to a work permit being granted. ""There's no automatic starting place for anybody,"" Paatelainen told BBC Scotland. ""Of course, we want competition for any position we have."" Kawashima has been without a club since leaving Standard Liege in the summer in search of first-team football after losing his place to former Charlton Athletic goalkeeper Yohann Thuram-Ulien. ""Certainly, Eiji will strengthen that competition in the goalkeeper's position,"" said Paatelainen. ""He's a seasoned professional with plenty caps - over 70 caps for Japan. ""He's been to major tournaments. It would be nice if there was a possibility of Eiji joining us because he would help our young goalkeepers with his experience. ""It's depending on a work permit. Eiji, we've agreed everything with him, but obviously we can't sign the contract until the work permit issue has been solved. I don't know how long it takes."" United lost last season's first choice, Radoslaw Ciernziak, to Wisla Krakow in the close season. Luis Zwick, the 21-year-old previously of German side Hertha 03 Zehlendorf, had been preferred this term until Jackie McNamara was sacked as manager. However, following a 5-0 defeat away to Celtic in his second game in charge, Paatelainen promoted 22-year-old Michal Szromnik from the bench for Saturday's 1-0 win over Ross County, a match Kawashima attended. ""Michal played really well against Ross County, kept a clean sheet,"" said Paatelainen. ""Luis before that did really well. ""So we have, hopefully in the future, three quality goalkeepers fighting for a place."" Kawashima played for Omiya Ardija and Nagoya Grampus Eight in his homeland before, in 2007, being transferred to Kawasaki Frontale for 150 million yen, which was a J-League record at the time. A move to Lierse in the Belgian top flight followed in 2010 and, two years later, Kawashima switched to Pro League rivals Liege. Paatelainen revealed the opportunity to sign the Japan stopper came about ""just through my contacts"". ""It's not everyday that that calibre of player is out of contract at this time of year but, luckily for us, that's the situation,"" added the Finn. ""Looking forward to working with him, hopefully.""",Mixu Paatelainen insists there will be no automatic starting place for Japan goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima should he @placeholder his move to Dundee United .,affects,continued,regret,complete,quit,3
"John Murphy, 52, has been missing from his home in Dennistoun, Glasgow, since 12 May when he left home at about 07:00 to go to work, but failed to turn up. A man of a similar appearance was captured on CCTV in a Lidl store in nearby Duke Street at 15:18 on 13 June. Detectives are keen to eliminate the sighting from the inquiry. They said Mr Murphy's wife and children were ""distraught"" at his disappearance, which was out of character. Ch Insp David Pettigrew said: ""We're issuing these images today in an effort to identify the man in them. They were taken at 3.18pm within Lidl supermarket on Duke Street on June 13, which is over a month since John went missing. ""Due to the camera position we are unable to be certain if the man in the images is John. ""As we try to determine this we have issued the images in an attempt to identify this man and I would ask that if this is you, please come forward so that we can eliminate this sighting from the inquiry."" After leaving his home in Craigpark Drive on the morning of 12 May, Mr Murphy headed towards Duke Street to catch a bus to work. He is about 5ft 8in tall, of medium build, with short brown hair which is turning grey. He is normally clean shaven and is believed to have been wearing a cream polo shirt, black cargo trousers, black work boots and a black fleece jacket. Mr Pettigrew said: ""John's family and friends are distraught at his disappearance, which is being felt so keenly within the community. ""I'd like to take this opportunity to ask the local communities of the east end to get in touch with us if you have any information which could help with our inquiry.""",Police investigating the disappearance of a father - of - five have appealed for a man @placeholder on CCTV in a supermarket to come forward .,watching,spent,spotted,drowned,died,2
"A police official told AFP that a search operation for the 43 missing people was under way, but he saw little chance of finding any of them alive. Three Ukrainian tourists trekking in the area are among the missing. At least 13 people died when the floods surged down the Seti river on Saturday. Eight people have been rescued from the surge of water. The area is popular with tourists. ""We have a list of another 43 people who have gone missing. Their chances  of survival are almost zero. The three Ukrainians are still missing,"" district police superintendent Sailesh Thapa told AFP. Earlier reports said the three missing foreigners were Russians. Mr Thapa said earth-moving equipment had reached the worst-affected area in an effort to find any bodies buried in the mud. Fast-flowing floodwaters from the swollen Seti smashed into two buildings and a number of shacks in the village of Kharapani, in Kaski district. One eyewitness, Uddha Bahadur Gurung, described the moment the surge hit: ""There was nothing unusual. People were enjoying picnics, some were relaxing in the hot spring pools by the river and others working,"" he told the Kathmandu Post. ""Out of nowhere came this swelling dark murky water with debris, sweeping away many people."" One local woman said she was collecting fire when the flood hit. ""We haven't seen such a flash flood in years,"" she said. ""I saw floods 60 years ago but it was not as severe as now. This time they say everything across the river has been swept away."" The floodwaters also swept into the city of Pokhara, where several people were swept away along with their houses and livestock. May is the end of the trekking season, but before the monsoon. The floods are thought to have been caused by waters of the Seti building near its source, high above the snowline, during days of rain and then suddenly bursting free, army spokesman Ramindra Chhetri told AFP.","Dozens of people are still missing in Nepal after a mountain river burst its banks near Mount Annapurna , in the @placeholder of the country , causing flash flooding , police say .",space,east,west,head,aftermath,2
It happened some time on Friday night or Saturday morning in Clones. Police said the blade is a custom fit for the owner and would be of no use to anybody else. The owner is taking part in an international athletics meeting in Berlin in 10 days and will be unable to take part if it is not recovered. The blade is for a left lower limb.,A carbon fibre blade -  a running leg for amputees - has been stolen from a @placeholder in County Monaghan .,vehicle,place,field,group,house,0
"A window in the Wetherspoon Rodborough Buildings in Guildford was broken in two places in the attack on Wednesday. ""People were pretty frightened and were hiding under the tables and running down the stairs,"" said BBC Surrey reporter Adrian Harms. Surrey Police said it was believed stones were thrown at the window. ""I did see people standing on the roof of the Friary Centre opposite who looked as though they were throwing objects in the direction of the pub,"" said Harms, who was in the pub at the time. Police officers searched the area with the help of the National Police Air Service but no culprits were found. Nobody was injured. The town centre was closed for 45 minutes after the attack at 21:00 GMT. Richard Potts, operations manager at The Friary, said: ""We are aware of an incident that took place yesterday evening close to The Friary and have liaised with Surrey Police. ""The incident did not take place in The Friary, which was closed at the time, and The Friary opened this morning as usual.""",A Surrey town centre was closed and the police helicopter @placeholder after diners were showered with glass in an attack of vandalism on a pub .,grounded,fled,deployed,reopened,group,2
"Friday's unanimous eight-person Constitutional Court ruling, that upheld last December's National Assembly decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye, has finally swept away the uncertainty that has paralysed the country for months. The court's ruling supports 13 counts of impeachment that argued that Ms Park had been unduly influenced by her long-term friend and confidante, Choi Soon-sil, to pressure leading conglomerates to provide some $70m (£57m) of illegal donations to two private foundations managed by Ms Choi. Viewed narrowly, the case has been about the excessive influence of an unelected and unaccountable private citizen determining government policy, including the appointment of cabinet members, and persuading the president to sanction bribery and influence peddling. The court's decision strips Ms Park of all political authority, exposes her to the likelihood that she will have to defend herself against criminal charges, and marks the start of a 60-day period that will culminate in the election of a new president in early May. Viewed broadly, the impeachment controversy reflects deep, historical fissures running through South Korean society. For the 77% of Koreans backing impeachment - including the hundreds of thousands of young and middle-aged voters who joined candle-lit demonstrations over the past months - Ms Park's failings have been proof of the wider institutional and political shortcomings of the country. This has included: privilege and corruption within the economic elites, underscored by the dramatic arraignment  on bribery and embezzlement charges of Samsung Vice-Chairman Lee Jae-yong; favouritism and lack of transparency within an education system that should ideally provide social mobility and success for ordinary Koreans (Ms Choi's daughter was granted unfair access to one of the elite universities); and an authoritarian predisposition on the part of Ms Park to blacklist her political rivals in academia, arts and the media. For the roughly 20% of the population opposed to impeachment - predominately citizens in their sixties and above - the attack on the president is a politically motivated witch-hunt, based on rumour and unsubstantiated allegations. At best, according to this view, Ms Park was guilty of poor judgment in relying on her friend, and the court's decision represents a capitulation to populist pressure rather than an informed legal decision. Identity politics is at the heart of the controversy. To her supporters, the campaign against Ms Park is an attack on the legacy of her father, Park Chung-hee, the authoritarian leader who created the Miracle on the Han River that rapidly transformed South Korea into Asia's fourth-largest economy. Impeaching the president tarnishes and discredits this narrative of success and, by extension, the older generation of Koreans who contributed to the spectacular economic development. To Ms Park's opponents, the impeachment is confirmation of the renewed vibrancy and effectiveness of political institutions. To them, it is a reaffirmation of the alternative narrative of national development based on the success of the democratisation movement of the 1980s that ended authoritarian rule. Looking ahead, the key challenge for whoever succeeds Ms Park will be to unify the country and bridge the gap between these two contrasting narratives. Among a crowded field of some seven to 10 potential candidates, progressive candidates are likely to be best-placed to capitalise on the widespread opposition to the president and the conservative politicians associated with her party. Moon Jae-in, the former head of the opposition Democratic Party, is the current front-runner, with some 37% support. But he faces a credible primary challenge from his party rival, Ahn Hee-chung, a local governor and charismatic 51-year-old with a reputation for pragmatism and the ability to appeal across the political spectrum. Mr Moon has been criticized by the more ideologically radical members of his party for excessive caution in responding to the popular campaign against Ms Park. Moreover, his statements in favour of dialogue with North Korea and a pledge to visit Pyongyang have opened him up to the charge of naivety in addressing the current security crisis, at a time when public opinion is increasingly impatient with the North. The next president will have little time or resources with which to respond to the immediate challenges. A sharply-truncated presidential transition period means that the new incumbent will likely need to rely on officials from the outgoing administration. A pro-engagement progressive president is also likely to encounter tensions with a Trump White House that favours a more combative approach towards North Korea and which has rushed to install new Thaad missile defence batteries in the South - a decision fiercely opposed by China. Beijing has been using strong-arm diplomatic pressure and economic discrimination against Korean firms in China to try and reverse the Thaad decision, but already there are signs that this is provoking an anti-Chinese backlash within South Korea. Foreign and domestic politics will, therefore, be key tests for the next president who will need to respond to the challenge of revitalising a divided and deadlocked polity. For the now-disgraced former president Park, who entered office in 2013 claiming to govern for all Koreans and who in the 1970s had to adjust to the trauma of seeing both her parents assassinated, the court ruling is surely the definitive end point in a political life marked by tragedy and acute personal disappointment. Dr John Nilsson-Wright is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Politics and the International Relations of East Asia, University of Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, Asia Program, Chatham House","Like a patient awakened from an @placeholder period of suspended animation , South Korea 's body politic has been sharply brought back to life .",integrated,enforced,acclaimed,opening,exiled,1
"Born in humble circumstances in a Muslim family in rural Tamil Nadu, a young boy who sold newspapers as a boy to help his family make ends meet, rose to the highest office in the land. And he did so not through the conventional route of a political career but through the dint of hard work as a scientist in government service. India's ""missile man"", as he was dubbed in the popular press, Abdul Kalam was a rocket scientist who rose to prominence as head of the country's successful civilian space and missile defence programmes. An unlikely compromise candidate for president, he soon became the most popular occupant of that exalted post, disregarding its customary ceremonial role to reach out to ordinary people, particularly the young. Combining idiosyncratic power-point presentations of his vision for India's future with instructional poems for children, lecturing on everything from solar energy to the importance of broadband connectivity for India's villages, Abdul Kalam ""ignited minds"", to use the title of one of his five bestselling books (he published 17 in all). He also touched hearts, as the outpouring of national grief at his demise has once again made clear. He was extraordinary for other reasons too. As a Muslim steeped in Hindu culture, he was to many an oddity - a scientist who could recite classical Tamil poetry, who played the rudra-veena, a traditional South Indian instrument, and listened to Carnatic devotional music every day, but performed his namaz with no sense of incongruity. In melding the Islam into which he was born with a strong sense of the traditions in which his civilization was anchored, Abdul Kalam was a complete Indian, an embodiment of the eclecticism of India's heritage of diversity. With his long silver hair unfashionably combed back and his thick Tamilian accent, he was an unlikely pop culture idol, but that was what he became. His popularity was undimmed by his relinquishment of office. In retirement he set himself a demanding schedule of speeches, notably to educational institutions, and had an uncanny ability to connect with a variety of audiences. I shared a number of stages with him and marvelled at his range of expertise - space travel one day, corporate social responsibility the next, rural uplift the day after: it seemed he had an idea a minute. Every pronouncement of his was imbued with pride in the past and boundless faith in the limitless possibilities of the future. Abdul Kalam was also, unusually for an Indian who occupied the high positions he did, a man of great simplicity. During his 25 years as a scientist based in Thiruvananthapuram, the constituency I now represent in parliament, he endeared himself to ordinary people everywhere. Legion are the recollections of his waiting patiently for a bus, having breakfast at his favourite teashop, talking to people from backgrounds as humble as that which he had outgrown. In this simplicity lay the secret of his ability to connect with people, across the boundaries of age, class, religion and region. In his life and his work, APJ Abdul Kalam embodied the best of what India can be. India has never had a more beloved president. Active till the end, he left the world in mid-speech, as if to remind us that he still had something more to say. The shock of his sudden passing has left a nation bereaved. India mourns his death, but will long celebrate his life.","Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen ( APJ ) Abdul Kalam , India 's 11th president , who collapsed and died , aged 83 , on Monday evening while doing what he loved - @placeholder students - was an extraordinary Indian .",based,addressing,helping,lauded,inspiring,1
"The Hong Kong-born, Australia-bred batsman missed two months of the 2015 season with a dislocated shoulder when diving to stop a ball in the outfield. But Sunday's 85 off 57 balls in Dubai against the West Indies showed class. ""It was a mature innings. Sam batted really well,"" said boss Dougie Brown. ""Very measured. As measured as you can be in Twenty20. He showed what he can do, but we're not getting carried away because we already know he is a talent. ""Without the shoulder injury which affected his throwing, he would have played some form of white-ball cricket for us last season."" Fellow batsman Laurie Evans, who captained the Bears for Sunday's second of two T20 friendlies with the Windies, added: ""Sam Hain batted really well against a high-quality bowling attack. ""It was the sort of pitch where it was difficult getting in and he stayed there when we lost a few wickets and gave us something to bowl at."" The Bears lost the game by three wickets at the International Stadium, on the back of Friday's 13-run defeat in the first game. After making 823 first-class runs in 12 matches at 51.43 as a teenager in 2014, even breaking Ian Bell's record as the youngest Bears centurion, he scored 547 in 10 matches at 36.46 last summer. Now he is fit again, England-qualified Hain will again be coming back onto the radar of James Whitaker and his fellow Test selectors. But Bears director of cricket Brown says that he is not the only youngster to have impressed in the Persian Gulf, ""Sam is just one of a lot of guys pushing for places on the evidence of the two games against West Indies,"" added Brown. ""Ateeq Javid and Josh Poysden bowled superbly against high-class batsman coming hard at them. ""In both games our fielding was outstanding and in all departments our skill levels were exceptional at times. Games like these against international opposition can be very one-sided but that was far from the case. We pushed them close both times. In those sort of games it is about much more than the result, ""It's about players getting opportunities and there were a lot of positives in there. We have got a lot of healthy competition for places and I'm sure that will only increase because the start of the T20 season in England is still quite a way away."" Warwickshire's next assignment on their tour to the Persian Gulf is to travel to Sharjah to train ahead of a two-day meeting with Midlands rivals Worcestershire on Saturday and Sunday at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi.",Warwickshire youngster Sam Hain has proved that he is back to full fitness ahead of what may prove a breakthrough summer for a 20 - year - old earmarked as an England player of the @placeholder .,tournament,competition,table,future,race,3
"While some papers tried to score points on who was favoured more by the pontiff in his visits to holy sites and landmarks, others felt his tour would have no impact on the Middle East conflict. Some editorials in the Palestinian press were positive about the visit, praising the Pope for what they saw as his recognition of a Palestinian state. ""The Pope blesses the establishment of a Palestinian state,"" pro-Fatah Al-Ayyam newspaper,  declared. It said that while some world leaders visited Israel before heading to Ramallah - the Palestinians' de facto administrative capital - the Pope began his journey in Ramallah first. ""That means avoiding entering Ramallah from the Israeli gate and airspace, underlining that he recognises Palestine and dealing with it as a [sovereign] state,"" Al-Ayyam said. Another Palestinian paper also lauded the Pope for visiting the Israeli barrier separating Bethlehem in the West Bank from Jerusalem. Pro-Fatah Al-Quds said that his insistence on leaving his car and walking to the gate there to say a prayer was ""a step with a unique significance"". The pro-Hamas Filastin newspaper however rejected the pontiff's visit outright. ""The Pope's visit to the occupied Palestinian territories is mainly political,"" an editorial said, claiming that he conveyed the message of the US administration to the Palestinians. ""Anyone who believes that the Church will oppose the Israeli occupier is wrong. The Church recognises the legitimacy of the entity which usurped Palestine and did not condemn the crime of the blockade of Gaza,"" it said. But according to an editorial in the Palestinian Authority-owned newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadidah, the Pope's visit came at a ""crucial time"" after great upheaval in the region. ""The Arab Spring created a state of fear and apprehension for many religious sects, particularly Christians, as Christian Arabs in Iraq and Syria have been the target of dubious Islamist groups,"" the paper said. ""For this reason, the Pope's visit carries an important political and moral meaning in encouraging Palestinian and Arab Christians, in general, to remain in their homeland."" In the Israeli press, some commentators felt that the Palestinians had indeed scored a PR victory. ""There is no doubt that the Pope gave the Palestinians tail wind in the PR battle they have been leading in recent months,"" Jack Khoury wrote in Israel's Haaretz daily. Saying that the Pope's decision to fly directly from Jordan to Bethlehem without landing at Israel's Ben Gurion airport was being perceived by the Palestinians as recognition of sorts for an independent state, Khoury said that the pontiff's ""most significant, most political step"" was his decision to pray at the West Bank barrier. ""In a calculated decision, the Pope descended the vehicle taking him to the mass, stood in front of the fence and prayed... No-one heard the prayer, but it is clear that his attitude to it was not positive and within minutes his picture praying in front of the fence starred in news sites all over the world..."" Ben Hartman in the Jerusalem Post agreed that photographs of the Pope praying at the barrier overshadowed his visit to Tel Aviv. ""Pictures had already circulated the globe of the pope only minutes earlier praying at the West Bank security barrier, his head bowed in prayer, surrounded on both sides by graffiti reading 'Free Palestine' and 'Bethlehem looks like Warsaw Ghetto.' A shot like that is hard to compete with."" However an editorial in the Jerusalem Post conceded that the Pope had tried to be even-handed. ""In what can be seen as an attempt to balance the impression made by his silent prayer at the security barrier outside Bethlehem, Francis also made an unplanned visit to a memorial to Israeli terrorism victims on Mount Herzl,"" it said. ""Showing empathy for one side risked offending the other side. Too neutral a message would be seen as bland… These nearly insurmountable challenges were met by Francis with grace and charm."" But while Reuven Berko in Yisrael Hayom said that the Pope's meetings with the Israeli president and prime minister were ""de facto expressions of the Vatican's recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel"", Noah Klieger in Yediot Aharonot was disappointed. ""The statements of Francis at this impressive, touching memorial [to victims of terrorism] in the Jerusalem mountains were undoubtedly sincere and came from genuine pain. It's just a pity they will contribute nothing to the struggle against the spread of anti-Semitism in the world."" BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.",Israeli and Palestinian papers appeared to be jostling to try and claim victory for their own side in their @placeholder of the Pope 's visit to the Holy Land .,views,response,nature,knowledge,anticipation,0
"Scientists made the discovery by studying the fossil of a pregnant plesiosaur. Experts have long been puzzled over whether or not the creatures laid eggs - but that's now been cleared up. Other species that give birth to live young one at a time, such as whales and dolphins, are known to be caring and sociable parents. It's thought that plesiosaurs were the same. Study leader Dr Robin O'Keefe from Marshall University in America said: ""Scientists have long known that the bodies of plesiosaurs were not well suited to climbing onto land and laying eggs in a nest. ""This fossil documents live birth in plesiosaurs for the first time, and so finally resolves this mystery."" Plesiosaurs lived in water, had long necks and four flippers, and some could grow to 15 metres long!","Plesiosaurs , the @placeholder monsters of the dinsoaur age , gave birth to live young instead of laying eggs .",word,water,giant,cartoon,sea,4
"Malik - caught off a no-ball on 40 - hit an unbeaten 124 and Mohammad Hafeez 98 to help Pakistan to 286-4 at the close of play in Abu Dhabi. Younus Khan scored 38 to pass Javed Miandad's mark of 8,832 runs and become Pakistan's leading Test run scorer. James Anderson claimed two wickets but Ian Bell dropped two simple catches. While Pakistan will be content with their position, England's bowlers deserve credit for the perseverance they showed on a surface offering minimal assistance. Stuart Broad and Mark Wood claimed a wicket apiece, but Test debutant Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali went wicketless in a combined 36 overs after the tourists lost the toss in unfavourable conditions at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium. Playing his first Test since 2010 and his first first-class match for almost a year, 33-year-old Malik justified the selectors' faith with his third Test century. The all-rounder, who has credited his wife - Indian tennis star Sania Mirza - with the revival of his international career, came to the crease with Pakistan 5-1 after Shan Masood was bowled via his helmet ducking into a James Anderson bouncer. He showed occasional signs of impatience, most noticeably when he was caught by Joe Root at gully off a Broad no-ball. However, he was largely untroubled as he added 168 for the second wicket with Hafeez, who was lbw playing across the line to Ben Stokes on the stroke of tea. Younus Khan was far from at his best in making 38, but he did enough to become Pakistan's leading run scorer. The 37-year-old overtook Inzamam-ul-Haq and Miandad, who had held the record for 30 years, when he clubbed Moeen Ali over mid-wicket for six to pass 19. The third-wicket partnership was worth 74 when Younus drove Broad to Alastair Cook at the straighter of two short mid-ons. Misbah-ul-Haq perished shortly after courtesy of a faint outside edge and a successful England review, but Asad Shafiq accompanied Malik until the close as Pakistan saw off the first three overs of the new ball. On a day when England managed only four wickets in 90 overs, they were left to rue the mistakes which cost them three more. Bell dropped two straightforward chances at second slip, both off Anderson. Hafeez was put down when he had made only seven - a wicket which would have left Pakistan 12-2 - and Shafiq was reprieved on 10 in the penultimate over of the day. But arguably of greater importance was the no-ball which aided Malik, who hit 13 fours on the way to a 182-ball century, his third in Tests. Media playback is not supported on this device England's Stuart Broad, speaking to BBC Sport: ""I blame myself for the no-ball. We pride ourselves on our catching and not bowling no-balls. I can't think of many times I've had one chalked off, if at all. It's a feeling of distraught. ""I'm not a regular no-ball bowler so it took me a bit by surprise but it's not really acceptable at this level. After lunch it was a gusty wind and as a bowler it can affect your stride pattern. It's about millimetres really. I apologised at tea to all of the guys because it was disappointing."" Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on Test Match Special: ""England need 10 wickets and it's hard enough. ""With Ian Bell dropping two catches and Stuart Broad taking a wicket with a no-ball, it adds up to a lot of runs and creates despondency. Pakistan have been given three extra lives."" Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez on Sky Sports: ""Once you get past the new ball, you can score runs. I can't believe I got out in the nineties, but hopefully 98 is enough for the team. ""England bowled well with the older ball but hopefully we can push beyond 400 now.""",Pakistan 's Shoaib Malik marked his first Test for five years with a century as England @placeholder on the opening day of the three - match series .,held,scored,lost,struggled,piled,3
"Marine Scotland staff have complained of being paid less than those in comparable jobs in other publicly-owned organisations. Unite said it was disappointed the situation had reached this stage. The Scottish government said talks aimed at averting the strikes were continuing. Unite has said a chief steward can earn up £29,579-a-year at Marine Scotland but £37,675 at ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne, which is also owned by the Scottish government. Last December, the Scottish Parliament passed a motion put forward by Scottish Labour, stating that Marine Scotland staff should receive a fair pay settlement that recognises their experience and skills. Unite regional officer Sandy Smart said: ""Our members do a difficult and dangerous job ensuring that the fishing grounds around Scotland are protected. We are very disappointed that things have got to this stage despite the Scottish Parliament passing a motion to support a fair pay award. ""The first minister also pledged to look at this issue yet our members have been rewarded with a pay cut. Industrial action is always a last resort and even at this late stage we hope that we can reach a solution but this requires movement by Marine Scotland and the Scottish government to properly award the seafarers. Marine Scotland vessels carry out protection and research work in the seas and fisheries around the country. There are five vessels in total and five sets of two-day strike action are scheduled to take place on 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 25 and 26 August. A Scottish government spokesman said: ""We wish to avert industrial action and will continue our discussions with Unite. It would be inappropriate to comment further while these discussions are under way.""",Members of the Unite union working for Scotland 's fisheries protection @placeholder are set to walk out on a series of strikes in a dispute over pay .,team,fleet,department,association,membership,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device In a hard-fought game of few chances, the League One visitors came closest to a first-half breakthrough when Ryan McGeever's header was blocked on the line. Ayr's Gary Harkins forced a neat save from Queen's goalkeeper Willie Muir. Neither goal was severely threatened in a terse and scrappy second half. Most of the action came in the opening 45 minutes with the visitors pressing early, and Harkins forced to clear McGeever's header away from the goalmouth from Queen's first corner. Paul Woods might have done better with a 12th-minute chance from eight yards which brought a good save from Greg Fleming in the Ayr goal before Harkins then tested Muir with a good 25-yard effort. With the interval approaching, Scott McKenna's header again called Muir into action, but after half-time, neither side created a chance worthy of winning the tie. Match ends, Ayr United 0, Queen's Park 0. Second Half ends, Ayr United 0, Queen's Park 0. Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Aiden Malone (Queen's Park). Corner,  Ayr United. Conceded by Adam Cummins. Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Aiden Malone (Queen's Park). Attempt missed. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Corner,  Ayr United. Conceded by Ryan McGeever. Corner,  Ayr United. Conceded by Ryan McGeever. Foul by Patrick Boyle (Ayr United). Aiden Malone (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Ayr United. Craig McGuffie replaces Craig Moore. Jamie Adams (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jamie McKernon (Queen's Park). Sean Burns (Queen's Park) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box. Corner,  Queen's Park. Conceded by Patrick Boyle. (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Aiden Malone (Queen's Park). Corner,  Queen's Park. Conceded by Conrad Balatoni. Foul by Scott McKenna (Ayr United). Aiden Malone (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Aiden Malone (Queen's Park). Substitution, Queen's Park. David Galt replaces Ewan MacPherson. Substitution, Queen's Park. Aiden Malone replaces Paul Woods. Foul by Robbie Crawford (Ayr United). Sean Burns (Queen's Park) wins a free kick on the left wing. Substitution, Ayr United. Jamie Adams replaces Paul Cairney. Foul by Gary Harkins (Ayr United). Ross Millen (Queen's Park) wins a free kick on the right wing. Second Half begins Ayr United 0, Queen's Park 0. Substitution, Ayr United. Alan Forrest replaces Brian Gilmour. First Half ends, Ayr United 0, Queen's Park 0. Ross Millen (Queen's Park) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Ross Millen (Queen's Park). Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United). Sean Burns (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Conrad Balatoni (Ayr United).",Ayr United and Queen 's Park will contest a replay at Hampden Park on Tuesday after Saturday 's fourth - round Scottish Cup tie @placeholder goalless .,relegated,battling,finished,points,earn,2
"The NatCen British Social Attitudes Report found 77% of 4,328 people interviewed thought the class divide was either fairly wide or very wide. Just 26% of people thought it was not very difficult to move between social classes, compared with 35% in 2005. NatCen said the poll showed the UK class divide ""was alive and well"". The social research specialists found that people who identify as working class were more likely to believe the divide between social classes was ""fairly wide"" or ""very wide"" (82%) compared with 70% of those who describe themselves as middle class. The British Social Attitudes survey has been carried out every year since 1983, with questions repeated periodically to assess how opinions change over time. This 2015 study aimed to find how people had responded to government austerity and how it affected perceptions of class, public spending and the workplace. Kirby Swales, director of the NatCen survey centre, said: ""The class divide is alive and well in Britain and the economic instability and austerity of recent years seem to have sharpened our belief that it is difficult to move from one class to another... ""Our findings certainly show that people who believe themselves to be working class are more likely to believe in a class divide than those who say they are middle class and more think it is difficult to move between classes than did in the past."" The report also found the majority of people considered themselves to be working class (60%) compared with 40% who identified as being middle class - the same proportion as in 1983. This is despite the fact it is estimated that only a quarter of the population are in working class occupations, the report's authors said. Some 47% of people in jobs classed as managerial and professional consider themselves working class. NatCen said class identity was closely linked to attitudes in other areas, with people who say they are working class being far more likely to be opposed to immigration, one of the defining issues of the EU referendum. The authors of the report's chapter on social class, Geoffrey Evans and Jonathan Mellon, said there appeared to be a ""working class of the mind"". They said: ""Those in middle class occupations still think of themselves to a surprising degree as working class, and especially so if their family background was working class or they have never been to university. ""And this sense of working class identity apparently means that they are less libertarian and less pro-immigrant, but not necessarily more left-wing - even though those with a working class identity are particularly likely to think that class differences and barriers remain important."" But 45% of those surveyed back a cut in benefits for unemployed people. Elizabeth Clery, research director of NatCen social research, said: ""We have witnessed a big rise in support for higher public spending; support is now back to a level not seen since before the financial crash. ""After seven years of austerity the public is clearly worried about the funding of the NHS and reckons that, for some groups at least, spending on benefits should be increased.""","Most people think there is less social @placeholder than there was a decade ago and that the class divide is large , a UK poll of public mood has found .",mobility,diversity,safety,interaction,trade,0
"Rifleman William Aldridge of Bromyard, Herefordshire, was 18 when he died trying to save comrades in 2009. A plaque commemorating his sacrifice was unveiled in the town's St Peter's Church. It followed a campaign for a permanent memorial by William's mother, Lucy Aldridge. She said she was ""absolutely delighted"" that her son, killed by a bomb in Helmand province, had received ""the recognition he deserved in his home town"". The service on Saturday afternoon coincided with William's regiment, The Rifles, being given the freedom of Bromyard. A ceremony took place in Market Square, with a parade of service personnel through the town. Among them were representatives of William's 2nd Battalion, the Hereford company of 6th Battalion The Rifles, the Bromyard platoon of Hereford and Worcester Army Cadet Force, Herefordshire Light Infantry, and the King's Shropshire Light Infantry.",The youngest British soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has been @placeholder in his home town - seven years after he died .,marked,held,honoured,unveiled,recorded,2
"Reece Allen was discovered with multiple stab wounds outside an address in West Avenue, North Shields, in the early hours of 25 January. He later died in hospital. Joe Welsh, also 24, of no fixed address, pleaded not guilty to murder at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday. He was remanded in custody ahead of a further hearing scheduled for 1 July. His trial date was set for 25 July.",A man has @placeholder stabbing to death a 24 - year - old man in North Tyneside .,beaten,held,stabbed,denied,appeared,3
"Southern Rail, serving south London, had substantial delays in the morning and evening rush hours because of leaves on the line. Trains to and from Victoria and London Bridge were hit on Tuesday morning. South West Trains reported similar problems on its London and Surrey branch lines. Network Rail sent out additional staff and equipment to clear the lines. More on this story and other news from London South West directed customers to a statement on its website, explaining that leaves form a coating on the line which ""reduces the grip between the wheel and rail"". The company said drivers have to brake earlier when stopping at stations or signals. Southern said its morning services had also been affected by two broken-down trains and an ""operational incident"" at Norwood Junction in south London. Services from Uckfield, East Grinstead and Tattenham Corner to London Bridge and London Victoria were particularly badly affected. It advised passengers to use Southeastern services between Tunbridge Wells and London, and Metrobus services between East Grinstead and Crawley. Many commuters vented their frustrations on social media. Laurie Hooper tweeted: ""Poor rail conditions!? It's not cold, it's not raining, it's not hot, it's not snowing, it's not very windy! Ridiculous."" Paul Jarvis was unimpressed with the explanation offered to him, tweeting: ""Bank of excuses runs dry. Guard at East Croydon today says delay of 15 mins is due to 'rail problems'!"" A Southern spokesman said the morning had been ""extremely challenging"" and conditions had been ""exceptionally poor"". He added: ""We would like to apologise to our passengers.""","Rail services running in and out of London have been seriously disrupted because of "" leaf mulch "" forming on the tracks , two @placeholder have confirmed .",studies,sources,delays,things,operators,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device From Rio If there is one stadium in this sport that is the natural home to great goals by number 10s in yellow, it is the Maracana, arguably more soulless now but still the scene of glorious memories provided by Pele, Zico and now Brazil's great hope of this World Cup, Neymar. And 28 minutes into the last-16 game between Colombia and Uruguay, the new poster boy of South American football - and this tournament - put himself alongside Neymar and Argentina's Lionel Messi with a goal to treasure, and one fit for the Maracana. Media playback is not supported on this device The 22-year-old showed great awareness to glance over his shoulder to check the positioning of both himself and Uruguay keeper Fernando Muslera even before Abel Aguilar's header came in his direction. Then came the technique, cushioning the header on his chest while twisting to set up a glorious 25-yard left-foot volley that lost nothing aesthetically by crashing down into the net off the bar. If Rodriguez had hinted at his potential greatness with goals against Greece,Ivory Coast and Japan in the group stage, this was the moment he joined those other perfect 10s in the World Cup - Messi and Neymar. He had a Colombian legend to live up to when he took on the mantle of the number 10 - the flamboyant Carlos 'El Pibe' Valderrama, he of the wild hair and glorious talent. No matter. 'El Nuevo Pibe' - 'The New Kid' - had arrived. And his arrival made the Maracana forget the man who was not here - Uruguay's Luis Suarez - and his lamentable explanation of how he came to bite Giorgio Chiellini, with both him and his teeth apparently stumbling accidentally into the Italian's shoulder after a loss of balance. Suarez was present in spirit as Uruguay's fans rose to the siege mentality created by coach Oscar Tabarez with masks, flags and a noisy show of support. The bottom line, however, is after their questionable defence of Suarez in recent days, Uruguay's departure may not be mourned by too many in Brazil outside their own camp. In some ways, the evidence presented here showed why they were prepared to erect such a dubious apologist shield around Suarez. Without him, they are a shadow of the side they are with him. Instead, and of a far more savoury nature, the Maracana was the playground of a new world star - and someone who presents a real danger to Brazil when they meet Colombia in their quarter-final in Fortaleza on Friday. Rodriguez is now the World Cup's top scorer with five goals. While Suarez is back in Uruguay in shame, the smiling Colombian is the fresh and acceptable face of this tournament - and with power to add to his reputation. Rodriguez could pass for Cristiano Ronaldo's younger brother. He is clean-cut, respectful and was quietly spoken as he dealt with Colombia's adulation after the game. In the absence of the great goalscorer Radamel Falcao, cruelly deprived of this World Cup by injury, Monaco team-mate Rodriguez was left with a burden he has so far carried with ease. Jose Luis Alarcon Rojas, of Colombia's RCNR Radio, said: ""Once Falcao was injured, James Rodriguez was the first name in coach Jose Pekerman's selection. He is a young boy who is loved in Colombia, a star. ""No Falcao meant he was more important to Colombia and he has responded to the responsibility. He was always popular but this will make him more popular."" And what of his meeting with Neymar in Fortaleza? ""Neymar is the young champion of Brazil while James is the young champion of Colombia, but he is our star and he is playing like our star."" The boy from Cucuta started his career with Envigado in Colombia before, at the tender age of 17, his talent took him to Argentina and Banfield. After winning the Primera Division, he moved to Porto, helping them secure three titles and the Europa League. Last summer he joined Monaco for £38.5m, but goals like those against Uruguay, and his second was also a thing of beauty in a team context, will be attracting the attention of others who may wish to prise him away from the Principality. When he was told Tabarez had mentioned his name in a list that included Argentina great Diego Maradona, Messi and Suarez, he said: ""It is always a matter of great pride that someone like him has said these things. All I want to do is help the team."" A player of balance, nurtured by the wise Pekerman, who has placed great trust in him, he has the ability to contribute to the team ethic, as proved by his second goal, while demonstrating great individual virtuosity. As his goal was replayed on the Maracana's big screens, gasps of appreciation swirled around the stadium. It was his shirt and his name that could be seen and heard as elated Colombians celebrated in the streets snaking away from the Copacabana on Saturday night. Colombia may have lived in the shadow of the South American superpowers such as Brazil and Argentina in the past. In Rodriguez they have a player who can help them step into the light - starting in Fortaleza on Friday.",The Maracana 's iconic sweep of concrete stands may have been @placeholder by an identikit modern arena - but Colombia 's James Rodriguez produced a moment to stir all of the old place 's ghosts .,influenced,replaced,overshadowed,accompanied,named,1
"You can see the latest galleries by following the links at the bottom of this page. If you'd like to take part, then grab your camera and take a picture to match one of the themes below. Current themes In order to give you a little time to send in your pictures here are the themes for the next few weeks with their deadlines: In collaboration BBC World Service Interpret these themes in any way you see fit and send your pictures to us at yourpics@bbc.co.uk or upload them directly from your computer using the link to the right. When taking photos or filming please do not endanger yourself or others, take unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. Email: yourpics@bbc.co.uk UK MMS: 61124 Rest of the World MMS: +44 (0)7725 100 100 Or upload your photos and video here Please include the title of theme in the subject line of your message and remember to add your name and a caption: who, what, where and when should be enough, though the more details you give, the better your chance of being selected. You can enter up to three images per theme. Pictures should be sent as Jpeg files. They shouldn't be larger than 5Mb and ideally much smaller: around 1Mb is fine, or you can resize your pictures to 1,000 pixels across and then save as a Jpeg. Please see our terms and conditions , but remember that the copyright remains with you. The pictures will only be used by the BBC for the purposes of this project. Finally, when taking photos, please do not endanger yourself or others, take unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. If you have any questions then please email: viewfinder@bbc.co.uk",Each week we ask you to send in your pictures on a set theme and a selection of these are then @placeholder each Thursday on our In pictures page and BBC social media .,providing,published,holding,achieving,shown,1
"The incident in Portrush, County Antrim, happened in the early hours of Sunday, 26 June 2011. It was captured on CCTV, during which the man hit the woman a number of times with the bar. Another woman appeared to join in the assault. The Police Ombudsman's Office said the footage shows a police car containing two officers stopping in the middle of the road close to the assault. It said an officer got out of the car and approached the man. He dropped the bar and was then punched three times to the head by the officer before being arrested. Police referred the incident to the Police Ombudsman's Office for independent investigation after another officer became concerned at the level of force used by their colleague. During their investigation, Police Ombudsman investigators viewed the CCTV footage and obtained all relevant police documentation. The Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, noted that the CCTV footage was inconclusive as to whether the man did strike out first, as claimed by the officer. However, he said the footage did clearly show that the man was ""involved in previous fighting"" and had committed a serious assault on a woman. He indicated that as the man did not provide a statement, there was no evidence to refute the officer's account. ""Man A was subjecting a defenceless female to a serious assault,"" Dr Maguire said. She was in considerable danger and there is no doubt immediate action was required to prevent her sustaining further injuries or worse."" He concluded that the force used by the officer was ""proportionate in the circumstances"" and made no disciplinary recommendations. A file was also submitted to the Public Prosecution Service, which directed that the officer should not be prosecuted in relation to the incident.","The Police Ombudsman has concluded a police officer was @placeholder in punching a man who had subjected a "" defenceless "" woman to a beating with what appeared to be a metal bar .",charged,sworn,justified,placed,imposed,2
"Mark Thompson, a former director-general of the BBC, is named in the class-action case alongside another executive, Meredith Levien. The case was filed by two black female employees in their sixties. It alleges that paper's ideal employee is young and white, with no family. The two employees accuse the Times of ""engaging in deplorable discrimination"". Their deposition says: ""Unbeknownst to the world at large, not only does the Times have an ideal customer (young, white, wealthy), but also an ideal staffer (young, white, unencumbered with a family) to draw that purported ideal customer."" It goes on to list a series of allegations against Mr Thompson concerning his tenure at the BBC, and accuse him of perpetuating similar discrimination there. At the time, Mr Thompson acknowledged that there were ""too few older women broadcasting on the BBC"". Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the New York Times Company, said in a statement that the suit contained ""a series of recycled, scurrilous and unjustified attacks on both Mark Thompson and Meredith Levien"". She said: ""We strongly disagree with any claim that the Times, Mr Thompson or Ms Levien have discriminated against any individual or group of employees. The suit is entirely without merit and we intend to fight it vigorously in court."" The case alleges that Ms Levien, who was hired by Mr Thompson as the company's chief revenue officer, said early in her employment that the paper's commercial department should be filled with ""fresh faces"" and ""people who look like the people we are selling to"". The claimants, 62-year-old Ernestine Grant and 61-year-old Marjorie Walker, who both work for the commercial department, say that they and others like them have been ""packaged out"" of the department to make way for younger, whiter employees. It comes two years after the dismissal from the New York Times of Jill Abramson, the newspaper's first female executive editor. Mrs Abramson's sacking after three years gave rise to speculation that she was fired for complaining about being paid less than her male counterparts, an allegation that the company denies. On a page on its website devoted to diversity, the Times says it is ""committed to an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the audience, readers and advertisers we serve"".","The chief executive of the New York Times is facing multi-million dollar legal action alleging he introduced an "" environment rife with discrimination based on age , @placeholder and gender "" .",food,race,nationality,unemployment,tolerance,1
"There have been reports that Tevez, 33, who joined Shanghai from Boca Juniors in December, wanted to leave the club. The ex-Manchester City striker has asked Shanghai to allow him to return home for treatment on a calf injury. Tevez, who signed a two-year contract, has scored twice in 11 games. He is one of the world's highest paid players, earning £634,615 a week, according to the Sun. ""According to the request from Carlos Tevez to our club, after discussion, we now approve his request,"" Shanghai were reported as saying in the South China Morning Post. ""He's permitted to go back to Argentina and receive treatment at the Clinica Jorge Bombicino and he must rejoin the team on 30 August and participate in training."" During the 2010-11 season, Tevez fled to Argentina for three months following a disagreement with Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini. He lost almost £10m in wages, fines and lost bonuses during the dispute.","Carlos Tevez has been granted permission to go to Argentina , but only after agreeing in @placeholder to return to Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua by 30 August .",person,full,order,comments,writing,4
"Mr Besigye, under house arrest since Friday, said Ugandans had seen ""the most fraudulent electoral process"". He described the poll as a sham and a creeping military coup. President Museveni, in power for 30 years, received nearly 61% of the votes, with Mr Besigye taking 35%. Foreign observers say the poll was conducted in an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. While praising the ""remarkable determination"" of Ugandans to vote, EU chief observer Eduard Kukan said the governing National Resistance Movement's ""domination of the political landscape distorted the fairness of the campaign"". The election has been marred by sporadic violence and opposition allegations of electoral fraud, with social media sites and messaging apps blocked. ""Today I am under house arrest,"" Mr Besigye said in a statement. ""My home is sealed off and I am not allowed to leave. Nobody is allowed to access my home. I am also under some kind of electronic blockade. I am unable to access any form of internet service in my house. ""Generally, the regime is baring its bloodied fangs and claws for all to see. This has not been an electoral process. This is a creeping military coup."" It was the fourth time Mr Besigye, candidate for the opposition Forum for Democratic Change, had taken on President Museveni. The two men were once allies, with Mr Besigye serving as Mr Museveni's personal doctor when they were guerrilla fighters. He was placed under house arrest ostensibly to stop him announcing his vote score unilaterally. Mr Museveni seized power in 1986 and is credited with restoring stability to Uganda. However, critics say he has become increasingly authoritarian. The next closest challenger to Mr Museveni, former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, is also reportedly under house arrest. The National Resistance Movement put out a statement celebrating the win, saying Mr Museveni's opponents had ""failed to offer any alternative"". Uganda's old guard tries new election tactics","The main opposition leader in Uganda , Kizza Besigye , has @placeholder the result of Thursday 's elections , in which President Yoweri Museveni won a fifth term of office .",criticised,become,announced,resigned,rejected,4
"The case, brought by the Belgian Privacy Commission (BPC), required the social network to stop tracking non-users immediately or face a fine. It was handed down on 9 November and Facebook was given 48 hours to comply. Facebook said it was negotiating with the BPC. ""We met with the BPC and provided them specific solutions addressing their concerns about our security cookie. This cookie helped us stop more than 33,000 account takeover attempts in Belgium in the last month, and similar cookies are used by most major internet services. ""We look forward to resolving this without jeopardising people's safe and secure access to Facebook,"" said Alex Stamos, chief security officer, in a statement. A spokeswoman for the BPC told the BBC the judgement had yet to be formally served to Facebook because it is ""waiting for an English translation"" of the 33 pages. The case hinged on a tracking cookie that Facebook has used for the last five years. Research commissioned by the Belgian privacy authority found that non-members who visited a facebook.com page had the datr cookie downloaded on to their browser. The court agreed that Facebook should remove the cookie for non-members and said that, if Facebook failed to comply, it could face fines of up to 250,000 euros (£180,000) per day. Meanwhile, Facebook's battles with privacy campaigner and Austrian law student Max Schrems continued as a case he is pursuing against the company reached the Austrian supreme court. It will decide whether Mr Schrems can bring a class action suit against the social networking firm. He is seeking to add one of his own complaints to thousands of others from Facebook users over alleged infringements of European Union privacy laws. ""It would not make a lot of sense for the court or the parties before it to file these claims as thousands of individual lawsuits - which we can still do if a 'class action' is not allowed. We therefore think that the 'class action' is not only legal but also the only reasonable way to deal with thousands of identical privacy violations by Facebook,"" Mr Schrems said in a statement. The Austrian court may choose to refer the case the European Court of Justice, which has already ruled in his favour in another case. It found last month that the Safe Harbour agreement, which allowed tech firms to send personal data from the EU to the US, was invalid. The High Court of Ireland - the country where Facebook has its international headquarters - is currently investigating whether the firm's transfer of EU user data abided by the privacy laws and offered adequate protection to European citizens from US surveillance.","A judgement requiring Facebook to make major changes to privacy settings in Belgium has been @placeholder while the court document is translated into English , the BBC has learned .",cited,overturned,delayed,revealed,published,2
"5 October 2016 Last updated at 17:26 BST The bird, powered by a Rohm microcontroller, has been enhanced with two extra wings since its appearance last year. But as BBC Click reporter Dan Simmons found out, it can be a little tricky to control. BBC Click will have more from Ceatec on this weekend's television show. Find out more at BBC.com/Click and @BBCClick.",An origami bird that can be controlled with @placeholder is on show at the Ceatec technology exhibition in Japan .,interest,air,gestures,effect,fire,2
"The Australian says he was struck during stage 10 on Tuesday as Froome won to take a lead of two minutes 52 seconds, an advantage which remains. Froome, the 2013 winner, has been under scrutiny due to his superiority and has had to deny claims of cheating. ""I was [punched] in the last 3km. I got a full-on punch,"" Porte, 30, said. ""It was the same atmosphere on Alpe d'Huez two years ago."" Britain's Froome currently leads second-placed Tejay van Garderen after 13 of 21 stages. After he eked out a lead with a stunning performance on Tuesday, he insisted he was a ""clean rider"" but said he understood why there were doubts because of the history of the sport. Former Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was stripped of seven titles after he admitted doping. Porte told The Telegraph Cycling Podcast: ""They are so anti-whatever we are. Do I deserve to be booed? Does Chris Froome deserve all this? I don't think so. ""Maybe in 10 years' time they're going to see that these victories are legitimate. ""It's a disgrace how some of these people carry on."" Porte approached spectators earlier this week after being abused. ""It's a disgrace they say the same thing to Chris Froome,"" Porte added. ""Just because this team has got its act together. ""We do everything right. Look at the Tour we are having. You can't question that we are getting stuck in for Froomey. ""Seven of us at the bottom for him. No other team had that. It's because we are organised and committed."" Despite claims made about Team Sky, Porte said Froome has a relaxed attitude. Porte said: ""When they were giving him abuse I heard him laugh about it. He's got a thick skin and you need that in the yellow jersey.""","Richie Porte , a team - mate of Tour de France leader Chris Froome , claims he was punched during this year 's race as spectators @placeholder on Team Sky .",rely,rode,rounded,influence,continues,2
"It comes amid a storm in Silicon Valley over the number of women employed in the tech industry. Experts agree that the world faces a digital skills shortage and that a more even gender balance is crucial. One industry body worried that too few boys were also choosing the subject. ""Today's announcement that nearly 7,600 students in England took A-level computing means it's not going to be party time in the IT world for a long time to come,"" said Bill Mitchell, director of education at the IT Chartered Institute, BCS. He said that it fell well short of the 40,000 level that ""we should be seeing"". But he added that the fact so few girls were taking the subject was particularly worrying. ""At less than 10%, the numbers of girls taking computing A-level are seriously low."" ""We know that this a problem starting at primary school and it's something that we need to address at all levels throughout education. ""As a society, we need to make sure that our young women are leaving education with the digital skills they need to secure a worthwhile job, an apprenticeship or go on to further study."" The figures, from the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), are not all bad news. They reveal that there has been a 34% rise in the number of female students sitting the computer science exam, up to 816 from 609 in 2016. Google engineer James Damore caused controversy this month when he penned a memo suggesting that there were fewer women at Google because of biological differences. The search giant sacked him over the remarks, saying they were ""offensive"". A recent survey of 1,000 university students conducted by audit firm KPMG suggested that only 37% of young women were confident they had the tech skills needed by today's employers. A total of 73% said that they had not considered a graduate job in technology. Aidan Brennan, KPMG's head of digital transformation, said: ""The issue here isn't around competency - far from it - but rather how businesses understand the underlying capability of an individual and how to unlock it. ""I think this research highlights the work that needs to be done to show the next generation that when it comes to a career in tech, gender isn't part of the equation. ""Competition for jobs is tough and we know that female job seekers can be less likely to apply for a role than their male counterparts if they don't feel they already possess every prerequisite the job demands."" Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, who founded the charity Stemettes to persuade more girls to pursue careers in Science, Technology Engineering and Maths has her own view about the low number of girls taking A-level computing. ""Girls often don't want to be the only one in the class so they tend not to pick the subject when it is an option,"" she said. ""Also, it's often not even an option in a lot of schools so it's an uphill battle but fortunately, a lot of computer science courses take A-level maths students, so there is a very viable route for girls into the course itself and related courses.""",A worrying statistic for the tech industry was revealed in freshly - released A - level @placeholder - only 9.8 % of those completing a computing course were girls .,body,video,data,team,crowd,2
"Wintry weather was forecast with a prolonged snowfalls due overnight and early on Wednesday morning. Between 2-5cm of snow was expected in many places, with up to 10cm on higher ground. Dumfries and Galloway, the Borders, central Scotland, the Highlands and Western Isles could be affected. The warning also covered Grampian, Tayside, Fife, Strathclyde and the Lothians. The Met Office said: ""Please be aware of some difficult driving conditions and the potential for travel disruption into the Wednesday morning rush hour. ""Clear spells between showers will also lead to icy stretches forming on untreated surfaces."" The forecast for wintry conditions comes amid this winter being described as the wettest recorded in Scotland since records began in 1910. Met Office statistics show that an average of 760mm of rain fell across the country in December, January and February. This resulted in a spate of floods which inundated homes and caused chaos on the roads and railways. December was the wettest month recorded while January and February saw much higher rainfalls than normal. Argyll was the wettest area. It had 1,055.7mm of rain over the three months.","Rush hour commuters have been urged to be on alert with a yellow "" be aware "" warning of snow and ice @placeholder for large parts of Scotland .",issued,storm,experience,fit,conditions,0
"Simon Burrell, 43, who was head of Ruskin Junior School in Swindon, was convicted of fraud last year. Burrell improperly claimed and received additional pay while at the school between January 2011 and May 2013. A teacher misconduct panel said he had breached teaching standards in a ""serious and significant way"". The panel decided that he should be prohibited from teaching for a period of at least two years. Burrell may apply for the prohibition order to be overturned in January 2019. He was head teacher at Ruskin School between April 2010 and August 2014. He left the school to take up a new post as head teacher at nearby Grange Federation. Soon after, a financial audit at the school identified some irregularities, and it began an investigation before referring the matter to the police. Burrell was arrested on 23 December 2014, and on 8 June 2015 he was charged with fraud and forging documentation to facilitate the improper payments. He resigned from his post at Grange Federation on 31 August 2015. In March 2016, Burrell received a suspended 12-month sentence at Swindon Crown Court.","A former head teacher has been banned from teaching for at least two years after he stole more than £ 19,500 from a school he @placeholder at .",remained,befriended,sold,worked,was,3
"David Harris, 68, told a police officer posing as a hitman he fantasised about killing Hazel Allinson while the pair holidayed in the south of France. In a video shown to jurors at the Old Bailey, Mr Harris tells the officer he is ""deadly serious"" about the kill. He denies three counts of soliciting murder. The court heard Mr Harris was put in touch with the undercover policeman by Duke Dean - known as Zed - who he initially approached about the ""hit"". He is alleged to have offered £200,000 to make it look like Ms Allinson, a former scriptwriter for The Bill, had been in a fatal accident, so he could claim her money and £800,000 home in Amberley, West Sussex. But, unknown to the defendant, Mr Dean reported him to City of London Police. Mr Harris met the policeman in a car park in Balham, south London, in November last year, and the episode was filmed on a covert camera. The footage appeared to show Mr Harris telling the fake hitman he wanted to push Ms Allinson off a cliff. He added: ""We were down in the south of France... every day I was waking up thinking, is this the day I can get her on the edge and close enough to bump into her?"" Mr Harris, who worked in TV production, continued: ""I know what I'm asking, I know there's no coming back. ""I'm 100% sure. Whatever happens, it's got to be fatal."" He said he could pay £500 upfront and more ""at the end of the rainbow"", and that he wanted to spend his days living with younger girlfriend Ugne Cekaviciute by the sea. He claims he was not planning to kill Ms Allinson, but was researching a thriller novel. The trial continues.","A former TV producer accused of attempting to @placeholder his partner 's murder thought about throwing her off a cliff , a court has heard .",join,drown,defend,protect,arrange,4
"Capt Ammar al Wawi said the US and its allies failed to protect his fighters - known as Division 30 - when they came under attack in Syria last week. At least five fighters were killed and more than 10 abducted in clashes with the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front. Only 54 fighters had been trained so far under the programme. US President Barack Obama announced the plan last summer, pledging to train up to 5,000 fighters a year to form a moderate Sunni opposition to help take on IS militants. But Pentagon officials say they have struggled to find trainees who meet the vetting criteria. ""The project is very slow,"" Capt Wawi told the BBC's Ian Pannell. ""They are ready to train and form a national army of 15,000 fighters and we hear they are ready to back it with money, weapons and provide air cover. ""But in reality, in six months only 60 fighters were trained. If it takes this long to train 60, it will take decades to get everyone ready."" Division 30 and members of the Free Syrian Army came under attack from al-Nusra in northern Syria last Friday. Al-Nusra, which is not affiliated to IS but has itself come under attack from the US in the past, said in a statement that it had captured some fighters and warned others against taking part in what it called ""the American project"". The US said it provided ""defensive support fire"" at the time of Friday's attack, although Capt Wawi said it came after the fighting had finished. ""In reality, we have got no international guarantees to protect our fighters or to protect the 30th Division,"" Capt Wawi said. The Syrian conflict began with an uprising against the government in Damascus, but that has since splintered, pitting rebel groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad's forces against one another.",A US plan to build a moderate fighting force to take on the Islamic State ( IS ) group in Syria has been @placeholder by a senior rebel trained in the programme .,defeated,supported,criticised,struck,approved,2
"From July a new landlord scheme in the town centre will force property owners to control unruly tenants in homes with multiple occupation (HMOs). The scheme, featuring 700 HMOs, aims to crack down on drug dealing, rubbish dumping and neglected houses. Blackpool Council approved the plans on Monday. The licensing scheme will cover an area between Blackpool Football Club at the south end of the town, through the central Gateway area bordered by Seasiders Way and Central Drive, taking in the town centre to Talbot Road at the north end. It will stretch inland as far as Devonshire Road. The new licence will also require landlords to demand references before letting their properties. They could be fined if they breach the conditions of the licence, which will cost from £670 to £940 for a five-year period.",New measures to tackle anti-social behaviour caused by people living in Blackpool bedsits are to be @placeholder by the town 's council .,introduced,recommended,replaced,approved,distracted,0
"Moore and Mica McNeill won the junior Bobsleigh World Championship pair in Winterberg despite only beginning to compete together this winter. The 24-year-old is hoping to compete in the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. She also aims to represent Wales in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. ""Bobsleigh is taking priority at the moment but it will interesting to see where my athletics is,"" said Moore. Prior to taking up bobsleigh, Moore competed for Wales as a sprinter at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and had a 100m personal best of 11.65 seconds. Moore has turned to bobsleigh this winter and after two silvers and a bronze on the North American circuit, the Newport sprinter struck gold in Germany with McNeil. ""It was my first World Junior Championships, so to win gold was very satisfying,"" Moore told BBC Wales Sport. ""It was especially nice to have my Dad out there watching me live for the first time. ""He drove all the way out there which took about 12 hours but he said it was the most thrilling thing he had ever seen. ""Things haven't always gone to plan so far. In Altenberg in a World Cup race we came off the last corner and we crashed. ""It's not a nice experience but not as scary as you might thing. You just have to get back on the sled and I have complete trust in Mica as a driver. ""It's very hard work which I really enjoy, although it's so different to athletics."" Moore will now have to wait and see whether she is chosen for the World Championships in Konigssee which takes place between 17 and 26 February. The Welsh woman has been alternating with fellow Great Britain sprinter Montell Douglas to partner McNeill during this season. Douglas and McNeill won gold in the Europa Cup event staged at Winterberg two days before the junior competition. The pair are in action at the World Cup event in Austria this weekend.",Sprinter turned bobsleigher Mica Moore is on track to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games and Winter Olympics after @placeholder her first gold .,completing,becoming,announcing,undergoing,celebrating,4
"18 August 2014 Last updated at 14:27 BST The children were from a poor neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Jamaican sprinter was in Brazil for a race, but visited Copacabana Beach to throw some shapes.",Olympic champion Usain Bolt @placeholder the samba with a group children on Saturday .,visited,danced,captured,joined,begins,1
"The Dark Energy Survey's 570-million-pixel camera will scan some 300 million galaxies in the coming five years. The goal is to discover the nature of dark energy, which is theorised to be responsible for the ever-faster expansion of the Universe. Its first image, taken 12 September, focussed on the Fornax galaxy cluster. In time, along with its massive haul of individual galaxies, it will study 100,000 galaxy clusters - the largest stable structures we know of - and 4,000 supernovae, the bright dying throes of stars. This enormous survey is a collaboration between US, UK, Brazilian, Spanish and German astronomers. The phone box-sized Dark Energy Camera or DECam is mounted on the 4m Victor M Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in central Chile. While it is not the biggest astronomical camera - that honour goes to the Pan-Starss instrument in Hawaii - its extraordinary sensitivity arguably makes it the world's most powerful device of its type. DECam is particularly sensitive to red and infrared light, to better study cosmic objects as distant as eight billion light-years away. More distant objects are moving away from us - and each other - faster than nearer objects, which causes a shift of their apparent colour toward the red end of the spectrum - a ""redshift"". But the very stretching of space can cause the same effect. Careful studies of the shifted light from distant supernovae were what first demonstrated an acceleration in this expansion of the Universe, leading to the 2011 Nobel prize in physics. What is believed to be causing this increase in the speed of expansion is called dark energy, making up more than 70% of the mass-energy - all of the ""stuff"" - of the Universe and the focus of the DECam's mission. Other efforts hope to get to the bottom of the mystery, including the Boss survey and a future space telescope dedicated to the effort called Euclid. But for now, Will Percival from the University of Portsmouth, a Dark Energy Survey collaborator, said DECam is an exciting prospect. ""This will be the largest galaxy survey of its kind, and the galaxy shapes and positions will tell us a great deal about the nature of the physical process that we call dark energy, but do not currently understand,"" he said. The survey will tackle the problem in four ways. It will study the same kind of supernovae that led to the Nobel prize, in a bid to unravel the ""expansion history"" of the Universe - when its expansion increased and decreased over billions of years. It will also map out in 3D the distribution of galaxy clusters, measuring what are known as baryon acoustic oscillations - literally relics of the sound echoes of the Big Bang. BBC Universe: Dark matter BBC Universe: Dark energy By counting the clusters and plotting out when they evidently formed, the survey can feed back to computer models that map out how we think the Universe organised itself in its earliest years. And studies of the way galaxies and galaxy clusters bend passing light - in a process called weak gravitational lensing - will help to pin down the equally mysterious ""dark matter"" that is believed to make up more than 80% of the Universe's mass - most of the Universe's stuff that is not energy. DECam will now be run through a series of tests and will begin the official survey in December. With each snapshot it acquires, it will see an apparent area of the sky 20 times larger than the full moon. In its full five-year run, it should capture an eighth of the full sky. ""The achievement of first light through the Dark Energy Camera begins a significant new era in our exploration of the cosmic frontier,"" said James Siegrist, associate director of science for high-energy physics at the US Department of Energy, which oversaw the instrument's construction. ""The results of this survey will bring us closer to understanding the mystery of dark energy and what it means for the Universe.""",The most powerful sky - scanning camera yet @placeholder has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly three - quarters of our Universe .,branch,space,groups,culture,built,4
"Cockatoos and swallows danced on a warm north wind, the pine and eucalyptus trees scenting the air in verdant Albert Park. Not even the vaguely hallucinatory gauze of jet lag could blur the luminous clarity of the light. It is a long way to come to watch Formula 1 but, for novice and grizzled veteran alike, there is a uniquely special quality to the first race of the season - especially here in Melbourne. ""It is one of the best races of the year,"" said McLaren's two-time champion Fernando Alonso. ""All of us made our debut here in Australia, so there are good memories. The whole city gets behind the event, quite excited, so it's a nice atmosphere around the GP. ""And normally after a long break, new cars, always new regulations even if they are very small tweaks, there is the excitement of how they will be. ""This adrenaline is probably exactly the same every 15 years I came here."" The 34-year-old Spaniard did not race in Australia last year as he was recovering from concussion sustained in a crash in pre-season testing.  And had he done, he would have been at the back, so uncompetitive was his car. ""I missed it,"" he said, ""and am happy to be back."" F1 drivers can sometimes seem to have a somewhat sheltered and closeted existence, especially if they are multimillionaire icons of the sport. But Alonso hit the essence of Melbourne's appeal on the head. Walk into the park outside the track from St Kilda Road, and the first thing you encounter after the ticket booths is a kids' zone, where children can try out golf, cricket and football. Nearby, a live band were playing. At 11am on a Thursday. Cross the lake on the plastic pontoon and the approach to the entrance to the paddock, where the drivers and teams are based, is a cavalcade of glamorous cars. Fans mass alongside the road from the car park to the paddock and - to a man - the drivers stop and sign autographs on their way in, in the midst of typical Aussie informality. Pass the cafe set up outside the media centre, present your pass to the electronic paddock gates and bleep your way inside and the laid-back ambience continues. Under the totalitarian rule of F1 tsar Bernie Ecclestone, most grand prix tracks these days are interchangeable - the pit building and team HQs separated by vast expanses of concrete. Melbourne, too, is feeling the effects of new money. This is the 20th anniversary of the first Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne and the city has changed a great deal in in that time. It retains its liveable feel, but butting up to the historic centre and beach area of St Kilda is now an increasing number of high rises. And on the way into town from the airport, I counted more than 30 cranes building more. The property boom has led the local authorities to pass a temporary law imposing restrictions on development, but inside Albert Park time moves more slowly - at least until the cars take to the track. Behind the garages, garden chairs, tables and umbrellas are laid out on lawns, some just for the teams, some for anyone to sit down and relax. A path runs downs the length of the paddock; more grass fronts the teams' temporary buildings. It all engenders the sense of camaraderie that inevitably accompanies an event at which the thousand-plus people who make up the F1 travelling circus are catching up after a winter locked away focusing only on their own thing. When the weather is hot as it was on Thursday, the general sense of well-being is enhanced. But so potent is the vibe here that very little can puncture it. Even rain is welcome in its own way. If anything, Melbourne's notoriously changeable weather only makes things better. There's nothing like a shower or two to ramp up the unpredictability, especially on a street track. Whatever the weather, one thing is certain - Friday's first day of track action in 2016 will start with the early morning alarm call of a two-seater F1 car taking fans on laps of the track. The high-pitched wail of its V10 can be heard across town and is for many an awkward reminder of a time when F1 was more like it should be. For others, it is an annoyance - waking them up too early on a weekend when the race timetable is shifted later in the day to catch more of the all-important European television audience . And also an anachronism. White noise; sound and fury signifying nothing. For them, the new turbo hybrids, while certainly quieter and less dramatic, are the sound of the future. A future that is already here, marked by what can only be described as a technological revolution that has seen the engines' ability to convert fuel-energy into performance rise from 29% to 50% in less than three years. That's F1. Always striving on. Always looking forward to what's next - a mood encapsulated perfectly by the race that brings the curtain up on a new season every year. Media playback is not supported on this device","It started with a cantaloupe - and - indigo dawn , the Antipodean sun rising over a limitless horizon , climbing into a cloudless sky at the start of a @placeholder - perfect day .",picture,colour,river,science,state,0
"The claim: Priti Patel says the UK has no say over the amount of regulation coming from the EU. She also says the UK is constantly being outvoted. Reality Check verdict: The UK does have a say over regulations affecting small businesses, both through its MEPs and government ministers who vote at the Council, where they have been on the ""winning side"" 86.7% of the time in recent years. The UK has a say at both the Council and the Parliament: the UK government is represented at the Council and the elected British MEPs take part in the process of amending legislation and voting on it at the European Parliament. Most of the decisions at the Council are made by Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) under which 16 out of 28 countries, representing at least 65% of the total EU population, have to agree. In practice, this means that the UK has around 12 to 13% of the votes. Germany, the biggest country, has 16%, while France and Italy have, like the UK, around 12 to 13%. The 22 smallest EU countries have a combined vote of around 30%. No country has a veto and all countries, including the UK, sometimes disagree with the decisions taken. Leave campaigners say the UK is constantly outvoted at the Council. Research comparing the period 2004-2009 with 2009-2015, suggests that the UK is the country most likely to vote against the majority, and that it increasingly disagrees with EU legislative decisions. However, in the vast majority of cases, the UK voted on the winning side: 97.4% of the time in 2004-09 and 86.7% of the time in 2009-15. When it comes to regulations affecting small businesses, the EU-UK renegotiation deal, which would take effect if the UK votes to stay in the EU, committed the European Commission ""to make EU law simpler and to reduce regulatory burden for EU business operators"". The agreement goes on to say: ""Cutting red tape for entrepreneurship, in particular small and medium size enterprises, remains an overarching goal,"" although it's not clear what effect this would have in practice. Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate","EU regulations that affect business , as well as most other EU legislation , is usually @placeholder by the European Commission , but it must then be agreed by the EU Council , which is made up of the member states ' government ministers , and the European Parliament , where MEPs from all 28 EU countries sit .",drafted,amplified,investigated,driven,affected,0
"An entry on his semi-official website revealed he had been asked to stand by the Animal Welfare Party. A statement by the singer on the website said he wanted to speak out ""against the hellish and archaic social injustice allotted to animals"". The Animal Welfare Party confirmed it had approached him to represent them. Vanessa Hudson, the party leader, told BBC London: ""We'd like to see the mayoral contest include the views of a candidate who would seek to champion London, not only as a world leading city for people but for animal welfare, too."" Morrissey, who has been vocal on the subject of animal rights and vegetarianism for many years, said in his statement: ""What animal protectionists need to say is very well worth saying and well worth hearing. ""But we cannot just sit around waiting for establishment enlightenment. The sanctimonious disaster of animal agriculture cannot be allowed to go on forever, because its widespread impact is hellish."" Morrissey is from Manchester and has lived in London, Los Angeles and Rome. To be eligible to stand, he would need to be registered to vote in London, or show that he had lived, worked, or owned property there for 12 months. A candidate also needs the signatures of 10 registered electors from each London borough and a deposit of £10,000. Nominations for London mayoral candidates close at the end of March.","The singer Morrissey is said to be "" considering very seriously "" an invitation to enter the London mayoral @placeholder .",network,organisation,race,needs,region,2
"Sam Warburton and Justin Tipuric were the flankers in the 21-16 defeat in Cardiff, with Ross Moriarty outstanding at number eight. Moriarty was replaced in the second half by fit-again Taulupe Faletau - but ex-flanker Williams said Wales ""can't drop"" the Gloucester man. ""It's working at the minute,"" he said. ""You keep the same back row. And you've got Faletau to come off the bench."" Media playback is not supported on this device Faletau's second-half appearance was his comeback following a knee injury suffered playing for Bath on 24 December. Cardiff Blues' Warburton, Tipuric of Ospreys and Gloucester's Moriarty also started in Wales' opening Six Nations game - the 33-7 win in Italy. Williams, who won 100 caps for Wales between 1996 and 2012, has been impressed with the form of 22-year-old Moriarty for club and country. ""He was simply sensational for the time he was on the park last week,"" Williams told BBC Wales' Scrum V programme. ""You can't drop someone like Moriarty. Again on Friday night for Gloucester against Saracens he was outstanding. If somebody's in that form just keep them going. ""There's always been a debate come Warburton and Tipuric playing together and it's been so far so good in this tournament."" Williams also believes wing Alex Cuthbert responded in style to criticism of his performance in the defeat by England with a try in the Blues' 57-20 win over Treviso. Cuthbert missed a tackle on Elliot Daly for England's winning try in the Six Nations match and was released back to his region. Blues head coach Danny Wilson has urged Welsh fans to back the 26-year-old wing while Williams was impressed with the performance of his former team-mate against Treviso. ""It just shows his mental strength,"" Williams said. ""He could easily have had the week off and go and hide but he wanted to play and it was the old Alex Cuthbert. ""It was good to see him back in form.""","Wales should @placeholder the same back row that started against England when they travel to Scotland on Saturday , says ex-captain Martyn Williams .",join,select,retain,play,extended,1
"The Microsoft-owned chat app said that the move reflected the public preference for using mobile devices to make video calls from the living room, despite the size advantage TVs offered. It will continue to maintain the service until June. Afterwards, it will be up to individual manufacturers to decide whether to remove the app or continue offering an unsupported service. Skype's intention to focus its efforts on phones and tablets comes at a time when it faces heightened competition. Although Google's rival Hangouts service has had limited appeal on mobiles, Facebook's Messenger and Apple's Facetime apps are making more headway. In addition, Xiaomi recently launched its own Mi Video Call service, and Slack has announced plans to add support for video chats to its popular business-focused chat tool. Skype for TV was first unveiled at the CES tech show in January 2010 and was marketed as a way to let families ""share the limelight [from their sofa] so there's no more huddling around the computer or missing an out-of-shot moment"". It required TVs to be fitted with either a built-in camera or a plug-in peripheral. TV-makers that adopted the service included Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba and Philips. ""Over the years, users have changed the way they use Skype, with the majority accessing it from a mobile device - including when in the living room,"" reads a message posted to the app's support page. ""We want to make sure we prioritise delivering the best possible experience to the platforms our users are asking for, which is why we've decided to focus our efforts in other areas while supporting key functionality on Skype for TV for as long as possible."" Samsung has already announced that its TVs will stop offering the app from 2 June. Many science-fiction movies and comics had envisioned that people would want to chat to each other via large screens in their homes. But one expert said that technology had gone down a ""very different route"". ""On paper the idea of using a TV for things like Skype made a lot of sense - it's a non-threatening device that people were already comfortable with, so it seemed a good way to get the tech into the living room,"" said Chris Green, a technology analyst at the consultancy Lewis. ""But the ubiquity of mobile devices made video conferencing on TVs redundant. ""No-one ever got used to using a big screen for Skype because they never needed to - people are far more used to picking up a tablet and doing it that way - and I don't think there's a way back now.""",Skype has announced that it is @placeholder support for its smart TV software .,ending,experiencing,offering,developing,encouraging,0
"""I said to myself, 'This is Ebola.'"" He spoke to Newsbeat after catching the virus at the hospital where he worked in Liberia. His boss had just died from the illness and despite the agony, he remained calm: ""At no point did I think I was going to die."" At first the doctor was turned away from the special treatment centres set up in West Africa to treat Ebola patients. ""The Ebola Treatment Units (ETU) are hellholes, full of despair, agony, dying, people crying out. The clinicians are heroes, doing their best."" His symptoms weren't severe enough and the ETU was already jam-packed. So he went home, set up a quarantine zone and made his family go to another house. A father of five, his youngest daughter, 7, screamed and broke free from being restrained by her mother and grandmother. ""She ran straight to me, she just wanted to see her daddy"". Luckily, someone grabbed her in the quarantine zone before her life was put at risk. Dr Ireland's mother and one of the clinicians from the ETU came and treated him. ""My mother made herself protective equipment to avoid being contaminated. ""She and the doctor gave me antibiotics and oxygen and I started to feel better. ""On day four they gave me some HIV drugs and when I took them in the evening all hell broke loose - vomit, diarrhoea and I got weaker. ""I was rushed to the ETU by ambulance - the same one I had been turned away from. ""There was still no room so I lay on the floor."" But drugs, oxygen and an intravenous drip kept him alive. ""After 14 days I got better and was discharged and returned home, however I was very frail."" Two months later, he is still recovering from some of the complications of the  disease - mainly a neurological problem in his right hand. ""I'm so very happy and lucky to be alive."" But the illness is a humiliating, cruel one. ""On the day I came out of hospital, people came out in the street to celebrate. ""My family, friends and neighbours - but at the same time not getting too close. There was an irony. ""We have so many challenges - sickness, poverty, disease, ""I see these challenges every day, so I saw this as one of those challenges. ""Personally, I  did not think I was going to die."" Dr Ireland described the ETU where he was treated as a ""twilight zone, a terrible place, gloomy and full of mayhem"". But when he is fully better, he will go back in. ""We are fighting a war, our country. I'm a doctor - that is what I can do. ""It is a probability that if you have been infected, then you have an immunity, I think for about 12 years,"" he added. This is the second in a series of reports on front-line workers dealing with the Ebola crisis. BBC launches WhatsApp Ebola service Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube","Dr Phillip Ireland thought the worst when he suffered a terrible headache , racing heart @placeholder and a fever .",flowers,food,rate,attack,show,2
"Similarly, the Professional Cricketers' Association has not been contacted by anyone prompted to come forward by high-profile cases in football. The ECB has contacted all 18 first-class counties, 39 county boards and other partners, reminding them of safeguarding procedures and responsibilities. Avenues for reporting cases concerning cricket were open long before the reports that affected football, but neither the ECB or PCA have been made aware of any new cases. ""No-one can be complacent and we are always looking to improve and learn from best practice, in the game and from elsewhere,"" an ECB spokesman said. ""ECB is totally committed to offering a safe environment for everyone in cricket and we take our safeguarding responsibilities very seriously."" Similarly, Rugby Football Union (RFU) chief executive Ian Richie said that his sport had not been notified of any child abuse allegations since the football crisis began. ""I've not heard of anything historically with the RFU as in football but you can never tell,"" he told BBC Sport. ""You have to be ever-vigilant. ""There are cases that have happened in rugby historically and when you look at the number of children playing there's a certain sad inevitability that there's going to be these instances. ""We do 13,000 record checks a year, there are hundreds of thousands of children playing rugby, we have a substantial safeguarding unit which has former police officers in it. It's an ongoing challenge."" Several former footballers have waived their right to anonymity to speak of the abuse they received. According to police, 98 professional and amateur clubs have been ""impacted"" and 21 police forces have opened investigations. A dedicated sexual abuse helpline, set up by the NSPCC and supported by the Football Association, received 860 calls within its first three days. The number for the PCA's confidential helpline, for professional cricketers past and present, is 0844 800 6873, while the ECB can be contacted through www.ecb.co.uk/safeguarding. ""We always encourage anyone with any concerns to contact the safeguarding team or relevant authorities and assure them that we would work swiftly and sensitively should they have anything to report,"" the ECB added. The ECB has also asked two members of its board, Lucy Pearson and Jim Wood, to review its safeguarding policies. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.","The England and Wales Cricket Board has @placeholder to all counties in the wake of the child sex abuse scandal in football , but has not been informed of any new allegations in the sport .",risen,urged,promised,written,responded,3
"But maybe this weekend the National Union of Teachers should break the habit of a lifetime and try loving Ofsted, and the Chancellor, George Osborne, should let bygones be bygones and love the teachers' unions. What kind of March hare madness is this? The two biggest teachers' unions, the NUT and NASUWT, are gathering for their Easter conferences. And it has been an article of faith to ritually condemn Ofsted and all its works. The education watchdog for England has been the relentless target of teachers' anger, accused of unfair and summary judgements and demoralising the profession. Conferences have called for the resignation of Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw. And this year's NUT conference will have barely started when it will hear the first call for the abolition of Ofsted. But maybe this bank holiday the union conferences should think again. Because next year, they might wish they still had Sir Michael in office as the nation's unyielding head teacher. Why would they consider such heretical thoughts? Because when Sir Michael steps down later this year, it could be the opportunity for the government to take an axe to Ofsted's powers. The Department for Education has made no secret of its irritation with the chief inspector's readiness to intervene in what it would see as areas of ministerial policy. His attack on the overpaid underachievers running academies was a rather spectacular show of independence, ahead of the government's plans for all schools to become academies. Sir Michael might have drawn the wrath of teachers' unions, but his instincts have always been public service and public sector. He's been a head teacher bristling with ambition for state school pupils to have the same chance as those in private schools. But when he goes, it will remove a major brake on many of the changes that could accompany an all-academy school system. Academies can set their own terms for teachers' pay and conditions, they don't have to follow the national curriculum, and if qualified teacher status is abolished, they will have much more flexibility in who can be hired. Many of these optouts are already in place, but schools are much less likely to take experimental shortcuts when they have Ofsted breathing down their neck. Likewise, academy chains have been kept on their toes by the harrying of Ofsted's group inspections. Ofsted has been an obstacle to the type of deregulation that some free-marketeers might have anticipated. Appointing a new chief inspector is likely to provide ministers with a chance to rethink this role. And it could be that the regional schools commissioners become the new power brokers. These rather anonymous figures are much less likely to cause trouble for ministers - and much less likely to draw public attention to any problems that emerge. So the teachers' unions, having attacked Sir Michael for so long, could come to miss his disapproving stare. But what about the other side of this unlikely equation? Why would George Osborne want to send a bouquet to the teachers' delegates gathering in conferences this weekend? Right-wing opponents might like to caricature trade unions as dinosaurs from another era. But there is no escaping the popularity of unions with the teaching profession. About 97% of teachers are in a union, about four times the national average. It reflects the fact trade union members are increasingly likely to be middle-income graduates - and that you have to be relatively well paid to even threaten to go on strike. Instead of taking on these middle-class trade unionists, maybe Mr Osborne should be embracing them. Maybe he should be calling on other professions to follow their example. Because they could help with one of his biggest problems - tackling wage stagnation and resuscitating a consumer feel-good factor. Any upticks in the economy since the financial crash have struggled to find their way into the nation's pay packets. In both the US and UK, it's been seen as fuelling a deep sense of frustration. Political systems built on post-War growth have struggled to connect with an electorate, including the middle class, that feels like it's going backwards. A recent report from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics said that in real terms average wages were still about 9% lower than before the financial crisis and that income growth showed no sign of recovering to pre-recession levels. This stagnation in earnings is unlike anything since the 1920s, says the economics centre. Report author Stephen Machin says the decline in union membership is part of this lack of upward pressure on pay. Economists have talked about a ""lost decade"" for pay increases. A decade without a pay rise might seem like a blip on the screen of long-term economics - but in the life of a family, it's a huge stretch of time. It's the difference between getting an extra bedroom as children get older, being able to move home or to be able to afford a holiday before children grow up and leave. Getting by on the same money for year after year, while costs rise relentlessly, has a demoralising impact. Prof Machin says that in the US, median pay has barely shifted upwards since the late 1970s. There are many suggestions for why earnings have been frozen. Automation and globalisation are both prime suspects. Wage inequality, with extremely high pay for top executives, has also been blamed. But studies in the US have highlighted a more basic structural change. Less of the wealth generated by companies is going into paying the staff. If profits improve, it isn't going back into salaries. Could trade unions be the chancellor's secret weapon? Could they be the way to encourage employers to put more of the money back into the pockets of consumers who could then start feeling that the pay permafrost was going to thaw. Jason Furman, chairman of US President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, recently told the BBC World Service of the link between unionisation and how pay is distributed. ""We've looked at data in the US for the last 100 years and found that when the share of workers in trade unions goes down, the share of income going to the bottom 90% of Americans also goes down,"" he said. ""And with trade union density at less than 10% right now, it shouldn't be a surprise that the share of income going to the bottom 90% of households is at a near century-long low."" Maybe the weekend's teachers' union conferences should be seen by the chancellor as a positive step towards growth. So this weekend, what are the odds we'll see a rousing round of applause for Ofsted followed by George Osborne rushing down to the seaside for a fraternal embrace?",There are some things you @placeholder that you know are not going to go down well with anybody .,think,write,say,evidence,see,1
"It is set to expand even further, with several countries being considered for membership. The European Union has its roots in the 1951 agreement by France, Germany and four other countries to pool coal and steel supplies, with the aim of ending ""age-old rivalries"". In 1993 EU leaders adopted the so-called Copenhagen criteria setting standards for democracy, human rights, the rule of law, minority protection and civilian control over the military that all candidate states must meet to become members. The maps below show how the economic bloc has grown over the years.",The forerunner to the European Union was formed by six countries in 1952 and now has 28 members with a @placeholder population of more than 500 million people .,renewed,combined,couple,planned,amount,1
"9 January 2016 Last updated at 13:56 GMT Huge scrapes were found in rocks, left behind by the animals in Colorado in America. The patterns are similar to those left by puffins and ostriches after they do their special mating dances. The kind of dinosaurs that left these marks are still unknown but the findings have brought scientists one step closer to figuring out how the animals lived.",Scientists who study dinosaurs say they @placeholder to perform a special bird - like dance to attract a partner .,like,want,fail,try,used,4
"The senior official described the figure as a ""conservative estimate"". The figure showed air power and a small number of US figures supporting local forces were having an impact, the official said. The US has, however, repeatedly warned that IS can replace fighters rapidly. The official on Thursday said that coalition air strikes could be intensified in places like Mosul, which Iraqi troops are now battling to recapture, but that had to be offset against the risk of civilian casualties. The campaign was beginning to damage IS, the official said. ""I am not into morbid counts but that kind of volume matters, that kind of impact on the enemy."" The US has often been reluctant to provide figures on enemy casualties. But in August, Lt Gen Sean MacFarland was quoted by the AP news agency as saying that about 45,000 enemy combatants had been killed. In February, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said IS had about 25,000 fighters operating in Syria and Iraq, citing a US intelligence estimate. IS has lost a lot of ground since it reached the high tide of its expansion in 2014, and is now under fire from Russian, Turkish, Iraqi, Syrian and Kurdish forces, as well as US and British air power. It is now entrenched in Mosul and Raqqa and the Sunni Arab tribal heartland of the Euphrates river valley, which stretches from eastern Syria to western Iraq.","At least 50,000 militants from so - called Islamic State have been killed since the US - led coalition @placeholder fighting in Iraq and Syria two years ago , a US military official has said .",started,group,quoted,held,record,0
"South Central Ambulance Service said it called in the service from 21 December to ensure it met critical calls. Fire appliances, with trained trauma technicians and defibrillators onboard, were sent if it was quickest. In a two-and-a-half week period over Christmas the fire service attended 240 critical calls. Firefighters responded to a medical call every 30 minutes at peak times and performed CPR on numerous occasions. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue's chief fire officer Dave Etheridge said: ""Our staff have made this transition successfully, from the call handling to arriving at scene and assessing the patient up to the final handover to ambulance crews."" The fire service, which is continuing to answer ambulance calls, said sharing responsibilities had not affected its ability to tackle its own emergencies.",Fire engines have been used to respond to emergency ambulance call outs in Oxfordshire following a surge in @placeholder over the Christmas period .,casualties,action,demand,conditions,incident,2
"The government introduced fees in 2013 to reduce the number of malicious and weak cases, but that led to a 79% reduction over three years. Trade union Unison argued that the fees prevented workers getting access to justice. The Supreme Court also found fees were indirectly discriminatory to women. It ruled tht the government was acting unlawfully and unconstitutionally when it introduced the fees. Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: ""This is absolutely a tremendous victory, it's probably the biggest victory of employment rights in this country."" Fees ranged between £390 and £1,200 to get a case heard at a hearing. Discrimination cases cost more for claimants because of the complexity and time hearings took. The Supreme Court found this was indirectly discriminatory because a higher proportion of women would bring discrimination cases.","Fees for those bringing employment tribunal claims have been ruled unlawful , and the government will now have to @placeholder up to £ 32 m to claimants .",provide,repay,build,sign,limit,1
McManus netted from close range on the quarter-hour mark to open the scoring and Ross Forbes' deflected strike quickly doubled Morton's lead. A shot by Kyle McAusland pulled Alloa back into the game before half-time. But another McManus finish and one by Denny Johnstone late on ensured a comfortable win for the hosts.,"Declan McManus scored twice as Greenock Morton beat Scottish Championship bottom side Alloa Athletic , who @placeholder 10 points adrift .",played,remain,helped,reported,battled,1
"There was a fierce battle around Dure camp, which a statement describes as one of the most ""prominent"" hideouts for the militants. Boko Haram has not yet commented on the army statement and there has been no independent confirmation. The army has recaptured most of the territory the militants had seized but they remain active. Thousands have been killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria, in attacks carried out by Boko Haram since 2009. The army says that militants died both in the assault in the Sambisa forest and in an ambush when trying to flee, but did not specify how many. Last month, the army said it had rescued hundreds of former Boko Haram captives from Sambisa, a vast forest surrounding a game reserve. The attack on the camps came on the same day as a female suicide bomber killed at least six people at a bus station in the north-eastern town of Damaturu. The Nigerian police say they are investigating but said it appears to have been carried out by Boko Haram. The use of female suicide bombers in this way is a worrying sign that the jihadists are not a defeated force, the BBC's Will Ross in Nigeria says. The fight against Boko Haram has drawn in Nigeria's neighbours as the militants threaten their security as well. Soldiers from Chad, Cameroon and Niger have helped Nigeria's army against Boko Haram. Why Boko Haram remains a threat Boko Haram: What next for the rescued? Jihadist groups around the world",Nigeria 's army says it has @placeholder 10 more camps used by Boko Haram in the north - east of the country .,received,helped,avoided,cleared,condemned,3
"Erectile dysfunction drugs worth £500,000 were found in a garden shed after a raid at Atilla Fodor's property in Datchet, Slough. Fodor, 38, was charged with importation and possession of unlicensed medicines with intent to supply and the supply of unlicensed medicines. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison at Reading Crown Court. An investigation carried out last year found Fodor had netted more than £27,000 from the illegally imported drugs. They are only allowed to be sold on prescription in the UK. Alastair Jeffrey, head of enforcement at Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said: ""Selling unlicensed medicines is illegal and can pose a serious risk to health. ""Criminals involved in the illegal supply of medical products aren't interested in your health - they are only interested in your money. ""MHRA will continue to track down and prosecute those who put the public's health at risk.""","A man who made nearly £ 30,000 selling doses of unlicensed Viagra - @placeholder drugs has been jailed .",west,form,style,free,inducing,2
"Nicky Reilly, then 22, carried three devices held in glass bottles into the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter in 2008. Reilly, who admitted attempted murder and preparing an act of terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison and told he must serve a minimum of 18 years. Reilly, 30, was found dead in custody at HMP Manchester on Wednesday. The cause of death has not been revealed. A Prison Service spokeswoman said ""as with all deaths in custody"" there would be an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman. Reilly had been targeted by extremists ahead of his bombing attempt, according to his mother, who said she was ""too upset"" about his death to comment. I was there at the Old Bailey when Reilly was sentenced. In the public gallery, his mother Kim wept through much of the hearing. She always said her son was vulnerable and preyed on by extremists, who used him by pretending to be his friends. But Reilly himself showed no remorse. And he had viable bombs, which could have caused dreadful destruction had they detonated in the way Reilly intended on that spring day, back in 2008. Former Devon and Cornwall Police Assistant Chief Constable Bob Spencer, who commanded the emergency response to the attempted bombing of May 2008, told the BBC: ""My sympathies go to his family and loved ones. ""But Reilly did attempt to commit a terrible crime, and justice had to be done in terms of him receiving a long prison sentence."" Sentencing Reilly at the Old Bailey in London, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith said it was ""sheer luck or chance that [the bombing] did not succeed in its objectives"". ""The offence of attempted murder is aggravated by the fact that it was long-planned, that it had multiple intended victims and was intended to terrorise the population of this country,"" he added. Police believe Reilly was encouraged by extremists in Pakistan. In 2004 he changed his name to Mohamed Rashid Saeed-Alim, and began to download videos on bomb-making and martyrdom. He had been preparing to detonate the bombs, containing about 500 nails, at the Giraffe restaurant when one exploded in his hands. Dozens of customers and staff fled the restaurant in panic. Reilly - who converted to Islam between 2002 and 2003 - had learning difficulties and Asperger's syndrome. He received a separate 16-month sentence in July for attacking staff at Broadmoor high security psychiatric unit in a row over prayers. A Prison Service spokesperson said: ""HMP Manchester prisoner Mohamed Saeed-Alim died in custody on Wednesday 19 October. ""As with all deaths in custody there will be an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.""",A man who @placeholder himself with a home - made nail bomb during a bid to blow up a restaurant has died in prison .,injected,lost,hanged,injured,spent,3
"The 2m (6.5ft) sandstone human figure probably functioned as a guardian who stood at the entrance to an ancient hospital, researchers say. The Cambodia Daily described Saturday's find as ""like something that only happens in the movies"". Angkor Wat is one of south-east Asia's most popular tourist destinations. Last year the complex - which was built over different periods of the Khmer empire from the ninth to the 15th centuries - attracted about 2.5 million visitors. But many of the complex's most valuable items have been looted. Experts say that is why the latest find is so extraordinary. It is described as the most important statue to have been found at Angkor in recent years. Archaeologists found the statue buried 40cm (16in) underground while excavating a hospital built during the reign of King Jayavarman VII who reigned from 1181 to around 1220. The king had a reputation for social programmes, with the hospital being one of the most prominent. The statue's arms and legs are broken but engravings on its body and head can still clearly be seen. Experts say the hope now is that other objects will be unearthed at the site so that more information can be gleaned on the lifestyles of people of the era. Historian Rethy Chhem told the Cambodia Daily that the hospital is one of four built in the area, none of which has been properly excavated. Each hospital contained various statues of divinities, he said, the most prized of which was a statue of the Medicine Buddha. ""We would hit gold if we found the statue of the Buddha,"" Dr Chhem said. Most Buddha statues were destroyed during Jayavarman's reign as part of his push to reintroduce Brahmanism. Many of those that were not damaged were looted, although it is thought some were buried so they could be preserved. How did Angkor Wat come to be? Lasers uncover hidden ancient Angkor Wat cities in Cambodia Will tourists pay nearly double to enter Angkor Wat?",Archaeologists at Cambodia 's @placeholder Angkor Wat temple complex have unearthed a large statue believed to date back to the late 12th century .,centre,celebrated,growing,disabled,pioneering,1
"It said the lack of public trust in banking after numerous scandals was an ""ongoing concern"" for the industry and the government. In a new report, ResPublica called for an oath for bankers to ""fulfil their proper moral and economic purpose"". Small businesses should also be treated as consumers, said the report. The think tank said this could ensure banks treated struggling firms fairly. Director at ResPublica, Philip Blond, said: ""As countless scandals demonstrate, virtue is distinctly absent from our banking institutions. ""Britain's bankers lack a sense of ethos and the institutions they work for lack a clearly defined social purpose."" He said an oath would ""finally place bankers on the road to absolution"". The think tank said the British Bankers' Association, Building Societies Association and the new Banking Standards Review Council should adopt the oath for their members. An extract from the oath says: ""I will do my utmost to behave in a manner that prioritises the needs of customers. ""It is my first duty to provide an exemplary quality of service to my customers and to exhibit a duty of care above and beyond what is required by law."" Another part adds: ""I will confront profligacy and impropriety wherever I encounter it, for the conduct of bankers can have dramatic consequence for society."" BBA executive director for financial policy and operations, Paul Chisnall, said: ""Restoring trust and confidence is the banking industry's number one priority. ""But meaningful cultural change in an industry as complex and diverse as banking takes time."" He said a banking oath ""very well could be part of the answer"". ResPublica also said bank shareholders should have more responsibility to make sure banks are held to account. The full report, Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of banking, was launched on Tuesday by the chairman of the Banking Standards Review Council, Sir Richard Lambert. Speaking to the BBC, Mr Lambert said: ""Over the last ten or 15 years ...  the norms of behaviour in bits of the banking sector have slipped out to a way which is unacceptable"". ""I am strongly in favour or robust regulation, but the law can only go so far. ""Banks should decide what is the purpose of banking. ""Why are they in business? Are they there just to maximise profits, are they a utility, are they there to serve the public and not make profits? What are they for?"" On Monday Lloyds Banking Group was fined £218m for ""serious misconduct"" over a key interest rate set in London, Libor. Part of the fine, from the Financial Conduct Authority, was for abusing a scheme set up by the Bank of England to help the financial industry during the crisis. Richard Jeffrey from Cazenove Capital Management told the BBC that it was ""shocking that Lloyds was biting or, at least trying to bite, the hand that was feeding it. He said: ""A lot has changed in the banking industry.  I think ethics have changed but a lot needs to be done. ""Banks were far more inwardly focussed on the money they were generating ... One of the key changes we have got to see in ethics within banking is that every decision [banks take have] to be focussed on the wellbeing of your clients"".","An oath for bankers should be @placeholder to raise accountability and standards in banking , said the think tank ResPublica .",followed,linked,forced,introduced,administered,3
"Craig Noone hit two stunning first-half strikes from range to put the away side in command, but Wolves pulled one back before half-time through Michal Zyro. Joe Ralls' low, left-footed drive from outside the area secured Cardiff's first away win of 2016. Defeat ended Wolves' run of four league wins in a row, leaving them eight points behind the top six. Cardiff's win came less than 24 hours after they were placed under a transfer embargo for breaching Financial Fair Play rules while chairman Mehmet Dalman said the ""jury was still out"" over manager Russell Slade. But Slade's side controlled the first half and almost went ahead when Stuart O'Keefe hit the crossbar, before Noone twice found the top left corner with his left foot to stun Wolves. The hosts responded as Polish winger Zyro poked in from close range for his third goal in two games. But Noone fed Ralls for his first goal of the season after half-time and Cardiff's victory rarely looked in doubt. The result saw the Bluebirds complete a league double over Wolves, after their 2-0 win at the Cardiff City Stadium in August. Wolves boss Kenny Jackett: Media playback is not supported on this device ""We have defended a lot better than that and I am disappointed with the goals. ""While there was a good attitude and spirit about us to be competitive, you need to keep the goals against column down. ""We needed to stay in that game - that is the period of the season that it is. We didn't do that or recognise some very good strengths that Cardiff have."" Cardiff boss Russell Slade: ""The football club needed a response and that's exactly what we got. ""We were very strong in both boxes and that has won us a football match. ""It was a really good team effort today to get us over the line and a really welcome result."" Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Cardiff City 3. Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Cardiff City 3. Foul by Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Stuart O'Keefe (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Bruno Ecuele Manga. Substitution, Cardiff City. Alex Revell replaces Anthony Pilkington. Attempt blocked. Michal Zyro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Matt Doherty with a cross. Attempt saved. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Anthony Pilkington. Corner,  Cardiff City. Conceded by Matt Doherty. Foul by Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Lee Peltier (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Stuart O'Keefe (Cardiff City). Offside, Cardiff City. Matthew Connolly tries a through ball, but Anthony Pilkington is caught offside. Substitution, Cardiff City. Fabio replaces Peter Whittingham. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) has gone down, but that's a dive. Attempt blocked. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stuart O'Keefe. Attempt missed. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by James Henry with a cross. Offside, Cardiff City. Scott Malone tries a through ball, but Anthony Pilkington is caught offside. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Lee Peltier (Cardiff City) because of an injury. Attempt missed. Ethan Ebanks-Landell (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Dominic Iorfa following a corner. Attempt missed. Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner. Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Anthony Pilkington. Attempt blocked. Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Rajiv van La Parra (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Joe Ralls (Cardiff City). Corner,  Cardiff City. Conceded by Danny Batth. Substitution, Cardiff City. Kagisho Dikgacoi replaces Joe Mason. Attempt missed. Michal Zyro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is too high from a direct free kick. Rajiv van La Parra (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Scott Malone (Cardiff City). Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Joe Ralls. Corner,  Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Craig Noone. Attempt missed. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Foul by James Henry (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Lee Peltier (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Michal Zyro (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Bruno Ecuele Manga (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.",Cardiff City produced an impressive away display to win at Wolves thanks to three superbly - @placeholder goals .,level,taken,struggling,timed,form,1
"Ryan Counsell, 28, denies four charges, including trying to join an Islamic terrorist group in the Philippines. Woolwich Crown Court heard the e-book suggested using a fake beard or moustache as a disguise and playing console games like Call of Duty. It also advised against going Paintballing ""because they write down the names of every Muslim who goes"". Counsell, who worked at the Hyson Green branch of Asda, in Nottingham, used annual leave to travel to remote parts of South-East Asia, prosecutors said. Dan Pawson-Pounds, for the Crown, said the defendant spent two years stockpiling equipment for his trip. Items included Kevlar-lined underpants called ""Blast Boxers"" and badges with the words, ""Zombie Response Team,"" ""I love my beard,"" and ""We do bad things to bad people"", he added. Counsell is charged with preparing acts of terrorism by obtaining information about Islamic terrorist groups in the Philippines, arranging to travel to the Philippines to join and fight for an Islamic terrorist group, and purchasing equipment and clothing for use when having joined such a group. The married father, from Nottingham, also faces a charge of possession of electronic documents containing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. The trial continues.","A supermarket worker @placeholder a terrorism guide in preparation for joining extremists , a court heard .",lost,targeted,downloaded,recorded,claiming,2
"The Republic of Ireland striker, frozen out by Ronny Deila in Glasgow following off-field misdemeanors, has scored two goals in two appearances already for the side chasing Rangers for the one automatic promotion place from the Scottish Championship. Michael O'Halloran, Rangers' deadline-day acquisition from St Johnstone, will have to go some to match the influence Stokes can have on the Edinburgh side. However, Billy King, the winger on loan from Hearts, made his mark with a debut goal for the Ibrox side. Third-top Falkirk opened their cheque book to emphasise their desire to clinch a play-off place at the very least. They took skilful forward Myles Hippolyte from Championship rivals Livingston and Nathan Austin from East Fife, although the latter is one for future campaigns after being immediately loaned back to the League Two club. Livingston themselves used some of the money from the Hippolyte deal to buy midfielder Josh Mullin from Albion Rovers, manager David Hopkin having already added some notable names with top-flight experience - including Mark Fotheringham, Charlie Telfer and Sam Stanton - in their bid to avoid the drop. New St Mirren manager Alex Rae is also banking on experience as the Paisley side look to move away from the bottom and has recruited four players who have played in the top flight. One-time Aberdeen striker Declan McManus looks like he will be a quality addition on his return to Greenock Morton on loan from Fleetwood Town. Meanwhile, Raith Rovers are looking to harness the youthful talents of Aidan Connolly, the midfielder released by Dundee United, and forward Harry Panayiotou on loan from Leicester City. Dumbarton will provide a platform for intriguing winger Kler Heh, a 19-year-old who was brought up in a refugee camp in Thailand. In: Liam Caddis, midfielder (St Johnstone); Scott Gallagher, goalkeeper (Hearts); Mitch Megginson, forward (Raith Rovers); Ryan Finnie, defender (Annan Athletic). Loan: Scott McKenna, defender (Aberdeen). Out: Michael Doyle, defender (St Johnstone); Andy McNeil, goalkeeper (Greenock Morton). Loan: Mark Williams, defender (Arbroath). In: Christian Nade, forward (Hamilton Academical). Loan: Tom Walsh, midfielder (Rangers); Kler Heh, midfielder (Sheffield United). Out: Willie Gibson, midfielder (Stranraer); Steven Craig, forward (Forfar Athletic); Gordon Smith, forward. Loan ended: Scott Brown, midfielder (St Johnstone). Loan: Ryan Clark, midfielder (Arthurlie). In: Myles Hippolyte, forward (Livingston, undisclosed); Nathan Austin, forward (East Fife, undisclosed); Deniz Dogan Mehmet, goalkeeper (Kayserispor); Kevin McCann, defender (Warriors). Loan: Conor McGrandles, midfielder (Norwich City). Out: Ryan Blair, midfielder (Swansea City, undisclosed); Kieran Duffie, defender; Alex Cooper, midfielder (St Mirren); Thomas Grant, midfielder. Loan ended: Ryan Sinnamon, defender (Rangers). Loan: Nathan Austin, forward (East Fife); Graham Bowman, goalkeeper (Stenhousemuir); Scott Shepherd, forward (Brechin City); Alex Tokarczyk,  goalkeeper (Montrose). In: Andy McNeil, goalkeeper (Alloa Athletic).Loan: Declan McManus, forward (Fleetwood Town) Out: Grant Adam, goalkeeper (Cowdenbeath). Loan: Thomas Orr, forward (East Stirlingshire); Dylan Stevenson, midfielder (Berwick Rangers). In: Kevin Thomson, midfielder (Dundee); Otso Virtanen, goalkeeper (Mariehamn); Chris Dagnall, forward (Karela Blasters); Josh Peters, forward (Strathspey Thistle). Loan: Anthony Stokes, forward (Celtic); Niklas Gunnarsson, defender (Valerenga). Out: Dominique Malonga, forward (Pro Vercelli 1892, undisclosed); Adam Eckersley, defender; Antonio Reguero, goalkeeper. Loan: Jordan Forster, defender (Plymouth Argyle); Sam Stanton, midfielder (Livingston); Jordan McGregor, defender (Berwick Rangers); Callum Crane, defender (Berwick Rangers); Aaron Dunsmore, defender (Edinburgh City); Aaron Scott, midfielder (Gala Fairydean). Loan ended: Islam Feruz, forward (Chelsea); Henri Anier, forward (Dundee United). In: Josh Mullin, midfielder (Albion Rovers, undisclosed); Mark Fotheringham, midfielder (Fulham); Marc McCallum, goalkeeper (Dundee United); Craig Halkett, defender (Rangers). Loan: Charlie Telfer, midfielder (Dundee United); Sam Stanton, midfielder (Hibernian); Osman Kakay, defender (Queens Park Rangers). Out: Mark Burchill, manager; Myles Hippolyte, forward (Falkirk, undisclosed); Hugo Faria, midfielder (Airdrieonians); Ross Millen, defender (Clyde); Declan Gallagher, defender (prison); Moses Duckrell, midfielder. Loan: Spas Georgiev, midfielder (Albion Rovers); Kieran Gibbons, midfielder (Cowdenbeath). In: Loan: Andy Murdoch, midfielder (Rangers). Out: Paul Heffernan, forward. Loan: Shaun Rutherford, defender (Arbroath); Scott Hooper, defender (Queen's Park); Fraser Morton, goalkeeper (Dalbeattie Star). Loan ended: Liam Coogans, forward (Huddersfield Town). In: Aidan Connolly, midfielder (Dundee United). Loan: Harry Panayiotou, forward (Leicester City); Louis Longridge, forward (Hamilton Academical); Ryan Hardie, forward (Rangers). Out: Mitch Megginson, forward (Alloa Athletic); Jon Daly, forward (Hearts). Loan: Darren Petrie, midfielder (Albion Rovers). Loan ended: Craig Wighton, forward (Dundee). In: Michael O'Halloran, forward (St Johnstone, undisclosed); Maciej Gostomski, goalkeeper (Lech Poznan); Harry Forrester, midfielder (Doncaster Rovers); Mekhi Leacock-McLeod, midfielder (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Loan: Billy King, midfielder (Hearts). Out: Craig Halkett, defender (Livingston). Loan ended: Nathan Oduwa, midfielder (Tottenham Hotspur). Loan: Fraser Aird, midfielder (Vancouver Whitecaps); Andy Murdoch, midfielder (Queen of the South); Tom Walsh, midfielder (Dumbarton); Ryan Hardie, forward (Raith Rovers); Liam Kelly, goalkeeper (East Fife). In: Rocco Quinn, midfielder (Ross County); Gary Irvine, defender (Dundee); Alex Cooper, midfielder (Falkirk). Loan: David Clarkson, forward (Motherwell). Out: Mark Ridgers, goalkeeper. Loan ended: Paul McMullan, midfielder (Celtic); Luke Conlan, midfielder (Burnley); Craig Reid, defender (Motherwell). Loan: Lewis McLear, midfielder (Stirling Albion).","Rangers and Falkirk @placeholder the cash , but it was promotion rivals Hibernian who stole the headlines during January with the capture of Anthony Stokes on loan from Celtic .",splashed,opened,completed,ran,dominate,0
"Ross Torrance, 29, wore a balaclava when he robbed Bearsden Services but his stubble was seen poking out underneath by the forecourt worker. He was also seen removing the balaclava in a nearby street by an off-duty police officer who identified him. Torrance admitted the robbery and was jailed for four years and eight months. The High Court in Glasgow heard that the police officer had heard a panic alarm sounding at the Duntocher Road garage and saw the man ran off. The officer watched as he removed the balaclava in Castlehill Road and noticed he had red hair and a pale complexion. He identified the robber as Torrance, who lived nearby. Two meat cleavers and a balaclava were found during a search at Torrance's home in Dryburgh Road. The stolen money was not recovered. Torrance admitted robbing the petrol station of a quantity of money and threatening 47-year-old Margaret Stowell with two meat cleavers on 8 December last year. Prosecutor Bill McVicar told the court that Ms Stowell was about close at 22:00 when she was confronted by Torrance. Mr McVicar said: ""He said: ""'Do what yer telt and you won't get hurt,' and placed a bag on the counter and said: 'Put yer money in it.' ""The complainer walked past him and made her way to the tills. She began to feel for the panic button and tried to stall the accused by informing him that it took a few minutes to get into the till. ""She then asked him if he was sure he wanted to do this as there was not a lot of money in the till as it had been a quiet day. ""The only facial feature she could see from under the balaclava was ginger stubble."" The court heard that after giving Torrance £170 from the till she told him that was all he was getting and activated the panic alarm. When Torrance walked out the shop she phoned the police. Another customer entered the shop and found Ms Stowell in a distressed state. Torrance has previous convictions for assault and disorderly conduct and was jailed for 30 months in 2012 for an assault involving the use of a machete. Defence counsel Ronnie Renucci said: ""The story of Mr Torrance's life is one of drink and drugs. ""When he committed this offence he was under the influence of Valium and alcohol. ""He realises he was stupid. He lives close to the petrol station. He feels distressed and embarrassed by his behaviour. He is genuinely remorseful for what the complainer went through."" Judge Lord Boyd told Torrance: ""Those who work in the retail sector must have the protection of the courts.""","A man who raided his local petrol station armed with two meat cleavers was caught after his ginger stubble was @placeholder , a court has heard .",spotted,dumped,beaten,cut,stolen,0
"The announcement came on Spanish television, TVE, early on Saturday. The Ballesteros family soon confirmed in a statement that the golfer had died at 0210 (0010 GMT), surrounded by relatives, at home in Pedrena, northern Spain. He had been fighting brain cancer for two-and-half years, in what he himself called ""the biggest battle of my life, my 6th major"". On Friday, his family announced that his health had suffered a severe turn for the worse. The news cast a dark cloud over the Spanish Open golf championship, under way in Barcelona. Tournament flags were lowered, and players emerged wearing black ribbons in honour of the man they call the father of Spanish golf, their role model. At 1445 on Saturday, all play froze for a moment of silence in his memory. Footballers at Seve Ballesteros' local club, Racing Santander, also wore black armbands for their match - a tribute to a great sportsman, and a unique man, who fought against his illness to the last, according to club president, and Seve's friend, Francisco Pernia. Seve's former golf partner Jose Maria Olazabal was in tears during practice ahead of day three of the Spanish Open. But he said he would play on, as the best possible homage to his role model. ""I have always been grateful to him, for giving me the chance to play at his side,"" Mr Olazabal recalled, and added that what he would remember is Seve's personality and strength, his passion for everything he did. Many other sports personalities have expressed their own sorrow at Seve's death. Formula One driver Fernando Alonso called him a pioneer of golf in Spain: A man who discovered the sport for his country, and someone who would always remain as one of the greatest in Spanish sport. Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola said Seve Ballesteros was admired and loved in all the world. Footballer Raul commented that Spanish sport has lost one of its greats. Alongside them, and Spain's Royal Family, the country's politicians have also rushed to remember Seve Ballesteros. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said his career marked a turning point in sporting history here. Seve Ballesteros stormed the international sporting stage in 1976, when he finished second in the British Open. He went on to win three years later. His huge success then made him an ambassador for a country just emerging from four decades of dictatorship and international isolation under General Franco. ""He was a symbol of the new, democratic Spain,"" Mr Zapatero said. ""Open to the world, without complexes, and capable of being up there with the best in any discipline, including those we had hardly any tradition of, like golf"". His success helped Spain hold its head up high again. ""He was then, what someone like Rafa Nadal is today. But he came at a time, when we really needed those victories, on the international sports stage,"" agreed Spain's secretary of state for sport, Albert Soler. As well as putting Spain on the golfing, and sporting, map, many commentators point out the huge boost Seve gave the game at home. With his flair and famous charisma, he helped make golf something for the masses, not just the elite. He made it popular. And, in remembering the golfer's life, many have also paid tribute to the great strength he showed in his illness. The regional president of Cantabria, where Seve was born and where he died, recalled a recent trip to Madrid with the golfer. ""I offered my arm to help him, and he told me: ""I'm stronger than you"","" Miguel Angel Revilla said. ""He used to walk four or five kilometres a day and lift weights. He thought this was a battle he could win, but about 12 days ago, it seemed he was losing."" Severiano Ballesteros was 54. His funeral will be held on Wednesday, according to Spain's EFE news agency, and the golfer's ashes will then be returned to his home in Pedrena, as he himself wanted.","Spain 's greatest golfer . An icon . An inspiration . These are just some of the tributes flooding in for Severiano , or Seve , Ballesteros , @placeholder the news of his death .",comprising,marked,causing,following,praised,3
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 10 August 2015 Last updated at 08:50 BST It comes a week after a report suggested that several medal winners may have used performance enhancing drugs over recent years. According to The Sunday Times newspaper, the London Marathon was won seven times in 12 years by athletes who have recorded suspicious blood scores. There's no suggestion that Jo has ever done anything wrong, but she's joined eight other British athletes in releasing their test results to show they have nothing to hide. On Friday the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) announced that it would launch an ""urgent"" investigation into doping allegations. How are athletes tested for drugs?","European 10,000 m champion Jo Pavey says she 's chosen to publish her blood test @placeholder to show she 's a "" clean athlete "" .",status,positive,experience,data,message,3
"On average, patients whose conditions are classed as being life-threatening, waited nearly three minutes more in 2015-16 than they did in 2013-14. Average waiting times rose from 7.15 minutes to 10.17 minutes. The NI Ambulance Service said its target of eight minutes was being missed because of the outdated system for categorising calls. The longest average waiting time was in the South Eastern Trust area, where patients had to wait 11.30 minutes. The information was contained in a Freedom of Information request by the BBC into ambulance response and waiting times across the UK. 999 calls are separated into three categories by the NI ambulance service: The NI Ambulance Service (NIAS) said it was not meeting its target waiting time because of a problem in how those calls were broken down into each category. It said some category A calls were being miscategorised under the current system, and should instead be treated as serious but not life-threatening incidents. Brian McNeill, the director of operations at the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, said they are advocating a change to the system which is much needed. ""Demand has increased 23% from the last time we met the target which was 2012,"" he said. ""Our staff are working way beyond what we should require of them, without breaks and late finishes and we feel that the changes as to how we define the immediately life-threatening conditions will be positive."" NI Ambulance said the way calls are prioritised and their targets set was established in 1974 and has not kept up with current medical practices. The Welsh ambulance service introduced a new system in October 2015 which saw a tenfold reduction in the number of calls classed as an emergency, and enabled it to reach the most serious cases quicker. This ambulance response programme is also up and running in England, and the NIAS says it wants to bring in a similar system. In the meantime, it is operating a number of systems whereby not every call to a paramedic would require a hospital admission but could offer, for example, advice from a clinician. The NIAS says that, along with rising population figures, it also has to cope with increasing demand. The percentage of calls that waited more than 12 minutes for a response increased from 17% in 2013-14 to more than 27% in 2015-16. Northern Ireland Ambulance Service waiting times for category A calls - the most serious calls, where there is, potentially, an immediate threat to life. One area where Northern Ireland appears to be doing better than the rest of the UK is the time spent waiting to hand over patients at emergency departments. In 2013-14, the NIAS spent 16,719 hours waiting on hospitals to take their patients. This dropped to 14,928 in 2015-16. The NIAS has a workforce of 1,287 and while overall demand on the service has increased, so have staff sickness levels, going up from just under 9% in 2013-14 to more than 10% in 2015-16.",The highest priority ambulance call - outs in Northern Ireland are taking longer to @placeholder than three years ago .,hold,protect,arrive,receive,introduce,2
"He says he felt ""bullied"" into getting rid of the character over claims he made rape jokes - claims he denies. In our exclusive interview, O'Reilly insists he wants to ""continue to entertain my fans"". It's the first time the comedian's spoken since saying he's bringing back Dapper Laughs. He says the backlash against Dapper Laughs has made him ""be careful"" about what he says. Newsbeat asked him if he felt he'd lost his right to speak freely, even if people found what he said offensive. ""Freedom of speech. I understand with freedom of speech comes consequences. Again, I feel like I was bullied out of it."" He says he felt his freedom of speech had been violated and believes his comedy would be treated differently now in light of the Charlie Hebdo shootings earlier this year. ""If you take the whole situation that happened over those three days (when O'Reilly killed off his Dapper Laughs character) and done that now, a week after that situation (Charlie Hebdo) I think the outcome would have been completely different. ""If I wanted to at the time I could have tried to rally all of my fans together and say, 'look at what they're doing to me, come on help', but I didn't."" He says he killed off Dapper Laughs last November after getting ""a lot of hate"" towards his family from people online. He says he was ""forced"" to stop playing the character and announce his decision in an interview with Newsnight. O'Reilly says he was shocked at the media response to Dapper Laughs and how newspapers were ""allowed to fabricate and make up stuff and create a mass hysteria point of view around the character"". He says: ""I felt completely bullied out of it. I come from quite a rough background, I don't mind saying it. ""I'm working class, I know that my humour caters for that type of lad, or whatever, humour. ""But the majority of people at my shows are women. The audience is more heavy [to] women. The audience is mixed, so I understand the upper class - different types of people - like different types of humour. They're not going to like my humour, I understand that. ""But they've bullied me out of continuing to do what I wanted to do. And when they portrayed my humour to the masses, to the UK, they done it in a way where they showed everything's falling apart, the rape joke and everything like that. ""Yeah, I felt bullied, I felt it was unfair really, to be honest."" He also says he had people ""wishing that my dad had cancer and would die"", and reveals his father was actually battling cancer at the time. O'Reilly also says reporters were ""going to my mum's house, banging on the door, with cameras, going to my sister's kid's school, with cameras and my sister's house with cameras"". But not everybody agrees with Daniel's brand of comedy. 20-year-old Amy, a student in Sheffield, told Newsbeat Dapper Laughs is ""dangerous"". ""The way that is on Facebook, and everywhere, like it's so big on social media, I think that's one of the most dangerous things about it. ""People see that every single day, it's like normality being misogynistic about women. I don't think freedom of speech comes into that. I think it's very dangerous and perpetuates rape culture."" Meanwhile, O'Reilly says claims he made jokes about rape are wrong. ""So let's talk about this then. This for me is one of the most frustrating parts of the drama that happened, because I've got people coming up to me in the street, and people writing on social media. ""There's millions of people in the UK who think they know who Dapper Laughs is, that have never seen any of his videos. They haven't watched any of it. They've just heard that one joke and they've cast their opinion on that."" O'Reilly says he doesn't make jokes about rape and has ""never found rape funny"". The Londoner says he didn't kill off Dapper Laughs to create publicity. ""It wasn't a stunt. It wasn't a stunt at all. Like I just explained to you, everything was too much. That was the only way that I could stop it. And it did, it stopped it, it stopped the drama. ""Then, do you know what? I had time to settle down, and calm down and think about what had happened. ""[It was] after I'd started receiving other petitions, 30, 40,000 people signing petitions on my Facebook to bring me back, and a lot of my fans disgusted that I even contemplated giving up what I loved doing, and when I thought about the hard work of what we'd achieved last year, including two sold out tours. ""You know what I mean? I wrote and co-produced my own TV show, I got a single to 15 in the charts. Do you know what I mean? I headlined at V Festival comedy tent twice, didn't receive any complaints. ""And to think all of that because of what the media decided they wanted to communicate to the public, I had to stop it. ""I sat down and thought about it, I thought to myself, 'Nah, I'm not going to be bullied out of what I like doing. Let's bring it back, let's carry on.'"" Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube","Dapper Laughs creator Daniel O'Reilly says he feels his freedom of speech has been "" 100 % "" violated by a media campaign against his @placeholder .",future,emotions,work,act,recovery,3
"The busy crossing was shut to all traffic early in December when a crack in a truss end link was discovered during a routine inspection. Temporary brackets were installed which allowed cars to use the bridge before Christmas last year. Heavier vehicles were banned from the bridge until February. The truss end links are now being replaced with a new permanent sliding bearing arrangement, contractors Amey said. The strength of the temporary brackets means the work will be carried out with ""minimal disruption to road users"". A small number of overnight contraflows will be in place, but Amey said they had been scheduled at the same time as other planned maintenance. Mark Arndt, from the Forth Bridges Unit, said: ""The repairs carried out last winter were necessary to get the bridge back open to traffic as quickly and safely as possible. ""Since then, we've been planning and preparing for this permanent replacement, and it's remarkable that the team has reached this point less than nine months since the original defect was discovered. ""We'll press on now to get the job done with minimum disruption to bridge users."" A Scottish Parliament committee investigated the closure of the bridge last year and concluded the crack ""could not have been foreseen"". The new Queensferry Crossing is due to open next year and will ease the traffic burden over the Forth Bridge. It was initially due for completion at the end of 2016 but ""adverse weather conditions"" in April and May hit construction, ministers said.",Final work has started to replace the @placeholder structure that led to the closure of the Forth Road Bridge at the end of last year .,damaged,water,growing,existing,process,0
"Engineers are still trying to winch One Old Peculiar out of the water after it was one of two boats that came loose on Monday and crashed into Botley Bridge. The Environment Agency has so far unsuccessfully tried pumping out water and towing it with a tractor. Owner John Simmonds, 35, said he had lost everything and feels ""gobsmacked"". He said the boat was properly secured when he left it for 30 to 45 minutes to get some lunch, but had been unmoored when he returned. Mr Simmonds, who works as a computer programmer, said the cause could be ""delinquency"" and added: ""I don't think it was personal, I don't have many enemies. ""Some people may not realise how these things can escalate very, very quickly."" He added he was not sure whether he had valid insurance for the narrow boat. Russell Robson, Environment Agency team leader, said he was ""optimistic"" the latest attempt would work. He said the river conditions meant it was too dangerous to put divers inside the 25-tonne boat. Mr Robson added: ""That has prevented us from using flotation to get the vessel higher in the water and pump it out. ""What we're looking to do is to attach steel to it and use a winch to try and winch it across the river and control it coming out via other winches attached to the land on either side.""",The owner of a @placeholder narrow boat that crashed in the River Thames has said his home must have been deliberately untied .,stranded,company,body,group,planned,0
"Clodagh Dunlop, who is 35 and from Magherafelt, suffered a massive stroke in April and walked out of hospital for the first time on Thursday. It was on her birthday in May that Clodagh started to show signs of breaking free from being locked-in. There is no treatment or cure, and recovery is very rare. Locked-in syndrome affects particular parts of the brain and Clodagh has had to relearn basic bodily functions like breathing and swallowing Her long-term goal is to run four miles as she used to do every day. Clodagh was based as a PSNI officer in Londonderry. It is a role she hopes to return to one day. ""I'm immensely excited,"" she told BBC Radio Foyle. ""I have gone from just being able to blink my eyes when I was locked in to taking a few small steps across the threshold at Musgrave. ""The staff have become my family and are very special people. ""I told the sister in charge that they have all become angels to me. I had a few tears along the way. ""I can't even describe what the feeling was like. ""When I was admitted they asked me what I wanted to achieve and I said my goal was to walk out of here. ""This is the next step of what will be a long journey. I can't wait to begin it.""",""" I blinked to @placeholder and never thought I would walk again , "" said a County Londonderry woman who is recovering from locked - in syndrome .",flee,jockey,communicate,investigate,experience,2
"Dr Eurfyl ap Gwilym said Plaid would not offer its support in general but ""only on special things"". The Conservatives are seeking a deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists after losing their majority. A Plaid spokeswoman said it would always ""vote in the best interests of Wales"" but not strike a formal deal. Speaking on BBC Radio Cymru, Dr ap Gwilym was asked whether Plaid Cymru would co-operate with the Conservatives. ""No, no, not in general but if they said 'we want to do this or that' and it's ok with us and we got something in return, for example more investment in infrastructure, then we'd be prepared to consider it,"" he said. ""Of course, we wouldn't give them support in general but only on special things,"" he added. During the general election campaign, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood promised to ""defend Wales against the Tory attacks"". She has previously ruled out working with the Conservative group in the assembly. A party spokeswoman said: ""Plaid Cymru MPs will, as they always have, vote in the best interests of Wales, but we won't be entering into any deals or coalitions with the Tories.""","A senior Plaid Cymru policy adviser has said the party should consider co-operating with the Tories on particular @placeholder if "" we get something in return "" .",crowd,fronts,occasions,topics,counterpart,3
"They are among a programme of 400 branch closures already announced in principle. Some 54 Lloyds branches will be affected, alongside 24 Bank of Scotland and 22 Halifax branches. There will also be a net reduction of 325 staff, who were told about the plan on Wednesday morning. They are among the 9,000 staff whose job cuts were also previously announced. Lloyds said the closures were the result of fewer branch transactions. ""Our branches will continue to play a vital role in our multi-channel approach to meeting the full range of customer needs, and we expect to continue to have the biggest branch network in the UK,"" a Lloyds spokesperson said. Last month RBS and NatWest announced the closure of 158 branches across the UK, and in January HSBC announced a further 62 closures. The trade union Unite, which represents many bank workers, called for an end to the process. ""The continuous stream of branch closures announced by the UK's retail bank branches appears to show no signs of ending, "" said Rob MacGregor, Unite national officer. ""The loss of a further 100 local banks will be painful for high streets across the country to absorb."" Last week Lloyds revealed plans to shrink hundreds of branches in size, while opening several new flagship centres. It will be left with 1,950 branches by the end of the year - still the largest network of any UK high street bank. The full list of the branches to close are: Beauly, Beith, Bonar Bridge, Coldstream, Dalbeattie, Dalry (Kirkcudbright), Dornoch, Edinburgh Goldenacre, Edinburgh North Morningside, Fortrose, Gatehouse, Glasgow 235 Sauchiehall Street, Gorebridge, Gullane, Helmsdale, Kingussie, Lairg, Lauder, Newtown St Boswells, Port William, Stewarton, West Linton, Wigtown and Wooler. Bakewell, Baldock, Blackfield Southampton, Bordon, Bourton-on-the-Water, Brewood, Broadstairs, Broadway, Carterton, Clay Cross, Clifton Village Bristol, Colmore Row Birmingham, Corsham, Derby Road Ipswich, Droylsden, Garstang, Gonville Place Cambridge, Grayshott, Hawkhurst, Haxby Road York, Heckington, High Wycombe Business Centre, Langley, Lichfield Road Stafford, London Law Courts, Longridge, Lymm, Manchester University, Marton-in-Cleveland, Mere, Montpellier Cheltenham, Mosley Street Manchester, New Ash Gree, Nottingham Old Market Square, Pewsey, Pontypridd Treforest Ind Est, Portland, Settle, Southampton Row, Stokenchurch, Sturminster Newton, Tenterden, Tetbury, Three Bridges Crawley, Tidworth, Topsham, Tyldesley, Wadhurst, Wendover, West Dulwich, Wincanton Wirksworth, Wood Lane End Hemel Hempstead, and Yatton. Alton, Atherton, Banstead, Bexhill-on-Sea, Brighton London Road, Droitwich, Elland, Godalming, Heckmondwike, Hertford, Horley, Huddersfield Mkt St, Leatherhead, Leytonstone, Mill Hill, New Malden, Plymouth Mutley Plain, Sheffield Surrey St, Swansea   Oxford St, Wallington, West Swindon, and Weybridge.",Lloyds Bank has announced the @placeholder of 100 branches that it plans to close between July and October .,loss,locations,world,opening,sale,1
"Neville, whose side was thrashed 7-0 by Barcelona in a midweek Copa del Rey tie, is yet to see his side win in nine league games but again refused to quit. The ex-England international, who was appointed at the start of December, said: ""I said before I came that I would be judged in five months. ""I have been judged in six weeks."" Former Valencia goalkeeper and captain Santiago Canizares - as well as some supporters - called for Neville to stand down after the Copa del Rey hammering by Barcelona. Under Neville, Valencia have lost four and drawn five league games to slip to within four points of La Liga's bottom three, although the 40-year-old insists he is not contemplating the threat of relegation. He added:  ""It's clear that we are better than some of the teams we are playing against. ""Our last two league matches were not performances that deserved two defeats, but the reality is that they are two defeats and I am aware of the consequences when you don't get good results. What matters are results. ""There's no doubt that at times like this everyone needs to stay together. ""Everyone suffers. It's just not going for us at the moment.  I continue to work, I continue to have belief. ""Conversations with the owners are between me and the owners. We have to turn it round quickly, I understand that. It is hard to explain the defeat. It will turn."" Neville claimed that the Valencia players are now much fitter and better organised than the team he inherited, which he said was ""all over the place"". He admitted every defeat felt like a ""punch in the face"" but said there was no need for the owners, who include his business partner Peter Lim, to make any statement on his position. Former Manchester City striker Alvaro Negredo, who missed Valencia's best chance to avoid becoming only the second team to lose a league fixture at Real Betis this season, would not be drawn on the manager's future. Negredo said: ""That's not up to me. We know the coach well but that's up to the club. We shouldn't get involved in things that we aren't supposed to.""",Gary Neville claimed the obituaries for his time as Valencia boss have already been @placeholder following a 1 - 0 La Liga defeat at lowly Real Betis .,written,denied,cancelled,dropped,suspended,0
"The Toronto Film International Festival kicks offs on Thursday, with almost 400 films set to screen. As previous years have shown, success at Toronto often leads to recognition during film awards season - especially at the Academy Awards. Here's a look at 12 of the films receiving their world premiere at Toronto that will be hoping to make waves beyond the shores of Lake Ontario. Director: Ewan McGregor Cast: Uzo Aduba, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Ewan McGregor, David Strathairn Ewan McGregor makes his directorial debut and stars in this 1960s-set drama, based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. McGregor plays Seymour ""Swede"" Levov, a successful businessman whose comfortable family life is shattered when his daughter Merry (Fanning) disappears after being accused of an act of violence. Director: Vikram Gandhi Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Jenna Elfman, Ashley Judd, Anya Taylor-Joy, Devon Terrell Devon Terrell makes his acting debut as the young Barack Obama in this biopic about his time at Columbia University in 1981. It is not the only Obama-related film out this year. Romantic drama Southside with You, which premiered at this year's Sundance film festival, was inspired by Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, on a summer day in 1989. Director: Gerard Barrett Cast: Richard Armitage, Thomas Mann, Chloe Grace Moretz, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tyler Perry Based on Susannah Cahalan's bestselling memoir, this is the story of a New York Post journalist (Moretz) who is repeatedly misdiagnosed after she starts having seizures and hearing voices. Director: Jordan Roberts Cast: Marton Csokas, Vera Farmiga, Virginia Madsen, Suraj Sharma, Jacob Tremblay Jacob Tremblay, the young star of 2015's Toronto audience prize winner, Room, plays an eight-year-old boy who, after a family tragedy, becomes convinced he is a Mongolian goat herder and leads his parents (Farmiga and Csokas) on an unforgettable journey. Director: Peter Berg Cast: Kate Hudson, Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez This action drama tells the story of the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 that killed 11 crew members and became one of world's worst environmental catastrophes. Wahlberg plays Mike Williams, an electrician on the rig, with Malkovich as a bullying BP boss. Directors: Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine A documentary about the surfing enthusiasts on the Gaza Strip's Mediterranean coastline. Director: Garth Davis Cast: Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Dev Patel, David Wenham An Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after he takes a wrong train and is separated from his family at the age of five. Twenty-five years later he uses Google Earth to attempt to find his lost home. Director: Antoine Fuqua Cast: Haley Bennett, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Chris Pratt, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Peter Sarsgaard, Martin Sensmeier, Denzel Washington Toronto's opening night film is Antoine Fuqua's remake of the 1960 western classic about seven gunslingers protecting the town of Rose Creek from the deadly grip of  industrialist Bartholomew Bogue. It reunites Fuqua with Washington after they worked together on 2014's action thriller The Equalizer. Director:  J A Bayona Cast: Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Lewis MacDougall, Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver This big screen adaptation of the award-winning children's book by Patrick Ness tells the story of a lonely 12-year-old boy with a terminally ill mother who is visited by an ancient monster who tells him stories. Director: Mira Nair Cast: David Oyelowo, Madina Nalwanga, Lupita Nyong'o The true story of a young Ugandan girl called Phiona Mutesi (newcomer Nalwanga) whose life in a Kampala shantytown changes when she discovers her affinity for chess. Oscar-winner Nyong'o plays her hard-working mother, while Oyelowo is the missionary who helps Phiona follow her dream of becoming an international champion. Director: Garth Jennings Cast:  Beck Bennett, Taron Egerton, Jennifer Hudson, Garth Jennings, Scarlett Johansson, Leslie Jones, Tori Kelly, Nick Kroll, Seth MacFarlane, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Offerman, Jay Pharoah, John C Reilly, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Serafinowicz, Reese Witherspoon A first look at this animated musical comedy, due out around Christmas, about a koala (McConaughey) who puts on a singing contest in an attempt to save his theatre. Witherspoon voices the character of Rosita the pig while Johansson plays a punk porcupine. Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Nicolas Cage, Melissa Leo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Timothy Olyphant, Zachary Quinto, Shailene Woodley In this real-life political thriller, Gordon-Levitt plays the US National Security Agency contractor who leaked top secret intelligence files and became one of the world's most wanted men. The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from 8 to 18 September. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","The Oscars may be more than five months away , but this year 's hopefuls are already jostling for @placeholder .",attention,position,nomination,prediction,success,1
"Then you spot the magpie, its beak aiming for their heads with laser-like precision. However, this is not a scene from classic horror film The Birds, but the wedding of Phillip and Sara Maria in New South Wales, Australia, who just happened to annoy some very angry birds with their choice of picture location. Photographer Karen Parr revealed how two magpies ""working as a team"" began swooping on the group as soon as they got out the car following the ceremony on 8 October. But because they had driven for half an hour to reach this particularly picturesque spot, there was nothing the bridal party could do but carry on - despite the danger. With a groomsman yelling warnings every time the magpies took aim, the shoot began. ""I think we probably got swooped about 20 times. It was quite scary at the time. We were cursing the birds,"" Ms Parr recalled. Luckily, the new Mr and Mrs Maria were quite calm about the situation. ""She was an amazing bride. They just rolled with it."" But the photographer, who has been taking wedding pictures for nine years, admitted she probably was not quite as relaxed. ""He went for me a few times. I probably screamed a little bit loud,"" she said. Despite the almost constant onslaught, Ms Parr only managed to capture the bird in perfect action on one occasion - and these pictures are the result. ""The groom in particular was quite chuffed with it - he made it his Facebook profile picture straight away,"" she said. Australian magpies are known to attack people during August and September - a period of time nicknamed ""swooping season"" - while their chicks are in the nest. Last year, there were 801 attacks in New South Wales alone, according to Daily Mail Australia.","At first glance , it is the perfect image of newlywed bliss : the husband and wife @placeholder their heads together , enjoying a moment of idyllic calm .",rest,pressing,put,shared,crashing,1
"Runners, some wearing blue Santa outfits in support of Everton, set off from the waterfront for the 5K race. Organiser BTR Liverpool said it will be a ""huge boost"" to take the title back from Las Vegas after four years. Final numbers are being counted but Las Vegas' Santa Dash had fewer than 8,000 people on Saturday, BTR Liverpool said. This year's fun run featured the biggest Mini Dash 1K for children aged under 12 with 750 taking part. BTR Race Director Alan Rothwell said: ""All our Santa Dashers really got into the spirit of the day, with some very creative costumes. ""It is very fitting that we have regained the World Santa Challenge title on our 10th anniversary. ""We are absolutely thrilled. We are now not only the UK's biggest festive fun run - but now also the world's.""","About 8,500 people donned Santa suits at Liverpool 's 10th annual Santa Dash - @placeholder to win the World Santa Challenge for having the most runners .",attempting,voted,helped,failed,set,0
"Police say a family saw the man with a blond-haired child of three or four, possibly wearing pyjamas, heading away from the McCanns' holiday apartment. Madeleine, from Rothley, Leics, was three when she went missing on 3 May, 2007, in Praia da Luz, Portugal. The e-fit images will feature in a BBC Crimewatch appeal later. Inquiry timeline in full The witnesses said the man was white, 20 to 40 years old and of medium build. He had short brown hair, was clean-shaven and of medium height, they added. Det Ch Insp Andy Redwood, the senior Metropolitan Police investigating officer, said he could be the man who took Madeleine but there could be an innocent explanation. The Met Police opened up a new investigation earlier this year and have been reassessing all the gathered material. As a result, according to the police, the timeline and ""accepted version of events"" surrounding Madeleine's disappearance have significantly changed. Det Ch Insp Redwood said he was now attaching more weight to the sighting of the man and the child at 10pm, which was later than the time it was previously believed Madeleine was taken. Madeleine and her brother and sister were left in the apartment at 8.30pm while her parents dined with friends at a nearby restaurant. Her father, Gerry McCann, checked on them at 9.05pm and her mother, Kate, raised the alarm at 10pm. Det Ch Insp Redwood said the child in the man's arms had not been crying, nor looked in distress. He added: ""Whilst this man may or may not be the key to unlocking this investigation, tracing and speaking to him is of vital importance to us. ""This is far from our only line of inquiry and there will be e-fits released of other sightings as well, who we are equally keen to trace. ""These people were seen on the day of Madeleine's disappearance and the days leading up to it."" Prime Minister David Cameron said he was ""very pleased"" Scotland Yard were doing this work, which the government was helping to fund. ""This was a crime that touched the heart of everyone in the country and everyone would like to see it resolved, so I hope Scotland Yard continue with their work and I wish them success,"" he said. A detailed reconstruction lasting close to 25 minutes and covering events leading up to and surrounding Madeleine's disappearance will also feature on Monday's Crimewatch. A short clip released in advance by police shows actors playing Madeleine's parents leaving their holiday apartment for the nearby tapas restaurant. They are then seen seated outdoors at a large poolside table, greeting friends as they come to join them for dinner. In 2008, a Portuguese investigation into the case was dropped, but Scotland Yard began a review of the case in May 2011 and opened a formal investigation in July this year. Speaking about the review-turned-investigation, Det Ch Insp Redwood said detectives had been able to ""make massive steps forward"" by drawing together all the material gathered to date and reviewing it as a whole. He said his team had sought to ""try and draw everything back to zero... take everything back to the beginning and then reanalyse and reassess everything, accepting nothing"". He added: ""Praia da Luz is a popular holiday destination for many nationalities so our requests for help need to be repeated in many different countries."" He said he would travel to the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland to seek public support there, and would repeat the appeals in Portugal - ""a key country for us to trace any outstanding witnesses"". In Germany, a special edition of the crime programme Aktenzeichen XY - Ungeloest which is translated as ""File XY - Unsolved"", will be aired on Wednesday night and will feature an appeal for information from Mr and Mrs McCann. Former Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre head Jim Gamble - who carried out a review into the case in 2010 - said the appeal offered ""an opportunity for everyone to help"". ""It doesn't matter that you were not in Praia da Luz - you may watch something, you may see an e-fit, you may see some other information, they may talk about telephone numbers and something will click with you,"" he told BBC News. ""And that you will not know unless you watch."" Mark Williams-Thomas, a former detective on the case, said it was ""slightly disappointing"" that the appeal was not being made in Portugal. Mr and Mrs McCann are expected to make a live appeal from the studio during the programme. Ahead of its broadcast, Mrs McCann said: ""We're not the ones that have done something wrong here. ""It's the person who's gone into that apartment and taken a little girl away from her family."" Meanwhile Robert Murat, the first official suspect in the case but long since officially cleared of any involvement, told the BBC he hoped the new appeal would produce results. ""It's gone on and on and every time something new comes up, you know, it brings hope and then it seems to fade away and disappear. So I'm hoping that's not going to be the case again,"" he said. The Crimewatch appeal will be shown in the UK on BBC One on Monday from 21:00 BST. It will also be broadcast in the Netherlands and Germany.",The man featured in two e-fits released by UK police investigating Madeleine McCann 's disappearance was seen carrying a child towards the @placeholder .,beach,event,country,funeral,hospital,0
"Cloak uses public location data from other social networks, Foursquare and Instagram, to determine the locations of others you know. Users can choose to receive an alert when certain people are believed to be nearby. It is the latest in the recent trend of ""anti-social"", or secretive, apps. Apps such as Snapchat - which deletes photographs and videos seconds after they have been viewed - and Secret - which broadcasts messages anonymously - are growing in popularity. Likewise WhatsApp, a private-messaging service recently bought by Facebook for $19bn (£11.4bn), indicates a shift back to conducting online conversations in private. Cloak describes itself as a method to ""avoid exes, co-workers, that guy who likes to stop and chat - anyone you'd rather not run into"". It was created by programmer Brian Moore and the former creative director of viral news site Buzzfeed, Chris Baker. Mr Baker told the Washington Post that his service was typical of the direction social networking was taking. ""Personally, I think we've seen the crest of the big social network,"" he said. ""Things like Twitter and Facebook are packed elevators where we're all crammed in together… I think anti-social stuff is on the rise. You'll be seeing more and more of these types of projects."" Nick Jones, editor-in-chief of App Magazine, told the BBC he was unconvinced - though tempted. ""It does sound like a gimmick,"" he said. ""But I might use it myself!"" He suggested that these niche apps were being developed not because of any great consumer need, but because developers are keen to corner some of the few remaining untapped social-media markets. ""People are having to diversify their apps and find some unique angle to their app, and then try and sell it to Facebook and make a pretty penny."" However, he admitted: ""Secrecy has its advantages for people. It's quite attractive.""","While most social networks aim to @placeholder people , one new service seeks to join the growing trend of doing the opposite and help you avoid them .",target,protect,school,promote,connect,4
"The Malaviya Seven was detained in June under merchant shipping regulations. The crew was said not to have been paid for several months. The Martime and Coastguard Agency said: ""The Malaviya Seven was released from detention following the payment of crew wages and repatriation of seafarers with expired employment agreements."" The International Transport Workers' Federation said the vessel would be monitored closely.","An offshore @placeholder ship detained in Aberdeen on the grounds of non-payment of crew wages has been released , BBC Scotland has learned .",merchant,community,pirate,container,supply,4
"The clothing was put on Beeston's Beeman statue on Thursday evening for the I Love Beeston Arts Trail but was gone less than 12 hours later. The Nottinghamshire knitters said they were heartbroken. The council said it was a genuine mistake and apologised. Organisers called for more ""guerrilla knitters"" to create new clothes. The arts trail event was organised by Beeston Business Improvement District, a group established to promote local companies. Becky Kennedy, one of the knitters, created 24 bees and said it took weeks of planning and knitting. ""It's just so heartbreaking. It wasn't even up 12 hours. While we were doing it, there were a lot of passersby and everyone was really into it, taking selfies and commenting. ""It's just a bit odd that they cleared away the colourful knitting, but left the tags which explained what it was all about. ""There has been a great response on social media. It has inadvertently brought people together."" A spokesman for the council said it was a genuine mistake and the cleaners did not know about the art trail. ""The council wishes to offer its sincere apologies to the organisers of the Beeston Arts Trail for this error and any distress caused to those who spent time making the items,"" she added.",Street cleaners threw away yarn @placeholder knitwear installed for an arts trail leaving just the display tags explaining what it was for .,blamed,praised,bombed,printed,deemed,2
"The burnt body of Oliver Gobat from Esher was found in a car on the Caribbean island in April 2014. After a campaign by his parents, the Home Secretary agreed UK police could assist investigators in St Lucia. Surrey Police said no Surrey officer had travelled to St Lucia but they had been liaising with investigators there. Speaking to BBC Surrey, Oliver Gobat's mother Helen said there were ""people of interest"" to interview in England. ""Seeking justice for him has been impossible - Ollie deserves a proper police investigation,"" she said. ""We are desperately frustrated. It is a solvable crime."" In September 2015 Surrey Police were given permission by Theresa May to help with the investigation. A Surrey Police spokeswoman said: ""Although no Surrey officer has travelled to the Caribbean island, St Lucian Police have been liaising with Surrey Police as part of their on-going investigation. ""As a matter of long-standing policy and practice, we neither confirm nor deny the existence of any mutual legal assistance requests."" Oliver, known as Ollie, was born in St Lucia but grew up in Surrey where he played junior cricket at county level. He and his two older brothers ran a five-star boutique hotel in an exclusive resort in St Lucia.","The mother of a hotel owner shot dead in St Lucia has accused Surrey Police of "" dragging their @placeholder "" over the murder investigation .",interest,involvement,lives,hands,heels,4
"It made the pledge as it published plans to legislate for new mechanisms to deal with the legacy of the Troubles. But these will not be activated until agreement is reached at Stormont. The law would ""take its course"" where evidence exists for any Troubles-related crime. The NIO said that fundamentally the government believes in the rule of law and amnesties are not something they would contemplate. In a 33-page policy paper, the secretary of state sets out what will be included in the Northern Ireland (Stormont House Agreement) Bill announced in the Queen's speech. The Bill will create the legislative framework for The paper says the institutions will place the needs of victims and their families at their heart. They would operate in way that is ""balanced, proportionate, transparent, fair and equable"", it added.",The Northern Ireland Office has said that none of its @placeholder for dealing with the past amounts to any form of amnesty .,team,value,evidence,bid,proposals,4
"The designation of 23 new Marine Conservation Zones mean that 8,000 square miles of UK waters now have environmental protection. The announcement has been welcomed by conservation and wildlife organisations. However they, along with fishermen's groups, are concerned that there is no management plan. They say it will be difficult to balance competing interests in the reserves. Originally 127 sites were proposed as MCZs. The government has so far committed to designating 50, covering an area the size of Wales. The designation of 23 new Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) means that 20% of English waters are now considered protected. The sites range from the Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds in the North Sea, down to Land's End in the South West. The aim is to conserve habitats like coral colonies, geological features such as chalk reefs, and species such as the stalked jellyfish and spiny lobsters. North Sea Fulmar Farnes East Coquet to St Mary's Runswick Bay Holderness Inshore Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds South East The Swale Estuary Dover to Deal Dover to Folkestone Offshore Brighton Offshore Overfalls (SE of the Isle of Wight) Utopia (SW of Selsey Bill) The Needles South West Western Channel Mounts Bay Land's End Newquay and The Gannel Hartland Point to Tintagel Bideford to Foreland Point North-West of Jones Bank Greater Haig Fras Irish Sea West of Walney co-location zone Allonby Bay The Marine Environment Minister, George Eustice, said: ""It's vital that we protect our marine environment to ensure our seas remain healthy, our fishing industry remains prosperous, and future generations can enjoy our beautiful beaches."" The Wildlife Trusts welcomed the designation of the reserves. Joan Edwards, head of Living Seas at the Trusts, said: ""UK seas have the potential to be full of incredible life and colour but continued destruction has reduced them to a shadow of their former selves. ""We are pleased by this government's commitment to addressing the decimation of our seabed over the past century, and to delivering an ecologically coherent network of marine protected areas. This second step towards the completion of a 'blue belt' in UK seas is crucial in turning the tide on the state of our seas but there's still work to be done."" However, designation and management are treated as separate processes. So until bylaws or legislation has been put in place, then activities in the reserves will remain largely unchanged. Paul Trebilcock, from the Cornish Fish Producers Association, commented: ""It's madness. A line has been drawn on a map but there is no management plan in place. No-one knows what will and will not be able to continue. ""The majority of fishermen rely on the marine environment being healthy to make a living - they have more interest in keeping it healthy than anybody. To hear the government drawing a line and saying it's all fine doesn't inspire much confidence."" Sam Davies is chief officer for the Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority. Her organisation will work with the Marine Management Organisation to find a way of managing the reserves. She said that the new boundaries didn't mean that one day you could take a boat in and the next day you couldn't. ""We now need to fill in the gaps. We are in the early stages of developing management for these areas. We have to understand exactly what species are there. ""Most of the science has been done, but now it's looking at the really fine detail. That involves dropping a camera down there."" Tine Eisfeld-Pierantonio, conservation and policy officer from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), said this was ""brilliant"", but that some sites vital for the protection of whales and dolphins had been left off the list. ""Fourteen sites were taken out without consideration. According to the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009) the government has to establish a network that protects species - not just habitats - in UK seas. So this isn't creating a coherent ecological network,"" the WDCS policy officer explained. The 23 additional sites are the second of three planned phases of MCZs, an obligation set out under the Marine and Coastal Access Act. The last will be put out to consultation in 2017, and designated in 2018. A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs commented: ""Defra and delivery partners are working together with stakeholders to ensure that management measures are put in place within two years of designation and that measures provide effective protection for designated sites."" There is also other work being done by the government to protect the marine environment, with consultations being held on Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) for harbour porpoise, and Special Protection Areas (SPAs) to protect the feeding and bathing areas of iconic birds. Follow Claire on Twitter.","The UK government has @placeholder the coastal "" blue belt "" of protected marine areas .",highlighted,extended,established,condemned,unveiled,1
"Walter Groom and another man became the only two inmates to escape from HMP Shrewsbury when they broke out in 1961. Mr Groom, who was serving time for breaking into shops, said the pair went down a manhole and tunnel before making ""a human ladder"" to scale the wall. The 81-year-old told his story visitors to the former jail, known as the Dana, during a history day. HMP Shrewsbury dates from the 19th Century and closed in 2013. Mr Groom, of Bilston, said the plan was hatched after he was approached by the other man ""who was desperate to get out"". They planned the escape for 16 days after realising a manhole led into the prison yard, but they were both recaptured six days later. Mr Groom, whose wife Barbara has written a book about his experiences, said he later put his criminal past behind him. ""I wanted to make a new life for myself - I always wanted to do that and I succeeded in the end. It was hard... but I did it.""",An ex-prisoner has @placeholder as a tour guide to the high - security jail he escaped from 56 years ago .,resigned,dismissed,hailed,worked,returned,4
"But Hampshire possess two bowlers who could present themselves as the next generation of England's spin options. Teenage leg-spinner Mason Crane and all-rounder Liam Dawson both experienced winters where their respective stocks continued to rise. Now the pair hope to build a partnership in both white and red-ball cricket, potentially furthering their international futures, and hope county cricket will provide the platform. Media playback is not supported on this device ""When you look around, there aren't many spinners on the county circuit,"" slow left-armer Dawson told BBC Sport. ""Obviously, conditions dictate that in England. Seamers bowl the majority of overs. ""The only way spin bowling is going to improve in county cricket is by playing on wickets that do spin and offer spin. ""Hopefully that plays a part not only for Mason and I, but for English cricket going forward with spinners at the other 17 counties."" Right-hand top-order batsman Dawson, 26, completed a remarkable turnaround in the space of seven months - from being loaned out to Essex to getting a call-up to England's World Twenty20 squad. Although he failed to feature in England's run to the final in India, Dawson said the experience was ""unbelievable"". ""I would have loved to have played,"" he said. ""That's obviously the decision of the coaches and captain, but I did all I could. ""I trained well and if I was called upon, I would have liked to think I would have done a good job. ""I'm hungry to play more, but the only way I can do that is by performing here for Hampshire in white-ball cricket."" Any suggestion of being a potential back-up Test option to Moeen Ali was met with a desire to improve his current first-class statistics. ""If I start the season well in red-ball cricket, there are opportunities to play,"" Dawson replied. ""That all starts here for Hampshire and you have to do well here first to get international recognition."" Academy graduate Crane only made his senior Hampshire debut in July. A T20 Blast bow saw him take the Surrey wickets of Kumar Sangakkara and Vikram Solanki before he become the youngest Hampshire bowler to claim a County Championship five-wicket haul with 5-35 against Warwickshire. Talk of a surprise inclusion on England's Test tour to the UAE against Pakistan was already rolling in by late August. ""It was really nice people said those things,"" Crane said. ""But, at the time, I probably thought it was too early. ""I've a lot to learn yet and obviously a lot more games to play before an England call-up."" Crane's winter did include visits to the sub-continent, though, with England under-19s. Tours to both Sri Lanka and the World Cup in Bangladesh exposed him to new conditions, while his flight and control were displayed to a global television audience. ""We got there (Bangladesh) and it was a huge event to be part of,"" Crane added. ""You pick up all sorts of things in a tournament like that, such as having to bowl different lines, lengths and paces. ""But that also depends on what team you're playing and you almost had to change approach game-by-game."" On a damp April afternoon at the county's pre-season press day, thoughts of raging turning wickets at the Ageas Bowl were probably far from the minds of many. But both Crane and Dawson already have belief they can play an integral part in all formats for their county. ""In the last few years, we probably haven't played on too many wickets that have spun,"" Dawson said. ""The way Mason bowled last year, being a wrist spinner, he's got a massive future ahead of him. ""The amount of control he has for someone who is 19 years old is unbelievable. ""I'll be looking forward to bowling with him and hopefully winning a few games for Hampshire throughout the season."" For Crane, who was guided by former Hampshire spin pair Darren Flint and Raj Maru through the county's academy, turn has already featured in pre-season. ""We played a friendly at Hove against Sussex where the wicket was quite tacky and you get some early season squares that can be quite dry,"" he said. ""But I guess as a spinner in England, you've just got to embrace whatever surface you play on. ""I'm just looking forward to trying to forge a partnership with Liam and see how it goes. I also have to understand I might not play every game, as I'm still only 19. ""I'm just focusing on my own bowling and playing all the games I'm selected.""",The subject of young English spinners and their apparent dearth has filled numerous @placeholder inches and website pages in recent years .,status,prevalence,messages,column,ambitions,3
"The two teams will meet in Friday's European Challenge Cup final, with Edinburgh hoping to become the first Scottish side to win a European trophy. ""It was the right decision to move away,"" said 29-year-old Laidlaw. ""I've really enjoyed it and feel I've played a lot of good rugby this year. I'll need to do that again on Friday."" Gloucester have struggled domestically this season, sitting ninth in the Premiership table with only eight wins from their 20 matches so far. Edinburgh have had a similarly mixed campaign in the Pro12, lying seventh with two rounds of fixtures to go, but on Friday they will become the first Scottish representative in a major European final, having overcome Newport Gwent Dragons in the last four. ""They've progressed since I left,"" continued Laidlaw, who has been capped 39 times by his country. ""It's taken time under Alan Solomons but, credit to him, he's done a good job. The players are all playing very well and they deserve to be in the final. ""I know how desperate Edinburgh will be to win the final and be the first Scottish team to win this trophy, but I want to win things playing for Gloucester."" The Cherry and Whites are in their first European showpiece since the 2006 Challenge Cup final, when they beat London Irish to lift the trophy. Laidlaw, who has started 11 times in the league this season, says Gloucester ""need to do the simple things well"" if they are to repeat that success against his former club. ""We're going to need a big performance to turn over a very good Edinburgh team,"" he said. ""The forward battle is going to be key because their pack has been very strong. ""The boys have put in a big shift this season and we've been a bit disappointed in terms of the Premiership, but I feel we've played a lot of good rugby.""",Scotland scrum -half Greig Laidlaw has @placeholder by his decision to leave his hometown club Edinburgh for Premiership side Gloucester last summer .,criticised,fallen,praised,been,stood,4
"The 27 countries of the European Union (EU) will contribute 500bn euros towards the financial safety net. They have been joined by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is providing another 250bn euros. The vast bulk of Europe's contribution comes from the 16-nation eurozone bloc, which is promising 440bn in loan guarantees. The European Commission is providing 60bn euros immediately. Crucially, the European Central Bank is to start buying bonds - government debt - something the European Central Bank said it would never do when it was established. To stop the financial crisis in Greece from spreading and to calm financial markets, which dived last week because of concerns about the eurozone. Governments hope that by promising to protect the eurozone they will promote confidence and encourage banks and other financial institution to lend to Spain and Portugal, where investors are demanding very high interest rates to loan money. The magnitude and co-ordination of the package is also designed to signal to financial speculators that governments will do what it takes to protect the eurozone and its currency. Many speculators who bet against the euro and the bond markets last week will have lost money as a result of the deal, which has pushed markets higher. The UK is not part of the eurozone, so its contribution to the package is via the European Commission fund and the IMF. It is thought that if countries being loaned money defaulted the total UK liability could be about £15bn, though about £7bn of this money was pledged to a previous bail-out fund. Alistair Darling, chancellor of the exchequer, said that the UK's exposure was ""minimal"" and that the UK was not underwriting the euro. In an interview with the BBC he suggested that the UK was providing an additional £8bn in new money through its IMF and European Commission contribution. There is a lot of fine detail still to be worked out. The 60bn euros in emergency lending is available immediately and can be drawn on now by countries such as Spain and Portugal. But a special purpose vehicle to dish out 440bn euros in bilateral loan guarantees will take longer to set up. The ECB will intervene as and when it thinks necessary, buying bonds to help bolster confidence and kick-start markets. However, the ECB will not be pumping fresh money into ailing economies. The ECB's purchase of bonds will be matched by the selling of other securities. So, the package will not be used to fund the public spending cuts and tax rises needed in bloated economies such as Spain and Portugal. No, it does not. But the financial measures are designed to restore stability so that the longer term structural issues can be resolved. The package has been likened to pouring water into a bucket with a hole. Eventually, you'll will have to fix the leak. The weaker European countries will still have to re-pay their debts. And in the longer term that will only come from stronger economic growth and raising more tax revenues. That said, the initial response from stock markets seems to suggest that ailing economies will get the financial breathing space needed to repair their buckets. Share prices across Asia and Europe surged on news of the package, and the euro strengthened. Just a few weeks ago, the eurozone looked as if it was unravelling at the seams, with Greece destined to exit the single currency and the European Union in tatters. Now eurozone leaders are hailing the package as a further step towards closer co-operation and integration. If countries are lending their neighbours vast amounts of money, they become further entwined. In addition, the ECB is taking on a more powerful role in Europe, perhaps becoming something more akin to America's Federal Reserve.",European governments and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) have @placeholder global stock markets with a 750 bn - euro ( $ 975 bn ; £ 650 bn ) package of standby funds designed to see off financial meltdown . How will it work ?,stunned,welcomed,created,funded,revealed,0
"Badminton Scotland made the announcement at the latest Big Hit Festival - part of the Glasgow 2017 legacy programme, which aims to introduce 30,000 more youngsters to badminton. ""I played badminton when I was young and got to junior international level,"" she said. ""I'm thrilled the World Championships is coming to Glasgow."" ""I don't play anymore but I'm a huge fan and love to watch it, so it's great to have the chance to promote the event and the sport."" Murray was joined by Commonwealth Games and European badminton silver medallist Kirsty Gilmour at the event at the Peak Leisure Centre in Stirling Sports Village, alongside 85 pupils from local primary schools. The children received a coaching session from Glasgow Sport Young Leaders from Dunfermline High School and primary and secondary teachers who are attending a continuing professional development course, also as part of Glasgow 2017 legacy. Find out how to get into badminton with our special guide. Billy Garrett, head of sport at the city's cultural and sporting organisation Glasgow Life, said: ""A huge part of our legacy campaign is introducing young people to badminton and ensuring they are given the appropriate support to continue playing if they wish to do so. ""That's why it's so great to have people like Judy on board - to help us promote not only Glasgow 2017, but also the sport itself."" Murray joins Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon, Scotland rugby international Finn Russell and golfer Catriona Matthew in support of the tournament and ongoing efforts to develop the sport. Chief executive of Badminton Scotland Anne Smillie, said: ""I am delighted to have Judy involved with our legacy Programme. She and Finn were both at the Big Hit Festival on finals day at the Scottish Open Grand Prix and saw first-hand how excited and eager the youngsters were."" You can watch live coverage of the World Championships on the BBC Sport website.","Judy Murray has been unveiled as an ambassador for the 2017 Badminton World Championships in Glasgow , which will be @placeholder from 21 - 27 August .",revealed,staged,running,rescued,honoured,1
"The 20-year-old netted in the ninth minute, drilling his 20-yard shot into the bottom left-hand corner of Russell Griffiths' goal following a clever lay-off from strike partner Adebayo Akinfenwa. The promotion-chasing Chairboys dominated the first period and also had two penalty claims turned down - one for handball and the other for a challenge on Kashket who was instead booked for diving. But Cheltenham regrouped after the break and created a string of chances in the second half. Harry Pell headed a corner just over the target within a minute of the restart before substitutes James Dayton and Amari Morgan-Smith went close. With 11 minutes to go, Dan Holman drilled a low shot goalwards on the turn only to be denied by a fine save from former Robins goalkeeper Scott Brown. And the visiting shot-stopper was twice called on in injury time to keep out long-range efforts from Dayton and Rob Dickie as Wycombe held on for victory. Report supplied by the Press Association Match ends, Cheltenham Town 0, Wycombe Wanderers 1. Second Half ends, Cheltenham Town 0, Wycombe Wanderers 1. Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers). Attempt missed. Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Attempt saved. Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt saved. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Sam Wood replaces Matt Bloomfield. Attempt blocked. Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Daniel O'Shaughnessy (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers). Attempt saved. Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Attempt saved. Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers). Attempt missed. Myles Weston (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Attempt missed. Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Jack Barthram replaces Aaron Downes. Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Myles Weston replaces Scott Kashket. Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Amari Morgan-Smith replaces Daniel Wright. Attempt missed. Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Attempt blocked. Scott Kashket (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt saved. Scott Kashket (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Paris Cowan-Hall. Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town). Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Aaron Pierre. Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers). Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers). Hand ball by Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers). Foul by Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town). Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Aaron Downes. Corner,  Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Robert Dickie. Foul by James Dayton (Cheltenham Town). Scott Kashket (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt blocked. Scott Kashket (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.",Forward Scott Kashket scored in his fourth successive game to hand Wycombe the @placeholder at struggling Cheltenham .,victory,points,edge,trophy,lead,1
"""It's too easy for people to come here,"" says Joost, a 60-year-old market trader. ""Too many guys from Turkey and Morocco, economic migrants. I have three small children, what kind of world will they grow up in?"" Dutch voters go to the polls on 15 March and Mr Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) may win the biggest number of seats. Almere means ""all lake"", which it was until the 1960s. Then it became a concrete conurbation with affordable homes for people leaving Amsterdam. For several years it has been Geert Wilders territory. Immigrants now make up about 30% of the population and that ethnic diversity is reflected at the market, where you can find steaming bowls of spicy Surinamese brown beans and headscarves displayed in rainbow fashion. Behind a thick rack of winter jackets, a woman  with dyed-blond hair backs the UK's decision to leave the EU and says the Dutch should do the same. Ria also complains about a Muslim neighbour. ""At New Year I tried to shake his hand and he said he didn't shake hands with non-Muslim women."" Often described as the Dutch Donald Trump, Mr Wilders shares the US president's opposition to Muslim immigration, his distrust of the media and his love of Twitter. He sparked a ""fake news"" row on Tuesday by tweeting a photo-shopped picture of a liberal political rival surrounded by radical Islamists, and then accused him of being a ""drama queen"" when he objected. But watching Mr Wilders praise Mr Trump's policies has made Ria change her mind about voting for him: ""When Trump brought in the travel ban and Wilders said 'Oh yeah we must do that in Holland too', I thought, no, he's crazy, that's not the way."" Are the Dutch really turning to Wilders? Wilders guilty of incitement Opinion polls suggest support for a Dutch ""Nexit"" in the months after the Brexit vote fell by 8% to 25%. Pollsters say people have realised that leaving the EU would be more complicated than they thought. ""If you sell to other countries and we're not in the EU anymore it's difficult,"" says Richard as he sells slabs of Edam cheese. With the financial crisis over in the Netherlands, the economy is growing and has faded as an election issue. Instead, immigration is expected to dominate the campaign. The pragmatic prime minister, Mark Rutte, launched his election campaign with an open letter warning that anyone who wasn't prepared to ""be normal"" and accept Dutch culture should get out of the country. Rights groups accused the prime minister of undermining the constitution. ""It's like PVV-light,"" says Anna Timmerman, director of Human Rights Watch in the Netherlands. What makes me most angry is [Mr Rutte] is putting me as a lesbian up against my Muslim neighbour. We have punishment for people who misbehave and it’s not kicking them out "" Newspaper columnist Folkert Jensma is concerned his country is losing its ""moral compass"". ""In my opinion a politician should be very careful and try to keep telling the truth. Is their fear based in reality? If everyone heads off to la-la-land where everyone is scared, we all end up with a president like Donald Trump."" The Hague suburb of Duindorp is another Wilders stronghold, where 90% are white and 35% voted PVV at the last election. A few years ago, the low-rise red-brick flats here were daubed with racist graffiti including a swastika. ""It's an old fisherman's village. People feel like other people are moving on to their turf,"" says Linda, who surprised her friends and family by marrying a Muslim from Morocco called Mostafa. The couple were so concerned about discrimination, they considered giving their son Linda's maiden name to protect him from prejudice. ""Groups don't mix. They're afraid of each other because they don't know each other."" Mostafa is in the Dutch army and believes his religion is perfectly compatible with Dutch culture, ""because if God, if Allah, did not want homosexuality to exist it would not exist"". He does not think Mr Wilders would be able to push through some of his policies. ""I am totally totally convinced that most of the people in the Netherlands are in their heart decent people."" Geert Wilders' party may well top the vote on 15 March but only his most ardent followers think he will become the next prime minister. The Dutch political system always produces a coalition government, and most other parties have vowed not to team up with him. But if his popularity encourages enough liberal politicians to adopt his signature policies, Mr Wilders may claim victory even without winning the election.","When Dutch populist Geert Wilders promises to stop Islam and make the Netherlands great again , his @placeholder finds a ready audience in the country 's newest city of Almere .",counterpart,head,shadow,message,leaving,3
"The reason for his departure is unclear but he was widely criticised after it emerged that the BND had spied for the US National Security Agency (NSA) . He will be replaced by Bruno Kahl, seen as close to Germany's finance minister. ""We need a new start,"" said a senior MP investigating the NSA affair. Official confirmation of Mr Schindler's replacement came from Chancellor Angela Merkel's office on Wednesday after it had been reported hours earlier. Mr Schindler, 63, has run the foreign intelligence service since 2012 and was due to retire in two years' time. There has been some suggestion that he suffered from ill health after the NSA controversy. Spy scandal turns tables on Merkel government BND under fire over Saudi report BND 'reduces' NSA co-operation Mr Schindler has had a difficult period in charge of the BND. The agency came under fire within Germany and from its neighbours over revelations that it had helped the NSA spy on European politicians, institutions and companies, using its monitoring station at Bad Aibling in Bavaria. Last December, the agency was publicly rebuked by its own government for releasing a highly critical report on Saudi Arabia's ""impulsive"" foreign policy. Some reports suggested that Mrs Merkel wanted the new chief in place before federal elections next year. Patrick Sensburg, head of the Bundestag's NSA committee, said a change at the top of the BND would provide an opportunity for much-needed reform. Some MPs said they were were concerned by his early departure, which will occur on 1 July. Centre-left SPD spokesman Burkhard Lischka said Mr Schindler had understood that the foreign intelligence agency had to open up ""at least a little"", adding that he had also backed reform of the service. Announcing the decision, the chancellor's spokesman, Peter Altmaier, said the intelligence services faced ""shifting security challenges"" as well as changes expected as a result of the parliamentary inquiry into its links with the NSA.","The head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service , Gerhard Schindler , is to leave his job early amid reports that he was @placeholder out .",lashed,knocked,thrown,carrying,forced,4
"They portray themselves as modern-day mutineers, standing up to their tyrannical overlords just as Fletcher Christian and his fellow Bounty sailors resisted Captain William Bligh. But critics say the Norfolk Islanders opposed to Australia taking over their homeland really fear that they will lose the power and privileges they have enjoyed for generations. The 1,700-strong population of Norfolk, an external territory of Australia in the South Pacific, is deeply divided over the federal government's plans to run the formerly self-governing island from 1 July. Once a tax haven and booming tourism destination, Norfolk - located 1,600km north-east of Sydney - has in recent years become dependent on cash from the mainland, receiving more than $30m in budget deficit funding to cover public expenditure, infrastructure upgrades and other costs. Now it is to be absorbed into the income tax and welfare system - a long overdue move, according to the island's administrator, Gary Hardgrave, who says half of residents are on or below the poverty line. Mr Hardgrave is brushing off calls to quit from those locals who trace their ancestry back to Pitcairn Island, where the mutineers fled with a group of Tahitian women after seizing the Bounty in 1789. Although long since outnumbered by mainland Australians and other ""outsiders"", these original Norfolkers, identified by some as ""the bluebloods"", and  whose forebears migrated to the former British penal colony in the mid-19th Century after outgrowing Pitcairn - dominate politics and public debate. Last year, after Australia abolished the nine-member Legislative Assembly which had run the island for 35 years, the ""blue bloods"" founded a protest group, Norfolk Island People for Democracy. Last month, they presented a petition to the United Nations seeking recognition of their right to self-determination. But while their views have made headlines, little has been heard from those who believe Norfolk has much to gain from closer integration with Australia. ""Just like in any small town, if you don't go along with what the pack's saying, the pack turns on you and savages you,"" Mr Hardgrave says. Among the few unafraid to speak out is Mike King, a hotelier and former politician who has lived on the island for 45 years. He welcomes Canberra's intervention and expects capital investment in Norfolk's decaying infrastructure - potentially amounting to A$35 million (£17.4m) - to revitalise a long-depressed economy. Mr King brands self-government an ""out-and-out failure"" - a view rejected by Andre Nobbs, a former chief minister. Mr Nobbs says locals are ""distressed, disturbed and disenchanted"" by Australia's actions, and he accuses Canberra of rewriting laws to ""remove recognition of the Pitcairn connectivity and culture and heritage"". He also insists that a ""clear majority"" of islanders reject reform, pointing to the 68% of people who voted yes in a referendum about Norfolk's future last year. However, others say the wording of the referendum question was ambiguous and designed to guarantee an affirmative result. For decades, the island - with its golden beaches, Georgian stone buildings and hillsides peppered with Norfolk Island pines - prospered from tourism. But competition from cheaper Pacific destinations has slashed visitor numbers, sent businesses bankrupt and prompted up to one-fifth of the population to leave. Some locals are convinced that Norfolk could survive on its own, with income from fisheries and offshore banking. But Mr Nobbs says Australia has ""obstructed our every effort at income generation"", including growing and exporting medicinal cannabis. Other islanders, though, blame the parlous situation on chronic financial mismanagement and a bloated public service. About 50 posts are to be cut, but official forecasts suggest more jobs will be created than lost on Norfolk, thanks to capital projects such as a A$13 million refurbishment of the pier to facilitate cruise ship visits. What really irks the anti-reformists, many believe, is that their dominant position in public life is under threat, along with the accompanying perks, such as dispensing jobs and favours to family members. It is a position which Norfolkers with Pitcairn roots have jealously guarded for decades, allegedly with the help of unsavoury tactics. Dissenters have had their fences cut and 44-gallon drums of cement dumped in their driveways. ""I don't like bullying, and that's what I see on Norfolk Island pretty constantly - a culture of scaring and bullying people who don't agree with you,"" says Mr Hardgrave. Now the romance of the Bounty story is once more being invoked in a last-ditch effort to keep Canberra at bay. The word ""mutiny"" has been daubed on the wall of the convict-era prison, directly opposite Mr Hardgrave's office in Kingston, the administrative centre. Mr King acknowledges that the social divisions are hurting the community. ""Families have been split, friendships have been shattered, and I don't think things will heal in my lifetime,"" he says. ""It's a terrible shame. But the other side of the story has got to be told."" UPDATE - 1 June 2016: This article was amended to clarify details about Norfolk Island's finances and population.","In 1789 the crew of HMS Bounty took control of the ship and set their captain adrift . The incident was made famous in the film Mutiny on the Bounty . Now the descendants of the mutineers on Norfolk Island have been accused of invoking the romance of the Bounty story to @placeholder their own interests , writes Kathy Marks .",protect,show,serve,improve,retain,0
"Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and Katie, 13, died at their home in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in April. The Attorney General will look at the sentences given to the 15 year olds. The case was referred under the unduly lenient sentence scheme and law officers have 28 days to decide if any action should be taken. During the trial at Nottingham Crown Court earlier this month, the jury heard the boy and girl - who were both 14 at the time - had sex, shared a bath and watched four vampire films as they ""revelled"" after the stabbing of the dinner lady and her daughter on 13 April. More on this story and others on BBC Local Live: Lincolnshire The judge, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, said the case had ""defining and particularly chilling"" features, and condemned the killers' conduct as ""grotesque"". He said: ""The killings were brutal in the form of executions and both victims, particularly Elizabeth Edwards, must have suffered terribly in the last minutes of their lives. ""Had you been adults you may have been facing the whole of your lives in prison for this double murder."" The court was told the boy, who admitted murder, used a kitchen knife to stab both victims in the neck. His girlfriend, who helped to plan the killings, denied murder, claiming to be suffering mental dysfunctions but was found guilty after a five-day trial. A statement from the Attorney General's office said: ""We are unable to provide the details of who referred the case. ""The threshold to refer cases to the Court of Appeal is very high. ""A sentence can only be regarded as unduly lenient if there has been a gross error and it is significantly below the level that any judge could have reasonably imposed after considering the facts of the case.""",The 20 - year minimum jail terms given to two teenage murderers who killed a mother and daughter are to be @placeholder for being ' too lenient ' .,appealed,reviewed,investigated,criticised,detained,1
"The debate provoked protests from Islamic and other religious groups, and even from some members of the governing party itself. Critics have accused the party of pandering to a resurgent far right. The debate was held a week before a law banning the Islamic full-face veil in public comes into force. With Muslim religious leaders boycotting the event, only politicians or representatives of other faiths took part in the three-hour, round-table discussion at a Paris hotel. The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the political atmosphere in France in recent days has been poisonous, with accusations flying between left and right. According to government estimates, France has as many as six million Muslims, or just under 10% of the population, making it the biggest Muslim minority in western Europe. The UMP argued that it would be irresponsible not to debate the great changes posed to French society by its growing numbers of Muslims. It outlined 26 ideas aimed at underpinning the country's secular character, which was enshrined in a law of 1905. The law poses modern-day quandaries about issues such as halal food being served in schools and Muslims praying in the street when mosques are too crowded. Proposals discussed on Tuesday included Launching the debate entitled simply ""Secularity"" before 200 guests and scores of journalists, UMP leader Jean-Francois Cope defended the idea of holding it at all. Accusing the opposition Socialists of being in denial and the National Front of demagoguery, he called for ""a third way, that of responsibility"". ""Many French people have the feeling that the republican pact to which they are attached is being challenged by globalisation and the failures of integration,"" he said. However, one of Mr Cope's most senior UMP colleagues, Prime Minister Francois Fillon, declined to take part in the debate, warning that it risked ""stigmatising Muslims"". Gilles Bernheim, France's chief rabbi, said the debate was ""importune"" but he was taking part nonetheless. ""We did not ask for this debate but there was no question for us of boycotting it and stigmatising a political party, even if it is a ruling party,"" he told reporters after arriving at the hotel. Salim Himidi, a former foreign minister of the largely Muslim Comoros Islands, said Islam's relations with the secular state was ""an important subject"" that had to be discussed. ""I think France has a mission that goes beyond its geographical limits,"" he added. Condemning the debate, Hassan Ben M'Barek of the pressure group Banlieues Respect, said it was aimed only at ""keeping the UMP in the media in the year before the [next presidential] election"".","French President Nicolas Sarkozy 's party , the UMP , has hosted a controversial debate on the @placeholder of Islam in secular France .",amount,sale,practice,state,grounds,2
Read the team news for Saturday's matches below. Kick-off 15:00 unless stated. All times GMT. Manchester City v Chelsea (12:30) Crystal Palace v Southampton Stoke City v Burnley Sunderland v Leicester City Tottenham Hotspur v Swansea City West Bromwich Albion v Watford West Ham United v Arsenal (17:30) Birmingham City v Barnsley Blackburn Rovers v Huddersfield Town Bristol City v Ipswich Town Burton Albion v Rotherham United Cardiff City v Brighton and Hove Albion Fulham v Reading Norwich City v Brentford Sheffield Wednesday v Preston North End Wigan Athletic v Derby County Leeds United v Aston Villa (17:30),"Four of the Premier League 's top five are in action on Saturday , while there is a @placeholder programme in the Championship .",training,step,remain,packed,reported,3
"Deloitte was appointed in February by Powa's main backers Wellington Management after the firm failed to repay the money it owed the Boston-based firm. The administrators have to produce a report which covers the measures they have taken to recover any money for creditors - and what they found out about the state of the business. Powa had not filed accounts since 2013 - now we find out how spending had soared in the following two years, with revenues lagging far behind. So in 2014, the payments technology firm had revenues of just over £1m and made a loss of over £38m. The following year revenues rose to £4.9m (though take off the cost of sales for a gross profit of £3m) and losses were nearly £32m. In both those years staff costs were around £25m. Some of that went to contractors but in 2015 £15m was shared amongst 168 employees, an average of £89,000 each, which sounds very generous for a start-up business. What we don't know - and there is no information on this in the report - is how much that was skewed by very high salaries paid to a few at the top. We also find out that more than £2m a year was going on ""accrued rent"" for two floors in the Heron Tower, the grand location at the heart of the City of London which served as the firm's headquarters. Powa's PR team had suggested that a rent holiday made this a good deal, but it's now clear that it was a bill that still had to be paid at some stage. The report also shows that Powa had received investment funding of £143m by the end of 2015, most of it from Wellington. By late 2015, Powa's chief executive Dan Wagner was boasting of an amazing deal to get his payments technology into China via a joint venture with China Union Pay. He told The Financial Times that the joint venture would generate more than $5bn (£3.5bn) in revenues over the next three years. But Deloitte indicates that it was never going to be the slam-dunk Wagner claimed -  ""PowaTAG required modification for the Chinese market and significant work was undertaken to try to meet the delivery date in January 2016, which never happened."" At the same time his backers' patience was fast running out - £42m was due to be repaid to Wellington by 31 December. Powa, which had been seeking without success to raise additional funding, ceased paying employees and suppliers after December. Its attempts then to renegotiate the payment terms with Wellington failed, and on 19 February the administrators were appointed. So what's Dan Wagner's take on this? Shortly after the firm's collapse he spoke to BBC Radio 4's In Business for a programme about European ""unicorns"" - companies valued at over $1bn before they reach the stock market. He appeared bemused that Wellington had pulled the plug: ""They didn't tell us or the board. Just one day the administrators turned up."" So, he was asked, it was a complete shock? ""Correct."" Which seems strange when you find from the Deloitte report that Powa had a total of just £277,000 in the bank when the administrators arrived and was unable to pay anybody. He compared his company to the Channel Tunnel which was also ""pre-revenue"" for years, but had its finances restructured. ""Today millions and millions of people use the Channel Tunnel,"" he explained. ""So that doesn't mean that the initiative around Powa was flawed or there was anything wrong with the management of that business. It was a very ambitious but very robust proposition that was gaining a lot of traction needing capital to continue to fund its momentum."" He blamed this year's downturn in the financial markets, he blamed Wellington for getting confused between the US Chapter 11 and the UK administration procedures, he blamed a lack of understanding in the UK for innovative technology. But none of it, he was clear, was his fault: ""It's the business equivalent of walking across the street and being hit by a car. It is one of those things which sometimes happens which is completely random."" One former executive is amused at Mr Wagner's Channel Tunnel analogy. He says Powa ""was aiming for France, but goodness knows where it was going. It just ended up as an expensive hole in the ground where all the cash was sunk, with no light at the end of the tunnel."" And former staff owed £150,000 and suppliers who are £15m out of pocket may not share Dan Wagner's view that this was an accident that could not have been foreseen. The Deloitte report makes it clear they are unlikely to see any of their money.","Last month I wrote about the collapse of the UK tech "" unicorn "" Powa Technologies , a firm I called a textbook example of how not to run a business . Back then it was hard to see how Powa had run through so much money so quickly - but now a report from the administrators has provided some @placeholder .",practice,level,clarity,proof,effect,2
"Avijit Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was attacked as he walked back from a book fair with his wife, who was also hurt in the attack. No-one has been arrested but police say they are investigating a local Islamist group that praised the killing. Hundreds of people gathered in Dhaka to mourn the blogger's death. Mr Roy's family say he received threats after publishing articles promoting secular views, science and social issues on his Bengali-language blog, Mukto-mona (Free Mind). He defended atheism in a recent Facebook post, calling it a ""rational concept to oppose any unscientific and irrational belief"". His Mukto-mona website on Friday bore the message in Bengali ""we are grieving but we shall overcome"" against a black background. US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki described it as an assault on Bangladesh's proud tradition of free intellectual and religious speech. A group of men ambushed the couple, who live in the US and were visiting Dhaka only to attend the book festival, as they walked toward a roadside tea stall. At least two of the attackers hit the couple with meat cleavers in the attack on Thursday evening, police chief Sirajul Islam told AP news agency. Dropping their weapons, the attackers ran away, disappearing into the crowds. Police told the BBC they were investigating a local hard-line religious group that had praised the killing in an online message. Ajay Roy, father of the dead man, urged the authorities to find the killers and ""ensure exemplary punishment"". ""This Bangladesh which was built  by the blood-sacrifice of the martyrs has now turned into a den of militants,"" he said. Students, teachers and bloggers gathered at Dhaka University on Friday to protest against the killing. In a forthcoming article to be published in the Free Inquiry magazine of April-May 2015, Mr Roy likens religious extremism to a ""highly contagious virus"". He says he received threats from Islamist hardliners in Bangladesh last year when his book, The Virus of Faith, was released at a book fair. ""The death threats started flowing to my e-mail inbox on a regular basis,"" he writes. ""I suddenly found myself a target of militant Islamists and terrorists. A well-known extremist... openly issued death threats to me through his numerous Facebook entries. ""In one widely circulated status, he writes, 'Avijit Roy lives in America and so, it is not possible to kill him right now. But he will be murdered when he comes back.'"" The killing in early 2013 of another secular blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider, which was blamed on religious hardliners, sparked protests from free-speech supporters and counter-protests from Islamists. The police say the attack on Mr Roy was similar to the 2013 murder. Avijit Roy Death threats against atheist writers and bloggers are nothing new in Bangladesh. Prominent writer Taslima Nasreen had to leave Bangladesh after she received death threats from hard-line Islamists in the mid-1990s. She wrote on her blog: ""Avijit Roy has been killed the way other free thinker writers were killed in Bangladesh. No free thinker is safe in Bangladesh. ""Islamic terrorists can do whatever they like. They can kill people with no qualms whatsoever.""",Attackers in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have hacked to death a US - Bangladeshi blogger whose @placeholder on religion angered Islamist hardliners .,life,position,icons,ground,writings,4
"Last year the pair became the first brothers to top the world rankings in singles and doubles at the same time. They have previously played together on tour and in the Davis Cup and the Olympics, but never in a Grand Slam. Britain's former Fed Cup captain told BBC Sport: ""I'm pretty sure they are going to have a crack at Wimbledon doubles together."" Jamie, 31, reached the top of the doubles rankings in March and won two Grand Slams in 2016, while Andy, 30, winner of three Grand Slams in singles and two Olympic gold medals, became world number one in November and remains there. ""While they are still happy and healthy I think they are quite happy doing their own thing and going their own way. But I'm pretty sure you'll see them playing doubles at Wimbledon together before they end their careers,"" Judy Murray told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek. ""I think they are both as driven as ever to win big titles. ""The Grand Slams are the biggest prizes in tennis and those are the things every player wants to win."" Jamie has won two doubles titles with Brazilian partner Bruno Soares this year, while Andy claimed the Dubai Championships for the first time but lost to world number 90 Jordan Thompson in the first round of the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club in June. Andy will seek a third Wimbledon singles triumph when he defends his title in this year's Championships, which begin on 3 July.",Judy Murray has @placeholder her sons Andy and Jamie to play doubles together at Wimbledon before their careers end .,tipped,criticised,taught,invited,joined,0
"The programme was started after a number of attacks and attempted rapes. A police official said women and children were being taught basic judo and how to punch and kick. Police say there are around 100,000 people in camps in Kathmandu following the devastating earthquake in April. ""When we visited these temporary shelters we found there had been violence against women and children,"" said Tara Devi Thapa, deputy superintendent of police in the Kathmandu Valley. ""We thought it was a good idea to give them a skill so they can use it and benefit,"" she said. Ms Thapa said around 70 women and girls in one camp in the Boudha area of the city were being taught how to do judo holds as well as how to kick and punch. She said there had been a high demand from earthquake victims to learn how to defend themselves, and the police were considering offering the programme in all camps in the capital. ""We expect the amount of violence women and children face to increase as time goes on,"" said Ms Thapa. ""We think the shelters could be targeted by criminal and trafficking gangs,"" she said. Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless by the 7.8 magnitude quake and resulting aftershocks. Many of these people face a long stay in temporary shelters before they can rebuild their homes.",The Nepalese police say they are giving self - defence @placeholder to women and children earthquake survivors who are living in temporary shelters in the capital Kathmandu .,aid,drugs,classes,advice,forces,2
"It was an aggressive referendum campaign which saw the topic of immigration fiercely debated amid allegations of xenophobia and racism. On holiday to the UK in the aftermath of all this, Jani and Mari Parkkali from Finland could be forgiven for wondering if they would feel tension. ""We were a little worried there might be a problem with the local people but it has been fine,"" Jani said, sounding relieved. ""We have been made to feel very welcome - the people have been very friendly."" They were adamant the referendum result would not deter them from future trips to the UK but Mari was not sure the majority of Finnish people would feel the same. ""Finnish people are very cautious,"" she said. ""After this result, I think, when weighing up where to go they might well choose somewhere else now, such as Germany over England."" Enrique Melia from Barcelona is a frequent visitor with homes in several European countries, including the UK. He said freedom of movement was very important to him but he sympathised with British people who want to leave the EU. ""I would too. If I was the Spanish government I would get out now - too much bureaucracy, people you haven't elected telling you what to do. That's stupid."" he said. He too said he felt welcome, although he added: ""There is some xenophobia. I have suffered it. There is a bit of racism in England, yes."" But he was defiant: ""It doesn't worry me. I don't care. I like the British people. ""In Spain we have twice as much immigration but we don't even talk about it. We have two million of you and you have 200,000 of us here. So who is the immigrant?"" Flora Auth and Zoltan Palfy, from Hungary, have been in the UK since September. Ms Auth said if there were any negative feelings towards foreigners they had not felt it at all. ""People have been so kind to us,"" she said. Mr Palfy said he doubted Britain's departure from the EU would put other Europeans off. ""It will just be like visiting Switzerland or Norway or anywhere else where you have to ask permission to visit or stay.  It won't be a problem,"" he said. However, professor Richard Tol of Sussex University said travellers simply ""don't understand the consequences"". ""It will hit them once the regulations change,"" he said. ""People are afraid of filling out forms. By increasing the hurdles that people must jump through to get here, they will simply choose to go somewhere else. ""That will definitely have a negative impact on numbers,"" he predicted. He said the fallen pound would make the UK cheaper and more attractive, but labour costs would go up as low-skilled immigrants are ""thrown out"", increasing the cost of holidays. In a statement, the British tourist authority Visit Britain unsurprisingly offered a ""warm welcome to our many European visitors"". It said it was anticipating a strong summer holiday season.","The UK has decided to leave the European Union , yet it will be some time before the consequences of this decision are clear . Against the backdrop of @placeholder , ferries continue to arrive at the Port of Dover bringing travellers from abroad .",subjects,power,abuse,fish,uncertainty,4
"The finding was contained in a memo obtained by RTÉ's Investigation Unit. The programme alleged the practice was carried out on 14 Catholic men after they were interned in 1971. 'The Torture Files' contained correspondence sent by the then Home Secretary Merlyn Rees to the Prime Minister James Callaghan in March 1977. The memo detailed a meeting between the Attorney General of the Republic of Ireland and his UK counterpart. Mr Rees states in the letter that it was his ""view (confirmed by Brian Faulkner before his death [NI's prime minister at the time]) that the decision to use methods of torture in Northern Ireland in 1971/72 was taken by ministers - in particular Lord Carrington, then secretary of state for defence."" ""If at any time methods of torture are used in Northern Ireland contrary to the view of the government of the day, I would agree that individual policemen or solders should be prosecuted or disciplined; but in the particular circumstances of 1971/72, a political decision was taken,"" Mr Rees stated in his letter. ""I do not believe that the Irish government understand the nature of the situation in 1971/72 - a situation which, to his credit, Mr Heath (Edward Heath, the then prime minster) ended."" In August 1971, in the wake of escalating violence in Northern Ireland, Brian Faulkner introduced a new law giving the authorities the power to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists without trial (internment). The law took effect on 9 August and during the next three days, 343 Catholics were arrested. Twenty-one people died during the three days of unrest - 17 were shot by the British Army, 11 of whom were shot in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast. Those arrested were first brought to detention camps in Army bases - within two days more than 100 had been released - the rest were interned. A dozen men were selected, hooded and flown by helicopter to a secret location, believed to be at Ballykelly airbase, County Londonderry. Two more men later joined the others - they became known as the so-called Hooded Men who had been selected for what the Army termed ""deep interrogation"". They claimed they were beaten and subjected to what were called the five techniques, which included food and sleep deprivation and being subjected to very loud noise for long periods. A BBC Radio Ulster documentary in 2012 also revealed claims the British Army had used a form of torture known as water boarding in NI 40 years ago. The five techniques the men were subjected to were later banned by the prime minister at the time, Edward Heath. In December 1971, Ireland lodged a case against the United Kingdom government, alleging it breached the European Convention on Human Rights on torture, discrimination and the right to life. The first stage of the process was an investigation by the European Human Rights Commission following the complaint. In 1976, it ruled that the British government was guilty of torture and inhumane and degrading treatment. Ireland, armed with the commission's finding, referred the case upwards to the European Court of Human Rights for judgment. In 1978, the European court ruled that while the five techniques amounted to inhumane and degrading treatment, they did not constitute torture. Patrick Corrigan, director of Amnesty International in Northern Ireland, said the revelations in the RTÉ documentary underscored ""the need for a comprehensive means of dealing with our troubled past"". He said the 'The Torture Files' had further alleged that the UK government did not disclose relevant evidence to the European Court of Human Rights, in its defence of the case. ""These latest allegations that the UK government misled the European Court of Human Rights in the 'hooded men' case are deeply worrying,"" he said. ""The revelations underscore the need for a comprehensive means of dealing with our troubled past, and the need for all parties to come clean about their role in human rights violations and abuses.""","The British government @placeholder the use of torture methods in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s , an RTà ‰ documentary has revealed .",authorised,criticised,side,battered,rocked,0
"One passenger thought she was going to ""pass out"" and another said it felt like he was ""walking into an oven"". One man said the driver told him the heating needed to be on in order to keep the engine cool. The services are run by East Midlands bus operator Trent Barton, which said it was not aware of the problem. Tom Morgan, director of service delivery, said: ""Our vehicles are one of the most modern fleets in the country and we don't need to put our heaters on to cool our engines down."" Mr Morgan said he would need to find out more in order to explain what happened. Rainu Bhele said fans on the Mickleover service in Derby were blowing out ""very hot air"" and estimated that temperatures reached between 35C (95F) and 45C (113F). ""I've been to India in 46C heat and it felt very similar,"" she said. ""It was significantly cooler outside when I got off the bus, which is saying something."" She said she felt quite dizzy and lightheaded by the time she got home. ""It was awful. I thought I was going to pass out and there was no way of cooling myself down,"" she said. Temperatures reached 32C (90F) across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire on Tuesday, which was the hottest day of 2016 in England and Wales. John Heath, who took a service between Nottingham and Mansfield on Tuesday, said passengers were ""boiled alive"". ""It was like walking into an oven,"" he said. ""The windows were open in the bus but made no difference because the heating was on full blast."" Mr Heath said he spoke to the driver when he got off. ""He said 'Sorry mate I can't turn it off, it's on all the time, it helps the engine',"" he said.","Passengers have complained of being "" boiled alive "" on buses - after heaters were @placeholder on during the hottest day of the year .",switched,brought,held,closed,imposed,0
"Damien Treavartha made two girls take part in sex games in a ploy to get them to have oral sex with him. He also filmed himself committing a sexual assault on a third girl who he partially stripped as she was sleeping. The 34-year-old, of Newton Abbot, admitted ten charges including rape at Exeter Crown Court and was jailed with a five-year extended licence period. He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders' register for life. The court heard Treavartha recorded some of the assaults secretly on his phone and the clips were found by police after one of his victims disclosed what he had done. He admitted three counts of sexual assault, two counts each of rape, engaging in a sexual act in a child's presence and inciting sexual activity with a child, and one of attempted rape. Mitigating, Rupert Taylor said the defendant had pleaded guilty and spared the children giving evidence. He said he has no history of sexual offending but his behaviour had been caused by abuse of steroids and other drugs. Sentencing Treavartha, Judge Erik Salomonsen said: ""It is quite clear from the evidence, including that from your own phone, that you devised a strategy in order to abuse these children for your own sexual gratification."" The NSPCC for South West England said the victims had shown ""immense bravery"". ""This disturbing case shows how vital it is to educate pupils about abuse and empower them to come forward if they have been abused,"" a spokesman added.",A child abuser who made blindfolded girls taste @placeholder they could need see has been jailed for 18 years .,food,sums,disabled,things,show,0
"Lewes FC's women's team plays in the Premier League Southern Division - the third tier of the women's game. The men compete in the Isthmian League Division One South, their eighth tier. Director Jacquie Agnew said: ""We hope to spark a change that will help put an end to the excuses for why such a deep pay disparity has persisted."" As well as giving women's manager John Donoghue the same budget as male counterpart Darren Freeman, the East Sussex club say they will also ensure the same level of coaching staff, equipment and facilities are provided to the two sides. The move is part of the club's Equality FC campaign, which is funded by a combination of the club, donors and sponsors. Both teams already play at the same home ground - The Dripping Pan - and will share 'Equality FC' as their shirt sponsor next season. ""We believe that there should be a level playing field for women in football,"" added Agnew. ""Lewes FC can show that equal pay can be implemented to the benefit of both women and men in sport and beyond.""",An English semi-professional club believe they have become the first in the UK to pay their men's and women 's teams the same @placeholder .,team,period,amount,election,region,2
"The rapper served eight months of a one year sentence in New York's Rikers Island jail after pleading guilty to gun possession. The book, called Gone Till November, is due to be released later this year. The memoirs will feature Lil Wayne's thoughts on family, children and the people he has met in his lifetime, Grand Central Publishing said. The 29-year-old, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, has also written about his plans for the future. Ben Greenberg, executive editor at the publishing company, said the journal would be ""revealing"". ""[Lil Wayne] kept detailed journals of his inner and outer life while he was on Rikers Island, and they certainly tell a story. They are revealing,"" he said. The book is set to be released on 28 November 2012. The rapper is best known for his singles Lollipop, Drop The World and BedRock - which reached number nine in the UK singles chart. In September, his current album Tha Carter IV broke iTunes sales records. Carter is nominated for four Grammy awards at next month's ceremony, including best rap album and best rap song for Look At Me Now - a collaboration with Chris Brown and Busta Rhymes. Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Bruno Mars and Foo Fighters are due to perform at the event.",Lil Wayne is to release a book @placeholder of diaries he wrote during his time in prison .,dream,bunch,consisting,amount,form,2
"Six days later, Japan announced its surrender. At least 74,000 people died in the Nagasaki blast or from subsequent injuries. Some 140,000 people had died three days before in Hiroshima, in the world's first nuclear attack. The bomb which would hit Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 was nicknamed Fat Man by the Americans. It was carried by the plane Bockscar, which was flown from the Mariana Islands and piloted by Maj Gen Charles Sweeney. After Hiroshima, US President Harry S Truman said that if Japan they did not accept the terms of surrender, ""they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this Earth"". Nagasaki was initially not even on the list of possible targets for the A-bomb, it was only added two weeks before the attack. On the day the US was actually intending to bomb the city of Kokura, but bad weather obscured visibility, so Bockscar headed to Nagasaki instead. The plutonium-core bomb exploded above Nagasaki on 11.02 local time. The US has justified using the atomic bomb as a necessity to end World War Two and save thousands of civilian and military lives worldwide from continued conflict. But critics say that Japan was already ready to surrender and that the US had dropped the bombs to display its military might. The attack on Nagasaki destroyed about 30% of the city, flattening almost everything in the industrial district. Those who survived suffered horrific injuries, or radiation sickness. One of the biggest Roman Catholic churches in Asia at the time, the Urakami Cathedral was also hit. It was rebuilt in 1959. In the days following the explosion, some of the survivors were pictured living in shelters made out of debris. Ten years later, the city had been rapidly rebuilt, including a peace memorial park in the middle of the city. A monument was erected at the park, known as the Peace Statue in 1955. Its right hand pointing to the sky is said to ""point to the threat of nuclear weapons"", while its left hand extending out symbolises peace, according to Japan's national tourism agency's website. A memorial ceremony is held in front of it every year.","On 9 August 1945 , the US dropped the second atomic bomb ever @placeholder in conflict , hitting the Japanese industrial city of Nagasaki .",stranded,deployed,held,involved,put,1
"Customers have likened the smell to cat urine and rotten animals. They say the smell gets stronger in hot weather and if the windows are open. Valspar says the problem is caused by an additive being removed from some of its paint. It has now re-added it. Valspar and B&Q say they will pay for the cost of redecoration. Charlotte Quine from Brighton recently redecorated her spare room using Valspar paint. She told Radio 4's You and Yours it took her a long time to figure out what was making the smell. She said: ""I assumed a cat must have got into the room through the window and sprayed everywhere. Eventually I moved all the furniture out, washed down all the walls, got some carpet cleaner, but again nothing."" Ms Quine later saw messages left by other Valspar customers on the company's Facebook page complaining that the paint smelt bad. She sniffed her walls and realised where the smell was coming from. Ms Quine complained and Valspar offered to cover the cost of new tins of paint. Their suggestion to fix the problem was to paint the walls with an alkaline-based sealant, and then reapply the paint, but she was worried that it would just mask the problem. She said: ""What concerns me is it seems that this problem is caused by bacteria growing in the paint and emitting the smell, and until Valspar are prepared to investigate, I am slightly concerned about just painting over it."" Graham Hill is managing director of ECHA Microbiology in Cardiff. He says the problem is likely to be caused by bacterial contamination in the can. He said: ""It's a well known issue in the paint industry. The bacteria grow in the can and release hydrogen sulphide gas which is the bad egg small, and ammonia which is the urine smell."" Mr Hill also suggested that changes in EU law, which restricts the types of preservatives that paint manufacturers can use, mean this problem is becoming more common. ""There's tighter and tighter restrictions on what preservatives we can use,"" he said. ""We've taken solvents out of paints and this does make them more susceptible to bacterial growth. Alkali [sealant] should break down hydrogen sulphide, so it shouldn't smell as much."" Valspar said: ""The ammonia-type odour occurs very rarely and when used on walls that are particularly porous, and where the wall is exposed to excessive heat or direct sunlight. The odour naturally wears off over time."" B&Q says anyone affected should ring their customer service helpline on 0333 014 3098.",B&Q says it will @placeholder hundreds of people who experienced bad smells after painting their homes with Valspar paint that it sold them .,pursue,avoid,produce,save,compensate,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device It just happened to be Roger Federer, rather than a woman two years older than him who had not won a Grand Slam singles title for nine years. Some elite athletes project an image of impregnability. Venus Williams takes on the world by appearing to be oblivious to it By taking Britain's Johanna Konta apart in straight sets before a wilting Centre Court crowd, 37-year-old Venus Williams has moved within one match of becoming the oldest ladies' singles champion in more than a century. If that makes a mockery of time, it is worth considering that when the American turned professional in October 1994, Konta was three years old. Should Williams beat Garbine Muguruza on Saturday, it would come 17 years after her first Wimbledon singles title. Martina Navratilova, whose own longevity was once considered remarkable, had a stretch of 12 years here, Steffi Graf eight. Media playback is not supported on this device This was not supposed to happen. It is nine years since Venus beat her younger sister Serena in straight sets for the most recent of her five singles title here. It is five since she lost in straight sets in the first round to Elena Vesnina. She had three and a half years after that when she failed to make it even to the second week of a Grand Slam tournament. You might expect her to be giddy with adrenaline afterwards, thrilled to be back for one last shot at the title that defined her career. Being Venus, she instead looked like someone who had just woken from a long restorative nap, as bashful as the teenager who first played on these courts in 1997, as softly spoken as a kid thrust into a news conference for the very first time. Asked how excited she was, she blinked slowly, thought about it and sighed. ""Yeah, um… yeah."" Asked about the double-fault Konta had produced on her first service of the match, she had no recollection of it. Someone suggested there might be lessons to be taken from Serena's defeat of Muguruza in the final of 2015. Venus had no idea when it had taken place. Some elite athletes project an image of impregnability. Venus takes on the world by appearing to be oblivious to it. Three years from her fifth decade, she is a warrior who keeps a shield up at all times. In the Royal Box on Thursday afternoon were two other great veteran entertainers, Shirley Bassey and Elaine Paige. History might be repeating for Venus, but we still don't know her so well. Some of that comes from a life lived in the spotlight, some from the influence of her sister. Serena has a name for the personalities she deploys on court: Summer, who is all smiles and thank-you notes; Psycho Serena, the feisty competitor; Taquanda, the one who screams and shouts and says things to line judges that no line judge should expect to hear. Venus prefers to stay as distant as a planet. Only occasionally does the guard drop, as when she left a news conference earlier in this tournament after being asked about the crash in Florida which led to the death of a passenger in a car that collided with hers. All other questions are met with a stop volley. Media playback is not supported on this device With the years comes experience, not only of these sorts of hype-heavy Grand Slam occasions, but of how to find the holes in the defence of an opponent who has just beaten the world number two and who had beaten Williams herself in three of their past four meetings. Centre Court was ready to celebrate on Thursday, Henman Hill so packed that spectators were reduced to queuing for a gap in a hedge at the back that was itself 50 metres from the video screen. Williams had let Konta walk out ahead, comfortable in herself, confident in her chosen tactics. For a while it was tight. At 4-4 in the first set, Konta had two break points, one of them on a second serve. Venus slammed shut the fly-trap and then tucked into Konta's serve. Big depth on the first return, more power and depth on the second. She broke the Briton in a run of seven points in a row, and home hopes went south with the set. Konta would win just a third of the points on her second serve, and just 26% of receiving points. In a second set that accelerated towards its end, the American's groundstrokes pulled her opponent around in a way that shattered the sweet rhythm she had sat in all tournament. By reaching the final of the Australian Open in January, 20 years on from her maiden US Open final, Williams had already set a record for the longest span between singles Slam finals in the open era. That seemed like a comeback enough, six years on from being diagnosed with the debilitating autoimmune disease Sjogren's syndrome. Much of her time has been spent preparing for the next chapter - expanding her fashion label EleVen, graduating with a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Indiana University East in August 2015. She puts some of that durability down to her 'chegan' diet (mostly vegan, with the occasional bit of cheating). There has been a sense here too of wanting to compensate for the absence of Serena, away preparing for the birth of her first child. While she will never show it publicly, there is something else too: a love for the game at a point when most have happily slipped into sporting retirement, an ability to keep fighting when quite enough has already been won. Federer in the semi-finals on Friday, Venus returning to Centre Court on Saturday. Wimbledon, a championships awash with history, is going back to the future once again.",More than a few people had money on a great former champion now in their sporting dotage fighting through the rounds and years for another @placeholder at the Wimbledon singles crown .,tilt,place,practice,contest,opportunity,0
"The incident happened at about 21:00 BST on 3 August in Prestbury, Cheshire. The alarm at the Manchester United star's £6m property was reportedly triggered and police conducted a full search of the area. The arrested man, who is 24 and from the Scarborough area, is in police custody for questioning. The testimonial against Everton, which ended 0-0, made history as it was the first ever game between Premier League teams to be streamed live on Facebook.",A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to burgle Wayne Rooney 's @placeholder while he was playing in his testimonial match at Old Trafford .,water,pants,chest,home,traffic,3
"The 53-year-old was found with serious injuries at a house in Littledean, Gloucestershire, on Thursday afternoon. Officer were called to the property in Broad Street at 15:00 GMT. The woman died a short time later. A cordon is still in place at the property, where officers are carrying out inquiries.","A post-mortem examination will be @placeholder following the unexplained death of a woman , police have said .",allowed,investigated,questioned,held,needed,3
"The annual report by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found that 60% of worldwide abuse material was now in Europe - an increase of 19%. The Netherlands topped the list of European nations hosting the illegal content, said the IWF. Improved reporting and policing by ISPs in North America are believed to have driven the shift. ""The situation is reversed from previous years,"" said Susie Hargreaves, chief executive of the IWF. ""Europe is now the biggest host of child sexual abuse imagery, rather than North America."" The IWF is the UK body that acts to find and remove abuse content from UK networks. In 2015, about 57% of the web pages containing abuse content could be found in North America, according to the IWF figures. In 2016, this had dropped to 37% with the majority now in Europe. The IWF report said about 34,212 web pages were found to be displaying abuse content in Europe - which also includes Russia and Turkey. Ms Hargreaves said the shift ""could reflect the great work taking place by the US industry to tackle the problem"" that had forced criminals to look elsewhere for hosts that would let them upload and share content. The change was a ""remarkable indication"" of the work being done by US ISPs to identify, remove and report the content, said John Shehan, vice-president of the exploited children division of the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). American laws requiring ISPs to inform the authorities when images were found on their networks had driven a steep rise in reports to NCMEC, he said. In 2015, the number of reports it received topped 4.4 million and in 2016, 8.2 million, Already in 2017, said Mr Shehan, the organisation had received more than two million reports. This work was aided by the use of classification systems that produce a unique identifier, known as a hash, for each piece of content. This can then be used to see if any image or video being uploaded is known to depict abuse. ""The hashes dramatically help abuse victims by reducing the amount of re-victimisation that occurs when the images are recirculated and traded online,"" he said. Few European firms that rent servers or web space actively sought out images of abuse, he said, which could also help to explain the shift identified by the IWF. Arda Gerkens, a Dutch MP who helps to oversee the nation's anti-abuse hotline, said it too had seen an ""overall"" rise in the number of reports to ISPs about material both in 2016 and 2015. But, said Ms Gerkens, there had been no change in European policy over the last 12 months that would account for the shift. A spokeswoman for the UK's National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said work had to be done to tackle the ""escalating demand"" for abuse material and to find out what stops offenders viewing child sexual abuse images. ""We must never forget that there is a victim behind every child sexual abuse image,"" she added. ""Every time these horrific pictures are viewed a child is re-abused. Anyone who wilfully seeks out this material is complicit in fuelling this appalling industry.""","Europe is becoming the global hub for the hosting of child sexual abuse images and videos , @placeholder a report .",warns,following,including,according,suggests,4
"Ashok Chavan and 13 others were charged in the scandal over the 31-storey Adarsh Society building in Mumbai. Mr Chavan said the charges against him were ""unfortunate and unexpected"". The housing project was originally for war widows, but flats were sold to politicians and military officers, allegedly at below market prices. ""There is a conspiracy by my rivals to malign me. The Adarsh issue has been blown out of proportion,"" Mr Chavan said after the charges were filed on Wednesday. He also said that he was not ""associated with allotment of land to the Adarsh society nor did I have anything to do with the list of its members"". Ashok Chavan resigned as chief minister after it emerged that his relatives had flats in the building. All 14 people have been charged with criminal conspiracy, cheating and corruption. Originally meant to be a six-storey block in an exclusive part of Mumbai, the building exceeds the maximum height allowed for buildings near the coast. Municipal authorities disconnected the building's water and electricity supply in 2010 after it was found to have violated environmental laws. The Adarsh Society case is one of several corruption scandals that have shaken India's government.",The former chief minister of India 's Maharashtra state has been charged in connection with a corruption scandal involving @placeholder for war widows .,group,body,deal,compensation,homes,4
"Clough, who has been granted permission to discuss the managerial role at his former club, saw the visitors lead through Luke Murphy's 30-yard strike. Lloyd Dyer's breakaway effort put an increasingly impressive Burton 2-0 up. Conor Washington's shot gave hope of a comeback, but the visitors held on to climb out of the relegation zone. The Brewers had lost seven of their previous eight Championship matches and eight from nine in all competitions, but stifled the home side in the first half. Murphy's stunning 12th-minute effort was Burton's first goal in their fifth match of 2017 and gave them the belief to seize control. Dyer's finish through keeper Alex Smithies' legs, after exchanging passes with loan signing Lasse Vigen Christensen, put Clough's men well on top. Substitute Washington scored at the second attempt - his fourth goal of the season - as QPR switched to two up front. Dyer twice wasted good chances to make it 3-1 after good work by Jackson Irvine while Washington forced a fine save from keeper Jon McLaughlin. But the Brewers were able to see out just their second away league win of the season and ensure a first defeat in five matches for QPR. QPR manager Ian Holloway: ""It's bitterly disappointing, because I thought we could play better than that and give a better show of ourselves. ""I'm sick and fed up of feeling like I do now. It's not how I want to feel. We have to assert ourselves on games and we didn't do it in the way I wanted us to. ""I need to bring the right sort of people in if I can. We've got lots of things spinning at the moment. Which way are they going to drop? We're not sure yet. ""But hopefully they'll give me the right sort of selection problems so I can build a team that can win different types of games."" Burton Albion manager Nigel Clough: ""It was important to get out of the bottom three and we've done that. This game today was so important for the club. Whatever happens in the next few days happens. ""The most important thing was to not let it get in the way of what happened today. This game has been the priority all along. ""The players have been great in training as always - you saw the work-rate."" Match ends, Queens Park Rangers 1, Burton Albion 2. Second Half ends, Queens Park Rangers 1, Burton Albion 2. Offside, Burton Albion. Jackson Irvine tries a through ball, but Cauley Woodrow is caught offside. Attempt missed. Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Pawel Wszolek with a cross. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Cauley Woodrow (Burton Albion) because of an injury. Attempt missed. Darnell Furlong (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Kazenga Lua Lua with a cross. Foul by Conor Washington (Queens Park Rangers). Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Cauley Woodrow (Burton Albion). Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Jamie Mackie replaces Jake Bidwell. Substitution, Burton Albion. Cauley Woodrow replaces Marvin Sordell. Massimo Luongo (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Massimo Luongo (Queens Park Rangers). Luke Murphy (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ryan Manning with a cross. Foul by Jake Bidwell (Queens Park Rangers). Lucas Akins (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by John Mousinho. Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card. Ryan Manning (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion). Foul by Ryan Manning (Queens Park Rangers). Damien McCrory (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Kazenga Lua Lua (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Lucas Akins (Burton Albion). Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Ryan Manning replaces Michael Doughty. Foul by Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers). Marvin Sordell (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Conor Washington (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Massimo Luongo. Substitution, Burton Albion. Lucas Akins replaces Lasse Vigen Christensen. Attempt saved. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jackson Irvine. Attempt blocked. Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kazenga Lua Lua. Foul by Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers). Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Ben Turner (Burton Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by John Mousinho with a cross. Corner,  Burton Albion. Conceded by Nedum Onuoha. Attempt missed. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Jackson Irvine. Delay over. They are ready to continue.",Nigel Clough put aside the ongoing speculation about becoming Nottingham Forest boss to guide his @placeholder Burton Albion side to victory at QPR .,home,struggling,team,ambition,hand,1
"Thames Valley Police sparked controversy when they said Brian would be given a more ""godlike name"" if he qualified for its mounted section. The force backed down, but Brian failed to make the grade and has returned to his stables in Wilstead, Bedfordshire. He is now up for sale, but owner Jo Samuel-Blackstock said he would keep his original name. ""Horses have passports with their name in and it is bad luck to change it,"" she said. She said Brian would probably end up working in the countryside. ""He is a country boy and not a city boy,"" she said. ""He was taken to live in a concrete city and rode round Milton Keynes next to buses. It was completely different for him."" Brian is currently ""knee deep in mud enjoying being a horse"" at The Stables Equestrian Centre. Miss Samuel-Blackstock said: ""I have had emails saying I need Brian in my life, but I want him to go to a home that wants him as a horse."" Brian is likely to end up working in show jumping, cross country jumping or dressage. Miss Samuel-Blackstock said police had been interested in Brian as the six-year-old cross breed is 17 hands two inches tall and has ""quite a presence"". He had been considered for a name change more in keeping with police tradition, such as Hercules or Odin. But there was a groundswell of support for the name from men called Brian, including Big Brother series eight winner Brian Belo. The stables has now added the tagline ""Home of Brian the Horse"" to its website. Asked if fame had gone to his head, his owner said: ""It doesn't seem to. He is not sticking his mane up in the air at any of his old friends.""",A horse called Brian threatened with a change of name if he @placeholder the police is up for sale .,believes,joined,dubbed,reached,attacked,1
"The sun is so scorching in Algeria's Dakhla camp - over the border from the disputed territory of Western Sahara - that equipment, including solar panels, can melt in the heat. The wind is so strong that it can blow down tents and families are forced to shelter in concrete toilet blocks. But the Western Sahara International Film Festival (FiSahara) has drawn Hollywood stars, like James Bond film actor Javier Bardem, to what residents call the end of the earth. They have come to hear the stories of the Saharawi people, whose 40-year struggle to call Western Sahara home again would otherwise be completely buried. The African Union recognises the independence of Western Sahara, but most of it remains under the control of Morocco, which annexed it in 1975 after Spanish colonial forces pulled out. Morocco maintains it has a historical claim to the territory and has offered it a degree of autonomy. It is a long journey to get to Dakhla from the Spanish capital, Madrid. First a charter flight and then a military-escorted convoy of rickety buses bumping across the desert for hundreds of kilometres until it reaches a tiny strip of lights which illuminate the refugee camp. The time is nearly 03:00 but host families are there to greet guests, take them home and serve dinner before offering either a bed inside a tent or a blanket for sleeping outside. FiSahara organisers bring the equipment and a planeload of actors, human rights activists and journalists to this desert. But festival director Maris Carrion says the Saharawi people are the stars of the show. They fled Western Sahara in 1975 after the end of Spanish rule - and have been in southern Algeria ever since. The refugees would move mountains to get the world's attention. ""The last thing that people want to feel like is forgotten, and stuck in an interminable situation of refuge and injustice,"" Ms Carillon says. The festival keeps children wide-eyed until the small hours, with films projected onto the side of a lorry that makes a screen under the stars. Giggles about cartoons and light-hearted short films made by refugee teenagers ripple through the rows of people sprawled on blankets. But there are tears too, as the Sahawari see the bigger picture of their stories of torture, disappearance and abuse, or empathise with the similar fates of others in films from Latin America to Asia. About 30,000 of up an estimated 165,000 Sahawaris live in the camps, hours away from a heavily mined and guarded wall that separates them from relatives in Western Sahara. There is a promised referendum on the status of Western Sahara but it has been frequently delayed. The youth here appear to be tiring of the peaceful resistance to a conflict that the world ignores, but Khadija Hamdi, Western Sahara's culture minister in-exile, said that it still has a role. ""This festival is a peaceful demonstration that allows the Saharawi people to be heard,"" she said. ""Yes, the youth have the right to return to armed struggle, but we the leadership still believe that there is time for peace."" Nearby, a workshop led by Saharawi rapper Yslem has convinced 15-year-old Ahmed Salem to fight for his rights with art, not arms. ""We don't like what the Moroccans are doing,"" he says. ""I want to become a revolutionary to fight them in a war, but a war of words, that we will slowly win."" Lawyer Michael Ratner, who is famous for taking on the US government over Guantanamo and Iraq now wants to take on Western Sahara's case, but says that documentaries will sway public opinion. ""What a film can do is bring out with real people what's happening in a particular place. So I believe very strongly in film as one of the modes of struggle."" Whether or not Western Sahara's revolution remains cultural, it will be televised.","This is the world 's most remote film festival - in a refugee camp in the Sahara desert , where nothing @placeholder and few people visit .",located,works,cheers,changes,grows,4
"The Malaysian Islamic Development Department, a religious government body, said it adopted the ruling after complaints from Muslim tourists. Director Sirajuddin Suhaimee said the name might cause ""confusion"". ""In Islam, dogs are considered unclean and the name cannot be related to halal certification,"" he said. Malaysian halal food guidelines say ""halal food and halal artificial flavour shall not be named or synonymously named after non-halal products such as ham, bak kut teh, bacon, beer, rum and others that might create confusion,"" local media said. Muslim-majority Malaysia practises a moderate form of Islam but conservative attitudes are on the rise. On Monday, popular pretzel store franchise Auntie Anne's was refused halal certification unless it renamed its ""Pretzel Dog"". Mr Suhaimee said it was ""more appropriate"" to call it a ""Pretzel Sausage"". A representative of the US chain described it as a ""minor issue"" and said the firm was fine with changing the name on the menu. Malaysian Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Aziz slammed the ruling, calling it ""stupid and backward"". ""Hot dog is hot dog lah. Even in Malay it's called hot dog - it's been around for so many years. I'm a Muslim and I'm not offended,"" he told reporters, adding that there was no reason for the religious body to take offence at the word. ""It comes from the English language. Please do not make us seem stupid and backward."" The ruling has also garnered ridicule and stirred debate among Malaysians on social media. ""It's just a name, what does it have to do with whether it's halal or not? Muslims should be more concerned with ingredients and the way food is prepared,"" wrote Eeman Yusof on Facebook. ""You can always count on the authorities to make us look stupid,"" said another Malaysian Matt Razal. Another Facebook user said: ""Pet shops please rename your dogs as sausages."" ""It is complications like this that make our country move backwards,"" commented YL Chew. Activist and columnist Marina Mahathir, the daughter of former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad, criticised the request by the Department of Islamic Development - also known as Jakim. ""Oh we poor easily confused Muslims who have never heard of hot dogs before and who will have no choice but to buy one if one was on the menu,"" she said in a Facebook post that was shared close to 2,000 times. Malaysia often prides itself on being a moderate Muslim nation, which allows other religions freedom of worship. In recent years, there has been greater emphasis on Islamic codes of conduct.",Food outlets selling hot dogs in Malaysia have been asked to rename their products or @placeholder being refused halal certification .,status,documents,produce,treat,risk,4
"The pair debuted alongside each other in Saturday's 19-14 win at Twickenham. Lancaster is expected to name four centres in his squad on 31 August, with the hosts beginning their World Cup campaign on 18 September. ""There are a lot of decisions to be made but we still have two weeks to make them,"" he told BBC Radio 5 live. Brad Barritt and Jonathan Joseph are considered Lancaster's first-choice pairing at centre, with Luther Burrell also expected to make the final cut. It has been thought that would leave Slade, 22, Burgess, 26, and Billy Twelvetrees contesting the final berth. But the England boss said: ""I've never really bought that. That's been created in the last week or so."" Former rugby league player Burgess put in a tough-tackling performance on his England debut, but showed he is still adjusting to life in union when he was yellow-carded for pulling back France's Morgan Parra after a quick tap penalty. ""Obviously he was disappointed to be sin-binned. It was an instinctive reaction,"" said Lancaster. ""I've seen rugby union players who have played for years do the same thing."" Sam Burgess (Club: Bath, Position: Centre/flanker, Caps: One, Age: 26) ""You can't take him to the World Cup for me,"" said former England scrum-half Dawson. ""The great thing about Burgess is he doesn't make mistakes with ball in hand. ""But unfortunately, if you're going to be really picky, positionally he wasn't great. He played like a six rather than a 12. There are things that are instinctive that he doesn't know what to do."" Henry Slade (Club: Exeter, Position: Fly-half/centre, Caps: One, Age: 22) ""Henry Slade looks like a young Brian O'Driscoll. He's talking to everyone. He fits really well,"" said Dawson. ""If Henry Slade is not in the World Cup squad I will call Stuart Lancaster and say 'what are you doing man?'"" Alex Goode (Club: Saracens, Position: Full-back/fly-half, Caps: 18, Age: 27) ""Alex Goode is pure class. He has an ability to dance on his feet and still see what is going on,"" said Dawson. ""There are players that have to impress and step up and Alex Goode has definitely made Stuart Lancaster think 'he's doing things that Mike Brown doesn't do'.""",England head coach Stuart Lancaster has insisted centres Henry Slade and Sam Burgess are not @placeholder each other for a place at the World Cup .,finding,denying,picking,battling,showing,3
"While Scotland and Northern Ireland backed staying, every English region except London voted to leave the EU. Nevertheless, we remain a nation seemingly deeply divided on the issue. Overall the England vote was 53.4% for Leave and 46.6% for Remain. BBC News took the mood of the nation as its people began digesting the results. Fears that the economy will decline were dismissed as a short term inconvenience by Alan Maskill in Leeds. The 65-year-olds from Bramley said: ""I felt great this morning, I'm a happy man. ""Why should I be European? I'm English - I believe in my country. ""The economy will all go down a bit now that we are to leave the EU, but it will soon be back up again."" Also speaking in Leeds was Remain supporter Rob Lennox, aged 25 and from Manchester. He felt the decision to hold the referendum came back to haunt the Prime Minister. ""It's an error on David Cameron's part,"" he said. ""He misjudged the situation and will not have much of a legacy now aside from this.""",As the UK @placeholder to news it was heading towards Brexit it quickly became clear that it was England doing the driving . So how does it feel to be English on a day your nation has altered the face of Britain ?,scraped,took,awoke,prepares,continued,2
"But not everyone can count on their employers' understanding and many people feel unable to be open at work about their mental health. The BBC asked for your experiences of mental health and the workplace. Some people shared stories of colleagues showing sensitivity, while others described reactions of incomprehension. ""In some ways I felt it was harder to talk about my own mental health at work because I am looking after other people with mental health difficulties. It was hard to admit that things weren't quite what they should be. ""Twelve years ago my best friend killed himself. He was the reason I had wanted to be a nurse. At the time I just shut it away and it was I was about to qualify as a nurse. I sort of grieved but I didn't deal with the guilt and things around it. ""But then just a year ago, it hit me. ""I started anti-depressants and counselling, both of which I still continue to take now. I told one of my colleagues but found it really difficult to talk to my managers. ""It was through work that I found my counsellor and they allowed me to take some time off. But I felt like I should get back to work and look after everyone else. I feel like that's the culture. ""Although they were saying the right things when I returned to work, sometimes I didn't feel like they were totally supportive. ""The last blip I had was at the end of February and I took a week off. But then you feel guilty about being away from work and that you'll have more work to come back to. ""I try now to actually leave work on time. I try not to look at emails on weekends and to switch off from work. I've learnt to take better care of myself and put myself first sometimes."" ""I suffer from anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. The most innocent comments can be debilitating for someone suffering from those conditions. ""We generally appear confident and happy and people don't understand how to approach us like it's a taboo subject. Saying things like ""cheer up"" or ""we want the old happy person back"" or ""she was jubilant last week so we don't believe she can be unwell this week"" are incredibly hurtful. ""My firm knew about my anxiety but they weren't very approachable about it. To begin with they were very supportive. They were flexible and allowed me to change my hours. ""However, I still had to bill a certain number of hours so I had more work to do in the time I was there. They did not quite understand the pressure they put on me and I left my workplace in April because of the anxiety. ""But I sought to turn a negative into a positive and I've now set up on my own as an employment law consultant. ""I'm very open about my mental health as I want to give my clients the same confidence. But I have the benefit of knowing the law and my rights. I work with Mind and Workplace Leeds on a pro bono basis to help people in difficult situations with their employer. ""I think employers should encourage mental health days off and have a mental health first aider. There is such a stigma - especially in the legal sector - as we are perceived as weak. It could not be further from the truth. ""People need educating as the ignorance is damaging so many people's mental health further. It is getting better but there is so much more that can be done."" ""I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2008. I have always been completely transparent with my employers about my mental health, as I know it's better if we work together and have an action plan should I relapse. ""My previous employer was dreadful about my mental health. I thought it best to be honest and I disclosed all of my medical history. After I was hired I sent them all my health documents as requested - I have a heart condition as well as bipolar disorder. ""At an assessment day before I was due to start training, I was pretty much told I would be unable to work due to my mental health condition and was compared to a mass murderer who was reported to have had mental health issues. ""They eventually took me on but it got to the point where I felt it was constructive dismissal. ""I now work for an airline who are aware of my mental health condition and are supportive of me. They are so much better. ""Their doctor sat down with me and asked me about my condition, what caused relapses, how I managed it. They reassured me that if I relapsed then I would be supported and still have a job. I feel able to go to them with anything. ""I know lots of people who are scared to disclose their mental health issues to their employer in case they are treated similarly to what I went through."" By UGC and Social News team","When @placeholder developer Madalyn Parker took time off work to focus on her mental health , the supportive response of her CEO won much praise .",web,food,risks,wearing,property,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device Originally a netball player, she caught the basketball bug at 18, and became president of her university's team. After starting local team the Bradford Cobras, she inspired other Muslim women to sign up.  After a Bosnian woman started a petition to overturn a ruling by the International Basketball Association to ban the wearing of hijabs during play, the Cobras went to Turkey to play a friendly game - and won. Despite basketball teams across the UK struggling with awareness and funding cuts, Ezdihar is playing in tournaments in Manchester this year and now wants to play internationally. BodyPositive went to a training session to film Ezdihar play - on a hot summer's day during Ramadan, when she and the other players were fasting.  Now that's dedication! Has Ezdihar inspired you too?  Find out how to get into basketball with Get Inspired.","Ezdihar is @placeholder positive , she loves basketball - and she wears the hijab .",ending,body,test,helping,a,1
"He also called on financial agencies not to subject countries to ""oppressive lending systems"" that worsen poverty. In an allusion to the Church's teachings on sexual minorities, he called for respect for the ""natural difference between man and woman"". He went on to visit the 11 September memorial for a multi-faith service. After a silent prayer, the pontiff met relatives of some of the victims of the attack in 2001. Pope Francis later visited a Catholic school in the heavily Hispanic New York neighbourhood of East Harlem. The crowd in the gym of Our Lady Queen of Angels School included more than 100 immigrants, who greeted Francis with songs. One eyewitness wrote on Twitter: ""He's (Pope) having a blast in Harlem. Big smile. #PopeinNYC"". In a wide-ranging speech at the UN, the Pope said the universe was ""the fruit of a loving decision by the Creator"" and that humanity ""is not authorised to abuse it, much less to destroy it."" He said he hoped a forthcoming summit on climate change in Paris would produce a ""fundamental and effective agreement"". He addressed topics including girls' education and drug trafficking. He welcomed the deal between Iran and world powers on its nuclear deal, calling it ""proof of the potential of political goodwill"". He also condemned ""ideological colonisation by the imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles which are alien to people's identity"" in what was understood as a reference to Western support for gay and transgender rights in other countries. At a memorial service at the September 11 Memorial Museum, he prayed for those killed in the attacks and for healing for their relatives. Source: New York Times About 80,000 people are expected to watch the procession as he makes his way to Mass at Madison Square Garden on Friday night. Nearly 20,000 are set to attend the service at the major sporting and concert arena. Thousands lined Fifth Avenue on Thursday evening as the Argentine pontiff made his way to St Patrick's Cathedral for evening prayers. The Pope arrived in New York from Washington, where he delivered the first-ever papal address to the US Congress. In the speech, he urged a humane response to migrants, an end to the death penalty and better treatment of the poor and disadvantaged. Next he will go to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he will speak in front of Independence Hall and celebrate Mass at a Catholic families' rally.","Pope Francis has urged a large @placeholder of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to respect humanity 's "" right to the environment "" .",experience,list,impact,gathering,majority,3
"In cities from Boston to Chicago, fast food workers and union organisers marched outside of various McDonalds. The movement has seen some success, with cities such as San Francisco and Seattle raising the minimum wage. US President Barack Obama has said he supports their efforts. The so-called ""Fight for 15"" movement has organised eight protests and walk-outs in the past two years, but billed Thursday's efforts as their biggest yet. Fast food workers, airport employees and home-health aids, amongst others, have argued that the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 is not enough to allow workers to live. The campaign is backed by the Service Employees International Union, which has provided financial support and organisational help to the effort. They have exerted pressure on McDonalds, Burger King and other fast food restaurants to raise wages, in addition to working with local politicians to get wage-raising measures on the ballot during election season. McDonalds has said that the protestors do not necessarily represent the opinions of all of its employees, and that wage decisions are up to individual franchise owners. ""It's important to know approximately 90% of our US restaurants are independently owned and operated by franchisees who set wages according to job level and local and federal laws,"" it said in a statement. In New York City, hundreds of workers gathered at a McDonalds in downtown Manhattan, chanting slogans and walking in step with a marching band. They briefly went into a franchise, before leading a march toward's New York's City Hall. ""I'm going to cry  - we went from 200 workers in New York City to workers in countries around the world,"" said one organiser who addressed the crowd. ""We've accomplished a lot in the last two years."" Shantel Walker has been with the movement from the beginning and has attended six protests. She has been working at a Papa John's pizzeria franchise on and off since 1999, yet she says she still only earns $8.50 per hour - not substantially more than when she first started. ""Right now it's a real struggle to survive,"" she says. ""If I get paid on Saturday, by Monday I'm broke."" Labour analysts say that the movement has managed to gain momentum both because it capitalised on the increasing focus on income inequality in the wake of the 2010 Occupy movement, and because it made canny organisational choices from the start. ""The fast food fight did one thing that was smart instead of just demonizing McDonalds, they've really pushed for metropolitan wide increases in the minimum wage for everyone,"" says Nelson Lichtenstein, the director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California - Santa Barbara. That has meant that the movement has been able to gain many different types of workers. Furthermore, instead of just exerting pressure on specific corporations like McDonalds and Burger King, for example, organisers have been able to focus attention on wages for everyone and thus get certain ballot measures passed. And for workers like Ms Walker, those small successes - in cities like San Francisco and SeaTac, Washington - are reason enough to keep marching. Corporations ""get richer and we get poorer and that's the bottom line"" she says.",US fast food worker protests expanded to 190 cities on Thursday as the movement to raise the minimum wage in the US to $ 15 ( £ 9.57 ) an hour @placeholder a two - year anniversary .,was,reached,launched,ending,marks,1
"Not only does it have to compete with Canada's obsession with ice hockey, but it has the goliath that is American football's National Football League (NFL) just across the border. And by any measure you care to check - such as the value of TV deals, team revenues, and player salaries - Canada's professional gridiron competition, the nine-team Canadian Football League (CFL), barely bumps the needle. For example, annual TV revenues at the NFL total more than $5bn (£3.2bn) per year, compared with just $32m at the CFL. Meanwhile, the annual turnover at the richest CFL club, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, was $55m in 2003, while the NFL's Dallas Cowboys made $560m, and the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team secured $190m. Yet with the 2015 CFL season now under way, Canadian football has actually never been in better health. The current TV deal, first signed in 2013 and recently extended, is double the previous agreement. And teams have seen their profits skyrocket - the Edmonton Eskimos recorded a 2014 profit of $2.8m, twice that of 2013, and it is a similar situation at other clubs. CFL commentators, team owners and fans put the continuing success of the sport down to one central thing - a loyal core of passionate supporters. The sports of American and Canadian football both developed in the mid-19th Century, evolving from the British game of rugby. While the two forms of gridiron are in essence the same game, there are some key rule differences. For example, Canadian football has larger pitch measurements, and one more player per side. Brad Humphreys, a sports economist at the University of West Virginia, who spent several years at Canada's University of Alberta, says the CFL benefits greatly from the strong desire of Canadians to maintain a separate identity to the US. ""Canadians are acutely aware of the cultural differences [between the two countries], and acutely interested in maintaining their own separate cultural identity,"" he says. ""The CFL is one way they can do that."" David Holmes, 51, a lifelong fan of Vancouver's CFL team, the BC Lions, happily points out that the first recorded game of Canadian football took place in 1861, eight years before the first documented American football match. He says that the Canadian game's long history and heritage is a big part of what keeps fans coming back. ""That's probably one of the things that carries me forward with avid support of the BC Lions,"" he says. Like many other committed fans, he adds that he caught the bug thanks to his parents taking him to games from a young age. Mr Holmes says: ""I have really, really strong memories and associations from when I was young. I collected player cards and autographs, and I've sort of kept up with that. I have a massive collection of them."" He also says that Canadian football players are better athletes than their counterparts in the US. ""The athletes, I think, have to be in better shape to play the CFL game. It's kind of a faster game than the NFL."" At the Saskatchewan Roughriders, one of three CFL teams to be owned by their fans, a lack of local competition from other sports gives the club an advantage over its league rivals. The club's chairman, Wayne Morsky, says: ""We're fortunate that there are no other professional sporting teams in the province [of Saskatchewan]. There is no hockey team, no baseball team, no soccer team."" Mr Morsky adds that his team, which is based in the city of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, also benefits from Canada's high level of internal migration. ""There are also a lot of expatriates who live throughout the country, particularly to the west of us,"" he says. ""When we are visiting in Calgary or Edmonton [in the province of Alberta], it's close to a 50-50 split in the crowd. It's that connection."" Rod Smith, a veteran presenter on Canadian sports TV channel TSN, says that CFL also thrives in part because it doesn't try to compete with the NFL. ""I don't like the either-or aspect of it,"" he says. ""I don't think it's mutually exclusive for a football fan. You can love both leagues. ""I resent not only NFL fans who think the CFL is not as good by comparison, but CFL fans to bash the NFL for whatever reason. Both are very good brands of football. ""The NFL is bigger money. A lot of things about it on a much grander scale. ""But to necessarily assess something's value strictly based on how much money it makes and how many people watch it is misguided. I really think it is possible to be good at different levels."" Yet the CFL is not without some challenges. Two players have recently filed a 200m Canadian dollar ($160m; £100m) lawsuit against the league due to concussions they say they sustained during matches. Mr Morsky adds that the CFL has to do more to follow the NFL's lead and turn every game into a full-day event.""The NFL has done a fantastic job of that with tailgating, and we're doing more and more of that,"" he says. But perhaps the biggest issue for the CFL going forward is the age of its fanbase. According to Rod Smith, the league isn't doing enough to attract more young fans. ""It's a particular problem in the bigger markets [like Vancouver and Toronto],"" he says. ""That's something that the league is concerned about. ""They want to reach a younger demographic for obvious reasons. But how they do it? That's a big question.""","On paper the sport of Canadian football , the lesser - known , much poorer , northern cousin of American football , should be @placeholder to exist .",written,struggling,shown,forgiven,taken,1
"The Sunflower E has been stuck since 10 March, after legal claims worth £5m were made against the ship in the UK courts. Eleven Indonesian nationals, one Filipino and a Romanian are on board. The crew can now go home after liquidators agreed to pursue an £82,000 unpaid wages claim on their behalf. The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) said the crew had been left without running water or a fridge while awaiting a decision. ITF inspector Darren Procter said: ""Obviously, the crew want to get home, to return to their families and they want the money they have worked for."" He added: ""Obviously, their families have got no money, there are school fees to be paid and there have been personal tragedies, which have happened while they have been on board the vessel."" The ship was held in Newport by the UK Admiralty Marshal after claims were lodged against it in the UK Admiralty and Commercial Court. An order for the ship's sale - made to pay mortgage and utility bill debts against it - was made in the UK court on 8 April. The ITF confirmed on Tuesday a legal block it had sought against the ship's sale was lifted, after it secured a deal with Italian liquidators to pursue the crew's claim for unpaid wages. The union said it was now ""assisting the crew home"", with their departure expected on Wednesday.",The crew of an Italian cargo ship @placeholder at Newport docks for more than three months can now return home .,bound,stranded,conditions,staff,failed,1
"Linguistically, it is the world's most diverse country, with more than 700 native tongues. Some 80% of Papua New Guinea's people live in rural areas with few or no facilities of modern life. Many tribes in the isolated mountainous interior have little contact with one another, let alone with the outside world, and live within a non-monetarised economy dependent on subsistence agriculture. Population 7.2 million Area 462,840 sq km (178,704 sq miles) Major languages English, Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu Major religions Christianity, indigenous beliefs Life expectancy 61 years (men), 66 years (women) Currency kina Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by a Governor-General. Prime minister: Peter O'Neill Parliament endorsed Peter O'Neill as prime minister in August 2012, finally drawing the line under a prolonged power struggle with his rival Sir Michael Somare, the founding father of independent Papua New Guinea. Prior to national elections in June 2012, both men had declared themselves to be the rightful prime minister. Mr O'Neill was first chosen by parliament to be acting Prime Minister in August 2011 after Sir Michael, who had by then been absent from the house for several months due to illness, was declared to be no longer eligible. In July 2016, he survived a no-confidence vote in parliament over corruption allegations following weeks of protests and civil disobedience calling for his resignation. Radio is important in Papua New Guinea, which has scattered, isolated settlements and low levels of literacy. The government operates a national network and provincial stations. News coverage is said to be balanced. But funding problems have taken some regional radios off the air. Television coverage is limited mainly to Port Moresby and the provincial capitals. 1526 - Portuguese sailor Jorge de Meneses is the first European visitor. He names one of the islands ""ilhas dos Papuas"" or ""land of fuzzy-haired people"". 1546 - Spanish explorer Inigo Ortiz de Retes names the other main island New Guinea because the islanders resemble the people of Guinea in Africa. 1884 - Britain establishes a protectorate over south-east New Guinea, while Germany annexes the northern part of New Guinea. 1906 - Control of British New Guinea transferred to the newly independent Commonwealth of Australia and renamed Territory of Papua. 1961 - First elections involving indigenous population. 1963 - UN transfers control of West New Guinea to Indonesia. Today this region is called Papua. 1975 - Papua New Guinea attains full independence from Australia. Sir Michael Somare becomes PM. 1997 - Government hires mercenaries to quash a nine-year separatist revolt on Bougainville Island, sparking an army mutiny and civil unrest. Army forces Prime Minister Chan to quit. 2013 - Papua New Guinea agrees to provide offshore processing for asylum seekers who reach Australia by boat. The Manus Island detention centre generates controversy.","Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern part of the world 's second largest island and is prey to volcanic @placeholder , earthquakes and tidal waves .",spaces,activity,storms,life,holdings,1
"The friendly was moved from the King Baudouin Stadium in Belgium's capital after 35 people were killed and many others injured in last week's attacks. It is the second successive Belgium friendly affected by terror attacks. In November, their match against Spain in Brussels was called off following the Paris atrocities. Tuesday's game was originally cancelled, but Portugal coach Fernando Santos said continuing with the game shows ""football is not afraid"". Meanwhile in France, it was the home side's first appearance at the Stade de France since their national stadium was one of several targets in last year's attacks, which killed 130 people. ""You don't forget, but you have to move forward,"" said France coach Didier Deschamps. France were playing a friendly with Germany in November when a bomb exploded outside the ground. This week's round of international friendlies are warm-up games before Euro 2016 in France, which starts on 10 June.","Belgium 's football team @placeholder a minute 's silence before their friendly with Portugal in Leiria , in tribute to the victims of terror attacks in Brussels .",became,closed,held,overturned,required,2
"People who want to cast their vote in the poll on Thursday 4 May have until midnight on Monday to register. For the first time in a Scotland-wide council election, 16 and 17-year-olds will be eligible to vote. Andy O'Neill, the head of the Electoral Commission in Scotland, said anyone who is not registered by the end of Monday will not be able to vote. He said: ""With only one day to go, time is running out to make sure you can take part in the Scottish council elections Thursday 4 May. ""These elections are an opportunity to have a say on who represents local people on issues that directly affect day-to-day life such as education, housing and social care. ""But if you're not registered by 17 April, you won't be able to vote."" Research by the Electoral Commission has found that a quarter of people in Scotland think they are automatically registered if they are old enough to vote, But that is not the case and everyone must register themselves individually. They can do so online at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. The Electoral Commission is particularly keen to remind young people to register, and recently enlisted Snapchat in a bid to encourage them to sign up. It came after their research found that 69% of 18-34 year olds were correctly registered, compared to 96% of those aged over 65.",The deadline for registering to vote in the Scottish council elections is @placeholder .,continuing,handled,set,looming,predicted,3
"The High Commissioner of India laid a wreath of marigolds at the Arch of Remembrance in Leicester. Meanwhile, the British High Commissioner did the same at a ceremony at the India Gate in New Delhi. Hundreds of people attended the events in memory of the 1,174 Indian Labour Corps men who supplied the army with weapons, food and built barracks. Updates on this story and more from the East Midlands The commemorative events were part of The Unremembered project to honour the courage and sacrifice of labourers in World War One. In Leicester, about 300 school children and dignitaries including the city and Lord mayors held up the names of the men and tied messages to the fallen during the ceremony. Teacher Mrs Hobson, of Moat Community College, said: ""This event is important because it's about our shared heritage... and it allows us to link our students to their Indian heritage."" Squadron Leader Rana Chhina said Indians in Leicester ""should be proud"" of the connection because it ""helps strengthen the bond"" between the UK and India. British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens designed both war memorials in the 1920s. The workers' names are engraved on the India Gate, which was built in 1931 and took about 10 years to complete. Work began on the Arch of Remembrance, in Victoria Park, which is half the size of the gate, in 1923 and was finished in 1925. In 2015, all 44 of Sir Edwin's World War One memorials in England became listed by Historic England.",War memorials in the UK and India have been @placeholder to remember Indian workers who died in World War One .,dedicated,unveiled,added,twinned,linked,3
"South Parade Pier Ltd said it had purchased South Parade Pier in Southsea for an undisclosed sum. The Grade-II listed pier was closed in 2012 after being deemed ""a danger to the public"" and at risk of collapsing. South Parade Pier Ltd said it would continue repairing the structure, which has faced storm damage and neglect. The consortium took control of the pier from previous owners SSP South Coast Ltd in early 2014, before the sale was completed, and started an emergency repair plan to save it. Malcolm Belcher, spokesman for South Parade Pier Ltd, said: ""Our intention is to return the pier to the people of Portsmouth. ""We remember the pier in its heyday and that's how we want it to become again. ""We want music, dancing, restaurants, bingo and amusements - plenty of fun entertainment that locals will enjoy and which will also attract tourists."" The pier's owners have also started a public consultation, asking for suggestions on what should appear on the pier, on its website.","The new owners of a derelict Victorian pier in Hampshire have said they aim to reopen the site this year and @placeholder it to its "" heyday "" .",returned,restore,blaming,continue,added,1
Media playback is not supported on this device Ehiogu died at the age of 44 on Friday after suffering a cardiac arrest at Spurs' training centre on Thursday. Players wore black armbands and held a minute's applause before kick-off. The same tributes will be held before Villa's derby against Birmingham on Sunday.,Former England and Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu was @placeholder before Tottenham 's FA Cup semi-final with Chelsea at Wembley and at football matches around the country .,honoured,shot,postponed,interrupted,captured,0
"Glenfield Hospital claims up to 150 patients a year from the East Midlands were sent to centres further away. NHS England said the hospital's three surgeons are not meeting a total target of performing 375 operations a year. Many patients from Northampton and Peterborough are transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London. More on this story and other news in Leicestershire In 2016, Glenfield Hospital operated on 328 children and hopes to carry out about 350 this year. Figures obtained by the BBC in a Freedom of Information request showed that on 29 November 2016, GOSH had 159 patients on its waiting list. Some other hospital's had about 70, while Glenfield had 14 children waiting for surgery. Dr Aidan Bolger, head of service for East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre, said referring patients would be a ""simple solution"" and closing the service ""wouldn't be necessary"". ""This is a proposal we've put to NHS England,"" he said. Northampton General Hospital, which is about 45 miles away from Leicester, said for the past five years it has referred up to 25 children a year to GOSH, which has been ""approved by NHS England"". Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: ""The foetal echo service provided by Great Ormond Street Hospital... is the key reason that most children with congenital heart disease in Peterborough are seen there."" A spokesperson for GOSH for Children NHS Foundation Trust said it ""accepts referrals from across England"". NHS England said: ""We will not dictate referral patterns that would take choice away from patients and their doctors."" No decision has been made about the future of children's heart surgery at Glenfield Hospital - a consultation ends in June.",Children 's heart surgeons in Leicester have said their service could be saved from closure if more patients from the @placeholder were referred to them .,uk,sea,race,region,county,3
"Luton Town, who became the first non-league side to knock out a top-flight team since 1989 when they beat Norwich 1-0, will play Millwall at home. League One side MK Dons earned a home tie against Barnsley as reward for their win over QPR. And Leeds, who shocked Tottenham, must travel to Manchester City next. Manchester United will host Reading and holders Chelsea, who were held by their west London neighbours Brentford on Sunday, face a trip to Middlesbrough if they win their replay. Arsenal, who have not won a trophy since 2005, will play Blackburn at the Emirates Stadium for a place in the quarter-finals, while Wigan must travel to Huddersfield. The ties will take place on the weekend of 16 and 17 February. FA Cup fifth round draw in full: Huddersfield v Wigan Athletic MK Dons v Barnsley Oldham v Everton Luton v Millwall Arsenal v Blackburn Manchester City v Leeds Manchester United v Reading Middlesbrough v Chelsea or Brentford",Giant - @placeholder Oldham will host Everton in the pick of the ties in the FA Cup fifth round after their shock victory over Liverpool in round four .,min,power,team,form,killers,4
"A coroner will also continue to open inquests into the deaths of those murdered in the assault, which left 30 Britons among 38 dead. On Friday, a minute's silence was held across the UK to remember the victims. Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid also said the slow response of police to the attack had been a major problem. An RAF plane carrying the bodies of the final five Britons is expected to arrive at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Saturday afternoon. Their coffins will be loaded on to hearses and travel in convoy to West London Coroner's Court in Fulham, where inquests into their deaths will be held. The first inquests were opened on Friday. During one of the hearings, the coroner heard Stephen Mellor from Bodmin, Cornwall, was killed by gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen as he shielded his wife Cheryl. Post-mortem examinations will be carried out before the bodies are released to their families. Among the three Irish citizens killed in the attack were Larry and Martina Hayes, who were buried in Athlone on Friday - which was the 30th birthday of their only daughter, Sinead. Other victims included two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and one Russian national. Also on Friday, the Queen and Prime Minister David Cameron joined the minute's silence, along with the families of the dead. Tourists and Tunisians gathered at the scene of the attack in Sousse, where they linked arms to observe the pause. Tunisian PM Mr Essid also took part in the commemorations there and said he was deeply sorry for the attack. Reports have suggested the assault took place over almost 35 minutes, and that the gunman was able to return to kill some of the wounded before the police arrived. ""The time of the reaction - this is the problem,"" Mr Essid told the BBC's Richard Galpin. ""We feel really sorry about what happened,"" he said. ""They were our guests. They came to spend their vacation with us, but what happened is a horror, unacceptable."" Tunisian authorities have identified 28-year-old Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui as the gunman who carried out the attack. They are also holding eight suspects in custody on suspicion of being directly linked to the attack, which jihadist group Islamic State has claimed. Four others who were held have been released. Scotland Yard has previously said its investigation into the attack is likely to be one of the largest counter-terrorism deployments since the London 7/7 bombings in 2005, which killed 52.",The final five bodies of British victims killed in the Tunisia @placeholder attack will be flown back to the UK later .,military,ground,peninsula,terror,beach,4
"Cytherissa lacustris, a species of creature called ostracods, only grow to about a millimetre in length. Until now, this species had only been known to be living at Loch Assynt in Scotland and a site in north England. David Horne, professor of micropalaeontology at Queen Mary University of London, found Cytherissa lacustris in Loch Leven. The species is rare in Britain, but ""quite well-known"" elsewhere in the northern hemisphere, including parts of Europe and Canada, said Prof Horne. He was alerted to the possibility that the creatures were living in Loch Leven during a visit to the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne. Prof Horne had gone there to study a large archive of ostracods collected by a 19th Century naturalist, George Brady. The scientist said: ""I came across a microscope slide containing ostracods collected from Loch Leven in June 1890, among which were several specimens of Cytherissa lacustris. ""In some I could see appendages protruding from between their shells, a clear indication that they had been alive at the time of collection."" Prof Horne took samples from Loch Leven in August and has been analysing them since then. This year, Jim Davy at University College London imaged some of the ostracod specimens, including Cytherissa lacustris on a scanning electron microscope."" Prof Horne studies the fossil remains of ostracods to better understand winter and summer temperatures experienced by early humans in the British Isles. Finding locations of living ostracods is key to this work. He is planning further research of the Cytherissa lacustris living in Loch Leven.",Tiny crustaceans previously @placeholder at two locations in the British Isles have been found in a loch near Kinross .,held,unearthed,arrived,gathered,recorded,4
"It's been the dominant topic of conversation whenever political anoraks have gathered together, its implications for Wales's future pored over at length. It's been the subject of several academic studies, highlighting its failings, and many hours of parliamentary debate. Apocalyptic warnings have been issued about its potential impact on life in Wales. Yes, the Wales Bill is still with us. As I write, peers are debating proposed amendments on the first day (of two) of its report stage in the House of Lords. Familiar arguments over legal jurisdictions are still with us, with peers arguing over, among other things, whether a new justice commission should be statutory or non-statutory. You can watch it live here. A second day is scheduled for January 10, with Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns ""optimistic"" AMs will give it their consent a week later before it completes its parliamentary journey. In other news, MPs have been debating the impact of Brexit on businesses in Wales. The Brexit secretary says the UK government's plan won't be published before February. And Alun Cairns has been accused of slaying the dragon in the Wales Office logo. The dragon, with its motto - ""y ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn"" - has been replaced by a UK government logo as the Wales Office now styles itself ""UK Government Wales"" on social media. The Wales Office said it made the change because too many people in Wales don't know which government is responsible for what. But Shadow Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens said: ""When Brexit presents Wales with its biggest challenge since the Second World War, it's pretty unbelievable that Alun Cairns is wasting time and taxpayers money trying and failing to make his stationery look nicer. ""The minister can't give a straight answer on whether businesses in Wales will get a decent deal from Brexit, and astonishingly he's now killed the Wales office dragon from the logo - the public will be absolutely baffled by his behaviour and rightly wonder if his priorities lie with Wales at all."" A Wales Office spokesperson said: ""The reason for the change in  branding is that in Wales, too many people still don't know precisely which government is responsible for what, and can be confused when receiving communications from a number of different departments...so we believe it is important that we demonstrate a unified UK government voice so people are aware of what services that the UK government provides in Wales, and what it is accountable for."" But enough for now. This is my last post of the year as I'm stepping off the 2016 news treadmill for a few weeks. I'll be ""open for business"" (as the politicians say) on January 9. But if you've read this far, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.","For many , it 's been the pressing issue of 2016 , its every twist and turn followed with @placeholder fascination by politicos up and down Wales .",soared,increasing,planned,matching,inspired,1
"It has also been ordered to stop selling ""super tuners"", devices that enable motorbikes to generate power but also increases gas emissions. US authorities said Harley had sold around 340,000 super tuners since 2008. The company denied the claims, saying the devices were only sold for use in off-road or closed-course competitions. The motorcycle-maker said the settlement was ""a good faith compromise"". Harley will have to stop selling super tuners and destroy any remaining stock at its dealerships this month. The US Justice Department has also ordered Harley to spend $3m on a local environmental project aimed at reducing air pollution. ""Given Harley-Davidson's prominence in the industry, this is a very significant step toward our goal of stopping the sale of illegal after-market defeat devices that cause harmful pollution on our roads and in our communities,"" the Justice Department's assistant attorney general John Cruden said in a statement. The US Environmental Protection Agency has been cracking down on companies believed to be violating the federal Clean Air Act. There has been increased scrutiny on emissions and the use of ""defeat devices"" after carmaker Volkswagen admitted to using illegal software to bypass US regulations.",Harley - Davidson is paying US authorities $ 12 m ( £9 m ) to settle allegations its motorbikes polluted the air at higher levels than @placeholder .,allowed,action,numbers,anticipated,processing,0
"Payday loan rates will be capped at 0.8% per day of the amount borrowed, and no-one will have to pay back more than twice the amount they borrowed. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said those unable to repay should be prevented from taking out such loans. Many payday lenders have already closed down, in anticipation of the new rules, a trade body has said. And the amount of money being lent by the industry has halved in the past year. Christopher Woolard, of the FCA, said the regulator had taken action because it was clear that payday loans had been pushing some people into unmanageable debt. ""For those people taking out payday loans, they should be able to borrow more cheaply from today, but also we make sure that people who should not be taking out those loans don't actually get them,"" he said. The changes mean that if a borrower defaults, the interest on the debt will still build up, but he or she will never have to pay back interest of more than 100% of the amount borrowed. There is also a £15 cap on a one-off default fee. Russell Hamblin-Boone, of the Consumer Finance Association, a trade body for payday lenders, said the landscape of payday lending had changed. ""There will be fewer people getting loans from fewer lenders and the loans they get will no longer be the single payment loans for less than 30 days,"" he said. ""The loans that are available now will be for three months or more and they will be at slightly higher values as well. Very few loans will be rolled over."" The FCA's research suggests that 70,000 people who were able to secure a payday loan under the previous regulations would be unable to do so under the new, stricter rules. They represent about 7% of current borrowers. Mr Woolard argued that only a very small number would seek credit from unregulated loan sharks instead. He added that the regulator would be monitoring the situation carefully. He also said that the reforms needed time to bed down before their effect was assessed. There has been some criticism that the initial review is scheduled in two years. Richard Lloyd, executive director of Which?, said that the changes came ""not a moment too soon"". ""The regulator has clearly shown it's prepared to take tough action to stamp out unscrupulous practices, and they must keep the new price cap under close review,"" he said. ""It is now time to turn the spotlight on unfair practices in the wider credit market. We want to see an end to excessive fees that also make it hard to compare different loans, including those charged for unauthorised overdrafts and credit cards.""",A cap on the cost of payday loans @placeholder by the City regulator has now come into effect .,generated,approved,boosted,issued,enforced,4
"17 April 2015 Last updated at 07:18 BST But how does an octopus move so gracefully without having any bones? It's a question that's confused scientists, but now a team in Jerusalem think they've found the answer. Researchers at the Hebrew University there have been filming the amazing creatures crawling. They've discovered that each individual limb pushes the body in a different direction. So by choosing a different 'arm', an octopus can push itself along, without having to worry about which direction they're going in. Dr Guy Levy and his colleague Prof Benny Hochner filmed the animals from underneath as they crawled, and analysed their movements frame by frame. ""So the octopus only has to decide which arm to use for the pushing - it doesn't need to decide which direction this arm will push,"" explained Dr Levy. ""[It has] found a very simple solution to a potentially complicated problem - it just has to pick which arm to recruit."" Dr Levy added: ""Every time we try to understand something new about the octopus, there are new surprises."" The findings have been published in the journal Current Biology.","They 're the eight - tentacled creatures of the @placeholder , with huge heads and strong suckers along their ' arms ' .",life,science,words,forest,ocean,4
"Russians celebrate Prince Vladimir the Great as the man who converted their country to Christianity, but for some Ukrainians this represents an attempt to steal their history. For them, Prince Volodymyr - as he is known in Ukraine - is an ancient Ukrainian leader who ruled from Kiev and Christianised the country that was then known as Kievan Rus, before Moscow had even been built. Supporters of close Russian-Ukrainian ties cite the two states' common origins in Prince Vladimir's Rus. Some of them question Ukraine's secular and religious independence. Prince Vladimir is venerated as a saint in both countries. An independent Orthodox church was established in Ukraine after the USSR fell apart, but the Russian Orthodox Church - which enjoys a close relationship with the Kremlin - does not recognise it and condemns its clerics as schismatics. The head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Filaret, was excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church. Despite its deepening economic crisis, Russia is spending 1bn roubles (about £11m; $17m) on commemorative events nationwide, culminating in a gala reception on Tuesday for 400 guests at the Kremlin, hosted by President Vladimir Putin. The main ceremonial prayer in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was led by Russian Patriarch Kirill and relayed live by state TV channels. The celebrations ""unite Orthodox believers in all corners of the globe into what they call the Russian world"", said government-run Rossiya 1. Unlike Russia, Ukraine chose not to stage grand events, limiting the commemoration to prayers and religious processions. Ukraine's rival Orthodox churches - the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate -  held prayers at separate venues (Kiev's St Volodymyr Cathedral and the ancient Pechersk Lavra, respectively). President Petro Poroshenko and his wife Maryna attended the ceremony at St Volodymyr's, while several opposition MPs attended a Moscow Patriarchate service a day earlier. Back in Russia, the official veneration of St Vladimir also created tension. Plans in Moscow to commemorate the prince with a 25m (82.5ft) statue of him bearing a sword and holding a cross drew much criticism, including from architects. The idea of a monument in Moscow, which did not even exist when Vladimir was baptised, is seen by some as evidence of ""a small nation's [inferiority] complex"". ""Is there really no-one in Russian history, apart from dubious characters from the 10th Century, with real, unquestioned achievements?"" asked Carnegie Centre expert Maxim Samorukov. But pro-Kremlin columnists seemed to have no doubt. Russia ""has every right"" to erect its own monument to the Kievan prince, wrote blogger and columnist Amiram Grigorov on the pro-Kremlin LifeNews website, arguing that Vladimir ruled a territory covering parts of Russia and Ukraine. The festivities in Russia are meant to draw parallels between the prince and Mr Putin, in connection with Russia's annexation of Crimea, according to some experts. ""Prince Vladimir was baptised in Crimea and Putin returned Crimea to Russia,"" historian Nikolai Svanidze told the RBK website. ""This parallel should enhance the president's standing in the eyes of his contemporaries and descendants, as well as give a blessing to Crimea's merger with Russia."" Ukraine calls the annexation a flagrant violation of international law, and Mr Putin's move was widely condemned. Meanwhile, Ukrainian commentators view Russia's large-scale commemorations as part of an ongoing information war meant, among other things, to strip Ukraine of the right to its own interpretation of history. Olexiy Kopytko, an analyst at the Information Resistance think-tank, described Russia's ""hype over Prince Volodymyr"" as ""a shining example of the manipulations that help Russia to wage a war against Ukraine over its history"". A correspondent of the popular Kiev-based daily Segodnya, Valeriy Moiseyev, ridiculed Russia's ""patriotic-ecclesiastic fervour"" and its lavish spending on ""turning a historical figure into a symbol"". He warned Ukraine against being dragged into ""a senseless fight to privatise Prince Volodymyr"". The website of internet-based Espreso TV poked fun at Russians for ""idolising"" the prince, who was quite merciless when dealing with the tribes that inhabited the territory of present-day Russia. The website said - satirising the nationalist and anti-Kiev language of Russian state media - that Prince Volodymyr was no less than ""the head of the first Kiev junta"", who led cruel ""anti-terrorist operations"" against disobedient subjects north of Kiev, and resorted to help from ""foreign legions"" of Vikings and Normans. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.","The legacy of a medieval prince has added a new dimension to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine , as both countries mark the 1,000th anniversary of his @placeholder .",era,accession,name,heritage,death,4
"Family members told local media that Vilma Trujillo had been attacked by four people led by a man who said he was an evangelical pastor. Juan Rocha denied burning Mrs Trujillo, saying evil spirits had suspended her above the fire and then dropped her. Relatives found Mrs Trujillo, 25, hours later with severe burns. The police have arrested Mr Rocha and a number of other people allegedly involved in the attack. The victim's husband, Reynaldo Peralta Rodriguez, said the mother-of-two was taken inside a church last week when members thought she was possessed after allegedly trying to attack people with a machete, the Associated Press reports. ""It's unforgiveable what they did to us,"" he was quoted as saying. ""They killed my wife, the mother of my two little ones. Now what am I going to tell them?"" Pablo Cuevas, a spokesman for Nicaragua's Human Rights Commission, called on the government for firmer control over religious sects in the country. ""It is incredible that these things can happen today, there has to be a review by the authorities into all the different denominations and religions,"" he said. ""We can't have things like this happening."" Women's rights groups said the case was an example of fanaticism and misogyny. Juanita Jimenez of the Autonomous Women's Movement (MAM) told local media that it was also the product of a lack of state presence in isolated parts of the country and an act of barbarity. ""Apart from the religious aspect, nothing justifies an act that is as cruel as burning a woman, putting her on a fire with the help of other people who you have used religion to manipulate,"" the activist said.",A young woman in an isolated part of Nicaragua has died a week after being tied up and allegedly @placeholder on a fire in an exorcism ritual .,entertained,overturned,fire,thrown,perched,3
"Richard Jones was walking with his family in the Ocala National Forest when they spotted the alligator. He believes his son startled the raccoon while trying to take a picture of the reptile. The image has become an internet sensation since the photo was taken on Sunday morning. Mr Jones told local television station WFTV that he ""snapped a lucky picture right when the gator slipped into the water and before the raccoon jumped off and scurried away"". ""Without the context you'd think the raccoon was hitching a ride across the river,"" he told the television station. The photo was met largely with humour and a degree of admiration for the raccoon. ""The raccoon riding an alligator is the most Florida thing since mortgage fraud,"" tweeted Benjamin Freed, a writer for the Washingtonian, alluding to the financial crisis that began in 2007. While Mark Di Stefano found a deeper meaning in the image: ""Some days you're the raccoon. Some days you're the alligator."" he tweeted. The debate also moved to how this compared to previous internet animal stars. One Tweeter put out a call for a meme. Which thankfully the internet answered. Meanwhile, Steve Drew suggested that this was actually the beginning of an improbable Hollywood plotline. ""Someone took a photo of raccoon riding an alligator in FL. That or Guardians of The Galaxy II is off to a good start,"" he tweeted. Whilst one tweeter counselled that this was actually a far more serious matter than it first appeared.",A man walking in a national forest in central Florida has @placeholder a rare image of a raccoon appearing to ride on the back of an alligator .,concluded,signed,reported,captured,sparked,3
"This week's withdrawal of support for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government by all three opposition parties, ostensibly over a budget delivered on Tuesday, caps several weeks of escalating disputes. On Monday, a report by an all-party committee of MPs found the Conservative government in ""contempt of Parliament"" for failing to produce documents disclosing the estimated cost of several controversial areas of expenditure, including the budget for proposed crime legislation and the purchase of F-35 fighter jets. The main opposition Liberal Party and its leader, author and former broadcaster Michael Ignatieff, intend to make the non-disclosure issue and government ethics the focus of a no-confidence motion on Friday, which is expected officially to bring the government down. ""It's a question of respect for the principles and institutions of our democracy,"" Mr Ignatieff said on Wednesday. He insisted the government had not only lost the confidence of parliament, but of the Canadian people as well. Meanwhile, opposition support for Canada's governing Conservatives had already collapsed on Tuesday over the budget. The proposed spending measures offered a mixture of deficit reduction proposals, including corporate tax cuts but also fresh spending on social programmes, intended to gain the support of the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP). But following a short meeting with Mr Harper, NDP leader Jack Layton emerged dissatisfied. ""I said to the Prime Minister, 'You've got a choice here - you can work with us to tackle some key issues facing Canadians right now or you can choose an election,'"" said Mr Layton. For his part, Mr Harper stoutly defended his finance minister's budget and said that he was disappointed the opposition parties were about to force what he called an ""unnecessary"" election. Mr Harper painted his party as the one most dedicated to building the country's economy during a period of uncertainly. ""Our economy is not a political game,"" Mr Harper said to reporters on Wednesday. ""The global recovery is still fragile. Relative to other nations, Canada's economic recovery has been strong, but its continuation is by no means assured,"" he said, adding that ""many threats remain"". Mr Harper's party leans further to the right than most conservative governments have historically done in Canada. It was born out of a political merger in 2003 between two competing parties that had been splitting the vote on the right. In power since 2006, the Harper government has won grassroots support for policies that have included middle-class tax cuts, a tougher stand on law and order and prudent stewardship of the Canadian economy. And this support is due in part to a highly regulated banking and mortgage industry that has emerged far less economically damaged than its large trading partner, the United States. But that populist support has consistently failed to transform Conservative fortunes into a parliamentary majority. Polls suggest some Canadians fear the party will adopt more socially conservative policies, such as a tightening of the country's abortion laws, should it be given a stronger mandate. Canadians have also been divided over the way that a government that came to power promising transparency and openness has often handled criticism and scandal with stonewalling and secrecy. 'Low-road operator' Mr Harper's personal style has also become an issue. Already long accepted as far more of a grey ""policy wonk"" than a classic baby-kissing politician, his iron-grip control over his party members and the messages they send out has led to much negative coverage in the Canadian media. Lawrence Martin, a political columnist with Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper, says that Mr Harper's autocratic style is a turn-off for many Canadians. ""He's just not seen to be an honourable leader,"" says Mr Martin. ""He's seen to be a low-road operator with very little regard for democracy."" But the Canadian media has also been somewhat bewildered by the opposition's eagerness to pull the plug on the government, given that the main opposition Liberals are trailing by as much as 10 points in opinion polls - and there seem to be few real reasons or burning issues driving Canadians to the polls. Mr Martin says the person with the most to prove is Mr Ignatieff, fighting his first election at the helm of his Liberal Party. ""All the other leaders in this campaign are defined commodities, so Ignatieff is the real wild card,"" Mr Martin says. The opinion polls will not make heartening reading for Mr Ignatieff, who so far seems to have had difficulty connecting with the electorate. Conservative attack advertising questions the patriotism of the scholarly, sometimes awkward-looking former Harvard professor, who has spent much of his career away from Canada. But those same opinion polls show the Conservatives are still tantalisingly short of getting their majority. If an election were held tomorrow, Canadians would be right back where they began - with a hung parliament. And as it stands, Canadians are highly likely to be going to the polls in early May, the country's fourth election in seven years.","Canada is almost certainly headed for a federal election this spring . If so , it will pit a controversial two - @placeholder minority Conservative government , seeking a third mandate , against a divided opposition apparently determined to take Canadians to a poll few of them seem to want .",era,sharing,way,seat,term,4
"Andrew Murnin and wing-back Aaron McKay both lose out after picking up knocks in last weekend's win over Kildare. Murnin netted Armagh's crucial goal before a hamstring injury led to him being replaced by Ethan Rafferty. Tyrone are unchanged while Monaghan also stick with the side that beat Down for their contest with Dublin. The only Tyrone switch comes in the substitutes with Cathal McShane replaced by Frank Burns. Jack McCarron and Conor McCarthy made hugely impressive contributions as Monaghan substitutes last weekend but the side picked on Thursday night remains the starting line-up which took to the field against the Mourne County. As ever, there is always the possibility that Malachy O'Rourke will make changes before Saturday evening's throw-in. Media playback is not supported on this device Tyrone cruised to provincial glory and they are firm favourites for the Dublin date with their Ulster derby rivals. Armagh lost their Ulster opener against Down but have battled through the qualifiers to make the last eight. Harte has resisted making changes despite impressive substitute displays in the 2-17 to 0-15 win over Down in the Ulster decider last month. Ronan O'Neill came off the bench to score two late goals while Declan McClure caught the eye after being introduced in midfield. Armagh recovered after their two-point defeat by Down in early June to chalk up qualifier wins over Fermanagh, Westmeath, Tipperary and Kildare. The game will bring back memories of  battles between the sides from the last decade, which included the Red Hands' 2003 All-Ireland final win. Dublin, meanwhile, will be even stronger favourites for their tie against O'Rourke's side. Armagh: B Hughes; J Morgan, C Vernon, P Hughes; B Donaghy, M Shields, J McElroy; S Sheridan, N Grimley; R Grugan, C O'Hanlon, A Forker; J Clarke, G McParland, S Campbell. Tyrone: N Morgan; A McCrory, R McNamee, C McCarron; T McCann, P Hampsey, P Harte; C Cavanagh, C McCann; D Mulgrew, N Sludden, K McGeary; M Bradley, S Cavanagh, M Donnelly. Dublin: S Cluxton; P McMahon, C O'Sullivan, M Fitzsimons; J Cooper, J Small, E Lowndes; B Fenton, J McCarthy; C Kilkenny, C O'Callaghan, J McCaffrey; P Mannion, P Andrews, D Rock. Monaghan: R Beggan; F Kelly, D Wylie, R Wylie; C Walshe, K Duffy, K O'Connell; D Hughes, K Hughes; G Doogan, D Malone, S Carey; R McAnespie, D Freeman, C McManus.",Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney has made two changes for Saturday 's All - Ireland SFC quarter - final with Tyrone with Joe McElroy and Ciaran O' Hanlon @placeholder up .,called,lights,picking,washed,drawn,0
"A trial on nearly 140,000 people in 14 countries, published in the Lancet, suggests grip strength is better than blood pressure at predicting risk. The international research team said it would be a ""simple, inexpensive"" tool for doctors. Experts argued the link between grip and the heart was unclear and needed more study. The maximum crushing force you can exert in your grip naturally declines with age. But those whose grip strength declines fastest may be at greater risk of health problems, the study suggests. The huge trial, in 14 countries, showed each 11lb (5kg) reduction in grip strength increased the odds of an early death by 16%. The odds of a fatal heart problem increased by 17% and a stroke by 9%. Doctors currently calculate the chances of a heart attack or stroke by filling in a questionnaire with the patient by assessing age, whether they smoke, obesity, cholesterol levels, blood pressure where they live and family history. The researchers argue grip strength makes more accurate predictions than blood pressure alone and could be a new tool for assessing risk. Dr Darryl Leong, one of the researchers at McMaster University in Canada, said: ""Grip strength could be an easy and inexpensive test to assess an individual's risk of death and cardiovascular disease. ""Further research is needed to establish whether efforts to improve muscle strength are likely to reduce an individual's risk of death and cardiovascular disease."" It is still unknown why worsening heart health could manifest as a weaker grip. Suggestions included hardening arteries reducing muscle strength. Doireann Maddock, from the British Heart Foundation, said: ""The findings of this study are interesting. However, it doesn't explain why grip strength should be related to cardiovascular disease. ""More research is needed to understand any possible link between the two. ""The good news is we already know there are several established risk factors for cardiovascular disease and an NHS health check can assess your risk.""","The chances of having a heart attack , stroke or dying young may be @placeholder in the palm of the hand , a study suggests .",hidden,doubled,included,introduced,stored,0
"Scenes for this summer's movie, BFG, were shot on the Isle of Skye. The local authority unit helped with inquiries about locations on the island, according to a report to Highland councillors. Most of the council officers' report deals with future funding of the unit and similar projects at the council. However, it does mention that productions handled by the unit included Spielberg's BFG. The officers have recommended not making any significant reduction in funding to the unit because of the benefits it brings to the area. Next week's planning, development and infrastructure committee will consider the report.",Highland 's Council 's small tourism and film unit @placeholder the production team behind Steven Spielberg 's adaption of Roald Dahl 's Big Friendly Giant .,contains,brings,attended,ruined,assisted,4
"The pilot was not affected by Saturday's incident which was filmed by the helicopter's on-board camera. The crew were returning to their base in Dafen, Llanelli, after a call-out in Cardiff when the incident happened. ""This could have been catastrophic,"" said chief executive Angela Hughes. ""It is beyond belief how anyone thinks it is clever to do this."" The camera footage has been given to South Wales Police.",A Wales Air Ambulance flying doctor is recovering after being temporarily blinded when a laser light was @placeholder into his eyes as he was flying in a rescue helicopter over Swansea Bay .,engulfed,fired,crashed,shone,burned,3
"But it has asked Russian officials to explain what role seven others played in alleged state-sponsored doping. The IBU opened an inquiry last month into 29 unnamed athletes named in the report. It now says that ""there is not sufficient evidence"" to continue investigating 22 of them. The competitors implicated ranged from Olympic medal winners to regional-level or junior athletes with no major achievements. Two more athletes who were already suspended remain so and are being investigated by the International Olympic Committee. The IBU statement follows a petition signed by many top biathletes calling for tough action on the issue of doping. The IBU said the petition was ""appreciated and taken seriously"". The federation's executive board will meet on 9 February, the day the World Championships start in Hochfilzen, Austria, to decide on the status of the seven athletes still under investigation. Earlier this month, the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) lifted the provisional suspension of four Russian skeleton athletes who were suspended following the second McLaren report. The IBSF said there was currently ""insufficient evidence"" to continue the suspension.",The International Biathlon Union has @placeholder 22 athletes after investigating claims made in the second McLaren report into doping in sport .,announced,resigned,admitted,cleared,defended,3
"St Hilary resident Monica Dennis took to Twitter to post pictures of the lorry. She tweeted: ""So much for sat nav. Tanker currently stuck in lane by Manor Cottage, St Hilary."" Around 1,500 troops have converged at nearby St Athan in what is believed to be one of the largest military exercises held in Wales.",A large army @placeholder blocked a road in a village in the Vale of Glamorgan for more than three hours on Friday .,following,woman,patrol,showing,vehicle,4
"The 38-year-old made 40 appearances this season as the Edinburgh side finished third in the Premiership. But Hearts' website states that, with European football in mind, boss Robbie Neilson ""believes the time is now right to start building for the future"". ""We'll now look to bring in another goalkeeper as part of our summer recruitment,"" said head coach Neilson. Alexander joined Hearts as player-coach after leaving Crystal Palace in June 2014 and has made 72 appearances in two seasons. Neilson thanked him for his role in helping Hearts win the Championship title and promotion last season and secure a place in the Europa League qualifying rounds in their first season back in the top flight. Alexander, who began his career with Stenhousemuir and also had spells with Livingston, Cardiff City, Ipswich Town and Rangers, won three caps for Scotland. His back-up at Hearts has been Scotland Under-21 international Jack Hamilton, now 22, while 17-year-old Kelby Mason is the other goalkeeper on the books at Tynecastle. Meanwhile, Hearts midfielder Perry Kitchen has been named in the United States squad for their friendly against Puerto Rico on 22 May. Kitchen is pushing for inclusion in Jurgen Klinsmann's final 23-man squad for the Copa America.",Veteran goalkeeper Neil Alexander is being @placeholder by Hearts despite spending the season as first choice .,struck,replaced,hailed,released,used,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device In the 40 previous editions only twice has a team trailing by more than two points after the first two days come back to win. But with late swings on Saturday evening giving the USA a 9½-6½ lead going into the final afternoon, Europe will need to win at least seven and-a-half of the 12 points on offer to hang on to a trophy they have lost only once in the last 14 years. Rory McIlroy will lead the attempted fight-back in an alluring match-up against Patrick Reed, before Open champion Henrik Stenson takes on Jordan Spieth and Thomas Pieters plays JB Holmes. A European comeback is not impossible - at Medinah in 2012 they had trailed 10-4 late on the Saturday, and began the singles four down before storming through for a famous victory. Team talisman McIlroy has led the European charge superbly thus far, winning three points from a possible four, and his foursomes and fourball partner Pieters has also been in the sort of dead-eyed form that belies his rookie status. Yet with the other two of captain Darren Clarke's wildcards, Martin Kaymer and Lee Westwood, struggling to justify their selection and the US inspired by the stunning performance of the pugnacious Reed, home captain Davis Love will know that his team has a wonderful chance to win only their third Ryder Cup in the last 21 years. All 12 of Love's players won points in the first two days, while five of Clarke's - Kaymer, Westwood, Danny Willet, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Andy Sullivan - are yet to score. Clarke, who won four of his five Cups as a player and was a vice-captain at Medinah in 2012, remains defiant despite the disappointment of losing Saturday afternoon's fourballs session 3-1 when at the midway point it had looked as if Europe might have reversed that score. He said: ""We're going to have to work hard and play very, very well, but it's been done before from a worse position - we have a big task ahead of us, but the guys are capable of doing it. ""With the team that's here this week, I don't need to pick them up. Those guys fully believe that they have the talent and the desire to put a result in."" Love was the US captain on that stunning afternoon at Medinah, one of many high-profile US golfers so scarred by the succession of recent defeats that they set up an 11-man task-force to put it right this time. With only five points required from the 12 on offer on Sunday he is close to achieving that goal and the raucous capacity crowds around this long course are likely to once again offer the most passionate and partisan of support as Clarke puts his big hitters out early. Love said: ""I've obviously been around a lot of teams so it was no secret that they (Europe) were going to load the boat. ""So our problem, was we say, all right, we're going to put the six guys out that are playing really well. ""It's nice to go in on a high, but we know the deal. There are still 12 points to be played, and you can't get off the game plan - you have to keep grinding it out for one more day."" Media playback is not supported on this device The magic word at Ryder Cups is momentum, and on Saturday the US snatched that back by winning all three of the last matches on the course having taken only two and-a-half points from the previous nine. One match in particular that appeared to have cost them was when Sergio Garcia and Rafa Cabrera-Bello came from four down with six to play against Reed and Jordan Spieth to snatch an unlikely half-point in the foursomes and make the overall score at lunchtime 6½-5½. But two short missed putts from Westwood handed JB Holmes and Ryan Moore both the 17th and 18th holes of their fourballs to hand over the match when the Englishman and partner Willett had not once been behind in the round. Clarke now needs the early singles matches to go his way to both seize back that impetus and silence a crowd that has celebrated every missed European putt with almost as much fervour as when an American putt has dropped. With his decision to pick Kaymer and Westwood for the afternoon fourballs also likely to come under scrutiny in the event of a defeat, he also requires a dramatic turnaround from those experienced men as well as an unprecedented display from his six rookies - four of who are out in the last five singles matches.",Europe must scale a mountain if not find another @placeholder to match that of four years ago if they are to retain the Ryder Cup on Sunday .,challenge,one,points,date,miracle,4
"The study suggests C-sections allow women with narrow pelvises to give birth when they or their babies' lives might previously have been at risk - and this means the genes for narrow pelvises are passed on to future generations, leading to further Caesarean deliveries. But there are many other factors involved in whether or not a woman will have a C-section. Some are commonly believed to determine if a woman will give birth naturally or via by Caesarean - but the evidence used by the NHS says they don't... Things that won't make a difference... But a planned Caesarean might be necessary if... And sometimes an unplanned Caesarean delivery might be required when... But if you are pregnant and have any concerns or questions, it's always best to speak to your doctor or midwife.","The number of babies born by Caesarean section has affected human @placeholder , a study has suggested .",luck,side,populations,discussion,evolution,4
"It has been left to others to come up with a definition that can be used to weigh the actions, omissions and behaviour of security forces in a series of murders in which they have been accused of collusion. For some, a charge of collusion can only stick if there has been a secret agreement to deliberately and consciously plot to do something wrong. For others the definition would also cover having a mindset that means that officers were predisposed to behave or think in ways that meant some people were less protected than they should have been, that investigations were frustrated to protect agents and informers, regardless of their actions. The first official attempt at a definition was made by Sir John (now Lord) Stevens in 2003. Lord Stevens, the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner, carried out a major investigation into collusion in several murders. He said collusion ranges ""from the wilful failure to keep records, the absence of accountability, the withholding of intelligence and evidence, through to the extreme of agents being involved in murder."" Applying that definition to his three inquiries he reported: ""The co-ordination, dissemination and sharing of intelligence were poor. Informants and agents were allowed to operate without effective control and to participate in terrorist crimes. ""Nationalists were known to be targeted but were not properly warned or protected. Crucial information was withheld from senior investigating officers. Important evidence was neither exploited nor preserved."" In 2004, Canadian judge Peter Cory published six reports into alleged collusion in murders in Northern Ireland. In outlining his definition of collusion he highlighted several dictionary definitions of the word including ""to co-operate secretly: to have a secret understanding."" He added definitions of connive, a synonym of the verb collude, including this entry from the Oxford Compact Thesaurus: ""to deliberately ignore; to overlook; to disregard; to pass over; to take no notice of; to turn a blind eye; to wink; to excuse; to condone; to look the other way; to let something ride."" From the Webster dictionary, he quoted: ""To pretend ignorance or unawareness of something one ought morally, or officially or legally to oppose; to fail to take action against a known wrongdoing or misbehaviour - usually used with connive at the violation of a law."" He went on to write: ""How should collusion be defined for the purposes of this inquiry?"" ""There cannot be public confidence in any government agency that is guilty of collusion or connivance with regard to serious crimes. Because of the necessity for public confidence in government agencies the definition of collusion must be reasonably broad when it is applied to such agencies. ""That is to say that they must not act collusively by ignoring or turning a blind eye to the wrongful acts of their servants or agents or by supplying information to assist those servants or agents in their wrongful acts or by encouraging others to commit a wrongful act."" An inquiry into the death of Billy Wright, in the Maze prison in 1997, took issue with the emphasis on connivance. ""It may be that the very wide definition of the word collusion that Judge Cory adopted was due to his concentration on one of the synonyms, namely the verb connive,"" the inquiry report said. ""We have been concerned throughout the inquiry by the width of the meaning applied by Judge Cory, having in mind in particular that the word is not to be found in our terms of reference. ""For our part we consider that the essence of collusion is an agreement or arrangement between individuals or organisations, including government departments, to achieve an unlawful or improper purpose. The purpose may also be fraudulent or underhand."" The first police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Nuala (now Baroness) O'Loan adopted the definitions, in 2007, of Lord Stevens and Peter Cory to examine whether there had been collusion in the murder of Raymond McCord jnr. Using those definitions, she concluded that there had been collusion. Her successor as police ombudsman, Al Hutchinson, applied a less broad definition in his report on the attack, in 1971, on McGurk's Bar. In the report he wrote: ""The essence of collusion requires that a number of elements be present. Not only must there usually be an agreement between two or more parties, but there is also an additional requirement that a sufficiency of evidence exists to establish, on balance, that the act or omission complained of was deliberate and not merely negligent or inadvertent."" In his review of the murder of Pat Finucane, Sir Christopher de Silva said he had adopted a ""working definition"" of collusion less broad than that of Judge Cory and more in line with that of the Billy Wright inquiry panel. ""I do believe, as Judge Smithwick has said in relation to his Tribunal, that omissions by state agencies must be considered alongside positive acts when drawing a definition of collusion. ""It is, however, important to stress that, in order to fall within the ambit of collusion, such omissions must be classified as deliberate and not merely represent examples of incompetence or inefficiency. ""My own working definition, whilst not purporting to be definitive, is one I consider appropriate in relation to the allegations made and for the purposes of this particular case. ""I consider collusion to involve: (i) agreements, arrangements or actions intended to achieve unlawful, improper, fraudulent or underhand objectives; and (ii) deliberately turning a blind eye or deliberately ignoring improper or unlawful activity."" Irish judge Peter Smithwick gave a similar definition of collusion to that of Peter Cory. Smithwick, investigating allegations of Garda collusion in the murders of RUC officers Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan, said: ""While (collusion) generally means the commission of an act, I am also of the view that it should be considered in terms of an omission or failure to act. ""In the active sense, collusion has amongst its meanings to conspire, connive or collaborate. ""In addition I intend to examine whether anybody deliberately ignored a matter, or turned a blind eye to it, or to have pretended ignorance or unawareness of something one ought morally, legally or officially oppose.""","The complex @placeholder of paramilitary gangs , security and intelligence forces , agents and informers , in Northern Ireland during the years of conflict were not a consideration for dictionary compilers when they wrote the entry for collusion .",number,state,head,web,generation,3
"His death at the age of 106 came on the same day 76 years ago when the train carrying the largest number of children - 241 - departed from Prague. The reluctant hero worked to find British families willing to put up £50 to look after the boys and girls in their homes. His efforts were not publicly known for almost 50 years. More than 370 of the children he saved have never been traced and do not know the full story. ""One day my father called my brother and me and he said, 'sit down boys, you're going on a long journey',"" said John Fieldsend, now 84. Born in Germany, Mr Fieldsend's original name was Hans Heinrich Fiege. His family fled to the Czech Republic when the Nazi persecution of the Jews began, prior to the outbreak of World War Two. ""As the train was leaving my mother took her wristwatch off, passed it through the window and simply said, 'remember us'."" Lia Lesser, 84, now lives in Birmingham but was originally taken in by a woman who lived on the Isle of Anglesey. ""We didn't know we wouldn't see our parents again,"" she said. ""I think they must have known there was a good chance they wouldn't see us again, and they were very brave to let us go."" ""I never knew how my mother arranged it, she never talked about it,"" said Zuzana Maresova, who was born in Prague and later returned there. She said her mother gave her a book about flowers and said, ""you're going to a place where these flowers grow"". ""That's all I knew,"" she said. The humanitarian goals of Winton, who was born in the Hampstead district of north London in May 1909, were helped by a 1938 Act of Parliament that permitted the entry to the UK of refugee children under the age of 17, as long as money was deposited to pay for their eventual return home. He set up an office in a hotel in Prague where he was quickly besieged by families desperate to get their children out before Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. ""There was a long queue and at the end of the queue was a small office, and we got some forms to fill in,"" said Ruth Halova, who was born in Prague. ""Within three months we got the names of foster parents who were prepared to take us in, and mine were a Mr and Mrs Jones from Birmingham."" The 90-year-old added: ""There was a steam engine, the old wagons were made of wooden planks. ""Everybody got this label on cardboard with a piece of string with a number [on it], and then we were shoved into the carriages."" Winton, who lived in Pinkneys Green in Maidenhead, until his death, worked with relief organisations to set up the Czech Kindertransport, just one of a number of initiatives attempting to rescue Jewish children from Germany and the Nazi-occupied territories. He organised a total of eight trains from Prague, with some other forms of transport also set up from Vienna. Ms Maresova said: ""We were rather excited because we thought it was some kind of adventure."" However, she added the image of all the parents' ""pressed faces to the windows and tears running down their faces, and wondering why they're crying"", had remained with her all her life. Mrs Lesser said: ""The only thing I had was a pendant with a picture of Moses on one side, and on the other were the Ten Commandments, and that's the only piece of jewellery that I brought with me. ""Apart from that I had a Czech storybook... I had no dolls, teddy bears or anything like that. I just had two suitcases with clothes in."" ""The next thing I remember was being handed over to a gentleman who couldn't speak Czech,"" said Ms Maresova of her arrival in England. ""He had a paper with all sorts of questions in English and Czech. ""Whenever he wanted to ask me something he pointed: 'Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something? Do you want to drink something? Do you want to use the toilet?'"" Mrs Lesser said: ""In the early days I corresponded with my parents and then we corresponded through the Red Cross, and then eventually the letters stopped. ""I think that's when they were in Auschwitz."" When the war ended she said realised they had ""perished"". Mr Fieldsend received a letter just after the war, in 1946, and said his first thought was: ""Hooray, they're alive."" ""My mother wrote: 'When you receive this letter the war will be over... we want to say farewell to you - to our dearest possession in the world, and only for a short time were we able to keep you',"" he said. The letter went on to list other members of his family who had been ""taken"". In the letter, his father wrote: ""We are going into the unknown with the hope that we shall yet see you again when God wills."" Mr Fieldsend described the letter as ""fantastic"", adding: ""What wonderful parents I had."" Ms Halova was lucky to be reunited with her mother after the war and described it as ""the answering of my biggest prayer"". Milena Grenfell-Baines, 85, who now lives in Preston, Lancashire, was born in Prague and taken in by a family in Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester. Her parents also survived the war but how she got on the train ""remained a mystery"" for many years, she said. It was not until 1988, when Sir Nicholas's wife Grete discovered a scrapbook in their attic containing a mass of documents, including the names of the rescued children, that his heroism became known. That year he was reunited with some of the rescued children, now adults, on the BBC's That's Life programme. ""It was an amazing surprise, but no more so than to Mr Winton who had come to the studio, totally unprepared that he was going to be confronted by us,"" said Mrs Grenfell-Baines, who had been invited to the TV studio without being told why. Ms Halova described Winton as ""an exceptional human being"", adding: ""We loved him from the first moment - who wouldn't love Nicky? ""He took so many risks and it was such a brilliant piece of organising,"" said Mr Fieldsend of Winton's efforts. ""I just thought it was amazing that a single human being could save 669 children and nobody knew about it,"" she added. ""Nicky, I am so proud to be one of your very many children."" Winton, whose work has been likened to that of the ""saviour"" of Jewish prisoners Oskar Schindler, was knighted by the Queen in March 2003. A year earlier he was reunited with hundreds more of the children he saved, including Labour peer Lord Dubs and film director Karel Reisz. Interviews compiled by Chris Browning for Saved by Sir Nicholas - a BBC Radio Berkshire documentary.","Dubbed the "" British Schindler "" , Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children destined for Nazi concentration camps from Czechoslovakia as the outbreak of World War Two @placeholder .",explains,experiences,gain,loomed,increased,3
"The family were leaving De Montfort Veterinary Hospital in Evesham when the mog decided to flee, Hereford and Worcester fire service said. Crews had to dismantle part of a Vauxhall Vectra in the Merstow Green car park to free the cat, called Mousey, at about 10:30 BST. Watch commander Russell Broadbent said the cat was unharmed. ""He had been for some injections and I think he managed to get out of the basket on the way to the car,"" he said. ""He went under one car and got into the engine. ""I think he was just a little bit agitated.""",A cat ended up stuck in the engine compartment of a car when it @placeholder its owners after a trip to the vet .,found,returned,escaped,crashed,made,2
"On Friday, Donald Trump said the US military was ""locked and loaded"" to deal with North Korea, By the close of trading, the FTSE 100 was down 84.46 points, or 1.1%, to 7,305.48, having dropped 1.4% on Thursday. US markets held steady in trade on Friday, with the Dow Jones up 0.2%. On the London stock market, mining shares saw the biggest falls as many metal prices were hit by the geopolitical concerns. Shares in Glencore, Rio Tinto and Anglo American were all down by between 2.8% and 3.1%. Housebuilders Persimmon and Barratt Developments were among the biggest gainers of the day, up 1.58% and 1.02% respectively. ""The FTSE has carried on where it left off on Thursday, with yet another day of risk-off sentiment seeing investors shift out of equities,"" said Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG. ""The UK headline index has crashed to the lowest level since late June, in a week which has turned from mundane to insane. ""For a week that has been largely devoid of major economic releases, Donald Trump's confrontational stance with North Korea has raised volatility across the board."" Gold - generally regarded as a safer asset in times of uncertainty - hit its highest price for more than two months on Friday, touching $1,288.97 an ounce at one point. On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.03% against the dollar at $1.2981 but down 0.23% against the euro at 1.0999 euros.",The UK 's stock market ended the week down 1.1 % as worries over the situation between the US and North Korea @placeholder to rattle investors .,bid,failed,continue,according,started,2
"Rowland Phillips' side will also face a team from the Asia/Oceania play-offs in Pool A. The tournament will run between 9-26 August, 2017 with games held in Dublin and Belfast and the final at Ulster's Kingspan Stadium. Under former coach Rhys Edwards, Wales finished fourth in the 2016 Six Nations to qualify for the 12-team tournament. Defending champions England could face Scotland in their pool while Welsh opponents Canada were runners up in 2014.",Wales Women have been @placeholder against New Zealand and Canada in the 2017 Rugby World Cup in Ireland .,selected,lodged,criticised,launched,drawn,4
"During a live broadcast of their weekly variety show on Monday members said they would be sticking together and apologised for causing concern. The ""boy band"" is a mainstay of Japan's pop scene and is popular across Asia. Rumours that they were breaking up over a dispute with management caused widespread concern in Japan last week. In a sombre announcement  the group confirmed they had been ""on the verge"" of a break-up, but did not give further details. Dressed in dark suits, they bowed to the camera and asked for fans' continuing support. ""We will keep moving forward, no matter what,"" said Takuya Kimura, the band's best known member. The announcement relieved many fans, but others online have criticised the statement, alleging that the management had forced the band to  apologise in public. The band reportedly was negotiating its future with its management agency. The band, formed in 1988, has built up a huge fanbase in Japan and throughout Asia with members appearing frequently in movies, soap operas, and commercials.","One of Japan 's biggest pop groups , SMAP , has said it will not be breaking up after the @placeholder was gripped by rumours of a split .",genre,scene,company,information,country,4
"Special Report: The Technology of Business Councils 'wasting millions' on IT Tech promises sustainable healthcare Mobile brightening Africa's future Can we 'green' our toxic buildings? War on waste helps businesses profit But unplugged from the mains, they only last as long as the energy held within their batteries. And there's the rub. While scientists are constantly dreaming up new ways to generate and bottle energy - from rhubarb and paper to viruses and urine - commercial battery technology has changed remarkably little in the past 50 years, particularly when compared with the advances in the devices they power. As Tim Probert, editor at Energy Storage Publishing, says: ""The battery industry is pretty conservative. It says a lot that we are still using very old technology like lead-acid in batteries. ""Breakthrough technologies are great but they need a reality check - this industry is all about small, incremental improvements."" The humble AA battery has been around since the 1940s and is based on 19th Century technology. But it still has a 15% share of the global battery market, along with other alkaline batteries. And the lead-acid battery, which is fundamental to most combustion engine-powered cars, was invented more than 150 years ago and holds a 20% share of the market. Clearly the battery industry, which is worth almost $90bn (£54bn; 66bn euros) globally, is not keeping pace with innovation in consumer electronics. Even the near-ubiquitous rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which powers most modern gadgets, was invented in the 1970s. It has about a 40% market share. Electric vehicle pioneer Tesla, the brainchild of serial entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk, uses so-called 18650 lithium cells - ""essentially old laptop batteries"", according to Mr Probert - to power its cars. Most laptop manufacturers gave up on 18650s long ago, but Tesla believes this old tech still has a future, and even has plans to build its own ""gigafactory"" to produce them. ""By choosing smaller, cylindrical cells, we have been able to save on manufacturing costs,"" explains Tesla's Laura Hardy. ""Smaller cells, which can have a better energy density, gave us more flexibility in packaging the cells and creating the battery pack."" By putting 7,000 of these cells together, Tesla's Model S Sedan is able to achieve a range of up to 300 miles, considerably more than many of its competitors using more advanced battery technologies. Most other manufacturers use pouch cells, which involve lithium cells being placed side by side like slices of bread. The danger here is the risk of ""thermal runaway"", where one cell short-circuits and produces so much heat it sparks a ripple effect and the battery blows up. This is thought to be what happened to Boeing's Dreamliner passenger jet in Japan at the beginning of last year. The next generation of lithium-ion batteries will help solve this problem by replacing flammable liquid electrolyte with safer, solid-state components. This type of battery is also more powerful per unit. Some companies are also trying to develop lithium-sulphur batteries, which promise to have five times the energy of a standard lithium-ion. Mr Probert says UK-based Oxis Energy is making some real progress in this area, but warns that we should not expect a ""quantum leap"" any time soon. The more realistic and exciting developments are taking place away from pure battery technology. The first is wireless power - charging your gadgets without having to plug them in to the mains. This is a market that could be worth $5bn by 2016, according to IMS Research (now part of IHS). One company pioneering this new technology is Ossia, with its Cota remote power system. Founder and chief executive Hatem Zeine stumbled across the idea while researching wireless signal management. He discovered that a small amount of power is transmitted alongside the radio waves, and set about researching how best to focus the signal from many antennae working in unison as a means to charge devices remotely. In 2013, more than decade later, Mr Zeine launched Cota. ""Cota comes in two parts - a charger and a power receiver,"" Mr Zeine explains. ""Think of the charger as similar to a wireless router, and the receiver as a button battery."" ""The receiver sends out a low power signal to the charger, which in turn sends back a signal from each of its thousands of antennae, targeted specifically at the receiver itself. The receiver will then track the device constantly."" The benefits are obvious. You no longer have to worry about recharging your phone or laptop, as it will do so automatically whenever it is within range of a charger. This means the battery doesn't need to store as much energy, and so can be made much smaller - the holy grail for all consumer electronics manufacturers. Mr Zeine believes the applications for wireless charging go way beyond consumer electronics and into medical devices, production lines and construction. Indeed, he envisages a time when we need far fewer power sockets because remote chargers will be installed throughout our homes, offices, public buildings, cars and trains. Swedish company MyFC, an offshoot of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has developed Powertrekk, a portable fuel cell that can generate energy to power all manner of consumer devices. ""Our fuel cell is an electro-chemical device that converts hydrogen into protons and electrons. The protons go through a membrane and react with oxygen, so the only bi-product is water,"" explains Bjorn Westerholm, MyFC's chief executive. Powertrekk, which provides up to 5 watts of power, incorporates a lithium-ion battery to provide the initial charge, before the fuel cell takes over. Once the device is fully charged, the fuel cell then recharges the battery. This means you can power a device with just water and a small sodium silicide refill canister, anywhere at any time. Powertrekk is being sold in 24 countries including, as of late May, the UK. Since launching a year ago, MyFC has sold 10,000 units. Given that mobile phones and tablets are currently selling at a rate of about two billion a year, ""we haven't even scratched the surface yet"", says Mr Westerholm. And while battery technology continues to develop at such a slow pace, there will be plenty more opportunities for eager entrepreneurs to elevate the art of energy generation and storage.","Mobile devices have transformed our lives , giving us the freedom to talk , work , watch and @placeholder on the move .",control,listen,reflect,posting,crying,1
"The hosts made an encouraging start at the EBB Stadium as Matt McClure set up a chance for Jake Gallagher, but his shot comfortably cleared the crossbar. Chester responded with a quick counter-attack, Elliott Durrell pulling his shot wide, before they had a goal chalked off when Kane Richards was penalised for a foul in the 13th minute. The visitors pushed forward again and Ryan Lloyd was unfortunate to see his long-range effort hit the woodwork, while Aldershot went close early in the second period when Scott Rendell was denied by Liam Roberts. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Aldershot Town 0, Chester FC 0. Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Chester FC 0. Tom Shaw (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Aldershot Town. Anthony Straker replaces Nick Arnold. Jordan Chapell (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Chester FC. Jordan Chapell replaces Elliott Durrell. Substitution, Aldershot Town. Iffy Allen replaces Shamir Fenelon. Substitution, Chester FC. Wade Joyce replaces Kane Richards. Substitution, Chester FC. Matty Waters replaces Theo Vassell. Josh Wakefield (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card. Bernard Mensah (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Aldershot Town. Josh Wakefield replaces Liam Bellamy. Second Half begins Aldershot Town 0, Chester FC 0. First Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Chester FC 0. Liam Bellamy (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",Chester had a goal @placeholder out and also struck the woodwork in a goalless draw with Aldershot in the National League .,ruled,climb,carrying,bowled,edged,0
"The Environment Agency has tried pumping water and towing it with a tractor after it came adrift in Oxford. It is one of two boats that came loose on Monday. It has crashed into Botley Bridge causing an obstruction. Russell Robson, waterway operations team leader, said he was ""optimistic"" the latest attempt would work. He said the river conditions meant it was too dangerous to put divers inside the 25-tonne boat boat. ""That has prevented us from using flotation to get the vessel higher in the water and pump it out. ""What we're looking to do is to attach steel to it and use a winch to try and winch it across the river and control it coming out via other winches attached to the land on either side. ""Our primary objective at the present time is to reopen the river Thames and get the vessel out of the water. [The boat] is someone's home."" The other boat that came loose has since been recovered.",Engineers are attempting to winch a @placeholder narrowboat out of the River Thames after several previous methods to remove it have failed .,chunk,bank,pioneering,risk,stranded,4
"First, though, the German has to negotiate one of the most intense weekends of the year. The Brazilian Grand Prix throbs with a passion and fervour matched by few others. Interlagos and Sao Paulo are inextricably linked with Formula 1 even if the days of a winning Brazilian driver may be some time in the past. Brazil's first legendary grand prix driver, Emerson Fittipaldi, was born there, and his successes on the world stage laid the path for all others to follow. Ayrton Senna was, likewise, a Paulista, and is buried in Morumbi cemetery a few miles away. He was a hero to Rubens Barrichello, who grew up metres from the race track and forged his passion watching Senna there, before graduating to F1 a couple of years before his death, befriending him, and then taking up his mantle. Felipe Massa, another local boy, followed suit. The fans know the glory days have long gone, that a Brazilian victory is as unlikely as a day without a traffic jam in one of the world's most crowded cities. But still they come, packing the grandstands and singing and chanting from early in the day. What draws them there? A deep-seated passion for the sport, for one. The almost-certainty of a great sporting spectacle, for another. Interlagos has a knack for producing exciting races. Drama is synonymous with the track, not least because of its position at the business end of the season. It is a claustrophobic place. The circuit winds around a natural amphitheatre, high on a hill, the sprawl of Sao Paulo both a backdrop and crushing in from all sides. The heavy humidity, and almost-permanent threat of rain, add to the atmosphere. It feels locked in, and not just because of the cramped old paddock, a fraction of the size of anything Bernie Ecclestone finds acceptable these days. The track is a splash of vibrant green in an ocean of concrete grey and smog brown; the city butting up against the perimeter fence, endless tower blocks filling the skyline. Twenty years ago, a favela sprawled up the hill all the way to the perimeter wall. There has been an attempt to spruce things up a bit, the old corrugated-roof shacks replaced by flats closest to the circuit, houses of naked breeze blocks a bit further down the road. But down at heel, to say the least, it remains. There is an unmistakable edge. The road up to Interlagos is not a place for a stranger to linger. Inside, the track feels like a haven. One of the shortest laps on the calendar somehow packs in a long straight - superb for overtaking - and a challenging sequence of long corners, the best the uphill double right-hander of Ferra Dura/Laranha and the fast downhill left of Mergulho. It's a great race track, with emphasis on the ""race"". They are corners with a history - the new track is about half of the old one. Part of a previous era, it was a magnificent five miles of twists and turns, uphill and down, which started with two incredible, banked, high-speed left-handers, taken absolutely flat out by some, still visible outside the modern Turns One, Two and Three. It all adds to the character of the place. Loud, intimidating, crazy, invigorating, rough-around-the-edges. But, in its own way, brilliant. Andrew Benson - chief F1 writer Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.","The five world champions on the current grid have all secured at least one title in Brazil and on Sunday they could be @placeholder by a sixth - if Nico Rosberg wins the race , team - mate Lewis Hamilton 's hopes of an unlikely late - season comeback will be over .",beaten,joined,honoured,boosted,led,1
"So spoke one senior Labour figure who had helped Ed Miliband to the party leadership in 2010 - and who hasn't been impressed by his successor. After being away from Westminster for a few weeks, I thought I'd catch up with Labour MPs who had also been away from SW1 and were gathering again - not just in formal meetings but at social events - just two weeks before the ballot in the party's leadership election closes. Their views were perhaps not entirely surprising - before the summer recess, 80% of them had voted against Jeremy Corbyn in a confidence vote on his leadership. But let's just say their collective mood didn't reflect the late summer sunshine. They tended to regard Jeremy Corbyn's leadership as a big black cloud that was hanging over the party - and none of them expected it to be dispelled when the results of the leadership election are announced on 24 September. MPs had voted this week to elect shadow cabinet members - reducing Jeremy Corbyn's powers of patronage - so you might expect them to feel a little more upbeat. But they didn't. One former frontbencher said to me ""even if we fill the shadow cabinet with the most talented people we have and really oppose the government he (Jeremy Corbyn) will still be there and he's the problem. We will still lose the next election"". And it is by no means clear that MPs alone will elect the shadow cabinet. One politician bemoaned the fact that the proposal was going to Labour's National Executive - its governing body - rather than being agreed by the MPs as a change to their own standing orders. But another said that Corbyn supporters would put an emergency motion to the annual conference at the end of this month, opening up the shadow cabinet election to all party members. So it would be sensible for the NEC to adjudicate. As I understand it, there are NEC members who are trying to convince the party leader's office that shadow cabinet elections are the best way of 'co-habiting' with his MPs and ensuring there is a functioning frontbench. The office is being reassured that Blairite MPs wouldn't stand; that the leader would still decide the portfolios and he could 'top up' the shadow cabinet with some of his own supporters. There now seems to be a widespread recognition that Jeremy Corbyn will be ousted only as the result of a general election and some MPs are willing and hoping Theresa May will go early. ""Only after he is removed can we rebuild, but he is not our only problem,"" one MP said. Another thought - that whenever the election comes it would be disastrous for Labour - and for ""those poor buggers who depend on a Labour government"". He gave the lowest estimate yet of how many seats Labour would retain - 70 to 80 - adding ""we will become the new Lib Dems"". This wasn't some cruel fantasy figure he had plucked from the air, he insisted, but based on a mixture of conversations with former Labour voters who will not back the party under the current leader and defectors to UKIP and a new hostility to the party in some areas which had heavily backed Brexit. Some other MPs have talked about retaining 150 seats, or ""losing about 100"". But between now and the election there is despair about what's perceived as a failure to hold the government to account. One former minister said that the prime minister was ""getting away with murder"" on Brexit because of a toxic mix of ""incompetence"" and not making any effort on the part of the Labour leader. Despite the gloom, there seems little appetite for a new party. At the launch of Ed Balls's memoir this week, Lord Owen - founder member of the SDP - was heard cautioning Labour  MPs against forming a breakaway. He judged that his party, set up in 1981, had almost broken the mould of British politics but hadn't succeeded. It wasn't seen as a successor to Labour, or as the true custodian of Labour's values and traditions, as the party drifted leftwards in the 1980s. Although he did indeed want it to be a European-style social democratic party it was difficult to gain definition - it was ""flotsam"" which could be blown around in the prevailing political wind. And he was living proof of the difficulty of splitting from a main party under the current electoral system, he said. Irrespective of this advice, one Labour MP you could almost bet would be interested in setting  up a non-Corbyn or anti-Corbyn breakaway group insisted he wasn't. ""I will stay and fight - this is my party so I will fight and very probably die for it,"" he said. But when the facts change, people can change their opinions. With new parliamentary boundaries in the offing and the prospect of Labour MPs having to compete to keep their seat, some expected to be deselected by Jeremy Corbyn's supporters. ""They say we are careerists but some of them are very ambitious - not hard-working but ambitious. One of them certainly has his eye on my seat and I probably won't be able to stop him."" If this deselection is widespread, the option for some MPs of staying and fighting will close off. And one current frontbencher says it is the fear of deselection - and not simply ideological differences - that will make it very difficult for Jeremy Corbyn to fill the junior shadow posts if he is re-elected: ""Who the hell will want to deal with a bunch of statutory instruments when they need to be in their constituency fighting for their seat? ""I mean a shadow post is fine if you are on the brink of government - but currently everyone knows it's futile."" And for the first time there are murmurings about Owen Smith's campaign - from supporters of Owen Smith. Was he right to try to persuade the members that only age and competence, and not ideology, separated him from Jeremy Corbyn? Should he have told members more home truths earlier in the campaign? Few will denounce him for making a fight of it but there is a realisation that he is unlikely to triumph, and the only hope is that he reduces the margin of Jeremy Corbyn's victory. Now there are many people in the Labour Party who are far more sympathetic towards Jeremy Corbyn than the vast majority of his MPs, but his re-election won't solve the spit between parliament and the wider party. As one senior MP put it: ""On 24 September we will be right back to where we started a year ago. And that's not a good place to be.""",""" I am not going to this year 's Labour conference . The idea that I would stand there and applaud the man that @placeholder my party is nonsense . """,ran,destroyed,investigates,stuffed,sparked,3
"Police said he sold at least 193kg (30 stone) of methylone last year after discovering a gap in the market when he went to Australia as a visiting professor, Xinhua news agency reported. Seven others were arrested in connection with the raid in Wuhan. It follows the arrest of a Xian professor for making illegal drugs. Xinhua reported in May that that professor, with the surname Lu, had been arrested and dubbed China's real-life Walter White after the Breaking Bad character. It is not clear whether the cases are linked. The professor arrested in Wuhan, whose surname is Zhang, started a company in 2005 which ostensibly produced medical coating and solvent, Xinhua reported. Police said he ""found while acting as a visiting academic in Australia that some psychoactive drugs were in heavy demand, but hard to find there. He decided to make those drugs when he got back to China for profit"". He recruited people to produce ""hundreds of kilograms"" of drugs and sold them overseas through mail order, police said. In November last year, customs officers found at least nine parcels bound for abroad which contained the stimulant methylone, commonly used as a substitute for MDMA, or ecstasy. On 17 June customs and police raided Mr Zhang's lab in the Jiangxia district of Wuhan. About 20kg (3 stone) of drugs were seized.","A @placeholder professor has been arrested in China accused of making psychoactive drugs that were sold to the UK , Canada , the United States and Australia .",german,drug,chemistry,killer,date,2
"California and New York issued a joint statement saying they would continue the fight against climate change. Environmental groups have hired a host of lawyers to challenge Mr Trump's move that boosts fossil fuel production. Mr Trump said he wanted to end ""job-killing regulations"". His supporters believe that ending the climate change rules brought in by Barack Obama will create thousands of jobs in the gas, coal and oil industries. The governors of New York and California summed up opponents' views by saying Mr Trump's stance was ""profoundly misguided and shockingly ignores basic science"". In a joint statement, Governors Jerry Brown of California and Andrew Cuomo of New York, both Democrats, said: ""With or without Washington, we will work with our partners throughout the world to aggressively fight climate change and protect our future."" The two states have set even stricter targets on reducing greenhouse gas emissions than required by Mr Obama's rules and have far-reaching plans for converting to renewable energy sources for producing electricity. Governor Brown said: ""Erasing climate change may take place in Donald Trump's mind, but nowhere else."" A host of legal issues could be in the pipeline. California has a special waiver allowing it to enforce tougher measures on vehicle emissions. Mr Trump could rescind that - but this would lead to a fierce challenge. He could also ask Congress to revoke the Clean Air Act. Back in 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide gas was a pollutant under the Act. Some experts believe that the ultimate goal of Mr Trump's executive order is to overturn that ruling. Already tied up in the courts is Mr Obama's Clean Power Plan (CPP), which seeks to cut fossil fuels from electricity production. The BBC's environment correspondent, Matt McGrath, says Mr Trump will let the CPP fester there while coming up with a much weaker replacement. David Goldston, of the Natural Resources Defence Council, said activists were gearing up for legal challenges. He said: ""The president doesn't get to simply rewrite safeguards; they have to... prove the changes are in line with the law and science. I think that's going to be a high hurdle for them."" Any legal challenges would dovetail with action to win over public opinion. Jeremy Symons, of the Environmental Defence Fund, told Associated Press: ""In terms of the big picture, our strategy is simple: shine a spotlight on what is going on and mobilise the public against these rollbacks."" But Mr Trump's move does have supporters. US Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue said: ""These executive actions are a welcome departure from the previous administration's strategy of making energy more expensive through costly, job-killing regulations that choked our economy."" Mr Trump's Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than half a dozen measures enacted by his predecessor. Although during his election campaign he also vowed to pull the US out of the Paris climate deal agreed in December 2015, he has not spelled out the US intentions. Whatever the US chooses, the EU, India and China say they will stick to their pledges made in Paris. On Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said: ""No matter how other countries' policies change, as a responsible large developing country, China's resolve, aims and policy moves in dealing with climate change will not.""",Opponents of President Donald Trump 's decision to scrap his predecessor 's climate change policies say they will @placeholder a public campaign and pursue legal avenues to challenge it .,receive,organise,resemble,conduct,deliver,1
"It was in a London office above the Fleet River in March 1977 that Judge Dredd was born. Outside, the punk scene was at its height. The Sex Pistols and The Clash were storming the charts and young comic readers now had a similar anti-hero to cheer. Drawing on a perceived increase in right wing politics, and inspired by the 1971 film Dirty Harry, Dredd was a no-nonsense 21st Century lawman. He patrolled over a hugely over-populated metropolis in an extremely right wing North America. ""It took the irreverence of punk and put it into hard-edged adventures,"" says current artist Matt Brooker, who works under the name D'Israeli. ""It was pointing out the emperor's got no clothes, and pulling down the trousers of authority."" In Dredd's first ever appearance in the comic 2000 AD, he tackled a gang of killers who had been ambushing his comrades. His response? He casually shot two of the men dead and - after punching the third in the face - gave him a life sentence on the spot. Dredd's unbending, unsentimental approach satirised right wing approaches to law enforcement, while also injecting a large dollop of humour. Instead of being sent to prison, the criminal was marooned on an extremely busy traffic island with no hope of escape. ""There was no way I was going to approve of a fascist cop,"" original editor Pat Mills insists. ""It had to have a satire, so it wasn't saying we were approving of this guy."" The character was created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. Covered head-to-toe in body armour, his face has never been shown in 40 years, remaining concealed beneath a mask. With the combined powers of a police officer and judge, he hands out sentences for everything from littering to murder, with the result that sympathetic characters are often unfairly treated. But Dredd lives in Mega-City One, a chaotic and crime-ridden city which the writers treated as a character itself. ""Mega-City One had 800 million inhabitants, which would be a major job for any police force to look after, so it was an excuse for the judges to be like that,"" says Alan Grant, one of the strip's early writers. ""He was a heroic fascist cop who had no sense of humour himself, but the stories were liberally laced with humour."" ""It was largely anti-authority, and that was what drew me to it, because I've always had a strong bias against authority,"" he adds. ""We tried to mix fascism with black humour. It paid off in terms of reader loyalty. ""We ran a survey and asked 'Do you think Dredd's too heavy-handed?' and 90% of readers said he wasn't heavy-handed enough, so we went with that. ""He's a very, very right wing policeman, in a very, very right wing society."" A playground in which to conceive outrageous scenarios, Mega-City One featured fashion-conscious citizens deliberately making themselves ugly via plastic surgery, while others were gigantically obese, only able to get around on wheels. Meanwhile the city's massive and violent housing blocks were often named incongruously, after people like Enid Blyton, Frank Zappa, or Betty Crocker. According to Dan Abnett, who has worked on the comic since the 1990s, writing it is a ""tricky balance"". ""There's a very fine line to walk between making it very action-orientated and exciting, but also to retain the essential satire. ""The greatest stories over the years have acknowledged the mockery of American society and excess."" Dredd's adventures are now overseen from the Oxford-based computer games company Rebellion, which took over the publication in - appropriately - the year 2000. Current editor Matt Smith says writers were ""looking at news reports, coming up with a satirical version, and transplanting it into the future"". ""Dredd is part of a totalitarian system in which democracy has been sidelined for the sake of order and rule,"" he adds. ""He's the villain in lots of ways. But he's the guy you want on your side when the criminals turn up, so he's very complex, and that makes it an interesting strip to read, and is part of its success."" The makers of 2000 AD, the comic anthology where Judge Dredd strips appear, have got several predictions right. One of their most notable was casting a certain TV reality star as a future president. As editor Matt Smith explains, the world of the story in question, published in 2011 as The Day the Zombo Died, was ""run by this rubbish government getting everything wrong"". A ruthless President Trump is seen firing members of his staff, similar to the contestants on his hit show The Apprentice. ""That's 2000 AD picking cultural figures and lampooning them, not realising how close to the bone it would end up being,"" Smith concludes. Dredd's success later resulted in him getting his own comic, Judge Dredd Megazine, as well as spin-off computer games, books, newspaper strips, and even Royal Mail stamps. He also made it to the big screen, with portrayals by Sylvester Stallone in 1995 and Karl Urban in 2012. But while weighty themes of law and order, and the freedom of the individual, chimed with readers when sprinkled with absurdity, neither film set the box office alight. Grant thinks it's because the world has become ""more and more Judge Dredd-like"". ""When you see riot police they look like Dredd - anonymous, behind helmets, hard to attack behind riot shields, and with the heaviest duty weapons for fighting back,"" he says. ""It's horrible to think you're predicting the future, when all you meant to do was write a funny story. To see it playing out in reality is a shock."" Smith says Dredd has ""become a shorthand for harsh law enforcement, so it's become a very important strip in that sense"". ""Modern cops in certain countries actually look scarier than Dredd,"" Mills adds. ""The future has not only caught up with us - 2000 AD's world is a little safe compared to the harsh reality."" Several 2000 AD writers and artists have gone on to success in the comics and film industry: Brian Bolland - Batman: The Killing Joke, Wonder Woman Steve Dillon - Hellblazer, Preacher, The Punisher Neil Gaiman - American Gods, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Neverwhere, The Sandman, Stardust Dave Gibbons - Green Lantern, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Watchmen Mark Millar - The Authority, Kick Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Marvel: Civil War, The Ultimates, Wanted Alan Moore - Batman: The Killing Joke, From Hell , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta, Watchmen Grant Morrison - All-Star Superman, Batman, New X-Men Frank Quitely - All-Star Superman, The Authority, New X-Men John Wagner - Batman, Doctor Who, A History of Violence","Grim , gun-toting lawman Judge Dredd was launched on the comic stands in 1977 . Now aged 40 , the character 's satirical take on authoritarian @placeholder is as relevant now as ever , argue his writers .",history,mountain,politics,attitudes,night,3
"The Swedish-based music platform said subscription payers were not included in the small trial. Those whose accounts are affected are able to opt out via the settings. Spotify has more than 140 million active users but continues to operate at a loss. It recently revealed that while it had revenues of more than 2.9bn euros (£2.6bn) in 2016, it reported a net loss of 539.2m euros (£471.6m). ""This is not the silver bullet but instead part of what will be a multi-faceted answer to Spotify's margin woes,"" said Mark Mulligan, managing director of Midia research. ""In a broader context, this may presage a wider strategy similar to that of Facebook's, whereby it effectively starts charging artists and labels for access to fans."" Spotify is considering becoming a public company and listing on the stock market. It says it has more than 50 million subscribers, who can access its library of 30 million tracks without advertising. The monthly subscription is currently £9.99 in the UK, $9.99 in the US and 9.99 euros in France. The company operates in 60 countries. ""We are always testing new promotional tools that deliver the highest relevancy to our users,"" Spotify said in a statement.",Spotify has confirmed it is experimenting with allowing music labels to promote songs by adding them to users ' playlists as sponsored @placeholder .,organisation,content,show,turbulence,night,1
"Health watchdog Monitor has appointed an ""improvement director"" to work with Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. It comes after an inquiry was ordered in the wake of Connor Sparrowhawk's death while in Southern Health's care. An emergency board meeting was held on Monday after the inquiry showed the trust failed to investigate his and other deaths. The trust has apologised for failings and said systems have improved. Monitor said the trust would now receive ""expert support to improve the way it investigates and reports deaths"" of people with learning disabilities. Mazars, an audit firm, published a report on Southern Health in December which said the deaths of mental health and learning-disability patients were not properly examined between April 2011 and March 2015. It blamed a ""failure of leadership"" at the foundation trust. The report was ordered in 2013 after Connor, 18, drowned in a bath following an epileptic seizure while a patient in a Southern Health hospital in Oxford. An independent inquiry said his death had been preventable, and an inquest jury found neglect by the trust had contributed to his death. Monitor said when investigating, the trust also failed to engage properly with families. The foundation trust covers Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and provides mental health services to about 45,000 people. Monitor has taken regulatory action and the trust has agreed to implement changes. Katrina Percy, chief executive of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, said: ""We have agreed with Monitor that we will take a number of steps to show how we are improving. ""These are implement the recommendations of the Mazars report through a comprehensive action plan, get assurance from independent experts on this action plan and work with an improvement director appointed by Monitor.""",A health trust that failed to properly investigate hundreds of deaths is to be @placeholder by an external expert .,targeted,replaced,backed,affected,monitored,4
"Crowds of people chanting and setting fire to bins gathered in Gwilliam Court, in Monkton, Pembrokeshire, at about 21:30 BST on Tuesday. Police were called and took two people from a property before the disturbance ended six hours later. On Wednesday, about 100 protesters gathered outside a council office. The crowd outside the office in Argyle Street, Pembroke Dock, were shouting and chanting about the situation in Monkton, with some saying they were not leaving until they had answers. Dyfed-Powys Police said officers were present and ""engaging with the community about their concerns"". It comes after the overnight protest on the housing estate. Police issued members of the 100-strong crowd with dispersal orders and the incident ended at about 03:00 BST on Wednesday. Nobody was arrested or injured. Dyfed-Powys Police said it received additional help from South Wales Police and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Team. Officers remained at Gwilliam Court on Wednesday and extra patrols are being carried out in the area to reassure people. Pearl Llewellyn, a local councillor, said she would contact the housing office. ""They'll be made aware of it,"" she said. A Dyfed-Powys Police spokeswoman confirmed the force was ""liaising with Pembrokeshire County Council housing officers, and the concerns voiced by the community during the incident will be raised with them"". Pembrokeshire council said it was aware of the incident on the council estate. ""Housing officers from Pembrokeshire County Council attended the scene at the request of police,"" a spokesman said.",Angry protesters staged a six - hour demonstration through the night after concerns a convicted criminal was @placeholder in their community .,present,engulfed,living,destroyed,found,2
"The conglomerate accused him of causing ""irreparable harm and damage"" by making sensitive documents public at a companies' dispute hearing last week. These included the minutes of board meetings, financial information and data. Mr Mistry has been in a public spat with Tata since he was sacked in October. Last week, he filed a petition with India's National Companies Law Tribunal - which deals with corporate grievances - accusing Tata of mismanagement and shareholder oppression. But Tata alleged that Mr Mistry ""deliberately"" attached confidential information related to the company to his petition. This was when there was no ""requirement to do so"" and resulted in a ""criminal breach of trust"". In a legal notice to Mr Mistry, seen by Press Trust of India, it said: ""By passing on confidential and sensitive information accessed by you in your capacity as a director of Tata Sons to companies owned and controlled by your family... you have acted in complete violation of your confidentiality undertaking to Tata Sons, your fiduciary duties towards Tata Sons and your obligations under the Tata code of conduct."" It added: ""Such reckless failure on your part... has caused irreparable harm and damage to Tata Sons and Tata Group."" Tata Sons, the holding company behind the $103bn Tata group of companies, now intends to pursue all legal remedies, the notice added. The firm did not respond to a BBC request for comment, while a public relations agency representing Mr Mistry said it had no comment, Reuters reported. Tata's board sacked Mr Mistry in October after becoming unhappy with the direction in which he was taking the firm. But Mr Mistry alleges he was illegally dismissed and has since been involved in a war of words with his predecessor, Ratan Tata, who has taken interim charge of the company. He has also signalled that he plans to pursue Tata Sons - which he says has violated India's Companies Act - in court, with the aim of replacing its current board or chairman. In December, Mr Mistry resigned all of his remaining Tata directorships, including board positions at Tata Motors, Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals.","India 's Tata Sons is suing its @placeholder chairman , Cyrus Mistry , for breach of confidentiality , media reports say .",own,team,ousted,side,snap,2
"The Welshman was praised for the support he gave team leader Froome when he won his second Le Tour in 2015. Thomas, 29, finished a career-best 15th overall but had been fourth until the 19th stage, where his efforts finally took their toll. ""Last year I was there purely to help Froomey,"" Thomas told BBC Wales Sport. ""I wasn't thinking about my own GC [general classification position] at all, and whatever needed to be done I would just do it straight away with no question. ""This year I'll certainly be able to think, right I can't do too much too early, I'll need to save it and think of myself as well really. ""Obviously that depends on the guys behind me doing their job too, but me being better at the end will be better for Chris too, so it works all round."" Thomas and fellow Welshman Luke Rowe are part of Team Sky's line-up for Australia's Tour Down Under, which starts on 19 January. Cardiff-born Thomas says the six-stage race based around Adelaide is a warm-up for bigger ambitions to come in 2016, which will include the Tour de France and the Rio Olympics. He cut short his 2015 season by a few weeks and had a slightly longer off-season than in previous years following his wedding to long-term girlfriend Sara in October. ""My last race was the Vuelta [Tour of Spain] in mid-September. I certainly had a nice break but I'm really itching and raring to go, get a number back on my jersey and get racing,"" Thomas added. ""I'm pretty relaxed about it. I haven't got too many expectations at the moment. I've got a big March and April block of racing where I want to go well, and then obviously in July for the Tour. ""Being a bit more relaxed into it as well is nice. I can just really race hard and enjoy it, there's not too much pressure to perform.""",Team Sky 's Geraint Thomas has @placeholder a best ever finish as well as supporting Chris Froome at the 2016 Tour de France .,targeted,taken,unveiled,hailed,enjoyed,0
"His Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin reached a new deal on Tuesday but it did not include legacy issues. The Northern Ireland Victims Forum has demanded an apology from politicians over the failure to agree new agencies to investigate the Troubles legacy. Mr Robinson has said it was not the DUP which held up this aspect of the talks. ""There were two essential documents in relation to legacy issues,"" Mr Robinson told the BBC's Inside Politics. ""The Democratic Unionist Party has approved both, so the problem is not with the Democratic Unionist Party. ""So, if apologies are being sought, then they should go and seek those who have difficulties in giving approval to those documents."" Reacting to Mr Robinson's remarks, Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said that ""great difficulty"" had been created by the government's insistence on maintaining a veto over the release of classified information about Troubles incidents. He accused Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers of ""blocking"" access to Troubles documents, including some that had already been in the public domain. He said many victims' families supported the stance that Sinn Féin has taken. ""The families have said very clearly to us 'bad legislation is worse than no legislation at all',"" Mr Kelly said. ""We need to get this right."" However, Ms Villiers has defended the government's position on disclosure of information about Troubles incidents, citing national security concerns. ""We want families to have as much information as possible but there is a certain amount of sensitive information which, if it was publicly known, would potentially give assistance to terrorists and we simply couldn't compromise on that,"" she said. The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) said it has urged the secretary of state to publish the government's latest draft of the Legacy Bill ""to inform victims, survivors and the wider public of what was being proposed"" during the talks. Peter Robinson's interview will be broadcast as part of Inside Politics on BBC Radio Ulster at 18:05 GMT on Friday 20 November, and will be repeated at 13:35 on Saturday 21 November.","Key documents on the legacy of the Troubles , discussed at recent talks , should be published so victims ' @placeholder can read them , Peter Robinson has said .",unit,body,groups,phones,material,2
"It happened in Bedford Street between 03:40 GMT and 04:00 GMT last Sunday. The man, who is a foreign national, was taken to hospital but his injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Police have said the attacker is in his early 30s, of slim build and around 5'11"" tall. He was wearing dark clothing and was armed with what police have said was a sharp object. Police are appealing for witnesses.",A man in his 40s has been @placeholder in Belfast city centre in what police have said was a racially motivated hate crime .,charged,identified,detained,handed,assaulted,4
"According to Gospel accounts, The Last Supper is the final meal that Jesus shared with his Apostles before his crucifixion. For centuries, it has been the subject of artistic interpretation, most famously by Leonardo da Vinci in his 15th Century mural. Now Iain Campbell, artist-in-residence at Glasgow's St George's Tron, Church of Scotland, has created a new Glaswegian version of the Last Supper featuring men who find themselves in difficult financial or personal circumstances. It was commissioned as part of a social enterprise project between the church and Glasgow City Mission to run a cafe in the church. The artist began his oil painting in September and has been working on it since in full public view. He says his previous work featured politicians Nicola Sturgeon, Ruth Davidson and Johann Lamont and he had wondered whether his Last Supper should feature well-known faces. However, he decided to use real people to highlight the work of the City Mission. Mr Campbell says: ""Painting this in public, folks continually came up to me to chat about it. ""Again and again they said they were surprised that they look like real people rather than some idealised version of the Last Supper. ""There's a sense that there is some real raw stories behind the faces in the painting."" Mr Campbell adds: ""We decided to call the painting Our Last Supper. It was based on something one of the guys had said to me. ""He said: 'I suppose for any one of us this might be our last supper.'"" John Wallace is one of the men featured in the painting. He was unemployed and finding life tough when the project started. He says: ""A couple of bits of depression and things like that, problems getting the better of you. ""Most of the gentlemen at this table have all come from the same sort of background. So you are not on your self."" John says he values the support and friendship of the City Mission and life for him is looking up. He is picking up work in restaurant kitchens and has moved into his own place. Arthur Curtis, who is featured in the foreground of the painting, says: ""Could it be you that it could happen to? ""Could it be someone you know that it could happen to? ""You've just got to face up to it."" Arthur says he hopes people will pop in for a coffee and enjoy a piece of art that focuses on those so often pushed to the margins of society. The Reverend Alastair Duncan, minister of the St George's Tron, says: ""One of the questions Iain was often asked was 'Who is Jesus in the painting?'. ""He would quote the parable of the sheep and the goats which Jesus told in Matthew's gospel in the context of which he said 'whatever you do for the least of these you do for me'."" The minister added: ""The people who Glasgow City Mission supports may be in hostel accommodation, may have their own place or may be genuinely homeless but they are people who in some ways have been vulnerable or are finding a way out of that. ""They just need that consistency of care and support for them whatever stage they are in.""","A modern take on the Last Supper has been @placeholder by a city centre church , featuring men from Glasgow 's City Mission - a Christian charity which cares for vulnerable adults by fighting against poverty and disadvantage .",given,unveiled,named,praised,criticised,1
"That's why many companies are steering their attention away from our waking hours and instead focusing on the mostly untouched world of sleep. Several apps and fitness trackers already keep tabs on how we move around in bed, but one noticeable trend at this year's CES in Las Vegas was just how many innovations promised to help you get a good night's kip - or at least find out why you're feeling tired. One such company, Sleep Number, takes it very seriously. Its $8,000 (£4,800) ""superbed"" - launched at the show - is loaded with monitoring technology, all of which reports back to a tablet app that can be reviewed in daylight hours. Firstly, it monitors the entire body's movements - an advantage over basic fitness trackers that are limited to movements of the wrist, or to wherever the device is attached. Secondly, it can work out who's who on the bed, so if one person has had a sleepless night, the app will work out if it was the fault of the fidgety person next to them. If necessary, it can alter the firmness of the bed on just one side, helping one person be more comfortable without disturbing the other. And another feature, likely to delight long-suffering partners the world over, is the bed's claimed ability to help stop snoring. By gently moving the snorer up and down the bed opens their airways without interrupting their slumber. It's a 2014 upgrade, you could say, to a friendly shove or holding of the nose. ""Too much lately we don't get enough sleep,"" says Pete Bils from Sleep Number. ""That places a premium on the quality of sleep that we get."" That's a point of view shared by many here who think the way to feel better rested in the modern age is not to just get to bed earlier, as your mother would tell you, but to sleep smarter, making the most of the time you have between the sheets. For instance, one conference attendee - who didn't want to be named for fear of being told off - said his girlfriend regularly had trouble sleeping. By Leo KelionTechnology reporter Studies suggest humans and other creatures follow what is known as a circadian rhythm - a 24-hour biological cycle involving cell regeneration, urine production and other functions critical to health. Research indicates that it is regulated by a group of cells in a portion of the brain called the hypothalamus which respond to light information sent by the eye's optic nerve, which in turn controls hormones, body temperature and other functions that influence whether people feel sleepy or wide awake. When the eye sees blue light it stimulates melanopsin - a pigment found in cells in the eye's retina which send nerve impulses to parts of the brain thought to make a person feel alert. Blue light is also believed to suppress melatonin - a hormone made by the brain's pineal gland which makes a person feel sleepy when its levels rise in their blood. By switching from blue to red light - via an intermediary white or yellow stage - this process should be reversed, encouraging a feeling of sleepiness. Whether or not the latest consumer electronics that attempt to piggyback on this research actually make much difference to their owners' sleep is still open to question. The problem, they later found thanks to a sleep tracking device, was that she was going to bed too early and becoming unnecessarily restless during the night. The point is, argue the backers of this technology, we historically haven't paid much attention to how we sleep, beyond what time we get in, and what time we get up. ""You spend about a third of your life in bed,"" says Alain Amador, from Withings. The French company is showing off its own sleep monitor technology, the Aura, this week. ""As of now we've only done tracking, but nothing to help you go to sleep and wake up."" Withings' product centres on a special, and very colourful, lamp. If you want to go to sleep, it plays some relaxing noises and emits a soft, red light into the room. The colour is, Withings says, scientifically proven to stimulate the release of melatonin, a hormone which brings on a feeling of sleepiness. In the morning, a blue light has the opposite effect - suppressing melatonin and encouraging us to wake up and be more alert. A sensor pad placed under the mattress means the Aura is also taking note of when you're moving around the most, so that it can wake you up when you're not in deep sleep. That means, in theory, you get out of bed in less of a jarred, grumpy mood. There's about a dozen technologies at CES that deal specifically with issues around sleep, giving the whole affair the whiff of a bandwagon or fad. SleepPhones offers a music-playing headband, described as ""pyjamas for your ears"", while Lighting Science's Good Night light bulb apparently filters out the light waves that ""get in melatonin's way"". But Gartner analyst Brian Blau says the products should perhaps be given more credit for solving a long-neglected problem suffered by many. ""In the medical field, to diagnose your sleep problems you need to go to a special facility and be there for multiple nights,"" he says. ""So, maybe these consumer sleep products can help people with issues they have."" What next? If technology means we're out-for-the-count quicker and better than ever before, what else can gadgetry bring? Remee - not on show at CES - leads the pack with its sleep mask that it says increases the frequency of lucid dreams - dreams where you're aware you are dreaming. Six tiny LEDs shine into the wearer's eyes, not enough to wake them up, but to increase alertness ever so slightly, enough to trigger lucidity. It could pave the way for controlling our dreams, and the things we see in them. Whatever the technology, though, it can't stop one grim inevitability: you have to drag yourself out of bed eventually. Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC.","In our hyper - connected world , in which dinners are interrupted by smartphones , and where 75 % of us ( one study says ) check our @placeholder while on the loo , you can see why it 's hard for manufacturers to find a gap in the market .",goods,earth,tables,messages,neighbours,3
"The facility, built on the site of the Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre in Norton, includes swimming pools, tennis courts and fitness studios. The centre, run by Places for People Leisure, also houses one of three hubs of the UK's National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine. Physiotherapists and doctors will be based in its consultation and treatment rooms. A gymnastics and trampolining centre at the site, re-named the Graves Health and Sports Centre, remains under construction. Councillor Mary Lea, Sheffield City Council's cabinet member for culture, parks and leisure, said the site would put ""public health and sport together"". ""It's a massive building with fantastic facilities - it's everything the local community and Sheffield needs,"" she said.",A @placeholder £ 16 m health and leisure centre has opened in Sheffield .,transform,refurbished,proposed,combined,pioneering,1
"Taib Fassi Fihri met Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi and said Morocco wants to re-join the AU without any preconditions. Morocco claims Western Sahara as part of its territory, much of which it has occupied since 1975. But the AU recognises Western Sahara as an independent state. Africa Live: More on this and other news stories Inside world's most remote film festival Morocco is the only African country not to be an AU member. The AU, however, says it will continue pushing for the rights of Western Sahara to hold a referendum on its self-determination. Brahim Ghali, the new leader of the North African territory is expected to attend the African Union summit in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, according to the AU's deputy chairperson Erastus Mwencha. Mr Ghali was elected the Western Sahara president and secretary-general of the independence movement Polisario Front on 9 July. He replaced long-time leader Mohamed Abdelaziz who died in May.",Morocco has sent a special envoy to lobby African leaders to @placeholder the African Union 32 years after it left in a row over Western Sahara .,unite,support,replace,avoid,rejoin,4
"The president of Family Division of the High Court said there would be ""blood on our hands"" if the 17-year-old did not now receive adequate supervision. She is due to be released in 11 days, but a secure unit place has not yet been found for her - a situation Sir James Munby said was ""utterly shaming"". NHS sources later indicated that three possible beds had been found. Dr Mike Prentice, medical director for the NHS North Region, said: ""A number of options have now been identified, with detailed clinical and social assessments taking place tomorrow (Friday) to ensure the right package of care can be put in place before her release date."" The girl, identified only as ""X"", has tried to kill herself several times. The judgement in the case of X - who is in the formal care of Cumbria County Council - revealed she was convicted at a youth court and has been detained in custody for almost six months. Sir James had previously noted the ""enormity of the task facing the local authority"" but stressed that the need for a final care plan was ""overwhelming"". During the latest hearing in July, he emphasised this need further, adding: ""On a large number of occasions... X has made determined attempts to commit suicide"". Staff at the unit where she is being held have said sending her back to her home town would be a ""suicide mission to a catastrophic level"". The judgement said: ""Staff do not think it will take more than 24 to 48 hours before they receive a phone call stating that X has made a successful attempt on her life."" An earlier ruling heard how unit staff had witnessed ""a profoundly disturbing and distressing scene when X self-harmed by repeatedly banging her head and face against the wall"". Staff have said she has to be checked every 50 seconds when she is in the shower. Earlier, Simon Rowbotham, the solicitor for the legal guardian of the teenage girl, told the BBC that X has a ""determined wish"" to kill herself and lives in a stripped-down room and is restrained ""for hours on end"". By Mark Easton, home editor, BBC News The problem of providing suitable services for disturbed children and young people has been flagged up to ministers before. Two months ago, after complaints from police that cells were being used to accommodate youngsters who should have been in a mental health unit, the government introduced a law banning their use for such purposes. Doctors are warning there is still a critical shortage of appropriate care beds. A survey of child and adolescent mental health workers, conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2015, found 62% had seen adolescent patients held in inappropriate settings, with 14% saying patients had attempted to kill themselves while waiting for a suitable bed. The prime minister has promised a ""revolution"" in mental health care, and the number of mental health staff in the NHS in England is rising by 21,000. But the agonies of a judge unable to help a suicidal young woman suggest the revolution still has some way to go. When X was younger, she ""was a child with poor school attendance, low-level criminality and periods of absconding"", a previous judgement said. In Sir James' judgement, delivered in private in the High Court family division sitting in Manchester, he said: ""If this is the best we can do for X, and others in similar crisis, what right do we, what right do the system, our society and indeed the State itself, have to call ourselves civilised? ""The honest answer to this question should make us all feel ashamed."" He went on: ""I feel shame and embarrassment; shame, as a human being, as a citizen and as an agent of the State, embarrassment as President of the Family Division, and, as such, Head of Family Justice, that I can do no more for X"". Liberal Democrat former health minister Norman Lamb told the BBC that the judgement reflected a ""wholly unacceptable situation in our country"". ""This is not a unique case, families are being let down routinely across our country and there is a moral imperative that we address this as a matter of real urgency,"" he said. By Philippa Roxby, health reporter, BBC News There are about 1,440 hospital beds for children and young people with mental health problems in the NHS in England. But a recent review found that they were not evenly spread across the country - for example, some areas had no in-patient beds within a 50-mile radius. The picture is also complicated by who those beds are for - some are in specialist units for children with eating disorders, others are in high dependency units for young people with complex needs. And there are many more specialist beds than high dependency ones. This means that children and their families often travel large distances to access in-patient treatment. NHS England says it wants to change this by increasing the number of beds in badly-served parts of the country and by offering crisis help to children and young people in the community, at an earlier stage. Mr Lamb said if investment was not made up front in the NHS, families would continue to be let down. ""The real problem is that the whole of the finances of the NHS are under such strain that the government's fine words about recruiting extra staff won't be delivered, because the money won't get through to mental health. ""Mental health always loses out whenever the money is tight and I fear that that will be the same again this time."" Earlier this week, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that thousands more mental health workers were to be recruited by the NHS in England. The government said an extra £1bn already promised for mental health services in England would fund the scheme - part of a pot of £1.3bn committed in 2016 to transform provision. The judge said copies of the ruling would be sent to the chief executive officer of NHS England Simon Stevens, Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Education Secretary Justine Greening and Justice Secretary David Lidington. Labour MP Luciana Berger, who previously served as shadow minister for mental health, tweeted that it was a ""devastating"" judgement, while Conservative MP and former children's minister Tim Loughton said it was ""worrying"". End of Twitter post  by @lucianaberger End of Twitter post  by @timloughton Professor Wendy Burn, president of The Royal College of Psychiatrists, said some mental healthcare units were ""desperately short"" of suitable beds. She said the college urged the government in 2015 to prioritise investment in crisis care services for children and young people. It had also called on NHS England, clinical commissioning groups and social services to ensure emergency care pathways were in place. ""It's alarming to see that two years later, children are still not getting the support they need,"" Prof Burn said.","Society should be "" ashamed "" for not @placeholder a suicidal girl in secure custody , a senior judge has said .",taking,forming,protecting,chasing,violating,2
"We invited you to choose from the three suggestions which cropped up the most to tell us which you would most like us to look into. The ranking has now closed and the most popular idea was: ""Build multi-storey car parks."" We will now investigate this idea and publish our findings on the BBC News Oxford section of the website.",We 've been asking you to @placeholder in ideas of how to solve parking problems at Oxford 's John Radcliffe hospital .,invest,speak,send,participate,share,2
"The officials were banned by the CFA on 18 February following a three-year push to clean up corruption, with some of the offences stretching back 20 years. The CFA banned 33 officials for life, with 25 more receiving five-year bans. Fifa said: ""The CFA has emphasised its on-going commitment to stamping out all forms of match-fixing and corruption."" China's Xinhua news agency reported last week that the 58 officials included two former football chiefs who were jailed in June for accepting bribes. Nan Yong, the former head of Chinese football, was sentenced to 10 and a half years for taking bribes worth more than 1.48 million yuan (£157,000), while his predecessor Xie Yalong received an identical sentence and was fined 200,000 yuan (£21,200). Former CFA deputy head Yang Yimin and World Cup referee Lu Jun, once hailed as China's ""Golden Whistle"", were also among the 33 banned from football for life. Four former Chinese national team players, Shen Si, Qi Hong, Jiang Jin and Li Ming, were jailed for up to six years in June for match-fixing.",Match - fixing bans for 58 football officials @placeholder out by the Chinese Football Association ( CFA ) have been extended worldwide by Fifa .,set,singled,washed,handed,broken,3
"Ciarán Maxwell, 31, appeared via video link at the Old Bailey in London. He was arrested in Somerset last August after the discovery of two dissident republican arms dumps near Larne, County Antrim. He also pleaded guilty to drugs and fraud charges. Maxwell admitted assisting another to commit acts of terrorism between 2011 and 2016. He appeared via videolink from Woodhill Prison near Milton Keynes; he spoke only to confirm his name and enter guilty pleas to all the charges. The marine was remanded in custody, and is to be sentenced at a later date. Ciarán Maxwell was brought up in Larne's Seacourt estate - he began the rigorous training to become a Royal Marine in 2010. His Facebook page featured pictures of exercises in Britain and abroad. But the charge suggests he was involved in terrorism from 2011, before he'd even finished that training.  The 31-year-old has a partner and child. What influenced him to turn terrorist may never be known but his case could prompt a review of vetting procedures. It also raises questions over how he was able to take anti-personnel mines from his base in Somerset to Northern Ireland. It is understood Ciarán Maxwell has cooperated with police since his arrest and this along with his guilty plea will be taken into account when it comes to sentencing. The defendant had no previous criminal record but he had made the headlines before. In 2002 republican paper An Phoblacht reported that he had been the subject of an unprovoked attack by a group of loyalists near his home in Larne.  Maxwell, who is originally from Larne, County Antrim, was based with 40 Commando in Somerset. According to the charge details, he had a stash of explosives in purpose-built hides in England and Northern Ireland. He compiled a library of terrorism documents, including instructions on how to make explosives and tactics used by terrorist organisations. He also had maps, plans and lists of potential targets for a terrorist, as well as images of an adapted Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) pass card and a PSNI uniform. He bought chemicals and components and went on to manufacture explosives and devices, the court heard. Last March, police said bomb-making parts had been found in barrels hidden in a wooded area in Carnfunnock County Park in County Antrim. Two months later another ""terrorist hide"" was found in Capanagh Forest, also near Larne. Police described it as one of the most significant arms finds in recent years. Of particular concern to security chiefs was the discovery of military grade anti-personnel mines. Their serial numbers revealed they had been taken from the Royal Marines base in Somerset where Ciarán Maxwell was based. Court papers revealed that 12 hides were discovered in total. Ciarán Maxwell: Full list of charges Cdr Dean Haydon of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command said the investigation had resulted in a ""significant disruption and protected public safety by removing a large quantity of dangerous material from circulation."" PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin said the case highlighted the benefits of ""excellent collaborative working"" between the PSNI, the Metropolitan Police and other agencies. ""Working together, we have disrupted the activity of a dangerous individual and removed a very significant threat,"" he added.","A Royal Marine from Northern Ireland has pleaded guilty to offences related to dissident republican terrorism , including bomb-making and storing @placeholder military weapons .",dummy,storing,showing,suspected,stolen,4
"The Spaniard, 24, joined from Atletico Madrid for £15.5m on a four-year deal in the summer, but has scored only once in 13 Premier League appearances. Swansea could also see Jordan Ayew arrive from Aston Villa in a swap deal involving Wales defender Neil Taylor. Paul Clement's side host Southampton in the Premier League on Tuesday.",La Liga club Villarreal want Swansea City 's @placeholder signing Borja Baston with the clubs in talks over a possible loan move .,start,record,trio,home,future,1
"Local man, Joe McMinn, 28, was discovered in an area known as Devil's Den, near Goodwyns housing estate in Dorking, in the early hours of Easter Monday. Richard Taylor, 21, of no fixed address, is due to appear at Guildford Magistrates Court later. A post-mortem found Mr McMinn died of multiple stab wounds.",A man has been charged with murder after a body was found in a woodland @placeholder in Surrey .,stream,fire,clearing,tent,chest,0
"Saleh Ahmed, from Balsall Heath, Birmingham, gets a cab to New Street Station every day on his way to work in Worcester. He said he had been left feeling humiliated by the rejections. Taxis are obliged to take people with guide dogs. Uber said it had barred the drivers involved. Mr Ahmed said the latest refusals happened on Monday. ""I gave the driver a ring and explained I have a guide dog,"" he said. ""He instantly cancelled the ride and I was charged a cancellation fee. ""I was refused four times by Uber that night. One of the drivers did turn up, but drove off when he saw the dog. ""It's really disappointing. This has happened to me at least 14 times. It makes me feels humiliated. ""It stresses me out just to know that I can't book a taxi like everybody else does to get from A to B."" Uber said it was ""totally unacceptable"" for drivers to refuse to take a guide dog. ""Licensed private hire drivers must carry service animals in their vehicle and we remind all drivers of this legal obligation before they start using the Uber app,"" it said in a statement. ""Any driver who is found to have refused to take a service animal will permanently lose access to the Uber app and risks having their private hire licence taken away. ""The two drivers complained about by Mr Ahmed have been barred from using the app and won't be allowed back if the complaint is upheld.""",A partially - @placeholder man says he has repeatedly been refused taxis operated by private hire firm Uber because he travels with a guide dog .,dressed,ridden,disabled,sighted,blind,3
"Some well-known and credible retail heavyweights have drifted into the frame as potential buyers - Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley, Matalan founder John Hargreaves, the family behind Poundstretcher - before drifting out again. These are people with well documented personal fortunes and bags of retailing expertise. By contrast, Richess Group, the leading candidate to save BHS today is thought to be backed by a rich Portugese family about which little is known and fronted by the brother of cricketer Phil Tufnell. Greg Tufnell did spend three years as managing director of Mothercare but hasn't done anything on that scale since stepping down 16 years ago. Understandably, the administrators are less comfortable with this last bid, hence the extended period of due diligence. It is still possible they could take a lower bid from a more familiar face. The outcome is finely balanced. The 11,000 jobs that also hang in the balance are not the first priority of the administrators Duff and Phelps. Their first concern is the people to whom BHS owes money. If they can recover more for the creditors by selling the chain store by store, brick by brick in a liquidation, they are required to take that option. It is not just the staff hoping a deal can be done. Former owners Sir Philip Green and Dominic Chappell will also have their fingers and toes crossed. Both are due to appear before parliamentary committees to answer questions on their role in the collapse of BHS. That will be a very, very uncomfortable place to be if it is against the backdrop of 11,000 redundancies. The story of BHS will live on regardless through investigations by the Insolvency Service, legal action by the administrators against Dominic Chappell and a potential investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. As I've said before in this blog, the cast of characters is worthy of a mini-series. Today they will be hoping for a happy ending.","Later today we should know whether there is another chapter to be @placeholder in the 88 - year history of BHS or whether it is the end of the road . I say "" should "" because this administration process has dragged on longer than many , including me , thought likely .",unveiled,written,named,introduced,held,1
"Edinburgh routes to and from Milngavie and Helensburgh have been disrupted due to fire damage on the railway near Blackridge station. Some trains have been cancelled and other services are starting or terminating in Airdrie or Bathgate. Services between Motherwell and Dalmuir were cancelled due to electrical issues, but resumed at about 11:00. There were also delays between Oban and Glasgow after a car struck a bridge on part of the line. ScotRail said it now had buses operating between Dalmally an Oban. Disruption is expected until 17:00. Information about replacement services for all the affected train routes are available on the ScotRail website. ScotRail said the damage near Blackridge station was caused by a fire which appeared to have been started deliberately at about 22:00 on Wednesday. Detectives from British Transport Police said they were investigating the fire-raising incident, which had caused damage to the track and overhead power lines. DC Niall McGugan said: ""Although this fire was contained very quickly, the damage was extensive and the repair cost will be significant. ""Whilst we are still working to determine exactly what happened, at this time we are working to the presumption that this fire was started deliberately. ""I am very keen to speak with anyone who may have been in the area at this time or saw anyone acting suspiciously. ""Please get in touch as your information may help us investigate.""",Rail commuters in and around Glasgow are facing delays due to vandalism and problems with electricity @placeholder .,crowds,supplies,generation,team,show,1
"The women, Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam and Siti Aisyah from Indonesia, allegedly smeared deadly VX nerve agent on Mr Kim's face in Kuala Lumpur airport on 13 February. They appeared in court near Malaysia's capital, protected by special forces. They could face the death penalty if convicted of murder. No plea was recorded in the magistrates' court as only higher courts have jurisdiction over murder cases. But after the charge was read out, Doan Thi Huong said ""I understand but I am not guilty,"" in English. It is widely believed that North Korea was responsible for the attack, which it fiercely denies. Kim Jong-nam, was openly critical of the North Korean regime. They will appear again on 13 April, when prosecutors will apply for them to be tried jointly in a higher court. The charges were read first against Ms Aisyah, then against Ms Huong, both of whom were in handcuffs. Siti Aisyah's lawyer Gooi Soon Seng asked the court to issue an order banning the police and potential witnesses from making statements that might endanger his client's right to a fair trial. Both women have previously said they were paid to take part in what they thought was a TV prank. Malaysia's chief prosecutor earlier said no decision had yet been taken on whether to charge a North Korean man, Ri Jong Chol, who is also being held over the killing. That ""depends on the outcome of the police investigation, which is still ongoing"",  Mohamed Apandi Ali was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. Other suspects in the killing include a senior official at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur and a staff member of the state airline. South Korea believes at least four suspects are North Korean spies. Kim Jong-nam, 42, was at a check-in desk for a flight to Macau, where he lives, when he was accosted. His face was smeared with the toxic nerve agent VX - an internationally banned chemical weapon - and he died within 15-20 minutes, Malaysia's health minister said on Sunday. North Korea has not confirmed that the person killed was Kim Jong-nam, as he was travelling under a different name. Pyongyang has only said that he was a North Korean travelling on a diplomatic passport. The country also opposed Malaysia conducting an autopsy. A high-level delegation from North Korea, including the country's former deputy ambassador to the UN, Ri Tong-il, arrived in the Malaysian capital on Tuesday. They said they wanted to claim the body and were seeking the release of North Korean suspect Ri Jong Chol. Little is known for definite about Doan Thi Huong and Siti Aisyah except that they had left their homes in different parts of Asia and were trying to make a living in Malaysia. Malaysian police officials described Ms Huong, a 28-year-old from Vietnam, as an ""entertainment outlet employee"" while Ms Siti, 25 from Indonesia, was working in a hotel massage parlour. Ms Huong's Facebook page, in which she posted under the name Ruby Ruby, showed her posing in a number of selfies and glamour shots. There are rumours she once auditioned for Vietnam's version of Pop Idol. Her family said she left her home village in north Vietnam at 17 to study in the capital Hanoi, and had rarely returned home since. They said they were surprised to learn she was in Malaysia. Her stepmother told BBC Vietnamese that the family were fed up with all the attention they had received but were grateful for the support of their neighbours. ""They are sympathetic because they don't understand how a daughter of a family with high moral values like us could become like that,"" Nguyen Thi Vy, 54, said. Siti Aisyah was arrested for the killing along with her 26-year-old Malaysian boyfriend, who was later released on bail. She told the Indonesian embassy officials that she thought she was taking part in a reality TV show, and had been paid 400 Malaysian ringgit ($90; £72) to smear what she thought was baby oil on to Mr Kim's face. Ms Siti was out partying with her friends the night before the killing. A friend, who spoke anonymously, said they had been celebrating her birthday, which had been the day before. Film footage purportedly from the evening shows her talking with friends about becoming an internet star. Ri Jong Chol, 47, is a North Korean who has lived in Malaysia for the last three years. He is in Malaysian detention. The Malaysian boyfriend of Siti Aisyah, Muhammad Farid Jalaluddin, was arrested but police said he would be released on bail. Hyon Kwang Song, 44, second secretary at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur is being sought by police. He is believed to be in the embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Kim Uk Il, 37, is a staff member of North Korea's state airline Air Koryo, and is also believed to still be in Malaysia. Ri Ju U, 30, a North Korean also known as ""James"", has been identified by the women as the man who recruited them. Ri Ji Hyon, 33, a North Korean, is believed to have fled to Pyongyang. Hong Song Hac, 34, a North Korean, is believed to have fled to Pyongyang. O Jong Gil, 55, a North Korean, is believed to have fled to Pyongyang. Ri Jae Nam, 57, a North Korean, is believed to have fled to Pyongyang.","Two women accused of killing Kim Jong - nam , the @placeholder half - brother of North Korea 's leader , have been charged with his murder .",estranged,body,outgoing,drugs,state,0
"They were inadvertently heard on live TV proposing military action at a meeting called by President Mohammed Morsi. Ethiopia last week started diverting the flow of the river in preparation for the $4.2bn hydroelectric dam. The Blue Nile is one of two major tributaries of the Nile. On completion, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam would be Africa's largest. It is expected to produce 6,000 megawatts, and its reservoir is scheduled to start filling next year. As the participants did not know that the meeting was being aired live by state TV, they spoke their minds unreservedly. Their suggestions centred around military action as a decisive response to what one of them called a ""declaration of war"". One of the politicians suggested sending special forces to destroy the dam; another thought of jet fighters to scare the Ethiopians; and a third called for Egypt to support rebel groups fighting the government in Addis Ababa. ""This could yield results in the diplomatic arena,'' liberal politician and former presidential candidate Ayman Nour told the gathering. Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, the leader of the secular Reform and Development party, said the presidency should have warned the participants in advance that the meeting would be broadcast live. ""I am afraid most of the politicians who attended the meeting were not well informed about such a sensitive topic,"" he told the BBC. ""But the statements made during the meeting do not represent the Egyptian official stance. It was just a chat between politicians who were angered by the Ethiopian plans."" A presidential adviser apologised for failing to warn politicians. ""I am sorry for any unintentional embarrassment,"" Bakinam al-Sharqawi said in a statement. Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and highly dependent on the water of the world's longest river. Ethiopia's decision to construct the dam challenges a colonial-era agreement that had given Egypt and Sudan rights to the Nile water, with Egypt taking 55.5 billion cubic metres and Sudan 18.5 billion cubic metres. That agreement, first signed in 1929, took no account of the eight other nations along the 6,700km (4,160-mile) river and its basin. Those countries have been agitating for a decade for a more equitable accord.",Egyptian politicians are embarrassed after being caught suggesting hostile @placeholder against Ethiopia to stop it from building a dam across the Blue Nile .,war,violence,acts,properties,policies,2
"Warning: This story contains spoilers. In addition to all the critical praise, the film is dominating awards season - equalling the all-time record set by Titanic for the most Oscar nominations. But now many moviegoers are coming forward to say - or rather whisper - that they just didn't get it. I was one such moviegoer who was desperate to see it - but left feeling somewhat disappointed. I'm keen to stress I don't think La La Land is a bad movie. Far from it - the songs are catchy and it's beautifully filmed. But after the acres of five-star reviews, I came away feeling it had been somewhat overhyped. Judging by our inbox after the Oscar nominations on Tuesday - there are other film fans who felt the same way. La La Land: Your views ""I could not agree more with those who criticised La La Land - absolutely dreadful film. The direction was immature and the film lacked any pace, leaving aside the fairly abysmal singing and dancing."" - Leslie ""Somehow, I think the critics and the Academy members have been in La La Land. Saw it Sunday and although I didn't hate it I just can't see what all the fuss is about."" - Graham ""Very weak storyline. Music and singing not on a par with any of the great musicals. Just wanted it to end! When will the critics actually be honest about a film? Five star this, five star that... it would barely get a two in my opinion."" - Nigel It's not unusual for the films which float around during awards season to be popular with critics, but less so with the general public. Indeed, there is a school of thought popular with marketing researchers that it is actively necessary for a film to split opinion in order for it to be successful. Oscar Wilde certainly believed that, famously stating: ""There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."" Titanic seemed to prove this theory - despite having an effect on audiences similar to Marmite, it went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time (since beaten by Avatar and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and scooped the Oscar for best picture in 1997. The last musical to win best picture was 2002's Chicago - starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger. I distinctly remember going to see it at the cinema and being bowled over by how good it was. The acting, the editing and the songs all blended together to make an almost-perfect film. The subsequent success of movies such as Mamma Mia and Pitch Perfect prove that audiences are more than willing to go and see musicals on the big screen. But while those films are fairly mainstream, feel-good box office fodder, La La Land has been criticised for not quite delivering what it advertises. In the film's ubiquitous promotional image, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are seen dancing together against a purple skyline. The vibrant colours make it look young, appealing, glamorous. Many of the film's reviews reinforce its image as a Hollywood love story. ""A gorgeously romantic modern-day musical"" is how the i paper described it. But the film is actually far from romantic - lacking the traditional happy ending which would've seen Gosling and Stone's characters end up together. Personally I thought not being predictable is actually one of La La Land's best qualities, I was pleasantly surprised that its ending took an unexpected route. My issue was more that it simply didn't quite live up to the months of build-up and promotion and subsequent awards success - it has already broken the record for the most Golden Globe Awards in history. Of course, a bit of a backlash is inevitable for any pop culture product once its success has gone stratospheric. It is always difficult for any film, album, book or TV show to live up to expectations once it's been so highly praised. If I had gone into the cinema with no expectations, I probably would have come away from it with a better opinion than I did having gone in with such high expectations. When I saw Chicago, I was 15 years old and paid no attention to reviews or hype - and I enjoyed the film so much more as a result. Some film fans have taken issue with the fact that a movie about jazz is fronted by two white actors, while others say the script is weak and that Gosling and Stone's singing talents are questionable. The Spectator's Deborah Ross - one of the few critics to strike a slightly more dissenting note - said the songs had ""lyrics I couldn't make out for the life of me"" - but, as she and most other critics agree, the songs themselves are impossibly catchy. It would be hard to argue La La Land is a bad film - it just doesn't quite do what it says on the tin. My advice to those who haven't seen it would be to ignore the reviews, go in with a clear mind and just enjoy it as a perfectly nice but unspectacular film. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",""" Incredible ! "" "" Glorious ! "" "" Magnificent ! "" - The hype @placeholder La La Land has been difficult to miss .",group,side,revealed,clash,surrounding,4
"They were the cat with nine lives, or 14 to be precise, surviving each time to preserve their precious League status. However, Lady Luck has finally run out of patience with Pools as they tumbled out of League Two on Saturday, thereby ending 96 years of League football. Newport County's dramatic late win over Notts County meant Hartlepool's fine final-day victory over Doncaster counted for nothing. BBC Sport looks at the factors behind their decline. On a hot, late May day in Cardiff in 2005, one half of the Millennium Stadium dared to dream. Hartlepool United were just 19 minutes away from a place in the Championship after substitute Jon Daly - with his first touch - headed a Gavin Strachan free-kick past Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper David Lucas in the League One play-off final. Wednesday, backed by 40,000 fans from the Steel City, eventually battled back level to take the game to extra time - during which they overpowered Pools. Amid the pride, there were tears. Pools had been so near but so far from clambering into the second tier for the first time. That was arguably the biggest game in the lifespan of Hartlepool until Saturday, when even a win over title-chasing Doncaster could not save them. What happened in those 12 years? If science was applied to the running of a football club, then most likely there would be an equation which said thus: High turnover of managers = Lack of success. There are plenty of case studies, notably at Sunderland - a short hop on the A19 away - where relegation has also finally caught up with the club after consecutive great escapes that followed year-on-year changes at the top. Hartlepool share more than geographical proximity with their more illustrious neighbours. The town was named among the most ""dangerous"" places to manage by a BBC feature in November last year - and that was before the departure of Dave Jones with two games to go and Craig Hignett's exit in January. Since Danny Wilson departed in December 2008, Pools have rattled through nine different permanent managers. Only Paul Murray's 14.3% and Neale Cooper's second spell 17.1% win ratios were worse records than Jones' 22.2% success rate. Former chairman Ken Hodcroft may not have been the fans' favourite by the end of 18 years at the helm of Hartlepool, but he oversaw a prudent business where every penny was accounted for. He was a private man, with a Late Kick-Off interview with the BBC in 2012 one of the rare occasions he was filmed and placed in the spotlight. Hodcroft's successor Gary Coxall arrived as chairman in June 2015 to bring that term to an end, as his JPNG company took over at Victoria Park. His first interview with the BBC promised investment, not taking money from the club. However, Pools' financial status has been a constant concern, with three winding-up petitions issued this season and the late payment of wages. While Coxall has been open with supporters, right up to his own departure with a game to play on the basis it would ""unite fans"" split by his tenure, results on and off the field led to the most disappointing period in Pools' history. Finance director and replacement chairperson Pam Duxbury's job now will be to pick up the pieces, a task she has already started in the shape of dialogue with the Supporters' Trust about fan involvement in future plans. Nick Loughlin, Northern Echo reporter and summariser on BBC Tees at away matches ""It's a big culmination of factors. The biggest finger of blame over the past year has to go to Gary Coxall and Dave Jones. ""Gary came in with promises, high hopes and ambitions but it's been two years of decline. He has left the club in a worse position. ""He took over from Increased Oil Recovery (IOR) - a stable and very safe pair of hands who looked after club superbly over the past 20 years. The past two years have seen winding-up petitions and financial troubles. ""It was a disaster under Dave Jones; a manager of his calibre and CV should not have taken 13 points from 51. His tactics were terrible and man-management was non existent. It did not work one iota at Hartlepool. ""The club has to stay full-time. You look at the amount of former EFL clubs in the National League that are floundering. York are a prime example of what can happen. It's about getting back in the Football League as quickly as possible."" Formed in 1908 and entered into the Football League in 1921, there was little major to cheer for Hartlepool United until the late 1950s, when the long-serving Fred Westgarth took the club to the heady heights of second place in Division Three North in 1957. Promotion was missed as only champions Derby clambered out, and struggling seasons of re-elections followed until retired former England international Brian Clough, who went on to win two European Cups with Nottingham Forest, arrived as manager in 1965. Clough and trusted ally Peter Taylor laid foundations for promotion - even taking on handyman jobs around the ground - an achievement that was completed after the pair had departed for Derby County. Gus McLean continued their work to complete the job but it was a temporary stay and Pools were back in the old Division Four within 12 months. Much of their time since has been spent in the basement division - barring a few promotion highs in 1991, 2003 and 2007 - and recent struggles have brought back sad memories for older fans.","Before promotion and relegation were @placeholder between the Football League and non-league in 1986 , no club had to re-apply for re-election on more occasions than Hartlepool United .",deemed,dealt,seized,decided,introduced,4
"The victim, a 36-year-old man, required surgery after the attack at The Bridge club in Hythe Bridge Street on Saturday at about 02:20 BST. Thames Valley Police has released a CCTV image of someone who might have witnessed the incident. The suspect, from Abingdon, has been released under investigation. Det Con James Macaro said: ""If you are the man in the image or if you know who he is please contact police as soon as possible.""",A 25 - year - old man has been arrested on suspicion of GBH after someone was @placeholder on the face in a nightclub in Oxford .,knocked,struck,dumped,bitten,shot,3
"The reconstruction of the event 66 million years ago was made possible by drilling into the remnant bowl and analysing its rocks. These show how the space impactor made the hard surface of the planet slosh back and forth like a fluid. At one stage, a mountain higher than Everest was thrown up before collapsing back into a smaller range of peaks. ""And this all happens on the scale of minutes, which is quite amazing,"" Prof Joanna Morgan from Imperial College London, UK, told BBC News. The researchers report their account in this week's edition of Science Magazine. Their study confirms a very dynamic, very energetic model for crater formation, and will go a long way to explaining the resulting cataclysmic environmental changes. The debris thrown into the atmosphere likely saw the skies darken and the global climate cool for months, perhaps even years, driving many creatures into extinction, not just the dinosaurs. The team spent April to May this year drilling a core through the so-called Chicxulub Crater, now buried under ocean sediments off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Chicxulub Crater - The impact that changed life on Earth The researchers targeted a particular zone in the 200km-wide bowl known as the ""peak ring"", which - if earlier ideas were correct - should have contained the rocks that moved the greatest distance in the impact. These would have been dense granites lifted from almost 10km down. And that is precisely what the team found. ""Once we got through the impact melt on top, we recovered pink granite. It was so obvious to the eye - like what you would expect to see in a kitchen countertop,"" recalled Prof Sean Gulick from the University of Texas at Austin, US. But these were not normal granites, of course. They were deformed and fractured at every scale - visibly in the hand and even down at the level of the rock's individual mineral crystals. Evidence of enormous stress, of having experienced colossal pressures. The analysis of the core materials now fits an astonishing narrative. This describes the roughly 15km-wide stony asteroid instantly punching a cavity in the Earth's surface some 30km deep and 80-100km across. Unstable, and under the pull of gravity, the sides of this depression promptly started to collapse inwards. At the same time, the centre of the bowl rebounded, briefly lifting rock higher than the Himalayas, before also falling down to cover the inward-rushing sides of the initial hole. ""If this deep-rebound model is correct (it's called the dynamic collapse model), then our peak ring rocks should be the rocks that have travelled farthest in the impact - first, outwards by kilometres, then up in the air by over 10km, and back down and outwards by another, say, 10km. So their total travel path is something like 30km, and they do that in under 10 minutes,"" Prof Gulick told the BBC's Science in Action programme. Imagine a sugar cube dropped into a cup of tea. The drink's liquid first gets out of the way of the cube, moves back in and up, before finally slopping down. When the asteroid struck the Earth, the rocks it hit also behaved like a fluid. ""These rocks must have lost their strength and cohesion, and very dramatically had their friction reduced,"" said Prof Morgan. ""So, yes, temporarily, they behave like a fluid. It's the only way you can make a crater like this."" One of the important outcomes of the research is that it provides a useful template also to understand the surfaces of other planets. All the terrestrial worlds and even Earth's Moon are scarred with craters just like Chicxulub. And knowing how rocks can move vertically and horizontally in an impact will assist scientists as they attempt to interpret similar crustal features seen elsewhere in the Solar System. The project to drill into Chicxulub Crater was conducted by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The expedition was also supported by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP). Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos",Scientists say they can now describe in detail how the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs @placeholder its huge crater .,state,left,fuel,spot,produced,4
"Chris Dos Santos fell onto the rail while walking on the track at Totton, Hampshire, after drinking with friends. He said the 750-volt rail ""sucked me in"" until friends managed to pull him free. The Health and Safety Executive said an electric shock causes a loss of muscle control meaning the person cannot move away from the power source. Mr Dos Santos, 29, spent three months recovering in hospital from severe burns and multiple cardiac arrests. He said the incident in August 2015 had left him suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and nightmares. Mr Dos Santos recalled seeing purple flashes and smelling burnt body tissue as he lay on the ground. He said: ""The power was so immense, you can't get off the rail. I sort of accepted my fate. ""I had a moment of clarity and then I decided, no, this isn't going to happen to me, and that's when I pushed harder and shouted at my friends."" Mr Dos Santos said he had needed eight operations for injuries which included a two-inch (5cm) hole in his back. ""My kidneys were failing, they were saying I would have to have the leg amputated, things were very touch and go"", he added. He said he had agreed to speak about the incident to make people aware of the effects of the 750-volt rail. Network Rail said it was publicising the story because December usually saw a 25% rise in alcohol-related incidents on the railway.","A man has described how he nearly died after his leg was "" sucked "" on to an @placeholder rail by the current .",end,affected,electrified,enforced,iron,2
"From the get-go it was clear this was going to be something different. Having been chided for his seeming unwillingness to speak out about recent anti-Semitic attacks and the gunning down of two Indian engineers in Kansas, this was the first topic he addressed. As he waited to leave the White House to come to Congress, TV cameras caught him rehearsing his speech in the back of the presidential limousine. And when you're saying something new, you need to practise. This was optimistic, warm, devoid of personal attacks. And forget the isolationist rhetoric - this was America in the world. But it wasn't all songs from the new album. He played some of his more familiar audience favourites. Even here this came with talk that real immigration reform was possible. Earlier in the day he'd alluded to introducing measures that would give a pathway to allow illegal immigrants to be able to stay. And the biggest cheer from the Republican side came with his promise to reform Obamacare. Though again detail is scant of what the new health policy will look like. He called repeatedly for Democrats and Republicans to work together. And for the European audience there would have been delight that he spoke so positively about Nato, a body he'd previously dismissed as obsolete. And then a line that caused Democrats to laugh derisively. He said it was time to put ""trivial fights"" behind us. This from the man who's gone to war on Twitter in recent weeks with judges, Meryl Streep, a clothing chain that stopped stocking his daughter's fashion line, the size of his inauguration crowd, and his refusal to accept he lost the popular vote. But he didn't react and he didn't lose his stride. How the Republicans in Congress cheered. Maybe an exam question will be set in the future to compare and contrast the inaugural address from a month ago - with all its darkness and talk of carnage - to last night's speech to the joint session of Congress. The essay might only require three words. Chalk and cheese.",Washington 's big night of pomp and politics - and from the fledgling president a disciplined performance and a well - @placeholder speech .,received,based,written,crafted,held,3
"PC Graham Wise sent the tweets from the canteen of Cleveland Police's headquarters while he was on breaks, a disciplinary panel heard. Actress Daniella Westbrook, reality star Gemma Collins and tennis player Nick Kyrgios all came under fire. He also called for an estate from the TV show Benefits Street to be bulldozed with ""people still inside it"". The officer had previously worked in Stockton, Teesside, and policed the estate in the town where the programme was filmed. The disciplinary hearing at the force's headquarters in Middlesbrough was told he tweeted the local Gazette newspaper about the programme and said: ""Bulldoze it, preferably with the majority of people still inside it."" Wise also described former EastEnders star Westbrook as a ""washed up cokehead with one nostril"" and made abuse remarks about TV star Gemma Collins and tennis player Nick Kyrgios. The hearing was told PC Wise thought only his 170 followers - made up of family and friends - could see his tweets. An investigation was launched after an email, possibly sent from someone using a pseudonym, accused him of sending tweets of an abusive, sexist or derogatory nature to sports personalities, TV stars and victims of crime. He told officers he had been ""absolutely stupid"". PC Wise was also accused of accessing the force intelligence system to look up information on criminals, some of whom he went to school with, without justification. He told investigators he was a ""nosy policeman"" and wanted to bring himself up to date after a period off work with illness. The hearing was told he had mental health issues and was undergoing treatment. At the time of the investigation, PC Wise was dealing with calls from the public and assessing whether they warranted uniformed officers to attend.",A policeman who tweeted abuse about celebrities has been found guilty of misconduct and @placeholder .,robbed,sacked,imprisoned,murdering,punching,1
"So says Rafa from Brazil, as he and his friends dance lazily on the hill overlooking the huge main stage, where superstar DJ Avicii performs live. He is among thousands of Brazilians who made the 9,417km (5,000-mile) journey to Belgium for the Tomorrowland festival - a feast of electronic music. It's a very diverse crowd, with many people waving their national flags from all over the world: India, Australia, Russia, Germany, Chile, Canada, Spain, South Korea - pretty much anywhere. Despite being a relatively new festival Tomorrowland - staged in countryside between Brussels and Antwerp - has emerged as one of the biggest and most popular music events in the world. To mark its tenth anniversary the festival has added an extra weekend, doubling its usual capacity of 180,000 visitors. Despite the extension the 360,000 tickets were all sold out within an hour. Debby Wilmsen is a press agent for the festival, and she told me that although Tomorrowland started in 2005 with only 9,000 people attending, the festival's popularity continued to grow until they began selling out after five years. ""Now we have a new festival in the US called TomorrowWorld. It's all gone very fast for us."" She says the secret to their success was a word-of-mouth reputation which all began on the internet. ""We do not make television or radio adverts, we don't print posters, we only use social media - so that we can have direct contact with our fans,"" she said. Tomorrowland's main stage has become an icon in itself, and its ambitious designs each year help to make the festival venue instantly recognisable around the world. In 2012 the stage was a huge volcano, erupting in fireworks. This year the stage is shaped like a giant water mill 140m (462ft) long and 40m high, surrounded by massive wheels and a huge round screen. Fire, smoke and confetti are blasted out from the stage, settling on the artistic ""valley"". The deep thumping bass follows you around the small town of Boom and the park hosting the event. The alleyways are full of happy festival-goers walking and dancing. There are 16 stages and 400 DJs, blasting out music non-stop. Whether you like electronic music or not, it is hard not to be swept up in the atmosphere. Along its eclectic, eccentric stages you'll find several lakes, a river running under a newly built bridge designed by a Belgian artist and a huge, slowly revolving wheel.  As night falls the lights from the stage and the colourful street artists create a magical atmosphere. Promoting local artists and products is an important part of the festival's ambitions. ""We have a lot of international guests coming here and we want to give them a touch of Belgian spirit. So we have Belgian fries, Belgian chefs cook meals in our restaurants and we have a Belgian beer cafe. We want to give visitors a holiday feeling with a real Belgian atmosphere,"" said Debby Wilmsen. The presence of drugs is a hard reality that all festivals must deal with, and Tomorrowland's policy is clear. ""Of course we cannot control everyone,  but we have police on site and we have a zero-tolerance policy. When someone is caught with drugs they are immediately expelled from the festival,"" she said. On the main stage the DJ asks the crowd to put their hands in the air and in seconds countless thousands of arms reach for the sky. Ronnie and Shani, two friends from Israel, can't stop smiling as they dance together. ""We are so happy to be here, we almost didn't make it. Our flight got cancelled because of the war [between Israel and Hamas] and we had to buy new tickets at the last minute. The only flights we could get on were to Paris, so we rented a car and here we are,"" says Shani. Ronnie says ""everybody is so friendly - it's nice to break away from the tense situation in our country at the moment"". As the sun sets on the fields of Boom, DJ Avicii finishes his set with his best-selling hit Wake Me Up. Rafa and his Brazilian friends sip beers as the festival reaches its finale. ""I would like to tell my children that I was here. It's something very unique, and I hope that in the future I'll be able send my son to Tomorrowland,"" Rafa says.",""" This is a dream come true , I feel like I 've @placeholder inside my television because in Brazil my friends and I would always watch Tomorrowland 's videos and we always wanted to come here . I 'm living a dream right now . """,pioneered,died,hidden,buried,jumped,4
"Romanian tourist Andreea Cristea, 29, was in London with partner Andrei Burnaz to celebrate his birthday, when she was hurled into the Thames. She remains unconscious in a London hospital, the Romanian ambassador, Dan Mihalache, told BBC News. He described her condition as ""stable, but in a good direction"". ""It's a miracle she survived"", he told BBC News on Friday. ""She was practically thrown into the Thames."" Mr Mihalache said he thought the attacker's car mounted the pavement and hit Mr Burnaz first, before pushing Ms Cristea into the Thames. ""That's quite dramatic"", he said. ""We hope that all will be okay. In the end she survived, she was strong enough."" It was previously not known whether she jumped to escape the car or was hit and hurled into the water. After being rescued from the water, Ms Cristea had an operation for a blood clot on her brain while Mr Burnaz sustained a broken foot. Her family, who are now in London, have asked for privacy as she recovers and Mr Mihalache said he would not issue more statements on their behalf. Ms Cristea was among around 50 people from at least 12 countries who were injured in the attack, 31 of whom needed hospital treatment.","The woman pushed from Westminster Bridge during Wednesday 's attack was due to @placeholder a marriage proposal the same day , the BBC has learned .",earn,receive,introduce,hold,sign,1
"""This is a great advert for Irish League football."" We've all heard it, but not always believed it. It sits high in the list of Northern Ireland sporting cliches. An attempt to promote a product which has been squeezed by a multitude of alternative attractions. Hoping to transform listeners into customers. I was a customer on Saturday, driving up the A26 from Antrim to watch Ballymena United take on Crusaders at the Showgrounds. The attraction? I wanted to see if the Crues could clinch up a third straight title, with a win over the Braidmen and defeat for challengers Linfield at Coleraine keeping the Gibson Cup at Seaview. The title race has been bubbling along nicely in recent months and it had now reached boiling point with two games left - a thrilling climax in the battle of the Crues and Blues. I asked my 13-year-old son, a Liverpool and Real Madrid fan, if he fancied going to his first Irish League game. No Coutinho or Ronaldo on show, just a bunch of part-timers trying to play football on a terrible Showgrounds surface. To my surprise he answered in the affirmative, although only if his friend could come along with us. It was just £15 all-in at the turnstiles, not bad for an adult and two children, and we made our way to the new stand housing the Sky Blues faithful. Out came the teams and United boss David Jeffrey, resplendent in a suit straight out of Savile Row, turned to raise a rallying fist to the fans. They roared in response and I sensed before a ball was kicked that Ballymena were up for this, determined to be party-poopers on what promised to be a historic day for the north Belfast visitors. And so it transpired, although the fine line between success and failure was highlighted as the champions pressed for an early opener. A free-kick found Crues striker Jordan Owens four yards out and with just Ross Glendinning to beat. A player whose reputation is built on aerial prowess, but on this occasion he headed straight at the United keeper. A couple of inches either side and it goes in, Crusaders have the momentum and the outcome may have been so different. Both sides squandered chances on the bobbliest of bobbly pitches, with United hitting the woodwork, but it ended scoreless at the break. Burger and chips time for the boys, a quick flick through the matchday programme and then on the mobile for an update from Coleraine on our (excuse the plug) live text commentary page. We sat directly opposite the Crusaders 18-yard box in the second half, providing the perfect viewpoint as Ballymena rattled in three goals to win 3-0. A glaring vulnerability in the Crues defence, so badly missing the power and presence of injured captain Colin Coates, was brutally exposed as Conor McCloskey's opener was followed by a Cathal Friel double. My little companions politely clapped the first goal, cheered the second and were in full-on celebration mode for the third. Ballymena gained two new young supporters on Saturday and I'm now being pestered about taking them to Sky Blues games next season. Linfield thumped the Bannsiders 5-1 and suddenly they are two points clear going into this weekend's finale. I will be back on live text commentary duty as the Crues host Glenavon while the Blues visit a Cliftonville side buoyed by the return of Tommy Breslin as temporary manager. I'm looking forward to it, but it's no substitute for being at Seaview or Solitude. My visit to the Showgrounds was a reminder of what going to a game can be - dramatic, atmospheric, engrossing, exciting and although just a fan, a feeling that you are part of it. As we dandered away from Warden Street I had an inner chuckle, for even this cynical old hack knew what he had witnessed. A great advert for Irish League football.",A game @placeholder semi-exciting territory and I 'm counting down the seconds until a familiar refrain comes through on the Radio Ulster airwaves .,mocking,spanning,enters,praising,celebrating,2
"Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny told a gathering in Philadelphia on Sunday that the decision had been taken at a cabinet meeting last week. He said it was a ""clear recognition of the importance that Ireland attached to her citizens wherever they were"". The move was recommended by a Constitutional Convention in 2013. Last July, the Diaspora Minister Joe McHugh said there was a commitment to hold a referendum. An options paper will be published later this month outlining arrangements on how to register citizens abroad, and how to facilitate voting outside of the Republic of Ireland. This will then be discussed during the Global Irish Civic Forum in Dublin in May. The referendum is unlikely to be held this year, and if it passes, would come into effect for the presidential election after the one set for 2018. During his visit to Philadelphia, at the beginning of the taoiseach's annual St Patrick's Day trip, Mr Kenny told a separate gathering that the ""plight"" of thousands of illegal Irish immigrants living in the United States would be an ""absolute priority"" during his visit. He has vowed to raise the issue with President Donald Trump and said that undocumented Irish immigrants wanted to remain and contribute in the US.","The Irish government is to hold a referendum to allow Irish citizens living outside of the Republic of Ireland , @placeholder in Northern Ireland , the right to vote in Irish presidential elections .",arrived,following,deteriorated,ending,including,4
"The Queen tends not to get involved in such detailed matters when opening Parliament, so the next best thing would be a pat on the back from the chancellor during the Budget. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has made 11 major financial statements since he arrived at 11 Downing Street: two Spending Reviews, the 2010 emergency Budget, four Autumn Statements and four Budget speeches. Until November 2011, the only featured backbenchers were John Redwood, and Labour's Frank Field and Alistair Darling (all in the Spending Review). In 2011, he namechecked two. Since then, shoutouts have jumped: nine in 2012, 21 in 2013 and 14 so far in 2014. There are two obvious explanations as to why the practice is increasing. First, we are getting closer to election year, and perceived success in lobbying government could provide a boost for MPs in marginal seats. Second, MPs have had more time to petition the Treasury on their pet peeves. There are several MPs to whom the chancellor has paid tribute who do not fit into any of these categories - Jesse Norman on pension funds reform, for example, and David Mowat for securing lottery funding for a terrorism survivors' group. Nonetheless, there are some distinct themes emerging. This could be called the theme of themes. Of the MPs in the top 100 most marginal Conservative seats, 25% have been mentioned in Mr Osborne's financial statements since 2010. If you take the 50 most marginal seats, it's 18 MPs or 36%. To put it another way, only seven of the 32 Conservative MPs singled out by the chancellor have majorities in excess of 5,946 (the midway point if seats are ordered by majority). Righting a longstanding wrong that has stopped your constituents and their cars getting from A to B is another passport to getting named and famed. Graham Stuart and Andrew Percy were pioneers in this regard, singled out for praise in the 2011 Autumn Statement for their work on reducing the tolls on the Humber Bridge. Jackie Doyle-Price's mention in 2012 was for her commitment to the M25 upgrade, Michael Ellis struck gold this year with his petition against potholes and Graham Evans for his support for improvements to the Merseyside Gateway bridge. Support for High Streets and town planning is another fast track to the chancellor's heart. Broadband funding for small cities (Simon Kirby), empty property relief (Julian Sturdy and Paul Uppal) and lower business rates (Paul Uppal again, Marcus Jones, Amber Rudd and Mary Macleod) have all scored highly with the Treasury. See also Conservative safe-seaters Gareth Johnson and Adam Holloway, who got credited this year for new investment in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. There's some overlap here with points three and five, but still a strong category in its own right. Gordon Birtwistle (yes, you read right, a Lib Dem) and Andrew Stephenson have both received honourable mentions in conjunction with increasing funding for machinery used by small and medium-sized enterprises. Essex's finest - Brooks Newmark and Priti Patel - have been praised for appealing for tax relief on season tickets for commuters, and John Stevenson and Brooks Newmark (again) have been lauded for their efforts to cut National Insurance contributions for firms employing young people. Tax relief on petrol, bingo and beer have garnered multiple mentions for Andrew Griffiths, Andrew Stephenson and even Lib Dem Alan Reid. Paul Maynard and Charlotte Leslie have also received a pat on the back - for making the case that we should pay less for fuel and beer respectively. Peter Aldous shared the accolades this year for reducing the duty on bingo. But with whom? Robert Halfon is known in Westminster for his eye-popping suits and ties. But the Harlow MP (majority: 4,925) also stands out as a remarkably successful campaigner on reducing fuel duty and, this year, bingo duty. In fact, he has something of a full house - he has been cited in four out of four of the chancellor's last speeches, a record unmatched by any other backbencher. Recently he set his sights on energy company charges for those not paying by direct debit, and lo and behold, the government ordered an investigation. If you're keen to get a preview of what Mr Osborne has in store for us next, he's worth keeping an eye on.",There ca n't be a much better @placeholder as a backbench MP than being namechecked ( in a good way ) during a high - profile Commons occasion .,chance,life,position,term,feeling,4
"The club confirmed in their season-ticket renewal information that rail seats are to be installed at Celtic Park over the summer. The modified area will be in the corner of the Lisbon Lions Stand. Permission was granted in June last year, with the model being used based on versatile seating common at German grounds. Their initial plans were to accommodate up to 2,600 supporters. Glasgow City Council, which had twice previously rejected applications from the Scottish champions, gave the project its approval in June last year. At the time, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell said: ""Across football globally, the reality is that some supporters are choosing to stand at matches. ""Rail seating has been in place in European football for some time and there has been considerable demand for some form of safe standing within the UK and particularly from our supporters.""",Celtic will @placeholder a safe - standing area from the start of next season .,offer,introduce,hold,join,deliver,1
"12 February 2016 Last updated at 20:06 GMT The incident on Alan Sloane's farm land, near Rathfriland, is being investigated by the local council and the Countryside Alliance - an organisation which represents hunting groups. This report, from BBC News NI's Agriculture and Environment correspondent Conor Macauley, contains images of the dead dogs which some viewers may find upsetting.",A County Down farmer has said he had no choice but to shoot several dogs @placeholder in a stag hunt to protect his sheep .,involved,drowned,pictures,resulting,remains,0
"I don’t mean a bit silly, like skiing on a Nintendo Wii, or a little crackers, like running around in Snapchat’s Spectacles. I mean the sort of technology that when you look across a room and see someone wearing it you don’t think “wow” or “that’s futuristic”. You just think… plonker. That’s how I felt when Rory started wearing Google Glass (sorry, Rory) and that’s how I've always felt about 3DTV. That was the first nail in its coffin. The second was the fact it really didn’t bring much to the TV-watching experience. The third? It was too expensive, even at a discount. And the fourth? It was uncomfortable, and according to some surveys, straining many people’s eyes and giving them headaches. This week we learned that both LG and Sony have now stopped making 3D-enabled televisions. The firms follow Samsung - the world’s biggest TV maker - who confirmed the move last year. It means there are currently no major manufacturers making 3DTVs. At this year’s CES trade show, there was barely a whimper of 3D TV, compared to just two years ago when it was being heralded as the next big thing. But you could argue that 3DTV was never about the home experience. Where it would come into its own was in huge cinemas with full surround and the kind of environment that would do the new(ish) medium justice. But here, too, things have ground to a miserable halt. Despite the moderately promising start made by Avatar, no single 3D production ever became a must-see. The 3D high point for me was the remake of the Jungle Book, but the enjoyment there was clearly the return to the songs that soundtracked my early childhood - not the fact the odd branch stuck out of the screen, even if it did enhance the immersion of the jungle which had been so beautifully animated. In the cinema, 3D was milked for all it was worth. Watching the 3D version of the film would often be a more expensive ticket. And while some theatres would give you free glasses you could return at the end, many would make you pay for them on the basis that you could “bring them back next time”. Imagine being the sort of person who brings their own pair of 3D glasses to a date. It's up there with owning your own pair of bowling shoes. Then, having to watch an hour’s worth of hollow Hollywood tat with plastic strapped to your face would soon see off any chance of an eventful evening. Even James Cameron, who directed Avatar, is fed up with 3D. It has ""become a studio-driven top down process to make money”, he said (as if Hollywood has ever been anything else). The cinema-going public was immediately sceptical - knowing that the more the movie industry told them it was the next big thing, the more it felt like a pathetic gimmick. To quote The Oatmeal, “saying that 3D movies are the future of cinema is like saying that Magic Eye books were the future of literature”. Which is why most major studios have just about stopped bothering. The former head of Dreamworks Animation said that the industry “blew it” with 3D, something he blamed it as much on poor story-telling as limitations of the tech. And while there are plenty of 3D films lined up for this coming year, many of them have been bodged together using post-production, rather than filmed with 3D viewing in mind. There is still an audience for the technology in China, but it’s with no great sadness we accept that 3D is rather quickly on its way to being technology of a bygone era. A format that lost a format war without even having an opponent. It may well resurge. There has been good progress in making glasses-less 3D which, to my mind, is the biggest barrier here. But such innovations would just have to an added feature rather than the be-all-and-end-all - the window for selling 3D to the public has been slammed shut. So what’s next? According to CNet's report, TV makers are instead focusing on newer technologies such as HDR. And at CES 2017, one crowd-pleaser was LG's super-thin and light TV - the kind of innovation, I thought, that appealed to more people than something like 3D. Movie studios are pouring resources into virtual reality story-telling. I took part in a demo a year or so ago by the Oculus VR team at Facebook - it was a short animated film about a lovely little hedgehog who invites you into his home and… you’re six years old again. I cheered. I awww-ed. It’s remarkable - and it won an Emmy. Virtual reality is heralding new levels of realism and immersion to gaming, and films could, and hopefully will, follow suit. Which is great - because wearing a virtual reality headset doesn’t make you look silly at all. Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook",If there ’s one thing history has taught us : technology @placeholder if using it makes you look like a plonker .,affect,remained,is,fails,ground,3
"It comes in the wake of Burnley midfielder Joey Barton's ban from football for 18 months after admitting a betting charge. The Scottish Football Supporters Association says the sport may need to ""adjust its moral compass"". The Scottish football leagues, Scottish Cup and League Cup and some clubs are all sponsored by gambling companies. Former Manchester City, Rangers and QPR midfielder Barton was fined £30,000 and warned about his future conduct after being charged with breaking English FA rules for placing bets on matches between 26 March 2006 and 13 May 2016. He admitted placing ""over 15,000 bets across a whole range of sports"" - of which 1,260 were on football - staking an average of £150 per bet. Between 2004 and 2011, Barton said he placed several bets on his own team to lose but added he was not involved in the match-day squad in any of those instances. Paul Goodwin, co-founder of the SFSA, has urged greater checks and balances regarding Scottish football's relationship with gambling. ""There's nothing wrong with a flutter and lots of football fans obviously do,"" he told BBC Radio Scotland. ""But I think, somewhere in between, there needs some kind of checks and balances and controls. ""We don't want Scottish football sleep-walking into another controversial area. ""So we need to know what kind of rules and regulations are there and what sort of help and support are there for players. ""There are lots of players who are ignoring the rules, but I think it's only one part of this bigger argument. ""If you really tried hard with all the various betting companies that support Scottish football, you could have £200 worth of free bets. ""That's a fairly big encouragement for people who maybe don't bet or don't have accounts to open up accounts - potentially, it's a slippery slope. ""It's a dangerous precedent that we have is that we're loaded with these sponsorships and we need to have a platform in place that allows Scottish football to move forward and to make sure that all the difficulty that comes with those relationships are in balance."" The SPFL and Scottish FA have yet to comment.","Scottish football 's relationship with the gambling industry should be @placeholder , according to a fans ' group .",improved,reduced,restored,introduced,reviewed,4
"The company, which spends almost a quarter of its revenue on wages, blamed rising labour costs caused by a rise in the minimum wage. The company also said profit margins are falling due to rising competition and investments in its pubs. Wetherspoon's share price plunged 7% following the announcement. The latest profit alert comes after Wetherspoon warned in November that staff costs could see annual profits drop slightly compared to the previous year. From April, workers aged over 25 will receive a minimum of £7.20 per hour as part of the National Living Wage. Wetherspoon said it saw improved trading in its Christmas quarter with like-for-like sales up 3.3% in the 12 weeks to 17 January. In the first 25 weeks of its half-year up to 17 January, like-for-like sales in pubs are up 2.8%. In a statement JD Wetherspoon chairman, Tim Martin said: ""Like-for-like sales have improved in the second quarter so far. However, as indicated in our November trading update, increased labour costs will be an important factor in the outcome for this financial year. ""Our current view is profits for this year are likely to be towards the lower end of analysts' expectations."" The company intends to open 10 to 15 pubs in the current financial year.","The pub @placeholder JD Wetherspoon has warned that full - year profits are likely to be "" towards the lower end "" of analyst 's expectations .",columnist,fashion,chain,world,body,2
"Toulon led 15-12 with five minutes to go, but after prop Longbottom's yellow card, they scored two late tries for a 27-12 bonus-point win. Longbottom's tackle on hooker Guilhem Guirado was deemed dangerous. ""It was an outrageous decision by the referee and the TMO [TV match official],"" Diamond told BBC Sport. ""If anything it should've been a penalty the other way for jumping into the tackle."" The loss was Sale's 10th in a row in all competitions and they have yet to take a point in the Champions Cup this season, but produced a much-improved performance against their Top 14 opponents. ""The referees have got to be absolutely clinical in these decisions which sway games,"" Diamond added. ""It is coming at the moment where games are decided by referee decisions, not by player errors or acts of brilliance. ""Coaches in Europe and the world now are expected to adapt to the changes in the tackle regulation where you've got to keep it below the shoulder completely, and we're attempting to do that - and then we're unfairly treated by the referees.""",Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond has @placeholder the officiating which saw Kieran Longbottom sin - binned in their Champions Cup defeat at Toulon .,joined,led,revealed,entered,criticised,4
"Residents say the cars lost control before mounting the pavement and left the trail of damage. Emergency services received ""multiple"" 999 calls asking for help in Dunstable Road, Luton. One resident who was affected said the road was ""very dangerous"" while another said it was used ""like a race track"". Bedfordshire Police said they were called to the road, a dual carriageway, just after 23:00 GMT on Monday after the crash. No-one has been arrested. Mary Collier, whose house was damaged, described the road as ""very dangerous"". Another resident, who did not want to be named, said: """"[The first car] took my wall out, took the whole of the side of my car out, took my fence out, my neighbour's pillar and their front door. ""He smashed into their car which pushed it into the next neighbour's car and both their cars got damaged, plus the neighbour after that. ""Then there was another car that went up and it hit the green Astra and he ended up in their drive. [He's] totally written that car off and the third car went into the neighbour about six doors up, and damaged both their cars, wrote them off, broke their wall and everything."" ""We see kids using this as like a racetrack now,"" he said. East of England Ambulance Service confirmed it had taken two people to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital after receiving ""multiple"" calls.","Two people needed hospital treatment after three cars crashed into properties , walls , fences and a number of @placeholder cars .",traffic,water,abandoned,injuring,parked,4
"Dr Margaret Ann Rous, who was 37, and her 28-year-old husband David Rous were killed when a light aircraft struck the ground in Glen Etive. The couple, from Newport-on-Tay in Fife, had been flying from Dundee to visit relatives on Tiree. The emergency services had been alerted when contact was lost with the Piper Cherokee at about 13:50 on Saturday. Police Scotland said the wreckage was discovered on the northern aspect of Glen Kinglass at 20:00, along with the remains of the two people on board. Dr Rous' sister Johann Maclean paid tribute to her on social media. She posted on Facebook: ""Today has been the hardest day of my life, I love you Minnie xxxx"" She also thanked friends and family for their sympathy messages. ""Thank you all for the heartfelt messages, phone calls and visits,"" she wrote. ""We appreciate your thoughts at this heartbreaking time xx."" Following the discovery of the wreckage, specialist officers remained at the scene in the Beinn nan Lus area of Glen Kinglass. Inquiries are continuing into the cause of the accident.",Tribute has been paid to a Dundee GP and her @placeholder husband who died in a plane crash in Argyll .,first,beloved,deceased,family,engineer,4
"Sheikh Obeikan, who was an adviser to the royal cabinet, opposed moves to relax gender segregation. The dismissal comes shortly after Sheikh Obeikan attacked plans by ""influential people to corrupt Muslim society by trying to change the natural status of women"". Saudi officials did not give a reason for Sheikh Obeikan's departure. His recent comments were taken to be an attack on tentative steps towards relaxing some stricter interpretations of Saudi law. King Abdullah has promised women the right to vote in future elections, has opened the country's first co-educational university and introduced measures against domestic violence. The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police, the ""mutawa"", was also replaced in January, with the new head widely seen as more moderate than his predecessor. Sheikh Obeikan achieved a degree of notoriety several years ago with a decree suggesting that unrelated Saudi men and women could mix so long as the man drank the woman's breast milk, thus creating a maternal bond between them.","Saudi King Abdullah has @placeholder one of his most hardline advisers , Sheikh Abdelmohsen al - Obeikan .",committed,sacked,backed,designated,received,1
"Sushma Swaraj tweeted that Amazon should issue an ""unconditional apology"" and withdraw the ""insulting"" products. Failing this, she said India would rescind current visas for Amazon officials and not grant any more. Amazon said it had removed the doormats from its site. In a series of tweets, Ms Swaraj asked the Indian High Commission in Canada to take up the issue with Amazon after it was brought to her attention by another Twitter user. ""Amazon must tender unconditional apology. They must withdraw all products insulting our national flag immediately,"" she said. ""If this is not done forthwith, we will not grant Indian visa to any Amazon official. We will also rescind the Visas issued earlier. The doormats, which were being sold by a third-party and described as ""personalised durable machine-washable indoor/outdoor items"", were removed from the site on Wednesday. ""The item is no longer available for sale on the site,"" an Amazon spokeswoman said in an email. Amazon sells doormats featuring flags of other countries but in India desecration of the flag is punishable with fines and imprisonment. Last June Amazon found itself in a similar controversy over sales of doormats illustrating Hindu gods. The row comes as Flipkart, India's biggest online retailer, is involved in a fierce battle with Amazon over market share.",India 's foreign minister has @placeholder online retail giant Amazon after its Canadian website was found to be selling doormats featuring the Indian flag .,criticised,joined,raided,called,fallen,0
"The Blue Cross charity centre had to throw out all 90 posts when they became saturated by drain water after torrential rain early on Friday. All the animals were safe, although 15 kittens had to be evacuated from the nursery which was covered in sludge. The centre has appealed for help to replace the posts and toys. There are currently 46 cats and kittens looking for new homes at the charity's Garlic Row centre, animal welfare assistant Claire Thomas said. The animals did not seem ""too traumatised"" by the torrential downpour or standing water in their pens, she said. However, staff were ""gutted"" when they saw the devastation caused by the overnight storm. The rescue centre was among a number of businesses and organisations in Cambridge affected by the overnight storm. Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge was forced to declare a ""major incident"" and cancel all planned surgery until Tuesday after an area where sterilisation equipment is stored was flooded. The cat rescue centre has now been cleaned up and the destroyed posts, toys and blankets piled on the lawn. It would not be sanitary to dry them out, Miss Thomas added, so they will all need to be replaced. The Cambridge branch of charity Blue Cross cares for over 400 cats and kittens every year.",Dozens of @placeholder cats living at a Cambridge rescue centre have lost their toys and scratching posts after they were destroyed by flooding .,registered,opposing,wearing,carrying,abandoned,4
"Richard Reach, 59, had the balloon device implanted to close off a leaky heart valve, after he was told he was too unwell to have open heart surgery. Doctors at King's College Hospital say the procedure allowed him to improve enough to have more permanent surgery. With further trials, the device could help thousands more patients, they say. Mr Reach, a builder from Kent, suffered severe heart failure after a heart attack - leaving him extremely unwell and short of breath. The damage to his heart meant one of his heart valves no longer worked properly, creating a backflow of blood and putting extra strain on his heart. But when conventional treatment was deemed too high a risk, doctors decided to ask UK regulators for permission to try the new Mitra-Spacer device on compassionate grounds. Made in the United States, by company Cardiosolutions, it had previously been tested only in pigs. Mr Reach had the device implanted in June 2015 and was allowed home just a few days later. Five months later, Mr Reach's heart had recovered enough for surgeons to carry out a conventional operation to repair the valve. Mr Reach said: ""Just as it seemed the medical team had run out of options Prof Wendler suggested the new treatment. ""Now I'm walking around and feeling better each day. What the team has done for me is nothing short of a miracle. ""I owe my life to them."" Prof Wendler, head of the surgical team that carried out the operation, believes the device could replace open heart surgery for some patients with damaged heart valves. He said: ""You always have concerns about doing first-in-man procedures but the most important thing is to make sure we carry on and do proper studies."" He will now be involved in large-scale international trials. Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said the approach was imaginative and relatively simple. He added: ""By using an adjustable balloon to reduce the amount of blood leaking across the valve, this techniques gives the heart a chance to recover sufficiently to withstand conventional valve surgery. ""It allows the surgeon to buy time and should also alleviate some of the patient's symptoms. ""Further research is now needed to establish which patients are most likely to benefit from it."" Heart failure affects around 1.5% of the UK population. Prof Wendler estimates some 5%-10% of patients have severe heart failure involving their heart valves and could benefit from this type of procedure.","Scientists have used a @placeholder balloon technique as a "" last chance "" treatment to help a patient with severe heart failure .",pioneering,boom,gas,blood,couple,0
"The comments sent the value of the US dollar higher, which hit the price of oil and other commodities. This affected shares in mining companies, who were among the biggest fallers in the UK market. The FTSE 100 fell 112.45 points to 6,053.35. Fresnillo dropped 7% and Anglo American dropped 4.5%. Shares in oil companies were also lower, with Royal Dutch Shell down about 4%. In the FTSE 250, shares in travel company Thomas Cook sank nearly 19% after it said summer bookings had fallen. The company said holidaymakers were avoiding Turkey because of safety fears, while travel to Belgium had also seen a ""sharp decline in demand"" after the Brussels attacks. The travel sector was also under pressure following the news that an Egyptair flight carrying 66 passengers from Paris to Cairo had disappeared. Shares in travel firm Tui dropped 1.7%. On the currency markets, the pound was boosted by news of stronger-than-expected retail sales growth in April. Sales volumes rose 1.3% from the month before, according to official data. The pound was down 0.1% against the dollar at $1.4584, and 0.03% higher against the euro at €1.3017.",( Close ) : The market dropped sharply as investors @placeholder to comments from the Federal Reserve which suggested a US rate rise could come as soon as June .,bids,reacted,helped,continues,changes,1
"The 23-year-old, from Sheffield, was one of three men detained following a series of raids in Yorkshire. Two men, aged 24 and 29, were arrested in Huddersfield and Sheffield on Thursday on suspicion of terror offences. Both men remain in custody. Police said the arrests were not linked to the recent Manchester Arena attack. More on this and other Yorkshire stories The BBC understands the arrests are Islamist-related. The raids took place at the Daisy Spring Works apartment block in Kelham Island, Sheffield and in Rudding Street in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield. Nick Meeks, who lives on the same floor as the flat in Sheffield which was raided, said he heard an ""almighty explosion"". ""I stuck my head out of the door and there were fully-armed police pointing guns down the hallway towards me screaming and shouting at me to get back in the flat,"" he said. A resident in Rudding Street, Crosland Moor, Huddersfield, who did not wish to be named, said at one point his ""house shook"". He said: ""I heard a loud bang that sounded like a really big explosion, I thought it was a bomb. ""I ran outside and saw about 30 police and armed officers. People on the street have been kept inside their houses."" The North East Counter Terrorism Unit said the explosions in both locations were caused by police accessing properties. Police added that searches at both properties had been concluded.",A man arrested by counter - terrorism officers on suspicion of @placeholder an offender has been released under investigation .,plotting,attacking,kidnapping,assisting,injuring,3
"Omar Khadr spent his youth between Canada, where he was born, and Pakistan, where his father had interests. Ostensibly those interests were supporting charity work in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but according to the US government, Ahmed Said Khadr was a senior al-Qaeda member and helped fund terrorist training camps. He was arrested in 1994 in connection with the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan. The family moved to Jalalabad in Afghanistan in 1996, and the US alleges that the family had regular encounters with Bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders. In the summer of 2002, according to US intelligence, Omar Khadr received personal weapons training and was subsequently part of a unit that turned landmines into homemade bombs. In July of that year, the then 15-year-old was captured during a clash between US and Afghan soldiers, and a small group of militants. Khadr was accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier and injured another. He was shot and seriously wounded in the aftermath. Khadr's father was killed in Pakistan in 2003. His brother Abdullah was held for five years in Canada on US charges of supplying weapons to al-Qaeda, before being freed when a judge said he should not be extradited. Khadr himself ended up in Guantanamo Bay. He and his supporters have complained about ill-treatment for several years. Boycotting his tribunal in 2006, Khadr said he had been held in solitary confinement for long periods. His lawyers have also argued that trying him for crimes allegedly committed as a juvenile violates international law. They also said statements given by him were extracted with the use of indirect threats of rape and death. The second person to face terrorism charges under the tribunal system, Khadr was charged in 2007 with murder and attempted murder, conspiracy, providing support to terrorism and spying. The charges were thrown out by a US military judge two months later, prompting an appeal by the Pentagon. A military appeals court agreed that Khadr was designated an ""unlawful enemy combatant"" and that charges could proceed. Canada's Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the government should have not handed over documents from Canadian interrogations of Khadr to the US. In a video, released in 2008, showing Khadr being questioned by Canadian officials, the detainee complains of being denied access to proper medical treatment. In one section of the video an apparently disturbed Khadr repeatedly moans a phrase that sounds like ""help me"" or ""kill me"". Khadr was eventually sentenced to 40 years in prison by a US military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay in 2010 on war crimes charges - having pleaded guilty to killing the soldier. But as part of his plea deal, his sentence was limited to eight years, and under the deal, he became eligible to return to Canada last October, before being eventually returned at the end of September 2012.","The son of an alleged close associate of Osama Bin Laden , Omar Khadr was drawn into militant @placeholder before becoming a cause celebre for opponents of Guantanamo Bay .",group,propaganda,organizations,circles,matters,3
"They struck at the branch in Haunch Lane, Kings Heath, just before 22:00 BST on 4 June, police said. The women rammed open shutters with a milk crate before threatening staff and forcing them to open the tills. Police said they snatched handfuls of notes from the tills and escaped with hundreds of pounds in cash. See more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here Det Con David Cockbill, said: ""No injuries were reported despite the use of weapons. However, the staff members have understandably been left very shaken by what happened. ""As part of the investigation we've examined CCTV and audio of the incident and we are confident the two suspects are female.""",Two women are being @placeholder by police after raiding a post office in Birmingham armed with a meat cleaver and a knife .,struck,praised,held,attacked,hunted,4
"Eaton, which builds and operates masts for mobile phone networks, has also signed a deal with Mobinil in Egypt, an arm of Orange, to buy 2,000 towers. The company installs telecom networks and persuades rival mobile phone operators to share the same tower, thereby cutting costs. Chief executive Terry Rhodes said: ""Sharing masts is good for everybody."" Investors in the latest round of financing for Eaton Towers include Capital Group Private Markets, the firm's controlling shareholder, plus a consortium led by Ethos Private Equity, a leading South African fund manager, and Standard Chartered Private Equity. Eaton Towers currently operates networks of mobile phone masts in seven countries, including Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa. Now Egypt will be added to the company's footprint in Africa. ""We've signed other deals in West and East Africa which will be concluded soon,"" says Mr Rhodes, who also believes it is getting easier to convince rival mobile phone companies to co-operate and share infrastructure. ""Five or six years ago there was a reluctance, but I think that the increased load on the networks, as more customers come on, want more services and particularly more data, then networks need to do more to cut their costs and focus on their services. They've all agreed, all the major ones have done this, that sharing their towers is a good way to go,"" he says. Some estimates put economic growth for many countries in Africa at about 5% this year and and that will lead to more people having money to spend on mobile phones. ""The mobile business, like services in general, benefits from two deep drivers of change that are especially important in Africa - population growth and urbanisation,"" says Francois Conradie, an economist at NKC in South Africa. ""It's a profitable sector and will continue to be so, even more so as mobile data and smartphone technology penetrate more widely and deeply on the continent. Disposable incomes are going up, while technology and services are getting cheaper, says Mr Conradie. Sales of smartphones, devices that access the internet, have long since over taken purchases of traditional mobile phones in the world's richer countries, but that is not yet the case in Africa. However, many predictions point to that happening in the continent within three to five years. When it does, the experts are convinced more Africans will use social media websites than today and it is interesting to note that a majority of people just use their mobile phone to send SMS text messages. According to the research group Pew, only one in five phone users in sub Saharan Africa access social networking sites through their devices. Eaton Towers' Mr Rhodes believes affordable phones will make the difference. ""I think the key is getting the price points down to make smartphones more affordable for more and more consumers,"" he told the BBC. Fewer people are using landlines in Africa and that may soon be restricted to major corporations and official government offices. Is the era of the landline coming to an end? ""I think with a few exceptions, say South Africa or Egypt, it's already a thing of the past, frankly,"" says Mr Rhodes. Then again, it is worth remembering he has a vested interest in seeing the demise of landlines.",African telecoms company Eaton Towers has @placeholder a $ 350 m war chest to fund expansion across the continent .,signed,raised,announced,promised,developed,1
"The Red Devils have achieved successive promotions since Carter and the late Bruce Winfield took over in 2010 and are currently 14th in League One. ""We're under no pressure to sell so we can make absolutely sure only the right people come in,"" she told BBC Sussex. ""Otherwise, if we didn't do our due diligence all our work will have been for nothing. There is no timescale."" After taking over the then Blue Square Bet Premier side in 2010, Carter and Winfield set the aim of playing League football within three years. With the right recipe the demand is there for Championship football in Crawley. Look at Brighton - they didn't have 25,000 queuing up outside the Withdean That target was reached at the end of their first season, alongside a run to the last 16 of the FA Cup, which ended in a 1-0 defeat away at Manchester United. ""I guess we've been a victim of our own success to an extent because we've achieved what we set out to so quickly,"" Carter continued. ""Now we need to be honest with ourselves and ask if we are the right people to take the club to the next level, because the last thing we want is to do it a disservice."" If the Sussex club were to achieve promotion to the Championship they would then have three years to make the necessary improvements to Broadfield Stadium. Crawley usually attract crowds of between 2,000 and 4,000 spectators, with their highest league attendance of 5,058 this season coming against Portsmouth. Broadfield currently has a capacity of 5,500 - 3,295 of which is seated. ""We have looked at options of expanding the stadium or moving to a new site and held tentative talks with Crawley Borough Council,"" Carter added. ""The club is a really good prospect for someone. We're financially sound, have a good team, an excellent manager, some valuable players that are assets and a great landlord. ""With the right recipe the demand is there for Championship football. Fans want a nice stadium and nice football - Brighton didn't have 25,000 queuing up outside the Withdean and look at them now.""",Crawley co-owner Susan Carter will not be @placeholder into selling after putting the League One club up for sale .,called,offered,tempted,rushed,swayed,3
"I understand that Sir Philip is offering around £250m. The Pensions Regulator wants around £350m. Working with the help of global accounting heavyweights Deloitte, Sir Philip has come up with a solution that he says achieves three important things. It keeps the scheme out of the pensions lifeboat fund (so other pension schemes don't end up subsidising BHS's), it provides better benefits for the 20,000 members than they would get in the PPF and it has the support of the chairman of the BHS pension fund trustees. Job done. Not according to the Pension Regulator who didn't think the proposal was ""comprehensive or credible"" enough. So its going after him, his family's companies and the other former owner Dominic Chappell to roars of approval from the politicians who were his inquisitors in chief - Frank Field and Iain Wright - co-chairs of the inquiry into the collapse of the retailer. By pursuing this action, the Pensions Regulator perhaps risks being swept along by the understandable tide of political ill-will towards Sir Philip to the possible detriment of the BHS pensioners themselves. If the regulator is successful in extracting £350m from the billionaire, it is very unlikely that the BHS pensioners will see any of that money. It is almost certain to end up being paid into the general funds of the Pension Protection Fund to mitigate the hit the industry-wide body will suffer as a result of taking on a pension scheme with a £600m hole in it. That outcome is not a bad one but it means that although Sir Philip may pay more, BHS pensioners will not get more. And remember, even that is only if the arms-length panel to whom this will now be referred finds in the regulators favour. That is a reasonably big if. Last month pensions expert John Ralfe rated the chances of successful enforcement against Sir Philip as 50/50 and told me he has seen nothing in yesterday's announcement to change those odds. Even if the panel sides with the regulator, that decision can be appealed. The last time enforcement action of this kind was taken was three years ago - as of today, not a penny has been paid. This is not a short cut to Sir Philip's wallet. One of the regulator's main jobs is to stop companies casually dumping ailing pension schemes into the PPF net - like a goalkeeper if you like. Despite acrobatic efforts, it could yet prove that it's dived the wrong way and this scheme is more likely to roll slowly into the other corner. Will the threat of him losing his knighthood force him to up his offer? Maybe. MPs recently voted to recommend exactly that in a commons motion that passed unopposed. That was a bit of commons theatre to allow MPs of every stripe to vent their spleen at the ""unacceptable face of capitalism"". Despite thousands of documents examined, hundreds of hours of interrogation and acres of negative newsprint, no illegality has yet been alleged - let alone found. The real decision will be made by a panel of senior civil servants and the number of people who have been stripped of honours without doing anything illegal is a pretty short one - in fact here is the list... Fred Goodwin. Yesterday's enforcement warning made clear that the door remains open for an improved offer to be made but Sir Philip's response last night ended by saying he believed his offer ""confirms the statement of intent that I made in regard to the BHS pensioners"". In his mind he has ""sorted it"" - there may not be another offer. What's £100m between friends?","Nearly five months ago , Sir Philip Green promised to "" sort "" the pension problems at BHS . In his mind - he 's @placeholder .",delivered,lying,deal,body,ambitions,0
"They arrived gradually - some shuffling in with walking sticks, others ushered in by relatives. Former rugby players - internationals and club stalwarts - were gathering for a Rugby Memories session. Two of the players were among my heroes. A single table was set up in a chilly hall at Milngavie's West of Scotland Rugby Club and it was completely covered in images from the game's history. Team photos and action stills featured many of the greats from the last 50 years. As the ex-players settled in, relatives and volunteers took them through images and slowly these elderly faces came to life. John Beattie played for Scotland and the British Lions. Last year he made a documentary about the growing evidence that repeated head injury in contact sports might lead to long term brain damage. Now he's been contacted by former players worried this may have happened to them. In this exclusive film he hears their stories and speaks to the man who was the Scotland Rugby team doctor for 30 years. The programme aims to counter the effects of dementia by stimulating memories of great moments in the game. There were several faces around the table I recognised, but I was here to see one man in particular. David Shedden was a combative, speedy wing who played for Scotland in the late 1970s. But in his early 50s he developed dementia. Now he barely speaks and his daughter Lynne said these sessions saw him at his most animated. She believes his illness may well be linked to the head knocks he experienced as a player. His nickname was ""the Spear"" given his particular tackling style, and she recounts up to 13 knockouts or concussions suffered by her father during his rugby career. And she's not the only one. After I made a documentary last year looking at the links between contact sports and brain damage I was contacted by several ex players. Now three of them feature in a film for the BBC News Scotland website. Their stories are worrying and saddening. As a former player I find it disturbing. The scientific evidence associating multiple head trauma in a sport like rugby with long-term brain damage is strong and getting stronger. Work looking at American Football players, as well those in other contact sports, has established that a specific form of dementia called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is present in the brains of former players. Increasingly, the focus is not simply on obviously concussed individuals. Researchers are focusing on the cumulative effects of many small blows to the head sustained not just in matches, but in training. However, current science can't test for CTE in living individuals, only a post-mortem examination can establish whether it is present. In the past, little was understood about the potential damage caused by multiple blows to the head. For this film I met up with Donald MacLeod. He was the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) team doctor from 1967 to 1995. He also served as president of the SRU. He is a man who was good to me and I respect him. He told me he's now convinced that some of the symptoms he saw in players in the past were early signs of CTE brought on by rugby. And he explained he often worries about what the long-term effects of playing have been on players from the '70s, '80s and '90s. Rugby has done much to improve the treatment of head injuries. Assessment of head injuries on the field and the management of them off it have been transformed. The SRU told me it was keen to hear from players who are worried they may be having health problems. Meanwhile, the amazing work of Rugby Memories goes on. It's good to know that the sport these men loved is helping them, even if it's possible that at least some of them are ill as a result of the playing careers that they treasure today. I would urge rugby players, and their families, to come forward and look for help if they think that there are signs that cause concern.",Former British Lion and Scotland international John Beattie meets ex-players who suffer from dementia and asks whether the @placeholder can be linked to head knocks they received on the pitch .,injuries,world,condition,team,ground,2
"The Dow Jones fell 0.08% to 16,272.01 points, while the S&P 500, which had spent most the day in the red, edged 0.2% higher at 1,923.82 points. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index rose 0.15% to 4,627.08. General Motors rose 2.2% and Ford 0.74% after both companies reported September car  sales that beat expectations. Data on US manufacturing activity showed near-flat activity in September, while construction spending rose to a seven-year high in August. Some oil shares looked set for solid gains at the start of trading, but Chevron closed down 0.68% and Exxon Mobil was 0.39% lower. Footwear firm Crocs was the second biggest loser on the tech-heavy Nasdaq. Its shares fell 14% after the firm cut its third quarter revenue forecast, citing a strong dollar and its decision to hold back about $6m of orders to some distributors in China. Another big loser on the Nasdaq was Dunkin Brands Group, which owns the Dunkin Donuts chain. Its shares ended down 12.24% after it announced the closure of 100 stores during this year and next. Thursday marked the first day of the fourth quarter and investors were hoping an improvement on the previous three months - which was the worst quarter for the stock market in four years. ""Historically, the third quarter tends to be a difficult quarter and the fourth quarter tends to be the best quarter of the year,"" said Randy Frederick, from stockbrokers Charles Schwab. A report on Thursday showed that new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 10,000 to 277,000 in the week ending 26 September. Friday brings the closely watched non-farm payrolls report, which will show how many jobs the US economy created in September.",( Close ) : Wall Street ended little changed as investors digested @placeholder economic data and awaited Friday 's jobs figures .,beat,control,following,scraped,mixed,4
"The famously macho leader scored eight goals - with a little help from stars like Pavel Bure and Valeri Kamensky - and his team won 18-6. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev sat out the friendly in the stands. Mr Putin, better known for his love of judo, only recently took up hockey and clearly enjoyed himself. His performance on skates drew jokes on social media. Mashable correspondent Christopher Miller reported in a tweet, ""Underdog #Putin, scoring 8 goals, leads Stars hockey team to surprise 18-6 victory in #Sochi"". ""This is Russian media's version of a cute puppy video,"" tweeted Russian sports writer Slava Malamud. The Sochi match, held to celebrate 70 years since Victory in World War Two, coincided with Russia's national hockey team winning the semi-final in the ice hockey world championship against the US 4-0. It will play Canada in the final on Sunday. In March, questions were raised about the health of Mr Putin, who plunged the world into uncertainty last year by annexing Crimea from Ukraine, when he disappeared from public view for 10 days before re-emerging without explanation. His athletic, action man image has long been cultivated by the Kremlin with the three-term president doing everything from riding bare-chested to boarding a fighter jet. Mr Putin's semi-official personality cult took yet another turn on Saturday when a Cossack group near the northern city of St Petersburg unveiled a bust of the Russian president, depicted like a Roman emperor.",Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken to the ice aged 62 to score goal after goal in a gala hockey match with @placeholder NHL players in Sochi .,struggling,targeting,motor,battling,retired,4
"More than a quarter of primary and four in 10 secondary schools are ethnically divided, the social integration charity, The Challenge, found. It says almost a third of primary and a quarter of secondary schools are segregated along socio-economic lines. The Department for Education says all schools are expected to promote social integration and British values. Researchers from The Challenge - working with the iCoCo Foundation and SchoolDash - measured how segregated a school was by comparing its numbers of white British pupils and those eligible for free school meals with those of the 10 schools closest to them. They used official statistics for the years 2011 to 2016, examining more than 20,000 state schools. Areas singled out for particular concern were: The researchers regarded a school to be ""segregated"" if the proportion of ethnic minority pupils or pupils on free school meals was very different to the proportions at the neighbouring schools. They found secondary schools were more likely to be segregated by ethnicity than socio-economic status, while primary schools were more likely to be segregated along socio-economic lines. Primary faith schools were more ethnically segregated than those of no faith (29% against 25%) when compared with neighbouring schools, the study found. Faith-based primary schools were also more likely to have a wealthier student population, with over one in four (27%) having significantly fewer pupils from more disadvantaged homes than other nearby schools; this compared with 17% of non-faith primaries. Grammar schools - which Theresa May's government wants to expand - were heavily segregated by social background, the research found. Some 98% of these selective schools had low numbers of poorer pupils, compared with their local schools, and none had pupil populations with high numbers of children eligible for free school meals. The study also suggested that in some areas the situation was worsening - with primaries becoming more ethnically segregated over the past five years in more than half of the 150 areas examined. Jon Yates, director of The Challenge, said: ""At a local and national level, government needs to commit to doing much more to reduce school segregation. ""We know that when communities live separately, anxiety and prejudice flourish, whereas when people from different backgrounds mix, it leads to more trusting and cohesive communities and opens up opportunities for social mobility. ""We urge local authorities, faith schools and academy chains to consider the impact admissions policies have upon neighbouring schools and put policies in place that encourage better school and community integration."" Responding to the findings, a Department for Education spokesman said: ""We expect all schools to promote social integration and the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect for different faiths and beliefs. ""Our free schools programme already encourages applications for free schools which aim to bring together pupils from different ethnic or faith groups, and our consultation, Schools That Work For Everyone, includes faith schools setting up twinning arrangements with others not of their religion so that pupils mix with children from different communities and backgrounds. ""But we know there is more to do. The Casey Review highlighted a number of issues around levels of ethnic segregation in school intakes in some areas of the country. The government is considering the review and its recommendations and will respond in due course.""","Thousands of state schools across England are segregated along ethnic or social @placeholder , according to research .",facilities,effect,risk,grounds,categories,3
"Harcourt Developments lost the contract for the Esplanade Quarter in 2009. The firm is attempting to take Senator Philip Ozouf and the States of Jersey Development Company (SOJDC) to court. The SOJDC said the agreement was terminated after the firm was not forthcoming when asked for evidence it could finance the development. The firm said it signed an agreement in 2007 making it the preferred development partner to build 400 homes, offices and a public garden on the Esplanade Quarter. Harcourt began the process of initiating legal action last year. In a preliminary hearing in the Royal Court, Solicitor General Howard Sharp, representing Senator Ozouf, argued the minister and the States had the final say over whether the development would go ahead. The company's lawyers argue the agreement at that stage was binding. Further legal arguments are due to be heard in two weeks before Bailiff Sir Michael Birt decides whether it will go to court. In 2012 the Jersey Development Company released plans for an international finance centre on the site with work due to start in 2013.","Jersey 's treasury minister @placeholder the terms of a contract for a development on St Helier 's waterfront , a court has heard during a pre-trial hearing .",control,criticised,reversed,breached,announced,3
"The museum has had 1.7m visitors since the start of April, 25% up on 2012, and was the UK's most popular cultural attraction for the sixth year running. Visits in May were up 42% up on last year and were the highest on record. ""What's really pleasing about those figures is that visitors are so young,"" said museum director Neil MacGregor. The report for 2012/13 said the 43% of visitors were aged between 16-34. Future shows will include an in-depth look at sex in Japanese art and an exhibition on Germany in 2014 to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. ""Germany is a critical force in the shaping of Europe,"" Mr MacGregor told the BBC. ""We want to look at the long history of Germany and how German identity is shaped by elements from its deep past. ""Most of us in Britain tend to think of German history as essentially from 1914 to now. They are hugely important years but they are part of a much longer story."" The current blockbuster show Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum achieved its original visitor target of 250,000 in three months of a six-month run. It is on course to be the third most popular charging exhibition in the British Museum's history - after 1972's Treasures of Tutankhamun and 2007's The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army. The exhibition Shakespeare: Staging the world was seen by more than 105,000 visitors, while Ice Age Art closed in early June with more than 90,000 visitors - a 133% increase on the original target of 40,000. Overall, the British Museum had more than 5.575 million visitors in 2011/2012, slightly down on the previous year's 5.8 million visitors. Mr MacGregor also said the British Museum would have to ""think very carefully"" how to accommodate an expected 5% cut in government funding to museums for 2015-2016. ""We don't know what we'll be able to continue to do, or what we'll have to reduce,"" he said. ""Here you have very successful museums in London and how we can keep offering to our visitors what they want is going to be the big challenge.""","The British Museum 's Pompeii and Ice Age exhibitions have @placeholder attract record numbers of visitors this year , the museum 's annual report has said .",achieved,been,fallen,helped,reported,3
"Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk and David Miller, 24, of Jersey, were killed on the island of Koh Tao. Laura Witheridge said police ""bungled"" the investigation and had ""nothing to tell us"". She said she feels frightened after being sent defaced photographs from people in Thailand. The Thai Embassy and Royal Thai Police have been asked to comment. Burmese migrants Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were last month convicted of the 2014 murders and sentenced to death. Laura Witheridge made her comments in a public post on Facebook, which has since been shared more than 4,000 times, but has declined to speak to the BBC about the claims. It comes after the family of Isle of Wight bricklayer Luke Miller, found dead in Kao Tao last week, said it had concerns over the inquiry into his death. Miss Witheridge said her family had been expecting a briefing when they travelled to Thailand soon after Hannah's death to collect her body, but were instead ""ambushed by a mob of hungry journalists"" at police headquarters. ""The Thai police chief had no intentions of giving us an update… after all, the bungled investigation meant he had nothing to tell us,"" she said. She claims she has had ""many death threats from Thai people"" since her sister's murder, has been sent crime scene photographs and been chased in her car. ""They defaced photographs of me saying that the killers had only done 'half the job'… people commented on these photographs saying things like 'there is still time', and 'tick tock tick tock'. Miss Witheridge, who claims Thailand's ""aesthetic beauty can lure you into a very dangerous trap"", said she was now frightened of her own shadow and is constantly looking over her shoulder. ""I am exhausted, but frightened to sleep because of the nightmares. I miss my sister desperately,"" she said. ""My heart is heavy and my mind is tired."" Amnesty International has called for an independent inquiry over allegations Thai police tortured both defendants during the inquiry. On their conviction in December Michael Miller, David's brother, urged those who had doubted the accused's guilt to respect the court's decision.",The sister of a Thai murder victim has @placeholder the police inquiry into the case and says she got death threats .,called,demanded,criticised,sparked,extended,2
"The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) launched a probe last month into information provided to the Macpherson Inquiry in 1998 by ex-Met Police commissioner Lord Stevens. The watchdog said it was trying to establish if any senior officers failed to provide truthful accounts. Lord Stevens has denied any wrongdoing. In an outline of its investigation, the IPCC said in a statement that they were investigating ""whether there was a failure of top rank or very senior police officers including, but not limited to, the former Metropolitan Police Service commissioner Lord Stevens to provide full, frank and truthful information on the issue of corruption to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1998"". The IPCC added it would also investigate why no further response was provided to the inquiry following a formal request to be updated on developments about relevant anti-corruption enquiries. Lord Stevens was Deputy Commissioner of the Met from 1998 to 2000 while the Macpherson report was being compiled. The report, which found evidence of institutionalised racism within the force, was ordered following concerns about its investigation into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack by a gang of white youths in April 1993. In a letter sent to the inquiry in June 1998, Lord Stevens said no officer or former officer involved in giving evidence at the inquiry was under investigation for corruption. However, a review of the case last year by Mark Ellison QC found corruption allegations about a Met Police detective who worked on the original investigation into the killing should have been revealed to the inquiry. Following the release of the Ellison review last year, Neville Lawrence complained to the Met Police, which referred itself to the IPCC. It took more than 18 years to bring two of Mr Lawrence's killers - Gary Dobson and David Norris - to justice. They were found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey in January 2012, and given life sentences.",An investigation into evidence given to the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry by a former Met Police chief has @placeholder to include other senior officers .,voted,widened,promised,refused,revealed,1
"He cited the Budapest government's treatment of refugees, independence of the judiciary and freedom of the press. ""Hungary is not far away from issuing orders to open fire on refugees,"" he suggested. Hungary said Mr Asselborn ""could not be taken seriously"". EU leaders meet in Slovakia on Friday to discuss the union's future. Mr Asselborn's interview with German daily Die Welt is likely to inflame passions ahead of the summit. The EU could not tolerate ""such inappropriate behaviour"", he said, and any state that violated such basic values ""should be excluded temporarily, or if necessary for ever, from the EU''.  It was ""the only possibility to protect the cohesion and values of the European Union,'' he said. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto hit back, saying that his Luxembourg counterpart had ""long left the ranks of politicians who could be taken seriously"". Mr Asselborn was a ""frivolous character"", he said, adding that he was  ""patronising, arrogant and frustrated"". Mr Asselborn's remarks also drew condemnation from Latvia's foreign minister, who spoke of ""megaphone diplomacy"". And German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a personal friend of the Luxembourg minister, said while he could understand some in Europe were ""becoming impatient, it is not my personal approach to show a member state the door"". Hungary joined the EU in 2004 and while the European Union can reject or delay a candidate from joining, it is not thought to have the power to expel an existing member state. When the far-right Freedom Party joined Austria's government in 2000, EU member states responded by freezing bilateral diplomatic relations with Austria. Later that year the EU ended Austria's diplomatic isolation. Hungary was caught up in an enormous influx of migrants and refugees a year ago as more than a million people headed through central Europe from the shores of Greece towards Germany and other Western European countries. Eventually, it sealed its borders with Serbia and Croatia and built a 175km (110-mile) razor-wire fence to stop people crossing on their way to Austria. Some 10,000 police and soldiers have been deployed to guard the frontier. Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has reacted with fury. The head of Hungarian diplomacy described his Luxembourg counterpart as a ""classic nihilist"" who worked tirelessly to destroy Europe's security and culture. By way of contrast, Hungary was defending not only its own territory, but that of the EU as well, the foreign minister insisted. ""Only Hungarians have the right to decide who they wish to live with."" The number of migrants trying to enter Hungary has fallen dramatically in recent weeks. At the Horgos Transit Zone on the Hungary-Serbian border, only 80 were waiting on Monday, down from 800 on some days in July. Beside the Kelebia Transit Zone there were about 60, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Some had been living in atrocious conditions next to the razor wire fence for more than 10 weeks. Approximately 4,500 migrants are currently in camps in Serbia. Most are now trying alternative routes to Europe through Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia. A referendum takes place on 2 October when Hungarians will be asked to decide on an EU quota to take in refugees. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has strongly criticised the EU's plans to relocate 160,000 refugees across the bloc and his government has campaigned vigorously for a No vote. Mr Asselborn, whose country is a founder member of the EU, complained that Hungary's border fence was getting higher, longer and more dangerous. His remark that Hungary was not far from ordering live fire is likely to refer to a decision by police earlier this month to recruit 3,000 ""border-hunters"". The new force will carry pepper spray and pistols with live ammunition as part of their task to keep migrants out. In the Treaty on European Union (Article 2) EU values are spelt out as ""human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities"". The EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights became legally binding on national governments as well as the EU's institutions, as part of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty. Those rights and freedoms range from freedom of thought and expression to the right to asylum, a fair trial and fair working conditions. As a condition of membership of the EU, a candidate country has to fulfil 35 separate chapters of requirements including an independent judiciary.","Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has called for Hungary to be @placeholder or even expelled from the European Union because of its "" massive violation "" of EU fundamental values .",declared,disbanded,diverted,excluded,suspended,4
"In recent years producers of new world wines have been particularly enthusiastic about embracing what's known as ""precision viticulture"" according to David Green, a geography professor at the University of Aberdeen who specialises in the subject. Special Report: The Technology of Business Dubai's cafe creatives India's digital switchover begins Connecting Mogadishu Top toys get techy for Christmas TV's zombie apocalypse Workplaces that build Africa's future Precision viticulture (PV) is the gathering of all sorts of data about a vineyard, from sunny spots to soil humidity, which is then mapped and analysed in order to grow the best grapes possible on the optimum parts of the site. ""Most precision viticulture originated in America and Australia,"" said Prof Green. ""Commercial vineyards have a lot more money and the vineyards are that much bigger. In France the process is still very traditional. We have been a bit slower in the UK... the wine industry in Britain started out very much as a hobby-type approach."" The first step is to get aerial images of the entire vineyard. When Prof Green began his work on PV in the 1980s, model aeroplanes were being fitted with a camera and flown overhead to gather the photography. These days, the equipment is a little more sophisticated - Prof Green uses a Parrot AR Drone controlled by an iPad and captures both stills photographs and video on two cameras - one on the front and one facing downwards. ""Model aircraft are quite hard to fly,"" he said. ""This took 10 minutes to get the flight perfected and it only cost £300. NASA have got drones working - a lot of the technology was very experimental early on."" The aerial photography forms the basis of a vineyard map, against which other data such as soil sample results can be plotted and GPS coordinates for the optimum areas for grape growing can be identified. ""In North America the harvesting equipment is designed to harvest vast areas,"" said Prof Green. ""The whole process is guided by a GPS platform, the picking device is guided by GPS programmed for the particular site. The planting of vines is often done by GPS as well."" But hi-tech photography is set to play an even greater role in viticulture. ""People have been mapping soil from aerial pictures for years but obviously over time the images have got better,"" said Professor Green. ""We can use thermal images as well to pick out differences in soil."" The next logical step is to take hyperspectural images. Hyperspectural cameras use the entire electromagnetic spectrum to take an image that contains more than can be seen by the human eye. Could the data captured by one of those replace more traditional fieldwork like soil analysis? ""I know of a project in Spain where they are using a hyperspectural camera,"" said Prof Green. ""You can get a lot more information out of that imagery. It could mean we won't need to do any more soil sampling. We are pretty close."" Once the data is gathered it is all fed in to a processor called a Geographical Information System (GIS) - available as laptop software but also now in tablet and smartphone app form. ""Apps have grown quite a lot,"" said Prof Green. ""I tested some [GIS apps] recently on a Samsung Galaxy tablet and mobile - they worked well. You can walk around with a GIS on a handheld device and monitor air temperature, wind direction, put a soil moisture probe in the soil and upload the results."" Using the GIS not only can the vineyard owner get a complete picture of the state of their entire vineyard, but it can also track changes and monitor seasonal fluctuations year-on-year. ""It's almost a desktop tool but not every vineyard is doing it yet,"" said Prof Green. ""A lot of vineyards don't keep these sort of records at all."" It sounds like some of them still need persuading, though. Sam Lindo's parents Bob and Annie started the Camel Valley vineyard in Cornwall in 1989. Mr Lindo, who studied statistics at university, now works with them and studied historical weather data to get an idea of the suitability of the Cornish climate for growing grapes. ""We worked out that in the 1950s and 1960s there wasn't one year when we would have got grapes,"" he said. ""In the 1970s, there was one, in the 1980s, there were three."" Despite his enthusiasm for data Mr Lindo believes the Camel Valley vineyard is too small for aerial imaging and precision viticulture to play a significant role in its management. ""Technology is nice to have but for us our main technology focus is on more mechanically engineered things - machines that do stuff,"" he said. ""For winemaking we have an infra-red analysing device called an Oenofoss which can tell you everything you need to know about a wine from just one drop."" But with a price tag of 20,000 Euros (£16,000), the Oenofoss is the company's only ""luxury tech"", Mr Lindo said. ""Winemaking has always had the same principles but there's a few extra things that give you more control over the process,"" he added. ""It's still a natural product though. The biggest technology thing for us has been Twitter - that's really great for our business.""","Unmanned aircraft , satellite mapping and @placeholder sensors controlled by tablet computers - not 21st century espionage but 21st century wine making .",ground,drug,weather,prop,remote,0
"The boy, who is understood to have fallen from a yacht in Split, was from Moycullen in County Galway, and was a student at NUI Galway. He was among a group of 40 young people who had been attending a music festival and the group was due home this week. The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance and the Irish Embassy in Zagreb is liaising with the family of the boy.",An teenager from the Republic of Ireland has @placeholder in Croatia .,died,started,collapsed,drowned,appeared,3
"Richard Matt and David Sweat went missing from the prison in Dannemora, near the Canadian border, on 6 June. Officers descended on the hamlet of Friendship, 300 miles (480km) to the south, near the border with Pennsylvania. Officers were also looking at another site in a neighbouring county. Police said they were responding to a sighting in Friendship of two men walking along a railway. They reportedly searched every vehicle along the Interstate 86 road and ordered all residents to stay indoors overnight. Much of the search appeared to centre on dense woodland, with nearly 150 police officers involved. Police said there had also been a sighting matching the men's description a week ago in Steuben County, New York, which is next to Allegany County, where Friendship is located. Another search took place in Steuben County, focusing on a building site in the town of Erwin. Matt, 49, was convicted of the kidnap, torture and dismemberment of his former boss, whose body was found in pieces in a river. Sweat, 35, was serving life for his part in the killing of a sheriff's deputy who witnessed stolen guns being handled. They cut through brick and steel at the Clinton Correctional Facility, before crawling through an underground pipe. They then emerged from a manhole outside the prison's 40-foot (12-metre) walls. They left a taunting note for prison authorities to find. Workshop instructor Joyce Mitchell, 51, has appeared in court accused of befriending the two men and giving them contraband. She also planned to be the pair's getaway driver, but changed her mind at the last minute, investigators say.",Police have launched a major search operation after a reported sighting of two convicted @placeholder who escaped from a prison in New York state .,killers,team,artefacts,deal,men,0
"The world number 11 came back from 9-1 down against Hong Kong's Fu, only to lose 13-11. ""I shouldn't use that match against Ronnie as an excuse but it just seems to have happened every time I've won a big match here,"" Hawkins said. ""In the next session I have come out and been terrible."" Hawkins had to face Fu less than 15 hours after his epic victory over pre-tournament favourite O'Sullivan, which he completed late on Monday. ""It must have some sort of effect on me because you're buzzing all night and can't sleep,"" Hawkins, 37, added. ""I felt really good at the end. I thought if I could just get going I wouldn't lose a decider. ""It was a battle to get back into that match but that first session cost me and it was too much of a mountain to climb after that."" But Hawkins, who had reached at least the last four at the Crucible in his previous three visits, felt upbeat about next season after a much-improved 2016. The London-born left hander was a beaten finalist in the Masters at the start of the year and also made the semi-finals of the Players Championship. ""I have to draw the positives because I almost pulled off an amazing comeback,"" the 2013 World Championship runner-up said. ""And since Christmas I've been good - I was a bit ropey before Christmas and my form wasn't good. ""I've had some good tournaments in 2016 and a great result here beating Ronnie - it is something I will look back on in years to come. ""Not many people have done that here over the years and it was all positive after Christmas so I've got to take that into next season now.""","Barry Hawkins said his @placeholder final - frame win over Ronnie O'Sullivan was the reason for his "" terrible "" start in his quarter - final defeat by Marco Fu.",name,post,draining,disappointing,form,2
"16 February 2016 Last updated at 20:07 GMT She was reacting to concerns from the watchdog - the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority - about the way some Assembly Members have been overturning refusals of their expenses claims. The body which runs Stormont, the Assembly Commission, is to meet on Wednesday to discuss the issue. BBC News NI's political correspondent Gareth Gordon reports.",Northern Ireland 's First Minister Arlene Foster has said the Stormont Assembly should move to an expenses @placeholder similar to the one in place at Westminster .,team,statement,identity,information,system,4
"Herbert Kilpin left Nottingham to work in Italy in the 1890s and later set up the club, becoming the team's first superstar in the process. Robert Nieri has been fundraising for a plaque to go outside his birthplace to mark 100 years since his death. He said Kilpin was the ""father of Italian football"" and deserved more recognition in Nottingham. You can read more stories about people who have helped shape sport on our Pinterest board The footballer, who was born at the back of a butcher's shop in Mansfield Road, started Milan Football and Cricket Club in 1899. Kilpin led the club to its first three championships and even designed its legendary red and black striped shirt. He died in 1916, aged 46, and his grave was believed lost until a historian tracked it down. In 1999, AC Milan paid for a new tombstone and he was reburied in the Monumental Cemetery in Milan. Kilpin's name adorns shirts in Milan and his image can be seen on giant banners on match days. However, in Nottingham, there has been little recognition of his achievements and writer Mr Nieri set out to change that. ""We need to bring Kilpin to the fore,"" he said. ""He is the founder of one of the most successful clubs in the world and the father of Italian football. ""He taught the Italians to play. He's massive [in Milan]."" On 22 October, the 100th anniversary of Kilpin's death, a ceremony will take place outside his birthplace, and the Sheriff of Nottingham will name a bus after him. Mr Nieri, whose book The Lord of Milan is set to be released, is also due to fly to Italy to start filming a documentary about the star. The humble man who made Milan Details about Herbert Kilpin's remarkable life only started to emerge over the past few decades. How did a whisky-guzzling, chain-smoking son of a butcher from Nottingham come to set up one of the world's biggest and most successful clubs? Other English ex-pats helped him, of course, but it is Kilpin who has remained in the imagination here and in Italy. While his friends became part of the fledgling Italian football association, Kilpin just wanted to play football. And that is why, according to some, he is a ""grassroots football icon"" - concerned only by what happened on the pitch. It is hoped more recognition of his story will inspire a generation of young footballers. Source: The Lord of Milan",An Englishman credited with founding football giants AC Milan is to be @placeholder in his home city .,honoured,launched,marked,remembered,expected,0
"Moore, 69, said the women's game ""rides on the coat-tails"" of the men - a view described as ""sexist"" by the United States Tennis Association (USTA). Women's world number one Serena Williams said Moore's statement was ""offensive and very inaccurate"". But her male counterpart, Novak Djokovic, claimed his tour should fight for more money. Media playback is not supported on this device Moore said female players ""should get down on their knees"" in thanks to male counterparts such as Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. The South African - a former player - later apologised for his ""erroneous"" remarks. Tennis legend Martina Navratilova said Moore's comments were ""extremely prejudiced"", adding female players may boycott Indian Wells if Moore stayed. Djokovic, who won the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells on Sunday, described Moore's remarks as ""not politically correct"". But the 28-year-old Serb suggested men should get more prize money because more people watch their matches. Media playback is not supported on this device There has been equal prize money in all four majors - the Australian Open, US Open, French Open and Wimbledon - since 2007, and combined Masters events such as Indian Wells and Miami pay the same to men and women. In a statement, Indian Wells tournament owner Larry Ellison said: ""Ray let me know he has decided to step down from his roles as CEO and tournament director effective immediately. I fully understand his decision."" Speaking in a BBC Radio 5 live special on equality in sport, former badminton world champion Gail Emms said: ""If was Novak Djokovic, I would feel aggrieved as well."" The Briton, an Olympic silver medallist, added: ""I don't like saying this, but it is easier to be a top female athlete than it is for males, because purely on numbers, how hard you've got to work to get up there. ""I'm not saying the top female athletes don't work hard, and the ones at the top are fantastic athletes and sacrifice and dedicate a lot. It's just a numbers game."" Other arguments so far:",Indian Wells tournament chief Raymond Moore has @placeholder after his controversial comments about women 's tennis .,questioned,defended,died,quit,spoken,3
"The Winning Express, which was promoted by ex-Premiership footballers Steve Claridge and David Hirst, offered huge, risk-free returns. BBC Moneybox found authorities were repeatedly warned about the scheme, in which more than 1,000 people invested. There is no suggestion Mr Claridge or Mr Hirst were guilty of wrongdoing. The Winning Express was allegedly run by Graham Bradbury, 69, who had previously been banned from being a company director for running a pyramid scheme. He died in Spain in November, the Foreign Office confirmed. Investors in The Winning Express were guaranteed 2% tax-free interest per month - or 27% annually - through placing ""sporting arbitrage"" bets. The scheme began in 2011, taking out newspaper and radio adverts in Spain, as well as later being promoted in a YouTube video by both Mr Claridge and Mr Hirst. At first, investors received payouts as promised, and others signed up through word of mouth. Commissions were awarded for recruiting new investors - a feature described by pyramid scheme experts as a ""red flag"". Investor John O'Brien, a retired stockbroker who lives in Spain, says his family invested £100,000. He said: ""I wasn't convinced at first. But once it was explained I opened a Betfair account. ""I put £50 in it, had a go at arbitrage, and was pleasantly surprised that you made money. That convinced me that this was something really good."" Under the system, bets are placed with different bookies on all possible outcomes of a particular event, resulting in a profit or break-even whatever the result. The technique exploits the fact that bookies offer varying odds on an event. While it is possible to make money from sporting arbitrage, professional gamblers say getting rich is difficult, if not impossible. Bookies close the accounts of those repeatedly betting on 'arbs'. Professional gambler Toby Aldous said: ""They have exactly what the players have, a feed which tells them all the arbs which have happened. ""They can see who's betting on arbs all day and close their accounts."" Mr Aldous said there was a glass ceiling on how much players can make from sporting arbitrage. Told the interest rate offered by Winning Express, he said: ""I do not believe that."" A document seen by the BBC lists 1,068 The Winning Express clients, with some individuals investing six-figure sums. The listed clients invested just over £27m in total and another £2.1m in a fund purportedly to invest in thoroughbred horses. But in 2015, payments became erratic. Then, in September 2016, The Winning Express ceased operating. Mr O'Brien, who heads a consortium taking legal action over the scheme, said: ""Had the authorities been more on the ball, most of the clients would never have invested. ""Lives would not have been ruined. ""If the police act fast there's a chance it [remaining money] can be traced and returned to the people to whom it rightly belongs."" Every investor contacted by the BBC named Mr Bradbury as the man behind The Winning Express. He was made bankrupt in 2013 over a pyramid scheme called Cherries that left investors £500,000 out of pocket. The Insolvency Service forbade him from ""promoting, forming or managing"" a company without the court's permission for 12 years. The Winning Express was run through a company called Milton Express, established in the Seychelles, where directors have anonymity. It operated in the UK via a third party company with offices in Sheffield. The BBC has seen emails sent by Mr Bradbury connecting him to The Winning Express and a screenshot of the Milton Express bank account at Mauritius Commercial Bank bearing his name. Rachel Adamson, a partner at Stephenson's Solicitors and pyramid scheme expert, said there were numerous red flags. These included high interest rates with zero risk, Mr Bradbury's previous history and the use of initial returns to generate ""good references"". The Winning Express was reported to the Financial Conduct Authority in May 2014 and the Serious Fraud Office by January 2015. It was reported to Action Fraud in July 2015 and was also on the radar of the Gambling Commission, yet a formal investigation was only launched by South Yorkshire Police this September. South Yorkshire Police said this week the investigation was international and therefore not for the force to pursue. ""The force is exploring which agency is the most appropriate to carry out such a complex and prolonged investigation,"" a spokeswoman said. It is not clear what if any agency is now investigating. All the authorities involved defended their own roles in the case, while the family of Mr Bradbury have made no comment. Both Mr Claridge and Mr Hirst said they were not involved in the running of the arbitrage operation. There is no suggestion either was aware of suspicions over the scheme. Mr Claridge, who invested in the scheme himself, insisted he did due diligence on the company before promoting it.",Investors in a £ 27 m sports betting investment scheme which has now @placeholder fear all their money will be lost if the authorities fail to act .,claimed,denied,grown,collapsed,criticised,3
"The champions lead nearest challengers Linfield by five points as they prepare to host Glenavon on Saturday. ""It's a tough time of the year as there are lots of games to play and crucial points at stake,"" said Baxter. ""I'm pleased with where we are at but there is such a long way to go in the campaign. We take one game at a time."" ""We want to get a few of our players. like skipper Colin Coates, fit. Games against Glenavon have been hard fought in recent years and there is little between the teams. They have quality talented players,"" added the Crues boss. Crusaders have won five of their last seven Premiership games by a 1-0 scoreline, while Glenavon lie sixth in the table and lost at home to Carrick Rangers in a League Cup semi-final in midweek. Meanwhile, it will be second against fourth at Windsor Park, as David Jeffrey returns to Windsor Park for the first time as a manager in the opposing dugout when his Ballymena United side take on Linfield. The Sky Blues will be buoyant after clinching a place in February's League Cup decider but Jeffrey is keen to bring his charges back down to earth for the Premiership clash. ""Extra-time did not help us and we had some tired legs after the game on Tuesday night but we must patch ourselves up and give a good account of ourselves. the league is our bread and butter,"" said Jeffrey. ""I spent nearly 30 years of my life at Windsor Park in one capacity or another so I don't need to tell people how special the club is to me. I enjoyed tremendous times and success there. ""But, knowing me, they will also understand that I'll be going there as manager of Ballymena and I want to do my best for the club I'm serving now,"" he added. Third-placed Cliftonville boast six wins and a draw from their last seven top-flight outings before their trip to Taylor's Avenue to face Carrick Rangers. Ards will have new boss Colin Nixon in charge for the first time as they travel to play a Coleraine team, who have lost their last four matches in all competitions, failing to score in any of them. The Bannsiders wait for news of the fitness of goalkeeper Chris Johns, who suffered an injury during the derby cup semi-final defeat by Ballymena. Ballinamallard manager Gavin Dykes intends adding at least three players to his squad during the January transfer window and has called on his team to ""bring the same attitude and intensity"" to their game with Glentoran that they showed against Crusaders last week. The Mallards have taken four points off Glentoran in their last two meetings but Glens boss Gary Haveron has yet to be beaten away from home since his appointment in late September. Niall Currie goes into his first fixture at Shamrock Park as Portadown manager without defender Ken Oman, who begins a six-match ban, Sam Simpson, who is unavailable, and Sean Mackle and Alan Byrne, who are sidelined because of injuries. The Ports have won one of their previous 14 league outings, have tasted defeat in their last seven home games and have lost five in a row against Dungannon. The Swifts are on a much better run of form, winning three of their last four in the league, with striker Andrew Mitchell instrumental in that sequence of results. Mitchell is the league's top scorer with 14 and has found the net on four occasions in his last four games.","Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter has emphasised that he and his players will "" take nothing for granted "" as they go into a busy @placeholder of festive fixtures .",night,signing,season,period,generation,3
"These are tough times for the 19-nation eurozone, as its recovery from the debt crisis remains anaemic, with persistently high unemployment and weak growth. What are the key issues that will dominate the leaders' talks in Brussels on Thursday and Friday? Avoiding Greek default and Grexit €320bn Greece's debt mountain €240bn European bailout 177% country's debt-to-GDP ratio 25% fall in GDP since 2010 26% Greek unemployment rate Greece is just days away from possible default and empty coffers. Eurozone finance ministers meet again on Wednesday, to decide whether the Greek government's new reform package meets the bailout conditions. That could determine whether the leaders arrive smiling or grim-faced. Agreement would provide only a temporary breathing space. Greece would not crash out of the euro, a bank run could be avoided, but Greece's debt mountain is 177% of GDP - nearly double the country's total annual economic output. A deal would unblock the €7.2bn (£5bn; $8bn) of bailout money that Greece desperately needs. But Greece will need tens of billions of euros more in future, to make its economy viable and pay off its colossal debts. The Greek crisis affects market confidence in the euro. But it is also a clash of visions about Europe. Richer countries such as Germany and the Netherlands demand budgetary rigour and refuse to end up subsidising indebted southern Europeans. The leftist Greek government and many ordinary Greeks reject austerity and the liberal free market agenda. The anti-austerity mood is also strong in Spain and other EU countries hit hard by the debt crisis. Is Greece close to Grexit? Why should I care about Greece? Deepening monetary union EU leaders believe that eurozone stability depends on further integration, co-ordinating economic targets. The debt crisis dramatically exposed how weaknesses in one country could undermine its eurozone partners. But getting there is politically fraught - populists across Europe have made gains in elections by rejecting the ""ever closer union"" idea. A blueprint for deeper eurozone integration has been written by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and other top EU officials, including European Central Bank President Mario Draghi. It will be a focus of the talks, and among its proposals are: Treaty change is considered necessary to give a solid legal basis to economic integration. The document suggests, however, that treaty change would be postponed until after general elections in France and Germany in 2017. The UK and other EU states outside the euro - including Denmark and Poland - want the eurozone to prosper, but not if it means a two-tier system with eurozone countries setting the agenda and rules for the single market. Eurozone ministers agree bank deal UK renegotiation UK Prime Minister David Cameron will not want Greece to dominate the summit talks, because he wants to get support among the leaders for EU reforms meaningful enough to persuade a sceptical British public. This summit is his launch pad for renegotiation of the UK's EU membership terms, ahead of the UK in/out referendum promised by the end of 2017. Mr Cameron has had meetings with national leaders individually, on a European tour. He will need to get all 27 other member states to sign up to new arrangements for the UK. The EU principle of free movement of people is non-negotiable - EU leaders have made that clear to Mr Cameron. But there is scope for change in the rules on migrants' benefits - a key issue for the UK Conservatives. Mr Cameron is also expected to push for an opt-out from the EU's ""ever closer union"" ambition, and for guarantees that the rights of ""euro outs"" will not be watered down - especially in the single market - as eurozone integration advances. Q&A: UK's planned EU referendum Migrant influx EU solidarity is under severe strain because of the surge in migrants fleeing Libya aboard unseaworthy boats bound for Italy. Tensions rose when France blocked hundreds of African migrants at the Italian border. But any re-imposition of border controls would violate the spirit of the EU's Schengen agreement. Greece is also struggling with record numbers of migrants - and the boats will probably keep coming in the summer months. A Mediterranean naval operation has been launched to track people-smuggling networks. The EU wants to get a UN mandate to use force to stop the people-smugglers. The European Commission has drawn up plans to ease the burden faced by Italy and Greece, but the idea of mandatory quotas for moving migrants to other EU countries is not popular. The plan is to relocate 60,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea, who fled war and/or persecution. Economic migrants would not qualify. France and Germany say the Commission's ""distribution key"" for relocating them needs further work. And several East European countries reject mandatory quotas, saying migrants do not want to be told where to live. Who are the Med's migrants? Why is EU struggling with migrants and asylum? Tensions with Russia The EU decided this week to extend the sanctions against Russia until the end of January 2016. So that is unlikely to take up much time at the summit. Russia is still helping the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine with heavy weapons and troops, Western leaders say. Moscow denies that. But the sanctions are hurting the EU too, with Russia blocking imports of Western food. Italy and Greece are among the countries eager to get sanctions eased or lifted. But there has to be progress towards a peace settlement in Ukraine for that to happen. Continuing clashes in eastern Ukraine mean that the rebels and Ukrainian government forces are still far from the targets agreed in the Minsk ceasefire deal.","Another "" crunch "" EU summit looms - it sounds like a cliche , but the EU leaders ' in - tray really is @placeholder high this time .",achieving,looming,up,piled,emerging,3
"The 21-year-old has scored 28 points in Scarlets' past two games, including 17 in Sunday's 22-22 European Champions Cup draw against Saracens. Scarlets boss Wayne Pivac said: ""He has held his own against some of the most experienced fly-halves in world rugby."" Jones said: ""Hopefully I can repay the coaches for their faith in me.""","Fly - half Dan Jones has signed a contract extension that will keep him at Scarlets for what the @placeholder describe as "" the next few years "" .",region,retirement,media,times,nomination,0
"Here's another.  ""This work will be led by a new, dedicated minister for mental health - a key ask of the Liberal Democrat manifesto"". And here's a third.  ""We will examine a proposal in the Labour manifesto to extend the minor ailments service…."" The astute among you - and that includes all readers of these musings, ipso facto - will have spotted the gap. No place for the Conservatives. That fits Nicola Sturgeon's thinking - which is to the effect that the Tories may yet be squeezed out in a parliament where, she argues, there is potentially ""a clear progressive majority"". Indeed, she went further, arguing that cross-party opposition could be assembled to key UK government policies such as the renewal of Trident. So were those other parties in the supposed progressive consensus grateful for the name checks from the first minister? Friends, they were not. Perhaps Labour's Kezia Dugdale was feeling the pain of being called to speak after Ruth Davidson of the Conservatives. But I thought this was a faintly grumpy contribution from the Labour leader. For example, she had rather a neat anecdote to tell about her encounter with a robot called Baxter. (I'm told by those who know these things that Baxter is a baddie in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) The purpose of Ms Dugdale's tale was to remind us that technology poses economic opportunities - but also potential threats to manual labour. However, she recounted the episode in such a static fashion that its impact was palpably lessened. No doubt, to paraphrase Tennyson, she will eventually rise on stepping stones of her stunned party to higher things. Again perhaps understandably, today's speech was largely a restatement of comments made - about tax, about spending - during the election. For the Greens, Patrick Harvie thanked Ms Sturgeon for the reference to one of his party's policies - but then proceeded to remind her, bluntly, that she lacked a majority and would require chums. Ditto Willie Rennie, who also revisited election themes - but rather more brightly - when he suggested that Ms Sturgeon faced a choice between aspiration and timidity. Guess which he reckons she is pursuing right now. He then compared Ms Sturgeon to another political leader. She was, according to Mr Rennie, ""beginning to sound like Gordon Brown"".  It was not, I suspect, intended as a compliment. And then there was Ruth Davidson. She described the other three opposition leaders as ""the three amigos"".  (Incidentally, one of my favourite comedy films.)  They were, she said, planning to ""form a high tax alliance"". And there we have another core aspect of this new parliament. Ms Sturgeon may want to form a ""progressive alliance"". She may be nodding in the direction of everyone but the Conservatives when it comes to striking deals or working consensually. But her policy on income tax (and, arguably, council tax) is rather closer to that advocated by the Tories than to the schemes advanced by the other parties in parliament. Indeed, Ms Davidson drew sklenting attention to this by noting, en passant, that she had been ""flattered"" to find that a raft of Tory ideas published in January had featured in the SNP manifesto in April. If Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens do indeed pursue, without any slippage, their tax plans, then Ms Sturgeon may yet need Tory votes. We shall see.","Let me bring you a few lines from the first minister 's @placeholder at Holyrood this afternoon . Here 's one . "" We will consider the introduction of a young Carers ' Allowance ……. this is a proposal that was in the Green Party manifesto. I think it has real merit … """,applause,office,position,statement,debate,3
"The bodies of a man and a woman, both believed to be aged between 40 and 50, were recovered from Breydon Water, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk Police said. The force said the deaths were currently unexplained. Search teams were called to the area shortly after 11:20 BST when a member of the public reported seeing the bodies on a mudbank. Read more on this story and others from Norfolk Police were joined in their search by the coastguard and Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service. Det Insp Chris Burgess of Norfolk Police, who is overseeing the inquiry, said: ""We're unsure if it is a crime."" He said he did not know how long the bodies had been in the water or on the mud. Asked whether the bodies may be those of missing people known to the police, he said: ""Not that we've identified at this stage, no."" In a further statement, Det Insp Burgess said: ""It has taken some time for officers to recover the bodies due to where they were discovered. ""The deaths are currently being treated as unexplained. We are in the early stages of the inquiry and it would be inappropriate to speculate any further."" Post-mortem examinations would be held in due course to establish the cause of death, police added. Breydon Water is a large expanse that opens into the sea through the port of Great Yarmouth. The rivers Yare, Waveney and Bure flow into Breydon, which connects the northern Broads to the southern Broads. The area is tidal and currents can be significant. High water on Thursday morning was at 08:38 BST.",Two bodies have been recovered from water after they were @placeholder on a tidal mudbank in Norfolk .,abandoned,drowned,sprayed,spotted,washed,3
"As Elgar's Nimrod was played by the military band and wreathes were being laid, I felt a finger lifting the headphones off my ears and heard my radio engineer whisper that I was to contact the newsroom urgently. I looked at him with incredulity. Surely the newsroom was aware that I was broadcasting live on air?  What could possibly necessitate me to break off to make contact with the office?  Something in the engineers face convinced me to do so. The duty editor told me in very few but deliberate words: ""There's been an explosion at the war memorial in Enniskillen and there are multiple casualties. You need to go….now."" I wrapped up the Belfast ceremony as sensitively as I could, jumped in my car and drove off at some speed in the direction of Enniskillen. This was a time before mobile phones - the only contact I had with the outside world while I was driving was the standard car radio in the dashboard. This was also a time before 24-hour rolling news stations on radio or television. I scrolled through the channels trying to find a Sunday programme that might carry a news flash. The radio bulletins were reporting that a bomb had gone off at the cenotaph and several people had been killed, many more injured. I knew from the tone and also from gut instinct that the situation would become a lot worse as this day unfolded. I parked up and went straight along Belmore Street to the scene of the explosion. The dust had settled but the debris was all over the place. Chunks of masonry - some blood spattered - were strewn across the street. There were people standing around but it was eerily quiet. Even at close quarters, actually standing at the scene of the blast, the enormity of the tragedy wasn't apparent. I asked someone where the British Legion organisers could be found and was told to try the RBL hall nearby. I went straight there. The doors were all open so I walked inside.  The premises were deserted. Over-coats were strewn over chairs and gloves and leather flag pole holsters lay around the floor.  I called out but no one responded. I realised instantly the place I needed to be was directly across the river at the Erne Hospital. Minutes later, at the hospital car park, I noticed police officers desperately clearing a corner site in the parking area.  An army helicopter descended into the space just yards from where I was standing.   I remembered to switch on my tape recorder to grab some atmospheric sound. Within seconds, I heard the sound of wheels rumbling across tarmac and turned to see nursing staff rushing from the hospital building with a stretcher on wheels. It seemed to be covered in brilliant white laundry but as it trundled past me I saw a grossly swollen head sticking out of the bed sheets.  It pulled me up short. This was my first sight of a casualty from the bombing and the injuries were horrific. Inside the small reception area of the hospital there were a few people sitting in chairs or standing in the corridor but there was no screaming or sense of panic. I found an office with a sign on the door which indicated a senior medical person, so I knocked on the door and found a doctor inside. I introduced myself hoping he could record a quick interview with me regarding casualties and extent of injuries. In hindsight, it was like asking an air traffic controller to recite a chapter of Shakespeare during the Heathrow rush hour. I went to the reception area, sat down, gathering my thoughts  - desperately trying to think about what I should do next, when it occurred to me that I was the only reporter there at that particular time. As journalists do, I starting asking myself 'where is everybody else and shouldn't I be where they are?' It was then that I noticed a man standing amongst a small group of people in one of the corridors leading off reception. He was tall and his hair was grey, as grey as his once dark suit which was covered in masonry dust. Something urged me to go forward and try to interview him but equally something else prevented me from doing so. That man I believe was Gordon Wilson. Later that night, after his daughter had died in the rubble holding his hand, he recorded an interview with a BBC Northern Ireland news crew.  He was a Christian man and he said he would pray for the bombers who murdered his daughter. The words that he spoke during that interview went global, touching the hearts of millions including the Queen. I was among the first journalists from outside Enniskillen to arrive at the scene of the bombing but within a few hours the world's news media was rolling into town. I stayed in the County Fermanagh town for most of the rest of that week, covering back-to-back funerals of seven of the victims. A feeling came over me that I had never experienced before. I can only describe it as the effects of grief overload and I agreed with my news editor to come off the story. I returned to Enniskillen some weeks later to report on a special commemoration service held at the cenotaph attended by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. I have been back to the town on numerous occasions since then for personal and professional reasons and when I do go back, the events of that time 25 years ago are never far from my mind.","It was a Remembrance Sunday much like any other . As in previous years , I was @placeholder a live commentary from Belfast Cenotaph for the Downtown Radio Poppy Day programme .",providing,released,rescued,watching,spared,0
"But Ahmet Davutoglu said air strikes on IS positions close to the Syria/Turkey border and on Kurdish PKK separatists in Iraq could ""change the game"". Turkey's actions are in response to violent attacks last week in Turkey itself, including the death of 32 activists in a bombing in Suruc. Nato is to hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss the situation. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the main Syrian Kurdish party, on Monday urged Turkey to stop its attacks on Kurdish units inside Syria. Mr Davutoglu told a meeting of Turkish newspaper editors that, following Turkey's military action, there were now ""new conditions"" in the regional conflict. ""The presence of a Turkey that can use its force effectively can lead to consequences which can change the game in Syria, Iraq and the entire region; everyone should see that,"" the Hurriyet Daily News quoted him as saying. Turkey - a Nato member - has requested Tuesday's meeting based on Article 4 of the organisation's founding treaty, which allows members to request such a meeting if their territorial integrity or security is threatened. ""When Turkey requests for such a meeting I think it's very right and very timely to have a meeting where we address the turmoil and the instability we see in Syria, Iraq and surrounding and close to Nato borders of Turkey,"" Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the BBC. Mr Davutoglu said Turkey was prepared to work with the Syrian Kurdish PYD group - which has links to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) - provided it did not pose a threat to Turkey and severed relations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. However, the raids against the PKK in northern Iraq effectively ended a two-year ceasefire. Turkey's dangerous game Who are the PKK? Turkish press warning over air strikes In recent days, Turkey has also arrested hundreds of people suspected of supporting IS or the PKK. Police raids on suspected IS and PKK members in the city of Istanbul triggered three days of rioting in the Gazi district. At least one activist and a policeman have been killed. The US has called on both Turkey and the PKK to avoid violence, but said Turkey had the right to defend itself against attacks by Kurdish rebels. In a statement on Monday, the YPG said Turkish tanks had shelled the Kurdish-held village of Zormikhar inside Syria late on Sunday evening and an hour later one of its vehicles ""came under heavy fire from the Turkish military east of Kobane in the village of Til Findire"". It said: ""Instead of targeting IS terrorists' occupied positions, Turkish forces attack our defenders' positions. This is not the right attitude. ""We urge Turkish leadership to halt this aggression and to follow international guidelines. We are telling the Turkish Army to stop shooting at our fighters and their positions."" Turkey said it was investigating the reports. A government official said the YPG's political wing was ""outside the scope of the current military effort"", which sought to target IS and the PKK.","Turkey has no plans to send @placeholder troops into Syria to fight the Islamic State group , the prime minister says .",ground,enough,control,military,finish,0
"The trip comes amid warming ties between the countries as the US seeks to build relations with Pacific allies. Vietnam is keen for the US to lift an arms embargo that has been in place since 1984. Mr Obama will later fly to Japan for a G7 summit. He will also become the first US president to visit Hiroshima. Vietnam hopes as Obama visits Vietnamese embrace new US relations While in Vietnam, Mr Obama is expected to meet dissidents and make the case for Vietnam to remove obstacles to the US-led Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal. Ben Rhodes, Mr Obama's deputy national security adviser, said before the visit that talks on removing the United States' embargo on selling arms to Vietnam would be discussed. Doing so would allow Vietnam to bolster its defences at a time of territorial disputes with its neighbour China, which was unhappy with a partial lifting of the ban in 2014. However, White House officials indicated the ban would be lifted only if there was an improvement in human rights in Vietnam. On Friday, Mr Obama will tour Hiroshima, where a US nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945, killing at least 140,000 people. In an interview with Japanese broadcaster NHK on Friday, Mr Obama said he would not apologise during his remarks in Hiroshima. ""It's important to recognise that in the midst of war, leaders make all kinds of decisions, it's a job of historians to ask questions and examine them,"" he said. ""But I know, as somebody who's now sat in this position for the last seven-and-a-half years, that every leader makes very difficult decisions, particularly during wartime.""","Barack Obama has @placeholder for the start of his three - day visit to Vietnam , only the third by a sitting US president since the end of the Vietnam War.",strengthened,arrived,voted,issued,begun,1
"But do older people want any of this when many have not got to grips with the more basic technology most of the younger generation take for granted? Ian Hosking, an expert in design for the elderly at the University of Cambridge's engineering design centre, believes we need to get the basics right first. ""There are some very tech-savvy older people around, but there is clearly a large cohort of people who feel excluded by technology. They find it a bit impenetrable,"" he says. I would probably include my mother in that latter category. She is in her 80s and has made valiant efforts to get to grips with a wide range of technology, from a creaking hand-me-down computer to a Kindle and online shopping. Now, she wants to buy a tablet but is worried that she will not know how to use it. She is not alone - according to the US Pew Internet research centre, 77% of older people would need someone to help walk them through the process of setting up a new device. Aimed specifically at the older generation, Breezie offers a simplified interface for a standard Samsung Galaxy tablet. It can be customised to make sure it has the settings and apps the customer wants, rather than a bunch of preset ones they will never use. And the ones they do have are made easy to use - so, for example, someone wanting to use Skype simply has to tap on a friend's picture in the address book. Company founder Jeh Kazimi told BBC News Breezie had been inspired by his own mother. ""I watched her trying to navigate the internet and saw that she found it intimidating and complicated,"" he says. ""I couldn't find anything on the market that could make the internet work for her, so I created it myself."" ""Our goal was to design software that makes the online environment considerably more accessible for people with little or no technological nous and to do so without patronising or limiting them."" Users can give a trusted relative or friend the ability to sign-in remotely, set-up accounts and add contacts, via Breezie's support service. Last year it teamed up with Age UK to launch the tablet, which costs £299 with the Breezie platform pre-installed. It is easy to assume that older people will find a gadget as simple to use as you do. As an iPad user, I saw no reason my mother could not get to grips with it - but, actually, it is not as simple as that. The response time for icons on an Apple screen is 0.7 seconds, but the over-65s have a response time of about one second. Using touchscreens may come naturally enough to a toddler but not necessarily for an older person - the nerves in the finger become less sensitive with age, meaning older people may ""touch"" far more heavily. And tests suggest that if an older person has a slight tremor, it can be registered on a device as a swipe rather than a touch. ""It is these subtle issues that erode confidence and cause confusion,"" says Chris Bignell, a spokesman for Emporia Telecom, which has designed a smartphone specifically for older people. Its phone comes with an app that offers tutorials for people to practise using a touchscreen. It also has a custom-built detachable keypad that flips over the phone, for those who still want buttons. Increasingly, tech firms, including a glut of Chinese manufacturers, are developing hardware with age and disability in mind. It might mean larger buttons, extra-loud speakers, hearing-aid compatibility or longer battery life. Some - such as Age UK's OwnFone - offer a completely stripped-back mobile that only sends and receives calls - while others aim to address specific needs. The Doro PhoneEasy has large print and big buttons, while the Binatone Speakeasy comes with a built-in panic button. But to many older people, these handsets can seem unnecessarily old-fashioned and somewhat patronising, according to Prof Hosking. ""They don't deal holistically with the problems of ageing, because often older people have multiple impairments,"" he says. With a rising elderly population, the technology industry cannot afford to ignore the issue. It is estimated that, by 2030, 19% of the US population will be over 65 - roughly the same proportion that currently own iPhones. And by 2050, there will be one retired person for every two that are in work. Apple is looking to address this - but not with new hardware. In a joint venture with IBM, it announced last month it would design ""iPad apps"" that would be ""very easy to use for seniors"". Aimed at the Japanese market, the apps will help connect millions of older people with healthcare services. ""It assumes that its product is inherently usable,"" says Mr Hosking. The Speaking Exchange is a US initiative that connects retired people living in care homes with students learning English in Brazil, via Skype. A YouTube video of the service in action shows the older people clearly look forward to the chats, the Brazilian youngsters improve their English and both have developed strong bonds. The UK offers a similar service - Cloud Grannies - which puts retired people in touch with children in India. In the end, my mother decided to buy herself an iPad. For years, my suggestion that my mother should get a tablet has fallen on deaf ears. Then, her trusty old PC broke, a friend sang the praises of her own tablet, and the next thing I know, she is Facetiming me.","These days there is no shortage of technology designed for the older generation - from hearing aids that use GPS @placeholder to work out where the wearer is located and adjust volume accordingly , to Toyota robots that can carry the elderly around , and wireless sensors on mats that can alert relatives if someone stops moving around the house .",pledge,data,leads,set,systems,1
"L/Cpl Craig Roberts, from Penrhyn Bay, Conwy county but lived in London, died on the course on the ""boiling hot"" day in the Brecon Beacons in July 2013. His colleagues L/Cpl Edward Maher and Cpl James Dunsby died in hospital. The ambulance crew said they were not given a precise location to attend. An army medic on duty that day said he was unaware all activity should have been stopped when another soldier had already suffered heat illness. The inquest in the West Midlands was told the ambulance crew found an Army truck about 10 minutes after they had been dispatched then walked for half a hour to reach L/Cpl Roberts, 24. Ambulance technician Wayne Thomas told how everyone ""tried their hardest and their best"" to save him, explaining how resuscitation was used and medication given. A statement from paramedic Geraint Tucker read: ""The environment was boiling hot - the first thing I did was ask for water which I was given, but I cannot comment on how much water was available."" The statement also said there was ""more than adequate equipment and knowledge"" from the medics who had attended before him. The hearing has previously been told the exercise took place on one of the hottest days of the year on 13 July 2013, with temperatures expected to hit 27C (80.6F). The inquest continues.","It may have taken 45 minutes for a 999 call to be made after an army reservist @placeholder on an SAS test exercise which led to three deaths , an inquest has heard .",was,collapsed,appeared,dumped,caught,1
"Then five men, ranging in age from 86 to 89, officially handed it over to Great Aycliffe Mayor Val Raw for ""safekeeping"". Facing declining numbers and increasing frailty, this group of men who fought for their country during World War II has disbanded. Wilf Coates, 87, was a pathfinder, one of the first in on D-Day in June 1944, reconnoitring and marking out the landing zone for the rest. ""It's sad that we're having to break up,"" he said. ""Lack of members, people dying off. It won't get any better. ""There'll be no Normandy veterans left in time to come."" Ed Murray, 86, is dying of cancer but was determined to take part in the ceremony - and not in his wheelchair. ""I only went to Normandy to complain about the noise,"" he joked. ""I couldn't get back."" Formed in 1982 the Durham branch of the association - the twelfth - had made pilgrimages to northern France and regularly attended Remembrance Sunday events. Michael Dalton,  whose father was in Normandy, said men now in their eighties and nineties were finding it difficult just to attend the association's monthly meetings. He said some were frail and in ill health and the group felt it was ""the right time to call it a day"". Mayor Val Raw promised the standard would be one of the town's ""most treasured possessions"". ""I know it is given with great pride and it is with great pride that we receive it,"" she said. ""It will be treasured here."" The standard will be put on display in the council chamber at Great Aycliffe Town Council offices.","The standard of the Durham Normandy Veterans Association was @placeholder once , in a final salute to those "" no longer with us "" .",broken,praised,saved,dipped,declared,3
"The hosts led 21-0 after 22 minutes, with Matt Smith, Lachlan McCaffrey and Owen Williams all touching down. Tries from Teimana Harrison, George North and Jamie Gibson wrestled Saints back into it, before Burns and Stephen Myler traded kicks to make it 27-27. But Tigers, boosted by the return of Manu Tuilagi, stole it at the death. England centre Tuilagi, who ended speculation linking him with a move away from Leicester by signing a new contract last month, had not played since October 2014 because of an ongoing groin problem. But the 24-year-old came on for the final 29 minutes against Northampton, demonstrating his trademark physicality as Leicester eventually broke their resistance with the final kick of the game. Richard Cockerill's side, comfortably beaten by Saracens last week, had looked to be cruising to victory when tries from Smith, McCaffrey and Williams, who was later taken off with a suspected broken jaw, put them in command after a dominant opening quarter. But Harrison's score following a line-out catch-and-drive moments before half-time gave Saints hope, and North ran from deep inside his own half to drag them to within four points early in the second period. Shortly after Northampton had a further try through Paul Hill ruled out for a high tackle, two Burns penalties stretched Leicester's lead back to 10 points - only for Gibson's touchdown against his former club and Myler's penalty with five minutes to go to leave the scores tied. However, Burns, who had already missed one drop-goal attempt, split the posts from the tee to send Tigers up to fourth in the table, seven points above their fifth-placed local rivals. Leicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill: ""Credit to them for getting back into it, but credit to our players for the first 30 minutes and then for digging themselves out of a hole they probably shouldn't have got themselves into. ""Good sides win when they do some average things, and we did some average things today but we found a way to win, however fortuitous that may or may not have been."" Northampton Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder: ""My reaction is clearly one of disappointment. I spoke to Courtney Lawes afterwards, and he said he tripped (in the incident that led to the last-minute penalty being awarded). ""In the first half, we had a terrible 20 minutes - they were good, but we were terrible for 20 minutes - and you should not go 21-0 down at Welford Road."" Leicester Tigers: Veainu; Betham, Tait, Smith, Thompstone; Williams, B Youngs; Ayerza, T Youngs (capt), Cole, De Chaves, Kitchener, Fitzgerald, O'Connor, McCaffrey. Replacements: Thacker, Mulipola, Balmain, Pearce, Croft, Harrison, Burns, Tuilagi. Northampton Saints: Foden; Elliott, North, Burrell, Collins; Hanrahan, Dickson (capt); Waller, Haywood, Hill, Lawes, Matfield, Gibson, Harrison, Dickinson. Replacements: Williams, Waller, Denman, Day, Wood, Kessell, Myler, Mallinder. For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.",Freddie Burns ' last - gasp penalty secured victory for Leicester over East Midlands rivals Northampton in dire @placeholder at Welford Road .,action,fashion,conditions,mood,lost,2
"The Cardiff and Vale University board says a quarter of all attacks and incidents in Wales happen to staff on its sites. Security staff at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff have been given five personal CCTV devices. A further six cameras have been ordered for the health board's other sites. ""If someone is being abusive or violent, we notify them about the camera and once they know it's filming them, they back down,"" said security team leader David James. ""It's an excellent deterrent to protect our staff.""",A health board has become the first in Wales to issue @placeholder - worn cameras in a bid to cut down on violent attacks and abuse of staff .,ground,wrist,body,home,rules,2
"As part of the deal, the firm was meant to have built a saw line by Friday. Despite questioning by AMs, Emyr Roberts did not give a clear answer as to whether that has happened. He said the deal - an effort to deal with diseased larch - was a success. Although he was happy with the decision, Mr Roberts admitted that its documentation was ""not good"", that there should have been more discussion with Welsh Government and that the executive board could have had a greater role in scrutinising the deal. A member of the committee, Lee Waters, later dubbed the answers ""unconvincing"". In 2014 a company was awarded a £39m deal to purchased both spruce and larch timber - the latter of which was forests where a fungus disease causing extensive damage - Phytophthora ramorum - was present. No other company was given the opportunity to bid for the contracts. As part of that deal the company was meant to have built a new saw line by 31 March 2016. That deadline was missed and extended by 12 months to March 2017. During a session of the assembly's Public Accounts Committee, Labour Llanelli AM Lee Waters asked Mr Roberts if the line had been built. ""We are in on going discussions with the operator on that,"" said Mr Roberts. Mr Waters pressed him again, pointing out that the date of the committee's meeting was 28 March. Mr Roberts repeated the answer, adding later it was a ""commercial matter"". Mr Waters asked if Mr Roberts felt the firm ""pulled the wool over your eyes in making you feel that the only way they were going to deal with this crisis was by investing in new expensive capital equipment"". Mr Roberts replied with a denial: ""No, I don't think they have pulled the wool over our eyes at all."" ""At the time, there was no market for larch,"" he said, claiming timber merchants at the time ""would not touch larch, let alone diseased larch"". ""What the operator did and the rest of the industry did was actually build up that market."" Mr Roberts said there was a ""real crisis on our hands at the time"" and there had been a danger the timber market would collapse. ""The situation today was a lot more stable than it was in 2013-14. Our policy, our decisions on these contracts together with the overarching policy in treating larch disease has been successful,"" he said. ""It's stopped the spread, but it's meant the timber market has been able to carry on as well."" A report by auditor general Huw Vaughan Thomas released earlier in March expressed doubt over whether the decision met state aid rules and said the decision-making process was not transparent. In a qualification to the body's accounts he said he was unable to satisfy himself on whether the decision to make the deal was lawful. NRW disputed the auditor's findings on state aid and had said it strongly believed the contracts were lawful. Neither NRW or the auditors have identified the company involved. Following the meeting Mr Waters said the answers given by the chief executive ""were not satisfactory"" and that the evidence was ""unconvincing"". He said it was a ""serious issue which has been badly handled"". Mr Waters said it was clear from the evidence ""with two days to go before the end of March the saw mill line has not been installed by this company"". ""I think the whole committee felt that the performance was complacent and this was a sufficiently grave situation for the auditor general to qualify the accounts, which rarely happens,"" he told BBC Wales. ""I think the committee will be referring this to the full assembly to draw this to their attention,"" he said.","The chief executive of Natural Resources Wales has denied the organisation had the "" wool pulled over our eyes "" by a sawmill operator given a 10 year timber contract that was @placeholder by an audit .",terminated,crushed,overshadowed,criticised,plagued,3
"Bianchi, 25, remains in a coma, six months after the accident in Japan. ""The only thing we can say is that he's fiercely fighting as he always did, before and after the accident,"" Philippe Bianchi said. ""From a medical point of view, his condition is stable."" The Marussia driver crashed into a recovery vehicle at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. He sustained a severe head injury and is now under the care of neurosurgeons in his native Nice. His father, speaking to French newspaper Nice-Matin, added: ""Our universe collapsed on 5 October 2014. ""I think that in this type of accident it shocks more than an actual death. The pain is endless - a daily torture. ""Every day, Jules is running a marathon. All of his organs are working without assistance. But, for now, he remains unconscious. ""He's moving forward. So we hope for a new evolution. The next one would be for him to get out of his coma.""","Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi 's fight to recover from injuries sustained in a crash last year is the @placeholder of "" running a marathon every day "" , according to his father .",rest,consequence,condition,subject,equivalent,4
"NHS Blood and Transplant has launched a worldwide campaign asking people to show support by dropping the letters of the main blood groups from their name and posting it on social media. Big companies such as Boots, Tesco and Cadbury are getting behind the drive. NHS Blood and Transplant says in England alone almost 200,000 new donors are needed, especially younger and black donors. It has started the hashtag #MissingType, which has generated more than 8,000 tweets in the past 24 hours. The number of people becoming donors and giving blood for the first time in England decreased by 24.4% in 2015 compared with 2005. The national campaign ran for the first time last year, but this time around NHS Blood and Transplant is uniting with blood donor organisations across 21 countries, which cover one billion of the world's population. There has been some criticism of the campaign, with some tweets highlighting how blood donation is restricted for gay men. The Department of Health says it is going to review the law that stops men from donating for 12 months after having sex with other men.","Letters are disappearing from @placeholder , shop - fronts and company logos as part of a campaign to encourage people to donate blood .",risk,portions,signs,world,websites,2
"After an investigation by the Communist Party for a ""serious disciplinary violation"", a term usually used to refer to corruption, he was expelled from the party in December 2014 and arrested. He has since been charged with bribery, abuse of power and leaking state secrets. Many of his aides and close associates have already been sacked or investigated for allegedly breaching party discipline and other misdemeanours in recent months. Mr Zhou rose from a technician in an oil field in the 1960s to become the man in charge of China's vast security apparatus. His downfall illustrates once again Chinese leader Xi Jinping's determination to root out his opponents and clean up the party's image, but also calls into question a system that breeds corruption on such an unprecedented scale. Zhou Yongkang was born in 1942 in Wu Xi city, Jiangsu Province, in eastern China. He joined the Communist Party in 1964 and graduated from Beijing Petroleum Institute in 1966 with a degree in geophysical survey and exploration. He spent the next 32 years in China's oil sector, starting as a technician in Daqing oil field. He rose through the ranks and eventually became the general manager and party secretary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in 1998, the ministerial-level head of a state owned company. Many of Zhou's subordinates are now under investigation, most notably Jiang Jiemin, who held the post of general manager and party secretary of CNPC from 2006 to 2013. Timeline: Zhou Yongkang 1942: Born in Wu Xi city in China's eastern Jiangsu Province 1964: Joins the Communist Party and spends the next 32 years in China's oil sector 1998: Becomes party secretary of China National Petroleum Corporation 1999: Appointed party secretary of Sichuan 2002: Appointed member of the Politburo at the 16th Party Congress; becomes minister of public security later that year 2007: Further promoted to member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo - China's highest state organ 2012: His lieutenants begin to get sacked and investigated; he appears with Bo Xilai at Chinese National People's Congress session December 2013: His son Zhou Bin is arrested on corruption charges December 2014: Arrested, expelled from party After working in the newly created Ministry of Land and Resources as minister and party secretary for a year from 1998, Zhou Yongkang was appointed party secretary of Sichuan Province in 1999, where he stayed until 2002. Not much was reported about his achievements there, but since 2012, several of Mr Zhou's lieutenants from this period have been sacked and investigated, accused of crimes ranging from violations of party discipline to taking or offering bribes. It is widely reported in the Chinese press that Liu Han, a very rich Sichuan businessman, had the protection of Zhou Yongkang. Liu was executed in February 2015 for ""organising and leading mafia-style crime and murder"". The year 2002 marked a high point in Mr Zhou's career, when he was appointed a member of the Politburo at the 16th Party Congress; later in that year, he became the minister of public security. In 2007, Zhou Yongkang was further promoted to become a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo - China's highest decision-making body - also taking on the job of the chairman of the Central Political and Legislative Affairs Commission. His brief included maintaining stability in the country, and ""preventing and combating sabotage of hostile forces from inside and outside China"". The budget for this reached 700bn yuan ($114bn, £70bn), more than the Chinese defence budget. As the man who had to deal with unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang, security for the Beijing Olympic Games and repercussions of the ""Arab spring"", Mr Zhou's power stretched into courts, prosecution services, police, paramilitary forces and intelligence agents. There was heavy-handed policing; dissent was dealt with ruthlessly and petitioners harassed on a regular basis, with many detained in illegal ""black jails"". Zhou Yongkang also enjoyed a very close working relationship with another very senior fallen politician Bo Xilai, who is now in jail. When Mr Bo was the party boss of Chongqing and launched the ""singing red songs and hard crackdown on criminals"" campaign to boost his credentials, Mr Zhou showed up in the city in 2010 to sing its leader's praises. Days before the announcement of Bo Xilai's sacking in March 2012, Zhou Yongkang appeared with his ally during the Chinese National People's Congress session, saying how Chongqing's economy put it well ahead of other parts of the country. During Bo Xilai's trial in August 2013, Mr Bo told the court that he had received instructions from the Political and Legal Affairs Commission on how to handle police chief Wang Lijun's defection to the US consulate, in order to protect himself. Zhou Yongkang was the chairman of the commission at the time. This part of Mr Bo's confession was not revealed to the public, but it leaked out from people who had been present in court. Zhou Yongkang married twice, and one of his sons with his first wife is Zhou Bin, a high-profile oil and gas executive. According to Hong Kong press, Zhou Bin was arrested in December 2013 on corruption charges.","Zhou Yongkang was one of the nine most senior politicians in China until 2012 , but has now fallen from @placeholder .",power,grace,knowledge,breath,life,1
"Mr Rudd, who was born in Australia, has also been charged with possessing the drugs methamphetamine and cannabis, and of making threats to kill. The musician's waterfront house in Tauranga, on New Zealand's North Island, was raided on Thursday morning. AC/DC are due to release a new album later this year. A statement on the band's website said: ""We've only become aware of Phil's arrest as the news was breaking. We have no further comment. ""Phil's absence will not affect the release of our new album Rock or Bust and upcoming tour next year."" Mr Rudd, 60, was released on bail after a brief appearance at Tauranga district court. As part of his bail conditions, he must not have any contact with anyone involved in the alleged murder plot. Local media reports say that the alleged plot targeted two men. The judge ruled that their names as well as that of the alleged hit-man cannot be revealed. Mr Rudd will appear in court again on 27 November. He has yet to enter a plea. Under New Zealand law, the charge of attempting to ""procure"" a murder carries a jail sentence of up to 10 years. A police official quoted by the SunLive news website said the information that led to the raid on the house was provided by a member of the public. Mr Rudd was kicked out of the band in 1983 and rejoined in 1994. But he did not appear in a new photo of band members released last month to promote their upcoming album Rock Or Bust, and was reportedly absent from the filming of a new music video, prompting online speculation about whether he was still in the band.","The drummer of the hard rock group AC / DC , Phil Rudd , has appeared in a New Zealand court on charges of attempting to @placeholder a murder .",promote,arrange,solve,cause,produce,1
"Sunny and dry weather across the country meant parties were hopeful of a good turnout. Counting is due to get under away at about 09:00 on Friday with the first results coming in by lunchtime. The election uses the single transferable vote system (STV), with voters ranking candidates in order of preference. People aged 16 or over were eligible to take part in the election, with more than 4.1 million people registered to vote. A total of 1,227 councillors will be elected across the country's 32 local authorities, with more than 2,500 candidates putting themselves forward. Election staff in Moray set up a polling station in a car after arriving on Thursday morning to find the polling place locked up. Presiding officer Simone Evans put polling station notices in the windows of her Ford Galaxy, parked outside the Royal British Legion branch in Buckie. She put the ballot box on the front passenger seat and cleared the rear seat so that voters could have privacy to cast their vote. The SNP were fielding 625 candidates, with Labour putting forward 453 and the Conservatives 380. Meanwhile, the Scottish Liberal Democrats had 247 candidates standing, and the Scottish Greens 219. There were 499 independent candidates, and 148 from other parties. In the last election five years ago, the SNP secured 503,233 first preference votes and returned 425 councillors, with Labour winning 488,703 first preference votes and seeing 394 of its candidates elected. The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Scottish Greens will also be looking to make gains this time around, after returning 115, 71 and 14 councillors respectively in 2012. However, the single transferable voting system makes it harder for parties to win outright control of local authorities, meaning that the SNP won overall control of just two councils, Angus and Dundee. At the same time Labour won majority control in four areas, holding on to power in Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, and winning Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire, where previously no party had a majority. No party was in overall control in 26 of the 32 local authorities, with coalitions being formed in many councils, while some have been operating as minority administrations. Elections are also being held in 34 councils in England, and all 22 councils in Wales on Thursday. There will be full live coverage of the results on the BBC website, and across the BBC's television and radio programming. You will be voting to elect three or four councillors to represent your ward on the local council. Full details of wards, candidates and polling places are available on your local council website. The ballot paper lists the name of each candidate along with their party name, party logo and their address. Rank the candidates in order of preference. Put a 1 next to your first-choice candidate, a 2 next to your second-choice, a 3 next to your third-choice, and so on. You can rank as few or as many candidates as you like. If you make a mistake then you can ask the polling staff to give you another ballot paper. To be elected a candidate must reach a set amount of votes known as the quota. The votes are counted in stages. In the first stage only first preferences are counted. Anyone who reaches the quota is elected. Any votes received over the quota are not needed by the elected candidate and so are transferred to the second preference. If not enough candidates have then reached the quota, the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated and all of their votes are passed to the next preference on the ballot papers. Full details of how to vote are available on the Electoral Commission website.",The polls have @placeholder the Scottish council election .,marked,reached,closed,dominated,published,2
"Yes we have had them before, but this does look serious. There's a payment due to the IMF at the end of the month. If Greece and the eurozone can't agree to release delayed bailout money, that payment could be missed. The Bank of Greece - part of the wider eurozone central banking system - has warned that could set off a chain of events ending with departure from the eurozone and probably the European Union, with some severe economic consequences. In fact, the timing gets more complicated. The IMF managing director doesn't formally notify her board that a payment has been missed until a month after the due date - although it's hard to believe they wouldn't have heard about it on the grapevine. And in the the interim, there is another, even larger payment due to the European Central Bank. So there is little time, though the financial world doesn't come to an end for Greece at midnight on 30 June. What Greece is now doing is negotiating with the eurozone and the IMF the economic policy programme to follow if the remaining bailout money is to be paid out. There are differences over the borrowing targets for the government finances, how to meet them - especially on pension cuts and value added tax increases - and whether Greece should receive debt relief. So what position might a Greek negotiator be taking? And what are the pluses and minuses? Option 1 is to hold out for a while to see what they can get but they are desperate for a deal and accept that they will give in to the demands of the creditors if that is what it takes to get them to sign on the dotted line. The benefits are straightforward. The long delayed bailout payments would be made. Greece would be able to avoid defaulting on its debts. The drawbacks are also pretty obvious. It would mean signing up to a programme of policies that includes further austerity and some specific measures to meet the budget targets, measures that the Syriza-led government hates: further cuts in pensions and reforms to value added tax. The result would be dissension in the party and outrage among people affected.  And in all likelihood further headwinds for the struggling economy, which has gone back into recession. There would have to be negotiations for further financial help - a third bailout and probably debt relief. More political torture for the government at home and internationally. Option 2 is no surrender - utter determination not to give in and a conviction that the other side will buckle at the last moment. If it works, it is the most appealing to the Greek negotiator. They get the delayed bailout money without having to take the immediate pain of option 1, though there is still the thorny question of making the government's finances sustainable in the long term. Why might a negotiator believe this would work? Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis argues that a Greek exit would do untold damage to the rest of the eurozone. He doesn't appear to believe it when the other side says they could cope with the financial and economic fallout, much better than would have been the case earlier in the crisis. There is also a desire in Brussels, Berlin and other EU capitals to avoid undermining the idea that the euro is forever. They would also be uneasy about the possibility of a failed state on the EU's southern flank, perhaps getting diplomatically closer to China and Russia. Option 3 is no surrender, but with the acceptance that the other side might also dig their heels in. That would mean default on the debt payments coming due, perhaps the one owed to the IMF at the end of the month or to the ECB in July. That doesn't necessarily mean exit from the eurozone, but it could trigger a chain of events that leads there. The European Central Bank would have to consider pulling the plug on the country's commercial banks, because a government default would raise new doubts about their solvency. That in turn could lead to severe financial restrictions and perhaps a Greek decision to start printing their own currency, partly to keep the banks afloat. So there is a possible path that leads from failure in the negotiations to default and to a Greek exit from the eurozone. There is a high political price in following that path. Greek public opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the euro. Economically it would certainly be disruptive in the short term. In the longer term, some argue that Greece would be better off with its own currency to devalue and improve competitiveness and control of its own economic policies. But banking on that would be a huge gamble. Option 4 is more delay. Maybe give a little ground, enough to persuade the eurozone to extend the negotiations for a few more weeks or even months, and perhaps make small bailout payments to prevent immediate default. That avoids an immediate economic conflagration in Greece. But the dark cloud of uncertainty would hang over the country's economy - which went back into recession at the end of last year. The tension - or you might say the tedium - would be prolonged ever further. Delaying decisions is something that both sides have shown themselves to be very good at during the eurozone crisis. It could even drag on into August and disrupt the summer holiday in many European countries.  If they let that happen it would be a sign that they are really taking it seriously. Thur 18 June: European finance ministers meet in Luxembourg - this is the last chance for either side to cave in, according to some officials, so could be a late-nighter Sun 21 June: If there is any prospect of a solution being within reach the EU could call an emergency meeting of European leaders Mon 22 June: If no deal has been reached, Greece may have to start considering capital controls on its banks or other measures Wed 24 June: The ECB is expected to review the financial support it gives to Greek banks. It can only supports banks that are fundamentally solvent Thur 25 June: EU summit - the very, very last chance to do a deal. Greece is not currently high on the agenda but it may force its way up depending on the circumstances Tue 30 June: Greece's current bailout expires. This may prompt the ECB to reconsider its support for Greek banks. By now, Greece should have paid €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the IMF Wed 1 July: The country could now be in arrears at the IMF. If so, it would be hard for the ECB to continue any support it is still giving to Greek banks Are you in Greece?  What are your feelings about the future? Do you have a pension?  You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. Please leave a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also send your comments to us on WhatsApp +44 7525 900971",Yet another @placeholder is approaching in Greece .,secret,material,deadline,disaster,party,2
"Although it was part of a five-nation tour, this was a journey to mend relations after a year of diplomatic tension. Mr Turnbull's time with Mr Widodo, leaders with contrasting characters and backgrounds, were documented in the images coming out of this meeting - they could provide clues to the themes likely to define this crucial relationship. During crucial trade talks this week, they appeared to effortlessly find common ground as they made a commitment to repair ties. Earlier this year, the Australia's opposition said ties had reached ""unprecedented strain"" over asylum seeker policies too. The executions of drug traffickers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran prompted Australia to withdraw its ambassador from Indonesia. President Widodo acknowledged the proximity between the two nations meant a ""higher the intensity of the interactions"", and ""higher potential for friction"". Mr Turnbull talked up the blossoming bilateral partnership focusing on economic prosperity. They both occupy the highest office, but the leaders come from very different backgrounds. Mr Turnbull is a multi-millionaire from one of Sydney's most exclusive suburbs, whose wife Lucy was the city's first female Lord Mayor. Mr Widodo, commonly referred to as Jokowi, is considered an outsider after becoming the first Indonesian president not to have climbed the ranks of the political elite. He rose rapidly from humble beginnings as a furniture salesman. Their meeting against a salubrious background was probably what Mr Turnbull can expect from all the other nations in this tour but what followed in Jakarta was a different flavour. Malcolm Turnbull became the first world leader to accompany Mr Widodo on his trademark ""blusukan"" walks. He appeared to be enjoying himself, despite the heat, and obvious reservations of his security detail. The duo took off their ties in a show of solidarity. But whether their performance for the cameras is the precursor to a long-lasting diplomatic friendship is yet to be proven.",Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull travelled across the short stretch of @placeholder to meet Indonesia 's President Joko Widodo on Thursday .,track,highway,helping,ocean,equator,3
"Lesnar, 39, tested positive for an unnamed substance in an in-competition sample after his UFC 200 heavyweight victory over Mark Hunt on 9 July. The same substance was found in an out-of-competition sample from 28 June. A UFC statement said the United States Anti-Doping Agency would ""handle the results management and appropriate adjudication of this case"". UFC anti-doping policy states that a legal review process is afforded to all athletes before any sanctions are imposed. Lesnar's victory over Hunt at UFC 200 in his first MMA fight in four years secured him a UFC record purse of $2.5m (£1.9m).","WWE heavyweight Brock Lesnar has @placeholder a second positive doping test , the UFC has announced .",welcomed,returned,released,joined,received,1
"The tech giant released a firmware update on Wednesday to fix a problem on the laptop's flash storage component. The 15-inch mid 2015 range Retina model is affected, with corruption occurring in ""rare cases"", the company said. News of the warning comes as thousands of Macbook owners are campaigning for action over stains appearing on the laptop's retina screen. Users that have been affected by stains spreading across their laptop screens are worried about the expensive service fees they will have to pay once the warranties or protection plans expire. However, the firmware update on the latest model does not sound like a major problem at the moment, said Stuart Miles, founder of gadget news site Pocket-lint. ""It's not like a massive product recall in the same light as a car that has a faulty brake,"" he told the BBC. The newest 15in Macbook Pro is the slimmest and lightest to date and sells for a starting price of £1,599.",Apple is warning users of its latest Macbook Pro about an issue with the laptop that may cause @placeholder corruption .,side,show,group,land,data,4
"Mr Cook told ABC his company first learned of the controversial request when it was reported in the news media. ""I don't think that's the way the railroad should be run,"" he said. ""I don't think that something so important to this country should be handled in this way."" However, a source close to the investigation told the BBC Mr Cook's claim was ""simply not true"", and that Apple's legal team was ""the first to know"". A spokeswoman for the FBI said she did not wish to comment on Mr Cook's remarks. Elsewhere, the New York Times reported that Apple had begun working on an upgrade to its devices which would make it impossible to break into an iPhone using the method proposed by the FBI in this case. Mr Cook was defending the company's refusal to comply with the FBI's order that it remove security blocks on Farook's device so data on it could be accessed. He said the FBI was asking the company to make ""the software equivalent of cancer"". Farook, along with his wife Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people in the attack in December last year. ""I think safety of the public is incredibly important,"" Mr Cook told ABC. ""The protection of people's data is incredibly important.  And so the trade-off here is we know that doing this could expose people to incredible vulnerabilities."" When asked if he was concerned Apple may hinder investigations that could prevent a future attack, Mr Cook said: ""Some things are hard and some things are right.  And some things are both.  This is one of those things."" The FBI has argued that Apple is overstating the security risk to its devices. FBI Director James Comey said Apple had the technical know-how to break into Farook's device only in a way that did not create a so-called ""backdoor"" into every Apple device. Conflicting polls suggest the American public is divided. One poll, by the Pew Research Center, suggested the majority of those polled sided with the FBI - although the researchers noted support for Apple grew among people who owned smart phones. A Reuters poll, conducted by Ipsos, said 55% of respondents worried that the FBI would seek to use the backdoor to ""spy on iPhone users"". Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC or on Facebook Read and watch more cybersecurity stories in our special index",Apple boss Tim Cook has hit back at the FBI over the handling of a court order to help @placeholder the iPhone of San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook .,unlock,improve,obtain,reduce,protect,0
"The final countdown to the Oscars is under way with Birdman and Boyhood vying to win best picture at Sunday's ceremony. Richard Linklater's drama Boyhood has been tipped to win for months. But a flock of recent awards victories for Birdman has seen Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's showbiz satire swoop in as a late contender. You can follow live coverage of the awards, beginning with red carpet arrivals, on our Oscars live page from 23:30 GMT. The 87th Academy Awards, this year hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, take place at Hollywood's 3,300-seat Dolby Theatre. Harris has promised ""a hint of magic"" while performers at this year's ceremony include Lady Gaga, Rita Ora, Jennifer Hudson and Anna Kendrick. Outside the venue, a section of Hollywood Boulevard is sealed off ready for the annual influx of A-listers as well as lesser-known nominees from the other side of the camera. Security around the event is said to be the most sophisticated yet, with 1,000 police officers on duty and operations being run from an underground bunker. On Thursday afternoon the streets near the Oscar venue were in lockdown after a suspected bomb threat which proved to be false. The final round of voting by the Academy's 6,292 members ended on Tuesday. Many of the nominees have been attending a flurry of pre-Oscar events and screenings in and around Los Angeles. There are eight contenders for best picture: Birdman and Wes Anderson's quirky comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel have nine nominations each. The Imitation Game, with British actor Benedict Cumberbatch as codebreaking genius Alan Turing, has eight. Clint Eastwood's true-life Iraq war tale American Sniper and Boyhood have six apiece. Oscar experts seem agreed the top prize will go to either Birdman or Boyhood. ""They've both done the rounds and picked up their share of gongs on either side of the Atlantic. Grand Budapest Hotel could be a surprise win but it's not looking likely,"" says Caroline Frost, entertainment editor of the Huffington Post UK. Scott Feinberg, the Hollywood Reporter's Oscars expert, thinks Birdman is the safest bet. ""Birdman might not have novelty of Boyhood, the serious themes of The Imitation Game, reflect the zeitgeist like Selma or be as moving as American Sniper, but, like two of the past three winners (The Artist and Argo), it's about showbusiness,"" he wrote in the latest edition. One possible dark horse could be American Sniper which has taken almost $400m (£259m) at the worldwide box office - making it the highest-grossing film among the best picture nominees. ""It might give people pause for thought,"" Frost says, ""but it's a very elite bunch of people on the West Coast who are voting for these awards and I don't think Middle American cinemagoers are going to have that much sway."" Leading the British charge in the acting categories is Eddie Redmayne, strongly tipped to win for his lead role as Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. Frost notes the best actor race, which also includes Steve Carell, Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Keaton, is particularly strong this year. ""Benedict Cumberbatch put in the performance of a lifetime - he's right up there with Oscar winners Colin Firth, Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley - but is still an also-ran at this stage,"" she says. ""So I hope he enjoyed his wedding."" British actresses in contention include Felicity Jones, Keira Knightley and Rosamund Pike. Oscars 2015: in-depth Julianne Moore is the clear favourite to win best actress for her role as a lecturer with early onset Alzheimer's. ""She has all but engraved her name on the gong,"" observes Frost. The supporting categories seem to be sewn up by JK Simmons, for his role as a terrifying teacher in jazz drama Whiplash, and Patricia Arquette as the mother in Boyhood. All of them won their respective categories at the Baftas two weeks ago. This year's shortlists caused controversy after all 20 contenders in the main acting categories were white and there were no female nominees in the directing or writing categories. Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs said later she would ""love to see"" more diversity among the nominees. A number of British Bafta winners will be hoping to repeat their success at the Oscars. Among them is Daisy Jacobs, whose The Bigger Picture - about two brothers struggling to care for their elderly mother - is up for the best short animation. And the Bafta-winning Boogaloo and Graham, about two boys and their pet chickens in 1970s Belfast is up for live action short. The same category includes The Phone Call - in which Sally Hawkins plays a helpline call centre volunteer who counsels a mystery man played by Jim Broadbent. While the Oscars are likely to be short on surprises, the organisers will hope the ceremony throws up some sparkling TV moments - such as last year's Oscar ""selfie"" -  to entertain a global audience of several hundred million. ""We like a surprise,"" says Frost. ""I always look back to the day when Brokeback Mountain got beaten. Director Ang Lee was virtually walking up to the stage when they shouted Crash. ""There'd be no point in having these awards if that couldn't happen."" While the Oscar losers won't get a golden statue, they won't do too badly. Gift bags for this year's main contenders are valued at more than $125,000, and include a three-night stay in Tuscany, a luxury train ride through the Canadian Rockies, a year's luxury car rental and a custom silver necklace inscribed with the latitude and longitude coordinates of the Dolby Theatre.",The campaigning is over . The red carpet is @placeholder out . And Hollywood is braced for its starriest night of the year .,rolled,carrying,retiring,set,broken,0
"Entitled 100 Stories of Migration, some of the images are positive and celebratory. There's a picture of a smiling young mother and her child from Somalia on the beach at Brighton. Most images though are menacing and hostile, reflecting the UK and the Midlands' often contradictory response to migrants. Some show National Front marches in the 1970s and a landlady's window notice saying in stark terms: ""No coloureds"". ""What we wanted to do was to challenge people,"" curator Sarah Plumb told me. ""It's about asking them to question some of their negative stereotypes that are presented around migrants, often in the mainstream media."" Screened on the staircase is the 1968 Birmingham speech of Enoch Powell. His anti-immigration ""Rivers of Blood"" warning to West Midlands Conservatives still casts a long political shadow. Prof Martin Halliwell, deputy pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Leicester, has been building links with university colleagues in Gujarat in west India. But UK political sensitivities over migrants is clouding attempts at deeper exchanges. ""The government's tightening of visas for migrants from Eastern Europe has affected us dramatically and detrimentally, especially in South Asia,"" he said. ""We are seeing a drying up of the flow of students, which is vital for the life of our universities."" On Leicester's Hinckley Road, the Polish delis reflect the arrival of new migrants. In excess of 45,000 migrants have settled in the East Midlands since 2011 alone. That's the estimate in findings compiled for the BBC by researchers at Oxford University. According to new figures from the Office of National Statistics, net annual migration to the UK last year was under 300,000, with the largest group coming from Poland. The East Midlands parliamentary constituencies with the biggest migrants are Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire, with 9,500, and Nottingham East with just over 8,000. It's the food processing industries and farms that have made the East Midlands a particularly popular destination of choice. Only London noticeably attracts more. ""Migrant labour is hugely important to the East Midlands,"" said Simon Fisher, of the National Farmers' Union in Lincolnshire. ""They offer us the labour flexibility for picking potatoes and vegetables. Without them, we wouldn't be producing the food we do."" But that influx worries East Midlands council leaders. They commissioned their own research on the knock-on effects, in a report entitled The Impact of International Migration on the East Midlands. It revealed that up to 448,200 people in the East Midlands were foreign born. That's 10% of the region's population, compared with the UK average of 13.8%. ""Our findings showed there was an economic benefit from migration,"" said councillor Paul Kenny, leader of Boston Borough Council and chairman of the migration board of East Midlands Councils. ""But we also know from our experience that there are issues for our local communities."" In its report, it presses for ""People in the region have got concerns about migration and we need to make sure we address those needs,"" he added. ""It's about working together in partnership. What we are saying to the future government is that we want the East Midlands to have the right resources and back-up to do the job."" Whatever the response of the political parties and local council leaders in the weeks to come, the voters' concerns over migration are sure to affect the outcome of this general election. Watch my report on migration on Sunday Politics for the East Midlands with Marie Ashby on BBC One at 11:00 GM on 8 March.","At the University of Leicester , there 's been a remarkable @placeholder of photographs charting the impact of immigration on Britain and the city itself .",number,tradition,head,exhibition,nature,3
"Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Councillor Richard Kosior, will now have to use a his own car, or hire a taxi or limousine and driver, depending on the type of engagement he attends. It comes after former mayor Christine James chose not to use the service and instead opted for her own transport. The annual cost of running a car and providing a chauffeur was £21,000. However, providing alternative transport for the last financial year was about £3,100, the borough council's scrutiny and performance committee said. ""Therefore there is the potential to make a significant budget saving in this area,"" a committee report said. Mr Kosior, who was elected mayor on 19 May, said: ""In these days of austerity and council cuts we can't be seen to be squandering money on chauffeuring me to various functions."" Hired taxis or cars would bear the coat of arms of the borough ""for that sense of occasion"", he added. He said he had asked for a review in six months to ensure the new format was still saving cash.",A Dorset mayor 's car and chauffeur have been @placeholder in a bid to save the council money .,scrapped,placed,attacked,protesting,held,0
"Rachel Sims, from Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, bought the car which was built to promote the PlayStation video game Need for Speed. It has the words ""Dodge City Police"", ""Emergency Response"" and ""911"" on it. Ms Sims said although ""one man fell over a bin"" when he saw it, it was clearly not a UK police car and an officer told her it was fine to drive. The black and white Avenger car is fitted with flashing yellow lights, but has no siren. Its registration number PS 03 NFS stands for PlayStation Need For Speed. ""People stop in the street and stare when we go past. One old man was looking at it and fell over a bin,"" Ms Sims said. The 38-year-old drives her four children, aged 15, 12, eight and three, to school and back each day, but hopes to hire out the eye-catching vehicle for proms and weddings. ""I have been stopped by the police, but they checked and told me there was nothing wrong with it. ""It can't really be mistaken for a British police car. It looks nothing like one. The colours are different and the markings aren't luminous,"" Ms Sims said. ""There is no way you could say I was impersonating a police officer. I wouldn't want to drive it in the US though.""",A woman has been turning @placeholder on the school run by driving her children in a replica American police car .,heads,back,evil,life,tables,0
"""I wish I played second row,"" he quips, before admitting he is glad he is not England football captain Wayne Rooney. ""It is what it is. Win and your number 10 never gets any of the credit. When you lose, it's all the 10's fault. ""I wouldn't change it for the world, I love playing number 10 for Wales and, I suppose, the pressure that comes with it. ""Imagine being someone like Wayne Rooney over the last three months and the press, their treatment of one of England's better players. If I think I'm having a tough time, I just look at him. The criticism doesn't bother me one bit."" The pressure will be sky-high when Biggar makes his 50th appearance in the most scrutinised and analysed shirt in Welsh rugby against Argentina. Wales have lost their last five Test matches and there was little to redeem their 32-8 thrashing by Australia in the opening autumn international. It is a result which has seen centre Jamie Roberts dropped to the bench after making 79 consecutive starts for his country. Media playback is not supported on this device Coach Rob Howley has made six changes in all, but Biggar is one of nine players to keep his place in the starting line-up. One alteration on the bench has seen Sam Davies, who was selected for Ospreys ahead of Biggar for a big match against Cardiff Blues earlier this season, drop out of the 23-man squad in favour of Gareth Anscombe. It's barely 14 months since Biggar was the hero of Wales' 28-25 win over England in the 2015 Rugby World Cup. It seems extraordinary to people outside Wales that Biggar could be under so much pressure. But this is Wales and he plays fly-half in the country that has produced Cliff Morgan, Barry John, Phil Bennett and Jonathan Davies. It is a position scrutinised like no other. Think chefs in France or rally drivers in Scandinavia. Biggar has the confidence to handle that scrutiny. ""There are people who offer their opinion and say you could have done this or that better but that's part and parcel of it, especially being in Wales,"" he says. ""The boys outside of Wales sometimes don't get that sort of thing. ""Living and playing in Wales can be very much a goldfish bowl. Sometimes it can be nice to be outside of that and get on with you day-to-day life. ""I don't take any notice of the criticism and everyone wants Wales to do well and get better. Ultimately the number 10 position is a key to that. ""Ultimately as a team, we want to prove a few people wrong on Saturday. It's not about me, it's not about number 10 but about us as a collective, as a team. ""Getting 50 caps is a nice milestone, but it will soon be forgotten if we don't get a result and put in a decent performance."" Having been understudy to Rhys Priestland early in his career, Biggar knows what it is like to be on the outside looking in and understands his place cannot be taken for granted. ""It's the coaches' opinion which is the most important to me,"" he adds. ""We have got lots of good options in Wales with Sam Davies, Gareth Anscombe and Rhys Priestland playing well for Bath. ""I'm just the lucky one in position at the minute but if my form doesn't meet the coaches' standards, I'm sure they will be other options."" Roberts' demotion to the bench is proof of that theory. Reputation and an impressive record are not enough to guarantee selection. ""Jamie has been superb and Scott Williams is playing well, he continues. ""It won't be a huge change for us, we know our structures are in place.  And I'm sure you haven't seen the end of Jamie Roberts. He's had a brilliant career and there's plenty more in him. It's exciting times.""",Dan Biggar can not @placeholder a joke when he is asked if he enjoys the pressure of playing fly - half for Wales .,secure,use,resist,tell,predict,2
"""Look at that,"" she says. ""That's where my house used to be. That's where I lived with my children and grand-children. ""Then they came and knocked it down - they destroyed everything, my table, my sofa, even a wardrobe with all my clothes inside."" Berenice's misfortune was to live in one of Rio's slums being levelled ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games, as Brazil works to improve its infrastructure. She is - or rather was - one of millions of people living in illegally-built favelas or shanty towns. She ekes out a precarious living by selling food to labourers on construction sites. In the little community where she has lived for the past eight years, about 1,000 people have already seen their homes destroyed to make way for a new, improved highway, which the authorities say is part of their preparations to host the 2016 Olympic Games. One day in May, Berenice was summoned to City Hall, more than an hour's bus ride away in the centre of Rio. There, she was told that her house had been condemned, and was handed a cheque for 8,000 reais ($5,000, £3,000) in compensation. By the time she got home, her house had been bulldozed. ""What use is 8,000 reais?"" she asks. ""I'd need at least four times as much to find a house to buy. And I had a terrible time trying to cash the cheque because I can't read or write."" Both the special rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council and the international human rights group Amnesty International have condemned Brazil for its policy of evicting people like Berenice from their homes. The authorities in Rio say they plan to demolish about 3,000 houses ahead of the Olympics and insist they are treating people as fairly as possible. ""We have already rehoused thousands of people,"" says Carlos Nuzman, chairman of the Rio Olympics organising committee. ""There are a few problems, but I think maybe you went to the wrong place to see what is happening."" Urban planner Jorge Luis Borges Ferreira says the true number of houses to be demolished in Rio is likely to be far higher than 3,000. He says there is a clear process of gentrification under way, where the poor are being pushed further out of the city to make way for the growing middle class who can pay top prices for new luxury developments built where the slums used to be. For now, Berenice is living in the ruined shell of a half-demolished house close to where her home was. The floor is covered in stagnant water, and she says she is constantly being bitten by mosquitoes. She is terrified of catching dengue fever, which is transmitted by mosquitoes. As a nation, Brazil is booming. Its economy is one of the fastest growing in the world, and it is fiercely proud that over the coming five years it will host both the World Cup and the Olympic Games. But its infrastructure is creaking, which is why there is now a huge road-building programme under way. Some of Berenice's former neighbours are now living in a new housing development even further out of Rio. In the small town of Campo Grande, an hour and a half's drive from the city centre, 800 houses have been built for people whose homes were condemned to make way for new roads. Cleyton Martins, a 27-year-old restaurant worker, is one of them. He moved in seven months ago with his mother and daughter - and he says it has been hard to get used to the lack of community spirit in his soulless new surroundings. ""The house I'm living in is better than the one I used to have,"" he admits. ""But there are no shops here, (there's) nowhere for the children to play, and we're such a long way from the city."" He worries about how he will get his mother to hospital if she falls ill, and he complains that the authorities take too long to deal with complaints about the leaking sewage which lies in pools between the neat rows of houses. Local councillor Eliomar Coelho says the way the authorities are treating the country's poor is ""criminal"", as they are using the World Cup and the Olympics as a pretext for claiming back land to enable developers to make fat profits. ""This is a clear example of how the government treats the poor,"" he says. ""A big opportunity has been missed. Instead of being better off as a result of the boom, these people will end up worse off. ""It's a complete violation of their human rights."" Robin Lustig is reporting from Brazil for The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 at 2200 GMT on Friday, 1 July or listen again on the BBC iPlayer.","Berenice Maria das Neves is beside herself with grief and rage . As we stand beside a busy highway on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro , she @placeholder furiously at a pile of rubble .",abuse,points,looks,fires,feared,1
"Sir Julian King has been put forward by David Cameron following last week's resignation of Lord Hill in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU. Sir Julian, a career civil servant, will be interviewed by officials and MEPs before being offered the role. Lord Hill was in charge of financial services but that job has now been given to Latvia's Valdis Dombrovskis. The BBC understands that the new British commissioner is likely to be given a ""less sensitive"" post, potentially covering the environment. The diplomat would take up his post at a time when the UK's relations with the EU are at an all-time low following the decision to end its 43-year membership of the organisation, previously known as the European Community. Sir Julian is to be interviewed by EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday to assess his suitability for the post and will later face a ""confirmation hearing"" in front of the European Parliament. Analysis by Damian Grammaticas, the BBC's Europe correspondent Sir Julian King will, if accepted by the EU, fill an extremely delicate but highly influential position. The British Commissioner is the UK's most senior figure inside the EU institutions. A Commissioner does not represent their country, but he will be the eyes and ears of the UK, with a seat at the table as EU policy is drafted. Crucially David Cameron's choice is not a politician, but one of the UK's most senior diplomats. Sir Julian King is currently ambassador to Paris. He knows the EU intimately. He's already filled three different diplomatic roles in Brussels. He could face tough questioning in the European Parliament too before he can be confirmed. And it's not clear if Mr Juncker will give Sir Julian as high profile a portfolio as his predecessor Lord Jonathan Hill, who oversaw financial services in the EU but resigned following the referendum. Instead the UK's new Commissioner may get a less sensitive area such as environmental policy. But having Sir Julian's experience in Brussels may prove crucial during future negotiations. French politicians have already indicated that the City of London will face tough conditions if the UK wants to enjoy its current level of access to Europe's Single Market. According to the European Commission, new commissioners ""shall be chosen on the grounds of their general competence and European commitment from persons whose independence is beyond doubt"". The approval of the European Council - made up of the 28 member states - is required before the appointment takes effect, while the Commission is also expected to ""seriously consider"" the opinion of the European Parliament. If he is approved, Sir Julian will become one of the 28 top officials at the European Commission, the EU's executive arm. He would be expected to play an important role as a ""conduit"" between the UK and the other 27 member states during the talks over the UK's exit. The UK remains a full member of the EU until it leaves, although it will not take part in all European Council meetings. Mr Cameron has said it is up to the next prime minister, who will be elected in September, to decide when to trigger official exit talks - which, according to EU rules, should take two years although there remains controversy over the as yet untested Article 50 process. Sir Julian only took up his current post in Paris in February. During a 30-year career in the diplomatic service, he held a number of senior positions in Brussels, including acting as a senior aide to a previous EU commissioner. Previous UK commissioners have included high-profile political figures such as Lord Patten, Lord Kinnock and Lord Mandelson.",Britain 's ambassador to France has been @placeholder to be the UK 's next and potentially last European Commissioner .,voted,revealed,nominated,tipped,launched,2
"Simon Buckden, 44, got more than £7,500 in money and services after pretending to have rectal cancer. He also claimed to have served in the SAS and seen active duty in Bosnia and both Gulf Wars. Buckden, from Leeds, denied six counts of fraud but on the fifth day of his trial changed his plea to guilty. Live updates and more from across West Yorkshire Buckden hit the headlines after announcing he would run 100 marathons in 100 weeks to raise awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and money for Help for Heroes. During the challenge he announced he had cancer but would continue running. However, medical records revealed he had never been diagnosed with the disease. Leeds Crown Court heard Buckden, who took part in the Olympic torch relay in the run up to the 2012 London Olympic Games, was a military clerk and had never experienced frontline duty. Among those he defrauded, Richard McCann - whose mother, Wilma, was killed by the Yorkshire Ripper - gave Buckden a free place on a speaking course. He was also given free therapy sessions, a publicity film, and received £2,000 for a holiday and around £1,500 to set up a social enterprise. Prosecutor Craig Hassell said ""people were, naturally, moved by his story and moved to try to help him"". Ex-serviceman Phil Lee, who was also conned, said Buckden's actions were damaging to genuine veterans. ""Lots of guys who I served with, who are genuine veterans, are deeply offended by these characters who proclaim to have served in many parts of the world or worked with special forces when it's fairly clear they were nowhere near,"" he said. ""It brings the reputation of veterans down and it's something we can genuinely do without."" Buckden, of of Landseer Way, Bramley, Leeds, is due to be sentenced on Monday.",A former military clerk who @placeholder tales of frontline service has admitted he lied about having cancer to swindle thousands of pounds .,heard,recounts,spent,rang,fabricated,4
"Douglas Edwardson, 58, was head of housing at Aberdeenshire Council. The crash happened on the A944 Dunecht to Alford road on Saturday 5 December. Relatives said in a statement issued through Police Scotland: ""Douglas' family are devastated to confirm that Douglas has died. They are very grateful for all the support they have received."" Aberdeenshire Council chief executive Jim Savege said: ""It is with great sadness that we have learned today of the death of one of our colleagues, Douglas Edwardson. ""Douglas was an incredibly warm, loyal and supportive colleague who will be greatly missed by many people right across this council. ""He had worked in the north east for more than 22 years, initially as director of housing and technical services with the former Banff and Buchan District Council, and was a well-known and respected figure in his role as head of service for housing with Aberdeenshire Council. ""Our thoughts are with his family, and for our colleagues who worked closely with Douglas over the years. We will be doing everything we can to ensure we provide them with the support they need.""",A man has died after a car and tractor @placeholder in Aberdeenshire earlier this month .,buried,body,collided,injured,crash,2
"Vincent Ryan, 25, was shot dead in Finglas in Dublin on Monday after he had dropped off his partner and five-month-old baby. The gunmen escaped in a silver Volkswagen Golf that was taken during a burglary in County Kildare in October. Detectives are trying to establish where the car was kept until it was found burned on Monday night. Irish police do not believe the murder of Mr Ryan, a dissident republican, is connected to the murder of David Byrne at a boxing weigh-in at a Dublin hotel last month. Mr Ryan had been charged with possession of guns linked to the fatal shooting of Dublin criminal Michael Kelly but was later acquitted, although he remained a suspect in the murder. His killing is believed to be connected to a feud between dissidents and criminals in Dublin that led to the murder of his brother Alan Ryan three-and-a-half years ago.",The getaway car used in the murder of a man in the Republic of Ireland earlier this week was @placeholder last year .,denied,investigated,abandoned,released,stolen,4
"If he wins the support of voters he will be the first elected UK Independence Party MP in the Commons. The maverick Eurosceptic backbencher said he did not believe Prime Minister David Cameron was ""serious about the change we need"" in Europe. The PM described his defection as ""regrettable"" and ""counterproductive"". Mr Carswell said the decision to jump ship from the Conservatives had given him ""sleepless nights"" but he wanted to see ""fundamental change in British politics"" and UKIP -  a party he believed belonged to its members rather than a ""little clique"" of political insiders - could deliver it. ""This hasn't been an easy decision. I have been a member of the Conservative Party all my adult life. It's full of wonderful people who want the best for Britain. ""My local Conservative Association in Clacton is thriving. It brims with those I'm honoured to call my friends. ""The problem is that many of those at the top of the Conservative Party are simply not on our side. They aren't serious about the change that Britain so desperately needs. ""Of course they talk the talk before elections. They say what they feel they must say to get our support... but on so many issues - on modernising our politics, on the recall of MPs, on controlling our borders on less government, on bank reform, on cutting public debt, on an EU referendum - they never actually make it happen."" He said only UKIP could ""shake up that cosy little clique called Westminster"". On Mr Cameron's pledge of an in/out EU referendum in 2017, after renegotiating powers back from Brussels, he said the prime minister's advisers had ""made it clear that they're looking to cut a deal that gives them just enough to persuade enough voters to vote to stay in"". He added: ""Once I realised that, my position in the Conservative Party became untenable."" Mr Cameron - who was not warned by Mr Carswell about his plan to defect - said: ""It's obviously deeply regrettable when things happen like this, when people behave in this way. ""But it's also, in my view, counterproductive. If you want a referendum on Britain's future in the EU - whether we should stay or go - the only way to get that is to have a Conservative government after the next election. ""And that is what until very recently Douglas Carswell himself was saying."" Speaking exclusively to BBC political editor Nick Robinson in Glasgow, the prime minister said the by-election in Clacton would be held ""as soon as possible"" and he ""wants to make sure there's a very strong Conservative campaign in that seat"". ""I want to go early to Clacton for this reason: people in Clacton voted not just for Douglas Carswell, they voted for a Conservative government, for a Conservative member of Parliament,"" he added. Analysis by Brian Wheeler and Iain Watson Douglas Carswell's announcement took Westminster by complete surprise. UKIP had told everyone they were about to unveil a major new celebrity donor. No-one expected a Conservative defector to be unveiled instead. The identity of the defector is, perhaps, less of a surprise - Mr Carswell has a long history of rebelling against his party and is known to be deeply disillusioned with what he sees as David Cameron's failure to clean up Westminster politics and deliver democratic reforms. But it is Mr Carswell's decision to call a by-election in Clacton - rather than continuing to sit in the Commons under a different party banner - that will cause the biggest headache for Mr Cameron. The prospect of defeat is real. And if it happens, expect more Conservative MPs to call for a pact - at least informally, seat by seat - with UKIP at next year's general election. It will encourage Eurosceptic MPs to harden their rhetoric on a referendum and renegotiation. And for swing voters worried about the cost of living, they will hear the Conservatives - to use the prime minister's words - ""banging on about Europe"". Technically the seat could be left vacant until the general election. But Mr Cameron cannot look like he is ""running scared"" on Europe. In South Thanet the Conservatives selected a senior UKIP defector.  They will have to trawl their membership lists to find another Eurosceptic to take on Mr Carswell. Conservative MP Mark Pritchard - a fellow Eurosceptic - said Mr Carswell had been ""flirting with UKIP for some time"" and his defection would inflict ""short-term"" damage to the Conservative Party, as he may win the by-election. But he said voters would realise a ""vote for UKIP is a vote for Labour"". UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who this week was selected to fight South Thanet at the 2015 general election, shared the platform with Mr Carswell at his press conference.","Tory Douglas Carswell has defected to UKIP and @placeholder as MP for Clacton , saying he will contest the subsequent by-election for Nigel Farage 's party .",quit,sits,rebuild,staff,remains,0
"The Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee called the proposal ""ambitious"". But it also warns that without extra resources, education priorities could be distorted by the strategy. Ministers said the final proposals, due to be published in the summer, would include ""a series of indicators"". The report, by the assembly's Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee, said the proposals ""need to be delivered in large part through the education system"". The committee warned of a ""clear risk that this may have a distortive effect on the delivery of educational priorities as the system is realigned to be able to deliver the language strategy"". ""It is therefore important that the resources and capacity needed to implement the policy are in addition to current spending on education,"" the report added. Committee chairwoman, Plaid Cymru AM Bethan Jenkins, said the AMs fully supported the ""bold"" aim of the ""radical"" policy. ""It is clear from considering the evidence that success will require hard work, considerable additional resources and clear targets,"" she said. ""It will also need to be founded on the continuing support of the people of Wales, Welsh and non-Welsh speakers alike."" The Welsh Government said it had ""done a lot of work on the areas covered by the report"", after a consultation on the draft strategy. Welsh Language Minister Alun Davies said: ""The final language strategy will set a strong long-term direction including a series of indicators to monitor progress towards achieving the million, in addition to an increased use of the Welsh language."" Calling the one million speakers target ""deliberately ambitious"" he said: ""There are challenges ahead, but we are building from a position of strength."" In January, Welsh Language Commissioner Meri Huws said the education system needed to be ""radically changed"" to reach the figure, with all children under seven needing to be immersed in Welsh.","Plans to double the number of Welsh speakers in Wales to one million by 2050 lacks clarity and @placeholder , a cross-party group of AMs has said .",community,commitment,grounds,detail,feasibility,3
"They have put a sample of the familiar gas under so much pressure that it takes on a previously unseen solid crystalline form. The team tells the journal Nature that this phase may be just a step away from so-called metallic hydrogen. Predicted 80 years ago, this exotic substance could lead to ultra-fast computers and even super rocket fuel. ""We think we've reached a state of the material that is probably the precursor to metallic hydrogen,"" explained Ross Howie, formerly at Edinburgh University but now based in China. ""If you compare what we've observed experimentally with what's theoretically predicted for metallic hydrogen - they're very strong similarities between the two,"" he told the BBC's Science In Action programme. The group used a set-up called a diamond anvil cell to compress its sample of molecular hydrogen. This apparatus is essentially two gems that have been placed in opposition to each other. Their polished tips, comparable in size to the width of a human hair, are made to press into a cavity containing the sample. ""The volume of hydrogen we use is about a micron cubed - a size that is on the order of a red blood cell,"" said the Nature paper's lead author, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, from Edinburgh's Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions. ""We use brute force - a large lever arm. We apply about a tonne of force on the back of the diamonds to generate huge pressures inside the cell."" In their experiments, the scientists are able to achieve in excess of 350 gigapascals (3.5 million atmospheres) at room temperature. These pressures are not dissimilar to what would be experienced at the centre of the Earth. The big squeeze on the molecules of hydrogen gas turns them first into a liquid and then into a solid. As the pressure gets ever more intense, the atoms in the hydrogen molecules pack closer and closer together, and the electrical conductivity in the crystalline material increases. Ultimately, the hydrogen atoms should stack so efficiently that their electrons become shared - just as in a metal. However, the team does not quite see this phase, but rather something that is probably just short of it. ""This would be a mixed structure of different layers, where you might get a layer of hydrogen molecules followed by an atomic layer, and these alternate,"" said Dr Howie, who is now affiliated to the Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research in Beijing. The work puts new constraints on where the full metallic hydrogen phase might exist: possibly below 450 gigapascals at room temperature. The ambient temperature is very significant, because if metallic hydrogen can ultimately be produced this way it opens the door potentially to a new type of perfect (zero resistance) conductor - a material to boost the performance of next-generation computers. ""It's been predicted that metallic hydrogen could be a room-temperature superconductor, which is still yet to be achieved with any material,"" said Dr Howie. ""However, because we are playing with such small quantities, the practical applications at this stage are not clear."" Another prediction for metallic hydrogen suggests it could form the basis of a super fuel, producing substantially more thrust than the standard super-chilled hydrogen used in today's rockets. Scientists are also fascinated by metallic hydrogen because they think it may account for a large fraction of the internal composition of planets such as Jupiter. The high pressures and temperatures that exist several thousand kilometres below the gas giant's cloud surface are believed to produce a fluid form of metallic hydrogen. Movement in this electrically conducting liquid is very likely the source of the world's colossal magnetic field. Nasa has a probe called Juno arriving at the planet later this year to investigate the possibility. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos",British researchers think they have come close to creating a long - @placeholder new state for hydrogen .,funded,reforming,affected,distance,sought,4
"Police said the 36-year-old had left a pub on Saracen Street, Possilpark, and was walking down the street when he became involved in an altercation. The man was struck on the head during the incident, which took place at about 21:20 on Friday. He was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary after the attack and has now been released following treatment. Detectives said up to four men involved in the attack were part of a larger group on Saracen Street. They were of average height and build and wearing tracksuits. Det Con Alan McIntosh said: ""A man has been left with a very serious head injury as a result of this attack and inquiries are at an early stage to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident. ""I would like to speak to anyone with information about this incident. Saracen Street was busy at this time and I am confident that people in the community will have seen or heard a disturbance.""",A man has been seriously injured after being @placeholder upon by a group of young men in Glasgow .,set,bitten,picked,struck,knocked,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device Manchester's Fury, 27, caused a big upset by outpointing 40-year-old Klitschko in Dusseldorf last November. The rematch for Fury's WBA and WBO heavyweight titles will take place at the Manchester Arena on 9 July. ""Shame on you, you let a fat man beat you,"" said the undefeated Fury, after stripping his shirt off and clutching his stomach at a news conference. ""I don't even live an athlete's lifestyle. It's a disgrace to call me an athlete. ""Wladimir lives a strict lifestyle, but what's the point in being professional for all those years if you can't beat a fat man? ""I could beat Wladimir if I was 30st and fat as a pig. I don't need to turn up in shape."" Fury, who is unbeaten in 25 professional fights, added he was ""hating every second"" of being a world champion. ""Boxing doesn't mean a lot to me,"" he said. ""If it did, I wouldn't have eaten all the pies, drunk every pint of beer in Lancashire and gone into camp four stone overweight. ""I wish I wasn't a boxer. I hate every second of training and I hate speaking to all you idiots. I'd rather be at home with the kids watching television and eating sweets. ""But I'm just too good at it to stop. It's easy money, knocking over a few bums. ""I'm not motivated for the fight. I hope he winds the clock back and puts me into next week. Then I can retire, get fat and go on loads of holidays."" Media playback is not supported on this device Klitschko, who is attempting to become a three-time heavyweight world champion, criticised his rival's controversial views and swore at him. ""I don't look up to Tyson Fury,"" said the Ukrainian, who had not lost for 11 years before Fury beat him and whose last fight in Britain was against American Monte Barrett in 2000. ""What comes out of his mouth is not right. I will knock him out."" But Fury added: ""Last time he got beaten fair and square in his own backyard. He landed about four shots in 12 rounds. ""If a so-called super champion can't land on a big, fat, lazy Gypsy with a loud mouth, what kind of a super champion is he? ""I'm going to knock him out inside a round, just to show how bad he really is. No 40-year-old can beat Tyson Fury.""","Tyson Fury has @placeholder Wladimir Klitschko , telling him he was beaten by "" a fat man "" in their first encounter .",welcomed,mocked,visited,defended,beaten,1
It happened on the Killyglen Road just before 17:00 BST on Saturday. The PSNI said a masked man also ran off from the scene. Police were conducting a search at a property in the area at the time of the incident. One officer was injured but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.,A 28 - year - old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder police officers after a car rammed three police @placeholder in Larne .,vehicles,beach,facility,posts,series,0
"The British Museum in London is loaning the Mildenhall Great Dish to Ipswich's Christchurch Mansion, from 26 July until 31 October. The 34-piece Mildenhall silver collection is in the British Museum's top 10 list of British treasures. A replica set of the collection has been permanently on display at Mildenhall Museum since 2001. The Mildenhall Treasure is believed to date from the 4th Century. The solid silver dish, which depicts the myth of Bacchus, is 24in (60cm) in diameter. It will be displayed with other Roman Suffolk treasures including the Wickham Market gold coin hoard, the Cavenham crowns and the Holbrook horse harness pendants. Jayne Austin, development manager at Ipswich Museums, which runs Christchuch Mansion, said: ""Treasures such as this automatically went to the British Museum but they are leading the way in making collections more accessible around the country. ""The British Museum is working with us to help support the ongoing development of Ipswich Museums. ""This is a great opportunity for people to see this beautiful item free of charge in the local area."" Norma Chapman, a trustee at Mildenhall Museum, said: ""We're still not sure about its significance and mystery surrounds who owned it, although it was obviously a very important, wealthy person who had tableware like this. ""We're hoping people might be inspired to visit our collection after seeing the original.""",A Roman silver dish is @placeholder to Suffolk for the first time since its discovery in 1942 .,preparing,returning,offered,prepared,expected,1
"The ECB's executive board will discuss the plan on Thursday after it was recommended by its cricket committee. If it is approved a one-year trial will take place in 2016 to try to improve pitches and encourage spin bowlers. The away team would choose whether to bat, bowl or still have a toss if the pitch condition was uncertain. The toss will remain in County Championship Division One and domestic limited-overs cricket. It was mentioned in the first recorded laws of cricket in 1744 when the team winning the flip of the coin would have the choice of which pitch to use as well as whether to bat or bowl first. The ECB believes many matches in Division Two are decided by the toss because home teams are producing pitches to suit their bowlers. However, no team in the County Championship has been deducted points for preparing a poor pitch since 2011.",The toss could be scrapped in County Championship Division Two matches next season under @placeholder being considered by the England and Wales Cricket Board .,control,proposals,following,side,criteria,1
"Residents in the Douglas North and Douglas South constituencies elected businessman Ralph Peake and former politician Bill Malarkey respectively. Chief Minister Allan Bell said they are ""two energetic individuals who I know will make a name for themselves"". The seats became vacant when Bill Henderson and David Cretney were elected to the Legislative Council. Four candidates stood for election in Douglas South, while three others put themselves forward in Douglas North. Mr Peake was elected for the first time whilst Mr Malarkey returns four years after being ousted from his seat. Source:Isle of Man government",Two newly elected Members of the House of Keys have been @placeholder in following last week 's by-elections in Douglas .,announced,sworn,unveiled,appointed,sacked,1
"MPs passed a law allowing by-elections to be held in certain circumstances. They also agreed to reduce the length of time that an MP would have to be suspended from the Commons to trigger a recall process from 21 to 10 days. Peers will now consider the bill, which has been criticised for giving too much power to politicians. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats pledged to introduce a power of recall in their 2010 coalition agreement but critics have said the government's proposals are a watered-down version of the system used in the US and other countries. They have warned that responsibility for triggering the recall process will lie with Parliament's Standards Committee, which has a majority of MPs on it, not constituents. At the moment, MPs who are given a custodial sentence of more than one year have to stand down from Parliament, but those who get a lesser sentence can remain in place. The bill proposes that a by-election would be triggered if 10% of constituents sign a petition after an MP is found guilty of ""serious wrongdoing"" by Parliament. However, efforts to substantially rewrite the bill to give more power to the public were rejected by the Commons last month amid fears it could lead to campaigns by pressure groups and disgruntled constituents unhappy about an MP's stance on divisive issues. MPs approved the Recall of MPs Bill at third reading, its last Commons stage, on Monday although a number of significant amendments were passed. Among these, a proposal to reduce the number of sitting days that an MP had to be suspended for before they could be subject to a recall petition has been halved to 10 days after MPs backed the move by 204 votes to 125. Further powers were also inserted to the bill to trigger a recall process in cases of expenses fraud where an MP was given a non-custodial sentence and in cases where information about historic wrongdoing came to light after an MP was elected. All three amendments were passed after a free vote in the House of Commons. Defending the legislation, Cabinet Office minister Sam Gyimah said the coalition had delivered on its manifesto commitment. ""The coalition's programme made a commitment to establish a recall mechanism for MPs who have been found guilty of wrong doing or misconduct,"" he said, ""The Bill before the House fulfils the coalition commitment to deliver a practical recall mechanism to hold MPs to account when they have done something wrong."" But Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said the legislation was a ""sham"" which would not enable the public to hold MPs to account while Tory Zac Goldsmith said it was a ""disgrace"" and accused MPs of not having the ""collective proverbials"" to reject it. The bill will now move to the House of Lords for scrutiny although MPs will get another chance to consider any changes made by peers.","The House of Commons has approved plans which could see MPs being "" recalled "" and subject to a public vote on their @placeholder in cases of serious misconduct .",performance,actions,rise,future,heads,3
"Tying a 'love lock' on to the Pont des Arts before throwing the key into the River Seine beneath has become a tourist tradition in recent years. But part of the bridge collapsed under the weight last year. City officials say all locks will all be removed from Monday as they pose a safety risk. Close to a million padlocks - weighing 45 tonnes - are expected to be cut off. The Pont de l'Archeveche, near the Notre Dame cathedral, will also have locks removed from its side. Metal grilles on the side of the Pont des Arts, which dates to 1804, will be replaced by paintings over the summer, before transparent panels are put in place later this year. ""We want Paris to remain the capital of love and romance,"" said Bruno Julliard, Paris' deputy mayor, adding that there would be new initiatives encouraging people to express their love in other ways. A campaign by the city last year to get people to take selfies instead of attaching locks was not successful. On Friday, a statement by the city council said the tradition ""has led to two big problems: significant damage to our heritage, and a risk to visitors' security"". Venice has also struggled to deter tourists from attaching locks to the Rialto bridge, and in New York, amateur locksmiths launched a campaign to remove locks from the Brooklyn Bridge.",Paris is to remove padlocks symbolically fastened to one of the French capital 's main bridges by @placeholder .,race,couples,assets,team,night,1
"Last year, the European Parliament agreed that roaming charges faced by EU travellers using a mobile phone would be abolished in June 2017. Officials suggested that charges would only be banned for 90 days a year. That plan has now been replaced with permission for operators to check the system is not being abused. ""We will not put any kind of limits on duration or, how many days [travellers] can enjoy no roaming surcharges, but we decided to put some clear safeguards on residency,"" EU commissioner for the digital single market, Andrus Ansip, said. An interim limit on roaming charges has been in place since April, with a full ban to be in place from 15 June, 2017. From that point, users within the EU will be charged the same as they would be in their home country. The aim of the ban, in part, is to prevent EU consumers being caught out by huge bills when downloading films or other data during their European holidays. There have been a number of cases when mobile users have been landed with bills for hundreds of euros or pounds. There was a stumbling block in negotiations between EU officials and the phone operators on how to abolish roaming surcharges. Operators were concerned that phone users could simply sign up for a better deal in countries in other parts of the EU, then use surcharge-free roaming in their home country. They said costs were specific to each country. As a result, original plans would have let companies charge roaming fees to consumers who used their phones abroad for more than 90 days in a year or for more than 30 days in a row. ""The draft was not technically wrong,"" Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in his state of the union address. ""But it missed the point of what was promised. ""When you roam, it should be like at home."" The revised plans, published on Wednesday, allows operators to challenge customers if they detect the device is not being used for periodic travel usage. Checks can include long inactivity of a Sim card or use of multiple Sim cards by the same user whilst roaming. The user will be notified and told that they face a surcharge, but they have the right to appeal. An EU official said: ""If someone is found to have gone beyond a period in which they have lost real association with their country of origin, then surcharges can apply. There would be no retroactive billing."" Protections are in place for frequent work commuters, expats who are often in their home country, and Erasmus students. The plans are now being put to regulators, member states, and interested parties - including mobile operators - before final rules are set in mid-December. Telecom and mobile operators' associations, the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) and the GSMA said they would look at the new proposal and provide feedback. Critics of the overall abolition of roaming charges suggest the loss of revenue for mobile phone companies could push up prices in general, including prices for non-travellers.",Proposed time limits on surcharge - free roaming for travellers using mobile phones have been @placeholder under new European Commission plans .,published,increased,criticised,named,scrapped,4
"In a videotaped FBI confession aired at the death penalty trial, Dylann Roof laughed several times and made sweeping gun motions as he described the attack. The 22-year-old told interrogators he wanted the world to know he hated black people and thought they were criminals. On Wednesday, Mr Roof's mother suffered a heart attack as a survivor testified. As his two-hour taped confession played on Friday, Mr Roof sat expressionless at the defence table, shuffling papers in front of him. In the interview, filmed about 17 hours after the shooting, the accused told the FBI he had considered attacking drug dealers but thought they might fire back. So he said he decided to attack the Bible-study group at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on 17 June 2015, after reading about it online. FBI agent Michael Stansbury began the interview by asking Mr Roof what he had been doing on the night of the killings. ""I went to that church in Charleston and, uh, I did it,"" he said. The agents asked the suspect to explain. ""I killed them,"" Mr Roof said. He chuckled and added: ""Well, I killed them, I guess."" He complained that his victims had ""complicated things"" by hiding under tables. Mr Roof seemed taken aback 45 minutes into the interview when an FBI agent told him nine people had died in the attack. Three survived. He responded: ""There wasn't even that many people in there. Are you lying to me?"" An FBI agent asked him how he felt about the death toll. ""Well, it makes me feel bad,"" said Mr Roof. But he told the agents he wanted to kill black people because, he said, they raped white women every day. Armed with a .45 Glock semi-automatic handgun, he loaded 88 bullets into eight magazines for the attack. Eighty-eight is a symbolic number for neo-Nazis, standing for Heil Hitler because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. Most of the bullets were fired into an 87-year-old parishioner, Susie Jackson, who received 11 shots to her body. During the interview, an FBI agent asked Mr Roof if he had thought about killing more black people. ""Oh no,"" the suspect replied. ""I was worn out."" During the interview, he also told agents about having watched a 1982 television film about a racist skinhead called Made in Britain, starring Tim Roth. The Post and Courier reports that the court also heard excerpts from Mr Roof's journal, in which he wrote: ""I would love there to be a race war."" On Wednesday, one of the survivors, Felicia Sanders, told the court of the suspect: ""He's evil. There's no place on earth for him except the pit of hell."" Amid Wednesday's shocking evidence, Mr Roof's mother suffered a heart attack and was taken to hospital, ""highlighting the emotional nature of the proceedings"", according to a defence motion. The accused's lawyers concede he carried out the attack and are focusing on trying to spare him the death penalty.","The South Carolina man accused of shooting dead nine black church - goers last year admitted the massacre , in a video @placeholder to the jury .",shown,dedicated,linked,race,according,0
"18 October 2015 Last updated at 08:34 BST ""Pan"" is a remake of Peter Pan and features a lot of famous actors and actresses. But many people are unhappy with the director's choice to pick Rooney Mara, a white actress, to play the character Tiger Lily. In many of the past versions of the books and films of Peter Pan, Tiger Lily is thought to be Native American. Those who don't agree with the casting have launched an online petition which has over 95,000 supporters. The director says he's presenting the version of Tiger Lily from the original book written by JM Barrie. ""Barrie wrote the character of Tiger Lily and her community not very specifically, and so I followed JM Barrie rather than pressure from outside groups.""",A new Hollywood movie 's been getting complaints from people who are unhappy about the @placeholder of one of the main characters .,race,millions,sight,effects,performance,0
"On a bad day, the security checks could add a good hour to a round trip between Belfast and Dublin. Some in the Remain camp argued that a vote to exit the European Union would see a return of permanent border checkpoints. Those in the Leave camp, including Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, insisted that was nonsense. EU Referendum results So what now? The honest answer is that nobody quite knows. Those who dismiss claims that a ""hard border"" could return point to what is called the Common Travel Area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which allows the free movement of people and goods. There have been such agreements, which pre-dated the European Union (EU), that allowed easier cross-border movement. However, it is unclear how those arrangements will be affected by the UK's withdrawal from the EU. When the United Kingdom formally exits the EU, it is possible the EU will insist on some form of checks on the movement of people for security reasons, and goods, for the purposes of gathering any taxes due on products entering its territory from a non-member state. However, there would be enormous pressure on the Irish government to resist any EU demands for permanent border checkpoints for domestic political reasons. When he began talking to Sinn Féin in the hope of influencing republicans to end their campaign of violence, former SDLP leader John Hume argued that the border was irrelevant and did not exist in practical terms. The sight of armed guards at permanent border checkpoints would make that border highly visible and hugely controversial. Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Enda Kenny said on Friday that the Irish government will seek to maintain the Common Travel Area. That clearly suggests he does not envisage a ""hard border"". It is unclear at this stage what impact Brexit might have on policing arrangements in Northern Ireland. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) can currently share intelligence with other European police forces and access central data bases through Europol, and can participate in joint investigation teams. It can also use European Arrest Warrants to ask other police forces to arrest suspects on its behalf. Likewise, other European police forces regularly ask the PSNI to act on their behalf. The future of all of those arrangements and structures is now unclear. It is possible they may all have to re-negotiated by the British government with each individual member state in the EU. The PSNI hopes that will not be necessary and that the EU will recognise the mutual benefits of keeping existing arrangements in place. But nothing is clear, and the fog of uncertainty is unlikely to be lifted anytime soon. Get the results in full.","Those who experienced the "" hard border "" that existed between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles will shudder at the memory of long queues of traffic as ID was checked and @placeholder searched .",vehicles,drugs,health,traffic,defeated,0
"William Gibb was found on Elizabeth Street in Govan at about 00:20 on Tuesday. Paramedics were called but Mr Gibb, who was from Govan, was pronounced dead at the scene. Gavin Riley, from Glasgow, has been charged with Mr Gibb's murder. He was remanded in custody after a hearing on Wednesday. The 27-year-old is expected to appear in court again next week.",Police have @placeholder a 47 - year - old man who died after being left seriously injured in a Glasgow street .,said,dropped,signed,released,named,4
"Root scored 73 in a partnership of 140 with Eoin Morgan (76) before Jonny Bairstow's rapid 72 propelled England to 328-6 at the home of cricket. Paul Stirling struck 48 but Root's 3-52 swung the game the home side's way. Media playback is not supported on this device Will Porterfield (82) gave Ireland a glimmer of hope but his dismissal spelt the end and they were all out for 241. Root's Yorkshire team-mate Liam Plunkett helped clean up the tail and ended up with figures of 3-21. However, it was a much-improved display from the tourists after Friday's seven-wicket defeat in Bristol in front of a healthy away following and one they can use as further proof of their suitability for Test status. After Friday's first ODI, England captain Eoin Morgan spoke of the need for his players to find form before June's Champions Trophy on home soil, for which England are currently bookmakers' favourites. He has no worries over Root, who scored at a run a ball during his innings, the majority of which was spent in a partnership with his equally efficient skipper, and retains the ability to take timely wickets with his seemingly innocuous off-spin. Following the loss of Hales and Roy, who is England's biggest concern after adding an unconvincing 20 to his fifth-ball duck in Bristol, Root and Morgan took England past 200 before both fell in the space of three overs. A brief lull followed, during which England also lost Sam Billings, before Bairstow and Adil Rashid (39) restored the momentum and pushed the score past 300. Media playback is not supported on this device Wicketkeeper-batsman Bairstow is a fixture in the Test side but has failed to nail down a regular spot in what is a congested England limited-overs middle order. However, with Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler both at the IPL, the 26-year-old was given an opportunity to excel that he did not waste. Demonstrating the clean-hitting that had seen him score a 113-ball 174 for Yorkshire in a recent One-Day Cup win over Durham, Bairstow took over from county colleague Root, acclimatised quickly and then accelerated to propel England beyond a 300 total that had previously looked in doubt. It took him 38 balls to reach his fourth ODI 50 before fully cutting loose, adding another 22 runs in just six deliveries that included three big sixes. With the three-game home series against South Africa to come later this month, before the start of the Champions Trophy, Bairstow is providing England with a nice selection dilemma to resolve. Ireland have had a bad couple of months, during which they have lost a one-day series and an ICC Intercontinental Cup fixture to chief rival associate nation Afghanistan, and both games in this series. In Bristol, they looked weighed down by what coach John Bracewell described as the ""huge pressure"" of the impending decision over their potential Test status, which should be made next month. However, they played with greater freedom and application on Sunday, rising to the challenge of their first encounter against England at Lord's. They were energetic in the field but unfortunately lack bowling depth beyond Tim Murtagh, who used his experience of Lord's from 10 years as a Middlesex player to keep England in check, especially in an initial spell of 1-16 off his opening six overs. Barry McCarthy (2-61) and Peter Chase (2-69) had their moments but lacked consistency and wilted under Bairstow's late onslaught. The lack of depth is mirrored in their batting. Stirling, Joyce and Porterfield are a talented top three but as England have shown over two games, there is little below them. Stirling and Joyce (16) added 68 for the opening wicket but both fell in the space of two and a half overs, the former to Jake Ball and the latter to Root, who would also claim the wickets of Niall O'Brien and Gary Wilson to help reduce Ireland to 154-5. Porterfield's clean striking carried the tourists past 200 until he was bowled by Mark Wood attempting a ramp shot, leaving the Durham seamer and Plunkett to clean up the tail. England coach Trevor Bayliss, speaking to Sky Sports: ""We know we have sterner tests coming up, against South Africa and in the Champions Trophy. We can do no more than play and win well. ""We will go into the three games against South Africa wanting to win that series. If we are 2-0 up with a game to go we will look at the team then."" England captain Eoin Morgan: ""Bristol was a more convincing win and today presented us with different challenges. ""There was some cloud cover this morning and the openers got us off to a fantastic start. I shared in a good partnership with Joe Root and then Jonny Bairstow and Adil Rashid saw us home after a little wobble."" Ireland captain Will Porterfield: ""I thought we were much improved today. ""We put a lot of things right - we bowled well and kept going when the big partnership got going and it took Jonny Bairstow to play well to get them to that big total. ""I think with the bat we were just a couple of wickets behind and that stopped us going for it at the end."" Ex-England spinner Graeme Swann on BBC Test Match Special: ""It's been a very professional performance from England. They haven't taken their foot off the gas at any point in the series. 8.5/10 from England."" Ex-England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent on BBC Test Match Special: ""I'm not sure England can take too much out of this series. It's good to see Bairstow play the way he does - but we know he's a quality player - and it's good to see Wood back. Perhaps I'd like to have seen more from him? But there's not much more we didn't already know.""",Joe Root @placeholder as England sealed a series whitewash over Ireland in their two - match one - day international contest courtesy of an 85 - run win at Lord 's .,wept,faltered,hopes,head,starred,4
"The search for Ben, who went missing on the Greek island of Kos 25 years ago, is in its 17th day. Police searches have entered a third week and a second site after it emerged Ben may have been accidentally killed by a digger driver. The toddler from Sheffield was 21 months old when he disappeared on 24 July 1991. Det Insp Jon Cousins, of South Yorkshire Police,  said: ""The calculation is that we've lifted and sifted 800 tonnes of material. ""That's 800 hours of volunteer work - the volunteers have been turning up each and every day, one of them every single day, to help us [officers]."" ""Police still seem confident they are doing the right thing."" Tom Ingall, BBC reporter in Kos said: ""The search is already longer than expected and looks like it will now go through to this coming weekend too."" On Monday, Ben's mother Kerry Needham said she now believed her son is likely to be found dead. The search has been extended to a second site 750m away from where he was last seen. About 60 items found in the search are being sent back to the UK for analysis.",Police investigating the disappearance of Ben Needham say they have now dug up more than 800 tonnes of @placeholder .,events,bodies,homes,soil,staff,3
"The meeting with Aberdeen on 27 May clashes with England's Under-20 World Cup finals campaign. Manchester City loanee Roberts says it is unlikely he will be able to play for treble-chasing Celtic in the final and represent his country, if selected. ""I'm not sure [what's going to happen] yet. Whatever happens, I'll be happy and 100% to play,"" he said. ""I don't think [I can do both], because the squad goes in and the group stages finish the day before the cup final, so it's one or the other."" Paul Simpson is due to name his squad for the finals, which start in South Korea on 20 May, on Monday. Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers said on Friday that he hoped the club and the Football Association could reach ""a compromise"" on Roberts' situation as the Premiership champions bid to add the Scottish Cup to the league and League Cup crowns they have already secured this season. The player himself, who joins team-mates Kieran Tierney and Moussa Dembele among the PFA Scotland Premiership young player of the year nominees, is content to not be forced to choose between club and country. ""I'd rather the decision was taken out of my hands,"" Roberts said. ""Playing for your club and country are both proud achievements and both big things to lose. ""I'll speak to the gaffer, people at the FA and my agent, but it's not down to me, so I can't really make that decision."" Team-mate Stuart Armstrong - nominated for the Premiership Player of the Year award - has also sparkled at the heart of Celtic's midfield, with the champions yet to lose a domestic game this season. Deployed in a central role, Armstrong's superb form earned him a Scotland call-up for the 2018 World Cup qualifying victory over Slovenia in March. The 25-year-old produced a performance national head coach Gordon Strachan described as ""the best Scotland debut I have ever seen"". ""Last season was a frustrating time,"" Armstrong reflected. ""I was being judged as a left winger and now I've had the opportunity to play centre midfield and managed to stay there. ""From that perspective, it's been pleasing for me and pleasing to play a role in this successful team. ""There's been a lot of good points of the season - winning the final back in November, winning the league. When the season's all finished, we can look back and be pleased about a lot of aspects. ""A personal highlight probably was the Scotland cap for me.""",Celtic winger Patrick Roberts admits his availability for this month 's Scottish Cup final @placeholder in doubt .,remains,side,event,series,title,0
"Bosses at the Brimmond Medical Group practice in Bucksburn said a lack of trained GPs, diminished resourcing and extra demand from new housing developments had left the business ""unviable"". The group's Dyce surgery has more than 8,000 patients. Responsibility for primary care will be handed to NHS Grampian from October. A letter to patients stated that there had been ""progressive problems with GP recruitment and retention"". It read: ""Inevitable staff turnover has become impossible to manage in the context of an inadequate number of trained GPs being produced, and a collapse in those GPs seeking partnerships in GP businesses. ""Brimmond Medical Group is faced with a number of GPs leaving or retiring - and an inability to adequately replace them. ""Locally, combined with substantial extra expectation from new housing developments and massively diminishing resourcing, the business of the practice has become unviable."" The British Medical Association has warned of a crisis in GP staffing due to the number of doctors planning to retire or move abroad. However, the Scottish government said recent investment in primary care had seen the number of GPs increase by almost 7%.","An Aberdeen medical practice is to be @placeholder , in part due to a shortage of doctors .",introduced,founded,dissolved,released,scrapped,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device As the Reds' hopes of a top-four finish and a place in next season's Champions League recede, so the significance of the FA Cup increases as a route to success - and the 1-0 quarter-final replay win at Ewood Park sets up a last-four meeting with Aston Villa. Rodgers is looking to bring Liverpool their first trophy since the League Cup win against Cardiff City under Kenny Dalglish in 2012. Liverpool's chairman during their all-conquering era, the late Sir John Smith, repeatedly said the club ""only exists to win trophies"". The Champions League has shifted the game's landscape to such an extent that some present-day chairmen might change that mantra to suggest a club ""only exists to finish in the Premier League's top four"". Rodgers needed victory desperately at Blackburn, not simply to advance to the FA Cup semi-finals and keep on course for his major target, but also in the wider context of how his and Liverpool's season will be viewed at its conclusion. If the top four is out of reach, although it still remains a tantalising prospect, Rodgers simply has to win the FA Cup for the season to be deemed a success. Outside the top four and no trophies would be a failure - he would surely admit that himself. Media playback is not supported on this device With the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona for £75m last summer after coming so close to their first title in 24 years, there was always going to be a transitional element about Liverpool's season, hence the stated aim of a top-four finish and a trophy. If Liverpool can claim the FA Cup - and this will be no easy task with Villa and potentially Arsenal in their way - then Rodgers can rightly state this is progress and an objective has been achieved. If not, having spent £100m after being armed with the Suarez cash, it will be a summer of soul-searching. It would be grossly unfair to downgrade a manager's achievements after winning a trophy, though it should be remembered Dalglish was sacked by owners Fenway Sports Group in 2012 despite winning the League Cup and reaching the FA Cup final. Rodgers will not suffer a similar fate but in the modern era even winning a trophy as prestigious as the FA Cup, no matter how much joy that would bring Liverpool fans, would not make up entirely for missing out on the top four. There is still a place for that old Liverpool motto about winning trophies, which is why Wednesday's victory was greeted with such jubilation by thousands of travelling fans gathered on Ewood Park's Darwen End. A trip to Wembley is always good for morale, and silverware at the end of it would inject confidence into a developing squad, not to mention Rodgers should he win his first Liverpool trophy. He may seem supremely confident in public but every manager gets added benefits from putting his name on the honours board. While the losses to Manchester United and Arsenal hurt and brought criticism, they were in fact Liverpool's first Premier League defeats since a 3-0 loss at Old Trafford on 14 December. Liverpool's season, however, has been shaped by a disappointing exit at the Champions League group stage and the struggle - perhaps an understandable one - to match last season's feats. They scored 101 league goals and won 26 games out of 38 when finishing second - this term they have scored only 45 times in 31 games, winning 16. They have also struggled against their main rivals, only beating Manchester City at Anfield while losing away. Manchester United did the double over Liverpool while Chelsea won at Anfield, where Arsenal drew before handing out that 4-1 beating at Emirates Stadium. So the league season has been mixed - but the FA Cup offers a salvation of sorts, though a vote on this website after the Blackburn win saw 55% of those taking part suggest finishing in the top four was more important than Wembley glory on 30 May. The FA Cup will now be the symbol of Liverpool's season. Win at Wembley on captain Steven Gerrard's 35th birthday and in what would be his final game for the club, then Rodgers can justifiably point to tangible success and signs of progress. End the season empty-handed and outside the top four and it will be viewed as a serious disappointment. Even in victory at Ewood Park, there was no escaping the name that is providing an increasingly farcical backdrop to Liverpool's season: Mario Balotelli. The Italian, after ruling himself out of the Arsenal defeat with what Rodgers described as ""a slight knock on the knee"", was then too ill to play at Blackburn. There was a resigned tone in Rodgers' voice, perhaps at being asked about this £16m failed gamble yet again, but also at Balotelli's latest no-show. Has he given up on Balotelli? Has Balotelli given up on Liverpool? Balotelli is an example of the challenges Rodgers has had to face this season, from the moment he had to reshape his squad following the sale of Suarez, the injuries to main striker Daniel Sturridge, the announced departure of iconic captain Gerrard and the contract impasse with England star Raheem Sterling, so graphically illustrated in his exclusive BBC Sport interview. Media playback is not supported on this device Balotelli, quite simply, is a punt that backfired. Rodgers perhaps banked on Balotelli realising he was drinking at the last-chance saloon - instead he has not even troubled the bar staff. He will have to go. Gerrard's departure was always going to be a delicate business to handle but Rodgers has done it well, showing the Liverpool legend due respect while occasionally keeping him out of a team that has demonstrated, on its good days, that life can go on without him. Rodgers also deserves credit for turning Liverpool's fortunes around after a poor start, changing the team's shape to incorporate a back three and going on an unbeaten three-month league run that brought a top-four spot back into focus. It was sound management and a skilful manoeuvring of resources. It also demonstrated that he may have picked a gem when signing £10m Emre Can from Bayer Leverkusen, the German slotting into central defence but a future midfield player of real power and stature. Other signings have produced mixed results. Dejan Lovren has looked anything but a £20m centre-half while £25m midfielder Adam Lallana - another buy from Southampton - has had moments of promise interrupted by injury. Lazar Markovic, at £20m from Benfica, has rarely excelled. It has been a learning season for both Liverpool and Rodgers - and an FA Cup win would be regarded as a price worth paying for any moments of pain. Back to that pursuit of the top four - and things might look a lot rosier if they can beat Newcastle United at Anfield next Monday and Manchester United have beaten Manchester City at Old Trafford the day before. This would mean a gap of only four points to fourth and fresh momentum in the Premier League, although the task is still a tough one. That is why the win at Blackburn was so vital. How Liverpool fare in the FA Cup will frame how their season, and that of Rodgers, is judged.",The clouds that gathered over Liverpool and manager Brendan Rodgers after successive Premier League losses to Manchester United and Arsenal were @placeholder by a victory at Blackburn Rovers that takes them to Wembley .,justified,triggered,dashed,lifted,joined,3
"It was the idea of BMA Cymru, which said it wanted to stimulate debate, discussion and ""ultimately understanding"" about what the job is like in 2017. ""What being a doctor means to me"" was the theme and it inspired GPs and hospital registrars to look beyond the confines of their surgeries and wards. Some took images of their lives outside work and of wider Wales, while others approached aspects and challenges in their work head-on. The winner was Dr Dylan Parry, a GP at Cadwgan surgery in Colwyn Bay, whose image goes right to the heart of life and death and the doctor-patient relationship. ""Life's meaning in the face of mortality"" shows a stack of philosophical books, with a ""thank you"" card in the background. ""Being a GP for me has meant many different things but most of all it's been about a fascinating journey of learning,"" he said. ""It has become increasingly clear that my patients and I are ultimately trying to achieve a shared understanding of life's meaning and how to square its preservation with a sense of being mortal. ""When done well, the gratitude shown by patients and their loved ones is immeasurable."" The runner-up was Dr Mary Fok, a community paediatrician at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, who assesses children for autistic spectrum disorder. ""I simply gave a little boy some toys and observed him,"" she said. ""This photo shows the result of a few moments of ""non-pretend play"", typical of an autistic child. ""The outcome has a beauty of its own, captured in the symmetry of the layout and colours.""","What is it like being a doctor in Wales ? That question has been answered in pictures rather than words , when the medical profession took up the challenge @placeholder by a photography competition .",accompanied,triggered,set,began,inspired,2
"Lionel Messi netted before Luis Suarez (two), Rafinha and Neymar scored. Barca are one point ahead of Real Madrid, who beat Valencia 3-2, while Atletico Madrid are out of contention after losing 2-1 at relegated Levante. Barca play their final game at Granada next Saturday and will win the league if the teams finish level on points due to their superior head-to-head record. Relive how the title race developed Luis Enrique's side looked vulnerable after seeing their lead at the top of the table ebb away during a four-match winless league run wrapped around their Champions League exit to Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals. But they have bounced back to form in impressive style - scoring 21 goals in winning their past four league games - to put themselves within touching distance of a sixth title in eight seasons. Suarez, 29, has led the charge with 11 goals in his past four appearances to give the former Liverpool striker 56 in all competitions and 37 in La Liga - four more than Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi has 26 league goals, including four in his past five games. The Argentine set Barca on their way to victory with a superb free-kick before teeing up Suarez to make it 2-0 with a calm finish early in the second half. Suarez then headed home from a corner, before tap-ins from Rafinha and Neymar saw Barca end their home programme with a flourish. Granada have nothing to play for after securing their safety with a 4-1 win at Europa League finalists Sevilla. They can be caught on points by Getafe and Sporting de Gijon but have a superior head-to-head record. Granada lost 4-0 at the Nou Camp in January but did beat Barca at home in 2014. Barcelona also have a Copa del Rey final to look forward to against Sevilla on 22 May.",Barcelona are one win away from retaining their La Liga title after a 5 - 0 rout of @placeholder Espanyol .,home,aggregate,neighbours,hosts,cd,2
"The Baggies have offered Manchester United about £15m for midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin, who has played just 11 Premier League minutes this season. Pulis said some players ""prefer the protection"" of a bigger club rather than moving to a team where they ""have to work and play and earn their money"". West Brom have also been linked with Leicester City's Jeffrey Schlupp. The 24-year-old left-sided defender or winger has made only four league appearances for the champions this season. Media playback is not supported on this device The Baggies are eighth in the table and face competition from Everton for 27-year-old France international Schneiderlin, who United boss Jose Mourinho says can leave Old Trafford if the club's board is happy with the fee. ""The big picture is we're trying to get players into this club who will progress us over a period of time, not just in this moment,"" added Pulis, whose side visit fourth-placed Arsenal on 26 December (15:00 GMT kick-off). ""It's not just time and money, it's getting the players to come to the club.""","Players @placeholder for first - team football at "" bigger clubs "" should move on , says West Brom manager Tony Pulis .",set,destined,signed,struggling,called,3
"Profiles in Vogue Magazine, big newspapers and an appearance on primetime US TV reflect renewed attention being directed north of the border. Requests for an invitation to the White House state dinner, the first for a Canadian leader since 1997, have come ""fast and furious"" while a waiting list for a think tank-hosted reception is said to be ""a mile long"", CBC reported. Part of Mr Trudeau's appeal has been put down to the fame of his father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. ""He has a name that resonates with people. Americans remember his dad,"" former Canadian ambassador to Washington Raymond Chretien told the Huffington Post. Who is Justin Trudeau? Trudeau to use father's desk Americans search for 'move to Canada' But it is also driven by the apparent contrast between Mr Trudeau and some of the candidates currently vying for their parties' presidential nominations. ""There's a kind of buzz about it. Having somebody who has a bit more of an inspirational politics is a respite from lot of what we're seeing at the moment,"" Matt Browne from the Centre for American Progress told the Globe and Mail newspaper. Canada's inclusive prime minister has been dubbed the ""anti-Trump"" in the Washington Post for his differences with Republican front runner Donald, who has caused alarm in some quarters with policies aimed at Mexicans and Muslims. Mr Trudeau's Twitter feed shows him supporting clean energy, welcoming Syrian refugees to Canada and accepting a headdress from Canada's indigenous Tsuut'ina people. Mr Trump's currently contains insults directed at his rivals. Some of the social media users who had been exploring possible moves to Canada in the event of a Trump presidency now want Canada to come to them, imploring Mr Trudeau to be their next leader. One political website dubbed him simply ""Canada's Obama"". All of this is good news for Mr Trudeau, who told CBS 60 Minutes that Canada felt ignored by the US. ""Because you can't be Canadian without being aware of at least one other country, the United States, because it's so important to us,"" he said. ""I think we sometimes like to think that, you know, Americans will pay attention to us from time to time, too."" But he was also bold enough to encourage the US also to pay ""a little more attention to the world"" in general. Much online reaction to the interview focused on a photograph displayed on screen said to show Mr Trudeau's father Pierre and his mother Margaret, but which actually showed Sex and the City actress Kim Cattrall, then aged 24, who dated Pierre Trudeau after he separated from his wife. Mr Trudeau's wife Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, a former TV host who now campaigns for various causes, is also eagerly awaited in Washington. She will have meetings with Michelle Obama and will show support for the US First Lady's Let Girls Learn initiative to boost education for girls around the world. ""Inside the White House and beyond that, there is clearly an interest in who she is as a person, and that element of glamour within the couple adds to the whole occasion,"" said Mr Browne from the Center for American Progress. No guest list has yet been released for Thursday's state dinner, but some of the biggest names in politics and entertainment are expected to attend. It will be followed by an after party at the sleek W Hotel. Mr Trudeau will also attend an official welcome on the White House lawn and a state lunch hosted by Secretary of State John Kerry as well as events hosted by the Canada 2020 think tank on Wednesday and Friday. However, despite the evident glamour surrounding his trip, some say Mr Trudeau has more to do if he wants to be recognised outside the US political establishment, White House veteran Brett Bruen said unconventional media appearances, such as sitcom appearances, would ""establish him as an American celebrity"" noticed by more people than just ""pundits and observers"". ""Now you want to go capture the interest of the man or woman on the street who'll say: 'Yeah, I know Prime Minister Trudeau. When he speaks about immigration issues or climate change or trade, I'm going to pay closer attention, because he's someone that I see regularly,'"" he told the Huffington Post.","Following Canada 's young and photogenic Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his visit to Washington is , it seems , the @placeholder known as "" Trudeaumania "" .",style,condition,body,movement,voice,1
"Kieran Gillespie, 25, from Birmingham, denies murdering Leon Barrett-Hazle in Handsworth in the city on 23 January, claiming he acted in self-defence. Mr Gillespie told police he had pulled ""a pair of scissors"" on his victim after believing he had been stabbed in the face. Mr Barrett-Hazle, 36, from Smethwick, West Midlands, was found to be unarmed. Read more news for Birmingham and the Black Country The jury at Birmingham Crown Court was told the bus's CCTV would show a row breaking out between the men, with Mr Barrett-Hazle punching Mr Gillespie in the face. Mr Gillespie, of Wellesbourne Road, fled the scene in Rookery Road but returned to the bus to recover his baseball cap after the stabbing, the prosecution said. After his arrest, he told officers a disagreement arose because Mr Barrett-Hazle kept looking at him on the back row of the 11A bus. Stephen Linehan QC, prosecuting, said tests showed Mr Barrett-Hazle's multiple stab wounds could not have been caused using scissors. The barrister said: ""He drew that weapon and we say you'll conclude it was a knife of some type. ""In interview, Gillespie said he stabbed him two to three times - it was far more than that."" The trial continues.","A bus passenger was knifed to death during a row with a stranger on the @placeholder 's upper deck , a court heard .",side,vehicle,bridge,neighbour,continent,1
"Bringing together the major influences that shaped the city's cultural output Beirut-based curator and designer Rana Salam pinpoints the impact of external wars and civil conflict on design with an insider's eye for detail. The French mandate ended in 1943, after 23 years of colonial rule, ushering in the new republic. But it was in the 1950s that architecture, interior and product design flourished fusing European and Arab influences. The economic emphasis shifted from agriculture to industry, tourism and trade, creating a new skyline, and growing consumerism encouraged brand advertising. A 1960s poster (pictured) for Middle East Airlines, Lebanon's national carrier, which began flying the newly wealthy to international destinations. The French-designed poster suggests it's made of mosaic while appearing modern, and designer Jacques Auriac - also responsible for the creating iconic French cigarette packets - conjured up posters to destinations beyond the immediate region. Opening its doors in late 1967, the boutique L'Artisan du Liban et L'Orient was the response of May El Khoury, the wife of an eminent architect, to the trauma of defeat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The defeat eroded confidence and left a profound impression on the Arab psyche. Modernising overlooked local crafts and selling them in a chic setting might be interpreted as an act of cultural activism. It softened the humiliation of military defeat for the middle classes, who were attracted to the new Arab aesthetic and to the idea of patriotism through ethical consumerism. The desire to create a contemporary Islamic architecture marked architect Assem Salam's early career in reaction to the 1967 war. Along with Pierre Khoury he felt the construction of specifically Lebanese-Arab religious buildings would revive spirits crushed by the defeat and designed the Khashoggi Mosque (pictured above). After the civil war he founded an association for the preservation of historic buildings seeking to slow down the rush to reconstruct Beirut at the cost of cultural heritage. The nightclub known as B 018 was designed by Bernard Khoury in 1998 in the Quarantaine, the Beirut neighbourhood that saw some of the worst atrocities during the conflict. It has its roots in the 1980s in the thick of the civil war when gatherings were held at a semi-secret location code named B 018. The circular lid covering the subterranean club looks like a helicopter landing pad from above. The lid can also be raised revealing activity below. Khoury claims that in the absence of public spaces above ground his club was designed not for entertainment but to bring people together for therapy. The Egg, a scarred reminder of the civil war, stands near Martyrs Square. It was originally planned to be a cinema at the heart of the largest leisure and shopping complex in the Middle East, part of a modernist, avant-garde architectural movement, but it was unfinished when the civil war broke out in 1975. Fierce fighting around the building left the edifice pock-marked but still standing. This iconic building occasionally hosts cultural events. The Basilica of the Cathedral of Harissa, designed by Pierre Khoury, is pictured at the top of the page. It stands on a hill overlooking a bay, next to an important Lebanese Christian pilgrimage site. The remarkable religious building was conceived with the idea of creating a stronger Christian identity after the 1967 war.","The main exhibition at this year 's Dubai Design Week , Iconic City : Brilliant Beirut , presents a cleverly conceived display of the Lebanese capital 's design @placeholder from 1950 until the present .",style,habit,competition,legacy,evolution,4
"Unfortunately for Peterborough United midfielder Jermaine Anderson, that is exactly what has happened to him. The 19-year-old was named Football League Young Player of the Month for November, a month in which he scored four goals in four games. But just three minutes into the FA Cup visit of Luton on 6 December, he suffered a knee injury which will keep him out for the rest of the campaign. Anderson told BBC Sport: ""It's difficult, but it's football. Football loves to spring surprises on you and it's just how you deal with it which sums you up. ""It's a shame for it to happen but I'll be working hard with the physio, doing my rehab and hopefully coming back better, fitter, stronger and I'll see if I can improve on other areas of the pitch."" It is not the first time in his short career that the London-born midfielder has had a long-term lay-off, having missed the end of last season after breaking his foot. But, almost certainly speaking from experience, Anderson is philosophical about his road to recovery. ""It's not an injury you can't come back from, loads of people come back from it all the time,"" he said. ""It's just whether or not I want to put in the work or not, which obviously I will do to get back to how I was playing. ""I think with the people that I have around me, the physios and the management staff, they won't allow me not to come back to how I used to be. It won't be easy, but I will come back to how I was."" Before his injury, Anderson was a key member of Posh's midfield diamond, a system that has given the Cambridgeshire club new life since manager Graham Westley took over at the ABAX Stadium in September. Under the former Stevenage boss, Posh have climbed from 18th in League One to a play-off place, with Anderson's goalscoring run more than the rest of his career combined. So what changed? ""The gaffer telling me I need to score more goals and affect the game going forward,"" replied Anderson. ""In training I was working on late runs into the box, doing more work on finishing in and outside the box and knowing when to go for headers and crosses because our full-backs get up high and get good balls into the box. ""I think he's made me a more attacking player because I was doing well defensively but I wasn't getting many assists or goals. That's something him and Grant McCann noticed straight away - to make me an all-round midfielder."" His form sees him follow in the footsteps of his close friend, Tottenham and England midfielder Dele Alli, who won the award in August 2014. The pair know each other from international youth teams and playing against one another in development squads. Asked if they would speak about his award, Anderson joked: ""If he can take time out of his busy schedule to have a word with me, then yes."" He continued: ""It's nice to win an award that a lot of great footballers have won in the past, Wilfried Zaha and other players like that, so it's an honour for me to be in the same sort of bracket."" Anderson comes across as a man who has matured through his experiences in football, having been let go by boyhood club Arsenal at the age of 16. ""It was horrible at the time, because I was still quite young and being an Arsenal fan it was gutting at the time,"" he said. ""My mum was like 'well, everything happens for a reason, one door shuts, another one opens' and it did at Peterborough."" He would not go too far wrong to trust his mum's advice yet again as he looks to bounce back from a little bit more adversity.","Sport can be a cruel mistress at times . One minute you are being recognised by higher @placeholder for being in the form of your life , the next you come back down to earth with a season - ending injury .",criticism,nights,powers,topics,authorities,2
"Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane both hit centuries as India posted 622-9 declared in their first innings. Sri Lanka were never in the game once they were bowled out for 183 in reply. They managed 386 in their second innings - Dimuth Karunaratne making 141 - but India's spinners sealed victory on the fourth afternoon. Ravindra Jadeja picked up the man-of-the-match award after hitting an unbeaten 70 off 85 balls at number nine before taking 2-84 and 5-152 with the ball. India won the first Test in Galle by 304 runs. The third and final Test gets under way in Pallekele on 12 August. Jadeja will miss that match after he was suspended for a breach of the International Cricket Council's disciplinary code. The all-rounder pleaded guilty to the charge, which related to throwing the ball ""in a dangerous manner"" towards Karunaratne as he fielded off his own bowling on day three. He lost 50% of his match fee and earned three demerit points, taking him to a total of six in the past two years, leading to a one-game ban.",India completed a @placeholder win over Sri Lanka with a crushing victory by an innings and 53 runs in the second Test in Colombo .,series,place,lost,narrow,shock,0
"Some of the literature used for the polls in the West Bank and Gaza that were scheduled for October had replaced the names of female candidates with ""sister of..."", ""wife of..."" or just their initials. The issue first rose to prominence at the end of August when female voters and candidates started using a hashtag to voice their dissent and to call for women's names to be properly represented. There is no direct translation for the Arabic word at the end of the hashtag, but in this context it can be read to mean ""our names are not shameful"" or ""our names should not be covered"". Dania H Alatmnah makes a strong defence of her right to her name, saying: ""My name is Dania and I am so proud of it and I will always keep saying it. ""My name was mentioned twice in the Quran. Your minds are flawed #ournamesarenotshameful."" ""The name of the bride is often absent from wedding invitation cards and substituted with her initials,"" according to Al-Monitor, a news website from the Middle East. Journalists from the website also spoke to Amal Habib, the presenter of a show dedicated to women on the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV channel. ""I think it's shameful that some people still believe that women's names should be omitted,"" Amal Habib said. ""I'm shocked at this culture and how it was embraced. Women should be called by their names out of respect and our names should not be hidden. ""It is the right of every woman to participate in all political and government institutions, in accordance with Palestinian law,"" she adds. Sometimes simply saying your name makes a powerful statement as Rawan Nafez al-Shawa's Facebook post shows. Her post translates as: ""My mum's name is Reem and my only sister's name is Intisar. ""My aunts' names are: Rabab, Ghada, and my other aunts to my dad are Randa, and Raghda. My grandmas' names are Intisar and Nusra. ""May God give them the long life,"" she writes, ending with the hashtag #ournamesshouldnotbecovered. But it's not just women who are outraged by being erased from the elections. The top-rated post on Facebook is a proud show of support from a man. He writes: ""My name is Mohamed, my late mother's name is Najma, my wife's name is Iman. ""My daughters' names are Hebabtallah and Lamia. My sisters are Laila, Lamia, Sanaa, and Samah. I am proud of all of them and I am proud of my family, relatives and friends.""","With Palestinian municipal elections @placeholder , authorities will now have time to fix a contentious issue surrounding the names on the candidate lists .",group,described,delayed,power,culture,2
"Figures for February into March show the annual average performance figure rose to 90.3%. This, however, remains below the benchmark set in the rail franchise contract. This committed ScotRail to a performance target of 91.3%. But the improvement does end the need for a performance improvement plan to remain in force. This mechanism was put in place in September 2016 when the Scottish government demanded improved punctuality and reliability. ScotRail outperformed other parts of the UK in the latest round of figures, with the annual average for England and Wales slipping slightly to 87.3%. In November, a major improvement plan was published in response to widespread criticism of ScotRail's reliability since Abellio took over the contract in April 2015. It aims to improve punctuality and reliability through measures such as infrastructure developments and ""performance workshops"" for managers and staff. ScotRail Alliance Operations Director Perry Ramsey said: ""We will continue to focus on delivering the best service to our customers, seeking to make improvements every single day. This is what our customers want and is our number one priority. ""We have had a challenging year. We have been working to deliver one of the biggest upgrades to the rail network since it was built in Victorian times - while still running a full service. ""That work was necessary so that we could introduce new faster, longer, greener trains - giving people more seats and shorter journeys."" Transport minister Humza Yousaf, who ordered the improvement plan, said: ""These figures also show the improved performance widens the gap between rail performance in Scotland and the rest of the UK. ""It is equally important to recognise the real efforts made by ScotRail staff who are working hard round the clock, in all weathers, to lift performance and deliver rail services which passengers both desire and deserve. ""I remain focussed on ensuring Transport Scotland and ScotRail work with the industry to maintain this upward trend and that the PIP initiatives remain in place to deliver even more improvement over the next few months.""","The reliability of ScotRail services has improved for the fifth monthly @placeholder in a row , new figures show .",interest,monday,network,day,period,4
"Wood, who has run the newspaper's fiction coverage for five years, will take over as the award's literary director after this year's ceremony. She was a judge in 2011 and her father, the author and academic Michael Wood, is this year's chair of judges. Her appointment comes three weeks after the death of the prize's former literary director, Ion Trewin. Booker Prize Foundation chair Jonathan Taylor said Wood would ""bring new perspectives while maintaining our mission to bring the best of contemporary literary fiction to an ever widening international audience"". He added: ""Ion was aware of our intentions and shared our great enthusiasm at the prospect that Gaby would succeed him.""",The Daily Telegraph 's head of books Gaby Wood has been chosen to @placeholder the Man Booker Prize .,represent,improve,quit,attend,oversee,4
"So much said. So little known. As Europe editor I'm often asked about the EU point of view - but Europe is waiting first and foremost to get a clear idea from Britain as to what kind of Brexit the government definitely wants. In the meantime, one message alone emanates loud and clear from European capitals and Brussels HQ, centred round an idiom that will forever now be Brexit-linked in my mind. The words ""cherry picking"" popped out of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mouth just last week, the same day they were intoned, with charming French accent, by Michel Barnier, the European Commission's Brexit negotiator. The mantra is that the UK (despite protestations to the contrary by the British foreign secretary) will NOT be allowed to break EU regulations by staying in the European single market while refusing to accept ""freedom of movement"" - the automatic right of EU citizens to live and work in the UK. ""There is no organisation in the world that will let someone say: 'I will follow this rule of yours but I won't follow that one',"" Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told me when I interviewed him just now in Stockholm, ahead of an EU leaders' summit. Cherry-picking is körsbärsplockning in Swedish, by the way. And Mr Lofven said Britain definitely wouldn't be allowed to indulge in it when talks to thrash out a new EU-UK trade deal begin. Sweden is one of the UK's closest EU allies: it is business-minded, Brussels-sceptic and non-eurozone nations. Britain is also Sweden's fourth largest trading partner, so a good Brexit deal is in its interest. So, was there really no wiggle room, I asked. Couldn't the Swedish prime minister push for a favourable deal? Mr Lofven said he had offered Theresa May to act as a mediator - ""play a practical role"" as he put it - but, he insisted, the UK would still have to aim for the best deal possible within the boundaries of EU laws. Otherwise, he said, there would be no European Union, as other countries would head for the exit door too, preferring their own bespoke EU arrangement. And that is at the heart of European leaders' cherry-picking hymn sheet: not EU-fervour but raw self-interest. Trade-dependent Sweden relies to a large extent on the European single market. So, of course, does economic giant Germany. And that is the flaw in the Brexiteer argument that German car manufacturers will lobby until the end for a good UK trade deal. One in five German cars is sold in Britain, so of course the industry wants a decent deal, but, more than that, it hopes to avoid the lucrative single market being damaged and bleeding out more members. Did Mr Lofven worry about demands for a Swexit in traditionally Eurosceptic Sweden, I wondered? He didn't, he said, although the popular and populist Sweden Democrats Party, wants to make an EU referendum a central part of its 2018 general election campaign. But Mr Lofven did admit to being very worried about growing anti-establishment sentiment in Sweden as elsewhere in Europe. Newly confident Swedish neo-Nazis took to the streets of Stockholm recently in their biggest demonstration since World War Two - inspired, they said, by the election victory of Donald Trump. Support for the far-right Sweden Democrats, meanwhile, has soared since the EU migrant crisis. Sweden received more asylum seekers per capita than any other EU country, including Germany in 2015. Many Swedes are still angry with their government and the EU for ""leaving them alone"" to deal with the huge influx of arrivals. But Mr Lofven, a traditional social democrat, insists he has the answer: a fairer society. He and other centre-left European leaders have now formed a loose association (they met in Vienna last week) in an attempt to counteract the populist wave. The gap between rich and poor had grown too wide for too long in Sweden. It was dangerous, he told me. He said the EU was guilty of being too market-oriented and that he was pushing hard for a more social-minded Sweden and EU to be able to say to voters: ""You have a future; you have possibilities. We're not all about financial markets. This is about you."" At their summit this Thursday EU leaders will try to reassure one another that they can stand strong against populism and the Brexit Blues but it's going to be one hell of a challenge.","It 's a twitchy , tetchy time this pre-Brexit talks , post - Brexit vote @placeholder .",region,data,period,passes,pictures,2
"A statement on the club's website highlighted the effects of the 718 attendance compared to the last home game against Montrose in August. It read: ""FYI [for your information] crowd increase of 125%. Gate receipt increase of 160%. ""Cafe/shop/add-ons increase of 165%. Once again thank you so much to everyone who attended."" Supporters of the League Two club and visiting fans were asked to fork out what they could afford for a ticket, with a minimum £1 entry. Rovers, who knocked Motherwell out of the Scottish Cup at Hamilton's New Douglas Park, sit fifth in the league and their biggest gate this season at Cliftonhill before Saturday was 538 - against Queen's Park on 28 December. Chairman John Devlin had previously told BBC Scotland: ""Since I took over in September I've been looking at ways in which we can re-engage with the local community. ""I think a lot of potential football fans are put off by high pricing."" Devlin was inspired by a similar experiment at Brentford in December. ""We've looked at the type of support we would normally get at this time of year - coming after the Christmas and New Year holidays, when finances are tight,"" he added. ""We thought it was an ideal opportunity for such an initiative and basically see how it goes, to see if we can generate more interest."" The normal adult price of admission is £10, with concessions at £5 and under-16s at £2.","Albion Rovers ' "" pay what you can "" initiative for the win against Montrose @placeholder normal crowds at Cliftonhill .",attracts,beat,title,boosted,suffered,3
"Kris Leonard, River Reeves, and Jack Dakin - all aged 20 - Tomas Lowe, 27, and their manager Craig Tarry, 33, died outside Stockholm on 13 February. Warrington Council is raising funds for a lasting memorial in the town. Mayor Geoff Settle said he hopes families and friends can ""seek solace"" through a tribute to ""five young men who were set to take on the world"". ""Warrington lost a talented young band on the verge of something special and a group of young people with their whole lives ahead of them. ""We remain deeply saddened and shocked at what happened and our thoughts are with families and friends in Warrington and beyond,"" he said. A concert to be staged at Parr Hall on 2 April in memory of the band has sold out. Read more about the band","A permanent memorial is being @placeholder for Warrington band Viola Beach , who died with their manager in a car crash .",criticised,planned,sought,called,prepared,1
"Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the ban would now apply to Iceland, Liechtenstein, Albania and Montenegro. He said Ukraine would be added in 2016 if an economic agreement between Kiev and the European Union came into force. The bulldozing of tonnes of Western-produced cheese and other foodstuffs has angered anti-poverty campaigners. The country began destroying banned produce earlier this month, steamrollering fruit and burning boxes of bacon. Critics say it should be used to feed the poor and hungry. The move comes after the EU and US introduced sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea and actions in eastern Ukraine. Certain products from EU countries as well as Australia, Canada, Norway and the US were banned in August last year. Speaking at a cabinet of ministers on Thursday, the PM said Iceland, Liechtenstein, Albania and Montenegro would also now be affected because they had joined EU sanctions against Russia. ""Joining the sanctions is a conscious choice which means readiness for retaliatory measures from our part, which have been adopted,"" Mr Medvedev said in comments broadcast on state-owned channel Rossiya 24. The ban includes meat, fish, dairy products, fruit and vegetables. Mr Medvedev said on Wednesday that the counter-sanctions had given domestic agriculture a significant boost and had not caused shortages, according to Rossiya 24. Russian authorities have also started burning Dutch flowers, saying they pose a safety risk because they may be infected with pests. But critics say Russia wants to take revenge on the Netherlands over its handling of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over rebel-held eastern Ukraine last year. In a rare move against President Vladimir Putin, Russia's Communist Party announced on Thursday it had submitted a bill to parliament calling for smuggled Western food to be given to the needy instead of being destroyed. The Kremlin says food cannot be given away because it could be unsafe.",Russia has @placeholder its list of countries subject to a food import ban in retaliation for Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis .,criticised,withdrawn,warned,extended,unveiled,3
"Jamie Acourt, wanted on suspicion of conspiracy to supply cannabis, is among one Scottish and nine English suspects, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. It comes after the agency warned the UK may lose access to vital European intelligence after Brexit. The Operation Captura list marks 10 years of tracking fugitives in Spain. Since agency operations began, in conjunction with Crimestoppers, 76 out of 85 people have been apprehended. In the latest list, fugitives are also wanted on suspicion of murder, child sexual exploitation, and drug trafficking. Steve Reynolds, head of international operations for the NCA, said: ""The fugitives we are hunting are wanted for serious crimes and must be returned to the UK to face justice. ""Many of them use Spain as a base to continue illegal activities which still have an impact on the UK, but it is not a safe haven."" He said that as Brexit negotiations take place, unless the UK renews its membership of Europol - the EU crime fighting agency - by the end of the year, such operations could be compromised. ""Europol is extremely important, the European Arrest Warrant is extremely important,"" he told the BBC. ""These are the things we are using everyday in our pursuit of organised crime.  It would be a setback if we were to lose some of these facilities that we get from the European Union ""But, we would be interested in replicating those bilaterally if the Brexit negotiations resulted in us losing those links."" Lord Ashcroft, the founder and chair of Crimestoppers, said the suspects were evading justice. ""We know that with the help of Spanish authorities, along with the public in Spain and the UK, we can find these people,"" he said. Crimestoppers and the NCA work with the British Embassy in Spain and police forces in both countries. Simon Manley, British Ambassador to Spain, said: ""Captura is one of the best examples of the fantastic collaboration between Spanish and British law enforcement. ""I would like to congratulate all those that have worked over the last 10 years to bring fugitives to justice.""",A former suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry is among 10 British fugitives @placeholder as the most wanted in Spain .,regarded,control,named,inaugurated,resigned,2
"The two relevant points (leaving aside moral ones) are that: So to put it another way, it is arguably particularly useful to Germany to have an influx of young grateful families from Syria or elsewhere, who may well be keen to toil and strive to rebuild their lives and prove to their hosts that they are not a burden - in the way that successive immigrant waves have done all over the world (including Jews like my family in London's East End). Here are the European Commission's projections from its Ageing Report that was published earlier this year. It projects that Germany's population will shrink from 81.3 million in 2013 to 70.8 million in 2060, whereas the UK's will rise from 64.1 million to 80.1 million. As you can see, what is striking is that the UK is set to become the EU's most populous country, ahead of Germany and France, as a result of a relatively high fertility rate and greater projected rates of net migration. It is probably relevant that the Commission forecasts that the proportion of the German population in 2060 represented by migrants arriving after 2013 would be 9%, compared with 14% in the UK. So Germany would be a lot less multicultural than the UK. As for the dependency ratio, the percentage of those 65 and over compared with those aged between 15 and 64, that is forecast to rise from 32% to a very high 59% in Germany by 2060. Or to put it another way, by 2060 there will be fewer than two Germans under 65 to work and generate taxes to support each German over 65. Because people are living longer more or less everywhere, the dependency ratio is also set to increase in the UK, but by less - from 27% to 43%. Which still represents a massive increase in the burden on the younger generation of supporting the old, but not as great as in Germany. One way of seeing the impact of ageing is in differences in the relative burdens on the public finances of support required by older people. So in Germany, age-related spending on pensions, health and long-term care is expected to rise by a hefty five percentage points of GDP or national income by 2060, more than double the projected 2.3% increase anticipated for the UK. Here is the thing. Wherever you stand in the debate on whether immigration is a good or bad thing - and most economists would argue that immigration promotes growth - right now immigration looks much more economically useful to Germany than to the UK. That is perhaps one of the unspoken reasons why Germany is being much more welcoming to asylum seekers from Syria and elsewhere right now. That said, some business leaders and a couple of Tory ministers gave me what can only be described as an off-message critique of David Cameron's approach to the migrant crisis over the weekend. They said that Angela Merkel is creaming off the most economically useful of the asylum seekers, by taking those that have shown the gumption and initiative to risk life and limb by fleeing to Europe. Precedent suggests they will be the ones that find work fastest and impose the least economic burden on Germany or any other host country. By contrast, David Cameron appears to be doing what many would see as the more morally admirable thing - which is to go to the Syrian camps and invite children and the most vulnerable of refugees to Britain. But this version of living up to what the prime minister calls our moral responsibilities is undeniably more expensive in the short term than giving a welcome to the able-bodied refugees already in Hungary, Greece or Italy, and desperate to come here.","There is an economic and demographic backdrop to the differential policies towards asylum - seekers of Germany and the UK - to Germany 's relatively open door , that compares with the UK 's heavily fortified portal ( which will be @placeholder just a bit by David Cameron later today ) .",opened,offered,held,restored,launched,0
"The weapon was discovered in House of Fraser in Birmingham on Monday evening and taken away by police, West Midlands Police said. ""The gun has been made safe and is being forensically examined,"" a spokesman added. The gun was found in the male toilets. Officers are studying CCTV as part of their inquiry. More updates on this story and others in Birmingham One member of staff said: ""I don't feel safe now, especially when we have skeleton staff at night. I am worried about my safety. What if somebody had used it? It does not bear thinking about."" Other workers expressed surprise at the news and said they had not been told anything. One woman said she ""didn't have a clue it happened"" and another said it was the ""first she had heard about it"". In a statement, the force said: ""Detectives are investigating after a gun was found concealed in public toilets in a Birmingham department store on Corporation Street just before 19:00 GMT on Monday 2 January."" House of Fraser said in a statement: ""We are currently working very closely with West Midlands Police supporting them with their investigation and cannot comment further at this stage."" Anyone with information is asked to contact officers.",A @placeholder gun was found hidden in a toilet roll holder in a department store 's lavatories .,state,stolen,flare,man,loaded,4
"The American was among many who played both their first and second rounds on a calmer Friday and he followed a three-under 67 with a 69 to reach four under. Spain's Sergio Garcia shot a 70 in round two to stay two under at halfway, alongside American Scott Piercy (70). Andrew Landry led on four under after round one but is scheduled to start his second round at 12:11 BST on Saturday. However, Saturday's tee times could change because the light faded with 27 players unable to complete their second rounds. England's Lee Westwood, who posted a three-under 67 when he completed his first round early on Friday, is, like Landry, among half of the field who are scheduled to play their second and third rounds on Saturday. Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, Masters champion Danny Willett, Scotland's Russell Knox and Ireland's Shane Lowry will also play their second rounds on Saturday. Lowry had a two-under 68 in round one while Knox had a level-par 70. Willett had a 75 and is flirting with the cut as he is tied for 56th with McIlroy the wrong side after a seven-over 77 left him tied for 94th with the top 60 plus ties making the cut. The world number three, who won the US Open in 2011, told BBC Sport he would ""need a 66"" to get back in contention on Saturday. Johnson, who had a putt to win last year's US Open but took three to hand the title to Jordan Spieth, followed his bogey-free opening round with another nine holes without a dropping a shot. Starting on the 10th, he birdied the par-three 13th to go to four under but gave that back with his first and only bogey of the tournament so far on the first. A birdie on the sixth, after several missed opportunities, was reward for a disciplined and patient round and he parred his way in to finish just before sunset. ""I'm in pretty good shape, so the physical part's no problem,"" said Johnson after completing 36 holes in a day. ""But mentally you've got to make sure you stay sharp all day, because you can't go to sleep on any shot out here. ""I hit so many good putts today that I thought were going in, and burned the edge or lipped out. That's just how it goes, these greens are tough."" Johnson's playing partner Garcia started his second round with a bogey-five on the par-four 10th but a birdie on the 17th saw him get back to two under par. However, bogeys on the 18th and first dropped him back to level par but birdies on the second and sixth kept him in the hunt for his first major. The Spaniard, who is not renowned for his ability with the putter, made a superb scrambling par with a 50-foot putt at his last hole, the ninth. Westwood is the leading Englishman but he is yet to play his second round and is scheduled to tee off at 13:28 BST on Saturday. Andy Sullivan was among those to play 36 holes on Friday and he followed his first-round 71 with a two-under 68 to move to one under. He played his first nine holes in three under par and said on Sky Sports: ""I was aggressive and it paid off. I hit the driver really well, which opened up the greens and I had lots of birdie chances."" Compatriot Lee Slattery was one over for his second round and three over for the tournament after nine holes but two birdies and an eagle on the back nine helped him post a two under 68 to get to level par. ""Adapting to the change in the greens was important as they got faster,"" he said. ""It doesn't matter if it's up hill, downhill, side hill. Every putt is quick. ""I'm so tired that I don't really know what's going on. It's been a really tough day around a very tough golf course. It's been mentally demanding."" Oakmont is generally regarded as one of the toughest golf courses on the US Open circuit - Angel Cabrera's winning score the last time the Pennsylvania course hosted the tournament in 2007 was five over par. However, Daniel Summerhays made a mockery of that with the lowest round of the opening two days, a stunning five-under-par 65. The American had two birdies and two bogeys on the front nine but came home in 30 to move up to one under. ""I'm absolutely thrilled,"" he said. ""I was waiting for four days to find out if I had qualified. ""Then I found out I had to play 36 holes in a day but I'll take that."" We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter ahead of the Euros and Olympics, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.",Dustin Johnson holds the clubhouse lead midway through the second round of the storm - @placeholder US Open at Oakmont .,held,influenced,delayed,packed,based,2
"The 22-year-old woman was subjected to repeated attacks in locations across Queensland, police say. The ordeal ended on Sunday when police made a routine stop of a vehicle being driven by the woman, and noticed she had serious facial injuries. An Australian man was arrested after being discovered in a storage alcove at the back of the vehicle, police said. Authorities allege the pair met three months ago and agreed to go on a road trip that led to the backpacker being held against her will. Police say she was attacked repeatedly between 2 January and 5 March. The woman appeared distressed when the vehicle was pulled over on the Warrego Highway at Mitchell, 560km (350 miles) north-west of Brisbane, police said. She was treated for injuries including facial fractures, bruising and cuts to her body. The 22-year-old man, from the northern city of Cairns, is facing charges including four counts of rape, eight counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, four counts of strangulation and two counts of deprivation of liberty. He is also facing charges of causing damage, possessing drugs and drug equipment, and obstructing police. The man faced the Roma Magistrates Court on Monday and will reappear at a later date. Police have urged anyone with information to come forward.","A British backpacker was allegedly raped , assaulted and @placeholder during a two - month hostage ordeal in Australia .",tortured,choked,bodies,secured,stabbed,1
"The diplomatic complexities that he navigated on that journey may come to seem relatively simple compared with the journey that awaits for representatives of the world's 1.2bn Roman Catholics at the Synod on the Family. It starts on 4 October and ends on 25 October, following on from last year's Extraordinary Synod. It has been hailed as a key test of this Papacy, and of the Pontiff's own authority and direction for the Church. The meeting will involve 279 bishops from more than 120 nations, as well as 17 married couples and 17 auditors, as well as other non-voting representative. Ahead of it, Roman Catholic traditionalists and reformers have been lobbying: releasing books, petitions, interviews and articles seeking to outline their positions. Gay Catholics, female theologians and churches in Africa opposed to homosexuality have all sought to communicate their differing hopes. An interim document during last year's Synod had led some to believe that the Vatican might ultimately agree a more liberal approach towards homosexuality and perhaps the taking of Holy Communion by remarried divorcees who had not first been granted an annulment. The hopes of gay Catholics and their families were also raised by Pope Francis's own words in 2013 in response to a question about a gay priest. ""If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?"" he said, which some took as the prelude to a softening of the Church's attitude. However, Pope Francis has not sought to change Catholic doctrine on the issue, which still deems homosexuality ""intrinsically disordered"", even as many western countries - including America and the UK - have legalised same-sex marriage. Nonetheless, the working paper (""Instrumentum Laboris"") released ahead of the Synod has managed to arouse the ire of both traditionalists and reformers. For those who do not want to change the Church's ideals, such as the indissolubility of marriage and the ban on artificial contraception, the document already goes too far in opening up the possibility of change, not least in taking the family as it is today as its starting point. However, the document also suggests taking the Gospel's words on the family as a starting point. Some suggest these may be two mutually contradictory places to begin. On child abuse: ""When a priest abuses it is very serious because the vocation of the priest is to make that boy, that girl, grow towards the love of God. Instead this is squashed and this is nearly a sacrilege... One must not cover these things up. Those who covered this up are guilty. Even some bishops covered this up, it is a terrible thing."" On Africa and the migrant crisis: ""They went to pick up the slaves there, then its great resources. It's the exploited continent. And, now the wars, tribal or not. But they have economic interests behind them. And I think that instead of exploiting a continent or a nation, make investments there instead so the people are able to work and this crisis would have been avoided."" On rejecting migrants: ""You know what happens to all walls. All walls fall. Today, tomorrow or in 100 years, they will fall. It's not a solution. In this moment, Europe is in difficulty, it's true. We must find solutions. We must encourage dialogue between nations, to find them. Walls are never solutions. But bridges are."" On the notion of creating ""Catholic divorce"": ""That doesn't exist. Either it wasn't a marriage, and this is nullity - it didn't exist. And if it did, it's indissoluble. This is clear."" On women priests: ""That cannot be done. Pope St John Paul II after long, long intense discussions, long reflection said so clearly. Not because women don't have the capacity... I must admit we are a bit late in an elaboration of the theology of women."" Source: Vatican Radio Yet for those who want the Church to change its teaching or attitudes towards contemporary families, and take its lead from western liberal democratic societies that accept contraception, abortion, and same-sex unions, the working paper is not nearly open enough to radical change. The working paper stresses the importance of teaching Catholics to value the beauty of marriage as indissoluble, as well as re-iterating the Church's opposition to gay marriage and the adoption of children by gay couples, while the church teaches that: ""although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder."" Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics will gather in Rome on Saturday, among them activist Martin Pendergast from the UK. He says he hopes that the views of LGBT Catholics will be heard. ""The high point of Synod last year was the interim document, which was very affirming, but got lost before the end. ""We hope they'll get back to the kind of sentiments behind 'welcome, value and respect, and have concern for LGBT people' this year."" And, he says it may be significant that the delegates include more bishops known to be supportive of gay Catholics. Many are already pointing to the make-up of the Synod - decided by the Pope - as key. A leading traditionalist, the US Cardinal Raymond Burke, seen as the champion of the traditionalist camp last year, will not be there, while German Cardinal Walter Kasper and others on the progressive side will be. However, African bishops may step into the role played by Cardinal Burke in asserting traditional teaching. Some African bishops plan to re-affirm their traditional views on the family, and warn against LGBT activism in many parts of the world. Pope Francis is not necessarily saying anything new in the run-up to this gathering, according to English Cardinal Vincent Nichols, one of the voting delegates, ""but he is saying things in a way and with a passion that says he would like to see the Church starting from a different place in its proclamation of the Gospel, and in how it helps people on their journeys."" He admits not every issue will see a meeting of minds. ""Some people say that when people form a family, let's take it as it is, and let's see if we can't help that family, whatever its shape. ""Other people look at it and see immediately what's wrong. So these tensions are there."" Others believe the most crucial issues facing families globally today are not sexuality or sexual mores, but the gap between rich and poor, the environment, as well as disability. The problem some see for the Catholic Church in much of the west is that its teachings banning artificial contraception and asserting the indissolubility of marriage are becoming increasingly irrelevant to many Catholics, and are often simply ignored. And few parents in liberal western societies with gay children view their family members as 'intrinsically disordered'. It may be impossible for Pope Francis to find a way ahead that satisfies all in this critical debate. However, a Synod is not a democracy. All it can do is discuss and put forward recommendations and a summary of its findings. After that, it will be up to Pope Francis to weigh up the opinions expressed, and to write an ""Apostolic Exhortation"" to the entire Roman Catholic Church. That may well not change doctrine, but some hope that in the 'Year of Mercy' starting this December, Pope Francis may wish to apply a more compassionate pastoral approach to those who do not live up to the Vatican's ideals on family life.","This Sunday will see the start of a Synod of Bishops in Rome that could become one of the defining moments for the Papacy of Pope Francis , just six days after he @placeholder back in Italy from his nine - day trip to Cuba and the US .",crossed,switched,disappeared,fought,landed,4
"Channel One said that the offer for Julia Samoilova to perform in the event in Ukraine remotely was ""strange"". Samoilova has been banned from Ukraine, which hosts this year's contest, for entering annexed Crimea via Russia. The Kremlin had called for a rethink of Ukraine's decision. ""We consider the offer of remote participation strange and reject it,"" Channel One said in a statement on Thursday quoted by Tass news agency, adding: ""It completely contradicts the very essence of the event."" The offer to perform in the competition via satellite link is a first in Eurovision's 60-year-history, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said, adding that the contest had to ""remain free from politics"". Samoilova is due to take part in the second semi-final of the song contest. Jon Ola Sand, executive supervisor of Eurovision, earlier said that organisers were talking to Ukrainian authorities ""with the ambition to have all artists present"" in host city Kiev for May's contest. He said: ""It is imperative that the Eurovision Song Contest remains free from politics and as such, due to the circumstances surrounding Julia's travel ban, we have felt it important to propose a solution that transcends such issues. Frank-Dieter Freiling, chairman of the governing body of the Eurovision Song Contest, said he hoped Ukraine would not enforce the travel ban and would instead ""find a solution in line with the contest's slogan, celebrate diversity"". Samoilova has said she was ""not upset"" by Ukraine's decision. She told Channel One state-controlled television, which selected her as Russia's contestant with her song Flame is Burning, that she did not understand why Ukraine saw ""some kind of threat in a little girl like me"". ""I will keep going. I somehow think that everything will change,"" added Samoilova. The 27-year-old singer performed in Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, in 2015. Ukraine considers the visit illegal and has refused to issue Samoilova a visa. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: ""The decision from our point of view is absolutely unfair, it's unfortunate. And we hope all the same that it will be reconsidered."" He said the decision to ban Samoilova ""seriously devalues the upcoming contest"". Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",Russia 's state - controlled television has rejected an offer from organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest to allow their @placeholder 's contestant to perform via satellite link .,side,broadcaster,actions,force,nation,4
"Warren East, 51, is to step down on 1 July and will be replaced by Simon Segars, the current group president at the Cambridge-based company. Mr East joined Arm in 1994 to establish its consulting business and became chief executive in 2001. He said that now was the time for a change at the top. ""Arm is a great company with a strong market position and a unique culture,"" he said. ""We take a very long-term view about our business, and we believe that now is the right time to bring in new leadership, to execute on the next phase of growth and to plan even further into the future."" Under Mr East's tenure Arm has become the provider of processor technology for nearly all mobile phones and many other consumer and industrial electronic devices in use today. The company develops designs that are licensed to customers and receives royalty payments every time devices with its chips are made by its clients. In the last 12 years it has received royalties for over 40 billion Arm chips and the company's share price has risen threefold. Arm chairman John Buchanan said: ""Warren has transformed Arm during his time as chief executive."" At the news of Mr East's departure shares in the FTSE 100 Index company fell by 3% to just under 900p.","The chief executive of Arm Holdings , whose computer chip technology @placeholder Apple and Samsung smartphones , is retiring after 12 years in the role .",show,powers,names,group,included,1
"The cessation of hostilities is due to come into effect across Syria at 00:00 Damascus time on Saturday (22:00 GMT on Friday). The process of reaching this agreement has been a fraught one, given the continuation of the fighting throughout the negotiations, especially around the northern city of Aleppo. The cessation of hostilities faces the task of pulling apart combatants that have been at each other's throats in years of bitter war. As such, its implementation will be accompanied by extreme tentativeness. The various parties will each expect others to renege at the slightest provocation, and may even use the fragility of this state of affairs to their advantage. Moreover, with the exclusion of the jihadist groups al-Nusra Front and Islamic State, it cannot purport to the status of a comprehensive agreement. Clearly, the guns are unlikely to suddenly fall silent and fighting in some form will persist in Syria. Given these realities, it is worth taking stock of the different arrangements involved in de-escalating a conflict, and their relevance for Syria. A truce is suggestive of an ad-hoc arrangement, arrived at by the combatants, to pause the fighting. Formal negotiations do not necessarily need to take place. Rather, mutual exhaustion after a particularly intensive period of fighting might lead the combatants to temporarily suspend their military operations. Truces may well match the varying momentum of the fighting, and may relate only to certain localities rather than the whole battlefront. As recently as December, a local truce was agreed between the Syrian government and embattled rebels in Homs and to allow a partial evacuation from the western suburb of al-Wair. A cessation of hostilities is more formal than a truce. However, it is still some way from a formal ceasefire. A cessation of hostilities means that the combatants are willing to stop fighting and to restrain their forces. But it only loosely commits them to further steps. The focus in negotiating this kind of agreement over Syria will have been very much the short-term: allowing humanitarian access to war-ravaged cities, and allowing further negotiations to take place without the persistence of war. Given the complexity of the conflict in Syria, this is the most realistic outcome that diplomats will have been able to secure. The hope will be for a pause to the bloodshed between Syrian government and opposition forces that might give way to a more formal ceasefire agreement. Until then, the cessation of hostilities is more akin to a ""wait-and-see"" arrangement. A formal ceasefire is a negotiated agreement that will be accompanied by other associated commitments to de-escalate the fighting. This might mean a withdraw weapons, and possible commitments by the warring parties to reposition their forces in a way that accords with safe zones, demilitarised zones or a clearly demarcated line of separation. This is extremely difficult to achieve if the battlefield picture remains fluid, as it has been in Syria. An armistice is a formal agreement by the combatants to end hostilities, with efforts to negotiate a lasting peace settlement following in its wake. An armistice is a legally binding agreement. Examples in history include the armistices that ended the world wars. However, these were agreements between warring states. In Syria, questions of legal equivalence between the factions would likely hamper any moves towards an armistice. The government of Bashar al-Assad faces numerous factions of a domestic insurgency, to which it would be resistant to conferring any sense of legal equivalence. Dr Samir Puri is a lecturer in international relations at the Department of War Studies, King's College London","The US and Russia have @placeholder a plan for a "" cessation of hostilities "" in Syria . Samir Puri of King 's College London explains how it differs from a truce , a ceasefire or an armistice .",submitted,agreed,announced,discussed,criticised,2
"Homeless people had been camping at Martin Place in central Sydney for more than six months. State legislators argued the camp was unauthorised and compromised public safety. They granted police powers to remove the tents, but residents began leaving pre-emptively on Friday. Some said they had nowhere to go. The man dubbed the unofficial ""mayor"" of the tent city, Lanz Priestly, said some people would go to ""friends' places"" or ""friends' backyards"", but others had no such option. Debate over what to do with the camp had dragged on for months amid a political dispute between the New South Wales state government and Sydney City Council. It also generated wider discussion about homelessness in Sydney, which has the second-worst housing affordability in the world, according to one study. On Wednesday, the state passed new legislation giving police authority to remove those deemed to be obstructing the area. The law came into effect on Friday. ""Homelessness is a major challenge in our community and I am proud of our government's record to help our most vulnerable and of course there is more to do,"" New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said in a statement earlier this week. ""However we will not let protesters play political games with those in genuine need of support."" Mr Priestly said authorities were not taking the issue of homelessness seriously. ""They are not looking at the people - they are looking at the tents,"" he told Sydney's Daily Telegraph. More than 105,000 people are homeless in the nation, according to Homelessness Australia.","Sydney 's "" tent city "" , which ignited debate about homelessness in Australia , has begun to be @placeholder following the introduction of new laws .",built,released,dismantled,transformed,reopened,2
"As the Scottish Football Association's performance director Malky Mackay has held a series of presentations to member clubs about the proposal, the reaction has been generally positive, even from outfits that had previously been sceptical or resistant. There would be few grimaces to the notion of restoring a form of reserve team football, though, when almost everybody involved in Scottish football points to the loss of that level of the game being critical to youth academy graduates not being mentally or physically battle-hardened enough for first-team football. Consensus is the prize for Mackay, since it will enable him to deliver the project in a viable form that the clubs buy into, and the sense is that the momentum is behind him. ""Ninety-five percent of what has been said, people agree with,"" he said on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound. Mackay has held three presentations this week, with a fourth to follow. He has put detail on to the outlines that were aired when points from a draft copy of Project Brave were published in the media. The difference between the youth development plan that Mackay has been appointed to oversee and the one that predecessor Mark Wotte established six years ago is that the clubs have been directly involved in producing the blueprint. Mackay is clear that communication is vital - he has visited 10 clubs since officially starting his role three weeks ago and will make his way around all 42 directly. For Project Brave to succeed, clubs need to buy into it and implement it. ""People have in the main agreed that something radical needs to be done,"" Mackay said. ""And this is radical."" Media playback is not supported on this device What the clubs are agreeing with is the establishment of a reserve league and an under-18 league, encouraging more development loans, a summer calendar for academy football (with indoor futsal taking place in the winter) and coach development, with a head of coaching to be appointed to lead the development of the best coaches at each club. ""This whole programme is based on coaches,"" Mackay explained. ""Our coach education programme is second to none. What we're not good at is coach mentoring. ""I'm going to ask the clubs to give me their best young coach and I'll put on a course for them, we'll set them tasks, have them for a year thinking deeply about certain problems, make our good young coaches very good young coaches. ""Clubs want that to happen and we need to for our next Scotland managers. Everybody we've spoken to is up for this. We need to make the [coaches] better to make our players better. ""The part that comes up is money, funding."" Some clubs were initially wary of the prospect of the academy system being streamlined. The plan is to reduce the number of funded elite academies from 29 to a maximum of 16. Clubs will need to submit a three-year business plan to show that their academy is financially viable, has enough support staff and coaches and good enough facilities. Academies will also be judged on measurable performance outcomes, including the number of graduates in the first team, the number actively out on loan at other clubs and the number representing the national team. All of this will be assessed by an independent company and the selected elite academies will receive funding but also play each other in a competitive league to maintain the best v best strategy. Other clubs will still be able to run academies or community outreach schemes. All will continue to receive their current level of funding for three years after Project Brave is implemented, a commitment that has won a lot of support for the plan. ""There is a soft landing for clubs, there is a lot of support and help going to be given,"" Mackay said. ""We are setting the bar high because it has to be the elite players we're focusing on. It's the 19-21 age group where the whole thing breaks down and we need to get them into first teams. ""It's up to us to educate 11-16-year-olds. We need to be better athletes and have them running properly at that age, proper sports science, diet and nutrition advice, to be under 10% body fat and sports psychology to make sure they are mentally stronger. We need to build better footballers."" Talent identification will be a key factor, particularly when clubs will have to reduce the number of players in their academy. Mackay will establish a talent identification programme at the SFA to assist clubs in predicting which players will make the grade at 19 by measuring and assessing physical and mental markers as they develop. ""It's imperative for Scottish football,"" he said. Once Mackay has completed his presentations the next stage of the process is for Project Brave to be presented to the SFA board. Following that, and once the clubs have signed off on it, the plans will begin to be implemented in time for season 2017-18. ""It's about what is the best for the young Scottish elite player,"" Mackay added. Mackay has begun the process of making the case for Project Brave, and so far he has been encouraged by the reaction. For now, Scottish football seems prepared to embrace change.",Project Brave is designed to be a radical solution for Scottish football and it brings elements of the past to bear on the @placeholder .,characters,contest,race,issue,future,4
"MPs gave their unanimous backing to SNP MP Alison Thewliss, whose bill intends to prevent parents being confused by potentially misleading claims. Ms Thewliss wants more independent testing to ensure that ""what is said on the tin is actually in the tin"". She will now take her bill forward for a second reading in parliament. SNP MP Alison Thewliss has said many of the health claims made by formula milk producers were based on the company's own research. Her bill would also close a loophole around advertising formula milk in medical journals. The British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA), which represents formula milk producers, says the content of infant formula is tightly regulated based on scientific advice from experts in the European Food Safety Authority, with the contents ""clearly declared, as required by law, on the pack"". Women in the UK are advised to feed their baby exclusively on breast milk for the first six months if possible, and then a combination of breast milk and other foods. But an international study published in January suggested breastfeeding rates in the UK were the lowest in the world. It is currently illegal to promote breast milk substitutes intended for babies under six months old, but adverts for products intended for older babies such as follow on milk are allowed. Ms Thewliss told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that this had resulted in formula companies switching their focus to so-called follow on formulas and toddler milks. However, the World Health Organisation says there is no need for follow on formulas, and the NHS agrees that babies can drink first milk until they are 12 months old, after which they can drink cow's milk. Ms Thewliss also said evidence suggested that advertising confused parents about the different ages and stages for formula, and the merits of those formulas. And she said product research by Mintel had indicated that parents were choosing formula milk on the basis of brand alone. ""If you are formula feeding, first milk is the only food your baby needs for the first six months of life. There are different brands of infant formula but there is no real difference between them. No one brand is recommended over another. Speak to your health visitor if you are not sure. Other formulas are also available for babies aged six months and over, such as 'follow-on formula', 'toddler formula' and 'growing up milk'. There is no need to switch to any of these formulas - babies can drink first milks until they are one year old. Cow's milk is not suitable for babies as their main drink until the age of one - it does not have the right mix of nutrients. It can be used in cooking from the age of six months."" Ms Thewliss, whose bill would need to win government support in order to become law, said more independent information would allow parents to make a more informed choice. She said: ""As an example, there's been a trend towards putting probiotics into formula milk and there's no evidence really to suggest that is necessary for babies at all. ""So for parents, they might read that on the packaging and might think that's an interesting thing, but they can't actually get any independent information about whether or not that is something that is of value to your baby. ""So what i would like to see is a good deal more independent verification and testing of formula to make sure first of all what is said on the tin is actually in the tin, and that the health claims that are being made are actually valid."" Ms Thewliss said formula companies were doing their own research, which she said was not peer reviewed or independently verified, and then using that research to promote their own products. She said it was often left to charities to carry out independent research - with formula companies often reluctant to tell them what is in their products. Ms Thewliss said it would be ""very helpful"" for governments to carry out own research into benefits and otherwise of formula milk. The Glasgow Central MP said: ""Parents are choosing these for the very youngest babies, and they need to have confidence that what they are giving is correct. ""Recently there was a case where there was too much protein in a formula and it had to be withdrawn from the market, but that was done after it had already been sold to parents. ""I think if you were able to independently verify that and check it that would be very useful indeed and give parents that reassurance that what they are choosing is good stuff"".",A bill aimed at tightening up regulations around the marketing of baby formula milk has @placeholder its first hurdle in the House of Commons .,opened,raised,become,defended,passed,4
"Kiara Nirghin beat students from around the world for a $50,000 (£38,000) scholarship with her ""fighting drought with fruit"" submission. Her work was in response to the recent drought that has hit South Africa . The drought, the worst since 1982, led to crop failures and animals dying. Ms Nirghin, a student at the Anglican Church-founded St Martin's High School in the main city Johannesburg, said three experiments over 45 days resulted in her coming up with the ""orange peel mixture"" as an alternative to expensive and non-biodegradable super-absorbent polymers (SAPs). It was made out of waste products from the juice-manufacturing industry, she said. These included molecules found in orange peels and naturally occurring oils in avocado skins. ""The product is fully biodegradable, low-cost and has better water retaining properties than commercial SAPs. The only resources involved in the creation of the 'orange peel mixture' were electricity and time, no special equipment nor materials were required,"" Ms Nirghin added in her online submission. The student, who was awarded the prize at the annual fair in California, said she hoped it would help farmers save both money and their crops. The competition was open to children from the ages of 13 to 18.",A 16 - year - old South African schoolgirl has won the grand prize at Google 's science fair for using orange peel to develop a cheap super- absorbent material to help @placeholder retain water .,plants,avoid,soil,promote,earth,2
"Sir Michael Wilshaw said mainstream schools in England must take more care of pupils sent to unregistered ""alternative"" establishments. Ofsted inspectors investigated 162 suspected illegal schools last year. Of those, 32 were centres run by charities or businesses where children excluded from school, or at risk of exclusion, had been placed. The others were either in Christian, Muslim and ultra-orthodox Jewish communities, or non-religious centres set up by home-educating parents. One of the alternative provision centres was taking £25,000 a year of public money for each child placed by a school. Another was using the public bar of a golf club as a makeshift classroom for teenagers, where they could come into contact with unvetted adults. November 2015: Ofsted warns of squalid illegal schools, three are found in Birmingham and six in east London, many with a narrow Islam focused curriculum December 2015: Ofsted announces a taskforce of inspectors to seek out unregistered schools March 2016: Inspectors suggest there could be up to 1,000 strictly orthodox Jewish boys in unregistered schools May 2016: Ofsted warns many more children are being taught in illegal schools than previously thought. Sir Michael said he feared some people are ""lining their pockets"" looking after vulnerable excluded children, using poorly qualified staff. ""That could lead to serious problems in our society. I'm not against schools using alternative provision as long as they take ownership of it."" The BBC has been given unique access to Ofsted's team of inspectors over the last month, travelling with them as they investigate unregistered settings. In order to protect their identity, and the children, we are not naming the locations. By law, anywhere that has more than five children full-time, or one child with special needs, has to register as a school. That allows Ofsted to inspect the quality of the education the children are receiving. Just after 09:30 one morning the inspectors arrived at a community centre. The inspectors found two rooms where teenagers excluded from mainstream schools were either following online learning programmes or going through basic lesson worksheets. The establishment was not registered as a school but the children explained that they were there Monday to Friday and most expected to be there for around six weeks. The pupils were being funded by local schools and the owner thought she was operating within the law. She said that while they do not have any qualified teachers, and have far fewer lessons in a day, she believed they offered better pastoral support than schools. She also thought schools were farming out their problem pupils because they could not manage them and that they were unable ""to give them one-to-one support and make sure they're not just sitting in isolation all day"". The charity's other centre was a half hour drive away. The inspectors' main concern was the building, a poorly maintained former youth centre, with no windows in the recreation room, litter on the floor and nothing on display on the walls. This was a relatively easy case because the charity immediately started contacting schools to say it could no longer take pupils. Some of the inspection visits to ultra-orthodox Jewish, Muslim and Christian education centres are more complex. I spent a day in the Midlands with inspectors following up on leads and checking up on places they had already closed. Unregistered illegal schools are often set up in unconventional buildings such as disused offices or industrial spaces. The trail took them to a building with signs up for a school, but it was locked. Without realising it they also took me back to a place which I tried to investigate a year ago. Then I found a large former pub, where an Islamic education for primary school aged children was being advertised. The inspector told me they had previously discovered more than 20 children being educated there, saying: ""The building, was cold and unkempt, and unhygienic."" But now they were satisfied it was just being used for adult religious instruction. As we drove around the nearby streets they told me that four illegal schools had been closed down within a quarter of a mile of each other. There is no shortage of places in local schools and all the children were found a place within 24 hours of Ofsted intervening. The inspectors are gathering evidence on their visits that could be used for the first prosecution of an illegal school. What the inspectors have found has left Sir Michael deeply uneasy. ""It seems bizarre to me that a parent can take a child out of a school and not register them with the local authority. ""It seems not just bizarre but dangerous that they can't investigate what's happening to these children,"" he said. He wants a tightening up of what he describes as the ""lax"" rules on alternative education. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook","Pupils with @placeholder problems are too often "" offloaded "" into illegal schools , the chief inspector of schools says .",blood,fluid,life,members,behaviour,4
"Network Rail said work would start next month on Wokingham station to build new shops and a footbridge, and improve waiting areas and extend the platforms. Wokingham Borough Council is also planning a complete reworking of the roads around the station. It said the scheme would simplify the road layout but some residents think it does not address the real traffic issues in the town. Councillor Keith Baker, in charge of highways and planning, said a new station link road was part of the plans and would ""transform the experience"" for commuters and motorists. Resident Dorian Edwards said: ""They've been talking and talking about putting new access roads in but they don't seem to have come up with anything that will make traffic flow more freely. ""It's a real bottleneck around there."" Network Rail said train services would run as usual during the work to upgrade the station, which starts on 28 November and is expected to be completed by August 2013. It has also announced it is introducing four extra train services on the London Waterloo route through Wokingham in the evening and morning rush hours from the summer of 2014. The plans for the station and road network will go on show at Wokingham Town Hall on 7 November.",A Berkshire railway station is set to be @placeholder as part of a £ 6 m upgrade .,introduced,issued,opened,scrapped,rebuilt,4
"""This discussion that we do not have control of our border - this is a lie,"" Yiannis Mouzalas said. ""We have the best control of a sea border that anyone can have,"" he added. He was speaking to the BBC ahead of Thursday's EU summit, where Greece will report on its efforts to register migrants, many of them Syrian refugees. Athens has been told to tighten border controls, to ensure that refugees are properly identified and that those not in need of protection are returned to Turkey or their home countries. The EU hopes this will help reduce the flow of migrants to western Europe. The minister also said it was a lie that Greece had not set up enough accommodation to cope with the influx. The EU has demanded that Greece implement a raft of measures to improve border controls and facilities by May. If not, some EU member states have discussed potentially suspending Greece from the Schengen area, where there are no passport controls - a region covering most of Europe. Mr Mouzalas insisted the main reason his government had been slow in registering and identifying migrants and spotting false documents was because the EU had been slow in providing the equipment and personnel it needed. ""Why is there now big progress in registration?"" he said. ""From 10% we are now at 90%, because now they have brought the machines that we were looking for, Eurodac (a fingerprint database)."" The minister reserved his harshest criticism for countries like Hungary and Slovenia which, along with several other EU member states, have sent teams of police officers to help the Macedonian security forces patrol their border with Greece, to prevent migrants crossing illegally into Macedonia. Last week Austria told the Macedonian government to be ready to seal off the border to halt the flow of migrants. ""Is Greece the enemy of Europe, are the refugees the enemy?"" he said. ""If someone believes something like that they have to declare it."" As for Hungary and its position on the refugee crisis, Mr Mouzalas questioned whether it was possible for Athens to have friendly relations with Budapest. ""They didn't give us a single blanket, for god's sake."" ""We want a Europe of the Enlightenment, a Europe of romanticism, not a Europe of the Middle Ages."" A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.",Greece 's @placeholder minister has accused fellow EU countries of hypocrisy and lying about Greece 's handling of the huge migrant influx from Turkey .,finance,migration,interior,health,defense,1
"The latest threats bring the number of incidents to 69 in 27 states in the past month, according to the JCC Association of North America. No bombs were found at any of the centres targeted with telephone calls. Last week, 27 Jewish community centres in 17 US states reported receiving hoax bomb threats. All of the threats made on Monday, along with previous incidents in January, turned out to be false and Jewish centres have since reopened with normal services resumed. Responding to the latest incidents, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that US President Donald Trump had made it ""abundantly clear"" that such actions were ""unacceptable"". ""Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom,"" the statement, which was shared on Twitter by NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander, said. Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka - who has converted to Judaism and whose husband is Jewish - also condemned the threats. Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that action must be taken to prevent further incidents. In a post on Twitter, Mrs Clinton wrote: ""JCC threats, cemetery desecration and online attacks are so troubling and they need to be stopped. Everyone must speak out, starting w/@POTUS."" The threats were made to the Jewish community centres through calls that were both pre-recorded and live, with suspects using voice-disguising technology, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Since the beginning of the year, there have been reports of threats to centres in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Delaware, Connecticut, Alabama, California, Maine, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri, Wisconsin, Texas and Kansas. The JCC Association of North America, a network of health and education centres, has since been reviewing its security plans. In an earlier statement the FBI said that along with the US justice department it was investigating possible civil rights violations in connection with the threats. The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish anti-bigotry organisation, said in a statement that it was ""deeply disturbed"" by the latest threats to the Jewish community. Meanwhile, more than 100 headstones have been damaged at a Jewish cemetery in St Louis, Missouri, local media report. In the Canadian city of Toronto, Mayor John Tory has condemned anti-Semitic hate notes left outside the homes of Jewish residents.",The FBI is investigating another wave of bomb threats to Jewish facilities in the US after 11 sites were @placeholder on Monday .,evacuated,called,released,caught,revealed,0
"A spokesperson for the PSNI said young people threw stones at the officers while they were responding to the call in Falls Park. ""No officers were injured as a result of the incident and the person in distress was located and tended to until the arrival of paramedics a short time later,"" they said.",Police officers were @placeholder while attending to a person in distress in west Belfast on Saturday evening .,representing,fired,raised,beaten,attacked,4
"The Welsh Government has been told to expect ""tens of millions of pounds"" extra in Wednesday's Autumn Statement. Ed Evans, director of the Civil Engineering Contractors Association Wales, said the money was ""good news"" but the sum was ""relatively small"". ""The challenges we face need billions of pounds to address"", he said. Chancellor Phillip Hammond will outline the UK government's spending plans to MPs on Wednesday. Sources have said he will announce £1.3bn worth of spending on roads in England. This means the devolved governments in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast will share £250m under the Treasury's Barnett formula for allocating extra money across the UK. The chancellor may have changed but, as he prepares to deliver his first Autumn Statement, Phillip Hammond is facing similar lobbying to that George Osborne saw during his six years at the Treasury. Motorists' organisations, brewers, devolved governments, housing and health experts - all want a bigger slice of the chancellor's cake. Mr Hammond is determined to do things rather differently from his predecessor. You're unlikely to see him in a hi-vis jacket and hard hat. But, like Mr Osborne, he has leaked some of the statement in advance, with the Welsh Government getting a population-linked share of extra cash he's earmarked for transport in England. ""Tens of millions"" is a lot of money, but it's a drop in the ocean of the overall £15bn the Welsh Government spends every year. It's also a reminder that despite Mr Hammond scrapping Mr Osborne's plans to balance the books by 2020, money is still tight and the chancellor has limited room for manoeuvre. Read more from David here The Welsh Government's capital budget for 2017/18 had been set at just over £1.4bn. If they wished, ministers could spend the extra money on building schools or hospitals rather than roads. Mr Evans said: ""We welcome any investment in our ailing infrastructure. ""It's good news for those civil engineering businesses and their local communities who depend on being able to resurface roads, repair potholes, improve public safety and so on. ""However, we need to see this relatively small investment in the context of the huge problems facing us,"" he added. ""The challenges we face need billions of pounds to address them. We want to see governments borrowing money, at a time when it's cheap to borrow, and invest properly in infrastructure so that we can grow our economy. ""We need to build our way to a more prosperous Wales."" Mark Bodger, a spokesman in Wales for the Construction Industry Training Board, added: ""Targeting increased funding on infrastructure projects is the right thing to do as it delivers a number of major social and economic benefits across Wales. ""However, while this funding is welcome, more funds are needed to help Wales rise to the potential that exists in our construction sector."" In a letter to Mr Hammond ahead of the Autumn Statement, Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said he wanted permission from the UK government to borrow more to invest in capital projects than the £500m limit set by the 2014 Wales Act. ""Now is the time for a new approach - that's why we want the UK government to end its austerity politics and provide a much-needed infrastructure investment stimulus."" he said. ""In these uncertain times, the Welsh Government is determined to provide stability and ambition and deliver a prosperous and secure Wales."" Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards has dismissed the prospect of extra money for Wales as ""crumbs from the Westminster table"".","Ministers should borrow billions of pounds at cheap @placeholder to boost roads and infrastructure in Wales , a civil engineers ' leader has said .",expense,risk,estimates,address,rates,4
"The state interior minister said on Friday that he had placed Wolfgang Albers in temporary retirement. The police's handling of the night's events has been sharply criticised. The violence outside the main railway station has sparked a debate about Germany's open door policy on migrants. Gangs of men described as of North African and Arab appearance were reported to be behind the attacks. A large group, numbering around 1,000, had gathered inside and in front of the station in the western city. Victims described chaos as the men carried out dozens of sexual assaults and robberies with little apparent response from the authorities. Federal authorities say they have identified 18 asylum-seekers among 31 suspects linked to crimes committed in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Earlier, Mayor Henriette Reker had spoken out against Mr Albers, saying ""the relationship of trust with the police leadership"" was substantially shaken, according to German media. The police chief has been accused of holding back information about the attacks, in particular about the origin of the suspects. The interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ralf Jaeger, said his decision to remove Mr Albers would not affect the continuing investigation into the events of 31 December. ""People rightly want to know what happened on New Year's Eve, who the perpetrators are and how such events can be prevented in future,"" he said. Women describe 'terrible' assaults Cologne mayor's 'code of conduct' attacked The search for answers The state police in Cologne have recorded 170 complaints of crimes, 117 of which involve sexual assault. There were two allegations of rape. Two men, aged 16 and 23 and apparently of North African origin, arrested overnight on Thursday in connection with the sex attacks, have been released without charge, according to German media. Cologne police say they are currently investigating 21 people in connection with the sexual assaults. It is not known how many of these are asylum seekers. The federal police - responsible for the station itself but not the area nearby - released information on their investigation on Friday. ""Of the 31 suspects whose names are known, 18 have asylum seeker status,"" federal interior ministry spokesman Tobias Plate told reporters. The suspects include nine Algerians, eight Moroccans, four Syrians, five Iranians, two Germans and one each from Iraq, Serbia and the US, he said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the violence, saying Germany should examine whether enough was being done to ensure foreigners convicted of crimes in the country are deported. She said ""clear signals"" had to be sent to those not prepared to abide by German law. In a separate case, police have arrested four Syrians, aged between 14 and 21, over the suspected gang rape of two teenage girls in the southern German town of Weil am Rhein on New Year's Eve, according to German media. The attack is not believed to be connected to the events in Cologne, the police statement said. The identification of the attackers in Cologne as North African or Arab in appearance has caused alarm in Germany because of the influx of more than a million migrants and refugees in the past year. Officials have warned that anti-immigrant groups have been trying to use the attacks to stir up hatred. Similar attacks to those seen in Cologne were also reported in Hamburg and in Stuttgart. Police in several other European countries have also received complaints: Facebook user Israa Ragab: ""Every time I watch the TV and hear them saying the suspects could be from North Africa or Arabs I feel so ashamed and disgusted"" Deutsche Welle Arabic journalist Nahla Elhenawy: ""The ugliness of our region is reaching Germany"" @Farcry99 on Twitter: ""Will Europe regret receiving people who suffer from religious and political repression?"" Arab social media fury at Cologne attacks","The head of Cologne 's police force is leaving his post "" to restore public trust in the police "" @placeholder scores of attacks on women in the city on New Year 's Eve .",following,suspected,serving,amount,team,0
"Brian Westerman, 65, a retired civil servant, was reported missing by staff at The Mount, a hospital in Leeds. Four days after the report, Mr Westerman's body was found in the River Aire on 18 August. Now the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to investigate West Yorkshire Police's response. IPCC commissioner Kathryn Stone, who will oversee the investigation, said: ""I have offered my deepest sympathies to members of Mr Westerman's family and explained that we are investigating how West Yorkshire Police officers responded to the calls made.""",A police watchdog is to investigate the response of officers who @placeholder with calls from a mental health unit about a missing man .,fled,held,dealt,died,answer,2
"Work on the 86-acre (35-hectare) site, which is behind the city's railway station and owned by the rail firm, is due to start next year. Senior councillors in York agreed last December to spend £10m to improve access including creating a bridge. Both organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Network Rail said it was ""a very positive step towards developing this challenging site"". Phil Verster, managing director for Network Rail, said: ""We have been working hard with City of York Council to produce a plan which will allow phased and achievable development, and which uses this large piece of land to maximum benefit for York residents and businesses alike."" Council leader James Alexander said the development was ""crucial to grow the city's economy"". A public consultation on the plans for the site is due to start over the coming months.","An agreement to start the development of 480 homes , shops and offices in York has been @placeholder by Network Rail and council leaders .",welcomed,sealed,unveiled,approved,criticised,1
"Ex-World Cup referee Clive Thomas said: ""I've lost faith in referees. I think refs are missing things."" But Phil Dorward, of Premier League and Professional Game Match Officials (PGMOL), believes standards are rising. ""Clive is entitled to his opinion but the facts point in the opposite direction,"" he said. Media playback is not supported on this device QPR manager Mark Hughes and Wigan boss Roberto Martinez both spoke out after key incidents went against their sides in the battle to avoid relegation. ""You should have confidence that referees will get key decisions right,"" said Hughes after the final whistle. ""Just lately a lot of managers have lost faith in them."" Welshman Thomas, 75, refereed at the 1974 and 1978 World Cups, and the 1976 European Championships. And he reckons Hughes is ""100% right"" to question referees' abilities following the dismissal of Shaun Derry during Rangers' 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford. Thomas said: ""We haven't got our act together at all. ""I don't see that the referees of today are even in the right positions to give right decisions. That concerns me. The referee was right there. If he didn't see it, why didn't he see it? That would be my concern if I was the referee ""Referees today are concerned, it seems, far more about what the assessors think of them, and are not thinking how to referee a game. ""It never worried me what the assessors would say."" Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli was sent for two bookable offences in the defeat by Arsenal on Sunday, but much post-match coverage focused on a challenge on Alex Song which went unpunished. Thomas said: ""That tackle was a disgrace. The studs were up and went on the player's leg. He should have been sent off then but he wasn't. ""The referee was right there. If he didn't see it, why didn't he see it? That would be my concern if I was the referee. ""I was far better than modern refs. British referees were better than they are today."" PGMOL provides match officials for the top flight of English football and Dorward added: ""As he [Thomas] should know all too well, sometimes officials make human errors but the truth is that standards in officiating have never been higher. ""The Match Delegates report - compiled by former players and managers and which the clubs provide feedback on after every Premier League match - show that referees get over 92% of major decisions right. ""Data from ProZone additionally shows that assistant referees have got over 99% of offside decisions right this season. ""PGMOL do analyse reasons why errors are made and are always working on improving officiating technique. ""Everything that is available is used: both of the Match Delegates and PGMOL Assessors reports, match footage and ProZone data are analysed, there are a team of refereeing coaches working with them all season long, and also former players and managers helping improve their positioning. ""The fact that we are one of only three countries in world football to have three elite referees suggests that English officiating is of a very high standard."" Thomas officiated at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany and the '78 tournament in Argentina four years later. He had a reputation as a disciplinarian and is widely remembered for disallowing a Zico headed goal for Brazil in a 1978 World Cup group game against Sweden by blowing for full-time while a corner ball was still in mid-air. At the 1976 Euros in Yugoslavia, Thomas oversaw an upset when the 'Total Football' generation of Holland, spearheaded by Johan Cruyff, was defeated at the semi-final stage by Czechoslovakia. In that match in Zagreb, Thomas sent off three players and threatened to abandon the fixture as the game descended into acrimony in extra-time.",A former top - level British referee has @placeholder modern officials following a string of controversial decisions in the Premier League over Easter weekend .,resigned,criticised,signed,replaced,joined,1
"It is the kind of story that feels like it's a sign of the times in the wake of the Paris attacks and heightened concern among British security chiefs for the safety of Jewish communities here. In the UK, all the statistics for religiously motivated hate crime have been moving in the wrong direction. Last week's figures from the Community Security Trust, an expert body monitoring anti-Semitism in the UK, make grim and record-breaking reading. Anti-Semitic incidents more than doubled to 1,168 in 2014, the highest figure since the trust began monitoring in 1984. The previous year had been the lowest on record. There were 314 incidents in July alone - the highest recorded in a single month. Hate crime tends to be driven by ""trigger"" events - and last summer's trigger for anti-Semitism was the conflict in Gaza. The CST said that almost half of the offenders made reference to Gaza or Palestinians during the incidents it recorded in July and August. It can be really difficult to identify the perpetrator. In those incidents where the victim could do so, the CST figures reveal a number of perpetrators of either a South Asian, Arab or North African appearance. Decades ago, the British extreme far right and fascism were the forces behind anti-Semitism. But on the face of it, the figures are now pointing to widespread anti-Jewish feelings among some Muslims in Britain. This analysis is shared by many leading progressive Muslim thinkers. But what these thinkers also point out is that the rise in attacks against Britain's Jews mirrors the trend for Muslims themselves - and the two communities need to make common cause. Police recorded 44,500 hate crimes in England and Wales during 2013-14. That was up 5% on the previous year across race, religion, sexual orientation, disability and transgender - the five key measures that feature in national figures. Some of that rise has been attributed to better reporting of existing levels of hate. But a further breakdown indicates there was a 45% jump in religiously motivated incidents to 2,300 - and that appears to have been largely down to more anti-Muslim incidents following the jihadist murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich. In London, the home of the largest numbers of British Jews and Muslims, police recorded 358 anti-Semitic crimes in 2014 and 611 anti-Muslim crimes. While the trigger for anti-Semitism comes down to haters blaming Britain's Jews for something they don't like about Israel, the mirror trigger for anti-Muslim crimes is yet another group of haters blaming Muslims for things that al-Qaeda inspired extremists have done. So how do you go about tackling this stuff? The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Semitism's (APPG) latest report calls for internet ""Asbos"" to ban them from using social media to spread hate. It also wants the government to fund the security of synagogues and to review what's being done to improve interfaith relations. What will come of the first two remains to be seen - but on the interfaith issue, there is some hope. Tell Mama is a Muslim hate crime initiative that is closely modelled on the Community Security Trust and is backing the APPG's calls for social media Asbos because, quite simply, both communities are victims of hate crime. It wants more British Muslims to recognise and speak out about anti-Semitism because it is morally objectionable to suggest that one form of hate crime is worse than another. That view is shared by a host of individuals and small unnoticed organisations that work hard to improve understandings between the two faiths. A fortnight ago, two leading progressive British Muslims, Sughra Ahmed of the Islamic Society of Britain and Dilwar Hussain of New Horizons in British Islam, spoke eloquently in a north London synagogue about the sorrow and pain they felt over Paris. And - who'd have thought it - a synagogue in Bradford has even appointed a Muslim to its ruling body.",Last week there was a report in the French press that an Israeli salon was marketing a discreet hair - based kippa - the small cap @placeholder as a visible symbol of Jewish faith - to European Jews who do n't want to be that visible any more .,intended,posed,worn,described,dressed,2
"The agreement, struck with services sector union Verdi on Saturday, gives a one-off payment of €2,250 (£1,580) and a 2.2% pay rise. The deal covers Lufthansa airport staff as well as catering, IT, freight and maintenance workers. Lufthansa was hit by the longest strike in its history earlier this month, affecting over 500,000 passengers. Dr Bettina Volkens, a member of Lufthansa's executive board, said the deal would create ""harmony between the bargaining parties"". But Europe's biggest airline is yet to reach an agreement with cabin crew, who called the week-long industrial action in early November, and pilots. Lufthansa has been in pay and pension disputes with staff as it looks to cut costs to compete with budget airlines and Gulf carriers. The company will hold a meeting on Wednesday with flight attendants' union UFO, the cockpit pilots' union, and Verdi to tackle the long-running dispute. No further strikes are currently scheduled, a Lufthansa spokesperson told the BBC.","German airline Lufthansa has agreed a pay deal with 30,000 ground staff as it looks to @placeholder further strikes .",avoid,promote,enter,suspend,rebuild,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device Matt tells his story about his love of gymnastics and why he was unstoppable, growing up on a farm in County Durham with his family. Fancy seeing life from a different angle and giving gymnastics a go? Here's all you need to know in our handy guide.","Matt Baker now makes a living charming the @placeholder on The One Show , but in his youth he was a British gymnastic and sport acrobatics champion .",operation,regular,nation,ground,guests,2
"While Parisians warily return to the cafes, restaurants and theatres, the mood among young people in this banlieue - less then a 30-minute train-ride away - is a far cry from the fun lifestyle that epitomises the central districts. Around the Place de la Republique in central Paris, streets away from last Friday's deadly attacks, all the talk is of solidarity. But in Saint Denis, it is different. Grief, anger and defiance in Paris French president turns right and upstages opposition Paris attacks highlight security flaws ""Right, solidarity… But don't you think they exaggerate the Paris attacks when there are more Syrians dying everyday?""  This is what I heard in Saint Denis, a multicultural and multi-ethnic place with a population of Africans, Algerians, Indians, Chinese, Turkish and many other backgrounds. Many here have a ""sans-papiers"" status, without legal status or an ID that would allow them to work. Crime is rife, with high rates of robbery, drugs offences and murder. The first thing you notice outside the station is the supermarket trolleys with a little makeshift brazier on top. Mainly run by African French locals, these are ""mobile shish kebab shops"" on wheels apparently to help them flee police more quickly. There are no bistros here but there is a variety of restaurants, halal butchers and Maghreb sweets. Chinese stores sell all types of gadgets while boutiques display glittering, sequined, frilled and lacy nightdresses along the main rue de la Republique. Celine and her friend Lemea are both 17 and part of the banlieue generation. When I ask about the Paris attacks, Celine blames French government policy. ""I think there will be a third world war. But France has been asking for it because of its intervention in Syria,"" she says. ""The Paris attacks lasted three hours - but this happens everyday in Syria. And Palestinians are dying, too. ""A quarter of Paris says: 'Pray for the French, pray for Paris' - but they don't do it for Palestinians. They have called for solidarity with the Palestinians for some time - but they did it as if it was fashionable."" Atek Riles, 19, who works at a halal meat butcher has a similar argument. Born in Saint Denis, he rarely leaves the area and has little time for the Paris attacks. ""If you look closer at Syria, there are now nearly 250,000 dead there. It is about 160 dead per day. So, I am not shocked by these Paris attacks. They are important, of course. But there is nothing we can do."" Although his suburb has been caught up in the violence, Atek believes anyone who grows up in Saint Denis is not at risk of being indoctrinated by Islamists. ""Those who become radicalised are mentally weak. I used to get upset by what people said about the banlieues, but now I don't even care. They have their lives, we have ours."" Residents here see themselves as separate from the rest of Paris. I frequently hear remarks about ""us and them"". That separation from the rest of French society is highlighted by Nilgul, a 29-year-old ethnic Turkish woman born in Saint Denis. Much of the anger here dates back to France's war in Algeria from 1954-62, in which at least 60,000 Algerian civilians died, she suggests. ""Their problem is not Paris. The reason they're being radicalised might be their desire to take revenge for their parents,"" she believes. ""But also they are mentally weak. Their weaknesses are being exploited in the name of Islam. They are brainwashed."" Turkish-born Abdullah shows me the bullet holes in his shop, which was hit last month by a gunman chasing his target. ""Virtually no day passes without incident."" ""This is the most dangerous place in Paris,"" says a Moroccan woman, who works as an Arabic translator at the local police station. As I head back to the station, the ""mobile kebab shops"" are nowhere to be seen. The spot is now occupied by three policemen. I ask them to sum up Saint Denis. ""Rotten,"" says one. Then, perhaps regretting his choice of word, he adds: ""Difficult, I would say. In a single word, this place is difficult.""","Saint Denis was in lockdown as a police operation @placeholder against suspects in Friday 's attacks , and the latest developments moved the focus to this northern Paris suburb at the heart of France 's debate over radicalisation .",demonstrate,worked,aimed,unfolded,silence,3
"The haul included a beer keg bomb, a number of rockets, AK-47 rifles, semtex explosives, handguns and ammunition. The weapons were all seized by members of the Irish police force (An Garda Síochána) over the last two years. They said they have had ""significant success"" in disrupting attacks, aimed mainly at targets in Northern Ireland. Assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Mahoney said the beer keg bomb was found about 400m from the Irish border and was ""ready for use in Northern Ireland"". The device was discovered in Kilcurry, near Dundalk in County Louth, in May 2014. ""I can say with confidence that our interventions and arrests have, without doubt, saved lives,"" Mr O'Mahoney said. ""Just in the last two years we have over 30 firearms seized, over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, a number of mortars, a number of rocket launchers. ""I suppose one very significant find [in 2014] was in County Dublin where we had a significant seizure of semtex explosives."" Over the course of last year, 31 people were arrested in the Republic of Ireland on suspicion of dissident republican paramilitary activity, 22 of whom were charged at the non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin. Mr O'Mahoney said that over the past five or six years, his force had seen ""a steady and a gradual rise in the activities of dissident republicans"" and said their methods were ""becoming more sophisticated"", particularly their bomb-making capacity. ""When you look at some of these devices, the way that they are operated, it shows an increasing sign again of sophistication in relation to engineering."" He also said that Irish police had foiled potential dissident republican attacks ahead of Queen Elizabeth's visit to the Republic of Ireland in 2011 and the visit of Prince Charles last year. ""On both occasions we had significant disruption in relation to planned attacks,"" he said. The assistant commissioner said there was evidence that dissident republicans in the Republic of Ireland were providing support for attacks carried out in Northern Ireland, with funding from organised crime such as drug dealing and extortion. ""The individuals planning, supporting and perpetrating these attacks carry out their preparation both within Northern Ireland and in this state,"" he said. ""While the attacks themselves rarely manifest themselves in this jurisdiction, An Garda Síochána continues to devote, on a daily basis, significant resources to tackle this problem."" He warned that dissident republican paramilitaries continued to pose a real threat to life, particularly to members of the security forces in Northern Ireland, and appealed to the public to report suspicious activity to the police. He added that his officers are in daily contact with their counterparts in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and said there was ""excellent"" co-operation between the two forces in combating dissident republican violence. ""We have a shared objective to help protect all people on this island and we take this responsibility very seriously. ""Our commitment to countering the threat posed by these dissident republicans is continuous and necessary,"" Mr O'Mahoney said.","Dissident republican paramilitaries are becoming increasingly skilled at making bombs , Irish police have said as they @placeholder a sample of seized weapons .",containing,following,displayed,test,recorded,2
"Flowers, 63, was arrested last November after newspaper allegations he had been involved in a drug deal. The suspended Methodist minister had stepped down from the Co-op six months earlier over concerns about expenses. He was fined £400 and ordered to pay £125 in costs after pleading guilty to charges of possessing cocaine, methamphetamine and ketamine. He had earlier apologised for ""stupid and wrong"" behaviour, saying he had been under pressure because of problems at the bank and the recent death of his mother. During the 10-minute hearing on Wednesday, prosecutors said Flowers had been filmed handing over £300 for drugs in a car in Leeds last November. The footage was subsequently sold to the Mail on Sunday newspaper, the judge was told. Flowers admitted the offence to police and said he had taken cocaine for about 18 months to ""keep himself going"" while he was suffering stress and caring for his then terminally ill mother. Flowers' barrister, Richard Wright QC, said his client had a current income of £510 a month from pensions and unspecified assets inherited from his mother. Outside court, Flowers said only: ""Don't ask me any questions because I won't give any answers."" His appearance in court came on the day a review of the Co-op Group by former board member Lord Myners said the organisation should adopt a much smaller board and focus on being profitable in order to survive. Lord Myners said the group's current board was ""manifestly dysfunctional"" and needed more members with business experience. Flowers, who oversaw the near-collapse of the group's banking arm, previously served as a Labour councillor in Bradford and on an informal board advising Labour leader Ed Miliband on banking. He was suspended by the Labour Party and the Methodist Church following the drug allegations and faces a disciplinary procedure by the Church. His appointment as Co-op Bank chairman in April 2010 was widely criticised because of his inexperience in banking. In May last year, the Co-op Bank was found to have a £1.5bn black hole in its finances. Flowers stepped down the following month. In November, Flowers was called to appear before Parliament's Treasury Select Committee to discuss his management of the bank. After his appearance, the committee's chairman Andrew Tyrie said Flowers was ""manifestly unsuitable"" to be chairman of a bank. The bank has since agreed a refinancing deal which saw the Co-op Group's stake fall to 30%. US institutions now hold the other 70%. Flowers is also a former trustee of the drugs charity Lifeline, from which he resigned in 2004 after allegedly filing false expenses claims.","Former Co -op Bank boss Paul Flowers has pleaded guilty to drug @placeholder , at Leeds Magistrates ' Court .",intelligence,offences,staff,conspiracy,possession,4
"Antoinette McKeown was suspended on full pay in March 2015 and dismissed last November on the recommendation of an independent disciplinary panel. However, an independent appeals panel has overturned the ruling. It said it found flaws with the previous disciplinary process. Ms McKeown had been appointed as the head of Sport NI - the body charged with encouraging participation in sport - in June 2013.",BBC Sport NI @placeholder that an independent appeals panel has overturned the charges of gross misconduct against the former chief executive of Sport NI .,understands,evidence,shows,reveal,announces,0
"The most performed work category sees Sam Smith's hit Stay With Me nominated alongside George Ezra's Budapest and Rather Be by Clean Bandit. The annual awards, now in their 60th year, are voted for by songwriters. Little-known songwriter James Napier leads the nominations after co-writing both Stay With Me and Rather Be. The latter, which Napier wrote with Clean Bandit's Jack Patterson, is also shortlisted for best contemporary song. Known as Jimmy Napes, the hitmaker said his three nominations were ""a tremendous honour"". Napier's nomination for Stay With Me sees him listed alongside Sam Smith and fellow writer William Phillips. However, there is no room for veteran musicians Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne, who were given a writing credit on Stay With Me in January because of similarities with their 1989 track I Won't Back Down. Under rules set by the British Society of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (Basca), Lynne and Petty are not eligible because they each received less than 15% of the writing credit. Speaking after the nominations, Napier said he and his co-writers had not heard I Won't Back Down before Petty and Lynne approached them. ""We were unfamiliar with the song and when it was brought to our attention we had to hold our hands up because there was a similarity in the melody,"" he told the BBC. ""It was amicably settled but it was a bit of a shock to us because we didn't know the record."" Meanwhile, Rather Be is up for best contemporary song alongside alt-J's Every Other Freckle and Two Weeks, performed by FKA Twigs. Hozier's Take Me to Church is nominated for best song musically and lyrically, as is Above The Clouds of Pompeii by Bear's Den. The shortlist is rounded off by Ben Howard's I Forget Where We Were. In the best album category, Bombay Bicycle Club are nominated for So Long, See You Tomorrow, but face competition from Wild Beasts for Present Tense, and the eponymous debut album from Brighton two-piece Royal Blood. Basca chairman Simon Darlow said the nominations reflected the ""health and diversity"" of British and Irish songwriting and composing. He said: ""These awards were created to raise the profile of our best creative talent and today's nominations, which include a host of fresh new writers, demonstrate that The Ivors continue to achieve this. Congratulations to everyone represented here today."" The winners will be named at a ceremony in London on 21 May. Best song musically and lyrically Best contemporary song Best album PRS for Music most performed work Best original film score Best television soundtrack","Sam Smith , George Ezra and Clean Bandit are in the running for the prize for the most @placeholder song of the past year at The Ivor Novello songwriting awards .",played,list,surrounding,opening,couples,0
"It is 150 years since the birth of the American, who designed innovative houses, offices, churches, skyscrapers and museums, including New York's Guggenheim. Wright's mother was from Ceredigion, so Wales' foremost architect, Millennium Centre designer Jonathan Adams, travelled to the United States to discover what role Wright's Welsh heritage played in his style and beliefs. And he found echoes of Wales throughout the visionary's life. Wright's mother, Anna Lloyd Jones, left Llandysul for Wisconsin, aged five, in 1844. Her family hoped to escape the persecution of their Unitarianism faith and to establish a little piece of Wales in America, Mr Adams discovered as part of BBC2 Wales documentary, Frank Lloyd Wright: The First Modern Architect. It was into this devout Welsh-speaking environment that Wright entered the world in 1867. ""He was surrounded by the Welsh language for much of his childhood and must have understood at least some of it, although he'd certainly forgotten it as an adult,"" Mr Adams said. ""But his heritage is evident in the name of his estate -Taliesin."" However, Mr Adams argues a far bigger influence on Wright's career was his family's Unitarianism. ""His mother's family felt that they had to flee Wales, because of their belief that God is a single entity and that Jesus was purely human. ""That sense of being an outsider, and standing firm in his belief in the face of crushing criticism, was something which defined Wright,"" Mr Adams added. ""From an early stage in his career, he was always looking to do things differently, so much so that he refused to join the American Institute of Architects."" Another aspect of his Unitarian influence was the sect's belief in God's constant innovation through the agency of man. Wright was a pioneer of reinforced concrete and the widespread use of glass, even when others doubted the safety of his designs. Wisconsin officials blocked his use of slender, tapering concrete pillars in the construction of the Johnson Wax building, until Wright demonstrated that, far from being able to take the required six-tonne load, each could bear more than 60 tonnes. Wright was no less creative with interiors, becoming the first western architect to utilize the Japanese concept of open-plan living. He foresaw the decline of servants in the early 20th Century and, in response, moved the kitchen into the very centre of the home, as a family space where mothers could keep an eye on their children as they cooked. But perhaps the biggest Welsh and Unitarian influence was the importance of reflecting nature in his work. ""Wright grew up with stories of God's miracle in the ruggedly-beautiful Welsh countryside and strove to incorporate it into his ideas of 'organic architecture'. ""The best examples of these are Fallingwater, a house which seems to grow out of the rock and extend over a waterfall, and his Taliesin West Estate in Arizona, where the walls are constructed of concrete poured around randomly arranged natural boulders."" Yet as much as Wright's work pleased his Welsh family, his private life most certainly did not. He had seven children by three wives and a fourth lover died when a servant attacked the household at Taliesin. Besides these, there were rumours of many other lovers, an obsession with new cars and a passion for Japanese art. His love of luxuries frequently drove him close to bankruptcy. ""Wright was a man who loved to fly by the seat of his pants. The way he designed his buildings was the way he lived his life. ""Once proud of their famous son, when Wright returned to live in Wisconsin, soon they came to wish he'd leave again, as his constant scandals led parents to withdraw their children from the school run by his aunties,"" Mr Adams said. Wright designed more than 1,000 buildings, about half of which were actually built. But his crowning glory is arguably the Guggenheim. Visitors to the museum, on New York's Fifth Avenue, rise by lift through the seashell-inspired tower and descend to view the artwork by means of a spiralling ramp with random geometric images set into the floor.","He is among the most -famous , celebrated and @placeholder - about architects in history . But what made Frank Lloyd Wright tick ?",names,disabled,talked,written,forgotten,3
"The closure of the Nottinghamshire deep coal mine was announced in April 2014 after owners, UK Coal, fell into financial trouble. The colliery's 600 workers have since been gradually laid off through compulsory or voluntary redundancy with the last 360 miners leaving on Friday. It marks the end of the industry in the county and the closure leaves one deep coal mine in Kellingley, Yorkshire. David Howells, one of the last miners to clock off, said: ""It is a sad time for everybody in the mining industry and a sad time for the area. ""Morale has been very low among staff."" Alan Spencer, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers Nottinghamshire, said the mine's closure was a ""deeply sad"" time. ""Emotions will be high,"" he said. ""When it comes to that last shift, when you realise you won't be going underground anymore and you wont be with your comrades anymore, it will be emotional. ""There's no other jobs in the area now and at that age they are going to struggle to get a job anywhere else."" UK Coal said it was working to find alternative work or support for employees who are not retiring as they leave the mine. ""This is a very sad day and clearly marks the end of an era,"" the firm's board said in a statement. It blamed its financial problems on falling coal prices and a fire that saw the closure of Daw Mill Colliery in Warwickshire. Following the announcement, the government offered to loan the firm £10m to carry out the ""managed closure"" of its two remaining mines over the 18-month period. Kellingley Colliery is set to close in December.",The last piece of coal is due to be @placeholder at Thoresby Colliery .,scrapped,installed,extracted,held,aimed,2
"The pilot ejected from the F-15D before it crashed in a field in Weston Hills at 15:28 BST on Wednesday. A witness said the aircraft, which came from RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, flew unmanned for ""a good mile"". The US Air Force said the accident would be investigated. One MP vowed he would ""keep a careful watch"". Brian Jex, who works at a garage near the crash site, went to help the pilot when he landed. ""He stood up, threw his helmet on the floor, in disgust, I think,"" said Mr Jex. ""I asked him if he was all right. He said yes, and he used my phone to phone his base, I presume. ""We gathered his parachute up and walked him back to the road. ""The police were there by then so we just left it to them."" The fighter jet crashed during a combat training exercise involving two aircraft. Janet Prescott said the aircraft were ""dogfighting"" over her house in Weston Hills for half an hour before the crash. She saw the F-15D come down and said it was ""pure luck rather than judgement"" that it did not hit houses and the school. ""From what I saw that was not a controlled crash,"" she said. ""That plane was completely out of control and wasn't manned for the last mile it was flying. ""When it lands so close to a school and so close to houses, that, for me, is a major concern. ""It could have taken any number of houses out. Weston Hills yesterday could have been another Lockerbie."" Ms Prescott said aircraft practised dogfighting over the area on a regular basis. ""I think there needs to be a very serious review of what's going on in this area and the level of activity that's happening,"" she said. ""The activity over the village and area has increased over the last few weeks, where we are getting jets on a daily basis. ""If they continue to dogfight over the village, who says it won't happen again? It's an accident waiting to happen."" Col Robert Novotny, base commander at RAF Lakenheath, said any lessons to be taken from the F-15D crash would be published in due course. ""The aircraft is safe,"" he said. ""I've flown that aircraft in particular for about 20 years of my life. We have phenomenal maintenance personnel, we have very well trained pilots. ""When we find out all the facts we release those to the public through the Accident Investigation Board. ""We'll make all of our lessons learned available to the public at the right time."" Bernard White, who was working at home in Weston Hills when the F-15D crashed, said fighters often come ""screaming"" over his house but he does not take much notice. ""There must have been a one in a million chance of this crash happening so it doesn't really worry me,"" said Mr White. ""I was looking at the site this morning and thinking if the pilot had tried landing the plane where he did he couldn't have picked a better spot because it missed everything. ""But he didn't put it there, it was just chance."" Four US aircrew died when a helicopter from RAF Lakenheath crashed in Norfolk while on a training mission in January. In 2011, a councillor in nearby Deeping St James called for an investigation after two US F-15 jets, also from RAF Lakenheath, were seen apparently almost colliding while dogfighting over the village. Sean Maffett, a former RAF navigator and aviation expert, believes this type of combat training is often done over the sea, but could have been done over land because of the weather. An aviation enthusiast claims to have heard radio transmissions from the F-15D before it crashed. Mr Maffett, who read what the pilot apparently said on an internet forum, said: ""As he was coming down he [the pilot] was calling out every thousand feet, and when he got down to 2,000ft he decided there was nothing more he could do, and he ejected from the aircraft. ""I'm not able to confirm the truth of what was said, but I have no reason to disbelieve it."" John Hayes, MP for South Holland and the Deepings, said he was concerned about the safety of his constituents. ""I, of course, will keep a careful watch on this,"" he said. ""In these kind of circumstances there's always an investigation to find out what occurred and why, and to see if any lessons can be learned from that.""",The safety of military aircraft combat exercises over @placeholder areas has been questioned after a US jet crashed near houses and a school in Lincolnshire .,power,trade,feared,populated,phone,3
"Sport matters because it has the potential to do what very little else in the world can: uniting communities, stirring the soul, strengthening the body, building bonds between disparate nations, offering individuals identity and an escape. But sport is not getting the governance it deserves. Governance is a dull word. So is administration. It is critical, and it is critical that it is done right, because otherwise we are all being cheated. Sportspeople are being swindled of their careers, of their reputations, of their future. Us sports lovers are being defrauded of our trust, our emotional energy and our financial largesse. Another day, another deluge of dirty laundry. On Monday, an independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency revealed a toxic epidemic of doping, cover-ups and extortion running across Russian athletics and spreading into the sport's international governing body. Dope cheats, protected by the people paid to catch them. Extortion to ensure their complicity. The destruction of thousands of samples, the involvement of secret police. All this while those at the top of the sport face trial for corruption and money laundering. We should be surprised by the depth and reach of this latest scandal. But how can we be, when it stems from a pattern so familiar across the sporting world? There is governing body Fifa, in charge of the world's single most popular sport, with 14 of its current and former officials and associates on FBI charges of ""rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted"" corruption. Its long-term oligarch Sepp Blatter is currently suspended, along with Uefa president Michel Platini, in the wake of a separate Swiss criminal case. There was the International Cycling Union under former president Hein Verbruggen, found by a 227-page report released last March to have colluded with disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong to cover up his positive dope test at the 1999 Tour de France. There is the International Cricket Council (ICC), run by N Srinivasan who was banned from running his own national governing board by the Supreme Court of India. His scandalous lack of accountability was outlined in detail by former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf and in human terms by recent film Death of a Gentleman. There is F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who had his bribery trial in a German court settled in exchange for a £60m payment, and he left court a free man with no stain on his character. And there was the IOC before the Winter Games at Salt Lake City, expelling six of its members for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from officials behind the city's bid in 2002. There might be the temptation to shrug with cynicism, to claim that everyone is at it, to suggest that where such power and money flows there will always be temptation and a failure to resist it. Do not. Athletics rewards very few with great financial dividends. It demands not just inherited talent but relentless hard work, much of it physically exhausting, little of it glamorous. When its governing body behaves less like global sheriff than bent cop, it renders all that not meaningless, but self-destructive. Who would put themselves through so much pain for so long only to be denied on the biggest stage by someone who has been aided and abetted in taking shortcuts? And who would want to be known for their sport when so many then assume all involved have been guilty of the same deceptions? It is the sort of double-cross and double blow that no clean athlete deserves, traduced by the cheats, smeared by the actions of those who have already duped them once. The existence of widespread doping in Russian athletics has been talked about in the sport for years. It became a repetitive joke: when did you ever see a Russian runner looking tired in the finishing straight? The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) should be fighting that plague and protecting the reputations of its true stars. For those who watch from the outside, who invest financially in tickets and television subscriptions and emotionally in the big nights and great races, there is a betrayal equally as significant. Who to trust? When to throw yourself into the moment? When to celebrate something you yourself could only dream of doing? Media playback is not supported on this device There were 17 track and field medals for Russia at the London Olympics - eight golds, four silvers and five bronzes. Across the whole Games they won 81. That is a very large asterisk to attach to the largest sporting event this country will ever see. With every scandal a little more faith leaches away. When you can't trust what you are watching, when you wonder where your money is going and what price others are paying for the events you love to watch, then the leak becomes a flood. What to do? Some say keep caring. Others, be angry. Demand more. Elite sport happens because you watch, listen and read. Sponsors come calling because you come with it. That money is there because of you, so exert the control you have. Those who do not agree with the ICC cutting the number of teams in its one-day World Cup from 14 to 10, further eviscerating the smaller nations, can deluge it with complaint. Media playback is not supported on this device If you watched Death of a Gentleman and were distressed to learn that India, Australia and England carve up more than half of all Test revenues between them, you could join the film's Change Cricket campaign. Don't hear the word administration and look at the latest scores instead. If the voting process that awarded Fifa's World Cup to a small desert state with a questionable human rights record disturbs you, campaigners would suggest you boycott the sponsors who bankroll it. Where is your money going? Where is your affection being exploited? There are those who turn off the Diamond League when dope cheats are welcomed back. Others stop buying the trainers of companies who give those cheats shoe contracts. The fan is not an impotent consumer. The UCI has begun its rehabilitation under Brian Cookson. The International Olympic Committee changed forever after Salt Lake. Athletics must do the same, even as football currently seems unable to free itself from its own moral mineshaft. A scandal this grave demands action on an unprecedented scale. Suspend countries from events. Take events away from others. Think less of the organisation's reputation and more of the sport's survival. When journalists publish allegations of doping, do not call it a ""declaration of war on the sport"" as new IAAF president Lord Coe did this summer. If former head of anti-doping Gabriel Dolle is convicted of bribery and corruption, re-examine the other cases under his jurisdiction and retest frozen samples. Wada's budget last year was £17.5m, less than some footballers earn on their own. Match its funding to the scale of the problem. Sport only survives if we all keep coming back. We come back because we believe in it. If that trust goes, everything else falls with it. It is a bottom line that brooks no argument.",Perhaps the only real surprise in new Bond film Spectre is that the eponymous immoral organisation has not @placeholder into sports administration .,branched,ventured,plunged,evolved,crashed,0
"The men, aged 38, 34 and 30, were arrested on Monday at separate addresses. They remain in custody. Police said they were aware of the woman's identity but would not name her until her next of kin were informed. Her body was found near Delamere Terrace in Little Venice, west London, on Sunday. An initial post-mortem test on the woman's body proved ""inconclusive"" and further tests are required, Met Police detectives have said. Det Ch Insp Simon Ashwin said: ""We now believe that the body, in a black suitcase, was placed in the Grand Union Canal at some point in the last two weeks. ""Whilst the body was recovered near to Little Venice it is highly likely that she entered the water further along the canal."" He said the force was ""following a number of lines of inquiry"" and it was conducting house-to-house enquiries as well as reviewing CCTV footage.",Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman 's body was found in a suitcase @placeholder in London 's Grand Union Canal .,dumped,house,dressed,targeted,condition,0
"Matty Lee, 19, set two personal bests to win the 10m platform final and, alongside Robyn Birch, the mixed 10m synchro. There was also gold for 21-year-old Freddie Woodward and James Heatly, 19, in the 3m synchro. The Mexico Grand Prix is one of nine events that run throughout the year and are separate to the World Series.","Great Britain won three gold medals at the Diving Grand Prix in Mexico , @placeholder to the two won in Canada last month .",returning,compared,adding,equal,ending,2
"Their study, in Science Translation Medicine, showed caffeine was more than just a stimulant and actually slowed down the body's internal clock. A double espresso three hours before bedtime delayed the production of the sleep hormone melatonin by about 40 minutes, making it harder to nod off. Experts said our own actions had a huge influence on sleep and the body clock. One of the researchers, Dr John O'Neill, from the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, told the BBC News website: ""If you're tired and having a coffee at night to stay awake, then that is a bad idea, you'll find it harder to go to sleep and get enough sleep."" In his half of the study, cells grown in a dish were exposed to caffeine to work out how it changed their ability to keep time. It showed the drug was able to alter the chemical clocks ticking away in every cell of the human body. Meanwhile, five people at the University of Colorado Boulder, in the US, were locked in a sleep laboratory for 50 days. And as light exposure is the main way we normally control our body clock, they spent most of their incarceration in very dim light. In a series of experiments over the month and a half, the scientists showed that an evening dose of caffeine slowed the body clock by 40 minutes. It had roughly half the impact of three hours of bright light at bedtime. Dr O'Neill said it would be ""complete speculation"" to set a cut-off time for drinking caffeine in the evening but he personally never drank coffee after 17:00. He said the findings may help treat some sleep disorders and people who naturally woke up too early - known as larks - to help keep them in sync with the rest of the world. ""It could be useful with jet lag if you are flying east to west where taking caffeine at the right time of day might speed up the time it takes to overcome jet lag,"" he added. Prof Derk-Jan Dijk, from the University of Surrey, told the BBC: ""Individuals differ in their sensitivity to caffeine, and if coffee drinkers experience problems with falling asleep, they may try to avoid drinking coffee in the afternoon and evening."" He added that people ""too often"" thought they were a ""slave"" to their body clocks and programmed to wake up early or late. ""These and other data clearly indicate that we can to some extent modify these rhythms and that part of the reason why we sleep so late relates to factors such as caffeine intake and the exposure to artificial light in the evening,"" he said.","A cup of coffee in the evening may be keeping you awake for more reasons than you @placeholder , scientists say .",deserve,realise,beaches,think,clues,1
"The 19th Century villa in Manchester had fallen into disrepair after being used as a student hall of residence. Gaskell lived there from 1850 until her death in 1865 and wrote works including Cranford, Ruth, North and South and Wives and Daughters in the house. It will be fully open to the public for the first time from Sunday. The grand, grade II* listed house has been furnished with period items and replicas. Gaskell's own passport, sewing boxes, silver teapot, ivory brooch and wedding veil are among her items on show. The writer lived in the house with her husband William, a Unitarian minister, and their four daughters. Janet Allan, chair of Manchester Historic Buildings Trust, which owns the house, said it was in a poor state of repair before the restoration. ""It was in a bad state structurally,"" she said. ""It had been student accommodation for 30 years, so it didn't look like it does now. ""We had dry rot and wet rot and we re-roofed it and then the roof was stolen. We had trouble with the drains. She [Gaskell] talked about the 'pestilential smell' from the drains. They don't smell at all now."" As well as writing, Gaskell was also involved with social and charitable organisations in the city, which had grown rapidly during the industrial revolution. Her depiction of slums in her first novel Mary Barton made a big impact among the reading public at the time. Sarah Prince, Gaskell's great-great-great-granddaughter, said the refurbishment was ""fabulous"". ""She was a notable writer of the Victorian era, she was a reformist, she was very keen on addressing the needs of the poor, so the fact that she is still remembered and understood for what she tried to do, which was sometimes groundbreaking, is good,"" she said. Visitors to the house included her friend Charlotte Bronte plus Charles Dickens and John Ruskin. Bronte once described it in a letter as ""a large, cheerful, airy house, quite out of Manchester smoke - a garden surrounds it, and as in this hot weather, the windows were kept open - a whispering of leaves and perfume of flowers always pervaded the rooms"".",The house of Cranford author Elizabeth Gaskell is opening its doors after a £ 2.5 m refurbishment that has @placeholder it to the style of the writer 's era .,inspired,returned,made,linked,lost,1
"And he said individuals involved in the recent murders of ex-IRA men Gerard 'Jock' Davison and Kevin McGuigan Sr ""do not represent republicanism"". He added: ""They are not the IRA. The IRA has gone away, you know."" Mr Adams was speaking at the National Hunger Strike commemoration in the Republic of Ireland on Sunday. On Saturday, the Police Service of Northern Ireland's Chief Constable George Hamilton said the Provisional IRA is still in existence and that some members were involved in the murder of Mr McGuigan Sr in Belfast last week. But Mr Adams said that was not the case. He told supporters at the event in Dundalk that the IRA was ""undefeated"" when it ""took the momentous step"" to end its armed campaign in 2005. ""None of the many alphabet groups that now claim the proud name of the Irish Republican Army have a right to that title,"" Mr Adams said. How the IRA announced the end of its campaign On 28 July 2005, the IRA said it had formally ordered an end to the armed campaign from 4pm that day. Its statement said: ""The leadership of Óglaigh na hÉireann has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. ""All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. ""All volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means."" Two months later came a verification statement from the independent arms decommissioning body that in its view the IRA had put all of its weapons beyond use. ""As we approach the centenary of 1916 there is no need, rationale, or reason for any armed groups whatsoever. ""It's time they called an end to their sham campaigns."" He also used the event to criticise unionist politicians who he said have ""opportunistically and cynically"" seized on the killings of Mr Davison and Mr McGuigan Sr to attack his party. He accused them of engaging in a ""sham fight"" to slow down the ""necessary process of change"". First Minister Peter Robinson had said he would discuss the prospect of excluding Sinn Féin from the executive with other Northern Ireland parties. Mr Adams said: ""Those who threaten to take action against Sinn Féin in the political institutions have no basis whatsoever for this. ""Sinn Féin's mandate and the rights and entitlements of our electorate deserve exactly the same respect and protection as anyone else's. ""And Sinn Féin will defend that assertively and robustly."" He added: ""We will not be lectured to by those who have failed to honour their obligations time and again."" Meanwhile, a minister in the Irish government has said it must remain ""very cautious"" when responding to the PSNI chief constable's comments on the Provisional IRA. Minister for Defence Simon Coveney said the Irish government did not want to add to a ""difficult situation"" as the PSNI continued its probe into Mr McGuigan Sr's murder.",Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said there is no reason for armed republican groups to exist as the @placeholder is committed to peace .,force,strength,body,ira,movement,4
Twelve high value bikes were stolen from sheds and garages in Abergele over two weeks. Police advised app users to tighten their private settings and ensure their home address settings were hidden. Anyone with information about the thefts is asked to call 101.,"Bike thieves are @placeholder users of cycling apps , North Wales Police has warned .",targeting,stolen,growing,carrying,observing,0
"And, on emerging relatively unscathed from the deep space experiment, what Wu Shiyun thought was that he would very much like a hot bath and some seafood. He was one of four chosen to live inside the capsule, which was designed to mimic being on another planet. The experiment looked at how food and air could be used and sustained under controlled conditions. Using technology inspired by China's Shenzhou spacecraft, the three men and a woman grew 25 types of plants - including wheat and strawberries. But it was also a chance to see how four individuals - picked from more than 2,000 candidates - could live together in a space no bigger than a netball court. They also had to adjust to ""Mars time"", which is 39 minutes longer than an earth day. But it transpires they found one very effective way to relax: Tai Chi. ""According to those of us inside the capsule, it did help in soothing our emotions. But further detailed statistical analysis is needed before we reach a specific conclusion,"" said Tong Feizhou, another volunteer.",Six months @placeholder in a tiny capsule with only three other people for company gives a person time to think .,landed,emerged,homes,trapped,spent,3
"The fleet is currently maintained and tested by private contractor AssetCo and leased by the county council. The authority has moved to end the 20-year contract as it was ""not delivering what we expected"" - but emphasised emergency cover was unaffected. Negotiations over the sale have begun and officials said the money would be found from existing reserves. AssetCo Lincoln and fire bosses signed the contract in 2006 and then announced the acquisition of 35 new engines and 22 refurbished ones. The council said it cannot go into details why it ended the contract for legal reasons, however parent company AssetCo Plc has struggled with financial problems. The council's assistant director of resources, David Forbes, said: ""The £9m has been set on the basis we think that is an absolute maximum cost, we think it might be less than that. ""Until discussions with the bank are resolved, which is tied up with separate legal issues with AssetCo, we won't know that."" The authority added it believed the cost of maintaining the fleet in-house would be the ""cost neutral"" compared to the leasing contract. Earlier this week the county council said it had underspent by £23m, mainly due to it making about 1,000 redundancies. AssetCo, which also provides fire equipment for London, said it could not comment ahead of commercial negotiations but has previously stated it was moving away from UK maintenance contracts.",Up to £ 9 m is to be spent buying the @placeholder used by Lincolnshire 's fire and rescue service .,group,country,aircraft,vehicles,ambulance,3
"The trust said areas around the traditional resorts of Skegness and Mablethorpe had ""significant untapped potential"". It will look at what can be done to attract more visitors. Current natural attractions include the grey seal colony at Donna Nook and Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve. Paul Learoyd, chair of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, said: ""As well as the castle, cathedral and wonderful heritage - we need to make it clear that it is easy for people to get out there and enjoy the coast - or a walk in the Wolds."" ""There is huge potential,"" he said. Richard Chadd, from the Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership, described the county as a ""sleeping giant"". He said he would like to see more made of the county's natural environment. Meetings are being held at Donna Nook and Gibraltar Point. Donna Nook seal colony",The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is asking people to take part in a consultation on the development of nature tourism in the @placeholder .,region,public,event,race,world,0
"Little wonder when you consider that Clares Rocket is believed to be worth up to 1m euros (£847,000) in stud fees. So how profitable an industry is dog racing for those involved in it? According to the manager of Drumbo Park in Ballyskeagh, County Down, it's a potentially lucrative but risky business, and the risk is increasingly shared between multiple owners. ""A lot of people go in for joint ownership now,"" said John Connor, who is one of only two dog racing managers in Northern Ireland. ""That way they can spread the cost and the risk as it can be very costly, not just buying the dog, but the investment that it takes after that to train and promote."" In a racing capacity, good money can be earned from the performance of greyhounds during their track career, but a strong stud prospect is ""what all breeders dream of"" Mr Connor said. However, it's a prospect that's not always easy to predict. ""Some people invest a lot of money in promoting stud dogs that don't make it,"" Mr Connor said. Master McGrath was born in County Waterford, Ireland. A small, weak pup, he went on to become the most celebrated and successful dog of his time. Born in 1866, at his first trial the dog showed none of the outstanding qualities that were later to make him famous. In fact, his performance was so bad that his trainer arranged for him to be given away. However, the ""slipper"" (handler) who took charge of him had more faith in him, entering him in several courses, which he won. After these wins, he was returned to his trainer and won the Waterloo Cup on three occasions - 1868, 1869 and 1871 - the first greyhound to do so. He became such a celebrity that his owner, Lord Lurgan, was asked to take him to be seen by Queen Victoria and the British Royal Family. A bronze sculpture of of the dog still stands in Lurgan town centre. Mick The Miller is another of the most famous greyhounds of all time. The first great track star, he was a household name in the UK and Ireland during the period before WWII. Mick moved the sport of greyhound racing from coursing to track. Owned by a priest and then sold to England, where he won two greyhound derby crowns and controversially nearly won a third. He became a film star and eventually an exhibit in a museum. Ballyregan Bob was a brindle dog and was born in 1983, bred by Robert Cunningham of Ballagh in Ireland. He joined George Curtis at Brighton after just one race and victory in Ireland. He lost his first four races in England but then won eight in a row by the end of 1984. In 1986 the sport was buzzing from the incredible record set by Ballyregan Bob who had captured the public's attention, leading to a rise in attendances. ""Breeders can be quite fickle - if they don't see good pups coming through at an early stage, they'll move on to a different dog."" Although there are no greyhounds of Clares Rockets' stature in Northern Ireland at the moment, 'I'm Slippy', bred in Limavady, County Londonderry, was the top stud dog in the UK and Republic of Ireland in the 1980s and his bloodline continues to thrive. ""He was huge in the 80s, but his lines [offspring] are coming through even now, and they they also brought great profits for their owners,"" Mr Connor said. John, who has ""racing in the blood"", still remembers the thrill of watching 'I'm Slippy' as a five-year-old child. ""He was just exceptional to watch. Dogs like that don't come around too often,"" he said. For the Hannahstown man, the love of the sport comes from his family: ""A lot of people in the industry are second and third generation, we grew up with it."" Mr Connor believes the sport has a unifying force that some other sports lack. ""It gives the ordinary man the chance to compete on a level and it goes above religion, politics, culture and class structures,"" he said. ""In Drumbo, you'll see people from the Falls sitting alongside people from the Shankill or wherever, treating each other with respect, willing each other on. There's no division like you sometimes see in football."" The first track racing in Ireland was held on Easter Monday 1927 at Celtic Park, near the Falls Road in west Belfast. Despite this early promise, the industry didn't thrive in the way that it did in the Republic and today there are only two greyhound stadiums in Northern Ireland. Part of the problem is that neither is licensed by the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) or the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB), so they rely on ticket sales and corporate sponsorship to survive. By contrast, in the Republic of Ireland, greyhound racing was successfully transformed a number of years ago into a sociable as well as a sporting occasion and the IGB will receive around 16m euros in government funding next year. ""They get all their prize money in grants and subsidies, but we have to supply it all ourselves,"" Mr Connor said. ""It would be great if we could all compete on a level playing field, but I don't think that's going to happen here. It's definitely a more profitable industry in the south.""","On Tuesday , the Irish trainers of a @placeholder greyhound expressed relief at finding him safe and well .",man,retired,stray,boom,kidnapped,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device The 45-year-old made the comments in an interview with NBC, which was aired last weekend. Speaking before Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at West Ham, Guardiola said: ""Maybe it was inappropriate to say I'm starting to say goodbye to my career. ""I'm not thinking that I'm going to retire."" Guardiola took over at Manchester City in the summer, after winning 14 trophies in four years at Spanish giants Barcelona and three successive Bundesliga titles with German club Bayern Munich. ""I said in the interview that I won't be a trainer when I'm 60. But I'm 45. I'm not going to retire in two or three years,"" he continued. ""I'm not going to train at 60 because I want to do something else in my life. ""I started playing football young and my career was on the pitch. I want to do something else in my life, but in the next three or four or five or six or seven years. ""I love my job and I'm in the perfect place to do my job especially here in England."" Media playback is not supported on this device Guardiola, whose side are fourth in the Premier League, gave an awkward post-match interview to BBC Sport after Monday's 2-1 win over Burnley. And quotes from the Spaniard appeared in the national newspapers the following day, implying Manchester City are 10 years behind their local rivals Manchester United. But Guardiola clarified his comments, saying: ""When I said to compare the titles with Liverpool, Manchester United, Barcelona and Real Madrid, we are behind. If people don't understand that, I'm sorry. ""In the last five or six years Manchester City achieved more targets and got better and grew the most. It is one of the best clubs in the world by far. ""But in terms of just the titles, winning the Champions League, we are behind other clubs in the last 20 years. ""I never said this club is below the other ones. Of course we are going to fight until the end of the season for all the titles.""","Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has insisted he is not ready to quit management , despite saying he is "" @placeholder at the end "" of his career .",amazed,devastated,trouble,committed,arriving,4
"Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness were amongst fans at the Northern Ireland v San Marino FIFA World Cup qualifying match on Saturday evening. The IFA received £28.75m from the Northern Ireland Executive towards the stadium redevelopment. The venue now has a seating capacity of 18,500. Fifa president Gianni Infantino unveiled a plaque to mark its opening. Speaking before the match, First Minister Arlene Foster described the transformation as ""remarkable"". ""Northern Ireland, along with first class fans, now has a truly first class venue as its home of football,"" said Mrs Foster. ""There is no doubt that the Euro 2016 finals were transformative for Northern Ireland football and this wonderful new facility is reflective of our pride and ambition to take [the team] to the next level."" Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said: ""In France this summer, Michael O'Neill and his team proved they were a class act both on and off the pitch and I'm delighted they now have a world class stadium to match. ""Sport has the ability to break down barriers on and off the pitch and the IFA deserves great credit for its tireless efforts to rid sport of sectarianism, racism and homophobia.  Their work goes beyond the gates of Windsor Park and ripples out into wider society building friendships and the community.""",The first and deputy first ministers @placeholder FIFA officials for the opening of the redeveloped national football stadium at Windsor Park on Saturday .,became,joined,posted,thank,received,1
"The RMT said the train operator had turned down an offer to resume talks on Friday and offered to meet on Monday - hours before the strikes begins. In a letter to the head of the ScotRail Alliance, RMT general secretary Mick Cash warned that rail bosses were ""giving no priority"" to the dispute. ScotRail said it was making plans to meet the union as soon as possible. In his letter to ScotRail's managing director Phil Verster, Mr Cash said union negotiators were on stand-by to discuss the dispute over the weekend. The train operator's offer to attend Acas talks at 10:00 on Monday did not appear to be a ""genuine offer to avert strike action at all"", he added. He said: ""It is imperative that not only is your company seen to be making steps to resolve this dispute but that you are actually taking steps to listen to the concerns of your staff and the travelling public on such a safety critical matter that we are in dispute over."" However, in a statement ScotRail said: ""Talks not strikes is the way forward. We're making arrangements to meet the RMT again as soon as possible."" The RMT announced the dates of a series of six planned strikes after saying a majority of its members had voted for strike action in a ballot with a 75% turnout. The union said it had not received direct reassurances from the Abellio ScotRail franchise that driver-only services would not be extended. The RMT said the planned strikes will be held between 00:01 and 23:59 on:","A union leader has accused ScotRail of "" dragging its @placeholder "" in negotiations ahead of planned strike action .",ambition,conditions,heels,behaviour,teeth,2
"The Warwickshire man, who has chosen to remain anonymous, bowed out of the 5,000-1 wager on Saturday. Hours later his stake would have been worth £91,000 after the Foxes beat Watford 1-0, said Ladbrokes. The winner said: ""It will mean so much if we win, so there's no point in being greedy."" More on this story and updates from Warwickshire He said he was ""ecstatic"" and looking forward to the rest of the league whatever the outcome. ""The odds are constantly changing, even Chelsea could sneak into the top four at the last minute,"" he said. ""A holiday to Spain is a certainty followed by paying off the mortgage with the winnings."" Jessica Bridge of Ladbrokes said: ""It's a life-changing amount of money and we congratulate our customer for holding his nerve this long."" Leicester City still have nine games left of the season, starting against Newcastle on 14 March, to secure their first ever top flight league title. Odds on them winning the Premier League title are now 5-4, said Ladbrokes. It comes a week after Leicester city John Pryke cashed out his bet for nearly £30,000.","A Leicester City fan , who @placeholder to win £ 250,000 from a £ 50 bet on his team winning the Premier League , has cashed out for £ 72,000 .",hoped,stood,sold,appeared,intervened,1
"The adult female's remains - including a head and hands found in a bag - were discovered in eight locations, Irish police have confirmed. They are investigating whether the death is linked to a personal dispute. More than 200 gardaí (police), Irish soldiers and civil defence personnel are continuing to search the area. The man arrested remains in police custody in Bray, 20km (12 miles) south of Dublin, where he can be questioned for up to 24 hours. He presented himself to Gardaí in County Wexford on Tuesday night and was subsequently arrested, Irish broadcaster RTE reported. The focus of the murder investigation changed following a series of developments on Tuesday evening. The results of DNA tests from the partial torso discovered by two walkers in the undergrowth, close to Military Road, on Saturday night showed the body was that of a woman. More human remains, including a head and hands, were discovered over a 30km-area on Tuesday. Police said they had now recovered most of the remains, and that there is only one victim. Supt Pat Ward, described the unprecedented case as ""troubling"". ""We are conscious of the fact that the body found is that of a loved one,"" he said. ""What we have found are limbs, we've also found some significant parts of the torso and we've also found in one of the locations, in a bag, the head and the hands of the deceased,"" he added.",A 32 - year - old man is being questioned in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was cut up and @placeholder in the Wicklow Mountains .,buried,embedded,drowned,collided,dispersed,4
"The male bird was found at Loch Arkaig in Lochaber in June tangled in fishing line and in distress. It was rescued by conservation officer Lewis Pate. The Scottish SPCA first took the chick to Inverness and then to its national rescue centre in Alloa for treatment. An operation was done on the eagle to remove the fish hooks. Animal welfare staff have called him Brahma. Colin Seddon, of the SSPCA, said: ""Brahma is now around 12-weeks-old and fully fledged. ""The release site was prepared by Lewis Pate and staff from the Achnacarry Esate in Lochaber, who have generously provided a boat and engine for logistical support and feeding if he needs it. ""There were several people involved in Brahma's rescue and recovery and without them he would not have survived.""",A white tailed sea eagle chick that had to be rescued after @placeholder two fish hooks has been released close to his nest site in the Highlands .,swallowing,wielding,hitting,flash,developing,0
"In an 1850 investigation into the life of the poor, Charles Dickens described how the inmates of a Newgate workhouse skulked about like wolves and hyenas pouncing on food as it was served. And how a ""company of boys"" were kept in a ""kind of kennel"". ""Most of them are crippled, in some form or another,"" said the Wardsman, ""and not fit for anything."" Dickens sparked outrage with his powerful evocations of workhouse life, most famously in the novel Oliver Twist, but the idea that you could be thrown into what was effectively prison simply for the crime of being poor was never seriously challenged by the ruling classes in Victorian times. There was no welfare state, but the growth of workhouses had been the product of a classic British benefits crackdown. Since Elizabethan times and the 1601 Poor Law, providing relief for the needy had been the duty of local parishes. Life was not exactly easy for itinerant beggars, who had to be returned to their home parish under the law, but their condition was not normally seen as being their own fault. They were objects of pity and it was seen as the Christian duty of good people to help them if they could. But by the start of the 19th century, the idea that beggars and other destitutes might be taking advantage of the system had begun to take hold. The ""idle pauper"" was the Victorian version of the ""benefit scrounger"". The Victorians were concerned that welfare being handed out by parishes was too generous and promoting idleness - particularly among single mothers. ""The effect has been to promote bastardy; to make want of chastity on the woman's part the shortest road to obtaining either a husband or a competent maintenance; and to encourage extortion and perjury,"" said the 1832 Royal Commission into the operation of the poor laws. The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act that followed aimed to put a stop to all that. Conditions in workhouses were deliberately made as harsh as possible, with inmates put to work breaking stones and fed a diet of gruel, to make the alternative, labouring for starvation wages in factories or fields, seem attractive. The shame of dying in the workhouse haunted the Victorian poor. Shame also stalked the drawing rooms of polite society, whenever a writer like Dickens or Henry Mayhew exposed the living conditions of the ""great unwashed"", half-starved and crammed into stinking, unsanitary slums. But the driving force of the Victorian age was ""self help"" and the job of aiding the poor was left to voluntary groups such as the Salvation Army and ""friendly societies"", who focused their efforts on the ""deserving poor"", rather than those deemed to have brought themselves low through drink or moral turpitude. It would take a war to make the alleviation of poverty for the masses the business of the national government. The appalling physical condition of the young men who were enlisted to fight in the 1899 war between the British Empire and Dutch settlers in South Africa (the Boers), which saw nine out 10 rejected as unfit, shocked the political classes and helped make a war that was meant to be over quickly drag on for three years. David Lloyd George won a landslide election victory for the Liberal Party in 1906 with a promise of welfare reform. A means-tested old age pension was established for those aged 70 or more (the average life expectancy for men at that time was 48). A national health system was set up, to be run by voluntary bodies, and, in 1911, the president of the board of trade, Winston Churchill, introduced a limited form of unemployment insurance and the first ""labour exchanges,"" forerunners of today's job centres. It would not take long for the failings of the new system to be exposed. The disaster of mass unemployment in the 1930s and botched attempts to provide assistance through the dreaded ""means test"" left a deep scar on the consciousness of the working class that would pave the way for the birth of the welfare state as we know it, at the end of the Second World War. Liberal politician Sir William Beveridge - the father of the modern welfare state - wrote in his best-selling report, published at the height of the war, about the need to slay the five giants: ""Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness"". The public's imagination was captured by the idea of ""winning the peace"" and not going back to the dark days of the 1930s after all the sacrifices of wartime. Labour was swept to power in a promise to implement the Beveridge report, a task made easier by ""war socialism"" - a country united to fight for a common good and a massive state bureaucracy in place to run it. A national system of benefits was introduced to provide ""social security"" so that the population would be protected from the ""cradle to the grave"". The new system was partly built on the national insurance scheme set up by Churchill and Lloyd George in 1911. People in work still had to make contributions each week, as did employers, but the benefits provided were now much greater. When mass unemployment returned at the start of the 1980s, the system ensured nobody starved, as they had in the 1930s. But the shame experienced by working class men, in particular, who had lost their job and were not able to provide for their families, captured in era-defining TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff, was an uncomfortable echo of the Great Depression. As a new century approached and mass unemployment became a fact of life, old scare stories about a class of ""idle paupers"" taking advantage of an over-generous welfare system returned. Anxiety about a permanent ""underclass"" of ""benefit dependent"" people who had never had a job - coupled with a sense that the country could not go on devoting an ever greater share of its national income to welfare payments - began to obsess politicians on the left and right. The defining TV drama, in an era where a life on benefits had lost much of its stigma, was Shameless, as the ""benefits scrounger"" became both an anti-establishment folk hero and a tabloid bogey figure. Labour made efforts to reform the system to ""make work pay"" but it was the coalition government, and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, that confronted the issue head-on. To his critics, Duncan Smith is the spiritual heir of the Victorian moralists who separated the poor into ""deserving"" and ""undeserving"" types - and set out to demonise and punish those thought to have brought it all on themselves. But to his supporters, Duncan Smith is the new Beveridge. The great social reformer surely never envisaged a welfare system of such morale-sapping complexity, they argue, where it often does not pay to work. ""The state in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility,"" wrote Beveridge in his report. ""In establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and family."" The Conservative government is committed to achieving full employment, seeing work as the answer to many of society's ills. It has avoided the criticism levelled at the Thatcher government of the 1980s, that it allowed millions to rot away on benefits as a ""price worth paying"" for economic recovery. But cuts to in-work benefits such as tax credits have handed ammunition to those on the left who accuse the government of trying to balance the nation's books on the backs of the working poor. The debate opens up a new chapter in the story of Britain's welfare state, although many of the characters and themes have a very familiar ring to them.","We think of the welfare state as a creation of the 20th Century but its roots stretch back to Elizabethan times . It 's a @placeholder littered with benefit crackdowns , panics about "" scroungers "" and public outrage at the condition of the poor .",time,voice,reality,history,cliff,3
"Gord Young, from Peterborough, in Ontario, says it took him 17 minutes to decypher the message after realising a code book he inherited was the key. Mr Young says the 1944 note uses a simple World War I code to detail German troop positions in Normandy. GCHQ says it would be interested to see his findings. The message was discovered by 74-year-old David Martin when he was renovating the chimney of his house in Bletchingley, Surrey. Among the rubbish, he found parts of a dead pigeon - including a leg, attached to which was a red canister. Inside the canister was a thin piece of paper with the words ""Pigeon Service"" at the top and 27 handwritten blocks of code. The message - which attracted world-wide media attention - was put in the hands of Britain's top codebreakers at GCHQ at the beginning of November, but they have been unable to unlock the puzzle. They remain convinced the message is impossible to decrypt, although a spokesman said they would be happy to look at Mr Young's proposed solution,. ""We stand by our statement of 22 November 2012 that without access to the relevant codebooks and details of any additional encryption used, the message will remain impossible to decrypt,"" he said. ""Similarly it is also impossible to verify any proposed solutions, but those put forward without reference to the original cryptographic material are unlikely to be correct."" However, Mr Young, the editor of a local history group, Lakefield Heritage Research, believes ""folks are trying to over-think this matter"". ""It's not complex,"" he says. Using his great-uncle's Royal Flying Corp [92 Sqd-Canadian] aerial observers' book, he said he was able to work out the note in minutes. He believes it was written by 27-year-old Sgt William Stott, a Lancashire Fusilier, who had been dropped into Normandy - with pigeons - to report on German positions.  Sgt Stott was killed a few weeks later and is buried in a Normandy war cemetery. The code is simple, relying heavily on acronyms, said Mr Young. Some 250,000 pigeons were used during the war by all services and each was given an identity number. There are two pigeon identification numbers in the message - NURP.40.TW.194  and NURP.37.OK.76. Mr Young says Sgt Stott would have sent both these birds - with identical messages - at the same time, to make sure the information got through. ""Essentially, Stott was taught by a WWI trainer;  a former Artillery observer-spotter. You can deduce this from the spelling of Serjeant which dates deep in Brits military and as late as WWI,"" he said. ""Seeing that spelling almost automatically tells you that the acronyms are going to be similar to those of WWI. ""You will see the World War I artillery acronyms are shorter, but, that is because, you have to remember, that, the primitive radio-transmitters that sent the Morse code were run by batteries, and, those didn't last much more than a half-hour tops, probably less. ""Thus all World War I codes had to be S-n-S, Short-n-Sweet. ""And, as you can clearly see, Stott got a major report out on a pigeon.""",An encrypted World War II message found in a fire place strapped to the remains of a dead carrier pigeon may have been @placeholder by a Canadian enthusiast .,received,highlighted,cracked,saved,unveiled,2
Transport Scotland said the incident happened at the site of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route near Newmachar Road at about 11:00 on Thursday. It is understood the worker had to be rescued from the roof of his vehicle which was under several feet of water. A Transport Scotland spokesman confirmed an investigation had been launched. The AWPR is due to be finished in spring 2018.,An Aberdeen bypass worker had to be rescued after his vehicle became submerged in a water - @placeholder ditch .,ditch,controlled,covered,logged,listed,3
"Several families spent Saturday night in emergency accommodation after a box containing a suspect device was found in Danford Close, Oldswinford. Specialist officers found the package ""to be non-explosive"". A 100m (328ft) cordon was lifted earlier. The man, 25 and from Stourbridge, remains in custody, police said. He was arrested in Staffordshire. The package was found shortly before 13:00 BST on Saturday.",A man has been arrested after a suspicious package led to about 12 homes being @placeholder in the West Midlands .,evacuated,injured,stabbed,raped,held,0
"State news agency KCNA mentioned his new role in its reporting on activities of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Several high-ranking officials have been purged under Mr Kim, but Ri Yong-gil's removal is unconfirmed. However, senior officials in North Korea have previously been absent from view for long periods only to reappear. South Korean media reported on 10 February that Gen Ri had been executed earlier this month for corruption and ""factional conspiracy"". Who was N Korea's 'executed' general? Rumours that Gen Ri had fallen from favour first surfaced late last year. Gen Ri Myong-su had also appeared at a recent rally in Pyongyang and been mentioned in the slot normally reserved for the chief of staff. On Sunday, the KCNA mentioned Gen Ri Myong-su twice - once describing him as ""chief of the Korean People's  Army (KPA) General Staff"" whilst reporting on Kim Jong-un's  observation of aerial manoeuvres, and again when accompanying Mr Kim during a flight drill inspection. He appears to be the fourth chief of staff since Kim Jong-un took over in 2011, as opposed to three during his father Kim Jong-il's 17 years in power. The reports of Gen Ri's execution came days after the North launched a long-range rocket, which critics say is a test of banned missile technology. In January the North carried out its fourth nuclear test. Some observers say the regime's recent behaviour may be linked to Kim Jong-un wanting to shore up his position ahead of a rare congress of the Workers' Party due in May. In May 2015 South Korea's spy agency told parliament that the North's Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol had been executed for showing disloyalty to Mr Kim. The agency said Mr Hyon was killed by anti-aircraft fire in front of an audience of hundreds - it later said it was yet to verify the information. That news came weeks after the reported execution of 15 senior officials. North Korea rarely confirms these reports of purges and executions though it did announce the death of Kim Jong-un's uncle and mentor, Chang Song-thaek, in 2013. Sometimes reports become completely fanciful as they spin around the internet - reports that Mr Chang was devoured by ravenous dogs were false. Knowing what to make of the executions and disappearances is also hard. Do they indicate the strength of the man at the top, because he can arbitrarily and brutally dispense with the people around him, or does it indicate weakness? It may be both. It may be that Kim Jong-un fears alternative sources of power and (like Stalin) pre-empts their rise. But it may also be that Kim Jong-un (like Stalin) sees threats where they do not exist.  What is clear is that the leadership around Kim Jong-un is not stable.","Ri Myong - su has been @placeholder army chief in North Korea , days after unconfirmed reports that his predecessor , Ri Yong - gil , had been executed .",held,acting,crowned,named,sacked,3
"The massive crater is filled with debris, household items and vehicles. The hole is just four miles from the Arena das Dunas stadium, which is set to host the Group D match between Italy and Uruguay on Tuesday. It opened up earlier this week after a record amount of rainfall fell and has continued to grow since. Guide: What is a sinkhole?","Houses in a favela , near one of Brazil 's World Cup stadiums , have been @placeholder after this huge sinkhole opened up .",revealed,told,postponed,captured,evacuated,4
"The Waterloo to Salisbury service has been renamed ""When Harry met Salisbury"" and Liphook became ""Lips-Hooked"". South West Trains said suggestions came from both passengers and staff. A spokeswoman for the South West Trains-Network Rail Alliance said: ""We hope those travelling with us today enjoy their journeys and have a lovely Valentine's Day."" South West Trains operates services in Hampshire, Surrey, Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Devon, Somerset, and Greater London. Customers and employees were asked to suggest ""quirky, romance-themed"" alternative station names ""in the spirit of Valentine's Day"", the spokeswoman said. ""We got some great suggestions, many of which we are displaying on customer information screens across the network for today only."" Rail passenger Alex Dowding tweeted: ""Bit of harmless romantic fun is never a bad thing surely? Sure the rugby crowd are loving it too."" Many passengers have welcomed the temporary sign change, describing the move as ""spreading the love"". Commuter Sabrina Vitello, who was travelling from Walton-on-Thames to London Waterloo, said: ""It's refreshing, made me smile all day.""","Rail passengers are being given a "" Valentine 's Day send - off "" with romantic departure board @placeholder .",fun,unit,engineers,conditions,messages,4
"Africa will go through six human actions this year - it will stand, kneel, squat, bow, fall and then rise again. Here's how. In the group of those who will be standing in Africa in 2017 is Donald Trump. Yes, I know it's an act of treason to associate him with Africa. But when he's sworn in as president, his foreign policy (or tweetplomacy) will have a bearing on our continent. His critics warn that his isolationist stand might mean less attention will be paid to Africa. But it could just force Africans to find solutions from within, by strengthening our institutions, improving infrastructure, governance and security and trading more amongst ourselves. Another man who also takes office in January is Nana Akufo-Addo, the president-elect of Ghana. He's tried to enter Flagstaff House (the presidential residency) through the ballot box as the New Patriotic Party candidate since 2008. Now that he has the keys, Ghanaians will wait to see how he delivers his pledge of one district, one factory, lest he becomes one man, one term. And then there's the state of emergency in Ethiopia, which still stands. It was put in place last October following violent protests. The government says the security situation has improved save for some clashes in the northern part of Amhara region. Some 9,000 people detained under the state of emergency have been released and the government says it could lift the emergency before its six-month period is over. There are two prominent men who will be kneeling before voters to ask for a job. Paul Kagame has been president for the last 16 years, but Rwandans appear to want more of him and have voted to remove the term-limit barrier. In August, Mr Kagame will therefore use his constitutional right to ask for a new employment contract. In the same month, his Kenyan neighbour Uhuru Kenyatta will also be reapplying for his job. Last September, while warning the main opposition leader Raila Odinga to mind his own party and leave the ruling Jubilee party alone, President Kenyatta famously said: ""… as you continue to search for a seat and salivate, we are feasting on the meat"". It will be clear in August whether Kenyans will give Jubilee more time to feast or turn the party itself into mince meat. Joseph Warungu: ""The Nigerian economy... enters 2017 in the squat position"" The African Union has been searching for a new Chief Executive Officer and will fill the position in January. Three men and two women from Botswana, Kenya, Chad, Senegal and Equatorial Guinea will fight it out to replace the outgoing South African Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, as Chair of the AU Commission. Now to some situations and people who can't decide whether to stand or sit. The Nigerian economy has caught its nastiest stomach bug in more than two decades. And so it enters 2017 in the squat position. A combination of factors including a crash in the global price of oil, which Nigeria relies a lot on, and a fall in the naira, the country's currency, contributed to the sizeable contraction of the economy in 2016. The anger and frustration among the people was aptly captured by this online comment from one Nigerian in November: ""We are now going into depression and deep S***! Buhari has himself to blame for unfortunately being a gentleman!"" Over in The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh is no gentleman - he's chosen to squat at State House. He lost the presidential election to Adama Barrow and publicly conceded defeat. A little later, the thought of leaving the seat he has called his own for the last 22 years overpowered him and he changed his mind. Africa and the world have asked him to go home, but he is defiant. As his last day in office approaches on 19 of January, the same force he used to gain power in 1994 could be used to relieve him of his office. There are three notable people who will be bowing out of office in 2017. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected female head of state in Africa, is coming to the end of her second and final term of office in Liberia. One of those waiting on the touchline to join the succession race is football star George Weah. The former AC Milan and Chelsea striker failed to score in the 2005 presidential tournament but hopes 2017 will be his year. Angolans will have a chance to replace the only man they've known as president for nearly 40 years. Although Jose Eduardo dos Santos has announced he'll step down, his blood will still flow through the veins of power and the economy in Angola. His daughter, Isabel, heads Sonangol, the state oil company and is considered by Forbes to be Africa's richest woman, while his son, Jose, is chairman of the country's sovereign wealth fund, Fundo Soberano de Angola. In neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, 2017 could mark the beginning of the end for another family dynasty, which started in 1997 when Laurent Desire Kabila became president after overthrowing Mobutu Sese Seko. Laurent Kabila's son Joseph picked up the reigns after his father's assassination in 2001, and was bent on staying in power until attempts to change the constitution to allow him a third term backfired. Violent street protests have piled pressure on President Kabila to exit from office this year and the issue is bound to continue into the new year. The theme of falling is alive in South Africa. The #FeesMustFall campaign by university students sought to fight the rising cost of higher education and saw violent clashes between police and protesters, disruptions in the university calendar and the arrest of a number of students. 2017 promises more of the same because not only have the fees not fallen, some top universities have announced an 8% increase. And then there's the question of the country's President Jacob Zuma. In December 2017, his tenure as leader of the governing ANC party runs out, but his term as the country's president only ends in 2019. Allowing Mr Zuma to continue as head of state but with the ANC under someone else's leadership could create two centres of power, which could be political suicide. So will the ANC #LetZumaFall as it did President Thabo Mbeki under similar circumstances? 2017 will have answers. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is another that could face the threat of falling in Africa if more African countries continue to withdraw from the Rome Statute. A number of countries have notified the UN Secretary-General of their intention to withdraw, saying the ICC unfairly targets African leaders in its application of international justice. And now to international trends where fashion, like history, has a habit of repeating itself. A quick glance at catwalk signs for 2017 shows that the hems of women's skirts will be falling - to just below the knee. Apparently midi-skirts elongate the figure and flatter the wearer, so this must be a good fall. The Africa Cup of Nations tournament kicks off in mid-January in Gabon and Uganda carries the hopes of East Africa. The region has a terrible record in continental football. Uganda's last appearance in the finals was in 1978 when it lost to Ghana in the final. Kenya and Tanzania have never progressed beyond the group stage, so if Uganda can rise, East Africa can stand tall. In politics, despite all manner of socio-economic challenges, the spirit of the Africans is on the rise - they've already just about removed one long-serving president from power (The Gambia, even if he is still resisting ) and in 2017 a couple more might follow (DR Congo, Angola) When Africa stumbles, it must rise because as they say in Nigeria, the sun shines on those who stand before it shines on those who are sitting. More from Joseph Warungu: Should the UK join the African Union? Kenyans beg for mercy Doctors take on traditional healers Why Kenya has banned on-air sex","In our series of letters from African journalists , media and communications trainer Joseph Warungu gives a personal guide to some of the key people , places and @placeholder to watch out for in Africa in 2017 .",individuals,head,issues,events,body,3
"Pedro Caixinha has recruited eight players so far in the transfer window - seven from overseas. Ferguson, who had two spells at Rangers, says new players may be taken aback by the Scottish environment and the level of expectation on them. ""These guys will need to get up to pace pretty quick,"" Ferguson told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound. ""There's no doubt in my mind that they're good players. ""It's a bit easier to a certain extent at Ibrox where there's a bigger pitch and you've got 50,000 fans behind you but when you go to the smaller grounds, where it's tighter, the pitches aren't as good, they get the fright of their life. ""It's 100-mile-an-hour stuff. If you're not up for the fight, when you got to places like Easter Road or Tynecastle or Fir Park, these guys are going to run over the top of you. ""They're used to a different type of football. Scotland is a tough, tough, tough place to play football."" Portuguese defenders Bruno Alves and Fabio Cardoso and compatriots Dalcio and Daniel Candeias, who play in wide attacking roles, as well as Colombian striker Alfredo Morelos and Mexican duo Carlos Pena and Eduardo Herrera - a midfielder and a striker - have joined Scottish midfielder Ryan Jack in moving to Ibrox this summer. ""I don't know too much about most of the signings,"" said Ferguson. ""Obviously, I know Bruno Alves, who has got 90-odd caps for Portugal. I've seen him play quite a bit. He's an experienced centre-half and a really good player. And Ryan Jack, I know obviously [from his time at Aberdeen]. ""I've got to take my hat off to Pedro Caixinha. He's come in and he's identified that he's needed quite a lot of players. He's done his homework early and he's made a lot of signings pretty early as well. ""My only worry is, there's quite a lot of foreign players. In my time when foreign players came in to Rangers, they got the shock of their lives with demands that are put on them, the pace of Scottish football. ""It'll be interesting to see how they settle in. I still believe that you've got to get a spine at least of Scottish players. I know he's after Graham Dorrans, who I think's a fantastic player - and obviously, I saw yesterday, Kenny McLean as well. ""You can't lose your identity. You've got to have Scottish players. ""Many a player's come in who had 30-, 40-odd caps, who had played in big leagues over in the continent and they couldn't believe the pressure that they were under. When you play at Rangers, you're expected to win every single game. ""I believe that you've got to give him two or three months and you've got to give these players two or three months to settle in but again you don't get much time when you play at a club like Rangers.""",Former Rangers captain Barry Ferguson believes the club 's new signings will need to @placeholder pretty quickly .,deliver,receive,revive,adapt,change,3
"He said the country has the capability to host 24 teams rather than 16 stipulated in its original bid. Ouattara was talking during an official visit to Sierra Leone. ""The reality is that we go by the decision made to extend the number of teams to participate at Afcon and Ivory Coast has the infrastructure,"" he said. ""A few days ago we hosted the Francophone games with 4,000 athletes participating from 54 countries. Media playback is not supported on this device ""It ended on Sunday with the Vice President of Ivory Coast giving medals to those who won. ""So Ivory Coast has the infrastructure and in any case we are going to continue between now and 2021 to build the necessary infrastructure to host the finals."" Ivory Coast were originally given the rights to host a 16-team event but in July the Confederation of African Football decided to increase the number of teams from 16 to 24. The tournament has also been moved from it's traditional dates of January and February to later in the year in the months of June and July. The Chairman of the Caf's Nations Cup organising committee Amaju Pinnick told BBC Sport last week that their decision to increase the teams at the continent's biennial event is to try to encourage countries in a particular region to co-host future Afcon finals.",The President of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara says his country will not need to co-host the @placeholder Africa cup of Nations finals in 2021 .,influence,remaining,title,securing,expanded,4
"From 13 April, patients on acute wards at Princess of Wales, Bridgend, Morriston and Singleton in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot Hospital can have visitors between 11:00 and 20:00 BST, seven days a week. It is hoped the changes will make it easier for people to visit relatives. The announcement follows a successful pilot at Neath Port Talbot Hospital. Cheryl Jones, from Port Talbot, regularly visits her 82-year-old mother Glynis Andrews at Neath hospital and said the new hours meant her mother had lots of company during her eight-week hospital stay. She said: ""It has been really good. I can keep mum company for as long as she likes. It is much better than just having a short visiting time in the evenings."" Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University (ABMU) Health Board said its paediatrics, maternity, mental health, learning disabilities and intensive care wards will also have flexible visiting hours, but they will be based on each patient's needs.",Flexible hospital visiting hours are to be @placeholder at four hospitals in south Wales .,sold,used,introduced,unveiled,held,2
"The action is the latest in the long running dispute over drivers taking on responsibility for opening and closing train doors. Train drivers in the Aslef and RMT unions walk out again on Friday, leaving almost all Southern's 2,242 weekday services cancelled. The rail firm said it had already invited the RMT to fresh talks. Further drivers' strikes are planned for 24, 25 and 27 January. What's the Southern rail strike about? RMT leader Mick Cash accused Southern's parent company Govia Thameslink (GTR) of breaking a pledge to retain a second safety-critical member of staff on trains. He said a commitment made by GTR chief executive Charles Horton in a recent BBC debate ""melts away"" in direct talks. ""RMT is available but it is down to Southern/GTR to show that same commitment and stick to the promises they gave on camera in front of a TV audience across the region,"" Mr Cash added. A Southern spokesman responded: ""Mr Horton spoke face-to-face with [RMT deputy general secretary] Mick Lynch immediately after the recording of the debate on Sunday. ""He invited the RMT to fresh talks but we've had no dates or times from them. ""We also made a formal written offer to Aslef over a week ago and we have heard absolutely nothing."" On Wednesday, Southern said it would go to the Supreme Court to try to block Aslef's action, after losing a court case and an appeal last year.","Another 24 - hour strike by guards on Southern rail is to be @placeholder on 23 January , the RMT union has announced .",released,reported,launched,held,sold,3
"Mahad Abdi Abshir, 28, from Camden, died from head injuries after he was found in Castlehaven Road. Police were alerted by a London ambulance crew at 05:40 BST on 2 May. He was taken to hospital where he died two days later. Mustafa Abdulla, 23, will appear at Hendon Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with Mr Abshir's murder. In a statement Mr Abshir's family said he would be dearly missed. ""Mahad was a loyal, kind-hearted, forgiving man and was very much loved by his wife and family.""",A man has been charged with the murder of a man who was found @placeholder in a street in north - west London .,died,strangled,punched,collapsed,lying,3
"Ms Dugdale received 90% of the support from constituency Labour parties who nominated a candidate. She is also backed by 80% of the local councillors who nominated a leadership candidate, and 10 trade union and affiliate groups. She is standing against Ken Macintosh in the contest to replace Jim Murphy. MSP Richard Baker has secured the most constituency Labour party nominations in the contest for deputy leader. Ms Dugdale, a Lothians MSP, is supported by 30 of her fellow parliamentarians, while Mr Macintosh, currently the party's social justice spokesman, is backed by seven and the Scottish Co-Op group. He has 10% of the support from constituency Labour parties, and 20% of the support from councillors. Following the close of supporting nominations, Ms Dugdale said: ""To have the support of the overwhelming number of local party members, councillors and trade unions is an honour. ""I take nothing for granted and will work hard to change this support into votes when the ballot opens a week on Monday. ""The support I have received so far shows I am winning the argument amongst party members, but the real task is to win back people across the country."" Mr Macintosh has previously said he offers ""a change in direction"" for the Scottish Labour party. He said: ""I want to break up the party machine and put the members and supporters in charge of this party."" Mr Baker secured 20 constituency Labour Party nominations, compared with 18 for rival deputy leader candidate MSP Alex Rowley and 11 for Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson. Mr Baker said: ""I'm grateful to members across the country who have put their trust in me through constituency nominations. ""My platform is clear: I want us to be a strong, united party in next year's election, with policy formed by members across Scotland.""",Kezia Dugdale has secured the @placeholder of supporting nominations in her bid to become Scottish Labour leader .,majority,power,assistance,centre,process,0
"On Monday he said Muslim people should be banned from entering the US. But in response to Trump's comments, Hopkins wrote in her newspaper column that he should not be demonised. So does she simply speak her mind or is she an attention seeker? Here are five things about Katie Hopkins. Katie Hopkins first came under the public gaze when she was a contestant on the BBC TV series The Apprentice in 2007. She quit the show despite being offered a place in the final as she could not commit to a possible move to London. In 2013 she caused upset when she said she would not let her children play with lower class children with names like Chardonnay and Tyler. She made the remarks during an appearance on ITV's This Morning programme. She admitted that she judges children by their names. But when she said she did not like children with geographical location names, it was pointed out that one of her children was called India. In a 2014 TV documentary, Katie raised more eyebrows when she said fat people were lazy. She added that she would not employ fat people because they look lazy. She illustrated her point by managing to gain and lose three stone in weight. Before the UK general election in 2015, she tweeted she will leave the country if the Labour Party were elected to power. In November, students from Brunel University walked out of a debate where Katie was invited as a guest. Objections were raised to her attendance while during the debate about the future of welfare, students turned their backs to her and later walked out.","US Republican presidential candidate , Donald Trump has tweeted the UK should take @placeholder of Katie Hopkins .",influence,notice,head,recognition,use,1
"Tourism bosses said it had added ""another dimension"" to the attraction of walking in Wales. The coastal path stretches 870 miles (1,400km) from the River Dee in Flintshire to Chepstow in the south. Work on the path, the world's first round an entire country, began in 2007 with the formal opening in May 2012. A study commissioned by Natural Resources Wales estimated there were 2.82 million visits to the path in the 12 months up to September 2013, Three Golden Cups pub, Southerndown, Vale of Glamorgan Landlady Elizabeth Williams says the path has had a ""dramatic effect"" on business. She said: ""It's possible that we may have had to close the business without it. ""With the pub being so close to the beach, it's very weather dependent. ""Casual walkers are more resilient - if you get a cold day with drizzle, they will still come out and walk. ""It has enabled us to take on an apprentice chef and a part-timer from the village."" Bridgend had the greatest number of visitors at 666,000 followed by Flintshire at 419,000. The overwhelming majority of the visits (94%) were walking for leisure, with 38% of them using it as part of a longer holiday. Cyclists made up 4% of people using the path. Carole Startin, of Tourism Partnership North Wales, told BBC Wales the creation of the path had greatly boosted walking as an attraction to the area. She said: ""Walking has always been an important part of tourism in north Wales. ""You have the Clwydian range, Anglesey, the Llyn Peninsula - all have areas of outstanding natural beauty, and then there's the national parks. ""All those are big draws for people coming here for walking or on holiday. ""The coast path has added a new dimension to that and how we can promote north Wales. ""It is helping to put Wales on the map, not just for the walking but because it's such a unique thing."" The survey, published by Beaufort Research and Cardiff Business School, found average daily spending by people while in the local area (excluding accommodation) was £21.05 per party per day. Those staying overnight spent an average of £57.20 on accommodation. Chris Osborne, a Tenby hotelier who chairs the Wales Tourism Alliance, said the path was boosting business all year round. ""The fact you have something that goes right around Wales, I think, is an opportunity for a huge number of businesses,"" he said. ""What is evident too is that people walk throughout the year, regardless almost of the weather."" The study identified 5,400 tourism-related businesses within 2km (one-and-a-quarter miles) of the route. It estimated the extra business had led to the creation of the equivalent of 112 jobs by firms along the route, though much of that would be comprised of part-time or temporary work. The researchers concluded: ""The Wales Coast Path has added a significant new product to the tourism assets of Wales, and its launch and promotion have raised the profile of Wales and its coastline as well as the path itself."" Culture Minister John Griffiths welcomed the report, telling BBC Radio Wales the path had created a lot of interest both in Wales and abroad. ""It's a great asset for Wales and demonstrates the value of the path to the economy but also the benefits for people who enjoy the coastline,"" he said. ""A lot of people are using it for its health benefits and we want to continue to improve the path and make it as accessible as possible,"" he added.","The Wales Coast Path attracted nearly three million visitors and brought £ 32 m to the economy over 12 months , figures @placeholder .",reveals,suggest,included,shown,claimed,1
"Mervat Ciuiti was in Cairo, packing her cases for a trip to Nottinghamshire, when the Persian puss snuck into her bag. She only discovered the stowaway feline when she was in a taxi in the UK. Luckily the seven-year-old cat survived the freezing temperatures in the cargo hold unharmed. Egyptian animal laws say Bisou can't return home for six months and UK rules says Bisou must stay in quarantine - so Bisou is spending the rest of her stay at a quarantine centre in Derbyshire.",A cat @placeholder Bisou has survived a five - hour flight from Egypt hidden in its owner 's suitcase .,nicknamed,called,hire,containing,mass,1
"Reports said the groom, Jugal Kishore, was epileptic and he had kept the information from the bride, Indira, and her family. While Mr Kishore was taken to hospital, the angry bride decided to switch husbands. She asked a member of her brother-in-law's family, who was a guest, to step in and marry her instead. He agreed. The incident took place in Rampur town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. According to a report in The Times of India, Mr Kishore, 25, fell to the ground in front of the wedding guests just as he was reaching out to garland Indira. On his return from the hospital, Mr Kishore pleaded with Indira to change her mind, telling her that he would be ridiculed by friends and relatives if he went home without a bride, but she refused. Local police official Ram Khiladi Solanki told the BBC that Mr Kishore and his family were initially upset and lodged a complaint with the police. ""But since the bride is already married now, what can anyone do? So the families have resolved the matter and the complaint has been withdrawn,"" he added.",An Indian bride has married a guest at her wedding after her groom - to - be had a seizure and @placeholder .,overturned,injured,collapsed,team,vanished,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device The PSNI twice came from behind to level at Seaview before David Cushley's second goal and a late Paul Heatley effort sealed the Crues' win. Andrew Waterworth and Paul Smyth both hit two goals in Linfield's victory. Kirk Millar and Mark Haughey were also on target for the Blues. After his late winner at Dungannon on Saturday, ex-Ballymena United man Cushley put Crusaders ahead in the sixth minute at Seaview after good work by Michael Carvill but Owen Moody levelled on 42 after Sean O'Neill had parried a Lukasz Adamczyk effort. Carvill nodded the Crues back into the lead before the break but Paul McDowell levelled again on 52 after a superb ball from Andrew Blackledge. The PSNI held out until 10 minutes from time with Gavin Whyte hitting their woodwork but the Crues pressure eventually yielded Cushley's second goal of the night on 80 minutes and Heatley added a further goal in injury-time. Goals from Waterworth had Linfield in control at 2-0 up after only 15 minutes at Windsor Park as he tapped in a Chris Casement cross before outpacing the Ards defence four minutes later. Smyth extended the advantage to 3-0 on 18 minutes after a Niall Quinn cross and Millar chipped in the fourth on 31, although it appeared to take a slight deflection. Ards improved after the break but their penalty appeared a soft award after Gareth Tommons and substitute Joe McKinney both tumbled in the area, with Michael Ruddy slotting the spot-kick. Kyle Cherry and Guillaume Keke (twice) went close to pulling another goal back for Ards but Haughey headed in Linfield's fifth on 79 before Smyth completed the scoring six minutes later. Meanwhile, Warrenpoint Town defeated Glenavon 3-1 at Mourneview Park to book their place in the final of the Mid-Ulster Cup. The Championship leaders will meet the winners of Wednesday's second semi-final between Armagh City and Loughgall. Stephen Murray scored Town's opener midway through the first half and a minute later Warrenpoint doubled their lead when John McGuigan headed into the top corner. Declan O'Brien bundled a Guy Bates cross over the line to pull one back in the 31st minute, but McGuigan ensured Town's passage with the help of a deflection off David Elebert on the hour. Elebert was twice denied by superb goal-line clearances from Point captain Stephen Moan as Matthew Tipton's side held out. Media playback is not supported on this device",Crusaders and Linfield progressed to the County Antrim Shield final but in @placeholder fashions with the Crues made to battle before beating PSNI 4 - 2 as Linfield hammered Ards 6-1 .,neighbouring,contrasting,action,place,title,1
"The 18-year-old was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Friday. Police said she became seriously ill after she bought a product containing oil derived from cannabis plants which can be inhaled through a vaporizer. Officers believe she may have had a ""severe reaction"" to the product which contained Cannabidiol. A spokesperson for Gloucestershire Constabulary said they were ""very happy that the outcome for this young woman appears to be good"" and reiterated their advice ""never to buy or use any kind of drug obtained online"".","A teenager who was hospitalised after inhaling cannabis oil she bought online is "" @placeholder well "" .",threatening,recovering,leaving,devastated,lost,1
"So far, 15,000 girls have put forward ideas for new badges, including App Design, Vlogging and Upcycling. Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle, one of several ""inspirational women"" involved, suggested a Resilience badge. And Lil, aged nine, wanted a Gymnastics badge as: ""I enjoy doing it and I can do lots of tricks."" Has Girl Guiding stood the test of time? Girlguiding might be more famous for less adventurous badges like Homemaker and Hostess but they also have a long tradition of groundbreaking badges, including: More recently, in the 1980s, there was a Radio Communicator badge, and the 1990s girls could do a Canoeist badge. The current set of badges include Survival, Circus Skills and World Issues. Parents and the general public are now being invited to contribute ideas for the new programme on social media, using the hashtag #BadgeGoals. Girlguiding has more than 500,000 members aged five to 25 and 100,000 volunteers. It runs Rainbows for five to seven-year-olds, Brownies for seven to 10-year-olds, Guides for 10 to 14-year-olds and Senior Section for 14 to 25-year-olds. As well as Vlogging, App Design and Upcycling, potential badges suggested by members include: Elena, 17, said: ""A Chemist badge would be brilliant as girls could find out about acids and alkalis and have a go at conducting experiments. ""It would be a fantastic way to engage girls in chemistry."" Mihika, eight, said her top choice would be a Zip Line Badge, ""because it is very fun and cool"". Sophie, 20, wanted a Video Journalist badge: ""It would give girls the opportunity to learn about making vlogs and other video news pieces and understand how to harness one of the most powerful communication mediums available."" Beth Tweddle said her proposed Resilience badge would ""give girls the chance to build their mental wellbeing"". She said resilience was a ""valuable skill"" which had helped her handle ""the pressures of competing in gymnastics"". ""A Resilience badge would help to tackle the stigma around mental health from a young age by empowering girls to talk confidently about these issues and equipping them with the skills they need to be resilient throughout their lives."" Girlguiding says the new programme, starting next year, will mark ""the biggest investment in girls' futures outside the school system in the UK"". The aim is to equip hundreds of thousands of girls ""with all the skill and experiences they will need to thrive, succeed, make change and be happy in the modern world"", it adds. In 2014 the Scout Association carried out a similar move, introducing 19 new badges after a 10-month consultation with its 12,000 scouts. Among the new badges was geocaching - a modern take on orienteering where participants use GPS technology to find hidden treasure boxes. Beth Tweddle is among several prominent women awarded honorary ""I Give Girls a Voice"" Guide badges for being role models for girls and young women. Other recipients include fellow Olympians Lizzy Yarnold, Dame Kelly Holmes and Hannah Cockroft, as well as entertainer Kimberly Wyatt, campaigning journalist Bryony Gordon and adventurer Anna McNuff.","Girlguiding is planning a huge overhaul of its programme , with classic badges replaced by new ones with titles liable to puzzle older @placeholder .",generations,audiences,life,resources,network,0
"Is the ceasefire in Ukraine holding? No. There is fighting pretty much every day. It is nothing on the scale of what was happening around the time of the Minsk agreement, which took effect on 15 February. However, on certain days, in certain areas, the fighting has spiked. According to reports, neither side has sustained very high casualties since mid-February. However, on 6 May Ukraine's army said that five of its soldiers had died and 12 had been wounded in 24 hours. Where is most of the fighting concentrated? The village of Shyrokyne, to the east of the valuable port city of Mariupol, has probably seen the most intense fighting since February. There is also continuing fighting to the north-west of the main rebel-held city of Donetsk, around the area of the villages of Pisky (Ukrainian-held) and Spartak (rebel-held). There has also been a significant amount of fighting south of Avdiivka, a town held by the Ukrainian army. In the region of Luhansk the fighting has been concentrated around the villages of Stanytsia Luhanska, Shchastya and Trokhizbenka. Is the frontline moving? Ever since the rebels took the town of Debaltseve, just after the Minsk agreement, neither side has launched a major offensive, so the frontline has not moved significantly since then. However, the Ukrainian government said on 5 May it had lost full or partial control of 28 towns and villages since 18 February, three days after the Minsk deal took effect. Could the conflict be reignited? Due to the rhetoric on both sides, and the fact that the fighting continues despite the ceasefire agreement, many people believe it is only a matter of time until the conflict flares up again. The rebels' stated aim is to take control of the whole of the two most easterly regions of Ukraine: Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko recently said, rather fancifully, that the war would end only when Ukraine recaptured Crimea (annexed by Russia in March 2014). Both sides continually accuse the other of preparing a major offensive, and of using and building up heavy weaponry near, or on, the frontline. One significant fatal incident, intentional or otherwise, could act as a spark for the war to escalate again. What will the Kiev government do next? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that Ukraine's economy will contract by a staggering 5.5% this year. Without more significant support from its allies in the US and Europe, Ukraine will struggle financially to take the fight to the rebels. The economic picture is also bleak in rebel-held eastern Ukraine. Many young people have left the region, so the working-age population has shrunk. A disproportionate number of elderly people have not been receiving their pensions from Kiev. No banks are open, and many businesses have shut. With Russia's economy suffering too, Ukraine's government might prefer to leave the burden of propping-up the two rebel self-proclaimed republics to Moscow, accused by Kiev of fuelling the war. The Ukrainian government and Western leaders say there is clear evidence Russia is helping the rebels with heavy weapons and soldiers - an accusation echoed by independent experts. Moscow denies the accusation, insisting that any Russians serving with the rebels are ""volunteers"". What about the rebels? Given the bleak economic prospects, the rebels might decide they have to take the main port city of Mariupol, or other parts of the region with heavy industry, to make their territory more viable. However the pro-Russian armies in Donetsk and Luhansk know that another major offensive would risk provoking a stronger reaction from the West. The US and other allies have so far provided training and non-lethal aid to Ukraine's armed forces, but as things stand, Western nations do not appear to be about to send weapons. A fresh rebel offensive could change all that. Hawkish voices in the US Congress have already pressed President Barack Obama to make a more decisive contribution. The rebel armies are not one single coherent force. Although in simple terms each of the two self-declared republics has an army, in certain parts of Luhansk, powerful individuals wield a high degree of influence.",The BBC 's Tom Burridge has spent the past month in eastern Ukraine . Here is his snapshot assessment of the latest @placeholder on the ground .,names,hands,table,situation,damage,3
"The body of the 42-year-old was found in Gleneagles Street at about 14:30 on Tuesday. Officers were initially treating his death as unexplained. But they confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that there were no suspicious circumstances. As with all sudden deaths, a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.",Police investigating the discovery of a man 's body at a property in Dundee have @placeholder his death is not being treated as suspicious .,revealed,named,said,released,defended,2
"Clive Efford, Labour MP for Eltham, said he had been bombarded with angry messages and complaints from constituents about the service. One said the trains which link south London, Kent and parts of East Sussex were the worst they had been in 40 years, Mr Efford added. MPs across the political divide spoke during the Westminster Hall debate. Mr Efford said that for too long people had been crammed on overcrowded trains, particularly at peak times, adding that it was not acceptable to run trains of just six carriages. ""When you do get stuck, you hear the people on their mobile phones, you can hear the life stories just going into meltdown around you,"" he said. ""Since Christmas the situation has deteriorated quite significantly."" Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling, Tom Tugendhat, said Southeastern's performance was ""woeful"" despite the rail company meeting its franchise targets. ""It cannot be right that one in five trains is coming in late, one in five trains is leaving workers late for a meeting and one in five trains is forcing people to change their plans and still somehow this is an acceptable target,"" he said. Southeastern and Network Rail said they were were working to improve performance on one of the most congested parts of the UK railway network. ""Network Rail is investing millions in improving its infrastructure - including completely rebuilding London Bridge station,"" they said in a joint statement. ""Southeastern is working hard to improve the performance of its trains including bringing in a rigorous maintenance regime that now sees more trains in service at any one time than ever before. ""We realise that performance has not always been as good as our passengers would like and we are working hard to change this.""","Commuters using Southeastern trains are facing "" meltdown "" from constantly @placeholder services , MPs have been told .",listed,bodies,delayed,running,following,2
"The Wasdale rescue team said it was ""shocked"" at how walkers lacked ""basic"" outdoor skills. Earlier this week the team dealt with six emergencies in 12 hours including 18 people stuck at the stream crossing on Lingmell Gill. So far this year the Wasdale team has handled 80 call-outs. This is more than it dealt with in the whole of last year. Spokesman Richard Warren said it was going to be another record year for emergencies. Advice from Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team - Select a route suitable for even the weakest party members - Get a weather forecast - Leave a route card with your details, the intended route, your equipment and estimated time of arrival with someone responsible - Wear suitable clothing -  warm, windproof and waterproof whatever the time of year. Wear good walking boots with suitable soles - Carry basic survival equipment, food and spare clothes for the time of year. Remember conditions can change quickly on the hills and even a mid summer day can have gale force winds and rain - Always carry a map, compass and torch and learn how to navigate before going onto the high fells ""We have been trying to reduce the numbers of avoidable incidents with little success,"" he said. ""The Lake District is again heading for a record year for call-outs and it is becoming quite shocking the level of ill preparedness and lack of basic outdoor skills necessary to safely get up a mountain. ""We are all volunteers and there is a limit to what we can do."" He added: ""We've had 80 '999' calls since the start of the year, 20 of these in the first three weeks of August and at least 14 avoidable."" The team deals with calls to Scafell Pike, which is the highest mountain in England and the central peak in the popular Three Peaks Challenge.","Lake District mountain rescuers have @placeholder unprepared climbers and walkers , saying they are heading for a year of record call - outs .",taken,seized,interviewed,criticised,encountered,3
"Senior conservative clerics denounced Faezeh Hashemi following her meeting with Fariba Kamalabadi, a mother-of-three who was temporarily released and allowed home to see her newborn grandchild. Iran's religious establishment regards the Bahai faith, which emerged in Iran in the 19th Century, as a heretical sect. Bahais, who number approximately 300,000 in Iran (and some six million worldwide, they say), are often denounced as unclean and accused of being agents of the US and Israel. In response to the criticism of Ms Hashemi's visit and calls for her to be prosecuted, her father issued a terse public reprimand saying she had made a big mistake that had to be rectified. He described the Bahai faith as ""a deviant sect"", which ""we disavow and have always done"". Observers say Mr Rafsanjani might have come under pressure to act. While the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not commented publicly on the issue, his website this week reposted a fatwa, or legal ruling, denouncing Bahais as unclean. It is not the first time Faezeh Hashemi has been at the centre of controversy. The former MP and women's magazine editor spent six months in prison in 2012 after being found guilty of making ""propaganda against the system"" for her role in the mass protests that followed the disputed presidential election of 2009. Hardliners have long used Ms Hashemi's alleged misdeeds to undermine her father, who is a leading moderate voice in Iran. It was during her time in jail that Ms Hashemi met Ms Kamalabadi, one of seven Bahai community leaders arrested in 2008 and handed 20-year sentences in 2010 after being convicted on charges including ""espionage for Israel"", ""insulting religious sanctities"" and ""propaganda against the system."" Human rights activists said the charges against the seven - who had formed an ad hoc national administrative group for Bahais called the Yaran - were baseless. Other former cellmates of Ms Kamalabadi also took the opportunity to visit her during her brief time back home this week, including the noted human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. But it was only when pictures emerged on social media of Ms Hashemi, a woman from a family at the heart of the ruling establishment, sitting at home with Ms Kamalabadi and other Bahais, that the controversy erupted. Ms Hashemi herself has been unrepentant. She said her time in prison with Ms Kamalabadi had opened her eyes to the Bahais, who she believed should be accorded full civil and human rights. ""Of course, we form bonds with fellow human beings during the course of our lives, even if they do not belong to our religion,"" she said, arguing the clerics' treatment of Bahais was contrary to the teachings of Islam. ""If they [conservatives] were concerned with religion, they wouldn't commit so much injustice in [the] name of religion."" The Iranian authorities deny that the country's Bahais, whose faith is not recognised by the constitution, suffer discrimination. However, Bahai children are denied entry to universities, and Bahai business owners complain of regular harassment by the authorities. There have been many attacks on Bahai cemeteries across the country. One cleric even went on state television recently to say Bahais who died should be collected and disposed of by the municipal authorities. Ms Kamalabadi has now returned to jail, but there are signs that attitudes among many Iranians who previously had ignored the treatment of Bahais in their midst may be changing. While hardline newspapers and websites castigated Ms Hashemi for her meeting, many Iranians took to social media this week to praise her for highlighting the plight of the Bahais.",A political storm has erupted in Iran after the daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani visited a leader of the @placeholder Bahai religious minority while she was on leave from prison .,persecuted,ousted,group,pair,crowd,0
"And so the party embraced Mr Trump. Republican functionaries like Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer joined the White House team. The nuclear dragon would be tamed. But after nearly seven months the depth of their miscalculation may be growing too obvious to ignore. Without adequate controls, everything Mr Trump touches could end up radioactive. ""I think his ability to effectively govern is dwindling by the hour,"" CNN Jim Acosta quotes a Republican leadership source as saying. Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein says that high-level Republican, conservative, and military officials are privately saying that Mr Trump is ""unfit to be president"". As party officials stare at the glowing crater left from the president's latest meltdown, they are left wondering. What now? What next? At least so far, many Republicans have opted for the path of least resistance. They make stern condemnations of white supremacists and the hate that motivated the violence in Charlottesville - in carefully worded statements and tweets - hoping it will provide political shelter from the ongoing storm. When it comes to taking aim at the president himself, however, Mr Trump is He Who Must Not Be Named. Their criticism is oblique and the condemnation implied. They may whisper uncomfortable views in private, but publicly they watch their words. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan - who had plenty of experience distancing himself from Mr Trump during the campaign - provides a standard example of the manoeuvre. ""We must be clear,"" he tweets. ""White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity."" He then returned to tweeting about Republican tax policy. Contrast that to Virginia congressman Scott Taylor's words. ""Today's statements by President Trump at his press conference were disappointing and a failure of leadership, which starts at the top, with him,"" he said in a press release. ""I hope the president will focus on bringing people together and to challenge hate in the strongest unequivocal terms moving forward. There is no home for hate here in Virginia or America."" Or Arizona Senator John McCain. ""There's no moral equivalency between racists and Americans standing up to defy hate and bigotry,"" he tweeted. ""The president of the United States should say so."" Others are caught in a political whipsaw, alternating criticism and praise for a president who, once again, seems to change his administration's position based on pique or whim. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, for instance, called on Mr Trump to condemn white nationalists after his tepid response on Saturday and lauded his Monday scripted remarks by tweeting: ""Well done Mr President"". On Tuesday it was back to blasting. According to a count by the liberal website ThinkProgress, just 14 other Republicans in Congress, out of 292, have made similarly explicit condemnations of the president so far. Those who haven't put out any kind of statement, however, risk getting pressed by reporters for their take. When one journalist asked Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson what the president should say about the Charlottesville violence, he responded: ""You tell me"", adding that he wanted to move on. That's a sentiment most Republicans probably share, but thanks to the president's combative press conference on Tuesday, ""moving on"" seems unlikely at least for now. Within the administration officials are treading even more carefully. Chief of Staff John Kelly may have been caught by cameras repeatedly wincing during Tuesday's press conference, but he's back on the job today. Gary Cohn - the president's top economic advisor who stood nearby as the president issued his remarks in Trump Tower - reportedly told friends he was ""disgusted"" and ""upset"" by the president's actions - but not so much that he would speak on the record. Perhaps the reason why many Republicans are watching their words when it comes to the president is they have seen this film before. During his presidential campaign, Mr Trump said undocumented Mexican migrants were criminals and rapists, he belittled Mr McCain's Vietnam War record, he insulted the parents of a Muslim US soldier killed in Iraq, he mocked a Hispanic beauty pageant contestant's weight, and a decade-old recorded emerged in which he boasted about using his celebrity status to sexually harass women. After each of these episodes - and many more - Republicans eyed each other nervously and prepared to bolt for the exits, but Mr Trump eventually recovered. The storm passed, and in the end he prevailed. ""This too shall pass"" isn't always a balm for the distraught. Sometimes it's a warning. It's a stern message for those who would doubt or abandon the president. A HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted after the Charlottesville unrest (but before Mr Trump's Tuesday press conference) could also give clues as to why conservatives are taking pause. Fully 77% of Trump voters think the president ""did enough"" to condemn white nationalist violence in Charlottesville. Two-thirds of them had no problem with the president's delay in mentioning neo-Nazis and white supremacists by name. Perhaps most remarkably, 48% of Trump voters think the Charlottesville white nationalists either ""have a point"" (37%) or were ""mostly right"" (11%). And 68% of Trump voters see ""a lot of discrimination"" against white people in the US. Why draw the ire of a president known to keep close tabs on his friends and foes, Republicans may think, when the party's core voters largely still stand by his side, even through this latest political furore. It's a calculation, however, that Mr Trump's corporate chieftans didn't have to make. After they abandoned the White House in growing numbers, the president was forced to announce his economic advisory boards were being shuttered. Neither is political expediency a concern for much of the conservative media, which is showing growing signs of tiring of the presidential drama. While some - like The National Review - have largely remained in the #neverTrump camp, the Federalist had often come to the president's defence. Until now. ""I don't think Trump is going to resign any time soon,"" says Robert Tracinski, a senior writer for the website. ""But he needs to be left hanging out there all on his own without support from anyone in his party (or from anyone in the right-leaning media). He is a vortex of destruction, and the only way to survive is to get everything we love as far away from him as possible."" Mr Trump is a survivor. He outlasted all of his political opponents and bested many of his critics and naysayers. But a day of reckoning for Republicans could be fast approaching. Follow Anthony Zurcher on Twitter.","At some point during the campaign last year , most Republicans came to the conclusion that Donald Trump was like nuclear energy . His was a force that , if properly harnessed , could power their party for a @placeholder .",life,secret,substance,generation,nap,3
"Chartoff's daughters confirmed he died at home in Santa Monica surrounded by his family. He had pancreatic cancer. ""He was an amazing father and person,"" said Julie Chartoff, adding: ""There are no words."" He won the best picture Oscar for the first Rocky film in 1977, which was written by its star Sylvester Stallone. The producer shared the Academy Award - one of three for the 1976 film - with partner Irwin Winkler. They both went on to produce all seven Rocky movies, including the forthcoming film Creed, which is currently in post-production. Chartoff was also nominated for an Oscar in 1981 for Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese's darker take on the sport, which starred Robert De Niro as boxer Jake La Motta. He produced films into his late 70s and early 80s, including 2014's The Gambler with Mark Wahlberg and 2013's Enders Game with Harrison Ford. He also worked on Jane Fonda's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and 1983 film The Right Stuff, which won four Oscars. Chartoff and Winkler - who worked together until 1985 - convinced United Artists to make Rocky for less than $1 million (£646,000), after Stallone insisted on playing the lead, according to Variety. The film went on to earn 10 Oscar nominations and take more than $200m (£129m). Chartoff is survived by third wife Jenny Weyman and his five children.","Oscar - winning producer Robert Chartoff , who was behind hit boxing films such as the Rocky @placeholder and Raging Bull , has died in California , aged 81 .",picture,pace,festival,series,road,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device Victories against Belgium and Germany had turned Cardiff into a fortress but Wales needed to beat a talented Romanian side to qualify for USA '94. Gheorghe Hagi opened the scoring after an uncharacteristic Neville Southall fumble in the Wales goal but Dean Saunders equalised for Wales. As Wales poured forward, Romania conceded a penalty but designated taker Paul Bodin will be remembered in Welsh footballing folklore for all the wrong reasons as he hit his spot-kick against the bar with glory beckoning. The home side never recovered from the crushing blow and Florin Raducioiu's late winner for Romania sealed a 2-1 win and shattered Welsh dreams once again. Catch BBC Wales Sport's ""Wales: The Road to the Euros"" - our very special documentary on the history of Welsh football - on BBC iPlayer.",Wales ' 1994 World Cup qualification hopes are dashed in front of a @placeholder and expectant Cardiff Arms Park crowd in their final qualifier in November 1993 .,clash,crowd,training,packed,form,3
"The inaccurate tests involved 157,000 of its own cars - the ek Wagon and eK Space - as well as 468,000 vehicles produced for Nissan - the Dayz and Dayz Roox. Car companies try to outdo each other on how fuel-efficient their models are. It impresses consumers because it's good for the environment, and it's easy on the wallet at the petrol station. Fuel efficiency is tested by putting cars on what is essentially a treadmill where they run at a certain speed and fuel consumption is measured. Mitsubishi appears to have overinflated the tyres, which gave better results on the fuel efficiency test. Imagine inflating your bicycle tyres to the maximum and going up a hill, then letting half the air out and going up the same hill again. It's much harder. The extra muscle you need gives you an idea of the extra fuel that a car would burn through. The controversy comes hard on the heels of the Volkswagen emissions scandal but is slightly different. Volkswagen installed hidden software in its diesel models that detected when an official emissions test was being conducted. The software would then lower the emission so the test readings were more favourable. So VW rigged the level of harmful gases coming from the exhaust pipe to make their cars look greener than they were. Mitsubishi rigged the fuel consumption readings so their cars would appear to use less fuel than they actually did. Mitsubishi is a somewhat confusing brand. There are a whole host of independent companies that share the name and trace their origins back to the original Mitsubishi company founded in 1870 in the shipping industry. The current companies though are entirely independent from each other. That means you will find the name in aviation, banking, air conditioners, the nuclear and chemical industry, optics and of course, cars. Mitsubishi Motors is the sixth biggest car maker in Japan and number 16 worldwide. Large-scale production got under way in the 1960s. In 1977 the company entered the European market and in 1982 the US market. Annual car production currently stands at 1,218,853 vehicles. The current scandal is at Mitsubishi Motors. Any damage to the brand name though, might spill over to the other companies. It's not the first time that Mitsubishi Motors has been in the headlines for misconduct. In the early 2000s, the company had to admit to lying about defects in its cars for decades. Back then, an internal investigation found that the firm had covered up faults since 1977 and repaired cars secretly, instead of reporting the problems to the transport ministry. The cover-up led to huge recalls, criminal charges against several employees and a cost of billions to the company.","Mitsubishi Motors has admitted rigging @placeholder on some of its models ' fuel efficiency . About 625,000 cars sold in Japan were affected , and the production of the relevant models has been halted .",life,data,violations,blame,pictures,1
"Cardiff Blues took on the Ospreys at 14:45 BST followed by Newport Gwent Dragons against the Scarlets. The transport network was expected to be busy and there was a full city centre road closure from 12:45 until 20:15. There were also more police officers than usual on the streets. Cardiff council said it was not ""a reflection of any specific threat but the current global climate"". Arriva Trains Wales put on 2,000 additional seats for last year's tournament, but fans reported some issues with crowding on trains. Those travelling by train this year were advised to arrive in Cardiff three hours before kick-off. Queen Street Station was closed at 16:30. All those leaving the stadium after the rugby have been advised to return to Cardiff Central Station, where a queuing system has been put in place, straight after the event. Those travelling into the city by car were advised to use the park and ride facilities at Cardiff City Stadium. Event day parking was also available at Sophia Gardens and in the Civic Centre. A full list of road closures can be found here.","People heading to Cardiff on Saturday were @placeholder to plan ahead as more than 60,000 were expected to watch the rugby at the Principality Stadium .",expected,paid,left,beaten,urged,4
"The tiny building where Karuna Prajapati lived on the third floor in north Delhi's Burari area is surrounded by hundreds of people. Her grieving mother Rambeti Prajapati is sitting amid a crowd of women on the ground floor. Her face is drawn and she looks dazed. ""I have no more tears to shed,"" she tells me. Around her, however, there is plenty of weeping. There is also a lot of anger. ""The police just don't take our complaints seriously,"" says one of the women. Others chime in with similar views, recounting incidents where they had tried approaching the police in harassment cases. The conversation inevitably turns to the suspect, identified as Surendra Singh Malik, but known to locals as Aditya. CCTV footage of the attacker stabbing Ms Prajapati repeatedly before hitting her on the head with a rock and kicking her prone body has shocked and outraged Indians. He was arrested by locals who say they caught him as he tried to escape, and has now been sent to prison for four days pending further investigation. India outrage after gang rape victim assaulted again 'by same men' The rapes that India forgot How India treats its women ""We knew him very well, because his mobile top up shop was right next door to our bag repair shop. We were very friendly with him, and he would even come to our house for meals,"" says Mrs Prajapati. ""Aditya and Karuna became very good friends and would spend time together, with Aditya even teaching her how to use a computer."" But about a year ago, Ms Prajapati told her parents that Mr Malik had been harassing her for a while. He had apparently been putting pressure on her to agree to marry him, and would even beat her up in anger. The family also discovered that he was already married. They decided to approach the police and register a case of stalking. Under India's tough new women's protection laws, ""a man following a woman and trying to contact her repeatedly without her consent and despite a show of disinterest"" can be sent to jail for a maximum of three years, provided it is the first time the person is convicted of the crime. For subsequent convictions, he could be sentenced to a maximum of five years with or without a fine. But in this case, the family alleges that the police did nothing. ""They called him there and spoke to him, but his behaviour towards Karuna did not change. His father is a retired police officer, and has a lot of clout, so he thought he could do whatever he wanted,"" says Mrs Prajapati. Six months later, the family decided to approach Aditya's father directly. So they went in a big family group to his house in Rohini, about half an hour away. ""He assured us that his son would not bother my daughter any more, so we decided to close the police complaint,"" says Naresh Prajapati, the victim's father. ""You can see the result of that in front of you,"" Mrs Prajapati says. As we talk, Ms Prajapati's body is brought into the house. Amid weeping and tears, there is also angry shouting to take the body to Mr Malik's father's home or the police station. In the end, they decide to take it to the cremation ground for the funeral. Next I visit Mr Malik's father, Prem Singh Malik. He says he is shocked by the CCTV footage of his son assaulting Ms Prajapati, saying that ""he would not even kill a cockroach inside the house before"". He says, however, that he had thrown his son out of the house eight years ago, following a family disagreement and only kept in sporadic touch with him. But he confirms that Ms Prajapati's family came to him, asking him to ensure that his son stayed away from their daughter. ""I was shocked when I heard that, because I knew Aditya and Karuna were like brother and sister. I called Aditya to the meeting and confronted him, but he denied everything, saying that the Prajapati family was making the whole story up because they owed him money and could not pay him back. ""I told the family to pay him the money, but I also told him that whatever the reason, he could not harass the girl,"" he says. Mr Prajapati confirms that he owed Mr Malik a sum of 20,000 rupees ($298; £229) but says that had nothing to do with anything. ""I had already paid him back,"" he says. The Delhi women's commissioner Swati Maliwal, who also visited the Prajapati home while I was there, says the entire incident could have been avoided if the police had just done their job. She says they are issuing the police station concerned with a warning, asking them to explain why action should not be taken against them for not doing anything about the initial complaint. Senior police official Madhur Verma says police did investigate the family's complaint. ""We even went to her home and took a statement. We only closed the case because her family asked us to."" But Swati Maliwal says there is a wider problem about attitudes towards women in general. ""Police tend to take incidents of stalking very lightly. Such tragedies will keep happening if they don't take these complaints seriously and take action immediately.""",A young Delhi woman was stabbed repeatedly in full public view by a man accused of stalking her for more than a year . Shock at the murder was increased by the fact many bystanders failed to @placeholder . BBC Hindi 's Divya Arya found grief and anger at the victim 's family home .,investigate,intervene,drown,rule,show,1
"The ban, imposed on 4 January, was resisted by opposition groups. It was lifted because it made women ""unhappy"", his office said in a statement, adding that they were his ""best friends"". Last month, the president declared the Muslim-majority country an Islamic republic. He said the move was in line with the nation's ""religious identity and values"". A memo published in the pro-opposition Freedom and JollofNews newspapers, dated 4 January, said that an ""executive directive has been issued that all female staff within the government ministries, departments and agencies are no longer allowed to expose their hair during official working hours"". But on Thursday, Mr Jammeh's office said that the government's initial ban had had ""nothing to do with religion"" and that women should not be upset by it. ""Women are (Mr Jammeh's) best friends, they are his sisters and he is here for their wellbeing and happiness at all times,"" a statement said. ""That being the case, this decision that makes them unhappy has been lifted."" The Gambia is popular with Western tourists because of its beaches. About 90% of Gambians are Muslim - and many Muslim scholars believe that Islam orders women to cover their hair in public. Rights activists accuse Mr Jammeh - who has been in power since 1994 - of presiding over a brutal regime which is intolerant of dissent. He portrays himself as a devout Muslim with miraculous powers - once claiming that he could cure Aids with a herbal concoction.",Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has @placeholder a decree which ordered female government employees to cover their hair at work .,sparked,revealed,scrapped,made,called,2
"David Grimason, who lost his two-year-old son Alistair in 2003, has pressed for tighter controls on the trade of weapons for the past decade. An international arms trade treaty has been approved by the UN. Scottish Secretary Michael Moore will present Mr Grimason with the letter of thanks during a ceremony in Edinburgh. The event will mark the successful negotiation of the treaty. Alistair was killed during a gunfight at a cafe in the seaside village of Foca, Turkey, where the family were on holiday. The toddler was asleep in his pram when an argument broke out at a nearby table and a man opened fire, killing the boy from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire. Mr Grimason, who now lives in Aberdeen, has worked with Oxfam, which is a leading member of the Control Arms coalition, to help bring about global change. He spent the anniversary of his son's death last year at the UN in New York, attending the final negotiations for the international arms trade treaty. The treaty was approved by member states of the United Nations General Assembly last month and opens for signature at a ceremony in New York on 3 June. Mr Grimason said he immediately tried to educate himself on the illegal gun problem that existed in Turkey after Alastair was killed. ""I found that there was a massive problem,"" he said. ""There are around eight million hand guns in civilian possession and only about a million were licensed. We started a campaign against illegal armament in Turkey. ""From there I found out about the control arms campaign."" ""My family have suffered from misuse of guns. My son suffered the ultimate injustice, he was two and a half years old and did not even know what a gun was"".",A father whose toddler was killed by a gunman with an illegal weapon in Turkey is to be @placeholder by the UK government for his campaigning efforts .,backed,released,investigated,honoured,commended,3
"Tuesday marks the start of another three-day strike by the RMT in what is the longest running strike since the railways were privatised in 1996. The first strike began back in April. But how are commuters bearing up under the stress and strain? Southern rail strike to bring 'major delays' How to claim a refund for Southern disruption Eight strike questions answered Alistair Cansdale is a 42-year-old digital marketer who commuted from Haywards Heath in West Sussex to London Victoria. ""In the end I couldn't take it any longer. Last week I took a big jump and decided to give up my highly paid job in London  - with nothing to go to. ""I was working for a difficult management team who were constantly checking up on people's hours. I spent the whole afternoon every day thinking - what's the earliest I can leave?"" Mr Cansdale said his usual 45-minute journey could take up to three hours. ""It was awful,"" he said, ""and all for £5,000 a year"" - the price of his annual season ticket. ""Quitting was a huge relief but it's also been unnerving. It's a relief that I don't have to do the daily commute any more."" Natalie Davies is a 45-year-old personal assistant living in Kent and working in the City. ""I had to move to Edenbridge three years ago to look after my mother and to be honest the problems have not just been throughout this year - the Uckfield line has always been bad - it's just escalated to supremely diabolical this year,"" she said. She said her boss has been ""very sympathetic"" but she ""cannot be seen to be favouring me"". ""The number of times I have had to pay £80-£100 for a cab home as we only get one train home an hour,"" she added. ""It's soul-destroying and completely ruining my life at the moment as I have to put everything on hold."" Hannah Blowey, 27, from Eridge in East Sussex, said: ""I'm almost eight months pregnant. I'm going on maternity leave earlier than I would have done if the service home was more reliable. ""It's always a crush getting on the train - and even though I'm heavily pregnant I don't always get a seat,"" she said. ""When I mentioned to the district nurse that I was commuting to London on the Uckfield line she immediately asked if I wanted to be signed off. ""You can't go on maternity leave three months early - you have to carry on."" Teresa Baldock commutes from Crowborough in East Sussex to London Bridge where she works as a publishing sales manager. She says she's missing out on seeing her baby daughter because of cancelled trains on her journeys home from work. ""It's absolutely horrendous,"" she said. ""I've been late home every night for the past three weeks. My husband has been coming out with our baby daughter in the car at night to pick me up from different stations when the trains have been cancelled. ""I only have half an hour to see my 14-month-old baby on the four days a week I work in London - but if I'm late I don't see her at all."" She said her boss has allowed her to work from home one day a week. ""I was having a meltdown,"" she said. ""Most days by the time I get to work I just want to curl up under my desk and go to sleep, and from 4pm onwards I'm planning my journey home."" Lorna Cobbett, 37, travels from Horsham in West Sussex to London Victoria. ""My commute is meant to take 55 minutes - but on a bad day it can take two hours. ""I have triplets, one of them seriously disabled with a life-limiting condition,"" she said. ""My real fear is that I won't be able to get back if my daughter ends up in hospital. Thankfully, the last time we had to call an ambulance for her, earlier this month, I was working from home. ""If I'm in London, how do I know I'm going to be able to get to her as quickly as I need to? It makes me really angry."" Bradley Rees, a 43-year-old software developer, says the service between Durrington in West Sussex and London Victoria is ""hell - the conditions do get really dangerous"". ""Commuters are cannon fodder caught in the middle of the dispute,"" he says. He has designed a free app - Southern Fail - to help people understand the human impact of what's been happening, he said. ""People have had enough - they're quitting their jobs, they don't see their families - it's taken a real emotional and physical toll.""","Things are set to get a whole lot worse for commuters on trains operated by Southern . The dispute between the rail operator and the RMT union over the role of conductors has now spread , as Aslef drivers also @placeholder to strike in a dispute over driver - only operated trains .",continue,voted,managed,struggled,bowed,1
"According to her followers, Radhe Maa - or mother Radhe - is a reincarnation of the fiery Hindu goddess Durga, has supernatural powers and can perform miracles. Reports say her religious congregations draw thousands. The attractive 50-year-old is known to dance with her devotees and allows them to lift and carry her. She blesses them by letting them kiss her hand - the more privileged among them can even plant a peck on her cheek. And red is her favourite colour - she appears at her congregations in bright red and gold saris, bedecked with elaborate gold and diamond jewellery. She carries a golden trident and often sports a glittering crown. According to her official website though, Radhe Maa comes from humble beginnings. Born in April 1965 in Punjab's Gurdaspur district, she was named Sukhwinder Kaur. She lost her mother when she was five and was raised by her father, a Punjab government official. When she turned 18, she was married off to a man whose family owned a small sweet shop in the village. The couple had two sons and she took up tailoring work to supplement her husband's income. But when her husband decided to ""explore business opportunities on foreign shores, leaving his young wife and two children behind"", she was completely dejected. Worried at her state, her father took her to a religious guru who spotted her ""spiritual gifts"" and encouraged her to visit his ashram (commune) and temple as often as she pleased. The site hastens to add however, that she was keen on religion from a young age and while other children played with dolls and toy houses, she hung out in Hindu and Sikh temples. ""Even as a child, she was considerate, sensitive, delicate and helpful. Her teachers and friends in those early years remember that she also had the gift of prophesy,"" it says, adding that ""the same teachers and classmates are now her devotees"". ""Around the age of 23, she decided that she was no longer a householder and dedicated herself completely to God"", it adds. A few years later, she moved to Mumbai, and today has travelled a long way from her humble beginnings.  Today, through her trust, she runs two ashrams (communes) where her gatherings are attended by several hundred people at a time. Apart from all her red and gold finery, she also owns several luxury cars. But in the last few days, her charmed life has begun to unravel and she is increasingly being painted as another charlatan defrauding the gullible by pretending to have direct access to gods and goddesses. Last week, the organisers of the one of India's biggest Hindu festivals, the Kumbh Mela, barred her from attending the congregation until she was cleared of all charges in a dowry harassment case.  The charges against her have been levelled by a 32-year-old woman who lodged a police complaint in Mumbai alleging that her husband's family had harassed her and demanded more dowry from her on Radhe Maa's instigation. Radhe Maa has denied the charges. She told BBC Hindi's Sushant Mohan that she was ""innocent"" and that the allegations were ""false and fabricated"". Mumbai police, nevertheless, have said they want to question her in connection with the case. Then, Bollywood actress Dolly Bindra - a former devotee - lodged a complaint with the police saying she had received threat calls and that she suspected Radhe Maa to be behind them. Her image took a further beating after photographs emerged showing her dressed in a red mini skirt and red boots amid reports that she had also been videoed dancing to Bollywood numbers, inviting ridicule on social media. The tag #YoRadheMaaSoRed was the top Twitter trend in India for an entire day with tweets like these: While critics have accused her of obscenity, her aide Sanjeev Gupta has defended her choice of clothing saying that they were gifts from her devotees in the West and she wore them ""because she didn't want to hurt their sentiments"". The explanation, however, has failed to convince her followers and this week, when BBC Hindi's Sushant Mohan visited her ashram in Mumbai's Borivali district, he found it deserted. With her devotees replaced by a scrum of nosy journalists and police in hot pursuit, what the controversial ""godwoman"" really requires now is some divine intervention to help her get out of the sticky situation she is in.","Indian "" godwoman "" Radhe Maa has hit headlines in recent weeks after police said they were investigating her in connection with a dowry harassment case and images showing her dressed in a short skirt and dancing to a raunchy Bollywood number @placeholder on social media . The BBC 's Geeta Pandey in Delhi profiles the controversial personality .",levels,surfaced,reflect,messages,crying,1
"In a statement Adama Barrow said that public sector employees would now have to work a half-day on Fridays too. Four years ago, Mr Jammeh had said the country's mainly Muslim population should use Fridays to pray, socialise and tend to fields. However, under the new rules, the working week is actually officially shorter by three-and-a-half hours. Official working hours are now 08:00 to 16:00 from Monday to Thursday and 08:00 to 12:30 on Friday - making 36-and-a-half hours a week. Previously public sector employees were meant to work 40 hours a week, from 08:00 to 18:00, Monday to Thursday. BBC Africa's Umaru Fofana says the four-day week had its critics, but under the former government, publicly expressing criticism of official policy could lead to severe punishment. ""Now we have rejoined the civilised world,"" Allieu Ceesay, a trader in Serekunda, The Gambia's largest town, told our correspondent by phone. The new directive comes less than two weeks since Mr Jammeh went into exile in Equatorial Guinea - and within a week of President Barrow's return from Senegal to assume power. Mr Jammeh had initially accepted defeat in elections in December, but then tried to have the results annulled. Mr Barrow went to Senegal for his safety as the regional bloc Ecowas intervened to end the crisis. Regional troops were deployed to The Gambia when Mr Jammeh's term of office officially ended last month and his exit was negotiated by West African leaders. Can Gambia's new leader halt migrant exodus? How West Africa stood up for democracy in The Gambia From estate agent to Gambian president",The Gambia 's new president has scrapped the four - day week @placeholder by his predecessor Yahya Jammeh .,circulated,mandated,introduced,operated,ousted,2
"Twenty four hours after insisting HS2 had been excluded from calculations that decided the Welsh government's budget, the Treasury admitted that budget had indeed risen as a result of higher capital spending (including HS2) in England. With Plaid Cymru suggesting the money has been allocated ""in error"", the red faces and questions about competence appear to be in Whitehall rather than Cardiff Bay. So how did Wales get a share of the HS2 cash? (£35m according to the Welsh government, although the Treasury still doesn't recognise that figure. There's a clue in this Treasury statement issued on Thursday evening if you can wade through the jargon: ""At the spending round in June, the Welsh government received a capital consequential of £84.5m. This was based on a £2bn increase in the total DfT capital budget. ""The Barnett formula calculation used the framework set out at the spending review in 2010, which set out 73.1% per cent of changes in DfT spending are subject to Barnett consequential for the Welsh government.  The framework is expected to be updated at the next full spending review, as is usual practice, and will reflect the latest information on departmental spending."" The Treasury now acknowledges that Wales may have got extra cash as a result of HS2 as the formula applied was the one used three years ago, since when the balance of national and England-only projects within the Department for Transport's budget may have changed. There are still some unanswered questions. Why did the Welsh government choose to make such a significant announcement in such a low-key way (a letter to AMs) and why last month did it tell the Financial Times it was seeking a share of the cash, having been allocated some in the spending review earlier in the summer? The Welsh government, which told MPs earlier this year: ""Rail infrastructure is not devolved and as such we would not expect to receive consequentials"" now says it is ""pleased the position is now clear"". So is Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards, who said: "" I'm even happier that the Welsh Finance Minister was right on this occasion as it vindicates the long standing Plaid Cymru campaign for a fair share of HS2 for Wales, albeit only on current expenditure. ""Welsh capital budgets continue to be squeezed and this error on the part of the Treasury has led to an extra £35m in the 2015-16 spending round."" Mr Edwards, who has tabled parliamentary questions to the Treasury on the issue, said it would now become ""a key election division line"" at the 2015 general election. No party that has a chance of winning that election has yet committed to extra funding for Wales as a result of HS2. MPs get a chance to debate the issue this Thursday, when a bill to authorise some preliminary spending on the scheme returns to the Commons. Plaid Cymru say they'll vote against the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill unless they get a cast-iron guarantee that extra funding will be heading along the M4. They may have a long wait, longer perhaps than that faced today by commuters from my local station, where all trains had been cancelled.","The high speed train @placeholder at a platform not very near you in the mid-2020s is , as Network Rail might put it , in reverse formation .",arriving,bodies,result,parked,running,0
"More than 300 people from the Sheerwater estate in Surrey attended a public meeting chaired by Woking Borough Council on Tuesday evening. Amanda Mahoney, of the Sheerwater Residents Committee, said people were still ""looking for answers"". Councillor David Bittleston said the consultation process was ongoing. Residents claim they have not been consulted about the plans, which would see homes demolished and new ones built in their place. Ms Mahoney said they had caused ""great distress on so many levels"", with many home owners unable to afford to re-buy, and council tenants facing temporary accommodation and a possible 40% rent increase. The estate was originally built after World War Two, to house families that relocated from London. Mr Bittleston said: ""Housing has moved on, and here's an opportunity to create something really, really nice."" He explained the redevelopment would be phased over seven years. Houses would initially be built on an area of green space, with people moved into them before the old ones were knocked down. The green space would then be replaced, as required by law, he said. ""There may be one or two people who have to be moved off the estate... we will give them priority in terms of returning. ""It's our intention to build a new community there with 300 new families moving in."" Mr Bittleston said owner-occupiers would get a good deal. ""The value of their house will be calculated by the independent Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors without blight, so therefore it will be a current value for the house,"" he said. The new estate will boast a retail centre, leisure centre, sports facilities, park, public square, community facilities and better transport links.",Residents angry at the proposed demolition of their homes as part of the @placeholder of an estate have challenged councillors about the plans .,group,death,regeneration,acquisition,power,2
"These are delicate first-flush teas picked from plantations in eastern Nepal, and destined for high-end restaurants in cities such as Copenhagen and London. But for the moment they're not going anywhere. ""We're unable to send out tea or samples as there is so much aid coming in that the customs are not doing anything for exports - and rightly so,"" says the company's owner, Lochan Gyawali. Since the earthquake hit his business, his main priority has been to check on the welfare of his staff. They all survived, but many lost homes, farmland and second businesses and so work at the tea manufacturers has stalled. ""By and by, it will be normalised. That's what we want,"" he says. Much of the media focus since the powerful 7.8 quake has been on the loss of life and damage inflicted in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, including the destruction of ancient temples and treasured world heritage sites. The death toll has now reached 8,000. Yet the city is fast returning to normal life. The tens of thousands of people who fled in the immediate aftermath to check on family and homes outside the capital are beginning to return. Shops are open, streets are busy once again. It's a different situation in the region the Nepalis describe as the middle hills - the steep, inaccessible, forested hillsides that bridge the flatlands to the south and the high Himalayan mountains to the north. More than a dozen districts in this region were hit by the quake - some town and villages flattened completely. The government says half a million people in this area are in immediate need of shelter. Nepal's 25 April quake and aftershocks Nepal's Finance Minister, Ram Sharan Mahat, has estimated the economic cost to the country as at least $10bn (£6.5bn) - half the value of Nepal's economy. But it will take weeks to conduct a thorough assessment of the damage, partly because so much of it is in remote regions, so this figure could be far higher. The middle hills are historically the poorest and most neglected region of Nepal. Here, the majority eke a living as subsistence farmers, sending their young men abroad to work in dangerous and low-paid jobs on construction sites in India, Malaysia and the Gulf - leaving their women, elderly and children alone to work the fields. It is here you see the hardship and deprivation that has kept Nepal's status as the least developed country in South Asia. And it is here, according to Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat, that the effects of the earthquake will be felt the most. ""Tens of thousands of people who had just crossed the poverty line run the risk of falling back into absolute poverty,"" he says. The most immediate problem is the coming monsoon. The pre-monsoon rains have already started to fall and the government and aid agencies are under pressure to provide adequate shelter before the full deluge arrives in two months. Then there is the question of keeping people on their land so they can continue farming. ""The winter wheat is still in the fields and it needs to be harvested,"" says Johannes Zutt, Nepal country director for the World Bank. ""The rice crop that should come in the summer needs to be planted in the next three or four weeks. ""I think many families who've been heavily impacted are not going to be able to harvest their wheat or to store it effectively because their storage capacity has been demolished,"" he says. Many of those affected are looking to the government to provide them with cheap seeds and loans, and to help them rebuild their houses. But Nepal's fragile multi-party democracy does not have a long history of looking after its people, or of investing in its crumbling infrastructure. ""Any government would have been overwhelmed but remember before the earthquake hit, we were a mismanaged, badly governed, politically unstable, economically weak state,"" says Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times. Almost a decade after the end of Nepal's civil conflict, the country's warring political parties have still to write a constitution and are regarded by many as self-serving, inept and corrupt. After the quake, it took several days for the Prime Minister, Sushila Koirala, to return to Nepal from an overseas trip, and leaders are yet to address the nation with their vision of how to rebuild. In fact, says Mr Dixit, there's a joke doing the rounds of many Nepali Facebook timelines showing the pictures of the country's six top politicians with the tagline: ""Have you seen these people, missing since the quake"". But others are optimistic that the disaster could be the catalyst to draw Nepal's politicians away from their deeply entrenched squabbles and rivalries towards longer-term planning. ""Since 1990, we've had more than 20 governments,"" says economist and author Sujeev Shakya. ""This has led people to have short-term perspectives. What we need now is vision - we need to say how do we want to look in 20 or 30 years' time."" As Nepal takes stock of the damage and plans for the future, businessmen like Lochan Gyawali are hoping for the least disruption to their profits as possible. They know it will take time to rebuild, but they are hoping both the government and international donors will provide the support that they need. ""We're just keen for things to return to normal,"" he says. ""I just hope things are better than the old normal.""","In a clean and tidy office in Kathmandu , boxes of speciality teas are stacking up on the @placeholder .",table,ground,floor,hillside,basis,2
"It follows mounting criticism of the social media firm for not doing enough to root out fake news on its platform. It has also just launched a new feature in four countries that will publish alternative news links beneath problematic articles. But several experts said the measures did not do go far enough. ""Presenting audiences with context is helpful,"" said Tom Felle, a senior lecturer in digital journalism at City University. ""But it does nothing to stop the spread of this material, or to stop traffic going to fake news peddlers who are making money out of creating this material."" Facebook has been criticised as being one of the main distribution points for fake news, which many think influenced the 2016 US presidential election. Voters were also flooded with hoax stories during the French presidential election in May. The firm has previously been reluctant to take down potentially fake news stories, arguing that it does not want to be an ""arbiter of truth"". Instead it identifies potentially false stories through a mixture of artificial intelligence (AI) and user detection. These are then sent to independent fact-checkers who place a flag next to hoax stories to alert readers. On Thursday, however, the firm said it would start using ""updated machine learning"" to enhance detection. ""If an article has been reviewed by fact checkers, we may show the fact-checking stories below the original post,"" added Sara Su, product manager of News Feed, in a blog. A spokesman later clarified that these stories would not be ""direct responses"" to fake articles, but factually accurate reports that offered an alternative. On Thursday, the firm rolled out a new ""Related articles"" feature in the US, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The feature, which the firm has been testing since April, places links to other news coverage beneath highly popular or questionable stories, offering users ""more perspectives and additional information"". Brooke Binkowski, managing editor of fact-checking magazine Snopes, told the BBC: ""I applaud their efforts to 'flood out' fake news, a method of which I have been a proponent for a long time."" However, she said that while AI was ""a good tool, it is also a blunt one"". Mr Felle said if the firm really wanted to stop fake news, it needed to back the news industry in a better way. ""If Facebook wants to help journalism it needs to put its hand in its pocket and support quality, trusted news organisations to better reach audiences, and advertisers.""",Facebook is to step up its efforts to fight fake news by sending more @placeholder hoax stories to fact - checkers and publishing their findings online .,carrying,suspected,complete,side,allowing,1
"The authority was offering £3m to help local firms struggling with a rise in their payments. However, it was conditional on the Scottish government committed to spending the same amount. Mr Mackay said an extra £7.5m had already been committed to companies in the city. Why are business rates causing concern? Business rates - what do they pay? Rateable values are changing for the first time since 2010 after a national revaluation by The Scottish Assessors' Association. Businesses in the north east have complained that they are being hit particularly hard because the valuations predated the slump in the price of oil which had an impact on the local economy.",Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has rejected calls by Aberdeen City Council to match - fund a business rates relief @placeholder .,group,scheme,levels,ground,results,1
"The move comes in a frontbench reshuffle following Malcolm Turnbull's conservative coalition's recent close-run election victory. France won Australia's largest-ever defence contract in April beating rival bids from Japan and Germany. The new defence industry minister, Christopher Pyne, will oversee the A$50bn (€34bn; £29bn) deal. The decision to build the naval fleet in South Australia - Mr Pyne's home state - is expected to create thousands of jobs and boost the local economy. The prime minister said it would completely transform the defence industry in Australia. ""This is a big change, a big reform, and it requires additional leadership and additional oversight,"" Mr Turnbull said. ""This programme is vitally important for the future of Australian industry."" The reshuffle otherwise brought in only minor changes, with most key figures staying in their roles. Despite pressure from some right-leaning elements of his party, Mr Turnbull did not offer a cabinet post to Tony Abbott, the man he ousted as prime minister in 2015. Meanwhile another former prime minister, Kevin Rudd, has announced he has asked the government to nominate him for the post of secretary general of the United Nations. Mr Turnbull said cabinet would consider the request, which had been widely expected.",Australia 's prime minister has created a new ministerial @placeholder to deliver a major submarine fleet project .,portfolio,proposals,bid,staff,position,4
"The Telegraph leads with the DUP's Jim Wells who is ""standing firm"" about severing all his ties with the National Trust over its support for gay rights. The DUP MLA who worked for the trust at one stage says he will no longer be leaving it money in his will after it appeared at the parade and following its stance on gay rights. The News Letter adds to the story. It quotes Mr Wells' ""surprise"" at a message tweeted by a more junior DUP party colleague. As the Pride parade swept into action on Saturday, Emma Little-Pengelly took to Twitter to message: ""Best wishes to all my friends and constituents celebrating today - all should be able to live a proud life free from hate, abuse or persecution"". Mr Wells tells the News Letter he was ""surprised"" by her tweet. The trust would be better ""to keep out of controversial social issues which have little to do with its main objectives,"" he says. In its opinion column, the News Letter says differences between DUP members on Pride reflect tensions within the party itself. The paper says Little-Pengelly is a young MP in a city ""where young people would overwhelmingly be relaxed about or supportive of such a parade"" says the paper. The leader writer describes Jim Wells' ""surprise"" as a ""foretaste of a coming clash within the party"". Meanwhile, in the Belfast Telegraph, Lyra McKee welcomes the tweet from Ms Little-Pengelly calling it ""brave"". ""She is in a party ruled by evangelical right; they will be sharpening their knives for her as I write,"" says Lyra. ""Yet she hit the send button anyway when it would have been safer for her to say nothing."" The Irish News leads with  ""a brawl"" between Armagh and Tyrone GAA fans on the Dublin to Belfast train on Saturday following the All-Ireland quarter final. A father who did not want to be named said he had to take his 13-year-old son to the game. Afterwards they witnessed the ""brawl"" on the train and got off at Drogheda because he was so fearful for their safety. The man said they watched a Tyrone supporter punch a young female Armagh fan in the face. It was ""an almighty fight"" fuelled by drink, he said, small children were ""squealing and an elderly lady was so frightened that she pushed the emergency stop button. ""My son said to me: 'Daddy I don't want to go back to anything again',"" the man told the Irish News. The Mirror reports of passengers' ""horror"" at the train fight. Video footage shows fans ""clambering over seats to hit each other"" says the paper. It quotes one witness who said: ""People had cuts and bruises from fighting - an innocent person could have been badly hurt here."" The Irish News also reports that private contractors have been brought in to ""deep clean""  dirty 999 ambulances after a report highlighted falling standards of cleanliness. The paper says one paramedic said the insides of some of the emergency vehicles were not cleaned for up to a month because there was no time. It describes blood-splattered interiors and body fluids on stretchers, all because crews could not get two hours in a week to clean them, according to a source. Ambulance chiefs have blamed huge demands on the service. The Irish News also reports on the the murder of a 45-year-old man whose body was found at a flat in Lurgan. The paper reports that the suspect is believed to be the dead man's twin brother. Meanwhile, the papers also report that Alliance leader Naomi Long is taking time out from politics to address a long-term illness. It is understood she is going into hospital for surgery to treat aggressive endometriosis. ""Alliance leader Long praised for her courage,"" reads the Belfast Telegraph headline. The Irish News reports that Ms Long said she had suffered from ""chronic pain"" resulting in several emergency hospital admissions. Finally, Mirror columnist Joe Lindsay reflects on how life has changed in Northern Ireland since he was a boy. In a letter to his 15-year-old self, he advises him to keep listening to the music and never, ever to throw out the vinyl... you never know when it might come back into vogue. And, shortly after this year's Belfast Pride parade, Lindsay has a bit of sage advice about the world as it was and the world as it now is. ""You go to an all boys school and they're all straight,"" he tells his younger self. ""Heads up... They're not.""","The parade may be over , the make - up scrubbed off , the glitter binned and the rainbow flags @placeholder , but Belfast Pride features on the front pages of Monday 's Belfast Telegraph and News Letter .",gone,restored,crash,laughed,folded,4
"Some 17,000 out of 24,000 children who sat the NI Numeracy Assessment (NINA) tests this autumn received lower scores than they actually achieved. The Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) said that the third party supplier of the tests was responsible for the error. The tests are used to assess maths skills and progress of pupils in P4-P7. The CCEA said it was apologising ""unreservedly"" for the mistake. Both the computer-based NINA and Northern Ireland Literacy Assessment (NILA) tests were the subject of a critical Department of Education review in 2014, following widespread technical problems experienced by pupils taking the tests. Following that, the then education minister John O'Dowd said the tests were not mandatory for schools. However, a substantial number of primary schools - 267 - still use them. In an email to school principals on 19 December, CCEA said that the supplier had initially told them that there was no problem with the tests. However, it was eventually discovered that there was an error ""in the software used to calculate the final scores for a number of pupils taking the assessment"". ""The error has been rectified and the correct scores have been generated by the supplier,"" the email continued. ""In all cases, the correct scores will show higher performance than previously reported."" The chief executive of the CCEA, Justin Edwards, said that the quality of the service had fallen short of expectations and apologised unreservedly for any distress the error had caused. ""Children do not need to retake assessments for correct scores to be calculated,"" he said. ""All schools that elected to take the assessments are being contacted and supported at this time."" The results of the literacy tests are not affected by the error. However, one school principal who contacted the BBC said that the maths results were very important. ""The test will have led to children being moved between learning groups, and we will have met parents to discuss concerns about their child's maths results,"" they said. ""Seven out of 10 children in our school were affected and their marks rose significantly when the amended scores arrived today. ""It was a massive jump which completely changed the perception of their performance. It is difficult now to see schools having confidence in these tests going forward."" Education Minister Peter Weir said he was disappointed by the error. ""I will want CCEA to explore what actions it can take and what penalties should be considered in respect of the relevant supplier to ensure that such occurrences do not happen again,"" he said. ""I am currently considering the future of Computer Based Assessment (CBA) policy and will make a decision on the future of CBA in the New Year."" The Department of Education also confirmed that the yearly cost of the maths tests was £200,000.",An NI education @placeholder has apologised after primary school children received the wrong scores in maths tests .,advice,organisation,body,unit,teacher,2
"Robert Dawson, a former detective sergeant, had been investigating a rape allegation in 2010 when he began ""an inappropriate relationship"" with a ""vulnerable victim"", the Met said. A misconduct panel found his behaviour breached standards of ""respect, courtesy duties and responsibilities"". He was dismissed without notice following a hearing on Wednesday. The panel concluded the former detective's actions breached the Met's code of professional standards ""in such a serious way"" that it amounted to gross misconduct. Mr Dawson, who was attached to the specialist crime and operations team, had been found not guilty of wilfully neglecting to perform duty and wilfully behaving with misconduct at Southwark Crown Court on 12 June last year.",A Met Police officer has been @placeholder for having sex with a vulnerable rape victim whose case he was investigating .,detained,sacked,convicted,criticised,fined,1
"Williams sold over £50,000 worth of tickets in July when he stopped rival Gary Corcoran at the Wales Ice Arena. His reward is another opportunity to box in front of his own fans, with Williams confirming he will headline a bill at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena. Williams, 24, trained by Welshman Gary Lockett, will feature alongside stablemates Alex Hughes and Jay Harris. Promoter Frank Warren is yet to announce details of Williams' opponent, but it is expected to be a title defence for the Rhondda boxer with further details to come on Monday. Super welterweight Williams will begin his preparation by travelling to Spain to spar with British world champion Kell Brook, who challenges Gennady Golovkin on 10 September at the O2 Arena. Find out how to get into boxing with our special guide.",British and Commonwealth champion Liam Williams will return to Cardiff as a headline @placeholder on 22 October .,statement,position,competition,deal,act,4
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 10 August 2015 Last updated at 15:08 BST The WalkCar can reach a top speed of just over 6mph (10km/h) and can support riders weighing up to 120kg (265lbs). Inventor Kuniaki Sato said the device was designed for recreational use as well as for business. He told Reuters: ""I want to show the world that Japan can also be innovative."" Mr Sato is hoping to secure crowdfunding before the gadget can be mass produced.",A motorised transporter the size of a tablet computer has been developed by a Japanese @placeholder .,scheme,hillside,body,status,engineer,4
"The collection began 20 years ago, when Jose Alberto Gutierrez fished out a discarded copy of Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. He now offers his books to other people as a free community library. ""I realised that people were throwing books away in the rubbish. I started to rescue them,"" he said. Mr Gutierrez, who has gained the nickname The Lord of the Books, began collecting books that had been dumped in the waste bins in wealthier parts of the city. He would take them out of the rubbish and retrieve them for families in poorer areas. His collection of chucked away books is now used by families wanting to help their children with their homework, in a free library called the Strength of Words. ""There was a lack of them in our neighbourhood, so we started to help,"" said Mr Gutierrez. Global education Get in touch with Sean Coughlan (sean.coughlan@bbc.co.uk) with any ideas. His home has been overfilled with books, so they are now taking books to poor parts of the city or to remote areas without any access to libraries. ""The more books we give away, the more come to us,"" he said. He has also been providing books for fighters being demobilised in Colombia's peace process. A fighter from the Farc rebel group contacted him about getting books to help them prepare for jobs when they re-enter civilian life. ""Books transformed me, so I think books are a symbol of hope for those places. They are a symbol of peace,"" said Mr Gutierrez. Now in his 50s, Mr Gutierrez is going back to study for his school leaver's exam, which he missed first time round.","A dustbin man in Bogota in Colombia , who never studied further than primary school , has @placeholder a library of more than 20,000 thrown away books .",lost,gathered,emerged,sparked,announced,1
"It said Arctic air would bring frequent wintry showers and snow could settle to 3cm about 100-200m and to 5cm or more above 300m away from the coast. A yellow ""be aware"" warning has been issued for the Western Isles and parts of the Highlands and Aberdeenshire. It also covers parts of Tayside, Fife, Argyll, central and south Scotland. The warning covers from 20:00 Monday to 10:00 on Tuesday. The Met Office said it was not unusual to see snow at the start of spring. On average, the UK experiences more days of snow falling in March than December, it added.","The Met Office has warned of the potential for snow , @placeholder and lightning affecting parts of western Scotland overnight Monday and Tuesday .",data,staff,ending,food,ice,4
It is for refurbishment and forms part of upgrading work that is ongoing until February 2018. The closure lasts from 20:00 BST on Saturday until 06:00 Monday. Traffic Wales said the A48 Southern Distributor Road around Newport is the dedicated diversion route but local people can use other alternatives. Motorists travelling westbound will be unaffected by the work.,The M4 motorway will be @placeholder at the Brynglas tunnels eastbound from Saturday night until Monday morning .,closed,presented,stopped,built,introduced,0
"The boys were handed over at the Wagha border near Lahore and met their families, a Pakistani official said. Indian officials detained them days after 19 soldiers were killed in the assault on a military base in Uri, in Indian-administered Kashmir. But investigators subsequently cleared them of any involvement. The Uri base assault on 18 September, involving gunmen armed with grenades, was the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in years. It led to a spike in tensions between India and Pakistan. Indian officials initially suspected Ahsan Khurshid and Faisal Awan had acted as guides for militants belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad Pakistan-based militant group, Indian media reports said. But a spokesman for India's National Investigation Agency announced last week that their probe ""did not reveal any linkage of the suspects with the Uri attackers"". The teenagers had crossed over to the Indian side after a fight with their parents over their studies, he said. Speaking to the BBC's Aurangzeb Jarral ahead of her son's release, Ahsan's mother Raqeeba Bibi said she was very happy. ""I always said that my son was innocent. It has been proved now,"" she said. She said her son had told her he was planning to go for a picnic at a Sufi shrine called Pir Kanthi, which is close to the Line of Control (the de facto border), before he was detained. Ahsan's uncle Chaudhry Qasim told the BBC he wanted both countries to ""please make sure to find the truth before declaring each other's nationals 'terrorists', because it causes a lot of pain and misery to the concerned families"". Reports suggest Indian officials now believe a different Pakistan-based militant group was behind the attack. Pakistan has denied any link to it. The territorial dispute between India and Pakistan over Muslim-majority Kashmir has been running for decades. Both claim the territory in its entirety but control only parts of it. There has been an armed insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir since 1989. India has long accused Pakistan of supporting the militant groups. Pakistan rejects this and says India has not shown evidence to support its claims.",India has @placeholder to Pakistan two boys who strayed across the de facto border in disputed Kashmir and were then accused of links to a militant attack .,sought,linked,confessed,returned,managed,3
"In fact there were no shocks, just a part played by an actor, but Milgram found that around 65% of people carried on administering the shocks, even if they found it upsetting, simply because they were told to do so. A New York-born Jew, Milgram wanted to investigate Eichmann's defence - that he was just obeying orders. This story has now be turned into a film, Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder. Sarsgaard, the star of Green Lantern and Jarhead, plays Milgram, while Ryder stars as his wife in Experimenter, described by Sarsgaard as ""a most untypical biopic"". The movie, directed by Michael Almereyda, verges on the experimental itself, regularly breaking the fourth wall - when actors speaking directly to the camera and, at one point, a circus elephant wanders through Milgram's laboratory. Sarsgaard explains that this particular elephant in the room ""may refer to the Holocaust, that would be obvious, but it's up to audiences to make their mind up"". He adds: ""The question of what is real or not real is what I love most about the film, but plenty of times during the shoot I regretted signing up for it - I wondered whether I had done the right thing. But I thought that even if it didn't work, the material would certainly be compelling. ""I didn't enjoy breaking the fourth wall at all. I didn't even like it that much when I played Hamlet on stage a few years ago, but I was looking at the audience. When you look down the lens of a camera all you see is yourself."" The experiment of 1961 received widespread criticism, in particular for the psychological trauma some of its participants experienced from thinking they administered a 450-volt electric shock. Nevertheless, it proved to be a landmark study on obedience to authority figures and was repeated in different circumstances, in other countries, with consistent results. Milgram died in 1984, Sarsgaard believes he was ""neither a hero nor a villain, just a very dispassionate observer of life"". Saarsgaard adds: ""He was highly influenced by the American TV show of the 50s and 60s, Candid Camera. It's this idea of being observed and not being aware of it. I think a contemporary audience will understand all too well the idea of a person breaking down under pressure and of us being voyeurs in that experience."" If Milgram proved that a majority of people were conditioned to obey authority figures no matter how distasteful the command, does that mean they are less guilty? ""Persuasion can be done so insidiously and gradually, that you see how you can be caught up in it,"" says Sarsgaard. ""Say they decide to pick on poor people, because we're told they carry disease, saying: 'Well, they should wear an armband to show it. It's for their benefit. Then those poor people need to be put in camps - again for their own good, they're diseased and they'll be better off there'. ""It goes in such gradual instalments that you go along with it and then you bury your head in the sand. ""Human nature doesn't change, you can make all kinds of excuses for evil by saying these people are different and it's for their own good."" Asked how good he is himself at speaking out against the majority, Sarsgaard replies: ""Not as good as some. It takes guts. I have a support system around me that generally agrees with the viewpoints I have, but it's a lot more difficult to keep hold of those principles depending upon the crowd. ""It's something as simple as passively accepting or laughing at a racist or a sexist joke - you become part of it even though you wish it would go away."" Nevertheless, Sarsgaard's career choices haven't been mainstream. Earlier this year, he told the Hollywood Reporter that his dream film role would be to play the former English football player and TV presenter-turned-conspiracy theorist David Icke  ""because he abandoned something so successful for something so esoteric"". The actor lives in New York with his wife Maggie Gyllenhaal and two daughters, and made his name in independent films, including Boys Don't Cry and opposite Liam Neeson in 2004's Kinsey. He will next be seen in a remake of the classic western The Magnificent Seven. ""I truly take a project depending upon what's best for me at that precise time,"" he says. ""I'm not in a studio system, although I occasionally do them, but I have also turned down jobs with great artistic opportunities. ""Sometimes I've had to turn them down for financial reasons, but also emotionally - some of those really arty movies you just haven't got what it takes to do at the time."" Although Hollywood looks like it is to record its biggest box office year to date, equally huge financial flops like Jupiter Ascending and Fantastic Four have led critics to accuse studios of failing to properly define their films' target audiences. Sarsgaard says: ""For a couple of years, I really thought that cinema was over. It certainly went out and had a gap year.  And I still want to take some people aside who have shown me scripts and say to them 'you are making a mistake on this movie'. ""The bottom line is, no-one will want to go to a movie to either feel bad or to be taught something. People usually need to hire babysitters to go to a cinema, after all. But the independent film route is no safer. ""It's only once a decade that a Little Miss Sunshine comes along, the tiny film which is a massive hit, and usually you know right away which ones they are. It's mainly the little, compelling stories, like Experimenter, that I'm really happy with."" Experimenter premieres at the 19th UK Jewish Film Festival on 19 November and in select cinemas from December 2015.","It was an experiment that shocked society in 1961 , months after the trial @placeholder of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann . A Yale university psychologist , Stanley Milgram , carried out a test in which participants thought they were delivering increasingly stronger electric shocks to someone in the next room every time they got an answer wrong .",murder,spoken,began,piece,announced,2
"London's Al-Hayat certainly sees the ""chemical massacre as a test for President Trump"", in particular as he recently said his priority was fighting the Islamic State group rather than removing President Assad from power. The Arab nationalist London daily Al-Quds al-Arabi describes the ""return of extermination by poison gas"" as an ""Assad reply to Trump's greetings"". It says the attack shows ""the Assad regime's increased confidence in regaining its position in the new global system"". In neighbouring Lebanon, Al-Mustaqbal denounces the Syrian president as ""Chemical Bashar"", and draws parallels with the 2013 chemical attack in eastern Ghouta near Damascus. ""He bets this new crime will go unpunished like the massacre committed in Ghouta, when the conscience of the world was satisfied with turning pale and condemning it before falling asleep in the face of one of the worst humanitarian tragedies in history"". But Lebanon's Al-Akhbar, which tends to be less critical of the Syrian government, expects other Western countries to use the incident to try to draw President Trump back into the anti-Assad camp. It is a ""golden opportunity to recharge the Western axis against any settlement with Moscow and the Syrian government, in the face of the change recently shown by the White House over the fate of the Syrian president"", the paper says. On social media, supporters of the Syrian opposition have been promoting the Arabic hashtags #Idlib, #Khan_Sheikhoun and #Chemical_massacre and sharing videos, images and information about the attack. Turkish pro-government and opposition TV channels have united in condemning the attack as a crime against humanity. Independent FoxTV asks how Turkey will now deal with the Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan, which it has been sponsoring with Syria's Russian and Iranian allies. Turkish newspapers across the political spectrum also condemn Syria in the strongest terms on their front pages. The Posta tabloid compares the attack with Saddam Hussein's gassing of Kurds in Halabja in 1988, and pro-government Karar publishes photos of Presidents Assad and Putin under the headline ''Killers"". In Israel, Yediot Aharonot calls President Assad a ""child murderer"". The paper's commentator Alex Fishman says the Syrian president feels ""strong enough to demonstrate his power by testing the international legitimacy he has been receiving, including from the new US administration"". Boaz Bismuth in the conservative freesheet Yisrael Hayom calls on President Trump to ensure the removal of Mr Assad. ""If there is still a droplet of morality left in cynical international relations, Assad's survival makes it vanish on the wind amid the clouds of chemical gas that he releases against his own people,"" he writes. The Iranian media follows the official Syrian line in denying that the Assad government used chemical weapons. Iran's state TV channels give prominence to Russian accusations that the opposition was storing poison gas in a Khan Sheikhoun warehouse - a version also promoted on Russia's pro-government TV channels. In Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's international editor Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger denounces the attack as ""the height of murderous cynicism"". He says President Assad's strategy is ""to destroy all the rebels, if possible, before any peace talks. Civilian deaths are just part of the calculation"". He expects international indignation to have no effect, given ""Russia's protection"" of the Syrian government. Syria specialist Kristin Helberg tells Berlin's Tageszeitung that the Syria donor conference in Brussels this week must not end up financing President Assad's bombing campaigns. ""The message from Brussels must be that reconstruction will only begin when the bombs stop falling. The bitter truth is that we can't rebuild Syria without rehabilitating the regime"", she says. France's Le Figaro reports ""worldwide outrage"" on its front page, while  Le Monde showcases social media footage of the aftermath of the attack on its website. A front-page editorial by Jean-Christophe Plonquin in the Catholic daily La Croix sees ""Syria asphyxiated"" by President Assad, whom he accuses of being ""prepared to rule a field of ruins"" rather than end the war. He says the Syrian government may be ""testing Donald Trump, as US failure to treat the use of chemical weapons as a 'red line' will strengthen Assad's position"". Liberation's Syria specialist Hala Kodmani also complains that the Brussels conference is dealing with ""illusory reconstruction amid very real destruction"". She sees Russia as the main advocate of sending European Union reconstruction funds to its Syrian ally, and reminds readers that Syrian and international non-government organisations recently opposed the idea unless Syria agrees to a transition of power. ""EU aid seeks to advance peace, but freezes conflicts. Billions in aid cannot buy or replace politics,"" she warns, adding that US overtures to Russia and Turkey over Syria are seen by President Assad as the ""renewal of his licence to kill"". BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.","The @placeholder chemical attack in Syria dominates the Arabic media , with many commentators wondering whether President Bashar al - Assad is testing the new US administration over chemical weapons as he did with President Obama 's "" red line "" in 2013 .",acclaimed,refurbished,body,amount,suspected,4
"The 48-year-old BBC pundit played over 1,000 professional matches during his 24-year career, and went on to manage Pompey, Millwall and Weymouth. He returned to semi-professional football in 2007 and most recently played for Gosport, helping them to promotion to Southern League in 2012. Salisbury are looking for a new manager and league to play in for next term. Under former boss Mikey Harris, the Whites finished 12th in the Conference Premier last season but the club have been hit by severe financial difficulties this summer. They have been thrown out of the Football Conference for failing to meet deadlines to pay football creditors and Harris quit his role last month to join Portsmouth as youth-team coach. A consortium took over the ailing club on Friday, overthrowing former chairman Outail Touzar, and the new owners plan to appeal to be reinstated into Conference South. Claridge began his professional career at Bournemouth in 1984 and went on to have spells at Aldershot, Cambridge United, Birmingham City, Leicester City, Wolves and Millwall. While at Leicester, Claridge scored the decisive goal in the 1996 First Division play-off final - which secured promotion to the Premier League - as well as their winner as they beat Middlesbrough in the 1997 League Cup final. He later scored scored 34 goals in three years at Portsmouth, and he went on to spend four months as manager between October 2000 and February 2001.",Ex - Portsmouth striker Steve Claridge is in talks with Salisbury City @placeholder their vacant managerial position .,side,attacking,prop,regarding,completing,3
"The doll was carried by the daughter of Johnathan Thurston, captain of the winning team, North Queensland Cowboys. Thurston is an indigenous Australian, as was, for the first time in the league's history, his counterpart, Justin Hodges of the Brisbane Broncos. It has been seen by many as a moment of inclusion and diversity. Australian sport, in particular Aussie Rules football, has been marred by racism against indigenous players. The country has also seen heated discussion on whether it should recognise indigenous people in its constitution, and repeal clauses that prevent people of a certain race from voting and allow laws to be made based on race. Author Melanie Prewett: Why Australian indigenous representation matters to children The match was the first time two Queensland teams had faced each other in the final. Thurston also kicked the winning goal on Sunday which sent North Queensland to their 17-16 victory in extra time. Australians on social media applauded the images of the emotional captain sitting on the pitch with two-year-old Frankie - wearing a Cowboys jersey - and her doll. Some drew attention to the racism controversy affecting Aussie Rules. Adam Goodes, an indigenous Australian who plays for the Swans, decided to take time out of the game after being plagued with booing whilst he was on the pitch. Critics said the taunts were because Goodes was an unpopular player, but supporters said the 2014 Australian of the Year was being punished for being vocal on indigenous issues. The booing came to a head after he performed a ""war cry"" dance during the May Indigenous round of Australian Football League (AFL), which celebrates the contribution of indigenous players. His distress over the incident led to an outpouring of support for him. Nova Peris, the first Indigenous Australian to win an Olympic gold medal, and now a senator in the Australian parliament, said at the time that the saga showed Australia ""has a problem with the truth of Aboriginal people"". Speaking before the final, Australian Rugby League Indigenous Council chairwoman Linda Burney said having two indigenous captains in the final meant Rugby League was about to experience its ""Cathy Freeman moment"". The Australian athletics star became the second indigenous Australian woman to win an Olympic gold, during the Sydney Games in 2000. ""It is a very significant moment in the sport of Rugby League, but in particular the story of Aboriginal participation in Rugby League,"" Ms Burney told The Australian on Thursday. NRL welfare manager Dean Widders described it as a ""milestone"" that demonstrates the league appreciates indigenous players and ""can provide a lesson to the wider Australian community"".",A dark - skinned doll brought on to the pitch at the end of the Australian Rugby League final has become the talking @placeholder of the game .,top,point,head,side,machine,1
"However, it will have been unlikely to dim their affection for the third seed, or the sport, with millions again sitting up to watch TV through the night as he takes on John Higgins in the second round. Indeed, according to World Snooker - the global commercial arm of the sport - the game is third only to NBA basketball and football in terms of sports television viewing in the country. Interest has been steadily growing since snooker impresario Barry Hearn, who now owns 51% of World Snooker, and playing legend Steve Davis started promoting the game in China back in the 1990s. ""It was definitely an aim of ours to grow the TV audience in China, as a means of promoting snooker, and players like Ding Junhui and [Hong Kong's] Marco Fu have certainly helped,"" says Miles Pearce, World Snooker commercial director. ""Viewing figures are still growing,"" he adds, pointing out that the head of Chinese TV sports channel CCTV-5 fell in love with snooker when he was studying in Cardiff, Wales. Pearce says snooker is mostly followed by a white-collar fan-base, aged from 16 to 34, who see snooker as ""aspirational rather then elitist"", and are based around major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu. They cannot fail to have been impressed by Ding's estimated £2.25m snooker earnings to date. But as well as supporting home-grown players they give Westerners like Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump the star-treatment too. Meanwhile, Pearce says there are an estimated 60 million regular players in China, and, while the number of snooker clubs across the country is hard to determine, in Shanghai the number has gone from 200 in 2008 to 1,500 now. At grass-roots level, World Snooker has joined with the Chinese snooker association in setting up an academy in Beijing, and has introduced schools programmes and amateur leagues. On the global stage, Pearce says that China is at the forefront of a wider move to open up the game internationally, including in India, Malaysia and Thailand. ""Snooker has been historically a very UK-focused sport. Encouraging overseas players to come in at the top level has been important to us in terms of promoting snooker globally,"" says the 44-year-old Canadian, who has been at World Snooker for eight years. There have been seven tournaments in China on the 2014-15 season calendar, including the four world ranking events - the Wuxi Classic, the China Open in Beijing, the Shanghai Masters, and the International Championship in Chengdu. Each of these offered a minimum £450,000 in prize monies. That tournament number will be cut to six in 2015-16 as the snooker World Cup is played in Wuxi - home of Ding Junhui - instead of the Classic. ""The World Cup will definitely give snooker another boost in China,"" says Pearce, who previously worked for the Premier League, Major League Baseball, Sky Interactive and Orange Sport. ""In China they are very patriotic, they love to see their own national sporting talent do well on the global stage, so this gives them an opportunity to potentially shine in front of the world."" Each nation will have one team of two players, but China as hosts will have two teams. One pairing will comprise Ding and another player, and Pearce says it would be ""amazing"" if the China Billiard & Snooker Association (CBSA) chose a couple of their up-and-coming teenage players for the second pair. ""Ding is a tremendous talent but there is lots of very young talent coming through too,"" says Pearce, with the top youngsters honing their talents at the 39-table academy in Beijing. Snooker in China would receive a further boost should cue sports be successful in their bid to be included as an Olympic sport, ahead of the 2020 Games in Tokyo. Jason Ferguson, chairman of governing body the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), has been lobbying IOC members this week. ""It would be absolutely massive for us from a sports business perspective,"" says Pearce. ""Snooker in China has stood on its own feet and gone further than most other sports there. But is has very little government funding - unlike other Olympic sports. We have not had a penny from the Chinese government."" China has a track-record of backing Olympic sports, so as well as raising the sport's profile and popularity further, inclusion would also probably mean financial support from the government. It could also bring further business backing from Chinese firms, with partners to date including Bank of Beijing, Bank of Communications OTO, and car giant BAIC. One route not being followed for now, is transferring the World Championship - held in Sheffield for the past 40 years - to China, with supremo Hearn reportedly saying it would not happen on his watch. And, despite the growth potential in China, respected snooker blogger Matt Huart, who runs ProSnookerBlog, says there are challenges in the country. ""It looks to me that it has become more of a challenge for snooker in the past year or two than perhaps it was three or so years ago,"" he says. ""The market in China is as challenging as it has been in the past decade."" He says one challenge has come from the launch and promotion of rival cue sport Chinese Pool (also known as Chinese Eight Ball), a variation on the Western form of pool, which has had the backing of Scottish snooker star Stephen Hendry. And he says predictions made a decade ago about Chinese players dominating the player rankings have not come to fruition, with ""no-one coming close to Ding"". At present Ding is the only Chinese player in the top 16, with Liang Wenbo and Xiao Guodong ranked 21 and 22, while Hong Kong's Marco Fu is number 11. However, Pearce, who recalls seeing a snooker table being used enthusiastically in the middle of a village street in China, remains optimistic. ""I would be surprised if we did not have a Chinese world champion in the next 10 years,"" he says.",Millions of snooker fans in China will have @placeholder when their hero Ding Junhui made a mess of a potential 147 maximum break against Mark Davis at the World Snooker Championships earlier this week .,seized,laughs,criticised,groaned,tears,3
"The body of Saima Ahmed, was discovered at Gogar Mount House in January, five months after she went missing. Her family believe the 36-year-old, who was last seen at Wembley Central Station, may have been murdered. The Met handled the initial part of the inquiry. Police Scotland is now investigating her death. A Met spokesman said the force could not comment on an ongoing independent investigation. Ms Ahmed, a divorced librarian who lived with her parents and brother, was last seen on 30 August boarding a train instead of going to work. Detectives believe she took further trains to Edinburgh, perhaps via Hemel Hempstead and Birmingham, although her exact route is not known. Her remains were found in Scotland on 9 January, hundreds of miles away from her home in Wembley. Ms Ahmed's sister Saiqa, 37, said the Met failed to take the initial case seriously despite the disappearance being ""totally out of character"". She told The Times officers classed the disappearance as being ""low risk"" as she never left home or spent a night out of the house. ""She wouldn't go anywhere without telling our parents,"" she said. Her siblings said there is nothing to suggest she took her own life and they believe she could have met up with ""the wrong person"". The Met Police Directorate of Professional Standards referred the force's handling of the inquiry to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). An IPCC spokesman said the organisation would ""look at the risk assessment applied, whether appropriate inquiries were made and how Saima's family were dealt with"".",The Met is being investigated after the remains of a woman who went missing in London were found in the @placeholder of a stately home in Edinburgh .,rubble,head,grounds,wreckage,bottom,2
"A player currently becomes eligible when they have lived in a country for three years. World Rugby is due to vote in May on extending it to five, a move also backed by England. ""We believe five years is the right thing,"" said WRU head of performance Geraint John. ""That's the message passed over to World Rugby when we had the meeting. ""We were in the World Rugby meeting and Martyn Phillips was representing us and our strategy is five years."" The campaign led by World Rugby vice-chairman and former Argentina international Agustin Pichot. And John says the idea suits the way the WRU want to manage talent in Wales. ""We feel it fits into our strategic plan in terms of what we're about here in Wales - developing our own, developing players that are already here in Wales, looking at talent and trying to keep that talent in Wales,"" he added. While England and Wales support the plan it has been reported that Scotland and Ireland are opposed to the change. John has also revealed the WRU have chosen to install the Wales A team as their new captured international side rather than the Under-20s. It is a decision designed to make it more likely for England-based Welsh-qualified players to come back into the system because now playing for the Under-20s does not tie them to Wales. The WRU have indicated their desire to restore the A team although there is unlikely to be a fixture this season for a second string side. ""One of the difficulties we found last year was if you play for Wales Under-20s you are captured so that means you can't play for anyone else,"" John told the WRU official website. ""We have looked at that and there are a lot of players who are based in England who are Welsh qualified. ""Because it (Wales U20s) was a captured team, the English clubs would not release them and we could not get them back. ""We have decided our Wales A team is our next captured side and that has allowed Welsh-qualified players from across the border to come back and be involved in the U20 squad. ""We have made that statement. I think it's a big plus and will attract those Welsh qualified players who are now living in England to eventually stay in Wales.""",A plan to extend the @placeholder needed for a player to qualify for a country on residency has been backed by the Welsh Rugby Union ( WRU ) .,communications,region,period,world,party,2
"Spanish police arrested the 43-year-old man, who has dual Spanish and Brazilian nationality, in a hotel in Madrid. Officers did not reveal the man's name but said he was a lawyer for Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. He is suspected of being the mastermind behind a kickback scheme involving Brazil's state oil company, Petrobras. Police allege the man, whose initials they said were RTB, led a scheme in which politicians received bribes in return for awarding lucrative public works contracts to private companies. Brazil's continuing corruption problem The investigation into the scandal, dubbed Operation Car Wash, first focused on corruption at Brazilian oil giant Petrobras. But it has since uncovered a wide range of companies said to be involved in the kickback scheme, including Odebrecht, Latin America's largest construction firm. Odebrecht's CEO, Marcelo Odebrecht, is serving a 19-year prison sentence for money laundering and bribery. The man arrested in Madrid on Tuesday is suspected of diverting nearly $15m (£12m) to political parties in Brazil. He is thought to have fled from Brazil to Spain in April via the United States. He arrived in Spain only days ago. He is the first suspect to be detained in Spain as part of Operation Car Wash. His arrest comes less than a week after the former governor of Rio state, Sergio Cabral, was detained in his home in Rio as part of the Car Wash investigation. Dozens of powerful political and business figures have been found guilty and jailed as a result of the probe, including Workers' Party treasurer Joao Vaccari and the former head of Brazil's Eletronuclear power company, Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva. The scandal has led to mass street protests in Brazil.",Police in Spain have arrested a man they suspect of being the financial brain behind a huge corruption scandal which has @placeholder Brazilian politics .,sparked,risen,recaptured,rocked,criticised,3
"The Indomitable Lions are aiming for a fifth title when they play seven-time winners Egypt on Sunday in Libreville. Oyongo says the squad is united without the absentees from Gabon. ""If the guys were here, we wouldn't be how we are now,"" the Montreal Impact player told BBC Sport. If the guys were here, we wouldn't be how we are now ""We have made an effort in every game. If they were here, I don't think they would put in the same effort so it's good for us to forget the other players so we focus on the team [that is here]."" Liverpool defender Joel Matip was among the players to stay away and Oyongo believes their absence will come into sharper focus when World Cup qualifying resumes later this year. ""For the next competition and the next international game, the coach will have to take the decision about them,"" added the 25-year-old. Cameroon coach Hugo Broos has previously said the missing players will have to prove themselves if they want to be recalled in the future. Former Cameroon international Patrick Mboma, meanwhile, is impressed with the way the 2017 squad has coped without the absentees, who he thinks should now be kept out of the side. ""I'm very proud because they have brought a good atmosphere and a good energy,"" he told BBC Sport. ""That means that players are happy to be here playing for one another. They have no tension on or off the pitch and are just fighting for the flag - that is very, very important."" ""Some players, who are healthy, want to think about themselves. That can be understood but I think that choice should be their choice forever."" ""I don't know if (their absence) has had a positive impact, but we have to focus on the 23 who accepted to play."" It is a group of 23 friends and I never saw this in a football team The Cameroon coach, former Belgian international Hugo Broos, is impressed with the team spirit in his squad and thinks those missing are now having second thoughts. ""There were some players who didn't come - I think maybe now they regret that they are not here with us. They still have a future, but the decision is now with them. ""I will not phone them and ask them if they will come. They have to phone me to say ""I'm ready to play for Cameroon"". And not only one game. Because when they come, they stay. It's not today I come and the next they go. So it's all they come or they are definitely not coming. ""I have been a coach for 29 years and I have never had a group of players like this. ""It is a group of 23 friends and I never saw this in a football team - there are normally arguments. ""Here they are 23 friends who like to play football and do everything to win the game. So for me it's very easy as a coach.""",Defender Ambroise Oyongo believes the team spirit in Cameroon 's squad is stronger without the eight players who turned down the @placeholder to play at the Africa Cup of Nations .,chance,response,body,call,offer,0
"Mr Miliband's visit to Mr Brand's house had sparked some speculation that Mr Brand may ""endorse"" the Labour leader. Mr Brand has repeatedly urged young people not to vote, saying elections change little and direct action is a more effective tool for ""revolution"". In contrast, Mr Miliband says 16 and 17-year olds should be able to vote. A picture of Mr Miliband apparently leaving the comedian's house in east London was posted on Twitter. It is understood the interview will be broadcast on Mr Brand's YouTube Channel, The Trews, later on Tuesday. Mr Brand has become a high-profile, alternative voice on the political scene, campaigning against inequality, benefit cuts and corporate tax avoidance and speaking up on behalf of the rights of housing tenants. He hit the headlines in 2013 when, in a Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman, he said he had never voted because of ""absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class"". In the same interview, the broadcaster and actor called for people to shun the ballot box and pursue a ""revolution"" against the political elites. Since then, he has become a regular commentator on political issues, appearing on the BBC's Question Time earlier this year. However, Mr Brand's own financial affairs have been questioned by journalists while others have urged him to stand for political office. Speaking last week, the comedian said people should be ""more aware"" about politics but claimed the general election was ""irrelevant"" and ""dead"". Labour said Mr Miliband ""was doing a media interview like he often does"", adding that it ""looked forward to it being broadcast"".",Labour has said Ed Miliband was interviewed by Russell Brand - after he was @placeholder visiting the home of the comedian and political campaigner .,devastated,challenged,unveiled,ousted,spotted,4
"Fields around organic farms have more types of wild plants, providing benefits for wildlife, say scientists. The research is likely to fuel the debate over the environmental benefits of organic farming. Studies suggest that organic farming produces lower yields than conventional methods but harbours more wildlife. The new study, by researchers at the University of Swansea and institutes in France, looked at fields sowed with winter wheat in the region of Poitou-Charente. They found that organic farming led to higher weed diversity on surrounding conventionally farmed fields. ""Wild plants are important for birds, bees and other farmland species,"" said Dr Luca Borger of the department of biosciences at Swansea University. ""Organic farming has advantages in maintaining these, but even a mixture of organic and non-organic farming in an area can help maintain this biodiversity. ""Even only 25% of fields being organically farmed can make a difference."" Farmland provides essential habitat for many animals but intensification of agriculture has led to a loss of biodiversity. However, in order to provide the extra food needed by the bigger human population of the future, without destroying forests and wetlands, farming needs to be made more intensive. Supporters of organic farming say the method could be a potential compromise between meeting food security needs and providing habitat for bees, birds and other wildlife. The researchers say land-sharing between organic farms and non-organic farms could have benefits for both crop production and biodiversity. This theory needs to be tested in follow-up studies, they say. The study is published in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B- Biological Sciences.","Organic farms @placeholder as a refuge for wild plants , offsetting the loss of biodiversity on conventional farms , a study suggests .",act,emerged,emerges,embarked,served,0
"Lilesa has been living in the US on a temporary visa after making an anti-government gesture when he finished in second place in Rio. He believes his life would be in danger if he returned to his homeland. ""I've always wanted to run for my country and for my people,"" the 26-year-old told BBC World Service. ""I would like to see myself in a country where the current government is removed and the people get freedom, so I can run for my country - not for a different country."" Back in August, Lilesa became the first Ethiopian to finish in the top two of a men's Olympics marathon since 2000, claiming silver behind Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge. As he crossed the line, Lilesa lifted his arms in an X-shape above his head in solidarity with the Oromo people, the country's largest ethnic group, who have suffered a crackdown at the hands of the Ethiopian government. The country's officials said the runner would be welcomed home from Rio as a hero, but Lilesa said he might be killed if he returned. A funding campaign was launched to help pay his legal fees and support his wife and children back home, whom he has not seen since before the Olympics. ""I have no regrets about doing what I did in Rio,"" said Lilesa. ""I would rather regret not doing anything. I know my family is living far away from me, and that might be a problem, but my family could have been one of those families who was shot dead in the street. ""I miss my wife and children but this is no more of a problem than the Oromo people face. Compared to other people, this is not a problem for me. She knows I might get killed if I went back so it's OK living far away from her."" A special visa was issued to Lilesa so he can live and train in the US, but he insists he has no plans to stay there permanently. He added: ""Since my wish is to one day go back to my own country, I will remain in this country as long as my visa allows. I have no intention to ask for asylum.""",Ethiopian Olympic marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa still hopes to compete for his country - despite being @placeholder since last summer 's Games .,exiled,awarded,suspended,handed,injured,0
"He said it could be a ""turning point"" for the world to take on the challenge of a low-carbon future. China, the world's biggest polluter, also hailed the deal. But some campaigners said it did not go far enough to protect the planet. The Paris pact aims to curb global warming to less than 2C (3.6F) Nearly 200 countries took part in tense negotiations in the French capital over two weeks, striking the first deal to commit all nations to cut emissions. The agreement - which is partly legally binding and partly voluntary - will come into being in 2020. COP21: In summary Describing the agreement as ""ambitious"", President Obama said: ""Together, we've shown what's possible when the world stands as one."" ""In short, this agreement will mean less of the carbon pollution that threatens our planet and more of the jobs and economic growth driven by low-carbon investments."" However, Mr Obama admitted that the pact was not ""perfect"". China's chief negotiator Xie Zhenhua agreed that the Paris plan was not ideal. But he added that ""this does not prevent us from marching historical steps forward"". China earlier said rich developed countries needed to offer more financial support to developing countries. Giza Gaspar Martins, the chairman of the group representing some of the world's poorest countries, said: ""It is the best outcome we could have hoped for, not just for the Least Developed Countries, but for all citizens of the world,"" he said. But Nick Dearden, director of campaign group Global Justice Now, said: ""It's outrageous that the deal that's on the table is being spun as a success when it undermines the rights of the world's most vulnerable communities and has almost nothing binding to ensure a safe and liveable climate for future generations."" Some aspects of the agreement will be legally binding, such as submitting an emissions reduction target and the regular review of that goal. However, the targets set by nations will not be binding under the deal struck in Paris. The measures in the agreement included: •         To peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and achieve a balance between sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century •         To keep global temperature increase ""well below"" 2C (3.6F) and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C •         To review progress every five years •         $100bn a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020, with a commitment to further finance in the future. The speeches and the cliches at the adoption of the Paris Agreement flowed like good champagne - success after all has many fathers! The main emotion is relief. The influence of the COP president, Laurent Fabius, cannot be overstated. His long diplomatic career gave him a credibility seldom matched in this arena. He used his power well. The deal that has been agreed, under Mr Fabius, is without parallel in terms of climate change or of the environment. It sets out a clear long-term temperature limit for the planet and a clear way of getting there. There is money for poor countries to adapt, there is a strong review mechanism to increase ambition over time. This is key if the deal is to achieve the aim of keeping warming well below 2C. More than anything though the deal signifies a new way for the world to achieve progress - without it costing the Earth. A long term perspective on the way we do sustainability is at the heart of this deal. If it delivers that, it truly will be world changing. Read more from Matt McGrath Observers say the attempt to impose emissions targets on countries was one of the main reasons why the Copenhagen talks in 2009 failed. At the time, nations including China, India and South Africa were unwilling to sign up to a condition that they felt could hamper economic growth and development. The latest negotiations managed to avoid such an impasse by developing a system of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). In these, which form the basis of the Paris agreement goal of keeping global temperature rise ""well below"" 2C above pre-industrial levels, nations outline their plans on cutting their post-2020 emissions. COP 21 - the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties - will see more than 190 nations gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the threat of dangerous warming due to human activities. Explained: What is climate change? In video: Why does the Paris conference matter? Analysis: Latest from BBC environment correspondent Matt McGrath In graphics: Climate change in six charts More: BBC News special report (or follow the COP21 tag in the BBC News app)","The climate deal @placeholder in Paris is "" the best chance we have to save the one planet we have "" , US President Barack Obama has said .",reached,published,gathering,forces,arrives,0
"Surveillance cameras show a suspect approaching the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce moments before Monday morning's blaze, fire officials said. The fire may have been timed to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and the anniversary of 9/11. Omar Mateen committed the worst mass shooting in modern American history in June when he opened fire in Pulse. He was killed by police after taking hostages and declaring his allegiance to the Islamic State group. The mosque blaze was so severe that it burned a hole 10ft-by-10ft (3-by-3m) in the roof of the mosque's main room. Someone was filmed ""just moments before a flash is seen and the fire starts,"" the St Lucie County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook. ""A fire at any place of worship is alarming, regardless of the circumstances,"" it added. A spokesman for the sheriff's office, Major David Thompson, said: ""This is a horrible tragedy. Not only for the Islamic Center, but for our community"". The arsonist ""is terrorising our community because we don't know where he is at and we don't know what he is capable of doing"", said Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, a Florida spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. ""For this to happen to us on the morning of our biggest celebration of the year has made everyone saddened and scared, but our community is bigger than a building,"" Mr Amr Ruiz said. ""We are stronger than that."" Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating, including the FBI. The Islamic Center of Fort Pierce has experienced other trouble in recent months. A few weeks after the nightclub shooting, a man was badly beaten outside the mosque. Motorists frequently stop to shout abuse at worshippers, including the driver of a truck who stopped to hurl insults earlier that same day, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In addition to Omar Mateen, the mosque was also visited by Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, who became the first American to commit a suicide bombing attack in Syria.",Police are investigating a fire at the mosque that was @placeholder by the Orlando nightclub gunman who killed 49 people .,ignited,investigated,rocked,attended,held,3
"There's been growing representation, certainly in the last 10 years, of indigenous people and children in the media.  There's definitely an appetite for it. There's been a lot of focus on languages and the cultural aspect incorporated in schools - we have the National Indigenous Television channel, characters in TV shows and movies, and more children's books too. There are even Aboriginal kids writing books for other kids and and passing on their stories. I would attribute it to advances in technology and media, and also the younger generations who are taking up their cultural awareness and sharing it more widely. There's definitely a place for indigenous representation - it goes back to people getting along and living together in a community. I wrote my book based on the relationship between my son Jack who is Aboriginal and his best friend Raf, who is white, and has spina bifida. I wanted to document this caring friendship between two boys, who are so opposite to each other. Media like this teaches kids that it's not about the colour of your skin, it's not about what you look like - it's about who you are as a person. It doesn't have to be an issue - it's only an issue if you make it into one. I think it's pretty good for indigenous children to see themselves in the media - there's a little bit of that sense of belonging, and identification. It's a good and positive thing to be able to say, 'Yep, that kid looks like me'. They can relate to it. So in terms of teaching and education that is fantastic, and a lot more is happening now. When I first saw the pictures of Johnathan Thurston and his daughter in the newspaper, I didn't really think much of it. I'm not sure why it's such a big deal. Perhaps it depends on how you've been raised and what difference means to you. I just think maybe it's because the doll is so dark? It really stands out and obviously is something his daughter treasures. And then it goes back to them perhaps at first glance not looking very indigenous, the daughter especially, and she's holding the doll. There is that contrast, and if you don't know anything about the family, you may go, 'Oh, are they Aboriginal?' I can understand why people are interested, because it's different and you don't see it all the time.","Images of Indigenous Australian rugby star Johnathan Thurston hugging his daughter as she @placeholder a dark - skinned doll have become a talking point , with many praising it as a positive portrayal of indigenous people . Melanie Prewett , the Aboriginal writer of award - winning children 's book Two Mates , gives her take on why the doll has generated so much interest .",announced,clutches,reached,developed,launched,1
"The Coseley School in Dudley has 557 pupils - just over half its 975 capacity - and last year's GCSE results placed it bottom in the borough. About 100 people protested outside Dudley Council house on Monday as the decision was made to put the closure plan to the public. The consultation will run until 5 April, with a decision due in May. 'Safe haven' If the plan goes ahead, years seven, eight and nine will go to different schools next year. Current year 10's would stay and complete their GCSE's with the school shutting altogether in August 2017. Head girl Tatiana Davies protested with fellow pupils against the closure. She said: ""This place is like a safe haven for kids and it's a community that's being ripped apart by the council. ""It's not fair whatsoever that they've made a decision to do this... We care about our school so much."" Councillor Ian Cooper, cabinet member for children's services, said: ""Proposing the closure of the school is very much the last resort and not something we have taken lightly. ""During recent years it has experienced a dramatic decline in pupil numbers, which are forecast to drop even more over the next three years, as well as results below the national minimum standards. ""We know the school has worked hard to try and raise attainment but unfortunately all these factors have led us to take this action."" Only 54 parents have chosen the school as their first preference for September 2016 and the council says the school is facing a £1m shortfall. Ofsted rated the school ""inadequate"" following an inspection in September 2012 and ""requires improvement"" in September 2014.",A school with low pupil numbers and @placeholder could close under plans being put to the public .,facilities,fish,build,swearing,grades,4
"The literary landscape will look a little different in 2014. A new international book prize, The Folio, arrives in March. Then the Man Booker throws open its doors to any author writing in the English language - meaning US writers will be eligible for the first time. Whether you are a fan of literary competitions or not, the shortlists and winners inevitably become the source of much discussion and debate. So which authors will be talked about over the next twelve months? ""Booker Bridesmaids"" dominate - those writers who have been nominated for the prize in the past but have never won. Leading the pack is Sarah Waters, who has been shortlisted three times.  Her new book, The Paying Guests, is set in London in 1922. Or could it be third time lucky for The South African writer Damon Galgut, who has been shortlisted twice before?  Arctic Summer is about E M Forster's first trip to India in 1912. Colm Toibin is back too, with Nora Webster, set ten years after his Costa-winning novel ""Brooklyn"". David Mitchell returns with his first novel for four years, The Bone Clocks which is published in September. It is a novel in six parts, set between 1984 and 2043, which centres on one female character, although each section is told from a different point of view. Emma Donoghue follows up her international bestseller Room, with Frog Music.  Again inspired by real events, it's a murder mystery set in nineteenth century San Francisco. And Martin Amis revisits the Holocaust in his new novel The Zone of Interest, which is set in an unnamed Auschwitz. Other familiar names returning in 2014 include Sebastian Barry, Ali Smith, Edward St Aubyn, Linda Grant and Philip Hensher And Kamila Shamsie, Ned Beauman, Adam Foulds, Xiaolu Guo  and Helen Oyeyemi, who were all selected by Granta as Britain's Best of Young British Writers in 2013, have new books on the way. Among the American big hitters to look out for are Jonathan Lethem, with Dissident Gardens and E L Doctorow with Andrew's Brain. Marilynne Robinson's new book, Lila, is based on the same fictional world as the Pulitzer prize-winning novel Gilead and the Orange prize-winner Home. And while it may not win literary prizes, fans of  Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series can look forward to The Days of Anna Madrigal, which sees the 92 year old transgender landlady on a journey to the whorehouse she ran away from as a 16 year old boy. Haruki Murakami is back with Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage.  Published in Japan in April 2013 it sold more than one million copies there in its first six months. And there is a new novel from the 2012 Nobel prize-winning Chinese literary superstar Mo Yan, called Frog. Set against the government's one-child policy, it is about a midwife in a rural community. Closer to home, look out for a new novel from Nick Hornby. which follows the fortunes of the co- stars of a 1960s television sitcom. There are big-hitting commercial bestsellers in waiting with new novels from Barbara Taylor Bradford,  Jodi Picoult and Ken Follett; and new thrillers on the way from Stephen King and John Connolly and the King of Scandinavian crime Jo Nesbo. 2014 is a big year for anniversaries. There'll be plenty of non-fiction commemorating the First World War, including a new biography of the poet Wilfred Owen, by Guy Cuthbertson. In February it is one hundred years since the birth of the cult writer William Burroughs and Barry Miles's new biography has been sanctioned by the Burroughs estate. October sees the centenary of the birth of the Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas. His granddaughter, Hannah Ellis celebrates his life, work and legacy in a new collection. And more than a decade in the making, there is a major new biography of Beethoven, written by the composer Jan Swafford. So whatever your taste, plenty of books to look forward to in the coming months.","What are the cultural events to look forward to in 2014 ? The BBC 's arts and entertainment team picks some of the big books , films , TV series , albums , @placeholder and shows for the new year . Click on the links or use the tabs above to navigate .",videos,exhibitions,movies,spare,ads,1
"The claim: The European Parliament could block the implementation of the UK deal for the European Union which Prime Minister David Cameron agreed in February 2016. Reality Check verdict: MEPs will not get a say on the deal as a whole. They could, in theory, delay or even block the amendments to two regulations which are required to implement part of the deal, but this is unlikely to happen. If the UK votes to remain in the EU, the deal will become effective on the date the UK Government informs the Secretary-General of the European Council that the country has decided to remain a member. This is likely to take place when David Cameron goes to the next EU summit on 28-29 June in Brussels. The European Parliament will not get a vote on the deal in its entirety. However, three provisions of the deal will be enabled only once the relevant EU regulations are amended. One of the amendments, on banking union, does not require the European Parliament's involvement. The other two will go through the regular legislative procedure at the EU, in which the European Parliament plays a role. To enable the UK to give new EU migrants full access to in-work benefits only after four years, one of the key measures of the deal, the EU will have to amend Regulation(EU) No 492/2011. Another key provision of the deal is that child benefit for  children who live overseas will now be paid at a rate based on the cost of living in their home country for new EU migrants immediately and existing ones from 2020. That would require an amendment to another regulation. In both cases, the European Parliament will get a vote on the amendments. The parliament could vote against the proposals. If this happened they would have to propose their own amendments, which would then go back to the European Council. While the process to find a compromise deal could in theory be further extended by a considerable amount of time, it is unlikely to happen. The representatives of the two biggest political groups in the European Parliament, which together hold the majority of the seats, as well as the representative of the Liberal group which holds another 70 seats, were all part of the negotiations on the deal for the UK. The two main political groups are in favour of the deal. This is not to say that all their MEPs like it. Some might rebel and other smaller groups might propose amendments, but those are expected to be rejected by the majority of MEPs and the deal is expected to pass. The most likely timing for the European Parliament's vote - if Britain votes to remain in the EU on 23 June - is September 2016, when the parliament holds two plenary sessions. READ MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate","The UK - EU deal agreed in February 2016 gives the UK @placeholder to limit some EU migrants ' benefits , exemption from "" ever closer union "" of the EU , confirmation of the opt - out from the euro and safeguards against discrimination for being outside the eurozone .",response,lives,power,proposals,freedom,2
"Pathologists are examining the body of Birna Brjansdottir, found washed up on a beach on Sunday, a week after she spent a night out with friends. The case has shocked the tiny Arctic nation of just 330,000. Sparsely populated Greenland is in mourning too. Iceland has fewer than two murders a year - hardly ever involving strangers. The woman's disappearance sparked the biggest search and rescue operation in Iceland's history. More than 725 volunteers took part. Spots of Brjansdottir's blood were found inside a hire car linked to two crewmen from a Greenland trawler, the Polar Nanoq. Icelandic special forces flew out to sea on Sunday to bring it back to port and arrest them. One of her shoes was found near where their vessel was docked, at Hafnarfjordur, south of the capital Reykjavik.","Police in Iceland are questioning two Greenlandic sailors over the @placeholder murder of a 20 - year - old woman , in a case that has shocked Icelanders .",suspected,combined,home,chewed,growing,0
"In the last five years, Jennievic Betana, who is just 24 years old, has been pregnant four times. From selling peanuts to making a mint Your pictures: Philippines Linda Yueh: After the storm Philippines Direct She lives with her three surviving children in a small, crumbling cement-block house together with two brothers and husband, Buboy, in the vast slum of Bagong Silang in northern Manila. Buboy, a barber, earns about 300 pesos (£4, $7) a day, two-thirds of which goes to feeding the family. The burden of the extra mouths to feed is considerable. To avoid adding to their family, Jennievic and her husband rely on the calendar method, an arrangement that nevertheless resulted in the last two unplanned pregnancies. A practising Catholic, Jennievic knows that contraception is a sin in the eyes of the church, but says she is willing to take the spiritual risk for more immediate financial concerns. ""I want to use birth control,"" Jennievic says, ""but after paying for food, electricity and water, there's nothing left. I'll use it, even though I know it's a sin. ""If [the Church] were to help us once the children are here, then sure, I'll have more children. But they don't."" Jennievic's story is typical of many in the Philippines which has one of the highest population growth rates in Asia. Currently, the country is adding nearly two million people every year to its 100-million-strong population. This is putting a massive strain on resources, especially for the poorest among whom much of the recent growth has been concentrated. There is also the issue of illegal abortions, of which there are an estimated 600,000 a year. Some 90,000 of the women having these procedures are later hospitalised and about 1,000 die. This issue was recognised many years ago, when the Reproductive Health Bill was introduced in the Philippine congress back in 1999. Its aim was straightforward, to provide contraceptives to those who wanted and most needed them. But it has proved to be one of the most divisive issues to have been debated by congress in recent history. Conservative politicians opposed the bill and were backed by a horrified Catholic Church which fought against contraceptives from the pulpit and in the streets. ""There were some ugly episodes,"" says Risa Hontiveros, a former congresswoman, women's rights activist and prominent supporter of the bill. Priests denied communion to community health workers, campaigned against politicians supportive of the bill, and even threatened President Benigno Aquino III with excommunication. The ensuing battle dragged on for years. With 81% of Filipinos defining themselves as Catholic, the country's culture and society is intimately intertwined with the teaching of the church. Laws are often framed around Catholic values. Alcohol and cigarettes are taxed for being ""sins"". Abortion, euthanasia and same-sex marriage are deeply frowned upon, and the Philippines is the only country in the world, besides Vatican City, where divorce remains illegal. The Church has long wielded much more than spiritual influence. In a show of formidable political power, the Church rallied the faithful to help overthrow Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, a feat it repeated in 2001 to oust then-president Joseph Estrada. When the church's final legal challenge to the bill was overturned, the defeat had some in the Catholic Church, worried. Archbishop Oscar Cruz, who has twice served as president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, the church's governing body, admits that the passing of the bill ""shows that the church is losing influence over its members"". According to Allen Surla, professor of political science at De La Salle University, a Catholic institution, this is to do with the changing media landscape. Under the Marcos dictatorship, he says, the pulpit was the main source of information, dissenting or otherwise. These days, the church's teachings are vying for influence with many other sources of opinion in newspapers, radio, TV and the web. ""People are much more socially aware now than they were 20 or 30 years ago,"" says Prof Surla. Despite its efforts to demonise contraception, widespread support for the church's position never materialised. A poll taken in 2010 found that 70% of Filipinos supported the bill. Corazon Quinalayo, 52, a homemaker just leaving mass at Quiapo Church, one of Manila's most holy sites, says she does not support the reproductive health bill, but nor does she agree with the church hierarchy. She believes making contraceptives available for free is an endorsement of promiscuity and a waste of government funds. But she says the church is ""being too controlling. It's like they're not giving people their freedom."" Quinalayo adds that, however misguided, ""the government is just trying to help"". The 9 April decision of the Philippine Supreme Court to unanimously uphold the constitutionality of the law is seen as a victory in the eyes of women's rights activists and other supporters, who rallied outside the courthouse. Risa Hontiveros says the mood after the announcement was ""ecstatic"". ""There was cheering, crying and unadulterated joy. This was the fight of our lives,"" she says. As a Catholic herself, Hontiveros says it was painful to see the church try to assert its power over women's bodies, but says she never felt conflicted about her support for the bill. ""This will assist the majority of Filipinos who are poor,"" she says. ""They won't be overwhelmed by too many children. They won't be snowed under by the demands of the every day. It will improve maternal health and allow women to pursue more education or livelihoods."" Meanwhile, the church, licking its wounds, is looking ahead to other battles to fight. ""Contraception is no longer the issue. It's passe,"" says Archbishop Cruz, predicting further fights over divorce, abortion and same-sex marriage. ""I'm looking forward to it,"" he says, ""because it's going to be a big fight.""",The Catholic church plays a powerful role in the Philippines but last month it lost a significant battle in its bid to prevent a government - backed family planning programme . Aurora Almendral asks if the church is losing its grip on the @placeholder .,issue,grounds,islands,presidency,country,2
"The discovery was made just hours before the painting was to be sold by Anderson and Garland in Newcastle. It had been valued at up to £7,000, but a 15-minute bidding battle saw it go under the hammer at £13,500. Mr Cornish's son John identified the woman as his mother Sarah. Cornish, a former miner, was renowned for his paintings of life in the industrial North East having learned his craft at an art course run for pitmen at Spennymoor Settlement in County Durham. He died in August, aged 94. Anderson and Garland art specialist John Anderson, said: ""We found there was another portrait of a woman painted on the back and invited everyone in the room to have a look. ""One of those in the room was Norman Cornish's son John. It was an emotional moment for him when he told the saleroom this was a very early portrait of his mother."" Bidding started at £3,000 for the portrait, which was eventually bought by a North East collector. It was the last picture to be sold in a collection of Spennymoor Settlement paintings owned by Ivan Geffen. Mr Geffen, who died in 2013, was a former National Union of Mineworkers solicitor who worked in the Durham Coalfield in the 1940s and 50s. Mr Anderson said: ""The Spennymoor Settlement was a publicly funded educational institution where a number of pitmen went to learn art. ""Ivan realised the talent in the club and started to buy their work."" The paintings, which included six by Cornish, were sold for just under £100,000 by Mr Geffen's widow Mary who said she wanted them returned to the North East.","An early self - portrait by "" Pitman painter "" Norman Cornish has sold at auction for almost twice its @placeholder price after a painting of his wife was found hidden on the back .",face,estimated,purchase,home,side,1
"Patrick Ryan, 25, hit Phillip Evans while they were were drinking on 11 October, after Mr Evans claimed he had ""never been knocked out before"". The 42-year-old could not be revived, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard. Ryan, of Blackwood Avenue, Wednesfield, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at an earlier hearing and was sentenced on Tuesday. More on this, plus other Black Country stories Det Insp Martin Slevin, from West Midlands Police, said: ""Mr Evans had been a happy family man until working night shifts affected his sleeping pattern and he took to drink to relax, which resulted in him losing his family and spiralling into alcoholism. ""He lost his life tragically and his neighbour and friend is now serving time for his death and will have to live with the consequences of their brutal pastime for the rest of his life.""","A man has been jailed for three years after killing a friend who asked to be @placeholder in the face , police said .",caught,punched,burned,missing,injured,1
"Only half of people with cystic fibrosis make it into their 40s. Defects in their DNA mean they produce thick, sticky mucus that clogs and inexorably damages their lungs. Data presented at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference shows that a drugs combination - which enables production of runnier mucus - slows the irreversible decline in lung function. Errors in people's DNA - or genetic code - can lead to defective microscopic machinery in the lungs. Instead of producing a normal protective layer of mucus, they get the balance of salt and water wrong and it becomes damaging. Antibiotics help prevent infections settling in and drugs can loosen the mucus, but nothing deals with the fundamental problem for most patients. Early studies had suggested the drugs lumacaftor and ivacaftor could alter the microscopic machinery so they made runnier mucus. Those studies followed patients for just 24 weeks, but now doctors have nearly two years of data on them. The drug combination is clearly not a cure, but the researchers said the untreated patients would expect their lung function to decline by 2.3% a year, but this fell to 1.3% in those given the therapy. They were also less likely to need hospital treatment. Dr Michael Konstan, who led the trial from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, said: ""These data suggest that the benefits of lumacaftor/ivacaftor are sustained and indicate that the medicine may modify the progression of cystic fibrosis lung disease by treating its underlying cause."" Dr Stuart Elborn, from the Royal Brompton Hospital in London where some of the patients were treated, told the BBC News website: ""This is an incremental advance rather than a breakthrough, but it is very reassuring that the effect does not wear off. ""I'm really excited by the therapy and also the pipeline of other powerful drugs that could get us closer to a cure."" The therapy is not available on the NHS after it was rejected by funding bodies in England and Scotland. It costs more than £100,000 a year for each patient. There are also many types of error in the DNA that can culminate in cystic fibrosis. This treatment combination should work on around half of patients, while one of the drugs on its own corrects a small proportion of errors. New treatments are still required for the remaining patients. One in every 2,500 babies in the UK has cystic fibrosis. Follow James on Twitter.","A therapy that corrects the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis could @placeholder treatment , doctors have said .",use,provide,benefit,inspire,transform,4
"The revelation has sparked a wide number of investigations and could result in huge financial damage. There is speculation over the position of VW chief Martin Winterkorn. His contract is up for renewal on Friday. Meanwhile Germany has said it is considering launching a criminal inquiry into the scandal. ""In connection with the allegations of emission gas manipulation in VW diesel engines, the public prosecutors of Brunswick are considering launching a probe against management employees at Volkswagen,"" the prosecutors said in a statement. Volkswagen, the world's biggest carmaker, has admitted it deceived US regulators in exhaust emissions tests by installing a device to give more positive results. Reports in Germany suggest VW boss Mr Winterkorn has lost the support of key investors as a result. Analyst Arndt Ellinghorst at Evercore ISI said: ""VW needs a fresh start and in our view a new CEO."" The whole Volkswagen board will hold a scheduled meeting on Friday, although an announcement may come ahead of that. Volkswagen has said 11 million vehicles worldwide are involved and it is setting aside €6.5bn (£4.7bn) to cover costs of the scandal. VW shares fell by about 30% on Monday and Tuesday but recovered some ground on Wednesday. Wolfsburg is Volkswagen Town. It was founded in the 1930s to house workers building the KdF Wagen - the machine that became the Volkswagen Beetle. Like Detroit in the US, it owes its fortunes largely to the car industry - but unlike Detroit, it is still a wealthy and prosperous place. It is dominated by the firm's 6.5km2 factory - and the VW badge is everywhere. That is why the scandal at VW really matters to people here. 72,000 people work in the factory - more than half of the town's population. Most of the rest work in service industries which depend on VW employees for their business - shops, restaurants and the like. Even the tourist industry is largely focused on the Autostadt - a giant car-based theme park. If VW falls on hard times, so, very probably, will Wolfsburg The effects will also be felt more widely. The company is a major contributor to the economy of the state of Lower Saxony as a whole. Indeed, the regional government has a 20% stake in the business. And for Germany itself, it is a national champion, a symbol of German manufacturing pride. So the Volkswagen scandal could threaten the entire social fabric of Wolfsburg, seriously hurt the economy of Lower Saxony and deliver a sizeable wound to German national pride. As the company's directors look for ways to limit the fallout and rebuild trust in the brand, there really is a great deal at stake. VW boss Winterkorn's highs and lows VW scandal explained 'Made in Germany' brand threatened Why diesel sputters in the US market VW emissions scandal: Your reaction In the US, the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board are investigating the way VW cheated tests to measure the amount of pollutants coming from its diesel cars. According to news agencies Bloomberg and AFP, the Department of Justice is also looking into the issue, which raises the possibility of the company and individual executives facing criminal charges. A DoJ criminal investigation would be serious, as federal authorities can bring charges with severe penalties against a firm and individuals. Late on Tuesday, New York state's top lawyer also announced an investigation. 11 million Vehicles affected worldwide €6.5bn Set aside by VW $18bn Potential fines No. 1 Global carmaker in sales On Tuesday, Mr Winterkorn issued a fresh apology for the test-rigging, saying he was ""endlessly sorry"" for the ""manipulation"". The boss of Volkswagen's US business, Michael Horn, has also admitted the firm ""totally screwed up"". In the UK, the Department of Transport has added its voice to calls for an EU-wide investigation into the affair. News of the fake tests emerged last Friday, when the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said VW diesel cars had much higher emissions than tests had suggested and that software in several diesel cars could deceive regulators. As a result Volkswagen was ordered to recall half a million cars in the US. The EPA found the ""defeat device"", the device that allowed VW cars to emit less during tests than they would while driving normally, in diesel cars including the Audi A3 and the VW Jetta, Beetle, Golf and Passat models. VW has stopped selling the relevant diesel models in the US, where diesel cars account for about a quarter of its sales. The EPA said that the fine for each vehicle would be up to $37,500 (£24,000). With 482,000 cars sold since 2008 involved in the allegations, it means the fines could reach $18bn. That would be a considerable amount, even for the company that recently overtook Toyota to be the world's top-selling vehicle maker in the first six months of the year. Industry experts are concerned about what this means more widely for diesel car manufacturers. Jim Holder, editorial director of Haymarket Automotive, whose titles include WhatCar and AutoCar, told the BBC that there had never been a scandal in the industry of this size, and that it could make diesel engines for cars uneconomical. However, Martin Leach, a consultant at Magma and a former head of Ford Europe, told the BBC that  the problem is unlikely to emerge elsewhere. ""I don't think it will extend to other manufacturers. Volkswagen has really engaged to try to beat standards in the US. I would be surprised if it spreads outside the US as Europe's testing standards were more advanced and therefore more difficult to cheat than the US.""",Volkswagen 's five senior board members are meeting to discuss the company 's fate after it was @placeholder manipulating US diesel car emissions tests .,caught,described,awarded,hailed,declared,0
"He placed the £10 accumulator with Ladbrokes at the start of the season. He predicted every Scottish league winner plus the top teams in the English Championship, League One and League Two. However, he had a nervous wait as the Championship winners Newcastle only edged out Brighton in the closing minutes of the final day on Sunday. An 89th minute equaliser from Aston Villa's Jack Grealish against Brighton effectively handed the title to Rafa Benitez's side. The gambler does not wish to be named but it was revealed he was in his 50s and from the Scottish Borders. In total he won £60,734.38 from his £10 bet. Jessica Bridge of Ladbrokes said: ""Hindsight has paid off big time here for this customer for such a small outlay."" It is the second big payout in the region in a matter of weeks. Last month an apprentice joiner from Hawick won more than £20,000 from a £3 football bet.","A man from the Borders has @placeholder £ 60,000 by correctly guessing the winners of seven football leagues .",announced,helped,stolen,lost,scooped,4
"President Rouhani's European tour has been headline news in Iran throughout the week. It's 16 years since an Iranian president last made a state visit to Europe, and as Iran returns to the international stage after more than a decade of sanctions, there's huge anticipation both at home and abroad about the potential changes to come. The president has been accompanied by a team of journalists from Iran who have been charting his every move. One was even spotted in Rome airport frantically adjusting his selfie stick to get just the right angle to do a report with the president in the background. The focus, of course, has been on the multi-billion dollar trade deals which the president has signed with major French and Italian companies. These include contracts for construction, carmaking and a much-heralded deal with Airbus to supply a new fleet of passenger planes. All of these will have a major impact on the lives of ordinary Iranians. ""The Italians are rushing to sign trade deals with Iran to compensate for their long absence from the Iranian market,"" said one report on state television news. The presidential visit is a clear signal for Iranians that their country is back where it belongs. Many have posted messages on President Rouhani's Facebook page, thanking him for his efforts to revive Iran's international image. But reactions have not been universally enthusiastic. After waiting so long for some positive news, many people in Iran are still deeply cautious. ""We won't receive even 20% of the benefits of these deals,"" said Mohammad, a Facebook user. ""Twenty per cent?"" retorted another user, Hossein. ""One per cent is more likely."" One aspect of the visit which really got people talking on social media was the news that Mr Rouhani's Italian hosts had covered up many of the nude statues in Rome's Capitoline Museum as a gesture of respect. The Iranian sense of humour took no time to devour the story, with numerous jokes, cartoons and photoshopped images rapidly appearing. In his latest creation for the IranWire news site, popular cartoonist Mana Neyestani poked fun at the story by adapting a famous Iranian slogan encouraging women to cover up with the hijab. ""A box doesn't restrict you, it gives you immunity,"" says the slogan on a wall in Rome. ""Isn't it great not to miss home when you are in Italy,"" says a cheerful looking President Rouhani passing by. There were images of classical statues wearing jeans, and two that proved very popular showing the Mona Lisa, and the Eiffel Tower draped in Iranian chadors. The fact that a lunch between the French and Iranian presidents in Paris was cancelled because the hosts refused to take wine off the menu also prompted much debate. But not everyone was laughing. Facebook user Shaghayegh spoke for many when she wrote that she was disappointed that the story about the statues being covered up had dominated coverage of the president's visit. US-based Iranian journalist Arash Karami was also exasperated by all the fuss. ""When Italy covered nude statues for UAE prince hardly made news. When they did it for Iran it's endless hot takes,"" he tweeted. As some observers have pointed out, beyond the jokes, the key point about the statues story is what it says about the pressures on President Rouhani back home in Iran. As he tries to present a more open image of Iran to the world, he faces a barrage of criticism from his hardline opponents. In this kind of atmosphere it's vital to avoid any unfortunate photo ops with nude statues that could easily be used against him. Profile: Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran Back home in Iran, reaction to the visit in conservative circles was guarded. Hardliners have been quick to point out that the nuclear deal would never have been reached without the support of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Ultra-conservative newspaper Kayhan quoted a former deputy industry minister's sceptical words about the deals mooted to be signed with French carmakers Peugeot Citroen and Renault. In the past, he said pointedly, they had not proved to be very ""reliable partners"". In general, however, the tone of criticism from hardline media has been relatively mild. Vatan-Emrooz, another hardline newspaper, even praised President Rouhani's forthright response when he was asked at a press conference in Italy whether Iran would apologise to Saudi Arabia for an attack on its embassy in Tehran. When President Rouhani heads home he will have some important items ticked off his long shopping list. And he will carry hopes that this week's visit will be just the beginning of a new era of trade relations and engagement with the rest of the world.",Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been in Italy and France this week on his first official visits to both countries . Iran is emerging from the @placeholder after 12 years of international trade sanctions and the president has a long shopping list . What are Iranians saying about the visit ?,brink,minds,depression,shadows,period,3
"30 November 2015 Last updated at 08:29 GMT She has witnessed the horror of the Syrian civil war. Her family, like many others, lost their house after suffering fierce bombings by the government security forces. She wishes she could go to school (in a basement) every day, but sometimes the risk of shelling or barrel bombs makes it almost impossible. Her story is part of a series of six short films for the BBC 100 Women season called 'Good Girl', in which young women around the world talk about the pressure to fit in with society's expectations. Video produced by Muzna Al-Naib, Amira, and Vladimir Hernandez. Our 100 Women season showcases two weeks of inspirational stories about the BBC 100 Women and others who defy stereotypes around the world. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram using the hashtag #100Women. Listen to the programmes here.","' Amira ' ( not her real name as she can not be identified for security reasons ) , is 15 years old and lives in a rebel @placeholder area outside Damascus .",showing,beach,based,room,held,4
"A couple in their 20s from Northern Ireland drowned while on honeymoon in South Africa. John and Lynette Rodgers, from Holywood in County Down, were found on a beach at Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape. Click here to read more U2 frontman Bono says he fears that he may never play guitar again following a bike accident last November. He made the comment in his A to Z of 2014, published on the band's website. Click here to read more A former senior IRA figure has been shot dead near Belfast city centre. Gerard 'Jock' Davison, 47, was shot a number of times at Welsh Street in the Markets area at about 09:00 BST. Click here to read more Prince Charles has met Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at the start of his four-day visit to Ireland. Mr Adams was among a number of politicians to greet the prince at a reception at National University of Ireland Galway. Click here to read more A judge has ruled that a Christian-run bakery discriminated against a gay customer by refusing to make a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan. Ashers Baking Company, based in County Antrim, was taken to court by gay rights activist Gareth Lee. Click here to read more A former soldier has been arrested by detectives investigating the events of Bloody Sunday in Londonderry. Thirteen people were killed when British paratroopers opened fire on a civil rights march through the city in January 1972. A fourteenth died later. He was later released on bail Click here to read more A bus driver from Northern Ireland has been killed in a coach crash in Belgium. James 'Geordie' Chance was on a bus carrying 34 school children from an Essex school in the UK. Click here to read more Figures suggest the Republic of Ireland has voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a historic referendum. More than 3.2m people were asked whether they wanted to amend the country's constitution to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. Click here to read more Ten people, including five children, have died in a fire at a travellers' site in the Republic of Ireland. Emergency services were called to the Glenamuck Road in Carrickmines, County Dublin, at about 04:00 local time on Saturday. Click here to read more A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the TalkTalk hacking attack, Scotland Yard has said. Metropolitan Police said a house had been searched in County Antrim on Monday afternoon at about 16:20 GMT. Click here to read more","As 2015 draws to a close , we take a look back at the most read @placeholder of the year written by the BBC News NI team .",parts,control,taste,stories,details,3
"But what does this headline-grabbing event say about France's relationship with its unions, and their role in French society? As every child knows, a story needs its goodies and its baddies. And political stories are no different, except that the labels change depending on who is telling the tale. So why has France had such a hard time deciphering who's who in the recent Air France protest? The initial reaction, from the public at least, seemed clear. One opinion poll, taken in the days after the attack on company managers, found that 75% of French were ""shocked"". In another, more than two-thirds of respondents called the violence ""inexcusable"". The government joined in, with Prime Minister Manuel Valls condemning the behaviour of some protesters, and calling them ""thugs"". Only France's far left, and the CGT union behind the demonstration, came out in strong support of the shirt-rippers, with the union reiterating their ""total support"" for those arrested in the aftermath of the violence. But then something interesting happened, says Gil Mihaely, deputy editor at current affairs magazine Causeur. ""The wind changed,"" he says. ""At first people were shocked by the images, but after the emotion died down, something changed. ""And the worker from the shipyard who refused to shake President Hollande's hand a few days later became a hero."" That worker was Sebastien Benoit, secretary of the CGT's maritime arm. He rebuffed the president during an inspection of a shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, criticising him for failing to denounce the ""employers' violence"" in the Air France affair. A day later, French radio station RFI ran an article which described the events at Air France as ""a mirror of the French Revolution"". ""The violence at Air France has shocked the world,"" it read. ""But what's more shocking for French people is the sympathy shown to the company's bosses, when it's potentially 3,000 members of staff that could get the axe."" And so began the slide of victimhood from one side to the other. The violence of the Air France protest may have been unusual, and sympathy for its shirtless and terrified managers may have been real, but that was just the human story. The debate itself, slicing thousands of jobs in France's difficult economic climate, switched many sympathies to the other side.  The union members, many people seemed to concede, had a point. ""A significant proportion of people - especially those in lower income groups - said they 'understood' the violence, even if they didn't approve of it,"" says Dr Susan Milner, a specialist in French labour relations at Bath University in the UK. 8% of employees belong to a union 2010 saw a peak in strikes over pensions Minimum wage (p/hr)  €9.61 Unemployment rate is 10.7% She believes attitudes towards the Air France protest have been coloured by widespread anger at job losses in France more generally, and government failure to tackle unemployment rates. But despite the strong stance of organisations like the CGT on issues like the minimum wage, hiring policies and the 35-hour week, Susan Milner says public anger over job losses does not necessarily translate into support for trade unions themselves. In fact, says Prof Guy Groux of Sciences Po university, conflicts like the one at Air France ""spring from despair, the unions being too weak to bring together members in big days of action"". ""And the weaker a union is, the louder it has to shout to make itself heard."" Only 8% of employees are members of a union in France, compared with 25% in the UK. But union negotiations affect all workers in a particular company or industry, members and non-members alike. Their influence, therefore, comes not from membership but from a curious combination of their institutional position as state-sanctioned workers' representatives, and their protest power, says Susan Milner. ""And there's growing tension between these two sources of power,"" she explains, ""[partly] because the economic climate has encouraged grassroots discontent."" There is discontent with the unions themselves, too, which are often seen as rigid, self-serving and tainted by their establishment position. In fact, one of the clearest results in polling after the Air France affair was the 82% who said it was a sign of France's ""degraded social dialogue"", and both politicians and commentators have called for reform - from mandatory union membership, to directly polling staff members on key decisions. PM Valls has already launched a new project to tweak the relationship between the French state, its unions and employers, paring back the 3,000-page Labour Law, and giving companies and union representatives more leeway in negotiating deals at company and regional levels. But some are sceptical that reform alone can transform the dinosaurs of the industrial era into representatives fit for France's contemporary economy. ""Unions find it difficult to move from the world of big employers to the world of people who change jobs 10-15 times, or who work in two different places at the same time, or who use their car as a taxi at night,"" says Gil Mihaely. ""They're still working with the old model in their heads."" Guy Groux from Sciences Po agrees, but says France cannot function without them. ""There are 35,000-40,000 agreements signed between management and unions each year in France,"" he says, ""and the number of strike days has shrunk dramatically."" Unions may also be an occasional lightening rod for a working class that feels increasingly powerless and invisible, but when it comes to violent revolt like that at Air France, says Mr Mihaely, the ruling class also bears some responsibility. ""The story here is not just the unions, it's the French elites,"" he says. ""That's why we have the same re-enactment of the French Revolution - the aristocracy, the legitimacy of violence, the small humiliating the big. ""There are too many officers who were never soldiers,"" he explains. ""When you have to announce bad news, every ounce of credibility and legitimacy counts. The future is less job security; it's work more and earn less; it's a smaller pension taken later. ""This is the news that this generation of French elite must break - and they don't know how to do it.""","France was shocked by scenes from a recent Air France demonstration , which ended with two executives @placeholder an angry mob , their shirts and jackets torn to shreds .",unleashed,delivers,leading,fleeing,battling,3
"On International Women's Day, former Arsenal and England winger Rachel Yankey explains how views on women in football have changed over the past 15 years and why producing better female coaches is more of a priority than making a breakthrough in the men's game. And when I started coaching in primary schools in 2004, the kids would see a woman walk into the playground and say: ""Why have we got a female coach?"" Thankfully, that sort of scenario doesn't happen any more. When I was recently doing my Uefa B licence, I coached at Barnet's under-18 men's team and there were no quizzical looks or snide comments. It probably helped that they recognised me from my playing career at Arsenal and England, but they accepted me for who I was and after a few sessions I gained their trust. It feels pretty cool when a player turns to you and asks: ""As a winger, what would you do?"" That shows you the perception of women playing and coaching football has changed massively, but there's still a lot to work on and the lack of female coaches at the top level is still an issue. People often ask when we'll see a female coaching at a men's professional team, but a more pertinent question is: how many females are working at the top of women's football in England? In the top two divisions of the Women's Super League, five out of 20 managers are women so, in my view, we need more qualified female coaches in that area first. The reasons for the lack of women's coaches are numerous and I'm not going to pretend I have all the answers. The first thing to say is that the coaches need to be good enough in the first place. They must have the right qualifications and experience, and I would hate to see jobs being handed out in a tokenistic fashion. That doesn't help anybody. There are problems in getting female coaches onto courses in the first place, and I think that's where some hard work needs to happen. It might be that women don't know when the courses are happening or they fear being rejected or laughed at, like girls used to when they wanted to play football. I can only say that football is a lot more tolerant now. The real problem comes when female coaches are being rejected for work despite having the qualifications. Is it covert sexism? I draw parallels with qualified black coaches who struggle to get employment. People need to be given a chance and for that to happen, perceptions need to change. If you have the experience and qualifications and you don't get a job, you will always look for the reasons why. I would urge those chairmen, or whoever is hiring, to be more open-minded. I'm now part of a group of elite female players, including former England skipper Casey Stoney, and record England goalscorer Kelly Smith, who are doing their Uefa A licence. There are many more England players who are heading down this pathway, and it points to a bright future where experienced internationals can pass their knowledge onto the next generation. Do we need to break into the men's game to make it as a coach? I don't think that's necessary in order to be considered a success. And I think it will be a long way off anyway because of the external influences which will judge you. Look at how Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger or Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri are treated by fans and the press. It's a cut-throat business and imagine if a female manager was in charge. Despite the progress, stereotypes still exist in football and until that is broken down it will be extremely difficult for a woman to manage a top level men's team. A lot of it will be down to the culture of the club, similar to Clermont Foot in France where Corinne Diacre has had some success in the French second division. Media playback is not supported on this device On a personal level, I'm concentrating on being the best coach I can be but it's a challenge moving from the playing side to being on the sidelines. Despite being released from Arsenal, I've not hung up my boots yet and I actually find it easier to spot things while I'm on the field. I enjoy passing on my football knowledge and I'm looking forward to helping shape the future of women's football. After England reached third place in the 2015 World Cup, we have evidence that we are producing better players so now we need take the same approach with our coaches. Once that happens, perhaps we will see more female coaches pushing towards the men's game and maybe even Premier League or Football League clubs seeking those coaches out. Former England boss Hope Powell was linked with Grimsby at one stage and now she is working in a Professional Footballers' Association role educating male coaches in professional clubs. That will change perceptions and ensure she is rightly seen as a successful coach, who just happens to be female. Rachel Yankey was speaking to BBC Sport's Alistair Magowan.","When I was a kid , I once @placeholder my head to pretend to be a boy because it ensured no - one questioned me as a footballer .",shaved,expects,raised,attracting,looks,0
"Yet compared to only a few years ago the category is no longer a byword among Oscar voters for baffling obscurity. And this year one of the films shortlisted is already lined up for a Hollywood remake. Here's a look at this year's nominees: Country: Denmark Language: German with some Danish and English Denmark's track record in this category: 11 nominations including 3 wins Director: Martin Zandvleet Story: Immediately after World War Two on Denmark's west coast, a group of teenage German soldiers are to clear some of the two million landmines which Germany deployed on beaches and along the shoreline to deter an Allied invasion.  They are supervised by the Danish Sergeant Rasmussen who at first seems filled with violence. Will it win?   Voted Best Danish Film at last year's Danish film awards.  It's well acted both by Roland Moller as the sergeant and by the young actors who play the Germans.  When early on Rasmussen delivers a savage beating for no clear reason, we guess that the story will see him humanised by his contact with the soldiers he appears to despise.  A couple of incidents late in the film seem there only for dramatic convenience and don't convince.  The scenes of defusing mines are impressively tense and hard to watch. Country: Sweden Language: Swedish Sweden's Track Record: 14 nominations including three wins (all for Ingmar Bergman) Director: Hannes Holm Story: Ove is a cranky old widower living alone. He expends a lot of energy trying to police the behaviour of his neighbours, who treat him warily. Ove's not pleased when the house opposite is taken by a new family: he finds it hard to accept the warm-hearted Parvaneh (who's Iranian) and her Swedish husband. Yet a relationship builds and in flashback we encounter the younger Ove, a man more open to life's possibilities who marries the beautiful Sonja. Will it win?  The film is attractively shot and Rolf Lassgard makes Ove sympathetic as an old man without totally sentimentalising him.  Some of the humour is a bit clunky and the process of discovering Ove's latent nice guy within runs along predictable lines.  But in the extensive flashbacks Filip Berg and Ida Engvoll make an attractive and likeable young couple which gives the film an unexpected sweetness. Country: Iran Language: Persian Iran's track record: 2 nominations including a win for the same director in 2011 Director: Asghar Farhadi Story: Emad and Rana are middle-class inhabitants of Tehran: he teaches but their joint passion is acting. After a tip-off from a fellow actor they find a new apartment. It seems a good move until they discover more about the previous occupant who left one room locked. As they work on a production of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, the couple's relationship becomes more tense. There is a violent incident and Emad becomes obsessed with revenge. Will it win?  It may be that no film can overtake the German nominee this year. But Farhadi has written a superbly tense and unsettling screenplay whose mastery of dread Alfred Hitchcock would have relished.  The couple are superbly played by Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini.  Previous winner Farhadi has indicated he will refuse to attend the Oscar ceremony in protest at President Trump trying to restrict Iranians entering the USA: could this create a sympathy vote for him?  The most memorable of this year's films. Country: Australia Language: Nivhaal (The film was shot on location on Vanuatu.) Australia's Track Record: First nomination in this category Directors: Martin Butler and Bentley Dean Story: On a Pacific island, Dain and Wawa live in a primitive village where life is virtually untouched by the modern world. The spirited young Selin watches as her sister Wawa is betrothed to a man outside the village - but Wawa wants to be with Dain. The lovers run away. Selin follows as the villagers set off to find her sister - and tragedy looms. Will it win?  The least mainstream of this year's nominees  is exactly the kind of film the Academy hoped would benefit from reforming the voting system.  It's a well-shot and mainly well-acted story filmed on a South Pacific island far from the usual movie-world support systems.  The story, with its echo of Romeo and Juliet, is engrossing and in its early stages charming.  Locations are attractive without resembling an ad for upmarket beach holidays.  It won't take the Oscar but it's worth catching. Country: Germany Language: German, English and Romanian Germany's track Record: 18 nominations (including one for East Germany) and a total of 3 wins Director: Maren Ade Story: Winfried (who adopts the name Toni) has a distant relationship with his daughter Ines, a business consultant working in Bucharest. He decides to leave Germany to pay her a visit, not wholly to her pleasure. Ines is climbing in her career and finds some of her eccentric father's activities a pain. But she tries to tolerate him and passes him off to colleagues as her life coach. A late scene suggests they have re-established some kind of family intimacy, but the question is left open. Will it win?  The film got a lot of attention at last year's Cannes Festival - often along the lines of 'Amazing - a German comedy!'.  The fact that large sections are in English won't harm its chances and it's built up a head of steam which may well grab it the Oscar.  The simple description comedy underplays the story's ambiguities and some audiences will be surprised that certain scenes are far from comic.  The film's half an hour too long.  A Hollywood remake has been announced, to star Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig.  Could that incline Academy voters to back the original? The Academy Awards are held on 26 February. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",On Oscar night the winner of the award for Best Foreign Language film probably wo n't get much @placeholder - it seldom does .,centre,publicity,training,notice,hand,1
"The aim of a single ""mega-database"" is to fight identity fraud and improve efficiency. But, as Paul Kirby explains, there are fears the database could be abused not only by hackers but by state intelligence too, The single database would not be used in judicial investigations, ministers insist. Rather, it would help tackle identity fraud by comparing one set of digital fingerprints with another. France's interior ministry wants the Secure Electronic Documents (TES) to collect all the information on an individual held on two separate databases that have details of people's passports and national ID cards. Only children under 12 would be exempt. It would include an individual's name, address, martial status, eye colour, weight, photograph and fingerprints. It's merely an administrative register, argues Justice Minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas. Its only legal use would be when data need to be requisitioned. First of all, there are very real security concerns. A centralised database of that magnitude, in the words of France's CNNum digital watchdog, would create a ""target of inestimable value"" in a data world where no system is impregnable. Then there's privacy, a highly sensitive issue across Europe, particularly as it is enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. One centre-right senator spoke of a ""time bomb for public freedoms"" and the digital watchdog warned that democracy was on the retreat in Europe and the US. France's Socialists objected to an earlier database on grounds of privacy when the centre-right government suggested one in 2012. That database would have been used to investigate crime. It was eventually slapped down by the constitutional court because it did not protect against ""arbitrary use"". Now the Socialist government has steered through a revamped database by government decree, during a holiday weekend, without the agreement of France's National Assembly. Every country is having to balance privacy and security, especially in Europe. Earlier this year, the European Parliament backed a joint system on airline passenger data on flights in and out of the EU and there's a push for greater information sharing across police forces. For Joe McNamee of European digital rights group Edri it's becoming ""an ideology rather than a tool"". ""You're creating a specific privacy risk for the individual vis-a-vis the state. We're getting to a stage where the question is how much bang for a buck are you getting."" In Denmark, a personal ID number works across all the public service databases and campaigners worry that safeguards are insufficient. For some countries, such as Germany and Spain which suffered decades of state surveillance in the 20th Century, personal privacy is seen as essential. The UK is due to pass by the end of 2016 the Investigatory Powers Bill which will allow security agencies to access databases held by private and public organisations. Critics have dubbed the law a ""snooper's charter"" but the House of Lords has inserted an amendment emphasising privacy as a fundamental priority. It is real and it has happened before: If the French database does get off the ground, an estimated 10,000 staff would have access to it, raising further questions about the system's inherent security. It would cost more, but there was a plan for an electronic chip to be inserted on the ID card with details of the holder's biometric data. Either way, the database was set to be launched as a pilot scheme on Tuesday despite the controversy. The Socialist minister responsible for digital affairs, Axelle Lemaire, said she was appalled at the secrecy behind the government's decree.",A French state watchdog has called for the @placeholder of a database that could end up holding the biometric details of 60 million people .,launch,building,grounds,announcement,suspension,4
"Kelly Webster, 36, and Lauren Thornton, 10, were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a DIY generator on board his boat on Windermere. Matthew Eteson, who modified the system to make it quieter, denied two charges of manslaughter by gross negligence. The 42-year-old will be sentenced at Preston Crown Court on 13 November. Miss Webster and Lauren, both from Leyland in Lancashire, were found dead in their sleeping quarters on board the second-hand Bayliner 285 motor cruiser Arniston in April 2013. The trial was told that Eteson, of Hale in Manchester, had constructed a copper pipe which had ""fallen apart"" when the temperature at the soldered elbow got too high.",A @placeholder fitter has been found guilty of the manslaughter of his partner and her daughter who died after falling ill on a boat .,man,drug,gas,body,date,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device The hosts collapsed to 223 all out as they slipped to a seventh loss in nine Tests to go 1-0 down in the series. Former England skippers Michael Vaughan and Alec Stewart have called on the England and Wales Cricket Board to take the captaincy off Cook. But Cook, who has not made a hundred in 27 innings, said: ""To quit now, in the middle of the series, would be wrong."" The Essex opener took charge following Andrew Strauss's retirement in 2012, scoring three centuries in a series win in India and leading England to a 3-0 Ashes success last summer. Since then, Cook has overseen a 5-0 whitewash by Australia down under and a 1-0 home defeat by Sri Lanka. Media playback is not supported on this device There has been no sign of an upturn in the ongoing series against India, with England going 1-0 down in the second Test at Lord's on Monday. ""I'm not trying to prove anyone wrong,"" Cook, 29, said. ""When I was made England captain, I told my wife I would give it my all. ""If it's not to be, so be it. But I believe the team needs me to lead them through this tough time. I've been speaking to (head coach) Peter Moores over the last couple of days and, even in tough times, me and him still think we can turn this around. ""A captain is only good as the players you play with. You always think you could do different things in hindsight but I know when we've won games of cricket I've captained well. ""I don't think my captaincy was the reason we lost this game."" The defeat by India also means coach Moores is without a win in four Tests since he was re-appointed in April, but he remained supportive of Cook. ""Alastair has had a tough ride, through the winter and now,"" said Moores. ""The tougher it gets, the more he wants to get stuck in and build this team. He realises that's not an easy job. ""We have to support people and it's great to see he's got the stomach for that fight. ""It's difficult to captain when you're not scoring runs. He's an outstanding player and individual and time will show that. He'll come back stronger."" Listen to Geoffrey Boycott and Jonathan Agnew review the second Test on the Test Match Special podcast.",Alastair Cook said he will not @placeholder as England captain this summer despite the 95 - run defeat by India at Lord 's .,resign,renew,remain,form,stop,0
"Ms Knightley may have had a change of heart - she recently told US chat show host Ellen de Generes that she had looked online for advice about planning her wedding - but for many so-called ""digital deniers"", the opportunity to block out technology is often welcomed. ""Technology is becoming more personal,"" security expert Graham Cluley told the BBC. ""We're going to see more and more devices that are carried on your person or worn - I am expecting there to be something of a backlash. Some people will love those things, others will find it very upsetting."" For those who consider themselves to be in the latter group, technology - ironically - may provide the solution. The National Institute of Informatics in Japan has developed prototype glasses that inhibit facial-recognition cameras. Described by some as the antidote to Google Glass, these specs contain 11 LED lights along the eyebrows and nose. ""The LEDs are installed around these locations because a feature of face detection is the eyes and part of the nose appear dark, while the other part of the nose appears bright,"" Prof Isao Echizen told news website diginfo.tv. ""So by placing light sources near the dark parts of the face, we've succeeded in cancelling face detection characteristics, making face detection fail."" Prof Echizen is also developing visors that contain reflective material or absorb light to inhibit cameras that do not rely on infra-red. Emil DeToffol, an engineering graduate and former dentist in New York, founded the retail website lessEMF.com in 1996 after growing concerned about unproven health fears surrounding the electromagnetic radiation commonly emitted by everyday electronics. The NHS says on its website that, so far, ""a number of studies, both in the UK and internationally, have not identified any health risks associated with [telecommunications] devices"" but adds that ""it may be too early to detect possible long-term risks or problems that may be associated with them"". But Mr DeToffol's company specialises in selling a variety of products - ranging from baseball caps to bedding - containing silver, copper, stainless steel or carbon fibres that reflect radiation. ""In the 1990s the issues were power lines, electric blankets, CRT [cathode-ray tube] display screens - there was no wi-fi. Cellphones were just getting started,"" Mr DeToffol told the BBC. ""Now, as our world becomes more electrified... people are getting sicker."" While he does not suffer himself, Mr DeToffol said he had heard from customers around the world, complaining of a variety of symptoms ranging from headaches and irritability to tinnitus and cardiac issues. He did concede that radiation might not always be the cause. ""At this point it is not the majority of the population, but it is a certain percentage that's made quite ill by this,"" he said. The company's best-sellers were its baseball cap and balaclava, followed by ""hoodie"" tops that covered both head and torso, added Mr DeToffol. ""The issue comes down to what part of the body does the person need to shield?"" he said. ""Most popular tends to be shielding for the head - particularly for when people are sleeping."" Named after 19th Century British scientist Michael Faraday, a Faraday cage is a metal construction that traps electromagnetic waves. This means devices such as mobile phones or anything containing a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip - including passports, travel cards and credit cards - are unable to receive or transmit data from inside one. Wired magazine published an online guide for making a hand-sized Faraday Cage out of duct tape and aluminium foil for those concerned about the possibility of the covert retrieval of information from cards and gadgets via discreet scanners. One unnamed man who defected from North Korea attempted his own interpretation of a Faraday cage during his time in the tightly controlled regime - where mobile phone use is strictly monitored by the authorities. ""In order to make sure the mobile phone frequencies are not being tracked, I would fill up a washbasin with water and put the lid of a rice cooker over my head while I made a phone call,"" he is quoted as saying in a research paper called A Quiet Opening. ""I don't know if it worked or not, but I was never caught."" In 2009 researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a kind of paint that can block wireless signals. The paint contains an aluminium oxide that resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi, blocking the path of data both in and out of an indoor environment where the paint is present. The idea of radio frequency blocking paint was not new even then - but this was the first of its kind to absorb frequencies of 100 gigahertz, the researchers said. ""The very existence of 'anti-technology' means that people are worried and we should take that seriously,"" said technologist Suw Charman-Anderson. ""We need to have to a public discussion about what we find acceptable and what we don't. ""Anybody who thinks they are not being tracked may be a little naïve - if you buy your groceries with a credit card or use a loyalty card then you are being tracked,"" she added. ""But the level of vigilance that would be needed to completely hide yourself would probably have negative consequences on your emotional wellbeing - I think we have to pick our battles.""","Actress Kiera Knightley once described the internet as "" dehumanising "" and said she avoided it , while singer Sir Paul McCartney has previously admitted to being @placeholder by High Street bank cash machines .",affected,baffled,wrought,explored,monitored,1
"The royal guests were met by director Sam Mendes and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson ahead of the screening at the Royal Albert Hall. Daniel Craig, who has played 007 for a decade, was the first to arrive on the red carpet on Monday night. He told the BBC: ""It's changed my life and I've loved every second of it."" The star also admitted that he ""hated"" watching himself on screen, but said ""I love playing James Bond"". Craig said Mendes was ""one of the best directors there is"" and that he had enjoyed being ""creatively involved from the very beginning"". Other cast members on the red carpet included Naomie Harris, Christoph Waltz, Ben Whishaw, Ralph Fiennes, Andrew Scott, Dave Bautista and ""Bond girls"" Lea Seydoux and Monica Bellucci. Bellucci said it was a ""great pleasure"" to be part of the ""amazing tradition"" of Bond films. ""It's magic,"" she said. ""It's incredible how James Bond represents so much, not just in England actually, but all over the world."" Scott, who plays a new character called Denbigh, said that the franchise had lasted so well because it kept ""reinventing"" itself. The Sherlock star added: ""The  storyline in this movie is about surveillance and how we're watched constantly. There's a lot of prescient subject matter in the recent Bond films."" Spectre is the first Bond film to open in cinemas on the same day as its premiere. Mendes said he was delighted that the public were also getting to see the film. "" I love the idea that cinemas around the country will be full tonight at the same time as we are doing the royal premiere."" ""It's just fantastic to see everybody out tonight,"" said Daniel Craig as he arrived on the Spectre red carpet that snaked further than the eye could see around the Royal Albert Hall. Hundreds of fans - some of whom had queued since Saturday - lined the route in the hope of a photo with Craig. He didn't disappoint them. As several thousand guests surged into the famous domed venue, huge speakers pumped out Bond themes past and present, as clips from Spectre played out on giant screens. Famous faces on the carpet included Dames Shirley Bassey and Joan Collins, Hobbit star Martin Freeman, musician Will.i.am and former Bond girl Maryam D'Abo from The Living Daylights. For two hours the whole event was telecast around the world - just as cinema audiences prepared to watch the film for the first time. When it comes to world premieres, nobody does it better than 007. The 24th official entry in the franchise sees Bond battling a criminal syndicate led by Franz Oberhauser, played by Waltz. Spectre is the third Bond film chosen for the Royal Film Performance since its inception in 1946. It follows previous premieres for Die Another Day (2002) and Skyfall (2012). Early reviews have been positive, with some critics awarding the film five stars. Speaking to the BBC last week, Craig said he had not made any decisions about whether he would carry on playing 007. The actor, on his fourth outing as the superspy, had told Time Out magazine that he would ""rather slash [his] wrists"" than make a fifth Bond film. But he told the BBC's Lizo Mzimba: ""I'm quite straightforward and I say things when I feel it and then I change my mind. I'm just like everybody else."" Speaking to the BBC on the red carpet, producer Barbara Broccoli said: ""I'm pretty determined to keep him!"" Spectre was shot at Pinewood Studios and filmed on location in London, Mexico City, Rome and Tangier and Erfoud, in Morocco. The shadowy organisation Spectre - which was previously an acronym for the Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion - last made an appearance in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, with Sean Connery as Bond.",The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have @placeholder the stars of new James Bond film Spectre for its world premiere in London .,joined,remained,clashed,described,became,0
"The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) is examining abuse claims in children's homes and juvenile justice over a 73-year period. It was set up by Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive to investigate allegations dating from 1922 to 1995. The inquiry is being chaired by Sir Anthony Hart. He will be assisted in his role by a number of other inquiry members. The inquiry is also being supported by four acknowledgement forum panel members. Their role is to provide a confidential forum for victims and survivors to recount their childhood experiences of living in institutions. Sir Anthony was called to the Northern Ireland Bar in September 1969, and to the Bar of England and Wales in 1975. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1983, and was appointed a county court judge in 1985. In 1997 he became the senior county court judge in Northern Ireland when he was appointed Recorder of Belfast, and in 2002 was the first person to be appointed as presiding judge of the County Courts in Northern Ireland. In January 2005, he was appointed a high court judge, and until his retirement in January 2012 was responsible to the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland for the pre-trial hearings in, and listing of, all criminal cases heard by high court judges, and presided over many criminal trials. Geraldine Doherty qualified as a social worker in Belfast in 1979 and her first job was in residential child care in London. She has wide experience of social work, social care practice, education and training, working in England and Scotland. In 1996 she was appointed as the head of the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work in Scotland and in 2000 was seconded from that post to the Scottish Executive to advise on the establishment of national arrangements for the inspection and regulation of care services and the registration and regulation of social workers and social care workers. In 2002, she was appointed as the first Registrar of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). David Lane began his career working in residential child care, working mainly in the assessment of young offenders, and he ended his career with eight years as director of social services in Wakefield. Since then he has been an independent consultant and has prepared expert witness reports for over 80 cases in which former children in care have sought damages for negligence. He has also worked in a number of professional organisations, and for the last 12 years he has edited Children Webmag, a professional magazine for child care workers. Christine Smith QC was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1985 and to the Bar of Ireland in 1996. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2011. Ms Smith has practiced in many areas of law in Northern Ireland. Her most extensive experience is as prosecuting counsel, in which she had considerable experience in dealing with victims of sexual and physical abuse. Joseph Aiken was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1999.  Prior to taking up his role he specialised in civil and commercial litigation, acting both for and against the government. He has a particular interest in public inquiries, and has contributed to the leading textbook in the area, Beer on Public Inquiries. Patrick Butler was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1998. He has previously worked for the Equality Commission and for the departmental solicitor's office. He has extensive experience in a number of legal areas including employment law, company law, judicial review and Parole Commissioners work. Andrew Browne has worked for the Northern Ireland Civil Service since 1980 and has served in a wide range of posts across four departments. He was secretary to the human organs inquiry and has assisted in setting up a number of public inquiries established by the  Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS). Beverley Clarke has wide experience of social work and child care, working in England and Canada. She is an independent expert witness and has worked for the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office. Norah Gibbons is director of advocacy in Barnardo's Ireland. She was also a commissioner of the Ryan Inquiry into historical institutional abuse in the Republic of Ireland. Dave Marshall is a consultant in the field of child safeguarding, investigation and management. For nine years he was detective chief inspector and head of the Metropolitan Police child abuse investigation command's major investigation team. Tom Shaw was invited by Scottish ministers to review the regulatory framework in Scotland designed to ensure the welfare needs and rights of children in residential institutions from 1945-95. Subsequently he chaired Time to be Heard, a pilot acknowledgement forum for those who had experienced abuse in residential children's institutions in Scotland.",The biggest public inquiry into child abuse ever @placeholder in the UK begin its first public hearings in Northern Ireland on 13 January .,involved,died,resulted,held,initiated,3
"22 September 2015 Last updated at 14:14 BST The project was the result of a joint study by two researchers - one specialising in robotics, the other architecture - at ETH Zurich University's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control and Gramazio Kohler Research. They hope the technology could eventually be used to save lives.",Quadcopter drones have been @placeholder to build a rope bridge capable of supporting the weight of a human .,designed,released,forced,found,programmed,4
"Children as young as five and people as old as 75 were victims over almost 50 years. One woman, known as Jane, told the BBC that she was abused by Savile when she was a 16-year old patient at Leeds General Infirmary. He took her to a local shop to buy sweets and magazines, making her feel like ""the chosen one"", but soon afterwards sexually assaulted her in a hospital basement. Jane said a hospital porter led her to the area where Savile was waiting behind a closed door. ""He pulled me in immediately and started to kiss me with his tongue,"" she said. ""At the same time his left hand went on to my right thigh under my dress."" She said the whole thing took no more than five or six minutes. ""There wasn't time to draw breath, there wasn't time to analyse even what's happening here because it was seamless... And then he said you've got to go,"" she said. Jane said it was obvious this sort of thing had been done before. After the assault she said she felt ""dirty and ridiculously stupid"". She said she began to tell nurses about the incident but they laughed and she felt she couldn't finish. Only her mother believed her. She said ""everybody knew"" what was going on. ""All the staff accepted it, patients accepted it, clearly the porters accepted it as well,"" she said. Jane added that she had never kept the encounter a secret because she knew it was not her fault. But she wished now, knowing of all the other revelations, that she had reported the abuse. Another of Savile's victims was aged under 10 years old in the late 1970s when she was abused by Savile at Leeds General Infirmary. She told the investigation that Savile picked her up from her house to take her to hospital in a small two-seater car, meaning her family had to travel in another vehicle. Once they arrived at hospital, Savile took her to a room with no windows and kissed her several times when her parents left the room. Six months later, Savile abused her again when he picked her up in the same car to take her to another hospital appointment. By her third appointment, she was so scared of Savile that she caused herself to have an accident to avoid going back to Leeds. She was taken to a local hospital, where Savile visited her again. The experience left a ""major and lasting impact"" on her, the report said. A male patient at Broadmoor hospital, aged 18 at the time, told the investigation that Savile abused him in the early 1970s. He was told to go to Savile's apartment alone to collect payment for washing cars. When he arrived, Savile coerced him into giving oral sex. He said he was unwilling to proceed but Savile gave him ""no alternative"". He said he did not complain at the time for fear of being labelled a troublemaker and because of Savile's ""considerable reputation around the hospital"". Another Broadmoor patient who was assaulted was Ms E. She described how she was repeatedly abused in the early 1990s. She said Savile was often unaccompanied and would sit in the day room and talk to patients while staff were elsewhere. She described how on one occasion, while sitting with his back to other patients, Savile put his hand on her leg and then, while still talking, proceeded to move it upwards and assault her. She said she froze and afterwards felt guilty. She told a member of staff, who said she must have imagined it. She said Savile would assault her in the same way on several occasions over a number of weeks, before moving on to some other patient. Her turn would then come round again - a cycle that was repeated several times. She told investigators it caused her ""significant distress"". A female patient at Broadmoor, Ms B, described how an assault took place at the hospital during a screening of Top of the Pops in the early 1970s - it was pre-recorded at that stage. Patients would be at the front of the day room and staff at the back. The room had a large sofa which blocked the view of those at the back. On this occasion Savile came to sit with patients at the front. He sat on the floor next to Ms B and placed his hand between her legs and assaulted her. The attack lasted two to three minutes, she said. Ms B said she did not feel able to complain either then or later for fear of being punished as a troublemaker. His offending was not confined to Broadmoor and Leeds. A woman told investigators how she was raped in 1970 at Digby Hospital in Exeter. She was 25 at the time, married and had been admitted to hospital for depression. She said Savile invited her into a motor-home in the grounds of the hospital where he then raped her. She did not report the incident to anyone at the time. The review into the case said it had had a ""deeply traumatic"" effect on the woman. The hospital closed in 1987.",Victims tell of their abuse at the hands of ex - BBC DJ Jimmy Savile as reports into his @placeholder at NHS hospitals are published .,condition,team,activities,practice,behavior,2
"Simon Hamilton said if they want the highest standard of health and social care, then the current configuration of services is not going to work. Mr Hamilton pulled no punches in his first keynote address in his new role. He said the real challenge was the absence of political agreement on the future of health and social care. Mr Hamilton acknowledged the worries that reform will lead to the closure of facilities. But he added that its growing and ageing population means Northern Ireland has to do things differently. In a hard-hitting speech with lots of plain talking, the minister said attachments to the bricks and mortar of the National Health Service [NHS] must not act as a barrier that inhibits people from getting the best healthcare. Instead, he called on people to embrace change and allow the NHS to move with the times.",Northern Ireland 's new health minister has challenged politicians to @placeholder change as he outlined his vision for the future of local health services .,promote,avoid,replace,accept,make,3
"Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority is urging people to stop removing them from sites such as Carn Menyn in the Preseli Hills. The stones, from the same site as those used in Stonehenge's inner ring, are said to be ""disappearing"". The area is part of the Mynydd Preseli Site of Special Scientific Interest. Park ranger Richard Vaughan said: ""It is very sad to think that to many, the stones are very important, yet to others they are a possible source of income and taken away from where they belong."" The park's culture and heritage manager, Phil Bennett added: ""If somebody took a hammer and started bashing chunks off a bluestone at Stonehenge there would be an outcry. ""To me, what is happening at Carn Menyn is just the same."" Archaeologist, Prof Geoff Wainwright, said: ""As an archaeologist, Preseli is of far greater interest to me than any single monument. ""When a piece of bluestone is removed from the crags at Carn Menyn, unique information about the past is lost and cannot be recovered. We have all been robbed.""","Preseli bluestones are being illegally removed from @placeholder quarries in Pembrokeshire , "" robbing "" Wales of its history , geologists have warned .",flash,protected,abandoned,neighbouring,containing,1
"It's all too easy to take a swipe at ""Davos"" - the annual Alpine pilgrimage of the so-called global elite, during which they underline the urgency of tackling climate change to the hum of private jet traffic, pledge to alleviate food poverty while snacking on caviar canapes, and commit to reducing inequality while being waited on hand-and-foot by an army of service staff at exclusive dinner parties. But beyond the often jarring contrasts, the World Economic Forum (or ze WEF, as locals call it), has always been able to point to its role in oiling the wheels of a socially progressive, pro-globalisation alliance - safe in the knowledge that, to a greater or lesser extent, it was in harmony with the tide of history. Then came 2016. At the beginning of the year, when Donald Trump was still one of many potential US presidential candidates, and a date for Britain's referendum on EU membership had yet to be set, Davos regulars were remarkably sanguine. The WEF's annual Global Risks Report, in which it tries to predict future crises, made little mention of anti-establishment forces and WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell reassured delegates that Hillary Clinton would emerge victorious, regardless of whom she ran against. European leaders seemed confident that their institutions would survive the challenges posed by an influx of refugees, murderous attacks on capital cities and rising nationalist sentiment. Soundbites dismissing populist movements were easy to come by. Fast forward 12 months, and the WEF crowd is comparatively muted. Trump, China and Brexit to dominate Davos Vaswani: Why is Xi Jinping going to Davos? Davos coverage in full With the notable exception of billionaire George Soros, few are going out of their way to condemn the incoming US president, even as his daily pronouncements signal that the world's most important economy is moving further and further away from the Davos model. Perhaps no image sums up the new world order as well as that of a seemingly despondent Klaus Schwab, the respected German academic who is the driving force behind WEF, being ushered through the lobby of Trump Tower last month. But Mr Schwab's visit is also indicative of the WEF's strength, in particular its ability to spread the Davos gospel by running a very broad church, both politically and geographically. Indeed, the likes of Donald Trump have long been invited to the meeting (though he has yet to attend), and when controversial figures, such as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, descend on the Swiss resort, they are hardly put in the stocks. What's more, as organisers are keen to point out, Davos has always been about more than just the US and Europe, and Indian, Chinese and African attendees have been put centre stage for years. Much is being made of the fact that Xi Jinping is to become the first Chinese president to attend WEF when he opens the forum this week, and that Davos is welcoming a bigger trade delegation from the country than ever before - a signal, perhaps, that a more inward-looking US leaves a void for other global powers to fill. But a Chinese delegation was first invited to the annual meeting in 1979, and although he has stayed away in recent years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has drawn crowds on the mountain more than once. And as the geopolitical map changes, the WEF's softly-softly approach - in which very little is mandated and everything is up for polite discussion - may yet lead the Davos tribe out of ideological isolation, even if it doesn't manage to keep their annual champagne consumption out of the headlines.","Brexit , the election of Donald Trump , and the rise of populism have left the world 's "" liberal elites "" @placeholder . Can Davos , their ideological habitat , survive ?",devastated,experience,reeling,level,stranded,2
"Grace has a friendly, intelligent personality and is a gifted artist. But four years ago she became addicted to Spice, a form of synthetic cannabis, and it took control of her life. The 18-year-old left home after a breakdown in relationships with her family and ended up on the street, living in doorways, squats and tents - wherever she found room. She started smoking Spice to cope with the cold but then very quickly became hooked. It kept her on the streets but she is now in a hostel. ""My emotional attachment to Spice was ridiculous,"" she says. ""I've given myself full black eyes from it before, just because I haven't got it and I needed to de-stress myself and calm down, so I can go to sleep without it. ""So I just punched myself in the head repeatedly."" Grace says she has seen people collapsed on the floor within 10 seconds of taking the substance. ""People think, I'll only have a few drags, but you will end up getting addicted. It changes people permanently. I'll never be the same as I was again. ""When you are smoking it, it depends on the person. If you've never had it, a little bit can make you end up barking like a dog and spitting at people."" What exactly are legal highs? Source: Psychoactive Substances Act Grace often visits a drop-in centre called Lifeshare in Manchester, which deals with young people from 16-25-years-old that are homeless or at risk of being homeless. A stream of young people come through the door asking for help, a bed for the night or even a pack of instant noodles. Staff say noodles are the first thing they ask for, and often it is when they are sat eating them that they'll talk to support workers. This year the charity has dealt with 300 clients - all young, vulnerable and 95% of them have the same problem: Spice. Julie Boyle, a support worker for Lifeshare, says she has never seen anything like it. ""It's the most dangerous drug that has caused the most damage, in the shortest space of time, to the most vulnerable communities that we have got. I can't emphasis enough how much of a destructive, horrible drug it is. It's absolutely awful."" The number of young people under the age of 18 being treated for addiction to legal highs, which are officially known as ""new psychoactive substances"", has risen by 176% in the last year, from 121 to 334, according to Public Health England. The drugs are also linked to the deaths of 144 people in the UK in 2014. The new ban will bring to an end the sale of legal highs on the high streets and will give the police new powers to seize and destroy psychoactive substances, search people, premises and vehicles, and to search premises by warrant if necessary. But some are already questioning its effectiveness. The Police Federation of England and Wales says a clear definition is needed of what a psychoactive substance is. ""Too narrow of a definition could mean the problem of people getting harmed from these substances continues - while having the definition be too wide could make it too unwieldy,"" it adds. ""Following the legislative change, we hope the government will do all it can to raise public awareness of the issue, particularly so that shop owners don't fall foul of the law."" It also worries that forensic labs currently being used for Misuse of Drugs Act offences ""are already under pressure to get an already high workload processed and this will add more work."" But the government says the ban will make the UK the first country in the world to put in place a rigorous system of testing to demonstrate that a substance is capable of having a psychoactive effect. Back at the drop-in centre in Manchester. 24-year-old Dean disappears every 15 minutes - he's popping out for his next hit. Last year he almost died when his heart stopped after smoking a £5 bag of Spice. But he's still using. ""I got hooked on it the first time I ever tried it. My mate said 'hey I've got a spliff for you', I had three, four drags, and I was stuck up against a wall for two hours. ""Ever since that day I haven't stopped smoking it. I hate the fact I'm on it. I wish I never heard of it, I wish I never touched it."" He says when he tried to come off the substance, he got stomach ache and threw up in pain every eight hours. However, the staff at Lifeshare have helped some kick the habit. Grace says for the first time in a long time, she is hopeful. She has been off Spice for 22 days. ""It's difficult, but not as difficult as it's been in the past. A lot of the rattling is in your head, but you keep yourself calm and think no, it'll be ok, I'm going to get through this."" The teenager is now on a mission to help her friends get off it too. This summer she is planning a ""Spice Free"" BBQ with one rule - they cannot get high or be high that day. When asked if it would have made a difference if Spice was banned when she started taking it, Grace sighs. ""It might affect people's original decision to start using it but after you have got hooked on it, it doesn't have any play on it at all. ""You are not bothered by whether it's legal or safe, because it's doing the trick for you… so you keep taking it.""","Legal highs will be banned across the UK later this month , in a move which the government says will @placeholder young people . But for many , their addictive nature has already taken hold .",enable,change,hurt,join,protect,4
"The man is reported to have sustained life-threatening injuries in the collision. Police officers sealed of the A96 West Road at the scene of the incident, which was close to a petrol station. The collision took place at about 12:30.",A pedestrian has been struck by a heavy @placeholder vehicle in Elgin .,sports,commercial,goods,control,group,2
"Gwynedd gang boss Paul Williams, 40, was jailed for 19 years at Caernarfon Crown Court on Wednesday with others sentenced on Thursday and Friday. He used a secret phone while in prison to maintain control, the court heard. North Wales Police said they monitored thousands of calls on over 100 mobile phones to crack the case. The judge has said it was a ""scandal"" Williams, from Bangor, was able to make up to 295 calls in one day while already behind bars and he wants the Home Office to explain how this was allowed to happen. The court was told heroin, cocaine, cannabis and mephedrone was brought into north west Wales by criminals based in north west England and then distributed by a network of local dealers. The last defendant sentenced on Friday was Scott Anthony Jones, 34, who was jailed for seven years and eight months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply drugs at previous hearing. Not all defendants were jailed. Some received suspended jail terms and community orders. After the sentencing hearings, Det Insp Arwyn Jones from North Wales Police said: ""This is one of the biggest criminal enterprises North Wales Police have taken on."" He said the success of the covert police investigation, codenamed Operation Measure, had helped to make the region safer due to the scale of the gang's operation and the fear they caused communities to ""run their empire"". In April, 26 people involved in another drugs gangs in north Wales were sentenced after a five-year covert police exercise, Operation Yonside.","One of the "" biggest criminal enterprises "" ever seen in north Wales has been @placeholder with 29 members of a drugs gang sentenced by a judge .",dealt,dismantled,caught,targeted,committed,1
"Those with the loudest voices and best timing will pass the first stage of the Lawn Tennis Association's (LTA) training course to become an umpire. The courses are held at the National Tennis Centre - a stone's throw, or a mishit forehand, from Richmond Park in south-west London. Anyone can take the test, but only those with some specific qualities pass. Eyesight is obviously important - umpires must have 20/20 vision, corrected or uncorrected. So is knowing the rules of tennis. In the US, the United States Tennis Association has put its rule guide online, with 230 pages of questions such as what to do if a player grunts too loudly or injures their opponent, and where a player should place their towel. Emily McGuinness passed the LTA's line umpire course in 2014 and is now on their development scheme for star umpires of the future. The recruits have set up a WhatsApp group in which they regularly test each other on the rules of the game. She says having a loud voice is crucial to being a good umpire. ""It is quite unnatural for most people to shout really loudly, so it takes a while to get into the habit of that."" Umpires need good reaction times because players hate it when an official makes a late call. But they must not be too quick - some aspiring umpires fail the course because they call before the ball lands. Reaction times are particularly useful when tracking a 157 miles per hour serve by the American John Isner, then ducking out of the firing line after making the call. Most umpires have a day job that does not involve being on a tennis court. There are umpires who also work as medical doctors, university professors, priests and a NASA engineer. Father Paul Arinze, a Catholic priest from Wisconsin, US, has umpired matches at Wimbledon, the Australian Open, the US Open, and last year's Olympic Games. He says being used to talking in front of a congregation helps him control his nerves during tennis matches. When players are angrily questioning a call, he can keep his cool. After all, he is a specialist in forgiveness. ""I understand how players react in the heat of competition and that they do not mean what they say,"" he says. ""It is important not to make the situation worse - even if you know you are in the right."" Umpires can discipline a player for breaching the rules, and they are given a list of swear words in different languages to listen out for. Players have calmed down since the days when John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and llie Nastase threw tantrums at an umpire in front of millions of TV viewers. But the job still has its dangers. Earlier this year, Arnaud Gabas ended up in hospital after Canadian player Denis Shapovalov accidentally struck him with a ball and fractured a bone under his left eye. Umpires need total concentration to track the ball over the course of a match. ""I had not realised how much effort it is to focus for that long, it is different to sitting at your desk working on a computer,"" says Ms McGuinness, who also works in marketing for the charity CARE International. Fr Arinze says umpiring has improved his concentration, which helps him to carry out his duties as a priest. ""When I counsel someone, they can speak for a long time but I maybe only need to reply to 20% of what they say, and it is important that I do not miss that part,"" he says. If an umpire has a good match, they will barely be noticed by spectators. But there are exceptions. Swedish umpire Mohamed Layani, who is regarded as one of the world's best, has a cult following among tennis fans. His distinctive call of ""fifteen-love"" has even been sampled in a rap song. Global education Get in touch with the Global education series. Continuing professional development is an important part of umpiring. Officials are watched every match and given feedback on their performance by more senior umpires. Officials start out as a line judge, and those with the best scores progress to calling the score from the tall umpire's chair. Major tournaments like Wimbledon are hardest to umpire - there are bigger crowds and better players who hit the ball harder and faster. Dr Kris Jaeger-Helton, an engineering professor at Northeastern University in Boston in the United States, rose through the ranks to become a chair umpire alongside her studies. She says she tries to build trust with players and students alike. ""One time, when a player arrived at court and said: 'I'm glad you're doing my match, you always look out for us,' I wanted to bring that tone to the classroom as well,"" she says. Whether in the classroom or officiating a tennis match, ""it is better to conduct the activity rather than to have to be in charge or control it"". She adds that, although training engineers and chairing tennis matches need to be taken seriously, ""sometimes it is okay to lighten up a little"". ""You've got to enjoy what you do and let it show in the balance,"" she says. The Lawn Tennis Association's information about becoming a match official.","A group of people are yelling the word "" out "" as an instructor drops a tennis ball next to a @placeholder white line .",looming,halt,growing,faint,painted,4
"The council's licensing and gambling committee blocked a plan to introduce an annual charge for any establishment staying open after midnight. Up to 800 licensed premises would have paid between £299 and £4,400 to offset the costs of the night-time economy. The committee said the net income generated by the plan would be unlikely to produce ""significant improvements"". Merseyside Police had estimated the annual cost of policing the city centre from midnight to 06:00 to be about £540,000. Some bars and clubs in Liverpool had opposed the levy and pub chain JD Wetherspoon called it ""an unfair tax on pubs"". A similar late-night levy was introduced in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2013.",A late - night levy on Liverpool 's bars and clubs will not be introduced after councillors rejected the @placeholder .,bill,proposals,levy,ordinance,decision,1
"Around 100 others were wounded in the explosion, which may have been caused by a female suicide attacker from the Islamic State group, officials say. Kobane has seen heavy fighting between IS militants and Kurdish fighters. It was retaken by the Kurds from IS forces earlier this year. Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said initial findings suggested the attack was the work of IS. ""Turkey has taken and will continue to take all necessary measures against Islamic State,"" Mr Davutoglu told a news conference in Ankara, according to Reuters. ""Measures on our border with Syria... will be increased,"" he added. The Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) is reported to have had at least 300 members staying at the Amara Culture Centre in Suruc, where the explosion happened. The young people had been planning to travel to Kobane to help with rebuilding the town. A video released on social media apparently showed the moment of the blast, at a news conference taking place in the centre's garden. In the video, a group of young people are chanting slogans while holding the federation's flags and a large banner with the words: ""We defended it together, we are building it together."" Then an explosion rips through the assembled youngsters. Graphic images of the aftermath show bodies littering the ground, with the red flags being used to cover them. The district governor of Suruc, Abdullah Ciftci, said: ""The fact that it is a suicide attack increases the possibility that IS is responsible. ""We think the attacker was a woman. ""Preliminary findings show that she was acting on her own,"" he told BBC Turkish. A local journalist, Faruk Baran, told BBC Turkish that there was panic in Suruc after the attack, with shopkeepers closing up for fear of a second attack. Suruc residents had feared that they could be IS's next target ever since the attack on the pro-Kurdish party's election rally in Diyarbakir on 5 June, he said. Suruc houses many refugees who have fled the fighting in Kobane. IS overran the Syrian town in September last year, but it was retaken by Kurdish forces in January. In June Kobane once more came under assault from IS, with hundreds dead, but the militants were driven out again. Kobane: Inside the town devastated by fight against IS The suicide bomb attack on the Amara Cultural Centre is one of the bloodiest suicide attacks in Turkey in years. Suruc is a small Kurdish-majority city just a 15-minute drive from the border with Kobane. Kurdish activists in Suruc played a vital role during the siege of Kobane, sending food and medicine to the YPG Kurdish fighters to bolster their supplies. Many journalists and foreign fighters who wanted to go to Kobane went to Suruc and from there were sent on. At the time of the attack, 300 young activists were preparing to make a statement and cross the border into Kobane to help to rebuild the city. Local Kurdish politicians in Suruc blame the Islamic State (IS) group for the attack. IS suffered a heavy loss and defeat in Kobane earlier this year. Also last month the YPG captured Tal Abyad, one of the most important IS border crossings with Turkey. Kurds believe the militant group wants to take revenge on civilian Kurds inside Turkey. In June it was reported to have carried out numerous attacks on Turkey's pro-Kurdish Party, HDP, during the run-up to the Turkish parliamentary elections, but IS never said it was responsible. The group is believed to have many sympathisers inside Turkey and they could carry out attacks against additional targets. Who are the Kurds?",A bomb attack in the Turkish town of Suruc has killed at least 30 people during a meeting of young activists to discuss the reconstruction of the @placeholder Syrian town of Kobane .,growing,body,tide,trade,neighbouring,4
"There was concern that Mr Cameron was proposing a ""28-speed Europe"" and a suggestion the UK was trying to impose its own rules on the rest of the EU. ""Germany, and I personally, want Britain to be an important part and an active member of the European Union. ""We are prepared to talk about British wishes but we must always bear in mind that other countries have different wishes and we must find a fair compromise. We will talk intensively with Britain about its individual ideas but that has some time over the months ahead."" ""Germany wants the United Kingdom to remain an active and constructive part of the European Union... ""We strive to create a better Europe, the European Union becoming even stronger with overcoming the debt crisis and regaining global competitiveness. Germany wants an ambitious reform of the economic and monetary union. In such decisive issues as the future of the common currency, we do not need less, but more integration."" ""We share the vision of a better Europe. We need a new commitment to the principle of subsidiarity. Not all and everything must be decided in Brussels and by Brussels.       We do indeed differentiate but cherry-picking is not an option. ""We share a common destiny in challenging times of globalisation. And in challenging times of globalisation, we as Europeans, we are all in the same boat."" ""The president of the republic has clearly shown his wish for the United Kingdom to remain within the European Union... ""[But] being a member of the European Union involves obligations."" ""It could be dangerous for the UK itself because the UK outside Europe? Difficult. The other day I was at a meeting with lots of British people, in particular      businessmen, and I told them cleverly that if the UK decides to leave Europe we will roll out the red carpet [to attract them]. ""We want the British to be able to bring all their positive characteristics to Europe... but you can't do Europe a la carte. I'll take an example which our British friends will      understand. Let's imagine Europe is a football club and you join, but once you're in it you can't say, 'Let's play rugby'."" ""Great Britain is a peculiar member of the European Union, of course, and, from the start, it has asked for a cheque which still exists. It is not a party to the Schengen treaty, but at the same time, it is extremely useful."" ""I am confident that if there is to be a referendum, the UK citizens will decide to stay in the EU and contribute to shape its future."" ""We do not like cherry-picking for one country. We think all 27 should take part in change, we want more Europe. The question of competiveness is important for all of us, for the jobs, the economy. This can only be successful if you pull together in the same direction."" ""We share the view with the United Kingdom that Europe should be more flexible, more open, should strive more for confidence among its citizens. ""We have no interest in Britain's departure from the EU, on the contrary, we have interest in a European future for the United Kingdom."" ""[The European Commission] welcomes that David Cameron wants Britain to remain in the EU... ""[It] is very much in the EU's interest and UK's interest [that London remain] an active member."" ""We need a UK as a fully fledged member not harbouring in the port of Dover. UK can shape EU by working with its partners. Cameron's Europe a la carte not an option. We have to focus on jobs & growth rather than getting lost in treaties discussions... ""They [the UK] are the ones who are largely responsible for the delays in Europe and also the ones pointing their fingers at Europe."" ""I have an impression that this speech was directed more at Tories than towards the European Union. A prime minister who says 'I will hold a referendum, but only after the next elections', is eyeing the next elections and not the referendum. I find what Mr Cameron is doing very implausible."" ""United Kingdom is an indissoluble part of the European Integration Process. I wish London will decide to remain in Europe."" ""Flexibility sounds fine, but if you open up to a 28-speed Europe, at the end of the day there is no Europe at all. Just a mess."" ""We all need to reflect on this speech. It could create anxiety and uncertainty around the EU. Other members will now need to think how to react. There will be tough negotiations ahead. Finland would never want Britain to leave the EU. Finland and Britain have been like-minded on trade so we'd lose an important ally."" ""There are many reasons to believe that the referendum policy of the British Conservatives will trigger a dynamic which will now be difficult to control and which may even end in Britain's unintended exit from the EU. For the EU, Britain's exit would be a heavy blow, but for the British it would be a real disaster... The belief the EU could engage in new negotiations, and Germany could support this, borders on a belief in miracles."" ""After Cameron speech and Elysee celebrations it is clear that Europe needs German-French axis more than ever, UK cannot be relied upon, Tories have drifted off."" ""Given that virtually all of the broad proposals mooted for more eurozone integration require some re-opening of the EU treaties at some stage, to which the UK must give its approval, Cameron will most likely get opportunities to negotiate a new deal. ""European partners who feared an imminent dawn raid on Brussels will be relieved. He has set out a plausible and powerful case for EU reform. For this, he should get a fair hearing in national capitals."" ""Cameron corners himself. Will ask people to choose from two options he dislikes. ""Britain loves the single market and competitiveness but wants to dump on labour regulations. Contradiction. ""Cameron misses one key point: the 26 will decide for him. Why would they accept his terms. ""Why should fisheries be exempted from the single market? Just because Britain can't compete with others?"" ""Heard this in the corridors of the European Parliament - 'The British have sabotaged European construction and now they are abandoning us'.""",EU politicians and pundits have been reacting to UK Prime Minister David Cameron 's pledge of a referendum on EU membership if his party is returned to @placeholder in the next British general election .,rise,standing,office,mood,stay,2
"In the middle of what used to be a watering hole, a black calf whose name is Kgantsho a Sotho name which means ""the black one"", is trapped in thick clay, too weak to pull itself out. It's only a matter of time before it dies from dehydration and hunger. Kgantsho had been missing for two days. His owner, Thuso Kalane wanted to show us where he found the carcasses of six of his cows last month, only to find yet another one close to death. There was no time to waste. More manpower was needed.  So the BBC team had to put the cameras and notebooks down to assist with the rescue. ""This is heartbreaking, as I'm losing out more than I should be gaining. It's only a matter of time before those who work for me also lose their jobs,"" said Mr Kalane after his calf was rescued. Mr Kalane later drove us to his farm where the rest of his cattle are kept. They recognised his vehicle and walked hastily towards it, hoping they would get some food. But all he had were buckets of water for his severely skinny herd. According to the South African Weather Services, the drought, blamed on extreme weather system El Nino, is the worst to hit the country since 1982. Although El Nino is a natural cycle that scientists have observed for many years, they have little doubt that climate change is also a factor in the lack of rain. The government has declared five of its nine provinces drought disaster areas for agriculture. As we drove through Wepener, a small town 452km (280 miles) from Johannesburg, the devastation was evident on the landscape, which is normally lush and green during the summer months. Many farmers have been struggling to find water and fodder for their livestock. Some are forced to sell as many of their livestock as soon possible to avoid further losses. El Nino 'threatens millions in Africa' The ground is too dry to plant anything. Tractors plough through dusty soil as cornfields are laid bare. Everyone here is hoping and praying for rain. At this time of the year, maize crops are normally over one metre high. However thousands of hectares of land have been left with brittle stalks from last year's harvest. Dark clouds hover above, threatening to rain, as commercial farmer Pitso Sekhoto takes me through his maize field. ""Just look at the clouds, they're thick, black and beautiful, every farmer's dream, but there's not enough rain,"" said a frustrated Mr Sekhoto. He's been a farmer since August 2008 and told me things have never been this bad. ""The country may be forced to start importing maize, food prices are bound to go up and those who are often referred to as the poor of the poor will suffer the most,"" he said. Poor rainfall has resulted in late planning, with many farmers saying if no major storm arrives in the next two weeks, nothing will be planted this season. This also means there's not enough cattle fodder to last through the winter months of next year. Water restrictions have also been imposed in major cities. Residents have been warned to use water sparingly, only to water their gardens at certain times or face penalties. While some subsistence farmers have been given fodder for the livestock, the government announced recently that it had set aside 300m rand ($21m; £14m) to assist commercial farmers - who had criticised the government for its slow response. The prospects of rainfall look promising but the ever-changing weather patterns brought on by climate change could still affect the country's food security. As experts warn that this may not be the last dry spell, the country's farmer are facing uncertain times.","South Africa is facing one of the worst droughts to hit the @placeholder in 30 years . Many small farmers are expected to go out of business as food production and prices increase , especially in the Free State province .",health,planet,nation,region,events,3
"27 August 2016 Last updated at 11:37 BST Although jetpacks aren't anything new, Scott, also known as the Rocketman, was performing the stunt to highlight how the gadget's technology has changed over the years. He also holds the record for the fastest jetpack flight, at 75 miles per hour. Have a look at him in action.",This is the moment jetpack pilot Eric Scott shot out of the water and flew above a remote @placeholder in America while strapped to a jetpack .,island,place,mountain,lake,beach,3
"Spitfire NH341 flew 27 combat missions between June and July 1944 before it was shot down near Caen in France. The French Resistance helped Canadian pilot Jimmy Jeffrey return to his unit. The aircraft underwent a three-year restoration costing £3m. It was set to take off from Duxford on Saturday. Aero Legends spokesman Elliot Styles said visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the Spitfire in the air were still able to get up close to the aircraft at the Imperial War Museum. He said ""teething issues"" were not unexpected for maiden flights and NH341 would still fly throughout the year. Spitfire NH341 remained in France until Aero Legends Ltd bought it in 2011. Aero Legends owner Keith Perkins said he was ""totally unaware"" of the plane's history before he bought it. It was flown by nine pilots from the Royal Canadian Air Force's 411 (Grizzly Bear) squadron during its short service. Flt Lt (later Squadron Leader) H C ""Charlie"" Trainor shot down two German Messerschmitt 109s while flying NH341. The aeroplane was described as ""better than anything else"" by Flying Officer Tommy Wheler, now 96, who destroyed several German mechanised transports during his 24th sortie in the Spitfire. It was shot down on 2 July 1944 over Normandy but WO Jeffrey managed to bail out. The French Resistance helped him return to his unit - having first taken him to a nearby town for a hair cut and to buy some cheese. Spitfire NH341 has been converted into a two-seat trainer plane as part of the £3m restoration.",Aviation enthusiasts will have to wait a little longer to see a restored World War Two Spitfire take to the skies after a carburettor issue @placeholder its maiden flight .,balance,lost,beat,halted,makes,3
"Chief Fire Officer Anne Millington said that was the ""likely scenario"" but there would be no firefighter redundancies or closure of stations. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said it believed the savings could be higher and has warned of job cuts. The government grant for 2016-17 is due to be announced before Christmas. Kent and Medway Fire and Rescue Authority chairman Nick Chard said there was still uncertainty but the worst case scenario was as much as £18m. Mark Simmons, from the FBU, said it would be difficult ""to avoid compulsory redundancies"" if this figure turned out to be correct. The service is currently consulting on the plans. The documents say the service has a natural turnover of 30 firefighters a year and they might not be replaced, and some fire engines might be crewed by three staff although the aim would be four. Proposals also include moving fire engines to areas where it is harder to get staff cover and where there are high numbers of road crashes. The plans are based on the service increasing its council tax share by just under 2%. A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said fatalities and injuries were down 30% and 55% over the last decade respectively. ""This means the service needs to adapt to meet new demands and to ensure it is continuing to work in the most efficient way."" Consultation runs until 16 January.","Kent 's fire service will have to make savings of at least £ 8 m over the next four years to @placeholder the books , it has been revealed .",reduce,enter,balance,save,scrap,2
"No, not the UKIP manifesto, of which more later. Rather I am talking of the discovery of a Shakespeare First Folio at Mount Stuart House in Bute. Consider the fact that masterpieces like Macbeth would not have survived without the First Folio. Imagine the excitement of uncovering such a treasure. Imagine the thrill for the initially sceptical academic expert who validated the find. Like Keats, on first reading Chapman's Homer, the joy would have been visceral: Like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise - Silent, upon a peak in Darien. Instead of a peak in Darien, it was a hotel in Edinburgh for Nigel Farage today, as he launched UKIP's manifesto for the Scottish Parliament. But, like Cortez and Keats, he's looking ahead and thinking big. Entering to the sound of Scotland the Brave, essayed on the accordion, Mr Farage and UKIP's Scottish leader David Coburn forecast a ""transformational"" breakthrough for their party at this election. To date, the Holyrood benches have been UKIP free. Like that First Folio, Messrs Farage and Coburn reckon their offer is a class apart from the fare on offer from the other parties, which they characterise as stolid and dull. The Beaumont and Fletcher of the 21st century. They offer taxes no higher than elsewhere - with a new 30p intermediate rate. They offer lower business rates. They oppose the ""bedroom tax"". More widely, they offer ""an end to political correctness in schools"". They offer to restore the drink driving limit to the previous, higher rate and to allow pubs to create smoking rooms. At last year's UK elections, they set out plans to restructure public funding in a way that would have cut Scotland's budget. Challenged on that today, they said the UK's finances had deteriorated and the entire position would require close scrutiny. And, lest we forget, they favour withdrawal from the European Union with, they say, a concomitant return of powers to Westminster and Holyrood. Is it conceivable that their stance on this could benefit them at the Holyrood elections, given the relatively high priority attached to the European issue at the moment because of the pending referendum? Mayhap, as Shakespeare might have said. UKIP's rivals, entirely understandably, tend to play down such a prospect. For example, Ruth Davidson of the Conservatives said the UKIP Holyrood pitch is simply a rehearsal for the referendum, not a genuine commitment to Scottish devolved politics. Elsewhere, Labour and the SNP were prioritising the issue of poverty. And Willie Rennie of the Liberal Democrats was keeping Ripley the African fish eagle at a sensible arm's length. The latter first. Mr Rennie was at a falconry centre in Fife. His objective was to promote rural policy. Ripley's objective was to grab as much grub as possible from Mr Rennie's tentatively outstretched hand. Reverting to the former, I found the exchanges between Labour and the SNP fascinating. They each argued that their policies - including differentiation on tax - would be best placed to address poverty in Scotland. Thus the fundamental issue of tax was focused more sharply to consider the prospects for the disadvantaged. To be fair, both the Lib Dems and Tories had things to offer in this field too. Mr Rennie said enhanced funding for education, funded by higher tax, was the way to tackle poverty at root.  Ms Davidson talked of policies on housing and childcare to help the poor.","Was that not a rare and remarkable @placeholder to emerge today , for the people of Scotland to peruse ? Quite beautifully written , deftly structured - yet with key differences from previous versions .",response,ambition,document,lifestyle,story,2
"A crowd of a few hundred cheers as Chelsea Clinton takes the stage at a hotel ballroom in downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Wearing a T-shirt and jeans, she looks more like a casual millennial than a top-tier presidential surrogate. The outfit, however, matches her low-key style. She's not a politician, and has said she never wants to follow in her parents' political footsteps. She's just a 36-year-old who happens to be sole heir of the most prominent Democratic political family since the Kennedys. Holding a white note card in one hand and a microphone in the other, Chelsea rolls through a stump speech that is polished from countless months of practice, her voice never straying above a conversational volume. The spiel is heavy on social issues - healthcare, the minimum wage, family leave - and she talks about how her two young children have changed her life. ""I grew up spending a lot of time at events like this,"" she says, as many in the crowd nod knowingly. ""Holding signs, passing out buttons, handing out stickers. Becoming a parent makes it a lot more personal to me."" She takes a few swipes at her mother's opponent, recounting how a child of an immigrant she met was told by schoolmates that Donald Trump's wall would ""keep people like you out"". The audience gasps. ""That is not our America,"" she says. Much of Chelsea's time in Eau Claire was spent answering audience questions, and it was here that she showed she has her mother's grasp of policy, if not always her father's uncanny sense of empathy. Remy Ceci, who drove an hour from her home in Pepin, Wisconsin, to ask Chelsea a question about climate change, said she was surprised by the depth of the day's conversation. ""I thought for sure that it would just be, 'Hi, vote for my mom',"" she said. ""But she's an extremely passionate speaker, and she's well-versed in the issues."" Chelsea effortlessly ticked off the campaign's positions on the environment, as well as family medical leave, reforming the Department of Veteran's Affairs and college affordability measures. But when local government human services worker Patrick Tschida, voice wavering, asked about the recent murder of a Saudi Arabian student at a local university - which he said was an anti-Islamic hate crime - Chelsea veered off into a discussion of school civics education and presidential powers In similar circumstances, Bill Clinton would have soaked up the emotion in the room like a sponge. There would have been hugs and, possibly, tears. He would have felt the pain. After the event, however, Tschida said he was happy with Chelsea's answer. ""We have to do whatever we can do locally to raise the awareness that people shouldn't be fearing 'the other',"" he said. ""It's xenophobia at it's worst."" Bill Clinton, of course, sets a high bar for displays of political empathy. Like her mother, Chelsea comes across as cool, cerebral. Where her father emotes, Chelsea's guard is always up. As a teen, Rush Limbaugh famously referred to her as the ""White House dog"". Then there was her father's very public infidelity and subsequent impeachment. Those sorts of things can't help but leave a lasting mark on a person's psyche. Since her father's presidency ended in 2001, Chelsea has dabbled with the spotlight but never fully embraced it. She graduated from Stanford University and spent a few years working at a Wall Street investment bank. She had a contract to appear regularly on a national news network, but made little lasting impression. In recent years she's helped run the Clinton Foundation - the billion-dollar chartable enterprise that has been both lauded for its international relief efforts and the target of criticism for allegedly granting insider government access to big-money donors. Like many things Clinton, it's a complicated web that is open to both positive and negative interpretations. Although Chelsea presented a quiet front in Eau Claire, emails allegedly hacked from the personal account of senior Clinton campaign advisrr John Podesta show that the Clinton daughter has a sharper edge behind the scenes. The purloined documents, if they are legitimate, reveal Chelsea chaffing against what she viewed as sloppy management practices and self-interested behaviour by some foundation employees ""My only objectives were to take stock, professionalise the foundation, build it for the future and build it in such a way that supported [Bill Clinton's] work and my mom's,"" she wrote in one email. If she succeeds in helping her mother ascend to the presidency, Chelsea is slated to take on an even greater role in running the foundation. [link] That could prove to be a daunting task, given what's sure to be an even more glaring focus on its activities with the Clintons back in the White House. It will certainly be more challenging then talking to friendly audiences like the one in Eau Claire, who were happy just to have here attention for an hour. ""She's so fluent, and she presents herself so very well,"" said Bonnie Golden after Chelsea was done shaking hands and saying her goodbyes. ""It's easy to follow her, it's easy to understand. And you can feel the love in her voice.""","As President Bill Clinton 's daughter , Chelsea Clinton grew up in the national spotlight . Now , as an adult , she 's jetting across battleground @placeholder in an effort to get her family back into the White House .",forces,spot,lines,states,grounds,3
"In January, Arfon AM Sian Gwenllian said Caernarfon should be considered as the location. Mr Jones said officials had been asked to look at the idea. But a Welsh Government document indicates nowhere in Gwynedd was in fact evaluated. The organisation will now be based in Treforest, near Pontypridd. In 2018, control of stamp duty and landfill tax will pass to the Welsh Government, which is replacing them with a land transaction tax and a landfill disposals tax to be managed by the new Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA). According to the list of location options for the WRA, only one out of six potential sites, Llandudno Junction, was in north Wales. There were also calls from other AMs for Porthmadog and Wrexham to be considered. In the appraisal, Cathays Park in Cardiff rather than Treforest was the highest scoring location and Llandudno Junction was ranked bottom. Sian Gwenllian told Newyddion 9 on S4C: ""I'm troubled that one thing is said in the chamber and another thing in the evaluation..a misleading impression has been given, intentionally or unintentionally. ""The requirements [that] have been determined as the critical success factors work against north Wales and need to be changed."" Short listed locations were evaluated on their ability to attract and retain skilled staff, how near they were to ""stakeholders"" and taxpayers. A Welsh Government spokesman said: ""As the cabinet secretary's statement said, there were many suggestions put forward for the location of the headquarters of the Welsh Revenue Authority. ""All these suggestions were considered as part of the process of determining where the WRA and its staff will be based. ""The WRA will be a relatively small organisation - while its headquarters will be physically located in Treforest; staff will be based in north Wales to work face-to-face with taxpayers and their agents."" The 2017 Wales Act also devolves some power to vary the rates of income tax at a date yet to be confirmed.","Assembly members were "" misled "" by First Minister Carwyn Jones over the location of the new Welsh tax collecting @placeholder , a Plaid Cymru AM has claimed .",unit,group,process,centre,body,4
"The England international, 22, injured his knee in the Champions League loss to Barcelona on 23 February. He left Emirates Stadium on crutches after the 2-0 first-leg defeat. Arsenal host Swansea in the Premier League on Wednesday. They are third in the table, three points off Tottenham and five behind leaders Leicester. The Frenchman called criticism of his Arsenal team as ""excessive"" following their 3-2 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday. Media playback is not supported on this device Former Liverpool manager Graeme Souness, now a television pundit, called the Gunners ""weak and insipid"". ""I'm never surprised by the criticism that comes,"" said Wenger. ""Part of the opinion is always a bit excessive and emotional, but we have to deal with that and I don't complain about it. ""I think people are a bit too emotional and we want to put things into perspective by analysing things a bit more in a neutral way.""","Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain will miss "" six to eight weeks "" but does not need an @placeholder , says Gunners boss Arsene Wenger .",option,basis,operation,action,extension,2
"He said the honour had left him ""speechless"", the Nobel Foundation said in a statement. The foundation said it had not yet been decided if the singer would attend the awards ceremony in December. However, Dylan reportedly told a UK newspaper he intended to pick up the award in person ""if at all possible"". You might also like: Brazilian boy regains smile after losing all his teeth Tom Hanks or Bill Murray? Internet conundrum answered Topless selfie student hits police car The award to the star was announced on 13 October ""for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"". However, his failure to acknowledge it raised eyebrows. Last week, a member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel prizes, described his silence as ""impolite and arrogant"". But on Friday, the Nobel Foundation said Dylan had called Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, telling her: ""The news about the Nobel Prize left me speechless. I appreciate the honour so much."" Although the statement said it was unclear if Dylan would attend the prize-giving banquet in Stockholm, the UK's Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying:  ""Absolutely. If it's at all possible."" In an interview with the paper he described the prize as ""amazing, incredible"". ""It's hard to believe. Whoever dreams about something like that?"" the paper quoted him as saying.","US singer - songwriter Bob Dylan says he @placeholder his Nobel Prize in literature , ending a silence since being awarded the prize earlier this month .",lost,accepts,contemplated,feared,held,1
"Computer simulations suggest the plesiosaur moved through the water like a penguin, using its front limbs as paddles and back limbs for steering. The creature's swimming gait has been a mystery since bones of the first known specimen were dug out of a Dorset cliff 200 years ago. The plesiosaur was discovered by the fossil hunter Mary Anning in 1821. At the time even the name dinosaur had not been invented. A scientific paper unveiling Anning's find a few years later raised the question of how the marine creature swam, given its unusual pairs of wing-like flippers. The debate has continued until today, with a computer simulation based on a Jurassic fossil specimen providing evidence in favour of penguin-like motion. Dr Adam Smith of Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall, worked on the study. He explained that palaeontologists were divided on whether the marine creature used its four limbs in a rowing action like the oars of a boat; a flight stroke similar to modern penguins and turtles; or some sort of combination of the two. ""Our study shows the up-and-down movement is more likely,"" he told BBC News. ""That's how turtles and penguins swim today. ""Penguins are literally flying through the water."" The study, published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, is based on a computer simulation of a Jurassic fossil from Germany. The fossil is unusual in being an almost complete skeleton with all four limbs preserved. It is smaller than many other members of the plesiosaur family, at about 3m long. The computer model shows the animal's hind limbs provided ""relatively weak thrust"", say Dr Smith and co-researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US. ""We conclude that plesiosaurs were forelimb-dominated swimmers that used their hind limbs mainly for manoeuvrability and stability,"" they report. The plesiosaurs were predatory marine reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. They are unique in the animal kingdom for having two pairs of large wing-like flippers. Palaeobiology expert Dr David Martill of the University of Portsmouth said the new work suggested that in the small plesiosaur at least, the forelimbs did all the work. He said it remained to be seen if the same was true of the largest plesiosaurs, which were ferocious marine predators. ""These beasts probably fed by twist feeding like the large crocodiles of today,"" he said. ""If this were the case, then the hind limbs may have been used to spin the animal on its long axis."" Follow Helen on Twitter.",Scientists have reconstructed how an ancient reptile swam in the @placeholder at the time of the dinosaurs .,sight,oceans,wake,race,centre,1
"Kelly, 24, is from a family of amazing resilience. His adoptive mother is a world-renowned humanitarian, his brother - who was born with similar, severe limb deficiencies - is musically gifted and appeared on the Australian version of the X-Factor, while his adoptive sisters, Trishna and Krishna, were born as conjoined twins and separated through surgery in 2009. Ahmed and Emmanuel, who sang John Lennon's Imagine on the Australian talent show in 2011, were both born in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. Unable to care for the children, their parents left them at an orphanage where Ahmed spent the majority of his first seven years. That was until his future adoptive mother, Moira Kelly, took the brothers to Australia in 1998. ""What my mom does is quite extraordinary, bringing kids from all over the world that need life-saving operations,"" said Kelly. ""She has done an awesome job. She brought me and my brother over for our own surgery and I pretty much haven't looked back since."" Once in Australia, Kelly had surgery to remove the deformed sections of his lower legs and learned to walk, and then run, using prosthetic legs, before he started to play Australian rules football. He switched to swimming and has now competed at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Kelly, who failed to win any medals in Brazil, was cheered on by his mother and brother, who both made the long trip from Australia to Rio. Speaking about his brothers and sisters, Kelly added: ""They are remarkable siblings. ""They themselves had to conquer their own challenges and I'm very proud of all three of them. ""My mom has always had values of treating each other with respect and trying to be as fair as possible. They are great values and that's something I really worked hard to live by as well.""","Every Paralympian has a story of how they battled the odds to compete in the sport they love , but few have a @placeholder as remarkable as Australian swimmer Ahmed Kelly .",tale,feat,difference,history,race,0
"LENNY ABRAHAMSON Age: 49 Nominated for: Room, about a kidnapped woman who lives in an enclosed space with her five-year-old son. Oscar record: No previous nominations. The critics said: ""Irish director Lenny Abrahamson returns after the triumph of Frank for an utterly unique tale which has seen the film-maker deservedly thrust onto the world stage."" [Irish Examiner] ALEJANDRO G INARRITU Age: 52 Nominated for: The Revenant, about a frontiersman's fight for survival after a brutal bear attack. Oscar record: Won best director, best original screenplay (as co-writer) and best picture (as producer) for Birdman in 2015. Nominated for best director and best picture (as producer) for Babel in 2007. The critics said: ""Few prestige directors have so fully committed to the notion of cinema as an endurance test as Alejandro G Inarritu, and he pushes himself, the audience and an aggrieved 19th Century frontiersman well beyond their usual limits in The Revenant."" [Variety] TOM MCCARTHY Age: 49 Nominated for: Spotlight, in which investigative reporters at the Boston Globe uncover child abuse in the Catholic Church. Oscar record: Nominated for best original screenplay (as co-writer) for Up in 2010. The critics said: ""McCarthy's earlier films marked him out as an attentive carver of mature and intelligent dramas... Spotlight, a more intricate story told on a broader canvas, represents a significant step up."" [Daily Telegraph] ADAM McKAY Age: 47 Nominated for: The Big Short, in which canny investors seek to make money by betting on the 2008 financial crisis. Oscar record: No previous nominations. The critics said: ""[McKay] dabbles in genuine irreverence, political energy, and a formal inventiveness here that is a delight to see, and a constant surprise."" [IndieWire] GEORGE MILLER Age: 70 Nominated for: Mad Max: Fury Road, in which post-apocalyptic ""road warrior"" Max Rockatansky falls in with a female rebel. Oscar record: Won best animated film (as producer) for Happy Feet in 2007. Nominated for best original screenplay (as co-writer) for Lorenzo's Oil in 1993 and for best adapted screenplay (as co-writer) and best picture (as producer) for Babe in 1996. The critics said: ""Miller's old-school post-apocalyptic vision dazzles the eye and engages the mind in ways that practically no contemporary blockbusters do.."" [New York Post]","A look at the best director nominees for the 88th Academy Awards , @placeholder on 14 January 2016 .",held,launched,published,based,announced,4
"It involves thousands of unique coded microdots being embedded into the animal's fleece. Designers claim it makes it easy to identify an animal as stolen and trace the farm it came from. Agricultural insurer NFU Mutual believes the cost to the UK of livestock rustling is about £2.9m a year. Read more about this and other stories from across Yorkshire TecTracer is being trialled on a sheep farm on the North York Moors near Whitby. If successful, the company behind it, which has worked with North Yorkshire Police on the design, hopes to roll it out across the region. Simon Clapcot, a PCSO with North Yorkshire's rural task force, said it offered a modern answer to older systems such as tagging sheep. ""Tags can be cut out and replaced giving the sheep a new identity but this remains on the fleece close to the skin and even shearing doesn't remove it."" The new system has been developed by York-based Trace-in-Metal. If an animal is stolen, the system can alert the police, other farms, abattoirs and livestock auctions.",A system which might cut the number of sheep being stolen from farms is being @placeholder in North Yorkshire .,involved,tested,introduced,investigated,built,1
"The Remain and Leave groups, which have not campaigned since Thursday, have cancelled events planned on Saturday. Meanwhile, Parliament, which was on a break for the referendum, will meet on Monday for tributes to Mrs Cox. The mother-of-two died after being attacked in her constituency. A 52-year-old man has been arrested following the attack in Birstall, West Yorkshire on Thursday. Both official EU referendum campaigns were suspended as a mark of respect shortly after the attack on Thursday. The suspension continued in to Friday, and both campaigns have announced there will be no national campaigning on Saturday either. Will Straw, executive director of pro-Remain Britain Stronger in Europe ,said in a statement: ""The campaign will continue to suspend all its planned national campaign events, street stalls, and rallies tomorrow as a mark of respect for the tragic murder of Jo Cox. ""Volunteers may choose to continue door-to-door leafleting in their own local areas, but the campaign nationally will not be doing so. We will also be making available tribute books for volunteers and members of the public who wish to mark their respects."" Vote Leave said it ""will be suspending major campaign events tomorrow such as the planned rally in Birmingham"". ""Low key campaigning like leafleting at a local level is likely to take place,"" it added. Meanwhile, the Labour In campaign group has suspended all national EU referendum campaigning for the whole weekend. They have said there will be some local campaigning on Sunday but no national campaigning. Labour's regional office in Yorkshire has also postponed all referendum campaigning in the region over the weekend. On Thursday Prime Minister David Cameron cancelled a rally he had been planning to hold in Gibraltar while Chancellor George Osborne scrapped a speech he had been due to give at the annual Mansion House dinner in the City of London, instead paying tribute to Mrs Cox. Planned speeches by Leave campaigners Michael Gove and Nigel Farage were among events to be postponed on Friday. Vote Leave's Iain Duncan Smith has pulled out a planned interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil, part of a series of set-piece interviews with leading figures from both sides in the referendum campaign, which had been due to be broadcast on Friday evening. David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn, Commons Speaker John Bercow and shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn laid flowers in Mrs Cox's Batley and Spen constituency on Friday, and united to condemn her killing as an ""attack on democracy"". UKIP leader Nigel Farage also laid flowers in Parliament Square with a note reading:  ""A terrible waste of a life. Sincerest condolences to all the family."" Vigils for Mrs Cox were held on Thursday night, in London's Parliament Square, and in the parish church in Birstall, on Thursday night, while the Union flag was flying at half-mast over the Houses of Parliament, Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.","EU referendum campaigning has been suspended nationally until Sunday , with less than a week before @placeholder day , after the fatal attack on Labour MP Jo Cox .",polling,insulting,voting,brain,planned,0
"Westley (93) and Alastair Cook (39) put on 102 runs together before Liam Dawson (2-40) bowled Cook to leave them 103-2. Varun Chopra (26) and Adam Wheater (30) made contributions before Ashar Zaidi smashed 72 not out off 40 balls to give Essex a competitive score of 304-7. James Vince (68) and George Bailey (63) gave Hampshire a chance, but they lost regular wickets to end on 279. Hampshire beat Kent to open their One-Day Cup campaign with a win on Thursday and started perfectly when Reece Topley bowled Nick Browne with his third ball, but Essex made progress through former England Test captain Cook and Westley. The duo gave them a platform but the away side fought back to reduce Essex to 195-6, when Gareth Berg ran out captain Ryan ten Doeschate for just two runs. That brought Zaidi to the crease and the all-rounder counter-attacked to great effect, hitting four sixes and six fours to push Essex's total beyond 300. Essex top scorer Tom Westley told BBC Radio Essex: ""That's the beauty of Ash. It was a game-changing innings. He is made for those situations. ""Him and Tendo (ten Doeschate) coming in with 15-20 overs to go is very dangerous for the opposition but brilliant for us. ""The wicket of Bailey was crucial and Ravi getting Vince out was key as well because they had a nice partnership going."" Hampshire captain James Vince told BBC Solent: ""We weren't at our best. The main difference was we didn't have someone to go on and get a big score. Ideally you go on and get 80 or 100. ""I don't think 305 was a lot to chase. The way the boundaries are here, and it was a pretty good pitch, at the halfway stage we would have taken that. ""With the boundaries as small as they are, a few were leading edges went for six. That can happen.  e'll take this one on the chin and hopefully bounce back against Middlesex on Wednesday.""",Tom Westley @placeholder as Essex clinched a first One - Day Cup win of the season by beating Hampshire by 25 runs .,race,starred,title,continued,dressed,1
"Dozens of British and Irish people have still not been traced following Saturday's devastating earthquake. The Red Cross had said 90 Britons were missing, but 30 have been located and the UK Foreign Office said it was not aware of any deaths or injuries. The UK's leading aid agencies have announced a joint appeal to raise money to help survivors. More than 4,300 people died and almost 8,000 were injured in the quake. Eighteen of the dead were killed in avalanches on Mount Everest. The RAF C-17 flight, commissioned by the Department for International Development, left RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, carrying more than 1,100 shelter kits. The plane also contains more than 1,700 solar lanterns to help families who have had to sleep outside because their homes have been demolished or through fear of further aftershocks. BBC correspondent Jon Kay said it took ground crew nearly six hours to load the 30 tonnes of emergency supplies. About 15 sombre-faced Gurkhas, who are synonymous with Nepal, were among the troops who had left on the flight, he added. An RAF Hercules aircraft is also expected to leave the UK on Tuesday carrying additional kit. The International Committee of the Red Cross had released a list of 90 missing British and Irish people, but the BBC understands more than 30 have since been accounted for. However, there could still be additional missing Britons not on the Red Cross list. Patchy mobile telephone and email communications have made it difficult to locate people. The Disasters Emergency Committee, comprising the UK's leading aid agencies, has also announced an appeal to raise money to help survivors. The appeal is to launch on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky on Tuesday. A donation line and website has already opened ahead of the broadcasts. The UK government has also promised to match the first £5m of public donations. The government has already given £5m to help people affected by the earthquake. It said it had released £3m to address immediate needs and £2m would be given to the Red Cross. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said ""we would expect there to be several hundred British nationals in Nepal"". ""British embassy staff have helped over 200 British nationals who've presented at the embassy directly,"" he said. The Foreign Office said teams had also been scouring hospitals, hotels and areas popular with tourists looking for Britons that might need help. A spokesman said: ""The situation on the ground is highly challenging. Basic telephone communication and infrastructure are severely disrupted."" The UK Foreign Office has released an emergency number - +44 (0) 207 008 0000 - for people worried about loved ones who may have been in the area at the time. It advises against all but essential travel to Nepal. Britons in a safe place have been advised to remain there until it is safe to leave, but Britons able to leave Nepal safely have been encouraged to do so. The Department for International Development (DfID) has already deployed a team of more than 60 search and rescue responders and medical experts to support the relief effort in Nepal. A plane from London has been sent to Kathmandu, carrying seven search and rescue crews, four search and rescue dogs, a medical support team and a hazardous materials specialist. The plane contained more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents. A Foreign Office rapid deployment team to provide further consular assistance for British nationals was also on board, along with experts from leading aid agencies including the British Red Cross, Medecins Sans Frontieres and Map Action - an international disaster mapping charity. Some 67 British firefighters from the International Search and Rescue Team (UKISAR) are also among those helping. The team is trained to provide specialised technical search and rescue assistance in collapsed buildings. Salisbury-based charity Serve On has sent eight volunteers from its international rescue team. They reportedly arrived in Nepal on Monday and have begun search efforts after liaising with UN co-ordinators.","An RAF plane carrying UK aid supplies and British army troops , including Gurkha @placeholder , has left for Nepal .",engineers,material,unit,mercenaries,data,0
"Sir Richard Ottoway, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, accused the Chinese authorities of acting in an ""overtly confrontational manner"". His committee is examining relations between the UK and its former colony, where pro-democracy activists have been protesting since September. The demonstrators want elections free from interference by Beijing. Sir Richard said he had been warned that if he and fellow MPs attempted to travel to Hong Kong as part of the inquiry they would be refused entry. ""The Chinese government are acting in an overtly confrontational manner in refusing us access to do our job,"" he stated. Sir Richard added that he would request an emergency Commons debate on the issue. He told the BBC the committee intended to explore business, cultural and educational links between the UK and China, as well as the protests. ""We are not China's enemies. We are friends and partners. We have every intention of going there in a sensible way,"" he said. Sir Richard added: ""The real worry about this is that it sends a signal about the direction of travel that China is going on Hong Kong. Immigration is a devolved matter to the Hong Kong authorities, and it's not for China to ban them."" The committee will continue with the probe, he said. A spokesperson for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said the committee was independent of government and described the Chinese decision to refuse members entry as ""regrettable"". The spokesperson added: ""It is not consistent with the positive trend in UK-China relations over the past year, including the recognition during Premier Li's visit to London in June that the UK and China have considerable shared interests in respect of Hong Kong. ""Nor is it in the spirit of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, concluded 30 years ago. The FCO has signalled this position to the Chinese at the most senior levels.'' Chinese authorities condemned the committee's inquiry when it was announced in September. The Chinese Foreign Affairs Committee charged its UK counterpart with carrying out a ""highly inappropriate act which constitutes interference in China's internal affairs"". But when the Commons committee took evidence from Lord Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, earlier this month, he criticised British politicians for not doing enough to support democracy there. Lord Patten said the terms of the 1984 Joint Declaration between the UK and China, agreeing the transfer of sovereignty to China and setting out a ""one country, two systems"" principle of governance, explicitly gave the UK a ""legitimate"" interest in Hong Kong's future. ""When China asserts that what is happening in Hong Kong is nothing to do with us, we should make it absolutely clear both publicly and privately that it is not the case,"" he said.",The Chinese embassy has told a group of MPs it will be stopped from making a @placeholder trip to Hong Kong .,suspected,group,planned,single,second,2
"The programme, starring Josh Hartnett and Eva Green, was recognised in categories including costume, make-up and hair, and production design. BBC Two drama The Honourable Woman and BBC Three documentary Life & Death Row both landed four nods. The awards will be handed out at a ceremony on 26 April. Other shows which were nominated in multiple categories include Strictly Come Dancing, BBC Two's Peaky Blinders and fantasy drama Da Vinci's Demons, which received three nods each. Ripper Street, which was originally broadcast on BBC One, but revived on Amazon's Prime Instant Video, also scored two nominations - the first Bafta recognition for a programme shown on the subscription service. The comedy writer category features a number of well-known writer-performers. James Corden and Mathew Baynton are nominated for a second consecutive year for The Wrong Mans, while Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are up for dark comedy Inside No.9. They go up against Arthur Matthews and Matt Berry for Toast of London and Mackenzie Crook for Detectorists. Among the other programmes nominated across the 20 categories include Doctor Who, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, The Apprentice, Line of Duty, Downton Abbey and The X Factor. Industry-renowned vision mixer Hilary Briegel will receive this year's Bafta Special Award, recognising her extensive work on productions including Absolutely Fabulous, Only Fools and Horses, Newsnight and the Olympic Games. The full list of nominations are on the Bafta website. Actor Stephen Mangan will return to host this year's ceremony, held at The Brewery in London.","Sky 's @placeholder series Penny Dreadful has scored five nominations at this year 's Bafta Craft Awards , which honour television 's behind - the - scenes talent .",horror,air,original,youth,craft,0
"When Google paid $3.2bn (£2.1bn) to buy Tony Fadell's start-up Nest in 2014, it got much more than just an internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector. It got the man dubbed the ""the iPod's father"" - the engineer/designer who sold Steve Jobs on his vision of a portable music player, and then worked alongside Jony Ive to build it, update it and then repeat the process with the iPhone. Now, the two men are set to go head-to-head. First with wearable tech, and then later, perhaps, with competing car designs - more of which later. Tellingly, Mr Fadell reveals he recently started testing Sir Jonathan's latest product, the Apple Watch, although he was not wearing it at the time of interview. ""I've had mine for about two weeks now,"" he says. ""I think they did a tremendous job on the hardware components of it. ""They are trying many different things with that platform - some are going to be great, and some are not."" When Mr Fadell agreed to sell Nest to Google, the reason he gave was that joining forces would accelerate his ""thoughtful home"" master plan - he hates the term ""internet of things"", which he says does a ""disservice"" to his products. But in January, it became clear that Google's chief executive, Larry Page, had wider uses for his hardware expertise, and the troubled Glass computer was added to his duties. ""It wasn't handed to me and said, 'Tony clean it up,'"" Mr Fadell clarifies, ""I offered."" ""I remember what it was like when we did the iPod and the iPhone. I think this can be that important, but it's going to take time to get it right."" The $1,500 (£965) ""explorer edition"" of Glass was soon pulled from sale, and Mr Fadell made clear that future test versions would be kept in-house. That was widely seen as a shift in strategy for Google - a company that took five years to take its Gmail service out of ""beta"" status, and that still invites users to ""play"" with preview versions of other products. Moreover, it caused anger among developers who had sunk time and money into making apps for a product that no longer existed. But Mr Fadell defends the shift, saying a distinction needed to be drawn between hardware and software. ""If you are only doing services based on electrons, you can iterate quickly, test it, and modify it and get it right,"" he says. ""But when you are dealing with actual atoms - hardware - and you have to get manufacturing lines and it takes a year or more to develop that product, you better understand what it is and what it's trying to do and specifically what it's not going to do. ""Customers have to spend money to buy those atoms. ""They want something that delivers value or you end up with a real disappointment and you can spoil the market."" For now, that leaves Mr Fadell's reputation dependent on his Nest line-up. It is limited to three products, including the recently launched Nest Cam. The motion-detecting camera streams live footage and sound from the owner's home to an app and can save memorable moments in the cloud. If you get over the creepiness factor of effectively spying on your family, it's fair to say the device shares the crisp, stylish look of the Nest's other products, and reviews have been positive. But the camera is actually an upgrade to an earlier device made by Dropcam - a company Nest acquired. That means Mr Fadell's division has not created a new product category of its own since joining Google. Bearing in mind, Mr Page told him to ""keep doing what you're doing, and do it as fast as you possibly can"", it raises the question: what's taking so long? ""Talk to me about the number of home product companies who have come out with three different product categories in less than five years... are shipping and they are the number ones in their category,"" says Mr Fadell, slightly bristling. ""I would love to have more, faster. ""But it takes time - it really takes time to make these products to the level of design and near-perfection that we achieve."" He adds that Nest's biggest goal right now is to expand the range of third-party products its devices talk to - for example its Thermostats can switch LG fridges into energy-saving mode when no-one's in, and its Protect sensors can make Philip's Hue lights flash red if they detect smoke or carbon monoxide. But such advances have less impact than a new product. ""Despite his substantial success to date and involvement in key products such as Apple iPod, Mr Fadell has arguably not yet reached the truly iconic status bestowed upon Jonathan Ive,"" Ben Wood, from the tech consultancy CCS Insight, says. ""Given the huge amount Google invested in the acquisition of Nest to secure his services there must be an expectation that he too can deliver his own portfolio of truly disruptive devices with mass appeal. ""Google still lacks a smash-hit consumer electronics device of its own - it would be sensible to assume it hopes Mr Fadell can deliver that missing element."" The two men worked together on first iPods and iPhones, but are credited with different achievements. With the iPod, Mr Fadell first convinced Steve Jobs of the wisdom of developing a portable music player and then worked out how to incorporate a hard drive - a fragile component - into a device that could be thrown about, sat on and generally abused. Jony Ive's breakthrough was his design of its thumb-wheel, which scrolled through songs more rapidly as it was spun more quickly. With the iPhone, perhaps Mr Fadell's greatest feat was finding a way to shrink the tech necessary to offer a multi-touch user interface on a handheld device. Jony Ive's skill was best summed up by one writer as making the final product look almost more like ""a piece of jewellery than a gadget"". In post-Jobs Apple, Sir Jonathan's influence has grown further - extending to the look of the company's operating system software, the creation of its Watch and even the design of its new headquarters. By contrast, Mr Fadell has thrived beyond - building and selling a multi-billion dollar company, reinventing mundane household devices as desirable gadgets, and becoming one of Google's key figures. This leads to thoughts about whether Mr Fadell could become involved in other Google projects. A question about working on its growing roster of robots is rebuffed on the grounds that they are still a long way from leaving the lab. But self-driving cars, he adds, are much closer to launch and a ""big curiosity"". ""I don't think you've seen anything of what the design of the car could look like when it first materialises,"" he says. ""How do you make those occupants feel like they are safe and make sure they are safe? ""How does the car exude safety [and be] fashionable as well? ""How does this 'utility' self-driving car also be a reflection of you, right, as well as itself and also be transparent about its safety? ""Those are very interesting questions that still need to be dealt with."" He adds that he has ""some thoughts"" about the answers and is sharing them with others involved in Google's self-driving car project. ""We are having discussion about them all the time,"" he says. ""I always have ideas - it's whether or not people want to hear them."" So, nothing official yet. But it would not be a surprise if Google eventually announces Mr Fadell is adding automobile design to his list of duties. And if, as rumoured, Sir Jonathan and his team are also working on their own electric car concept, that could set up a fascinating clash between the two former colleagues in the future.",Is Tony Fadell @placeholder to eclipse his former Apple workmate Sir Jonathan Ive ?,forced,hoping,struggling,destined,prepares,3
"Archaeologists and volunteers have uncovered what could be the remains of walls dating back to 700 to 500 BC at Nybster in Caithness. Andy Heald, of AOC Archaeology, said further investigations would need to be made to confirm the structure's age. Evidence of possible Pictish and medieval occupation has been recorded. A key feature of the site are the remains of a massive stone wall roundhouse, known as a broch. Caithness has more brochs per square mile than any other part of Scotland, according to Highland Council. Examples of the ancient buildings are also found on Orkney. What lies beneath Nybster has intrigued the dig team, which is being led by AOC Archaeology and Caithness Archaeological Trust. Mr Heald said he believed the site may have been occupied long before the Iron Age and provided habitation to various communities for 1,000 years. He said: ""We have dug down to what might be the earliest wall on the site and this wall may have been used to seal off the site as a territory, as if someone was saying 'this land is mine'. ""Typical of sites like these, it was reused and modified at different times."" Archaeologists are wary of any alterations that may have been made to the site during excavations led by Sir Francis Tress Barry in the early 19th Century. A series of stone steps that may have been constructed on Sir Francis' instructions have been uncovered at the settlement. From his Highland home at Keiss Castle, the British consul to Spain explored the ruins of nearby Caithness brochs. According to an obituary written following his death in 1907, Sir Francis found the remains of elk, wolf, wild boar and a great auk, an extinct seabird. Older artefacts found in the latest dig include the core, or centre, of a cannel coal bracelet. The smooth circular stone was cut to create the hole in the bracelet. It also suggests trade between the residents of Nybster and other parts of the Highlands because the nearest source of cannel coal is 50 miles (80km) away in Brora, in Sutherland. Pieces made of bone have also been found.","The site of one of Scotland 's most important @placeholder broch settlements may have been home to early people for up to 1,000 years , evidence suggests .",body,neolithic,group,mainland,ancient,3
"The former leader of the Liberal Democrats - and former deputy prime minister - had held the seat since 2005 and had a majority of 2,353 in 2015. The seat has now been taken by first time MP Jared O'Mara. The exit poll suggests that the Lib Dems will win 14 seats - up from the eight it won at the last election. Mr Clegg took the party into a coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 and became the deputy prime minister to David Cameron. At the time, the Lib Dems held 57 seats, but after the next election five years later, the number was cut to eight. Senior figures within the Lib Dems have ruled out a similar deal after Thursday's election, as the Conservatives have again come out as the largest party - but failed to secure a majority. Sir Menzies Campbell said he would be ""astonished"" if the current leader, Tim Farron, joined with the Tories for a second coalition, or formed a ""progressive alliance"" with Labour. The party's press office has tweeted that there will be ""no coalition"" and ""no deals"". Sir Menzies told the BBC: ""We know about coalitions and we know [how] getting influence is very, very difficult indeed. ""Our experience after the last coalition [is] the major party gets the credit for everything that is done and the junior party takes the blame for the things the people don't like."" He said that Theresa May had made her position on pursuing a hard Brexit clear, adding: ""How could Tim Farron possibly ally himself with that? He [could not] take the party with him, nor any of the over 100,000 membership."" But Sir Menzies also criticised Jeremy Corbyn's approach to Brexit - saying it ""frankly almost defies definition"" - so he could not see any way Mr Farron could join with that party either. Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown tweeted that Britain ""is more polarised than ever in my life time"", if the exit polls are right. He added: ""REALLY time now for the centre to get its act together."" Lord Ashdown also told ITV News that Theresa May had ""lost all credibility"" during this election. Speaking on Sky News, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Lynne Featherstone said: ""If the exit poll is right we'll have a government of chaos."" The Lib Dems focused their campaign on winning the votes of Remainers, pledging a second referendum on the Brexit deal negotiations and calling for the UK to remain in the single market. The party also pledged to put a penny on income tax to fund the NHS and to legalise cannabis.","Nick Clegg has lost his seat to the Labour Party in Sheffield Hallam , becoming the first major figure to @placeholder in the 2017 general election .",run,stay,resign,change,fall,4
"Speaking in Reno, Nevada, Mr Trump said ""we are one people with one home and one great flag"". ""In America, we never lose faith, we never forget who we are, and we never stop striving for a better future,"" he told the American Legion. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the convention centre as he spoke. In a 22-minute address to the veterans' group, Mr Trump read from a teleprompter as he said: ""It is time to heal the wounds that have divided us, and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us."" He told his audience of more than 5,000 that in the US, ""we are not defined by the colour of our skin, the figure on our pay cheque, or the party of our politics. ""We are defined by our shared humanity - by our citizenship in this magnificent nation, and by the love that fills our hearts."" At a raucous rally in Arizona the night before he railed against that state's two senators, both fellow members of his Republican party, and Democrats. In his 80-minute speech, Mr Trump threatened to shut down the government unless funding was approved for his proposed wall on the US-Mexico border. He also excoriated media coverage of his statements about violence at a white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month. Mr Trump selectively quoted his initial response, omitting his much-criticised remark that ""many sides"" were to blame for clashes that ended with a counter-demonstrator killed. He also accused the ""damn dishonest media"" of ""trying to take away our culture"". ""They're trying to take away our history,"" he added. As he spoke, protesters clashed with police outside the venue in central Phoenix. After Mr Trump's speech on Wednesday in Nevada, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denied a New York Times report that he was angry with the president and doubtful of his ability to lead the party. ""We are committed to advancing our shared agenda together,"" the Kentucky senator said, ""and anyone who suggests otherwise is clearly not part of the conversation."" At the conclusion of Mr Trump's latest speech, he signed into law a measure making it easier for veterans to appeal for disability allowance after their claims are denied. Earlier this week, he laid out his plan for US troops in Afghanistan, and met with border control agents near the US-Mexico border.","US President Donald Trump has called for a "" new unity "" , a day after a campaign - @placeholder rally in which he attacked political foes and media .",tank,style,a,leaning,free,1
"Kipruto finished a second ahead of another Kenyan-born athlete Abraham Cheroben, who now represents Bahrain. England's Andy Vernon completed the podium spots a further 19 seconds back. Another Kenyan Caroline Kipkirui won the women's race as she was 38 seconds clear of Ethiopian Gotytom Gebreslase. With Kipkirui, 22, winning the 5.6km race in 18 minutes and 53 seconds, McCormack's hopes of achieving a podium finish were not helped by losing a shoe early on the final lap. McCormack continued to battle bravely but gradually lost ground in the closing stages to Ethiopian pair Gebreslase and Birtukan Adamu. Gebreslase clocked 19 minutes and 35 seconds to come in three seconds ahead of Adamu with McCormack, a further one second back, as she repeated her fourth place finish at last month's European Championships in Sardinia. English pair Pippa Woolven and Claire Duck completed the top six with veteran Maria McCambridge and Shona Heaslip the next best of the Irish in 11th and 12th spots and Armagh AC's Fionnuala Ross the leading Northern Ireland finisher in 16th. After setting a new Olympic record of 8:03.28 when winning the steeplechase in Rio, Kipruto was clearly the class athlete on show at Antrim but there were question marks about how he would perform in the mud of Greenmount in the 40th anniversary of the Northern Ireland cross country meeting. However, the 22-year-old's class proved enough to take the victory in a men's field which didn't have the strength of previous years at a meeting which has attracted the likes of Steve Ovett, John Ngugi, Paul Tergat, Ismael Kirui and Eamonn Coghlan. Kipruto did have to battle with another Kenyan native Cheroben over the 9km but his time of 24:36 left him one second clear, with Aldershot runner Vernon completing the podium positions. France's Hassan Chahdi was 24 seconds behind Vernon in fourth spot with England's Jonathan Taylor and Scotland's Lachlan Oates competing the top six. Liam Brady was the top Irishman in 11th spot, a minute and 54 seconds off the pace with Seamus Lynch and Conan McCaughey the leading Northern Ireland finishers in 13th and 14th spot.",Kenya 's Olympic steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto took the men's win at the Antrim International Cross Country @placeholder as Ireland 's Fionnuala McCormack was fourth in the women 's event .,meeting,event,classic,status,course,1
"Unofficial figures from a referendum show that the ""Yes"" campaign to retain hunting in the spring had won by about 4,000 votes. Joe Perici Calascione of the Federation for Hunting and Conservation (FKNK) described spring hunting as ""an integral part"" of the hunting tradition in Malta. Birdlife Malta said conservation efforts in Malta would now be an ""uphill struggle"". Times of Malta political analyst Herman Grech said that the result is a surprise because surveys were consistently showing a 7% lead for the ""No"" camp. But he said many voters appear to have abided by the wishes of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who came out in favour of hunting, as did the leader of the opposition. Mr Muscat said that the initial results from the referendum suggested the ""Yes"" camp - to keep spring hunting - had won by just over 50% of the votes. He was quoted by the Times of Malta as saying that referendum had given a final chance to hunters when the season begins on Tuesday and that any abuses by them would not be tolerated. Malta is the only EU country that allows recreational spring hunting. It has two derogations - or exceptions - in place from the European Union's Birds Directive which regulates the hunting of birds across the EU. These particular exceptions allow the Maltese to hunt turtle doves and quail in the spring, but only under strict regulations. Conservationists argue that some hunters shoot other protected species and that the two species legally targeted are migrating to breed as they pass over Malta into Europe. Some 45,000 Maltese signed a petition last year to hold a vote on whether to ban the spring hunting season, which runs from the middle to the end of April. Mr Calascione said that the right of hunters to shoot turtle doves and quail was ""their life"". ""We're the most regulated country in Europe with regards to hunting,"" he said. ""The hunting we do is sustainable. There is a limit on the hunting bag, and the time we can hunt."" Birdlife Malta's Romina Tolu said that the closeness of the vote showed that the campaign to stop spring hunting ""had managed to get the support of the people"". ""It was run by a group of 14 NGOs. We had no political support,"" she said. A ruling by the European Court of Justice in 2009 found that Malta had been in breach of EU law by allowing spring hunting because it had failed to fulfil its obligations under the Birds Directive. But since then, successive Maltese governments have continued to pass legislation that allows the EU exceptions to apply, so that spring hunting can continue.","The head of a hunting @placeholder in Malta says he is "" ecstatic "" that a ban on spring hunting has been rejected .",school,involvement,association,camp,war,2
"The Department for Work and Pensions annual estimate shows the proportion affected - almost one in six - was unchanged from 2011-12 to 2013-14. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said UK poverty levels were the ""lowest since the mid-1980s"" and showed government reforms were working. But charities said proposed welfare changes would leave families worse off. A child is defined as being in poverty when living in a household with an income below 60% of the UK's average. Average household income in 2013-14 - before housing costs - remained unchanged from 2012-13, at £453 a week - making the poverty line £272 a week. Mr Duncan Smith told the Commons that government reforms of the welfare system were focused on ""making work pay"" and getting people into employment. He said he remained ""committed"" to dealing with the ""root causes"" of poverty, saying employment was up by more than two million since 2010. Shadow chancellor Chris Leslie accused the government of failing to make progress in cutting child poverty and raising incomes. The figures represented a ""depressing slow-down in the progress we should be making as a country"", he said. Javed Khan, chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, said every child living in poverty was a child that was being ""let down"". He said: ""Government plans to cut struggling families' incomes further by changing tax credits is deeply concerning... this government must ensure that change to the benefits system makes work pay for those on low incomes."" Matthew Reed, chief executive of the Children's Society, said there has been a ""steady rise"" over the last five years in the numbers of children living in poverty in households where parents work. He said 200,000 more children have been pushed deeper into poverty over the past year. Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, said the figures made ""grim reading"", adding: ""The government is not going to meet the child poverty targets."" It comes as the government has said it wants to change the way child poverty is measured - as it believes the current measurement is inadequate. David Cameron's official spokeswoman said the prime minister ""remains committed to doing more work to eliminate child poverty and that is precisely why the government wants to look at having an approach that is focused more on tackling the root causes of poverty than treating the symptoms."" The ""experts"" are scratching their heads. Today was the day, we were told, when we'd see a sharp rise in poverty as official figures included the full impact of welfare cuts for the first time. But, instead, the numbers have remained broadly flat and the government is able to claim that ""the proportion of individuals with low income is now at the lowest level since the mid-1980s"". The Child Poverty Action Group said the figures still made grim reading. ""Make no mistake, we are facing a child poverty crisis in the years ahead,"" it said. But one cannot help but think their statement would have been rather different if the expected rise had come to pass. So what is going on? Is it time to ask if welfare reform is working? Read more from Mark Easton Jonathan Cribb, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said the child poverty figures appeared to have remained stable despite cuts to working age benefits because of the rise in employment. ""That seems to have off-set the impact of cuts to working age benefits which will have suppressed incomes,"" he said. The DWP figures have mostly been estimated from a survey of 20,000 households in UK. The data for 2013-14 includes figures suggesting the number of children living in relative poverty before housing costs were taken into account was 100,000 lower than the previous year. However, the DWP said it was ""not trumpeting"" the finding as the polling was subject to a margin of error. The figures also showed that 9.6 million people - about 15% - were on relative low incomes in 2013-14. The figure represented a fall of 100,000 on the previous year - and is down from 11.2 million in 1998-99 when comparable records began. The number of pensioners living in poverty increased by 100,000, the DWP said. Janet Morrison, chief executive of Independent Age - the older people's charity - said pensioner poverty remains a ""significant and widespread problem"". For many the reality was not ""foreign holidays, but finding the cheapest food and managing to keep the heating on in winter"", she said.","The number of UK children @placeholder as living in relative poverty remains 2.3 million , government figures suggest .",doubled,reported,classed,resigned,continued,2
"The Wokingham Paper was launched following the closure of the Wokingham Times by publisher Trinity Mirror in December. About 10,000 copies of the 48-page independent paper, which sells for 50 pence, are being printed weekly. Editor Phil Creighton said: ""It's an amazing feeling, I nearly cried. It's been such a journey to go from the idea to have it in my hand."" Mr Creighton said he took on the project as the end of the town's paper had ""left a huge gap in the heart of the community"". ""I wanted to make sure that news was shared"", he said. Mr Creighton is attempting to raise crowd-sourced funding to sustain the publication.",The first @placeholder of a new newspaper for Wokingham has gone on sale .,team,members,images,batch,edition,4
"So there was heartache in the hills and despairing in the dales as Jaguar Land Rover announced it will cease production of its Defender model in 2015 because it will not meet new European laws on fuel emissions. The last Land Rover Defender will roll off the production line in Solihull in December 2015, bringing to an end a 67-year history of different versions of the model. ""It's a mistake,"" said Land Rover Defender owner Viv Wing, from Grantham in Lincolnshire. ""What are they going to make instead? Something with nice seats and too much carpet, probably."" While the luxuries of sleek, modern makes may be what many motor enthusiasts aspire to, it is the all-weather hardiness of the Defender that is part of the charm for its devoted worldwide following. ""It's a brilliant bit of kit,"" said Mrs Wing, the secretary of the Leicestershire and Rutland Land Rover Club. ""Some people would prefer a Ferrari, but each to his own."" For Mrs Wing, who has mobility issues following a riding accident, the Defender is a lifeline, taking her out into terrain she otherwise would not be able to access. ""I love the countryside and the Defender enables me to get out and see the views,"" she said. ""We went up Stanage Edge in the Peak District in ours the other week."" In October 2012, Mrs Wing and her husband Mick joined up with 10 other owners on a 3,000-mile round trip through Europe to the Sahara Desert. ""One guy's engine flooded, so he stood and fixed it by the side of the road in the desert,"" she said. ""You can do that with a Land Rover."" The ease of repair - at least for the pre-1998 models which were constructed with minimal electronics - is another appeal for owners. ""They're like a big Meccano set really,"" said Richard Smith, 48, from Redditch, chairman of the Midland Rover Owners Club - the oldest in the country. ""They are infinitely recyclable."" He uses his six Land Rovers - the oldest, a Series 2, dating from 1959, to take part in trialling and rallies. ""I've heard of people driving them round patched up with gaffer tape. I knew a guy who drove back from Wales with a piece of string tied round his throttle cable when his throttle broke."" The Defender is probably best known for its all-weather roadworthiness. While some cars shrink from extreme conditions, the Defender was built to tackle them head-on. Mr Smith said his members work with NHS on-call medical staff during floods and snowfall to transport nurses to critically ill patients. ""It's quite fulfilling to be able to help them do that,"" he said. ""Not many people know we are involved in that work."" Often the love of Land Rovers is passed down the generations. Simone Birch, from Leicester, claims the vehicles are ""in her blood"". Both Mrs Birch's two grown-up sons own Land Rovers and her three-year-old grandson can now name all the different models. ""They have a cult following,"" she said. ""When you pass another one on the road, the driver waves at you."" So what will the demise of the Defender mean for devotees? ""We'll still be able to get the parts - there are plenty of third-party suppliers,"" said John Kesterton, from Solihull, secretary of the Midland branch. ""And while we don't know what the replacement vehicle is going to be, hopefully it will maintain the Defender's off-road capabilities."" So does he plan to trade in his 1998 Defender CSW, with 175,000 miles on the clock? ""Not any time soon,"" he said.","It 's the vehicle that can be patched up "" with string "" and carry you through deep @placeholder , across Europe and into the Sahara Desert - at least , according to its owners .",facilities,inflation,crowds,waters,forces,3
"Thirty years ago, the boy from the Gellideg estate challenged Mexican Lupe Pintor for his WBC Bantamweight belt. Despite defying the odds to dominate the early stages of the fight, he was knocked out in the 12th round, never to regain consciousness again. In a typically hard-fought battle for life, he survived for another two months, but on 4 November 1980, Johnny Owen eventually succumbed to his terrible head injuries. Born to a large Merthyr family, Johnny soon learned to stick up for himself, and started his interest in boxing aged just eight. He was to remain in the amateur sport until he was 20, an unusually long time by modern standards; winning 106 of his 124 bouts. He fought for Wales 17 times, and was victorious on 15 occasions. Yet despite this impressive record, Merthyr boxing writer and professional referee, Winford Jones, says that Johnny's true talent didn't lie in the shorter format of the sport. ""Johnny was a machine. His great skill wasn't his strength - though he never took a backwards step and could punch as hard as anyone of his weight - it was his stamina. ""He could fight for hours, and would wear opponents down by outlasting them.  You could see this talent far more in 12 and 15-round professional fights, than you could in the three rounds allowed in amateur boxing."" His professional career lasted just four years, from 1976 to 1980, but in that time Johnny Owen crammed in 28 fights; winning 25, drawing one and losing two. Though in a sense it is possible to argue that he never lost fair and square. His first defeat came against Spain's Juan Francisco Rodriguez, in a fight for the European belt. In what's now widely regarded by experts to have been a travesty of a home-town decision, the judges awarded Rodriguez a fight which Owen had clearly bossed. His second, and final defeat came in the fatal clash with Pintor, a  fight in which he at least held his own, and may have won, were it not for the head injuries which he'd sustained. But at one stage Owen's record read 22-0, winning his first fight against a former Welsh champion, George Sutton. In his sixth fight he again saw off Sutton to claim the Welsh title. By bout nine he had the British belt, beating Paddy Maguire, and in November 1978 he became the Commonwealth champion, stopping Italian-Australian Paul Ferreri. Owen wasted no time in avenging the controversial defeat to Rodriguez in the spring of 1979. Just a year later he convincingly bettered him in a re-match in Ebbw Vale, setting up his World title chance against Pintor. Winford Jones was lucky enough to referee some of those early fights. ""In what I think must have been his fourth or fifth fight, I remember he was taking on an Irish lad, and I had to stop it in the fourth round because Johnny was murdering him. ""It makes you think about what happened a few years later on to Johnny. ""But he was fearless, you could tell, even then, that he had the makings of a champion, and sadly the potential to get hurt, because he would never give in, and never take a backward step in a fight."" Yet the man who was so fearless in the ring, was the shyest and most awkward of characters in the glare of the media. Professional life Inconceivable in modern boxing, Owen would simply shake hands with his opponent at a weigh-in, avoiding confrontation, and usually conversation of any kind. He declined requests for all but a tiny handful of interviews.  Perhaps boxing journalist Hugh McIlvanney summed it up best, when he wrote: ""The tragedy of Johnny Owen was that he was only articulate in the most deadly of languages."" When Owen was knocked down in the ninth round of the WBC title-challenge in Los Angeles, it was the first time he'd been on the canvas in his professional life. But he was to go down twice more in the 12th round, never getting up from the second. The legacy of Johnny Owen lives on in Merthyr. After he died, a £100,000 relief fund raised for his care, went instead, according to his family's wishes, to establish a special-care baby unit at the town's Prince Charles Hospital. Important safety lessons were learned, when it became evident from his post mortum, that Johnny had been born with a critical weakness of his skull. Whilst boxing will never be entirely safe, the routine scans introduced following Johnny's death, have undoubtedly saved many other lives. Rather than bitterness, his family extended a hand of friendship and solidarity in boxing to Lupe Pintor, telegraphing him shortly after Johnny's death, to urge him not to feel guilty, and to continue boxing. Mutual respect In 2002, on the 22nd anniversary of Owen's death, his father Dick unveiled a statue of his son in Merthyr, arm-in-arm with Pintor. Winford Jones said was it was one of the most moving experiences of his life. ""Before the unveiling, I asked Lupe, in my scratchy Spanish, how he was finding the day, and he replied 'Very awkward'. ""But he'd come nevertheless, and the people of Merthyr gave him a tremendous reception.  I think that speaks volumes for Merthyr, and in particular for Lupe and Dick."" ""I cried when I saw them hug in front of Johnny's statue. ""That is an image that all boxers should be shown before they set a toe in a ring, as it encapsulated the honour and mutual respect that should always be present in the sport.""","In the firmament of Welsh boxing legends , no star has @placeholder so brightly , or for such a tragically short time , as the "" Merthyr Matchstick "" , Johnny Owen .",burned,declared,accumulated,revealed,released,0
"Prime Minister David Cameron has said he does not think it ""appropriate"" to use the Brussels attacks to further arguments in the EU referendum debate. But the UKIP leader said those campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU had already ""politicised"" the security issue after the Paris attacks. And he told Talk Radio that Brussels was in a ""state of lawlessness"". He also described the city as the ""jihadi capital of Europe"". He added that EU border rules led to ""the free movement of terrorists, of criminal gangs and of Kalashnikovs"". But Lord Hill, European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that concerns over terrorism should be kept separate from thoughts about Schengen - the EU's passport-free travel zone. He said: ""I think there are questions obviously about Schengen, how it's operating.  It needs to operate better."" But he said that the London bombings in 2005 involved ""homegrown terrorists"" and happened despite the UK not being part of the Schengen zone. Former Conservative minister Peter Bottomley - who called at Prime Minister's Questions for people to unite with ""hope not hate"" - has tabled a Commons motion saying Mr Farage's comments ""should be challenged within and outside his party"". Meanwhile, the former head of MI6 from 1999 to 2004, Sir Richard Dearlove, has said ""the cost to Britain would be low"", from a security perspective, if it were to leave the EU. Writing in Prospect magazine, he says: ""Brexit would bring two potentially important security gains: the ability to dump the European Convention on Human Rights... and, more importantly, greater control over immigration from the European Union."" He adds: ""Would Brexit damage our defence and intelligence relationship with the United States, which outweighs anything European by many factors of 10? I conclude confidently that no, it would not."" But Rob Wainright, a former director of Europol, said police co-operation across the EU had improved considerably over the past decade, with the European Arrest Warrant speeding up extradition procedures and the UK having access to the Schengen Information System - a network containing details of hundreds of thousands of wanted criminals and missing people. ""These EU instruments are clearly helping the UK deal with the threats involved,"" he told the BBC. Leaving the EU would, at the very least, he said cause ""uncertainty and disruption to the UK's security interests"". Four Britons were injured in explosions at an airport and metro station in Brussels on Tuesday which left 34 people dead. Security has been stepped up at key sites across the UK, and on Wednesday morning Mr Cameron chaired a second emergency Cobra meeting in the wake of the events in Brussels. In a statement to MPs, Home Secretary Theresa May said the UK and its allies must work with ""greater urgency and joint resolve"" to defeat terrorism. The UK is to hold a referendum on 23 June on whether or not to stay in the European Union. Mr Cameron is leading the Remain campaign, while Mr Farage is a leading figure on the Leave side.","Nigel Farage has insisted he was "" wholly justified "" to link the Brussels attacks and EU @placeholder rules .",interests,data,migration,police,safety,2
"The States say removing rules on prices would allow retailers to set milk prices, which could see prices fall. It is part of a report about the island's dairy industry which calls for the 1958 law, banning most milk imports to the island, to be tightened. The association, representing milkmen, says the change could lead to chaos. It says there should be a consultation, impact assessments and proper costing before any changes are introduced. The group invited politicians to a closed meeting on Monday to express its concerns. The States are due to debate the plans which ministers say aim to secure the future of the industry. Commerce and Employment Minister, Deputy Kevin Stewart, criticised the way the local Milk Retailers' Association had approached the consultation. He said the organisation was ""the most opaque and secretive organisation"" he had ever come across. Brian Martel, of the Guernsey Milk Retailers' Association, said it was simply scrutinising the proposals.","Plans to end @placeholder prices for milk in Guernsey need to be examined in more detail , according to the Milk Retailers ' Association .",up,proposed,fixed,homes,staff,2
"The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry. Sold uncased without keyboard or monitor, the Pi has drawn interest from educators and enthusiasts. Supporters hope the machines could help reverse a lack of programming skills in the UK. ""It has been six years in the making; the number of things that had to go right for this to happen is enormous. I couldn't be more pleased,"" said Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation which is based in Cambridge. Raspberry Pi: Can it get kids to code? Massive demand for the computer has caused the website of one supplier, Leeds-based Premier Farnell, to crash under the weight of heavy traffic. The device's launch comes as the Department for Education considers changes to the teaching of computing in schools, with the aim of placing greater emphasis on skills like programming. In a speech outlining those changes, Michael Gove mentioned the Pi, suggesting devices like it could play an important role in the kind of computer class the government envisages. ""Initiatives like the Raspberry Pi scheme will give children the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of programming,"" he said. ""This is a great example of the cutting edge of education technology happening right here in the UK."" Initially the £22 ($35) model of the Pi will be offered for sale. A cheaper £16 ($25)  version will go on sale later in the year. The machine, which runs on open-source operating system Linux, can be hooked up to a typical computer monitor - with additional ports used to attach a keyboard, mouse and other peripherals. It also features an ethernet port, meaning the device can make use of high-speed internet connectivity. Supporters hope the thousands-strong community of people that has grown up around the Pi will help develop additional software and suggest uses for the device. The Pi going on general sale is likely to add to the buzz around the machine, but there are already a number of similar stripped-down computers on the market. These include devices such as the Beagleboard and the Omnima MiniEMBWiFi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation says it has already produced thousands of the machines, using a Chinese manufacturer. By Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent It had originally hoped to produce the devices in the UK - ""we want to help bootstrap the UK electronics industry"" the group wrote in a blog post - but that turned out not to be possible at the right price. But while production remains overseas, deals with two distributors, Premier Farnell and RS Components, mean that production volumes will be able to grow much faster than previously thought. Rather than the foundation having to fund production, distributors have agreed to handle orders and deal with manufacturers paying the foundation a royalty on sales. Dr Upton says that will help the project grow much more quickly than previously thought. ""We didn't realise how successful this was going to be,"" he said. ""This means we can scale to volume. Now we can concentrate on teaching people to program.""",A credit - card @placeholder computer designed to help teach children to code has gone on sale for the first time .,force,school,sized,enabled,body,2
"Sarah McClay, 24, was attacked by a Sumatran tiger in an enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park, near Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, on Friday. Cumbria Police said a tiger got from its pen to a staff area of the enclosure where it attacked Ms McClay. Detectives said either ""human or mechanical"" error could have led to the tiger being in the staff area. Ms McClay was taken to Preston Royal Hospital where she died of head and neck injuries. Park owner David Gill said after the attack there was ""no reason"" for Ms McClay to be in the enclosure with the tigers. Det Chief Insp Bob Qazi, of Cumbria Police, aid: ""It is vitally important that we discover what exactly happened in the big cat enclosure building that led to Sarah coming into contact with the tiger. ""I want to emphasise there is no suggestion of any foul play or any issue of suicide or self-harm from the enquiries we have made and evidence we have. ""What has become apparent from our enquiries is that Sarah was going about her routine duties and was in the staff section of the enclosure building, which animals are not allowed access to, when a tiger has entered it from an adjacent pen and confronted her. ""The tiger has then attacked Sarah, taking her from the building into the open-air external enclosure area where Sarah was left and later attended by staff and paramedics. ""We are still trying to establish exactly how and why the tiger has been able to get from the pen into the staff area and at the moment believe this to be because of a human or system error, or mechanical failing, or combination of both."" Police said compartments in the tiger enclosure were connected by lockable doors but systems in place to ensure staff and animals were kept apart had ""failed"". Mr Gill said Ms McClay, who is originally from Glasgow, was a ""very experienced"" staff member who had worked with big cats and was ""proficient and passionate"" at her job. Mr Gill described Ms McClay as a ""bubbly, happy girl"" and described her death as a ""tragedy for her family and all the staff"". After the attack the park was closed early and visitors evacuated from the area. It reopened on Saturday. Mr Gill said: ""The public were not at risk and we followed all our accident procedures to the letter. ""We had a meeting of all staff at 5.30pm and asked what they wanted. There was a huge consensus of opinion that we carry on. ""It would not do any good to close the park as there is no safety issue."" He said the Sumatran tiger, which has lived at the park for 10 years since it was a cub, would not be destroyed. A statement released by Ms McClay's family thanked paramedics for their ""valiant"" efforts to save her. The family has set up a donation site in her memory to support red squirrel conservation. The statement said: ""We'd like to thank you all for your kind words. We are still coming to terms with what has happened. ""We would like to take this opportunity to thank the valiant efforts of Cumbria Ambulance Service, the North West Air Ambulance and the Royal Preston Hospital. ""Investigations are ongoing and it may be some time before a full picture emerges of what happened and how this tragic accident came to pass.""","A zoo keeper who died after being mauled by a tiger may have been "" @placeholder "" into a pen , police said .",stuffed,burned,blown,crashed,dragged,4
"Doris Long said she felt no fear as she came down Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower. The great-great-grandmother last performed the feat on her 100th birthday in May 2014. The pensioner, who has previously abseiled alongside new Top Gear host Chris Evans, is raising money for the Rowans Hospice in Waterlooville. Ms Long, who first abseiled aged 85, said: ""I don't feel afraid and never have, I just have a placid nature."" Ms Long, who has a daughter, three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, received cheers and applause from the crowd as she reached the bottom of the tower. ""It was very hard work, much harder than last year,"" she said. ""It was so windy I swung about a bit but oh yes, I enjoyed it, I feel it's well worth it. ""My legs ache like anything and my right arm where I hold the rope and my hair is all sticking out."" ""Daring Doris"", who has raised more than £11,000 for the hospice, said she hopes to repeat the challenge next year aged 102. Jennie Watson, 42, from Locks Heath, who completed the abseil earlier in the day, said: ""You have to be quite agile to get the ropes down but it's the bravery more than anything. How she does it, I have no idea.""","The world 's oldest abseiler , @placeholder "" Daring Doris "" , has increased her record after descending almost 100 m ( 328 ft ) aged 101 .",entitled,helped,including,describes,nicknamed,4
"The police-led 180 Degree scheme covers Norfolk and Suffolk. The Ministry of Justice study found 81% on the scheme reoffended within a year compared with 69% who were not on it. A spokesman for the 180 Degree scheme said the findings might reflect the fact its clients were more closely watched than other offenders. The study also found those on the £1m-a-year scheme committed more offences - on average 4.56 each - than the 3.25 offences per person found in the control group. At any one time, there are between 280 and 290 offenders on the scheme. The Ministry of Justice said both those on the scheme and the control group who were not were ""similar offenders"" and said its findings were ""statistically significant"". The ministry's Justice Data Lab said: ""The overall results show that those who took part in the scheme were more likely to re-offend and had a higher frequency of re-offences than those who did not."" The Ministry of Justice did not respond to questions about either an explanation for the higher likelihood of offending of those on the scheme or whether its findings were likely to be explored further. Norfolk Constabulary's Insp Danny Kett, who manages the 180 Degree programme, said although the report has only just been published it was based on ""old data"". He also claimed the findings might be due to people on the scheme being more closely monitored than other offenders (hence more likely to be caught). Up-to-date figures comparing those on the scheme with those who were not, however, were not available when the BBC contacted Insp Kett. ""The scheme has come on quite a long way since then,"" he said, adding the report did not include details about either reductions in offending or the types of offences committed. Insp Kett said: ""If they step out of line,"" he said, ""we know about it and we will report them."" Just last week in Norwich, he said, a shoplifter was identified wearing an unusual top which resembled one of the ""clients"" on their scheme. When the client arrived the next morning for a meeting with his probation officer he was wearing the same top and was arrested and charged. ""If he had not have been on the scheme, we would not have known who he was,"" said Insp Kett.","A programme designed to cut reoffending @placeholder actually made criminals more likely to offend , a Ministry of Justice ( MoJ ) study has found .",show,rates,evidence,information,have,1
"The shop near the isle's pier was left open to visitors so they could use its wi-fi and replenish supplies, leaving the money in an honesty box. But when volunteers checked the shop over the weekend they found sweets, toiletries, batteries and six hand-knitted hats had been stolen. On Facebook, Isle of Canna Community Development Trust said it was ""gutted"". The trust has started locking the shop when it is not staffed. Police Scotland wants to speak to anyone who docked at the pier on Friday night. The National Trust for Scotland, which owns the island, said: ""We were sorry to hear about this theft from the shop on Canna, which the community have worked hard to make a success. ""Thankfully, incidents like this are extremely rare and Canna is a very safe place."" Canna is the most westerly of an island group called the Small Isles.",The community shop on Canna has been @placeholder in what is thought to be the tiny island 's first crime for decades .,destroyed,robbed,discovered,stranded,engaged,1
"Menstruation is generally a taboo topic in India, something that is rarely talked about openly. But at the weekend, several photographs popped up on my Facebook page of young Indian women holding placards - some made up of sanitary napkins and tampons - with the slogan ""Happy To Bleed"". A little bit of research led me to this petition, started by college student Nikita Azad, who was annoyed by the sexist remarks made by the head of the famous Sabarimala temple in Kerala. ""A time will come when people will ask if all women should be disallowed from entering the temple throughout the year,"" Prayar Gopalakrishnan, who recently took charge of the hilltop temple dedicated to Lord Ayyappa, told reporters earlier this month. ""These days there are machines that can scan bodies and check for weapons. There will be a day when a machine is invented to scan if it is the 'right time' for a woman to enter the temple. When that machine is invented, we will talk about letting women inside,"" he added. Ms Azad insists that there is no ""right time"" to go into a temple and that women should have to right to go ""wherever they want to and whenever they want to"". The temple priest's comments, she says, reinforce misogyny and strengthen the myths that revolve around women, and that ""Happy To Bleed"" is a counter-campaign against menstrual taboos. Hinduism regards menstruating women as unclean so, during her periods, a woman is not allowed to enter the temple, touch any idols, enter the kitchen or even touch the pickle jar. Many Hindu temples in India - and also globally - have prominent notices displayed at the entrance telling menstruating women that they are not welcome, and many devout Hindu women voluntarily keep away from temples when they are menstruating. But the Sabarimala bars all women in the reproductive age from entering the temple. The temple website explains that as Lord Ayyappa was ""Nithya Brahmachari - or celibate - women between the 10-50 age group are not allowed to enter Sabarimala"". The website adds, rather threateningly, that ""such women who try to enter Sabarimala will be prevented by (the) authorities"" from doing so. Ms Azad says ""we don't believe in religion that considers half the world impure"" and that theirs is ""not a temple-entry campaign"" - it's ""a protest against patriarchy and gender discriminatory practices prevalent in our society"" and that they are fighting against sexism and age-old taboos. Since its launch on Saturday, #HappyToBleed has received a lot of responses, especially from young urban Indian women. ""More than 100 women have posted their photographs on Facebook holding banners and placards, with catchy slogans, and many more have shared these photos on their timelines,"" Ms Azad told the BBC. The campaign has also been picked up by many people on Twitter who have written in with messages of support. Some, however, have also wondered how women can be ""happy"" to bleed since periods can often be pretty painful. ""We are using happy as a word to express sarcasm - as a satire, to taunt the authorities, the patriarchal forces which attach impurity with menstruation,"" Ms Azad explains. ""It may be painful, but it's perfectly normal to bleed and it does not make me impure,"" she adds. Listen to BBC 100 Women programmes here.","After an Indian temple chief recently said he would allow women to enter the shrine only after a machine was invented to detect if they were "" pure "" - meaning that they were n't menstruating - outraged women have launched a # Happy ToBleed campaign on Facebook to protest against the "" sexist @placeholder "" , writes the BBC 's Geeta Pandey in Delhi .",statement,word,power,practice,life,0
"The former lock, 40, who joined the Scotland coaching staff in May 2015, will follow national boss Vern Cotter when he moves from Scotland to Montpellier in June. ""There wasn't anything in Scotland available of the same profile,"" Hines told BBC Scotland. ""So, if I wanted to advance and become better as a coach, I had to leave."" Australian-born Hines won 77 Scotland caps between 2000 and 2011 and toured South Africa with the British and Irish Lions in 2009. His club career included stints with Perpignan and Clermont - where he played under Cotter - in the cash-rich French Top 14. Privately-owned clubs in the French top-flight, and England's Aviva Premiership, have the financial capacity to attract many of the game's leading lights, but Hines feels Scotland's union-run teams can still compete in European tournaments. ""You can have money and pay players as much as you want, but if you don't have the culture in the club, ultimately it's not going to work,"" he said. ""You might be able to attract players, but it doesn't guarantee you success. ""If you look at Edinburgh when they made the Heineken Cup semi-final (in 2012), they had a smaller budget and beat Toulouse in the quarter-final. ""In France, it's pretty much like for like and, if you're talking about the Aviva Premiership and the Top 14, the salary cap isn't that much different anyway. ""In Scotland, they're probably a bit behind the eight ball when it comes to the amount of money they've got to attract players, but I don't think it's going to be a massive problem. ""Glasgow Warriors are punching way above their weight if you're looking at the league table of budgets."" In October, Scottish Rugby's member clubs voted unanimously to allow the union to seek external investment in the two professional sides. Hines, however, is not convinced an influx of private cash would significantly boost either team's performance. ""Glasgow have got 28 international players, so I don't know how much more you can fit into the same squad,"" he said. ""Facilities-wise, it might make a bit of a difference, but I think what you want Edinburgh and Glasgow to do is breed and produce Scottish players. ""With a massive injection of cash, you might be able to pay them a bit more and provide a little bit more structure underneath with the academies. ""The French players in France now are more valuable than international players because they have a rule where a certain number of French players have to be part of the match-day squads, so if you're a decent French player, you can demand a little bit more money. ""I'm not sure how the private investment will work in Scotland; it might ease the burden on the union a little bit, but I'm not sure how much difference it'll make.""","Scotland resource coach Nathan Hines says he "" had to leave "" the @placeholder to continue his own development .",country,ability,tournament,depth,team,0
"The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) says school inspections should be changed to make them fairer and more accountable. The NAHT wants to see peer reviews, where school leaders lead rigorous and accredited reviews of other schools. Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw said schools needed ""go-getting"" leaders. The NAHT's plea comes as Ofsted launches a consultation on the future of school and college inspections. The chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, is due to give details of the consultation process - to which members of the public will be invited to respond. Ahead of those details being revealed, NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby said: ""Ofsted's legitimacy hangs in the balance. ""Schools can no longer learn effectively from its adversarial approach. The current model of inspection has reached the end of its useful life and now holds the education system back. ""The regime stifles innovation, provokes unnecessary bureaucracy and damages recruitment. Small changes will not be enough - we desperately need a brand new approach to emerge from the consultation. ""Inspection only has a future if it can work with schools to help them improve."" Mr Hobby  said currently schools were ""investigated, not inspected"" and that school leaders were expected to prove there was  ""no wrongdoing, not to showcase excellence"". He said the recent trend of no-notice inspections had to stop. ""Head teachers have a right and a need to be present during inspection, and a small amount of notice is required to make this possible."" Mr Hobby said the NAHT would like to see a system of peer review, where school leaders led rigorous and accredited reviews of other schools. Ofsted should be limited to intervening in cases of failure and to moderating these peer judgements, he said. ""Ofsted has expanded its remit relentlessly,"" Mr Hobby said. ""It does not see itself as just an inspector of standards, it is seeking to set policy, which is a task that should be reserved for elected officials. ""When we look back on this era, we will see that, far from delegating authority to schools, government has only delegated it to Ofsted. ""This massive, unwelcome and antagonistic over-reach creates a strong case for a complete  rethink."" The NAHT is urging all political parties to make a general election pledge to reform the watchdog. Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw said the government was looking to ambitious and ""buccaneering"" heads to lead school improvement. ""It very much chimes with my own conviction that the future of education in this country depends on these energetic, dynamic, entrepreneurial, and perhaps slightly maverick leaders who thrive on competition and aren't afraid to ruffle feathers,"" he said. Sir Michael's comments came in a speech to Norfolk's annual head teacher conference on Wednesday. He told the conference that schools had responded positively to Ofsted's move to toughen up inspections - including a decision to replace the ""satisfactory"" rating with ""requires improvement"". ""I am the first to recognise that Ofsted needs to move towards a more proportionate, risk-based model for inspection which focuses on those struggling institutions that need a greater level of scrutiny and intervention.,"" Sir Michael said. ""At the same time, we need to move to a new inspection model which keeps a more watchful eye on good schools so that they don't slip back but continue to improve. ""That is why, when we launch our consultation tomorrow [Thursday], I will be suggesting frequent but shorter inspections of good schools led by HMI [Her Majesty's Inspectorate], with a much greater emphasis on professional dialogue.""","Schools in England can no longer work with Ofsted 's "" adversarial approach "" and the watchdog should be totally @placeholder , head teachers have warned .",increased,transformed,introduced,abused,decline,1
"He will still ask Congress to approve the arming of Syrian opposition forces. Mr Obama is due to give a speech on Wednesday night in which he will outline his anti-IS strategy. IS militants have taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq in recent months and have declared a ""caliphate"". In the past month, IS militants have beheaded two US journalists in protest against American airstrikes on its forces in Iraq. Mr Obama's moves come as Secretary of State John Kerry goes to the Middle East in an effort to build up regional support for a coalition to combat IS. Mr Kerry is travelling to Jordan and Saudi Arabia for talks with officials from 10 Arab states and Turkey. Meanwhile the Saudi ambassador in London, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, rejected suggestions that his government was supporting or funding IS. ""It is the lack of international involvement that has paved the way for terrorist-affiliated movements to breed within Syria, and now Iraq,"" he said in a statement. ""We have previously urged the international community to take an in-depth look at the financial backing and organisational structure of this terrorist organisation. ""Had this been carried out it would have been revealed that rather than being the instigator of such terrorist network Saudi Arabia is in fact the main target."" Mr Obama discussed his anti-IS strategy with leaders from both parties at the White House on Tuesday. A spokesman said the talks were ""productive"". The meeting with Congressional leaders came a year after lawmakers blocked Mr Obama's previous plans for missile strikes against Syria. Mr Obama has ruled out the possibility of a US ground operation against IS but has signalled he may expand airstrikes to include Syria. ""Over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of [IS],"" he said on Sunday. ""We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities; we're going to shrink the territory that they control; and, ultimately, we're going to defeat them."" At the White House on Tuesday, he met Democrats Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Republicans John Boehner, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader. The White House said Mr Obama had told the congressional leaders he welcomed action from Congress in support of the effort and pledged ""continuing extensive consultation"". But Mr Obama's aides suggested he would not seek new authorisation from Congress for military action. ""The president told the leaders that he has the authority he needs to take action against [IS] in accordance with the mission he will lay out in his address tomorrow night,"" the White House said. Mr Obama will make a televised speech from the White House at 21:00 local time on Wednesday (01:00 GMT Thursday). Mr Boehner, one of Mr Obama's chief political adversaries, told the president he would back a US military deployment to train and advise the Iraqi security forces and assist in the targeting of IS leaders, an aide to the House speaker said in a statement to the BBC. According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, a large majority of the American public views Islamic State as a serious threat to the US and widely supports air strikes in Iraq and Syria. About 100 Americans are believed to have joined the militants and the US state department has tried to counter this by making a hard-hitting video that tries to dissuade potential recruits. Meanwhile, France has announced it will host an international conference on Iraq on 15 September and President Francois Hollande will visit the country later this week.",President Barack Obama has said that he has the authority to @placeholder military action against Islamic State ( IS ) militants in Iraq and Syria without the approval of Congress .,suspend,reassure,widen,perform,join,2
"Five police officers were shot dead while seven others and two civilians were injured in the shooting. The gunman, identified as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, told negotiators he wanted to kill whites, especially white police officers, He was killed by an explosive device detonated by a police robot. Johnson's victims were a mix of veterans, parents, grandparents, spouses and community leaders. DART Officer Brent Thompson, 43 Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) authority confirmed that Mr Thompson was one of the fallen officers. Mr Thompson, who joined the department in 2009, is the first officer to be killed in the line of duty since DART began its police force in 1989, said spokesman Morgan Lyons, Mr Lyons said three other DART officers were wounded in the attack, but they are expected to recover. Thompson was also recently married and served in the military as a Marine, according to his Facebook account. He had trained police in Iraq and Afghanistan while working for a private military contractor, according to his interview with the New York Times in 2006. Officer Patrick Zamarripa, 32 Mr Zamarripa, a Navy veteran and father of two, was one of the four police officers who was killed in the crossfire. He served three tours in Iraq, his father Rick Zamarripa told the Washington Post. ""He comes [back] to the United States to protect people here"", his father said. ""And they take his life."" He would have turned 33 next month. He joined the Dallas Police Department after leaving the Navy. Most recently, he was assigned to downtown bicycle patrols. His father wanted him to quit the force because it was dangerous, but he told him he wanted to stay because he liked the action. ""Patrick would bend over backward to help anybody. He'd give you his last dollar if he had it. He was always trying to help people, protect people,'' his father The Associated Press news agency. ""As tough as he was, he was patient, very giving."" Officer Michael Krol, 40 Michigan native Michael Krol joined Dallas' police department in 2007. Mr Krol was a former employee of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office in Michigan from 2003 to 2007. Krol's mother, Susan Ehlke, told local television station WXYZ her son was a very ""caring person"". ""He was living a dream of being a police officer. [He] Just turned 40 in April. He knew the danger of the job but he never shied away from his duty as a police officer"", she said. Officer Michael J. Smith, 55 Sergeant Michael Smith was a father of two, according to local media outlets and the Dallas Morning News. He was a former Army ranger and attended the Lamar Institute of Technology. He served with the Dallas police department for nearly three decades, and was known to be conscientious and professional, even paying for his training if needed. He received a ""Cops' Cop"" award from the Dallas Police Association. Officer Lorne Ahrens, 48 Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens was a member of the Dallas Police Department for 14 years, according to Dallas Morning News. ""He was always one of the happy ones, with a smile on his face,"" one of his fellow officers told the newspaper. The father of two died in hospital from his injuries.",The five victims who were shot and killed during a deadly ambush at a Dallas protest were @placeholder by a gunman upset with the police .,saved,tackled,affected,targeted,identified,3
"Fed officials say - but not particularly clearly - something that spooks the markets, no one really knows when US interest rates will rise, but everyone thinks they will very soon, and then commodities tumble, which in turn drags down Asian stock markets. It feels like we go through this every couple of weeks. But even if you're not invested in the markets, here are three reasons why you should care about falling commodity prices and what it means for global growth. Copper prices are down by more than a fifth this year. The metal is used in everything from homes to factories - so it's a really good gauge of overall global demand. China is the world's biggest consumer of copper and other raw materials, because it just needs so much of it to power its massive economy. But China is facing the slowest growth in a quarter of a century - so it's not surprising we're seeing copper slump. Oil inventories are at their highest level in at least a decade, because countries that produce crude drilled more out of the ground this year, adding to global production, according to Opec. There's even more oil around than there was in 2009, right after the global financial crisis. As we go into the winter season, Opec says the demand for oil could go up - but the reason there's so much oil in the markets is because no one anticipated that global demand would slow as much as it has. Gold prices are at five-year lows, which is unusual - because in a period of slower global growth, gold is one commodity that usually does well, as investors look to keep their money safe. But current gold prices are reflecting the fears that investors have for the future - the market is expecting rates in the US to rise - which means the US dollar will strengthen as more investors look for higher returns there. And that's bad for gold. (Although having said that, physical demand from China and India remains strong for the precious metal.) Investors are nervous about slowing global growth, but that should come as no surprise. The commodities boom over the last decade has been driven by China's spectacular once-in-a-lifetime economic rise. Even if other countries in the region (India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Pakistan, Myanmar) see demand pick up for commodities, it is unlikely to be at the scale we saw in China - no one's close to being big enough. So as China goes through what's being called the ""new normal"", it's likely that commodity producers are going to have to accept the same fate for themselves too.",It 's becoming a familiar @placeholder .,story,statement,speech,memory,difference,0
"The Exiles, who are bottom of the Football League, will travel to Anfield if they can beat Plymouth in a second-round replay at Rodney Parade. The two teams drew 0-0 at Home Park, but Westley warned there is still work to do if the Exiles are to enjoy the benefits of facing Jurgen Klopp's side. ""Financially, it's a game-changer."" Westley told BBC Radio Wales Sport. Westley has had previous experience of success in the FA Cup, but has warned Newport to focus squarely on their replay with Plymouth. ""When I was at Stevenage, the FA Cup runs were the reason the training ground got built,"" he said. ""I know the difference that FA Cup runs can make that's why I've always placed such importance on it in my managerial career. ""It's a great opportunity, but it remains just that, we have to focus on the replay. It does not pay in these circumstances to start dreaming, you've got to keep your mind on the job. ""It's an unbelievable draw for a small club, but we won't put the cart before the horse."" As a fan-owned club County have had to operate on a limited budget for a long time, but chairman Gavin Foxall says a trip to Anfield could safeguard the future of the club. ""It would absolutely be a massive financial boost for us,"" said Foxall. ""Certainly for a club like ours it would secure the future for a season or two at least. It would be extremely welcome and would boost the coffers enormously. ""We are delighted, but there is a very difficult game with Plymouth first. ""A game at Anfield against Liverpool would rank right up there in the club's history."" As for Westley, who joined the club in October and has overseen an upturn in the Exiles' League Two fortunes, the real third-round draw proved a lot more satisfying than one his young son had insisted on conducting the day before. ""My little boy wanted to do the FA Cup draw on Sunday,"" Westley added. ""He pulled us out against Eastleigh or Halifax away so it was a bit of a better result for us when it went out for real.  It's a big prize, it's a great opportunity.  From our point of view it's a great motivation for the replay."" That replay will take place at Rodney Parade on Tuesday, 13 December.",Newport County boss Graham Westley believes an FA Cup third - round clash at Liverpool could @placeholder the club .,enter,upset,transform,affect,breached,2
"Carefully timed to coincide with the 4 July holidays in the US, Kim Jong-un's triumphal blast has simultaneously allowed the North Korean authoritarian leader to make good on his promises of military modernisation to his own people while exposing the hollow overconfident tweets of President Donald Trump that an ICBM launch ""won't happen"". The launch of the North's Hwasong-14 rocket is in practical terms merely an incremental step forward from an earlier launch in May, when a similar rocket flew for 30 minutes, to a height of some 1,312 miles (2,111km) over a distance of some 489 miles. The most recent missile added seven to nine minutes of flight time, an extra 400 miles or so in height and a further 88 miles in overall distance. Superficially this is simply more of the same pattern of provocation and tactical sabre-rattling that the North has been pursuing for decades, whether through its longstanding quest to acquire nuclear weapons (dating from the 1960s) or its missile testing programme, sharply accelerated in the course of last year. Yet, by bringing Alaska within range, the new test is an unambiguous game-changer in both symbolical and practical terms. US territory (albeit separate from the contiguous continental US) is now finally within Pyongyang's cross-hairs and for the first time a US president has to accept that the North poses a ""real and present"" danger not merely to north-east Asia and America's key allies - but to the US proper. President Trump's weakness lies in having overplayed his hand too publicly and too loudly. His initial gambit of deploying a US ""armada"" to the region in the form of the USS Carl Vinson battle group, not only involved a poor use of historical analogies (the ill-fated 16th Century Spanish fleet was probably the least auspicious of reference points), but also signally failed to intimidate the North Koreans. Similarly, openly pressuring the Chinese to impose punitive sanctions on North Korea in return for economic restraint from the US through a Trumpian concession not to list Beijing as a currency manipulator also appears to have failed. President Xi, notwithstanding the positive mood music of the April Mar-a-Lago summit, appears to have avoided being boxed in by Trump, and China's reaction to the North's latest provocation is likely to be limited to a familiar pattern of rhetorical condemnation and a call for calm from all parties. Washington's immediate options are limited. Military action - notwithstanding the hawkish recommendations of Republican senators such as John McCain and Lindsay Graham - is next to impossible given the risks involved to Seoul and the poor prospects of success, either in terms of removing the North's strategic assets or its political leadership. Sanctions are likely to be revisited, through a reconvening of the UN Security Council, but the political process is slow and enforcement is at best a partial and therefore ineffectual approach. Talks are one way forward and the convergence of views between Washington and Seoul on the back of President Moon's recent visit to the US suggest that some sort of partial re-engagement with the North might be on the cards, albeit within a framework of reinforced deterrence. Yet, for now the momentum is all with Pyongyang, which has little incentive to sit down with the US and can afford to play for time in accelerating its military modernisation efforts while capitalising on divisions within the international community. While the US, South Korean and Japanese leaders will be united in pushing for tough measures at this week's G20 summit in Germany, they will be hard pressed to secure the support of either China or Russia for anything beyond a bland, condemnatory declaration. The dangers of the present crisis are two-fold. A more confident Kim Jong-un, emboldened by his latest success may become less risk-averse, engaging in conventional military brinkmanship which, while not going as far as pre-emptive attacks on his neighbours, might spill over into conflict through miscalculation rather than through design. Alternatively, the US confronted by the unpalatable reality of seeing the North cross yet another supposedly non-negotiable ""red line"" may simply choose to avert its eyes. For a president wedded to his own version of ""fake news"", the easiest way to cope with an inconvenient truth may be to redefine or simply ignore the original ""red line"". This would be a major mistake since it will do nothing to deter the North while encouraging other states in the region to pursue their own military modernisation plans, storing up even greater problems for the future. Ultimately, Mr Trump, if he wishes to demonstrate that he is indeed master of the ""art of the deal"", will need to give up the bully pulpit of megaphone diplomacy via twitter and pivot towards a more enlightened approach. This could involve the imaginative despatch of a high-profile US senior statesman to negotiate with and appeal to the ego and amour propre of the young North Korean leader. It could also involve closer co-ordination with America's allies, most notably South Korea, in offering some high-profile political concessions to the North - whether the establishment of a US liaison mission in Pyongyang or a sequenced pattern of asymmetric conventional force reductions on the peninsula. Right now, Washington (for the sake of the region and the wider world) urgently needs a long-term, sustained and calibrated strategy for dealing with the North that is more than a reactive game of eye-ball to eye-ball posturing. An impulsive, attention deficient and hyper-active President Trump would be better advised to switch from playing poker to chess. Dr John Nilsson-Wright is a Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, Asia Programme, Chatham House and Senior Lecturer in Japanese Politics and the International Relations of East Asia, University of Cambridge",North Korea 's confident announcement that it has successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) capable of striking the US is another @placeholder in the high stakes game of international poker that Pyongyang appears to excel at .,iteration,mood,step,place,example,0
"The king's coffin was lowered into a vault below the cathedral floor during a reinterment service on Thursday. A large piece of stone engraved with a deep cross lies on top of the tomb and 200 guests who won a ballot will be allowed to view it from 13:00 GMT. The cathedral will open its doors to the public after the unveiling service. The last Plantagenet king's remains were found beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. More than 20,000 people queued to see the coffin in the cathedral earlier this week and long queues are expected after the hour-long service. Rev Pete Hobson, acting Canon Missioner of Leicester Cathedral, said: ""We'll welcome as many people as we can - just keep moving people and you'll all get a look."" He added that the service would have a ""lighter feel"" than Thursday's ceremony, which was presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury. ""Thursday was a day for the nation, Friday is a day for Leicester and Leicestershire,"" he said. Later in the evening 8,000 candles will be lit in the city's Jubilee Square and Cathedral Gardens before a firework display on the cathedral roof. The two-tonne Swaledale fossil stone lies on a marble plinth, while the inlaid coat of arms is made of marble and semi-precious stones. The reburial has not been without controversy. Campaigners who petitioned for Richard III to be reburied in York have described the events in Leicester over the last week as a ""pantomime"". Richard, the last English king to die in battle, was killed at Bosworth Field in 1485, at the end of the Wars of the Roses.",The public will be able to view King Richard III 's sealed tomb for the first time later when Leicester Cathedral is @placeholder .,show,announced,growing,reopened,unveiled,3
"England were edged out on points difference by Ireland, the fourth successive time they have been runners-up under head coach Stuart Lancaster. ""I don't think that is acceptable at all,"" said Ritchie. ""We should be, as a country, winning more, in terms of whether it's Grand Slams or Six Nations Championships."" Media playback is not supported on this device England needed to beat France by a clear margin of 26 points to deny Ireland the title, but came up six points short at Twickenham. A 55-35 win over France saw them finish second on points difference behind Joe Schmidt's side. Ritchie added: ""We are not happy with how that came about.  We did not do enough over the five matches."" England started their Six Nations campaign with an impressive 21-16 win over Wales in Cardiff but lost 19-9 to Ireland in Dublin. They then missed a number of try-scoring opportunities as they beat Scotland 25-13. Media playback is not supported on this device Ritchie said: ""We need to focus more over five games. We simply did not take our opportunities and were not clever doing parts of the game in order to deserve to win. ""We should be going into every game doing our upmost to win, and win well. ""We have the resources, the talent and abilities. We are not in a development phase and we have to make sure we come out for the World Cup and deliver."" Ritchie believes Lancaster's side have the talent to win the World Cup at Twickenham on 31 October. They face a challenge to make it out of their pool which contains Australia and Wales, but Ritchie thinks home advantage will be key as they play both sides at Twickenham. ""I have got to think and believe - and I know Stuart and the team believe - that we can win this and we should be able to win it. [Whether] we will win it depends on our application and execution during the games."" He added: ""We all know we are in a tough group and we know it is going to be difficult but there is an advantage of playing most of our games at Twickenham and an advantage getting the crowd support. I think the support we are getting around the country is phenomenal and it will grow and grow leading into the World Cup."" Ritchie refused to confirm reports in France that former England fly-half and record points scorer Jonny Wilkinson is poised to join Lancaster's set-up as a kicking coach. Wilkinson won the World Cup in 2003 and retired from rugby last season having triumphed in the Heineken Cup and the French league with Toulon. ""We keep in close touch, Jonny is an icon of English rugby, "" said Ritchie, speaking to BBC rugby correspondent Ian Robertson. ""But you wouldn't expect me to discuss what is or is not happening with contractual discussions."" Former England captain Will Carling backed the idea and told BBC Radio 5 live: ""I've always been astounded why more of the great players England have had over the last 10-15-20 years are not involved. ""The experience they have, the knowledge they have, to me that would be common sense. To involve Jonny would be absolute common sense and I think it would be spectacular."" Download the Radio 5 live Matt Dawson Rugby Show podcast here.","Rugby Football Union chief executive Ian Ritchie says a fourth consecutive second - @placeholder finish for England in the Six Nations was "" not acceptable "" .",expected,placed,held,threatening,row,1
"An unidentified programmer has produced a tool that exploits shortfalls in the way the malware encrypts a file that allows Windows to start up. In notes put on code-sharing site Github, he said he had produced the key generator to help his father-in-law unlock his Petya-encrypted computer. The malware, which started circulating in large numbers in March, demands a ransom of 0.9 bitcoins (£265). It hid itself in documents attached to emails purporting to come from people looking for work. Security researcher Lawrence Abrams, from the Bleeping Computer news site, said the key generator could unlock a Petya-encrypted computer in seven seconds. But the key generator requires victims to extract some information from specific memory locations on the infected drive. And Mr Abrams said: ""Unfortunately, for many victims extracting this data is not an easy task."" This would probably involve removing the drive and then connecting it up to another virus-free computer running Windows, he said. Another tool can then extract the data, which can be used on the website set up to help people unlock their computer. Independent security analyst Graham Cluley said there had been other occasions when ransomware makers had ""bungled"" their encryption system. Cryptolocker, Linux.encoder and one other ransomware variant were all rendered harmless when their scrambling schemes were reverse-engineered. ""Of course,"" said Mr Cluley, ""the best thing is to have safety secured backups rather than relying upon ransomware criminals goofing up.""",Petya ransomware victims can now unlock infected computers without @placeholder .,blinking,paying,fail,lives,charge,1
"Their clients are desperate for advice as the UK attempts to disentangle itself from EU legislation, while the profession's leading lights clash in a historic legal challenge over Parliament's role in Brexit. But is the profession really rubbing its hands in glee? Robert Bourns, the president of the Law Society of England and Wales, said that while there is likely to be a short-term surge in demand, the long-term picture could be less rosy. Companies are worried about whether their skilled workers will be able to stay in the UK post Brexit and how much regulation they will be subject to, he said. ""There is a great deal of uncertainty for law firms,"" Mr Bourns told the BBC. ""In the short to medium term, there is a lot of work. In the longer term, in the event that the standing of the City of London were to be diminished, there is concern as to how much will be available in this jurisdiction, where people should be locating, where they should be qualifying and so on."" The society is also warning that uncertainty at the outcome of the 23 June referendum could mean the position of England and Wales as the ""global legal centre"" comes under threat from rivals including New York and Singapore. Mr Bourns said global businesses choose the legal system of England and Wales to resolve disputes but this status could be undermined as the UK plots its post-Brexit course. ""Competing jurisdictions are saying English and Welsh law is not as useful as it used to be and perhaps you'd like to use a different jurisdiction,"" he told the BBC. The legal industry employs 370,000 people across England and Wales with a turnover of £26bn - and ""anything that goes towards undermining that would be a problem"", he says. The society also fears multi-national law firms will be damaged by the loss of an EU directive allowing solicitors to work in other member states, saying this could mean complicated negotiations with authorities in each country they operate in. Bad news for England and Wales could be good news for Ireland, where the Law Society is reporting a surge in the numbers of solicitors and barristers applying to practice. MPs are beginning an inquiry into the implications of Brexit  on the justice system, including a focus on the European Arrest Warrant, which the Law Society says must be retained. Once Article 50 negotiations are complete, and the UK leaves, lawyers are likely to be kept busy by the government's Great Repeal Bill, with which it plans to incorporate all EU regulations into UK law, before picking and choosing the ones it wants to keep. ""It's absolutely vast,"" said Mr Bourns. ""We've been members of the EU for 43 years. There are about 350 directives that are presently in the course of implementation. So what happens to those?"" He predicted a ""role for the courts"" in settling disputes about whether EU or UK rules applied in different situations, and questioned what would happen when EU legislation is amended by Brussels after it has been incorporated into UK law. As for what the UK decides to keep, he said the challenge would be to ""ensure we don't inadvertently miss something that means we're disadvantaged"". ""Lawyers are very much involved, there's no doubt about that. ""Clients are asking, and clients are planning. So there's a lot of work to be done."" But aren't lawyers just talking up the difficulties to make work for themselves? ""We will make the very best of it,"" Mr Bourns says. ""We are absolutely determined this should be regarded as an opportunity for us - we have no other choice.""",Anyone @placeholder the Brexit debate might think lawyers are the big winners from the UK 's vote to leave the EU .,leaves,delivered,dubbed,following,spends,3
"The National Schools Rugby Tournament (NSRT) has introduced a weighted scoring system, with the potential to dock points if teams or their supporters do not respect officials. The approach has been endorsed by the Rugby Football Union (RFU). Organisers say it aims to ""reward more positive aspects of the game of rugby"". There's still noise, but we want [people] excited and vociferous in the right way As well as awarding bonus points for tries and good defence, officials will also grade both the team and supporters on their sportsmanship and respect of others. Zero points will be given if ""a clear, and repetitive, lack of respect for the referee and his decisions"" is displayed, while ""exceeding the expectations of the RFU core values"" will gain a team three points. ""The idea is to reward all of these elements rather than simply 'win at all costs',"" said Mark Robinson of the NSRT. ""I wouldn't say we had a problem per se with the tournament in terms of disrespect to referees by players or supporters. ""Obviously, you expect the odd isolated incident in a tournament of this size but what is interesting is that the new system seems to have worked really well and been well received by parents, coaches and children alike."" Qualifying festivals for the tournament have already begun, with the finals to be played at Epsom College in Surrey on 19 March. Up to 80 schools regularly enter teams of players aged 13 and under. ""We've had very few problems at all this year,"" added Robinson. ""The parents and children seem to have embraced the new rules and it pretty much polices itself, which is great news for the referees and for the vast majority of people who come to watch rugby in the right spirit. ""We hope that this could be a template that could be rolled out to other children's rugby tournaments. I wonder whether it could even be adopted in adult rugby or other sports?"" Tournament director Tim Button says he can empathise with parents who get caught up in the emotion of watching their child compete, but that the new rules are intended to eliminate ""unpleasant incidents on the touchline"". ""There's still noise, but we want [people] excited and vociferous in the right way,"" he told BBC Radio 5 live. The RFU implemented changes to age-grade rugby at the beginning of the season, based on feedback from young players. ""As part of the new age-grade rugby framework we encourage a range of different competition options including those like the one being run by NSRT, with whom we have a good relationship, that put all players and their enjoyment front and centre,"" an RFU spokesperson said. ""We are committed to ensuring the offer to young players from clubs, schools and colleges is consistent, progressive and attractive in order to keep them enjoying rugby and playing the game longer.""","New rules at a national junior rugby tournament that penalise teams for unsporting @placeholder should be adopted more widely , say organisers .",purposes,behaviour,players,change,beat,1
"No reason was given for the removal of  Ibrahim Lamorde, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In August, Mr Lamorde denied allegations that $5bn (£3.3bn) had gone missing at the commission. Mr Buhari won Nigeria's presidential elections in March, promising to fight corruption in the country.",Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has @placeholder the head of the country 's anti-corruption agency .,designated,reached,defended,sacked,praised,3
"The US Food and Drug Administration said partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the main source of trans-fats, are not ""generally recognised as safe"". It said a ban would save lives by preventing fatal heart attacks. Food suppliers have been required to show trans-fats information on food labels since 2006 but health experts say Americans still consume too much. ""The FDA's action on this major source of artificial trans-fat demonstrates the agency's commitment to the heart health of all Americans,"" said FDA's Acting Commissioner Stephen Ostroff. ""This action is expected to reduce coronary heart disease and prevent thousands of fatal heart attacks every year."" Since the FDA started labelling trans-fats, the agency estimates that consumption of them decreased by 78% in the US. The UK has been calling for a ban on trans-fats for several years. In Denmark, almost all trans-fats have been banned since 2003.","Trans - fats are unsafe to eat and must be banned from the food @placeholder within three years , US regulators have said .",region,lost,organisation,island,supply,4
"Nick Hedges took the photos for housing charity Shelter in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He now wants to meet the people in his pictures to find out what happened to them. The images will be featured in an exhibition in Edinburgh's St Andrew Square until 30 October. Mr Hedges, who is now 73, said: ""It would be wonderful to meet the children I photographed all those years ago and to hear their stories. I often wonder what happened to them, if they went on to lead happy and healthy lives. ""When I was commissioned by Shelter to take these photographs, I never imagined that decades later they would still have such impact - none more so than on me personally. ""The poverty and terrible conditions I witnessed shocked me to the core. My hope is that all these years later, by reconnecting with some of those I photographed, I am able to hear good news of what happened to the families."" Director of Shelter Scotland Graeme Brown said: ""I encourage anyone who recognises themselves, or family members and friends to get in touch with us. We want to hear the stories behind these iconic images, and in particularly what happened after they were taken. ""These photographs are a sobering piece of history not only for Shelter Scotland, but the nation as a whole and it's important to preserve the stories behind them.""",A photographer who pictured Scots living in tenement slums 45 years ago is now hoping to be reunited with his @placeholder .,body,name,subjects,parents,team,2
"Richard Page, 69, who served for 15 years as a magistrate in Kent, was removed after he gave an interview to BBC News Correspondent Carolyn Wyatt. The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said his comments amounted to serious misconduct which brought the magistracy into disrepute. Mr Page said he would challenge the ""illiberal and intolerant"" decision. The JP, who served in Sevenoaks and Maidstone, sat on the Kent Central family panel. He was reprimanded in 2014 after he was found to have been influenced in an adoption case by his religious beliefs as a Christian but spoke about his views in the BBC interview on 12 March 2015. He told Ms Wyatt: ""My responsibility as a magistrate, as I saw it, was to do what I considered best for the child. ""My feeling was therefore that it would be better if it was a man and woman who were the adopted parents."" A spokesman for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said he was removed because the comments ""would have caused a reasonable person to conclude he was biased and prejudiced against single sex adopters"". Mr Page, whose case has been taken up by the Christian Legal Centre. said: ""I have made judgments on thousands of cases and in each case, have come to my decision based on the evidence, and the evidence alone. ""It has only been a relatively short time that same-sex couples have been able to adopt and foster and there has not been time for a proper analysis to be carried out into the effects such placements have on the children's educational, emotional and developmental wellbeing. ""To punish me and to seek to silence me for expressing a dissenting view is deeply shocking."" The Christian Legal Centre's chief executive, Andrea Minichiello Williams, said: ""To remove someone like Richard from the bench is modern day madness. ""He has a lifetime of public service and expertise in mental health. ""He is motivated by his Christian faith and a deep compassion for people.""",A magistrate has been @placeholder over comments he made on television against single sex adoption .,placed,banned,handed,questioned,sacked,4
"Doris Long said she felt no fear as she came down Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower. The great-great-grandmother last performed the feat on her 100th birthday in May 2014. The pensioner, who has previously abseiled alongside new Top Gear host Chris Evans, is raising money for the Rowans Hospice in Waterlooville. Ms Long, who first abseiled aged 85, said: ""I don't feel afraid and never have, I just have a placid nature."" Ms Long, who has a daughter, three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, received cheers and applause from the crowd as she reached the bottom of the tower. ""It was very hard work, much harder than last year,"" she said. ""It was so windy I swung about a bit but oh yes, I enjoyed it, I feel it's well worth it. ""My legs ache like anything and my right arm where I hold the rope and my hair is all sticking out."" ""Daring Doris"", who has raised more than £11,000 for the hospice, said she hopes to repeat the challenge next year aged 102. Jennie Watson, 42, from Locks Heath, who completed the abseil earlier in the day, said: ""You have to be quite agile to get the ropes down but it's the bravery more than anything. How she does it, I have no idea.""","The world 's oldest abseiler , nicknamed "" Daring Doris "" , has @placeholder her record after descending almost 100 m ( 328 ft ) aged 101 .",claimed,completed,reclaimed,announced,increased,4
"Michael Ryan made the comments in an interview with the Bloomberg financial news service. In October, the Quebec state government pumped $1bn (£655m) into a partnership set up to complete the CSeries. The wings for the CSeries are made in Northern Ireland. ""The quid pro quo was that final assembly and marketing would stay in Quebec, but that was all,"" Mr Ryan said. The CSeries will employ at least 800 people in Belfast at full production, out of 5,500 in total. Mr Ryan told Bloomberg that the Northern Ireland plant had skills in composite manufacturing that made it a world leader in wing production, safeguarding its status. The development of the narrow-bodied CSeries passenger plane has placed a major strain on Bombardier's finances. The project has been repeatedly delayed, is over-budget and orders have been slow.",The manager of Bombardier 's Northern Ireland @placeholder has said the Canadian bailout of the firm 's CSeries project poses no threat to the Belfast plant .,party,team,head,operation,state,3
"The price was more than double Sotheby's high estimate and sets a new record for the collector's item. A memo written by the firm's co-founder Steve Jobs when he worked at Atari sold for $27,500 at the same New York event. The original estimate for the four-page handwritten note was up to $15,000. Only about 200 Apple 1s were ever created. The computers were hand-built by Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak and originally sold for $666.66 (£426) as a fully assembled circuit board. He later said he picked a sum with a repeating number ""because it was just an easier way to type"". Only about 50 Apple 1s are still believed to be in existence.             The auctioned model  is one of the very few that still works. Sotheby's said there was a battle between two parties for the item which also included the original manuals. A set of bids was executed by the auctioneer on behalf of an absentee collector, but a telephone bidder proved more persistent and eventually clinched the sale. Their identity has not been revealed. The Atari memo  was written in 1974 and consists of four pages detailing the late Steve Jobs' thoughts on how to improve its arcade football game World Cup. He was 19 years old at the time. The pages include circuit drawings and diagrams showing how the paddle-based game could be made more fun to play. The notes are stamped with Mr Jobs' Los Altos home address and a Buddhist mantra - ""gate gate paragate parasangate bodhi svahdl"". It translates as: ""Going, going, going on beyond, always going on beyond, always becoming Buddha."" Sotheby's said there had been ""at least three bidders"" for the item. The high sums are the latest confirmation of demand for memorabilia connected to Steve Jobs, who died last October. Apple's founding papers, featuring Mr Jobs' signature, sold at auction in December for close to $1.6m.","A rare @placeholder Apple 1 computer - the company 's first product - has been sold at an auction for $ 374,500 (  £ 240,929 ) .",dedicated,based,name,lost,functioning,4
"Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd plan to send a ""mother ship"" to transport satellites beyond Earth's orbit. It is being called a ""new model of low-cost, high-value, space exploration"". The SSTL-GES Lunar Pathfinder team wants the project to appeal to organisations worldwide, including space agencies. SSTL's executive chairman, Sir Martin Sweeting, said he hoped the project would address the high cost of sending satellites to space - ""a common barrier to the international development and exploration of our local solar system"". Goonhilly Earth Station is upgrading one of its antennas as part of the development of a commercial deep space network and will provide a mission operations centre in Cornwall. Dr Tamela Maciel, from the National Space Centre in Leicester, said the project would provide exciting opportunities. ""It would be exciting to see the science that's coming out of it, but also the educational possibilities. ""Imagine if you're a university student and you get to work on developing a mini satellite that's going to be sent to the Moon... ""How amazing would that be to put on your CV?""",A British @placeholder has announced plans for low - cost lunar missions and space exploration .,scheme,partnership,organisation,panel,body,1
"Ashley Young's arrival from Aston Villa comes swiftly after the signing of Phil Jones from Blackburn Rovers, with Atletico Madrid goalkeeper David de Gea and a high-class midfield player also expected to make the move to Old Trafford. The loss to Barcelona in the Champions League final at Wembley did not exactly do United a favour but it would have confirmed in Ferguson's mind that his side was obviously on the wane. Some may have been fooled into thinking everything was OK given United's success in the Premier League but they were the best of a bad bunch last season and Ferguson is brutally realistic. I stand by my belief that he dragged those players to the title and would have claimed the crown with any of the other top sides had he been in charge of them. United were awful for long spells last season and really suffered against Barcelona - the fact they won the league was a work of art in itself How United won the title playing as badly as they did away from home, where they were abysmal on so many occasions, was almost beyond belief. Ferguson will have been well aware that they might not have been so lucky next season. Ferguson had two factors to address. First, the team was awful for long spells last season and really suffered against Barcelona. Secondly, the natural passage of time has resulted in the retirements of Edwin van der Sar, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes, while Ryan Giggs is edging ever nearer towards the end of his career. Giggs was magnificent last season but can you see him having another season like that at the age of 37? I can't. Ferguson has bought defender Jones, who is only a youngster and is clearly a signing for the future. Young, a winger, is a proven, fabulous player with great delivery who will add much. If you watched United last season, they were weak all over. The fact that they won the league was a work of art in itself, the sign of a great club and a great manager, with Ferguson as the key component. If I was Ferguson I would break the bank to land Luka Modric -he is a class act The loss of Scholes and the fact that Giggs is another year closer to the end of his career means Ferguson is almost certain to strengthen in midfield. He has been linked with Tottenham's Luka Modric and Wesley Sneijder from Inter Milan, both fabulous players. I do not know where Modric is going, or even if he is going because Spurs chairman Daniel Levy gave Chelsea very short shrift last week, but if I was Ferguson I would break the bank to land the Croatian. He fits the bill perfectly. Modric is a class act and his performance when Spurs won at Liverpool on the final day of last season was as good as it gets. When the ball comes to him, he doesn't just instinctively know his three options, he knows the best one to take. He also always has time and space in abundance - the hallmark of the great player. Ferguson will obviously recruit a goalkeeper to replace Van der Sar, who was a major reason for their success last season and has been for the last five years. De Gea appears to be the chosen one but the hardest person to replace in your team is always the goalkeeper, as proved by United's struggles to find a quality successor to Peter Schmeichel. Bringing a foreign keeper into the English game is always hit and miss because a big part of the game here is the ball into the box. We have seen the likes of Heurelho Gomes struggle to cope with that aspect of the game whereas Van der Sar was consummate and his communication skills were wonderful. De Gea is only a young boy, so it will be very intriguing to see how he goes if he does sign for United. Retirement and age have taken some of Ferguson's best players out of the equation but he is a master when faced with this sort of situation. He will also be aware of the challenges coming from elsewhere. United and Chelsea undoubtedly came back towards the pack last season, while Manchester City may feel they will never have a better chance of winning the Premier League than next time around. They will spend, Roman Abramovich will back new Chelsea boss Andre Villlas-Boas, while over at Anfield, where not much escapes Ferguson's attention, they now have the Kenny Dalglish factor. Liverpool will clearly strengthen their squad this summer and there is still the feel-good factor following Dalglish's arrival, which galvanised the whole club. Luis Suarez will also be ready for his first full season in the Premier League. The striker was sensational after coming to Anfield in January. But history tells us there is nobody better at coming out on top in a pressurised position than Ferguson. He clearly means business after taking stock of the current condition of his squad. And you would never back against him - you can't back against him - because if he can take his team to the title playing the way they did last season then they would have to start as favourites next season as he begins the process of building his latest Old Trafford model. Alan Hansen was talking to BBC Sport's Phil McNulty",Sir Alex Ferguson knew major work was needed to rebuild his Manchester United team - and he has @placeholder in style with his dealings in the transfer market so far .,gone,struggled,grown,opened,responded,4
"The authorities have issued a decree closing 131 media outlets while scores of top journalists have been arrested. The Lib Dems said the ""purge"" of critics of the government was contrary to the principles of democracy, liberty and the rule of law upheld by Nato. Turkey is a key member of the defence alliance and ally of the United States. The Turkish government has been accused of using the coup attempt by sections of the military as a pretext to target journalists and other non-state institutions including judges, academics and teachers. Three news agencies, 16 TV channels, 23 radio stations, 45 papers, 15 magazines and 29 publishers are to be closed down. Many of the media outlets are linked to the Hizmet movement of US-based cleric Fetullah Gulen, whom Turkey's democratically elected president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed for the uprising, a claim Mr Gulen denies. Despite strongly condemning the coup and giving its backing to President Erdogan, the international community has told the government its response must be proportionate, follow due process and avoid indiscriminate reprisals. But the Lib Dems, who served in coalition government with the Conservatives between 2010 and 2015 but were reduced to eight MPs at the last election, have urged Nato to act. Tom Brake, the party's foreign affairs spokesman, said the flurry of arrests and closure of media outlets in recent days ""should send shivers down the spine of any person who believes in a free and open society"". ""Erdogan's ongoing purge of newspapers, academics, teachers and judges has nothing to do with Turkey's security and everything to do with blocking any opposition to his increasingly authoritarian rule,"" he said in a statement to the Lib Dem voice blog. ""The preamble to Nato's founding treaty refers to it being ""founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law"", all of which are under threat in Turkey currently. ""If the UK and our Nato allies want to protect these core principles, it is time to make it clear to Erdogan that his actions will have lasting international consequences, and I am calling on Nato to urgently consider suspension of Turkey's membership."" He told the BBC that the UK - a founding member of Nato - should take a firm stance on the issue and should be insisting that those who had been detained had access to legal representation and anyone who was not charged was speedily released. ""I hope the new government will use this as an opportunity to demonstrate that human rights are at the core of our foreign policy and will not be downgraded in favour of international trade,"" he said. Turkey already has a poor track record on media freedom, ranking 151 out of 180 countries in this year's World Press Freedom Index. At least 246 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured in clashes during the abortive coup - 16,000 people have been detained since then. Turkey has declared a three-month state of emergency, allowing the president and the government to bypass parliament when drafting new laws and to restrict or suspend rights and freedoms. Earlier this year the EU called for longstanding talks on Turkey becoming a member to be re-energised although observers have said the coup and the government's response have set back the prospect of any immediate progress. EU officials have said the accession talks will be suspended immediately, if the Turkish government reintroduces the death penalty.","Nato should consider suspending Turkey , the Lib Dems have said , following its crackdown on the media and other @placeholder in response to the recent coup attempt .",events,conditions,bodies,attitudes,activists,2
"Four months later, he was reported to have masterminded two suicide attacks in Niger, targeting a military base in Agadez and the French-run uranium mine in Arlit, killing at least 25 people. He has been declared dead many times, the latest by a US air strike on 14 June in Libya, according to the country's authorities. However, Belmokhtar has survived previous announcements of his death. In March 2013, the Chadian army claimed to have killed him, only for him to resurface months later. For years, the US government has been offering a reward of up to $5m (£3.3m) for information leading to his location. ""He is one of the best known warlords of the Sahara,"" Stephen Ellis, an academic at the African Studies Centre in Leiden in The Netherlands, says. He became known as ""Mr Marlboro"" because of his role in cigarette-smuggling across the Sahel region to finance his jihad, which he has recently waged under the banner of the Signed-in-Blood Battalion. ""Belmokhtar has been active in political, ideological and criminal circles in the Sahara for the past two decades,"" Jon Marks, an academic at the London-based think-tank Chatham House, told the BBC. Profile: Al-Qaeda in North Africa Born in Ghardaia in eastern Algeria in 1972, Belmokhtar - according to interviews posted on Islamist websites - was attracted as a schoolboy to waging jihad. Inspired to avenge the 1989 killing of Palestinian Islamist ideologue Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, he travelled to Afghanistan as a 19 year old to receive training from al-Qaeda. ""While there, Belmokhtar claims [on Islamist websites] to have made connections with jihadis from around the world,"" says the US-based Jamestown Foundation, in a report published on its website. ""Moreover, Belmokhtar claims to have been to battlefronts 'from Qardiz to Jalalabad to Kabul'."" When he returned to Algeria in 1993, the country was already in the throes of conflict after the French-backed Algerian military annulled elections that the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was poised to win. Belmokhtar joined the conflict, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and became a key figure in the militant Armed Islamist Group (GIA) and later the breakaway Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). Algerian journalist Mohamed Arezki Himeur says Belmokhtar lost his left eye in fighting with government troops in the 1990s and now wears a false eye. ""He has been condemned to death [by Algeria's courts] several times,"" he adds. When the GSPC merged with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Belmokhtar headed an AQIM battalion in the desert between Algeria and Mali. After AQIM stripped him of his title as ""emir of the Sahel"" as a result of in-fighting, Belmokhtar launched a new jihadist group in 2012, known variously as the Signed-in-Blood Battalion, the Masked Men Brigade and the Khaled Abu al-Abbas Brigade. The bloody attack on the In Amenas gas facility in south-eastern Algeria was its first big operation, showing that he remained influential despite his marginalisation within AQIM. Among the hundreds of hostages seized were many Western workers. By the time Algerian forces had brought the crisis to an end, 38 people were dead, of whom all but one were foreigners. It was thought Belmokhtar's aim had been to move the Western hostages to northern Mali, where French troops had intervened to oust an alliance of Islamist militants. Sightings of Belmokhtar had been reported in the two main cities in northern Mali, Timbuktu and Gao, since the al-Qaeda-linked rebels seized control of the region in 2011. ""He knows the Sahara Desert very well,"" says Mr Himeur. In recent years, Belmokhtar has gained notoriety as a hostage-taker across the vast Sahara, often demanding multi-million dollar ransoms from Western governments which - along with cigarette-smuggling - finances his jihad. Former UN Niger envoy Robert Fowler was captured by Belmokhtar loyalists outside Niger's capital, Niamey, in December 2008. ""We were frog-marched and thrown into the back of a truck... We began our descent into hell - a 1,000km [600-mile] journey northwards, into the Sahara Desert,"" he told the BBC. ""I think I know instinctively what they [the hostages captured in Algeria were] going through."" In its report, the Jamestown Foundation said Belmokhtar had been able to operate across borders because of his deep ties to the region. ""Key to Belmokhtar's Saharan activities has been his strong connections with local Tuareg communities... Belmokhtar is reported to have married four wives from local Arab and Tuareg communities,"" it said. In June 2012, Algerian media reported that Belmokhtar - described in 2002 by French intelligence sources as ""uncatchable"" - had been killed in clashes between Islamists and Tuareg separatists in northern Mali. But this turned out to be untrue. The Signed-in-Blood Battalion warned in December 2012 against any attempt to drive out the Islamists from Mali. ""We will respond forcefully [to all attackers]; we promise we will follow you to your homes and you will feel pain and we will attack your interests,"" the group said, according to Sahara Media. The attacks in Niger, while planned by Belmokhtar, were allegedly carried out by his allies in Mujao fighters - angered by Niger's co-operation with France and involvement in Mali. Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou believes the militants who carried out the attack came from new bases in southern Libya. His country has contributed soldiers to the 6,000-strong West African force in Mali, which deployed following the French intervention in January 2012 and which will be incorporated into the new UN force in July. After the Niger attacks, an statement allegedly posted online by the Signed-in-Blood Battalion and signed by Belmokhtar urged Niger's withdrawal with this warning: ""Columns of commandos and those seeking martyrdom are ready and waiting for their targets.""","Mokhtar Belmokhtar - a one - eyed war veteran nicknamed "" Mr Marlboro "" and described as "" uncatchable "" - @placeholder international notoriety for ordering a deadly attack on an internationally run Algerian gas plant in January .",term,achieved,fields,sided,lashed,1
"Lynn Davies, 58, from Neath, was given a deal by Cardiff Crown Court judge Patrick Curran QC in October and given six months to repay the cash. The court heard on Friday Davies had paid up before the deadline and his jail term was suspended for two years. He charged victims £500 on top of every £1,000 borrowed and loaned £23,395 over seven years, pocketing £33,425. Davies, who threatened his victims if they did not pay, was caught out after an anonymous tip-off to the Wales Illegal Money Leading Unit. Davies previously said he did not have the funds to pay back his five victims but has since repaid the profit he made, which waa almost £10,000. Prosecutor Timothy Evans told Cardiff Crown Court: ""The money has been paid into a bank account. Where it has come from is a matter to him, but his victims have their money back."" Davies told one of his victims he would ""smash her partner's head in"" if she failed to meet his demands. Father-of-one Davies, who lives in Melyn, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of unlicensed money lending. Judge Patrick Curran QC said: ""If the money was repaid, the court would consider suspending your sentence and I have been told that you have paid the money. ""The law is in place to protect the weak from people such as you. ""This sort of activity exploits the vulnerable and draws people deeper and deeper into debt.""",A loan shark has taken a judge 's offer to @placeholder an 18 - month prison sentence by repaying his victims .,pay,avoid,stop,restore,impose,1
"In a speech made after a UN resolution calling for action against so-called Islamic State was approved, he said Labour would support ""every necessary measure"" to protect people in the UK. But it was ""vital"" in a time of tragedy ""not to be drawn into responses that feed a cycle of violence"", he said. Meanwhile, David Cameron wants to build support for air strikes on IS in Syria. The militant group - also referred to as Isil and Isis - has said it carried out the attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead. There is no timetable for a Parliamentary vote on UK military action in Syria, although the UK does carry out air strikes against IS in Iraq. PM to meet Hollande in wake of attacks Paris-style attack fear prompts Belgium alert Latest updates: Brussels on high alert ""The dreadful Paris attacks make the case for a far more urgent effort to reach a negotiated settlement of the civil war in Syria and the end to the threat from Isis,"" Mr Corbyn said. ""It is the conflict in Syria and the consequences of the Iraq war which have created the conditions for Isis to thrive and spread its murderous rule. ""Everyone, including Muslims in Britain, wants to see the defeat of the murderous and reactionary cult of Isil."" Mr Corbyn opposes UK forces joining allied air strikes against IS strongholds in Syria, but is under pressure to allow his MPs a free vote on the issue. He said action against IS ""that sticks on the ground, destroys the virus and reclaims the hearts and minds"" will have to come from the ""Arab and Muslim world"" and could not be seen to be an external intervention. Mr Corbyn said: ""That is why we should use the UN Security Council resolution passed last night to accelerate moves towards a comprehensive settlement of the conflict."" The UN resolution, co-sponsored by the UK, calls on nations to ""redouble and co-ordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist attacks"" using all necessary measures. It received universal approval on Friday night. The prime minister said the vote ""shows beyond doubt the breadth of international support"" to ""eradicate"" IS. Mr Corbyn told the BBC the UN had backed ""general action"" against IS, including political and diplomatic responses, which he welcomed. It does not specifically say military action, he said. But he said: ""Labour will always stand up to any threat to this country and the people of this country. ""We're not going to leave British people or this country unprotected, but we do need a different approach to foreign policy."" This new approach was one of Mr Corbyn's ""three pillars"" that he set out in his wide-ranging speech. He also said he wanted a new form of politics that gave people a say in decision-making and he said he wanted Labour to be an anti-austerity party that provided prosperity for all. He went on to warn that ministers would be ""gambling with the safety of the British people"" if they made cuts to police budgets. The Spending Review could include a police budget cut of more than 20%. Chancellor George Osborne is set to announce the government's spending plans in Parliament on Wednesday.","People "" must not keep making the same mistakes "" when @placeholder to acts of terror , Jeremy Corbyn has warned .",preparing,linked,promised,planned,responding,4
"Over 200 migrants were recovered from vehicles overnight, Austria's top policeman Konrad Kogler said. The change follows the discovery of 71 dead migrants in a truck on Thursday. Meanwhile France's prime minister has warned that Europe's migrant crisis will be a long and difficult challenge and called for co-operation. Austria introduced the extra checks on vehicles entering from Hungary on Sunday evening, concentrating on larger vehicles with space to hide people. ""We are seeing that the smuggler gangs are acting in ever more brutal and ruthless ways and we must counter them with stronger and harder measures,"" said Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner. Austria was shocked by the gruesome deaths of the migrants found in an abandoned lorry near the Hungarian border. The Bavarian government has introduced extra police checks on vehicles on the motorways near the border with Austria with the aim of bringing migrants into state care safely. Smugglers have been dumping their passengers at the side of the motorway once over the German border, and groups of migrants trudging along as dawn breaks have become a regular sight in the Passau region. As well as the bodies in the lorry in Austria, hundreds more people drowned in the Mediterranean last week while trying to reach Europe from Libya. A record number of 107,500 migrants reached the EU's borders in July. Separately, the EU's migration commissioner and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls visited a refugee reception centre in the French port of Calais. ""Europe is preparing methodical and intelligent solutions, which take into account what is indispensable: reception for refugees and provision of humanitarian aid, and firmness against people traffickers - firmness also in regard to illegal immigration which we don't want to confuse with the right to seek asylum - so that there is a proper solution for everyone,"" Mr Valls told reporters. Long traffic jams built up on Hungary's major roads leading to the Austrian border, because of the extra Austrian police checks. Queues of 30km (18 miles) were reported on the main M1 road from Budapest, as security officials searched vehicles over the border in Nickelsdorf. There were also jams further along the border at Klingenbach and Deutschkreutz. Five people have been detained in connection with the deaths of 71 people, most of them thought to be Syrians, in a lorry found last week on the A4 at Parndorf. ""We will do controls for an undetermined length of time at all important border crossings in the eastern region, looking at all vehicles that have possible hiding places for trafficked people,"" said Ms Mikl-Leitner. The controls have been agreed with Austria's neighbours Germany, Hungary and Slovakia, Austrian officials said. The Austrian checks appear to undermine the EU's Schengen system, which normally allows unrestricted travel. But in exceptional circumstances countries can reintroduce border controls under Schengen. A spokesman for police in Austria's easternmost state of Burgenland told the BBC that they had 54 officers on duty round the clock. Helmut Marban said the checks are not border controls - which would be against Schengen laws - but a police action against people smuggling. The UN says the continuing conflict in Syria is a major factor behind the rise in migrant numbers. Greece, Italy and Hungary have particularly struggled with the surge of migrants from not only Syria but the rest of the Middle East and Africa. Late on Sunday an extraordinary meeting of EU interior ministers was announced for 14 September. Why is EU struggling with migrants and asylum? Germany expects the number of asylum seekers it receives to quadruple to about 800,000 in 2015. Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Berlin on Sunday: ""If Europe has solidarity and we have also shown solidarity towards others, then we need to show solidarity now."" Some governments have refused to take in refugees and resisted EU proposals to agree on a common plan. Others are tightening their policies on asylum and border security, sometimes because of rising anti-immigration sentiment. On Sunday France condemned Hungary for building a razor-wire fence along its border with Serbia to try to keep out migrants travelling north from Greece via the Balkans. UK Home Secretary Theresa May blamed the Schengen system - which the UK did not join - for ""exacerbating tragedies"". She has demanded tighter EU rules on free movement. Some European governments are considering amending Schengen, but the European Commission, the EU executive, argues against that. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said the EU would forge ""a single European policy on asylum, not as many policies as there are countries"".",Austrian authorities have arrested five @placeholder people smugglers as part of an operation to check vehicles entering along the country 's eastern borders .,lost,suspected,seized,allowing,experienced,1
"The iPhone SE has the same processing and graphics performance of the larger Apple 6S, the firm said, and can capture 4K video. The new iPad Pro will have a 9.7 inch screen - the same size as the original iPad. The iPhone SE will be available in 110 countries by the end of May. With a starting price of $399/$499 (£277/£346), the new iPhone is the ""most affordable"" handset Apple has ever released, Apple said. It also said the new iPad Pro would be available in three different storage sizes with an extra large 256GB version. Pricing will begin at $599 for the smallest version and will ship in the US at the end of the month. Apple said it sold 30 million four-inch handsets last year, however its handset sales have slowed in recent months in line with the overall smartphone market. Some analysts are predicting up to a 15% decline in shipments in the first quarter of 2016 alone. ""The smart phone market has definitely consolidated around five and six inch devices globally so the question is why has Apple come out with a slightly smaller version?"" said Annette Zimmerman, a research director at analyst Gartner. ""It is not really to capture a trend, but these people who are on an iPhone 4 or 5 and are quite happy with the size. ""It's a way to upgrade them and obviously selling a phone with a smaller screen size helps with the margins on these devices,"" she added. ""I don't think it will lead to the sort of strong growth we saw after the iPhone 6 came out - that would be really difficult to top."" Chief executive Tim Cook addressed the elephant in the room right away. Apple's court battle with the FBI over encryption heads to court on Tuesday. Mr Cook said he did not ever expect to be ""at odds with government"". He said Apple ""would not shrink"" from its responsibility to protect encryption. The comments received a warm applause from the audience - but Tuesday will be a very different story as the company comes face-to-face with the families of the victims of the San Bernardino attack. Monday's launch was just as expected. With iPhone sales slowing, Apple needed to capture some new customers - and the iPhone SE will likely do just that. It's aimed at the types of people whose budget can't quite stretch to a new premium iPhone - people who may have instead gone for an Android device. Unlike the 5c, Apple's last budget iPhone, the SE doesn't come in a range of cheap and cheerful colours. This is meant to feel like a top product, only smaller. Geoff Blaber from CCS Insight said there were ""no surprises"" but that the products were still ""crucial"" to Apple's business. ""A new price point and new hardware should not be underestimated,"" he said. ""The iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7 could be viewed as largely iterative but nonetheless they are still crucial products for Apple as it looks to bolster growth across two crucially important categories"". Some observers were underwhelmed by Apple's latest news. ""We have officially run out of ideas for new products,"" tweeted tech podcaster Jeff Bakalar. The firm also showed off a recycling robot called Liam which can strip down old iPhones into their components for reuse. The Apple Watch is to come down in price to $299 (£207) from its launch price of $349, chief executive Tim Cook also announced.",Apple has announced smaller versions of the iPhone and iPad Pro at an event hosted in San Francisco and @placeholder online .,published,reached,launched,control,streamed,4
"ERS announced on Wednesday that it would increase its staff-count in the city from 230 to 398. As part of a reorganisation at the Lloyd's syndicate, its Swansea operation will grow while one of its English offices will close. The firm, which is currently based at Cardigan House, Llansamlet, now plans to move to larger premises.",A @placeholder insurer will create almost 170 new jobs in Swansea as it expands its operation in the city .,large,wetland,national,food,motor,4
"The Hollywood actor was speaking at an event promoting his docu-series, Project Greenlight, in Los Angeles. ""It'll be in 2016 when the movie will actually come out,"" he told E! News. ""Paul Greengrass is going to do another one and that's all I ever said. I just needed him to say yes."" There have been three Bourne films starring Matt Damon. The first, Bourne Identity, was released in 2002 and follows CIA assassin Jason Bourne as he tries to remember who he is and what he's done in the past. Two more films, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, came out in 2004 and 2007. Jeremy Renner appeared in the fourth film in the franchise, The Bourne Legacy, which follows another agent Aaron Cross. Paul Greengrass directed The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Supremacy. The news about a new film was initially revealed by Ben Affleck as he was being asked about having to work out to get in shape. He said: ""[Damon's] going to be doing a Bourne movie next fall when I've just completely lost any semblance of physical fitness."" Jason Bourne is based on a character in a series of novels by Robert Ludlum. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube",Matt Damon has confirmed that he and director Paul Greengrass will be @placeholder to make another Bourne film .,returning,planning,offered,encouraged,used,0
"Lutfur Rahman was ordered to step down as mayor of Tower Hamlets and a poll was declared void after he was found guilty of electoral fraud. Four voters alleged he used ""corrupt and illegal practices"" in last year's election, which must now be re-run. Andy Erlam, who led the group against Mr Raham, said he would stand for mayor in a new election on June 11. ""Many people have asked me to stand,"" said Mr Erlam. ""It's the chance in our lifetimes to change everything for the better."" Mr Erlam, who has also stood for election to Tower Hamlets Council on an anti-corruption ticket, said he would be backed in his fight to be mayor by an ""anti-corruption"" party called Red Flag. Labour has selected John Biggs, its defeated candidate in last year's Tower Hamlets mayoral election, to fight the re-run contest for them. Mr Rahman was found ""personally"" guilty of wrongdoing and ""guilty by his agents"" by Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey, who sat as a judge at an Election Court trial. Mr Erlam has described the ruling as ""fantastic for democracy"", but said more inquiries were needed and has urged police to investigate, calling on prosecutors to consider bringing criminal charges. Mr Rahman said there was ""little, if any"" evidence of wrongdoing against him. His lawyers described the group of four's claims as invention, exaggeration and ""in some cases downright deliberately false allegations"". Mr Rahman was not in court to hear Mr Mawrey's verdict. But he said the judgment had come as a ""shock"", and is taking further legal advice.",A writer and film - maker who led a successful legal fight to oust an east London mayor is to run for @placeholder .,sale,reelection,limits,health,office,4
"An amendment by Conservative peer Lord Mackay was backed by 270 votes to 128 - the largest in a series of defeats for the Welfare Reform Bill. He argued it was unfair to charge lone parents who had tried and failed to get their ex-partners to pay maintenance. The government said it would seek to overturn the defeat. On Monday, the government was defeated in the Lords in a vote on its plans for a £26,000-a-year household benefit cap. That amendment, put forward by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, was backed by Labour, Lib Dem and crossbench peers, but the government has insisted it will press ahead with the plan. Wednesday's defeat over child support was by a majority of 142 - the previous largest defeat was a loss by 112 votes on plans to abolish the chief coroner. The BBC's political correspondent Ben Geoghegan said the latest defeat was particularly significant, not just because of its scale but because the rebellion was led by a former Conservative minister and supported by so many party grandees. The list of Tory rebels included former ministers Lord Lawson and Lord Carrington - who, like Lord Mackay, both served under Margaret Thatcher. The current system costs the taxpayer £460m a year and ministers say it leaves 1.5 million children without effective financial support. Q&A: Welfare changes row They want to encourage parents to come to their own arrangements rather than relying on the state to set child maintenance payments. They are seeking to introduce an up front charge of £100 or £50 plus a levy of up to 12% on maintenance payments if a single parent had taken ""reasonable"" steps to get the other parent to come to a voluntary agreement on child support. The government says the poorest parents will only have to pay £20 up front and charges will not apply in cases where there has been domestic violence. But Lord Mackay said: ""I am entirely in favour of that but if that proves impossible where the woman is at the stage where there is nothing more she can do, the only thing she can do is pay. ""And what does that do? If anything that might make her not go to the Child Support Agency at all and the child may lose their maintenance."" Labour peer Lord Morris said he was ""aghast"" at the plan, asking: ""What is the purpose of imposing on the most vulnerable people a charge of this kind?"" Tory peer Lord Newton of Braintree said he had ""no problem with the case for reform"", but the proposals were ""not just"". Cross-bencher Baroness Butler-Sloss, a former family barrister and judge, said there were fathers ""who would simply not pay"". She told peers: ""The idea that a mother in very poor circumstances, where the father has left her with young children, who finds herself having to seek social benefit from the state which she may not have sought before ... she then has to pay a fee for the welfare of her children, where she may not have any money and he may have some, it is profoundly unfair."" Speaking on behalf of the government, minister Lord De Mauley said Lord Mackay's amendment would require the state ""to try to arbitrate"" on whether a parent had taken reasonable steps. He said parents could challenge the decision, adding to the ""cost and complexity"" of the system, and even if they were allowed to offer a ""self-declaration"" that they had taken all reasonable steps, the scheme would cost £200 million to the end of March 2019. He said there must be a ""clear financial incentive"" to encourage parents to reach their own maintenance settlements, adding: ""We no longer require parents to use the CSA. We do not want it to be the default option. ""We don't want to return to the days when the state is encouraging parents to blame each other."" A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: ""We are disappointed that the Lords seem content to leave in place a system that has consistently failed children and we will seek to overturn this in the House of Commons. ""Our reforms would see a doubling of support for families going through a break-up to come to their own financial arrangements with a far improved statutory scheme in place for those that really need it. ""It is right and fair that there is a charge for using a service that can cost the taxpayer around £25,000 per case and almost half a billion pounds per year.""",The coalition has suffered its biggest defeat in the Lords since being @placeholder over plans to charge single parents to use the Child Support Agency .,thrown,handed,urged,questioned,elected,4
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 20 June 2014 Last updated at 12:06 BST But more than 200 UK schools are using a specially adapted version of the popular game Minecraft to help pupils to learn. Minecraft is set in a virtual world where players build with blocks of different materials. At one school, children play the game and then write stories inspired by their experience. Teachers using the game say it can help get kids who don't like books to do more reading and writing. Watch Hayley's clip for more.",Being @placeholder to play computer games in school lessons - sounds too good to be true .,forbidden,taught,continued,reduced,allowed,4
"Former skipper Richie Richardson, 52, and pace bowlers Curtly Ambrose, 50, and Andy Roberts, 63, were all honoured by their native Antigua. It takes the total number of West Indian cricketing knights to 11. The only previous Antiguan cricketer to be knighted was Sir Viv Richards, after whom Antigua's new stadium is named. Between them, Richardson, Ambrose and Roberts played in 231 Tests and 456 one-day internationals, while all had spells in English county cricket. Free-scoring right-hander Richardson, famous for his large maroon sunhats, was one of Yorkshire's earliest overseas players in 1993 and 1994. Ambrose represented Northants between 1989 and 1996, while also forging a fearsome new-ball partnership with Jamaica's Courtney Walsh at international level. Roberts, the first Antiguan to play Test cricket, burst onto the English scene with Hampshire in 1974, won the World Cup with West Indies in 1975 and 1979, and also played for Leicestershire. He was one of the 55 initial inductees into the International Cricket Council's Hall of Fame in 2009, with Ambrose inducted in 2011. As well as Richards, the other Caribbean cricketing knights include legendary all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers and the ""three ""W's"" - Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Everton Weekes, who were all from Barbados, as were Sir Conrad Hunte and the Reverend Sir Wes Hall. The list is completed by Trinidad-born Learie Constantine, who was knighted in 1962 and became the UK's first black peer in 1969.",Three West Indies legends were knighted at a special ceremony during the @placeholder of the first one - day international against England .,start,final,history,end,interval,4
"It is the first time the high-security facility has invited watchdog Healthwatch to speak to its residents. They will be asked for their views on a range of healthcare issues, including GP services and dentistry. West London Mental Health NHS Trust, which runs the unit, said it was a ""groundbreaking initiative"". The announcement came after the hospital, based in Crowthorne and home to some of the UK's most notorious killers, was issued with a Care Quality Commission warning notice in December. Carolyn Regan, chief executive of the trust, said receiving patient feedback was ""crucial to ensuring we are providing a responsive and high-quality service"". She said: ""Having an external independent organisation such as Healthwatch listen to patient feedback is even more valuable."" Mark Sanders, of Healthwatch Bracknell Forest, said: ""Patients within a high secure forensic hospital should have as much say about the services they receive as any other patient. ""We are happy to be able to support that voice for patients and feedback to West London Mental Health NHS Trust to improve the services and environment offered.""",Psychiatric patients @placeholder at Broadmoor are being asked for feedback on their care by an independent watchdog .,remained,detained,groups,arriving,group,1
"The Health Protection Agency (HPA) report said a hot tub on show at JTF Warehouse in Stoke-on-Trent was the probable source of an outbreak in 2012. Richard Griffin, 64, and 79-year old William Hammersley, both died and 19 other people caught the disease. The HPA said hot tubs posed a health risk if not regularly maintained. BBC News has not been able to contact JTF Warehouse for a comment following the HPA report. The report said: ""This was a significant outbreak and has raised questions on the acceptability of operating spa pools (also known as whirl pools and hot tubs) in public places where the general population has access. ""Spa Pools are known to pose a risk of Legionella if water systems are not rigorously maintained, properly managed and subject to regular chemical controls. ""Operating spa pools on display in indoor spaces, even if not used for bathing, have been previously shown to be the cause of outbreaks in other countries,"" the report added. Lawyers Irwin Mitchell are taking legal action on behalf of the families of two men who died, as well as 16 other people who caught the disease. They are calling for a public inquiry into the outbreak. Clive Garner from the firm said: ""We hope that now this report has been published those responsible for the store will admit liability for the illness suffered by our clients so that we can help them to access the exact level of care and support they now need. ""We are currently working with medical experts to investigate their longer term condition and prognosis and we hope to conclude their cases as soon as possible so that they can begin to move on with their lives.""","Rules on displaying hot tubs in shops and public places should be @placeholder , according to a report into a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires ' disease .",implemented,lost,held,reviewed,extended,3
"The cause was a surge in numbers attending accident and emergency (A&E) at Northampton General Hospital. The hospital was close to capacity for 12 out of 22 days and a long term trend of growing need has been revealed. In 2005/06 the hospital saw 65,000 patients in A&E (178 a day), in 2011/12 it was 87,000 (238 a day) and by March 2013 90,000 (247 a day) are expected. ""Like many other hospitals in the country Northampton General Hospital saw record numbers of patients attending at our A&E department during January, many of whom required admission to hospital,"" a spokesman said.",The main hospital in Northamptonshire had a bed occupation @placeholder close to capacity for nearly half of January .,rate,at,race,running,team,0
"North Korea has in turn switched on its own giant speakers. As the world continues to investigate whether the North's bomb claim is true and how it should respond, what are the two Koreas shouting at each other? For the South, their purpose is propaganda - persuading North Korean soldiers to doubt their own regime or even defect. The propaganda programming, running on and off since the Korean War, has become more subtle in recent years. It includes weather reports - making it a useful thing for Northern soldiers to listen to - news from both Koreas and abroad which won't otherwise be heard over the border, dramas, favourable discussion of democracy, capitalism and life in South Korea, and less favourable comments on corruption and mismanagement in the North. The speakers also blast music in the form of Korea's much-loved K-pop, which is banned in the North. Songs from Korean girl band Apink, singer IU and boy band Big Bang - including their megahit Bang Bang Bang - are on the propagandists' playlists. The North's broadcasts are harder to hear - possibly the result of poor speakers - and carry its characteristically strident condemnations of Seoul and its allies. They may not be as powerful, but it is thought they do help cancel out the sound of the South's speakers to some extent. A South Korean military spokesperson said there were two to six hours of broadcasts daily, day and night, at irregular hours. While the exact distance the sound travels will depend on topography, weather conditions and so on, the South Korean military claim the broadcasts can be heard as much as 10 km (6.2 miles) across the border in the day, and up to 24 km (15 miles) across at night. That would easily reach North Korean troops, and would be audible by any civilians in the area. In August, when the South briefly turned its speakers back on after an 11-year break, the military said there were 11 loudspeaker sites. But it has not confirmed if that is still the case. Their exact location along the border is also not officially disclosed. One South Korean government official said the North appears to have expanded its own speaker operations, from two sites to ""several"". ""In fact, the anti-South loudspeaker broadcasts appear to be coming from every location where we are broadcasting,"" the unnamed official told the Yonhap news agency. Pyongyang says it considers them an act of war and has threatened to blow up the speakers. Apart from the regime's usual sensitivity to insults and threats, its anger could be because they might be working. The pop-cultural ""Korean Wave"" has not just broken on distant shores - North Koreans too are fans of movies and dramas smuggled across the border, says Kim Yong Hun, president of Daily NK, an online newspaper reporting on North Korea, with a network of sources inside the country. ""Its popularity trickles down to ordinary residents and is especially favoured by younger generations. Soldiers are not exempt from the obsession; songs and cultural programming transmitted by their brethren in the South holds massive power to influence how young soldiers view the North Korean system."" ""Prolonged listening of these broadcasts day and night typically has a gradated and ultimately transformative effect,"" Kim Yong Hun says. ""The North Korean government's enraged response is proof positive of the threat these broadcasts pose to its grip on power."" It is impossible to know. In 2004, the broadcasts were stopped as part of a North-South deal. Seoul threatened to restart theirs in 2010 - going as far as reinstalling them along the border, before settling for radio broadcasts instead. They finally did restart on 10 August 2015 - after a border landmine maimed two South Korean soldiers - only to end just weeks later, as part of another deal with the North to dial back tensions. Some see the broadcasts as unnecessarily provocative. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, on a recent visit to Japan, said that resuming the broadcasts was ""simply rising to the bait"". But their defenders argue that the North is annoyed by them precisely because they do work, or at least that they are a useful bargaining chip to use in negotiations. The South also has a radio programme, called ""The Voice of Freedom"", which is transmitted into the North by radio. Dedicated listeners in Seoul can even tune in on FM107.3. Like the loudspeaker broadcasts, they are also sometimes halted. The North also attempts to jam the signal. Other organisations, such as Unification Media Group, also broadcast radio into the North, though typically in a more neutral way than the military's efforts. Still other groups, mostly made up of defectors, drop leaflets, DVDs, USB sticks and other material across the border, using balloons. Nearby residents say this could encourage the North to open fire, and while the government does not like the campaigns, it says it will not stop them.",South Korea has responded to North Korea 's recent claim to have tested a hydrogen bomb by switching back on its gigantic loudspeakers @placeholder across the border .,pointed,questions,doubled,beaches,advantage,0
"James T Hodgkinson, who shot and wounded congressman Steve Scalise and injured three others, was carrying an assault rifle and pistol, according to authorities. Five people including two police officers were taken to Washington DC-area hospitals. Hodgkinson died in the firefight with the congressional security detail. The 66-year-old was from Belleville, Illinois, a small city just across the Mississippi River from the city of St Louis, Missouri. He was self-employed until recently and worked as a home inspector. Michael Hodgkinson, the suspect's brother, told the New York Times that James had become upset about the election of President Donald Trump and had moved to the Washington DC area ""out of the blue"" to protest. Hodgkinson's wife told the ABC News that her husband moved to Virginia two months ago. She told neighbours only that he was travelling. FBI investigators say he had been living in a white cargo van in the Washington DC suburbs since leaving his Illinois home. Former Alexandria mayor Bill Euille told the Washington Post that he had seen James Hodgkinson every morning for the last month and a half at the local YMCA gym, using the showers. Mr Euille said he was helping Hodgkinson look for a job in the area, that Hodgkinson spent hours on his laptop, and that it appeared he was homeless. ""He'd open up his gym bag and in it, he had everything he owned. He was living out of the gym bag,"" the mayor told the paper. ""He sat in the Y's lobby for hours and hours."" The YMCA's lobby has a view of the playing field where the shooting took place. Hodgkinson also frequented a bar at a nearby barbecue restaurant where he ordered Budweisers and watched golf. The bartenders say he was quiet, but ""creepy"". ""He'd sit there with a slight grin after a few beers. Not a happy smile when I'd glance over at him, but a creepy one,"" a bartender told Politico. Back in Belleville, a childhood friend who knew him by his middle name ""Thomas"" told reporters he was ""not evil"", while his former lawyer characterised him as ""a misanthrope"" and ""a very irascible, angry little man"". In 1996, the Belleville News-Democrat reported that his 17-year-old foster daughter committed suicide by pouring petrol over herself and setting herself on fire in her car. At the time, Hodgkinson was shocked, telling the paper she had been a ""very practical, level-headed girl"". In 2002, he and his wife took custody of their 12-year-old great niece. However, she was returned to state custody three months after a violent episode with Hodgkinson. According to court documents, the 2006 altercation took place after Hodgkinson tried to retrieve a 16-year-old girl believed to be his daughter from her friend's house. The responding officer wrote in his report that the girl said Hodgkinson dragged her by her hair and beat her. He then allegedly sliced into her seatbelt with a pocket knife and choked her as she tried to drive away. Aimee Moreland, Hodgkinson's daughter's friend, told the Daily Beast that ""he was really awful to [his daughter]"" and that ""he was always angry"". He also allegedly shot at Moreland's boyfriend with a 12-gauge shotgun and punched Moreland in the face. Hodgkinson was charged with multiple counts of domestic battery and aggravated discharge of a firearm, but after the victims failed to appear in court the charges were dismissed. Ms Moreland told the Daily Beast that she missed court because of a mix-up on the dates. ""I tried to tell the court that this guy's crazy,"" she said. ""That this is a big deal, but they didn't listen to me."" Hodgkinson's more recent criminal record in St Clair County, Illinois, shows many traffic violations, and a call made to police in March 2017 - potentially just days before he left for Virginia - complaining that Hodgkinson shot 50 rounds in a wooded area too close to residential homes. The police report says Hodgkinson had a valid licence for the hunting rifle and was not doing anything illegal. An acquaintance of Hodgkinson confirmed that he had campaigned for Mr Sanders during the election. Mr Sanders, a Vermont senator, said he was ""sickened by this despicable act"" and condemned Hodgkinson's actions. A Facebook account that appeared to belong to Hodgkinson was filled with anti-Republican and anti-Trump posts, as well as expressions of support for former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (the page has since been removed). On social media, Hodgkinson railed against Donald Trump, writing on Facebook, ""you are Truly the Biggest A** Hole We Have Ever Had in the Oval Office"" and calling Trump a ""traitor"". He also belonged to many Facebook groups with names like ""Terminate the Republican Party"" and ""Donald Trump is not my President"". Local media unearthed a 2012 photo of Hodgkinson protesting outside a downtown Belleville post office holding a sign that read, ""Tax the Rich"". The Belleville-News Democrat also compiled his letters to the editor in 2012, when he railed against conservative tax policies and praised President Barack Obama. ""God bless the 99 percent,"" he concluded one letter.","A picture is building of the prime suspect in the shooting ambush on Republican congressman at a baseball @placeholder in Alexandria , Virginia .",place,tournament,summit,field,practice,4
"The World Health Organization declared the infection a global public health emergency last month after an outbreak in the Americas. University of Manchester said it hoped to deliver results within 18 months after being awarded £178,000 funding. Scientists in other countries are also working on possible Zika vaccines. Manchester researchers hope to ""test a vaccine based on a safe derivative of a pre-existing smallpox vaccine - the only disease to have been successfully globally eradicated,"" a university spokesman said. Dr Tom Blanchard, who is leading the project, said: ""As we have seen in the case of Ebola, there is now a real need to react quickly to fast-spreading tropical diseases."" He said Zika can cause serious illness, but ""it often has no visible symptoms, so a vaccine for those at risk is one of the most effective ways of combating it."" The grant was announced after the UK government said it would increase its funding for rapid research into countering the virus from £1m to £3m - alongside a £1m commitment from the health charity Wellcome Trust.",Scientists in Manchester are to develop a vaccine against the Zika virus which is suspected of causing babies to be born with under-developed @placeholder .,advice,brains,terms,diseases,symptoms,1
"A city council consultation ends this week on whether to designate Belfast a holiday resort, which would allow all-day opening on 18 days a year. Belfast Chamber of Commerce supports the move, believing it would boost retail spending and create jobs. However, Retail NI, which represents small traders, fears it could be exploited by supermarkets and has ""serious concerns."" The move is also opposed by the shop workers' union, Usdaw It has requested a meeting with the council on 19 May, when a council committee is due to deliberate the move. The proposal could see large shops in Belfast having their trading hours extended on up to 18 Sundays between 1 March and 30 September each year. The step is made possible by designating the city as a holiday resort under legislation from 1997. Last year, a council paper stated there was ""a strong lobby"" to review Sunday trading, currently permitted from 13:00-18:00. It said the move would boost the economy, benefit tourism and support the regeneration of the city centre. Usdaw general secretary John Hannett said the current trading arrangements were a ""fair compromise"". ""Many shop workers, particularly parents, tell us how important Sunday is to them and their family,"" he said. ""Often it is the one day of the week when everyone can sit down together for a meal, with many saying they needed the time on Sunday to help their children prepare for the school week.""",Retail organisations are split on Belfast @placeholder Sunday trading hours .,relaxing,tent,beaches,acts,network,0
"We know that the Celtic of September in Barcelona is not the Celtic of December in Manchester. We know that as a team they have gained confidence, if not a lot of points, in a very short space of time in Europe's pre-eminent club competition. It's obvious that they have grown up these past few months, from the spooked innocents of the Nou Camp to the mature competitors we saw at Etihad Stadium. We can't know where Celtic are going - Rodgers' budget in the transfer market and his luck in the draw should they make it back to this stage next season will have a lot to do with that - but we know something about where they have come from. Sixteen months ago, they lost 2-0 to a modest Malmo side and crashed out of the Champions League in the qualifying stage. Their world seemed to be at an end. Now they have just completed the group stage - earning in the region of £23m - and their world is infinitely brighter. Fifteen months ago they led Aberdeen 1-0 in a league match at Pittodrie before losing 2-1. Now they swat Aberdeen aside 3-0 in a cup final. Thirteen months ago they completed their double-header against Molde in the Europa League, losing 5-2 over two matches, and tried to dress it up as an unfair reflection of where they were at. It wasn't. On Tuesday, they got a fully deserved draw in a Champions League match against a Manchester City team that might have been missing many stellar names but was still put together for a total of £92m with another £129m sitting on the bench. Twelve months ago they went ahead against Motherwell at Celtic Park and lost 2-1. Now they go 2-0 down against Motherwell at Fir Park and win 4-3. Media playback is not supported on this device We can see the journey to this point very clearly. We can see the difference a good manager can make. Rodgers' calm authority, motivational excellence and tactical nous has galvanised things in a major way. He's done it quickly and with not a lot of money. His starting line-up in Manchester only contained one player that wasn't around last season - Moussa Dembele. Much has been made of Dembele's capture and there is no doubt that it's been a coup. Much has also been made of the arrival of Scott Sinclair and he, too, has been a big success. The major difference that the manager has made, though, has come not in the players he has signed but the players he has reinvented. Maybe Scott Brown, now free of injury, would be playing with the authority of old no matter who his manager was this season, but Rodgers made him a special case from day one and has love-bombed him at every turn. James Forrest was on his way out of the door at Celtic Park and has been yanked back in and restored to something approaching his best form, even if inconsistency still dogs him. Stuart Armstrong looks a different player. Tom Rogic has upped his level. Celtic now have a partnership at centre-back that is bedding in nicely. The irony of ironies here is that one of the few players who has gone backwards under Rodgers is the one who stood out under Ronny Deila. Leigh Griffiths remains in Dembele's shadow. It's easy to see why, but Griffiths has started just two games since returning from injury in September and has nine goals compared to 18 this time last season. With 12 minutes left in Manchester on Tuesday, Griffiths, a second-half substitute, had a chance to put Celtic back in front but he snatched at it and the moment passed. You wondered then would the Griffiths of last season have done more with it. This is a continuing challenge for Rodgers. Dembele is his young star, but he can't afford to let Griffiths' confidence drain away on the bench. It would be easy - and a little unfair - to deride Tuesday's game. Of course it was a dead rubber. Of course City were missing some of their biggest guns. Nine of the players who lost to Chelsea last weekend didn't play against Celtic - among them Sergio Aguero, Kevin de Bruyne and David Silva. That still left Ilkay Gundogan, Nolito, Leroy Sane and Kelechi Iheanacho as the chief attackers and Gael Clichy, Bacary Sagna, Pablo Zabaleta and Fernando as vastly experienced defensive players. Guardiola went with some youngsters but there was heaps of experience around them. What was obvious on the night was how comfortable Celtic looked, how they played without any fear, any regard for the reputations of some of those they were playing against. Weakened or not, that City team would have done damage against Celtic last season. Celtic's football has got better over the course of six games, but that couldn't have happened had their mentality not got better. They've come on a ton in that regard. They're a more robust side now. They believe in themselves more than they did before. They could have beaten City. After Patrick Roberts burst through to score the opening goal, there was a Forrest-inspired chance for Dembele, then a penalty that should have been given for a foul on Roberts, then Griffiths had a chance, then Gary Mackay-Steven had the best chance of all, just seven minutes from the end. City had opportunities as well, but it was hard to find a single soul at the game who thought they were better and deserved to win. What they were saying was that Celtic may not have won the match but they won respect. Across two contests with Guardiola's team they scored four times and went unbeaten. A new attitude has taken hold under Rodgers. The great frustration comes in the eight months they must now wait for another shot at getting back to this level. In the meantime, Rodgers and his chief executive, Peter Lawwell, have much to talk about. The manager has taken Celtic forward without having spent the earth. It only amounted to three draws from six games in the Champions League this season but consider those three points as a firm foundation for next season. Rodgers has prepared the ground. The challenge for the club is building on top of it.","Even if Nostradamus came back from the dead and applied all his psychic powers in the football world , the chances are that he would hold up his @placeholder and admit defeat if asked to forecast what lays ahead of Celtic in Europe under Brendan Rodgers .",name,hands,cards,dream,future,1
"Ellie Piggott, Gemma Hall, Maddie Arlett and Robyn Hart-Winks finished ahead of Japan in a race won by Australia in Lucerne, Switzerland. ""We've all done a lot in doubles this season. It's the first time we've come together in this boat,"" said Piggott. Britain's men's four won their semi-final to qualify for Sunday's final. Meanwhile, Vicky Thornley battled through a tough semi-final in the women's single scull. The women's quad, women's four and women's eight have also progress to medal finals. Sunday 9 July. All times BST 09:15-11:15 and 12:30-14:25, BBC Red Button and online 16:30-17:30, Highlights BBC Two (repeat, 21:25-22:25, BBC Red Button)",Great Britain won their first medal in the final leg of the 2017 World Cup @placeholder after securing silver in the lightweight women 's quadruple scull .,series,questions,sevens,event,race,0
"Annette Gration, 58, was told she could not stay at Searles of Hunstanton, as the company had a policy against people staying by themselves. Mrs Gration, of Skegness, Lincolnshire, was eventually allowed to stay after saying she would be joined by her son. The company said the issue would be addressed at its next policy review. Mrs Gration, whose husband Phil died from cancer last July, said she decided to speak out after failing to receive a response to her complaint to Searles. More on this and other Norfolk stories She said she went to the camping site last November in her camper van with two friends who were travelling in their own van. When she arrived she said she was told she was ""was not allowed on because I was a single person"". ""I felt I was an oddity and not welcome because of my marital status,"" said Mrs Gration. ""Why was I discriminated against as a single person? I'm quite angry."" Jean McQueen, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, said she had also been told she could not stay as a single person at the camp site. Searles issued two statements after the BBC contacted them in connection with the concerns. The spokesman for the firm said they were ""prepared to exercise discretion"" on issues like single person bookings ""if we feel it appropriate."" The ""question of single occupancy on touring pitches"" would be addressed during its next review of customer feedback, the company added.","A widow says she felt like an "" oddity "" after she was told she could not stay in a @placeholder home at a Norfolk holiday park because she was single .",hand,maternity,prison,motor,bid,3
"For decades, bovine TB has been ruining livelihoods in rural Wales, leading to the slaughter of tens of thousands of cattle. It has also been responsible for a fraught and sometimes bitter war of words between campaigners about how best to tackle the threat it poses. That debate looks set to resurface on Tuesday as the Welsh Government announces a ""refreshed approach"" to combating the disease. It promises to target different areas of Wales and use the ""most appropriate and effective"" control measures. Farming leaders want to see the inclusion of a badger cull in the new plans, a move fiercely opposed by wildlife groups. As part of the Welsh Government's most recent TB eradication programme, farmers face regular testing and restrictions on moving their cattle. Since it was launched in 2008, there has been a 37% reduction in incidents of bovine TB. But the issue is concentrated, with far higher incidence levels in west Wales and along the border with England. And a sharp rise in the number of cattle being killed in recent years has caused alarm in farming circles. In the year to July, 9,492 cows were lost to TB - a trend increasing since 2013. The Welsh Government said this was as a result of stricter and more sensitive testing regimes. Farming unions say it is pointless to keep killing cattle without tackling the ""reservoir of infection"" in badgers. The issue of whether to initiate a cull has been one of the longest running sagas in the history of the Welsh Assembly. Plans were abandoned in 2012 in favour of a five-year project to vaccinate badgers in north Pembrokeshire. But that is now on hold due to a global shortage of the TB jab. The need for ""robust action"" to eradicate the disease is all the more urgent given the UK's vote to leave the EU, according to both the Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW) and NFU Cymru. Their argument is that post-Brexit trade deals relating to Welsh meat could be put at risk without sought after ""TB free"" status. In England and Northern Ireland, badger culls are taking place in areas badly affected by TB, while Scotland has been free of the infection since 2009. Alan Davies, FUW managing director, said there were big expectations within the industry for Welsh Government to deliver a badger cull. ""The farmers of Wales will be expecting to hear something really positive. ""We've had an absolute vacuum in the last 10 months since the cancellation of the vaccination programme - so now there's real expectation that there will be a practical programme for improving the situation. ""But more than that there is an urgent need to address the situation as the state of TB in Wales could be a real threat to negotiations with Europe post-Brexit. ""I don't want our members to feel like they're being let down by politicians when the messages have been so clear for a very long time and a very new, significant threat is on the table that really does in my opinion justify a significant shift in policy."" Opponents of culling argue there is no evidence it is effective. Prof Rosie Woodroffe, from the Zoological Society of London, said the Welsh Government had taken ""a leadership role within Britain in using scientific evidence in developing their TB control polices"". ""They've done a fantastic job and are the envy of England in cracking down on cattle-to-cattle transmission, which is estimated to be responsible for 94% of new TB cases,"" she said. ""I know that there is pressure to cull badgers in Wales, but I think that would be a retrograde step."" A recent study by Prof Woodroffe and her team at several sites in Cornwall suggested the disease spread to cows after they came into contact with infected faeces and urine, rather than directly with badgers. The findings, she claims, have big implications for how farmers manage the environment on their land. ""Bovine TB is a massive, chronic problem for farmers, causing real suffering.  The reason why we're at this relatively early stage in trying to understand how it's transmitted is down to the technology,"" she said. ""The new work we're doing trying to look for bacteria in the environment is only made available due to modern techniques. Hopefully, this new dawn of research methods will help us solve an age-old problem and hopefully make things better for farmers."" TB TIMELINE 2002 - Mounting concern about TB in cattle, with 127 cases confirmed by May, compared to 150 during the whole of 2000. 2005 - Legal responsibility for animal health and welfare is devolved from Westminster to the Welsh Government. The first chief veterinary officer for Wales - Prof Christianne Glossop - is appointed. 2006 - The principal legislation for TB in Wales comes into force.  Mandatory pre-movement cattle testing is introduced. 2008 - The TB eradication programme is launched with the aim of eradicating bovine TB in Wales. A target badger cull is announced by the then coalition government between Plaid Cymru and Labour. 2009 - Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones reveals the cull will take place in a TB hotspot in west Wales - the intensive action area (ITA).  She tells the Assembly bovine TB is ""out of control"" in Wales. 2010 - The cull is quashed in the Court of Appeal because the terms of the cull order apply to the whole of Wales when the evidence of a consultation only supported a cull in the intensive area. 2011 - The newly-elected Labour government puts the idea of a cull on hold and commissions a review of the science. 2012 - The Welsh Government drops plans for a cull - announcing a five-year badger vaccination project in the ITA in south West Wales.  Farming unions attack ""a cowardly betrayal"" while the RSPCA said it was ""delighted and relieved"". 2015 - The vaccination trial in Pembrokeshire is suspended due to a global shortage of the TB jab. 2016 - Prof Glossop tells BBC Wales bovine TB is ""single biggest problem"" facing animal health and welfare in a generation.  Farming unions renew calls for badger cull.","It is a curse , @placeholder in our countryside .",found,resulting,lurking,living,drop,2
Umpires Neil Bainton and Michael Burns called off the match at 09:30 BST after overnight rain despite none falling on Wednesday morning at Grace Road. Leicestershire remain at the foot of the table having failed to win a match in Championship so far this season. Durham stay in ninth place with 54 points.,Leicestershire and Durham were forced to settle for a draw in Division Two of the County Championship after play was @placeholder for a second consecutive day .,sacked,held,called,abandoned,injured,3
"The precinct, which has two levels and 103 shop units, was put on the market earlier this year for £50m. It is currently in the middle of a £30m revamp which will include a new Debenhams anchor store, nine larger units, a new atrium and a reconstructed retail mall. Benson Elliot said it was an important purchase for its investment programme. ""The Mander Centre is a well-located, robust business with a solid profile and a loyal customer base,"" said managing partner Marc Mogull. He described the purchase as ""a significant opportunity to rejuvenate the Mander Centre, making it once again the centrepiece of a thriving Wolverhampton city centre"". Councillor Peter Bilson, Wolverhampton City Council's cabinet member for economic regeneration and prosperity, said: ""These are momentous times for our city, with a level of activity we haven't known since the 1960s. ""It's a clear sign of the progress Wolverhampton's making that a major private equity firm like Benson Elliot should want a stake in its future. They have great plans for the Mander Centre - and on behalf of the council and all its partners, I'd like to welcome them to a city that is really making it happen.""",The Mander shopping centre in Wolverhampton has been sold for £ 59 m to @placeholder investment firm Benson Elliot .,property,join,uk,private,australian,0
"27 November 2015 Last updated at 00:55 GMT Few of those ever get the chance to visit the lands of their ancestors, fewer still choose to return to live in Africa. But some of those born and raised in the US have gone back to their ""roots"" in Ghana. Chekesha Aidoo spoke to journalist Nancy Kacungira about why she moved her life thousands of miles.",There are more than 40 million Americans @placeholder from those taken from Africa and forced into slavery .,descended,recovered,migrate,combined,lines,0
"The women have voiced heroines spanning nearly three decades of films, from The Little Mermaid (1989) to 2016's Moana. Snow White and Cinderella were absent, but Disney claimed it was the largest gathering of its ""royals"" in one place. They are resuming their roles for a new film which Disney said would ""break down"" the princess stereotype. Next year's release, Wreck-It Ralph 2, will feature all the Disney princesses in a scene where they wear T-shirts - not dresses - and discuss the ""challenges of being perfect"". John Lasseter, Disney and Pixar's chief creative officer, said at Sunday's Disney expo in California: ""These characters are really strong... We love to think of them way beyond just the movie that was made."" Source: Walt Disney Studios Irene Bedard, who played Pocahontas in 1995, said the princesses would be moving with the times. She told Variety magazine: ""We can say this is the story that was told - but now we have a chance to take it into our hands again and have princesses with a twist. ""For me, being a princess means really being able to know to listen to your heart and have that voice - and speak out when we all should have that chance."" Disney, which has faced questions over the impact its princesses might have on young girls' ideas of perfection, has more recently attempted to rework its on-screen heroines. Moana featured a princess with an ""average"" body type, while this year's Beauty and the Beast portrayed Belle as an inventor.","As proof that you can be a princess when you grow up , the voices behind 10 of Disney 's cartoon princesses have gathered at a US @placeholder for fans .",event,health,centre,rate,food,0
"Rachel Webb is among 100 relatives of knife crime victims backing a campaign to have a Knife Angel sculpture on the square's Fourth Plinth. The Mayor of London's office said the Shropshire-made statue would not feature there and works had been selected up to 2022. Mrs Webb, from Derbyshire, said she was ""shaken"" by the decision. See more stories from across Shropshire here The 26ft (8m) sculpture made from 100,000 confiscated blades was intended as a tribute to knife crime victims and a campaign was started to install it in the central London square. However, a City Hall spokesperson said the Fourth Plinth was ""the site of a rolling programme of contemporary art"" and works had been chosen ""by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group on behalf of the Mayor of London"". The sculpture is currently at the British Ironwork Centre in Oswestry, Shropshire. Clive Knowles, the centre's chairman who is behind the campaign, said the petition had been signed more than 35,000 times. Mrs Webb, of Belper, whose son, Tom, 22, was killed over a comment about a woman being ""fit"", has said the statue could inspire young people to ""de-tool"". She said: ""This is an epidemic and we need help and support from the mayor. ""This amazing sculpture has been declined because it doesn't fit some criteria. It's bizarre."" City Hall said the only way for a piece of art to be displayed was through being selected by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group on behalf of the mayor. It added the mayor recently launched his knife crime strategy, which ""included an additional £625,000 for knife and gang crime projects"".",The mother of a fatal stab victim has @placeholder a move not to allow a knife victims ' memorial in Trafalgar Square .,passed,criticised,launched,lodged,forced,1
"The iconic building dominates the centre of the city, and has been at the heart of civic life since its completion in 1906. Political demonstrations, the Christmas market, countless weddings, Remembrance Day ceremonies, a giant Ferris wheel - the City Hall has seen them all. At times, the building's primary purpose as a meeting place for the council seems almost an afterthought. The City Hall is already a popular tourist attraction, with regular guided tours, but the permanent exhibition will add something new. It traces Belfast's development from a hamlet by the River Farset to the vibrant 21st Century city of today. Sixteen rooms, divided into six thematic zones, reflect all aspects of Belfast life, from its industrial heritage to the speech and manners of the people. The exhibition, which combines elements of the City Council's memorabilia archive, is a direct response to an equality impact assessment. All the council's political party's were united in support of the project, which aims to welcome all sections of the city's increasingly diverse community. Historic events, such as the United Irish Rebellion, and the Home Rule crisis and both world wars form an important part of the display. Artefacts such as the table where unionist dignitaries signed the Ulster Covenant, and an ornate dresser intended for use on the Titanic are also on display. Visitors can call into reception in the City Hall to book a slot, or call ahead on 028 9027 0456. Entry is free for individuals  but there is a charge for commercial group bookings.",A new £ 1.3 m exhibition at Belfast 's City Hall is @placeholder to reflect the city 's rich and contested history .,aiming,designed,unveiled,refusing,set,1
"And so it has been. It's been sustained at the same very low level seen in the previous quarter. July-to-September saw Gross Domestic Product rise by 0.1%, the same rate as April-to-June. Given that the population is growing, the per capita growth was flat, as it was in the previous two quarters. That is: in the first nine months of last year, there were more of us, but on average, we weren't getting any better off. Over the second and third quarters of 2015, UK growth was 1%. That is five times as fast as Scotland. And the indications from the final quarter of the year are that the gap is not going to be closed (we'll find out on 6 April.) Six minutes after the GDP figures were published, an email arrived in my inbox from the SNP group at Westminster. It flagged up a debate on the economy, in which MPs were going to claim that ""George Osborne is failing on key economic indicators"". That may be true as well. But we are still unclear what has been going wrong closer to home than the UK Treasury. The simple answer is: oil and gas. The sharp fall in the oil price has become a further fall, and an expectation of a prolonged low price, perhaps dipping far lower. The past two days have seen the price flirt with falling through the $30 threshold, and forecasts of $20 per barrel of Brent crude (that was Goldman Sachs), then to $16 (with a very gloomy global outlook from the Royal Bank of Scotland), and even to $10. It is striking that the talk this time last year, as oil fell in only seven months from $115 to $45, was that there would be a balancing effect from parts of the economy that buy energy rather than produce it. That would include motorists spending the extra change when filling up the car, and industrial consumers of oil, with enhanced profits. For Scotland, it doesn't look that way now. Yes, it's been tough for Aberdeen and the north-east. This week, we've seen Scottish new car registrations fall last year, while the UK had record sales - the decline entirely explained by the Grampian effect. Aberdeen Airport saw passenger numbers last year fall 7%, while Edinburgh and Glasgow saw healthy growth. Hotel occupancy and rates in the north-east have plummeted. However, we've found also that the offshore sector's supply chain stretches further than some supposed, particularly in engineering, but reaching across many more sectors. And business confidence has barely picked up in the energy-burning sectors. Part of the explanation for low growth is shared with the rest of the UK, notably in manufacturing. Exporters have been weighed down by the strength of sterling. And those non-exporters who compete with importers have had the same pressure. The recent rise in US Fed interest rates has led to sterling weakening against the dollar, which may help those exposed to trade competition. But there's more going on than that. The statistics from the Scottish government point to problems with the transport and communications sector. In the first nine months of last year, it appeared to contract 2.4%. Manufacturing contracted 2.3% in the full year. Within that, metals and machinery was down nearly 20% in one year, and 8% in the most recent quarter. There were better performers over the year, including the category that covers tourism, and moreso in utilities. Gas and electricity grew in output by 2.3% in the year to July/September, and in water supply and waste services, the number was up 8%. The star performer has been construction, up 17.3% over the year, though the most recent quarter's figures show the benefit of big public infrastructure projects has begun to weaken. The Scottish government can take some credit for that construction boom, with roads, rail and a big bridge over the Forth.  Construction fared much less well south of the border. Such growth was never going to be sustainable under current budget constraints, but it was essential to keeping Scotland out of recession in the middle of last year. The government statisticians have added some new detail on what has been behind that, with total construction output in the year to the third quarter of 2015 at nearly £12bn. In the year to the third quarter of 2015, there was a £2.5bn infrastructure spend, rising by 53% on the previous year. New public housing spend was £469m, according to these calculations, up by 26%. New private homes were at more than three times that level - nearly £1.5bn - but growing at only 3%. Repair and maintenance of infrastructure was up 20% at £800m, while housing repairs were up 15% at £1.53bn. That is the best informed guess of the statisticians. But there are question marks over the data. The numbers do not isolate the role of oil and gas in the economy. And public finance expert John McLaren points out that construction employment has not risen with output in the sector. He suggests that it might be because workers in that sector are not Scottish-based. In that case, the benefit of employing them is being felt closer to their homes and not in the Scottish economy. To cover that anomaly, with an increasingly mobile workforce, McLaren suggests we also need to see Gross National Product, or GNP. That is the figure that accounts for the inflow of income from Scots who work and invest outside the country, as well as the outflow of non-Scottish workers and companies based elsewhere, who take their wages and profits home. Taking the longer view, McLaren points to transport and communications, which has fallen in output by 10% since 2007, while in the UK, it is up 12%. The value of output from the tourism industry (or at least hotels and restaurants) is lower than it was in 2007, yet the UK figure is up 8.5%. The data is patchy in what it captures. And covering a small country rather than the UK, it is bound to be more vulnerable to statistical error. But using the numbers we have, the sluggish recovery takes on an odd shape when you peer down into the sectors. And they show the oil price is far from being the only explanation for the under-performance of the Scottish economy.",""" Economic growth sustained "" headlined the Scottish government media @placeholder .",office,generation,reports,challenge,statement,4
"He made 36 appearances last season, including as a substitute in the Championship play-off final. Kelly, 21, has been with Reading since the age of eight. ""He took first-team football in his stride last season and certainly deserves this new contract,"" chief executive Nigel Howe said.",Reading midfielder Liam Kelly has signed a new three - year contract with the club following an impressive first full season in the senior @placeholder .,table,region,division,centre,side,4
"Homes, the local shop and post office in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant were affected by the incident on Friday afternoon. A pub landlord told BBC Wales the road around Market Square ""was like a river"". United Utilities, which owns the pipe, is investigating the incident, which affected about 50 properties. A spokesman said the flooding was due to a burst on one of the pipes that carries water from Lake Vyrnwy to treatment works in Oswestry. ""Our engineers are investigating and we are working closely with the fire service to assist those who have been flooded,"" he said ""We will be visiting the householders and businesses affected to assess the damage and explain the process for claiming for any losses and getting their homes back to normal as quickly as possible. ""We will be doing all we can to help."" Crews from Mid and West Fire and Rescue service pumped out one property after the pipe burst and Powys council provided sandbags. The water main was isolated by Severn Trent.",A burst water main which flooded properties in a Powys village has been @placeholder .,fixed,destroyed,detected,cleared,approved,0
"In the UK there are currently about 100,000 deaths per year attributable to smoking, worldwide it is estimated to be more than five million. Now researchers are hopeful that an increasing use of e-cigarettes could prevent some of these deaths. But some groups warn that e-cigarettes could normalise smoking. An estimated 700,000 users smoke e-cigarettes in the UK, according to Action on Smoking and Health. Some users combine ""vaping"", as it is often called, with traditional cigarettes while others substitute it for smoking completely. E-cigarettes have also recently be found to be just as effective as nicotine patches in helping smokers quit. Rather than inhaling the toxic substances found in tobacco, e-cigarette users inhale vaporised liquid nicotine. Robert West, professor of health psychology at University College London, told delegates at the 2013 E-Cigarette Summit at London's Royal Society that ""literally millions of lives"" could be saved. ""The big question, and why we're here, is whether that goal can be realised and how best to do it... and what kind of cultural, regulatory environment can be put in place to make sure that's achieved. ""I think it can be achieved but that's a hope, a promise, not a reality,"" he said. This view was echoed by Dr Jacques Le Houezec, a private consultant who has been researching the effects of nicotine and tobacco. He said that because the harmful effects of its main comparator, tobacco, e-cigarette use should not be over-regulated. ""We've been in the field for very long, this for us is a revolution. ""Every adolescent tries something new, many try smoking. I would prefer they try e-cigarettes to regular cigarettes."" Dr Le Houezec added. Many are now calling for the industry to be regulated. Konstantinos Farsalinos, from the University Hospital Gathuisberg, Belgium, said it was important for some light regulation to be put in place ""as soon as possible"". ""Companies are all hiding behind the lack of regulation and are not performing any tests on their products, this is a big problem."" Prof Farsalinos studies the health impacts of e-cigarette vapour. Despite the lack of regulation, he remained positive about the health risks associated with inhaling it. An EU proposal to regulate e-cigarettes as a medicine was recently rejected, but in the UK e-cigarettes will be licensed as a medicine from 2016. E-cigarettes are still relatively new, so there is little in the way of long-term studies looking at their overall health impacts. In order to have valid clinical data, a large group of e-cigarette users would need to be followed for many years. Seeing as many users aim to stop smoking, following a large group of e-smokers for a long period could be difficult. But in rats at least, a study showed that after they inhaled nicotine for two years, there were no harmful effects. This was found in a 1996 study before e-cigarettes were on the market, a study Dr Le Houezec said was reassuring. Concern about the increase in e-cigarette use remains. The World Health Organization advised that consumers should not use e-cigarettes until they are deemed safe. They said the potential risks ""remain undetermined"" and that the contents of the vapour emissions had not been thoroughly studied The British Medical Association has called for a ban on public vaping in the same way that public smoking was banned. They stated that a strong regulatory framework was needed to ""restrict their marketing, sale and promotion so that it is only targeted at smokers as a way of cutting down and quitting, and does not appeal to non-smokers, in particular children and young people"". Ram Moorthy, from the British Medical Association, said that their use normalises smoking behaviour. ""We don't want that behaviour to be considered normal again and that e-cigarettes are used as an alternative for the areas that people cannot smoke,"" he told BBC News. But Lynne Dawkins, from the University of East London, said that while light-touch regulation was important, it must be treated with caution. She said that e-cigarettes presented a ""viable safer alternative"" to offer to smokers. ""We don't want to spoil this great opportunity we have for overseeing this unprecedented growth and evolving technology that has not been seen before, We have to be careful not to stump that.""","Scientists say that if all smokers in the world @placeholder from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes , it could save millions of lives .",switched,migrate,rules,bid,refrain,0
"Mr Kenny and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin met for more than an hour on Wednesday night. It was the first time discussions between their respective parties took place on cooperation in government. However, a senior member of Fianna Fáil says he believes the coalition offer will be rejected by the party. Willie O'Dea told RTÉ that people voted to ""get rid of Enda Kenny as taoiseach"" and not for Fianna Fáil to share ""Mercs and perks"" with Fine Gael. Earlier, Fine Gael's Simon Coveney told RTÉ his party's offer of sharing power with Fianna Fáil is a ""genuine, real offer"". He added that it was in the ""best interests of the country for the two large parties to come together"". Irish politicians have been attempting to form a working government since the general election in February. Following the February election to the Dáil, Fine Gael has 50 seats, Fianna Fáil 44, Sinn Féin 23 and the Labour Party got seven.","Fianna Fáil TDs are meeting to consider an offer of "" full @placeholder government "" from Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny .",partnership,interest,sex,irish,life,0
"The late night hop over the channel back to Glasgow was akin to not being invited to the party you helped blow up the balloons and lay out the buffet for. As Gordon Strachan's players quickly boarded their flight home from the north east of France having offered themselves up as sparring partners for the Euro 2016 hosts, the wondering of what might have been truly set in. France's resounding 3-0 victory evoked painful memories of a similar towelling at the hands of Les Bleus under Berti Vogts in Saint Denis in 2000. And, as the French mainland disappeared behind the squad's charter plane, so too did the European Championship that begins in just a few days, without the Scots. If only Georgia's Valeri Qazaishvili hadn't fired past David Marshall in Tblisi. If only John O'Shea and Shane Long hadn't scored on separate occasions against world champions Germany for Republic of Ireland. If only the Scots had been more adventurous in Dublin when things were in their hands. If only. In truth, there hasn't been much for the Tartan Army to get excited about since qualifying hopes were torturously snuffed by Robert Lewandowski's stoppage-time leveller in October, with defeats by Italy in Malta and France in Metz serving as a major reality check. The wisdom of undertaking such tall orders is questionable. 'Unwinnable' games without key squad members at the end of a long season. ""You want to play against the best,"" defender Charlie Mulgrew  - who played in both matches - argued in the aftermath of the French thrashing. ""It's difficult. Everybody's gutted we lost that way, the confidence has taken a wee bit of a knock. ""But, when we take a look back, we can benefit from an experience like that when we come up against teams like England and Slovenia. All of us will take positives from it. ""You expect criticism, that's part and parcel of playing for your national team. I'm sure the fans and us as players and everybody involved with Scotland don't want to roll over and get beat. ""We've got to move on and not over-think it."" It is difficult to dine at the top table these days, although Northern Ireland are proof that you don't necessarily have to pick from the same top drawer that France do to get there. And, as 24 European nations prepare to take to the field at Euro 2016, Strachan is left to ponder exactly where he and his players are in terms of reaching the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The true value of Scotland's end-of-season excursion and matches against world-class opponents won't bear fruit until 4 September at the earliest when the players return to Malta for the opening qualifier. Although the training camp was on the Mediterranean island, the standard of opponent owed more to preparing for key clashes early in the campaign against Slovakia and England away from home in the autumn than their Maltese reunion. Strachan has already admitted the altogether more difficult task of qualifying for the World Cup - given second place does not offer the same guarantee of progression -  will mean Scotland require a headline-creating outcome from at least one of those games. Victory in Slovenia may be a necessity. A tall order for a side whose only away victory in Euro 2016 qualifying was against the pointless Gibraltar. But, while the games with the Italians and the French have hardly captured the imagination of a depressed Tartan Army, have they and the fortnight-long gathering served their purpose? ""We've had great conversations,"" Strachan said. ""The weather (in Malta) was perfect to train in. ""It would have been a real problem for me to have only played the one game and the players disappear right after and there's no time to debrief and have a look at it again. ""What did I get out of it? We didn't get a win and that's disappointing. I got knowledge, the coaching staff got knowledge about what we do. ""We've got young players coming through like Stephen (Kingsley) and Barrie (McKay) and seeing who can work with us, who wants to work with us and who we want to add. ""We'll only know that when they get big game time and that's what they got here."" Steven Naismith, who earned his 43rd cap against the French, agrees with his manager that the trip has been beneficial. ""With being away, everybody's been together as a squad for the whole time, we've had some free afternoons,"" said the Norwich City forward. ""As a squad, we've maybe gone out for a bit of food or a coffee and things like that, so it's been great for the mixture of the youngsters and the older boys. ""We've managed to get to know each other and get that familiar feeling and the natural progression from that is taking it on to the training pitch and then into games. ""It's definitely been worthwhile."" We'll know if Naismith is right before the turn of the year, by which time reaching Russia will be a realistic prospect or yet another dashed dream.","Two seasons ago , Scotland were chasing dreams in Dortmund . On Saturday they were chasing @placeholder in Metz.",ghosts,hopes,defeated,love,shadows,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device Arsenal boss Wenger, whose contract is up at the end of the season, has said that he is open to taking on the role. Glenn added that the FA was not ""wedded to the fact he has to be English"" in their hunt for a national team boss. Sam Allardyce left the post on Tuesday after apparently offering advice on getting around player ownership rules. Allardyce said he is ""deeply disappointed"" to have left the role and apologised for his comments, which were filmed by undercover Daily Telegraph reporters. Wenger was appointed as Arsenal manager in 1996 and has won three Premier League titles and six FA Cups during his time at the club. The 66-year-old will be out of contract in May and is third favourite for the England job behind Gareth Southgate, who will take interim charge for the next four matches, and Leipzig director of sport Ralf Rangnick. Glenn said Wenger was one of ""a few"" managers who possessed all the qualities necessary for the role. ""If I am free one day, why not?"" Wenger replied when asked about the possibility of taking on the England job on Friday. Glenn added that Southgate's caretaker tenure would allow the England Under-21 boss the chance to decide if he wished to be considered for the senior-team role. Southgate ruled himself out of the running to replace Roy Hodgson in the wake of the team's poor showing at Euro 2016. ""I think he is a genuine contender, but this isn't an audition,"" Glenn said of Southgate. ""He has a choice to make at the end of that whether he really wants to throw his hat into the ring, but he wouldn't be the sole candidate. ""We are not looking for a saint, we are looking for someone who is great at winning matches, can motivate a team, can make us a far better competitor. ""That doesn't require a saint but it does require someone who understand they are a role model as well."" Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.","Arsene Wenger would "" fit the @placeholder perfectly "" of the next England manager , according to Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn .",window,home,role,migration,criteria,4
"Valverde had topped the standings after Movistar won Tuesday's time trial, only for officials to broaden an initial penalty to team-mate Jose Joaquin Rojas across the whole team. Valverde then outsprinted Ireland's Daniel Martin to win stage three. He moves to fourth overall, behind Team Sky's Geraint Thomas in third. Sky's Chris Froome was dropped in the finale and lies in fifth place, 49 seconds back, with fellow Briton Adam Yates of Orica in eighth after finishing third in the mountainous 188.3km stage from Mataro to La Molina. Welshman Thomas came sixth and is 44 seconds behind new leader Tejay van Garderen of the US. Samuel Sanchez of Spain is in second place, 41 seconds behind his BMC Racing team-mate Van Garderen. ""It was a little bit of a shock to the system,"" said Froome. ""It's the first mountain stage I've done at a WorldTour race since the Vuelta last year but it's good, that's why I'm here, I'm here to suffer this week - to gain from hard racing and soak it all up. ""As a team we're in a good place. We did a strong team time trial yesterday, but we've still got quite a bit of time to make up on the BMC guys."" Valverde had finished at the head of the general classification after Movistar's impressive time trial, but Rojas was initially penalised three minutes for pushing by a team-mate. Following a protest from other teams, the penalty was then widened to 60 seconds for each of the remaining Movistar riders, including Valverde. ""The Movistar team wants to express its complete disagreement towards the sanction received,"" the Spanish team said in a statement. ""It's a penalty due to an infringement which we consider absolutely non-existent."" Stage Three result: 1.  Alejandro Valverde (Spain / Movistar)  5 hours 7 minutes 12 seconds 2.  Daniel Martin (Ireland / Quick-Step)   Same time 3.  Adam Yates (Britain / Orica)           +3 seconds 4.  Romain Bardet (France / AG2R)                   Same time 5.  Ilnur Zakarin (Russia / Katusha)                Same time 6.  Geraint Thomas (Britain / Team Sky)             Same time 7.  Alberto Contador (Spain / Trek)                 Same time 8.  Tejay van Garderen (U.S. / BMC Racing)          Same time 9.  Michael Woods (Canada / Cannondale)    +8 seconds 10. Davide Formolo (Italy / Cannondale)          Same time General classification: 1.  Tejay van Garderen (U.S. / BMC Racing) 10 hours 24 minutes 33 seconds 2.  Samuel Sanchez (Spain / BMC Racing)    +41 seconds 3.  Geraint Thomas (Britain / Team Sky)    +44 seconds 4.  Alejandro Valverde (Spain / Movistar)  +45 seconds 5.  Chris Froome (Britain / Team Sky)      +49 seconds 6.  Marc Soler (Spain / Movistar)          +1:10 seconds 7.  Alberto Contador (Spain / Trek)        +1:13 seconds 8.  Adam Yates (Britain / Orica)           +1:18 seconds 9.  Bauke Mollema (Netherlands / Trek)     +1:25 seconds 10. Jarlinson Pantano (Colombia / Trek)         Same time",Spain 's Alejandro Valverde @placeholder to losing the lead of the Volta a Catalunya because of a team penalty by winning the third stage on Wednesday .,attributed,responded,hopes,struggled,linked,1
"The company wrote off $2bn from the value of undeveloped gas fields in the Rocky Mountains in the US. It also blamed the profit slump on low oil and natural gas prices for the past two years. Exxon's former chief executive, Rex Tillerson, is likely to become the next US secretary of state. He is the first choice for the job of the newly-elected President Donald Trump. ""Financial results for the year were negatively impacted by the prolonged downturn in commodity prices and the impairment charge,"" said Darren Woods, who replaced Mr Tillerson as chief executive officer. Despite this, the company's shareholders received $12.5bn in dividends for last year. The gas field write-off is partly a response to pressure from the US authorities at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Last September it asked the company to explain why, in the light of the big fall in oil prices, it had not cut the book value of some of its assets, when the firm's main rivals had all done so. At the time Exxon said it was ""fully complying"" with a request from the SEC for accounting information. But the annual results fail to make any mention of the issue. Brent crude, the international benchmark, finished 2016 priced at about $56.80 a barrel, down 48% compared with two years earlier.","Annual profits at Exxon Mobil , the world 's largest publicly @placeholder oil and gas firm , fell by 51 % to $ 7.8 bn ( £ 6.2 bn ) last year .",quoted,sports,closed,listed,reported,3
"Five people were immediately killed by the leak on Sunday, while another five died later in hospital, said local authorities in a post on Weibo. Officials are investigating the cause. China has tightened industrial safety regulations following a chemical blast in Tianjin that killed 140 people. Local authorities named the company responsible for Sunday's leak as Zouping County Shandong Fukai Stainless Steel Company. They added that the seven survivors were in stable condition. The Tianjin blast in August decimated a large part of the city's port. The high-profile incident reignited nationwide concerns about industrial safety and proximity of industrial areas to residential districts.","A gas leak at a stainless steel factory in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong has killed 10 people and @placeholder seven others , authorities said .",colour,damaged,attended,beat,poisoned,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device However, non-league Sutton United's draw against Leeds United, who are third in the Championship, does have a ring of glamour. Three-time English champions and 1972 Cup winners Leeds were handed a trip to a side 84 league places below them, with giant-killing history and an artificial pitch. Sutton's current part-timers are aiming to emulate the club's most famous FA Cup moment, which came in 1989 when they beat Coventry City 2-1 in the third round at Gander Green Lane. Coventry may have now fallen to the foot of League One but back then they were in the middle of a 34-year spell in the top tier, and had won the FA Cup just 18 months before. ""Playing-wise, it was the biggest day I experienced. No other day would come close, apart from the birth of my children,"" Matt Hanlan, the scorer of the winning goal that day, told BBC Sport. ""The fact I am still taking about it all these years later is testament to that upset."" After dumping out the Sky Blues, Hanlan and fellow goalscorer Tony Rains received national media attention. ""From the minute the game ended it spiralled out of control,"" added Hanlan, now 50 and working in construction. ""On the Sunday, in the days before the internet and Twitter, we had reporters from all the papers round my mum and dad's house. ""To get up and go to work on the Monday morning was a bit of a chore. I was working as a bricklayer and the monotony was broken up by a couple more papers turning up on site. ""At midday we got a call to go home and I then found out the BBC had called and I was required to go on Terry Wogan's show that evening. ""I wouldn't swap a long career in the professional game for the recognition and accolade you get from scoring just one goal - and being part of a team which did something."" The victory over the Sky Blues has gone down in Sutton and FA Cup folklore. It took 24 years for another non-league side to beat top-flight opposition, when Luton knocked out Norwich in 2013. However, the current U's side are writing new FA Cup history - to the delight of chairman Bruce Elliott. The National League club have already knocked out two Football League sides, Cheltenham and Wimbledon, en route to reaching the fourth round. ""Only the FA Cup can get this type of profile for a non-league club,"" Sutton manager Paul Doswell told BBC Radio London. ""It has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience for us. We have been able to create some more recent memories."" Sign up for the 2017 FA People's Cup and take your chance to win tickets to the FA Cup final and achieve national five-a-side glory. Members of the 1989 side still keep in touch and several will be in attendance at Gander Green Lane on Sunday, hoping Sutton can make the fifth round for the first time. ""A few of us were there for the AFC Wimbledon game and seven or eight are coming down for Leeds,"" said Rains, now 56 and a black cab driver. ""The tie depends on what side Leeds put out. ""If they are looking at their Championship game coming up on Wednesday, and getting in the play-offs to get back into the Premier League, there are reasons an upset could happen."" The fourth round has not been kind to Sutton, with their two previous appearances at this stage ending in heavy defeats. They were beaten 6-0 by Leeds at this stage in 1970 and, after overcoming the Sky Blues in 1989, the U's went on to lose 8-0 to Norwich at Carrow Road. Doswell knows the scale of the task in front of his side, and would settle for a replay. ""There are two results I would be in dreamland with; one would be to win but equally as good would be to draw and to go up to Elland Road,"" he said. ""It is a great stadium. I am 50 now and I grew up watching the proper Leeds teams. I have a lot of respect for them. ""What a brilliant experience that would be for the club. We'd take thousands up there. ""That would be the end of the cup run, being realistic - but what a way to go out."" Doswell is not expecting his players to be overawed against Garry Monk's Leeds - pointing to their previous exploits in the FA Cup this season and the experience among his squad. Nicky Bailey played in the Championship for Middlesbrough and Charlton, fellow midfielder Craig Eastmond featured for Arsenal in the Champions League in 2010, while striker Matt Tubbs was part of the Crawley side which reached the fifth round in 2010-11 before losing to Manchester United at Old Trafford. ""There are players who have played in bigger games than this,"" said Doswell. ""The Wimbledon game gave us that feeling of what it's like with a sold-out crowd here, with TV and radio. They didn't fall down then."" Doswell is aiming to use the prize money and broadcasting income from their cup exploits - which is expected to be more than £500,000 in total - to improve the infrastructure at Gander Green Lane, including re-tiling the entrance hallway in the clubhouse. ""The clubhouse and the changing rooms are pretty much the same as when I was there,"" said Hanlan. ""They have done a little bit at a time. I'd suspect their goal is to get into the Football League at some point, but not do it to the detriment of the club. ""They are sensible with what they can achieve and the timescales involved."" Victory over Leeds and a glamour tie in the fifth round could lead to more than a spot of tiling at Gander Green Lane. Interview with Paul Doswell by BBC Radio London's Andy Rowley.",This season 's FA Cup has not @placeholder up too many blockbuster minnow - at - home - to - giant ties since the Premier League and Championship sides entered the competition in round three .,picked,scooped,thrown,set,drawn,2
"When? Most people thought later rather than sooner. The feeling for the longest time was that Townsend would seek to develop his coaching abroad before coming home to take the reins of his country. He would go to England, where he played with distinction with Northampton and where Bath, and others, were rumoured to be interested in bringing him on board. Or France, where he spent five years of his playing career and where his work at Glasgow is admired by several clubs who are currently, or probably soon will be, looking for a new coach to steer their big ships. If Townsend has proven one thing throughout his stellar career it's that he's a bit unpredictable. He has an adventurous spirit, a lust to take on big challenges, no matter how great they appear to be. That was his appeal as a player and it's been part of the reason for his success as a coach. Townsend is staying put, though. In June next year he will take over from Vern Cotter as Scotland head coach. The fear of losing Townsend to England or France seems to have brought this to a head. The SRU could not allow their one marquee Scottish coach - the man who orchestrated Scotland's only trophy in professional club rugby - to leave the country. Media playback is not supported on this device They couldn't leave themselves open to a poach from a suitor. The aesthetic of that would have been horrific. You could employ a battalion of heavyweight PR people and none of them would be capable of dressing up a Townsend exit as anything other than a nightmarish scenario. So Townsend stays and Cotter goes once his contract expires next June. With Cotter still coveted in French club rugby - while also tipped for a job in New Zealand - it's an endgame that suits all parties. Cotter has one more autumn international series and one more Six Nations. Those games will determine Scotland's seedings for the World Cup in Japan in 2019. The Cotter evaluation can wait a while. His legacy will largely be determined by the games to come and the search for the victories that will bank Scotland a place in the top eight in that World Cup draw. Otherwise, Townsend will be the one who'll be forced to live with the repercussions in Japan rather than Cotter. Townsend will be 44 when he gets the job and still shy of his 45th birthday by the time the 2018 Six Nations comes around. That's young - younger than any other coach of any other major rugby nation in the world. He's going to be entering shark-infested waters in the Six Nations. The amount of coaching experience he's going to come up against will be extraordinary. Cotter is wise to the ways of the world given all his years at the highest level in France, but his successor is a relative rookie with only one head coach role - and one trophy - under his belt. Presuming all the current coaches are still in place come the 2018 Six Nations - a big if, perhaps - Townsend will go up against Joe Schmidt when the Scots travel to Dublin. Schmidt has won a French championship with Clermont as an assistant coach, two Heineken Cups, a European Challenge Cup and a Pro 12 as head coach of Leinster and two Six Nations titles with Ireland. He is generally acknowledged as the greatest national coach Ireland has ever had. When France come to Edinburgh, that's Townsend versus Guy Noves. The Frenchman has won nine championships in his homeland and four Heineken Cups as coach of Toulouse during one of the greatest club dynasties the sport has ever known. Scotland will travel to Wales, where Townsend will go up against Warren Gatland. The Kiwi has won three English Premierships, a Heineken Cup and a European Challenge Cup with Wasps, three Six Nations titles with Wales (including two Grand Slams) and was head coach of the successful 2013 Lions in Australia. The Calcutta Cup will take place at Murrayfield. Eddie Jones, the England coach, has won a Super 12 title with the Brumbies, a Tri-Nations as head coach of Australia, who he also took to the World Cup final in 2003. He was assistant coach with South Africa when they won the World Cup in 2007 and won a club league in Japan, as well as plotting the greatest upset in rugby history when his Brave Blossoms beat the Springboks in the 2015 World Cup in England. In his new job as head coach at Twickenham, Jones has won a Grand Slam and followed it up with a 3-0 summer Test series win in Australia. For Scotland, there's also a trip to Italy that year. Some young coaches would not just be daunted but intimidated by the wily operators in the opposing coaches box, but Townsend is the type of character who will embrace it. He's young and inexperienced and he'll be pitting his wits against some seriously impressive characters with some seriously heavy-duty weaponry at their disposal, but Townsend's work at Glasgow means he warrants this job. It's not just one step up for him, it's many steps up. This is the real deal now. It's a brutal world he'll be entering next summer, but it's not his way to shy away from difficulty. Few thought of him capable of making champions of Glasgow - and he did it brilliantly. Yes, this is a challenge of an altogether different magnitude, but those who doubted him then may not be so quick to doubt him now.","From the moment he turned Glasgow Warriors into Pro 12 winners , Gregor Townsend was always @placeholder to become head coach of Scotland . The only question up for discussion was when , not if .",chance,refused,linked,destined,set,3
"That defeat - their 27th successive loss across two seasons - means they are now on the longest losing streak in NBA history. Not only that, it is the longest run of defeats across all the country's major professional sports, from major league baseball to American football, from ice hockey's NHL to soccer's MLS. And more records may yet fall. While the 27-game run includes the tail end of last season, their 0-17 record this time round is now just one short of the worst start to an NBA season. The 76ers looked like they might end the sequence when they recovered from an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter to lead by five points approaching the half-way point of that final quarter but then, in a dramatic finish, threw it away. They have now overtaken their own joint record losing run from two seasons ago, which they held with the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Writing rather happier history are Golden State Warriors, who extended their record for the longest unbeaten start to an NBA season with victory over the Phoenix Suns. Their 135-116 win on Friday took their perfect start to 17 straight wins.",It is not a record they will thank anyone for @placeholder but American basketball team the Philadelphia 76ers have entered the history books with their 116-114 loss to the Houston Rockets on Friday .,struggling,changes,mentioning,treats,showing,2
"Germany's railway lines were built in the 19th Century. Deutsche Bahn, a company that operates all over Germany and belongs to the federal government, owns the track. It is responsible for all infrastructure. The safety and infrastructure of the track is overseen by a federal government body, the Eisenbahnbundesamt (link in German). The Eisenbahn-Unfalluntersuchungstelle, another federal body, has opened an investigation into the events leading up to the crash. DB Netz, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, runs railway signalling across Germany. Its most recent annual report - from 2014 - states that 424 of the 3,090 signal boxes were electronic. On the stretch of railway line in question, however, the signal box was of an older generation, which is run by relay interlocking and requires human input. The signals were checked the week before the crash. In case signals fail, German railways are fitted with a final safety guard to prevent crashes. Cab signalling known as PZB (Punktfoermige Zugbeeinflussung - or ""intermittent train control"") will set off an alarm in the driver's compartment when the train approaches a red light. If the driver does not respond by pressing a button, the train will brake automatically. Likewise, the PZB system causes automatic braking to kick in if a train ever goes through a red light. Deutsche Bahn have confirmed to the BBC that this measure was available on the Holzkirchen-Rosenheim line, where the accident happened. Chris Jackson from the Railway Gazette magazine in the UK told BBC World TV the crash was ""very, very unusual"" because of the PZB system. He said: ""All the safety systems have to have an override for when things go wrong. There are very strict conditions for when that can happen."" Germany's train services were part-privatised in a reform programme in the 1990s. The services of the train operating companies are bought in at state level. In Bavaria this is done by the Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft (link in German). Railway contracts for local and regional trains are awarded through competitive tendering. Private companies sometimes win these and pay Deutsche Bahn for the use of the track and the stations. The companies own the trains and employ the drivers. The trains that crashed on Tuesday morning were part of a recently built fleet. The fleet belongs to the Bayerische Oberlandbahn (BOB), a privatised train company, which operates in the Bad Aibling area under the local name Meridian. The BOB exists across southern Bavaria. Its parent company, Transdev, is in turn owned by the French company Veolia. Last week the BOB warned (link in German) that 10 out of the fleet of 35 trains were out of order, owing to technical difficulties. As the cause of the accident is currently unknown, there is no suggestion that this was to blame.","Two trains , run by the same company , have crashed into each other on a single - track regional line in Bavaria , in southern Germany , killing at least nine people and injuring many more . The cause of the accident is not yet clear . But there is a tangled web of @placeholder and management of services on the commuter line .",ownership,deaths,breath,colour,food,0
"The Pontiff said they carried within themselves ""a history, a culture, precious values"" and urged them not to give up hope. The migrants - including many asylum seekers - waved their nations' flags during the address. Europe is struggling to cope with an influx of migrants. The Pope has repeatedly called on European states to welcome people fleeing war and poverty. Later he became only the third pope to visit Rome's main synagogue. Hundreds of armed police and security personnel were deployed for the occasion. Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, has said the visit is considered as a sign of 50 years of improving Jewish-Catholic relations. In December, the Vatican said that the Roman Catholic Church did not support efforts to convert Jews to Christianity.",Pope Francis has @placeholder several thousand migrants in St Peter 's Square at the Vatican as the Catholic Church marked a day dedicated to refugees .,raised,greeted,described,highlighted,placed,1
"The 27-year-old Australian, who suffers with the condition, needed treatment for a few minutes after his fall. He regained his footing and missed a putt for par on the ninth hole - his 18th - before succeeding from four feet for a bogey to leave him on two under. Medical staff had to help him walk over to sign his scorecard but Day said he plans to play on in the tournament. Day's agent Bud Martin said: ""Jason was diagnosed to have suffered from Benign Positional Vertigo. He is resting comfortably. ""His condition is being monitored closely and he is hopeful he will be able to compete this weekend in the final rounds of the US Open. He wants to thank all who treated him the fans and friends who have reached out to him and his family."" Playing partner Justin Rose, who shot a level-par 70 to stand at two over, said: ""At first I thought he might've just rolled his ankle but then when I saw his caddie with a towel round him, I realised it was something else. ""I knew he'd been having some health issues recently and then that's when your mind starts racing a little bit."" Vertigo caused world number 10 Day to withdraw from the World Golf Championship in Ohio last year and last month's Byron Nelson Championship.",Jason Day @placeholder with vertigo coming down a steep hill during round two of the US Open at Chambers Bay on Friday .,struggles,collapsed,pace,packed,credited,1
"It's not that surprising that even an experienced gardener like him looks a bit awkward. I'm not sure that many of us would quite know what to do when handed a giant vegetable in front of a pack of photographers. But it won't be surprising to see it all over the newspapers and stuck in people's memories. And it was a reminder that before Mr Corbyn even tries to win the battles he will certainly face this week - over nuclear weapons, over how to balance the country's books, or over the way Labour makes its decisions - his team's priority must be, get through the week without mishap. For party conferences are strange, intense, microclimates where the what is said on the stage, however carefully crafted or considered, can be subsumed by our old friends, ""events"", however silly. And sometimes those are the moments that shift opinion, or express a truth political parties don't want to contemplate. And occasionally, they are the moments senior politicians lose control. In 2003 I remember seeing Conservative aides grimace during the then leader Iain Duncan Smith's speech, as he promised the ""quiet man"" was ""turning up the volume"". That week, everywhere Conservatives had been huddled in corners wondering how to unseat him. His strangely delivered speech contributed to his ultimate exit. In 2006 I remember Cherie Blair's unguarded, and then denied remark, whizzed round the conference centre in 2006, when she cried out ""it's a lie"" when Gordon Brown heaped praise on her husband. Nothing expressed the levels of bitterness between the two camps so well. In 2008, it wasn't just the rather silly picture of him clutching a banana that put David Miliband onto the front pages, but that he'd been overheard talking of avoiding a ""Heseltine moment"". His leadership ambitions were what made the conference banana moment worth printing. The year before, when Sir Menzies Campbell was already under attack for lacklustre leadership of the Liberal Democrats, I recall the uncomfortable press visit to an environmentally friendly house outside Bournemouth, where aides allowed him to be photographed while inspecting an organic toilet. Awkward didn't begin to cover it. Unfair perhaps, but that moment suggested all that what was wrong with his party machine, and weeks later he was gone. There is so much at stake for the Labour Party this week, that Jeremy Corbyn's ""marrow moment"" may be quickly forgotten. The point is, to have a hope of sticking to his agenda, the first priority for Team Corbyn may be avoiding mishaps. In the frantic environment of conference, much more experienced political teams have lost complete control of events. One senior Labour figure suggested to me that with Mr Corbyn's first Prime Minister's Questions, ""expectations were low, so when it wasn't a disaster it was a relief"", and that conference might be the same. With disagreements all around, and the extraordinary divisions between Labour's supporters and members and their MPs, a silly photograph on the eve of the event may prove the least of Mr Corbyn's concerns. What his team will hope tonight is that its awkwardness, his visible discomfort, doesn't in fact set the tone.","Just as I was sitting down to @placeholder about the existential struggle for Labour 's soul we may witness in Brighton in the next few days , my inbox pinged with the photograph of Jeremy Corbyn , bemusedly holding a marrow .",write,hand,show,ponder,learn,0
"The 2cm-wide fracture in the load-bearing truss end link appeared at the north tower but engineers are also concerned about the seven other similar sites. They used gritters for the controlled testing because ""they are most convenient and we know their weight"". FRB engineers tweeted: ""This allowed us to measure the rotation of the pin in the joint and will inform detailed design of the repair."" The device they used to measure (called a Moire Tell-tale) can detect rotation down to 0.1 of a millimetre. Engineers intend to carry out an interim repair to weld on strengthening plates to get bridge open in January.","Engineers on the Forth Road Bridge have been using gritters to carry out a controlled test to check out structural @placeholder on the bridge , which was closed on Friday because of a crack in a steel support beam member .",limits,homes,behaviour,problems,show,2
"The main thing we have learned is that past performance is a poor guide to the future. The Tories were largely using much of the same team as in 2015 and, once again, they were very well funded. But this evidence implies that the Conservative party campaign in England was an absolute catastrophe, and appalling data and analysis drove them to use their resources poorly. The dots in this graph represent the state of the Tory-Labour battleground before polls opened on Thursday. The higher-up dots show places with more UKIP voters. The furthest left dots show safe Labour seats, and the furthest right dots show safe Conservative seats. The blue rings show where Theresa May visited. You can see she was more ambitious - going further left - in areas with more UKIP voters. This stuff matters. While leader visits may be a small part of a party's campaign arsenal, if they were getting that wrong, they were probably getting other campaigning efforts wrong. So I've drawn in a rough line showing where the Tory campaign thought the battleground roughly was - what we have called an ""implied frontier"" between the parties. Think of it as the centre of the fight. Towards the end of the race, the Tories thought it was closer in. Earlier on, they thought it was a bit further out. But treat it as a rough campaign summary. In short, they hoped to flip those Labour seats on the right hand side of the dotted line. This was a strategy aiming for a triple-digit majority - or something close. Instead, though, everything went wrong. In a graph below, I have coloured in the seats by who holds them now. And you can see the actual battleground was in a totally different place. That is the second line I've drawn in. You could draw this line in a few ways, but none of them get close to the Tory implied frontier. And the length of that big arrow is the size of the error. This was a double-digit polling error. Note, amid this, one further piece of evidence on the importance of polling to this disaster. Last month, YouGov broke from the consensus and got close to the real result. Their model implied a hung parliament. When it was published, the Conservatives' pollsters in England - Mark Textor and Jim Messina - used Twitter to comment on how poor it was. Their reading of the race was, it transpires, way off. There is another datapoint which supports this conclusion. The campaigns tracker implied the frontier that the Conservatives were aiming for in Scotland was 13 gains. They made 12. And Nicola Sturgeon's patterns of visits suggest she roughly agreed. So the Conservative campaign there seemed to make sense. It so happens, though, that this was the one part of Great Britain where Mr Messina and Mr Textor were not running the show. The data operation in Scotland was run by James Kanagasooriam of Populus. Labour's efforts have always been harder to read. They did seem to build events designed to emphasise their presence on local TV bulletins, which made the charts difficult to interpret. Here, though, is a graph showing Jeremy Corbyn's visits, combined with that same estimate of where the real frontier was. Look at the right side. However they did it, Mr Corbyn was actually being deployed right there on the front line. The front line is just not where most public polls said it was. Did Labour quietly run a perfect campaign, then? Labour activists have had a great day, so I hope they do not mind me saying ""no"". Before the vote, as I said in my last piece, campaign officials in the party told me that they did not think Mr Corbyn's visits to Tory-held seats should be read as showing their ambitions. He went to places where he was wanted, which was not always a helpful guide to the party's thoughts. In truth, their analysis was, in effect, very close to the Conservative analysis I posted up above. You can see that elsewhere. When you look at the party's ground operations, they were not matching these visits with resources. I know of MPs who got cut off by the party as dead losses who held their seats comfortably. Just on Thursday, activists were dispatched to a deep defensive line. Shock gains like Enfield Southgate and Canterbury were shocks to lots of local activists, too, who yesterday were being sent to defend Labour-held seats elsewhere. To be clear, this is not about people trying to do Mr Corbyn down. I have spoken to people today who could be claiming credit for their foresight, who are wandering around in a state of shock. And, frankly, it is a tribute to Mr Corbyn that Labour did so well, when they put their troops in strange places. What, then, can we learn?","At the start of this campaign , we started tracking where the party leaders went , in the hope of picking up clues about what to expect . Had we done this in 2015 , it would have helped us spot the Conservatives ' big push against the Liberal Democrats . We hoped our experiment might help us avoid a 2015 - @placeholder shock . So how did it do ?",school,17,20,style,18,3
"This was, as Trewman's Exeter Flying Post explained, ""a matter of great public convenience"", for it meant the clock exhibited, as well as the correct time at Exeter, ""railway time"". Our sense of time has always been defined by planetary motion. We talked of ""days"" and ""years"" long before we knew the Earth rotated on its axis and orbited the Sun. The Moon's waxing and waning gave us the idea of a month. The Sun's passage across the sky gave us ""midday"" and ""high noon"". Exactly when the Sun reaches its highest point depends, of course, on where you are. Someone in Exeter will see it 14 minutes after someone in London. Naturally people tended to set their clocks by their local celestial observations. That is fine if you co-ordinate only with locals. If we both live in Exeter and agree to meet at 19:00, it hardly matters that it is 19:14 in London, 200 miles away. But as soon as a train connects Exeter and London - stopping at multiple other towns, all with their own time - we face a logistical nightmare. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world. It is broadcast on the BBC World Service. You can find more information about the programme's sources and listen online or subscribe to the programme podcast. Early British train timetables valiantly informed travellers that ""London time is about four minutes earlier than Reading time, seven and a half minutes before Cirencester"", and so on, but many passengers were understandably confused. More seriously, so were drivers and signalling staff, increasing the risk of collisions. So railways adopted ""railway time"", based on Greenwich Mean Time, set by the famous observatory. Some municipal authorities quickly grasped the usefulness of standardised national time. Others resented this metropolitan imposition, insisting that their time was - as the Flying Post put it, with charming parochialism - ""the correct time"". For years, the dean of Exeter refused to adjust the clock on the city's cathedral. In fact, there is no such thing as ""the correct time"". Like the value of money, it's a convention that derives its usefulness from widespread acceptance by others. But there is such a thing as accurate timekeeping. That dates from 1656, and a Dutchman named Christiaan Huygens. There were clocks before Huygens, of course. Water clocks appear in civilisations from ancient Egypt to medieval Persia. Others kept time from marks on candles. But even the most accurate devices might wander by 15 minutes a day. This didn't matter to a monk wanting to know when to pray. But there was one increasingly important area of life where the inability to keep accurate time was of huge economic significance: sailing. How Ikea's Billy took over the world How economics killed the antibiotic dream How the invention of paper changed the world What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? By observing the angle of the Sun, sailors could calculate their latitude - where they were from north to south. But their longitude - where they were from east to west - had to be guessed. Mistakes could - and frequently did - lead to ships hitting land hundreds of miles away from where navigators thought they were, sometimes disastrously. How could accurate timekeeping help? If you knew when it was midday at Greenwich Observatory - or any other reference point - you could observe the Sun, calculate the time difference, and work out the distance. Huygens's pendulum clock was 60 times more accurate than any previous device, but even 15 seconds a day soon mounts up on long sea voyages. Pendulums don't swing neatly on the deck of a lurching ship. Rulers of maritime nations were acutely aware of the longitude problem: the King of Spain offered a prize for solving it nearly a century before Huygens's work. Famously, it was a subsequent prize offered by the British government that led to a sufficiently accurate device being painstakingly refined, in the 1700s, by the Englishman John Harrison. It lost only a couple of seconds a day. Since the dean of Exeter's intransigence, the whole world has agreed on ""the correct time"" - coordinated universal time (UTC), as mediated by various global time zones. Usually, these zones maintain the convention of midday being vaguely near the Sun's highest point. But not always. Since Chairman Mao abolished China's five time zones and put everyone on Beijing time, residents of westerly Tibet and Xinjiang have heard their clocks strike 12 not long after sunrise. Meanwhile, since Huygens and Harrison, clocks have become much more accurate still. UTC is based on atomic clocks, which measure oscillations in the energy levels of electrons, and are accurate to within a second every hundred million years. Does such accuracy have a point? We don't plan our morning commutes to the millisecond, and an accurate wristwatch has always been as much about prestige as practicality. For over a century, before the hourly beeps of early radio broadcasts, members of the Belville family made a living in London by collecting the time from Greenwich every morning and selling it around the city, for a modest fee. Their clients were mostly tradesfolk in the horology business, for whom aligning their wares with Greenwich was a matter of professional pride. But there are places where milliseconds do matter. One is the stock market, where fortunes can be won by exploiting an arbitrage opportunity an instant before your competitors. Some financiers recently calculated it was worth spending $300m (£247m) drilling through mountains between Chicago and New York to lay fibre-optic cables in a slightly straighter line. That sped up communication between the two cities' exchanges by three milliseconds. The accurate keeping of universally accepted time also underpins computing and communications networks. But perhaps the most significant impact of the atomic clock - as in the past with ships and trains - has been on travel. Nobody now needs to navigate by the angle of the Sun. We have GPS. The most basic of smartphones can locate you by picking up signals from a network of satellites: because we know where each of those satellites should be in the sky at any given moment, triangulating their signals can tell you where you are on Earth. The technology has revolutionised everything from sailing to aviation, surveying to hiking. But it works only if those satellites agree on the time. GPS satellites typically house four atomic clocks, made from caesium or rubidium. Huygens and Harrison could only have dreamed of their precision, but it is still possible to misidentify your position by a couple of metres - a fuzziness amplified by interference as signals pass through the Earth's ionosphere. That is why self-driving cars need sensors as well as GPS. On the road, a couple of metres makes the difference between lane discipline and dangerous driving. Meanwhile, clocks continue to advance. Scientists have recently developed one, based on an element called ytterbium, that will not have lost more than a hundredth of a second by the time the Sun dies and swallows up the Earth, in about five billion years. How might this extra accuracy transform the economy between now and then? Only time will tell. Tim Harford writes the Financial Times's Undercover Economist column. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy is broadcast on the BBC World Service. You can find more information about the programme's sources and listen online or subscribe to the programme podcast. Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning","In 1845 , a curious feature was added to the clock on St John 's Church in Exeter : another minute @placeholder , running 14 minutes faster than the original .",night,heartland,hand,article,forests,2
"The firm which owned it, Austin & Co, was placed into administrative receivership last Wednesday. The receiver has now sold the trading side of the business and the store will continue operating as normal. The building, which has a prominent position on the Diamond, is now for sale. Austins had been under pressure for some time, posting significant losses in 2011 and 2012. The business was facing a winding-up petition later this month which could have lead to it being liquidated. The Austins directors worked consensually with their bank, AIB, and the receiver to prevent that. It is not clear exactly who now has control of the trading business though it is understood not to be the previous directors, Luke and Declan Hasson. The receiver, Seamas Keating of PKF-FPM accountants, said ""the administrative receivership has resulted in the sale of the trading operation of the company to a new operator. ""The administration receiver is continuing to realise company assets. "" The business began in 1830 when Thomas Austin came to Derry opening a drapery shop in the corner of the Diamond.","Fifty - five jobs have been @placeholder following the sale of Austins , the Londonderry department store .",sacked,unveiled,saved,closed,revealed,2
"The 550lb device, reported by German broadcaster DW as being of British origin, was found on Thursday and plans are in place to try and defuse it. The discovery came just hours before Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp was due to give a news conference ahead of Saturday's derby against Schalke. The 80,720-capacity stadium and the surrounding area was evacuated. ""It is not yet known how long the stadium area will remain off limits,"" Dortmund, who shut their Fan World space and club museum, said in a brief statement. The bomb was found at a parking area to the west of the Signal Iduna Park and was discovered after viewing aerial photographs. Finding unexploded World War II bombs is a relatively common occurrence in Germany where several million tonnes of bombs were dropped during the 1939-45 war by Allied and Soviet forces. The city of Dortmund suffered extensive destruction during bombing raids.",An unexploded Second World War bomb has been discovered close to Borussia Dortmund 's Signal Iduna Park @placeholder .,behaviour,building,show,ground,station,3
"The insurance market has told its 800 employees that they are not allowed to drink alcohol between 09:00 and 17:00. Lloyd's said it had been considering the move for some time to bring it into line with ""industry norms"". The ban applies to Lloyd's staff, not brokers and underwriters doing business in the historic insurance market. But angry staff have called the new measures ""heavy-handed"". Workers took to Lloyd's intranet to air their grievances, with one asking: ""Will we be asked to go to bed earlier soon?"" According to the London Evening Standard, another asked: ""Did I just wake up from my drunken induced slumber to find we are now living in Orwell's 1984?"" The boozy lunch had long been a staple of City life when deals were done and contacts made. A spokesman for Lloyd's said: ""There is no denying that it has traditionally been part and parcel of this type of business."" In an internal memo to staff, Lloyd's said an examination of grievance and disciplinary cases over the last two years found that about half were related to alcohol. A Lloyd's spokesman said that the market had changed and that Lloyd's wanted to attract younger people to the industry. He added that Lloyd's wanted to bring its employee guide into line with other companies, such as QBE, which advises staff not to drink as opposed to an outright ban. He said that if someone was found to have broken the rule, their manager will decide on the best course of action to take.","The days of the three - hour , five - bottle City lunch @placeholder to be well and truly over after Lloyd 's of London introduced a booze ban .",reported,began,were,appear,needs,3
"John Richards was seen on CCTV being doused with the traceable liquid by a security system at a business in Mill Street, Ludlow. The 39-year-old pleaded guilty to burglary at Shrewsbury Crown Court. Police said it was the ""first success"" in an operation using covert technology to tackle burglaries in the area. Updates on this story and more from Shropshire Richards was barefoot in a bid to creep around quietly but left footprints in the SmartWater UV paint which was found inside his boots and on a stolen cash box, police said. Richards, from Dinham, Ludlow, pleaded guilty to burglary, escaping lawful custody and possessing cannabis in court 17 December. He was sentenced to eight months imprisonment suspended for 12 months and ordered to do 100 hours community service and pay £900 costs and a £100 victim surcharge. Det Ch Insp Tom Harding, from West Mercia Police, said: ""Responding to a series of burglaries at businesses in Ludlow and the surrounding villages we partnered with SmartWater to protect premises. ""In this case the business had a movement sensitive system installed which sprays the whole room with the liquid. ""When you shine a UV torch on it, it glows bright green.""",A barefooted burglar who was sprayed with invisible paint during a break - in was @placeholder when police shone a UV light on his feet and they glowed green .,spared,stolen,caught,carrying,rescued,2
"Trainer Dr Richard Newland announced the decision after the 13-year-old was pulled up in the Sentinel Handicap Chase at Uttoxeter on Saturday. Pineau De Re had missed the cut for this year's National at Aintree earlier in April and unseated his rider in the Scottish National. The horse first ran in 2007 and won eight races during his career, the last win coming at Carlisle in December. by Frank Keogh, BBC Sport Pineau De Re was a surprise 25-1 winner of the Grand National and marked the rise of GP turned trainer Dr Richard Newland. In the Worcestershire village where the horse was stabled there was a proud sign - Claines: Home of the 2014 Grand National winner Pineau De Re. Named after a wine, he had a fine career which included a third place at the Cheltenham Festival and becoming the first horse since Bindaree in 2003 to win another race after the National. Before being switched to Newland, he had been trained in Ireland by Philip Fenton who is serving a three-year ban from racing after being found in possession of banned anabolic steroids.",The 2014 Grand National winner Pineau De Re has been @placeholder .,announced,unveiled,released,retired,launched,3
"In the early hours of the morning, 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines attended the scene as flames burst from the top of the Market Hall building - next to the iconic railway bridge at the heart of the North London destination. The top three floors of the former Pickfords stables and Grade II-listed horse hospital were engulfed in the blaze that took London Fire Brigade almost three hours to bring under control. And as the traders arrived to the smoky remains of where they had once sold their creations, there was upset and confusion around how it could have happened. Anna Sionek has been selling her artwork in the hall for four years and was devastated at what she may have lost. ""Every piece I had in there was handmade by me,"" she said. ""That is my business, my livelihood, and I am very upset. ""But it is not just me who will suffer - it is the people we employ. They depend on us and now I don't know what we are going to do."" The famous market started in the 1970s with just 16 stalls and grew from a Saturday afternoon event to a seven-day-a-week shopping experience, with more than 1,000 places to shop, eat, drink and dance into the early hours. Due to the hard work of the fighters - who were still on the scene come lunchtime - the blaze was stopped from spreading to nearby buildings, no-one is believed to have been hurt and much of the market remains safe. One woman who runs a food stall near the entrance said: ""We are going to be opening today and lots of the market is safe, so we are very lucky and very grateful."" But for those who worked out of the hall, this was their patch - a part of a larger community that they love dearly. ""This place is my heart and soul,"" said Laetitia Dupont, who has lived in Camden for 10 years and set up her stall selling lamps and jewellery just 18 months ago. ""Even if the things I sell survived the fire, they won't have survived the smoke and water. ""The firefighters are doing everything they can, but it is devastating for the people who work here."" This isn't the first time that Camden stall holders have been hit by fire. On 8 February 2008, the famous celebrity haunt The Hawley Arms was severely damaged in a blaze, along with six shops and 90 market stalls. And in 2014, some 600 people fled a blaze in the Stables Market, which saw the whole area destroyed and sold to new developers. Ozgur Kaya, who works on a jewellery stall in the building, now fears for the market hall's future. ""We must protect this market,"" he said. ""It is so unique and there is nothing left like this in London. ""Whether your stall was inside or not, it is so important to all of us and we really hope it will be back up and running soon, how it was."" The sense of community around the incident is palpable. Jordan Lemon works on an Italian leather stall on the ground floor of the building - so his stock is safe - but he wanted to offer his support. ""There are people in tears that have lost everything,"" he said. ""These are their jobs and their businesses. ""I wasn't even going to be working today, but when I heard the news, I wanted to come and be here for people."" Two fire investigation teams are trying to get to the bottom of what caused the blaze. But, for the meantime, those world-famous traders will have to wait until the smoke clears to find out whether their future is bright.",The blaring music and bustling streets surrounding Camden Lock Market have been @placeholder with tearful stall holders worried about their futures .,replaced,reunited,marked,dealt,greeted,0
"The food giant reported a net loss of $303m (£199m) in the third quarter of 2015, having made losses between the businesses of $8m the previous year. Kraft and Heinz merged in July and have since announced a number of cost-cutting measures including job cuts. On Wednesday, the company announced it would cut an additional 2,600 jobs and close seven factories in North America. It was part of plans to save $1.5bn in annual costs by the end of 2017. The company's shares were unchanged in after-hours trading on Thursday. Pro forma sales in the US, which compares sales of the merged group with those of the individual companies last year, were down due to falling sales of drinks such as Capri Sun and ready meals. Despite the loss, Kraft Heinz announced it was raising its dividend by 4.5% to 57 cents per share.",Kraft Heinz has reported wider losses in its first set of @placeholder as a single company .,gains,status,energy,mergers,results,4
"Scottish Chambers of Commerce's latest quarterly economic indicator has suggested most businesses have a positive outlook for the coming months. However, firms also highlighted longer-term threats to success. They included factors such as falling real incomes and rising recruitment problems. The report, released in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde's Fraser of Allander Institute, covers the key sectors of construction, financial and business services, manufacturing, retail and tourism. It said construction and manufacturing firms reported strong results during the quarter, with the latter experiencing an increase in staffing levels. Tourism businesses also suggested there had been an increase in employment, with visitor numbers up over the quarter. Meanwhile, firms in finance and business services reported a further improvement in sales, with a net balance of firms reporting sales growth at its highest for two years. However, almost half of retail companies saw a decline in profit levels over the quarter, with increased pressure to raise prices. More than half said they expected to increase prices over the next three months. Neil Amner, from Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said the retail sector was ""perhaps most exposed"" to pressures on household budgets. He added: ""Consumer demand drives around three-quarters of Scotland's economic growth, so unless the recent falls in real earnings are reversed, there is a risk that the impact could spread to the wider economy. ""There is also evidence that the low unemployment rate may be impacting on businesses' ability to recruit the talent they need. ""Those recruitment pressures underline the need for early agreement on the rights of existing EU workers to live and work in the UK and for the UK's future migration policy to be driven by business need."" Economy Secretary Keith Brown said the report showed ""encouraging signs"" for Scotland's private sector. He said: ""Our unemployment rate is at a record low, the productivity gap with the UK is closing, we achieved a record breaking year for foreign investment projects in Scotland during 2016, and our economy achieved growth of 0.8%, the highest quarterly rate since 2014. ""While we of course recognise the continuing economic challenges, with Brexit in particular a worrying issue, the Scottish government will continue to use all its powers to grow the economy, including our £500m investment in the Scottish Growth Scheme designed to transform our country's businesses and skills."" A total of 465 firms responded to the survey, which was conducted between 23 May and 12 June.","Scotland 's economy will continue to grow this year but there are potential challenges ahead , according to a @placeholder business survey .",deserved,respected,change,race,group,1
"Norwich Youth Court was told he had used hacking tool software to identify vulnerabilities on target websites. The cyber attack on the company last October prompted fears that thousands of people may have had their online details stolen. The boy, who cannot be named, admitted seven charges under the Computer Misuse Act.",A 17 - year - old boy has admitted hacking offences linked to a data breach at the @placeholder firm TalkTalk .,school,communications,vehicle,private,age,1
"Forres sits just a few miles inland from the sea at Findhorn Bay. The town is known for winning Scotland and Britain in Bloom awards for its floral displays, its football team Forres Mechanics and Sueno's Stone, one of the largest and ornately carved Pictish stones. It is now also a star of Modiri's first feature film, Bodkin Ras. Made using documentary-style film-making, its fictional-plot follows a man running from his mysterious past. Its lead, played by Sohrab Bayat, is a stranger in a small Scottish town. Most of the people he encounters are locals to Forres, rather than actors playing fictional roles. Bodkin Ras won the prestigious Fipresci Award at last year's Rotterdam Film Festival, and has been shown in the US. This month, it will be given its Scottish premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival, which will also celebrate UK films such as Lady Macbeth and international movies, including Catfight starring Sandra Oh. If other people have missed Forres's cinematic qualities, they have not been lost on Modiri. The director, whose is Dutch and of Iranian descent, said: ""I have been visiting Scotland since 2007. Most of my visits have started or ended in Forres in Moray. ""Since 2011, when I started working on the film, I have travelled there frequently and always when I'm back I feel at home."" Modiri's first success in film-making was his 2010 short, My Burglar and I. It emerged from the theft of his laptop. The thief was caught and the computer was returned to Modiri, but with some new files on it. They were videos the thief made about his aspirations to be a rapper. While My Burglar and I might be seen as a film for the modern digital age, Bodkin Ras in parts draws on more traditional themes. ""The landscapes, the light, and the people all fuelled my inspiration to set the story in this area,"" said Modiri on the effect his travels in Moray and more widely across Scotland has had on his film-making. ""The Scots have a great sense of humour, one in which tragedy is often hidden, but the people I met didn't feel sorry for themselves. ""This tragi-comical element is something I recognised, and attached to instantly."" He added: ""The flaring light, the green hills and the loud banter carried a whisper in them that fascinated me, and made me want to dig deeper in the Scottish soil."" On setting his story in Forres, the director said he believed the town has the feel of a Western, as in American wild west. He said: ""The characteristics of the town are very filmic, and so are the characters I met there. ""A small, isolated town far north, that has this Western element to it. ""Times passes slow, idyllic backdrops, innocence almost. But there are different layers to the town. It's as if you walk in through an idyllic park, that turns into a dark forest, that leads to the caves. He added: ""I know there are other towns like it in Scotland, and to many people from other areas it might seem very familiar, but I could only have made this film in this specific town, with these characters.""",Travels around Scotland led an Amsterdam - based film - maker to make his first debut feature in a Moray town . Kaweh Modiri says Forres @placeholder the perfect setting for his award - winning Bodkin Ras .,deserves,provided,hosting,describes,remembers,1
"Officer Aml Elsokary, a New York native, was with her son in a Brooklyn neighbourhood when she was allegedly threatened with violence. A man began pushing and shouting at her 16-year-son before telling her to ""go back to your country"", officials say. On Monday, the mayor of New York praised her service to the city. ""In 2014, she ran into a burning building and helped to save a young girl and her grandmother,"" Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference. ""And, then, on Saturday, she had to experience a man allegedly yelling at her and her son, 'Go back to your country,'"" said Mr de Blasio. ""Well this is Officer Elsokary's country. She is an American. She is a New Yorker. She's already at home."" On Monday, Christopher Nelson, 36, was charged with menacing as a hate crime. During the attack, he allegedly used an expletive to call the officer a member of the Islamic State group, and threatened to ""cut"" Mrs Elsokary's throat. Officer Elsokary said she joined the police force after the attacks of 11 September: ""I became a police officer to show the positive side of a New Yorker, a Muslim woman, that can do the job. ""I help everybody, no matter what your religion, what's your faith, what you do in New York. I'm born and raised here."" Hate crimes have risen in New York by 35%, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD). The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force has deemed 43 incidents possible hate crimes since Donald Trump was elected a month ago - more than double the number cases reported during the same period last year. Mayor de Blasio said that he believes that Mr Trump is partly responsible for the increase in hate attacks, due to his ""hate speech"" and the ""horrible things"" he has said about Muslims. On Monday, a city transit worker wearing a Muslim headscarf was pushed down steps by a man that called her a ""terrorist"". Over the weekend, racist graffiti was scrawled on subway trains and white supremacist materials were distributed at a rail station, the New York mayor said.",A man who New York officials say harassed a woman wearing a Muslim headscarf may have @placeholder the wrong target - an off - duty police officer .,picked,reached,completed,found,rocked,0
"Staffan de Mistura admitted there had been a lack of progress but said that the negotiations had not failed. The talks opened just two days ago and are due to resume again on 25 February. The move came as the Syrian government claimed a major blow against the opposition by cutting a key supply route to the rebel-held city of Aleppo. Syrian state television reported that government forces had broken the siege of Nubul and Zahraa, two towns north-west of Aleppo. Opposition attendees at the talks in Geneva had already been angered at negotiations beginning amid ongoing offensives by the Syrian government backed by Russia. Basma Kodmani, a member of the umbrella group representing opposition factions, the High Negotiations Committee, said encircling Aleppo sent the message that ""there is nothing to negotiate - Just go home"". On the talks, Mr de Mistura admitted ""there's more work to be done"". ""It is not the end and it is not the failure of the talks,"" he said. ""Why? They came and they stayed. Both sides insisted on the fact that they are interested in having a political process started."" The head of the Syrian delegation accused the opposition of wanting to withdraw from the talks under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, Reuters reported. Bashar Ja'afari said the UN's announcement was a way of avoiding such a walkout. More than 250,000 people have died in almost five years of war in Syria. Eleven million others have fled their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other, as well as the Islamic State group. A donor's conference opens in London on Thursday aiming to raise billions in new funding for those affected.","The UN has suspended peace talks aimed at ending Syria 's five - year civil war , the @placeholder 's special envoy has said .",county,eu,uk,region,organisation,4
"The WWT centre in Llanelli, opened on 17 April, 1991 - and has since welcomed more than 1.5 million people through its doors. Celebrations include photographic displays of developments and events over the years. There will also be performances of Theatr na nÓg's ""You should ask Wallace"" by actor Ioan Hefin. Centre manager Nigel Williams said: ""Sunday is a chance for us to say thank you to all past staff and volunteers and to the public who keep us going. Plus it's a great chance to look forward to the future and have some cake.""",A @placeholder centre is celebrating 25 years since it was opened by Sir David Attenborough .,trade,scheme,sports,wetland,community,3
"The so-called ghost gear is a danger to seals and other marine mammals which get entangled in the mesh, the Cornwall Seal Group said. Fifty-two creatures including seals, birds, crabs and fish were found tangled in nets in a year-long survey. Fishermen said they collect hundreds of tonnes of discarded items every year. More on the 'ghost fishing gear' being a threat to seals, and other news from Devon and Cornwall Between November 2014 and October 2015, Cornwall Seal Group members surveyed ghost gear washed up on the beaches around Cornwall and parts of Devon and the Isles of Scilly. They collected a total of 4,226 items, weighing 51 tonnes. Christina Dixon, campaign manager at World Animal Protection, which commissioned the survey, said: ""While this research was being conducted we saw lobster pot tags travelling 3,000 miles from Newfoundland to Shetland and pieces of gear hitching a ride on the Gulf Stream from Canada to Cornwall. ""Ghost gear is a trans-boundary problem and it's essential efforts to address it are undertaken collaboratively across countries."" Jim Portus, of the South West Fish Producers Organisation, said: ""Fishermen do not like losing gear because it costs a lot of money, but they are working in a dynamic environment so it does get lost. ""I share the concerns of all people about this and the effect it has on the environment."" Fishermen collect hundreds of tonnes of ghost gear every year as part of the Fishing For Litter project, which is supported by the industry. ""We all need to contribute to the process of cleaning up our seas and beaches and I have a lot of sympathy with people raising concerns about the affect of lost gear,"" Mr Portus said.","Fifty tonnes of discarded , lost or @placeholder fishing nets , some from as far as Canada , have been found around the coast of Devon and Cornwall .",team,beat,abandoned,exceed,signs,2
"Jean-Claude Juncker said changes to Turkey's laws on terrorism were one of a number of conditions that needed to be met for visa liberalisation. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to do so, and has now accused the EU of ""hypocrisy"". The visa issue is part of a deal aimed at easing Europe's migration crisis. ""We consider that it is important for these conditions to be fulfilled. Otherwise, this deal between the EU and Turkey will not happen,"" Mr Juncker said. ""If Mr Erdogan decides to deny Turks the right to free travel to Europe, then he must explain this to the Turkish people. It will not be my problem, it will be his problem"", he also said. What is the Schengen agreement? Turks look to EU to scrap visas In a fierce speech, Mr Erdogan reacted angrily to the European demands, saying: ""Since when are you running this country? Who has given you the authority? ""They believe they have a right for themselves (to fight terror) but find it a luxury and unacceptable for us. Let me say it clearly - this is called hypocrisy."" The EU and rights groups have accused Ankara of using its broad anti-terror legislation to intimidate journalists and stifle dissent. But the government denies it, saying it needs the laws to fight militants, and has warned the EU that it will not change them. There are fears the whole migrant deal could collapse if the visa dispute is not resolved. The agreement was largely negotiated by outgoing Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Mr Juncker said that Mr Davutoglu's departure could not jeopardise what had been previously agreed. ""We are counting on this, we agreed this with the Turkish government and it can't be that the exit of the prime minister leads to agreements between the EU and Turkey being ignored,"" he said. Under the EU-Turkey agreement, migrants who have arrived illegally in Greece since 20 March are to be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if their claim is rejected. For each Syrian migrant returned to Turkey, the EU is to take in another Syrian who has made a legitimate request. Turkey has already threatened to stop taking back migrants from Greece if the EU fails to deliver on the visa issue. 78.7m Population 11.1% Unemployment 2.75m Syrian refugees registered with UN 151 out of 180 countries on World Press Freedom Index A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.","A deal to allow Turks visa - free travel within Europe will collapse if Turkey does not fulfil its @placeholder , the European Commission president has said .",response,neighbour,value,commitments,branch,3
"Emergency services were called to reports of a boy in difficulty in a dock near Mermaid Quay at 13:45 BST. He was taken to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff but his injuries are not known. South Wales Police and Cardiff council warned about the dangers of swimming in the water. On Friday, Insp Tony Williams, of South Wales Police, said people were putting their lives at risk by venturing in at Cardiff Bay. ""The docks are deep, but those who jump in have no idea what may be lurking beneath the surface,"" he said. ""They have little concept of just how cold the water can be and once they are in, they are surrounded by high, sheer walls with limited means of escape. ""Our message to youngsters is simple: 'If you want to go for a swim, then go to the swimming baths where the environment is organised and safe. And keep out of the docks.'"" Cardiff council said swimming was strictly prohibited in the area due to the ""severe dangers including submerged objects, water temperature and high speed boats"". A spokeswoman said the harbour authority regularly issued warnings of the risks, which include underwater currents, uneven riverbeds and ""the height of the fall or jump if tombstoning"".",A teenager @placeholder in a critical condition in hospital after being pulled from the water in Cardiff Bay on Friday .,remains,dumped,living,was,recovering,0
"They're to be sorely disappointed again, and not only because an imminent criminal court case can be expected to bring back some painful memories. The current directors' box regime, under Dave King, is still in emergency measures. Rangers International Football Club (RIFC) is cut off from normal financing and banking, and having to fund losses by reliance on wealthy shareholders. But now, King's hold on Ibrox is in doubt. The method by which he got control of it has led to the close attention of the Takeover Panel - a usually obscure arm of company law, with the job of refereeing fairness for all shareholders amid bruising corporate jousts. It has never used its enforcement powers before, which is just one of the aspects of the RIFC and the Dave King case, which is unprecedented, and leaves a lot of uncertainty hanging over the club. To recap, there was a well publicised consortium of wealthy Rangers fans who worked with South Africa-based Dave King to wrest the club from its former directors. They achieved this by buying more than a third of the shares in the club. And that's the way it has remained. But if you're involved in a takeover of a company - any company - when you get past 30% of share ownership, you are required, by law to make an offer to buy all the other shares. The price is set by the regulator at the highest level reached in the last 12 months during which the bidder was amassing shares. If shareholders combine forces to take over a company, as this team did, in a so-called ""concert party"", that has to be declared as a single bid. In this case, no such declaration was officially made. The Takeover Panel has since said that it should have been. There's a good reason for this. With 30% you can have effective control of a company.  Now, think of company A which buys enough shares in its main commercial rival company B, to take control of its boardroom. By taking decisions which undermine the health of that company, A's owner can shrink B's market share and profitability, and ultimately run it out of business altogether. That's clearly not in the interests of the other shareholders of company B. So fairness requires that they are offered a fair price for every shareholder to sell to the takeover bidder. That rivalry scenario may not apply at Ibrox, but the law still does. And since the Takeover Panel last month told Dave King he had a month to make an offer to buy all the club's shares, he seems to have simply ignored it. That's why the Panel is taking the unprecedented action of seeking to enforce its ruling, through the Court of Session. The court can take whatever action it believes is necessary to ensure the law is observed.  Mr King could, for instance, be barred from acting as a director, or forced to sell his stake in the club. And if Mr King continues to ignore legal authority, he can be ruled in contempt of court. The Takeover Panel's code also includes measures for ""cold shouldering"" - for instance, requiring professional bodies to challenge the director's continued status within them. That may not much bother a businessman in South Africa, but if it pushes the financial regulator to ensure financial companies don't have anything to do with a delinquent director, then that could hurt a bit more. Now, here are two puzzling complications.  The Takeover Panel ruling says that Mr King must offer to buy all the other shares at 20 pence.  But if you look at the platform on which Rangers International Football Club (RIFC) shares are traded, you'll find the most recent trades have been at 27.5 pence. It might, at first, seem daft to sell your shares for 20 pence when the going rate appears to be 27.5 pence. But that going rate may not be as it seems. The trading platform won't tell you is how recent these trades were. That market is not like the London stock exchange. You put up a share stake for sale, and wait for someone else to show interest. Trading is sticky.  It may be possible, that way, to inflate the true value of shares. And if you have shares in any company, they are only worth something if you can find someone to buy them.  It matters a lot that such markets have liquidity - meaning enough willing buyers. The other puzzlement is the 10.4% of the company that's owned by anonymous funds that have refused to respond to messages from Ibrox. Blue Pitch Holdings has four million shares, ATP Investments has 2.6m, Norne Anstalt has 1.2m and Putney Holdings has 700,000. Directors have written to them ""requiring information about the nature of those interests"".  And having received no answer, they have barred these shareholders from exercising voting rights, receiving any dividends, or having a transfer of shares registered. That should make them impossible to sell. These appear to be zombie shareholders, which many may wish to link to those with a previous interest in running the club. Whoever is behind them, it's a weird presence on the share register of a company which is now in a lot of hot water. Of course, Dave King could solve his Takeover Panel problems by now making an offer for those shares, including the zombie element. That could cost him £11m, plus hefty advice, offer and transaction costs. That would set back to square one the romantic notion of ownership by the wider fan base, eventually handing control to the fans. It would also require Mr King to make good on his commitment to the club.  He is supposed to be very rich, from his South African businesses. His clash with the country's tax authorities would suggest he must have done a lot of successful business to have failed to pay so much tax on it. We don't know how he got into that very expensive mess in his tax affairs. But the evidence suggests he may be the kind of person who receives official-looking letters and stuffs them in a drawer in the hope that the problem goes away. As a general rule, it doesn't.","Back in the top flight of Scottish football , at least some pride @placeholder , the fans at Ibrox might still hope that normal service has now resumed .",restored,spots,gone,level,displays,0
"Set in the 50th state, the police drama starring Jack Lord as Detective Steve McGarrett ran from 1968-1980. It featured an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police force and was perhaps best known for McGarrett's catchphrase, ""Book 'em, Danno"", and the show's memorable theme tune. The new show pays homage to the original, although it is a 21st Century take on the classic series. ""We're trying to retain the integrity of the original ideas, characters and stories in a new contemporary, aggressive kind of way,"" says Alex O'Loughlin, the Australian actor who plays McGarrett. ""The sense of humour is different. If you look at the original show it was a long time ago, it came off the air 30 years ago and the humour was very different. ""We can do a lot more, we're pushing a lot of boundaries,"" he says. ""It's a really modern reboot."" Fresh from Lost, where he played Jin-Soo Kwan, actor Daniel Dae Kim gets to stay in Hawaii as Detective Chin Ho Kelly. ""I was really excited because I felt like after a run of six years on Lost I was ready for something new in terms of energy and creative input,"" he explains. ""There are so many times when you start a project and no-one knows anything about it, and you spend a lot of time trying to explain to people what the premise is. ""We're very fortunate in that everyone knows what Hawaii Five-O is and what they're going to get."" But viewers will get something very different. The re-imagination of Hawaii Five-O is a fast-moving, action-packed drama with a much grittier feel than the original. Acting has evolved and stylistically the differences are enormous, says O'Loughlin. ""You look at television back then and you look at it now.  We want a documentary feel to some of this stuff… we want to find as much realism as we can,"" he adds. Only one episode, the pilot show, has been made. During the summer the first series will be shot on location in Hawaii, and the drama will air for the first time in the US in the autumn. The first show sets the scene and explains McGarrett's background. ""The difference between this show and the original is that in the original you didn't know where McGarrett came from,"" explains O'Loughlin. ""You didn't know his back story and in this one you do. You know why he comes to the island - it's all revealed in the pilot and that's how we kick the show off. ""He's a navy seal.  He has a mission that he sets out on in the beginning of the pilot, and that's what leads him to the beginning of our adventure which will be Hawaii Five-O."" Hawaii Five-O is just one of a several new dramas that network executives in the US hope will become the next must-watch show on TV. The CBS network is also launching Blue Bloods, a legal and family drama starring Tom Selleck.  The show follows a family of cops in New York. The Defenders is a legal drama/comedy set in Las Vegas starring Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell. ""It's a show about two men who are very good attorneys but not so good at handling life,"" says executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. In the cut-throat world of television, finding that magic formula for a new show can be fraught with problems. ""Broadcasters are looking to the American production machine for the next CSI, for the next NCIS, for the next Lost, the next 24,"" says Armando Nunez, president of CBS Studios International. Hawaii Five-O is a tried and test franchise, although re-working an old idea does not guarantee success. ""There are certain problems peculiar to launching a show that is already a named brand like Hawaii Five-O, which would be similar to when we launched the spin-offs to CSI,"" says Ms Mendelsohn, executive producer behind both CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Defenders. ""There are also problems attendant to launching a brand new show that nobody is familiar with... you never know until you're on the air,"" she adds. ""We love everything about The Defenders… we just hope that a year from now we're talking about season two."" Daniel Dae Kim says he hopes the lure of paradise will help build a loyal audience for Hawaii Five-O. ""In the dead of winter when there's no sunlight around half of the planet, when you turn on your TV after a long hard day, you want to be able to see something that brings you a little pleasure,"" he says. ""When you see beautiful beaches and palm trees and beautiful people, it'll be a little bit of escapism with your entertainment.""","Hawaii Five - O , one of television 's iconic cop shows , is being @placeholder more than 40 years after it first aired in the US .",remade,restored,marked,watched,sold,0
"Cardiff council said it faced a budget shortfall of up to £56.4m next year. Councillors have been advised to plan for council tax rises of at least 4.5% for the next three years. One idea being discussed is setting up a company to run council services such as highways and waste, which could also bid for work from other authorities. Tax rises will be decided when the council sets its budget next February. Cardiff council leader Phil Bale came under pressure over a package of cuts and a 5% council tax rise to balance the 2015-16 budget, surviving a vote of no-confidence from the council and a leadership challenge from his own Labour group. A strategy report says the council faces a shortfall of £47.4m in 2016-17, expected to add up to £117m three years later. It is based on an expected 3% cut in funding from the Welsh government. But the report says a worst-case scenario could see the budget gap rise to £56.4m next year and £145.7m by 2018-19. Finance director Christine Salter said there was ""real potential"" for the council to fail to balance its budget ""unless radical policies and strategies are adopted"". Graham Hinchey, the council's cabinet member for services, said work was already under way on ""alternative delivery models"" to cope with budget pressures. ""Cardiff is the fastest growing city in the UK and consequently demand for the services we provide is growing while funding is reducing,"" he said. ""We can't be under any illusions that we face some very tough choices."" The report recommended the council urgently considers how to reduce its assets as a way to bring in money and cut repair and maintenance costs. One idea is to set up an ""arm's length"" company owned by the council to run services such as highways, parks, and waste collection, which it is claimed could save or raise £4m a year. Welsh Local Government Association chief executive Steve Thomas said the ""harsh reality"" is that too many councils in Wales are being ""forced to financial breaking point"". He added: ""Cardiff council should be commended for proactively exploring all the options that are available, to ensure their communities will benefit from more sustainable and affordable services in the future.""","Further tax rises and "" radical "" changes to public services will be needed to balance the @placeholder of Wales ' biggest council , officials have warned .",size,books,future,whole,power,1
"A one-eyed, neo-fascist gangster called Massimo Carminati is accused of having run the criminal network. He will be questioned via a prison video-link. According to prosecutors, mobsters flourished under Rome's former right-wing mayor Gianni Alemanno. It was a Mafia-type network, they say. However, the operation was separate from southern Italy's traditional Mafia activities such as drug-running and extortion, anti-Mafia prosecutor Alfonso Sabella told Reuters news agency. Forty-six defendants are on trial in the corruption case, which concerns millions of euros allegedly stolen from city hall. The suspects were arrested last December. Gangsters allegedly conspired with local politicians to siphon off funds intended for migrant and refugee centres, and for rubbish collection in Rome and the surrounding Lazio region. The politicians on trial include: Ex-mayor Gianni Alemanno denies wrongdoing. He is under investigation, but is not involved in this trial. The alleged gang members on trial include two close associates of Mr Carminati - Salvatore Buzzi and Riccardo Brugia. Like Mr Carminati, Mr Brugia used to be in a violent, outlawed far-right group called NAR (the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei). NAR members were implicated in the notorious bombing of Bologna train station in 1980, which killed 85 people. Mr Carminati, in jail in Parma, lost an eye in a shoot-out with police in 1981 while trying to flee to Switzerland. The trial will move to a court bunker at Rebibbia prison on the outskirts of Rome after the opening session. It is expected to last until next summer. Last week, the current mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, was forced to resign in an unrelated scandal involving expenses.","One of Italy 's biggest organised crime trials in years - @placeholder Mafia Capital - has opened in Rome , where councillors and gangsters allegedly stole millions of euros of public cash .",including,dubbed,imposed,based,administered,1
"He arrived in office full of provocative and unpredictable messaging on China, but Beijing needs American goodwill, markets and technology to build what it calls its ""comprehensive strength"". That a functioning relationship with the United States is a core strategic interest for China may seem obvious, but it bears repeating. For the time being at least Mr Trump seems to have stopped insulting and threatening China - despite repeating on Friday that he thought they were ""grand champions at manipulation of currency"".  Key players in Mr Trump's administration are now making nice on the telephone. So what were China's tactics and how did it make them work? Beijing quickly understood that President Trump would not run an administration like that of his predecessors. It noted the importance of family. Before Mr Trump himself or senior members of his administration talked to key players in China, and while China's internet was full of mutterings about why Mr Trump had delivered no goodwill message over Chinese New Year, Beijing's man in Washington, Ambassador Cui Tiankai, deftly reached out to President Trump's daughter Ivanka. She bridged the official divide with a well-publicised appearance at a Chinese New Year function at Beijing's embassy in Washington. Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner also has lines of communication to Beijing through his Chinese business partners. And President Trump's other daughter Tiffany made a point of sitting in the front row of the New York Fashion Week show of Chinese designer Taoray Wang. To bolster this network of unofficial connections, China's best known private entrepreneur Jack Ma, met Mr Trump and promised to create a million American jobs through selling US products on his Alibaba e-commerce platforms. Even private companies in China have Communist Party cells and are required to do Beijing's bidding when it comes to matters of strategic national interest. Jack Ma was on mission and on message. As were the 100 firms which sponsored a Chinese New Year greeting message to Mr Trump on a Times Square billboard in New York. Mr Trump's controversial business empire has multiple trademark cases languishing in Chinese courts. Beijing makes no bones about the fact that its courts are answerable to the Communist Party. It was an easy act of goodwill to speed through a trademark registration for construction services that Mr Trump had sought for a decade, especially as the move was consistent with a wider move against businesses which jump on the names of public figures as trademarks. In the Trump case, the necessary moves were made quickly and without fanfare last autumn, and the case closed with a victory for Mr Trump last week. China is often quick to thunder against hostile foreign forces and accuse foreign governments of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people. Donald Trump offered provocations which would bring down retribution on a lesser foe. Throughout his presidential campaign he insulted and threatened China, calling it a thief and a rapist on trade and challenging its dearest held positions on Taiwan. Officials also warned of a tougher approach in the South China Sea. But throughout, Beijing has shown iron self-discipline and restraint. China's official news agency Xinhua noted of Mr Trump: ""He will soon realise that leaders of the two countries must use more mature and effective ways to communicate than trading barbs via Twitter."" Since Mr Trump's election in November, China's media has been on a tight leash, ordered to use Xinhua's bland wording in its coverage of the US. Unlike other world leaders, President Xi was conspicuously slow to pick up the phone. Observing the fallout of President Trump's calls with Mexican and Australian leaders, Beijing was determined to avoid the risk of an undiplomatic incident. By hanging back till the administration's ""grown ups"" like Defence Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were in the room (figuratively and in some cases literally) China ensured it got the script it wanted. When the phone call between President Trump and President Xi finally took place, Beijing won a new US commitment to the cherished One China policy and a dignified encounter. President Xi emerged with his reputation as a firm and patient actor enhanced. President Trump had talked of staking out a new position on Taiwan - but stepped back. Since that call, the lines between Beijing and Washington DC have been humming. Newly confirmed US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has talked to several key Chinese players on economic policy. Mr Tillerson has met his opposite number, Wang Yi, and senior diplomat Yang Jiechi. Beijing has begun to talk of implementing ""the consensus reached between President Xi and President Trump"" - a relationship featuring ""no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect and win-win co-operation"". In practical terms, China knows that win-win will mean delivering concessions and co-operation wherever it can. And it has already shown willing in one  area of US concern, with the suspension of coal imports from North Korea. Of course, Beijing said this decision was a technicality based on quotas. But given the provocation of Pyongyang's latest missile test and growing American concern over the advances of North Korea's nuclear programme, this is much more likely to have resulted from a careful Chinese calculation of what carrots it could flourish in the direction of Donald Trump and what sticks it could brandish at Kim Jong-un. On the global stage, President Xi has usefully presented himself as not Donald Trump. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, he famously championed globalisation and free trade. Of course, China is not a paragon of free trade, with a highly protected domestic market. But in a world of ""alternative facts"", the rhetoric is powerful. On the regional stage, China is promoting itself as a leader on multilateral trade, assiduously taking advantage of the US withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, which was intended to underpin American economic leadership in Asia Pacific. And on the Chinese political stage, Mr Trump is indirectly doing Mr Xi's work for him. The Communist Party sometimes struggles to defend one-party authoritarian rule against the glamour and appeal of a free, open and democratic America. But the scenes of American street protest and visa chaos from President Trump's first month in office are a propaganda gift. An American president joining China's state-controlled media in railing against what he calls fake, failing, dishonest US journalists is a second propaganda gift. Beijing has made extensive use of both for its political purposes at home. Beijing will be well satisfied with its performance so far. But this is a multi-player multi-dimensional game with many dangers and traps over the long term. It has done a good job of neutralising the risks and exploiting the opportunities of President Trump's first month in office. Round One to China. There are innumerable rounds still to come.","It 's been a month and @placeholder to Donald Trump as US president has been an enormous challenge for China , as for many around the world .",packed,returned,adjusting,vowed,transition,2
"Children aged 14 to 17 were sold vaping devices by 246 of the 634 retailers visited between January and March 2016. The operation's report said compliance with rules prohibiting sales to under-18s was ""disappointingly low"". The British Retail Consortium said major retailers had ""rigorous policies and training"" to ensure compliance. E-cigarettes deliver a hit of addictive nicotine and emit water vapour to mimic the feeling and look of smoking. The vapour is considered potentially less harmful than cigarette smoke and is free of some damaging substances such as tar. In October 2015, it became illegal for retailers to sell e-cigarettes to under-18s. The operation, which was funded by the Department of Health, highlighted the wide variety of businesses supplying nicotine e-cigarettes and vaping liquids. Most of the illegal sales (68%) were made at markets and car boot sales. High levels of sales were also found at ""other"" premises, which included independent pharmacies, specialist e-cigarette shops and discount stores. Fewest sales were made by national newsagents, petrol station kiosks and convenience stores, which are generally experienced in the sale of age restricted products and ""specifically in the principle of challenging a young person about their age and asking for proof"", the review said. The operation found most of the vaping liquids were flavoured but some could be considered to be particularly ""child appealing"" - notably bubble gum, cherry cola and chocolate. Trading Standards said the figures should be seen against the results from a 2014 drug survey, which showed that while one fifth of 11-15 year-old respondents had used electronic cigarettes, only 1% were regular users of the products. Leon Livermore, chief executive at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said that while the results were disappointing it was important to consider them in context. ""More than 2.5 million adults use electronic cigarettes and evidence suggests the products are now the most popular quitting aid for smokers in England,"" he said. ""And these products are being sold in a wide variety of retailers and many of them will have little or no experience of challenging age restricted sales."" He said that where an illegal sale was made, further advice and guidance were given to help the business achieve compliance, but that penalties for the offence can be a fine of up to £2,500. Nicola Blackwood, the public health minister, said there was strong support for restrictions from businesses when they were consulted, and added: ""As the school holidays are upon us, this is a timely reminder of their obligations under these regulations not to sell nicotine products to under 18 year olds."" Commenting on the results of the operation, the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association said it welcomed the introduction of legislation to prohibit sales to under-18s and it was ""disappointing"" that compliance was ""so low"". Chief Scientific Officer Tom Pruen said: ""While e-cigs offer the potential to save many lives by reducing the harm caused by smoking, it is important that they do not form a gateway into nicotine addiction for people, especially teenagers, who do not already use nicotine. ""Fortunately, while teenagers appear to be experimenting with vaping, this does not seem to be transferring into regular use, unlike with smoking. ""However, this is a genuine concern and one which requires careful monitoring, and responsible action from the industry at all levels."" The British Retail Consortium said: ""The sale of e-cigarettes and vaping liquids is regulated by law and is subject to the same levels of control as tobacco products. ""Every major retailer has rigorous policies and training practices, including awareness campaigns and till prompts, to ensure that the sale of such products is in full compliance with the law.""",Almost 40 % of sellers targeted in an operation by Trading Standards in England were caught illegally @placeholder under - 18s to buy e-cigarette products .,body,held,struggling,allowing,providing,3
"Dutch brewer Heineken has increased its dividends on the back of net 2015 profits of €1.89bn (£1.47bn; $2.13bn), up 25% on the previous year. Heineken said it would propose a dividend of €1.30 per share, above €1.10 paid last year. Meanwhile, Danish brewer Carlsberg saw an annual loss of $261.8m (£181m), better than analysts had expected. Carlsberg estimates it will generate ""low-single-digit"" organic sales growth in 2016 . It reported an unexpected net profit for the fourth quarter of 78m Danish kroner (£8m) compared with a net profit of 168m Danish kroner in the same period a year ago. In November, the company announced a restructuring programme and job cuts. It said its Asian operations were offsetting losses in Russia and Eastern Europe. Carlsberg gained control of Russia's top beer brand, Batika, in 2008, but it has been hit by tighter regulations and Russia's weakening economy. Its chief executive, Cees 't Hart, said in a statement: ""2015 was a mixed year for the Carlsberg Group. While our Asian business continues to perform strongly, our business in Western and Eastern Europe had a challenging year."" The company said it will unveil its new strategy for growth to investors on 16 March. Heineken said it expected to deliver further organic revenue and profit growth, despite an increasingly challenging external environment. Its chief executive and chairman, Jean-Francois van Boxmeer, said: ""Whilst we expect further volatility in emerging markets and deflationary pressures in 2016, we are confident that we will again deliver top and bottom line growth, as well as margin expansion in line with our guidance.""",Two of Europe 's biggest brewers have posted contrasting @placeholder in the face of challenging trading conditions .,results,differences,advertisements,reviews,signs,0
"The BBC Sport app open beta programme provides an opportunity for BBC Sport users to test the latest versions of our app before we release it to a wider audience. This will help ensure we provide the best possible experience for the audience and also provide beta users with the opportunity to feed back on our latest features so we can improve them further before they are fully launched. As this is a pre-release beta version of the app, it may contain some errors and new features may not fully function. If this might be a problem for you, you should not join the beta group and continue using the latest version of the BBC Sport app. The beta programme is available to UK users of the BBC Sport Android app. All users on Android 4.4 and above are eligible. We are looking to recruit regular users of the app who visit frequently and are therefore more likely to discover new features and changes. Unfortunately we are only able to accept a limited number of beta testers on a first come, first served basis. We plan to extend our beta programme to Apple's iOS platform in the future. Beta testers will be given early access to the latest releases of the BBC Sport app. The latest version may include new features and designs not currently available to the wider audience. Your feedback will help us to identify and fix any problems plus will be pivotal in deciding whether we adapt a feature further before we launch. We may even decide to cease development of a new feature or design change if we receive a lot of negative feedback. Android users can sign up to be a beta tester on Google Play (external site). Once you've been enrolled you can download the beta app from the Google Play store, just as you would with your other BBC apps. The beta version of the BBC Sport app will replace your current version and you will be notified when new releases are available. Unfortunately this is not possible. In order for you to download the latest public release of the app you would need to delete the current beta version on your device. Google Play restricts users to using either the live or beta version only. There are three simple steps to complete to send your feedback while in the app: Step 1 - Tap to access the menu. Step 2 - Expand the 'Other' section. Step 3 - Tap 'Send Feedback'. Step 4 - Select the mail client you wish to use to send an email to us. Step 5 - Add your feedback to the email alongside the device information - this will help us resolve any issues with bugs or crashes. Step 6 - Hit send and we will review your feedback. Alternatively you can leave feedback in the Google Play store. All you need to do is use the app as you would do normally and provide feedback on any changes or issues. What do you think of the latest design changes, navigation or new features? Generally, how could we improve the app? If you have a problem while using the app, please contact us. We'll get back to you as quickly as possible. If you have requested a response we will aim to respond within two working days. Yes. Once you are enrolled in the programme, your Google account will be associated with our beta programme. All you have to do is go to the Google Play store on any of your devices and you will be offered the option to download the beta version of the app. There is no restriction on the number of devices you can use the beta app with. No. As the beta app is distributed through the Google Play store, it works just like any regular app - no changes to your device are required. To leave the beta group please visit the URL below on your Android Device and select the 'Opt Out' option: Google Play (external link) This will remove your Google account from the BBC Sport app beta programme. It may take several hours for your account settings to be updated once you opt out.",Fancy trying out our newest BBC Sport app features before the rest of the public ? We 're looking for a small group of regular app users to offer exclusive access to the latest version of our award - winning app . Think you fit the @placeholder ? Read the instructions below ...,word,incentive,bill,role,world,2
"Now is the moment for all those who joined the Leave side in order to end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice to punch the air. The  bill will also effectively create the battleground for what is likely to be a predictable dispute between the UK and Welsh governments on the control of agriculture. I fully appreciate that people are more concerned about the future of their job or immigration levels than the state of relations between ministers at Westminster and Cardiff Bay, but nevertheless it will provide much of the background noise of the Brexit process in Wales. On agriculture here is my idiot's guide. Responsibility for the main principles behind farming subsidies and the money currently rests in Brussels. But farming is devolved. The Welsh Government administers farm payments and has some control to modify some of the subsidies. Ministers in Cardiff argue that after Brexit, the main control over farming should by-pass Westminster and come direct to Wales. But that is not how the UK Government sees it. The EU controlling element over farming will transfer to Westminster after Brexit in a so-called ""holding pattern"" while a more permanent arrangement is negotiated with the devolved nations. The ""holding pattern"" remains in place until there is agreement from everyone. The key point here is that it will be designed around a UK framework. We will be replacing one EU single market with a UK single market. The idea is to prevent one part of the UK being able to offer greater subsidies than another. There have already been rumblings from the Welsh Government but I suspect the level of unhappiness in the long run will depend on how involved ministers in Cardiff feel in the negotiating process. None of this answers the key question farmers want the answer to, which is what kind of agricultural support will be available outside of the EU. On a separate note, now that the Article 50 process is underway, there is already a noticeable change of tone from some. The first minister for one says that while there are dangers from Brexit, the impact could be minimal and there is no reason to think it will be disastrous. We have come used to UK ministers making similar comments but from him it marks a clunking change of gear. Others are switching focus as well. Plaid are now talking more about the threats to the economy from tariffs rather than continuing with the single market, a prospect that is clearly off the agenda for Theresa May. The Welsh Government Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford also referred to ministers in Cardiff not being in the business of ""whistling in the wind"". Critics will have to work harder now as the negotiations get underway. Wish lists with no reference to the reality of the talks will no longer become apparent. In other words, the phoney war is over.","After the @placeholder - piece drama of the Article 50 letter , the Great Repeal Bill is one for the sovereignty purists .",crowd,set,proposed,cast,light,1
"Dariusz Parczewski kept men in squalid caravans outside homes in Nottingham and his family kept their pay. Det Insp Gareth Harding, from Nottinghamshire Police, said ""nearly £1m"" in ""fraudulent"" benefits was paid into accounts they controlled. The Parczewskis went missing before the trial at Nottingham Crown Court. Polish authorities have been contacted and applications have been made for a European Arrest Warrant. Parczewski, 48, recruited men in Poland with offers of houses and well-paid jobs, but forced them to work, held their benefits and assaulted them. The court heard the Parczewskis set up bank accounts for the men to claim a range of benefits, but kept their banks cards and withdrew the money themselves. One man was made to work at Sports Direct's Shirebrook facility, but had most of his wages held by Dariusz. It is the third modern slavery case this year involving workers employed by agencies at Sports Direct, though the company is not accused of any crime. The men were crammed into caravans outside the family's homes, the court heard. Dariusz's wife Bozena, 47, was also found to have taken part in the crimes by the jury, but she was not deemed fit enough to stand trial. Their son Krystian, 29, was found guilty of fraud. Det Insp Harding said ""potentially 50 names"" of largely eastern European origins were used.",A man who @placeholder a Polish worker to the Sports Direct headquarters has been found guilty of forced labour and fraud .,brought,took,held,supplied,wrote,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device The Italians reached the final of the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine, losing to Spain. However, they went out of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil at the group stage. ""It isn't a good moment for our football,"" said Conte, who takes charge of Chelsea after the tournament. Watch as Conte discusses Italy's role as ""outsiders"". Watch as Conte discusses Italy's lack of young talent. ""It's important that the squad has a good spirit. I work a lot at this. If we are able to find this way, it's possible to be an outsider."" So sparse is Italy's young talent, that Conte has picked the fourth-oldest squad of the tournament, with just seven out of the 23 players aged 25 or younger. Media playback is not supported on this device Conte, who is taking charge of his first major tournament as Italy boss, said the loss of Paris St-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti to injury was a particularly big blow for the team. ""He's the best young player in the national team and a player with great international experience with Paris St-Germain,"" Conte told the BBC's World Football programme in his first interview in English. ""The other young players are very, very good, but without international experience. ""It's very, very difficult to find strong young players. For this reason, we are working hard to become a good squad."" Conte, who won three successive Italian titles with Juventus before taking over the national team in 2014, said that unity includes the Italian fans and has urged them to stand by the Azzurri. ""Stay close to the national team. It's important for the players to feel your trust in them,"" he said. ""We know this is a moment that is difficult for us, but together we can overcome these difficulties."" Another notable absentee from Conte's squad is 37-year-old midfielder Andrea Pirlo. The 2006 World Cup-winner moved to New York City FC in July 2015, a decision which is thought to have counted against him in Conte's eyes. ""Andrea Pirlo is a great player,"" he said. ""I had him for three years in Juventus and we won a lot with him. I'm very affectionate to him. ""But I know that in this moment, I have to find the right choice for Italy and not for my heart. ""I'm not happy that Andrea isn't here, but this is life and we must continue."" After Italy's World Cup exit two years ago, many fans and pundits accused the team of losing its identity. Conte, though, is hopeful that he has brought that back. ""It's very important to have an identity and when the other countries see our team, I want them to recognise our identity,"" he said. ""I like to play offensive football and attractive football with great intensity. I like the players to transfer great emotion to our fans. ""I always think of the verb, win. Most people use this verb in a very simple way, but to win is very, very difficult. It's not for all. ""It's a tough road and along this road there are sacrifices and hard work. ""I'm a perfectionist in training, and in life, and I want the best for me and for the people who work with me."" The intensity of Conte's philosophy is in contrast with the serenity of his mentor, Carlo Ancelotti, who will take over at Bayern Munich as Conte moves to Stamford Bridge. ""Carlo was my coach for two seasons in Juventus and a great brother for me,"" Conte said. ""But we are two different coaches and we live the match in two different ways. I want to play with my players. I want my players to feel me very close. I suffer and I win with them. ""He's told me about his difficulties with the English language, the first time. My English is improving because I'm studying. ""Before, I studied a lot, but now I'm focused with the national team because we're preparing for these Euros in the right way, with intensity."" When asked which of the English words he has learned so far are the most important, Conte gave a further insight into his character and his expectations of his players. ""I like the verb, to fight,"" he said.","Italy coach Antonio Conte has played down expectations of a successful Euro 2016 for the Azzurri , saying unity will have to @placeholder for a lack of talent .",action,evidence,compensate,cater,suffer,2
"Those taking part will be calling for improved facilities and safer roads for both cyclists and pedestrians. But is Scotland moving forward? Are we on the road to becoming a cycle-friendly country? ""Funding has increased from central and local government, mainly through match funding programmes like the Community Links partnership run by Sustrans. ""Some local authorities are committed to 20mph, design of infrastructure is improving and programmes delivering training and awareness of walking and cycling are more sophisticated. ""Cycling is increasingly part of strategic planning and is recognised as a way to improve people's health. ""We are meeting ministers and national politicians much more easily than before and they are sympathetic. ""There are lots of positives, but we are only at the beginning of a journey toward a nation where short trips are easily made by foot and bicycle."" ""Scotland has enormous potential for increasing the number of people walking and cycling, leading to better health and wellbeing for everyone in our country. ""Cities like Edinburgh have shown that with political leadership and sustained investment you can achieve a significant increase in the number of people choosing to walk and cycle. ""No parent wants their child to share the road with HGVs, buses and fast moving motorised vehicles. ""That's why I'll be at Pedal on Parliament with my family asking our political leaders for the resources and determination needed to change our streets into places that put people first."" ""Cycling is becoming an everyday activity for more people of all ages and abilities. ""Inverness and Edinburgh regularly have 1 in 10 journeys to work by bike. ""38% of primary schools offer Bikeability Scotland on-road cycle training, up from 32% just three years ago thanks to Transport Scotland funding. ""Midlothian provides training in 87% of schools and East Renfrewshire in 100% of schools. ""The figures show it is possible to increase cycling in communities anywhere in Scotland but there is clearly much more to be done."" ""As a grassroots campaign group, Pedal on Parliament (Pop) has opened up campaigning beyond ""cyclists"" to everyone wanting safer roads, a healthier population, and cleaner air. ""We're the first national campaign to call for infrastructure protecting cyclists from motor vehicles, but which doesn't take space away from pedestrians. ""Since Pop started, active travel funding has stopped falling, but is still just 2% of the transport budget. ""To meet the government's goal of 10% of journeys by bike by 2020, we need 5 times that investment, and a long-term commitment to spending it on quality infrastructure.""",Thousands of people are due to converge on Holyrood for the fourth annual Pedal on Parliament @placeholder in Edinburgh this weekend .,positions,sunday,event,street,soil,2
"The new definition will increase the number of people counted as rape victims in FBI statistics, but it will not change federal or state laws. Lawmakers use those statistics to allocate resources for prevention and victim assistance. Many US states have already adopted a wider definition of rape. Previously, the FBI defined the crime of rape as ""the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will"". The new definition removes the reference to females and says rape is ""the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object"" without the consent of the victim. Also specified is ""oral penetration by a sex organ of another person"" without consent. Vice-President Joe Biden, who raised the issue last July at a Cabinet meeting, called the change a victory for those ""whose suffering has gone unaccounted for over 80 years"". ""We can't solve it unless we know the full extent of it,"" Mr Biden said. One in five women and one in 71 men have been raped at some point in the lives, according to a 2010 study by the Centers for Disease Control, which used a broader definition. The US Congress approved $592m (£384m) this year to address violence against women.","The FBI has updated its definition of rape for the first time in 83 years , to include men and those who do not physically @placeholder as victims .",act,exist,quit,register,resist,4
"The row is over the refusal by clergy in the diocese of Ahiara to accept the appointment of a bishop made in 2012. The pontiff told an audience of Nigerian Catholics in Rome last week that the ""people of God are scandalised"" by what has happened. It is unusual for the pope to issue this kind of threat, says the BBC's religion correspondent Martin Bashir. He gave the clergy until 9 July to each write a letter declaring their obedience to him and asking for forgiveness. The president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama, was at the meeting in Rome and told the BBC that the pope was very sad about what was happening and he could see ""the pain in his eyes"". ""He was upset that his children were going in a different direction,"" the archbishop added. Ever since Bishop Peter Okpaleke was appointed by the Pope's predecessor, Benedict XVI, Archbishop Kaigama has been part of a group trying to persuade the clergy in Ahiara, south-eastern Nigeria, to accept the appointment. He told the BBC that the problem was that the local clergy and the bishop were from different clans of the Igbo ethnic group. He added that the priests also questioned why someone from outside the diocese was appointed when one of them was just as qualified, In 2012, the clergy held protests and coordinated petitions asking for a bishop to be chosen from the area. But Archbishop Kaigama argued that the ""Catholic church has been operating like this for hundreds of years and that's not going to change now because they want someone from their area. ""The Pope needs absolute obedience."" Ahiara is in Mbaise, a predominantly Catholic region of Imo State, while Bishop Okpaleke is from neighbouring Anambra State. It is not clear if the clergy has responded to the ultimatum. In the meantime, Archbishop Kaigama said, he, and other Nigerian Catholics, were praying ""for God's intervention"" to help find a solution.",Pope Francis has told a group of Nigerian priests to pledge obedience to him or face @placeholder from the church .,artefacts,persecution,action,suspension,behaviour,3
"Government spokesperson Seydou Gueye said Mr Sall was not involved. Lamine Diack, a Senegalese citizen, is under investigation in France, accused of turning a blind eye to doping in Russian athletics while IAAF chief. French newspapers have alleged that he received $1.6m (£1.1m) from Russia to back Mr Sall's 2012 election campaign.","The government of Senegal has denied allegations that President Macky Sall 's campaign was funded by the former head of @placeholder athletics , Lamine Diack .",french,drug,world,intelligence,national,2
"Cyclone Debbie has intensified into a Category 4 system and is due to make landfall early on Tuesday local time. Some people have refused to leave despite warnings the destructive core could be as wide as 100km (62 miles). Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the storm would rival the devastating Cyclone Yasi in 2011. Late on Monday, Ms Palaszczuk urged 25,000 residents in low-lying areas of Mackay to immediately find safer ground. More than 5,000 other Queenslanders were already evacuating their homes. ""The time for people to move is now,"" she said. In its latest update, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said the cyclone could ""intensify further"" as it moved towards the Queensland coast. It is expected to make landfall sometime after 07:00 on Tuesday (20:00 GMT Monday) anywhere in a 265km zone from Townsville to Proserpine. ""That is the uncertainty of cyclones,"" said Bureau of Meteorology regional director Bruce Gunn. Authorities warned the cyclone could coincide with high tide, which is expected to peak at 3.2m. The storm surge could add an additional 4m, Ms Palaszczuk said. She said this would bring dangerous risk of flooding, especially around Mackay. ""I am just pleading to everyone, please, listen to authorities,"" she said. ""I do, you must as well. This is about your safety, it is about the safety of your family and the safety of your children.'' Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said the weather contributed to the death of a woman in a car crash. Queensland authorities have closed 102 schools, 81 early childhood education centres and two ports. All flights have been cancelled at Townsville Airport and Mackay Airport. Mr Stewart warned that emergency crews would not provide help during the storm's peak. ""[It] will get to an extent where all emergency services will not be able to respond to calls for assistance, because obviously, we have got to maintain the safety of our staff,"" he said. Ms Palaszczuk said residents should be prepared for power outages. ""Now is the time to charge your phone,"" she said. ""These winds are going to be severe and we are going to see structural damage."" Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the Australian Defence Force would help with the cyclone response. ""Time and time again, Australians show grace under pressure, bravery in the face of danger, and rally without a second thought to help each other,"" Mr Turnbull said in parliament. ""These virtues will be on display over the next few days where Australians face the worst that nature can throw at us.""","About 25,000 people have been told to evacuate as a cyclone @placeholder winds of up to 275 km / h ( 170 mph ) moves towards the Queensland coast .",planned,updated,suspected,carrying,control,3
"Voters planning to cast their ballot at a polling place on 5 May must be registered by midnight on 18 April. Applications for a postal vote must reach the local electoral registration office by 17:00 on 19 April. Those wanting a proxy to vote on their behalf must apply to the local registration office by 17:00 on 26 April. In an emergency, where you cannot go to the polling station in person,  you can apply for an emergency proxy up to 17:00 on the day of the election. It is possible to register to vote online here, and further information is available on the Electoral Commission website. Anyone who has received a polling card for the election is already registered to vote. The polling card will tell you where and when to vote. This will be the first Scottish Parliament election in which 16 and 17 year-olds can vote, with those who are aged 16 or over on 5 May eligible. To be eligible to vote, you also need to be living in Scotland and a British or Irish citizen, a Commonwealth citizen who has the right to remain in the UK, or a citizen of another European Union country. British citizens living overseas cannot vote in the election.",The deadline for registering to vote in the Scottish Parliament election on 5 May is @placeholder .,looming,delayed,set,recovering,gathering,0
"Australia's ASX 200 index finished up 0.3% to 5,686.90, while South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.2% to 2,073.31 points. Weaker commodity prices weighed on Australian resource shares, with gold miners the hardest hit. Gold fell to a five-year low on talks of a US interest rate rise this year. The precious metal fell 4% to hit a low of $1,088.05 (£697) an ounce on Monday after its worst weekly performance since March last week. Investors were also cautious with Greek banks set to reopen later in the day after being closed for three weeks. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for swift aid talks so Athens can also lift withdrawal limits. Chinese shares traded mixed despite data over the weekend showing that home prices rose for a second consecutive month in June. Average new home prices rose 0.4% from May, when they were up 0.2% and marked the first monthly increase since April last year. The Shanghai Composite closed up 0.9% to 3,992.11 - erasing earlier losses after the securities regulator denied reports that the government was considering how to end its support measures. The mainland market has stabilized after Beijing pumped hundreds of billions of liquidity into the market through brokerages, mutual funds, and the state margin lender. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ended down 0.4% to 25,404.81 points.","Asian markets started the week largely unchanged on Monday with thin @placeholder , while Tokyo was closed for a public holiday .",volumes,advertising,companies,practice,food,0
"The charity says people commonly associate Remembrance and the poppy with older, World War Two veterans. The ""rethink Remembrance"" campaign will launch with a video installation in London, featuring four videos of young veterans' experiences. It comes as some charities have said younger veterans are being forgotten. The Royal British Legion said the aim of the campaign was to challenge common perceptions. Its survey of 1,000 adults found most only associate the poppy, Remembrance and the charity's work with the two World Wars and elderly veterans. Only just over a third of those surveyed identified Remembrance with thinking about those who are currently serving. In the charity's videos, World War Two veterans aged between 88 and 97 tell a story of conflict or injury. But it is later revealed in the videos that the stories are not their own, and actually belong to the younger veterans or service personnel. The younger people featured in the videos are: Stewart Harris, from Rhyl, served in the 1st Battalion Welsh for 13 years and has post-traumatic stress disorder. He suffered brain damage and was left blind in his right eye and partially deaf after the Mastiff vehicle he was travelling in was hit by an IED in Afghanistan in 2012. His story is read in the video by 92-year-old World War Two Royal Naval veteran Roy Miller. Mr Miller tells the camera: ""I was so low, I was shouting at the kids, getting angry at my wife - I begged her to leave me. ""I felt alone, helpless. I was taught that soldiers don't discuss feelings. ""So I walked into the waves. I can still feel the water around my feet. And suddenly, I had this vision of my girls - they saved me. ""I stopped, walked home, and got help."" This year's fundraising target for the Poppy Appeal has been set at a record amount of £43m, and 150,000 collectors will aim to hand out more than 45 million poppies across the country. Claire Rowcliffe, director of fundraising at the Royal British Legion, said: ""Individuals and families from across the generations of our Armed Forces community need the Legion's support, as well as our older veterans. ""When you pin on your poppy, or pause to remember, we're inviting you to rethink Remembrance and who it is you picture when you think of a veteran. ""We hope through our campaign this year we will help people understand who they are supporting when they donate."" The video installation in Paternoster Square, near St Paul's Cathedral, will be open to the public from 27 to 29 October.",This year 's Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal is calling on members of the public to @placeholder younger veterans and serving soldiers .,spend,replace,recognise,celebrate,receive,2
"The fact that the government is no longer even the biggest shareholder marks an important return to near normality. Since 2013, the government stake has been sold off at first in a couple of big chunks and then in a gradual trickle and so this moment was bound to happen at some stage. The government still owns nearly 6%, but global investor Blackrock now eclipses that and Lloyds is on trajectory to return to full private ownership later this year when taxpayers should recoup all the money they put in. It hasn't been an easy ride.  The huge compensation costs of PPI mis-selling and intermittent market turbulence have hampered and delayed the process, but Lloyds, while not risk-free, can be considered pretty much out of the woods. As a plain vanilla UK savings and lending bank, Lloyds was always going to be an easier bank to fix than RBS which is still about 71% owned by the taxpayer. As a global bank with fingers in most of the pies that got burnt during the crisis, RBS has paid out over £50bn in fines and compensation and has its biggest reckoning yet to come. It is still facing a bill from US authorities which could end up in the double digit billions for its role in the subprime mis-selling scandal that started the whole financial crisis in the first place. While those negotiations could come to a head as early as this week (watch out for separate blog on this), RBS won't reach the point Lloyds did today for many, many years to come.",Eight years ago the government @placeholder Lloyds by taking a 43 % stake for just over  £ 20 bn .,sold,rescued,backed,sued,announced,1
"But put your head above the dunes here and you risk getting shot. IS group snipers have occupied a Gaddafi-era hotel on the coast. Yet in the city behind them, one they have controlled since early last year, their territory diminishes week after week. IS can no longer get larger boats in and out of the harbour. Sirte was to be the Islamic State's bolt-hole from its bases in Iraq and Syria. But here, as in their home territories, the militants are losing. Libya's pro-government forces are gaining ground. Control and crucifixions: Life in Libya under IS Guide to Libya's militias Why is Libya so lawless? Keeping watch here is Hamza Hassan of Brigade 166 from the nearby city of Misrata. His brigade are weary from fasting for Ramadan and they have lost nine men so far in the fight for Sirte. Among their losses was Mr Hassan's father. But the brigade's job is to pin IS down and stop them escaping by sea. And Brigade 166 is making progress. Mr Hassan says: ""The only problem we're facing is suicide car bombs. We're taking out their tyres, firing heavy weapons at them and closing roads."" The city is seeing battle. I watched from a rooftop as northern Sirte came alive with tracer rounds and mortars. Rounds bounced off buildings and fell deep into the densely packed streets of the city. ""They [IS] beheaded our children, crucified them, threw them off the roofs of buildings, terrorised the people and abused faith to justify their crimes"" Mr Hassan is a veteran of the civil war but he says this fight is different. ""The guerrilla warfare is similar to 2011 but these are a different breed of people,"" he says. ""Then, there was no-one willing to carry a suicide attack against you. Now, we don't know how to deal with their fighters surrendering to us. They put their hands in the air so you think they're surrendering and then detonate themselves"". Beheadings and racial tension: Four months in Sirte I spent three days with his men then headed south of the city for an offensive to clear the neighbourhood of snipers, which had the effect of joining Libyan forces in the west of the city to Mr Hassan's men in the east. Hundreds of men lined up on the back of Libyan ""technicals"", pick-up trucks equipped with large guns. A few tanks joined the front. There was little in the way of air support, but a drone buzzed high in the sky. For the past two weeks it had been mapping the buildings used by snipers, and with co-ordination from UK and US special forces, the men at the front were now hitting those buildings with everything they had. The noise was deafening and huge clouds of dust and debris were thrown into the air. It didn't take long for IS to respond with mortars of their own and deadly sniper fire. It was a costly day for Libyan fighters. They are mostly militia with some army, and all under the authority of Libya's UN-backed Tripoli-based government. Although like Mr Hassan many are veterans of the 2011 war, this is a young and improvised force. They have almost no body armour or helmets, and their weapons are outdated. At the edge of the battlefield, one curly-haired fighter, perhaps still in his teens, joked as I took a photograph. ""Take my picture,"" he said, ""because I'm going to die today"". His comrades laughed and told him to be quiet. At a nearby field hospital, casualties soon began arriving. Half a dozen ambulances stood at the hospital entrance with their doors open. The injured, more than 150, were strangely quiet. There was little crying out in pain, but occasionally a call of ""Allahu Akhbar"" would go up as the corpse of a dead fighter arrived. Some were transferred straight from the ambulances to body bags in a shaded area outside the hospital. Almost 50 were killed in the first round of fighting. Mahamud Madi of the Bin Mousa brigade brought in one of his fighters, wrapped in a brightly coloured blanket. He didn't make it but another fighter, who had been shot in the neck by an IS sniper, survived. Mr Madi's trousers were soaked in their blood, his boots splattered. But to him, this was a sacrifice worth paying if it meant defeating IS. ""They beheaded our children, crucified them, threw them off the roofs of buildings, terrorised the people and abused faith to justify their crimes,"" he said. ""Islamic faith has no room for them. They are outsiders and it is permitted to kill them and treat them with no mercy."" The toughest fighting still lies ahead, but the Libyan forces are pressing ahead. It will likely be weeks if not months before Sirte is once again liberated. IS threatened to send their jihadists to the gates of Rome. In Sirte, they will be lucky to survive much beyond the end of Ramadan in a couple of weeks' time.","From the sand dunes of eastern Sirte , the so - called Islamic State 's port is clearly visible . Fishing boats are @placeholder on the quayside , out of the water . Over the horizon is Europe . At the port , nothing stirs .",docked,reflecting,battling,gathering,becoming,0
"A ""Pray for the Circuit of Wales"" sign remained pinned to a notice board, between a poster for concert ticket sales and a reminder not to drop litter. But there was little surprise to the announcement from residents and shoppers, some of whom had their own suggestions for how the money would be better spent in the town. The Welsh Government said on Tuesday it had turned down the plea by backers of the project for more than £200m in taxpayer-funded guarantees. Developers claimed the £433m motor racing track and leisure project would create up to 6,000 jobs in what is a deprived area. But Economy Secretary Ken Skates said these job claims were ""overstated"" and there was too much financial risk to the public. Ministers said an automotive business park would be built instead. But after six years of waiting for a decision - the idea was first mooted in 2011 - what do the people of Ebbw Vale think? Mike Clay, who is originally from Ebbw Vale but now lives in Caerphilly, said he was ""not surprised"" by the decision. ""I think it was a bit of a white elephant, it did not represent the priority in terms of the area, in terms of the public money that was being asked for,"" he said. Mr Clay said the money would be better spent on ""indigenous industries, providing support to the community to help them to form small companies that will grow in their own right"" and not by the Welsh Government putting ""all their eggs in one basket"". He added: ""I don't think [the decision] really makes any difference to Ebbw Vale because to my mind it was never going to happen. ""The problems and the priorities remain the same - basically the town, the whole area, is dying and the government needs to see it as a priority to do the right things to get it growing again."" Denise Cooper, who has lived in Ebbw Vale all her life, said she was ""very disappointed"" as the project had promised jobs for the area. ""There's nothing here is there really,"" she said. ""I was looking forward to it coming actually."" She said local opinion had been mixed as to whether the project would come to fruition but she had believed it would. Clive Herbert, from the nearby town of Tredegar, said he had not been interested in the motor racing aspect of the project, but added: ""It's the jobs factor, that's the thing that's got us worried."" He said people had had high hopes it would be built: ""People seemed to be very enthusiastic about it as there's nothing else around here really. ""Anything with jobs is a bonus for all the Heads of the Valleys towns. I just don't know what will happen now. ""I'm not worried for myself, I've seen the best days, but it's the youngsters coming up."" Carl Dennis, from Ebbw Vale, said: ""It's disappointing in some aspects because of the jobs it could have created and obviously it would have helped the whole community. ""But at the same time the funding they would have needed was a hell of a lot of money and obviously there's probably not much money around for the government anyway. ""I think there was always a very mixed response to it. I think there were people who were really for it, for the jobs and the money it would have created, but there were a lot of people as well who were against it. ""I don't know what's next. Personally I think they could put the money into the general town centre because there's quite a few shops that are closed down around here and maybe they could use that to get new businesses around the centre.""","Disappointment hung as heavy in the air as the grey @placeholder in Ebbw Vale town centre , as news broke that the Welsh Government would not be backing plans for the long - awaited Circuit of Wales development .",event,building,clouds,fog,spot,2
"Supported by his business partner, Norman Smurthwaite, Wildes's Alchemy Investment Group's bid finally went through on Tuesday evening. The deal had to be done by midnight before the bidders' exclusivity period expired with the club's administrators. That could have led to another offer being accepted from rival bidders. Vale had been in administration since March, but the Football League confirmed they are now out. ""I would like to welcome Paul Wildes and Norman Smurthwaite to the Football League and thank them for their efforts in helping to rescue Port Vale Football Club,"" Football League chairman Greg Clarke said. It has been a long process but we are delighted to have finally taken over the club and look forward to a long and successful association ""The Football League remains committed to improving the financial health of professional football and, as with any club which has been through a period of administration, will continue to monitor the situation at Port Vale over the coming years to help ensure the club remains on an even financial footing."" Vale's new owners received approval from the Football League last week, but had to wait before all the final legal details were in place. Sheffield-born Wildes, 35, who also attempted a takeover at Darlington earlier this year, runs a variety of businesses, from hotels to hairdressers. A former finance director for the Caudwell Group, which owned brands such as Phones 4u, Wildes owns some of the franchise for the hotel chain Holiday Inn. He set up his own company in 2007, Mansion Group, which he sold three years later, before establishing a new holding company, the Wildes Group. In a statement on the club's website, Wildes, who was named as the preferred bidder last month after Keith Ryder's summer-long bid ended, said: ""I would like to thank the Port Vale supporters, once again, for their ongoing patience and support. ""It has been a long process but we are delighted to have finally taken over the club and look forward to a long and successful association. ""As I have previously stated, our intention is to develop the club both on and off the field."" Micky Adams' side are second in League Two, although they had not won in five league games before beating Bristol Rovers 4-0 on Tuesday night.",Port Vale have exited administration after Wirral businessman Paul Wildes completed his @placeholder - out £ 1.25 m purchase of the League Two club .,team,proposed,record,drawn,ground,3
"The children are half out of their chairs, hands straining in the air, knees jiggling with excitement as they beg to be picked. The smiling lady at the front of the class repeats her question. ""Can I see your thoughts? Can I smell them or touch them?"" she asks. Dr Anna Redfern is clearly a gifted communicator as well as a clinical psychologist. It is not everyone who can persuade a class of eight- and nine-year-olds to talk about their innermost feelings in front of each other. Yet here are the children of Class 4S at the Oliver Goldsmith Primary School, Peckham, south-east London, openly admitting that they have days when they feel down or angry or just very sad. ""No-one can see our thoughts,"" says a little girl confidently. ""And that's why we need to talk about them."" Dr Redfern and her colleague Dr Debbie Plant are delivering a new programme called Cues-Ed, funded by the South London and Maudsley Trust. The programme teaches children to recognise the signs when things aren't right, and some behavioural techniques to help them manage low mood. ""We all have feelings,"" says Dr Redfern. ""And we will all have difficulties in our lives which will make us feel and think things that are very challenging. ""And rather than being fearful about talking about these things, we want children to have the language that allows them to get the right help and to say, 'Actually this is how I am feeling, these are the things I am thinking and I need some extra support.'"" In today's lesson the children are looking at the difference between helpful and unhelpful thoughts. Specially designed cartoon characters help the children relate to how different situations might make them feel - all the children sympathise when one of the cartoon characters is feeling left out and imagines that his friends are laughing at him. The whole programme is carefully couched in fun and child-friendly terms. Adult words such as ""depression"" are never used. ""Do you ever have one of those really bad days when everything seems to be against you,"" asks Dr Redfern with a big smile. ""Like when you go downstairs for breakfast and there are no more Coco Pops, there's only Weetabix?"" The class groans in horror, and the children start chatting to each other about their own bad days. According to the Association of School and College Leaders, 65% of head teachers say they struggle to get mental health services for pupils. Over three-quarters of teachers surveyed said they had seen an increase in self-harm or suicidal thoughts among students. Yet, at the moment, Cues-Ed is available only in south London and generally has to be funded by the participating schools themselves. A package of classes costs £3,950. As she helps a child with his workbook, Dr Plant, whose team leads the project, says it is vital that children get mental health education early and all together. She would like to see the programme rolled out nationwide. ""I think we should be worried about young people's mental health,"" she tells me. ""The last time the government took statistics it showed one in every 10 children suffered a mental health difficulty - that's three in every class."" We watch her colleague calming a little boy who's got himself worked up because he doesn't think he can do the writing exercise he's been tasked with. The child next to him offers some positive advice. ""If you're upset, you could try meditation or breathing deeply,"" she says. ""And you should believe in yourself."" Dr Plant smiles as we watch them, happy to see last week's lesson on positive thinking has sunk in. ""You know, we worked in adolescent mental health for so long,"" she says ""And we thought we were doing so well. But the young people said to us, 'Why didn't you teach us all of this when we were seven, eight and nine? That would have really made a difference.'"" The children are extremely excited now as they're handed fishing nets and told to catch little pieces of coloured paper on which are written helpful and unhelpful thoughts and which are being blown across the classroom. The class teacher, Sophia Campbell-Whitfield, selects a little boy to pass round the class with a bin. I ask him what he's doing. ""Putting all the unhelpful thoughts in the bin,"" he says, ""because they're rubbish."" There is no doubt the children are all engaged in the lesson, but does it make any practical difference to their behaviour? Mrs Campbell-Whitfield nods emphatically. ""Definitely,"" she says. ""This class had a lot of issues last year - but now with the Cues-Ed programme, I have seen some big changes. ""I see children use strategies to calm themselves, whereas before they would have stormed off… and they now have a proper conversation with each other about behaviour and sometimes they even say, 'Come on now, did you catch that thought?'"" One nine-year-old boy appears emotionally very fluent as he tells me how he gets very angry and sad when he is told off at school. But he remembers what he has been taught in Cues-Ed about trying to dispel his low mood and unhelpful thoughts by doing something he finds fun and likes doing. I ask him what that is in his case, and he doesn't hesitate. ""I like to enjoy my lunch.""",The mental health of children is a rising area of concern and one which schools are trying to combat . Emma Jane Kirby reports from south London about a @placeholder that involves teaching primary schoolchildren about mental health through fun games and workbooks .,growing,message,scheme,deal,body,2
"The Commerce Department said sales were unchanged in April, against expectations of a 0.2% increase. The Dow Jones was down 7.37 points at  18,060.86. The S&P 500 index lost 0.63 to 2,098.49, while the Nasdaq gained 5.50  to 4,981.69 points. Macy's fell 2.5% after announcing first-quarter results that missed market expectations. JC Penney's results showed a narrower quarterly loss and higher margins but its shares fell 1.9%. That dragged down other retailers, including Wal-Mart, down 1%, Best Buy down 1.6% and Target down 1.2%.","( Close ) : Weak data on retail sales , underlined by a poor earnings report from stores giant Macy 's gave US investors little to @placeholder about on Thursday .",mixed,laugh,results,weighed,cheer,4
"Lib Dem Lynne Featherstone told the Guardian she had ""no doubt"" allowing Julien Blanc to perform in the UK would lead to a rise in sexual harassment. The self-styled ""dating guru"" holds seminars claiming to teach men how to attract women but his methods have been widely criticised as sexually abusive. A Change.org petition seeking to deny him a visa has over 120,000 signatures. Ms Featherstone, who recently became crime prevention minister, took the unusual step of announcing she was lobbying the home secretary to examine grounds for refusing Mr Blanc entry. She said: ""As the Home Office minister with responsibility for tackling violence against women and girls, I am extremely concerned by the sexist and utterly abhorrent statements Julien Blanc has made about women. ""If he was allowed to perform in the UK I have no doubt that cases of sexual harassment and intimidation would increase."" She added that although free speech is ""hugely important"", it is ""not appropriate to talk about choking girls under any circumstances"". Twitter users have been using the hashtag #ChokingGirlsAroundTheWorld to share pictures apparently showing Mr Blanc with his hand around the throats of women that he has himself shared. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has also publicly condemned Mr Blanc. In a letter to the home secretary, Ms Cooper wrote: ""Why should we let someone into this country to incite sexual assaults or violence against women? ""There is plenty of evidence of Mr Blanc's vile views and misogynist business, and no interest for Britain in him being able to promote them here in our communities,"" she continued. A Home Office spokesman said the department would not comment on individual cases of exclusion. The spokesman observed: ""This home secretary has excluded more foreign nationals on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour than any before her."" Mr Blanc had to cut his Australian tour short last week because his visa was cancelled following protests there. His UK tour is due to start in London in February 2015. On its website, Mr Blanc's company Real Social Dynamics calls itself ""the world's largest dating coaching company"" and promises customers the chance to ""witness dating coaches attract beautiful women in live demonstrations"". The petition to bar him from the UK was started by a woman - using the pseudonym Caroline Charles - who was angry at the material being taught at his seminars. BBC Newsbeat has tried to contact Real Social Dynamics but is yet to receive a reply. The home secretary has the power to block a visa application by a foreign national if it is thought their presence in the UK would not be ""conducive to the public good"". Last year, Theresa May banned anti-Islamic activists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from coming to the UK to join an English Defence League demonstration. In 2009, then home secretary Jacqui Smith refused to admit Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders.","A Home Office minister has added her @placeholder to those saying a US "" pick - up artist "" should be banned from Britain .",message,comments,name,response,voice,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device Stokes, 25, was ruled out of the 2014 World Twenty20 after punching a dressing room locker in Barbados. He was hit for four sixes in the last over of last year's World Twenty20 final as West Indies won the title. ""I'll still have that same desire and hunger and want to get into people's faces,"" he told Test Match Special. Stokes was named vice-captain of the Test team under Joe Root last month, after deputising during England's one-day tour of Bangladesh in October. ""I like to think I've grown. I think that's just from playing more and getting a few demerit points and a few tellings-off after games,"" he said. But the Durham man, who famously clashed with Marlon Samuels during England's Test tour of the West Indies in 2015, and again during the World T20 final, added: ""That's what makes me the cricketer I am and I don't want to lose that. ""I'm probably going to have to take maybe a step back a few times."" Stokes is playing in his first series since he became the Indian Premier League's most expensive foreign player in February. He was the subject of a bidding war between five IPL sides before Rising Pune Supergiants bought him for £1.7m. Stokes says his England team-mates have joked about the fee paid for him. ""I found it tough to talk about but the group that we have, it's funny to be around them because it's just taking the mickey out of everyone,"" Stokes said. ""Everyone gets brought back down to earth. It's just the way we operate, which is why it's such a good environment to be in at the moment."" England have won nine of their past 10 ODIs against West Indies and secured a 25-run victory when the two sides last met at the same venue in 2014. West Indies are ranked ninth in the world in 50-over cricket, a standing that denied them a place in this year's Champions Trophy, and will field an inexperienced side after changes to national selection. Players can only appear for the international side in limited-overs cricket if they have played the relevant format domestically in the Caribbean since 2010. ""We can't be going into this game thinking it's just going to be a walk in the park,"" Stokes added. ""We know how talented the West Indies team are - their batsmen can hit the ball out of the ground whenever they choose to and they've always had good quick bowlers."" England captain Eoin Morgan confirmed that fast bowler Steven Finn will start Friday's match in place of Jake Ball, who suffered a knee injury in a warm-up game on Monday in St Kitts, and ahead of recent call-up Tom Curran. Sam Billings is also expected to open the batting alongside Jason Roy, with Alex Hales not yet match-fit despite joining up with the squad after recovering from a hand fracture. Morgan said his side ""have one eye on the Champions Trophy"" on home soil in June but added that West Indies could prove as tough a challenge as the  2-1 series loss in India in January. ""The way we play, aggressively and positively, isn't the easiest to adapt to West Indies conditions with slow, turning wickets,"" he said. ""The wickets here will be more challenging here than in India - those wickets were a lot more batter-friendly than we thought they were going to be."" England probable XI: Sam Billings, Jason Roy, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan (capt), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wk), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Liam Plunkett, Steven Finn.",England all - rounder Ben Stokes says he has grown up as his side @placeholder to start their one - day series against West Indies in Antigua on Friday .,prepare,continued,expects,forced,deserve,0
"They will discuss the latest findings in treatment, outcomes and prevention of the disease. It is the first time that Northern Ireland has hosted the international conference. Dr Anna Gavin of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, said the number of people diagnosed with the disease in NI was likely to increase. ""We have an aging population,"" she said. ""Some of the work that is going to be presented at the conference indicates that in the next 20 years, we are going to see two thirds  of an increase in the number of cancer patients that are diagnosed in Northern Ireland and across the UK. ""So that means we have to be smarter with the resources that we have."" About 11,000 people in Northern Ireland are currently living with cancer. The conference, organised by Queen's University, will be attended by patients, charities and chief medical officers from the UK and Ireland. Up to 500 people are taking part in the Belfast event at the Europa Hotel. The Northern Ireland Cancer Registry is funded by the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland and hosted by Queens University Belfast.",Some of the world 's leading cancer experts are @placeholder in Belfast .,growing,gathering,locked,held,place,1
"He joins the 16 other Republicans vying for the White House. Although he intends to officially announce his campaign in August, he filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday. It is unclear whether Mr Gilmore will join the other Republicans in a series of forums on Fox News next week. The top 10 candidates, based on national poll results, will appear in the main debate, but Fox News will air an earlier forum featuring the remaining candidates. Based on recent polling, Mr Gilmore is unlikely to qualify for the main debate. A former army intelligence officer, Mr Gilmore served as Virginia governor for one term from 1998 to 2002. He briefly ran for president in 2007, but his campaign folded after it failed to raise enough money and support in early primary races. Mr Gilmore told the Richmond Times-Dispatch earlier this month that his campaign will focus on foreign policy issues. ""I don't think we're addressing the threat to the country,"" Mr Gilmore told the Times-Dispatch. ""I bring to the table experience that others don't have."" Meet all of the 2016 hopefuls",Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore has @placeholder the crowded race for the US presidency .,entered,named,dominated,announced,criticised,0
"West Ham are one point above the relegation zone after failing to win in their last five Premier League games. Sullivan said the 48-year-old did an ""amazing"" job in his first season in charge, as the club finished seventh. ""Slaven cares passionately and this defeat will be hurting him as much as anyone,"" he told the club website. ""I have no doubts that he is doing everything he can to address the situation and everyone is working together to ensure we turn our season around."" Bilic said he was ""humiliated"" by Saturday's defeat at London Stadium, where West Ham have only won twice in the league since their move from Upton Park in the summer. ""Despite what some people have said, there is still a great spirit among the players and everyone is working towards the same objective,"" added Sullivan. ""We all need to stick together and get behind the team. We are all part of the West Ham United family and in hard times families pull together.""","West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has @placeholder manager Slaven Bilic and called for the club to "" stick together "" after the 5 - 1 defeat by Arsenal on Saturday .",sacked,criticised,backed,released,called,2
It was the fourth time in a week a device - believed to be a World War Two munition - had been found in the city. Roads around Matilda Street were sealed off at about 10:30 BST and traffic was diverted as police liaised with a military bomb disposal team. The area was declared safe by South Yorkshire Police about four hours later. Three devices were uncovered in the same area last Wednesday and a temporary cordon was put in place. More on this and other stories from across South Yorkshire,Several streets in Sheffield were @placeholder after an unexploded bomb was found during building work .,injured,shaken,closed,arrested,caught,2
"The cornerstone of treatment, anti-retroviral therapy, kills the virus in the bloodstream but leaves ""HIV reservoirs"" untouched. The study, published in PLoS Pathogens, showed the drug was ""highly potent"" at reactivating hidden HIV. Experts said the findings were interesting, but it was important to know if the drug was safe in patients. The power of the HIV reservoir was shown with the case of the Mississippi baby. She was given antiretroviral drugs at birth. Despite appearing to be free of HIV for nearly two years after stopping treatment, she was found to be harbouring the virus. A strategy known as ""kick and kill"" is thought to be key to curing HIV - the kick would wake up the dormant HIV allowing the drugs to kill it. The team at the UC Davis School of Medicine investigated PEP005 - one of the ingredients in a treatment to prevent cancer in sun-damaged skin. They tested the drug in cells grown in the laboratory and in parts of the immune system taken from 13 people with HIV. The report said ""PEP005 is highly potent in reactivating latent HIV"" and that the chemical represents ""a new group of lead compounds for combating HIV"". One of the researchers, Dr Satya Dandekar, said: ""We are excited to have identified an outstanding candidate for HIV reactivation and eradication that is already approved and is being used in patients. ""This molecule has great potential to advance into translational and clinical studies."" However, the drug has still not been tested in people who are HIV-positive. Prof Sharon Lewin, from the University of Melbourne, said the results were ""interesting"" and marked an ""important advance in finding new compounds that can activate latent HIV"". She told the BBC: ""This study adds another family of drugs to test to potentially eliminate long-lived forms of HIV although much more work needs to be done to see if this works in patients. ""Although PEP005 is part of an FDA approved drug, it will first take some time to work out if it is safe to use in the setting of HIV.""","HIV can be flushed out of it s hiding places in the @placeholder using a cancer drug , researchers show .",sea,process,body,world,region,2
"The 68-year-old, who is originally from Glasgow, was attacked in HMP Edinburgh on Wednesday. His injuries are not believed to be life threatening. A 30-year-old man has been reported to the procurator fiscal. Tobin is serving three life sentences for murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, Scots schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton and Essex teenager Dinah McNicol. A Police Scotland statement said: ""Police Scotland can confirm that a 30-year-old man has been reported to the procurator fiscal in connection with a serious assault on a 68-year-old man at HMP Edinburgh."" The incident happened at about 12.30. Tobin was convicted of murdering 23-year-old Ms Kluk at a church in Glasgow in 2006. The following year, the bodies of 18-year-old Ms McNicol, from Essex, and Ms Hamilton, 15, from Redding in Falkirk, were found in the garden of Tobin's former home in Margate, Kent. In 2006, Strathclyde Police set up Operation Anagram to establish whether Tobin could be linked to or ruled out of other crimes.",Convicted serial killer Peter Tobin has been taken to hospital after being @placeholder in prison .,attacked,detained,slashed,seized,caught,2
"Most businesses spend many weeks or months trying to find their next leader or senior manager, yet that is not always the case in football. Few other single roles can have such an impact on a business as the man that runs the playing side of a football club - a winning team makes money while a losing one gets relegated and jobs are lost. Yet for many clubs it seems that no sooner has one manager gone, the next one appears. So when Plymouth Argyle manager John Sheridan parted company with the League Two club last month many would have expected a new man to be in the role within a few days - Sheridan himself was appointed five days after the club sacked Carl Fletcher on New Year's Day in 2013 with Argyle in the bottom two places of the Football League. But the club's owner James Brent had different ideas this time round - deciding to put the same appointment process for the manager of his football club as he would do for a senior role in one of his other firms. ""The approach we took was we spent about an hour and a half at a board meeting going through all of the ideal characteristics that we could think of for a manager and we came up with a list of 11,"" Brent told BBC Sport. ""We didn't just wait for people to approach us. We approached all the people that we could think of who could be a good manager and who might fit those characteristics."" And those characteristics were not just the obvious, like coaching qualifications or an opinion on the merits of a sweeper system. ""We had things like connectivity within the game, public relations, youth coaching, community work. A whole variety of things which weren't about winning football matches,"" he added. ""Whereas for John [Sheridan], frankly the criteria were avoid relegation, avoid relegation, avoid relegation in that order and then get us promoted next year, get us promoted next year, get us promoted next year in that order."" After a two-week process - almost a lifetime in football terms - they chose Derek Adams. Hardly a household name outside of his native Scotland, the 39-year-old led Ross County to the 2010 Scottish Cup final and promotion to the country's top flight for the first time, as well as a spell as assistant manager at Hibernian. And Brent says he wants his new manager to bring sustainability to his football club in the same way as his contemporaries at any of his other businesses, such as the clothing brand Saltrock. ""There we're not just about building year one profits, we're looking about building a brand and generating sustainable profits over a period of time,"" he said. ""We're going to work with Derek to aspire to create a football team that performs well and succeeds on the pitch, but does so in a sustainable fashion that can grow. ""It's an appointment that I feel very comfortable with, despite the fact that two weeks is a period I normally wouldn't expect to feel very comfortable with."" Playing the long-game in appointing a new manager is the best way forward according to Simon Kuper, co-author of the book Soccernomics. ""As soon as the previous manager is sacked, clubs feel they need to appoint someone instantly, so typically they draw on the reservoir of unemployed managers because those are the easiest to appoint. ""But you don't want to appoint such an important figure in a hurry,"" Kuper insists. ""You should spend a lot of time thinking about it, just as Arsenal decided Arsene Wenger was the right man for them 20 years ago, he wasn't immediately available so they said 'no problem, we'll wait a few months'."" And few can argue that Wenger's time at Arsenal has not been a success - three Premier League titles, six FA Cups, an appearance in the Champions League final and fans willing to pay some of the highest ticket prices in the land. But is the manager really the most important appointment at a football club? ""I don't think managers matter as much as people commonly think,"" Kuper suggests. ""What determines a team's success is the wages of the players, so the more you can afford to pay your players, the better your team is going to be. That's why Manchester United are better than Plymouth, for example. ""Look at Chelsea's two Champions League finals - one they reached with Avram Grant, who was kind of in the job by accident because other people had been sacked, and the second was with a caretaker coach Roberto Di Matteo."" So will Plymouth's new approach actually help them out of League Two after what will be five seasons in the bottom tier of English professional football? Brent certainly thinks so. ""One of the skills I think to get a sustainably good football club is to think longer-term than the other guys, and that's what we're trying to do,"" he said. ""It's not just about winning promotion this year, although that's very important to us, but it's about doing more than that for the club. ""One of the criteria for Derek was not just about building a football team, but working with us to try and build a better football club. ""If you start thinking along those lines you get much closer to the type of thought process that we would be thinking about."" For Plymouth Argyle fans there is less than two months to wait before they can see whether this approach bears any more fruit.",How comfortable would you be if your boss left and was @placeholder within a couple of days ?,shared,killed,delivering,replaced,released,3
"More than 100,000 of you picked your England team for the 2018 World Cup qualification campaign and captain Wayne Rooney, goalkeeper Joe Hart and centre-back Gary Cahill do not make the starting XI. But it is worse for Raheem Sterling, who is not among the 23 most popular players selected from the 64 available. Instead, you have gone for youth, with Jack Butland in goal, and centre-back John Stones, midfielder Dele Alli and striker Marcus Rashford all drafted in. England's campaign begins in Slovakia in September. Based on the 11 most-picked players, it's definitely a back four say 90% of you, but after that it gets a little messy. Lots of you plumped for a 4-4-2 (45%), but there were plenty of variations beyond that too. So we've gone with a 4-4-2, but with licence to go all Arsenal and interchange into a 4-3-3, 4-3-1-2 or whatever takes your fancy. It's your team, after all… Based on the most popular players picked, Rooney is still in the squad, while there is a fair sprinkling of players who did not make Roy Hodgson's squad for France - Leicester City's Danny Drinkwater made 30% of your teams. But, according to you, James Milner, Jordan Henderson and Ryan Bertrand should join Sterling on the outside of the squad looking in. Goalkeepers (3): Jack Butland, Fraser Forster, Joe Hart Defence (6): Chris Smalling, John Stones, Kyle Walker, Luke Shaw, Danny Rose, Gary Cahill Midfield (8): Eric Dier, Dele Alli, Adam Lallana, Ross Barkley, Danny Drinkwater, Andros Townsend, Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere Attack (6): Marcus Rashford, Jamie Vardy, Harry Kane, Daniel Sturridge, Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck It seems Michail Antonio's impressive 2015-16 campaign has turned heads as the West Ham player was in 12.87% of teams, making him the most popular choice among all the uncapped options on offer. In the aftermath of England's Euro 2016 exit and Roy Hodgson's snap decision to resign, we asked the BBC Sport audience their thoughts on who the next manager should be. More than 22,000 of you voted in our Sportsday service and of the 18 choices we gave you, former Three Lions boss Glenn Hoddle came out on top. Hoddle, who managed England from 1996-1999, won 60% of his games in charge, a record which betters that of Hodgson, Steve McClaren, Sven Goran Eriksson, Terry Venables, Graham Taylor and Bobby Robson. Who do you think should start in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup? Become England's new manager and pick your XI - and then share it with your friends using our team selector.","Sorry Wayne , Joe , Gary and Raheem , but the BBC Sport audience have @placeholder - and you might not find this pretty reading …",emerged,grown,spoken,revealed,lost,2
"It was a close finish, with the Derry team just four points behind winner LMAX Exchange, another UK-based crew. Some of those involved in the competition have spent 11 months at sea, as the race spans six continents. Thousands of spectators lined the banks of the Thames in London on Saturday as the teams celebrated the final result. Many of the 690 competitors are amateurs and some of them had little or no previous sailing experience before they embarked on the global challenge last August. The organisers said this year's entrants ""endured some of the most extreme conditions ever experienced in the event's 20-year history"". The amateur sailors had to cope with hurricane force winds, giant waves, freezing conditions, injuries and for the IchorCoal team - a double tragedy. IchorCoal crewman Andrew Ashman was fatally injured by the yacht's boom last September, and Sarah Young was swept overboard in the Pacific Ocean in April. Clipper Race founder Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who was first person to sail solo non-stop around the world, acknowledged that this year's event was ""extremely tough"". ""The conditions encountered in the Pacific were the worst we've seen in 20 years of running the race,"" he said. ""I am proud of all of the crew; they have taken on all the world's most challenging oceans and have been very resilient. ""They should be justly proud of themselves - whether crossing a single ocean or circumnavigating the entire planet. It is a remarkable achievement."" The competition is spread over 14 individually scored races. The Derry-Londonderry-Doire won four of the individual races and finished with a total of 148 points. LMAX Exchange was crowned the overall winner with 152 points. The victorious yacht is owned by the British financial technology firm LMAX Exchange, whose chief executive, David Mercer, is from Belfast. He said: ""I'd like to thank all 58 crew who contributed to this herculean effort with special mention to our eight round the worlders - the glue that kept our team bond strong throughout."" The final results were:",The crew of the Derry - Londonderry - Doire have taken second place in a closely @placeholder finish to this year 's Clipper Round the World Yacht Race .,group,fought,called,step,held,1
"Such terms may be run of the mill for those in the financial industry. But to many of us they are simply incomprehensible jargon, a Bank of England analyst warns. Jonathan Fullwood says that financial ""gobbledygook"" risks perpetuating a ""great divide"" between banks and the public. ""How much of what... the financial industry in general write can actually be read by a broad audience?"" he says. ""[It] must try harder if claims of accessibility are to be meaningful."" In a post for Bank Underground, a blog site for Bank of England staff, Mr Fullwood considers a selection of financial reports and some terms and conditions issued to customers by four UK banks. The member of the Bank's advanced analytics division also considered recent speeches and public reports from the Bank of England itself. He then analysed these documents, using metrics such as sentence length and average syllables per word, before rating them based on their school-grade reading level equivalency. Mr Fullwood says a text aimed at a wide audience should have a ""grade eight or nine level"". However, documents from private banks tended to require a reading level of grade 12 - equivalent to age 16 or 17 - while the Bank of England's output required a grade 14 level. In contrast, a tabloid newspaper article required a level of grade nine and political speeches about grade six. In comparison, Jane Austen's novels require a level of less than grade seven, while the figure for Ernest Hemmingway's prose is just four. ""Those writing in the financial industry tend to use long words,"" Mr Fullwood says. ""They put those long words in long sentences. And those long sentences in long paragraphs. ""The longest sentence we found in our sample of Bank of England documents contained 77 words."" Mr Fullwood is not the only person agitating for change - the Campaign for Plain English has been advocating clearer writing from financial institutions for many years. Chrissie Maher, who began the campaign in 1979, says: ""It's disgraceful that banks and insurance companies have such a hold over us through their use of language. ""Often it means the customer is left with little clarity, and all the responsibility. Terms and conditions, credit-card agreements, overdraft letters - they might as well be in a foreign language."" Citing Andy Haldane - the Bank of England's chief economist - Mr Fullwood says ""effective communication"" would play a role in rebuilding trust in the financial sector following recent scandals. And he argues that ""improvements in readability could be made with relatively little effort"". ""Such effort would surely be welcomed ... for example banks might publish an annual report for customers, cleansed of the complexity in the main report aimed at professional investors.""","Do you know what a bear market is ? Or how about credit correlation , a short @placeholder or operational risk ?",body,life,standing,position,statement,3
"The claims emerged from an investigation into alleged failings in the organisation's culture. British Cycling responded by admitting it did not pay ""sufficient care and attention"" to staff and athletes well being at the expense of winning medals. But James said: ""I've had an amazing experience with British Cycling."" Published in the Daily Mail, the leaked report claims British Cycling ""sanitised"" its own probe into claims former coach Shane Sutton used sexist language towards Jess Varnish. It also spoke of a ""culture of fear"", with some staff ""bullied"" and said weak leadership allowed first Sir Dave Brailsford, described as an ""untouchable"" figure, and then Sutton to work without supervision as British Cycling chiefs, creating a ""dysfunctional structure"". In October of 2016, British Cycling found Sutton, who has left the organisation, guilty on one from nine charges of using sexist language towards Varnish who was dropped from British Cycling's elite programme in April. Sutton under scrutiny Media playback is not supported on this device James said she was unaware of the leaked report and the subsequent British Cycling statement. She has outlined the role Sutton played in her recovery from almost two years of injury and illness which culminated in battling back to win two silver Olympic medals in Rio. ""I didn't work very closely with Dave but I work closely with Shane,"" James told BBC Radio Wales. ""He was the one that supported me through my injuries, he was the one that believed in me getting to Rio. ""He pushed me through my training and believed in me. ""He told me if I trained hard and knuckled down that I could get to Rio and I did and I won silver medals. ""I've always had support from British Cycling."" Post Olympics break The 25-year-old has not returned to full training yet and will not compete in the World Championships in Hong Kong next month. ""It's been amazing [since the Olympics],"" said James. ""It takes a long time to sink in. I have loved my life and enjoyed every minute of it. ""I have worked so hard and it's been like a bubble. It's nice to live in the real world for a bit. ""It's natural for riders [to take a break] after an Olympics and I have seen people benefit from it. ""It's hard to get back but I am still young and I have needed this break mentally and physically and have enjoyed it. ""I have learned so much about myself in the year leading up to Rio. This will benefit me in the long term."" Future goals The Commonwealth Games will be held on the Gold Coast in 2018 while the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo looms. ""Once I start back full-time training, that's where I know where I am at and set my targets and what my long-term goals are,"" said James. ""It is something for me to sit down and see where I want to get to. ""It is just ticking over at the moment, getting fit on the road and getting strong in the gym before building up the next event.""",Double Olympic silver medallist Becky James has backed British Cycling after the organisation was @placeholder in a leaked draft report .,injured,criticised,fired,listed,dumped,1
"Flames leapt several storeys high above the Interstate 85 highway before the collapse at 19:30 local time (23:30 GMT), reports said. Residents said they thought the sun had set early or a storm had arrived because of the thick black smoke. No one was injured and no cars were on the overpass when it fell. Police stopped traffic and turned cars away from the highway bridge just minutes before it collapsed, according to Atlanta Fire Department spokesman Sergeant Cortez Stafford. The fire caused widespread traffic jams and road closures, stranding many motorists for hours. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency in Fulton County, which covers most of the Atlanta area. It is unclear what caused the fire beneath the overpass, but the governor told reporters the fire appeared to be fuelled by a large pile of PVC piping stored under the structure. Georgia Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry said the fire began in an area ""as a storage location for construction materials, equipment and supplies. The site was a secured area containing materials such as PVC piping, which is a stable, non-combustible material"". Airport firefighters were called in to spray foam typically used in airline crashes on to the flames. Atlanta police told residents not to drive in order to keep roads clear for emergency services. Government offices in Atlanta were set to open late on Friday to give people extra time to travel to work. The interstate is a major thoroughfare in Atlanta, carrying up to 250,000 vehicles per day. It is unclear when it will be reopened.","A huge fire broke out on an elevated highway in the US city of Atlanta on Thursday evening , causing a large @placeholder of it to collapse .",section,group,outbreak,nature,amount,0
"Flights were halted and part of the airport was evacuated before a suspect was eventually caught by police. An unconfirmed report said she was with two young children. It took more than three hours for the airport to resume operations at 12:30 (10:30 GMT) and around 100 flights had to be cancelled. It was initially unclear whether the woman had left the security check area early on purpose or whether she had assumed she had been given the all clear. However, police spokesman Christian Altenhofen said later it appeared to have been a misunderstanding. Bild website reported that an alarm had gone off suggesting explosive residue in her backpack, although airport police made clear there was no suggestion of a bomb threat. Police moved to evacuate large parts of Terminal 1 and passengers gathered on the streets outside the terminal building until they were allowed to return. Frankfurt airport is Germany's biggest airport and one of Europe's busiest hubs, attracting more than 61 million passengers in 2015. The airport said operations would resume in a ""phased and co-ordinated way"", however air safety organisation Eurocontrol said it could take hours before flights returned to normal.",A woman passenger sparked a major alert at Frankfurt airport by entering the departure area without @placeholder a security check .,completing,prompted,running,released,suffered,0
"The blaze at Japanese Autoparts, in Helen Street, near Ibrox stadium, broke out at about 16:30 GMT. Scottish Power said one of its buildings was involved in the fire, and power had to be shut off in the Govan area as a precaution while fire crews assessed the damage. Power was restored to customers at 21:50, the firm said. It had warned residents to expect to be without power until 03:00 on Monday. At its peak, about 50 firefighters tackled the blaze. Speaking from the scene, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service's deputy assistant chief officer, Peter Heath, said: ""At the moment we still have a significant attendance at this fire. ""Firefighters are currently engaged in a fire that has engulfed a building which is approximately 100 metres by 40 metres with a large yard in the back full of tyres which have been involved in the fire."" He added: ""At one side of the building that is on fire is an electrical substation which supplies a significant part of Glasgow and Govan area and at the other side there is a large storage facility. ""Our activity in the last few hours have been ensuring that we protect these and we have been successful in that to date."" Earlier on Sunday, pictures were posted on social media of smoke billowing high above Glasgow.","A fire at a scrapyard in Glasgow sent a huge plume of smoke above the city and left about 3,000 @placeholder without power .",homes,leaving,employees,customers,people,0
"Labour's change of heart, withdrawing its support for George Osborne's attempt to make it illegal for governments to spend more than they have, was she argued, nothing more than her party's ongoing commitment to Keynsian economics. And the Chancellor's efforts are all a dastardly trap that doesn't matter. There is a logic to opposing the bill. One senior figure in the party told me this morning, without being able to borrow to invest ""there is no Labour economic story"". And for Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity message to stick, it was odd that his close colleague John McDonnell had supported the idea in the first place. The Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale was among those who argued that position could not stick. But McDonnell did, very publicly commit to backing Osborne's idea and the U-turn can't just be laughed off, for several different reasons. First, Labour knows it needs voters to trust the party again on the economy. This total reversal on a key economic policy in the space of two weeks doesn't do much to inspire confidence. Second, the manner in which its Shadow Chancellor presented the new policy, an email to Labour MPs in the middle of yesterday afternoon out-of-the-blue, runs totally counter to the approach Mr Corbyn has repeatedly said he wants to take - frank and open discussions before any decisions are made. What faith can his colleagues have in that promise now? This has soured relations between the leadership and the ""making it work"" brigade - politicians who accepted senior jobs in Corbyn's team for the sake of trying to keep the party together, and giving him a chance. Third, at Labour's meeting last night there was dismay not just at how the U-turn had suddenly emerged, but at how Mr Corbyn didn't even make much attempt to confront his critics, not all from the right of the party.  Despite his overwhelming support from the party membership there is a real fear in his Westminster party that he just is not up to the demands of the job. Lastly, Corbyn's team seemed rather taken aback by McDonnell's decision, pointedly saying last night it was ""for John to defend and explain"". Any split between the two is dangerous because it is easy for their enemies to exploit. In the short term McDonnell's U-turn leaves the new leadership with a potential rebellion on its hands. Labour moderates like the former Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie plans to abstain on what is ""John's first big test"", and many others may join him. Jeremy Corbyn gave McDonnell the job of running Labour's economic policy against the advice of many others. If the last 24 hours are anything to go by, Corbyn may in time conclude it would have been better to listen to that counsel.","If it 's all a political trick why should anyone care ? Diane Abbott , the shadow international @placeholder secretary tried to laugh off the chaos at the weekly gathering of Labour MPs last night when she was put up to defend the policy today .",team,crash,shows,development,trade,3
"The Markit/CIPS manufacturing purchasing managers' index, the first to have full data since the UK's vote to leave the EU, showed a fall to 48.2, the lowest since February 2013. The survey adds to concerns that the vote prompted a sharp fall in activity. A reading above 50 indicates expansion, but below 50 indicates contraction. The decline was sharper than an initial reading of 49.1 indicated late last month. The Markit/CIPS manufacturing index is based on a survey of 600 industrial companies and reflects data on orders, output, employment, suppliers' delivery times and companies' inventories. Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said the survey came ""amid increasingly widespread reports that business activity has been adversely affected by the EU referendum"". He added: ""The downturn was felt across industry, with output scaled back across firms of all sizes and across the consumer, intermediate and investment goods sectors, although exporters did report a boost from the weaker pound."" Figures released last week showed the UK economy grew by 0.6% in the three months to the end of June. However, by far the strongest growth was in April, followed by a sharp easing off in May and June. Commenting on the Markit data, Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said: ""There was little consolation from the detail of July's survey. Output contracted across the consumer, intermediate and investment goods sectors. ""Employment in manufacturing declined for the seventh month in succession and input-price inflation rose to a five-year high off the back of sterling's weakness and higher commodity prices. ""The one bright spot was a rise in export orders, no doubt helped by the decline in the pound."" In another survey published on Monday, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) said business confidence had fallen in the wake of the referendum. Its business confidence index had been at minus 0.7 in the month running up to the vote, but dropped to minus 27.7 in the period from 24 June to 20 July. The latest economic data comes as the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) prepares to issue its latest interest rate-setting decision on Thursday. The MPC had been widely expected to cut interest rates last month, but unexpectedly left them unchanged. This time, rates are likely to fall from 0.5% to a new low of 0.25%, analysts predict.","Activity among UK manufacturers contracted at its fastest pace for three years in July , according to a closely @placeholder survey .",class,matched,team,watched,term,3
"And similar has now happened to Northampton Town, as a delivery delay with the suppliers has left them without enough home kit to wear for their first match of the season at their Sixfields Stadium. Instead, Rob Page's side will have to start their first campaign back in League One following promotion last year in their away kit. That on top of a lack of retail kit ahead of the game against Fleetwood, and it is fair to say that Cobblers chairman Kelvin Thomas is not best pleased with the suppliers. ""We are so disappointed it is hard to really put into words,"" he told the club website. ""There were a few reasons we made the decision that we did in terms of kit supplier and aside from the quality, the timing of supply was one of the main reasons for it and we have been really let down. ""Not only will there be a financial impact for the club, but also a reputational hit and worst of all fans will be disappointed. ""We will be having further discussions with Just Sport and Nike about why and how this has happened, to get a firm date of delivery and to discuss next steps."" As a gesture to fans, Thomas confirmed the club have agreed with suppliers Just Sport that anyone who has pre-ordered the shirt would receive a free Northampton Town T-shirt. On the final day of the 2013-14 season Bristol Rovers faced Mansfield Town in a match the Gas needed a draw from to save them from relegation out of the Football League. However, the Stags arrived at the Memorial Stadium without any kit of their own, meaning they had to wear Rovers' away shirts. And with their new threads Mansfield defeated their hosts 1-0, meaning Rovers were sent down by a goal from a man in their own kit. Ouch. More recently, in this summer's European Championships, four Switzerland players had their shirts ripped off their backs against hosts France. Sportswear manufacturer Puma blamed faulty material for the incidents, but it gave us one of the quotes of the tournament from Switzerland winger Xherdan Shaqiri: ""I hope Puma does not produce condoms."" Famously, Manchester United, losing 3-0 at half-time at Southampton, changed out of their infamous grey kits during the break. Why? Because manager Sir Alex Ferguson thought his players were unable to see each other on the pitch. United lost 3-1.","We 've all been there when someone forgets to bring the kit for your game and you are either left with the dregs from the lost @placeholder box or "" go skins "" .",table,region,side,property,leadership,3
"Italy and Egypt have warned that Islamic State (IS) militants could hide among thousands of migrants rescued by European patrols. Both countries are troubled by the situation in Libya and have an interest in influencing it. However, neither has given any evidence to support its warnings. The migrants are mostly from Syria and sub-Saharan Africa. The idea that they pose a threat evokes a vicious logic at odds with humanitarian imperatives: refugees bring conflict, as conflict breeds refugees. What threat do the migrant boats pose? And what - if anything - can be done about it? Last week, Libyan militants allied to IS released a video that appeared to show the beheading of 21 Egyptian prisoners. The choreography echoed videos shot in Iraq and Syria. However, instead of desert, the prisoners were positioned on a beach, against the grey Mediterranean Sea. Addressing the camera, a masked man promised attacks in Europe. ""And now we are south of Rome, on the land of Islam, Libya,"" he said, ""sending you another message."" The video is thought to have been filmed near Sirte, a Libyan coastal town where Islamic State has gained a foothold. A few miles off that coast last week, an Italian operation rescued some 2,000 migrants from stormy waters. As one of the empty vessels that had carried the migrants was being towed away, a speedboat swept off the Libyan shore. The men aboard it were armed with assault rifles and, according to Italian officials, they wanted their boat back. The confrontation was the latest sign that some of the armed groups thriving in the Libyan chaos are also involved in human-trafficking. For the militias, the profit to be made from smuggling migrants is a good reason to enter the trade. For the local franchisees of Islamic State, there could be further incentives. The Mediterranean is their gateway to Europe, according to a document published online in January, purportedly by an Islamic State sympathiser in Libya. ""The southern Crusader states... can be reached with ease by even a rudimentary boat,"" says the document, widely quoted in the British press after it was translated by the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think tank. However, the Foundation says the authenticity of the document cannot be confirmed and its claims must be treated with caution - at most as propaganda rather than mission statement. Islamic State may already be using migrant routes from Turkey, according to a BuzzFeed report last month. The report cites traffickers as saying that the fighters travel among asylum seekers aboard cargo ships. Last week, Egypt's ambassador to the UK, Nasser Kamel, told the BBC it could be just a matter of time before the militants struck Europe by sea. ""[There are] boat people who go for immigration purposes and try to cross the Mediterranean,"" he said. ""In the next few weeks, if we do not act together, there will be boats full of terrorists also."" Egypt shares a porous border with Libya, and is fighting a homegrown Islamist insurgency. It has backed an anti-Islamist faction in Libya's civil conflict, launching air strikes against what it says are Islamic State targets there. ""Egypt is particularly keen to amplify the threat of Islamic State in Libya as it is desperately seeking approval for international intervention in the country,"" says Alison Pargeter, an analyst focusing on Libya for the Royal United Services Institute, a British defence think tank. She says the government in Cairo is frustrated that most European nations have pushed for a political rather than military solution to the Libyan crisis. Italy, meanwhile, bears the brunt of the maritime migration and has shouldered the burden of the rescue operation. The government is under fire from activists for not doing enough for the migrants - and from far-right politicians for doing too much. Source: The UN refugee agency Q&A: Migrants and asylum in the EU Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni was quoted by Ansa news agency last month as saying that there was a ""considerable risk of terrorists infiltrating immigration flows"". In its latest statements, the Italian government has sought a middle ground: emphasising that the boats represent a humanitarian crisis while admitting that the terror threat cannot be ruled out. Italy wants a robust international response to the crisis in Libya, although it does not share Egypt's enthusiasm for another armed intervention. Italy used to be the colonial power in Libya. It now depends on Libyan oil for its energy needs, while Libya depends on Italy for the revenues. According to veteran Italian journalist Andrea Purgatori, the migrant boats are not so much a terror threat as pawns in ""a sort of game"" - a means for Libyan forces to steer Italian involvement in their country. Ms Pargeter says the claims of militants using migrant boats ""seem rather overblown and exaggerated"". Islamic State is a growing threat in Libya - but, she says, ""its operational capacity is limited"". ""It is a relatively small group... and is up against an array of other competing militias and armed groups, including those of a militant Islamist bent that are far more powerful."" As such, the warnings from Egypt and Italy, as well as recent statements from militants, do not amount to evidence of a threat. The European Union's border agency, Frontex, and its police force, Europol, told the BBC they could not comment on the claims. However, no evidence of an imminent threat does not mean that the threat does not exist. Militants may be tempted by clandestine sea routes to Europe, such as those followed by some migrants and drug-traffickers, says Christian Kaunert, a professor at Dundee University who specialises in European terrorism and refugee issues. A secret crossing would be especially appealing to European jihadists returning from the Middle East, as it sidesteps the tight screening now in place at airports. The risk of such infiltration, Mr Kaunert says, ""is plausible - but whether it's absolutely credible is difficult to assess because by definition, when those boats come in, they go unnoticed."" Most of the migrants leave Libya on conspicuously overcrowded boats, unfit for the crossing. They reach Europe by relying on coastal rescue missions to bring them ashore. Many also drown at sea. For Islamic State, this may seem like an inefficient way of delivering fighters. But a group that has many recruits may be ready to lose a few en route, betting on those that eventually get through. Nor does it need those surviving recruits to be particularly skilled. Where the objective is disruption and panic, sheer intent may be enough. The attackers in Copenhagen and Paris ""didn't need an awful lot of military training"", says Mr Kaunert, ""just a certain ideological training"". Once ashore, migrants are held in detention centres while their asylum claims are processed. In theory, a militant could gain the right to remain in Europe by exploiting well-known flaws in the asylum process. Governments determine asylum applications by comparing what they are told by the applicant with what they know of conditions in the country of origin. But applicants can lie, while governments are frequently accused of being ill-informed or biased. However, activists say demanding more evidence from asylum seekers would endanger genuine refugees. ""The burden of proof to establish that you are a refugee is a low one, [and] rightly so, as rarely would those fleeing for their lives be able to corroborate their evidence,"" says Lisa Doyle, head of advocacy at the Refugee Council, a British charity. ""Mixing the messages around our humanitarian responsibilities... with arguments around infiltration of terrorists is not helpful,"" she says. Border controls and the bureaucracy of asylum are Europe's response to the conflicts that produce refugees. But they are not a solution to those conflicts. And in the face of the biggest global refugee crisis since World War Two, there are questions over whether they are even the best response. Last year, almost 3,500 people died while trying to reach Europe by the Mediterranean Sea, according to the UN refugee agency. More than 200,000 migrants were rescued from the sea over the same period. Attacks inspired by Islamic State have killed fewer than 25 people in Europe over the last year. None of the attackers were migrants.","Islamic State militants in Libya have vowed to attack Europe . Meanwhile , boatloads of migrants flee the @placeholder state for European shores . Could the Mediterranean migration mask an influx of militants ?",word,preferred,table,collapsing,ground,3
"In his few hours across the border, he called Mexicans ""amazing"" and ""spectacular"" people - in contrast to earlier comments branding Mexican migrants ""rapists"" and ""murderers"". Mexicans had made their views clear to the US Republican presidential candidate before he arrived, saying in no uncertain terms that he was not welcome. But the real target of anger over Mr Trump's subdued visit was the man who invited him - President Enrique Pena Nieto, who did not respond as Mr Trump discussed building a wall on their border. The criticism could not come at a worse time for the president, whose approval ratings in the middle of last month sat at only 23%. ""Without a doubt, my perception is that it is going to make it even worse, even stronger the drop in approval"" - Javier Urbano Reyes, a professor of International Studies at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City, to AP ""What is in his head inviting Donald Trump? We Mexicans have dignity and a memory. Donald Trump is not welcome in Mexico"" - Ricardo Anaya, president of the opposition PAN party """"Today is the worst political moment for Donald Trump, with this absurd meeting in Mexico with President Pena. It's about rescuing someone who is starting to agonise about their poll numbers. It's giving an event, in Mexico, the country that he has insulted. He is the first leader to tend to the hand of xenophobia, to a tyrant. That is inadmissible under any perspective, and secondly, a president is to meet with his peers, not candidates"" - PAN senator Gabriela Cuevas (although it is worth pointing out that Republican candidate John McCain also visited Mexico, and Colombia, during the 2008 presidential race) Mexicans tell Trump: 'You're not welcome' ""I don't understand what's going on here, and I really apologise for our president taking this step forward. I think President Pena is taking an enormous political risk by hosting Trump"" - former president Vicente Fox to CNN ""The president allowed him to humiliate him and the Mexican people in our home, in our country, and then he went back to the US and in Arizona he mocked the president and everything he said here... And I could not conceive a worse situation for the president of Mexico now, I really can't"" - Agustin Bastave, MP with opposition PRD party, speaking to the BBC ""It doesn't strike me as brave to meet someone who has insulted us to such a degree"" - historian Enrique Krauze, on Mexico's biggest morning television show After the meeting, Mr Trump said he and the president did not discuss the controversial border wall. But soon after, Mr Pena Nieto took to Twitter to say: ""At the start of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall."" In an interview with Televisa after the meeting, the president then said he had arranged the meeting as he was ""convinced that we must confront the problems, threats and risks facing Mexico"", adding that he felt there had been ""a change of tone, a recognition of Mexico's importance"" by Mr Trump, and that the meeting had been a ""rapprochement"". Mr Trump's visit to Mexico dominates the front pages in both the Mexican and Latino papers in the US with many criticising President Pena Nieto for having invited him to a formal meeting. Mr Pena Nieto's leadership qualities are called into question in an opinion piece in the Mexican daily, Excelsior, titled ""Trump Veni, Vidi, Vici"". Mr Trump's visit is described as nothing short of a ""capitulation"" on the part of the Mexican leader, who is accused of failing in his duty to ""protect all Mexicans in and out of the country"". However, rival paper El Universal defended the decision saying Mr Pena Nieto's meeting with Donald Trump was a ""necessary step"" in securing Mexico's relationship with its most important economic and political partner. For its part, the Los Angeles based La Opinion said it was hard to understand why Mr Trump had been invited to Mexico ""especially after all the insults the latter has spewed against Mexican immigrants and Mexico's leaders"".","Donald Trump 's visit to Mexico on Wednesday came somewhat out of the blue , @placeholder only a day before the trip took place .",adding,writes,announced,securing,arriving,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device Wales coach Rob Howley was left to ""question the integrity of our game"" after France replaced Uini Atonio with Rabah Slimani 11 minutes into the 20 minutes of added time that were played. France's team doctor said Atonio needed to go off for a head injury assessment. North, meanwhile, said he was bitten in the build-up to France's final try. Referee Wayne Barnes asked television match official Peter Fitzgibbon to check the incident, but he could not find any clear footage so the game resumed without action being taken. Six Nations Rugby said an independent citing commissioner would review ""all relevant incidents"" and raise any issues in due course, normally within 48 hours of the end of the match. It added it was ""aware of concerns"" about the head injury assessment in added time and ""is looking into the matter"". Media playback is not supported on this device Speaking after Saturday's game, Howley said: ""In terms of the process, I think we have reason to complain. ""You can hear Wayne Barnes ask him if he is OK. He said he had a sore back, but that he was OK. And then the doctor comes on, and he goes off. ""I've no issues about the result, it's just about the process."" France coach Guy Noves said his medical staff told him Atonio was injured. He added: ""We will do a medical check-up. I hope the injury is not too serious, and he will be able to play again soon."" Wales led 18-13 at the end of the 80 minutes but Damien Chouly drove over for the try that brought France level, and Camille Lopez's conversion was decisive. Media playback is not supported on this device","Six Nations officials are reviewing events in the closing stages of Wales ' 20 - 18 loss to France , including an alleged bite on @placeholder George North .",show,aged,king,wing,mr,3
"The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (Fas) said that Apple's local subsidiary told 16 retailers to maintain the recommended prices of phones in the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 families. Non-compliance with the pricing guidelines may have led to the termination of contracts, it found. Apple has not yet responded to a request for comment. At the time of the investigation, Apple denied that it controlled its products' pricing, telling Reuters that resellers ""set their own prices for the Apple products they sell in Russia and around the world"". The regulator said Apple had now ended its price-fixing practices but has not said whether the company faces a fine. The FAS claimed that Apple Rus monitored the retail prices for the iPhone 5c, 5s, 6, 6 Plus, 6s and 6s Plus. ""In the case of the establishment of 'inappropriate' prices, the Russian subsidiary of Apple sent emails to resellers asking them to change,"" the watchdog said. The deputy head of the FAS, Andrey Tsarikovsky, added that ""Apple actively co-operated"" with the investigation and that the company had ""adopted the necessary measures to eliminate violations of the law"". That included training employees in the ""anti-monopoly legislation norms"" in Russia. In May, the FAS found that Google used its dominant position to force its own apps and services on users and fined it £5m ($6m). And, in November, the regulator opened an investigation into whether Microsoft abused its position in the security market with Windows 10, following a complaint from Moscow-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky.",Russia 's @placeholder watchdog has found that Apple fixed the prices of certain i Phone models sold in the country .,spending,competition,price,intelligence,food,1
"That film, The Eagle Huntress, directed by British journalist Otto Bell, has now made more than $1.5m (£1.2m) at the US box office in six weeks and is among the 15 documentaries in the running for this year's Oscars. The real-life story, narrated by Ridley, follows the then 13-year-old Aisholpan as she trains with her father to become the first female eagle hunter in 12 generations of her family, breaking the centuries-old tradition that says the skill is handed down from father to son. ""When I was first sent the film, I ended up curled into a ball, crying and then calling my mum,"" Ridley recalls. "" I was just completely blown away. And so I just had to call Otto and say, 'how can I help you?'"" Bell remembers that both he and the film's other executive producer, Morgan Spurlock, called the resilient and independent Aisholpan ""a real life Rey"" - but Ridley says that was not why she got on board. ""It just reminded me of me and my own relationship with my dad, and how unflinching he was in his support of me wanting to become an actress,"" she explains. ""That to me is the real heart of the film. I think people will realise the hidden gem of the film is this family and their relationships with each other. ""However, this little girl, Aisholpan, is genuinely inspirational. People are very kind about me as a role model, but all I do is play characters. ""This little girl is breaking down hundreds of years of gender disparity and she doesn't think she is doing anything huge. I think this film is going to affect many girls."" Otto Bell set off for Mongolia on a whim two years ago after photographs of Aisholpan and an eagle surfaced on the BBC website under the headline A 13-year-old Eagle Huntress in Mongolia. ""I tracked down the family eventually - it's hard because they are nomadic - and Aisholpan's father Nurgaiv said, 'Well, today we are going to capture an eagle for Aisholpan, are you interested in filming that?' ""So the first day's filming was watching Aisholpan climb down a rocky crevice on a single length of rope, down to an eagle's nest. It was a health and safety nightmare."" The film also documents Aisholpan becoming the first female to ever complete in the region's annual eagle hunting festival, before taking her eagle for its first kill onto the icy steppes in conditions of -25C. Bell says Aisholpan was ""treated with some pretty ugly derision from the elders to start with"". He adds: ""Her father tried to insulate her from the worst of it. But now they can see she is actually the real deal, that she really is a huntress, there's a lot more acceptance."" Daisy Ridley comments: ""She takes it all in her stride. I just have huge respect for the way she goes about everything. She barely has a presence on social media, she does it because she wants to, not because she wants to be recognised for it. ""In a world where so much is about what you look like, this film is about her dreams and her passion. It's about her soul, and that's wonderful in a world full of superficial images."" The rights to The Eagle Huntress have been sold to Hollywood to make the story into an animated film, and as profit participants in the documentary, Aisholpan's family now has enough money for her to achieve her other ambition - to become a surgeon. Otto Bell says he would ""like to see the film in schools 20 years from now, telling girls and boys of what they can achieve if they put their minds to it"". Ridley agrees there is a valuable message there for female pupils. ""When I was growing up, I didn't feel stereotyped, I went to a school heavily weighted towards girls and my parents were wonderful,"" she says. ""Yet there is sometimes a hesitation with girls reaching out for what we want. But then you have Aisholpan, not even questioning whether she can do it or not. Could I have done all this at 13? Absolutely not."" ""She really is dauntless,"" Bell confirms. ""There's a real duality to her character, because in some ways she's a teenager who loves to giggle with her friends and paint her nails. ""But as soon as she's with her eagle, she becomes this steely character determined to win. When you see her ploughing through the snow, with this heavy burden of a bird, she inspired us all, despite the horrendous conditions, to actually finish the film."" The Eagle Huntress is released in the UK on 16 December. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","After becoming a global star for playing Rey in Star Wars : The Force Awakens , actress Daisy Ridley has , at the age of 24 , produced her first film - after she was told its @placeholder , a female eagle hunter in Mongolia , would "" remind her of Rey "" .",director,name,subject,birth,life,2
"""Because I think the politics of Wales have changed quite profoundly in recent years and I think the picture you're going to see in the south Wales valleys will be similar to the results we've seen in the north east of England and some of these old industrial working-class areas which have shifted very markedly towards 'out'. ""And this will be one of the, I think, the stories of this referendum campaign - the way the spotlight has been shown on some of these quite marked social divisions and it poses a challenge not only to use as a Conservative government but to all the Westminster parties who increasingly look and sound the same."" It poses a challenge to parties in Wales too. Wales has 40 MPs; only five backed Brexit. Every single Welsh Labour MP backed remain. Many Labour supporters who voted for the party only last month in the Welsh Assembly elections clearly voted against the party line (if they knew what it was) on Thursday. Some MPs are less surprised than others. One said he had been shouted at for the first time by a constituent during the referendum campaign. Others reported back on a virulent anti-politics mood and ""our broken politics"". One Labour source questioned the timing of Wednesday's announcement that the Assembly is to be asked to re-brand itself a Welsh parliament. Not so long ago Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood advocated a Welsh veto on an English-led Brexit, warning: ""An English vote for exit should not - by dint of sheer numbers - be able to trump a desire in Wales to stay in."" That challenge doesn't arise but Ms Wood warned at the time of a constitutional crisis if the UK's different nations voted in different ways, and with Scotland voting to remain, she may be proved right. Welsh parties complained that the proximity of the vote with the assembly elections had made it difficult to campaign together effectively, although the timing didn't stop the Scots voting to remain. In his resignation statement, the prime minister said Britain must prepare for negotiation with the EU. ""This will need to involve the full engagement of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Governments, to ensure that the interests of all parts of our United Kingdom are protected and advanced,"" he said. With the need to comply with EU law enshrined in the statutes underpinning the devolution settlements, some tricky negotiations may lie ahead, according to the Constitution Unit. Assembly Presiding Officer Elin Jones said in a statement: ""We as political leaders, and the media need to reflect on the state of democratic engagement and political discourse amongst people in Wales. ""Widening respectful, meaningful democratic engagement is one of my top priorities as presiding officer."" It could be argued that the voters were engaged - turnout was far higher than in previous Welsh or UK-wide referendums, the UK general election and last month's Assembly elections. But the result was the wrong one for many of those political leaders, who may be tempted to recall the words of Dick Tuck.",It was shortly before 02:00 BST ( I @placeholder so you do n't have to ) when Stephen Crabb told radio listeners that he would not be surprised if Wales voted for Brexit .,prop,thought,listen,set,groups,2
"Sir John won the outstanding contribution accolade at the BBC's Audio Drama awards in London on Sunday. Among the work for which he was recognised was a Radio 4 adaptation of War and Peace and also the station's version of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. Whitfield meanwhile  won the lifetime achievement award for more than 70 years in radio drama and comedy. The annual event, held in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House, recognises the cultural significance, range and originality of audio drama. The awards include drama performed online, as well as on radio. They also give credit to the creativity of the actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work within the field. On receiving his award, Sir John, said: ""I like working in radio drama because one is using what is fast becoming the actors' forgotten weapon - the voice."" The 76-year-old is one of Britain's most venerated actors whose career in film, TV and in radio has spanned more than six decades. Outside radio, his best-known roles include his Oscar-nominated performances in The Elephant Man and The Midnight Express and as Quentin Crisp in the 1975 ITV drama The Naked Civil Servant. June Whitfield was being recognised at the BBC awards for an entire radio career that began in the 1940s. The actress, who has now become best-known for the TV comedies Terry and June and Absolutely Fabulous, first found fame on radio in the BBC comedy Take It From Here. She said: ""I'm absolutely delighted to have received this lifetime achievement award. ""It really does feel like a lifetime - I first worked for BBC radio in the 1940s. Thank you so much BBC for this much-appreciated award."" Others to be honoured included Alfred Molina, who was named best actor for his performance in Radio 3's A View from the Bridge, while Monica Dolan won the best actress prize for her part in Radio 4's Vincent in Brixton. In the best supporting actor/actress category, Susan Wokoma won for Radio 4's Three Strong Women. Karen Bartke won the best debut performance award for her role in My Name Is… on Radio 4. Playwright Charlene James also took home the award for best original single drama for the Radio 4 version of her play Cutting It. The play also previously won the George Devine playwriting prize in 2015 and the Alfred Fagon award in 2014. Actor and comedian Sir Lenny Henry, who hosted the event, said: ""I'm honoured to have once again presented the BBC Audio Drama Awards, which showcase outstanding work by a diverse group of talented writers and creators. ""We should be proud of the range of excellence that the industry attracts, and produces, and it's great that this year's awards include both classic plays and innovative dramas reflecting modern Britain. ""Long may it continue.""",Sir John Hurt and June Whitfield have been honoured with top awards at a ceremony @placeholder audio drama .,crowd,motor,based,celebrating,involving,3
"He also indicated he was disappointed Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies had decided to vote to leave the EU in the referendum in June. Mr Cameron made his comments in an interview on BBC Wales Today. Leave.EU said the UK's net contribution to the EU budget was £9-12bn, so there was ""no such thing as EU aid"". Earlier on Friday, Mr Cameron told an audience at GE Aviation, in Nantgarw, leaving the 28-member bloc would put 100,000 jobs in Wales at risk. Asked on BBC Wales Today if he could make up the shortfall in EU aid for places like Wales after an exit, he said: ""I think you can't be certain about that. ""We know, between 2014 and 2020, in the European budget is £1.8bn for Wales, vital money for economic development and important projects. ""Were we to leave, I believe there could be quite an economic dislocation. ""We might see higher interest rates. We might see higher unemployment. We might see higher prices. ""In those circumstances, of course, the United Kingdom government would always want to do everything it could for all the different parts of the United Kingdom, but you can't guarantee these things, because we might be in quite difficult economic circumstances."" In response, Leave.EU spokesman Jack Montgomery said: ""Our net contribution to the EU budget is about £9-12 billion. ""So there's no such thing as EU aid in this country - the prime minister is trying to bribe us with our own money."" Earlier this week, Welsh Conservative leader Mr Davies said he was not convinced by an EU deal negotiated by Mr Cameron and would be backing the campaign to leave. Mr Cameron, asked if he was disappointed by Mr Davies' decision, said: ""It's always disappointing when someone doesn't back your view."" During his visit to Nantgarw, he said: ""For Welsh MPs and members of the Welsh assembly, it's up to them to make their choice. ""But each of them has only one vote. It will be the people of Wales, the people of the United Kingdom who will make this decision."" Mr Cameron said three million jobs in the UK, including 100,000 in Wales, were ""in some way reliant on European trade"". ""I don't think we should put those at risk,"" he added. ""We have a big say in this market. We can make sure that we sign trade deals with other countries across the world. I think the alternatives would be worse."" Leave.EU boss Liz Bilney said the real threat to Welsh jobs came from remaining in an EU that ""has devastated the steel industry"" with policies that undermined business. Speaking on the impact of cheap Chinese steel on the UK industry, Mr Cameron said the UK had been voting with other European countries on anti-dumping tariffs - a process where firms allegedly sell goods at prices below fair market value. UKIP's Nigel Farage, who wants the UK to leave the union, has said powers to protect the steel industry from cheap Chinese imports had been ""given away"" to Brussels.",Prime Minister David Cameron has said the UK government could not guarantee making up any shortfall in the EU aid Wales @placeholder if Britain was to leave .,receives,race,project,group,scheme,0
"The Indian-based firm announced it was selling its loss-making UK business in March, putting thousands of jobs at risk, including 4,100 at Port Talbot. There are two known bids, while the UK government could take a 25% stake in any rescue and may allow changes to Tata's pension scheme to help the sale. But the steel market has picked up. On Wednesday, Tata reported that losses narrowed in its fourth quarter. It has led to speculation in the national media that the firm could perform a U-turn and not sell up. ""If that is the case, fine,"" Aberavon MP Mr Kinnock told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme. ""If they do want to stay we would welcome that in principle,"" he said. ""But I would also say in practice steelworkers in my constituency, their families and communities around them have been through hell in the last few years and certainly since March when the sale was announced. ""I think they'll be forgiven for treating any news that Tata is staying on board with a degree of scepticism and even anger. ""So I think we need a very clear set of guarantees from Tata that they will be in it for the long run, that there will be investment and they will be doing what's needed so we're not back at square one 12 months from now.""","Tata would need to give guarantees it is in the UK steel industry for the long run if it scraps its @placeholder sale of plants , Stephen Kinnock has said .",home,power,influence,affect,planned,4
"Colin Lowes, 47, from Torr Gardens, Larne, brought the injured bird to the vet in the town last June. When he was told the bird could not be treated because it was a wild animal he damaged a door on his way out. The court heard the seagull later died and was given a funeral at sea by Lowes at Larne Harbour. Ballymena Magistrates Court was told that after police received a report of criminal damage, they went to Mr Lowes' home and found him sitting with the injured seabird. He had brought it bare-chested and wrapped in a t-shirt to the surgery. After staff told Lowes they could not deal with the bird, they told him to contact the USPCA. The court heard it had cost more than £150 to fix the door at the surgery. A defence lawyer for Lowes said his client had been out with his partner when he found the injured seagull and thinking he was ""doing the decent thing"" for the bird, which was bleeding, he took it to the vets. The lawyer said Lowes was essentially told that as it was a wild animal, there was nothing they could do and on the way out, ""struggling with the bird, the door was accidentally cracked."" The judge told Lowes he had no doubt he was ""acting in the best interests of this creature"" but he should have taken the advice of the vet and contacted either the USPCA or the RSPB. He gave Lowes a one year conditional discharge and ordered him to pay for the damage to the door.",A man who @placeholder out of a veterinary surgery after vets refused to treat a bleeding seagull has been given a conditional discharge .,stormed,lost,knocked,pulled,carried,0
"As the founder and president of children's role-playing theme park Kidzania he runs mini cities around the world, which all share their own unique language, money and rules. The real-world inspired parks put its child visitors to work mimicking adult roles, in exchange for which they earn Kidzos - the fantasy world's currency - which they can spend on toys or experiences whilst there. Children can do a huge variety of jobs from rubbish collector to dentist to firefighter in a multitude of workplaces including operating theatres, plane cockpits, restaurants, radio stations and theatres. The cities themselves imitate their real world counterparts but with a difference - everything is two-thirds its normal size. Charging for children to ape the nine-to-five grind has been a surprising success. Since the first park opened in the Mexican suburb of Santa Fe in 1999, the business has expanded rapidly. There are now 21 theme parks in 18 countries, and the latest available figures to the end of 2014 show more than 42 million people have now visited one. The firm's annual turnover is around $400m (£275m) globally and it employs some 2,000 people in Mexico, with a further 9,000 involved with the firm. That 50-year-old Mr Lopez, dressed soberly in a grey suit and blue shirt, has created this fantasy world for children on such a grand scale is even more surprising. He had no plans to start his own business, and does not have any children of his own. His ambition however is suitably presidential. As the park's slogan ""Get ready for a better world"" suggests, his hope is that the miniature world he has created will help prepare children for a more socially responsible, less corrupt world which offers equal opportunities to all. ""I think that kids deserve a better world. ""Kidzania is a creative trigger for the freedom to be happy,"" he says. For a children's theme park it's a big challenge, and critics argue the way the company links each job to a real world corporation in each location - they don't just make pizza they make Domino's pizzas, they fly American Airlines and open a bank account with HSBC, for example - is the complete opposite of this. The brands themselves are officially called ""sponsors"" and pay for their presence in the park. Forcing branding on such young children and charging them for the privilege is, some say, too consumerist. Mr Lopez rejects this, arguing the partnerships make the cities more realistic and means that the firms can share their specific industry knowledge. ""We've never crossed the line of what already exists in the daily lives of all children in their real cities. ""We only replicate what the child already has every day on the street, at home and everywhere,"" he says. The criticism hasn't stopped the theme parks' rapid expansion. Yet when Mr Lopez's best friend Luis Javier Laresgoiti suggested they open a nursery based on role playing, initially he rejected the idea. He was happy in his job at a private equity firm and had no plans to leave. Mr Javier however persisted and together they came up with the idea for Kidzania - initially called La Ciudad de los Ninos or The Kids' City in its native Mexico -  an idea they felt compelled to pursue. Funding a business idea in Mexico in the late 1990s wasn't an easy matter. With the country still reeling from the effects of the financial crisis, there was no government support available. The duo initially poured all their savings into the project, but this still wasn't enough to get the project off the ground. They then turned to a friend and one of Mr Lopez's six brothers for further investment, but again ran out of money before they could open the park. It was only when decided to tie up with companies, which agreed to pay for their presence in the park, that they had enough money to open the first venue. Almost immediately it did well. Their initial forecasts of 400,000 visitors doubled in the first two years. Yet in 2004, his partner decided to leave the business and move to the US. Mr Lopez says his departure was one of the biggest challenges he has faced since starting the business, but it's an issue that he is reluctant to talk about further. Mr Lopez's brother stepped in as his new investor and partner and after a failed attempt to expand the concept to the US, they turned their sights on Asia, a move which proved to be the key turning point for the business. To make it possible financially, they decided to operate all the international parks as franchises. In 2006, they chose Japan capital Tokyo as their first overseas market: because Mr Lopez says it's seen as a trend setter by other Asian countries. Their bet proved right and it triggered rapid growth throughout Asia with further franchises in countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Its first European park was in Portugal's Lisbon, but since then the company has expanded further with its London park opening last year. ""Kidzania London will help us grow faster in Europe. ""We are now progressing in negotiations to reach France and Italy,"" he says. Ultimately he believes the world has room for 80 Kidzanias, four times its current number. Why does he think his idea has been so popular? ""The initial idea was good, but there are millions of ideas that never amount to anything. I think what has been decisive is our people. ""Our product is our people. Playing with the child and making him believe that he is a firefighter, doctor or reporter that is what I'm proudest of."" But Dr Martha Rivera-Pesquera, head of marketing at El Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direccion de Empresa (IPADE) Business School, puts the company's success down to the popularity of so called ""edutainment"". ""By mixing entertainment and education, the concept, appeals to ambitious parents and schools as well as children. ""It's also novel and original. The fact there are no video games and violence makes it the first of its kind worldwide,"" she says.",When Mexican entrepreneur Xavier Lopez Ancona was a child he dreamed of becoming president . It 's a dream you could say he 's @placeholder .,fulfilled,ambition,struggling,name,effect,0
"The delegation from Visit Britain visited museums and other local attractions. Hull will host the year-long UK City of Culture arts festival next year. Garry Taylor, from Hull City Council, said the visit was ""incredibly important"" in promoting the city to an international audience. ""Visit Britain are incredibly influential,"" he said. ""The role they play internationally in changing perceptions, them experiencing Hull first hand is incredibly important. ""The conversations we've having, it's not the place that they were expecting it to be."" Hull is undergoing a £25m revamp ahead of next year's festival. Streets are being repaved and new lighting installed to highlight the city's landmark buildings. More than £15m is being spent refurbishing the New Theatre and the Ferens Art Gallery.",Hull has been visited by a @placeholder from the UK 's international tourism body in an attempt to promote the city around the world .,response,fallout,commentary,group,representative,3
"But they said the opportunity to review many of the regulations that govern farming should not be lost. The leaders of the UK's farming unions have been meeting in Northern Ireland. In a statement, they said the job of transposing existing EU laws is one of the ""biggest legislative challenges"" ever faced. The government has announced plans to bring EU laws into domestic legislation at the point of exit. The details are in a white paper published on Thursday for a proposed Great Repeal Bill. The UK government will then have the power to amend the legislation. Ulster Farmer's Union president Barclay Bell said farmers wanted an ""efficient and streamlined"" regulatory system through a future agriculture bill. He said ""too often"" farmers had been burdened by rules that stifled the ability to farm ""for no discernible reason"". He said the farm unions recognised the value of good regulation which could promote productivity while protecting human health and the environment. ""But bad regulation often achieves none of these,"" he said. Farmers have said they recognise the need for continuity and stability to provide businesses with certainty and to keep standards aligned as a new trading arrangement with Europe is hammered out. Mr Bell said there were a ""huge number"" of EU regulations governing the day-to-day running of UK farms. The white paper says the government will want to set a UK-wide legislative framework for things like farming. But devolved ministers will also have some powers to amend legislation for which they have responsibility.",Farm leaders have said government plans to bring EU law onto the UK statute @placeholder must not jeopardise future trading arrangements with Europe .,force,show,hosts,books,leaving,3
"In a letter to bishops, Cardinal Robert Sarah said the bread can be low-gluten. But he said there must be enough protein in the wheat to make it without additives. The new rules are needed because the bread is now sold in supermarkets and on the internet, the cardinal said. Roman Catholics believe bread and wine served at the Eucharist are converted into the body and blood of Christ through a process known as transubstantiation. Glossary of Roman Catholic terms The wine used must also be ""natural, from the fruit of the grape, pure and incorrupt, not mixed with other substances"", said Cardinal Robert Sarah of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The ruling was issued at the request of Pope Francis, the letter said. There are about 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world.","Bread used to celebrate the Eucharist during Roman Catholic masses must not be gluten - free - although it may be made from genetically modified @placeholder , the Vatican has ruled .",group,food,repairs,organisms,culture,3
"Chris Parker, 33, of no fixed address, was charged with two counts of theft on Tuesday. He was remanded into custody following the hearing at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court. Mr Parker was previously reported to have comforted a seriously injured girl and a woman who died in his arms. He was charged with stealing a purse and contents from Pauline Healey, whose 14-year-old granddaughter Sorrell Leczkowski, from Leeds, died in the explosion. Mr Parker is also said to have taken a mobile phone from a different teenage girl. He will next appear at Manchester Crown Court on 13 September. Twenty-two people died in the attack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on the evening of 22 May.",A man who was hailed a hero after the Manchester Arena attack has @placeholder stealing a bank card and mobile phone at the venue on the night of the blast .,died,attacked,appeared,struck,denied,4
"Shona Robison said that when she took up her post as health secretary, there was a suggestion only two were needed. But she said there was now a consensus for trauma centres to be in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Conservatives have accused the government of a ""complete failure of forward planning"". Look back on the ministerial statement on Holyrood Live. Scottish Labour called for the health secretary to apologise, but Ms Robison refused to accept the criticism. She said the £30m network could save around 40 lives a year. In her ministerial statement, she said the project could also help many more people enjoy an improved quality of life. The network was originally announced in 2014 and was supposed to open in 2016. But last week it emerged they would not be fully implemented until at least 2020. However, Ms Robison said the centres in Aberdeen and Dundee could be operational within 12-18 months. She added: ""It was right to take the time to build that consensus rather than push ahead with a model that didn't have that clinical buy-in."" She said that the 6,000 people a year who experience trauma in Scotland already get ""first rate"" care in accident and emergency departments. The new network would provide ""optimal care"" for around 1,100 of the most seriously injured, she added.","Some clinicians ' doubts about the need for four trauma centres in Scotland @placeholder their roll - out , the Scottish Parliament has been told .",reached,lifted,lost,experienced,delayed,4
"Monday's caucuses in Iowa were won by Senator Ted Cruz for the Republicans and Hillary Clinton for the Democrats. Mr Cruz prevailed despite trailing in opinion polls while Mrs Clinton beat Senator Bernie Sanders by just 0.2%. New Hampshire is seen as a quite different challenge for the parties. The state's more moderate and less religious electorate may prove a tougher nut for Mr Cruz to crack in the primaries it is due to hold on 9 February. Donald Trump, long the frontrunner in the Republican contest, is expected to do much better than in Iowa, which held the nation's first vote. On the Democrat side, Mr Sanders is seen as having a home advantage in New Hampshire over Mrs Clinton, being a senator of the neighbouring state of Vermont. The state-by-state voting will culminate in conventions in July, at which the two parties will confirm their choice of candidate to succeed Barack Obama, the Democratic president who is standing down after two terms in office. Even before Mrs Clinton's narrow victory was announced officially, Mr Sanders was up at 05:00 (10:00 GMT) and aboard a flatbed lorry, being greeted by supporters in the New Hampshire town of Bow. Telling the crowd that his campaign had ""astounded the world"" in Iowa, he promised it would ""astound the world again"" in New Hampshire. Mrs Clinton is due to address a crowd at a sports stadium in Nashua. Republican vote, 99% reported: Democratic vote, 99% reported: source: The Associated Press US election: Iowa results map Final results show Mrs Clinton took 49.8% in Iowa to Mr Sanders' 49.6%. Senator Cruz took 26% of the Republican vote to 23% for Donald Trump, but Senator Marco Rubio finished a surprisingly strong third, just slightly behind. Mr Cruz declared his win a ""victory for courageous conservatives"". Many mainstream Republicans favour Mr Rubio, fearful that Mr Cruz and Mr Trump may alienate voters with their combative style.",Republicans and Democrats vying for their party 's ticket for November 's US presidential election have been @placeholder in New Hampshire ahead of the next vote .,held,arriving,revealed,voting,named,1
"Coastguard and police received ""multiple"" calls from East Cliff beach on Sunday afternoon when three people parachuted off the 150ft-high cliffs. West Bay Coastguard said ""falling debris and rocks"" were reported. Police officers attended but confirmed as no criminal offences had been committed they were not investigating. The three base jumpers had packed away and left the beach before police and coastguards arrived. An onlooker who was on the beach at the time described the jumpers as ""idiotic"". ""It's one thing putting their own safety at risk, but those cliffs are really unstable and they are putting other people at risk,"" she said. Base jumping involves leaping from a man made structure or natural feature and then deploying a wing suit or parachute to descend to the ground. West Bay Coastguard said the 150ft (45m) cliffs allowed ""only a small margin of error"" for deploying a parachute. ""There was a safety concern for the jumpers launching from such a low altitude, the safety of the beachgoers below and the state of the cliffs."" The cliffs, which have featured a backdrop to the ITV drama Broadchurch, have been the subject of numerous warnings following landslides and rock falls in recent years. In 2012, tourist Charlotte Blackman died at nearby Hive Beach when she was buried under a rock fall.",A team of base jumpers that leapt from the top of cliffs on to a crowded beach on the Dorset coast has been @placeholder by the coastguard .,criticised,reported,named,unveiled,identified,0
"Rodrigo Rato, 66, was seen being taken from his Madrid home on Thursday by officers from Spain's tax authorities. He is already being investigated for fraud over his time as chief executive of the Spanish bank, Bankia, which had to be bailed out by the government. Mr Rato served as a prominent member of Spain's Popular Party (PP). He was Spain's finance minister in the conservative government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and later a leading figure under Mr Aznar's successor Mariano Rajoy. He headed the IMF between 2004 and 2007. Mr Rato became director of Bankia in 2010, but resigned two years later amid concerns over the bank's ability to stay afloat. Prosecutors allege that company executives at Bankia misled regulators about the bank's finances. Mr Rato denies any wrongdoing. Bankia bosses including Mr Rato were also accused of widespread misuse of company credit cards under his leadership.",Spanish authorities have searched a former IMF chief 's home and @placeholder over suspected fraud and money laundering regarding his personal wealth .,intelligence,disagreement,isolation,family,office,4
"The former party leader told ITV's Piers Morgan's Life Stories that the media has for years ""attempted to demonise me and give me a bad name"". He also refused to rule out a return to politics, saying ""anything can happen"". Mr Farage recently dodged an egg while campaigning in Stoke Central, where UKIP placed second in a by-election. In his interview with Morgan, Mr Farage said that he lives as a ""virtual prisoner"" because the press has ""picked out"" more controversial UKIP members in an attempt to discredit the party. ""It is because of these irrelevant people, who held no position, they happened to join an organisation,"" he said. He said UKIP's aims were ""common-sense policies"" in which people would ""struggle to find anything"" racist. Mr Farage said it was ""wrong"" when in 2013 a former UKIP politician referred to countries receiving government aid as ""Bongo Bongo Land"". Ex-MEP Godfrey Bloom, who was recorded using the phrase, later said he regretted the comments. But Mr Farage added: ""Was he right about us sending foreign aid to corrupt regimes all over the world when we could spend it better at home? Of course he was right."" He added: ""Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No."" Earlier this month, the former UKIP leader and his successor Paul Nuttall narrowly avoided an egg, which was said to have been thrown by a youth. Mr Farage, who has been hired by Fox News as a political analyst since stepping down as UKIP leader after the EU referendum in 2016, hinted at a possible political comeback in the UK. When asked about Brexit he said: ""If this falls to bits, anything could happen, let's see."" He also refused to rule out a bid to become prime minister, adding: ""If this political class let us down on Brexit, then anything can happen."" Mr Farage, whose wife Kirsten recently said she and her husband had been living ""separate lives for some years"", also reiterated his hopes for a ""normal"" life. He told Morgan: ""One of my hopes is that life will start getting a little bit more normal going on from here. I hope it can't be as bad as it's been, can it?"" He said his marriage was ""a bit like most others really - all marriages, all relationships have huge ups and downs"". Mr Farage told reporters he ""wants his life back"" when he stood down as UKIP leader last July following the Brexit vote. Piers Morgan's Life Stories will be broadcast on ITV at 21:00 GMT on Friday (24 February).","Nigel Farage has said he is "" frightened of walking out into the street "" because of the way UKIP has been @placeholder by the British press .",backed,blamed,presented,criticised,cleared,2
"The vision of Bradford impresario and theatre manager Francis Laidler, the Alhambra went from blueprint to reality in just two years, with its unmistakeable dome soon becoming one of the landmarks and symbols of the city. Its roots go back to the afternoon of 18 March 1914 when the Alhambra was officially opened. Just five days later the theatre opened its doors to its first paying audience, who enjoyed a variety show featuring the likes of Leeds comic Sydney Howard, music hall star Mamie Watson and Italian acrobats the Benedetti Brothers. From that day on, a stream of top entertainment names has passed through its unassuming stage door on Great Horton Road. ""It's a beautiful, beautiful theatre. I love it to death,"" said Bradford-born actor Duncan Preston, star of Coronation Street, Emmerdale and BBC TV comedy Dinnerladies. He finally achieved his lifetime dream of acting on the Alhambra's stage in 2011 in a production of To Kill a Mockingbird - years after he made his first visits there as a child. ""I remember very vividly seeing [comedian] Freddie Frinton doing his drunk act there. He looked straight at me and that's a memory that's always stayed with me,"" he said. ""You look on that stage and stand on it just before you go on and do a show and you think of the people who've stood on that spot. It's quite moving really. ""It's got a warmth to it. I've always had warm feelings for the Alhambra since I was a kid watching pantomimes there."" And for many people in Bradford the Alhambra's name is synonymous with pantomime. These have been an annual feature since the theatre's earliest days when Francis Laidler, known as The King of Pantomime, delivered panto after panto for half a century. In fact, Mr Laidler's last Alhambra panto - like his very first - was Red Riding Hood which opened on 27 December 1954. Sadly, he died just a few days later, on 6 January 1955, a day before his 88th birthday. Today, the Alhambra's pantos attract famous names of British entertainment. Over the years the cast has included such stars as Barbara Windsor, Sue Pollard, Jimmy Cricket, Little and Large, Cannon and Ball, Frank Bruno, Joe Pasquale, The Chuckle Brothers and even Sooty. Lynda Bellingham, who starred as the Fairy Godmother in the 2012-13 Alhambra panto production of Cinderella, said the theatre was ""wonderful"". ""The first time I ever saw the Alhambra, I thought it was a hugely impressive building and would put a lot of people off. ""But once you get people in the door and they meet the people who work here - we're such a jolly lot, we're not snobs and we're not posh - it gives people a huge point of reference within the community. It's a wonderful theatre."" The Alhambra has even been immortalised on film as the setting for the 1983 film The Dresser, starring Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay. Soon after making its big screen debut, the Alhambra ""went dark"" for two years while an extensive refurbishment was carried out, finally reopening on 30 October 1986. That same year the theatre was back in the limelight with audiences in Bradford becoming the very first to see a brand new stage version of BBC TV's World War Two comedy 'Allo, 'Allo before its West End opening. Major productions such as Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound of Music and The Muppet Show soon followed, marking the Alhambra's return to centre stage. Since then, the 1,400-seat theatre has continued to play host to some of the biggest shows on the British stage. For example, the Alhambra saw a 12-week run of Les Miserables in 1998, a seven-week run of Oliver! in 1999, a five-month run of Phantom of the Opera in 2000, and in 2006 the National Theatre's critically acclaimed production of The History Boys came to the theatre. According to Alan Hall, from Bradford Civic Society, the Alhambra is ""not just a theatre for Bradford"". ""If you talk to people who have come to the Alhambra, they've come from all over the north of England. ""The Alhambra is a theatre for the north of England and one of the nicest theatres in the north of England. ""This theatre is of vital importance. It's as important to the people of Bradford as the City Hall opposite it or the Odeon cinema next door. ""It is a key part of Bradford's heritage and Bradford life right up to the present day."" For Duncan Preston, the Alhambra is, quite simply, ""one of my favourites"". ""In fact I would probably put it at the top of my list. There's a friendly atmosphere. It's  just got something about it. ""If all theatres were like it then there wouldn't be as many closing. I just hope it lasts another 100 years and I'm sure it will.""","From Laurel and Hardy to Les Dawson , from ukulele - @placeholder George Formby to ballet superstar Anna Pavlova , some of the biggest names in showbiz have trodden the stage at Bradford 's Alhambra Theatre since the curtain was raised there exactly 100 years ago .",wielding,based,backed,gathered,style,0
"Liverpool Cathedral staff noticed the bird shortly after the tree was installed. It is believed to have got into the branches while the tree was stored outside the building. A spokesman said the bird was ""nesting or at least sleeping in the tree"" and had taken a few people ""by surprise"". He added that the robin had become ""a welcome addition to services"". Director of communications Stuart Haynes said there may also be a second bird but that was ""not certain"". Robins and their nests are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, but only pair up for the duration of the breeding season. According to the RSPB, robins can start courtship in January but the breeding season normally begins in March. Mr Haynes said staff ""will be talking about how we manage the situation when the tree needs to be taken out"". ""It may be tricky but we will want to make sure it's looked after,"" he said.","A robin has "" delighted "" a cathedral 's @placeholder by taking up residence in its Christmas tree .",recovery,existence,reputation,spirit,congregation,4
"The club's Latin motto Nil Satis, Nisi Optimum, which means ""nothing but the best is good enough"", and two wreaths have been removed from the new design. The petition said fans would not buy merchandise bearing the ""awful"" crest and this would cost the club money. Everton said it was ""sorry"" it had not properly consulted with fans. However, the Premier League club said the new badge would be used during the 2013-14 season. The club said: ""We regret we didn't ask every Evertonian about something that matters so much to every one of you."" But it said it remained ""firm in the belief our crest should be modernised"". The motto was added to the club's crest in 1938, though it did not appear on kit until 1978. It was removed from the kit badges in 1982 but returned to the crest after a redesign in 1991. Comments on the petition described the new badge as ""amateurish"", ""poorly designed"", ""ridiculous"", ""clownish"" and ""not fitting a club of Everton's rich history and stature"". Merchandise using the new design, which is the 10th version in the club's history, went on sale on Sunday. The club said the fan reaction had prompted ""several meetings and countless discussions"". Everton Fans' Forum, an ""excellent and effective group of representative fans"", was consulted on the badge redesign, but faced ""too big a burden speaking for the entire fan base on something so significant"", the club said. Robert Elstone, Everton's chief executive, said: ""Our chairman had demanded widespread consultation and we stopped short of that. ""We talked to our Fans' Forum, our commercial partners and our experienced staff around the club. That was not enough."" He said the club would seek fans' views over its badge for the 2014-15 season, consulting with a panel ""from all sections of the fan base"". The club said Evertonians would ""make the final decision"". Details on how the panel will be selected are expected this year.","Everton have apologised to fans after more than 22,000 @placeholder signed a petition criticising the football club 's new badge .",users,protesters,people,olds,members,2
"Ben Threlfall, 31, was riding down a ""very fast"" forest trail in Ton Pentre, Rhondda Cynon Taff, on Saturday when he was injured. He said: ""I saw it at the last minute and rode right into it, flat out and snapped it with my throat."" South Wales Police is investigating the incident at Mynydd Ton Forest. The collision threw Mr Threlfall off his bike and he had to unwrap the wire from around his neck. He said: ""Thankfully the main impact was taken by my shoulders. I'm 6ft 3in, so it cut across my chest and shoulders first, before sliding up to my neck. ""I don't know how I survived. It was a very, very, scary experience."" After the incident, he said he ""just wanted a cup of tea to calm down"" and carried on his work as a mountain bike guide for the rest of the day. He added: ""I'm not going to be scared off from this area, we just have to be more vigilant now. I would like to put a sign up on the trail saying 'you've nearly killed someone'."" South Wales Police said mountain bikers should be aware of the incident and asked anyone with information to contact the force.","A cyclist injured after riding into barbed wire that was deliberately @placeholder across a bike trail has said he "" should be dead "" .",stretched,helped,blown,reached,rammed,0
"The moment the thieves levered the car park machine out of its hard-standing with rope attached to their 4x4 vehicle was caught on CCTV cameras in Sudbury. The machine was pulled out of the train station car park at about 04:30 GMT on Thursday. Babergh District Council said the theft was ""simply not worth it"". Frank Lawrenson, portfolio holder for environment at the council, which owns the site, called it a ""mindless, deliberate, act of vandalism"". ""Babergh's machines do not have huge amounts of money kept in them overnight - a lot of people pay electronically or have a season ticket, and we empty the machines regularly,"" he said. ""It simply is not worth it for the thieves to take part in this type of activity."" Mr Lawrenson added there were no plans at present to replace the stolen machine, which is worth £4,000, as there were two others.","Robbers drove through a Suffolk town @placeholder a ticket machine behind them after ripping it out of the ground "" all for the sake of £ 50 "" .",involving,suffered,reached,dragging,launched,3
"Kate Chisholm, of Skerne Park Academy, Darlington, made the appeal after she noticed more and more adults wearing pyjamas at the school gates as well as at meetings and assemblies. She said her aim was to help set a good example for pupils. Parent Phil Naylor said wearing nightwear to school was ""disgraceful"". Ms Chisholm said the final straw came when parents wore pyjamas to the Christmas show and to recent parents' evenings. ""It just got to the point when I thought 'enough's enough',"" she said. ""I'm not trying to tell people what to do with their lives, but I just think having a really good role model first thing in the morning, getting yourself up, getting yourself dressed, ready for business, out to school is a really good example to set. ""I'm afraid wearing pyjamas, going to school, maybe doesn't reinforce that somehow."" In her letter, Ms Chisholm wrote: ""If we're to raise standards it's not too much to ask parents to have a wash and get dressed. ""I have had loads of support from the community and people saying it's about time something was done. I have had far more positive responses than negative,"" she said. ""If I get the parents on board then we often get the children too and in order to get the best chances for the children we have to raise the bar with the parents."" School parent Mr Naylor said Ms Chisholm had his support: ""It's disgraceful, we should be guiding our children not giving them bad habits.""",A primary school head teacher has written to parents asking them to wash in the morning and stop @placeholder their children off in their pyjamas .,seeing,leaving,following,dropping,shut,3
"The central section of the memorial in Royal Square in Woodhall Spa began to crumble earlier this month. East Lindsey District Council said it had now been repaired ready for a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Dambusters raids over the weekend. It is believed the damage to the central plaque of the structure was due to its age rather than vandalism. The 617 Squadron, also known as the Dambusters, operated from RAF Woodhall Spa from January 1944 to May 1945. The wall depicts the night time raid on dams during World War Two and is dedicated to the memory of those from the squadron who died during the operation. The memorial, which was put up in 1987, had to be cordoned off while work was carried out.",Emergency repairs have been @placeholder on a Lincolnshire Dambusters memorial after part of it collapsed .,seized,captured,placed,completed,lodged,3
"The drilling rig was destined for a yard in Turkey to be decommissioned when a towline broke and it ran aground on Lewis. It is now temporarily anchored in the island's Broad Bay where divers will inspect the structure for damage. But councillor Angus Campbell has said it could remain longer term. He has written to the rig's owner, Transocean, to consider breaking up and recycling parts of the structure at facilities near Stornoway on Lewis. Hugh Shaw, the Secretary of State's representative for maritime salvage and intervention, who is overseeing the salvage operation, has said a decision on the final destination of the rig has still to be made. In his letter to Transocean, Mr Campbell said: ""We are pleased that you continue to engage with the local supply chain and, given the significant and positive economic impact to the islands, would now ask that serious consideration be given to the use of local facilities and engineering expertise in carrying out the necessary repairs. ""As you will be aware, there is an established oil and gas supply chain in the islands with considerable lay down area at the Arnish facility and good connections for skilled workers to move in and out as required. ""Secure additional storage for recyclable parts pending resale could be available at Creed Park on the outskirts of Stornoway. ""We would be very happy to work with Transocean, Smit Salvage and other relevant key stakeholders to ensure that direct and indirect benefits are, as much as possible, retained in the islands.""","The leader of Western Isles local authority , Comhairle nan Eilean Siar , has said the rig Transocean Winner could be @placeholder on the islands .",scrapped,seen,announced,control,held,0
"Bale, who moved to Spain last summer, was on Penarth Pier near Cardiff - the city where he grew up. He is understood to be filming an advert for a sports network. As fans gathered to catch a glimpse on Monday - the 24-year-old showed off some of the skills that have made him the world's most expensive footballer.","While his Real Madrid teammates have been competing at Brazil 's World Cup , Wales ' Gareth Bale was @placeholder playing for the camera much nearer home .",issued,spotted,handled,delayed,raised,1
"Liu Xia has been under house arrest since her husband won the award in 2010. She has never been charged. Friends say she is depressed but fear that if she sees a doctor she might be sent to a psychiatric hospital. Mr Liu was convicted of subversion in 2009. The Chinese authorities have never explained why they have restricted his wife's movements. News of Liu Xia's condition came from fellow activist Hu Jia, a family friend and an outspoken dissident in his own right. ""Liu Xia was a very happy and cheerful person before Liu Xiaobo's arrest,"" Mr Hu told BBC Chinese. ""We all thought her sunny bright personality was the ideal complement for Xiaobo's more intense disposition."" But three years of house arrest had thrown Mrs Liu into deep depression, he said. She is denied free movement or the right to receive visitors. Even her request of a daily walk in a local park had been turned down for fear supporters or journalists might approach her, Hu Jia said. He said Mrs Liu felt guilty that her brother, Liu Hui, had been jailed earlier this year for fraud - she believed he had been prosecuted because of his connections to Liu Xiaobo and herself. Hu Jia revealed that a sympathetic health professional had been prescribing anti-depressants for Liu Xia, but says he could not say for sure if she had taken any of the medication. Hu Jia's wife Zeng Jinyan, who now lives in Hong Kong, has appealed on Liu Xia's behalf for ""an internationally renowned psychologist from Medecins sans Frontieres"" to be allowed to meet Liu Xia. Hu Jia believes that this would be the only form of help that Liu Xia would feel safe accepting, but he doubts if the Chinese authorities would allow her such medical attention. She also wants more access to letters from her husband, and the right to earn money.",Concern is @placeholder for the mental health of the wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo .,poised,braced,growing,recovering,returning,2
"The 22-year-old Iceland international is the first recruit for new Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas in a deal reported to be worth £8m. Sigurdsson was linked with a move to join former Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers at Liverpool. He scored seven times in 19 games on loan under Rodgers at Swansea. Iceland manager Lars Lagerback told BBC World Service that Spurs had brought in a player with many attributes. ""He understands the game. He's good with both feet. He's not a physical player or the best tackler, but he is very fit - I've met few so skilful players who can run so much for 90 minutes. You shouldn't underestimate him when it comes to the defensive part of the game."" Lars Lagerback, Iceland manager ""He's a fantastic team player. He reads the game very well and I don't think you would find too many better link players,"" he told the World Football programme. Sigurdsson was close to joining Swansea on a permanent basis before Rodgers left for Anfield, and his £6.8m transfer to the Liberty Stadium collapsed. Michael Laudrup, who succeeded Rodgers at Swansea, conceded defeat last month in his efforts to resurrect a deal. The move to Tottenham comes as speculation continues over the future of Spurs midfielder Luka Modric, who has been linked with a transfer to Manchester United or Real Madrid. Sigurdsson originally moved to England in October 2005 when he joined Reading's academy. He spent loan spells at Shrewsbury and Crewe before securing a regular place in the first team in the 2009-10 season when Rodgers managed the Royals. Sigurdsson won the player of the year award in his first full season at Reading, before being sold to Hoffenheim for a reported £6.5m fee at the start of the following campaign. He joined Swansea on loan in January and won the Premier League player of the month award for March.","Tottenham have @placeholder Liverpool to the signing of Hoffenheim midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson , who had a spell on loan at Swansea last season .",beaten,opened,led,returned,introduced,0
"They have not won since beating Kidderminster on 19 December and they are now 10th in the table. But Constable, 31, is hoping fortunes will change at home to National League leaders Cheltenham on Tuesday. ""We should not be going four or five games on the bounce without getting a win,"" he told BBC Radio Solent. ""We have let our standards drop slightly. It's hard to put your finger on it, but as a group, we are more than good enough to pick up results. Despite their disappointing run of form, Chris Todd's side remain only six points outside the play-off places. And Constable is confident recent Spitfires signing Matt Tubbs will find his scoring boots. Tubbs has failed to find the net in any of his three appearances since joining on loan from Portsmouth. ""I have played with Tubbsy at England C level and have known him for years,"" said Constable. ""He is the sort of player you want in your squad and he is definitely one who can go out there and get us some goals.""",Eastleigh striker James Constable @placeholder the National League side have allowed their standards to slip since the start of the year .,scored,admits,lost,showing,grabbed,1
"The Met Office has issued a yellow ""be aware"" warning for ice for the whole of Wales. The warning runs from 20:00 GMT on Thursday until 10:00 on Friday. Sleet and snow has been forecast over high ground and temperatures are expected to fall below freezing overnight.",Drivers have been warned roads could be icy as overnight rain and sleet could wash salt off @placeholder roads .,claimed,drugs,water,spot,treated,4
"Chemical analysis of the meteorite shows it to be rich in the gas ammonia. It contains the element nitrogen, found in the proteins and DNA that form the basis of life as we know it. The researchers say meteorites like this could have showered the early Earth, providing the missing ingredients for life. Details of the study by researchers at Arizona State University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new study is based on analysis of just under 4g of powder extracted from a meteorite called Grave Nunataks 95229 (named after its place of discovery in Antarctica), discovered in 1995. On treatment, the powder sample was shown to contain abundant amounts of ammonia as well as hydrocarbons. Professor Sandra Pizzarello, who led the research, says the study ""shows that there are asteroids out there that when fragmented and become meteorites, could have showered the Earth with an attractive mix of components, including a large amount of ammonia"". Meteorites like this could have supplied the early Earth with enough nitrogen in the right form for primitive life forms to emerge, she says. Previous studies have focused on the ""Murchison"" meteorite, which hit Australia in 1969, which was found to be rich in organic compounds. The professor says Murchison is ""too much of a good thing"" and contains hydrocarbon molecules which you would expect to find at the end rather than the start of the life story. She believes the composition of these compounds are too complex and too random in their molecular shape to have played a role in life on Earth. The theory that our planet may have been seeded by a comet or asteroid arises partly from the belief the formative Earth might not have been able to provide the full inventory of simple molecules needed for the processes which led to primitive life. The suggestions is that the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter, away from the heat and pressure of the forming planets, could have been a better place for such processes. Collisions between asteroids within the belt produce meteoroids which shoot off around the Solar System and which can carry materials to the Earth. Dr Caroline Smith, a meteorite expert at London's Natural History Museum agrees the important element in the new study is the nitrogen, even though she would like to see similar results repeated in other meteorites. ""One of the problems with early biology on the early Earth is you need abundant nitrogen for all these prebiological processes to happen - and of course nitrogen is in ammonia. ""A lot of the evidence shows that ammonia was not present in much abundance in the early Earth, so where did it come from?"" What specifically caused life to begin on Earth remains a mystery. Professor Pizzarello hypothesises material from a meteorite may have interacted with environments on Earth such as volcanoes or tidal pools, but says all remains a matter of guess work. ""You find these extraterrestrial materials (in meteorites) which have what you need,"" she says, ""but on the how and when, in which environments and by what means - really, we don't know."" ""You can only say that yes, it seems that the extraterrestrial environments could have had the good stuff.""","A meteorite found in Antarctica could lend weight to the argument that life on Earth might have been kick - started from space , scientists are @placeholder .",evidence,claiming,convinced,buried,shows,1
"The National Executive Committee (NEC) has voted to include representatives of Labour leaders in the two nations. Allies of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have opposed the move, arguing the post should be elected and not appointed. But sources said Mr Jones gave a ""powerful address"" to the committee on Monday urging it not to let Wales down. In an interview with BBC Wales, Mr Corbyn said: ""I'm not resistant to the idea of there being a Welsh member of the NEC at all. ""What I want to do is have agreement within the party about how the nomination should take place to the NEC so it enjoys the confidence of the executive and so on in Wales."" The devolution reforms would give the Welsh and Scottish Labour parties control over issues such as Westminster candidate selection, disciplinary matters and election of their respective leaders, as well as seats on the NEC. Amid attempts to block the package, the first minister is understood to have stressed to the NEC on Monday that Welsh Labour was the most successful arm of the party, having governed Wales ever since devolution in 1999. He is said to have urged members not to ""water down"" the reforms, claiming they countered nationalist claims that Welsh Labour was little more than a ""branch"" office of the UK party. The proposals will now be put to a vote on the floor of the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday. Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale told the BBC: ""Exactly what we agreed yesterday is exactly what is happening tomorrow in a vote on the conference floor. She added:  ""The proposals are very clear that the position on the NEC is for the leader of the Scottish and Welsh parties to either take themselves or to nominate, just as Jeremy Corbyn nominates the people that sit on the shadow cabinet that sit in the NEC."" Darren Williams, a Cardiff councillor who sits on the NEC, told BBC Wales on Wednesday he had voted against the plan, saying he would prefer the Welsh representative to be elected by rank-and-file members.",First Minister Carwyn Jones has @placeholder to ensure plans to give Welsh and Scottish Labour more power will be put to a vote at conference .,sought,vowed,warned,intervened,agreed,3
"The enormously powerful winds that blast Mount Everest relent for just a few weeks every spring. They are precious weeks that provide climbers with a chance to claim the greatest mountaineering ""scalp"" of them all - the world's highest summit. Those wishing to make the ascent must spend months preparing and thousands of dollars for a permit, even before they start. Then, on the climb itself, they have to brave all that the mountain can throw at them - bad weather, the effects of altitude, even the sight of the corpses of climbers who have died making the attempt. Four people died on their way down from the summit last weekend. Two hundred climbers are expected to make an attempt on the mountain this weekend, which is likely to be the last of this year's season. What is it about Everest that keeps them coming? ""It is really quite simple - it's the biggest mountain in the world."" Dawa Steven Sherpa runs one of the companies that guides climbers on the mountain. His words echo those of George Mallory, who summed up the allure of Everest before his fatal attempt to climb it in 1924: ""Because it's there"". That phrase has been described as the three most famous words in mountaineering, and the challenge proves irresistible to hundreds of climbers every year. ""On the mountain itself, there are around 1,000 climbers at the moment - but it's a big mountain, and if you compare it with Mont Blanc, say, that's not very many"", says Dawa Steven Sherpa, speaking to the BBC from Everest Base Camp. ""The problem is everyone wants to go to the summit on the same day at exactly the same time."" That is because climbers are keen to take advantage of perfect weather conditions, which could disappear at any moment and not reappear for months. On 23 May 2010, for example, 169 climbers reached the summit in a single day - more than the total number who had conquered the mountain in the 30 years following the first ascent in 1953. More than 3,000 climbers had reached the summit by the end of the 2010 climbing season. ""We now have more than 50 years' experience of climbing this mountain. We know where to put the ropes, where people should put their feet. It's become a lot easier over the years"", says Dawa Steven Sherpa. And this creates another problem - many of those testing themselves against Everest fail the test. ""I think some people do underestimate it,"" says Rhys Jones, who in 2006 became the youngest British person to reach the summit. ""There's a price tag on it, and they think, 'why wouldn't I be able to climb it? If I just pay enough, I'll be able to get up it'."" Dawa Steven Sherpa agrees: ""Many people do overestimate their abilities. They can be very fit - marathon runners, ultra-marathon runners, iron-man competitors - but they don't understand altitude, and they underestimate the mountain."" For many purist mountaineers, the process of climbing Everest is becoming too commercial, too orchestrated and too reliant on external help. Reinhold Messner was one of the first people to climb Everest without oxygen, in 1978. ""The route is prepared by hundreds of Sherpas. Extra oxygen is available in all camps, right up to the summit. People will cook for you and lay out your beds. Clients feel safe,"" he said in a newspaper interview. But Rhys Jones feels Everest will always be special, and won't ever be ""just a treadmill"". ""Everyone is aware of the risks"", he told the BBC. ""They have all read the books, which tend to be about the disasters and the fatalities. ""But actually, risk is part of the attraction - it makes it more of a test, it gives you more to aim for.""",The world 's highest mountain has claimed four more lives but such tragedies make no dent in the @placeholder number of people attempting its ascent .,neighbouring,shape,pioneering,number,increasing,4
"Two people working in the shop in Canary Wharf - Inam Bashir and John Jeffries - had not managed to evacuate the premises in time. They were killed. Over the past two decades Mr Bashir's brother, Ihsan, has been not only trying to come to terms with the loss of his brother but fighting to keep the business going. He said: ""The bomb was parked right next to our shop. The site itself, if you look at the pictures of it, it looks like a nuclear bomb has hit that. The way the damage is, it looks like the whole city has been wrecked."" The Bashir family not only suffered the loss of a son and brother, but shortly afterwards their father had a heart attack and died. Ihsan has said the differing experiences of Troubles victims on either side of the Irish Sea are clear to him. ""Once the funerals were over then you just look at your life, how you're going to cope with your loss. ""People in England don't have much of a voice.  People in Northern Ireland do, which is right, because they have suffered a lot. The UK government has tried their best to help, as much as they can, to appease the victims. ""But most of the time I feel that the appeasement has gone to the IRA, not to the actual families and victims. They have been forgotten. "" With the business gone, the family struggled to keep their heads above water, but eventually Mr Bashir reopened the newsagent and began trading again. Now, he runs a delicatessen on exactly the same spot where it all happened - a new business selling baguettes. He said he views it as continuing the legacy of a hard-working brother, as well as that of the family's friend and colleague John Jeffries. ""We will run it in their memory, and in memory against terrorism. You can't stop us from moving on, you cannot stop our lives. We will fight to make it survive, and work it. ""There's a old saying that you give your life for your business. Well we have. We've given our blood to that business. So I'm not going to let that go.""","Twenty years ago an IRA bomb detonated in the heart of London 's Docklands not only destroyed one of the country 's biggest financial and economic centres , but also destroyed a much smaller business - a newsagent 's shop . How did the family company @placeholder ?",resemble,control,recover,group,feared,2
"Former FA chairman Bernstein joined in March as part of a boardroom shake-up that included ex-manager Brian Little. Chairman Steve Hollis brought in life-long fan Lord King, the former Governor of the Bank of England, in February. ""The issues at the club are fundamental and the solutions are radical and do not lend themselves to compromise,"" Bernstein said in a resignation letter. ""Unfortunately it had proved impossible to implement the agreed structure and my position has quickly become untenable."" An Aston Villa club statement said Little would continue to advise chairman Hollis on ""football-related matters"", while a search for a new manager ""remains a priority"". It added: ""It is with regret that Aston Villa Football Club today announces the resignations of Mervyn King and David Bernstein as directors of the club. ""The club would like to thank both for all their efforts throughout their short time as members of the board."" Bernstein, 72, also spent five years as Manchester City chairman and said he was brought in to review the ""football side of the club"" at Villa. Lord King, 67, was appointed a life peer in 2013.",David Bernstein and Lord King have resigned from the Aston Villa board two days after the club were @placeholder .,sold,reported,cancelled,relegated,revealed,3
"Researchers from seven UK universities are working on clothes to enable people with mobility problems to move easily and unaided. The team will work on ""smart"" trousers and socks which could help vulnerable people avoid falls and climb stairs. One of the researchers is Dr Arjan Buis from Strathclyde University. He said: ""The mobility problems we are addressing take different forms. ""They can be found in people who need rehabilitation after breaking legs or other bones, in people with chronic conditions such as spinal cord problems or muscular dystrophy, and in frail elderly people. ""We want to help these people not only to become more mobile but to have power behind their mobility. ""We also want to ensure they have dignity, by being able to put on this clothing themselves."" The research also involves the universities of Bristol, Southampton, Nottingham, Leeds, the West of England and Loughborough. The soft clothes will use bionics, reactive polymers and artificial ""muscles"" to help the user. The researchers hope the clothes will alleviate problems caused by existing devices, such as poor circulation and damaged skin, and will reduce healthcare costs. Those involved in the three-year project, which is being funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, hope to begin testing the technology in a year. A spokesman from Age Scotland said: ""Age Scotland is encouraged by any research that looks at how technology can be used to support people with reduced mobility. ""Reliance on helpers to move around the house or to get out and about can limit people's options in the life they would like to lead so anything that increases the opportunities for independent living is positive. ""With any new and developing technology, it's difficult to say whether it will provide the silver bullet to help people with mobility issues. ""What is a positive step forward is that different possibilities are being researched and investigated to provide a full range of options to give people choices that will suit their individual needs. """,A team of university researchers are developing a range of robotic clothes to help @placeholder and elderly people live more independent lives .,follow,disabled,thrive,expand,protect,1
"He says he is confident the party can show the BBC was wrong to exclude it. Last month, BBC director general Tony Hall rejected the DUP's request to be included in the TV debates. Mr Robinson says his party's lawyers will be in touch with the broadcasters next week. He said if a legal action goes ahead it will be in London. Although the DUP is the fourth biggest party at Westminster, the BBC argues it would not be fair to invite only one of the Northern Ireland parties to take part in a UK debate. The broadcasters plans feature two debates with seven parties, including UKIP, SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens. The DUP had written to the BBC and ITV asking for an explanation as to why the party had not been invited to take part in the live televised election debates. In his written reply to the DUP, Lord Hall is understood to have said the decision not to include them complied with the BBC's obligations of impartiality. The BBC and ITV are currently planning to hold two debates involving the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, Plaid Cymru, the SNP and the Greens. A third debate - hosted by Sky and Channel 4 - would feature a head-to-head between Mr Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband.",Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) leader Peter Robinson says his party has @placeholder with senior lawyers over its exclusion from the UK TV election debates by London broadcasters .,reacted,escalated,consulted,stalled,promised,2
"The 21-year-old, who is ranked 557th in the world, will play American Ingrid Neel in the ITF event, which has a total prize fund of £17,500. Robson has had niggling injuries since having wrist surgery in 2014 and had 18 months out of the game. She reached a career-high singles ranking of 27 in July 2013. Robson returned at Eastbourne last June after her wrist operation, but played only 10 singles matches in 2015, and was knocked out of both Wimbledon and the US Open in the first rounds. She played her last match of the year in September, taking the rest of the year off to continue her recovery. ""Little niggles have cropped up as they do when you are not using your body in the way that you want to on the match court,"" said Britain's Fed Cup captain Judy Murray. ""I can only imagine it must be hugely, hugely frustrating but the key for her is to make sure her body is absolutely ready to go, however long that takes. ""Qualifying for a smaller event is exactly the right way to go.""","Former British number one Laura Robson will begin her latest comeback from injury on Sunday , when she @placeholder qualifying for a tournament in Florida .",enters,opened,received,finished,claimed,0
"Villa are nine points adrift at the bottom of the Premier League having won just three games all campaign and could go down on Saturday. ""In the current circumstances, we are sure our supporters will understand,"" a club spokesman said. There have been several fan protests against owner Randy Lerner, including during the recent home loss to Chelsea. During the game, supporters held up banners that read: ""Proud history, what future?"" Villa supporter Mike McKenna, who organised the recent fan walkout protests during home games against Everton, Tottenham and Chelsea, said: ""There is a toxic atmosphere at the club at the moment. The players are not generally well liked. ""Unfortunately, the complaints about the likes of [Micah] Richards, [Gabriel] Agbonlahor, etc have rubbed off on other players. ""Maybe Jordan Ayew deserved an award but, with the toxic atmosphere, the club have thought it would only garner bad publicity to garnish the players with awards. ""Generally, I would think the supporters support the decision not to have awards as there is nothing to celebrate."" Villa have sacked two managers this season - Tim Sherwood in October and his successor, Remi Garde, last month. Eric Black is in temporary charge and has overseen two successive defeats, the most recent of which came at home to Bournemouth on Saturday. Villa's relegation will be confirmed if Norwich avoid a home loss by Sunderland in the 12:45 BST kick-off on Saturday. Even if the Canaries lose, Villa still need to win against Manchester United at Old Trafford later in the day to avoid dropping out of the Premier League.",Aston Villa have @placeholder this season 's player of the year awards with the club facing relegation .,taken,completed,joined,cancelled,named,3
"Cleansing worker Paul Donohoe, 54, told the High Court in Glasgow that his colleague called an ambulance for 76-year-old John Baker. He said the injured man had called out: ""I've got a bad heart, I can't breathe right"", before passing out. Peter Telfer, 25, denies murdering Mr Baker in the Calton area on 29 June 2016. Mr Telfer is also accused of assaulting and attempting to rob shop worker Owaisuddin Siddique and carrying a knife on 24 June. He also faces a string of charges including behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at various streets in Glasgow city centre and assaulting and robbing two women of their handbags on 28 June. Mr Telfer allegedly attempted to defeat the ends of justice, and has also been charged with possessing cannabis. Giving evidence at the trial, Mr Donohoe described how he and his two colleagues were told by John Baker ""I've been stabbed"". A recording of the 999 call made by his colleague Alan Miller was played to jurors. One of the workmen can be heard on a recording to the emergency services saying there was ""blood coming from his mouth"" and ""I can't feel a pulse"". A voice in the background could be heard saying there were two wounds on Mr Baker's back and he was having ""trouble breathing"". The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.","A dying man flagged down a refuse truck for help after being @placeholder in a Glasgow street , a court has heard .",found,raped,caught,shot,attacked,4
"William Dawson came from Boston in Lincolnshire and was the eldest of four children. His father had drowned at sea in 1898 when he was 10 years old and as soon as he left school, Dawson went to work to support the family. He found employment with a shipping company but had an interest in engines. In early 1916 he answered an advert in Motor Cycle magazine, in which the Motor Machine Gun Service (MMGS) asked for mechanically-minded recruits for intriguingly vague Army service. By May he found himself transferred to the ""Heavy Section"" of the MMGS. A few days later Dawson was locked into a training ground in Suffolk being given ""a very serious talk explaining that the new project was so very very secret that he could give no details but that it was most important"". ""The secret camp was very large, roughly circular and some three or four miles across. The perimeter was guarded day and night by 500 or more reservists fully armed with rifles and ammunition,"" he wrote years later. ""Early one morning just after daylight we were awakened by a rumbling and rattling with sounds of motor engines. ""In great excitement everybody rushed out of tents, just as they had slept, and there they were, the first of the tanks, passing our tents to the practice driving ground which we had prepared."" Describing the appearance as ""extraordinary"", he added: ""We immediately started to learn its mechanism and engine and commenced driving it round the course of three to four feet high obstructions."" The idea of armoured fighting vehicles had been around since Leonardo da Vinci but at the outbreak of World War One, practical battlefield machines were for most soldiers scarcely more than science fiction. But as the fighting in France and Belgium bogged down into trench warfare, the concept gained supporters. Having seen conditions on the Western Front as an official Army correspondent, Col Ernest Swinton was in a position to push for bulletproof tractors to crush wire and cross trenches. He managed to attract support from Winston Churchill. then First Lord of the Admiralty. A ""Landships"" committee was formed in early 1915. A machinery company in Lincoln was commissioned to build prototypes. with much of the design work done in a local hotel room. Tanks went from science fiction to steel fact in the space of six months. In late 1915 an 8m (26ft) long, 28-ton machine crossed a dummy trench system at Hatfield in Hertfordshire. Lord Kitchener, the Minister of War, felt it was ""a toy"" and ""without serious military value"" but a representative of Commander in Chief Douglas Haig simply said: ""How soon can we have them?"" By then planning for the Somme offensive was under way. Despite high hopes, the terrible losses of the first day and continued bloody fighting meant the need for a new weapon was greater than ever. As with the machines themselves, an entirely new part of the Army, for an entirely new type of war, was thrown together in a matter of months. Formed in March 1916 the Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps was commanded by Col Swinton. Suffolk's Elveden Camp hosted more than 500 men to crew about 50 tanks. Rushed into service, men and machines were far from battle ready. Dawson said: ""Our commander, Second Lieutenant Macpherson, was a fine and likeable young fellow but he like us had never been in an actual battlefield or in action before. ""The briefing and instructions regarding objectives were quite inadequate."" Basil Henriques was from another part of the social scale. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, he was appointed a lieutenant in April 1916, aged 25, and made a tank commander. But the same lack of training dogged him. He said: ""We had no training with the infantry, even at home, and the infantry with whom we had to fight had never heard of us until they actually saw us in battle."" By the time he arrived in France he had only worked with his crew once and had not used the guns on their machine. One thing was clear to everyone: tanks were hellish to use. The crew of eight was in a single compartment dominated by a huge engine. Tanks had no suspension and limited views outside. Every journey was deafeningly noisy, fume-filled and batteringly rough. They were at the limits of technology. Engines were unreliable, armour was thin, tactics were guesswork. Communication was mostly by hand signal and pigeon. And that was before anyone started shooting. On 15 September 1916, the shooting would start. Almost every one of the 50 or so available tanks would be used to try to capture the village of Courcelette. Early indications were not good. Thanks to breakdowns, only 31 machines reached the start line. The reaction of the German defenders to tanks varied. One trench garrison simply fled. Prisoners interviewed afterwards gave the impression that ""German soldiers regarded them with some sort of superstitious terror.... till daylight disclosed their true nature."" Mostly the tanks were attacked with anything and everything. Machine guns, pistols, grenades and artillery. Dawson recalled his machine blundered about the battlefield before meeting another of the new British tanks. ""Both it and ourselves came up against machine gun fire with armour-piercing bullets and while we had quite a few holes I counted upwards of 40 in the other tank."" The commander, Macpherson, left the tank to report to his superiors and was killed. Henriques in tank C22 had also moved into the fight: ""Squashing dead Germans as we went. We could not steer properly and kept losing the (guide) tape."" Guns blazed at the tank and he had to peer through a narrow glass slit in an attempt to see the enemy. He said: ""A smash against my flap in front caused splinters to come in and the blood to pour down my face. Then our prism glass broke to pieces, then another smash, I think it must have been a bomb right in my face."" With a tank full of injured men, Henriques withdrew. Not everyone was so lucky. Cyril Coles, who was born in Canford, Dorset in 1893, enlisted in the Army in February 1916 and was a tank gunner in France by August. Coles was in tank D15. Supposed to be one of three armoured vehicles, the others became stuck in shell holes before crossing the start line. D15 had reached the first German trench when it was hit be artillery fire. The official history of the battle states: ""The commander and his crew abandoned the burning tank but two of the men were then shot and killed and the others wounded."" Coles was one of the dead. Both men were buried beside the wrecked machine. Staff at the Tank Museum researching the details of Coles' life believe he was one of the very first tank men to be killed in action. The badly cratered ground, combined with the enemy onslaught, devastated the tanks. About 12 machines had punched deep into the enemy defences but most of these were damaged. Only a few were still operational the next day. Henriques had to have glass splinters removed from his face by medics. One piece was large enough to be mounted as a ""stone"" in a gold ring, which he gave to his wife as a memento of his brush with mortal danger. The first fight of the tanks would be named the battle of Flers-Courcelette and, by the standards of the Somme campaign, it was a success. The new machines, though badly flawed, had shown potential. William Dawson and Basil Henriques survived the battle and the war. They saw the tank develop into an ever more effective part of the Army, playing an important role in bringing victory in November 1918. David Willey, curator at the Tank Museum, said: ""The tanks had limited success on that first day in military terms, however their success in terms of psychology shouldn't be underestimated. ""The German troops were terrified of these machines and for the British, the tanks were a huge morale boost. ""This was a British invention, designed to save soldiers' lives, and it gave people hope, both on the front line and back at home.""","The tank , which would go on to dominate 20th Century warfare , first stormed on to the shattered battlefields of the Somme 100 years ago . Rushed into battle by desperate generals with barely any testing , its debut was a messy experiment with questionable results . A select group of young men were the first to feel its terrible @placeholder and have their lives changed by it .",roots,colour,influence,weight,bags,2
"Tunny machines helped to unscramble Allied interceptions of the encrypted orders Hitler sent to his generals. The rebuild was completed even though almost no circuit diagrams or parts of the original machines survived. Intelligence gathered via code-cracking at Bletchley underpinned the success of Allied operations to end WWII. Restoration work on Tunny at the museum in Bletchley was re-started in 2005 by a team led by computer conservationists John Pether and John Whetter. Mr Pether said the lack of source material made the rebuild challenging. ""As far as I know there were no original circuit diagrams left,"" he said. ""All we had was a few circuit elements drawn up from memory by engineers who worked on the original."" The trickiest part of the rebuild, he said, was getting the six timing circuits of the machine working in unison. The Tunny machines, like the Colossus computers they worked alongside, were dismantled and recycled for spare parts after World War II. The first Tunny machines were built following the work in 1942 of mathematician Bill Tutte. Plans were drawn up for it after analysing intercepted encrypted radio signals Hitler was sending to the Nazi high command. These orders were encrypted before being transmitted by a machine known as a Lorenz SZ42 enciphering machine. Prior to the creation of machines to do the code-breaking, the orders were broken by hand in what was known as ""The Testery"". Bill Tutte's analysis enabled the development of the Tunny machine which effectively reverse-engineered the workings of the SZ42 - even though he had never seen it. The first machine built to capitalise on Tutte's analysis was called Heath Robinson and the more reliable and faster Colossus machines followed soon after. Tunny worked alongside the Colossus computer, which together with input from the Testery, calculated the settings of an SZ42 used to encipher a particular message. These settings were reproduced on Tunny, the enciphered message was fed in, and the decrypted text was printed out. By the end of WWII there were 12-15 Tunny machines in use and the information they revealed about Nazi battle plans helped to ensure the success of D-Day. ""We have a great deal of admiration for Bill Tutte and those original engineers,"" said John Whetter. ""There were no standard drawings they could put together,"" he said. ""It was all original thought and it was incredible what they achieved."" One reason the restoration project has succeeded, said Mr Whetter, was that the machines were built by the Post Office's research lab at Dollis Hill. All the parts were typically used to build telephone exchanges, he said. ""Those parts were in use from the 1920s to the 1980s when they were replaced by computer-controlled exchanges,"" he said. Former BT engineers and workers involved with The National Museum of Computing have managed to secure lots of these spare parts to help with restoration projects, said Mr Whetter. The next restoration project being contemplated is that of the Heath Robinson machines, which were used to find SZ42 settings before the creation of Colossus. That, said Mr Whetter, might be even more of a challenge. ""We have even less information about that than we had on Tunny,"" he said.",The National Museum of Computing has @placeholder restoring a Tunny machine - a key part of Allied code - cracking during World War II .,reported,backed,raised,announced,finished,4
"Olivia Giles OBE was presented with the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award 2015 at a special ceremony at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway. She set up a charity to provide people in developing countries with prosthetic limbs so they can walk. The award recognises those who have saved or improved other people's lives. The award was presented by Minister for Europe and International Development Humza Yousaf in Alloway - Robert Burns' place of birth. Ms Giles was selected as the winner from 120 nominations - the highest number ever received for the award. Ms Giles contracted meningitis in 2002 and went into a medical coma during which she suffered from toxic shock and gangrene. Surgeons had to amputate her hands and feet to save her life. She was later fitted with prosthetic limbs and learned to walk again. Since her illness, Ms Giles, 42, has been involved in fundraising in Scotland and the UK for meningitis charities. She set up the charity 500 Miles with Jamie Andrew, also a quadruple amputee, to help rehabilitate amputees in deprived areas of the world. The Robert Burns Humanitarian Award was launched in 2002 and is supported by South Ayrshire Council and EventScotland as part of Scotland's Winter Festivals with sponsorship from William Grant & Sons and The Herald, Sunday Herald and heraldscotland.com.",An Edinburgh lawyer who lost her hands and feet @placeholder a serious illness has been named winner of a global humanitarian award .,suffered,produced,enjoys,securing,following,4
"David Nott, who was brought up in Trelech, Carmarthenshire, was given a honorary doctorate by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David on Monday. The NHS consultant surgeon has worked voluntarily in Syria, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, among other places. Mr Nott said: ""It's the biggest accolade I've ever been given by anybody and it's from my hometown."" The London-based surgeon was born in Carmarthen - his mother was a nurse who met his father, an Indo Burmese doctor, at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport. Since 1993, he has taken up to three months unpaid leave each year to work in war zones all over the globe. Mr Nott and his wife Elly have also set up the David Nott Foundation - a charity that helps bring surgeons to the UK for training. He said: ""Being brought up in Trelech and having that Welshness in me - and having the importance of family, love and support instilled in me from an early age - it gave me the inspiration which made me feel one could do something with one's life. ""I'm not sure exactly what happened but I developed a passion in life which made me want to go and help people because I hate to see people suffer.""",A surgeon who has @placeholder on people in war zones across the world has been awarded an honorary degree .,served,operated,died,captured,held,1
"Now a civilian, he can be seized by an anxiety attack when he goes past a wooded area on public transport. He is gripped by the fear that fighters could spring from the trees and attack. The war in the east against pro-Russian militants is the first on Ukrainian territory since World War Two. Tens of thousands of the country's citizens have served in a conflict that has left some 9,000 people dead and more than 20,000 wounded, according to the UN. Untold numbers, like Sergiy, have lingering psychological wounds. Sergiy was drafted and fought for four months at the end of last year in the east. His unit kept open a vital supply line to soldiers fighting at Donetsk airport, at the height of one of the conflict's most vicious battles. ""We did everything we could to help them,"" he says. Sergiy is back home now, having received his discharge at the beginning of the year. The bad memories come at night. ""I don't sleep much, three to four hours,"" he says. ""I wake up and I can't remember if I dreamed something or not. But I have this feeling as if I fell from somewhere. ""I lie there, not understanding what happened. This lasts about 15 seconds, and then I understand that everything's okay,"" he adds. But after that he finds it hard to get back to sleep. The condition that he and his comrades suffer from is commonly called post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. For much of Ukrainian society it is not a familiar condition. And that goes for the soldiers too. During the Soviet era, there was some recognition of what was called ""Afghan syndrome"" among veterans of the 10-year war that began in 1979, but few understood actually what was involved, and how it could be treated. PTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by witnessing or being involved in a frightening or distressing event. Any traumatic event has the potential to lead to PTSD. How is PTSD diagnosed? Trauma of migrant crisis takes its toll on mental health The 'living nightmare' of PTSD UK National Health Service: Causes and treatment of PTSD US National Institute of Mental Health: What is PTSD? Symptoms of PTSD can include depression, sudden eruptions of anger, heavy drinking or sleeplessness. In the most serious instances, soldiers can harm themselves or those closest to them. Mental health workers speak of an increase in domestic violence, although there are no statistics to confirm this, and it is difficult to establish a direct causal link to PTSD. The soldiers are loath to admit that they are suffering emotionally. Among Ukrainian men there is a general attitude that to acknowledge personal difficulties is tantamount to saying that you are weak. ""When our tooth hurts, we go to a dentist,"" says Vladimir Nezenets, a psychological therapist. ""When we have emotional problems, we grab a bottle of vodka."" Vladimir, himself a veteran of the war in the East, believes every fighter returning from the front exhibits some form of PTSD. ""They all are suffering - it's just a matter of degree. And this depends largely to what extent the person was psychologically prepared for what would come,"" he says. The scale of the problem seems to have left the authorities scrambling, though. Vladimir and other health workers say the government's response so far has fallen way short of what is needed, with only a handful of clinics and specialists providing assistance. Parliament deputies recently voted to set up universal testing for all fighters returning from the front, but many question whether this is feasible. Consequently, civic organisations have stepped in to fill in the gaps. Vladimir is associated with a non-profit group called Hero's Companion - which works with Canadian and German organisations - that trains dogs to be round-the-clock helpers to the veterans. The dogs do small tasks, or are a calming influence. If a PTSD sufferer has a panic attack, the dog will lay his head on the soldier's lap, or even lie on him. The dogs are still being trained for their individual assignments. But some veterans meet in informal sessions with regular dogs, which Hero's Companion activists say also has a positive stimulus. ""We had fighters from the 95th brigade here and they played and lay on the grass with the dogs,"" said Anatoly Trubchaninov, one of the group's directors, at their kennel-base outside Kiev. ""They came as serious, severe men, and left here smiling like little children."" Sergiy Goptarev finds assistance with a group called Palm of an Angel, which organises therapy through art classes, as well as concerts, fishing and horseback riding. Recently, he and five other former soldiers gathered in the main building of a Soviet-era holiday camp near Kiev. They beat sticks together, sang upbeat songs and painted patriotic images on t-shirts. Their memories and personal worries, at least for that moment, were put aside. ""The therapy helps distract you,"" Sergei said. ""When you do something fun, it brings a smile to your face and creates positive emotions."" But life is still hard for Sergei, who is now unemployed and spends much of his time at home surfing the internet.",Sergiy Goptarev says he wants to leave his time fighting in eastern Ukraine behind him . But he is finding it difficult . The memories @placeholder like uninvited visitors .,group,risks,seem,zone,arrive,4
"Winchester are in the relegation zone of Southern League Division One South and West - two tiers below National League South side Truro. Truro trailed 3-0 at half-time before conceding a fourth after 70 minutes. ""I've asked them to look each other in the eye and say to them: 'Have I put in a shift today?' I don't think there's too many who can,"" Hodges said. Truro have won just one of their last nine games, with Hodges only getting two wins since returning to the club to succeed Steve Tully as manager in the summer. ""After the last three games, where we've looked strong and organised, and working for each other, I think they felt they were just going to turn up and it was going to happen,"" Hodges told BBC Radio Cornwall. ""You want them to make sure that when they go into every game it's going to have to be an absolute war. They've got to be ready for it and do that horrible nasty side and battle before they can get the opportunity to play. ""But they never got going, we looked like we were still on the coach in the first 15 or 20 minutes, but they've got to be ready and up for every single challenge that's put in front of them. ""I'm bitterly disappointed because the FA Cup is a great competition to be in and I'm gutted to be out of it.""",Truro City boss Lee Hodges has @placeholder his side after they lost 4 - 0 at Winchester City in the FA Cup.,criticised,hailed,retained,suspended,sacked,0
"The next two years of negotiations will have far-reaching implications for British businesses and their staff. The three main areas companies will be watching in the Brexit talks are: migration, customs, and tariffs. But different firms - often within the same industry - will rank them in different orders of importance. With so many competing interests, what message is business sending to the government about the Brexit talks? In many cases, British trade groups said they wanted to hold on to the best possible access to the EU, the UK's biggest trading partner. How far this is possible, though, will be at the crux of the talks. The prime minister made it clear in January that her plan was for the UK to leave the EU single market and potentially the customs union. Unless a new trade deal is put in its place, UK companies face tariffs on imports and exports with the EU, tighter customs checks and more controls on EU workers. Firms need to know as soon as possible about the new trading relationship, says Steven Altmann-Richer, head of EU policy at business lobby group CBI. If a trade deal isn't possible in the next two years, interim arrangements are essential, he adds. What are Brexit Britain's trade options? Firms are not shy of making their views heard by ministers. More than 80% of big businesses are lobbying the government on the Brexit talks, according to a report by law firm Eversheds Sutherland. But rather than putting some firms ahead of others, ministers must ""prioritise what's best for UK business across the board"", says Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce. Worth £19bn to the UK economy; employs 800,000 workers The car industry, though, says it has already been identified as a ""priority sector"" by the government ahead of the talks. It points out that Theresa May gave two examples in January of industries she hoped could still enjoy some access to the EU single market after Brexit. They were the export of cars and lorries, and the financial services sector. Ministers have also had to give ""support and assurances"" for Nissan's plant in Sunderland, intervene in Peugeot's takeover of Vauxhall, and face repeated questions from the industry about post-Brexit tariffs. Modern car production is built around just-in-time manufacturing (JIT), which keeps inventory at very low levels and brings in new parts at exactly the point when they are needed. The flipside of JIT is that border delays could wreak havoc on the whole operation. ""This is not just about maintaining tariff-free trade with the EU and other global markets,"" says Tamzen Isacsson, communications director at automotive trade body SMMT. It also needs to include participation in a customs union to ""prevent costly bureaucracy and delays"". Worth £120bn to the UK economy; 1.1 million workers Like the car industry, banks and financial services firms want a free trade deal with the EU. But their focus is different. The City of London wants to be able to continue making billions of cross-border transactions without facing extra regulatory hurdles. Estimates vary, but one widely quoted report suggested that up to 75,000 financial jobs could be lost from the UK leaving the single market. HSBC, Goldman Sachs and UBS are among those already planning to move jobs out of the UK, although others have committed to new offices in London. The British Bankers' Association (BBA) says it is ""essential there are no cliff-edge effects"" when the UK leaves the EU. With so many European firms relying on financing raised in London, it is in neither side's interest for that to disappear overnight, the BBA says. The prime minister has offered promises there too. Mrs May has said she's aiming for ""phased implementation"" of the new UK-EU partnership after the two years of Article 50 talks are over. Worth £92bn to the UK economy; 1 million workers Other industries are pushing for their voice to be heard in the negotiations. Farmers and food and drink manufacturers are calling on Mrs May to ""prioritise UK food security"". Food production is the UK's largest manufacturing sector, bigger than the car and aerospace sectors combined, they argue. They want zero tariffs when UK produce is sold abroad and on imports of ingredients that cannot be grown in the UK. A recent report from Morrisons found that only 52% of food eaten in the UK comes from British farmers. Agriculture in particular stands to lose or gain a huge amount from Brexit. More than half of farm incomes come from EU subsidies. If those are not replaced, up to 90% of farms could close down, according to a report by industry analysts. But the handouts are seen as distortive by many farmers. They hope that withdrawing from the EU's Common Agricultural Policy will also come with big opportunities. Worth £93bn to the UK economy; 2.8 million workers How about the UK's shops? Britain is known as a nation of shopkeepers, and consumer spending continues to fuel the economy. The ""number one priority"" for retailers in the Brexit talks is no new tariffs on EU goods, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) says. Otherwise, shoppers could see their prices go up. ""There is a limit to the amount of increased cost retailers can absorb,"" a BRC spokeswoman says. Shops are already dealing with business rates, the National Living Wage and higher import costs due to the weaker pound. Migration is an issue too. Retailers employ about 120,000 EU nationals, the BRC says. They want those workers - from shelf stackers to executives - given a ""fair deal"". Worth £16bn to the UK economy; 62,000 workers For pharmaceutical firms - another major British industry - the concerns are less about tariffs and more to do with regulations. Currently, drugs tested in the EU can then be made and sold in the UK and vice versa. To protect the sector's ""rich heritage"", regulatory co-operation needs to continue, according to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI). The industry - which accounts for one in five of the best-selling prescription drugs worldwide - is ""confident"" Mrs May understands its priorities for the talks. Dr Virginia Acha, the ABPI's director of medical research, says: ""The prime minister has said that making the UK 'the best place for science and innovation' is one of her key objectives for leaving the EU."" Worth £52bn to the UK economy; 945,000 workers Airlines, by their very nature, are at the frontline of tighter borders and access to the EU. The industry has boomed, in part thanks to the aviation version of the EU's single market. Helped by the European Common Aviation Area, more than 130 million passengers fly between the UK and the rest of the EU every year, almost double the amount from 20 years ago. Airlines such as EasyJet and British Airways are keen for the UK to still have some access to it, but how that will work once the UK leaves the EU single market is unclear. Tim Alderslade of Airlines UK says top of the wish-list is ""full access to each other's markets for airlines"", but also ""no restrictions on access between the EU and third countries, including the United States"". Aviation lawyers say a deal will have to be struck because the UK cannot fall back on international trade rules. However, they add that existing agreements with India, Vietnam and Australia could provide a template. Account for 99% of businesses in every main industry sector; 15.7 million workers As with big companies, small-to-medium sized businesses want clarity from the Brexit talks. They want to ""make sure that easy access to trade and the right talent feature prominently in the forthcoming negotiations,"" says Mike Cherry, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). The EU is by far the biggest trading partner for smaller firms. The single market accounts for 92% of small business exports and 85% of imports, according to the FSB. Ministers need to remember these thousands of small businesses, not just the big multinationals at the top of the supply chain, it says. But with so many conflicting and competing interests, that might be easier said than done. Economic value of each sector measured by gross value added to the UK economy. Data provided by industry associations.","Prime Minister Theresa May has @placeholder Article 50 , formally starting the process of the UK leaving the European Union .",criticised,triggered,ratified,issued,added,1
"There was a time when images of the stars setting off from a training ground on a jog were as much as we saw but the influence of social media means it has now never been easier to copy what the professionals do. Their methods are dynamic, scientific and targeted. So with the help of Jamie Kennedy - a personal trainer to Liverpool's Danny Ings, Tottenham's Kieran Trippier and Southampton's Jay Rodriguez - BBC Sport shows you what top players do so you can sharpen up before the new season. Be careful, but give it a go... Media playback is not supported on this device What is he working? Hamstrings, glutes, quads, joint stability. Kennedy says: ""From a sitting position to an explosive jump, this movement can help develop the power and fast-twitch fibres players need to operate at a high level. This is one of my favourite exercises to use with the players. It is fantastic for isolating power from leg muscles. ""If you wanted to use this method you could start by simply trying to stand from a sitting position on the floor using just your legs. Progress it to use just one leg to take you from the floor to a stood position."" Media playback is not supported on this device What is he working? Dynamic balance, lower-limb power, lateral power. Kennedy says: ""Posture control, balance and flexibility are essential in ensuring efficient movement during the game and Ings works on those in the opening two exercises here. Later, in leaping sideways he builds strength in his legs to aid the lateral functions football requires and he finishes with a core strength exercise to shape powerful movements."" Media playback is not supported on this device What is he working? Leg strength, overall power, running economy. Kennedy says: ""Using another person to pull him back as resistance calls on Gerrard to develop strength, notably in his legs but also in driving his upper body forward to ensure all of his body is helping him put power into his sprint effectively. Fast-twitch fibres are activated."" Media playback is not supported on this device What is she working? Core strength, explosive power. ""Aluko's leap onto a high box is designed to make her leg and core muscles contract quickly, helping to develop fast-twitch fibres used for power that she will need when performing that key sprint or explosive movement in a game situation. ""Jump work is fantastic. Start by just using a small step and build it gradually."" Media playback is not supported on this device What is he working? Foot speed, range of leg muscles, core strength, stability. Kennedy says: ""Deeney uses a foam roller here to perfect the short, sharp side-to-side movements he may use to forge a yard of space through rapid lateral movement before performing three ballistic jumps. ""The jump action works across three areas - his, hip, knee and ankle joints simultaneously. This is known as multi-joint facilitation and is a key factor as in football, strength and power are always used across a variety of muscles and joints."" Media playback is not supported on this device What is he working? Leg strength, balance. ""This range of repetitions will help the athlete develop strength and power within his lower body. Deeney mixes them up with dynamic split squats which fatigue his legs before each jump, thus building strength endurance."" Media playback is not supported on this device What is he working? Leg strength, shoulders, endurance, stability, sideways movements. Kennedy says: ""Johnson uses a weight but does not isolate just one muscle group as his full-body range of movement in lifting from the floor to over his head works muscles from his calf up to his shoulder, allowing him to develop upper body strength and a physical presence on the pitch. ""Reverse lunges work the glutes, quads and hamstrings, reducing the risk of injury. His repeated movement patterns sideways between kettle bells and up against a step create muscular endurance called upon during a match."" Media playback is not supported on this device What is he working? Agility, injury rehabilitation, joint strength. Kennedy says: ""After a terrible cruciate knee-ligament injury last season, Bojan has to be sure his body can handle the countless challenges football presents. From fast feet in the ladder to backward and sideways movement through the agility sticks, his knee is asked to take the shock of several ranges of motion here. But, crucially as he recovers from injury, he knows where the obstacles are - thus ensuring safety."" Media playback is not supported on this device What is he working? Lateral movement at speed, concentration in receiving instruction. Kennedy says: ""A player may need to move sideways quickly to change direction or to man-mark at a set piece. Here Bojan is told which tennis ball (numbered one to four) to collect and move. In listening for instruction this helps his body react to his mind but in a controlled environment, as this is a progression from the above exercise in some ways."" Media playback is not supported on this device What is he working? Injury prevention, glutes, calf muscles, running technique. Kennedy says: ""In recent years, hamstring, knee and ankle issues have hampered Carroll, so building strength, resistance and stability in his legs is key. Here, his hip thrusts from a bench develop his glutes activation to ensure they are strong enough to absorb impact during games. His second exercise works his calf, which will in turn create better stability in the ankle and help when trying to perform powerful sprints. ""The sprint on the spot encourages upright position, a strong knee lift and good posture. Another way to do this is to put your hands against a wall and simply sprint on the spot, keeping your knees high.""","Pre-season training methods were once a @placeholder secret , locked away behind training ground doors .",defining,toy,guarded,coveted,pioneering,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device With four countries - Wales, Ireland, England and France - all in with a chance of finishing as champions, the 23-year-old says it will be important to stay calm in the heat of battle. ""Flashpoints happen in every game and you just have to do your best and make sure you don't give away penalties, or whatever,"" said Williams. The Welsh take on Italy in the first of three crunch games on Saturday. Media playback is not supported on this device That match in Rome is followed by Scotland's contest with Ireland at Murrayfield, then England's clash with France at Twickenham. Dylan Hartley agrees with Williams that it will be vital to stay composed and says the England dressing room will be ""quite calm"" before kick-off. ""Gone are the days of head-banging and punching holes in walls,"" said the Northampton hooker. After six weeks, 15 games and 1,200 minutes of bone-crunching action, the Six Nations could be decided in the very last minute. The permutations are almost endless. Even France can win, should Wales and Ireland lose and Les Bleus beat England by eight points or more. To give you an idea of what might happen on a gripping final day, BBC Sport has asked a host of famous rugby names for their verdicts. Who's going to win the three games on Saturday? Ex-Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies: Wales, Ireland, England Ex- Scotland scrum-half Andy Nicol: Wales, Ireland, England Ex-England centre Jeremy Guscott: Wales, Scotland, England Who's going to win the title? JD: England AN: Wales JG: England How is Saturday going to pan out? JD: ""Wales need to set a target of at least 10 points to put pressure on Ireland and England, but Stuart Lancaster's men must be favourites because of home advantage."" Media playback is not supported on this device AN: ""I have a funny feeling that Wales could rack up a big score against Italy, especially as the Italians are without captain and superstar Sergio Parisse. This will heap pressure on Ireland and England, who I think will both win their games but not by much. So Wales win the Six Nations."" JG: ""Wales are disrupted by injuries and I don't believe they will score enough points against Italy. Although Ireland will fancy their chances to score a good number of points against Scotland, the Scots will not want to be embarrassed at home and will play hard, showing plenty of pride. England's home record is decent and they're good enough to beat a poor French side by a good margin to lift the title."" JG: ""I am intrigued to see how Wales turn round from the Ireland game in the space of a week. The physical effort they put in was of a different scale to anything else we have seen. It was super-human.  They will be battered, bruised and mentally drained, despite winning. That will be difficult to recover from in seven days, but they are coming off a high and they know if they score enough points they could win the championship."" Ex-Italy lock Carlo Del Fava: ""Italy have a monumental task. Wales are coming to Rome to score points, as England did last year when Stuart Lancaster's men won 52-11. It is going to be a battle and extremely difficult, there is no getting away from that, but it is not an impossible task to keep this Welsh team at bay."" JD: ""Wales haven't got great strength-in-depth in the front row and they're fielding two new props in Rome, so it will be a big test for the front five. Bbut Wales should go to Rome and get a result."" Ex-England coach Andy Robinson: ""You have got to build the score to start with and kick your goals. Wales have to break Italy's spirit and then run in the tries in the last 20 minutes."" Ex-Wales wing Shane Williams: ""I would love to be able to say I am very confident Wales can put 50-60 points on Italy, but that's not going to be case and it is going to be difficult. I can see Wales winning comfortably, but I think the ball is in England's court at the moment."" Ex-Ireland hooker Keith Wood: ""I always hated Murrayfield, it was a horrible place to go. But I think the Irish lads will be confident they can go out and do it. I don't think Scotland have that same level of strength that Wales showed, but they will be fearful, too. Although Scotland are without a win and are bottom, they have been close without quite getting there this year. Ireland have to be focused because Scotland will have their day soon - and it could be this week."" AN: ""Scotland may have lost all four of their games so far, but I think they will click at some point. They will take some confidence from the last 20 minutes of the first half in the loss against England last weekend. They defended well, really dug in and showed a lot of character there. I have backed Scotland in every game so far and they have lost the lot so I am changing tactics by backing Ireland and hoping I am wrong again!"" KW: ""Ireland are pretty much a team in transition. They had a horrible injury list at the start of the Six Nations, they put a conservative game-plan in place to get over the first couple of hurdles, and they retained that against England, but they just didn't enact it against Wales. ""They just have to cut loose a bit against Scotland. It depends what happens beforehand but they need to win, first and foremost, and then rack up the points to set a target for England."" Ex-Ireland prop Paul Wallace: ""Scotland are a good team but maybe they don't have that self-belief yet."" JG: ""I think England are less favoured now to win the Six Nations, given the France scoreline when they nilled Italy last weekend. But I would back England at home against anybody. If they find the intensity and accuracy they did in the second half against Wales on the opening weekend, I don't think the French will be able to handle it."" AR: ""France are not going to do it. They are in a shocking place at the moment and I think England will blow them away in the last 15 minutes."" JD:  ""France tend to have one performance in them somewhere, but England have to start favourites."" Ex-England scrum-half Matt Dawson: ""It is going be an emotional rollercoaster for the England guys and I don't see how you cannot know the results throughout the day. I think England will need to win the game against France by 10-12 points."" Ex-England fly-half Paul Grayson: ""Scotland are staring at the Wooden Spoon, so they'll be up for it, which means it will be hard for Ireland. That could play into England's hands. Scotland helping England? Marvellous.""","Wales wing Liam Williams plans to keep his "" @placeholder in the oven "" and his "" head in the freezer "" as he prepares for a mouth - watering finale to this season 's Six Nations .",result,foot,experience,body,change,3
"Ahmet Sik is a widely respected, well-known investigative journalist in Turkey. He recalls the day he got injured while covering the protests in Istanbul's Gezi Park this summer. He is convinced that he was targeted by the police. ""There were at most 10 metres between us,"" he says. ""A gas bomb that's thrown by hand hits me directly on the head. The people who were hospitalised just after me were: a pro-Kurdish opposition MP, a main opposition MP and the journalist who took the iconic picture of a woman in red dress being tear-gassed. This can't all be coincidence."" More than 100 journalists were injured while covering the Gezi protests. But although some journalists were - against all odds - trying to report on the protests, the mainstream Turkish media initially avoided covering them. This fuelled the suspicion of protesters that the media had either been ordered by the government to look the other way, or were doing so out of fear or favour. Ahmet Sik believes the media blackout actually fuelled the protests. ""If those people [protesters] could have heard their voices on television, I do not think these protests would have got this big,"" he says. I approached several media bosses for comment. None of them was willing to talk. The Turkish government denies any press censorship. Instead, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed the foreign media for misrepresenting Turkey. I had been sent by the BBC from London to cover the protests in Istanbul and I tweeted a comment from one protester calling for an economic boycott for six months to get the government to listen. Later, the quote was ascribed to me by the mayor of the Turkish capital, Ankara, as if I had had been the one calling for a boycott. He started a Twitter campaign against me, calling me a British agent and a traitor and called on his more than 700,000 followers to show their ""democratic reaction"". Thousands of death and rape threats followed. Two days later, Mr Erdogan accused me in a speech of ""being involved in a conspiracy against my own country"". The threats and the hate campaign against me have fizzled out but, months later, some journalists in Turkey are still being intimidated by officials. Ismail Saymaz, an investigative journalist, has been covering the death of 19-year-old Ali Ismail Korkmaz, who was allegedly killed by the police during last summer's protests. He was the first journalist to publish the CCTV footage showing how Mr Korkmaz was kicked severely in the head. After investigating this story, Saymaz received an email from the governor of Eskisehir, the city where the attack took place. The email, sent at four in the morning, began: ""My son, you are being naughty again."" ""He used insults like you're 'vile' and 'dishonourable' and made references to death,"" Saymaz recalls. ""I did not get nervous,"" he tells me. ""Actually I am used to public officials complaining about me. I was surprised, though. Intimidation through an email? I've never seen that before."" In Antakya, a border town with Syria, Mr Korkmaz's close-knit family is still grieving over the loss of their beloved son. His brother Gurkan takes me to his room which now feels like a shrine in memory of the boy: his colourful t-shirts laid gently on his bed, his photographs attached to the walls, newspaper clips about his death everywhere. They are grateful to journalists like Saymaz who have reported on his death relentlessly. Source: Turkey's Union of Journalists Gurkan Korkmaz says: ""At first, the governor said, Ali might have been beaten up by his friends. Then he said, 'the Turkish police would never do such a thing'. ""If the media had not pursued it, this case would probably have ended with, 'his friends beat him up'."" The trial of suspects in the death of Ali Ismail Korkmaz is expected to start in February. Saymaz is determined to continue reporting the story ""because maybe this story will prevent another young person being killed in the same way, at least in Eskisehir"". ""It might prevent another public official treating another journalist as if he was under his command,"" he says. ""If there is a better country to be built tomorrow, these stories might be amongst the many small bricks in its construction."" The governor of Eskisehir was not available for comment. Journalists are physically safer today than in the 1990s, when the Kurdish conflict was in its most intense phase, but critics say they do not know when or why they might be prosecuted or jailed now. Turkey's Journalists Union says there are 60 journalists still imprisoned in Turkey, which makes it the biggest jailer of journalists. Recently, seven journalists received life sentences, not for their journalism, the judges say, but for terrorism. Sweeping anti-terror laws, critics say, are used like a dragnet, catching anyone straying too close to the red lines in Turkish politics. In Istanbul, I met the sister of one imprisoned journalist, Huseyin Deniz, Berlin correspondent for a leftist Turkish newspaper who once edited a pro-Kurdish paper. For Dilsah Deniz, the charge that her brother is a member of a terrorist organisation is ""ridiculous"". ""Terrorist acts should be things related to violence,"" she tells me. ""Writing or talking about the Kurdish issue is not terrorism."" Turkey's Union of Journalists says that in the last few months more than 200 journalists have been sacked or forced to resign for covering issues the government finds sensitive. There also appears to be a creeping culture of self-censorship. I have made repeated requests to the government for interviews but no-one was available for comment. Several pro-government journalists who say there is no crackdown on press freedom in Turkey declined my requests as well. Communications professor Yasemin Inceoglu says that both the pro-government and the opposition media in Turkey work as propaganda tools, polarising society. ""When somebody criticises the government, they must not treat him or her as a traitor in Turkey,"" she argues. ""When you criticise, they think you are supporting a coup or trying to overthrow them. That perception must change."" Now the Turkish prime minister is facing what many say is his greatest challenge yet, this time coming from a former ally. A controversial Islamic cleric, Fethullah Gulen, is said to have extensive influence over the judiciary and police force. He has turned against the government, amid widespread allegations of official corruption amounting to billions of dollars. Mr Erdogan's response has been typically forthright. He said: ""I'm appealing to the judiciary. You cleanse yourselves too. I'm appealing to the businessmen. You will be the ones who lose. I'm appealing to the media. You will be the ones who lose. Because you're not honest. You are slandering our government with lies and trying to weaken it."" No one can predict the outcome of this conflict. But the way it unfolds and how it is portrayed in the media could have a long-lasting impact on Turkish democracy. You can hear and see more about this topic at these times on BBC World TV on Tues 24 December: 0230, 1330, 1930, 2330 GMT, and on BBC News Channel at 1230 and 2130 GMT on 29 December or catch up later on BBC iPlayer.",""" The police were just behind us . The first tear gas they threw hit me . I @placeholder my head . Blood was pouring out . """,shook,groups,reached,drugs,clutched,4
"Two weeks ago Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat was lauded for standing up to Sebastian Vettel in China as the four-time world champion criticised him in full public view. ""Madman"", ""suicidal"" and ""torpedo"" were just some of the words used by the German in relation to Kvyat, who dived down the inside of the Ferraris while the red cars were busy crashing into each other. A laughing Kvyat responded: ""That's racing,"" and added: ""We didn't crash."" To which Vettel replied: ""You didn't. You were lucky this time."" That was not the case at his home race in Russia as Kvyat rear-ended Vettel twice in quick succession, at the second corner and then the third, forcing Vettel into a spin into the barriers and instant retirement. Kvyat was given a 10-second stop-go penalty for his errors but worse - much, much worse - was that this happened right in front of Red Bull motorsport kingmaker Dr Helmut Marko and Russia president Vladimir Putin. And, for Kvyat, the wrath of Dr Marko is much more serious than embarrassment in front of Putin. An Austrian, 73-year-old Dr Marko is the head of Red Bull's driver development programme, which supports promising drivers in junior formula with the best progressing to its two Formula 1 teams - Red Bull and Toro Rosso. He was a driver himself and won the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1971 before a brief Formula 1 career was ended a year later at the French Grand Prix when a stone thrown up by Emerson Fittipaldi's Lotus pierced his helmet visor, blinding him in his left eye. Dr Marko is not afraid of bruising egos and has had some blunt words for notable drivers. In January 2013, in the company's own magazine, he said then Red Bull driver Mark Webber ""falls relatively easily into a downward spiral"" while two-time world champion Fernando Alonso was ""busy with politics and funny comments"". Last year he also threatened that Red Bull would quit F1 altogether ""if we don't have a competitive engine in the near future"". It would take a hard heart not to feel some sympathy for Daniil Kvyat after the Russian Grand Prix. It was his 22nd birthday on the Tuesday before his home race. He was blown away in qualifying by team-mate Daniel Ricciardo for the fourth consecutive time this season. He was at fault in two crashes with Vettel in two corners at the start of the race. The first of these wrecked Ricciardo's race. The second put Vettel into the wall. And, as Vladimir Putin watched from the stands, the country's racing poster boy trailed to the finish in 15th place. Kvyat's problems are bigger than that, though. They are that a hard heart is exactly what beats in the chest of Red Bull's notoriously ruthless motorsport chief Helmut Marko. Kvyat is a very decent F1 driver, but he knows he is driving for his career this season. In the drinks company's junior team - for which Kvyat himself drove two years ago - are two highly promising young stars. One of them, 18-year-old Dutchman Max Verstappen, is already being touted as a future world champion, and attracting the attention of other top teams. Verstappen is under contract for next season. But if they do not want to him to be attracted by the bright lights of, say, Ferrari, Red Bull will surely have to promote him next season. Now, there are rumours it could happen sooner than that. Last year, Kvyat outscored Ricciardo in terms of points, but the Australian was undoubtedly the faster driver; he was just unlucky. This year is going the same way. Vettel was wrong to lambast Kvyat after the Chinese race - but there was no doubt who was in the wrong in Russia. Kvyat had simply rammed Vettel from behind, twice in the space of a few hundred yards. ""Of course it's easy now to attack me,"" Kvyat said, ""and I guess everyone will. But I am OK with that."" It is not the public criticism he needs to worry about, though. Never want to miss the latest Formula 1 news? You can now add F1 and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home.","Oh , Danii boy . How quickly @placeholder and perceptions can shift in Formula 1.",goods,food,schools,events,fortunes,4
"Photographer Erik Scraggs snapped the moment Shane O'Reilly was struck by the animal as he cycled in Phoenix Park. Mr O'Reilly from Blackrock in County Dublin told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that he was left with a cracked helmet following the incident on Sunday, but managed to carry on. The park is home to around 500 deer. ""The helmet definitely saved me,"" Mr O'Reilly added. ""Apart from that, my shoulder was a bit sore and I had a headache."" The competitor completed the race in two hours 25 mins. Mr Scraggs told the BBC he never thought deer would ""try and leap over the cyclists"". ""I had a feeling they might make their way across the cyclists' path, so I tracked them though my lens,"" he said. ""I never envisaged that they would actually try and leap over the cyclists. It all happened so fast, It was a really heavy crash. ""It was a relief to see the competitor get back to his feet and continue."" It is understood the deer has also recovered.","Triathlons are tough at the best of times , but one competitor in the Dublin city @placeholder got more than he bargained for when he and a deer collided .",team,food,event,highlights,membership,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device Norwich judoka Jono Drane got a second chance and realised a second dream. And down it came again. Mental wounds grew upon physical wounds and life was brimming with hurdles to be hacked through, all over again. But the 29-year-old will be in Rio for this summer's Paralympics. Visually-impaired, slightly suspect knee, grappling anxiety and depression. Still hacking, but at least there is a tangible reward within reach. Having built up a plumbing and heating business, Drane went for a routine eye-check in 2011, when he was told he had the progressive eye condition corneal dystrophy. ""I'd always had problems with my eyesight - problems with astigmatism [blurred vision] - things like that,"" he recalls. ""But I just remember being told after the tests that I wasn't allowed to drive home. ""Then a load of things made sense - for example, I'd had a fall-out with friends because they hadn't helped me when I had asked for driving instructions. It's progressive and you don't notice - it's not like one day you wake up and you can't see. You just accept it for what it is. ""It was horrible having to shut down your own business. I put so much energy into this one thing and then it just seemed very unfair that it just disappeared."" Judo had been a part of Drane's life since his teenage years. Diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) at 15, he used it as a way of channelling his energies during what was a difficult time. The sport joined the Paralympics in 1988. Exclusively for athletes with vision problems, it differs from the sighted sport in that fighters grip up at the start and commands are given verbally. It seemed like a perfect match for Drane, given the talent he already had. But he was reluctant to go down that road, having already had something he had worked hard for taken away from him in an instant. At the 2012 London Paralympics, he acted as a training partner for some of the GB team. Perversely, and much to his frustration, his vision was not good enough for him to drive a car but was too good for him to be part of the official training squad. But his eyesight continued to deteriorate and eventually, when it got bad enough to make him eligible for competition, Drane agreed to give visually-impaired judo a chance. In 2013, Drane joined the full-time GB programme based in Walsall. He was fifth at the European Championships that year before winning bronze at the 2014 World Championships. Not bad for a relative beginner. But stand by for another cruel blow. Drane was already receiving treatment for depression and anxiety when he suffered a cruciate knee ligament injury last year, 17 months before the Rio Paralympics. ""I don't think the injury helped my state of mind. It got quite severe and I don't think I dealt with it very well,"" says Drane, whose coach Ian Johns was an unfailing support. ""I was in a very sad place and everything seemed so unfair. So the first four months of my rehabilitation were about rehabilitating my mind, getting my head straight and trying to work out what is important to me and what isn't. ""It went as far as depression can go and I am very fortunate that the British Athletes Commission got me good help on the mental health side of things, which wouldn't have been available had I not been an athlete. I am very lucky."" Having already been a passionate advocate for ADHD and become a patron of the ADHD Foundation, Drane is now hoping that speaking out about his experience with depression can help others in the same situation. But dealing with his own medical conditions remains an ongoing challenge. ""I don't think the ADHD is a particularly great partner for my sight loss,"" he says. ""There is just such a short distance between impulse and action that it becomes very stressful. ""You become concerned about what person you are when you wake up - if you are going to be able to do a task that you did very well yesterday or not at all. ""It is very hard to have confidence in what you are going to do because I don't know who is going to turn up and what attention level I am going to have. ""I take medication every morning but I don't think being reliant on it is a good thing. However, I live in fear of a life without that medication and I don't know who I am."" Drane says he is happy at the moment. The knee has healed well and he travels to Rio this month for a training camp and competition. In June, he will be in action in front of a home crowd in the International Blind Sports Grand Prix in Walsall. So, given everything that has gone wrong, can he allow himself to think about winning a medal in Rio? ""I am competitive but I know it isn't too healthy for me to think about it,"" he says. ""At the moment it is about just keeping things simple and looking after myself."" ""Paralympic judo over the last six years has progressively got so much harder, so to win a medal has never been as difficult as it is now. I don't see any reason why I can't win but there are plenty of reasons why I can't win. ""You can do all the preparation in the world get it right but sometimes the medal just doesn't go to the right person on the day. That is what makes sport so brilliant.""","You are in your twenties and your life is @placeholder out before you . Seemingly unopposed . Growing pains behind you , successful business grown from scratch . And suddenly it all comes crashing down around you .",slipping,carrying,holding,singled,stretched,4
"Bio-scientist Samantha Ho, 39, was found dead at a house in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, in August. Her head and body were discovered separately and a post-mortem examination found she died after suffering cuts to the neck. Her husband, Timothy Allen, 40, of Curlew Place, St Neots, gave his plea via video link from Cambridge Crown Court to a judge at the Old Bailey. Mr Allen spoke only to confirm his name and enter a not guilty plea to Judge Mark Lucraft QC. The defendant is due to go on trial on 22 February at Cambridge Crown Court and was remanded in custody. The case is expected to last up to 10 days and will be heard by a high court judge.",A man accused of beheading his scientist wife has @placeholder murder .,denied,tried,commits,begun,suspected,0
"Professor Dominic Harrison says this must act as a ""strong warning light"" and suggests cuts to local authority social care budgets could be partly to blame. Public Health England says it is monitoring the provisional data. And its officials say a particularly bad strain of flu and an ineffective vaccine may be behind the rise. Prof Harrison's own analysis backs up figures in the Health Service Journal which suggest there have been 5.6% more deaths in England and Wales in 2015 than in the previous year - the biggest increase in the national death rate since the 1960s. Though the final figures - which take changes in population size into account - will not be released by the Office for National Statistics until the summer, experts say more needs to be done to understand the reasons behind the spike and urge public health experts to focus on wider factors, not just influenza. Prof Harrison, director of public health in Blackburn and Darwen and adviser to Public Health England, also points to a separate report by Public Health England which reveals a large number of local authorities showed a fall in life expectancy at age 85 in 2014. Taken together he says the figures suggest ""something is making the population more vulnerable to death."" Prof Harrison says reductions in local authority social care budgets have particularly affected preventative care services that would normally provide daily one-to-one contact for elderly people. Cuts to meals on wheels services, for example, could mean more elderly people go through entire days without seeing anyone else, and if they are ill this would mean they deteriorate without anyone noticing, he says. He adds: ""One of the things this data might be telling us is that that it is just not possible for the health and social care system to contain costs, improve quality, reduce inequality and improve outcomes within such a rapidly diminishing resource envelope."" David Buck, senior fellow in public health at the King's Fund, agrees that wider issues such as changes to pensions, must be taken into account. He added: ""Public Health England, as a guardian of the nation's healthcare needs to get behind this and investigate more thoroughly."" Public Health England said statistics for older people fluctuate from year to year. Professor John Newton, chief knowledge officer at PHE added: ""There is often no obvious pattern to this but it is clearly important to keep a close eye on the trends, and consider a range of possible explanations. ""In 2015, the monthly death figures suggest cold weather and flu may have played a part in the high numbers of deaths in the early part of the year.""","England and Wales have seen the biggest jump in the number of deaths a year for a whole @placeholder , a public health expert suggests .",camp,generation,organisation,century,community,1
"Jane Beedle, Candice Brown and Andrew Smyth are the only contestants left from the 12 who started this series. They will face three rounds on Wednesday night's show before one is crowned the winner. The episode is the last to be seen on the BBC after it lost the rights to the show to Channel 4. The final show will see them create a signature challenge involving meringues and take part in a technical challenge set by Mary Berry asking them to make a British classic with just one instruction. They will then have to produce a showstopper said to be the most complex ever set in Bake Off history, with the most bakes ever requested for a challenge. The result will then be revealed in front of the trio's family, friends and their former Bake Off colleagues. This year's competition has seen the baking enthusiasts compete against each other in rounds that took in patisserie, desserts and pastry. There were also two new rounds for 2016 - Tudor and botanical. Garden designer Jane, 61, was the first to be named star baker in this, the seventh series of the amateur baking contest. She is known for her traditional - but often intricate - bakes, including a marzipan cake decorated with swans for Tudor week. Youngest finalist Andrew, 25, uses the skills from his career as an aerospace engineer to help him, with his products including a tower of pies that fitted together and turned like cogs. PE teacher Candice, 31, has drawn on her family history with some of her bakes, including a memorable gingerbread replica of the pub she lived in as a child. She has been star baker three times, while Andrew has been awarded the honour twice. If this year's winner follows the path of previous champions, they have television shows and cookery books to look forward to in their future careers. Paul Hollywood is following the show when it moves to Channel 4, while fellow judge Berry and hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins have announced they are leaving. Berry told Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 that she will work with Giedroyc and Perkins again - joking that a future project could involve gardening. She said: ""We have made no decisions whatsoever, we haven't actually all three got together, but we will do something because we're good pals, and who knows what it would be? ""Well, it may not be baking, you never know, it could be gardening. I'm a very keen gardener you know."" She said her decision to stay with the BBC had been made ""straight away"" when she learned the corporation had lost Bake Off. Berry said: ""It was a gut feeling and I made it straight away for myself, having discussed it with my family and others. I'm very happy I've stayed with the BBC."" She added: ""I'm sure the programme will go on to be a little bit different, but it will still be wonderful."" Programme makers Love Productions are yet to reveal who else will front the show alongside Hollywood. The Great British Bake Off started on BBC Two in 2010 before switching to BBC One in 2014. Last year's final, won by Nadiya Hussain, was the UK's most watched television programme of 2015. The Great British Bake Off final is on BBC One at 20:00 BST. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",The oven gloves are off as the final three bakers left in the Great British Bake Off take to the @placeholder one last time in a bid to be crowned champion .,continent,race,country,tent,public,3
"The blood comes from animals sacrificed for the festival, and had mixed with floodwater in parts of the Bangladeshi capital. Nearly 100,000 livestock were sacrificed in Dhaka this year, according to BBC Bengali, mainly on the streets or at underground car parks in residential buildings. At the same time, there was heavy monsoon rain for most of the day on Tuesday, flooding many parts of the city. Flooding has long been an issue in the older parts of the city with poor drainage systems. In the Shantinagar suburb, and other areas, the blood and animal waste combined with the floods created these shocking scenes: residents wading through ankle-high bloody water. Flooding and the annual sacrifice of livestock are regular occurrences in Dhaka, meaning most residents have not expressed much shock at these pictures. The annual Eid al-Adha holiday, the second biggest celebration of the year for Muslims after Eid al-Fitr, commemorates when the prophet Ibrahim showed his readiness to sacrifice his son, Ishmael. Goats and cows are bought from markets by Muslim families and slaughtered, to thank Allah for sparing Ishmael, after an imam has read verses from the Koran. The meat is shared between family, friends and the poor, but the off-cuts and offal are discarded. Almost every year there is some amount of blood on the streets as many families slaughter their livestock on the road. It clears away after a few days. But the heavy rain this year has exaggerated this, making it look as if the streets are awash with blood. The photos have been shared on social media with some criticising the practice of animal slaughter. Others defended the custom saying it is a religious duty that also provides livelihood for farmers who sell the livestock and the meat is shared with the poor. Many residents are criticising city officials for the faulty drainage system, which has long been a problem in some areas. For their part, city officials have said that there were designated areas where animals should have been slaughtered. However, some Dhaka residents said there was not enough campaigning to make them aware of these spots. Others said they could not get there because of the rain. A waste management official with Dhaka South City Corporation told the Dhaka Tribune they were working to resolve the flooding issue.","As Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al - Adha , people in Dhaka have been sharing pictures showing streets flooded with blood - @placeholder water .",threatening,stained,including,listed,related,1
"The first sign of human life in Kotla Nek Ahmed village is the angular tips of three tombstones. They poke from the waters of what otherwise seems to be a big lake. The boat driver keeps a respectful distance as he navigates towards a half-submerged clump of trees. Somewhere out there are dozens of people marooned by Pakistan's late-monsoon floods and rescuers from the local Punjab provincial government are making another foray to find them. Many here in this district along the banks of the river Jhelum stayed behind when their villages started flooding, reluctant to leave homes and precious livestock - and praying it wouldn't get any worse But now they have found themselves trapped, with the authorities increasingly concerned about the possibility of more flooding because of a new rain-fed surge coming downriver from across the border in India. They have been urging people to evacuate for miles around. Beyond the clump of trees, the outlines of small dwellings start to appear, but perched on what are now islands. Two men stripped to the waist, against the still bath-like heat, wave at the boat from their little outcrop. When the rescue team arrives, the men greet them with what look like smiles of relief and warm handshakes. They start to try on the bright orange life-jackets they are handed. Then they turn to call their wives and children from inside. A grandmother comes too and takes charge of the young ones fighting for the best place in the boat. But then the men suddenly take off their life-jackets and step out of the boat. What is clearly an old conversation resumes, with the two women remonstrating with their husbands. There are gestures and frustrated tones.  But then the men turn away and walk away towards a few goats and cows tethered near the houses. One of the rescue team shakes his head knowingly.  ""They don't want to leave the livestock,"" he says. The team pushes off, the children quiet now as the boat heads towards a big protective dyke where people displaced by the floods have been setting up temporary shelters. Another boat arrives at the same time.  An elderly farmer steps off with his daughter and two grandchildren. ""I've never seen a flood like this,"" he says.  ""We've lost our cattle and all our crops have been destroyed.  Now I'm standing here and I've got nothing.""",Rescuers in Pakistan are trying to reach hundreds of thousands of people cut off by floods which have destroyed homes and large areas of farmland . The BBC 's Andrew North @placeholder emergency teams in one of the worst - hit areas in Punjab province .,inspired,rally,earth,joined,dispatched,3
"Dunbar Street Art Trail are holding the competition in Dunbar on Saturday 22 April to celebrate Earth Day. The winner will be invited to participate in the World Stone Stacking Championships held annually in Llano, Texas. The competition will feature four categories, including a children's competition. James Page, Dunbar Street Art Trail co-founder, said: ""Stone stacking is both art and meditation, using free materials found on beaches and in parks. ""You can create temporary artistic monuments for passers-by to enjoy."" Fellow co-founder Steven Hill said: ""The importance of street art in our society is to bring attention and focus to art forms in a free and accessible way. ""Stone stacking is ideal because it's not only free to watch but it's free to try.""",Stone @placeholder artists are being urged to take part in Europe 's first stone - stacking championship in East Lothian .,balance,groups,results,needs,bodies,0
"A professional conduct panel found Azam Zia, who worked at Icknield High School, Luton, had failed to tell parents about the off-site sessions. The 37-year-old had also charged pupils between £15 and £20 to attend. He admitted unacceptable professional conduct and bringing teaching into disrepute. The conduct panel, which met last month, heard Mr Zia held the tuition sessions on Saturdays at the Tokko Youth Centre in Luton between August and November 2015. The sessions, which were only attended by Muslim boys, were used to settle conflicts between pupils. They had been organised via email and messaging service WhatsApp. Neither Mr Zia nor a second adult, named only as Individual A, were trained to instruct wrestling, the National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) panel heard. A video shown in private during the hearing to avoid identification of pupils included Individual A wrestling with a student. Mr Zia, who also transported pupils home in his car, admitted all the allegations but said he had intended to open up the sessions to the wider school. He told the hearing he had approached a small group of pupils at first, including female and non-Muslim pupils. The sessions came to light in November 2015 when a pupil expressed concerns to the school's safeguarding officer. Mr Zia was suspended on 20 November 2015 and resigned on 31 March 2016 before any disciplinary proceedings took place. The NCTL panel found he had ""failed to maintain appropriate professional boundaries"" and that his actions could have impacted on pupil safety. The teaching ban imposed on Mr Zia will last for a minimum of two years.",A maths teacher who @placeholder pupils to settle disputes during out - of - hours wrestling sessions has been banned from teaching .,allowed,forces,uses,headed,helps,0
"Currently, people have to go via another Channel Islands customs post - either Guernsey, Jersey or Alderney - to meet immigration and customs laws. The suggestion of a joint role has been made in a review of policing in Sark. The island currently has two voluntary part-time officers for the 600-strong population. Supt Nigel Taylor, from Guernsey Police, is assisting the Sark authorities with the review. He said: ""There are opportunities for a dual-warranted individual... to carry out the functions of customs and policing providing the necessary training is in place. ""[We're] exploring all the options to make sure it's cost effective policing in Sark, but it's also fit for a modern day society."" The Guernsey Border Agency and the island's police force have been united under a head of law enforcement, but no plans to merge the two organisations have been released.",Visitors to Sark may be able to travel directly to the Channel Island if the roles of police and immigration officers are @placeholder .,combined,growing,beginning,appropriate,arriving,0
"Luis was sent off for a first-half challenge on Lionel Messi described by Barca coach Luis Enrique as ""shocking"". Godin received a second caution for a late challenge on Luis Suarez, who earlier scored the winning goal. Atletico coach Simeone said: ""I have nothing to reproach them for."" Even with nine men Atletico were not overwhelmed by the champions but Simeone admitted Barcelona may be difficult to catch in the title race. He added: ""They have players who decide games, a three-point lead, and a game to play. The league is long, but they don't stumble very much. ""I am proud of my team. It kept its character throughout. You can win, or you can lose, and I choose to lose this way any day. ""They had two chances and scored on both, and even playing with nine we put a late scare into them.'' Barcelona are unbeaten in La Liga since early October but despite pulling clear at the top of the table with a game in hand, Enrique insists a successful title defence is not a formality. He said: ""It is clear it is an important day for us to pick up three points against our closest rivals, but there is a long way to go. ""Every game presents its difficulties and you don't always overcome them in the most effective or spectacular way.""",Diego Simeone @placeholder to criticise Filipe Luis and Diego Godin after the Atletico Madrid pair received red cards in Saturday 's 2 - 1 defeat at title rivals Barcelona .,refused,returned,continues,had,starred,0
"As a teenager Pavan Amara was raped. Her attackers were jailed for life and after support and counselling she finally felt she could start to rebuild her life. ""Life continued and everything was normal,"" the 27-year-old from north London said. ""But then there were these things that wouldn't go away - like I had a really big problem looking in the mirror. ""And I'm asthmatic and I wasn't going to the doctor because I didn't want to be touched. ""You're in this room and it feels as though that person is physically in control."" She thought there might be other victims of sexual violence who were also experiencing difficulties - so she interviewed 30 women. The group she spoke to had been affected by a number of issues, from body image to difficulties having sexual health tests. ""There was one woman with a history of ovarian cancer in her family so she really wanted smear testing and she couldn't,"" said Ms Amara. ""She had gone before and the nurse had told her to relax - and that is what her rapist said to her, so she just left."" Ms Amara decided to launch the My Body Back Project to create a website and support network for survivors to share their stories. She also began working with Barts Health NHS Trust to create a clinic specifically for women who had experienced sexual violence. ""I spoke to doctors and nurses and literally everyone I came across said they had met a patient who they thought something had happened to - but they did not know how to handle it,"" Ms Amara said. From Thursday women will able to visit the weekly clinic at St Barts Hospital, in Smithfield, east London, for cervical screening and STI tests. Appointments can be booked by either contacting the My Body Back project or through a GP referral. Demand has meant the clinic is already booked up until mid-October. On arrival at the clinic patients will discuss in-depth with a health worker what could trigger memories of their attack. ""We would say in an ideal world what would you want your doctor or nurse to say to you and how you would like them to react so you would not feel nervous - how do you want us to do it, do you want to insert the speculum yourself?"" said Ms Amara. Women will able to control how they would like their appointment to proceed, from where they would like the clinicians to stand and what positions they feel most comfortable in to what music and clothing they would prefer. There will also be cake, tea, aromatherapy and massages to relax patients before and after their appointments. Patients will also be able to use self-testing kits to detect STIs, Ms Amara believes it's about survivors reclaiming control of their bodies. ""It's about caring for yourself and the fact you are important,"" she added. Consultant physician Dr Jill Zelin, who will be working in the clinic, believes the project will help address emotional and physical barriers. ""In our experience we needed somewhere to go which has a psychology and medical service - usually people go to a psychological service and they are referred to a medical service,"" she explained. ""At the clinic you can see a psychologist and doctor in the same room."" Dr Zelin added: ""There is evidence that women that have been assaulted haven't accessed health smears and they are more likely to get cancer - and this is for no other reason than they have not accessed smears. ""This is about preventing cancer of the cervix as they are at higher risk - smears without fears."" Ms Amara, who is now training to be a nurse, waived her anonymity as a victim of rape to launch the project and hopes her story will help others. ""One thing is I will actually benefit,"" she said. ""I will be using my own service, so I will at some point go for my first smear since I was attacked which will be nice. ""One woman said to me: 'Somebody took something from me years ago when he did what he did so why should that person still be able to control what health services I have?', and hopefully they won't now.""","About 85,000 women are raped in England and Wales every year , according to official figures . Now , the UK 's first cervical screening and sexual transmitted @placeholder ( STIs ) clinic for women who have experienced sexual violence is to open in east London . The woman behind the project explains how she came up with the idea .",disorder,infections,wearing,data,member,1
"A promotional email from the department store in January showed a model standing side on in a long blue dress. It prompted a reader to complain the woman was too thin and question whether the advert was socially irresponsible. But the Advertising Standards Authority concluded the model did not appear to be ""significantly underweight"". Selfridges said the woman was not positioned in a way that was intended to exaggerate her slimness. The company said that while they accepted the model was thin, the general public's perception of weight and whether or not an individual looked unhealthily thin was a subjective matter. The Advertising Standards Authority said the image emphasised the model's slenderness through her pose and the style of clothing, but said she appeared to be in proportion. ""We considered most people, including young children and women, would interpret the ad as focusing on the design and fit of the dress, rather than on desirable body image,"" it said. ""We considered that, although the model was slim, she did not appear to be unhealthily thin or significantly underweight and therefore concluded the ad was not irresponsible."" Selfridges welcomed the ruling but disputed the email was an advert, describing it instead as a ""fashion image sent to selected customers by email"". Denise Hatton, chief executive of the National Council of YMCAs, a founding partner of Be Real, which campaigns to change attitudes to body image, said: ""We've seen positive advances in the fashion industry over the last few years, including from Selfridges themselves, which shows that there is a shift towards more responsible advertising and portraying of diversity. ""However, the recent advert is another example where a slim body is still favoured over others, despite the fact that it doesn't reflect the majority of customers. ""Idealising a body type that's unobtainable for most people can lead to unhealthy methods of weight loss.""","A fashion advert for Selfridges has been @placeholder by the advertising watchdog following a complaint the model in it looked "" unhealthily thin "" .",removed,cleared,endorsed,branded,condemned,1
"Lee Martin, 48, from Basingstoke, died in hospital after he was hit by a Ford Transit van on 12 August 2015. Christopher Gard, 30, of Alton admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for nine years. The Martin family said Gard should have faced tougher action for previous offences of using a phone at the wheel. Father of two Mr Martin was taking part in an organised event on the A31 near Bentley in Hampshire when he was hit by Gard's van. In a statement, the Martin family said: ""The great tragedy about Lee's death is that it was totally avoidable. ""The defendant had been convicted of using his phone at least six times prior to the event. ""Only six weeks before Lee's death he was in front of magistrates pleading hardship if he lost his driving licence. He was, once again, being convicted of using his phone whilst driving and should have been losing his licence due to having too many points. ""Each previous conviction on his licence had been for using his phone whilst driving. The magistrates chose to allow the defendant to keep his licence. ""Whilst Lee's death is clearly the fault of the defendant, we feel that the legal system is somewhat to blame. ""The leniency shown in this case on the defendant, and the lack of understanding of the serious nature of using a phone whilst driving has resulted in Lee Martin's death."" Hampshire Constabulary said Gard was texting immediately prior to the time of the crash. PC David Mitchell said: ""Gard took the decision to send and receive text messages. He remained unaware of the presence of Mr Martin or any other cyclists up to the point of collision."" Gard, who had admitted causing death by dangerous driving, was also banned from driving for 14-and-a-half years at Winchester Crown Court on Monday.",The family of a cyclist killed by a texting driver has hit out at the courts for not banning his @placeholder on six previous court appearances .,killer,position,life,car,participation,0
"""I have used all my prehistoric powers to swim,"" Fu Yuanhui said in an interview with CCTV5 after she qualified for the women's 100m backstroke final. When asked what her hopes were for the final, she said: ""No expectation! I'm very satisfied now!"" That's how she began to rock China's internet and social media. Add her exaggerated facial expressions and humour, and she quickly became an online celebrity. She eventually won a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke final, not gold. But that hasn't reduced the affection from her fans. In fact, her fans on microblogging platform Sina Weibo have increased from a hundred thousand to four million over the past two days, and are still increasing. Many fans have also been sharing cute cartoons of Fu. Young Chinese social media users have been drawn to her straight-forward character, her sincerity and her attitude towards competition. Joanna Zhan, a fan in Chongqing, said she liked Fu because she is ""so cute, and she is as powerful as a mudslide"". ""Fu interpreted the Olympic spirit of challenging herself and enjoying the game,"" she added. Chinese athletes traditionally follow a pattern in media interviews after they compete, thanking the country and vowing to do their best in the next competition. But Fu broke with tradition, showing her own happiness at her performance. One fan, Feng Zhu, told the BBC she liked Fu because she always said exactly what was on her mind. JingYing Li, a female entrepreneur in Sichuan province, said she heard about Fu from her friends. ""Almost everyone is talking about her,"" she said. Ms Li said her colleagues had all been sharing videos and articles about Fu, but liked that she had a deep side to her too among the jokes. ""I even checked her Weibo posts back to 2015. Although Fu seems to be a funny person on social media, she also had a tough time. And her experience encourages me to be strong when I am down."" But it seems Fu is part of a generational change in attitude towards competing. Chinese athletes traditionally become big names if they win a gold medal. If they fail, they are nobody, and will not be remembered or known by audiences. In 2008, China gained 51 gold medals in Beijing Olympics leading to a peak in national excitement and joy. Gaochao Zhang, a London-based independent sports commentator, predicted that without any major upsets, China will secure a top three spot in the medal table this time around. But he said younger Chinese people were now just happy ""enjoying the Olympic Games rather than expecting gold medals"". And Fu's satisfaction with her bronze medal embodies exactly this new sentiment.","All Olympians can enjoy the support of their home country , but the enthusiasm of one Chinese swimmer after winning a bronze has made her an overnight social media star , and is changing the @placeholder of competitive sport in the country , as the BBC 's Yashan Zhao reports .",age,manner,amount,dynamics,view,4
"Garth Michael Williams, 43, pleaded guilty to numerous counts of making and possessing indecent photographs of children and two counts of having an ""extreme"" pornographic image. He also admitted having sex with an animal. Williams, who is originally from South Africa, was living in County Down at the time of the offences. He will be sentenced at the end of May.",A civil @placeholder has admitted a number of serious sexual offences in a case at Newry Crown Court .,chemistry,engineer,organisation,school,servant,1
"An online petition said new head teacher Fiona Robertson ordered the school bathrooms to be locked during lessons. The petition which has gained over 2,600 signatures, claimed the toilets were not unlocked during break times. The school said a key was available in an emergency during class time. The petition, which refers to Miss Robertson as Mrs X, stated: ""As of last week, Mrs X decided that students would no longer be able to use the toilet facilities during class time and proceeded to lock all bathrooms to prevent us from using said facilities. ""The toilets were then promised to be unlocked at interval and lunch but so far this has failed to happen. ""The motive behind this idiocy seems sensible. Mrs X does not approve of the number of people being excused from class and fears people may 'hide' in the bathrooms to prevent going to subjects they dislike and fair enough, this does happen. ""However, preventing us from one of our basic human rights is not the way to solve the problem."" A Perth and Kinross Council spokeswoman said the toilets were not locked during break times and that a key was available for pupils in an emergency during class time. The spokeswoman said:  ""There has been an ongoing issue with a large number of pupils asking to be excused during class time. ""The head teacher has taken steps to reinforce the school's existing policy that pupils should not be out during class time unless under exceptional circumstances. ""We will work with the school's staff, pupils and parents to ensure that everyone understands the policy and how it is being implemented.""",Perth Grammar School has @placeholder a claim that it has imposed an outright ban on pupils using the toilet during class time .,revealed,launched,denied,reached,lodged,2
"The tweet, the first in a series of three, quoted Nelson Mandela and was accompanied by a picture of Mr Obama smiling with a group of children from different racial backgrounds. It has been liked almost three million times since it was posted on 13 August following the attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. The milestone was reached at approximately 01:07 GMT, Twitter told the BBC. It overtook a tweet posted by Ariana Grande expressing condolences after the Manchester terror attack in May. Over three tweets, Mr Obama quoted a passage from Mr Mandela’s autobiography, The Long Walk To Freedom. ""No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion,” the quote reads. End of Twitter post  by @BarackObama ""People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” The picture shows Mr Obama in 2011 visiting a day care centre in Bethesda, Maryland. It was taken by the then-White House photographer, Pete Souza. Since President Trump election win, Mr Souza has been posting topical images on Instagram, mostly highlighting Mr Obama's approach to the presidency in comparison to his successor.",It may be President Trump 's @placeholder tool of choice - but it 's a tweet by former President Barack Obama that has become the most liked in Twitter 's history .,communication,twitter,defining,lump,home,0
"I've spent most of the campaign covering the ""air war"" from Westminster. The two main candidates for prime minister have each confounded expectations. Theresa May started the campaign looking invincible but later struggled to communicate her message and ended up re-writing her manifesto within days of its publication. Jeremy Corbyn began the campaign as a leader whose own MPs doubted his ability to do the job and ended looking as if he was really enjoying it. We'll find out on Friday whether any of this matters. Jeremy Corbyn's ability to attract a crowd and energise the left is not in doubt; his ability to win over voters from other parties is less proven. It was, for the Conservative leader, the most important general election in her lifetime. That didn't stop the leader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies going on holiday halfway through the campaign. I suspect we haven't heard the last of that, fuelled by internal disquiet over the admission of Mark Reckless to the Tory group in the Welsh Assembly. Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron didn't visit the only seat his party is defending in Wales - Ceredigion. The Lib Dems said this was because he was targeting possible gains (it's possible a Ceredigion visit had been scheduled for the days when campaigning was suspended). Mr Farron went to Montgomeryshire on Tuesday to warn that the Conservatives' so-called ""dementia tax"" would threaten the future of the family farm.  Just one problem - social care is devolved, as the Lib Dems know, but they were not alone in trying to confuse voters over devolved issues in this campaign. Theresa May came to Wrexham to re-shape her social care policy in England. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood was everywhere, although she decided against standing in this election. Whether it was the election debates, the Andrew Marr Show, the Daily Politics, Peston on Sunday, Victoria Derbyshire, Jeremy Vine, The World At One, Today or Woman's Hour, she has a bigger UK-wide profile than any other Welsh politician, one that must be the envy of her predecessors and possibly her parliamentary leader Hywel Williams, who is standing in this election but has been rather less visible. Mind you, it didn't stop UKIP leader Paul Nuttall calling her Natalie. We'll find out on Friday whether that Leanne Wood profile translates into votes. What did we learn from the televised election debates? The biggest headlines were caused by Theresa May's absence. As someone who watches politicians debating with each other for his living, I thought the formats that worked best for viewers were those where a leader was put on the spot by voters rather than exchanged soundbites with their counterparts. My rule of thumb would be this: the more politicians involved in debates, the less illuminating the exchanges. The main manifestos were curious. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Labour's sums don't add up. The Conservatives didn't include any sums to add up. There were detailed Tory pledges in some policy areas, vague ones in others - and some issues went unaddressed. There are a few known unknowns: will the Conservatives protect tax relief on pension contributions? Most of it goes to higher-paid workers and it costs £35bn a year. Are the Conservatives still committed to cutting the numbers of MPs from 650 to 600 (in Wales from 40 to 29)? If it's in their manifesto, I missed it. There is the question of priorities. Labour are promising an ""alternative Wales Bill"" to rewrite (again) the devolution settlement. I get no sense of timing from the manifesto. I suspect that, whoever wins, Parliament will be so busy with Brexit that other legislative demands have to form an orderly queue. Some of the campaign tactics were more effective than others. Do voters care about Jeremy Corbyn's past relationship with the IRA? One Conservative candidate told me that tactic worked well with ""the UKIP demographic"", and there are a lot of UKIP votes to harvest. The campaign was suspended twice in response to terror attacks, which changed the focus of the subsequent arguments. It was unusual in many ways. Bill Clinton's team used to say it was ""the economy, stupid"" that decided elections but the economy was far from centre stage this time. Debt and the deficit that featured so strongly two years ago barely got a look in. And then there was Brexit, the reason Theresa May gave for calling this unscheduled election. On the last day of campaigning she reverted to her core campaign theme: who do you trust to get the best Brexit deal? But we may be little the wiser about what that deal looks like - or how it could be secured - until negotiations begin. Whoever wins on Thursday, there are 27 other countries who want to have a say.","It has been an election campaign like no other , with more than the usual twists and turns amid the slogans in the weeks before polling day . The volatility of the opinion polls has @placeholder the ups and downs of an extraordinary campaign .",brought,defended,died,criticised,reflected,4
"It was based on a group of chimps that moved from a Dutch safari park to Edinburgh Zoo. Now, three researchers have written to the journal Current Biology suggesting the results don't stack up. The original team has responded, and stands by its findings and conclusions. ""There are a number of problems with the original study,"" said Dr James Higham, from New York University. ""Some of these relate to the methods used, while others are fundamentally a misrepresentation of what the data actually show."" Warwick University's Dr Simon Townsend, who co-wrote the original paper with colleagues in York and St Andrews, told the BBC: ""We think that we've addressed the points that they bring up. It's an interesting critique of our research - and this is exactly how science works."" In the study, Dr Townsend and his colleagues observed the behaviour and vocalisations of a group of Dutch chimpanzees, after they moved in with an existing colony in Edinburgh. Over several years, they described a change in the call that the Dutch chimps used for apples - a common food for both groups. After three years in their new home, the Dutch group had shifted from calling for apples with a high-pitched, excited grunt, to a low-pitched one that more closely matched the rather unenthusiastic ""apples"" call used by the Edinburgh chimps. This was noteworthy because the Dutch animals, before and after the move, really liked apples - and such calls were generally thought to be closely fixed to the emotional value of the food concerned. But the study's critics argue that the two groups' calls were not, in fact, so different in the first place. ""Closer inspection of the data reveals that both groups largely overlapped in the range of calls they were originally giving in response to the apples,"" said Dr Brandon Wheeler from the University of Kent. The original authors shared their data on the chimp calls, and their critics have re-plotted it in a way that emphasises this similarity. Dr Wheeler describes the change in calls over time as ""statistically significant but biologically weak"". Dr Townsend and colleagues, meanwhile, have also re-plotted the data, tracking changes in individual chimps over time - emphasising the original difference, and convergence towards lower-pitched calls across the three years. It is a notable illustration of how scientists can draw different conclusions from the same data. ""There is a lot of variation in the data; there are clearly some individuals who are changing more than others,"" Dr Townsend said. He also pointed to some of the team's additional data, which suggests that greater social cohesion produced a bigger shift in the calls. ""If you've integrated more over the three-year period, then your calls tend to change more over time,"" he said. Also at the heart of the debate is a disagreement over what precisely constitutes ""vocal learning"". The critics suggest that, even if they concede that the Dutch chimps' calls did indeed shift, it amounts to ""social modulation"": more of an accent change, than the learning of a new ""word"". But the study's authors counter that they were open about these two possibilities - and agree that they are difficult to tease apart. ""It could be that they're actively changing this call to improve understanding. Or it could be that they are adjusting their calls to fit in,"" Dr Townsend explained. The key point, he added, was that these calls - which referred to objects (apples), rather than being purely social - showed a previously unseen flexibility. Finally, the critics argue that the higher-pitched calls could simply reflect greater excitement in the Dutch chimps, following their move, which settled down over time. But Dr Townsend and his colleagues suggest that, if this were the case, you might expect a parallel change in the Edinburgh chimps' behaviour, as they adjust to their new companions - which does not seem to be the case. Dr Higham, one of the critics, told the BBC it was important to thrash out this argument, especially since the original findings were ""widely publicised (and over-interpreted)"" - adding that it wasn't a case of ""trying to tear down other people's research"". ""There are some genuine and very strong disagreements among primate communication researchers about what these types of data show, and mean,"" he said in an email. And although the correspondents are far from reaching any agreement, Dr Townsend also described the to-and-fro as ""a useful exchange"" and said he hoped others in the field would find the discussion valuable.","A debate is unfolding among primatologists about a study , published in February , which reported that chimpanzees can adapt their grunts to communicate with new @placeholder .",predators,resolutions,species,homes,neighbours,4
"The question: P.M. asks BBC Radio 4's PM programme: ""Have any of the credit rating agencies (eg Moody's), expressed a view on what effect a Brexit vote would have on our credit rating?"" Reality Check verdict: Standard and Poor's have said it would probably lower the UK's long-term credit rating. Fitch said it would review the UK's credit rating but did not now anticipate a downgrade in the immediate aftermath. Moody's said a vote to leave could lead to a negative outlook due to greater uncertainty and a weaker economy. As a country, we also have what is known as a current account deficit. This is a deficit in the whole economy, not just the government's finances. It is part of the balance of payments. The UK's sovereign credit rating reflects how likely the government is to repay its debts. There are three closely watched international credit rating agencies that assess this: Standard and Poor's has said it would probably lower the UK's long-term credit rating in the event of a Brexit, describing a vote to leave as a ""serious risk"" to the economy, in particular financial services and exports. It is the only agency that still rates the UK as AAA - the top rating. Fitch said it would review the UK's sovereign credit rating in the event of a Brexit, adding that the short-term volatility and uncertainty it could cause and any delay in negotiating trade deals would both undermine the UK's AA+ rating (already one below top notch). However, it did not anticipate a downgrade in the immediate aftermath of a vote to leave. Moody's also rates the UK as one level below its top grade at AA1. It said a vote to leave could mean a negative outlook as a result of the increased uncertainty and a weaker economy. It matters because if the UK's credit rating was downgraded, borrowing would get more expensive, making the deficit more expensive. Fitch believes the UK will vote to remain in the EU on 23 June, Standard and Poor's says it is a ""close call"", and Moody's has expressed no view. Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate","The UK government runs a deficit , meaning it spends more than it @placeholder in in taxes . The government funds it by borrowing money .",brings,buried,doubled,expected,slowed,0
"Police said the man was left unhurt but ""understandably shaken"" after the incident, which took place in Balmoral Place at about 22:30 on Thursday. The men, who spoke with Liverpool accents, took items of personal property during the raid. The male suspects are all described as in their mid 30s and wearing dark hooded tops. Police want to trace a motorcyclist seen driving along Balunie Avenue around the time of the incident. He was described as wearing dark clothing and a light-coloured helmet.",A 32 - year - old man has been threatened and @placeholder in his Dundee home by three hooded raiders .,charged,robbed,assaulted,raped,wounded,1
"A group of at least four whales were seen north of Hunstanton during the afternoon, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) said. An RNLI spokeswoman said its hovercraft had taken marine life experts to assess the whale which was still stuck in water with a depth of about 6ft (2m). She said: ""It looks quite injured and is in difficulty."" Gary Pearson, who lives in Dersingham, saw the whales at about 16:00 GMT and said he was told they had been there for a couple of hours. ""Two had already got out to deeper water, but two were still in trouble and one got away when I was there,"" he said. ""The remaining one was thrashing around and in distress. It looks like an adult sperm whale to me and I wouldn't be surprised if it was 40ft [12m] long. ""It's probably stuck between these boulders covered in algae which you can see exposed at low tide.""",Rescue teams have been @placeholder to save a stranded whale just off the Norfolk shore .,helped,returned,attempting,launched,urged,2
"A week is just a week, but when it comes to strategic focus, China is on course. It's easier to look laser sharp when the competition is in disarray. Here the internal difficulties of the US and the European Union are helpful to China. As Chinese Foreign Ministry official Zhang Jun put it in a discussion with foreign journalists: ""If people want to say China has taken a position of leadership, it's not because China suddenly thrust itself forward as a leader. It's because the original front-runners suddenly fell back and pushed China to the front."" In the past week alone, a bitter row over the size of the crowd at the Trump inauguration, followed by street protests the next day, underlined the divisions of the world's superpower even at the very moment which was supposed to heal. For China's citizens, brought up to see street protests as dangerous, this was another symptom of dysfunction in a political system they've been taught to distrust. And next, an American president echoed Beijing's message that the mainstream American media can't be trusted. So it's been a week to put a spring in the step of China's communists, to shake off the inferiority complex of an autocratic political system, and even to advance the claim that China's system is superior. Among business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Xi talked the language of global togetherness, but back home his Communist Party's flagship newspaper, the People's Daily, lost no time in declaring the bankruptcy of Western politics. ""The emergence of capitalism's social crisis is the most updated evidence to show the superiority of socialism and Marxism,"" it said. This ideological inoculation is invaluable for Xi Jinping ahead of the vital Communist Party Congress which will clarify China's leadership line-up for the next five years. What's more, greater political confidence at home allows him to focus out. The inauguration of a billionaire celebrity promising to make America great again through building walls confirms the view of some in Beijing that the United States is in terminal decline, and that this is a moment of opportunity for China. President Xi's favourite slogans are the ""China Dream"" and the ""great rejuvenation of the Chinese people"". But it's all happening faster than his predecessors could have imagined. It's less than two decades since China fully entered a US-led world of global capitalism. When China joined the World Trade Organization, it complained bitterly about living under rules made by the US and its friends, while fully expecting to live under those rules for decades to come. But November's American presidential election finished what the 2008 financial crisis had begun: a shift in worldview. And now we are one week into the new leadership mission set out by President Xi at Davos. A word about character. In China there are some who compare Mr Trump's character and leadership style with China's Chairman Mao. They point to the former's relentless tweeting as a new version of the latter's daily deluge of quotations. They note other similarities: the unpredictability, distrust of media, and overwhelming self-confidence. Some admire and some despise, but Donald Trump, they say, is a great disrupter in the Maoist mould. All of which is a discussion which takes some of the heat off President Xi at home. Until recently critics accused him of Maoist tendencies after his relentless concentration of titles and power and his frenetic media personality cult. But as China's citizens look out on a world of strongmen this week, their own president may seem comparatively sober, predictable and experienced: not too much the Caesar, nor too little, for a global leader in our age. Meanwhile Mr Xi's outward facing message, that China wants a world of fair trade and globalisation, got a boost this week from several quarters, including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The Chinese-led development bank said it is set for expansion. It currently has nearly 60 members and now says another 25 are likely to join this year. Two years ago when the AIIB was launched, it became a symbol of the pulling power of China's money and nimble diplomacy when US allies lined up to join despite strong US opposition. This week, AIIB president Jin Liqun told journalists, it was China's turn to contribute to the world: ""China needs to do something that can help it be recognised as a responsible leader."" But in the long view, if this week is to be remembered as a tipping point towards Chinese power, it will not be because of anything announced in Beijing but because of what happens in Washington. One of President Trump's first acts in office was to sign an executive order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact which the Obama administration had insisted would cement US leadership in Asia. ""Protection will lead to greater strength"", said Mr Trump. But in an open letter, outgoing US ambassadors in the region disagreed. ""Walking away from TPP may be seen by future generations as the moment America chose to cede leadership to others in this part of the world and accept a diminished role."" Certainly in response to the Trump announcement, US ally and TPP signatory Australia immediately said it hoped to recast the trade agreement without the US, and said China might be invited to join. Asia is the key testing ground where the US stands in the way of China's ambitions. Since the end of World War Two, Washington has insisted that the US is in Asia for the good of all and invested decades in diplomacy and defence to maintain the liberal international order. On the campaign trail, Mr Trump expressed impatience with that investment. And having withdrawn from the TPP, the Trump administration will have to find a new way to nurture key allies and partners in the region and to reassure them that 'America first' does not mean everyone else last. But at the same moment, China's diplomats and bankers are stepping up their efforts and their focus does not waver. Last year, Beijing turned an international legal defeat over the South China Sea into a diplomatic triumph by charming and disarming the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. In the Trump era, it has other US allies in its sights. Only this week, Thailand confirmed funding for the purchase of a Chinese submarine. But on security, the week also saw a cloud on China's leadership horizon. The new White House spokesman Sean Spicer seemed to echo warnings to China from incoming Secretary of State Rex Tillerson when he sketched out a position on the South China Sea. ""We're going to make sure that we defend international territories from being taken over by one country,"" said Mr Spicer. It's not clear exactly what he meant or exactly what Mr Tillerson meant, but a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman immediately restated China's claim to sovereignty in the region, and insisted that Beijing would be resolute in defending its own rights and interests. If the Trump administration is to push back against China in the South China Sea it will need support from US allies who ask themselves whether Mr Trump has the strategic focus necessary for such a risky undertaking. China will naturally encourage those doubts given its preference for making domination of the South China Sea a fait accompli with as little fuss as possible. But there are many players, many unpredictable variables and many wrong moves in this game. One week into the new world order, China's leaders may feel some things are playing into their hand. But it will be many months, perhaps years, before they can judge whether China's global gamble is a win against Trump's America.","At his inauguration last week President Trump reframed the American mission from leadership of a global rules - based system in the interests of all , to ' America first ' . Meanwhile the leader of Communist China rebranded his prickly protectionist power as the defender of globalisation and @placeholder values . So after week one in this upside down new world , how stands China 's bid for global leadership ?",team,beaches,names,influences,shared,4
"The joint-venture company they own, Samarco, does not have enough resources to cover the potential damages, estimated at 20.2bn reais ($5.2bn; £3.4bn), the judge ruled. Samarco owned the dam, which held back waste water from iron ore mining. It burst last month, flooding a vast area and killing at least 13 people. Anglo-Australian company BHP Billiton and Vale, from Brazil, said they had not been officially notified. Judge Marcelo Aguiar Machado's ruling was published on Friday. The two companies will also have to implement ""immediate damage-mitigating environmental measures"" or they will be liable to a daily fine of 150m reais ($38m; £25m), ruled Judge Machado. On 28 November the Brazilian government filed a lawsuit against Samarco for the environmental damage caused by the accident. Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said the accident in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais had ""a huge impact from an environmental point of view"". The village of Bento Rodrigues was totally destroyed and the toxic mud generated by the 5 November dam collapse polluted drinking water over a vast area. The money will be used to compensate the victims and help repair the environment. ""It is not a natural disaster, it is a disaster prompted by economic activity, but of a magnitude equivalent to those disasters created by forces of nature,"" said Ms Teixeira when the lawsuit was filed. About 500km (310 miles) of the Rio Doce - one of Brazil's most important rivers - will have to be dredged in parts, vegetation replanted and fresh-water springs cleared, she said. Less than a week after the accident, Samarco had its mining licence suspended. It also agreed to pay 1bn reais (£170m; $260m) temporary compensation to the victims.",A federal judge in Brazil has blocked the @placeholder of mining giants BHP Billiton and Vale in the country over the deadly collapse of a dam .,criticism,assets,actions,appeal,amount,1
"For many Russians, the main question is whether their country will be stripped of the right to host the World Cup in 2018. ""Russia need not worry,"" NTV television reassured its viewers. ""What would be the point of taking the World Cup championships away from a country with just three years to go?"" an expert told NTV. True to form, state-run Rossiya 1 TV took a more conspiratorial tone. It described Mr Blatter as a ""real friend of Russia"" and suggested that this may be the real reason why he came under pressure. ""Would European and North American football functionaries be thinking of moving the 2018 World Cup if it was not hosted by Russia?"" the TV's reported asked. Unlike Russia, the media in Qatar are not speculating about whether they will still be allowed to host the World Cup in 2022. Two dailies - Al-Watan and Al-Rayah - carry only the local football federation chief's response to the call by the English Football Association's Greg Dyke for a probe. ""Greg Dyke should focus on making sure his country's team qualifies for the 2022 finals, rather than being concerned about Qatar's hosting of the tournament,"" Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifah Bin Ahmad is quoted as saying. Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite TV ignored the story completely in its main Wednesday morning bulletin, even though the story received ample airtime on the channel's English-language service. Mr Blatter's resignation is news throughout the Middle East. In Jordan, Al-Ra'y newspaper naturally backs Jordanian Prince Ali's bid for the Fifa presidency. ""He is the most eligible candidate for taking the lead on the path to reform,"" the paper says. Saudi Al-Riyadh is typical in running the front page headline: ""Corruption storm uproots Blatter"". Egypt's Al-Goumhouriya tells its readers simply: ""Congratulations"", but the Cairo daily Al-Akhbar argues that Mr Blatter's departure is ""not enough unless corruption in the international organization is uprooted"". In Mr Blatter's native Switzerland, Neue Zuercher Zeitung is glad that the ""great survivor"" is leaving: ""The time for him to resign had already come at the end of his last term as president. But he clung to office."" Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wonders whether world football can avoid ""falling into the hands of the next greedy autocrat"". ""The better future is still far from won, despite Blatter's resignation,"" it concludes. Italian newspapers have few kind words for the Fifa president. ""Yesterday the US president went down in history as the head of government who changed the fate of world football by blowing up the fortress in which Sepp Blatter had imprisoned the most beautiful game in the world,"" says Corriere della Sera. In France, L'Express is also happy to see the back of Mr Blatter. ""Sepp Blatter's resignation: 'A good afternoon for football',"" says its headline. Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo argues that Mr Blatter's departure will not be enough to cleanse Fifa of corruption completely: ""It has removed the billy-goat from the room, but the institution that controls football still stinks, being full of other billy-goats just waiting for their misdeeds to be exposed,"" the paper says. Colombia's El Tiempo also calls for more action. It urges a maximum term for Fifa presidents ""to avoid such long administrations (nearly life-terms) as those of Joao Havelange and Blatter himself"". Uganda's Daily Monitor has some suggestions on how Fifa can ""dig its name out of the hole"" - ""Get to the bottom of this matter. Once proven true, force culprits to return the money thereafter, relieve them of their jobs. Slap a lengthy ban on each giver of the money. Ask them to pay an equivalent amount as a fine. Only after this will the sports fraternity take Fifa seriously."" BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world.  You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.",There is hope in the media worldwide that Sepp Blatter 's departure from Fifa will help cleanse football 's governing body of corruption . But in Moscow there are suspicions that this is a @placeholder attack against Russia .,motivated,deserved,disguised,renewed,sex,2
"Several vehicles, lamp posts and a wall were damaged in Cupar Road, Guardbridge, near St Andrews, at about 10:30 on Saturday. The driver of the lorry suffered minor injuries but no-one else was hurt. The road was closed for about seven hours. Police said a 54-year-old man has been charged and a report had been submitted to the procurator fiscal. Details of the charge were not released. Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to contact the Fife Road Policing Unit at Glenrothes Police Station on 101.",A man has been charged after a skip lorry crashed into @placeholder cars before coming to a halt in a garden in Fife .,police,water,parked,force,effect,2
"The dig, in part of the Roman Baths complex, was partly excavated in the 1960s but then sealed up and left. Archaeologists will investigate the masonry and also examine the materials used to backfill the baths. The site will eventually become part of an exhibition at the new Archway Centre which is expected to open in 2019. Archaeologist Simon Cox said it is a ""really rare opportunity"" to examine the world heritage site. ""We don't get to do that sort of stuff everyday, a lot of what we do look at is fairly mundane...to come down and work in the heart of one of the most significant Roman bathing complexes is remarkable and exciting,"" he said. One of the baths will be given a protective lining and filled with earth so it can be used as a digging pit for school groups, where children can uncover a variety of replica Roman objects. Councillor Patrick Anketell-Jones said it was a milestone in the development of the Archway Centre and will provide ""access to Roman remains that have never before been on display.""",Archaeologists have begun exploring two @placeholder in Bath which have been hidden from view for more than half a century .,properties,sale,locations,bodies,caves,2
"The Eastern Europeans are a coming force in rugby union and have aspirations of playing in the Six Nations. They are 12th in the world rankings - two places above Italy - but have played top-tier nations only four times outside of World Cups. Wales will also face New Zealand, Australia and South Africa in November. Wales won three of their four autumn fixtures in 2016, beating South Africa, Japan and Argentina after losing to Australia. Georgia have won the Rugby Europe Championship - Europe's second-tier competition below the Six Nations - for the last six seasons in succession. They have already qualified for the 2019 World Cup in Japan having finished third in their group in the last tournament in England. That campaign included a win over Tonga, while Georgia have also beaten Fiji and drawn with Samoa during the last year.",Wales will play Georgia for the first time at the Principality Stadium in the 2017 autumn @placeholder .,table,event,fixtures,contest,series,4
"The tie at the Bernabeu on Tuesday has been classified as ""high risk"" and security will be ""reinforced"", the Madrid city government said on Friday. Uefa ordered security at European games to be increased after the attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus on 11 April. Atletico will have 4,000 supporters at Real's 80,000-capacity ground. Usually just a few hundred fans travel to away matches in Spain. The number of security personnel on 2 May will be even higher than Real's last European home game against Bayern Munich when riot police clashed with visiting fans at half-time. There were also violent clashes before Atletico's quarter-final home tie between police and Leicester City fans.","More than 2,000 security officers will be on duty for Real Madrid 's Champions League semi-final first leg with @placeholder Atletico Madrid .",neighbours,host,sports,rivals,implementation,0
"Asked what he would do about the city of Aleppo, if elected, Libertarian Gary Johnson answered: ""What is Aleppo?"" Mr Johnson later admitted he had ""blanked"" but said he would ""get smarter"" following the gaffe. Aleppo has been one of the major flashpoints of Syria's five-year civil war. Known as ""Halab"" in Arabic, it is one of world's oldest continually inhabited cities, being mentioned in Egyptian texts from the 20th Century BC. Fighting in Syria has escalated in recent weeks, with an estimated 250,000 people living in besieged rebel-held areas. Although he trails far behind Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in polls, both main party candidates are said to be unpopular among many US voters and analysts believe Mr Johnson could play a part in deciding the result. Aleppo - Syria's second city Trapped in Aleppo: 'We have no food, we cook leaves off trees' Injured boy image highlights Aleppo conflict Why the battle for Aleppo matters Why is there fighting in Syria? The Islamic State crisis explained in seven charts But he seemed unaware of the crisis in Aleppo when asked for his solution by MSNBC panellist Mike Barnicle, saying: ""And what is Aleppo?'' ""You're kidding me?"" replied Mr Barnicle, before going on to describe the situation there. ""OK, got it, got it,"" said Mr Johnson, before adding: ""With regard to Syria, I do think it's a mess.  I think that the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end."" Russia and the US have largely backed opposing sides in the Syrian conflict, with Russian aircraft providing air support to President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Mr Johnson later issued a statement saying: ""Can I name every city in Syria? No. Should I have identified Aleppo? Yes. Do I understand its significance? Yes,"" he said.",One of the third - party candidates in the US presidential election has been ridiculed after being wrong - @placeholder by a question on a key Syrian battleground .,imposed,bitten,driven,listed,footed,4
"Saints are trying to fend off interest in Louis Picamoles from Montpellier, owned by billionaire Mohed Altrad. Hewitt said players' salaries had shown a ""real hike"" in recent years. ""Rugby is dominated by some really wealthy billionaire owners in France and the UK. It's becoming a bit like soccer,"" he added. ""This year we've noticed a real hike in the player salary inflation that's gone into our figures and made our trading slightly more difficult - but that's the way of the world. ""We've just got to adjust to it. We're appointing a new chief executive, it's the right time for me to hand over the chairmanship to John White, who is very experienced, so I think we're well positioned moving forward."" France number eight Picamoles joined Saints from Top 14 side Toulouse last summer and has been hugely influential for a side currently seventh in the Premiership. The 31-year-old's performances have led to him being nominated for the Rugby Players' Association player of the year award. But reports suggest Montpellier, Picamoles' first club, are interested in giving him a central contract with the French Rugby Federation (FFR). ""We can't comment on rumours,"" Hewitt told BBC Radio Northampton. ""What we can deal in is facts. Louis has two more years on his contract at Northampton. We love having Louis in the squad. ""He's just won the Saints Supporters' Club player of the season award and we've got an awards dinner on Monday where I'm sure he'll probably get more awards and he's been nominated for some national awards.""","The finances in rugby union mean the sport is becoming like football , according to @placeholder Northampton Saints chairman Tony Hewitt .",join,outgoing,prop,released,attract,1
"The Kard Bar, on Cross Street, went up in flames shortly before 09:00 GMT on Tuesday. It took firefighters more than five hours to bring under control. Nearby flats were evacuated and more than 80 students spent the night in temporary accommodation. See more on this story and other news on North East England Live. The cause has not yet been determined. It is believed someone may have been trapped on the upper floors of the poster and print shop. John Baines, of Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, said: ""Our operations are continuing. Until we get into the building and do a full analysis as part of our investigation we are unable to conform whether all persons are accounted for."" The alarm was raised by a member of a nearby taxi company. More than 50 firefighters were at the scene at the height of the blaze and thick smoke caused the closure of Westgate Road, Clayton Road and Cross Street. Westgate Road reopened on Tuesday, but Charlotte Square, Cross Street, Low Friars part of Fenkall Street with the junction of Clayton Street remained shut on Wednesday morning.",Investigators are @placeholder to enter what remains of a burnt - out card and memorabilia shop in Newcastle city centre after a blaze in which one person is feared dead .,instructed,struggling,believed,set,threatening,3
"The coastguard was called to an area south of Swanage, Dorset, at 16:40 BST on Sunday after reports a diver on an expedition had gone missing. The dive vessel Emma J alerted authorities after one of three divers did not resurface. Lifeboats and a search and rescue helicopter were involved in a search of around 10 nautical miles. Dorset Police, along with other agencies, will assess the situation before deciding whether to resume later, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said. Mark Rodaway, operations centre commander at the National Maritime Operations Centre, which is overseeing the search, said on Sunday: ""This is a significant incident. ""This diver has been missing for more than three hours and clearly this is very serious. ""We are concentrating our search on this area and will continue to do so.""",A major search for a diver who failed to resurface in the English Channel has been suspended for the @placeholder .,organisation,night,moment,future,month,1
"17 May 2016 Last updated at 08:45 BST Matthew Daley, 35, killed Donald Lock on the A24 near Worthing in July 2016 after the 79-year-old ran into the back of his vehicle. Daley, who was convicted of manslaughter, told how he had attacked Mr Lock on ""auto-pilot"". [Warning: Some viewers may find the description in this clip disturbing]",A man who stabbed a @placeholder solicitor 39 times after a crash between their cars described the attack in interviews with detectives .,retired,man,police,drug,missing,0
"4 March 2016 Last updated at 19:55 GMT Vicky Jacobs, from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, told BBC Look North they found the distressed cat on Wednesday and worked to free it. She said the animal was unharmed, but the incident showed how littering could endanger pets and wildlife.",A cat has been freed from a @placeholder can of dog food after its head became stuck .,flooded,discarded,proposed,frozen,tin,1
"Vittorio Missoni and his wife were among six people on board the flight from the archipelago of Los Roques towards Caracas' Maiquetia airport. The small, twin-engine aircraft disappeared mid-morning local time on Friday and has not been traced since. Mr Missoni, 58, is the son of the founder of the eponymous brand and co-owns the firm with his siblings. He was returning from a Christmas and New Year holiday with his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, and two friends - Elda Scalvenzi and Guido Foresti. Two Venezuelan pilots were also on board. The family confirmed that the plane was missing on Saturday. ""The Missoni family has been informed by the Venezuelan consulate that Vittorio Missoni and his wife are missing, but we don't know any more,"" said spokeswoman Maddalena Aspes. She added that the authorities, who called off the search after nightfall, were expected to resume it in the morning. Los Roques, an archipelago made up of dozens of islands some 95 miles (150km) off Venezuela's coast, is one of the area's most popular holiday destinations. According to the Corriere della Sera newspaper, the pilot of the twin-motored Britten Norman BN2 Islander plane, dating from 1968, was 72-year-old German Merchan. Another plane with eight Italians on board is reported to have disappeared exactly five years ago, on 4 January 2008. Only a single body - that of the co-pilot - was ever found.",A small aircraft carrying the director of Italian @placeholder house Missoni has disappeared off the coast of Venezuela .,group,body,fashion,printing,broadcasting,2
"The aircraft came down at the Potrerillos de Mendoza dam in western Argentina, officials said. MTV said the helicopter was flying to a shooting location for the show The Challenge. Neither of those killed was a cast or film crew member, the US channel said, and no-one else was on board. Divers were having difficulty finding the bodies, the security minister for Mendoza province, Gianni Vernier, told Telam news agency. The wreckage lies at a depth of 60m (200ft). It was the second fatal crash of a helicopter involved in a reality TV show this year in Argentina. In March, three French sports personalities were among 10 killed when two helicopters collided in north-western Rioja province. Yachtswoman Florence Arthaud, Olympic swimmer Camille Muffat and Olympic boxer Alexis Vastine died with five other French nationals and their two Argentine pilots. The helicopters were involved in the filming of the TV survival show Dropped.",A helicopter which was being used for filming an MTV reality show has crashed into a @placeholder in Argentina killing the pilot and a technician .,reservoir,crowd,force,cliff,disturbance,0
"The Birmingham International Marathon and half marathon will be held in October 2017, organisers said. It is expected to follow in the footsteps the People's Marathon, which ran between 1980 and 1985. The race has been created by the Great Run company behind the Great Birmingham 10K and the Great Birmingham Run in partnership with the city council. A provisional route starting at the Alexander Stadium and finishing on Broad Street has been proposed. There will be themed miles along the course to celebrate the city's cultural diversity, organisers said. Birmingham was hailed as the birthplace of the open-to-all marathon when elite runner John Walker launched the People's Marathon on 11 May 1980. Athletics Weekly wrote at the time: ""In years to come, when marathon fields several thousand strong will be commonplace in Britain, it will be seen that the event which triggered off the mass long-distance running movement in this country was the inaugural People's Marathon."" Mark Hollinshead, chief executive of the Great Run Company, said he hoped the new marathon would become the trials for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. ""Not only will this be a great event for British elite runners, we will also aim to attract runners of all abilities from the UK and beyond, to run for charity, for the challenge or just for fun,"" he said. Steve Hollingworth, Birmingham City Council's assistant director for sport, events and parks said: ""It will encourage more residents to become physically active and have access to a full complement of running events in the city.""",A new Birmingham marathon has been @placeholder more than 30 years after the city held its last 26. 2 mile run .,added,announced,named,staged,run,1
"He called on the international community to recognise Israeli sovereignty. Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967's Six-Day War. Israel annexed the region in 1981 but the move has not been internationally recognised. Syria demands its return. Mr Netanyahu said at the start of the cabinet meeting: ""I chose to have this festive cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights to send a clear message: the Golan Heights will forever remain in Israeli hands. ""It's time, after 50 years, that the international community finally recognises that the Golan will forever remain under Israeli sovereignty."" Commentators say the statement comes amid reports the return of the Golan Heights could be part of negotiations for a post-civil war Syria. But Mr Netanyahu said: ""Whatever is beyond the border, the boundary itself will not change."" There are more than 30 Jewish settlements on the heights, with an estimated 20,000 settlers. Israel has avoided any major involvement in Syria's conflict but fears any increased presence in Syria of Hezbollah fighters, Sunni militant groups or Iranian troops. Mr Netanyahu said he had told US Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel would ""not oppose a diplomatic settlement in Syria, on condition that it not come at the expense of the security of the state of Israel"". That meant ""at the end of the day, the forces of Iran, Hezbollah and [so-called Islamic State] will be removed from Syrian soil."" More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in five years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State.","Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed the Golan Heights will forever stay in Israel 's hands , at the country 's first cabinet meeting @placeholder in the occupied territory .",arrived,published,intervened,held,power,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device England need a new partner for captain Alastair Cook, but Moeen has scored only 41 runs in his past three innings. ""I'm sure he'll show what he can do,"" said Root in the build-up to the first Test in Abu Dhabi, starting on Tuesday. Alex Hales could also open the batting, but he made only nine on the final day of the tourists' final warm-up match. All-rounder Moeen, 28, has made 749 runs at an average of 31.20 in his 16 Test matches. ""I think he's proven in Test cricket now that he's a valuable member of our batting side,"" said Root. ""I'm sure he'll rise to the challenge. ""He's batted at six and eight and he's made valuable contributions in both positions."" England go into the three-Test series in the United Arab Emirates having beaten Australia 3-2 in the Ashes in the summer. No visiting side has beaten Pakistan in a Test series since they relocated to the United Arab Emirates five years ago, with England beaten 3-0 on their only previous trip. ""It is going to be a big challenge and they're a very good side and very good in their own backyard,"" said Root. ""But we've shown over the last six months that we're capable of doing things that people don't expect us to and this is going to be no different. ""Against a very strong side like Pakistan, in their own conditions, we are going to have to play out of our skin, but we are more than capable of doing that.""","Moeen Ali will "" rise to the challenge "" if he is @placeholder to open the batting for England in the first Test against Pakistan , says vice - captain Joe Root .",aiming,returning,continuing,asked,picked,4
"Wasps' Hughes replaces the injured Billy Vunipola at number eight, while Harlequins' Marland Yarde will start on the wing in place of the suspended Elliot Daly. Daly is banned after being sent off in last weekend's victory over Argentina. Winger Semesa Rokoduguni and lock Dave Attwood do not make the 23-man squad. The victory over Argentina was England's 13th in a row and their 12th under Australian Jones, and a win over Australia in the final autumn international would equal their longest winning run, set across 2002 and 2003. M Brown (Harlequins); M Yarde (Harlequins), J Joseph (Bath), O Farrell (Saracens), J May (Gloucester); G Ford (Bath), B Youngs (Leicester) M Vunipola (Saracens), D Hartley (Northampton, capt), D Cole (Leicester), C Lawes (Northampton), G Kruis (Saracens), C Robshaw (Harlequins), T Wood (Northampton), N Hughes (Wasps). Replacements: J George (Saracens), J Marler (Harlequins), K Sinckler (Harlequins), C Ewels (Bath), T Harrison (Northampton), D Care (Harlequins), B Te'o (Worcester), H Slade (Exeter).","Nathan Hughes and Marland Yarde will start for England against Australia at Twickenham on Saturday , in two @placeholder changes to Eddie Jones ' side .",sides,order,forced,remaining,colours,2
"Khalid Baqa, 52, from Barking, was on a flight from Lahore, to Heathrow in February when it was diverted due to an unrelated ""disruptive passenger"". Baqa had failed to tell his car insurer about penalty points when he renewed his policy, magistrates heard. He was given a conditional discharge. Baqa, an unemployed former revenue officer at Hackney Borough Council, was jailed for two years in 2013 for possession and dissemination of terrorist material. At the time of the diversion on 7 February, Essex Police said the incident was ""not believed to be a hijack situation or terror matter"", and there had been reports of a disruptive passenger on board. However, Pakistan International Airlines said in a statement that UK authorities had received ""some vague security threat through an anonymous phone call"" regarding the flight. He was due to have been arrested anyway when the flight arrived at Heathrow before it was diverted, police said at the time. No information about the background to Baqa's arrest or whether he was linked to the flight diversion was given at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Thursday. The court heard he had been arrested and charged for failing to tell car insurers Liverpool Victoria about three penalty points he received in 2015 for going through a red light when he renewed his policy. Prosecutor Fabio Vitiello told the court: ""The premium would have been £175 higher, therefore the prosecution case is that by not disclosing the conviction he made a benefit for himself by not paying the higher price."" Baqa, of Priory Road, was ordered to pay £115 in costs and victim surcharge after being convicted of fraud by failure to disclose information.",A man arrested when the flight he was on was diverted to Stansted Airport and @placeholder by fighter jets has been convicted of insurance fraud amounting to just £ 175 .,tortured,transported,run,escorted,struck,3
"After reading Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?, software engineer Justen Hyde from Bladon raised £5,933 to buy a copy for every member of parliament. He also sent Ian Dunt's book to every member of the devolved parliaments in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. He said he sent it because it seemed ""no one has the faintest idea what's going to happen next on Brexit"". ""People are just making it up as they go along,"" he added. Mr Dunt, who is also editor of politics.co.uk, said he wrote the book to have an impartial and ""adult conversation"" about the issues and called Mr Hyde a ""miracle worker"". Philosopher A C Grayling is among the 363 supporters of the campaign. Mr Hyde said he was ""absolutely flabbergasted"" to have raised the money. ""I've never done anything like this before,"" he said. ""I don't have a social media presence to speak of, and we got enough funding to send books to every MP in less than a week from setting out the appeal. I've had a good cross section of people supporting it. ""What I would hope is that the public will be reading the book, and other books about Brexit, and they should be talking to their MPs and asking them hard questions about the realities and details of Brexit, because it's going to affect all of our lives.""",Every MP has had a book about Brexit @placeholder to them following a crowdfunding campaign .,returning,according,delivered,uploaded,forced,2
"The thief, who was wearing a flat cap, struck as he drank at the bar in Wagley's in Aberdeen's Exchange Street on Sunday night. The tin was in aid of Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) and the bar is now planning a fundraising night to replace the money. Police Scotland confirmed it was investigating. The bar has turned to social media in the hope of tracking down the culprit. One post states: ""We have contacted the police but want your help to catch this disgusting excuse for a human being. ""Do you know him? Can you help us point the police in the right direction? We are willing to give a reward for the person who helps us get him caught.""",A man has been caught on CCTV stealing a charity tin @placeholder up to  £ 100 to help sick children .,set,containing,stuffed,sum,offering,1
"Video shows Mr Trudeau walking into a crowd and taking Opposition Whip Gord Brown by his arm in an apparent attempt to steer him to his seat. New Democratic Party MP Ruth-Ellen Brosseau said she was ""elbowed in the chest"" in the ensuing scuffle. Mr Trudeau later apologised to Ms Brosseau of Quebec ""unreservedly"". Liberal Party leader Mr Trudeau also had a heated verbal exchange with New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair. ""What kind of man elbows a woman? It's pathetic! You're pathetic!"" Mr Mulcair shouted at Mr Trudeau in the incident caught on video. The CBC reported that Mr Trudeau lost his temper and shouted an expletive. The incident is considered a rare misstep for the young prime minister who is popular at home and abroad. ""I have never seen a display of bully behaviour by a Canadian politician let alone a prime minister as I witnessed just now in the chamber,"" said David Sweet, a Conservative MP from Ontario. The row appears to have begun when Mr Trudeau sought to put an end to Mr Brown's speech in the House after accusing him of deliberately speaking slowly. Elizabeth May, a Green Party MP from British Columbia, said opposition MPs were engaging in ""mischief"" to delay the vote. Several lawmakers were concerned about the breakdown in civility in the House of Commons. ""We don't want to become a House of Commons from some country you watch on CNN,"" Ms May said.","Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau has been accused of "" manhandling "" a Conservative MP as the House of Commons debated an @placeholder - dying bill .",supply,abandoned,head,assisted,power,3
"A team of coastguards, police and officers from Fylde Council and the Gangmasters Licensing Authority carried out checks on cocklers at 04:30 GMT. The coastguard stopped 15 boats out of 30 from going to sea on safety grounds. Fifty out of 150 cocklers were stopped from fishing because they did not have permits, Fylde Council said. The action came after complaints from Lytham residents and the town's MP Mark Menzies saying the numbers of inexperienced and unlicensed cocklers could result in fatalities. The council said it was meeting UK Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon on Thursday to demand changes in legislation which would allow the council more involvement in granting permits, which are currently issued by the Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA). A council spokesman said: ""Local people's patience is wearing thin and we have had a constant stream of complaints over the number of rescues that have had to be carried out - and the council's patience is wearing thin too. ""Every citizen under Magna Carta has the right to gather eight pounds of cockles from the foreshore, but any more than that and it becomes commercial fishing which requires a permit. ""Fifty of those setting out to cockle this morning did not have permits and 15 of the boats were found to be unsafe, carrying, for example, out-of-date flares. ""This is the first of many enforcement raids that we have planned for the weeks and months to come to stop irresponsible cocklers who have become such a huge strain on rescue agencies."" A spokesman for the Lytham coastguard said: ""We sent a team out this morning to check boats and warn people about the dangers of the southeasterly gale force wind that is coming through later and could cause problems. ""We are being proactive because the conditions are so high risk."" Up to 400 cocklers a day have been gathering at Foulnaze bank between Lytham and Southport since the cockle beds were opened by the IFCA on 1 September. The beds are due to be closed again in April and some inexperienced cocklers are ignoring weather and tidal conditions to gather as many cockles as possible within the period, the RNLI has said. It is estimated that the bed situated two miles offshore and which becomes exposed at low tide, contains about £8m worth of shellfish. Cockles, which are mainly exported to Europe, fetch about £1,200 a tonne. Twenty-three Chinese cocklers drowned in February 2004, further up the Lancashire Coast at Morecambe Bay.","Unlicensed cocklers have been stopped from fishing Lancashire 's Ribble @placeholder , where there have been 26 coastguard rescues in two months .",complex,state,estuary,unit,district,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device The Northern Ireland rider was left out of all three team pursuit races as Dani King, Laura Trott and Jo Rowsell won gold in a world record time. Houvenaghel described the trio as ""juvenile"", after claiming they did not speak to her following the final, and the decision to leave her out ""unjust"". Media playback is not supported on this device Performance Director Dave Brailsford said decisions had been made on merit. She added that she was denied a gold medal by Sutton's ""very unjust"" decision to leave her out. Houvenaghel was selected along with King, Trott and Rowsell for the three-rider event, with three riders from the squad of four competing in each race. Riders must compete in at least one of the races to be eligible for a medal and Houvenaghel claims she was told by GB staff that she would be competing in London. The 37-year-old, who won silver in the 3km individual pursuit in Beijing in 2008, said that in pre-Olympics training she was a part of a team that went quicker than the world record set in Saturday's final. After winning gold at the London Velodrome, Rowsell said that Houvenaghel had been ""an integral part"" of the team and that ""she's been a great support so a big thank you to Wendy"". However, Houvenaghel was not so complimentary of her team-mates when asked what they said to her after securing the gold medal. ""The other girls said nothing to me - I find it disappointing,"" she added. ""I find it juvenile. I would have expected better of people who are now Olympic champions."" Media playback is not supported on this device Houvenaghel said that she remained out of the team despite one of her team-mates being sick on the day of the semi-finals and final. ""She had been vomiting and possibly not at 100% effectiveness, so I thought at that point I will be riding. ""I was told to get ready for the final but with 30 minutes to go I was told 'you're not riding' by Shane Sutton. ""I couldn't change his mind - I had pointed out that one of our riders was sick and asked 'are you going to put her on the line again?' ""I had to accept it. I left the building and with it left behind Northern Ireland's next Olympic gold medal. ""I firmly believe I should have been riding and that medal was there to be taken, and I was prevented from having it by one person and one person's decision."" Houvenaghel said she will make a decision on her future in the sport when she returns home from the Games. Dave Brailsford, Team GB Cycling's Performance Director, responded by saying that he and his team had to ""take the personal element out of it, and look at the data and be professional"". ""Our job is to be impartial - it's a tough job. We have to support the people on the track, try to win medals and we've had a few tough decisions to make. ""Unfortunately, in a squad there are always going to be people who miss out - that comes with the territory, everyone knows the score. ""As long as the decision-making is fair, impartial, and everyone understands the process, it can't be reproached. ""If people don't understand it and it's not quite clear and people think there might be some personal bias involved, then that's an issue. ""But I think when a team steps up and makes six world records on the trot and a gold medal, then I don't think you can argue with that.""",Wendy Houvenaghel has @placeholder her GB team - mates and coach Shane Sutton after missing out on a gold medal .,criticised,revealed,rejoined,described,denied,0
"Security searches at entrances and on-site sniffer dogs will feature at the five-day event which began on Tuesday and ends on Saturday 18 June. Extra measures have been taken in the wake of recent terror attacks in Europe and America. Supt Jim Weems said police will be more visible in and around the site. ""Aside from our duties protecting the Royal party, the public have come to expect a strong security presence at prominent events and occasions. We anticipate the focus remaining firmly on the track but will remain ready to respond if required. ""There isn't currently any threat of terror at the event, but considering the recent stressed environment that we're in - with a huge sporting and crowded event like Ascot - we have to factor that in. ""For the first time this year, we'll have armed officers patrolling paths and the high street so patrols will be more visible to the public."" Up to 280,000 racegoers are due to attend the Berkshire event over the five days, including the Queen who has attended every year since she came to the throne in 1952.",Security at Royal Ascot has been @placeholder up with over 200 officers - including the armed response - patrolling the event .,broken,reunited,stepped,wrapped,built,2
"Everybody had already taken all the good disabilities, so I got left with dyspraxia. Somebody had to have it. It's a developmental, co-ordination disorder - the less sexy cousin of dyslexia. It largely affects motor control and speech, and memory and information processing, so what generally happens is I fall over a lot and I cock everything up. Little things are difficult for me, like clothes, hair and make-up, so I like wearing large, elasticated clothes that don't show I've dropped my dinner down them. I've no excuse for my hair, obviously. I love living alone because of people. And so my favourite activity is sitting alone on the sofa in my pants, watching telly. I can't actually keep pets or houseplants alive, so I certainly can't keep love and affection alive - that's far too much commitment. I do have some needs though, so to that end I went online and did a bit of online dating. Online dates, generally, can work in your favour because people are invested in them and they want to be there. They're trapped, which is good news for me. Often with dyspraxia, I come over very loud and sweary initially, and if I don't know people I get a bit overpowering and overwhelming. This is apparently a classic dyspraxia symptom and I hadn't realised. I used to think I was this fascinating person with all these quirks and I've discovered I'm nothing but a list of symptoms. I was gutted when I realised this, but don't tell anyone, obviously. Watch all the stories from the Ouch Storytelling event So my date's looking a bit nervous and I thought, we'll go to the nearest pub. I'm going along as I usually do, tripping over, talking loudly, waving my arms around, hitting lampposts and then we try to get into the pub and the bouncer says, ""No, you're not coming in."" I said, ""What?"" This is in the afternoon, and the guy says, ""No, you're obviously too drunk, you can't come in."" I do get this a lot, so I thought I'd argue with him because, as we all know, arguing with a bouncer, you're never going to lose that argument. This was not going well, as you might imagine. And, not being gracious in defeat, I was just swearing and stomping off, having a go at him under my breath and generally vindicating him that I shouldn't be allowed in. And my date says: ""No, it's fine, we're going to carry on."" The grim determination to have a good time. We're going along and I was thinking I was looking quite good in my heels. I can't walk in high heels, I can barely stand in high heels but this doesn't stop me. They're fairly orthopaedic-looking, flat ones, but it still counts and I imagine it makes me look like a girl, a delicate little flower all sanguine and sexy. Not like the angry tractor that I usually look like. Inevitably, I fall. And I don't fall in the way I would fall in my head [delicately]. No, I come along and I stack it on the pavement. Face on the pavement, limbs flailing, collateral damage, people screaming, swearing loudly. It was a terrible mess. My top tip for this is: don't style it out, just stay on the ground. Otherwise everyone mocks you and people stand around filming it for YouTube, thinking it's hilarious. You stay down and they start to worry and think, hang on, it might actually be serious and, how bad will I look if I'm laughing? So you wait for assistance and someone always comes over and helps you up. The date picks me up off the ground. I'm galled that he didn't prevent it from happening in the first place - I'm already resentful. But fortunately this has taken place outside a pub. I go in and the landlady sees me bleeding everywhere and she comes over with a roll of toilet paper, trying to stem the bleeding and save the furniture. I wasn't too badly hurt because I'm so scarred my knees are nothing but scar tissue from years of falling over. I'm slowly building an exoskeleton of scar tissue and stitches, so you can't actually hurt me at all, like Terminator. We send someone off for TCP and I'm sitting there in the pub with blood, tissues, pouring this [TCP] over my leg because that adds ambience to a sexy date I find. The smell of TCP everywhere - who doesn't love that? By now, I'm drinking and within seconds I'm crying, saying: ""Why is everything so difficult? Why is this happening to me?"" At this point, I remember you're meant to chat, do small talk, which I can't do. I don't understand it. So I'd written little cues up my arm and tried to pass it off as a tribal tattoo. So I'm chatting away - ""What do you do? Where do you live?"" It was every bit as scintillating as you might imagine. We decided to leave, and we left of our own volition, which is always a win - not being asked to leave. I get back home and just try and forget all about it, watch cartoons, sit on the sofa in my pants - equilibrium is restored. I'm much happier again. I'm pretty much accepting that I'm going to die penniless and alone and I'm well on course for that. Achievable goals. But then a few days later I hear from the date. He texts me, wants to see me again! Why? Why would you put yourself through that? What sort of person would want to experience all that again, what sort of self-esteem problems do you have? It's absolutely ridiculous. I think, God, I don't want to know anyone that wants to go out with me again, what a loser! And that'll be one of the many, many reasons I've been single for 10 years. Thank you for laughing at my misfortune, I'm very glad that you did! Illustration by Nick Willis You can watch the performers tell their stories on a special programme on the BBC News Channel at 21:30 BST on Sunday. It will also be available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days afterwards. For more Disability News, follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.","Sex and @placeholder for disabled people can give rise to unspoken questions and sensitivities - often among the able bodied . But amid the awkwardness there is humour . The following is an edited version of a monologue by Ruby MacKellar , who has dyspraxia .",violence,name,discrimination,web,relationships,4
"""It will require a response that is about years, even decades, rather than months,"" Mr Cameron said. ""What we face is an extremist, Islamist, al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group. Just as we had to deal with that in Pakistan and in Afghanistan so the world needs to come together to deal with this threat in north Africa."" The group responsible for the incident in In Amenas in Algeria appears to have been led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a local jihadist-criminal who had been a commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). He left or was asked to leave AQIM late last year. Branching out, he founded an independent faction called the Signed-in-Blood Battalion that seems to have operated out of territory controlled by the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao) in northern Mali. Belmokhtar's faction claims that the assault in Algeria was conducted to avenge the French decision to attack northern Mali. But, with his organisation reportedly having agents within the compound, it seems likely that this was a longer-term plot that was brought forward in response to the French assault. It was in fact Belmokhtar's close companion, Omar Ould Hamaha, a leader in Mujao, who declared in response to the French intervention in Mali that France ""has opened the gates of hell [and] has fallen into a trap much more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia"". Interactive timeline with satellite photos That Belmokhtar's faction would want to attack a Western target is not entirely surprising. He has a long form of kidnapping foreigners and AQIM - to which he belonged until last year - has a long and bloody history. Originally born as the Armed Islamist Group (GIA) in the wake of the military annulling elections that the Islamic Salvation Front was poised to win in Algeria in the early 1990s, the group evolved first into the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), before adopting the al-Qaeda mantle in 2007 to become AQIM. The GIA, in particular, has been linked to attacks in the mid-1990s on the Paris metro system, the GSPC to plots in Europe and North America prior to the attacks in New York on 11 September 2001, and the groups across North Africa have historically felt particular enmity towards former regional colonial power France. What is worrying about events in Africa, however, is that violent groups espousing similarly extreme rhetoric can be found in a number of countries. In Mali alone, alongside AQIM, Mujao and the Signed-in-Blood Battalion is Ansar Dine, another splinter from AQIM that has held large parts of the north since last year and has been imposing its version of Islamic law. In Nigeria, Islamist group Boko Haram has conducted a destabilising and bloody campaign of terrorism in a fight that is rooted in longstanding local social and economic tensions. Reports emerged last week that a leader from the group may have found his way to northern Mali, while American military commanders have long spoken about the connection between AQIM and Boko Haram. Further demonstrating the potential links to Nigeria, back in July last year, a pair of men were accused in an Abuja court of being connected to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is al-Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate. And across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen is Somalia, a country that has been home to al-Shabab, a jihadist group that last year aligned itself officially with al-Qaeda. There have been reports of Boko Haram fighters training alongside al-Shabab fighters and the Somali group is known to have deep connections with AQAP. Profile: Mokhtar Belmokhtar Profile: Al-Qaeda in North Africa Particularly worrying for Western security planners, many of these groups have attracted an unknown number of foreign fighters. In al-Shabab, some, like Omar Hammami, the American-Syrian who rose up in the Somali group's ranks before recently falling out of favour, have become minor celebrities in their own right. AQIM's networks are known to stretch into France, Spain, Italy and even the UK. Mujao's Omar Ould Hamaha claims to have spent some 40 days towards the end of 2000 in France on a Schengen visa, whilst there have been numerous reports of Westerners being spotted or arrested trying to join the jihadists in northern Mali. And now in In Amenas it appears a Canadian citizen may have been one of the attackers. Seen from Western Europe, a dangerous picture emerges, potentially leading back home through fundraising networks and recruits. But the risk is to overstate the threat and focus on the whole rather than the individual parts. While links can often be drawn between these groups - and they can maybe be described as ""fellow travellers"" ideologically - it is not the case that they operate in unison or have similar goals. Often local issues will trump international ones, even if they claim to be operating under the banner of an international organisation such as al-Qaeda. And looking back historically, it has been a long time since AQIM-linked cells have been able to conduct or plot a major terrorist incident in Europe. While a number of plots over the past few years have been connected to al-Shabab, so far there is little evidence that they have actually directed people to attack the West. The bigger threat is to Western interests in Africa - sites such as In Amenas that will now be reassessed as potential targets for groups seeking international attention, or revenge for French-led efforts in Mali or Western efforts to counter groups elsewhere.","UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said that Islamist extremists in North Africa pose a "" large and existential threat "" - a comment he made following the siege of a @placeholder facility in Algeria , where dozens of people , nearly all of them foreigners , were killed .",gas,government,research,security,community,0
"It is expected to fetch up to £1.2m as part of Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale. The controversial piece, shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999, gives a snapshot of Emin's life after a traumatic relationship breakdown. It is being sold by art collector Charles Saatchi, who bought it for £150,000 in 2000. After installing the bed at Christie's, Emin told BBC News arts correspondent Tim Masters what it still means to her 16 years on. It feels different knowing that it's going to leave. Before, when I've installed it, there is a level of nostalgia each time. But this time I was really quite sad because I don't know where it's going. It's quite scary, it's out of my control completely. Not that I'm a giant control freak. But I really care about the bed, and I really love it. I realise being here today how much it means. It's always meant a lot to me, but I didn't realise how passionate I was about it. The best possible result is that an amazing benefactor buys it and then donates it to a museum. I have no idea where it's going to end up - or how much anyone is going to pay for it. There's never been anything like it for sale in an art auction before. All the duvets were wrapped up, and everything was in airtight containers.  It looked like a crime scene or a scientific project. Today when I took the duvet out, it was flat. And when I threw it on the bed, it didn't look right. So I fluffed it up, and it still didn't look right. So I actually made the bed and got in and pushed the cover back so it had that natural feeling that a body has been into it. It is strange because it still has that same smell that it had 16 years ago. Obviously the stains and everything else are touching me, and it's like being touched by a ghost of yourself. My American friends came to see me installing it this morning, and they saw the mattress and they went: ""Tracey!"" I think people are so used to seeing it as an image that they forget that it's real. When they see it for real, it still evokes these feelings inside them because you can see the trace of a human being in there. It's like the self-portrait of someone that's gone. It's like a time capsule, and a lot of people relate to that in some way. Pretty good. Especially being a woman and being part of art history. I'm pleased about that. If I never do anything else great and seminal again, like the bed, I've done it. And that makes me happy. Now I can just get on with my life and do what's really important to me - and that's making art. My Bed is being sold as part of Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale on 1 July, which includes works by Francis Bacon, Peter Doig, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock.","Tracey Emin 's most famous artwork My Bed ( 1998 ) , which features stained sheets , cigarette @placeholder , and discarded condoms , is being auctioned in London on Tuesday .",show,butt,boards,packets,signs,3
"Party leaders discussed whether there should be a review of the number of councils and health boards in Scotland after the SNP manifesto pledged to ""look again"" at how local services are structured. Questioned on whether she would look at cutting the number of councils in Scotland as part of a planned review, Nicola Sturgeon said she would ""not rule anything out"". The SNP leader said: ""The provision of our public services in terms of structures and governance in Scotland is changing. We now have new partnerships which bring health and local government together, so we've got to make sure the overall structure and governance reflects that change and the other changes under way. ""Structural change is less important that substantive changes - but you have to make sure the structures you have don't get in the way of those substantive changes."" Visiting a cider brewery in Dunbar, Ms Sturgeon set out a range of measures a re-elected SNP government would take to boost the rural economy, which she said was ""key to Scotland's long-term success"". Kezia Dugdale said there would be ""no reference"" to local government reorganisation in Labour's manifesto, saying her focus was more on devolving powers from Holyrood to councils and communities. Ms Dugdale said: ""That's the way to enhance local democracy and improve what happens at a local government level. ""We would do that for example around skills policy, where we can match the needs of young unemployed people with the job opportunities in any given community."" Campaigning at a housing site in Ravenscraig, the Scottish Labour leader said she would use Holyrood's new powers to support first-time buyers, and pledged to have 60,000 new houses built across the next term. Ms Davidson said the Tories had long argued that many ""back-room functions"" of councils could be shared, but said she did not support Ms Sturgeon's review. The Scottish Conservative leader said: ""We don't see the need at the moment to have a wholesale review of local authorities. ""We don't think that's good for service provision, we don't think it's good for people, to change the number of councils we have in Scotland, but we do want to see closer working between them. Campaigning at Ace Winches in Turiff, Ms Davidson promoted her policies to support business, including a freeze in rates and additional funding for technical training. Willie Rennie said it was ""typical"" of the SNP to try to ""hoover up powers into Edinburgh"". The Scottish Lib Dem leader said: ""What we need to be doing is not meddling around with the boundaries of councils. That's a distraction. What we should be doing is pushing powers right back down into communities."" Campaigning in Kirkwall, Mr Rennie also attacked the SNP for ""paying lip service"" to the challenges facing island communities. He said the Lib Dems would give families and businesses help with ferry fares and restore discounts for air travel for business passengers, channel extra money to farmers and ensure every home had high-speed broadband.",Local government and the economy have been the key @placeholder for Scotland 's politicians in a busy day on the Holyrood campaign trail .,title,code,topics,tools,choices,2
"Concerned drivers contacted police after the man was spotted near junction two of the motorway in Greater Manchester on Tuesday afternoon. He was later arrested on suspicion of a public order offence. Officers tweeted: ""Earlier we had a lady taking her dog for a walk on the M60 now we have a man carrying a gnome."" Greater Manchester Police tweeted a photo of the gnome saying: ""Now safe and well in our office after being taken from a pedestrian M60 J2. This is a Missing from Gnome Enquiry!"" One road user tweeted: ""Did I really just see a dude walking along the hard shoulder of the M60 carrying a gnome."" Another added: ""Just seen a man carrying a gnome down the M60. Best commute ever.""","A man who was reported to police for carrying a "" small child "" on the M60 was found to be @placeholder a garden gnome .",enjoying,holding,granted,abandoned,spotted,1
"Schools shuttered and and public buildings increased security as police search for Bradley William Stone, 35. Mr Stone is suspected in the killing of his ex-wife Nicole Stone, her mother, her grandmother, her sister, her sister's husband and their daughter. He may be armed and dangerous, authorities warn residents. ""We are accessing every possible resource... to find Mr Stone. We will find Mr Stone,"" Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told reporters on Tuesday. Authorities from multiple agencies are engaged in the hunt, searching the suspect's car, home and phone for clues to his current whereabouts, she added. The search has also spread to nearby Bucks County, where a man wielding a knife and fitting Mr Stone's description - red hair and wearing military fatigues - unsuccessfully attempted a carjacking before being chased into a wooded area. The shootings in Souderton, Lansdale and Harleysville began at about 04:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Monday. The first took place at the home in Souderton of Mr Stone's former sister-in-law, Patricia Flick. She was killed along with her husband, Aaron Flick, and the couple's daughter, Nina, 14. The couple's 17-year-old son, Anthony Flick, was badly wounded. He is currently in very serious but stable condition in hospital, authorities said. The next shooting was at a house in nearby Lansdale where Nicole Stone's mother, Joanne Hill, and grandmother Patricia Hill were killed. Nicole Stone was later killed at her home in Harleysville. Neighbours reported seeing Mr Stone fleeing with their two children and raised the alarm. The children were found safe a short distance away, and Mr Stone's current wife and infant child were also secured. Reports said the shootings may have been triggered by a custody dispute. Mr Stone had reportedly filed an emergency motion to the court earlier this month, although those records are currently sealed. ""[Nicole Stone] would tell anybody who would listen that he was going to kill her and that she was really afraid for her life,"" Evan Weron, a neighbour in Harleysville, told the Associated Press news agency. Police surrounded a home in Pennsburg on Monday, where the suspect is a resident, and called out by megaphone: ""Come to the front door with your hands up. You're under arrest."" But Ms Ferman later told reporters police were still searching for Mr Stone in a number of different locations.","The manhunt has @placeholder for the suspected killer of six people near Philadelphia , officials in the US state of Pennsylvania say .",opened,grown,ended,erupted,called,1
"The sign was put in place by Cormac Seachoy, in 2014 before he was diagnosed with cancer ""out of the blue"" and died, aged 27, in December. Harry Potter's creator J.K. Rowling has tweeted it was ""one of the most beautiful Potter-related things ever"". The hospital plans to keep the plaque. Cormac tweeted on 30 November 2014 that his plaque was in place, but it went unnoticed for 18 months. It only came to light this week when the Bristol Post queried whether the hospital had granted permission for it to be there and discovered hospital chiefs were also unaware of its presence. Finola Seachoy, Cormac's sister, said the appearance of the sign had also taken the family by surprise. She said: ""Cormac did it to put a smile on the faces of children who were ill, and it was with great sadness that he found himself in the very same hospital diagnosed with cancer out of the blue and with eight weeks to live, just over a year after he put the plaque up."" She said she was hoping to raise more money so the family could ""create more of a legacy for Cormac, who was so much more than just the plaque"". A spokeswoman for the hospital, said: ""The appearance of this plaque was a magical and mysterious event that we did not know anything about - but we are sure that our patients and their families will appreciate it. ""We do plan to keep this, but ask that any other magical beings that wish to erect plaques on our site do speak to us first so that the muggles amongst us can say thank you and look after and maintain these gifts"". Quidditch is a game, played by witches and wizards using brooms, in the Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling. The hoops sculpture is an interactive art installation created by artist Andrew Smith in 2001 and is called Lollypop-be-Bop.","A secret plaque claiming @placeholder hoops at Bristol Children 's Hospital were the goalposts from the 1998 Quidditch World Cup in Harry Potter , has been found 18 months after it was erected .",coloured,practice,spent,crowd,crowds,0
"Mr Bondevik, who said he was travelling on his diplomatic passport, was held for about an hour. He said his passport also indicates he is a former prime minister. Immigration officials told him it was unrelated to President Trump's temporary ban on Iranian nationals. Instead, he was told it related to a 2015 law which places extra restrictions on countries that are part of the US visa waiver programme, according to an interview with ABC7 news. But Mr Bondevik said he has never had an issue travelling to the US with the same document before Mr Trump's order. During his 2014 Iran trip, he spoke against extremism at an international conference on behalf of human rights organisation The Oslo Centre, of which he is president. Iran is one of the seven countries affected by the controversial executive order from the new president. ""I was surprised, and I was provoked,"" he said, suggesting that the mention of Iran had made him ""stick out"". ""There is no reason to be afraid of a former head of government who has been on official visits several times to this country, including in the White House,"" he told Norwegian broadcaster TV2. The former prime minister was flying to the US to attend the national prayer breakfast event in Washington - which President Donald Trump also attended.","The former prime minister of Norway , Kjell Magne Bondevik , said he was @placeholder at a US airport earlier this week because he had visited Iran in 2014 .",docked,attacked,held,robbed,detained,4
"Bruno Travalja, 52, was kneeling to take a measurement on the 42nd floor of the Manhattan building when he stood up and felt ""dizzy"", say police reports. His body was found between 52nd and 53rd streets in midtown on Thursday afternoon, according to local media. Officials are investigating whether faulty equipment or any violated safety protocols were factors in the death. It is thought the New Jersey architect fell from the former Flatotel, which construction crews are converting into condominiums and offices. The NYPD and the city's Department of Buildings are investigating the incident. Mr Travalja was the owner of Crown Architectural Systems, according to his Facebook page. Cetra/Ruddy, the architectural firm of record on the project, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.",An architect has fallen to his death from a New York City skyscraper after losing his @placeholder while at work .,wife,home,footing,school,body,2
"Officers were called to reports of a fight in St Norbert Road, Brockley, south-east London, on Saturday afternoon. The 17-year-old was in the car which had hit a lamp-post, but he died later in hospital. Police believe group of people threw missiles at the vehicle as it sped off. A post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be multiple injuries, consistent with being in a road traffic collision. The four arrested men, aged 19, 20, 21 and 23, have been released on police bail. Two other men who were in the crashed car suffered minor cuts to their hands.",Four men have been arrested in connection with the death of a teenager who was in a car which crashed after it was @placeholder .,injured,stolen,repaired,driven,attacked,4
"The Saddlers shipped four second-half goals to suffer their heaviest league defeat of the season at Bradford City on Saturday - and Whitney is looking to them to ""man up"" after the 4-0 loss. ""If you don't care, you don't change things,"" he told BBC WM 95.6. ""There were a few harsh words but sometimes you need to have them."" Whitney, whose side lie six points behind second-placed Burton with a game in hand, added: ""Promotion is just words, but you have to turn those words into action. ""They have to man up. They need to show me who's ready for the fight."" Whitney's team selection to face Shrewsbury was going to depend on how his players responded to his immediate post-match inquest at Valley Parade. ""Places are available on Tuesday,"" said the interim Saddlers head coach. ""I'm going to see who wants it. I'm going to see who's hungry. ""I need to make decisions after looking at it with a calm head. But I've asked them: 'Did you really do enough to challenge Bradford City? Did you do enough to want to get promoted? Were you willing to put your head on the line?' ""Sometimes that's what you have to do. It's not always about playing pretty football."" Whitney has the option of bringing back fully fit-again defender Jason Demetriou against Shrewsbury. He can also bring back 18-goal top scorer Tom Bradshaw, who has started the last two games on the bench, to face his old club. Whitney is also wary that local rivals Shrewsbury upset another promotion-chasing side on their own ground on Saturday, winning 3-2 at Gillingham. Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro's fortuitous late winner ended an untimely run of seven games without a win to leave Micky Mellon's side four points clear of the relegation zone with a game in hand. Victory for Shrewsbury would guarantee League One safety with two games to go. The Shropshire side expect to have midfielder Ian Black fit after injuring his neck in the final minute on Saturday, but fellow midfielder James Wallace (knee) and defender Jermaine Grandison (hip) are big doubts.",Walsall boss Jon Whitney wants his players to @placeholder positively when they host League One strugglers Shrewsbury Town on Tuesday .,stop,form,react,handle,join,2
"The government has also ordered an inquiry into the ""deeply flawed"" tender. The £6.1bn contract, awarded in 2014, is being terminated nine years early. The move hit shares in the UK engineering firm Babcock International, which headed the group that won the decommissioning deal. The compensation will go to Energy Solutions, which had previously managed the decommissioning sites, and another engineering firm, Bechtel. It follows a High Court ruling last July which found that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) had ""fudged"" the tendering process, wrongly deciding the outcome of the procurement process. Not only was the tender process flawed but the contract itself did not reflect the true extent of the work that had to be done, the court found. Babcock confirmed it had reached an agreement with the NDA to hand back the decommissioning contract early. The company said that the work required at the 12 sites was ""now materially different in volume to that which was initially specified"". Berkeley, Bradwell, Dungeness A, Harwell, Hinkley Point A, Oldbury, Sizewell A, Winfrith Trawsfynydd, Wylfa Chapelcross, Hunterston A The 14-year contract will now end in September 2019 after just five years. That will dent Babcock's annual revenue by £100m in 2020-21. The group said it would replace that with new business. Nonetheless, its shares were down more than 4% in Monday trading after the news. The independent inquiry, which will be led by the former chief executive of National Grid, Steve Holliday, will look at how the tender process was run and why the contract awarded proved unsustainable. ""It's clear the 2012 tendering process was deeply flawed,"" said the Business Secretary Greg Clark, responding to an urgent question in parliament. ""This was a defective procurement, with significant financial consequences, and I am determined that the reasons for it should be exposed and understood; that those responsible should properly be held to account; and that it should never happen again,"" Mr Clark also said. He added that workers at nuclear power stations at the heart of the failed decommissioning deal would not be under threat. According to the Department for Business, the inquiry will ""review the conduct of the NDA and of Government departments and make any recommendations it sees fit"". That could include possible disciplinary proceedings, it added. The inquiry is due to report in October. Trade unions have called for the decommissioning contract to be taken back from private companies. Unite national officer for energy, Kevin Coyne, said it was ""clear that the 'clean up' contract should be taken back into public control where it should have been in the first place"". The GMB's Scotland Secretary Gary Smith described the 2014 deal as ""a mess from the off"". ""We need to cut out the middle men, have this work done in-house to cut costs and to save the taxpayer money,"" he said.",Two US firms which @placeholder out on a decommissioning contract to clean up 12 nuclear sites in the UK will receive £ 97.5 m compensation .,walked,lost,spelled,carried,went,1
"The alleged theft, which involved bolt cutters, was filmed by an anonymous man and posted on Facebook on Monday. The video has been watched by more than half a million people, and the man who filmed it said he was shocked at how brazen the apparent theft was. Avon and Somerset Police confirmed a 47-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.",A man has been arrested on suspicion of theft after a @placeholder bike was filmed being stolen from a rack in Bristol .,locked,second,message,drugs,man,0
"The BBC News website asked the independent Money Advice Service to deliver a calendar of month-by-month tips to help people keep their personal finances in order. As the Christmas trees and decorations come down, it is time to tackle the money hangover. Work out how much you have spent on your overdraft, credit card and loans over the festive period. Use a budget planner or this January toolkit to work out how much you could afford to start paying back each month. If you are struggling with your finances, it is important to seek free debt advice as soon as possible. For example, missing three utility bill payments in the last three months could be a sign that help is needed. Consider cooking and eating in instead of going to a restaurant on Valentine's Day. They are plenty of options for fun and free activities on a date night. Keep an eye out for offers and vouchers online so you can make sure you are getting a good deal. Give your finances a spring clean by shopping around for the best deal on domestic energy. It may be that you can get a better offer elsewhere. Review your subscriptions, such as magazines and TV bundles, and see if there are any that you no longer want. See if you can cut back on any non-essentials, for a quick cash injection. Having some funds set aside can help to pay for big purchases, or give you peace of mind in case any unexpected costs arise. So, work out how much you could save each month. Don't aim too high - just saving a little each month can make all the difference. Shop around for the best savings account. It is easy to switch, and you might get a better deal from a different bank. If you are hoping to go on holiday this summer - whether in the UK or abroad - then May is about the time to consider how much this is going to cost. Use a budget planner to see how much you could be setting aside each week or month to pay for this. When it comes to booking, hunt around for deals. Don't book the first flights you find, do your research and shop around. Halfway through the year means it is time to start planning for Christmas. Think about how much you spent on Christmas last year and work out how much you plan to spend this year. Avoid financial worry by beginning to set aside a little each month to make sure you can comfortably pay for each present and party. Research what activities are going on in your area over the summer. Is there anything fun and cheap or, even better, free? Instead of buying refreshing smoothies and juices while out and about, consider making your own at home and taking them with you to save a few pennies. Invite people round to yours for a drink and nibbles, instead of going to the pub. It is tempting to spend more money in the summer months, with the warmer weather and longer days. Review how much you have spent over the summer so far to see whether you are spending more or less than you had budgeted for. If you have been thrifty and spent less than you had anticipated, make sure to pop the extra funds you have got into savings. This month always shows a peak in new car sales, as the second round of new number plates are released. Do you own a car? How much does it cost you to run? If you travel by train, think about how you buy your tickets - do you get daily, weekly, monthly or annual tickets? Which option is the best value, and is it cheaper if you buy them in advance or online? If you are a smoker, consider taking part in Stoptober. Cutting back on cigarettes can save you a surprising amount of money. If you are not a smoker, think about whether you have any regular spends or naughty habits that you could cut back on. If you are organising a Secret Santa in the office for Christmas, set a low price limit, such as £2 or £5, so you don't have to fork out for something special for someone you do not really know. If your aim of setting money aside for Christmas has not quite gone to plan, there are ways to find some quick extra cash (see March). Although the year is not quite finished, now is a good time to start planning for 2017. If you are keen to ditch those debts once and for all, make sure one of your new year's resolutions is to seek some advice. Think about securing your financial future, possibly through building up a savings pot or taking out an insurance product, such as income protection or critical illness cover.","As the year draws to a close , many people will review the state of their wealth . So , is your bank @placeholder now a spectacular display or did your finances fizzle ?",details,failure,questions,balance,breath,3
"The Association of British Bookmakers said it was ""deeply flawed"" and called for an inquiry by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. The MPs are recommending that the maximum stake for gambling on the electronic terminals in a bookmakers shop is cut to just £2. Currently the maximum stake on the electronic terminals is £100. The renewed call for a lower limit comes from the all-party parliamentary group on FOBTs which published its initial report last December. The machines have been called the crack cocaine of gambling, but bookmaking firms refused to take part in the MPs' inquiry. ""We were disappointed that the bookmakers declined to participate and fear this is a reflection of their denial of the problems associated with FOBTs and a reluctance on their part to speak to policy makers about appropriate regulation,"" said the MPs' final report. But that accusation prompted a furious reaction from the bookies. They said the parliamentary group had no proper standing; that its report merely reflected the views of certain MPs with an axe to grind; and that the report had been funded by rivals in the gambling industry, such as those in the casino, arcade and pub industries. ""We strongly believe that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards should urgently investigate this all-party parliamentary group,"" said Malcolm George, chief executive of the Association of British Bookmakers. ""This group of MPs has operated in secrecy, provided no transcripts of the evidence given to their meetings and operated throughout behind closed doors away from public scrutiny."" He added that betting shops were already closing at the rate of more than 100 a year and if the findings of this report were implemented, it ""could spell the beginning of the end for the High Street bookmaker"". The MPs in their report said they had in fact given the bookmaking firms plenty of opportunity to submit evidence. Despite the bookies' aggressive opposition, Carolyn Harris MP, chairwoman of the parliamentary group, said the time for prevaricating was over and the government should now take action. ""There is now a clear case for the government to substantially reduce the maximum stake which can be played on FOBTs,"" she said. ""These machines are easily accessed in the most deprived areas, sucking money out of the pockets of families. ""I support a responsible gambling industry, but there is nothing responsible about how FOBTs are currently being operated,"" she added. The 35,000 machines, usually offering roulette, have become the biggest source of money for the bookmaking industry and now provide more than half its profits. The report cited figures showing that in 2015 £1.7bn was lost by gamblers on the terminals, each of which took £48,724 from punters that year. The industry's enthusiasm for the machines has seen it accused of spreading gambling addiction in some of the poorest parts of the country, especially where there are unusually high concentrations of bookies shops in local High Streets. The Local Government Association (LGA) has been campaigning against the gambling machines, and its spokesman Simon Blackburn supported the report's call for urgent action. ""With rates of problem gambling higher among those who live near clusters of bookmakers, it is essential that, as the report also recommends, councils are given powers to stop further clusters of betting shops on our high streets,"" he said. ""A new cumulative impact test - which the LGA has previously called for and which government has introduced through the Police and Crime Act for alcohol licensing - would give them the power to veto new shops in areas already saturated by betting shops."" The report was also supported by Sir Robin Wales, Mayor of Newham council in east London. ""The gambling industry has consistently ignored our pleas to stop blighting our high streets with the clustering of betting shops, which bring anti-social behaviour and crime to the heart of our communities,"" he said. The MPs repeated their previous call for the spin speeds of the electronic gambling machines to be reduced to slow down the speed of repetitive betting. And they also said that the number of betting terminals in each shop should be cut from the current limit of four. The MPs also took a swipe at the Gambling Commission, which regulates most betting in Great Britain, saying it had been slow off the mark and had failed to do its job properly. ""[We] urge the Gambling Commission to take an active role in advising the government to fully regulate FOBTs and to look into accusations of any malpractice by bookmakers or gambling premises more widely,"" the MPs said.",The bookmakers ' trade body has reacted angrily to a report by MPs on @placeholder - odd betting terminals ( FOBTs ) .,hand,state,group,show,fixed,4
"We've learned a lot about the end of the journey, the slave camps and mass graves in the jungles of Thailand and Malaysia. What we haven't heard so much about is how these journeys begin. We travelled to southern Bangladesh, where many of the migrants set off on their perilous voyages. What we have discovered brings a shocking new dimension to this story that speaks of the terrible desperation that is driving this vast movement of people. We met one of the people smugglers on what Bangladeshis proudly boast is the world's longest beach - a vast stretch of sand that runs for more than 120km along the southern coast. Let's call him Kamrul Rahman. He appeared to be in his early 30s.  He said he used to be a fisherman and started in the people smuggling racket greedy for money after his business went belly up. As the surf crashed down on the beach beside us, he calmly explained in chilling detail how the business worked. He said the prison camps were an essential part of the business model and all the migrants knew about them. It seems they are part of what amounts to a sinister and hideously cynical marketing trick the people smugglers have evolved: they offer the voyage for virtually no upfront cost. He said the deal was straightforward and understood by everyone involved. You only pay the main charge - about £1,500 ($2,300) when you arrive in southern Thailand. I was amazed. ""So the migrants know they will be held in camp before they get to Malaysia?"" I asked. ""Before they leave from here we tell them if they don't pay they will be put in a prison. You won't get any rice and you will die of hunger"", he told me, without any sign of emotion. ""If you pay, you will be able to start for Malaysia with honour."" We spoke to many migrants and relatives of migrants in southern Bangladesh. They all confirmed his account. Without exception, they said they knew migrants would be held in Thailand until full payment was made. What this suggests is that for the most part this phenomenon isn't strictly human trafficking - where people are bought and sold against their will - but rather a perverted business transaction to which most of the migrants and their families are actually party. The so-called ""ransoms"" migrants who have been rescued from the camps in Thailand say their captors are actually part of the deal they sign up to when they make the journey. Take a moment now to think about what that tells us about the people who make these journeys. They are so desperate for a better life that they are willing to go with the people smugglers even though they know that they may end up starving to death in a jungle prison camp. Stina Ljungdell, the UN refugee agency representative in Bangladesh, agrees that many migrants do know what they are getting into. If you think about it objectively, it makes a kind of sick business sense for both the smugglers and their customers. The migrants are assured that they only pay the full cost if they actually arrive in Thailand - cash on delivery, if you like. Meanwhile, the smugglers have leverage to guarantee that they get paid. The model has the added advantage, from the perspective of the smugglers at least, of making the decision to attempt the trip much easier. It seems many young men, and it is predominantly young men who seem to make the journey, are lured in the risky and selfish hope that their family will find a way raise the money once they arrive in Thailand. But other migrants make the decision to leave together with their families, judging that it is the only way to lift them out of poverty. We were told that a successful migrant can send as much as 30,000 taka (£260/$400) back to his family each month. But many, many migrants don't make it. Within minutes of arriving in an unofficial camp for Rohingya refugees further up the coast, I was surrounded by parents showing me pictures of their missing sons (and occasionally daughters). Some said their sons had left for Malaysia without telling them. Many others, however, said they had sent them off in the hope that they would send money back for the family. According to the smuggler, one in five of the migrants he takes don't make it to Malaysia. Many die before they even reach the camps, he told me. ""Some die because of the suffering, some die because of of tension, some die thinking about how to escape from the situation and some people die of hunger after they run out of food. ""All people have to die"", he said, ""that is fate.""","Over the last couple of weeks , the world has @placeholder up to the horrific trade in human beings being conducted in the seas of South East Asia .",picked,added,caught,woken,announced,3
"The trial scheme on beaches in the Newquay and Padstow areas comes as RNLI cover comes to an end after the summer season. It follows the deaths of three people at Mawgan Porth a year ago when there were no lifeguards on duty. RNLI cover on Cornwall beaches ends in November until spring. Beaches involved in the trial include Crantock, Fistral, Tolcarne, Porth, Watergate, Mawgan Porth and Harlyn. RNLI lifeguard supervisor Anton Page said: ""We will provide keys to the huts so they have access to defibrillators, oxygen and all of that sort of stuff. ""It can reduce the time for someone to get vital aid while we are waiting for the emergency services."" The RNLI is warning people to take extra care if using the sea during half term. Ten beaches in Cornwall will have lifeguard cover - Praa Sands, Sennen, Porthmeor, Gwithian, Porthtowan, Perranporth, Polzeath, Widemouth, Fistral beach in Newquay and at Summerleaze in Bude. RNLI lifeguards will run voluntary patrols with help from members of Bude Surf Lifesaving Club throughout half term. Rachel Dunn, 42, and Kevin Reynolds, 44, both from St Austell, Cornwall, and Stuart Calder, 52, from Leeds, died after getting into difficulty in a rip current at Mawgan Porth last October. Residents and business owners have successfully campaigned for better signs on the beach.","The RNLI is giving off - duty lifeguards , coastguards , lifeboat crew and @placeholder local surf school staff access to its emergency equipment over the winter .",engineers,drugs,causing,trained,conditions,3
"The 27-year-old had a clash of heads with fellow Englishman Mike Cooper. He lay prone on the pitch for several minutes, while receiving medical care, before being taken off on a stretcher. Burgess later wrote: ""Initial scan results are positive.... feeling extremely lucky tonight."" He was playing his third game since returning to rugby league after a nine-month stint in union with Bath and England. He lowered his head as he ran with the ball but immediately fell to the ground after the collision. The Rabbitohs were trailing 8-6 in the NRL fixture at the time and no more points were scored following the incident in the 58th minute.","England forward Sam Burgess says he was "" extremely lucky "" to avoid a serious @placeholder injury after being carried off and taken to hospital during South Sydney 's loss to St George Illawarra on Sunday .",arm,neck,shoulder,control,ankle,1
"Youlgrave in Derbyshire was crafted by villager Lynne Nolan in icing with neighbours baking 35 cakes. Organisers said they had been surprised but delighted by the national media attention the story inspired. The auction of the cakes raised £3,000 on the night with another £2,000 coming in from donations. All proceeds are going towards the church roof appeal. For more stories about Christmas decorations and trees follow us on Pinterest The model consisted of 16 detailed buildings including a pub and church,  with the icing alone taking 387 hours to apply. The cakes have been soaked in whiskey which preserves them for months. Mrs Nolan, who is a keen cake maker, said: ""I think the butcher is my favourite. ""I did it first and it has got black puddings and pork pies and cuts of meat in it."" Ian Bright, one of the team behind the project, said: ""We have had a lot of media attention. We have had reporters from lots of papers, TV cameras and of course it has travelled the world on the internet. ""One man who paid £1,000 for some of the cakes promptly donated them back and they will be divided up for elderly and needy people. ""As well as the cake auction money we have had donations from all over the country.""","A village @placeholder entirely in cake - including a tiny cake shop - has raised more than £ 5,000 .",team,suspected,targeted,disabled,recreated,4
"Twelve weeks of work has begun at Bournemouth's Horseshoe Common - a so-called ""shared space scheme"". The authority said it was not clear whether the problem was a result of the materials but it would be reusing the blocks in an area of lighter traffic. It said the scheme, aimed at improving safety, had otherwise been successful. The council initially said a 40% increase in the number of buses using the road since the £1.04m scheme was implemented had contributed to its decline. However, it later issued a joint statement with operator Yellow Buses, saying there had been ""confusion surrounding the number of bus vehicles"", there had been no increase in services and the authority did not blame the bus company. A council statement said: ""Regardless of the number of buses, we can see that the road surface has deteriorated much quicker than expected and needs to be rectified... we do not yet know if it is a result of the materials, the workmanship or the specification.""","A council is spending £ 121,000 re-laying a block - @placeholder road surface three years after it was completed because it is deteriorating quicker than expected .",funded,paved,sized,seat,term,1
"The parents will also be allowed contact with their biological children. The mistake came to light when one of the couples split and the father demanded a DNA test to challenge the mother's demand for maintenance payments. It revealed that neither was the biological parent. The High Court in Pretoria accepted an expert's recommendation against breaking the strong bonds already formed. The boy and girl, now aged five, had been unwitting victims of a mix-up in hospital in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.",A South African court has ruled that two children @placeholder at birth will remain with the families who raised them .,lost,orphaned,wounded,swapped,staff,3
"Saturday's game at Tadcaster Albion's i2i stadium in North Yorkshire saw visitors Highworth Town run out 1-0 winners. Trouble flared at the end of the match with reports Highworth's chairman and goalkeeper were among those injured. In a statement, Tadcaster officials said they were ""devastated"" by the ""totally unacceptable"" violence. Meanwhile, the visitors from Wiltshire said the scenes were ""regrettable and ruined what should have been a celebration of a magnificent achievement for Highworth Town"". The Tadcaster statement said: ""We are devastated with the scenes at the end of yesterday's game. ""We will continue to work closely with the police, Highworth Town and the FA. ""We are determined to bring those responsible to account. ""As a club we apologise to everyone who witnessed and were on the receiving end of totally unacceptable behaviour. ""We do however wish to thank the majority of the 1,307 crowd who behaved impeccably."" There have been no arrests.",Players and club officials were @placeholder as violence erupted at the end of an FA Vase quarter final tie .,praised,attacked,present,ejected,evacuated,1
"So far six bodies have been recovered, and the authorities believe there may be nine more bodies inside the mine. Officials said some of the miners were trapped at a depth of about 17m (55 feet). The mine collapsed because of flooding, apparently after a power cut shut off pumps to keep out water from a nearby river. The accident happened in Caldas province in north-western Colombia. Leonardo Mejia, the mine owner, told reporters that several miners had managed to escape when they realised something was wrong. The National Mining Agency (ANM) said local firefighters reported that gases in the deep, vertical tunnels had contributed to the cave-in. Colombia is a major gold producer but more than half its mines are unregulated.",Rescue workers have @placeholder recovering the bodies of miners trapped in a flooded gold mine in Colombia .,erupted,seized,fallen,begun,died,3
"John Sales was stabbed in his back garden in Colchester, Essex, on 10 November 2015. He survived the attack. The stabbing had been plotted by his stepson Flash Day, 45, who resented Mr Sales' inheritance of his mother's house, Chelmsford Crown Court was told. Mr Day, of Colchester, has denied conspiracy to commit murder. Brian Reece, opening the prosecution case, said Mr Day had discovered that Mr Sales had made a will, leaving most of his estate to him. It prompted him to hatch a plan to get hold of the money, the court heard. The turning point came when Mr Sales put the house up for sale for £240,000 and Mr Day had seen the ""sold"" sign, the court heard. Mr Reece said that Mr Day's friend, Scott Moffat, 49, had suggested an acquaintance as the man to commit the murder. ""This was not a random attack by a stranger,"" he said. ""This was a carefully planned attack."" Prosecutors said a ""10-inch long Rambo-style hunting knife"" was used in the attack and its sheath was found at the scene. Mr Sales, then aged 70,  was left with a deep wound to his back and a gash down the side of his jaw. Ryan Hynes, 21, of Long Road, Lawford, admitted the attempted murder of Mr Sales on the first day of the trial. Mr Day, of Rose Allen Avenue, Colchester; Mr Moffat, of Colchester Road, Manningtree; and a teenage girl who cannot be named for legal reasons; all deny conspiracy to commit murder. The trial continues.","A man hired a hitman to kill his stepfather so he could inherit £ 200,000 tied up in the @placeholder of his house , a jury has heard .",region,garage,head,value,face,3
"Joe Delaney, of the Grenfell Action Group, told the BBC that Sir Martin Moore-Bick ""couldn't even control the crowd"" at the meeting on Thursday. A video of the meeting shows the ex-judge saying he would ""find the facts as I see them from the evidence"". He has already faced calls to step down just days after being appointed. Sir Martin said he had been invited to the meeting by the Lancaster West Residents Association, and left after almost three hours. He described it afterwards as a ""very useful meeting"". Mr Delaney told BBC Radio 5 live that Sir Martin ""wasn't jeered or booed. It was more scepticism. You could hear people signing and tutting"". ""It got a bit loud before the end. The man couldn't even control the crowd and hold them. I have heard public speakers who can shut up a stadium full of thousands of people. This man couldn't hold a room with 200 or so people."" Local resident Melvyn Akins, 30, said there was ""frustration, anger and confusion"" in the meeting, and that Sir Martin told those gathered that he could not start work on the inquiry until his terms of reference were established. ""It is going to be an uphill struggle. People feel abandoned. Now you have got somebody coming in and saying 'I am going to look into it all thoroughly' and it is not good enough. ""People firmly believe that arrests should be made as a result of the outcome of all of this. If arrests are not made, people are going to feel justice may not be being done."" In a short video recorded at the meeting, Sir Martin tells those at the meeting: ""I can't do more than assure you that I know what it is to be impartial. ""I've been a judge for 20 years, and I give you my word that I will look into this matter to the very best of my ability and find the facts as I see them from the evidence. ""That's my job, that's my training, and that's what I intend to do. Now if I can't satisfy you because you have some preconception about me as a person that's up to you."" Earlier it emerged that cladding samples which failed safety tests in the wake of the fire will be subjected to further ""large-scale"" testing. Experts will fix a complete cladding system to a 30ft-high (9m) demonstration wall and subject it to ""a severe fire"", the government said. It comes after 190 samples out of 191 failed initial combustibility tests. Urgent tests were ordered on cladding from about 600 towers blocks in England after the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed at least 80 people, on 14 June. However, questions have since been asked about the nature of the process after all but one test resulted in a failure. The independent expert panel on safety has now said further testing will be carried out ""as the next step"". So far, tests have covered only the plastic ""core"" on panels similar to those used on Grenfell Tower. The new process will subject a demonstration wall to a ""severe fire in a flat breaking out of a window"" and aim to establish whether it will then spread up the outside wall. It will also assess how different types of aluminium composite material (ACM) panels behave with different types of insulation in a fire, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) said. ACM in the cladding is thought to have been a factor in the rapid spread of the fire at Grenfell Tower, in west London. The results will help landlords decide on further actions they may need to take to ensure buildings are safe, the DCLG added. The Local Government Association - which had called for the tests to be changed - said the new testing ""needs to be undertaken urgently"". ""We have been clear all along that entire cladding panels and the insulation behind them need to be fire tested together as a system, rather than just the core of the panels on their own,"" chairman Lord Porter added. The Fire Industry Association, a trade association with more than 700 UK members, said it applauded the decision to carry out the fire tests. Testing so far had simply focused on the combustibility of the core material in the cladding, it said, adding that the new tests would determine whether cladding would ""actually perform well in a real fire"". However, social housing provider Salix Homes said it had halted work to remove cladding from eight tower blocks in Salford, Greater Manchester, saying government advice was now ""unclear"".","The @placeholder judge who will head the Grenfell Tower inquiry "" lost the room "" when he met residents and survivors , according to a community group member .",phone,retired,troubled,district,body,1
Four mountain rescue teams were called in on Saturday afternoon after a rescue helicopter was unable to get to the man at Maentwrog gorge. He was taken from the gorge using a rope and stretcher system after suffering an ankle injury. The man was flown to hospital four hours after the rescue operation began. The gorge is used for canyoning where people climb and jump into the water. Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue Team and South Snowdonia Search and Rescue Team worked on the rescue together with volunteers from Aberdyfi Search and Rescue Team and Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation who were also called out.,Rescuers had to use ropes to evacuate a man who was injured in a gorge at a @placeholder in Snowdonia before he could be airlifted to hospital .,house,pool,bridge,waterfall,centre,3
"A purse and jewellery were also missing when Christine Isted, 66, arrived home to find her bedroom in Pitsea, Essex, had been ransacked. Ms Isted said her husband Anthony died aged 68 a year ago and she was ""just getting her life back together"". ""I could not believe anyone could be so callous as to take a box of ashes,"" she said. Essex Police said the bedroom window had been smashed sometime between 13:30 and 18:00 GMT on Monday 23 November, when Ms Isted was out shopping in Basildon. Ms Isted said she had £700 in her purse, as first reported in the Echo. When she alerted a neighbour, he told her there was a sheet in a nearby alleyway and the box of ashes was found wrapped up in it later the same day. ""I feel violated. I'm glad I've got Tony back and one day I'd like to get my engagement ring back,"" she said. ""I've been out to the local shops again a couple of times, but it's the coming back home that makes me anxious and my hands shake when I open my door."" Mrs Isted said she had originally wanted to scatter her husband's ashes after he died in September last year, but then decided she wanted to keep them in their bungalow on Beambridge Court. She said she hoped to have her own ashes mixed with her husband's and then her family could scatter them somewhere when they were both dead.",A widow has found her late husband 's box of ashes in a nearby alleyway after they were @placeholder in a burglary .,stabbed,stolen,involved,beaten,ushered,1
"In trials, the combination therapy shrank the most aggressive and deadly type of skin cancer in 69% of patients. The decision to approve the drugs is one of the fastest in NHS history and is likely to be adopted throughout the UK. Experts said harnessing the body's own defences was now giving ""new hope"" to cancer patients. The field - known as immunotherapy - is one of the most exciting in cancer treatment. Cancers are a corrupted version of healthy tissue and evolve ways of evading the immune system. Ipilimumab and nivolumab stop the cancers hiding and allow the immune system to attack. Ten years ago, patients with advanced and aggressive melanoma lived for an average of nine months. But two years after a being given both drugs - more than half experience tumours shrinking and a fifth have no sign of cancer at all. Prof Carole Longson, from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) which approved the drugs, said: ""These promising new immunotherapy treatments for advanced melanoma look set to significantly extend the life of people with the condition."" The combination was licensed across Europe only last month. The speed with which it was approved by NICE means patients in England will be the first to have access to the therapy on the continent. Peter Waite, a 63-year-old motor technician from Preston, was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year. He started a trial on the drugs, which are now being tried in a wide range of cancers, in April 2015. He told the BBC: ""There was a 30% reduction in the size of the tumours and it has arrested any further growth. ""It's very easy to decide your life is over when you have a terminal illness, the introduction of these drugs is going to bring a lot of hope to people and I'm totally positive and looking forward to watching my grandchildren grow up."" He now has his cancer monitored every six weeks to ensure it does not start to grow again. Nivolumab and ipilimumab both work by interrupting the chemical signals that cancers use to convince the immune system they are healthy tissue. Nivolumab blocks the off-switch on white blood cells called PD-1. Ipilimumab blocks a similar switch called CTLA-4. Dr Paul Nathan, from the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Middlesex, told the BBC News website: ""Immunotherapy is genuinely exciting, it is starting to have a profound effect on many cancers and I'm in no doubt there will be patients that have long-term durable control of their disease... it really is a game-changer."" It is the dual-action that means the combination therapy works better than either alone. However, the combination also causes inflammation in the bowels and liver as the drugs triggers the immune system to attack healthy tissues. Prof Peter Johnson, the chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, said: ""These results give new hope to melanoma patients. ""But, it's important to remember that more powerful treatment comes with an increased chance of severe side effects. ""Our research now needs to identify which patients are most likely to benefit from this combination and who is most likely to experience the side effects, so doctors can make sure we get the balance right."" Gill Nuttall, the founder of the charity Melanoma UK, added: ""Once melanoma reaches an advanced stage, it is an aggressive and life-threatening disease which is difficult to treat because it has spread to other parts of the body. ""Today's decision is hugely significant for patients."" Follow James on Twitter.",A @placeholder pair of cancer drugs that unleash the immune system on tumours will be paid for by the NHS in England .,renewed,man,pioneering,suspected,dying,2
"John Jackson worked in the Witham-based criminal justice mental health team when concerns were raised about his internet use in 2013. A Health and Care Professions Council panel heard 40% of his work internet use between May 2012 and May 2013 involved ""adult pornographic material"". Mr Jackson admitted the findings of the investigation, the panel was told. Live: For more on this and other Essex stories An investigation into Mr Jackson's internet use found he had viewed pornography on 1,296 occasions. The panel also heard how Mr Jackson, who was employed by Essex County Council but seconded to the North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a senior practitioner, ""no longer wished to work as a social worker"". Mr Jackson was dismissed following an internal disciplinary hearing in August 2013. His appeal against that dismissal was dismissed. Essex County Council has yet to comment on the case.","A senior social worker who viewed adult pornography more than 1,000 times using a work computer has been @placeholder off .",knocked,struck,paid,recited,held,1
"The Big Lottery fund in Wales said the Wisdom Bank site was funded to share knowledge, and had ""met its targets"". After its funding ended last year, Torfaen council took it over. But the site is currently down because of a ""temporary technical issue"". Mike Harris, a councillor on the authority's audit committee, said continued public funding of the site would be like ""flogging a dead horse"". Big Lottery said in a statement the project aimed to ""harness the experience and skills of people in the 45 to 65 age group for the wider benefit of the community of Torfaen"". ""This will be achieved through the development of a web-based Wisdom Bank providing online, interactive, one-to-one advice and mentoring in a secure private environment. ""Initial support will be targeted at entrepreneurship, employment support for young people who are NEET (not in employment, education or training), care leavers, support for carers and for people with long-term health conditions."" The project aimed to recruit 60 mentors and support 500 individuals. But despite claims it has ""met targets"", Torfaen council said it currently has 340 users. Mr Harris said no more public money should be spent on the site unless it can prove its worth. ""Big Lottery would have looked at the business plan and you have to question their judgement with such a risk,"" he said. ""£250,000 to use a web portal to engage with an audience of 340 doesn't seem good value for me, when you can actually engage with them through social media such as Facebook. ""It's an embarrassment if it continues - I think serious questions need to be asked because now they'll be using taxpayers money to continue with a project. ""If it's a dead horse I'm afraid there are far more worthy causes that money needs to be spent on."" A Torfaen council spokesperson said: ""Torfaen Public Service Board sees the Wisdom Bank as an innovative digital platform for engaging with the local community...the council is now overseeing further development of the platform. ""There is currently a technical issue with the site which will be fixed as soon as possible."" The Wisdom Bank's Facebook and Twitter account have not been updated since last summer.","A website awarded £ 250,000 to "" unleash the wealth of wisdom "" of people in Torfaen has been @placeholder after registering 340 users in two years - a cost of over £ 700 per user - before going offline .",welcomed,restored,secured,announced,criticised,4
"Lord Dubs, who came to Britain on the Kindertransport programme for Jewish children, said no-one had arrived in the UK under a scheme pledged in May. It said lone child refugees registered in France, Italy or Greece before 20 March could be resettled in the UK. The Home Office said work on the scheme was under way. But Lord Dubs said that, as far as he knew, no children had been brought to the UK under the promised terms. ""Now that the referendum is over it is time they got on with it,"" he said. ""No one has come through on this scheme yet. The only people who have come through I know are young people I met in Calais who then made it to Britain on the back of a lorry,"" he said. ""These children are in danger. All the evidence is that some of them are in danger of being lured into crime and prostitution."" Lord Dubs also warned that refugee children were coming to a Britain that was ""less tolerant"" than it was even a few months ago: ""It is absolutely shocking. It is very depressing, we have sunk in terms of the way we treat other people."" Mr Cameron's U-turn on the issue of accepting unaccompanied child refugees came after mounting political pressure, including from Tory backbenches. The government agreed in January to take some lone child refugees directly from North Africa and Middle East. But it had rejected calls to accept 3,000 children who had made it to Europe because it did not want to encourage others to make the ""lethal"" journey. Lord Dubs, together with charities Citizens UK and Unicef UK, is backing an amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill, being debated in Parliament on Monday, to press minsters for greater assurances. Charities have warned that councils giving a home to refugee children lack the assurances of long term government funding they need. Bishop of Durham Paul Butler, a spokesman for Citizens UK, said: ""Although we rejoiced when the government agreed to step up and resettle unaccompanied child refugees from Europe, we are disappointed that their words are not being put into action. ""This generous offer of sanctuary to unaccompanied children must not be allowed to fail due to bureaucracy and cuts."" Lily Caprani, of Unicef UK, said child refugees continued to ""remain stuck for months in wretched camps from Greece to France"". She called on the government to ""take immediate action to speed up these procedures"". The Home Office said it was committed to bringing vulnerable refugee children from Europe to the UK, as underpinned in the Immigration Act 2016. A spokesman said the government was consulting with local authorities to confirm available capacity and to make sure ""appropriate support systems"" were in place. UK officials were also talking to the UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR, and the Italian, Greek and French governments to speed up the process.","Child refugees promised sanctuary in the UK are still risking their lives hiding in lorries , a Labour peer who @placeholder Nazi Germany has warned .",escaped,represents,helped,raised,claims,0
"The 20-year-old academy product made his debut for the Hove-based side in the One-Day Cup in 2014. He played a total of five Championship matches for the club - four of which came towards the end of last season - and also made a second One-Day Cup appearance in 2016. Meanwhile, 19-year-old all-rounder Delray Rawlins has signed his first professional contract with Sussex. The academy product, who has agreed a one-year deal, has recently been representing Bermuda, the country of his birth, in the ICC World Cricket League Division Four but will also travel with England's Young Lions programme this winter.",Sussex have @placeholder all - rounder Fynn Hudson - Prentice .,agreed,completed,joined,released,named,3
"The SNP leader unveiled the pledge ahead of a hustings event with the other main party leaders in Edinburgh. Labour, the Conservatives, Lib Dems and Scottish Greens also back greater rights and support for LGBTI people. Campaigners welcomed the plans, which they said could allow young people to legally change their gender. They also said it could mean the law would recognise that some people have a non-binary gender and are neither men nor women. Scottish Labour said its manifesto would pledge to remove the psychiatric diagnosis requirement from legal gender recognition. The Scottish Conservatives, Scottish Liberal Democrats and Scottish Greens have called for teachers to be better equipped to deal with LGBTI issues. Scotland was last year rated the best country in Europe in terms of legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. But Ms Sturgeon said more work still needed to be done, and the SNP would look to create ""refreshed, age-appropriate strategies and resources"" for children to promote tolerance and respect, and prevent prejudice about healthy relationships if it wins the election on 5 May. Under her plans, all new guidance and promoted teachers would also undertake training on equality so they could tackle prejudice-based bullying in schools. Ms Sturgeon said young people should be supported to make informed choices about their gender and sexual identity. In addition, she said an SNP government would work towards every professional working with children being trained on equality and tackling prejudice-based bullying. And it would aim for all police officers to receive appropriate training on the investigation of hate crime. Ms Sturgeon said she was proud that Scotland had made ""significant progress"" on LGBTI equality in recent years, with the country having legalised gay marriage in February 2014. She added: ""Tolerance, respect, inclusion - these are attitudes and principles we want to encourage and foster in a modern, fairer Scotland. ""Enabling young people to make informed choices about their gender and sexual identity is about supporting them to be themselves so that they might fulfil their potential. ""I am hopeful that in the next Scottish Parliament we can build as much consensus on LGBTI issues as we did in this session - and take another leap forward for equality."" James Morton, manager of the Scottish Transgender Alliance, welcomed the pledges, which he said were in line with international best practice. He added: ""That would mean enabling people to change the gender on their birth certificate without intrusive medical diagnosis, recognising trans people as the experts on their own identities. ""It would allow young people to legally change their gender, with parents' support if under 16. ""It would also mean the law recognising that some people have a non-binary gender, that is they are neither men nor women."" But the Free Church of Scotland moderator, Rev David Robertson, warned against ""destroying the traditional idea of gender"". He added: ""We believe that this will result in confusion and brokenness amongst our children rather than fulfilled potential."" Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said her party's manifesto would commit to legislating to remove the psychiatric diagnosis requirement from legal gender recognition. She also pledged to reduce to 16 the age at which people can get legal recognition of the gender they live as, and ensure legal protection for people who do not identify as either men or women. On the education proposals, she added: ""We've got to give teachers the confidence to teach LGBT issues whether that's in social education or elsewhere in the curriculum."" Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: ""I want to get to a stage where absolutely every teacher in every school in Scotland feels equipped to be able to deal with these issues because every child needs to be able to trust the people in their schools."" She called for relationship, sexual health and parenthood education to be updated much more often ""to be able to keep up with the kind of evolving relationship that young people have with sexuality and gender and the way in which it is expressed in their schools."" Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: ""I think we should be making more progress on education. I don't think we should just be training a small number of teachers I think we should be training all teachers. ""We should be getting gender recognition right, we need to remove the archaic system that we have just now. People should have the right to choose for themselves."" Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie highlighted the ""unspoken issue"" of faith schools. He said: ""If we're talking about all teachers then we're also talking about all schools. ""And although there is good and bad practice on both sides of the denominational divide, we still aren't acknowledging that a great many young people are being educated in an ethos which says a lot of us in this room are   and believe it or not they use this phrase - inherently morally defective.""",Nicola Sturgeon has promised to review and reform gender recognition law for transgender people as part of a series of @placeholder on LGBTI equality .,dependence,action,commitments,powers,information,2
"The plucky Grimethorpe Colliery Band - whose story gave rise to 1996 film Brassed Off - was given the honour as part of BBC Music Day. It was installed outside the band's rehearsal rooms in South Yorkshire. The plaque was one of 47 commemorating people or places that have influenced musical culture. Live updates and more stories from Yorkshire Brassed Off, which starred the late British acting legend Pete Postlethwaite, featured the fictional town of Grimley and was partly based on the closure of Grimethorpe's pit in 1993. It used music from the village's band. Stephen Tompkinson, who starred as Phil in the film, said: I'm incredibly proud the film has lasted and lasted it means so much to people. ""It really strikes a deep note in them, when it would have been far easier just to pack up and stop entirely this band kept playing on. ""They're still there loud and proud today."" Roy Bowater, a tuba player, said: ""I think the sound of Grimethorpe is unique, it grabs you by the throat it is just something that gets you from within."" The band was founded in 1917 by workers from the local coal mine. It survived the closure of the pit in 1993 and relied on sponsorship money from a coal mining company, until 2011. Despite occasional concerns for its future it still continues to make music. Grimethorpe is about 7 miles (11km) from Barnsley.",A brass band which inspired a box office hit has been honoured with a blue plaque in the @placeholder 's centenary year .,company,group,region,county,women,1
"The animal, which had inflated to twice its size, was spotted wandering around in circles by a member of the public in Toll Bar, Doncaster. RSPCA inspector Sandra Dransfield said it was clear the animal was suffering the rare condition, which is caused by gas collecting under the skin. The male hedgehog is being treated at an RSPCA centre in Cheshire. Ms Dransfield said: ""It's the worst case of balloon syndrome I've seen. ""This poor chap was almost twice its natural size, literally blown up like a beach ball with incredibly taut skin. ""I took the stricken animal straight to Peak Vets in Sheffield, where he was X-rayed and they released some of the air from under his skin. ""The vet then started him on a course of antibiotics and pain relief. We found him in the nick of time, and I really do hope he pulls through."" More news from across Yorkshire An RSPCA spokesperson said balloon syndrome can be caused by a traumatic event, like an injury, or underlying infection, which releases gas into the cavity under the hedgehog's skin. Treatment requires the skin to be punctured and a course of medication. The large 1kg (2.2lb) hedgehog has been transferred to the RSPCA's Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre in Nantwich, Cheshire, where he will be thoroughly examined under general anaesthetic and more air released. He will be cared for at the centre until he is ready to be returned to the wild. Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning","A hedgehog "" blown up like a beach ball "" has been @placeholder and diagnosed with a severe case of balloon syndrome .",examined,hospitalized,rescued,discovered,restored,2
"The first 1,200 civil servants are due to leave on 30 September. That is now uncertain due to the Stormont Executive's continuing disagreement on welfare reform and the budget. The head of the Northern Ireland civil service said a decision will be taken at the executive meeting on 10 September. In a letter to staff, Dr Malcolm McKibbin said he appreciated that ""this timeframe is very close to the conditional leaving date"" for the first group of leavers. But he added, that if the decision is taken to proceed, staff will leave on the planned date. The voluntary redundancy scheme was part of the Stormont House Agreement. It was struck between the executive parties and the British and Irish governments in December. The scheme allowed the executive to borrow up to £700m to fund 20,000 redundancies across the wider public sector. Around 3,000 of those redundancies are in the civil service. But, with the welfare reform part of the agreement collapsing, it is doubtful if the redundancy scheme can proceed as planned. More than 7,000 civil servants expressed interest in the scheme and 1,200 of those have been told they can leave, depending on funding. If the executive is not allowed to borrow the money, it would have to pay for the scheme by making cuts to day-to-day departmental spending. Some public bodies, such as Translink, have said they will proceed with redundancy plans even if the Stormont House money is not available.",Northern Ireland civil servants hoping to take voluntary redundancy will @placeholder next month if the scheme will go ahead .,suspend,return,hear,avoid,arrive,2
"The two parties have reached a mutually satisfactory agreement and the legal case has been dropped, according to a statement given to Screen Daily. They producers had claimed her last-minute departure caused delays on the Natalie Portman-starring Western. The Scottish film-maker had previously denied reports she was being sued. Ramsay's last film, an adaptation of the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, starring Tilda Swinton, premiered to critical acclaim in competition in Cannes in 2011. The film also earned her a Bafta nomination and the best director prize at the British Independent Film Awards. Jane Got a Gun will tell the story of a woman who asks an ex-lover for help in saving her husband from a gang who want him dead. Jude Law and Bradley Cooper also left the production shortly after Ramsay. The film will now be directed by Gavin O'Connor, with a cast including Ewan McGregor and Joel Edgerton. ""Jane Got a Gun Production LLC and Lynne Ramsay announce the pending civil action and all other disputes between the parties associated with Jane Got a Gun Motion Picture have been resolved privately and to their mutual satisfaction,"" said the statement published by Screen Daily. It was not revealed whether the resolution involved a financial settlement. Ramsay herself has yet to comment. Several sources claimed the disagreements involved delays and control of the film's final cut, with the Hollywood Reporter claiming Ramsay had not been presented with an approved schedule, script or budget days before shooting was set to begin. In November, the Hollywood Reporter also published court papers, in which it was claimed Ramsay ""was repeatedly under the influence of alcohol, was abusive to members of the cast and crew and was generally disruptive"". Ramsay later issued a statement saying she had not been served with that particular lawsuit. ""The allegations as recently reported are simply false,"" the statement added. ""Lynne looks forward to presenting the truth about this situation in the proper forum.""","Director Lynne Ramsay has settled a legal dispute with the producers of the film Jane Got a Gun , which she @placeholder days before shooting began last year .",quit,started,suffered,lost,struck,0
"The woman cannot be named as she has been granted an anonymity order. She admitted charges of possessing of class B drugs with intent to supply, possessing class A and C drugs, and of being concerned in the supply of drugs. She will be sentenced at Derry Crown Court next Wednesday. A prosecutor told the court that police searched her home on 5 September 2012, where they found cannabis, white tablets and white powder as well as deal bags in her bedroom. More cannabis was discovered downstairs, along with scales and other drug related paraphernalia. A mobile phone was also seized as well as £460 in cash. In total, 1.445kg of cannabis was found, with a street value of £28,800. During a police interview, the woman told police she accepted responsibility for the drugs found in her bedroom but not the drugs in the rest of the house. She said she had won £3,500 on the Irish lottery and had spent £2,000 the previous night on drugs. The woman was released on continuing bail until Wednesday.","A Derry woman @placeholder with drugs valued at £ 28,000 after winning more than £ 3,000 on the Irish lottery has been told that her case "" crosses the custody threshold by a mile "" .",experimented,spent,caught,clash,working,2
"After thunderstorms ended play prematurely on Friday, Poulter completed the remaining four holes of his second round in one under. That gave him a six-under round of 66 and a halfway total of 14-under-par. Veteran Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez parred the four holes he had to finish, adding a 73 to his opening 63, to leave him in a six-way share of second place. Poulter, who birdied five of the first 11 holes on Friday, tweeted that evening: ""Now that was a close call. On 14th green when lightning struck very close by."" After three-putting the 12th to drop a shot, the world number 40, aided by a strengthening wind, reached the par-five 13th green in two shots to set up a simple birdie. And on Saturday he birdied his first hole of the day, the 15th, to boost his chances of a first European Tour victory in two years. The 38-year-old is now 33-under-par for his last six rounds at the Colin Montgomerie-designed Maxx Royal course. ""I played exactly the same last week but didn't hole my putts,"" said Poulter, who finished joint sixth in the WGC-HSBC Champions last Sunday, the tournament which provided his last win in 2012. Ryder Cup player Victor Dubuisson, who won the inaugural tournament last year, was 13 shots off the pace and one over. The Frenchman, who played with a persistent nose bleed in round two on Friday, birdied the last for a round of 68. World number four Sergio Garcia, the highest ranked player in the field, is two over after recording triple bogey sevens at different holes in both of his opening rounds. The tournament is the third event of the European Tour's Race to Dubai Final Series, which culminates with the World Tour Championship in Dubai from 20 to 23 November.",Ian Poulter extended his lead to six shots after round two of the @placeholder Turkish Airlines Open in Belek .,side,delayed,title,table,shocks,1
"Mr Blair said the party he used to lead should aspire to govern, rather than be a ""fringe protest movement"". He has been a vocal critic of leader Jeremy Corbyn, warning before his leadership election victory that the party risked ""annihilation"" if he won. Mr Corbyn's office declined to respond to Mr Blair's comments, made in a Spectator article. ""All wings of the Labour Party which support the notion of the Labour Party as a Party aspiring to govern, rather than as a fringe protest movement agree on the tragedy of the Labour Party's current position,"" he said in the article, which does not mention Mr Corbyn by name. His comments come amid divisions within the party over its future direction. Most Labour MPs did not back Mr Corbyn for leader, but he overwhelmingly won the contest with over half of the membership's vote. Tensions have surfaced since the Commons voted on air strikes in Syria. Some MPs have complained they were abused online after backing military intervention, and Mr Corbyn has warned members ""abuse and intimidation"" will not be tolerated. There have also been claims so-called moderate Labour MPs could be unseated by pressure from the grass-roots Momentum group, formed from Mr Corbyn's leadership campaign, which the group denies. In his article, Mr Blair also defended his party's record under his leadership, during which he said it had ""effectively discarded"" its ideological commitment to socialism. Labour ""fell short"" in areas when hard choices had to be made, he said, with ""significant elements"" of the party unhappy with the ""compromise"" and ""pragmatism"" required for government, seeing it as a betrayal of Labour's principles. Looking forward, Mr Blair said ""more modernising and less ideological thinking"" was needed to cope with challenges such as the housing shortage and social exclusion. ""Right now we're in danger of not asking the right questions, never mind failing to get the right answers,"" he said. Many current Labour members feel the party ""lost its way""  in government, Mr Blair concluded. ""I feel we found it,"" he said. ""But I accept in the process we failed to convince enough people that the true progressives are always the modernisers, not because they discard principle but because they have the courage to adhere to it when confronted with reality.""","The current @placeholder of the Labour Party is a "" tragedy "" , former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said .",membership,nature,state,version,shadow,2
"The lorry was parked at the Coryton store, junction 32, all day. But tailbacks built up and queued five miles (8km) eastbound along the M4. Travel time between Pontypridd to Coryton along the A470 southbound was approximately 90 minutes. The retailer said sorry after angry drivers took to social media to complain. ""We apologise for any inconvenience caused this evening,"" a spokesman said. ""The event proved extremely popular and we're doing all we can to help customers and local commuters around the store to get on the move again."" Mum-of-one Bethan Collins, from Rhiwbina in Cardiff, said her evening had been ""completely ruined"" by the truck. ""I'm supposed to be out with friends but it's taken me so long to get home and my babysitters took two hours to drive from Merthyr that I can't go,"" she said. ""What was the council thinking allowing this truck at a major interchange - it's out of order."" Christian Jones told BBC Wales on Facebook: ""It is in the most ridiculous place in Cardiff, right at the heart of the capitals busiest junction! ""It should be in the city centre where people can use public transport to get there. For most people the only way to Coryton is to drive.""",Supermarket - giant Asda has apologised to drivers for @placeholder chaos in Cardiff caused by the festive Coca - Cola truck .,comments,emergency,traffic,life,general,2
"""When Altab Ali lost his life we didn't feel like we had a choice any more, we had to fight back if we were to survive,"" says his friend Shams Uddin. He points at the spot in a Whitechapel park where the 25-year-old was stabbed in the neck, then to a spot just a few metres away where he staggered to before collapsing.  It was there that he was found dead. ""I pray for him on the fourth of May every year."" Mr Uddin was one of the last people to speak to Mr Ali. He was 18 at the time; the men worked on the same street and were friends who watched wrestling together on a communal television each Saturday. When the young men bumped into one another that May evening Mr Uddin was walking home after casting his first local council vote. ""I was feeling excited, I was a big boy, casting my vote for the first time."" Mr Ali was on his way back from work, carrying bags of shopping. ""He told me he needed to go home because he had some cooking to do and after that he was going to go out and vote too."" But Mr Ali did not make it out to vote. He did not even make it home to do his cooking. The 25-year-old textile factory worker was murdered in St Mary's Park. Mr Ali, who moved to London from Bangladesh in 1969, was attacked by three teenagers - Roy Arnold, Carl Ludlow and another boy. Arnold and Ludlow were 17; the unnamed male was just 16. The murder was racially motivated and random - they did not know Mr Ali and did not care who he was. ""No reason at all,"" said the 16-year-old boy, when a police officer asked why he attacked Mr Ali. ""If we saw a Paki we used to have a go at them,"" he remarked. ""We would ask for money and beat them up. I've beaten up Pakis on at least five occasions."" The murder marked another ugly moment in the history of race relations in London's East End. Infamously, it was there in 1936 that Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, in imitation of Germany's Nazis, had planned to march in protest at the area's large Jewish population. Then, Mosley's Blackshirts were halted by more than 300,000 protestors. In 1978, Mr Ali's murder sparked protests again. It ""came to represent a watershed moment in the self-organisation of the community,"" according to cultural historian Sander L. Gilman. Like so many others in the area, Mr Ali was a young male working in a factory, sending money home to support his family. His death was seen by many as a sign that things had to change. The National Front were standing for election in 43 council seats the day Mr Ali was murdered. Mr Uddin says there had been many other racist incidents that ""we just ignored"" but the murder was the final straw. ""The blood of Altab Ali made us realise we couldn't ignore it, or who would be next?"" ""We knew there would be no place for us unless we fought back. So everyone joined together - Bangladeshi people, Caribbean people, Indian people, Pakistani people. Everyone was involved."" Ansar Ahmed Ullah was an activist during the 1970s and 1980s. ""At that time, it was very difficult for Bengalis to go out on their own, because you'd often be abused,"" he says. ""If you lived on a council estate your neighbours would be very hostile towards you. They would break your windows, they would push rubbish through your letterbox - basically make your life miserable."" Mr Uddin says that, as factory and restaurant workers at the time, he and many other Bangladeshis did not feel part of the community or the political system. But that political silence was coming to an end. Ten days after Mr Ali's death, about 7,000 people marched behind his coffin through central London, calling on the government to address racism in east London. They marched to Hyde Park, Trafalgar Square and to Downing Street. Shams Uddin recalls the chants of ""Black and white, unite and fight"" as the large crowd moved through the streets. ""One of our community leaders told us that, if we killed racism from the political ground, it would automatically die on the streets, so we took Altab Ali's coffin to 10 Downing Street."" Change was far from immediate. In June 1978, just a month after the murder, another Asian man named Ishaque Ali was killed in a racially motivated attack in Hackney. Not long after, the National Front moved its headquarters to Great Eastern Street, just a short walk from St Mary's Park. This brought anti-racism groups and the National Front into tense conflict at nearby Bethnal Green, where skinheads would distribute their literature on Sundays. ""When they came to Bethnal Green we knew we were very much in danger,"" said Mr Uddin. In response, anti-racism campaigners adopted new tactics. According to Mr Ullah, groups of people would camp in the area overnight. ""When the National Front came down in the morning they had nowhere to stand or sell their literature."" ""Racism was everywhere, not just in London,"" he added. ""I think Bengalis in other towns like Bradford definitely felt inspired by how we had organised and how we were protecting ourselves."" Though the process was gradual, far-right groups lost their influence in east London over the following decade and violent attacks became less frequent. ""We weren't able to transform anything overnight, but by the 1990s the intensity and the violence had subsided,"" said Mr Ullah. ""I think we were able to change the mind-set of the situation, in terms of how the police, councils and the government treated racism."" The protests after the murder of Mr Ali showed a community no longer willing to suffer the violence of racists without fighting back. In 1989 the murder scene - St Mary's Park - had a new entrance archway installed, designed as a memorial to Altab Ali, and to all victims of racist violence. Then in 1998 - the park was renamed Altab Ali Park. To build on this legacy, John Biggs, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, announced in October 2015 that the borough would host an annual Altab Ali Commemoration Day; this year is the first. ""We want to keep alive the important message of community cohesion, about standing united against racism,"" said Mr Biggs. ""Altab Ali's murder and the subsequent demonstrations showed people they were not alone in suffering or fearing violence."" Given the attempts of far-right groups like Britain First to gain a foothold in the area, Mr Ullah also believes that Altab Ali Day is a symbol that community co-operation can defeat new forms of discrimination. ""People don't really suffer from violent racist attacks anymore, but racism still exists in different forms. ""You have different ethnic communities, the gay community, the Jewish community, and all these groups are still facing prejudice. The memory of Altab Ali is still very relevant, even if the context is different. It shows the only way to defeat prejudice is for everybody to work together.""","On the 4th May 1978 , a young Bangladeshi textile worker was murdered in east London . It was a racially motivated killing - not unique at the time - but one that @placeholder a community . Now locals are dedicating a day in memory of Altab Ali .",includes,damaged,engulfed,suffered,awoke,4
"Three men and a girl of 16 were found with bomb-making materials by anti-terrorist police in a raid on a flat in the southern city. Home-made explosives similar to those used in the Paris attacks of November 2015 were discovered. Reports suggest the girl had made jihadist declarations online. Since the beginning of 2015, at least 230 people have been killed in jihadist attacks in France. Last week, a soldier received minor injuries when a machete-wielding man tried to enter the Louvre museum in Paris. The man, a 29-year-old Egyptian named Abdullah Hamamy, was shot and critically injured. Photos from the scene in Montpellier show debris outside the door of the flat that police stormed on Friday morning. Early reports suggested that one of the Montpellier detainees was a would-be suicide attacker. A local news site, M6 Info, said the four were planning to attack a tourist site in Paris but a police source told AFP news agency that investigators had not been able to establish the exact target. The suspects were arrested after buying acetone, a police source told AFP. Acetone is an ingredient used in the making of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a high explosive. TATP, the same explosive used in bomb vests worn by militants in the Paris attacks, was found in the city along with the acetone, a judicial source said. According to AFP, the female suspect had been spotted on social networks saying she wanted to leave for the Syria-Iraq conflict zone or mount an attack in France instead. She recorded a video in which she pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS), M6 Info reports. Meanwhile, France's top constitutional court struck down a law which penalised those who consult jihadist websites. The Constitutional Council found that the law infringed on people's freedom of communication unnecessarily. Separately, prosecutors in Denmark charged a 16-year-old girl with attempted terrorism for allegedly planning to bomb two schools in and around Copenhagen, one of them Jewish. The girl, a convert to Islam, was arrested in Kundby, near the capital, in January last year, and had been held in custody ever since. Prosecutors believe she was trying to prepare TATP herself. She will go on trial in Holbaek in April. A 25-year-old man arrested in the same case has been released without charge.","An "" imminent "" terror attack on French @placeholder has been averted with the arrest of four suspects in Montpellier , Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said .",soil,media,beat,display,team,0
"Steve Coogan's character posed the question ""what do you think about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre?"" during an intimate scene in I'm Alan Partridge in 1997. Eighteen years later, the council has approved plans to pedestrianise more parts of the city. All Saints Street and Westlegate could be closed to traffic by 2017. Under the plans, Red Lion Street will be open only to buses, cycles and taxis - apart from deliveries. In the episode of the BBC comedy, Partridge said: ""I'll be honest, I'm dead against it. People forget that traders need access to Dixons. ""They do say it will help people in wheelchairs."" Norwich actually lays claim to being the first city in the country to fully pedestrianise a road - London Street in 1967. In July, a virtual tour was released, showing what Norwich's city centre could look like after the £2.5m redevelopment. Work is due to start in January.",A planning scheme often referenced by fans of Alan Partridge has been @placeholder by Norwich City Council .,approved,bought,criticised,introduced,backed,4
"Perhaps it was the iterative nature of Kezia Dugdale's questions, repeated not once, not twice, not thrice but….what comes next? Quice? Whatever the provocation, Nicola Sturgeon seemed just a mite exasperated during questions at Holyrood today. She questioned the auditory capacity of a fellow MSP - not once, but…..oh, don't start that again, skip the loop. Then there was her response to the token opening question posed by Ruth Davidson. You know the sort of thing. ""When will you next meet the Tsar of all the Russias?"" Thus allowing a supplementary: ""When you encounter the Tsar, will you explain why hospital waiting times in Auchtermuchty have shown such pitiful variation?"" Ms Davidson followed her usual format. When would the FM next meet the Secretary of State for Scotland? Ms Sturgeon positively barked: ""Tonight!"" Not looking forward to the evening, eh, Nicola? Not, I would guess, a trip to the theatre to see Mary Poppins. Nor, from the sound of it, a chatty evening at home with a tube of Smarties and the latest box set of Borgen. Ruth Davidson looked temporarily taken aback. Still, she rallied to ask the FM about tax. The sign at Scotland's border, she said, should not read ""Higher Taxes Now"". What did she want instead? ""There be dragons?"" ""United for the Cup?"" No, it seems she wanted something along the lines of: ""Scotland will continue to offer broad equivalence to the fiscal structure as set out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George 'Gideon' Oliver Osborne MP."" Ms Davidson generally renders that as ""you won't pay more in Scotland than in England."" Ms Sturgeon chose to depict it as pusillanimity over the new tax powers. Earlier, though, she had faced broadly the same charge herself, from Labour's Kezia Dugdale. Ms Dugdale noted that up with the Chancellor's tax plans, Labour would not put. Would the FM say the same? Then she added the challenge: ""Yes or No"". There is nothing more calculated to rile a nuanced politician. Actually, catching your hand in the car door comes close. As does learning that the chippie has run out of white pudding. But still the ""Yes or No"" dichotomy tends to irk. It irked sufficiently on this occasion that the FM bluntly advised her interrogator to ""dispense with the mock indignation."" Simply then drily then irritably then angrily, Ms Sturgeon said again….and again…and (see above) that she would set out the detail of her tax plans early next week. But she said, again repeatedly, that she wasn't a fan of the Chancellor's scheme. And thus wouldn't do it. So what might we expect from the Scottish government - or, being pedantic, the SNP, given that we are notably close to an election? Not an increase in the standard rate. Ms Sturgeon has decried that as penalising the poor, even with Labour's proposed rebate (which the FM says is useless……no, it isn't…..yes it is…no it…). So that's a non-starter. She told me last week in a pre-conference interview that she was pretty sceptical about increasing the very top rate from 45p to 50p (for those earning more than £150k). That was because it raised relatively little in Scotland and top earners tended to be flexible. They could declare their income elsewhere, dodging that extra top rate - and depriving Scotland of all their tax contribution, not just a portion. So it seems that is unlikely - even although it must be politically tempting to match Labour's top rate rhetoric. In the same interview with me, she acknowledged that it would be an option to decline to apply an increase in the 40p threshold to Scotland. So that looks decidedly in prospect. Either leaving the threshold alone or perhaps increasing it in line with CPI inflation - which would be a tiny increase, thus dispensing with a sizeable portion of the accompanying tax cut. People in Scotland would thus pay more than people elsewhere in the UK - but only if they were on the upper rate, as redefined for Scotland alone. For the Liberal Democrats, Liam McArthur questioned how the FM intended to maintain services such as education while eschewing the 1p overall tax rise. Plainly, Mr McArthur was seeking to depict himself as thinking of Our Children's Children's Children. Ms Sturgeon appeared to favour another Moody Blues album. A Question of Balance.",Perhaps it was the proximity of the Holyrood elections - 49 days to @placeholder and counting .,polling,widen,search,meeting,sink,0
"He said the ""Welsh family farm"" was ""at risk"" from Tory proposals to change the way people pay for elderly care. But social care provision in Wales is handled by the Welsh Government. Challenged on a visit to a farm in Montgomeryshire on Tuesday evening, Mr Farron said the Tory policy had implications for cross-border farms. ""If you have a situation where you end up with people's homes at risk, particularly if you are cross-border farming, you end up in a situation where your home could be cashed in, and that, if it's the farm, could potentially impact future generations down the line,"" he said. ""But these are issues that will indeed be decided on Thursday,"" Mr Farron added.","Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has defended @placeholder Conservative social care policy while visiting Wales , even though it only applies in England .",attacking,experienced,defended,number,suspended,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device Tabb is a former pool player and referee who has officiated at two World Snooker Championship finals, the first woman to do so. ""I was a nine-ball pool player and started refereeing pool matches when I was pregnant with my first son. ""World Snooker had taken note and, unbeknown to me, there had been a little bit of chat going on because they wanted to change the profile of their refs at that time. ""They wanted to change the image, bring some younger refs in, bring a female in and there was me out there flying that flag. ""My husband and I talked about it because it was a big thing for me to go away because my son was only four at the time. ""But we saw it as such a big opportunity that it was too good to turn down and we thought we will give it a shot and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. At least we tried. And off I went. ""I was fast-tracked through the system and there was certainly hostility from some of the established referees at the time. ""But it lit the fire under me, because I thought, I'm going to show you. It really motivated me and was actually the best thing that could have happened because it made me work so much harder to be the best and never make mistakes - not that I never made mistakes but that was my aim. ""I found out I was refereeing the World Snooker Championship Final in 2009 and I spent the whole week panicking but when I walked out it was unbelievable. It was one of the greatest moments of my life. ""There have been downsides and in 2013 I had to warn Ronnie O'Sullivan for making an obscene gesture with his snooker cue. ""Ronnie did admit it afterwards but you should see the flack I took on Twitter and Facebook. I have never been so abused by some real die-hard Ronnie supporters that don't see past the fact. They said I made him miss the next shot- rubbish!"" O'Reilly is the first woman the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) appointed to its National Referee Panel. She also officiated at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. ""I played rugby for about 13 years and when I retired I wanted to stay involved in the game so it was either coaching or refereeing. ""I started off refereeing a lot of junior rugby and women's games but you get assessed and if you're good enough, get promoted up the leagues. ""Fortunately, I got promoted quite quickly through the ranks and I was taken on by the Irish Rugby Football Union and that's when I started to go on to the national panel. ""I used to pull up in the car park and men's teams would think I was the physio, and they would point me to the physio room, that happened on a regular basis. ""But my profile has built a little, so they now know who I am when I show up. ""I've never had an issue with the lads on the pitch but they know that they've got to work with me for the next 80 minutes, so it's fine. ""I can't go out on the pitch and show any fear at all, with guys 6ft 8ins and 6ft 9ins, I can't show any fear. ""If I thought of myself any different as a female official I was going to be lost, so I have to go out there, hold my head high, shoulders wide, and referee the game like any of my male counterparts. ""There were a few question marks in the Women's World Cup about the standard of refereeing but I think it was great that it was an all female panel. ""I do believe that we have to keep pushing ourselves to improve the standards though as the game itself has improved from where it started a few years ago, and I think that the refereeing has to come up to that standard as well. ""If I don't perform this week I could be dropped next week, so I take it game by game. I could eventually officiate Guinness Pro 12 and Heineken Cup matches but the National Panel of Ireland and the Women's World Cup again are my goals for the next couple of years."" Frampton is a former football referee and became one of the Football Association's national referee managers. She now runs a sports officials consultancy. ""I started playing football at the age of 15. I then had children in my early twenties and I wanted to get back into it, but there were no opportunities playing and the only way I could get back into it was to be a referee.  So I took up refereeing and it went from there really. ""I got to professional football level. I was the second woman to reach that level behind Wendy Toms, who was an excellent friend, role model and mentor to me over the years. ""In 1999 Wendy and I, along with Amy Fearn, became the first all-female officials at a men's [professional] game, which was Kidderminster against Nuneaton in the Conference. ""The pathway for women then was different, no-one knew what to do with us. Over the years, it's come an awful long way. We have a long way to go, but women are starting to become equal in that environment. ""I believe we will have a woman refereeing in the Premier League when we have one good enough and I still think that will be some years away. ""One thing I would never want is to have positive discrimination which means they get the job just because they are women. ""They have to manage that expectation and live with their peers and their peers will know that maybe they've got there because they are women. I know, 100%, that the women we do have currently at a high level are there because they are good enough. ""Women face different challenges than men do.  We are looking at it with Sian Massey now. Sian is having to put her career on hold as she is having a baby.  Amy Fearn has had two children and she has been the most amazing role model for coming back and retaining her fitness. ""We still have incidents of sexism and it's about education.  It's about changing mindsets. Football is predominantly male, the decision-makers are predominantly male and until we can make a difference at the top to cascade down, it will be difficult to change those mindsets. ""But I know that the Football Association are looking very seriously at the demographics of people at a high level and we just hope that will make a difference, cascading throughout all football.""","BBC Sport is paying tribute to @placeholder women in sport in the run -up to International Women 's Day on 8 March . Here , three women who have refereed men 's sport in snooker , rugby and football share their experiences .",pioneering,replace,encourage,beat,join,0
They were called out to the incident on the town's Queen Street at about 02:30. A 28-year-old man was taken to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary with an injury to his arm. Police said he had been released after treatment but investigations were ongoing to establish the circumstances of the incident.,"Police are seeking witnesses after a man was seriously @placeholder during a disturbance involving a "" large group of people "" in Dumfries .",shaken,beaten,burned,assaulted,abandoned,3
"The discovery was made by the BBC's Rip Off Britain, which was investigating food hygiene at branches of several big-name takeaways and coffee shops. A scientist who examined the results told the programme the presence of the bacteria increased the risk of anyone who consumed the ice becoming ill. KFC said it was extremely disappointed and had launched an investigation. How can you tell the restaurant you're eating in is clean? Dr Margarita Gomez Escalada studied the sample, taken from a Birmingham KFC restaurant, at Leeds Beckett University. She told the programme: ""We found high levels of bacteria in the ice. ""The presence of faecal coliform suggests that there's faecal contamination either on the water that made the ice, or the ice itself, and so it increases the risk of getting sick from consuming this ice."" Undercover researchers visited a branch of Costa in Loughborough, the Chicken Cottage in Hampstead, a Café Nero in Bath and the Wimpy in Basildon, as well as the KFC at Martineau Place in Birmingham. At each location, Rip Off Britain said its researchers asked for a cup of tap water with ice, as this can be an good indicator of standards behind the scenes. Most of the samples that were taken turned up low and harmless levels of bacteria when tested, Rip Off Britain said. Dr Escalada said: ""It's really hard to say how the faecal bacteria got to the ice that we tested. The thing I think is most likely is that it got there through manipulation. So someone touched the ice and their hands weren't particularly clean."" Rip Off Britain: Food is broadcast on BBC One at 09:15 BST on weekday mornings from Monday 25 April - catch up on BBC iPlayer The programme said that the KFC in question had temporarily closed for a deep clean following a zero hygiene rating only weeks before the sample was taken. Angela Rippon, who co-presents Rip Off Britain said: ""When we reported this to KFC they were horrified. They literally leapt to action and they got the Food Standards Agency back. ""This particular place now has a rating of five out five, so they're pretty good."" The presenter said the investigation highlighted the importance of hygiene ratings labels, which restaurants in England have no legal obligation to display. KFC said it was undertaking ""a retraining programme with all team members on our standards for touch point cleaning and procedures"". The restaurant chain added that it took ""food safety and hygiene extremely seriously"".",Bacteria from faeces has been found on ice that was @placeholder to an undercover researcher at a KFC restaurant .,subjected,administered,served,allows,delivered,2
"If you've done any travelling at all you will know this experience. You arrive in a small town on your way to somewhere else. The place looks interesting but you can only stay long enough for the townscape to worm its way into your memory. You kick yourself from time to time that you didn't spend longer there and realise, as the years pass, you will never get a chance to go back. Ripley, Ohio, was one of those places for me -  a lovely town on the majestic Ohio river. Twenty-three years ago I passed through while making a series about the US Midwest for the BBC. But recently, I had a chance to return. I had been driving around Ohio reporting on the upcoming presidential election. I had been in towns and cities still reeling from the last 40 years of social and economic change in America, places like Toledo and Cleveland and Akron. The journey had depressed me to no end, and now I had one more day before flying back to London. I was just a two-hour drive from Ripley. I headed south on US 68. It was a glorious autumn day, all those years ago when I first visited. I had driven south to the river on the same road through fields harvested and turned over for the winter. Tobacco was a big crop near Ripley and in the barns the giant leaves were hung upside down to dry out. The town's Main Street ends at the river and in the block before the great waterway was a cafe and pool hall. There were tables crammed with farmers, workers - the whole male population of the town it seemed - shooting pool, playing cards, killing time. Big open windows letting the light stream in. It was a world entirely different to mine. I lingered long enough for a cup of coffee but then had to move on. Now I was going back to ask those folks or their children what they thought about the changes of the last few decades. It was a glorious late spring day when I finally returned. I drove south towards the river. Some of the farm communities have become suburbs. I didn't see much tobacco growing, but the corn was already green and thigh-high. I pulled into Ripley and found the pool hall. It was out of business, and had been for some time. Almost all the store fronts on the block were empty. One more wrecked community in Ohio. I don't know why I expected anything else. Bruce Springsteen recorded the song My Hometown more than 30 years ago. It is based on what was happening in the place he grew up - Freehold, New Jersey. ""Foreman says these jobs are going, boys/ and they ain't comin' back to your hometown."" The mixed economy that sustained a well-paid, secure working class with wide opportunity for upward mobility was disintegrating with those jobs, not just in Springsteen's hometown but all over the country. Ohio is covered with the remains of that era. Old industrial buildings crumbling by the side of interstate highways can seem as picturesque as ghost town buildings in a Hollywood Western. Freighters that worked the Great Lakes lie rusting at anchor in places like Huron. But they are not just symbols of the past. The world of employment they represented has yet to be recreated three-and-a-half decades later. More from the BBC The anxiety that accompanies economic uncertainty is shaping this year's presidential contest. In Ohio, a universal opinion, among voters I spoke to, is they don't like the choices on offer. The Democratic party candidate, Hillary Clinton, is almost too well known. ""There could be a better woman being the first president of the United States,"" Alexis Altvader, training to be a nurse, tells me. ""It's easy to back a woman, but it's hard when you don't believe in the same things she does."" Her boyfriend, Josh Corbin, a conservative Republican by inclination and family tradition, is not thrilled by Donald Trump. ""This election season with the way it's been so chaotic, a lot of people kind of started pushing the notion of never Trump, never Hillary,"" Corbin says. He will probably vote for the Libertarian Party candidate, although he worries that in a critical swing state like Ohio, which has picked the winner in every election for 50 years, a vote for the Libertarians, who have no chance of winning nationwide, will help Clinton take the state and the presidency. We were speaking at Young's Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Young's is an institution in south-west Ohio. A working dairy farm, it is also a pleasure dome. The owners started making ice cream and selling donuts nearly 50 years ago. Today you can play miniature golf, and eat salty caramel pretzel crunch ice cream. Young's is a great example of local American entrepreneurialism. But America has changed. Yellow Springs was completely rural 40 years ago. Today the suburbs of Dayton stretch almost to the farm's front door. ""Now Main Street's white washed windows and vacant stores"" The daily life of Ohio happens in the suburbs. Near Dayton, I went to the latest in retail shopping experiences: The Greene. The era of shopping malls with 50 stores under one roof is over. The Greene is designed like a Disneyland version of small-town America. But each store front has a high end shop in it. The Greene is situated just off the motorway south-east of Dayton. But the downtown of this once-great industrial city, the place where the Wright brothers designed and built the first plane, is pretty much empty except along a half-kilometre stretch of 5th Street. There are some old buildings not yet turned into parking lots, buildings that seem to be the model for the buildings at the Greene. These have been converted to restaurants and bars with music. Perfectly charming. But the big money investment of the private sector goes to places like the Greene. And Americans seem to like it that way. Listen to Michael Goldfarb's radio documentary, America's Independent Voters, on BBC World Service's The Documentary at 17:06 on Saturday 2 July, or catch up later on the BBC iPlayer. The problem with suburban life is that there is no social centre to it. It's all about dipping in and out, being isolated in your car. In Ripley, most of the town's life seemed to be lived on that one block of Main Street with a pool hall. I could have lingered there for hours. I went to the Westgate Mall in suburban Toledo, Ohio. The city's downtown contains acres of empty parking lots, while the Westgate is surrounded by traffic. I stopped into a Starbucks. People were in and out in a hurry. There was nothing there that made me want to linger except the free WiFi. Suburban life also allows people to ignore the social problems of their society. In Ohio, these mirror the physical decline of Ohio's former industrial heartlands. There are 20 people a week dying of heroin overdoses in this state. Life expectancy among less-educated white people is declining. Many of the old industrial towns and cities now have had three generations of residents without full-time employment. ""Last night me and Kate we laid in bed/talking about getting out/Packing up our bags maybe heading south"" When Springsteen recorded the song a great migration was under way from the industrial heartlands of America like Ohio to the South and South-west. That was the American way - hard times in your hometown? Move to somewhere else. There is always work. Today, employment is so insecure people don't leave jobs even when they are unhappy with their work.  They can't be sure they will find another. Fluidity - movement between jobs - is down 15 %. So people feel trapped. How many of them are there? How much is their despair responsible for the unlikely candidacy of Donald Trump? How much of that trapped feeling do they blame on Hillary Clinton, an advocate of the free trade deals that led to many factories in Ohio shutting down? I had hoped to talk to people in Ripley, Ohio, about that, but the pool hall was long gone, the town listless and empty. It will be November before there is an answer. More from Michael Goldfarb: The 40-year hurt ""When I am asked to explain the Trump phenomenon on BBC radio and television, I know I don't have to teach this history. I have to stay focused on the day's events and explain a bit about the vagaries of the primary process. I have to bullet-point data: the polls, the employment figures, the wage stagnation. I have to throw the story forward because incredulous presenters end each interview by asking, 'But can Trump win?' ""And I think to myself there is no way to explain in a brief interview the power of the 40-year hurt in shaping American society. There is no number or data set that can measure its pain.""",America is in the middle of its most volatile presidential election season in half a century - and the Midwestern state of Ohio is set to be a key decider in the @placeholder . London - based American writer and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb returns to the state he first reported on two decades ago to see how much has changed .,water,world,race,war,era,2
"Plants with a potential street value of between £27,000 and £80,000 were found at the home in Trelawnyd in January. Ian Anderson, 24, of Liverpool, was jailed for 16 months after admitting cultivating cannabis and abstracting electricity. Mold Crown Court heard the fire was caused by an electrical fault. Anderson agreed to care for the plants as a means to pay off a £5,000 drugs debt and had no influence on those above him in the chain, the court heard. Judge Niclas Parry said the operation had all the hallmarks of a professional set up and while Anderson was a gardener and not the organiser, it was an important role.","Firefighters called to a house blaze in Flintshire discovered a cannabis farm capable of producing "" industrial @placeholder "" , a court has heard .",quantities,soil,estate,norm,tobacco,0
"The Kiev city government has introduced a compulsory ""mask regime"" for its workers. So far, the virus has killed 60 people, and is approaching, or has reached, epidemic levels in parts of the country - including the eastern Donetsk region, where fighting continues against Russian-backed insurgents. Still, health authorities insist there is no reason for undue concern - an outbreak of swine flu was anticipated for this winter. The measures are primarily ""prophylactic,"" they say, in order to prevent the disease from growing into uncontrollable levels. ""There is no reason for panic,"" Alexander Kvitashvili, the country's health minister, said on Tuesday. ""Ukraine is in the same situation as its neighbours in Central and Eastern Europe."" Still, the disease seems to have caught Ukrainian officials flat-footed. And the number of fatalities, which has surged in the last week, is a cause for worry. ""From the point of view of doctors, the situation is serious,"" said Dr Fyodor Lapiy, Kiev's chief immunologist. ""The number of cases of sickness are growing, and very many young people have fallen ill."" According to Dr Lapiy, one of the main reasons for the increase is the lack of a ""culture of vaccination"" among both doctors and the general population. The number of physicians recommending to their patients to be immunized is extremely low, and the percentage of those who have actually received their flu shots is ""practically non-existent,"" he says. Another factor contributing to the seriousness of the outbreak is that many people do not seek treatment until the flu has progressed to an acute - and difficult to treat - stage. ""I encourage all people who suspect they have the flu, whether it is actually the flu or not, to go immediately to your physician,"" said Health Minister Kvitashvili. Also, needed equipment, such as respiratory devices or surgical masks, are in short supply - or are misused. However, this instance of swine flu also points to deeper and more chronic problems within Ukraine's health system. Seemingly, every outbreak of a major illness unleashes a panicked response, or at least a widespread scrambling, among health officials. Last year, authorities launched a nationwide emergency polio vaccination campaign, after two children died from the virus in south western Ukraine. At the heart of the problem lies a health system that requires major re-structuring and is rife with corruption. Doctors are grossly underpaid, and graft touches everything from the availability of treatment, to the supply of medications. Complicating matters, parliament deputies failed to pass a major health reform package before leaving for vacation at the end of last year. According to Dr Lapiy, Ukraine differs from its neighbours in significant ways. In contrast to European countries, trust in the health system is extremely low, which is common among post-Soviet states. But Ukraine is more democratic, and chaotic, than most countries in the former Soviet Union, and therefore lacks a central authoritarian structure that allows decisions to be taken quickly and decisively, when needed. This is best exhibited by the fact that the country has seen four health ministers in the last two years, he says. ""To sum it up in one word, what we lack is 'continuity',"" he says.","Ukrainian officials have introduced a number of urgent measures to head off an outbreak of swine flu in the country , such as temporarily closing schools and banning some public @placeholder .",gatherings,holidays,levels,expectations,transport,0
"Fourteen other employees of the government-run school in the eastern state of Bihar have been moved out. Police also detained two boys accused of repeatedly beating their classmate. The boys, who are brothers, have been sent to a juvenile detention centre. The role of three others is being investigated. The case came to prominence when the 16-year-old victim wrote a blog post for the website of an Indian television station, describing his ordeal. ""You see, I am a Dalit and so doing well in the examinations or academics, which brings me praise at home, earns me humiliation and abuse in my classroom,"" the boy said in his letter to the NDTV network. ""You tell me, how should I cope and prepare?"" he said, referring to his final school examinations due next year. A video of one alleged assault on him also spread quickly on the internet. Gujarat tension over assault of Dalits India Dalits protest over attacks Police said they took action after studying the video, taken by another boy and uploaded, which shows the  student being punched, kicked and slapped. ""He was being tortured for quite some time,"" Babban Baitha, a senior policeman told AFP news agency. ""We went through the video which was recorded at the behest of the attackers themselves, and sent them to remand,"" Mr Baitha said. The video comes after protests erupted in July when four Dalit men, believed to be tannery workers, were publicly flogged in western Gujarat state for skinning a dead cow. Many Hindus consider cows sacred and the slaughter of the animal is banned in several states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised recent attacks against India's low-caste Dalit community, saying  at a public rally that ""my head hangs in shame"" every time he hears of such an incident.",Authorities in India have @placeholder the principal of a school where a student was allegedly assaulted by his classmates because he scored well in school and came from the Dalit community .,marred,completed,raided,clashed,suspended,4
"Murray helped Manila Mavericks beat Singapore Slammers 27-19 to claim their first victory of the event. The Scot and Kirsten Flipkens beat Serena Williams and Lleyton Hewitt 6-1 in the mixed doubles. Murray then saw off Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-5 in the singles, which was decided by a five-minute shootout. It brought an end to the Briton's participation in the inaugural IPTL, and he will now head to Miami to begin his annual off-season training block. ""I think a lot of people were sceptical about it,"" Murray said of the IPTL. ""But if you look at the amount of people who have showed up here, there's been unbelievable support from Friday through to Sunday; it shows the people here love tennis. I hope we can come back next year and do it again."" After failing to register a victory over the first two days in Manila, Murray got on the scoreboard alongside Flipkens in a one-sided doubles as world number one Williams made her debut in the competition. The American made amends in the following singles set with a 6-3 win over Flipkens. It looked as though Murray's year would end with a defeat when he trailed the big-serving Kyrgios 5-4, but the former Wimbledon champion broke back to force a shootout. With the 20-second shot clock driving the pace of play and the winner decided over the course of five minutes, Murray let a 4-0 lead slip and led 6-5 as the clock counted down. A lengthy baseline rally had the crowd enthralled with victory up for grabs, and Kyrgios cracked first with a backhand into the net. The four-team competition will now move to Singapore for three days, starting on Tuesday, before heading to Delhi and Dubai. Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer are among the players set to feature.",Britain 's Andy Murray picked up two wins on his final day of involvement at the International Premier Tennis League @placeholder in the Philippines .,survival,event,side,status,exhibition,4
"They warned internet service providers and social media companies to ""substantially increase"" their efforts. But the summit in Taormina, Sicily, failed to agree on climate change. US President Donald Trump, attending his first such summit, held off from endorsing the 2015 deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Separately, Mr Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May reaffirmed plans to boost trade, including a post-Brexit trade deal. Mr Trump has welcomed the UK's vote to leave the European Union (EU). Mrs May was also attending her first G7 summit, as were Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and French President Emmanuel Macron. The G7 consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, while the EU also has representatives present. ""We showed our united commitment and our determination to continue and to strengthen our fight against terrorism,"" said Mr Gentiloni. The leaders signed a document saying more should be done by internet companies to identify and remove extremist material. The leaders also voiced solidarity with the UK after Monday's bombing in Manchester in which 22 people, including children, were killed. ""We agreed the threat from Daesh [the Islamic State group] is evolving rather than disappearing,"" Mrs May said. ""As they lose ground in Iraq and Syria, foreign fighters are returning and the group's hateful ideology is spreading online. Make no mistake, the fight is moving from the battlefield to the internet."" ""The question of the Paris climate accord is still hanging,"" said Mr Gentiloni. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the discussions with Mr Trump had been ""intensive"". ""The United States made clear that it has not yet made its decision and will not do so here, but rather will continue to work on this,"" she said. President Trump, who once dismissed global warming as a ""hoax"", has previously threatened to pull out of the Paris agreement. According to the French news agency AFP, President Macron ""snubbed"" the British prime minister when they held their first official talks on the sidelines of the summit. Mrs May told him that the UK and the 27 EU member states should be discussing their future relationship at the same time as discussing the terms of the UK's withdrawal, a Downing Street spokesman said. However, a source in the French delegation said Mr Macron had repeated the EU's position that the terms of the divorce must be agreed first. Mrs May later told reporters she had had a ""very good and productive discussion"" with Mr Macron. Mr Gentiloni said progress had been made but the wording of the final communique still needed to be worked out. ""But it seems to me the direct discussions today have produced common positions that we can work on,"" he added. There has been concern that the US president might promote a protectionist agenda. German weekly Der Spiegel quoted Mr Trump as saying in a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday that Germans were ""very bad"" regarding car exports to the US. During his election campaign last year, Mr Trump threatened customs duties in retaliation for Germany's trade surplus with the US, saying it owed ""vast sums of money"" to the US and Nato. There has been uncertainty over Mr Trump's position on sanctions imposed on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine. However, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said at the summit on Friday: ""We're not lowering our sanctions on Russia. If anything we would look to get tougher on Russia."" The US president and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed the nuclear and missile threat from North Korea. They agreed to ""enhance sanctions on North Korea, including by identifying and sanctioning entities that support North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear programmes"", the White House said. On Saturday, the second and final day, the leaders are expected to discuss human mobility, food security and gender equality. Thousands of people are expected to join a protest march against the summit near Taormina. Melania Trump and other spouses toured Sicily by helicopter, taking in Mount Etna and visiting the nearby town of Catania. According to the Spanish news agency Efe, Mrs Trump flew separately from the others for security reasons. Making his first foreign trip as president, he came to Sicily from Brussels where he had held talks with EU and Nato leaders. At Nato headquarters, he complained that many Nato member states were not spending enough on defence, expecting America to bear the burden. Before that, he visited Pope Francis in Rome and toured the Middle East - first Saudi Arabia, then Israel and the Palestinian territories.","Leaders from the group of leading industrial @placeholder , the G7 , have called on internet giants to crack down on extremist content .",zone,capital,corporations,nations,organizations,3
"The world number one will miss this weekend's Dutch Open with a knee injury, but hopes to return for April's President's Cup in Germany. Jones, 22, is all but qualified for Rio and is prepared to miss competitions to be ready for Brazil. ""It's frustrating when you get little niggles but it's better to be safe than sorry,"" she told BBC Radio Wales. ""The pinnacle is the Olympics, so it's do or die for me. I'll put every single thing I can into it and I really want to win. ""I want to be Olympic champion again and to be double Olympic champion would be amazing."" Jones, from Flint, was 19 when she beat China's Yuzhuo Hou to win the women's -57kg title at London 2012. She also won gold at the 2015 European Games in Baku with victory over Ana Zaninovic of Croatia.","Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones says @placeholder her title in Rio this summer will be "" do or die "" .",team,suffered,signing,defending,announcing,3
"The former Kingsteps Quarry at Nairn was examined for the remains of aircraft instruments which were illuminated using radioactive paint. Highland Council ordered the survey following ""word of mouth"" suggestions of buried planes. Surveys of the wider area, however, are continuing. A Highland Council spokesperson said: ""Results from a radiological survey of the former quarry site at Kingsteps show that although some naturally occurring radiation was identified, there was no indication of radium recorded. ""Wider ground investigations and general site survey of any possible impact from historical fly-tipping in the area are still ongoing with planned investigations around November to the New Year."" Along the Moray Firth coast from Nairn, it is thought more than a 1,000 aircraft were broken up, burned and buried near an RAF station at Kinloss. Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bombers were among the aircraft that flew from the site during the war. The remains of other war-time activity have been found in and around Nairn in recent years. Two mortar bombs were discovered at the town's East Beach in March 2012 and were disposed of by bomb disposal experts. Nairn's beaches were used to prepare soldiers and sailors for the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944. Military personnel were based at nearby Fort George at the time. The remains of tanks used in the rehearsals have previously been found further east along the coast from Nairn. A Valentine tank was lost by the Royal Hussars off Culbin Sands and two others in Burghead Bay.",Tests have found no evidence of radioactive contamination at a quarry where it was rumoured military aircraft were @placeholder after World War Two .,lost,abandoned,dumped,team,injured,2
"So when you talk of the European referendum here - about jobs in the old industries, and investment in the future - where do people believe their interest lies? I found scepticism about the arguments on both sides. To the older generation here in Glasgow, the Clyde isn't the river they once knew. You would have seen cranes and gantries filling the sky, all the way from the city westwards to the sea. But the work has dwindled; a new industrial revolution has taken it away. A whole iron landscape has gone. Sitting near the old Fairfield yard in Govan, now run by BAE Systems, I found workers who were broadly sympathetic to EU membership but who believed their livelihoods would, in the end, be decided at home. John Brown - and what a name to carry on Clydeside, an echo of one of the great yards - told me that it would be in Whitehall (and to some extent in Edinburgh) that an industrial strategy would be built. If government wanted to retain a shipbuilding industry - as the French and Germans had done - they'd make it happen. But that didn't mean he wanted to vote Leave. He was of a generation that enjoyed travelling to Europe and he cited his own family as evidence of an internationalist outlook. ""I'm married to a Bengali Scot. My son is going out with a Kurdish refugee."" The world had changed, and he wouldn't want it to turn back. His view touches on one of the characteristics of this referendum campaign. In Scotland generally, the Leave side is having a tougher time than south of the border. The all-conquering SNP is campaigning vigorously for Remain and the Conservatives - now the second party in the Holyrood parliament - have a smaller Leave faction than their counterparts in England. Do Scots really feel more positive about the EU? EU referendum: Polls reveal divided nation UK's EU referendum: All you need to know The polls tell a consistent story: Scotland is leaning clearly to Remain. You can sense part of the reason for that in Govan. The men I spoke to across the yard where they are still waiting for the start of work on a Type 26 frigate for the Royal Navy - promised in 2014 just before the Scottish independence referendum and delayed until at least next year - don't see the decision on EU membership as the most important one for them. If the government wants a shipbuilding industry, there will be work - EU rules or not. And as for the Leave argument that new markets would open up, they say there is no magic formula for dealing with the problem of what has been moving steadily away from Europe to East Asia for the last 50 years. Most striking of all is the contrast in the mood compared with the Scottish referendum in 2014, when this place was alive with argument. That vote, you will remember, produced a turnout of around 85% across Scotland, an astonishing figure. The reason was that the debate gripped everyone. By polling day many people said they were fed up - have you ever known an election when that wasn't true? - but most of them took the trouble to make their choice. This time it's different. You can find passion on both sides, but in Scotland as a whole there is none of the feeling of a ""once in a generation"" vote that was so obvious in 2014. Maybe one referendum was enough for some people. It is also true that although the immigration argument plays a part, it seems less potent here. Who knows what may change in the next three weeks or so, but as things stand, Scotland is more likely to say Remain than Leave. And were England to say Leave, another chapter opens. But that is a story for another day.","The shipyards of the River Clyde were the @placeholder of empire . They built whole navies , and liners that sailed the seven seas . And most of them have gone .",core,engine,words,cast,source,1
"Africa will go through six human actions this year - it will stand, kneel, squat, bow, fall and then rise again. Here's how. In the group of those who will be standing in Africa in 2017 is Donald Trump. Yes, I know it's an act of treason to associate him with Africa. But when he's sworn in as president, his foreign policy (or tweetplomacy) will have a bearing on our continent. His critics warn that his isolationist stand might mean less attention will be paid to Africa. But it could just force Africans to find solutions from within, by strengthening our institutions, improving infrastructure, governance and security and trading more amongst ourselves. Another man who also takes office in January is Nana Akufo-Addo, the president-elect of Ghana. He's tried to enter Flagstaff House (the presidential residency) through the ballot box as the New Patriotic Party candidate since 2008. Now that he has the keys, Ghanaians will wait to see how he delivers his pledge of one district, one factory, lest he becomes one man, one term. And then there's the state of emergency in Ethiopia, which still stands. It was put in place last October following violent protests. The government says the security situation has improved save for some clashes in the northern part of Amhara region. Some 9,000 people detained under the state of emergency have been released and the government says it could lift the emergency before its six-month period is over. There are two prominent men who will be kneeling before voters to ask for a job. Paul Kagame has been president for the last 16 years, but Rwandans appear to want more of him and have voted to remove the term-limit barrier. In August, Mr Kagame will therefore use his constitutional right to ask for a new employment contract. In the same month, his Kenyan neighbour Uhuru Kenyatta will also be reapplying for his job. Last September, while warning the main opposition leader Raila Odinga to mind his own party and leave the ruling Jubilee party alone, President Kenyatta famously said: ""… as you continue to search for a seat and salivate, we are feasting on the meat"". It will be clear in August whether Kenyans will give Jubilee more time to feast or turn the party itself into mince meat. Joseph Warungu: ""The Nigerian economy... enters 2017 in the squat position"" The African Union has been searching for a new Chief Executive Officer and will fill the position in January. Three men and two women from Botswana, Kenya, Chad, Senegal and Equatorial Guinea will fight it out to replace the outgoing South African Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, as Chair of the AU Commission. Now to some situations and people who can't decide whether to stand or sit. The Nigerian economy has caught its nastiest stomach bug in more than two decades. And so it enters 2017 in the squat position. A combination of factors including a crash in the global price of oil, which Nigeria relies a lot on, and a fall in the naira, the country's currency, contributed to the sizeable contraction of the economy in 2016. The anger and frustration among the people was aptly captured by this online comment from one Nigerian in November: ""We are now going into depression and deep S***! Buhari has himself to blame for unfortunately being a gentleman!"" Over in The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh is no gentleman - he's chosen to squat at State House. He lost the presidential election to Adama Barrow and publicly conceded defeat. A little later, the thought of leaving the seat he has called his own for the last 22 years overpowered him and he changed his mind. Africa and the world have asked him to go home, but he is defiant. As his last day in office approaches on 19 of January, the same force he used to gain power in 1994 could be used to relieve him of his office. There are three notable people who will be bowing out of office in 2017. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected female head of state in Africa, is coming to the end of her second and final term of office in Liberia. One of those waiting on the touchline to join the succession race is football star George Weah. The former AC Milan and Chelsea striker failed to score in the 2005 presidential tournament but hopes 2017 will be his year. Angolans will have a chance to replace the only man they've known as president for nearly 40 years. Although Jose Eduardo dos Santos has announced he'll step down, his blood will still flow through the veins of power and the economy in Angola. His daughter, Isabel, heads Sonangol, the state oil company and is considered by Forbes to be Africa's richest woman, while his son, Jose, is chairman of the country's sovereign wealth fund, Fundo Soberano de Angola. In neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, 2017 could mark the beginning of the end for another family dynasty, which started in 1997 when Laurent Desire Kabila became president after overthrowing Mobutu Sese Seko. Laurent Kabila's son Joseph picked up the reigns after his father's assassination in 2001, and was bent on staying in power until attempts to change the constitution to allow him a third term backfired. Violent street protests have piled pressure on President Kabila to exit from office this year and the issue is bound to continue into the new year. The theme of falling is alive in South Africa. The #FeesMustFall campaign by university students sought to fight the rising cost of higher education and saw violent clashes between police and protesters, disruptions in the university calendar and the arrest of a number of students. 2017 promises more of the same because not only have the fees not fallen, some top universities have announced an 8% increase. And then there's the question of the country's President Jacob Zuma. In December 2017, his tenure as leader of the governing ANC party runs out, but his term as the country's president only ends in 2019. Allowing Mr Zuma to continue as head of state but with the ANC under someone else's leadership could create two centres of power, which could be political suicide. So will the ANC #LetZumaFall as it did President Thabo Mbeki under similar circumstances? 2017 will have answers. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is another that could face the threat of falling in Africa if more African countries continue to withdraw from the Rome Statute. A number of countries have notified the UN Secretary-General of their intention to withdraw, saying the ICC unfairly targets African leaders in its application of international justice. And now to international trends where fashion, like history, has a habit of repeating itself. A quick glance at catwalk signs for 2017 shows that the hems of women's skirts will be falling - to just below the knee. Apparently midi-skirts elongate the figure and flatter the wearer, so this must be a good fall. The Africa Cup of Nations tournament kicks off in mid-January in Gabon and Uganda carries the hopes of East Africa. The region has a terrible record in continental football. Uganda's last appearance in the finals was in 1978 when it lost to Ghana in the final. Kenya and Tanzania have never progressed beyond the group stage, so if Uganda can rise, East Africa can stand tall. In politics, despite all manner of socio-economic challenges, the spirit of the Africans is on the rise - they've already just about removed one long-serving president from power (The Gambia, even if he is still resisting ) and in 2017 a couple more might follow (DR Congo, Angola) When Africa stumbles, it must rise because as they say in Nigeria, the sun shines on those who stand before it shines on those who are sitting. More from Joseph Warungu: Should the UK join the African Union? Kenyans beg for mercy Doctors take on traditional healers Why Kenya has banned on-air sex","In our series of letters from African journalists , media and @placeholder trainer Joseph Warungu gives a personal guide to some of the key people , places and events to watch out for in Africa in 2017 .",fitness,growing,communications,power,sport,2
"John Yuill died in the crash on the M9 on Sunday, 5 July, and Lamara Bell died the following weekend in hospital. Here, we look at how events have unfolded and at what happens now, with two investigations under way into the police's handling of the incident. Mr Yuill, 28, and Ms Bell, 25, were camping with friends and family on the south shore of Loch Earn, in Perthshire, on the weekend of 4 July. The Falkirk couple were last seen in the early hours of Sunday morning, when they left the site in a light blue Renault Clio. Later that morning, the car came off the M9 motorway just south of Stirling, near the Bannockburn slip road. The car skidded down a steep embankment into a field, where it was hidden from almost all passers by. When police eventually found the car on Wednesday, Mr Yuill was dead and Ms Bell was in a critical condition. Both families lodged missing persons reports with police on Sunday, who in turn issued an appeal describing the couple's disappearance as ""out of character"". When a member of the public reported seeing the car down the embankment on Wednesday, police initially thought the crash had happened that morning. Emergency services attended and the southbound carriageway was closed off for much of the day. However, medics were confused by the fact that Ms Bell's cuts had started to heal, and when she was taken to hospital in Glasgow, damage to her kidneys from dehydration was discovered. By that evening, Assistant Chief Constable Kate Thomson released a statement admitting that another call had been made to police on Sunday reporting a car off the road, which had never been followed up. A member of the public phoned Police Scotland's non-emergency 101 number just before 11:30 on the Sunday morning, reporting that they could see a vehicle down an embankment. The call was answered within six seconds by an ""experienced officer"", who was told all of the relevant details including the exact location of the crash. The caller has since told BBC Scotland that the officer sounded like he knew what he was doing, and was not dismissive. However, for ""reasons yet to be established"", the call was not logged on police computer systems or forwarded on to local officers to follow up. It was not until a second member of the public came forward with a similar report on Wednesday that officers were dispatched to the scene and found the car. With Ms Bell in an induced coma in hospital in Glasgow, her family said they were angry and disgusted by the way the case had been handled by police. In her statement, Assistant Chief Constable Thomson said ""a full investigation"" into the crash was under way, although at that stage she only conceded that officers believed the crash was ""connected to the ongoing missing persons search"" for Mr Yuill and Ms Bell. Under direction from the Crown Office, the Police Investigations Review Commissioner then announced it was investigating the circumstances around the Sunday call. However, there were soon calls for a wider inquiry. Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie wrote to the justice secretary asking for an ""independent investigation"" into the crash and ""wider problems within Police Scotland"". On Friday, two days after the news broke, chief constable Sir Stephen House publicly apologised to the families of Mr Yuill and Ms Bell, and ""the people of Scotland"", admitting that his force had ""failed"" the victims. Police Scotland was formed in 2013 with the merger of the country's eight local police forces and specialist services. The move saw the introduction of the 101 non-emergency number, and also saw the number of police control rooms taking the calls cut from 11 to five. In his letter to the justice secretary, Mr Rennie said there was ""a growing body of evidence"" that the move has ""had a detrimental impact on quality of service"". He also raised concerns about a ""targets culture within the force"", increasing workloads and said the morale of officers and civilian staff was at ""an all-time low"". Scottish Labour's justice spokeswoman Elaine Murray also attacked the single force, saying: ""Police Scotland is not working in the way many of us envisaged it would. There were warning signs that the system was not working well and perhaps inquiries should have been made sooner."" However, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has given her backing to Sir Stephen and told BBC Scotland there was nothing to suggest at this stage that there was a ""wider systemic issue"". One week on from the crash, it was confirmed that Ms Bell had died in hospital. Her brother thanked the people of Falkirk for their support as fundraising events to support the families and help pay for the funerals were announced. The Scottish government has announced that Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland is to undertake an ""urgent review"" of police call handling in the country. Ms Murray said Sir Stephen should consider his position, due to ""a number of problems"", although she added that it was important not to single him out as a scapegoat. Sir Stephen told BBC Scotland on Monday that he would not be resigning - and that the ""massive changes"" brought by the creation of the single Police Scotland force were not to blame for the delay. As of Friday, the officer who took the initial call was still on duty, with Mr House noting that Police Scotland was ""legally constrained"" from saying or doing much more while the Pirc investigation was ongoing. The families of John Yuill and Lamara Bell will now await answers - from the police investigation of the crash itself, from the Pirc investigation of the police response, and from the HMICS inquiry. Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said it was ""essential"" that answers were found quickly following an ""extremely tragic case"". The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) has the same powers as police officers to investigate incidents, including carrying out interviews, gathering or seizing production, and even arrest. It also offers family liaison. Its investigation will ultimately result in a report going to the Crown Office, which will then make a decision on whether any criminality was involved - or whether a fatal accident inquiry should be held. The Pirc has a staff of about 50, the majority of whom are involved in investigation work. It is impossible to say how long its inquiry will take, as it will be conducted in the same way as a police investigation into a crime. Once the evidence has been gathered, it will be signed off by the commissioner, who will pass it to the Crown Office. HMICS is giving its investigation priority over the other inspections it is carrying out. It has begun discussing its terms of reference, and what it will be expected to investigate, with the Scottish government and Police Scotland. There will then be a ""scoping exercise,"" during which staff will work out how many resources they will need for the investigation, where they will be deployed, and how their work will be allocated. This is a routine exercise which HMICS carries out before any inspection, and should take just a few days. HMICS is at pains to point out that as its investigations are evidence-led, it is impossible to speculate how long this one will take - particularly at the moment before its terms of reference are settled.",An urgent review of policing in Scotland is being carried out and questions have been raised over the future of the country 's top officer after two people were left in the @placeholder of a car crash for three days .,aftermath,wreckage,midst,path,middle,1
"With a consultation complete in the last Parliament, there is nothing to stop ministers moving quickly. No one should be surprised, as the change has been long trailed. For years Conservatives have argued that the current poverty measure - the proportion of children living in households earning less than 60% of median income - is inadequate: But if internal Conservative differences barred change in the past, its time now appears to have come. David Cameron argues the existing indicator has perverse results: child poverty is deemed to have risen when the state pension goes up. What should replace it? There are clues to that answer again in recent Conservative history. When Gordon Brown's Labour government passed a law legally binding the government to eradicate child poverty by 2020 Conservatives argued for targets that did not relate to family income. They wanted assessments of the number of households with parents in long-term relationships and households where parents were addicted to drugs, alcohol or gambling for example. That law is now set to be either repealed or amended. When the announcement is made, Conservatives will say they have been consistent and that their approach will improve lives. The political challenge will be to persuade voters this is not a response to what are anticipated to be worsening child poverty figures, or an attempt to mask the impact of equally widely anticipated cuts to tax credits. In short - can a Conservative government that says it is governing for ""One Nation"" unpick the rules around measuring and cutting the number of poor children in Britain without being accused of cynicism?","The way child poverty is measured is set to change , and a new system could be @placeholder before the summer recess .",shown,established,installed,resolved,unveiled,4
"Nothing comes close to explaining how close the race for the presidency is than the public plea by opposition leader Raila Odinga to his supporters to hold off having sex until after the election. ""8 August will be a historic day and no vote will be left without being cast. Men will sleep outside. When the day comes, no man should sleep with a woman,"" he was quoted as saying by the Star newspaper. Turnout will be key in this election and it looks like Mr Odinga does not want to take any chances in the battle to defeat President Uhuru Kenyatta. Mr Odinga's sex strike is not the only indulgence that leaders are hoping to restrict. A government body in charge of fighting drug abuse has also called on a ban on alcohol during the week leading up to the poll saying that Kenyans need to be sober on election day. One thing you will spot at opposition rallies is people covered in oranges. Space suits would have been more appropriate because the opposition is called the National Super Alliance, which is delightfully shortened to Nasa and invites comparisons with astronauts who will take Kenya into a new age. But Nasa is an amalgamation of five opposition parties, including the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which is the biggest. The orange brand is so strong that when a breakaway party, ODM Kenya, was formed in 2007, its founder, Kalonzo Musyoka, used an orange cut in half as the party's symbol. But it didn't bode well. ODM Kenya performed dismally in the 2007 election. Party officials blamed this on the half orange. They said voters couldn't tell the different between a half and a full orange on the ballot box. They promptly replaced the half orange symbol with an umbrella. The origin of the orange goes back to the 2005 constitutional referendum when the electoral commission chose a banana and an orange to represent the Yes and No sides. Mr Odinga was part of the successful No campaign and the orange symbol stuck. President Kenyatta is contesting the poll under the banner of the Jubilee Party. It is primarily a merger between The National Alliance Party (TNA), which he led, and the United Republican Party (URP) of his deputy, William Ruto. The party is colloquially known as Jubilee, the name was inspired by Kenya's celebration of 50 years of independence in 2013. Its rallying song is ""Tano Tena"", which is Swahili for ""five more years"". Nasa is using gospel song ""Mambo Yabadilika"", meaning ""things are changing"", reinforcing their change message. The Kenyatta and Odinga families have been competing for power since shortly after Kenya gained independence from Britain in 1963. But this election is probably going to be the last time that Kenya's longest political familial rivalry will be on display. The families started as friends. Raila Odinga's father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, was offered a chance to assume power by the British. But he refused, saying that Kenya could not be independent with its leader Jomo Kenyatta in prison. After independence, Mr Oginga Odinga became Jomo Kenyatta's vice-president. But the two fell out in 1966 and this gave birth to the political rivalry which has roped in their Kikuyu (Kenyatta) and Luo (Odinga) ethnic groups. #Fagiawote is, a Swahili hashtag meaning ""sweep them all"", has been used on Twitter as a rallying call to vote out the current political class. Politicians, especially MPs, are loathed by many Kenyans who feel they live pampered lifestyles and are out of touch. They say some are not in tune with the real issues that affect them and others show contempt towards ordinary people. The only way to get back at politicians is during the election. The clear-out seems to have began in the party primaries held in April where several incumbent politicians lost their seats. One governor was especially targeted by women voters because he had been using sexist language. When a candidate for governor of Machakos county in south-west Kenya made a slip of the tongue it became a national joke. Wavinya Ndeti intended to say a proverb which roughly translates as ""water under the bridge"", in other words, ""let's forget about the past"". But she got her words scrambled and instead of saying ""yaliyopita si ndwele"" said ""yaliyo ndwele sipite"" which is just meaningless. This really tickled Kenyans. People started competing to change other sayings to make them meaningless. And so The Wavinya Challenge was born. But it didn't end there. Comedian MC Njagi made a song named after the slip-up, making her an object of ridicule. The Jubilee Party took notice and asked MC Njagi to compose a song praising the ruling party. But MC Njagi isn't giving away who he will vote for - as he went on to then make a song in support of Ms Ndeti, who he was originally mocking. In June, the high court ruled, after a successful argument by the opposition, that presidential results announced in the 290 constituencies will be final and should not be subjected to any alterations. This ruling upends the tradition of results being collated at a national tallying centre before they are announced as final. Critics have argued that the national tallying system has been used to rig the election. This change could mean that the winner of the presidential race could be known much faster than before. But it does not mean that it's protected against manipulation. The electoral commission however remains the only body that can make the official announcement about the final election result. More on Kenya's elections:","Two rival families will compete for power in Kenya 's presidential election , in a @placeholder that goes back to before independence . The BBC 's Dickens Olewe looks at some of the more unusual aspects of the election campaign .",statement,wake,tradition,relationship,game,3
"George ""Johnny"" Johnson was 22 when he took part in the 1943 air raid using experimental bouncing bombs in Germany. The 96-year-old, who has been the subject of a number of campaigns to get him knighted, said the MBE was ""as much honour"" as he could ""really expect"". He added he was ""pleased"" and ""very grateful to all those who signed the petitions and made this possible"". Bomb-aimer Mr Johnson, who now lives in Bristol, is the last British survivor of the 133-strong squadron which dodged anti-aircraft fire to drop the four-tonne skipping bomb on dams in the Ruhr Valley. Codenamed Operation Chastise, eight of the 19 planes were lost, 53 men died and three were captured. In the past few years, there have been a number of high-profile petitions wanting recognition for Mr Johnson. In January, TV presenter Carol Vorderman and Gulf War veteran John Nichol took a 237,000-signature petition to No 10 calling for Mr Johnson to be knighted. The bid was backed by the Dambusters Museum in Germany and followed a petition by campaigner Paul Walmsley. But instead of a knighthood for his part in one of the most famous episodes of World War Two, the pensioner has been made an MBE for his ""services to World War II Remembrance and the community in Bristol"". Mr Johnson, said if he had been offered a knighthood he would have had ""difficulty in accepting it"". ""It's not me, I'm the lucky one, I'm still alive - I'm representing the squadron and it's the squadron that's been honoured with this not me,"" he said. He added that he has raised ""thousands of pounds"" over the years for charity but views his fundraising as a ""bit selfish"" because he enjoys it. ""I can't think how it all happened in the first place but I'm honoured that it has and I shall be very pleased to go to the investiture,"" he said.",The last surviving British @placeholder of the Dambusters raid has been made an MBE in the Queen 's Birthday Honours .,version,member,group,control,evidence,1
"Congestion, which began to build up on major routes on Friday afternoon, has increased steadily and is expected to ease late on Saturday afternoon. This weekend is traditionally one of the busiest of the year with some 16 million cars expected on the roads. The weather for the bank holiday is set to be a mix of sunshine and showers, according to the BBC weather centre. Graham Smith, of AA Roadwatch, said the traffic was ""horrendous"", and was particularly heavy around the M25 west of London, the A303 and the M5 through Somerset, along with the M6 north of Birmingham and parts of the M1 and A61. In the build-up to the bank holiday, about 340 miles of roadworks were completed or suspended to help ease congestion. Bank holiday information BBC Travel News BBC Weather On the trains, engineering work between Wolverhampton and Stafford has hit services run by Arriva Trains Wales, CrossCountry, London Midland and Virgin, with buses replacing trains on some sections of the West Coast Main Line. 'Saturday sunshine' As the weather forecast improved after the heavy downpours earlier on in the week, thousands of music fans headed to the Reading and Leeds festivals armed with wellies and suntan lotion. BBC weather forecaster Matt Taylor said the long weekend would see a mixture of sunshine and showers, with some of them being on the heavy side. He said the best place for Saturday sunshine would be south-west England. People heading to Notting Hill Carnival in west London on Monday can expect it to be mostly dry with sunny spells, with maximum temperatures of 20C (68F) in London and Cardiff, 18C (64.4F) in Belfast and 17C (62.6F) in Edinburgh. Meanwhile, estimates suggested some 1.8 million Britons would leave the country over the weekend. Around 840,000 people were expected to pass through London's Heathrow airport, with popular destinations being New York, Dubai, Paris, Dublin and Los Angeles. Another 120,000 passengers were expected to travel to the continent with train company Eurostar over the weekend. Monday is not a holiday in Scotland, which has its August break at the beginning of the month.","Drivers have been @placeholder in long traffic delays as the bank holiday getaway peaks , motoring organisations say .",identified,raised,engaging,deployed,held,4
"The protest accompanies an online petition calling for Bristol to ""breathe clean air"". In May, the World Health Organisation named Bristol as one of 40 UK and Irish towns and cities to breach air pollution safety levels. The matter is due to be discussed by the city council. Figures including Cary Grant, Queen Victoria and Ram Mohan Roy have been seen with the protective masks. Campaigner Deb Joffe said: ""We are highlighting the level of support for policies that let Bristol breathe. ""Clean air isn't a luxury, it's a basic human need."" The protesters say pollution is above legal and safe limits and urgently needs to be reduced. They have asked Bristol's Mayor, Marvin Rees, to follow the lead of cities such as London, which has plans for an ultra-low emission zone and establish Bristol's own ""clean air zone"". Green party councillors have submitted an urgent motion for discussion by the council. Southville's Green councillor Charlie Bolton said: ""All around the city centre people live, work and visit Bristol whilst breathing in dangerous and illegal levels of air pollution. ""This is having a serious impact on our health. ""This stunt gives people a playful reminder that this issue is serious and that this council must live up to its promise and clean up our city's air."" The council said it would issue a statement once the meeting has concluded.",Anti-pollution campaigners have placed @placeholder and dust masks on statues to protest about poor air quality in Bristol .,centre,clashes,control,news,gas,4
"The fishermen at Cove have been involved in a legal wrangle with Pralhad Kolhe over access since last year. Large boulders were recently placed across the entrance to the pier, preventing access for vehicles. Council officials have now written to Mr Kohle. Mr Kohle's representatives have not yet responded to a BBC Scotland request for a comment.",A landowner who placed boulders across the entrance to a small Aberdeen harbour has been @placeholder to remove the barriers .,told,linked,launched,working,flown,0
"The problem, as always, is that the figures are not in synch - Wales and Northern Ireland data for accident and emergency waiting times are for the month of December, while NHS England has come up with its latest weekly figures, up till Sunday, 11 January. And what's happening in Scotland? Well we have no new figures since September and they will not be updated until February. So what do we learn? There is confirmation, if it were needed, that the pressures on hospitals are being felt around the UK and posing challenges for both Westminster and the devolved administrations which run health. Wales, like England, is recording the worst outcomes relative to four-hour waiting-time standards since current data-recording protocols were introduced over the last decade. It is worth noting that in the week ending 11 January, the number of attendances at English A&E units fell slightly and the proportion seen within four hours was up by three percentage points compared with the previous week. This was the week which saw a dozen hospitals declaring ""major incidents"" in a bid to clear the backlog in A&E and discharge as many patients as possible to free up beds. But there will still major pressures on the service and the number of delayed transfers of patients was the highest this winter. What is described as an ""unprecedented increase in demand for ambulance services"" has been given as a reason for a change in ambulance response policy in parts of England. A row blew up in December after a leaked memo suggested that ambulance priorities might be changed because of pressure on the system. An option under discussion was to reduce the number of conditions labelled as ""Red 2"", the second most urgent category.  The government has now announced its plans. The statement from Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt sets out a new a policy to be piloted in the South West of England and London. The conditions branded ""Red 1"" and ""Red 2"" will remain the same, with a few actually moving up to ""Red 1"". But the length of time before an ambulance is dispatched will be increased from 60 to 180 seconds. The logic is to give more time to decide on priorities and avoid dispatches to cases which turn out to be less urgent than first believed. Mr Hunt has made clear the changes have been made purely on clinical advice. NHS England and ambulance chiefs argue they will eliminate "" inefficiencies"" and ""distortions"" created by attempts to hit the eight-minute response time national target. But Labour's response was that in the worst winter for the NHS in years it was the wrong time to experiment or relax operational standards. A letter to the Health Secretary from Keith Willett,  NHS England's director of acute care, suggests he would have liked to go further and downgrade some conditions from ""Red 2"" because those patients didn't derive clinical benefit from the arrival of an ambulance within eight minutes. This was the thrust of the leaked memo last month.  He acknowledges that the idea needs further discussion and could not be introduced short-term. Reading between the lines, the Health Secretary seems to have decided that the changes to ambulance protocols flagged up in the December memo are too controversial. What remains to be seen is whether the more limited shift in policy flagged up today becomes a political hot potato.",The latest news gives us an updated snapshot of the state of the NHS in different parts of the UK at a time when the service is under intense pressure and the subject of @placeholder political debate .,heated,surrounding,becoming,securing,fuel,0
"Perth resident Kim Tucci, 26, took just two minutes to give birth to her four daughters and one son, who were conceived naturally. A team of 50 doctors and nurses assisted with the planned caesarean and all of the children were born healthy. The chance of conceiving quintuplets naturally is about one in 55 million. Mrs Tucci's story gained prominence through her Facebook page, Surprised by Five, where she recorded the details of her pregnancy. Local business Erin Elizabeth Photography, which helped document Mrs Tucci's pregnancy, organised the quintuplets' photo shoot. ""50 fingers 50 toes, 6 hearts beating at once. My body fought the toughest of battles to get five babies here safely,"" Mrs Tucci, 26, wrote when she posted the photos. ""Everything I did I did for them."" In an interview with Australian current affairs program 60 Minutes in April, Mrs Tucci said she felt like her body was ""shutting down"" during the pregnancy. She said that doctors originally offered her the choice of saving two of the babies while terminating the others, due to serious health risks to both her and the unborn children. ""No-one thought I could do it, and I did, I showed everyone in my life,"" Mrs Tucci told 60 Minutes. Mrs Tucci and her husband Vaughn already have a nine-year-old son and daughters aged two and four. The Tuccis are attempting to raise money for a van that is big enough to fit their entire family.",An Australian mother who gave birth to quintuplets in January has @placeholder a photo shoot of her unlikely new arrivals .,had,released,lost,undertaken,suffered,1
"Bryony Freestone, 19, from Little Houghton, Northampton, died off the island of Koh Chang on 14 August. Her twin sister Sophie posted a picture of the pair on Facebook, captioned: ""There's nothing I wouldn't give to have you back"". The University of Exeter, where Miss Freestone was a student, said it was ""deeply saddened by this awful news"". Live: Updates on this story and other Northamptonshire news ""Bryony is remembered as a talented, dedicated and hugely popular student and our heartfelt condolences and thoughts are with her family and friends,"" a spokesman said of Miss Freestone, who studied at Penryn Campus in Cornwall. The Foreign Office confirmed it was supporting the family of a British national ""who sadly died in Thailand on 14 August"".","Tributes have been paid to a "" talented , dedicated and hugely popular student "" who @placeholder in Thailand .",disappeared,drowned,died,unearthed,remains,1
"It reported a profit of $1.8bn (£1.24bn), a sharp decline from $4.94bn for the same period last year and its lowest quarterly profit since 1999. Revenue dropped 28% to $48.7bn, but it had strong results from its petrochemicals division. Rival Chevron faired even worse, with a quarterly net loss of $725m. That compared with a net profit of $2.57bn for the same period in 2015 and was worse than analysts had expected. John Watson, Chevron chief executive, said: ""We are controlling our spend and getting key projects under construction online, which will boost revenue."" Shares in ExxonMobil rose 1.4% in New York on Friday, while Chevron fell 0.6%. Meanwhile, oil prices hit their highest levels of the year on Friday, driven up by lower US production and a weak dollar. Brent crude was up 12 cents at $48.26 a barrel in afternoon trading, while US oil rose 57 cents to $46.60. US oil production has continued to fall in recent months, easing concerns about oversupply, while the dollar has lost almost 2% of its value against other global currencies in the past week. A weaker US dollar typically contributes to a rise in oil prices, because oil is priced in dollars. When the dollar weakens against other currencies, oil becomes cheaper to buy, pushing up demand. However, the latest rise in oil prices may be limited by a future increase in Middle East production, according to a note released by Deutsche Bank. Iraq and the UAE are likely to raise production after maintenance issues are resolved, Deutsche indicated, and Saudi Arabia may also increase production significantly. ""A sustainable rise in Opec production may be just around the corner, and... the rally may pause,"" Deutsche analysts said. But this may be tempered by events in Latin America, where Venezuela is struggling to maintain its crude output, according to a report from Eurasia Group. The organisation reported that low oil prices over the past two years have meant Venezuela's government is running out of cash to keep its state-owned oil pumps operational. Hamza Khan, senior commodity strategist at ING, said: ""The issue is that we haven't seen price rallies ... correlate with fundamentals. The fundamentals - high stocks, high production - haven't changed."" The oil price has fallen dramatically over the past two years since Brent crude hit a peak of $115 a barrel in June 2014. One factor behind the fall has been slowing demand from China and other developing economies. Supplies have also increased, most notably from new sources of US shale oil. In addition, big producers such as Saudi Arabia have not reduced output to try to push up prices. Earlier this month, a meeting of the world's leading oil exporters failed to agree a cap on production. Saudi Arabia appeared willing to freeze output only if all members of the Opec oil producers' cartel agreed, including Iran. But Iran maintained it would continue the increase in oil production it has followed since economic sanctions were lifted earlier this year.",ExxonMobil reported a 63 % slide in first quarter profits following low crude oil prices and weak @placeholder margins .,dollar,growth,food,refining,profits,3
"""I looked down at the ground and there was the shadow of the helicopter and I thought I was in Apocalypse Now."" So far, so movie-like. ""But then I turned around and Lacey (Turner) said, 'My seatbelt's come off' so I quickly started to hope that we weren't going to lose our leading actress."" Helicopter hiccups aside, the danger was avoided and the cast got through filming for the second series of the military drama. It began last week on BBC One, continuing the story of Lacey Turner's army medic Molly Dawes as she heads to Afghanistan. Rheon has returned as Smurf (""It's not a sexy name""), an ex-flame of Turner's character. ""She's such a fantastic actress,"" he said. ""She knows what she's doing. She doesn't mess around. ""The way she's learnt her trade in a soap opera (She was Stacey Slater in Eastenders). She makes her decisions on how to deliver lines at home. She gets on."" Rheon did his time in soap too, working for two years on Welsh language series Pobol y Cwm. ""There's no time to be an actor when you do soap,"" he said. ""There's incredible productivity in soap opera. It's so difficult. Maybe that's why me and Lacey get on."" As filming in Afghanistan was impossible, South Africa acted as an Afghan substitute. ""It was incredible experience, a beautiful place,"" he said. ""But working in the helicopter was hard because the scenes are so intense, you're about to land and you go, 'Look at that giraffe over there'."" If you weren't a soap fan living in Wales, Rheon's also recognisable from his time as Sean in Misfits. Saying that, you might know him as Sir Ian McKellen's co-star in sitcom Vicious. More likely, you'll detest or love him as The Bastard of Bolton in Game Of Thrones. ""I guess I don't really mind playing detestable,"" he said. ""The fact that people find him detestable means I'm doing well I suppose."" He confirms he's filming the new series but discussing any plot points in THAT show is out of bounds. Plus we didn't want any spoilers anyway. Considering the level of success Game Of Thrones has had, plus the obsession of its fans, it's surprising that Rheon doesn't run into more trouble when he's off set. ""I've never been abused in the street but I know that when people see me and (co-star) Alfie Allen out at the bar after filming, they say 'I don't know how you are friends'. ""I say to them, 'Well, do you believe in dragons too?'"" He and Alfie Allen are mates off-screen but to be honest, the way things are right now, it's not clear how long that will last. ""I'm absolutely destroying him at pool at the moment. I'm winning 6-1 but he keeps coming back for more."" Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube","For his role in Our Girl , Iwan Rheon had to film scenes in a Huey helicopter , the side window open , flying over the @placeholder of South Africa .",island,generation,plains,age,experience,2
"The Patterdale Mountain Rescue team was called out after she suffered head and neck injuries while walking on St Sunday Crag, Ullswater, on Saturday. She was treated at the scene before being flown by Great North Air Ambulance to the major trauma centre at the Royal Preston Hospital. The condition of the woman, from Preston, has been described as stable. Mountain rescue volunteers thanked members of the local football team, which allowed the final few minutes of its home game to be disrupted so the helicopter could land outside the Patterdale base.",A 70 - year - old woman had to be airlifted to hospital after she was seriously hurt in a @placeholder in the Lake District .,house,fall,shooting,event,disturbance,1
"The owner of the car had parked while visiting his brother on the street. He said ""In life you have good days and bad days. This morning wasn't a good day. But I'm thankful me or my family wasn't in the car."" The car was discovered partially in the hole by police in the early hours of the morning. It has since been lifted out by a crane. No-one was hurt in the incident. To find out more about sinkholes take a look at our special guide.",A car has fallen into the @placeholder after a sinkhole appeared in a street in London .,public,ground,sea,property,water,1
"So it was that on Good Morning Ulster during the marathon Stormont House talks, the presenter Conor Bradford backed me into a corner and demanded that I should call it ""deal or no deal?"" I responded that Stormont House looked like a tired old nag, a 100-1 outsider. Within days, the politicians emerged to proclaim a new dawn in devolution. Not for the first time I had to eat my words very publicly on air. My judgement call had been wrong, but I hadn't pulled it out of thin air. At the time of the broadcast, the talks seemed at an especially low ebb and negotiators from other parties were telling me they regarded Sinn Féin's latest demands on welfare reform as completely impractical. I didn't have just their hunches to go on, but also a Sinn Féin position paper which set out clearly the party's belief that there should be no reduction in any of the benefits under the executive's control. So when the deal was announced, the ease with which the welfare logjam was broken seemed surprising. We were briefed that many of the politicians' assumptions had turned out to be incorrect. The new system of universal credit would cover circumstances that Sinn Féin had feared it wouldn't. Some of the numbers had been double-counted, making the perceived gap between Sinn Féin and the rest appear wider than it turned out to be. I scratched my head, made my on-air apologies and moved on. If the DUP and Sinn Féin were prepared to renew their marriage vows, who was I to object from the back of the church? By this point, in common with many other commentators, I am drowning in the competing numbers surrounding the welfare stand-off and don't pretend to have the full picture. But having been burned once, I am reluctant to accept the notion again that with an extra £200m or £300m thrown into the pot, all will be well. Here's one thing that puzzles me. The so-called welfare fines levied by the Treasury are meant to represent the difference between what Northern Ireland would have saved if it had adopted the new benefit system and its projected expenditure if it sticks with the existing old system. Based on actual fines and Social Security Agency projected fines over the next five financial years, the executive should be paying a total of £1.325bn. Over the same period, the resources allocated to the Stormont Castle top-up benefit scheme amount to £466m. I make that a gap of £859m, and that's without getting into the £705m estimate the Social Security Agency has given for the cost of setting up a bespoke Northern Ireland computer system. If the parties do eventually cobble together a deal, no doubt some spin doctor will be able to baffle me with arithmetical calculations. In the meantime, it might be Cheltenham week but I am continuing to put my short-lived career as a racing tipster on hold.","I 'm not a betting man , but inevitably in my line of work I am sometimes @placeholder to make judgement calls , some of which I come to regret .",pressed,called,evidence,tempted,delivered,0
"The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) produces rankings of school performance - but it has now published an analysis of fair opportunities for pupils. It shows that Shanghai in China, South Korea and Finland are among top performers in both results and equity. The UK is successful in results, but weaker in fairness. This OECD study compares the reading skills of teenagers against the levels of social equity. The Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests published by the OECD show a strong link between social disadvantage and low achievement in school. ""On average across OECD countries, disadvantaged students are twice as likely to be among the poorest performers in reading compared to advantaged students,"" says the report, based on an analysis of tests taken in 2009. But this study says there is nothing inevitable about this connection between social background and achievement. Source: OECD. School systems with above average results in reading and higher equity levels At the top end of the international spectrum, Shanghai, Finland, South Korea, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and the Netherlands are among a select group of school systems with very high results and high levels of fairness, where pupils can succeed regardless of background. Russia, Spain, Croatia and the Czech Republic are relatively strong on equal opportunities, but have low performance. Bulgaria, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan perform poorly on both equity and results. The UK belongs to a group of countries, including France, Germany and the United States, that are above average for results, but have lower levels of equity. Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's special adviser on education, says a long-term characteristic of the UK's education system has been social division - with a polarisation between the results of rich and poor pupils. But although the UK remains less equal than the OECD average, there has been an improvement. Mr Schleicher says this is also a major problem for other Western economies, such as France and Germany. And the big challenge is to develop education systems that no longer accept widespread underachievement among poorer pupils. ""In the past, economies and school systems could tolerate these inequalities. But the life chances are deteriorating rapidly for those without qualifications. There are more severe penalties,"" he says. A report from the OECD last year found that the UK's schools were among the most socially segregated of any industrialised country. A Department for Education source said: ""This OECD analysis is based on data from 2009 and clearly shows that despite record spending Labour failed the poorest children in England. ""This is unacceptable, and it is why we are raising standards by giving teachers stronger discipline powers, tackling underperforming schools, improving exams, and attracting the brightest graduates into teaching. The pupil premium, targeted specifically at the poorest children and worth £900 per pupil in 2013-14, will help schools raise attainment."" Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg said: ""While independent research shows Labour narrowed the gap, this report shows the government are going in the wrong direction. ""The OECD says fairness means all young people gaining good skills and not dropping out early. But under this government the numbers staying on in education are down, and the number of children getting catch up tuition in the basics is falling.""",The UK is below average in an international comparison of social @placeholder within school systems .,powers,mobility,presents,status,activity,1
"Here are some of the pupils - and teachers - who do their learning away from the formal classroom. We have a picnic every September to celebrate home education and to welcome and answer questions from new home educators or those who are considering it.  Schooled siblings are also welcome although most are back at school then. Some families have a child in school and home educate another child so we are very inclusive of all situations. I home educate as it allows my children learn at their own pace and follow their interests, as well as to socialise in a mixed age group. Our Not Back to School picture shows us at The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, learning more about Vikings and Hans Christian Andersen. We love home education there is no bullying, no forcing square pegs into round holes, no stress, no little tick boxes to fulfil. They're learning at their own pace. Nine-year-old Harry is home educated due to a lack of suitable provision at his old school. He would spend all day in a tiny room doing nothing. Curtis, 12, receives an education at home due to wanting a more tailored, suitable education that suits his needs better. This picture shows them setting up a ""not back to school"" picnic fete. The home education families we know are making huge sacrifices, mainly financial, and in many cases, it would be much easier to send the children to school every day. Home education is more than about not going to school. When you are with your family all the time you can have different rules about meals, bedtimes and TV. We are not totally there, our daughter can ""self-police"" much more effectively than our son, for example, but it is a journey and that is where we would like to go. So for us it is about being in control, not of our children - aged seven, nine and 11 - but of our lives and having the freedom to seize the moments. Ten minutes with an interested child is more beneficial than a whole day with someone who is not listening. They don't stop painting because the bell goes, they stop because they have finished. Parents are entitled to teach their child at home, either full or part-time. If your child has already started school, write to the head teacher and tell them you want to take your child out of school. If you're taking your child out completely, they must accept. They can refuse if you want to send your child to school some of the time. You must make sure your child receives a full-time education from the age of five but you don't have to follow the national curriculum. If your local council wants to check on your child's education, it can make an ""informal enquiry"" to make sure your child is getting a suitable education at home. They can serve a school attendance order if they think your child needs to be taught at school. I have a four-year-old daughter, Mabel, who was due to start school this September but we decided to decline her place and home educate instead. She settled fine at preschool when she first started, but then she began to struggle with the number of children all together and without me there. She's really sociable when we go to the park, or anywhere she can meet other children - she's always looking for friends to make. But she likes to make friends in smaller groups of one-to-one and she likes to have the back up of her mum or dad nearby, just in case. As she's still so little, I don't see a problem with that, and I'm sure she'll expand her social horizons in her own time. We've already started homeschooling really, it's mostly playing and being creative, lots of reading and the odd maths game and phonics workbook thrown in for good measure. But when all the ""first day of school"" photos started going up... that was the milestone moment. I also have a two-year-and-nine-month old, Greta, who is not starting preschool, and a nine-month-old called Ernie. Instead of school and preschool we read stories, we paint, we play games, we explore our local area, we cook and bake together, we talk about everything and anything - and the girls play endless dressing up games that I don't even pretend to understand. We have just started home educating - until now my children have been in a private school. My son Alex would have been in Year Four and Jayden would have been in Year One. The school was absolutely brilliant and provided amazing opportunities for both of my children and I thought they would miss out on so much by taking them out. But I realised that by home educating them and going to different groups within the home education community they will gain more than even a private school can provide, such as more knowledge of the world. They will definitely benefit from something very precious - which is time with family. I also have a 17-month-old baby who will be home educated as well. I home educate my children aged 11 and 14. I also have a two-year-old who will not be going to preschool or nursery either. We choose to home educate following a much more child-led and relaxed approach. Each of them is able to learn about what interests them in a way that works for them - we are able to provide them with an individual education that meets all of their (constantly changing) needs at any one time. There is no ""one-size-fits-all"" package; my children are not pressured to keep up in areas they struggle with and nor are they held back in those areas they find easier. They are able to form friendships in a more realistic and lifelike sense based around shared interests and common ground rather than only mixing with children born in the same 12-month period as them, and they are able to learn, play and socialise in environments free from bullies. Home educated children are able to study for GCSEs and other qualifications, and access colleges and universities. For us as a family there isn't really a downside to home education.",It 's that time of year again when social media fills up with photographs of shiny - @placeholder children wearing too - large new uniforms as they head off for the first day of school . But what of those who are home educated ? The hashtag #notbacktoschool has been gaining traction as parents post their first day pictures .,school,faced,colored,based,funded,1
"The man, who has not been named, was found with head injuries at an address in Stratford Grove West at about 15:00 GMT. He died in hospital and Northumbria Police said the death was being treated as murder. A 69-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man are being questioned.",Two people have been arrested over the death of a 71 - year - old man who was @placeholder in Newcastle .,injured,caught,treated,robbed,assaulted,4
"The tools are said to have been created by the US National Security Agency. Accompanying documents appear to indicate it was able to monitor money flows among some Middle East and Latin American banks. It apparently did this by gaining access to two service bureaus of the Swift global banking system. Such a hack could have enabled the US to covertly monitor financial transactions, researchers said. The files were released by Shadow Brokers, a hacking group that has previously leaked malware. If genuine, it represents perhaps the most significant exposure of the US agency's files since the Edward Snowden leaks in 2013. On Twitter, Mr Snowden described it as the ""Mother Of All Exploits"" - a reference to a bomb recently used by the US military in Afghanistan. Multiple experts have said this latest ""data dump"" is credible - though the institutions implicated have dismissed the claims, or refused to comment. Swift, which is headquartered in Belgium, said: ""We have no evidence to suggest that there has ever been any unauthorised access to our network or messaging services."" The BBC is not able to verify the authenticity of the files - and the NSA has not commented on the leak. Swift was successfully targeted by hackers last year when criminals stole $81m from the Bangladeshi central bank.  Swift is a network that allows global banks to move money around the world. In the Swift network, smaller banks often make use of service bureaus to handle transactions on their behalf. Documents included in the leak suggest at least one major bureau, EastNets, may have been compromised. ""If you hack the service bureau, it means that you also have access to all of their clients, all of the banks,"" said Matt Suiche, founder of the United Arab Emirates-based cybersecurity firm Comae Technologies, speaking to Reuters. Headquartered in Dubai, EastNets has clients in Kuwait, Dubai, Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen and Qatar. Spreadsheets published by Shadow Brokers appeared to list banks that had been breached with ""implants"" - secret data-gathering software. Cris Thomas, a security researcher with Tenable, said analysis of the leaked files suggested the US government had the capability ""to monitor, if not disrupt, financial transactions to terrorists groups"". In a statement on Friday, EastNets strongly denied the claims. ""The reports of an alleged hacker-compromised EastNets Service Bureau network is totally false and unfounded,"" a spokesperson said. ""The EastNets Network Internal Security Unit has run a complete check of its servers and found no hacker compromise or any vulnerabilities. ""The photos shown on Twitter, claiming compromised information, is about pages that are outdated and obsolete, generated on a low-level internal server that is retired since 2013."" The files contained several ""zero day"" exploits - vulnerabilities that were previously unknown to the companies that create the software, or the security community at large. The zero-days targeted Windows machines, though researchers said none in the cache would be effective against the latest version, Windows 10. That said, multiple experts said the sheer number of zero days released at the same time was unprecedented. One researcher, speaking to Vice, said the exploits would have been worth more than $2m if sold privately.  In January, a Twitter account believed to be run by the group announced an auction of the exploits, but it appears the group did not find any buyers. The NSA is now facing criticism for not sharing details of the exploits with Microsoft once it became clear the tools were in the hands of a hacking group. Microsoft said in a statement to the BBC that it was ""reviewing the report and will take the necessary actions to protect our customers"". _______ Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370","A huge range of security @placeholder , said to be worth more than $ 2 m ( £ 1.6 m ) if sold on the black market , have been leaked online by a hacking group .",packages,weaknesses,secrets,activity,personnel,1
"Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, VC, CB, CMG, DSO is best-remembered by followers of Welsh military history as a war hero from the Boer War, who won the Victoria Cross. On 17 September 1901, as a 23-year-old lieutenant with less than two years' experience, he mounted an audacious horseback solo counterattack on around 400 Boer troops in south Africa; sowing enough confusion in their ranks to allow the British artillery at Blood River Poort to regroup. Unsurprisingly he was shot from his horse but recovered to rise through the Army during World War I, where writer Peter Robinson believes he made his greatest contribution to history. Serving as Divisional Corps liaison officer to the famous 38th Welsh Division, Brigadier later Major General Price-Davies was responsible for relaying the orders of the British commander on the western front, General Douglas Haig, to commanders in the field. Mr Robinson, a retired police officer from Burry Port, started his research as part of a MA in War Studies at King's College, London. But due to the amount of material uncovered, what started as a dissertation has now been turned into a book. ""I knew about Price-Davies' VC but until I came across his letters at the Imperial War Museum I didn't know a great deal about his First World War."" Coming from an aristocratic Montgomeryshire family, Maj Gen Price-Davies could avoid the War Office censors by sending letters home via the King's own messenger. Insight As such they allow an unusually candid insight into the frustrations he felt at the way in which British plans were implemented at the 1916 Battle of The Somme, and in particular the 38th or Welsh division's assault on Mametz Wood. There, 46 officers and 556 other ranks from the Welsh division killed. When the wounded and those listed as ""missing"" were counted the total number of casualties amounted to nearly 4,000. ""On the one hand Price-Davies was dealing with elite officers in HQ, and on the other with divisional commanders coping with the reality in the field, and he was part of a small band of middle-ranking officers trying to bridge this disconnect,"" says Mr Robinson. ""In the early stages of the war communication was a real issue, with no radio and a shortage of vehicles and field telephones.  If he was dispatched with orders at one o'clock, very often it would be six or seven before he could deliver and explain them by which time the situation on the ground could have changed completely."" Maj-Gen Price-Davies also writes in his letters of his worries about the way in which the British Army was altering rapidly during the first two years of the conflict. ""Price-Davies was a professional, career-long soldier who came from a relatively small but extremely well-drilled army.  But by 1916 you're into the age of the New Army with raw recruits who weren't capable of performing in the same way as battle-hardened veterans.  Price-Davies felt that tactics needed to be adapted to take account of this."" Maj Gen Price-Davies not only wrote home about his concerns - he also voiced them to the Army, through official and unofficial channels. Many of the issues he raised with his brother-in-law - Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Henry Wilson. As a result he was much more positive about the 38th Welsh Division's next engagement, on Pilckem Ridge at Passchendaele a year later. ""The Army had learnt a great deal by Pilckem Ridge, and Price-Davies felt vindicated by the relative success of the operation,"" says Mr Robinson. ""Communication was much improved and, thanks to aerial reconnaissance, troops were being carefully targeted at weak points in the German lines rather than hurriedly thrown forwards in blind frontal assaults."" ""Whereas raw recruits at Mametz Wood had been completely unprepared for hand-to-hand combat amongst the trees, by Pilckem Ridge the British had mocked-up German trenches, and had exhaustively rehearsed the offensive."" In 1918, Maj Gen Price-Davies was transferred to the Italian front, where his correspondence gives an insight into the disagreements between British, French and Italian commanders, about how many resources it was right to draw away from Flanders, in an attempt to open up a new front following the Russian surrender. Although Price-Davies officially retired in 1930, he remained in the Army Reserve, and between 1939/44 commanded the Berkshire Regiment of the Home Guard while in his sixties. ""Obviously he was glad that the Nazis never invaded Britain but I think that deep down there would have been a part of him which had secretly itched for more active service,"" says Mr Robinson. ""I wouldn't say that in isolation Price-Davies did a huge amount to win World War One but he was part of a professional group of old soldiers in the middle officer ranks who made the nuts and bolts of war happen."" ""Therefore you could argue that his work on the western front ultimately had far more of a lasting impact on the world than his VC heroics.""",A writer believes he has uncovered how a middle - ranking Welsh army officer may have @placeholder to alter the course of World War One .,appeared,helped,voted,struggled,forced,1
"The Scottish journalist and writer also worked on shows including Tomorrow's World, PM, Today, and You and Yours. On BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme, which first broadcast in 1979, Mr Cooper investigated the culinary world on behalf of consumers. He was appointed OBE in 1997 and honoured at the 2001 Sony Awards for his pioneering work on food. Mr Cooper's broadcasting career began at Radio Malaya in 1950 and he worked at ITN before becoming a familiar voice on BBC radio and television. In the first episode of Tomorrow's World, he voiced a report about kidney dialysis. A tribute posted on The Food Programme's Twitter page said Mr Cooper had ""reintroduced a nation to its food culture"". He was also the first chairman and president of the Guild of Food Writers, which gives out the Derek Cooper Award for campaigning and investigative food writing and broadcasting. Mr Cooper was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1995. Further tributes to him were paid on Twitter, with food critic Jay Rayner writing: ""Farewell to Derek Cooper: a superb broadcaster, but more importantly a standard bearer for a robust, questioning tradition of food journalism."" Former Tomorrow's World presenter Maggie Philbin tweeted: ""Sad to hear about the death of Derek Cooper who not only brought us @BBCFoodProg but also the first Tomorrow's World."" Writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli called Mr Cooper the ""comforting voice of a generation"".","Former BBC presenter Derek Cooper , who @placeholder the long - running radio show The Food Programme , has died , aged 88 .",founded,attacked,joined,named,plays,0
"The report estimates that hepatitis infections and their complications led to 1.45m deaths in 2013 - despite the existence of vaccines and treatments. World Health Organization data shows there were 1.2m Aids-related deaths in 2014, while TB led to 1.5m deaths. The WHO has put forward a global strategy to tackle hepatitis. Researchers say these plans must be put into action urgently to tackle the crisis. Viral hepatitis refers to five different forms of virus (known as A, B, C, D, E) - some can be spread through contact with infected bodily fluids and others (A and E) through contaminated food or water. Most deaths worldwide are due to B and C, which can cause serious liver damage and predispose people to liver cancer. But because people don't always feel the symptoms of the initial infection, they can be unaware of the long-term damage until it is too late. Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Washington examined data from 183 countries, collected between 1990 and 2013. They found the the number of deaths linked to viral hepatitis rose by more than 60% over two decades - partly due to a growing population. Deaths from diseases such as TB and malaria have dropped. Dr Graham Cooke of Imperial College London described the findings as startling. He said: ""Although there are effective treatments and vaccines for viral hepatitis, there is very little money invested in getting these to patients - especially compared to malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB. ""We have tools at our disposal to treat this disease - we have vaccines to treat hepatitis A and B and we have new treatments for C. ""However the price of new medicines is beyond the reach of any country - rich or poor."" The study suggests the problem is biggest in East Asia. But unlike many other diseases, deaths from viral hepatitis were higher in high and middle income countries than in lower income nations. The WHO hepatitis strategy, which was put forward in May 2016,  includes targets to reduce new cases of hepatitis B and C by 30% by 2020, alongside a 10% reduction in mortality. The WHO says countries and organisations will need to expand vaccination programmes, focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B and increase access to treatment for hepatitis B and C, to help ensure these targets are met.","Viral hepatitis is one of the leading @placeholder across the globe , with a death toll that matches Aids or tuberculosis , research in the Lancet suggests .",schools,team,killers,illnesses,convention,2
"Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, died in the changing rooms of Liberton High School. Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen found ""the innocent high-spirited behaviour"" of pupils could have caused the freestanding privacy wall to collapse. She recommended that new warnings should be issued about similar walls. City of Edinburgh Council said its ""overriding priority"" is to ensure pupils' safety. The determination said Keane died of multiple injuries following the incident on 1 April 2014. The immediate cause of the wall collapsing was found to be the application of lateral force sufficient to push it beyond its tipping point. It was ""probable"" the activities of other pupils who were braced between the wall and a nearby shower wall caused it to move. But the determination said: ""The unstable nature of the wall was the real cause of the accident."" It identified two main factors. The first was the design and construction of the wall. The second was a crack along the horizontal plane of the wall. The sheriff principal said that although the crack close to its base had been there for ""a long period of time"" it would not have been obvious to visual inspection. Although she said there were no reasonable precautions she could recommend which would have avoided the accident, she said a warning about freestanding walls should be reinforced. She said the Health and Safety Executive, in conjunction with the Scottish government, should ensure an assessment is made of the risk posed by these walls. This should be in conjunction with remedial measures where the walls cannot be safely and effectively removed. City of Edinburgh Council said the inquiry had backed its view that there were no ""reasonable precautions"" it could have taken. Executive Director of Communities and Families, Alistair Gaw, said: ""Once again on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council I want to express our deepest sympathies to Keane's family for their tragic loss. ""Having now received the determination from Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen, we note her conclusion that there were no reasonable precautions that could have been taken to avoid the accident which resulted in Keane's death. ""She further finds that the maintenance and inspection regime at Liberton High School complied with statutory requirements and that there was a comprehensive understanding of the fault-reporting system among staff. The determination also states that the council had taken all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that the wall was inspected and maintained."" The council said it had already looked at the potential hazards represented by other walls of similar design. Mr Gaw added: ""Immediately after the incident in 2014, the council removed similar free-standing walls in its schools and subsequently safety advice was issued by the Scottish government advising all local authorities of the risks regarding these walls. ""Our overriding priority is always the safety of pupils and staff and we want to ensure nothing like this tragic event ever happens again.""","A fatal accident inquiry into the death of a school pupil crushed by a wall at an Edinburgh school has determined the @placeholder was "" inherently unstable "" .",project,organisation,structure,battery,country,2
"The Addicks lost 4-3 at Shrewsbury on Tuesday, their third straight defeat, despite a Ricky Holmes hat-trick. It left them 15th in League One, just six points above the bottom four. ""Too many people have got away with things for too long,"" said Robinson, who took charge in November after leaving former club MK Dons. ""For too long too many people have dodged bullets, and the manager has always been the one who gets it in the neck,"" the 36-year-old continued. ""I have to take responsibility as well, because I am the manger, and so do my staff, but ultimately we are not going on the pitch. We've not won enough games on the pitch. ""It can't be [down to] six, seven, managers. It can't be the lack of funds that have gone in. At some stage players have to stand up and be counted."" Robinson said the defeat confirmed what he already knew about his squad. And he now wants to build a new team in his own identity, ""with everyone singing from the same hymn sheet"". He added: ""We are going through a transition period, we are looking forward to next season in some ways. ""It is not about short-term results, but long-term success."" Meanwhile, forward Stephy Mavididi has returned to parent club Arsenal after a scan revealed a hamstring injury will keep him out for three months. Midfielder Jake Forster-Caskey could be sidelined for a month with a hamstring problem and defender Roger Johnson will miss the rest of the season with an injury picked up in training.","Charlton manager Karl Robinson says there are "" deep "" problems in the team , and that too many players "" do n't @placeholder "" to wear the red shirt .",have,deserve,learn,offer,recommend,1
"It comes after several roe Muntjac deer were found dismembered in Reading Old Cemetery. Green Party councillor Rob White said: ""Owners should keep their dogs on a lead when walking in the cemetery."" Warning signs are also being put up in a bid to deter people from walking their pets in the grounds. People living nearby believe dogs are responsible for the attacks. ""Something needs to be done about it,"" said resident Barry Coll. ""We're convinced someone's been setting their dog on them."" A herd of up to 12 deer - which have a distinctive dog-like bark - were thought to be living in the graveyard. Since then fatal attacks only three stags have been seen. Thames Valley Police said it was investigating the reports of possible dog attacks on deer at the cemetery. Reading Borough Council stressed it had not received any reports of organised activity at this stage. A spokeswoman added: ""We will be working with police to investigate further and improve the 'no dogs allowed' signage and security of the site.""",Dog owners have been @placeholder by the local council to keep their animals under control after a series of fatal attacks on deer living in a Reading graveyard .,unveiled,urged,approved,raised,forced,1
"Look at a map of the United Arab Emirates and it is a confusing patchwork of territories. Just Abu Dhabi and Umm al Qaiwain are coherent chunks of land. The rest are divided up across several other emirates, a legacy of the region's imperial past as protectorates of Great Britain. This arose as the original borders were drawn up to reflect tribal groupings and allegiances. Although some of these weaving borders may once have been under dispute, all is quiet now. While the ruling families of the seven territories are tied together in the federation - which is for the most part financed by Abu Dhabi's huge oil wealth - they are keen to promote their own fiefdoms in tourism, trade, construction and industry to keep income flowing. Inevitably some are faring better than others. It feels like a forgotten place. Away from the main road, life in this corner of the UAE hums at a gentle pace, a smattering of vehicles navigate their way around pot-holed streets. Modernity has tried to push its way in - a new house here, some road-building there - but with limited success. This is Umm al Qaiwain, one of the United Arab Emirates' lesser known founding member states - a world away from the bright lights and big city of Dubai. But that doesn't mean it has nothing to offer. Its natural habitat boasts populations of green turtles and mangroves and a much slower, laissez-faire pace of life that reflects the traditional Emirati way. ""It's a sleepy hollow. Such a laid-back town,"" says one expatriate who chose to live here. ""Nobody knows about it. It's really undiscovered."" What it lacks in infrastructure - no shopping centres or five-star hotels here - it makes up for with genuine charm and cheaper rents, around a third of the price of Dubai. Despite some urban sprawl, Umm al Qaiwain remains at heart the fishing village it was decades ago when dhows were carved on the beach. Plans for big construction were on the horizon once that would have given a boost to the local economy and population but the 2007-08 credit crunch put a stop to that. In many ways, it resembles what the United Arab Emirates was before oil was discovered: ramshackle, undeveloped - some would say neglected - and comparatively poor. As such, Umm al Qaiwain is perhaps the clearest example of just how much of the United Arab Emirates remains unknown and unexplored by the outside world. Ten minutes drive north lies its now disused airfield. A dilapidated Russian transport plane squats close to the entrance, gradually sinking in the sand. According to UAE news reports, the craft was once linked to the convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout, a hint of the mysteries that disintegrate with its rusting fuselage. Continue north from Umm al Qaiwain and you come to Ras al Khaimah, or RAK, the most northerly emirate. Like the others, it offers a sun-kissed coastline and now boasts many a luxury hotel, a relatively new phenomenon. Last year, it appointed a tourism tsar to promote its attractions that include the UAE's highest mountains. But there is little of Dubai's glitz on show, at least not yet. Prior to its ambitious drive into tourism, RAK was known for its mining and supply of rock and aggregates which continue to be shipped across the region. On windy days, dust billows from cement quarries in the north of the emirate. And then there is RAK Free Trade Zone which in recent years has attracted great interest, describing itself as ""one of the fastest growing and most cost-effective free trade zones in the UAE"" and hosting 8,000 companies, according to its website. Droves of expatriates flock here to obtain trade licences and furnished offices that are cheaper than those in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Decades ago, it is was once the summer-time destination for Emiratis on account of its climate which is a few degrees cooler. Now, it boasts genuine strategic importance for the rest of the UAE as Fujairah offers access to the Indian Ocean. Initially, Fujairah was a small port offering bunker fuel for refuelling passing tankers, plus some hotels and beaches. It is now one of the largest bunkering ports in the world. ""It's all about the port,"" says veteran general manager Capt Mousa Murad. ""In the future, it'll be one of the top three to four ports in the world,"" he said confidently. Its destiny was sealed with the opening in July 2012 of a strategic oil pipeline that brings crude from Abu Dhabi's oil fields to Fujairah for export by tanker. This avoids the need to ship oil through the narrow and sensitive Strait of Hormuz, a prime goal for the leaders of the UAE who fear that conflict in the region could close the waterway and stop their oil lifeline flowing. A new refinery is set to be built in Fujairah by the end of 2016. In many ways, it is going in the opposite direction to RAK, from idyllic natural habitat to economy-driving industry. The road back from Fujairah passes through Sharjah, Dubai's sizeable neighbour, and in many ways its beating heart. It was once the most important of the seven sheikhdoms owing to its importance as a trading hub. There is little to distinguish the borders of the two territories other than the landscape: the mountainous environs of Fujairah give way to the flatter dunes of Sharjah. With rents booming in Dubai, a growing proportion of its labour force has opted to live here and take on the daily commute along Sharjah's clogged roads. It also seems to be a city of mechanics. Its industrial areas boast car graveyards where dealing in spare parts is a major business. It is also the destination for wrecked US cars which are sold and shipped by the container-load for scrap. Like other emirates, Sharjah once relied on fishing, pearl-diving and trade. It carved out a central role during the British protectorate era from 1820, where it hosted Britain's only political representative in what were then known as the Trucial States. By 1932, Sharjah boasted the UAE's first airport, Al Mahatta, a stopover to service Imperial Airways passengers en route from the UK to India. It is now one of dozens of the emirates' educational institutions which include a museum dedicated to Islamic civilisation along with art and science museums which lead some to hail it as the UAE's ""pioneer"" in promoting arts and culture. Ajman is the smallest of all the emirates which is nestled between Sharjah and Umm al Qaiwain. With an area of just 250 sq km (95 sq miles), it is more a city than a state. As with RAK, its population has grown on account of its success in attracting companies to set up in the Ajman free zone. It is also home to the ship-building company, Arab Heavy Industries and the boat-builder, GulfCraft. Though it offers beaches and a local souk, the reality is that few people are ever likely to explore Ajman, unless they are interested in buying a luxury yacht.","Dubai and Abu Dhabi have become synonymous with the skyscrapers , glitz and glamour that have @placeholder much of the Arab world . Yet they are just two of the seven sheikdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates . So what about the other five ? UAE - based writer Marcus George has been exploring .",escaped,originated,transformed,covered,dominate,0
"DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James said he would ask a grand jury to indict Officer Robert Olsen, who shot Anthony Hill last year in Georgia. Mr Olsen was responding to a call about a man behaving strangely outside an apartment building. Hill, who was 27, had mental health problems, according to his family. Mr James said the case will be presented to a grand jury on 21 January. He will ask jurors to indict Mr Olsen on two counts each of felony murder and violating an oath of office, and a count each of aggravated assault and making a false statement. An emergency caller told police a man had been ""acting deranged"" and was ""crawling around on the ground naked"". DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric Alexander said Hill charged at the officer despite being told to stand down, and Hill was shot twice and died at the scene. Mr Olsen was placed on administrative leave. Hill was black and Mr Olsen, who has been on the force for seven years, is white. A series of officer-involved shootings, largely involving white officers and unarmed black males, have stoked racial tensions across the country. Hill's girlfriend Bridget Anderson, who had been urging criminal charges, said the news was ""surreal"". She now hopes the grand jurors will think the charges are just. Mr James believes there is a good case. ""We don't seek indictments when we don't believe the facts and circumstances are present and the information is available for us to present to a grand jury to have a positive outcome.""","A police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Air Force veteran should be charged with murder , a @placeholder prosecutor has urged .",party,state,union,trade,head,1
"On Monday, it hosted (on behalf of the first minister) a St David's Day reception for diplomats, politicians and business people as part of a week of events to sell Wales to the world. Carwyn Jones told his audience that although he still believed Wales would be better off inside the European Union, his government had been clear it would respect the democratic decision of last June's referendum. ""We know that we have to establish new ways of working,"" he said. ""But it is absolutely crucial for us in Wales that we maintain access to the single market on the same terms as now. Nothing else comes close in terms of importance."" He spoke of ""great challenges for the UK"" in preserving its own single market and the need for ""the UK itself to change quite fundamentally"" to address the issues raised by Brexit. He added: ""From the late 19th century, when Wales became the world's first industrialised nation, we've been an outward looking nation. ""The Welsh Government has offices in Japan, Dubai, China, India, US,  Dublin and Brussels, as well as here in London. We have a long record of trade and investment and we embrace the world and its horizons."" Among the guests, Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns spoke of the importance of ""Wales Week in London"". ""It's really where we open the attention of Wales to the London media, to the London business community, but we use that as a springboard internationally as we leave the European Union there has never been a more important role for Wales and London to look outside. ""We have a habit in Wales of looking internally at so many local affairs. This is the time to think globally."" Carwyn Jones told the BBC that trade would be more difficult but ""as long as we can still sell on the same basis as we can now  there is no problem"". He added: ""No one is saying to us 'we're not coming'. Some are saying 'Well, we want to wait and see what's happening with the UK before we take a final decision'. It's hugely important that when they take those decisions that Wales is seen at the front of the queue."" His guests went home with bara brith chocolates and Welshcakes. The first minister flies to the United States on Tuesday to sell his message in Washington and New York.","Lancaster House is rarely off our screens these days . The mansion , build for the ( Grand Old ) Duke of York has @placeholder up as Buckingham Palace in the Netflix series The Crown and was Theresa May 's venue of choice for her big Brexit speech .",grown,opened,teamed,picked,doubled,4
"The two Muslims sympathise with the Hindu migrants, also known as Kashmiri Pandits, calling them victims of circumstance. They admit the Hindus were wronged, but are quick to add that they were helpless to stop the mass migration. For the Hindu men, temple keeper Maharaj Pandita and his friend Sanjay Tikku, the ""absence of the Muslim community's collective guilt"" over what happened is a familiar frustration. It has been 27 years since a violent armed insurgency erupted in Kashmir, completely paralysing its politics and crippling its economy. It also tore apart the centuries-old harmony that existed between the majority Muslim and tiny but influential Hindu communities, after the latter was terrorised into leaving. Muslim militant groups targeted Hindus by killing their men, burning their homes and damaging their places of worship. Mosques would make calls for them to leave the valley. Saifullah, a former militant, tells the BBC that he regrets participating in driving Kashmiri Hindus out. ""We want them back. We want them to live in peace. Kashmir is theirs too,"" he says. The bulk of Kashmir's Hindus are now settled in neighbouring Jammu city and the Indian capital Delhi. Some, like Mr Pandita and Mr Tikku never left, though more out of compulsion rather than defiance. The number of those who stayed, however, is insignificant. Finding Kashmiri Pandits in the Muslim-dominated valley is like looking for a needle in a haystack. According to one estimate, 3,000-5,000 Pandits are left in the valley today - a far cry from the 300,000 who used to live there. These few thousand are scattered over 185 places in the valley, where seven million people live. Today the Pandits are condemned to live a life of anonymity in their own homeland. Mr Tikku and Mohan Lal Bhat, like most Hindus who did not leave Kashmir, lived nightmarish existences during the initial phase of the conflict. ""In the beginning there was a lot of fear, nights were eerily silent. If a cat jumped on to the roof we thought militants had come to kill us"", Mr Tikku tells the BBC. Mr Bhat, a retired policeman, also recalls the ""painful times"" he used to be up all night ""in case someone came to kill us"". ""I would look out of the window to see if an intruder was coming to kill us,"" he says. The Bhats never left the valley and poverty never left them. A young son was killed in a terror attack. The other is unemployed. Like many others in the valley, they have their own homes, but ready cash is scarce. For the community, the scars undoubtedly run deep, but it seems that time has nearly healed their wounds. They now enjoy healthy relationships with their Muslim neighbours. But relative peace comes with its own set of problems. Many complain about a lack of priests. This becomes an issue during occasions like weddings, and also during deaths, when priests are needed to perform the last rites. Another problem, according to Mr Tikku, is finding partners for their children. He estimates that there are around 900 Pandit boys and girls of marriageable age in the valley. Mr Pandita himself has three daughters, none of them married yet. ""We would like to get our daughters married in the valley but it's not easy to find the boys in our community,"" he says. Children's education is another worry. Many young parents are unwilling to raise their children in a predominantly Muslim Kashmir, where all children ""have to learn Arabic and the Koran"". Sonica Bhatt is 30 and has three children. The oldest is six. She says she has not told them about their Hindu background yet, because their friends are all Muslim. ""We want to send them to Jammu where they will be raised as Hindus,"" she says. Writer Manoj Pandita, a police officer, doesn't think education is a problem for Hindu children. He says he went to a local school where he had to learn Islamic tenets. Journalist Manohar Lalgami, who is the only Hindu employee in an Urdu newspaper, agrees. He says he is not scared of speaking his mind to his fellow Muslim journalists. ""I am loudmouthed and forthright. That has earned me my colleagues respect,"" he tells the BBC. Mr Lalgami is among many internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus. He had to abandon his ancestral home and settle in Srinagar in a cluster of flats built by the federal government under a scheme that has seen more than 2,000 members of his community return to the valley. To him, the real problem for the valley Pandits is official apathy. ""Unfortunately neither has the government paid attention to us nor has any political party raised our problems,"" he says. ""You can say we have been overlooked by everyone,"" he says.","In a room opposite an ancient temple in Srinagar , four men - two Hindu and two Muslim - are hotly debating the "" @placeholder "" exodus of hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus from Indian - administered Kashmir in the early 1990s .",sink,forced,forgotten,overcome,growing,1
"It left Mountain View, California, at dawn on Monday and landed 16 hours later in Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. It was the 10th leg of its round the world quest. Swiss adventurer Andre Borschberg was at the controls, having taken over from Bertrand Piccard. Piccard flew Solar Impulse to the West Coast of the US from Hawaii just over a week ago. The latest stint was relatively short - 1,113 km. Take-off from the famous Moffett Airfield occurred at 05:03 PDT (12:03 GMT) and the plane landed in Phoenix at 20:55 PDT. The team has traversed America before, in 2013. That crossing was undertaken in the prototype predecessor to the current aircraft. But it does mean the weather conditions the Solar Impulse is likely to encounter will be well understood. Piccard and Borschberg are aiming to get to New York by the start of June, to begin preparations for the big Atlantic crossing. Solar Impulse started its circumnavigation of the globe in March of last year in Abu Dhabi. It flew over Oman, India, Myanmar and China before flying to Japan, from where it made a 8,924km (5,545-mile) passage to Hawaii. That five-day, five-night journey set a record for the longest duration, non-stop, solo aeroplane flight. But it also resulted in damage to the plane's batteries, forcing the team into some lengthy repairs. And only when the days started stretching out again in the Northern Hemisphere could the team think about getting back in the air. With 17,000 photovoltaic cells on its top surfaces, the plane gets all its energy from the sun. These power the craft's propellers during the day but also charge batteries that the vehicle's motors can then call on during the night. Solar Impulse is not intended to be a vision of the future of aviation. Rather, it is supposed to be a demonstration of the current capabilities of solar power in general. The team's campaign is called ""the future is clean"". Mr Piccard and Mr Borschberg have been working on the Solar Impulse project for more than a decade. A plane that is wider than a 747 jumbo jet but weighs just 2.3 tonnes poses some unique challenges: LEG 1: 9 March. Abu Dhabi (UAE) to Muscat (Oman) - 772km; 13 Hours 1 Minute LEG 2: 10 March. Muscat (Oman) to Ahmedabad (India) - 1,593km; 15 Hours 20 Minutes LEG 3: 18 March. Ahmedabad (India) to Varanasi (India) - 1,170km; 13 Hours 15 Minutes LEG 4: 18 March. Varanasi (India) to Mandalay (Myanmar) - 1,536km; 13 Hours 29 Minutes LEG 5: 29 March. Mandalay (Myanmar) to Chongqing (China) - 1,636km; 20 Hours 29 Minutes LEG 6: 21 April. Chongqing (China) to Nanjing (China) - 1,384km; 17 Hours 22 Minutes LEG 7: 30 May. Nanjing (China) to Nagoya (Japan) - 2,942km; 1 Day 20 Hours 9 Minutes LEG 8: 28 June. Nagoya (Japan) to Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) - 8,924km; 4 Days 21 Hours 52 Minutes LEG 9: 21 April. Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) to Mountain View, California (US) - 4,523km;  2 Days 17 Hours 29 Minutes LEG 10: 2 May. Mountain View, California (US) to Phoenix, Arizona (US) - 1,199km; 15 Hours 52 Minutes Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos","Solar Impulse , the zero - @placeholder aeroplane , has flown the first leg across the continental United States in its attempt to fly around the world .",language,leaning,altitude,fuel,g,3
"A leaked report also alleges Mahboob Hussain tipped off his son about the upcoming sale of a Sandwell Council property Author James Goudie QC suggested Labour's Mr Hussain committed six council code of conduct breaches. Mr Hussain, now suspended by Labour, has previously denied any wrongdoing. He said he could not comment now as the contents of the report were ""confidential"". Former economy chief councillor Ian Jones and Mr Hussain stood down from the ruling cabinet after investigations began, but both had their suspensions from the Labour party lifted before elections on 5 May. Mr Hussain has been suspended afresh, the party confirmed. The authority commissioned law firm Gowling WLG to investigate alleged irregularities in the sale of the authority's former properties from 2011-2013. Publication of this report has been delayed after legal action by ""one of the parties named"", the council said, but documents leaked to the BBC shed light on its findings. On the parking tickets, Mr Hussain gave evidence denying he sought favourable treatment. Mr Goudie QC found Mr Hussain requested ""in effect"" for parking tickets for his wife and an unnamed son to be cancelled. He said the wife's penalty was cancelled, while his son's was reduced. This was among three occasions Mr Hussain allegedly broke the Member Code for councillors to help his family, according to the QC. Gowling WLG investigated alleged irregularities in the sale of the authority's former properties from 2011-2013, including three old public toilet blocks and a former coroner's office in Smethwick. A parallel police investigation ended in March with no further action. Mr Goudie said publication of the Gowling report was ""strongly in the public interest"". The QC suggested Mr Hussain's breaches of the Member Code included: Mr Hussain gave evidence he did not know who was buying the toilet blocks because the purchase was through a company name, not the name of his friend. He said he had not been consulted and had not been aware of the price. Mr Jones gave evidence saying he did not know the relationship between Mr Hussain and the toilet blocks' buyer. The QC said this meant there was no misconduct issue by Mr Jones. Mr Jones also said he could not comment now because the report was confidential. He has previously dubbed the investigations a ""witch-hunt"" and disputed the truth of the allegations. Mr Hafeez, who was arrested last year, provided no evidence to the council's solicitors despite requests, the QC wrote. He has not yet responded to further questions from the BBC. Police told him in November 2015 he would face no action. He said in November his arrest ""did not relate to the sale or purchase of any former Sandwell Council properties"" and he was ""considering taking legal action against a number of individuals and organisations"".","A former deputy council leader "" @placeholder "" in parking tickets issued to members of his family , a lawyer has found .",disappeared,dies,manipulated,interfered,cheated,3
"He said: ""The most shaming aspect of this for me is that I was talking about racial inequality in the performing arts in the UK and the need for rapid improvements in our industry when I used the term."" But the lack of diversity in mainstream entertainment was already a talking point before Benedict got tongue-tied. So is there a problem? David Oyelowo spoke to Newsbeat at the UK premiere of Selma, in which he stars as 1960s civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. ""I reached out to [Benedict] in support and said I think it's ridiculous,"" he said. Asked if he felt the film industry had an issue with diversity, Oyelowo replied with a resounding ""absolutely"". ""You can see that in the fact every time a film of this size and stature comes up. We're talking about diversity again and that's because there isn't enough of it."" Comedian Lenny Henry, in a lecture to Bafta, said the representation of black, Asian and ethnic minorities in front of and behind the camera was ""appalling"". He said: ""Our most talented actors are getting increasingly frustrated and having to go to America to succeed."" The 55-year-old called for more funding to boost the presence of black, Asian and ethnic minority people in the broadcasting industry. His comments were backed up by Britain's Got Talent host Alesha Dixon who, when asked whether there was a problem, said ""welcome to Britain"". ""Do you know what all you can keep doing is your best, keep fighting and keep working hard. ""I think things are changing slowly. But obviously, with everything there is still a long way to go."" At the National Television Awards, Rochelle Humes said she thought ""as far as TV is concerned, it's definitely getting more diverse"". She and her husband Marvin have both presented BBC programmes and ITV's This Morning, ""I think the fact that us two, we're hosting This Morning together is a big deal and I think for such a show, that's such a national treasure, I think that's massive that we got asked to do that. ""I think it's definitely getting better. I think that there is definitely changes and I think that's good."" In 2014 the British Film Institute announced that, as the UK's largest public film fund, anyone applying for money would need to demonstrate diversity at all levels. Bosses wanted to make the point that it shouldn't just focus on on-screen talent. That also means ensuring more women, disabled people and members of the lesbian, gay and transgender community are involved in making future films. Richard Blackwood, who recently joined the cast of EastEnders, says these are ""changing times now"". ""Your colour, your creed doesn't matter no more, if you're good at what you do, they'll use you, it's that simple."" But it's not all about TV and film. Back in 2012 the Royal Shakespeare Company put on an all-black production of Julius Caesar. And currently there's a West End production of a critically acclaimed show called the Scottsboro Boys, again, featuring an all black cast. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube",Benedict Cumberbatch is sorry . He 's been sorry for days after using an offensive word during an interview . But his profuse apology may have @placeholder the main point he was trying to make .,reached,proved,obscured,revealed,welcomed,2
"Josh Vela fired Bolton in front from eight yards after Emile Heskey laid Dean Moxey's long throw into his path. But Boro equalised when Rhodes, who was about to be replaced by David Nugent, drilled home from close range. Rhodes then headed in Middlesbrough's second stoppage-time winner this week from three yards. Minutes earlier, Boro's big-money transfer deadline day signing from Blackburn had hit the post and headed wide from six yards as the Teessiders sought a winner, while substitute Gaston Ramirez also scooped a shot over from close range. Relive Middlesbrough's win at Bolton But Rhodes was in the right place at the right time to nod in Nugent's cross in the first minute of injury time and leave Boro two points clear at the top after promotion rivals Burnley, who they face on Tuesday, won 2-1 at Birmingham. Boro, who have now won six successive games, also scored an injury-time winner to beat Reading in midweek and this late show secured only their second victory at Bolton's current home. Middlesbrough face promotion rivals Burnley and Brighton in their closing four games and, as such, have their fate in their own hands as they bid to return to the Premier League for the first time since 2009. Aitor Karanka's side dominated the first half in terms of chances as Stewart Downing hit the bar from 25 yards, while Adam Forshaw, Daniel Ayala, Albert Adomah and Ritchie de Laet all failed to hit to target. Mark Davies' backheel forced Boro keeper Dimi Konstantopoulos into a save from Bolton's best first-half opening. Wanderers looked set for only their fifth win of the season after Vela put them in front but Rhodes had the final say to the delight of Boro's 4,302 travelling fans. Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka: ""I told him [Rhodes] after the game that a goalscorer can't forget to score goals in two months. ""Always one day it would arrive that he would score goals and it was today - two important goals. ""I don't think it's been easy for him. He's not a strong character, you can see it in his face. The reason I am pleased for him is because sometimes when you do your best and you're unlucky you are going down. He was always trusting himself. ""Today, the most important day, he arrived and he was there to help the team."" Bolton interim manager Jimmy Phillips: ""That's [the level of performance] got to be the case from now until the end of the season. ""We encourage players to get on the ball, show as much in possession as they could, to be confident with it, because our league fate has been decided but also retaining a real competitive edge and defensive shape. ""There's still areas to work on, definitely, hopefully if we can achieve better ball retention, become harder to beat and still work hard that will set the players up for next season for those that are going to be here."" Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 2. Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 2. Offside, Middlesbrough. Gastón Ramírez tries a through ball, but David Nugent is caught offside. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Rob Holding (Bolton Wanderers). Substitution, Middlesbrough. Tomas Kalas replaces Jordan Rhodes. Goal!  Bolton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 2. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by David Nugent with a cross. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box. Assisted by David Nugent with a cross. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Kaiyne Woolery replaces Josh Vela. Attempt missed. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by David Nugent with a headed pass following a corner. Substitution, Middlesbrough. David Nugent replaces Stewart Downing. Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by Dean Moxey. Attempt missed. Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Forshaw with a headed pass following a corner. Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by Darren Pratley. Attempt blocked. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers). Attempt saved. Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez with a cross. Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by Mark Davies. Attempt missed. Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Stewart Downing with a cross. Attempt blocked. Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez. Ben Amos (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card. Hand ball by Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough). Attempt missed. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from very close range is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ritchie de Laet with a cross. Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by Niall Maher. Attempt missed. Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Josh Vela with a cross. Foul by Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough). Dean Moxey (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing. Goal!  Bolton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 1. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Attempt blocked. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Forshaw with a cross. Offside, Middlesbrough. Albert Adomah tries a through ball, but Jordan Rhodes is caught offside. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Liam Trotter replaces Emile Heskey. Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by Dean Moxey. Offside, Middlesbrough. Adam Clayton tries a through ball, but Daniel Ayala is caught offside. Attempt blocked. Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by David Wheater. Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. George Friend (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers).","Jordan Rhodes scored twice , including an injury - time winner , as Championship leaders Middlesbrough came from behind to beat already - @placeholder Bolton .",held,chasing,relegated,inspired,battling,2
"The body of Daniel Smith, 23, was discovered by firefighters under a railway bridge in Irwell Street, Salford, on 20 January. A post-mortem examination found Mr Smith suffered multiple injuries. Adam Acton, 24, and Luke Benson, 25, both of no fixed address, were remanded by Manchester Crown Court and are due to appear next on 15 April. Mr Smith was believed to have been sleeping rough for a number of years.",Two men have appeared in court charged with murder after a homeless man was found dead in a burning @placeholder .,room,life,area,batch,tent,4
"The stock shed 3.6% in early trading because of worries over forthcoming pay talks but recovered some of that loss to close 1.8% lower at 471.90p The FTSE 100 ended the day down 29 points, or 0.47%, at 6146.05. Another big loser was supermarket chain Sainsbury's, which dropped 2.2% as investors delivered their verdict on its deal to buy Home Retail Group. Miners were amongst the top five stocks that saw falls and included Glencore, Antofagasta and Fresnillo. On the currency markets, the pound was down 1.11% against the dollar at $1.4201  and was 1.09% lower against the euro at €1.2486.",( Close ) : London 's leading shares have closed for the week with Royal Mail @placeholder a yo yo day .,celebrating,wielding,murdering,side,having,4
"Ted Turner was 18 when he sailed a tiny landing craft from Portsmouth to join Canadian troops at Normandy. The 89-year-old former Royal Marine, from Waterlooville, said it was a ""great honour"" to receive the Legion d'Honneur at a ceremony earlier. He is among the first UK veterans to be awarded the medal. Recalling the landings in 1944, Mr Turner said: ""It was very quiet, no one spoke. Then when we got close to the beach, the Germans started firing and it was pretty noisy. ""I wasn't frightened. I was only young, so it felt a bit like an adventure to me, even at that stage."" Mr Turner helped secure a beachhead on Juno beach while under fire from German soldiers and aircraft. He was presented with the French medal at the Royal Marines Museum in Southsea. ""I know that I'll be thinking of those who didn't make it, my friends who didn't come back from the Normandy beaches after D-Day,"" he said. After the war Mr Turner served in Germany, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Japan.",A British war veteran who @placeholder enemy bullets to help secure a French beach on D- Day has received the country 's highest honour .,spent,inspired,held,admitted,dodged,4
"""I met the mayor and immediately we devised a plan to co-ordinate the evacuation of the people, so I decided to go on a tender and to go on board. My first duty was to look for an officer on the boat in order to co-ordinate the evacuation. I took the first tender that arrived at the port with the first evacuated passengers. I took this tender all by myself and went on board. I went up and I started looking for an officer. After 20 minutes I couldn't find anybody. I even went on the higher bridges of the ship and even then I couldn't see anybody. So I decided to go down again to co-ordinate people and put them in dinghies in order to go on land.  At the time the ship was not listing so it wasn't difficult. There were a lot of people who wanted to help but there was no-one guiding them; there was nobody was directing anything. There was goodwill by many people but many didn't even speak English, so it was difficult. At the beginning there wasn't much panic, just a lot of confusion. People didn't know what to do but there was no real fear. Then I went on the right-hand side of the ship and it started tilting towards the sea. Big parts of the ship were going underwater - then panic erupted, people really were scared. When the boat started listing, all the corridors filled with water. They were like wells and there was a lot of people stuck in these wells. Using a rope, I started to pull people up. They were crying and were really scared. It was a purser of the ship who was helping me and we rescued about nine people. Some of them were quite old; some of them were children. People were fighting with each other in order to get on the rope to climb up. I can't condemn them because the situation was really bad. It was really dramatic. The doctor also helped me; he was very good and courageous. Then, on the bridge, I came across the only officer I could find. He was young, a second-class officer. He found a little stepladder to put on the side of the boat which people could climb down. We were together shoulder to shoulder until 05:30 in the morning. I have to say this young officer was wonderful. He hadn't been given any orders; he was just following his own orders. It was very difficult as there was some oil around, so climbing down the steps and on to the  ladder was extremely slippery. For children and old people, it was especially difficult. This officer was very good but he was the only officer I met. While I was pulling people out of the upended corridor, one girl started shouting and pulling and we had to take her out by her feet. A lot of the old people attached themselves to anything they could find and they didn't want to let go so we had to go down and detach them finger by finger. There was one mother who was holding a baby. I said, 'Give me the child and I will put him on board the dinghy and then I will give you him back'. But the mother didn't want to, she was panicking and wouldn't let go of the baby. It was very difficult to get the baby from her. There were some good moments too. There was an old woman crying and I went over and hugged her and she was reassured. The last person we took out was an Asian girl who had a broken leg. I was afraid that the ship might go under while I was working on it. Download the podcast More from BBC World Service By the time I left the ship, I was literally exhausted. In the last moments, when the dinghy down at the sea was full of professional rescuers, I was on the part of the bridge where I had been for quite a long time, holding old people, babies and so on. Because I was so tired and wasn't concentrating, I fell down and nearly broke my neck. I never saw the captain; the only officer I saw was the young officer, a boy really. I didn't see anyone else."" Listen to the full interview here. More from  Outlook on the BBC World Service.","As the Costa Concordia was sinking , the deputy mayor of the Tuscan @placeholder of Giglio , Mario Pellegrini , went on board to join the rescue effort . He told Outlook on the BBC World Service how he reacted when he realised the ship was in trouble .",island,region,community,accumulation,bed,0
"Denpasar Airport was closed on Tuesday, grounding all flights as officials reassessed the risk posed by the plume. All Virgin Australia and Jetstar flights were cancelled on Wednesday, whilst Air Asia said at least 13 of its flights had been affected. Travellers are urged to check their flights online. The Bali hashtag continues to trend in Australia. Thousands of people were stranded on Bali for several days during the peak July holiday period due to ash from a different active volcano, east of Denpasar. At the time, Chris Davies from the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin in Australia's north told the BBC it does not take much ash to interfere with flights. ""The most dangerous aspect for aviation is that modern jet engines pull in so much air and the ash concentrates in engines and turns into a kind of molten glass,"" Mr Davies said. ""The ash melts, coats inside of the engine and affects fuel flow, so in the worst case scenario it can cause engines to shut off.""","Some flights to and from Bali have been cancelled for a second day due to a drifting ash cloud from Mt Rinjani , east of the Indonesian holiday @placeholder .",island,resort,center,season,network,0
"The 19th Century villa in Manchester had fallen into disrepair after being used as a student hall of residence. Gaskell lived there from 1850 until her death in 1865 and wrote works including Cranford, Ruth, North and South and Wives and Daughters in the house. It will be fully open to the public for the first time from Sunday. The grand, grade II* listed house has been furnished with period items and replicas. Gaskell's own passport, sewing boxes, silver teapot, ivory brooch and wedding veil are among her items on show. The writer lived in the house with her husband William, a Unitarian minister, and their four daughters. Janet Allan, chair of Manchester Historic Buildings Trust, which owns the house, said it was in a poor state of repair before the restoration. ""It was in a bad state structurally,"" she said. ""It had been student accommodation for 30 years, so it didn't look like it does now. ""We had dry rot and wet rot and we re-roofed it and then the roof was stolen. We had trouble with the drains. She [Gaskell] talked about the 'pestilential smell' from the drains. They don't smell at all now."" As well as writing, Gaskell was also involved with social and charitable organisations in the city, which had grown rapidly during the industrial revolution. Her depiction of slums in her first novel Mary Barton made a big impact among the reading public at the time. Sarah Prince, Gaskell's great-great-great-granddaughter, said the refurbishment was ""fabulous"". ""She was a notable writer of the Victorian era, she was a reformist, she was very keen on addressing the needs of the poor, so the fact that she is still remembered and understood for what she tried to do, which was sometimes groundbreaking, is good,"" she said. Visitors to the house included her friend Charlotte Bronte plus Charles Dickens and John Ruskin. Bronte once described it in a letter as ""a large, cheerful, airy house, quite out of Manchester smoke - a garden surrounds it, and as in this hot weather, the windows were kept open - a whispering of leaves and perfume of flowers always pervaded the rooms"".",The house of Cranford author Elizabeth Gaskell is opening its doors after a £ 2.5 m refurbishment that has returned it to the @placeholder of the writer 's era .,isles,height,atmosphere,size,style,4
"Nahki Wells pulled the ball back for Izzy Brown to sidefoot a volley home to put the Terriers ahead before Wells himself drove in the second. Luke Freeman capitalised when the visitors failed to clear their lines to net his first Rangers goal. The R's pressed but could not beat keeper Danny Ward, who a produced a stunning save to deny Matt Smith. David Wagner's visitors moved up to third in the Championship table following the victory, but were indebted to Wales international Ward for his efforts in keeping Ian Holloway's side at bay. He produced a stunning save to keep out Conor Washington's volley, before on-loan Chelsea forward Brown scored his fourth goal in six games for the visitors and Wells doubled the lead, and has found the net in all of his three appearances at Loftus Road against QPR. After an abject first-half display, the hosts came back into it in the second, with home full debutant Smith causing all sorts of problems for the away defence before Freeman fired home to reduce the deficit. Ward had to be at his best again to keep out Smith's header from a cross by Washington cross, before the forward went down in the box under a challenge by Michael Hefele, only for an offside flag to deny the hosts a penalty. Rangers piled on the pressure late on, with Ward denying Kazenga LuaLua in the seventh minute of added time, leaving the West Londoners just five points above the relegation zone. QPR manager Ian Holloway: ""We've probably got to win five or six games, so we've got a big margin for error. We're disappointed to lose again, but if we keep playing like that'll we'll be fine. ""We created three or four chances before they scored. We let the first goal in almost out of nothing and then, before you know it, it's two. We had a mountain to climb but I was delighted with the lads' effort. ""Unfortunately, this league is about taking your chances, and we created more than enough. That's what a venomous snake does to you. It bites you - and we got bitten twice."" Huddersfield Town boss David Wagner: ""We have to be honest; we were not at our best and I think we were lucky today. ""QPR were very good. They were very aggressive, created on the wings and our keeper Danny Ward was by miles the best player on the pitch, which I think says everything. ""We got three lucky points, but three points are three points and we are so happy to have got them. We should not forget also that we scored two wonderful goals and created other opportunities as well."" Match ends, Queens Park Rangers 1, Huddersfield Town 2. Second Half ends, Queens Park Rangers 1, Huddersfield Town 2. Attempt blocked. Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Attempt saved. Joe Lolley (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nahki Wells. Attempt missed. James Perch (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Matt Smith with a headed pass. Attempt missed. Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Michael Hefele following a fast break. Foul by Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town). Kazenga Lua Lua (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Kazenga Lua Lua (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Manning. Corner,  Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Michael Hefele. Foul by Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town). Matt Smith (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers). Foul by Joe Lolley (Huddersfield Town). Luke Freeman (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Nedum Onuoha. Corner,  Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Michael Hefele. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Massimo Luongo (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Delay in match Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town) because of an injury. Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Massimo Luongo (Queens Park Rangers). Offside, Huddersfield Town. Aaron Mooy tries a through ball, but Joe Lolley is caught offside. Foul by Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town). Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Joe Lolley (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers). Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Yeni N'Gbakoto replaces Pawel Wszolek. Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Tommy Smith replaces Martin Cranie. Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Joe Lolley replaces Rajiv van La Parra. Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Pawel Wszolek (Queens Park Rangers). Attempt blocked. Luke Freeman (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Foul by Martin Cranie (Huddersfield Town). Kazenga Lua Lua (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing. Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Grant Hall. Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Kazenga Lua Lua (Queens Park Rangers). Attempt missed. Pawel Wszolek (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.",Huddersfield Town held off a second - half fightback from @placeholder QPR to record their fifth straight victory .,hosts,struggling,acclaimed,helped,gripping,1
"Che Labastide-Wellington, 17, was stabbed in the heart at the 16th birthday party in Kenton, north-west London, on 7 November 2015. Walker Sesay, 19, of Wembley, north-west London, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of manslaughter. Three other men, aged between 18 and 23, were found guilty of wounding with intent. The trial heard a ""small army"" of men attacked Che and one of his friends, who was also stabbed several times. The attack was the result of a feud between people on neighbouring north-west London estates, the jury was told. Prosecuting, Crispin Aylett QC said a flyer for the event was posted on Instagram which meant ""inevitably a number of people who had not been invited got to hear about it"". He added: ""Once the defendants' group had arrived... they immediately attacked as a group - surrounding Che and his friends. Mr Labastide-Wellington, who was believed to have been carrying a knife himself, was stabbed once in the chest and collapsed in a nearby alleyway. Rimmel Williams, 18, of  Willesden, north-west London, Calvin Tudor, 22, of Willesden, and Marlon Tudor, 23, of no fixed address, were found guilty of wounding with intent. Omar Afrah, 22, and Olamilekan Onafowokan, 23, both of Wembley, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit violent disorder. They will all be sentenced on 6 December. Ibrahim Mansaray, 18, of Acton, west London, and a 15-year-old from Willesden, who cannot be named, were acquitted of all charges.",A man has been found guilty of killing a teenager at a party @placeholder on social media platform Instagram .,injured,advertised,caught,beach,centre,1
"The two relevant points (leaving aside moral ones) are that: So to put it another way, it is arguably particularly useful to Germany to have an influx of young grateful families from Syria or elsewhere, who may well be keen to toil and strive to rebuild their lives and prove to their hosts that they are not a burden - in the way that successive immigrant waves have done all over the world (including Jews like my family in London's East End). Here are the European Commission's projections from its Ageing Report that was published earlier this year. It projects that Germany's population will shrink from 81.3 million in 2013 to 70.8 million in 2060, whereas the UK's will rise from 64.1 million to 80.1 million. As you can see, what is striking is that the UK is set to become the EU's most populous country, ahead of Germany and France, as a result of a relatively high fertility rate and greater projected rates of net migration. It is probably relevant that the Commission forecasts that the proportion of the German population in 2060 represented by migrants arriving after 2013 would be 9%, compared with 14% in the UK. So Germany would be a lot less multicultural than the UK. As for the dependency ratio, the percentage of those 65 and over compared with those aged between 15 and 64, that is forecast to rise from 32% to a very high 59% in Germany by 2060. Or to put it another way, by 2060 there will be fewer than two Germans under 65 to work and generate taxes to support each German over 65. Because people are living longer more or less everywhere, the dependency ratio is also set to increase in the UK, but by less - from 27% to 43%. Which still represents a massive increase in the burden on the younger generation of supporting the old, but not as great as in Germany. One way of seeing the impact of ageing is in differences in the relative burdens on the public finances of support required by older people. So in Germany, age-related spending on pensions, health and long-term care is expected to rise by a hefty five percentage points of GDP or national income by 2060, more than double the projected 2.3% increase anticipated for the UK. Here is the thing. Wherever you stand in the debate on whether immigration is a good or bad thing - and most economists would argue that immigration promotes growth - right now immigration looks much more economically useful to Germany than to the UK. That is perhaps one of the unspoken reasons why Germany is being much more welcoming to asylum seekers from Syria and elsewhere right now. That said, some business leaders and a couple of Tory ministers gave me what can only be described as an off-message critique of David Cameron's approach to the migrant crisis over the weekend. They said that Angela Merkel is creaming off the most economically useful of the asylum seekers, by taking those that have shown the gumption and initiative to risk life and limb by fleeing to Europe. Precedent suggests they will be the ones that find work fastest and impose the least economic burden on Germany or any other host country. By contrast, David Cameron appears to be doing what many would see as the more morally admirable thing - which is to go to the Syrian camps and invite children and the most vulnerable of refugees to Britain. But this version of living up to what the prime minister calls our moral responsibilities is undeniably more expensive in the short term than giving a welcome to the able-bodied refugees already in Hungary, Greece or Italy, and desperate to come here.","There is an economic and demographic backdrop to the differential policies towards asylum - seekers of Germany and the UK - to Germany 's relatively open door , that compares with the UK 's heavily @placeholder portal ( which will be opened just a bit by David Cameron later today ) .",shows,group,used,funded,fortified,4
"He was suspended by the Rugby Football League in June pending an investigation and has not taken charge of a game since Magic Weekend in May. It was his third suspension, having been stopped from officiating in 2009, and again in 2011. The 40-year-old refereed more than 400 Super League games and the 2013 World Cup final during his 15-year career. RFL chief operating officer Ralph Rimmer said: ""We would like to thank Richard for his contribution as a referee at the sports highest level over the past decade and a half."" Silverwood added: ""I have had an outstanding career as a referee. I have no regrets but I am now looking to the next chapter of my career."" Silverwood became Super League's youngest official when he took charge of his first game, between Salford and Halifax, in 2001 at the age of 24. He was suspended in 2009 following an alleged leak of confidential information to a trade union, while his 2011 disciplinary procedure resulted from an ""off-field incident"" during a game between Huddersfield and Leeds.",Super League 's longest - serving match official Richard Silverwood has @placeholder time on his refereeing career .,admitted,focused,called,undergone,signed,2
"Aberdeen engineer Sean Sangerman, 25, caught the incident on his dash cam on the B9119 near Garlogie on Monday morning. It showed the oncoming vehicle - believed to be a dark blue Nissan Qashqai - with only a small circle of snow cleared from the windscreen. Police Scotland has been made aware of the footage. Mr Sangerman said: ""I have no idea what would cause someone to put themselves and other road users at risk in such a dangerous and reckless manner. ""What they are doing is outrageously silly and dangerous - there is no way that they are able to see the road properly through a gap of that size. ""They would have been driving almost blindly in conditions that were quite treacherous - snow, ice, slippy roads and so on."" The number plate could not be made out in the footage. The Highway Code states that before motorists set off they must be able to see, so all snow and ice must be cleared from windows.",A motorist was filmed driving with the windscreen almost completely @placeholder by snow in Aberdeenshire .,struck,obscured,triggered,ruined,held,1
"The massacre at Camp Speicher, near Tikrit, was carried out by fighters from so-called Islamic State (IS) as it seized territory across northern Iraq. Outrage over the massacre of the mostly Shia cadets helped mobilise Iraq's Shia militias in the fight against IS. IS militants released photos and video documenting the massacre in 2014. Mass graves were found a year later. The graves were discovered when Iraqi government forces recaptured the area. Islamic State group: The full story ""The executions of 36 convicted over the Speicher crime were carried out this morning in Nasiriyah prison,"" a spokesman for the governor's office in Dhiqar, the province of which Nasiriyah is the capital, told Agence France-Presse news agency. Some 400 of the army recruits who died were from Dhiqar province. The spokesman said that Justice Minister Haidar al-Zamili was present at the executions. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had said after last month's Baghdad bomb blast that killed more than 300 people that he wanted to speed up executions of terrorism convicts. Those executed on Sunday, all believed to be Iraqi citizens, had been sentenced to death in February. Some of the defendants said they had not been near Tikrit at the time of the massacre, while others said they had been denied access to lawyers, or had been forced to confess under torture. Camp Speicher, named after the first US casualty of the 1991 ""Desert Storm"" Gulf war against Iraq, had been full of Iraqi army recruits. The camp surrendered after it was surrounded by jihadists. Among the thousands of captives, Shia men were sorted out, bound and taken away in lorries. They were then forced to lie face down on the ground before being shot dead. Their bodies were dumped in prepared trenches. The IS group revelled in the atrocity, posting on the internet videos and pictures showing the Shia prisoners being taken away and shot.","Iraq has @placeholder 36 men convicted over the killing of up to 1,700 military recruits at a former US base in 2014 .",poured,sparked,admitted,broken,hanged,4
"As MPs again look at the circumstances surrounding a jiffy bag delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011, we look at the background to the inquiry. Read more: No medical records for 'mystery package' Team Sky came under pressure to reveal the contents of the 'mystery' package following a Daily Mail allegation in October 2016. The newspaper claimed a jiffy bag was delivered to Team Sky on the final day of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine - which Wiggins won - by Simon Cope, a former professional rider then working as a coach for British Cycling's women's teams. Cope reportedly made the trip at the request of the team and Dr Richard Freeman, then a medic at Team Sky who now works with British Cycling. He was said to have flown into Geneva Airport, driven for two hours to France to deliver the package before driving back to Geneva, where he was accompanied by the team's former head coach Shane Sutton, and flew back to the UK. UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) then began an investigation into the contents of the package. Team boss Sir Dave Brailsford was already facing questions after Wiggins' use of a banned steroid before races was leaked by hackers Fancy Bears. Wiggins had sought therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for the anti-inflammatory drug triamcinoclone, for allergies and respiratory issues before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia. Brailsford defended the five-time Olympic champion and insisted the team ""do not cross the line"" on performance-enhancing drugs. Media playback is not supported on this device In an interview with Cycling News, Cope said he did not know what was contained in the package he was asked to carry. ""It was just an envelope, a jiffy bag, a small jiffy bag,"" he said. ""As far as I know it could have been pedals in there."" When Brailsford faced the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) hearing into doping in sport in December, he said he had been told by Freeman that ""it was Fluimucil for a nebuliser"". Sutton confirmed the package was for Wiggins, who won the event. Fluimucil is a decongestant which is used to clear mucus. It is legal in sport and Brailsford said it was ""administered on a regular basis"". Former Olympic champion Nicole Cooke, who has been critical of Cope's role in the matter, was unhappy with Brailsford's testimony, pointing out Fluimucil is available freely over the counter in France, costing 10 euros (£8). She also said there were eight pharmacies located within 5km of where the team bus was parked in France going into the final day of the Dauphine. David Kenworthy, the outgoing chairman of Ukad, told the BBC the answers given by figures within British Cycling and Team Sky to the DCMS committee were ""very disappointing"". Kenworthy said: ""People could remember a package that was delivered to France, they can remember who asked for it, they can remember the route it took, who delivered it, the times it arrived. The select committee has got expense sheets and travel documents. ""So everybody can remember this from five years ago, but no-one can remember what was in the package. That strikes me as being extraordinary. It is very disappointing."" When asked about Brailsford's explanation, Kenworthy said: ""Well that's what Dave Brailsford came out with at the hearing. But actually, if you recall, he didn't say: 'I know that's what it was.' He said: 'I have been told that's what it was.'"" Committee chairman Damian Collins MP said: ""There is a considerable public interest in Ukad's investigation and it is also important to our inquiry into doping in sport to understand what they have been able to determine from their investigation. ""The committee has been told by both British Cycling and Team Sky that they have supplied all the information they have relating to this investigation to Ukad. ""However, we need to know if they have received documentary evidence which confirms what was in the package that was delivered by Simon Cope to Team Sky. ""Without this evidence, I am concerned about how it is possible for the anti-doping rules to be policed in an appropriate manner, if it is not possible to review the records of medicines prescribed to riders by the team doctors."" Brailsford has admitted to handling the crisis ""badly"", after providing initial explanations for the delivery to the Daily Mail that later turned out to be wrong. In an interview with the BBC in January, Brailsford insisted Team Sky can be trusted ""100%"". Media playback is not supported on this device When Kenworthy's quotes were put to him, he answered: ""The only extraordinary thing I could see was that he actually commented on the whole process himself. ""There is an open investigation that is still ongoing."" Brailsford refused to confirm or deny whether he or anyone else at Team Sky had been able to provide paperwork to prove the package contained Fluimucil. ""I will give what I have got to Ukad,"" he said. ""I said what I had to say in the DCMS and I am leaving it there. I am leaving it to the right people so they can analyse it and go through the right process. We are contributing everything we have got to the process. ""I can't talk on behalf of British Cycling."" British Cycling says it cannot comment while a Ukad investigation is ongoing. Team Sky have said they are ""confident"" no wrongdoing will be found when the inquiry is concluded. Track cyclist Jess Varnish, 26, was dropped from British Cycling's elite programme last April, after which former technical director Sutton was found to have used sexist language towards her. Sutton was later cleared of eight of nine allegations. British Cycling found he had used the word ""bitches"" to Varnish, but the rest of her allegations - including a claim he told her to ""go and have a baby"" - were not upheld. Sutton resigned after being suspended pending the investigation, but has always denied wrongdoing. British Cycling is preparing to brief riders and staff about an 'action plan' of reforms following concerns over the culture at its performance programme. After Varnish's claims of a 'culture of fear' were supported by other former riders, British Rowing chair Annamarie Phelps was asked to lead an independent investigation into claims of bullying, favouritism and sexism. Her report - described by one senior source as ""explosive"" - is due to be published in the next month.","A ' mystery ' medical package , a courier , a doctor , a world - famous rider and a @placeholder - breaking cycling team . It 's a story of many parts .",head,ground,team,hand,community,1
"The 56-year-old admitted she had felt ""very vulnerable"" taking on the role of Alexandra Del Lago in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. The play, which opened this week at London's Old Vic theatre, is one of Williams' lesser known works. The Daily Telegraph's five-star review said Cattrall was ""on incendiary form"". Thinking her comeback movie has flopped, Cattrall's character seeks sexual comfort in the arms of gigolo Chance Wayne, played by 26-year-old Broadway star Seth Numrich. Speaking after Wednesday's opening night, Cattrall said it had been important to explore the issues that ""a lot of women my age are dealing with"". These, she continued, included ""feeling that you're still valid and you're still attractive and you still have something to say - that time has not passed you by. ""These are messages and things that I'm dealing with in real life, not just on the stage. So they resonate for me in a very specific way,"" she told the BBC. ""It's a great challenge, and I felt very vulnerable playing it and going there."" Kevin Spacey, artistic director at the Old Vic, said he had started ""badgering"" Cattrall about the role three or four years ago. ""When I first started at the Old Vic, I made a list of plays that I hoped one day that we would present - and this play was on that list,"" he said. ""What I love about Kim is that any other actress would have taken her image and capitalised on that after Sex and the City, but this lady went to the theatre and worked her ass off."" The play is directed by Marianne Elliott, who was also behind the box-office hits War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. ""Kim was one of the very last Hollywood artists to be signed by a studio for seven years,"" she told the BBC. ""So she absolutely understands what it means to be in the world of Hollywood and past your sell-by date once you reach a certain age."" ""I don't think it's just Hollywood that's youth-obsessed,"" Cattrall continued. ""I think we're all youth-obsessed - and why not? It's great to be young. But I don't really feel old. I feel a little wiser, a lot more patient, and also more courageous. ""I was so worried when I was younger what people thought of me. Now I don't care as much. I care more about what I think of myself."" Reviews have been largely positive. The Arts Desk's Sam Marlowe said Cattrall was ""ideally cast"" and gives a ""fearless, funny, imposing and poignant"" performance. The Independent's Paul Taylor agreed, noting: ""Kim Cattrall seems to have cornered the market in raddled, imperiously camp divas."" ""Sweet Bird of Youth certainly isn't a play for the faint-hearted, but boy does it deliver the theatrical goods,"" The Telegraph's Charles Spencer concluded. Michael Billington's three-star review in The Guardian was more reserved, however. ""The cast... is as good as any you'll find in a national company,"" he wrote. ""Yet nothing can persuade me that the play is anything more than overheated melodrama all too rarely alleviated by Williams's instinct for comedy."" Sweet Bird of Youth runs at the Old Vic until 31 August.",Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has said her latest stage role as a @placeholder Hollywood actress resonates with her real - life experiences .,deal,faded,renewed,group,major,1
"With construction costs of £350,000 (about £37.5m in today's money), these could be details of a grand early 20th Century manor for a rich landowner. It is in fact a description of a new Cardiff lunatic asylum - that has since been called names ranging from ""the loony bin"" to ""like something out of a horror movie"". On Thursday, a state-of-the-art replacement for a crumbling Whitchurch Hospital opens at Llandough in the Vale of Glamorgan. But there was a time when it was considered modern and cutting edge itself. ""People would be spending their lives there, so it had to function like a self-contained society,"" said Mike Jones, a former nurse and member of the hospital's historical society. ""Two large pieces of farmland were purchased, enough to grow crops on and keep livestock. ""It was self-sufficient, with a butcher's, a bakery, while patients worked on the farm."" With a stigma attached to mental health, that such an outlay was made by the local council owed much to the influence of its first medical superintendent, Edwin Goodall. His vision also ensured it was called a 'mental hospital' not a 'lunatic asylum' when it opened in 1908. Initially, around 750 patients were treated for conditions like moral imbecility (women who had children out of wedlock), masturbatory insanity and forms of schizophrenia (where delusional people were locked up indefinitely). Dr Goodall championed the idea that mental illness came from physical problems that caused changes in the brain and by isolating these, you could find a cure. His research saw post-mortem examinations of the brain to diagnose Alzheimer's and analysis of faeces and urine. Treatments included hydrotherapy, with prolonged baths to calm patients, and using mosquitoes to induce the potentially deadly tropical disease malaria. This was because the high temperatures it caused killed the parasite responsible for syphilis, known as 'paralysis of the insane' in its later stages. With some of the best facilities in the UK and a 150ft (45m) water tower that could be used as a lookout, it was taken over during the war years to treat injured soldiers. This made it one of the first places where ""shellshock"", or post-traumatic stress disorder, was witnessed. ""I can remember walking nearer and seeing the water tower silhouetted against the sky,"" said Mr Jones about his first day as a student nurse in 1968. ""It was a strange feeling like I was coming home. ""The people who have stayed are ingrained in the walls, there are a lot of ghosts of people that seep into you. ""It's a paradox because mental illness has such a stigma, but there is a lot of warmth in the building."" There is a long history of mental illness in Elaine Paton's family, with both her parents treated at Whitchurch for depression. While it is a place she came to know well, she can remember growing up in Cardiff with people referring to  ""the spooky place"" and ""loony bin"". At the time, as well as little appreciation of its role, there was also limited understanding of her own early battles with depression. As an 18-year-old in 1972, she wrote in her diary that she was unable to stop crying - with doctors not recognising an underlying illness in the ""weepy teen"". ""In 1980, I can remember going to Whitchurch one last time before going to Australia for a year,"" said the writer and performer. ""It was cold and raining. Saying goodbye to a parent in any hospital is tough, let alone a mental hospital."" While the year away turned into 30, Ms Paton's life ""has come full circle"", as she returned to Whitchurch to act as artistic director on a production marking its closure. ""Even though the building can't look after people any more and is falling down, there is a great sense of loss. ""I wanted to depict what it is like to be mentally ill - it is invisible, so people can't understand. ""The production used dancers to illustrate this through balance which is so important to them. When you're mentally unwell, you're off balance."" While she said the dated facility can appear like ""something out of a black and white gothic horror movie"", underneath there is ""a wonderful warmth"". ""Edwin Goodall helped change the attitude - from locking people up in Victorian institutions, to trying to get them better during Edwardian times. ""It's very sad it's been allowed to disintegrate. ""But hopefully moving to this bright, new modern place will help get rid of stigma even further,"" she said. While former clinical director Dr Morfydd Keen is nostalgic about her 30 years at Whitchurch, she agrees it is time for care to move away from the dated facility. ""There was a lady there for decades, who would just sit by the front door and ask 'you going to town love?', to everyone that passed,"" she said. ""She just seemed desperate to go out. In the end, I said to one of the nurses 'why don't you just get her in a taxi and take her out for the day?' ""But they'd tried many times and would get as far as the front gates before she told them to turn back."" Dr Keen described it as an ""unintended consequence"" that people became ""institutionalised"" and never left, which is why community care is now more common. She worked on the addiction ward, dealing with drug-takers and alcoholics. ""We had some good results, but a lot died, although only two on the ward - an alcoholic from a heart attack and one person hung themselves,"" she said. ""They had to want to stop. You can't stop an addiction just because your family wants you to."" When she retired in 1999, hospital staff asked if they could rename the ward after her. ""I said 'yes, as long as you look after me when I'm old'. Unfortunately, they won't be able to now because it won't be there.""","The @placeholder contained a dance hall , 800 - seat church , bandstands and summer houses , while employees performed in the staff orchestra .",name,world,secret,water,grounds,4
"A report by the Fare network and Sova Center highlights more than 200 cases of discriminatory behaviour linked to Russian football over two seasons. ""I am aware of the report - sure we are concerned, definitely,"" Blatter told Associated Press. In 2014, he asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to tackle racism. The Fare network is an organisation which works to combat racism in the game for European football's governing body Uefa, while the Moscow-based Sova Center conducts research on nationalism and racism. Fare executive director Piara Powar told Associated Press that the research, conducted between May 2012 and May 2014 and published on Friday, ""shows a really quite gruesome picture of a domestic league which is full of aspects of racism, xenophobia"". Blatter spoke last July to Putin about the need to prioritise the tackling of racism, but there have been more cases, including in Champions League matches. In October, Manchester City played their Champions League group game at CSKA Moscow behind closed doors because the Russian club was being punished for a series of offences, including racist chanting. ""Racism is one of the items which is on my agenda on the very top, every day. If it does not stop then there must be some sanctions,"" Blatter said. ""We have started a big education program with them. They are aware of the situation.""",Fifa president Sepp Blatter says he is concerned by the @placeholder of a study into the scale of racism in Russia before it hosts the 2018 World Cup.,failure,findings,completion,future,end,1
"Stephen Hughes, 29, and Shaunean Boyle, 25, were convicted of attacking Owen Creaney in July 2014. Mr Creaney, from Lurgan, died two days after the attack. His family said Mr Creaney ""thought he was with his friends but these people turned out to be his killers"". ""The loss of such a wonderful son has left us heartbroken. He was a kind soul and didn't deserve what happened to him. ""Owen would have helped anyone."" Both Hughes and Boyle received automatic life sentences when convicted. At a tariff hearing on Friday, a judge said Hughes would spend at least 15 years in prison before being considered for parole, while Boyle will serve 14 years. The judge said Mr Creaney was subjected to a ""savage and merciless attack"". The judge said Boyle would have a year less on her tariff because her past criminal record was less serious. He added that the pair will serve their sentences in their entirety with no chance of earlier parole. A jury had previously heard that Hughes and Boyle had punched, kicked and stamped on Mr Creaney. They then washed and changed him and, after he died, put his body in a wheelie bin at the house in Moyraverty Court in Craigavon, County Armagh, where he was found by police. Det Ch Insp Lee McNevison said the police hoped the sentences would ""provide comfort and a degree of closure for the Creaney family"". ""They have conducted themselves with great dignity over the past two and a half years since Owen's murder and more recently as they listened to the often difficult evidence at the trial.""",A couple found guilty of murdering a disabled Lurgan man and putting his body in a wheelie bin will spend a @placeholder total of 29 years in prison before being considered for parole .,reported,home,combined,contracted,point,2
"Inside the venue, row after row of empty seats which had been laid out to line a catwalk and small stage. Empty because right there, on the catwalk, was the strangest mix of dancers you're ever likely to see - Super Mario. Wonder Woman, The Doctor and dozens more. All up there. Gangnam Styling. Thump-thump-thump. It was the climactic point of LA Cosplay Con, the first of what the organisers hope will be an annual gathering of ""cosplayers"" - people who dress up like characters from, mostly, video games and comics. Los Angeles is a fitting place to hold an event like this, as it was in this city where the term cosplay - a portmanteau of costume and play - was apparently coined back in the 80s. It's a hobby known to some as one of those typically eccentric Japanese pastimes that ""normal"" people just can't fathom, but in reality, its popularity is sweeping the world. For one day in sunny California, a slice of that diversity had come together. ""This is basically where a bunch of kids, who never outgrew the dressing-up phase of our lives, now spend a lot more time and money than we probably should into these costumes,"" explained Kevin, who'd come as a cosplay classic, Super Mario - a get-up slightly spoiled, if we're to be picky, by his thick beard - he'd opted not to shave into Mario's trademark 'tache. So close. ""It's about embodying the character that you love so dearly,"" he said, through the beard. ""This is a chance to come and see other people who do the same thing and not be judged - in fact, you get praised."" Praised indeed. As part of the event, prizes were given out for the best costumes. The winner this year was a man who had come dressed as Black Panther. To be clear, that's Black Panther from Marvel Comics - not to be confused with the Black Panther movement of the 1960s and 70s. On its website, Marvel Comics explained that Black Panther - widely regarded as the first mainstream black comic-book hero - is a ""brilliant tactician, strategist, scientist, tracker and a master of all forms of unarmed combat whose unique hybrid fighting style incorporates acrobatics and aspects of animal mimicry"". Impressive. Here, Black Panther is being ably represented by Shawn - a bus driver. ""In the future I can see cosplay becoming really big,"" he said. ""It will be something you see a lot more - people enjoying themselves like this."" It's hard to disagree when surrounded by people of the same mind as Shawn. To an outsider, cosplaying sits at the very edge of the nerd spectrum, the most public display of geekiness imaginable. But here, it does look fun. Less fun, at least some of the people here would argue, was what was happening just down the road during that very same week: E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo. It's the Western world's biggest video games show. And while there are lots of dressed-up people at E3, the two groups could not be more different. ""The booth babes,"" said Shawn, who has been to E3, but doesn't make a habit of it. ""Some of them may be really interested in the character they dress up as... but my experience is that they're there just to get paid. ""The big difference is the heart. The heart you get into that character versus someone who is just there getting paid. ""It takes a lot of heart, a lot of courage."" The criticism of booth babes - on these pages and elsewhere - is that it's an exercise in skin-flashing to pull in businessmen. If the quality of a product doesn't sell it, maybe the tightness of the hotpants will. But it isn't the bare flesh that cosplayers disapprove of, according to Becky Young, one of the organisers of LA Cosplay Con, and a prolific and well-known cosplayer (if you're into that sort of thing). ""A lot of people criticise the tiny clothes in our culture as well,"" she said, while dressed as Osgood, a character who has appeared in just one episode of Doctor Who. ""That's because the artists make characters that don't have many clothes,"" she reasoned. So what's the difference? ""There's a little more artistry and passion in cosplay which is kind of what makes it so exciting. The people here make their clothing from scratch, or they go out and modify clothing that's out there."" For a competition that is, in one form or other, about looks - the atmosphere is overwhelmingly welcoming. These are nice people, keen to demonstrate to an outsider that cosplaying is a hobby worth having, but that no, ""baffled British journalist"" was not a passable cosplay attempt. It goes beyond dressing up. The people here feel their community - cosplayers and gamers - sometimes come in for the wrong kind of attention. It's not just the perception of cosplayers, they argued, but gamers as a whole. Blaming violent games for mass shootings is a safer political bet, one attendee suggested, than blaming US gun laws. ""They had a time when they targeted film, then they targeted music, now it's video games,"" said Heather Ellertson, LA Cosplay Con's organiser, and vice-president of the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), Her group was set up to represent what they say are the rights of gamers - principally, a right to not be misunderstood and used as a scapegoat. ""We wanted to give our members, this group, an opportunity to have their voice heard."" And it's a voice worth hearing, because despite the fierce weaponry on show here - a home-made axe, for instance - you'd be hard-pushed to find an event in this city that came close to being as welcoming and inclusive as this. So Gangnam on, fearless cosplayers. Gangnam on. Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC","Arriving at the Hyatt Century City Plaza hotel , or rather the massive @placeholder that had been erected just outside it , all that could be heard was the tell - tale thump - thump - thump of the biggest viral hit the internet has ever known - Gangnam Style .",tent,substance,miracles,statue,tower,0
"The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government wants to set in stone the date of the next general election - which has previously been up to the prime minister of the day to decide. Under their proposals the next general election will be held on 7 May 2015. Criticism of the current system tends to centre on the fact it gives an advantage to the prime minister of the day, who can choose to call an election at the most advantageous time for him or her as long as it is within five years of the previous election. It also means there is a period of uncertainty, before an election is called, which some say damages the conduct of politics.  A recent example was the feverish speculation that Gordon Brown intended to call a snap election in 2007 to take advantage of a poll surge shortly after succeeding Tony Blair as prime minister. In the end the poll lead was cut and he did not call an election until two and a half years later. Some are worried that knowing the date a long time in advance will lead to longer election campaigns, a lack of flexibility and the possibility of a ""lame duck"" government limping on longer than it should. There is also the possibility that a government might still find a way of triggering an election when it wanted one by engineering a vote of no confidence and deliberately trying to lose it. A commitment to a fixed-term parliament was part of the coalition deal between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. The Lib Dems pledged to introduce them in their manifesto - but they wanted a four-year fixed term. The Labour manifesto also said it would introduce fixed term parliaments, but did not say how long they would be. Fixed term parliaments were not in the Conservatives' 2010 manifesto but David Cameron said in 2009 that his party would ""seriously consider the option of fixed-term parliaments when there's a majority government"". Deputy PM Nick Clegg argued that five years was ""going with the grain of some of the founding texts of our unwritten constitution"" - referring specifically to legislation which set the maximum limit at five years. He also said it followed ""the precedent set by the immediate outgoing government"" and he said it would ""give any government of whatever complexion enough time to govern and deliver a programme of change and reform"". But the proposal could prove controversial. Constitutional experts told a committee of MPs examining the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill that four years would be better. Other UK elections to the devolved Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland governments are four-yearly and there might be an argument to have them held on the same day as general elections. Yes, there are two ways this could happen.  An early election would follow if no party or combination of parties could command the confidence of the House of Commons. To avoid allowing a ""zombie government"" to stagger on for years, unable to muster a majority to pass any new laws, the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, says an election will be called 14 days after a lost confidence vote if no alternative government is able to show they have the confidence of MPs. Alternatively, MPs themselves could vote for an early dissolution - a power currently in the hands of the prime minister. Under the bill two thirds of the total number of MPs must back dissolution for an election to be called.","MPs are debating legislation to introduce five - year fixed term parliaments , part of a series of constitutional changes @placeholder by the coalition government .",inspired,written,raised,made,planned,4
"Gord Young, from Peterborough, in Ontario, says it took him 17 minutes to decypher the message after realising a code book he inherited was the key. Mr Young says the 1944 note uses a simple World War I code to detail German troop positions in Normandy. GCHQ says it would be interested to see his findings. The message was discovered by 74-year-old David Martin when he was renovating the chimney of his house in Bletchingley, Surrey. Among the rubbish, he found parts of a dead pigeon - including a leg, attached to which was a red canister. Inside the canister was a thin piece of paper with the words ""Pigeon Service"" at the top and 27 handwritten blocks of code. The message - which attracted world-wide media attention - was put in the hands of Britain's top codebreakers at GCHQ at the beginning of November, but they have been unable to unlock the puzzle. They remain convinced the message is impossible to decrypt, although a spokesman said they would be happy to look at Mr Young's proposed solution,. ""We stand by our statement of 22 November 2012 that without access to the relevant codebooks and details of any additional encryption used, the message will remain impossible to decrypt,"" he said. ""Similarly it is also impossible to verify any proposed solutions, but those put forward without reference to the original cryptographic material are unlikely to be correct."" However, Mr Young, the editor of a local history group, Lakefield Heritage Research, believes ""folks are trying to over-think this matter"". ""It's not complex,"" he says. Using his great-uncle's Royal Flying Corp [92 Sqd-Canadian] aerial observers' book, he said he was able to work out the note in minutes. He believes it was written by 27-year-old Sgt William Stott, a Lancashire Fusilier, who had been dropped into Normandy - with pigeons - to report on German positions.  Sgt Stott was killed a few weeks later and is buried in a Normandy war cemetery. The code is simple, relying heavily on acronyms, said Mr Young. Some 250,000 pigeons were used during the war by all services and each was given an identity number. There are two pigeon identification numbers in the message - NURP.40.TW.194  and NURP.37.OK.76. Mr Young says Sgt Stott would have sent both these birds - with identical messages - at the same time, to make sure the information got through. ""Essentially, Stott was taught by a WWI trainer;  a former Artillery observer-spotter. You can deduce this from the spelling of Serjeant which dates deep in Brits military and as late as WWI,"" he said. ""Seeing that spelling almost automatically tells you that the acronyms are going to be similar to those of WWI. ""You will see the World War I artillery acronyms are shorter, but, that is because, you have to remember, that, the primitive radio-transmitters that sent the Morse code were run by batteries, and, those didn't last much more than a half-hour tops, probably less. ""Thus all World War I codes had to be S-n-S, Short-n-Sweet. ""And, as you can clearly see, Stott got a major report out on a pigeon.""",An encrypted World War II message found in a fire place @placeholder to the remains of a dead carrier pigeon may have been cracked by a Canadian enthusiast .,contributed,relating,returned,strapped,connected,3
"Susan Gravel, 62, was hit while walking along Station Road, in Stainforth, Doncaster at about 12:55 GMT on Saturday. She was struck by a grey or silver BMW 5 Series that failed to stop and was later found abandoned in Goole. Mrs Gravel's family said they needed to know what happened in order to lay her to rest. Read more about this and other stories from across South Yorkshire Her sister Val said: ""Susan was well liked and well known locally, we're thankful for everyone's kind words and thoughts. ""Whoever is responsible, if you know something about what happened or who might have been involved, please tell police. ""We need the missing piece of the puzzle so we can lay Susan to rest and find some answers. ""If you know or saw anything, no matter how small - it could be vital. Please call police, or if you're the driver, hand yourself in."" Insp Mark Hughes said the force was grateful to Mrs Gravel's family for their support. He added: ""Our investigation continues in earnest and the recovery of the BMW is a positive step but we still need help from the public to identify those responsible for this crime.""",The family of a woman who was run over and killed by a @placeholder car have urged the driver to come forward .,passing,drug,stolen,patrol,couple,2
"From 1 September, the MenB vaccine will be added to the NHS childhood immunisation programme in Wales. The disease can cause meningitis and septicaemia, which can both be fatal. In the past 20 years, 500 to 1,700 people have developed MenB disease every year in England and Wales - around half of them under five-years-old. The UK is the first country to routinely offer the jab, alongside the MenC vaccine, which is given to children when they are three months old. Babies will be offered the three-dose vaccine with other routine jabs at two months, four months and 12-13 months. Children born on or after 1 July this year will get it alongside their other immunisations. Meningitis is an infection of the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms in babies and young children can include a fever, vomiting and refusing to feed, drowsiness or being unresponsive, rapid breathing or having an unusual high-pitched or moaning cry. Other symptoms include pale, blotchy skin, a stiff neck, red rash that does not fade under a glass and sensitivity to bright lights.",A new vaccination to protect children and babies against meningococcal @placeholder B disease is now available .,group,title,vitamin,devices,stage,0
"It is one of the biggest hospitals in the city, serving almost two million people. Malaria is the most common killer here, but since December last year they have had to counter another, potentially more dangerous, mosquito-borne virus: Yellow fever. In its 16 June report, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that 345 people are reported to have died from yellow fever in the last seven months among more than 3,000 cases in Angola. Not since 1971 has there been such a serious outbreak, and the reasons why it has happened now are complex and many. Dr Fortunato Silva, the clinical director at Americo Boavida, says that this outbreak is more worrying not only in relation to the number of cases, but also the number of deaths. He thinks some of the reasons for this may include the virus becoming more virulent, immunity levels amongst the population dropping and most critically, people not vaccinating as they should. ""Ninety patients have been hospitalised with fever, jaundice and haemorrhaging, since 23 February,"" Dr Silva said. ""There have been 33 deaths, which is a very high mortality rate. All of them had tested negative for malaria."" Angola's health system is well regarded, and there are established countrywide vaccination and awareness programmes. Since 1989, babies have been vaccinated against yellow fever at the age of nine months, and children cannot attend school unless they have a valid yellow fever certificate. Despite this, Dr Silva says, something is not working, and there are questions that need to be answered in terms of public health strategies. Dr Francisco Songane, the representative in Angola for the UN children's fund, Unicef, describes what is happening as ""a major crisis"". He says critical time was lost between samples being taken, tests being run, and results finally arriving three weeks later. By the time confirmation of yellow fever came, it had spread from the densely populated area of K30, part of the capital's Viana district, and then across the entire city. Angola - 345 reported deaths, 3,137 suspected cases Democratic Republic of the Congo - 71 reported deaths, 1,044 suspected cases (not all linked to Angola) Kenya - two suspected cases (travellers returning from Angola) China - 11 suspected cases (travellers returning from Angola) Source: WHO Dr Songane says that though measures were immediately put in place, in a city such as Luanda, where there are ""huge neighbourhoods... a sea of so many houses, so populated, the virus spread very quickly"". And to compound the already serious outbreak, there was a global shortage of the vaccine to contend with. And vaccines must be administered within 10 days of the outbreak being identified. ""The timeline was not being met,"" he says. ""And the shortage of vaccine meant that by then it had spread beyond Luanda."" The shortage now means that the WHO now recommends cutting the standard dose of yellow fever vaccine by 80%. The smaller dose would provide immunity for at least 12 months, it says. Further adding to the crisis was the widespread use of fake yellow fever certificates, because, as Dr Songane explains ""there were also misconceptions that the vaccine will kill you, that you will get a disease. ""There is a need to counter this and get the message to the people that you can do good for yourself, your community, your neighbourhoods. ""Fake certificates will not protect you. That's the message."" Nearly all of Luanda's population has now been vaccinated, and the ministry of health is in a race against time to get enough of the vaccine manufactured for the rest of the country. Source: WHO Angola strictly enforces international regulations on travellers coming in and out of the country, and Dr Songane says that whilst hard lessons have been learned, every country must now enforce these regulations. Vaccines take six months to produce and if there is another serious outbreak, global supplies will not be able to keep up with the demand. But it is too late to prevent its spread beyond Angola's borders. Neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo has declared a localised yellow fever epidemic in three provinces, including the capital Kinshasa. Cases related to the outbreak in Angola have also surfaced in Kenya and China. The mosquito that carries the virus, aedes aegypti, is found in most of the country, but it is prevalent in Luanda, made worse now by uncollected refuse. Angola is one of Africa's largest oil producers, and nearly 70% of the government's income derives from oil. In the boom years the country invested heavily in infrastructure projects and social welfare, but now with the collapse in the price of oil, basic services like garbage collection have stopped. Rotting rubbish can be see piling high along with sewage running through crowded neighbourhood streets. Dr Songane argues that it is urgent that a way is found to solve the issue of the rubbish piling up. ""People cannot continue to live in these conditions,"" he says. ""This has become a rich and beautiful place for this mosquito to bite, and it's made worse because it bites during the day. [The rubbish] is in the streets and people are being exposed every day."" Only some of those who carry the yellow fever virus get the symptoms, but the rest, who may be unaware that they are carriers, can be bitten by the mosquito and therefore help spread the virus. Dr Songane says the outbreak is not yet under control. He is aware that much needs to be done, but there is no sense of panic. It is only when transmissions stop, he says, ""that we can breathe. It's not over until it's over"".","In the green and shaded gardens of the Americo Boavida Hospital in Angola 's capital , Luanda , women in colourful @placeholder dresses wait patiently for visiting hours to begin .",blue,circles,printed,groups,evening,2
"Iceland became an independent republic in 1944 and went on to become one of the world's most prosperous economies. However, the collapse of the banking system in 2008 exposed that prosperity as having been built on a dangerously vulnerable economic model. The affluence enjoyed by Icelanders before 2008 initially rested on the fishing industry, but with the gradual contraction of this sector the Icelandic economy developed into new areas. Population 328,000 Area 103,000 sq km (39,769 sq miles) Major language Icelandic Major religion Christianity Life expectancy 80 years (men), 84 years (women) Currency  krona President: Gudni Johannesson University historian Gudni Johannesson won Iceland's presidential election in June 2016 on his 48th birthday. He secured 39.1% of the vote, ahead of Halla Tomasdottir, a private equity executive, on 27.9%. A political outsider, he campaigned for the largely ceremonial post by pledging to restore Icelanders' faith in their system of government after years of public dissatisfaction with politicians first sparked by the country's banking collapse in 2010. Mr Johanesson succeeded Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, who stepped down in August 2016 after 20 years. Prime minister: Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson (resigned) Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson resigned as prime minister in October 2016 after a snap election saw his Progressive Party lose more than half of its seats. The parliamentary election was triggered by the resignation of Mr Johannsson's predecessor, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, during public protests in April 2016 after leaked legal documents from the Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed his offshore holdings. No party gained a parliamentary majority in an election dominated by public anger at Iceland's traditional elites and a strong desire for political change. While the anti-establishment Pirate Party made significant gains, the conservative Independence Party, a governing coalition partner since 2013, emerged as the biggest party but will need the support of at least two other parties to form a coalition government. National radio and TV is provided by the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV), a public-service broadcaster owned by the state. The RUV is obliged to promote the Icelandic language and the nation's history and cultural heritage. Its services are funded by a licence fee, and by advertising revenues. Press titles include privately-owned and party-affiliated newspapers. The constitution guarantees press freedom. Some key dates in Iceland's history: 1918 - Iceland achieves full self-government under the Danish crown. 1940 - German forces occupy Denmark. British forces occupy Iceland. 1941 - The United States takes over the defence of Iceland and stations tens of thousands of troops there. 1943 - The Treaty of Union with Denmark runs out, with Denmark still occupied by Nazi Germany. 1944 - Icelanders vote in a referendum overwhelmingly to cut all ties with Denmark and become a republic. The Republic of Iceland is proclaimed. 1944 - Iceland becomes a member of Nato. 1970 - Iceland joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).","A sparsely - populated North Atlantic @placeholder , Iceland is famous for its hot springs , geysers and active volcanoes . Lava fields cover much of the land and hot water is pumped from under the ground to supply much of the country 's heating .",earth,island,continent,nation,territory,1
"The National Training Federation for Wales asked for all money raised to be fairly distributed. It said it was concerned the UK government levy of 0.5% of payroll costs on large employers would affect apprenticeship programmes in Wales. The UK government said UK nations would receive their ""fair share"". A Welsh government spokesman said the levy was an ""unwelcome new tax burden"" and it would have to carefully consider the impact on its existing apprenticeship system. The levy is due to be introduced in 2017 to fund new apprenticeships.",An organisation @placeholder work training providers has written to the Welsh and UK governments for clarity on a new apprenticeship levy .,lobby,representing,called,body,chain,1
"Reigning champion Hamilton, 31, holds a nine-point lead over his German rival after Rosberg, also 31, was victorious in Belgium on Sunday. That ended a run of four straight wins for the British driver, who had trailed by 43 points after four races. Formula 1 heads to Italy this weekend, with eight races remaining. ""I'm really enjoying the battle out there right now,"" said Rosberg, who is attempting to emulate his father, Keke, who won the title in 1982. ""We've got several cars in the mix now which is exciting for us and the fans. I'm taking every race like a cup final."" Although Rosberg equalled Hamilton's six wins for the season in Spa, the Briton had an encouraging weekend, finishing third despite starting on the back row because of a 60-place penalty. ""Spa was about as good as damage limitation can get,"" said Hamilton. ""It's game on for me now with the penalties out of the way and fresh engines ready to use. I can't wait to get back out there."" The battle for the title is as tight as it has been since Hamilton and Rosberg were paired at Mercedes in 2013, with the former looking for a hat-trick of world titles. Team head Toto Wolff believes it will remain impossible to predict a winner until the end of the season. ""My gut feeling is we will go long into the season before we see who comes out on top,"" he said.","Lewis Hamilton says it is "" game on "" in the world championship battle , while Mercedes team - mate Nico Rosberg is @placeholder every race "" like a cup final "" .",struggling,set,targeting,entering,treating,4
"Hitchin Town forward Alfie Barker sent an offensive message to Bournemouth's Harry Arter on Twitter about his stillborn child. The post was made after the team drew with Arsenal on Tuesday. Mr Barker, who was sacked from his club and a carpentry firm, said he had received ""all kind of threats, 24/7"". Bournemouth had lost a three-goal lead to draw 3-3 in the Premier League match. Mr Barker later posted: ""Big hype just for a disappointment like the nine months leading up to your child's birth."" It was in reference to how Mr Arter and his partner Rachel's baby daughter Renee was stillborn in December 2015. Mr Barker, 18, said people have since threatened to break his legs and to kill him. He said his parents have also received calls saying ""we know where you live, expect a visit"" and that there have been calls for him to never play football again. The teenager, who had worked as a carpenter for eight months, said: ""I feel really scared, I don't know what's going to happen to me if I go out by himself. ""I'm 18 years old, I made a mistake but everyone deserves a second chance."" Mr Barker has ADHD and said he had mixed his medication with alcohol on the evening he posted the tweet. He initially claimed his account, which has now been deleted, had been hacked, before apologising. ""I regret it massively,"" he said. ""I'm saying sorry because I want to say sorry and I mean it, not because I've been caught out."" Seventh-tier Hitchin Town ended Mr Barker's contract with ""immediate effect"" due to his ""irresponsible and anti-social behaviour"".",A non-league football player has said he and his family have received death threats since he @placeholder a footballer on social media .,shot,offered,abused,mounted,sparked,2
"Until 1815, open candles were used and ignited frequent methane explosions. Sir Humphry Davy's invention is thought to have saved as many as 500,000 lives worldwide and is still in use today. To mark the occasion on Sunday, Bersham Colliery in Wrexham- now a mining museum - is inviting visitors to bring their Davy Lamps and other industrial heirlooms along for identification. Davy Lamps work by screening the flame behind a metal mesh, wide enough to let in enough oxygen for combustion, but too fine to allow the flame to flicker beyond the cage. As well as providing light, it acted as an indicator for the presence of methane - when it would burn with a taller, bluer flame, and of a lack of oxygen, when the lamp would be extinguished. Alan Jones, chairman of the North Wales Miners Association Trust, said: ""Over the last two centuries the Davy Lamp has seen countless tweaks and improvements, like the introduction of a glass window to allow more light, but it's still the same basic principle. ""Even today men working underground will carry a Davy Lamp, because while more sophisticated electronic monitors can fail, a Davy Lamp will always work."" But the Davy Lamp was not without teething problems. Initially its introduction to mines actually saw a rise in accidents as miners - and more importantly bosses - felt more confident in working parts of pits which had previously been no-go areas. As Mr Jones explained, many of the early problems were not so much to do with the lamps themselves, but the way they were used. ""The earliest examples, before the glass window was introduced, emitted very little light from behind the mesh, so miners would frequently unscrew the cover to see what they were doing.  Later models had a tamper-proof lock to prevent this. ""Working in damp conditions the mesh would corrode and even a very small break in the mesh could allow the flame to escape and spark an explosion."" Mr Jones said, because of subtle changes over the years, it is possibly to identify roughly where and when a Davy Lamp was made. ""We're not especially interested in valuing them, most are only worth about £50 or £60, but some of the rarest and oldest examples can sell for over £500,"" he added. Another of Sir Humphry's inventions could have held the key to the illumination problems as he was also an early pioneer of electric incandescent lighting, although it would take almost another 100 years before electric lights became common in mines. He also used electrolysis to isolate several new metals such as sodium and calcium for the first time and became an exponent of nitrous oxide or laughing gas as an anaesthetic, so much so he ended up addicted to it.",An @placeholder is being held to mark 200 years since the Davy Lamp transformed the safety of mining .,company,event,emergency,exhibit,appeal,1
"The investors were the only bidders for Ciudad Real airport, south of Madrid, completed during Spain's boom years. But it is not clear if the sale will go ahead as another buyer could still step forward outside of the auction process. The winning bid was made by a Chinese-led consortium of investors. The group, Tzaneen International, says it wants to make the airport an entry point into Europe for Chinese companies. The white elephants that dragged Spain into the red Ciudad Real airport, located 235km (146 miles) south of Madrid, was meant to be an alternative to Madrid's Barajas airport. It cost more than €1bn to built. It opened in 2008 but went bankrupt and closed in 2012. There is still a possibility that another buyer could meet the minimum price of €28m set by the receiver for the sale to go through before the end of September. The central Spanish airport has a capacity for 2.5 million passengers per year. It is one of a number of ""ghost airports"" constructed during Spain's building boom that did not attract enough passengers. A similar fate has befallen Castellon airport in the east. It opened in 2011 but has not received a single flight.","A group of international investors has won a bankruptcy auction for an abandoned airport in central Spain with a € 10,000 ( £ 7,000 ) @placeholder - 100,000 times less than it cost to build .",state,group,offer,value,lost,2
"Bangor University's dementia centre is leading the research, which is being run across three sites in Wales and England. The sessions with participants include art appreciation and hands-on work and is being carried out over three months. The works are going on display at Age Cymru's shop in Bangor from Wednesday. The results of the Dementia and Imagination research are expected in 2016.",Art @placeholder by people with dementia - as part of a research project into whether art can improve their well - being - is being exhibited .,used,commissioned,struck,revived,produced,4
"Education Minister Huw Lewis said evidence gathered by Prof Sir Ian Diamond showed the need for a ""joined-up approach"", considering links between further and higher education. The review has been examining the current tuition fee subsidy policy. Sir Ian said there had been calls for change, but no agreed alternative. His final report is due by September.","A review of student finance in Wales is being @placeholder to consider support for students doing apprenticeships , access and foundation courses .",published,reduced,offered,done,widened,4
"Emergency services were called to an address in Heather Avenue, Alexandria, at about 14:25 on Saturday. The Scottish ambulance service said four ambulances, a paramedic unit and a special operations response team attended. Police Scotland said the circumstances were being investigated. It is understood that no violence was involved in the incident. Five people were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. Their condition was not immediately known. A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: ""Enquiries are at an early stage to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident.""",Five people have been taken to hospital after becoming unwell at a @placeholder housing unit in West Dunbartonshire .,suspected,beach,drug,sheltered,school,3
"Four Costa Rican companies that have volunteered their help say they possess the skills to create a prosthesis for the injured bird. They say they will use 3D printing to create the first prosthesis of this kind in the region. In the US, prosthetic beaks have been created for an eagle and a penguin. The male toucan, named Grecia after the area where it was found, was taken to an animal rescue centre in January. Pictures of its mutilated beak caused outrage after they were circulated in Costa Rican newspapers and on social media. A campaign to provide the bird with a prosthetic beak quickly raised thousands of dollars and a number of local companies offered their help. Four of them, Elementos 3d, Ewa!corps, Publicidad Web and Grupo Sommerus, said on Tuesday that they were confident they could design a suitable prosthetic for Grecia and fit it. Toucans use their beaks to eat and also to regulate their body temperature. Veterinarian Carmen Soto, who looks after Grecia at the Zoo Ave rescue centre, said the toucan was recovering well and had even started eating on its own. ""The quantity he manages to eat on his own is very small, so we have to help him,"" she said. Designer Nelson Martinez said the priority was to create a prosthesis which would help Grecia eat. He told newspaper La Nacion that he and his team had been studying toucan beaks to come up with a suitable design for Grecia. He said they were working on a model that would have ""a fixed part and a moveable part so it can be cleaned or replaced as the toucan is still growing"". Ms Soto said Grecia's wound was scarring well and that within the month it would be possible to scan its stump. This will be key to ensure the prosthesis fits Grecia and will also influence how it is fitted. ""We couldn't use any type of adhesive with chemical components as it could compromise the structure of the beak,"" Mr Martinez said. The team is studying if it could be fixed with screws instead. Ms Soto warned that the prosthesis would have to be both lightweight and hard-wearing to ensure it would not come off or be damaged. The team said it was planning to create models of Grecia's stump to be able to experiment with different fittings. Karley Fu, of Grupo Sommerus, told La Nacion that another unknown was whether Grecia would accept the prosthesis.",A toucan in Costa Rica which lost the upper part of its beak after being attacked by youths looks @placeholder to be fitted with a prosthetic replacement .,group,estimated,appeared,set,like,3
"A visit by two people to an art gallery, a museum, a heritage site, the opera, the ballet and a classical concert costs a total £256. The survey, by Post Office Travel Money which looked at 12 major European cities, said London was even pricier than Paris for tickets. It said the cost was high despite some art galleries and museums being free. Warsaw in Poland was found to be the best value of the cities polled, with cultural trips costing £70. That was followed by Budapest at £80, Prague at £93, and Dublin at £102. Andrew Brown, of Post Office Travel Money, said prices varied dramatically across the 12 cities surveyed - all of which boasted world-class cultural attractions. ""This means culture vultures can save hundreds of pounds by doing their homework before booking and swapping expensive cities for cheaper ones,"" he said. Two tickets for the Royal Ballet in London cost £91, while a pair of opera tickets would set people back £117.50. A couple buying ballet tickets in Budapest could expect to pay £15, while a pair of opera tickets in Warsaw would fetch £20. While London was deemed the most expensive of the 12 cities surveyed, even though costs were found to have dropped by 21% since 2009. Culture prices in Rome and Vienna were also down from 2009 - by 36.1% and 27.3% respectively. Costs in Amsterdam rose by 37.3% - the highest rise among the cities.","London is the most expensive city in Europe for cultural @placeholder , a survey has suggested .",office,services,fashion,life,activities,4
"According to political analyst Nate Silver, the Comey letter ""probably"" cost the former secretary of state the presidential election - a view recently endorsed by Mrs Clinton herself. Mr Comey's Wednesday remarks were in response to a question from California Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein during a Judiciary Committee hearing, and it was one for which the director was clearly prepared. His seven-minute answer was measured yet forceful; polished yet seemingly sincere. Here's a closer look at what he said - and what it may mean. Mr Comey first sets out why he thought the emails on the laptop of Mr Weiner, husband of Clinton adviser Huma Abedin, could be so important. There was the possibility that these never-before-seen Clinton messages could be a potential smoking gun - ""evidence that she was acting with bad intent,"" in Mr Comey's words. If Mrs Clinton, or her aides, had set up her private email server not because of convenience, as they asserted, but to avoid open-records requirements or intentionally break the law, then Mr Comey could have cause to bring a criminal case against the former secretary of state. Mr Comey is echoing an unwritten rule in the US Justice Department, of which the FBI is a part, that investigators should avoid taking actions that could affect the outcome of an election that is less than 60 days away. A memo first distributed by the Justice Department in the George W Bush administration and subsequently recirculated by Obama Attorney General Eric Holder instructs government employees to ""never select the timing of investigative steps or criminal charges for the purpose of affecting any election or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party"". Following Mr Comey's letter to Congress, members of the Clinton team, including campaign manager Robbie Mook, suggested Mr Comey was violating this rule. Here is the heart of what Mr Comey describes as his ""painful"" dilemma. Once he decided to reopen the investigation, he believed that doing nothing would effectively be active concealment. In the ensuing days and months, Mr Comey's critics have said silence would not only have been in keeping with Justice Department policy, it would have been the prudent move given that the director did not know what the Weiner laptop contained. Mr Comey - perhaps because he knew the investigation would leak to the press anyway or possibly because he feared the emails could reveal Clinton misdeeds after she had won the presidency - decided otherwise. Media coverage of Mr Comey's statement has focused on the ""catastrophic"" versus ""really bad"" dichotomy he constructed. The director tacitly acknowledged that he knew the impact his letter would have on the presidential campaign, but he wanted to let everyone know that the alternative was much, much worse. If silence meant active concealment, he argued, then the prudent move was disclosure. The last line of this passage, however - that the investigation was being restarted in a ""hugely significant way"" - is equally important. At the time of Mr Comey's letter to Congress, many pundits and analysts were saying that the FBI must have found some very critical evidence, given that the director had to have known the monumental impact of his action. It turns out the evidence wasn't there, of course. That left Mr Comey with the task on Wednesday of convincing the senators, and the public at large, that - knowing what he knew in October - his actions were still justified. Mr Comey arrives at this conclusion after recounting how his investigative team had found thousands of new Clinton emails, including some that were classified, on Mr Weiner's laptop, but did not discover anything that indicated criminal intent. He then decided, two days before the election, to send another letter informing Congress that he had ended the investigation with no change in the FBI's original determination not to bring charges against Mrs Clinton. The entire saga probably leaves Mrs Clinton's supporters more than just ""mildly"" nauseous. For Mr Trump's backers, on the other hand, it's much ado about nothing - an attempt, according to the president, to shift blame for electoral defeat away from the Democrats and onto the FBI. Mr Comey says he wouldn't change his decision, but it's one that will be second-guessed and scrutinised for a very long time to come.",FBI Director James Comey has @placeholder his fateful decision to write a letter informing Congress that he was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton 's private email server less than two weeks before November 's presidential election .,delivered,warned,dismissed,revisited,criticised,3
"He lived in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, getting the education he had missed on his terrifying journey, before he was eventually relocated to the US. Mr Deng's life story was made into a bestselling book, What is the What, by the American author Dave Eggers. Now, in a twist so unlikely it might have been rejected by a writer of fiction, Mr Deng has become the minister for education in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal, one of the 10 states in South Sudan which gained its independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011. Mr Deng says even he finds it ""difficult to imagine"", but here he is, a boy in rags transformed into a minister in a smart suit. ""If one is positive and optimistic, good things can happen,"" he says. Valentino Achak Deng: ""The lesson I can draw is that people can always learn, come through tough times and persevere and grow"" Mr Deng has big ambitions for the children under his care, and says his own example shows what is possible. ""The lesson I can draw is that people can always learn, come through tough times and persevere and grow. ""It's exciting when you see a lot of children go through - a lot of smiles and success stories."" Mr Deng was named education minister in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal late last year, after successfully setting up a school in the town of Marial Bai, funded in part by proceeds from What is the What. During our conversation, one parent came up to profusely thank Mr Deng for the education the school is providing his kids. At the school, Mr Deng has brought in children from Pibor, a conflict-affected area at the opposite end of the country. It is part of an ideology the former Lost Boy hopes can help overcome South Sudan's ethnic and regional divisions. ""I wanted the kids from Northern Bahr el-Ghazal to learn with the kids from all the other nine states of South Sudan, and benefit from the cross-cultural environment,"" he says. ""Where you know someone speaks another language but they're South Sudanese, someone lives a different lifestyle but they're South Sudanese, someone comes from a different location but he's just as important as you at Marial Bai Secondary School."" Now, though, Mr Deng has broader challenges, as a state minister in a part of the country with very divided politics, and which is facing the economic crisis brought on by South Sudan's civil war. Mr Deng says he lacks qualified teachers, in part because so many children are flocking to school. School buildings are a problem too. Many lessons take place under trees in villages, which means the makeshift classrooms are impractical during the rainy season. Children often come to school hungry ""which affects their ability to learn"", Mr Deng says. And many struggle to understand English, the official language of South Sudan, particularly if they grew up in Sudan before independence, when Arabic was the official language. Northern Bahr el-Ghazal has been spared the worst of the fighting in the civil war that began 18 months ago, but the national crisis is still taking its toll. ""The prices fluctuate, the teacher cannot survive on their salary,"" Mr 'Deng explains. ""The kids go hungry; they do not go to school because they have to survive."" Nationally, Mr Deng is ""worried that we are losing a good number of students to illiteracy, because of the violence"". ""Education is transformation, but it can only do so much if people are forced to leave school."" Mr Deng thinks of himself as a man getting things done rather than as a politician, but he knows from very personal experience what sort of difference education can make. ""'When I walked across the southern Sudan barefoot, I literally knew nothing, [had] not even a map, [knew] not where I was, not how to navigate myself in the forest or how to look for signs of dangers or any of those. ""I was just a naive kid walking, looking for safety."" Tracking down South Sudan's missing Mr Deng's own educational journey, interrupted by war and reinvigorated in the refugee camps of Ethiopia and Kenya, convinced him that his homeland would have been much better off if more people had gone to school. ""We had fewer educated people in the country; we had fewer schools; we had virtually no basic infrastructure; we had no industrialised agriculture system. ""And that had a lot to do with war, which took South Sudan back a number of years. ""So with education, I would not have gone through the difficulties I went through. Somebody would have worked out something, some alternatives."" Now Mr Deng has the opportunity to help educate thousands of kids, as state education minister or through his school. His own life was devastated by conflict, then transformed by education. It leaves him with a strong message for his fellow South Sudanese. Many countries in the region, like Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia, have recovered from terrible ordeals, and Mr Deng is convinced South Sudan can too. ""What I pray that we do as leaders of this young nation is that we say stop to the violence, stop to anything that destroys a soul, look for a solution, and we can be like anybody.""","Valentino Achak Deng was once a "" Lost Boy "" , a small , frightened child who walked for months across what is now South Sudan to flee a brutal war , narrowly @placeholder becoming another casualty of the conflict .",shows,growing,escaping,outgoing,published,2
"Fraudsters posing as TalkTalk workers have switched their caller ID - the incoming number which appears on mobile phone screens - to that of The Flower Shop in Caversham, Reading. The shop said ""confused"" callers asking for the telecoms firm had started contacting them on Friday. The case is being assessed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. A TalkTalk spokesman said: ""We can confirm that this incident is not related to TalkTalk."" Shop manager Denika Potter said some of those ringing the business had been abusive after the fraudsters had tried to dupe them into providing their bank details. She said many people recognised they were being targeted by scammers, but mistakenly thought the call had originated from the florist. ""Most customers are nice, accept it and apologise,"" said Ms Potter. ""Some are very annoyed, which you obviously may be if you are getting lots of missed calls from a number."" She said the calls were ""disturbing"" her staff's daily work and added:  ""We are a small business and we're having to stop to answer the phone all the time."" An Action Fraud spokesman said it could take up to 28 days to determine whether there were ""sufficient lines of enquiry for an investigation based in the UK"".",A family - run florist says it is being @placeholder with up to 120 calls a day in a phone cloning scam .,used,caught,threatened,teamed,besieged,4
"Little Ross near Kirkcudbright hit the headlines in 1960 when a lighthouse keeper was killed by a colleague. The island, which covers 29 acres, is on the market for offers over £325,000. The listing includes a six-bedroom, B-listed cottage and courtyard which is next to an operational lighthouse tower which is not part of the deal. The lighthouse tower - which is not included in the sale - was designed and built by Alan Stevenson and first lit in 1843. It was built at the mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay to close the gap between other lighthouses at the Mull of Galloway and Southerness. It was manned until 1960, the year of the infamous killing. Keeper Hugh Clark was found dead on the island and his assistant Robert Dickson was later tried and found guilty of his murder. The property up for sale is completely off-grid with power drawn from solar panels and a small wind turbine. The selling agents have described it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a unique property which offers an alternative lifestyle or holiday retreat. However, prospective buyers will need their own boat or a helicopter to get to and from the island. David Corrie, senior associate at Galbraith, Castle Douglas, said: ""Private islands rarely come up for sale at an affordable price and particularly one with a habitable house and additional properties. ""Given the exciting prospect Little Ross island presents, we expect a lot of interest from all over the UK as well as abroad.""","A small island off the @placeholder of Scotland coast , which gained notoriety for a high - profile murder case , has been put up for sale .",south,sea,heart,bodies,centre,0
"Ben Smith, 34, had completed 284 consecutive marathons in 284 days when he developed an umbilical hernia, in Aberdeen, on 10 June. He set off from Inverness at 10:00 BST after medical care and following advice to ""take time out and recuperate"". Mr Smith said he would use ""everything in his power to be back on the road"". Since 1 September 2015, he had run 284 consecutive marathons in 284 days, covering 7,440.8 miles across 222 different locations across England, Wales and Scotland. He said he would now need to cover an extra 2.5 miles a day for the next 106 days to make up for the time lost through injury - missing 10 days of running equates to 262 miles. He said: ""I was very upset the challenge had to be suspended especially when you think of all the hard work myself and the 401 team have put in over the last three years. ""Today I am feeling positive in both my mental and physical state and will no doubt use everything in my power to be back on the road."" He praised the ""amazing"" 401 team and said they would ""deliver all the objectives we set out to do"". Mr Smith hopes to raise £250,000 for the anti-bullying charities, Stonewall and Kidscape. The aim is to finish the run as planned on 5 October in Bristol.","A man who @placeholder to run 401 marathons in 401 days has resumed the challenge after 11 days off , recovering from a back injury .",claimed,helped,pledged,used,forced,2
"Patrick Harvie told the party's pre-election conference that a Green MSP in all eight parliamentary regions would see ""better, bolder"" opposition. The Greens currently have two MSPs plus two Green-supporting Independents. All their election candidates will address the conference in Edinburgh on Saturday and Sunday. Speaking two months before the 5 May general election, Mr Harvie told delegates that the SNP's record in government proved that ""a better Scotland needs a bolder Holyrood"". He said: ""Ahead in the polls and with nine years' experience in government, they still seem set to make only the most timid of changes to the local tax system. They need to be pushed. ""Labour and the Lib Dems aren't doing much better - how can we leave it to them to hold the SNP to account on an issue like fracking when they seem to swap policies on it by the week? Holyrood needs better, bolder, more coherent opposition than that."" Mr Harvie has urged pro-independence Scots to elect ""constructive"" critics of the Scottish government rather than more SNP ""cheerleaders"". The party's other co-convener, Maggie Chapman, also criticised the SNP's ""refusal to grasp the thistle of local taxation"" by scrapping the council tax, in her speech to delegates. The Scottish government announced plans this week to end the council tax freeze in 2017 and proposed that the four highest bands should pay more from next year. But Ms Chapman said the plans did not go far enough. She told conference delegates in Edinburgh: ""Greens demand that Holyrood be bolder. ""Greens demand a new fairer system of local taxation capable of raising the money our public services and our communities desperately need."" She added: ""The failure to confront this problem is what makes it so hard for the Scottish Parliament to block Westminster's austerity.""","More Scottish Green @placeholder are needed at Holyrood to push the SNP government "" beyond its comfort zone "" , the party 's co-convener has said .",tent,voices,staff,mps,bodies,1
"Nominated for both the Mercury Prize and the Ivor Novello awards, it was also named iTunes' UK album of the year. Now, ahead of her second album Blood, which tackles themes of family and identity, La Havas talks about how she started writing songs and where she finds inspiration. I wrote my first actual song when I was 11, it was called Little Things. It was about loving your family or something. The need to do it, at the time, was greater than what it needed to be about. I just wanted to do something and lot of pop music at the time was about love. The last time I sang it, I was a bit drunk and we were sharing stories about the first songs we'd written so I played it because it was easy. I started on the piano when I was seven. I never had lessons but my dad got me a keyboard just to see if I was interested. He's a very passionate musician. I figured it out and I would work out melodies from tunes that were programmed into the keyboard, like Camp Town Races. I loved poetry as well. I thought it was fascinating that you could make sentences that made sense as a story but would rhyme. There was something very satisfying about that. It wasn't until I was 11 that I put it all together. I was about nine when I actually started listening to the words. I remember that song by B*Witched called Blame it on the Weatherman and I remember just wanting to know the lyrics. It's something I think a lot about, kids' taste compared to teenagers and there's definite differences. It's not to say I didn't enjoy Michael Jackson but B*Witched were girls and I was a girl. Mary J Blige, too. I thought, ""That's a chick, I can do that with my voice, too."" And Lauryn Hill, who I loved to try and copy. When I got to 12, I discovered Jill Scott and that was a big lyrical moment because I didn't think you could say that stuff. She said incredible things that you knew were truthful from the way she said it. When I started playing guitar. When I was 18, my dad taught me a guitar picking rhythm that he had learnt from Bob Dylan and taught it to me. It took a while to master it but, when I did, that's when I started feeling like, ""I have to write something about something"". I was seeing this guy and it was the first time I felt myself falling in love and my heart being broken and the song seemed to explain my situation. It's the only way to get it out for me. You can talk about it but you might not want to so, for me, songwriting and the creation of a song is the purest happiness that I've ever felt. It makes me happy even when it's about something sad. It's interesting because when I didn't realise that my relationship was breaking down, the songs that I was writing were not about love, they were about confidence and finding myself. I think you should write as much about happiness as you do about sadness. I can't not write about what's happening otherwise it's not for me. I only go on gut feelings now. Once you hit a flow, it just starts to make sense and you just fill in the dots. Sometimes I discover how I feel about things by writing about it. I used to go in to those things and think, ""Hopefully they'll like me,"" but I realised that although you both have to like it, I'm the one who has to sing it. So, first and foremost, I have to like it and they have to complement me, otherwise I can't do it. It was the fact that my now ex, who I got back together with in the song, was very interested in astronomy and taught me a lot about it. I remember he bought a telescope and I saw the moon in great detail for the first time; and Jupiter and things like that. So I thought, sentimentally, to connect the lyrics to that because it was all for him. It also seemed appropriate to liken myself to a satellite that's spun out of orbit because that's how I felt, roaming freely and being my own person but I remembered I needed him. I think [the phrase] singer-songwriter can put people off because there is that connotation of, ""I feel sad, so here's the lyric that means sad but isn't sad"". But there is so much more to it when you think about it. It's not just about the music, it's about life, it's about language and it's film and it's art, so I like to get all of it in. There's this strange continuity of things in life, like how the roots of a tree look like your veins. Because there are so many possibilities with language. I went to Jamaica to write. Kingston is one of the coolest cities and when I was there, I felt super-badass. I went New York next and I had the words ""green and gold"" in my head. I loved the imagery of it and then it seemed to develop into where I was from and I thought of a lyric to represent Greece which was ""ancient stone"". So the chorus was written before the verses. And then I called Matt Hales (of Aqualung) because it was just a vibe with a chorus and he really liked it and he said, ""It feels like you've learnt a lot about where you're from""' so we made it a chronological autobiography. It made sense to start it when I was six, my earliest memories about looking in the mirror and thinking, ""Why don't I look like either of my parents?""; then into the second verse as a young lady who has somehow been able to live my dreams. I feel like music is like a introduction without meeting someone, like someone hearing what you do. It's a way of illustrating yourself. But it's always changing and I'm always searching for the ultimate song and trying to be satisfied more by the next thing. That's why I do it, I just want to make the most pleasing thing possible. Blood is released on on 31 July on Warner Bros. Records.","Is Your Love Big Enough ? , released in 2012 , @placeholder the world to the song writing and singing talent of Lianne La Havas .",opens,introduced,becoming,delivering,according,1
"Arming the Popular Protection Units (YPG) would ""not be beneficial"", Nurettin Canikli told A Haber TV. Ankara says the YPG is an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated a terrorist group by the US. The PKK insurgency to secure Kurdish autonomy in Turkey has killed thousands of people. Washington says the YPG is essential to the operation to capture the IS stronghold of Raqqa. The YPG leads the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias that has driven IS militants from about 6,000 sq km (2,300 sq miles) of northern Syria over the past two years with the help of US-led coalition air strikes and military advisers. On Tuesday, Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White announced that President Donald Trump had given his authorisation to ""equip Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces as necessary to ensure a clear victory"" over IS in Raqqa. Ms White also stressed the Pentagon was ""keenly aware"" of Turkey's concerns. ""We want to reassure the people and government of Turkey that the US is committed to preventing additional security risks and protecting our Nato ally."" ""The US continues to prioritise our support for Arab elements of the SDF. Raqqa and all liberated territory should return to the governance of local Syrian Arabs."" The Pentagon has previously armed only Arab elements of the SDF. On Wednesday morning, the Turkish government denounced the US decision. ""We cannot accept the presence of terrorist organisations that would threaten the future of the Turkish state,"" Mr Canikli told A Haber in an interview. ""We hope the US administration will put a stop to this wrong and turn back from it. Such a policy will not be beneficial - you can't be in the same sack as terrorist organisations."" The YPG and its political arm, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), denies any direct links with the PKK, which is waging an insurgency in Turkey for Kurdish autonomy. The BBC's Mark Lowen in Istanbul says the US decision is a huge slap in the face of its ally, which has consistently said arming the Kurds would be its ""red line"". Ankara is particularly irked that it was announced days before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Mr Trump in Washington and as Turkish high-level officials were there urging the White House not to go ahead, our correspondent adds. Mr Erdogan has argued that the YPG should be excluded from the Raqqa offensive and urged the US to switch to supporting a Syrian Arab rebel force that has driven IS out of a border area in the past year with the help of the Turkish military. Ms White said the equipment provided to the Kurds - who make up 40% of the SDF's 50,000 fighters, according to US-led coalition officials - would be ""limited, mission specific and metered out incrementally as objectives are reached"". She did not mention what would be provided, but other US officials indicated that it might include 120mm mortars, machine-guns and lightly-armoured vehicles. A senior Kurdish official told the Associated Press that the US decision carried ""political meaning"" and ""legitimise the YPG and the Syrian Democratic Forces"". But Ilham Ahmed warned it would likely be met with ""aggression"" from Turkey. Last month, Turkish air strikes in northern Syria and Iraq's Sinjar region killed at least 20 members of the YPG and five Iraqi Peshmerga fighters.","Turkey 's deputy prime minister says the US decision to supply weapons to Kurdish fighters @placeholder Islamic State militants in Syria is "" unacceptable "" .",controls,following,planned,battling,growing,3
"In what felt like one of the most revealing exchanges of the campaign, Chris listed Bank of England governor Mark Carney's seemingly ample qualifications to make predictions about how Brexit would affect the economy. ""Yes,"" she replied, ""but does he know what it's like to go round Sainbury's?"" It was a moment that seemed to support Michael Gove's claim that ""people in this country have had enough of experts"". So did the vote itself - a rejection, among other things of overwhelming expert opinion that Brexit was a bad idea. And in the months since, the expert bashers have been able to claim a measure of vindication: few of the dire consequences predicted by most economists have materialised. But what is the truth about our relationship with ""experts""? In the context of Trump's America, where every fact has become contestable, and once revered authorities are dismissed as partisan and untrustworthy, it's a question that suddenly seems rather important. Was Gove really right that we have ceased to believe that people with years of accumulated specialist knowledge and qualifications are worth listening to? And if so does our newfound scepticism apply to particular kinds of expert, or to all of them? You don't need letters after your own name to appreciate the potential implications: in a world where experts cannot command public trust, how can they convince us that action must be taken on climate change? Or that vaccinations are safe? Or that a particular foreign state poses a threat to us? Michael Gove now claims that he was really talking about economists when he made his infamous comment in an interview with Sky's Faisal Islam. He says Islam interrupted him before he could clarify. Having got it wrong over Britain entering the euro, the 2008 crash, and the immediate impacts of a Brexit vote, he says economics is now ""a profession in crisis"". Certainly economic forecasting has always been a rather hit or miss business. JK Galbraith said its only function was ""to make astrology look respectable"". Many economists now admit they got the short term impacts of a Brexit vote wrong. Essentially they misjudged how consumers would behave amid the uncertainty created by a vote to leave: they thought we'd tighten our belts and save; instead we went on a borrowing and spending binge. But most also point out that it's far too early to judge the accuracy of their forecasts. Britain hasn't even left the EU yet; it will take years to judge whether their predictions of reduced growth were right. As one senior economist put it to me: ""Gove is right that economics is a profession in crisis but it has nothing to do with Brexit predictions. The real crisis is our failure to explain the collapse in productivity."" Perhaps the bigger question is whether the scepticism Gove says he meant to direct at economists has now spread to other forms of expert. Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel prize-winning geneticist and director of London's new cathedral to science, the Francis Crick Institute, fears it has. ""Unfortunately Mr Gove's remarks spilled over into all sorts of other areas where experts have an enormous contribution to make to the proper running of society,"" he told me. ""The fact that experts have been derided in this way does have an effect in undermining science and scientific evidence. Gove himself acknowledges his remark may have had unintended consequences. ""I'm sure that there are people who've latched onto that word… who think that I may have legitimised it, and it may be that there are some people out there who think that that I'm giving them licence to operate in that way. Who knows?"" But for some, like the science writer Matt Ridley, greater public scepticism about all kinds of expert can only be a good thing. Far from the assault on Enlightenment values that some fear, the backlash against experts, he says, is quite the reverse. ""One has to remember that the Enlightenment did consist of challenging the experts, particularly challenging priests and saying you don't have all the answers, People can work out the answers for themselves. There's no reason we can't use rationalism to arrive at solutions to problems, and to the extent that we're challenging a priesthood today and saying, 'No hang on you might be wrong.' That's healthy."" But it begs the question: where does the challenging stop? Can ordinary people without scientific training really be expected to make up their own minds up about whether vaccines, for instance, are safe? Ridley concedes that we can't all wade through the scientific literature: ""We have to rely on other people to do that for us."" And who are those other people? ""People who've done more work in looking into the evidence."" In other words, people who sound quite a lot like experts. In fact the hard evidence that Britain has fallen out of love with experts is thin on the ground. There is no shortage of data pointing to falling levels of trust in institutions - the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, an annual survey of trust across 28 countries, found the steepest drop in trust of government, business, media and NGOs in its 17 year history. But asked in an Institute for Government poll (if we still pay any attention to those) whether politicians making difficult decisions should consult experts, more than 80% of both Remain and Leave voters said they should. And during the referendum campaign, a poll by Ipsos MORI found that academics came in just behind friends and family when people were asked whose views they would trust about Brexit. As the philosopher Onora O'Neill put it: ""Some of the British public may be sick of experts, but I don't think most of them are. You don't take your shoes to the garage to be mended and you don't go to have your appendix out in your local chemist."" In truth, it seems there is not so much a crisis of trust in experts, as a profound scepticism about their - or anyone else's - ability to predict the future. Most economists, like meteorologists, take care to attach probabilities to their predictions, and to spell out the assumptions behind them. But in the heat of a campaign like the referendum, those nuances are often stripped away by politicians, or the media, or both. And it is the seeming certainty and precision of some of these predictions that seems to breed public suspicion. As Bertrand Russell put it: ""The whole problem of the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."" Ian Katz is editor of BBC Newsnight. You can follow him on Twitter and follow Newsnight on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube","In the last days before the referendum , Newsnight 's Policy Editor Chris Cook interviewed a @placeholder woman called Joan in a Bognor Regis cafe .",growing,theme,single,shadow,retired,4
"Before divorcing in 2012, Maya Kanev-Lipinski, 44 and Shahar Lipinski, 45, built up a student property empire across the East Midlands. Prior to the spilt, the couple signed a ""divorce agreement"" dividing their assets 50/50, the High Court was told. But Mr Lipinski has been accused of ""deliberately dispersing"" their assets. Andrew Hunter QC, for Mrs Kanev-Lipinski, said her ex-husband had been treating assets worth millions as ""his own personal wallet"". ""We fear that, as judgment day approaches, Mr Lipinski will continue to take money out of the companies...in a completely uncontrolled and untransparent manner. ""Our fear is he will be frittering away money on convertible Bentleys, penthouses and the like so that the assets are not there for enforcement."" The court heard how the couple lived an ""opulent"" lifestyle just outside Nottingham in a £2m home, with a Mercedes and Cadillac on the drive, before they were divorced by a rabbinical court in Israel. But when three of their properties in Leicester were sold in in 2014, Mr Hunter said it was done ""without giving Mrs Kanev-Lipinski full information and without accounting to her for the proceeds of any sale"". He told the court that family companies worth £13.3m in 2013 were now valued at minus £4m. Money was moved into ""speculative, high risk investments"", leaving ""a diminished pot of assets."" Describing the divorce as a ""bitterly contested dispute"", he added: ""There are statements from associates that he wants to leave her without a penny."" Elizabeth Jones QC, acting for Mr Lipinski, said the case was ""very unfortunate"" and denied he was in any way trying to fiddle his ex. She added he was trying to keep the businesses afloat. ""The companies have avoided insolvency and are now more valuable as a result of the various actions of Shahar over the last three-and-a-half years,"" Miss Jones said. She said Mr Lipinski did buy a £70,000 convertible Bentley but Mrs Kanev-Lipinski had spent £95,000 on cars since the divorce. Miss Jones QC said the penthouses were owned by the former couple's shared companies, so could not be viewed as ""dissipation"" or ""frittering"". In December Mrs Kanev-Lipinski obtained a temporary High Court asset freezing injunction against her ex-husband and now wants the order to be made permanent. The hearing continues.","A millionaire 's ex-wife is trying to stop him "" frittering "" cash on "" boys ' toys "" before a court rules on how their £ 18 m @placeholder is to be split .",skills,fortune,property,action,whereabouts,1
"Five men from Victoria were held for three weeks after being seen buying ice cream while on holiday on Queensland's Gold Coast. Under anti-association laws it is illegal for more than two alleged bikers to be in public together. The charges were reportedly dropped due to a lack of evidence. Daniel Lovett, Bane Alajbegovic, Dario Halilovic, Kresmir Basic and Darren Haley were charged under the Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act (VLAD) laws. The VLAD was brought in in 2013 to help dismantle organised crime groups. The men did not appear at Southport Magistrates Court on Monday. Their lawyer, Bill Potts, addressed the media saying A$500,000 ($351,000; £230,000) in taxpayer funds was spent prosecuting the case. ""Their only sin, their only crime, was to buy an ice cream in a public place,"" Mr Potts said outside. ""The great controversy here was whether it was going to be choc top or vanilla. There was no crime, there was no planned crime. ""Quite frankly, it has been a political stunt right from the beginning to make the people feel safe, rather than give them the actuality of safeness."" A new state Labor Government was sworn in this year, and a review into the VLAD laws - which were introduced by a previous state government - is expected in December.","Charges against alleged Australian biker - gang members , who were @placeholder after buying ice cream , have been dropped .",detained,kidnapped,stranded,dropped,sacked,0
"In 2009, the winger wore the Red Rose on his chest in the Under-20 World Cup final alongside Ben Youngs, Courtney Lawes and Jamie George. But on the same day that trio helped England retain their Six Nations title with victory over Scotland, Cobden switched allegiances as he made his debut for adopted country Romania in the Rugby Europe Championship. ""I feel privileged to have played with all those boys when I was younger. They are nice memories for me now,"" 28-year-old Cobden told BBC Sport. ""I appreciate every opportunity I got to play for England as a junior, they were all great experiences and helped me get my opportunity to play in Romania. I'm grateful for that. ""Right now, I'm focused on playing for Romania and doing as well as I can for my new country."" So how did a player raised in Lichfield, Staffordshire, nurtured at the Leicester Tigers academy and who starred in the Championship for Nottingham end up playing for the country which is perhaps best known to non-Romanians as the home of Count Dracula. After an injury-plagued season, Cobden was released by Nottingham in 2013 and left to contemplate his options. And so, he went on a soul-searching trip to South America, and later ended up pouring pints. ""I did think that was me done,"" Cobden said. ""I went travelling around South America, and thought I'd come back to England and maybe play for another team. ""I was basically working in a bar when the opportunity to play in Romania came up."" While contemplating his options in the game, he had sent his CV and a highlights package of his career to Bucharest, and it was there he was given the chance to resurrect his career. He was offered a 10-month contract, but has so far remained with SuperLiga side CSM Bucharest for three years - long enough to qualify to play for Romania on residency grounds. And with a World Cup in Japan in 2019, he has a major target to work towards. ""I have loved every minute,"" said Cobden, who is now also an expectant father with his girlfriend four months pregnant. ""It is one of those places that when you first arrive it does seem very different because you see the communist bloc flats still here. But it has its beautiful parts, Romania is lovely, raw and bit untouched. ""There have been ups and downs, but it suits me here. It has been the best decision I ever made and, if anything, wish I had done it earlier. ""I never came out here thinking of international rugby - it has been a pretty incredible journey for me."" As the oldest of three Cobden siblings, Jack has set somewhat of a trend in the family. He was the first to win international sporting honours, with his brother Joe following suit on the rugby pitch at England Under-16 and U18 levels, and sister Beth playing for the senior England netball team. Joe, now 25 and playing professionally with Nottingham, made the trip to Brussels to watch his older brother make his Romania debut - a moment which evoked the same sense of pride he had whenever he pulled on an England shirt in the past. ""It is nice to know that if you put in the hard work, you never know where it will take you. For me, that is a real motivation,"" Joe said. ""He stopped playing for a while and I didn't know if he would come back. then he was off to Romania, which seemed strange. ""But that sums him up as you never really know what he is going to do, and he has not looked back since."" Beth, a versatile player with Loughborough Lightning in the Superleague, says Jack has been a sporting role model for her from an early age. ""He is a great inspiration,"" said Beth. ""He did really well and we all followed really. ""To go to Romania where the language and culture is different in a big step, and he went anyone. He just takes things in his stride. ""He does think he is the coolest Cobden in the family."" As a family of professional sports people, they also provide a strong support network for one another. ""It is good to be able to talk to one another because we area all in the same boat and know what we are each going through,"" Beth said. ""The boys understand what I go through and it is great to have that. "" A decade after featuring for England in the Under-20 World Cup in Japan, Cobden now has the chance of a return to the Land of the Rising Sun for the 2019 World Cup. Romania have played in every tournament since 1987, and after beating Georgia in the final match of the Rugby Europe Championship - denying their opponents a seventh successive title - they remain on course to qualify again. Cobden made a strong case in what has been his only appearance so far for The Oaks, scoring tries with his first two touches in a 33-17 triumph over Belgium. ""Japan is a long way away, a lot can happen between now and then,"" he said. The past eight years is testament to that statement, as he admits he ""lost his way a little bit"" after being released by Leicester Tigers without making a Premiership appearance. ""I'd been in a professional set up from the age of 16, there is a lot of pressure at that age,"" he explained. ""You want to make something of yourself and when the plan doesn't come together I needed time to readjust. ""I trained so hard for years in the academy and hoped to play in the Premiership. When it ended abruptly for me it really did take a few years to come back around and realise that I have such a good life playing rugby, a game I love. ""I'm glad I have come around full circle now."" At a time when Georgia's place at the Six Nations has been debated, and promotion and relegation from the tournament has been discussed, Cobden says the game in Romania is steadily improving. In a different era, the Oaks could have rightly considered themselves a force in the game, having won away from home against Wales and France, and beaten Scotland's Grand Slam-winning side of 1984. ""They are still really proud of their rugby culture here in Romania,"" Cobden said. ""The team is really strong these days, a number of big, strong forwards play abroad in France. ""There are also a lot of big old boys in the league here as well. It might not be the fastest, but it is definitely physical and you know you have played a game of rugby afterwards. ""Every year the standard is getting better and with more foreign coaches coming over helping the youth, they are giving the game a boost. ""It was nice to get my opportunity with the national team, and with my family there to watch, it was the highlight of my career so far."" But when it comes to Jack Cobden, you can only wonder what is yet to come?","On a @placeholder in Brussels , and eight years after last representing England , Jack Cobden prepared to make his senior international debut to the sound of a foreign national anthem .",property,sunday,vehicle,platform,field,4
Nottingham businessman Hardy had been expected to complete the purchase of the League Two club on Monday. But the deal is being held up after it emerged the Haydn Green estate is owed a seven-figure sum. Lawyers for Hardy and outgoing owner Ray Trew spent most of Monday trying to find a solution without success. Hardy is chief executive of the Paragon group and owner of Nottinghamshire Golf and Country Club. Notts have lost their past ten League Two matches and are 22nd in the table.,"Alan Hardy 's proposed takeover of Notts County is being @placeholder because of a dispute over who pays a £ 1 m loan , reports BBC Radio Nottingham .",sacked,debated,assured,delayed,investigated,3
"The TV channel is moving online-only on 16 February and consideration is now being given to moving it within a new ""youth division"", Radio Times says. A single controller may oversee all BBC platforms aimed at 16-34 year olds, including the popular radio station. The BBC said it was looking at its ""structure... for the digital age"" but no changes had been confirmed. BBC Three was launched as a digital TV channel in 2003. In November last year, the BBC Trust approved proposals to move it online as part of cost-cutting moves at the corporation. BBC sources quoted by Radio Times said the plans are at the ideas stage but are being ""seriously considered"" by strategists. But they are only likely to be implemented if the online BBC Three fails to get ""sufficient traction"", they said. Radio 1 includes video content on its website and some of its programming is available on the BBC's iPlayer TV catch-up service. Radio Times says the thinking of some senior figures is that bringing it together with BBC Three under a single controller would make ""perfect sense"". The magazine quotes BBC Three controller Damian Kavanagh as saying he is unaware of such a plan but ""there are a lot of conversations going on"". Mr Kavanagh said BBC Three and Radio 1 were ""talking to the same audiences on different things"" and already collaborate. But he added BBC Three is ""a really powerful youth brand with 13 years heritage and I wouldn't see the logic in winding down something that has that audience, and has that badge of quality, and has that heritage"". A BBC spokesman said: ""Everyone knows we are looking at the BBC's structure to make sure we are fit for the digital age. ""There has already been a lot of speculation about our future shape and there will no doubt be plenty more, but when we've got something to announce we'll do so."" Content on the online-only BBC Three includes the Daily Drop, a website index featuring short videos, blogs, social media, picture galleries, and news and sport updates. But about two hours of the channel's long-form programmes will be shown on BBC One and Two every week.","BBC Three and BBC Radio 1 could be @placeholder under the same division in future , according to reports .",merged,seen,forced,replaced,saved,0
"Archibald Shaw, 81 of Ardrossan, carried out the sexual abuse in Kilmarnock and Newton Stewart between 1982 and 1990. The High Court in Glasgow heard that he refuses to accept his guilt. But judge Bill Dunlop QC told Shaw that the evidence against him was ""overwhelming"". He said: ""You carried out an appalling catalogue of perverted, predatory behaviour towards two children. ""You stole their childhood and affected the quality of their adult lives. ""I can never understand why, while you are violating children, you don't think these people will become adults and one day will bring you to account."" Judge Dunlop said that, but for Shaw's age, he would have imposed a longer sentence. Shaw was placed on the sex offenders' register for life. His seven-year sentence will begin after he finishes a 21-month sentence for stalking a 15-year-old girl. Solicitor advocate John Keenan, defending, told the court that Shaw had a heart condition and did not expect to be released from custody. Shaw's victims, who are now in their 40s, went to the police after hearing on the radio that he had been convicted of stalking the schoolgirl. Advocate depute Paul Brown, prosecuting, said: ""The accused has previous convictions for sexual offences against children."" Shaw was found guilty of eight charges of sexual abuse, including rape. Many of the offences took place in a caravan. Shaw would ply his young victims with alcohol and make them watch pornographic videos before abusing them. He raped his 11-year-old victim again on various occasions when she was aged between 16 and 19. Shaw claimed that he had had consensual sex with the girl once she turned 16, but the jury did not believe him. In evidence, his victims said he ruined their childhoods. One of them said: ""He said if we ever told what had happened to us we would be taken away from our families."" The jail term was welcomed by NSPCC Scotland which praised Shaw's victims for coming forward to report his ""heinous"" crimes. A spokesman for the charity said: ""This sentence sends out the strong message once again that child abuse will not be tolerated, no matter when the offences took place, and we hope this case will encourage others to speak out about abuse they have suffered, knowing they will be listened to and supported.""",A pensioner has been jailed for seven years for raping an 11 - year - old girl and @placeholder to rape a 10 - year - old more than 30 years ago .,chose,attempting,subjected,threatened,forced,1
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 7 August 2015 Last updated at 06:24 BST The survey found accents in Bolton are ""country"" and in Stockport and the South they are regarded as ""posh"". While those from Oldham and Rochdale are described as ""poor"" or even ""rough."" Stuart Flinders reports.",Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University have been trying to find out what people 's accents say about them . and have @placeholder the results .,mapped,named,announced,marred,reached,0
"Cerberus took control of the loans last year as part of its £1.2bn purchase of Nama's Northern Ireland loan book. Killultagh Estates and associated firms have now has now agreed new finance with ICG Longbow, a London-based property lender. ICG mortgages have been registered on properties in Belfast and England. It is understood the deal involves loans from ICG of just over £100m. Killultagh was assisted by Belfast advisory firm GDP Capital. James Gibbons, principal of GDP Capital, said: ""This is a very positive sign that there is access to finance for companies and that property investors can retain control of their loans which have been acquired by private equity funds."" Killultagh also had borrowings with Ulster Bank. The main Ulster Bank-related asset, the Connswater shopping centre in east Belfast, was refinanced with the Fortress investment fund last year. Other Ulster Bank-related properties are currently for sale or have been agreed for sale. Mr Boyd has other Cerberus borrowings via his partnership with the developer Andrew Creighton. Together they own the firm William Ewart Properties. A series of major developers have refinanced their Cerberus loans. The Lagan brothers and MAR Properties got new finance from Jefferies Loan Core. The same lender also refinanced Paddy Kearney's Kilmona Group. Earlsfort Partners/ Garrison refinanced the McGinnis house building group and Gerard O'Hare's Parker Green International.",Companies controlled by the property developer Frank Boyd have refinanced loans that were @placeholder by the Cerberus investment fund .,killed,held,disrupted,inspired,devastated,1
"But the recent reports of Mumford and Sons' radical reinvention have been over-exaggerated. Their third album, Wilder Mind, might be low on hoe-downs, but it retains the band's surging, anthemic choruses - albeit with a more adventurous sonic sweep. Speaking the morning after a warm-up gig in Brighton - where mobile phones were outlawed - frontman Marcus Mumford explains the band's new sound, and why the band still have ""a lot to work out"". How did last night's show go? It was good - but we've got a lot of work to do. In what way? Our live show is our crown jewel. Brighton was good, but it feels like there's a lot we can improve on. We've got new crew, different instruments, a different set-up, so there's quite a lot to work out, logistically. Did everyone obey the mobile phone ban? Everyone did! It's quite authoritarian, isn't it? But it creates such a nice vibe in the room. Honestly, I wish we could do it at every show. At the moment, we've done it just in advance of the album coming out because we want the first time people hear it to be the recordings we've made. But actually, the collateral from it is just that when people get into the room, they have conversations with other people rather than staring at their phones. Have you ever got your own phone out at a gig? I've done it. We've all done it... Arcade Fire at Reading, Vampire Weekend at Fuji Rocks in Japan, Eric Clapton at the Albert Hall, because Steve Gadd was playing drums. I totally understand the idea of documentation. It's just been refreshing to do some shows without it. Two days before you played Glastonbury in 2013, Ben Lovett (guitarist) was watching Arctic Monkeys from the BBC compound. Halfway through their set he said: ""I don't think we've got enough songs."" [Laughs] Yes, we were nervous. Sometimes headline slots on the Pyramid Stage just don't work. But when the audience were as amazing as they were, it was a moment of affirmation for us. It was like some sort of homecoming. Shortly after that, you announced the band was taking a hiatus. No, we didn't! Some journalist used the word hiatus. But we didn't argue with it, because we thought: ""Oh cool, we'll get some space to make a record."" And the not-hiatus didn't last that long anyway... We'd never taken time off as a band, so it was an extraordinary thing for us to do. We had three months off and all went away to do different things. How long did it take you to get back into the swing of things? We took it pretty slowly to start with. Three weeks on, a couple of weeks back at home, and it was really fun. We've never made an album in the studio before. We've only ever written songs on the road and then stolen time away to go and record them. This was much more intentional. Is that what allowed you to experiment with new sounds? Exactly. Because when you're writing songs on the road, you're restricted to your set-up on stage. You only have an hour to soundcheck and in that hour you're trying to play new songs to each other. That's how loads of songs came about - from both Sigh No More and Babel, which is why they have a similar sound. Whereas going into a studio where anyone can play any instrument they want - and record it, then erase it if they want to - it suddenly opens up the restrictions you've put in place for yourself. It doesn't feel like there's been a totally drastic shift in your style. Yeah, but it has been fun to try out songs like Monster or Tompkins Square Park that have a steady groove all the way through. We've never written to a drum groove before - whereas Monster, we started with a drum beat and a guitar part I'd written in a guitar shop in Chicago. So now we have medium-paced songs, rather than just being super-quiet or super-loud. Scanning the titles, the album seems to be populated by scary creatures: Snake Eyes, Monsters, Broad Shouldered Beasts. Were there demons you were trying to cast off? I think there are in every song you write. It's a very cathartic process. You say things in songs you wouldn't say to someone's face. But we were writing in a bit of a bubble. It wasn't until we put all the songs together that we realised: ""Oh there's quite a lot of beasties in here."" You've gone a bit Tolkien. Ha! Yes, we've gone a bit Tolkien. But that's fine. It's not a concept goblin album or anything. You've said the lyrics were more of a group effort this time around. Why is that? I was knackered out by the Babel process - so we had a sit-down in Australia in 2012 and I said: ""For the next album, it'd be nice if everyone wrote a bit more."" That was a healthy conversation to have. But when it came to recording, we've always said it's a competition between songs rather than writers. So now, we're going to each other saying: ""How about this line? Let's tear the others up."" There's a overwhelming sense of doubt and being emotionally adrift. There's a lot of doubt. It's all pretty autobiographical. But also on this album, we've written our very first love songs - Only Love, Monster - and that's been really fun. What's your favourite line? In Tompkins Square Park - ""I only ever told you one lie, but it could have been a thousand/It might as well have been a thousand."" That's a great line. I didn't write it, so I can say that. You've got some big festival dates again this summer. How are you planning for those? Well, we still go through a process we call FBCM, which is fully blown crisis mode. We go from FBCM into chiselling the set, learning which songs work next to each other. And once we get to Coney Island, which is the first show on our tour, we need to be all guns blazing. So we're knuckling down. And now that you've got a balls-out rock number like The Wolf, have you been trying to locate your inner Bono? I've thought about it. You watch your favourite bands and see the stage-craft that goes into it - Mick Jagger practicing in front of a full-length mirror and all that stuff - but I'm not that guy. I think that putting the effort into singing well is more important than waving your arms around. Wilder Mind is out on 4 May on Island Records.",They 've gone electric ! They killed the banjo ! They @placeholder their waistcoats !,show,celebrating,broke,burned,lost,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device Headed goals from Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Gary Cahill sealed a 3-0 win for England at Wembley, leaving the visitors fifth in Group F. ""I've got to go away and have a wee look at it now and we have a debrief,"" said Strachan. ""It's hard to take in anything, it's not the time to think about it."" The 59-year-old added: ""If you think I'm thinking about myself, then you don't know me. If you think I'm worried about myself, you're completely wrong."" Strachan added that he was ""proud"" of his side's effort and emphasised that he felt the outcome was ""cruel"" on his players given the level of their performance. While he accepted there is a gap in quality between Scotland and England, he maintained - as he has done throughout a faltering campaign - that the players have been wholly committed to him and his tactics. ""I feel really proud about the way they played, they had no fear to their game,"" Strachan said. ""At the same time I feel really hurt they had to go through that last 15 minutes having put so much in and believed in what we were trying to do. ""I came here with a team that got beaten 3-0, 3-1 and barely had a shot on goal, and it was nothing like that [tonight]. That was a braver, a more organised performance, so their families watching them and supporters can be proud of what they did. ""I don't think I can ask any more from what's in their locker. You just need a break every now and then or a wee bit of magic. I feel really down for the lads, but proud of what they tried to do."" Scotland missed two chances to level at 1-0 down and although England eventually ran out comfortable winners, to lose by three goals was harsh on the visitors. ""We're supporters, we watch from the sides and to put that much work in, to stick to a game plan, be brave and try to meet them up the pitch and we give up one chance on target and they score from it,"" added the Scotland boss. ""Half-time, you could see in their eyes they still believe that by sticking to what we're trying to do we can get there, and we go out in second half and have two chances, don't capitalise, then they get their second shot on target. After that it's going to be a long night. We stuck at it and when it gets to 3-0, it's over. You can forget the last 15 minutes."" Strachan made eight changes to the side that lost 3-0 in Slovakia last month. Leigh Griffiths started up front, while Ikechi Anya, Christophe Berra and Lee Wallace were drafted into defence. The manager praised their efforts, but bemoaned the lack of reward for that industry. ""A lot of them have got to be pleased with themselves. Lee Wallace was phenomenal for somebody who's been out of the team for a couple of years. He never said a thing, just got on with it, came in and was brilliant,"" Strachan said. ""There are points where top teams seem to punish us. I've got to say, I don't know if we can work any harder than we do, in terms of playing and training and doing the coaching. ""Stewart Regan said he couldn't believe it was 3-0 to Slovakia and 3-0 to England. We might not be the best in the world, but you get the best out of them. I'm thinking only about them at this moment in time.""",Scotland manager Gordon Strachan says he needs time to reflect on the World Cup qualifying defeat by England and refused to be drawn on his own @placeholder .,team,experience,future,points,night,2
"The Kempinski Hotel chain calls itself Europe's oldest luxury hotel group. Founded in Germany, now based in Switzerland, it operates more than 70 five-star hotels around the world, including one in the city of Qingdao on China's east coast. But following the signs to the spa in the basement, along a gloomy corridor, we found little luxury, just a small room from which more than 10 women are bought and sold for sex. ""Do you need them just once, or do you want them to stay overnight?"" we were asked by the man on duty. He made it clear that the business was independently run as he could not, he said, offer us an official hotel receipt. But there appeared to be little secrecy about what was on offer. One of the prostitutes told me that she was 20 years old, had sex with up to three clients a day, and was allowed to keep just 40% of the fee charged. It is a stark illustration of just how easily reputable foreign businesses in China can become tangled up in vice and criminality. China's communists once claimed to have eradicated prostitution. Whether they ever succeeded is debatable, although for a period, it was driven from public view. Today, it is safe to say, the battle has truly been lost. On paper at least, the ideological sanctimony is undiminished and prostitution remains illegal, but in practice the party rules over a country in which sex is bought and sold on an industrial scale. There are an estimated four to six million sex workers in China, hiding in plain sight in the barbers' shops, massage parlours and karaoke bars that can be found pretty much everywhere. So the allegation that prostitution is thriving inside some hotels in China will not be surprising to anyone with even a passing acquaintance of the travel and tourism industry here. But our investigation shows for the first time just how far pimps and prostitutes have moved into the international hotel industry, apparently without its knowledge. With very little effort, we have found the sex trade operating from inside hotels that are household names in Europe and America, seemingly with little fear of detection. We called dozens of international hotels in China and asked to be put through to their spas. A BBC colleague, posing as a personal assistant, told the spa receptionists that she was setting up a business meeting for potential clients who expected sex to be available in the chosen venue. In around 7% of those she spoke to, in cities as far afield as Nanjing and Qingdao on China's east coast and the inland cities of Xian and Zhengzhou, we discovered that prostitution is very easy to arrange. Using the results of that telephone survey, we then visited some of those hotels and, using the same cover story, filmed what we found on hidden camera. In Qingdao, as well as what we found in the Kempinski Hotel we found sex on sale in the Intercontinental, part of the British-based hotel chain. The signs in the spa on the second floor make it very clear that it is not run by the hotel, but is under independent management, and here legitimate massage is clearly the mainstay of the business. But the spa staff showed little hesitation in telling us that sex could be supplied to those who ask for it. The prostitute herself told us that the bill for her services could be settled at checkout through the hotel main-desk. Both the Intercontinental and the Kempinski deny any knowledge of the prostitution we have found. In a statement, the Intercontinental Hotels Group told us: ""Prostitution is strictly prohibited"" in all of its hotels, and that third-party run businesses, like the spa, have a ""contractual obligation"" to abide by that policy. ""Hotel staff have not knowingly been involved in processing bills for prostitution,"" it said. The Intercontinental Hotel has now closed the spa. The Kempinski Hotel issued a statement saying: ""While a spa was originally planned for the hotel, hence the signage in the elevators, the actual facility was never approved nor opened or operated by Kempinski Hotels."" The hotel, it said, is connected to a third-party business through a basement passageway that ""cannot be closed off for safety reasons"". We asked the Kempinski why it was that when we called the hotel main desk, asking to be transferred to the massage centre, staff put us straight through to the pimp in the basement. ""Regarding the phone calls I'm afraid that there is no way for us to verify the calls and/or if indeed they were redirected,"" was the written reply. The Kempinski group had already decided to pull out of the hotel in Qingdao before our investigation. They will cease to manage it from 15 November, a sign that just a year after it opened something has gone badly wrong. The third hotel we visited was the Ramada Plaza in the city of Zhengzhou. Once again, we followed the signs to the third-party-run spa, which was on the sixth floor. Passing a somewhat suggestive poster of a woman at the entrance, we found a massage centre that we were told was available for the use of male customers only. The man on the reception desk told us that sex could be provided and that more than 20 women worked there. And he handed us a small leaflet on the top of which, handwritten in English, were the words, ""Prostitutes 800Rmb"" - about £85. In response to our findings the Wyndham Hotel Group, which owns the Ramada brand, said it was looking into the matter and issued a statement which said: ""Please know that we are a family-oriented company."" The company told us that while most hotels are run as franchises, ""independently owned and operated"", they are required to comply with the law and that Wyndham is providing training to help employees ""identify and report human exploitation and abuse activities"". But it added, ""As long as there are people profiting from tragic practices, we believe no member of the travel and tourism industry can ever guarantee these events will not occur in the future."" Few customers who visit the spa in the Ramada Zhengzhou would be left in much doubt about what is on offer there. Indeed, a group of female travellers who stayed at the hotel earlier this year raised their suspicions in a review posted on the TripAdvisor website. ""If you are a woman, don't come and stay in this hotel,"" it urges readers. While prostitution might be easy to find in China, prostitutes continue to face danger not just from clients but the police too. Sophie Richardson is the China Director of Human Rights Watch, which recently called for the Chinese government to remove the criminal sanctions in force against sex workers. ""We've documented torture and other kinds of physical abuses of sex workers, including rape, both by clients and by police,"" she told the BBC. ""Anybody who understands what's at stake here and how vulnerable sex workers can be to these kinds of abuses would want to step up."" Three years ago, one foreign-run hotel was raided and closed by the Chinese police because a karaoke bar in the basement was linked to prostitution. But now our investigation shows that the widespread use of third-party-run spas means that the sex trade has gained a much firmer foothold than the industry itself appears to realise. Shaun Rein, managing director of China Market Research Group, advises foreign companies operating in China. He said that there is more that some hotels could be doing to keep the sex trade away from their doors. ""The companies should be negotiating with the landlords or the owners of the properties from day one,"" he said. ""They should say that if we're going to run a spa, it can be owned by a third party, but it needs to be managed by our own employees, and we also have to be in charge of the hours, so it closes at nine pm, rather than later."" Mr Rein said that now more than ever, foreign companies in China should be striving to stay clean. ""There's a definite reputational risk for the brands to have hookers in the hotels, especially from the government side because they're going to crack down and go after foreign brands to show the country that they are adhering to the laws,"" he said. ""It's much easier to crack down on a foreign brand than a local one."" A few months ago the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) found itself on the receiving end of just such a crackdown, accused of paying bribes to boost sales. It was forced to admit that some of its employees did appear to have broken the law. But many observers wondered why GSK was being singled out when corruption is widely alleged to be endemic in China's domestic pharmaceutical industry. Now our investigation suggests that the international hotel trade is at least running the risk of handing the government another political opportunity to look tough on foreign business.","Prostitution is illegal in China , but the BBC has uncovered evidence of organised prostitution at independently run spas @placeholder inside a number of well known , Western - brand hotels , as John Sudworth reports for Newsnight .",surrounding,highlighted,wearing,located,posted,3
"Sources cited in Belgian media say Abrini is also likely to be the ""man in the hat"" seen on CCTV  before the blasts in the Brussels airport departure hall on 22 March. Prosecutors confirmed that several arrests had been made in connection with the Brussels attacks. The attacks on the airport and a metro station left 32 dead. The gun and bomb attacks in Paris on 13 November killed 130 people. Although the Belgian federal prosecutor confirmed that ""there have been several arrests in the course of the day in connection with the attacks on the airport and metro"", they would give no further details. Local media reports suggest that Abrini, on the run for five months, was arrested in the Anderlecht district of Brussels. The Associated Press quoted French police as saying that he was one of the arrested men. He had not been directly linked to the Brussels attacks until today. Some media say that one of the other men arrested is suspected of helping suicide bomber Khalid el-Bakraoui at the Maelbeek metro station, but this has not been confirmed. Belgian authorities had on Thursday released new video footage of the ""man in the hat"", appealing for the public's help in finding him. The individual in the footage was seen beside the two suicide bombers at Brussels airport. He left the airport shortly before the blasts. Abrini, 31, a Belgian national of Moroccan origin, is believed to have been filmed at a petrol station with Salah Abdeslam, another arrested Paris attacks suspect, two days before the attacks there. Abrini and brothers Salah and Brahim Abdeslam were all childhood friends from Brussels. Abrini is believed to have driven twice with the brothers from Belgium to Paris and back on 10 and 11 November. Salah Abdeslam was detained in Brussels in March, days before militants launched attacks in the Belgian capital. Brahim Abdeslam blew himself up at the Comptoir Voltaire restaurant after a shooting spree.","The key @placeholder suspect in November 's Paris terror attacks , Mohamed Abrini , has been arrested , Belgian media say .",remaining,prime,team,race,body,0
"Forres-based Trees for Life said surveys of the woods on its 10,000-acre Dundreggan Estate in Glen Moriston had uncovered a range of invertebrates. Finds include strawberry spider, azure hawker dragonfly, juniper shield bug and blood red slave making ants. Trees for Life bought the estate in a £1.6m deal in 2008. The land includes some of the last stands of ancient Caledonian Forest. Trees for Life said strawberry spider, scientific name araneus alsine, has only been recorded seven times in Scotland prior to it being found at Dundreggan. The charity believed its forest could have the largest population of the spider in Scotland. Two rare sawflies, prisiphora borea and monoctenus juniperi, have also been identified and are among the UK's rarest invertebrates. Alan Watson Featherstone, executive director of Trees for Life, said the list of species had been released to help mark 2010 International Year of Biodiversity. He said: ""The remarkable discoveries at Dundreggan are rapidly establishing its reputation as a 'lost world' for the Highlands, inhabited by an important range of species that are rare or were once thought to be extinct locally. ""Given the loss of biodiversity globally, the richness of life on the estate highlights the importance of on-the-ground conservation projects, and the urgency of restoring Scotland's Caledonian Forest to the Highlands.""","A forest in the Highlands holds a "" lost world "" of rare and endangered spiders , ants and flies , @placeholder the charity that owns the woodland .",causing,including,citing,according,raising,3
"The Carmignac Foundation launched the Carmignac Photojournalism Award in 2009, with the aim of supporting and celebrating photojournalism and emerging photographers. Kai Wiedenhofer was the first recipient to receive funding to visit an area ""at the centre of geostrategic conflict, where human rights and freedom of speech are often violated"". His series focused on life in Gaza. Massimo Berruti's long-term assignment in the Swat valley, Pakistan, explored the daily life of the Lashkars - the civilian militia of tribal warriors, who place themselves in the front line facing the Taliban. In this photo, Lashkar members prepare for a night patrol in the hujra (room for guests) of a tribe elder, Ahmed Khan, whose photo is on the wall. In 2011, Robin Hammond travelled to Zimbabwe to see what life was like under the Mugabe regime. ""In Bulawayo, hundreds displaced in Operation Murambatsvina were relocated to a rundown block of flats without water and electricity. It was meant to be a temporary measure but seven years later they are still waiting for proper housing. The filthy and overcrowded buildings have become a hotbed of political violence,"" wrote Hammond. Chechnya was the focus for winner Davide Monteleone. The Italian's project, Spasibo, documents life in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, focusing on the social, political and economic situation. In this photo, ""Rada, age 14, is trying on a wedding dress designed by her sister, on board a bus during the rehearsal for the shooting of a movie on Chechen deportation."" The Iranian photojournalist and fifth Carmignac laureate Newsha Tavakolian's project explores the lives of young middle-class Iranians dealing with ""an increasingly modern society and revolutionary Islamic ideology"". Tavakolian completed her report between December 2013 and April 2014. Her identity was kept secret for security reasons. This year's award went to Christophe Gin, who spent five months exploring the landscapes of Guiana. ""His photography bears witness to the reality of life in a land full of contrasts, far from the caricatures often presented through the mainstream press,"" says the Carmignac Foundation. Carmignac Photojournalism Award: A Retrospective is on show from 18 November - 13 December 2015 at The Saatchi Gallery, London.","A new @placeholder , opening in London , will bring together work by all six winners of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award in one space . Projects include Zimbabwe under Mugabe , the lives of people in the Chechen Republic and in Gaza , and the young middle class of Iran .",series,class,exhibition,life,island,2
"A German consortium and fans Gabe Turner, Ben Turner and Leo Pearlman from television production company Fulwell 73 have made takeover offers. Sunderland confirmed on Friday that discussions with ""parties who have expressed an interest"" are ongoing. Short, who has owned the club since May 2009, is looking to sell following relegation to the Championship. Sunderland are keen to conclude the talks as quickly as possible and have put a time limit on a potential sale, with finding a replacement for manager David Moyes, who left his post in May, also a priority. Although fans of the Wearside club, some of Fulwell 73's financial backing would come from the USA. The group takes its name from a stand at Sunderland's former ground, Roker Park, and the year in which the club last won the FA Cup.","Ellis Short has moved a step closer to selling Sunderland , with the American owner @placeholder to decide between two bids .",continued,failing,set,dedicated,strapped,2
"A security source told the BBC the flag was flown from a bridge in the eastern Muthanna district on Tuesday night. Anti-IS graffiti has also appeared on walls recently, as locals protest against the occupation of their city. Mosul has been under IS control since 2014, but Iraq's government is planning to launch an offensive to recapture it. Commanders say it could begin by the second half of October. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the US was prepared to send more ""trainers and advisers"" to assist Iraqi troops during the battle. Mr Abadi said they would not play a combat role, and that their number would be ""reduced immediately after the liberation of Mosul"". One US official told the Associated Press that about 600 additional troops would be sent as the operation ramped up. Mr Abadi met US President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden last week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, though it is not clear whether they agreed to the deployment there. Gen Joseph Votel, who oversees US forces in the Middle East, said in July that he expected to send additional troops to Iraq. Some 4,600 US military personnel are already there as part of a multinational coalition against IS, providing air support, training, and advice to the Iraqi military, which was routed by IS militants in June 2014 as they overran much of northern and western Iraq. Pro-government forces, including Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia-dominated paramilitary fighters, have retaken almost half of the territory since then. But for Mosul, the largest occupied city in the ""caliphate"" proclaimed by IS, is likely to be the biggest yet. The United Nations has warned that the humanitarian impact could be ""enormous"", and possibly affect up to 1.2 million people living in and around Mosul.","Islamic State militants have reportedly @placeholder several men after Iraq 's flag was raised in the city of Mosul , the group 's main stronghold in the country .",sought,battling,interviewed,planned,detained,4
"Dennis Nicholls, 89, urged police to hurry to the Lowestoft home he shared with Karen Kimber, fearing she was going to harm him. Kimber, 53, was given a hospital order after admitting the manslaughter of her father by diminished responsibility. Suffolk Police said it had changed the way it handled 999 calls. It said it now carried out a more ""rigorous assessment"" of ""threat"". Kimber, who had a long history of mental illness, strangled her father believing he was the devil. She had sought help in the run-up to her father's death. In a 999 call from their home in Kirkley Run, Mr Nicholls said Kimber was trying to hurt him and urged police to help. He made the call just before 21:00 GMT on 19 November 2014. Shortly afterwards, Kimber was found in the street near her home. She told neighbours she had just killed her father. The matter was referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) as ""there had been recent police contact with the victim prior to his death"". The IPCC found a case for gross misconduct against a member of police staff and they were subsequently dismissed. Suffolk Police said call handlers now used a new method of dealing with each call, based on a more ""rigorous assessment of the threat, risk and harm posed by each incident"". A IPCC spokesman said: ""The investigation examined the actions and decision making of a call handler who took an emergency call from Mr Nicholls, specifically looking at the call handler's assessment of the risk posed to Mr Nicholls and the grading of the call. ""The investigation report will be published in due course."" The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, the county's mental health care provider said Kimber received an effective and appropriate level of care. A review into the case is being carried out by the Waveney Community Safety Partnership.",A police call handler has been @placeholder for gross misconduct after a father who dialled 999 asking for help was killed by his mentally ill daughter .,searching,condemned,sacked,praised,jailed,2
"The force said the job would involve being on call 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, and working in confined spaces, at height and underground. Successful applicants will not only be required to clear sites of ""all plants"" but recycle them in the ""appropriate manner"". The recruitment is part of Operation Viscount, which aims to tackle cannabis cultivation in the region. Along with a full, current driving licence applicants will also need a tolerance for high temperatures and a ""good level of physical fitness"" as ""bending, lifting and stretching"" would be required. Interviews for the £17,763 to £18,933-a-year post are due to take place in October.",A cannabis factory clearer is being @placeholder by Avon and Somerset Police .,attacked,investigated,sought,operated,criticised,2
"When his medical team, with second opinions from several leading centres, decided that his brain damage was irreversible, they believed there was nothing that could help him. That was six months ago, but they had no power to end Charlie's life support without the backing of his parents. That meant Great Ormond Street Hospital had to apply to the courts. A succession of judges ruled it was in Charlie's best interests to die, because he may be suffering and the proposed experimental treatment in the United States was ""futile"". Some commentators in the United States said Charlie's plight was the result of the UK having a state-run national health service. Mr Justice Francis said that was ""nonsensical"". Many will still question why Charlie's parents were not granted their wish to explore every option, even if the chances of improvement were slim. Connie Yates and Chris Gard were buoyed by support from an American neurologist, Prof Michio Hirano, who has pioneered an experimental treatment, a powder called nucleoside therapy. But he gave his support without having requested Charlie's full medical records. Dr Hirano was invited to examine Charlie in January and eventually did so in July. The guardian appointed to represent Charlie in court said if novel therapies were to be offered it was ""imperative that those offering to provide them are fully aware of the clinical condition"" so that ""offers are made on an informed basis and without setting up false hopes and expectations"". In court, there was discussion of the differing ethical approaches to experimental treatment between the UK and the USA. In the United States, it may be considered appropriate to give a patient a drug even though it cannot help them, on the grounds that it helps others in the future. In the UK, patients cannot receive drugs that doctors know will not help them personally. As well as the legal dispute, there was a second battle fought very effectively online by Charlie's parents. They crowd-funded £1.3m, with more than 80,000 donations, and there were petitions and a Facebook site called Charlie's Army. The Pope and Donald Trump were among those who tweeted their support - Charlie's fate became an international issue with pro-life groups attaching themselves to the campaign. The judge said it was one of the pitfalls of social media that the watching world felt it right to have opinions without knowing the facts of the case. Doctors and nurses at Great Ormond Street, one of the world's most renowned children's hospitals, were subject to abuse and even death threats - which Charlie's parents condemned. In such cases, medical staff always remain anonymous, but this made it hard to counter the repeated anguished public appeals by Charlie's parents, and the moving images of their son. Great Ormond Street Hospital said Charlie's parents had tirelessly advocated for what they sincerely believed was right for their son and nobody could fault them for doing so. The hospital said it would be giving careful thought to what it could learn from the ""bruising"" court case - and it added that everyone wished there could have been a less tragic outcome.",The protracted and bitter dispute over Charlie Gard began with the breakdown in the @placeholder of trust between doctors and parents .,region,bonds,spirit,relationship,aftermath,3
Police said the body was found when emergency services were called to Rowhill Road in Dartford at 06:20 BST. The police helicopter has been helping officers from the Kent force search the local area in Wilmington as part of the investigation. A spokesman said no arrests have been made at this stage but inquiries were ongoing.,A murder investigation is under way after a body was found at the scene of a @placeholder fire in Kent .,small,woman,vehicle,property,night,2
"Their fans, and undoubtedly their players too, just want to feel like they are still moving forwards after finishing third, then second in the Premier League. The danger is not that they risk standing still - more that they could fall behind if they don't strengthen properly now or, even worse, keep this group of players together. Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy holds the key to that with who they sign and the club's pay structure going forward. He has a reputation for being a pretty vicious negotiator but when I played for Spurs I sat down with him personally on several occasions to speak about wages and we had a really good relationship. There were times when I was offered an extended and improved contract and I bit his hand off, and others when I would say I did not think it was the right time to sign. Daniel would say something like: 'I fully respect that, but we will sit down again.' He was always brilliant with me. Even when I ruptured my Achilles in 2011 while I was on loan at Aston Villa, one of the first things that came down the chain to me was, 'Jermaine, you will be back - and here is an extra year', which was great. So from my point of view, he always treated me with respect and treated me well. He has definitely got that humane side to him and the reputation he seems to have of being a horrible or tight man is just plain wrong. Media playback is not supported on this device From my experience of Levy, he will have a good relationship with the current Spurs players too - despite the issues that Spurs left-back Danny Rose commented on last week. Of course Levy is shrewd, though. He has always been clever - especially with the way he ties young players down to long deals but with the incentive to improve. When I joined from Newcastle, aged 22, I must have signed a new contract every year for four or five seasons. Dele Alli has done something similar recently, signing three new deals in the space of 16 months to tie him to the club until 2022. Media playback is not supported on this device I was always happy at Spurs so it was never an issue for me but, without really knowing it, I got to a point where I was about 26 or 27 - the age Rose is now - where I realised that even if I did want to leave it was too late. I could not renegotiate because I had too many years left on my contract, which took me up to the age of 30 or 31, at which point you are struggling to land a big deal anyway. As a model for Tottenham, it worked in the same way it does today - but we saw some of our best players leave, which is something that no longer has to happen. We reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League in 2011 with genuine stars like Gareth Bale and Luka Modric in the team, but we were never as consistent as this Spurs side who are trying to achieve bigger things than we did in the Premier League. Media playback is not supported on this device It has been a very strange and probably quite stressful week for everyone at Tottenham despite their win over Newcastle on Sunday. Off the back of Rose's comments about the club's wages and lack of activity in the transfer market, there has been a lot of discussion about the club's ambition, or the perceived lack of it. It appears things are now happening on the transfer front, with Ajax's Davinson Sanchez and Everton's Ross Barkley both in Spurs' sights. Only Levy knows why he always does business so late - even my transfer to Spurs from Newcastle was done on the last day of the window in August 2005. Looking at that approach as a pundit rather than a player, it does not help manager Mauricio Pochettino much. Manchester United did not get their deal for Nemanja Matic done particularly early, but he was still able to play for them on their summer tour and hit the ground running at the start of the season. You look at the players Spurs are going for and Sanchez would be new to England, while Barkley did not feature in Everton's pre-season at all and has picked up a hamstring injury this week. Realistically, for different reasons, you are not going to get the best out of either of them until October, at the earliest. But from my point of view, there has never been a problem with their transfer policy in general. It has always been very well thought out when it comes to bringing players into the club, because in terms of the ability, age and price of their signings, they often seem to get that right. Media playback is not supported on this device My issue is more about how they handle the players they already have. They need to treat their contracts with just as much importance as they do the transfer market itself. That is not happening at the moment. Tottenham are in the Champions League for a second straight season and are trying to establish themselves in that competition but, when it comes to wages, it feels like their level is more of a club challenging for a Europa League place. They have not won anything yet - and if you want to go and try to take on the big boys and win trophies, then you have got to put your hand in your pockets. I spoke about Tottenham's wages and why they should pay more on Match of the Day 2 on Sunday - and I want to reiterate that they do not have greedy players on their books. Indeed, some of them may well be very happy with their contracts but, knowing the club and their wage levels, I still think there is a core of that squad - and not just Rose - who will think the situation needs addressing just so they are getting what they are worth. Spurs' marquee players like Harry Kane and Hugo Lloris are probably on about £100,000 per week, and for the rest I expect the cap is about £60,000. To keep everyone happy you would not have to change the pay structure dramatically, just take it to another level for everyone to reflect the progress the team has made on the pitch. I am not saying pay anyone £300,000 per week, or even £200,000 - but Spurs could take their wages-revenue ratio up a notch without going crazy and remain a well-run club. If they do that, everything is going to go a lot more smoothly for them in the next year or two as they move to their new stadium, while trying to maintain the momentum they have at the moment. Media playback is not supported on this device Spurs are running the risk of losing Belgium centre-half Toby Alderweireld, who has got two years left on his contract and is probably on about £50,000 a week. If they could re-sign him this summer, and have him happy and on a long-term contract, that is as good a signing as they could make - but they are going to have to give him a big pay increase for that to happen. As things stand, he has not signed and is not going to be in any rush to change that because the closer he gets to the end of his deal, the more power he will have. Every top club in the world will be circling around him. If Alderweireld leaves, then Spurs are going to have to go and buy someone who they have to try to build up again to be at his level. For me, that is a backwards step. Paying more would have similar benefits when it comes to signing players too. At present, you kind of know that Spurs are never going to make a really huge signing, because of their wage structure. Say if Real Madrid made Isco available. They would have to pay upwards of £50m for him for starters but, even if Tottenham did do that, he would not go there for £100,000 a week. Coming from Real, he is going to want close to double that. So, at the moment, they are not even in contention to sign that calibre of player. They cannot even consider it. Yes, the fact their current strongest XI is so good is one reason it is hard for them to sign players that will improve their team, but their pay structure is part of the problem too. Jermaine Jenas was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.",This is such a crucial time for Tottenham 's @placeholder and the direction they want to go in after taking such huge strides over the past couple of seasons .,team,supporters,future,absence,attitude,2
"Le Corbusier spearheaded the modern movement after World War One, using iron, concrete and glass in a new focus on bold lines and functionality that did not appeal to everyone. The sites are in seven countries. They include La Cite Radieuse in Marseille, Maison Guiette in Antwerp and the Indian city of Chandigarh. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) said the works reflected ""a new architectural language that made a break with the past"". It said sites such as the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo and the House of Dr Curutchet in La Plata, Argentina, reflected how the Modern Movement sought to meet ""the challenges of inventing new architectural techniques to respond to the needs of society"". Ten of the sites are in France and include the Dominican monastery of La Tourette near Lyon and La Villa Savoye near Paris. Others are in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Argentina, Japan and India. Le Corbusier was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, in 1887, and adopted French nationality in 1930, dying there in 1965. The Swiss government hailed the UN's decision, saying Le Corbusier had made ""a central contribution to modern architecture"". Nevertheless, his legacy remains - like his surname - a grey area, and not just for inspiring the brutalism movement of the 1950s to 1970s. Two recent books accused him of fascist and anti-Semitic views, pointing among other things to his links to the Vichy government during World War Two. Others reject linking the work of Le Corbusier to totalitarianism, or paint him instead as an ideologist interested simply in the potential of architecture. The other three world heritage sites it named on Sunday were:",The UN 's cultural organisation has listed 17 works by @placeholder Franco - Swiss architect Le Corbusier as world heritage sites .,french,suspected,pioneering,scrap,signing,2
"NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) wants to put the running of Dumbarton Health Centre out to bids from other GPs in the area. But almost 500 people have signed a petition in just four days, urging the health board to scrap that plan. NHSGGC said there were no change to services at present. The health board said patients should should continue to make appointments at the practice in the usual way. The case comes against the backdrop of a recruitment ""crisis"" for GPs. A BMA Scotland survey recently revealed nearly 16% of GP practices in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area had at least one vacancy for a doctor. Dr David Neilson has been a GP at Dumbarton Health Centre for 12 years and serves 2,000 patients. He recently withdrew from his partnership with another GP. Dr Neilson said he took the advice of the British Medical Association before doing so, but there was a mix-up over the procedures required for this. NHSGGC has now told Dr Neilson that his contract will expire early in July and he will not be allowed to bid to take over his own practice. Former Conservative councillor Euan Gear, who is one of Dr Neilson's patients, said: ""It is quite unbelievable that the health board, through the Health and Social Care Partnership with West Dunbartonshire Council, want to go down this road. ""GP out-of-hours services being provided at present at Vale of Leven Hospital are being cut and moved away to Paisley. ""How then can it possibly be helpful to terminate one doctor's contract and spread out his work to other practices? ""I know that Dr Neilson has experienced some difficulties in the past with the health board over the arrangements for health service delivery in this area, but that is no excuse to effectively fire him from his job."" Campaigners said that if Dr Neilson was forced out of his practice and had to leave the area, one night in seven would be inadequately covered and one weekend in two would be inadequately covered at Vale of Leven. NHSGGC said the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) had to step in to take over the running of the practice ""in order to safeguard patient care, in circumstances where the former partners of the practice could not resolve their differences"". A spokesman said: ""Drs Neilson and McGonagle were offered employment in the practice on a temporary basis at that time to ensure continued GP cover in the practice. ""Both GPs were aware that, following dissolution of the partnership, long-term alternative arrangements would need to put in place. ""West Dunbartonshire HSCP is now seeking to make sustainable arrangements with new GPs to ensure services can continue to be provided to the patients registered at the practice."" Jackie Baillie, Labour MSP for Dumbarton, has contacted Jane Grant, the new chief executive of NHSGGC, and chairman John Brown about Dr Neilson's removal. Ms Baillie said: ""My hope is that we can persuade the health board to think again about this. I want them to investigate this further and to reconsider their position in the matter.""",Patients in Dumbarton have been @placeholder about the removal of their local GP and the closure of their practice .,notified,warned,protesting,laid,criticised,2
"It means more owners of homes in the UK would be able to pass them on to their children without paying tax. The policy is likely to be at the centre of the Tory election manifesto, which will be launched next week. Labour said the Tories had promised such a move before the last election and did not deliver. Labour has been setting out plans to raise an extra £7.5bn a year through closing tax loopholes and imposing bigger fines on tax avoiders. The £1bn cost of the Conservative policy will be paid for by reducing tax relief on the pension contributions of people earning more than £150,000, says the party. At present, inheritance tax is payable at 40% on the value of an estate in excess of the tax-free allowance of £325,000 per person. Married couples and civil partners can pass the allowance on to each other. If the Conservatives win the general election 7 May, parents will each be offered a further £175,000 allowance to enable them to pass property on to children tax-free after their death. The new ""family home allowance"" will be transferable on the death of one spouse and can be added to the existing £325,000 transferable allowance to bring the tax-free total up to £1m. The full amount would be transferable even if one member of a married couple has died before the policy comes into effect, the Conservatives say, and so would benefit existing widows and widowers. For properties worth more than £2m, the new allowance would be gradually reduced, so that those with homes worth more than £2.35m would not benefit at all. The new allowance would come into effect in April 2017 and be available to married couples and civil partners, even if one of them has died before that date. In a speech on Sunday, Mr Cameron will say: ""That wish to pass something on is about the most basic, human and natural instinct there is. And that's why for a long, long time I have wanted to act on inheritance. ""We've already done some important things. With the Conservatives, people can pass on their ISAs - and they'll be able to pass on their pension pot tax-free. ""And I can tell you today that the next Conservative government would go much further. We will take the family home out of inheritance tax. ""That home that you have worked and saved for belongs to you and your family. ""You should be able to pass it onto your children. And with the Conservatives, the tax man will not get his hands on it."" Chancellor George Osborne told the Mail on Sunday that people who wanted to pass on their family home should be ""supported"" and not ""penalised"". But shadow treasury secretary Chris Leslie, for Labour, said the policy was the latest ""panicky promise"" from the Conservatives. He said: ""The Tories made a promise on inheritance tax before the last election and they broke it. ""At a time when our NHS is in crisis and most working people are paying more under the Tories, it cannot be a priority to spend £1bn on a policy which the Treasury says would not apply to 90% of estates."" Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said the Conservatives had ""the wrong priorities"". He added: ""It is extraordinary that the Tories will go into great detail on a policy that will cut tax for a small number of estates, but steadfastly refuse to give any detail at all on the massive cuts to public services that they desire. ""To make this promise with such a huge black hole at the heart of their plans is a sign of desperation from a Tory Party that knows it can't win the election.""","A Conservative government would end inheritance tax on family homes worth up to £ 1m , David Cameron is to @placeholder .",change,remain,say,announce,show,3
"Team GB's women squad, including two Scots and no players from Wales and Northern Ireland, reached the quarter-finals at London 2012. The Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish associations refused to keep the combined team going for Rio 2016. But Clarke wants ""a partnership of equals"" to reform a joint women's team. He added: ""The home nations are discussing how we can achieve that for the women's game. ""We've got a follow-up meeting to look at the practicalities of making it happen. ""I'm hopeful that the four of us together (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) will create a partnership of equals that will allow our women to compete in the Olympics going forward."" Clarke did not address any possibility of a men's GB team also being rekindled after appearing at the 2012 Games and not doing so four years later. Football Association of Wales (FAW) chief executive Jonathan Ford confirmed in September 2016 that the home nations had met informally to discuss Team GB teams at future Olympics. Ford also stated at that time there had been no change to the FAW's stance over men's and women's teams on the issue. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are thought to fear such a move could affect their independent status within Fifa and at international tournaments such as the World Cup.",Football Association chairman Greg Clarke @placeholder hopeful a women 's team will represent Great Britain at future Olympic Games .,admitted,showing,remains,team,are,2
"Mastering a foreign language can be a frustrating experience and one that gets harder as we age. The younger you start, the easier it seems to be. Now researchers in the US and Sweden have found evidence that we start learning language before we're even born. The study discovered that in the last 10 weeks of pregnancy, foetuses are listening to their mothers communicate. And when they are born, they can show what they've heard. Forty baby boys and girls - about 30 hours old - were randomly exposed to different vowel sounds that are unique to either English or Swedish. They included the English ""e"" sound in sweet or the Swedish ""eu"" sound that is comparable to oeuf, the French word for eggs. The babies' response to each sound was measured by the strength of their sucking on a pacifier connected to a computer. In each group, the babies sucked hardest when they heard the vowels representing the foreign language. The American babies sucked harder when they heard Swedish vowels and the Swedish babies sucked harder when they heard English vowels. The results indicate that babies are born with the ability to distinguish different languages and are curious enough to explore the language that is unfamiliar, says Patricia Kuhl. She is one of the study's authors and co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington. ""Babies are learning when they're still in the womb,"" she says. ""We're showing that the foetus in the last ten weeks, when we know that the auditory system is fully working, is not only listening, is not only taking note of the sounds, but remembering and learning them."" But parents who think they can accelerate the process by exposing their unborn child to an intensive audio course in Greek or Farsi might be doing more harm than good. Babies born to bilingual mothers have shown they can equally accommodate two or more languages - but that ability is acquired through natural exposure. ""We would caution (against) adding extra things to listen to because foetuses spend most of their time in a sleep state and we don't know what providing extra stimulation - particularly loud stimulation from a loudspeaker outside the womb - might do to that developing sleep-wake cycle,"" says Christine Moon, the study's lead author and professor of psychology at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. ""We also know that too much sound can disrupt the ability to hear and may disrupt the connections that are being made in the auditory cortex, not just the ability to get sound but the ability to make sense of the sound."" But what about babies who don't get any prenatal exposure to speech - perhaps because their mother communicates through sign language? Moon says it makes no difference to their ability to acquire language as infants. ""These babies nonetheless learn to understand spoken speech and to use it - and they do it relatively on the same time table as babies who have been exposed to speech all along,"" she says. ""So it seems there's quite a period of plasticity in those early months that allows for children who haven't had this prenatal exposure to rapidly gain language."" Other experts say it has to do with the way we comprehend speech - through rhythms that go far beyond understanding individual words or meanings. Source: Cleveland Clinic, WhatToExpect.com ""What [babies] are 'hearing' is the rhythmic sing-song patterning of human language,"" says Laura Ann Petitto, Scientific Director of the Brain and Language Laboratory at Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf and hard of hearing. Rhythm is what enables us to break down language into its component parts, she says. It is why we cannot distinguish words or sentences when we first hear a foreign language and the reason it sounds instead like a single stream of noise. ""A baby in a profoundly deaf mum's tummy is not hearing the sing-song nature of mum's voice, but it is feeling the rhythmic sing-song movement of mum's hands,"" says Petitto. ""That rhythmic movement is still giving the child the basic units that are going to be the building blocks that they'll use to build a language. ""That puts them in a ready state when they're born, to start immediately making sense of language and trying to figure out their meanings."" Moon is now hoping to confirm her team's findings with further research using other prominent speech sounds, such as different pronunciations of the letter ""R"" She also wants to explore the impact of a pregnant mother who uses ""baby-talk"" rather than adult language, perhaps because the mother has other young children and is using modified speech to communicate with them. ""It seems incredibly remarkable that these foetuses are making sense out of this sound that is really kind of disembodied,"" says Moon. ""They can't see a mouth, they can't see where it's coming from - it's just sound like a lot of other sound that they're getting.  And yet, they seem to be tuning into it and learning something from it."" And researchers say there is much we can learn, as well. ""We can't waste a minute of that opportunity,"" adds Kuhl. ""The brain comes online as a curious and totally capable learning mechanism. If you unleash that curiosity anything can happen.""","Babies are born with the ability to recognise familiar sounds and language patterns , according to new research . A @placeholder into the fast - moving minds of infants .",burst,glimpse,insight,report,study,1
"A gang of masked men broke into a house at Ballygomartin Drive on Friday shortly before 21:40 BST and attacked him with iron bars and a hatchet. They beat the man, who is a Catholic, in front of his girlfriend and their eleven-week-old baby. Sectarian graffiti was daubed on the house claiming to be from the UDA. The couple had been living in the home for less than five weeks. A red car parked outside was also damaged in the attack. Police have appealed for information.",A 22 - year - old man has been beaten with iron bars and a hatchet by a gang of men in a @placeholder sectarian assault on the outskirts of west Belfast .,died,suspected,controlled,retired,pool,1
"Before scandal struck, the three corporations concerned - BP, Enron, and Volkswagen respectively - were all judged to be among the world's top companies for their corporate social responsibility (CSR) work. As a result of corporate scandals like these, the credibility of CSR - firms giving something back voluntarily to local communities - has taken a beating. Critics dismiss it as a way of glossing over corporate malfeasance - a mere PR tick-boxing exercise. But now technology is forcing companies to up their game and interact with communities more directly and effectively. Platforms such as Kritical Mass have certainly given a fillip to the idea of crowd-supported philanthropy, attracting individuals and corporate sponsors to its projects, whether that's saving vultures in Kenya or bringing solar power to rural communities in west Africa. Sponsors can offer funding, volunteers, expertise or marketing. So rather than imposing corporate ideas of ""do-gooding"" on communities in a patronising manner, firms can simply respond to demand. HelpfulPeeps has pushed its volunteering platform into more than 40 countries worldwide, connecting people who want to share their time, knowledge and skills with each other for free. In the UK, online platform Neighbourly connects community projects and charities with companies and people willing to volunteer their resources. For example, Starbucks has pledged 2,500 days of volunteering and has so far backed 70 community projects. Neighbourly founder Nick Davies says there's value to be had from encouraging staff to volunteer. First, people who volunteer are happier at work; second, there's a commercial case for it: ""It's quite easy to prove that businesses that do the right thing also do well."" Mr Davies believes that we have entered an era of internet transparency in which consumers are starting to flex their muscles and expect companies to do the right thing - not just be seen to do the right thing. Judging by the strong public appetite for supporting good causes and campaigning against injustice on sites such as Change.org, Avaaz.org, JustGiving and GoFundMe, his assessment appears to be correct. And LinkedIn says millions of members have signalled on their profiles that they want to serve on a non-profit board or use their skills to volunteer. Aware of this groundswell of good will, Mr Davies founded Neighbourly 18 months ago as way of helping companies engage with consumers locally. One of the platform's projects involves helping retailer Marks & Spencer redistribute surplus food to those who need it most. By tackling the issue at a local level, Neighbourly has already connected 100 Marks & Spencer stores and plans to have the retailer's entire network active by the end of 2016, says Mr Davies. ""We've already connected 40 tonnes of food or 56,000 meals already,"" he says. ""By the end of the year we could absolutely have redistributed a million meals through the use of technology just with Marks & Spencer."" Technology is also being used to advance women's rights in the developing world with initiatives like Samasource. This not-for-profit organisation gives computer-based data projects to women in areas where traditional gender roles may prevent them from pursuing careers. Since 2008, Samasource has trained and employed more than 30,000 women through data projects with companies such as Getty Images, DropBox, Microsoft and TripAdvisor in countries including Haiti, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and India. Tech companies in particular are offering expertise and skills to good causes as way of making a tangible difference. For example, in January, Microsoft announced that through its new organisation, Microsoft Philanthropies, it will donate $1bn-worth (£700m) of cloud computing resources to serve non-profits and university researchers over the next three years. Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said: ""We're committed to helping non-profit groups and universities use cloud computing to address fundamental human challenges."" And data analytics specialist Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) has offered its data-crunching skills to help the Capital Area Food Bank charity distribute food more efficiently to hungry people around the Washington DC area. APT used data to develop a ""hunger heat map"" to help CAFB target resources and plan for future demand better. In another project, APT helped The Cara Program - a Chicago-based charity providing training and job placements to people affected by homelessness or poverty - evaluate what made its students more employable. APT boss Anthony Bruce says: ""In these 'data dives' APT employees use their analytic skills to distil actionable insights from the data that the charity collects. These insights are empowering charities to identify efficiently which of their strategies are most effective at fulfilling their respective missions."" Stephanie Draper, deputy chief executive at Forum for the Future, believes sustainable business practices have already replaced CSR. ""Companies need to view [sustainability] as a core business issue - something that drives the business context,"" she says. The UN's 2015 Sustainable Development Goals initiative has been successful in getting businesses to think about solving social problems, she believes. For example, the Toilet Board Coalition is a global business-led coalition backed by Unilever that aims to tackle the world's sanitation issues through profitable, market-based initiatives that harness the latest technological innovations. And Launch, an open platform jointly founded by Nasa, Nike, the US Agency for International Development, and the US Department of State aims to provide support for start-ups and ""inspire innovation"". In the age of internet transparency, it seems corporates no longer have anywhere to hide - a spot of CSR whitewashing is not going to cut it anymore. Technology is helping to bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots. Follow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter.","Cute baby animals covered in oil washing up on beaches ; pensioners @placeholder into poverty ; "" dieselgate "" . What do all three have in common ?",settling,thrown,beat,show,thumped,1
"Humberside Police said the tactic was aimed at catching motorcyclists and drivers travelling ""at very high speed"" on rural roads in East Yorkshire. The approach appears to be at odds with Department for Transport guidelines saying speed cameras should be visible. ""Speeding is a factor in many accidents but hiding speed cameras is not the answer,"" the RAC's Simon Williams said. He said: ""Speed cameras, painted yellow, are used at accident blackspots as a highly effective way of getting motorists to slow down."" Officers have recently been photographed inside agricultural vehicles parked at the roadside on the B1253. Insp Mark Hughes from Humberside Police Road Policing said: ""At the moment Humberside Police are conducting Operation Kansas in the East Riding of Yorkshire. ""This operation... is concerned with 'high-end' speeding offenders in the East Riding, deploying speed cameras which are located in a variety of stationary vehicles. ""Although the majority of offenders are motorcycles, a number of cars are also dealt with on this operation. ""We regularly record speeds in the high 90s and over 100 mph, these being on country roads where the national speed limit of 60mph is in force."" The National Police Chiefs Council said: ""While speed enforcement will usually be conducted overtly to add to the deterrent effect, sometimes less overt tactics will be required to address specific problem which are causing casualties."" Sir Greg Knight, the Conservative MP for East Yorkshire, said: ""I am concerned to learn that Humberside Police are not following Department for Transport guidelines which say that vehicles from which mobile speed cameras are deployed should be clearly identifiable as an enforcement vehicle. ""I intend writing to the chief constable about this matter.""",The use of speed cameras hidden in roadside tractors has been criticised by a motoring @placeholder .,body,response,network,group,commentator,3
"Steve Easton, from Surrey, was overcome by a sneezing fit and ""a very uncomfortable sensation"" before he felt something make its way into his left nostril and slowly unfurl itself. After he retrieved it, Mr Easton was unable to work out what it was until he phoned his mother, Pat. She knew instantly it was a rubber sucker lost more than 40 years ago. Mr Easton was at home in Camberley playing a game on the internet when it happened. ""It was a very strange sensation so I retrieved it to examine it,"" he said. The rubber sucker became an object of curiosity that he carried around with him because people were so interested, but has since been thrown out. Mr Easton said he had grown up being able to smell and blow his nose and added: ""It doesn't feel any different. Nothing has changed as far as I'm concerned."" ""It's the length of time,"" he said. ""I'm not the first person this has happened to, but 43 years - it's quite out there isn't it?"" Mrs Easton, 77, who lives in Buckinghamshire, had taken Steve to hospital at the age of seven or eight, suspecting he had swallowed the sucker from the dart. She said she had worried about it for years and was just glad it was out. ""I don't know what he did - you know what children are - whether he put it in his mouth, but he swallowed it. ""I was really worried so I took him to hospital and they X-rayed him and checked everything and they couldn't find it."" She said she had never known whether he had got rid of it naturally or whether it was still inside him. ""All these years later, it suddenly shot out,"" she said.",A 51 - year - old man been @placeholder with part of a toy dart that he played with as a child - after he sneezed it out .,reunited,charged,wrestled,killed,credited,0
"It is understood the polling station is in the Bettws ward in Newport. The turnout across Gwent was 14%, with former police officer Ian Johnston, an independent candidate, beating the Labour challenger Hamish Sandison on second preferences. Voters went to the polls on Thursday when elections were held in all parts of England and Wales outside London. There are more than 100 polling stations in Newport. Newport councillor Kevin Whitehead, Independent member for the city's Bettws ward, said it was ""staggering"" that a polling station had failed to register a single vote. ""It's just apathy. I think apathy rules when it comes to politics in general,"" he said. ""People are more concerned with the bigger picture like the recession."" Conservative councillor Matthew Evans, who is the leader of the opposition on Newport council, said the fact nobody had voted at a polling station ""doesn't show anybody in a particularly good light"". However, he said he was not surprised there was a low turnout generally in the elections. ""Clearly, if you've got a polling station where nobody turns up, it's extremely disappointing,"" he said. ""It's quite frankly a daft time of the year to have an election - it's cold and miserable. ""It wasn't a topic that people felt passionately about."" Labour's Newport West MP Paul Flynn, whose constituency includes Bettws, said he believed a lack of enthusiasm for the elections from the Conservative Party which introduced the policy had contributed to the low turnout. But he admitted another factor was the lack of trust in politics and lack of confidence in politicians generally. The total turnout for Wales was 14.9%. Low turnout in commissioner polls",A polling station in the election for Gwent 's police and crime commissioner had a turnout of @placeholder .,control,action,culture,zero,information,3
"The body of mother-of-three Natalia Doherty, 50, was found in a garden in Luton in December. She was last seen in April 2003. Ampthill Coroners' Court heard dental fillings were used to identify her. A pathologist report also confirmed she had suffered a serious skull injury. Two men have been charged in connection with the discovery of her body. Brothers Joseph Doherty, 72, of Port Glasgow and Daniel Doherty, 67, of Icknield Way are accused of obstructing a coroner and perverting the course of justice. Joseph Doherty is also charged with preventing a lawful burial. Mrs Doherty, who was also known by the surname Wilkanowska, was last seen on 15 April 2003 in Eastbourne, where she was living at the time. Detectives believe she travelled to Luton to stay with her ex-husband Gerald Doherty. Her remains were discovered in the back garden of Daniel Doherty's house in Icknield Way. It is alleged the accused pair committed the crimes alongside Ms Doherty's now deceased spouse.","A woman whose remains were found buried in a back garden was unlawfully @placeholder , an inquest has heard .",body,detained,killed,raped,collapsed,2
"Substitute Elliott Whitehouse thought he had won it for the Imps with 10 minutes remaining but Deacon, the star of Sutton's memorable run to the fifth round, pegged the visitors back to leave them top on goal difference alone ahead of Tranmere Rovers. Just over a fortnight after their cup adventure came to an end with a 5-0 quarter-final defeat at Arsenal, Lincoln ran out at Gander Green Lane - the scene of Sutton's loss to Arsene Wenger's side in February. Sutton created the better chances in the first half and captain Jamie Collins controlled the ball and spun in front of the same goal he scored the penalty which knocked out Leeds, but skied his effort from 10 yards. Bedsente Gomis then headed narrowly over from Kevin Amankwaah's long throw-in moments before half-time. Early in the second half Sean Raggett, Lincoln's goalscoring hero against Burnley, almost repeated the trick with a downward header which was deflected up on to the crossbar. Burly Imps striker Matt Rhead was then frustrated by a fine reaction save from Will Puddy, who kept out a fierce volley at the far post. Lincoln got their noses in front when Sam Habergham swung in a late corner which Whitehouse rose highest to nod home. But the final word went to Deacon, who charged at a tiring Lincoln defence before lashing the ball high into the net from the edge of the box. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Sutton United 1, Lincoln City 1. Second Half ends, Sutton United 1, Lincoln City 1. Goal!  Sutton United 1, Lincoln City 1. Roarie Deacon (Sutton United). Substitution, Sutton United. Craig Dundas replaces Kevin Amankwaah. Goal!  Sutton United 0, Lincoln City 1. Elliot Whitehouse (Lincoln City). Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Lee Angol. Substitution, Sutton United. Adam May replaces Adam Coombes. Substitution, Sutton United. Daniel Spence replaces Gomis. Lee Angol (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Lincoln City. Elliot Whitehouse replaces Alan Power. Jamie Collins (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card. Second Half begins Sutton United 0, Lincoln City 0. Substitution, Lincoln City. Harry Anderson replaces Terry Hawkridge. First Half ends, Sutton United 0, Lincoln City 0. Alan Power (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",Roarie Deacon ensured the battle of the FA Cup giant @placeholder ended all square with a stoppage - time equaliser as Sutton drew with National League leaders Lincoln .,side,killers,uncertainty,action,life,1
"Choppers the chimpanzee - the last surviving star of the TV ads - has only recently started taking part in grooming sessions, an important ape behaviour. But for years she shunned her own kind, preferring the company of human beings. The chimpanzees, trained by Twycross Zoo, in Leicestershire, were dressed up in clothes and lip-synced with the voices of actors like Peter Sellers and Bob Monkhouse. They also appeared in children's shows Tiswas and Blue Peter, and visitors flocked to see their infamous, messy tea parties. According to the zoo, 42-year-old Choppers is the last surviving PG Tips chimp after her co-habitant Louis died in their Twycross enclosure in July. Louis was the star of one of the more memorable PG Tips adverts - when two chimpanzee removal men tried to get a piano down a flight of stairs. He played the bowler hat-wearing Mr Shifter and the advert's punchline went: ""Dad, do you know the piano's on my foot?"" ""You hum it, son, I'll play it!"" The zoo, which benefitted from revenue raised from the PG Tips ads, has since said the use of the apes was wrong and has now highlighted the damage it caused the animals in later life. Choppers, who played Ada in the commercials, is still, in old age, learning how to be a chimpanzee. Her insularity and unwillingness to integrate with other chimps was caused by the close bonds she formed with people, according to Sharon Redrobe, Twycross Zoo's chief executive. ""She's mixed up,"" said Ms Redrobe. ""It's not a good start in life to be treated like a human because they don't learn ape behaviour and are not very good at being with other chimps. ""They want to be with people."" Dr Charlotte Macdonald, the zoo's head of life sciences, said the fact Louis and Choppers lived so long as a pair was a clear sign things were not right. ""Chimpanzees are group living animals,"" said Ms Macdonald. ""But [Louis and Choppers] were very focussed on humans, more than they should be. ""They would recognise regular visitors and effectively come over and say hello. ""Chimps should ignore you."" Ms Macdonald said the two apes also misunderstood members of their own species. A chimpanzee might offer his or her hand, or pout, in an act of friendship, but the PG Tips chimps failed to understand non-verbal communication, according to the zoologist. She said they would get nervous, or run away and in some cases become aggressive. However, the death of Louis has inadvertently helped Choppers relate to other chimps because he is not around anymore to provide support. ""She's integrating nicely in her twilight years,"" said Ms Redrobe. ""She took part in a grooming circle the other day, which is absolutely brilliant."" Sharon Redrobe's leadership of the zoo is very different from that of Molly Badham, who co-founded the park in 1963. Ms Badham, who died in 2007, had owned a zoological collection since 1954 and was as much a celebrity as the chimps, often appearing with the animals on TV. She told the BBC in 2003 the apes enjoyed dressing up for their television work. Ms Badham said: ""They were very proud of their clothes… I remember one wanted to wear the shoes it had all the time. ""Another could pour tea without spilling it. And they loved riding bicycles. Tea parties used to be a highlight both for the chimps and visitors to the zoo."" This is a freeze frame of Louis, who died in July, playing Mr Shifter in one of the PG Tips adverts. When he reached adulthood he could not do the commercials any more because of his strength and the possible harm he could do to humans. Twycross Zoo said the lack of close human contact he was used to damaged him in later life and made him reluctant to integrate with other chimpanzees. However, Ms Badham was aware how these activities became frowned upon. She said: ""Attitudes have changed now about what you do with animals. But I do know my chimps loved it."" The zoo now actively promotes conservation - it is also known as the World Primate Centre - and the animals' enclosures are matched as closely as possible to wild habitats. ""You can't deny the past - it happened,"" said Sharon Redrobe. ""It absolutely wouldn't happen again under my leadership. ""It was of its time and it makes me cringe to see it, but people at the time didn't know any better."" Ms Macdonald said there was no question the animals were ever treated badly and recently studied some old footage of the PG Tips apes in action. ""They were having a ball,"" she said. ""They were juveniles and so very curious. They were enjoying themselves and having fun."" Ms Redrobe supports this view and said she could not deny that in the moment of dressing up, or getting covered in cake during a tea party, the animals were having a good time. However, the problem come later when they enter adulthood, and became potentially harmful to human beings. She said: ""They hit adolescence and have a huge growth spurt and then have the potential to become aggressive."" Dr Macdonald said chimps could be five or six times stronger than human beings. As chimpanzees have a social hierarchy, if they are participating in a human world they could easily challenge a person, with possibly fatal consequences. Ms Redrobe added: ""At some point you're going to have to put them in a cage. ""They suffer at that moment when you can't have contact with them anymore because they are too dangerous. ""They'll have a stressful year or two when they miss you and miss dressing up."" The use of chimps in advertising can also perpetuate the problem they face in the wild, according to ape expert Ian Redmond. He chairs the Ape Alliance, a coalition of organisations and individuals that work for the welfare of the endangered animals. He said: ""The wonder and curiosity of chimpanzees can lead to the commodification of them - apes make money."" Mr Redmond claims that when the public see the animals on TV, in entertainment or advertising, they find it hard to believe they are actually a species facing extinction. He said this makes it seem acceptable for some to take young apes from the wild, which are then sold for television work, or even kept as exotic pets. He added: ""Adverts and films perpetuate this belief and filmmakers need to consider the consequences of their actions."" The adverts are remembered fondly by the public and often appear in polls of all-time favourite commercials. Ms Redrobe said people should not feel bad for having enjoyed them. She said: ""[Chimps are] fascinating creatures but people have to appreciate that they're amazing in their own enclosure rather than being dressed up. ""But it's interesting that the sort of people who liked chimp tea party-type adverts don't like seeing them in cages. ""It's much better for them to be with other chimps."" Robert Opie, director of the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, said using the chimps made PG Tips very successful. He said: ""People remember them with great affection but times move on and we have to move with it. ""Animals are used because they're emotive and cuddly [and] they can still be used as they connect the public to the product. ""We learn as we progress [and] we should be aware what effect it has on the animals, it's all part of history and learning. ""Best to leave chimps to be chimps."" Unilever, which owns PG Tips, declined to comment.","The PG Tips chimps were loved by the public and helped make the tea brand one of the UK 's most popular . But while the nation @placeholder , were the animals ' lives being damaged ?",process,survived,values,flourished,laughed,4
"Police were called to the river near Holly Terrace at about 13:30 GMT on Sunday. With the help of North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, the body of a man was recovered from the water a short time later. Officers are investigating how the man, who has not yet been identified, came to be in the river. In recent years there have been concerns about the number of deaths in the River Ouse and the Foss, also in York. Three people died in the rivers in 2011, including 21-year-old Richard Horrocks, who jumped from a balcony to celebrate his last shift at a bar. York student Megan Roberts, 20, soldier Tyler Pearson, 18 and Ben Clarkson, 22, who was found in the Foss after he went missing, all died in 2014. Soldier Stephen Fry, 20, died in 2015 and student Christian Palmer, 20, died in July 2016.",A man 's body was pulled from the River Ouse in York after it was @placeholder by a member of the public on New Year 's Day .,spotted,washed,dumped,surrounded,attacked,0
"A month ago, the Halifax said house prices were rising by 10.1%. The slow-down follows a rush to beat the new stamp duty tax rates for buy to let and second homes at the start of April, the Halifax said. Compared with March, prices actually fell in April - by 0.8% - although the monthly figures can be very volatile. A record 165,400 UK properties were sold in March ahead of the tax changes, which was 11% more than the previous peak in January 2007, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Previously the Nationwide said annual house price inflation dipped from 5.7% in March to 4.9% in April. Dr Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Economics, said that uncertainty over the EU referendum was also likely to ""rein in"" housing market activity for the next few months. ""Nevertheless, we expect housing market activity to regain limited momentum in the second half of 2016 on the assumption that a vote to stay in the EU reduces uncertainty and supports a pick-up in economic activity,"" he said. ""Current market conditions remain very tight as the severe imbalance between supply and demand persists,"" said Martin Ellis, Halifax's housing economist. ""This situation, combined with low interest rates and rising employment and real earnings, should continue to push house prices up over the coming months."" However, the Halifax also said that confidence in the housing market was at its lowest level in over a year.","Further evidence has emerged of a slow - down in UK house prices in April , as the Halifax said @placeholder eased to 9.2 % compared to last year .",growth,fuel,prices,beat,index,0
"Barca play Real Sociedad, Real Madrid face Celta Vigo and Atletico Madrid meet Eibar in three ties involving two La Liga teams. Alcoron, the only non top-flight team left, have been drawn against Alaves. The first legs will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, with the return fixtures a week later. Barca, who fought back from a first-leg deficit to beat Athletic Bilbao in the last 16, are aiming to become the first team since 1953 to win three consecutive Copa del Reys. Full draw: Real Sociedad v Barcelona Alcorcon v Alaves Atletico Madrid v Eibar Real Madrid v Celta",Holders Barcelona have @placeholder Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid as Spain 's big three clubs were kept apart in the Copa del Rey quarter - final draw .,paid,avoided,helped,replaced,joined,1
"Robert Fidler, 66, hid the building behind straw bales for four years when he built it in Redhill, Surrey. Following almost a decade of legal battles he has been told to demolish it by June or face three months in prison. He said: ""This is our home. Everybody who comes here says they just feel this is home."" Mr Fidler, who gave the BBC a tour of his property, said: ""It's got such a warmth about it. ""We have so many things going on the kids love to be here."" He added: ""We've got three bedrooms and one little box room so it's not as big as people seem to think. ""At least we can enjoy it for this winter. ""Then we'll have to start making plans, maybe they'll let us keep part of it? Reduce the size of it or something, maybe reduce it to a bungalow?"" Mr Fidler said he had contacted firms to find out how much the demolition of his property would cost but as he had until June to comply with the court he would not be tearing down his house in the middle of winter. Reigate and Banstead Borough Council first told Mr Fidler to demolish his home in 2007. In November, he appeared in court again and claiming he could not destroy the castle as bats, which are protected by law, were roosting in the property. However, a High Court judge disagreed, giving him a three-month suspended sentence. He said Mr Fidler would be jailed for his ""defiance"" if the property was not demolished by June.",A farmer who built a mock Tudor castle without planning permission is @placeholder to spend his last Christmas in his home before it is demolished .,forced,asked,preparing,helping,refused,2
"The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) said their reputation could be tarnished by the German-based United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra (UKUO). The UOGB had sought a High Court injunction against the rival group of British players ahead of the UKUO's upcoming UK tour. But the judge ruled in favour of the UKUO, saying it was not in competition. Judge Richard Hacon agreed that, as the group had been performing in Germany for some years, the UOGB should have acted sooner. Both orchestras perform their take on contemporary pop songs. The UOGB, whose members dress like a traditional orchestra and sing and tell jokes on stage, have been performing for more than 25 years, released records and have appeared on television. The British group took action ahead of the UKUO's first UK tour, which begins on 15 October in Lincoln. ""We have issued proceedings against a German-based musical group for registered trademark infringement. However the court didn't grant the injunction,"" UOGB founder George Hinchliffe told the BBC at the London court. He added: ""It's really not a policy of ours to comment upon litigation while it's still going through the courts. And we're a bit busy at the moment as we're just about to start a tour of China."" The court heard the UKUO performed in English and had a ""certain English humour"" which was aimed at the continental market and Germany in particular. ""We are very pleased with the outcome,"" said Peter Moss, UKUO musical director. ""Our view has always been that we never, ever wanted to have competition with the other side. We wish them well. We hope people will now come to see us play."" The UOGB said they was considering further legal action to protect their ""name and reputation"".",A British ukulele group has lost its trademark infringement battle against a rival @placeholder over its name .,firm,artist,manufacturer,growing,band,4
"The trio, including Richard Dart, a convert to radical Islam who has featured in TV documentaries, were sentenced to additional monitoring in the community after their jail terms. They had argued during their appeal that the punishment was unfair. But the Court of Appeal has ruled the sentences were justified because of the dangers the men posed. It means a string of sentencing hearings for Syria-related terrorism offences, which had been on hold pending the ruling, can now go ahead. The three men had all admitted preparing for acts of terrorism. Each was given an extended sentence - meaning a jail term plus additional monitoring on licence in the community - last April. Dart, from Weymouth, sought training in Pakistan and then discussed plans to attack Royal Wootton Bassett, the town that was the focal point for the repatriation of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, with others in the UK. The other two men, Zahid Iqbal and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, from Luton, had prepared for a possible attack on Luton's Territorial Army base. Dart received a six-year extended sentence, meaning he must serve at least two-thirds in jail before he can be considered for release on licence. At the end of those six years, he will be subject to a further five years of monitoring under licence in the community. He would face the risk of being sent back to jail if he committed another offence during that time. Iqbal and Ahmed received extended sentences of just over 16 years - comprising an 11-year jail sentence plus an extra five on licence. Rejecting their appeals at the Royal Courts of Justice, Lord Justice Pitchford said the judges who sentenced them had followed the appropriate procedures to assess each man as posing an ongoing danger to society. Dart, who changed his name to Salahuddin al-Britani, became involved in extremism after moving from his home town in Dorset to east London. His beliefs were brought into the spotlight in 2011 as part of a BBC television documentary My Brother The Islamist, by his stepbrother Robb Leech. This was followed by a second documentary, My Brother the Terrorist, earlier this year.",Three men who @placeholder their extended sentences for preparing terrorism offences have lost their appeals .,received,raised,maintained,handed,challenged,4
"Now the insurance industry is calling on carmakers to provide more data showing who was at fault in accidents involving driverless vehicles. The insurers say drivers need to be able to prove that they're not at fault if the technology goes wrong. The Association of British Insurers wants cars to collect a basic set of core data which would be made available after an accident. The data would cover a period 30 seconds before and 15 seconds after any incident. It would include the exact location of the vehicle, whether it was in autonomous mode or under the control of the driver, and whether the motorist was in the driver's seat and had a seatbelt on. The ABI's Director General Huw Evans says this data ""would offer public reassurance by protecting motorists from being incorrectly blamed if something fails with their car, helping police investigations and supporting prompt insurance payouts."" The UN body which agrees international regulations on vehicle safety is due to bring in new rules on data collection in 2019 and the insurers are hoping to influence that process. In the long term, fully autonomous vehicles could make the roads so safe that there would be little need for motor insurance. But for the next few years, as more cars get autonomous driving features, there could be a period of dangerous confusion for motorists. That certainly struck me after spending a morning on a test track owned by the insurance industry's Thatcham Research Centre. I sat in a Tesla being driven by Thatcham's Matthew Avery - and reflected that in a few years' time I might be sitting in a passenger seat with nobody at the wheel. Matthew took his hands off the wheel after switching on the Tesla's Autopilot self-driving mode and explained that on a public road this would not be allowed. He says the rules will change - but gradually: ""In 2019 you will be able to buy a car with an autopilot system where you can take your hands off the wheel for up to three minutes. But that will only work on a motorway."" But as cars become more automated he admits that drivers will struggle to understand what is, and is not, allowed. ""When the customer can buy a car like this it's going to be confusing to him to understand what is allowed. Do I have to be in control or can I get in the back of the car and have a sleep?"" The answer, he says, is no - we will have to wait until the mid 2020s for a vehicle that can be left to get on with the job in all circumstances. Up until then we are going to be stuck in the messy middle ground - allowing the car to take some of the strain of driving, while keeping our hands hovering over the wheel and our eyes on the road. If that is the case, just how attractive autonomous driving technology will be to motorists - and whether they will pay more for it - must be open to question.",Driverless car technology seems to be @placeholder at breakneck speed - but the changes this will mean for the rules of the road are proceeding at a slower pace .,sold,advancing,replaced,running,held,1
"Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCC), set up this year, originally estimated annual running costs of about £1.3m. But the authority's scrutiny committee voted against approving it, with one member asking if recruitment plans were ""written on the back of a bus ticket"". CPCC said a reason for the rise was that a new authority was being created. The authority, created under government devolution plans, intends to employ 15 staff, including newly-created housing, skills and transport director roles all on annual salaries above £100,000. After Wednesday's decision by the scrutiny committee, the process of recruiting any new staff cannot begin until CPCC has reconsidered its budget, the deadline for which is 31 August. Labour Cambridge city councillor Dave Baigent, a member of the scrutiny committee, asked of the new jobs: ""Were these ideas written down on the back of a bus ticket? Were they discussed with councillors in advance?"" Lucy Nethsinga, a Liberal Democrat county councillor, said she had concerns over how these jobs overlapped with those in county and district councils. CPCC chief executive Martin Whiteley said: ""We, with 15 staff, will be substantially smaller than any other devolved authority in the country. ""I don't envisage us creating a big shiny office. We'll be looking to work flexibly across council offices.""","A new devolved authority has been @placeholder to review its estimated budget after it rose by £ 500,000 .",introduced,called,ordered,awarded,set,2
"The Gunners are still trying to land the 21-year-old France international but the French champions may not be keen to let another player leave. Tiemoue Bakayoko's departure for Chelsea and the likely departure of Benjamin Mendy mean a deal for Lemar is looking increasingly difficult. Meanwhile, Arsenal's intention remains to keep striker Alexis Sanchez. The 28-year-old Chilean is going into the final year of his contract and is reportedly keen to leave, but the Gunners want to hold on to last season's top scorer. Monaco sold midfielder Bakayoko to Chelsea in a reported £40m deal, while left-back Mendy has been heavily linked with Manchester City. There is also speculation over the Ligue 1 club's 18-year-old striker Kylian Mbappe, who is an apparent target for Arsenal and Real Madrid. Arsenal's summer recruits so far are France striker Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon for a club record £46.5m and the free transfer of left-back Sead Kolasinac from Schalke.",Arsenal believe they could miss out on the @placeholder of key target Thomas Lemar from Monaco .,offer,future,end,signing,assassination,3
"Steve Coogan's character posed the question ""what do you think about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre?"" during an intimate scene in I'm Alan Partridge in 1997. Eighteen years later, the council has approved plans to pedestrianise more parts of the city. All Saints Street and Westlegate could be closed to traffic by 2017. Under the plans, Red Lion Street will be open only to buses, cycles and taxis - apart from deliveries. In the episode of the BBC comedy, Partridge said: ""I'll be honest, I'm dead against it. People forget that traders need access to Dixons. ""They do say it will help people in wheelchairs."" Norwich actually lays claim to being the first city in the country to fully pedestrianise a road - London Street in 1967. In July, a virtual tour was released, showing what Norwich's city centre could look like after the £2.5m redevelopment. Work is due to start in January.",A planning scheme often @placeholder by fans of Alan Partridge has been backed by Norwich City Council .,criticised,backed,unveiled,undertaken,referenced,4
"The National Literacy Trust questioned some 32,000 pupils aged eight to 18. Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid was the most mentioned favourite work of fiction, followed by The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Children's laureate Malorie Blackman said she was ""delighted"" more children were enjoying the pleasures of reading. Enjoyment and frequency of reading are both at their highest levels for nine years, the survey suggests. There was also an increase in the proportion who said they read daily outside class, from 32.2% in 2013 to 41.1% in 2014. The charity attributes this sharp rise to initiatives such as Bookstart, the Summer Reading Challenge, its own Young Readers Programme and the work of a series of children's authors who have campaigned as children's laureates. Most mentioned favourite fiction Source: National Literacy Trust Children are not only reading more fiction but also a wide variety of other materials, including: However, the research also suggests a persistent gender gap between girls and boys, with 46.5% of girls saying they read daily outside class, compared with 35.8% of boys. Girls were also more likely to say they enjoyed reading very much or quite a lot: 61.6%, compared with 47.1% of boys. Overall, more than half (55.2%) of children said they preferred watching television to reading, and almost a quarter (24.3%) believed their parents did not care if they spent time reading, rising to 31.5% among children on free school meals. Trust director Jonathan Douglas described the survey as ""encouraging"" but said it was a ""real concern that almost a third of the most disadvantaged children think their parents do not care whether they read"". Ms Blackman called for work to continue ""to ensure all our children develop the reading-for-pleasure habit to improve their life chances"" and said it was vital children had access to libraries ""to fulfil their true potential"". War Horse author Michael Morpurgo said: ""How good it is to have some heartening news about young readers. ""But much is still to be done. Too many boys still seem disinterested in reading, and far, far too many children simply never become readers at all. ""So we writers and illustrators and storytellers, and parents and teachers, and publishers and booksellers, must continue to play our part. ""And government too should remember that literacy must first and foremost be enjoyed if we are to engage our most reluctant readers.""","Increasing numbers of UK schoolchildren are @placeholder to read in their spare time , with six in 10 having a favourite work of fiction , research suggests .",contributing,continuing,struggling,set,choosing,4
"The hundreds of bags, which the council says contain ""unidentified content"", have appeared on a site in Bowbridge Road, Newark over the past month. Residents say the pile is now about 10ft (3m) high and 100ft (30m) wide. Newark and Sherwood District Council said it was talking to the Environment Agency about removing the bags. Glenys Moorhouse, who lives directly opposite, said: ""It's disgusting, especially when it starts to smell, and when the summer gets here we might get rats or mice."" Andrew Else said: ""It's not very pleasant at all. No-one seems to know why it's suddenly happened. It just appeared one day."" Tony Roberts, ward councillor and chairman of the council's leisure and environment committee, said some of the bags appeared to contain matter similar to insulation material. ""It looks unsightly,"" he said ""There's an awful lot of rubbish, whatever that rubbish is. ""It could contain potentially contaminating rubbish and that's the difficulty. It's a big mystery where they have come from."" Newark and Sherwood District Council said it had called an urgent meeting with the Environment Agency ""to bring about a quick resolution"". An Environment Agency representative said: ""We are investigating the situation and need to be satisfied that the operators are taking all appropriate measures to manage odours."" They said enforcement action would be taken if necessary.",A mountain of rubbish bags left dumped on derelict @placeholder in Nottinghamshire has sparked a council probe into where the refuse came from .,homes,beach,food,land,mobility,3
"Isles of Wonder was based on the transformation of Britain, from a ""green and pleasant land"" to the internet era, via the industrial age. A cast of 10,000 volunteers were involved in the memorable £27m show, which featured farmyard animals, several Voldemorts and even James Bond. Its creation was captured by Ben Delfont, a stage manager for the event.","Four years ago , Danny Boyle @placeholder his opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games .",performed,unveiled,made,continue,celebrated,1
"What the PM described yesterday as ""Brussels gossip"", now this morning has been more firmly dismissed by Number 10, claiming ""we really, really don't recognise these reports"" (Not precisely the same rebuttal). Of course, no politician would wanted to be branded ""delusional"", or indeed, ""ignorant"" or ""misunderstanding"", or to have a blow-by-blow account of just how awkward and unproductive a vital private dinner about the future of your country was. Not least Theresa May who is someone who does her homework, makes careful plans, and takes ""getting on with the job"", one of her favourite phrases, extremely seriously. The proactive and critical briefing against Number 10 after the meeting between the PM and some of the EU's top officials, Jean Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier, last week, has, unsurprisingly, spilled into the election campaign and onto some of this morning's front pages. Overnight, my BBC colleagues in Brussels have been told the UK was on a ""different wavelength"" and ""misunderstanding"" of how the EU works. The message from the EU is not really very different from what has been said in Brussels for many months. The UK has been told repeatedly that the EU will stick together, that nothing can be agreed until everything is agreed, and also that parallel talks on trade and the exit deal are extremely unlikely. Indeed, the prospect that the talks could fail has also been a distinct possibility. And it can't be said too many times, there will be spin on both sides of this negotiation, right up until, and including the end of the process. Neither side right now wants be seen as willing to give ground. And like it or not, spin is part of the armoury on both sides. But the briefings have extra charge during the febrile atmosphere of the election campaign. Privately in March, ministers in the UK believed the EU was softening its approach, hoping that some countries could come alongside, against what they consider the rigid approach of the EU institutions. The accusations being hurled around now, even the public statement from the EU's most powerful politician, Angela Merkel, that some in the UK have ""illusions"" don't augur well for the negotiations. And the comments will be used again and again by Theresa May's political opponents to claim she is out of her depth and has no realistic plan for Brexit. Stand by, however, to watch Number 10 try to flip it on its head, to use the very obvious challenges ahead as ammunition in her central election argument  - precisely because the talks will be tricky, it's vital that she has her own strong, negotiating mandate they claim. Although diplomats like to (mis)quote the 19th century general, Helmuth Von Moltke, that no plan, however good, survives its first contact with the enemy, and the chances of the EU agreeing all of Downing Street's approach are as skinny as a skelf, since the trigger of Article 50, the signs are not rosy. These leaks from last week's dinner a sign that parts of the EU are willing to play rough. The question is, whether over time, if she ends up back in Number 10, Theresa May's determination can shift them. Or whether up against 27 in talks, she is brutally outnumbered from the start.","Conservative @placeholder have declined to enter into a "" briefing war "" with Brussels .",trades,organisations,sources,parties,couple,2
"The accident happened on Thursday in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, says Xinhua news agency. The lift, which officials say fell 328ft (100m), mostly carried construction workers. Officials are investigating the accident, Xinhua says. ""The accident occurred at the construction site, the elevator was being used for construction purposes,"" a local official was quoted by AFP news agency as saying. It happened at 01:26 local time (05:26 GMT), the official added. Thousands of people die every year in work-related accidents in China, where safety rules are often flouted, correspondents say.","A platform lift at a construction site in central China has plunged 30 @placeholder to the ground , killing its 19 passengers , state - run media report .",m,floors,people,tonnes,fire,1
"Police said the woman was asleep when the suspect entered her home on Pantmawr Road, Rhiwbina, and tried to forcibly remove rings from her fingers at about 01:00 GMT on Saturday. He then waited for her to use her chair lift to get downstairs where he demanded money. He disconnected her telephone, meaning she had to go outside and flag down a passer-by for help. The suspect has been described as a young white male wearing a black scarf, dark anorak and jeans. Det Sgt Chris Grey of Cardiff CID said: ""This was a shocking incident against an elderly lady in her own home. ""I would urge anyone who knows the suspect to give them up for the sake of this elderly victim who has been subjected to a terrifying ordeal."" Police have asked anyone with information to call 101.",A 97 - year - old woman has been @placeholder in her home in Cardiff .,unveiled,assaulted,died,robbed,injured,3
"A picture of the former Labour leader blowing his nose was used by NBC to introduce a news item warning that not enough people were being vaccinated. The photo was taken at the Labour conference in Liverpool in 2011. On Twitter, Mr Miliband said he was ""proud"" of his ""new role"", coining the hashtag ""#flulabour"". The photo, which NBC captioned ""flu risk"", is the top result from a search for ""sneeze"" on the Getty picture database. It triggered a flurry of tweets after viewers recognised the ex-Labour leader. With the Doncaster North MP blowing his nose in the background, the NBC presenter warned of ""fresh concerns"" that not enough people were being vaccinated for flu.","Ed Miliband has joked that he has a "" new role in international health @placeholder "" after a surprise appearance on a US TV bulletin about flu .",rules,problems,teeth,affairs,promotion,4
"The Sons scored against the run of play when Ryan Stevenson fired a shot into the top corner from 25 yards. Garry Fleming then converted a penalty for the visitors after Jamie Hamill pushed Joseph Thomson. Derek Lyle netted from close range on 80 minutes to give Queens hope but the one-time leaders could not prevent a sixth consecutive league loss. It was just a third Championship win of the season for Dumbarton, who survived pressure before Stevenson's spectacular opener. Mark Millar fired wide before Stephen Dobbie had an attempt saved and then shot over the crossbar, while Lyndon Dykes and Grant Anderson also went close for the hosts, who stay sixth in the table. Match ends, Queen of the South 1, Dumbarton 2. Second Half ends, Queen of the South 1, Dumbarton 2. Substitution, Dumbarton. Ross Lyden replaces Andy Stirling. Foul by Daniel Carmichael (Queen of the South). Joseph Thomson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Andy Stirling (Dumbarton). Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Dumbarton. Conceded by Jamie Hamill. Corner,  Dumbarton. Conceded by Jamie Hamill. Substitution, Dumbarton. Donald McCallum replaces Ryan Stevenson. Attempt missed. Jake Pickard (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Josh Todd (Dumbarton). Attempt saved. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Foul by Owen Moxon (Queen of the South). Joseph Thomson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal!  Queen of the South 1, Dumbarton 2. Derek Lyle (Queen of the South) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stephen Dobbie. Substitution, Dumbarton. Craig Pettigrew replaces Garry Fleming. Corner,  Queen of the South. Conceded by Daniel Harvie. Attempt missed. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Owen Moxon (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton). Foul by Jake Pickard (Queen of the South). Ryan Stevenson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the right wing. Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Robert Thomson (Dumbarton). Corner,  Queen of the South. Conceded by Gregor Buchanan. Attempt saved. Ryan Stevenson (Dumbarton) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Foul by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South). Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Daniel Harvie (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Jake Pickard (Queen of the South). Attempt saved. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Substitution, Queen of the South. Owen Moxon replaces Mark Millar. Andy Stirling (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South). Substitution, Queen of the South. Derek Lyle replaces Grant Anderson. Attempt saved. Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Corner,  Dumbarton. Conceded by Jamie Hamill. Foul by Jake Pickard (Queen of the South).",Dumbarton moved up a place to eighth in the Championship as Queen of the South 's miserable slump @placeholder .,scored,overcame,broke,points,continued,4
"Zoe Morgan, 21, and Lee Simmons, 33, were found stabbed near Cardiff's Queen Street store on 28 September, 2016. Andrew Saunders, 21, of no fixed abode, researched methods of killing in the days before the attack. He previously admitted their murders at Cardiff Crown Court. The court heard Saunders was jealous of the couple who started a relationship in July 2016 after he and Miss Morgan split up. After making threats to kill the pair in the weeks before, he waited for them outside the Matalan store before launching his attack at about 05:50 BST. Witnesses saw him attack Mr Simmons first, stabbing him ""in a frenzy"" as he pleaded for him to stop. He then moved on to Miss Morgan telling her ""I'm coming for you next"" as she tried to help her boyfriend. He chased her down the street, eventually catching up with her outside the Boots store where he stabbed her several times. Sentencing Saunders, Mrs Justice Nicola Davies described the killing as ""savagely violent conduct"". She said: ""Whatever your mental state, you took the lives of two people. You robbed the families of Lee Simmons and Zoe Morgan of a much-loved son and a much-loved daughter."" She added there was a ""significant degree of planning"" before the killing as he bought the two knives he used and a rifle in the days before the attack and searched the internet for ways to kill. Afterwards, he phoned his mother telling her what he had done and sent a text message to his father saying: ""Thanks for being a pathetic, useless father. Just killed two people, cheers."" When he was arrested, he confessed to officers: ""I'm sorry, you know sometimes, you just snap."" Speaking after the hearing, Det Insp Mark O'Shea, of South Wales Police, said Saunders was a ""cold, calculating"" killer who had planned his crimes over a number of weeks. He added he deserved to spend the majority of his life in prison where he could reflect on the gravity of his offences. Kelly Huggins, from the Crown Prosecution Service, described the killing as a ""brutal, unprovoked and premeditated attack"" and said Saunders showed no concern for witnesses who were subjected to a ""frightening scene of violence"". In a statement, Miss Morgan's family said their lives had been changed forever by their daughter's murder. It read: ""I hope that every day Saunders is thinking about what he has done to us and what he has done to our beautiful daughter. We will think of Zoe for the rest of our lives."" Lee Simmons's family said no sentence or punishment would ever compensate for the loss of his life and they would never be able to forgive Saunders for ""selfishly taking Lee away from us"". Both families added they were disappointed with the length of sentence given to Saunders.",A man who murdered his ex-girlfriend and her new partner outside the Matalan store where they @placeholder has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years .,live,were,cooperate,pleaded,worked,4
"Police were called by East of England Ambulance Service at 12:40 BST on Saturday to Park Inn, Southern Way, Harlow. The 52-year-old man from Harlow had suffered a serious head injury and was taken to hospital, where he died on Sunday afternoon. A man, 20, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, was arrested in connection with the investigation, said Essex Police. He has been released on police bail until 28 December pending further inquiries. Essex Police inquiries are continuing and anyone with information is asked to call the force.",A man has died in hospital after being @placeholder at a hotel in Essex .,attacked,held,punched,admitted,shot,2
"The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said the inquiry concerns Wiltshire Police's handling of an alleged claim made in the 1990s. It will also look at whether the force later took any steps to investigate these claims. Anyone with information that can assist police is being asked to come forward. The allegations, made by a retired senior officer, were referred to the IPCC by Wiltshire Police. Sir Edward died at his home in Salisbury in 2005 aged 89. An IPCC spokesman said: ""It is alleged that a criminal prosecution was not pursued, when a person threatened to expose that Sir Edward Heath may have been involved in offences concerning children. ""In addition to this allegation, the IPCC will examine whether Wiltshire Police subsequently took any steps to investigate these claims."" In a statement, Wiltshire Police said: ""Sir Edward Heath has been named in relation to offences concerning children. ""He lived in Salisbury for many years and we would like to hear from anyone who has any relevant information that may assist us in our inquiries or anyone who believes they may have been a victim. ""Some people may never have spoken out about the abuse they have suffered but we would urge them to please contact us and to not suffer in silence."" Sir Edward led the 1970-1974 Conservative government and took Britain into what was then the European Economic Community. His time in power was beset by industrial action and economic difficulties that forced him to introduce a three-day week. He lost his leadership of the party to Margaret Thatcher in 1975 - something he never forgave her for and he refused to serve in her cabinet. In his later years he became the Father of the House of Commons, the longest-serving MP. He was a successful author, an avid art-collector and a world-class yachtsman.",The police watchdog is to investigate claims a child sex abuse case was @placeholder because of threats to expose former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath .,persuaded,delayed,encouraging,dropped,opened,3
"Mr Putin spoke after meeting Barack Obama on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). But the meeting, and the leaders' speeches at the UNGA, also highlighted splits about how to end the Syrian war. Russia said it would be an ""enormous mistake"" not to work with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to tackle IS. On Monday, the US and France again insisted that President Assad must go. But in response, Mr Putin said: ""They aren't citizens of Syria and so should not be involved in choosing the leadership of another country."" Russia would conduct air strikes only if they were approved by the United Nations, he said, while also ruling out Russian troops taking part in a ground operation in Syria. The two leaders met for 90 minutes on the sidelines of the UNGA in talks that Mr Putin called ""very constructive, business-like and frank"". It was their first face-to-face meeting in almost a year, with the Ukraine war also on the agenda. A senior US government official said neither president was ""seeking to score points"" in the talks. Both sides agreed to open lines of communication to avoid accidental military conflict in the region, the official added. He came. He left. But it's unclear what Vladimir Putin achieved in New York. Pro-Kremlin media are portraying Putin's speech and meeting with President Obama as a victory for Russia. ""Vladimir Putin addressed the world"" is Komsomolskaya Pravda's headline, reflecting the Kremlin's attempt to reassert Russia's role on the world stage. On Russian TV, a pro-Kremlin MP has claimed that the timing of Nasa's announcement about water on Mars was designed by Washington to trump the Putin speech. As for business daily Vedomosti, it notes that the Kremlin's call for a coalition against Islamic State may be ""part of a political strategy to remove sanctions"" against Russia. It's unclear whether it'll work. After his meeting with Obama, Mr Putin admitted US-Russian relations had fallen to a very low level and he left no doubt who was to blame: America. James Robbins: Obama, Putin and elusive Syrian peace In his speech to the UNGA, Mr Obama said compromise among powers would be essential to ending the Syrian conflict, which has claimed more than 200,000 lives and forced four million people to flee abroad. ""The US is prepared to work with any nation, including Russia and Iran, to resolve the conflict,"" he said. ""But we must recognise that there cannot be, after so much bloodshed, so much carnage, a return to the pre-war status quo."" But Mr Putin said it was an ""enormous mistake to refuse to co-operate with the Syrian government and its armed forces who are valiantly fighting terrorism face-to-face"". He also called for the creation of a ""broad anti-terror coalition"" to fight IS, comparing it to the international forces that fought against Nazi Germany in World War Two. The US and Russian leaders have long differed on Syria: the US opposes President Assad remaining in power, while Russia has been a staunch ally of the regime in Damascus and has recently stepped up military support. Some Western leaders have recently softened their stance towards the Syrian president, conceding that he might be able to stay in power during a political transition. UK Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to reflect that in talks this week. What's the human cost? More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and one million injured in four and a half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war. And the survivors? More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes, four million of them abroad, as forces loyal to President Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from IS. Growing numbers of refugees are going to Europe. How has the world reacted? Regional and world powers have also been drawn into the conflict. Iran and Russia, along with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, are propping up the Alawite-led government. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are backing the Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Syria's civil war explained Diplomatic goals behind Putin's Syria build-up Migrant crisis: Fleeing life under Islamic State in Syria The battle for Syria and Iraq in maps The threat of IS extremists and the flow of Syrian refugees to Europe has added urgency to the search for a deal to end the civil war. Observers also continue to report attacks on civilians by government forces. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that regime aircraft fired missiles at a market in the eastern town of Mayadeen on Monday, killing at least 23 people, including eight children. A US-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq for more than a year. The UK announced this month it had carried out a drone strike against two British citizens in Syria, but has yet to fly manned operations in Syrian airspace. Over the weekend, France confirmed its first air strikes against IS targets. A number of other countries, including Australia, Canada and Jordan, have also conducted bombing missions.","Russia is considering whether to @placeholder the US and its allies in conducting air strikes against Islamic State ( IS ) targets , President Vladimir Putin says .",follow,enter,aid,use,protect,0
"""Was it properly done? If so, please tell your country it is safe to come here…"" We were at Kenya's Mombasa airport - the sun shining earnestly outside; gentle waves tripping over the nearby reef; cocktails and deckchairs beckoning lazily from the white beaches of the Indian Ocean. But the beckoning does not seem to be working so well these days. The foreign tourists are staying away. Some hotels have closed down altogether. Others have that awkward, apologetic feeling - of too many waiters hovering round the one busy table; the souvenir sellers squatting in the shade outside, spotting our TV camera and worrying that we are going to scare away what is left of their business. ""It is never been this bad,"" said Sultan. ""Are you sure you don't want a carved elephant?"" Kenya is a spectacularly beautiful, dynamic democracy. The Chinese are busy building a brand new train line from the capital, Nairobi, to Mombasa's busy port. There is plenty to be optimistic about here. But the country is also wrestling with some huge - and increasingly pressing - challenges: Deep ethnic divisions, an enduring culture of impunity, corruption, and the growing threat posed by home-grown militants, and by Islamist fighters from neighbouring Somalia. I used to live in Kenya a decade ago - and remember the indignant rage of local tour operators each time the UK or the US issued a new travel warning, and the holiday industry slumped a little further. Well now it has slumped by about a third - in a few short months. The sort of blow that few businesses can endure for long - and not something Kenya can afford either. The biggest blow came just the other day, further up the coast from Mombasa, when more than 60 people were shot dead, not far from another tourist town called Lamu. There is still confusion about exactly who carried out those attacks, and why. But there is a growing sense that all of Kenya's most pressing security concerns have somehow been rolled up into one giant crisis. Somalia's Islamist militant group al-Shabab immediately claimed responsibility for the bloodshed near Lamu. As with last year's attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall, al-Shabab said they were simply retaliating against Kenya for sending its troops to fight them in Somalia. But then Kenya's President, Uhuru Kenyatta, went on national television with a very different theory. Al-Shabab, he said, had nothing to do with the latest attacks. Instead, this was the work of unnamed locals - who were stoking political and ethnic tensions. He offered no details, but went on to warn his political opponents not to divide the country, or indulge in hate speech. If it was supposed to be a statesmanlike call for unity, it seems to have backfired badly, infuriating many in an already polarised nation. Soon afterwards, I was sitting in Mombasa having coffee with a local human rights activist - Khelef Khalifa - when his phone rang. He shook his head grimly: Eight of his colleagues had just been tear-gassed, beaten and arrested for staging a tiny, peaceful rally. Later the same day, I went to see the local Senator Hassan Omar - from the opposition alliance. He got a phone call too. This one telling him he was being investigated by the police for alleged hate speech. ""It's madness,"" he said. He accused the president of packing the state security services with members of his own Kikuyu ethnic group. ""This country is being Balkanised,"" he fumed. The coast does feel particularly vulnerable - local communities resentful about more recent arrivals from inland; a broader sense that Muslims here are being marginalised; and real fears about the radicalisation of youths - and the murder, quite possibly by police hit squads, of several outspoken Muslim clerics. It was late afternoon by the time the judge arrived, sat down in court, and began to yawn rather extravagantly. We were on the northern outskirts of Mombasa, a few hundred metres from some of the finest beach hotels. On trial, sitting under guard in a steel cage, was Jermaine Grant. He is a British man, arrested more than two years ago, and accused of plotting to bomb local hotels with an accomplice, Samantha Lewthwaite - dubbed the ""white widow"". She was married to one of the London 7/7 bombers, and is now on the run - perhaps in Somalia. Mr Grant said nothing in court, as a British detective described the bomb-making equipment and coded text messages the police say they found at his flat in Mombasa. Four ceiling fans whisked the humid air. The judge yawned again. It is tempting to see this long-winded trial as, at best, a minor distraction on a continent wrestling - from Nigeria to Mali to Somalia and beyond - with rising extremism. But for Kenya, as for Jermaine Grant, there is a lot at stake: Justice; the strength and independence of a nation's institutions; the rule of law.","It was a reasonably thorough @placeholder search . "" How did I do ? "" said the Kenyan security guard afterwards , fishing , unexpectedly , for a compliment .",laboratory,school,rule,job,body,4
"The Welsh government revealed the plan in the Public Health Bill on Tuesday. Save Face, a voluntary register which represents more than 300 medical professionals, said the bill should extend to other non-surgical cosmetic treatments like Botox. In response, the government said it was looking at a number of recommendations. Save Face, based in Talbot Green, Rhondda Cynon Taff, wants a mandatory register for all practitioners who offer non-surgical cosmetic procedures. It claims this would help to ensure customers, who pay for treatments like laser hair removal, chemical peels and facial fillers, know who they can trust. Director Ashton Collins said treatments like Botox, dermal fillers and laser treatments should also be included in the bill. ""What it does is muddy the waters a little bit for consumers,"" she said. ""In choosing to exclude certain treatments that are accessible in these sorts of outlets like beauty salons, [it] does create a perception that just because that beauty salon has a licence, that everything they do there is covered and actually it's not."" A review carried out in 2013 by Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director for England, recommended creating a register of everyone who performs surgical or non-surgical cosmetic interventions. It also called for formal qualifications for anyone who injects fillers or Botox. The findings of that review were passed on to health ministers across the UK. In a statement, the Welsh government said: ""We are working with the UK government to take forward a number of the recommendations in the Review of the Regulation of Cosmetic Interventions, including in relation to dermal fillers and Botox. ""If the UK government does not act in this area, the Public Health (Wales) Bill would give Welsh ministers the power to extend the scope of the special procedures legislation to include other procedures beyond acupuncture, body piercing, electrolysis and tattooing. ""We are confident our proposals will create a safer and skilled cosmetic industry, which will reassure consumers and practitioners in Wales.""",A plan to create a mandatory licensing @placeholder for tattoo and piercing parlours has been criticised for its limited scope .,scheme,fee,treats,home,demand,0
"3 December 2015 Last updated at 15:27 GMT The blaze, at North Dean Business Park on Stainland Road, Elland, started at about 10:15 GMT. Several explosions were witnessed at the fire's height. The fire service said it was now under control. Video shared with the BBC by Rebecca Dent",Up to 50 firefighters have battled a large fire @placeholder batteries at a recycling centre in West Yorkshire .,involving,broken,using,caught,destroyed,0
"A writ setting the date for the contest in Heywood and Middleton was moved by the party in the Commons at the start of business on Wednesday. It means there will be two by-elections on the same day, as there is already one scheduled for Clacton on that date. The Clacton by-election was prompted by Douglas Carswell's defection to UKIP from the Conservatives. Mr Dobbin, who had represented the Greater Manchester seat since 1997, died at the weekend at the age of 73 while on a Parliamentary trip to Poland. At the 2010 general election, Labour won the seat with a majority of 5,971.",Labour has @placeholder the by-election following the death of MP Jim Dobbin for 9 October .,announced,extended,reopened,withdrawn,called,4
"At a campaign event in Yorkshire, the Labour leader set out his offer to pensioners, saying David Cameron cannot be trusted to deliver for them. Labour will maintain the ""triple lock"" on the state pension, which ensures annual increases of at least 2.5%. But it will take winter fuel allowance away from better-off pensioners. The Conservatives have made ""dignity in retirement"" one of their key election themes and are promising to maintain all universal pensioner benefits in the next Parliament - at the same time as they seek more than £10bn in further welfare savings. The over-65s are traditionally more likely to vote in general elections than younger voters, leading to claims that the Conservatives are courting the ""grey vote"" by shielding pensioners from the worst of austerity measures to tackle the deficit. At an event in Redcar, Mr Miliband said David Cameron ""likes to boast"" of his support for pensioners ""but like all his other claims...you have to read the small print"". He restated Labour's policy of removing winter fuel allowance from pensioners with retirement incomes of more than £42,000, saying this is a ""tough but necessary"" choice to reduce annual borrowing levels. But he made a new guarantee that Labour will protect the incomes of the vast majority of pensioners. ""Labour has a better plan for protecting pensioners,"" he said. ""We have taken a difficult decision to restrict winter fuel payments for the very richest older people, the top 5% with retirement incomes that make them higher-rate taxpayers. ""But today I can announce that is the only change we are planning in the system. ""Because even in these tough times when the deficit must be cleared, Labour knows the importance of ensuring those who have worked all their lives can retire with dignity. ""We will strengthen the protection for pensioners' living standards offered by the triple lock by guaranteeing winter fuel payments to all but the wealthiest as well as bus passes and free TV licences to all those currently eligible. ""This is a big commitment but it is one I am making today because doing right by older people is the right thing to do."" The Conservatives have said they are committed to protecting all universal benefits for older people, which also include free prescriptions and eye tests. David Cameron has rejected means-testing any pensioner benefits, saying they are not a luxury and society has a duty to look after the oldest and more vulnerable. The Liberal Democrats have said the wealthiest pensioners should lose some of their entitlements and propose to take away winter fuel allowance and TV licences from higher rate taxpayers paying tax at 40%. The coalition government introduced the triple lock guarantee on pensions in 2011, ensuring that pensioner incomes keep pace on an annual basis with inflation, earnings or 2.5%, whichever is the highest. In his speech, Mr Miliband said Labour will also consult on capping the fees and charges on financial products allowing people to draw down their pensions and investment income to stop people being ""ripped off"". A Conservative spokesman said: ""Last Friday he was announcing a raid on the pensions of nurses and teachers to pay for his cobbled together tuition fees policy. ""This Friday he's claiming that he can be trusted to protect your winter fuel allowance - it just doesn't stack up. ""All Ed Miliband would end up doing is borrowing more, taxing more and spending more - and pensioners up and down the country would pay the price.""","A Labour government would guarantee free TV licences and bus passes for pensioners and protect the @placeholder of the state pension , Ed Miliband has said .",future,size,right,value,impact,3
"The Americans, who were not identified, left the country together with Yemenis hurt in a recent funeral bombing, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. The US thanked Oman for mediating and acknowledged the ""humanitarian gesture"" from the rebels. Yemen has been devastated by a war between government forces and those allied to the Houthi rebel movement. More than 6,800 people have been killed since March 2015, the majority in air strikes by a Saudi-led multinational coalition that backs the president against the Houthi rebels. Speaking in Switzerland after multilateral talks on Syria, Mr Kerry welcomed the development. ""This is something we've been working on for the last days,"" he said. The two Americans were flown to Oman alongside an unspecified number of people injured in the 8 October attack on a funeral hall in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. At least 140 people were killed, most of them civilians. The Saudi-led coalition said it had carried out the attack based on ""bad information"". Meanwhile, a US Navy destroyer in the Red Sea may have been targeted by multiple surface-to-surface missiles fired from Houthi-controlled territory, US officials said. The USS Mason took countermeasures and was not hit, they added. If confirmed, it would be the third such incident in recent days. On Thursday, the US military launched cruise missiles against three coastal radar sites in territory controlled by the rebels in response to two previous failed missile firings against the Mason.","Two US citizens held by Houthi rebels in Yemen have been released and flown to @placeholder Oman , the US says .",neighbouring,suspend,seize,attract,investigate,0
"A film was shot in the US, and was shown at a small cinema in Hollywood at the end of June. But it is the clips posted to YouTube, translated into Arabic, which appear to have sparked these protests. The video - Innocence of Muslims - first appeared online on 1 July, posted in English by someone using the pseudonym ""sambacile."" It was very badly made and cheaply produced, with poor acting and little in the way of storyline. The most offensive comments about Islam and the Prophet Muhammad had been quite obviously dubbed onto the soundtrack afterwards and not spoken by the actors. One actress featured in the film said she had no idea it would be used for anti-Islamic propaganda and condemned it. Cindy Lee Garcia, from Bakersfield in California, was quoted by the website Gawker saying she had a small role in the film which she was told would be called Desert Warriors, about life in Egypt 2,000 years ago. She threatened to sue the director for the way the actors were represented. In fact a film called The Innocence of Bin Laden was shown at a small independent cinema on Hollywood Boulevard called the Vine Theatre on 30 June this year. Someone present, who asked not to be identified, said it lasted about an hour, had very poor production values and attracted just a handful of viewers in the two showings that evening. He said the man organising the screening was an Egyptian living in America who had hired two Egyptian security guards for the evening. A man saying he was the writer and director, and claiming to be Sam Bacile, spoke to a number of media outlets on Tuesday, making inflammatory anti-Islamic comments in support of the film. He claimed to be 52, or 56, depending on the source, and to be an Israeli-born Jewish estate agent who had raised millions of dollars from Jewish donors to make the film. But prior to last week he did not exist online, except as the YouTube posting name, and there was no record of a developer of that name. Questions started being asked over whether Sam Bacile was a real person. An American right-wing extremist called Steve Klein, linked with various anti-Islamic groups in California, promoted the video, but said he did not know the identity of the director. He contradicted himself in media interviews while expressing radical views, and eventually admitted he thought Sam Bacile was just a pseudonym. Pastor Terry Jones from Florida, whose anti-Muslim actions have included burning Korans, said he had been in touch with a Mr Bacile over promotion of the film, but had not met him and could not identify him. Another name appeared linked to the film - Morris Sadek - an Egyptian American from the anti-Islamic National American Coptic Assembly. His promotion of the movie brought inquiries into the involvement of Coptic Christian groups. The Copts make up a sizeable Christian minority in Egypt and some have raised concern about their religious freedom in the new Egypt under a Muslim Brotherhood president. The Associated Press news agency, which had interviewed the man claiming to be Sam Bacile on the telephone, then followed a trail to a Californian called Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, who told AP he was a Coptic Christian and admitted he was involved in logistics and management of the film's production. He denied being the director or posing as Sam Bacile, but AP said reporters had traced the phone number to an address near where they found Mr Nakoula. The exact origin of the movie and the internet clip, and the motivation behind its production, remains a mystery, but it appears not to be linked to an Israeli film-maker as was earlier widely reported, including by the BBC. It was the film's translation into Arabic and broadcast on Arab TV stations and talk shows which sparked the violence - although investigations are now under way in Washington to establish whether the worst of the violence was not spontaneous. The religious Egyptian TV channel al-Nas showed clips from the video, dubbed into Arabic, and scenes posted online have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.",New @placeholder is emerging over the origins of an anti-Islamic video which is at the centre of violent anti-American protests in Egypt and Libya .,information,activity,concern,material,events,0
"The facilities for Highland Rugby Club forms part of the Highland Council's Inverness West Link road project. The local authority said work was progressing on new construction and also the demolition of the old clubhouse. It added that this meant the Canal Parks car park would be closed. A temporary access to the Caledonian Canal tow path had been created via the Whin Park car park. Highland Council said this arrangement was likely to remain in place until the end of August. The West Link road, which is under construction, is to ease traffic congestion in Inverness. It will eventually connect to a network of roads linking the A96, A9 and A82 trunk routes. The West Link project was opposed by a local campaign, which was set up to fight what was seen by campaigners as the loss of large areas of green space to the route of the new road.",Work to build a new rugby clubhouse and an international - standard synthetic rugby pitch in Inverness is being @placeholder up .,blown,wrapped,stepped,caught,set,2
"He died aged 66 after collapsing on a busy stage behind his dancers at a late-night concert in Ivory Coast. So ended the life of a man who helped take African pop to a global audience over more than four decades that saw spells of prison too. ""He was the icon of our culture, of our lifestyle,"" tweeted Kinshasa rapper Youssoupha. ""This is a huge loss."" He was born Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba in June 1949 in Lubefu, in what was then the Belgian Congo (now part of the Democratic Republic of Congo). According to French broadcaster RFI (in French), he got his nickname Papa because he was his mother's eldest child. He also took the name Jules Presley later in life. His love of song can be attributed to his mother, who was a professional ""wailing woman"" at funerals, AFP news agency notes in its obituary. His father wanted him to be a journalist or lawyer, RFI writes, but, after developing his trademark high-range voice in religious choirs, he made his debut in the capital Kinshasa at the end of the 1960s. Mixing traditional African music with Western rock, he and his successive bands - Zaiko Langa Langa, Isifi and Viva La Musica - enjoyed hit after hit, including  L'Esclave and Le Voyageur. Shaping Congolese music in the 1970s and 1980s, he made soukous the most popular sound across Africa, and attracted international music figures like Peter Gabriel. ""I do not know if this is a loss for African music because the music does not die,"" said Eric Didia, a promoter of Congolese music in Ivory Coast and friend of Wemba who was at the morgue where his body was taken. ""People can listen to Papa Wemba songs in 50 years, in 100 years,"" he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. Wemba was also an actor, appearing in two films, Life Is Beautiful (1987) and Wild Games (1997). In 2004, Wemba was convicted of people-smuggling in France and spent three months in prison. He was found to have helped Congolese immigrants illegally obtain visas by passing them off as musicians working with him on European shows. A Belgian court convicted him of the same crime in 2012, handing down a fine of 22,000 euros (£17,143; $24,690) and a suspended prison sentence of 15 months. Wemba had also been briefly imprisoned in Kinshasa in 1976 on suspicion of having a relationship with the daughter of a general from President Mobutu Sese Seko's army. In Kinshasa, Papa Wemba was known for his taste in clothing and headed an organisation called the Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People, or sapeurs. Their stylish suits and fedora hats brought a touch of glamour to Central African countries marked by poverty. Hours after the official confirmation of his death, hundreds gathered in Matonge, his neighbourhood in Kinshasa, to pay homage. ""He is our papa,"" Eddy Kilonda, a young man on the verge of tears, told Reuters. ""He was not only a musician. He taught us to dress properly, to be stylish."" Wemba married his wife Marie-Rose Luzolo in 1970 and they had six children","Band leader Papa Wemba will be remembered for a music @placeholder that conquered Africa , and a sense of fashion that inspired a generation of dandies .",legend,boom,group,drugs,style,4
"They asked the High Court to authorise the changes at Wickford in Essex, saying taking action would have ""a devastating impact"" on 12 children. Basildon Council argued the five, all from the same extended traveller family, carried out illegal development in breach of an injunction. They were found in contempt of court and will be sentenced on 5 May. The site is two miles away from Dale Farm, which was Europe's largest traveller site until the council spent more than £4m in a legal battle to evict 80 families from illegally-built homes. Thomas Anderson, Eileen Anderson, Winnie Anderson, Margaret Anderson and Arran Jones developed the land at Silva Lodge Kennels on Hovefields Avenue in Wickford, near Basildon. Their barrister Paul Clark said: ""The European Court of Human Rights recognises that the lives and culture of travelling people are under threat."" They apologised for breaching the injunction and did not realise they were doing anything wrong, he added in court. During the two-day hearing, Mr Justice Kerr told the two men and three women it was ""a serious matter"" and upheld the original injunction granted to the council on 14 October preventing development. Phil Turner, leader of Basildon Council, said: ""We are pleased the High Court has stood by its previous judgement and reinforced the validity of the injunction.""",Five people who @placeholder touring caravans with static mobile homes have been told to dismantle them by a judge .,poisoned,replaced,battered,threatened,spent,1
"The former prime minister's comments came in written evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. The committee is examining the role of the government in seeking compensation for victims of IRA attacks made possible by the provision of weapons by Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Among the weapons he supplied was Semtex explosives. In a letter sent to the Westminster committee in December, Mr Blair said the issue of compensation for IRA victims was never raised with him as far as he is aware. The United States negotiated a significant financial package for victims of the Pan Am jet brought down over Lockerbie and those killed in a Berlin disco bombing blamed on Libyan agents. Mr Blair said he understood ""why victims of IRA terrorism should have wanted their claims raised at the same time as the settlement of the Lockerbie compensation in 2008"". However, he said that ""for the Americans this was never going to be part of any settlement since they were focussed on US citizens affected by Lockerbie and the Berlin discotheque bombing"". Mr Blair said he ""never tried to get the Americans to exclude the claims of IRA victims"" and he ""did not raise the issue with President Bush"". He pointed out that when the compensation was under discussion in 2008 he was no longer in government. The former prime minister said ""any attempt to implicate me in deliberately trying to stop IRA victims receiving compensation is utterly without foundation and wrong"". The chair of the NI Affairs Committee, Laurence Robertson, has invited Mr Blair to appear in person before the committee to answer further questions about the Libyan compensation issue. Unionist members of the committee have urged him to accept the invitation. The DUP's Gavin Robinson said: ""As a result of Libyan sponsored terrorism against US citizens, Gaddafi's administration agreed in 2008 to pay $1.5bn [£1.03bn] to compensate families affected. For IRA  victims in the United Kingdom, however, it would appear that our government made no effort whatsoever to pursue compensation. ""An invitation has been issued for Tony Blair to give oral evidence to the committee. The seriousness of the issue, and the impact on victims are such that I would hope he will take the opportunity to answer questions in more detail."" Ulster Unionist Danny Kinahan added: ""An acceptance of this invitation would mean a great deal to all involved directly and indirectly with this inquiry and would hopefully contribute towards a conclusion that would see so many families receive the treatment they deserve. ""I want to see an end game leading to the government developing a comprehensive strategy to ensure that all victims of terrorism receive the full attention, care and support of their country.""",Tony Blair has @placeholder trying to prevent IRA victims getting any financial compensation from Libya .,started,raised,backed,defended,denied,4
"Rea was second fastest in Friday's practice, narrowly behind Chaz Davies, while Eugene Laverty was 11th quickest. The Northern Irishman is one of four riders to clinch back-to-back Superbike titles but is aiming to become the first to clinch three in a row. ""I'm thinking of this as a completely new challenge,"" said Rea, 30. ""I believe in our ability as a team, as a manufacturer and in myself as an individual."" Media playback is not supported on this device Rea still lies two titles behind Carl Fogarty's record of four championship successes but will start this season as favourite after recording a phenomenal 46 podiums from his 52 races to date with Kawasaki. The Isle of Man-based rider has already laid down a marker by topping this week's timesheets in the final pre-season outing at Phillip Island. ""I have to be clever, stay healthy and injury-free, and put a good season together,"" said Rea. ""I'm putting the thought of three championships to the back of my mind and just focusing on the first race. I have the right people behind me to help me with the job,"" he added. Media playback is not supported on this device The Ulsterman's main rival this season is expected to be Ducati-mounted Davies, given the strong manner in which the Welshman finished last season. Rea's Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes and Italian Marco Melandri, another Ducati rider, will also hope to be in the mix. Toomebridge rider Eugene Laverty is back in the series after two campaigns in the MotoGP paddock but is struggling to find a good set-up with his Milwaukee Aprilia. Laverty is a twice former race winner at Phillip Island but faces an uphill struggle to secure a high leaderboard finish. The first race of the new season will take place at 04:00 GMT on Saturday, with the second at the same time on Sunday.","Jonathan Rea is @placeholder a record third successive World Superbike crown as he begins a new season on his Kawasaki at Phillip Island , Australia this weekend .",celebrating,eyeing,holding,enjoying,ending,1
"Rangers secured a 1-0 first-leg win over Luxembourg's Progres Niederkorn in the Europa League first qualifying round at Ibrox on Thursday. But the Glasgow club will now be the subject of a disciplinary case. Uefa's control, ethics and disciplinary body will rule on the case on Friday. In a statement, Rangers fans group Club 1872 said it had been informed the club were cited to the governing body because some supporters in the Broomloan Road Stand threw scrunched-up balls of paper on to the pitch. The Scottish Premiership club have returned to European competition after a six-year absence.","Disciplinary proceedings have been opened against Rangers after @placeholder were allegedly thrown during their return to European football , governing body Uefa has confirmed .",objects,drivers,drugs,rocks,billions,0
"The benchmark Shanghai Composite closed down 6.42% at 2,749.79. Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 2.4% to 18,879.44 points in afternoon trade. Elsewhere, markets in Asia followed US stocks lower as further falls in the price of oil continued to unsettle investors. Brent crude prices fell 6.3% to $30.15 a barrel, ending a short-lived rebound as persistent concerns of oversupply were exacerbated by news that Iraq's output reached a record high last month Wall Street also fell, wiping out most of its gains from the past two days. Asia's biggest index, Japan's Nikkei 225, followed the US, dropping 2.4% to close at 16,708.90 points. The ongoing slump in the oil price has investors worried that slowing growth in the global economy, and China in particular, is far from any substantial recovery. Korean stocks also fell, with the Kospi index closing 1.2% lower at 1,871.42 points. Investor sentiment in Seoul was also dampened by data showing the country's economy grew at a slightly lower rate in the last quarter of 2015 from the previous three months. Fourth-quarter growth rose 0.6% in seasonally-adjusted terms from the third quarter, slowing from its 1.3% expansion in the previous quarter. In Australia, markets remained closed for a national holiday.","Chinese markets saw steep losses in late trade on Tuesday as investors worried about oil prices , and despite an injection of liquidity into the @placeholder market by the central bank .",dollar,mainland,domestic,growth,stock,1
"The new network will see up to 21 US-style local TV stations in areas including Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff and London. The service will be available to all terrestrial viewers and may also be offered on satellite, cable and online. Ofcom said it will decide on successful applicants this autumn, with the new channels expected to launch next year. Licences will be awarded based on a set of criteria including the provision of local news and current affairs, programme proposals, launch date and commercial viability. The 21 areas Ofcom have selected for local TV are: Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool and London. Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Sheffield, Southampton and Swansea will also benefit from the service. The areas were selected for having sufficient levels of interest from potential operators and being technically capable of receiving a local TV service. The BBC Trust also published the final details of its funding contribution for the network. As part of the current licence fee settlement, the BBC agreed to contribute up to £25 million for the successful bidder to build the network. ""I hope to see some really exciting bids for new local TV channels,"" UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said. ""Local TV will not only create jobs but it will also provide communities with news and content that is relevant to their daily lives.""",Media regulator Ofcom has @placeholder up bidding for operators to set up their own local TV services across the UK .,picked,called,opened,died,signed,2
"Voting has ended across the region's 10 borough council areas of Manchester, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The results are expected on Friday afternoon. The mayor will lead the region's combined authority, working alongside existing council leaders.",Polling stations have @placeholder in the election for Greater Manchester 's first metropolitan mayor .,closed,begun,died,seized,announced,0
"A team of archaeologists unearthed a section of a 13th Century ditch and dyke believed to have been created to protect workers who built the castle in Flint. England's Edward I began construction of the castle in 1277. The 13ft (4m) tall dirt mound is thought to have surrounded the new town, protecting it from Welsh attacks. The dyke was discovered as the flats were being demolished. The archaeological dig will eventually be covered again when a new health centre is built on the site. ""Flint is an excellent example of an implanted bastide, or town, which was built at the same time as the castle,"" said Dr Iestyn Jones of Archeology Wales. ""In order to protect the people who had come from all parts of England, they needed a protective system to keep them safe. ""It was attacked several times during the end of the 13th Century and during the Owain Glyndwr rebellion in the early 15th Century. ""But it's amazing to see that it's still here and has been preserved underneath a lot of 19th Century buildings."" Historians had long believed that a dyke system lay beneath the town, with a 1610 map by John Speed depicting the castle and a double concentric dyke system surrounding it from the south and west.",A small piece of Welsh @placeholder has been discovered under the remains of a 1960s block of flats in Flintshire .,slate,structures,fashion,history,activity,3
"The band had to stop their gig at Wembley Arena after his hair and face were burnt by a flame that was being used during the concert. The 19-year-old was treated in hospital and later posted a picture of his face in bandages. He has sent messages on social media saying that his ""face is fine"". The Australian star is not the only famous performer to have suffered an onstage accident. Here's Newsround's look at some of the most awkward slip-ups. In 2013, One Direction's Louis Tomlinson took a tumble half way through performing the group's single 'Kiss You' after a water fight at their gig in Adelaide, Australia. But it did not stop Louis, who carried on singing as he lay on the stage. The rest of the 1D boys made the most of the mishap too, spraying Louis with more water as he lay flat on his back. Katy Perry loves putting on a show every time she gets up on stage to sing but it doesn't always go to plan. In 2008, she decided to end one of her performances with an incredible stunt: diving into a large four-tiered cake. But it all started to get messy when Katy tried to stand up and walk off stage. The large amount of icing caused the star to take a second dive, this time slipping all over the stage. A band mate did his best to help her, but there was no stopping Katy falling all over the place Olly Murs had a bit of an embarrassing moment back in 2012 when performing at a music festival. He was singing a cover version of Stevie Wonder's song 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered' before deciding to run down the stairs next to the stage. Olly ended up getting his feet in a twist and tumbling down the steps. Pop star Madonna fell off the stage during her performance at the 2015 Brit Awards. Madonna tumbled down a set of stairs and landed awkwardly, apparently after a dancer tried to remove a cape she was wearing at the start of her routine. But she recovered and returned to continue her song, 'Living For Love'. The 56-year-old issued a statement later saying she was ""fine"" and that her cape had been ""tied too tight"". Foo Fighters star Dave Grohl broke his leg after falling off the stage during a concert in Gothenburg, Sweden. The band were two songs into their concert at the Ullevi stadium when the singer went to jump on a ramp but missed and fell into the security area. ""I think I just broke my leg,"" Grohl told the crowd as he lay on the ground. ""I'm going to go to hospital. I'm going to fix my leg. And then I'm going to come back.""","Five Seconds of Summer guitarist , Michael Clifford , has told his fans that he 's "" feeling @placeholder better "" after getting hurt on stage in London .",no,experience,message,way,loads,4
"1. Was there ever really a Trojan Horse? The story of the Trojan Horse is first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, an epic song committed to writing around 750BC, describing the aftermath of a war at Troy that purportedly took place around 500 years earlier. After besieging Troy (modern-day Hisarlik in Turkey) for 10 years without success, the Greek army encamped outside the city walls made as if to sail home, leaving behind them a giant wooden horse as an offering to the goddess Athena. The Trojans triumphantly dragged the horse within Troy, and when night fell the Greek warriors concealed inside it climbed out and destroyed the city. Archaeological evidence shows that Troy was indeed burned down; but the wooden horse is an imaginative fable, perhaps inspired by the way ancient siege-engines were clothed with damp horse-hides to stop them being set alight by fire-arrows. 2. Homer is one of the great poets of ancient Greek legends. Did he actually exist? Not only is the Trojan Horse a colourful fiction, the existence of Homer himself has sometimes been doubted. It's generally supposed that the great epics which go under Homer's name, the Iliad and Odyssey, were composed orally, without the aid of writing, some time in the 8th Century BC, the fruit of a tradition of oral minstrelsy stretching back for centuries. While the ancients had no doubt that Homer was a real bard who composed the monumental epics, nothing certain is known about him. All we do know is that, even if the poems were composed without writing and orally transmitted, at some stage they were written down in Greek, because that is how they have survived. 3. Was there an individual inventor of the alphabet? The date attributed to the writing down of the Homeric epics is connected to the earliest evidence for the existence of Greek script in the 8th Century BC. The Greeks knew that their alphabet (later borrowed by the Romans to become the western alphabet) was adapted from that of the Phoenicians, a near-eastern nation whose letter-sequence began ""aleph bet"". The fact that the adaptation was uniform throughout Greece has suggested that there was a single adapter rather than many. Greek tradition named the adapter Palamedes, which may just mean ""clever man of old"". Palamedes was also said to have invented counting, currency, and board games. The Greek letter-shapes came to differ visually from their Phoenician progenitors - with the current geometrical letter-shapes credited to the 6th Century mathematician Pythagoras. 4. Did Pythagoras invent Pythagoras' theorem? Or did he copy his homework from someone else? It is doubtful whether Pythagoras (c. 570-495BC) was really a mathematician as we understand the word. Schoolchildren still learn his so-called theorem about the square on the hypotenuse (a2+b2 =c2). But the Babylonians knew this equation centuries earlier, and there is no evidence that Pythagoras either discovered or proved it. In fact, although genuine mathematical investigations were undertaken by later Pythagoreans, the evidence suggests that Pythagoras was a mystic who believed that numbers underlie everything. He worked out, for instance, that perfect musical intervals could be expressed by simple ratios. 5. What made the Greeks begin using money? Was it trade or their ""psyche""? It may seem obvious to us that commercial imperatives would have driven the invention of money. But human beings conducted trade for millennia without coinage, and it's not certain that the first monetised economy in the world arose in ancient Greece simply in order to facilitate such transactions. The classicist Richard Seaford has argued that the invention of money emerged from deep in the Greek psyche. It is tied to notions of reciprocal exchange and obligation which pervaded their societies; it reflects philosophical distinctions between face-value and intrinsic value; and it is a political instrument, since the state is required to act as guarantor of monetary value. Financial instruments and institutions - coinage, mints, contracts, banking, credit and debt - were being developed in many Greek cities by the 5th Century BC, with Athens at the forefront. But one ancient state held the notion of money in deep suspicion and resisted its introduction: Sparta. 6. How spartan were the Spartans? The legendary Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus decreed that the Spartans should use only iron as currency, making it so cumbersome that even a small amount would have to be carried by a yoke of oxen. This story may be part of the idealisation of the ancient Spartans as a warrior society dedicated to military pre-eminence. While classical Sparta did not mint its own coins, it used foreign silver, and some Spartan leaders were notoriously prone to bribery. However, laws may have been passed to prevent Spartans importing luxuries that might threaten to undermine their hardiness. When the Athenian playboy general Alcibiades defected to Sparta during its war with Athens in the late 5th Century, he adopted their meagre diet, tough training routines, coarse clothing, and Laconic expressions. But eventually his passion for all things Spartan extended to the king's wife Timaea, who became pregnant. Alcibiades returned to Athens, whence he had fled eight years earlier to avoid charges of shocking sacrilege, one of which was that he had subjected Athens' holy Mysteries to mockery. 7. What were the secrets of the Greek Mystery Cults? If I told you, I'd have to kill you. The secrets were fiercely guarded, and severe penalties were prescribed for anyone who divulged them or who, like Alcibiades, were thought to have profaned them. Initiates were required to undergo initiation rites which may have included transvestism and centred on secret objects (perhaps phalluses) and passwords being revealed. The aim was to give devotees a glimpse of the ""other side"", so that they could return to their lives blessed in the knowledge that when their turn came to die they could ensure the survival of their soul in the Underworld. Excavations have uncovered tombs containing passwords and instructions written on thin gold sheets as an aide-memoire for deceased devotees. The principal Greek Mystery Cults were those of Demeter, goddess of agriculture, and of Dionysus (also known as Bacchus), god of wine, ecstasy - and of theatre. 8. Who first made a drama out of a crisis? How did theatres begin? In 5th Century Athens, theatre was closely connected to the cult of Dionysus, in whose theatre on the southern slopes of the Acropolis tragedies and comedies were staged at an annual festival. But the origin of theatre is a much-debated issue. One tradition tells of the actor Thespis (hence ""thespian"") standing on a cart and playing a dramatic role for the first time around 532BC; another claims that drama began with ritual choruses and gradually introduced actors' parts. Aristotle (384-322BC) supposed that the choruses of tragedy were originally ritual songs (dithyrambs) sung and danced in Dionysus' honour, while comedy emerged out of ribald performances involving model phalluses. As a god associated with shifting roles and appearances, Dionysus seems an apt choice of god to give rise to drama. But from the earliest extant tragedy, Aeschylus' Persians of 472BC, few surviving tragedies have anything to do with Dionysus. Comic drama was largely devoted to making fun of contemporary figures - including in several plays (most famously in Aristophanes' Clouds) the philosopher Socrates. 9. What made Socrates think about becoming a philosopher? Socrates (469-399BC) may have had his head in the clouds, and was portrayed in  Aristophanes' comedy as entertaining ideas ranging from the scientifically absurd (""How do you measure a flea's jump?"") to the socially subversive (""I can teach anyone to win any argument, even if they're in the wrong""). This picture is at odds with the main sources of biographical data on Socrates, the writings of his pupils Plato and Xenophon. Both the latter treat him with great respect as a moral questioner and guide, but they say almost nothing of Socrates' earlier activities. In fact our first description of Socrates, dating to his thirties, show him as a man of action. He served in a military campaign in northern Greece in 432BC, and during a brutal battle he saved the life of his beloved young friend Alcibiades. Subsequently he never left Athens, and spent his time trying to get his fellow Athenians to examine their own lives and thoughts. We might speculate that Socrates had toyed with science and politics in his youth, until a life-and-death experience in battle turned him to devoting the remainder of his life to the search for wisdom and truth. As he wrote nothing himself, our strongest image of Socrates as a philosopher comes from the dialogues of his devoted pupil Plato, whose own pupil Aristotle was tutor of Alexander, prince of Macedon. 10. Was Alexander the Great really that great? Alexander (356-323BC) was to become one the greatest soldier-generals the world had ever seen. According to ancient sources, however, he was physically unprepossessing. Short and stocky, he was a hard drinker with a ruddy complexion, a rasping voice, and an impulsive temper which on one occasion led him to kill his companion Cleitus in a violent rage. As his years progressed he became paranoid and megalomaniacal. However, in 10 short years from the age of 20 he forged a vast empire stretching from Egypt to India. Never defeated in battle, he made use of innovative siege engines every bit as as effective as the fabled Trojan Horse, and founded 20 cities that bore his name, including Alexandria in Egypt. His military success was little short of miraculous, and in the eyes of an ancient world devoted to warfare and conquest it was only right to accord him the title of ""Great"". Dr Armand D'Angour is associate professor of classics at the University of Oxford","The culture and legends of ancient Greece have a remarkably long legacy in the modern @placeholder of education , politics , philosophy , art and science . Classical references from thousands of years ago continue to appear . But what was the origin of some of these ideas ?",east,language,direction,plains,space,1
"Jake Harvey's Kelsae stone will be sited in front of Kelso Town Hall. The project was funded by supermarket firm Sainsbury's after it opened a store in the area. Mr Harvey said he hoped the community would get a ""sense of pride and pleasure from the completed work"" which should be finished early next year. His design was selected from four shortlisted through an open competition run by the Kelso Stakeholder Group. Mr Harvey grew up in the Borders and attended Kelso High School. He became Professor of Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2000. Charlie Robertson, who chairs the Kelso Stakeholder Group, said he was pleased with the final selection. ""When we started the process of selecting an artwork we gave it the title 'Kelsae' and challenged the entrants to produce works which epitomised what this meant,"" he said. ""We feel that the stone encapsulates the past, present and future of Kelso in an original, innovative and visually stimulating way and that it will quickly become a much loved feature of the square. ""Not only will it enhance the square, it will also spread the good name of Kelso to an even wider audience."" Mr Harvey said he was delighted his design had been chosen. ""The prospect of creating a significant work that complements the space and is an enduring embodiment of Kelso has great resonance for me,"" he said. ""I have a life-long association with the local area, and reference points in the town and the local landscape have inspired my work for close to 50 years."" He added that he looked forward to working with the people of Kelso when the inscription phase of the work began. An opportunity for the public to hear the sculptor talk about his Kelsae proposal in depth will be organised in August.","The winner has been @placeholder in a £ 40,000 competition to produce a new public artwork to be placed in the centre of a Scottish Borders town .",unveiled,held,handed,announced,placed,3
"The 25-year-old, from North Ormesby, was shaping metal when a part from the press fell on his foot on 17 March. Teesside Magistrates' Court heard that SM Thompson Limited, of Middlesbrough, had allowed dangerous lifting practices to go unchecked over 10 years. The firm admitted a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) breach and was fined £7,500. It must also pay £1,120 costs. The hearing heard how the worker had to have the big toe on his left foot amputated and two other toes removed. He was in hospital for seven days but has since returned to work, the hearing heard. HSE inspector Paul Wilson said: ""This worker's injuries need not have happened. ""The failure of SM Thompson to look properly at the risks involved and then organise the lifting operation properly put staff at needless risk. ""This sadly led to the painful and life-changing injuries suffered by this young man.""",A Teesside steel firm has been fined after a worker was @placeholder by a press and had to have three toes amputated .,crushed,attacked,lost,driven,caught,0
"According to the Manx constabulary, 11 break-ins and attempted break-ins were reported last weekend, the majority around the Douglas area. Det Insp David Dobbie said: ""This is alarming and unprecedented - officers are working longer shifts and extra patrols are being deployed."" Police said homeowners should remain vigilant and secure their properties. There have been 22 domestic burglaries on unsecured properties since September.","An "" unprecedented "" spate of burglaries over the past few days "" may be @placeholder "" , Isle of Man police said .",held,linked,honoured,issued,rated,1
"Meg Brace's border collie has retrieved more than 20 balls on the open space behind her home in Glemsford, Suffolk. After a public appeal, the Epic Youth Club recognised the balls had been taken from its kickabouts at the nearby village hall. Stuart Ayling, youth club manager, said: ""It's one remarkable pet."" The border collie, called Maggie, soon revealed her skill at retrieving balls and was featured in the East Anglian Daily Times. ""She's sometimes hard to get on with, but she has this talent,"" said Ms Brace. ""My other border collie Gizmo picks up litter from the same playing field and brings it to me to put in the bins. ""I just wish the kids would do it themselves."" Mr Ayling, who runs the youth club as part of the Edens Project based in neighbouring Sudbury, said: ""We have had problems with our footballs being taken to the rec by older teenagers who weren't part of the youth club. ""We used to take several outside at once, so people walking past could easily take one without us noticing. ""They were being kicked into the bushes rather than brought back to us.""",A youth club has been reunited with eight of its @placeholder footballs after a dog found them in bushes that border a playing field .,sex,home,condition,attacking,stolen,4
"The proposed rally has been widely opposed - police have refused to issue it a permit and injunctions to block the event are before the Australian Human Rights Commission and New South Wales Supreme Court. But anti-multiculturalism group Party for Freedom still plans to go ahead with its event on Saturday. The party's spokesman, Nick Folkes, told the BBC his group respected the local community and had complied with requests from authorities to stage the rally at a park away from the intended site at Cronulla beach. ""We're not going down to start a riot, that's not our intention at all. We understand that Cronulla is a beautiful place,"" Mr Folkes said. ""What happened 10 years ago protected [it], Cronulla's remained pretty peaceful and they haven't had gangs coming in,"" Mr Folkes said. Mr Folkes says that some locals support his point of view, but community leaders are adamant that the views of the Party for Freedom are not widely held in Cronulla. Chamber of commerce spokeswoman Annette Tasker said the rally would be disastrous for local businesses. Business owners blamed the riots for a sharp drop in business in the years following 2005, with some reporting drops in trade of up to 50%. ""The trauma that business owners suffered 10 years ago is of no concern to [Party for Freedom] whatsoever,"" Ms Tasker said. ""Some people didn't make it, they just didn't make it. You can only suffer financial loss for so long. ""It's very hard to overcome fear in a business."" Sutherland Shire Deputy Mayor Hassan Awada, a Muslim who came to Australia from Lebanon, ran a barber shop in Cronulla at the time of the riot. He said in the wake of the riots he was inundated with support. ""I could not count the number of people who walked into my shop to basically let me know and reassure me that after what happened they were just as disappointed as I was,"" Mr Awada said. ""They destroyed the local area's reputation [then] and this group is doing exactly the same, claiming to come to the area to support the Australian way of life, but ... destroying it."" Police say there will be a large police presence in Cronulla on Saturday. New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione will make an official statement later in the week. Referring to the events of 2005, Mr Scipione told Australia's 60 Minutes in November: ""The place was just swimming with alcohol, large crowds, a lot of emotion and then the build of the heat. All of those together, it's almost like a perfect storm."" The Party for Freedom follows an agenda largely focused on preventing Muslims from immigrating to Australia. It was one of the groups involved with Reclaim Australia. The Reclaim Australia movement has pushed anti-immigration groups into the media spotlight recently with several series of rallies held in major cities this year. A loose coalition of groups with widely varying agendas, the common in the movement's Australia's ideology is opposition to Islam and a perception that the government kowtows to minority groups.","It is 10 years since a race riot @placeholder up in the usually tranquil Sydney suburb of Cronulla . An anti-immigration group 's plan to hold a "" memorial "" rally has locals fearing a new outbreak of violence .",drawn,stepped,blew,woke,wrapped,2
"In an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll conducted the Friday and Saturday following the Republican primary debate in Cleveland, Mr Trump still sits well ahead of the pack with 23% support - up 1% from the previous week's results. The poll, conducted online but using scientific methods, is an indication that, at least for now, Mr Trump's support appears to be holding strong despite - or perhaps because of - his unconventional debate performance and ongoing dispute with Fox News and presenter Megyn Kelly. The real revelation from the NBC poll, however - and what should give Republican Party officials pause - are those who are climbing to the top of the pack behind the New York billionaire. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is in second with 13%, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 11%. Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina - the former corporate head who was an afterthought in the race before Thursday - are next with 8%. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker dropped from their previous second-place tie. Another poll, by Reuters/Ipsos, also has Trump way ahead, with twice as much support as Mr Bush. More than 24 million Americans watched the prime-time debate among the top Republican contenders on Thursday. Another six million tuned in to see the rest of the field - including Ms Fiorina - face off earlier in the day. And if the results of this survey are to be trusted, the candidates who are the least connected to insider Washington and the Republican Party apparatus are the ones who are flourishing. Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina - none has held elected office. Only Fiorina of those three has even run for office before, an ill-fated 2010 attempt to unseat Senator Barbara Boxer in liberal-leaning California. The Republican rank and file appear to be turning against their party elders, and the only officeholder in the race who seems to be capitalising on this is Mr Cruz. Last week he picked a very public fight with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Mr Cruz was asked about it in the first round of questions during Thursday's debates, and the Texas senator didn't back down. ""If you're looking for someone… to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy,"" he said. Mr Cruz scored points in the opening minutes of what was supposed to be the ""gotcha"" round, when candidates were put on the defensive. Mr Bush had to talk about his famous family name, Mr Trump was battered by accusations of sexism and Mr Rubio's experience and age were questioned. Two days later, the Texan received the most spirited reception at the conservative RedState Gathering in Atlanta - an event that drew eight other Republican candidates and from which Mr Trump was prominently disinvited at the last minute. Mr Cruz received multiple standing ovations. Congressman Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma, who introduced the senator, got a standing ovation. It was a mutual love-fest that morning, and the moment that most enamoured the crowd was when the senator turned his fire on his party leaders. ""We win elections, and then the people we elect don't do what they say,"" he said. Republicans took the House of Representatives in 2010 and the Senate in 2014, he continued, and what exactly has this new Republican majority accomplished? ""Nothing!"" the crowd shouted back. ""It's worse than that,"" he said. ""In this case our team is playing for the other side."" This is the rhetoric from the politician who could now be positioned to pick up the pieces if - or more likely when - political gravity eventually exerts itself on Mr Trump and the other political neophytes currently garnering the headlines. Mr Trump's campaign may not sustain itself, but ""Trumpism"", as the Washington Post's David Weigel terms it, may endure. According to Glenn Reynolds, who writes the InstaPundit blog, the surge in the anti-establishment candidates is an indictment of the current US political system, which has become unresponsive to the concerns of the average American. A similar process can be seen playing itself out on the left, as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders draws tens of thousands to his rallies and liberal conferences like the Netroots Nation event in Phoenix last month are disrupted by #BlackLivesMatter protesters. ""Ruling-class Republicans have more in common with ruling-class Democrats than with the people they rule,"" Reynolds writes. Millions of voters feel ""orphaned"". ""Democracy doesn't do much for technocratically set policy that always seems to reflect ruling-class preferences, and people feel they've lost control of their own fates."" Twenty years ago the Republican Party went through a somewhat similar paroxysm of grassroots anger. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the establishment pick, was beaten in the 1996 New Hampshire primary by the insurgent populist campaign of former pundit/speechwriter Patrick Buchanan and what he called his ""peasants with pitchforks"" supporters. ""This is a victory for the good men and women of middle America who cannot understand why there is deafness in Washington and silence about the fact the standard of living of our working men and women in middle class have been stagnating, while profits have been soaring,"" he said in his victory speech. The establishment, he warned, ""is going to come after this campaign with all they've got"". They did, quickly rallying behind Mr Dole, who went on to win the nomination - and handily lose to President Bill Clinton in the autumn. The ""peasants with pitchforks"" appear to be restless again - on the left and on the right. Will they be beaten back once more? It's a different political world than it was in the 1990s. Thanks to social media, grassroots organising and fundraising are considerably easier. Mr Cruz, in many ways a rhetorical and philosophical heir to Mr Buchanan's movement, has raised $14m in direct donations to his campaign - more than any other Republican candidate - and another $37m for the ""independent"" committee that supports him. Donald Trump can bankroll his campaign for as long as he wants. Ms Fiorina and Mr Carson are garnering more and more attention. And it's still just August, almost half a year from when the first votes are cast. The ""peasants"" have plenty more to say - but who out there is listening?","The Donald Trump @placeholder may not be over yet . That , however , could be the least of the Republican Party establishment 's concerns .",war,administration,scandal,phenomenon,years,3
"Considering the country's size and natural attractions, tourist numbers are low. In 2009, Venezuela received just over 600,000 international visitors, according to World Bank figures, compared to more than two million in neighbouring Colombia. The majority came from Europe or North America, but less than half were on holiday. Venezuela's Institute for National Statistics shows many were visiting family, on business or studying. Venezuela's annual tourism fair gets under way on Thursday and this year the country has teamed up with the UN's World Tourism Organisation to make a special push to improve visitor numbers. We want to ""boost tourism as a means of development and cultural interaction,"" a government statement said. The fair brings together airlines, hotel chains, tour operators and banks looking to invest in tourism. But while tourism overall is still underdeveloped in Venezuela, one niche has done well in recent years. Some foreign tourists have been attracted by Venezuela's political scene since President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. ""I've been to Cuba five times since 2006 and I really wanted to better understand the connection between the two countries,"" said Nancy Kohn, from Boston, Massachusetts, who was on a bus tour of the capital, Caracas. Sitting next to Ms Kohn was Sue Bergman who works in a clinic in Berkeley, California. ""The reason I chose to come here was because I've been a political activist pretty much my entire life,"" said Ms Bergman. The two women were among a dozen Canadian and American tourists on a ""reality tour"" of Venezuela run by Global Exchange, a US-based organisation. The tour dispensed with the usual holiday fare of museum visits and beaches and instead offered visitors the chance to meet Venezuelan activists and community leaders. ""See for yourself the unprecedented social change that is occurring at this historic time in Venezuela and the region,"" the tour literature said. While Mr Chavez and his policies are an attraction for some, other aspects of his ""Bolivarian revolution"" make life difficult for tourists. Currency controls to stop Venezuelans investing abroad mean the official rate of exchange is poor for foreigners arriving with US dollars. A sandwich and a bottle of water in a cafe in Caracas cost around $25 at the official rate. There has also been criticism of the government's tourism strategy. ""The ministry has changed slogans, image, concepts, markets constantly. There've been a series of changes that basically have just generated distortion and confusion in the international market,"" said Julio Arnaldes, president of the country's tourism council, Conseturismo. The government blames the international media for its inability to attract more visitors. ""There's an international network that says Venezuela is an insecure country, unstable, dangerous and that the revolution and President Chavez keep coming and that revolutionaries eat people,"" Tourism Minister Alejandro Fleming said earlier this year. Venezuela, which has one of the highest murder rates in Latin America,  has certainly struggled with its reputation for violence. But other countries have proved that a bad reputation can be overcome and even turned into an advantage. Colombia, which suffered international headlines about guerrilla conflict and cocaine trafficking, did just that when it came up with its latest tourism campaign. ""The only risk is wanting to stay,"" said the tagline on the advertisements, making an oblique reference to the worries that tourists might have about visiting a country where foreigners had been kidnapped in the past. This daring way to sell Colombia became a story in itself, garnering plenty of extra publicity overseas for its tourism attractions. For Venezuela, heavily dependent on revenues from oil, the main problem could be the lack of incentives to invest in the tourism sector, according to Brazilian advertising executive Bobby Coimbra. ""Since I arrived 20 years ago, I've never seen any government bothered about tourism and no government has ever had a plan to effectively develop the sector and sell Venezuela as a tourist destination,"" said Mr Coimbra, who heads the Caracas office of advertising agency Ogilvy Mather. ""The big problem for Venezuela is that it has a lot of oil, and that means the country doesn't worry about making other plans."" So while the push is on to attract more visitors, Venezuela's beaches, mountains and Amazon jungle seem set to remain a well-kept secret for some time to come.","It has the longest Caribbean coastline of any country and the world 's tallest @placeholder , not to mention snow - capped Andean mountains and Amazon rainforest . Tourist paradise ? Not Venezuela .",waterfall,future,race,peninsula,trees,0
"The men, who were suspected of illegal fishing, were caught in the blaze after the coastguard officers threw a ""flashbang"" or stun grenade into part of their boat where they were hiding. It is believed they died of smoke inhalation, an official said, and an autopsy has been ordered. Fourteen other fishermen survived and are being questioned by authorities. The incident began when a coastguard vessel identified the fishing boat in South Korean waters, and ordered it to stop for inspection. A coastguard official said the men ignored the commands, and barricaded themselves inside the wheel-house while the boat continued to travel. Officers then fired ""flashbang"" or stun grenades into the space, after which a fire broke out. Flashbang grenades are designed to be non-lethal, producing a very loud noise and intense light which temporarily affects vision and hearing. They can also disrupt a person's balance by affecting fluids in the inner ear. Chinese authorities have requested a full investigation, and South Korea's coastguard has said one is already under way. Fishing in South Korean waters by Chinese vessels is permitted with the proper authorisation, but illegal fishing has become a point of contention between the two countries in recent years.",Three Chinese fishermen have died in a fire after their boat was @placeholder by the South Korean coastguard .,boarded,passed,launched,inspired,spotted,0
"So when he arrived for the Bahrain Grand Prix in a traditional local dress, it was perhaps no surprise that he managed to pull it off. But he's not the first. Oh no - Lewis follows a rich tradition. Formula 1 and style statements go together just fabulously, as we can demonstrate in this stunning parade of racers.","Karl Lagerfeld , Stella McCartney , Anna Wintour ... Lewis Hamilton has @placeholder all the fashionistas who matter .",met,announced,killed,admitted,produced,0
"The wedding reception of Sarah Cummins, 25, had been booked at the plush Ritz Charles in Carmel, Indiana, and was non-refundable. So she contacted homeless shelters in the area and guests were bussed in for Saturday's 170-seat dinner. Ms Cummins called off the wedding but has not given the reasons. She told the Indy Star: ""It was really devastating, I called everyone, cancelled, apologised, cried, called vendors, cried some more and then I started feeling really sick about just throwing away all the food I ordered for the reception."" She had been due to marry Logan Araujo, who had footed the largest part of the bill. Ms Cummins said her ex-fiance, whose mother died recently, had agreed to the solution. Mr Araujo told the Indy Star: ""I'm happy through my grief and also Sarah's that she was able to make a selfless and very thoughtful decision in such a hard time."" Ms Cummins worked with the Ritz Charles' wedding planner on the event and then contacted homeless shelters, arranging for buses to pick up the new guests. Local business helped to donate suits and dresses for the reception, Associated Press reported. The agency quoted one of the attendees, Charlie Allen, as saying: ""I didn't have a sport coat. I think I look pretty nice in it. For a lot of us, this is a good time to show us what we can have. Or to remind us what we had."" Some of Ms Cummins' family joined her at the event, along with three bridesmaids. The menu included chicken breast with artichokes and Chardonnay cream sauce, roasted garlic bruschetta and, of course, wedding cake. Ms Cummins was scheduled to leave for what was supposed to have been her honeymoon - taking her mother instead of Mr Araujo - in the Dominican Republic on Sunday.","An American woman whose $ 30,000 ( Â £ 23,000 ) wedding was cancelled has @placeholder the homeless at her banquet rather than let it all go to waste .",hosted,met,claimed,gathered,entered,0
"The attacking midfielder signed for the Bluebirds from Bristol City for a fee which could rise to £2.9m. Tomlin, 28, played six Premier League games for previous club Bournemouth and he believes Cardiff can win promotion from the Championship this season. ""This is a massive club and my ambition is to get back in the Premier League,"" he told BBC Wales Sport. ""So when I spoke to the gaffer [Neil Warnock], it was an easy decision. He's an unbelievable manager. ""For me, this season, you've got to be aiming for play-offs at least. With the depth and quality we've got, there's no reason why not. ""Just because the other clubs are spending a lot more money, it means nothing. Just look at Leicester winning the Premier League."" Although Tomlin's spell in the top flight with Bournemouth was short-lived, he has enjoyed several productive seasons in the Championship with clubs such as Middlesbrough and Peterborough. Cardiff manager Neil Warnock described him as his ""number one"" target this summer and, after a Championship relegation scrap with Bristol City last season, Tomlin hopes to be challenging for promotion in the coming campaign. ""Yeah, 100%. I had to make the right move this time,"" he added. ""Speaking to the gaffer and watching how they did last season, he said this was one type of player that he needed. ""He's put a lot of faith in me so hopefully I can show him this season."" Tomlin has spent the majority of his career playing in the '10' role between the centre-forward and midfield. He has 99 club goals to his name and, with Cardiff's top scorer last term Kenneth Zohore to play alongside, Tomlin hopes to be a creative force as well. ""I'd say for me, I'll try and get 10 goals a season but I'd also like to get 10 or 15 assists,"" he said. ""Almost every striker I've played with has got 15 or 20 goals a season, so hopefully Ken can get that this season.""",Lee Tomlin says he @placeholder Cardiff City in order to return to the Premier League .,side,feared,expects,faces,joined,4
"In an answer to Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, Education Minister Anne Milton said the total 2016-17 budget for 16- to 19-year-olds in England was £5.9bn. But the Sixth Form College Association said its analysis of the detail showed only about £5.7bn had been spent. The government says it has tackled unfair funding in post-16 education. But the Sixth Form College Association says standalone sixth forms still lose out compared with sixth forms that are part of schools. And leaders of both schools and colleges say they have had to cut courses and reduce student support in response to growing funding pressures. The researchers say the shortfall amounts to a loss of £164 per student over the course of the year. The association says a survey of its members in standalone sixth-form colleges in October suggested two-thirds had dropped subject courses as a result of funding cuts and increased costs. While the Association of School and College Leaders, which represents secondary school head teachers, reports similar difficulties in school sixth forms. Sixth Form Colleges Association chief executive Bill Watkin said the quality of the education was suffering. ""We urge the Department for Education to ensure that this £200m under-spend finds its way to colleges and schools in time for the beginning of the academic year in September,"" he said. ""Ours is the last budget in the Department for Education that should be under-spent."" And Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and Colleges, said schools were being hit across the board by rising costs ""but the situation in post-16 education is even more serious because these pressures come on top of funding cutbacks in the last Parliament"". Ms Lucas, vice-chairwoman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Sixth Form Colleges, said she found it ""hard to understand why £200m of the sixth-form education budget has not reached the education front line"". ""The government needs to clarify where this money has gone and ensure that it is redirected to school sixth forms and colleges as soon as possible,"" she said.","The government has under-spent its sixth - form education budget by £ 200 m this year , analysis of figures from a @placeholder ministerial answer suggests .",reported,written,proposed,troubled,neighbouring,1
"The comments were made by Labour MP Steve Rotheram after the Home Secretary agreed to the disclosure during a Commons debate on Monday. He said it remained to be seen whether it was a victory for the families, who had been let down so many times before. Ninety-six Liverpool fans died in the tragedy in April 1989. Ninety-five supporters were killed in a crush of fans at Sheffield Wednesday's ground, where the club was playing an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest. The 96th victim was in a coma for three years and died in 1992. Trevor Hicks, the president of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, who lost two daughters at the match, said on Tuesday he welcomed the vote. ""I think for the first time I am very positive, I think that the house today has done itself proud,"" he said. ""For many years I have watched the house and some of the silly antics of party politics, but I do think for once I have seen a very positive will across the house in trying to bottom this once and for all. ""We saw some very emotional scenes which show that MPs have a heart as well as a mouth."" He admitted it could be some time before the findings were released. ""The report from the independent panel will be published probably in May or June of next year but again, our position on that is we want them to do a full and proper job, and we would rather them take a few more months and do the job properly than rush it and meet an artificial timeline."" The debate was triggered by 140,000 people signing an e-petition, set up by Liverpool fan Brian Irvine. He said: ""I hope in the end the family get the answers that they are looking for from this. ""They are the most important people at the end of the day. I hope Theresa May will be good to her word and all the relevant documents will be released to the relevant panel and they can get closure on this after 22 years."" Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman, who took part in the Commons debate, said it was a significant step forward. ""Lost lives cannot be regained but bereaved families have just waited too long to find out just what happened,"" she said. ""This means that all the papers the government holds will be released so I think that is a very significant change."" Mr Rotheram, whose Walton constituency includes Anfield, opened the debate on Monday. He said there had been a campaign to blame Liverpool fans for the tragedy and has called on the prime minister to issue a formal apology. The MP is also making a fresh demand for an apology from The Sun newspaper over its infamous ""The Truth"" headline and story which alleged drunken and criminal behaviour by Liverpool fans. Labour frontbencher Andy Burnham has also welcomed the disclosure, saying it was one of the ""biggest injustices of the 20th Century"". ""The home secretary has made an unequivocal commitment to full disclosure, echoing the words of the Prime Minister in his letter to me,"" he said. ""We thank her for it. And the fact that there is now agreement across this house between all parties shows the watching world that this is not about party politics but the fundamental rights of victims and their families."" He has joined Mr Rotheram in calling for an apology from the government. Speaking to Radio Merseyside on Tuesday, he said: ""Some people are confused as to why a prime minister who obviously wasn't there 22 years ago would be forced to make an apology but he apologised after the Saville Report for the atrocities on Bloody Sunday. ""I think it is appropriate that if, as we all believe, the government was complicit in any of this cover up, then the prime minister now should apologise for the government's mishandling of what happened at Hillsborough."" West Lancashire MP Rosie Cooper added to calls for a government apology. She said: ""I also support Steve Rotheram in his calls for the prime minister to make a public apology to the families of the 96 and everyone associated with Liverpool Football Club. ""The record needs to be set straight and the lies told about events on that day recognised as the lies they were. Lies the government of the day were part of pedalling. ""After 22 years perhaps now we can finally begin to get justice for the 96.""","The decision to release all government documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster has been called a "" victory for democracy and people @placeholder "" .",life,remarks,here,health,power,4
"A small drone will be trialled by the agency at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster. The President is expected to make a long visit to the club. The Secret Service has said that it is experimenting with various drones for security monitoring. In this case, the drone will fly at an altitude of between 300 and 400 ft (91 to 121 metres), observing the perimeter of the protection zone at the club. It is equipped with optical and infrared cameras and will be physically linked via a microfilament tether to a power source. The Secret Service has said it will notify people at the club that the vehicle is in operation. It is also aware that private residences will be within range of the drone's surveillance equipment. Images and video recorded by the drone will be overwritten within 30 days unless they are part of a law enforcement investigation at that time. The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones tested a number of consumer drones last year, although one that he was holding via a tether did not survive.","The US Secret Service plans to test a security drone when President Trump visits his New Jersey golf club later this month , according to a document @placeholder by Reuters .",seen,proposed,approved,published,filed,0
"On Wednesday, treasury authorities said Uber's licence could be revoked because it was registered as a software company, not as a taxi service. But hours later, the Executive Yuan government said it wanted to discuss options with Uber. The California-based company said it would welcome the discussion. ""We thank the Executive Yuan for demonstrating leadership and willingness to open a meaningful dialogue,"" the company told the BBC. Uber, which connects drivers to passengers through their smartphones, was initially told it had to wait until 11 August to discover whether the service would be banned. But later on Wednesday the government announced it would hold a meeting next week to discuss possible amendments of existing laws to keep Uber in Taiwan. ""Uber is not legal under our existing laws and regulations,"" said Tong Zhenyuan, a spokesman of the Executive Yuan, as quoted by local press agency CNA. ""The government will take a comprehensive review and come up with a relevant policy and establish a system of fair competition,"" he said. Some Uber drivers in Taiwan have had their individual operating licences suspended, according to reports. And they could now be fined 50,000 Taiwan new dollars (£1,180) each time they are caught working for the company. Taiwan's transport ministry says it has already fined Uber drivers a total of 65m Taiwan new dollars. At the heart of the issue is the question of whether Uber is a software or transportation company. ""They are registered as an information services provider, but what they're doing is actually transportation,"" said Taiwan transport ministry spokesman Lin Kuo-hsien. The difference between those two business types, he said, determined whether taxi passengers were legally protected when riding in an Uber vehicle. If the government presses ahead with a ban, Uber will have the chance to appeal. ""Uber is committed to Taiwan and to the tens of thousands of Taiwanese riders and drivers who rely on Uber every day,"" a Uber representative told the BBC. The potential ban in Taiwan comes two months after a court in France fined Uber for running what it deemed an illegal transport service that used non-professional drivers. In July, Uber ceased operations in Hungary after state officials blocked internet access to the app, referring to it as an ""illegal dispatcher service"". Uber was founded in 2009 and says it now operates in more than 500 cities around the world. More than two billion journeys have been made using the app. Rival car-hailing app Lyft said it had completed 14 million rides in July - up 12% on June.","Car-booking app Uber could be banned in Taiwan , after state officials claimed the company did not operate lawfully within the @placeholder .",region,island,organisation,mainland,table,1
"Born just around the corner from The Valley in Greenwich, 25-year-old Oztumer was released at the age of 16 by the Addicks for being too small. But a defiant Oztumer's stance was: ""If you're good enough you're tall enough"". ""Every day I get told I'm too small,"" the 5ft 3in Saddlers man told BBC WM. ""I still have to stretch really high in the supermarket to get stuff,"" quipped the Londoner, who still believes himself capable of reaching football's top shelf, like so many other vertically-challenged famous players before him. ""On the pitch, I've made it an advantage for me,"" he said. ""I've learnt what to do and what not to do and it doesn't bother me any more."" After his release by Charlton, Oztumer played in Turkey, then with south London non-league side Dulwich Hamlet, the former home of ex-Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright. Having scored 28 times in the Ryman Premier, following an unsuccessful trial at Burnley, he then caught the eye sufficiently to be given a contract by Peterborough United boss Darren Ferguson, moving from Dulwich for an undisclosed fee. But, after scoring seven times in 50 appearances over two seasons with Posh, he has now doubled that tally this season following last summer's move to Walsall. His tally of 14 is currently bettered only by four players, all strikers - Sheffield United's Billy Sharp (26), Bury's James Vaughan (20), Scunthorpe's Josh Morris (19) and 16-goal Matty Taylor, who moved from Bristol Rovers to Championship rivals Bristol City in January. Only two of those 14 have been penalties, although another was a freakish injury-time effort against his old club Peterborough which went in straight from a corner. ""I feel I've progressed a lot this year,"" he said. ""I was at Charlton for nine years to the age of 16, then didn't get offered a scholarship. But, at the time, they were a Premier League side with a very good academy. ""When you get released at that age, you think is it over for me? Am I going to be a professional? I dropped into non-league but I've worked my way back up, it's been a learning curve and I think I'm better for it."" And he says the only reason that he has one eye on winning on Saturday is to help League One play-off hopefuls Walsall match their superb recent home form by earning a first away win since Boxing Day. ""It's not personal,"" he said. ""It'll just be nice to go back home as I live only five minutes from the ground and can see my family over the weekend. ""But there's still 30 points on the table for us. If want to reach our targets, we need to win more away games."" Erhun Oztumer was talking to BBC WM's Rob Gurney",Walsall midfielder Erhun Oztumer will have an extra incentive to show Charlton Athletic just what they are missing when he @placeholder up against his boyhood club on Saturday .,lines,woke,is,picked,opened,0
"As Andrea Broughton from the Institute for Employment Studies points out: ""At the lowest end are Austria, with an unemployment rate of just 4.8%, Germany (5.4%) and Luxembourg (5.5%). ""This contrasts with Greece, where the rate is 26.2% (December 2012 figure), Spain, with a rate of 26.3%' and Portugal, with a rate of 17.5%."" Perhaps the most disturbing figure is for youth unemployment. The average rate for the under 25s in the EU is 23.5%. Nearly a quarter of Europe's youth are not working. In Spain the figure is 55.7%. For the moment the strategy for keeping the eurozone together is sharpening Europe's divide. The Germans believe that a combination of austerity and structural reforms will eventually spark growth in southern Europe and narrow the gap in competitiveness. There are a significant number of officials and economists, however, who doubt the policy is working. Indeed they believe that several countries are now trapped in a cycle of decline. Only this week the French President Francois Hollande said that ""sticking with austerity would condemn Europe not just to recession but an explosion"". So far Europe's young people have been remarkably tolerant of unemployment levels reminiscent of the Great Depression. There has been some burning of EU flags and anger with the Germans but Europe's so-called lost generation has not yet challenged the role of Europe and its institutions. Brussels and Europe's leaders have been able to blame the crisis on the financial crisis of 2008 and to insist it was ""made in America"". But the truth is somewhat different. The structure of the eurozone, with one interest rate for all, enabled countries like Spain to embark on a construction boom. Ireland had a similar story. Greece initially benefitted from unrestricted flows of outside capital and wages soared. What the financial crisis in America did was to bring the party to an end. A reckoning followed. The price is still being paid with wages and costs being slashed in an attempt for these mainly southern countries to regain competitiveness within a monetary union. The question remains: in the end were the economic differences between the countries which adopted the euro too great and are millions of young Europeans paying for that mis-judgment? Whilst the official line is that the euro has been saved, privately there is far more anxiety. Increasingly the threats to the eurozone are seen as not so much the bond spreads, but the combination of deepening recession and rising unemployment in parts of Europe. As Nicholas Spiro of Spiro Sovereign Stategy said, ""the surge in joblessness coupled with this morning's grim PMI surveys [manufacturing surveys] are a glaring example of the extent to which market sentiment towards the eurozone has become detached from economic fundamentals. The disconnect is most pronounced in Spain and Italy but is also manifest in France"". Europe's leaders are in the fourth year of fighting this crisis and the reality is that the gap between some of those countries which share the common currency is only widening.","When Europe 's unemployment figures were @placeholder today , they once again underlined the north - south divide . Increasingly there are two Europes .",rising,published,low,inflated,addressed,1
"The accident happened on Creag Meagaidh, to the north of Glen Spean. The climber was taken off the mountain by a coastguard rescue helicopter and transferred to Belford Hospital in Fort William. The climber's companion was able to walk away from the area and was later assisted by members of the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team. It is understood the climber's injuries are not significant.",A climber has been @placeholder about 300 m over crags after triggering an avalanche in the west Highlands .,swept,charged,spent,captured,evacuated,0
"""In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts, it's the life in your years,"" was the message on Twitter and Instagram, also shared by President Trump. There was just one problem: the words have been attributed to Lincoln many times over the years, but there is no evidence he ever said them. The post has since been deleted. It was the latest example of a growing modern phenomenon, the fake political quote. Some have said ""fake news"" could have swung the outcome of November's US presidential election. Bogus stories like ""Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President"" were extensively shared online. Made up quotes are perhaps more benign than fictitious news stories with a clear political agenda. But they still raise concerns, says James Ball of Buzzfeed News, who is writing a book about ""post-truth"" politics. ""If enough people share and believe these fake quotes, then they can contribute to the polarisation of politics, making each side think less of the other, especially as many partisans think fake news is a problem which affects primarily (or only) their opponents."" These fake quotes don't just come from right-wing politicians and activists. In the days after the US election, a quote supposedly taken from a 1998 Donald Trump interview went viral online. ""If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up,"" the quote said. It seemed too obnoxious to be true - and it was. Fake George Orwell quotes are a specialty in left-wing social media circles. One example is ""during times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."" There is no evidence the 1984 author ever said these words, but social media is awash with shareable pictures of them alongside Orwell's monochrome face. So how do bogus quotes like this get into circulation? ""Sometimes people just want new followers or shares on social media, and either invent a quote or (naively or otherwise) lift a questionable one,"" says James Ball. ""Others invent quotes as a hoax or parody to show up people they disagree with, or to fire up their own side - or simply to make money from adverts on fake news sites."" The internet means fake quotes can spread very quickly. ""It's easier to fabricate things than it is to debunk them,"" says Rasmus Nielsen, director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. ""As communication gets easier, there is going to be more and more of this stuff floating about online."" Jenni Sargent runs First Draft News, which is working with social media companies and news organisations to look at innovative solutions to the problem. ""People are experimenting with the most engaging way to spread false information,"" she says. She wants news websites to come up with entertaining ways of debunking fake facts and quotes. A blue tick next to a name on Twitter tells you the account has been verified as ""authentic"". Sargent wants to come up with ways to highlight unreliable sources, ""like the opposite of a blue tick"". Facebook is introducing tools for German users to flag false stories ahead of that country's parliamentary elections in the autumn. Third-party fact checkers would mark unreliable stories as ""disputed"". The BBC has also said it will fact check deliberately misleading stories ""masquerading as news"". British MP Damian Collins is chairing a parliamentary inquiry into these issues, which will look at the possibility of news websites having ""verified"" markers. Collins thinks fake quotes attributed to electoral candidates could end up ""distorting the democratic process"". Often verifying quotes is simply a case of rigorously searching through publicly available information, says Kim LaCapria, who works for rumour-busting website Snopes. The volume of dubious content online is greater than ever before, but verification can be easier because far more information is digitised, she says. ""It's actually pretty easy for average social media users to fact check online."" Her job involves looking at outright fake quotes, but also real quotes presented in a misleading way. For example, Al Gore has been ridiculed for claiming he ""invented the internet"". The former vice president did once say ""I took the initiative in creating the Internet,"" but taken in full context, that line seems rather more modest. We are less likely to expend energy verifying a quote which confirms our political beliefs, says LaCapria, an effect which psychologists call confirmation bias. Whether a fake quote comes from the left or the right, it tends to have one common feature, she says. ""It validates our preconceived beliefs or feelings, and that's often proffered as a valid reason to spread it.""","It was Abraham Lincoln 's 208th birthday last weekend . The US Republican Party 's social media feeds honoured the 16th president by sharing a picture of his iconic @placeholder in Washington DC , with an inspiring quote laid over the top .",memorial,office,era,change,pots,0
"The latest round of national polls has set off something akin to a mass panic among Republican officeholders and intelligentsia, with some wishing Mr Trump would just quit already and leave them to pick up the pieces. Here's why. Hillary Clinton is up seven percentage points in a CBS survey, nine in CNN and NBC, an eye-popping 15 in a Marist survey that had the race within the margin of error just a few weeks ago. She's posting sizeable leads in key swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire and Florida. She's even leading in Georgia, a state Republican Mitt Romney carried by 8 percentage points. August polls are notoriously fickle, of course, and a Clinton bump was always expected - a typical result following a successful national party convention. This surge, however, has the feeling of something more substantive, given that it comes on the heels of a series of Mr Trump's unforced errors. The Republican standard-bearer suggested Russia should hack Mrs Clinton's emails. He fought with the parents of a slain Muslim-American soldier in Iraq and feuded with Republican congressional leaders, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. These were just the headliners, too, nestled among a series of lesser gaffes. Mr Trump reportedly questioned why the US doesn't consider a first-use nuclear policy, insisted that Russia would never invade Ukraine, suggested women who are sexually harassed at work should find other employment, made jokes about a crying baby at the mother's expense and rehashed a series of old political feuds, such as his off-colour remarks about Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Through much of the late spring, potential head-to-head matchups gave Mrs Clinton a steady, if unremarkable advantage. The conventions presented Mr Trump with his best opportunity to reshape the electoral playing field - part of a pivot that his campaign chairman Paul Manafort was quietly promising to party leaders. For a while that seemed to be how things were playing out. Mrs Clinton was staggered by an FBI rebuke of her use of a private email server while secretary of state. Mr Trump pulled ahead in several July polls. The Republican Party rank and file were dutifully falling into line. The national spotlight of the Republican convention offered the opportunity for Mr Trump to cement this trend and capitalise on the natural strength of a presidential challenger running against a party looking for a third straight term in office. Instead it has all come unglued. The doom-and-gloom Republican convention was a historic bust, leaving - according to one poll - Americans who watched it less likely to support Mr Trump. The head-to-head deficit with Mrs Clinton has re-emerged and grown, suggesting an anti-Republican equilibrium that could prove difficult to disrupt and threatens to swamp the party's down-ballot congressional candidates. As a result some Republicans in at-risk districts have begun openly running against their nominee. Meanwhile party insiders are left comforting themselves with thoughts that while they weren't able to block Mr Trump's successful primary campaign, maybe - when faced with an election that seems destined to end in humiliating defeat - he could commit political seppuku and allow the party to hand-pick a replacement. ""I'd rather take our chances with nearly anyone else than continue with this certain loser who will likely cost the Senate and much more,"" an anonymous New Hampshire Republican tells Politico. Such scenarios, however, are wishful thinking in the extreme. No one emerged as a viable Trump alternate during the Republican primaries, so who is the mystery Republican the party would flock to? The reviled-by-many Ted Cruz? Vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence, who was in a dogfight in his home state just to win re-election? Would House Speaker Ryan or 2012 nominee Mitt Romney willingly walk into a buzz saw of scorn from Trump faithful? Not that it matters, since Mr Trump has spent most of the past year successfully defying predictions that his campaign is on the brink of collapse. Why would he pay heed now? Mr Trump is drawing tens of thousands to his rallies. While this may be irrelevant in a national electorate that numbers in the hundreds of millions, the adulation of crowds is catnip to even the most jaded of candidates. Then there's the torrent of money that Mr Trump has unleashed - more than $80m (£61m) in July, thanks to a flood of small-donor contributions. Presidential hopefuls with enthusiastic audiences and campaign coffers full of cash aren't prone to humble exits. Ever since Mr Trump descended that golden escalator to announce his candidacy last July, his campaign has been a roller-coaster ride for the Republican establishment, alternating between reluctant acceptance and sky-is-falling hysteria. This week has marked one of the more pronounced troughs in this journey, but the general election sprint is only just beginning. There may still be peaks of resigned accommodation ahead. If Mr Trump can get back on message with a few carefully modulated speeches and at least a handful of news cycles without outrageous statements, the polls could again narrow to within a more typical partisan split. There's nothing the media like more than a good candidate comeback story. The debates - assuming Mr Trump participates - start up in late September. They present another, possibly final chance for the Republican to reshape the race. That may be a tall order for a candidate who was at times shaky during the primary debates and largely benefitted from a stage crowded with competitors, placing a premium on quick jabs and downplayed substance. It will be harder to skate by on style alone in a 90-minute two-person presidential face-off. Back in 1988 another candidate was seeking a third-straight presidential term for his party. George HW Bush had started ahead early in the year, but Democrat Michael Dukakis made headway over the summer and carried a solid lead through the Democratic convention. By September, however, the advantage had vanished, and Mr Bush cruised to victory. Lee Atwater, Mr Bush's campaign manager, used to tell a story about how the number of people Americans viewed as presidential calibre could fit in a small boat. The goal of a campaign, he said, was to push the opponent overboard. In 1988, thanks to Atwater's withering negative campaign, Mr Dukakis suffered that fate. According to most public surveys, Mr Trump is well outside of Atwater's boat right now. Perhaps he's never been in it. For more than a year Mr Trump has seemed to be operating in an impregnable submarine - immune to his opponents' more traditional attacks and spraying torpedoes at his hapless adversaries. Now his vessel is at last springing leaks - and while Democrats have been trying their best to sink him, the gravest damage may be of his own making.","Like a boxer on the ropes , the Trump campaign has weathered a flurry of @placeholder blows over the past few weeks . Is this the beginning of the end , a full three months before election day ? Should Donald Trump throw in the towel before the inevitable November knockout ?",silence,clarity,activity,growing,body,4
"14.50-15.15 Opening of Conference Speech: Baroness Brinton, Lib Dem president 15.50-16.50 Debate: Creating Safe and Legal Routes for Refugees 16.50-17.20 Policy Pitch 11.20-12.20 Debate: Winning in Europe 12.20-12.40 Speech: Sophie in t'Veld, Dutch MEP and vice-chair of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group 14.20-15.05 Debate: Term-Time Family Holiday Rules 15.05-15.25 Speech: Baroness Walmsley, Lib Dem peer 15.25-16.10 Q&A session: Tim Farron, Lib Dem leader 16.10-17.10 Debate: Reducing Tax on Tourism 09.00-09.40 Debate: Transgender and Intersex Health Charter 10.25-11.10 Debate: Urgent Action on Air Quality and Health 11.10-11.30 Speech: Willie Rennie, leader of Scottish Lib Dems 11.30-12.20 Debate: Securing a Global Treaty on Climate Change 12.20-12.40 Speech: Nick Clegg, former Lib Dem leader 14.20-15.05 Debate: Public Health Service 15.05-15.25 Speech: Kirsty Williams, leader of Welsh Lib Dems 15.25-17.00 Debate: Scrapping Trident 09.00-09.45 Emergency motion and/or topical issue discussion 11.00-12.20 Debate: Delivering the Housing Britain Needs 12.20-12.40 Speech: Norman Lamb, Lib Dem MP 14.20-15.25 Debate: Human Rights 15.25-15.35 Charles Kennedy Tribute 09.00-10.00 Emergency motion and/or topical issue discussion 10.00-11.00 Debate: No-one Should be Enslaved by Poverty 11.00-11.45 Debate: Youth Services 11.45-13.00 Speech: Tim Farron, Lib Dem leader",The Liberal Democrats are @placeholder in Bournemouth for their annual conference - here are the highlights in the main hall .,held,growing,gathering,pouring,staying,2
"Alan Steadman, 69, is the first Scottish voice - and the first non-English voice - chosen for the role. He was announced on BBC's The One Show as the winner of a competition marking the clock's 80th anniversary. Mr Steadman, who presented a weekly local radio jazz programme for 33 years until January, said recording for the clock was an ""interesting experience."" He said: ""I found that your eyes begin to blur a bit because of all the numbers that you're reading, but I think it went okay."" Mr Steadman entered the competition ""at the eleventh hour"" after a friend encouraged him to apply. The other finalists were Crea Barton, a 20-year-old student from Bangor in County Down, and Verity Giles, a 37-year-old business manager from Bridgend. Mr Steadman is only the fifth person to give the time ""at the third stroke"" when people dial 123. David Hay, head of BT Heritage and a member of the judging panel, said: ""Competition was tough. ""It was so difficult to choose the winner from our finalists because any one of them would be a great new voice for the speaking clock. ""But Alan stood out and I think we've found a fantastic new voice."" Sara Mendes da Costa had been the voice of the speaking clock since winning the last competition in 2007. About 12 million calls a year are still made to the speaking clock, which was launched on 24 July, 1936. BT donated 10p to the BBC's Children in Need 2016 from each call from the start of the competition in August until the result was announced.",A @placeholder Dundee civil servant and former radio presenter is the new voice of the BT speaking clock .,ice,packed,change,retired,group,3
"Belmont, a Grade II* listed building in Lyme Regis, has been restored following eight years of research and two years of restoration work by the Landmark Trust charity. It was owned in the 18th Century by Eleanor Coade, who built up a successful artificial stone business. The building will open to the public on Saturday and Sunday. Dr Anna Keay, director of the Landmark Trust, said the rejuvenated building was ""a fitting monument to the genius of Eleanor Coade"". She added: ""Visitors will now be able to stay in her Georgian architectural gem and in so doing experience the beauty and peace that inspired one of our greatest modern writers, John Fowles."" Belmont was Fowles's home for almost four decades from 1968, and it was where he completed his classic novel The French Lieutenant's Woman. The Landmark Trust's craftspeople have recreated any damaged or missing items at their studio in the Cotswolds, such as fireplaces, architraves, shutters and skirting boards. Coade stone was a ceramic, synthetic stone that was first produced during the 18th Century. Like the trust's other 195 buildings, Belmont will be let out for short breaks.","A Georgian seaside villa in Dorset , where author John Fowles @placeholder , will open its doors after a £ 1.8 m revamp .",reopened,lived,listed,revealed,show,1
"26 September 2016 Last updated at 12:00 BST Ben, from Sheffield, was 21 months old when he disappeared on 24 July 1991 during a family holiday. A fresh line of inquiry suggested he could have been crushed by a digger. South Yorkshire Police (SYP) said it continued to keep an ""open mind"" about what happened to Ben.",Police teams searching for missing toddler Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos have @placeholder to excavate a new site after new information emerged .,returned,attempted,agreed,risen,started,4
"For the outcome of this poll will most likely be determined by which voters are prepared to turn out on a dank, dark December day. For Labour, this seat should be as safe as Oldham's red-bricked terraced houses. The constituency has been Labour for most of its existence. The late Michael Meacher bequeathed a majority of more than 14,000 after a 45-year incumbency. The party's candidate is a dynamic young council leader with a strong power base and a moderate background. ""He's definitely not a Maoist,"" one senior UKIP figure told me with a sigh. And yet Labour MPs campaigning on the doorstep are nervous. They are picking up that many of the party's traditional supporters are planning to stay at home or even switch to UKIP. Many of these are from the white working classes in this less than well off constituency. They seem unimpressed by Labour's divisions and some don't like the cut of Jeremy Corbyn's jib. They don't seem to understand him and his brand of what they see as a form of metropolitan leftism. One voter told me: ""I am a socialist, but he's ruddy communist."" Others fear that Labour's economic competence under Mr Corbyn is as much a threat to their jobs as a Tory government that leaves them vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the global economy. Some are just people whose loyalties were to Michael Meacher rather than Labour per se and now feel less bound to vote for the party. These are fears that UKIP is exploiting to the full. The party came second here in the general election and fancies its chances. Just over a year ago they came within 600 votes of defeating Labour in a neighbouring by-election. UKIP began the campaign targeting Mr Corbyn's patriotism after he failed to sing the national anthem and appeared equivocal about the future of the Falkland Islands. But after the Paris attacks, UKIP moved up a gear, highlighting Mr Corbyn's reluctance to authorise lethal force against terrorism and his party's contortions over bombing so-called Islamic State in Syria. The party hopes this uncertainty over security issues will resonate in a constituency that is still proud to be the place where the Dambuster Lancaster bombers were built. This is UKIP's strongest card. They are attacking Labour's record locally - such as council spending levels - but the party's traditional issues such as Europe and immigration do not appear to be playing big. So it is to Mr Corbyn's performance that they return. As Paul Nuttall, UKIP's deputy leader, told me: ""This election is a referendum on Jeremy Corbyn."" UKIP hopes that this strategy will not only attract some disaffected Labour supporters but might also appeal to traditional Conservative supporters. The Tories came a narrow third here last year with more than 8,000 votes that UKIP hopes to squeeze in their favour. The Tories have a personable candidate campaigning on the usual local issues - crime, transport and cleaner streets - but there is little evidence of a huge investment of party funds by an London apparatus gripped by the psychodrama of an in-house sex scandal. So on what do Labour hopes rest? The sheer inertia of a 14,000 majority is not to be sniffed at. I spoke to several voters who said they would continue voting Labour despite their doubts about Mr Corbyn. There is also the simple fact that a quarter of the electorate in Oldham West and Royton is largely Pakistani and Bagladeshi in origin, communities that have a long tradition here of voting Labour. Even the Tories admit these groups are efficient at organising their postal votes and getting their people out to polling stations on the day. Some may be disappointed that Labour did not choose an Asian candidate to fight this seat. But few appear attracted by UKIP. So if Labour can ensure a decent turn out of these voters, they should be secure. But once again I return to the weather. If it is raining, as it is occasionally known to do in Greater Manchester, then turnout could be low. And if unenthusiastic Labour voters turn out in fewer numbers than expected and motivated UKIP supporters are joined by Tories hoping to give Labour a kicking, then suddenly the arithmetic could look very tight. The usual expectations game is being played and both runners in this two-horse race are trying to play down their chances. UKIP talks of ""making in-roads into Labour's vote"" and ""giving them a scare"". Labour types suck their teeth and shake their heads with concern. But push them a little and the consensus one week out is that most expect Labour to hold the seat with a narrow majority. But such is the turmoil in Labour over Mr Corbyn's handling of the Syria crisis that votes could still shift in the final days. Full list of declared candidates: General Election 2015 result","If you want to know who is going to win the Oldham West and Royton by-election next Thursday , do n't @placeholder to the bookies or people like me . Instead consult the weather forecast .",listen,speaks,reacting,write,go,0
"He sent these texts to his husband Jack, in the UK, as the gunman entered the club. Jack says: ""I'm in UK at the moment - but I live in Florida, and I would normally have gone to Pulse nightclub with my husband if it wasn't for my sister's 30th birthday. ""At 02:00 local time I got a text from Ivory. ""He said, 'They are shooting everybody.' ""We spoke on the phone whilst he hid behind a palm tree. ""I heard gunshots for five to 10 minutes. ""I am still in shock. ""Six of his friends died. ""I knew them too. ""I could have been killed if I had been there."" ""Ivory's best friend, also a survivor, was in the bathroom as the gunman approached. ""He had to break the toilet to hide behind it. ""At 02:45 local time Ivory got out and he was home at 03:30. ""He didn't sleep at all on Sunday. ""Ivory's mother is with him now.""","Ivory Mcneal was at Pulse nightclub in Orlando , Florida , when a gunman killed at least 49 people and injured 53 in the deadliest @placeholder shooting in recent US history .",team,mass,media,race,mountain,1
"The Society of Motoring Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said there was a 7% rise in new car sales in the first six months of the year, taking the total to more than 1.3 million. In June alone, there was a 12.9% surge in car sales compared with a year ago, amounting to 257,817 sales. About 15% of buyers chose a UK-manufactured vehicle, the SMMT said. That was the highest level in five years, it added. However, it said it expected slower growth in the next six months. Low interest rates, attractive finance deals and the launch of new models continued to encourage consumers to buy new cars, the SMMT said. It also reported a strong surge in demand for alternatively fuelled vehicles in June. The Ford Fiesta remained the top-selling car last month, as it has all year, selling 12,543 units in June and 71,990 in the year to date. Behind the Fiesta, the Vauxhall Corsa was the second best-selling car, with 9,561 unit sales in June and 50,125 in the year to date. 1. Ford Fiesta: 71,990 2. Vauxhall Corsa: 50,125 3. Ford Focus: 45,078 4. Volkswagen Golf: 38,261 5. Nissan Qashqai: 34,501 6. Vauxhall Astra: 29,966 7. Volkswagen Polo: 28,980 8. Audi A3: 25,765 9. Mercedes Benz C-Class: 24,676 10. Mini: 23.455 ""It is still a great time to buy a new car in the UK, and it is encouraging to see more consumers choosing British models. This is important for the wider economy, with 799,000 people now employed across the UK automotive sector, including retail,"" said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes. ""We anticipate a flatter second half of the year, as the market finds its natural running rate.""","UK new car sales in the year to June rose at the fastest rate on record , a @placeholder industry survey has found .",body,motor,woman,trade,food,1
"It clearly still grates with one of the most cultured midfielders of his generation that he is most commonly remembered as the first man to be sent off while playing for England. ""I can never get rid of it,"" Mullery, who began his career at Fulham, before winning three trophies with Tottenham in the 1960s and 70s, tells BBC Sport. ""I played more than 700 games in my career between the age of 15 and 34. People always remember that game - or another one when I scored a volley against Leicester in the cup and it was on Match of the Day every Saturday night for a year. ""People just remember those two games, they don't remember the other 698."" Mullery's moment of madness occurred in the semi-finals of the 1968 European Championship as Alf Ramsey's world champions took on Yugoslavia in Florence. Incensed by the rough-house tactics of his opponents, and with England trailing 1-0 in the dying stages, Mullery retaliated after a bad tackle and kicked Dobrivoje Trivic where it hurts. ""Bobby Moore rolled me a ball to the halfway line and I had my back towards their goal. I knocked it back to him but this fella came in and caught me on the left calf. ""Whatever he had on his studs it wasn't very nice and as I looked round the back of my sock it was red, the blood was pouring out and my heart was beating really fast. ""In sheer anger I turned round and kicked him in the groin, and down he went like a sack of spuds. Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader Download the reader here ""The referee was about three yards away and just told me to get off. Frustration had set in with such little time left, and the referee had not protected any of the English players at all."" Moments later, when the final whistle signalled England's exit from the tournament, Mullery headed for the dressing-room fearful of a backlash from his team-mates and manager. ""I apologised to the players,"" he said. ""But Alf was very, very good to me. He came in, looked at me with a stern face and said: 'I'm glad somebody retaliated against those b******s.' He was very angry about it. ""When I got back, the Football Association fined me £50 and Alf paid the fine, which was absolutely unbelievable. Fifty quid was a lot of money in 1968."" England had qualified for the final stages by drawing 1-1 with Scotland in front of 130,000 fans at Hampden Park to top a group of the Home Nations, before defeating Spain home and away in the quarter-finals. A squad featuring World Cup winners such as Moore, Bobby Charlton, Gordon Banks and Geoff Hurst was expected to do well in Italy but, after losing Hurst and Nobby Stiles to injury in a friendly against West Germany four days earlier, they could not break down a stubborn Yugoslav defence and were knocked out by Dragan Dzajic's athletic finish four minutes from time. The other semi-final between Italy and the Soviet Union is a pub quiz favourite, being the only match in the tournament's history to be decided by the toss of a coin, with the hosts prevailing after the game ended 0-0 after extra-time. The final also ended in a draw, but this time a coin toss was abandoned as a sensible means of bringing a conclusion and a replay was scheduled for two days later. Goals from Luigi Riva and Pietro Anastasi secured what remains Italy's only European Championship success. Meanwhile, England departed with the consolation of third place as Hurst and Charlton scored in a 2-0 victory over the Soviet Union in Rome. Watching from the stands, the suspended Mullery could only stew over the moment that has haunted him ever since. ""I felt stupid when it happened but some of the tackles they were putting in were horrendous,"" says Mullery, who went on to represent England in the 1970 World Cup. ""In those days there were no extra cameras in the grounds to pick up off-the ball incidents. ""If that game was played now, it would have been abandoned after 20 minutes because they would have had six players on their side and we would have had about nine.""",Alan Mullery breathes a heavy sigh when asked to recall the infamous moment when he @placeholder his name in the football history books .,purchased,wrote,retained,sees,played,1
"The committee, which consists of all 40 MPs from Wales plus up to a handful of co-opted members, has not met since the general election in May. In fact, its last meeting was in July 2014, shortly after Stephen Crabb became secretary of state for Wales. But now, be still your beating heart, the 'grand' is to be exhumed to allow MPs to discuss the UK government's devolution plans. It follows a request from Shadow Welsh Secretary Nia Griffith, who told Mr Crabb in a letter that ""people across Wales have grave concerns"" about the draft Wales Bill. ""Lawyers and constitutional experts, as well as politicians from all parties, have said that the Bill is needlessly complex, open to legal challenges and will actually roll back the powers of the Welsh assembly. ""If Stephen Crabb is serious that he is in 'listening mode' he will convene the Welsh grand committee so that these concerns can be aired. ""The powers of our assembly are too important to be undermined by this Government's botched proposals."" The grand committee, occasionally known as the 'Welsh bland' has been derided as a talking shop and there have been attempts to kill it off for good. But Mr Crabb is indeed in 'listening mode' in this season of goodwill to all, so there's something for all of us to look forward to during the two/four* week parliamentary recess. (*Delete as appropriate).",Has there been a Welsh grand committee - @placeholder hole in your life for the past year or so ?,like,continuing,looking,made,shaped,4
"Ajose's 81st-minute effort sealed Town's second dramatic 1-0 victory, having beaten Millwall last time out with a goal from Conor Thomas deep into stoppage time. Despite that confidence booster, it was Fleetwood who made most of the early running in this match, with their best opportunity coming when David Ball picked out Kyle Dempsey, only for Ash Hunter to be unable to get a toe on the through-ball as Lawrence Vigouroux gathered Swindon might have grabbed the lead on the half hour, against the run of play as Thomas let fly with a snap-shot from the edge of the box which forced a superb diving save from Alex Cairns. Fleetwood continued to be frustrated after half-time, and Uwe Rosler threw on two substitutes in a bid to shake up an average display. But it was Swindon who found another gear, Thomas poking just wide having been left unmarket at the near post. And with nine minutes remaining Ajose scored what could prove a vital Robins goal. Running onto a long through-ball from Charlie Colkett he got the wrong side of Ashley Eastham before slotting low under Cairns to claim the victory. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Fleetwood Town 0, Swindon Town 1. Second Half ends, Fleetwood Town 0, Swindon Town 1. Ashley Eastham (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Luke Norris (Swindon Town). Foul by Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town). Dion Conroy (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Swindon Town. Luke Norris replaces Nicky Ajose. Foul by Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town). Rohan Ince (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Corner,  Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Raphael Rossi Branco. Attempt blocked. Cameron Brannagan (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner,  Swindon Town. Conceded by Conor McLaughlin. Goal!  Fleetwood Town 0, Swindon Town 1. Nicky Ajose (Swindon Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Charlie Colkett. Foul by Cameron Brannagan (Fleetwood Town). Nathan Thompson (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the left wing. Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Cameron Brannagan replaces David Ball. Rohan Ince (Swindon Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Kyle Dempsey (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Rohan Ince (Swindon Town). Foul by Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town). Charlie Colkett (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Swindon Town. Conceded by Ashley Eastham. Attempt blocked. Conor Thomas (Swindon Town) right footed shot from very close range is blocked. Attempt saved. Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt blocked. Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner,  Swindon Town. Conceded by Ashley Eastham. Attempt blocked. Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Nathan Thompson (Swindon Town) is shown the yellow card. Hand ball by Nathan Thompson (Swindon Town). Attempt blocked. Nathan Thompson (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner,  Swindon Town. Conceded by Cian Bolger. Substitution, Swindon Town. Ben Gladwin replaces John Goddard. Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Wes Burns replaces Ashley Hunter. Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Joe Maguire replaces Amari'i Bell. Attempt missed. Ashley Eastham (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Corner,  Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Nathan Thompson. Attempt missed. Nicky Ajose (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Attempt saved. David Ball (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.",Nicky Ajose further boosted Swindon 's hopes of League One @placeholder with his late winner against Fleetwood .,status,football,title,survival,touch,3
"William first arrived at Invernevis House in Fort William earlier this year. He had previously been found neglected in Cyprus by a couple from Keith in Moray who were visiting the island. Residents and staff at NHS Highland-run Invernevis House have raised £8,000 for the operation. William, who is five, is set to have his operation in February. However, he needs to be clear of an ongoing infection for at least a month before it can take place. Invernevis House manager Kit Cameron said: ""William is a huge favourite with the residents here and puts a smile on everyone's face. ""However, it hasn't always been a life full of love for William.""",A @placeholder dog that provides companionship at a care home is to have a hip operation paid for by residents and staff .,drugs,light,decommissioned,rescued,scheme,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device Dyke wants to increase the number of home-grown players in top-flight squads from eight to 12. The plans have received the backing of five former England managers. Arsenal boss Wenger claims the right to play has to be earned, while West Brom head coach Pulis says the quality of English youth teams is the problem. Last season, English players accounted for 32% of playing time in the Premier League, compared with almost 70% 20 years ago. ""This trend cannot continue,"" read a letter signed by former England managers Glenn Hoddle, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Graham Taylor, Steve McClaren and Kevin Keegan. ""The FA and the Premier League are already doing a lot of good work to improve the standards of facilities and coaching at all levels of the game...offering young players unparalleled support and coaching. ""The one thing they are not being offered is the most important of all: opportunity."" McClaren, who is manager of Championship side Derby County, believes the future of English football is already exciting, but says the increase in the home-grown quota can only help. ""I am excited about the players,"" he said. ""They have technique, they have pace and strength. Our Under-21s are very good, also the Under-20s and the senior team has been introducing young players with terrific ability and speed. It is coming. Giving them opportunities, we need to do that more."" McLaren also believes the Championship is a good platform for young English Premier League players to gain experience. ""The Championship is a nursery really where top teams can send their youngsters,"" he added. ""The more we give them the opportunity the better."" Wenger, though, urged caution over whether the proposed reforms will lead to an increase in the quality of English players, suggesting that the England national team was not hugely successful between 1966 and 1996 when there were relatively few foreigners in the domestic league. ""I believe we are in a top-level competition and you earn your right through the quality of your performance rather than your place of birth,"" he said. ""I think between 16 and 21 the English youth teams, until now, have not performed. So that's the heart of the problem. Let's get better at that level, then if there is a problem integrating these players in the top teams, we have to do something about it."" Pulis added: ""I think the Premier League is now not an English League, it's a world league. What we've got to do is produce English players that are as good as any players abroad. ""No disrespect to Greg Dyke but sometimes he says things that football people wouldn't agree with. I certainly don't agree with that."" Media playback is not supported on this device Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood, who first played new England striker Harry Kane regularly while he was manager of Tottenham: ""I think there were five players who had come through Tottenham's academy and four were on the pitch the other night [for England]. It was something we always pushed but everyone has to be on the same page."" Hull City boss Steve Bruce: ""One thing that is staggering is that over the last 20 years we have invested millions in academies, but are we producing enough players? When you look back, where are they? For me personally, we miss children playing football at school."" Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew: ""You only have to look at the profits we've made to know that if you're in the Premier League, you should be turning a profi. We should be using that profit to develop young British talent. I'm all for that and I think an extra quota of British-based players is a good idea."" QPR boss Chris Ramsey: ""It doesn't guarantee the national team will be any better than it is. It does however make the academy systems worth their while in giving players pathways to play in their country of origin.""","FA chairman Greg Dyke 's proposals to improve the quality of English players is @placeholder , according to Premier League managers Arsene Wenger and Tony Pulis .",continuing,called,retiring,flawed,group,3
"The National Audit Office (NAO) said the quality of service at HMRC ""collapsed"" over an 18-month period between 2014 and 2015. Call waiting times tripled during that time, as some customers were kept on hold for up to an hour. In response, HMRC said most calls were now being answered in just six minutes. As part of its most recent study, the NAO worked out how much money callers would have notionally lost, while waiting for a reply. Using HMRC's own criteria, it valued people's time at an average of £17 an hour. As a result it claimed callers would have wasted the following sums: The NAO blamed HMRC's poor performance on its decision to cut 11,000 staff between 2010 and 2014. As part of its strategy to persuade people to do their tax returns online, it had anticipated needing fewer employees to answer the phone. But after call waiting times for self-assessment tax returns peaked at 47 minutes last autumn, HMRC was forced to bring in 2,400 staff to its tax helpline. Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said he accepted that HMRC's overall plan did make sense. ""This does not change the fact that they got their timing badly wrong in 2014, letting significant numbers of call handling staff go before their new approach was working reliably,"" he said. Citizens Advice said some people might fall into debt as a result of the problems - if they missed a tax deadline as a result. ""Long waiting times not only cause frustration and increase the cost of the call, but can also mean people miss important deadlines,"" said Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice. ""For example if you don't return your tax form on time you face a fine - which for some households can be an additional cost they can't afford to pay."" HMRC said its service levels had improved since the period in question. Over the last six months it said call waiting times had averaged six minutes. ""We recognise that early in 2015 we didn't provide the standard of service that people are entitled to expect and we apologised at the time,"" said Ruth Owen, HMRC's director general for customer services. We have since fully recovered and are now offering our best service levels in years,"" she said. However the NAO said it was also concerned that, because many taxpayers never got through to HMRC on the phone, they may have paid the wrong amount of tax. In March this year there were 3.2m outstanding high priority cases that still required investigation. MPs on the Public Accounts Committee will take further evidence on the issue on 13 June.","Taxpayers forced to hang on the phone while calling HM Revenue and Customs ( HMRC ) lost the @placeholder of £ 97 m last year , a spending watchdog has said .",amount,value,number,rejection,equivalent,4
22 February 2016 Last updated at 14:28 GMT Radio One's Nick Grimshaw has also quit as a judge. It's all change at the popular ITV show. Ricky explains what's going on...,Olly Murs and Caroline Flack have said they wo n't be @placeholder this year 's X Factor .,made,used,created,presenting,renamed,3
"In Wales this year for instance, Aberystwyth gave honorary fellowships to Alex Jones, presenter of the BBC's The One Show, Hollywood actor Michael Sheen and the Times columnist, novelist and prolific tweeter Caitlin Moran. On Cardiff University's roll of honorary fellows are Stephen Fry and TV presenters Fiona Phillips and Carol Vorderman. Swansea University has given honorary degrees to the actress Ruth Madoc and Wales rugby winger Shane Williams, while opera singer Bryn Terfel has received an honorary doctorate from Bangor University. The institutions say they are keen to pay tribute to leading names in the sporting, showbiz and political worlds who have shown ""excellence and dedication in their fields"". But Nick Seaton, secretary for the Campaign for Real Education, which aims to raise standards in education, said he believed they were more a sign of our ""celebrity-obsessed"" culture. ""I think to a certain extent it devalues the work of the youngsters who put in three to four years of solid work to get a degree,"" he added. ABERYSTWYTH  UNIVERSITY: Caitlin Moran, Alex Jones, Michael Sheen - honorary fellows BANGOR UNIVERSITY: Bryn Terfel - honorary doctorate; Duffy, Sian Lloyd - honorary fellows CARDIFF UNIVERSITY: Stephen Fry, Carol Vorderman, Martyn Williams - honorary fellows SWANSEA UNIVERSITY: Katherine Jenkins, Shane Williams - honorary degrees SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, SWANSEA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA: Ruth Madoc              -  honorary degree and fellowship ""No matter who you are or who you know, to give them away without a solid background of work doesn't seem quite right."" So why exactly do universities award honorary degrees and fellowships - and is it fair that they are given to the famous? Cardiff University said it worked hard to ensure it maintains a long-term relationship with those it honours. ""We try to distinguish between honorary fellowships and honorary degrees as we're aware that 4-5,000 students are in our graduation ceremonies each year and they have put in years of work to get a degree,"" said Louise Casella, director of strategic development. ""So we only give honorary degrees to people with real academic integrity. ""We are more likely to give honorary fellowships and that is about building long-term relationships with people who we invite to become part of the university and who have achieved excellence in a lifetime of work. ""For example, Stephen Fry became patron of our neuroscience and mental health institute after he received his honorary fellowship."" She said students and staff were asked to nominate people they believe deserved a university honour, and they typically get about 80 to 90 suggestions each year. The names are discussed by a committee represented by about 10 to 12 people from across the university who whittle them down to a shortlist. They are then confirmed by the university governing council. ""We tend to look for criteria such as whether someone is a very eminent academic, or it might be someone who has come to the end of a distinguished career, like Martyn Williams this year,"" she said. ""We look for a Welsh connection or a Cardiff connection or a strong interest in the work we do. ""Stephen Fry was made a fellow as he had shown a lot of interest in the work done at the university with depression and mental health issues."" TV presenter Fiona Phillips, who was made an honorary fellow of Cardiff University in 2011 for her work to raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease, said she felt it was important to maintain a relationship with the institution. ""I was given an honorary degree by Southampton Solent University for my work in the media but they have never asked me to be involved there at all,"" she said. ""I thought they would get me down there to mentor students and lecture as they have a very good media department there, so you think what was that about? ""But I felt honoured to get a fellowship at Cardiff - if you're making a contribution that's fine. ""In Cardiff I'm involved with them in an ongoing relationship as they do a lot of Alzheimer's research."" Actress Ruth Madoc, who has been honoured by Swansea University, Swansea Metropolitan and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, said she felt it was right for people in showbusiness to be recognised. ""I think it's a good example for people to see that we are being honoured for having a long career, even if you haven't got a degree,"" she said. ""I go back for the graduation ceremonies when I can and it's lovely."" Stephanie Lloyd, the NUS Wales president, said students accept that an honorary degree was ""different from a bachelor's in English literature or a master's in chemistry"". ""We should commend universities that honour people who've reached the top of their field, sometimes without any formal higher education,"" she added.",They are a time for students to @placeholder gaining a degree after years of hard work - but graduation ceremonies are also an arena for universities to showcase some of the famous names who have been awarded honorary fellowships and degrees .,celebrate,treat,change,try,grow,0
"Police called to Wilberforce Road in Finsbury Park on Saturday night also discovered a girl the same age who is in a critical condition. The children, thought to be twins, were taken to an east London hospital after the discovery at 23:10 GMT. The boy died in the early hours of Sunday. Police are trying to trace Bidhya Sagar Das, 33, who also lived in Wilberforce Road. A neighbour told the BBC a woman came downstairs screaming for help, and another neighbour called the police. One person living opposite the building, who gave her name as Gui Gui, said she had heard a woman shouting. ""I opened the window and I asked her 'Can I help you, can I call the police for you?' ""She said, 'My kids'."" The neighbour said she later saw two young children being carried out of the building, with one being held very close to a member of the emergency services. Mihai Menea, 29, who lives on the second floor of the house where the family lives, said the children were twins. He said the father had been employed at the nearby Pembury Hotel, where Mr Menea also works. Mr Menea said of the mood inside the property: ""It's really tense. There's police coming and going all the time."" Detectives said inquiries were under way to ""establish the full circumstances"". No arrests have been made, but the Metropolitan Police added: ""Next of kin are aware. ""Formal identification awaits and a post-mortem examination will be scheduled in due course."" A murder investigation is under way, police said.",A one - year - old boy has died after being found @placeholder in a north London flat .,collapsed,crashed,hidden,dumped,injured,4
"The new king Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi is now one of the most influential among the Yoruba people, Nigeria's second biggest ethnic group, of about 35 million in West Africa. Tens of thousands celebrated in the city of Ife, AFP reports. He told the BBC he does not intend to get involved in politics, wants unity and will stand for ""forthrightness"". The new king said to the BBC's Umar Shehu Elleman that he doesn't want supremacy among leaders. Instead ""we just want to lead by example, do things right and foster unity,"" he said. He said he would ""guide the leaders"" of the country who he said were ""very good people"" who needed patience. ""I will lead by example. I will stand on the part of transparency, on the part of forthrightness,"" he said. He also revealed his mission to ""get to the bottom"" of the creation of mankind. ""To the entire world it is still a myth that creation started from Ile-Ife but we will still do the research and make it to be known to be fact"". Mr Ogunwusi was a prince from one of the ruling houses in the Ife kingdom and was selected by kingmakers from 21 candidates, including his older brother. The previous Ooni of Ife, Oba Sijuwade, died in a London clinic in July aged 85 after a 35-year reign. Ooni of Ife: Nigeria's many monarchs",A 40 - year - old accountant has been crowned the new Ooni of Ife - a @placeholder monarch in south - west Nigeria .,style,suspected,ruling,revered,group,3
"Builders had moved into the Belfast Metropolitan College building on College Square East with the job of converting it into student accommodation. Instead, they discovered a memento from a long-passed wartime era. Photographs of teachers and students in uniform who had enlisted to fight in World War One. These photos, found covered in dust in a box, shed light on a chapter of the college's history indelibly tied to the events of 100 years ago. ""You're staring into the faces of people who died or fought in that war,"" said Henry Bell, a former staff member and historian of the college. ""I think those photos are there so relatives could come into this college as a kind of memorial and look at them. ""You've officers, you've people who have medals and honours and you've just got the ordinary boys who lost their lives maybe in a ship in the Battle of Jutland. ""You've got the strange case of somebody who ended up in the Italian Army, somebody who ended up in the Australian Camel Corps."" Among the young men captured in the photographs is Billy McFadzean, the first soldier from the 36th Ulster Division to die at the Somme on the morning of 1 July 1916. The Belfast-born soldier was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. ""He had been assigned to bomb distribution,"" said David Brown, a Somme history researcher. ""His job was to distribute bombs to other men in the trenches who were going to use them in attacking the enemy. ""He lifted a box, which were secured by ropes, and one of the ropes broke off. ""Two of the bombs fell out of the box, the pins came off the bombs and dropped to the floor. ""There was over 600 men in the trench. ""He hadn't time to think about it. He had about four seconds of his life and all that was left that he could do was to throw himself on top of them and he was blown to smithereens."" According to Henry Bell, it was the political situation at the time, combined with the enthusiasm of some at the college, that would have convinced so many to join the fighting. ""The principal of the college at the time, Frances Forth, was very heavily involved with the military. ""He would've probably held meetings in this hall encouraging boys in those heady days of 1914 to go off and fight for their king and country. ""And, remember, there was a heightened tension here about the Home Rule bill and people feeling that fighting for king and country would actually stop Home Rule. ""So, in a way, it (the photos) is part very much of the history not just of the war but what was happening here politically between 1912 and 1914."" While the old college building has taken on new life, this photographic memory of those who fought at the Somme and elsewhere now rests with their families and historians for generations to come.",It was an unexpected @placeholder of Northern Ireland 's military history that had lain dormant for decades .,symbol,glimpse,advantage,fragment,reminder,3
"The actor was one of the victims of the illegal practice which led to the closure of the newspaper last year by its publisher News Group. His lawyer said the money would be donated to the Hacked Off campaign, which promotes a responsible press. News Group settled 22 other cases earlier in December. Grant's solicitor, Mark Thomson, said in a statement: ""Hugh Grant has today settled his claims for damages and other legal remedies arising out of the unlawful activities of News of the World journalists and others over a number of years. ""News Group Newspapers have agreed to pay him a substantial sum by way of damages."" Mr Thomson also said the actor had ""instructed us to donate all of his damages plus an additional payment from him to the Hacked Off campaign for a free and accountable media"". ""A statement in open court will be made shortly in the new year,"" he added. The NoW was shut down by owner Rupert Murdoch following the revelation the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked. The scandal also led to the establishment of the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, an MPs' inquiry and the launch of three police investigations into alleged widespread phone hacking and corruption. Grant - who is a high-profile member of Hacked Off - has been one of the leading voices in the campaign for stricter regulation of the press. He gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry and said at the time it had become ""extremely fashionable"" to hate him and journalists were ""entitled to their opinion"". However, he criticised press intrusion and what he called ""lazy reporting"". ""There has been a section of our press that has become allowed to become toxic over the last 20 or 30 years and its main tactic is by bullying and intimidation and blackmail,"" he said. Meanwhile, some 100 UK editors and publishers, including The Sun's Dominic Mohan and Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre, have been meeting to discuss proposals for a new independent press regulator - as recommended by Lord Justice Leveson in his report.","Hugh Grant has @placeholder a "" substantial sum "" after settling his legal claim over the News of the World phone - hacking scandal , his solicitor says .",blamed,accepted,launched,praised,issued,1
"Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, known as Timochenko, said the decision showed the Farc's commitment to scaling down the conflict with the Colombian army. The left-wing group and the Colombian government have been engaged in peace talks for nearly three years. Both sides say they are expecting to sign an agreement in March. Some 220,000 people are estimated to have been killed since the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia launched its armed struggle in 1964. Peace talks were launched in the Cuban capital, Havana, in November 2012. The aim is for the rebels to give up their armed struggle and join the legal political process. Timochenko's announcement came in a tweet to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. There has been agreement on four broad points on the agenda: the political participation of the rebels, land rights, drug trafficking, and most recently, transitional justice. Transitional justice - how rebels who have committed crimes will be punished - had been considered one of the thorniest issues on the agenda. When the two sides announced a deal on the issue on 23 September, President Santos flew to Cuba. The president shook hands with Timochenko for the first time. He also set a deadline of six months, until 23 March 2016, for the signing of a final peace agreement. The rebels have said they would like to sign a peace deal even before that date. But both sides are still working on a number of issues and the implementation of the agreement. A final deal will need to be approved by the Colombian people in a referendum. Last month, Mr Santos announced he was willing to join the Farc in a bilateral ceasefire from 1 January 2016 if there is significant progress in the negotiations. The rebels have already declared a truce. Mr Santos has also suspended radio and television campaigns to encourage the rebels to leave the Farc, in what he described as a goodwill gesture. Demobilisation campaigns would usually be reinforced in the weeks leading to Christmas.","The leader of Colombia 's largest armed rebel group , the Farc , has said he ordered the @placeholder in September to stop buying guns and ammunition .",homes,force,community,organisation,rebels,3
"For Chris Graber, the attraction was instant. ""As soon as he came out on the stage, and put everyone else in their place, I loved him,"" she told me with a glint in her eye. Ever since the first primary debates to pick a Republican candidate back in 2015, Chris has been hooked. And so, on a rainy Wednesday, she and her husband Burdean celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary, at a rally hosted by President Trump in their home state of Iowa. As they waited in the huge arena, which was draped in large American flags and Trump signs, they munched on popcorn. The couple were wearing matching T-shirts with a cartoon image of the president on the front, and the slogan ""Keep on Trumpin'"" in white letters. ""There's an old American saying, 'Keep on Truckin', which means don't give up"", explained Chris, an artist, who designed the T-shirts herself. ""We are behind our president and are encouraging him to stick to his guns."" The long line of supporters that snaked around the building reminded me of the last time I'd seen people queuing for a political event. It was only a few weeks earlier that dozens of interns and congressional staffers waited in line from the early hours to watch the former director of the FBI testify before Congress. There the buzz was of a different kind. Did the Trump campaign collude with the Russians? Did the president call for the inquiry into his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to be covered up? Is the president himself now under investigation? It's hard to get through a day in Washington DC without that R-word (Russia) being mentioned. But on the streets of Iowa, the only R-word anyone really cared about was rain, as the hundreds who queued huddled under umbrellas during a short afternoon downpour. Talk of hacked elections and potential collusion is all ""fake news"" to supporters here. ""All everybody wants to do is concentrate on this Russia thing, and it's bogus,"" said Becky Gee, who'd travelled here from the state of Ohio. Becky, who's 31, was one of a hardcore group of supporters who'd been waiting for more than 24 hours to ensure they snagged a prime spot at the rally. ""I slept on the sidewalk last night,"" she said, as she showed me how she'd come prepared, with camping chairs, a cooler-box and a pillow. Becky was queuing with 70-year-old Patricia, who had come to Iowa from New York. The pair became friends after meeting in another queue for a Trump rally, in Pennsylvania earlier this year. Since taking office, President Trump has held a number of campaign-style gatherings, where he delivers stump speeches in front of thousands. Not everyone thinks they're a good idea. The local paper, the Cedar Rapids Gazette published an open letter to the president urging him to stop holding rallies and focus on governing. But as we've come to learn, governing as Donald Trump can mean breaking with convention. As a politician who thrives on adoration and attention, these large-scale events give him the perfect opportunity to connect with his base. As he took to the stage to the sort of deafening screams I'm more accustomed to hearing at concerts, Donald Trump belted out some of his campaign classics. There were the attacks on the media. In true pantomime style, every time we were mentioned, the crowd booed and jeered as they turned to face us in the press pen. There were the jibes at the Democrats, only moments after he had called on politicians to put aside their differences. And there were the references to how large the crowd size was, ""every corner is packed of this big, big arena,"" said the president. In so many ways - look, sound and feel - it felt similar to the large gatherings candidate-Trump hosted during the election. The stage was the same, the chants were the same (""build a wall"", and ""lock her up""), as I looked out onto a sea of red Make America Great Again baseball caps, I could've been back in 2016. There were a few differences though, like the press accreditation we were given, which had 'White House' written on it, and the signs on stage which said 'Promises Made, Promises Kept'. This rally was also an opportunity to present a highlights reel of some of the campaign pledges he's fulfilled since taking office - the appointment of a conservative Supreme Court justice, increasing deportations, his withdrawal from both the Paris Climate accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, and the partial reversal of Obama's Cuba policy. The crowd roared its approval.  Despite his almost daily tweets on the matter, the president barely mentioned the Russia investigation in his hour long speech. ""I absolutely love this man,"" said Linda Hinzie, who'd driven for days to get here from Mississippi. ""It's a wonderful energy to be here. It's marvellous he's taking the time to be with voters,"" she said, as she clutched a sign with ""Drain the Swamp"" printed on it. Earlier in the evening, a playlist of songs often heard on the campaign trail was blasted into the room to get the crowd revved up. Members of the audience swayed, as Elton John's ""I'm still standing"" came on. The election might be long over, but for Donald Trump and his supporters these rallies are about keeping a movement alive. FBI investigations, overactive tweeting, and stalled travel bans are reasons many Americans think the Trump presidency is on a downward spiral. But for many who voted for him, that characterisation simply doesn't ring true. In the words of that Elton John song: ""I'm still standing yeah, yeah, yeah...""","For loyal supporters of President Donald Trump , any notion of trouble at the White House is fiction . As they watched him at a campaign style rally this week , Russia was far from their @placeholder .",minds,home,centre,activity,lives,0
"23 March 2017 Last updated at 16:27 GMT The former IRA leader turned politician died on Tuesday. ""After all the breath he expended cursing the British, he worked with two prime ministers and shook hands with the Queen."" He thanked First Minister Arlene Foster for attending the funeral. He also thanked Taoiseach Enda Kenny for the speech he made beside President Trump on St Patrick's Day about immigrants.",Former US President Bill Clinton has addressed the @placeholder at Martin McGuinness ' funeral .,congregation,contest,audience,group,nation,0
"The victim, who was in her 30s, was attacked while walking on Raglan Street, Lowestoft, in January 2005. Fokrul Islam, 38, from Nevendon Road, Wickford in Essex was found guilty of rape last year at Ipswich Crown Court. Suffolk Police said the woman reported the attack at the time and this helped secure DNA evidence. Islam was arrested after he was stopped by the UK Border Agency while travelling from Belfast to Liverpool last year. Det Con Darren Winchester, from Suffolk Police, said: ""Islam's DNA was taken when he was stopped by the UKBA in March 2014 and from that he was identified as a suspect after his DNA matched that taken from the victim in 2005. ""The victim showed immense courage by reporting the rape very quickly and that ensured police were able to secure vital evidence.""",A man has been jailed for nine years for dragging a woman off the street and raping her in the back of a @placeholder ten years ago .,carriage,vehicle,taxi,chest,couple,1
"William Warn made the road trip in a 1907 Singer car. His descendants Frank, Craig and Heidi Clapp, along with family and friends, are making the journey in the same kind of 25 horsepower car. The team, all from England, have reached the Highlands. They had planned to travel in a modern car but were convinced by a friend to use a Singer.",A 1912 car owner 's journey from Land 's End to John O'Groats is being @placeholder by his three great grandchildren .,commemorated,recreated,boosted,tackled,inspired,1
"It is with a mixture of pride and exhaustion that the two directors of the York Mystery Plays talk about the numbers of people taking part in their production, which retells Biblical stories on a near-Biblical scale. There are two casts of 250 amateur performers, with bricklayers appearing alongside lawyers and children with their grandparents, who have between them been rehearsing for six nights a week for the past four months. ""One of our ambitions was to see how many people we could involve in this,"" says one of the directors, Paul Burbridge. ""Our working pattern has been very different from usual,"" adds Damian Cruden, the show's other director, with a sense of weary understatement. The two sets of actors take turns - when one lot are on stage, the others are at home. That means the directors have been rehearsing two separate casts for the same three-hour show at the same time. ""Three hours of theatre is one thing - that's fairly normal,"" Burbridge continues. ""But to get six hours of theatre ready in the first week has been quite a hurdle."" As well as the actors starring as angels and apostles, local sixth form woodwork students have made props, 80 women (and one man) have stitched the costumes and there is a 97-strong choir. While the participants are mostly amateur (there are just two full-time actors), the production has been instilled with professional standards. Cruden's day job is running York Theatre Royal. He won the Olivier Award for best entertainment show last year for The Railway Children, which featured a real steam train and was a hit in York and London. Burbridge, meanwhile, is artistic director of the York-based Riding Lights Theatre Company. ""Most of the productions I do normally are matchbox-sized compared with this,"" he says. ""At times you feel like you're looking at a huge film set with masses of people on stage, all pulling in the same direction, creating big pictures."" For rehearsals, the play was prepared in quarters and slotted together in the final weeks. The stage, too, was split into different zones, resulting in intricate instructions like: ""Red 37 enter at Yellow 2, grab a section of the Ark and go off at Red 9."" The amateur involvement has its origins in the medieval plays, when craftsmen's guilds would bring Bible stories to life on wagons in the city streets - the butchers depicted the death of Christ, the bakers did the Last Supper and candle-makers took care of the annunciation to the shepherds. They were plays staged by the people for the people. Several other towns had their own mystery plays, but the manuscript from York is the most complete version to have survived and is now kept at the British Library. It was this ancient text that was mined by Mike Kenny - who worked with Cruden on The Railway Children - when crafting the script for the 2012 revival. He has boiled it down from 14 hours to just the three, rewriting some sections while sticking to the medieval text in others. ""He's done a great job so you still hear the medieval flavour, you still hear the rhythms of the medieval words,"" says Burbridge. ""It feels very real and contemporary and easy to listen to, but it's still got those alliterations and rhythms in the poetry that meant it was brilliant for being shouted in the streets."" The setting is updated, too, with much of the costume placing it in post-war Yorkshire - the Virgin Mary wears a headscarf and Joseph has a flat cap. And the preparation has paid off. The thronging crowd scenes are a form of choreographed chaos, while the volume of bodies creates some striking spectacles, like when the umbrellas of a mob surrounding the Ark suddenly become a bobbing sea. Ferdinand Kingsley, son of Sir Ben, plays God and Jesus, opposite Graeme Hawley, better known as serial killer John Stape in Coronation Street, who is now playing another bad guy - Satan. The action takes place against the impressive backdrop of the ruins of St Mary's Abbey, which, like the original Mystery Plays themselves, was closed down during the Reformation of the 16th Century. The grounds now host the biggest stage in northern England, Burbridge claims - although it is temporary - and the production has been billed as the largest outdoor theatre event in Britain this year (that may depend on whether you count the Olympic ceremonies, mind you). After being quashed under the Reformation, the Mystery Plays returned to York for the Festival of Britain in 1951 - a 16-year-old Judi Dench played an angel that year and starred twice more in the 1950s. The plays have been staged at irregular intervals at various venues ever since, but this is the biggest of the modern era and the first time they have been in the open air since 1988. ""They were stories that were told deliberately not in a church,"" Cruden explains. ""They were for lay people to tell their own stories in their own way. I think there's an honesty about bringing it back into the open air."" And after several decades of on-off uncertainty, Cruden believes they have now set the template to allow this tradition to continue. ""I genuinely believe we've made something that should be able to be repeated again and again in the city every four years, and its legacy should be that it goes on and that it is genuinely owned by the people of this city."" The York Mystery Plays are on until 27 August. The production will be broadcast on digital arts channel The Space on Saturday 11 August.","The York Mystery Plays , a theatrical tradition dating back to the 14th Century , have been @placeholder in an epic production involving an Olivier Award - winning director and 1,700 enthusiastic local people .",resurrected,unveiled,celebrated,featured,performed,0
"A bus carrying four players to the course took two hours to complete a trip that normally takes 15-20 minutes. Being more than five minutes late usually results in disqualification but officials decided to waive the rule because of ""exceptional circumstances"". World number one Inbee Park carded six birdies for a three-stroke lead. Park was on an earlier bus that, though delayed, arrived well before her tee time. The 27-year-old shot a five-under 67 to move to 10 under, with fellow South Korean Sei Young Kim in second. Halfway leader Minjee Lee slipped seven shots off the pace after a three-over 75. American Angela Stanford, who finished the day nine shots off the lead after a four-over 76, was one of the players on the delayed bus. She tweeted: ""Learning that GPS is a wonderful thing. Hour in a bus and still no sign of the golf course. ""Two hours and 15 min later we arrive. Thank you LPGA for letting us play!""",The final three groups at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico were @placeholder to delay their third rounds by nearly an hour because of traffic .,held,helped,beaten,continued,allowed,4
"The live televised debate examined what Northern Ireland voters think about EU membership. The panel included DUP MP Sammy Wilson, SDLP MLA Claire Hanna, Conservative Party MEP Daniel Hannan and political aide and author Alastair Campbell. The economy and borders were among the issues discussed on the programme which was presented by Stephen Nolan. There were also questions on immigration and agriculture. The referendum takes place on Thursday, 23 June.",Voters in Northern Ireland have had their say in a EU referendum debate @placeholder by the BBC in Belfast .,hosted,overshadowed,boosted,seized,devastated,0
"Between April 2013 and March 2014, 29 patients died waiting for surgery at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales and Morriston Hospital in Swansea. That is 12 more than the year before, when the Royal College of Surgeons raised serious concerns. The figures were uncovered by BBC Wales' Week In Week Out programme. Among those who died waiting for an operation was Newport Labour councillor Ron Jones. He had been waiting 15 months for bypass and value replacement surgery at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff when he died in August 2013. His partner Pam Allen said: ""You could see him deteriorating, he was losing weight, he couldn't even water the garden and his angina spray he was using as much as 15, 20 times a day. ""All he kept saying was promise me if anything happens to me before this operation that you won't leave it there."" Mr Jones's family are now waiting to hear the outcome of an investigation into his death on the waiting list. Figures obtained by Week In Week Out show: Adam Cairns, chief executive of the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, said that while the hospital's cardiac waiting lists have been reduced more needs to be done. He added £2.4m would be put towards reducing waiting times even further. He said they currently carry out 900 procedures each year and are looking to increase to 1,100 as a first step, with this going to 1,300 a year as the service continues to develop. ""Over the last 12 months we have seen a 25% drop in the number of people waiting 36 weeks for surgery,"" said Mr Cairns. ""We know that whilst we've seen some great improvements in some areas we have work to do in others and I would like to apologise to those people for whom we haven't been able to provide the kind of experience we would like."" Labour MP Ann Clwyd, who has complained that too many patients in Wales are waiting too long for diagnosis and treatment, said: ""Those are shocking figures. That means some [people] are going to get worse because they have not been diagnosed. ""Some people are going to die because by the time they get treatment it may be too late."" Patients could be dying because of a regular shortage of intensive care beds across Wales, according to Dr Paul Morgan, chairman of the Welsh Intensive Care Society. He said: ""If you are the patient whose operation is postponed for whatever reason, you are going to be traumatised psychologically - but it might also be that the physical nature of whatever disease process you have got could be adversely affected - it could become inoperable."" Wales' Health Minister Mark Drakeford insisted the Welsh NHS was doing a good job and said improvements were being made to reduce waiting lists. Week In, Week Out: Ann Clwyd - Rebel With A Cause can be seen on BBC One Wales at 22:35 BST on Tuesday, 3 June.",The number of patients who died while waiting for heart surgery at two south Wales hospitals has @placeholder in the past year .,drowned,opened,risen,erupted,revealed,2
"Her boss said she was an ""example to us all"" by telling colleagues she was taking sick leave for her mental health - but would British managers be similarly supportive? In an email titled ""Where's Madalyn"", she told colleagues: ""I'm taking today and tomorrow to focus on my mental health. Hopefully I'll be back next week refreshed and back to 100%"". Chief executive Ben Congleton replied to the message, saying: ""I can't believe this is not standard practice at all organisations,"" adding: ""You are an example to us all, and help cut through the stigma so we can all bring our whole selves to work."" In the UK, there is no legal difference between taking a mental health sick day and a day off for a physical problem like a back problem. Last year, Britons took 137 million sick days. Of these, 15.8 million days were for a stated mental health issue - whether that is stress, depression, anxiety or a more serious condition such as manic depression and schizophrenia - according to Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey statistics. By contrast, 34 million days were ""lost"" to minor illnesses, like coughs and colds. But Madeleine McGivern, head of workplace wellbeing at charity Mind, says ""people are still wary"" of admitting their sick day is actually due to mental health. ""There is definitely a fear it will affect your career, or that people will judge you and make assumptions that aren't fair or true,"" she says. ""If you're not in a supportive environment, if you do disclose a mental health problem it can be really harmful to you."" Despite the stigma, she says employers are legally required to protect the health and safety of those at work - and this includes mental health problem if it affects a person's day-to-day life. ""If you are unwell for any reason, you should be able to work in a place where you feel you can say 'I'm unwell today because I've got an inflamed back' or 'I've got really high feelings of anxiety at the moment' - they're actually the same thing,"" she says. Lisa, a 42-year-old manager, contacted the BBC to say she felt pressured to ""put on a brave face"" and go to work while dealing with depression. ""I've been working in the public sector for over 20 years and have twice had short periods off work through mental health issues,"" she says. She says she feared being stigmatised as ""flaky"" if she took time off. ""The need to 'put on a brave face' was overwhelming and in the end too much for me,"" she says. ""I was prescribed anti-depressants and stayed off work for a few weeks. Even when I returned I wasn't supported and felt further ostracised."" Lisa says her career had ""until now been the defining passion in my life"", adding: ""As a previously high-performing individual the treatment I received felt like a bereavement."" Six months ago, she took time off after dealing with ageing parents and her moving house. ""I took just a few days off work to 'sort myself out', seeing the GP, finding a counsellor and starting an exercise and diet regime."" Now, she says ""I am still battling on"" but that there are still days when she feels her workplace does not care about her as an individual. ""It makes me wonder how other people are coping and what is going on under the surface of a lot of other 'brave faces',"" she says. Large companies are keen to say they are supporting staff and tackling stigma around mental health. Over the past six years, almost 500 companies - including Tesco, Unilever and M&S - have made a pledge known as ""Time to Change"", where they commit to tackling problems like anxiety and depression in the workplace. It involves training managers to spot the signs of mental illness among their workers and raise awareness. ""When you look at the reality of the situation, mental health isn't being addressed properly,"" says Sam Gurney, head of equality and strategy at the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Research by the TUC shows just one in four people who have suffered from a mental illness or phobia for one year are in work. ""People can be terrified of saying they have some kind of issue,"" Sam says. ""If you're on a zero-hours contract, you're far less likely to go to your boss and say 'I've got these issues' because they're going to see that person as a problem."" Many workplace unions encourage employers to have a sickness procedure that covers issues such as anxiety - and to tackle the root cause of mental issues, for example by training employees to also act as mentors. In light of more professional footballers seeking help for mental health problems, including Everton's Aaron Lennon, the Professional Footballers' Association runs a 24-hour helpline and says it is telling players it is ""OK to talk"". Police, fire, ambulance and search-and-rescue teams in England and Wales are unusual in that workers receive government-funded mental health support. Through a £1.5m grant, Mind provides emergency staff and volunteers with access to help under a project known as Blue Light. Ms McGivern says the charity also offers legal advice to anyone feeling forced out at work, adding: ""There's something to be said about the way we look for work. ""The power's with the employee to choose where to work and ask - are they going to work with me or break me into a million pieces?"" she says.","Madalyn Parker , a US @placeholder developer , sparked a debate about workplace attitudes to mind problems after tweeting an email from her boss .",game,race,group,science,web,4
"The victim was on his way home from a night shift when he was struck by a small van, reports said. CCTV footage circulating on the internet shows cars driving by without anyone helping, before one man stops and takes the victim's phone. The incident has sparked a debate about values and compassion in modern India. The footage has also been aired by Indian TV networks, including the moment of impact when the victim is struck as he walks on the side of the road at about 5:30 in the morning. It shows the driver of the van getting out to see what happened before driving away. Later, a man is seen approaching the victim from a rickshaw and stealing his mobile phone before walking off again. It took almost 90 minutes before police took the heavily bleeding man to hospital where he was declared dead. Indian media said the victim, named as Matibool, had been working as a rickshaw driver during the day and as a security guard at night. Police are trying to identify the hit-and-run driver and the man stealing the phone. The accident has sparked a debate about what some have called a shocking lack of compassion. One officer told the Hindustan Times that most people might have ignored the victim thinking he was drunk. But some social media users have been less forgiving in their comments, one writing, ""what a shame to us as a community for such inhuman and awful behaviour"". Commenting on the pictures, news channel NDTV said the incident ""crosses all lines of basic decency"".","A man bleeding to death at the side of a busy road in the Indian capital , Delhi , was ignored for over an hour and later @placeholder , police said .",fled,robbed,released,abuse,injured,1
"Others warned they would have no incentive to invest in maintenance if the government tried to stabilise rent. The cost of a new tenancy in London jumped 11.9% between 2013 and 2014. The survey of 174 landlords analysed six proposals for cutting, capping or freezing private sector rents. It was carried out by the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research. Most London properties are currently let out on six- or twelve-month assured shorthold tenancies, the research said. They have been criticised for offering little security to families who rent, and more than half of the landlords surveyed said they would be interested in offering a three-year tenancy if there were tax incentives to do so. ""With the right safeguards in place, it would seem likely that longer tenancies could become more normal in the UK without causing any negative impacts on housing supply,"" the report concluded. ""There was suspicion that such measures could constitute a step towards the kind of rent controls that they perceived had undermined investment in the private rented sector in the period before 1988."" Some warned they would not offer longer tenancies to ""risky"" tenants, such as those receiving housing benefit or families. And three-quarters said they would sell some or all of their properties if they were forced to cut their rents to two-thirds of current levels. The researchers warn that while a sudden flow of properties onto the market would lower prices, not all of the evicted tenants would be able to afford to buy a home, and would struggle to find another let. The London Assembly's Housing Committee will discuss the report on Thursday 8 October.","London landlords are @placeholder to rent controls and many would sell up if they were forced to cut or cap their rents , according to a report commissioned by the London Assembly .",battling,designed,preparing,opposed,set,3
"The Island Drift exhibition shows trails of light photographed at dusk and night around Loch Lomond. One image has a long line of light that leads the eye towards the boundary fault islands which span the loch. The project, by public art company NVA, was in partnership with the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. NVA have produced public art displays like the Ghost Peleton and light displays at the 2012 London London Olympics. The Island Drift exhibition, which took nine months to make, was created by designer James Johnson, photographer Alan McAteer and NVA's creative director Angus Farquhar. Rangers from the national park and the crew of the Loch Lomond rescue boat also helped with the project. Mr Farquhar said NVA wanted to ""invert"" the public art displays the company usually produced and make something purely for the camera. ""Looking in depth we realised where the Highland boundary fault ran, with the islands that cut across the reach of Loch Lomond, and became interested in the geology."" He told the BBC that 50 light units were manipulated to make the trail of light that mimics the fault along the spine of Conic Hill near Balmaha. ""We had some phenomenal light conditions. There's no digital manipulation at all. You got these incredible purples, oranges and slightly uncanny blue glows. They look hyper-real,"" he said. ""There's a complexity, beauty and unearthly quality to the art. It was worth spending those cold, wet and windy nights out in the national park to make it."" Gordon Watson, chief executive of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, said ""It was an unusual and fascinating experience for our rangers to help the artists light up the landscape of the park to create these stunning images. ""The exhibition provides a unique perspective on the striking geology of Loch Lomond and we are thrilled that it will be on show. I would encourage people from the national park area and across Scotland to head to Glasgow for this unique exhibition."" The photographic installation at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow runs until 24 January.","An exhibition of photographs displaying an "" @placeholder landscape "" inspired by the Highland boundary fault line has gone on display in Glasgow .",alien,experience,root,animated,accomplished,3
"Queen Charlotte's gold and diamond ring, a bracelet with Queen Victoria's portrait and a pair of gold, diamond and pearl Tiffany opera glasses are among the exhibits. They go on display at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on Friday. It will be the first time the items have been on show in Scotland. The exhibition, called Gold, explores and celebrates the rare precious metal through more than 60 items from across the Royal Collection - one of the largest and most important art collections in the world. Over millennia and across different cultures, the material has often been used to represent and reflect royal wealth and power, and many of the sacred and ceremonial items associated with the coronations of British monarchs incorporate gold. One of the most elaborate accessories to go on display at The Queen's Gallery is a pair of opera glasses presented as a wedding gift to King George V and Queen Mary in 1893 when they were Duke and Duchess of York. Tiffany & Co was well-known for its production of luxury goods, but opera glasses made of gold were particularly rare. The glasses are also adorned with pearls and rose-cut diamonds. One of the earliest items of jewellery in the exhibition is a 16th century commesso, a cameo combined with gold to create a pendant. The piece is in the form of a female bust dressed in a tunic and turban, and is decorated with ruby, garnet, emerald and amethyst. It was recorded on a list of ""curiosities"" belonging to Queen Caroline, consort of George II. Exhibition-goers can also view an engraved gold bracelet, made by royal goldsmiths Rundell, Bridge & Rundell and dating from 1839, which incorporates a miniature portrait of Queen Victoria. Also on show is a gold and diamond-set ""keeper ring"", which served as a guard to a wedding ring, and was presented to Queen Charlotte by George III on their wedding day in 1761. It is displayed alongside a gold and diamond ring also belonging to Queen Charlotte. Kathryn Jones, exhibition curator of the Royal Collection Trust, said: ""These works of art show the personal associations that royal consorts have had with jewelled gold across several generations. ""We are delighted to display them for the first time in Scotland as part of this exhibition of items from the Royal Collection crafted from this rare and precious material."" One of the centrepieces of the exhibition will be a gilded manuscript based on a best-selling book by Queen Victoria in which she reveals her thoughts on surviving a carriage accident and tasting haggis for the first time. Compiled from the monarch's diaries, the book - entitled More Leaves From The Journal Of A Life In The Highlands, From 1862 To 1882 - provides a glimpse into the royal author's life at Balmoral. It became an instant hit with readers after being published in 1884 and the following year a Persian translation covered in dazzling gold illumination was created for presentation to the queen.",Jewellery that sheds light on the tastes of six generations of queens is to go on show at an exhibition celebrating the @placeholder of gold .,amount,qualities,history,range,group,1
"Dave Robins from Swanley, Kent, leased non-emergency ambulances to Coperforma, which was stripped of its Sussex patient transport contract on Tuesday. He began providing them in July after two other suppliers went bust, but has said he has only received one payment. Coperforma said all contractors were paid in full for services received. ""In line with our contractual policy we do not discuss with third parties details of the relationship we have with individual transport service providers,"" a spokesman said. More news from Sussex Mr Robins, of UK Ambulance Sales, said he lost almost £200,000 in the summer after two patient transport companies in Sussex went bust. Coperforma stepped in to keep the service running and, he said, did a deal with him to lease ambulances for six months from 1 July. ""They made payments for 1 July, supposed to be a six-month basis, [and] haven't made payment since. ""Invoiced them for the full amount. Nothing at all, so I feel quite aggrieved about what's gone on,"" Mr Robins said. Not for the first time Coperforma are having to deal with disgruntled contractors. We saw it with VM Langfords, Docklands Medical Services, Dedicated Care in Eastbourne and now UK Ambulance Sales. As the ""managed"" handover between Coperforma and South Central Ambulance Service begins, so people within the industry are telling me that confidence in the service and in Coperforma is fragile. Indeed, ""fragile"" is how the boss of the Clinical Commissioning Group, Wendy Carberry, described the entire Sussex Patient Transport Service when I interviewed her this week. It might be  that fragility leads to more problems in the months to come. The spokesman for Coperforma said: ""I can categorically state that our payments to our contractors are up to date for service received to support the Sussex patient transport service. ""I can also confirm that we are in different stages of negotiations with a small number of providers over invoice queries which we are trying to resolve as speedily as possible."" Coperforma is due to hand over its patient transport service for Sussex in a ""managed transition"" to South Central Ambulance Service by next April.","A businessman who @placeholder ambulances to an NHS patient transfer service says he was left with "" thousands of pounds of debt "" because he was not paid .",sells,campaigned,supplied,died,subjected,2
"Bruce Adamson said the device at Hamilton Central Station was a breach of children's rights. ScotRail said it had taken the step as a result of anti-social behaviour. It follows protests by the RMT union, who said staff were in fear after a ""surge in violence"" at the station. The electronic device, often referred to as a ""mosquito"", is used to deter loitering by emitting sound at high frequencies that is mostly heard by younger people. It was installed at Hamilton Central a fortnight ago after a protest by the rail union, the RMT, who said their members were the victims of anti-social behaviour at the station. In a leaflet handed out to passengers in June, the union said: ""Workers at this railway station are under direct fear of violence and other variations of assault whilst just turning up for work to serve you."" However, Children's Commissioner Mr Adamson said he would be raising the issue directly with ScotRail. He added: ""International human rights bodies, and my office, have long called for these devices to be banned. ""The use of such devices is a breach of children's rights to go about their lives free from discrimination in a healthy and safe way when they use public transport, visit shops or meet their friends. ""These devices are a disproportionate and degrading approach that acts without discrimination, causing discomfort to any children and young people who encounter them."" Amy Lee Fraioli, chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament, said she had first-hand experience of the device at Hamilton. She told BBC Radio Scotland's Kaye Adams programme: ""I discovered the device the other night when I was actually waiting on a train at Hamilton Station, which had been delayed. ""I was waiting there for over 20 minutes and the noise was absolutely torturous. It makes young people feel as if their presence is nothing other than a nuisance and that's obviously not the case. ""It's so uncomfortable. It's really high pitched. It starts to give you a sore head when you're standing there. ""It got to the point that I was ready to leave the train station, when the train came. It was unbearable."" She added: ""A lot of young people pass through that station to get to work and university or school and they'll be affected by this and they're not doing anything wrong at all apart from going about their daily business, which is their right."" ScotRail said there was ""minimal"" use of the device and that it was controlled by a small number of staff. A similar device has also been installed at Helensburgh Station. A spokesman added: ""The safety of our staff and customers is always our number one priority. ""We are committed to working with all our partners to make the station as safe as it can be. ""As part of this multi-agency approach we have introduced a suite of measures to tackle anti-social behaviour and since these have been put in place there has been a significant reduction in incidents in and around the station.""",Scotland 's children 's commissioner has condemned ScotRail for installing a sound device to deter young people from @placeholder at a train station in South Lanarkshire .,drowning,boarding,working,injured,gathering,4
"State department officials say Mr Kerry's appearance at the oversight panel should mean he will not need to testify in front of the recently-formed Benghazi select committee. He is scheduled to testify on 12 June. A US ambassador and three others were killed after an assault on the Libyan diplomatic post in September 2012. Republicans have argued the Democratic Obama administration misled the public on the nature of the attack. Democrats in the US Congress have named five representatives to a special panel on the Benghazi attacks despite arguing it is motivated by Republican politics. Mr Kerry, who was not secretary at the time, had previously been subpoenaed by the oversight committee to appear in late May, the letter said, but could not attend due to the Ukrainian crisis. ""We believe there are witnesses better suited to answer questions regarding the department's response to congressional investigations of the Benghazi attacks,"" the letter, dated Friday, reads. ""However in the interest of accommodations and to resolve once and for all any outstanding, relevant questions, the secretary is prepared to appear before the committee."" A separate select committee on Benghazi with the authorisation to operate until the end of the year was approved on a largely party-line vote. Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, told broadcaster NBC the decision whether to call Mr Kerry to testify at the select committee would be made later. ""We're glad Secretary Kerry will appear at oversight,"" Mr Steel said. ""Whether he will also be asked appear before the Select Committee will be a decision for Chairman Gowdy in the future.""","US Secretary of State John Kerry will testify in front of a House panel about the deadly Benghazi attacks , according to a letter @placeholder by the BBC .",published,surrounded,posted,obtained,initiated,3
"She had been on holiday in Australia when the Heat needed an overseas replacement for injured West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin. Winfield, 26, played for Brisbane in the inaugural WBBL in 2015-16, but was not retained for the current campaign. Dottin suffered a fractured cheekbone after colliding with team-mate Laura Harris while fielding on 27 December. She will now be replaced by Winfield - who has appeared in two Tests, 25 one-day internationals and 18 Twenty20 internationals - for the rest of the season. Winfield will be available for Sunday and Monday's double-header against Hobart Hurricanes, who are captained by England skipper Heather Knight. Brisbane currently lie seventh in the eight-team WBBL, but are just two points off the summit.",England opener Lauren Winfield has @placeholder Brisbane Heat for a second spell in the Women 's Big Bash League .,denied,announced,called,rejoined,signed,3
"Question after question flew at Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn. And they both were pressed in areas of vulnerability. The prime minister on problems partly of her own making, like her policy on social care, and the public spending cuts of recent years and their impact on the NHS. She was tearfully confronted by one audience member over shortcomings in mental health treatment. But perhaps the more hostile moments were particularly for the Labour leader, whose views on nuclear disarmament and unwillingness to use weapons if Britain was under attack was questioned by the audience again and again. It's no secret that for years he has believed in nuclear disarmament. Yet that view tonight seemed to breed hostility among much of the audience. After a bumpy few days, Theresa May seemed to be more on the front foot this evening, trying to reassert her authority over her campaign. In contrast, Jeremy Corbyn who had been lapping up the political attention, and setting much of the momentum, seemed almost irritated by the end. Yet in truth, tonight saw neither of the rivals drop a dramatic clanger, nor neither of them turn out a surprisingly stellar performance. Minds will have been changed tonight. But it's not clear if tonight's debate will transform the fortunes of either main party in this campaign.",The great British public was not @placeholder around .,kidding,group,thrown,messing,going,3
"Voting began at 07:00 BST and ended at 22:00. Foyle was the first local constituency to declare a result, with 78.3% voting to Remain in the European Union out of a 57% turnout. The outcome of the Northern Ireland poll will be announced at the Titanic centre in Belfast. The ballot paper asked voters: ""Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?"" Electoral staff in Northern Ireland are spread across eight different count centres and have the task of counting the votes in more than 1,300 ballot boxes. There were 619 polling stations across Northern Ireland and more than 1.25m people were registered to vote. Declarations for parliamentary constituencies will be made throughout the night, with the final Northern Ireland and UK-wide result due by breakfast time on Friday. The official declaration will be made at Manchester Town Hall. There will be comprehensive coverage online, with live updates throughout polling day and overnight, as well as up-to-the minute results. And from 06:00 BST on Friday, BBC News NI will have a live page dedicated to the outcome and reaction. BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC Parliament are broadcasting a results show hosted by David Dimbleby alongside BBC experts and special guests. Coverage continues throughout the night and Sophie Raworth, Andrew Neil and Victoria Derbyshire pick up the coverage on Friday morning.",The polls have @placeholder in the EU referendum in Northern Ireland with counting under way .,shown,held,failed,closed,unveiled,3
"16 January 2015 Last updated at 16:59 GMT But even with all this success The Lego Movie still didn't get a nomination for best animated film at this years Oscars - the biggest awards show in the world of showbiz. Instead it was Big Hero 6, The Boxtrolls, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Song of the Sea and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya that were nominated. So why wasn't The Lego Movie nominated? We asked BBC Entertainment reporter Colin Paterson to explain.",It was the most @placeholder film in the UK last year and it made more than  £ 300 million pounds around the world .,grossing,bank,celebrated,sold,watched,4
"The investors were the only bidders for Ciudad Real airport, south of Madrid, completed during Spain's boom years. But it is not clear if the sale will go ahead as another buyer could still step forward outside of the auction process. The winning bid was made by a Chinese-led consortium of investors. The group, Tzaneen International, says it wants to make the airport an entry point into Europe for Chinese companies. The white elephants that dragged Spain into the red Ciudad Real airport, located 235km (146 miles) south of Madrid, was meant to be an alternative to Madrid's Barajas airport. It cost more than €1bn to built. It opened in 2008 but went bankrupt and closed in 2012. There is still a possibility that another buyer could meet the minimum price of €28m set by the receiver for the sale to go through before the end of September. The central Spanish airport has a capacity for 2.5 million passengers per year. It is one of a number of ""ghost airports"" constructed during Spain's building boom that did not attract enough passengers. A similar fate has befallen Castellon airport in the east. It opened in 2011 but has not received a single flight.","A group of international investors has won a bankruptcy auction for an @placeholder airport in central Spain with a € 10,000 ( £ 7,000 ) offer - 100,000 times less than it cost to build .",estimated,offer,abandoned,impoverished,absorbing,2
"It's a special moment for me. I've spent just over a decade living and working on this continent, and this is the end of my final trip in this particular job, and so a chance - first of all - to say thank you for taking the trouble to read this blog, and the many others I've written, in courtrooms, under trees and stars, in tents, hotel rooms, stadiums, bars, huts and airports all over Africa. It's been a wonderful, enthralling, sometimes sobering privilege. And now, of course, comes the temptation to offer you some grand conclusions about the future of the continent. But fear not. ""I don't like generalisations,"" Nelson Mandela's lawyer, George Bizos, once told me, chidingly. Besides, the more I've travelled here, the more I've come to appreciate the difficulty of trying to draw useful comparisons between, say, South Africa and Sierra Leone, and, for that matter, to resent reading about or hearing from foreigners who ""have fallen in love with Africa"" or who feel that single word - ""Africa"" - can still be applied to events - Ebola, famine, terrorism - that have left so much of this huge continent untouched. And then of course there's the simple fact that humble journalists like me are, more often than not, at the mercy, not of grand themes, but of mere events. I have travelled to many parts of the African continent over the years I have been here and met many wonderful people. It is one of the most dynamic places I have worked and lived in. It's been a wonderful, enthralling, sometimes sobering privilege. I wasn't expecting to spend my 44th birthday on a small fishing boat laden with weapons, heading into the besieged Libyan city of Misrata; nor arguing with a government soldier to spare the life of a colleague in the chaos of Ivory Coast's civil war; or watching France's President Francois Hollande emerge dazed and delighted from a giddy crowd of Malians celebrating the liberation of Timbuktu; or standing on a roadside in Sierra Leone, watching an old man try to save his Ebola-ravaged wife from dying; or, need I add, spending weeks - or was it months? - sitting in a Pretoria courtroom tweeting manically about Oscar Pistorius's trial. And yet, of course, there have been themes. World-beating economic growth statistics and enduring inequality, China's phenomenal infrastructure programme; the growing number of democratic - sometimes nominally democratic - elections; the movement to restrict presidents to two terms in office; and the rival trend of leaders amending the constitution ""democratically"" to hold on to power; the emerging backlash against traditional foreign aid; the slow fight to address climate change; Islamist extremism; the impact of mobile phones and social media; the all-too-often-deadly migration to Europe; and the rise of an increasingly assertive middle class. Taken in northern Ethiopia, near the village of Korem - which was at the epicentre of the 1984 famine, ahead of the UN conference on funding development, in July. We'd stopped at the side of the road to get some shots and these kids appeared. But it is in relation to that last point that I now find myself digging my heels in, and discovering my own emerging bias. Foreign correspondents like me are often harangued in Africa for painting an unduly negative picture of the continent - of relishing the gloom in obstinate defiance of all the good news. Perhaps there are times when that is true. But it's always worth looking at these things in terms of power, and access to power. Who has influence? Who has a voice? Why do South African newspapers always discuss the alleged ""genocide"" against white farmers, while ignoring the far more bloody and systematic campaign of violence against impoverished Somali shopkeepers in Soweto or around Cape Town? Why do the television crews still gravitate towards foreign humanitarian workers during emergencies, with their convenient planes and well-stocked compounds? And - in the same spirit - how much unquestioning focus should one give to the ""Africa Rising"" narrative, so well articulated by the social-media-wired, urban, aspirational middle classes of Nairobi or Lagos? Because the truth, hard-learned on dirt roads and neglected corners, is that the majority - the often-voiceless majority - on this continent are still facing daunting challenges: from soaring prices, to unemployment, wretched schools and hospitals, an absence of justice, and most pressingly of all - insecurity. That applies in the beleaguered townships of South Africa, in the forests of the Central African Republic, the besieged towns of north-eastern Nigeria, the slums of Monrovia, and on the endless battlefields of South Sudan. Of course there is plenty going impressively, fantastically right here - the arc of history bending towards optimism and all that. But it seems to me that a bias towards the powerless and voiceless is a reasonable and necessary one - especially when they still seem to be in the majority. This was taken at the end of our first trip to cover Ebola in Sierra Leone. It was the trip when we did that big piece about Kigbal village, with the living on one side of the road and the dying on the other. The quickest way to get to Freetown's airport is by boat. I could go on... But, the captain has just announced that we're coming in to land at Mogadishu's airport. A stiff wind is blowing spray off the waves and over the dunes beside the runway. I have so many favourite places in Africa. A speedboat down Lake Kivu, the swaying bars of Lubumbashi, lobster on the beach outside Freetown, the pink-rock highlands of Ethiopia, the star-crowded night sky outside Timbuktu. But for some reason Somalia - violent and irrepressible - seems to have got under my skin more than anywhere else. In recent years it has managed to pull off the remarkable feat of appearing to display this continent's myriad nations' possible futures simultaneously - an ambitious, globalised, resurgent state, rallying at impressive speed; a divided, stagnant, might-have-been, wrestling with corruption and poverty; and a wretched failure, exporting terrorism to its neighbours. I'm a glass-half-full kind of person. So I'm still betting on Somalia to find a way forward. In the meantime, I'm now taking a break from daily news to write a book about some of the garrulous, irascible, wonderful people I've come to know in Mogadishu and beyond. I hope to be back, somewhere, before too long.","We 've @placeholder off the six armed guards who 've been protecting us , haggled over excess baggage , and I 'm now writing this in a small plane heading south from the sun-baked Somali port of Bosaso , across the vast , yellow - brown plains of the Horn of Africa , towards Nairobi .",paid,taken,ripped,driven,called,0
"Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a mission to clear some of it up using a 700m, (2,300 foot) piece of wire. The plan was to slow down the junk, like bits of old satellites' rockets, and push it into the Earth's atmosphere so it would harmlessly burn up. But it didn't happen, scientists say the trial run failed as the wire was not actually used. Leading researcher Koichi Inoue told reporters: ""We believe the tether did not get released."" ""It is certainly disappointing that we ended the mission without completing one of the main objectives.""",There are more than 100 million bits of rubbish whizzing around Earth in @placeholder .,power,space,comparison,order,england,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device Gerrard was making his final appearance at Anfield before making his move to Major League Soccer with LA Galaxy - and Liverpool supporters gathered at the stadium hours before kick-off to pay tribute to their iconic captain. Palace, however, were in no mood to indulge the celebrations and after Adam Lallana put Liverpool ahead, Jason Puncheon equalised on the stroke of half-time before substitutes Wilfried Zaha and Glenn Murray wrapped up the win. The game itself was almost reduced to a footnote as far as Liverpool were concerned - but in a strangely low-key 90 minutes, this performance graphically illustrated the work that needs to be done by manager Brendan Rodgers once Gerrard has departed after next weekend's final game of the season at Stoke City. After the formalities of the final whistle were completed, Gerrard went down the tunnel before re-emerging to a prolonged, deserved ovation where he was greeted by former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, the man who made him Liverpool captain, before receiving a presentation from the club. Gerrard then addressed Liverpool's fans before joining his team-mates on a lap of honour and then leaving the Anfield turf for the final time after a 17-year career that has brought the Champions League victory against AC Milan that he inspired in Istanbul in 2005, as well as the Uefa Cup, two FA Cups and three League Cup triumphs. Media playback is not supported on this device The Premier League title may have eluded him but as he walked around Anfield it was only the good times Liverpool fans remembered - and he has given them plenty of those with his 185 goals stretched out across a glittering career. Now Rodgers faces the Herculean task of replacing the 34-year-old, who has been a symbol of the club since he made his debut in 1998. The game itself almost assumed the status of a sideshow as the shadow of Gerrard's farewell understandably loomed over the entire occasion. Anfield's DJ set the tone with a pre-match playlist that was a musical tribute to Gerrard, from David Bowie's ""Heroes"" to the REM tune ""The End Of The World As We Know It"". And The Kop was decorated with banners recalling Gerrard's greatest moments including one reading ""The Best There Is. The Best There Was And The Best There Will Ever Be"". Gerrard came out to warm up ahead of his team-mates, who allowed him to take the acclaim of The Kop - and in the moments before kick-off Anfield was united in tribute to the man many regard as Liverpool's finest. He emerged with his daughters Lourdes, Lexie and Lilly-Ella through a guard of honour formed by both sides as thunderous roars swept around Anfield. The kick-off actually dampened the atmosphere, Liverpool taking an undeserved lead after 26 minutes when Lallana was the beneficiary of Martin Kelly's poor ball, running on and beating Wayne Hennessey with an accomplished finish. Palace, however, continued to be the better side and were full value for the equaliser that came two minutes before half-time, Puncheon sending a 20-yard free-kick beyond Simon Mignolet after Emre Can fouled the dangerous Yannick Bolasie. Media playback is not supported on this device Pardew decided to introduce Zaha to add to Palace's attacking threat - and it was a move that paid dividends as he slid in Bolasie's cross with his first touch after just 23 seconds on the pitch. As Liverpool's defence rocked, the outstanding Bolasie almost extended their advantage when he cut inside the struggling Martin Skrtel, but struck his shot against the bar. There was to be no final rescue act from Gerrard and substitute Murray secured Palace's win by putting in the rebound from his own penalty, which was initially saved by Mignolet. The spot kick was awarded after Lucas fouled Zaha - although it looked as though the first contact was outside the box. It was then time for Gerrard to take his leave - and for Liverpool to ponder how they can possibly fill the gap he leaves behind. Match ends, Liverpool 1, Crystal Palace 3. Second Half ends, Liverpool 1, Crystal Palace 3. Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by James McArthur. Jerome Sinclair (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Joel Ward (Crystal Palace). Foul by Raheem Sterling (Liverpool). Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing. Goal!  Liverpool 1, Crystal Palace 3. Glenn Murray (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation. Penalty saved! Glenn Murray (Crystal Palace) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the centre of the goal. Penalty conceded by Lucas Leiva (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area. Penalty Crystal Palace. Wilfried Zaha draws a foul in the penalty area. Offside, Crystal Palace. Jason Puncheon tries a through ball, but Glenn Murray is caught offside. Attempt saved. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jordon Mutch. Dejan Lovren (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Glenn Murray (Crystal Palace). Substitution, Liverpool. Jerome Sinclair replaces Alberto Moreno. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card. Attempt blocked. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace). Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Alberto Moreno. Jordon Mutch (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Jordon Mutch (Crystal Palace). James McArthur (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by James McArthur (Crystal Palace). Substitution, Crystal Palace. Glenn Murray replaces Yannick Bolasie. Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Dejan Lovren. Attempt missed. Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Alberto Moreno. Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Joel Ward (Crystal Palace). Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace). Attempt missed. Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick. Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace). Substitution, Crystal Palace. Jordon Mutch replaces Marouane Chamakh. Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Henderson.",Liverpool failed to give Steven Gerrard a victorious farewell to Anfield as Crystal Palace emerged worthy winners on an emotion - @placeholder occasion .,held,charged,style,record,class,1
"Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) will combine with the beverage maker's German subsidiary (CCEAG) and Coca-Cola Iberian Partners (CCIP). The company will be called Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) and will generate about $12.6bn per year. It hopes to cut costs of up to $375m (??242m) within three years. The deal is structured as a so-called tax inversion, with CCE moving its corporate headquarters from Atlanta to London, so it can cut exposure to higher US taxes. Muhtar Kent, Coke's Chief Executive said, ""It's a major milestone and major transaction that will benefit all parties involved."" CEE shareholders will own 48% of the new company, CCIP will have 34%, while  Coca-Cola Co. will hold 18%. The world's largest soft drinks maker has reduced its bottle sizes as customers cut back on the amount of fizzy drinks they consume.",Three European bottlers of Coca - Cola drinks have agreed to @placeholder helping to cut costs as consumers buy fewer fizzy drinks .,raise,beat,repair,replace,merge,4
"A Sotheby's spokesman said a telephone bidding war between two unnamed parties had resulted in the Nazis' cipher creator going for £149,000. That is not, however, a record. Bonham's sold another example of the three-rotor device for $269,000 (£172,350) in April. The Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game probably helped inflate the sums. The 2014 film recounted the British scientist Alan Turing's successful effort to break the codes generated by the boxes. The Enigma machines had 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible settings, leading the Nazis to believe it was uncrackable. However, Turing was able to develop another machine - the Bombe - building on the work of Polish cryptanalysts. This was capable of cracking 84,000 Enigma messages a month, the equivalent of two every minute. Although it has been estimated that the Germans built about 100,000 Engimas - including five different mainstream versions - most were destroyed by the Nazis as they retreated, not knowing that their system had been compromised. The seller of the Service Enigma Machine (Enigma I) sold at Sotheby's was a European museum, but its identity has not been disclosed. Both Sotheby's and Bonham's models featured thumbwheels made of bakelite - an early plastic - rather than metal. The Nazis switched to bakelite towards the end of World War Two because their metal supplies had become diminished. The fact that surviving models featuring the substance are particularly rare will have contributed to their high selling prices.",One of the few @placeholder Enigma coding machines has been sold at auction for more than double its estimated price .,number,remaining,swirling,group,ground,1
"A special service took place during which actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who's a distant relation of the king, read a poem. The poem was specially written for the occasion by poet Carol Ann Duffy. Richard III died at Bosworth Field in 1485, at the end of the War of the Roses. His remains were found beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. Across three days this week, more than 20,000 people queued for hours to view the coffin in Leicester Cathedral. Today many people watched the service outside of the cathedral on a large screen. Who was Richard III? • Richard III was the last Yorkist King of England, this means he was the last member of the House of York family to be made king. • Richard had one of the shortest reigns in British history - just over 2 years, and he was the last English king to die in battle. • He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, which led to the end of the War of the Roses. This was fighting between the houses of Lancaster and York that lasted 30 years. • Richard III has been painted as a villain. It's said he killed his two nephews so he could take the throne and William Shakespeare wrote a play about him but some historians say this was propaganda and might have been unfair.",The remains of King Richard III have been @placeholder at Leicester Cathedral .,held,buried,recreated,rediscovered,installed,1
"That is what I have set out to examine in my Election Takeaways - a chat over a bite to eat with different groups of voters to discover what is on their minds and how they are going about deciding who, if anyone, to vote for. This week, I shared a Thai takeaway with seven people who voted Remain in the EU referendum in the Tory marginal of Bedford. Like the Leavers I spoke to last week in Halifax, they were chosen for us by the pollsters Ipsos Mori. When Theresa May strode out of the door of Number 10 to call this election she claimed it was all about Brexit and not, as many believed, about her desire for her own mandate and a bigger Commons majority. My conversation revealed a fascinating split in the attitudes of Remainers. All seven still believed we should have stayed in the EU and shared their unhappy memories of the moment they realised that Brexit would win, but they are deeply divided in their views about what should happen now. Four of our seven Remainers told me that they thought the debate about our membership of the EU is now over and it is time to ""just get on with it"". Fiorella has lived in Britain all her life but until recently had an Italian passport. ""The reason why Theresa May called a snap election is because she is asking us to choose who we believe is the best person to stand for us all and select the best deal for us,"" she says. And Abhijit agreed.  He moved to Bedford from Italy seven years ago and works for a local engineering firm. ""The election is an opportunity to vote for somebody you think will get the best deal after Brexit,"" he says. Builder James also supported this view: ""This is the situation we're in and it's important now to look forward and come together and get the best deal we can,"" he says. Leela, who works with a local housing association, worries that a second vote might cause more division within society: ""I think the majority of us who voted remain have accepted it and we just want to get on with it now."" The other three felt just as strongly that the public should have another say once the terms of any Brexit deal are known. They do not want to give Theresa May - or indeed, any prime minister - a blank cheque to negotiate with the EU. ""Why can't we vote on the settlement? It seems to be a lot of, 'I'm the leader to do this but you won't be able to vote on what I do,'"" says Alastair, who fixes bikes. ""It's a bit like finding a fire going in your house and saying, 'Well it's going now'. I'd like to think it could change. I'm an optimist,"" says Maria who's in the music business. Jen, a secretary in an estate agents, also remains sceptical. ""We're voting in the general election but we're still going to be voting on something that we've not seen or had an opportunity to have a say on."" The Financial Times has dubbed this a split between Hard Remainers and Re-Leavers - those who voted Remain but now accept we are leaving. Working with the pollsters YouGov they have shown how the 48% who voted to stay in the EU are now split down the middle about what to do next. This split means that parties like the Liberal Democrats, which have promised a second EU referendum, have a far smaller pool of voters to fish in than many suggest - just 22% of Hard Remainers to be precise. They have another problem too if my group in Bedford is representative. Those who wanted a second referendum had no idea that that was Lib Dem policy, and not one of them could name the Lib Dem leader - ""I don't know who he is,"" says Leela.  And yet three of my group had voted for the party in an election for the local mayor. Jen voted for Dave Hodgson. ""Obviously he's Liberal Democrat. I voted not necessarily because of the party he's with but because of the candidate."" No wonder the polls suggest that we are seeing a squeeze on the smaller parties and a return to two-party politics - at least in England. Now you might think that you cannot draw any meaningful conclusions from such a small group of voters. Of course, you would be right to think that they cannot predict the result in any constituency let alone in the country as a whole. What they can do is add flesh to the bones of opinion polls. My takeaway from this week's Election Takeaway is that if - and with three weeks to go it is still a mighty big if - Theresa May can attract the support of both those who voted Leave, whether they previously voted UKIP or Labour rather than Conservative, as well as those who voted Remain but now want the country to get on with leaving, she will have built an unstoppable coalition. There is one thing that I heard that might limit the size of that coalition however, and that is whether Labour can successfully change what this election is seen to be about. All the voters I spoke to in Bedford expressed their deep concern about the pressure on, or future cuts to, the NHS - an issue that has yet to really take off in this campaign.  If Jeremy Corbyn is to have any chance of stopping a Tory landslide let alone winning outright he needs to persuade the sort of voters I have been speaking to that traditional domestic concerns matter as much, if not more, than Brexit. Next week, I'll be in another town talking to those Theresa May has dubbed the ""Just About Managing"" getting their views on which policies, party and politician might do most to help them. You can watch more of Nick's Election Takeaway on the BBC News Channel this weekend at 14:30 and 20:30 BST on Saturday and 10:30 and 16:30 BST on Sunday. Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning",In three weeks ' time we will discover whether that referendum vote has @placeholder the glue that bound voters to the party they have supported in the past .,produced,denied,formed,dissolved,added,3
"Holmes' time of two minutes 32.96 seconds has stood since 2004, the year she won 800m and 1500m Olympic golds. ""It will be tough, but I've everything going for me,"" said Muir, 23. ""I'm in great shape, hopefully the pacing will be good for me, I'll have a home crowd and a quick track, so fingers crossed it will go well."" Muir has broken two records already this year - the European 3000m indoor record and the British 5000m indoor record, the latter held for 25 years by Liz McColgan. Last summer, she broke Holmes' 1500m record at the Anniversary Games in London before beating her own time in Paris. She said of her 2017 feats: ""I knew I was in great shape and it was just a matter of putting it on the paper. ""We're still in the heavy training phase so hopefully by the summer I can sharpen up and be even quicker."" Media playback is not supported on this device Muir's coach Andy Young told BBC Radio Scotland on Friday that she has been ""looking great in training this week"" and ""she is more than capable of going inside that mark"". In fact, Young reckons if things go well his charge could even lower Maria Mutola's world indoor mark of 2:30.94. ""Assuming that the pacemaker is spot on and the rest of the competitors don't trip her up, I'm pretty confident that she should be able to get inside the British record,"" Young said. ""Looking at how fast she was going on Monday the world record might just be a possibility too. ""It's a mark of confidence as to how well she's been going that it's something we thought she could do and that it would create a bit of excitement, letting the crowd get behind her. ""She has already broken so many British records over the past six to eight months, I think it's realistic. If I didn't think she was capable of it I think we'd have kept it under our hats."" Young emphasised that Muir's main focus this season is the World Championships in London, and the 23-year-old would clearly love to hit peak form at the place where she first took the 1500m record. ""It was extra special when I broke the 1500m record for the first time because that was in the Olympic stadium with a home crowd,"" she said. ""I still can't believe I ran that time; it's pretty crazy quick. I'm delighted with it. ""To be racing there again at the London World Championships is going to be so exciting because the crowd is phenomenal."" While Muir relishes targeting a record, medals remain her priority. ""For me it's always the medals,"" she said. ""Breaking records is great but you always want the medals to keep in that cabinet.""",Dundee Hawkhill Harrier Laura Muir feels well prepared for a @placeholder at Kelly Holmes ' 1000 m British indoor record in Birmingham on Saturday .,race,challenge,tilt,points,field,2
"The song emerged last week and has been widely shared on social media. One line in it asks: ""Is there still freedom of expression in the country?"" and refers to a ""doctor"" who can't tolerate criticism. The information minister said President John Magufuli ""loves"" the song. He also suggested that it be ""improved"" to take on other issues, such as tax evaders, corrupt businesspeople and drug traffickers, said Information Minister Harrison Mwakyembe. Nay wa Mitego's arrest came days after President Magufuli warned media to be careful about exercising freedom. ""Media owners, let me tell you: 'Be careful. Watch it. If you think you have that kind of freedom - not to that extent,'"" Mr Magufuli said. Police earlier said the rapper would be questioned ""for releasing a song with words that malign the government"". He was reportedly held at a hotel in Morogoro, before being transferred the 190km (120 miles) to the commercial capital Dar es Salaam. Other lines in the song said: ""Who are you now? Don't you want to listen to advice? Don't you want criticism?"" The lyric is addressed to someone he calls ""a doctor specialising in lancing boils"". The phrase ""lancing boils"" has been used repeatedly by Mr Magufuli to refer to people he deems obstructive. Mr Magufuli, who came to power in 2015, presents himself as a no-nonsense man of the people, unafraid of sacking corrupt or incompetent officials. Recent opinion polls have suggested he is popular, but critics accuse him of an impulsive style of governing and being intolerant of dissent. Another line in Nay wa Mitego's song goes: ""I see you handed a club to a madman,"" which has been interpreted as referring to an official appointed by the president who has been accused of heavy-handed behaviour. The BBC's Sammy Awami in Dar es Salaam says the rapper is popular for his scathing lyrics, attacking not only the government but even his fellow artists. On his social media accounts he uses the name ""NayTrueboy"", saying he always speaks his mind and tells the truth.","Tanzanian rapper Emmanuel Elibariki , known as Nay wa Mitego , has been released just a day after he was arrested for releasing a song deemed @placeholder to the government .",returned,strapped,insulting,ascended,according,2
"The school's headmaster said the ""growing expense and luxury"" forced on parents was also a major concern. Beaulieu Convent School in Jersey also referred to ""worries about alcohol and drug consumption"" at the end of Year 11 event for pupils aged 15-16. A former pupil said the prom was an important milestone and accused the school of overreacting. Chris Beirne, headmaster, said the ""significant focus and distraction"" caused by the prom ""does not fit into the ethos of our school"". Writing to parents Mr Beirne cited a letter from an unnamed colleague who was convinced the preparations and the event were ""not positive, constructive or healthy experiences"". The colleague wrote: ""The financial strain and the inevitable competition associated with this is another very unwelcome, and sometimes crushing, aspect for many parents."" The letter from the colleague also referred to ""alcohol and drug consumption at after-parties"" as ""a considerable concern"". It said the strain of trying ""to be slim, fashionable, have perfect skin"" led to ""unacceptable pressure"". Mr Beirne said he could no longer ""safely manage the risk"" associated with the event. The independent Catholic school said it would continue to offer Year 13 leavers a celebratory mass with their families followed by a drinks reception at the school. The £5,400-a-year convent has around 760 students aged 4-18. Former pupil Hannah Hosegood, 20, said her prom was ""a first taste of maturity"" and the school should tackle individual pupils if they had concerns about drugs or alcohol. She said: ""It's really upsetting knowing those girls won't be able to experience an event you spend a fair amount of time looking forward to and remember for the rest of your life.""","A girls ' school has @placeholder it s end of year prom claiming it is too much of a "" distraction "" to pupils .",admitted,warned,scrapped,claimed,criticised,2
"It had been rumoured the Australian band would split after a career spanning more than 40 years. However, a statement on AC/DC's website confirmed: ""The band will continue to make music."" The band are one of the highest-grossing rock acts of all time, selling more than 200 million albums. AC/DC formed in Australia in 1973 and their biggest-selling record has been 1980's Back In Black - the first with singer Brian Johnson after the death of former lead singer Bon Scott from alcohol poisoning. They are noted for creating some of the best-known guitar riffs in the rock catalogue, accompanied by lyrics full of sexual innuendo. A message on the band's website confirmed that Young would be taking a break after ""forty years of life dedicated to AC/DC"", but did not reveal details of his illness. ""Malcolm would like to thank the group's diehard legions of fans worldwide for their never-ending love and support,"" said the band. ""In light of this news, AC/DC asks that Malcolm and his family's privacy be respected during this time."" Flamboyant frontman Brian Johnson elaborated on their plans in an interview with The Telegraph. ""We are definitely getting together in May in Vancouver. We're going to pick up some guitars, have a plonk, and see if anybody has got any tunes or ideas. If anything happens, we'll record it,"" revealed Johnson. On the subject of touring he added: ""I wouldn't like to say anything either way about the future. I'm not ruling anything out."" The Australian media had been awash with rumour and counter-rumour ahead of AC/DC's announcement. Entertainment journalist Peter Ford had suggested on radio station 3AW earlier this week that the band's next tour ""will never happen"". He added: ""The boys have a pact that they will not get anyone else in the group. Nobody will be replaced and when somebody leaves, the group ends."" Glasgow-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young formed the band after moving to Australia with their family in the 1960s - Angus became famous for wearing a school uniform on stage. AC/DC's 15th international studio album, Black Ice, was an international hit following its release in 2008. The band's Black Ice tour, which ran from 2008 to 2010, took in 29 countries and was seen by five million people.","Rock band AC / DC have said they will not @placeholder following news that guitarist and founding member Malcolm Young is taking a break "" due to ill health "" .",retire,write,affect,be,accept,0
"The hashtag #ShakeItOffJalene took off after 4-year-old Jalene Salinas's family said on Facebook she wanted to dance with her favourite singer and ""shake off"" cancer. Although Taylor couldn't visit Jalene in Texas, they chatted on FaceTime. Taylor spoke to Jalene for around twenty minutes, reports the New York Daily News. She was told Jalene was feeling too unwell to dance. ""I'm so sorry you're having a bad night,"" Taylor said, ""I'm so happy to talk to you though and I'm so happy you like Shake It Off. ""You look beautiful tonight, you really do. You're just as pretty as your pictures."" Jalene's mother said that on Sunday her ""princess"" had ""gained her beautiful angel wings"".  Taylor sent flowers to the family. Jennifer Arriaga - Jalene's mum - thanked Taylor Swift and posted pictures of her gifts on the Jalene's Journey Facebook page. Many people have posted their condolences and there are lots of comments complimenting Taylor Swift on her generosity. ""Thank you Taylor Swift!! We know #PrincessJalene is dancing in Heaven to your song #ShakeItOff!"" wrote one fan. Another said: ""That is what people in that industry should be doing and she is setting the bar really high for people to follow. Continue to be the role model you are Taylor so other kids like Jalene continue to feel special by creating moments like you did for this precious angel."" Jalene's mum Jennifer says: ""This is not over because Jalene will live on in the hearts of everyone. We will continue to spread her kind hearted nature. Her ability to care for others."" Jalene's funeral is on Friday. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube",A girl with @placeholder cancer who got to talk to her hero Taylor Swift has died .,wearing,terminal,lung,brain,throat,3
"It happened at Angletarn Pikes near Ullswater on Saturday. Rough terrain meant an air ambulance had to land in a nearby valley, resulting in a 25-minute trek before the injured man in his 20s was reached. He was taken to hospital in Preston and is said to be in a stable condition with head injuries. A spokesman for the Great North Air Ambulance said: ""Due to the severe nature of the terrain the helicopter was unable to land near to the casualty. ""Instead it landed in the valley bottom from where the aircrew doctor and paramedic team made their way on foot to the casualty site . ""The climb took approximately 25 minutes, after which the man was placed onto a mountain rescue stretcher and lowered to the valley floor by Patterdale Mountain Rescue team.""",A fell runner @placeholder about 160ft ( 50 metres ) in the Lake District while taking part in a two - day marathon event .,held,plunged,approached,containing,falls,1
"The pit, which has been run by an employee-owned trust since 2013, closed in June with the loss of 430 jobs. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport listed the headstocks after a campaign group pushed to save them. Doncaster Council, which was planning on having the towers demolished, said the site posed a ""real danger"". Hatfield was one of the UK's last remaining deep seam mines when it closed after almost a century of production. After its closure, the Hatfield Main Colliery Community Heritage Association called for the mine head structures to be preserved as a ""monument"" to the area's history. Historic England recommended listing the headstocks as they are ""the most recognisable feature of the nationally-important coal industry"". The power and winding engine houses at the site were not recommended for protection. Jo Miller, Doncaster Council's chief executive, said: ""We are all immensely proud of Doncaster's coal mining heritage, but the fact is that these dilapidated headstocks are an accident waiting to happen. ""The decision taken by Historic England appears to have been taken with no thought to a funding plan for a decaying structure. ""This will put the public at risk in the short term and could cost Doncaster taxpayers millions over the coming years."" Historic England said it ""understood"" the council's position and a meeting had been held to discuss ""how to make them safe"".","At least £ 1 m will need to be @placeholder on the "" unsafe "" Hatfield Colliery site after its headstocks were given Grade II listed status , a council has warned .",constructed,stranded,placed,installed,spent,4
"Crewe's play-off winning captain was released from Gresty Road just five days after But the 31-year-old is adamant that Vale are good enough to follow them up. ""I'm sure a lot of players come out with the same rhetoric at this time of year, but I'm here for promotion,"" Artell told BBC Radio Stoke. ""Port Vale would have been there or thereabouts last season without an imposed penalty. Hopefully, it will be the same next season."" I'm not going to whinge. It's part and parcel of being a pro. You've got to move on and take it on the chin The level-headed Artell is not one to live in the past, however, and is grateful to have been able to make a move which did not involve having to move house. ""I could have gone for more money and a longer contract elsewhere,"" he added. ""But geography had a big part to play in my decision. ""Promotion possibilities, money, length of contract, they all come into it and Port Vale ticked all those boxes."" It also means that Artell is operating back at a level with which he is at his most comfortable. Since leaving Rotherham United for a season at relegation-bound Shrewsbury Town in September 2002, Artell has spent his career in the Football League basement, also playing for Mansfield Town and Chester City, as well as Morecambe. Prior to that day out at Wembley in May, he had only painful memories of the play-offs, having been in the Morecambe side battered 6-0 by Dagenham & Redbridge in the League Two semi-final first leg in 2010. But, while being relegated from the Football League at Shrewsbury and then crashing in the play-offs with Morecambe were the lowlights, last season turned out to be his career high. He nearly missed out altogether when he damaged his hamstring hitting a crucial winner against Cheltenham in April, an injury which ruled him out until the semi-final second-leg. Then came the high of Wembley followed by the instant, unexpected low of being let go. ""I'm not going to whinge,"" he said. ""It's part and parcel of being a pro. ""Every two years, you're going to have that worry about job security. Did I think I'd have it this summer? Probably not. ""The fact that I'd just lifted the trophy at Wembley two days before quickly becomes irrelevant. ""As far as success on the pitch is concerned, my time at Crewe was second to none. A fantastic day at Wembley which capped a fantastic season. ""But you've got to feed your family, you've got to move on and take it on the chin.""",New Port Vale @placeholder David Artell is out to put his painful rejection by promoted Crewe Alexandra behind him by helping his new team to go up too .,people,called,boss,signing,based,3
"Almost 69% of code red calls were responded to within eight minutes in October, exceeding the 65% target. Around 5% of all 999 calls were subject to the target that month, compared to 40% before the year-long trial began. Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the new system was working, but opposition parties dispute the claim. ""We know that change can be difficult in the health service - for staff and the public,"" said Mr Gething. ""However, the initial figures from this pilot suggest that the new clinical response model is ensuring that patients are getting the right care, in the right place, at the right time."" Tracey Myhill, chief executive of the Welsh Ambulance Service, said: ""We've made a really solid start on this ground-breaking new pilot, and today's figures are testament of that."" Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said she was concerned that the ""vast majority"" of emergency calls were no longer subject to any time-related targets or had any performance data published. She said: ""This new targeting regime may make life easier for Labour ministers, giving them one less negative headline every month, but in reality people are being left in the dark as to how well their ambulance service is actually performing."" Plaid Cymru health spokesperson Elin Jones and Ms Williams both pointed out that ambulances in three health board areas - Hywel Dda, Cwm Taf and Powys - still failed to meet the 65% threshold for code red calls responded to in eight minutes. ""The Labour government is still struggling to meet its watered-down targets,"" Ms Jones added. ""It is wrong of the government to call its performance a success."" The Welsh government denied Ms Williams's claim about the lack of data on non-red calls, pointing out that response data on amber calls had also been published. Conservative shadow health minister Darren Millar congratulated the ambulance service on the figures. ""Whilst the targets are lower than those elsewhere in the UK this is a significant achievement and hardworking staff should be commended,"" he said. But Mr Millar added: ""The answer to sustained improvement in performance does not lie in the Labour approach of scrapping targets and record breaking NHS budget cuts; instead we need to see extra investment in the ambulance service and our wider unscheduled care system.""",Ambulances in Wales have met a key time target for responding to the most life - threatening emergencies after a change to the way calls are @placeholder .,demanding,scrapped,growing,classed,implemented,3
"15 January 2016 Last updated at 21:09 GMT A specialist robot with a high-pressured jet has been imported from The Netherlands for the job in Houghton Regis - the first time it has ever had to be used in East Anglia. There are still a few days' work left to remove the fat, which has set like concrete over some years, despite the job starting on Monday. Anglian Water has warned about people pouring fat down the sink, saying blockages cost bill payers £15m a year.","A series of "" fatbergs "" @placeholder along a 100 m - long ( 328 ft ) pipeline in Bedfordshire are being removed by Anglian Water .",hidden,stuck,played,made,carrying,1
"The party's 61,000 members will be eligible to cast their votes under an alternative vote system. Ballot papers will be sent on 24 June with the result announced on 16 July. The contest has been sparked by Nick Clegg's resignation in wake of the Lib Dems crushing electoral defeat. Under party rules, a candidate must win the support of 10% of its MPs - which currently constitutes less than one of them - to get on the ballot. They also need the endorsement of 200 members from at least 20 local party organisation. Mr Farron, who confirmed his intention to stand in the leadership election in May, has reportedly been nominated by more than 400 party members from almost 100 local parties. The Westmorland and Lonsdale MP, who stood down as party president in 2014, said he was ""deeply honoured"" to have been nominated. Mr Farron promised to run a ""positive and outward looking campaign"" that focused on rebuilding the party from the grassroots up, and issues such as human rights, the environment, and building a ""fairer and more equal society"". The other contender, Mr Lamb, said the party had to connect with the ""many people who share our liberal values, but don't identify themselves as Liberal Democrats"". The Norfolk North MP said he wanted the party to be a ""consistent and clear voice"" standing up a liberal society which values equal opportunities, diversity and giving people control over decisions that affect their lives. The winner of the contest will be announced on 16 July.","Nominations for the next Liberal Democrat leadership have @placeholder , with former party president Tim Farron and ex-health minister Norman Lamb the two candidates in the running .",escalated,launched,closed,replaced,arrived,2
"Ms Hanson's One Nation is the biggest beneficiary of growing disenchantment with traditional politics in Australia, where Donald Trump's US election victory and Britain's Brexit vote have energised minor parties with right-wing populist agendas. However, while One Nation is riding high - with four seats in the federal Senate, a deal with the governing Liberal Party in Western Australia, and forecasts it could win nearly one-quarter of votes in a Queensland state election - the former fish-and-chip shop owner is not the only contender for the title of Antipodean Trump. Last year's general election saw a surge in support for independents and minor parties, thanks partly to charismatic individuals such as Nick Xenophon, whose protectionist Nick Xenophon Team won two seats in the lower House of Representatives. And, earlier this month, Malcolm Turnbull's governing conservative Liberal-National Party coalition was shaken by the departure of an outspoken right-wing politician, Cory Bernardi, who - accusing the Liberals of abandoning their traditional values - announced the formation of his own, ideologically purer party. Indeed, what is is distinctive about Australian populism is the emergence not of one key figure - a Farage or Le Pen or Trump - but of a diverse field of parties and personalities, says Dr Nick Economou, a political scientist at Melbourne's Monash University. Dozens of small right-wing parties stood at the 2016 election, winning only a tiny fraction of the vote. The exception was One Nation, which - after storming on to the political stage in the mid-1990s, then fizzling out amid in-fighting and fraud allegations - staged a triumphant renaissance. Now mainstream politicians, particularly from the coalition, are lining up to praise the party as ""a very different beast to what it was 20 years ago... a lot more sophisticated"" (Arthur Sinodinos, a federal cabinet minister), and its leader as a ""much more mature politician... responsible... helpful"" (former Prime Minister Tony Abbott). The reason? Along with other minor players, including the well-established Australian Greens, One Nation holds the balance of power in the Senate, meaning the government has to negotiate with it to get legislation passed. That gives Ms Hanson - who toasted Mr Trump's victory with champagne, and declared that ""I can see in Donald Trump a lot of me"" - a degree of influence unprecedented for a far-right politician in Australia. In Western Australia, meanwhile, where polls suggest One Nation could win up to 13% of the vote in a state election next week, the ailing Liberal Party has done something which less than a year ago would have been unthinkable. It has struck a deal with One Nation which, under Australia's preferential voting system, could help the Liberals hold on to government, while handing the former pariahs the balance of power in the state's upper house. And in Queensland, Ms Hanson's home state, where an election is due in the next year, polling indicates her party could top the 22% of the vote it won in 1998. Then, One Nation's rise was seen as a blip. Now, with populist currents sweeping much of the Western world, the party is being feted by conservative commentators. Ms Hanson has even floated the idea that she could one day become prime minister. ""This time Hanson is no passing phenomenon,"" commentator Paul Kelly wrote in The Australian. ""She is a far more formidable prospect than 20 years ago, and enjoys an anti-politician cultural status."" At the federal election, minor parties won a record 34% of the Senate vote, thanks to factors now familiar to pundits in Britain and the US - growing income inequality, nationalism, anti-immigration and anti-free trade sentiment, and backlashes against ""political correctness"" and globalisation. In recent times, economic growth has slowed in Australia, while wages have stagnated. Traditional industries such as car-making have shut down, and manufacturing has moved offshore. Job insecurity is rife. ""Anti-government feeling and dissatisfaction with the political establishment are benefiting parties with very simple slogans and approaches to complex issues,"" Norman Abjorensen, a visiting fellow in policy and governance at the Australian National University, told the BBC. Like its counterparts elsewhere, One Nation draws much of its support from disadvantaged regional areas and people living on the urban fringe. In several Australian states, though, it faces stiff competition. Mr Xenophon, seen as a ""Mr Clean"" politician and a champion of ordinary citizens, has captured the anti-establishment vote in South Australia; Jacqui Lambie, a plain-spoken independent, is the choice of disaffected Tasmanians. Victorians elected Derryn Hinch, a former shock jock, to the federal Senate. As for Mr Bernardi, few believe his Australian Conservatives party will draw significant support. His departure, though, may force Mr Turnbull to go to greater lengths to placate right-wingers in his Liberal Party, lest they feel tempted to jump ship too. Forced to resign as Mr Abbott's parliamentary secretary in 2012 after suggesting same-sex marriage could lead to bestiality, Mr Bernardi has denounced Islam as a ""totalitarian political and religious ideology"", asylum seekers as ""welfare squatters"" and abortion advocates as ""pro-death"". Cool heads note that, despite the hype, One Nation won only 4.3% of votes in the federal Senate, and 1.8% in the House of Representatives. One important difference between Australia and the US, says Dr Economou, is that Mr Trump ""mobilised and impacted on one of the major parties"", while in Australia the likes of One Nation remain outside the political mainstream - not least because the voting system in the key House of Representatives is majoritarian. ""That system is designed to make it very difficult for minor parties to win a seat,"" Dr Economou told the BBC. ""And Australian politics is amazingly pragmatic. We do not like ideologues, we never have and never will."" Nevertheless, One Nation and other smaller players can shake things up, and they are certainly unnerving the major parties, which are scrambling to minimise inroads into their support and even parroting populist rhetoric. Sections of the opposition Australian Labor Party are pushing for the country's highest earners to pay a minimum rate of tax, while Labor's leader, Bill Shorten, has pledged to ""buy Australian, build Australian, make in Australia and employ Australians ... We will not leave people behind."" Dr Abjorensen calls One Nation ""a force to be reckoned with, one that the major parties are going to have to deal with. We're obviously going to see concessions made to the right-wing agenda that probably wouldn't have seen the light of day in previous eras"". Deals such as the one struck in Western Australia, he adds, ""will lend further legitimacy to Pauline Hanson and strengthen her power base"". Mr Hanson won a seat in the federal parliament in 1996. In her maiden speech, she claimed Australia was ""in danger of being swamped by Asians"". In her maiden speech last year, following her return to Canberra, she claimed Australia was ""in danger of being swamped by Muslims"". As one commentator has written of One Nation: ""Nothing has changed... What has changed is the sea they swim in.""","Once reviled for her views on Asian immigration and Aboriginal welfare , Pauline Hanson is being courted by mainstream politicians as the populist wave reshaping the world 's liberal democracies laps at Australian @placeholder .",night,unit,shores,centre,rate,2
"A public inquiry began after developer Urbaser Balfour Beatty appealed against the council's decision to reject the Javelin Park scheme, near Gloucester. Opponents have highlighted issues including the size and cost of the 30-acre site and the environmental impact. The incinerator will treat up to 190,000 tonnes of waste a year. In 2013 county councillors voted to turn down plans for the facility, a decision which went against a recommendation by the council's own planners that it be approved. Gloucestershire County Council had already signed a contract with Urbaser Balfour Beatty to build the energy-from-waste plant. Nigel Moor, chair of Gloucestershire County Council's planning committee, said: ""The committee robustly defended its decision to an independent inspector at the public inquiry last year. ""However, we acknowledge today's announcement."" The leader of Stroud District Council, Geoff Wheeler, said the decision was ""a real disappointment"". ""However, we hope that the recent appraisal of alternative options by Gloucestershire County Council will see it review its intentions,"" he said. ""Whilst permission has been given, they could still opt for a solution to deal with waste which maximises recycling, maintains flexibility and minimises the impact on the environment and taxpayers' purses."" Gerald Hartley from campaign group GlosVAIN said he was ""disappointed"" with the decision. ""It's going to be a massive Conservative carbuncle built on the fringe of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A carbuncle that none of the local communities want."" Mr Hartley said campaigners would now consider whether to appeal against the decision by asking for a judicial review. ""We'll also be considering putting it to the county councillors that it isn't too late to throw the contract out."" Javier Peiro from Urbaser Balfour Beatty said he was ""delighted"" with the outcome. ""We will be working with Gloucestershire County Council to make sure the project brings as many opportunities for the local people and the economy as possible and make a positive contribution to the effects of climate change,"" he said. The company said the incinerator will treat over 92% of the county's waste that would normally go to landfill, and generate enough electricity to power 26,000 homes.","A £ 500 m incinerator project that was rejected by Gloucestershire County Council can go ahead , Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has @placeholder .",warned,explained,ruled,claimed,concluded,2
"The National Gallery in London has around 2,300 paintings in its collection - which might sound a lot, but is a piffling hoard compared to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which has gathered almost 200,000 artworks of varying types and quality. That is properly impressive. But it's not a patch on what you will find - reportedly - in an unprepossessing, windowless warehouse complex in south-west Switzerland. I say ""reportedly"" because nobody actually knows exactly how many works of art are stored in the Geneva Free Port, but its chairman talks of ""a million"", while the New York Times says the number is nearer 1.2 million (including around 1,000 works by Picasso). Either way, it is oceanic. It is not the property of a single institution or art-crazed individual - it belongs to an unaligned group of art dealers, collectors, freight forwarders and offshore companies (generally with opaque ownership), who appreciate the anonymity and prison-like security provided by the Swiss facility. It is a strange place. As Ann Widdecombe once said of Michael Howard, it has ""something of the night"" about it. It feels sinister. And spooky in a Kubrick's The Shining sort of way, as you walk along miles of identical corridors with faceless locked metal doors, behind which you imagine great works of art concealed and incarcerated in their bespoke wooden cases. By its own admission, the Geneva Free Port has been used in the past by ""undesirable tenants"" to conduct illicit archaeological trafficking, a fact that was made public when Italian police were given access a couple of years ago because they suspected stolen treasures might be stashed there. They were right - and then some. By the time they put down their crowbars, they had lifted the lids of 45 crates containing looted Roman and Etruscan antiquities including rare and important ancient sarcophagi. That was embarrassing. Worse, it created speculation that the Free Port could be an unwitting base for illegal trading by terrorists selling off recently plundered Syrian artefacts to fund their activities. Enter David Hiler, a high-ranking local politician who had retired from public office and subsequently taken on the chairmanship of the Free Port. He is an avuncular character who likes a cigarette as much as he doesn't like dodgy dealers damaging the reputation of his city. He quickly imposed new rules aimed at flushing out baddies and stopping ill-gotten gains getting in. He introduced a new attitude of openness, along with media briefings, regulatory updates and invitations to visit. The official guided tour I went on was as interesting as it could be given the limitations the facility insists it operates under. I got to see a room full of boxes of wine, which represented a fraction of the three million bottles stored there (the Free Port has been called the ""biggest wine cellar in the world""). I enjoyed a trip to the on-site, independently run conservation studios, where clients take their artworks for a pre-sale MoT. And I popped into a small gallery-type space built among the lock-ups for clients to show and sell their artworks (tax free). I wasn't allowed to go where I really wanted to, which was one of the rooms leased by its clients. That was out of the question because, my guide told me, the Free Port is simply the proprietor: ""The thing is Will, if you rented an apartment from a landlord he would not have the right to enter the space without first having your permission."" That wasn't the approach my old landlord in south London used to take, but then he wasn't Swiss and I didn't hang around. Unlike some of the tenants at the Free Port, who can stay for decades. Which might be good for business, but it does create a hostage to fortune for David Hiler and his colleagues, who insist they have no idea what their rented-out rooms contain. He is sure, though, that among the million or so artworks behind the metal doors, there are bound to be some with very shady provenance. It weighs on him. He says he would like the Swiss customs and police to come in and undertake a complete audit of everything in the Free Port so he can know for once and for all what he has under his corporate roof. But that's not going to happen because, he says, ""it's not the Swiss way"". I wish they would, if only so I could stand outside the night before to see how many lorries were going to and fro. I suppose the natural instinct when faced with such secrecy is to be suspicious. I was. But more than that, I found the visit a rather sad and bleak experience. If there are really a million artworks in there, all of which were created to seen and enjoyed, it seems a travesty to the point of immorality. We all know that art has become a commodity, but I hadn't realised until I went to the Free Port that it has become a tradable stock that never needs to see the light of day. Those Picassos might never come out, remaining boxed-up in a cold corner as they shift from one owner's capital assets balance sheet to another's. We can argue all day long about the meaning of art, but surely it isn't that. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","As @placeholder is an important part of this story , let me start by giving you some context .",size,there,here,video,waits,0
"The National Council of Independent Monitoring Boards said Friday's riot at HMP Birmingham was ""yet more evidence"" to stoke concerns over prison violence. Its president John Thornhill warned low staffing levels meant prisoners were denied a range of facilities. There were incidents at Cardiff Prison and Hull Prison on Sunday involving Birmingham prisoners, it has emerged. At Cardiff about four prisoners, who were transferred from Birmingham after the riot, were believed to have barricaded themselves into a cell in protest at the move, according to BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw. After two hours the matter was resolved when the prisoners surrendered and were taken to the segregation unit. Nobody was injured. As well as the incident at Hull Prison, there were minor outbreaks of trouble at several other jails over the weekend. Friday's riot at Birmingham was the third in English jails in under two months, following trouble at Bedford and Lewes prisons. In Birmingham, riot squads and specially trained prison officers took back control after more than 12 hours of chaos. Stairwells were set on fire and paper records destroyed during trouble in four wings of the category B prison, run by private firm G4S. For more Birmingham and Black Country news The disturbance, which is understood to have involved up to 600 inmates, was described by the Prison Officers' Association as the worst since the Strangeways jail riot 26 years ago. Mr Thornhill said independent monitoring boards, which operate in every prison in England and Wales, have regularly questioned staffing levels. He said they were ""frustrated"" by a lack of response to the issues raised in their annual reports. Mr Thornhill said ""tension and violence"" increased when facilities were denied. ""The result, as we have seen in recent weeks, is an increase in riots that damage the system and individuals,"" he said. The chairman of the Parole Board has warned that the prison population must be reduced to avoid further rioting. Justice Secretary Liz Truss is to address MPs over the Birmingham riot later.","A series of riots followed @placeholder warnings about low staffing levels across prisons , a watchdog has said .",stranded,trapped,repeated,containing,lost,2
"The grimsel car took only 1.513 seconds to reach 100kph (62mph) - slashing about a quarter of a second off the previous record time. So far, no petrol-powered production car has managed to hit the same speed in a comparable time. The grimsel needed only 30m (98ft) of track to reach the landmark speed. The previous record of 0-100kph in 1.779 seconds was set by a team from the University of Stuttgart last year. By comparison, the fastest production vehicle, the Porsche 918 Spyder hybrid, takes 2.2 seconds to reach the same speed. The car has been built and refined over the last year by 30 students studying at ETH Zurich (ETZ) and Lucerne's University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Almost all of car's parts have been custom built apart from its tyres, battery cells and the motor control units. In a statement, ETZ said the four-wheel drive system used by the grimsel was key to its swift acceleration. A powerful motor is mounted on each wheel and the car has a sophisticated traction control system that adjusts the performance of each one to maximise torque. The lightning-fast car weighs only 168kg (370lb) thanks to widespread use of carbon fibre in its construction. The record was set on a race track on the Dubendorf air base near Zurich. The grimsel, named after an Alpine pass. is not just a demonstration vehicle but has also been used extensively in the Formula Student race competition.",An electric racing car built by Swiss student @placeholder has broken the world record for acceleration by battery - powered vehicles .,phones,agency,heritage,engineers,team,3
"Carol, a licensed instructor, teaches gun safety. She had brought a selection to show me from her collection of nearly 50 weapons, including exactly the type of firearm used in the Pulse nightclub, the AR15 semi automatic rifle. Carol bought it to take part in an Arizona state competition that involves target shooting at 200 yards. ""It's just like buying a new pair of shoes - I wanted to add it to my collection. I love it,"" she said. For Carol, the answer to the Orlando shooting is not to ban such weapons. Her husband, Pete Ruh, wanted me to hear again a line that I have heard over 20 years from many American gun rights advocates: ""It's not the gun that kills people. It's the person behind it"". He was also very clear about this: ""If any of us had been in the nightclub that night, this would not have happened"". Carol told me that if she finds herself in such a horrific situation, legally carrying her own gun, she is prepared to kill the attacker. Her reaction to the Orlando attack? ""If there were no police inside, no SWAT team, I might have taken the shot. It's a difficult thing to do. It's not something I would wish to do. But if I had a clean shot, I might have taken it."" These three Americans have decades of legal gun ownership and experience between them. So what do they think can be done to stop more mass shootings? Background checks? Yes. They all nod emphatically. ""We totally agree with background checks"". They should cover convictions and they should cover mental illness. There are also buyers' loopholes to be tightened. Carol said ""straw purchases"" are still a real problem, where a front person purchases the gun, purely in order to pass it on. Carol adds that ""the secret to all of it is education"". She believes proper safety training should be compulsory for those who buy guns, ""just like a driving test"". Debbie Arnold wants more punitive sanctions for gun crime. She worries every day about her 23-year-old son, a police officer who could one day be in the line of fire. She became tearful when telling me about the threats he faces. She is angry at the Obama administration for what she sees as a failure to crack down hard on illegal gun ownership. ""The criminals, the felons, will always get the weapons. The rules should be about checking the people who aren't meant to have the firearms. And stiffen up the laws on gun crime"". But what if an attacker does have a legal right to his semi-automatic rifle? Even then, the answer from this Arizona gun range today is definitely not to ban the weapon itself. Carol Ruh believes President Obama, and maybe Hillary Clinton after him, want to tear guns away from their rightful owners, from what she calls right-thinking Americans. ""They're trying to rip the constitution down, destroy our constitution"", Debbie believes. ""She's already told everybody the Second Amendment will be abolished"". Limiting the legal ownership of guns? For these Americans, and many many more like them, the answer is ""absolutely not."" I ask Carol for her reaction if any government tries to limit guns to ranges, or stop citizens carrying them. ""I would resist that to my dying breath."" And Carol concludes: ""This is not a country that will be invaded. Because the common person, the majority of us, owns a firearm"".","As Americans in the west woke up to the awful news from Florida , I was on my way to the Ben Avery shooting range in the desert north of Phoenix Arizona , to meet three gun enthusiasts - Carol Ruh , president of the Arizona Ladies ' Shooting Association , her husband Pete Ruh , and the @placeholder 's Treasurer Debbie Arnold .",nation,women,team,group,fallout,3
"They were among 120 people who were deliberately pushed from a boat into the sea by the smuggler who apparently feared arrest. Some 27 survivors were found on a beach by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on a routine patrol. Twenty-two are missing while the rest have moved on, the IOM said. It added in a statement that the average age of the Somali and Ethiopian passengers on the boat appeared to have been 16. They had been hoping to reach countries in the Gulf via war-torn Yemen. ""The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them to the sea, when he saw some 'authority types' near the coast,"" explained Laurent de Boeck, the IOM Yemen Chief of Mission. The smuggler has already returned to Somalia to pick up more migrants to bring them to Yemen on the same route, they told the IOM. ""This is shocking and inhumane,"" Mr de Boeck said. ""The suffering of migrants on this migration route is enormous. Too many young people pay smugglers with the false hope of a better future."" Despite conflict and a dire humanitarian situation, Yemen is still seen by many Africans as a gateway to the rich Gulf states or Europe, and thousands make their way there every year in crowded boats. Around 55,000 migrants have left the Horn of Africa to come to Yemen so far this year, more than half of them under the age of 18 and a third thought to be female, the IOM estimates. Many others also try to reach Europe via Libya and the Mediterranean Sea. A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.","At least 29 teenage migrants were deliberately @placeholder by a people smuggler in Yemen , the UN 's migration agency says .",detained,targeted,triggered,kidnapped,drowned,4
"On the way, he became one of the most recognisable entertainers in the business, driven by what appeared to be inexhaustible energy. He became synonymous with the plethora of game shows that seemed to dominate television light entertainment in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, although he often felt he had become typecast as the genial quizmaster. And at an age when most performers would have put their feet up, his career enjoyed a huge revival with the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson was born in Edmonton, north London, on 22 February 1928. His father owned a local garage and both his parents were Salvation Army members who sang and played music at home. The young Bruce was a direct descendant of William Forsyth, a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society, whose name was given to the plant forsythia. His interest in showbusiness was kindled at the age of eight and he was reportedly found tap-dancing on the flat roof after watching his first Fred Astaire film. ""As soon as I got home from school,"" he recalled, ""I'd take up the carpet, because there was lino underneath, and start tapping away."" He made his stage debut at the age of 14 as Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom, appearing bottom of the bill at the Theatre Royal, Bilston. Live entertainment was a way of escaping the pressures and dangers of wartime Britain, and there was a huge demand for acts, no matter how bad they were. Many years later he explained his motivation on a BBC chat show.  ""I wanted to be famous and buy my mum a fur coat."" But there was to be no fast track to success. For the next 16 years he performed in church halls and theatres across the country, sleeping in train luggage racks and waiting for the big break. It came in 1958, at a time when he had been unemployed for more than three months and was seriously considering giving up on showbusiness. He was asked to present Sunday Night at the London Palladium, a televised variety show, made by Lord Grade's ATV company for the ITV network. He'd finally found the fame he had always craved, appearing not in front of a couple of hundred people in a theatre, but the more than 10 million who regularly tuned in to the show. ""The pubs would empty when it came on,"" he told an interviewer.  ""We would get calls saying: 'Can't you start it later?'"" Originally booked for two weeks, he stayed five years, by which time he was Britain's highest-paid entertainer, earning £1,000 a week (£18,700 in today's money). But he continued touring with his variety show and the strain of combining this with his Palladium appearances took a toll on his private life. He divorced his first wife, Penny Calvert, a dancer he'd met in the theatre, and she wrote an account of her husband's perpetual absence, called Darling, Your Dinner's in the Dustbin. A popular element in his Palladium show was a feature called Beat the Clock, in which contestants, egged on by Forsyth, had to complete quirky tasks as a huge clock ticked down. The segment gave a hint of his future television role and he went on to host some of the most popular television game shows of the 1970s and 80s. With his catchphrases of ""Nice to see you, to see you nice"" and ""Didn't he do well?"" he reigned supreme at the helm of the BBC's Generation Game for six years from 1971, and again at the beginning of the 1990s. At its peak, the programme attracted 20 million viewers, who tuned in to watch Forsyth seemingly having more fun than the competitors, enthusing over the mundane prizes on the conveyor belt. The presenter argued with his BBC managers about the show's early evening timeslot but he eventually accepted his role as the ""warm-up man"" for Saturday night television. His co-host on the show, Anthea Redfern, was each week encouraged to ""give us a twirl"". The couple married in 1973 but divorced six years later. It was on the Generation Game that he introduced his famous ""thinker"" pose, appearing in silhouette at the beginning of each show. The idea came from the classic circus strongman pose, something he'd perfected during his days in variety. He repeated his success on ITV's Play Your Cards Right, where the audience joined in the cries of ""higher"" or ""lower"" as the contestants tried to guess the value of a series of playing cards. Michael Grade said of him: ""He knows how to get laughs out of people but it's never cruel and he leaves their dignity intact."" In 1995, a year after his final Generation Game appearance, he received a lifetime achievement award for variety at the British Comedy Awards and began hosting ITV's The Price is Right. The entertainer was, by this time, a Rolls-Royce-driving multimillionaire and married since 1983 to Wilnelia Merced, a former Miss World. He later claimed that he regretted becoming so associated with game shows and wished he'd done more variety work on TV. Play Your Cards Right was axed in 1999 and, with changing tastes in entertainment, his TV career began to slide. He returned to the theatre - but experienced an unexpected revival after his wife watched an edition of the satirical quiz, Have I Got News For You, and suggested he could present the programme. After calling show regular Paul Merton, he landed the gig and offered to be ""a little bit deadpan"". ""But the team said, 'No, be Bruce Forsyth,'"" he said. He used the occasion to parody some of his old game shows, much to the ill-disguised disgust of team captain Ian Hislop. But the appearance led to Forsyth, an accomplished tap dancer, being offered the job of hosting Strictly Come Dancing, which began a year later. Viewed with scepticism when it launched, the celebrity dance show became one of the most-watched programmes on TV by the time it reached its fifth series in 2007. He brought his own brand of avuncular good humour to the proceedings - reassuring many of the contestants with the phrase ""you're my favourites"". ""His particular character and personality went a long way to making the show what it is,"" said former contestant Ann Widdecombe. But the presenter once revealed that Strictly ""was never the show that I thought it would be"". ""I thought it'd be a comedy show - me getting among the contestants and showing them how to dance, and them all falling over,"" he told ITV's This Morning. ""It was a different show."" After missing a handful of episodes because of illness, he decided to ""step down from the rigours"" of presenting Strictly in 2014. ""But I'm not retiring,"" he insisted. ""That's the last thing in the world I want to do. This isn't Brucie walking into the sunset."" He continued to host the Christmas and charity editions of Strictly until 2014 - all of which were taped, as opposed to live broadcasts. Away from entertainment, Forsyth's biggest passion was golf and he took part in many pro-celebrity tournaments. His house was next to the course at Wentworth, where he played with many of the world's best players, practising in the bunker in his own back garden. During his career, Forsyth's multiple talents and years of application sparked an enduring appeal. In 2011 he was knighted after years of campaigning by his fans and a parliamentary Early Day Motion signed by 73 MPs. But he suffered from ill health towards the end of his life, and in 2016 his wife revealed he still had ""a bit of a problem moving"", following major surgery a year earlier. Sir Bruce was one of the last entertainers from the tradition of music hall to be working on British television. In many ways his act barely changed. The same corny gags, the same toothy smile and, above all, the same manic enthusiasm. ""On stage I think I'm 35,"" he once said. ""Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop."" He will be particularly remembered for his ability to transform run-of-the-mill party games into glorious moments of mayhem that enthralled contestants and audiences alike. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Veteran entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth had a career spanning eight decades , in which he went from @placeholder variety performer to Saturday night TV stardom .",grace,school,struggling,adopting,radio,2
"Romanian defence ministry officials are reported to have said those killed were members of the Romanian special forces. The troops were shot while training police in the city of Kandahar. There have been several incidents in recent years of Afghan security forces turning their arms on coalition troops. However more recently so-called ""green-on-blue"" insider attacks - usually committed by Taliban members or supporters - have become much less frequent. The attackers on Saturday were killed, a Nato statement said, and an investigation is under way. One Afghan policeman is reported to have been been arrested and is being questioned. Nato's crisis of trust in Afghanistan Afghan gunman admits killing Americans The latest violence comes as Nato commander General John Nicholson reviews plans to reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan by next year almost 50% in a move that officials say would adversely effect the training mission. The Nato statement insisted however that the incident would not jeopardise its training and advisory mission with Afghan forces. Romania contributes about 600 soldiers to the nearly 12,500-strong Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan. US troop numbers are due to be reduced from 9,800 to 5,500 by the start of 2017, but there is increasing speculation that Gen Nicholson may request a delay in the drawdown to keep the training mission running.","Two Nato soldiers have been killed in the @placeholder of Afghanistan and a third was wounded when two attackers wearing the uniform of Afghan security forces opened fire on them , Nato has said .",south,bombing,region,size,war,0
"In less than a month, unsubstantiated claims about Hillary Clinton's health have gone from chatter on Twitter to an attack line by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Without offering any evidence, Mr Trump said in Ohio on Monday that she ""lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on Isis [Islamic State] and all of the many adversaries we face"". Mr Trump, 70, is almost two years older than Mrs Clinton. Most of the latest reports on her health assert that she never recovered from a blood clot that she suffered in 2012, and is keeping her frailty secret. Her doctors say she fully recovered after surgery. Last year, in a letter accompanied by test results, her personal doctor Lisa Bardack said ""she is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as the president of the United States"". So how did we go from ""fit to serve"" to ""secret health crisis""? Here's how it happened: Early summer: Users on Twitter begin speculating about Hillary Clinton's health using the hashtag #HillaryHealth. 4 August: The website Infowars, run by conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, begins publishing stories about Mrs Clinton's supposed failing health. The articles uses a clip of Mrs Clinton joking with an Associated Press reporter in June as evidence that the former secretary of state is ""having seizures even while in public"". The reporter Lisa Lerer wrote a column debunking the claims. ""Where I saw evasiveness, they see seizures,"" she wrote. 7 August: Conservative blogger Matt Drudge runs a photo of Hillary Clinton being helped by aides after slipping on some stairs with the headline ""Hillary conquers the stairs"". Mr Drudge directed readers to a story, which claims ""The questionable health condition of Hillary Clinton should be a major issue of the 2016 campaign."" The problem? The photo was taken in February and news reports at the time showed she continued campaigning after the minor fall. Infowars also addresses the photo of Mrs Clinton on the stairs. Infowars claims the aide helping her is actually a doctor and an item he is holding in his hand is an injection pen for the drug diazepam, which can be used to treat seizures. (Fact checking website Snopes says it actually was a small torch.) 8 August: The National Enquirer tabloid, which has endorsed Mr Trump for president, runs a story entitled ""Hillary Clinton's secret health crisis"". 8 August to 11 August: Fox News presenter Sean Hannity runs multiple segments on Hillary Clinton's health on his primetime chat show, claiming that she suffers from seizures. He also cites Mrs Clinton's exchange with Ms Lerer as evidence. (Ms Lerer was never contacted by Fox News.) Mr Hannity brought on medical experts to his show to confirm his suspicions, but the doctors would not concur. On CNN, Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord also repeats the claims. 11 August to 14 August: Several news organisations including CNN and the Washington Post debunk the claims pushed by Mr Hannity and Infowars. CNN media reporter Brian Stelter called Mr Hannity's coverage ""reckless"". 15 August: Mr Trump says Mrs Clinton ""lacks the physical and mental stamina"" to fight the so-called Islamic State. Reporting by Tim Swift","In the 2016 presidential campaign , the line between @placeholder theory and stump speech material is blurring .",intelligence,fringe,agency,holds,distinction,1
"The Englishman, who has not won a PGA Tour title since 2012, carded a level-par 72 in the final round. That left him one off the leaders, who were separated by a play-off - American Finau beating his compatriot Marino with three successive birdies. ""It's slightly disappointing,"" said Poulter, 40. ""I'm continuing to work on the game to try and improve and I know if I rectify a couple of poor shots then my game will improve. ""Obviously, hitting shots slightly too far right at certain times is costly.""","Ian Poulter failed to convert his overnight lead into victory at the Puerto Rico Open , finishing @placeholder third behind Tony Finau and Steve Marino .",tied,team,claimed,including,joint,0
"Ceredigion council's cabinet has supported  the idea after already agreeing a similar scheme in Llandysul. A report said secondary schools were not up to standard, and cost per pupil figures in the catchment areas were among the highest in Wales. But there has been some opposition to the plans. The Welsh medium super-school would be based on the Finnish ""all-through"" education system. The council said all seven primary schools in the Tregaron area have fewer than 90 pupils and have 102 surplus spaces - 25% of the total capacity. It said Tregaron Secondary School was in a poor state of repair. The plans would involve closing Tregaron Secondary School and Tregaron, Lledrod, Bronnant, Llangeitho, Penwuch, Pontrhydfendiagaid and Llanddewi Brefi primary schools. The new multi-site school would include a focal point at Tregaron and a 3-11 federal school at Pontrhydfendiagaid and another 3-11 federal school to the west of Tregaron. The new builds at Tregaron and Llandysul would cost almost £66m.","Plans for an "" all - through "" super - school for pupils aged three to 19 to @placeholder eight schools in the Tregaron area have been backed "" in principle "" .",cover,improve,replace,undergo,ensure,2
"Earlier this year, Stacy Nichols' small electrical business on Queensland's Gold Coast employed six people. By the time the Australian government announced on 22 October its intention to reduce its support for renewable energy, she was down to just two staff. ""I have a van set up for solar work sitting on the street, with no solar work or staff due to [Prime Minister] Tony Abbott,"" Ms Nichols says. The many companies, such as Ms Nichols' firm,  that are involved in the burgeoning renewables industry - mostly wind and solar power operators - were devastated by the government's announcement that it would cut its target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) a year of renewable energy by 2020 to 27,000 GWh a year. The government says the cut in the Renewable Energy Target (RET) takes account of a decline in overall demand for electricity that has been sparked, in part, by higher power prices. It also says the lower target will provide certainty to the renewables sector. The decision is not as drastic as it could have been. A government-commissioned review by businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton had proposed, as one option, scrapping the RET altogether. However, the new target still has to make its way through parliament either with the support of the Labor opposition or of a number of independent senators in the Upper House - neither of which is a sure thing. Until that is settled, businesses such as Ms Nichols' are facing an uncertain future. ""We were growing,"" the mother of two young children said of their family business. ""We were looking to put on more people and get another van."" Her company, Infinite Lighting & Electrical, decided to specialise in solar electricity work just two years ago as the industry encouraged its members to pursue solar power in a political climate where the sector was supported by an RET entrenched in legislation by the previous Labor government. Ms Nichols invested heavily in training and certification for her staff. But months ago, when it became clear the government would cut or dump the target RET, business began to dry up, she says. It is not only small operators who have been hurt. One of Australia's largest wind turbine tower producers, Keppel Prince Engineering in Victoria, announced last Thursday it had sacked 100 workers because of the government's RET decision. A number of large-scale renewable energy producers had already been affected by the conservative government's lack of commitment to renewable energy, says the sector's peak body, the Clean Energy Council. In July, clean energy solutions provider Pacific Hydro cut its staff by 10%; Hydro Tasmania has said the government's scrapping of the carbon tax would significantly cut into profits, and US company, Recurrent Energy, has reportedly closed its Australian office. The Clean Energy Council says a cut in the RET will kill much of Australia's renewable energy industry, which employs about 21,000 people nationwide. ""A substantial reduction of [the] target to around 27,000 GWh… would equate to a 64% reduction in future investment and effectively devastate the renewable energy sector,"" says the council's acting chief executive Kane Thornton, adding that consumers will end up paying higher, not lower power bills because of the cut in supply. The Australian government's move to ""recarbonise"" does not bode well ahead of global climate talks in Paris next year, says policy think tank the Climate Institute. ""The core risk is that it institutionalises failure by driving up emissions,"" says Climate Institute deputy chief executive, Erwin Jackson. The European Union has announced it will cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% on 1990 levels by 2030. Australia, the highest carbon emitter per capita of any country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has an existing emissions reduction target of at least 5% by the end of this decade. ""We need all countries to be pulling their weight,"" Mr Jackson says. A decline in Australia's renewable energy generation will take it in the wrong direction, he says.",The Australian government has never hidden its scepticism about climate change or renewable energy but its decision last week to cut support for cleaner energy sources still left the renewable energy industry @placeholder .,divided,zone,reeling,continues,reveal,2
"The CCTV stills were taken in Nottingham city centre, where Samantha Baldwin, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, was last seen on Monday. The 40-year-old is believed to be with Louis Madge, 9, and Dylan Madge, 6. Police said the case was being treated as abduction and confirmed Ms Baldwin did not have legal custody of the boys. Police earlier revealed they had extended their search to Europe and were ""open minded"" about whether she had left the UK. The CCTV images were captured in the waterfront area of Nottingham at about 11:00 BST on Monday and in Cheapside about 30 minutes later. Supt Rich Fretwell said: ""In light of the recently released footage, I would urge people to cast their minds back to Monday 27 March. ""Did you see a woman in a red coat walking in the city? We would like to hear from you if you did."" The family has connections to Lincolnshire and Manchester. It is not known what clothes the boys, who also use the surname of Taylor, were wearing. Two women, aged 62 and 36, have been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.",Detectives searching for a mother who is missing with her two sons have released photos from the day she @placeholder .,died,vanished,arrived,team,worked,1
"The servers were part of an experiment the BBC asked a security company to carry out to judge the scale and calibre of cyber-attacks that firms face every day. About 71 minutes after the servers were set up online they were visited by automated attack tools that scanned them for weaknesses they could exploit, found security firm Cyber Reason. Once the machines had been found by the bots, they were subjected to a ""constant"" assault by the attack tools. The servers were accessible online for about 170 hours to form a cyber-attack sampling tool known as a honeypot, said Israel Barak, head of security at Cyber Reason. The servers were given real, public IP addresses and other identifying information that announced their presence online. ""We set out to map the automatic attack activity,"" said Mr Barak. To make them even more realistic, he said, each one was also configured to superficially resemble a legitimate server. Each one could accept requests for webpages, file transfers and secure networking. ""They had no more depth than that,"" he said, meaning the servers were not capable of doing anything more than providing a very basic response to a query about these basic net services and protocols. ""There was no assumption that anyone was going to go in and probe it and even if they did, there's nothing there for them to find,"" he said. The servers' limited responses did not deter the automated attack tools, or bots, that many cyber-thieves use to find potential targets, he said. A wide variety of attack bots probed the servers seeking weaknesses that could be exploited had they been full-blown, production machines. Many of the code vulnerabilities and other loopholes they looked for had been known about for months or years, he said. However, added Mr Barak, many organisations struggled to keep servers up-to-date with the patches that would thwart these bots potentially giving attackers a way to get at the server. During the experiment: ""This was a very typical pattern for these automatic bots,"" said Mr Barak. ""They used similar techniques to those we've seen before. There's nothing particularly new."" As well as running a bank of servers for the BBC, Cyber Reason also sought to find out how quickly phishing gangs start to target new employees. It seeded 100 legitimate marketing email lists with spoof addresses and then waited to see what would turn up. After 21 hours, the first booby-trapped phishing email landed in the email inbox for the fake employees, said Mr Barak. It was followed by a steady trickle of messages that sought, in many different ways, to trick people into opening malicious attachments. About 15% of the emails contained a link to a compromised webpage that, if visited, would launch an attack that would compromise the visitor's PC. The other 85% of the phishing messages had malicious attachments. The account received booby-trapped Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDFs and executable files. We use a lots of honeypots in a lot of different ways. The concept really scales to almost any kind of thing where you can create a believable fake or even a real version of something. You put it out and see who turns up to hit it or break it. There are honeypots, honey-nets, honey-tokens, honey anything. When a customer sees a threat that's hit hundreds of honeypots that's different to when they see one that no-one else has. That context in terms of attack is very useful. Some are thin but some have a lot more depth and are scaled very broadly. Sometimes you put up the equivalent of a fake shop-front to see who turns up to attack it. If you see an approach that you've never seen before then you might let that in and see what you can learn from it. The most sophisticated adversaries are often very targeted when they go after specific companies or individuals. Mr Barak said the techniques used by the bots were a good guide to what organisations should do to avoid falling victim. They should harden servers by patching, controls around admin access, check apps to make sure they are not harbouring well-known bugs and enforce strong passwords Criminals often have different targets in mind when seeking out vulnerable servers, he said. Some were keen to hijack user accounts and others sought to take over servers and use them for their own ends. Cyber-thieves would look through the logs compiled by attack bots to see if they have turned up any useful or lucrative targets. There had been times when a server compromised by a bot was passed on to another criminal gang because it was at a bank, government or other high-value target. ""They sell access to parts of their botnet and offer other attackers access to machines their bots are active on,"" he said. ""We have seen cases where a very typical bot infection turns into a manual operation."" In those cases, attackers would then use the foothold gained by the bots as a starting point for a more comprehensive attack. It's at that point, he said, hackers would take over and start to use other digital attack tools to penetrate further into a compromised organisation. He said: ""Once an adversary has got to a certain level in an organisation you have to ask what will they do next?"" In a bid to explore what happens in those situations, Cyber Reason is now planning to set up more servers and give these more depth to make them even more tempting targets. The idea is, he said, to get a close look at the techniques hackers use when they embark on a serious attack. ""We'll look for more sophisticated, manual operations,"" he said. ""We'll want to see the techniques they use and if there is any monetisation of the method.""","Cyber - criminals start attacking servers newly set up online about an hour after they are @placeholder on , suggests research .",logging,stranded,switched,circulating,continuing,2
"The Prince of Wales began the day by meeting the first and deputy-first ministers at Hillsborough Castle. Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness met the prince separately for briefings on local political and economic developments. Later, Charles and Camilla will make a number of visits to local businesses. Later, the royal couple will host a musical evening at the castle. There will be traditional music and some local refreshments in this Northern Irish Year of Food and Drink. Charles also visited the Portico Centre in Portaferry  County Down on Tuesday. The centre is a former Presbyterian church that has been transformed to an arts and heritage centre at a cost of £1.5m. Members of the local GAA club presented the prince with a hurley. From Portaferry it was on to Portadown, where Charles and Camilla took part in an impromptu town centre walkabout. They took time to shake hands with a small crowd of wellwishers before visiting the Yellow Door Patisserie, and travelling to the head office of Ulster Carpets. The couple also visited Loughgall, County Armagh - taking in a trip to the Orange Order's heritage museum at Sloan House. Donegal visit On Wednesday, Charles and Camilla will visit County Donegal. The visit to the Republic of Ireland is at the request of the government, and follows the couple's trip to the country last year.","Prince Charles is being @placeholder by his wife , the Duchess of Cornwall , for the second day of his Northern Ireland visit .",transformed,released,joined,breathed,created,2
"The Scots laid the foundations for this excellent bonus-point victory with two Tommy Seymour tries while Niyi Adeolokun touched down for Connacht. Glasgow led 13-5 at the break and they stormed clear in the second half. Man-of-the-match Stuart Hogg, Tim Swinson, Sila Puafisi and Sean Lamont added further tries for the Warriors as they started the season in style. Connacht's lack of pre-season fixtures - they only had one game away to Montpellier - was ruthlessly exposed by Glasgow. With 473 international caps in their squad and the early wind advantage, Gregor Townsend's side started strongly and quick hands from Peter Horne and Hogg put Nashville-born flyer Seymour over in the left corner. Henry Pyrgos fired over a successful 25th-minute penalty, although number eight Ryan Wilson's late and dangerous tackle on Jack Carty had the visitors a man down. Bundee Aki provided the momentum for Connacht's only score, the centre powering out of two attempted tackles before neat passes from Denis Buckley, Finlay Bealham and Eoin Griffin sent Adeolokun diving over by the right corner flag. Carty was unable to convert and Glasgow had the last word before half-time. Hogg's flat delivery out to the right allowed Seymour to cut in past Cian Kelleher and complete his brace, giving Glasgow an eight-point advantage at the interval. Hogg exploited a gap between Eoin Griffin and Matt Healy to reach over to the right of the posts, with Pyrgos' boot making it 20-5 barely six minutes after the restart. The bonus point was bagged in the 53rd minute as second row Swinson piled over following good work by lively Italian newcomer Leonardo Sarto. The latter also had a hand in the build-up to Puafisi's score on the hour mark, the Tongan replacement prop crashing through after Hogg was held up by Kelleher. Lamont wrapped up the runaway victory in the 71st minute, scoring from a close-range ruck, with scrum-half Pyrgos slotting his fourth successful conversion in a row. TEAMS Connacht: Kelleher, Adeolokun, Griffin, Aki, Healy, Carty, Blade, Buckley, McCartney, Bealham, Dillane, Qualter, McKeon, Fox-Matamua, Muldoon. Replacements: Robb for Griffin (55), O'Leary for Carty (66), Marmion for Blade (48), Loughney for Buckley (50), Heffernan for McCartney (61), J. Cooney for Bealham (61), Stevenson for Dillane (61), Connolly for Muldoon (73). Glasgow: Hogg, Sarto, Dunbar, Johnson, Seymour, Horne, Pyrgos, Reid, MacArthur, Fagerson, Swinson, Gray, Harley, Favaro, Wilson. Replacements: Lamont for Hogg (61), Clegg for Horne (64), Grant for Reid (50), Flynn for MacArthur (50), Puafisi for Fagerson (51), Price for Swinson (69), Wynne for Favaro (64). Not Used: Uanivi. Sin Bin: Wilson (29) Ref: Ian Davies (Wales)",Glasgow kicked off their Pro12 campaign with a thumping six - try win over @placeholder champions Connacht in Galway .,relegated,league,reigning,battling,promoted,2
"David Brookes' image won the Mountains of Scotland category and overall award in the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival photography competition. It shows fellow hillwalker Juliet Harris looking out over Loch Avon in the Cairngorms. Mr Brookes had 5% of battery life left in his phone when he took the picture. The climber, who is originally from Cumbria and lives in Edinburgh, said: ""This photograph was taken in October 2015 in the Cairngorms. Remarkably the snow had lasted from the previous winter. ""We had hoped to climb on Hell's Lum Crag but the rock was too slippery after a long wet summer. Instead, we decided to walk up Ben Macdui and came across this snow cave at Feith Buidhe."" Mr Brookes added: ""I wasn't intending this to be a photography trip so I hadn't brought my usual camera. ""All I had was an iPhone with 5% battery left - and with that, I took this picture."" Another of the festival's winning images was a photograph of ice climber Kev Shields which was taken by Euan Ryan, of Scottish adventure film-making company Finalcrux Films. Mr Ryan's picture won the People in Wild Places category.",A prize - winning photograph of a hillwalker @placeholder out from inside a snow cave was taken as the battery ran out on the photographer 's camera phone .,pulled,climbing,gazing,carrying,ruled,2
"Highlands-based, Dingwall-born Pop Surrealist Forbes' art hangs in galleries in Scotland, England and Manhattan in New York city. His work has referenced women's rights campaigns, featured ""mash ups"" of glamorous Hollywood icons, also past US presidents such as Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln and the current incumbent at the White House, Donald Trump. Fans of the Belladrum Music Festival will also be familiar with his artwork on the posters for the Scottish music event. The poster art has included Highland cows wearing psychedelic sunglasses while flying through the air. But while his paintings often show humorous scenes, Forbes has been coping with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), a condition that has affected his life since childhood. Dealing with the disorder in more recent times has involved immersing himself in painting one of his boyhood heroes - Adam West and his version of Batman. US actor West was the star of the the 1960s hit TV series Batman. He died earlier this month at the age of 88. Forbes says he was first aware of feelings of anxiety when he was at primary school when he was nine years old. ""I was always the class clown, trying to make my friends laugh,"" he says. ""But I found one day I just didn't want to go to school and ended up being at home for months."" His mother, Eleanor, took him to see a child psychologist at Craig Dunain Hospital in Inverness. Forbes later learned that his mum had taken her mother to the same hospital years before for electroconvulsive therapy for depression. ""My mother must have been terrified her child was going a similar route,"" says the artist. The psychologist determined that Forbes was ""fine"", but GAD continued to affect his life including in his 20s before he was eventually diagnosed with the disorder. One of his biggest struggles came in 2011 with his mum's death at the age of 64. Forbes says: ""My family and I looked after her through her fight with cancer. She was incredibly brave. ""After her death I thought I was doing fine I was grieving, but coping. ""I decided to do some work to the house up to occupy me, but this disrupted my painting and we hit some problems with the renovation and just the drip drip of stress and pushing my mother's death to the back of my mind exploded in a breakdown. ""It's hard to explain it's a total loss of emotional control and an overwhelming feeling of disaster. It's so consuming that the simplest of tasks seems impossible."" Through painting, coupled with support from his family, Forbes' says he has learned to cope with the periods of ""a few days of hell"" until they pass. ""All the Batman pieces were created after my mother's death,"" says the artists, who first saw West's Batman in the 1970s. ""I instantly loved the TV show and it stuck with me through life, but in adulthood as a nostalgic, kitsch, TV show with a pop art aesthetic. I also liked the camp humour."" He adds: ""As a child it was my favourite show. Being very young I didn't recognise the comedy and campness. To me it was genuinely exciting. ""I had put it aside for many years but with my art becoming more pop, the imagery of Batman was a rich vein for a pop artist."" Forbes says: ""In the series of paintings I wanted to paint Batman not as the crime fighter, but as a man who is suffering mental illness from the trauma of losing his parents. ""He turns his pain into revenge and creates a new persona for himself and wears a mask. ""I knew too I was wearing a mask, the happy face for the world. So I wanted to paint Batman not fighting crime but the fight of getting through life. ""I painted him in everyday situations like doing the laundry of vacuuming the Bat Cave. I wanted to show the viewer he is us and we are him. ""We are all Batman.""","A Scottish artist whose fans include Madonna , Monty Python 's Terry Gilliam and comedian Ricky Gervais has @placeholder up about his battle with an anxiety disorder . Helping Michael Forbes to cope with the condition has included creating canvases of Adam West 's Batman .",opened,stirred,blown,broken,drawn,0
"RNLI Loch Ness was alerted to the incident near Invermoriston just before 18:30 on Thursday. Police, ambulance and fire service personnel were also called to the scene. The casualty, who was seriously injured, was lifted from the gorge on a stretcher and airlifted to hospital. The biker's condition in Raigmore Hospital in Inverness was not known.",Lifeboat and coastguard volunteers have been involved in the rescue of a biker who @placeholder and landed in a gorge near Loch Ness .,drowned,crashed,escaped,collapsed,attacked,1
"A government analysis says the economy, financial markets and the rights of Britons living overseas could be affected during a complex negotiation to ""unravel"" the UK's membership. But Commons Leader Chris Grayling, who is campaigning for a UK exit, said the 10-year claim was ""ludicrous"". He accused the government of running a ""relentless campaign of fear"". Meanwhile Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who wants to remain in the EU, warned David Cameron against fighting a ""miserable, negative, fear-based"" referendum campaign. Such accusations were rejected by Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock, who told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government's analysis was ""a cautious assessment"". He said it was ""incumbent"" on the Leave campaign to explain what would happen if it wins the referendum, adding: ""There are real consequences of this for jobs and for livelihoods."" The government's assessment of the exit process warns of a ""complex negotiation"" involving the 27 remaining EU member states, saying it would be difficult to complete a successful withdrawal inside the official two-year window. It says about two million Britons living in other EU countries have access to pensions, healthcare and other public services. ""There would be no requirement under EU law for these rights to be maintained if the UK left the EU,"" it adds. ""Should an agreement be reached to maintain these rights, the expectation must be that this would have to be reciprocated for EU citizens in the UK."" But Mr Grayling told the BBC: ""Why on earth would we think it would take twice as long as the Second World War to be able to sort out our trading relationships with Europe and elsewhere?"" He said EU states had more to lose, because ""they sell far more to us than we sell to them"". Tamara Kovacevic, BBC News There is no precedent for a country leaving the EU. Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty sets out the process: negotiations would last two years and after that the UK would cease to be a member of the EU, unless the other 27 states unanimously decided to extend the negotiations. When Greenland voted to withdraw from the European Community - the organisation that preceded the EU - in 1982 (after gaining a high level of internal autonomy from Denmark in 1979) a deal was reached three years later, after difficult and protracted negotiations, mainly over fisheries. A deal for the UK is likely to be more complicated and the negotiations lengthier, especially if the UK wanted to retain full access to the single market. The other 27 EU countries would be in charge of the timetable and a new deal for the UK would have to be approved by the European Parliament and the remaining 27 EU countries by qualified majority voting. The UK would remain a member of the EU, under the current terms, for as long as the negotiations are ongoing. BBC EU referendum reality check London Mayor Boris Johnson also accused Remain of scaremongering, writing in the Daily Telegraph: ""They want us to go to the polls in such a state of quivering apprehension that we do the bidding of the Euro-elites, and vote to stay in the European Union."" The cabinet is split over whether to remain in the EU, with 17 full members in favour of staying in the EU and five wanting to leave. On Monday afternoon Conservative MPs lined up in the House of Commons to criticise restrictions placed on official information given to those ministers backing an EU exit. Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood's guidance says ministers opposing the official government line should not be given access to government papers on the referendum or Prime Minister David Cameron's EU renegotiations - apart from ones they had already seen. Responding to an urgent question from Tory MP Bernard Jenkin, Mr Hancock said government was ""functioning as normal"" and that the restrictions would only apply to the specific in-out EU debate. But backbenchers attacked the move. Michael Fabricant said it would appear ""petty and vindictive"" to voters, ex-defence minister Sir Gerald Howarth called it a ""constitutional outrage"", while former children's minister Tim Loughton suggested ministers would have to submit Freedom of Information Act requests to their own departments. Earlier Employment Minister Priti Patel said Sir Jeremy's action was ""unconstitutional"" and accused him of jeopardising the political impartiality of the Civil Service. ""Secretaries of state are responsible for their departments. For an unelected official to prevent them being aware of the information they need for their duties is wrong,"" she said. Prime Minister David Cameron told an audience of students in Ipswich the row had ""got slightly out of proportion"" and the public should focus on the bigger issue of the merits of staying in or leaving. The government is not neutral on the issue, he said, adding that ministers who back EU exit should not expect to see documents making the government's case for staying in as he would not expect to see papers prepared by campaign groups opposing EU membership.","Ministers are warning of at least 10 years of "" @placeholder "" if the UK votes to leave the European Union .",names,behaviour,suspension,detention,uncertainty,4
"The actress, who played Hermione in the film series, went to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child earlier this week. Writing on Facebook on Thursday, Watson said: ""I came in with no idea what to expect and it was amazing. ""Having seen it, I felt more connected to Hermione and the stories than I have since Deathly Hallows came out, which was such a gift."" She added: ""Some things about the play were, I think, possibly even more beautiful than the films."" Watson met with the cast and crew after the performances of the two-part play - including Noma Dumezweni, the actress who plays Hermione in the show. The 26-year-old said she felt like she was ""meeting her older self"" as she embraced Dumezweni. ""The cast and crew welcomed me like I was family and Noma was everything I could ever hope she would be. She's wonderful,"" Watson wrote. Watson signed off her post with the hashtag #KeepTheSecrets - a reference to author JK Rowling's plea to fans not to post spoilers from the play's plot on social media. The play is currently in the previews stage and officially opens on 30 July. Watson is taking a year off from acting, but will soon be seen in Disney's live action version of Beauty And The Beast, which is due for release next year. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Emma Watson has @placeholder the new Harry Potter play , which has just opened in London 's West End.",praised,joined,named,directed,defended,0
"The Jordanstown native's three-over-par 75 on Saturday saw her miss the fourth-round cut by three strokes as she finished on six over. Meadow has endured the most difficult of years following the death of her beloved father Robert in May. She missed a number of events after his death before returning to the tour. Meadow received much sympathy from her fellow players after her bereavement and she was recognised at the recent LPGA annual awards. The Northern Ireland women was handed the Heather Farr Perseverance Award which goes to the LPGA player who through ""hard work and dedication and love of the game of golf has demonstrated determination and perseverance on the road to fulfilling her goals"". Former British Amateur champion Meadow finished a sensational third on her professional debut at last year's US Open at Pinehurst. Despite her outstanding US Open performance at Pinehurst a year ago, Meadow missed out on a full tour card for 2015 after a play-off defeat at the qualifying school. That has meant reduced LPGA opportunities this year and Meadow has travelled to several events as a reserve only to be denied a place in the field. China's Simin Feng shot a 69 on Saturday to take a five-shot lead in the qualifying school on 15 under par. The top 20 finishers Sunday will earn full LPGA Tour cards with those occupying 21st to 45th positions handed the conditional status which Meadow had in 2015.",Northern Ireland player Stephanie Meadow 's hopes of earning a LPGA card for 2016 were @placeholder at the Tour School in Florida on Saturday .,held,dashed,aimed,raised,beaten,1
"During a turbulent five-month period, the 32-year-old retired from one-day international cricket but starred in Tests, before becoming upset by a Twitter parody account. He later reversed his limited-overs decision but was then dropped entirely over ""provocative texts"" about team-mates. Here, BBC Sport charts every twist and turn of the saga that ended on Wednesday, when it was announced the batsman is to undergo a ""re-integration"" period before his expected return to action. Test record: 88 matches, 151 innings, 7,076 runs, highest score 227, average 49.48, 27 fifties, 21 centuries ODI record: 127 matches, 116 innings, 4,184 runs, highest score 130, average 41.84, 23 fifties, nine centuries T20 international record: 36 matches, 36 innings, 1,176 runs, highest score 79, average 37.93, seven fifties Discontent first emerged in May when Pietersen announced his decision to retire from ODI internationals, despite scoring hundreds in each of his last two innings. He cited the ""intensity of the international schedule and the increasing demands on my body"". The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) insisted he also had to retire from International Twenty20 cricket, too, in accordance with their rules. Pietersen announced he would concentrate solely on Tests, but said: ""For the record, were the selection criteria not in place, I would have readily played for England in the upcoming ICC World Twenty20."" In early August, Pietersen scored 149 against South Africa in the second Test at Headingley, claiming he was in the ""best form of my life"". Media playback is not supported on this device But he then made outspoken comments at a news conference suggesting the final Test at Lord's could well be his last for England. Pietersen was also understood to be angry at a Twitter parody account that mocked him, especially as some members of the squad followed and engaged with it. At the news conference, he said: ""I love playing Test cricket, but there are obstacles and I'll decide what happens at the end of the next Test."" Ex-England captain Alec Stewart said: ""It's important to stress no player, however good, is bigger than the team and no-one is irreplaceable."" The dispute escalated following claims Pietersen sent text messages to South Africans AB de Villiers and Dale Steyn during the Headingley match that allegedly criticised England captain Andrew Strauss. But Pietersen took the cricket world by surprise on 11 August by reversing his decision to quit limited-overs cricket in a video interview with his management company. The interview was posted on video-sharing website YouTube on the eve of the squad announcement for the final Test. In it, Pietersen said: ""I'm not going anywhere. I want to make myself available for selection for every single form of cricket for England. I love winning for England. I can't wait to play in Straussy's 100th Test next week."" But former England captain Geoffrey Boycott said: ""When you have said something that is not nice about the captain of England, you have to front up face to face."" Media playback is not supported on this device On 12 August, Pietersen was dropped from the final-Test squad after the ECB said he had failed to provide assurances he had not sent derogatory text messages. Pietersen, who claimed the texts were ""provocative but meant as banter"", said: ""To say I am gutted is an understatement."" Morris said: ""In the best interests of the team, he will miss the Lord's Test. ""Confirmation he has not sent derogatory texts has not been forthcoming despite timelines being set."" Three days later, on the eve of the Lord's Test, Pietersen apologised for the texts. ""I truly didn't mean to cause upset or tension, particularly with important games at stake,"" he said. Pietersen is the most individual of talents in a sport that prizes the team ethic - it remains to be seen whether his undoubted quality will outweigh the baggage he brings Read the rest of Kevin Pietersen: England's troublesome genius ""I apologise to Straussy and the team for the inappropriate remarks at the press conference and for the texts."" Despite the apology, Strauss described Pietersen's place in the side for the third Test against South Africa as ""untenable."" Former Australian international Shane Warne had a simple solution: ""'Strauss and Pietersen could have gone down the pub and had a beer. ""If they'd punched the absolute whatever out of each other to sort it out, so be it."" In late August,  from professional cricket, with one-day captain Alastair Cook taking over as Test skipper. Media playback is not supported on this device Strauss denied the Pietersen saga had affected his decision and later revealed he had received a personal apology. Strauss said: ""I first spoke to Andy Flower about it prior to the Kevin Pietersen incident rearing its head. It just hasn't been a consideration. ""We had a good chat and Kevin apologised to me, which was great. I will have no problems meeting up with Kevin and having a beer with him, definitely."" September saw a softening in the attitude towards Pietersen, with negotiations to get him back gathering pace, but the batsman was still left out of the squads for the limited-overs matches with South Africa, the World Twenty20 and the tour of India. Instead, he worked as a TV pundit at the World Twenty20, allowing him time to meet with representatives of the ECB. England coach Andy Flower admitted they missed Pietersen's presence in Sri Lanka, while Cook added: ""Time hopefully will be a healer and we will be able to move on, but the issues will have to be resolved."" On Wednesday, it was announced Pietersen had signed a fourth-month central contract, with a period of ""re-integration"" built in. Pietersen and ECB bosses will hope that this finally draws a line under what had been a bitter and very public saga.","Kevin Pietersen described his dispute with England as a "" horrible @placeholder "" after signing a new contract that should see him finally return to international duty .",moment,ordeal,situation,result,ambitions,2
"According to UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service), more than 500,000 applicants successfully secured places in UK universities and colleges in 2014, up nearly 3.4% on the previous year with the overall acceptance ratio steady at around 73%. This represents a significant increase over the last decade. In 2006, some 506,305 applicants applied for a university place whereas in 2014, that number had increased to nearly 700,000. Overall, applications have risen by around 20% with around 2.4 million applications in 2007 and 2.8 million applications in 2014 (each person can make five applications). But which courses are students applying for and how have patterns of applications to different subjects changed over the years? And what, if anything, do such patterns tell us about the way young people and others view what they want from a university degree? Are patterns in the UK similar to elsewhere? Nursing: 238,000 applications Psychology: 106,000 Law: 103,000 Design studies: 97,000 Pre-clinical medicine: 85,000 Computer Science: 77,000 Management: 71,000 Sport and exercise: 67,000 Business: 66,000 Social Work: 64,000 In terms of changes since 2007, the largest growth has been observed in nursing, rising from 58,435 in 2007 to 103,550 applications in 2008, when the admissions system was centralised and unified, to 237,990 in 2014. This increase in nursing reflects increases in the commissioning of nurses for the NHS through workforce planning. However, this area remains a hotly disputed political issue with manifesto commitments being made on increasing the number of trained nurses entering the NHS and reviewing the way places are made available. Over the period, both chemistry and physics have grown by 50% to around 30,000 each. Starting from a much lower base, chemical, process and energy engineering has risen 135% from 8,450 in 2007 to 19,830 in 2014. Both mechanical and general engineering have risen by around 80% over the last decade. By contrast, modern languages and associated studies have fallen by 24% to around 26,000. This, in part, reflects a shift away from full degrees to short courses in the area. Many subjects suffered a downturn in 2012 when fees of £9,000 were introduced. Some subjects have bounced back from that dip better than others, though UCAS indicates that current demand levels are slightly lower than they would have been without the fee hike. In the humanities there were fears of a gradual structural decline as students became more vocationally orientated in their preferences. Law: 92,000 applications Psychology: 80,000 Pre-clinical Medicine: 70,000 Design: 70,000 Management: 62,000 Social work: 60,000 Nursing: 58,000 Business: 55,000 English: 54,000 Computer Science: 54,000 English, for example, lost around 10% of its applications in 2012 and has not been able to fully recover the lost ground since. By contrast history, which was enjoying its highest ever level of popularity prior to the introduction of fees, only suffered a 4% fall, but has recovered quickly to rise 4% higher than the pre-fees level. This might be taken to imply that while there is a significant core level of interest in the humanities, driven in part by A-level familiarity, some of the applicant constituencies who might otherwise have chosen humanities remain deterred by fees. While the overall patterns of gender have tended to follow the general ebb and flow of application profiles over the last decade, the headline figures occasionally mask interesting trends. In civil engineering, for example, although the total number of applications has remained steady at just over 20,000 for the last decade, this hides a 25% increase in applications by females and an 8% fall in applications by males. In nutrition, the 10% increase is attributable almost entirely to the rise in applications from males. While computing science has grown 44% since 2007 to 77,000, this reflects an increase in both male (43%) and female (36%) applications. What are the factors affecting the popularity of subjects? Clearly, a wide range of influences affect subject choice including the level of supply. Some areas such as medicine, dentistry and nursing have limited places and competition is fierce, with around 10 applications for every place, and this ratio has generally remained steady since 2007. It is probable that one other driver of choice is the availability of A-level courses in the same topic. The continued popularity of psychology at degree level, for example, can, in part, be attributed to the growth of psychology A-levels. The effect of television in giving visibility to new types of careers is also often highlighted as a factor. The popularity of TV series Silent Witness and Cracker and the film Silence of the Lambs, has been cited as boosting the number of courses and applications for forensic science in the 1990s and subsequently - even if the dramas in fact depict pathologists, clinical psychologists and detectives. The lure of high potential earnings associated with specific degrees has always been a driver of subject choice to some extent, but this has become more complex recently as long-term career patterns become more fragmented and most jobs not degree specific. Overall it would appear that the £9,000 fees, the recession and changes in the job market generally have not made huge differences to the pattern of course choices. However, it is not clear whether the choices students make are always the right choices. Computer science is consistently in the top 10 for applications - but also has one of the highest dropout rates. In the US, lifetime earnings are seen as a key driver for degree choice, especially in the context of the fees and commercial loans. Total student loan debt in the US has now passed $1tn, with student debt outweighing credit card debt for the first time in history. Overall in 2010, US graduates left college owing an average of more than $26,000. The patterns indicate some interesting differences against a backdrop of similarity in the popularity of subjects compared with the UK. According to the US National Centre for Educational Statistics (NCES) of the 1,716,000 bachelor's degrees conferred in 2010-11, the most popular areas were business (365,000), social sciences and history (177,000), health professions and related programs (143,000), education (104,000), and psychology (101,000). US data analysts, Media Factual, who host the CollegeFactual.com website, identify business as the most popular current degree programme followed by psychology, nursing, biology, teacher training, criminology, accounting, humanities, English and history. According to NCES, business studies has been accounting for around 20% of all undergraduate degrees in the US since the mid-70s. For comparison, the corresponding figure for business and related areas in the UK is around 10% and has been steady at that rate for nearly a decade. Education-related degrees in the US have fallen from around 21% in 1970 to approximately 6% now. However, the largest rises have been in the miscellaneous catch-all category of ""other fields"" which has risen steadily from 9% in 1970 to 25% in 2012. This category includes, amongst others, courses related to health professions, law enforcement, and leisure and fitness studies. For those who are really driven by earnings potential then a recent analysis of the degrees taken by 50 billionaires globally found that engineering and economics had the highest ratings with 14 each with business and finance having 11. The authors of the report note that among the 50 billionaires, three had degrees in philosophy. Looking ahead at future trends in the UK, UCAS has stated that the 2012 fees hike led to a temporary 5% decline in demand overall and that in the future, variation in fee levels could well affect application levels. They further expect total applicants from UK/EU to rise by a modest 1% to 2% between 2016 and 2018. Given that the 18-year-old UK population is on a downward trend, the number of A-level entrants are correspondingly declining, with much of the growth in demand coming largely from applicants with vocational qualifications such as BTECs. It is possible that this will boost courses with an explicit vocational element which tap into this emerging pattern. Whatever the changes to fees, university provision, student numbers and the debate over different ways of assessing the ""value"" of a degree, it is clear that underlying the general stability in degree choices in the UK and the US is a great deal of nuance and subtle variation which hints perhaps at the shape of bigger changes to come.","With the deadline for university applicants to indicate their final course preferences @placeholder , it is interesting to review how the patterns of degree choice have changed over the last decade or so .",extended,network,looming,control,show,2
"The National Anthropology Institute said tests showed the remains dated back to the eighth century. Scientists hope pottery found in the cave will help them determine the community those buried belonged to. It was first feared the bodies could belong to victims of the decades-long civil war in neighbouring Guatemala. Farmers had found the bodies in a cave on the Nuevo Ojo de Agua ranch, some 20km (11 miles) from the Guatemalan border, and alerted the authorities. Initial tests suggested the bodies were at least 50 years old, leading some activists in Guatemala to speculate they may have belonged to victims of the 1960-1996 civil conflict. But forensic experts have since said the skulls showed signs of a deformation typical of native communities dating back 1,000 years and more. The Maya people who thrived in the region for nearly 2,000 years used planks to flatten and elongate the skulls of their children. Anthropologists continue to examine the remains in an effort to determine the sex, age and ethnic make-up of the bodies.",Anthropologists in Mexico say the remains of 167 bodies found in a cave in the southern state of Chiapas were part of an ancient burial @placeholder .,shows,events,ground,scheme,group,2
"The retailer Brantano has 200 outlets across Britain, employing about 2,000 people. It has shops at Aberystwyth, Broughton in Flintshire, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Holyhead on Anglesey, Pembroke Dock and Rhyl in Denbighshire. Administrators said the shops would continue to trade while a decision was taken over the future of the business. ""Like many others, Brantano has been hit hard by the change in consumers' shopping habits and the evolution of the UK retail environment,"" said Tony Barrell, lead administrator for PwC. ""The administrators are continuing to trade the businesses as normal whilst we assess the trading strategy over the coming days and weeks. ""Staff will be paid their arrears of wages and salaries, and will continue to be paid for their work during the administration.""",A shoe store chain with eight shops in Wales has @placeholder in administrators .,begun,appeared,resulted,called,taken,3
"The Ultra Tour of Edinburgh, a new 50km (about 31 miles) running tour of Scotland's capital city, is to be held on Sunday 22 October. The route starts on the Royal Mile and travels over three peaks in the Pentland Hills before finishing at Murrayfield Stadium. There is 3,000ft of ascent and descent in the Rat Race Adventure Sports race. Jim Mee, of Rat Race Adventure Sports, said: ""We are looking for around 500 runners to take up the challenge of the inaugural Ultra Tour. ""This is a fully waymarked journey through the city streets and outlying countryside that includes historic urban landscapes and evocative landmarks, parklands, hills, rivers, cycleways, foot paths, canals and coastal waters. ""It truly is a tour-de-force of Edinburgh sightseeing, all wrapped up into an achievable but challenging ultra run event format."" There will be three stops on the route offering a variety of sweets, food and drinks at each. Toilets will also be available. Kit bag return, showers and a hot meal will be available to all finishers, as well as a medal.",Edinburgh 's first ultramarathon is to be @placeholder in the capital later this year .,launched,recreated,dismantled,installed,staged,4
"Border collie Pickles found the Jules Rimet Trophy after it was stolen four months ahead of the 1966 World Cup. Dave Corbett - who received a reward of about £6,000 - spoke ahead of the 50th anniversary of the tournament, which England went on to win. He said: ""If you've got a dog, love it. He may pay you back."" Pickles found the famous trophy -  stolen a week earlier while on display at Central Hall in Westminster - on 27 March. It was wrapped in newspaper near Mr Corbett's home in south London. Mr Corbett told how he tore off the newspaper and noticed the names of previous winners Brazil, West Germany and Uruguay before taking it to his local police station. He said: ""I pushed open the double doors and behind was a sergeant standing at his big desk. ""I banged the package on the desk and said 'I think I've found the World Cup'. ""He looked at me and at it and said 'It doesn't look very World Cuppy to me'. "" Police initially treated Mr Corbett as a suspect before he explained how he was taking Pickles for an evening walk when he noticed the dog sniffing at a tied-up package in bushes next to a car. The return of the trophy elevated Pickles and Mr Corbett to national hero status and the pair were invited to a celebratory dinner after England went on to lift the trophy when they beat West Germany 4-2 in the final on 30 July. Mr Corbett used the reward money to buy a house at Lingfield, Surrey - where he has lived ever since. ""It changed my life completely and I put it all down to my mate Pickles down there,"" Mr Corbett said as he nodded at the dog's grave in his back garden in Lingfield.","The owner of the dog which sniffed out the stolen World Cup trophy ahead of England @placeholder the tournament has told how the moment "" changed his life "" .",following,control,wearing,hosting,staff,3
"A 40-minute delay to the start due to a power failure did not dampen the crowd's spirits, although the first half took a while to liven up. When it did, Aswad Thomas spectacularly cleared Shamir Mullings' header off the line. At the other end, Ricky Miller hit a superb shot from 30 yards, but Sam Russell matched it with a fine save. The Whites found the breakthrough after the break when Moses Emmanuel headed in a pinpoint cross by Ricky Modeste. Kieffer Moore, however, struck in a loose ball in injury time to draw the sides level. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Forest Green Rovers 1, Dover Athletic 1. Second Half ends, Forest Green Rovers 1, Dover Athletic 1. Goal!  Forest Green Rovers 1, Dover Athletic 1. Kieffer Moore (Forest Green Rovers). Substitution, Dover Athletic. Chris Kinnear replaces Moses Emmanuel. Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Drissa Traoré replaces Rob Sinclair. Goal!  Forest Green Rovers 0, Dover Athletic 1. Moses Emmanuel (Dover Athletic). Charlie Cooper (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Keanu Marsh-Brown replaces Marcus Kelly. Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Elliott Frear replaces Darren Carter. Emmanuel Monthe (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Jack Parkinson (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Second Half begins Forest Green Rovers 0, Dover Athletic 0. First Half ends, Forest Green Rovers 0, Dover Athletic 0. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Kieffer Moore (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Charlie Clough (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",Forest Green and Dover drew in the battle of two National League @placeholder hopefuls at the New Lawn .,neighbours,series,premiership,championship,promotion,4
"It follows concerns that the BCG vaccine would not be available until later this year or early next year. Health Minister, Leo Varadkar, said problems meant the vaccine, produced in Denmark, was not available. He blamed production difficulties, delivery delays and sealing problems. Carysfort Healthcare said it has been offered 40,000 doses of the BCG vaccine from the Canadian medical supply company, Intervax. The delivery can be made in the next two to three weeks, but the offer will expire on 25 August due to shortages of the vaccine in other countries. The Danish company is the only licensed supplier of the vaccine in the EU. However, according to Carysfort's managing director, Fintan Smith, the BCG offered is prequalified and approved by the World Health Organisation. Mr Smith has been in contact with the Health Products Regulatory Authority in connection with the offer and whether it will allow the medicine to be used as an emergency as it is not licensed in the Republic of Ireland. Sinn Féin TD Gerry Adams had raised the vaccine's lack of availability after a Louth councillor from his party, Jennifer Green, who is due to give birth in three weeks, had been told her baby would not be given the vaccine as recommended by the Health Service Executive (HSE). Mr Adams said the difficulties had been known by the Irish Department of Health since last year. He said that, as a result of failing to find an alternative supplier, at least 50,000 babies, and potentially many more, would not receive their BCG when appropriate. The Department of Health said other countries were experiencing similar delays in acquiring supplies of the vaccine from the Danish company. The statement added that production was suspended in 2014 pending an extensive investigation regarding a possible problem with the capping of the vials. It said the investigation had ended and product produced during 2014 was being released. The statement also said the HSE would arrange appointments for children to attend clinics when the vaccine supply was restored. The HSE said it had ""no control over when BCG vaccine will be delivered by the vaccine manufacturer"" and that ""these supply issues will continue until at least quarter one, 2016.""","A healthcare company in the Republic of Ireland said a Canadian firm has offered it 40,000 doses of a vaccine that @placeholder against tuberculosis .",is,protects,erupted,claimed,acts,1
"Terry, 30, who is also Chelsea's captain, denies aiming a racist slur at the QPR player in a game on 23 October. The Metropolitan Police confirmed that a ""30-year-old man was interviewed under caution on Friday 25 November. He was not arrested."" The Football Association is also looking into the incident. Some members of the public claimed video replays from the match at Loftus Road showed Terry using racist language, while the FA said it had received a complaint. Ferdinand has previously given a statement to the FA, saying he has ""very strong"" feelings on the matter, but will not elaborate until the FA inquiry has been concluded. The FA's investigation into the allegation cannot be completed until the outcome of the police investigation. In a statement following the game at Loftus Road, Terry described the incident as a ""misunderstanding"" and claimed that his accusers ""have leapt to the wrong conclusions about the context of what I was seen to be saying"". He added: ""I would never say such a thing - and I'm saddened that people would think so.""","England football captain John Terry has been @placeholder in relation to allegations that he racially abused Anton Ferdinand , the BBC understands .",revealed,charged,questioned,flown,launched,2
"Mick Fanning, 34, posted a picture of himself early on Saturday near his Tweed Heads home in northern New South Wales. He wrote: ""First surf back. Feels so good."" Mr Fanning was competing in Jeffreys Bay, on the eastern Cape, when he was knocked off his surfboard by a shark. The three-time world champion was competing in the final of the J-Bay Open when two sharks were seen in his vicinity. A live camera caught the moment he was thrown from his board. He said he managed to punch the shark and startle it escaping injury. He was soon rescued and the tournament called off. On Saturday, he posted an Instagram picture on Twitter of himself looking out to sea. Responses included user nick.j.poole writing: ""Good on ya man"" and 'knee_house' posting: ""Dude, such an inspiration. Now go get that gold jersey"". Meanwhile, a man has been killed by a shark in Tasmania, Australia, while diving with his daughter local media reported. He was a recreational scallop diver and was attacked on the east coast near Orford.",A champion surfer who escaped a shark attack in South Africa live on television has returned to the @placeholder six days later in his native Australia .,water,island,family,country,ground,0
"The EU grant will help to build, equip and run a ""state-of-the-art"" clean room at Cardiff University's Institute for Compound Semiconductor. Its research will be developed into new products and services. The university said it would ""generate prosperity in south Wales through industrial innovation"". The centre, set up by the university and St Mellons-based hi-tech company IQE in 2015, brings together scientists and businesses to work on innovations. In January 2016, the then Chancellor George Osborne revealed plans to invest £50m in the ""ground-breaking new innovation centre"".","Funding of £ 13 m has been awarded to compound semiconductor research - the technology behind smartphones , tablets and satellite @placeholder .",communications,receivers,devices,conditions,navigation,0
"The album, described as a love letter to New York and their home town of Manchester, pushed Pharrell Williams' GIRL down to third place. Paloma Faith's latest album, A Perfect Contradiction, debuted at number two. Dance anthem Tsunami (Jump) by Canadian duo DVBBS and Miami DJ and producer Borgeous topped the singles chart. Tsunami, which features rapper Tinie Tempah, was first released in September last year and pushed My Love by Route 94 featuring Jess Glynne down to second place. It is the fourth number one for Tempah and the first for DVBBS (pronounced Dubbs) and Borgeous. See the UK Top 40 singles chart See the UK Top 40 albums chart BBC Radio 1's Official Chart Show Tsunami has been number one in Belgium and the Netherlands and in the top 10 in Switzerland, Denmark, France and Sweden. Pharrell Williams' Oscar-nominated hit Happy was at three while Enrique Iglesias went straight in at four with I'm A Freak. Other new singles were Flo Rida at number eight with How I Feel followed by Pixie Lott with Nasty at nine. Kylie Minogue, who is currently a judge on BBC One talent show The Voice, failed to make the top 10 with Into the Blue, which debuted at 12. Other new additions to the top 40 album chart include Metronomy's Love Letters at number seven, while 1970s American rockers Dr Hook made it to number 11 with Timeless, a 40-track collection of chart hits and love songs. Dr Hook lead singer and guitarist Dennis Locorriere said: ""A lot of love has gone into creating this collection and it's great to know the UK fans are enjoying listening to the songs as much as I enjoyed putting the album together.""","Alternative rock band Elbow have gone straight to number one in the album chart with their sixth @placeholder , The Take Off And Landing Of Everything .",counterparts,uncertainty,team,lives,offering,4
"In legal papers filed in March, Jeffrey Wenninger accused the singer of making sexually suggestive comments towards him and groping him. A representative for Sir Elton confirmed: ""The case was withdrawn, with no payment made."" Mr Wenninger, a Los Angeles policeman, worked for the singer from 2002 to 2014. He had accused Sir Elton of three separate incidents - all of which he claimed occurred in the final year he worked for the singer. Sir Elton's legal team previously described his claims as ""baseless"". Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",A sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Sir Elton John by his former bodyguard has been @placeholder .,announced,dropped,sacked,resolved,launched,1
"Adam Chandler, 51, previously known as Adam Holmes, was found in Fairfax Street on 13 June 2016, police said. He died later in hospital. Alex Cooke, 28, Sean Ennis, 29, and 36-year-old Rocky Murray from St Michael's Road, all from Coventry were charged with murder on Wednesday. They were remanded by city magistrates to appear at crown court on Friday. More updates on this story",Three men have appeared in court accused of the murder of a man who was found @placeholder in Coventry last year .,killed,dumped,strangled,died,collapsed,4
"The first time Ms Forrest saw her son Jaxon Gallagher he was 12 days old. Born two months premature, he spent the first couple of weeks of his life in the neonatal ward at St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, while his 26-year-old mother recovered from a near-fatal heart attack. ""I was still trying to process what had happened to me, and then I was going to see a baby that I didn't even know,"" she told the BBC. She doesn't remember giving birth, or much of what happened in the week she spent in St Paul's leading up to her cardiac arrest. She was flown to the hospital, which has a cardiac intensive care unit, after she passed out in the emergency room in her hometown of Courtenay, some 186km (115 miles) away on 2 April. In the days leading up to her collapse in Courtenay, she had felt ""gross"", she says: pain in her shoulder, shortness of breath and exhaustion. But until she passed out, all of her symptoms were dismissed as part of her pregnancy. Once Ms Forrest was admitted to St Paul's, cardiologist Dr Mustafa Toma diagnosed her with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart that can be caused by an allergic reaction, infection or autoimmune disorder, not pregnancy. But now she was very weak, and needed heavy medication to keep her heart pumping and supplying blood to the placenta. Her obstetrician, Dr Elisabet Joa, wanted to avoid inducing labour, because she wasn't sure the mother would make it. When Dr Joa heard the warning ""code blue"" - which means a patient needs resuscitation - on April 12, she knew it had to be Ms Forrest and she rushed to the intensive care unit. Ms Forrest had gone into cardiac arrest and her heart had stopped beating. Within minutes, Dr Joa knew what she had to do. Without time to move her to the operating room, she performed an emergency C-section while Dr Toma and a team of other doctors and nurses resuscitated her, performing CPR and putting her on a ECMO bypass machine to keep her heart pumping. ""We were hoping for the best but planning for the worst,"" Dr Joa says. All in all, Dr Toma estimates it took about two dozen people to keep the mother and baby alive that day. While both Dr Joa and Dr Toma have been in their share of life-or-death situations, this one has left an impression. Dr Joa says it's ""just a miracle"" both the baby and mother survived with little permanent damage. ""It brings tears to all of our eyes when you think what dire straits we were in and how bad it could have been,"" Dr Toma says. Ms Forrest is now out of the hospital, but staying nearby while her baby Jaxon is still recovering. Soon, Ms Forrest hopes he'll be able to be transferred to a hospital closer to home, where her fiance and two other sons, four and nine, wait for her. ""I'm still in shock. I think about it every day,"" she says.","When Brittany Forrest went into cardiac arrest at seven - months pregnant , doctors had no choice but to perform an emergency C-section and deliver her baby . They both nearly died , but quick thinking @placeholder turn a tragedy into a "" miracle "" .",helped,will,did,bundled,attempting,0
"The Irish News says the ""race is on"" to succeed Mr Kenny as the leader of Fine Gael, with Irish government minister Leo Varadkar the bookies' favourite. The paper also looks at Mr McGrory's decision to step aside, with him saying that he was not forced from the position because of ""legacy issues"". The outgoing prosecutions chief had faced criticism for going ahead with cases against Army soldiers implicated in Troubles-era killings. However, he said: ""If all of the legacy controversy had not happened we would still be having this conversation."" In its editorial, the Irish News pays tribute to both Mr Kenny (""a remarkable political career"") and Mr McGrory (""it is to his credit that he was determined to maintain the independence, impartiality and integrity of his office and not be derailed by the unwarranted criticism""). The News Letter also focuses on Mr McGrory's departing vow with the headline: ""I've absolutely not been forced out by my critics."" Elsewhere, another big story doing the rounds is about paramilitary shootings - latest figures from the PSNI indicate the number of incidents has doubled in the last year. The News Letter reports that 25 of the 28 paramilitary shooting incidents were carried out by dissident republicans. The story is also carried in the Daily Mirror, Belfast Telegraph and Irish News, with the Mirror focusing in on the story in its editorial: ""It is a stark reminder of a practice many of us hoped was rooted firmly in the past."" Elsewhere in the Daily Mirror, the paper reports more shocking details on the murder of Connie Leonard by her former partner Peadar Phair, who also took his own life. It says that Ms Leonard's ""crazed ex"" texted her on the morning of the attack to ""trick"" her. A source told the paper: ""Phair told her in a text that the whole thing was over and they wouldn't have any more arguments after Monday."" It added: ""The text may have come as a relief to Connie because she'd been tortured by him for months and she was exhausted. ""But now we know that was not how the text was intended... when he said it was over he meant everything was over, including her life and maybe even his own."" Meanwhile, the front page of the Belfast Telegraph focuses on the tragic death of a boy who collapsed and died while at a funfair and the ""chances missed"" to save his life. Bradley Logan died from a rare heart condition in 2015; an inquest into his death has heard he was taken to hospital twice after collapsing in the weeks before, but doctors were unable to detect the problem. Bradley's father Mark described the loss of his son as ""absolutely horrendous"". ""The bad days are bad and the good days are bearable. It hurts. Our other children (Ben and Brooke) are suffering."" Finally, the paper says that a long-lost masterwork by Belfast-born artist Sir John Lavery could fetch up to £54,000 at auction. The painting, A View of Fez, was last seen in Boston in 1926 but its reappearance has been hailed by Professor Kenneth McConkey, Lavery's biographer, as ""a wonderful discovery"". According to the Belfast Telegraph, the painting is even more significant as it was created during an expedition to Morocco in 1919. Lavery was joined on the trip by none other than Winston Churchill. The painting goes under the hammer next Wednesday, so start looking down the back of the sofa for a spare £50,000 if you want to own a slice of history.","Reaction to two resignations are taking up plenty of @placeholder space in Thursday 's papers - Taoiseach ( Irish prime minister ) Enda Kenny and Barra McGrory , director of the Public Prosecutions Service .",extra,print,more,water,office,1
"Michael Laverty was sixth in the first Superbike race of the day but failed to finish the second because of a blown engine, so drops to fifth spot overall. Jordanstown rider Andy Reid was fourth in both Supersport events but heads the standings on 85 points. Fermanagh's Josh Elliott was third in the Superstock 1000cc race while Carl Phillips won the Superstock 600cc race. For Phillips, 22, from Derriaghy, it was his maiden triumph in the series, and he leads his championship by 13 points. Keith Farmer, a winner at Oulton Parjk on May Day, failed to finish the Superstock 1000cc outing, while Andrew Irwin was fifth and eighth in the Supersports. Record-breaking North West 200 hero Alastair Seeley was 14th and 17th in the Superbike class on his BMW, with Glenn Irwin 13th in race one, but retiring in race two with just a third of the race completed.",Northern Ireland riders enjoyed mixed @placeholder at the third round of the British championship at Brands Hatch .,fortunes,pace,stay,performances,night,0
"London's black-cab drivers are preparing to cause gridlock in the capital on Wednesday, in protest at Transport for London's stance towards a mobile phone app that allows users to book private vehicles, using GPS technology to set the fare. It's the hottest topic of conversation amongst cab drivers since Olympic traffic lanes. What should be done about Uber? Black-cab driver Lloyd Baldwin is in no doubt. ""Our beef with Uber is that these drivers have come straight into London, and have been licensed straight away by Transport for London. We're regulated to within an inch of our lives. ""We don't do protests willy-nilly for petty things, we feel it's our only course. ""We just want them to be treated exactly the same as we are."" The issue of ""regulation"" covers a multitude of sins as far as the black-cab drivers are concerned, from the extent to which Uber drivers are security-vetted to a driver's profit margins. But perhaps the battle can best be summed up by two symbols that sit proudly on each rival's dashboard: the fare-calculating taximeter and the smartphone. Curb competition In the five years of its existence, San Francisco-based Uber has expanded its operation into more than 100 cities across 30 countries, causing conflict in its wake with traditional taxi associations. Its proposition is simple: users download an app to their mobile which they use to book cabs, wherever they may be. That much has already been offered to Londoners by firms like Kabbee and Hailo. Uber has provoked controversy because of its pool of drivers. Anyone with a Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) licence can sign up with them. This has allowed Uber to build up a vast number of drivers quickly, many of whom only work part-time. This makes Uber more like a minicab firm. But unlike a traditional minicab firm, there are no human operators available to take your booking on the phone at their offices. The process is completely automated by Uber's software, which allocates your booking to the driver best placed to take it on. Uber evangelist Ben John never imagined he would end up driving a cab round London. Ironically, it was the digital revolution that got him into this situation. A successful A&R man for over a decade in the music industry, his profit margins suddenly shrunk as music downloads disrupted the record labels' business model. For him, Uber has been a lifeline, providing him with lucrative, flexible work as he establishes his new start-up business selling e-cigarettes. Evidently grateful, he has become something of an Uber evangelist. ""You can log in and off from work as you want to, which allows you to do other things with your day,"" he says, while keeping an eye on the phone protruding from his dashboard. ""Because [Uber] are not actually a cab firm, they are just a software firm, they're just a third party that passes on the jobs, they are able to charge much more competitive prices, and are able to pay the drivers a great deal more as well."" A lack of overheads allows Uber to offer drivers 80% of the customer's fare. Ultimately, Mr John doesn't think that Uber threatens the black cab trade. ""What I'm seeing is that Uber are actually expanding the number of people who would otherwise not use minicabs."" Back to black From the comfort of his black cab, Lloyd Baldwin begs to differ. ""We're not afraid of competition. We've faced competition from minicabs for 40 years."" But in this case, Mr Baldwin believes the competition is not on a level playing field. ""Transport for London now aren't sure if they [Uber] should have been given a licence or not, hence they've gone to the High Court for a judgment on it, but they still licensed them before they were sure."" The issue at stake is whether Uber's use of the smartphone equates to a taximeter, a talismanic object for black cab drivers, which they feel only they have the right to use. TfL's original position was that it did not believe Uber was infringing the law because its kit did not require a physical connection between the device and the vehicle, as is the case with the equipment used by black cabs. The Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA) dispute this. Mr Baldwin wonders why Uber was able to introduce the smartphone as a way of measuring fares without more scrutiny. ""We suspect that they [Uber] are backed by big, multi-billion pound companies,"" he says. His suspicion extends to Amazon, which is not in fact connected to Uber. However, Goldman Sachs and Google do offer it financial backing. Uber evangelist Ben John is careful to always refer to his smartphone as a ""GPS device"", rather than a meter, and is keen to talk up its benefits. ""The difference is that there is actually a lot of recourse if you believe as a customer that your driver is taking an overly long route, you can go back to Uber, and the price given back to you if need be."" You can also nominate a friend or loved-one to track your journey, as a security feature. However, GPS-tracking could also be the Achilles heel of the firm, if data privacy fears arise. Uber has already handed over details on some of its customers' journeys to the authorities. By law, minicab and black-cab firms have to do the same, but they simply don't record their customer's journeys in the same level of digital detail. Uber allies? The cause of the black-cab drivers recently suffered a reverse with the announcement that app Hailo - which at first offered its services only to black cabs - would be working with private-hire vehicles. ""We feel that they used us to give them a place in the market, they used our reputation and our good name,"" says Mr Baldwin. ""We just feel used by Hailo,"" he says, with more bitterness in his voice than he reserves for Uber or TfL. Twenty years ago, he explains, when mobile phones were still uncommon objects, he invested three very tough years of his life learning to become a black-cab driver. He devoted long hours to learning The Knowledge, the fabled test of a driver's memory of London's sprawling streets, which also includes a psychological test to see how you deal with difficult customers. He thought those years of hardship were worth it, because he was earning a lifetime of guaranteed work, and the badge of pride that is the black cab. But Uber and Hailo appear to be taking a bet on a different future where there is no meaningful distinction between black cabs and minicabs. It's this vision of the future that the black cabbies are protesting against on Wednesday.",A clash is about to take place on the capital 's streets that sees the old @placeholder against the new . The livelihoods of London 's iconic cabbies are at stake . But could they be stifling opportunities for a new breed of driver - that could even include you ?,grow,case,pitted,speaking,experience,2
"The 10-metre (32.8ft) Man Engine will travel the length of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site to mark the 10th anniversary Unesco heritage status. The puppet is the same height as a double decker bus when in ""crawling"" mode but more than twice that height when standing. It was launched in Tavistock and will reach west Cornwall on 6 August. More updates on the giant puppet, and other Devon and Cornwall news here The machine is the brainchild of Will Coleman, founder of Golden Tree Productions, and is named after a mechanism used to move miners up and down to working levels. 10m Height when standing (32.8ft) 4.5m Height when crawling (14.8ft) 40 tonnes Weight with accompanying vehicle 130 miles Distance travelled in two weeks, Tavistock to Geevor 10 Cornish Mining World Heritage Site areas visited",A giant puppet of a Cornish miner has taken its first @placeholder on a 130 - mile journey .,steps,event,position,turn,victim,0
"An estimated 40,000 took part in the 10km event, raising money for various charities. Legendary runner Haile Gebrselassie took part in the men's elite race, with Stephen Sambu taking the win. Betsy Saina won the elite women's race. The race, which is Europe's biggest 10km event, started as a legacy event after the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Celebrity runners included actress Denise Welch, boxer Anthony Crolla and BBC Breakfast presenters Louise Minchin and Bill Turnbull. Former Everton, Sunderland and Ireland footballer Kevin Kilbane, who ran for the Down's Syndrome Association, said: ""I think my time was 42 minutes, so I'm happy with that. ""It's a wonderful atmosphere here, it's great to be a part of these sort of events."" Starting in the city centre, the course headed towards Manchester United's Old Trafford home before passing MediaCityUK in Salford Quays. It then looped back along Chester Road and ended on Deansgate. Colin Pilkington, 79, took part in the run for the Christie Hospital after losing both his wife Eileen and his son-in-law to cancer. He said: ""When I'm running I picture her face in the clouds and that's what spurs me on. ""I said I would run until I'm 80, so I've another one to do next year.""",Thousands of people lined up with some of the world 's best - known @placeholder runners for the Great Manchester Run.,distance,race,table,team,elite,0
"Anabel Flores Salazar was taken by the men on Monday morning from her home near the city of Orizaba, where she worked for several newspapers. At least 15 journalists have been killed in Veracruz since 2010. Relations between the Veracruz governor and the media have been tense. State Governor Javier Duarte has accused some journalists of having criminal ties. He went on to warn them to ""behave"", arguing that if anything were to happen to them, he would be ""crucified"". Some local journalists saw this as a thinly veiled threat against them. In the case of Anabel Flores Salazar, prosecutors say they are investigating all her ""possible ties"". The office said she had been seen in the company of a leader of the local branch of the Zetas drug cartel two years ago. Veracruz is the most dangerous place to be a journalist in Mexico, which itself is deemed one of the most unsafe countries for journalists. Nationwide, 88 journalists have been murdered since 2000, according to free speech organisation Article 19. Fourteen journalists from Veracruz state alone have died since Governor Duarte took office in 2010.",The Mexican authorities in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz say they are searching for a reporter who was @placeholder from her home by armed men and has n't been seen since .,dragged,withdrawing,hidden,flown,recovered,0
"But despite the blockbuster's eye-popping sequences, the images that most impressed young Vasco came from a short advert shown before the film, which showcased the elephants, lions and buffalo in the verdant floodplains of Gorongosa National Park - a Mozambican safari paradise once marketed as ""the place where Noah left his Ark"". As he left the Lisbon picture house, young Vasco vowed to visit the park one day, and more than 40 years later, he finally got the chance. But the park he encountered was a far cry from the Gorongosa of '60s showreels that once attracted the likes of John Wayne, Joan Crawford and Gregory Peck. A brutal 15-year civil war in the aftermath of Mozambique's independence from Portugal in 1975 had devastated much of the province, and Gorongosa, one of its key battle grounds, was almost destroyed. During the war, rebel forces from the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), made the foothills of Mount Gorongosa their home, and through a combination of hunting and environmental vandalism, managed to annihilate 90% of the large animal population. Local poaching compounded the problem, and by the time Vasco arrived in 2005, ""you could drive all day long and not encounter any wildlife,"" he says. Chitengo, the park's main campsite, had been reduced to rubble. Gorongosa's predicament was in many ways indicative of the state of Mozambique's tourist industry, which had once been a significant part of the country's economy. Despite more than 2,700 kilometres of coral-fringed coastline, abundant natural beauty, rich cultural heritage, and its proximity to South Africa, one of the world's top tourist destinations, Mozambique was making far less money from international visitors than neighbours such as Zimbabwe and Zambia. Years of armed conflict scared off holidaymakers, and vital infrastructure such as cross-country roads and train lines had been all-but destroyed. Labyrinthine visa processes and the relative paucity of tour operators certainly didn't help matters, but most importantly, investment in tourism was desperately low. Today, Vasco is the communications director of a newly restored Gorongosa, which is once again making a name for itself as a premier safari destination, while acting as a model for many of Mozambique's long-neglected attractions. The restoration project, which began in 1994 with the help of the African Development Bank, is spearheaded by 56-year-old Greg Carr, an ebullient tech entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist from Idaho Falls in the US who made his fortune at an early age, and was looking for a venture to which, as he puts it, he could devote the rest of his life. Mr Carr visited Mozambique in 2004, at the invitation of the country's ambassador to New York, at a time when the country was ""the single poorest nation on earth,"" he says. ""I asked myself the question - what can Mozambique do for economic development, how can it compete in a world economy, how can it create good jobs?,"" Mr Carr recounts, as he relaxes in Gorongosa's modern reception lounge. ""And I said, well why doesn't Mozambique have a multi-billion-dollar tourism industry like other African countries, Kenya or Tanzania."" The same question was being asked by the Frelimo government, who in 2000 identified the country's nascent tourism industry as one of the sectors with the highest potential to ease unemployment. With the help of bodies like the World Bank, private sector partners were courted for specific sustainable tourism projects, and regulatory reforms such as the creation of designated ""tourism development zones"" were pushed through. Mr Carr was shown around Gorongosa, and, a few years later, signed a public-private partnership with the Mozambique government to run the park for the next two decades. The park also attracted the support of the US, Portuguese and Irish governments, universities including Harvard and Princeton, as well as many sub-Saharan African businesses and tourism operators. One-by-one, species were reintroduced to the plains. Buffalo, wildebeest, eland, elephant and hippo populations began to rise, and even the lions returned in moderate numbers, although some predators, such as leopards, seem to have been obliterated for good. Documentary teams from around the globe, including the BBC's, and wildlife experts, began to take note. The renowned American biologist EO Wilson took a shine to the park - famously branding it ""ecologically the most diverse park in the world"" due to the scale of its insect life. Gorongosa's on-site laboratory now bears his name. The hope, Mr Carr says, is that all this publicity will help the park to eventually pay for itself, through a combination of tourism, agricultural projects and a thriving local economy. Indeed, the local economy is vital to the park's success. The 200,000 people who live around Gorongosa are among the poorest in the country, and lack the most basic provisions. Some were initially hostile to the restoration project, which ring-fenced land previously used by local farmers, and by poachers. But Mr Carr says he has always seen Gorongosa as a ""combined human development and conservation"" effort. ""We probably spend as much time outside the park as inside the park,"" he says, constructing schools, hospitals and water sources, and helping with farming. One new initiative is a coffee farm in Mount Gorongosa's rainforest, where the locals used to cut down 500-year old trees to plant corn or beans, with limited success. Now, hundreds of people are involved in growing Arabica coffee beans, which will wind their way into cafes next year. Many locals now work in the park, such as 21-year-old Domingas Aleixo, who grew up just a few kilometres away, and was destined to work on the land like most other women in the community. Now she is a part of the lion conservation project at Gorongosa, working with world-renowned experts, while also studying for her animal biology degree in Portugal. ""I didn't know the importance of bio-diversity,"" she says, but these days she helps educate the community on how to deal with and preserve the local environment, and, along with many other Gorongosa employees in the region, is trying to foster a sense of pride in the extraordinary natural resource on their doorstep. However, despite such successes, Gorongosa is still some distance from its former glories. Currently, tourism accounts for less than 1% of the park's income, despite the arrival of a luxury hotel brand, and the occasional celebrity visits. Miles of badly paved roads on the approach to the park which have been neglected by the local authority, and occasional outbreaks of violence in the area further threaten to deter holidaymakers. In 2006, Gorongosa attracted fewer than 1,000 visitors, and by 2011 the number had risen to 7,000, just shy of the 1960s average. However, in 2013 and 2014, because of civil conflict in central Mozambique and travel warnings issued by several embassies and travel sites, the number of international visitors dropped dramatically. Yet the future of for Mozambique's multiple attractions looks bright. Last year, the total income from tourism-related activity in Mozambique exceeded $1.1bn, and some 700,000 were directly or indirectly employed in travel or tourism jobs. Furthermore, the World Travel & Tourism Council estimates that the sector will grow by more than 6% each year over the next decade - well above the global average. For the infectiously positive Vasco, it's the landscape and wildlife - which so captivated him back in a Portuguese cinema decades ago - that holds the key to Mozambique's resurgence as a holiday destination of choice. ""Here,"" he says, reclining at the side of a roaring fire in Gorongosa's luxury campsite, ""you can see the best of Africa"".","In 1962 , six - year - old Vasco Galante was @placeholder to his first cinema trip - to see Charlton Heston in the Hollywood epic , The Ten Commandments .",traced,donated,treated,transported,continued,2
"It comes as a senior police officer said teams should look to use professional fundraisers to help meet the cost of any rise in call-outs. Gareth Pritchard, deputy chief constable of North Wales Police, said adventure tourism and missing people searches will increase demands on them. Wales has 13 mountain, lowland and cave rescue team, all of them volunteers. The new team will be the first based on Anglesey. Mr Pritchard, who is the national policing lead for search and rescue across Wales and England, said he has been in discussions over the summer on ways of putting teams on a more secure financial footing. Search and rescue teams in Wales, all of them independent charities, have been busy this year with volunteers covering Snowdon in Gwynedd, recording 34 call-outs in August alone. One way of easing the burden on some of the north Wales teams would be to create a separate, lowland team for Anglesey - something BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme has learnt is already in hand. Phil Benbow, chairman of North Wales Mountain Rescue Association, which includes six mountain rescue teams, told the programme: ""For me it seems a reasonable thing to do. ""If we can establish a lowland search team on Anglesey, who'll have the same skill set in terms of search as the other north Wales teams, that would help both ourselves and North Wales Police. ""It just seems to me a logical step that we can supplement and complement what the mountain teams do by having a lowland search team work alongside us."" Mr Pritchard said he is urging search and rescue teams across Wales and England to professionalise the way they fundraise. ""They have gained a lot of money by shaking buckets on mountains on busy weekends and that does generate significant income, but the demands on the teams is increasing,"" he said. ""The need for their equipment to be at the right specification, and it's expensive equipment, the training requirements... all costs money."" Such teams do have some government money - since April this year they have been able to claim back VAT, while the Welsh government gives £25,000 a year to help cover some health and safety costs. Welsh teams also share in the £250,000 which the UK government has awarded to 75 teams across Britain this year for training and equipment, but not running costs. Meanwhile, Ogwen Valley - one of the larger and more established mountain rescue teams - has started paying its team members 30p a mile on call-outs. It is aimed at ensuring team members find it ""cost neutral"" if they attend an increasing number of midweek call-outs. The mountain rescue team has estimated it needs to raise £60,000 per year to meet its costs.",A search team for Anglesey is being created in a bid to ease pressure on @placeholder mountain rescue teams .,following,show,hold,aggregate,neighbouring,4
"Harry Anderson's second goal in as many games fired Lincoln ahead a minute after half-time, but Blair Turgott equalised on 65 minutes. Anderson scored the second goal in Lincoln's 2-1 win at Wrexham in midweek, which left them two points adrift of the leaders, and he was on the scoresheet again when he cut in from the left and drilled home. Bromley's equaliser arrived when substitute Tom Champion gave away possession and Lee Minshull set up Turgott to score. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Bromley 1, Lincoln City 1. Second Half ends, Bromley 1, Lincoln City 1. Substitution, Bromley. Jack Holland replaces Adam Cunnington. Jordan Higgs (Bromley) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Lincoln City. Theo Robinson replaces Bradley Wood. Sam Habergham (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Bromley. Daniel Ajakaiye replaces Dave Martin. Substitution, Lincoln City. Macauley Bonne replaces Matt Rhead. Goal!  Bromley 1, Lincoln City 1. Blair Turgott (Bromley). Substitution, Lincoln City. Tom Champion replaces Nathan Arnold. Substitution, Bromley. Lee Minshull replaces Reece Prestedge. Alex Woodyard (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card. Goal!  Bromley 0, Lincoln City 1. Harry Anderson (Lincoln City). Second Half begins Bromley 0, Lincoln City 0. First Half ends, Bromley 0, Lincoln City 0. Sean Raggett (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card. Jack Muldoon (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card. Rob Swaine (Bromley) is shown the yellow card. Adam Cunnington (Bromley) is shown the yellow card. Tobi Sho-Silva (Bromley) is shown the yellow card. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",Lincoln lost @placeholder on National League leaders Forest Green following a draw at Bromley .,point,control,ground,it,revenge,2
"Analysis by market researchers Mintel, commissioned by the BBC, shows that 35% of British people over 51 are single, at a time when the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show 42% of marriages in England and Wales end in divorce. Despite this, the ONS said there has been a sharp increase in the over-60s tying the knot again, with the number of second-time brides and grooms increasing by 21% and 35% respectively between 2011 and 2012. Meanwhile, the baby boomer generation has also discovered the possibilities of finding love online, with internet sites proving the fourth most popular way to meet a new partner behind family and friends, socialising or work, according to a survey conducted by Mintel of 2,000 people in the UK. BBC local radio stations are telling the stories of how people are finding love a second time around - these are some of those tales. Mintel found more than one in five 55-64 year olds in Britain had met a new partner or date through a website or app. Caroline - not her real name - turned to internet dating after leaving her husband of 25 years. The 55-year-old from Tunbridge Wells in Kent said she has found the experience of online dating ""liberating"". ""I find it a very empowering and rewarding experience. I've gone out for drinks and met men who were really very nice,"" she said. ""I think I've been fairly upfront with people and said I'm a sensuous and passionate woman, whether it's food, love or sex. ""It's quite hard to write something about yourself and I think that's the first step - to really talk about who you are and what you want."" About 13% of those interviewed by Mintel between the ages of 55-64 said they had been in love with five or more people. For Midge and Geoff, love certainly was better the second time around. The pair, from Carlisle in Cumbria, are both divorced. Keen cyclists, they met at a tandem bicycling club 20 years ago. Midge, 70, said: ""I remember thinking to myself one day, 'I wonder if anyone will ever love me or make love to me again?' And I thought, 'probably not'. Then a year later, I met Geoff. ""I just sort of fell into it, head over heels. It was like being a teenager, I couldn't think of anything else. It was crazy for a time and when it all settled down, it was still exciting."" Geoff, 75, said his first impressions of his partner were how ""young and beautiful"" she was. ""After what I'd been through [in my previous marriage], she was a breath of heaven. If I live to 80 or 90, it will be a pleasure every day."" The ONS have only recently looked into same-sex marriage statistics for the first time after they became legal in England and Wales last year. It is yet to release any figures but initial impressions show coming out later in life has become a growing trend. Stephen, 52, was in what he described as a ""good marriage"" with a woman, but after a chance meeting with a man at a party, he realised he had been hiding his true sexuality. ""The next morning I woke up and I realised I was smitten and once someone got a bit of my heart, that's when my perspective opened up and that's when I go an insight into myself,"" he said. ""I realised that I was gay-gay-gay. It was like opening Pandora's Box."" Roger, 65, knew he was bisexual in his early 20s but didn't come out until years later for various reasons. ""I was in teaching, another was my parents would never understand and the third was I couldn't walk into Croxley Baptist Church again with Mr Right on my arm. ""So it had to be Miss Right and that's how I carried on my life."" After coming out, he met Ross, 71, and they became civil partners before marrying. Together they run an LGBT lunch club in Croydon called Silver Rainbow. It's in image often perpetuated in films - the older man with a flash car and a young blonde on his arm. John, 65, was putting a failed marriage behind him when he met Angela, 37, at a club.  Before long they were in a committed relationship, despite the age difference of almost three decades. ""There's this perception of older guys with young girls that are trophy brides and I daresay some of that goes on, but not in our case,"" said John. ""It's a relationship of equals, age is immaterial. The only time we think about it is if someone asks us."" ""To tell the truth my mum wasn't really keen [at first],"" said Angela. ""But I said to her John was important to me and he was my partner and if she had a problem with that, we were going to have a problem. ""She realised he was just a nice guy.""",Dating websites and apps are bringing a spark of @placeholder to those searching for love later in life . It 's just one of the findings of an investigation by the BBC into the dating habits of the over - 55s .,helping,information,romance,advice,conspiracy,2
"At a government-run school inside the historical Walled City of Lahore, a teacher lectures a class of 14-year-olds on the creation of Pakistan. ""Muslims were the rulers of this land, but they lost power to the British. They were then oppressed by both the British and the Hindus,"" Allah Rakha tells his class of 30 or so students. ""Hindus and Muslims are like fire and water. Their lifestyles and belief systems are totally incompatible,"" he says. To illustrate his point, he comes up with an example: ""Hindus rinse themselves in cow urine because they consider it sacred. For us, that is disgusting. For us, a cow is a Halal animal. ""So when the British were being driven out of India, Muslims said: 'We cannot be left at the mercy of the vile Hindu majority'. They said: 'We are two different nations and we need two separate countries'."" Allah Rakha has been teaching this officially approved version of history for well over 30 years. He gets particularly animated when he talks about the mass violence and chaos at the time of India's Partition in 1947. ""Muslims were raped and killed by Hindus. They were driven out of their homes. Their babies were thrown in rivers of blood,"" he tells his captivated young audience. A product of Pakistan's government education system, Allah Rakha firmly buys into the religiously inspired one-sided official narrative. It paints Muslims as victims and a Hindu-dominated India as their existential enemy, then and now. Schoolchildren in Pakistan are generally discouraged, even punished, for asking questions. And so, in all these years, it has never occurred to Allah Rakha that as a small part of the state's distorted security paradigm, he may have been doing a great disservice to young Pakistanis by sowing the seeds of religious hatred in their impressionable minds. To be clear, there was plenty of religious violence in 1947. But it wasn't one-sided. Muslims were victims but they were also perpetrators of killings and lootings of Sikhs and Hindus. All three major communities were guilty of appalling atrocities. Read more: Syed Afzal Haider, a retired judge, was 16 at the time. He recalls the scene outside the Lahore Railway Station. ""Nobody was on the road except for the army and the police officers. I found members of different communities, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, stabbed, lying on the street, and the stray dogs moving among them,"" he said. ""That was a very pitiable situation that human corpses are being treated like this by the animals."" Mr Haider is among the first generation of Pakistani citizens with an authentic personal account of those tumultuous events. His detailed testimony is now part of a US-based oral history project called the 1947 Partition Archive. Starting in 2010, the digital archive project has so far collected 4,500 testimonies, making it the largest oral history project from South Asia. Partition was a seismic event. It affected millions of lives at the time and continues to shape the experiences of 1.6 billion people in South Asia. ""Other nations have been documenting the Holocaust, World War Two and the US bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima for decades,"" says Dr Guneeta Singh Bhalla, the founder of the project. ""Our region woke up to it a bit late but we are getting there."" The project started by crowd sourcing witness interviews through volunteers. Dr Bhalla likes to call them ""citizen historians"". ""Our youngest volunteer is 13 and eldest is 87. We offer them free online training. We empower them to start by documenting testimonies of family and relatives,"" she told me over the phone from California. Today, the 1947 Partition Archive has a global reach, with contributions collected from 12 countries, including US, Spain, Israel, Australia and Hong Kong. This treasure trove of citizen's voices comes in 22 languages, though much of it is in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Bangla and other regional languages of the subcontinent. The digital project has recently partnered with Stanford University to make its audiovisual material available for online streaming. In Pakistan, it is collaborating with Habib University, a Liberal Arts University in Karachi and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) to host their material locally for researchers, academics and journalists. Similar collaboration is under way with universities in India. Aaliyah Tayyebi, senior project manager of a separate oral history project at Citizen Archive of Pakistan (CAP), says it is ""an emotional experience to listen to people dip into some of those difficult and sometimes forgotten memories"". ""For many, it's simply overwhelming. Some invariably broke down,"" she says. Set up in 2007 by Pakistan's Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, CAP has collected more than 2,000 testimonies of people who endured the upheaval of 1947. ""When you listen to people who experienced partition first hand, a different kind of narrative emerges,"" says Aaliyah Tayyebi. ""It's much more personal and often vastly different from the officially-approved established narrative allowed in our history books."" But that doesn't mean it is always accurate. Researchers rarely come across those who perpetrated violence. ""When I talk to people about violence or riots, it's interesting that nobody ever talks about their involvement or their role in it,"" she says. ""Nobody ever says, yes, I went out and I killed people or I burned down houses or I was responsible for pushing my neighbours out because of their religion."" But it's not all grim, she says. Partition certainly brought out the worst in some people. But it also brought out the best among those who had together lived in peace as neighbours. ""We do get some amazing stories of solidarity, where people stick up for their terrified neighbours and provide them shelter; where they went out of their way to welcome refugees."" It's true that in South Asia, governments have been ambivalent about coming to terms with their violent past and preserving their shared heritage. But as she points out, it's too important a task to be left to the governments. And that's why grassroots citizen initiatives to document history from the perspective of the people who witnessed it become all the more significant. Shahzeb Jillani is a former BBC Pakistan correspondent","As Pakistan and India turn 70 , those who were there for the birth of the two nations are getting old . At least two civil @placeholder are racing against time to document as much of their oral history as possible for future generations .",societies,heritage,odds,level,groups,4
"Murders, corporate manslaughter and deaths abroad are among inquiries that will be handled by the Brunel Major Crime Collaboration from 1 December. Major crime staff will still be based in Gloucestershire but will have to travel on some inquiries. The force said the most serious crimes needed the most resources and said it would mean savings would be made. Thirty major crime staff, including detectives and CCTV analysts, will join 113 from Avon and Somerset and 34 in Wiltshire. The latter two forces have been working together on murder inquiries since 2010. Assistant Chief Constable Richard Berry said ""in this time of austerity"" further collaboration represented a ""smarter way of working"". Det Supt Andy Bevan, lead officer for the Brunel collaboration, said it made sense to investigate murders regionally as ""locally, as Gloucestershire has seen in recent years, murder rates can fluctuate quite dramatically but regionally they are traditionally flat"". There have been 17 murders in Gloucestershire since November 2012. Gloucestershire Police Federation secretary Graham Riley said the investigations took a lot of resources from a small force and collaboration could help. But he said it did not always result in savings and meant officers would have to travel across three force areas, which could mean longer hours. Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Avon and Somerset already share teams in road policing, firearms and police dog units. The news came as, in a surprise announcement in the Spending Review, Chancellor George Osborne said there would be ""no cuts in the police budget at all"". Gloucestershire had been planning for 20% cuts and was expecting to lose 177 officers and 53 police staff by March 2018.",Gloucestershire Constabulary 's murder investigation team will @placeholder with two neighbouring forces from next week .,be,consult,interact,merge,remain,3
"The beach where Seifeddine Rezgui stood on Friday, pulled a Kalashnikov from his parasol and unleashed Tunisia's worst ever terror attack, has already reopened. Camera crews capture the spot; passers-by pause for a moment. But the emotional scars of the tragedy that took place will live on for a generation. For 57-year-old Sabi, they're still raw. He runs the boat club on the beach, used principally by customers of the Hotel Imperial, targeted that day. He points to the spot where the gunman opened fire, appearing first to make a phone call, before throwing his mobile into the sea and beginning his killing spree. ""People all around me were falling"", he recalls, ""and I just grabbed as many customers as I could and ran."" They went through a staff gate to a basement of the hotel - but Sabi returned to bring more to safety. ""I saw six of our loyal customers die, people who always came to this hotel. They were like brothers to me. This beach should be full of life now. But it's deserted."" Sabi pauses, looking at the rows of empty sunbeds. ""We will fight"", he says, his lip quivering, tears welling up. ""At least we can still smile"". Tunisia is a nation in shock - and its tourism lifeline is under serious threat. Thousands of holidaymakers have already left on emergency flights laid on by tour operators. I watched as another busload from the Hotel Imperial arrived at the local Enfidha airport on Saturday night, heading for Manchester. Among them was one man whose fiancee had died in front of him. Most were too traumatised to talk. But in the hotels beside the Imperial, dozens are staying put. ""I wanted to leave early"", says Isabelle Campbell from Gateshead, ""but my husband said: if we go, they win. I'm not relaxed though, I'm nervous about going to the beach."" Her husband, Bob Taylor, says they ventured down earlier and saw a speed-boat manoeuvring in the water, revving its engines towards them. ""For a moment, we thought: Oh God, something is going to happen again. We used to go to Egypt but changed to Tunisia because of the security threat there"", he adds. ""Now we don't know what'll happen here."" One in ten Tunisians works in the tourism industry. It took a hit after the attack on the Bardo museum in March - and is now widely expected to plummet. The fear of that has only added to Tunisians' anguish over a worrying rise in Islamist attacks. The birthplace of the Arab Spring, which was widely praised for its largely peaceful transition to democracy, now has more people fighting in Syria and Iraq than any other country: an estimated 3,000 Tunisians are thought to be there, many feared to have joined so-called Islamic State (IS). A once peaceful Arab democracy has been shaken by the chaos and civil conflict of neighbouring Libya, where IS has taken root and is thought to train increasing numbers of Tunisians crossing a porous border. It is all a vast challenge for Tunisia's new coalition government, which has scrambled to announce a security clampdown, including the closure of 80 mosques suspected of being breeding grounds for radical Islam. Critics say the reaction has been too late. ""These people want to destroy Tunisia,"" says Dorra Brahem, a local student, walking on the beach with her sister Aisha and friend Fatma. ""They have misunderstood Islam. Something serious is happening here"". Has the joy of Tunisia's revolution died, I ask? ""Yes"", says Dorra. ""At least now we can wear headscarves and go to mosques - with the old dictator, it wasn't like that. But we miss something. We miss peace."" 6.1 million the number of tourist arrivals to Tunisia in 2014 15.2% the total contribution of travel and tourism to Tunisia's GDP 473,000 the number of jobs supported by travel and tourism (13.8% of total employment) We are seeking your stories relating to the Tunisia attacks. If you or anyone you know has been affected please contact us in the following ways. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.",There 's little trace of the @placeholder - just a sunbed draped in flowers .,resource,horror,life,moon,bodies,1
"This week some of those involved in the initiative gathered at a conference in London. One of the instigators, Nick Cook, a former aerospace journalist who now runs a company called Dynamixx, explained how he latched on to the idea. ""It was patently obvious to me that the aerospace and defence sectors had technologies which operated in all segments of the eco-sphere from sub-sea to space,"" he said. ""So why should they not know about the environment and how to go about tackling some of the particularly big problems encapsulated by climate change?"" It is not new for defence companies to be looking at, for example, alternative power supplies, or for aerospace companies to be developing more fuel-efficient engines. But the intent of this initiative is clearly to take things a lot further. Recently, five of the major defence and aerospace companies - US firms Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, and Saab and Finmeccanica from Europe - signed up to a statement promising to look at co-operation to tackle what they called ""global challenges"", that could include renewable energy, climate change, and disaster relief.  Of course, just what that will mean in the end is another matter. Among the technologies that might be of use are satellite surveillance, long-range drones to plot the impact of ice melt, and robust command and control systems to help communities cope with natural disasters. The Vice-President for Research and Innovation for Raytheon, John Zolper, points to his company's involvement in air traffic control systems. ""We're in the process of taking those systems and making them transportable and deployable in a rapid response situation,"" he said. ""In a day you could set up a completely new traffic control system wherever needed."" There is, of course, a potentially significant economic incentive. Defence spending globally is still growing. But Western defence budgets are stagnating or declining, and the global market is getting more crowded. On the other hand, it has been estimated that the market for global infrastructure development could amount to $40 trillion (£25trn) over the next 25 years. To the sceptics, this is just companies seeking new sources of revenue as their traditional markets falter. There are questions over whether it risks militarising the environment and development agendas. And there are plenty of other innovative industrial sectors which might be more appropriate. ""There is money in it, clearly,"" acknowledges Mr Cook. ""But the most fundamental reason we're asking them to engage is because we think they have solutions to offer, particularly in the way they bring big systems together, that no other sector can do."" Mr Cook suggests the defence and aerospace companies could offer technology that could have helped even a major city like New York to have coped better with the recent super-storm Sandy. This could include mapping and sensing techniques to spot areas most vulnerable to flooding, and portable power systems to overcome blackouts. For smaller, more vulnerable states, disasters like Sandy mean not just chaos, but governments and societies collapsing for a period, and high-tech industrial help could be valuable. ""There must be a way to have that experience incorporated,"" says O'Neil Hamilton, a Jamaican diplomat currently at the Stimson Center in Washington. These companies could have an effect, he says, particularly on ""how particularly small island developing states like those in the Caribbean really impact their security arrangements and really have the security/development nexus benefit from their experience."" It is not just about the big industrial players. Small defence companies are also especially vulnerable to the cyclical nature of defence orders. Supacat is a small British engineering company involved with military vehicles. Its managing director, Nicholas Ames, says his concerns about the nature of the defence business drove him to look at new areas. ""I've always been thinking about other sectors we should be looking at with our skills,"" he says. Mr Ames alighted on the offshore renewable energy sector, because of work Supacat had done with Britain's Royal National Lifeboat Institution. ""For my part I see a whole plethora of marine engineering challenges that are frankly being thrown out by these new renewable energy devices."" This may not be a revolution. Many companies already straddle different markets. Equally, there is clearly still resistance and some scepticism on both sides of the equation.  But this may well be the shape of things to come.","A number of defence and aerospace companies have begun to explore how they could apply their skills to help with global challenges like energy shortages , the environment and natural disasters . But is this just a potentially lucrative new market to @placeholder for stagnating defence budgets ?",find,search,compensate,celebrate,deal,2
"When Muhammad Shafiq Siddique came home to find his bedding thrown into the street, he knew his time was up. At the time, he was 16 years old. ""My family didn't accept me and the village people didn't want me there. I was very hurt so I had to go,"" recalls the 67-year-old part-time Urdu teacher. Since Siddique had contracted leprosy, he was banished from his community. He now lives in a concrete hut in Tahirpur, a government appointed leprosy colony on the outskirts of north Delhi. Like many of his neighbours, Siddique is cured. But it's his physical appearance - his misshapen nose, hands and feet, and the social stigma the disease carries - that prevents him from living outside the colony. And besides, this is now home. This ostracisation has fuelled the age-old stigma that's so tightly bound to the disease, helping it to thrive in a country where free and effective treatment has been made available since 1983. Around 5,000 families call Tahirpur home, making it the largest of India's more than 800 leprosy colonies. Despite its cramped living conditions, open sewers and piles of rubbish, it's also the most developed of the leprosy colonies as it has concrete huts, water pumps and working toilets. But now, in what will hopefully become a watershed moment for leprosy, the government is rolling out the world's first leprosy vaccine in two of the worst affected states, Gujarat and Bihar, with a plan to implement it nationwide in the future. Prof Gursaran Prasad Talwar first developed the Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP) vaccine in the 1980s at the National Institute of Immunology, an autonomous state-funded institution under the government's Department of Biotechnology. In 2005, the institute carried out field trials in Uttar Pradesh where 24,000 people were vaccinated. The results were extremely promising; 68.6% were protected for four years, and 59% were protected for eight years. In the same year, however, the World Health Organisation declared leprosy officially eradicated. For India, this declaration was little short of disastrous. Leprosy, says Dr Mary Verghese of The Leprosy Mission Trust India, ""fell off the radar."" ""Earlier [leprosy treatment] was a vertical programme,"" she explains. ""That means we had designated people and treatment through special activities. But since 2005 it has been integrated into the general healthcare services, which means we never went out actively to look for cases. People had to come voluntarily into the health care system."" But few people came. And when they did, it was often once the disease was in a late stage of development and they were suffering from irreversible disabilities with telltale marks like shortened toes and fingers from where the infected person's cartilage is absorbed into the body. ""People didn't focus on it (leprosy) after 2005, and that's why we've seen about 125,000 new cases reported every year. And the number of cases with disability has been steadily increasing also."" The MIP vaccine is part of a fresh attempt to eliminate leprosy, explains Soumya Swaminathan, the director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research which is working with the government on rolling it out. An ambitious house-to-house survey was also launched in July and the Leprosy Case Detection Campaign promises to screen more than 32 million people in problem areas. Dr Swaminathan, who says the vaccine is totally safe, highlights its effective use for other treatments, including bladder cancer. ""The role of the council is to test it in different conditions, for the healing of lesions and among people in contact with leprosy patients. This isn't a trial, it is field implementation research."" But vaccination is only part of the solution. Sanitation must be improved too, believes Dr Utpal Sengupta, a leading scientist in the field. ""Transmission is human-to-human contact, but we think environment is also playing a role."" Dr Sengupta, who has studied the disease for more than 40 years, points to findings that show how the bacteria that causes leprosy - Mycobacterium leprae - can live outside a host for prolonged periods in wet soils and pools of water. He believes that in rural areas where groups of people live with the disease and bathe in communal pools, M. leprae can be transmitted to the water and even live in the soil. Back in Tahirpur, the end of the monsoon season is dry and not too hot, so men play cards, children run around and women chat in doorways. These would be everyday scenes if it weren't for the white bandages wrapped around the club-shaped feet of a man having his hair cut, or the stumps in place of hands belonging to the woman talking to him. Here, we meet 18-year-old Somu Kumar who has travelled from Bihar to Delhi for treatment. He is alone and looks disorientated, tired and much younger than his age. His foot is bandaged and he hides his hands as he talks. The leprosy began when he was six, he says. He's taken the prescribed multidrug therapy and is cured, but has ongoing complications with his feet, like so many leprosy sufferers. As we talk, he becomes upset, particularly when asked about his village and the reactions from the people there. He has studied up to 10th grade, he says, changing the subject - an important turning point in the Indian education system. So what will he do next? ""Why would I carry on?"" he asks with a tearful shrug. The Leprosy Mission Trust India holds vocational training courses for people like Kumar, to help them find work and restore their confidence. Projects like these play a crucial part in reforming people's understanding of the disease, but nobody denies that there's still a long way to go. Common misconceptions are reinforced by outdated and discriminatory laws like the 1898 Lepers Act brought in during the British rule. Under this law a man or a woman can file for divorce if their spouse is diagnosed with leprosy. Other laws prohibit patients from holding driving licenses or travelling on trains. Now the Leprosy Mission Trust is working with the government to ban these laws. ""The stigma has been there since time immemorial,"" says Dr Verghese. ""Many people think it's a curse from God, that it's hereditary, but there's a very effective treatment. ""The myths and misconceptions still prevail. The fear is within themselves.""","With nearly 60 % of all new cases of leprosy every year being @placeholder in India , the Indian government has launched an intensive programme to eliminate the dreaded disease , writes journalist Rebecca Hobson .",recorded,found,transported,introduced,treated,0
"People in Westport are up in arms over late-night landline calls intended for the UK-based station. The mix-up is a result of Irish viewers calling the show's premium-rate numbers, which start with 098, without adding the international dialling code. Regional Development Minister Michael Ring said his constituents were ""aggravated and annoyed"". Mr Ring told the Sunday Independent: ""They are getting these calls in the middle of night. ""One of those people has an elderly mother and family members all over the world and there could be a call at any time that they would have to take."" He said people in the town should not have to change their phone number because of the blunder. The Fine Gael politician has referred the matter to a number of authorities, including the police, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) and ComReg, the Republic of Ireland's communications sector regulator. The minister told the paper the police ""did everything they could"" but they had limited powers. BAI chief executive Michael O'Keeffe said it had contacted Babestation on behalf of one complainant and spoken to a representative about the issue. ""It is unfortunate that this issue is still continuing,"" he added. ""However, the BAI is not in a position to address the problem as it is not within our remit and he was advised at all times we were assisting him as a matter of courtesy."" A spokeswoman for ComReg said it had been in contact with its UK counterpart and it was trying to ""identify a solution as soon as possible"". ""ComReg advises anyone calling the UK from the Republic of Ireland should always use the prefix 00 44,"" she said. Mr Ring has also contacted the Phone-paid Services Authority (PSA), the UK regulator for goods and services charged to a phone bill, such as directory enquiries and votes to TV talent shows. A PSA spokesman said it was looking into the problem.",Residents of a County Mayo town are being @placeholder by callers trying to reach X - rated TV channel Babestation .,threatened,plagued,teased,deployed,urged,1
"The legal action is being taken after MPs said in July the authority had ""failed in its duty of care"". The announcement comes as The Times published one of the women's account of being allowed contact with a suspected child abuser while in care. South Yorkshire Police said the article could ""undermine"" ongoing inquiries. Lawyer David Greenwood, who is acting for some of the alleged victims, said:  ""It is very likely that my clients will be taking legal action against Rotherham Council and potentially the police for failing to protect them over a long period of time. ""Inaction by social services and the police has left hundreds of young women, or teenagers, open to child sexual exploitation. ""It is important to remember that at the time of the abuse they were children under the age of 16 and could not legally consent. ""The [Home Affairs Committee] report noted part of the problem is that adults may misunderstand the grooming process and assume that the young person was a willing participant in a relationship, rather than the victim of sexual abuse."" Speaking to The Times, one of the women, now in her 20s, said she began a relationship with a 24-year-old man, who had served two prison sentences for violent offences, in 1999, when she was 14. It is understood the man twice made the girl pregnant. The newspaper said social services became aware before the relationship ended that the man was part of a ring of men suspected of abusing more than 40 young teenagers in Rotherham. The article states that by June 2000, both police and social services knew the teenager, who had been placed in emergency foster care, was in a sexual relationship with the man. However, despite this knowledge the authorities continued to allow contact between the pair, it said. Speaking to the newspaper, the woman said: ""My parents tried everything to keep [the man] away from me, but I thought I was in love with him. ""When I went into care I stopped running away because I didn't need to any more. Social services let me see him all the time."" The force's Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright said he was ""deeply concerned"" by the story. South Yorkshire Police criticised The Times for publishing the article, saying: ""South Yorkshire Police deeply regrets the decision by The Times newspaper to publish an article about an on-going, complex and highly sensitive investigation into matters of historic child sexual exploitation. ""The Times newspaper contacted South Yorkshire Police on Monday, 19 August, announcing its intention to publish an article about these issues. In response, the force informed the newspaper that any such publication could seriously undermine and, at worst, cause fatal damage to this inquiry."" My daughter was horrifically sexually exploited and groomed. I am talking on behalf of other parents in the Rotherham area who feel the same as we do, that we have been lied to and let down by various services. We feel it's about time these services were called to account. Although Rotherham Council have said sorry in a statement, we feel as parents that individual apologies should be sent out to the families and their children. The inaction by the authorities compounded the crime and allowed the abusers to continue carrying out their horrific crimes. The Times said it published the story despite South Yorkshire Police's request because it ""wants to see justice for child sex exploitation victims"". It said it chose to tell the girl's story after she contacted one of its reporters, in the hope it would encourage others to come forward and because it felt ""not enough has yet been done"" by police. Rotherham MP Sarah Champion described the allegations in the article as ""serious and distressing"". She said she would be carrying out a cross-party inquiry in Parliament in the autumn in order to ""make sure current legislation protects children from abuse as fully as possible"". Mr Wright, who was cabinet member for children's and young persons' services in Rotherham between 2005 and 2010, said: ""The allegations made in The Times newspaper about the way in which various agencies failed to adequately combat child sexual exploitation and protect vulnerable victims 14 years ago concern me deeply. ""I will be seeking assurances from the chief constable and other agencies that all allegations of such crimes are thoroughly investigated, that victims are fully supported and that this process is underpinned by the most robust and thorough processes and policies."" Rotherham Council said: ""The council wishes to support South Yorkshire Police and not potentially compromise this process. ""As such we will not be making further comments on the article without further consultation with our police colleagues."" Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said he planned to write to Rotherham Council's leader Roger Stone and chief executive Martin Kimber to ask what progress had been made since the committee's report was published in June. He said: ""What I hope [the article] has done and I hope what our recommendations have done is that they have woken up local authorities to the importance of acting on information they receive. ""It's very simple, if a 24-year-old man is in a relationship with a girl under the age of 16 this is a criminal act and they need to report it. ""They do not need to stand by and just accept it because in their view it is being done willingly. The law is the law and therefore it needs to be enforced.""","Four women are @placeholder to sue Rotherham Council for "" systematic failures to protect them from sexual abuse by predatory men "" when they were children .",continuing,gathering,planning,set,battling,3
"There was ""no deal, no compensation package, nothing about tariffs"", a No 10 spokesman said. The Times reported that ministers had given a ""last-minute written promise"" to protect Nissan from the consequences of Brexit to keep investment in the UK. Labour has said the government should say what was promised. Business Secretary Greg Clark is to be questioned on the subject by MPs. Nissan announced on Thursday that it would build two new models at its Sunderland plant following talks with the government, securing 7,000 jobs. The Japanese company's commitment to the UK's biggest car factory had been in doubt following the referendum decision to leave the European Union. Downing Street has been asked to confirm the Times report that a written promise was made to protect the company from any consequences of Brexit, such as possible increased trade tariffs. The prime minister's spokesman said there had been ""numerous discussions"" between Nissan and the government. Pressed on whether a letter had been written to the company, he said there were ""all forms of communication between Nissan and the government at various levels"" and that it would get the ""best deal"" for all industry when the UK leaves the EU, which is expected to happen in 2019. But Conservative MP and former business minister Anna Soubry said that ""something has been put into this, effectively a sweetening of a deal, to keep Nissan in our country"". She told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: ""The public will want to know if there's been some guarantee, some commitment that involves the spending of the public's money. I think taxpayers, the public, are entitled to know because it's their money."" Ms Soubry warned that the government might have ""opened up a very difficult can of worms"". If it had decided to help car makers, it would have to do the same for all other sectors, such as aerospace and pharmaceuticals, she added. MPs will question Mr Clark about the deal when he appears before the Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee within the next few weeks, chairman Iain Wright said. The Labour MP said this should form ""quite a large part"" of the scheduled hearing, adding: ""I want to really question him on: What are the terms of the deal? Is it cash? Is it indirect assistance? How long will that be on for and what other companies and sectors will be entitled to such reassurance and support?"" He said: ""The prime minister and the business secretary say, 'Trust us on this one.' I'm not sure whether that would provide the reassurance Nissan would want. So what has been offered?"" But a senior Nissan Europe executive, Colin Lawther, said the company had received ""no special deal"". ""It's just a commitment from the government to work with the whole of the automotive industry to make sure the whole automotive industry in the UK remains competitive,"" he told the BBC. ""We would expect nothing for us that the rest of the industry wouldn't be able to have access to. We see this as a whole industry thing, not a Nissan thing."" Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the government must disclose any deal struck with the firm, saying it could not hide it from the public. The Sunderland plant produced 475,000 vehicles last year - 80% of which were exported.","Discussions with Nissan before the carmaker 's decision to @placeholder its UK operation were "" open and honest "" , Downing Street has said .",expand,move,rebuild,balance,protect,0
"Brexit Secretary David Davis told MPs there was a lot of research and policy work to be done before it was ready. Mr Davis said he wanted to be ""as open as we can be"" without undermining the UK's negotiating position. The minister also said if no agreement was reached with the EU a transitional Brexit deal could be struck ""if it is necessary and only if it is necessary"". The government has said it will notify the EU of its intention to leave - beginning the two year process of talks on its exit - by the end of March at the latest. In response to pressure from Labour and some Tory MPs, ministers agreed last week to give more detail of their negotiating aims before starting the exit negotiations. Appearing before the Commons Select Brexit committee for the first time, Mr Davis said the ""broad outline"" of the UK's objectives were known but the detail had to be filled in. Asked by its chair, Labour MP Hilary Benn, when the plan would be released, Mr Davis would not be drawn on a specific date but ruled out it happening in January. Transition, transition, transition. It is the word of the week. Just about anyone who is anyone in business or politics is now gathering around the ""transitional deal"" camp fire. A lobbying group for financial services (unsurprising), a House of Lords committee, a deputy governor of the Bank of England, Chancellor Philip Hammond and even David Davis, the Pied Piper of Brexit himself, have come round to openly discussing the possibility that Brexit does not necessarily mean Brexit - at least not necessarily on the original time table and that there may be a halfway house. The idea for a transitional period to smooth the period between the UK's exit from the European Union and the completion of more detailed negotiations has been in the ether for months - but this is the week it has begun to crystallise into solid political form. Chancellor Philip Hammond said earlier this week that ""thoughtful"" politicians acknowledged a transition deal would be helpful to avoid the trauma of a sudden change in trading, customs and regulations the day after the UK leaves the EU. That could be seen as an insult to Brexiteers such as Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg - who hate the idea of a transitional deal - but I'm told there are very few ""red lines"" between the key departments in the way this negotiation is conducted. There are also many definitions of what such a transition might look like. Is it merely an implementation period for a largely agreed deal (David Davis's preference) or is it a longer term arrangement which keeps the status quo in place while details are worked out more slowly? Either way, the pressure for more clarity is growing. A House of Lords committee will warn tomorrow that thousands of banking jobs will go to Europe if some sort of transition deal is not made ready. Lobbying group, TheCityUK, will  endorse that view and privately bankers are finalising contingency plans and some are close to pressing go. The Chairman of HSBC, Douglas Flint, today told Bloomberg TV that the bank were looking at the option of moving staff to Paris if needed. As one source told me today ""there is no enthusiasm for leaving. Banks are looking for excuses to stay"". We'll soon see whether the sudden warmth towards a transitional deal is excuse enough. John Pienaar: Post-Brexit migration questions ""The reasons for setting the final possible date, 31 March (for triggering the Article 50 process of leaving the EU), were numerous but one of them was the determination to carry out all of the policy work first, consult properly and then bring something to Parliament,"" he told MPs. ""It won't be next month. The policy work is still under way and there are quite a few decisions that have to be made."" Officials, he said, were conducting ""sectoral analysis"" of the impact of Brexit in 57 areas likely to feature in the negotiations, highlighting home affairs as one area where more preparation needed to take place. Asked about the likely scope and length of the plan, he said anything which jeopardised the UK getting the best possible deal from the negotiations would be left out. The test, he said, would be ""will releasing information be hazardous or not? If it is not, we will release it"". He told MPs that his goal was a ""smooth and orderly"" exit from the EU and - on trade -  ""maximum market access with minimum of disruption"" to British firms. Pressed about whether he agreed with Chancellor Philip Hammond who has expressed his support for transitional arrangements for a limited period to cushion the impact of leaving the EU, he said he would not rule anything out at this stage. He told the committee that an interim arrangement could be struck ""if it's necessary, and only if it's necessary"" but that a deal was ""all negotiable"" within the 18-month framework currently suggested by European Union negotiators. ""We need to know where we are going before we talk about a transition"". One option, he accepted, was the UK paying the EU to maintain access to the EU's single market for a short period of time but he stressed that ""keeping something open does not mean we are doing it"". Questioned by former education secretary Michael Gove on what the remaining 27 EU states wanted out of Brexit, Mr Davis said their views varied and could be shaped by domestic politics, noting there were ""15 electoral events"" - including in Germany and France - due to take place during the process. He added: ""We are going to have to harness two things - one is economic and maybe security self-interest, and the other is a persuasion of them that it is in in Europe's best interest to have a friend and a strong trading partner off their north-western shore.""",The government 's plan for Brexit negotiations will not be @placeholder until February at the earliest .,included,published,held,reinstated,implemented,1
"16 April 2016 Last updated at 10:50 BST It marked the first public appearance for the baby bear, who was born on 6 November 2015. Having weighed just 0.5 kilograms at birth, Nora now weighs over 23 kg and is growing at a healthy rate, according to Columbus Zoo officials. Scientists estimate that only 20,000-25,000 polar bears remain in the wild. But at Columbus Zoo, people will now have the opportunity to watch one grow, as Nora gets set to play outside for one hour each day.","A polar bear cub @placeholder Nora came out with a splash on Friday , as she went for her a swim in front of visitors at a US zoo .",washed,spent,group,called,blew,3
"Raynes, 29, has signed a two-year deal with a further year's option. He helped Carlisle reach this season's League Two play-off semi-finals. The ex-Rotherham, Oxford and Scunthorpe defender, who has made 368 league appearances, is manager David Artell's second signing of the week after striker Jordan Bowery joined the Alex. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.","Crewe Alexandra have signed defender Michael Raynes from Carlisle United , following his decision to turn down a new @placeholder at Brunton Park .",spell,job,offer,deals,trial,2
"It wasn't so much an announcement as a low-key, no-fuss comment in the middle of an interview. In many ways, it was entirely in keeping with O'Connell's unassuming personality; not for him, the fanfare. There were rumours, of course, that this was the Limerick endgame, but O'Connell had refused to feed them. After 14 years in which he has won two Heineken Cups and three Celtic League titles, and has set the standard by which everyone else at the club lives, the long farewell was not for him. Brian O'Driscoll had a goodbye tour and was entitled to it, but O'Connell, 35, preferred to slip away quietly - or as quietly as can be, given the thunder that still exists in his game, the enormous desire for success that will see him spend the last two years of his playing career in Toulon, the pre-eminent club on the continent. That move is expected to be confirmed next week. On Saturday, in the Pro12 final at the Kingspan Stadium in Belfast, O'Connell will end the most magnificent adventure - and how he will be missed in the province. O'Connell would be the first to say that no man is irreplaceable, but there will be many in Munster who'd question that. They will miss him terribly; his intensity on the field and his humility off it. A small example: when his local paper, the Limerick Leader, organised a campaign recently to clean up the city, O'Connell was one of the first on to the streets with his sweeping brush. A hero and an everyman in one beloved package. The goodbyes in Belfast don't begin and end with O'Connell, though. His fellow number five and mirror image in the inspiration stakes, Al Kellock, will also make his final appearance, off the bench. There is no glamour move to France for Kellock after this - he's retiring, full-stop. Kellock has been a colossus for Glasgow, a leader off the park as much as on it: a second-row, a captain, an ambassador, a chief bottle washer. Part of the reason why Glasgow have made such strides is because of Kellock's influence around the place. Newcomers look at his dedication and passion and they understand what's required - or they don't last very long. The Scot may not have reached the stratospheric highs of O'Connell in his career - he's even been in and out of the team quite a lot in recent times - but his impact in his own place has been just as profound. The dual departures lend the Pro12 final an added fascination. Two men leaving but only one of them will have the finale that their vast support would want for them. These two teams finished joint-top of the league, only points difference dividing them. They're the best in the competition, but they have issues. In recent weeks, Glasgow have lost some of the stability that they had for much of the season. They have creaked at times: they put in a sub-standard performance in the semi-final against Ulster but got out of jail courtesy of guts and brilliance at the death. They were poor for large chunks of the match against a weakened Ulster the previous week and the week before that they were comfortably taken down by the Ospreys. Their scrum and lineout have been rocky, the number of handling errors has been rising and they have taken an age in games to crank up their phase-play and their aggression. They get there in the end; a testament to their character. They have a backline that can cause huge problems to any team, but their forwards have been too passive for too long in matches in recent weeks. The Glasgow pack needs to rediscover its inner-grunt. Gregor Townsend, their hugely impressive coach, has altered his team and already it looks better: Gordon Reid is back in at loose-head and that's an upgrade on Ryan Grant; Rob Harley returns at blind-side and brings aggression and a marvellous capacity to mess opponents around. On the wing, DTH van der Merwe, another man saying farewell, comes in for Niko Matawalu, the creative but utterly unpredictable and defensively suspect Fijian. Matawalu is Glasgow's break-glass-in-case-of-emergency option: a game-breaker who Townsend deploys presumably with his fingers crossed that the game he breaks is the other team's and not his own. Munster are nobody's idea of the complete side. For a club that has known such success, they are now four years without a trophy. Only four of their players who will start in the Pro12 final have won something with Munster: Felix Jones, Keith Earls, Donnacha Ryan and O'Connell. Time has moved on for them since winning the Magners League in 2011. That team had Doug Howlett and Ronan O'Gara; Marcus Horan and John Hayes; Donncha O'Callaghan and David Wallace. Icons all. Since then, they have lost two Pro12 semi-finals and two Heineken Cup semi-finals. They're still a very dangerous team with a maul that could blast Glasgow to kingdom come unless Townsend's team have got a plan for it, but they're less of a force than Leinster were when beating Glasgow in last year's final. Munster have also suffered the grievous loss of Conor Murray and Peter O'Mahony through injury. Their own passage to the final was fraught. Not as hair-raising as Glasgow's in Scotstoun but nervous enough. Against the Ospreys, they had a big lead and almost coughed it up at the end. They had kick after kick at goal and Ian Keatley kept missing. They spurned 15 points from the tee, a level of profligacy that will see them beaten in Belfast if it's repeated. This will be a game of fine margins. Munster are looking for their sixth major title, but Glasgow are justifiable favourites even though they're still without silverware in the professional era. At their best, Townsend's team have the ammunition to win. They also have a better cavalry on the bench. They need attitude and accuracy and more dog up front than they've shown recently. That's the combination that will see them home. Anything less and it'll be the great O'Connell who gets the fairytale ending and not Kellock. Two warriors, but only winner.","In the wake of their Pro12 semi-final victory over the Ospreys last weekend , Paul O'Connell came out with a throwaway @placeholder that he 'd probably just played his last - ever game for Munster at Thomond Park .",statement,phases,line,idea,theory,2
"He is undergoing surgery at Manchester Children's Hospital with ""serious lacerations"" to his ear and is said to be in a ""serious but stable"" condition. A man and woman, both aged 45, have been arrested on suspicion of possessing a dog dangerously out of control, police said. Paramedics and police were called to Adelphi Street at 16:00 BST on Monday. The dog has been seized by Greater Manchester Police, who believe it is an American Bulldog which is not banned in the UK. It is thought the boy was playing in a friend's garden across the road from his home when he was attacked. Det Sgt Pete Carletti said: ""Clearly this is an issue we are taking extremely seriously and we are carrying out a full investigation to establish exactly what happened here at this address.""",A four - year - old boy is in hospital with head injuries after being @placeholder by a dog in Standish near Wigan .,struck,beaten,driven,bitten,injured,3
"Yet Scott Mitchell, the newly-crowned BDO world darts champion, has been mixing with Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton and others on the set of an upcoming film. The 44-year-old from Bransgore has been involved in the making of 'London Fields', a movie adaptation of the Martin Amis novel of the same name. One of the main characters, Keith Talent, is an aspiring darts player and Mitchell was brought in to offer his expert advice to the cast. ""I'm a bit of a body double or stunt double, whatever you want to call it, because we look alike,"" joked Mitchell when asked about meeting Depp, 51, as he filmed scenes for a cameo role. ""He's a good guy and really talented at everything apparently. ""I put three darts in his hand and he asked where to throw, so I told him to throw for the bullseye. ""With his first three darts, he went 25, then missed, then 25. So I took the darts out of his hand. We don't want him playing, do we? We don't want him beating us."" Mitchell continued: ""Amber is absolutely lovely. She was quite happy to pose for pictures with me. ""Every time Billy wasn't doing anything, he'd grab a set of darts and come over. He'd go round the board and I'd go round on doubles. We'd have games, we got all of the scaffolders involved and it was a really good four or five weeks. ""It was about 14 months ago that we did that, but in the film world it seems to take a long time."" Media playback is not supported on this device So how on earth did a country boy like Mitchell end up on a London film set? ""A very good friend involved me,"" he revealed. ""My name was bantered around because I'm quite easy-going and grounded. I'm quite happy to sit around for three or four hours not doing anything, then get called on for 10 minutes and then back off. ""They'd say 'we need a 180 and a 140'. I'd jump on set and try to hit it. ""I'd only been to London about twice before this film thing but it's a really cool place. ""We drove across Tower Bridge - I'd seen it on the telly with the fireworks going off and everything, but I'd never driven across it. ""I said at the time that it would be really cool to drive a tractor across there. I'd love to do that."" Ah, the tractor. Mitchell earned £100,000 for triumphing at Lakeside and admitted afterwards it would change his life. However, any dreams of flash cars or exotic holidays are on hold for now, as the vehicles on the family farm are in need of an upgrade. ""We've got about four tractors that don't run particularly well,"" said Mitchell. ""We have to jump start them and one's got an oil leak. ""Everybody thinks I've got a lot of money now, so all of a sudden the tractor prices have probably gone up in my area."" Wife Sharon, meanwhile, has been waiting many years for a proper honeymoon. It was initially postponed because the groom was taking part in a motocross race in Weymouth shortly after their wedding. ""The first time I ever took her anywhere was probably to the Jersey Open a few years ago,"" added Mitchell, a huge speedway fan who follows Elite League side Poole Pirates. ""She'd always wanted to go to Jersey and she said she would come along, but she didn't realise the darts was on. ""She's been two or three times to Jersey now - what more can I do?"" he laughed, before suggesting Cornwall - a place he describes as a ""home from home"" - as an alternative destination. Mitchell has been aided by a hypnotherapist in recent weeks and won the world title on his sixth appearance at Lakeside, having failed to make it past the last 16 in his five previous visits. Clinching a 7-6 victory in a gripping final with Martin 'Wolfie' Adams assured Mitchell of his place among the pantheon of world champions. But it was quickly back to reality for the 'Scotty Dog'. Less than 30 minutes after being presented with the trophy and heading off the Lakeside stage, Mitchell was already thinking about cutting and marking the pitches at three local football clubs later in the week. And he was also digesting the disappointment of possibly being dropped by his local pub team, who play in the Wimborne Minster League on Monday evenings, as he had missed their previous fixture because of his commitments at Lakeside. ""They are that strict,"" Mitchell said of his colleagues. It seems there is no excuse good enough for missing a darts match with your mates these days. Not even winning a world title.",It is hard to imagine a scenario where a landscape gardener who grew up on a farm in the New Forest and a group of world - famous movie stars would @placeholder .,land,live,reunite,show,interact,4
"The 37-year-old has agreed a one-year contract with the promoted club and is surprised by the media interest. ""The biggest challenge is going to be getting used to the focus you receive as a Rangers player up here,"" he said. ""I walked out of baggage reclaim and thought there was a Hollywood superstar behind me."" Hill spent six years with the London club but was released at the end of the season after playing only 15 times in the last campaign. But the Englishman will use Rangers assistant David Weir, who spent the last five years of his career at Ibrox and captained the side to three successive league titles, as his example. ""I've got massive respect for Davie because I know how hard it is to stay in this game,"" said Hill. ""It can eat you alive at certain points. ""I think he stayed in until he was 41 and played in a Uefa Cup final. That's an unbelievable achievement. ""I'll be pestering him on a daily basis to get some inspiration from him."" Hill began his career with Tranmere Rovers and had spells with Oldham Athletic, Stoke City and Crystal Palace before switching to Loftus Road, where his side finished 12th in last season's Championship. ""I've passed my medical, so hopefully they are happy with me,"" he said. ""My body has held up so far over a 20-year career. ""I've always kept myself fit so I'm ready for the challenge. I'm not here for a jolly up or retirement. I'm here to work. ""I had options abroad and could have taken the easy way out and gone to a league with less pressure, but when Rangers come knocking, you can't turn that down."" Hill is Mark Warburton's fifth signing as he prepares for the Scottish Premiership season after the arrivals of midfielders Joey Barton, who is a former team-mate at QPR, Matt Crooks, Josh Windass and Jordan Rossiter. ""I've not stopped smiling,"" he said. ""I didn't think Rangers would be interested in a 37-year-old defender. ""But I'm extremely proud and very excited to be here. I'm looking forward to the challenge."" Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",Clint Hill has gone from being @placeholder by Queens Park Rangers to feeling like a film star at Rangers after signing for the Glasgow club .,replaced,released,struck,named,discarded,4
"The ITF has revealed it barred Kazakhstani Kirill Parfenov for life in February 2015 and suspended Croatia's Denis Pitner for a year last August. Four others are being investigated for allegedly taking bribes to manipulate scores on the Futures Tour. This follows BBC and BuzzFeed claims of match-fixing in tennis. That joint investigation uncovered files showing that, over the past 10 years, 16 high-ranking players have been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions they have thrown matches. It led to the announcement of an independent review into tennis' anti-corruption practices. In a joint statement, the TIU and ITF said: ""Kirill Parfenov of Kazakhstan was decertified for life in February 2015 for contacting another official on Facebook in an attempt to manipulate the scoring of matches. ""Separately, Denis Pitner of Croatia had his certification suspended on 1 August 2015 for 12 months for sending information on the physical well-being of a player to a coach during a tournament and regularly logging on to a betting account from which bets were placed on tennis matches."" Media playback is not supported on this device The Guardian, whose investigation brought the latest suspensions to light, says the umpires involved on the Futures Tour, the lowest rung of professional tennis, are, in effect, accused of an act known as 'courtsiding'. It is a practice whereby gamblers attend sporting events live and bet on scores before bookmakers have up-to-date information. Umpires at smaller tournaments update the scoreboard themselves after each point, and this information is transmitted to live-score sites and bookmakers. The umpires being investigated are alleged to have deliberately delayed updating the scores for up to 60 seconds - allowing gamblers to place bets on events they knew the outcome of. All four have been suspended until investigations are complete. The Guardian also says some umpires are alleged to have sent text messages to gamblers before updating the score on their tablet computer.",Two umpires have been @placeholder by the International Tennis Federation and four more are being investigated over allegations of fixing .,sacked,raised,unveiled,banned,seized,3
"The draft document now in the public domain had a very limited circulation. Members of Labour's National Executive that I have spoken to hadn't seen it. Most - though not all - shadow cabinet members were shown only the sections which related to their policy areas - to prevent leaks. And certainly the leak of a complete version of a draft manifesto before it has been formally discussed is unprecedented. Sources close to Jeremy Corbyn say ""100%"" they did not leak it and were shocked around 20:00 BST on Wednesday to find out it had leaked. And sources close to both the party leader and the Unite leader Len McCluskey are trying to point the finger at the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson. They say this is all about 9 June. If an impression of chaos around Mr Corbyn is created now, and Labour fails to get 30% of the vote on polling day, it will give his deputy a reason, or excuse, to call for the leader's resignation. But Mr Watson has categorically denied leaking the manifesto - and his allies say it would have been mad to do so. They see this as an attempt to damage his reputation as he wouldn't want Labour to perform badly at the forthcoming election. And they say the Labour leader's office had accepted that they hadn't leaked, because the version of the manifesto that Tom Watson had in his possession wasn't the version that made its way to the papers. And sources at the Daily Mirror have made it clear to the BBC that Mr Watson was not the source of the leak. Other Labour sources are pointing out that union officials saw a draft on Wednesday but Labour now hopes that the debate will move on to substance rather than the internal soap opera.",It 's not just Labour 's policies that have been exposed by the leaks of the manifesto - it 's the level of @placeholder at the very top of the Labour Party .,swearing,theatre,applause,leadership,distrust,4
"The boys mother recently reported that his bicycle had been taken from the communal area in their apartments. Adee, who has Aspergers Syndrome, is a keen cyclist and his bicycle was one of his most prized possessions. After hearing about the incident, officers from Lisburn and Castlereagh, bought him a new bike. On Wednesday evening, police asked Adee to come to Dundonald police station for a chat. He arrived at the station with his mum and dad, and was asked by one of the officers to close his eyes. The officer brought out the gift, which he then took on a test ride around the station. According to PSNI Castlereagh's Facebook page, Adee is ""a very happy boy again"". As the search for Adee's first bicycle continues, police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.",Police officers in Northern Ireland have made one young boy 's Christmas after buying him a bicycle to replace a @placeholder one .,school,deal,fallen,stolen,brain,3
"The project to restore the Muslim Burial Ground in Horsell should be completed by the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, on 4 August 2014. Work on the Grade II listed structure near Woking is being undertaken by the Horsell Common Preservation Society. Once restored, it will be used as a garden of peace and remembrance. It is hoped the first phase of work, which has been part-funded by English Heritage, will be completed by November. The ceremony was led by Imam Asim Hafiz, Muslim Chaplain to the British Armed Forces, and Reverend Ian Brackley, the Suffragan Bishop of Dorking. Leader of Woking Borough Council, John Kingsbury, who also attended the event on Thursday, said the heritage site held significance ""not only locally but also for the descendants of those who gave their lives in the First World War"". More than one million troops from pre-independence India fought for Great Britain during World War I. Wounded soldiers were brought to hospitals in the South East. Hindu and Sikh soldiers were taken to crematoriums, but Muslim soldiers did not have a burial ground until 1915. Woking's site was completed in 1917. According to the preservation society, there were 17 burials at the site in 1917 and each was marked with a round arched headstone facing west, in accordance with Islamic tradition. A cadet from the Sandhurst military academy was buried there in 1920, before the War Graves Commission took over the ground's upkeep in 1921. During World War II, a further eight Muslim soldiers were interred at the site, including three from the Free French forces. In 1968, after a spate of vandalism, all the burials were removed to Brookwood cemetery and the ground was de-consecrated. The structure remains a Registered War Memorial.",A prayer ceremony has been held to mark the beginning of renovation works on a World War I cemetery in Surrey @placeholder for Muslim soldiers killed in combat .,room,built,designated,scheduled,bid,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device As the Reds' hopes of a top-four finish and a place in next season's Champions League recede, so the significance of the FA Cup increases as a route to success - and the 1-0 quarter-final replay win at Ewood Park sets up a last-four meeting with Aston Villa. Rodgers is looking to bring Liverpool their first trophy since the League Cup win against Cardiff City under Kenny Dalglish in 2012. Liverpool's chairman during their all-conquering era, the late Sir John Smith, repeatedly said the club ""only exists to win trophies"". The Champions League has shifted the game's landscape to such an extent that some present-day chairmen might change that mantra to suggest a club ""only exists to finish in the Premier League's top four"". Rodgers needed victory desperately at Blackburn, not simply to advance to the FA Cup semi-finals and keep on course for his major target, but also in the wider context of how his and Liverpool's season will be viewed at its conclusion. If the top four is out of reach, although it still remains a tantalising prospect, Rodgers simply has to win the FA Cup for the season to be deemed a success. Outside the top four and no trophies would be a failure - he would surely admit that himself. Media playback is not supported on this device With the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona for £75m last summer after coming so close to their first title in 24 years, there was always going to be a transitional element about Liverpool's season, hence the stated aim of a top-four finish and a trophy. If Liverpool can claim the FA Cup - and this will be no easy task with Villa and potentially Arsenal in their way - then Rodgers can rightly state this is progress and an objective has been achieved. If not, having spent £100m after being armed with the Suarez cash, it will be a summer of soul-searching. It would be grossly unfair to downgrade a manager's achievements after winning a trophy, though it should be remembered Dalglish was sacked by owners Fenway Sports Group in 2012 despite winning the League Cup and reaching the FA Cup final. Rodgers will not suffer a similar fate but in the modern era even winning a trophy as prestigious as the FA Cup, no matter how much joy that would bring Liverpool fans, would not make up entirely for missing out on the top four. There is still a place for that old Liverpool motto about winning trophies, which is why Wednesday's victory was greeted with such jubilation by thousands of travelling fans gathered on Ewood Park's Darwen End. A trip to Wembley is always good for morale, and silverware at the end of it would inject confidence into a developing squad, not to mention Rodgers should he win his first Liverpool trophy. He may seem supremely confident in public but every manager gets added benefits from putting his name on the honours board. While the losses to Manchester United and Arsenal hurt and brought criticism, they were in fact Liverpool's first Premier League defeats since a 3-0 loss at Old Trafford on 14 December. Liverpool's season, however, has been shaped by a disappointing exit at the Champions League group stage and the struggle - perhaps an understandable one - to match last season's feats. They scored 101 league goals and won 26 games out of 38 when finishing second - this term they have scored only 45 times in 31 games, winning 16. They have also struggled against their main rivals, only beating Manchester City at Anfield while losing away. Manchester United did the double over Liverpool while Chelsea won at Anfield, where Arsenal drew before handing out that 4-1 beating at Emirates Stadium. So the league season has been mixed - but the FA Cup offers a salvation of sorts, though a vote on this website after the Blackburn win saw 55% of those taking part suggest finishing in the top four was more important than Wembley glory on 30 May. The FA Cup will now be the symbol of Liverpool's season. Win at Wembley on captain Steven Gerrard's 35th birthday and in what would be his final game for the club, then Rodgers can justifiably point to tangible success and signs of progress. End the season empty-handed and outside the top four and it will be viewed as a serious disappointment. Even in victory at Ewood Park, there was no escaping the name that is providing an increasingly farcical backdrop to Liverpool's season: Mario Balotelli. The Italian, after ruling himself out of the Arsenal defeat with what Rodgers described as ""a slight knock on the knee"", was then too ill to play at Blackburn. There was a resigned tone in Rodgers' voice, perhaps at being asked about this £16m failed gamble yet again, but also at Balotelli's latest no-show. Has he given up on Balotelli? Has Balotelli given up on Liverpool? Balotelli is an example of the challenges Rodgers has had to face this season, from the moment he had to reshape his squad following the sale of Suarez, the injuries to main striker Daniel Sturridge, the announced departure of iconic captain Gerrard and the contract impasse with England star Raheem Sterling, so graphically illustrated in his exclusive BBC Sport interview. Media playback is not supported on this device Balotelli, quite simply, is a punt that backfired. Rodgers perhaps banked on Balotelli realising he was drinking at the last-chance saloon - instead he has not even troubled the bar staff. He will have to go. Gerrard's departure was always going to be a delicate business to handle but Rodgers has done it well, showing the Liverpool legend due respect while occasionally keeping him out of a team that has demonstrated, on its good days, that life can go on without him. Rodgers also deserves credit for turning Liverpool's fortunes around after a poor start, changing the team's shape to incorporate a back three and going on an unbeaten three-month league run that brought a top-four spot back into focus. It was sound management and a skilful manoeuvring of resources. It also demonstrated that he may have picked a gem when signing £10m Emre Can from Bayer Leverkusen, the German slotting into central defence but a future midfield player of real power and stature. Other signings have produced mixed results. Dejan Lovren has looked anything but a £20m centre-half while £25m midfielder Adam Lallana - another buy from Southampton - has had moments of promise interrupted by injury. Lazar Markovic, at £20m from Benfica, has rarely excelled. It has been a learning season for both Liverpool and Rodgers - and an FA Cup win would be regarded as a price worth paying for any moments of pain. Back to that pursuit of the top four - and things might look a lot rosier if they can beat Newcastle United at Anfield next Monday and Manchester United have beaten Manchester City at Old Trafford the day before. This would mean a gap of only four points to fourth and fresh momentum in the Premier League, although the task is still a tough one. That is why the win at Blackburn was so vital. How Liverpool fare in the FA Cup will frame how their season, and that of Rodgers, is judged.",The @placeholder that gathered over Liverpool and manager Brendan Rodgers after successive Premier League losses to Manchester United and Arsenal were lifted by a victory at Blackburn Rovers that takes them to Wembley .,team,mood,race,clouds,announcement,3
"Cameron Munro, 21, of Patcham, Brighton, East Sussex, died on Saturday but the circumstances are unknown. Tributes have been paid by members of the surfing community to Mr Munro, who had been working in the Algarve in Portugal. The Foreign Office said it was providing support to the family of a British national. The Algarve Surf School and Camp posted on its Facebook page: ""It's with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to a colleague, friend, brother and all round great person Cameron Munro. ""Over the past three years he has been an absolute pleasure to work with and get to know. He is going to be a hole missing in our surf camp family."" A representative of Brighton-based Pure Spirit Surf School posted: ""This weekend has been the saddest time of my life, I have lost a son a friend and a warrior. ""Cam one of the best people you could ever meet humble, mellow, talented and fun, you touched people all over the world with your mellow soul."" In statement, the Foreign Office said: ""We are providing support to the family of a British national following their death in Bali on 19 March. ""Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.""",A British surfing instructor has @placeholder while on holiday on the Indonesian island of Bali .,imposed,vanished,left,exploded,drowned,4
"On Wednesday, shares of Chinese solar power manufacturer Hanergy Thin Film were suspended after falling 47%, wiping out $18.6bn (£11.9bn) from its market capitalisation. That was followed by shares of Goldin Financial, which fell 55% on Thursday. Both firms had seen the price of their shares surge over the past year. Shares of Goldin Financial, which is 70%-owned by Hong Kong billionaire Pan Sutong, have jumped by more than 400% between September 2014 and March this year, according to Reuters. The firm had said that it was not aware of the reason behind the big jump in its share price. About half of Goldin's value - $16.12bn - was erased on Thursday as shares fell. Meanwhile, Hanergy shares had risen five-fold since September before the sell-off began. The firm, controlled by Chinese billionaire Li Hejun, had issued a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Wednesday saying its shares had been halted from trade ""pending the release of an announcement containing inside information"". Li has been considered one of China's richest men on the back of his stake in Hanergy. Nicholas Teo, market analyst at trading firm CMC markets said he had noticed the dramatic drop in Hanergy's shares right away because it had everyone ""scratching their heads"". ""The company was very quick to call a halt to the trading, but without any news, there is plenty of speculation and potentially room for further reaction to the downside if the trading suspension is lifted,"" he said. ""Even after the drop though, Hanergy's shares are basically twice as expensive as some of the firms in that sector."" David Kuo, chief executive of The Motley Fool Singapore backed the view that Hanergy shares were overvalued. ""Hanergy is involved in the much-hyped solar-panel industry. Investors are paying $50 for every dollar of profit the company makes,"" he said. ""When expectation overtakes reality, reality eventually wins. The market is experiencing a dose of reality."" There has been speculation as to the reason why the Chinese company halted trading, with Reuters citing an unnamed source as saying the firm is under investigation by Hong Kong regulators. Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has declined to make a comment. Local reports also said that Li, chairman of the firm, did not attend the firm's annual general meeting in Hong Kong on Wednesday.","Shares of two Hong Kong - @placeholder companies have plunged by about 50 % in the past two days , surprising market watchers across the region .",backed,serving,class,reported,listed,4
"Osama Abdul Mohsen fell while running across the Serbia-Hungary border last week. The camerawoman, Petra Laszlo, was fired and later apologised. Mr Mohsen, who coached a football team in Syria, will now work at a sports school near Madrid. ""The future will be very good for my son in Spain,"" Mr Mohsen told El Mundo newspaper (in Spanish). The family was due to arrive by train in Madrid late on Wednesday. He said he and his seven-year-old son Zaid had endured a difficult journey to Europe, after meeting with another son, Mohammad, who had already reached Europe by boat. ""The journalist's kick was scary and hard,"" he told El Mundo. ""My feeling was surprise. And then pain when I saw the fear and panic in the face of my son. Zaid cried for two hours. I was terrified."" He said he was then threatened with jail by Hungarian authorities. Miguel Angel Galan, the director of the Cenafe football school in Getafe, near Madrid, said officials had decided to ""help a fellow coach"". ""They will get the most important things: housing, food, clothes and the job as a coach that we are going to give him,"" he said. Spain has agreed to take in 17,000 refugees this year.",A migrant father who was tripped by a Hungarian camerawoman while @placeholder his son is to start a new life in Spain .,attacking,holding,feared,helped,wearing,1
"Olivia Watling, a 15-year-old student from Ramsey in the Isle of Man, was admitted to Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital in November. Her wish was granted by Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall after the campaign #littlemix4livvy was launched by pupils at her school. Jade said the band wanted to send ""all their love"" to Olivia. Referencing the nickname given to Little Mix's fans, Jade said she had heard Olivia was a ""massive Mixer"". A spokeswoman for the campaign, said: ""Livvy woke up to the message and has been showing it to all her nurses. ""Well done to everyone that made this happen - just to see the smile on Livvy's face is so very special."" Her aunt Andrea Holroyd said: ""Liv went to see Little Mix last year, she knows all the songs and all the dances. ""I can't tell you how amazing Liv is - she is in so much pain but she is so incredibly strong and brave. We are just finding things to lift her spirits.""","A girl battling leukaemia has received a "" get well soon "" @placeholder message from her favourite band Little Mix .",distance,email,video,phone,message,2
"The pair spoke to veterans and their families beside the annual display of more than 100,000 small wooden crosses, each with a poppy and personal message. They honour service personnel who have lost their life since World War One. The Last Post was played before a two-minute silence and the duke and his grandson planted their own crosses. It was the third time Prince Harry, who who served in Afghanistan, has visited the Field of Remembrance. The Duke, who was in the Royal Navy during World War Two, has been attending since 2003. The prince spoke to nine-year-old Rhiannon Lewis, from Essex, who attended the event with her family to remember her late uncle, Lt Aaron Lewis, who lost his life in Afghanistan in 2008. He also chatted with Liam Young, a former corporal, who served with the Light Dragoons in Afghanistan. The 29-year-old, who was also deployed to Iraq, planted a cross for six of his comrades killed in Afghanistan in 2009 and another who died later in a civilian accident. The first Field of Remembrance, planted by The Poppy Factory, was set up in the grounds of Westminster Abbey in November 1928. There are now further fields in Cardiff; Lydiard Park, near Wootton Bassett; Belfast; Gateshead; Edinburgh, and Inverness.",The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Harry have paid tribute to Britain 's fallen soldiers as they @placeholder Westminster Abbey 's Field of Remembrance .,opened,celebrate,held,thumped,quit,0
"This fault is because of an error in production, but the broken coins have become something of a collectors item. Coin collectors are eager to snap them up because they are very rare, which has seen the broken coins being sold on sites like eBay for prices of up to £5000! However, the Royal Mint - where all British coins are made - has said that some coins are being deliberately broken so they can be sold online. It's actually against the law to break a coin, and the Royal Mint says this about these crazy coins… ""Unfortunately, we have observed a number of coins with separated and reversed inners and outers for sale on online auction sites. Our belief is that these have been deliberately manipulated and we would remind people that breaking up a UK coin is illegal under the Coinage Act 1971."" The new 12-sided £1 coin was released back in March.",The new £ 1 coins are causing a stir this week - some have been found with a defect that causes the @placeholder to fall out !,ability,scheme,middle,decision,deal,2
"The Imagination Library was launched in 2007 as the first arm of a project pioneered in the US. It encourages children under five to read by sending them a free book every month, with more than 80% of the town's under fives signed up to the project. The council said the scheme was facing closure because of budget cuts. Since 2008 over 28,000 children have joined the library, with the current membership standing at 13,000 children. The authority said it cost £387,000 a year to run the service and it could not longer afford it because it had to make savings of £23m in the next financial year. A final decision will be made after the month-long consultation. If closure is agreed, the council said the library would stop in December.",People 's views are wanted on plans to axe a children 's reading scheme in Rotherham which was @placeholder by US country singer Dolly Parton .,killed,won,inspired,backed,created,3
"In total, 23 candidates were nominated for recognition in seven categories, including business and art, culture and sports, as well as young achievers. Winners were announced at a ceremony in City Hall on Saturday night. Women of ethnic backgrounds who had been victims of violence were also recognised. The Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association awards, held every two years, aim to identify female role models. Fatma Alan, who was recognised for her work after suffering domestic abuse, said it was important people ""go out and speak about it - so people act faster"". ""People are stuck in that situation for so long because they don't know what it's like out of the relationship - they're scared that the outside could be worse. I didn't know there was support out there - I didn't know organisations existed to help and support."" Science, technology medicine: Prof Kamila Hawthorne, vice chair (professional development) at the Royal College of General Practitioners and associate dean for medicine at the University of Surrey. Management and leadership: Uzo Iwobi, chief executive officer of Race Council Cymru, who was also named ambassador for the awards. Arts, culture and sports: Leanne Rahman (joint winner), arts and education project administrator for the Arts Council of Wales, who co-ordinates Black History Month Wales. Arts, culture and sports: Angeline Tshiyane (joint winner), who set up a support group for  Zimbabwean women in Wales called Madzimai Pamwe and works promoting sports development with people of ethnic backgrounds. Social and humanitarian: Martha Holman, founder of the Love Zimbabwe charity and Love Zimbabwe Fair Trade Company that imports and sells crafts from Zimbabwe. Self development: Versha Sood (joint winner) a registered nurse who leads Hafod dementia care in Wales and helps organise cultural events across Indian British and other community associations in Cardiff. Self development: Fateha Ahmed (joint winner) who works fulltime with Race Equality First in conjnction with doing volunteer community work. Business: Derin Omole, who combines her work as a sexual health professional with her business Twale Cuisine Limited. Young achiever: Queena Lee, who is studying in Cardiff while also heading a team of 80 volunteers with the ACE Cardiff charity, which promotes the importance of equal educational opportunity. Fatma Alan: Suffered domestic abuse and has gone on to complete a BSc (Hons) in Dental Technology. Omonigho  Idegun: After being trafficked to the UK from Nigeria, she is now an event organiser for vulnerable people. Gaynor Legall: Described as ""a formidable champion of ethnic minority women in Wales"" Ms Legall has served on the city council before going on to work in the voluntary sector and then the Welsh Assembly. Dr Layla Jader: After leaving her home country of Iran, Dr Jader worked for 37 years in the NHS and was a consultant in public health genomics. Norma Glass: The Welsh representative on the UK Board of Deputies of British Jews, she was recognised for her ""lifetime commitment to community cohesion, integration and racial equality"". Chantal Patel: Came to the UK from Mauritius to train as a nurse before going on to qualify as a solicitor. Now lectures throughout the UK on mental capacity and medical documentation.","Women and girls from from black , Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds have been @placeholder for the significant contributions they make to Welsh life .",named,celebrated,commended,reacting,announced,1
"2 September 2013 Last updated at 21:00 BST Campus Party, one of the biggest technology events in the world, is being held in the capital for the first time. Ronan Dunne, chief executive of O2 UK, claims London is the epicentre for technology and innovation in Europe. Presenter Suzi Perry also appears in this report by Alice Bhandhukravi.",A seven - day festival aimed at 18 to 30 year olds has arrived at the O2 in London with @placeholder from around the world joining in .,students,bands,people,conditions,tradition,2
"Motorists saw the vehicle ""tootling along"" the A601 in Derby on 2 March, with one capturing the scene on a dashcam. Officers said they had traced the owner to the Chaddesden area. The man, who had a stroke some years ago, also offered his apologies to other road users, police said. PC Mark Atterbury from the Chaddesden Safer Neighbourhood Team said: ""Unfortunately he had been given some incorrect information about where and when he could use it that caused him to be on a road that was very unsafe for a vehicle of that type. ""Thankfully with the information we received I have been able to pay him a visit and give him the correct advice that means he will now be able to use his scooter in a safer fashion. ""He wanted me to apologise to any of the other road users who had been concerned about his actions but is now pleased to have had the correct information."" Source: Derbyshire Police","An 83 - year - old man @placeholder driving his mobility scooter on a busy city ring road has been "" offered advice "" by police .",spotted,missing,spent,busy,drowned,0
"But recent months have seen him acknowledge that he is living in straitened times and will have to reduce his ambitions if he is to avoid a collapse. Assad's recognition of reality began after a string of defeats in the early spring, including the loss of a second provincial capital, Idlib in the north-west. In early May, the president made a rare public acknowledgement of the setbacks. But he dismissed them as the ups and downs of a long-term war in which there were hundreds of battles, some won, some lost. Since then, more battles were lost. The militants of so-called Islamic State (IS) stormed across the desert and captured the important town of Palmyra and nearby oil and gas fields north-east of Damascus later in May, facing little resistance. Now Assad's tone has changed, and become yet more realistic. In a televised speech on 26 July, he admitted that his forces suffered a chronic manpower problem, and that the rebels were getting increased support from their Saudi, Qatari and Turkish backers. Syria, he said, would have to prioritise, and give up some areas rather than risk allowing key positions to collapse. His Iranian and Hezbollah allies have been urging him to retrench, because they can't help him control the whole country. Already the regime holds barely a third of Syria's landmass, though it is the most ""useful"" bits containing most of the big cities, the coast and more than half the population. The militants of IS are reckoned to hold about 50%, much of it desert. A motley array of rebel factions dominated by Islamists, including the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, hold other areas in the north and west, while ""moderates"" control some of the south. And the Kurds have carved out an enclave along the northern border with Turkey. It's a five-way split. Assad clearly expects to have to give more ground in order to retain the core - Damascus, Homs, Hama, and the Latakia coast at a minimum. That could mean having to give up the half of Aleppo he still controls - Syria's biggest city - as well as Deraa in the south. Some expect him to lose Hama too. Is that to be Syria's fate, divided into warring entities, in constant friction, or perhaps relapsing into a messy and unstable coexistence? De facto partition is not just a possibility, it is already there. The question is whether Syria can somehow be reunited. The special peace envoy, Staffan de Mistura, was not optimistic when he reported back last week to the Security Council on his two months of talks with many of the players in the Syria game. He spoke of the ""risk of a multi-generational conflict that, with each passing month, reduces the prospects of ever restoring Syria as a unified state"". His proposal for parallel working groups tackling four Syrian issues raised little hope for serious progress - he admitted that he had felt obliged ""to seek out even the remotest possibilities for a political solution, even if sadly the logic of assuming a military victory continues."" It is the rebels who currently have the whiff of victory in their nostrils, while Assad is busy battening down the hatches to survive. The Americans, Saudis, Turkey and Qatar are now working together much more seriously in support of rebel groups, supplying them with TOW missiles and plenty of money. There are many potential scenarios, including a rebel victory, although that is something the Americans have never wanted as it would open the way for an Islamist takeover - ""black flags flying over Damascus"". A US-steered peace process would likely kick in at the point when the rebels seriously threaten the regime enclave. The deal would be a truce between four of the five entities - regime, mainly Islamist rebels in the north, ""moderate"" rebels in the south, and the Kurds - and perhaps some kind of federal arrangement. And they would unite to drive out IS from its eastern strongholds, with western support. Iran might back a settlement which would leave the Syrian state structure in place, securing Tehran's strategic investment - but minus Assad and his circle, with Iran engineering his removal. ""I can't imagine any scenario under which Assad could survive in the long run - but that doesn't mean he won't cling on desperately, even if Iran and the Russians want him out,"" said a well-placed diplomat. ""But a phase is ending, and things have to change. He has no more rabbits left in his hat."" Born on 11 September 1965, the second son of President Hafez al-Assad. Graduated from the College of Medicine of the University of Damascus in 1988, intending to pursue a career in this field. Between 1988 and 1992 he specialised in ophthalmology at Tishrin military hospital in Damascus, before going to London to pursue further studies. After the death of his older brother, Basil, in a high-speed car crash in 1994, he was hastily recalled from the UK and thrust into the spotlight. Entered the military academy at Homs, north of Damascus, and rose through the ranks to become an army colonel in January 1999. In the last years of his father's life, he emerged as an advocate of modernisation and the internet, becoming president of the Syrian Computer Society. He was also put in charge of a domestic anti-corruption drive, which reportedly resulted in prominent figures from the old leadership being put on trial. Became president following his father's death on 10 June 2000. In his inaugural address, Mr Assad promised wide-ranging reforms, but the so-called Damascus Spring was short-lived. It is thought reform was stymied by the old guard loyal to his father.","Like his father Hafez before him , the Syrian president , Bashar al - Assad , has proven to be a ruthless survivor who will do whatever it takes to keep himself and his ruling circle in @placeholder .",touch,competitions,response,effect,power,4
"The ITV soap opera, set in fictional Kings Oak in the Birmingham area, was famous for wobbly sets but had 18 million viewers at its height. The Sutton Coldfield Ramada site was used for outdoor filming in the 1980s before the ITV soap was axed in 1988. Memorabilia including popular character Benny Hawkins' hat were on show at the event. Launched on 2 November 1964, four years after Coronation Street, the show initially ran five days a week and became famous for fluffed lines. Tony Adams, who played womanising Adam Chance for 10 years from 1978, said it was recorded without stopping. He said: ""It was tortuous, terrifying… yes there was pressure, but it was enormous fun. ""Hardly anybody lifted a cup because they were stuck to saucers so they didn't rattle. ""It was one of the best shows I ever did... if you went into M&S, to Scotland, to Ireland, to Jersey, people recognised you."" Adams, 73, of Saltdean, Brighton, said one viewer upset at the way his character treated girlfriend Miranda Pollard got into the Birmingham studios. He said: ""He pulled a knife. Fortunately, there were two security guards. I didn't get hurt, but it was a bit of a shock."" Crossroads was revived in 2001, again starring Adams, but axed in 2003. An anniversary cake featuring the motel sign has been baked for the Sutton Coldfield event. But the original red motel sign was not on show because ""it's so big"" to transport, the Crossroads Appreciation Society said. Proceeds from sales of props and photographs will go to the Crossroads Care charity network, which gives a break to carers. Fan club member Chris Stacey, 55, of Newham, east London, said: ""As a child growing up it was like an extended family... they featured Spaghetti Junction in the opening titles at one point."" But he said while it was ""escapism"", there were ""bizarre"" storylines including ""when Amy Turtle, a famous Brummie, the cleaner… was thought to be a Russian spy"".",Fans of TV soap Crossroads have marked its 50th anniversary at a real hotel which @placeholder up as the show 's motel .,drifted,doubled,blown,scooped,stepped,1
"Bray, without a win in five, took a sixth-minute lead through Darragh Noone but Derry levelled on 22 minutes when Ronan Curtis went through to score. Ryan Brennan headed Wanderers 2-1 up just before half-time. Derry equalised again through Nathan Boyle early in the second half but Tom Clancy bundled in a late winner. Clancy had scored the winner when Bray won away to Derry earlier in the season by the same 3-2 scoreline. It was a huge disappointment for Derry as they had looked destined to get at least a point. They recovered from that early Noone goal to level through Republic of Ireland Under-21 player Curtis who went on to beat home keeper Peter Cherrie after a superb pass by Nicky Low. City will be disappointed with the marking which allowed Brennan the chance to head in Bray's second from Gary McCabe's free-kick delivery. Derry levelled again when Aaron McEneff's pass found Boyle who turned to shoot low into the corner. The visitors were undone by a set piece for a second time when substitute Clancy forced the ball in after a corner with nine minutes left. The defeat sees Derry slip two places to fifth as Shamrock Rovers also moved above them by winning away to Finn Harps.",Derry City fell to their first defeat in 11 matches when they were beaten 3 - 2 away by Bray Wanderers who @placeholder them in third place in the Premier Division .,ended,helped,earned,replace,shocked,3
"Within minutes, people were out on the streets - queuing outside ATM machines to withdraw money in lower denominations or rushing to shops to buy provisions. The two banned notes account for 86% of all notes in circulation in India's largely cash economy. ""I sold all the vegetables in my stall in 20 minutes. This had never happened before,"" Mr Gupta told the BBC. How will India destroy 20 billion banknotes? India rupee ban: Currency move is 'bad economics' Why India wiped out 86% of its cash overnight India's 'desperate housewives' scramble to change secret savings How India's currency ban is hurting the poor India's cash crisis explained But the following day, he did not earn anything. Very few customers turned up and even those who wanted to buy vegetables did not have change to pay him. The situation continued for the next five days where without buyers all his vegetables got spoilt, causing him a loss of over 10,000 rupees ($150;£121) Desperate to earn some money, Mr Gupta turned to popular mobile wallet Paytm, which he had heard about from his friend. Mobile wallets are apps that allow people to load and transfer money electronically using their smartphones. ""The situation is better now. I get at least four to five customers a day who use mobile wallets to pay me,"" he says. Like Mr Gupta, many small business owners are using mobile transactions and cards to survive. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the government's decision are financial technology firms which have seen a surge in new customers. Paytm, India's largest mobile payment company, says that it has seen a 700% increase in overall traffic, and a 300% hike in the number of app downloads with daily transactions touching 5 million. It currently has 85,000 merchants on its platform but the company has now set a bold target of signing up another five million by March 2017. The company is backed by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. ""We have seen remarkable growth since the currency announcement came in. We are opening offices in small cities and towns to expand our presence"" Kiran Vasireddy, senior vice president at Paytm, told the BBC. Other mobile wallets like Mobikwik and Freecharge have also reported a huge jump in new customers. But it's not just mobile payment firms who are trying to woo consumers. Indian banks are also encouraging people to go cashless by using online banking and mobile apps services. Financial technology firms are seeing the rupee ban as a start of a digital payment revolution in the country. Paytm came out with full-page advertisements in newspapers, congratulating the prime minister  for taking the ""boldest step in the financial history of India"". What is fuelling this optimism is that India is the second largest market for smartphones behind China. This has coincided with a rapid rise in internet users. The country presently has more than 450 million internet users, a number expected to touch 700 million by 2020. But despite this sharp uptick in mobile and online payments, this overall user base is still very small for a country with a population of 1.25 billion people. And India still has a long way to go to before it can become a major cashless economy. Most people only like dealing in cash. This is a mindset issue that will take a lot of time and effort to change. And with more than half of India's population residing in rural areas where mobile coverage is still patchy, this task becomes even more daunting. Even though India has successfully opened millions of banks accounts over the last two years to get more people into the financial system, a huge portion of the population still has no access to banking services. The country has more than 24 million credit cards and 650 million debit cards. The number of debit cards has been growing steadily but most people only use them to withdraw money from ATMs instead of using them to make payments. ""You need more small businesses to buy devices that will accept debit and credit cards. Most of them want cash,"" says Vivek Belgavi, a financial services expert with PricewaterhouseCoopers India. While businesses in the cities are gradually moving to cashless modes of payments, their counterparts in smaller cities and towns are reluctant to do that. They still do not understand the advantages of digital transactions. There is also a perception among a lot of Indians that internet and mobile transactions are not secure. Many experts say that the key task  once the cash situation normalises will be to retain customers that have switched to cashless payments in recent days. Not an easy task in a nation where cash is king.","On the evening of 8 November , vegetable vendor Vishal Gupta was preparing to @placeholder his roadside stall when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that 500 ( $ 7.30 ; £6 ) and 1,000 rupee notes would be banned effective midnight as part of a crackdown on corruption .",reduce,shut,leave,announce,penetrate,1
"There will probably be both tears and laughter as old people divided from those they have not seen for most of their lifetimes get a brief and final meeting. More than 65,000 South Koreans were eligible for reunions with relatives in the North but only 100 were chosen.  Of those hundred, 10 have since died or become too ill to travel. The chosen, remaining few will go in a convoy of buses to the North Korean resort of Mount Kumgang, accompanied by their children and other family members. There, they will have six two-hour meetings with their relatives from the North. The meetings will be spread over three days so the families will spend about 12 hours together, some of it with press and TV cameras recording the emotion, and some of it in private. Because of the time that has elapsed, many are in their 80s and 90s.  They are unlikely to have another meeting. The families were split in the tumult of civil war, so many of those who ended up in the South have not even had photos or mementoes of those they left. Lee Taek-gu is 89 years old and he will meet his sister who is 20 years younger. He last saw her when she was a tiny girl and he a young man who got on a boat to flee south, thinking he would come back after the war. Since then, he has been writing letters to his parents knowing he would never send them because there is no postal service between the two halves of Korea.  He wrote them as therapy for his grief. He told the BBC he would simply thank his sister for being alive.  They would talk about their parents who are now dead. He has got his best jacket cleaned and spruced up for the occasion and bought a smart new hat. There will be rules about what they can discuss.  Family members from the South have been given a guide by the Red Cross, under whose auspices the meetings have been organised. That guide advises people to avoid politics.  They should take gifts - money, perhaps, inexpensive watches, winter clothes, toothpaste, sugar, vitamins. After the last reunion a year ago, some South Koreans complained that they had been harangued about politics by their relatives in the North. But you can't avoid politics with these reunions, which started after a summit meeting between the leaderships of the two countries in 2000.  Since then, they have not been regular, depending on the state of relations between Pyongyang and Seoul, with late cancellations at what North Korea perceives to be a slight. With relations in a dire state over the last five years, there have only been two reunions.  All told, just under 19,000 Koreans have been reunited face-to-face, and 3,750 others on video links. Whatever the politics, you can't doubt the personal, human drama involved. Choi Hyeong-jin, who is 95, said that he still feels guilty because he left his wife and two daughters in the North in 1951.  Because the front-line moved north and south like a yo-yo, who ended up where was a lottery.  Mr Choi will meet one of his daughters this week.  She was two when he last saw her and is 64 now. ""I am not sure if I will even be able to recognise her"", he said. ""I don't even remember how she looked as a baby"". Another person who will meet long-lost family is 87-year-old Kim Wu-jong, who lives alone in a small, run-down home in Seoul. He is poor and partially paralysed. But he is overjoyed at the prospect of seeing his younger sister whom he calls ""the flower and princess of my family"".  They have not seen met since the Korean War ended in 1953. ""I cannot describe how happy I am,"" he said. ""It's better than winning the lottery.""",It is hard to imagine a more bitter - sweet @placeholder . The reunion of Korean families who have not seen each other for six decades will be a tumultuous mix of emotions .,lines,event,relationship,future,team,1
"The National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) says contractor Working Links has told it 40% of jobs in the counties will go. Working Links won the contract for the counties in the part-privatisation of the probation service in 2014 . The firm said it was still in consultation but it expected ""fewer jobs being lost than those stated"". Read more on this story as it develops throughout the day on our Local Live pages Mike McLelland of Napo said a 40% cut meant a total of 117 jobs being lost. ""Napo is concerned these staffing cuts will result in far less face-to-face contact with offenders,"" he said. ""The consequence of this will be to seriously compromise the ability of probation providers to both assess and manage risks of serious harm and reoffending."" Working Links said: ""We are still in consultation but latest projections show fewer jobs being lost than those stated. ""Our front line delivery will not be negatively impacted by our proposed changes. At all times we will ensure we deliver a safe service. ""We are committed to reducing reoffending and protecting the communities in which we work."" A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: ""Public protection is our priority and we continue to work closely with probation providers to maintain appropriate staffing levels and to rehabilitate offenders effectively.""","More than 100 probation jobs are being cut in Devon , Cornwall and Dorset , a @placeholder has claimed .",partnership,group,man,union,trade,3
"For several weeks, the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee has been trying to speak to the billionaire, who also owns Newcastle United FC, about the treatment of his workers at Sports Direct. It follows criticism of working practices at the company's warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. He has so far refused to attend, though, and the committee has now issued a formal summons ordering him to give evidence at Westminster on 7 June. If he says no, what can MPs actually do to him? Both the House of Commons and House of Lords have the power, in theory, to imprison someone for contempt. In the 18th and early 19th Centuries it was a regular punishment for someone to be committed to the custody of the Serjeant at Arms or to prison, according to a Parliamentary Privilege report published in 1999. The last time the House of Commons imprisoned a non-member was in 1880, and the circumstances were strangely similar to Mr Ashley's position - a man by the name of Charles Edmund Grisell failed to attend as a witness before the Tower Hill Level Bridge Committee. In the past, unruly MPs could be temporarily detained in a room inside the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben. The last time this happened was on 23 June 1880, when newly-elected Northampton MP Charles Bradlaugh refused to take the oath of allegiance and spent a night inside the tower. The room where he was detained is still called the Prison Room, but it is no longer used as a prison. Could Mr Ashley be imprisoned in Big Ben? While a spokesman for the select committee did not say ""no"", they did acknowledge ""the power to imprison has been untested in modern times"". Dr Andrew Blick, part of the Institute of Contemporary British History at King's College London, said imprisonment was likely to be challenged nowadays. ""There are all kinds of issues,"" he said. ""Would someone be able to challenge this under the Human Rights Act if this was done to them? ""They won't lock him [Mike Ashley] up because they haven't done it for so long and it's not clear that they are able to do it. They might get challenged."" The definition is broad, so a huge number of actions could potentially be considered to amount to a contempt of Parliament. In fact, Erskine May - a book regarded as the Bible of parliamentary practice - notes it is ""impossible"" to list every potential act of contempt. ""Generally speaking, any act or omission which obstructs or impedes either House of Parliament in the performance of its functions, or which obstructs or impedes any Member or officer of such House in the discharge of his duty, or which has a tendency, directly or indirectly, to produce such results, may be treated as a contempt even though there is no precedent of the offence,"" says the book. Disobeying the order of a committee - which Mike Ashley has been warned about - is listed as one of the examples. ""Individuals have been held to be in contempt who did not comply with orders for their attendance made by committees with the necessary powers to send for persons,"" notes Erskine May. However, Mr Ashley has not yet disobeyed the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, because it only decided to formally issue a summons on 15 March. If he now ignores this summons, the committee would need to raise a complaint of contempt, and the House of Commons would then decide whether a contempt had been committed. Dr Blick said the power to punish for contempt rests in an ancient right known as parliamentary privilege. ""It has not been set out in a modern Act of Parliament,"" he said. ""There has been discussion of doing that over the years but they've never got round to doing it."" Erskine May says the House of Lords has the power to inflict fines in its capacity as a court of record. However, it is unclear whether the House of Commons has the same status, particularly as it has not imposed a fine since 1666. This was imposed on a man called Thomas White, who had been ordered into the custody of the Serjeant at Arms for causing Horsham MP Henry Chowne to be arrested and prevented from attending Parliament. White absconded, and was then fined £1,000, equivalent to £114,000 today. A report in 1999 said the power of the House of Commons to fine people should be regarded as lapsed and recommended legislation to give the Commons a statutory power to fine. Both MPs and non-MPs can be formally reprimanded or admonished by the Speaker of the House of Commons. As a non-MP, Mr Ashley would be brought to the Bar of the House by the Serjeant at Arms, before being admonished by the Speaker. The last non-MP to be admonished for contempt of Parliament was the journalist John Junor on 24 January 1957. He had written an article in the Sunday Express about petrol allocation that had cast doubt on the honour and integrity of MPs. Junor apologised and no further action was taken. The last MP to be admonished was Tam Dalyell in 1968. The Labour MP for West Lothian had given a copy of an unpublished report about Porton Down, the government chemical warfare centre, to the Observer newspaper. His fellow MPs subsequently voted to reprimand him for ""a breach of privilege and a gross contempt of the House"". Rupert and James Murdoch found themselves in a similar position to Mr Ashley in 2011, when they initially declined an invitation to attend a select committee to answer questions over phone hacking. They then agreed to appear after the Culture, Media and Sport committee issued summonses. These were the first to be issued by a parliamentary select committee for almost 20 years, since the sons of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell were ordered to appear in 1992. Mark Stuart, an assistant professor in politics at the University of Nottingham, said pressure from committees was usually enough to make people give evidence. ""Technically they could bring in the Serjeant at Arms as he or she is known and they could call the person to appear because they could be found in contempt of Parliament,"" he said. ""But because that power hasn't been used since the time of Charles Dickens there is great doubt over whether Parliament actually wants to use it, because what would happen is the courts could be dragged in. ""They could have the European Court of Human Rights brought in to review what Parliament has done, so Parliament likes to bring these people in through public pressure, just as the Murdochs were."" He predicts that Mr Ashley will give in, just as Rupert and James Murdoch did. ""Mike Ashley is just playing games at the moment,"" he said. ""It will be really bad for his company if he doesn't attend."" Dr Blick predicts that ""some kind of mutual agreement"" will be reached. ""I think he [Mike Ashley] and people advising him will think it's probably better not to be seen to be in a battle with Parliament, the most important democratic body in the country,"" he said. ""My guess is that some kind of mutual agreement is reached as did happen with the Murdochs in the end.""",Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has been warned he could be in contempt of Parliament if he @placeholder to refuse to appear in front of a committee of MPs . It sounds serious - but what could actually happen to him ?,forced,chose,offered,appeared,continues,4
"Sunday's event at Rio's Maracana stadium will see Britain's sports stars celebrate their largest ever haul of overseas medals. Lancashire-based clothing manufacturer Simon Jersey has designed the athletes' red, white and blue outfits. The quirky costumes are matched with shoes encrusted with flashing bulbs. The Accrington-based designers said the USB-charged shoes were inspired by the carnival spirit of Rio de Janeiro. Team GB medal tracker The jacket will feature a ""thank you"" to Brazil, written in Portuguese, and a ""hello"" to Tokyo, the host nation of the next Olympic Games in 2020. Liz Murphy, of Simon Jersey, said the theme of the costume was inspired by the ""spirit of the Rio carnival"". She added: ""This is a fantastic contract for us to win. We're the first uniform supplier to actually get this contract, it would normally go to a big high street retailer. ""A billion people are going to see this costume on Sunday night and that's really fantastic."" Brazil has planned an elaborate celebration for the closing ceremony, featuring a traditional street party carnival known as the Cordão da Bola Preta. And, just as Rio de Janeiro put in a guest appearance at the closing ceremony of London 2012, Tokyo will make a special eight-minute presentation.",Team GB 's athletes have revealed the colourful outfits they will wear for the Olympic Games closing ceremony - complete with @placeholder shoes .,struggling,combined,illuminated,black,traffic,2
"Tens of thousands of people were involved in the parades that mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland's grand master described Wednesday's Twelfth as the ""biggest in a generation"". Edward Stevenson said ""unprecedented numbers of people"" had attended. Twelfth of July demonstrations are billed as a celebration of Protestant religion, heritage and culture, and marchers were commemorating the Boyne battle's 327th anniversary. William III - the Dutch-born Protestant better known as William of Orange or King Billy - defeated the Catholic King James II in County Meath in July 1690. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said Wednesday had been the ""most peaceful"" Twelfth ""for some years"". Three people were arrested on Wednesday, as well as six people on Tuesday night for disorder associated with bonfires. But the PSNI's Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said: ""From a policing point of view, events today have pretty much reflected the weather - it's been a good day."" He added that a small number of Eleventh Night bonfires on Tuesday had been ""sectarian and racist"" and that police are investigating. Mr Stevenson said there had been a ""family-friendly and carnival atmosphere"" to the parades on Wednesday. ""The wonderful weather exceeded our expectations; as did the tens of thousands of our members, band personnel and supporters, taking part in or lining the routes of 18 venues across the province,"" he said. ""Such a phenomenal spectacle bears testament to the continuing relevance and wide appeal of Orangeism."" While the vast majority of Twelfth parades typically pass without incident, a small number have proved contentious in the past, with some nationalists objecting to public roads being closed to facilitate the marchers. Tensions around contentious parades have eased, with residents and the Orange Order reaching agreements, and the mood on the streets in many areas this year appears to have been more relaxed. Orange Order grand secretary Mervyn Gibson said there was ""less tension"" this year. ""We took a deliberate decision last year not to issue statements about parades so that would not increase tensions,"" he said. ""I believe that paid off and we have built on that this year. ""There are still issues around parades that have to be dealt with, but we don't want to ruin the Twelfth of July for ourselves or anyone else."" The Ardoyne feeder parade in north Belfast - a flashpoint in previous years - took place on Wednesday morning. The parade passed peacefully and Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said there was a ""huge change of atmosphere"". ""More and more people from Ardoyne and from Twaddell and from residents groups should meet each other and that has always been going on in north Belfast - it is a good day,"" he added. The main Orange Order parade passed by St Patrick's Catholic Church in Belfast - another area in which tensions have risen in the previous year - without incident. Bands abided by the ruling that only a single drum-beat should be played while passing the church. There was no protest and a more low-key police presence than in previous years. The Orange Order was formed near Loughgall in County Armagh in 1795, when its founding members pledged their loyalty to the royal family and swore to defend the Protestant faith. On 12 July, marching bands from Orange lodges all over Northern Ireland parade through villages, towns and cities before listening to speeches and prayers by senior Orangemen. Traditionally, the biggest Twelfth gathering is in County Armagh, but a major demonstration was held in each of the six counties in Northern Ireland. Many smaller towns and villages take turns hosting their neighbouring districts, but Belfast and Ballymena in County Antrim stage a Twelfth parade every year. This year's 18 hosts were: The Orange Order said a ""large Scottish contingent"" travelled to Belfast to take part in the commemorations. This year also marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant reformation. As a result, some lodge members carried new banners depicting the German theologian Martin Luther.","Twelfth of July parades have taken place in 18 @placeholder across Northern Ireland , as the Orange Order staged the biggest day in its marching calendar .",air,countries,locations,provinces,villages,2
"In a speech, Andy Burnham will say it is time for tough action to protect children and tackle obesity. He will criticise the government's approach to industry, which has been categorised by voluntary agreements. The Conservatives said ""real progress"" had been made on public health under the current government. Mr Burnham is also expected to call for more to be done on food labelling and for plain cigarette packaging to be introduced. But it is the move on setting mandatory maximum limits that will attract most attention. The levels of fat, salt and sugar in food has been reduced in recent years, but many people still consume above the recommended levels. There are signs that the rise in obesity among children has started levelling off, but 15% of under 15s are still obese. On food labelling, Mr Burnham wants to see a clearer traffic light-based system. A front-of-pack colour coding and nutritional information system is currently being used. It is not clear how this will be done, as introducing food labelling has proved difficult because of industry opposition and the need for mandatory rules to be agreed at an EU level. Meanwhile, the pledge of plain packaging comes after the government has carried out a consultation on the issue and said it is ""minded"" to introduce it, but has yet to confirm it will. Targeted action on high-strength, cheap alcohol is also needed, Mr Burnham will say, with options on pricing and bottle size being explored. ""Labour has traditionally led the way on public health and this new approach will chart a new course towards a healthy nation in the 21st century. ""Children need better protection from the pressures of modern living and the harm caused by alcohol, sugar and smoke. and Labour will not flinch from taking the action needed to provide it."" Professor John Ashton, president of the Faculty of Public Health, said the steps proposed were in line with the organisation's ""public health priorities"". ""We need an honest discussion about whether we can still have a world-class health system without government intervening, where only it can, to improve and protect our health."" A Conservative spokesman said: ""Labour are naive to think that just banning particular types of food will support people to make informed choices. The public deserve better.""","Maximum limits would be set on levels of fat , salt and sugar in food @placeholder to children , under a Labour government , the shadow health secretary will say .",marketed,supplied,conditions,needs,bid,0
"Jay Shelby, engineer with the 3D printing company Stratasys, presses a button on a machine which is roughly twice the size of a microwave oven. A pale blue light glows inside and a nozzle starts sliding back and forth, spitting out a thin stream of molten plastic. Very slowly, a shape starts to build up. It is an interior strut for a jet-powered drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle, which Stratasys is building entirely out of 3D-printed components, in conjunction with Aurora Flight Sciences. Mr Shelby says: ""With the molten plastic, it squirts it out similar to frosting a cake - layer by layer, building up the shape. And as the plastic cools, it starts to solidify, and then you can see the shape form."" However quickly the nozzle in the printer darts around, 3D printing is a slow process. Every new layer adds only another quarter of a millimetre to the height. The largest single component on the drone is one metre across, but it takes no fewer than nine days to print. However, 3D printing is a technology that is set to transform aerospace manufacturing, cutting costs and improving the speed and efficiency with which products are made. Traditional methods of plastics-moulding and metal-casting look to be on their way out. Working with metal can take a heavy toll on machines that need constant repair and replacement. 3D printing, or additive layer manufacturing as it is sometimes called, offers the possibility of a far cheaper manufacturing model. That's why a whole section of the Dubai Airshow is taken up with companies and products extolling the benefits of this new technology. Just a few years ago, you'd be lucky to find a single 3D company at airshows trying to persuade the aerospace industry that a manufacturing revolution was underway. And yet, mini 3D machines are now even available to the hobbyist. Several machines were on display at the airshow, with the cheapest costing about $1,000 (£660). Planemakers Boeing and Airbus already use 3D-printed components extensively, as does defence company Lockheed Martin. Airbus' new A350 XWB aircraft is thought to use more 3D-made components than any other passenger jet, at about 1,000. Lockheed and Boeing use them on a joint venture, United Launch Alliance, that sends rockets into space. Drone manufacturers also now use 3D-printed metal components because they are often 25% lighter than ones cast in the traditional way. For the same reason, NASA is using 3D-printed components for its new Space Launch System, which will take astronauts and cargo into space. And Boeing has 300 varieties of 3D-printed components across 10 different types of aircraft. The company says that in the planes it is now building and delivering to customers, there are more than 20,000 3D-printed parts In theory, new components and replacement parts could be produced in printing machines anywhere in the world. Say, for example, a British Airways aircraft on the tarmac in Dubai needed a new component. Someone, be they in Dubai or BA's engineering headquarters in the UK, would transmit the necessary computer instructions to print a part. Mr Shelby says: ""You don't have to have a big manufacturing facility. You don't have to have skilled labourers to run these machines. ""You just need space to put the machine and a few men to start the jobs. It saves time for aircraft firms in the production cycle because they can build these parts on site, rather than waiting to have them shipped in."" Components printed by 3D often prove to be more robust than ones made with the old technology, and more simple to make. ""You are able to make more complex parts all in one piece,"" says Mr. Shelby. ""You can make a part which used to be made of 10 separate components and make it as a single component."" Stratasys and Aurora Flight Sciences built their jet-powered drone to prove to the aviation industry it is possible to build an entire aircraft out of 3D-printed components. Until a few years ago, the aircraft manufacturers were reluctant to buy 3D-printed components for their planes, because they were untested. Stringent aviation safety regulations means parts have to be particularly robust, able to withstand extremes of speed, temperature and vibration. The 3D aerospace components being used today are generally non-critical parts, although some companies, including GE Aviation, are experimenting with more safety-important parts such as aero-engine components. But the technology is still evolving, and there are currently limitations regarding size, strength and the complexity of products. A report from consultants PwC said that 3D printing could certainly be a game-changer, but that the biggest impediment to mass production was processing speed. Other sceptics have highlighted quality control problems and the need to overcome safety regulation hurdles. Nevertheless, there is clearly an excitement in the industry about 3D printing's potential, including to change the design of aircraft and military equipment by creating more complex shapes. Earlier this year, an executive at French defence firm Dassault, Pierre Marchadier, told his engineers that the arrival of 3D printing meant that a new era had arrived. ""Be creative,"" he said. ""There are no limits to your dreams.""","Thirty years ago , it was a pipe dream for scientists . How could one make a machine to replicate three - dimensional objects ? Here , in the @placeholder hall at Dubai Airshow , it happens before your very eyes .",shadow,world,assembly,exhibition,direction,3
"Barking and Dagenham council will fine ""selfish"" owners £80 in the move, which will roll out from September 2016. DNA is collected by a quick ""painless"" swab, the council said, and the dog's profile is added to a registry. Genetic information is then taken from dog mess and compared to the database. The tests are 99.9% accurate. It will make the registering of dog's DNA compulsory from April 2016. Wardens will patrol the borough's 27 parks and open spaces and test any rogue mess. Any dogs not registered on the database will also be flagged up at this stage. The council will now look at current legislation and at running a pilot scheme and if successful, introduce the changes in 2016. DNA will be registered with PooPrints UK, a service which started in the US. Councillor Darren Rodwell said the council was the first to get ""get really tough on dog mess and pet owners who do not act in a socially responsible way"". He added: ""The vast majority of dog owners in Barking and Dagenham are socially responsible but unfortunately a selfish few think it's OK to not clean up after their pet. ""Dog mess not only spoils our streets - it's also a health hazard and especially to young children.""",Dog poo DNA tests to catch owners who fail to clean up their pet 's mess are to be @placeholder in an east London borough for the first time in the UK .,scrapped,included,held,set,launched,4
"The Democratic presidential candidate called on the FBI director to explain the new inquiry to the American people. James Comey earlier said the FBI was looking into newly found messages. The latest emails came to light during a separate inquiry into top Clinton aide Huma Abedin's estranged husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner. Devices belonging to Ms Abedin and Mr Weiner were seized in a separate FBI inquiry into whether he sent sexually explicit emails to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. ""The American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately,"" said Mrs Clinton, in her first public comments on the issue. ""It's imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay."" She highlighted that Mr Comey had said ""he doesn't know whether the emails referenced in his letter are significant or not"", adding: ""I'm confident (that) whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached in July."" Mr Comey said the FBI would investigate if the newly discovered emails contain classified information. The FBI chief said in a letter to Congress that investigators had discovered the emails ""in connection with an unrelated case... that appear to be pertinent to the investigation"". He said he ""cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work"". The FBI has already established the Democratic candidate had classified information on a private email server. In July, Mr Comey said Mrs Clinton's handling of sensitive material during her 2009-13 tenure as secretary of state was ""extremely careless"", but cleared her of any criminal wrongdoing. The revelation that she handled sensitive information while breaking federal rules by running her own email server out of her upstate New York home has dogged her campaign since last year. It could be nothing. It could be everything. And it almost certainly won't be resolved before Americans head to the polls in just under two weeks. The letter from Mr Comey to Congress is frustratingly vague. There's no information, for instance, or how many emails are in question. That will only fuel the rampant speculation already breaking out, with leaks from ""government sources"" in the coming days sure to fan the flames. Mrs Clinton's critics will go on the attack, using the latest news to support their claims that the former secretary of state engaged in malfeasance. Her supporters will spend the next few days in a defensive crouch, trying to assess how bad the damage could be. What's certain, however, is that whether this turns out to be a big deal or not, it places the spotlight on all the wrong places for the Clinton campaign. It all but guarantees that even if she wins White House, the early days of her presidency will be dogged by this long-running political imbroglio. Earlier, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta criticised the FBI's ""extraordinary"" timing. The revelation comes just 11 days before Americans go to the polls in the presidential election. Mrs Clinton is five points ahead of her Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a Real Clear Politics average. What a difference a plane journey makes. When we left Westchester, New York, on Hillary Clinton's campaign plane, spirits were high amongst her staff. Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, came to the back of the plane and told reporters that early voting was going in their favour and that Mrs Clinton would even campaign in Republican-leaning Arizona next week. But Mr Mook added that they weren't taking anything for granted. He said: ""Hillary is superstitious."" When we landed and wifi internet was restored, the Clinton team first learned the news of a reopened FBI investigation. She was right to be superstitious. As we got off the plane, one of her advisers told us: ""We are just learning about this at the same time as you are."" Mrs Clinton stayed on for far longer than usual. Her team were digesting the news and working out how to respond. When she did walk off the plane, she smiled and ignored shouted questions from the media on the tarmac about the long-running email saga. Who is ahead in the polls? 50% Hillary Clinton 44% Donald Trump Last updated October 25, 2016 At a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Mr Trump told a cheering crowd: ""They've reopened the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatened the security of the United States of America. ""Hillary Clinton's corruption is on a scale we've never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office."" Paul Ryan, the highest-ranked elected Republican, called the FBI decision ""long overdue"". The House of Representatives Speaker renewed his call for the Director of National Intelligence to halt classified briefings for the Democratic candidate. ""She was entrusted with some of our nation's most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information,"" he said. The former secretary of state's private email server was first revealed in March 2015 by the New York Times. She did not immediately express regret, and said the main reason for her ""hdr22@clintonemail.com"" address was ""convenience"". Soon after that she apologised in an interview with ABC News, and has since said sorry to voters a number of times. Who will win? Play our game to make your call","Hillary Clinton says she is "" confident "" a new FBI probe @placeholder to her emails will not change its original finding that she should not be prosecuted .",designed,sent,responded,linked,set,3
"Later this week we should have a clearer idea of who is going to form the next government. But - in what has been called the UK's first social media election - how instrumental has this battle been? BBC Asian Network has teamed up with independent political researchers Demos to look at the digital campaign from the point of view of three young, passionate and undecided voters. Over the last three months they have been following local and national candidates from across the political spectrum on Facebook and Twitter to see whether their minds can be swayed. Sakib Rashid, 20 Biomedical student Sakib Rashid is a first-time voter from London's Brent North constituency, a seat held by Labour back in 2010.  He came over to the UK from Bangladesh when he was only a year old and has grown up with his mother, brother and sister in a two-bedroom council flat. At the beginning of the experiment he said he saw a lot of ""tormenting"" and ""finger pointing between the different parties"". But as the campaign has entered its final stages, he says that has changed. ""I really, really like what's going on now as we get closer to the election with everyone trying to persuade you rather than just putting down other parties and being really childish."" Simmi Juss, 32 Like Sakib, Simmi Juss from the Wolverhampton South West constituency, is also completely undecided. She is in a tight marginal seat that the Conservatives narrowly won from Labour in 2010. She is a self-confessed social media addict, but has found the constant political messages filling her timelines to be at times over powering and confusing. The regeneration of Wolverhampton city centre is a key issue to her, but she is disappointed that her local candidates have not engaged more on the different digital platforms. What really sticks in her mind has been the funny stories and ""the things that are less policy-based and more personal-based"". Milifandom - the growing online group of teenage girls following Ed Miliband- is the campaign that will stay with her the most. Iram Asim, 31 In the constituency of Linlithgow and Falkirk East, Iram Asim began the experiment politically invigorated by last year's referendum, but not knowing who to vote for. For her too it has been the lighter moments on Twitter and Facebook that have stood out. She particularly liked a mock-up of Britain's Got Talent with David Cameron facing the panel of judges, ""It's pretty hilarious and it's something you would remember as well,"" she said. But Iram feels politicians still have a lot to learn on their digital platforms. ""They don't make the most of social media,"" she said. ""They don't use it to their advantage, which they should. It's mostly used to taunt other parties."" Decision time As the experiment nears its conclusion she admits that it has been both social media and the leaders' debates that are swaying her mind towards the SNP - she has not ruled out Labour though. Of the three of them, though, it is Sakib who has had the most help from social media. ""I've seen a lot of policies being tweeted -  it's actually helped me quite a lot to make my decision because now I know I don't have to go and read an article,"" he said. ""I can see straightaway why I should vote for different parties."" Labour's stance on tuition fees chimes well with him, but it is the Conservatives proposals on welfare that could be the decisive factor. ""I'll probably be voting Conservative. I say 'probably' because there's a very small chance that I could change my mind."" Simmi cannot decide between the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats, though. ""At the moment it feels like I'm just going to be sort of closing my eyes and you know dropping a pin on one of the parties because I don't know."" Engagement Comments like that are not likely to go down well with political campaigners who have poured huge amounts of time, resources and money into social media. Carl Miller, from Demos, says the volume of traffic has been unprecedented. ""Over the last 10 weeks of the long campaign we've seen 21 million Facebook interactions and over seven million tweets broadly about politics or the politicians fighting the election and trying to dominate the digital world,"" he said. But just how effective have the parties been in getting their points across to the undecided voter? For Sakib and Iram it has helped both of them narrow down their choice. In Simmi's case though, it hasn't given any politician a clear decisive edge. What this digital campaign has achieved, though, is engaging the three of them with this election; it has also got them far more interested in what the different parties have to offer. You can hear the full documentary #Decides on the BBC Asian Network from 17:00 BST on Tuesday, 5 May and afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.","So with millions of tweets sent , Facebook likes @placeholder and online videos shared , the digital campaigning is nearly over .",blocks,posted,blogs,sound,training,1
"Joseph Brown-Lartey died as his vehicle was split in half by a car driven by Addil Haroon in Rochdale in 2014. Haroon, then 18, drove through a red light in a residential area at 80mph and was later jailed for six years. Mr Brown-Lartey's father said it was like being ""kicked in the teeth twice"". Mr Brown-Lartey was 25 when he died, and his father Ian said it was ""very upsetting"" that Haroon would be younger than that when he got out of prison. ""It's just like we've been kicked in the teeth twice. You lose your son and then the legal system that you trusted lets you down too,"" he said. Dawn Brown-Lartey, Joseph's mother, said there was ""no deterrent"" to stop people driving dangerously. ""Judges are bound by guidelines and the guidelines need to be changed,"" she said. Hours before the fatal crash, Haroon took a photo on his phone as his speedometer reached 142mph. He messaged a friend with the words: ""Leeds to Rochdale in 11 mins catch me."" In court, he admitted causing death by dangerous driving, causing death whilst unlicensed, causing death whilst uninsured and dangerous driving. Brake's Roads to Justice campaign argues that families are ""betrayed time and again by our justice system"", and calls for tougher penalties for drivers who maim or kill. According to a poll commissioned by the charity, 66% of people believe drivers who kill should be jailed for a minimum of 10 years. The survey of 1,000 people also found 91% believe drivers who cause a fatal crash after drinking alcohol or taking drugs should be charged with manslaughter, which carries a possible life sentence. Gary Rae, director of campaigns for Brake, said: ""Drivers who kill while taking illegal risks are too often labelled 'careless' in the eyes of the law, and then given insultingly low sentences when their actions can only be described as dangerous and destructive.""",The parents of a man killed when his car was hit at high speed have put the @placeholder on display at Westminster as part of a campaign for tougher sentences by road safety charity Brake .,medal,odds,hands,wreckage,device,3
"O'Kane, 25, is now playing in the Premier League with AFC Bournemouth having begun his career at Plainmoor. Chaney, 20, has started the last three games for Torquay having come up through the club's academy ranks. ""Success for Sam Chaney now is to start running games, start getting on the ball like Eunan O'Kane, who we keep comparing him to,"" said Nicholson. Chaney had never started a game for the Gulls until the 1-0 loss to Eastleigh on Easter Monday, but has kept his place in the side for the subsequent two games, both of which the Gulls have won. ""I didn't realise he hadn't started a game, I genuinely thought he had,"" Nicholson, who played alongside Chaney when he was in his first spell at the club which ended almost two years ago, told BBC Sport. ""So when I gave him his first start the other week it was because he fully deserved it in terms of how he's been in training, how hard he'd worked, his attitude and the kind of team-mate that he is."" And Nicholson says Chaney's transformation from a slight teenager to selectable professional midfielder has impressed him. ""When I came in he was one that I knew a lot about because he was here when I was here,"" he said. ""Physically he's come on to be almost unrecognisable from where he was three years ago. ""He was a late developer but, if you see him now, he's put the work in at the gym, he's lived right and he's made sure that he's given himself every chance. ""He knocks on my door more than most players to tell me that he's ready.""",Torquay manager Kevin Nicholson wants midfielder Sam Chaney to be @placeholder by the success of Eunan O'Kane .,released,distracted,inspired,honoured,held,2
"It was 2008, before its momentous first victory in the European polls, before it won some four million votes and got its first MP elected. Before Nigel Farage resigned then returned within a week and before the referendum and the party's moment of glory - the UK's decision to vote to leave the EU. After such a run, UKIP could be riding high. Instead, it's rudderless. In winning the argument on EU membership, UKIP lost both its reason for existing and the leader credited with putting it on the map. Diane James must now establish both a new direction and identity - and that won't be easy. For many, Nigel Farage is UKIP. Diane James becomes UKIP leader Profile: Who is Diane James Farage: I have given UKIP 'all of me' Ask voters in Ramsgate, Grimsby or Skegness why they back the party and his name often comes up. His straight-talking, beer-swigging image reached parts of the electorate other politicians couldn't, and in doing so he became a household name synonymous with his party. He'll be hard to replace. Diane James is a polished performer who portrays herself as competent and credible, but she's yet to prove she has the popular appeal of her predecessor. Yet despite his undoubted charisma , Mr Farage is the first to admit he's a divisive character - both outside of UKIP and within. Popular with many party members, his autocratic leadership style has alienated some in its upper echelons. Even before this leadership contest, the party was beset by rifts. Factions that developed during the 2015 general election hardened, popular leadership candidates were out of the running before getting started. Two senior members have defected to the Conservatives in recent days. Diane James will have to heal divisions that run deep. She will face animosity and anger from some senior figures, and will have to assert her authority while Nigel Farage inevitably remains on the field - a powerful voice even from the sidelines despite his promise to advise, not interfere. Beyond its internal politics UKIP has an electoral challenge. Four million votes at the last election translated into just one Westminster seat; the current first-past-the-post voting system doesn't favour the party. Diane James will have to not only maintain current support, but build on it ahead of the 2020 election. With Labour facing its own leadership crisis, UKIP could use this moment to capitalise on the anti-establishment sentiment so apparent during the referendum. Many insiders see their natural target as seats where the party came second to Labour in last year's general election, particularly in Wales and the North of England. But the new leader must first persuade voters that the party still has appeal by proving her leadership credentials while developing policies that speak to the disenfranchised, beyond the promise of UK independence from the EU. The pledge to ensure the government delivers on Brexit will only go so far. In the eight years since that last Bournemouth conference, UKIP has achieved more than many members might have dreamed. Then, some deemed it a protest movement, now it's a political party credited with forcing the government to hold the referendum which led to Brexit. On those fronts, the mood among members is high. But despite such success Diane James is facing an enormous challenge. She must unite a fractured party, prove it's more than one policy or one man, prove she can inspire the electorate like her predecessor did and prove that with the EU referendum over there's still a point to UKIP's existence.","The last time UKIP delegates met in the brown brick conference centre overlooking Bournemouth @placeholder , the party was in a very different place .",common,beach,history,bay,advantage,1
"Scientists at Cardiff University are using cutting-edge face scanners developed by American firm 3dMD. The technology can also record the facial movements of two individuals simultaneously while they talk. Experts say it allows more detailed analysis than is possible by direct observation or video recordings. The technology converts pictures from a series of cameras into a moving 3D model of a patient's head which is then recorded. The university's dental school is already using the technology to help surgeons treating people who need surgery such as cleft lip operations. But it is hoped it could also be developed to provide early diagnosis of neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease which can affect facial movements. ""In the dental school we're interested in how faces move and how lips move in relation to speech. We've been using this system to look at outcomes after surgery,"" said consultant orthodontist Dr Hashmat Popat. ""For example a surgeon repairing a cleft lip or palate could review the lip to make sure the muscles are connected together and functioning properly. ""But we're also looking to develop links with stroke clinicians to look at the rehabilitation of facial movements. ""And we're trying to set up links with neurologists to look at early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease - looking at how the faces of people who are at high risk of developing neurological conditions move."" Researchers at computer sciences and informatics have been involved in developing the computer code that allows even tiny facial movements to be studied. By linking two separate scanners together the facial expressions of two individuals can be analysed while they talk to each other which could contribute to research in psychology. Dr Popat added: ""When we're talking to each other you can see that our lips are moving. But I may have other subtle nuances around my eyes or on my forehead or around the side of my face. And the tools we have at the moment for assessing that are very crude. ""By analysing conversations we can look at how people emotionally react to each other. ""It's very exciting to be involved in pioneering research which is right at the cutting edge."" Prof David Marshall, from the university's school of computer science and informatics, said: ""This is a brand new research area. ""With two systems linked together we can look at conversation expressions. We're trying to figure out how humans perceive expressions and react to them. ""So we work not only with the dentistry department but also with psychologists. ""It's a great relationship between different parts of the university. They provide us with the technical challenges which we need to solve and we provide usable code."" 3dMD, the company that developed the scanners, says it is also excited by the research at Cardiff University's use of its equipment. Chief executive Chris Lane said: ""As 3dMD develops its ground breaking technology to the next level, there has been no question that we have to work closely with the team who has had the most published research experience to date in the field of dynamic 3D applications. ""The team at Cardiff University has pushed 3dMD to make many breakthroughs, to understand and quantify the subtleties of soft tissue deformation during facial movement in babies, children and adult subjects."" The technology on which the system is based costs around £250,000. The project was financed in part by money from the Welsh government. However the researchers predict as cost decrease similar scanners could be rolled out more widely in clinical departments and that may mean hundreds of Welsh patients a year could benefit. Dr Popat said: ""Fifty patients a year are born with a cleft lip and palate a year in south Wales alone. And over 600 patients a year have strokes in Cardiff alone. ""So in terms of impact we eventually we could use this technology to help tens of patients a week.""",Patients who need facial surgery and those @placeholder from strokes could benefit from pioneering 3 D modelling of their head movements .,isolated,protecting,barred,suffer,recovering,4
"Coleman, 27, suffered minor injuries, including two chipped teeth, when two people burst into the riders' changing room on 29 September. A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police told BBC Sport that no further action would be taken. It is understood Irish rider Coleman was happy to put the matter behind him, regarding the incident as a one-off. Two men and one woman were arrested on suspicion of assault and damage, and another woman for obstructing police. Coleman is second in the jump jockeys' championship, with 84 wins this season, behind Richard Johnson, who has 131 victories. At the time of the Southwell incident, Coleman's agent Sam Stronge said: ""Some lads had seemingly had too much to drink, got a bit rowdy and then broke into the weighing room. ""Aidan was just unlucky - he was the first person they saw and he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. ""It wasn't anything to do with racing and nothing was said beforehand between any of them.""",Four people arrested after jump jockey Aidan Coleman was allegedly @placeholder by racegoers will face no charges .,driven,inspired,punched,injured,beaten,2
"When Cassey Ho, 30, logs on to her YouTube page ""blogilates"" and uploads her latest workout video, she knows she will soon be inundated with comments from fans across all her social media accounts. The fitness video blogger, or vlogger for short, has amassed nearly four million subscribers to her YouTube channel, as well as millions of followers on Facebook and Instagram. She is one of a new breed of fitness vloggers exploiting the internet's ability to beam content to global mass audiences at very low production costs. It's a far cry from when fitness queen Jane Fonda inspired millions of people around the world to try aerobics in front of their living room TVs throughout the 1980s. She sold more than 17 million tapes. Scores of other models, actors and stars followed suit. But today, you can find more than 30 million fitness videos on YouTube alone, and countless more on other social media platforms. Budding fitness kings and queens can publish and gain a following without star status, a fancy studio or thousands of pounds' worth of equipment, simply recording workouts on their smartphones at the beach or in their gardens and editing the content on their laptops. But unlike the traditional workout video, where weight loss and fitness was the goal, consumers are logging on to their favourite fitness vloggers for a more intimate and interactive experience. ""Fitness videos have switched from being functional to being aspirational content that give people a window into the lives of the fitness influencers they look up to,"" says Richard Wilson, chief executive of Clickon Media, a content creation firm. For example, Zuzka Light, a 35-year-old Czech fitness vlogger now based in Los Angeles, started her channel in 2012. Her vlog shows short workout videos, with some of them attracting up to 20 million views. Taking her brand on to other social media platforms, such as Twitter and Instagram, has raised her profile, giving her the opportunity to launch a $9.99 a month subscription to her website and her own clothing and food supplement lines. ""I always try to post videos that I would like to watch myself,"" she tells the BBC. ""Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I've had feedback from my viewers who say they feel connected to me and see me as their friend, their workout buddy. ""I think the personal approach is really key."" She regularly works with brands, but admits she's picky about the products she introduces to her audiences. ""Being an influencer I have a responsibility and I wouldn't want to take advantage of that and promote something I wouldn't use myself or something I wouldn't recommend to my loved ones."" A study by marketing platform MuseFind found that 92% of people preferred hearing about brands from influencers, rather than through paid adverts. ""This switch in perspective provides marketers and advertisers the freedom to develop more authentic content that tells a story as opposed to being purely functional and demonstrating things such as weight loss and technique,"" says Mr Wilson. The fitness sector in general is huge, with the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association reporting that global health club industry revenue reached an estimated $81bn (£63bn) in 2015, with around 151 million members worldwide. And the fitness clothing industry is worth more than $320bn in the US alone, says the NPD Group. No wonder vloggers are proving very useful for brands trying to reach consumers directly and bypass the growing use of ad blockers on mobiles and desktops. ""The growth of smartphone usage and mobile video viewing lends itself well to a fitness audience,"" says Mark Brill, lecturer in digital communications at Birmingham City University. ""Not only can content be viewed anywhere, but mobile devices also make the interaction personal and more private. ""In the past, word of mouth has been an important way to recommend brands. That has shifted into the digital word of mouth - social media."" And it's not just fitness vloggers benefiting from taking their workouts online. Fitness studios are realising the potential of live streaming videos of classes and videos featuring their clients'  favourite instructors. Barre3, the ballet-based workout in New York, has a subscription-based fitness video service via its website to allow members to exercise from the comfort of their own homes. Standalone services, such as Flex TV, which provide online access to live high-intensity interval training workouts and yoga classes, are popping up too. So the traditional workout video on tape or DVD has adapted to a world in which people are more used to streaming entertainment over services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. Declining DVD sales bear this out. ""Fewer people are buying DVDs and it reduces the revenue opportunities for a workout video,"" says Mr Brill. ""The new revenue comes from advertising share, especially on YouTube, and from sponsorship for those with a large enough social media following. ""Looking at it that way, it seems almost inevitable that the fitness vloggers will triumph.""","In the 1980s , a Lycra - clad Jane Fonda sold millions of her @placeholder workout video cassettes . But videotape gave way to DVDs , then along came the internet and digital streaming . So how has the workout video adapted ?",coal,tower,roots,pioneering,words,3
"Chief Constable Dave Thompson, of West Midlands Police, said the ""strain is showing"" after multiple terror attacks. ""We'd have real challenges in dealing with something like the 2011 riots again,"" he wrote on the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) blog on Friday. The home secretary has admitted that police resources are ""very tight"". Amber Rudd told MPs on Thursday that the police response to attacks in Manchester and London required ""additional work"" in law enforcement. She said: ""I recognise the fact that we cannot carry on at that emergency level indefinitely."" Mr Thompson, finance lead at the NPCC, which represents police leaders, called on the government to ""stabilise"" police funding so it can tackle not only terrorism but other threats, such as cyber-crime. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that ""policing is not raising a white flag, saying we can't cope"". ""But the last few weeks, and our general resilience, is starting to show some red lights. ""Of course, policing will pull out all the stops to protect the public. ""But that strain on the system now is reaching a stage where we need a serious debate, as we go forward into the Budget in November, as to what the resources are for policing."" He wrote that the police face handling ""a modern terror threat with 6,600 officers - a number that has already fallen by close to 2,000 and is set to fall further"". And he also said more investment was needed ""with a growing cyber threat"", adding: ""Counter-terrorism policing is stretched and is in no place to deliver efficiency savings."" He said mainstream police resources were being diverted to fight terrorism, echoing warnings by Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley that ordinary law enforcement faced ""significant"" funding risks after four terror attacks in as many months. The violence that spread around England began at a peaceful protest demanding justice for a man shot by police in London. Mark Duggan was killed in Tottenham on Thursday 4 August after police stopped the car he was a passenger in. A protest march two days later sparked unrest and resulted in cars and shops in Tottenham being set alight, and looting taking place. By the afternoon of Monday 8 August this began to spread to other areas in London,  then to other major cities such as Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol, Leicester, and several areas in Manchester and Liverpool. More than 1,000 people were eventually jailed for the disturbances. Maps and timeline of England riots Mr Thompson said: ""The firearms commanders, casualty bureau, custody staff, body recovery teams and uniformed officers patrolling crowded spaces that are so central to preventing and responding to a terror attack are paid for by core police funding."" He said that two-thirds of the policing effort after the Westminster Bridge attack was met by core police funding and not counter-terrorism. He said: ""If we are to sustain the protection citizens want and need, police leaders need to continue to reform, look hard at what needs to be done differently, and be bold and innovative in rising to the challenge. ""We need to have a conversation and a partnership with government that enables us to look forward to deal with the threats we face, and there are choices in there for government that we will give them."" This was not simply ""asking for a blank cheque"", he said. Mr Thompson's comments were backed by West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Dee Collins. ""Our resources will only stretch so far and my concern is just how sustainable this in the long term, without an uplift in funding and resources,"" she said. The Home Office has said it is in ""detailed engagement"" with police over planned funding changes. A spokesman said: ""The government is undertaking a period of detailed engagement with policing partners and independent experts on the police funding formula. ""New proposals will not be implemented without a public consultation.""","Police in England and Wales would struggle to deal with riots on the scale of 2011 due to budget cuts , an officer who @placeholder funding has said .",supported,reported,oversees,requested,provided,2
"About 1,000 people attended a rave at Twyford Wood near Bourne in Lincolnshire on 23 May. Police carried out an operation to close it down, which led to 21 officers and a dog being injured. Chelsea Harvey, 21, from Norfolk, admitted dangerous driving and was jailed for 12 months. Harvey, of Ashley Walk, Dereham, drove her Peugeot 206 about 350 metres (1,148ft) at speeds of up to 30mph (77km/h) with PC Rob Bentley on the bonnet, Lincoln Crown Court heard. At one point she was involved in a collision with a camper van, but continued with the officer still clinging on. PC Bentley suffered ""relatively minor physical injuries"" but the court heard the psychological damage had had a lasting impact. James Bide-Thomas, prosecuting, said Harvey, who had two female friends in her car, had been told to stop by PC Bentley, but instead had ""jerked forward violently"" knocking the officer off his feet and leaving him ""spread-eagled"" on the bonnet. Judge Michael Heath, passing sentence on Wednesday, told her: ""If you drive as you did with a police officer on your bonnet for the distance that you did, and at the speed you did, there can only be one sentence that I can impose upon you. That is immediate custody."" Jonathan Straw, defending, said Harvey works in a centre for deaf-blind people run by the charity Sense. He described her as acting in ""blind panic"" and added: ""She is very sorry for what happened. She didn't intend to hurt anyone. She went out with two friends that day simply to enjoy a party."" Harvey was also disqualified from driving for a year.","A woman drove at a police officer @placeholder a road block and carried on for 350 metres with him "" spread- eagled "" on her bonnet , a court heard .",near,manning,suffered,sparked,overturned,1
"Today it is in the throes of an armed conflict that has made the humanitarian crisis much worse. At the end of last year, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) estimated that 15.9 million people, almost 60% of the population, required humanitarian assistance; 10.6 million people are food insecure - they do not have enough food all year round; 13.4 million lacked access to clean water or sanitation; and 840,000 children were acutely malnourished. The same organisation estimates that, due to the current conflict, the number of people who are food insecure has jumped to 12 million, and more than 300,000 have been displaced - and the number is increasing as the fighting spreads. Some of the fiercest fighting has been taking place in the southern city of Aden, stronghold of exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and home to about 800,000 people, many of whom have fled. Among them, Safwan Sultan, an activist and a manager of a local NGO (non-governmental organisation), who has been displaced twice. Yemen's crisis escalated when northern Houthi rebels surged south, battling forces allied to Mr Hadi by the beginning of March. By the end of the month, clashes were taking place in Aden's Mualla district, forcing all residents to leave the area. Like many, Mr Sultan had no choice other than to flee with his family. ""I moved my family to Crater district, to my uncle's house. Crater had a big local market, a shopping mall and back then people there had better access to goods and services,"" he said. But only a few days had passed before his office was destroyed by heavy shelling from Houthi forces, leaving him destitute. ""I have no other source of income. How can I can secure my family now?"" he said. It was only a matter of one week before Crater met the same fate as Mualla. Houthi forces backed by some military units advanced in the city and forced their way to Crater. People had to flee the area and find shelter elsewhere. Mr Sultan told me he saw some families fleeing the area by boat - some were relocating to other parts of Aden, while others were crossing the Gulf of Aden all the way to Djibouti, trying to escape the whole conflict zone. Crater is the heart of Aden, with a population of more than 80,000, but today it is more like a ghost town. The area has had no electricity, water or communications for more than two weeks now. 12,000,000 people are food insecure 300,000 displaced from their homes 828 civilians killed since Saudi-led air campaign against Houthi rebel movement began on 26 March 1,511 civilians injured, with many lacking access to basic medical care In a coastal city like Aden, with high levels of humidity, getting through the day without air conditioning or electricity is very hard. People have been searching for cold water or ice everywhere. Mr Sultan was stuck for five days amid intense fighting, with a lack of food and without phone connection. ""My daughter was extremely sick and there was no medical clinics open,"" he said, spurring him to leave. Now he is based in Othman area, another district in Aden, and he fears the fighting might soon spread there too. While Aden has been suffering acutely, the whole of Yemen is affected by the humanitarian crises. According to the UN, more than 1,500 people have been killed and more than 6,200 injured by air strikes and fighting on the ground in the past two months. Many of the casualties would not have access to medical treatment. The sharp rise in fuel prices (locals say it has gone up by six times in three weeks) has also meant the ability of ordinary people to move around or to access services has become very hard. There are also reports of huge queues at petrol stations. As well as fuel, food is also scarce, and prices are expected to rise before long. Yemen imports 90% of its wheat and 100% of its rice. Food reserves will soon run out and with the rise of fuel prices and restrictions to shipments coming into the country, the people who can afford to buy supplies at the moment will soon need aid or some kind of support. A five-day humanitarian truce is under way, but the current humanitarian crisis needs much more time to resolve. Yemen needs a long humanitarian recovery programme and functioning institutions to deliver services to the people. The UN and its partners have appealed to international donors for $237m (??150.5m) to cover Yemen's needs in the next three months, but this cannot be a long-term plan. There has not been any country that can survive solely on humanitarian aid. Baraa Shiban is the Yemen project co-ordinator for the human rights group Reprieve. He served as a youth representative in Yemen's 2013-14 National Dialogue Conference and was involved in a number of civil society organisations from 2006-11. Follow him on Twitter @BShtwtr","Yemen , a country @placeholder Saudi Arabia , one of the world 's richest economies , has suffered for many years from extreme poverty , high rates of unemployment and severe malnutrition among children .",estimated,held,launched,body,bordering,4
"Matthew Baker, 28, was awaiting sentence following his conviction for attempted murder and James Whitlock, 31, was on remand after being charged with burglary. Escapes from British prisons are rare and when they happen they often hit the headlines. Perhaps the best known escape of all time from a British prison took place in 1965 when Ronnie Biggs, one of the so-called Great Train Robbers, broke out of HMP Wandsworth in south London. He scaled the prison wall using a rope ladder and escaped in a removals van. Biggs had served just 19 months of a 30-year sentence for his part in the theft of £2.6m from the Glasgow to London mail train in 1963. He spent 36 years on the run in Australia and then Brazil before being rearrested when he voluntarily returned to Britain in May 2001. He was released from prison in August 2009 on compassionate grounds after contracting pneumonia and died in December 2013 - nine months after attending the funeral of fellow Great Train Robber, Bruce Reynolds. Former British spy George Blake was sentenced to 42 years in 1961 after being exposed as a Soviet double agent. He escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London five years later with two other inmates, using a rope ladder with rungs made out of knitting needles. Blake fled to the Soviet Union where he began a new life, and is still believed to be living in Moscow today. The biggest prison escape in British history took place on 25 September 1983 when 38 IRA prisoners broke out of the maximum security Maze prison in County Antrim. The men - who had been convicted of offences ranging from murder to causing explosions - escaped after taking a number of prison guards hostage. One prison officer was killed and another was seriously injured in the break-out, in which prisoners used smuggled guns and knives to overpower staff before hijacking a food lorry which they used to drive to the main gate. Fifteen prisoners were recaptured within hours of the escape, with most of the rest eventually tracked down by the security services. The incident was deeply embarrassing for the UK government, with then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher describing it as ""the gravest [break out] in our present history."" Extradition requests for three of the fugitives were dropped by the government in 2000 as part of the Good Friday Agreement. Two other men were granted an amnesty by ministers in 2002. One of the UK's longest-serving prisoners, John Massey, escaped from Pentonville prison in north London in June 2012, apparently hiding in the prison gym before climbing onto the roof and scaling the wall using a makeshift rope fashioned from netting. Then 64, Massey was serving a life sentence for shooting dead doorman Charlie Higgins with a sawn-off shotgun at The Cricketers pub in Clapton, east London, in 1975. He spent 48 hours on the run before being arrested in Kent. It was not his first escape - it is understood he broke out of Surrey's Coldingley prison in April 1994, reportedly fleeing to Spain before he was returned to custody. In 2007 he was released on parole, but broke his curfew to go and live with his dying father. He was recalled to prison and later sent to Ford open prison in West Sussex, but again absconded and went on the run for 10 months. Pearse McAuley and Nessan Quinlivan, both members of the Provisional IRA, escaped from Brixton Prison in south London in July 1991 after subduing one of the guards and scaling the walls. The pair had been awaiting trial on charges relating to a suspected plot to assassinate a former brewery company chairman, Sir Charles Tidbury. After the break-out they stole a car belonging to a prison officer and drove to Baker Street Underground station - eventually fleeing to the Republic of Ireland. In August 2009, the Crown Prosecution Service said it was no longer seeking to prosecute the two men over the plot because there was ""no realistic prospect of conviction"". Convicted double killer John Straffen escaped from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital in Berkshire in April 1952 by climbing onto the roof of a shed and jumping over a wall. Within an hour of escaping he had murdered a five-year-old local girl, Linda Bowyer. He was recaptured the same day, convicted of the girl's murder and sentenced to death, though this was later reduced to life imprisonment. The previous year he had appeared in court over the murders of Cicely Batstone, nine, and six-year-old Brenda Goddard, but was found unfit to stand trial and sent to Broadmoor. Straffen, Britain's longest-serving prisoner, died in 2007 at the age of 77. His escape in 1952 led to the installation of the Broadmoor siren to alert local residents of an inmate on the loose, an alarm which is still tested every Monday. Michael Wheatley was serving a life sentence at Standford Hill prison on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent when he disappeared while on day release on 3 May 2014. Four days later Wheatley, who had 23 previous convictions for robbery, two for attempted robbery and 18 for related firearms offences, raided a Surrey building society, making off with £18,350. He was on the run for five days before being arrested in Tower Hamlets, east London. He was jailed and told he must serve 10 years before being eligible for parole, though this was reduced to eight years. Wheatley had gone on the run twice before and each time staged a series of violent robberies before being caught and re-jailed. He earned his nickname for using an imitation handgun as a blunt weapon to hit people - including a 73-year-old woman - during his robberies. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that 83 prisoners had escaped from the Maze in 1983. The correct number is 38.",Police are searching for two men who are believed to have used diamond - tipped @placeholder equipment to break through cell bars before scaling the walls of Pentonville prison and escaping .,force,military,messages,cutting,demolition,3
"Could it be DCI Roz Huntley's husband Nick? Or lawyer Jimmy Lakewell? There are plenty of other suspects in the mix. As the climax approaches, we caught up with series creator and writer Jed Mercurio to give him an AC-12 style interrogation. Is it true a sixth series is not confirmed? We definitely have a fifth, not a sixth... but we haven't started working on it yet. I need to think what the character is first. Did you instantly think of Thandie Newton for the role of DCI Roz Huntley or were other people in the running? It just evolved. I don't normally think of a specific actor, I concentrate on the character and then when we get into pre-production that's how names come up. I always knew Thandie was top talent, she was a real laugh on set. It was the easiest casting process I've ever been through. Did Thandie's status as a Hollywood star have an impact? We were flattered she wanted to do the role - most of her career she's been doing  Hollywood movies so it was a boost for the whole team. How do you come up with the plots for Line of Duty? I come up with the story ideas on my own. I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life. Then when I've come up with some sort of story, I get the editorial team on board and we try to develop it. I then write an outline of the first episode which takes about a week. Only when we are happy with the first episode do we start on the second. Can we expect any surprises for the final episode? (pauses, laughs) You will just have to watch! How do real-life police officers react to the plot? One of our intelligence advisers for the show said his team have been trying to crack who balaclava man is - it's quite funny. What would you like to explore in the next series? I want to look at the personal lives of all the regulars in series five - they've taken a backseat in this series to Roz Huntley, so it would be good to explore that side of things a bit more. The regulars are definitely up for doing more... that's if they survive the final episode! What's more important, ratings or awards? I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions. I am just pleased the show is being watched. Ratings are the most important thing. What advice do you have for budding crime series writers? Just write, write, write. Watch lots of shows and films in that genre. Read lots and think about story and characters. Are you tempted to write over in the US? I actually went over there for a while when my career was quiet over in the UK. I wrote pilots for shows over there for about five years. I like the differences between American and British television dramas. The final of Line of Duty is on BBC One on Sunday night at 9pm. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",It 's had the nation @placeholder and now finally it 's time to find out who Balaclava Man is in the police drama Line of Duty .,process,covered,gripped,ground,power,2
"The broadcasts have reportedly affected 110 planes and ships, and can cause mobile phones to malfunction. The South's unification ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee was quoted by AFP news agency as saying it was an ""act of provocation"". Tensions have been high between the two Koreas since the North's fourth nuclear test in January. The broadcasts appeared to have started a month ago from various locations along the border, but on Thursday the North discharged its largest amount of GPS-jamming signals, according to Yonhap, citing a senior government official. The South Korean coastguard reported about 70 fishing vessels had been forced to return to port after GPS navigation issues, AFP said. There has been no reported disruption to flights. The South Korean news agency said that since 2010 the North has been accused of jamming signals at least three other times. It is believed to be using equipment imported from Russia. Pyongyang has called the allegations ""sheer fabrication"". North Korea has jammed global positioning systems in South Korea before when tension between the two countries was high. Four years ago, pilots on more than 300 commercial flights detected interference with their systems. Planes have back-ups, though, so no disaster happened. This time, the South Korean government says 58 planes and 52 ships have been affected, again without serious damage so far. But just the knowledge that GPS may be being interfered with from Pyongyang is still disorientating for ordinary people. One South Korean told the BBC that the map on his phone suddenly put him far away from his actual position and he wondered if that was because of North Korea's actions. Since the North's nuclear test in January and subsequent launch of a long-range rocket, the South has stepped up security measures including border patrols and allowing the US to fly fighter jets near the border. The North in return has threatened ""indiscriminate"" nuclear strikes on the US and the South.","North Korea is using radio waves to jam GPS navigation systems near the border @placeholder , South Korean officials said .",process,controls,now,scene,regions,4
"They may be rivals in the sport arena but outside the competition many women athletes appear to be forging a sisterly bond. Their interaction on social media reveals what the television cameras often do not capture: mutual encouragement and developing friendships - a true Olympic ""sisterhood"" that seems to go far beyond victories or defeats. Female athletes from a wide array of sports and nationalities have been engaging with each other, even rooting for one another, and sharing hopes and aspirations. US star gymnast Simone Biles, already a three-time world champion and a media sensation, has been showing her sisterly solidarity with her roommate, who is not only her team mate but also her rival for individual gold. ""Behind the scenes: facemasks and head wraps,"" she recently wrote on Twitter alongside a picture of herself and Aly Raisman. (@Simone_Biles) Raisman, the US gymnastics team captain, is a two-time Olympic champion who previously won gold in floor exercise, a discipline in which Biles is now wowing the globe. Both of them have taken lots of group pictures with heart icons and flexed biceps emoticons, and are frequently seen hugging and smiling. Raisman was predictably proud when the US won team gold on Wednesday. Tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams are just one of the pairs of female siblings competing in Rio, suggesting that girl power often runs in the family. Tweeting from Rio, before she and her sister were defeated in the doubles tournament, a nostalgic Serena Williams offered a glimpse of her phenomenal career alongside her big sister Venus. ""Our first gold"" read the title of an Instagram photo showcasing their big smiles on the podium in the 2000 Sydney Games. Brazilian identical twins Bia and Branca Feres, who are competing together in synchronised swimming, like to share everything from their social media account to the pair of identical-looking white kittens they are seen cuddling in one of their Instagram posts. But sisterly camaraderie does not stop at two. Estonian marathon runners Liina, Leila and Lily Luik have been a social media hit with their special hashtag #TrioToRio. They are the first triplets to qualify for the Olympics and they have been a favourite with fans who have joked about how race stewards will tell them apart. They may not be sisters but Canada's 4x100 freestyle Olympic swimming relay team also decided to create a ""sisterhood"" by showing off their Olympic rings, given to them by Swimming Canada. In smaller delegations, the feeling of camaraderie amongst female athletes has been even more marked. East Timor has only sent three athletes to the Olympics, two of whom are women. Anche Cabral will be competing in the mountain biking and Nelia Martins in the marathon. The two have been busy posting pictures of the themselves making new friends in the Olympic village. Below Cabral poses with two athletes from Ghana. However big or small the delegation, judging by their posts on social media, they share a sense of excitement and achievement that binds the Olympic ""sisterhood"" together. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring  on Twitter and Facebook.","The Rio Olympics is @placeholder more than 10,000 athletes , 45 % of whom are women , the highest percentage in the games ' history , according to the organisers .",set,hosting,spanning,experiencing,targeting,1
"The Paralympian athlete was jailed for five years in October for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he killed last year. Prosecutors also want to challenge Pistorius' acquittal on murder charges. His lawyers opposed the appeal request and said the sentence was not lenient. The double-amputee sprinter had been charged by the prosecution with the premeditated murder of Ms Steenkamp, a model and law graduate. He was also acquitted of the lesser murder charge of dolus eventualis by High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa. In South African law, this charge - also known as common-law murder - applies if the accused knew they might kill someone but still went ahead with their course of action. Judge Masipa said she would rule on Wednesday whether the prosecution's appeal could go ahead. Pistorius was not in court on Tuesday when prosecutor Gerrie Nel outlined his case. The prosecutor told Judge Masipa she had misinterpreted the law when she acquitted Pistorius of murder, and sentenced him to five years in prison. ""The precedent set by this court is shockingly low,"" Mr Nel said. However, Pistorius' legal team argued that the prosecution's case was flawed and the judge had correctly applied the law. ""It's incorrect to say it's a light sentence. It's not,"" defence lawyer Barry Roux said. Addressing the judge, he added: ""Their problem is they don't like your factual finding. They don't appreciate that. You absolutely, correctly applied the law."" Correspondents say it is common in South Africa for the same judge to hear an appeal against their own verdicts. Judges often grant the request because they are confident they applied the law correctly and their judgement will stand up to scrutiny. In court - By Pumza Fihlani, BBC News, Pretoria It may seem like unnecessary legal wrangling but the state believes it has a strong case and wants the Supreme Court of Appeal to help deliver justice for Reeva Steenkamp. The law makes provision for prosecutors to appeal on a matter of law but not on a factual finding. If the state's attempt fails, Pistorius could be eligible for parole and house arrest after serving 10 months. This is a prospect prosecutor Gerrie Nel is desperate to avoid. He wants to undo what he has called a ""grossly inappropriate"" sentence and believes, if given the chance, a higher court would rule in his favour. South African criminal lawyer Martin Hood told AFP news agency that he expected Judge Masipa to agree to the prosecution's request because there was ""just too much controversy about the judgement"". ""It doesn't matter what the outcome of the appeal is. If the appeal is allowed then other judges will be able to comment on the decision, and that's critical,"" Mr Hood is quoted as saying. In papers filed with the court in November, Mr Nel said the judge had ""erred in over-emphasising the personal circumstances of the accused"". ""Not enough emphasis was placed on the horrendous manner in which the deceased died, coupled with the gruesome injuries she sustained when the accused shot and killed her,"" he added. The judge, Mr Nel said, had failed to sufficiently consider that Pistorius had fired four shots ""through a locked door into a small toilet cubicle from which there was no room to escape"". The prosecution had called for the maximum 15-year sentence for culpable homicide, or manslaughter. Ms Steenkamp was shot dead at Pistorius' home in Pretoria in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year. He said he feared there was an intruder but he did not intend to kill. Pistorius is serving the sentence in the hospital wing of Pretoria's Kgosi Mampuru II prison. He can apply to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest after 10 months. Inside Oscar Pistorius's home 1 2 3 5 4 Mr Pistorius said he and Ms Steenkamp had dinner at about 19:00 before going to bed at 21:00. He said he woke in the early hours, spoke briefly to his girlfriend and got up to close the sliding door and curtains. Judge Thokozile Masipa questioned the reliability of several witnesses who said they heard screams and gunshots between about 03:12 and 03:17, saying most had 'got facts wrong'. Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars. Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his firearm and told Ms Steenkamp, who he thought was still in bed, to call the police. The judge said it made no sense that Ms Steenkamp did not hear him scream 'Get out' or call the police, as she had her mobile phone with her. Mr Pistorius could see the bathroom window was open and toilet door closed. He said he did not know whether the intruders were outside on a ladder or in the toilet. He had his firearm in front of him, he heard a movement inside the toilet and thought whoever was inside was coming out to attack him. 'Before I knew it, I had fired four shots at the door,' he said. The judge said she did not accept that Mr Pistorius fired the gun by accident or before he knew what was happening. She said he had armed himself with a lethal weapon and clearly wanted to use it. The other question, she said, was why he fired not one, but four shots before he ran back to the room to try to find Ms Steenkamp. Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom and noticed that Ms Steenkamp was not there. Mr Pistorius said this was when he realised she could have been in the toilet and rushed back to the bathroom. Mr Pistorius said he screamed for help and went back to the bathroom where he found the toilet was locked. He returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs and turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat. When the door panel broke, he found the key and unlocked the door and found Ms Steenkamp slumped on the floor with her head on the toilet bowl. He then carried her downstairs, where he was met by neighbours. 3D animation of the apartment","A South African judge has @placeholder to Wednesday her ruling on whether prosecutors can appeal against what they call the "" shockingly light "" sentence passed on Oscar Pistorius .",ordered,delayed,promised,applied,refused,1
"Dame Judi Dench, Anne-Marie Duff and Chiwetel Ejiofor are among the stars handing out prizes on Sunday night. Memphis the Musical leads the pack with nine nominations, while Beautiful - The Carole King Musical has eight. Details of all of the 2015 winners will be published here on the BBC news website from 21:30 BST. The Oliviers, now in their 39th year, celebrate the London theatre scene. The best actor race sees Mark Strong and Richard Armitage nominated for their roles in Arthur Miller plays A View from the Bridge and The Crucible respectively. They are up against James McAvoy for The Ruling Class and Tim Pigott-Smith for King Charles III. The latter, Mike Bartlett's blank verse vision of a future monarchy, has six nominations in total, including best play and best director for Rupert Goold. Also up for best play are the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, ""dark net"" thriller The Nether, and Taken at Midnight -  which stars best actress nominee Penelope Wilton as the mother of a young German lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis. Joining Wilton on the best actress shortlist are Gillian Anderson for A Streetcar Named Desire, Dame Kristin Scott Thomas for Electra, and Imelda Staunton for Good People. In the best new musical category, Memphis and Beautiful face competition from the Kinks-inspired Sunny Afternoon and Here Lies Love. Based on the life of Imelda Marcos, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's musical transformed the National Theatre's Dorfman stage into a nightclub. Dame Angela Lansbury is up for best supporting actress for her role as eccentric medium Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit. ""No one can stand in the way of Angela Lansbury winning an Olivier for her West End comeback after over 40 years away, and no one should,"" said theatre critic Mark Shenton in his list of predictions for The Stage. The veteran actress is up against Phoebe Fox for A View From the Bridge, the girls playing Iris for The Nether, and Lydia Wilson for King Charles III. The ceremony will include performances from many of this year's nominated shows.  Best actress in a musical nominees Beverley Knight and Katie Brayben will perform songs from Memphis and Beautiful. Also up for best actress in a musical are Gemma Arterton, for her first on-stage singing role in Made in Dagenham, and Tamsin Greig for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Cats star Nicole Scherzinger, who is up for best supporting actress in a musical, will sing Andrew Lloyd Webber's song Memory. Cats is nominated for best musical revival along with City of Angels, Miss Saigon and the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. The Play That Goes Wrong, Handbagged and Shakespeare in Love are the three productions vying for best new comedy. The shortlist for the This Morning audience award, the only category voted for by the public, features Billy Elliot, Matilda, Jersey Boys and Wicked. London's Young Vic theatre has a total of 11 nominations - the most for a single venue - for its productions of A View from the Bridge, The Scottsboro Boys, Bull and A Streetcar Named Desire. In the dance categories, Sadler's Wells and the Barbican receive four and two nominations each. The best new opera nominees include the English National Opera's Benvenuto Cellini, directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam. Kevin Spacey will be presented with a special award for his outstanding contribution to the Old Vic. The Oscar-winning actor became the theatre's artistic director in 2004 and steps down later this year. The evening will also feature a tribute by Akram Khan to fellow dancer Sylvie Guillem. The Olivier awards ceremony will be followed by a highlights programme on ITV later on Sunday. The full list of nominations is on the Oliviers website.","Some of the biggest names in theatre have @placeholder at London 's Royal Opera House for the annual Olivier Awards , hosted this year by Lenny Henry .",appeared,gathered,unveiled,unearthed,competed,1
"""So they did the place a favour when they made it a night race. The monochrome outside the track turns black but floodlights and spotlit fountains give the Sakhir circuit a dimension it never had when the race was held in the bleaching mid-afternoon sun. ""Outside the track, the political troubles that led to the cancellation of the 2011 event have been subdued, but the undercurrent of tension remains. ""The circuit itself? Point-and-squirt, long straights, with few demanding corners, situated near an oil field and an airbase a half-hour drive or so south of the capital Manama on this tiny, troubled Gulf island. ""The paddock, festooned in palm trees draped in fairy lights, feels like an oasis. The fantasy works on television. But the realities outside are still there. Out of sight, but not out of mind."" Andrew Benson, Chief F1 writer",""" Yellow . Yellow @placeholder . Yellow buildings . Yellow sky . That 's Bahrain . Everything coloured by sand blown by desert winds .",walls,buildings,ground,water,shows,2
"Official Russian TV channel Rossiya 1 has given strong indications that further military action will follow after Moscow strengthened its armed forces' presence in Crimea and Russia's upper house of parliament unanimously voted to endorse Vladimir Putin's use of troops in Ukraine. In a special edition of its flagship current affairs programme Vesti Nedeli (News of the Week) on 2 March, controversial anchor Dmitry Kiselev was dismissive of Western threats of diplomatic isolation for Russia and of the new Ukrainian government's decision to order the mobilization of its armed forces. ""I don't want to offend anyone, but the best that can be said for the Ukrainian army is that there isn't one,"" Kiselev sneered. ""We don't give up our own"" Mr Kiselev is well-known for his anti-Western and homophobic diatribes, as well as his extremely hostile attitude to the protests in Kiev that led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych. The UK magazine The Economist has dubbed him ""Russia's chief propagandist"". Denouncing the ""bandit excesses"" that had brought ""democracy to its knees"" in Ukraine (language that has now become familiar in Russian TV's coverage of the crisis), Mr Kiselev insisted that Russia had to defend its ""interests"" and the Russian-speaking population there. Framed against the background of massed Russian flags at a pro-Moscow demonstration in Crimea and the caption ""We don't give up our own"", Mr Kiselev said that it was ""impossible not to respond to this challenge"". But Russian TV has been studiously ignoring Moscow's military presence in Crimea, focusing instead on self-defence units, which, it says, are protecting the local inhabitants against ""neo-Nazis"" in Kiev. Meanwhile, reports from the eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Kharkiv have shown crowds chanting ""Russia, Russia"", waving Russian flags and sporting the ribbons of St George, a military symbol associated with Russia's annual Victory Day celebrations on 9 May. ""This is a personal matter for all of us. It is an historic moment, when our common energy is the key to victory,"" Mr Kiselev intoned. ""Mercenaries"" Rossiya 1 has further sought to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the current Ukrainian government by suggesting that Yanukovych's overthrow was engineered with the help of ""mercenaries"" from the USA, UK, Germany and Turkey. It has also played up reports of links between Ukrainian nationalist ""radicals"" and anti-Moscow Islamists in the North Caucasus. And Russian TV has been running other stories that could be used to justify further military intervention in Ukraine, both to its own citizens and world opinion. The Vesti Nedeli special on 2 March suggested that ""unknown armed people"" had crossed from Ukraine into Russia's Belgorod Region. Earlier, state-controlled Channel One TV reported that over 140,000 people had fled to Russia to avoid the unrest in Ukraine. But as many observers have pointed out, Channel One illustrated the story with shots of a checkpoint at a border crossing between Ukraine and Poland. Some of these reports are reminiscent of Russian TV's claims that some 2,000 people had been killed in a ""genocide"" unleashed by Georgian troops at the start of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war. Russia later admitted that only around 160 civilians had been killed in the conflict. ""Rogue state"" Independent media in Russia have questioned both state TV's coverage of the Ukraine crisis and Moscow's involvement in it. Business daily Vedomosti noted the susceptibility of Russian people to ""TV propaganda"" and the idea of empire, but said that the ""behind the imperial propaganda there is no politics, economics or desire to support an empire"". And an article in opposition paper Novaya Gazeta said that if Russia continued to occupy Crimea, it risked both becoming a ""rogue state"" and being saddled with a multi-billion-dollar bill to support the region. Some leading Russian bloggers have expressed ""shame"" and disquiet about Russia's actions on Ukraine. But there is also evidence of a pro-Kremlin online mobilization. The Russian hashtag ""RussiaDoesn'tAbandonItsOwn"" has massed over 80,000 tweets. ""False information"" Much debate in the Ukrainian media has focused on ways of countering what former boxer and UDAR party leader Vitaly Klitschko has called Russia's ""information offensive"" against his country. Some politicians have renewed calls for cable companies to drop Russian TV channels, which are widely watched, especially in the east of Ukraine and Crimea. Journalists have set up a website called StopFake.org to counter what they say is the ""extremely dangerous dissemination of false information about the events in Ukraine as a whole and Crimea in particular"". Independent Hromadske TV has also been trying to counter some of the messages coming out of the Russian media. For example, it featured a Russian journalist saying that there was no truth to Moscow's allegations that Russian citizens and Russian-speakers in Crimea had been mistreated or were under threat. It has also reported claims that Ukrainian journalists were being denied access to Crimea to prevent them from telling the truth about what is happening there. Originally an internet-only station, Hromadske TV quickly emerged as one of the key sources for anti-government protests in Kiev. Since Mr Yanukovych's overthrow and flight to Russia, its programmes have also been carried by a number of terrestrial channels, including state-owned UT1 and Kanal 5, owned by the pro-Western businessman Petro Poroshenko. UT1 and Kanal 5 were among a number of TV channels that carried rolling news and current affairs coverage on 2 March to reflect the deepening crisis in the country. At midnight, Kanal 5 pondered the day's events in tones of calm seriousness, very much at odds with the highly-charged rhetoric coming out of Russian TV. The presenter said that the Orthodox holy day of Forgiveness Sunday had come and gone, ""but still we have seen no apologies from the fraternal people [of Russia] for the aggression"". Ukrainian press and online media have featured messages of hope, resignation, but also sombre defiance. In an article posted on the Glavcom website, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk said that if Russia continued on its path to aggression it would meet stiff resistance. ""I am 80 years of age, but I will take up arms and defend my country. Every citizen will defend his territory as though it was his own home,"" Mr Kravchuk said. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.","Russian TV has been ratcheting up its belligerent rhetoric as fears grow of a full - @placeholder military conflict with its neighbour Ukraine . But Ukrainian media has been hitting back at what one leading politician called Moscow 's "" information offensive "" .",sharing,blown,funded,war,populated,1
"West Heslerton, near Malton, has a 21-bedroom mansion, pub, petrol station, 43 homes and 2,116 acres of land. It has been owned by the same family for more than 150 years. Cundalls estate agents confirmed an offer for the estate was ""on the table"", but would not go into any further detail. The sale, with a guide price of £20m, picked up media interest from national press in the UK, America and Australia earlier this year. Eve Dawnay owned the estate until her death five years ago, with the family now deciding to sell. About half a dozen properties in the village are privately-owned and, therefore, not included in the sale.",An offer has been made to buy the @placeholder of a North Yorkshire village after it was put up for sale following the death of its most recent owner .,ruins,manor,side,value,majority,4
"Connor Sparrowhawk, 18, who had learning difficulties and epilepsy, was being treated in Slade House, in Headington, Oxfordshire, in 2013. Oxford Coroners Court heard he died later in hospital after being found unresponsive in the water. The NHS has apologised for a ""preventable"" death. An independent report later found that Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust had ""failed significantly"" in his care and treatment. The court heard Connor was moved into Slade House - run by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust - in March 2013 after his behaviour became increasingly aggressive. The inquest was told Connor was to be woken early on the morning of 4 July to be taken on a bus trip. But he was discovered submerged and unresponsive in a bath shortly after 09:00 BST. Staff called an ambulance but he died later in hospital. Pathologist Dr Ben Phillips said his death was likely to have been caused by an epileptic seizure. Evidence was also given by a support worker on shift who had run Connor a bath.  Jurors heard that staff had been told he should be checked every 15 minutes while in the bath but there was no formal place to log this observation. The jury was told an independent report commissioned by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust found the death had been preventable and staff members dispute aspects of its findings. The coroner told the inquest the trust had apologised to the family for the ""preventable"" death. The inquest is expected to last two weeks.","There was no formal @placeholder for logging the bathing of a teenager found unconscious in a bath at an Oxfordshire care unit , an inquest has heard .",reason,secret,process,warrant,life,2
"""The club is aware of the photographs of Jack Grealish currently circulating,"" said a club statement. ""We will be meeting with the player but any action will remain an internal matter."" Midfielder Grealish, 19, was warned about his behaviour by Villa manager Tim Sherwood in April. That came after the teenager was pictured allegedly inhaling nitrous oxide, which is known as laughing gas and can be used as a legal high. Several photographs of Grealish lying on the floor were posted on Twitter by Briony King, who claimed the footballer was ""paralytic"". However, the player seemed to deny it was him when he tweeted: ""I'm on the floor apparently."" Grealish, a product of Villa's academy, made 24 first-team appearances last season as he helped the club avoid relegation. They also reached the FA Cup final, Grealish playing a part in both goals as they recorded a 2-1 semi-final win over Liverpool. Grealish, who qualifies for both England and the Republic of Ireland, started in the final at Wembley against Arsenal, but Villa were beaten 4-0.",Aston Villa will @placeholder to Jack Grealish after photographs emerged appearing to show the player lying in the street while on holiday in Tenerife .,recover,report,offer,speak,lead,3
"McAliskey was forced off late on after Michael Cassidy, Rory Brennan, and Ronan O'Neill had picked up earlier injuries in the 1-13 to 0-11 defeat. ""It's threatening at the minute,"" said Mickey Harte of McAliskey's injury. ""We probably won't know until there's a scan done."" A cruciate ligament injury would almost certainly rule out McAliskey from football for a number of months and possibly for the rest of 2017. Debutant Cassidy hobbled off with an ankle injury early in the game and his replacement Brennan was then forced off before half-time with a shoulder problem. To cap off a bad day on the injuries front for the Red Hands, Harte added that forward Ronan O'Neill ""didn't look that healthy"" at the end of the game. Media playback is not supported on this device Like Cavan, Tyrone finished the game with 14 players with Mattie Donnelly sent off three minutes from time after being adjudged to have caught Seanie Johnston with a blow to the face. Cavan's Niall McDermott had been dismissed 10 minutes earlier after picking up his second yellow card. Manager Harte felt that Donnelly's dismissal - which could rule him out of Tyrone's two remaining Section C games - had been harsh although video evidence showed him raising his hand towards Johnston's face in the off-the-ball incident. Johnston clutched his face after falling to the turf following the incident although the extent of the contact was not clear from the match footage. ""I did see what happened to Mattie Donnelly and I certainly didn't think it was a red card,"" said the Tyrone boss. Media playback is not supported on this device ""Seanie Johnston went to step inside him and he (Donnelly) threw out his hand, just to try and tackle him or stop him and somehow touched him round the face somewhere. ""It appeared to be very bad at the time but shortly after that didn't appear to be that bad."" Cavan's win saw Mattie McGleenan's side became the first team to beat Tyrone in the McKenna Cup since Derry's final triumph over the Red Hands in the 2011 competition. Harte said his team's McKenna Cup fate is now ""out of our own hands"". ""Even if we win our last two games (Ulster University and Donegal), we'll still be depending on other people for results. ""It's not a good place to be. You like to always be in control of your own destiny.""",Tyrone counted the cost of their first McKenna Cup defeat in six years as a @placeholder cruciate damage for Connor McAliskey was among four injuries they sustained against Cavan .,beach,planned,deal,suspected,single,3
"Since January four fire services have worked with the North East Ambulance Service to respond to life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrests. During the trial, firefighters attended 2,904 patients - more than 1,800 in the Durham and Darlington area. Ambulance service bosses have now agreed to extend the trial until at least February 2017. Fire crews have been equipped with a medical kit with the aim of helping to improve survival rates when they are first on the scene. Ambulance service operations manager Gareth Campbell said: ""Demand on the ambulance service has increased by nearly 20% since 2007, meaning we receive a new 999 call every 65 seconds. ""Over the last six months, fire crews have been able to reach the scene of many incidents and deliver lifesaving care in those first critical minutes until an ambulance clinician has arrived, thereby improving the survival rates of our patients. "" He said the programme would continue to be monitored closely.",A trial which has seen firefighters across north - east England @placeholder with medical emergencies is to be extended .,deal,line,agreement,assist,clash,0
"Nathaniel Kerr, 24, pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court to assault. The 30-year-old victim, Stuart Parsons, had been arguing with one of Kerr's team-mates just before the incident in Stockport last August, the court heard. Mr Parsons had reconstructive surgery on his right ankle and spent weeks in hospital after the assault. The violent tackle happened two minutes into the first game of the season between Emigration FC and AFC Gold Cup in the Stockport Sunday league. Mr Parsons, a defender for Emigration FC, said he had touched the ball just twice when Kerr lunged at him with both feet, dislocating his ankle and breaking it in two places. As he lay in agony on the pitch off Jackson's Lane, Hazel Grove, Kerr shouted to a team-mate: ""I've done this 'cos of you."" ""It was a long jump-type lunge,"" the victim told BBC 5 Live. ""I got to the hospital and they X-rayed it but they had to sedate me twice to reset it. I was in hospital for two weeks."" A self-employed window cleaner before the injury, Mr Parsons said his business ""went down the pan"" as a result. He spent six weeks on crutches, ""had to learn to walk again"", and ""still can't run on it or do any sport, a year on"". He continued: ""You don't expect to get out of bed on a Sunday morning and for that to happen. People have their own actions, minds and aggression. You are never going to stop it."" Speaking of his assailant, Mr Parsons said: ""We had heard stories through the pipeline and, as a team, had our eye on him from the beginning."" PC Louise Spencer, of Greater Manchester Police, said: ""This injury has had a catastrophic effect on the victim's life, meaning he has been unable to work or support his young family. ""He is self-employed and the injury meant he was forced to rely on the kindness of his team-mates, who arranged fundraisers and charity events to provide the financial support he needed,"" she added. ""All the while Kerr has shown absolutely no remorse for his vicious attack, calling the victim a 'wimp' and verbally abusing him as he was lying in agony on the pitch."" She said the arrest and prosecution showed ""aggression and thuggery"" during sporting fixtures will not be tolerated.","A Sunday League footballer who deliberately @placeholder on an opponent 's leg , breaking it in several places , has been jailed for a year .",stamped,drowned,walks,placed,caught,0
"Additional training for teachers, an extra £15m for community care, and improved support in the workplace were among measures announced by the PM. Mental health experts said more funding was needed to improve services. Mrs May's speech comes as she outlined her plans to use the state to create a ""shared society"". The government says one in four people has a mental disorder at some point in their life, with an annual cost of £105bn. Figures show young people are affected disproportionately with over half of mental health problems starting by the age of 14 and 75% by 18. The prime minister said mental health had been ""dangerously disregarded"" as secondary to physical health and changing that would go ""right to the heart of our humanity"". In the speech at the Charity Commission, Mrs May announced: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC care for children and young people was a ""black spot"" that needed urgent attention as the pressures of social media, cyber bullying and a big increase in self-harming was a ""massive worry for parents"". Mental health charity Sane said the plans needed to ""be matched by substantially increased funds to mental health trusts"" while Mind said it was ""important to see the prime minister talking about mental health"" but the proof would be in the difference it made to patients' day-to-day experiences. Dr Sangeeta Mahajan, whose 20-year-old son Sargaar killed himself after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, said better access to services was essential. ""They don't discharge patients with adequate information,"" she said. ""The doors were closed to us. ""We were told you either go to A&E or your GP and that is the only way you can come back to us. ""We had no direct access back to the specialist services. That is wrong."" Bed shortages have meant some patients have had to travel hundreds of miles for treatment. Fiona Hollings, 19, was treated in a specialist eating disorder unit for her anorexia in Glasgow - nearly 400 miles away from her family home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. By Hugh Pym, BBC health editor Mental health campaigners certainly recognise the significance of the latest initiative headed by the prime minister. Theresa May's focus on mental illness in her first major speech on health will in itself raise the profile of the issue and reaffirm the drive to achieve true ""parity of esteem"" with physical health. Promoting mental health first aid training in schools in England illustrates the prime minister's desire to see this as more than an NHS-only issue. But there is no new Treasury money for the plans.  Funding for care is still challenging. NHS Providers, representing mental health and other trusts, predicts the share of local NHS budgets devoted to mental health will fall next year. Ministers will argue money isn't everything but it remains an unresolved part of the mental health agenda. Professor Sir Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, welcomed Mrs May's ""new and bold vision"", but added: ""We have a long way to go before mental health services are on an equal footing with those for physical disorders."" Businesses also welcomed the workplace initiatives. Simon Walker, director general at the Institute of Directors, said employers had ""a real role to play""  in ensuring the mental health of their workforce. But while education leaders backed the ideas that focused on young people, they also had concerns. Malcolm Trobe of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the major problem schools faced was a lack of access to local specialist NHS care and said government plans had to be ""backed up with the funding"". Russell Hobby, of school leaders' union NAHT, agreed: ""Rising demand, growing complexity and tight budgets are getting in the way of helping the children who need it most."" Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb, a former health minister, said Mrs May was announcing policies already agreed under the coalition government and called it ""a puny response"" to ""cover up for this government's failure"" on delivering, while Barbara Keeley, Labour's shadow minister for mental health, questioned why funding was not being ring fenced. Mr Hunt said the government had endured a ""slightly patchy start"" with funding, but that with about £1bn more being spent on mental health than two years ago things were ""going in the right direction"". In her speech the prime minister also described her wish to create a ""shared society"", with the state taking a greater role in ending ""unfairness"". The emphasis on a ""shared society"" marks a contrast with her predecessor David Cameron's ""Big Society"" agenda, which relied on voluntary organisations rather than state intervention.","Plans to "" transform "" @placeholder to mental health , with a focus on children and young people , have been announced by Theresa May .",lead,services,attitudes,buddhism,ability,2
"4 January 2014 Last updated at 12:14 GMT Members of the public watched as it broke away on Friday afternoon. More stormy weather and snow is expected in parts of the UK over the weekend. Members of the public have been urged to stay away from coastlines, coastal paths and promenades.",Part of a @placeholder near Hastings in Sussex has collapsed into the sea because of the force of the storm that has hit the UK .,cottage,cliff,church,world,bucket,1
"Londonder Okoye, 23, who still holds the British discus record, left the 49ers last week after two seasons trying to establish himself. After franchises finalised their squads over the weekend, Okoye said: ""Really excited to join the @AZCardinals. ""Big thank you to everyone that has supported throughout this journey."" Okoye added: ""9ers fans have been awesome with me throughout my time there - will always appreciate you no matter where I'm at."" Jack Crawford made the Dallas Cowboys' 53-man roster, but other Britons did not have such good news over the weekend's roster moves. Former London Warriors defensive end Efe Obada was released by the Cowboys. Rookie running back Jay Ajayi has been moved to the Miami Dolphins' injured/reserve list because of a chest injury. Manchester-born offensive tackle Menelik Watson ruptured his Achilles tendon late last month and has also been placed on the Oakland Raiders' injured/reserve list, likely keeping him out of the entire campaign. Media playback is not supported on this device",Former British Olympic discuss thrower Lawrence Okoye has @placeholder for the Arizona Cardinals after being released by NFL rivals San Francisco 49ers .,called,worked,pitched,appeared,signed,4
"Guidelines will be set out aimed at securing more convictions for violent offences in prisons and young offenders institutions in England and Wales. Priority will be given to prosecuting those who assault staff. Criminal justice charity the Howard League said the government should focus on addressing staff shortages in order to reduce violence behind bars. Government figures show assaults on staff rose by 12% in the year up to June 2014 - from 3,065 incidents to 3,427. Advice set out by the Prison Service, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Association of Chief Police Officers is intended to offer ""clear guidance"" on those crimes that must be considered for prosecution. Under the new scheme: Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said the measures, expected to come into force by April 2015, ""will ensure that those that attack staff are prosecuted and fully brought to justice"". ""We have always had a complex and challenging prison population but are taking appropriate steps to ensure that we carefully manage the increased levels of violence,"" he added. Attorney General Jeremy Wright said: ""This protocol will make it clear that prosecution should usually follow when prisoners assault hard-working prison staff. ""Prison officers deserve the greatest clarity and the best protection we can give them."" The Prison Officers Association has blamed staff cuts for increasing violence and says 90 wardens a month are leaving their jobs because they fear for their safety. Andrew Neilson, campaigns director for the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: ""We welcome any move to combat the problem of increased violence in prison, but there are already measures in place to deal with these offenders. ""Prisons have faced steep budget cuts resulting in staff shortages and until we address that we will not be able to fully tackle violence behind bars."" The charity's chief executive, Frances Crook, said prisons were ""grossly overcrowded"", with adult men living in shared cells ""the size of a toilet"". ""They don't get out of the cell, and these are young men who have lots of energy, and you're just asking them to lie idle on a bunk for months on end,"" she said. ""And as one prison officer said to me, if you treat people like that they come out fighting."" The move to crack down on prison violence has coincided with the release of images showing an inmate attacking a member of staff at Feltham Young Offenders' Institute in London. In CCTV footage shown exclusively to the BBC, a male prisoner is seen punching a female guard in the face. Nicola Williams told the BBC she was eventually saved from her assailant by another prisoner, and commented: ""There are never enough officers on duty to protect us."" The inmate received a 21-month prison sentence for the attack. Prisons Minister Andrew Selous described the attack as ""despicable"". He added: ""The new protocol will make sure that there are prosecutions with extra time being served by prisoners at the end of their sentence. This will have a much greater deterrent effect."" Mark Leech, editor of Converse, a newspaper for prisoners in England and Wales, said: ""Of course prison officers deserve justice. They do a dangerous job containing violent people, but this new policy is just rhetoric and likely to be a waste of time and money."" He said prosecuting prisoners who were already serving long sentences would have no ""discernible benefits"" to the public. ""The Parole Board are best placed to deal with such cases, not the courts,"" he added. The government's bulletin on prison safety shows that overall, assaults in prisons and young offenders institutions rose 10% in the year to the end of June 2014, from 14,045 to 15,441. There was a sharper increase in serious assaults, which went up 32% - from 1,377 to 1,817. Within that category, serious assaults on staff have increased from 300 incidents to 395, or 32%. Serious assaults are defined as those requiring medical treatment or resulting in certain types of injury, such as a burn or bruise. The Ministry of Justice has proposed its changes as part of a wider violence-reduction strategy by the Prison Service, including efforts to tackle gang-related crime in London prisons. The Serious Crime Bill, currently before Parliament, will make the possession of an offensive weapon in jail punishable by up to four years in prison.","Prisoners who carry out assaults will face harsher measures in @placeholder , the Ministry of Justice has announced .",competitions,future,china,space,jail,1
"Cuts in grants to local authorities for youth services could mean one in four staff at Connexions careers advice services lose their jobs, it says. The cuts come as young people face record competition for university places and a difficult jobs market. Prime Minister David Cameron said Connexions had not been very effective. Unison said cuts to the service ranged from about 10% to 50% in different local authorities. ""It's devastation,"" said Steve Higginbotham, vice president of the Institute of Career Guidance. As the cut, about 24% of the ""area based"" grant which funds Connexions, is being enacted halfway through the financial year, it means in practice up to 50% losses to budgets for the remainder of the year, he said. Connexions offers advice on careers, education, work and personal issues to people aged 13 to 19. It has been criticised for focusing too much on young people who are not in employment, education or training - referred to as ""Neets"", at the expense of the needs of more mainstream teenagers. Mr Higginbotham said some schools could come back after the summer break to find Connexions services unable to fulfil their commitments. Meanwhile, many young people who did not get the grades to secure university places would face ""very difficult decisions"", he said. On Tuesday, the head of the university admissions body Ucas said thousands of school-leavers would be turned away from university this year, and should consider apprenticeships instead. Unison official Denise Bertuchi said: ""We are facing a time when there will be an increase of young people who will not make the grades required for FE (Further Education) or university because the bar has been raised in the GCSE and A-levels."" ""We currently have 2.5 million looking for work and five jobseekers for every vacancy,"" she said. ""This is a major failing of this government not only in the reforms being proposed for education but in the flaws in the decisions to reduce the area-based grant without due regard for the consequences."" According to Unison, some of the hardest hit areas are: In Norfolk, where there have been protests against the cuts, the council's cabinet member for children's services, Alison Thomas, told local media that the cuts were ""unavoidable"" but there was scope to look at delivering ""an effective service at a reduced cost"". She said guidance would be focused on vulnerable young people, with wider advice ""largely web-based"". Speaking to BBC West Midlands, Prime Minister David Cameron said the Connexions service had ""not been a great success story"". ""Many analyses have been done of it in terms of it not being very good value for money,"" he said. He said the government would be introducing ""a proper work programme"" which would ""make sure that young people get the help and the training that they need to get into a job."" A Department for Education spokesman said: ""We have been clear that it is for local authorities to manage reductions to area-based grants across all their funding to protect front-line services.  We have removed the ring-fencing of funding where possible to give local authorities maximum flexibility to find efficiency savings in ways that respond to local needs."" It said it would set out plans for improving the provision of careers advice in the autumn. Connexions is absolutely useless - had a careers ""interview"" in Year 10 through school. Did not help at all. Did a silly quiz as well which said I should aim to become an opera singer - interesting as a cat has more vocal talent than me. Anon, Hexham, Northumberland I have two young teenagers who have benefited greatly from various Connexions services. Any cuts will, in my opinion, lead to more teenagers not having activities to take part in and this will lead to teenagers getting into trouble and not having any job focus. I find the Connexions centres to contain knowledgeable staff who give young people quality support and guidance. Thomas Russell, Carlisle Connexions as a service has changed vastly. Gone are the days of equality for all young people as government agendas have put the nail in that coffin ensuring that the NEET generation is the main focus. Advisers have been constantly pulled away from institutions where young people need guidance to reduce the amount of young people who are NEET. Mark Lee, Co. Durham I can't believe David Cameron said that Connexions has not been very effective! Who does he think has been keeping figures low for young people who are NEET. Emma Hogget, Cheltenham Gloucestershire Good. At last a service in need of cuts. I am now a year 13 college student and the only time Connexions seemed to bother with me after and during my GCSEs was a week before I started college. They are a waste of money and time. I have spoken to them once since my GCSEs and what rubbish they told me was useless. Even my teachers completely disagreed with them. Matthew, Rugeley, Staffordshire After leaving school my son went to them for advice. He wanted to go to university but hadn't quite enough points to get in for his chosen course. He had to make an appointment with them, but as he couldn't make the set one, he contacted them to make another but never did get one! We gave up trying to organise an appointment and he had a year off with no study, work or benefits and we worked out how to get him into college ourselves. He starts in September. Mags, Reading, UK I have worked for Connexions for eight years. We have had bad press but it was the government of the time that dictated we target the NEET group. We are losing very skilled people right across children's services and many of those services are to very vulnerable young people.  It concerns me that this government says they are going to look at ways to improve the service in the autumn but the staff will have been made redundant by then. Gill Cassidy, Hampshire The problem with Connexions is that it was actually underfunded from the very beginning. The size of the challenge - to engage, listen to, guide, inform, advise and enthuse all young people - whatever their level of skills and whatever their level of exclusion, disaffection and/or disability - in a working world requiring ever higher levels of technical and people skills was completely underestimated and has been met on the cheap. But that should not be an excuse to close us down. I think we've actually done rather well, considering. Terry Miles, London","Careers services for young people in England are being @placeholder by up to 50 % which could lead to 8,000 job losses , the public services union Unison says .",urged,affected,backed,delayed,slashed,4
"William Owen, 45, of Nefyn, Gwynedd, admitted speeding on the 60mph A499 near Pwllheli in March. Caernarfon Magistrates' Court chairman Alwyn Lloyd Ellis said it was ""unbelievable speed in the middle of the day"". Owen was fined £500 with £135 costs and banned from driving for six months. The prosecution said the police officer paced the Volkswagen Golf at a ""safe but constant"" distance behind. Michael Strain, defending, said the vehicle coming up behind him had ""spooked"" Owen.","A driver who sped at 122 mph to get away from someone he thought was tailgating him did not realise it was an unmarked police car , a court @placeholder .",body,heard,shows,revealed,report,1
"A Kurdish flag fluttered on top of a ruined building in the centre of Jalawla. It had been their military headquarters until demolished by an Islamic State (IS) suicide truck bomb. ""Be careful of booby traps,"" said our guide from the Kurdish forces, the Peshmerga, ""they left them everywhere, even in the walls."" Jalawla changed hands several times in six months of struggle between the jihadists on the one hand and, on the other, a loose and antagonistic coalition of Kurdish forces, the Iraqi Army and Shia militia. The Kurds say the last battle, at the end of November, was decisive, pushing IS out of the town and out of the surrounding countryside as well. ""The situation is quiet and safe,"" said the Peshmerga commander here, Mahmoud Sangawi. ""We have cleaned 1,000 sq km [620 sq miles] of IS. There is no terrorist presence in the whole of the province."" We saw some of the fighting, in June. Seventy-five pick-up trucks with foreign jihadists were heading for the outskirts of Jalawla. A Kurdish general told me that as he mustered his men to head them off. We waited in the centre of town but still found ourselves in the middle of a brief but intense firefight. We took cover in a basement with a small group of Peshmerga. For a horrible few minutes, it seemed as if they were surrounded. A fighter lay bleeding on the stairs, his face white as blood flowed from a leg wound. His comrades crouched and let loose volleys of bullets. One thought he spotted IS coming in through the back of the building. ""There he is, there he is,"" he shouted, firing panicky Kalashnikov rounds. I assumed Islamic State were able to attack in the centre of town because the gunmen were local Sunnis already living in Jalawla. A large Arab tribe in the area, the Kerwi, had pledged loyalty to IS. The Kurds spent days on the telephone to the local tribal sheikh trying, unsuccessfully, to get him to change sides. IS in Jalawla and the neighbouring village consisted of 150-200 foreign fighters and 500 local Sunnis, said Kurdish intelligence. Jalawla today is eerily quiet. The streets were deserted when we visited - a few cats running in between the burned out cars. A bridge, built by the British in the 1920s, lay broken in half, blown up by the jihadists. There are no civilians at all in the town, just Kurdish fighters. When people did eventually come back, I asked the Peshmerga commander, Mahmoud Sangawi, whether Arabs who fought with IS would be allowed to return too. ""We don't have a problem with them if they come back and ask for forgiveness,"" he said. But then he made a distinction between Arabs who had lived in Jalawla for generations and those moved there in the 1970s by Saddam Hussein. The more recent arrivals included most of the Kerwi tribe, whose sheikh had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State, he said. ""We don't have a problem with the [longstanding] Arab population,"" he said. ""We do have a problem with Arabs who were brought here. They supported the former regime. They supported al-Qaeda. Now they are IS."" The ""recently"" transferred Arabs changed the balance of population in Jalawla and other towns just outside the ""green line"" marking Kurdish territory. Preventing their return would restore a Kurdish majority in Jalawla. It, and other disputed towns, might one day be part of the independent state dreamed of by Kurds. ""This land was Kurdish since the Ottoman Empire,"" said Cdr Sangawi, looking at the town and the desert beyond. For Kurds, the rise of Islamic State is an opportunity as much as a threat. On a dirt hillside overlooking Jalawla, the Kurds showed us makeshift graves left behind by the retreating jihadis. They contained the bodies of Shia men, women and children, they said. An IS prisoner had told them 27 people were buried there. ""IS executed them,"" said a Kurdish fighter. ""This is not the only place they carried out a massacre - there are others."" It was impossible to verify that claim. But the stench of decaying bodies was overpowering. Dogs had tried to dig them up. Clothes and what looked like a human bone lay on the surface. The Kurdish fighters covered their noses and mouths and turned away. During the brief period of IS rule in the town, a Shia mosque was blown up and the imam shot, we were told. Now that the jihadists have been chased away, Shia militias controlled by Baghdad have moved into the area. So camps near Jalawla are full of Sunni Arabs. The camps are squalid, with rivers of sewage running between the rows of tents. But fear of revenge attacks by the Shia militias keeps people there. The militias were looting empty homes, they said - at least Islamic State had not done that, some added, quietly. Jamila Ahmed, a 61-year-old grandmother, was looking after a sick husband in one of the tents. They had fled their homes at the start of the fighting because of government airstrikes and Kurdish artillery aimed at the jihadists. ""We're afraid of the Islamic State and the Shia militias. We are poor and simple people. We just want to be safe,"" she said. ""We want to go back to our homes. We want the Iraqi army back in charge."" But the Iraqi army - and the Iraqi State - are scarcely to be seen. Kurd and Arab, Sunni and Shia - the violence brought by the jihadists has shattered this country along its many fault lines.","The so - called Islamic State 's @placeholder have been reversed in just a few places in Iraq . One is the town of Jalawla , now held by Kurdish forces . Paul Wood returns to Jalawla after witnessing the fighting there over the summer .",affiliate,fortunes,roles,secrets,gains,4
"For weeks he has come under pressure to step down as investigations continue into allegations that his wife was paid large sums of public money for a job she did not do. But having won a battle with his centre-right party, what now are Mr Fillon's chances in the fight for the Elysee Palace? He will have his work cut out if he is to claw back the lead he once held in France's presidential race. The latest opinion poll on Tuesday placed him third, on 19%, several points behind centrist Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front. Mr Fillon has stuck fast to his hard-core base for the past six weeks, as an investigation into his wife's employment whipped up a storm around his campaign. As centrist supporters deserted him in droves, he barely blinked. When his campaign manager and senior spokesman quit, Mr Fillon brushed it aside. When dozens of MPs deserted him, he retorted that he would do without them all. When polls suggested that he would struggle to reach the second round run-off, Mr Fillon ploughed on, determined to show that he retained the support of his most loyal followers. In that sense, his management of the scandal seems to have been a success. Tens of thousands of people turned out in the rain to rally around him on Sunday. But his handling of the allegations against him, and the media attention surrounding them, have also marked a sharp change in tone for France's most establishment presidential candidate, with new tactics borrowed from the populist playbook. Sunday's rally was initially described by Mr Fillon as a protest against political interference in the judiciary. He has complained of an ""institutional coup d'etat"", suggesting that the Socialist government is behind the allegations currently being investigated. At press conferences recently he has presented himself as the victim a ""political assassination"", of a ""lynching"" by the media, and he has accused investigators of leaking only one side of the evidence in his case. Mr Fillon has said he will leave it up to the voters to judge him, not a ""biased [judicial] process"". But attacking the nation's institutions while running for office has not gone down well with some party colleagues. Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, on French radio, called it ""dangerous"" and ""irresponsible"". The man Mr Fillon beat to become Republican candidate, Alain Juppe, accused him of leading the campaign into an impasse. ""He had a wide open road before him,"" he said. ""What a waste."" There was a sceptical response, too, to the claim by Mr Fillon's team that Sunday's rally had drawn 200,000 people to the Trocadero in Paris. Several journalists remarked that the plaza only held around 35,000 people when full. The claim of 200,000 is still prominently featured on Mr Fillon's campaign website. There is now talk of a ""Trumpisation"" of the centre-right candidate, with several commentators and news outlets comparing him to the US president. It is a very different side of a politician many saw as calm, unruffled and rather phlegmatic; ""impervious to demagoguery and exaggeration"", as Le Monde put it. But will the same tactics work to win back the broader votes he needs in the election itself? Mr Fillon might claim legitimacy from the people, but he is still a risk for his party. He is due to appear before a judge on 15 March and says he expects to be placed under formal investigation. Attacking the media, government and judiciary might work with his most loyal supporters, but it has driven many other voters away. If this is the new face of Francois Fillon, some might wonder what that says about the future of French politics itself.",French presidential candidate Francois Fillon has avoided an abrupt end to his campaign by securing the support of his @placeholder Republican Party .,side,prized,disabled,pioneering,divided,4
"23 May 2016 Last updated at 14:35 BST Mr Dolan, 18, died when he was knocked down on the Malone Road in Belfast. David Lee Stewart, 31, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and three and a half years on licence. Peter Dolan, Enda's father, has called for politicians to set aside their differences and legislate for tougher sentences. BBC News NI's Kevin Magee reports.","The father of Enda Dolan , who was killed by a drunk driver , has @placeholder Stormont politicians to unite to change the law on sentencing .",flown,retired,forced,arrived,challenged,4
"The main dialysis services for north west Wales are provided at the Elidir Unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor. The plans include a larger area for 15 dialysis machines as well as an isolation area and staff facilities. A temporary unit at Ysbyty Alltwen hospital in Tremadog will become permanent with nine dialysis stations. Dialysis is the mechanical cleaning of the blood. The refurbished renal dialysis unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd aims to provide an improved clinical, patient and staff environment, including a treatment room and dedicated staff facilities. At the satellite service at Ysbyty Alltwen, six of the dialysis stations will be in an open plan area with three further stations in a separate area. A separate entrance and drop off area will also be created. The unit was set up at the hospital near Porthmadog in January 2010 to reduce the distances patients have to travel. Previously some residents of south Gwynedd had journeys of two hours each way for treatment. Mr Drakeford said: ""The permanent unit at Alltwen and the refurbished and extended service at Ysbyty Gwynedd will improve renal dialysis in the north west Wales area. ""It will benefit both patients and staff and also help to reduce travel times for those renal patients from Meirionnydd and Dwyfor who are suitable candidates for the unit in Alltwen. ""It will also help to relieve pressure on the main dialysis unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd."" Work on the Ysbyty Alltwen unit is expected to be completed by February 2015.","Two kidney dialysis units in Gwynedd are to be @placeholder over the next two years at a cost of £ 1.8 m , Health Minister Mark Drakeford has announced .",offered,merged,upgraded,held,lost,2
"The 28-year-old will miss next week's Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in Ohio. The Northern Irishman was treated for a stress fracture to his ribs earlier in the year and pulled out of this week's PGA Championship at Wentworth. ""All focus is on getting back to full health for the US Open,"" McIlroy's agent Sean O'Flaherty said. McIlroy originally suffered the rib problem in the close season - a time when he was hitting a lot of balls in practice while trying to decide on new equipment after Nike decided to stop producing clubs. The injury flared up as he lost a play-off to Graeme Storm at the South African Open in January, and the four-time major winner did not play again until the WGC-Mexico Championship in March. McIlroy then felt discomfort at the Players Championship at Sawgrass earlier this month and was ""advised to take a conservative approach"" to his recovery. The US Open takes place at Erin Hills in Wisconsin from 15-18 June.",World number two Rory McIlroy has withdrawn from his final warm - up @placeholder for the US Open due to a rib injury .,heat,conduct,event,effect,side,2
"They were picked up by an Indian navy ship from Aden late on Tuesday and are travelling to Djibouti from where air force planes will fly them home. The group includes more than 100 women and 25 children, reports say. A Saudi Arabian-led coalition has been targeting rebels in Yemen in support of President Abdabbuh Mansour Hadi. Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted that the navy ship carrying the evacuees would reach Djibouti on Wednesday afternoon and ""arrangements [are] in place to receive them there"". Reports say two more navy ships are expected to reach Yemen by Thursday to rescue other Indians, who are mainly stranded in Aden and Sanaa. There are some 4,000 Indian workers, businessmen and nurses working in Yemen, a report says. Yemen has suffered from political instability for years and Shia Houthi rebels control nine of the 21 provinces. The Houthis have said their aim is to replace President Hadi's government, which they accuse of being corrupt.","A group of 348 Indian nationals trapped in the fighting in Yemen have been @placeholder and are on their way home , India 's external affairs ministry said .",identified,lifted,evacuated,warned,switched,2
"The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) registered ""brief increases"" in hate crime reports following attacks at Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge, but not after Finsbury Park. The incidents were reported to forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. NPCC hate crime lead, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton, said reports ""quickly subsided within a few days"". There have been four terror attacks in Britain in 2017 - at Westminster Bridge in London on 22 March, Manchester Arena on 22 May, London Bridge on 3 June and at Finsbury Park in London on 19 June. Police recorded 234 hate crime incidents two days after the Westminster attack, 273 reports two days after Manchester and 319 reports two days after London Bridge. Police said in 2016 there were on average 171 hate crimes per day - although this could be higher on weekends, where more hate crimes tended to be reported, or after specific events such as protest marches. In the week after each attack, hate crime reports increased by 12% after Westminster, 50% after Manchester and 34% after London Bridge. By contrast, hate crime reports were 7% lower in the week after the Finsbury Park attack, the NPCC said. Police said race or faith hate crime comprised the vast majority of reports. But the NPCC added that analysis of the data was ""ongoing"" and that year-on-year comparisons should be viewed with caution - last year, for example, hate crime reports increased after the EU referendum vote in June. ACC Hamilton said the figures were nevertheless a ""real concern for the police service and wider society"". He said: ""We know that terrorist attacks and other national and global events have the potential to trigger short-term spikes in hate crime and so we have been carefully monitoring community tensions following recent horrific events. ""As terrorists seek to divide us, it is more important than ever that we continue to stand united in the face of hostility and hatred.""","Hate crime reports @placeholder in the days immediately after three terror attacks in the UK this year , police data shows .",spot,taken,arrived,surged,suffered,3
"The latest survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) also said the number of potential buyers had risen for the second month in a row. They said activity in the market had recovered following the Brexit vote. The survey also predicted rent rises for tenants over the next three months as demand outpaced supply. A slowdown in the housing market in July had been put down to uncertainty over the EU referendum, held on 23 June. However, surveyors found that this was no longer the case. Rics chief economist, Simon Rubinsohn, said the lack of housing supply in Scotland was replicated across the UK. He said: ""The dire shortage of available housing across the UK is continuing to push prices upwards, regardless of the uncertainty linked to the ongoing discussions surrounding Brexit."" House sales across Scotland rose, according to Rics, with 13% more chartered surveyors seeing a rise in activity. Interest from prospective homebuyers also rose, with 14% more surveyors reporting an increase in interest. Gavin Miller from surveyors Graham and Sibbald, said: ""There is a lack of new properties coming on to the market. ""This has resulted in strong prices being achieved, with many of the more desirable properties selling at closing date.""","Scottish house prices continued to rise last month , driven by a fall in the number of @placeholder available to buy .",drugs,repairs,growth,causing,homes,4
"Ms Hughes put up the rows of icicles on her home in the appropriately named Light Close in Corsham, Wiltshire. Later she received an anonymous note claiming the ""tacky"" lights  had made the street ""very common"". But Ms Hughes thinks they look amazing - so she went out and bought some more. For more stories about Christmas lights, trees and decorations follow us on Pinterest The row sparked a number of comments on BBC Wiltshire's Facebook page - with many people struggling to see the problem. Mo Moncrieff-Jury said: ""Heard about this on the radio and I was expecting a garden full of blow-up santas, reindeer and flashing multi-coloured lights at least - LOL."" Adrian Smith added: ""The letter says nothing about the lights but everything about the author. Perhaps a party at the house where we can all say how nice it looks?"" Ms Hughes put up the lights with the help of neighbour Jordan Franklin. They feature two rows of icicles along the top of the house and some around the fences, ""basically covering the front of the house"". ""We've gone through all the time and effort trying to be Christmassy for someone to attempt to knock us down,"" said Ms Hughes. ""But at the same time I thought it was quite funny someone had gone to all that effort of posting the letter to then do it anonymously,"" Ms Franklin added. ""All it's done is spurred us on and made us go out and buy more lights and they went straight up in the dark.""",When Alice Hughes attached twinkling lights to her home she thought she would be injecting the street with festive @placeholder - but instead was accused of bringing down the neighbourhood .,cheer,ground,world,colour,energy,0
"For companies such as Unilever that import food from abroad to be sold in Britain, prices are going to go up because the pound buys less abroad. To protect their profits, suppliers are telling retailers they are putting up their prices, by 10% in Unilever's case. And retailers will either say yes. Or, as in Tesco's case, no. Or, at least not at the moment. Supermarket profit margins are so thin, and consumer appetite for price rises practically non-existent, that businesses like Tesco feel they have to take the battle to suppliers where profits for companies like Unilever are strong. Lord Wolfson, the chief executive of Next, tells me that retailers are facing higher inflation and that prices are likely to rise. A firm supporter of Brexit, he says the answer is to boost the economy in other ways. Trade deals with countries outside the European Union is one. And major investment in new infrastructure is another. Increasing the wealth of the economy will mitigate any increase in inflation, he argues, as consumers become richer and so price rises become easier to handle. ""I think inevitably the decline in the pound will mean there will be some inflation coming into the United Kingdom and that will present an additional challenge to us next year and probably the year after,"" he told me. ""But the key thing is that we come up with ways of stimulating our economy to counter that effect, to mitigate it. One of the ways we can do that is through investment in the right infrastructure."" Today he launched his £250,000 Wolfson Economics Prize, the richest in the UK. The winner will provide the best answer to the question: how do we improve Britain's overcrowded and polluting roads? ""What I am hoping to achieve most of all is to stop people sitting in unnecessary traffic jams every day of their life wasting countless hours in traffic jams - that's the main purpose,"" Lord Wolfson said. ""The second purpose is to find a way to be able to productively and profitably invest in our infrastructure in Britain so our economy can grow."" Boosting the economy as the UK negotiates its way out of the European Union is now seen as the most pressing issue for Theresa May to tackle. Business leaders like Lord Wolfson say backing projects like the expansion of runway capacity in the south east of England is important. He argues the government should give the go-ahead to Heathrow for an extra runway as it is ""better for the UK economy"". Gatwick, which he says shouldn't be ruled out for further expansion in the future, is not positioned as well geographically as Heathrow to support growth across the rest of the UK. Successive governments have been accused of dragging their feet on major infrastructure investment as voters tend not to like major building projects on their doorstep. Sir John Kingman, former permanent secretary at the Treasury and now chairman of the Wolfson Prize judging committee, said that - in competition with education and health - infrastructure projects like road improvements often miss out. ""It's full, it's slow, it's creaking,"" Sir John said of the UK's roads system. ""People think our roads are free, but they are not free. ""Actually road users pay a huge amount in tax and that's a very important source of revenue for the government. ""But that source of revenue is in decline. ""So the Treasury has a vested interest in finding solutions - ways out of this problem - that get us to a better place where we can have both a sustainable source of revenue for the government but also better roads for the user."" As economists warn about the possible impact of leaving the EU, investment in projects that will boost growth is becoming more urgent.","As the good people of Britain start stockpiling their supplies of Marmite and Pot Noodle , one of the effects of the fall in the @placeholder of sterling has become clear .",south,value,village,region,world,1
"Beginning with a massive impact that left a disc of material swirling around the proto-Earth, it predicts how our satellite clumped together over time. By splitting this process into two phases, it is the first model to account for some crucial differences between Moon and Earth rocks. The work appears in Nature Geoscience. In general, the Earth and Moon are remarkably alike in their mineral make-up. This has led scientists to propose that the smash-up that eventually spawned the Moon was caused by a Mars-sized interloper made of surprisingly similar stuff to Earth. But there are some noteworthy differences, which Moon origin models have struggled to account for. ""One of the key differences, that's been known since the Apollo sample return, is that the Moon is much more depleted in so-called volatile elements - those that vaporise easily as you heat up material,"" said Dr Robin Canup, the new study's lead author, from the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, US. ""And the origin of this depletion has been essentially unknown."" These volatile elements, it is worth noting, are not things we think of as wet and wispy here on Earth; Dr Canup and her colleagues were looking primarily at metals like zinc, potassium and sodium - which are volatile in the context of Solar System formation. To address the problem of the Moon's missing volatiles, Dr Canup's team added temperature and chemical models to a framework they had already developed for the physical dynamics of how the Moon assembled from the magma disc. In the very first months and years after the collision, about half the Moon's mass was crunched into a ball at the fringe of the disc, which at that stage surrounded the fledgling Earth like Saturn's rings. Because this early material came from the edge of the rings, it was cool and contained a good mix of volatile elements. But subsequently, the outer half of the Moon was formed by molten material slapping on to the expanding satellite from the inner portion of the disc. This stuff, according to Dr Canup's new model, was too hot for volatile elements to condense with it. So the Moon's outer layers - where all the rocks we've sampled come from - ended up ""volatile-poor"". ""What we find,"" she told the BBC, ""is that the initial half of the Moon, say 50% of its mass, may well have retained its volatile species. But for the last half, as that material accreted on to the Moon, it was consistently too hot to contain the volatile species."" After accumulating these two layers, the model suggests that the Moon swung further away from the Earth. This is a key aspect of the findings, Dr Canup explained, because it locks the discrepancy in place. ""The Moon's orbit expands enough to turn off its accretion, before the inner disc gets cool enough for the volatiles to condense. ""So by the time they do condense, they're scattered on to the Earth rather than swept up by the Moon."" Dr Mahesh Anand, a planetary scientist at the Open University in the UK, said the research was ""very elegant"" and thorough, and offered an excellent match for some - but not all - measurements of lunar chemistry. ""It is a good way of explaining a Moon that is volatile depleted,"" he told BBC News. ""But I also feel that you need a number of other processes to have affected these volatiles afterwards - before the Moon completely solidified - in order to reconcile all of the observations that we are making in the laboratory."" For example, Dr Anand said, there are discrepancies in the isotopes of zinc found in Earth and Moon rock, as well as the question of how much water there is - and was - on the Moon. ""But until now, nobody had tried to build so many aspects into one model,"" he said. In a commentary for Nature Geoscience, Prof Steve Desch from Arizona State University said this latest view of the Moon's origin was one of the most complete yet. ""No other model of the Moon's formation is as comprehensive, or is as capable of making such detailed predictions about the Moon's composition,"" he wrote. Prof Desch also compared the new Moon model to Chinese ""mooncakes"" or yue bing, traditionally baked for an Autumn festival. These cakes have a moist filling baked inside a dry pastry. Just like these cakes, he suggested, the Moon may have required a ""two-step recipe"". Follow Jonathan on Twitter","A new model of the Moon 's formation suggests it developed in two distinct stages , @placeholder inner and outer layers with different compositions .",including,helped,producing,state,sliced,2
"The survey, carried out days after Scotland voted ""No"", found 3% wanted to Wales to be independent. But there was support for the idea of more powers being devolved to the Welsh Assembly, with 49% in favour. ICM Research interviewed a random sample of 1,006 people in Wales over the telephone. The survey found 12% wanted to see the assembly abolished. The poll also found growing support for UKIP in Wales ahead of next year's general election. Nigel Farage's party is on 14%, up seven points from the last BBC Wales poll in March. Labour are down four points to 38%, with the Conservatives on 23% (down one), Plaid Cymru on 13% (down one) and the Liberal Democrats on 7% (down two). Prof Roger Scully of the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University said: ""Support for independence is the lowest I've seen anywhere. ""There has been a clear move towards supporting more powers, and some of the people who may have said 'independence' have gone in that direction. ""We're getting close to a majority saying they want things to go further.  There are also pretty low levels of support for abolition of the assembly - the extreme positions are losing out."" An analysis of the voting intention figures by Prof Scully suggests that, on a uniform swing, Labour would gain two seats in the capital - Cardiff North and Cardiff Central - at next May's general election. The Conservatives would lose Cardiff North but gain Brecon and Radnor; Plaid Cymru would retain their three seats but the Liberal Democrats would be reduced to a solitary Welsh seat at Westminster - Ceredigion. UKIP's level of support is too low to win their own seat, but high enough to have an impact on some marginal constituencies. ""UKIP's support is clearly going up,"" said Prof Scully.  ""They are starting to reach the sort of level where they could make a serious difference in marginal seats."" He said most evidence suggests they are taking more support from the Conservatives than anywhere else, which could be of importance in Tory-held marginal seats like the Vale of Glamorgan and Aberconwy. ICM Research interviewed a random sample of 1,006 Welsh adults aged 18 or over by telephone on 19-22nd September 2014. Interviews were conducted across Wales and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. ICM is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules. There is more on this story on Week In Week Out on BBC One Wales at 22:35 on Wednesday 24 September.","Support for Welsh independence has fallen to its lowest @placeholder level in the wake of the Scottish referendum , according to a poll for BBC Wales .",increase,recorded,levels,proportion,pace,1
"Teleperformance is to manage Liberty's Enniskillen contact centre for the Republic of Ireland. In June, Liberty said they were cutting 270 jobs across Ireland, 20 of them in Fermanagh. The agreement with Teleperformance should be in place by the end of August. Liberty Insurance took over Quinn Insurance in April 2011. The company provides car and home insurance to the Irish market and has offices in Cavan and Dublin. Liberty chief executive Tom McIlduff said: ""Teleperformance's focus on providing an excellent customer experience means that the company is a great fit with Liberty Insurance's values."" ""I am confident that today's announcement will be to the benefit of our existing over 200 employees in Enniskillen, the wider Fermanagh community and our customers across Ireland."" In April 2011, Liberty Insurance took over Quinn Insurance, which was founded by ex-billionaire Sean Quinn. The County Fermanagh-born businessman was once the richest man in Ireland but his empire was badly hit by the global downturn in 2008 and he lost control of his family businesses.",Up to 200 jobs have been @placeholder at Liberty Insurance following an agreement with a customer service firm .,secured,unveiled,criticised,aimed,released,0
"But a BHF survey suggests that 80% of adults are unaware of its impact on everyday life. There is no cure for heart failure, which can lead to extreme exhaustion and breathlessness. Experts say stem cell research could be the key to repairing damaged hearts. More than 750,000 people in the UK currently live with heart failure, which means that the heart is not pumping blood around the body as well as it used to. It is commonly caused by a heart attack. While patients with mild heart failure can live a relatively normal life with the help of drugs, those with severe heart failure can suffer prolonged pain and distress because everyday tasks such as having a shower or doing the shopping require enormous amounts of energy and leave them exhausted. Joanne Ward, from Sheffield, had a heart attack four days after giving birth to her son Tyler in 2005. Doctors told her she needed a double heart bypass. ""I just thought they were bonkers. I said, 'I've got a baby, don't be ridiculous'."" After the surgery she assumed her heart was fixed - but she's had to learn to live with heart failure. ""I wasn't feeling any better. I was getting out of breath quickly and it got progressively worse over the next five years."" Everyday things like hoovering and pushing a trolley round the supermarket left Joanne feeling exhausted. Accompanying her sons on school trips meant she was wiped out for a day afterwards. Two years ago, Joanne was fitted with a pacemaker which has improved her life a little, but she still gets breathless. ""I have to watch my weight, I can't go down the gym. I know my limitations. ""But it's a terrible thing to live with."" Past UK research suggests that around 28% of all heart failure patients face a daily struggle as a result of permanent damage to the heart muscle. However, the survey of 2,170 adults by the British Heart Foundation suggests that more than three-quarters of respondents are unaware of the effects of severe heart failure on people's lives. More than a third of those surveyed thought that heart failure meant that the heart stopped working altogether and 33% wrongly believed the heart could repair itself. Dr Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the BHF, say more and more people are surviving heart attacks due to advances in medicine but this creates its own problem. ""People with acute, severe heart failure have a worse prognosis than most cancers. Heart failure has a very significant effect on morbidity. It can be disabling, it can leave people breathless and they can end up chair-bound and bed-bound."" The priority now, he says, is to find out how to repair damage to the heart with the help of the BHF's Mending Broken Hearts Appeal. ""The human heart cell is not able to regenerate, unlike the liver, and we want to understand why in order to improve new treatments for the future. ""We aim to raise money to carry out basic research into regenerative medicine. Stem cells could help by offering therapeutic interventions."" He added that it was possible that a cure for heart failure could be achieved within 10 to 15 years.","Severe heart failure can cause the lungs to fill with fluid , leaving people feeling like they are @placeholder , says a new campaign by the British Heart Foundation .",breathing,floating,feared,drowning,growing,3
"It was how he ate his boiled egg that gave away the fact that Harry had been gone for a while. He picked it up out of the egg cup, and was about to tap it on the table, to break the shell and peel it with his hands. He stopped. ""I'm eating my egg like a Kurd,"" he said. Then he put it back in the cup, lopped off the top, and set about the runny insides with a teaspoon. Just like a good Englishman. Harry is from Cambridge, but had been, for the last five months, fighting the Islamic State in Syria. I'd first met him there, alongside the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia fighters, right on the front lines. Now we were having breakfast together in a smart hotel in northern Iraq.  And Harry was getting ready to go home. When we met in the spring, I didn't rate his chances as a fighter. He was a former currency trader, with no military experience. Tall and slim, his curly-haired head would stick out a mile in north-eastern Syria. Listen to From Our Own Correspondent for insight and analysis from BBC journalists, correspondents and writers from around the world. Broadcast on Radio 4 on Thursdays at 11:00 BST and Saturdays at 11:30 BST, and on BBC World Service at weekends. Listen to the programme Download the programme And what IS would have done to get their hands on 28-year-old, terribly well-mannered Harry. Having beheaded most of their Western hostages, they needed more. Harry's changed over the last few months, and the video footage on his mobile phone helped explain why. There's Harry firing a Dragunov sniper rifle at the enemy. Next, he's riding on the back of a pick-up truck as tanks charge forward on either side. Then there are coalition air strikes landing close by on IS positions. Off camera, Harry and his fellow fighters, whoop and scream with delight. But it's not all boys-own-adventure stuff. There are the rotting corpses of IS soldiers killed in battle, a 15-year-old with his brains literally blown out, and there are pictures of the hard life: stale bread, terrible rations, and plagues of flies. The night before our interview was Harry's first time in a proper bed in as long as he could remember. He'd grown thinner over the past few months. Those bad rations and hours of marching and fighting did that. He still has a passion - bordering on naivety - for freedom, democracy, and so on - though perhaps a little less fervent these days. After all, he is, he said, tired now, bone-tired. So it was, he told me, time to go home. The YPG had regained hundreds of kilometres from Islamic State. Admittedly much of this was in sparsely-populated areas. There was a lull in the fighting and Harry and the other foreigners I met - Americans, a New Zealander, another Brit - all admitted they were bored. Was he treating this like a gap year, I asked? ""No,"" replied Harry. He'd seen friends die and had been as little as 20m from IS at some points. And he'd taken part in wave after wave of attacks that in the end, failed to dislodge IS from a village. An extra pair of hands was useful on the battlefield, whether foreign or local, he said. But there were plenty of local Kurds or Arabs willing to take up arms against IS. Foreign fighters brought something else - international attention to the Kurdish cause and the battle against IS. For Harry and his fellow foreigners, the increased number of air strikes in the past few months has partly been as a result of that intensified focus on the struggle. ""When Kurds join the fight, it isn't news. When we come, people are interested,"" said Harry's friend Jac Holmes, 22, from Bournemouth. Baby-faced, I'd last met the former IT worker in hospital in Syria. He'd been shot in the arm. Now he had a pink scar… two small bumps. Not quite the battle scar he'd hoped for. Jac too was going home. Britons are warned against travelling to Iraq and Syria, and certainly warned against joining the conflict, whichever side they choose. However, Prime Minister David Cameron has made plain that he sees a difference between those who fight for IS and those who take up arms against it. Jac had been stopped on his way to join the war. He was taking an Iraqi Airways flight - ""I was the only white face on it,"" he giggled - and police stopped him before he boarded. He told them his intention to travel to Syria and join a foreign war. They let him go regardless. Harry had a nervous flight back. But at Heathrow, he sailed through the border checks, and wasn't stopped. Making it back home safely, he said, ""Maybe they don't think I'm a terrorist... I went to help people, it's not controversial."" How to listen to From Our Own Correspondent: BBC Radio 4: Thursdays at 11:00 BST and Saturdays at 11:30 BST Listen online or download the podcast. BBC World Service: At weekends - see World Service programme schedule or listen online. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.","Dozens of foreigners have been fighting alongside Kurdish forces battling the jihadist group Islamic State ( IS ) in northern Syria . Some are now returning home despite the @placeholder of being prosecuted , including two Britons who spoke to the BBC 's Quentin Sommerville .",risk,side,names,state,lives,0
"The rock-bottom Lions held on until the break, although they needed some good fortunate to do so. Goalkeeper Jonathan Maxted saved superbly from Tom Shaw, then Ryan Lloyd hit the post, and Kane Richards fired straight at the keeper during a goalmouth scramble as Guiseley rode their luck. Jon McCarthy's hosts did find the breakthrough not long into the second period as Richards converted James Akintunde's cut-back with a smart chip. Chester sealed matters from the penalty spot with Shaw slotting home after Johnny Hunt was fouled. Will Hatfield completed Guiseley's miserable night as he was sent off after a foul on Craig Mahon with six minutes to go. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Chester FC 2, Guiseley 0. Second Half ends, Chester FC 2, Guiseley 0. Michael Rankine (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Chester FC. Matty Waters replaces Craig Mahon. Theo Vassell (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card. Alex Purver (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Chester FC. Wade Joyce replaces James Akintunde. Second yellow card to Will Hatfield (Guiseley) for a bad foul. Substitution, Chester FC. Jordan Chapell replaces Elliott Durrell. Substitution, Guiseley. Michael Rankine replaces Jordan Preston. Javan Vidal (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card. Goal!  Chester FC 2, Guiseley 0. Tom Shaw (Chester FC) converts the penalty with a. Substitution, Guiseley. Simon Walton replaces Jake Lawlor. Substitution, Guiseley. Luke Porritt replaces Reece Webb-Foster. Goal!  Chester FC 1, Guiseley 0. Kane Richards (Chester FC). Second Half begins Chester FC 0, Guiseley 0. First Half ends, Chester FC 0, Guiseley 0. Will Hatfield (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",Guiseley 's winless start to the new season @placeholder with a defeat at Chester .,came,title,continued,team,collided,2
"The victim, from Devon, says he told Devon and Cornwall Police about Vickery House's abuse in 2001 - 11 years before an investigation was launched. Last year the clergyman was jailed for six-and-a-half years for sex offences against boys and young men. His youngest victim was assaulted in Devon in 1970 at the age of 14. More on this story and other news from Devon and Cornwall Encouraged by his wife, the man approached police with his story in 2001. The investigation that led to House's conviction was started by Sussex Police in May 2012. ""I reached a point when I couldn't function properly as a human being,"" he told the BBC. ""If it had been dealt with properly at that time I could have dealt with all the issues around that and moved on with my life ten or 15 years ago. ""It would have made a huge difference to my children. I also may have saved some other people from being abused. ""I'm disappointed that that there is no hint of an apology for their lack of action."" Devon and Cornwall Police said it had no record of any local investigation relating to the victim, but added: ""We do not doubt he spoke to a police officer."" A spokesperson said: ""Back in 2001 the way in which police dealt with complaints of historic sexual abuse was very different and not at all reflective of today's policing."" The victim has now asked a lawyer to help him make a complaint to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). House was an associate of the former Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball, who was jailed for 32 months last year after he admitted molesting young men between 1977 and 1992. Three victims were abused by both men, who ran a Church of England scheme called Give a Year For Christ in Litlington, East Sussex. A document seen by the BBC describes how a detective from Gloucestershire wanted to give information about Vickery House to Sussex Police in 1993. But a priest from Sussex persuaded him not to, instead assuring the detective that the Church would deal with the matter. Sussex Police say they received no allegations about House between 1993 and 2012. In May 2012 Sussex police received information from the Church of England concerning one of the victims and an investigation was launched. Other victims came forward during the investigation. A Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman said: ""The bulk of all intelligence relating to Vickery House came from the Sussex area where he was convicted in October 2015. ""We do not know the level of information presented to police in Devon in 2001, but what is clear is that evidence from other victims was later proven to show Vickery House as a dangerous individual who had abused a number of boys he had contact with during their formative years. ""Should any such allegation have been made now, the measures in place to support victims and encourage them to come forward and talk about historic abuse are far greater,"" he added. Last month, the Bishop of Exeter met the Devon victim to apologise in person on behalf of the church. The Right Reverend Robert Atwell said: ""I wanted to extend to him an unreserved apology for what had happened to him.""",A man who was sexually assaulted by a Church of England priest has @placeholder police accusing them of failing to investigate his complaint .,described,denied,urged,defended,criticised,4
"The magic lantern slides were photographed by William Nowell and found during a recent loft clearance. Auctioneer Graham Paddison said: ""It is the extraordinary contrast in this set of 30 photographs that is so unusual."" Mr Paddison, of auctioneers Dee Atkinson & Harrison, said the pictures showed the gulf between rich and poor in late Victorian England. For more stories about Victorian England follow our Pinterest board Mr Nowell was the manager of the Great Northern Steamship Fishing Company and a keen photographer.  He shot the images between 1895 and 1902. They were found in a house in Hessle, East Yorkshire, belonging to Mr Nowell's great-grandson. The auction is to be held in Driffield on 30 September.",Newly - discovered photographs of Scarborough @placeholder that were taken in the 19th century are to be auctioned .,group,beach,castle,evidence,village,1
"Hatfield Colliery closed in June with the loss of 430 jobs after almost a century of production. The short ceremony took place at the mine, near Doncaster. John Grogan, chairman of the Hatfield Employee Benefit Trust, which has run the mine since 2013, said it was ""the end of an era"". He said: ""On Monday the company will be wound up in the High Court and that will represent the end of coal mining in South Yorkshire after many generations. ""In 1980 there were 50,000 miners in South Yorkshire. On Monday morning when we're in the High Court there will be none. ""We're presenting this piece of coal as a symbol of our respect for all the miners who have gone before us in South Yorkshire and helped build the economy of our country and keep the lights on for many decades."" Accepting the gift the Mayor of Doncaster Ros Jones said: ""On behalf of Doncaster and South Yorkshire I'm humbled to accept this."" The only remaining deep coal mine in England, Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire, is due to close later this year.",The last @placeholder of coal mined in South Yorkshire has been presented to Doncaster 's mayor at a ceremony marking the end of mining in the region .,lump,amount,ton,head,load,0
"It comes as Iraqi government forces are ""on the cusp"" of retaking the city - held by IS since 2014, the UK Defence Secretary says. Meanwhile, a senior RAF commander says IS has been firing surface-to-air missiles at coalition planes. But so far no aircraft has been hit. Lieutenant General Mark Carleton-Smith said the military had assumed IS possessed missiles capable of bringing down an aircraft but had not been targeted by them until recently. Missiles fired at coalition aircraft have been detected as they were launched, enabling the targeted planes to take defensive action using flares, which cause the missiles to explode before they hit. The Iraqi government and Kurdish Peshmerga forces intend to launch an offensive on IS in Mosul  in the coming weeks. Mr Fallon told reporters: ""Having spoken to the commanders of the troops involved, their self-belief and determination is very clear. ""Though Mosul is a large and complex city, it will fall and will fall soon."" Read student's secretly kept diary of life under IS By Jonathan Beale, BBC defence correspondent Over the past two years British warplanes have carried out more than a thousand airstrikes, in which they have dropped more than 2,000 bombs and missiles on what they say are IS targets in both Syria and Iraq. They are not the only ones who've been looking for targets. For the first time, the RAF has confirmed its aircraft have been fired at too - with IS anti-aircraft fire and shoulder-launched surface to air missiles - though they say they've always dealt with the threat. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the focus of the air campaign was now turning towards Mosul, the last major city in Iraq still under IS control. He said the offensive to liberate the city would begin within weeks but he admitted that pushing IS out of Syria would be much harder. He added that the air force, which is targeting more than 100 locations in and around the city, was now operating ""at the highest tempo in a single theatre for over 25 years"". The US-led coalition, which Britain is part of, has conducted almost 9,600 strikes against IS in Iraq, since 2014. Read more about the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria Lieutenant General Carleton-Smith said coalition airstrikes had destroyed nearly $1bn (£770m) of cash held in stockpiles by IS. Mr Fallon also said that Russian warplanes had ""almost certainly"" carried out an attack on a UN convoy which killed at least 20 people on Monday. He said: ""Instead of inventing more and more unbelievable excuses it is time Russia came clean. ""If it was a mistake Russia should apologise.""","The RAF is stepping up attacks on self - styled Islamic State forces in the city of Mosul as part of a bid to cripple the @placeholder 's last major stronghold in Iraq , Michael Fallon says .",region,army,group,country,women,2
"The club recorded a small profit of £8,813 for the financial year ending in September 2016, up nearly £5,000 on the previous year. Khan said he is ""thoroughly enjoying"" his job and that speculation suggesting he is going to quit should be ignored. ""I am certainly not looking to move anywhere,"" he told BBC Radio Leicester. ""I am loving being part of the club. We have a fantastic board who get right behind and support me. ""We still have a lot of work to do but the past two years have been fantastic."" Between 2012 and 2014 Leicestershire had three successive years of losses, totalling in excess of £500,000. But Khan said ground development, a naming rights deal for Grace Road, sponsorship and the work on the commercial side - including an Elton John concert - had helped turn things around. ""We put a very clear five-year plan together in January 2015 of where the club needed to go,"" Khan added. ""We needed radical change, which we had. We have done a lot of work over the last two years to get this club back on track.""",Leicestershire chief executive Wasim Khan insists he is staying to @placeholder the club 's five - year plan after a second successive year of profit .,strengthen,pursue,start,fulfill,oversee,4
"Tomkins has not played for nine months after suffering a knee injury playing for New Zealand Warriors. The 27-year-old, who agreed his return to Wigan for a fee of over £200,000 in April 2015, will be in the squad for Friday's game against Hull FC. ""I'm glad it's finally come to the time to get my boots on and get out there,"" he told BBC Radio Manchester. ""I've been training now with the boys for three or fours weeks. The last week has been full training and once you're in that and feel good it's tough to not put your hand up and play. ""The first few months were very tough - obviously when I signed back last year I didn't think I'd be sitting on the sidelines. ""It ended up doing a bit of helping out with Lewis Tierney at full-back and that gave me a bit of a focus, but the last month has flown by once I started training."" Tomkins spent two years at NRL side Warriors, but cited homesickness as one of the factors for his return to Super League. ""I'm realistic,"" he added. ""I'm not going to be coming out on Friday and be absolutely flying and in my best form. ""It's not the case of as soon as you're fit you're in your best form, that might take a while, but I can certainly add something to the team, I'm not going to be a weak link.""",Wigan and England full - back Sam Tomkins has @placeholder not be a ' weak link ' when he returns from his long - term injury .,seen,vowed,proved,signed,spoken,1
"He said Iran and the rest of the region should know that ""if anybody messes with Israel, America will be there"". But he rejected a call by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu that any deal be conditional on Iran recognising Israel. Mr Obama said such a condition would be ""a fundamental misjudgement"". The president, speaking in an interview with National Public Radio, said that it would be akin to saying the US would not seal a deal unless the Iranian regime completely transformed. ""We want Iran not to have nuclear weapons precisely because we can't bank on the nature of the regime changing. That's exactly why we don't want to have  nuclear weapons,"" he said. ""If suddenly Iran transformed itself to Germany or Sweden or France, then  there would be a different set of conversations about their nuclear infrastructure."" On Monday, President Obama also sought to reassure Oman about the effects of a nuclear deal with Iran. In a phone call, he told Sultan Qaboos that the US would work ""with Oman and other regional partners to address Iran's destabilising activities in the region"". Critics have accused President Obama of conceding too much ground to Iran and endangering Israel's security. But in an interview with the New York Times, Mr Obama firmly denied this. ""I would consider it a failure on my part, a fundamental failure of my presidency, if on my watch, or as a consequence of work that I had done, Israel was rendered more vulnerable,"" he said. Mr Obama said he recognised the concerns raised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a fierce critic of the deal along with the president's Republican opponents in the US Congress. He said Israelis ""have every right to be concerned about Iran"", a country that had threatened ""to destroy Israel, that has denied the Holocaust, that has expressed venomous anti-Semitic ideas"". But he insisted that the preliminary agreement with Iran - a forerunner of a comprehensive deal, due to be agreed before 30 June - was a ""once in a lifetime opportunity"" to curb the spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Under the terms reached last Thursday, Iran must slash its stockpile of enriched uranium that could be used in a nuclear weapon, and cut by more than two-thirds the number of centrifuges that could be used to make more. In return, UN sanctions and separate measures imposed unilaterally by the US and EU will be gradually suspended as the global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confirms Iranian compliance. Speaking on Sunday on CNN, Mr Netanyahu said: ""Not a single centrifuge is destroyed. Not a single nuclear facility is shut down, including the underground facilities that they build illicitly. Thousands of centrifuges will keep spinning, enriching uranium. That's a very bad deal."" But Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a possible Republican presidential candidate, said it was ""probably the best deal that Barack Obama could get with the Iranians"" and that he would wait to see how the final agreement looked before passing judgement. ""I don't mind giving the administration the time between now and June to put this deal together,"" he told CBS. Iran's key nuclear sites Analysis: A deal which buys time","President Barack Obama has moved to reassure Israel that the US @placeholder its staunchest supporter , amid Israeli fears over last week 's outline agreement on Iran 's nuclear programme .",remains,has,representing,balance,regarding,0
"The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton is the story of a young bride in a wealthy quarter of  17th Century Amsterdam. As a wedding gift she is given a miniature replica of her own house whose contents seem to mirror real life. Actress turned writer Burton, 31, said her latest achievement was ""a complete honour"". ""I'm so delighted that they picked me,"" she told the BBC. ""I feel I must have made some pact with the devil and he's coming to get my soul at some point."" Published in July 2014, The Miniaturist is the best-selling literary debut hardback of the decade so far. Burton also won the new writer of the year prize at the National Book Awards last week. The Oxford graduate wrote the book over four years while working as an actress and as a PA in a City firm. The idea for the novel was sparked by a holiday in Amsterdam in 2009. In the Rijksmuseum she saw a dollhouse that belonged to Petronella Oortman, the wife of a 17th Century silk merchant. Commissioned in 1686, it was a exact copy of their real home ""I was very fascinated by this house and I stood in front of it for a lot longer than anybody else,"" said Burton. ""The thing that caught my attention was the fact that she spent as much money on it as her real house. I thought: 'Why?'"" The book was the subject of a publishers' bidding war in April 2013 at the London Book Fair. Waterstones' managing director James Daunt called the book ""a first novel of vivid excitement"" and said it ""richly deserved its stunning success"". Burton, who has appeared on stage at the National Theatre and had a role in BBC children's series The Wild House, said it was ""a thrill, a pleasure and a true honour"" to be named this year's winner. ""It's all any writer could wish for,"" she continued. ""I will always be grateful for this incredible award."" The eight-strong Waterstones shortlist included Richard Flanagan's Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Helen Macdonald's Samuel Johnson Prize winner, H is for Hawk. Last year's winner was John Williams' Stoner, a US novel first published in 1965 that became an unlikely bestseller in 2013.",A debut novel @placeholder by a dollhouse in Amsterdam 's Rijksmuseum has been named Waterstones Book of the Year .,inspired,buried,bought,hanging,triggered,0
"Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, was the first inmate to be injected with a dose of recently replenished stocks of the powerful sedative pentobarbital. US states are facing a shortage of execution drugs as a growing number of firms have refused to sell them. Sells' lawyers tried unsuccessfully to find out the names of the suppliers. Debate about the source of execution drugs has recently become contentious in several states as numerous drug makers have refused to sell their products if they are used in executions. Opposition is especially strong among European drug makers, where concern over capital punishment is fiercest. A lower court earlier stopped Sells' execution, ordering the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to reveal more information about the drug supplier, but its ruling was overturned on appeal. The convicted man's attorneys argued that they needed to know the name of the pharmacy supplying the pentobarbital in order to verify the drug's quality and protect him from unconstitutional pain and suffering. ""Without transparency about lethal injections, particularly the source and purity of drugs to be used, it is impossible to ensure that executions are humane and constitutional,"" lawyers Maurie Levin and Jonathan Ross said in a statement. Recent pentobarbital executions in the US: Source: BBC reporting But the Supreme Court agreed with Texas prison officials, who argued that information about the drug supplier must be kept secret to protect the pharmacy from threats of violence. The justices did not elaborate on the reasoning behind their ruling, which was issued about an hour before Sells' execution. Last month a pharmacy in the state of Oklahoma said that it would not supply pentobarbital to neighbouring Missouri for use in an execution. Sells was convicted of murder in 2000 for stabbing Kaylene Harris, 13, to death and slashing her 10-year-old friend, Krystal Surles, who survived and helped police find him. US media reports said Sells had confessed to as many as 70 killings across the US. He declined to give a statement prior to his execution. Sells was pronounced dead 13 minutes after being given the pentobarbital. His execution was the fifth lethal injection this year in Texas, the busiest state in the US for enforcing the death penalty. Nearly 1,400 men have been put to death since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.",A @placeholder has been put to death in the American state of Texas amid controversy about where the state got supplies of its lethal injection drug .,woman,race,killer,body,group,2
"The vessel was boarded by officers in Bembridge Harbour, St Helens where the cannabis was discovered. A 48-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of supplying and producing the class B drug. The raid happened on Friday morning and the man has been released on bail until 9 September.",A boat that police say was being used for @placeholder cannabis has been seized in the Isle of Wight .,disabled,growing,carrying,possessing,traffic,1
"The ex-Roma boss, 52, was appointed last week after Marseille's takeover by American businessman Frank McCourt. Garcia's side failed to register a shot on goal in the match but defended brilliantly at the Parc des Princes. Edinson Cavani was denied a penalty and missed a hat-trick of chances for the hosts as PSG lost ground on Ligue 1 leaders Nice, who won 4-2 at Metz. Alassane Plea's hat-trick for Nice helped clinch an impressive away win for the Cote d'Azur side as they moved on to 26 points. Nice are now four points ahead of Monaco and six points clear of third-placed PSG.",Rudi Garcia 's first game in charge of Marseille ended in a @placeholder goalless draw against Paris St - Germain .,race,home,near,battling,record,3
"With delicious timing, Patrick Buisson - the man credited with inspiring his former boss's rightward shift on issues like national identity - has released a book of recollections concerning the seven years he served as his top aide. To no-one's surprise, given the way the pair parted company after Mr Sarkozy lost the presidency in 2012, it drips with the satisfaction of a finally requited revenge. I have known some acts of treachery in my time... but rarely like this"" In one passage, Mr Buisson claims that Nicolas Sarkozy deliberately allowed rioters from the suburbs to rampage in central Paris, the better to show off his capacity to restore order. It was in 2006, when Mr Sarkozy was at the interior ministry and his rival, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, was pushing through a labour reform hotly contested by French youth. Mr Buisson quotes Mr Sarkozy as recalling: ""We took the decision to allow gangs of blacks and Arabs to attack the young whites on the Invalides, and at the same time tipped off the photographers at Paris Match that there was likely to be serious trouble. ""We were petrified that someone might end up getting seriously hurt, but in the end it was worth it."" At the demonstration that followed, police intervened early and Mr Sarkozy was on hand for the television cameras, ""proving how much he was in control of the situation compared with the prime minister"", writes Mr Buisson. The former adviser is scathing about Mr Sarkozy's ""narcissistic"" personality, and says his public courtship and marriage to ""trophy woman"" Carla Bruni was an excruciating embarrassment. ""Probably he thought deep down that the happy news of his love life would be a useful antidote to the prevailing gloom. Instead [the reaction] could be summed up in three words: immature, undignified, infantile."" He is also unsparing of Carla Bruni herself, who he says ""did deep harm to [the Sarkozy] presidency"". ""The head of state... was in reality a fragile seducer subjugated by his conquests, a fake tough guy submerged in a permanent state of emotional dependency."" In politics, Mr Buisson says Nicolas Sarkozy was always words rather than action, that he lacked guiding principles and was more interested in the short-term buzz of media approval. ""The public man... was always constrained by the private man, by his passions, his confusions, his weakness for whatever was in vogue."" The book reveals that the aspiring president was in contact with far-right National Front (FN) leader Jean-Marie Le Pen between the two rounds of the 2007 election, which he won, in the hope of winning FN votes for round two. And in 2005 Mr Buisson quotes him as saying: ""The values of the far right are the values of all the French. It's just the way the FN puts them that is shocking. The French do not like over-spicy food."" Now fully engaged in November's primary to choose the centre-right's presidential candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy has dismissed Mr Buisson's book as unworthy of notice. The two men fell out after the former president's 2012 election defeat by Francois Hollande. Two years later it was revealed that throughout the Sarkozy presidency Mr Buisson had been secretly recording conversations and meetings at the Elysee. Speaking on television at the time, Mr Sarkozy said: ""I have known some acts of treachery in my time, but rarely like this!"" Mr Buisson was convicted of invasion of privacy and ordered to pay €20,000 (£17,000; $22,000) in damages to Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni.  According to the former adviser, only Carla Bruni ever cashed her cheque.","The poisonous memoirs of a right - wing adviser at the Elysee Palace are proving deeply embarrassing for ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy , just as he gathers strength for a @placeholder presidential comeback .",surprise,group,growing,name,planned,4
"Corrie McKeague, based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, was last seen in Bury St Edmunds following a night out. CCTV images show the 23-year-old, believed to be from Dunfermline, Fife, walking through the streets of the town after he left friends. Police said his disappearance was ""out of character"". Mr McKeague was last seen in Brentgovel Street at about 03:20 BST. He was reported missing to police on Monday afternoon. Specialist search officers have been out in the area between Honington and Bury St Edmunds since his disappearance. The National Police Air Service helicopter and Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue have been assisting with the search. A Suffolk Police spokesman said: ""Since the missing report police have made numerous inquiries. ""This has included talking with friends and family, checking with local taxi firms and working to identify CCTV that may help piece together which direction he went in from Brentgovel Street. ""As time passes police are growing increasingly concerned for his welfare."" CCTV footage from Bury St Edmunds shows he briefly slept in a doorway before getting up and moving away. Police believe he may have intended to walk home to the base at RAF Honington. He is described as white, 5ft 10ins, of medium build, with short light brown hair. He was wearing a light pink shirt and white jeans or trousers at the time he was last seen.",Police searching for an RAF serviceman who disappeared in the early hours of Saturday have @placeholder CCTV footage taken shortly before he went missing .,requested,released,appealed,prompted,discovered,1
"But even though these might show huge amounts of detail about exams, they will not reveal much about the levels of happiness among pupils. Sir Anthony Seldon, a university head, former head teacher and mental health campaigner, says school league tables should include measures of well-being. He says this could help to tackle an ""epidemic of mental health"" problems. ""As long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well-being as seriously as they should,"" said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of Buckingham. He says that the Office for National Statistics regularly measures well-being - and that it would be possible to make school-level comparisons. This could include comparing the resources put into pastoral care, such as staffing and support services, and surveying a sample of pupils to see their views on school life. Sir Anthony, speaking on World Mental Health Day, has campaigned for well-being to be taken more seriously in schools. But he says that despite warnings about rising numbers of young people with mental health problems, schools still are not being encouraged enough to prevent ""avoidable suffering"". Exam league tables in England are due to be overhauled again to show how much academic progress is made by pupils. But Sir Anthony says parents want to know more about a school than its exam results. ""It is perfectly clear to me, as a head of schools for 20 years, that parents will pay more heed to the well-being tables than to the exam league tables. ""They know, even if the government doesn't, that schools that prioritise well-being, which includes challenging and stretching students, also build character and help them to perform better than those schools which are just exam factories."" He says that pupils need help while they are still at school. ""By the time students arrive at 18, the damage has been done."" Figures published last month by the Office for National Statistics, showed the highest number of suicides by 15 to 19 year olds since 1998. And a succession of reports have highlighted concerns about unhappiness, anxiety and depression among young people. A report from the Higher Education Policy Institute warned that universities were struggling to cope with rising demand for mental health services. A study published by the Department for Education showed that teenage girls now were more likely to show signs of ""psychological distress"" than a decade ago. This blamed pressures from social media and the fact that young people felt less control over their lives. A report from the Children's Society showed higher levels of anxiety and unhappiness among teenage girls, compared with five years ago. An online tool kit to help schools identify and monitor mental health problems has been launched by Public Health England and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. The intention is to make staff better informed and better able to evaluate pupils' problems. ""Growing up in today's world can be tough. From negative comments on social media to pressures to look a certain way, the well-being of young people is at risk,"" said the minister for vulnerable children and families, Edward Timpson ""That's why we want teachers to be able to spot the signs that their pupils are having difficult thoughts or feelings and feel confident about supporting them."" What do you want to know about schools or the school system? Sean Coughlan wants to hear from you. Tell us the questions you want answered using the form below:",Parents searching for school @placeholder for their children in England are used to scouring league tables for information .,offer,places,treats,resources,books,1
"The central committee vote came at the end of the five-year party congress and had been expected after reformist Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung withdrew. Mr Trong, who is 71 and effectively the most powerful man in Vietnam, was the only candidate nominated. He is seen as a conservative and closer to China. The closed-door meeting has been overshadowed by political infighting. Agreement on the party leadership is traditionally reached well in advance of the congress, which concludes on Thursday. ""Delegates to the first meeting of the party's central committee congratulated Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong who was elected general secretary,"" the official Vietnam News Agency reported. Analysts believe one-party Vietnam will continue with economic reforms, but steer clear of major political changes. Mr Dung, the reformist prime minister, pulled out of the contest on Monday, after failing to win sufficient support among the 1,510 congress delegates. His political career is in effect over, correspondents say. Conservatives, led by Mr Trong, are concerned that Vietnam is abandoning its socialist past under Mr Dung, who will step down later this year. As well as the party's general secretary, the congress nominates the next president and prime minister. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who was also elected to the politburo, is now expected to replace Mr Dung as prime minister. Tran Dai Quang, currently minister of public security, will be the new president, officials say. During his 10 years in office Mr Dung has driven the reforms which have seen Vietnam grow quickly as it has been integrated into the global economy. However, conservatives have criticised the speed of the prime minister's reforms and rising corruption. Mr Dung is seen as modern, and friendly towards the US. He has also gained popularity domestically with strong anti-China rhetoric when it comes to disputed territory in the South China Sea. Mr Trong is seen to be more friendly towards China - Vietnam's largest trading partner.",Vietnam 's ruling Communist Party has re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong as general secretary for a second @placeholder .,term,practice,year,night,period,0
"A new survey, though, suggests more than two-thirds of Brits wish they had more time to read. The survey of 2,000 UK adults by The Reading Agency found that 67% would like to read more, but nearly half (48%) admit they are too busy. And more than 35% said they struggle to find book they really like. Perhaps because we don't read as much as we'd like, because two out of five of us (41%) are happy to stretch the truth when it comes to what or how much we've read. Millennials are the generation most likely to lie about their reading habits, with 64% of 18- to 24-year-olds fibbing about the number of books, or the kinds of books, they have read. One quarter of 18-24 year olds (25%) admit to having lied about reading JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, when they have in fact just watched the Peter Jackson films. The survey was commissioned ahead of World Book Night on 23 April, which calls on book lovers across the country to give a good book to someone who doesn't read often. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Work , kids , @placeholder your phone . But reading a book ? It just does n't happen as much as it used to .",call,helped,suggests,checking,ending,3
"Andrew Pimlott, 32, had poured petrol over himself and was holding a lit match when he was hit in the back garden of his parents' house. The jury said in a narrative verdict that it could not be sure whether he started the fire by striking the match. It said the officer had acted in line with his training before firing. Mr Pimlott died a few days later after the fire in April 2013. PC Peter Hodgkinson, who had never deployed a Taser operationally since completing training on the weapon in 2012, told the inquest he thought Mr Pimlott was going to set himself alight. He and another officer had gone to the house after a 999 call from Mr Pimlott's father, Kelvin, reporting his son was breaching a restraining order imposed by magistrates to stay away from the house. An expert witness told the inquest PC Hodgkinson followed national policing guidelines on using the Taser. Forensic scientist Stephen Andrews told the jury it was his opinion as an experienced fire investigator that it was the Taser that ignited the petrol-soaked Mr Pimlott and not a lit match. Officers were warned of the potential dangers of firing a Taser in the presence of flammable liquids, instructor PC Jonathan Reed told the inquest. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) cleared PC Hodgkinson of misconduct in March, and last October prosecutors rejected a criminal prosecution for gross negligence manslaughter and misconduct. Ali Cloak, the legal representative of Mr Pimlott's family, said after inquest: ""The family are concerned that a Taser was used in circumstances where training in Tasers makes it clear that with a substance you can ignite with a match you should expect a Taser to have the same effect. ""And also that the officers did not attempt to try to resolve the situation by communicating with Andrew instead. ""While Andrew was in some ways a troubled young man, he was a loving, son, brother and uncle who will be very much missed by his family."" Ch Supt Jim Nye of Devon and Cornwall Police said after the inquest: ""Any officer using Taser is subject to extensive training, and we should not under estimate the challenging circumstances police officers face in their line of duty. ""Difficult decisions sometimes need to be made in highly pressured situations. ""In this case, and whenever any officer uses a Taser, it is in line with strict national training and guidance. ""The circumstances of this case mean it is more important than ever to continue to support and train our officers to use Taser appropriately and safely in line with national guidance."" Home Office figures show one in 10 officers is now armed with a Taser and Tasers were deployed more than 10,000  times in England and Wales in 2013. Since 2004, there have also been two cases where people with epilepsy have been Tasered - one of then was already having a seizure, and one of them began having one after being struck.","A Taser fired by a police officer was the most likely cause of a fire which @placeholder and killed a man in Plymouth , an inquest jury has decided .",body,engulfed,hurt,died,killed,1
"It will provide treatment to NHS, private and self-funding patients. The treatment is a highly-targeted type of radiotherapy that can treat hard-to-reach cancers. Cardiff-based Proton Partners International's announcement comes after two-year-old Freya Bevan was forced to travel from Neath to Oklahoma for treatment in February. Freya and her family made the journey because the treatment for her brain tumour was not available in the UK. Proton Partners International said two other centres will also open in London and Northumberland in 2017.",The UK 's first proton @placeholder therapy centre for cancer patients will open in Cardiff .,team,cell,unit,beam,agency,3
"The 30-year-old faces WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares at Manchester Arena, six months after being outpointed by the Venezuelan. Trainer Joe Gallagher has asked Crolla to become more ""selfish, angry and horrible"" to beat the 31-year-old. ""My speed's improved, my variation of shots has improved,"" said Crolla. ""I just think I'm a bit more clever in the ring,"" the Mancunian told BBC Sport. ""I've had to be a little bit selfish and miss out on a few things, like training kids at the old amateur club. But I certainly feel the benefits of being locked away a bit more this camp."" Crolla believes September's fight turned in the sixth round after one of the hardest punches he has received. Defending the WBA title he claimed in 2015, he was beaten for the fifth time in his 39-fight career. If Crolla avenges the defeat, he will also claim the Ring Magazine title, becoming the first English lightweight to do so. ""He's a sharp counter-puncher with power in either hand, so I've got to fight using my head and not just my heart,"" added Crolla. ""It's very hard to top winning a world title but I believe winning back this world title, when I'm fighting a future hall of famer and for the prizes I'm fighting him for, would go down as one of the most special nights in Manchester boxing."" Linares, who left Venezuela to train in Japan at the age of 17, has held world titles in three weight divisions on his way to a record of 41 wins from 44 fights.","Anthony Crolla believes an @placeholder selfishness will help him create "" one of the most special nights in Manchester boxing "" on Saturday .",company,offer,animated,end,enforced,4
"British Transport Police said the worst brawl was on the 23:11 TransPeninne service when fighting broke out between two women and rugby fans at Carnforth Station on 10 October. A spokesman said a ""hardline"" clampdown was needed to curb the problem. Those considered too drunk would not be allowed to travel, he added.",Extra police officers will be @placeholder the Lancaster to Barrow late - night weekend service after an increase in drunken behaviour .,patrolling,forced,joining,discussing,allowed,0
"The three-fingered salute was widely used by protesters against Thailand's military coup in May. The military had threatened in June to arrest anyone who refused to stop doing it when challenged. Gen Prayuth led the coup, which came after months of political deadlock and unrest, and became PM in August. On Wednesday, he was speaking at an event in the north-eastern province of Khon Kaen when five students from a local university sitting near the podium stood up. They removed their shirts to reveal T-shirts underneath with a Thai slogan reading ""No Coup"", and flashed the three-fingered salute. Police officers and soldiers immediately took the five away. The three-finger gesture is used by characters in the dystopian Hunger Games film and book trilogy as a sign of silent dissent against a brutal authoritarian state. It became so popular after the Thai coup that the authorities warned they would arrest anyone in a large group who gave the salute and refused to lower their arm when ordered. Local media reported that Mr Chan-ocha appeared unperturbed on Wednesday and asked: ""Does anyone else want to protest?"" He added that protesters could lodge complaints with local government offices. Army officials later confirmed that the students were taken to a military camp and were detained for ""attitude adjustment"", reported The Nation. Lawyer Sasinan Thamnithinan said they had not been charged, the Associated Press reports. Anti-coup leaflets had reportedly been distributed around Khon Kaen province before Gen Prayuth's arrival. The area is known to be a power base for former PM Thaksin Shinawatra and his Pheu Thai party, whose supporters are known as ""red shirts"". The military has been heavily criticised for its ousting of the democratically-elected civilian government. But it has argued that its 22 May coup was necessary to bring peace and stability to Thailand, which saw violent clashes between red shirts and the pro-monarchy opposition ""yellow shirts"" supporters. Gen Prayuth became prime minister after he was named by a legislature hand-picked by the military. Amnesty International has said the military government has since engaged in widespread human rights violations, including arbitrary detentions and a clampdown on free speech. The military has said it eventually plans to hand power back to civilians and promised to hold a general election in late 2015. But international players have raised concerns of the junta consolidating power in the meantime.",Five Thai students who flashed a salute inspired by Hollywood film @placeholder The Hunger Games at Prime Minister Prayuth Chan - Ocha have been detained .,team,series,following,race,control,1
"The army took over Imber during World War II, to use the area on Salisbury Plain for training, forcing residents to move out, never to return. It has been used by the military ever since, with access granted to the public on a number of occasions a year. Only a handful of the original residents are still alive. Some told their stories of the evacuation during the service at Edington Priory Church near Westbury, which was led by the Reverend Mark Jones. ""It's important for those people who actually grew up there and still have strong memories [and connections] about the place"" he said. ""It's the story of people's lives, and Imber has a strong and powerful story to tell."" The entire civilian population of Imber was ordered to leave in 1943 to provide a training area for American troops preparing for the D-Day landings. Since 2005, when the church was taken over by the Churches Conservation Trust, more than £300,000 has been spent on renovations. Public access to the village is granted by the MoD on up to 50 days a year, including periods over Easter, Christmas, New Year and in August. The service formed part of this year's Westbury Music and Arts Festival, which runs until 13 October.","A church service to mark 70 years since the residents of a Wiltshire village were told to leave because the military was taking it over , has been @placeholder .",announced,held,reported,cancelled,unveiled,1
"The government says Marino Murillo will now have responsibility for spearheading market reforms. Cuba's economy is closely tied to that of its socialist ally, Venezuela. But Venezuela has been hit by oil prices remaining comparatively low. The BBC's Will Grant in Havana says the decision to transfer the economy minister to new duties adds to the growing sense of economic uncertainty in Cuba. For now, Mr Murillo will broadly remain involved in managing the communist island's economy. President Castro has told Cubans to brace themselves for a tough second half of 2016 as government institutions restrict their energy consumption while a joint Cuban-Venezuelan oil refinery in the city of Cienfuegos is temporarily closed. For over a decade, Venezuela has supplied an estimated 100,000 barrels of oil a day to Cuba, largely paid for by missions of Cuban healthcare professionals to the South American nation. Mr Murillo will be replaced by another veteran politician, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, who has overseen the country's recent debt restructuring. President Castro has allowed much of Cuba's state-controlled agriculture sector to be made into co-operatives and legalised small and medium-sized private businesses since assuming power from his ailing brother, Fidel, in 2008. With the restoration of relations with the US last year, Cuba is also opening up to foreign investment.",The Cuban economy minister has been removed from his post following President Raul Castro 's warning last week that people would have to @placeholder their belts amid the continuing economic crisis in Venezuela .,cut,remove,enter,transform,tighten,4
"Stop Killing Cyclists laid 21 cardboard ""coffins"" on Blackfriars Road to represent the riders killed in London since the group began in November 2013. Organisers of the No More Coffins event want TfL to invest 10% of its budget on improving cycling infrastructure. TfL said it was investing nearly £1bn on measures that would improve safety. Eight cyclists have been killed in the capital this year, seven of them in incidents involving HGVs. The death toll in 2014 stood at 13. The campaign group was set up after six cyclists were killed in the capital in one month, November 2013. Nicola Branch, co-organiser of the protest, said: ""We want 10% of the TfL budget to be spent on cycling infrastructure. At the moment it is only 1.4% of their transport budget and that's nowhere near enough. ""As cyclists we are the canary in the coalmine, you sort out the problem of cycling deaths first and then all the other deaths fall into place."" As part of the protest scores of cyclists lay down with their bikes on the road in a ""die-in"" near the coffins. Several cyclists also spoke before the event, which is in its third year. Among the protesters was Vicky Lebreck, 25, from London, who said she was trying to ""get my life back together"" after her leg was amputated after her pelvis was crushed by a lorry in a crash in December last year. ""I don't think it should be a possible outcome that a mistake made by a driver means people cycling on London's roads should be dying or having dramatic injuries."" Leon Daniels, Managing Director of Surface Transport at TfL, said: ""We are investing nearly £1 billion in upgrading the existing Cycle Superhighways with greater segregation, introducing major new segregated cycle routes and backstreet quiet routes, and overhauling dozens of junctions both on our roads and on borough roads, to give more protection to pedestrians and cyclists.""",Coffins have placed outside the Transport for London ( TfL ) @placeholder in a protest by cycling campaigners calling for more safety measures for cyclists .,depot,activity,equality,stadium,office,4
"The amendments proposed by Mr Nazarbayev and approved by parliament on Monday will give lawmakers more power, on paper. The cabinet will now report its main initiatives not just to the president but also to parliament. Presidents will no longer be able to issue decrees that have the power of law. And parliament gets a greater say in appointing and sacking cabinet members, while the executive branch becomes more independent. The president will no longer be able to override parliamentary votes of no-confidence in cabinet members. ""Upon my instructions, the cabinet prepared the bill that will delegate 35 responsibilities of the president to lower levels of government,"" President Nazarbayev, who has been regularly criticised for persecuting opponents and violating human rights, told a joint session of parliament. Under the changes he will no longer be able to suspend decisions taken by the prime minister and cabinet, so they will be fully responsible for implementing state programmes and policies. Although the changes seem to strengthen the system of checks and balances, and allow some mechanisms to limit the president's power, many observers remain sceptical. In the absence of a genuine opposition, the changes will be cosmetic, they say. Dosym Satpayev, a political analyst based in Almaty, argues that if the government doesn't allow real opposition to compete for power, then strengthening parliament will not advance democracy in the country since only pro-presidential parties will get seats after the elections. Also, the amendments will keep the president as the ""supreme arbitrator"" who will serve as a power broker between different branches. He will keep his powers to appoint ministers of foreign affairs, defence and interior. The role of the president as the ""founder of independent Kazakhstan, the first president and the leader of the nation"" will also be enshrined in the constitution. Many observers agree that the constitutional changes are aimed at preparing the ground for a political succession in Kazakhstan, the only former Soviet republic still run by a leader from the communist era. President Nazarbayev is 76 and many in the oil- and mineral-rich country wonder who will replace him. The death of Islam Karimov, another long-serving leader in neighbouring Uzbekistan in September, may have reminded Mr Nazarbayev of the need to prepare for a succession. Following Mr Karimov's funeral, analysts point out, there were several key appointment in Kazakhstan, including a new security services head. A number of top level state officials were also arrested, Dosym Satpaev says, which is seen as a signal that the government is actively getting ready for a succession. The constitutional changes are being seen as part of this process. ""We also need to get ready for a power transit,"" said Yuriy Buluktayev from the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies, ""and that's why it's important to strengthen political institutions, first of all the parliament."" The amendments are aimed at helping ensure a smooth power transition when the time comes. They will provide protection for the president and his family and ensure that his successor will continue the same politics carried out by Mr Nazarbayev, observers say. Kazakhstan's constitution has been changed a number of times in favour of the president and there are no guarantees that whoever comes after Mr Nazarbayev will not do it again.",Authoritarian leaders usually @placeholder more control - but Kazakhstan 's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has agreed to share some of his powers with parliament and the cabinet . Are the constitutional changes a real step towards democracy or could they be a political manoeuvre ?,reached,seize,lost,expects,recorded,1
"The Times said a former party official had filed a complaint to the EU's anti-fraud body over his use of the ""general expenditure allowance"". The UKIP leader rejected suggestions he had broken the rules on MEP allowances. The Electoral Commission has said it is to write to UKIP for ""clarification"" about Mr Farage's constituency office. The Times said Mr Farage received £15,500 a year to run the small office near Bognor Regis - but it had been provided rent-free by UKIP supporters. The Electoral Commission's records suggest the property, a converted grain store, has not been declared since 2004 when two donations totalling £1,100 were registered. The donation of a ""benefit in kind"" worth more than £1,500 a year to an MEP - like a free office - should be reported to the Electoral Commission. The Electoral Commission said it did not consider this to be an investigation. The Times said a former office manager had claimed the premises cost only about £3,000 a year to run.  The office manager later disputed the figure, saying he had been misquoted, but the Times stood by its story. The EU does not demand a detailed breakdown of office expenditure but Mr Farage insisted the running costs were about £1,000 a month. The UKIP leader told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was taking ""legal advice"" about The Times story, adding: ""I think this is completely and utterly outrageous."" He said MEPs were given recommendations about what the allowance can legitimately be spent on, such as the running of an office, mobile phone or hotel bills, but did not have to provide receipts. ""We do not claim expenses for running an office or any other activity that takes place within the United Kingdom. ""We get an allowance, a fixed-rate allowance, and we can spend it how we see fit,"" he told Today. He said he had been always been open and ""unashamed"" about using the allowances and expenses provided to him as an MEP to campaign for Britain's exit from the European Union but that he would ""do so within the rules of the Parliament"". He described the Times report as ""yet another politically motivated attack from what is the establishment newspaper"". He said he would be happy for his accounts to be audited by an independent accountant ""if that would solve the argument"", adding: ""UKIP don't want any of these allowances. We don't want British MEPs costing the taxpayers all this money."" Earlier UKIP issued a statement saying the allegations ""lack substance"" and said the office allowance was used in part to pay for additional premises. The Times says a former UKIP official has filed a formal complaint about Mr Farage to the EU anti-fraud office OLAF. An OLAF spokesman told BBC News it had received a complaint and was considering whether it fell within the organisation's remit and, if so, whether there was sufficient suspicion of fraud or corruption to launch an investigation. ""Please note that the fact that OLAF assesses information does not mean that individuals in question are guilty of any wrongdoing. OLAF fully respects the presumption of innocence,"" added the spokesman. Meanwhile, in a separate development, a committee of MEPs responsible for overseeing the European Parliament's rules has decided not to investigate allegations that UKIP was misusing EU funds. The Times reported allegations in March that UKIP had channelled public money intended for the pan-EU political group of which it is a member, the Europe of Freedom and Democracy, into the salaries of the party's staff, against parliamentary guidelines. But the Bureau of the European Parliament ""did not find grounds for the accusation made"", according to minutes of its meeting on Monday.","UKIP leader Nigel Farage has rejected claims he might have @placeholder EU expenses , describing them as a "" politically motivated attack "" .",settled,called,condemned,sparked,abused,4
"Samuel Davide Hains was a beguiling man - at once silly, radical and self-assured. He wore second-hand overalls backwards, carried a tote bag emblazoned with the slogan ""Feeling Myself"" and professed to admiring ""the style of Trotsky in leather"". ""My favourite place to shop is K Mart,"" he said. ""I like to re-imagine chain store garments and pair them with high end fashion, like my Chanel cape."" The editors of Melbourne's The Age found Samuel's off-beat shtick so intriguing that they put him on the newspaper's website and the front page. Soon he was dubbed ""the world's biggest hipster"" and his absurd interview rocketed around the internet, spawning scores of follow-up stories and millions of clicks. But Samuel Davide Hains didn't exist. He was a hoax, perpetrated by Sam Hains, a computer programmer with a talent for making absurd statements on the fly. Hains, 24, admitted to VICE that his bucolic-socialist-with-a-dash-of-jazz persona was a hoax. The Age has since fired Tara Kenny, the journalist who knowingly submitted Sam's lies to the Street Seen fashion column. Hains described the ""media machine"" that chased him as ""diabolical"", saying that ""the whole thing was getting out of control"". He found the level of abuse he copped ""saddening and disturbing"". Online comments ranged from potty-mouthed sledges to a patriotic Daily Mail reader's suggestion that ""the diggers in Gallipoli (where Australians fought in World War One) would be shaking their heads in disbelief"". Digital vitriol is now so prevalent that it has become a respectable area of study, with Scientific American running such articles as 'Why Is Everyone on the Internet so Angry?' Hains' playful foppishness surely landed him squarely in the terrain where clickbait and frothing hate are intimately entwined. But while it's tempting, can we really say that Hains' deception and the media tsunami that followed are part of some digital culture zeitgeist? What if naïve and absurd ""churnalism"" is not new at all? And what if going for the jugular is a human evergreen? Back in the primordial, parochial year of 1992, a bizarre and revealing media frenzy swept Australia - that of Young People Against Heavy Metal T-Shirts (YPAHMTS). I founded YPAHMTS by accident one morning while working in a Sydney office where the boss forever had talkback radio booming. A prominent Australian shock jock, Alan Jones, was banging on about a local thrash-punk band called the Hard-Ons. Jones said the group's name was symptomatic of a youth culture's moral decline. Jones bugged me, so to let off steam I knocked out a letter claiming to be the head of a growing national movement called Young People Against Heavy Metal T-Shirts and faxed it to a few newspapers. Here's a snippet of my earnest drivel that ""went viral"": Young people have shown remarkable responsibility towards the environment, and now it is time for them to clean themselves up and act with equal respect for themselves and their elders. This means stopping socially and personally damaging activities such as smoking, drinking, swearing, taking drugs, easy sex and, in particular, wearing heavy metal T-shirts. Heavy metal T-shirts may seem like a small issue, but look at how many people wear them in public. They depict scenes of violence and sex, and in many cases openly incite subversion and a cynical attitude towards the moral guardians of our society, such as the police, parents, religious figures and law and order in general. It seemed too ludicrous to be published, but a couple of days later my boss slapped down the Daily Telegraph, Sydney's tabloid newspaper, opened to a page with the bold headline: 'Stamp out T-shirt terror'.  As he demanded to know what the hell this was about, the phone rang. It was a journalist, wanting to interview me, the first in a string of calls from print, radio and television reporters. All asked which other outlets I had spoken to - the competition was fierce. I ad-libbed answers, claiming to have about 50 members across a few states. No-one checked anything, not even when I decided to up the weird stakes and say on national TV and radio that I would be running a series of youth camps in the desert. This was at a time when journalist Derryn Hinch, who will almost certainly be moving into the upper house of Australia's parliament this year, had a high-rating current affairs TV show called Hinch. The Hinch producers wanted to film a YPAHMTS meeting, so I roped in friends to play a range of stereotypes (a woman complaining of the T-shirts' misogyny; a yuppie; a very positive-minded ethnic Australian; a former metal head who used to wear the shirts but met me and saw the light). In some ways, the pre-internet era was even easier to work a con; when a radio producer from Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC), said he'd be interested in seeing one of our newsletters, I just whipped up something duly quasi-fascist and backdated it. The ABC was my best customer, giving me substantial platforms on networked AM radio, youth station Triple J and even television. My followers and I were invited to Melbourne for an edition of the well-regarded Couchman chat show. My technique was to keep out-manoeuvring interviewers and talk-back callers by refusing to be what they expected. To accusations that I must be a fundamentalist Christian, I answered that I was a ""socially active Taoist"". One essential problem of the offending T-shirts, I said, was a mindset of ""labelism"".  After my Triple J appearance, I received letters from people wanting to join YPAHMTS or start a local chapter. Interest was especially strong in Adelaide. I was stopped in the street and copped many fierce salvos. One radio caller memorably threatened to strangle me with my mother's blood-stained panties. People are like that. So I don't think of ridiculous stories, mass gullibility and poisonous sledging as part of some expression of the viral media zeitgeist. To me, they seem like long-standing aspects of the human condition - the delivery mechanism has changed but fake stories remain as disingenuous as ever. Dr Matthew Thompson is an author, journalist and academic.","In the race to compete with viral media sites , fake stories contaminate the @placeholder of once -reputable news publishers . But stories that are too good to be true predate the internet , writes journalist and hoaxer Matt Thompson .",story,output,experience,death,lives,1
"The 25-year-old midfielder signed a three-year-contract to become Ibrox manager Pedro Caixinha's second signing of the summer. Jack came through the youth ranks at Pittodrie but chose to leave the club at the end of his contract. Caixinha has already secured the signing of Portugal defender Bruno Alves from Cagliari. ""It's an honour and a privilege to come to such a massive club and I'm grateful for the opportunity and looking forward to the challenge that lies ahead,"" Jack said. ""It's a huge club and the club is back in European football and a big support as well. It's always a great atmosphere when you play there. So all that and the package that comes with it, it's an exciting time. ""I'm really looking forward to it. It's a surreal moment but I'm delighted to be part of this club. ""I'm thankful to Aberdeen and to Derek McInnes, but I just felt it was time for a fresh challenge and it's one at Rangers that I'm really looking forward to. ""From what I've heard, the club are making a few signings and bringing in a good calibre of player, so it's exciting times and I know there are really good players already here as well."" Jack made his debut for Aberdeen against Rangers in September 2010 and went on to make almost 250 appearances for the club, scoring 11 goals. He was appointed club captain by manager Derek McInnes at the beginning of the 2015-16 season. However, he lost the armband ahead of the Scottish Cup final defeat to Celtic because of his intention to leave Pittodrie. He was replaced as captain with Graeme Shinnie. Alves became Rangers' first signing of Caixinha's rebuild after leaving Serie A and the Rangers manager was keen to make jack the second part of his recruitment strategy. ""I believe 25 is a great age for him to come here,"" the Rangers manager said. ""He had three years as captain of Aberdeen and has that experience. He also understands what it means to represent Rangers."" Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",Former Aberdeen captain Ryan Jack has @placeholder his move to Rangers as a free agent .,committed,urged,praised,defended,completed,4
"Gareth Bennett has linked immigration in Cardiff to rubbish in City Road. But UKIP's spokesman on migration Steven Woolfe MEP said there is no room in the party for xenophobic comments. UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill said Mr Bennett's comments are not the views of the party. Mr Bennett was quoted in WalesOnline saying: ""I think in Cardiff the starkest area which has changed completely is City Road. ""That's probably where we have a multiplicity, a melting pot of different races all getting on each other's nerves, I think, and certainly causing lots of problems because of different cultural attitudes, very visible problems of rubbish which is being left on the street uncollected all the time."" Mr Bennett was asked on BBC's Daily Politics what evidence he had for his claim. He said: ""I haven't got any firm evidence to give you now."" He said he had sent a draft legal letter to UKIP, saying ""if they try to deselect me without due process they will face a legal action from me for lost earnings of £300,000"". Mr Woolfe told BBC's Daily Politics: ""It's not for me to actually make the deselection process. ""That will be the NEC and I understand that they will do so."" The MEP added: ""If he has also said that in terms of the language that you blame migrants or those who come to this country for all the ills of this country, if there is a tone of any form of racism in there whatsoever I will be demanding that the NEC takes the strongest terms possible to deal with this man. ""I would ask those who have examined him and approved him that they too should be reprimanded by the NEC because there is no room in this party... for anyone who makes any racist, xenophobic or other types of comments"". Nathan Gill, leader of UKIP Wales, said the NEC have ratified the candidate lists ""subject to a final ongoing assessment which we are in the middle of and which takes place right up until the paperwork is presented to the electoral offices"". ""The comments that Mr Bennett made, [and] also his performance in the media, will play a major part in that assessment,"" he said. Mr Gill said he didn't share ""any of the views that Mr Bennett has expressed about immigration in Cardiff. We as a party are not anti-immigration, we are anti uncontrolled immigration and uncontrolled immigration only. We want an Australian-style points based system."" ""Mr Bennett has expressed his own views and they are clearly not the views of the party,"" he added. A UKIP Wales source called for his deselection. He said it was ""absolutely crazy"" to blame immigration for rubbish, and said a lot of candidates wanted the issue ""dealt with properly"", although he had a right to a ""fair trial"". The source also criticised the fact that Mr Bennett had spoken about immigration ""when it isn't a devolved issue"". UKIP's central office has told BBC Wales that it ""will not make any comment about the matter until they have spoken with Mr Bennett"".","UKIP 's National Executive Committee will consider deselecting an assembly election candidate at the centre of a race row , a senior party @placeholder has said .",organisation,agency,member,union,team,2
"Members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews have been sending their replies to a postal ballot on whether to admit women to the club for the first time in its 260-year history. The result will be made known in the early evening of Thursday when a statement will be issued by the Fife-based organisation.  If, as expected, the vote favours the admission of women it will be a significant step forward for the game. While it won't make any practical difference to the thousands of female golfers in the UK, it will help one of the game's governing bodies perform its duties free from rising criticism that was undermining its authority. Golf has been regarded as out of step with modern society because several men-only clubs hold positions of great influence - none more so than the Royal and Ancient, which in 2004 spawned the limited company that runs the Open Championship and acts as rule-maker for the game. The championship committee that organises the Open is made up by members from the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. Provided there is the anticipated ""yes"" vote, this means women will have a route to become involved in the running of golf's oldest and most revered tournament. It is a significant move because the club will regain a moral authority that was slipping from its grasp.  ""We've done this really because of our governance role in the game,"" said R&A chief executive Peter Dawson when he announced the ballot in March. ""Sport has been changing, society has been changing and golf is part of that. We think it's time this change is made. ""You can always ask that question: 'Why now? Why not 10 years ago?' The R&A have been considering this. It's been on our agenda, on our radar, for quite some time,"" Dawson added. ""The feeling is as society changes, as sport changes, as golf changes, it's something the R&A needs to do."" Back in March, Dawson stated a ""no"" vote would be ""undesirable"".  Indeed, were the move to be rejected it would leave many questioning the R&A's right to have any future influence on the running of the game. During the ballot process, Dawson has been at pains not to be drawn any further into the debate. He did not want to say anything that might upset the membership. Originally the vote, which would have required a two-thirds majority, was scheduled to take place at the club's annual business meeting. That's why they had no choice but to use the same date as the Scottish referendum. However, it soon became clear that this was a matter for the entire club, not just the 300 or so members who typically attend the business meeting.  Therefore a postal ballot of all 2,400 members was organised and only a simple majority is required to enact the historic move. Too many recent Opens have been overshadowed by the men-only issue.  Whenever the championship has been played at St Andrews, Muirfield, Royal St George's and Royal Troon, it has detracted from the tournament. The irony is that the Old Course at St Andrews is a public facility open to all. Unfortunately that fact was often lost amid arguments of elitism and discrimination. Headlines portraying golf as a pompous, male chauvinist sport take away from the great champions competing for the prized Claret Jug. In the wake of the vote being announced, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers have been mulling over the issue of men-only membership at Muirfield, while at Sandwich there are increasing signs of movement on the issue. Royal Troon appear to have no plans to move from single-sex membership. However, they point out that the town's ladies club use the course, which is scheduled to stage the 2016 Open. While the R&A have no desire to remove these clubs from the championship rota, they must also know how the men-only issue undermines the sport.  They should be able to influence change to more inclusive policies if they have female members. ""I think if they're honest, they are bowing to pressure because they would probably like to keep it as it is, as it has been for the last 200 years,"" Dame Laura Davies, Britain's leading female player in the modern era, was quoted as saying. ""I'm sure a lot of people won't like it. Everyone probably thinks it should happen but it's their club, they're the members and, if they want to keep it the way it is, that's their decision. ""But I think, in a modern world, it's about time they did have some lady members. If they offered me a membership of the R&A, I'd snap their hands off. If they let lady members in then great; if they don't then that's their prerogative."" Sports minister Helen Grant has urged a vote to allow women members and it would be a surprise if the membership reject the proposal. Certainly the committee would not have called the vote and backed the idea of women members if they thought there was much chance of defeat. Unlike the referendum, this seems an easier vote to call and so expect 15 or so women from prominent positions in the golfing firmament to soon be invited to join its most historic club.","While Scotland decides its future on 18 September , the result will be @placeholder of another significant vote by one of the country 's historic sporting institutions .",cleared,boosted,published,expected,stripped,2
"The Equality and Human Rights Commission report also concluded that disabled people had an employment rate of 43%, compared with 80% for non-disabled workers. The figures on disability were recorded in 2013. The commission found there were also fewer opportunities for young people and those in ethnic minority groups. Looking at evidence from the last five years, the Commission's report also found - using 2013 data - the life expectancy of Scots was about two years lower than the rest of the UK, and political participation in Scotland had grown. Alastair Pringle, the Scotland director of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: ""This report shows that progress towards equality has been made for some people in certain areas of life. However, many people are being left behind. ""Young people and ethnic minorities have been particularly badly-hit over the last five years, with life on many fronts getting worse. ""The gateway to opportunity remains harder to pass through for some groups, such as disabled people and people from poorer backgrounds and from the gypsy traveller community."" He added: ""The report highlights the need to address key challenges of health inequalities and improving living conditions in communities to address significant inequalities in housing conditions and living standards. ""Other areas requiring significant improvement are eliminating violence, harassment and abuse in the community."" The commission intends to publish another report on Scotland in January.",A study has suggested disabled Scots are @placeholder on average £ 1.20 less per hour than able - bodied colleagues .,posted,set,charging,paid,estimated,3
"Dr Nihal Weerasena was found to have committed various failures in his care of five children and one adult patient while employed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He was sanctioned after being found guilty of misconduct by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS). The MPTS ruled he had shown ""reckless disregard for patient safety"". Live updates and more news from across Yorkshire Among the charges found proven, the MPTS ruled Dr Weerasena had shown ""substandard practice"" in his treatment of a seven-year-old patient in 2012 in a ""complex"" surgery. However, he was cleared of missing a key event during the operation out of his typed report, which had appeared in his handwritten note. He also failed to keep an accurate record of surgery on a six-year-old patient in November 2010, the panel found. An allegation involving his care of a sixth child was not proved. The MPTS said Dr Weerasena's misconduct, failure to demonstrate insight or take effective remedial action was  ""fundamentally incompatible with continued registration"". It said: ""Mr Weerasena should not practice again for public safety reasons and to protect the reputation of the profession."" Dr Weerasena was referred to the General Medical Council in 2014 after the Trust carried out a review of paediatric care services, which included looking at clinical outcomes. The review came the year after children's heart operations at Leeds General Infirmary were stopped for a fortnight on the orders of NHS England over concerns about the safety of the unit. A report later concluded the unit did not have excessive mortality rates. The surgeon did not attend the hearing but explained his absence in writing and alleged he had been the victim of a ""cover-up"".",A child heart surgeon who made a number of errors at a hospital unit has been @placeholder off .,laid,struck,tipped,held,cut,1
"A new technique uses a long tube to quickly sample the air above suspected gravesites. The specially coated tube can spot tiny amounts of a chemical linked to the breakdown of animal remains, up to months after the remains are buried. The research is published in Forensic Science International and highlighted in New Scientist magazine. The task is to outperform the premier detector of hidden explosives, drugs, or humans alive or dead: the sniffer dog. But as much as dogs can be trained, it remains unclear what exactly they perceive. ""We're not really sure what the dogs are sniffing or what they're focusing on,"" said Tom Bruno of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist) in the US. ""And dogs can be difficult to control, and uncertain,"" he told BBC News. ""Recently we've come to think dogs aren't sniffing an explosive, but cyclohexanone, a chemical used to re-crystallise the explosive. ""What if the bomb makers switch to using another chemical instead?"" In order to win out over the dog's abilities in finding hidden graves, Dr Bruno and his colleague Tara Lovestead adapted their ""headspace analysis"" technique, originally developed to detect explosives and more recently adapted to sniff out food spoilage. Shedding light At the heart of the approach is the use of a long tube lined with two materials: alumina, a porous but tough material that soaks up molecules from the air, and ninhydrin, a molecule that binds both to alumina and to the clues indicating a hidden grave. Almost all animal tissue is made up of proteins, which after death break down into constituent parts, some of which end up free in the air. In mammals, the structure of many of these decomposition products - with evocative names such as cadaverine - is known. When these products encounter ninhydrin, a particular bond is formed - a bond that absorbs light of a particular colour. At one end of the tube is a source of ultraviolet light and at the other a detector. The more decomposition products that settle in the tube, the more light gets absorbed along the way; the light level is then an indirect measure of the presence of decomposing flesh. To set up their ""gravesites"" to be tested, the researchers placed rat cadavers on top of or buried underneath soil in a number of compartments. Other compartments were left with soil only. Their detection technique accurately spotted the presence of the cadavers, at times ranging up to 20 weeks after burial - the decomposition process eventually exhaust the supply of proteins. Dr Bruno says that the team will carry on applying the technique to a range of ""sniffing"" problems, and that they are already in discussions to commercialise the idea. It may be some time before the technique can routinely outperform a dog's nose, but may become indispensable for cases in which a grave may be hidden beneath more than just soil. ""In large areas, it would be a supplement to other methods or dogs,"" Dr Bruno said. ""But in small areas, or if you suspect there's something buried under a concrete slab, it's probably the best way.""","A "" sniffer tube "" could @placeholder dogs in the arsenal of tools to locate hidden graves , say researchers .",replace,change,have,finish,yield,0
"Players did not speak to the media before and after Friday's 2-0 friendly win over Romania in Falkirk. Their stance comes as Anna Signeul's squad prepare for next month's Euro 2017 finals in the Netherlands. The Scottish FA said in a statement that it was ""disappointed they have chosen not to undertake their media responsibilities"". But the governing body hopes to resolve the matter before Tuesday's friendly against Sweden in Vaxjo. ""We can confirm that we are in discussions with the Scotland Women's national team players regarding terms and conditions ahead of the women's Euros in the Netherlands next month,"" it said. ""We will endeavour to resolve this matter at the earliest opportunity through discussions with their advisors."" Scotland's home-based players are being funded to go full-time as they prepare for the finals, where Scotland meet England, Portugal and Spain. A package agreed between the Scottish Football Partnership, Sport Scotland and energy firm SSE will provide finances until the tournament is over. Around half the squad are expected to benefit from the scheme. Head coach Signeul distanced herself from the dispute, saying she feels coaches should not be involved as it is between the players and the SFA. ""I'm not involved at all in that process,"" said Signeul, who suggested it was the same for men's head coach Gordon Strachan. ""They do this on the men's side as well, they negotiate contracts. ""It is between the SFA and the players and I don't think Gordon has anything to do with this either, it's nothing to do with us coaches."" Signeul will name her squad for Euro 2017 on 20 June.",Scotland 's women are @placeholder to carry out any media or commercial activity due to a dispute with the Scottish FA .,preparing,scrambling,believed,continuing,refusing,4
"Zoe Carter-Owen of Westfield Close, Backwell pleaded guilty by post and did not appear during the hearing at North Somerset Magistrates Court. She was caught using the badge in June 2016, issued to her grandfather who died at the end of July 2014. North Somerset Council has seized more than 100 badges over the past year. Carter-Owen was fined £220, and also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £30, a parking fine of £220 and total costs of £390. The parking permit issued to her grandfather Melville Walter Owen was cancelled in September 2014, two months after he died at the age of 89. The council said it was currently processing 21 cases for prosecution as part of an effort to clampdown on the misuse of the badges.","A woman who used her grandfather 's @placeholder parking "" blue badge "" for nearly two years after he died has been fined .",nicknamed,garage,drug,disabled,voice,3
"Or maybe it's part and parcel of a deliberately creative ambiguity fostered by both London and Dublin in which the spectator is invited to read whatever he or she wants into a President and a Queen standing, heads bowed, before the undeniably impressive Children of Lir statue at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance. At a briefing given by the Foreign Secretary William Hague and the Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, Channel Four's Gary Gibbon invited the politicians to share the interpretation that the joint appearance at the Garden was ""a moment of contrition"". However the ministers weren't going there - it was ""a hugely significant event"", full of ""huge symbolism"" and an ""important statement about our history and our future"". But ""contrition""? Well that would be in the eye of the beholder. I asked the Foreign Secretary if it would be appropriate for the Queen to apologise for past British misdeeds in Ireland when she addresses guests at tomorrow night's state banquet. Mr Hague responded that Britain and Ireland weren't ""glossing over the past"". This visit was about recognising the events of the past and showing how both states were moving together into the future. ""That's the way to treat it rather than talking about apologies"", Mr Hague concluded. So - if that's anything to go by - expect a carefully crafted speech but something which stops short of a direct apology. Mr Hague also avoided any promises on issues like revealing official records on the Dublin Monaghan bombings. It's something he says he's prepared to discuss, but he cited legal difficulties and constraints under the European Convention on Human Rights. Both governments are much keener to talk about the future - the potential for further trade between partners who already do business worth one billion Euros a week. Eamon Gilmore went so far as to suggest that the visit will put not just the history of the troubles in the past, but show Ireland was moving on from its  ""recent economic history"" and rebuilding its reputation. Nice thought, although it's maybe a bit optimistic to talk about the crash as history just yet. Both governments will be pleased that the Gardai were able to contain the inevitable protests - and that the visit has made the requisite visual impact. In the sweep of British and Irish history, it is ""hugely symbolic"", it does underline the progress that has been made in Northern Ireland and the shared hopes for a brighter future. Read more into it at your peril.",""" Hugely symbolic "" . Probably the two most over used words to describe the Queen 's visit to the Irish Republic . I @placeholder I myself have used the "" s "" word , and am struggling to find an alternative . Perhaps my struggle is evidence I lack the purple prose gene .",group,called,suspect,suppose,confess,4
"Only the two women involved in this unprecedented political storm know the true dynamic of their relationship. And President Park and her confidante Choi Soon-sil are not telling. Choi is suspected of exploiting her links with Ms Park for her own financial gain and has now returned to the country to face her accusers. In the absence of information, the rumour mill is whirling. Newspapers and television channels have been feeding the frenzy of speculation, throwing out ever more fanciful conjecture about a mysterious relationship that goes back four decades. Is the mentor really a malign influence reminiscent of Rasputin - Ms Choi's father was certainly labelled the Korean Rasputin by some - or is she just an old friend? Both Ms Choi and Ms Park are intriguing characters. The current president is the daughter of Park Chung-hee, a military strongman who took power in a coup but who then decided that his brutal dictatorship should become a modern, industrialised democracy. Warts and all, he is the father of modern South Korea. He was assassinated by his own head of intelligence in 1979. The motive remains unclear but one theory is that the director of the Korean CIA, who fired the fatal shot, felt he had fallen under the influence of Choi Tae-min, a pseudo-pastor. Choi was also the father of Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the centre of the current controversy. Five years before the president's assassination, the current president's mother had also been killed, shot dead in central Seoul by a sympathiser of North Korea. The daughter immediately returned from her studies in Europe and became, in effect, first lady, accompanying her father on his official duties. With both parents the victims of political violence, the daughter then went into politics on her own account, where she too was physically attacked. She had her face slashed so badly at one political meeting that it needed 60 stitches. The long, thin scar is still visible, running from her right ear to her lower jaw. On top of this extraordinary background, Ms Park, who is not married, has no close family to lean on in what, in any case, would be a tough and lonely job in the presidential palace, known as the Blue House. Is this why she leans so much on Choi Soon-sil? Ms Choi's father, Choi Tae-min, was a colourful character, married many times - six, according to South Korean media - and a frequent changer of his own name. He was a Buddhist who converted to Christianity and then set up what he called the ""Church of Eternal Life"". In this guise he became a friend of the Park family, both of the senior President Park and of his daughter, now president, as she was growing up. Mr Choi's daughter became a friend of the young Park Geun-hye. The two young women remained friends and that is the relationship now under scrutiny. According to the New York Times, the founder of the religious sect won his way into favour with the now-President Park by saying her assassinated mother had appeared in his dreams, begging him to help the orphaned daughter. But this is not the first time this unusual relationship has spilled into public view. An American diplomatic cable from 2007, leaked by Wikileaks, said: ""Park has also been forced to explain her own past, including her relationship some 35 years ago with a pastor, Choi Tae-min, whom her opponents characterize as a 'Korean Rasputin', and how he controlled Park during her time in the Blue House when she was first lady after her mother's assassination"". It is this allegation of a mystical influence on the current president which is doing the political damage. Prosecutors are investigating whether funds set up by Choi Soon-sil are within the law - the unproven allegation is that the funds sought money from companies by putting pressure on them to pay because of her presidential connections. That may or may not be true, but corruption has rarely destroyed political lives in South Korea in the past. What may be politically fatal this time is the suggestion that sensitive documents were passed by the president to the mentor for approval. A South Korean cable TV station says it got hold of computer hard drives from a vacated office previously used by Ms Choi and they showed that President Park submitted speeches to her friend for alteration and approval. President Park has already apologised, though for what isn't quite clear. Her head bowed, she said: ""Regardless of what the reason may be, I am sorry that the scandal has caused national concern and I humbly apologise to the people."" ""Choi advised me on expressions in my speeches and public relations during the last presidential campaign and she continued to help me for a certain period of time after I took office,"" she admitted. The advice was only before she had a formal system of advisors in place after moving into the Blue House, she insisted. But the apology hasn't satisfied President Park's opponents or even some in her own party and it is very likely that the anger has not yet subsided.","The press in South Korea is full of feverish allegations of cult rituals and the mysterious influence of an old friend of President Park Geun -hye . The BBC 's Stephen Evans in Seoul looks at the @placeholder behind the scandal , and whether it could end up toppling a president .",personalities,reasons,centre,water,odds,0
"Otto Warmbier died on Monday near his family home in Ohio after more than 15 months in North Korean captivity. The Hamilton County coroner said only an external exam was performed on Mr Warmbier, who arrived home in a coma. North Korea claims his coma was due to botulism and a sleeping pill, but the Warmbier family and doctors disagree. North Korea tourism: A dangerous gamble? How did Otto Warmbier end up in a coma? Mr Warmbier, 22, was sentenced to 15 years' hard labour in March 2016 after being tried for attempting to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel. The coroner's office in Cincinnati, Ohio, said in a statement: ""No conclusions about the cause and manner of Mr Warmbier's death have been drawn at this time as there are additional medical records and imaging to review and people to interview. ""Our deepest sympathies are with the family and friends of Mr Warmbier at this time of their tragic loss."" Doctors at the Cincinnati Medical Center, where Mr Warmbier was treated following his return to the US on 13 June, determined he suffered from ""unresponsive wakefulness"", also known as persistent vegetative state, due to ""severe neurological injury"". But it remains unclear exactly what happened to the student while in North Korea detention. His family and doctors dispute North Korea's version of events. A funeral is to take place on Thursday morning at a high school in Wyoming, Ohio, that Mr Warmbier attended before enrolling at the University of Virginia. ""All those that wish to join his family in celebrating his life are cordially invited,"" the announcement states. President Donald Trump said on Monday that a ""lot of bad things happened"" to Mr Warmbier at the hands of the ""brutal regime"". On Tuesday he tweeted that the US once again condemned North Korea ""as we mourn its latest victim"". He added: ""While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi [Jinping] and China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!"" China is North Korea's closest ally, and Mr Trump has repeatedly called on Beijing to influence Pyongyang to rein in its nuclear and missile programme. North Korea has ramped up its missile tests in recent months despite international sanctions, aggravating tensions in the region and with the US. Mr Trump met Mr Xi in person in April where they discussed the North Korea issue, and later praised Mr Xi for his handling of the situation.","The family of a US student who died shortly after being @placeholder from North Korea have declined a post-mortem examination , according to a US coroner .",pulled,rescued,freed,evacuated,abducted,2
"The ""entire teaching staff"" at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School ""will leave at the end of the term"", the Bristol Post has reported. South Gloucestershire Council said it is aware of the concerns from the National Union of Teachers and ""is willing to work with its representatives"". The school is yet to comment. A spokeswoman for South Gloucestershire NUT said staff had complained that a ""heavy-handed management style has caused so many teachers to be off with stress"". She added: ""This rate of turnover is unacceptable. Children need consistency and stability. There should have been much stronger intervention once the situation was known."" Clifton Diocese would not comment but instead directed the BBC to South Gloucestershire Council. A spokesman for the local authority said the newspaper figure of 16 staff leaving over the year is ""misleading"" as it includes temporary staff brought in to cover people leaving mid-year. But he confirmed seven long-term teachers have resigned over the course of this year includes two moving to other schools, the acting head who is taking up promotion elsewhere, and one member of staff's fixed-term contract ending. He added a new head has been appointed and will take up the post in January with leadership in the interim from the executive head.","A teachers ' union at a school in Bristol has spoken of an "" atmosphere of fear "" where "" @placeholder are placed above the welfare of children "" .",countries,practices,elders,results,schools,3
"Holgate Windmill in York reopened in 2012 following a £500,000 restoration project. The 18th century Grade II-listed building currently produces about 50kg (8st) of flour a week which is sold to restaurants and individuals. The money raised is used to help maintain the building. The Holgate Windmill Preservation Society said training more volunteers would help increase the amount of stone-ground flour produced. Steve Potts, chairman of the society and one of three trained millers, said the ancient skill only takes a couple of months to learn. ""It's not a reading skill, it's a doing and learning by experience skill,"" he said. ""We started off reasonably gradually because we're a volunteer group and it's supposed to be fun but we are trying to make more money out of the milling."" The windmill originally produced flour from the 1770s to the 1930s but fell into disrepair until the society began work to restore it in 2001.",A community group which restored one of the oldest surviving five - @placeholder windmills in the country is seeking volunteers to train as millers .,sailed,including,filled,style,sided,0
"That means winning their four-team group and progressing to the Super 10 stage - anything less is failure. Achieving their goal is no easy feat, because Bangladesh are firm favourites to top Group A while Oman and the Netherlands provide tricky opposition. If they do reach the Super 10 then high-profile encounters against hosts India, Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan will follow. And the Irish love nothing more than taking a big scalp in major tournaments. Ireland possess two new weapons for the group games in Dharamsala - and both are in the bowling department. The return of paceman Boyd Rankin to Irish colours after his 2012 switch to England provides a potent spearhead to their attack. And Sri Lanka great Chaminda Vaas, who claimed 400 one-day wickets in a stellar career, has been drafted into the Irish set-up for the tournament. Ireland skipper William Porterfield is delighted to have Rankin and Vaas on board for their Super 10 bid. ""It's great to have Boyd in the squad again and he has found it easy to fit back in - it's like he was never away,"" said the opener. ""Any team would like a 6ft 8in plus bowler performing the way he has been and Boyd's experience and professionalism is so beneficial to our younger bowlers. ""Chaminda's stats speak for themselves and the big advantage is his vast experience of playing in sub-continent conditions. ""He's also played here at Dharamsala in the IPL and his bowling is a similar pace to many of our own players. ""His advice is invaluable and we're delighted to have him in the camp going into Wednesday's opener against Oman."" Porterfield is a man in form, with an unbeaten 75 in Thursday's victory over Hong Kong followed by 31 against Zimbabwe in the final warm-up game on Saturday. However, a six-wicket defeat against the Zimbabweans highlighted the challenge facing Porterfield and new coach John Bracewell. Ireland are attempting to make the second phase of the World T20 for the first time since 2009 and Porterfield is clear on what is required. ""We need to win all three games, it's as simple as that,"" added the Warwickshire batsman. ""Oman are first up - they are no pushovers and it's a form of the game they really enjoy. ""Bangladesh are favourites but they lost to Hong Kong in the last World T20 while we were defeated by the Netherlands, so anyone can beat anyone. ""Getting to the Super 10 stage in Bangalore and Calcutta is all we're talking about, it's our sole focus and we are determined to get there.""","The World T20 , which begins in India on Tuesday , is another opportunity for Ireland to prove their credentials on the big stage - and they are determined to @placeholder it .",send,deliver,achieve,seize,produce,3
"Roy Mason was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Secretary of State for Defence in the 1970s and held other government posts during his career. The ex-miner was also MP in Barnsley, South Yorkshire between 1953 and 1987. Lord Mason is understood to have died on Sunday after a long period of ill-health, having suffered a stroke about eight years ago. Dan Jarvis, Labour's candidate for Barnsley Central, tweeted he was a ""great servant to Barnsley and the country"". Lord Mason joined the House of Lords in 1987 having represented Barnsley Central between 1983 and 1987. He was previously the MP for Barnsley for 30 years from 1953. Analysis: Gareth Gordon, BBC Northern Ireland political correspondent Roy Mason was an old-style Labour politician who rose to become a cabinet minister, serving as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1976 to until 1979. He told the Labour Party conference that Northern Ireland had had enough of initiatives, white papers and legislation for the time being, what it needed was to be governed firmly and fairly. It was an approach that helped alienate nationalists. The former SDLP leader Gerry Fitt accused Roy Mason of ""going native"" as far as unionists were concerned. As a result Lord Fitt said he could not back Labour in the no-confidence vote in March 1979, which saw them lose power by one vote, saying his conscience could not allow him to vote for a government that retained Roy Mason as secretary of state. Mr Jarvis said: ""Roy was a formidable man, a pillar of our community and a giant of the Labour movement. ""He began his working life going down a mine at the age of just 14. ""His incredible journey and the courage and conviction with which he served the public are testament to the values that Roy fought for all his life."" He also praised Lord Mason's work in Northern Ireland at ""the height of the Troubles"". Len Tingle, BBC Yorkshire's political editor, said as defence secretary under Harold Wilson Roy Mason oversaw one of the most comprehensive reviews of the strength of the armed services since World War Two. ""His review provoked outrage from the military but was seen by many commentators as part of a long-overdue modernisation process"", he added. Lord Mason is survived by his wife Marjorie and two daughters.","Former Labour MP Lord Mason of Barnsley has died at the age of 91 , it has been @placeholder .",recorded,announced,released,emerged,suggested,1
"The Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee will look at whether it is at ""a competitive disadvantage"" because of the 9% rate in the Republic of Ireland. The UK rate is 20% and recently, Stormont's Tourism Minister Jonathan Bell said he would continue to lobby government for it to be cut. EU law is thought to prevent any regional variation in the UK's rate. Committee chair Laurence Robertson said: ""The tourism and hospitality industry has a vital role to play in growing the Northern Irish economy. ""We are keen to find out how, through the tax system, the government can better support hotels, restaurants and other businesses to attract visitors."" The Northern Ireland hospitality sector is part of a national campaign, Cut Tourism VAT. However, the Treasury has resisted the move, saying it would be costly and other taxes would have to be increased to plug the revenue gap. According to the committee, tourism in Northern Ireland is worth more than £750m to the economy and supports 43,000 jobs.",The impact of VAT on the Northern Ireland tourism industry is to be examined by @placeholder of MPs .,examination,dozens,analysis,group,review,3
"The Northern Ireland secretary said such a move would be the ""last resort"". The NI parties had agreed on a welfare reform deal in December but Sinn Féin withdrew its support in March. Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said it would be a ""huge mistake"" for Westminster to try to impose cuts. Speaking at the British Irish conference in Cambridge Villiers said: ""We have come to the conclusion that if the executive cannot reach agreement on implementing the budget and welfare aspects of the Stormont House Agreement, as a last resort the government will have to step in and legislate at Westminster for welfare reform in Northern Ireland. Ms Villiers said such action by the government would be taken ""reluctantly"" and only if all other ""realistic alternatives"" had been exhausted. She urged the executive to take action to repair its public finances. ""That means dealing with the in-year pressures in their budget in the next in-year monitoring round and it means implementing the welfare reform package agreed by the five parties during their Stormont Castle negotiations,"" she said. ""Without these two crucial steps, the budget agreed by the executive in June just does not add up and we face the alarming prospect of the executive breaching its control totals and starting to run out of money."" Ms Villiers said those who continued to block welfare reform had a ""choice"". ""They can do what virtually every responsible government across the world has had to do in recent years, including in the UK and Ireland, and that is to make difficult choices to live within their means,"" she said. ""Or they can continue down a path of reckless irresponsibility with the damaging consequences that will have for frontline public services and the people who depend on them. ""The government is firmly committed to the full implementation of the Stormont House Agreement and the financial package that underpins it."" Mr McGuinness, the deputy first minister, said: ""Any move by the British government to impose its welfare cuts agenda over the heads of the assembly and executive will seriously undermine devolution and the political institutions. It would be a huge mistake. ""This Tory government appears to be willing to jeopardise years of political progress for its own narrow right wing agenda."" But DUP leader Peter Robinson, the first minister, welcomed Ms Villier's speech as a ""potential game changer"", adding: ""There is no doubt that this statement will introduce a dose of reality to these negotiations and make a resolution more likely."" Ms Villiers also told the audience on Saturday that she would release funding to allow the civil service voluntary exit scheme to go ahead. The £700m scheme, which was agreed as part of the Stormont House Agreement, has faced uncertainty because of the continuing impasse over welfare reform. The aim of the civil service exit scheme is to help Stormont balance its budget by shedding the equivalent of 2,400 full-time civil service posts. It is believed the scheme could save about £90m from the civil service's annual pay bill. The first 864 civil servants are due to leave on 30 September. On Thursday, Downing Street confirmed that ""urgent, intensive and focused cross-party talks"" would begin next week in Belfast in an attempt to resolve the crisis at the assembly. It was sparked by the recent murder of Kevin McGuigan Sr. The 53-year-old ex-IRA man, was killed in what police believe was part of a ""fall-out"" in republican circles after the murder of former IRA commander Gerard 'Jock' Davison in May. The Ulster Unionists withdrew from the executive after police said Provisional IRA members had a role in Mr McGuigan's killing. Police said an infrastructure exists at a senior level of the Provisional IRA, but that there was no evidence that Mr McGuigan's murder was sanctioned by that hierarchy. The talks, which will be held at Stormont House, will be led by Ms Villiers. The talks will cover two issues - securing the full implementation of the Stormont House Agreement and paramilitary activity. The five biggest parties have been asked to take part in the discussions. The Northern Ireland Executive is a power-sharing government drawing ministers from the five biggest parties.","The Westminster government is @placeholder to legislate on welfare reform in Northern Ireland if Stormont 's parties can not agree their own package of changes , Theresa Villiers has said .",prepared,believed,continuing,threatening,returning,0
"The former Florida governor's new handgun, inscribed with his name on the slide, has been re-tweeted more than 19,000 times and met with widespread mockery around the world. Bush tweeted a picture of his gun alongside the word ""America"", seeking to burnish his pro-gun credentials and patriotism as his campaign moves into the conservative state of South Carolina. But if the USA is defined by its relationship to firearms, Twitter provided the answer for how best to represent other countries across the world. British comedian Joe Lycett put forward this entry for the UK. Mike Landers suggested that pies and curry would better represent some of Britain's cities. Professor Herman van de Wernfhorst, a sociology professor from the University of Amsterdam suggested this for the Netherlands. Meanwhile, Ingo Bousa from Bristol thought that Denmark could present a more peaceful interpretation of Jeb Bush's tweet. But as the rest of the world gently mocked Jeb Bush, some conservative supporters in America showed their appreciation by tweeting pictures of handguns. Science fiction writer John Joseph Adams decided that if his country was going to be defined by one weapon, then he wanted to highlight the impact of other weapons on fictional cultures. ""I never thought that my most re-tweeted tweet would consist of one word, a Twitter handle and a picture of a lightsaber"" he wrote after his picture of the Star Wars memorabilia was shared more than 1,700 times. Other science fiction fans were quick to follow Adams's lead. Lisa Morton from Washington DC tweeted a Star Trek disruptor. Others thought the Doctor should get involved. Or that Jeb Bush could use some magical assistance with his campaign. Jeb Bush is pulling out all the stops to revive his flagging campaign to become the Republican presidential nominee, with his brother, former President George W Bush, joining him in on the campaign trail in South Carolina. He can only hope that the online reaction to his tweet will help help him catch up with frontrunner Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who won the New Hampshire and Iowa contests respectively. Written by Hannah Henderson","The US Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush is pro-gun rights and behind in the polls , so when he @placeholder his first firearm , he had probably hoped to receive support on social media .",purchased,wrote,conducted,celebrated,announced,0
"The latest version has added another 15% of the UK's roads, bringing the total covered to 65%. And by using backpacks with lightweight recording equipment the company has brought the service to new places, from the interiors of buildings like the BBC Radio 1 studios to the towpaths of canals. But what do we now think about this close-up view of our streets, a project which has been marked by controversies over privacy? I've been talking to the man behind Street View, Luc Vincent - via the rather clumsy medium of a Google Hangout - and asking him about the project's ambitions. (Our edited interview is above - but you can see the full version here). He started by stressing that his boss Larry Page had come up with the original idea, roaming the campus of Stanford University taking pictures. It had then turned into Luc's 20% project - the blue sky ideas Google engineers are encouraged to work on for a fifth of their time - and had been launched in five US cities in 2007. Now it has mapped large areas of the world at street level. Forty seven countries now have coverage, and the cars have driven five million miles. But how useful is it? I've always suspected that many people use it once to look at their own house - and then forget about it. Luc Vincent says it is true that much of the traffic is local, but he insists it has become a very attractive service: ""People use it to preview the restaurant they want to go to, or choose a vacation spot or search for real estate,"" he told me. But when it launched in the UK, while some were fascinated, others were appalled at what they saw as an invasion of their privacy by a Big Brother American business. In the village of Broughton, near Milton Keynes, residents chased a Street View car away, and accused Google of trying to peer through their windows. In Germany, the reaction was much stronger, with entire streets blanked out as residents rebelled against the idea. Google has stopped taking images there, so that some big cities have coverage but elsewhere there is nothing. Luc Vincent seems bemused by this kind of reaction. ""I think the Big Brother aspect is really overstated,"" he says, ""it's not we are driving in one place at one time, it's not like a camera is pointing at you all the time."" The other controversy which surrounded Street View was the discovery that some of its cars had been collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks. Mr Vincent says that did cause harm to the project: ""It certainly slowed us down quite a bit,"" he says, ""we've done what we can to fix the problem, we don't collect any wi-fi right now."" In the UK, at least, the privacy row seems to have abated. When I looked on Street View the village of Broughton was there in full glorious detail, and I could not spot any homes that had been blanked out. And when I contacted a couple of residents they no longer seemed too concerned: ""We've moved on,"" one person told me. It seems the bigger issue there now is getting proper broadband. Nevertheless, I do sense a wider disquiet about the growing power of Google in so many areas. Many of its services - like Street View or the mobile operating system Android -seemed to have no obvious commercial purpose when they are launched. Executives like Luc Vincent would have us believe that the only motivation is to give as many as people as possible useful information, with any thought of profit a long way down the road. But look at China's concerns this week about the dominance of Android - a worry shared by some global telecoms operators - and recent concerns about the way the company scans Gmail to serve users relevant adverts. No longer is the world content to assume that the search giant's motives are always pure. Google's mission to organise the world's information takes another step forward with the expansion of Street View. But the more closely they watch us, the more we may need to keep a critical eye on them.","It is nearly four years since Google 's Street View @placeholder in the UK , and now it is getting a major revamp . The Street View cars have been roaming Britain , refreshing the coverage in the big cities and bringing new images to remote places , such as the Isle of Lewis .",group,district,introduced,arrived,opened,3
"Top bureaucrats and police officers were among those held in a crackdown on supporters of Fethullah Gulen, the state-run Anadolu agency said. Mr Gulen is a rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose AK party regained its majority in Sunday's election. European observers said violence and media restrictions marred the polls. On Tuesday, left-wing magazine Nokta said two of its editors had been charged with plotting a coup in the government's latest move against opposition media outlets. Cevheri Guven and Murat Capan were arrested over a magazine cover criticising the election results that read: ""The start of civil war in Turkey."" An Istanbul court later ordered that the magazine's latest edition be withdrawn from the shelves, accusing it of inciting the public to commit a crime. Meanwhile security forces imposed a curfew in the mainly Kurdish town of Silvan, the south-east of the country, while Turkish jets attacked Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels in northern Iraq. The Anadolu agency said that the dozens of suspects held in Tuesday's raids were suspected of acting ""beyond their legal authority"". Prosecutors issued arrest warrants for a total of 57 people. The Turkish government has accused Mr Gulen, the spiritual leader of the Hizmet movement, of trying to run a parallel state. The latest police operations come after officers raided another media group, Koza-Ipek, accused of having links to Mr Gulen. Fifty-eight employees working at the group's media outlets have been fired after a court ruling placed it under the management of a trustee panel, according to Hurriyet newspaper. Profile: Hizmet movement Gulen: Powerful but reclusive The AKP's victory on Sunday came amid concerns about rising tensions in the country. Violence has escalated in Turkey since a suicide bombing in July by suspected IS militants which killed more than 30 Kurds. A double bombing targeting a Kurdish peace rally in Ankara also killed more than 100 people last month. On Monday the Turkish military said it had carried out air strikes on PKK militant bases across the border in northern Iraq - the first on PKK targets in Iraq since Sunday's election. In a statement on Tuesday the military said that Turkish jets hit PKK shelters, bunkers and weapon storages in six locations, including the Qandil mountains where the rebel leaders are based. The military has been targeting bases and hideouts of the PKK since July, when renewed fighting between the rebels and Turkish security forces broke out, signalling a breakdown in a two-year ceasefire.",Turkish police have arrested 44 people suspected of having links to an @placeholder Islamic cleric accused of seeking to overthrow the government .,organised,exiled,updated,suspected,end,1
"They were demonstrating against the arrests earlier in the year of two local journalists, Santosh Yadav and Somaru Nag, in cases they called ""false"". They had been raising their voices ever since August, and with Delhi's journalists adding their support, the state government finally agreed to set up an independent committee that might look into cases such as this. 2015 had been one of the harshest years in memory for India's journalists, and for free speech in general - local-language newspapers, reporters and stringers had faced everything from defamation suits to threats and detentions, and worse. Reporters Without Borders tracked the cases of nine journalists who had been murdered in 2015 - the most dangerous beats were environmental and political corruption. In Nagaland, newspapers blanked out their editorial spaces in November - an unprecedented gesture, as a protest against military directives that threatened to crush free reporting in the media. The rot and the fear were not limited to journalism: 2015 was by any standards one of the worst years for free speech in India, with a sharp rise in defamation cases, sedition cases, majoritarian bullying and everywhere, an undercurrent of violence, a sense that mobs, or hired executioners, were never very far away. In the middle of the year, writers across India had returned their state awards after the Karnataka scholar MM Kalburgi was shot by two unidentified attackers in his own home. This gesture of conscience - spontaneous and unplanned - snowballed into a surprisingly large demonstration of solidarity as hundreds of academics, scientists, film stars and historians joined in the protest against intolerance. At some cost: senior government ministers called the movement a ""conspiracy"", and the rightwing's army of trolls attempted to bully the writers, sometimes brazenly spreading lies about them. It is impossible not to believe that 2016 will be a turning point for India and free expression in the subcontinent. We could go under, losing more and more essential freedoms as writers, performers, environmentalists and citizens are caught in the crossfire of pressure from the state, as outspoken voices choke in the pollution caused by bad laws, or succumb to the rule of mobs, thugs and the deliberate violence unleashed by religious and political leaders. Or we could see a steady fight wresting back these basic freedoms and demanding them as universal rights, not just rights for the relatively small world of India's English-speaking writers and journalists. There is a wider sphere that connects the folk singer Kovan, arrested in November under sedition laws in Tamil Nadu for lampooning the government, with Huchangi Prasad, a young Dalit writer from Karnataka who had been beaten up in October and threatened for his writings on caste and religion, and the well-known writer Arundhati Roy, who faces a contempt of court case this month yet again over her reporting, on flimsy grounds. 2015 had seen a landslide of alarming and tragic events. But these past years in India had also seen an enormous and unsuspected appetite for books, a nascent fascination with authors, bestselling and otherwise. The single biggest indicator of this was the profusion of literary festivals around the country - over 75 at last count, with the largest of them, the Jaipur Literature Festival, drawing crowds in the hundreds of thousands. They could be spectacles with film stars, cricketing heroes and politicians grabbing the headlines rather than writers, but they were also increasingly one of the few spaces where writers in English and Hindi could meet authors and publishers whose medium was one of India's many other languages. At the Hindu Lit For Life in Chennai, I had the chance to hear Kannan Sundaram speak. Mr Sundaram is the publisher of Perumal Murugan, the writer who erased himself by announcing, ""the death of the writer, Perumal Murugan"". He had been subjected to legal attacks, threatened, and in this deadly game of chess, where writer after writer was accused of provoking acts of organised violence, he had chosen to take himself and his books off the chessboard. Mr Sundaram spoke on the challenges in publishing, a subject on which he was, by any standards, an expert. But on the drive to Jaipur, I was thinking about another incident, an apparently minor one in the present landscape of murders, thuggery, violent intimidation. Just before the New Year, novelist and academic Saikat Majumdar had one of his short stories abruptly pulled from the Mint newspaper's end-of-the-year fiction special. Majumdar got in touch with Delhi's nascent PEN chapter to ask if there was anything the group could do to help. The publication was within its rights not to carry his story, but the reason they gave sounded like self-censorship: their lawyers had said the story contained too much ""violence of the words"". The magazine Caravan offered to print the story instead, with an explanatory note, and Majumdar's The Father of Man came out in its January issue. The incident left a question mark hanging in the air: were we measuring sentences, now, for the violence of their words, and if so, what was the violence ration? What did editors consider an acceptable, under-the-radar amount of violence for words to bear? The festivals felt, this year, somewhere between an escape from the violence that was bubbling up across the country along fault-lines of gender, caste, race and political allegiance, and something else, something more serious. On the final day at Jaipur, I listened as Nirupama Dutt, the poet and biographer, shared her memories of the murder of Pash, the Punjabi poet, in 1988, another era of turbulent change. I felt lucky to be on a session with Ashok Vajpeyi, Uday Prakash and CP Deval, to listen to them talk about what it meant to be a writer in a time of storms, how the writer's responsibility was not separate from his or her duty as a citizen. In Jaipur, we spoke about the rise in defamation suits (48 filed in 2015), and what it meant for corporates and state governments to use this law to muzzle critics; about the contempt case against Arundhati Roy; about the rise in sedition cases (14 filed in 2015 against 35 respondents) making it a crime to question your country. Roy's trials were bookended by the plight of other writers, journalists, environmentalists, that was how greatly the times had changed. There are so many kinds of violence. There is the violence of the word that people fear because it holds up a mirror to what is happening in India today; there is also the violence of not listening to the words of those who have borne the harshest brunt of censorship, of dismissing their struggles and trials without giving them equal weight. Arundhati Roy is fighting a monstrous and unjust battle, but as people speak up for her, they must not erase the others who fight the same battle, too.","In December , just before India 's busy literary festival season swung into full gear , over a hundred journalists across the central state of Chhattisgarh were @placeholder for another round of protests .",gathering,calling,called,published,summoned,0
"Just off the main road between the political capital and army headquarters lies a ramshackle set of houses. They're new builds but shoddily constructed.  The mosque is no different. But it has a grand title - it has been named after Pakistan's current army chief General Raheel Sharif. ""We want General Raheel Sharif to help us catch the land grabbers and land mafia,"" says a young bearded man on his way to prayers. Many Pakistanis seem to see General Raheel Sharif as a messiah who is saving the country from terrorism, corruption and all manner of social ills. Wizened truck-art painter Habibur Rehman is one of them. He has been decorating trucks in the traditional Pakistani way since 1955, where intricate patterns of flowers and birds are combined with political messaging. I ask him who his favourite leaders are. ""Benazir Bhutto is my all-time favourite,"" he says, swiftly mentioning her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as his number two choice. He then lists former presidents and military rulers Generals Ayub Khan, Zia-ul Haq and Yahya Khan. I ask whether General Raheel Sharif makes the cut. He raises his hand as if to the sky. ""Given the demand for him now and if he keeps performing well as a leader, he could even surpass the other five."" General Raheel Sharif is neither a prime minister nor president but his image is popping up across the country. He appears in banners thanking him for restoring law and order in the chaotic city of Karachi, on the backs of rickshaws and his image has even been used by politicians running for local elections. The general has also gone digital with the hashtag #ThankYouRaheelSharif appearing on Twitter and Facebook. The hashtag first appeared after the attack on an army-run school in Peshawar on 16 December 2014. The army chief seemed to lead the effort to catch and punish the militants responsible for killing 150 people, mostly schoolchildren. Facebook pages, Twitter handles and memes praising General Sharif are now commonplace. One mockingly shows Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, President Mamnoon Hussein and General Raheel Sharif sitting together, all with thought bubbles over their heads. President Mamnoon is thinking of a snack, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is concerned with business while the general is thinking of Pakistan. In a recent cover story on the personality cult of General Sharif, published in The Herald news magazine, journalist Umer Farooq asks whether such campaigns are being deliberately orchestrated. He quotes Brigadier AR Siddiqi, a former official in the army's public relations arm, the Inter-Services Publicity Relations (ISPR), who says such image building often ""happens under official direction and with the full weight of the state authority"". The ISPR denies this. But Umer Farooq says the personality-led focus of the campaign gives the army a ""political colour"" which is beyond the role and function of a professional army. And where there is reverence online, there will also be mockery. One producer at a TV channel took it upon himself to document the minutiae of his day based on the hashtag. ""On my way to work, all the traffic lights were green. #ThankYouRaheelSharif."" One satirical twitter account @DrMajorlyPhD recently wrote: ""Watched Mad Max Fury Road. The story is bizarre but the movie is fantastic!! #ThankYouRaheelSharif"". But supporters on Twitter want an end to the ""lame jokes"" about the hashtag and have reported them by tagging the ISPR's director general Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa. It is under his leadership that the army's publicity offerings - dramas, music videos and documentaries - have come to dominate the mainstream media landscape. He was recently promoted from Major General to Lieutenant General. In the army town of Rawalpindi, I meet Malik Mohammad Yousaf who has his car covered with giant posters of General Sharif. The general is set to retire next year and Mr Yousaf, who describes himself as a ""disillusioned worker"" in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party, says the general's term must be extended to continue the fight against terrorism. This call has been echoed on social media. And there is a precedent. The previous incumbent, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, had his term extended without a social media campaign or public support. But Ahmed Bilal, the president of the Pildat think-tank which promotes democracy, believes such talk weakens Pakistan's fragile civilian and democratic institutions. He says Pildat opinion polls consistently show that Pakistanis no longer want military dictatorships despite supporting the army. ""A distinction needs to be made: military commanders are very popular but not as possible replacements for the current political leadership,"" said Mr Bilal. But as Mr Yousaf lovingly oversees the final touches to his car, he has harsh words for politicians. ""If they continue like this, martial law is a better option.""",Is the army general more popular than the prime minister in Pakistan and what does that means for democracy ? BBC Urdu 's Amber Shamsi @placeholder .,finds,show,appeared,investigates,title,3
"The 82-year-old singer's death was ""sudden, unexpected and peaceful"", Robert B Kory said in a statement. No cause was given by the family when Cohen's death was announced last week. The statement said that Cohen died on 7 November - three days before an announcement was made to the public. He was buried in Montreal on 10 November. ""With only immediate family and a few lifelong friends present, he was lowered into the ground in an unadorned pine box, next to his mother and father,'' the singer's son Adam Cohen wrote last week. Leonard Cohen's representatives say a memorial in Los Angeles is being planned. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led worldwide tributes to the singer, who was known for songs including Hallelujah, Suzanne, Bird on the Wire and I'm Your Man. He released his 14th album, You Want It Darker, just last month.","Canadian singer , songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen died in his sleep after @placeholder during the night at his Los Angeles home , his manager has said .",crashing,falling,returning,recovering,comments,1
"A host of recent multi-billion dollar deals for small start-ups, particularly in the tech arena, have helped fuel many people's dreams. Facebook paid a cool $19bn (£11.4bn) for messaging app WhatsApp when it had just 50 employees and had only been in existence for six years. The internet giant also paid $1bn for photo-sharing smartphone app Instagram, which was less than two years old and had only 13 staff. Similarly, Yahoo shelled out $1.1bn for blogging service Tumblr, founded just six years earlier. Successes like these make it tempting to think that with the right idea serious wealth is just around the corner, yet the stark truth is that most start-ups fail. In fact, the majority (55%) of British small and medium-sized enterprises don't survive more than five years, according to research from RSA, the UK's largest commercial insurer. And ditching the day job to start up your own business is rarely as glamorous as it sounds. Filipa Neto is co-founder of Chic by Choice, an online marketplace which rents out designer dresses, enabling people to hire rather than buy them. Ms Neto, originally from Portugal, says she and co-founder Lara Vidreiro came up with the idea after struggling to find dresses for formalwear events when they were not willing to shell out hundreds of pounds. She says her parents were initially sceptical of her idea. ""In the beginning, they were like 'what are you doing with your life? Why are you not going to a consulting company or working for McKinsey, Deloitte or KPMG?',"" says Ms Neto. ""Those were the expectations for someone who went to a really good university in my country."" The business launched in June last year and is not yet profitable, but so far it has 230,000 customers from 15 countries across western Europe, and its transactions are increasing by 30% each month. But Ms Neto says it is difficult to persuade more well-known designers and established brands to join her database of suppliers. ""It's really competitive. So even when I do an approach that is really targeted I know there are a hundred other people trying a targeted approach as well."" Leadership expert Steve Tappin says start-up firms like Chic by Choice should assume a 90% failure rate when trying to get big firms on board, with only a minority of the most pioneering large firms willing to do any kind of tie-up with a new company. ""Their fear is of making the wrong decision and getting into trouble with the hierarchy, that's for most corporates unfortunately the situation."" However, he says there are ""four elements of trust"" which any start-up founder can work on to help persuade a large firm to support them: making some kind of personal connection, ensuring their motivation behind the business is genuinely convincing, proving they have the ability to deliver consistently and making sure their way of doing business is compatible. But even once a start-up has persuaded larger firms to come on board either as part of a partnership, or by way of an investment to help it expand, working out how big a share of the firm to give away as part of the deal can be difficult. Peter Ward is co-founder of WAYN, an acronym for Where are you now?, a social network aimed at connecting travellers and helping people discover where to go and what to do in new places. It's already profitable, with a presence in 193 countries and more than 23 million members, but Mr Ward has bigger ambitions, wanting the firm to be valued at $1bn. Yet getting the right investors on board to help it drive this expansion, but still managing to keep overall control is a ""delicate balance"", he says. ""The trade off is you want to raise more but obviously maintain the control, which in our case is board control as well as equity majority. One of the things that plays on my mind is do we have enough financial support to play against the big guys?"" To address this, Mr Ward says he is focusing closely on people's perception of the firm. ""The key is to get the balance right, where you can show momentum, you can show that you're doing something unique, that has the potential to be huge,"" he says. Julian Warowioff is UK managing director of German start up Lemonaid Beverages, a soft drinks firm using organic and fair trade ingredients, where 5p of each bottle purchased goes to its charity, and which aims to help disadvantaged communities globally. He says competition with bigger firms is also a challenge. ""We are still a very small company compared to our competitors, which have really big marketing budgets which we can and will never have,"" he says. However, instead of trying to directly compete, Mr Warowioff says Lemonaid Beverages is trying to carve out its own niche using word of mouth, and trying to spread the word about the company and its charitable projects by attending music festivals and similar such events to meet potential customers directly. ""As we do not have shareholders in the company that ask for a profit margin on their investment we're pretty free to choose how much we want to sell, where we want to sell,"" he says. ""For us that means we'd rather supply the small individual artsy cafe bar restaurant scene, the corner stores, the organic wholefood stores, rather than the big supermarket chains."" In the end, the biggest determinant of success for a start-up firm, says Mr Tappin, is how convincingly a founder is able to convey their own excitement about the business. ""They've got to love their business. It's got to be connected to them and it's got to be meaningful for them. If they can create the same passion in investors then the sky's the limit,"" he says. This feature is based on interviews by leadership expert Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig.","Becoming your own boss is many people 's dream . The appeal seems obvious - complete @placeholder over how you organise your time , and only having yourself to answer to .",uncertainty,hand,freedom,tensions,stories,2
"Some 60 excavators and 100 dump trucks are being used in the search. The boy fell down the 40m dry well in Baoding, Hebei province on Sunday morning. He had been helping harvest vegetables, his father told Chinese media. The child's condition is unknown. Oxygen, food and water have been supplied. The 30cm-diameter well is too narrow for an adult to retrieve him. After two days of careful digging, rescuers have dug only 13m down the metal shaft, which threatens to collapse at any moment. An 800-square metre work area has been cleared to facilitate rescue attempts, a volunteer told The Paper, a Shanghai-based news website. The well had been left unused for five years and there were no warning signs. Visual imagery has so far failed to locate the boy. Many locals volunteered to help in the rescue, rushing to the scene after learning about the accident on WeChat, a popular communication app in China. Most netizens sent good wishes to the boy. ""It was saddening to read about such news. As a mother, it was heartbreaking to see a child fall into a well. I hope the child will be alive and alive,"" one user called 80 Hou Bu Huai wrote. Some wondered who was to blame. Weibo user S_AND_YY wrote: ""Parents have to take care of their children and it's dangerous everywhere."" But not everyone agreed. ""The kid is in primary one already. Do his parents have to spend every minute with him? Is it possible? Shouldn't the well be the focus? If the well didn't exist, would this accident happen?"" wrote another user. Falling ground water levels in Hebei province have left many wells without water, reports say.",Dozens of rescuers in China are trying to reach a five - year - old boy who is trapped deep down an @placeholder well .,estimated,address,abandoned,attempted,object,2
"Revellers had used the Find My iPhone app, which shows the location of a linked phone on laptops or other devices, Indio Police said. And a suspect had then been ""followed"" through the site and detained. Several phones had been returned immediately, the police added. And the rest had been handed to lost property at the festival site. Police had already dedicated extra resources to the festival after ""chatter on social media"" about missing iPhones, Sgt Dan Marshall told tech news site Gizmodo. But ""in this case, the fans came through"". Festival-goers have been advised to:","More than 100 i Phones have been found in a single backpack after @placeholder at the Coachella music festival in California tracked their missing handsets , local police have said .",crowd,night,people,playing,performances,2
"While buildings crashed down throughout the region, claiming the lives of 298 people, many structures like Giorgio's in the town of Ascoli Piceno remained intact. The furniture had moved away from the walls but his flat and the building itself were intact. His mother, Maddalena, was not so lucky. A few miles up the River Tronto to the south-east, she stayed terrified in her bed as the quake tore down the front wall of her old stone house near Acquasanta Terme. In the villages of Pescara and Arquata del Tronto, houses were reduced to heaps of rubble, killing or injuring their inhabitants. But there too some buildings withstood the shock. Even if they have since been condemned, they did serve their primary purpose of shelter. Settlements in the Tronto Valley have built up over centuries, along the route of an important ancient Roman road, the Via Salaria. Primarily made of stone, homes were built without the benefit of modern science and renovated more recently with new materials, sometimes with disastrous results. ""When reinforced concrete is used on the roof, its weight causes the masonry to fail because the walls beneath cannot sustain it,"" says Graziano Leoni, a professor of structural engineering at the University of Camerino, who has been helping assess damage to buildings. In Arquata del Tronto, lumps of concrete can be seen in the wrecks of the buildings, with old stone walls burst open like seed pods. Another factor may have been the close proximity of buildings of different ages, the professor believes. Residents of the valley also fear buildings may have been damaged by loosened rocks or rubble left over from a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit the Umbria and Marche regions in 1997. Two schools in the quake zone suffered different fates. Despite the widespread destruction in Arquata, the village school withstood the shock because of its solid brick-and-mortar construction, although the damage was enough for it to be rendered unusable. But that was not the case in Amatrice, Lazio, where the supposedly earthquake-proof school collapsed, leading to suspicions of shoddy public construction. Italy has developed the expertise to build earthquake-proof homes. In the city of L'Aquila, devastated by the April 2009 earthquake, housing blocks have been built on columns that dissipate the shock from a tremor: a technique known as base isolation. But with such a vast heritage of treasured historic buildings, the country's challenge is to make safe existing ones too. One of the easiest ways to do this is to use tendons to secure external walls, the professor explains. ""Another way is to stiffen the flooring systems so that they connect the surrounding walls and produce a kind of box behaviour in the building,"" he adds. ""For scholars of structural engineering, every earthquake is a kind of huge lab test that can give us a lot of information on understanding how old buildings behave and how better to construct new buildings because we have to learn from our past mistakes."" Maddalena now rents a mobile home close to her ruined house, after initially living in a tent near Acquasanta. Anyone who lost their home has been guaranteed accommodation by the authorities in Marche region. With tents not a viable solution for the Apennine winter, Marche is offering to put people up in hotels or help financially those who find an alternative place to live of their own. The plan is to build temporary wooden houses within a year for all who need them. Residents strongly resent any suggestion that houses collapsed because of corruption in the local building industry, an accusation made in cartoons published by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. ""Our houses and local structures were built by our grandparents and even older generations, and many people like myself and my mum have tried to renew them,"" says Giorgio Adamo. ""But the earthquake was really strong and it was just not possible to avoid damage up there. I can tell you there were no mafia involved or architects who did not do their job. It was just fate. It's our grandparents."" They just did not have the skills or expertise to build homes that could stand up to such a powerful earthquake.","When Giorgio Adamo woke up in his flat amid the horror of the earthquake that shook central Italy at 03:36 on 24 August , it was the banging of his @placeholder that startled him .",recommendation,heritage,name,doorbell,wardrobe,4
"It was the night he called time on his political career. He was surrounded by family and friends outside his home in the area of Londonderry where he had spent most of his life - three streets away from where he was born. He never travelled far from his roots but his political journey took him far beyond the comfort of the Bogside. From directing IRA gunmen in Derry, to wearing tails in Windsor Castle at a banquet for the Queen. From standing in Derry on Bloody Sunday when soldiers shot dead 13 people, to bowing his head at the Somme war graves. Along the way he struck up the most unlikely friendship with the man who once branded him a ""bloodthirsty monster"" - Ian Paisley. Away from the glare of the press he also struck up friendships with relatives who lost loved ones at the hands of the IRA. But no matter how far he reached out, for some he will always be an IRA commander who brought his dark secrets to the grave For many unionists Martin McGuinness's fingerprints are all over the Troubles - a man who did not become an IRA leader without getting his hands dirty. For republicans, his fingerprints are all over the peace process and Sinn Féin's steady rise in the polls, which brought them to within 1,000 votes of being the largest party at Stormont. But Sinn Féin's one-time chief negotiator always found his toughest negotiation was with his own people. And especially in his home city where he faced threats from dissident republicans and his family were verbally abused on the street because of the decisions he made. He did not have to travel far from his front door to see it. On a wall at the bottom of his street, dissident republicans regularly daub graffiti attacking their former comrades who now sit at Stormont. Martin McGuinness was not able to bring those republicans with him on his journey, instead he labelled them ""traitors to the island of Ireland"". But he was able to disarm his political foes and fiercest critics. He achieved that with a personal charm which struck a chord with those he met - not least with Ian Paisley, who declared that Martin McGuinness should be thanked for saving lives and making the lives of people in Northern Ireland better. It was a big statement that caught many by surprise, but not those who had fallen victim to McGuinness' charm. He was communicator who knew how to connect. His Twitter account steered clear of controversy and was littered with commiserations and congratulations. According to his staff, he often took detours on the way home from Belfast after spotting a death notice in the Irish News. Martin McGuinness knew the value of building personal relationships beneath the political radar and that allowed him to move well beyond the republican comfort zone. But it was fitting that he returned to the comfort of the Bogside, for what was his last public appearance, standing outside the home where he returned every night, and from where his final journey will begin later this week.",""" Bogside Republicans never @placeholder , "" a defiant but tearful Martin McGuinness told his supporters .",won,retire,word,lie,run,1
"Bland, 43, who was tied for the lead overnight, carded a one-under-par 69 in round three to go 10 under, with Sweden's Alex Noren second on 12 under. Englishman Andrew ""Beef"" Johnston is in a four-way tie for fourth, while Scotland's David Drysdale is eight under after the day's best round of 64. Defending champion Danny Willett is 10 shots behind Hend after a par 70. Bland, searching for his first European Tour title, managed just two birdies on Saturday and had a bogey on the par-five 14th. Englishman Lee Westwood, one of three wildcard picks for Europe's Ryder Cup team for this month's tournament, is eight shots off the pace after four birdies in a three-under-par 67. His Europe team-mate Matt Fitzpatrick recovered from an early bogey to post a four-under 66 and go four under overall.",England 's Richard Bland slipped to third at the European Masters and @placeholder three shots behind leader Scott Hend .,choose,replaced,sits,erupted,getting,2
"The W19 service single-decker bus hit a tree on Capel Road near Manor Park station at about noon. London Ambulance Service (LAS) said 10 passengers had been taken to hospital. It said a man in his forties with a head injury and a woman in her sixties with a hip injury had been taken to Royal London Hospital as a priority. The emergency services, including London Fire Brigade and LAS's hazardous area response team, remain at the scene. The nearby A117 Forest Drive has been closed while the incident is on-going, the Metropolitan Police said.","Two passengers had to be @placeholder from a bus which crashed in east London , injuring 12 people .",saved,recovered,freed,recovering,evacuated,2
"Police invoked a controversial new law designed to curb demonstrations as they detained 518 people in Montreal and another 176 in Quebec City. The protests against a planned rise in tuition charges escalated after Bill 78 passed last week. The Quebec government insists it will not change its mind on the fee hike. The march in Montreal late on Wednesday began peacefully, as several thousand demonstrators flooded the central square of Quebec's largest city. Police later penned in the protest - adopting a controversial European police tactic known as ""kettling"" - after reporting they had been pelted with rocks and other projectiles. Those arrested were released on Thursday and issued with fines of more than C$600 (??370), AFP news agency reports. Authorities invoked Bill 78, which requires eight hours notification before public demonstrations. Bill 78, passed last Friday, requires marches to follow pre-approved routes, but protesters say it infringes their democratic rights, and have pledged to legally contest it. Since the passing of the public assembly law, more than 300 people were arrested overnight at a protest in Montreal last Sunday and another 100 were detained in the city on Tuesday. Quebec currently has the lowest tuition rates in Canada, but the government's proposal would raise the fees by 80%, in increments of $254 per year (??160) for seven years. Talks between the government and student unions have broken down several times.",Nearly 700 people have been detained in two Quebec cities in the biggest single @placeholder of mass arrests since student protests over fees began in February .,number,night,round,region,history,1
"An international coalition has been conducting air strikes in Iraq and Syria since last August. The first breakdown of US costs, released by the Pentagon, show that two-thirds of the total bill has gone to the Air Force. It came as Congress rejected legislation banning further spending. The US House of Representative approved a $579bn defence spending bill. It rejected an amendment calling for a stop to cash going on the fight against IS unless Congress passed a new authorisation for the use of force. The cost of the US military operation has risen sharply since it began last August in Iraq. This week, the White House announced another 450 advisers for Iraq, bringing the total military personnel to 3,500. But officials emphasise there are no combat troops and the US mission is to train local forces to do the fighting. On Thursday, the top general in the US said the country's intervention in Iraq could extend further. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the role of calling in air strikes, which would put troops nearer the front lines, remained a future option. And he raised the possibility of establishing a network of US training hubs in northern Iraq.","The US spends more than $ 9 m ( Â £ 5.7 m ) a day on the war against Islamic State , and has @placeholder $ 2.7 bn ( Â £ 1.7 bn ) into the bombing campaign since the start .",claimed,watched,warned,poured,suggested,3
"The battle in 1461 during the Wars of the Roses is reputed to have been the largest and bloodiest fought in England, said Historic England. The Battle of Towton saw up to 28,000 soldiers killed on a single day. A larger area around Towton and Saxton, in North Yorkshire, will now be in the Historic England registered battlefield. Live updates and more stories from Yorkshire Historic England's register identifies 46 important English battlefields to give protection through the planning system and a better understanding of their significance. The battlefield lies broadly across a plateau defined by the lower ground of the River Wharfe valley to the east, thought to have been woodlands in the 15th Century, and the Cock Beck to the west. In 1996 a mass grave of more than 40 bodies killed in the battle was discovered at Towton Hall, which is now within the new protected area. The Battle of Towton, which was fought on 29 March 1461, saw the Lancastrian forces of Henry VI defeated by those of Edward of York who became King Edward IV. He died in 1483 and his brother Richard III took the throne. The site of the fighting, near Tadcaster and nine miles (14km) from York, was included on the Historic England Battlefields Register because: The move for a larger area to be registered comes after campaigning by local history groups. The Towton Battlefield Society said: ""This is the cause for celebration after many years of campaigning, meetings, endless phone calls and hard work we have finally won a significant extension of the battlefield boundary.""",The protected area recognised as the site on which the Battle of Towton was fought has been @placeholder .,named,extended,recreated,identified,protected,1
"This has been suspected since the 1989 discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid that looks just like a modern human's. But now computer modelling of how it works has shown this bone was also used in a very similar way. Writing in journal Plos One, scientists say their study is ""highly suggestive"" of complex speech in Neanderthals. The hyoid bone is crucial for speaking as it supports the root of the tongue. In non-human primates, it is not placed in the right position to vocalise like humans. An international team of researchers analysed a fossil Neanderthal throat bone using 3D x-ray imaging and mechanical modelling. This model allowed the group to see how the hyoid behaved in relation to the other surrounding bones. Stephen Wroe, from the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia, said: ""We would argue that this is a very significant step forward. It shows that the Kebara 2 hyoid doesn't just look like those of modern humans - it was used in a very similar way."" He told BBC News that it not only changed our understanding of Neanderthals, but also of ourselves. ""Many would argue that our capacity for speech and language is among the most fundamental of characteristics that make us human. If Neanderthals also had language then they were truly human, too."" It was commonly believed that complex language did not evolve until about 100,000 years ago and that modern humans were the only ones capable of complex speech. But that changed with the discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid bone in 1989. It was found in the Kebara Cave in Israel and is very similar to our own, Much older hyoid fossils have also recently been discovered, attributed to the human and Neanderthal relative Homo heidelbergensis. They were found in Spain and are over 500,000 years old. These have yet to be modelled, but Prof Wroe said they were likely to be very similar to those of modern humans and Neanderthals, so could take back the origins of speech still further. He added that his work would not necessarily be accepted as proof that Neanderthals spoke. ""We were very careful not to suggest that we had proven anything beyond doubt, but I do think it will help to convince a good number of specialists and tip the weight of opinion."" Neanderthals were stockier and shorter than modern humans, with no chin and backwards sloping foreheads. They are not regarded as direct human ancestors but DNA analysis has revealed that between 1% and 4% of the Eurasian human genome seems to come from Neanderthals. Dan Dediu, from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands, published a review article earlier this year suggesting that Neanderthals and modern humans shared a similar capacity for language. He said that the current study brought more weight to the conclusions that Neanderthals had very similar hyoid bones to us, ""not only in form but also in what concerns their mechanical properties"". ""The authors themselves are understandably cautious in drawing strong conclusions, but I think that their work clearly supports the contention that speech and  language is an old feature of our lineage going back at least to the last common ancestor that we shared with the Neanderthals,"" Dr Dediu told BBC News. He stressed, though, that the latest study was only a first step and that future work on other living primates were necessary to better understand the range of variation within modern humans.",An analysis of a Neanderthal 's fossilised hyoid bone - a horseshoe - shaped structure in the @placeholder - suggests the species had the ability to speak .,south,wake,jaw,crowd,neck,4
"More than 30 artists are giving a snapshot of current Chinese art with an exhibition across six venues under the title Harmonious Society, part of Manchester's Asian art triennial. Politics is not the main motivation for most artists, according to curator Jiang Jiehong, professor of Chinese art at Birmingham City University - but those who do tackle political subjects do so with ""a particular sense of humour"". For his sculpture Long Live The Great Union, Yang Zhenzhong has created nine free-standing blocks that appear disjointed until the viewer looks through a small window. From that angle, it becomes clear that the blocks make up a replica of the Tiananmen Tower in Beijing. It is at the National Football Museum. Jin Feng's Chinese Plates are printing blocks featuring texts from China's constitution of human rights. Like normal printing blocks, the text is written in reverse, making it difficult to read. The plates are on show at the John Rylands Library and ArtWork in Salford. Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen has created a four-screen video installation about the country's first leprosy hospital. There were protests when the government decided to demolish the building to expand Taipei's metro system in 1994. The film, titled Realm of Reverberations, is on show at the Museum of Science and Industry. These books in the 19th Century John Rylands Library appear to be alive, each gently rising and falling as they breathe. Breathing Books by Wang Yuyang, in the library's Historic Reading Room, are meant to show that the written word is ""a living, breathing force"". Shanghai-based Liu Jianhua's Boxing Times features 14 suspended porcelain boxing gloves, each bearing an inscription of a different country's name written in its native language on the sleeve. The work is at the National Football Museum. Real and fantasy creatures adorn a mirror designed by Li Wei to sit in Manchester's gothic cathedral. It is designed to provide ""a lieral reflection on humanity, evolution and scientific and religious beliefs"". Also sited in Manchester Cathedral, Zheng Guogu's Brain Lines consists of 13 light boxes representing the 12 Apostles and Jesus, each with lines showing brain activity. The work is intended to ""explore the fine line between faith and science"". Samson Young's instructions for a ""muted lecture of music of political process"" are in the John Rylands Library. Hong Kong-based Young also stages muted concerts - in which musicians are asked to play with the same vigour as usual, just without making any noise. Harmonious Society is staged by the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester. Asia Triennial Manchester runs until 23 November.","There is more to Chinese art than Ai Weiwei - that is the @placeholder from the organisers of the UK 's largest ever exhibition of contemporary art from China , Taiwan and Hong Kong .",departure,result,artefacts,criticism,message,4
"The evacuation of homes and businesses saw 2,000 flee the area after sea defences were breached. Documents show she said the £50,000 from the Welsh Office seemed low and she suggested further contributions. An area from Ffynnongroyw, Flintshire, to Pensarn, Abergele, was flooded. High tides and extreme weather were responsible. Papers released from 1990 show the floods were discussed by the Cabinet and Mrs Thatcher questioned whether the £50,000 given by the Welsh Office to the disaster fund set up by the Mayor of Colwyn was enough. The Cabinet minutes, revealed in papers released by the National Archives, say the Welsh Office's contribution ""seemed low"" and ends with Mrs Thatcher asking the then Welsh Secretary Peter Walker to discuss with the Treasury what further contributions could made. Mr Walker had told the Cabinet the Welsh Office had made a £50,000 donation, the Department of Social Security had made £100,000 available for social care grants, the European Commission would make a ""generous donation"" and the Prince of Wales had made a ""personal"" contribution. The minutes say: ""In a brief discussion, it was suggested that, given the scale of the disaster, the Welsh Office contribution to the disaster fund seemed low."" But the minutes also say this would be the first example of a government contribution to a disaster fund where there had been no loss of life and it could be seen as a precedent. It adds: ""It should not be seen as to provide any encouragement to private individuals to refrain from taking proper insurance cover against such disasters in the future."" The prime minister acknowledged these concerns, however, she believed a further donation should be considered. ""It would be unfortunate if the government were seen to be ungenerous in their response to this major disaster,"" she said. The discussion ended with Mrs Thatcher asking the Welsh Secretary to speak to the Treasury about a further contribution. Papers dated 21 June 1990 also reveal the Cabinet discussed a letter bomb campaign. Ministers were told no one had claimed responsibility but the devices were similar to those previously used by ""the Sons of Glendower Group of Welsh extremists"". Home Secretary David Waddington told colleagues four ""low-level incendiary devices"" had been delivered the previous day to two addresses in north Wales and to the Welsh Secretary David Hunt and the MP for Pembroke, Nick Bennett, in the House of Commons. A woman in Abersoch had been slightly injured by one of the devices, while the other three had been ""rendered safe"" by the police. During the Cabinet meeting it was reported a further device - similar to the one sent to the Welsh Secretary - had been delivered that morning to the home of the Conservative MP for Orpington, Ivor Stanbrook. The device had ""partially ignited"" but no one had been injured. The discussion concluded with a recommendation that any public statements on the issue should be ""confined to confirming that the necessary precautions were being taken"".","Margaret Thatcher @placeholder as prime minister to ask if more money could be paid into a fund for people affected by floods along the north Wales coast in 1990 , government papers have revealed .",intervened,called,groups,resigned,declined,0
"Katie Cutler, 23, of Gateshead, set up an internet appeal after being moved by the plight of the 68-year-old, who is just 4ft 6in and registered blind. As the money flooded in, PR specialist Claire Barber said she was recruited to publicise the campaign in March 2015. But Ms Barber claimed she is still owed £6,687 by Miss Cutler. Ms Barber said she and Miss Cutler agreed a daily fee of £550. Miss Cutler claimed any fees were to be paid from a planned charitable foundation, which subsequently failed to take off, and not out of her own pocket. Miss Cutler, who received a British Empire Medal for her charity work in last year's Queen's Birthday Honours, said she has been given until 20 September to pay the disputed debt or face a county court judgement against her. She said the situation had left he feeling ""stressed and sad"". Well-wishers have now set up a fundraising page. In a statement, Ms Barber said: ""We worked together for four months achieving blanket bespoke PR coverage across almost every national newspaper, multiple TV news channels across the North East and UK. ""Katie made two payments in June 2015, then proceeded to write on social media her shock at getting our bill (which was agreed prior to any work undertaken). ""At this point we offered her a payment plan, but she wouldn't respond ... we had no choice but to go to the small claims court. ""We are a small, hard working company and we are simply not able to carry this debt."" Miss Cutler, a mother-of-one, said: ""The agreement we had was that she [Clare Barber] would do it pro bono until my foundation was set up. Everyone anticipated it would raise millions of pounds and it would be very successful. ""I understood I wouldn't have to pay out of my own pocket. If I had thought I was personally liable for any of this I wouldn't have gone ahead and done it."" Miss Cutler said she had been in touch with Mr Barnes, 67, who had ""understandably"" said he did not want to get involved.","A woman who raised more than £ 300,000 for mugged disabled pensioner Alan Barnes is facing court over an unpaid @placeholder bill .",organisation,force,tax,body,publicity,4
"The griffon vulture was carrying a GPS transmitter bearing the name of Tel Aviv University, prompting rumours it was part of a ""Zionist plot"". Israeli wildlife officials dismissed the claims as ludicrous and expressed concern about the bird's fate. Last month, Egyptian officials implied the Israeli spy agency Mossad was to blame for shark attacks off its coast. The vulture, which can have a wing span of up to 265cm (8ft 8in), was caught after it landed in the desert city of Hyaal a few days ago. When locals discovered the GPS transmitter, they suspected the worst and handed it over to the security forces, said Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper. Conspiracy theories quickly began circulating in Saudi newspapers and on websites that the bird was involved in espionage. Israeli officials told Ma'ariv they were ""stunned"" by the allegations and concerned that the bird could meet a horrible punishment in the notoriously severe Saudi justice system. ""The device does nothing more than receive and store basic data about the bird's whereabouts, and about his altitude and speed,"" a bird specialist at Israel's Park and Nature Authority told the newspaper. The data would be used to improve understanding of the endangered species' behaviour. ""Now, this poor bird is paying a terrible price. That's very sad,"" said the unnamed expert. ""I hope they release the poor thing."" The vulture is the latest animal to be accused of being an unwitting Mossad operative. In December, the governor of Egypt's South Sinai province, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha, suggested the spy agency may have had a hand in a string of deadly shark attacks off the coast of the Sharm el-Sheikh resort. He said it was ""not out of the question"" that Mossad had put the killer shark in the area. The Israeli foreign ministry dismissed that allegation, saying the governor ""must have seen Jaws one time too many, and confuses fact and fiction"".","Saudi Arabian officials have "" @placeholder "" a vulture on accusations of being a spy for Israel , media reports say .",treasure,labelled,detained,fired,called,2
"""I'm just one of yesterday's features,"" says the Scottish-born Canadian businessman who had a controlling stake in the club for five years from 1994. ""I'm a blip in the background."" While recalling his five years at Celtic Park, he doesn't veer off into sentimentality. His attachment to the club is entirely emotional - he tells a story of sitting at the back of a meeting while working for Marconi in Canada in 1967 listening to the European Cup final on the BBC World Service - but McCann's involvement with the club was ""logical"". He is proud of the way the club is run now, not because of the league titles being accumulated but the clear business sense that prevails. ""It's so easy for the club to be criticised, as they so often are,"" he says. ""You can buy short-term success at great cost. ""You go back to the previous coach [Martin O'Neill], who brought in three players at £6m a pop, aged 28. ""They did well, they got to [the Uefa Cup final in] Seville, fine. But look at the balance sheet - the players are gone, the salaries are way up, we didn't make any money."" The assessment is typical of McCann: hard-headed, rational. McCann spent two years talking to the Celtic board about trying to help the club as it struggled financially in the early 1990s. The response was generally ""when will you be returning to Montreal, Mr McCann?"". So he regrouped, found some willing allies and set about trying to oust some of the board members and instigate ""radical change"". With Celtic only hours from bankruptcy and fans campaigning against the board, he made his move, flying to Scotland to pay off the club's debts and begin the process of taking over. ""I didn't have a plan to come to Celtic Park and run the club for five years,"" he says. ""But it ended up being the formula that had to be applied to make it work. Media playback is not supported on this device ""Staying out of bankruptcy was expensive. That would have been the easiest way, as you have seen in the case of the other club in Glasgow [Rangers]. ""I was doing what I thought was logical. I was not donating money - I was investing and I expected to get my money back. I didn't expect to make a lot of money. I did, but that's the way it happened. ""But it was not coming in as a saviour. I had a responsibility to the supporters to make sure their money wasn't wasted. ""I put two thirds of my money [he spent £9.5m] into the club. It was the correct thing to do."" McCann never courted publicity or popularity. He surrounded himself with smart executives, directors and advisors, and spent five years trying to balance the club's ambition with the reality of its situation and financial imperatives. He oversaw the rebuilding of Celtic Park, funded in part by a share issue, but also the strengthening of the club's foundations so that a similar period of turmoil could never happen again. There were obstacles along the way, though, as he found as he sought a successor to the manager, Lou Macari. ""I was under a lot of pressure to get Tommy Burns in, from board members and others I listened to,"" McCann says. ""I suppose, looking back, maybe I should just have held firm and got the Dutch coach we were looking at at the time. ""I hired Tommy Burns, not because he was the best qualified candidate but because the fans would give him time. That was the asset he had. ""When I came in and Tommy Burns applies for the job, I go to meet him. But I got fined [£100,000] for the approach. The previous highest fine for a similar situation was £5k. ""Tommy Burns' salary with one year to go at Kilmarnock was £40k. I felt [the fine] was vindictive and unnecessary and excessive. ""[Celtic] are not entirely surrounded by friends. The Scottish environment is such that there has been some prejudice against immigrants. ""Celtic is seen as having a big Catholic population among its support. Celtic supporters understand that Celtic is a symbol of their dealing with that by not being second to anyone."" McCann sold up in 1999, making a healthy profit. He returned to Canada and a life away from the public eye. He was booed by some Celtic fans when he unfurled the league title flag that summer but has since returned to glorious acclaim from supporters who have a different perspective now on his application of sound business principles ahead of rampant ambition. McCann continues to follow Celtic, to understand their place in the game but also to hold views that would radicalise, and enrage, parts of Scottish football. ""All the small clubs hate Celtic and Rangers, who basically feed them,"" he says. ""It comes down to human nature, but it also speaks to the structure in Scottish football. ""A lot of things have changed in 30 years: television habits, media, salaries, worldwide brands, Champions League, all these new things. In Scotland, not much has changed. ""They fiddle around with deck chairs, but you have still got 42 supposed-to-be-professional clubs in a population of five million. ""There are five million people in Greater Manchester, who have only got two clubs. There are five million in Boston, who only have one club. ""Don't forget your dwindling potential audience. I watched a game, Celtic against Kilmarnock, 6,000 people, with close to 5,000 Celtic fans. What are Kilmarnock bringing to the game? ""They should maybe talk about British football. Celtic can take its place in British football. That's maybe where they belong."" Listen to the full interview on BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday Sportsound from 12:05 BST.",Fergus McCann never did think much of acclaim . He @placeholder Celtic but refused to consider himself as a savour .,liked,rescued,inspired,describes,despised,1
"When Scott Quigg was a boy of 15, he would spend family holidays in Florida shadow boxing in a garage. No Mickey Mouse and theme parks for him. For 12 years, Quigg yomped towards what he believed to be his destiny. It never looked like this: slumped in a dingy press room, broken jawed and beltless. When it was suggested that he should look sadder, Quigg replied: ""It's an act. No point moping about. But it's killing me inside. I'm absolutely devastated."" His promoter Eddie Hearn, downbeat as you'll ever see him, said there had been tears in the dressing room following Quigg's defeat by Carl Frampton at the Manchester Arena. Wayne Rooney had popped into the wake to offer consolation. He chose the wrong gig. Across the way, a party was in full swing. Frampton never got the 'star' dressing room, but he managed to fit half of Northern Ireland in it anyway. Martin O'Neill, AP McCoy, a well-oiled James Nesbitt. It's almost obscene to have joy and devastation in such close proximity. Quigg thought he had maybe been unlucky, but he wasn't too convincing. For the first half of the bout, the Bury fighter simply didn't do enough. It's all very well saying how comfortable he felt. Problem was, Frampton felt even comfier. ""I won the first six or seven rounds doing very little,"" said Frampton, who added Quigg's WBA super-bantamweight belt to the IBF belt he already owned. ""I don't really understand his tactics. He came on a bit at the end but in the first half of the fight he was giving me rounds. ""I remember sitting on my stool after four rounds and feeling like I hadn't done anything. And I'm not going to be daft and get involved in a fight when I'm winning rounds with my jab."" Media playback is not supported on this device While the hype machine suggested we were in for a 12-round tear-up, both Frampton and Quigg had actually prepared for a chess match. And while some fans felt short-changed, those who appreciate boxing appreciated Frampton. Quigg was correct in his assertion that Frampton didn't land much in the first half of the fight. But with Quigg wary of committing himself, Frampton landed enough. And somebody has to win the rounds, however quiet they are. ""Carl's feet won him the fight,"" said Frampton's trainer Shane McGuigan, who won his personal duel with Quigg's trainer Joe Gallagher hands down. ""Quigg's feet were terrible, as soon as he went to load up, Carl just stepped off him and caught him with two or three shots. It seemed very strange that while Quigg is apparently so fit and so strong, he gave away the first half of the fight."" It was a Frampton uppercut that broke Quigg's jaw in round four and apparently derailed his best-laid plans. But Quigg has form for starting slowly - he only just caught up with Cuba's Yoandris Salinas in 2013 - and surely Gallagher, Ring magazine's trainer of the year, must shoulder some of the blame. Whereas just about everyone else in the arena - aside from the judge who awarded the fight to Quigg - thought the Englishman was blowing it, Gallagher thought he was watching an even fight. No wonder there was too little, too late. ""I had it level after four rounds and even though we lost the middle rounds, I couldn't believe it when someone told me TV had us 6-1 down,"" said Gallagher, who also trains Liverpool's fighting Smith brothers and lightweight world champion Anthony Crolla. ""Scott wasn't getting hit in those early rounds, came on strong late on and almost had Carl out on his feet in the 11th. It was a round either way or a draw."" But the reaction of Hearn was more instructive. The man who was involved in tortuous negotiations for the best part of four years in a bid to make the fight happen just looked disappointed. Frampton, Hearn said, was a deserved winner. While the late rounds were compelling, the tactical nature of the first half of the fight makes it easier for Frampton to wriggle out of a rematch. Frampton, who had wanted to make the crowd restless, called those early rounds ""boring"". That's a gift in itself, managing to turn down the voltage on 20,000 excited souls. The atmosphere beforehand made you grin. Not since Ricky Hatton fought Kostya Tszyu in the same arena in 2005 had there been such a racket. Next on Frampton's hit list is Mexico's Leo Santa Cruz. The undefeated former super-bantamweight champion defended his WBA featherweight title against Spain's Kiko Martinez - whom Frampton outpointed in 2014 - on Saturday. The Belfast man, who is now undefeated in 22 professional fights stretching back to 2009, says he is willing to step up for a big-money fight and his camp would be hopeful of making that match at catchweight. Both boxers have links with American boxing mogul Al Haymon, making it more likely to happen. Quigg, too, has options. But the fight he really wants - the fight that will gnaw away at him, right into his guts and to the marrow of his bones - is a rematch with Frampton. But that's boxing: it doesn't do what you want it to. And it just keeps on gnawing, even in retirement.","That 's the problem with obsession : when the thing that has @placeholder you ends up crumpled in a dustbin , there is desolation . And when the bitterness fades and you realise you could have done more to hang on to it , the desolation deepens .",helped,broken,consumed,lost,choked,2
"Scotland's last victory in the tournament came in Rome in 2014. ""If you put so much pressure on yourself to get a result, instead of trying to win the game, you can go to trying not to lose,"" said Glasgow Warriors centre Horne. ""If that happens, everyone goes into their shell and you can't have that."" Following defeats to England and Wales, Scotland return to the Stadio Olimpico, where Duncan Weir kicked a last-minute drop-goal for a 21-20 success two years ago. And Horne, who is returning to the squad after a foot injury ruled him out of the competition's opening fortnight, believes the visitors must take a positive approach to get the best out of their attacking threats. ""We're here for a reason,"" said Horne, 26. ""We've got some of the most exciting outside backs in the world and a fantastic group of players. ""What good is it if the likes of [full-back] Stuart Hogg and the others are getting worried about making mistakes? Media playback is not supported on this device ""That's not going to help anyone. We need them to be expressing themselves. ""Any time Hoggy gets the ball in a bit of space I light up because I think something is going to happen. That's what we want. We want it to spread through the rest of the squad."" A muddled display against England was improved upon in Cardiff but several Scotland squad members are still waiting for their first taste of Six Nations victory. ""There's no-one hurting more than the players,"" added Horne, who has been capped 15 times. ""We're desperate to set the record straight and get that win. We're all gutted at how things have gone. ""We're trying to remain positive. We didn't play well against England but we did against Wales. There were some brilliant moments in Cardiff. ""What you can't forget though is that at this level, the differences between sides are so small. The games are decided on a few instances. The England game showed that. They had two chances and took them to win the game. We had a couple, didn't take them and lost. ""But we're still going in the right direction. It's easy to be negative but that won't get us anywhere. ""There are still three games left. We could win all three and people might see it as a successful Six Nations."" Media playback is not supported on this device After a strong showing against France, Italy lost 40-9 at home to England but Horne thinks the scoreline does not tell the full story. ""We will need to be at our absolute best to win,"" he warned. ""They should have beaten France in Paris ""They played some great rugby against England until an interception try knocked the wind out of their sails. The score certainly did not reflect the game. ""It will be tough be we should be excited about going over there and getting tore into them. ""We're looking for a great result and that would kick us on for the games against Ireland and France.""",Peter Horne wants Scotland 's backs to play with @placeholder against Italy and not be shackled by the pressure of ending a nine - match Six Nations losing streak .,emotion,us,freedom,commitments,odds,2
"The experts from James Cook University (JCU) say it is the most extreme case of mass bleaching they have ever measured at the World Heritage Site. Bleaching occurs when warmer water causes coral to weaken and lose the colourful algae that provide oxygen and nutrients. It has been linked to climate change. ""We found on average, that 35% of the corals are now dead or dying on 84 reefs that we surveyed along the northern and central sections of the Great Barrier Reef, between Townsville and Papua New Guinea,"" Professor Terry Hughes, the head of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at JCU, said in a statement. ""This year is the third time in 18 years that the Great Barrier Reef has experienced mass bleaching due to global warming, and the current event is much more extreme than we've measured before. ""We're rapidly running out of time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."" The scientists warned that the recovery of coral cover is expected to take a decade or longer, but it would take much longer to regain the largest and oldest corals that have died. Their study was released after months of intensive aerial and underwater surveys.","At least 35 % of corals in the northern and central parts of Australia 's Great Barrier Reef have been @placeholder by bleaching , Australian scientists say .",criticised,published,unveiled,launched,destroyed,4
"As an EU member, the UK and UK-based firms can sell their goods to EU customers without having to pay additional taxes. Likewise, British firms and consumers can import from the EU tariff-free. The prime minister has already ruled out continued membership of the EU's single market post-Brexit, with many assuming this means the UK will also leave the customs union. Essentially there are two options: The WTO is an international agency with 164 member countries and its purpose is to promote international commerce. All the leading world economies are members of the WTO, including the UK. European Union countries are also all members, but they act together in the WTO as the EU. One of the most important principles of the WTO is that you should not discriminate between other WTO members. The UK and the EU would both have to impose on one another's exports the same barriers they apply to goods from the other WTO member countries.  In fact, in the absence of a free trade agreement they would be obliged under WTO rules to do that. They include import tariffs, which are taxes applied only to imports. WTO members make commitments that they will not raise tariffs above a certain level. Those maximum levels, known as bound levels or bindings, vary from country to country and product to product. The tariffs they actually apply can be, and in many cases are, below those levels. But if you do go below bound levels, you have to do it for imports from all WTO members. For the EU the average maximum tariff is 4.8% for all goods. But there are some big variations.  It's generally higher for agricultural produce, 10.9% on average. For most industrial goods it's quite low, but for cars, the tariff is 10%. Assuming the UK were trading with the EU under WTO terms, the figures are an indication of the levels of tariffs British exporters would face on their goods. It would make them less competitive in the EU market than they currently are with no tariffs at all. The UK's new schedule will have to have the consent of the other WTO members. It is administratively easier and less likely to be contested if we stick with the arrangement that we already have, as the UK's ambassador to the WTO, Julian Braithwaite. wrote in his blog: ""So to minimise any grounds for objection, we plan to replicate our existing trade regime as far as possible in our new schedules."" However, the UK would be free to apply lower tariffs. In some cases it is highly likely we would. For example, the EU imposes seasonal tariffs on orange imports when the Mediterranean producers have their harvest. Getting rid of that is an example of what one former trade official described to me as ""low hanging fruit"". Some economists, including Patrick Minford of Cardiff University and one of the leading members of Economists for Brexit (now renamed as Economists for Free Trade), favour a more comprehensive exercise in cutting tariffs and other barriers unilaterally. But these cuts would have to apply to goods coming from the EU as well. Don't be fooled, some aspects will be more complicated. For some farm produce, for example, the EU has quotas that can be imported at lower tariffs (called tariff rate quotas). We don't yet know how these will be divided between the UK and the remainder of the EU. There is also the question of what happens to that produce when it is traded between the UK and the EU. Currently it is tariff-free. Both will probably want a slice of the other's reduced tariff quota. That will mean either a bigger total quota or a reduced slice for some other country. In the WTO, the EU has agreed to a cap on some of its farm subsidies. We don't currently know what type of system the UK will adopt and potentially this an area of difficulty. The EU however is well below its subsidy cap, and that could make this area less contentious than it might have been. No. There are many other types of trade restrictions. These include rules on product specifications, labelling, testing, and requirements for authorisation from a national regulator to provide some types of services. The UK would have to decide whether or not to maintain EU rules in these areas. Currently a trade dispute would be a matter for the European Court of Justice. Theresa May has already said that its jurisdiction in the UK will end. If there is a trade agreement with the EU it would probably contain some arrangement for a tribunal to make rulings. If there is no such deal then any dispute would have to go to the WTO's dispute settlement system, which can establish panels to make rulings. Whatever happens, the UK and the EU will be subject to WTO rules. It is just that the membership of the EU and any new trade agreement that might be negotiated allows for deeper integration than is involved in simply complying with the WTO's rulebook.","With Theresa May 's end of March @placeholder for triggering the UK 's exit from the EU fast approaching , much remains undecided , not least what will happen to British trade .",pledge,material,deadline,call,value,2
"The former Labour prime minister said the centre ground needed to work out how to recover and get ""its mojo back"". He also said he had ""real humility"" about the decisions he took on Iraq. Mr Blair said the dislike many felt for him was less to do with the Iraq War and more to do with him winning three general elections for Labour. ""There are people who disagree with me for reasons that they say are to do with, say, Iraq, but actually are to do with the fact I won three elections for the Labour Party and they didn't like it,"" he said. Mr Blair has been a vocal critic of Mr Corbyn in the past, warning before the left-wing MP's leadership election victory that the party risked ""annihilation"" if he won. In an interview with the BBC's This Week's World, Mr Blair - Labour leader from 1994 to 2007, and PM for 10 of those years - dismissed the idea that Mr Corbyn's election as party leader was a direct rejection of him and his policies. ""No,"" he said, ""I think it's a result of the way the world works these days. But it's a big challenge for the centre... It would be a very dangerous experiment for a major western country to get gripped by this type of populist policy-making, left or right."" He added: ""I do think the centre ground needs to work out how it recovers... gets its mojo back and gets the initiative back in the political debate, because... these guys aren't providing answers, not on the economy, not on foreign policy."" Sir John Chilcot's long-awaited report into how UK forces came to participate in the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its aftermath, is to be published on 6 July. Ahead of its publication, Mr Blair told This Week's World: ""I have a real humility about the decisions that I took and the issues around them. ""I was trying to deal with this in the aftermath of 9/11 and it was very tough - it was very difficult."" The former PM, who set up a foundation which works to promote greater understanding between the world's religions and to challenge extremism and prejudice, said the West was not to blame for the situation in the Middle East. And he warned of bigger terrorist attacks on Europe in future. ""You've got to open your eyes to the problem. If we don't do that we're going to store up an even bigger problem for ourselves, and we face the problem in Europe, I'm afraid, of even bigger terror attacks. ""I think we need to be in no doubt at all about the people we're dealing with here. If they could kill larger numbers of people that's what they would do,"" he said. The threat, he said, was ""different... from anything we have faced before"" and he said it required a ""different type of policy response and... a different rhythm of thinking"", as it would be a ""generation fight, it's not a fight that's going to be resolved in one year, two years, or even 10"". Mr Blair also called for action to redress the widespread problem of indoctrination of Muslim children in extremist ideologies across the Middle East. He said there needed to be a global commitment, where countries promoted cultural tolerance and rooted out cultural prejudice within their education systems. ""If you end up polluting the mind of your people as they're growing up within your country, in today's world where the boundaries come down where there is much more migration and integration, then that is not just for your country - it's a problem for all of us.""","It would be a "" very dangerous experiment "" for the UK to give Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn @placeholder , Tony Blair has told the BBC 's This Week 's World .",power,behaviour,hopes,influence,credit,0
"He has appeared before a disciplinary hearing after claiming the Nazi leader supported Zionism in the 1930s. The two-day misconduct panel is due to deliver a ruling on Tuesday. The former London mayor has defended his remarks, saying there had been ""real collaboration"" between Nazis and Zionists before World War Two. But he said claims he had said Hitler was a Zionist were ""fake news"". The Holocaust Educational Trust said Mr Livingstone was ""promoting a misleading and misinformed version of history to further his agenda"". He faces a charge of engaging in conduct that was grossly detrimental to the party. During an interval in Friday's session, Mr Livingstone said the case against him was ""weak"" and suggested many of the allegations, including that he was an anti-Semite, had since been ""retracted"". ""For the first time I'm beginning to think I might actually not be expelled,"" he said. The row erupted in April 2016, when he was defending Labour MP Naz Shah over accusations she had made anti-Semitic social media posts. He told BBC London: ""When Hitler won his election in 1932, his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews."" This sparked criticism from historians, Jewish groups and Labour colleagues and he was later confronted outside the BBC's studios by Labour MP John Mann, who accused him in front of TV cameras of being a ""Nazi apologist"". Mr Livingstone was suspended from Labour by party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Following Friday's hearing, Mr Livingstone said it was nonsense to suggest he ever said Hitler was a Zionist. ""They now accept I didn't say it,"" he said. ""The only issue is, was it right to defend Naz Shah? And I was simply saying Naz Shah isn't anti-Semitic. ""If she was anti-Semitic, they wouldn't have readmitted her to the Labour Party."" He said the hearing was ""an amazing debate about the meaning of words. I feel now I could qualify for a degree"". What's the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism? In a written submission to his disciplinary hearing, Mr Livingstone accused Labour of pursuing the case against him in a ""partisan"" way and suggested there was a witch hunt aimed at critics of Israel. Arriving on the first day of the two-day hearing, he repeated his comment that Hitler had supported Zionism, adding that the Nazi paramilitary SS had set up training camps for German Jews so they ""could be trained to cope with the very different sort of country when they got there"". Mr Livingston's original comment was described as inaccurate by Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder in a BBC article in April. And speaking on the BBC's Daily Politics, Mike Katz, the national vice-chairman of Jewish Labour, said he was repeatedly asked on the doorstep when canvassing in Jewish areas ""has Ken been expelled yet?"" But Jonathan Rosenhead, of Free Speech on Israel, said that to say you could not talk about Israel in the same context as Nazism ""is to restrict political discussion - we need free speech"".","Ken Livingstone has said he is "" beginning to think "" Labour will not expel him for controversial comments he made about Hitler and a Jewish @placeholder .",state,health,team,breath,man,0
"He was being tried for a counter-insurgency plan that killed more than 1,700 members of the Ixil indigenous group in 1982. Judge Carol Patricia Flores said she was following a directive from the country's Supreme Court. Mr Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala between 1982-1983, denies the charges. Judge Flores ordered the legal process to be set back to November 2011, before the retired general was charged with war crimes. ""I am not doing this because I want to, but because it has been ordered by the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court,"" she said. The 86-year-old has been on trial since March. He faces charges of crimes against humanity in connection with the killing of 1,771 indigenous Mayans during his 17-month rule in 1982-1983. Prosecutors said Gen Rios Montt wanted to wipe out the indigenous group, which he suspected of supporting rebel fighters. The proceedings were expected to last months, with hundreds of witnesses, since the prosecution admits there is no evidence directly linking Mr Rios Montt to the killings. The former general abandoned politics in 2012, after serving in Congress for a number of years. He has been under house arrest since his immunity from prosecution was lifted at the end of his term. Mr Rios Montt is also facing charges over the forced displacement of 29,000 indigenous Guatemalans as part of what human rights groups have called his ""scorched earth"" policy. An estimated 200,000 people were killed or went missing during Guatemala's 36-year civil conflict, which ended in 1996. Mr Rios Montt's 17 months in power are believed to have been one of the most violent periods of the war.",A judge in Guatemala has @placeholder the trial of former military ruler Efrain Rios Montt .,suspended,praised,ordered,announced,defended,0
"""Hair salons are abundant in China,"" says Browning. ""They are inexpensive and include perks like shampoo wash, blow dry and head massage as basic, all for just $5 [£3]."" The Wenfeng salons are modelled on the military, with the men wearing navy-style uniforms and the women in what Browning calls an air stewardess uniform, ""all of them with a star-ranking shoulder insignia displaying their rank and position"". Trainees from all over China learn their skills at Wenfeng's headquarters and boarding college in Shanghai. ""Roll call begins at 07:00, after breakfast, and includes standing to attention, singing and even dancing,"" says Browning.  The classes last all day. You can see more of Jonathan Browning's work on his website.","Photographer Jonathan Browning has been @placeholder in China since 2007 , and his latest work shows staff at High Street favourite Wenfeng being trained in the art of hairdressing and beauty treatments .",included,recreated,held,opened,based,4
"A spokesman said the new law gives the army the right to secure sites like power plants, main roads and bridges. But critics say it allows the army to return to the streets and bring back military trials for civilians. President Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency after the bomb attack in Sinai on Friday. The new decree allows state infrastructure to be defined as ""military facilities"" for two years, permitting the army to work with police to secure such sites. It also gives the military the right to try people it suspects of launching attacks on those sites. Activists say the law is too broadly defined and could also cover universities, where police have been unable to stop student protests. Putting an end to military trials was one of the main aims of the 2011 uprising that ousted the former president, Hosni Mubarak. Presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef insisted the decree was aimed at tackling terrorism, not protesters, and told the BBC it was a limited, proportional response to recent attacks by militants. The law was introduced after President Sisi promised a tough response to what he called an ""existential threat"" to Egypt posed by Islamist militants. In light of the perceived threat, the editors of 17 newspapers in Egypt have decided to refrain from publishing criticism of the army or the state, the BBC's Orla Guerin in Cairo reports. Human rights groups say it is another sign that the room for dissent in Egypt is shrinking even further, our correspondent adds. Meanwhile, an Egyptian judge ordered 21 activists to be arrested on Monday at the start of their retrial for breaking protest laws during the military's overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The activists, who had been released on bail last month, chanted ""down with military rule"" after the judge read out his decision in court. The court also issued arrest warrants for four of the defendants who did not show up. The group, which includes leading campaigner Alaa Abdel Fattah, were sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia last June for violating a 2013 law curbing the right to public protests. They were later arrested and tried again in person on the same charges but that trial collapsed last month when the presiding judge stepped down. On Sunday, Mr Abdel Fattah's younger sister Sanaa, a 20-year-old student, was jailed for three years along with 23 other young activists for breaking protest laws. Outside the courtroom on Monday, Mr Abdel Fattah said the rulings against activists like his sister were a deliberate attempt by the government to imprison and silence their critics. The judge set the next hearing for Mr Abdel Fattah and the 20 other activists for 11 November.",Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al - Sisi has authorised the military to @placeholder state facilities after jihadists killed more than 30 soldiers last week .,target,impose,close,protect,conduct,3
"Humour and satire continue to spread in Egypt as the country heads for its first presidential vote since the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi, just under a year ago. Political cartoonists have sharpened their pencils and are conducting a parallel campaign in the media. Although former armed forces head Abdul Fattah al-Sisi enjoys the backing of the traditional media - unlike rival Hamdeen Sabahi - neither candidate escapes the witty, funny and, in some cases, harsh, cartoons that appeared since campaigning began earlier this month. A doctored photo of Abdul Fattah al-Sisi on Twitter showed him with his head too large for his body and holding a red rose, seemingly reflecting a common perception of a man who, rather than being a stern military figure, is often seen as a smiling, softly-spoken person known for his emotional speeches. Ganzeer, a well-known Egyptian graffiti artist, published an anti-Sisi cartoon on his website showing what looked like Mr Sisi in his army uniform but with a TV screen with picture of a nervous rabbit stuck to his face and a caption above saying: ""Who's afraid of art?"" Underneath, Ganzeer said he predicted Egypt under Mr Sisi as being a ""police state"" that would act out of fear and crack down on dissent. The private Al-Tahrir daily, however, refrained from mentioning Mr Sisi by name but published a cartoon of a bride standing in front of the pyramids saying she ""does not want [to marry] a soft man, but a strong groom"", implying the former defence minister. The daily al-Youm al-Sabi on 15 May published a satirical cartoon of prominent Egyptian Islamist scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an outspoken critic of Mohammed Morsi's ousting by the military. It showed the Doha-based pro-Muslim Brotherhood cleric sitting, holding a sign saying ""participating in the elections is haram [forbidden in Islam]"". A passing man sees the sign and says smirking: ""Now I'm sure that participating is actually halal [religiously legitimate]."" Some Islamist groups, including the Brotherhood that underpinned Mr Morsi's presidency, say they will boycott the elections to show their disapproval of the interim roadmap outlined by the military. A caricature in the private al-Masry al-Youm daily showed a pro-Brotherhood family walking past two campaign posters, with one saying ""vote Sisi"" and the other ""vote Hamdin"". The veiled wife asks her bearded husband which of the two candidates she should vote for in order to go to heaven. Her husband, who is holding a four-finger sign in support of pro-Morsi supporters killed during the army's break-up of two sit-ins last summer, warns her that ""if you vote for either of the candidates I'll send you back to your father's house"". On the issue of the economy, the private Al-Shuruq daily published a cartoon likening both candidates' ambitious economic plans to a balloon inflated to bursting point. A man looks up at the balloon with a caption saying ""big promises"" - so big that the cartoonist inserted two exclamation marks next to the balloon. Cartoonist Imad Hajjaj poked fun at Mr Sabahi, who claims to be the torchbearer of late President Gamal Abdel Nasser's socialist economic policies, as well as Mr Sisi, who is seen by his admirers to be the political heir of Nasser. Hajjaj's cartoon, posted on his Twitter account (@emadhajjaj) on 6 May, showed both Mr Sabahi and Mr Sisi posing and holding a banner of Nasser, who appears to be hiding his face in shame. Elsewhere, Kilmati, a pro-Brotherhood website, published a drawing of a giant Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in his military uniform sitting in an armchair, stretching out the heel of his boot drawn in the form of a ballot box, ready for two voters queuing up to cast their votes. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.","Egyptians are known for their satirical @placeholder , as displayed in the slogans and placards of the 2011 uprising that led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak .",rallies,style,wit,expressions,fortune,2
"Dubbed Mrs Christmas, Betty Ann Jones, 72, has installed 12,000 twinkling fairy lights, a mountain of fake snow and 5,000 toys and tiny ornaments. She has been decorating her home in Pontardawe, near Swansea, for eight years and last year raised £12,000 for charity. Her husband has also built a nativity scene. ""I just love Christmas - and I want everyone else to love it as much as I do. It is well worth a fiver of anyone's money,"" she said. ""I have thousands of beautiful intricately designed ornaments from all over the world but most have come from German Christmas markets. ""I went every year for 16 years and always came home with arms full of unique decorations.""",A grandmother has turned her home into a winter wonderland for Christmas and is @placeholder people £ 5 to visit .,offering,improving,awarded,raising,charging,4
"Although he had not made the squad for the previous qualifier in Slovakia a month before, Oliver Burke still believed his coach Gordon Strachan would swivel on his seat and turn to the recently acquired RB Leipzig signing in the hope that he would change the game. In front of the famous Wembley crowd Burke believed he would be Scotland's hero. Yet the Scotland coach did not pick the 19-year-old talent. In fact, he didn't pick anyone at all until Gary Cahill had made it 3-0 11 minutes later, when defensive midfielder James McArthur was brought on to limit the damage already done. ""I'm sure any player would say that he wasn't very happy,"" Burke told BBC Scotland when asked about that day. ""But really I think I just had to take a step back and realise what I'd done and where I am. ""Obviously I'm still very proud to be a part of the team and at the end of the day it's the manager's choice."" Media playback is not supported on this device Any misplaced assumptions of playing a key role for the national team that night are quickly excused when consideration is made for the hype that has followed Burke to Leipzig over the past eight months. Compared to Real Madrid star Gareth Bale owing to his style of play, and touted as a future Scotland star, the German club were inundated with requests to interview Burke when he first arrived. Despite only scoring his first goal for Nottingham Forest 11 months prior to that night at Wembley, the young talent was already an established name within the European game. ""I was really taken aback,"" said Burke when asked about the attention. ""I didn't really think this was a part of football as much. When you're a young kid you don't see these things. You just see footballers playing and enjoying it out on the pitch."" Despite his new-found fame, Burke had joined a club that stresses the importance of team performances over individualism and was quickly made aware that he had plenty to learn before he would be stealing the headlines in Leipzig, as he had done in Nottingham. After setting up the winning goal against Borussia Dortmund in the opening game of the season, Burke's coach Ralph Hassenhuttl chose to instead note that the player had an ""empty hard drive"" - referring to his reluctance to track back and follow his marker. ""It took me a long while to get used to it and get me up and running,"" said Burke when asked about the re-education he has had since leaving England. ""There are so many little bits in this team. So if you're not doing your job as well as you possibly can then it can cost you in the Bundesliga. That's how tough this league is."" Media playback is not supported on this device Ralf Rangnick, RB Leipzig's director of football, was the man who brought Burke to Germany after watching a video prepared by the club's analytics team of the Forest prospect. After just 10 minutes the former Stuttgart, Schalke and Hoffenheim coach decided he had seen enough. Two weeks later Burke was on a plane to Leipzig sitting alongside Rangnick, as he explained the club's playing ethos. ""When we saw and scouted him we could easily see the weapons he has,"" the 58-year-old told BBC Scotland. ""He's very powerful, very fast and physically strong. He's good on the ball for a player of that size and that tempo. Where he still has to improve is tactically - 'when do I have to do what?' - our style of football is a little bit different from what he was used to in England."" He added: ""Obviously those are things that nobody has told him in the past and he has to learn that. He has improved but there is still plenty of room for further improvement."" Rangnick gives off a headmaster-like demeanour that fits in with the manner in which Leipzig intend to run their club. Buying young, raw talent to develop in to continental stars is the plan at a fledging club backed by the ambitious energy drink makers Red Bull. Despite sitting second in the German top division, the average age of Burke's teammates is just 24.2 years. In Leipzig, the 19-year-old has not joined a normal football club, but instead a purpose-built academy in one of the best football leagues in the world. ""I've loved every moment of it and I just love the fact that I'm getting better and better,"" noted Burke. ""That's what I came here for. I wouldn't want to go to a club not knowing that I'm going to get better than what I was at Nottingham Forest."" He added: ""I've got to take a bit of pressure off myself at times because I do pressure myself, but I'm enjoying it."" Indeed, it may be some time before Burke displaces striker Timo Werner, the 21-year-old German talent who has scored 14 Bundesliga goals this season and just earned a call-up to his national team. Or even 25-year-old Bundesliga player-of-the-year contender Emil Forsberg on the left wing. Yet in Leipzig the Scottish international continues to work hard as the country's most exciting work in progress.","When Adam Lallana 's diving header sailed past Craig Gordon to double England 's lead over Scotland at Wembley Stadium last November , all but one head on the Scottish @placeholder slumped to a resigned sigh .",island,bonding,bench,title,tent,2
"Both sides of the busy Pershore Road in Birmingham were sealed off following the incident near First Avenue just after 07:00 BST, said West Midlands Police. A man and woman were checked by paramedics but nobody was seriously injured. Street bollards were damaged and the shop front window was smashed. More on this and other Birmingham stories",A crash involving two cars left one of the @placeholder on its roof after it smashed into a shop front .,bikes,vehicles,people,beach,occupants,1
"I have never had a facial before. For me, it sounds like something a woman might do. It had never even occurred to me that a man, a black African man, might one day go for a facial. Mere talk of pre-wash facial scrubs makes my hair stand on end. Well, a lot has changed. Because this boy from Soweto has just dived head-first into male grooming. I felt like a goat going for a traditional slaughter when I walked into Sorbet Men's Grooming salon in the upmarket Sandton district of Johannesburg - nervous, disoriented, even hopeful of a reprieve. The salon's staff are dressed in trendy black uniforms. R&B music booms from speakers in the ceiling. ""Hi Milton, welcome to your 1.30pm appointment,"" says the glamorous young receptionist. I try to put on a confident smile and she ushers me to Lelanie deJager, my groomer. A blonde, charming lady, she directs me to a swivelling leather chair in front of a spotless mirror. Lelanie has 18 years' experience in men's grooming, having begun her training in Ireland. As she prepares me for the initial scrub, she tells me that she loves male grooming and could never work with women. I smile, still not sure about this. I ask her whether African men are taking to grooming. ""Like a duck to water,"" she says. According to Siphiwe Mpye, a trends consultant based in Braamfontein, a hipster enclave of Johannesburg, the culture of skin-care has been growing rapidly across Africa, with South Africa leading the way. As a former editor of South Africa's GQ men's magazine, he knows what he is talking about. Looking the part himself, he tells me that growth in the beauty and grooming industry is being driven by black African men buying products. But what is driving that, I ask. It is partly because of global trends, he says, but also because sustained economic growth in Africa has been giving men greater disposable income. So what happened to the traditional Zulu man with a six-pack who prepared to go out by taking a cold shower? Well, that Zulu man is today's customer for grooming products, says Mr Mpye. ""The continent has changed, the continent continues to change as the world changes, and as the world changes, Africa is being touted as the future,"" he says. ""I suppose in a lot of ways we are embracing the future right now."" Gone are the days when it was only women who spent time in front of the mirror. Today, women are looking for partners who are also well-polished and manicured. And the men have got that message. Businesswoman Tsakani Mashaba, founder of Michael Makiala for Men, says there was a gap in the market for products that catered to the specific needs of black male skin. Research suggests that black men are more prone to razor bumps because their curly beards are more susceptible to ingrown hairs, she says. She explains that her products soften the hair so that it continues to grow away from the face. The marketing graduate researched and worked with a biochemist to manufacture the country's first locally produced skin-care range for black men. ""African men suffered a lot from razor bumps, oily skin and pigmentation. There wasn't a brand out there in the market that catered for that. ""So I went on a journey to formulate a product for you guys and here we are,"" she tells me, beaming. When I grew up, it was much simpler. The local barber would splash on methylated spirit to control razor bumps after a man had had his head shaved clean. Back in the present, Lelanie has wrapped me in a hot towel for a light steam treatment to open my pores. After that, she applies a lotion to soften this old township face. Then comes the razor - a brand new cut-throat blade, like the one used in that memorable scene from the James Bond film, Skyfall. It is my first time with such a thing. Very gently, Lelanie starts shaving me. When she has finished, it is time for another hot towel and then moisturiser. I feel almost as if my skin is breathing. I feel new. I feel like a million dollars! But that township-man feeling has never left me. I still feel like an African man.","The male grooming and beauty industry is booming in South Africa , with products now targeting a new @placeholder - black men , as the BBC 's Milton Nkosi finds out .",audience,gut,age,level,deal,0
"He thinks investors have jumped the gun in response to the Federal Reserve's talk of bringing policy back to normal. Ben Bernanke would probably agree with him. But the governor's tone was softer than usual. He had the air of the long-suffering headmaster on the last day of term - conscious he had one last chance to get his message across, but also that the students' minds are turning to other things. Sir Mervyn was a teacher before he came to the Bank and he has remained a teacher ever since. That has been his greatest strength as governor, which has served the country very well. But that urge to educate probably also explains why quite a lot of people in the city - and some in Westminster - will not be sorry to see him go. There is a fine line between teaching and lecturing, and grand, successful people do not like feeling they are being lectured. In more than 20 years at the Bank he has probably taught the public more about the economy - and more about central banking - than any other single individual. That was crucial in the 1990s, when inflation targets were just starting and the Bank of England was moving towards independence. It has turned out to be no less vital in the past five years, as the Bank and the country have learned what it means to have a once-in-a-lifetime financial crisis. I wrote quite a lot about that side of Sir Mervyn's legacy a few weeks ago, on the day of his last Inflation Report press conference. What may be less well understood here in the UK is how much Sir Mervyn King has also taught the world. This was brought home to me, interviewing international figures for my final piece on his time as governor for the BBC. The former US Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers and the Governor of the Bank of Israel, Stanley Fischer, are distinguished economists themselves. They each spoke of Sir Mervyn's determination, in every international meeting, to ask the difficult questions and get to the heart of what was going on. ""When he speaks, everyone puts down their blackberries and they listen"", George Osborne told me, ""because it's Mervyn King."" Both Stanley Fischer and Philipp Hildebrand, the former head of the Swiss central bank, said that Sir Mervyn had helped teach the rest of the world what independent central banking was all about. He also played a key role, when the financial crisis was at its height, in an emergency meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in November 2008. They arrived, as usual, with a detailed communiqué to sign, running to several pages. With the world waiting nervously to hear what policymakers were going to do, Sir Mervyn suggested they tear up that wordy draft and replace it with a short and emphatic statement that they were going to do what it took to restore stability to world markets. That one gesture didn't end the crisis, of course. It did send a very important message that the grown-ups were on the case. But, as I said earlier, the constant questioning, and constant teaching, has not always gone down so well, at home or abroad.  G20 finance ministers and central bank governors don't like being lectured either. When markets took fright in the summer of 2007 and credit for banks started to dry up, the big men and women in Wall Street and the City felt their world was starting to fall apart. They did not want to hear a lecture from the governor of the Bank of England, about the importance of banks and investors taking responsibility for their decisions and the risks of moral hazard. Defenders of the governor say those comments were overblown. They also point out that, in practice, the Bank of England injected more liquidity into the banking system in the summer and autumn of 2007 than either the US or the European central banks. The Federal Reserve and the ECB made more money available up front than the Bank of England, but it was very short-term cash that had to be paid back. That may be true, but even the Bank's supporters say the governor's public stance in this crucial early stage of the crisis was unhelpful, at best. Officials and Wall Street figures I spoke to on a trip to the US in September 2007 were openly exasperated. They felt he simply did not ""get"" how bad the situation was. They also felt, with some justice, that the Bank of England did not have nearly enough technical understanding of the financial market developments that had given rise to it all. In effect, that had been left to the FSA, even though the Bank still had formal responsibility for preserving financial stability. It is astonishing, now, to think that there was only one vote to cut interest rates when the Monetary Policy Committee met in September 2008, and it wasn't the governor's. Sir Mervyn was not the only one to underestimate how serious the crisis would become. And when the Bank cut rates, it cut them quickly. It also launched an historic experiment with quantitative easing, which probably helped prevent a Great Depression-style collapse of the money supply, even if it did not magically deliver growth. Sir Mervyn himself says posterity will judge his record. But when people say he does not have a lot of respect for what the 'masters of the universe' have done to the City of the London, I suspect he doesn't mind that at all. Certainly, Labour politicians don't mind that he was a bit contemptuous of the City. They do mind that he helped narrow the options for UK fiscal policy in 2010. Rightly or wrongly, Gordon Brown was considering another fiscal stimulus, in the 2010 Budget (without, it must be said, a lot of support from the Treasury itself). But that didn't last long, after Sir Mervyn said publicly that further stimulus was not on the table. In May of that year, the governor publicly endorsed the government's strategy on the deficit, only hours after the coalition was formed. History will have its judgement on that too, but it's fair to say Labour's verdict is already in. So, yes, Sir Mervyn King's time as governor has been a game of two halves, with the first five years a lot less divisive than the last. But, when he leaves, he will have been at the Bank not ten years, but 22, first as its chief economist then later as deputy governor and governor. We don't need to wait for the history books to be written to know that he made the Bank of England a very different place in those 22 years, and also did quite a bit to change the world.","Sir Mervyn King spent his last morning in Westminster as Bank of England governor as he had spent many others - @placeholder about the banks , and telling the financial markets they had got things wrong .",thinking,sighted,grown,focused,complaining,4
"Natural Resources Wales (NRW) previously said the beds would not open as usual on 1 July after a sharp drop in the number of cockles. But cocklers reported a ""very late and unusual"" appearance of young cockles. NRW said another survey in August showed that there were about 600 tonnes which could be harvested. Tim Jones, NRW's executive director for north and mid Wales, said: ""This really is good news for all concerned and demonstrates how managing these beds in a way that helps the environment and the economy can work."" The beds will be open for the limited time from 21 September.","Cockle beds in the Dee @placeholder in Flintshire can open for eight weeks this autumn , environment officials have announced .",group,room,estuary,estate,places,2
"It was an inauspicious time to join the profession. Lauren Smith completed an MA in librarianship at the University of Sheffield in 2010, the same year Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the biggest UK spending cuts for decades. Since then, libraries have seen an influx of volunteer staff - from Doncaster to Dorset, from Gateshead to Gloucestershire - and a quarter of paid jobs have disappeared. Dismayed by what she sees as an attack on her profession, Ms Smith has become a campaigner for Voices for the Library. Scale of cuts to libraries unveiled She believes volunteers, though well-meaning, are simply unaccountable. ""They often don't turn up to open the library when it's supposed to be open. They don't have the training to do the things they need to do. ""As an example, a friend of mine tried to register at her local library last week and the volunteer had to phone for help twice before they worked out how to use the computer system."" Librarians adhere to a code of professional conduct in the same way that doctors, lawyers and accountants do, Ms Smith argues. By bringing in thousands of volunteers, those ethics become watered down. ""Volunteers may harbour prejudices and biases and could prevent people from accessing information or using the library space. ""Council employees are held accountable for their conduct and librarians are accountable to their professional body - there is no such accountability for volunteers."" How are our library habits changing? For others within the sector, adopting a volunteer model is akin to a leap in the dark. Ian Anstice, who has an MA in librarianship, said: ""It must seem like a dream solution to many politicians. However, it's a nightmare to anyone who wants to run an effective national public library service. ""It atomises the public library system into various local clubs, run by people often without any training, who often do not have any long-term resources. ""Buoyed along by early optimism, such libraries may do well for a short few years, but what chance they have in the long term is anyone's guess?"" Mr Anstice warns of the ""hollowing-out"" of the service. He said: ""It can come across in many forms: reduced opening hours, reduced book fund, reduced maintenance and reduced staffing."" Despite the dire predictions, however, there have been success stories, both in the UK and abroad. When the library in a deprived suburb of Rotterdam in the Netherlands was threatened with closure, residents handed in petitions and protested outside civic offices. When their protest fell on deaf ears, they opened a library themselves. Three years later, The Reading Room is a thriving community centre in Het Oude Westen, supported by 100 volunteers from 17 nationalities.  Even the 81-year-old former librarian came out of retirement to help. Co-founder Maurice Specht says: ""It was time to act, not only the library was closing, but a lot of public spaces and social services were closing. ""The first to figure out what people thought they needed, the second to get a group of people to realise it."" The centre is now open five days a week from 10:00 to 19:00, and later for special events. It runs 120 literary, music and craft programmes a year. ""We have no paid staff or support from paid professionals, which makes it very equal and easy in a way,"" Mr Specht says. In Buckinghamshire, a group of volunteers saved a library earmarked for closure. The 50 unpaid volunteers who run the Little Chalfont Community Library have since been recognised with a Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. Professor Peter Reid, who oversees the Department of Information Management at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, believes there will always be jobs for professional librarians. ""I'm sceptical about those that say we are de-professionalising libraries,"" he says. ""There's a difference between those who staff libraries and those who manage them. ""It isn't often qualified librarians issuing the books. They are the ones often behind the scenes."" It began with a desire to keep people out of the pub. The governing classes of the early 19th Century became increasingly alarmed at the moral and physical health of the expanding working class as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace. Social reforms followed and the 1850 Public Libraries Act ushered in the first libraries. In 1852, a member of the public in Campfield, Manchester, became the first person in the country to borrow a book in a library supported by public rates. Professor Reid said courses in librarianship remained popular. Experts say it is important to note that most librarians do not work in public libraries. The majority work within private collections, universities or schools, or at law firms, museums and government agencies. ""We teach them that their skills are broadly transferable. There are lots of opportunities still,"" Professor Reid said. ""The public librarian as a brand is something that is highly trusted by the public. ""I hope that despite the changes we are seeing, there will continue to be highly skilled professionals out doing the public-facing activities of running libraries. Libraries are the hubs of their communities and that is how it should be."" England has seen deeper cuts to libraries than in the rest of the UK, but Dr Briony Birdi, a lecturer in librarianship at the University of Sheffield, paints a similar picture. ""I think there was a fear when all this started that [students] would vote with their feet,"" she said. ""There has been a reduction in the number of students taking the public library modules, but we are starting to pick up numbers again. The students we have are incredibly committed and they are interested in the societal issues. Although student recruitment numbers have gone down slightly in recent years they are still a ""healthy size"", she argues, and there is also a strong distance learning programme. Of course, it is not just the library service that has undergone a period of change and uncertainty. How the service may look within 10 years remains a subject of fierce debate. Ms Smith, who now works as a research associate at the University of Strathclyde, said the decline in library service pre-dated the 2010 Spending Review and was part of a deeper trend. ""I really don't like to try to be a futurist, but I think the future for public libraries as things stand is a decimated and de-professionalised service with patchwork levels of provision across the country,"" she said.","Librarians are custodians to a world of information and ideas , performing an important democratic role , their supporters argue . But with 8,000 jobs in UK libraries disappearing in six years , is that @placeholder under threat ?",status,system,place,community,sector,0
"Alex Carlile was Montgomeryshire MP from 1983 to 1997, and spent a decade as the UK government's terrorism legislation reviewer. He confirmed to BBC News he was no longer a Lib Dem peer but said he had no further comment to make. The Lib Dems said they were ""disappointed but not surprised"" by his decision. ""He has been at odds with party policy on a number of occasions in recent years, especially over civil liberties,"" a spokesman said. ""We are grateful for his years of service to the party and wish him well in future."" Lord Carlile was brought up in north Wales and Lancashire and was made a life peer in 1999. In November he was appointed to lead an independent review into how the Church of England handled child abuse accusations against Bishop of Chichester, George Bell, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He supported the so-called ""snooper's charter"" despite party leader Nick Clegg being against it.",A former Welsh Liberal Democrat leader has @placeholder the party in the House of Lords .,quit,representing,topped,admitted,become,0
"The 23-year-old finished second behind Hannah Miley in the 400m individual medley at the British Championships, but her consideration time of four mins 35.52 secs earned her selection. ""Swimming's my job and you don't expect to go along for the ride,"" she said. ""I need to earn my position and show everyone why I've been picked."" Willmott, from Middlesbrough, came fifth in the heats and missed out on a place in the 400m individual medley final at London 2012, but won silver in the event and the 200m butterfly at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She told BBC Tees, ""It's a huge honour to be picked for my second Olympics and now I know I'm definitely going, I'm going to put the hard work in and Rio will be here before I know it. ""Everyone is hungry to get in and do Team GB proud. The difference this time is everyone wants to swim well for GB rather than just be on the team."" Despite her main event being the 400m medley, the Teessider also won the 200m butterfly at the British Championships in Glasgow and wants to compete in that event in Rio. Team GB have yet to formally nominate members of the 26-strong squad for specific events. ""I proved by winning the 200m butterfly that I am the fastest person in Britain at the moment on that event and it would be great for me to be picked for it and I would love to do it,"" Willmott continued. ""If I can do a personal best time or get as close to that as possible in the Olympics or make a final or if I can give myself the best chance of getting on the medal podium, then I'll be happy with that.""",Swimmer Aimee Willmott says she will not be satisfied with simply making up the @placeholder after being included in the Team GB squad for the Rio Olympics .,numbers,team,race,title,mood,0
"The UK doctors who devised the test say anyone who regularly drinks more than three or four bottles of wine a week, for example, is at significant risk. Ultimately, GPs could offer the test to patients, especially since many people do not recognise unsafe drinking. Often damage is only noticed at a late stage as the liver starts to fail. Although the liver can heal itself to some extent, repeated onslaught will cause irreparable damage. By the time the patient reaches hospital, the liver can be very scarred. And even when they stop drinking entirely, in many cases it is too late and they will die of liver complications over the next 12 months. The traffic-light test can give an early colour-coded warning - green means damage is unlikely, amber means there is a 50:50 chance it is there, and red means the liver is most probably damaged and potentially irreversibly. It combines a routine liver test doctors already use with two others that measure the level of scarring, also known as fibrosis. To try it out, the University of Southampton researchers tested more than 1,000 patients at their liver clinic. Are you drinking too much? Take the test This revealed that the traffic-light test was also good at predicting the prognosis of liver disease. Half of the liver patients had a red traffic light and (of a subset of these who were followed up) about a quarter died over the next five years, whereas none of the patients with a green test died or developed complications. The findings are published in the British Journal of General Practice. Dr Sheron's team have also been investigating how the test can be used in primary care. Preliminary results in about 400 hazardous drinkers from 10 GP surgeries suggest many patients are willing to be tested and that learning the result can change behaviour. A third of those given a green result cut down on their alcohol intake, while more than two-thirds of those given a red or amber result subsequently drank less. Dr Nick Sheron, who devised the test, said: ""It is a powerful tool and message for people. We can say, 'Amber means we can't be absolutely sure but there is at least a 50:50 chance that you have a scarred liver, and there is a significant possibility that you could die of it within 5 years'. ""We find that for most patients this is a pretty good stimulus to stop drinking or at least to cut down to safe levels."" He said, generally, people were receptive to being tested. ""People are immensely curious about if their alcohol intake is doing any harm. They want to take the test."" As well as people who drink more than the recommended amount, people who drink and are overweight or have type-two diabetes should consider getting tested, says Dr Sheron. This is because they are at increased risk of liver damage. The Department of Health says men should not regularly drink more than three to four units of alcohol a day and women should not regularly drink more than two to three units a day. ""Regularly"" means drinking every day or most days of the week. And if you do drink more heavily than this on any day, allow 48 alcohol-free hours afterwards to let your body recover. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) advises no more than 21 units per week for men and 14 units per week for women. But also, have two to three alcohol-free days a week to allow the liver time to recover after drinking anything but the smallest amount of alcohol. There are one and a half units of alcohol in a small glass (125 ml) of ordinary strength wine (12% alcohol by volume) or a standard pub measure (35 ml) of spirits (40% alcohol by volume). Estimates suggest 10 million or one in five adults in England drink above recommended levels. Prof Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance, said: ""One of the challenges of liver disease, which is rising dramatically in this country, is the silent nature of the condition until it is often too late to reverse the damage. ""However minor changes in standard liver blood tests are so common that it is difficult for GPs to know when to refer for specialist advice. ""This large study from Sheron and colleagues in Southampton may prove really useful for guiding the right patients towards specialist care in a timely way."" Andrew Langford of the British Liver Trust said: ""If we are to make an in-road in reducing liver deaths - the only big killer increasing year on year - we have to make it easier for primary care to better understand the management of liver conditions as well as spotting the signs early.""","A traffic - light colour - coded blood test can reveal @placeholder liver damage caused by drinking above recommended alcohol limits , say experts .",overcome,slept,hidden,described,hand,2
"The young swan was shot near the River Soar, Soar Lane, Leicestershire on Sunday, an RSPCA spokesman said. The bird has made a ""miraculous"" recovery and is expected to survive, RSPCA inspector Sarah Bate said. Ms Bate said: ""He is a very lucky swan indeed as this could very easily have been fatal."" She added: ""When I arrived, the swan was lying on the bank and was obviously in pain. ""The crossbow had gone straight through his head, just above his right eye, and straight through the other side - a very shocking thing to see."" Ms Bate added: ""I took him immediately to a vet, where an X-ray showed the crossbow had missed his brain by a tiny fraction - just millimetres."" The bird was taken to a local wildlife centre, where he will be monitored before being returned to the wild. It is believed the cygnet was shot overnight on Saturday or in the early hours of Sunday. The maximum penalty for injuring or killing a wild bird is six months in prison and a £5,000 fine.","An eight - week - old cygnet shot in the head with a crossbow bolt @placeholder death by "" millimetres "" .",preceded,deal,escaped,dubbed,described,2
"James Alex Fields was denied bail as he was arraigned for second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit and run. Heather Heyer, 32, died and 19 were injured when a car hit demonstrators in Charlottesville on Saturday. Mr Fields is said to have harboured Nazi sympathies. President Donald Trump has been criticised for not specifically denouncing the far-right elements in the weekend's march. But the White House has defended his remarks as explicitly condemning the white supremacy groups involved. Ken Frazier, CEO of drugs giant Merck, announced on Monday he would resign from the president's American Manufacturing Council over Mr Trump's response to Charlottesville. Mr Frazier, who is African American, tweeted he had ""a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism"". James Alex Fields looked nervous and listless on the small monitor in the corner of the courtroom. Mostly he kept his head down, his eyes darting occasionally up towards the camera. He was wearing a striped jumpsuit and had the neat, buzzcut hairstyle favoured by many white supremacists and neo-nazis who have united under the banner of the so-called ""alt-right"". Judge Robert Downer read his charges - one count of murder, one count of hit and run, three counts of malicious wounding. Alex Fields spoke briefly to say he was employed by Securitas and Omni Ohio, could not afford a lawyer, and had no ties to Charlottesville. Judge Downer denied him bail, and revealed he could not be appointed a public defender because someone in the public defender's office was directly affected by the crime. His appointed lawyer, Charles Webster, named in court by the judge, had yet to be contacted to inform him of his latest client. In 10 minutes it was over. Outside the court, known white nationalist Matthew Heimbach was shouting that the death of Heather Heyer was the fault of the police. ""Nazis go home,"" the crowd chanted back at him. ""I think I like it in Charlottesville,"" he said. ""I think I'll stay."" Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday said the deadly violence met ""the definition of domestic terrorism"", adding that the Justice Department was opening a civil rights investigation into the event. ""You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation towards the most serious charges that can be brought because this is unequivocally an unacceptable evil attack,"" he said on ABC News' Good Morning America. He told the television programme that FBI agents from the terrorism and civil rights divisions were also investigating the matter. Hundreds of white nationalists convened in Charlottesville on Saturday to protest against the removal of a statue of a general who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War. These groups, which include the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis and other white supremacy organisations, have coalesced under a banner of the so-called ""alt-right"" movement. They were challenged by anti-fascist and counter-protesters and the rally erupted into violent clashes. During the melee, Ms Heyer was struck by a car that rammed into a crowd of dispersing counter-protesters. Protests and vigils in support of Charlottesville were held in many US cities on Sunday. In Seattle, police used pepper spray to stop protesters approaching a pro-Trump rally. Hours after the violence erupted, Mr Trump said he condemned ""in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides"". ""The hate and the division must stop right now,"" he told reporters in New Jersey, where he is on a working holiday. ""We have to come together as Americans with love for our nation."" But his comments did not explicitly condemn the white extremist groups involved in the rally, an omission that was strongly criticised by Republicans and Democrats alike. Many, including senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, echoed the sentiment of Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, who tweeted: ""Mr President - we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism."" The president's national security adviser, HR McMaster, went further by commenting: ""Anytime that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it meets the definition of terrorism."" The mayor of Charlottesville, Democrat Mike Signer, drew a link between the events and the rhetoric of Mr Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, saying that ""these anti-Semites, racists, Aryans, neo-Nazis, KKK"" had come out of the shadows after having ""been given a key and a reason to come into the light"". In response to the criticism, the White House issued a statement on Sunday clarifying that Mr Trump's condemnation had included white supremacists. ""The president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred. Of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups,"" a spokesperson said. Mr Sessions also came to the president's defence on Monday, saying he ""explicitly condemned the kind of ideology behind these movements of Nazism, white supremacy, the KKK."" That is his unequivocal position,"" Mr Sessions said, ""He totally opposes those kind of values"".",A 20 - year - old man accused of ramming his car into a crowd of protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia has appeared in court via @placeholder from jail .,wire,video,swing,phone,letter,1
"9 December 2014 Last updated at 16:43 GMT Mrs Mujuru, once seen as a future possible leader, has denied plotting against the president. State media and Mr Mugabe's wife, Grace, have conducted a campaign against her for months. BBC Africa reviews the demise of Mr Mugabe's main opponents - in 90 seconds. Video produced by Baya Cat","President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has @placeholder his Vice - President , Joice Mujuru , after accusing her of plotting to kill him .",assassinated,sacked,lost,postponed,broken,1
"The 19-year-old will stay with the club for the whole of the Malaysian Premier League campaign. Adams has progressed through the Rs academy where he played for the Under-23 side and had a spell at Ryman League side Staines Town earlier this season. Tony Fernandes, the Championship club's 52-year-old owner, is Malaysian.",QPR striker Brandon Adams has signed a new one - year contract and @placeholder a one - year loan at Malaysian side Persatuan Bola Sepak Perlis .,handed,finished,set,agreed,had,3
"It was supposed to be. The seat, moulded to include a protruding penis and chest, was designed to highlight sexual harassment experienced by female passengers. The explanation next to the men-only label read: ""It is uncomfortable to sit here, but that is nothing compared to the sexual violence that women suffer on their daily journeys."" The seat is not a permanent fixture, but part of a campaign launched by UN Women and the Mexico City authorities called #NoEsDeHombres, which aimed to highlight sexual harassment on public transport. But the response has been mixed. Underneath a video of the stunt, which has been seen more than 700,000 times in the past 10 days, some viewers praised the idea, while others called it ""sexist"" and unfair to men. Gendes is a Mexican civil society organisation that focuses on working with men to promote equality and combat sexual harassment, which remains a major problem in the country. Rene Lopez Perez, who heads their research programme, praised the campaign for taking an important issue and making it a talking point. But he also stressed the importance of not seeing all men as attackers. ""It's important not to stigmatise all men as violent and potential attackers of women,"" he said. Are these the world's toughest female soldiers? Three words to set alarm bells off for every firm What exactly does Ivanka do at the White House? Holly Kearl, who founded the US-based website Stop Street Harassment, said there was something to be said for turning the focus away from women for once. When she attended the UN Women Safe Cities Global Leaders' Forum in Mexico City last month, she noted the onus of change was often put on women. ""Too often initiatives around women's safety focus on what women should or should not do, so it is refreshing to see a creative campaign aimed at men,"" she said. The Mexican capital's public transit system has long had a bad reputation for women's safety. In 2014, UK polling company YouGov conducted a survey about harassment on public transportation worldwide. For verbal and physical harassment, Mexico City's metro was voted the worst. Over the years, the city has tried various strategies to make women feel safer. Trains have separate carriages for women. Women-only buses were also launched. An art collective, known as Las Hijas De Violencia (The Daughters of Violence), saw women responding to street harassment by blasting back at attackers with punk music and a confetti cannon. Last year, the city's mayor caused controversy by announcing another new strategy: women were to be offered a small, city-branded whistle that they could toot when they felt threatened. The plan was largely derided for not getting to the root of the problem. ""If screaming doesn't help, how will this?"" wrote Mexico-based journalist Andrea Noel on Twitter. Another Twitter user parodied the idea by suggesting the mayor's office also created a set of maracas to shake when you come across a case of corruption. Ninde, who does not want to be known by her full name, says she has no trust in the female-only carriages after she was assaulted in one last year when a man ejaculated over her. She tries not to use the metro now, and will only do so if accompanied. She would like to see more done to improve the service for women, but she does not think the ""penis seats"" help. ""It seems to ridicule sexual harassment. A real sexual assault is nothing like this,"" she says. ""I feel a little outraged that there are no real actions to eradicate the problem.""","When a new @placeholder of seat suddenly appeared on Mexico City 's metro system , it was labelled as inappropriate , uncomfortable , humiliating and embarrassing .",style,choice,version,collection,set,0
"Some 97 fires were burning across the state, with 37 uncontained, the Rural Fire Service said. One person had been flown to hospital in Sydney after suffering burns, the authorities said. A heatwave has seen temperatures in some areas hit records while fast winds from the desert were fanning flames. More than 2,000 firefighters, many of them volunteers, were battling the fires. Officials said the conditions were worse than during the 2009 ""Black Saturday"" fires in the state of Victoria, which killed 173 people. ""This is the worst day we have seen in the history of New South Wales when it comes to fire danger ratings and fire conditions,"" Shane Fitzsimmons, the state's rural fire chief, told reporters. Emergency warnings were issued for several areas, with residents told to evacuate if they could or seek shelter and avoid bush or grassland where it was too late to leave. One blaze, the Sir Ivan fire east of Dunedoo, was spreading quickly amid difficult and dangerous conditions, the rural fire service said. A 13-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man were charged on Sunday for allegedly starting fires. Weather officials said a southerly wind linked to colder weather was due to arrive on Sunday evening and would offer some relief, although it could create volatile conditions as it met northwesterly winds currently fanning the bushfires. The hot conditions since Friday have caused the cancellation of big sporting events and led to pressure on electricity supplies. A paper mill, water treatment operations and Australia's largest aluminium smelting company Tomago were among businesses to stop operations to conserve energy on Friday. Temperatures in some parts of the state have risen above 45C. In Queensland to the north of New South Wales, record-breaking temperatures of more than 40C were also seen. Australia has warmed by about 1C since 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology said in October. Australia is particularly prone to bushfires as much of the country has both a hot, dry climate, and plenty of vegetation to burn. All it then takes to start a fire is ignition, and there can be as many as a thousand lightning strikes in a storm. Their impact can be reduced by preparation: authorities can clear vulnerable land in advance and build more fire-resistant settlements; individuals can prepare their own defences and escape plans. Less fast-moving fires can be fought by ""direct attack"" - ground troops with hoses - but more dangerous situations have to be fought with strategic techniques like ""back-burning"" land ahead of an advancing fire, to starve it of fuel when it arrives. Read more: Fighting Australia's bushfire threat","Rural areas of Australia 's New South Wales ( NSW ) state have been evacuated as wildfires rage across the state , threatening @placeholder and closing roads .",schools,peninsula,ice,homes,trade,3
"The action, although widely expected, prompted the pound to fall by 1.5% against the dollar. The FTSE 100 closed up 105 points at 6,740.16, higher than the same day last year. The pound was down 1.5% against the dollar at $1.3120 and was down 1.3% against the euro at €1.1799. ""We got a Goldilocks dose of stimulus from the Bank of England today, not too dovish and certainly not too hawkish,"" said Neil Wilson, markets analysts at ETX Capital. ""The inclusion of corporate bonds in the QE programme is noteworthy. It's going to deliver another sugar rush for the FTSE 100 and it's no doubt going to spur additional borrowing by investment-grade companies who can then use the funds to finance share buy backs,"" he said. ""The weaker pound is also good news for the blue chip index, as earnings predominantly come from abroad,"" Mr Wilson added. Another analyst pointed out that both the FTSE 100 and the pound have been stuck in a range for weeks. ""What is interesting... is that this still leaves both instruments [FTSE 100 and pound/dollar] within the same trading brackets they have been bouncing around for the last few weeks, reflecting, perhaps, the extent to which today's action from Carney and co. was expected,"" said Connor Campbell, financial analyst at SpreadEx. ""It also doesn't necessarily give either the UK index or sterling any fresh direction for the coming weeks and months, leaving both at the mercy of the next wave of Brexit-impacted data,"" he said. The biggest loser on London's leading index was pharmaceutical company Hikma. It plunged by 17% after a late release on Wednesday, warning profit at its generic drugs unit would fall this year. Insurance giant Aviva was a winner, rising 7% after announcing a 13% half-year operating profit rise. Outsourcing company Serco was up 10% after it raised its 2016 profit forecast for the second time this year. It voiced a positive note on Brexit, saying it could bring opportunities - as well as costs. Standard Chartered Bank saw another good share price rise of 5%, building on Wednesday's 4.2% gain on results.",( Close ) : The 100 share index swung from small falls to a gain of 1.6 % in response to the Bank of England 's @placeholder cut and other stimulus measures .,fashion,world,recovery,price,rate,4
"European football's governing body Uefa is drawing up anti-terror contingency plans for the event in France. The move follows November's Paris attacks, which included attempts to detonate explosives at the Stade de France during a France v Germany game. ""If there is a security issue, we would need to play the match without fans,"" tournament director Martin Kallen said. Moving matches to different venues is another option being considered. ""It's possible that matches would be postponed or played later,"" Kallen added. ""But today there are no signs of any extreme threats or alarming issues."" The international friendly between France and Germany at the Stade de France was one of several targets in the 13 November attacks, although suicide bombers were thwarted in their attempts to get into the stadium. Explosions were heard by people inside the ground but the match continued. Many fans went on to the pitch at the end of the game as it started to become clear what was unfolding in the city - the attacks left 130 people dead and many more seriously injured. The German national team remained in the stadium overnight. The Stade de France will host the opening game of the tournament between France and Romania on 10 June, as well as the final and other matches. Wednesday marks 100 days to the start of the finals.",Euro 2016 matches could be played behind closed doors in the event of a terror @placeholder at this summer 's finals .,tilt,textile,match,alert,event,3
"Justin Trudeau and his family were guests of the billionaire spiritual leader over New Year's. The federal ethics commissioner is reviewing Mr Trudeau's trip to see if it warrants an official investigation. Mr Trudeau said he is ""more than happy"" to answer any questions the commissioner has. News of his winter getaway was made first revealed by the National Post, after days of speculation over where the prime minister and his family were vacation. Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan is a longtime family friend of the Trudeaus. Mr Trudeau was also accompanied by Liberal MP Seamus O'Reagan and Liberal Party President Anna Gainey, and their respective partners. The Prime Ministers Office (PMO) told the Toronto Star the information was kept secret to protect the families' privacy. Mr Trudeau has since gone on the record about the vacation, and admitted to also using the Aga Khan's private helicopter. ""As was the case with previous Prime Ministers, when travelling for personal reasons, Mr. Trudeau, his family, and any guests travelling with him reimburse an equivalent economy airfare,"" Trudeau spokesperson Cameron Ahmad told the BBC. At a press conference on Friday morning, Mr Trudeau seemed visibly uncomfortable answering questions related to his trip. ""This was our personal family vacation and the questions you're asking, I allow you to reflect on them,"" he said. On Monday, Conservative leadership candidate Andrew Scheer wrote a letter to Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson to ask that she look into whether Mr Trudeau's visit violated conflict of interest rules regarding gifts. The helicopter ride may also have broken rules introduced by Mr Trudeau's own government that forbid ministers and parliamentary secretaries from accepting sponsored travel on private aircraft unless they get prior permission from the ethics commissioner first. Commissioner Dawson has said she has begun a preliminary review of Mr Trudeau's vacation to see if it warrants an investigation. The Aga Khan Foundation is a registered lobbyist and has received hundreds of millions from the federal government over the past several decades, from both the Liberal and Conservative parties. Prince Karim Aga Khan is the 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims. They trace his lineage directly to the Prophet Muhammad. He lives in France, has a British passport, graduated from Harvard University and is among the top 15 of the world's wealthiest royals, according to Forbes magazine. The say he has an estimated wealth of $1bn (£640m) in 2008. A close family friend of the Trudeaus, he was an honourary pallbearer at the funeral of Mr Trudeau's father, Pierre.",Canada 's prime minister is in hot water for taking a tropical vacation on the Aga Khan 's private @placeholder in the Bahamas .,boat,island,jet,beach,information,1
"Linfield's encounter with Lurgan Celtic was scheduled for Friday, 1 April but it will now take place a day later. The Friday night slot is now filled by the meeting between Premiership leaders Crusaders and Glenavon. The reasons for the request include ""potential public disorder, raised community tension and other events in the city on the evening of 1 April."" ""After careful consideration the Challenge Cup Committee of the Irish FA has agreed to the formal request,"" said the IFA on Wednesday. Lurgan Celtic provided a major upset in the quarter-finals with a 3-2 victory over Portadown at Shamrock Park. Tennent's Irish Cup semi-finals (at Windsor Park) Friday, 1 April - 19:45 BST Glenavon v Crusaders Saturday, 2 April - 15:00 Linfield v Lurgan Celtic",The dates for this year 's Irish Cup semi-finals at Windsor Park have been @placeholder at the request of the PSNI .,published,released,confirmed,switched,aimed,3
"Westwood finished with two successive birdies on Friday, after Thursday's round had been curtailed by bad weather, to card a three-under 67. He is tied with American Dustin Johnson who had a bogey-free round. Rory McIlroy closed with three bogeys to post seven over, while Masters champion Danny Willett ended five over. World number one Jason Day was four over after nine and eventually signed for a six-over 76, while defending champion Jordan Spieth played his remaining seven holes in one over par to finish two over. Ireland's Shane Lowry holed a couple of birdies to move two off the lead on two under, alongside Sergio Garcia of Spain. The 2013 US Open champion England's Justin Rose, who is returning from a back injury, had four bogeys and two birdies to finish two over par. Northern Ireland's world number three McIlroy resumed his first round on four over par after 13 holes and began with two pars but then dropped shots on each of the last three holes to fall 11 behind the lead. ""It was hard getting into any kind of rhythm,"" said the 27-year-old, who last missed the cut in a major at the 2013 Open. ""I am missing shots left, I am missing shots right. I need to go to the range and work on a few things if I'm going to be here for the weekend. ""I am just not in a good place with my swing."" World number one Jason Day, who started his round on Friday, was moving along nicely until he double-bogeyed the seventh hole, after taking two shots to get out of a plugged lie in a greenside bunker. He followed that with another bogey on the eighth as he drifted to four over par. A fluffed chip out of greenside rough on the 11th led to another dropped shot and he missed a birdie putt from a dozen feet after an excellent tee shot on the short 13th. Day picked up the solitary birdie of his round on the par-four 14th but gave that shot back on the 16th and missed a four-foot par putt on the next to drop to six over. Landry, 28, strolled onto the ninth green early on Friday morning to knock in the birdie putt he was unable to attempt on Thursday because play was halted by the threat of storms. His four-under-par 66 is the lowest first-round score in a US Open at Oakmont, which is hosting the tournament for a record ninth time. American Scott Piercy briefly drew level with Landry but bogeys on the 15th and 16th holes saw him finish on two under. Spaniard Garcia mixed five birdies with three bogeys, also posting 68, while playing partner Johnson, who three-putted the last hole to lose last year's US Open, hit 16 greens in regulation to sit one off the lead. Six-time US Open runner-up Phil Mickelson was one under after nine holes but with successive bogeys on the 10th and 11th his challenge faltered and a pulled par putt on the last led to a four-over 74. Sweden's Henrik Stenson had one bogey and one birdie in his opening 12 holes and then eagled the par-five fourth to shoot up the leaderboard. Stenson was one of only three players to birdie the 258-yard par-three eighth as he posted a one-under 69. South Africa's Ernie Els, who won the first of his two US Open titles at Oakmont in 1994, was two under after seven holes, but two double bogeys and three more dropped shots in a back nine of 41 saw him finish on five over.",England 's Lee Westwood is one shot behind surprise leader Andrew Landry after a storm - @placeholder first round of the US Open at Oakmont Country Club .,drawn,inspired,soaked,delayed,filled,3
"The father, who lives in the Northern Territory town of Humpty Doo, reportedly set the plants ablaze after repeated disputes with his son. Police said the son called them as he believed burning the plants was a worse crime than drug possession. Police said neither man would face any charges. ""Things came to a head yesterday evening and the father allegedly threw all of his son's cannabis plants onto the bonfire and completely destroyed them,"" Duty Superintendent Jorgensen told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. ""This enraged the son, he called us and told us everything basically.""","An enraged Australian man called police after his father burned his @placeholder cannabis plants in a bonfire , reports say .",threw,body,prized,house,post,2
"The claim: Our membership of the EU means the rest of world invests £880 a second in the UK and creates 10 new jobs an hour. Reality Check verdict: The UK's EU membership is not the only reason why foreign companies invest here. David Miliband said: ""Our membership of the EU means the rest of world invests £880 a second in the UK and creates 10 new jobs an hour."" Taking those in turn, in 2014 there was £27.8bn of foreign direct investment in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics, which is indeed about £880 a second. The new jobs figure is based on the UK Trade and Investment estimate of 85,000 new jobs created in 2014-15, which is just under 10 an hour. While some foreign investors have expressed enthusiasm about the UK's EU membership, it is going too far to say that it is the only reason why foreign companies invest in the UK. Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate",Alan Johnson from Labour in for Britain and former foreign secretary David Miliband visited an HSBC @placeholder in Birmingham to highlight foreign investment in the UK .,event,unit,offer,structure,development,4
28 June 2016 Last updated at 17:50 BST The Three Lions were beaten 2-1 by Iceland - the lowest ranked team left in the competition. Former England captain Alan Shearer called it the worst performance he'd ever seen by an England team. Manager Roy Hodgson stepped down from his job immediately after the match. Kids in Manchester tell us their reactions and who'll they be supporting now that England are out.,England 's footy players and fans are still recovering from the @placeholder 's shock exit from the European Championships .,continent,side,region,country,team,1
"The incident happened in the St David's area of Old Colwyn, Conwy county, at about 09:30 BST on Wednesday. North Wales Police said a man, 29, has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and assault. Insp Kelly Isaacs said: ""I would like to reassure the local community that we are not looking for anyone else in relation to this incident.""",A baby is believed to have been @placeholder after a brick was thrown through a window .,murdered,dropped,found,injured,released,3
"The resident of Argyll lures the biting insects to compost heaps where they ""roost"" before he sprays them with soapy water. The man who lives near Loch Awe said: ""Out of desperation 14 years ago I started trapping and killing midges by the thousand. ""Over the years the population has declined to a tolerable level."" He got in touch with BBC Scotland after reading an online story about a reported rise in the number of small bats with a taste for midges. Common pipistrelles have increased by about 79% since 2009, following years of decline. A single pipistrelle can feed on up to 3,000 midges in one night, according to Scottish Natural Heritage.",A man claims to have @placeholder midges that swarmed in their millions outside his home by constructing DIY traps .,spoken,tackled,discovered,seen,infected,1
"The 59-year-old played more than 100 games for the Reds during a three-year spell from 1984. Metgod, who joined Forest from Real Madrid, moved into coaching in 1994 and worked under Nigel Clough as Derby County first-team coach from 2009-13. ""I have good memories of Nottingham. It feels like coming home,"" Metgod told the club website. ""In football, you get to know people and sometimes those contacts work out. I met with Mr Marinakis [new Forest owner] and spoke to him about what he wanted to do at the club and the project here and it was something that excited me. ""There are great football people at the club and I am really optimistic that we will be able to achieve something here. ""Being on the board is a first for me. It is a good challenge and I like the project here and that it is going to be step by step and not something that is done quickly."" Chairman Nicholas Randall added: ""From the outset we wanted a former player with experience of both English and continental football to sit with us on the board to enhance our football knowledge.""",Former Nottingham Forest and Netherlands midfielder Johnny Metgod has @placeholder the club as a director .,rejoined,defended,signed,assisted,announced,0
"This is how fakes happen and how to ensure you're not the one left holding the blushing emoji after an unfortunate sharing incident. Claims of voter fraud in the Democrat primaries keep resurfacing, apparently supported by video. The CCTV showing ""Democrats stuffing votes into ballot boxes"" includes the same footage the BBC used on our Youtube account about Russian elections in September 2016. The source of the story as identified by Snopes - one of the internet's oldest debunking sites - is a fake news site, Christian Times Newspaper. Which is not the Christian Times, also a newspaper, and a genuine news site. Making a site look like something you might have heard of - passing off - is about as standard for hoaxers as fake ID is for teenagers.  It might look respectable but unless you are absolutely sure, don't share it. Spoof sites tend to have a lot of broken links that don't go anywhere, or which lead to blatantly false stories. Video being described as something it's not is increasingly challenging for fact checkers. We suggest that you always search video platforms for anything with a similar description. The hoaxers could have done some pretty basic cropping to hide the datestamp and make the massive Russian flag on the left less obvious. They didn't, which made it easier to spot. It's not quite faking a Facebook Live from space, but this one does fit the ""dog pretending to be a cat"" typology of fake story. Sometimes a fake claim works on the principle that if you throw enough bricks, eventually you build a house.  Think moon landings. Republican candidate Donald Trump has played the voter fraud card, warning his supporters ""Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive!"" We've dealt with this one already and the answer to ""is the US election really rigged?"" is ""there's just no justification for concern about widespread voter fraud,""  according to Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Trump-supporter. The same goes for ""dead people vote Democrat"", ""people bussed in"" and ""stolen votes"" claims. It's also something of an US Election meme - Newsnight reported on the same sort of claims in 2008 Sharing these sort of claims as accurate will only make it harder for you to spot the outrageously false claims when they come along. It's almost inevitable that someone will try and call the US election result using a fake account posing as your preferred big news organisation. See if you can spot which of these is a genuine BBC News Twitter account. At a glance anyone could be forgiven for reading BBC Mews as BBC News - character substitution combined with branding that looks official is a common trick of the fakers. That can mean using a zero (0) instead of an 'o' or two words that look similar on the page - for example gum and gurn. If it looks wrong when you type it out, then it's probably wrong. If we had a dime for every time we've seen this trick, we'd make Warren Buffett look like a pauper. Our advice is to make a list of accounts you know are genuine now and use them as a reference on the night. If it's a site you're less familiar with, check where else it is mentioned and what they say about it. Or just like BBC News on Facebook; and follow @BBCBreaking and @BBCNewsUS on Twitter (we're also on Instagram and Snapchat). By Alex Murray, Social News and UGC Hub","The US election campaign has involved a lot of fact checking , resulting in an open season for the fakers and fraudsters trying to get you to click . We 're nearly there , but do n't @placeholder just yet .",trust,relax,reveal,understands,change,1
"On the face of it, the slogan ""Girls do not need a prince"" doesn't seem that controversial. In many parts of the world, it would pass as the kind of thing any young woman might wear without prompting a second look. But when the actress, Kim Jayeon, tweeted a photograph of herself wearing the garment, she generated a storm and lost herself a job. She was the voice of one of the characters in a South Korean online game called ""Closers"". Gaming is very big in South Korea, as much a part of the culture as football. Fans of ""Closers"" inundated Nexon, the company which produced the game, with complaints. Many of the complaints, according to female activists, were offensive and anti-women. Nexon quickly bowed to the protesters and sacked the actress.  It told the BBC that she would be paid in full for her work but her voice would not be used on the game. It issued a statement saying it had ""recognised the voices of concern amongst the Closers community"", adding that ""we have suddenly decided to seek a replacement in the role"". The company later told the BBC it had decided not to use the actress's voice because it didn't approve of the T-shirt and why it was being sold. The problem was that the slogan is associated with a feminist group in South Korea called Megalia, which campaigns against the misogyny which its (usually anonymous) members say pervades Korean life. The T-shirt was being sold by Megalia to finance lawsuits brought by women against men they alleged had ill-treated them. There's no doubt Megalia is controversial and confrontational.  Its logo includes an image of a hand with a first finger and thumb close together - the common sign for smallness. The logo is taken by some men and Megalians as a derogatory and deliberately provocative reference to the size of Korean penises. Many men do not like Megalia.  Some retaliate with online abuse - with ""bitches"" being one of the mildest words used. It was in this toxic atmosphere that the actress tweeted the T-shirt. with its slogan ""Girls do not need a prince"". She is not giving interviews and it's not known if she wore the shirt in the tweet without being aware of the context. Megalians say the slogan was meant to decry a male idea that women need men to protect and support them. They argue that what Korean women really need is respect and equality - things they say are in short supply. One Megalia activist involved, Alex Song, told the BBC that a demonstration was organised against the sacking of the actress. A protest initially of 100 women quickly grew to 300. But some men held a counter-demonstration.  She said she felt heavily intimidated.  Some men took pictures of the protesters.  Some feminists were called ""pigs"". South Korean feminists say it illustrates a wider problem. South Korea is a very traditional society which is changing rapidly.  It has moved from a dirt poor, agricultural country to one of the world's most prosperous industrial societies in a few decades, a process which took Europe more than a century. Hence, there are contradictions:  South Korean women are highly groomed and made-up.  They meet conventional male expectations.  Plastic surgery is routine. Old attitudes and expectations clash with new ones. And as they clash, there is anger. A blogger who writes under the pseudonym Emily Singh told the BBC she had taken her picture down from her own blog because she feared reprisals. She said that many Korean women were in such despair that they considered emigrating. One Megalian said she had direct experience of a recruitment company insisting that a translator for a conference be pretty.  The recruiter had insisted on a full-body photograph, with weight and dimensions detailed. In another incident, a Korean version of Maxim magazine featured a staged picture on the cover of a man smoking coolly, leaning against his flash car with a lifeless woman, her heels bound, in the boot behind him like a victim of sexual crime. Earlier this year, a woman was murdered in a random attack in a public toilet. The male attacker had been lying in wait in the toilet, waiting for a woman to come along. After the murder, feminists demonstrated at the scene against anti-female violence - but some men also counter-demonstrated. Within the feminist movement, there is debate - often fierce debate - about tactics. Megalia is radical but even within its ranks there is a feeling that it may go too far, over, for example, whether to out gay men who marry women as a cover for their homosexuality. On other matters, there is less disagreement.  South Korean feminist groups are unanimous in criticising the entertainment industry for what they say is the over-sexualisation of young girls (lolitafication), particularly in K-Pop groups. Megalia is one of the feminist groups confronting what its members say is hypocrisy. For example, the group highlights, very publicly, the practice of some Korean men having affairs with prostitutes while on business trips abroad. This controversy is given added zing in the online gaming industry which, in many parts of the world, has been accused of being dominated by males who sometimes seem anti-women. In the United States, there have been allegations that gaming is played sometimes by men who exhibit a deep and aggressive sexism. That sexism, Megalia activist Alex Song says, feeds off images of ""sexually exaggerated"" women on screen. The thought that one of the characters in the Korean game ""Closers"" should be voiced (out-of-vision) by someone who might wear a T-shirt with a feminist slogan was just too much for some. The company agreed. The actress' voice will not be heard in the game. In the real world, though, silencing feminist voices is harder. Update 13 September 2016: This story has been updated to include a later comment from Nexon.","The "" Gamergate "" controversy which roiled the world of video gaming has hit a new level . The name was @placeholder as a row over whether Western gamers were mostly male and anti-women . Now , a similar row is rocking South Korea , arguably the country with the strongest culture of gaming in the world . As the BBC 's Steve Evans reports from Seoul , it all started with a slogan on a T-shirt .",coined,billed,described,meant,inaugurated,0
"NHS Digital confirmed so many NHS staff use the search engine that it had started asking them to take a quiz to verify they were ""not a robot"". News site the Register reported one NHS Trust had told staff to ""use Bing"" instead. Google indicated its systems were designed to spot unusual traffic and were working as intended. Detecting suspicious traffic from one network can help defeat potential cyber-attacks, such as attempts to try to overwhelm a website. The BBC understands Google is not deliberately singling out NHS traffic. A Google spokeswoman said: ""Our systems are simply checking that searches are being carried out by humans and not by robots in order to keep web users safe. Once a user has filled out the Captcha [security check], they can continue to use Google as normal."" The NHS is one of the biggest employers in the world, with more than a million members of staff. An email sent by an NHS system administrator suggested the number of staff using the search engine was ""causing Google to think it is suffering from a cyber-attack"". NHS Digital told the Register: ""We are aware of the current issue concerning NHS IP addresses which occasionally results in users being directed to a simple verification form when accessing Google. ""We are currently in discussion with Google as to how we can help them to resolve the issue."" NHS Digital was unable to suggest what NHS staff may be searching for using Google.",NHS staff using Google 's search engine has @placeholder one of its cybersecurity defences .,opened,triggered,declared,increased,joined,1
"Anthony Culley, 56, was found lying face down with a stab wound to his chest and a deep laceration on his arm. Lesley Culley, of Unsworth Way, Oldham, told a 999 call operator she did not know what had caused his bleeding. The 58-year-old was jailed for six years after pleading guilty to manslaughter at Manchester Crown Court. Greater Manchester Police said she had called emergency services on 8 December 2016 over two hours after the pair left the pub, claiming he had fallen down after drinking all day. She told the call operator she did not know what had caused his wound or what he had hit when he fell over. However, a post mortem examination found the stab wound had been delivered with ""severe force"". Culley admitted manslaughter on the grounds of loss of control, a defence which the police spokesman said was ""supported by a number of psychiatric assessments"".","A woman who stabbed her husband of 32 years to death claimed he had @placeholder in their flat after drinking at the pub all day , police have said .",collapsed,died,slept,resulted,disappeared,0
"While the participants of the World Economic Forum are busy discussing where the next big technological breakthrough is coming from or how to better spread wealth around the world, they need to be fed. All 2,500-plus - and most of them, being world leaders and chief executives, are accustomed to a certain standard. So, how do you go about it? It takes months of planning, says Noud Van den Boer, who runs the family-owned Dutch catering company Van den Boer Group. The company has been coming to snowy Davos, in the Swiss Alps, for 13 years to cater to clients. As we meet them, his team are preparing for a World Food Programme (WFP) dinner of 128 dignitaries including the current UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, his predecessor Kofi Annan, as well as Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. It's 2016, so of course some are vegetarian, some gluten-free and some are vegan. But the kitchen is used to this - and they also have a few spare in case of any unexpected dietary requirements. The menu is a Davos twist on a recipe provided by Refika, a Syrian refugee now living in a camp in Turkey. She is part of the WFP's family chef initiative, in which refugees who benefit from its cash and vouchers programme share their local recipes online. The first course is a ""cremeux"" of green peas (creamed peas to you and me, but this is Davos) with panna cotta and a parmesan cheese crisp. This is a nod to 2016 itself - named by the UN as the  International Year of Pulses - and which has been launched to raise awareness of the protein power and health benefits of beans and peas. The main course - which looks delicious - is guinea fowl supreme, with white rice, eggplant and peanuts. It's a posher version of chicken and rice, if you like. They've used guinea fowl because it's easier to source locally - which they do for all the food they use. It is also much less spicy than the original recipe, in order to cater for a broader range of palates. For the vegetarians it's braised asparagus with herb cream and red pepper sauce with potato rosti with tomato, zucchini and onion. Dessert will be small chocolates and sweets to go with the coffee. There is, of course, an inescapable irony in hosting a gourmet dinner to discuss world hunger. But, a WFP representative tells me, events such as these are vital if the organisation is to achieve its goal of eradicating hunger in 15 years. They will use the time to explain and persuade companies how to help them reach this lofty goal. And it's not just financial donations they want, it's all sorts of help. For example, they have an arrangement with the telecoms company Ericsson, which provides them with assistance wherever necessary, including 150 voluntary employees who can help out whenever an emergency strikes, and also helps to provide Internet access and phone lines. And it's worth pointing out that none of this is paid for by the WFP - its whole presence is paid for by the companies who sponsor them. ""The food is subordinate to the total theme but it still has to be there,"" says Mr Van den Boer.",Everyone knows that it 's hungry work improving the @placeholder of the world .,state,image,end,mountains,impact,0
"""I would have been out by now,"" he told police investigating the case. Former Supt Gordon Anglesea, 78, denies sexually abusing two teenage boys in the 1980s. In video interviews played at Mold Crown Court, the man said the ex-police chief had ""wrecked my life"". He described how he claimed to have been abused as a child in showers at an attendance centre in Wrexham. He told police he was subjected to a serious sexual assault, that left him in pain. Asked if he had said anything at the time, he replied: ""Just keep it quiet, you know what I mean. ""You didn't mess about with him, you would get a clack. Everybody would get a clack off him. He'd show who was boss."" The witness told interviewers that he had spent much of his life in prison, and had become an alcoholic: ""Everything because of him,"" he stated. """"I hated him, I hated him. ""If I knew now, to tell you the truth, how much prison I would have done right, I would have killed him because I would have been out by now anyway. ""He's wrecked my life - I have not had a life because of it."" Under cross-examination in court on Wednesday, the witness insisted he had been sexually abused by Mr Anglesea and was ""not here for compensation"". Quizzed by defence barrister Tania Griffiths QC on his criminal past,  he said he had not be in trouble for 15 years. ""You are talking about my past, "" he said. ""I want to look to my future."" Ms Griffiths put it to him he had been admitted to mental institutions about 20 times. He said he had had a hard life,  adding: ""He has sexually abused me. All I want, right, is him to pay his dues, and that's it."" He also told the court: ""I'm not here for myself, believe me..."" Pointing to the defendant and wiping his eyes, he said: ""I'm here to look him in the eye... evil."" The defence told the jury that the witness had told someone he had been sexually abused in a Denbigh mental hospital, and suggested he had switched his focus to the former police officer following media coverage of another Wrexham historic abuse trial. Ms Griffiths later referred to the witness's mental health, and the fact he had suffered hallucinations. He replied: ""I haven't been well psychiatrically since he abused me."" Mr Anglesea, of Old Colwyn, denies four charges against two complainants - two charges of indecent assault and one serious sexual allegation against one complainant at the attendance centre, and one charge of indecent assault on the other at a house in Mold. The offences are alleged to have taken place between 1982 and 1987. The trial continues.","An alleged child sex abuse victim says he would have killed a former police officer , if he had @placeholder how much time he would spend in jail in later years .",realised,knew,considered,hoped,denied,0
"Project chairman, Bertrand Piccard, piloted the vehicle from Muscat in Oman to Ahmedabad in India, crossing the Arabian Sea in the process. Tuesday's journey took just over 15 hours. The distance covered - 1,468km - set a new world record for a flight in a piloted solar-powered plane. The vehicle has another 10 legs ahead of it over the course of the next five months. Included in that itinerary will be demanding stretches when the craft has to fly over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Piccard is sharing the flying duties with project partner and CEO, Andre Borschberg, who made Monday's inaugural trip from Abu Dhabi to Muscat. Solar Impulse arrived in Ahmedabad in darkness, its wings illuminated by LEDs, and its propellers driven by the energy stored in its batteries. The plane had left Muscat at 06.35 (02:35 GMT) and put its wheels down at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport at 23.25 local time (17:55 GMT). Preparations are already under way for the next leg to Varanasi in northeast India, although mission planners say that will not be for another four days, at least. The time will be spent carrying a campaigning message on the topic of clean technologies to the local Ahmedabad people, and the wider Indian population. The Solar Impulse project has already set plenty of other world records for solar-powered flight, including making a high-profile transit of the US in 2013. But the round-the-world venture is altogether more dramatic and daunting, and has required the construction of an even bigger plane than the prototype, Solar Impulse-1. This new model has a wingspan of 72m, which is wider than a 747 jumbo jet. And yet, it weighs only 2.3 tonnes. Its light weight will be critical to its success. So, too, will the performance of the 17,000 solar cells that line the top of the wings, and the energy-dense lithium-ion batteries it will use to sustain night-time flying. Operating through darkness will be particularly important when the men have to cross the Pacific and the Atlantic. The slow speed of their prop-driven plane means these legs will take several days and nights of non-stop flying to complete. Piccard and Borschberg - they take it in turns to fly solo - will have to stay alert for nearly all of the time they are airborne. They will be permitted only catnaps of up to 20 mins - in the same way a single-handed, round-the-world yachtsman would catch small periods of sleep. They will also have to endure the physical discomfort of being confined in a cockpit that measures just 3.8 cubic metres in volume - not a lot bigger than a public telephone box. The Solar Impulse venture recalls other great circumnavigation feats in aviation - albeit fuelled ones. In 1986, the Voyager aircraft became the first to fly around the world without stopping or refuelling. Piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, the propeller-driven vehicle took nine days to complete its journey. Then, in 2005, this time was beaten by the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, which was solo-piloted by Steve Fossett. A jet-powered plane, GlobalFlyer completed its non-stop circumnavigation in just under three days. Andre Borschberg is a trained engineer and former air-force pilot, he has built a career as an entrepreneur in internet technologies. Bertrand Piccard is well known for his ballooning exploits. Along with Brian Jones, he completed the first non-stop, circumnavigation of the world in 1999, using the Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon. The Piccard name has become synonymous with pushing boundaries. Bertrand's father, Jacques Piccard, was the first to reach the deepest place in the ocean (a feat achieved with Don Walsh in the Trieste bathyscaphe in 1960). And his grandfather, Auguste Piccard, was the first person to take a balloon into the stratosphere, in 1931. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos","Solar Impulse , the @placeholder - free aeroplane , has successfully completed the second leg of its historic attempt to fly around the world .",south,heartland,pilot,fuel,odds,3
"The stowaways, who are believed to be from Vietnam, were found by Surrey Police as the cars were being carried on a car transporter through Egham. Nine of those detained were transported to Dover, in Kent, and a juvenile was taken into police custody for social services to help. The driver was not arrested. The cars had protective covers on the bodywork. A police spokesman said officers were called to the Egham bypass at 13:00 BST on Wednesday. He said: ""The nine adults were arrested and a juvenile was detained on suspicion of illegal entry into the country. ""The adults were transferred to the UK Visa and Immigration centre in Dover and the juvenile was taken to a custody centre, as a place of safety, to await assistance from social services.""",Ten suspected illegal immigrants have been discovered hiding in the boots of new @placeholder Maserati sports cars .,imported,including,serving,ford,linked,0
"Research from the Institute for Policy Studies found that in 2014, bonuses paid to Wall Street employees had been double the total annual pay earned by all Americans who worked full-time at the federal minimum wage. I crunched the numbers and it turned out that the same was true for the UK. But is this actually a good measure of inequality? If a load of people earning minimum wage suddenly received a pay rise then bonuses would become an even greater multiple of minimum wage salaries. One of the most commonly used measures of inequality is the Gini Coefficient, which gives countries a score between zero and one. A score of zero would mean that everybody in the country earned the same amount while one would indicate that all of the country's income was earned by one person. It can also be used to measure wealth inequality. The Gini Coefficient is more than 100 years old now, and attention in inequality has been turning recently to measures that concentrate more on comparing extremes in the population - for example, looking at what proportion of wealth is held by the richest 1% of the population and what proportion is held by the bottom 50%. Earlier in the year, Oxfam predicted that the combined wealth of the richest 1% would overtake that of the other 99% of people next year. There were problems with the way the charity extrapolated that conclusion from previous years' figures, but the conclusion was not implausible. The figures were based on some research by Credit Suisse, which estimated the distribution of wealth across global populations. A third way to think about inequality is in terms of poverty measured by relative incomes. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) had figures out on Wednesday based on the definition that people were in poverty if their income was below 60% of the median level (to find the median income, line up all the people in the country in order of income and take the middle one). It found that almost a third of the UK population had experienced poverty in at least one of the years between 2010 and 2013, which is very high by European standards. The OECD sets out a summary of what has happened to examples of all three of these measures. Across its 34 member countries, the Gini Coefficient rose gradually from 1996, fell slightly for the financial crisis and then resumed its upward path. Relative-income poverty grew steadily over the period and a comparison of the top 10% and bottom 10% showed growing inequality that paused briefly for the financial crisis before accelerating. So while there are a number of different ways of calculating inequality, each of which have their own strengths and weaknesses, they seem to agree that inequality has been growing in recent years. But these measures tell us little about other inequalities such as health, education or opportunities. A student at university would be expected to have a low income and indeed negative wealth because of student debt, but would not necessarily be in poverty. In health, the ONS found a gap of 18 or 19 years in the life expectancy of people in the most and least deprived areas. And the OECD talks about how wealth and income inequality cause overall economic problems because they affect access to education for the next generation.",Last week I @placeholder about a measure of inequality that had received much coverage in the US .,questions,complaining,evidence,wrote,thought,3
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 24 April 2015 Last updated at 16:04 BST Yves built a specially developed flying suit back in 2006, using four jet-engines, which you might normally find on a small plane. This earned him the nickname ""Jetman"". The amazing suit has been designed in a way that allows Yves to move around in the air in a similar way to how birds do, by angling and tilting his body to change direction. Since then he has flown over the English Channel, the Grand Canyon and around Mount Fiji in Japan using his incredible flying-suit. Jetman is a fully trained professional pilot - so don't try it at home!","Jet - @placeholder pilot Yves Rossy , has been speaking about what it is like to fly through the sky at 185 miles an hour .",developed,sharing,skiing,propelled,funded,3
"The mass of rock tumbled onto the line near Kemble in Gloucestershire on Monday. It caused disruption to services between Swindon and Gloucester with trains being diverted via Bristol Parkway. National Rail warned trains may still be cancelled, delayed by up to 15 minutes or diverted.",A railway line has reopened after @placeholder removed a boulder which fell onto it during a landslip .,firefighters,locals,police,flash,engineers,4
"Lancashire Police said the children, aged between nine and 12, were ""messing about"" on a street in Nelson when the device blew up on Thursday morning. Two of the children were airlifted to hospital, while the others were taken by road ambulance. Police have warned youngsters about the dangers of playing with fireworks. Sgt Shaun Pearson, posting on a Lancashire Police Facebook page, said: ""I don't need to post pictures on here of crying children with blood and burns on their faces. Please don't mess about with fireworks."" The extent of their injuries in not yet known.","Four children were found with "" blood and burns on their faces "" after a firework they were playing with @placeholder , police have said .",traffic,exploded,water,reported,drugs,1
"Dr Hinds, from Tandragee, was a consultant at Craigavon Area Hospital in County Armagh. He regularly worked at the North West 200 motorbike races. The poster has been put on display ahead of this weekend's Armoy road races. Clerk of the course Bill Kennedy said the poster was created by the event's sponsors SGI International. Dr Hinds led a campaign for an air ambulance service to be introduced in Northern Ireland. Mr Kennedy said the poster paid tribute to Dr Hinds and also raised awareness of his family's plans to set up a charity to support his vision for the service. ""It is a tribute to Dr John as a person, he is a loss for everyone involved in motorcycling on the island of Ireland,"" he said. ""He was a great man in the field of medicine and was always trying to save people's lives. ""This has also been done to raise awareness of the need to get an air ambulance in Northern Ireland. ""As I understand, the family are about to set up a charity to get people involved in the concept of an air ambulance which would not just be for those involved in motorcycling. ""You could not have had a more professional man at his job, Dr John was also a true gentleman.""","The late motorcycle medic Dr John Hinds has been @placeholder through the unveiling of a poster tribute in Armoy , County Antrim .",remembered,smashed,taken,launched,reversed,0
"At London's Liberal Jewish Synagogue, in St John's Wood, a service was held on Friday night to welcome the large numbers of French Jewish people who have moved to the area in recent months. They have various reasons for leaving their home country: the hope of better economic opportunities, a desire to experience life in a new country, or simply to master their English. However, many share a concern about the rise of anti-Semitic attacks in their country in recent years. Perhaps the most high-profile was the hostage crisis at a Jewish supermarket in Paris in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in January 2015. The gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, killed four Jewish men before he was shot dead by security forces. More recently, there have been two separate attacks on Jewish teachers in Marseille by people proclaiming support for the so-called Islamic State group. It prompted the city's main Jewish leader to advise men against wearing skullcaps, for their own safety. There are no precise figures on French Jewish people moving to London - but, according to Marc Meyer, the French chairman of the Hendon United Synagogue and director of the Conference of European Rabbis, French Jewish children now make up 50% of the intake at London's Jewish schools. He has noticed a significant increase in families moving to the city in the past year. About 60 French Jewish people attended Friday's service, delivered in French, Hebrew and English. The London Liberal Jewish Synagogue says this is just the start of its efforts to try make them welcome, with similar services planned throughout the year. On the High Street in St John's Wood in north London, I met David. He moved to the area from Paris 18 months ago with his wife and three teenage children. From the outset, he is keen to stress the prime motivation to relocate was better economic prospects for his family, yet it is very telling he doesn't want his full name revealed. And his relaxed and friendly demeanour disappears when he recounts warning his young daughter against carrying a Hebrew book on the Paris Metro. ""If she would have had trouble with people being violent or aggressive with her, she wouldn't have known how to react,"" he says. ""I wouldn't want her to face that situation."" He lets out a long sigh as he recalls the day in March 2012 when he heard about the murder of three Jewish children and their teacher at a school in Toulouse. They were shot by a French Islamist, Mohammed Mehra. ""It was a shock for everyone because 70 years after World War Two and the Holocaust, you had the impression that, for the first time, you could have troubles in France being a Jew."" The attack made him think of his grandparents who lived in Paris during the Nazi occupation. He tells me they wouldn't have believed such violence against their religion resurfacing after all this time. However, you get the impression from speaking to David and other French Jews that any disbelief regarding the resurgence of anti-Semitism is dwarfed by a sense of resilience. Rabbi Rene Pfertzel, a Parisian who moved to London to study, led the service on Friday. While the rise in attacks on Jews in France does trouble him, he is adamant it bears little comparison to the suffering of Jews in the past. ""This is not an exile,"" he tells me, pointing to the vocal support for the Jewish community from the French government. Instead, he says, his service is an opportunity for French Jewish people to better integrate into the UK. ""I love London, and I love this country,"" he says. You get the sense sharing that love and enthusiasm for the UK is much more important to him than dwelling on the reasons why people moved here in the first place. It's a sentiment matched by Rabbi Sam Taylor, of the Western Marble Arch Synagogue. Starting in March, he will also be leading a service to accommodate French Jewish people in London. He says: ""Am I surprised about the threats of anti-Semitism? No.  Am I saddened? Yes.  However, it is part of being a Jew we must accept, but it's important to be positive about what we can do."" David agrees, pointing out Paris is within easy reach should his family ever wish to return. ""It's part of our history and culture to deal with these problems,"" he says. ""We must look forward and be positive."" For more on this story, listen to The World Tonight on BBC iPlayer.","Last week , Jewish people around the world remembered the @placeholder of the past , on Holocaust Memorial Day . But there was also a small reminder of problems in the present .",remainder,horrors,end,heart,banks,1
"Major General Asim Bajwa painted a clear picture. ""We are going after terrorists of all hue and colour,"" he told journalists at a briefing on the Pakistani army's operation against militant havens in North Waziristan. Conjuring visions of the Stalingrad ""kettle"" in World War Two, he said Pakistani troops now had the whole area surrounded: ""They cannot escape."" But many reports, as well as footage obtained by the BBC, suggest some militants at least got away and some shades of ""terrorist"" may still be safe. This is the operation many inside and outside Pakistan say should have begun long ago, as North Waziristan was allowed to become a veritable warehouse for all brands of Islamic militancy. It's from there that the Pakistani Taliban have been mounting their deadly suicide offensive for the past seven years, killing thousands of people across Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban are the chief target of Operation Zarb-e-Azb - named after the sword of the Prophet Muhammad. But also thought to be in the army's crosshairs are al-Qaeda, and Uzbek militants who claimed to have carried out last month's deadly attack on Karachi airport. As those devastating images flashed around the world, the operation in North Waziristan finally got the go-ahead after years of stalling. The delay has done severe damage to Pakistan ""both internally and internationally"", says former army spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas. Hundreds of thousands of people have now been displaced from North Waziristan by the army offensive. But there are also widespread reports many militants escaped, or were alerted beforehand - including members of the Haqqani network, blamed for a string of high-profile attacks in Afghanistan. It's almost impossible to find out what is happening inside the tribal area now. Difficult for outsiders to enter at any time, the army has barred all access. But the BBC has obtained footage from a professional cameraman who got into North Waziristan with help from the Taliban, as the campaign began. He spent a week travelling there, filming the aftermath of several Pakistani strikes - although he admits he was not allowed to record everything he saw. We can't identify him for his own security. At one point, he met a local Taliban commander who was escaping across the border to Afghanistan in his pick-up, just a short drive down the road. But underlining fears of a potential backlash, the commander vowed to take revenge on Pakistan ""until doomsday"". Militants were killed in some strikes, people in the border village of Gorbaz told the cameraman, but claimed civilians had perished too. Uzbek militants had reportedly been using the same border area as a base. The Pakistani army says it is only targeting ""terrorist sanctuaries"" and in his briefing Maj-Gen Bajwa said they had killed 376 ""terrorists"" so far. He also released pictures of suspected bomb-making factories found by ground troops - which were churning out explosive devices for suicide attacks. But pressed on the identities of those killed, he was less forthcoming. And what about ""the Haqqanis"", journalists asked.  Were they classified as ""terrorists"" too? Many say the carnage of the past few years is the inevitable consequence of Pakistan co-opting militant groups to pursue its strategic goals. It's the military's powerful intelligence agency, the ISI, who have overseen this policy - and the Haqqani network based in North Waziristan is widely seen as one of their best clients. But unlike many other groups, it has stayed loyal. Haqqani fighters are thought to be behind a string of high-profile attacks in Afghanistan on US and Indian targets - allegedly carried out with Pakistani backing. And it was clear none of the officials at the briefing wanted to disavow them.   But ""we don't want any terrorist, Haqqani or not Haqqani, on Pakistani soil"", said Abdul Qadir Baloch, the minister responsible for the tribal areas. So the message from North Waziristan seems to be that the hand that has been bitten is now biting back. But not all militants will feel the same pain.",The BBC has obtained exclusive footage of the aftermath of Pakistani air strikes against the Taliban in North Waziristan - but some say it 's still @placeholder certain militants it has supported in the past .,body,fought,supported,showing,protecting,4
"Selby, the world number one, made breaks of 88, 104, 95, 87 and 74 as he swept past Alfie Burden 5-0. Five-time world champion O'Sullivan matched Selby with a 5-0 win over Gareth Allen, while second-ranked Judd Trump beat Ashley Hugill 5-1. Six-time World Championship runner-up Jimmy White went down 5-3 to Michael Holt and risks losing his tour card. The 54-year-old will head to the World Championship qualifying event next week needing a good run to extend his 37-year run on the professional tour. Selby was delighted with his form as he looks ahead to defending his world title in Sheffield next month. ""I played really well,"" he told World Snooker. ""Every time I got a chance I punished Alfie. I could have had four centuries. The first frame was big because Alfie had a chance and if he'd won that it might have been different. ""I haven't played as well in the last few weeks as I did in the first half of the season. It would be nice to have a good run this week. ""The World Championship is less than three weeks away and it's exciting looking forward to that but I have to focus on the job in hand here in China."" Scotland's John Higgins was another to impress, the four-time world champion seeing off England's Ian Burns 5-1, while China's Ding Junhui beat Paul Davison 5-0.",Mark Selby and Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the last 32 of the China Open with one - @placeholder victories on Tuesday .,point,effect,sided,style,serving,2
"The House of Commons Science and Technology committee is looking at whether gathering data on net-using citizens is even feasible. It also wants to look into the potential impact that logging browsing will have on how people use the web. The consultation comes as questions mount over the money the government will set aside to support monitoring. The draft Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill) was unveiled last week and it attempts to update the way the state, police and spies gather data to fight crime, terrorism and other threats. One of the most contentious aspects of the IP Bill obliges ISPs to record information about the services, websites and data every UK citizen uses. These ""Internet Connection Records"" would hold a year's worth of data. The Science and Technology committee has said it wants to look more deeply into this and its potential cost. In a notice announcing the inquiry, the Committee said it wanted to find out if it was possible for ISPs to meet the IP Bill's requirements. The text of the Bill asks ISPs to log where people go but not what they do when on a site or using a service. MPs also want to find out how easy it is for ISPs to separate data about a visit to a site from what happens once people log in, because more stringent rules govern who can discover what people do on a site as opposed to the sites they use. The Committee will also look at how much it might cost the providers to do this. The government has said it will provide £175m to ISPs over 10 years to pay for data to be gathered and stored. Adrian Kennard, head of UK ISP Andrews and Arnold, said it was not clear whether that was enough because the government had not specified what exactly it wanted recorded. ""Just getting a couple of racks, in different locations, with physical security will be many thousands [of pounds] per month,"" he said. ""Then [you need] multiple redundant servers and disk storage at each site and then the back-haul links to send and access the data, with suitable encryption."" Added to this will be the ""big issue"" of how to meet the need to separate data about the sites people visit from what they do, he said. Sebastien Lahtinen from the Thinkbroadband site said disentangling site visit datastreams was ""a very difficult question to answer directly"" because of the way the web works. ""A website visit is hard to quantify because visiting a site could result in several connections that may be logged under this system,"" he said. ""It's still a bit unclear what would need to be stored for each visit and how you split up visits."" ISPs watch the flows of data across their networks to help manage traffic, he said, but they typically only sample these streams because they deal with such massive quantities of information every day. Added to this, he said, was the question of how to log which device was being used for which visit. ""I don't doubt it is technically feasible to do all this, it's just a question of cost and proportionality,"" he said.",UK MPs are investigating what it will cost ISPs to meet government @placeholder to log where Britons go online .,resources,set,bid,proposals,standards,3
"The 55-year-old tweeted from the hospital in Tooting to thank the professionals who ""saved his life"". Moore won 64 England caps between 1987 and 1995, played for the British and Irish Lions, and trained as a solicitor while pursuing his rugby career. The former England hooker now works in the media.",Former England rugby international Brian Moore is @placeholder in intensive care at St George 's hospital in London after suffering a heart attack .,hosting,serving,nearing,recovering,recognised,3
"Jonathan Walsh, aged 46 of Barnstaple, was dismissed on 15 June by Northern Devon Healthcare Trust (NDHT). He was arrested in September 2015 by Devon and Cornwall Police before being subsequently excluded by the Trust. Mr Walsh faces seven charges of making and distributing indecent images of children.",A consultant paediatrician who faces child pornography charges has been @placeholder by a Devon NHS trust .,detained,identified,caused,sacked,admitted,3
"Hundreds take part in two free, timed runs organised by Parkrun UK in Little Stoke Park, near Bristol. Stoke Gifford Parish Council said it was ""unfair"" to expect non-running residents to pay for path upkeep. It voted six to four in favour of charges. Event co-director, Becky Bushnell, said the result meant the Little Stoke event would end. She said it was ""now a question of how much notice the council gives us"". In a statement issued prior to the vote, the council said it did not want to discourage use of the park for exercise, but it would be ""unfair"" to expect residents to foot the bill for an event with ""paid directors, fundraisers and sponsors"". At Tuesday's meeting, parish council chair Ernie Brown said: ""People can come here any time they like"". ""Running, exercise - we welcome that. It's a facility that anyone can use. But as an organisation, like any other organisation, they should pay towards the contribution for facilities,"" he said. Geoff Keogh, a Parkrun organiser, told the meeting he did not believe the run had a significant impact on the park, but volunteers would be willing to undertake maintenance activities or litter picks ""as a way of offsetting whatever the perceived costs might be to the council"". After the vote, former parish council chairman John Wakeham said he was ""ashamed"" of the decision. ""I'm not of running age any more but I'm glad to see so many people using the park for the kind of purpose for which it was intended,"" he said. ""This is the thin end of the wedge."" The decision has met with strong criticism online - with runner Paula Radcliffe among those voicing their concerns. On Twitter, the London Marathon winner branded the council ""short-sighted"" and said the event should remain ""free for everyone, always"". Reacting on the Parkrun Facebook page, Nick Hayward said: ""Absolute disgrace. Parkrun is a great concept that brings all ages, abilities (and pets!) together. Should always be FREE."" Timothy Sowry added: ""Unbelievable decision which I hope backfires. Why not try and kill a free inclusive event promoting health wellbeing and community spirit."" About 300 adults and children take part in the timed runs in the park. Parkrun's ethos is for the event to be free and open to everyone. It stages 850 runs in 12 countries and organisers warned before the vote the event in Little Stoke, south Gloucestershire, would end if a charge was imposed. The weekly event has attracted 4,083 registered runners since its launch in 2012. Ms Bushnell said: ""We've done everything we can to explain how Parkrun works, run by volunteers and giving to the community. The benefits outweigh any wear and tear."" ""I'm incredibly disappointed and sad for what's going to be lost.""",A council has voted to become the first in the world to charge Parkrun a fee for the use of its @placeholder .,library,team,network,neighbour,grounds,4
"For a band who specialise in dark pop, Muna are surprisingly chatty. On a conference call from Los Angeles, singer Katie Gavin and guitarists Naomi McPherson and Josette Maskin are all talking at once, stumbling over each other's words until the conversation grinds to a halt and someone has to be nominated to finish the answer. As an interview, it is utter chaos - but the band's camaraderie is infectious. It all stems from their origins at the University of Southern California. The trio lived in the same apartment building, discovering their musical and mutual chemistry at a late night party. ""We just got together and jammed,"" says McPherson, ""and we kind of just wrote our first song as soon as we did that."" ""We wrote three parts - a verse, chorus and bridge,"" continues Maskin. ""Katie took it away and the next day she came back with a melody and we were like, 'Oh God, this is a pop song!' It was something of a shock for the guitarists, who had previously been playing progressive rock and ska. ""But Katie just said, 'I'm pop, deal with it,' and walked away. It was very funny."" The ice duly broken, the band continued to refine their sound - a spiky-but-polished take on 1980s soft rock. Imagine a goth version of Haim and you'll be half-way there. Their songs are instantly relatable, discussing heartbreak, rejection, self-worth and female identity without shying away from the complexities of those topics. Early single So Special, for example, is a percolating synth-pop confessional with a devastating lyric about a girl who is judged for her sex life. ""There's a few bad things I've done, that nobody made me do,"" sings Gavin. ""Most just to get myself off, and the rest to get over you"". The band describe the song as a ""drunken reckoning of oneself"" but, more importantly, ""an anthem for the slut-shamed girls of the world who have to assert their own value"". Strength in the face of adversity and ridicule emerges as a theme in their music, And nowhere is that more true than on Loudspeaker, the lead track of the band's recent EP. At first glance, it seems like a standard issue break-up song, but Gavin says it emerged from a much darker episode in her life. ""I was really, really drunk at a party and somebody had sex with me in a way that I didn't want to happen, that I didn't give consent for,"" she explains. ""And then my group of friends at the time - they didn't know any better but they all made fun of me because there was someone else at the party that they thought I should have been with - and instead I was with this other person. ""It was just this giant [disaster] where something bad happened to me and then, on top of it, I was made to feel like a bad person. And I just took it and dealt with it privately and minimised it."" The song came out years later, when Gavin realised the assault had ""had a deeper emotional effect on me than I was allowing myself to feel"". ""That happens a lot in situations like that. When you're taken advantage of, it's never as clear as it would be on TV. So a lot of times, with women, we don't even identify that we've been sexually violated. So it can be months, it can years after the fact. ""That song was the start of a difference. It's about making a commitment to talk about the stuff that I'm going through. I'm not going to behave in a way where I feel ashamed."" One line in particular - ""every time I don't shut up, it's a revolution"" - has stuck a chord with fans, says Gavin. ""People will make art and that's the line they'll take out and use. That really warms my heart."" Her willingness to address thorny issues is what earns Muna their ""dark pop"" epithet - but that's not to say their music is hard work. The rippling, radio-friendly harmonies and fizzing production will have you dancing long before the lyrics engage your brain. And that's partly the point. ""When I talk to a taxi driver and they ask me what kind of music my band makes, I just say 'pop',"" says Gavin. ""But when you consider the multiple meanings of our music - it's just dark. The things that drive us to write songs can sometimes be really heavy."" If you search for Muna online, you will quickly find them described as a ""queer band"", a label which, bizarrely, focuses on their sexuality above their music. The three members all identify as queer - a broader, more fluid term that resists categorisations like straight or gay - but they resist the idea that it should affect the perception of their music, while allowing that other queer or marginalised people might relate to the lyrics on a different level. As if to prove it, the song that provoked the biggest response from fans is Winter Break - a familiar tale about two exes who find themselves irresistibly pulled back into each other's orbit. ""It's about a high-school relationship - but then you go to college and, even though it's been a year, there's still something there and it's totally misleading,"" says Gavin, who deliberately avoided using personal pronouns like ""he"" or ""she"" in the lyrics. ""We've had people get really emotional about it."" The strength of people's reactions to Muna's self-produced EP piqued the interest of record labels, and Sony offshoot Columbia eventually signed the trio. This summer, they've been hard at work on their debut album which, as of August, is in the bag. The highlight, they say, is a new song called I Know A Place. ""It's just kind of a banger,"" says McPherson. ""We've played it live a lot and it's kind of the turning point in the set. If people aren't sure if they like us or not, they usually come to the dark side after that track."" British fans will get a chance to hear it in full when the band play their first UK headline show at London's Notting Hill Arts Club on Wednesday night. ""I've heard it's a good venue,"" says Gavin, questioningly. ""Is there a stage, or are you right in there with the crowd?"" Reassured that there is, in fact, a small platform for the band to stand on, McPherson seems relieved. ""We started playing at parties so we like when people are close. But two or three feet off the ground is just enough to have a bit of mystery!"" Most of all, though, the trio are excited to be sharing their success with each other. ""We're very close and we get emotional a lot over it,"" says Gavin. ""It's one thing for you to feel that you're doing well - but it's another thing to turn around and see two of your best friends in the entire world, and we're doing it all together. It's very special to us."" Muna's Loudspeaker EP is out now. They play the Notting Hill Arts Club on Wednesday, 28 September and support Grouplove on their US and European tour for the rest of the year. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","LA pop trio Muna have been singled out as one of the most exciting new bands of 2016 , mixing 80s pop melodies with a uniquely powerful @placeholder . They talk to the BBC about their origins and taking a millennial approach to girl power .",grace,style,voice,message,questions,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device Former England captain Lineker, 55, pledged to ""do the first MOTD of next season in just my undies"" if former club Leicester won the Premier League. The Foxes went on to win their first top-flight title by 10 points. ""It is a one-off and a sporting miracle that has landed me in my underwear,"" said Lineker, who scored 95 goals in 194 appearances for Leicester. ""When I tweeted that silly bet back in December, I categorically knew there was zero chance of Leicester winning the league. Zero chance. It happened but it was magical, it was great."" Lineker managed to keep a straight face, while MOTD pundits Alan Shearer and Ian Wright giggled in the background, as he opened the programme. Lineker stayed in his underwear as Shearer and Wright analysed Leicester's opening-day defeat by Hull. But as the programme moved on to the second match, he told viewers: ""Enough of this nonsense - I'm going to get dressed!"" He returned to discuss Manchester City's game against Sunderland wearing a shirt and trousers. Lineker tweeted following Leicester's 2-1 win against then champions Chelsea, a victory which moved the leaders two points clear after 16 games. And his preparation for Saturday's Match of the Day did not just include meticulous pre-match research and practising his lines... Media playback is not supported on this device Media playback is not supported on this device Take part in our new Premier League Predictor game, which allows you to create leagues with friends. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.",Gary Lineker kept his promise and @placeholder the opening Match of the Day of the new season in his underpants .,introduced,relieved,celebrating,denied,completed,0
"In total, 38 people died in the hour-long gun attack near Sousse in June 2015. But local units deliberately ""slowed down"" as Islamist gunman Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire, said the counsel to the inquest into the British deaths. The attack was the deadliest on Britons since the 7 July 2005 London bombings. A senior Foreign Office official also defended the government's decision not to raise the level of its terror alert in Tunisia following shootings at a museum in the capital city of Tunis four months earlier. Survivors share their stories of terror on the beach Who were the British victims? What exactly happened on that day? The hearing at London's Royal Courts of Justice - set to last for seven weeks - began with a minute's silence and the names of all the victims being read out. The 38 tourists who visited Tunisia for ""relaxation and enjoyment"" were ""systematically"" gunned down from around 11:30 local time on 26 June 2015, said Samantha Leek, counsel to the inquest. She said the attack could have been stopped sooner, citing a Tunisian judge's report into failings by local security units. Alison and Baron Caine, who were on the beach when the attack began, told the BBC that they escaped the gunfire and barricaded themselves in their hotel room. ""We started hearing screams, people were running,"" Mrs Caine said. ""It was like a complete warzone."" The couple heard a knock on their hotel room door and a man saying he had their key. ""We looked at each other and we just thought this is it, we're going to die."" A lone armed guard was on the beach when Rezgui opened fire. The gunman also threw a grenade and left the guard ""seemingly unconscious"". A second armed guard on duty was patrolling the nearby sea in a speedboat. He attempted to shoot Rezgui but could not work his gun. Nearby security forces ""had an ability to put an end to the attack"" before the police arrived, Ms Leek said, but they ""deliberately and unjustifiably slowed down to delay their arrival at the hotel"". Meanwhile, witnesses telling of the man with the gun in the speedboat may have led to confusion over how many attackers there were, she added. Rezgui was shot dead by police about an hour after the attack began. The court hearing the inquest's opening day of evidence was filled with relatives and friends of the British dead, who were aged between 19 and 80. Three people from Ireland, two Germans, one Russian, a Belgian and a Portuguese woman were also killed. They were all holidaymakers staying in the popular resort of Port El Kantaoui, just north of Sousse. Three generations of a family - a young man, his uncle and grandfather - were among them. At the time of the shootings, official travel advice from the UK Foreign Office did not specifically advise holidaymakers against going to Tunisia. Instead the advice available on its website stated ""further attacks are possible"", following the killing of 24 people at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis on 19 March 2015. Jane Marriott, the Foreign Office's Middle East and North Africa director,  told the inquest that the level of the terror alert relating to Tunisia had not been raised, with officials deciding ""we should not discourage tourism to Tunisia"". The government did persuade Tunisian authorities to step up security in tourist areas, she said. Ms Marriott said the UK was powerless to force Tunisia to improve its security, but ""what we can and we do say is that we want to see an improvement in your security."" Over the next seven weeks, the court will examine whether the UK government and travel firms failed in their responsibility to protect British tourists. The coroner, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith, will look at travel advice issued for Tunisia by the Foreign Office, as well as the security put in place at the hotel by tour operator Thomson. The inquest was shown CCTV footage of Rezgui as he was dropped off in a white van. Photos of the Imperial Marhaba Hotel, including its beach where the attacks started, were also shown as evidence. Live TV feeds of the proceedings were also shown in courts in Cardiff and Stirling for survivors and relatives to watch. The government has applied for some details to be kept private over national security concerns. The Islamic State militant group said it was behind the attack by the Tunisian student. The BBC's Panorama programme this month reported that the suspected ""mastermind"" behind the shootings is believed to be on the run in Libya. Chamseddine al-Sandi recruited and directed Rezgui, according to documents obtained by Panorama. And confessions from suspects arrested by Tunisian police state that al-Sandi ran a militant cell responsible for both shootings - the attacks at Sousse and at the Bardo National Museum.","Tunisian security forces "" @placeholder time "" before responding to a massacre on a beach resort as 30 British tourists were shot dead , a UK coroner has heard .",change,team,killed,wasted,deployed,3
"Avenida Brasil has become such an unprecedented phenomenon that even President Dilma Rousseff felt obliged to change her work plans for the evening. Brazilians are known to take their soap operas or novelas seriously, but this one has even surpassed another national passion, exceeding audiences for a recent football final. As well as being a compelling watch, the show is notable for putting Brazil's growing middle class centre stage where in the past it was the lives of the super wealthy which dominated. Faced with such competition for attention, it was no surprise President Rousseff cancelled plans to attend an important local election rally in Sao Paulo, fearing the turn-out would be a fiasco. With episodes of Avenida Brasil attracting 50% of the viewing public, common political sense dictated it would be better to address the party faithful on another occasion. For the climax, restaurants and bars are holding events in many cities and bets are being placed to find out the plot's final mystery: ""Who killed Max?"" Avenida Brasil employs the usual high levels of melodrama, combined with an intricate story based on a little girl who comes back as an adult to avenge the death of her father. Viewers have been gripped by the battle between Rita and a now legendary villain, Carminha, the evil stepmother who abandoned her in a landfill site as a child. Meanwhile Brazil's so-called ""new middle class"" is relishing its place in the spotlight in Avenida Brasil. The typically rich, aristocratic protagonists of the Brazilian novelas, often with living standards which 99% of the public can only dream of, have been put to one side. Instead they made way for loud, adorably unrefined suburban characters in the leading roles - and the minor parts as well. It was seen as a shrewd move by Rede Globo - the TV channel that dominates the Brazilian soap opera industry - shifting onto territory closer to its biggest audience. With the growth of the Brazilian economy and wider availability of credit and government cash transfer programmes, 35 million people have in recent years joined an expanded middle class. Today it not only accounts for more than half of the Brazilian population but has also become the country's largest and most coveted consumer market. According to research institute Data Popular, this group owns half of Brazil's credit cards and has spent one trillion Brazilian reais ($US490bn; £300bn) last year alone. Avenida Brasil has succeeded in attracting this section of the population, triggering a wave of consumption that advertisers dream about. The scantily-dressed character of Suelen has had women flocking to popular shops seeking versions of her earrings and clothes. The hair salon owned by Monalisa launched, within the soap opera, a hair product made to be sold in real life. It is now available in shops with the character's name. The novela is so successful because lots of effort was put into understanding the behaviour of the new middle class, their clothes, values and aspirations, says the Director of Data Popular, Renato Meirelles. ""It reflects a middle class that wants to see itself portrayed. It's different to the nouveau riche portrayed in the past, who wanted to hide their origins,"" he says. ""These characters are proud of their origins,"" says Meirelles, citing the character of Tufao, a successful football player from the suburbs who sticks to his neighbourhood when he became rich. The story is set in an imaginary district in the suburbs called Divino, where everyone knows each other, hangs out at the local bar and gossips about their neighbour's latest indiscretions. It is a long way - both culturally and geographically - from the southern zone of Rio, where the beaches and richer neighbourhoods are well known to tourists. Instead the show reflects the reality of the north of the city, an area crossed by Avenida Brasil, the main highway that leads from the outskirts of the city and across the suburbs into central Rio. When the hairdresser of the novela decides to try out the south zone and live in exclusive Ipanema, she complains that the men are too fussy and the neighbours don't know each other. Before long she has headed back to her comfort zone. ""When we portrayed poor people, they were always dreaming of leaving their suburbs and striking it rich,"" Ricardo Waddington, co-ordinator of Avenida Brasil, told the daily newspaper Folha de São Paulo. ""But now we want to show a place that, in spite of being poor, is cheerful and warm, a place where there can be prosperity."" Mr Meirelles says Brazil's elite has had two different reactions. On the one hand, a more traditional group sees it as story-telling and finds it funny. But among the wealthy are also people with humble origins, and they enjoy it the most, he believes. ""Over 40% of people in the upper classes are actually the first generation of people with money in the family. ""People who grew rich through their own sweat and therefore have an A-class pocket but a C-class taste. So they see themselves in the novela and delight in it."" Globo TV appears so pleased with the outcome it seems to want to extend the formula. Its next novela will be set in a shanty town or favela which was recently occupied by police as part of a ""pacification"" programme in advance of the World Cup and Olympics.",Brazil 's @placeholder companies are braced for another surge in demand on Friday night as millions follow the latest twists in a soap opera that has gripped the nation .,world,power,preparations,cable,history,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device Wales have qualified for their first major championship since the 1958 World Cup and the Manics, who are hardcore Welsh football fans, admit their anthem began evolving since Wales narrowly failed in their qualification bid for the 1994 World Cup by defeat to Romania. ""It's a long time coming,"" said lyricist Nicky Wire. ""Definitely there's pressure, World In Motion by New Order (for England's 1990 World Cup campaign) is the best one, that's the benchmark. ""We wanted to make a great Manics song first and I think we pulled it off. If the song takes off on the terraces, there's not going to be many more finer moments than that."" Wales, who play Sweden in a friendly on Sunday, begin their Euro 2016 campaign against Slovakia in Bordeaux on Saturday, 11 June before facing England and Russia in Group B. The Manic Street Preachers, whose songs 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next' and 'The Masses Against the Classes' have been UK number ones, are currently touring celebrating the 20th year of their acclaimed album 'Everything Must Go' Catch up with a BBC Radio Wales special of the making of the Manics Welsh Euro 2016 anthem 'Inside the Manics' #Euro2016 anthem.' Who do you think should start at Euro 2016? Step into Chris Coleman’s shoes and pick your XI - and then share it with your friends using our brand new team selector.",Manic Street Preachers @placeholder Wales ' Euro 2016 anthem ' Together Stronger ( C' Mon Wales ) ' on The One Show .,covered,experienced,praised,perform,defending,3
"Becky, 16, was reported missing on 19 February. Body parts were found at a house in the Barton Hill area of Bristol on 2 March. The inquest, at Flax Bourton, was told Becky's body was identified by her DNA but no details were revealed about how she died. Stepbrother Nathan Matthews, 28, from Warmley, is charged with her murder. Mr Matthews has yet to enter a plea and a provisional trial date has been set for October. His girlfriend, Shauna Hoare, 21, is charged with perverting the course of justice. Four other defendants, Jaydene Parsons, 23; James Ireland, 23; and Karl and Donovan Demetrius, both 29, have been charged with assisting an offender. The inquest was adjourned until the end of the criminal proceedings with a review after five months. Earlier on Wednesday details were released of Becky's funeral. It will take place on 17 April, at 11:00 BST, at St Ambrose Church in the Whitehall area of the city. A notice in the Bristol Post said the church was reserved for family and close friends but the service would be relayed to mourners outside. Afterwards there will be a private family burial.",An inquest into the death of Bristol teenager Becky Watts has been @placeholder and adjourned .,announced,killed,opened,released,delayed,2
"Rahama Sadau's appearance in a music video ""hugging and cuddling"" Nigerian pop star Classiq offended some people. Ms Sadau said sorry to those she upset, but said her actions were ""innocuous"". Hausa films are popular in the mostly Muslim northern Nigeria where it is taboo for men and women to hold hands in public. The industry, commonly known as Kannywood, has been under fire from conservative Muslim clerics who accuse it of corrupting people's values. The Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria banned the actress from Kannywood films, saying that her appearance in the video violated the industry's code of ethics. It added that it hoped the ban would serve as a deterrent to other actors and actresses who are ""expected to be good ambassadors of the society they represent"". As the film opens parents are seen discussing who their successful city-dwelling son should marry. They decide on a cousin who they deem meets all their expectations of a good wife. But there's a hitch, their urban, and urbane, son is in love with an educated city lady. He wants to marry her. The family confronts their son with their choice of wife for him. The dispute generates tension and finally the parents force their son to marry the cousin. He goes through with the wedding but stays in touch with his preferred partner. They go on romantic outings during which he mentions his loveless marriage. Throughout the film, dancing and singing punctuate the action. Despite the passionate plot, there will not be any physical contact. That means no hugging and definitely no kissing. If there is to be any suggestion of sex, the screen will go dark. Ms Sadau said she took full responsibility for what happened, but argued that she was behaving professionally and added that in her line of work ""innocuous touching with other people... is inevitable"". But she reassured people that she would behave with decorum, adding: ""I have lines that I would never cross."" Responding to the criticism she has received she said people should ""be more tolerant and forgiving towards one another and to cease all the senseless abuse, name calling and backbiting"". The Kannywood star appeared in the video with Classiq, in a song entitled I Love You. In it, the Nigerian pop star is smitten with a vegetable seller in a market, acted by Ms Sadau. Initially, she rejects his advances, batting him away with a bunch of vegetables, but he eventually wins her over. They hold hands and engage in a bit of cuddling that would be considered demure in a Western film. But many people in northern Nigeria felt she had gone too far with Classiq in the music video, reports the BBC's Isa Sanusi from the capital, Abuja.","A leading Nigerian actress , who was banned from the Hausa - language film industry because of her "" immoral "" @placeholder , has apologised .",behaviour,artwork,generations,life,health,0
"The veteran natural history expert has narrated Attenborough's Adventures, a five-part series of animated stories for the CBeebies Storytime app. The interactive tales follow Sir David from Zoo Quest in the 1950s to 2016's Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur. Sir David said he was ""thrilled"" by the project. ""We've brought to life many fond memories of my exploration of the natural world for young children to enjoy and learn,"" said Sir David. The series is designed to help teach children up to the age of six how to read, and begins on Friday with a story called Gorilla Quest. It's based on the ""aah""-inducing moment from 1979's Life on Earth, which saw Sir David sit with a baby jungle gorilla which had climbed onto his lap. Attenborough's Adventures: Children can play and become involved in the story by doing things like helping the young explorer pack his kit and clearing his jungle path. Four more stories will be released with Sir David going in search of dinosaurs, dragons - and a hidden city. CBeebies controller Kay Benbow said: ""The grown-up and child can enjoy reading, playing and learning together. ""Sir David has led an extraordinary life, and we're over the moon that his enthralling tales are now helping children to learn while being inspired by the natural world."" More than 170,000 children read stories on the CBeebies app each week, which is free to download. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Known for bringing us the wonders of the animal @placeholder on TV , Sir David Attenborough has added children 's storyteller to his CV .",kingdom,word,worlds,side,life,0
"Heder, a writer and producer on hit TV series Orange is the New Black, received rave reviews for the film when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. And in a year of self-reflection about the lack of diversity within the film industry, the movie - co-starring Allison Janney, Tammy Blanchard and Uzo Aduba - provides a female-centred storyline, as well as a nearly all-female cast and crew. ""I didn't really concentrate on that or even realise it until I looked around on set one day and saw so many female faces,"" Heder confesses. ""I'm used to Orange Is The New Black so it's normal for me. But we had quite a few women within the technical crew too. ""What's more important to me is that I've created three women characters who are fully rounded and often, pretty dislikeable. ""Ultimately, Tallulah is a story of female identity and questions whether every woman is designed to embrace motherhood. Parenthood is incredibly complex."" Heder, who grew up in Massachusetts but who has family from South Wales, says the idea for her first feature film was inspired by her own experiences more than a decade ago after she moved to Los Angeles. ""When I first moved to try and make it in the industry, I was supporting myself by working as a babysitter at high end hotels. I wasn't Tallulah by any means, but I was really struggling. ""I would be going to these incredible suites every night and often I felt I was witnessing a weird abuse. I felt there was a lot of neglect amongst the wealthy towards their children that was hidden by hiring nannies and housekeepers. ""I had a lot of weird experiences - many people didn't even bother to learn my name before they were out of the door, leaving me with their kids. But there was one that really stuck with me, one woman where I really felt I should take her toddler from her. When I left my shift that mother was passed out drunk on the bed. I cried all the way home. ""Of course I wasn't going to take her baby because it would have technically been kidnapping. To me though, it felt like it would have been rescue. And that's what generated a 'what if' scenario - what kind of woman would be impulsive enough to take a child she felt was being abused?"" Heder went on to develop an acclaimed short film around her idea in 2006 called Mother. ""For various reasons, actually making the feature film took much longer to get off the ground, but during that time I became a mother myself and my perspectives changed again,"" she explains. But the writer believes the film neither ""glorifies nor trivialises"" the act of taking a child from its mother, saying that the film is ""very much about a woman's identity, and about looking for a mother and becoming a mother"". ""Deeply flawed human behaviour doesn't stop just because you become a parent,"" she says. ""Tallulah explores the blurry lines of morality, but I wanted to approach it with a sense of humour as these conversations can be such a downer it can almost be inaccessible."" Page, who rose to fame a decade ago playing pregnant teenager Juno MacGuff, says the character of Tallulah is something ""brand new"" in cinema. ""I had really never read a role quite like her, or met a character like her before, she's very unique,"" Page says. ""Tallulah, or Lu as we call her, has had a lot of trauma in her life when she was small and has spent her life since then running from it, becoming seemingly footloose. Yet when she sees this perfect little baby, who hasn't had everything spoiled for her yet, she bonds with her and she wants to protect her."" ""My main co-star was the baby,"" Page emphasises. ""And having most of your scenes with a 15-month-old changes your performance because your first impulse isn't to act, it's to take care of the child.  You have no choice but to be in the present moment in every single scene because you have no idea what your co-star is going to do or how she's going to react."" Heder says when she first wrote the script, the character of Carolyn - the woman with the child Tallulah abducts - ""was a clear-cut bad mother"". ""She was the villain of the piece.  I was judgemental toward a certain kind of woman who I thought shouldn't have kids. But by the time I made the feature I became more like her, and in fact more like the other characters, too."" Motherhood, she says, has made her less judgemental towards other women - particularly if they are mothers themselves and struggling. ""When the movie was being shot, I was six months pregnant and also had a 16-month old daughter,"" she says. ""So there's a lot about how we women struggle with our perception of ourselves: Who we're supposed to be versus who we feel like. I found I had a great deal of empathy for all of the characters. ""Even though I supposedly turned the order of things on its head - the 'kidnapper' Tallulah, is the heroine, and Carolyn the 'bad mum' is the villain - I feel the audience will end up rooting for them both."" Tallulah will premiere on Netflix on 29 July. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",""" I 've never @placeholder a baby - but I did once seriously consider it , "" says Sian Heder , the writer and director of Tallulah , a dark comedy starring Ellen Page as a rootless young drifter who impulsively takes a toddler from a negligent mother , after agreeing to babysit .",enjoy,stolen,hailed,conceived,imagined,1
"Raymond Sykes smashed Arthur Walters-Girout's skull and cheek and went on a spending spree in JD Sports and GS Superfoods in Woolwich. The body of Mr Walters-Girout, 82, lay undiscovered at his home in Sidcup, south east London, for five days. Sykes, 36, must serve at least 25 years in prison for the murder. He was sentenced at the Old Bailey earlier. Sykes, of Engineer Close, Woolwich, claimed he had carried out a mercy killing after he found his former neighbour hitting himself over the head with a claw hammer in June 2015. Jurors dismissed his claims and convicted him on Tuesday. At sentencing, Sykes was told his claims he tried to help the victim kill himself were ""wholly inconceivable"". During the attack the unemployed father-of-four gained the pin for the stolen bank card and threw a phone across the room to prevent Mr Walters-Girout calling for help. He was later found dead, slumped in a chair in the living room. After the attack Sykes drove off in the victim's car to join two others -  Jason Hill, 23, and Ashley Hill, 22 - for a spending spree. In total 84 transactions were made to steal more than £2,400 from the victim's bank account, though Sykes was only involved with three purchases. Sykes twice tried to hang himself while awaiting trial for murder and also had a history of depression and financial worries, the court heard. Jason and Ashley Hill, both from Woolwich, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud and will be sentenced at a later date.",A man has been jailed for life for bludgeoning his @placeholder and elderly former neighbour to death for his bank card .,estranged,mother,neighbour,fate,disabled,4
"David Ord has been appointed Knight Bachelor for political service and service to the community. Mary Prior MBE, the Lord-Lieutenant of the County and City of Bristol, is appointed to Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. And Prof Steve West, who is vice chancellor of the University of the West of England, has been appointed CBE for his services to higher education. Prof West said he was most proud of how the university connected with businesses and the way it supports young people to realise their dreams. ""Connecting with schools and really making a difference to those who don't think they can go to uni,"" he added. Also honoured from Bristol:",The boss of the Bristol Port Company is among those @placeholder New Year Honours .,leaving,proposed,revealed,celebrating,receiving,4
"The margin of victory of the PS's Frederic Barbier over the FN's Sophie Montel was slim - 51.4% to 48.6%, a difference that hardly shows a resurgence in popular support for France's political establishment. But it will reinforce the confidence of Francois Hollande - whose popular approval rating has doubled to 40% since the Charlie Hebdo atrocity - that he can withstand the bulldozer demolition of France's elite by the FN's Marine le Pen in the presidential elections of 2017. Right now the place where this result may be most significant is in Athens, and for the Syriza government led by Alexis Tsipras, because it shows that eurozone leaders' defiant refusal to give in to his demands for an end to austerity and an easing of Greece's debt burden has not done them collateral damage. There has been no apparent boost for another populist party (albeit a right wing one) in France. So there is little reason to assume that when eurozone finance ministers and government heads meet on Wednesday and Thursday respectively to discuss the Greek crisis, they will be any more likely to compromise with Mr Tsipras. Which implies they will reject his main demand, for withdrawal from the formal bailout and the extension of a bridging loan of a few billion euros for four or five months - to allow negotiations on the reconstruction of Greece's debts and economy in a less turbulent and fraught climate. And if other eurozone governments, led by Germany, Spain and Finland, look unbending and intransigent, so too does Mr Tsipras. In a speech to parliament, he yesterday said he would honour the pledges he made to the Greek electorate that secured Syriza its victory - including a number of policies which are anathema to Berlin, such as a 28% increase in the minimum wage by 2016, the rehiring of lower-paid civil servants (such as school guards, university admin staff and finance ministry cleaners), and formal withdrawal from the terms of the rescue he inherited. Some of the other reforms he wants, such as cracking down on tax evasion and endemic corruption, would be seen as perfectly sensible in other eurozone capitals. And quite frankly I am hard pressed to find a serious economist who does not believe that an easing of Greece's crippling debt burden and a less hairshirt approach to austerity would be anything other than sensible. Added to that, there is polling data, which shows that the new government's popularity has soared since it started a charm offensive around the eurozone that morphed into something of a punch-up. So it is difficult to see how either side moves enough for a deal to be done in the coming days. Tell me if I am missing something important please. So the risk of Athens running out of money, of defaulting, which was not trivial last week, looks like a fairly big iceberg looming in front of us.","The onward march of the Front National in France and the implosion of France 's Socialist Party seems to have been @placeholder , at least temporarily , with the election of the socialist candidate in a parliamentary by-election in Doubs in eastern France .",prevented,arrested,resolved,functioning,published,1
"The chancellor said market volatility meant it was not sensible to attempt to sell the multi-billion pound stake it still owns to members of the public. The shares will now be sold via a ""trading plan"" - small tranches of shares sold to institutional investors. Philip Hammond said the private sale would ensure the taxpayer recovered the ""full investment"" made in the bank. He said that £17bn of the £20bn invested by the government, when it bailed out the bank during the financial crisis, had already been sold back to the market. ""We need to recover the taxpayers' money,"" Mr Hammond said, saying that he wanted Lloyds to be fully back in the private sector. ""The proceeds of the Lloyds bank sale - the priority is to turn those assets into cash and use those to reduce debt,"" Mr Hammond said. He said that the sale of the government's stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland was ""not practical at the moment"" whilst the bank was under the threat of fines from the Department of Justice in America and was struggling to sell its Williams and Glyn branch network.",The government has abandoned plans to launch a major retail share @placeholder of the 9 % of Lloyds Bank it still owns .,acquisition,sections,version,offer,holder,3
"Fury, 28, is back in training but has not fought since beating Wladimir Klitschko on points in November 2015. Fellow Briton Joshua, 27, stopped the Ukrainian last month in the 11th round of a fight that went back and forth. Froch said Fury had ""kind of played with Klitschko"", while Joshua ""struggled"" when he fought him. The three-time super-middleweight champion was a ringside commentator as Fury beat Klitschko in Dusseldorf to become world heavyweight champion. Speaking on the Friday Sports Panel on BBC Radio 5 live, Froch said: ""He had his hands behind his back at times. ""He was tapping his foot and was goading and was nonchalant in his mannerisms from the first bell right through to the last - and this is a guy that Anthony Joshua struggled with."" Fury is the subject of a UK Anti-Doping hearing, which relates to a failed test in June of last year, and a potential fight between him and Joshua could depend on the outcome. Froch, 39, says Fury needs to get himself into fighting shape before he considers taking on the unified world champion. He said: ""He's been out of the ring two years, he's had issues that I don't want to bring up, so is he going to be the same guy who beat Klitschko? ""Of course he isn't. He's probably going to need a couple of fights but he's certainly a really exciting and interesting addition to the heavyweight division."" You can hear more from Froch on Fury and Joshua by downloading the Friday Sports Panel podcast. He also talks about unsuccessfully trying to ""bury the hatchet"" with former foe George Groves, who he beat in a blockbuster fight at Wembley Stadium in May 2014.","Tyson Fury 's claim he would deal with Anthony Joshua "" like a cat playing with wool "" is "" difficult to @placeholder with "" , says former world champion Carl Froch .",stay,connect,retire,deal,argue,4
"Criticism has erupted as seats at the Olympic Games have been left empty and athletes have performed in front of less than capacity crowds from the first day of competition. It is not just because of the Games' sponsors failing to take up seats, Games organisers Locog and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have said. Eight per cent of tickets have been made available to sponsors and 75% to the public. Another 12% go to National Olympic Committees and 5% to the Olympic family - people like IOC officials and the media. The gaps are due to people from a range of those different groups not filling them, the IOC's Mark Adams has said. ""It doesn't appear to be a sponsor issue. Sponsors are turning up,"" Seb Coe said on Sunday. Locog has looked at who didn't turn up on Saturday and it was not predominantly the Games' corporate funders. No-one should ""run away with the idea"" that large numbers of seats will be empty throughout the Games, he said, as people will settle in to their working patterns across the sites. Tickets for the Games did not sell out before it began. About 200,000 football tickets remain available and about 100-120,000 non-football seats are still on sale. Other tickets will now be put up online for UK customers. All are available at the Locog tickets website. Up to 1,000 tickets were released online in the last 24 hours across three artistic gymnastics sessions for Sunday. Locog saw some distinct blocks of seats were not being used at the North Greenwich Arena and put them online. Locog will continue to monitor all sports and venues and put tickets on line throughout the Games, head of media Joanna Manning-Cooper said. Tickets will be collected at a box office and sold on the internet because Locog feel that is more accessible - not just for locals and Londoners. There are no further plans to release extra tickets for those outside the UK. Via three main ways: Locog will draft in other people who hold accreditation on the park to fill empty seats. So far that has been the troops who are not on shift handling security. G4S staff, whose company was criticised after it failed to recruit enough people, had not yet been asked, but Locog is ""looking at the whole mix of people"" present and available, Ms Manning-Cooper said. Seb Coe has denied it is ""shambolic"" to bring the Army in to fill seats after also using them to fill security staffing shortfalls. ""I don't think a single person out there would think it's shambolic to get members of the army and people like teachers, through the key seats programme, to go in,"" he said. Yes. One of the stark memories from Beijing is of row upon row of empty seats. Four years earlier, Athens had the same problem. Athletes like cyclist Mark Cavendish have talked about the ""wall of noise"" from spectators, valuable to spur them on in competition. ""We want those seats filled,"" Colin Moynihan, head of the British Olympic Association, which looks after UK athletes, has said. The government and Locog need to look at ideas such as a 30-minute rule, where seats are let go if no-one has filled them within half an hour of the session starting, transport delays permitting, he said. Seb Coe says Locog has a ""more considered"" approach to the problem and a curfew might create more problems than it solves. ATOS ""We are using all seats we have been allocated. They are taken by a mixture of clients and staff."" British Airways ""We gave unallocated tickets we purchased back to LOCOG ahead of the start of the Games, so that they could be resold to sports fans who want to watch an event. ""The vast majority of the tickets we purchased were given away many months ago to the public through competitions and promotions or used as rewards for our employees for great pieces of work or excellent customer service."" COCA COLA ""At Coca-Cola, we have given the majority of the London 2012 tickets that we were able to purchase as a Worldwide Partner away to the public via competitions and promotions that allowed them to choose the event they really wanted to attend, giving thousands of people the opportunity to participate in the greatest show on Earth. ""In addition to consumers, we have also invited some longstanding partners, employees, and customers to attend the Games. All of our guests are incredibly excited to be able to be a part of London 2012 and we believe that useage levels of our tickets have been extremely high so far."" EDF ""EDF has received no free tickets. We have paid for every ticket and are making good use of these with our customers, to reward employees, for our hospitality programme and for community groups. ""To date we have had only a handful of unused tickets and are working to ensure that as far as possible all our tickets are used, even up to the last moment.  We will continue to work hard to make sure the seats we have paid for are used because we want as many people as possible to experience the magic of the Games."" MCDONALDS ""We are making use of the tickets we have purchased."" THOMAS COOK ""None of our tickets are unused. A small number of our allocation has been used by ourselves, including as a staff incentive scheme and competitions for customers. ""Also as a commercial partner, we have been able to include these seats in some of those we've sold to the British public and businesses as Games Breaks. Any remaining were returned to Locog.""",Seats have been left empty at the Olympic Games despite high @placeholder when tickets were sold through a public ballot . Some are becoming available to buy or take up . Why ? And how to get them ?,levels,quality,demand,numbers,form,2
"The charity said the terrapins, which staff have named Jingle and Bell, were dumped near Muirton Place in Dundee on 17 December. The turtles are being cared for at the charity's centre in the city. Centre Assistant manager Dale Christie said: ""Both Jingle and Bell are quite small and can be handled. ""They appear to be in relatively good nick, apart from some knocks to their shell. ""They're lovely little guys and we'd love for them to find a loving home after coming to us after being through such an ordeal.""",Two terrapins found @placeholder before Christmas in a Tupperware container are looking for a new home after spending a month with the Scottish SPCA .,arrested,bodies,buried,abandoned,out,3
"Blackpool, Bradford, Newcastle-Gateshead and Sheffield will vie to host the two-month exhibition in 2018. A DCMS spokeswoman said the event, which will receive £20m in funding, would showcase the ""creative, cultural and design sectors of the North"". The winning bid will be announced in the autumn. Five further towns - Halifax, Harrogate, Scunthorpe, St. Helens and Whitehaven - submitted ""strong"" bids to the DCMS but were unsuccessful, the spokeswoman said. She added that the department would work with those locations to ""ensure as many people enjoy and benefit from the exhibition as possible"". The winning bidder will receive £5m from central government, with a further £15m being contributed to a legacy fund to attract further cultural investment in the North. Digital and Culture Minister Matt Hancock said the event would be ""a unique opportunity to celebrate the creativity of northern England"" and that he was ""thrilled"" to have received ""so many innovative bids"". ""Whichever is successful, this exhibition will leave an important legacy to benefit the whole country,"" he added. The Great Exhibition of the North board will now examine the shortlist before a final selection is made by ministers later in the year. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Four towns and cities have been @placeholder on the Department for Culture , Media and Sport ( DCMS ) shortlist to host the Great Exhibition of the North .",announced,called,inscribed,named,launched,3
"Prime Minister Stefan Lofven called early polls after losing a budget vote about three months into his term. Under the deal, Mr Lofven will follow the opposition's budget next year, although he can make some changes. The government failed to push through its budget when the far-right Sweden Democrats sided with the opposition. The Sweden Democrats emerged as a power broker after September's elections. The election - called for 22 March - would have been Sweden's first early poll since 1958. Speaking during a press conference in Stockholm on Saturday, PM Lofven said that he was pleased to have reached a deal. ""Sweden has a tradition of solving difficult problems,"" he told reporters. ""I am happy that... Sweden can be governed."" The deal was reached between Mr Lofven's centre-left Social Democrats and Greens Alliance, and the four-party centre-right group known as Alliance. Mr Lofven said the document, called ""The December Agreement"" will remain in force until 2022. It commits the opposition to abstain from voting against the government's budget proposals starting from April 2015 onwards. It also co-ordinates the parties' polices on pensions, defence and energy issues. Mr Lofven's Social Democrats formed a minority government with the Greens in September but between them they have only 138 seats in the 349-seat parliament. The Sweden Democrats became the country's third largest party, with 13% of the vote. Their main demand has been the reversal of Sweden's liberal immigration laws. Sweden has offered permanent residence to all Syrians fleeing the conflict and has the highest rate of asylum applications per capita of any European Union country.",Sweden 's left - of - centre government has reached a deal with the main opposition @placeholder in a minority government and avoiding the need for snap elections .,held,forces,group,resulting,team,3
"Sheffield City Council contractors began cutting down eight trees in Rustlings Road at about 05:00 GMT as part of a street improvement scheme. Residents had demanded the trees remain. Three people arrested after confrontations with workers were released without charge. Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg said he was outraged by the council's action. For more on this story and others in South Yorkshire Mr Clegg, the Liberal Democrat MP for the area, said the council had acted as if it were running an anti-terrorist operation. ""I do not know what planet these people are on,"" he said. ""Arresting elderly residents? Arresting them when they are just trying to say 'don't chop this tree down'?"" Jenny Hockey, a retired sociology lecturer, was one of those arrested. ""What can you do in that situation except exercise your right to peaceful protest and that's what we chose to do,"" the 70-year-old said. ""They warned us they would arrest us if we did not move, which is what they did."" Mrs Hockey was arrested alongside her friend Freda Brayshaw. The retired teacher, 71, said: ""It was just like an assault with arc lights, lots of policemen and chainsaws going up and down the road and we had no chance to do anything. ""They had a kind of barrier, a tape around trees they intended to fell and I stepped inside and stood under a tree."" The council said the work needed to be done as part of a £2bn scheme to improve streets and get rid of diseased, damaging or dangerous trees. Residents said the trees were healthy and should remain. Councillor Bryan Lodge said the work was ""essential to ensure Sheffield has healthy trees for future generations"". He said: ""We have made a final decision to increase the number of trees on Rustlings Road by almost 30%. ""We need to replace eight out of the 30 existing trees, but we will plant 17."" He said the work was carried out early in the morning on the advice of the police to ensure it was done safely. South Yorkshire Police confirmed that 12 officers ""provided assistance at the request of the council"". In April a High Court judge dismissed a bid for a judicial review into the tree-felling programme. Sheffield City Council has felled more than 3,300 trees since 2012.",Angry scenes @placeholder when contractors arrived at dawn to fell trees in a long - running neighbourhood row .,erupted,spent,drowned,bodies,rescued,0
"Posting a picture of a letter addressed to ""Mrs Clegg"" on Instagram, she noted the ""irony"" of the situation. The event, on 8 March, is designed to ""celebrate women's success"", she added. Ms Gonzalez Durantez is a lawyer specialising in international and EU trade law. She wrote: ""The irony of being invited to speak at an International Women's Day event to celebrate women's success, addressed to me as 'Mrs Clegg'."" Ms Gonzalez Durantez set up the Inspiring Women group, which recruits women with successful careers to visit and speak to girls at state schools in England. This is not the first time she has criticised the way she is perceived or described. Last year she told Marie Claire magazine: ""I find people say of me 'She wears the trousers' and as you can see, it is true, I have very nice trousers. ""Or if my husband and I share the school run, it's me who has forced him, dragged him away from his work. ""But when people, or in my case the media, are using that label on you, they are not saying you are strong, they are saying you should get back in your box. You should make the dinner and have his slippers ready with a gin and tonic.""","Miriam Gonzalez Durantez , whose husband is former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg , has @placeholder after being invited to an International Women 's Day event in her married name .",died,complained,reacted,returned,reopened,1
"Previously it had encouraged expectant mothers to reconsider such travel because of the potential harm the virus might pose to babies in the womb. If travel is unavoidable, they should take precautions to avoid bites from mosquitoes that spread the disease. In recent months, Zika has been spreading across much of the Americas. The infection has been linked to cases of microcephaly - babies born with underdeveloped brains. In February, the World Health Organization declared the situation a global public health emergency requiring a united response. Prof Paul Cosford from Public Health England said: ""As our knowledge of the Zika virus, and the evidence linking microcephaly to Zika infection, becomes clearer a more precautionary approach is warranted. This advice will be kept under review and updated as more information becomes available. ""We expect to see small numbers of Zika virus infections in travellers returning to the UK, but the risk to the wider population is negligible as the mosquito vector is not found in the UK."" The symptoms of Zika infection may include: A spokesman for ABTA, the travel association, said pregnant women due to travel to any of the destinations affected should seek medical advice from their GP. ""Where it is necessary to change or cancel their holiday arrangements in light of the NaTHNaC advice, they should request that their GP provides them with a medical certificate in order to assist them with any possible insurance claim. ""Travel companies will try and be as flexible as possible with pregnant customers who had already booked before the advice changed, and many are offering customers the option to amend their holiday to an alternative destination free of charge."" What you need to know Key questions answered about the virus and its spread Key unanswered questions The many things we do not know about Zika The mosquito behind spread of virus What we know about the insect Abortion dilemma Laws and practices in Catholic Latin America","Public Health England has @placeholder its advice on Zika , saying pregnant women should postpone non-essential travel to areas with disease outbreaks .",announced,criticised,signed,published,strengthened,4
"A youth zone and a new public space are planned for the building, with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) running the contest. A panel featuring leading architects and council representatives will shortlist the five best designs. Lancashire County Council (LCC) said the £13m redesign was ""to make it more appealing to passengers"". The LCC and Preston Youth Zone plans include a sports hall, arts facilities and 36 bus bays. Preston Bus Station was considered the largest bus station in Europe when it opened in 1969. The site, which was under-threat from demolition, was given Grade II listed status in 2013.",More than 90 @placeholder have been submitted in a competition to redesign Preston Bus Station .,members,forces,homes,entries,drivers,3
"The 50-year-old won gold at the 2016 Rio Games in the single kayak 200m in the KL3 class. In doing so, she claimed ParalympicsGB's 100th medal in Rio. ""The last four years in elite sport couldn't have gone any better,"" said Dickins, who became an MBE in the New Year Honours. Find out how to get into disability sport with our special guide. ""To win Paralympic gold and then to get awarded an MBE, a Blue Peter badge, and to get married concluded an amazing 2016."" Dickins had been an endurance mountain biker before sustaining a freak back injury. She overcame seasickness to take part in Para-canoeing, in which she won two world titles and was a three-time European champion. ""Even though I won't be racing I believe I can still inspire people, which was always my goal,"" she said.","British Paralympic champion Anne Dickins has @placeholder , five years after being a volunteer at London 2012 inspired her to take up Para-canoeing .",quit,spent,suffered,claimed,retired,4
"Brusthom Ziamani, 19, from Camberwell, south London, was found guilty last month of preparing an act of terrorism. The court heard he was inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby and used the internet to research cadet bases. He converted to Islam in 2014 and became radicalised. Months later he was arrested in east London in a possession of a 12in knife and a hammer. Ziamani, who was 18 when held on the street in August last year as part of a joint police and MI5 intelligence operation, also had a black ""Islamic flag"" in his bag. Police say he visited his former girlfriend earlier that day, when he showed her his weapons and told her he intended to attack and kill soldiers. The trial heard he told her Michael Adebolajo - one of the men who murdered Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London a year earlier - was a ""legend"". In his sentencing remarks, Judge Timothy Pontius told Ziamani: ""A realistic and sensible assessment of the whole of the evidence leads inescapably to the conclusion that this defendant, had he not, by sheer good fortune, been spotted and stopped by the police on the street in east London, would have carried out the intention he had so graphically expressed to his ex-girlfriend just a few hours before."" He said Ziamani would have to serve at least two-thirds of his sentence before being eligible for parole, adding that he would extend the time he would spend on licence after his release by five years. Ziamani was born in London to Congolese parents and went to school in Peckham. His mother worked as a nursery nurse and his father was a psychiatric nurse. The defendant told the court that his parents, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, had found out he was a Muslim only when they had seen pictures of friends in Islamic clothes on his mobile phone. During the trial, jurors heard how Ziamani had fallen in with members of the extremist organisation al-Muhajiroun, after he was ""kicked out"" of his home after converting to Islam. Police say the group played a ""major role in influencing and shaping his radical views"" and he attended their demonstrations. The jury heard Mr Ziamani also put posts on Facebook supporting Sharia law and stating he was ""willing to die in the cause of Allah"". It was told Ziamani had been arrested in June last year on an unrelated matter and police found a ripped-up letter to his parents in his jeans pocket, in which he had written about mounting an attack on a British soldier. In the letter Ziamani stated because he had no means of getting out to Iraq or Syria he would wage war against the British government on UK soil. He was bailed, but refused to engage with officers from the government's anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent. Ziamani's lawyer, Naeem Mian, said his client was not an ""entrenched extremist"" but a young man who while destitute had been groomed by people who were ""more sophisticated and mature"" than him. ""It is worrying to say the least that those who groomed him are able to groom and radicalise a young man in such a short period of time,"" he said. ""On any view it is a tragic case because this young man will spend a long time in custody after which he will inevitably be unemployable. His foolish, naive acts have resulted in him throwing his life away at his tender age. He has nothing to look forward to now."" When Ziamani was convicted last month, Commander Richard Walton of the Counter Terrorism Command described him as an ""impressionable young man who became radicalised then rapidly developed an extremist, violent mindset"". After the sentencing, Deb Walsh, deputy head of counter terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, said: ""This case highlights how violent and extreme views on a page can become credible threats to the lives and safety of British citizens.""",A teenager who @placeholder to behead a British soldier has been jailed for 22 years by a judge at the Old Bailey .,confessed,subjected,planned,managed,seeks,2
"The project, called the Event Horizon Telescope, has completed most of its technical preparations as well as extensive theoretical calculations. It will focus on Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the Milky Way's centre. Speaking at an astronomy conference in Florida, EHT team member Feryal Ozel said all the elements were in place. She told BBC News: ""We're almost there. The phasing in of the instruments has been done, the receivers are in place and the theoretical work has been done. ""There are quite a few challenges that need to be overcome to take a picture of a black hole - it's something that's extremely small in the sky. But what we're hoping for is a full array observation in early 2017."" Prof Ozel, from the University of Arizona, gave an update on the project at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Supermassive though it may be, the heart of the Milky Way's black hole is not as big as you might think; the event horizon of Sagittarius A* is just 24 million km across - 17 times bigger than the Sun. At 25,000 light years away, that makes it a pinprick. From the surface of the Earth, Prof Ozel explained, it takes up about as much of the sky as a CD sitting on the moon. And surrounding this mysterious, spherical frontier are roiling clouds of gas and dust, which blaze with energy as they are sucked and squeezed furiously towards it. These clouds are trouble for the EHT astronomers, who want to peer closer than ever before at this fringe of the observable universe. One of their most important decisions was choosing which wavelength of light they would use. Radio waves were an obvious place to start, because they are scattered much less by this material than visible or infra-red light. Then it took a lot of theoretical calculations to settle on the specific wavelength of 1.3mm, as Prof Ozel explained. ""We've run upwards of a million simulations, for many different configurations of what that gas might look like. And in all cases, we think that the 1.3mm wavelength is the right choice to see down to the event horizon."" It was an ""incredibly lucky coincidence"", she added, that any wavelength at all was feasible. Because as well as penetrating the black hole's dust cloud, Prof Ozel and her colleagues need the hot gas right at the event horizon to shine brightly in this colour - which they believe it does. Finally, the light has to travel easily through the Earth's own atmosphere into the dishes of the waiting telescopes; 1.3mm fortunately fits that bill in every case. The nine stations enlisted to stare at Sgr A* include the big dishes in Antarctica, Chile, Hawaii, Spain, Mexico and Arizona. Altogether this makes what the team calls a ""virtual telescope the size of the Earth"". So what will this mammoth eye actually see? ""Hopefully it will look like a crescent - it won't look like a ring,"" Prof Ozel said. This is because the glowing gas is spinning around the black hole, and a dramatic Doppler effect should make the stuff moving towards the Earth appear much brighter. ""The rest of the ring will also emit, but what you will brightly pick up is a crescent."" In fact, the picture that emerges from the EHT next year will put general relativity on the line. Einstein's theory states that a mass - especially one as big as a black hole - bends space-time. And that curvature can be  calculated mathematically. So the size of the shadow cast by Sgr A* will either match what is predicted by general relativity, or it won't. ""We know exactly what GR predicts for that size,"" Prof Ozel said - making this observation what scientists call a ""null hypothesis test"" of the theory. Astronomers rely on general relativity all the time, making use of the way masses bend the path of light. But it has never been tested on this scale before. ""Imagine how much light-bending our sun can achieve. EArthur Eddington's 1919 experiment measured that level of deflection. ""Now we're taking that, and we're multiplying it literally by millions and millions and millions in terms of the space-time curvature."" Beyond the Milky Way's own Sgr A*, the EHT team already has plans to look further afield at galaxy Messier 87. Its black hole is much bigger and is known for blasting an immense jet of plasma into space. Follow Jonathan on Twitter","A network of nine radio telescopes , @placeholder around the globe , is set to take the first ever picture of a black hole 's event horizon in 2017 .",including,nicknamed,dotted,meaning,revered,2
"That is what happened to David Bromley, after he suffered a brain injury that left him with face blindness. David has prosopagnosia. People with this condition can see the eyes, the nose, and the mouth, what is known as the context - but they cannot see them as a whole. They do not recognise gestures or emotions. ""I can even recognise my wife if I walk into the house and know that she is there,"" says David. ""But if I'm in the street and she passes by and I don't know that she is going to be there, I wouldn't recognise her."" David, who lives in Essex, had unknowingly been living with eye damage since birth - the arteries and veins were mixed up. This eventually caused a partial loss of sight and damage in the brain which caused the prosopagnosia. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of this condition is that people do not notice right away that something is wrong with them. He remembers when he realised there was a problem. ""I went to a reunion where I saw friends that I hadn't seen for 30 years. We were pretty close but we went our separate ways."" On the way home, he told his brother-in-law: ""'Fran and Mickey haven't changed a bit, they are exactly the same!'. And then I said 'hold on, were they wearing tank tops?'"" What David was seeing was his memory of their friends back then. ""My brain was telling me that there they were and what they looked like, but that wasn't the reality"". After that, he discovered he was face blind. There are two main forms of prosopagnosia; developmental - where people fail to develop face processing abilities which is thought to affect around 2% of the population, and acquired, which develops after some form of brain injury and is much rarer. Dr Ashok Jansari, a cognitive neuropsychology expert from the University of East London said: ""Acquired prosopagnosia is extremely rare because the type of brain damage is very specific,. ""It can be caused by damage to the back of the brain on the right-hand side in an area known generally as the right occipito-temporal region."" David said: ""I don't know what's worse - not being able to ever recognise people or at 56 years old - as it happened to me - suddenly not being able to recognise anybody"". He added that the worst part is the social embarrassment. ""We were on holiday in Cuba and I'd been snorkelling in the sea. I was talking with this guy from Denmark, when this woman swam up and said 'buenos dias' and I went 'hello, pleased to meet you', thinking it was his wife, but it was actually my wife and I hadn't recognised her."" David can see people perfectly well - but 10 or 15 minutes later he cannot recognise them. He now tells clients: ""If I ignore you, I'm not being rude, it is just that I can't recognise you."" Sandra, from London, who only wants to give her first name, is also afraid of social embarrassment. She had encephalitis - inflammation of the brain - 14 years ago, which left her with face blindness. Even though her prosopagnosia is mild - she can recognise people she knew before her illness - she would rather not let people know because she does not want anyone to think she has some sort of incapacity. ""Life with prosopagnosia is very shameful,"" she says. She is teacher and at work almost nobody knows that she is face blind. ""If I see someone every day, I can recognise them. But if one of the children says hi to me on the street, I would know it is a student from the school, but I wouldn't know who. ""I don't say anything to the children, I just work every day to learn their faces."" But she says: ""Perhaps the reason why I don't mention it is because I don't want them to think that I cannot do my job, because that's not true. I don't want to feel ashamed or that people think that there is something wrong with me."" Dr Jansari understands the feelings and fears of David and Sandra. He knows of cases in which people have lost their jobs because of the condition - including a teacher who had difficulty recognising pupils, causing problems when parents came to pick up their children at the end of the day, Even though prosopagnosia is not recognised as a disability, Dr Jansari thinks it should be treated as such in some cases. This condition has no cure. ""In the case of acquired prosopagnosia, once a part of the brain is damaged it is not going to 'grow' back, so it is impossible to fix the problem,"" he said. ""With developmental prosopagnosia, we don't know what causes it, but hypothetically in the future if they find that there is a genetic cause, that could be corrected - but that would be a very long way off."" Even though people develop strategies to cope - because people change their appearance, they are not foolproof. Dr Jansari says: ""Once David thought that a photograph he saw was of George Michael but it was of me, from a time when I used to have a goatee beard and a gold earring!""","Imagine that suddenly you can not recognise your mother , your partner , your child . You can see them but your brain can not process the @placeholder - you do n't know whether they are smiling , or understand their emotions .",word,life,words,process,information,4
"Swansea Crown Court heard Margaret Hanks would have been in view for at least seven seconds with no explanation why Stuart Heeps, 55, did not see her. The 75-year-old was hit by the bus on Mill Pond Bridge, Pembroke, on 7 March. Heeps, of Pembroke Dock, admitted causing death by careless driving and had his 14-month jail sentence suspended for two years. He was also banned from driving for three years.",An @placeholder bus driver hit and killed a pedestrian on a Pembrokeshire crossing after failing to spot her .,attempted,acclaimed,people,denied,experienced,4
"Gosport chiefs voted to cut the number of dogs allowed per walker from six to four on Wednesday. The borough council said the move was prompted by complaints about dog mess and walkers failing to control their charges. The Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) comes into effect on 1 May, with a £100 fine for ignoring it. Under the order dogs will also be excluded from children's areas with fixed play equipment, and sports pitches while they are in use for organised events. The proposal previously triggered a row on social media with some people posting on Facebook that it ""interferes with people's right to choices"". Many were in support of the decision however, Jenny Brown posted: ""I'm pleased this has come into focus. I've had so many problems when encountering larger groups of dogs."" Facebook user Jackie Black added: ""I agree, how do you poo-pick with six dogs? You only have one pair of hands."" Councillor Graham Burgess, chairman of the community board, said: ""In a densely-populated borough like Gosport, we do believe new rules are needed.""",A plan to @placeholder the number of dogs that one person can walk in a Hampshire town has been approved .,limit,expand,commemorate,investigate,highlight,0
"Ubisoft says it intends to release an updated version of Watch Dogs 2 later this week to remove the imagery. The apparent mistake was discovered by a UK-based gamer who obtained a copy of the title ahead of its release date. He was briefly punished for bringing the matter to others' attention. The player - who has only revealed his first name is Adam - explained what had happened on the Neogaf forum. ""On Sunday evening, I accidentally blew up a few women in a back alley with a gas pipe and then I saw 'it', someone at Ubisoft had rendered a full vagina on one (or maybe more) of the females in the game. ""I took a picture of this funny oversight with the in-game camera and shared it on Twitter for my friends to see, and I posted it in one of the Watch Dogs early release threads on here. ""Cut to tonight where I can't access any services while playing the game, and then when I tried to sign in there was a very brief message about my account being suspended."" Adam was later contacted by Sony, which told him it had blocked him from its PlayStation Network for a month, because sharing content of an adult or sexual nature from its consoles was against its rules. However, following criticism from other players, Sony later said the email had been sent ""incorrectly"" and Adam's account had been unblocked, although it continued to insist he was in breach of its terms of service. Ubisoft has not given an explanation about why the woman was modelled in this way. But it may be linked to the fact other in-game characters' genitals are deliberately depicted, including a small group of naturists and men  seen urinating against a wall. Watch Dogs 2 has been given a mature rating by the US's Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which warns that it contains nudity. But a deliberate decision to connect violence and nudity could have caused the rating to be raised to Adults Only. ""We're aware that one of the NPC [non player character] models in Watch Dogs 2 is rendered in a way that is particularly explicit,"" said a spokeswoman for Ubisoft. ""While Watch Dogs 2 is a mature-rated game, we apologise and will update this NPC model to make it more consistent with other NPC models in the game in a patch to be released this week. ""We also are working with our first-party partners to ensure that players can continue to play and share all content from the game within the bounds of the first parties' respective codes of conduct."" Another open world game - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - had its rating raised in 2005 when it was discovered that explicit sex scenes had been hidden inside the title. But one games journalist said the latest example was less clear cut. ""On a personal level, I have mixed feelings about it,"" said Jen Simpkins, games editor at the Official PlayStation Magazine UK. ""It makes you reel back as a woman and think why specifically would it be attacked women NPCs affected, although I don't know if it might affect some attacked male characters as well. ""On the other hand, there's a huge taboo over genitalia and there's an argument to be made that it's not that big a deal.""",A discovery that attacking a female character in a video game leads to the player being @placeholder a explicit depiction of her genitalia has prompted an apology from the title 's creator .,dubbed,built,shown,named,labelled,2
"Samba Diakite, Oscar Gobern, Armand Traore and Yun Suk-young will also leave Loftus Road when their contracts expire at the end of next month. Meanwhile, midfielder Karl Henry and winger Junior Hoilett are in talks about extending their deals. ""There is no disguising we have had some very difficult decisions to make,"" manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink said. Former Norwich and West Ham keeper Green made a total of 128 appearances for QPR after joining the west London club in the summer of 2012. The 36-year-old played 25 times this season, but his last outing came on 1 January. Centre-back Hill, 37, played 185 times in six seasons with the R's while Faurlin, 29, made 163 appearances during seven years with the club, despite suffering three serious knee injuries. QPR finished 12th in the Championship table this season.","QPR have @placeholder former England goalkeeper Rob Green , defender Clint Hill and midfielder Alejandro Faurlin .",produced,criticised,revealed,released,sacked,3
"The Romanian champions' flight to Glasgow arrived three hours late on Tuesday amid reports of problems over the payment for their flight. But paperwork problems over Nigerian striker Fatai and Ghanaian midfielder Yahaya, both 24, were resolved. Media playback is not supported on this device And the pair arrived later on a separate flight to Scotland. Astra are due to play at Celtic Park on Thursday in their third Europa League Group D game. Celtic lead the group on four points along with Red Bull Salzburg, with Astra bottom after two defeats.",Astra Giurgiu 's Kehinde Fatai and Seidu Yahaya have arrived in Scotland for their Europa League tie at Celtic after visa problems @placeholder their departure .,control,consolidated,delayed,opened,recorded,2
"The company started testing the vehicles this week, but the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has said the firm must have a test permit. Uber said it did not need one as they have a safety driver at the wheel, and is going to ignore the demand. California's attorney general - the state's most senior government lawyer - said Uber must cease the driving immediately or face further action. A spokeswoman for the attorney general's office would not be drawn on what the specific action could be, but the next step would likely be a court order compelling Uber to carry out the demand. Other companies testing autonomous technology in California, such as Google, have applied for and obtained the permit which costs $150 (£120) for 10 vehicles. Additional vehicles can be added at a rate of $50 for each additional 10 vehicles. ""It is illegal for the company to operate its self-driving vehicles on public roads until it receives an autonomous vehicle testing permit,"" said Brian Soublet from the California DMV in a letter to Uber this week. In a conference call with media on Friday, Uber's vice-president of Advanced Technologies Anthony Levandowski said Uber had ""respect"" for officials, but that the regulations were irrelevant to its cars. ""You don't need a belt and suspenders if you're wearing a dress,"" he told reporters. In his view the permit only applies to cars that could operate ""without the active physical control or monitoring of a human operator"". Uber's cars need a human, he said - although the company still intends to refer to the vehicles as ""self-driving cars"". He went on to make a comparison with electric car company Tesla. Its cars come with a feature known as Autopilot which takes control of the vehicle and automatically keeps up with traffic and changes lanes. Autopilot does not require a permit, and so Uber argued its cars should be treated the same way. It requested clarification from the DMV on that issue specifically. Google cars have a human driver behind the wheel at all times. The permit requires companies to cover insurance costs as well as provide public reports on any collisions or instances when the human driver must take control. Uber said it planned to make disclosures about the performance of its cars, but did not specify how. On Friday afternoon, a number of the cars were seen travelling around the city. Earlier in the week one of the cars was filmed jumping a red light, an incident Uber blamed on human error. Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook",Uber has been told its self - driving cars are illegal - but it is @placeholder to take them off San Francisco 's roads .,poised,refusing,aiming,expected,forced,1
"Luciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree, follows neighbouring MP Steve Rotheram (Walton), who revealed his candidacy last week. Liverpool's directly elected mayor Joe Anderson also announced his plans to stand on Thursday. The contest for the Labour nomination is due in the summer before the election takes place next May. Ms Berger, shadow minister for mental health, has been MP for Wavertree since 2010. The Liverpool City Region covers five Merseyside councils - Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley, Sefton and Wirral - as well as Halton in Cheshire. The Metro Mayor will be in charge of decisions on a number of issues, including economic development and transport.",A second Labour MP from Liverpool has @placeholder the race to be the first Metro Mayor for the Liverpool City Region .,passed,lost,conceded,become,entered,4
"Renee is an artist. She left her former home in the densely populated suburbs of Sydney to live a quieter life in bush surrounds, a one-hour drive north of the city. She has built a shed on 10 acres of land and has an outside toilet. Renee has no concerns about privacy as she is not overlooked by neighbours. Sukurbanu, 65, has lived in Rupnagar slum, in Dhaka, since her childhood. She uses a hanging toilet - a platform built over water - from which she recently fell. She says she often suffers from illnesses that she believes are caused by using these toilets. She lives with three daughters, who face long queues to use the toilets before they go to work in the mornings. Brazil Isabela, 33, lives alone in a penthouse in Rio de Janeiro. She has an MBA in environmental law and works as a fine artist. ""My toilet means comfort to me. But I know what is behind it: water supply, sewerage, pollution of lakes and oceans. ""The fact is that I do like to have a good shower, and for a Brazilian girl like me, it means at least 10 minutes of clean water being wasted. It's a privilege. I have a clean water supply, hot water and a comfortable toilet seat."" Fabiola, 69, lives in Cumbaya, a valley near Quito. Between the ages of seven and 21, she shared a toilet with 20 other people who lived in her condominium. Now she lives in an apartment, which has five bathrooms. Her bathroom is the biggest one and she is very proud of it. Meseret, a restaurant manager in Addis Ababa, shares a one-bedroom government house with her two children, two sisters and mother. She was widowed nine years ago when her husband was shot during the aftermath of the 2005 elections. Her shared toilet is a long way away, so for safety the family use the side yard next to their house. Ima, 47, is a toilet attendant in Kumasi. She lives in a rented room with her husband and four children aged 14-22. She is a very dedicated worker and relies on the income from her job to fund her children's education. She does not have a toilet at home. During the day, she uses the public toilet where she works, but at night she uses a plastic bag as it is not safe to go outside. Martine is 27 years old. She lives near a river in Cayimithe. ""I don't have an enclosed toilet. My toilet is a hole in the ground by my house, which is now full and has become really dangerous. I only use it at night when I can have some privacy. In the daytime, I use a community toilet which is about 15 minutes away from my house."" Sangita, 35, moved to Delhi City 10 years ago. Before that she lived in a village where she used to go to the toilet in the fields, and says she felt ashamed of it. This made her adamant that she would have her own toilet in Delhi. Eiko, 61, lives in Tokyo. ""Since this department store is close to my home, I often come here for shopping. When I was a child, the public toilets were not clean and smelled bad, but every time I use the bathroom here, I feel so relaxed. I could spend many hours here."" In this department store, the toilet is called a switch room to describe a special place where people can switch their mood and feel relaxed. The toilets have features like surround-sound music and heated seats. In the powder room next to the toilets, Eiko can charge her mobile phone, watch TV and have a foot massage. Eunice is the co-founder of Kasarani Academy in Naivasha. Previously, the school had only two toilets for 250 pupils. Tenants living nearby used the toilets as well and left them in a poor condition. Because of this, Eunice found that the children preferred to go in the open. Eunice and her husband Paul have now invested in child-friendly toilets. These tiny toilets have prevented adults using them as they cannot fit through the doors. ""Parents will enrol their children here because of our child-friendly toilets,"" she said. Flora, 19, is a high school student. She lives in Chamanculo C in Maputo with her mother, sister and niece. She shares a toilet with several other families living nearby. ""I hate using the toilet. Sometimes men peek over the fence. There is no privacy."" Pana, 49, lives in Buzescu. Like almost half of the Romanian population, she lives in the countryside where there is no running water or sewerage supplied by the municipality. Pana does have a toilet inside her house, but it is used only by her nephews when they visit. She uses the outside toilet, even in the winter. Nombini has two porta-potties, which are used by the 12 people who live in her home. When she first moved to Khayelitsha in 2005, she did not have a toilet so she had to go in the bush, across a main road. ""It was terrible in the bush - the cars hit you. When we were given a porta-potty in 2009, it was much better than going in the bush. Flush toilets are first class compared to the porta-potty though. My dream is to have a flush toilet."" Mary is a writer who lives in New York City. ""Living with two housemates, it is important to schedule our bathroom time and take turns cleaning it. I used to live in Beijing, where I had to use a public bathroom as my apartment didn't have a private toilet. While it was safe and relatively clean, I used to hate putting my coat on just to go to the bathroom in the middle of night during winter. That experience made me really appreciate the privacy and comfort of having a clean toilet at home."" Susan, 46, is the founder of a community school for children with physical and mental disabilities. ""It makes me proud and happy to teach disabled children so that in the future they can have a better life and not just stay at home.  I was attacked by polio at the age of two. It's not easy being disabled in Lusaka. Using the toilet is a challenge, especially in the rainy season, as I have to crawl to the toilets on my hands."" My Toilet: Global Stories from Women and Girls can be seen at the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, London, from 17 to 22 November 2014.","According to the United Nations , 2.5 billion people do not have access to proper sanitation , including toilets . To mark World Toilet Day on 19 November , photographers from Panos Pictures have been working with Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor ( WSUP ) to produce an @placeholder that documents women and girls with their toilets , showing the effect this has on their lives .",exhibition,incident,album,emergency,advertisement,0
"Tipu Sultan was found with a gunshot wound at the back of the Herbs n Spice Kitchen in Lake Avenue, South Shields, on Tuesday night. The 32-year-old father of two received treatment but was pronounced dead at the scene. Northumbria Police has started a murder inquiry and believe two men on a motorbike were involved. They said witnesses had reported seeing two men wearing crash helmets and dressed in dark clothing on a motorbike drive into the rear lane in Lake Avenue just before the shooting, shortly before 22:00 BST. They were seen driving away from the area in the direction of Lizard Lane immediately afterwards. Northumbria Police South Tyneside Supt Sav Patsalos said their investigation was in its early stages. ""We are trying to establish the motive behind the incident and a full murder investigation is currently being carried out,"" he said. ""We believe that this has been an isolated incident and not a random shooting, enquiries are ongoing to establish this. ""Those responsible may have planned the incident in advance of carrying it out and if anyone has seen anything or anyone suspicious in the area at any time in the past few days, then I'd ask them to come forward and speak to us."" He said there was nothing to suggest there was any risk to anyone else but there were extra officers in the area. He appealed for anyone who saw the motorbike in the area or with information to contact them and said they would be speaking to other takeaway and restaurant owners. A cordon has been set up around the scene. Victoria Chisholm, from the nearby Lake Pub, said: ""I saw a commotion out on the street, one of the lads from the curry house was outside. ""I just thought it was a wind-up, stuff like that doesn't happen round here. It shouldn't happen."" Speaking about the victim, she added: ""He was an absolutely wonderful bloke, everybody round here loved him. He was a proper part of the community. ""He was just a wonderful bloke, I'm completely shocked. ""It's a nightmare for his family as well.""",A man has been shot dead outside the takeaway where he @placeholder on South Tyneside .,appeared,worked,spent,died,disappeared,1
"She collided with Fi Morris as both Southern Vipers players raced towards mid-wicket to catch the ball, and spent several minutes down on the ground. Surrey Stars made 85-6 but the hosts chased down the target in 15.2 overs to win by six wickets at Southampton. At Taunton, Western Storm beat Lancashire Thunder by four wickets. Edwards' day had begun well as the Vipers skipper took two catches as the Stars collapsed to 28-5, in front of an impressive crowd of over 2,200 spectators. Nat Sciver (36 not out) dug in and having hit teenage bowler Katie George for four, the visitors' captain top-edged the next ball high into the air as Edwards and Morris collided. Following treatment on the pitch, 36-year-old Edwards gingerly walked off the pitch and did not return for the rest of the match, but would have batted if required after having a thorough assessment. Georgia Adams made the most of the opportunity to open the batting, hitting seven fours in her 41 as the home side raced to victory - despite England spinner Alex Hartley taking two wickets in two balls. Edwards later tweeted: ""Thanks for all the messages re injury, apart from a few bruises and a headache I'm doing ok!!"" Southern Vipers batter Georgia Adams: ""It was nice to get runs first up, and it was nice to get out there in front of a very large crowd, which is new to me. ""The experience having not just Suzie [Bates] but Charlotte [Edwards] is brilliant. Suzie guided me through that innings. ""She was talking me through the innings, her knowledge of the game and the bowlers we were facing helped so much. ""Playing on a ground like this is brilliant. Normally I am an opener but I was due to bat at three. Finding out at the last minute stopped me from getting nervous. Surrey Stars spinner Alex Hartley: ""In hindsight we were probably around 30 runs short but the team had a great effort to take it down almost to the wire. ""Nat [Sciver] and Rene [Farrell] were absolutely fantastic, if it wasn't for them we could have been all out for 45. ""It is always nice to bowl well but disappointing when you don't win. ""The Hampshire crowd was absolutely fantastic, they announced they had over 2,000 in. ""Hopefully we can kick on with our batting, our bowling was fantastic, so we are looking forward to the next one."" Current England skipper Heather Knight enjoyed a more fruitful day as her Storm side held their nerve to overcome the Thunder in a low-scoring thriller at Taunton. Knight and Stafanie Taylor claimed 7-25 between them as the visiting side were bowled for just 83 in 18.3 overs, with Emma Lamb top-scoring with 25. Despite Thunder's Deandra Dottin taking a clinical 3-8, Storm edged home to collect a well-deserved victory in front of more than a 1,000 fans at Taunton. Media playback is not supported on this device",Ex - England skipper Charlotte Edwards ' first major match since retiring from international cricket ended within 13 overs because of a @placeholder injury .,couple,night,neck,foot,back,2
"Nigel Boocock, from Yorkshire, competed in 748 matches for Coventry Bees in 18 consecutive seasons in the 1960s and 70s. Known as ""Little Boy Blue"" because of the colour of his leathers, Boocock died in Australia last April. The service will see 1976 champion Peter Collins ride around the track in Brandon with Boocock's grandson, Jack, holding his ashes. Tony Gillas, a former Bees rider and now chairman of the Speedway Control Bureau, said Boocock entertained hundreds of thousands of people, and regularly rode for the England team. ""Nigel will always be Mr Coventry Speedway,"" said Mr Gillas. ""He put his heart and soul into Brandon and entertained so many people... we wanted to do something like this."" BBC Coventry and Warwickshire's speedway correspondent, Wayne Roberts, said Boocock was unsurpassed and arguably ""the best rider ever"". Boocock's son, Darren, and Darren's wife Sharon were killed in a road collision in 2008 when their Triumph motorcycle collided with a lorry.","The ashes of "" Mr Coventry Speedway "" are being @placeholder at the club 's track .",unveiled,discussed,interred,investigated,held,2
"But this isn't any ordinary paint. The mixture is composed of water samples drawn from the most polluted rivers and tributaries of the Philippines capital. The Dirty Watercolour project aims to use art to promote awareness of environmental degradation. ""What better way to raise awareness than to make use of the very medium, which is of course, water,"" said curator Cid Reyes. The pigments - a range of black, grey, sepia, burnt sienna and brown - were taken from riverbed soil samples. They were first processed, de-contaminated and oven dried for 24 hours, before being mixed with gum arabic solution to become watercolour. ""I was stunned when I first heard this idea,"" said JC Vargas, one of nine watercolour artists commissioned to paint images using these sterilised pigments. ""It is so unique yet challenging for me as a watercolourist to use dirt to create art."" Though the pigments are decontaminated, they still give off a smell when painting with them, says Mr Vargas. ""The pigments are smelly and gritty, even when you paint with it. The stink only goes away when the pigments dry off."" One of the biggest challenges was having to actually collect the water from the rivers. ""We literally had to dip our feet into the mucky river,"" said Mr Vargas, an architect by profession. ""Just by simply smelling the air, you can easily tell that it is hard to live along these rivers."" Yet many do. Shanty towns and slums along Manila's rivers are a common sight, where children can be seen bathing and jumping into the toxic waters. Many of these towns have no sewage facilities, running water or such amenities. These images serve as inspiration for Dirty Watercolour's paintings, with the team taking pictures of everyday scenes along the rivers before translating them to art. ""My favourite painting is a piece entitled Sabina,"" Mr Vargas tells the BBC. ""It features a child playing innocently by the river, unaware that her playground is unsafe."" In 2004, five of Manila's rivers were declared biologically dead, so contaminated with slit, crude oil, heavy metals and biological waste that nothing can live in them. The Pasig river, Manila's longest at 25km (15 miles), lies at the heart of this, feeding tributaries such as the Marikina and San Juan Rivers. It also served as the main inspiration for the Dirty Watercolour team. The 22-piece project, featuring everyday scenes along the river, was completed in slightly less than a month. ""For me, Sabina was the last piece I made for the exhibit, and it took me only two days to finish it,"" said Mr Vargas. It then took the team six months to mount the exhibit in Manila's Rockwell Centre where it ran last week. ""The pigments were very challenging to work with, with the colours all on the monochromatic side"", said Melvin Mangada, agency head of TBWA\SMP, the creative force behind the project. ""Even without the usual colours, the artists came up with beautiful images that are full of emotions. Emotions that colour the Filipino life."" The paintings are priced from around 40,000 pesos ($860; £583) to 120,000 Philippine pesos, with the proceeds going towards the rehabilitation of dead rivers. ""Reviving these rivers will help those living by the rivers to improve their lives,"" said Mr Vargas. ""I believe there is still a chance. I hope our artwork has made impact not only here in the Philippines, but also in other countries."" ""Bodies of water will be in our lives forever, so let's take care of them."" The Pasig river once served as inspiration for a classic Filipino song, Mutya ng Pasig, written by Nicanor Abelardo, the National Artist for Music. ""If you want me to live, give me your love,"" say the lyrics. ""The river has now lamentably become a black ceaseless flow of muck and misery,"" said Mr Reyes. ""Dirty Watercolour sends out a message, post haste, that we should bring the colour of life to a dying Pasig, until the muse of the river sings back that you have indeed given her your love.""","In the @placeholder of a room in Manila , an artist dips his paintbrush into a murky mixture . As brush strokes of brown , black and grey sweep across white canvas , the paint leaves behind rough sediments on the surface , coming out as an almost gritty texture .",space,beams,corner,back,doorway,2
"Ospreys flyer Giles could get a debut cap against Japan after being called into the full squad. ""He played for Gorseinon Juniors, you could see he was talented"" said 27 year-old Halfpenny. The pair could now line up together in the back three for Wales in their third Autumn international. Giles was added to the Wales squad as a replacement for Hallam Amos, having scored eight tries in five Ospreys appearances. Halfpenny was born in the Swansea suburb of Gorseinon and played in the Ospreys youth system before switching to Cardiff Blues. ""He is a Gorseinon-grown boy, I remember I watched a game one Sunday morning with the club's mini side,"" Halfpenny said. ""You could see there was something there. He had a lot of gas then and you could see he was talented. Then he moved on to Waunarlwydd. He's an immensely talented kid."" Waunarlwydd is the club where Wales full-back Liam Williams played before his elevation to professional rugby as well as producing loose-head prop Nicky Smith. Media playback is not supported on this device Halfpenny himself made his Wales debut aged just 19, against South Africa in 2008, and now has 64 caps to his credit. ""From my experience, the guys just said go out and enjoy it and I think that is what you have got to do. You dream of moments like that as a kid, to pull that Welsh jersey on, you have just got to enjoy it,"" he continued. ""It is amazing how quick time goes. It only felt like yesterday that I was the young kid coming in, the time's gone quickly, but I have loved every second of it. I am just looking to continue enjoying it and keep on learning."" Halfpenny has yet to announce whether he will stay at Toulon after the end of his current contract in 2017 but he is delighted to be back with Wales after 14 months out of international rugby because of injury. He added, ""It has been an incredibly enjoyable experience to be back playing international rugby. During my injury I missed it massively and I feel really privileged to be back out there playing with the guys in a red jersey again.""",Wales full - back Leigh Halfpenny has revealed he @placeholder 18 - year - old wing Keelan Giles playing junior rugby a decade ago .,suffered,prop,expects,spotted,coached,3
"The centre of the capital is the showcase of the government of President Bashar al-Assad. It has functioned well enough during the day since the war started in 2011. Nights are a different matter. The nightlife of Damascus lives on only in a few determined outposts. But until this last spring, visitors would not have to search for the war. They could hear it, even if they kept away from places where they could see it. For years, flat thunderclaps of outgoing artillery fire have echoed around the city, as the Syrian army pounded rebel positions. Whole districts a few miles from the intact, bustling city centre are in ruins. Much less often, some of the armed groups that controlled important suburbs in the ring around Damascus would fire in mortars. Every day people were killed or made homeless. The ceasefire deal that the Russians and the Americans arranged back in February collapsed quickly in the north. But it is still more or less holding, or at least influencing matters, around Damascus. That does not mean that the war is anywhere near over. A Syrian general at the ministry of defence told me they were well aware that the war in Lebanon a generation ago had lasted 16 years. This one, he said, was much more complicated so there could be at least another 10 years of bloodshed. But in Damascus, for now, the soundtrack of the war has disappeared. The government forces and the rebels still entrenched around the capital, particularly to the east, have decided not to bother each other too much, for now anyway. The Syrian army is remarkably cohesive for a force that is in the sixth year of war. But it does not have the manpower to sustain operations on a range of fronts. Aleppo, in the north, has been a priority, and fighting has raged there all summer. The Syrian army's plan has been to seal off the rebel-held east side of the city in the same way that it has besieged much smaller pockets under the control of the opposition. The signs so far are that east Aleppo is too big and the opposition there too well-armed and organised for the army to succeed. But it is an ancient tactic and it has worked elsewhere in Syria. Cutting off reinforcements and resupply to fighters and food and medical care to everyone needs patience.  Sustained artillery and air attacks add to the pressure. Sooner or later, if sieges are not lifted, resistance will collapse. This week more civilians were evacuated from Darayya, one of the opposition-controlled suburbs to the south-west of Damascus. The UN has condemned the evacuations because they are the result of what it called ""unrelenting siege, during which children starved, people resorted to eating grass and the town was subjected to an onslaught of fighting"". Fighters emerged too, briefly, before they returned back to their positions in Muadhamiya, an opposition-held suburb close to Darayya, while their future is being negotiated. Just after they had said their goodbyes to wives, children and parents, they talked in a way that suggested extreme war weariness. Colleagues who nodded agreement surrounded one of them, an articulate man in his mid-20s. ""We had to be fighters,"" he said, ""because we didn't find any other job. If you want to stay inside you need to be a part of the FSA [Free Syrian Army, the group that has closest relations with the West]. Everything is very expensive. They pay us $100 a month but it is not enough. ""All this war is a lie. We had good lives before the revolution. Anyway this is not a revolution. They lied to us in the name of religion. ""I don't want to go on fighting but I need to find a job, a house.  Everything I have is here in Muadhamiya."" The Syrian war is made up of millions of individual tragedies, and one collective tragedy. Individuals range from fighters who would rather not fight to parents whose children are killed. Half of Syria's pre-war population have lost their homes and either fled abroad as refugees or stayed as displaced and impoverished victims. Quite a few of the children being evacuated from Muadhamiya had been dressed up in their best clothes for a journey into an unknown new life. It showed mothers are still proud of their children, and want them looking their best, even when life, as one said, is like death. Two sisters matched their best toy jewellery with immaculately tied pink bows, sunhats and white summer outfits. Brothers had gelled hair and wore white shirts with black bow-ties. But life in Syria is no kind of party. The collective tragedy is that so many foreign countries have intervened in the war that it has become much harder to stop. Syria's war is a big part of the historic change sweeping through the Middle East, and it is tied into other conflicts.  Power is shifting, with global repercussions. More tragedies lie ahead. The leaders of the big powers who are now entangled in Syria need first and foremost to stop making matters worse. Then a serious discussion about peace might be possible.",Someone visiting central Damascus for the first time might wonder where to find the war . The @placeholder markets in the Old City are packed with busy people . Traffic jams snarl up the streets . People with money can eat in restaurants .,school,rate,covered,fish,crowd,2
"Addressing activists, he called for a ""mixed economy of public and social enterprise... a private sector with a long-term private business commitment"". He said a Labour government would break from the ""failed economic orthodoxy"". Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour would build 100,000 council homes a year and boost home ownership. Labour attacks 'skyrocketing' rent rises Osborne warns Brexit will hit house prices At Labour's ""state of the economy"" conference in west London, Mr Corbyn set out his desire to reform capitalism and said his party needed to ""deliver the new economy that this country needs"". ""An economy that starts by tackling the grotesque levels of inequality within our society,"" went on Mr Corbyn. ""An economy that ensures every young person has the opportunities to maximise their talent and that produces the high-skilled, high-value, secure jobs they need. An economy that delivers new, more democratic forms of ownership and a zero-carbon economy that protects our environment."" Mr Corbyn said a proposed National Investment Bank would boost the UK's infrastructure. ""Building an economy for the future requires bold ambition, he said. ""A new economics."" He said: ""Wealth creation is a good thing: We all want greater prosperity. But let us have a serious debate about how wealth is created and how that wealth should be shared."" By Chris Mason, BBC News political correspondent Having survived, so far, the rumblings of mutiny among fellow Labour MPs, both the party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell are determined to begin setting out their economic pitch. Mr Corbyn called it ""a new economics"". Mr McDonnell described his aim as being no less than the ""fundamental business of reforming capitalism"". So today was big on vision, but short on new detail. Perhaps no surprise with the next general election, in all likelihood, not until 2020. No one can doubt their ambition: ""I want us to surpass even the Attlee government for radical reform,"" the shadow chancellor said, a reference to the administration that founded the NHS. But to do that, they have to win the next general election. Will Labour MPs put up with them for long enough for that to happen? And, if they do, can they sell such a left wing, socialist pitch to the electorate? In his speech, Mr McDonnell said Labour would not win the next election unless it showed it was a responsible custodian of public money. ""We can reject the dreadful choice of austerity and maintain solid government finances,"" he said. Councils would be given the power to limit ""skyrocketing"" rent increases, he added, pledging to help people ""at the mercy of an unforgiving, unrestrained housing market"". The measures put forward at the conference will be subject to consultation, and will not immediately become party policy. They include powers to regulate private rent rises - similar to those pledged by former Labour leader Ed Miliband in the party's unsuccessful general election campaign - below the rate of inflation for the duration of a tenancy. Critics previously said Labour's pre-election proposals would reduce investment in housing stock. Mr Corbyn said government intervention was needed to solve the housing crisis. The ""local rent regulation"" suggested by Mr McDonnell would be available to councils in each area, rather than set nationally. The National Landlords Association welcomed Labour's focus on making housing more affordable but warned the party not to ""pull the rug from under the feet of responsible landlords"", while new Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told the BBC he did not favour rent controls in the capital. Addressing the Labour proposals on housing, a Department for Communities and Local Government spokeswoman said the government was ""creating a bigger and better private rented sector"". ""These proposals for excessive state regulation would destroy investment in new housing, push up prices and make it far harder for people to find a flat or house to rent,"" she said.","Labour will seek to @placeholder the rewards of growth more fairly , Jeremy Corbyn has said , as he set out his party 's plans for the economy .",protect,announce,withstand,revive,distribute,4
"Chloe Kabealo said she had unbuckled her seatbelt and tried to ""go up for air"", then ""just kept floating up out"". She said of her lost family members: ""They were all loved and they'll never be forgotten."" Her father, who was not in the car, said he was ""shattered"" by the loss. ""I'm not holding up,"" Matt Kabealo said. ""I'm just being strong for my daughter."" Chloe and her mother, sister and brother were in a car in the small town of Tumbulgum in New South Wales when it slid off a muddy road into a flooded river earlier this month. Chloe escaped and ran to a farmhouse to raise the alarm. Stephanie King, 43, died trying to save her children. Local police superintendent Wayne Starling told reporters from 7 News at the time: ""The mother was trying to get one of her children out of the car when she passed away. ""She was with the child, holding the child. I have no doubt she would still be alive if she wasn't trying to save her children."" Ella Jane, 11, and seven-year-old Jacob also died. Chloe and Mr Kabealo were speaking at an event raising funds for them. So far efforts have gathered tens of thousands of Australian dollars. ""Anything we can do to make their lives a little bit better, we'll try anything we can,"" local policeman Constable Brad Foster told 7 News. In March last year, a four-month old baby was the sole survivor when a car sank off the coast of Donegal in the Republic Ireland. If a car you are in starts to sink, get out as fast as possible. Do not phone for help or try to retrieve possessions. There is very little time. Open the windows straightaway before contact with water makes the electric system fail or water pressure stops you winding the windows down. If that doesn't work, get the door open, undo your seatbelt and get out. The third option, in last resort, is to pull a headrest out and use the metal part of it to hit the window, hard, in the corner and hopefully break it open. If you are underwater when you leave the car, push away from it, and if you don't know for sure which way is up, check what direction bubbles are floating in and swim that way. sources: Popular Mechanics, The Art of Manliness and Top Gear","A girl of eight who survived when the car she was in sank in Australia , killing three family members , has @placeholder her desperate struggle to raise the alarm .",prompted,announced,described,begun,increased,2
"Lurcher cross Bowie is being overlooked by potential new owners ""because of his different coloured eyes"". The three-year-old has been at the Dogs' Trust rehoming centre in Bridgend since November and staff hope to find a home for ""our blue-eyed boy, Bowie"". Singer Bowie's son Duncan Jones Tweeted: ""Hoping someone near that dog might be able to help him find a home."" Bowie the dog was named after the rock star due to his different coloured eyes. Entertainer Bowie, who died of cancer last January aged 69, had a left pupil that was permanently dilated, which created the illusion that his eyes appeared a different colour. The dogs home said no-one has shown any interest in this ""quirky canine with bundles of energy"" who ""loves being around people"". ""It's such a shame that Bowie has been overlooked so far, but we're confident we'll find a home for him soon,"" said Angela Wetherall, rehoming centre manager at Dogs Trust Bridgend. ""Not only will you be offering a four-legged friend a happy home but you will be gaining a new best friend.""",David Bowie 's son has @placeholder an appeal to help find a permanent home for a dog named after his late father .,received,backed,begun,submitted,announced,1
"For the most part, it is not this weekend's federal election, but a monumental vote far away in the United Kingdom. ""Now that exit [or] whatever you call it has happened in Europe it is a bit of a worry over here,"" said Peter Evans, a middle-aged voter from the nearby suburb of Freshwater. ""We're not sure what is going to happen, but we've got troubled times ahead."" This was by no means a scientific enterprise, more a random collection of opinions, but the vast majority of those we quizzed on a chilly afternoon this week were concerned by Brexit and its potential implications for Australia. ""People want to see stability and confidence in a world market that is a little bit unstable, and Australia has been very stable for quite a long time,"" added Carol, a retail worker from Sydney. Britain's decision to leave the European Union prompted Australia's political leaders to re-emphasise their economic security credentials ahead of the election this Saturday. The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, who leads a centre-right coalition government, urged the nation to trust him. ""Given that we are living in a world of great opportunities, but also great challenges and uncertainties, now more than ever Australia needs a stable, majority coalition government with a strong economic plan,"" he told reporters. Meanwhile the opposition Labor leader, Bill Shorten, drew unflattering parallels between the prime minister and his besieged British counterpart. ""Mr Turnbull just says because there has been an upset you should vote for him. The problem is the nature of the upset we have seen arises out of weak leadership and a divided government. ""What we saw there is David Cameron hostage to the right wing of his political party, compromising his own beliefs, providing weak leadership. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?"" he said. Australia is a country in transition. As a long and lavish mining boom comes to an end, this land of 24 million people is banking on a reinvigorated construction industry, along with manufacturing, agriculture and the services sector, including tourism. In parts of Sydney, cranes are silhouetted in the sun as a swathe of new apartment blocks gradually emerge, alongside upgraded transport links. For decades immigrants have been been part of Australia's economic success story, and times are good for Morteza Poorvadi, a 32-year-old refugee who fled Iran in 1999 when his mother was accused of being an Iraqi spy. He has a degree in mathematical science but now runs a small company fitting showers and kitchens. ""Right now business is booming, especially in [the] building industry in Sydney,"" he told me at a construction site near the home of the 2000 Olympics. ""The government started to realise that mining is not there forever and they needed to start looking at a new way to create work, to create wealth for our country. The more migrants we get to come to Australia the stronger our economy is becoming."" The last time Australia slipped through the trap-door into recession was in the early 1990s, and voters expect their next prime minister to have a firm plan to ensure future prosperity. There is, though, only so much governments can do to keep the good times rolling in an age of globalised trade, capricious exchange rates and competing national interests. But Professor Rodney Smith from the University of Sydney believes political leaders are able to create frameworks for success. ""Australian governments, like governments in most places around the world, have fewer mechanisms to control the economy than they once did. ""But they can still influence economic factors, particularly through infrastructure investment, through the sorts of trade deals they strike with different countries, and, more indirectly and in the longer term, through things like education,"" he told BBC News.","It 's a bright day in winter at Manly , one of Sydney 's seaside gems , and Australians have one @placeholder political matter on their minds .",adopting,growing,pressing,faced,entered,2
"It is not the done thing to interfere in the internal affairs of a member state after all and Britain is still a member state - just about. EU Council President Donald Tusk has already offered a lesson in what to say when you know you can't say much. He wrote: ""It was Hitchcock who directed Brexit - first an earthquake and the tension rises."" That suggests that Mr Tusk has only a hazy knowledge of the works of Hitchcock - but it also hints at an expectation in Brussels that the Brexit debate is about to heat up. In domestic terms, Mrs May is hoping for a strong, clear and personal mandate to lead the Brexit negotiations on her own terms. And if the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wins he would also claim endorsement for placing his own political priorities at the centre of the talks to come. But in European terms, that's something of a secondary issue. The EU Commission's lead negotiator, Michel Barnier, is going to have to deal with whoever is in residence in 10 Downing Street and the strength of the occupant's mandate won't be his concern. His team have already said that while the announcement doesn't change anything, there's a hope that it will produce a strong leader with strong backing from the people of the UK. And we can be sure this British election will be watched with even closer attention than usual - not just in Brussels but in the other European capitals where Brexit is going to be a huge issue in the years to come. First, both Theresa May and all her rivals will have to set out their visions for Brexit in much more detail than we've heard so far. British voters will demand nothing less. But in the process, the Barnier team and the governments of France, Germany and the rest will get a feeling for where the British red lines in negotiations really lie. Any British candidate worth his or her salt will try to leave room for manoeuvre in the talks to come after the election, but it will surely be impossible to campaign without giving away at least some detail. And of course there are romantics across Europe who hope that the voice of the Remainers will be heard loud and clear in the British debate to come. The hope that Brexit might be quickly reversed has pretty much faded from the European debate now, but plenty of politicians across the continent will be hoping to hear candidates putting forward the argument for a soft Brexit with the closest possible links to the EU and its single market. That may be wishful thinking, but there'll be strong support for such voices from many quarters in Europe. Europe was taken by surprise by Theresa May's announcement, but not taken aback. The EU negotiators have been working hard behind the scenes to prepare their position and their message is that they're ready to negotiate with Britain, no matter who occupies 10 Downing Street. This was already a busy year for European democracy - the Netherlands has already voted, while France votes for a president at the weekend and will hold National Assembly elections in June. Germany goes to the polls in September. But there's an awareness that the UK election will be different precisely because it will play a huge part in shaping the British negotiating position on Brexit. And, of course, there's also the fascination of the pure political theatre of it all.",The EU has to be @placeholder in its response to Theresa May 's election announcement .,included,measured,scrapped,unveiled,drafted,1
"""I said, 'Well if a gay Irishman can become the CEO of Qantas then an indigenous lady can.'"" The fact that Mr Joyce makes no secret of his sexuality, makes him a relative rarity among top ranking bosses. Among the chief executives of the 500 biggest US companies only one, Tim Cook of Apple, is openly gay. Similarly, in the UK's 100 largest firms listed on the stock exchange, Burberry boss Christopher Bailey is the only well-known gay chief executive. Of course you could argue that the sexuality of those at the helm is not really anyone else's business but their own, but Mr Joyce believes being open about it allows him to be himself at work and demonstrates to others that it hasn't hindered his career. During his tenure, he has steered the airline through huge difficulties caused by tough competition and soaring fuel costs, including a 2011 union dispute over restructuring which led him to take the unprecedented step of grounding all flights. He subsequently led the firm through a massive cost-cutting programme that involved some 5,000 job losses, in the midst of which the national carrier announced the biggest annual loss in its near 100-year history, leading to calls for Mr Joyce to be sacked. Critics accused him of ruining a national icon, yet earlier this year, helped by the drop in fuel costs, the firm reported its best ever first-half profit. Mr Joyce credits the airline's diverse senior leadership team for its successful turnaround, saying it meant they came up with more varied ideas for addressing the firm's problems. ""We've got three Brits, an American, an Irishman, a Kiwi. So all different type of backgrounds. We've got three women, three gay men, people that were mathematicians, people that were business consultants, people that were flight attendants. ""I can say categorically that we wouldn't have gotten through the transformation and the tough times of this business as well as we did without having that diversity in the top leadership team. At the end of the day, it makes you a better business."" Recent research suggests Mr Joyce's conclusion is spot on. Firms in the top quartile for gender or racial and ethnic diversity are more likely to have financial returns above their national industry medians, according to management consultancy McKinsey, which looked at 366 public companies across a range of industries. A separate study by accountancy firm Grant Thornton estimated that publicly traded companies in India, the UK and US with male-only executive directors missed out on £430bn of investment returns last year. ""The research clearly shows what we have been talking about for a while: that diversity leads to better decision-making. Those businesses stuck in the past are not fully unlocking their growth potential,"" says Francesca Lagerberg, global leader for tax services at Grant Thornton. Yet while recognising it is the right thing to do, embracing diversity can be tough in a firm that has traditionally employed a particular type of person. One of Australia's biggest firms, Westfield, which owns shopping centres around the world, has been listed publicly for over half a century and has its roots in real estate and construction, both sectors which have historically been male-dominated. The firm's global spread means that it is already very diverse culturally, says co-chief executive Steven Lowy, but he admits it still has ""some way to go"" on gender diversity. ""The gender issue is a challenging issue for companies to come to grips with, but I would suggest that we're very focused on it,"" he says. Often it is business needs that drive a firm to become more diverse. Jayne Hrdlicka, chief executive of Qantas' subsidiary Jetstar, grew up in the US. As a female CEO who was brought up abroad, she sees herself as a great testament to the firm's diversity. Over half of Jetstar's revenues are generated outside Australia, meaning a diverse workforce is an absolute necessity. The airline has invested significantly in educating people in working cross-cultures ""because it's such a fundamental part of the way we need to operate,"" she says. One exercise it has carried out with external experts is a nationality swap, where for one day Australian staff pretended to be Japanese and the Japanese staff pretended to be Australian. While an exercise like this could seem superficial, Ms Hrdlicka says it taught staff to respect each other's roots. ""We  were able to appreciate the different ways of working, and the importance of building on the best of all those different ways of working rather than trying to force one over another,"" she says. In the end, though, she says embracing a more diverse workforce requires a broad shift in how those at the top think about things, meaning that it's time that will make the biggest difference. ""It's the right thing to do, but it's a smart thing to do. You get the best outcomes for your shareholders and you get the best outcomes for all the stakeholders involved in your business when you really do create an environment that brings the best out of everyone."" This feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig.","When Alan Joyce , the chief executive of Australian airline Qantas , was asked by a young indigenous woman whether she could ever @placeholder up the firm his answer was unequivocal .",sums,set,pick,sit,head,4
"The president said that while he did not believe US race relations had worsened, public exposure to race crimes had grown in the digital age. He said the video encapsulated problems that have existed for some time. Three teenagers and a woman, 24, are due in court on Friday accused of aggravated battery with a weapon. Jordan Hill, Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, all 18, and Tanishia Covington are also accused of aggravated unlawful restraint. Torture video prompts online race fight In the video, the assailants can be heard making derogatory statements against white people and Donald Trump. ""What we have seen as surfacing, I think, are a lot of problems that have been there a long time,"" President Obama told CBS Chicago. ""Whether it's tensions between police and communities, hate crimes of the despicable sort that has just now recently surfaced on Facebook."" The president said that while the Chicago incident was grounds for serious concern, he remained optimistic about the long-term state of US race relations. ""The good news is that the next generation that's coming behind us… have smarter, better, more thoughtful attitudes about race,"" he said. ""I think the overall trajectory of race relations in this country is actually very positive. It doesn't mean that all racial problems have gone away. It means that we have the capacity to get better."" All the suspects, apart from Tanishia Covington, each face an additional count of residential burglary. Mr Hill is further charged with robbery and possession of a stolen motor. Police said the unnamed 18-year-old victim was dropped off by his parents at a McDonald's restaurant on 31 December to meet his friend, Jordan Hill, who later became one of his attackers. The pair drove around for two days, sleeping inside a van that Mr Hill had allegedly stolen without the victim's knowledge, before ending up at the Covington sisters' home. Police said a play fight led to a prolonged assault in a flat on the Illinois city's west side. The captive was made to drink from a toilet bowl, had part of his scalp removed with a knife, and was bound, gagged and beaten. At one point in the 30-minute video, the attackers can also be seen cutting the victim's clothes, dropping cigarette ash on him and pushing his head back with a foot. Chicago Police Commander Kevin Duffin said the victim finally escaped when his attackers went downstairs to confront a resident who had called police because of the noise. Cdr Duffin said the racial slurs and references to the victim's mental capacity, depicted in the video, led to the hate crime charges. The escaped captive was found disorientated and traumatised, walking the streets in shorts and sandals with Mr Hill. The victim, who had difficulty communicating with police, was taken to hospital for medical treatment, and discharged. In other videos posted online the young man is forced at knife-point to say: ""I love black people"". The incident has provoked a strong reaction on Twitter, especially among the alt-right - the fringe group that celebrated US President-elect Trump's election win with Nazi salutes.","President Barack Obama has described the torture of a mentally disabled man in Chicago , @placeholder on Facebook Live , as a "" despicable "" hate crime .",citing,leaving,streamed,continuing,including,2
"Plans for the incinerator at Javelin Park were approved by the secretary of state, following a public inquiry. But Stroud District Council had hoped to persuade the High Court the planning inspector had ""made errors"". Council leader Geoff Wheeler said he was disappointed but still hoped to persuade the county council to use alternative means of waste disposal. ""The argument was quite technical, with the court ultimately concluding that it was legitimate for the secretary of state to interpret the waste plan for Gloucestershire as he did,"" he said. ""Just because it has planning permission, it doesn't mean that it has to be built."" However Gloucestershire County Council, whose responsibility it is to dispose of ""black bag"" waste, welcomed the High Court ruling. Councillor Ray Theodoulou said it was ""good news"" and would take Gloucestershire ""a huge step closer"" to meeting its recycling targets and stop burying waste in the ground. Objectors have said they are unhappy at the incinerator's size, location, cost, environmental impact and potential health implications while supporters have argued it is needed to deal with the thousands of tonnes of household waste generated in the county each year. Plans for the incinerator, just off the M5 at junction 12, were rejected by Gloucestershire county councillors in 2013 - despite having the backing of the council's waste disposal arm. It had already signed a contract with Urbaser Balfour Beatty to build the plant. Then-Communities Secretary Eric Pickles overruled that decision in January 2015 following a public inquiry. Javier Peiro, from Urbaser Balfour Beatty, said the firm was ""delighted"" with Friday's High Court decision. He said 300 construction jobs would be created and the incinerator would employ about 40 people.",A £ 500 m waste incinerator looks set to be built near Gloucester after a High Court bid to stop it @placeholder .,handled,conditions,bills,failed,runs,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device Burnett won the IBF world bantamweight title by split decision as two judges had him a 119-107 winner but Clark Sammartino had him losing 118-108. ""His scorecard was excellent: it was just the wrong way around,"" Hearn said. British Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith told BBC Sport the judge ""won't be coming back"". Smith said he had not spoken to Sammartino but would be speaking to the IBF next week about the American's performance. ""He got it wrong,"" Smith added. ""Luckily, the right man won. ""I will advise the IBF of our dissatisfaction."" Burnett, 25, knocked down defending champion Haskins, 33, in the sixth and 11th rounds during Saturday's fight in Belfast. ""I've never seen anything like it,"" said Hearn. ""I presume the split decision will be revoked. It'll be a unanimous decision, it must be."" Belfast boxer Burnett was taking part in only his 17th professional fight. Media playback is not supported on this device Asked if he would be bothered by the result being declared a split decision, Burnett said: ""Absolutely not."" He added: ""I almost fainted in the ring. I thought, 'they're going to take it off me here'. ""Thank God the decision went in the right direction.""",Promoter Eddie Hearn believes the judge who scored Lee Haskins as the winner against Ryan Burnett got the two identities of the boxers @placeholder up .,mixed,team,set,washed,speed,0
"Up to 250 homes on the Fitzwilliam Estate have seen the tariff rise from 7.61p to 8.72p per kwh after the new meter was put in place two years ago. A petition has started in a bid to force the authority to cut the charges. The council said it would ""assess a full year of costs"" and ""provide a pro-rata refund for any surplus generated"". The average tariff by the big six major energy companies is between three and five pence per kilowatt an hour. Natasha Howe, 23, a working mother of two who lives in a three-bed detached bungalow on the estate, started the campaign because residents were ""struggling with paying the bills and have been forced into fuel poverty"". ""I want the tariff to be lowered,"" she said. ""Since the new system was put in place there's been a massive difference. ""It's costing about £150 a month to run your heating for four hours a day. ""People could run their house at 30 degrees paying £15-£20 a week running it 24/7 and now they can't run that for four hours a day. I've got people in wheelchairs suffering, in pain because they can't afford to [pay for] it. ""I'm now having to find £150 to £200 a month to pay for my heating. My last month's bill for heating alone was £156 and I've woke up this morning and found it's not even working. ""We're in 2017, we shouldn't be choosing food over heating."" Rotherham Council said: ""We are aware of the concerns regarding heating bills on the Fitzwilliam Estate and appreciate that some bills appear to be unusually high. ""We are therefore exploring possible reasons for this with tenants and have already been in contact with anyone who has raised issues with us.""","People living in a part of Rotherham have said they are being "" forced into fuel poverty "" since a new prepaid meter system was @placeholder by the council .",funded,installed,approved,prompted,inspired,1
"The venue is hoping to replicate the success of its famous 1970s company, which included future stars like Julie Walters, Bill Nighy and Jonathan Pryce. It did away with its resident company in 1992, instead casting different actors for each play. The new company will include Richard Bremmer, who played Voldemort in the first Harry Potter film. He will be joined by Melanie La Barrie, who played Mrs Phelps in West End hit Matilda, and Patrick Brennan, who was headmaster Mr Dawes in Downton Abbey. As well as the more experienced hands, the new company includes 23-year-old Emily Hughes, who graduated from drama school this year and was recruited through an open audition, and Elliott Davis, who has risen through the venue's youth theatre. The seven men and seven women will perform in five shows, ranging from Romeo and Juliet to children's theatre to a new Toxteth-set drama, between February and July 2017. Everyman artistic director Gemma Bodinetz said: ""Anybody that inherits this job comes with this massive shadow hanging over them of the glorious, wonderful mid-'70s, when there was a very famous company here. ""So you're always aware that there was this magical time when actors like Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite, Jonathan Pryce, Matthew Kelly - all these phenomenal actors came out of a rep company. ""And you ask yourself, was that just the time, was that just a phenomenal flowering that could never happen again?"" She wants audiences to get to know the actors and for the company to have a ""conversation"" with the city, she explained. ""We live in a very potent city and these are very exciting, tricky times, and it felt like it was time for this theatre to have a unique voice again."" Resident rep ensembles were the norm in regional theatres during much of the 20th Century. But of those that survived into the 1990s, most died off in the recession at the start of that decade. A few venues - such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and Dundee Rep - still use the system, while the Donmar Warehouse in London recruited an all-female company for its current Shakespeare trilogy. In Liverpool the actors will perform in one play at night while rehearsing for the next show during the day. La Barrie said she was not used to having more than one part in her head at any one time. ""Working in a rep company is not something that most modern actors are used to,"" she said. ""It's going to be interesting to see what we remember."" But being part of a company was ""every actor's dream"" because they must ""utilise every single bit of your skill"", she said. Hughes said she was ""inspired"" by the Everyman's past and the history of the rep system. ""Coming out of drama school, it was something that people talked about that used to happen years ago,"" she said. ""'What a wonderful system - but it doesn't really happen any more'."" ""So when the news [of the new Everyman company] broke I was straight in there, like, 'Oh my God, I have to do this'."" Bodinetz said she had big ambitions for the company in the future. ""In my dreams, the Everyman Company becomes an exciting brand and we tour the world with it once we've performed here,"" she said. The full Everyman company: Richard Bremmer, Patrick Brennan, George Caple, Pauline Daniels, Elliott Davis, Laura dos Santos, Emily Hughes, Tom Kanji, Melanie La Barrie, Asha Kingsley, Dean Nolan, Zelina Rebeiro, Keddy Sutton, Liam Tobin. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",Liverpool 's Everyman theatre has named the 14 actors who will form its first @placeholder company for 25 years .,class,resident,repertory,acting,side,2
"19 August 2016 Last updated at 16:26 BST Dashcam footage shows the black VW Golf travelling at speed down Leeds Road, Dewsbury, when it overtook a lorry and hit a white Ssangyong Korando, causing it to spin around. A 35-year-old woman in the white car was airlifted to hospital with serious facial injuries. Her two-year-old daughter was unharmed in the 12 July incident. The suspects then left the scene, West Yorkshire Police said.",Police are trying to trace two men who left a seriously injured woman and her young daughter in the @placeholder of their car after crashing into it in a stolen vehicle .,chest,bed,wreckage,authenticity,wake,2
"Quite simply, if the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. If it is negative it is contracting. And two consecutive three-month periods of contraction mean an economy is in recession. GDP can be measured in three ways: In theory all three approaches should produce the same number. In the UK the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes one single measure of GDP which, apart from the first estimate, is calculated using all three ways of measuring. Usually the main interest in the UK figures is in the quarterly change in GDP in real terms, that is after taking into account changes in prices (inflation). Calculating a GDP estimate for all three measures is a huge undertaking every three months. The output measure alone - which is considered the most accurate in the short term - involves surveying tens of thousands of UK firms. The main sources used for this are ONS surveys of manufacturing and service industries. Information on sales is collected from 6,000 companies in manufacturing, 25,000 service sector firms, 5,000 retailers and 10,000 companies in the construction sector. Data is also collected from government departments covering activities such as agriculture, energy, health and education. The UK produces the earliest estimate of GDP of the major economies, around 25 days after the quarter in question. This provides policymakers with an early, or ""flash"", estimate of the real growth in economic activity. It is quick, but only based on the output measure. At that stage only about 40% of the data is available, so this figure is revised as more information comes in. They are two subsequent revisions at monthly intervals. But this isn't the end. Revisions can be made as much as 18 months to two years after the first ""flash"" estimate. The ONS publishes more information on how this is done  on its website. GDP is the principal means of determining the health of the UK economy and is used by the Bank of England and its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) as one of the key indicators in setting interest rates. So, for example, if prices are rising too fast, the Bank would be expected to increase interest rates to try to control them. But it may hold off if GDP growth is sluggish, as higher rates could damage the recovery. That is the situation at the moment. The Treasury also uses GDP when planning economic policy. When an economy is contracting, tax receipts tend to fall, and the government adjusts its tax and spending plans accordingly. UK GDP is used internationally by the various financial bodies such as OECD, IMF, and the World Bank to compare the performance of different economies. The European Union also uses GDP estimates as a basis for determining different countries' contributions to the EU budget. The information in this article was provided by the Office for National Statistics.","GDP , or Gross Domestic Product , is arguably the most important of all economic statistics as it attempts to capture the @placeholder of the economy in one number .",height,balance,impact,proportion,state,4
"Investors were rattled by gains for anti-austerity parties in Spanish local elections over the weekend. Worries are also persisting over whether Greece will be able to meet upcoming loan repayments. The FTSE 100 closed 82.73 points lower at 6,948.99. Among the banks, RBS dropped 2.8% and Barclays fell 1.9%, while Lloyds shed 1.3%. However, Royal Mail was having a better day, with its shares jumping nearly 3.6% to 521.50p following a broker upgrade. Cantor Fitzgerald upgraded its rating on Royal Mail to ""hold"" from ""sell"", and also increased its target share price to 500p from 440p. Easyjet shares rose 1.6% after Irish rival Ryanair reported a big jump in full-year profits, helped by rising passenger numbers and lower fuel costs. AstraZeneca shares fell 2.2% after Amgen said it was ending a collaboration with AstraZeneca over developing a psoriasis drug. On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.52% against the dollar to $1.5409, but it rose 0.56% against the euro to €1.4140.","( Close ) : Worries over prospects for the eurozone @placeholder on banking shares , helping to drag the FTSE 100 lower .",focused,weighed,ground,linger,results,1
"The Reverend Gavin Ashenden, a senior clergyman in the Church of England, left his position as chaplain in order to be free to criticise the move. A passage from the Koran was read during an Epiphany service at St Mary's Cathedral in Glasgow earlier this month. Mr Ashenden said the reading had caused ""serious offence"". The cathedral has said it is standing by its decision. St Mary's invited local Muslims, who also revere Jesus as a prophet, to join the service. A student, Madinah Javed, read from the lectern in Arabic from the chapter of Maryam, or Mary. The chapter tells the story of the birth of Christ to the virgin Mary, and includes the Islamic teaching that Jesus is not the son of God and should not be worshipped. Mr Ashenden told BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme: ""The problem with what happened in Glasgow was that, although it was presented as a way of building bridges and a way of educating people, it was done badly, in the wrong way, in the wrong place, in the wrong context. ""There are a number of members of the congregation who have written open letters complaining of the profound upset they experienced as people who are part of the Eucharistic community who had come to worship Christ."" The cathedral's provost, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, has said readings of the Koran in the cathedral were part of efforts to build relationships between Christians and Muslims in Glasgow. He said: ""Such readings have happened a number of times in the past in this and in other churches and have led to deepening friendships locally, to greater awareness of the things we hold in common and to dialogue about the ways in which we differ."" Asked if he had known what the Koran verse specifically said about Jesus, Mr Holdsworth declined to comment further.",One of the Queen 's chaplains has @placeholder after a row about reading from the Koran in a Glasgow church .,resigned,reopened,testified,died,emerged,0
"""Mommy, do you hate Raila or Uhuru?"" Naomi Wangui and Malaki Samson's young daughter shocked them recently by choosing this way to ask how they felt about the presidential candidates. The question stunned Naomi and, even though she tried to explain to her daughter how political competition works, she was taken aback by her characterisation. ""Hate is a strong word, even for a six-year old. I think it's the perception she has picked from the TV stations who project political competition as a zero sum game, them versus us."" Malaki is a Luhya, an ethnic community that chiefly supports the opposition, while Naomi is from the same the community as President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is seeking re-election. Mr Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is a Luo, have harnessed support from several ethnic communities and it has become part of Kenyan political culture to presume that people from allied ethnic groups automatically back them. These perceptions complicate the lives of mixed ethnicity couples. Malaki and Naomi live in Kinoo in the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, an area that is dominated by the Kikuyu community. This set-up worries Malaki's family and they are concerned about his safety during the election. ""His brother called to see if he is planning to move during the election,"" Naomi says. But Malaki has however no plans to relocate. ""We will cast our votes and come back home. We feel safe here,"" he says. "" I don't think the election will be violent as everyone is making it out to be."" Manuel Mikewa and his wife Elizabeth Njeri have different and more elaborate plans for election day. ""We will vote and then relocate with our two children to my mother's house in Kileleshwa [a middle-class estate in Nairobi]."" Manuel Mikewa is a Luo and his wife is Kikuyu, and they live in Muthiga, another area where Kikuyus are dominant. Since post-election violence in 2007-08 in which more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed and an estimated 600,000 displaced, people have tended to be jittery around election time - and it's no different this year. The last election passed without any major disruptive incident but there seems to be palpable fear and anxiety heading to this year's election, despite the government's reassurance on security and top politicians calling for peace. ""I just don't want to be here, especially with my children. I just want to feel safe,"" Manuel says and he has reasons to be worried. His aunt who is married to a Kikuyu man lives in Kibera, Kenya's biggest slum, which has been named as a potential hotspot. In 2013, his uncle slept in a bar in Kibera that he owns for fear that his family's house would be attacked because of his perceived ethnic-political affiliation in an area dominated by the Luo community. ""My aunt and her family have started feeling that their neighbours, some whom they have known for a long time, are showing enmity towards them, so they are planning to be away from the area during the election,"" Manuel says. ""Just like in 2013, she will be moving to my mum's house with my cousins. She has enough space to accommodate us and it's good that way, because we will all feel safe."" Manuel says he plans to stay with his mother for at least a week after the election, ""then we will assess when to go back"". His plans are not unique. There's a silent migration from the city taking place, with people travelling to areas where their ethnic community is dominant. ""I think we will be safe in Kileleshwa because it is far removed from the informal settlement areas, like where my aunt lives, where there is high likelihood of violence to occur."" At the moment, Manuel says, the heightened political environment has ""disrupted his work"", but he adds that he is looking forward to vote. ""As a couple we have been open with each other and we have discussed the candidates we will vote for."" Another couple, George Obiero, a Luo, and Millicent Wanjiru, a Kikuyu, have been married for eight years and have two children. They say the election period is the most challenging part of their relationship. ""This is the most challenging time for mixed ethnicity couples because we suddenly find that our relationships are exposed to the negative effects of ethnic political competition,"" George says. ""There are couples who have separated because they couldn't handle the strain."" Millicent says that she has to deal with the fact that she ""lives in an area where I feel safe but I can't say the same for my husband"". The couple say they have started thinking of contingency plans to move the family somewhere they will feel safe, but it has not been an easy topic to discuss. ""We live in an area where my community is a minority so I'm the one likely to be targeted by violence because of my ethnicity. Some people see me as supporting the opposition, which is not necessarily the case,"" George says. ""Reason would suggest that I move to a place where I will feel safe but I can't leave my family, I just can't. ""It's easy for couples who come from the same community to make quick decisions on what to do in these circumstances, for us it's a bit tricky."" The couples say they feel that the rhetoric in this year's election has been ratcheted up, more than any past election, by an active social media community. ""There's a lot of hate there. People say very hurtful things, and these are people you know, some you call friends,"" Millicent says. But she says they cannot afford to despair. Instead they try to continue showing and preaching tolerance - especially to their children. ""We are sensitising them to be part of a global community and not be confined to an ethnic cocoon that Kenyan politics forces us into every five years,"" Millicent says. ""I'm hopeful because many in our generation are marrying from other cultures and I look forward to a less divisive future."" The Malakis and Obieros live in the same apartment block, which they say is home to ""an incredibly diverse group of Kenyans"". The neighbours are planning a get-together party on election day ""to light a bonfire to celebrate our diversity,"" Manuel Malaki says. More on the Kenya elections:","Ethnicity plays a big part in Kenya 's elections , with many people voting along communal lines , and occasional outbreaks of political violence in which people are targeted @placeholder to their ethnic background . This can make life difficult for mixed ethnicity couples , as the BBC 's Dickens Olewe in Nairobi found ahead of next week 's election .",returning,listen,according,amounts,owing,2
"The university student, 19, believes the only reason she was assaulted was because she was wearing a headscarf. ""I felt pretty unsafe,"" Ms Merheb told the BBC. ""I was pretty angry that this happened to me in my home country."" A study has found that women wearing head coverings are most at risk of Islamophobic attacks in Australia. The report has been billed as the nation's first of its kind. The study analysed 243 incidents reported to the Islamophobia Register of Australia between September 2014 and December 2015. Almost three-quarters of those behind the abuse were male. The victims were 68% women - four in five of them were wearing a head covering. Of female victims, more than 30% were accompanied by a child at the time. Despite about half of the incidents taking place in public, bystanders intervened in only 25% of cases. The authors defined an Islamophobic incident as any act of ""abusive hatred, vilification and violence inflicted on Muslims going about their daily lives"". The Islamophobia in Australia study involved several universities, the Islamic Sciences and Research Academy of Australia and the Diversity Council Australia. Ms Merheb said although her minor bruising and facial cuts had healed after the May incident, she remained uneasy about wearing a headscarf in public. ""Every person I know who wears it is always wary that something is going to happen,"" she said. Study co-author Dr Mehmet Ozalp, from Charles Sturt University, said Islamophobia was often a reaction to anti-Islam political rhetoric and media coverage of terrorism. ""Over time people associate Islam and Muslims with terrorism and violence - and they lash out in anger at that,"" said Dr Ozalp. ""But it is these innocent Muslims - mainly women - that are visible in public."" Dr Ozalp said that Islamophobia should be better researched and documented around the world. ""I think the first solution is that the problem has to be recognised at all levels including in academia and political circles,"" he said. Reporting by the BBC's Greg Dunlop",Hanan Merheb was walking along a busy Sydney road listening to music when she was @placeholder in the face in what police said was an Islamophobic attack .,bathed,caught,discovered,dumped,punched,4
"So usually on a Wednesday ""sources close to the ECB"" or ""people familiar with the situation"" have briefed the major financial wires that the central bank's governing council has given permission to Greece's central bank to lend a bit more to Greece's banks, to keep them afloat. Here is a typical example. And the likelihood is that again today, we will probably learn in this opaque manner that the amount the Bank of Greece can lend to Greece's tottering banks, to allow those banks to repay their depositors, has risen again - from the current ceiling of 83bn euros. This is a very rum job. Because the instant the ECB says it won't allow an increase in central-bank lending to the banks, the game would be up for Greece. There would be a run on the banks, because depositors would rightly at that point fear their money wasn't safe, and the banking system and economy would collapse. So there is probably no more market-sensitive decision being taken anywhere in the world right now than whether the ECB is prepared to keep propping up Greece's bank. That is why it is somewhat unnerving - to put it mildly - that the ECB doesn't disclose its actions in a normal transparent way, and trusts instead to unattributable briefings. The point, I suppose, is that the ECB wants to maintain the fiction that the power of life and death over the Greek financial system and economy is actually with Greece's creditors, namely the IMF and eurozone governments. But hang on a minute, there is another huge creditor as well, which has been intimately involved in the bailout discussions. It's the European Central Bank, which is owed 20bn euros directly by the Greek government and considerably more indirectly via the collateral placed with it and with the Bank of Greece for credit provided to commercial banks. So the ECB cannot escape its massive conflict of interest here. Anyway, the point is that at the moment the bailout talks collapse, and the Greek government is unable to keep up the payments on its 320bn euros of official debts, the implicit value of Greece's debts - both public sector and private sector - would collapse. At that juncture, Greek banks would - of course - be bust. They would be unable to lend, deposits would be frozen, and the entire economy would seize up. Now of course the convention in central banks is that they can only lend to solvent banks. But it is unarguably the case that Greece's commercial banks are only alive right now because the central bank is lending to them. The notion that they are only suffering from a liquidity crisis, and that their assets are fundamentally ticketyboo is a fiction as magnificent as War and Peace - almost no economist in the world thinks the Greek government can repay all its debts, and few would place big bets on the ability of the private sector to keep its creditors, notably the banks, whole. And yet the ECB is maintaining the fiction that the banks are sound, because it dare not be dragged into big politics. So I imagine that yet again we will learn today, via off-the-record briefings to the wires, that the Bank of Greece is lending a bit more to commercial banks. Of course that is the rational thing to do, pending some kind of resolution of the rescue talks between the Greek government and eurozone governments, led by Germany But I am not sure the ECB's reputation is enhanced by the maintenance of the conceit that its judgement about lending to the banks is a routine technical one - especially if Greece collapses, and it ends up losing a fortune of eurozone taxpayers' wealth.","One of the oddest bits of central banking @placeholder in the world right now is that pretty much every week since Greece 's financial problems went nuclear again , at the start of the year , the European Central Bank has let it be known in a cloak - and - dagger way that it is still providing cooling fluid to the whole combustible mess .",behaviour,activity,happening,themes,defects,0
"Bates, who has been Tigers promoter for three years, has taken full control of the Lions and will work alongside co-promoter David Darcy. Bates said: ""We're only weeks away from the new season and so our main priority is to quickly form a team. ""We have opened talks with several riders and should be in a position to announce the first signings any day."" Lions endured a miserable season last time out and finished bottom of the Elite League table. But Bates said he hoped the club's financial difficulties were a thing of the past. ""I am aware that Leicester went through a difficult trading period last season,"" he said. ""And I will be doing everything possible to ensure that the club is placed on a sound financial footing that secures the future of Leicester Speedway for years to come.""",Leicester Lions Speedway have been @placeholder by Sheffield Tigers promoter Damien Bates .,bought,signed,praised,named,revealed,0
"Adele Bellis was left with permanent ""life-changing"" scarring, lost an ear and is partially bald after the attack in Lowestoft last August. She had already suffered a knife attack in the street four months earlier in which she was stabbed in the mouth. Her former partner, Anthony Riley, 26 is accused of organising both the attacks on Miss Bellis, then 22. In a video interview played at Ipswich Crown Court, she said she was talking on the phone when a man walked past with his face covered and carrying a bottle. He then spilled the bottle all over her, she said. ""After two or three seconds my skin just burned and I knew it was acid,"" she said. ""I remember I was smoking, I was just crying and shouting 'I'm burning, I'm burning'."" As her clothes dissolved, people tried to help her. In the knife attack earlier on 29 April, Miss Bellis said Mr Riley led her down an alleyway where she saw a masked man, allegedly co-defendant Leon Thompson, 39. ""The man jumped on Anthony and he didn't really do much,"" she said. ""I turned around to see what was happening and this guy stabbed me."" Andrew Jackson, prosecuting, said not content with the knife attack, Mr Riley had recruited another man to pour sulphuric acid over her. It is alleged Riley forced Jason Harrison, who owed him money, to do it, and jurors were told Harrison has already admitted his part in the conspiracy. Mr Riley, of Raglan Street, Lowestoft, denies false imprisonment, conspiracy to apply a corrosive liquid and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm with intent. Mr Thompson, of Alma Road, Lowestoft, denies wounding with intent, having a knife in public, conspiracy to apply a corrosive liquid and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.",A beautician who was doused in acid has told a court she saw smoke coming from her @placeholder while standing at a bus stop .,side,nose,lives,body,mouth,3
RSPCA Cymru said the 4ft (1.2m) long boa constrictor was in the shed down an alley of Bassaleg Road on Sunday. It is thought it escaped from somewhere and was attacked by another animal as it has a broken jaw and a puncture. The RSPCA is appealing for its owner to come forward.,An @placeholder snake has been found in a shed in Newport .,injured,homes,body,engineer,infected,0
"Mary Logie's body was found in her first-floor flat in Green Gates, Leven, at 20:00 on Tuesday 5 January. She had last been seen alive at 08:00 that day. Police now believe Mrs Logie was killed ""sometime in the morning"" of that day. BBC Scotland understands she was beaten with a rolling pin. The police said it was a ""brutal and horrendous attack"". Officers said they had received a number of calls and were following various lines of inquiry. Det Ch Insp Keith Hardie, of the Major Investigation Team, said: ""As a result of this thorough inquiry, I now strongly believe that the murder was committed some time on the morning of Tuesday 5 January. ""She was last seen alive at 08:00 and so we are now focusing on the remainder of the morning. ""A great deal of activity has been taking place in and around Green Gates, and the ongoing assistance from the local community has been tremendous and vital in helping us develop our inquiries. ""Officers have spoken with various people in connection with this ongoing effort and we're not at a stage where we can release much detail about the actions being carried out. ""We must always protect the integrity of the investigation and there is information, which has to be kept within the inquiry team. ""I want to give my personal assurance to the community that our investigation is thorough and officers are doing a tremendous amount of work to ensure Mary's killer is brought to justice."" Mrs Logie, who had failed to visit a friend in hospital as planned, was described as a beloved mother, grandmother and friend by her family, who said she would be ""sadly missed"". Police are continuing to carry out extra patrols in the area to reassure the public.",Detectives investigating the murder of an 82 - year - old in her own home in Fife believe they have @placeholder down the time of her death .,narrowed,played,turned,run,track,0
"The Information Commissioner's Office found Virgin Trains East Coast should have taken better care to obscure other passengers' faces, however. The footage showed him bypassing seats. So-called Traingate rolled into action when the Labour leader claimed he could not find a seat on the train in August last year. He was filmed sitting instead on the floor and talking about the train being packed, in a video on the Guardian's website. He said more trains were needed, they were incredibly expensive and asked if that was a case for public ownership? Sir Richard Branson, who co-owns the rail operator with Stagecoach, responded and posted a link to the images of Mr Corbyn walking past empty seats on Twitter. Mr Corbyn was seated later in the journey and subsequently said he had wanted two seats together. The commission investigated the video release after media reports about the incident. It ruled Virgin had a legitimate interest in using the footage outside published conditions - to correct misleading news reports potentially damaging its reputation and interests. It said Mr Corbyn would have had different privacy expectations to other passengers. Of three other people recognisable in the footage, the ICO said the train operator had infringed on their privacy when they were ""simply minding their own business"". But there will be no further action as it was a ""one-off"" that had been unlikely to cause distress, the ICO said. A Virgin Trains spokesperson said they welcomed the report, which acknowledged the incident's unique nature. The spokesperson said the company had already implemented the improvements to procedures that were suggested.","A train company which released CCTV footage of Jeremy Corbyn looking for a seat did not break @placeholder protection law , a watchdog has ruled .",lost,child,data,consumer,leaving,2
"The body of Lee Irving was found on grass near Hazeldene Avenue in Fawdon, Newcastle, on Saturday morning. Police described the 24-year-old, from Camperdown, East Denton, as being vulnerable with learning difficulties. Mr Irving's mother, Bev, wrote on Facebook: ""My son been killed the day [today] off [by] a bunch of... bully he had the mind of a eight year old"". Detectives have admitted they think his learning difficulties may have been a factor in his death, although details of how he died have not been disclosed. Four men aged 23, 28, 31 and 50 and two women aged 20 and 50 have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are being questioned. After his body was discovered, paramedics were called to the grassed area, but he was declared dead at the scene. Northumbria Police released a statement on behalf of Mr Irving's family, which said: ""Lee was a wonderful young man. Loved by many, he used to love ice-skating, going to the pictures and enjoying life. ""He will be very sadly missed by all who knew him. What we have lost is irreplaceable and we must live with our loss every day. ""We would like to thank everyone who has supported us at this devastating time. Lee will always remain in our hearts and thoughts."" Supt Bruce Storey, of Northumbria Police, added: ""It's thought those involved in this incident know each other. ""Lee had learning difficulties and was vulnerable. One of our key lines of inquiry is to establish whether this is a factor in his death and a motivation in this crime. ""It's important those suspected of being responsible face the consequences of their actions and I would urge anyone who was in Fawdon on Saturday morning, between 7am and 9am, to come forward and speak to us. ""Extra officers will continue to carry out patrols in the area to offer reassurance to the local community, who understandably are shocked and appalled by this tragic death.""","The mother of a @placeholder murder victim said her son had "" the mind of an eight - year - old "" and was targeted by bullies .",second,couple,convicted,disabled,retired,3
"""Losing my close friend made me realise life is too short,"" says Karen, now the boss of bottled water business Belu. ""I wanted to do something more personal."" So in 2008, then aged 38, Karen resigned from her senior role at banking group Barclays. Also learning to live with type 1 diabetes, she and her husband travelled around the Caribbean, Vietnam and Thailand for six months. Upon returning to the UK Karen applied for and got a job as marketing director at Belu, the UK's first carbon-neutral bottled water firm and a social enterprise that gives all its profits to charity. Unfortunately, at the time it wasn't actually making any money. Set up in London in 2004, by 2008 it was saddled with debts of £1.9m. Karen realised that Belu needed a major shake-up if it was going to be a success, and after knocking up a business plan outlining her vision, eight months later she was promoted to chief executive. Her plan was to pivot the business away from targeting the supermarkets and their low margins, to instead focus on supplying the more lucrative hotels, restaurants and offices. Belu had been founded by filmmaker Reed Paget, who stepped down from the top job for Karen to replace him. ""Clearly it wouldn't have been the easiest time for either of us, but we did lunch and cleared the air. And Reed wanted nothing more than to see Belu become successful in a sustainable way,"" says Karen. ""When I joined Belu it was in debt and it wasn't sustainable. We could have wound up completely - it was time to move on. So we kept the name, but everything changed."" Her business plan was so successful that sales have since soared, with annual revenues of £5.9m in 2015. And since 2011 Belu has donated more than £1.5m to WaterAid, the global charity that aims to give more people in the developing world access to safe drinking water and good sanitation. Karen says that hotels and restaurants were keen to come on board because they welcomed Belu's commitment to environmental best practice, which she decided to strengthen and promote as much as possible. In addition to being carbon neutral, and donating to WaterAid, the company's bottles are made from recycled glass and plastic. ""It was important to demonstrate we're doing this properly. First and foremost about our social and environmental mission, and secondly through building sustainability by giving our profits to WaterAid,"" says Karen. She adds that Belu forms relationships with restaurateurs who ""buy into our mission"", and whose customers are pleased to see the Belu name because they understand and appreciate the work it does. Karen says that this is better than ""fighting for [supermarket] shelf space, and having to fund promotions to move goods from the shelves"". While Belu continues to grow, Karen had to deal with another health scare in 2016. ""Last year was the year from hell. I had breast cancer - thankfully I didn't have chemo, and I kept my hair,"" she says. ""I was exhausted and knackered over the summer, but my team really stepped up."" The cancer was successfully removed, and she says her work was a welcome distraction. ""I clearly needed a few days at home, but when your job is your passion and purpose it keeps you going."" She adds that when she was really exhausted during that difficult time, she would remember that life was still worse for a ""six-year-old walking eight hours a day to collect water"". This made her realise that having to deal with her bad news was ""no big deal"". To help limit Belu's carbon footprint, Karen encourages her 34-strong workforce to work from home when possible, to remove the need to commute. She herself lives in rural Warwickshire, and usually goes into the office in London only two or three days a week. ""The rule is not to go into the office when you can work at home."" Ryan Doherty, an industry analyst at research group IbisWorld, says that Belu has ""garnered a reputation as one of the leading eco-friendly brands among bottled water producers"". He adds: ""Its targeting of the hospitality sector and its innovative approach to reducing the environmental impact of its products has driven demand from clients eager to improve their image through corporate sustainability."" When not leading Belu, which bottles in water in Shropshire, Karen spares the time to help young start-ups who also want to achieve positive social change. She recently took part in a panel discussion for the Chivas Venture, a competition for aspiring social entrepreneurs organised by whisky brand Chivas Regal. ""I love this part of my job,"" says Karen, who is married with two children. ""It reminds me that I'm not a complete disaster, and reminds me of the progress we have made."" She adds that she is keen to educate people about the reality of running a not-for-profit business. ""Launching and running a social enterprise is a wonderful, aspirational thing to do. It's using your skills to do something amazing, but in reality it's harder than you think.""",It was the double blow of the death of a best friend and a health problem that made Karen Lynch decide to quit the corporate rat @placeholder .,period,club,body,list,race,4
"Rosco, an eight-month-old Border Terrier, was taken from outside ""devastated"" 82-year-old owner Leonard Ormond's Napier Drive home on Monday. Police have issued an appeal to trace two men in a grey Ford Transit van. A Help Find Rosco Facebook page has now been set up in a bid to trace the stolen dog. Mr Ormond's son Gordon said: ""My dad was sitting in the living room and he saw a grey van pull up. ""Two guys got out and my dad thought it was some sort of charity van. ""Before he even got up, the two guys are in the gate, picked the dog up, back in the van and gone. ""He's devastated and is blaming himself."" Mr Ormond said the response on social media to help find Rosco, who is microchipped, had been ""incredible"". A Tayside Division spokeswoman said: ""Police Scotland is making enquiries following a report that a brown-coloured male Border Terrier dog was stolen from an address in Napier Drive, Dundee between 09:00 and 09:30 on Monday. ""Officers are keen to trace a grey Ford Transit van with a blue or possibly brown logo that was seen in the area at the time. ""The man driving the van was wearing a wearing high visibility vest and was accompanied by another man.""","An appeal to trace a dog stolen from a Dundee pensioner 's garden has been @placeholder more than 420,000 times on social media .",spotted,named,granted,shared,fined,3
"And now Ukrainians are beginning to explore another difficult chapter - the destruction of Jewish communities that were a fixture of Ukrainian life before World War Two. The last time Ludwika Schein saw Rava-Ruska in western Ukraine, where she was born, she was just a young girl. But the village she remembers does not exist anymore. ""It was a very Jewish town,"" she remembers, full of observant men with black hats and long beards, and a wide array of Jewish schools, political groups and civic organisations. Of a population of around 12,000, more than half were Jews. Community wiped out Today, however, none of that Jewish life is left in Rava-Ruska. The cemeteries are parks where children play football. The buildings - the synagogues, ritual baths and religious schools, all signs of a community that thrived here for more than 400 years - were destroyed without a trace. ""They've all disappeared,"" says Ms Schein, who was born Sarah Leah Weiler. When she was 11, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, of which Rava-Ruska had become a part two years earlier. In 1941 the Germans forced the Jews from the town and outlying areas into a ghetto and then a work camp, not far from the centre. The Jews were shot over open pits or transported to Belzec, an extermination camp nearby, where more than 400,000 Jews were gassed. Ms Schein and her two sisters were hidden by a local family. She remembers how the Nazis shot her mother, father and two brothers at the work camp in Rava-Ruska, which she saw from a distance. ""There were sand dunes, and the Nazis were behind them with guns, waiting,"" she says. ""The bullets were flying, I had to lie flat, not to be shot. And they killed everybody - my parents, my brothers, the whole camp was eliminated."" Now, more than seven decades after that horrific event, she has returned for the first time to the place where it happened, to finally put her loved-ones to rest. A memorial has been erected, marking the camp and mass grave where the remains of about 3,000 Jews, including her family, lie. Ms Schein travelled there for the dedication of the memorial, constructed out of Jewish gravestones. It lies at the end of a road full of potholes just beyond the main market. As a rabbi sang a lament for the dead, she wept. Four other memorials have also been created in villages near Rava-Ruska, marking where thousands of Jews were similarly gunned down over open pits. These mass shootings are one of the least-discussed aspects of the Nazi eradication of Europe's Jews, a ""forgotten Holocaust"". Historians believe that perhaps 1.5 million people were killed in this way, often in or near town centres, in countless villages and cities across eastern Europe. In Ukraine alone, some experts believe there could be as many as 1,100 such mass graves. Ground zero for this genocide was to a large degree western Ukraine. In Galicia, the region where Rava-Ruska and the villages are located, the killing rate was more than 90%. However, although the Holocaust is officially recognised and taught in schools, what actually happened in individual communities is very rarely discussed. A silence about the Holocaust descended over the Soviet Union after the war, putting people off talking about what happened to the Jews. Instead the focus was on how ""Soviet citizens"" suffered. This silence led to a general forgetting, as new generations appeared, and no one wanted to speak. When Ukraine became independent, the population - especially the intellectual class - was more focused on recovering the ethnic Ukrainian past. Now, with the creation of the memorials, interest is growing. Teachers and students in Rava-Ruska have been inspired to investigate what actually happened to their former Jewish neighbours. ""We hope that this will trigger some rethinking in Ukraine,"" said Deidre Berger of the American Jewish Committee, which sponsored the monuments, along with the German government and Ukrainian organisations. ""There was nothing here, two years ago, absolutely nothing. It was as if this Jewish history in Rava-Ruska didn't exist,"" she continued. ""And because of this project, it prompted teachers and students to start looking at it."" ""This will change thinking and change minds, and the understanding that this is part of Ukrainian history,"" she said. Some of their discoveries may be difficult. The local population, as was often the case throughout Europe, was directly involved, either voluntarily or against their will. In Rava-Ruska local police, recruited by the Germans, helped extensively in the killings - by combing through and brutally clearing the ghetto, for instance. The memorial project is based on the work of Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, whose Yahad-In Unum organisation is documenting all killing sites across eastern Europe and interviewing witnesses still living in the villages. In his book, Holocaust By Bullets, he describes how many regular people were forced, sometimes under threat of death, into assisting: feeding the Germans, collecting valuables, digging and then filling in the pits, many of which still contained living people. ""The ground moved for days afterward,"" he was told repeatedly. These shootings were a more intimate form of extermination than the killing factories of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Virtually everyone in the communities was touched in some way. ""One day we woke up and we were all wearing Jewish clothes,"" he quotes one villager as saying. Many in Rava-Ruska are still unaware of what exactly happened. The process will most likely be slow, and some people resist acknowledging the local population's participation. Others express interest in finding out, no matter how uncomfortable this may be. ""It's a tragic history, a sad history - but it's history and I want to know more,"" said Ihor, who preferred only to give his first name, standing in a park where the town's main Jewish cemetery once stood. ""We don't want to repeat such bad examples in life."" Large crowds of villagers showed up at the ceremonies besides that in Rava-Ruska, indicating that this process is striking an emotional chord. ""This is also essential at a time that Ukraine is striving for democracy,"" said Ms Berger. ""Historical memory has been neglected for various reasons, and we think this is a major contribution, so that Ukraine can move into the future as a country.""","Ukrainians are never far from painful episodes in their history , such as the mass @placeholder - enforced famine in Soviet times that killed millions .",mounts,re,state,un,break,2
"The 32-year-old Tongan has spent four seasons with the Exiles after joining from Leeds in 2012. He featured for Auckland and Otago in New Zealand and also played once for Super Rugby side Highlanders. ""I have been watching Aulika all season and when his agent got in touch I didn't hesitate in signing him,"" said director of rugby Steve Diamond. ""He is a great scrummager and puts himself about on the pitch. I am sure he will be a big asset for us next season and beyond."" Sale have also announced that England Under-18 internationals and twin brothers Tom and Ben Curry have signed their first professional contracts with the club.",Premiership side Sale Sharks have signed prop Halani Aulika from @placeholder London Irish .,helping,prop,reading,relegated,club,3
"After visiting the spartan house in a rundown Delhi neighbourhood where she lived with her parents and brothers, you could see how much they had put into helping her realise the dream, shared by so many hundreds of millions of Indians. Many of the young and middle class Indians - men as well as women - who've joined protests in recent weeks said it was that sense of shared identity, as well as the shocking nature of the attack, that had propelled them onto the streets. Yet the victim - who legally still can't be named in India - seems to have been much closer to the accused, in her background and means, than to the many wealthier Indians who've been confronting police lines for the first time. That was the impression I took away after her family invited us in - having also seen the homes of most of the six arrested for this gruesome crime. The woman's home in a narrow alley doesn't have a proper roof, so the place was damp and water-logged after recent rain storms. Next-door neighbours were looking down at us through the gap from their tiny dwellings just feet away, as we climbed the stairs to her bedroom - a curtain serving as a door because the lower half was missing. The walk there took us along muddy streets strewn with rubbish, in a far western suburb of Delhi its rich elite would never visit. Until last year, the area was still classified by city authorities as an illegal slum. The lanes of Delhi's Ravi Das colony, the slum district where four of the accused had their homes, were if anything in better shape. Like the student's family, at least two of the accused are from impoverished villages in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, and source for many of the thousands of migrants who come to Delhi every year hoping for a better life - the same journey her father made nearly 30 years ago. And the other men are from similar migrant backgrounds. Where they differ, though, was in what they did about it. ""We gave our all to our daughter,"" her mother told us, still devastated with grief. She says she can barely leave her bed, complaining of frequent headaches and chest pains. And their support was working: her daughter was studying at a college in Dehradun in northern India and was on course to qualify as a physiotherapist, while working overtime in a call centre. ""We never gave our sons better treatment,"" said the mother. In that respect they were also different from many among India's middle class. Figures show they are just as likely as poorer groups to favour male children, even before they are born - and afterwards in care and medical treatment. It means India is in a rare category - along with only China - of having higher rates of infant mortality among girls than boys. The student's mother also lashed out at India's sexist attitudes, attacking the many politicians and other public figures who've suggested she brought the rape on herself. One well-known spiritual guru even said she should have embraced her attackers as ""brothers"" to stop them assaulting her. ""Either they don't have daughters,"" her mother said, ""or they are clearly backing these crimes."" Her stance is also a sign of how it's simplistic to see the outcry over this brutal crime as being a kind of ""Arab spring"" by the more educated middle class. Her father, sitting on the bed where they laid her body after she was brought back from Singapore, is now left with the memories of his determined daughter. Echoing his wife's criticisms, he said India had to change to make sure such crimes never happened again. ""The character of our society is very poor,"" he said. But his daughter's example, he said, was that ""you should stand up for yourself. Don't lose, only win."" What makes this story even more tragic is that the young student was clearly so close to doing that.","Neat stacks of medical text books , a sharply - @placeholder carrier bag from a clothes store , an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23 - year - old Delhi gang rape victim , tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family .",carrying,designed,filled,based,class,1
"The 12-year-old, a pupil at Wolfreton School at Willerby, near Hull, fell into a lake near Meymac in the Massif Central region on Tuesday. She died in hospital in Limoges on Wednesday. Balloons were released in her memory at the school and special prayers were held at St Luke's Anglican Church in Willerby. Jessica was one of 24 students and three staff on a five-day trip to the Club Correze adventure centre in France. It is believed she became trapped under an overturned pontoon, which she and a group of children were jumping from while swimming.","Family and friends of Jessica Lawson , who died on a school trip to France , have gathered to @placeholder her .",comfort,consider,join,watch,remember,4
"Emergency services, including police negotiators, were called to the scene after a man was seen on the top of the building at 21:15 GMT on Saturday. Braydon Anderson, 23, from Northampton, was arrested about eight hours later and taken to a police station. He will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.",A man has been charged with criminal damage and trespass on a @placeholder site after an alert on the roof at the Palace of Westminster on Saturday .,grave,fire,school,beach,protected,4
"But rather than dwell on Scottish misery, the eye was drawn to Italian jubilation and to Sergio Parisse - their totem and the embodiment of the game's warrior spirit - delighting in a first-class moment in the history of Italian rugby. This 22-19 success at Murrayfield was Parisse's 111th cap for Italy and only his 31st victory. He's been playing in this championship for 13 years and you don't need all of the fingers on your hands to count the number of times he has known success. The numbers are outrageously lopsided for such a colossal player. So many things went into the winning of this match, and Italy's killer combination of fire and ice, when it was most needed, was part of it. Parisse was its embodiment. In those dying minutes, while Scotland played like drowning men, Parisse was a leader, the kind of leader that Scotland so desperately lacked. He directed his team forward, he carried them with him. Parisse has had many more spectacular performances in his wonderful career but as a focal point when the game was in the balance, he could not have stood out more had he a flashing beacon attached to his head. Italy deserved this. Any team that goes to an opponent's ground and out-scores them by three tries to one has earned their victory. In truth, they had obliging hosts. The pockets of good feeling in Scottish rugby were dynamited and the sense that the national team, under Vern Cotter, was moving beyond the kind of ruinous losses that have dogged them for 16 years has now been stopped dead in its tracks. Media playback is not supported on this device This performance was by turns naive and incompetent. The last 10 minutes were extraordinary to behold. Scotland had managed to overcome their own shortcomings and take a 19-15 lead into the closing stages. They held an advantage despite persisting with a game plan that allowed Italy construct their driven line-out mauls, one of which brought them their first try. Nobody in a Scottish jersey sought to disrupt the Italian line-out at source, before it had done its damage. It was a piece of tactical thinking straight out of the King Canute playbook. But they survived all of that. When Greig Laidlaw put over a penalty after a sustained bout of Scottish pressure, the gap had widened to four points and with it came an optimism inside Murrayfield. There cannot have been much admiration for the way Scotland were playing, but there was hope that it wasn't going to end in defeat. Then the clock turned to 70 minutes and the wheels came off, one at a time. Scotland lost a line-out, then conceded a penalty at a scrum, then gave away another penalty at yet another rumbling maul - all in the space of three minutes. Error begat error. Italy's scrum nudged forward into the heart of Scotland's 22, then another penalty, then another scrum, then another nudge, then another penalty. Referee George Clancy warned Scotland that they were running out of chances. And that precise moment was a window to the home team's problems. Laidlaw had left the action by then. Ross Ford, too. When Clancy decided to admonish the Scots he asked who their captain was. There was no reply from the Scottish players. 'Who's your captain?' he asked again. These were interminable seconds. If Clancy ever got an answer then it wasn't an emphatic one. It was impossible to see who was calling the shots in the team by then. Scotland lifted the siege and then invited the siege upon themselves again when Peter Horne, who had played admirably up until then, made an horrendous blunder with a kick that had to find touch - simply had to - but didn't. Italy thundered downfield, the vulnerability of the Scots all too visible to them. In attempting to hold back the tide, Ben Toolis, on debut, was sin-binned. Hamish Watson, also making his debut, was sin-binned at the game's last act. Two new caps and a pair of yellow cards. It's symptomatic of the disciplinary weaknesses in this team. That's four yellow cards and 38 penalties in three games. It's hard enough trying to win these matches without stymieing yourself into the bargain. There was a Kafkaesque quality to it all - and, for Scotland, a Shakespearean finale. From the 70th minute you could count at least seven key mistakes that brought us to the end-game. The maul, the penalty try, the twin emotions of delirium and dejection. This was calamitous stuff and a reminder, in case it was needed, that Scotland, despite the impression of improvement, have a mightily long road ahead of them. The team is young and has promise but it's under-powered up front, it lacks leaders and discipline and against Italy it had a self-destructive naivety. In the aftermath, the Italians sat and talked to their media for an age, Parisse explaining his pride and relief at having avenged last year's, Duncan Weir-inspired win in Rome. Cotter had exited by then, last seen heading wearily for the drawing board.","The temptation was to observe the train - wreck that was the Scotland team - the despair , the shock , the anger at the end of a second - @placeholder Test match .",rate,style,place,half,sharing,0
"The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists study follows concerns about the safety of women and babies at units in Cumbria and North Lancashire. The report urges the retention of four consultant-led units at Carlisle, Whitehaven, Barrow and Lancaster. But it also acknowledges investment in staff and resources is required. The report was commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Cumbria and North Lancashire and comes in the wake of criticism of some maternity services Dr David Rogers, medical director of NHS Cumbria CCG, said: ""We know how important maternity services are for the local population and the preferred option is consistent with our intentions. ""However, these services need to be high quality, safe and sustainable and there is much work that needs to be done with both trusts to overcome the significant challenges that they face."" Dr Jeremy Rushmer, medical director at North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, added: ""We have been very clear about our concerns relating to the sustainability of maternity services and these concerns are clearly reflected within this report. ""This, alongside concerns raised by the chief inspector of hospitals last year, instigated this independent review process. ""We will now discuss the recommendations with our board and staff to understand their views.""","A new report into the @placeholder of maternity services in Cumbria has stressed the need for consultants , rather than midwives , to be in charge .",state,crowd,management,future,head,3
"But teenagers experiencing abuse often get little help, slipping through the cracks between child protection and domestic violence services. One girl who experienced this first hand, Taylah Douglas, has spoken to BBC Newsnight about what happened. ""When I first met him it was good, he was my first proper boyfriend and it was kind of like a movie,"" Taylah says of the boyfriend she met when they were both 16 years old. Within a short space of time, still aged 16, she moved in with him and his family. ""He properly turned into a different person about two or three months into the relationship,"" she says. ""He would call me fat and ugly and he would call me a slut. ""He started to push me and pull me. He would burn me with lighters, then it got onto hitting, punching and slapping."" The boy told her that she could not return to her own family home and confiscated her mobile phone. Without the money for a train ticket and in the face of further violence, Taylah says she felt isolated and alone. The abuse worsened with him hitting her harder and harder until, Taylah says, she came to a sudden realisation that she had to leave. ""I just woke up one day and I felt different, I knew that if I didn't leave it was going to end up in a really bad way. I didn't know if he was going to kill me or what was going to happen."" Taylah fled the house, leaving all of her belongings behind, and sought help from the council. ""When they first offered me housing they offered me a bed and breakfast which is on the same road as my ex-boyfriend's house,"" she recalls. Like many victims of domestic violence, Taylah found that leaving her partner was not the end of the problem. According to leading domestic abuse charity Women's Aid, the most dangerous time for a victim is when they break from their partner. Figures focused on domestic violence homicide in London show that 76% of killings happen after the victim leaves. Taylah was forced to move a total of seven times, but on each occasion her ex-boyfriend tracked her down. ""In one of my hostels he showed up, he forced his way in and he threw a microwave at my head,"" she recalls. ""I went unconscious for a few minutes, probably not for a very long time, but long enough that I woke up and found myself on the other side of the room and he was stamping all over me - on my head, on my body."" One of Taylah's neighbours phoned an ambulance and she was taken to hospital. A nurse called the police, but when the officers went to her ex-boyfriend's house he was not there and he remained free. Taylah admits that despite the severity of the assault, she told the nurse not to call the police. SOURCE: Home Office She says that she had contacted the police many times in the past seeking protection from her ex-boyfriend, but had found it a largely fruitless exercise. ""I called the police about 20 times, but he was only arrested once and he was held overnight in a cell, but then he was released the next morning and since then nothing has happened,"" she says. Taylah also says that sometimes the police would ask her in front of her ex-boyfriend whether she wanted to press charges or not. ""I didn't want to say anything in front of my boyfriend because obviously it is a really awkward situation,"" she says. Now aged 18, Taylah says that at the time she was being victimised by her ex-boyfriend she had no idea how common her experience was. At no point was she told about support or counselling by the police or offered a place in a refuge for victims of domestic violence. ""I didn't even know what a refuge was,"" she says. Such facilities are already overstretched, however; according to Women's Aid, on a typical day 320 women are turned away from refuges in England because of lack of space. The authorities are waking up to the issue of domestic violence in teenage relationships. In 2010, a £2m government-funded TV, radio, internet and poster campaign was unveiled. The adverts targeted boys and girls aged 13 to 18, urging them not to use violence against their girlfriends. Chief Constable Carmel Napier, the police's national lead of domestic abuse, says that police forces across England and Wales are setting up a training programme which draws on the experience of people like Taylah to help officers understand the impact that their actions have when they turn up to an incident. And she says that other strategies to help tackle the issue are planned. ""We are doing work with the Home Office to alter the definition of domestic abuse to also include young people right down to the age of age of 16,"" she says. ""We are piloting a scheme called 'domestic violence protection orders' which removes the individual, the perpetrator, from the home, which enables proper safety planning and for the victim to make choices over a period of time."" However, Chief Constable Napier accepts that there needs to be greater understanding from officers. ""We've got an awful lot of work to do in relation to getting police officers to understand that actually young people are in relationships at a much younger age and to understand that this is not acceptable whatever the age."" Watch Newsnight's full report on domestic violence in teenage relationships on Tuesday 24 April 2012 at 10.30pm on BBC Two, then afterwards on the BBC iPlayer and Newsnight website.","Teenage girls are the @placeholder most at risk from violent relationships , according to the Director of Public Prosecutions .",group,departure,race,outcome,oceans,0
"Twenty-two people were killed and 59 injured when a man set off a bomb in the foyer at the end of a concert by Ariana Grande, on Monday. Humberside Police said they were bringing in extra armed officers, and explosive sniffer dogs in response. BBC Radio 1 said its focus was safety and it was working with police ahead of the festival. Andy McDyer, Assistant Chief Constable of Humberside Police, said concertgoers would see ""heightened security"" at entrances and dropping-off points. He said armed officers would be present for public protection, with airport-style security measures in place. Police explosive sniffers dogs will also be on site, he said. However, Mr McDyer added that the measures were a precaution and there was no intelligence to suggest the event would be targeted. The UK terror threat level is now up to its highest level of ""critical"", meaning more attacks may be imminent. In a statement, BBC Radio 1 said: ""Our thoughts are with the victims and the families of those affected by the tragic events in Manchester. ""The health and safety of everyone involved in Big Weekend is now our primary focus and we are carrying out a full assessment, with the police and our partners, of every aspect of the festival."" Up to 50,000 music fans are expected to attend the free-ticketed event at Burton Constable near Hull, on 27 and 28 May.",Security at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Hull is being @placeholder up in the wake of the terror attack on Manchester Arena .,set,broken,held,blown,stepped,4
"Ryan Totten, 7, and Ian McKinley found themselves barred from playing rugby in Ireland because of eyesight problems. Both of them were keen to play the sport they love wearing special sports goggles. But the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the game's governing body in Ireland, had blown the whistle on that. An IRFU ruling banned players of all ages from wearing eyewear of any kind during play. However, the IRFU has agreed to register to participate in an ongoing World Rugby goggles trial. For Ryan and Ian, it's a win win situation. Five years ago, Ian was playing with Leinster and had 11 caps for Ireland under his belt. But he suffered an injury that eventually led to the loss of sight in one eye and forced him into retirement at just 21 years old. Goggles would have made all the difference, protecting his sight. Countries across the world are taking part in the goggles trial, but Ireland and France were not. Ian joined the Italian team Zebre and was able to play wearing the goggles. ""I'm blind in my left eye, the main function of the goggles is to protect the good eye,"" he told BBC's Good Morning Ulster. ""I have played nearly 40 professional games with the goggles. There has not been one incident of note and that has been a huge positive."" He is celebrating the IRFU's turnaround. ""It is something that has been campaigned for since 2014. It is a huge relief for me and I can pursue my professional career,"" he said. ""But it is also great for under-age children in Ireland to be able to play."" For Ryan Totten, it is wonderful news. At just seven years old, he was disappointed when his poor eyesight meant he was unable to play sport without eyewear. He and his mother, Christine, are celebrating the good news. ""He will be a lot happier playing when he can see where he is going,"" she said. ""He has had a go at playing without anything but he has not been very comfortable doing that. He is very long sighted - for rugby you need all sorts of vision."" Last August, Ryan and Christine described what a disappointment the goggles ruling was for them. Her son was ""upset, embarrassed and disappointed,"" Christine Totten said. World Rugby, the game's global governing body, has been running a separate trial of goggles for players with sight problems at all levels of the game. In a statement, the IRFU said it had changed its mind. It said some initial concerns had been addressed by design changes in the goggles. The IRFU hopes that it will be confirmed as a participant in the goggles trials by World Rugby early in the New Year.",A schoolboy and a professional rugby player have @placeholder the sport 's chiefs and come out of the scrum smiling .,formed,criticised,joined,tackled,signed,3
"MacDonald superbly headed Adam Hammill's cross past Keiren Westwood after constant Tykes pressure. Sam Winnall, who left Barnsley to join the Owls in January, had earlier tapped the visitors in front, having been booed by the home fans throughout. Wednesday are now seventh, one point below sixth-placed Fulham. Carlos Carvalhal's side dropped out of the play-off places after the Cottagers relegated their South Yorkshire rivals Rotherham United. Sheffield Wednesday, who had occupied a top-six spot since December, have now won just one of their past seven matches and are without a victory in four. That sequence looked to be coming to an end when Winnall capitalised on a defensive mistake to tap into an empty net. But substitute Adam Armstrong was twice denied by Westwood before MacDonald, who had earlier had an attempt cleared off the line, eventually hauled Barnsley level. The home side may even have taken all three points had Matty James not volleyed over the crossbar when well placed with the game's final attack. Barnsley are 13th in the table after winning only one of their past 11 matches. Barnsley head coach Paul Heckingbottom:  ""I would have been upset if we had not got something out of the game, but I would have been delighted if we had got three points with the chances at the end. ""What could go wrong did go wrong, but it shows the spirit and determination to come out and get something out of the game. ""We know Wednesday are a good side with the ball so we did a lot of work on our shape and I was pleased with it. ""The second half had a lot of tactical shifts and changes in momentum. There were a lot of positives in terms of attitudes and application from the players today."" Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal:  ""The goalkeepers almost didn't have a save to make in the first half but in the second half we started to press higher. ""We achieved one goal and should have had more to finish the game. During that period we didn't feel any real threats to our goal. ""If you don't score the second goal all teams are very strong mentally and believe they can score in the last minutes, which is what happened today. ""We played for the three points and with good discipline. We didn't play fantastic football but we played with discipline."" Match ends, Barnsley 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Second Half ends, Barnsley 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Attempt missed. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Steven Fletcher. Attempt missed. Matthew James (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Roberts. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Tom Lees (Sheffield Wednesday) because of an injury. Attempt blocked. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Armstrong. Attempt saved. George Moncur (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Kent with a cross. Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration. Marc Roberts (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration. Goal!  Barnsley 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Adam Hammill with a cross following a set piece situation. Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday). Hand ball by Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday). Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday). Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Morgan Fox (Sheffield Wednesday). Foul by Ryan Kent (Barnsley). Marco Matias (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt missed. Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Marco Matias. Foul by Josh Scowen (Barnsley). Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Barnsley. Conceded by Jack Hunt. Ryan Kent (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Ryan Kent (Barnsley). Marco Matias (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Sam Winnall (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card. Saidy Janko (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Marco Matias (Sheffield Wednesday). Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Marco Matias replaces Callum McManaman because of an injury. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Callum McManaman (Sheffield Wednesday) because of an injury. Attempt missed. Ryan Kent (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Josh Scowen. Attempt saved. Callum McManaman (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  Barnsley. Conceded by Sam Winnall. George Moncur (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by David Jones (Sheffield Wednesday).",Angus MacDonald scored in stoppage time as Barnsley snatched a @placeholder draw against promotion - chasing local rivals Sheffield Wednesday at Oakwell .,close,beach,battling,home,deserved,4
"President Putin wanted to show the world that he would bring a zeal to the battle against militancy in Syria that had been sorely lacking under the American-led coalition. So, whereas the US-led air forces have averaged around six strikes per day during the past year (actually less during this last month) the Russians started with eight, were soon up to a couple of dozen, and have mounted as many as 94 strikes in a single day. They've taken advantage of the close proximity of their Syrian base to the targets (sometimes just ten minutes' flying time away) to mount two or three missions per day with some aircraft, while a US jet travelling from the Gulf, refuelling multiple times, might fly two or three operational missions in a week. Having advisers with the Syrian Army on its various fronts, the Russians have had no shortage of targets to prosecute (not initially anyway) because they have so many eyes in place. So Russia has rained down destruction, but to what end? American officials' analysis and independent journalists, like the Bellingcat investigative website, come up with similar answers: that more than 90% of the bombs have been dropped in places held by groups other than the so-called Islamic State (IS). Of 60 Russian Defence Ministry strike videos with geo-location data examined by Bellingcat, only one was in an area where IS operates. Russian officials have themselves been inconsistent about targeting. President Putin last week described the distinction between ""moderate and immoderate"" terrorists as, ""playing with words"". While foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has, at times, suggested that elements of the Free Syrian Army (a loose-knit association of groups, many of which have been hit by Russian air attacks) could join in peace talks. What an examination of the places actually hit shows is that they are heavily clustered around areas where the Syrian regime has sought to reverse recent losses and has, for the past fortnight, been launching ground offensives. Most Russian strikes have therefore taken the form of ""fire preparation"" for pushes by the Syrian Army, or close air support once these operations have started. Which rebels are there matters less than that they are dangerously close to regime heartlands and must be pushed back. So if that's the way Russia picks its targets, are they accurate? While almost all bombs or missiles dropped by the US-led coalition are precision guided (usually by laser or satellite), very few Russian ones are. US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has said that more than 80% of the Russian bombs are unguided or ""dumb"" bombs and this estimate tallies closely with independent observations of video footage. Typically US ""precision"" bombs have a circular error probable (the radius around the aiming point in which 50% or more will fall) of eight-to-12 metres. With unguided or dumb bombs that increases to 50-100m. Furthermore, the Russians have been dropping cluster munitions that western air forces would shun for their indiscriminate effect. Even using precision weapons the US and its allies have killed an estimated 600 plus non-combatants in Syria and Iraq since August 2014 due to poor intelligence or weapons malfunction. Using much less accurate weaponry, experts believe the rate at which the Russians are killing innocents is likely to be much higher, and of striking the right aiming points lower. ""Russian strikes are thankfully far from being precise,"" says Col Abdel Jabar al Okaidi a Free Syrian Army commander operating near Aleppo, ""which is to our advantage"". Rebel groups and NGOs have claimed hundreds of civilian deaths and seven hospitals hit. Russian counter-claims that no civilians have been killed and all missions have hit their targets are simply not credible. It's also obvious that their enemy will adapt and returns diminish. ""The targets will be increasingly different and complex,"" military analyst Col Mikhail Timoshenko acknowledged to Gazeta.Ru. It may be that they are hitting so many targets, that even with less accuracy, they are doing more damage than the Americans. Maybe, but we know that civilians living in the areas where these attacks have been most intense, are fleeing in droves The UN says 120,000 were displaced from Aleppo, Hama, and Idlib provinces between 5 and 22 October: the places where most Russian strikes have taken place, where Syrian Army ground pushes have happened, and where all these people have fled are one and the same. So far though the regime's gains have either been small (advances of several kilometres) or reversed by rebel counter-attacks. Even an apparently successful push towards the encircled airbase of Kuwairis in Aleppo province (reportedly spearheaded by Iranians) has been reversed by an IS counter-attack. Even if the Syrian Army achieves a breakthrough its strength has fallen due to desertion and the collapse of many units. And it is open to question whether Assad's forces could hold on to any large-scale gains: they are simply stretched too thin. Shortly before the strikes started Mr Putin told CBS News ""there is no other solution to the Syrian crisis than strengthening the effective government structures"" and agreed when it was put to him that he intended to save President Assad. After one month of air attacks, we can see that Russia has tried to do precisely this: strengthen the Assad regime and its forces. At the same time there is a cost, in terms of displaced or killed people. Russia's actions have ramped up the war, but so far with no resolution in sight. In one month Russia has changed a great many calculations in the Middle East. It has deployed a military force to Syria swiftly, and it has brought enormous force to bear. But the human cost of this is becoming clearer.","The deployment of a Russian strike force of 34 combat jets and 21 helicopters showed how billions invested in the armed forces by President Vladimir Putin had paid off . Within days of @placeholder they were flying attack missions , and have now clocked up something like 1,000 of them .",arriving,fearing,shows,interest,evidence,0
"The world number two exuded the utmost class in the aftermath of Istomin's five-set victory in the Rod Laver Arena. He signed autographs, offered sincere congratulations to the current world number 117, and declined the opportunity to comment further on the malaise which has affected him since winning his first French Open title last June. Istomin has had a fine career - spending plenty of time in the world's top 50 - but after an injury-affected 2016, he had to win the Asia Pacific Wildcard play-off in China (saving four match points in his semi-final) to qualify for this Australian Open. His only previous tournament this year was in Thailand, where he lost to the world number 211 in the second round of the Wind Energy Holding Bangkok Open. Lukas Rosol was 100 in the world when he beat Rafael Nadal in the second round of Wimbledon 2012, but Istomin can claim an even bigger upset given Djokovic's recent record in Melbourne, where he has won five titles in the past six years. Conquering the clay of Roland Garros last year has affected Djokovic's sense of direction. That burning desire to become only the eighth man in history to win all four of the sport's Grand Slams drove him forward. An unwitting consequence of that magnificent achievement appears to be a diminished appetite for the incessant demands of the tennis tour. He has lost surprisingly since then to Sam Querrey in the third round of Wimbledon; to Juan Martin del Potro in the first round of the Olympics; to Roberto Bautista Agut and Marin Cilic in the autumn of last season; and now to Istomin. There have been personal problems and niggling injuries along the way, and he has still been good enough in that time to win titles in Toronto and Doha - and finish as runner-up at both the US Open and the ATP World Tour Finals. I would be very surprised if Djokovic fails to add to his Grand Slam tally of 12, but I think it unlikely he will ever be able to dominate the sport as he has in the past. After all, from the start of 2011 through until last year's French Open, Djokovic won 11 Grand Slam titles and appeared in all but five of the 22 finals staged. That is a staggering effort which bears comparison to the standards set by Roger Federer, who won 16 of his 17 Grand Slams in a six and a half year period. But 35-year-old Federer has added only one since he turned 29. It is perhaps just not possible in the modern age to sustain such relentless success for any longer. In Djokovic's case, the years of obsession and dedication began at the age of six, when he was spotted watching some lessons through the fence of a newly built tennis academy in his home town. He was invited to come and play the following day by a coach called Jelena Gencic, who would have a profound effect on his career. As Djokovic himself said at the World Tour Finals in November: ""Every year is an evolution for me. It's hard to expect to repeat all these things forever. Nothing is eternal. I'm trying to do the same things. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't."" What might the future hold for Djokovic? He says regaining the world number one position from Andy Murray is not his main priority, and that may be wise given Murray would move more than 3,500 ranking points ahead of him by winning a first Australian Open title. He says he has no plans to add to his current coaching team of Marian Vajda and Dusan Vemic, and if Djokovic sticks to his schedule we won't see him again until the second week in March when he is due to defend his Masters title at Indian Wells. And what does this mean for the men's game in 2017 - and for the ongoing Australian Open? It leaves Andy Murray in pole position, it gives the returning Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal even greater hope of further glories, and offers encouragement to the next generation of players who have had to bide their time so patiently. Twenty three-year-old Dominic Thiem and 19-year-old Alex Zverev currently look best placed to take advantage.","When asked what he would take away from his stunning defeat by Denis Istomin in the second round of the Australian Open , Novak Djokovic said he would take his @placeholder and go home .",influence,hands,cue,name,bags,4
"Martin Keene, the picture editor at the Press Association - the UK's national news agency - is leading the team covering the election. His photographers are always on the lookout for the moment that could become a defining one of the election, as well as offbeat ways to cover the event. Together with his team, he has chosen some of the best moments so far. Stefan Rousseau Never work with children or animals, they say. David Cameron found that out to his cost when six-year-old Lucy momentarily placed her head on the desk seemingly bored with the prime minister's reading lesson. Actually she was just giggling at her mispronunciation of a word. UKIP leader Nigel Farage was totally isolated at the end of the BBC's opposition leaders' debate when the other four participants congratulated each other. After what seemed like minutes they eventually went to shake his hand. This has definitely become the selfie election. Extra time has to be factored into every politician's visit these days for the added time it takes to fulfil everyone's photo requests. This was Labour leader Ed Miliband in Acton in London, faced with a supporter's camera. Ed Miliband launches his party's manifesto. I love the serious and menacing feel to the picture. Right in the middle, right down the lens. Jonathan Brady Throughout the election campaign we are constantly presented with anodyne backdrops against which to photograph the various candidates.  Occasionally the backdrop is very much at odds with what it is masking.  I like the sensation created in this image that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is being watched by one of his predecessors as leader. Selfies have become a bit of a cliche photo opportunity during a candidate's walkabout.  However, this young lady who photographed herself with the prime minister in Alnwick looks genuinely shocked by who she is standing beside.  This picture made the front page of the following day's Daily Telegraph. During the same walkabout where the selfie was taken, David Cameron also encountered a lady whom he spoke to while her daughter retreated behind her legs.  The displeasure of the young girl is juxtaposed nicely with the earnestness of Mr Cameron's expression.  This occurred a week after Mr Cameron was photographed in a less than flattering, although humorous moment, with another young girl during a reading session in a school (above).  Aware of the potential negative impact of that image, one of Mr Cameron's press aides attempted to block me from taking this image.  Fortunately, I was quicker off the mark and the picture was published in both the next day's Times and Metro. A colleague of mine from another agency had requested a very quick opportunity to make a portrait of Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg during a visit to a cricket ground in Hampshire.  The moment of the portrait being made caught my eye but it wasn't until I was editing my images that I realised my colleague had an admirer on the left of the frame.  This picture was used prominently in the next day's Guardian. Danny Lawson Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon turned to thank supporters while on the general election campaign trail in Ayr.  As she did so she placed her hands together and for a brief moment appeared to pray to an SNP flag. Nicola Sturgeon pictured under the word ""stronger"" during the SNP spring conference at the SECC in Glasgow. Recent polls have seen the SNP approval ratings grow, suggesting the party is likely to perform strongly in the election. Dominic Lipinski Nick Clegg having a go at 10-pin bowling was a relatively rare example of one of the party leaders getting involved in an activity beyond set-piece speeches or staged meet and greets. It was published widely the next day.  It was slightly bizarre being among a gaggle of photographers and TV cameras balancing on the narrow strip between bowling lanes as balls whizzed by.  Mr Clegg's bowling ended up looking better in a still picture than on TV - it was a pretty low-scoring effort from the Lib Dem leader who put a couple of shots in the gutter. Chris Radburn Labour leader Ed Miliband speaks at the National Composites Centre during a workplace question-and-answer session in Bristol.  With Ed Miliband choosing to conduct most of his election campaign from behind a lectern and in front of a red Labour backdrop and slogan, the opportunities for a great picture are limited. I took this picture quite early into the Labour campaign, and although the method is a well-trodden path by press photographers, it produces a great picture. The Guardian used it on their front page the next day. Gareth Fuller We're all used to seeing UKIP leader Nigel Farage on the campaign trail, beer in hand, amazing facial expressions and surrounded by the media. After spending time with him covering his campaign you see the quieter moments where he gathers his thoughts before taking centre stage and encouraging support. This particular frame was shot in a community hall in Ramsgate at the final event of a day of public meetings in South Thanet. As with any election there are always independent candidates and smaller minority parties which can be just as interesting as the main players. Dame Jon Dixon of The Official Monster Raving Loony Party is standing for the Hove and Portslade seat in East Sussex and agreed to let us join him on the campaign trail. In the highly amusing and refreshing couple of hours we were with him, we managed to recreate political pictures such as posing at the door of No. 10 Downing Street, a politician in his kitchen and finally prove, after the famous Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich picture, that they can be eaten with some style. (Jeremy Selwyn took the famous picture of Ed Miliband eating the bacon sandwich and you can hear him speaking about the moment in a previous post.) As the battle for South Thanet intensifies Mayor of London Boris Johnson visited Ramsgate to canvass for Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay. The hectic visit concluded with high levels of both public and media interest as he was driven away giving a thumbs-up to the gathered crowd of supporters with bright red lipstick on his cheek. After meeting parents and children at the Book Nook bookshop in Hove, East Sussex, Ed Balls and Rachel Reeves were invited to read to some young children. They chose to read both The Tiger Who Came to Tea and We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Mr Balls said afterwards it was one of the best mornings he'd had on a busy election campaign, and you can tell from the image that they both got stuck into the story. Steve Parsons We were down in Cornwall and went to a fish market. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg had already picked up two fish before this one but this was the only time he picked the fish up and looked at it. I liked this picture because of the serious face he pulls and the fact he is starring straight at it.","Polling day in the UK general election is drawing near and the campaign is entering its final phase . For the photographers who have been following the politicians around the country , it has been an intense @placeholder .",sum,secret,message,assessment,period,4
"As security agents waited at a Paris airport, the three suspects were flown to Marseille in southern France, where they left the airport unchallenged. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said there had been a ""mix-up"". The three suspects have now handed themselves in to police in southern France. Two of them are linked to Islamist mass killer Mohamed Merah, who died in a police siege in 2012. The three men are believed to belong to a jihadist recruiting network and are considered dangerous by the French security services, French media report. Imad Djebali, a childhood friend of Merah, was jailed for four years for terrorism in 2009 while Abdelouahed Baghdali, who is married to Merah's sister Souad, is known to police for his links to an Islamist school. The third man, Gael Maurize, is known to French intelligence for his ""implication in a jihadist network"", French media say. According to Le Monde newspaper, the three left for Syria in February to join the Islamic State (IS) group but became disillusioned and surrendered to Turkish border police at the end of August, asking to be repatriated to France. They were detained for three weeks for ""violations of the right to abode"". On Tuesday, the captain of the plane due to fly the three men from Istanbul to Paris refused to allow them aboard because they lacked the necessary Turkish documents. Instead, Turkish police put them on the next flight to France, bound for Marseille, without informing their colleagues in France, Le Monde reports. Amid confusion over their whereabouts on Tuesday afternoon, some French media reported that they had actually arrived in Paris and had been arrested. In reality, they left Marseille airport unhindered and were free to wander the city's main avenue, the Canebiere. When the French authorities realised what had happened, arrest warrants were issued for the three men, Le Monde reports. Late on Wednesday morning, all three turned up at a police station in Le Caylar, a small village about 230km (140 miles) west of Marseille. When they rang the doorbell, they found nobody inside as the gendarmes had already left to arrest them, a lawyer told French media. However, they are now in custody. The three men, the lawyer added, had been willing to ""explain themselves to the police and justice system"" all along, and were surprised that they were not questioned on their arrival. Mr Le Drian said on Wednesday that the Turkish police's decision to change flights was ""unfortunate"". He told France Info radio that the incident has been largely due ""to the lack of good collaboration with the Turkish services"". ""This mix-up shows that we have to strengthen relations, methods and actions with the Turkish authorities,"" the minister said. What makes the security fiasco all the more embarrassing is the timing.    This is a week in which the French have been told to be on heightened alert because of the danger from returning jihadists. Islamic State has specifically called for French people to be targeted, and in Algeria a Frenchman has been kidnapped by an IS affiliate. And yet at this moment of all moments, three alleged jihadis returning from Syria are missed at the point of arrival in France. Basic communication with Turkish intelligence failed to function, so no one in Paris knew they were flying to Marseille; and once on French soil either their passports were never checked, or - perhaps worse - they failed to trigger an alert. French indignation at Tuesday's events was reflected in media headlines like ""The incredible non-arrest of three French jihadists"" in Le Figaro. Some 350 French citizens are now fighting in Syria while some 180 recently returned from there to France. Le Monde reports. France joined US-led air strikes on IS targets in Iraq last week. Since then militants in Algeria have abducted a French tourist, Herve Gourdel, and are threatening to kill him if the French do not halt their air campaign. France has recently seen extremists take up arms close to home. Mohamed Merah was killed in a police siege after a string of gun attacks in the Toulouse area of south-western France, which left seven people dead including an adult and three children at a Jewish school in the city. Another Frenchman, Mehdi Nemmouche, is the chief suspect in an attack on the Jewish Museum of Brussels in May that killed four people.",A senior French minister has @placeholder Turkey after plans to arrest suspected jihadis returning from Syria collapsed when they were put on the wrong flight .,warned,sparked,criticised,left,admitted,2
"The Times Educational Supplement (TES) says measures to guard against grade inflation were not appropriate for this year's English exams. Teaching unions have accused Ofqual of ""regulatory failure"" and say it is more evidence of flawed exam marking. But the regulator insists it applied its measures correctly. It comes as state and private school heads call for an independent inquiry into the problems. Last week Ofqual said it felt the way this year's English GCSE exams were graded was fair, despite the  grade boundaries being moved significantly part-way through the year. Teachers have complained that pupils achieving exactly the same marks would have received different grades depending on what time of year they sat the exam. And many who were predicted a grade C, obtained a grade D in their summer exams. Ofqual found that June's grade boundaries were correct, while January's were ""too lenient"". A key document sent to exam boards, which is on the Ofqual website, sets out how it expects exam boards to use a process known as ""comparable outcomes"" to ensure that grade standards are maintained between GCSEs year-on-year. It sets out five conditions for when such processes should be used to alter the way papers are marked. According to the TES report, this year's English GCSE and the circumstances around it failed to meet four of the conditions. The first of Ofqual's five conditions was that the cohort - or pupils from that year- in a subject ""must be similar, in terms of ability, to those of previous years"". But last week's report on English GCSEs noted that the ""attainment profile"" for 2012 dropped, as grammar and independent school pupils were replaced with extra, lower-achieving comprehensive pupils. The second condition was that the qualification must be ""fit for purpose"". On Monday, Education Secretary Michael Gove told Parliament that this year's English GCSE was ""not fit for purpose"". The third condition was that the ""nature of the qualification"" must be the same. Ofqual's report last week stated that ""these qualifications are different from previous English qualifications in a number of ways"". Finally, the regulator said in the letter that comparable outcomes must only be applied where ""previous grades were appropriate"". Ofqual's report said that the English GCSE grades in January were ""too generous"". The only condition that appears to have been met is that teaching standards have remained largely consistent. The guidelines also state: ""Students should not be advantaged or disadvantaged simply because they were the first to sit a new set of examinations."" The watchdog has interpreted its own conditions differently, and is insisting that the comparable outcomes approach that prevented grades from rising in June was correctly implemented. But Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT heads' union, said: ""Ofqual doesn't seem to have applied the concept of comparable outcomes properly. ""In this instance there is a regulatory failure. It is a big mess."" And Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) said this appeared to be ""another piece of evidence that procedures applied to this exam was not fit for purpose"". Meanwhile, Ofqual said: ""The comparable outcomes approach was used correctly for GCSE English this year and we stand by this decision. ""Comparable outcomes are not intended to produce identical results year on year. ""What's important is that outcomes can be compared when taking into consideration a range of factors which may affect the results. More details on the use of this approach can be found in our report."" But Dr Christopher Ray, chairman of the Head Masters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), said the issue was evidence of a deeper problem with Ofqual. ""The verdict of Ofqual's initial report and the reasoning to support it fall well short of answering the questions raised in the minds of schools and pupils."" Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said: ""It is clear that pupils, parents and education professionals, across the spectrum of schools, feel that pupils have been done a disservice. ""Whilst the Education Secretary Michael Gove says he is 'saddened' by the injustice that has been served to thousands of pupils, he is showing how out-of-touch he is with pupil opinion by refusing to take action. Labour supports calls for an independent inquiry to get to the bottom of this mess."" The Commons Education Committee is set to start an inquiry into the GCSE grading problems next week.","England exams regulator Ofqual @placeholder its own rules in allowing controversial changes to the way English GCSEs were graded this summer , it is claimed .",changed,raised,breached,spent,wants,2
"Among them were customers at the Salt House Bar in Galway, who were celebrating when something out of the ordinary happened. ""I was cleaning up glasses and felt a drip on my head and we noticed that it was raining from the roof,"" said Liam McEvoy, who was working in the bar. He went upstairs to the storeroom and discovered a keg had burst. ""When 20 litres of beer comes out of the keg there's a lot of it, so it spread across the floor upstairs and started to come through in a few different spots,"" he said. Liam said staff cleared up the spill pretty quickly, but that did not stop some of the beer from raining down on customers in the bar. ""It was unfortunately just over two tables of girls, so we just gave them umbrellas and let them get on with their day,"" he said. ""At first everyone was a bit unsure what was happening, but it was St Patrick's Day so nobody was really going to complain or go home and they got a bit of a laugh out of it, getting served with umbrellas up in the pub even if it's bad luck. ""I think beer from the roof was strange enough, let alone having superstitions."" Eventually the drips subsided, but the female drinkers had got quite used to the novelty of using umbrellas indoors. ""I think the girls started to enjoy it so they kept them up for about half an hour, even though they probably only needed them for a few minutes,"" he said.",Irish people around the world @placeholder a glass or two in honour of their patron saint on St Patrick 's Day .,order,enjoyed,saved,attended,raised,4
"The rumour had been swirling around Birmingham for weeks - a girl had allegedly been gang-raped by a group of men of Pakistani origin in a beauty parlour on Wellington Road. When the story was broadcast - and presented as fact - on two pirate radio stations, it was the spark needed to ignite simmering racial tensions. The evening of 22 October 2005 saw petrol-bombs thrown, windows smashed, and an innocent bystander stabbed through the heart and killed. But why did the inflammatory whisper cause such chaos? At midday on 22 October, more than 500 people gathered as part of a peaceful protest at the shop where the girl was believed to have been attacked. She was said to have been unable to tell the police of her ordeal because she and her family were illegal immigrants and the rally was therefore held in aid of ""Justice for Silent Victims"". At 17:00, campaigners moved to the New Testament Church of God, in George Street, where police had been addressing the congregation as part of their investigation. But calm quickly turned to violence when officers were confronted by a gang trying to force their way into the church. Shale Ahmed, then a 24-year-old youth worker, saw the tension unfold. ""I can just remember everything kicked off and people were marching,"" he said. ""Everyone just came down Lozells Road. It just tumbled and one thing led to another. ""People were saying the mosques were going to be attacked so the idea spreading was we have to go and stand guard at the mosque. I just remember people running and screaming to the side roads. ""There were so many people - police could not control them."" Bishop Derek Webley was working at the New Testament church on the night in question. He said the disturbance stemmed from a desire to see justice done. ""One section of the community felt it had been wronged by another section, which created an explosion which the police and community leaders had to handle,"" he said. ""The atmosphere was very tense. You could feel that heaviness."" At 19:00, what police described as ""a series of sporadic, serious, extreme incidents"" occurred in the area of Carlyle Road. Riot police were called to the area after youths carrying baseball bats and other weapons smashed windows and vehicles, including an ambulance. Isaiah Young-Sam, a council IT worker, was on his way home from the cinema having chosen to walk along the back streets of Lozells where he and his friends thought they would avoid the trouble. But, despite taking precautions, the 23-year-old was surrounded by a mob and stabbed. At 19:25 he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. Elsewhere, shops and takeaways were looted by youths in hooded tops, who dived over counters and raided tills while the owners looked on, unable to stop them. BBC reporter Phil Mackie was working that night. ""It was frightening,"" he said. ""My car was attacked by a group armed with sticks and baseball bats. The car was dented, but I was physically unharmed. ""A colleague had a similar experience and another friend was stabbed in the head. Luckily her wounds were largely superficial."" Earlier on Saturday, India Murray, landlady of the Union Inn in Berners Street, just off Lozells Road, had all her windows smashed by people running by and hurling bricks. She said the tension had been ""building for a few days"" and the trouble had ""kicked off"" at about 18:00. ""The police are at the top of the road in their riot wagons and helicopters are everywhere,"" she told the BBC at the time. A number of petrol bombs were thrown during the riots and at least 35 people were taken to hospital, including a policeman who was shot in the leg. At about 23:00 witnesses reported hearing 20 to 30 shots fired as riot police continued to tackle gangs. Mr Ahmed said: ""I heard gunshots. I came out after I heard them but not too quickly - I did not want to be a hero. ""I had my youth worker hat on and I had to work in this community and I did not want anything to happen."" On Sunday at 01:00 a tentative calm was restored. Speaking later that morning, newsagent Om Parkash said he opened his Lozells Road shop as normal. On his way to work he said he noticed a few signs of the violence which took place. ""There was not much difference, but I saw a car which had been burnt and I saw some blood on the pavement."" Three men jailed for the murder of Mr Young-Sam had their convictions quashed after evidence was found to be wrongly used. No-one has been charged over his death since then. Meanwhile, the allegation of rape that sparked the night of violence is still a mystery. Police have found no evidence to establish whether the girl existed. Real or not, the allegation was enough to crystallise the animosity between two communities, resulting in violence which is remembered a decade on.","Ten years ago rumours of the rape of an Afro - Caribbean teenager by a group of Asian men surfaced in a radio broadcast , bringing to a head weeks of racial tension in the Lozells area of Birmingham . Those caught up in the ensuing rioting recall what happened when the two communities at the centre of the allegations @placeholder .",clashed,network,zone,disappeared,structures,0
"Rachel Thomas said she was ""gutted"" to see the note from Alex, who described the misery of having his bike stolen. It read: ""I could only afford that bike after one year of working my tears out... I only had it for a week"". Ms Thomas was so moved she started a funding page on a website on Tuesday which raised £750. She said: ""My husband commutes on his bike every day. I enjoy the occasional trip to town on mine - I'm admittedly a fair weather cyclist.  But I understand the freedom a bike can give and how amazing life can be when you have your own brand new wheels. ""I don't want Alex to regret recently moving to Reading - I love my little town. ""I've been helped out by strangers before and I'd love Alex to be able to not just see our town on two wheels but feel welcomed by its community."" In the letter, pinned to a bike rack in Broad Street, Alex encouraged the thief to give the bike back, and said he would wait each day at 18:00 GMT for it to be returned. However, when he returned to the bike rack, Ms Thomas met him and gave him the money collected to purchase a new bicycle. Alex, from Bulgaria, said he was ""humbled"" and the donations had ""restored"" his ""faith in human nature"".",A group of residents clubbed together to buy a new bike for a stranger who left a letter for the thief that @placeholder his in Reading .,lived,found,dumped,pinched,saved,3
"Manchester United are interested in the 23-year-old, though a deal for Pogba to return to Old Trafford is said to be ""not out of the starting blocks"". Pogba is keen on the idea of joining Real Madrid, while Juve want him to sign a contract extension beyond 2019. ""Several big clubs are keen on his services and we have all the time to listen,"" said agent Mino Raiola. ""He has three years left at Juventus and they are asking him to renew. Why would they want to let him go?"" Pogba was part of the France team beaten in the final of Euro 2016 by Portugal. He spent three years at Manchester United, but made just seven appearances before moving to Italy in 2012. His agent has already played a major role in new United manager Jose Mourinho's summer recruitment as he also acts as representative for Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Any deal for Pogba looks sure to be more complicated to negotiate, and is likely to cost United in excess of the world-record £85m Real paid Tottenham for Gareth Bale in 2013. The transfer window will not close until 31 August but Mourinho has said he is not willing to wait that long to secure what he said was the fourth and final ""fundamental"" signing he wanted. Raiola said Pogba is not desperate to move and he knows where the midfielder would like to spend next season, but added: ""We didn't talk about transfers during the Euros.""",Paul Pogba 's agent says there is no rush to sort out the @placeholder of the Juventus and France midfielder .,end,remainder,basis,future,whereabouts,3
"As Kenya's government tries to fulfil its 2013 election pledge to give first year primary school students access to laptops, Kizito will not be able to benefit from the ambitious $600m (£425m) Digischool scheme. Instead he will continue to use scraps of paper to write down his notes, keeping them bundled in a small black plastic bag. ""He doesn't have proper books so he borrows paper plucked from other pupils books,"" says Florence Misiko, the head teacher at St Jude Nabuyeywe in Bungoma, a poor farming area. Kizito and his six siblings live with their grandmother, who cannot afford to buy exercise books. At school, he sits on the dusty floor with his 90 classmates, using torn cardboard boxes and worn out sacks as mats. ""It is really hard for these pupils to learn like this,"" says Mrs Misiko. ""But we are doing everything we can even with little resources. We have actually just received several bags of cement from the county government to finish off the floors of the classes. ""But we need much much more, as you can see,"" she says, pointing at the gaping holes where windows and doors should be. ""Even if we get laptops, how would we have used them under these conditions? Our priority now is getting students desks and enough books."" But those government primary schools that do have electricity - and an internet connection - will be getting laptops for first year students - along with computer labs. It has taken the government three years to start to make good its election pledge because of a long-running tendering dispute. The whole concept has also changed from one laptop per child to setting up shared computer labs. St Jude Nabuyeywe is typical of many schools in poor and rural areas of Kenya - connection to the electricity grid and internet remains a pipe dream, but Digischool backers say it will benefit 1.2 million pupils at more than 23,000 schools countrywide. A digital curriculum has also been developed locally and some of the laptops will be manufactured by the Jomo Kenyatta University of Technology. Sarah Ruto, an education researcher, says the digitisation project is a good investment. ""But I think it is important to acknowledge that technology is not a miracle pill that will solve our problems, rather it is an opportunity for improving things,"" she says. She adds that 20% of Kenya's primary schools do not have the basic necessities. Kenyan Information Minister Joe Mucheru agrees there are issues that need resolving and says several government ministries are working in tandem to ensure that infrastructure in schools is improved alongside the laptop rollout. ""We want to prepare our children and our schools for 21st Century jobs. You have to start from somewhere,"" the minister says. ""You can't say they have nothing - they have books, they have teachers, they have curriculum, but it's time we inject the digital content into our curriculum."" In stark contrast to Bungoma, children at a school in a sprawling low-income area of the capital, Nairobi, are excitedly chatting in the playground about the imminent arrival of their computers. Roysambu Primary School is among 150 schools chosen to pilot the project. ""I can't wait to learn new things and play educative games on the laptops,"" says 10-year-old Lincoln Maina - even though his class is not directly in line to get the computers funded out of the education ministry's $3bn annual budget. ""I have used a computer before and I will teach my friends a few of the games I enjoy at home,"" he says. Sarah Nyota, head teacher at Roysambu Primary School: ""The world out there is moving fast and we cannot as a country afford to remain behind in terms of technology"" It is not only the pupils who are enthusiastic at Roysambu, parents are giving it their full backing and are donating laptops to help expand the pool of computers so all 1,700 students get a chance to use them. Head teacher Sarah Nyota says some parents even helped build the storage facility and charging units for the laptops. ""The world out there is moving fast and we cannot as a country afford to remain behind in terms of technology,"" she says. She has plans to rotate classes over weekends and school holidays to make sure all pupils get a chance to use the computers. And the intention is to expand the project so all pupils can have better access to computers, says Mr Mucheru. ''If we don't have our young children trained on digital, they will be even worse off than we think they will be.""","In theory , six - year - old Kenyan pupil Kizito Wafula could soon be using a government - funded laptop , but his school in the @placeholder of the country has no desks or chairs - and , crucially , no electricity to power it .",rest,aftermath,space,west,heart,3
"The Borivali Biryani Centre says it is the ""original BBC"" and that the Bombay Baking Company stole the acronym. A spokesman for the biryani centre said he did not care the acronym was used by a top global broadcaster: ""That may be abroad - but in India we are the BBC."" The biryani centre wants $100,000 (£67,626) in damages. The bakery says it does not see what the fuss is about. A spokesman for the bakery, which is located in the plush JW Marriott hotel, did not want to be drawn on whether it was right to use the BBC acronym. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) press office in London said it would not be commenting on the case. At the root of the case, which is being heard by the Bombay High Court, appears to be the fact that both eateries answer the telephone with the greeting: ""Hello BBC, what's your order?"" The popular biryani restaurant says it has been registered as Borivali Biryani Centre (BBC) for more than a decade. ""Our staff are trained to claim they are from BBC. In Mumbai, BBC stands for Borivali Biryani Centre. Someone ought to value this investment, someone must value our trademark,"" senior restaurant manager Pradeep Udeshi said. He said the restaurant registered ""BBC as its trademark"" in 2002. The Bombay Baking Company says it is ""foxed by the claim"" from the biryani centre. ""What is the connection? Our names are different. We sell breads, croissants, cakes, pastries, salads, tea and coffee. The restaurant sells biryani. So what is the problem?"" manager Anilesh Shelar said. He admitted that his staff responded to telephone orders with ""Welcome, BBC"". ""It's just a way of responding. Our customers love it,"" Mr Shelar said. India has many other examples of BBC copycats - there are English coaching classes and at least one local brick company is called BBC.",Two @placeholder outlets in the Indian city of Mumbai have gone to court in a battle for the right to use the acronym BBC .,parties,groups,phone,radio,food,4
"In the last PMQs before the summer break, Mr Corbyn said people were held back by low pay and accused ministers of a ""lack of touch with reality"". Mrs May said she, like the Labour leader, valued public services. ""The difference is on this side of the house we know we have to pay for them,"" she added. Mrs May is seeking to restore order to her party following a series of leaks and negative briefings, with Chancellor Philip Hammond reported to have told a private cabinet meeting public service workers were ""overpaid"". Mr Corbyn asked whether, given the ""squabbling"" inside government, Mr Hammond had been talking about Mrs May's ministers. He urged her to lift the cap on wage rises and cited the case of a nurse living with pay restraint for seven years. ""I look along that front bench opposite and I see a cabinet bickering and backbiting while the economy gets weaker and people are pushed further into debt,"" he added. Mrs May said she recognised the sacrifices made by public servants towards reducing the deficit. She said the Tories had a ""record to be proud of"" and accused Labour of unfunded spending pledges. ""The government doesn't seem to have any problem paying for DUP support,"" Mr Corbyn replied, in a reference to the £1bn package that secured the Democratic Unionist Party's backing for the Tories' minority administration. Parliament goes into recess on Thursday and returns on 5 September. Mrs May, under pressure since losing her Commons majority last month, has warned ministers and MPs that any ""backbiting"" between party figures could let Mr Corbyn into Downing Street. During PMQs, Labour MP Ian Murray referred to her as the ""interim prime minister"" when he asked his question. BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said there was now ""something of a backlash"" from MPs towards the ""big beasts"" thought to be manoeuvring themselves behind the scenes to replace her. ""I sense there's a real pushback now to keep her in place at least for the short to medium term,"" he added. A senior backbencher, 1922 Committee vice-chairman Charles Walker, said Mrs May would have MPs' backing if she sacked plotting ministers. And Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon called for military discipline from the cabinet ranks to confront the ""dangerous enemy"" of Mr Corbyn. In an interview with LBC Radio, Mrs May urged ministers to ""accept collective responsibility"". Asked whether there would be any punishment for those who'd leaked private conversations, she said there was ""no such thing as an unsackable minister but at the moment the team is together and we're getting on with the job of delivering what we believe that British public want us to do"".","Theresa May has said she recognises the "" sacrifice "" made by public @placeholder workers as Jeremy Corbyn urged her to lift the 1 % cap on their wages .",servant,show,sector,relations,office,2
"Goldman Sachs' ""back-to-school"" reading list for ""every age and career stage"" is the kind of information any ambitious City-type is likely to lap up. But the recommendations, from some of its top management in London, New York and Tokyo, isn't all dry economics and finance. It follows chief executive Lloyd Blankfein's advice to interns that they should take time to ""chill out"" and read fewer economics textbooks. So what do Goldman's people recommend? Dispatches, by Michael Herr ""[An] essential work of reportage on Vietnam. When Herr died this summer, I decided to re-read it, and was once again struck by how viscerally he captured the war experience. Herr renders Vietnam as at once terrifying and desensitising, while also expressing the disaffection of a generation."" The Noise of Time, by Julian Barnes ""Barnes constructs an imagined inner narrative of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich as he grapples with the idea of truth in life and art under Stalin's regime. It's breathtaking."" Inverting the Pyramid: the History of Football Tactics, by Jonathan Wilson ""For all the sports/soccer fans out there - this is an excellent book that describes how football tactics have evolved over time. Applicable to our work - as it shows how ""change is the only constant."" World Order, by Henry Kissinger ""Nobody knows the world of politics & diplomacy better than Henry Kissinger - an absolute and undisputed numero uno!"" Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond ""Europeans conquered other continents with guns, germs and steel. What makes the difference between conquerors and conquered? The author demonstrates from various points of view that it wasn't because of the superiority or inferiority of particular races, but because of the geographical and ecological advantages that Eurasian continent offered to the people lived there. ""For example, in Eurasia, there happened to be plants and animals suitable for domestication, which could be transferred and shared relatively easily across the continent. Fun reading with lots of intellectual stimulation."" Churchill: A Life, by Martin Gilbert ""This is a good one volume biography of Churchill by Martin Gilbert, who was the 'official' Churchill biographer. I think Churchill is as interesting for his mistakes and failures as he is for his successes, his seemingly boundless energy and curiosity, and for having been an incredibly prolific writer. ""The biography gives good perspective on some of the most important events of the 20th Century, at least as seen from Churchill's vantage point. Unless you have a good knowledge of the political figures of this era, I'd recommend an e-book edition since you can easily get a bit of information on the many characters who feature throughout the book.""","If you want to think like some of the most successful @placeholder on Wall Street , then you might want to head over to the nearest bookstore .",men,minds,entrepreneurs,name,ground,1
"Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb hailed it as ""a significant step forward on the path towards a lasting devolution settlement"". He said flexibility over income tax rates will help make the Welsh government more accountable. However, devolution of income tax powers will be subject to a referendum. Power over landfill taxes, stamp duty and the aggregates levy will pass to Cardiff Bay in 2018 as the Wales Bill becomes law, with Royal Assent expected by the end of the year. Mr Crabb told MPs debating the bill on Wednesday that the so-called ""lockstep"" proposal ensuring all income tax bands change by the same amount was being dropped. ""The National Assembly for Wales will be able to set separate Welsh rates of income tax for each band,"" he told MPs. Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith accused the Conservatives of a ""handbrake U-turn"" on the lockstep, which he said the UK Treasury had previously defended as being necessary to ensure income tax was used as a tool to redistribute wealth across the whole of the UK. The Pontypridd Labour MP urged the UK government to explain in more detail how tax devolution would benefit the people of Wales. ""The very least we owe the Welsh people is therefore to consider extremely carefully the likely impact of these radical changes to such a cornerstone of the union - that redistributive union - as taxation because they will have impacts on the potential prosperity and the wellbeing of the Welsh people,"" he said. Mr Smith has previously claimed that due to its lower-wage economy Wales could have been up to £1bn worse off over the last four years if tax powers had been devolved.",Tax powers are on their way to Wales as a bill paving the way to further devolution @placeholder its passage through Parliament .,completes,planned,explaining,introducing,conditions,0
"G-Joey, which has a fan club, flew from Southampton to Alderney and then to Guernsey, arriving 10 minutes late at 19:40 BST after celebrations en route. The Trislanders, operated by airline Aurigny, are due to be phased out next year, and replaced by Dornier 228s. Pilot David Rice described the atmosphere on the final flight as ""strange"" and ""interesting"". Capt Rice, flight operations director, said in Alderney ""people were quite chatty on the aircraft and all waving as we taxied out"". ""We landed in Guernsey, had the water salute, and as we taxied round and eventually parked on stand, I shut the engine down and the whole aircraft was just silence - it's really quite surreal,"" he said. ""I did notice several of [the passengers] just sort of patting Joey on the nose before they went off."" Susie Gallienne, author of the book Joey and the Penguins, has flown about 1,500 times on Trislanders commuting to Alderney once a week. She said it was ""the end of a bit of an era - it's a little bit sad"". Capt Rice said books about the plane with the registration G-Joey were first released in 1982. He said: ""The red nose was done back in 1988 when the BBC did their very first Comic Relief... later that year our engineers decided to paint the rest of the face. ""It's just grown since then with Joey flights, Joey certificates, Joey club and for the last few weeks we've had people coming from all over... to come and do a flight before he retires."" Capt Rice said: ""I really wanted to do this last flight myself. I've been flying Joey and the other Trislanders for over 26 years and you do get emotionally attached."" It's not yet clear what the future holds for the little yellow plane - but more than 5,300 Facebook users hope for a ""fitting place to rest"".",An aircraft that has @placeholder the Channel Islands for nearly 40 years completed its final flight on Sunday .,served,visited,left,engulfed,praised,0
"As a player you always accept a certain amount of physicality, and most players will do anything to get the upper hand on another. That is what separates rugby from any other sport in the world - the ability to knock the stuffing out of each other, and then shake hands after the match and return to being best friends as you were before. There is always a line with the rough and tumble, but in my opinion the unacceptable stuff is when you are in danger of doing serious damage to another player who is not in a position to defend themselves. I think that players see a stand-up punch-up as what it is - it is the sly, cowardly and dangerous stuff that angers players. Or certainly angers me. I have been eye-gouged a number of times and it's not fun, and very serious. But I love any form of honest confrontation and if you come off second best, then that's the way it goes. There's no point pretending skullduggery doesn't happen on the pitch. It does, but the dark arts are slowly disappearing, as there are more camera angles than at a Kim Kardashian photo shoot. And if players are caught then they should have the book thrown at them. The kind of the thing I am talking about involves being cleared out of a ruck by your private parts, and as the assailant does so he makes it look like a perfectly legal clear-out. The only person who knows what has actually happened is me, and it's funny how quickly you let go of the ball when you are compromised like that. The sly thing of people treading on your hands can be pretty painful. And sometimes, when players should be aiming to put their head underneath their opponent's head to clear them out, they instead aim for the head itself. I have received that a few times. Although mainly from my own team-mates. Less bad perhaps is when you help yourself off the floor, but use an opponent to push yourself up - that's irritating rather than painful. One of the worst things I've seen is a player try to land their knees into the kidneys of our scrum-half Joe Simpson, when Wasps were playing Stade Francais. That sort of thing is unacceptable. There are people who talk when they are on the field and it is not always the people you would think. Off the pitch you think they are lovely but as soon as they cross the white line they turn into complete lunatics. There is one former England player who was the quietest guy off the field and then you could find yourself on the bottom of a ruck with him rubbing your face into the ground or clapping you when you gave away a penalty. I would think 'what is this? You don't even speak off the field. Where has this come from?' I'm not a big talker - I just get on around the field. Yes, I talk a lot off the field, but I don't really speak a lot on it. Former Bath and England hooker Mark Regan used to famously talk a lot on the field and a lot of it was pretty much nonsense. South Africa hooker John Smit famously said Regan had talked to him more in two matches than his wife had in 10 years. I think back to the 2002 Heineken Cup final, when Leicester's Neil Back knocked the ball out of Munster scrum-half Peter Stringer's hands to win the scrum against the head and seal victory. Let's be honest, that was a brilliant bit of cheating. You wouldn't get away with it now, but fair play he took his chance, rolled the dice and it came off. I really liked Joe Worsley's attitude. The former England and Wasps flanker was one of the most destructive tacklers in world rugby, but did not make a big song and dance about it. Ma'a Nonu's attitude and professionalism are exceptional. Even when we were playing in Japan, which is probably a lower standard, the two-time World Cup winner maintained his standards and just really cared for the game. The former All Blacks centre has a passion for rugby and a constant intensity. Another back with that is Jonny Wilkinson - the former England fly-half's intensity towards training was something to behold. And then there's Richie McCaw. He had such an impact on the game as a leader, guiding the All Blacks to back-to-back World Cups. Richie is also a great guy off the field, but most of the time strictly business. I would always ask him advice about the breakdown, and any drills he liked. He would just pretend I never asked the question and move the conversation on. Either my chat was terrible or he just didn't want to give any trade secrets away. Media playback is not supported on this device I also admire Australia back rowers David Pocock and Michael Hooper. You would deal with them at one breakdown and then they would pop up on the other side of the field - they are relentless in their work ethic. And good guys off the field as well. Alternatively I have met lots of players who I looked up to as a youngster and been bitterly, bitterly disappointed, when I have met them in person. I think, like everyone, you want them to be super inspiring. They say never meet your heroes. I'm really excited to see how the Bath renaissance goes under Todd Blackadder. They were top before losing to Leicester on Sunday, but slipped to third behind my club Wasps, and Saracens. He is a coach I hugely admire from the southern hemisphere and I always wanted to play for his old New Zealand Super Rugby side, the Crusaders. Of the players who have shone, back row Guy Thompson has made a lot of metres and performed very well for Wasps, and Jimmy Gopperth has been great for us at 12. Saracens fly-half Alex Lozowski is a really good guy and it was sad to see him leave Wasps. He is very talented, he has started the season well, and I think that learning outside England's excellent Owen Farrell, he is only going to get better. Semesa Rokoduguni has been devastating for Bath, making loads of clean breaks and beating defenders for fun. I think he, along with Newcastle's Sinoti Sinoti, who has the naughtiest footwork in the Premiership, have both been eye-catching in their performances. I just don't know how you stop a person with feet like that. In the southern hemisphere, New Zealand have just been incredible in the Rugby Championship, wrapping up the title with two games to spare. Fly-half Beauden Barrett has shown what he can do - plenty - and for Dane Coles to have that sort of turn of pace as a hooker is just incredible, and his handling skills are pretty impressive as well. It's going really well - I am out of the boot, off the crutches and into the trainer. I am getting my body back into shape, getting my passing skills right and making sure that the toe is all rested up. I have been counting my calories from the day after the operation, and have thrown myself into achieving the best possible shape I can. Now I can train, I am doing three or four sessions a day and eating a lot of food. I have 4,000 calories to hit a day, with a lot of protein and carbohydrate and only small amount of fat, and to hit the target takes real planning. However, if it were easy then we would all be Men's Health cover models. James Haskell was speaking to BBC Sport's Mike Henson. Find out how to get into rugby union with our special guide.","Rugby is , by it s very @placeholder , a physical , aggressive sport and most people appreciate the tough encounters . It 's what attracts many people to play the game .",drugs,decline,trait,qualities,nature,4
"The move came following concerns from politicians about officers carrying weapons while on routine patrol. Opposition parties described the move as a U-turn. However Police Scotland said the standing order allowing the deployment of officers with handguns and Taser stun guns would continue. The ""national standing firearms authority"", in place since April 2013, allows a limited number of trained armed response vehicle officers to deploy with side arms and Tasers across Scotland. Councillors in the Borders and Highlands have voiced concern, as well as opposition MSPs. Many will see this as a U-turn. Last year, Police Scotland rolled out a policy to allow firearms officers to carry handguns with them at all times while on duty rather than getting kitted up to deal with specific incidents. It proved controversial, with photos emerging of police wearing guns in shopping centres and rural areas. But today they've announced that officers attached to armed response vehicles will now only be used for specific incidents or if there is a threat to life. And - as the BBC revealed yesterday - Police Scotland will review the types of holsters used to carry the handguns. But despite criticism from local authorities and MSPs, police will continue the ""standing order"" which allows firearms officers to carry weapons routinely. Police Scotland Chief Constable Sir Stephen House said the ""national standing firearms authority"" would remain in place, but issued directions on how officers are deployed after listening to the concerns of politicians and members of the public. The national force has also set up a working group, to report in January 2015, which will review how handguns and Tasers are carried, as well as how armed response vehicle officers are used when not deployed to firearm incidents. Police Scotland Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone, said: ""Protecting the public and ensuring that all communities have the same access to specialist policing support, no matter where or when they need it, is at the heart of this decision. ""We have balanced our overriding duty to keep people safe with consideration of the views expressed about the perception of armed officers supporting local policing activities. ""Having a small number of armed police officers available means we can retain our operational flexibility and ensure that more than 98% of our officers remain unarmed, but we remain best placed to support the public when the need arises. The public would expect nothing less."" Policy reviews Mr Livingstone added: ""The chief constable recognised the concerns expressed about the deployment of armed officers. ""As an organisation we acknowledge the local feeling from politicians and some members of the public, as evidenced by the feedback from several local authorities. ""We have listened to those concerns and this has resulted in the chief constable's announcement today."" Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said armed officers are a ""long-standing feature"" of policing in Scotland, but it was for the chief constable to make operational decisions about where and when to deploy them. He added: ""The Scottish government welcomes the findings of the quarterly review of the standing firearms authority, which Police Scotland believes balances public safety while taking into account the views of local communities across Scotland. ""Ministers have noted the commitment to deploy armed officers only to firearms incidents or cases where there is a threat to life. ""We welcome Police Scotland's commitment to regularly review their policy on the deployment of armed officers, which will take into account factors such as current threat levels."" Labour justice spokesman Graeme Pearson, a former senior police office, said: ""I welcome the change of heart reflected in Police Scotland's announcement and I know that local communities across Scotland will be pleased at the review."" Independent Highland MSP John Finnie, who also served as a police officer, added: ""It is a great relief that armed police officers will no longer be seen on our streets dealing with routine police business as this was having a negative impact on community relations."" Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Alison McInnes, whose party consistently asked questions over the firearms policy, added: ""This U-turn is a win for the many local communities across Scotland who were alarmed by this undemocratic and fundamental change in policing approach."" Police Scotland said 275 officers - less than 2% of the force - were currently attached to armed response vehicles, which it said was proportionate and necessary to keep people safe. The force also said it would carefully consider the findings of firearms policy reviews currently being carried out by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority.",Specialist armed police officers in Scotland will in @placeholder only be deployed to firearms incidents or where there is a threat to life .,connection,labour,south,effect,future,4
"In short, it has taken six albums for the wider music press to sit up and take notice of her. Hands up, how many people would have given up before then? ""I never imagined stopping because it was such a part of me and my life that it would feel like a big blow to just quit,"" she says backstage at the Union Chapel in London where she supported The Handsome Family. ""I took up bartending for a little bit to save up for the next record and I did a bunch of side jobs but it was only to save up for music and so as much as I can romanticise about being a bartender in a small town, it's not the life I was meant for."" The native of Phoenix, Arizona started out at the age of 16 touring the bars and taverns of America's west coast. Not easy when people under the age of 21 are generally barred from places selling alcohol. ""Sometimes they'd make you wait outside until you played and then leave as soon as you were done but at that age I'm not sure I would call it work, I was barely breaking even."" She recorded her first album at the age of 16 and, by the time she was 19, she'd added another two   largely self-funded and produced records. It was then that she was asked by fellow Arizona band Jimmy Eat World to join them on tour as a backing singer and she began to figure out that she could scrape together a living. ""I was shocked that you could get paid. Any time I got more than 50 bucks at a show, I would just be astounded, like I got some actual money."" She supplemented her living working as a barmaid to pay for recording sessions and performing Patsy Cline songs on the bar's karaoke machine when she wasn't on the night's line-up. ""I grew up with that DIY-punk mindset, where the bad stuff is more exciting than boring day to day, club, sleep, venue. So I'm very grateful I had those experiences because they made me able to endure the bad things on tour."" Her confessional new album Honest Life - which she wrote and produced - has been shaped by those experiences. Her songs speak of of heartbreak and alienation, with titles like How Quickly Your Heart Mends and Table for One. But there is hope on tracks like Rookie Dreaming and Put the Fire Out. The album has been well received and she has been showered with plaudits, seeing her named by Rolling Stone as one of the ""10 country artists that people need to know"". It has also led to comparisons with the likes of Emmylou Harris and Joni Mitchell. ""I started listening to Joni in my early 20s so she wasn't a big influence on me,"" insists Andrews. ""It's easy to draw comparisons between female singers and her because she is the most ionic female singer-songwriter. And the bangs [fringe] don't help!"" Andrews is mid-way through a European tour and has these words of advice for young artists. ""I think a lot of people get afraid of it, the scary parts, the unknown but that's always been my mentality and motto - just to go full steam ahead go for it. I was talking about it earlier with some band mates about putting yourself out there as much as possible and playing as many gigs as you can and constantly pushing yourself. ""If your song isn't good enough, then get better. challenge yourself and your intuitions."" Honest Life is out now Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","US singer - songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews released her first album at the age of 16 and , at the age of 26 , has just @placeholder Honest Life , her self - produced sixth album .",defended,stirred,released,lost,leaving,2
"Michael Vance, 38, posted two Facebook videos after wounding two police officers on Sunday night. He allegedly escaped in a patrol car and killed two relatives, nearly decapitating one of them. Vance indicated he intends to target several people linked to a sexual assault case against him. ""Letting y'all know, look, this is real,"" the suspect, wearing a blood-soaked shirt, said in one of the videos, which police believe was filmed inside the stolen police car. ""If you want to know what's up next, stay tuned to your local news,"" said Vance. He added that things are ""going to get intense"". In one of the videos he showed off what he said was an AK-47 rifle in the front seat of a car. The bloodshed began on Sunday night after two police officers responded to a report of shots fired in Wellston, 35 miles (56km) northeast of Oklahoma City. Both officers were wounded during a subsequent gun battle with Vance, authorities said. Wellston Officer Jim Hampton, who was shot in the foot, told Oklahoma City television station KOCO he shot the suspect twice. ""He fell to the ground again, laid there for a few minutes, got back up. The firefight was on again. ""At one time, we was actually standing up facing each other, shooting at each other."" Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said Vance fled in a police car. The construction worker is suspected of later shooting a woman and stealing her 2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse at a mobile home park near Wellston. He then allegedly drove about eight miles to the mobile home of two relatives and killed them. In an affidavit, police say Vance attempted to decapitate Robert Everett Wilkson, 55, and cut off the arm of Valeri Kay Wilkson, 54, in a ""rage killing"". Vance also is suspected of shooting a man in the leg in an attempted carjacking early on Monday at a convenience store in Sayre, about 30 miles from the Texas border. He was recently released from Lincoln County Jail in Oklahoma, where he was being held on an allegation of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. Vance, who has a Grim Reaper tattoo on one arm, according to the Oklahoman newspaper, had been scheduled to appear in court next month to face the felony charges. There have been no sightings of him since Monday and Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel said he ""could be anywhere from California to Mexico to Florida"". Vance is now also facing two counts of murder, one count of unauthorised use of a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm after conviction of a felony, according to court documents. Police said Vance has a communicable disease that he ""may attempt to spread"". The Oklahoma County Sheriff's office did not release his medical condition. But officials told ABC News: ""We would urge caution to anyone who comes in contact with this individual."" Vance has previously been convicted of a 2001 felony bogus cheque charge, a 2009 misdemeanor marijuana offence and a 1999 misdemeanor assault charge.",Oklahoma police are hunting a double murder suspect who authorities say live - @placeholder his getaway after a shoot - out with officers .,marked,streamed,tracked,watched,lost,1
"That all came at the end of 13 minutes of frantic action that started on the roof of a stadium in Houston, saw her plummet down to ground level before apparently running a few kilometres. All while singing, and fitting in one costume change. Not bad. The consensus was that Lady Gaga nailed it - it being the half-time show of the Super Bowl, the big date in any American football fan's diary. In doing so, she followed such names as the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and Beyonce (more on her later.) But there was one big question before the game: how political would her show be? So, naturally, our first question is: In the past, Lady Gaga has not been shy in addressing the questions that matter most to her, most notably LGBTQ issues. The show took place barely two weeks since the inauguration of Donald Trump, who is reported to have been preparing an executive order rolling back LGBTQ rights. And given that her show came a year after Beyonce's blistering, politically-charged half-time show, all the expectations were that Gaga's show would be a platform for some sort of pointed message. So in the end, it was perhaps a bit of a surprise that there was not a more explicit message delivered. It was what she had promised, to be fair. ""The only statements that I'll be making during the half-time show are the ones that I've been consistently making throughout my career,"" she had said. And so it proved. There were no dancers dressed as Black Panthers, a la Beyonce. But we did get a brief introduction incorporating the lyrics of Woody Guthrie ""This land is your land/This land is my land"" and the Pledge of Allegiance ""One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."" To those seeking a political statement from Lady Gaga, it did the job. And it will have appeared purely as a patriotic message to everyone else. So win-win. But one moment did stand out for those watching - one of the six songs she delivered was a message to all those who feel excluded, Born This Way. ""No matter gay, straight or bi/Lesbian, transgendered life/I'm on the right track baby/I was born to survive."" (It may not have been a coincidence that this song was chosen, given the presence in the stadium of Vice-President Mike Pence, a bete noire of the LGBTQ movement). Apparently not. In the build-up to the Super Bowl, this was a legitimate concern of the right-wing organisation Infowars. There were no immediate reports by Houston Police of Satanic activity on Sunday night. Well, this is one place where there was an unmistakable message, on a weekend in which a ban on new arrivals to the US from seven Muslim-majority nations was blocked by a judge. That message was: ""We're all one nation together, and we respect where people come from and the journey they took to get here."" This was most obvious in the advert by Airbnb showing people of different colours under the hashtag #weaccept - an ad apparently produced in only a few days last week. ""We believe no matter who you are, where you're from, who you love or who you worship, we all belong,"" the advert said. ""The world is more beautiful the more you accept."" The company, which has been attacked in the past for not being inclusive enough, went on to announce a programme to support refugees. It was obvious too, in the advert for a lumber company showing the journey made by a family from Central America to the States (a longer version posted online shows them arriving at a huge wall, only to find someone had built a door into it). And it was obvious too in the advert by a leading beer company showing the (no doubt fictionalised) struggle its founder had in moving to the US. All reports in Florida, where Mr Trump was on a brief trip, indicate he did not watch the whole match. He did not tweet his opinion of Lady Gaga's show. What happened on the field was equally dramatic. The team in white from Boston made an astonishing recovery, coming back from 28-3 down in the third quarter to beat the team in red from Atlanta in the first overtime in Super Bowl history. Final score: 34-28.","First things first : is Lady Gaga OK ? She was last seen @placeholder the mic , grabbing a flying football and seemingly jumping into a deep pit .",holding,containing,bordering,dropping,praising,3
"A nationalist backlash against mass immigration has been gaining momentum. Since 2008 populist politicians have also harnessed grassroots anger over the financial crisis, globalisation and elite leaders cushioned from hardship. Huge electoral tests are coming up for establishment politicians in the EU. Will Donald Trump's ""Brexit plus plus plus"" turn into a tsunami? A constitutional reform referendum looms on 4 December - and it is now looking like a vote of confidence in centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. He has threatened to resign if he loses the vote. Under the reform bill, the power of the Senate (upper house of parliament) would be reduced, as would the powers of regional governments. Mr Renzi says the plan will cut costs and make Italian governments more stable. Opponents say it will concentrate too much power in the executive. Opinion polls suggest he risks a narrow defeat - and that would boost Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S). In June, M5S did well in regional elections and now runs the cities of Rome and Turin. It is Eurosceptic and wants a referendum on the euro. Five Star's founder, ex-comic Beppe Grillo, tweeted that Mr Trump's election triumph was ""the apocalypse for information, TV, the big newspapers, the intellectuals, the journalists"". Italy PM bets on Obama referendum blessing On the same day as the Italian vote, Western Europe could also see a far-right head of state elected for the first time since World War Two - Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer. In May, former Green Party politician Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly beat Mr Hofer by less than 1% of the vote. But that result was annulled by the country's highest court because of problems with the way postal votes were counted. So Austrians will go back to the polls. The presidency is a mainly ceremonial post, but a win for Mr Hofer would be a hugely symbolic triumph for the far-right, anti-immigration Freedom Party. Could Austria's 16-year-olds derail far-right vote? Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders expressed joy at Donald Trump's victory, and adapted one of the Trump slogans, by tweeting: ""We will make the Netherlands great again"". The Netherlands will hold parliamentary elections on 15 March - the first in a crucial election year for countries at the heart of the EU. ""I will give the Netherlands back to the Dutch,"" Mr Wilders said. That echoed the successful ""take back control"" slogan of the Brexit camp in the UK's 23 June referendum, which set the UK on course to leave the EU. According to a De Hond opinion poll on 6 November, Mr Wilders's populist Freedom Party (PVV) is likely to get 27 seats - so it is neck-and-neck with the liberal VVD of Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Even if the PVV fails to form a ruling coalition it looks set to remain a powerful influence on Dutch policy. Mr Wilders is currently on trial, charged with inciting racial hatred. Nationalist surge challenges Europe National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen is shaking up French politics and is widely expected to get through to the second round of the presidential election in May 2017. Her anti-EU, anti-immigration FN got more than 27% of the vote gains in regional elections in December. But it did not get control of any region, because the two main parties collaborated to defeat it. The centre-right Republicans and centre-left Socialists are expected to repeat those tactics against Ms Le Pen in the presidential vote, if she makes it to the second round. She praised Donald Trump, tweeting that ""a new world is emerging, the global balance of power is being redefined because of Trump's election"". She also mocked the ruling French elite, including the country's top newspapers, for having backed Hillary Clinton. Socialist President Francois Hollande has slumped to the lowest approval rating of any French president since World War Two. Ms Le Pen said the British, with their Brexit vote, had ""fired the first shot"" in the battle against Europe's elites. France will hold parliamentary elections next June. The FN currently has two seats in the National Assembly. The nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) threatens to woo more voters from both left and right of the political spectrum, in the run-up to parliamentary elections in September 2017. The AfD has made gains against Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) in regional elections. Opposition to Mrs Merkel's ""open-door"" policy towards refugees in 2015 boosted the AfD's support. What does Alternative for Germany (AfD) want? In September the AfD came second in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, with almost 21%, behind the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD - 30.6%) but ahead of the conservative CDU (19%). The AfD is widely expected to get at least 10% in the parliamentary elections. It has MPs in nine of Germany's 16 state parliaments, but none yet in the federal parliament. Although it was created by a group of anti-euro economists, the party has gradually shifted further to the right, with anti-Islam rhetoric. Germany's Focus news website says there are clear parallels between the discontent that produced the Brexit and Trump victories and the grievances of AfD supporters. The backlash could equally give the AfD a ""surprise success"" in the 2017 federal elections, it says. Mrs Merkel has not said yet whether she will run for a fourth term as chancellor next year.","First Brexit , then US President - elect Donald Trump . Now the political earthquake rattling the West threatens liberal democratic leaders in Europe , Laurence Peter @placeholder .",reveals,writes,results,show,change,1
"This afternoon, while denying the Withdrawal Bill is a power grab, promising that MPs will have a say on any issue they want, David Davis dangled possible solutions to one of Brexit's very specific issues - and also, to one of the most fundamental problems of all. In recent days there have been rumblings of a rebellion over our membership of Euratom, the European nuclear safety agency. MPs are worried about the implications for science research, for healthcare, and for nuclear safety. And the rebels believe they have the numbers to force the government to shift on its position. This afternoon, Mr Davis suggested that the UK might pursue some kind of ""association"" membership - some kind of relationship where we are still bound by the same rules and regulations and keep our close ties. The details have clearly not yet been decided, and the legal situation is not completely clear (lawyers disagree, just for a change!) but it seems that the government is in the process of concluding that to be stubborn on this issue will give them a political problem. Right on cue, the chair of the UK nuclear authority has spilled the beans, saying that the Business Secretary Greg Clark also told him that associate membership was on the cards. Working out those arrangements won't be straightforward, but ministers seem to want to show flexibility. Second, one of the biggest clashes right across the negotiations is over the European Court of Justice. Theresa May has said repeatedly that the ECJ must not, and will not, be able to overrule the UK courts any more. Essentially, after Brexit, British courts must be totally in charge. For Brussels the reverse is true - the EU 27 believes the EU's courts must still be in charge of policing issues such as EU citizens' rights - basically situations that were created by European law must, in their view, be monitored by the EU even after we leave. It has been clear for ages that some kind of compromise arrangement where separate legal panels with lawyers or judges from both sides could be set up to provide a way through that brick wall. Even the prime minister hinted as much at the last EU summit in Brussels. Today though, for the first time, the Brexit secretary talked more explicitly about ""arbitration mechanisms"", like the agreement between the EU and Canada that will monitor the trade deal between the two, suggesting they were part of the solution. It's clear they are determined that the supremacy of EU law here will come to an end, but now the negotiations are actually under way, and the legislation is starting its long, and likely tetchy, journey through Parliament, ministers are starting to be more open about where they might budge. With 27 other countries lined up against them, and no overall majority in Parliament, a vague whiff of compromise might just be starting to circulate - because, in truth, they have no choice.","Along with the now @placeholder European Union ( Withdrawal ) Bill - the Great Repeal Bill is gone and forgotten - it seems that ministers are starting , even if ever so slowly , to show a bit of leg on where they might budge in the Brexit negotiations .",words,water,passed,titled,representing,3
"Facing off against the UK's Mark Selby at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre on Monday, it will be the closest to world domination the 29-year-old has come after years on the international circuit. He is already the first Asian to make it this far. The story of his rise begins with a fortuitous toilet break. One day when he was eight years old, Ding tagged along with his pool enthusiast father as he visited a hall to hone his skills with a local pool expert, according to a profile on news portal NetEase. It was there that the baby-faced aspirant, affectionately nicknamed ""Little Ding"" by the Chinese press, reportedly discovered his hidden talent. When his father went for a toilet break, Ding decided to take over the cue and  before the elder Ding returned he had won the game. From then on, his parents steeped him in cue sports training, particularly in snooker which is popular in China. 'Half of top 16 will be from China' They sold their grocery business and house, and moved from Jiangsu province to Dongguan city in Guangdong province where Ding, who stopped his formal education at the age of 11, would practise for eight hours a day at a training hall. By the age of 15, Ding began winning national and regional snooker youth championships, fast becoming China's top player. The next decade was spent on the international circuit where he slowly climbed the rankings, becoming the world number two player by 2014. Ding's ascent this season has been watched closely in China, which has a massive snooker following - there are more people who play snooker in China than the rest of the world combined, according to World Snooker. Televised snooker matches have an average audience reach of 79 million; and more than a quarter of TV viewers in China tuned in for Ding's last match on 1 May. For the last sessions in the final, ""they will be going crazy back home for this,"" Ding told Eurosport. ""Around 100m people will be watching me, and this is the smallest figure probably."" On the popular microblogging network Sina Weibo, where Ding has nearly five million fans, Chinese netizens have flooded his page with expressions of support and pledge to stay up all night to watch him. The best-of-35 final is set to resume late on Monday evening local time and last till the early hours of Tuesday. Selby held off Ding's fightback to lead 10-7 after a marathon first day. Hopes are high that he will win, despite some recent setbacks. ""Dingding, my heart hurts after seeing the last few rounds but I believe in a miracle, maybe we all need a miracle to happen. Tell yourself that all is possible, if you strive hard it won't be wasted,"" said one Weibo user. Ding turned in a dismal performance at March's China Open, where he was eliminated in the qualifiers, shocking many in China. Even on the world championship's first day he appeared to falter due to nerves, but in the end managed to win seven frames while Selby had 10, out of the total of 35 frames. It has not gone unnoticed by Chinese media, who have portrayed his qualification for the final as a startling but admirable comeback. One CCTV snooker commentator likened his performance to the Chinese proverb: ""the ailing soldier wins the battle"". ""These few years Ding Junhui has come close to the glory of being world number one, but also many times dallied with embarrassment,"" said one particularly pugnacious Beijing News commentary. ""But Ding is still a snooker player, his battleground is that 6m-long baize... when everyone had written him off, he suddenly made an explosive comeback, a totally unexpected explosion."" The commentary called for a decisive win: ""We hope that in the final he can mercilessly slaughter Selby, and bring home the trophy... In the end a defeat is a slap in the face, so make that slap more violent.""","Millions across China will be watching as Ding Junhui , @placeholder for stardom since he was a teenager , takes to the table for the closing session of the World Snooker Championship final .",tipped,competing,destined,doubts,prop,0
"The world of science and art merging is nothing new, but crystallography is seen by some as an art form in itself. That's why photographer Max Alexander was brought on board - to capture the beauty of crystals and to profile the scientists behind the work. He had previously produced an exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall called Explorers of the Universe. Now as part of the International Year of Crystallography, soon drawing to an end, Mr Alexander has gone from the very large to focussing on the importance of the extremely small. His new exhibition, Illuminating Atoms, presents the work of crystallographers through portrait and documentary photography. It is part of a long-standing tradition at the Royal Albert Hall of showcasing and promoting cutting-edge science, first introduced by Prince Albert's Great Exhibition of 1851. Ever since, this cultural hub of London has been known as ""Albertopolis"". Crystallography is a way of finding the shape of molecules and deducing their atomic arrangement. First, crystallographers must turn what they want to study into a crystal. This arranges the atoms in a structured and ordered way. It is by shining X-rays onto the crystal that scientists can find out the three-dimensional arrangement of the molecule. The diffracted X-rays are then detected while the crystal is rotated. Understanding the shape and structure of molecules helps scientists to figure out how they work. As mentioned in a previous feature when BBC Radio Science covered the start of this celebratory year of crystallography, in the words of Nobel laureate Max Perutz it shows ""why blood is red and grass is green, why diamond is hard and wax is soft, why graphite writes on paper and silk is strong"". Indeed if it wasn't for breakthroughs in this field, Francis Crick and James Watson would not have been able to discover the double-helix structure of DNA. ""Crystallography is very much a field of science that lends itself to an artistic approach. It's not just about pattern recognition,"" says Mr Alexander. ""These [scientists] are people working at the cutting edge of science. The impact they have across all number of sciences is little known."" This includes fields like drug discovery and vaccine development. There's a massive crossover between science and art, he adds. ""Scientists are very creative people, to  draw this creativity out of them helps reconnect the science to the public."" The exhibition comes in two categories, portrait images like this one of crystallographer David Keen (above) who worked with his students to draw a diffraction pattern in the sand. The second aspect is a documentary strand -  a selection of which are featured here. His aim was to tell the story of crystallography around the UK and to showcase some of the facilities used to study its applications. ""Aspects of science can be very difficult to understand but if you can find simple ideas and use those concepts to get those across, that helps to connect the public. Making that connection is paramount to what I do,"" explains Mr Alexander. Working together with crystallographers was an important part of the project. One of these was Elspeth Garman, professor of crystallography at the University of Oxford, in charge of introducing the exhibition. ""They're really interesting photographs that make you think about various aspects of crystallography, beautifully expedited. I'm honoured to be introducing them,"" she says. ""It opens up a new set of people that might be engaged with crystallography and the science, just as we're engaging with the arts. ""My challenge will be trying to communicate what we do and the aesthetic beauty of it to the people who are more on the arts side, it's a fantastic opportunity which can only expand the knowledge, excitement and beauty of the field,"" Prof Garman adds. The exhibition is now available to view at the Royal Albert Hall until 07 December 2014. Follow Melissa on twitter","To reveal the structure of molecules , scientists use a process called X-ray crystallography . Now a photographer has captured images featuring @placeholder of the technique , illuminating the structure of matter itself .",members,variations,signs,details,parts,3
"Brisbane's Courier-Mail, said dozens of photos were taken without knowledge or consent and that other images were stolen from customer phones. Apple confirmed an inquiry and said ""several"" jobs had been terminated. But it said its inquiry had so far not shown that any photos had been stolen. No-one had been photographed without consent, the inquiry had indicated. The photos - including more than 100 close-up and intimate images according to the Courier-Mail - were said to have been shared and the women's bodies then rated. The newspaper said the possible privacy breach came to light after a fellow employee noticed a store technician looking through a customer's phone in the repair room. One staff member told the newspaper they were concerned the same thing was happening in other Australian Apple stores, including in Sydney. Apple said the allegations, if true, would constitute a violation of the company's business conduct policy. ""Apple believe in treating everyone equally and with respect, and we do not ­tolerate behaviour that goes against our values,"" it said in a statement. ""We have met with our store team to let them know about the investigation and inform them about the steps Apple is taking to protect their privacy."" The Australian Privacy Commissioner is also looking into the alleged privacy breach. ""We are aware of the reports and will be making enquiries with Apple to seek further information,"" said commissioner Timothy Pilgrim. ""This is an important reminder that all organisations that collect and manage personal information need to embed a culture of privacy and ensure employees understand their responsibilities.""","Apple has fired a number of employees at a store in Brisbane , Australia , amid allegations they shared photos of female customers and colleagues and @placeholder their bodies out of 10 .",ranked,abandoned,picked,replaced,stripped,0
"But even aside from the Russia dossier, a host of controversies have arisen since the president-elect last faced reporters. Ahead of the conference, we compiled a list of a few questions they might want to put to him after all this time. So did they get asked and - more importantly - did he answer? Q: Were any of your team in contact with Russian officials during the campaign? An unsubstantiated report leaked to the press alleges that there was secret contact between the Trump campaign team and Moscow concerning compromising material on the president-elect. Did it come up? Mr Trump failed to answer when asked directly about contact, but did say there was no truth to any part of the report earlier in the press conference. Q: You are about to assume the highest office in the land. Will you completely divest yourself of your business interests? The president-elect's wide-ranging business interests are a major source of concern. The US Office of Government Ethics has said only a full divestiture from his business interests can protect Mr Trump's presidency from conflicts, but he has so far refused to meet this demand. Did it come up? Yes - and Mr Trump confirmed he would be handing total control of his businesses to his two sons and he would have no hand at all in its running. ""Don and Eric [his sons] are going to be running the company,"" he told reporters. ""They are going to be running it in a very professional manner. They're not going to discuss it with me."" The business will also be donating all income made by its hotels from foreign governments to the US Treasury, and said no foreign deals would be made during Mr Trump's term in office. But significant questions remain about whether he has done enough - the Office of Government Ethics has already said he hasn't. Q: Do you have confidence in the US intelligence services, and do you think they have confidence in you? Mr Trump had lashed out at the FBI, CIA and NSA after they said that they had reached a consensus that Russia was behind the hacking of the Democratic party. It was an unprecedented move for a president-elect to question the country's own intelligence services. Did it come up? Almost. Mr Trump was asked ""do you have a problem with the intelligence community"", which he did not answer at the time. Later, he said he thought their work was ""vital"" but he did say he thought it was ""pretty sad"" that documents were being leaked by the agencies. Q: You mocked Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over their attempts at a ""reset"" of relations with Russia. How does your approach to improving relations differ from theirs? Mr Trump has repeatedly praised Russian leader Vladimir Putin and said he wishes to improve US-Russia relations, but there is little indication as to how his plans differ from those of the Obama administration in 2009. Did it come up? Mr Trump did touch on his relationship with Mr Putin, telling reporters ""Russia will have a much greater respect"" for the US under his administration, adding there was ""no reset button"". Earlier, he said: ""I don't know that I'm going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't. ""And if I don't, do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me? Does anybody in this room really believe that? Give me a break."" Other details remain unclear. Q: How have your nominations made good on your campaign promise to ""drain the swamp""? The president-elect has faced criticism for pledging to drain the Washington ""swamp"" of lobbyists and corporate interests, only to appoint former Goldman Sachs staffers and the CEO of Exxon Mobil to his cabinet. Did it come up? Not quite, but Mr Trump was dismissive when asked about appointing people with potential conflicts of interest. ""I think we have one of the great cabinets ever put together, and we've been hearing that from so many people. People are so happy."" Q: John Kelly, your nomination for homeland security, said yesterday: ""I don't think it's ever appropriate to focus on something like religion."" Is he contradicting your position, or have you changed your mind? Mr Trump caused huge controversies during the campaign when he called for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States, and suggested that his administration would compile a registry of Muslims in the country. His actual intentions regarding these policies remain uncertain. Did it come up? No. Q: You told the New York Times this week that you intend to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it ""very quickly or simultaneously"". What's your plan? Both Democrats and Republicans have voiced concerns over the president-elect's stated intention to repeal so-called Obamacare immediately. Mr Trump's team has not outlined a plan for what might replace the programme, which provides 20 million Americans with health cover. Did it come up? Yes, but the details remain non-existent - Mr Trump would only reveal that the new plan would make people ""very, very proud"". Q: You suggested in a recent tweet that the US should ""greatly strengthen and expand"" its nuclear weapons programme until the world ""comes to its senses"". Can you explain how the US ramping up its nuclear weapons programme helps the world come to its senses? Mr Trump has been accused of jeopardising decades of nuclear non-proliferation efforts by calling for the US to strengthen its arsenal and reportedly saying: ""Let it be an arms race"" with Russia. Both countries currently have about 4,000 nuclear warheads in their stockpiles. Did it come up? No. Q: How do you plan to make Mexico pay for a border wall? The Wall was the key rallying cry of the Trump campaign, and his fans delighted in his claim that Mexico would pay for it. But Mexico's president has said emphatically that it won't, and the Trump team has yet to outline a detailed plan for how to raise the funds. Did it come up? Yes, but there are no clearer details on how it will be funded - although Mr Trump was clear it would be a wall, and not a fence as some have suggested. It will also be a top priority, if Wednesday's press conference is anything to go by. ""I don't feel like waiting a year or a year-and-a-half. We're going to start building. Mexico in some form, and there are many different forms, will reimburse us and they will reimburse us for the cost of the wall. That will happen, whether it's a tax or whether it's a payment - probably less likely that it's a payment. But it will happen."" Q: How would you keep North Korea's nuclear weapons programme under control? North Korea could be one of the major foreign policy tests for Mr Trump's administration. The world's most unpredictable state claimed this week it was developing Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles which could strike the US mainland. Did it come up? No.","US President - elect Donald Trump gave his first news conference in nearly six months on Wednesday . There had been speculation over whether the @placeholder would go ahead , following the leak of a dossier containing unsubstantiated allegations that Russian security services had compromising information on Mr Trump .",election,event,word,future,document,1
"Heads and principals who have played a key role in turning around a school or college will get the letters, with a copy going to the education secretary. Sir Michael Wilshaw set out the plan as he confirmed a switch to more frequent, but shorter Ofsted inspections. Heads said the changes could make inspections fairer and more effective. The plans are designed to encourage school leaders who put their careers on the line to tackle troubled schools. In a speech in London, Sir Michael said: ""Those leaders who are taking risks, putting themselves out and disseminating good practice beyond their own institution need to be celebrated as exceptional reformers."" On the move to shorten inspections, Sir Michael said it would ""reduce the burden of inspection without losing the rigour which parents and the public rightly expect of Ofsted"". The new inspections will last a single day, rather than two days as at present, and be led by two senior inspectors or HMIs. ""Make no mistake, this a very different inspection model to what has gone before,"" Sir Michael said. ""The starting assumption of HMIs will be that the school or college is good. This should engender an atmosphere in which honest, challenging, professional dialogue can take place."" The changes are due to come into force in September along with changes to the way Ofsted inspectors are hired and managed. More Ofsted inspectors will be drawn from staff in good and outstanding schools and colleges, for example. Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: ""While we welcomed Ofsted's plan to carry out short inspections of 'good' schools rather than full inspections, we felt that schools likely to be downgraded, or upgraded, should immediately have the required full inspection rather than being kept in limbo. We are reassured that our advice has been acted upon. ""We are also pleased that the emphasis in Ofsted's revised school inspection handbook will be on assessing schools on the outcomes they achieve for students, particularly in terms of the progress made at school. ""We believe it is right that the inspection system should focus on outcomes, rather than telling schools how to teach. This is a step in the right direction.""",Exceptional school leaders in England are to be @placeholder with a personal letter from Ofsted 's chief inspector as part of new inspection arrangements .,held,transformed,rewarded,recognised,issued,3
"Sales in the clothing and home arm fell by 2.7% on a like-for-like basis in the 13 weeks to 26 March. New chief executive Steve Rowe took over form Marc Bolland this month. ""Although the sales decline in clothing and home was lower than last quarter, our performance remains unsatisfactory and there is still more we need to do,"" said Mr Rowe. ""Turning around our clothing and home business by improving our customer offering is our number one priority."" Mr Rowe, former executive director of general merchandise, replaced Mr Bolland on 2 April. The clothing decline was less steep than analysts had expected, but the division has seen just one quarter of like-for-like sales growth in 21 quarters. On food, M&S said that like-for-like sales were unchanged, but that thanks to the opening of 80 new stores during the year it had seen its market share grow to 4.3%. Meanwhile, the High Street firm said that there had been improvements in its digital offering. It said there had been improvements to the firm's website including increased website speeds and ease of navigation, and sales from M&S.com rose 8.2%. On its international business, the company said it expected to see continued ""challenging trading conditions"". Clive Black, head of research at Shore Capital, says fixing M&S's clothing problems, ""while not necessarily insurmountable... will not be an easy or quick process. If it was then we assert that it would have been done so before now"". He added: ""Equally, we do not believe that it is an impossible task either and Steve Rowe may be particularly, nay distinctively, positioned to make the necessary changes to see things through as an M&S 'lifer'. ""The solutions somewhat obviously revolve around product, merchandising, marketing and price to the extent that M&S can engineer a necessary process of positive change that delivers sustainable same-store and then trading profit growth in general merchandise."" And Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown said: ""Clothing continues to be a rather large millstone around Marks and Spencer's neck, with yet another quarter of declining sales. ""New boss Steve Rowe intends to tackle this problem head on, but we have to wait until May to get details of his strategy to revitalise the brand.""",Marks and Spencer 's new chief executive has vowed to turn around the fortunes of its @placeholder clothing division .,fashion,roots,struggling,neighbour,remaining,2
"Under the Nottinghamshire County Council plan, the other three council-run homes will close as planned within a year in a bid to save £4m a year. The county council said it was too expensive to modernise the homes, which would cost at least £24m. Around 9,000 people signed petitions against the closures. Leivers Court in Gedling, Bishop's Court in Ollerton and James Hince Court in Worksop would remain open for an additional three years under the plans. The three care homes that are closing are Woods Court in Newark,  St.Michael's View in Retford and Kirklands at Kirkby in Ashfield. They are expected to close ""within the next year"", but no firm timetable has been set. All six homes will eventually be replaced by extra care centres, where residents will have support but be more independent. The three-year extension to the homes will ""reduce pressure on NHS hospital beds, create more extra places and support families and carers"", the council said. Councillor Muriel Weisz said it is ""investing £12.65m on extra care schemes across the county to widen the choice and variety of care and support that is available to local older people."" The revised plans will be considered at a full meeting on 26 February.",Three of six care homes threatened with closure will remain open for an additional three years under @placeholder from a county council .,licence,control,members,reading,proposals,4
"East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton believes the type of aircraft allowed to carry out aerobatics needs to be looked at. He led a debate on the crash and its implications for future air displays at Westminster Hall on Tuesday. Eleven people died when a vintage jet crashed in to the A27 in West Sussex. The Conservative MP said although a lot of work went into making air shows as safe as possible, the implications of the crash in Shoreham must be discussed. ""I think there will have to be some changes. We need to know exactly why the pilot was flying where he was, at that height, so close to the road. ""Do we just need to change the [flight] pattern, do we need not to have certain types of very powerful and also quite old vintage aircraft? ""Is it not suitable for those type of aircraft? I don't know."" He added: ""People are keen not to rush to judgement. The Shoreham Airshow is a very popular part of the Shoreham calendar, it's been going very safely for the past 26 years and I hope we can retain it in some form."" Two days after the crash on 22 August, the Civil Aviation Authority banned vintage jets from performing high-energy aerobatics over land at air shows, limiting them to flypasts only. It also grounded all Hawker Hunter jets until further notice. An initial Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report found the Hawker Hunter jet showed ""no abnormal indications"" during its flight. It also said pilot Andy Hill was thrown clear of the aircraft during the later part of the crash but it was not clear whether he initiated his ejection. The Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA), which organises Shoreham Airshow, said it continued to ""provide the authorities with our full cooperation and support in their endeavours to find all the answers"" to the ""tragedy at Shoreham"".","Changes may have to be made to the rules @placeholder the Shoreham Airshow following last month 's fatal crash , an MP has said .",leaving,treat,impact,surrounding,group,3
"British astronaut Tim Peake photographed one from orbit that would just about fit inside Central London's ring road. But at 26km by 13km (16 miles by 8 miles), it was a tiddler compared with the berg that is about to break away from the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula. A rift has grown across the edge of the Larsen C Ice Shelf. A thin, 5km-long section of the floating shelf is now all that prevents a 6,000-sq-km berg from drifting away into the Weddell Sea. Think about the size for a moment. That's more than a quarter the area of Wales. Keen to gather some more statistics, scientists have used the Cryosat spacecraft to run the rule over the putative iceberg. As we all know, blocks of ice sit mostly under the water, and the European Space Agency (Esa) satellite has a special radar altimeter that is able to figure out by how much. From orbit, Cryosat senses the height of the ice sticking above the surface - the so-called freeboard. It's then a relatively simple calculation to work out the draft - the hidden part below water. ""Cryosat has these two radar antennas that allow us to get an extensive swath across the berg and enable us to build an elevation model,"" Dr Noel Gourmelen from the University of Edinburgh told BBC News. From this, the average thickness of the would-be berg is calculated to be about 190m, but there are places where the draft is around 210m. It means the ice above the water surface stands roughly 30m high. Dr Gourmelen says there is an estimated 1,155 cubic km of ice in the block. This is all very useful information because it tells scientists a lot about where and how fast the Larsen object might move once it becomes free. And those are critical details if the berg were to reach shipping lanes to become a navigation hazard. Bergs get pushed by winds and currents, of course, but a couple of other factors also come in to play simply because of the Larsen object's sheer bulk. Remarkably, one is a gravitational effect. Winds drive sea-level higher near Antarctica's coasts compared with the centre of the ocean - by something like half a metre. The Larsen berg will actually slide down this slope under its own weight, but it will not move in a straight line. Instead, it will veer left as a result of the Coriolis force that stems from the Earth's rotation. This movement could be interrupted, though, if the berg's keel then gets snagged on the ocean bottom. The waters close to Antarctica are shallow and there's a good chance the berg will dig in, gouging a huge trough in the seafloor as it then turns round. It's called ""kedging"" - a term used by sailors, coined from the use of the kedge anchor to manipulate the course of a vessel, explains Dr Mark Drinkwater, one of Esa's senior Earth observation scientists. “The icebergs often shoal and pivot or spin around their grounding point, resulting in stop and go motion or a change in direction. So, the iceberg from Larsen C could take some time before it escapes the shallow [waters] of the western Weddell Sea."" Dr Anna Hogg from Leeds University added: ""That said, it's not impossible it could simply become stuck on some high-rise topography on the ocean floor. We've seen that before where an iceberg becomes a semi-permanent ice island in the Weddell Sea."" The expectation, however, is that the berg will bump and grind its way northward in near-coast currents, along the Peninsula. Past history suggests it will eventually be exported on one of four major iceberg ""highways"" that lead beyond Antarctica. In this instance, the route is one that sends the berg into the circumpolar current and on to an eastward arc towards the South Atlantic. The penguins and seals on the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia may well get to see it, or its fragments, as it passes by in a few years' time. And I mean years. Prof Helen Fricker, from California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, says she was tracking two large objects in 1993, a full seven years after their 95km-by-95km parent berg calved from the Larsen C Ice Shelf. What's nice about Tim's berg is that he managed to capture it on a normal SLR optical camera. That's unusual because Antarctica is very often covered in cloud, and it doesn't matter how big a lens you have - the ocean surface will be obscured. It's why radar satellites are so important. The wavelengths they work at pierce cloud and winter darkness. Indeed, the only reason we know this new Larsen berg is about to calve is because Europe's Sentinel-1 radar satellites take a detailed look at the shelf's behaviour every six days. ""What the current Larsen situation has highlighted is that we're now able to monitor the situation with a frequency we've never had before,"" says Dr Hogg. ""We can get pictures from the two Sentinel-1 satellites in about half an hour of them being acquired. The satellites we have now are revolutionising our study of the polar regions,"" she told BBC News. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos","Everybody is fascinated by icebergs . The idea that you can have blocks of @placeholder water the size of cities , and bigger , sparks our sense of wonder .",interest,words,salt,affected,frozen,4
"On Saturday at London's O2 Arena, Anthony Joshua went from mildly stimulating to eye-poppingly potent. The frenzied reaction that greeted Joshua's seventh-round knockout of a game Dillian Whyte said it all: heavyweight savagery is boxing's signature dish - and Joshua stuffs fans full of it. Cometh a man who not only serves it up in spades but can take the roughest of licks. A left hook landed by Whyte in the second round would have knocked most men cold. Joshua, having walked through 14 previous opponents, shook it off, regained his shape and wrought revenge. And how spiteful was the finish. Having sent Whyte reeling with a right to the temple, Joshua stalked his wounded quarry with relish - blood in his nostrils, swinging a slaughterman's axe. But amid the shambles, Joshua delivered the telling uppercut with a surgeon's precision. The sight of Whyte dangling on the bottom rope, senses scattered about the canvas, cut through the rapture like a shiver. In 19 minutes and 27 seconds of boxing, Joshua learned more about his craft - and himself - than in his previous 14 professional contests put together. The 26-year-old from Watford now knows his whiskers smooth out when ruffled; that he can recover from a crisis; that he can haul that hulking frame through six and a half rounds of thickening mayhem; that he can muster the same power in the middle rounds as he can at the sound of the opening bell. ""Dillian was very strong and very game,"" said Joshua, who has been tipped for superstardom since winning super-heavyweight gold at the 2012 Olympics. ""Some fighters don't know how to handle getting hit. But I showed I've got heart. I cleared the red mist, took round three off and reverted to what I'd been told. I started boxing, using the overhand right more than the left hook, and it got him out of there. That fight was what I had needed for two years."" Joshua also now knows it is not wise to let his emotions get the better of him. Whyte, who called his rival ""a scumbag and a fake"" during an ill-tempered build-up and holds a win over Joshua in the amateurs, wanted it to get personal and got his wish. Joshua, no stranger to street law despite the affable patter, likened the early stages to a fight on the cobbles. But when he stopped loading up on every shot and applied some science, Joshua was in a different neighbourhood. However, Joshua doesn't want to abandon the street altogether. That affable patter and beaming smile will get the plenty of grannies onside but far better to be a nasty piece of work between the ropes. When the gloves are on and the fists are pumping, Joshua does nasty as well as any big man since Mike Tyson. Asked to explain his late flurry of blows that caused an alarming ring invasion at the end of round one, Joshua replied: ""It's not golf, is it? It's a fight. I enjoyed showing that talk is cheap. There was bad blood between us."" Asked whether Whyte had earned his respect, Joshua replied: ""No, not really."" Joshua was presumably referring to Whyte's qualities as a man rather than his boxing ability. No great stylist, Whyte did prove himself to be a man of iron chin and will. But he also proved that while standing and trading with Joshua might bring a certain amount of success, it's only going to produce one winner. However, there is one man out there, his fin sharking through the foaming, quickening soup that is the British heavyweight scene, who knows better. Indeed, Tyson Fury could be Joshua's worst nightmare. Just as Fury was Wladimir Klitschko's worst nightmare when they fought a fortnight ago. Not only did Fury use his superior height and reach to great effect against Klitschko, he confounded Klitschko with his movement. And if the man who had reigned over heavyweight boxing for the best part of a decade couldn't lay a glove on Fury, Joshua would do well to steer well clear. For now, at least. Whether Fury beats Klitschko in a rematch next summer or not, a fight between Fury and Joshua will happen. British boxing fans will be keeping everything crossed that Fury still has his two world title belts when it does. North versus south; cunning versus thunder; pantomime villain versus avenging angel; one with a black hat, the other with a white hat. As Sonny Liston used to say of boxing, ""like a cowboy movie"". Two characters fed into the promotional machine and robbed of any subtlety and nuance. It would sell out Wembley Stadium twice over. In a minute. And might not last much longer. Meanwhile, the task of Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn will be a difficult one. ""After that performance against Whyte people will be saying Anthony Joshua is the real deal,"" said Hearn. ""But he still has a little bit of work to do. ""People say to me, 'Put him in with Fury or Klitschko or [WBC champion] Deontay Wilder.' We'll get there. In the meantime, that fight against Whyte was so important. ""That was a lot of pressure on the young man's shoulders. He'd only had 14 fights and was headlining a pay-per-view card at the O2. After two rounds it caught up with him; there was a lot of emotion and nervous energy. But that experience will be vital in him becoming heavyweight champion of the world."" Joshua's first defence of his newly acquired British title - if Hearn chooses to take him down that route - will be in April and a fight against fellow Briton and former world title contender Dereck Chisora would seem to make sense. Then again, Chisora's best days are behind him - he was knocked out by David Haye in 2012 and totally outclassed by Fury last November - and an early finish would be construed as a step in the wrong direction. Haye, who makes his comeback in January after a three-year lay-off, would be a step too far. Hearn also mentioned pitching Joshua against the winner of Vyacheslav Glazkov and Charles Martin, who are set to fight for the vacant IBF belt next spring, Fury having been stripped for fighting Klitschko again. However, Joshua is ranked only eighth by the IBF and might have to wait his turn. All of which means Joshua and Whyte might do it all again. Given what went off in London on Saturday, not many would be complaining. In an era when heavyweight savagery is a rare old treat, Joshua is a veritable, moveable feast.","To see a titan cut down above your ringside seat is to marvel at monstrous brutality and human purity . It is to experience boxing 's ultimate high , while finding @placeholder with the abolitionist . Heavyweight boxing - in its purest form - is just so destructive . And so dangerously addictive .",fault,satisfaction,comfort,relationship,sympathy,4
"Three sightings have been reported in recent days, in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, north Pembrokeshire and Anglesey. Dr Peter Richardson, of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS), said Wales' waters were currently ""turtle heaven"". The turtles nest in the Caribbean before travelling to UK waters to feed. Dr Richardson said there had been high numbers of jellyfish - the food source of the leatherback - reported in the Irish Sea this year. He added: ""The waters around Wales are absolutely perfect at the moment for turtles - turtle heaven."" ""What we have seen in the last few weeks is a sudden increase in the number of leatherbacks reported off the coast of the UK, mostly the south west, but in the last few days we have had three reports of leatherbacks off Wales."" Describing the leatherback as a ""spectacular animal,"" he added: ""Wales boasts the largest leatherback ever recorded anywhere on the planet. ""In 1988, a dead one washed up at Harlech... and it measured just under 3m (10ft), nose to tail, and weighed just under a tonne."" In 2002 and 2005 there were about 70 sightings of leatherback turtles around the British coast, but since 2007 there have been 20 or fewer reported annually, according to the MCS.","Reported sightings of leatherback turtles are increasing off Wales , with the reptiles thought to be @placeholder by high numbers of jellyfish .",held,replaced,drawn,built,deployed,2
"Having made the European finals for the first time, NI are preparing to play Poland in Nice on Sunday. ""I have had some tough years playing for the national team for a long time,"" said 34-year-old midfielder Baird, who has 78 international caps. ""I have enjoyed every minute of it, but this beats everything."" Baird made his NI debut in 2003 under Sammy McIlroy when the team was on a long run without a goal. Derby County's Baird, who had a brief loan spell with his old club Fulham last season, added: ""It is fantastic and we really just want to get on with it now."" Boss Michael O'Neill said the build-up could not have gone any better, having had the unprecedented benefit of three weeks working with his squad. The players trained on a warm morning in Saint-Georges-de-Reneins, in a temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. Media playback is not supported on this device Northern Ireland were one of the first squads to touch down in France, landing in Lyon on Sunday afternoon and being met by local dignitaries before police escorted the squad bus to their secluded hotel. The next morning they travelled to their training ground, Parc de Montchervet, a tidy, compact sports and cultural centre. A superb playing surface has been prepared and manager O'Neill was impressed with the way the venue had been transformed since they selected it as their base. ""It couldn't be better and the hotel is excellent too. The players think it is brilliant,"" he said. Northern Ireland will have four more training sessions in Saint-Georges-de-Reneins this week, with two young Irish League prospects having the privilege of being part of the action. Paul Smyth of Linfield and Glenavon's Joel Cooper are being brought in to make up the numbers for some training work. On Saturday the squad will have a work-out at the 35,000-capacity Stade de Nice with their opening match on Sunday.","Northern Ireland had their first Euro 2016 training session in France on Monday with veteran player Chris Baird saying : "" It really has @placeholder in now . """,opened,revealed,held,begun,sunk,4
"Each year, 1,691 children in the UK are diagnosed with cancer. In England and Wales, 82% of those diagnosed survive for five years or more. If you Google ""How do I tell my child they have cancer"" you get 201 million results - a whole host of organisations, charities and people wanting to help. But experts say it's important to keep things simple. On those sites, you will discover the many different terms used to describe cancer ranging from ""tumour"" to ""poorly blood"". But these different terms can confuse children, according to Helen Lythgoe, a children's lead Macmillan nurse, and she advises that it is better to stick with one term you feel comfortable with. It is often better to use the word cancer and be clear about what it means, as children may hear the word used in a different context and worry about it. Michael Buble ""devastated"" by son's diagnosis Ms Lythgoe warns parents not to be scared to talk to their child about what is happening and, because of the emotions surrounding the diagnosis, to plan what you're going to say. She says: ""Children are very matter-of-fact about things. Once they know what is going on they will generally carry on as normal. ""It is often better to explain what's happening bit by bit, or when there is a change, this helps to build up their understanding so is not overwhelming."" Talking about cancer and the diagnosis can be reassuring, according to the NHS Live Well website, but the approach of parents may differ depending on the age of their child and what they may understand. For example, Cancer.net says that very young children will not understand much about cancer; their primary fear is that they will be taken away from their parents and this is what they need reassurance about. As children get older they are less likely to think their condition was caused by something they did or thought, says cancer.net. They start understanding more that they will need to undergo other treatment. All children need reassurance that: Older children may hear about cancer from other sources including the TV, and the internet, so parents should encourage them to share what they have learned. Teenagers may have lots of questions and be interested in learning more about their diagnosis, often thinking about the disease in terms of the effect on daily life, such as school, sports, and friends. Side effects relating to their physical appearance can be a priority for them and some may want to play a role in making decisions about their treatment. Whatever the age of the child, the most important way any parent can help is simply to talk.",Singer Michael Buble and his actress wife Luisana Lopilato have revealed their three - year - old son has cancer . The couple said they were dropping all work @placeholder . But how do other parents facing this devastating news go about telling their child ?,arrangements,commitments,discussion,words,here,1
"Lord Warner was named by the government 12 months ago after years of the department being rated inadequate. In 2013, it was branded a ""national disgrace"", but last year the council pledged £9.2m to improve practices. Lord Warner said there had been ""significant improvements"", but more was needed. Since 2006 there have been 24 serious case reviews in the area. ""I think they're safer than they were 12 months ago and certainly Birmingham City Council has put a lot more money into those services, not before time I might add, but they're not as safe as they could be,"" he said. ""The issue is around have they got enough social workers, particularly enough experienced social workers, and is the social work practice good enough? And the answer to both those questions is it's not good enough yet. ""They've made children's services the top priority for the council and at a time of great financial hardship they've committed to big increases in the funding for children's services all the way up to 2017 and 18."" He said changes meant the council, the local NHS and police were all working much better together and there were about a third more children being referred than a year ago. Despite offering increased salaries, the council said earlier this month it was still struggling to appoint enough experienced staff. ""What's happened since last year, when I arrived, is certainly Birmingham has improved the front door - the people who receive the referrals and the contacts of which children are at risk,"" Lord Warner said. In August, Bernadette McNally was appointed to take over running children's services in Birmingham, but in October she said she was no longer interested in the role. An interim boss was found and in February Alastair Gibbons took over as executive director, the fourth since 2009. Despite the ""hiccup"" surrounding Ms McNally's appointment, Lord Warner said improvements had also been made in management. However, he said changing the culture would ""take time"". The peer is due to finish his time as commissioner to Birmingham's children's services at the end of May.","More work is needed to @placeholder children in Birmingham , according to the commissioner appointed to oversee the children 's services department .",send,replace,protect,serve,treat,2
"Almost eight years later he doesn't look quite so crazy. Airbnb - the room letting website he helped to create - has been used by 60 million guests in 190 countries around the world, and has been valued at a staggering $25.5bn (£17.8bn; €23.4bn). That's more than many of the established players in the hotel sector. Yet in the early days Mr Blecharczyk said the idea was ridiculed by both investors and friends alike. ""So many people thought this was a crazy idea when they first heard it. They said certainly no one is going to allow strangers into their home, and so it was dismissed very quickly. ""A lot of these disruptive innovative ideas can easily be dismissed at first glance because they're so novel that you just think it's not possible."" It all began in 2007 when fellow co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia couldn't afford the rent on their San Francisco apartment. There was a design conference coming up in the city and all the hotels were full so they put some air mattresses in the loft and created a simple website to advertise the room for rent. Instead of a bed and breakfast they called it an airbed and breakfast - the name and the idea was born. The fact that a company which didn't even exist a decade ago can now be one of the big players in the accommodation industry is indicative of how technology is shaking up the status quo in established industries. Taxi hailing app Uber, commercial music-streaming service Spotify and the mighty Amazon have all wreaked havoc on their less technology-savvy rivals. The changes mean that the qualities required in the boardroom are also shifting. Traditionally the best route to the top has been from a management or financial background, but increasingly tech know-how is valued. ""Suddenly all of this technology that you used to have to go to your computer to use is going to be embedded in every aspect of your life and really driving the offline world. ""So I think as a CEO thinking about where the future is going to lie and knowing that it's going to be something completely different today is important,"" says Mr Blecharczyk. It's a shift that CEO coach Steve Tappin, who works with many top chief executives around the world, says he's noticed. ""In the past, the idea of a geek in the boardoom was unthinkable. But technology is having a profound impact not just on products but the way businesses are run,"" he says. Telstra chief executive Andrew Penn rose to the top via the traditional route; he was previously the Australian telecommunications firm's chief financial officer. Nonetheless, he says that having a good grip on the technical side of the business is essential to his role. ""You've got to get your head around it. ""I don't know that means we necessarily all need to become software coders, but you do need to know enough as a CEO of a company to ask the right questions, to formulate a point of view about whether or not we had the right strategy, to get the right quality people around you that can make a difference from a technology standpoint."" Of course, as the rise of new start-ups such as Airbnb indicate, tech is also a fast-moving world. Staying on top of it means not only being aware of the changes, but ensuring the company is agile enough to react to them. Victor Koo, chief executive of video-sharing giant Youku Tudou, often dubbed China's YouTube, says since the firm launched just under a decade ago the demands of its audience have already shifted dramatically. In 2006, the company's customers were accessing content almost entirely on their desktop computers, now more than 60% of users access the firm's content via their mobiles. He says such a rapid pace of change means that the structure of the organisation and the traditional reporting hierarchies within it need to be shaken up, even if temporarily. ""When you draw an organisational chart - it's really things that we came up with back in the industrial change, right?"" he says. ""And we're in the internet world where the world's changing very quickly, and the traditional kind of reporting lines and kind of pyramid structure needs to be adapted."" He says this could mean short-term changes, such as bringing together people for a particular project, before they return to their usual roles. To help keep up with the rapid pace of change, the Chinese company has created ""quick task teams"" which work across different departments, can brainstorm ideas and come up with new ways of doing things. His advice to fellow chief executives is ""act now"". ""In terms of mistakes it's often not acting quickly enough. I'm not saying you need to bet the farm. But if you spend too much time thinking about it the opportunity has already passed,"" he says. This feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig.",""" You 're crazy "" was what people said when they found out that Nathan Blecharczyk was working on a website which would allow people around the world to rent their spare room or @placeholder to strangers .",bed,property,house,change,room,1
"Baoding Rongda were leading 2-1 when referee Huang Xiang awarded visitors Wuhan Zall a penalty during seven minutes of stoppage time. The referee was confronted by players and staff at the final whistle, fans threw objects and there was a power cut at the stadium, Chinese media reports. Police and the Chinese Football Association (CFA) are investigating. The officials had to be escorted off the pitch by security staff. Baoding chairman Meng Yongli burst into tears in front of journalists after the match, alleging his side had been cheated out of the win. He gathered reporters on the pitch to announce he was pulling the team out of China League One, before quitting as chairman hours later, citing ""personal reasons"". The club, which are based to the south west of Beijing and are at the bottom of the second tier, subsequently apologised and said they had no intention of leaving the competition. The CFA said in a statement: ""We would like the club to express its opinion in a calm manner. In the meantime we call on the fans to remain rational and restrained."" The CFA has issued a series of lengthy bans in to star names including former Chelsea midfielder Oscar, who plays for Shanghai SIPG. He sparked a mass brawl during a match in China's Super League. Chinese football also has a history of controversy involving referees and officials. In 2009, authorities launched a high-profile crackdown on corruption in the sport, leading to dozens of arrests and prison sentences. One of China's top referees, Lu Jun, was jailed in 2012 after taking bribes to fix matches. Baoding is not just known for the football club. The Chinese stress balls, Baoding balls, were first made in the city and continue to be made there today. The balls are thought to exercise hand muscles, improve brain function and reduce stress - although this is unsupported by scientific evidence.",Four match officials have been @placeholder after a controversial draw in Chinese football 's second division on Saturday .,attacked,sacked,released,injured,suspended,0
"Weekly direct flights from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to the island will run from June until September in 2016. Blue Islands' managing director Rob Veron said:  ""We look forward to welcoming more visitors to discover our beautiful Bailiwick of Guernsey."" The airline already operates services to Geneva, London City and Southampton.","A new flight route from Liverpool to Guernsey will be operated by Blue Islands , the Channel Islands - based airline @placeholder .",title,announced,reveal,team,group,1
"The women, who famously appeared semi-nude in a charity calendar that inspired a hit film, joined Camilla at Buckingham Palace. They were joined by thousands of Women's Institute (WI) members, at least one from every branch. The duchess is a member of the Tetbury WI near her Highgrove home. She was joined at the party by three other royals, the Countess of Wessex, the Duchess of Gloucester and the Queen's cousin Princess Alexandra. Members of the Rylstone and District WI in North Yorkshire created the infamous calendar in 1999 to raise money after one of their husbands - John Baker - was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and later died from the illness. Their story was immortalised in the hit movie Calendar Girls starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, and now Take That front man Gary Barlow is working on a musical based on their experiences. Mr Baker's widow Angela, 69, who has since remarried, was one of six of the original Calendar Girls invited to the palace. She was played by Julie Walters in the film, and was the piano-playing Miss February in the calendar. They all wore their trademark black dresses, string of pearls and a single sunflower - a flower Mr Baker grew before he died. ""It's just brilliant to be here with these ladies, all these fantastic WI ladies,"" she said. ""When we first did the calendar it was a big thing for me to do, John had just died and we were doing it in his memory and we've raised millions for (the charity) Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research. ""We never thought we would sell so many copies of the calendar, we don't mind people having copied us, but we were the first."" The WI was formed in 1915, a year in to World War One, to rejuvenate rural communities and encourage women to become more involved in producing food to help combat German naval blockades. It was inspired by an idea from Canada and was first founded in the Anglesey village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll - famous for having Britain's longest place name.",The WI 's Calendar Girls have met the Duchess of Cornwall as she @placeholder a garden party to celebrate the institution 's centenary year .,hosted,leaves,beat,walked,leads,0
"We also discuss the growing importance of algorithms in our lives - and ask whether we should be worried that our gadgets are listening to us. The hottest ticket at the Cheltenham Science Festival was for a debate on the fake news phenomenon hosted by the comedian, and former theoretical physics student, Dara Ó Briain. He told a hilarious story about a fake news report of his death after a car driven by his chauffeur plunged into a Dublin ravine - who knew that city's geography was so perilous? But the debate swiftly turned serious when Nasa's former chief scientist Ellen Stofan pointed out that a decline in faith in science in areas like vaccine safety and climate change could have profound consequences for the planet. Expanding on this in an interview for Tech Tent, Dr Stofan told me these were life and death issues, and public misconceptions and mistrust of scientists was a matter of real concern. She'd found President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate ""extremely disappointing"", and was worried that the public was not aware that all the major scientific institutions were agreed that climate change was real and was caused by humans. And she blamed the internet - and the major tech companies - for spreading misinformation: ""There's actually a profit motive in spreading misinformation...people try to find information that reinforces their opinion - and on the internet you can find just about any information."" She said that, in trying to appear impartial,  the tech firms had helped those who were trying to spread untruths, and they needed to think carefully about putting such information out there without making its veracity clear to people. ""A computer making a decision on our behalf for us - or with us.""  I had asked Jeni Tennison for a simple definition of an algorithm - and the chief executive of the Open Data Institute came up with a pretty good one. Computers absorbing a torrent of data from social media and the internet of things are being programmed to make ever more decisions - from what you pay to insure your car to where you should go for dinner. But now more questions are being asked about how these algorithms work and whether they are always good for us. Jeni Tennison conceded there was a danger that they were built to reflect a Silicon Valley mindset - and said programmers everywhere needed to sit back and think about the effect on our lives. She was debating algorithms with Hetan Shah of the Royal Statistical Society. He's largely optimistic, seeing these data-driven recipes as improving areas like poverty reduction by mapping crop yields and predicting famine. But he sees a real risk of biased algorithms feeding off biased data: ""The rules that have worked so far have been stretched to breaking point in a world where your fridge and your car are passing round data very quickly."" He suggests that there could be a group of wise people who could start thinking about issues such as whether a driverless car's algorithm should always favour the safety of a driver in the event of an accident. This week Apple unveiled a wireless smart speaker the HomePod, a rather belated rival to the Amazon Echo and the Google Home, though one which claims superior audio quality. But yet again it seems we are being asked to invite a listening device into our homes. At a debate on listening gadgets in Cheltenham I found an audience pretty wary of this phenomenon - one man asked what Orwell would have thought of a world where we actually paid to be spied on. Audio signal specialist Professor Mark Plumbley from the University of  Surrey explained that the devices were generally only recording once they had been alerted by a wake word such as ""Alexa"" - but after that your voice data was heading off into the cloud to be processed. Security expert Dr Jason Nurse from Oxford University said we needed to ask how long these various services were holding recordings of what we said when talking to our devices. But his real concern was what happened if they were taken over by criminals: ""If hackers got control of these devices then they could record all the time - and that's a pretty significant concern."" Mark Plumbley is sceptical about the theory held by many that all kinds of online services are eavesdropping on us and then sending us adverts reflecting our overheard conversations. But he cautions that all kinds of apps now ask for permission to use the smartphone's microphone and we should be cautious before agreeing. Voice control has been the hot new trend in home gadgets for quite a while, and if the spate of TV adverts for the Amazon Echo and Google Home are anything to go by, the tech industry is convinced they are a hit with consumers. But maybe it is time to think more carefully about just who could be listening in when we talk to Alexa or Siri.","In an era of fake news and alternative facts , how can scientists re-engage with the public and make sure they are respected and understood ? That 's a big @placeholder at the Cheltenham Science Festival from which this week 's edition of Tech Tent comes .",theme,change,deal,field,surprise,0
"Ginger, Brodie, Trixie and Keiko were born by Caesarean section to parents Kirsty and Richard Jackson Fuller. Weighing between 2lb 1oz and 2lb 12oz at birth, all four girls had illnesses, with one becoming so poorly her parents were warned to prepare for the worst. But at three months old, the last two have just been given the all-clear from Birmingham Women's Hospital. Top tips for raising quadruplets The couple, from Birmingham, had IVF treatment in March and first knew they might be having an unusual pregnancy when Mrs Jackson Fuller had her first test at a private clinic. ""I think the nurse's exact words to me were, 'you've got a belly full of babies',"" said Mrs Jackson Fuller, a web developer, 35. At their first scan, the news was confirmed. The mother added: ""The midwife looked at the screen and said, 'there's one, there's two, there's three...' and then people just started coming in the room. ""She just looked at us deadpan and said: 'There's four of them'. ""I'm a twin - and I would've liked triplets - but we weren't prepared for four."" The couple were given the choice of selective reduction, but Mrs Jackson Fuller said that ""was never going to be an option for us"". She stated: ""We must have been told 10 times that they weren't all going to make it."" The pregnancy progressed well until Keiko became poorly with absent placental flow and stopped growing. At 30 weeks and two days, Mrs Jackson Fuller arrived at hospital in September to have elective surgery only to be told there was not a bed. Then her waters broke. ""If it hadn't been for Keiko's illness, we wouldn't have been in hospital and my waters would have broken at home. I don't believe in fate, but really, she saved all of them."" It was thought the sisters may have to be split up, but four neonatal beds were found at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and they were transferred that night. After two weeks, they were brought to Dudley's Russells Hall Hospital and at four weeks old they were back at the women's hospital. All suffered breathing difficulties. Ginger had to undergo laser eye surgery to avoid detached retinas, and Brodie contracted necrotising enterocolitis - a swelling of the abdomen that can be fatal in premature babies. But all four have battled to full health. They are in the sitting room, in their own special cardboard box pioneered by Finnish health chiefs, and the parents are doing six-hour shifts overnight so they both get a good chunk of sleep. The biggest task before Christmas is how to make the trip to the doctor's surgery up the road, in their specially-made, four-and-a-half stone, four-berth pram. Mr Jackson Fuller, 39, a journalist, said: ""We're going to need a bigger car, and eventually we'll need a bigger house."" Mrs Jackson Fuller said: ""If we had one baby, we'd probably be splashing out, buying a fancy changing table and other things. ""But with four, we can't afford to splash out. We're going to stick to the basics and we'll get by.""",A set of quadruplets born 10 weeks premature have been @placeholder at home in time for Christmas .,thrown,staged,lost,reunited,named,3
"At the 2015 British Fashion Awards, Jonathan Anderson became the first person to be named both the menswear and womenswear designer of the year. The exhibition will feature his designs as well as those by the likes of Christian Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier. They will be alongside work by artists like Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. The 31-year-old designer has confessed to being ""obsessed"" with 20th Century British art and cited the likes of Moore, Hepworth and Graham Sutherland as inspirations. He promises ""provocative"" combinations as work by artists Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Lucas and Dorothea Tanning is ""brought into direct dialogue"" with garments by Rei Kawakubo, Helmut Lang and Issey Miyake. Anderson said: ""This is a rare and exciting opportunity for me to bring together some of the works of art and fashion that long inspired my own creative work and to see what happens when these objects rub up against each other. ""I want the exhibition to mirror the speed and unexpected encounters that characterise the way in which we consume images today, as well as being a space in which to explore ideas of gender and identity that have been an ongoing part of my creative practice."" The designer, from Northern Ireland, is known for blurring the line between men's and womenswear and streamed a menswear show on gay social networking app Grindr in January. The exhibition, titled Disobedient Bodies, will run from 18 March to 18 June 2017. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",Designer JW Anderson will hope to bridge the @placeholder of art and fashion when he takes over the Hepworth Wakefield gallery for an exhibition .,divide,control,side,worlds,form,3
"The ""severe fire"" broke out in Wolverhampton at about 19:55 BST on Friday and six fire engines were sent to the scene. The flames at the metal recycling yard at Bilston Road in Monmore Green were prevented from spreading to surrounding buildings, West Midlands Fire Service said. The blaze was under control by 03:30 and the cause is being investigated.",A huge scrapyard blaze @placeholder about 30 cars has been brought under control .,broke,closed,supplies,involving,stuffed,3
"When Operation Dynamo was formally wound up, more than 100,000 men were still in France, some fighting with the rearguard against the advancing German army, others looking for other ways to escape. John Borland was a Cameron Highlander serving with the 51st Highland Division. He never reached Dunkirk but was forced to hold the line further west. At his home in Glasgow, he recalled long, hungry days on the road. ""You really got used to it as the days went on... taking up your positions... being ready,"" said Mr Borland, now 90. ""The odds were stacked against us, but we fought on. ""You're not really afraid, because you know there's a job to be done, though today I get scared just thinking about it."" Bert Evans, serving with the Warwickshire Regiment, was facing an elite German SS division near the town of Wormhout. ""We were the ones who stopped them breaking through,"" said the 89-year-old from Redditch, Worcestershire. ""And we suffered for it. ""We'd heard about the SS and we knew they didn't take prisoners."" Mr Evans's fears were well-founded: after he and 80 other soldiers were herded into a small barn, the SS threw hand grenades into the building before firing indiscriminately. ""I was saved because I was under a pile of bodies,"" he told me. ""I thought I was lucky to be alive."" Fewer than 20 of the men forced into the barn came out alive. Mr Evans's injuries would eventually cost him his right arm, but he managed to escape by crawling along a ditch and taking cover in a small pond. The company commander hiding with him was gunned down when he tried to make a run for it.  The memories haunt Mr Evans, visibly upset at their recollection. ""It's an ordeal and I don't wish to remember it, I wish to forget it,"" he said. ""It's an ordeal just thinking about it... I don't want to remember what happened, but it keeps me awake at night."" Mr Borland and the Highlanders eventually ended up in St Valery, a tiny fishing village near Dieppe. ""There was quite a bit of wreckage lying about and then after that came a lot of refugees, which hampered us quite a bit,"" Mr Borland said. ""We were very, very much exhausted because of being alert 24 hours a day. There was very little sleep."" The rearguard now had little chance of escape, with the town ablaze and the Germans shelling them from the clifftops above. The ships waiting offshore could not reach them. The scene was littered with the bodies of dead and injured allied troops, many having tried to reach safety by climbing down the towering cliffs. Surrender was now the only option to prevent more lives being lost. ""There was a major who informed us that the word had come from Britain that we must lay down our arms,"" said Mr Borland. ""There was quite a bit of argument about it but, coming from a major, we had to obey orders."" By the time of the surrender it was mid-June, more than two weeks after the start of the Dunkirk evacuation. Of the Britons left behind by Operation Dynamo, 11,000 died and 40,000 were captured and imprisoned. As he was marched away to five years of captivity, Mr Borland spotted a scrap of paper blowing across his path. He has it still. ""It was a biblical text, with the words 'Don't give up' scrawled in pencil, probably by the man who'd dropped it. ""Those words stayed with me through my time in the POW camps."" Had he ever given up, I asked him. The answer was unequivocal: ""Never."" A BBC News special programme on the 70th anniversary of the ""little ships"" evacuation of Dunkirk will be shown on Sunday 30 May at 1130 BST on BBC Two.","The rescue of allied troops from Dunkirk remains the central focus of this weekend 's 70th anniversary commemorations , but the story of those days in May 1940 extends far beyond the @placeholder .",celebrations,race,world,public,beaches,4
"The bodies of Harry Watson and Alex Yeoman were found by officers at Huntcliff in Saltburn, at about 19:00 GMT on Friday. Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances but said they were not treating the deaths as suspicious. Tributes have been left at the scene to the boys, both from the East Cleveland area. Harry's family described him as ""precious"" while Alex's family paid tribute to a ""loving son"" who will be ""sadly missed"". Harry's mother, Tanya, also posted on Facebook: ""It is with great sadness and sorrow that last night our precious 17-year-old son Harry Watson has passed away."" She said: ""Please understand at this difficult time we don't have many answers but Harry is one of the gifts in life always there for everyone and anyone. ""He will always live in our hearts and we will get through this as the strong family that we are because that's what Harry would have wanted."" Both families are being supported by specialist officers, the force added. Police continue to appeal for witnesses who may have been in the area of the Circle Sculpture at Huntcliff on Friday to contact Det Sgt Paul Hodgson on 101.",Two 17 - year - old boys found dead at the bottom of a @placeholder have been named by police .,well,creek,man,cliff,pool,3
The incident happened on the River Dee near Gray's School of Art at about 18:20. Police said a man in his 40s came off his mobility scooter and fell into the water. He was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. A Police Scotland spokeswoman said his injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.,A man has been @placeholder from a river in Aberdeen after crashing his mobility scooter .,charged,dropped,fallen,rescued,drowning,3
"One panel was about harassment in gaming, while the other was about the ""integrity of gaming journalism"". The panels were cancelled following threats of violence. Both issues have been linked to a furore that sprang out of the controversial GamerGate campaign. GamerGate is the name of a campaign whose supporters allege that close ties between some video games journalists and those working in the gaming industry itself have given rise to conflicts of interest. The movement became embroiled with a wider debate over claims of sexism in gaming, and gave rise to violent threats being posted online. However, GamerGate supporters say they themselves were among the victims of abuse. The festival hopes the new event will bring together representatives from both panels - but some say they have security concerns over the presence of GamerGate supporters. Organisers of the Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games panel are concerned about a single event hosting representatives of rival factions. Randi Harper said she would not confirm her attendance. ""While we fully support GamerGate being a part of SXSW Gaming, adding them to the summit creates a safety concern for many of the people who are currently scheduled to be participating,"" she said. The organisers of SXSW have been criticised for cancelling the original events and have admitted that their decision was ""a mistake"". ""By cancelling two sessions we sent an unintended message that SXSW not only tolerates online harassment but condones it, and for that we are truly sorry,"" wrote Hugh Forest, interactive festival director. ""It is clear that online harassment is a problem that requires more than two panel discussions to address.""","The organisers of the South by South West ( SXSW ) festival have confirmed they will run an all - day event on the @placeholder of online harassment , after cancelling two gaming panel sessions .",theme,ground,amount,issue,effects,0
"The great grey owl and the bateleur eagle were taken from the back of a van at Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival in Vale of Glamorgan on Monday. Handler Jason Ashcroft, 44, had been showing Mamba and Misty at the event before they were taken as he packed up. Appealing for their safe return, he said he had a special bond with the birds which was ""priceless"". Mr Ashcroft said: ""I was going back and forth to my car and turned my back for just a minute when they were taken. ""The bird boxes are very heavy so whoever took them must have had a car. ""Our Bateleur eagle is very rare and both birds are valuable but my main concern is the loss of the amazing relationship we have. ""The birds are very tame and have been trained over many years to bond with me. That is priceless."" South Wales Police confirmed it was investigating the thefts. A reward has been offered for the safe return of the birds.","Two rare birds of prey worth more than £ 8,000 have been @placeholder after performing at a festival .",stolen,discovered,named,detained,captured,0
"Thomas Sellar stabbed 23-year-old Jamie Walsh during a row in Greenock, Inverclyde, on 10 September 2015. Sellar said he feared for his life but a jury convicted him of murder after hearing that the victim was unarmed. At the High Court in Edinburgh, 38-year-old Sellar was ordered to serve a minimum of 18 years in prison before he can apply for parole. Jailing him, judge Lord Ericht said: ""It is because of your actions that Jamie Walsh is dead and it is because of your actions that the family of Jamie Walsh have lost a much loved son and brother."" During Sellar's trial, the court heard that he and Mr Walsh both lived at an address in Wren Road, Greenock. Mr Walsh had recently moved into a flat below Sellar, which was being rented by the victim's friend. In the days leading up to the murder, Sellar had objected to ""noise"" which was coming from the downstairs flat. On the night of the incident, Sellar said he had gone to the downstairs flat to try to convince the residents to keep the noise down. He claimed that a group of youths objected to this and had ""battered"" him and chased him back to his flat. Sellar claimed he felt he had no other option but to grab a knife in a bid to protect himself. He said that in the ensuing fight, the knife came into contact with Mr Walsh, who died shortly afterwards. He said: ""They chased me down. I couldn't breathe. I never intended to kill him. I never intended for anything like this to happen."" Christopher Walsh told jurors that his brother did nothing wrong and that Sellar had attacked him. He told the court that following the incident, Sellar claimed that Mr Walsh had stabbed him first and showed off a wound which he claimed he had suffered during the fight. He said his brother did not have a knife and when asked why Sellar claimed to have been stabbed by his brother, answered: ""He was trying to get a defence."" Sellar denied stabbing himself and maintained he was acting in self defence. However, a jury refused to believe his claims and returned a guilty verdict to a murder charge. Following the verdict, it emerged that Sellar, had six previous convictions for offences involving knives. He also wrote a two-act play - Dead Boys tales - when he was 19-years-old. The work, which was performed in Greenock in 1997 by a cast of young people struggling with addiction - depicted the problems teenagers had in staying away from drugs and crime.",A man who claimed he killed his @placeholder in an act of self defence has been jailed for life for murder .,death,neighbour,father,partner,life,1
"Early last year, Sam Brown, a partner in the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills suffered what she calls a ""professional breakdown"".  It started with her becoming very tired and stressed and despite her efforts to overcome those feelings, she says they just got worse. ""It came to the point where I couldn't really concentrate.  I couldn't sleep properly and I started to be fearful about my work, that it wasn't going to finish, there was too much and I couldn't get a grip on it,"" she explains. Eventually Sam went ""kicking and screaming"" to a psychiatrist and was signed off from work for three months. She admits that even though she rested during that time she didn't get her head round what had caused her failure to cope. She returned to work, but suffered a second breakdown and spent two weeks in hospital before she recovered. Similarly Brian Heyworth, now the head of the client strategy business in HSBC's asset management arm, says it took him years to understand his condition. He suffered a psychiatric breakdown in early 2006. He says the trigger was stress, but his high-pressure, long-hours job in another bank was the catalyst not the cause. ""The blunt reality is that if I had been running a sweet shop I'd have still found myself in the same position"". After his collapse, which he says followed weeks of not sleeping and drinking too much, Brian was admitted to a clinic for two months. There it became clear that he had suffered from depression since his teens. Brian says the culture and environment in which he was working at the time wasn't conducive to helping him to recognise his illness, but he thinks the failure to acknowledge it goes deeper than that. ""Society, the world in which I was operating, the country in which I was operating - it was taboo."" And he adds: ""although huge progress has been made in the UK in the last ten years, it is still quite taboo"". It is in an attempt to break this taboo that Sam and Brian are so open about their mental health. They're part of a network called ""Minds@Work"" which has been set up by Geoff McDonald and colleagues Georgie Mack and Camilla Upson.  Geoff, a former vice-president of human resources at Unilever, suffered his own bout of depression in 2008. This week the group held an event where business people, including Sam and Brian, shared their experiences. Not before time, according to Geoff. Despite the arrival of a younger, more open generation into the working world, he believes it is still ""a bastion of stigma"", but there is a good business case for companies to be open about depression and anxiety, he argues. ""More and more companies have got to start thinking about the well-being of their people as a way of ensuring that their people perform well."" Geoff is not a lone voice. Campaigning groups such as Time to Change believe that more emphasis on employees' mental health could improve productivity and cut days lost to sickness. Some companies, including Brian Heyworth's employer, HSBC,  now have well-being programmes in place. But how does that translate into the real world of the workplace? Crossrail, which is currently building a railway across London and the surrounding areas, believes  - perhaps because of the risks inherent in its work - that the robustness of its employees' mental health is as important as the physical. Its strategy includes everything from having well-being champions and mental health first aiders on each site, to regular ""toolbox talks"" where mental health might be discussed, to making sure the canteen offers decent, appetising food. Do employees take advantage of this support? At the company's noisy Stepney Green site in East London, where 320 workers are involved in the construction of a ventilation shaft and emergency staircases, engineer Kadar Duale is a site well-being champion. ""We find it very hard to get men to come to us,"" he admits, ""especially men in construction. They are seen as sort of the hard men."" But, he adds, providing awareness through strategies such as the toolbox talks encourage people to be more confident and more involved in what's on offer. As Christina Butterworth, who leads the company's occupational health strategy and is on a well-being audit of the site, says, ""it's very easy to manage the physical because it's so obvious, it's much more difficult to manage the mental health."" Christina says the company's focus on all aspects of its workers' health is beginning to bear fruit, but, as it has found, embedding a culture of openness doesn't happen overnight. Success depends on a push from the top, says occupational psychologist Emma Donaldson-Feilder. She thinks managers, at all levels, have a key role in promoting good practice - especially in our more stressful post-recession world of increased workload and lower job security. Her research shows it's about giving your staff the right degree of autonomy, about modelling a healthy attitude to work yourself and about knowing your team well enough to see when someone is struggling. ""I'm not recommending their manager becomes their counsellor, therapist, or doctor,"" she says, ""but I think as a manager if you can catch the signs early and just sit down and talk through with the person... what support they need, what changes they might make, that can be enough."" Sam Brown echoes this approach, tough as it may be: ""Please talk to somebody.  I found taking myself to see a psychologist first of all one of the most terrifying things that I have ever done. ""From that moment I didn't start getting better by any stretch, in fact I went quite rapidly downhill, but I felt so much more protected I suppose, that I wasn't doing this on my own."" You can hear more on mental health issues in the workplace on BBC World Service's Business Daily programme here","There 's a frequently @placeholder statistic that one in four of us will suffer a mental health problem at some point during our life . But what does it mean to be that person , especially in the workplace ?",gathering,promoting,deal,occurring,quoted,4
"How to reconcile the Lib Dems holding many of their seats when support for them in the national polls has collapsed? Will UKIP's support dissolve on 7 May and  produce a hidden army that delivers victory to the Conservatives? Will the polls overstate Labour's support this time, unlike 2010 when they understated it? Will Scotland return any other than SNP MPs? We would not be in our present confusion about the outcome of the general election if the three main Westminster parties were popular. All our problems in trying to predict the outcome of 7 May stem from the fact that they are manifestly unpopular. This general election is the mother of all ugly baby contests between the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems. And yet, for all the public antipathy towards mainstream Westminster parties, no other parties under our current first past the post system, are going to form a government, minority or otherwise. So, back to the grindstone. I have monitored some 76 campaign polls so far - 30 of them from YouGov and ten from Populus. It would be convenient to argue that this was a battle of methodologies, with telephone versus internet polls explaining the differences in party support, but it doesn't quite work like that: the most recent ComRes telephone poll has Conservative and Labour on 33% each and a YouGov internet poll has Conservatives 33% and Labour 34%. Looking at the last 20 published polls of the campaign, they suggest to me that any recent Conservative increase in support has stalled in the past few days; Labour slogs on at around 34%; the Lib Dems at about 9% and the Greens around 5%. Once again UKIP is the most intriguing part of the 2015 electoral equation: the fortunes of other parties rest so heavily on their performance. My reading of the latest polls suggests to me that their support is holding up rather than disintegrating. As a child I remember a seaside booth where a Madame Osiris offered to reveal all the secrets of the universe for just £5. I must confess that I am not in her league. I have never been more uncertain about the outcome of a general election in my life. Before the explosion of the SNP in Scotland I would have gambled that Labour were most likely to emerge as the largest party in a hung parliament. Scotland wrecks that and makes the possibility of the Conservatives ending up with most seats very plausible. What makes this a really difficult election to call is that the small number of seats that will determine who is ahead in an election that nobody wins could well be decided by organisational slugfests in a handful of parliamentary seats.","The home stretch at last but one @placeholder with unknowns . Is there a late rally to the Conservatives ? Possibly , but like so much else in this campaign , it seems far from clear . Will Labour out - perform the national polls by performing more strongly in key marginal seats ? There is some supporting evidence for this but it is hardly overwhelming .",table,left,littered,title,clash,2
"A Chinese consumer protection group launched the legal action over the default apps or ""bloatware"" found on Samsung phones. It said many people did not want the software and added that the firm made it hard to remove the applications. The Shanghai Consumer Council also filed a similar case against Chinese phone-maker Oppo. The council said it was motivated to start the legal action following a growing number of complaints about pre-installed apps. It said people had complained because of the space the apps took up and because they ate into data allowances when they were updated. Results from a study carried out by the council said a standard Galaxy Note 3 could contain 44 pre-installed programs that could not be removed or were hard to disable. One Oppo phone tested by the council was found to have 47 apps that could not be uninstalled. ""The litigation is our latest attempt to safeguard consumers' rights after other methods failed,"" Tao Ailian, secretary general of the council, told the Shanghai Daily. The legal action aims to make the two phone-makers put in place systems that let people remove the apps easily and warn them about what they get when they buy a new phone. In a statement, Samsung said: ""We have not yet received the formal complaint filed by the Shanghai Consumer Council. ""We will thoroughly review the court document and determine an appropriate response,"" it added.",Samsung is being taken to court in China over the software it @placeholder on to its handsets .,loads,hooked,imposed,installed,exposed,0
"Mrs Foster described it as a ""grandstanding exercise"" and said she had better things to do than be a ""lone voice among remoaners"". She has already declined an invite to attend next week's ""civic dialogue"" event in Dublin. The forum was established in the wake of the EU referendum result. ""It's a complete grandstanding exercise,"" said Mrs Foster. ""It will be full of people who quite frankly haven't accepted the referendum result going down to talk about how dreadful it is and how awful it is. ""Mark my words that's exactly what will happen at the grandstanding forum that will come about. ""I'm not going to be a part of that. I am in this to do real business and to have outcomes, not to sit around talking about how dreadful it is."" Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said the event will facilitate an all-Ireland conversation among the business community, wider civic society and politicians. Asked if it would be valuable to put the argument in favour of Brexit to forum delegates, Mrs Foster replied: ""To be a lone voice amongst a whole lot of remoaners? ""No thank you - I have better things to do with my time.""",Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster has criticised the Irish government 's all - @placeholder forum on Brexit .,style,out,union,women,island,4
"The US territory's governor warned on Sunday the island's financial crisis meant it could not meet the deadline. Puerto Rico has $70bn of debts. With further, larger loan repayments due in coming months Alejandro Garcia Padilla asked for more time for talks. Creditors have agreed to 30 days of talks and hold off from legal action. Mr Garcia Padilla said Puerto Rico's Government Development Bank (GDB) and major creditors had agreed a framework for restructuring some of the debt. He described it as a ""vital first step"". However, the territory owes another $1.9bn in July. Any restructuring must be approved by the US Congress, which has been accused of dragging its feet to help Puerto Rico. As a US territory, Puerto Rico cannot file for bankruptcy protection. It has been pleading for Washington to offer it a lifeline. How did Puerto Rico get into such a mess? Lew pushes for Puerto Rico debt deal Mr Garcia Padilla, who inherited the crisis when he took office in January 2013, blamed lobbying by ""vulture"" hedge funds and what he called ""racist"" attitudes towards Puerto Rico. ""Our worst enemy at the moment is politics,"" he said. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday that he hoped the latest developments would push Congress to act. The creditors who have agreed a 30-day extension of talks  hold about $935m of GDB's $4bn in bonds. The creditors call themselves the Ad Hoc Group. They are thought to have been due about $120m of the total $422m that should have been repaid to creditors on Monday. Puerto Rico could still face legal action from creditors who are not part of Ad Hoc. In a televised speech on Sunday evening, Mr Garcia Padilla said the decision to default had been ""painful"" and that legal action would make a desperate situation worse. The Ad Hoc Group includes hedge funds Avenue Capital Management, Brigade Capital Management, Claren Road Asset Management, Fir Tree Partners, Fore Research & Management and Solus Alternative Asset Management.","Puerto Rico has defaulted on a $ 422 m ( £ 289 m ) debt payment due on Monday , but won breathing @placeholder from some major creditors for further talks .",chances,departure,out,space,rights,3
"""It's our first Congress post the Brexit vote so we want people focused on jobs, workers' rights and investment, because we are very clear that workers mustn't pay the price,"" says the TUC's general secretary Frances O'Grady. In the run-up to the vote, Ms O'Grady was a prominent voice for the Remain camp, even taking part in the BBC's Great Debate at Wembley Arena. ""I've played Wembley,"" she jokes. ""I don't think they'll be inviting me back!"" May: UK will lead world in free trade Bank's Carney ""serene"" on Brexit stance Farron wants vote on any Brexit deal Banks ""wait and see"" on Brexit moves Trades unions are worried about Brexit. Many fear that workers' rights will be sacrificed as the government seeks to entice investment into Britain in the years ahead. ""Workers have to have a voice at the table,"" Ms O'Grady adds, before saying she believes so many people in traditional Labour communities voted to leave the EU because ""they felt shafted, it was one hell of a protest vote"". ""I was going around factories where it was clear that there was a Brexit presence and in some surprising areas, where the implications of the vote and future investment and jobs was pretty clear. People felt let down."" In the wake of the vote she says there needs to be a common response to a massive challenge. And she points to the potential for some interesting ""alignments"", highlighting the government's new enthusiasm for industrial policy. ""Any industrial strategy worth its salt has got to deliver better jobs, better pay and a plan for the future,"" she says. Ms O'Grady has already met Business Secretary Greg Clark who she found ""an enthusiastic listener"". And in the coming weeks she plans to meet Prime Minister Theresa May - who criticised soaring executive pay and promised worker representation in the boardroom during her election campaign. ""It's interesting that a Conservative prime minister is looking at corporate governance reform to give workers a voice at the top of a company. It suggests to me that the fault lines are changing."" She sees another potential alignment with good employers who are concerned about the growth of casualisation and insecure working practices. She praises the work of the Unite union in highlighting conditions at Sports Direct. This week the firm said it would put a workers' representative on its board and offer shop workers guaranteed hours instead of zero-hours contracts. And at next week's Congress, the TUC will launch a new initiative to put firms under the spotlight and reach out to young people who are on the front line of casualisation. ""We are not satisfied that any worker should not know whether they will be able to pay their bills at the end of the week, because they don't know how many hours they are going to work,"" she says. The TUC says that young people tend to be more concentrated in sectors including retail, care and hospitality which are known for insecure employment and where firms are often resistant to union recognition. ""We have a real opportunity to reach people on a vast scale and shame those who are exploiting young people. They need to be named and shamed."" she says. Meanwhile, many union reps heading to Brighton will travel by Southern Rail, which has been the focus of strike action called by the RMT union in a dispute over plans to cut the staff on trains. Ms O'Grady says the TUC backs them and argues that many passengers don't want to see staff cuts, particularly the elderly, disabled or mums with kids. She believes ""the railway is safer in all sorts of ways by having those staff on trains"" and that it would save taxpayers money to bring the railways under public control. But will the current Labour leadership campaign overshadow the Congress? Several of the major unions including Unite, Unison and the CWU are backing Jeremy Corbyn, but the GMB and the shopworkers' union Usdaw are among those supporting Owen Smith. The result of the election will be known on 24 September. Mr Corbyn is expected to speak at a private union dinner in Brighton on Monday night and he also has a rally in the town the following evening. ""What I hope Congress will be, is a bit of a break from that circus,"" says Ms O'Grady, while remaining tight-lipped on where she will be casting her vote.","With politicians and the business world still grappling with the outcome of the EU referendum , it 's little wonder that Brexit will @placeholder the forthcoming Trades Union Congress which kicks off in Brighton on Sunday .",be,dominate,protect,replace,reduce,1
"Ex-senior policeman David Gilbertson has criticised a ""disgraceful"" absence of leadership and strategy. Community leaders say they warned local police about the risk of violence at a meeting, hours before it began. The Metropolitan Police admits officers were ""overwhelmed"", but insists the threat they faced was unparalleled. Mr Gilbertson is a retired Deputy Assistant Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police who served as a senior officer in Haringey Borough, which includes Tottenham. The violence in Tottenham was sparked by the death of local man Mark Duggan, who was shot by police on Thursday 4 August. His death is under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). His friends and family, angered by a lack of information from the police, marched to Tottenham police station on the afternoon of Saturday 6 August. They remained outside for several hours, and frustration grew when no senior officer spoke to them. Violence erupted later that night, when a police car was set on fire, and shops were attacked and looted. Having spoken to the police who were on the ground that day, Mr Gilbertson is very critical of the behaviour of their senior officers. ""There was a disgraceful absence of visible leadership, and that should be shaming for the Metropolitan Police,"" he told BBC Radio 4's The Report programme. ""With rank comes responsibility, and part of the responsibility is visible command. And secondly, there didn't appear to be a strategy [to deal with the demonstrators]. ""It's blindingly obvious to say that you push them away from target-rich environments; a shopping area, a retail park, all of the places that were trashed by the rioters."" Local community leaders also insist the police should have been better prepared. Ken Hinds is a local gang mediator, and family friend of Mark Duggan's girlfriend Simone Wilson. He attended a meeting with the police at lunchtime on Saturday 6 August and says he warned them explicitly about the risk. ""I told them the word on the street was that Mark was executed by the police, and the family was very upset. ""I also went on to say that if it wasn't handled sensitively, that we could possibly have another riot, another 1985."" That year saw riots around the Broadwater Farm area of Tottenham, after the death of Cynthia Jarrett, an African-Caribbean woman who died from a stroke during a police search of her home. The riots also claimed the life of PC Keith Blakelock. Stafford Scott also took part in the protest outside the police station, and says he is astonished that senior officers did not make themselves visible. He is especially critical of Haringey Borough Commander Sandra Looby who went on pre-planned leave on the Friday evening: ""This is Tottenham. They [should] know that the following Saturday, we're taking to the streets and we're coming to the police station to demand answers. That's what we've done historically. ""So how the borough commander decided to get on a plane on Friday and leave Tottenham, I do not understand. It beggars belief."" But in her first broadcast interview, Sandra Looby told The Report that the police received no specific warnings: ""We were aware there may be a family or others wishing to come to the police station for a vigil. ""At no point did we receive information that this was going to turn into the spontaneous criminality that subsequently happened."" She rejects the criticism that her decision to go away on pre-arranged leave left the borough under-resourced, pointing out that she handed over control to an officer with a higher rank precisely because of the sensitivity of the situation. ""There was a comprehensive plan put in place for the management of the borough, and I honesty believed [that] actually the shooting was going to be a really long-term issue to manage. ""I provided my strategic plan to an officer more senior to me... and I handed over command to that senior officer at 7pm on the Friday."" She also rebuts the complaint that senior officers should have been out talking to the crowd outside the police station: ""I think once the family arrived at the police station - and they were there a long time - members of my staff tried to engage with the family through community leaders that were outside that police station. ""Obviously we have been unable to directly speak to the family through the IPCC arrangements, and that is very frustrating both for the officers that were there and I'm sure very frustrating for the family."" The Report is on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 25 August at 2000 BST. Listen via the BBC iPlayer Download the podcast Follow Radio 4 on Facebook But Deborah Glass, deputy chair of the IPCC, contradicts this interpretation of the rules: ""There is some misconception about what happens when the IPCC is involved in an investigation. ""We do have in fact a very clear protocol in place to make it clear that the police are not gagged when the IPCC is involved in an investigation."" Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Kavanagh from the Met acknowledges that mistakes were made on the day. However, he argues the police wanted to avoid being accused of a disproportionately strong response to what began as a peaceful protest. He backs Sandra Looby's insistence that they could not have prevented what happened: ""We didn't have enough numbers there to protect the whole of Tottenham, and yes they became overwhelmed - we've admitted that. ""We've spoken to the chief inspector and the other officers, they have never witnessed such appalling levels of violence directed at them and their community. ""The scale and the speed of the violence, the way that car was lit, the way officers were identified very quickly, meant that life became the priority."" But former policeman David Gilbertson remains convinced that weak policing on that Saturday night led directly to the events across the country: ""If you are the person who is in charge of a police operation and you're not being assertive, the message that you're sending is 'well, come along' you might just get away with it, because the police are not going to be assertive. This is a failure of leadership."" The Report is on BBC Radio 4 on on Thursday 25 August at 20:00 BST. Listen via the BBC iPlayer or download the programme podcast.","Better preparation by senior police in Tottenham could have stopped the riots which erupted there and were @placeholder across England , the BBC has been told .",compromised,copied,raging,heard,seized,1
"They've got used to the logistical and political bottleneck around London airport expansion.  So their eyes are on the prize of a direct link with China. That became a much closer prospect on Tuesday, with an agreement between the Westminster and Beijing governments to liberalise direct air links. No longer will there be a limit of six airport destinations in each country. The number of flights could double under the new agreement. China would be a symbolic breakthrough for Scottish airports competing for new routes in the evolving air travel market. It shows that wide-bodied planes, such as the Boeing 777, can economically replace the 'Hub and Spoke' model of mega-airports by scheduling direct flights. The ambition of leaping across continents has already been realised with a weekly chartered link between Scotland and Korea. You can now fly directly from Edinburgh or Glasgow to Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and several North American airports. On Tuesday, Edinburgh Airport announced September international passenger figures up 21% on the same month in 2015.  Unusually, that's while domestic traffic fell 2%. It is crediting new routes started since last year to Helsinki with Finn Air, with Vueling to Rome, Paris and Alicante, on 11 mainly sun-bound routes with Jet2, Wow Air to Reyjkavik, easyjet to Stuttgart, Vienna and Venice, and Ryanair to Copenhagen. In Glasgow, the September figures saw 4% growth, slowing a bit with equal levels of growth for domestic and international. It reported 12% growth on travel to and from EU destinations, including Paris, Brussels, Milan, Barcelona and a new link with Sofia in Bulgaria. Indeed, growth is now so strong for these airports that those of an environmental frame of mind might wonder whether it is really necessary to cut Air Passenger Duty in half, as the Scottish government aims to do. However, under the same ownership as Glasgow, Aberdeen Airport completed the monthly passenger picture, and with a now-familiar tale of decline. The oil and gas sector's woes have taken passenger numbers down 15% on September last year, with domestic and helicopter traffic falling faster than international. Management at Dyce is pinning its hopes on more leisure travel, with links to Latvia and Ryanair returning from February, with tourist routes to sunnier prospects. If the increased links, particularly the long-haul ones from Edinburgh and Glasgow, can reduce the short-haul flights to feed the big planes in big airports, then that could have a (relatively) positive environmental impact.  They may, crucially, appeal more to inbound travellers, who don't want the hassle and delay of hubs. And that may be the longer game for Scottish transport links than getting involved in the dog-fights around the crowded political skies over Heathrow and Gatwick. The failure to choose how and where to expand London's airports can be viewed as another symbol, this time of Britain's failure to plan long-term and take difficult decisions. The Scottish government has long taken the position that it doesn't care which airport expands, so long as one of them does. Ministers have been heavily lobbied to back Heathrow or Gatwick, but have avoided taking sides. So at first sight, the announcement this week that they're backing Heathrow seems an odd one. If they want to influence the outcome, why wait years, until a week or so before a decision is made by UK ministers? The answer from economy minister Keith Brown is that they have a deal with Heathrow which would help the Scottish economy. Understanding this deal requires a bit of context. There's little in it that Heathrow had not offered long ago. It not only has to promise links with Scottish airports, once capacity has been increased. The whole 'hub and spoke' airport business model requires that to happen. As it is, Heathrow is at risk of becoming all hub and not much spoke. The claims of adding 16,000 jobs - as I've noted when Heathrow came a-wooing last year - is based on a very long-range economic forecast, which suggests Scotland might get there by 2050. And the idea of Prestwick could become a logistical centre for building a runway 400 miles away? Well, let's politely note that there's to be an ""investigation into the potential"" of that. If it stacks up to anything, it's hardly likely to be the elusive game-changer for the Scottish government's loss-making Ayrshire airfield. This memorandum of understanding was with the managers of Heathrow.  What is less clear is the detail of the understanding with the UK government, but we could assume that there is one. The publicly stated deal doesn't look worth the level of political commitment. As Keith Brown indicated on the BBC's 'Scotland 2016', he expects that the government funding for airport expansion is going to see a share of capital spending allocated to Holyrood under the Barnett Formula.  As a national asset with those spin-off effects on the whole UK economy, that wasn't guaranteed. And whatever else is in the mix, the pledge of SNP support for Heathrow's expansion looks like it's been choreographed to precede the Downing Street decision. Theresa May can now face down her own Westminster colleagues, including the Heathrow-sceptic Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. She can tell them that lots of them can rebel over Heathrow's expansion, but the prime minister now has 56 SNP votes going through the Heathrow lobby with her. With the politics of Westminster increasingly fractured and unpredictable, this may be a sign of things to come, with policy decided by new and shifting alliances. The same sort of deal could be done on high-speed rail, if MPs from the Tory shires threaten to block it. And if the Tory party can't agree on how to go about Brexit? Well, the SNP group is sitting there with those 56 votes, should the prime minister choose to change tack and take the softer, more Europhile route.","There 's a big prize being @placeholder by both Edinburgh and Glasgow airports , and it 's not just better links with London .",developed,sought,taken,populated,greeted,1
"Authorities would have no choice but to close hotels which failed to introduce the measures in the coming days, the interior minister told local media. Terror attacks on hotels in nearby Mali and Burkina Faso have left more than 50 dead since November. Senegal is one of the most popular tourist destinations in French-speaking West Africa. Thirty people were killed in an attack last week by Islamist militants on the luxury Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou. Armed police have been stationed at major hotels since the deadly attack on a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako in November, the BBC's Abdourahmane Dia reports from Dakar. Interior Minister Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo told MPs on Thursday that Senegalese security forces would be stepping up patrols to guard against possible attacks. Senegal has so far avoided a major attack by Islamist militants. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) said it was behind both of the recent attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso. It is based in the Sahara Desert, moving between Mali, Niger and Algeria.","Senegal 's government has told hotels to improve security or face closure , after recent terror attacks in the @placeholder .",world,town,region,table,county,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device United have had a bid of around £37m accepted for the player, who is set to sign a four-and-a-half-year deal. Mata, 25, has failed to command a regular starting place at Chelsea under manager Jose Mourinho. Mata, who has won 32 caps, said goodbye to team-mates and staff at Chelsea's Cobham training ground on Wednesday. 2011-12: 54 appearances, 12 goals, Champions League winner, FA Cup winner 2012-13: 64 appearances, 20 goals, Europa League winner 2013-14: 17 appearances, 1 goal (Stats are for all competitions) United continue to deny having made a bid for the playmaker, but it is understood they have made an offer through intermediaries working on the deal. Manager David Moyes declined to answer questions on Mata after his side's League Cup semi-final defeat by Sunderland. Should the deal go through, it would break United's previous transfer record of £30.75m they paid Spurs for Dimitar Berbatov in September 2008. On Tuesday, Chelsea insisted that Mata, who had been voted the club's player of the year two seasons in a row, was not for sale. But the player, who was part of the Spain squad which won the World Cup in 2010 and European Championship in 2012, has been substituted in nine of his 13 Premier League appearances for the Blues this season. ""The club-record move for Juan Mata is not only a sign of ambition and support for manager David Moyes - it is a sign of the urgency with which improvement is required. ""United get a player who will add much-needed quality and creation to their out-of-sorts side. ""The intrigue surrounds where Moyes will play Mata if and when all his attacking resources such as Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie are fit again. The Spain attacker's best position is just behind the strikers, so how will Moyes adjust his team to fit him in with the gifted Adnan Januzaj also available?"" United have made no secret of their plans to rebuild their team under Moyes and are prepared to pay a premium for top players if it means securing them now rather than waiting until the summer. ""A lot of the work we are doing now is in preparation for the summer,"" Moyes told United's matchday programme ahead of the Sunderland game. ""If we can do any business now, then we will certainly try to do it, but I will not compromise the standards required for a player that can come into this club and help improve it."" Mourinho, 50, said last week that while he understood it was ""hard"" for Mata to sit on the bench, the Spaniard still had a ""big role"" to play at the club. The Portuguese has trusted Eden Hazard, Oscar and summer signing Willian in attacking roles this season and while his relationship with Mata is healthy, he has conceded Chelsea's system does not suit the player. ""There are fantastic players, but sometimes the fantastic players are more fantastic to a certain system and less fantastic in a certain model of play,"" Mourinho told BBC Sport's Football Focus. Media playback is not supported on this device ""He is an unbelievable player and a fantastic boy who is trying his best to adapt."" Chelsea paid £23.5m to sign Mata from Valencia in 2011. The former Real Madrid youth player began life in England by scoring 13 goals in his first at Stamford Bridge won the FA Cup and Champions League. He followed it up with 20 goals in the 2012-13 season as Chelsea lifted the Europa League under Rafael Benitez but, since Mourinho returned for his second spell at the club, Mata has seen his playing time limited. He was substituted 53 minutes into the Blues' 3-0 win at Southampton on New Year's Day, his last appearance, and was visibly frustrated when taking his place on the bench.",Spain midfielder Juan Mata is expected to arrive at Manchester United on Friday for a medical ahead of his @placeholder move from Chelsea .,bid,team,loan,signing,proposed,4
"Helen Jones, Labour's candidate for Warrington North, tweeted: ""Classic election injury - bitten by a dog, currently in A&E."" BBC News understands Ms Jones, who had her fingers bitten, has had an X-ray and an anti-tetanus jab. She won the seat in Cheshire by 6,771 votes at the 2010 general election. ""I'd like thank the fantastic staff at Warrington Hospital who are clearly under pressure at A&E but are resolutely cheerful and caring,"" she told BBC News. She does not know the breed of dog which bit her. The other candidates standing in the constituency on 7 May are Sarah Hayes (Green); Stefan Krizanac (Liberal Democrat); Trevor Nicholls (UKIP) and Richard Short (Conservative)","It 's an occupational hazard endured for years by posties and paper boys , but now a politician has discovered the @placeholder of dogs while out canvassing .",dangers,side,freedom,influence,scent,0
"The deaths of three members of the national guard in an explosion reignited a debate over what some see as the potentially damaging influence of the country's far-right parties and volunteer militias fighting in the country's east. More than 140 others were wounded in the blast, apparently caused by a grenade, during a demonstration against plans to give more autonomy to the country's Russian-supported separatist regions. Those who died were all in their twenties - the youngest was just 20. President Petro Poroshenko denounced the attack as ""an anti-Ukrainian action"" and demanded ""all organisers, all representatives of political forces... must carry full responsibility."" It also raised concerns over what appears to be an increasing infiltration of weapons from the warzone into the rest of the country. These are the first politically-related fatalities in the capital since the country's pro-European revolution in February last year, in which more than 100 people died. Authorities have blamed the explosion on Ihor Humenyuk, a fighter in the Sich volunteer battalion. Sich falls under the control of the interior ministry, but maintains strong connections to the far-right Freedom Party, which was one of the rally's main organisers. Freedom Party activists - including its leader Oleh Tyahnybok - were at the epicentre of the clashes with the police. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said ultra-nationalists were ""worse"" than Russian-backed separatists in the east, because they were ""trying to open another front"" in the country ""under the guise of patriotism"". So far, 16 people have been arrested for suspected involvement in the incident, including Mr Humenyuk. A number of others, like Mr Tyahnybok, were to be questioned. Mr Humenyuk has denied throwing a grenade. Freedom Party members likewise reject any responsibility, and accuse the government of orchestrating a witch hunt against them. They say Mr Humenyuk is not associated with them - even though he was featured on one of their recent campaign posters. But the explosion come weeks after another armed incident involving a volunteer militia with ties to the extreme right - a shoot-out between members of the Right Sector battalion and local police in south-western Ukraine. Both incidents have shone a light on the link between groups with extreme politics, and those with access to weapons. There are dozens of volunteer groups, providing vital support to operations in the east. Of these, about 11 have ties to political parties or organisations, of which at least seven have some sort of connection to the far-right fringe. Although the militias have been nominally integrated into government structures, many wonder how much control Kiev actually exercises. And although the majority of these groups' fighters appear free of radical right sentiments, ultra-nationalists - often visible by their tattoos and t-shirts - definitely figure among their numbers. This is a feature on both sides of the frontline in the east, with the Russian-backed militants attracting what appears to be a large contingent of nationalist extremists. However, the heads of the pro-Kiev battalions, like that of Sich itself, say they are not political, or have no intention of using force. ""We do not plan to march on Kiev with our automatics,"" Sich battalion commander Olexander Pisarenko told the BBC Ukrainian Service. As for the ultra-nationalists, few believe that they pose an electoral threat. Freedom and Right Sector up until now have been marginal political forces. Indeed, the violence at parliament could be an attempt to compensate for a lack of support among the population. However, the political landscape could begin to shift with the arrival with colder weather. The economy is deteriorating, painful reforms such as a rise in utility tariffs are set to kick in this autumn, and issues such as granting increased powers to the breakaway regions, which some see as a capitulation to Moscow, have struck a very emotional nerve. It should be emphasised that the chance of an armed insurrection is a highly distant prospect right now. But, even if the battalions keep out of the political fray, there is still the issue of the individual fighters. Anger among them is rising. Many accuse the government of criminal mishandling of the conflict, which have led to the deaths of untold numbers on the battlefield. In contrast to their commanders, some fighters do speak of coming to Kiev en masse, if necessary. One in a YouTube video spoke, in Ukrainian, of staging terrorist acts. Previous attempts to rein in extremist elements have in some cases stalled. Right Sector, for example, is still relatively free of government control, despite the fact that it openly confronted law enforcement authorities. But with the deaths of the three national guardsmen - so young, and at what was supposed to be a peaceful demo so far from the front lines - attitudes in Ukrainian society may be changing, and people could demand action from the government. The Freedom Party (Svoboda in Ukrainian), despite its low electoral numbers, is still viewed by many as a patriotic organisation, and was a central player in the revolution last year. Now, some question its contribution. ""There are few people in Ukraine who work for Putin so selflessly as Ukrainian nationalists from the party 'Svoboda',"" Oleg Shankovskyi, an editor at the Ukrainska Pravda website, wrote on Facebook. At the very least, there is the alarming fact that guns - and explosives - seem to be very easily obtained, and can be used to further any political, financial or criminal interest. Or they could simply fall into the hands of some angry, disaffected individual - as the person who threw the grenade at the parliament protest may have been.",The centre of Kiev became a scene of blood and broken @placeholder last week - as though the conflict in Ukraine 's east suddenly had been transported to the capital .,colour,bodies,hearts,bottles,windows,1
"Fiji-born Naiyaravoro signed a three-year deal to join the Pro12 champions. But the 23-year-old wing's inclusion in the Wallabies' Rugby Championship squad fuelled speculation he may back out of his contract. ""He's definitely coming to Glasgow to honour his commitments, at least for the first year,"" said Tyran Smith. A move away from Australia would rule Naiyaravoro, who is moving to Scotland from Sydney's Waratahs franchise, out of international contention. The Australian Rugby Union's policy is to pick only those overseas players boasting a minimum of 60 caps and seven years of Australian Super Rugby representation. ""There's a bit of a personal family thing - he's had another baby and his wife was finding it hard for personal reasons,"" Smith told BBC Scotland. ""She needed his support and moving away was a big decision, but he's honouring his first commitment, then we'll go from there. ""He's been a little bit naive. I've heard all the reports and I've been in contact regularly with him clarifying."" Naiyaravoro was not included overnight in Australia coach Michael Cheika's matchday squad for their opening Rugby Championship game against South Africa. France-based Matt Giteau, the 92-cap 32-year-old centre, has earned a recall for the Wallabies at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, on Saturday.","Taqele Naiyaravoro will join Glasgow Warriors following his international commitments , @placeholder to reports in the Australian media , his agent has stated .",returned,contrary,helped,adding,relating,1
"About a century ago, Albert Einstein proposed the existence of ripples in the fabric of space-time - as an outcome of his Theory of General Relativity. It took until February this year, however, for scientists to finally announce their detection, using an approach known as laser interferometry. Quite apart from this spectacular confirmation of Einstein's ideas, the discovery also provided the first direct confirmation for the existence of black holes. It opens up a completely new branch of astronomy, offering a way to probe cosmic phenomena that are off limits to other forms of astronomical inquiry. The hope is that this will all lead to a more complete understanding of the Universe and even shine a light on what got it all started - the Big Bang. Humans have been turning amber into jewellery and trinkets since prehistoric times. And it's not uncommon to find ancient beetles, ants and other insects trapped in the fossilised tree sap. But it's unusual to find the remains of larger animals. In June, researchers Lida Xing, Ryan McKellar and others published details of wings from baby birds trapped in 99-million-year-old amber from north-eastern Myanmar. The finds preserved spectacular detail of the feathers and traces of colour, but the best was yet to come. In December, the same team unveiled a dinosaur tail captured in amber from the same region - a world-first discovery. Scientists think the juvenile animal - small enough to have fitted in the palm of a hand - got trapped in sticky sap from the tropical forest that once existed there and could not wrestle free. At the end of 2015, Tim Peake became the first ""official"" UK astronaut to launch into space since Helen Sharman visited the Soviet Mir Space Station in 1991. His mission certainly got off to an eventful start. A few hours after launch, the flight's Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko had to manually dock the Soyuz spacecraft with the space station following the failure of its ""Kurs"" radar system. Then, in January, Nasa announced that Peake would step outside the space station to help repair a failed voltage regulator. He became the first ever person to wear the Union Flag on a spacewalk. But while the walk achieved its primary objective, it had to be called off early when water began leaking into the helmet of colleague Tim Kopra's spacesuit. Major Tim also became the first person to ""run"" the London Marathon from space, attached to the ISS's special microgravity treadmill, before returning to Earth in June. This year, astronomers confirmed the existence of a rocky exoplanet orbiting the nearest star to our Solar System - Proxima Centauri. This rocky world in a next-door system - named Proxima b - also sits within the so-called habitable zone around its star. However, Proxima Centauri belongs to a class of small, cool stars known as M dwarfs. They are quite different to the mid-sized yellow category that our Sun belongs to. Because they are cooler, the habitable zones around M dwarfs are located further in. But this also exposes planets to the harsh radiation by these stars. Just how suitable for life the habitable zones of these M dwarf stars are remains a matter for debate. In September, a team of researchers estimated that Proxima b could be blasted by deadly ""superflares"" from the host star about eight times a year. The search for a compact, thin lens that performs as well, or better, than the bulky, curved types used in cameras and telescopes got a major boost during 2016. A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could be ""game-changing"", according to one of its US inventors. ""The quality of our images is actually better than with a state-of-the-art objective lens. I think it is no exaggeration to say that this is potentially revolutionary,"" said Prof Federico Capasso of Harvard University. These ""metalenses"" work in the visible spectrum but avoid the shortfalls - known as aberrations - inherent in traditional glass optics. In fact, the focal spot of the flat lens was typically 30% sharper than its competition. But just as importantly, because the lenses are flat, they could be manufactured in the same foundries that produce computer chips. This means they could be made on a large scale at a fraction of the cost of conventional lenses. One of the most important robotic spacecraft missions of recent times came to an end in 2016, as the European Space Agency crashed its Rosetta spacecraft into the comet it had been orbiting for two years. Just before that happened, mission scientists announced that they had found Philae, the little lander that had detached from Rosetta and descended to the surface of Comet 67P in 2014. Philae had relayed pictures and science data to Earth, but bounced off the surface and fell silent 60 hours later when its battery went flat. Its resting place had been a mystery, but Rosetta's Osiris cameras spotted the probe wedged in an overhang, explaining why it couldn't get enough sunlight to power its batteries. Europe's other big mission of the year also crashed on its target, albeit unintentionally. Schiaparelli, which was intended to test the technology for landing on Mars, suffered a glitch that caused its parachute to jettison too early. Officials at the agency were concerned that the next stage in the Mars programme - the ExoMars rover - might not receive sufficient funding at a meeting of ministers in December. But delegates eventually decided to stump up the money. Google's Deep Mind wowed observers yet again this year, with more powerful demonstrations of artificial intelligence. In March, the lab's AlphaGo programme beat one of the world's top players of Go - the strategy board game. In fact, Le Se-dol won only one of the five matches against his silicon-based opponent, missing out on a $1m prize. And in a study published in the journal Neuron, researchers from DeepMind collaborated with scientists from Oxford and UCL to probe how the human brain navigates underground train maps. First author Jan Balaguer said the work could help scientists ""design more clever algorithms"". AI expert Prof Noel Sharkey said we shouldn't be too worried about rogue AI taking over the world. But he suggested we might do well to keep an eye on our jobs. Follow Paul on Twitter.","From the first direct evidence for black holes , to a rocky planet @placeholder a neighbouring star , 2016 was packed with amazing science stories . Here 's a selection .",holding,reported,involving,unveiled,circling,4
"Spurs were Premier League runners-up this term and lost to Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-finals. They also went out in the Champions League group stages. But Rose says a big name could enable them to ""push forward"" and win a first trophy since 2008. ""We have to do a lot better. We just hope we can win some silverware,"" he told BBC Radio 5 live's Friday Social. In a wide-ranging interview, Rose also said that: Rose, 26, is one of a number of Spurs players to have been linked with a move this summer, with Kane, Kyle Walker and Dele Alli also the subject of speculation. Earlier this month, manager Mauricio Pochettino said the club cannot compete with the Premier League's biggest clubs on wages. But left-back Rose said that money might not be the only factor when it comes to the future of Spurs' stars. ""I was told a few months ago these next two or three windows are going to be the ones where full-backs are going to go for a lot of money so we'll see,"" he said. ""There is only so much the club can do; a lot of it has got to be down to the individual. ""Someone like Harry Kane, I can tell you that his mindset will be 'I'm staying at Tottenham, I'm going to break every single record, I'm going to captain this club into the new stadium' so when you've got a player like him with that mindset I don't think Tottenham have to worry. ""But it depends where the individual is in the stage of his career. He might feel he has done enough at Tottenham and might fancy a change or might feel Tottenham is the nearly club that nearly wins the league and might choose to move on. ""The club can only try and make a player see that they are going in the right direction and 'if you stick with us it won't be long before we are winning something'."" Rose has not played since the end of January because of a knee injury, but his absence is one of the few that the north London side suffered this term. Eight players made at least 30 Premier League starts, with influential midfielders Alli and Christian Eriksen starting 36 and 35 games respectively. But England international Rose admits such consistency of selection is unusual and that Spurs need to invest before a season playing home games at Wembley. ""We could have a better squad in terms of depth,"" he said. ""Thankfully Dele doesn't really get any injuries but just imagine if that happened or someone like Christian got injured."" Media playback is not supported on this device Rose is the longest-serving player in the Tottenham squad, having joined the club from Leeds in 2007. He scored a spectacular 35-yard volley on his league debut against Arsenal in 2010 but struggled to establish himself under both Redknapp and Andre Villas-Boas. Asked about Pochettino, who has been in charge at White Hart Lane since the summer of 2014, Rose said: ""I wish he was my manager from when I was 18. ""Working under Harry was difficult and I sort of gave up thinking I could play for Tottenham week-in, week-out. ""The kids don't realise how lucky they are to have a manager like the one we've got now. If I was one of them I'd be rubbing my hands together - as a young kid it's the best time to be playing for Tottenham. ""Whenever we go through a difficult moment he doesn't want us to panic, he studies the game all day and night and fully trusts us to cope with whatever he asks of us.""","Full - back Danny Rose says "" one marquee @placeholder "" this summer could help Tottenham claim silverware next season .",game,day,signing,thing,doubts,2
"Emily Plant of Findochty, Moray, dispatched the bottle in August 2001 as part of a local gala competition. It was found 15 years later on the Yamal peninsula in Siberia and she was invited to the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland to reclaim it. She also met up with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who was speaking at the event in Reykjavik.","A teenager has been @placeholder with a message in a bottle she sent as a toddler , which washed ashore in Russia .",issued,reunited,infected,named,diagnosed,1
"Fruit juice firm Cutrale and bank Safra offered $14.50 a share last week, in the hope of derailing the Fyffes deal. They had previously offered $14.00. The deal values the US banana company at about $680m. All parties said they hoped the deal would be completed by the end of the year or early in 2015. ""We are pleased to make this long-term investment in Chiquita, one of the leading fresh produce companies in the world,"" a joint statement from the Brazilian companies said. The deal represents a 34% premium on the Chiquita share price in March, when a deal with Fyffes was first agreed. ""This transaction demonstrates our board's commitment to maximising shareholder value and underscores the significant progress Chiquita has achieved over the past couple of years in our financial and operational performance,"" said Ed Lonergan, the US firm's chief executive. Chiquita shareholders voted against the tie-up with Fyffes, which would have created the world's largest banana company, on Friday.","Brazil 's Cutrale and Safra @placeholder have agreed a deal to buy banana giant Chiquita , just days after shareholders rejected a deal with rival Fyffes .",groups,burst,engineers,people,centre,0
"The Taiwanese researcher found files left behind by the other intruder on a neglected Facebook server. The former hacker was using tools to scoop up login names of Facebook's net admin staff. Facebook said the traces were left by another security researcher also seeking loopholes in its systems. In a blog post, security researcher Orange Tsai detailed the way he found the vulnerable server and his realisation that someone else had been there before him. The earlier intruder had set up scripts to grab the login names and other credentials for Facebook employees. At first glance, he said it looked like a ""pretty serious security incident"". Mr Tsai, who works for security firm Devcore, reported his findings to Facebook so it could harden the server and clean out the login-sniffing scripts. He won a $10,000 (£7,000) bug bounty from Facebook for finding the vulnerable server. In a statement on the Hacker News site, Facebook said it was ""really glad"" that Mr Tsai reported his findings. ""After incident response, we determined that the activity Orange detected was in fact from another researcher who participates in our bounty program,"" it said. Facebook described the discovery of the vulnerable server as a ""double win"" as it involved two competent researchers assessing its systems. Neither was able to get further than the server to get full access to the site's internal networks, it added. Paul Ducklin, writing on the blog of security firm Sophos, said anyone planning to do similar work on other net firms should be more careful. ""We recommend that you don't go as far as either hacker in this case."" he wrote. ""Orange stretched the rules a bit; the earlier mystery hacker stretched them a lot."" Going too far might introduce new weaknesses, warned Mr Ducklin. ""You don't make security stronger by weakening it,"" he said.",A hacker looking for ways to breach Facebook 's internal network has @placeholder traces of another hacker who got there first .,uncovered,sparked,posted,lost,raised,0
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 10 June 2015 Last updated at 13:24 BST Johanna Amunjela, a PhD scholar at the University of Aberdeen, in the UK, is among the first in the world to investigate the role that specific proteins have in how the disease develops. Earlier this year, she presented her findings at the Genes and Cancer conference held at Cambridge University. She has been speaking to BBC Africa's Farayi Mungazi.",A young Namibian scientist has vowed to find a cure for cancer - one of the biggest @placeholder diseases in the world .,sport,event,killer,world,cancer,2
"Exercise is known to release proteins that can boost the part of the brain related to memory, and this study suggests the timing of it is crucial. The study, in Current Biology, tested 72 people on their memory recall. And it found exercising a few hours after learning was more effective than immediately afterwards. After spending 40 minutes on a learning task, the 72 people were split into groups: The activity consisted of 35 minutes' vigorous exercise on an exercise bike. When they were all tested on how much they had remembered two days later, the second group performed best. Brain images using MRI showed this group's activity patters in the hippocampus - which is connected to learning and memory - were sharper. It is thought the chemical compounds produced in the body by physical exercise, including dopamine and norepinephrine, can help to improve memory. Guillen Fernandez, lead researcher, from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, in the Netherlands, said: ""Our results suggest that appropriately timed physical exercise can improve long-term memory and highlight the potential of exercise as an intervention in education and clinical settings."" He added that exercise was particularly effective for consolidating weak memories. But it was not clear why delayed exercise had a positive effect on long-term memory. And the research team will now study the timing of exercise and its influence on learning and memory.","Intensive physical exercise four hours after learning is the key to remembering @placeholder learnt , say Dutch researchers .",jokes,levels,brain,information,things,3
"Iraq and Syria are trapped in intractable civil wars. Egypt is run by its army. Libya has all but disintegrated. But in the midst of all the Middle Eastern chaos, Tunisia has somehow kept its democratic development on track. Since the overthrow of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 the country has held two competitive and peaceful general elections. Strong forces oppose Tunisian democracy. In March this year jihadists killed 22 people in Tunisia's National Museum. Three months later 38 were murdered in the Sousse beach massacre. But while the jihadist challenge has been both deadly and spectacular, those using violence have enjoyed little popular support. Arguably, a greater threat to political reform has come from the divisions between three powerful elements of Tunisian society: All three groups have had good reason to fear each other. In the post-Ben Ali period the Islamists in Ennahda, Tunisia's version of the Muslim Brotherhood, had genuine anxieties about being thrown back into the prisons from which thousands of their activists emerged during the Arab Spring. For their part, the secularists feared that, whatever the Islamists said in public, secretly they wanted to create an Islamic state in which European lifestyles would become impossible. Meanwhile, the elite families who benefited from decades of cronyism in the Ben Ali era, worried about being held accountable for their ill-gotten gains. Some Tunisians have accused the old elite of wanting to defend their economic interests by restoring paternalistic, authoritarian rule. Anti-terror legislation, for example, has been used to close down civil liberties. And yet, somehow, despite all the problems and obstacles, Tunisia has remained in the vanguard of democratic development in the Middle East. The Nobel Committee has given the credit to the National Dialogue Quartet. Drawn from four civil society groups - unions, lawyers, employers and human rights activists - it became active at a crucial moment in 2013 when the assassination of two prominent, left-wing politicians threatened to spill over into a broad civil conflict. The murders were taken as a sign that the Islamists in the country would stop at nothing to achieve political dominance. The anti-Islamist opposition walked out of the constitutional assembly. It was at this point that the Quartet set about the business of solving Tunisians' differences through politics not violence. The surprise winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize has played a key role in mediating between the different parties in the country's post-Arab Spring government. The Quartet is credited with creating a national dialogue between the country's Islamist and secular coalition parties amid deepening political and economic crisis in 2013. Tunisia's revolution - also known as the Jasmine Revolution - began in late 2010 and led to the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, followed by the country's first free democratic elections. Kaci Kullman Five, the chair of the Nobel peace committee, said the Quartet's role in Tunisia's democratisation was ""directly comparable to the peace conferences mentioned by Alfred Nobel in his will"". Nobel Peace Prize winners through the years Africa's Nobel Peace Prize winners The mediators only succeeded because of the commitment of other Tunisians to pluralism and the democratic process. Unlike its counterpart in Egypt, for example, the Tunisian army has never had political ambitions. And during the political crisis of 2013, the Islamists, disproving all their critics' predictions, set aside their election victory. After protracted negotiations managed by the Quartet, Ennahda gave up power so as to achieve a broader political settlement. Tunisia's transitional period culminated in 2014 with agreement on a new constitution and the election of a coalition government that included all the major political forces in the country. The Arab Spring began in Tunisia when a street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, became so angry at being unable to make even a modest living that he set himself alight. Many in Tunisia's relatively well-educated population remain deeply frustrated that they cannot fulfil their potential and provide for their families. Tunisia's Islamist and secular politicians are both learning that, for many in the electorate, the question of what role religion should play in politics is a second order concern. For most voters the most pressing issues are the poor provision of basic government services, the uncertain security situation and, most crucially of all, the lack of jobs. The economic and political challenges ahead are real. But for the moment Tunisians can look back at the last four years - and at their Quartet's Nobel Prize - and celebrate the fact that, so far, compared to everyone else in the region, they have managed to keep the ideals of the Arab Spring alive.",A group of civil society @placeholder in Tunisia has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize . How has the country managed its transition to democracy where so many others have failed ?,defects,activity,organisations,areas,officials,2
"At least five people have been arrested in recent days, including activists accused of running Facebook pages supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and calling for protests. The offices of an independent news website were also raided and its managing editor was detained. Officials have warned against protests marking the 25 January revolution. Operations have intensified in recent weeks and several other people have been reportedly arrested. Sites popular with activists have also been shut down to prevent anniversary gatherings. Two of those detained were identified as a 26-year-old man responsible for 41 Facebook pages and a 22-year-old woman who managed six sites, interior ministry spokesman Abu Bakr Abdel Karim was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. Facebook and other social media sites have been used to organise protests and rallies, and several groups have called for demonstrations on the anniversary of the uprising that toppled President Mubarak in 2011. ""The administrators of these pages were arrested on charges of inciting against state institutions and spreading the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as calling for marches on the coming 25 January,"" Mr Abdel Karim said. ""The ministry will continue to stand against these terrorist pages that have long incited violence against state institutions and made fun of the major incidents experienced by the country recently."" Security forces also raided the offices of the independent news website Masr al-Arabiya. Its managing editor Ahmed Abdel Gawad was reportedly released after being arrested on Thursday. Authorities have expressed concern over protests and Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has warned that another revolution could ""ruin the country."" Religious leaders have also warned against protests. As former armed forces chief, Mr Sisi led the army's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi, an ex-Muslim Brotherhood official, in 2013 following mass protests. Since then, more than 1,000 people have been killed and 40,000 are believed to have been jailed in a crackdown on dissent. Most of them have been supporters of the Brotherhood, which was banned in 2013. But secular and liberal activists have also been prosecuted for breaking a 2013 anti-protest law that gives the interior ministry the power to ban gatherings of more than 10 people. Last year, the government approved a anti-terrorism legislation which activists said further eroded basic rights and enshrined a permanent state of emergency.",Egypt 's security forces have @placeholder up raids ahead of the fifth anniversary of the uprising against Hosni Mubarak .,lined,drawn,given,held,stepped,4
"Tomasz Procko, 22, and Karol Symanski, 29, were hauling a sofa up over a balcony when they fell to their deaths. They died when 130-year-old railings they and three colleagues used to support the sofa gave way in November 2014, the Old Bailey heard. Martinisation (London) Ltd denies two counts of corporate manslaughter. The firm, which also denies health and safety breaches, has a ""long and unhappy history of neglect of health and safety"", the court heard. Boss Martin Gutaj, 43, from Brentford, is accused of breaching health and safety laws, which he also denies. The major project in Cadogan Square - located between Harrods and Sloane Square - was behind schedule and £400,000 over budget when the men died, the prosecutor, Adrian Darbishire QC, told jurors. The five workers were unsupervised when they lifted the 18 stone (115kg) sofa 20ft (6m) onto the balcony using ropes, relying on Victorian railings for safety. The two men fell to their deaths when part of the railing gave way, jurors were told. A third was ""saved only by being grabbed by his colleagues as he began to fall"". ""It was an accident, but it was an entirely foreseeable and preventable one,"" Mr Darbishire said. The ""dangerous"" sofa hauling method ""was the result of a long and unhappy history of neglect of health and safety at the company which employed them,"" he added. The company and Mr Gutaj had been warned ""more than once"" of the importance of having trained, competent and effective supervisors before the accident, the court was told. The entire workforce spoke Polish as their first language, yet the firm's policy documents and risk assessment were only available in English, the court heard. The trial continues.","The deaths of two workmen as they @placeholder a multi-million pound flat were "" entirely foreseeable and preventable "" , a court heard .",produced,attended,intercepted,shared,renovated,4
"7 March 2016 Last updated at 21:01 GMT It has challenged the world's top-ranked Go player to a set of matches running until March 15 to see whether man or machine comes out on top. The tech firm's AlphaGo software has already beaten the European champion of the board game, but South Korea's Lee Se-dol should prove a tougher challenge, as BBC's Stephen Evans discovered.",Google 's artificial intelligence wing hopes to make @placeholder over the coming days .,growth,uncertainty,tensions,ground,history,4
"The Royal College of GPs is concerned that doctors from EU countries may not be allowed to stay in the UK. It has called on all political parties to guarantee the status of healthcare professionals from the EU who are already working here. The Scottish government said it was vital that GPs already in Scotland were protected, and that their successors could be attracted in future. The number of GPs in Scotland has dropped by 90 in the past four years and there are projections that by 2021 the country could need an additional 800. The Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland (RCGP) said that if 226 GPs from other EU countries working in Scotland had to leave following Brexit, it could have grave consequences for patient safety. Chairman Dr Miles Mack, whose practice is in Dingwall in the Highlands, said: ""To learn that Scotland could face the loss of an additional 4% of its already stretched GP workforce is extremely worrying. ""It is one in 25 of Scotland's GPs. It could negatively affect over 226,000 patients in Scotland. ""We are calling for government to safeguard the GP workforce during international negotiations by guaranteeing the status of healthcare professionals already working in Scotland and the UK. ""Last June's publication of the 2015 Primary Care Workforce Survey showed that numbers of Whole Time Equivalent GPs had already fallen by 90 since 2013 (around 2.4%, from 3,735 to 3,645). ""We are now faced with a possible removal of a further 226 GPs who, as nationals of other EU member states, might be lost to the workforce if their status is not protected. ""Again, we must call for immediate action to prevent that clear harm to the health service."" He added: ""Repeated surveys have shown the considerable percentage of GPs in Scotland who plan to soon leave the service as a result of overwork and consistent underfunding. An enormous and urgent effort is required in Scotland to save general practice."" Health Secretary Shona Robison said: ""The uncertainty surrounding the UK's withdrawal from the EU presents us with many challenges for planning the future NHS and social care workforce. ""The contribution of EU and EEA [European Economic Area] nationals to our NHS cannot be overestimated. Doctors, nurses and care workers from across Europe help to staff our GP surgeries, our hospitals and our care homes."" UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has previously paid tribute to ""the fantastic work carried out by doctors trained overseas"" in the NHS. Giving evidence to Westminster's health committee in January about the impact of Brexit, Mr Hunt said the prime minister had said one of the government's ""top priorities, as part of the Brexit negotiations, is to secure their rights to continue to live and work in the UK"". Scottish Labour said ""the GP crisis began long before Brexit"".  The party's health spokesman Anas Sarwar said they would call for ""a special arrangement for NHS staff so we can continue to attract health care professionals to come and work here and make Scotland their home"". The Scottish Lib Dems said they supported RCGP Scotland's demands.","Scotland could lose more than 220 GPs following Brexit , it has been @placeholder .",revealed,predicted,argued,stated,warned,4
"Since it opened in 1984, it has closed 174 times. The barrier reached the record for the highest number of times closed in a single season on Tuesday. This winter has been the wettest since records began, with the South East receiving double the amount of rainfall expected in a normal winter. The Environment Agency called this year's number of closures a ""blip"". The Agency is not anticipating closing it again over the forthcoming tides, but will continue to monitor river and tide levels closely and will operate once again if required. The barrier's operation manager Andy Batchelor said: ""The long term plan for the barrier recognises that we will use it on average more frequently year-by-year and we are still forecasting not to need a replacement until 2070."" The Agency's guidance says the barrier should not be closed more than 50 times a year, however a spokesman said this would only be a concern if it was a regular occurrence.","The Thames Barrier has closed for a record 50th time this winter , making it the busiest @placeholder in its history .",crossing,situation,shore,period,future,3
"In other words, had you been washed ashore four millennia ago on the banks of the now lost river of Saraswati and hitched a bullock cart ride to Farmana in the Ghaggar valley near modern-day Delhi, here's what you might have eaten - a curry. For in 2010, when advanced science met archaeology at an excavation site in Farmana - southeast of the largest Harappan city of Rakhigarhi - they made history, and it was edible. This is the second article in a BBC series India on a plate, on the diversity and vibrancy of Indian food. Other stories in the series: Why India is a nation of foodies Archaeologists Arunima Kashyap and Steve Webber of Vancouver's Washington State University used the method of starch analysis to trace the world's first-known or ""oldest"" proto-curry of aubergine, ginger and turmeric from the pot shard of a bulbous handi (pot). Extracting starch molecules from 50 different surfaces - including pots, stone tools, and the dental enamel of humans and domesticated cows, often fed leftovers - they identified the molecular thumbprints of vegetables, fruits and spices, and studied the effect of heat, salt and sugar on them. Soon, mangoes and bananas made their mark under the microscope as did dates and gourds. Roasted and boiled, they were each mapped for clues in a lab. Readings of such plant ""microfossils"" also undercut the dependence on macro-botanical evidence like carbonised seeds and grains in traditional archaeology. But mostly, they celebrated the building of a new, scientific highway to Harappa. A trapdoor to its kitchens. Serves 1-2 While the proto-curry that was discovered in Farmana only had aubergine, turmeric, ginger and salt in it, we've taken the liberty to combine them with a few other ingredients that were available at the time. Cook it in earthenware, if you can. 6-7 small aubergines, washed and slit 1-inch piece of ginger, ground 1 fresh turmeric, ground, or ¼ tsp turmeric powder Salt 1tbsp raw mango cut into cubes 2-3tbsp sesame oil ¼ tsp cumin Dehydrated sugarcane juice to taste A few leaves of sweet basil (optional) Method: Wet grind the ginger, turmeric and cumin seeds. Heat sesame oil, add the paste and cook for a couple of minutes. Tip in the aubergines, add some salt and give it a good stir. Cover and cook until the aubergines are nearly cooked through; add some water, if need be. Now, stir in the mango and dehydrated cane juice. Simmer for a few minutes or until the mango is cooked. Check seasoning and serve with bajra roti (pearl millet flatbread). Soity Banerjee live on Facebook The frugal curry from Farmana was a fine dish - as long as you forget that while someone was stirring the pot of curry here, the Egyptians were drawing elaborate scenes of bread making at Luxor and brewing buckets of cloudy beer. But what the humble Harappan curry lacks in glamour, it makes up for in substance. It proves, for instance, what the late food historian KT Achaya had suspected all along - that aubergine is a wild native of the subcontinent, and its Sanskrit names vartaka or vrntaka predate the language (they have Munda roots). Or that ginger or adraka first grew in the region too, as did turmeric or haridra, a word with ""aboriginal connotations"". In short: the turmeric latte that Instagram and you ""discovered"" this season may have existed before iron was first smelted! But really, must one know the antecedents of a curry to enjoy it with a pint of beer? Yet, the history that is caught between the covers of a textbook, divvied up by kings and kingdoms, battles and conquests, pottery styles and the size of granaries and baths, rarely takes into account the people who lived through it. People who may have enjoyed their aubergine curries and mango chutneys before a mighty river dried up and the monsoon winds went rogue. People who emptied out of towns and cities in search of better lives and better food. And at least one person who forgot to wash the dishes one night, about 4,000 years ago.","Everyone eats . But what if you were told that 4,000 years ago they ate almost exactly what you ate last night ? That re-heating it in the microwave was the only real advantage you had over an average Harappan @placeholder cook .",texture,laboratory,nod,indian,home,4
"Mansfield District Council stopped people riding around the market place to combat ""anti-social"" cycling. However, it said ""responsible"" cyclists were welcome in the same place for the Tour of Britain on 6 September. Campaign group Cycling UK said Mansfield hosting the race was illogical. The group is currently supporting six cyclists who are challenging the council over a public spaces protection order (PSPO), issued a year ago, which prohibits people from cycling in the pedestrianised market place area. Anyone who fails to dismount when asked could be fined. Cycling UK spokesman Duncan Dollimore said: ""They are marketing the town as cycle friendly, but not to people who want to shop there. ""We would never defend cycling anti-social behaviour, but why not deal with those being stupid and not responsible cyclists. ""They are effectively saying cycling is anti-social."" He also criticised the council's own promotional video showing a cyclist riding through areas which are prohibited. In a statement, Mansfield District Council said it welcomed responsible cyclists to the town to view the race, but with care and consideration. Riders have been encouraged to dismount, but ""normal"" rules concerning the PSPO will not be in operation for the ""special event"". Mansfield's mayor Kate Allsop said: ""This is about safety. This event will be properly monitored and managed. ""What we don't want is people dashing through the town centre on their bikes frightening or upsetting people. ""This is a special event and it would have been a dreadful shame if we were so inflexible that we would not host this amazing opportunity.""",A council has been accused of double standards for allowing a stage of a major cycle race to @placeholder in a town centre where cyclists have been banned .,drown,increase,start,appear,hold,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device The England Under-18 international, who scored 16 goals in 45 matches last season, has signed a four-year deal. BBC Radio Stoke reports an initial fee of £3m will be paid, with the deal potentially rising to £6m depending on his success and appearances. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said: ""He is an exceptional talent and has been schooled well at Crewe."" He added: ""I'm delighted he has chosen to come to United. He has a lot to offer and we are all looking forward to working with him."" Powell, who scored a spectacular goal to open the scoring in Crewe's 2-0 League Two play-off final victory over Cheltenham at Wembley, said he was excited about the move. ""It really is a dream come true to be signing for Manchester United,"" he said. ""I have had a great time at Crewe and I would like to thank them for helping me to develop as a player over the past 13 years. ""I'm excited about continuing my development with Sir Alex and the world class players in the squad. Media playback is not supported on this device ""The thought of making the step up to the Premier League next year is an exciting prospect. I can't wait to get started."" On Monday, Crewe manager Steve Davis had dismissed the possibility of Powell being loaned back to Alex to gain match experience in League One. ""One thing I can confirm is that he won't be coming back here on loan,"" he said. ""That wouldn't be part of it because we want to bring in a replacement of our own and give our own players, such as [fellow England Under-18 forward] Max Clayton, a chance.""",Manchester United have signed Crewe 's highly - @placeholder 18 - year - old forward Nick Powell for an undisclosed fee .,sided,including,signing,based,rated,4
"Officially the Grateful Dead had no leader. But from the band's origins in 1965 to his death 30 years later, Garcia was the best known member of a group which still evokes the excitement of American counterculture in the 1960s. As well as '60s psychedelia, the group's albums show the influence of jazz, bluegrass, mainstream pop and even their early days as a jug band.  But when they toured it was the lengthy jam sessions fans loved - and central to those was the Garcia guitar sound. Devoted Deadheads identify five classic guitars which Garcia played at different times: Alligator, Rosebud, Lightning Bolt, Tiger and Wolf. The last two were auctioned together in 2002 and made more than $1.5m (£1.2m).  Now Wolf is back at the same auction house to benefit the advocacy group the Southern Poverty Law Center. Arlan Ettinger runs Guernsey's auction house in New York which is handling this month's sale. Guernsey's specialises in the unusual.  ""I've loved having a pioneering sale of John F Kennedy memorabilia or jazz artefacts,"" says Ettinger. ""But selling Tiger and Wolf the first time round was a huge thrill because real fans are amazingly passionate about the Grateful Dead. It's like they've become the ultimate rock icon of '60s America and all that excitement and the passion that went with it."" Tiger was bought in 2002 by the hugely wealthy Jim Irsay, who owns the National Football League (NFL) team the Indianapolis Colts.  Wolf went for more than $700,000 (£543,000) to Dan Pritzker, whose family founded the Hyatt hotel chain. Ettinger remembers there had already been a lot of press interest in who owned the guitars. ""They were consigned to Guernsey's by the man who made them - the luthier [guitar maker] Doug Irwin.  In his will Jerry had bequeathed the guitars back to Doug but the band members challenged that legally. Times had been tough for Doug Irwin and he had at times been homeless. ""Everyone was saying they were worth maybe $25,000 (£19,000) or $50,000 (£39,000) apiece.  But we built a big auction of Grateful Dead material around them and we proved they were worth a lot more. The auction was at the ultra-hip disco Studio 54 in Manhattan which made it pretty special. ""So I was surprised and delighted when Dan Pritzker got back in contact to say all these years later he wants to auction Wolf again for charity.  Dan is intent that every dollar of the hammer price should go to the Law Center and we've agreed to that. ""Given what it sold for in 2002 and given how great a cause this is, we're hoping the Center will get more than $1.5m (£1.2m) from the sale this month."" The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in Alabama in 1971 to focus on civil rights. Ettinger thinks Garcia would be delighted to see it benefit from the sale of Wolf. ""Southern Poverty has fought racism and hate groups and neo-Nazis through the courts. So I thought it was a noble thing for Dan Pritzker to do.  It's a pure gift with no tax write-off and there's no seller's commission for us. ""Dan told me he was deeply troubled by the direction our new government is taking.  He wanted to take some proactive steps to do something important and good with the money the auction will raise."" The guitar's Wolf association came about almost by accident: it wasn't something Irwin included when he made the instrument. Garcia stuck a cartoon wolf on the guitar as a joke. At one point the instrument went back to Irwin for repairs and he decided to incorporate the cartoon wolf more permanently. Ettinger thinks only the most obsessive Deadheads can identify exactly which guitar Garcia played in each recording. ""But the Wolf design means you can often pick out that exact instrument at a particular concert in photographs and film footage. ""There is so much interest still in Jerry and the band. There's a new Martin Scorsese six-part TV series about them: I think that will tell us about the world they lived in, not just about their music. ""It's funny when you think of the guitar as just wood and strips of metal and wire strings.  But it takes people back to very important moments in their lives.  It's been around since 1973 so it's fantastic that all these years later it will do so much good in the world."" The guitar will be auctioned at Guernsey's in New York on 31 May. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","It 's more than 20 years since Jerry Garcia died @placeholder the glory years of the Grateful Dead , one of the most popular rock bands to date . These days some ardent fans ( or "" Deadheads "" ) will pay top prices for the right piece of band memorabilia . But now , possibly the ultimate Garcia artefact is coming to auction in New York - his favourite guitar , nicknamed Wolf . And a single charity is to benefit .",following,ending,reached,hosted,shared,1
"Sir John Adye said he had security concerns over methods like fingerprint recognition used in Apple's iPhone 6 and other devices to check identity. ""I don't know what happens to my personal data when I use it on a smartphone,"" he told MPs. Apple has defended the security and privacy of its systems. Sir John, who headed GCHQ between 1989 and 1996, chairs a company which is developing biometric technology for identity recognition. He said the increasing use of biometrics was a positive step but warned that it was not clear enough what was happening to people's data. ""If you go to an ATM and put in your credit or debit card, that system is supervised by the bank in some way,"" he said in evidence to the Commons Science and Technology Committee, which is examining the use of biometric technology. ""But when you're using your smartphone... there's no physical supervision of the system."" ""You need to design security methods... which are going to be strong to protect the interests of the individual who is using the phone and the relying party at the other end... the bank or whoever it is, who is providing a service to them."" Sir John singled out the Apple iPhone 6 which allows users to make payments and access services using a fingerprint. ""You can now use your iPhone 6 to make payments using biometrics on the internet and you've got to tick various boxes before you do so, but how many people are actually going read through all those boxes properly and understand what they mean when it goes in?"" ""I think Apple has done some good things. They appear to have a good system at the moment for protecting their operating system so it's difficult for anyone outside to penetrate it and retrieve data from it. ""But how long will that last, because the criminals... are very inventive at finding ways in, and although you can protect it in that way on the device itself, what happens if the device is lost or stolen?"" Apple says it uses the most technologically advanced fingerprint security and puts security and privacy at the core of the ""Apple Pay"" system. Sir John also called for more transparency in the way personal information may be passed on to third parties. ""I don't know, although I'm quite experienced in this area, what happens to my personal data when I use it on a smartphone for proving my identity. Is Google going to use that data to target advertising at me?  Is some other commercial company or maybe some hostile foreign government going to use it to target me in some other way? I don't know,"" he said. Another witness, biometrics engineer Ben Fairhead, was asked about the risks that biometric data such as fingerprints could be faked. ""There's a whole science around anti-spoofing and all sorts of methods you can employ to work out 'Is this finger... made of flesh and is there blood pumping around it?,'"" he told Labour MP, Pamela Nash. But even this technology was open to ""spurious results"", he said. ""If for example, you haven't got much blood flow to your fingers, maybe the system doesn't think your finger is alive."" ""It still ends up being an arms race, or an arms, legs and fingers race, between you and the attackers,"" he said, adding that cybercriminals were adding iron filings to fake fingers to mirror the conductivity of human skin. The committee also examined the increasing use of biometrics by governments, in border controls and public services. MPs heard claims that there needed to be better oversight of the entire industry.",The former boss of government @placeholder agency GCHQ has warned over the use of biometric data in mobile phones and devices .,data,trade,union,communications,information,3
"MP Marton Gyongyosi, deputy group leader of Jobbik, spoke during a parliamentary session on Monday. The government responded by saying it condemned ""to the greatest possible degree"" Mr Gyongyosi's statement. Jobbik has 47 seats in the 386-seat parliament - the third-largest group. Jobbik, an opposition party purporting to protect Hungarian values and interests, also has three MEPs in the European Parliament. The party has been linked to uniformed vigilantes who say they are safeguarding public order in areas with large Roma (Gypsy) communities. During a debate on the conflict in the Gaza Strip, Mr Gyongyosi said it was time to ""assess how many MPs and government members are of Jewish origin and who presents a national security risk to Hungary"". The statement from a government spokesman on Tuesday said the government took ""the strictest possible action against every form of racism and anti-Semitic behaviour"" and did ""everything in order to ensure that malicious voices incompatible with European norms are driven back"". ""The government also makes it clear that every citizen will be protected from such insults,"" the spokesman added.","The Hungarian government has condemned comments by a leading nationalist MP , who said officials of Jewish origin should be @placeholder because they might be a "" national security risk "" .",deported,excluded,held,declared,listed,4
"The 27-year-old, who began his career with Manchester United, spent most of 2016-17 on loan at Cardiff City. Amos joined the Bluebirds on a season-long arrangement last season and made 16 appearances for the club. After making six senior appearances for United, Amos signed for the Trotters on a four-year deal in the summer of 2015.",Bolton Wanderers goalkeeper Ben Amos has been @placeholder to find a new club after being left out of their pre-season tour to Scotland .,agreed,told,returned,looking,released,1
"Today she announced the launch of a ""national conversation"" about Scottish independence. An initiative she says will be ""Scotland's biggest ever political listening exercise"". Anyone who hoped that she would set a date for another referendum on Scottish independence may be disappointed. But Ms Sturgeon is not yet ready to commit to holding another vote. In the immediate wake of the EU referendum she said she thought another referendum was ""highly likely"". But she knows she has a lot of work to do before that becomes a certainty. Opinion polls have not moved as much as the SNP hoped after Scotland voted to stay in the EU but the rest of the UK voted to leave. A new YouGov poll for the Times today shows support for independence at much the same level it was before the EU referendum at 46%. Ms Sturgeon will not take a chance on holding another vote unless she is sure she can win it, and that requires sustained polling evidence that well over 50% of Scots will vote Yes. The electorate as a whole may remain sceptical but SNP activists are excited and enthusiastic about another referendum. And there are a lot of them. With more than 120,000 members, one in every 37 adults in Scotland belongs to the SNP. As one senior MP likes to put it - that is one party member on every double decker bus. If they think Nicola Sturgeon is dragging her feet they may become impatient. So their party leader needs to find work for their idle hands. That's why she is sending them out to doorsteps across Scotland to start talking about independence even if they aren't technically campaigning for it yet. It will be useful for the party to hear voters' concerns about leaving the UK. And it will also buy some time as the party works out how to remake the case for an independent Scotland. Brexit may present an opportunity for the SNP but it also presents new problems. It is unthinkable that the SNP could assert that Scotland would continue to use Sterling as its currency if the rUK is outside the EU and Scotland is inside. Would there have to be a hard border between Scotland and England? And what would that mean for cross border trade? All these new issues need to be addressed as well as the basic economic case. The sharp drop in oil price has made that much harder. If the Yes campaign failed to convince the electorate of the economic case for independence in 2014 how will they do so now that Scotland's national deficit is more than double that of the UK's and there is a £14.8bn hole in the public finances? The SNP know they will have to make a fresh case for independence that addresses all of these questions. Launching an excercise to ""listen"" to the voters will give them time to work on that case.",When you do n't know what to say it is usually a good idea to shut up and listen . Advice many of us would probably be wise to @placeholder on occasion . And that 's exactly what Scotland 's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she is going to do .,follow,influence,change,descend,reflect,0
"Since 2003, the film deal has meant cheaper first dates or seeing the latest blockbuster with your mates for less. Under a new name, the same offer will be back from 7 April and it will be available on Tuesdays too. Cinema-goers will have to be Compare the Market customers to use the deal. The offer lasts for a year and is in partnership with Cinema First. The deal will be available from 7 April via a code on the Meerkat Movies app. It can be given away to friends or family as you could with Orange Wednesdays. Chief Executive of Cinema First, Phil Clapp, told Newsbeat: ""This is the biggest promotion that cinema has ever seen. ""People look for value and we are very hopeful this exciting new promotion will offer a significant incentive to people who otherwise wouldn't go to the cinema. ""Orange Wednesdays was hugely popular but this offers extra flexibility with a choice of two days rather than one."" Karen Stacey, CEO at Digital Cinema Media (DCM), said: ""It's an extremely exciting time to be in cinema. ""The medium is more flexible and targeted than ever and is experiencing huge growth and innovation, with admissions expected to cross the 170m mark in 2015, the highest number in years. ""Comparethemarket has recognised the power of the big screen and their huge commitment is testament to the strength of our compatible audiences, which are early-adopting, socially connected and first in the queue when a new film is released. ""We're really looking forward to working closely together to shape the growth of the industry."" Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube",The popular two - for - one cinema deal that Orange offered every Wednesday will be @placeholder by Compare the Market and be named Meerkat Movies .,unveiled,replaced,sponsored,released,launched,2
"Femme Assise [Seated Woman] was confiscated from the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of Adolf Hitler's art dealer. Experts say the painting, worth an estimated $20m (£13.4m; €18.3m), was stolen from art dealer Paul Rosenberg. A government task force ruled last year it rightfully belonged to his heirs. Germany's Culture Minister Monika Gruetters has signed an agreement paving the way for the masterpiece to be handed back. The deal must now be approved by a court dealing with Gurlitt's estate. The Bavarian authorities seized some 1,280 artworks from Gurlitt's Munich flat as part of a tax evasion probe in February 2012. The find triggered legal disputes surrounding works seized by the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s. Gurlitt died in May last year aged 81, having named the Bern museum in Switzerland as his ""sole heir"". He had agreed to help authorities discover which works had been stolen. The Swiss museum agreed in November to take hundreds of artworks from the collection until their rightful owners could be identified. But German officials said three artworks - including Femme Assise by Henri Matisse - would be returned immediately. A similar agreement was signed last week for the return of a painting by Max Liebermann, Zwei Reiter am Strand [Two Riders on the Beach]. Gurlitt's father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, was ordered by Adolf Hitler to deal in works that had been seized from Jewish families, or which the Nazis considered ""degenerate"" and had been removed from German museums in the 1930s and 1940s. Matisse's Femme Assise, painted in 1921, was taken from Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg in Paris in 1941. His family had been searching for it until it turned up in Gurlitt's flat.","Germany has signed an agreement for the return of a Matisse painting , @placeholder by the Nazis , to the family of its original Jewish owner .",looted,inspired,funded,according,owned,0
1 March 2017 Last updated at 07:02 GMT The Moon hasn't been visited for more than 40 years. The space tourists will skim its surface but won't land on it. Lift off is scheduled for 2018.,Two tourists have @placeholder to be sent around the Moon by US private rocket company SpaceX.,failed,believed,paid,revealed,agreed,2
"The pool at Stratford Park Leisure Centre was closed on 19 January after a section of the ""suspended ceiling"" above the pool fell on to the poolside. A spokesman for Stroud District Council said checks and repairs had be to made to the ""entire structure"". ""Now we are completely satisfied that the whole ceiling is secure and safe we have reopened the pool,"" he added. ""We're grateful to customers for the patience they have shown whilst this much-loved facility has been closed."" Public swimming between midday and 17:00 GMT is free of charge as a ""thank you to customers for their support"", the district council added.",A swimming pool that had to close after part of its roof @placeholder has reopened to the public .,labour,house,appeal,collapsed,repairs,3
"Born in Okija, Nigeria, he moved to England before he became a teenager - via Spain - and his professional football career found its roots as a 16-year-old on a playing field in the south-east London district of Woolwich. Fast forward to the present day and the Blackpool winger, now 19, has won the English Football League's Young Player of the Month award for March. Osayi-Samuel scored three times in that month to help the Tangerines edge closer to the League Two play-offs, which they will reach if they defeat Leyton Orient on Saturday. It is all a far cry from the day his talent was first spotted. ""I was playing in a park with a few of my friends and one of the Manchester United scouts came and watched at the time,"" Osayi-Samuel told BBC Radio Lancashire of how he was discovered. ""He knew Richie (Kyle) was Blackpool's youth-team coach, told him about me, then Richie called my mum and asked me if I wanted to trial at Blackpool. It all started from there."" Osayi-Samuel and Kyle have risen through to the first-team ranks at Bloomfield Road almost simultaneously. Despite six appearances towards the end of their 2014-15 Championship relegation season, it was the following campaign Osayi-Samuel made his mark on the first team, when Kyle had moved up to the senior squad as a coach under Neil McDonald. ""Without him I wouldn't be where I am now,"" Osayi-Samuel said of Kyle. ""Last year, when new players came in, I didn't really know anyone apart from two of the youth-team players and Richie. ""For me to have a coach that I'd known for a while and knows my strengths and weaknesses really helped me to kick-start my pre-season and try to impress the first-team manager."" On and off the field, 2015-16 was not the best of seasons for Blackpool. Fan protests against chairman Karl Oyston continued, while McDonald left following the club's second successive relegation. But Osayi-Samuel got a real taste for senior football, playing 26 times, and under new boss Gary Bowyer he has featured in 40 matches in all competitions so far this term. Osayi-Samuel said Bowyer has ""given me confidence on and off the pitch"" and it showed with a special goal against Newport County, chasing his own long ball forward down before duping the keeper and finishing into a nearly empty net. Despite the success this season, Tangerines fans are still unhappy with the way the club is being run and, along with fans of relegated Orient - whose own off-field turmoil is well-documented - they plan to hold a protest prior to Saturday's match. The Blackpool squad, though, remains focused on the task in hand. ""I've never played in the play-offs so I don't know the experience,"" said the winger. ""But we take each game as it comes, focus on Saturday and try to get three points before thinking about the play-offs. ""I know a few of the Leyton Orient players and they are very young and energetic. We just have to play to our strengths."" Bright Osayi-Samuel was speaking to BBC Radio Lancashire's Phil Cunliffe",From playing park football to a possible Wembley appearance in just three years . The story of Bright Osayi - Samuel is one that could @placeholder itself .,change,sound,write,affect,secure,2
"More than 700 flats on the Chalcots estate in north-west London were emptied, with families housed first on air beds in a nearby leisure centre and later in hotels. Residents in all but two flats have now moved back in but the situation looks far from resolved. David lives at the top of a tower on the Swiss Cottage development and has a list of issues with the state of the building. His block, Taplow, and three others on the estate are clad in the same combustible material used at Grenfell Tower. At the time of the evacuations Camden Council, which owns the blocks, said improvements were needed to the internal, communal areas of the towers. The council says the urgent works have now been signed off but David (not his real name) believes the work is incomplete. Filming on the estate was not allowed but photographs taken by the BBC illustrate some of his concerns. David's worries start with his front door and the mechanism, called a closer, which is designed to automatically pull the door shut. It is a key factor because people faced with a fire often flee without remembering to close doors behind them. The one fitted to David's front door has already broken, and if a fire was to happen a door left open would do nothing to stop fire spilling out from inside the flat to the corridor. David points out a succession of other problems, including a sizeable gap at the bottom of his neighbour's front door. A secure front door is a key barrier to keeping fires contained for as long as possible - but David demonstrates how quickly he fears flames will be able to get past this particular barrier. ""I can get my entire hand under the front door and if your hand was a fire it'd be out in seconds,"" he says, kneeling down to demonstrate his point. Non-slip strips in the fire escape stairwell - in place so that residents can see each step - are worn and barely visible even in daylight. ""Imagine what they'd be like when the lights are off - they are clearly not fit for purpose,"" David says. Camden Council has reassured residents that fire marshals will be seated on each floor, 24 hours a day, to ensure their safety. But David claims they have not had the correct training. ""They themselves have told us they have none,"" David said. ""A lot of them are standard security guys who have come from agencies and have been told to put on an orange apron and double up as a fire marshal. ""None have training whatsoever,"" he says. His concerns are echoed by independent surveyor and fire safety expert Arnold Tarling. ""From what I have seen in one flat in Taplow and in the common parts, the building is not safe,"" he said. David says he has been unable to get a straight answer from the council. ""I've written to the council on numerous occasions, and my MP and the chief councillor, and I've been fobbed off [by the council] with copied and pasted text they've been publishing on their website. ""They aren't answering my questions directly. I've been asking for reassurances and they've not offered one."" Ella May is a single mother-of-three who lives on the ground floor of Taplow. She also feels the urgent works have not been properly completed. She showed the BBC a mass of exposed electrical cables running out of her fuse box into a gaping hole in the ceiling. She says the cables were covered by a council-contracted electrician using cardboard. A week ago the council told her re-boxing the cables properly was urgent safety work but now she has been told the work is superficial. Camden Council told the BBC it had completed the urgent works identified by the London Fire Brigade (LFB), relating to fire containment issues inside the blocks. The LFB said it had visited the premises since the work began and was satisfied sufficient progress had been made to allow a phased re-occupation of the building. There is further work planned by the council to improve fire doors, it added.","Almost six weeks ago , in the wake of the devastating Grenfell Tower blaze , fire safety concerns prompted the evacuation of 3,000 people - with little notice - from their homes in four tower blocks on another London estate . Many residents were angry then and they are fearful now - worried that the "" urgent "" works they were moved out for have been @placeholder and shoddily done .",restored,wearing,banned,stolen,rushed,4
"The German shepherd, which belonged to Cleveland Police, was being exercised near to Ormseby Stables in Eston when it bit a 28-year-old man. The man suffered puncture wounds on his arm and upper body and was taken to hospital. The dog handler also suffered an injury to his arm. The force has apologised and referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. A police spokesman said: ""Based on an assessment of the animal it has been put to sleep. ""This was not an easy decision for any of the people involved, but has been made in the best interests of all those involved."" The incident occurred on 6 June. Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Ciaron Irvine said it would be ""wrong to speculate"" until the full circumstances were known. ""What is clear is that this incident should not have happened and we must absolutely understand what went wrong,"" he added.",A police dog has been put down after @placeholder a member of the public .,following,leaving,receiving,biting,finding,3
"The body of another worker caught up in Friday's fire at Wood Flour Mills, near Macclesfield, was found on Sunday. All four were believed to be working in the upper floors of the mill on Friday when an explosion and fire reduced the four-storey building to rubble. Firefighters have warned it may ""take a long time"" to complete the search. A search team is excavating the 5m x 5m (16ft x 16ft) area where the body - which has not yet been identified - was found. The families of Derek Moore, 62, Dorothy Bailey, 62, Jason Shingler, 38, and William Barks, 51, were all informed when the body was found, and continue to be updated and supported by police officers. Another woman is in hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. Two other men remain in hospital in a stable condition and another man has been discharged with minor injuries. In a statement, the site owner - Wood Treatment Ltd - said it was ""shocked and saddened"" by the blast in Bosley. The police are conducting a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The site, which manufactures wood flour used for making laminate flooring, was also struck by fires in 2010 and 2012.",The search and recovery mission to find three people still missing after an explosion at a Cheshire wood @placeholder plant has entered a fifth day .,food,exhibition,burning,processing,group,3
"Christian Pay, of Millom, was among five people taken ill at Kendal Calling in Cumbria on Friday. He later died and police believe three different types of tablet could be linked to his death. Two men aged 18 and 20, also taken to hospital have been discharged. A 19-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman are still said to be critically ill. Four people have been arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs with intent to supply and bailed, Cumbria Police said. Mr Pay was pronounced dead after being admitted to the Cumberland Infirmary. According to police, drugs seized included a blue tablet with an Adidas logo, a yellow powder believed to be MDMA (ecstasy), an orange oval tablet with a Rolls Royce logo, a green tablet with a white fleck and a plain grey tablet with a white fleck.","Two men left critically ill after taking drugs at a festival where a man died have @placeholder , police said .",recovered,begun,disappeared,identified,injured,0
"The vessel, named Eben Haezer, sank at Bute East Dock, Cardiff Bay on Monday. Bernard James from the Atlantic Wharf Residents' Association said it was a ""very sad end to a vessel that was a feature"". Brains said the barge took on water following poor weather and ongoing works. It said it was working closely with Natural Resources Wales (NRW). NRW was alerted to a diesel sheen on the water and a strong odour near the vessel on Tuesday. Divers have visited the site to assess the damage and a boom has been put in place to stop pollution. NRW said it would oversee the recovery and dismantling of the vessel.","A barge owned by Brains Brewery was "" @placeholder to deteriorate "" before it sank in Cardiff , a residents ' group said .",set,refused,allowed,driven,prepared,2
"Claire Sugden made a statement on the issue of mental health in prisons to the assembly on Monday. She told MLAs there were currently 1,533 prisoners in NI jails and of those, 740 had an addiction, while 417 had a mental health illness. She announced a review into services for vulnerable prisoners following five recent deaths in jail. Four of those who died in custody took their own lives. The justice minister said a community response plan was being developed which would involve the health and prison services with the aim of detecting a potential suicide cluster. Ms Sugden said the needs of prisoners were ""complex"" and said addiction issues, mental illness and generally poor coping skills were higher among the prison population. ""However we portray it, the custody environment is not designed to deal with those experiencing severe chronic mental health issues,"" she said. ""Whatever level of training we provide to staff they remain prison officers. ""The Northern Ireland Prison Service cannot meet this challenge alone, we need the ongoing help and support of the Department of Health, other departments, and partners across the justice system, and in the wider community."" The justice minister said that following the most recent death of Barry Cavan in Maghaberry Prison, a meeting was held last Friday to develop a community response plan. A similar model is adopted whenever there are potential clusters of suicides in the community, she said. ""The aim of using this approach is to detect a potential suicide cluster and thereby, prevent further deaths by suicide,"" she said. ""I also believe this is the first time this model, which has been used successfully in the community, has been adopted in a prison in Northern Ireland."" Objectives of community response plan for prisoners Ms Sugden said the prison service was working in partnership with the South-Eastern Trust, which delivers health care in Northern Ireland's prisons, to review the suicide and self-harm policy. The minister said she, along with Health Minister Michelle O'Neill, would conduct an immediate review of vulnerable people in custody. ""Officials from both departments are now working together to define the structure, scope and timeframe of this review,"" she added.","Half of Northern Ireland 's prison population have a @placeholder addiction , the justice minister has revealed .",gambling,substance,organisation,cocaine,growing,1
"Eight-month-old Marley from Hitcham chewed through the tube of glue his owner was using for home improvements. At first he showed no signs of illness, but within a week needed emergency surgery to remove a solid lump of adhesive from his stomach. His owner Beverley King said her pet made a full recovery and was now ""bouncing around"" again. Read this and more stories from Suffolk Mrs King said her husband had been working upstairs when Marley came down with his paws covered in glue. He was taken to the vet to have the glue removed and seemed fine, she said. However he later became ill and had to be referred to a specialist veterinary centre near Newmarket, where the full extent of Marley's mishap was revealed. He underwent a one-hour operation to have the ball of glue removed by a surgical specialist. Mrs King, who slept by his side every night ""just to be on the safe side"", said her pet was due to have a final check up later.",A cocker spaniel has been saved from a sticky @placeholder after eating a tube of expanding glue .,floor,nest,fate,end,diet,3
"In Australia over the past two years there has been a fierce statistical battle between the tobacco industry and anti-smoking groups over whether plain packaging works. Aussie smokers have been picking up their cigarettes in bland brown packs, plastered with pictures of black tar-stained lungs, yellow rotting teeth and pink bulging tumours since December 2012. Since then the number-crunchers on either side of the debate have been putting out research to claim that it has either been a success or a failure. The tobacco industry generally says plain packaging hasn't reduced smoking. Well they would say that, wouldn't they. Anti-smoking groups say plain packaging has reduced smoking. Well they would say that, wouldn't they. So I'm going to stick my neck out. It appears to be working, but relatively slowly. Figures from Australia's Bureau of Statistics and the Department of Health show that by just about all measures cigarette smoking has decreased since plain packaging was introduced. These figures are comprehensive and worth reading all the way through. The bureau says expenditure on tobacco products fell by more than A$100m (£53m, $80m) between December 2012 and March 2014. The figures for the first quarter of 2014 were the lowest ever recorded. Research has shown a considerable increase in the number of people calling quit-smoking advice lines. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says smoking rates for people aged 14 and over fell from 15.1% to 12.8% between 2010 and 2013. For people aged 18 and over the figures dropped from 15.9% to 13.3%. Those figures include two years before plain packaging was introduced, however, and show a continued long-term trend of declining smoking rates prevalent in most developed countries. Sometimes even the tobacco industry has acknowledged sales have fallen. ""We've seen the market decline roughly 2% to 3%,"" said Imperial Tobacco's chief executive  after the first six months of the plain packaging laws, before adding that the number ""may be not as bad as we might have anticipated"". Some within the tobacco industry argue the drop-off in sales is due to the fact that more people are buying black-market cigarettes as a result of the plain packaging laws. But it seems far more likely that the reason that people turn to black-market cigarettes is price - over the counter, it is roughly A$22 (£12) for a packet. It is fair to say that the decline in smoking rates seems relatively small. But anti-smoking researchers say they were never expecting a huge drop-off. They say little other than a massive increase in price, or a complete ban, would see a big drop. Those who are in favour of plain-packaging say the primary aim of the new laws was not to get existing smokers to quit, but to stop potential new smokers, especially the young, from taking up the habit. To judge how successful that has been will take longer to assess. But again it would seem odd if plain packaging hidden away in special cupboards in newsagents with no advertising or branding led to anything other than fewer young people taking up the habit. Across Australia you do of course still see plenty of people happily puffing away. But it does always look a bit awkward when you see well-dressed couples sitting outside the fancy bars and restaurants of Sydney and Melbourne with a ""poo brown"" packet of cigarettes featuring a picture of a cancerous colon on the table in front of them. It not quite Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is it? And finally for those wondering, I am neither pro smoking or anti; neither pro plain packaging or against. But I think, looking past the propaganda, it's clear the figures show it works, at least to some extent. You have to ask the question: if plain packaging in Australia hadn't worked, why would the tobacco industry have fought so hard against it being introduced here and elsewhere?","As the British government @placeholder it will ask parliament to vote on legislation on plain packaging for cigarettes before the next general election , it 's worth taking a look at Australia , where such laws were introduced in 2012 .",stated,publishes,announces,promising,continues,2
"Thomas Wainwright, 27, was driving on the wrong side of the road and travelling up to 95mph in a hired Maserati when he crashed into Theresa Wade's van on Mull in October 2015. The court previously heard he had been drinking cider and whisky for eight-and-a-half hours before the crash. He was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving after a trial. At the High Court in Glasgow, judge John Morris QC said Wainwright had driven that day at  ""ridiculously excessive speeds"" and that he found it difficult to find any mitigating factors. During the trial, Wainwright and his passenger, 42-year-old Jerome Lopez, claimed that Miss Wade had been on the wrong side of the road and caused the accident. However, that was disproved by traffic experts who examined the crash scene. Witnesses from Mull told how Wainwright, who was with Mr Lopez, his mother's partner, had been drinking at a hotel, a pub and a distillery in Tobermory before having another two pints of cider in the Craignure Inn. As he headed back towards Tobermory on the wrong side of the A849 his hire car smashed into the van driven by Miss Wade. At the point of impact he was travelling at 69 mph. His speed was recorded on a ""black box"" device fitted to the Maserati. The court heard Wainwright was on Mull, along with members of his family, visiting his sick grandmother. He had flown into Edinburgh airport and hired the Maserati. Judge Morris said: ""Just prior to leaving your final licensed premises you were spoken to by a concerned member of the public who asked how you were getting home . Your reply was: 'The car knows its own way home.' ""A remark which is all too indicative of your general attitude to all that transpired. ""Prior to the accident you persistently drove at - quite frankly - ridiculously excessive speeds. To drive at 95.5mph on a dark county road borders on the reckless. ""You have shown no remorse for your actions - quite the contrary - your arrogance in giving evidence and in the social inquiry report is quite staggering."" The judge added: ""In your evidence you sought to put the blame on Miss Wade knowing full that her family were in the court listening to you."" Defence QC Ian Duguid said: ""In my discussions with Mr Wainwright he has expressed genuine remorse, but that has not come across to the social worker who compiled a background report. ""That may be because his first language is French. His family is of Scottish origin, but he has lived in France for most of his life. ""He has lost his job and now his liberty."" Speaking outside court, Charles Pease, Ms Wade's partner and colleague, said: ""Certainly the sentence could have been more but it's a judicial matter over which we have no influence. ""It doesn't bring Theresa back."" He added that the family's faith in the justice system was ""not misplaced"". He said: ""Has justice been done? Well, Thomas Wainwright will have 12 years to reflect upon that. ""Me, I should choose to forget Thomas Wainwright. ""I have too many happy recollections of Theresa to let Thomas Wainwright spoil them."" Following the trial, prosecutor Tim Niven-Smith revealed that Wainwright, who worked as the first officer on the £6.26m yacht MY Mahogany based in the south of France, had a previous conviction for driving while unfit through drink or drugs. At a court in Nice he was fined 700 euros and given a suspended sentence.",A drink - driver who killed an @placeholder vet in a head - on collision has been jailed for 12 years and banned for 15 years .,era,amateur,bottom,island,school,3
"Arek Jozwik, 39, was attacked in Harlow, Essex, last month. Two Polish men were assaulted in the town a few days later at a vigil for Mr Jozwik. Polish officers are there to ""reassure the community"", Essex Police said. Essex's police commissioner said there had been an increase in people saying ""rude things to people who aren't British"" since the Brexit vote. Police and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst told the BBC: ""I think there's certainly a swell of opinion... that wasn't there a few months ago. It seems to coincide with the Brexit vote."" Follow updates on this story and other Essex news The officers - 2nd Lieutenant Bartosz Czernicki and Chief Sergeant Dariusz Tybura - will be working in the town for seven days ""on the community engagement side, to meet and greet the public and to reassure the community,"" he said. Ch Insp Alan Ray, from Essex Police, said some people told him: 'We don't trust police officers... from our experience from Poland. ""Others are saying, 'we welcome these Polish police officers in'."" Mr Jozwik died from head injuries on 29 August, two days after he was believed to have been knocked to the floor by a single punch in The Stow, Harlow. The presence of the Polish officers was ""about reassurance in all communities"", Ch Insp Ray said. ""There is a fear of Polish police and there is a fear of English police, and that comes from all different communities. Some people will trust us, some people won't."" Six teenagers have been arrested and released on police bail in connection with Mr Jozwik's murder.",Two Polish police officers have started patrols in a town where a Polish man died after being punched to the @placeholder .,chest,jaw,country,ground,life,3
"The former Bolton defender, 29, suffered the injury before half-time during a friendly against York City on Saturday. Baptiste made 32 league appearances on loan at Blackburn during the 2014-15 season before agreeing a three-year deal with the Teesiders. The operation took place over the weekend and was deemed a success.",New Middlesbrough @placeholder Alex Baptiste has undergone surgery on a double fracture of his leg .,beat,side,striker,signing,centre,3
"Tony Scott and Justine Merton, from Leeds, were in the balcony when gunmen stormed the Eagles of Death Metal gig. After using a grate as a ladder to climb to the roof, they hid with several others in a nearby apartment. Three heavily armed gunmen killed 89 people and critically injured 99 others at the Paris venue on Friday. Updates on this story and more from around West Yorkshire Ms Merton had bought her fiancé birthday tickets for the concert and they had arrived in Paris especially for that on Friday. The pair, who first met at a rock concert, said they usually watched gigs at floor level but they arrived late and so headed up to the balcony for a good view. Talking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Scott said the ""insignificant"" decision to go upstairs ended up being ""the difference between life and death"". Ms Merton had recently returned to her seat from the downstairs bar when they heard gunfire. The couple fell to the floor and hid behind the seats. She said: ""They were going round, systematically shooting people. If we had stayed there, all they had to do was come up the stairs and we would be next. ""I can't imagine what they went through down on the floor, lying amongst the bodies."" Mr Scott said: ""We were crawling along behind the chairs on our bellies, but there were gaps between the rows of seats so we were exposed."" They reached a door leading to a stairwell, where they were allowed through before it was barricaded shut again. ""The only way out was through a skylight and there were quite a few of us jam-packed into this stairwell,"" Ms Merton said. ""There was a grate that they had pulled down, with three blokes hoisting people up because it was quite a height up."" After reaching the roof, they were ushered toward a rooftop apartment, where up to 30 people were hiding. Mr Scott said: ""The lights went off and we were in darkness, but we could hear bursts of gunfire. ""We heard three explosions and we were thinking 'is the building going to collapse?'"" His fiancee said: ""I was just saying 'you're not getting out of marrying me that easily, we are going home'."" Armed police eventually found them and they were escorted down a ladder and away from the venue. Mr Scott said: ""There's a lot of hate being thrown around, but we just don't feel any of it, we feel nothing but love really. ""We've been through quite a traumatic experience and we're incredibly lucky to be alive."" His fiancee added: ""Although we saw the very worst of humanity on Friday, we saw the very best as well - people doing very selfless, courageous things."" The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:15 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.",A couple have talked of @placeholder through a skylight in the Bataclan 's roof while the music venue was under siege during the Paris attacks .,escaping,roots,blowing,control,falling,0
"The tourists' 24-21 victory in the second Test, their first over the All Blacks since 1993, set up the decider at Auckland's Eden Park. Furlong, part of the Ireland side who beat New Zealand in November, expects a backlash from Steve Hansen's side. ""When your pride is dented, you come out and are up for it,"" he said. Furlong was one of eight men in the initial Lions squad who helped end Ireland's 111-year wait for a win over the All Blacks with a 40-29 victory in Chicago last November. Rory Best, Jack McGrath, CJ Stander, Robbie Henshaw, Conor Murray, Jared Payne and Johnny Sexton were also part of the victorious Irish team. But New Zealand avenged that defeat with a bruising 21-9 win over Joe Schmidt's men in Dublin two weeks later. ""That match in Dublin, I remember coming off the pitch and being absolutely shattered,"" Furlong added. ""I was sore for days afterwards. ""It was one of the most brutal Test matches I've played in my short career. So we all expect to have the same thing again. And we've got to tee ourselves up for it."" It was a physical contest when New Zealand won in Dublin last November, with centre Henshaw forced off early on after a controversial high challenge by Sam Cane. In the same match, Malakai Fekitoa was sin-binned for the All Blacks for a dangerous hit on Simon Zebo. ""I think you always fear the All Blacks in the way that if you don't get your stuff sorted, if you don't man up and meet them head on head it's a tough day at the office,"" added Furlong. ""They can score a try from anywhere. They're that dangerous. They've threats all over the park. ""If none of that works, they're just so damn consistent, and good at holding on to the ball. They're a tough team to beat. ""You have to keep attacking them, but it's easier said than done."" Furlong will be going for three wins over the All Blacks in eight months as Hansen's side look to extend their unbeaten run at Eden Park to 40 games on Saturday. The Lions, meanwhile, are bidding to secure only their second series win in New Zealand.","Saturday 's third Test in New Zealand could be as brutal as any the British and Irish Lions have @placeholder , says prop Tadhg Furlong .",deepened,faced,continued,grown,edged,1
"Since he beat Hillary Clinton, his media appearances have been restricted to television interviews and the occasional audiences with an important outlet such as the New York Times. Now his plans to hold one on Thursday to tackle a thorny subject - how he will square his new office with his old career - have been postponed. Mr Trump's spokesman said the announcement will now be in January. ""With so many iconic properties and successful entities, moving the announcement to January ensures the legal team has ample time to ensure the proper protocols are put in place so his sole focus will remain on the country and achieving his ambitious agenda with the help of the world-class cabinet he has built,"" Mr Trump's transition team spokesman Sean Spicer said via email. Mr Trump has indicated that his children will run his businesses while he's president - possibly with the additional screen of their ownership being placed into a ""blind"" trust that will prevent him from directly benefiting while he holds office. While Mr Trump is likely to portray this as removing him from any potential conflicts of interest, it is some way removed from what has been considered the gold standard for presidents for the last 40 years. Some presidents have chosen to sell everything, put the money into a blind trust, and then have it invested without their knowing how the cash has been put to work. It is a system that removes any notion that the president can act improperly. Norman Eisen, a former legal adviser to the Obama administration on ethics who is now with the Brookings Institution think tank, says Mr Trump's plan falls short of what is required. ""I don't accept that it's sufficient for Mr Trump to step away simply from - as he put it in a tweet the other day - the operations of his businesses. ""By doing that he will still hold on to the financial interests and as long as he's financially benefiting it will create at a minimum the appearance that his decisions are influenced by his pocket book. ""In fact I think it will often go beyond mere appearances to a situation where he's presented with an actual conflict,"" Mr Eisen says. Circumstances add extra potential conflicts to the Trump administration. His business empire now relies on licensing the Trump name to developers around the world. Our graphic shows the wide spread of his empire, but he owns only a few of the properties that carry his name - the Scottish golf courses being one of the few ventures in which Mr Trump has personally invested. Otherwise, he uses local partners, who pay for the privilege of being able to use a famous name on their hotel or office building. Tim O'Brien, the senior Bloomberg journalist who earlier in his career wrote Trump Nation, a Trump biography that ended in a lawsuit won by the author, says Mr Trump finds it hard to pass up a licensing opportunity. ""He loves deals. He loves making short-term hits. He's often tried to jump into almost any deal that crosses his desk. He's very undisciplined about it. ""I think he has no intention of forsaking the myriad opportunities that are going to roll into the Oval Office as he sits there."" Mr O'Brien believes Mr Trump will try to take advantage of those opportunities as he ""lacks that kind of discipline"". Pippa Malgrem, a US analyst who served as a White House adviser, says the licensing model gives an overarching conflict. She says anything that makes the Trump name more valuable - association with the presidency, for example - will still do so, regardless of whether Mr Trump is involved with day-to-day management or not. She points out, however, that the Democrats have little to teach Mr Trump. ""This was exactly the allegation that has been levelled at the Clinton Foundation - that, during the period that the secretary of state was in office, companies and nations knew if they gave capital to the Clinton Foundation that it would somehow result in influence,"" says Ms Malgrem.",News conferences are rare @placeholder for President - elect Donald Trump .,set,enough,gathering,occurrences,events,4
"A UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) spokesman said at least six cases of the disease had been confirmed. Yarmouk is the scene of a major humanitarian crisis. It has come under bombardment from government forces since 2012, but conditions worsened in April when Islamic State (IS) militants attacked. The 18,000 people living there, including 3,500 children, have no access to regular food supplies, clean water or healthcare. The cases of typhoid were confirmed by Unrwa medics after they managed to gained access to Yarmouk residents for the first time since June. Typhoid is caused by a highly contagious bacterium, spread from person to person by food and water that is contaminated with traces of infected faeces or urine. Symptoms include nausea, fever and abdominal pain. If untreated, the disease can lead to complications in the gut and head that kill up to one in five patients. ""Our concern is that these typhoid cases only represent the tip of the iceberg, because the erosion of health services and appalling public health standards create a massive, massive risk of diseases breaking out,"" Unrwa spokesman Chris Gunness told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. ""The situation is desperate, and suffering may be far more widespread and intense inside the camp."" Mr Gunness said women inside Yarmouk were dying in childbirth because of a lack of medicines, children were reduced to eating grass because there was no food, and the main water supply had not been functional since last September. ""Never has the imperative for sustained humanitarian access been greater,"" he warned. Yarmouk was first built for Palestinians fleeing the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Before the Syrian civil war began in 2011, it had more than 150,000 refugees living there.","There is an outbreak of typhoid in the @placeholder Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the south of the Syrian capital Damascus , the UN has warned .",wake,space,abandoned,middle,besieged,4
"If you met my mum you would think she was the life and soul of the party. She's confident, full of energy and charisma, but she lives with depression and when it hits she is none of those things. In those times she becomes scared and fragile, sees the worst in situations, and her ability to love and show compassion is taken away. She'll shut herself off from the world and won't get out of bed or speak to anyone for weeks. It strips her of emotion - so if someone knocked on the door and told her she had won the lottery or her children had died in a car crash, her reaction would be the same. I've been surrounded by mental illness my entire life and, though I still live at home with my parents in Wilmslow near Manchester, I still can't get my head around it. The first time mum's depression affected me was when I was about nine, but it was hidden quite well from me, my twin sister Millie and my younger brother, Jake. Mum was admitted to hospital. Dad told us she was poorly but we didn't understand what was happening. He cried, which was a real shock, and when she returned he told us to be quiet around the house. She looked and acted differently. Normally mum was very glamorous but she became a shadow of herself, she stayed in her bedroom and was always in night-wear. Mum has since told me it took all her willpower to even go to the toilet back then. It was a shock to see her so vacant and she was scared of the people she loved the most. When her three children were laughing, it would send her into a panic and sleep became the only time the demons disappeared. She often hoped she wouldn't wake up. As children we went to youth club every Friday. Mum would never take us because she wasn't ""well"" so we would always go with friends. One Friday night, after she was discharged from hospital, she came to pick us up. It was amazing. I looked at her and thought she was back to normal again, but it was only the beginning of her recovery. She says she dreaded doing the pick-up and it took a huge amount of courage that night. As we grew up our grandparents kept family life as normal as possible. Millie now plays football for England and Bristol City WFC and my younger brother, Jake, 18, is a goalkeeper for Bolton Wanderers. Despite everything, they never missed a training session. Mum has said if she thought her illness had affected us in any way it would have made her battle worse. Mum has long periods of wellness but, when I was 16, the depression returned and I found it harder to cope with. This time I knew what was coming but the more I understood, the more I worried, and I was fearful that other people wouldn't understand. I put a brave face on at school and whenever anyone asked I would say mum was ""fine"" or cover the truth by saying she had a physical illness. At that age I found it hard to understand the situation and I was angry. She was admitted to hospital again and again and there was something about not being able to see anything physically wrong with her that made me question whether it was really there at all. I thought: ""What has mum got to be depressed about? She lives in a nice house with a nice family and is financially stable."" I didn't understand how ""being sad"" could be an illness and would make flippant remarks about how she should just ""pull herself together"". The triggers for mum's depression are difficult to understand. She lost a few close family members which she thinks affected her, but she also says one major episode came after watching the film Ray, about the blind rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. It sounds surprising that she could be affected by a film like this, but she said it broke her heart and tipped her over the edge. The pain caused by depression within a family is tremendous, but it's brought us closer. It has made me appreciate every opportunity I receive, although I also live with the constant worry of when or if she'll have another episode. Mum, who's 49, is currently well and we hope it remains that way for as long as possible, but the dread of its return never goes away. The rapid disappearance of the person you love can be painful and frustrating. It's the fact they are facing the darkest battle and there is nothing you can do. I think the stigma surrounding mental health needs to be improved and it should be considered like any physical illness. Ignorance can't be acceptable for an illness where suicide could be the ultimate trauma. If depression affects someone you should surround them with love, appreciate the struggle and be there for them. Send them a ""get well soon"" card to let them know you're thinking about them. After 20 years of living alongside mum's battle, I still don't completely understand depression, but I'm getting there. Produced by Beth Rose For more Disability News, follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.","Bruce Turner 's mum Tina was diagnosed with depression in 1990 and was hospitalised many times throughout his childhood . Now , at 20 years old , he still struggles to understand her @placeholder .",condition,problems,experience,symptoms,life,0
"""We are lucky to have him as six or seven other clubs would've liked him to join them,"" the manager said of Thomas. ""But I have to thank Motherwell and, in particular, assistant James McFadden for letting the winger join Queens. ""Faddy and I were at Everton together and have stayed good friends. He thinks this is the right place for Dom."" Thomas, 20, has made seven first-team appearances this season for Well, but most of his 39 games for the Premiership side have been as a sub. ""Dom is a creative player who can play on either side or from in behind the strikers, he likes to turn and go, so I'm sure he will excite the fans,"" Naysmith told his club website. ""He's at the stage of his career where he needs to be playing every week."" Thomson, 19, has already made 18 appearances in the Championship this season, having spent the first half of the campaign on loan to Dumbarton. ""Both are versatile players and can play anywhere within the midfield, so it gives me more flexibility and will allow us to change formation when we need to,"" added Naysmith. ""Joe is a young player who I tried to get when I was at East Fife, but Celtic wanted him to play at a higher level, so he made the move to Dumbarton, where he has played all but two games for them in the Championship. ""Dumbarton are sorry to lose him, but both he and Celtic, where he is well thought of, felt that it would be better for him to play for a full-time club. ""He is good on the ball, is very energetic, likes to get between boxes and can really spot a pass. He likes to get involved with set pieces.""",Gary Naysmith says his Everton connections @placeholder Queen of the South sign Dom Thomas on loan from Motherwell along with Joe Thomson from Celtic .,helped,sign,head,included,prop,0
"Instead of enjoying the fruits of retirement after an incredible managerial career, which has seen him coach 18 national teams and six different clubs in the German top flight, the 86-year-old is desperate for another job. And whatever Gutendorf lacks in youth - he led Duisburg to runners-up spot in the inaugural Bundesliga season in 1963-64 - he more than makes up for in experience. While Gutendorf accepts the possibility of being offered a role at home are slim, he has an unparalleled knowledge from coaching in every corner of the globe having been something of a footballing missionary - when he was funded by the German government and football association to take his expertise to the developing world. And it's not just his experiences on the football field which mark out Gutendorf, but also the many challenges he has faced off the field - including when he was sent to Rwanda at the end of the 1990s. The country was still recovering from a brutal civil war in which the government-led Hutu tribe carried out a fierce genocide against the Tutsis, killing up to a million people. ""The German government told me, 'Rudi, we don't care if you win 1-0, 2-0, the most important thing is the social aspect; that you try to get together the two tribes',"" Gutendorf told the BBC's World Football programme. ""Such hate, you cannot believe. I was able to unite these two tribes to play football, and good football. ""After every training in the evening, we made a camp fire. We were sitting around and I made half Hutu, half Tutsi. ""I explained that revenge leads to nothing and to forgive each other. It was not easy because they saw how they killed each other. ""I said it makes no sense, you're now a footballer. I came here so we can work together, and that made a big impression."" A 2-2 World Cup qualifying draw in Kigali against an up and coming Ivory Coast team was the high point. ""The public in the stadium, they were still here are the Tutsis and there are the Hutus,"" said Gutendorf. ""But when we played good football they forgot it and they hugged each other and they felt like a united nation. I'm very proud about that."" Earlier in his career, while coach of Chile, Gutendorf had installed a wall with holes in at the national stadium in Santiago, through which his players had to kick the ball from distance. Such hate, you cannot believe. I was able to unite these two tribes to play football But he had to leave in a hurry because of his association with the deposed socialist president, Salvatore Allende, after Augusto Pinochet's junta took over - meaning he was not able to lead Chile in the 1974 World Cup in his native West Germany. Infamously, Pinochet decided to use Gutendorf's practice wall as the place against which hundreds of dissidents were shot. While in Nepal, Gutendorf found himself on both sides of the bribery line. He turned down $500,000 from an oil-rich sheikh to lose 8-0 in the Asian Games. But after a monsoon hit Nepal's match with India, with the score poised at 0-0 at half time, he bribed the referee with a bottle of whisky to play on. He knew that Nepal had the right studs and India didn't. Nepal won 1-0. Gutendorf says the two events in his life that have left him with ""unhealed wounds"" are his sacking as the Iran Olympic coach, just before they won the 1990 Asian Games, ""because the religious leaders did not want an unbeliever on the bench"" and his loss of the Hamburg dressing room after signing Kevin Keegan from Liverpool in 1977. ""Six weeks before I came to Hamburg, they won the European Cup Winners' Cup,"" he said. ""The captain came to my room and said 'We don't like this English guy. We won the Cup and we don't need him and we don't like him. If you put this little English guy in we don't like to work together with you'. ""I wanted to make a very big team like Bayern Munich and with Keegan it was possible. ""I'm sure today, otherwise I would not say it, that the players made sabotage against me. The first game of the season we lost 5-2 and I saw that my players didn't like to win."" Three months later, Gutendorf was sacked. ""My own players, they sacked me. That is the hardest thing that can happen to a coach,"" he added. ""I was so fed up. I went away as far as possible in the world. I became the national coach of Australia."" There, he again narrowly missed out on qualifying for the World Cup, something for which, Gutendorf says, his Australian wife still hasn't forgiven him. That, as they say, is another story for another day but Gutendorf is keen to add one more chapter to a fascinating career. ""I am fit and healthy enough to take over a first division team as head coach,"" said Gutendorf. ""But the club presidents here in Germany don't believe me. ""They say 86, that is too old. They are a little bit ashamed to give me a contract. It makes me sad but I can't change that.""","Rudi Gutendorf has witnessed bribery , betrayal by his own players and the @placeholder of genocide during his coaching career , so it may surprise some that he still wants to add to his colourful CV .",possibility,horrors,height,bodies,head,1
"The BBC understands Apple removed the products as part of a wider switch to favour smart home devices compatible with its own HomeKit platform. However, Apple continues to sell the Thermostat in the UK and across Europe. Nest is owned by Google, which is developing rival technologies to link ""internet of things"" kit together. The search firm announced in May that it was working on Weave - a library of common commands - and Brillo - an Android-based operating system for IoT machines. Nest's Thermostat can already be controlled via its own iPhone or Android app. The division also promotes its own ""Works with Nest"" programme, which allows third-party products to communicate with the devices. Mercedes, LG, Whirlpool and Philips are among firms that have taken advantage of the access this grants to Nest's application programme interfaces (APIs) - the code that controls how different software programmes interact with each other. By contrast, Apple is promoting HomeKit - its own platform that lets users control and co-ordinate the use of smart home devices via its voice-activated virtual assistant Siri. The firm requires accessory-makers to prove they have adopted tough encryption standards before it will certify them, and has designed the system to limit the collection of data about who used what and when. ""HomeKit introduces a new way for you to control supported devices in your home... and we've taken great care to make sure that the convenience this enables doesn't come at the expense of your privacy,"" Apple's website states. The first products to support the standard began going on sale recently, including a thermostat made by Ecobee and a light dimmer switch from Lutron. A spokesman for Apple declined to comment about its US sales restrictions, which were first reported by Mashable. Nest's Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector has also been removed from sale. But a spokesman for the firm said it expected Apple to stock a next-generation version soon, despite the fact it would not be HomeKit certified. This may be because there are no similar alarms yet available for Apple's platform. In an interview before Apple's move, Nest's chief executive told the BBC he was confident his firm was already doing enough to protect people's privacy. ""We're taking very much a cross-platform approach,"" said Tony Fadell. ""Through the Works with Nest programme and the protocols that we use inside, it's going to be a very robust thing. ""At the end of the day though, customers do not buy platforms, they buy products first and foremost. ""So, anybody who is selling a product-like platform or trying to convert you on a platform, they're not going to be successful because that's not where customers start."" Read more of Tony Fadell's interview with the BBC",Apple has @placeholder Nest 's internet - connected thermostats from sale at its US stores .,defended,prohibited,revealed,joined,pulled,4
"The two legs of the quarter-finals will be on 9 and 12 May with the semi-finals held over 16 and 19 May. The first leg of the final will be on 25 May, with the second leg on 28 May. Falkirk or Dundee United - currently second and third in the Championship - will play Greenock Morton in the quarter-final. The side who finishes higher in the league will bypass the quarter-finals and meet that tie's winner in the semi-finals. The final round of Championship fixtures takes place on Saturday, with Falkirk away to Dumbarton and United visiting Morton. The Bairns are currently one point ahead of the Tangerines. The semi-final winners face the Premiership's second bottom side in the final and the winner will be in the top flight next season, the loser consigned to the Championship. All of the Premiership's bottom six clubs - Kilmarnock, Ross County, Dundee, Hamilton Academical, Motherwell and Inverness Caledonian Thistle - are in contention to occupy the second bottom place, with the side finishing 12th being relegated automatically. There are four rounds of Premiership fixtures remaining and Killie are the only one of the bottom six sides that will definitely avoid finishing in bottom place. Championship winners Hibernian have already secured promotion to next season's Premiership, while Morton can finish no higher than fourth. To ensure Dundee's home match against Inverness does not take place on the same night as a Dundee United home match in the play-offs, Dundee v Inverness has been moved to 17 May. Quarter-final 9 May: Morton v Championship third-placed side 12 May: Championship third-placed side v Morton Semi-final 16 May: Quarter-final winner v Championship second-placed side 19 May: Championship second-placed side v quarter-final winner Final 25 May: Semi-final winner v Premiership 11th-placed side 28 May: Premiership 11th-placed side v semi-final winner","The Scottish Professional Football League has announced @placeholder for the Premiership play - off quarter - finals , semi-finals and final .",dates,team,place,qualification,plans,0
"The Spectrum ZX Vega+, backed by Sir Clive Sinclair, had achieved its original crowdfunding target. But then Indiegogo halted further fundraising because of delivery delays and a lack of communication to backers. The project's organisers had asked the BBC not to reveal the development. The BBC understands no consoles have been delivered to backers, despite a pledge last month that they would ""ship after 20 Feb 2017"". And the company behind the project - Retro Computers Limited - suggested these details might put its team at risk. ""Following a credible threat of violence against personnel of Retro Computers Limited, including threats made as recently as last night, we asked [technology desk editor] Leo Kelion and the BBC to refrain from publishing a story we believe to be factually inaccurate and might put people at risk of physical harm, alarm and distress,"" Retro Computers Limited founder David Levy said in a statement on Wednesday. ""Since December 2016 the BBC have formally been on notice that this is a police matter, and we ask that the BBC and Mr Kelion do not compromise the police investigation."" The BBC delayed publication of this report to give RCL managing director Suzanne Martin time to provide evidence of the threats, but she did not do so. In the meantime, the Gizmodo news site also published and then deleted an article about the matter because it too was told of threats. RCL had already received more than £513,000 ($624,000) from Indiegogo crowdfunders for the Vega+ . And before the fundraising campaign was halted, the project had been listed as ""in demand"" to allow new people to become backers, despite having already reached its funding target. But in recent weeks, many backers have expressed anger that they still have not received their console and claimed their requests for more information were going unanswered by the company. Although, Indiegogo is clear in its terms and conditions that those who back a project are supporting an idea rather than buying a product - and that hardware in particular tends to be more difficult to deliver. In 2015, RCL brought a different Sinclair computer to fruition after a smaller campaign. RCL originally said the new Spectrum ZX Vega+ was due to go into production in the summer of 2016 and it might even ""be able to improve on this delivery date"". But in December 2016, after the BBC contacted RCL to ask about the status of the Vega+, the broadcaster was threatened with legal action. ""Our clients are concerned that the BBC is in fact supporting and participating in a malicious campaign intended to denigrate our clients' reputation,"" wrote lawyers Michelmores LLP in a letter to the broadcaster. They went on to request that the BBC show them its report at least 48 hours ahead of publication so they could identify any false information, which the BBC refused to do. Ms Martin then apologised to backers for the delays and said there had been unexpected issues with the console buttons. ""In November, we identified an improvement we believed was essential to the Vega+ gaming experience,"" she said at the time. ""An improvement that would make the feel of the product far better, including a correction in the design of one of the buttons, making it more robust and able to withstand the rigours of extended game-play. ""We also wanted to make sure we did justice to the Sinclair legacy. ""This change has caused a brief delay, and we are truly sorry about that, but we needed this time to improve the product, and we have now completed the necessary revisions, and we are delighted to announce that we will ship the first units in February 2017."" Since then, RCL has suggested it had been unable to respond to some backers' requests because of a business dispute with two former directors. And in its last public update, 11 days ago, the company released some technical details about software used by the device. Many recent comments left by backers on RCL's Indiegogo page, which remains live but has stopped taking funds, are requests for refunds. ""I don't expect a response. I'm just being polite in letting them know this is their last chance before they have to deal with small claims court,"" wrote a backer called Paul Brookfield. ""Please receive this email as written notice of cancellation of my pledge and a request for a refund,"" wrote Drew Miller. ""I no longer believe you are capable of providing the product I pledged for in April, considering the drastic number of delays and your lack of communication toward fellow backers."" Update 10 March 2017: Retro Computers Ltd has issued a new statement announcing a delivery delay, but says it expects the first batch of Vega+ consoles will be available in a few weeks' time.","Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo @placeholder to stop a handheld retro computer console campaign from acquiring further funding , the BBC has learned .",managed,failed,threatened,intervened,designed,3
"Higgins made a high break of 88 to beat Mark Joyce 5-1 and Bingham went through with a 5-3 win over Ian Burns. Shaun Murphy overcame David Grace to go into the second round before a 5-3 loss to Mark King in Beijing on Wednesday. Jimmy Robertson lost 5-1 to 2011 winner Judd Trump, while Martin O'Donnell beat Matt Selt by the same scoreline. ""There are only a few top-16 players left but that shows how much class there is lower down the rankings,"" said Bingham. There were also second-round wins for Stephen Maguire and Ricky Walden. Maguire will face Dominic Dale in the next round after the Welshman knocked in two centuries to beat Leeds teenager Darryl Hill 5-3. Graeme Dott won 5-2 against 15-year-old amateur Yuan Sijun, the schoolboy who whitewashed Martin Gould on Tuesday. Full China Open scores and schedule","Former world champion John Higgins @placeholder at the China Open , with world number two Stuart Bingham also making it into the third round .",remains,eased,progressed,action,place,2
"The payout refers to tracks with unknown owners used on the platform between August 2012 and December 2015. Publishers who opt in will be sent a list and will then have a window in which to claim ownership. After that, the remaining unclaimed royalties will be shared among them. The total amount to be offered has not been confirmed, but was reported by the New York Times to be more than $40m (£31m). The opt-in period, which opens on Monday, 12 December, ends on 28 February 2017. Publishers will then have three months to make a claim. The process will be repeated in 2017, 2018 and 2019 for the previous year's royalties. ""It is essential that we work with digital services like YouTube... to fix the challenge of incomplete ownership information to ensure royalties are no longer unmatched and music owners are paid accurately by the platforms that rely on their work,"" said NMPA founder and chief executive David Israelite in a statement. YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl wrote in a blogpost this week that the Google-owned platform had paid more than $1bn in royalties to artists in 2016. But the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said that it was not enough. ""With 800 million music users worldwide, YouTube is generating revenues of just over $1 per user for the entire year,"" a spokesman told the BBC earlier this week. ""This pales in comparison to the revenue generated by other services, ranging from Apple to Deezer to Spotify. For example, in 2015 Spotify alone paid record labels some $2bn, equivalent to an estimated $18 per user.""",Millions of dollars in unclaimed music royalties in the US will be @placeholder by YouTube following an agreement with the US National Music Publishers ' Association ( NMPA ) .,distributed,held,investigated,disrupted,replaced,0
"By contrast, things are much quieter 300km southwards in Berbera, on the Somaliland coast, where dhows from Yemen carrying crates of onions moor alongside a few larger, more modern ships. But Berbera Port's more sedate pace is set to change drastically. In May, Dubai-based DP World was awarded the concession to manage and expand Berbera for 30 years, a project valued at about $442m (£302m). The deal could return Berbera to a major Horn of Africa trading hub, providing competition for Djibouti, which has come to dominate trade in the region during the last decade. But those running Djibouti's ports are not overly concerned. In fact, they seem to welcome Berbera's renaissance. ""East Africa needs more ports. We want the region to get more done,"" says Aboubaker Omar, chairman and chief executive of Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority (DPFZA). ""Berbera is welcome to come and share the business."" Africa contains 17 landlocked countries, with those toward the continent's east coast having fewer port options than those nearer the west coast, Mr Omar explains. Between Port Sudan to the north of the Horn of Africa, and Mombasa to the south - a total of 6,000km of coastline - Djibouti is the only other major port. ""There is no competition, so you hear people talking of Djibouti having a monopoly,"" Mr Omar says. ""That's not accurate, we even handle shipping for countries with ports, but with more options people can compare and then appreciate our performance."" DP World's gambit is the biggest single investment in the self-declared but internationally unrecognised republic, representing both an economic and political boon to Somaliland. Cut off from global financial institutions, Somaliland's government operates on a budget of about $250m, with the private sector responsible for rebuilding much of the country's infrastructure since the end of a civil war with Somalia in 1991 that left 90% of the capital, Hargeisa, in ruins. For now, the country's fragile economy survives on huge remittances from its diaspora and by exporting vast quantities of livestock to the Middle East. ""The government does not have the funds to develop the port,"" says Ali Omer, general manager of Berbera Port Authority. ""This agreement will benefit the Horn of Africa and boost trade with Arab countries."" According to the deal, Dubai will also support Somaliland's fisheries industry, which has about 850km of coastline waiting to be tapped, and help refurbish the ramshackle 268km road running from Berbera to the border with Ethiopia. And Ethiopia could just be the start. ""It would be a gateway to Africa, not just Ethiopia,"" says Sharmarke Jama, a trade and economic adviser for the Somaliland government involved in negotiations on the port deal. ""The multiplying benefits for Somaliland's economy could be endless."" ""Ethiopia is the region's locomotive,"" says Ethiopia-born Dawit Gebre-Ab, director of Europe and North America for DPFZA, who this month will receive an MBE for promoting trade relations between the UK and Djibouti. ""With its expansion in manufacturing, Ethiopia could become the China of Africa."" That means a lot of goods and raw materials in transit. Already about 90% of Ethiopia's trade goes through Djibouti: in 2005, this amounted to two million tonnes and now stands at 11 million tonnes. During the next three years, it is set to increase to 15 million tonnes. Ethiopia's apparently relentless expansion relies on access to the sea: a source of immense strategic anxiety ever since Ethiopia lost its only port to Eritrean independence in 1993. As a result, Ethiopia has long been looking to assuage its dependence on Djibouti, which scoops at least $300m in port fees from it every year. Ethiopia has strengthened bilateral relations with Somaliland, signing various memoranda of understanding (MOUs) during the past couple of years, including one stipulating about 30% of its imports shifting to Berbera. ""There's enough going on in this region for Berbera to get used without causing Djibouti problems,"" says Ali Toubeh, a Djiboutian entrepreneur whose container company is based in Djibouti's free trade zone. ""Demand from Ethiopia will get so big, they're going to need Port Sudan and Kismayo [in Somalia] too."" Meanwhile, a new 756km railway running between Ethiopia and Djibouti, with further railway lines and joint projects such as an oil pipeline in development, testify to the two countries continuing to remain firmly integrated partners. The Horn of Africa coastline has seen ports come and go in importance throughout history, often because of external influences. Zeila, now a small sleepy rundown town on Somaliland's coast, dominated trade for hundreds of years until a power shift within then-Abyssinia - present-day Ethiopia - saw Berbera gain in importance during the 16th Century. Suakin, on the Sudan coast, once flourished until subsiding into irrelevance by the end of the 19th Century, when the British preferred to develop Port Sudan, since its deeper waters could take larger ships. During the early 1990s Djibouti Port emerged as an important transhipment hub of containers for the Red Sea ports of Aden, Assab, Massawa and Port Sudan. It then grew even faster after 2000 when it came under foreign management - DP World, no less. There is palpable hope and excitement in Somaliland about what the DP World deal could achieve, reflective of a trend across much of the Horn of Africa. Increasing economic integration between the likes of Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somaliland is bringing mutual benefits and stability to a part of the world long known for the opposite. ""The Horn of Africa has made dramatic progress in the past two decades,"" says Matt Bryden, a Horn of Africa political analyst and executive chairman of Sahan Research, a Nairobi-based research institute. ""But there remain numerous challenges."" These include Somalia cementing stable governance, resolving the question over Somaliland's statehood, the ""cold peace"" between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Ethiopia's balancing act between its commitment to developmental state ideology and democratisation and human rights. But it appears there is room for cautious optimism. ""Economic integration will eventually benefit Somalia,"" Mr Bryden says. ""Eritrea will inevitably be drawn into closer economic union with the wider Horn of Africa region as well.""","Despite Ramadan , there is no slackening at Djibouti 's ports . Under the relentless sun , whippet - thin men glistening with sweat work the docks , taking what refuge they can in the shade cast by @placeholder and stacks of cargo .",decline,cranes,news,sale,machinery,4
"Perfect Strangers was made as a test run during preparations for making a feature-length romantic comedy, Journey Bound. The 26-minute short will be given its first Scottish screening at Glasgow's Southside Film Festival next month. Perfect Strangers was shot at locations on Rannoch Moor. The comedy was made by Bafta-nominated director Ryan Hendrick and David Newman. With actors Kenny Boyle and Clare Sheerin in the lead roles, the short features music from Scottish-based singer-songwriter Jack Henderson's debut album. Hendrick said: ""We are thrilled that our little film is finally returning home for its first Scottish screening after a successful few months on the festival circuit. ""We were so incredibly lucky to be able to take Perfect Strangers to the Cannes Film Festival, it has opened so many doors for us."" Perfect Strangers tells the story of two people stranded in the Scottish Highlands on Christmas Eve who team up to try and get home in time for Christmas. It was shot on Rannoch Moor over five days days last winter during preparations for Journey Bound, a forthcoming comedy road movie starring Ford Kiernan, Clare Grogan, Sylvester McCoy and Rutger Hauer. Hendrick said: ""It is crucial to enable independent filmmakers working with very little resources to get their films out there. ""It's incredibly challenging on the festival circuit and you always receive far more rejections than you do acceptance notices."" He added: ""Independent film festivals like the Southside Film Festival need to be supported.""","A Scottish short film screened at festivals in France , the USA , Canada , Ireland , Italy and Cyprus is finally to be @placeholder in Scotland .",unveiled,introduced,included,stored,shown,4
"In July 1981, a ship was trawling off the coast of Lowestoft, Suffolk, when its crew recovered a body. For reasons unknown, the body was put back into the sea but authorities were alerted. The body was never seen again. Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Major Investigation Team are appealing for information over missing persons. They believe the body could have been that of a missing person who disappeared in Norfolk earlier that year. The cold case is being reviewed as part of Operation Mouldsworth, which is looking into all missing people from Norfolk and Suffolk. The ship, Boston Sea Stallion, was owned by a deep sea fishing company. Det Con Gary Fisher said:  ""There is no suggestion that the crew had, in any way, behaved inappropriately. ""However, I would still like to speak to anyone who may remember the incident and may be able to help with the identification of the body.""",An incident in which a body was found at sea by fishermen more than 30 years ago and immediately returned to the @placeholder is being investigated by police .,world,country,water,organisation,race,2
"The central defender powered home a header from Shaun Whalley's corner to seal a fourth successive home win for Paul Hurst's side. Wimbledon applied much of the early pressure, forcing a number of corners, but chances were initially in short supply at either end. Tom Elliott was first to threaten with an overhead kick off target for Wimbledon before Shrewsbury striker Freddie Ladapo's low 20 yard shot was comfortably gathered by visiting goalkeeper James Shea. Wimbledon almost took the lead on the stroke of half time but a powerful 25 yard shot from midfielder Tom Soares cracked against a post. The visitors struck the woodwork again early in the second half, Elliott denied by the bar from close range, and then home keeper Jayson Leutwiler had to be alert to keep out a shot from Soares. Shrewsbury broke the deadlock in the 65th minute when a 25-yard free-kick by Tyler Roberts, on loan from West Brom, took a deflection on its way in. Wimbledon were level within four minutes as Andy Barcham's low shot from 15 yards beat Leutwiler at his near post for the London club's first away goal in League One in nearly 13 hours of football. But Shrewsbury had the final word with Nsiala's first goal for the club wrapping up three more points. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Shrewsbury Town 2, AFC Wimbledon 1. Second Half ends, Shrewsbury Town 2, AFC Wimbledon 1. Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Adam El-Abd replaces Tyler Roberts. Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Goal!  Shrewsbury Town 2, AFC Wimbledon 1. Aristote Nsiala (Shrewsbury Town) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Shaun Whalley with a cross. Corner,  Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Andy Barcham. Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon). Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Tom Soares (AFC Wimbledon). Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Tyrone Barnett replaces Lyle Taylor. Foul by Tyler Roberts (Shrewsbury Town). Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Stefan Payne replaces Freddie Ladapo. Tyler Roberts (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon). Attempt saved. Sean Kelly (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Attempt missed. Freddie Ladapo (Shrewsbury Town) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon). Foul by Ryan Yates (Shrewsbury Town). Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Darius Charles. Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Dominic Poleon replaces David Fitzpatrick. Goal!  Shrewsbury Town 1, AFC Wimbledon 1. Andy Barcham (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lyle Taylor. Attempt saved. Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon) header from very close range is saved in the top right corner. Corner,  AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Shaun Whalley. Goal!  Shrewsbury Town 1, AFC Wimbledon 0. Tyler Roberts (Shrewsbury Town) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal. Freddie Ladapo (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Sean Kelly (AFC Wimbledon). Ryan Yates (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon). Attempt saved. Tom Soares (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Attempt missed. Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Sean Kelly (AFC Wimbledon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Dominic Smith (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Sean Kelly (AFC Wimbledon). Foul by Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town). George Francomb (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt missed. Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.",Aristote Nsiala headed a last - minute winner as Shrewsbury boosted their chances of @placeholder in League One by beating AFC Wimbledon .,form,staying,place,strengthen,record,1
RSPCA Cymru said the 4ft (1.2m) long boa constrictor was in the shed down an alley of Bassaleg Road on Sunday. It is thought it escaped from somewhere and was attacked by another animal as it has a broken jaw and a puncture. The RSPCA is appealing for its owner to come forward.,An injured @placeholder has been found in a shed in Newport .,object,unit,snake,couple,show,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device Yes, the FA People's Cup is back and this weekend more than 6,000 teams - with 40,000-plus players - will join battle across England in round one. The ultimate prize is a chance to lift the trophy in your category at the FA Cup final in May, but equally important is the opportunity to play with your mates and enjoy the fun and banter of the nation's biggest five-a-side competition. Media playback is not supported on this device Here at BBC Sport, we'll be running three sessions of live text commentary across the weekend: FRIDAY: 1800-2100 GMT Under-14 boys / Under-16 boys (from 18:30) SATURDAY: 1000-1800 GMT Adult females / Female Vets (AM - from 10:30) - Male Vets / Walking Football (PM - from 14:30) SUNDAY: 1000-1800 GMT Under-14 girls / Under-16 girls (AM - from 10:30) - Adult Male (PM - from 14:30) And it's the players and managers of the teams involved that can help us bring together all the best stories from across the weekend (and from categories such as higher education and disability, some of whose games have already been played this week). There are 178 venues hosting first-round games, so alongside the filming that we're doing at selected centres, we want to see and share your stories of footballing glory or epic failure from right across the country. Media playback is not supported on this device From the smallest details of preparation - say, a loving close-up of that crucial bacon sandwich or lacing up your lucky boots - to the view from your house, chants in the car (keep 'em clean, please!), rousing team-talk or celeb-spotting, we want to see you in pre-match mode. Media playback is not supported on this device And then, of course, the match action: the cat-like saves, the missed sitters, the worldies and world-beating celebrations that make the People's Cup such a great celebration of football. So please share your videos and pictures using #PeoplesCup on social media or email them to getinspired@bbc.co.uk - the best ones might even make it onto an FA People's Cup programme on BBC iPlayer. See you out there and good luck! Media playback is not supported on this device","The kit 's washed , the shinpads @placeholder , the venue 's in the satnav and we 're ready to go .",team,loses,located,whistle,ready,2
"MP Rebecca Pow urged people to support a move to restore the Wellington Monument, saying it could have an impact on the government. The world's tallest three-sided obelisk, standing at 75ft, was built as a tribute to the Duke of Wellington. It was recently fenced off due to falling stone debris posing a risk to the public. The National Trust said it was looking at several repair options. Conservative MP for Taunton Deane Ms Pow said: ""There are a plethora of reasons why we should restore this much-loved local feature for future generations. ""It's a wonderful beacon in the area in a beautiful location and is enjoyed by thousands...""",An MP 's @placeholder to raise awareness of a deteriorating Somerset monument is being supported by the National Trust .,work,ability,petition,inability,refusal,2
"Sites in County Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland have benefitted from the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership scheme. It has seen 117 hectares of bare peat being restored. The team has submitted a multi-million pound funding bid to transform a further 600 hectares over five years. Alistair Lockett, peatland conservation assistant with the partnership, said: ""The aim was to get bare peat revegetated with Sphagnum moss, cotton grass, heather and other blanket bog species. ""This, used alongside other steps, such as fencing off the land to protect it from grazing, and altering the hydrology, has worked better than we expected in such a short time span."" The partnership said bare peat has a ""damaging impact on the environment through the release of greenhouse gasses"".",Damaged moorland has been turned into moss - covered landscape as part of a project to reverse the @placeholder of the North Pennines ' eroding peat bogs .,condition,heart,fortunes,rest,impact,2
"The 14-year-old's body was found in the River Brent, west London, in September. Chief suspect Arnis Zalkalns, who murdered his wife in Latvia, was later found hanged in nearby woodland. A coroner will decide whether to assess the authorities' role or focus on the circumstances of Alice's death later. The human rights organisation Liberty, which is representing Alice's family, has asked the coroner to consider whether the case is covered by Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the Right to Life. A spokesman for Liberty said: ""It appears the British authorities were not aware of [Zalkans'] conviction. ""In 2009, he was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a teenage girl in London but charges were not brought and he was released. ""Alice's family wishes to know how it can be that - within EU member states - basic information-sharing cannot be arranged to ensure authorities are notified of the presence of people who pose a potentially high risk to the public."" Alice went missing in August last year and her body was discovered the following month in the Grand Union Canal in Ealing. Zalkalns had been imprisoned in Latvia for murdering his wife but was released and travelled to the UK in 2007. In January, police confirmed their belief that Zalkalns, who was working on a building site in Isleworth, was responsible for Alice's murder. The Crown Prosecution Service said he would have been charged had he been alive. Scotland Yard said no checks were made to see if Zalkalns had any overseas convictions because it was not the force's policy to do so. However, detectives said even if the conviction had been known about it was ""very unlikely"" Zalkalns would have been deported. Alice's family said: ""Losing Alice has left a hole in our lives that can never be filled. But our questions about why the authorities knew nothing about her murderer, despite his previous conviction and arrest, can and should be answered. We hope the coroner will agree. ""We believe in freedom of movement and human rights, as did Alice, and we repeat our request that her death not be appropriated by those with an anti-immigration agenda."" The hearing will be held at West London Coroner's Court.","The inquest into the death of schoolgirl Alice Gross should be @placeholder to address why police did not know about her killer 's previous murder conviction , her family have said .",done,held,used,allowed,widened,4
26 January 2016 Last updated at 14:52 GMT This year's extreme cold has seen lakes and even the sea freeze over. Aerial views from a helicopter show a thick layer of ice over the sea. Flights have been cancelled as temperatures dip to -6 degrees celsius.,South Korea 's Jeju island is usually known for warm weather and @placeholder .,fishing,beaches,humidity,immigration,food,1
"Greeks are getting their information about the referendum via the Interior Ministry, which set up a specific website giving all the details of the proposal from the European partners and a photo of the ballot. It also says where military personnel will go to vote, and what is being organised for special groups of voters such as prison inmates and the disabled. It will be the first referendum held since 1974, when people voted for what kind of political system they wanted as Greece changed from a monarchy to a republic. The polarisation seen in Greek city squares in the past few days is not yet blatant in the press. Most papers are sticking to neutral reporting without speculating on who will win the vote or what it means. On TV channels, however, pundits are debating whether a ""No"" vote would mean an immediate unilateral declaration of suspension of payments and an exit from the eurozone, and whether a ""Yes"" vote would protect Greek citizens' European identity and heritage. Some outlets are saying the referendum may not happen at all, and are reporting politicians questioning its constitutionality. The starting gun for campaigning has been fired, however, and the ""Yes"" campaign was scheduled to hold a press conference on Wednesday. Meanwhile, groups including the Athens Bar Association, the mayors of Athens and Thessaloniki, and the Archbishop of Athens have all come out for the ""Yes"" side. An op-ed in the popular centre-left daily To Vima wants the government to ""cancel the referendum now"". Written by the former Finance Minister, Nikos Christodoulakis, it says that ""holding it can only blow up the political and economic future of the country... If the referendum goes ahead no matter what, only a resounding 'Yes' can keep the country in the eurozone and minimize the cost of this adventure."" More than one commentator fears that the referendum might set off deep divisions in the country, regardless of the result. To Vima's editorial says: ""If Mr Tsipras and the government want to preserve the last shred of dignity and seriousness they have left, they must cancel the referendum Sunday now,"" adding that they have trapped the Greek people into an ""obsolete and divisive dilemma"". And a writer in the conservative daily Kathimerini seems to come to the same conclusion. ""The country is heading to a new tragedy and to the continuity of the impasse we're experiencing for the past five years. The crisis, political uncertainty and instability will continue with the same tension, if not more, whether there's a yes or a no majority,"" writes Antonis Manitakis. With an estimated 108,000 new voters who have come of age since the January elections, the outcome is far from certain. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world.  You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.","There is no doubt in the Greek press that Sunday 's referendum will be held in an organised @placeholder along the lines of the 25 January election , despite the fact that there will be less than a week to pull it together . But there is a deeper sense of unease about the rifts it could highlight in society .",group,election,fashion,event,series,2
"Three Pokestops, the game's real-world locations, attracted hundreds of players to a park in inner Sydney. Nearby apartment residents endured traffic jams, piles of rubbish and noise until the early hours. The creators of the game are working to remove some real-world locations that do not wish to be included in the mobile game. ""There is loud shouting throughout the night, people dumping rubbish and cigarette butts and constant traffic jams,"" one of the apartment's residents told the Sydney Morning Herald last week. The local council has put on extra rangers and undertaken extra garbage collection to deal with the influx of players at Peg Paterson Park in Rhodes. There were also reports of disgruntled apartment residents water bombing Pokemon Go players. ""When playing  Pokemon Go, we ask that people do this with consideration to where they are: in residential areas, keep noise levels to a minimum and bin any rubbish,"" Canada Bay deputy mayor Helen McCaffrey said. The Anzac Memorial in Sydney, Arlington National Cemetery in the US and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan have asked to be removed from Pokemon Go.",One of Australia 's best places to catch Pokemon has been @placeholder in the latest update to the augmented reality game .,called,lost,published,launched,deleted,4
"The raiders stole house keys, a computer tablet and a mobile phone from the St Vigeans Road flat between 18:00 on Tuesday and 07:30 on Wednesday. Thieves then returned to steal four gent's watches from the same property at about 01:00 on Thursday. Officers have appealed for anyone who was in the area at the time to come forward.",Police are hunting thieves who @placeholder an Arbroath flat twice in the space of two days .,targeted,bomb,made,used,played,0
"He said the US and Russia were working on a mechanism to ensure air strikes only targeted so-called Islamic State (IS) or al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front. Mr Kerry said they had agreed not to debate alleged violations in public. On Monday, aid convoys began reaching besieged areas of Syria as the cessation of violence, which began on Saturday, appeared to be holding. But France expressed concern about reports of strikes by Syrian government and Russian aircraft on areas controlled by mainstream rebels. Russia says it is only targeting UN-designated terrorist organisations - including IS and al-Nusra, which is part of a major rebel alliance - in line with the terms of the cessation of hostilities. Mr Kerry, speaking in Washington alongside German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said teams in Geneva and the Jordanian capital Amman would look into all reports of violations. ""We are going to track down each alleged violation and work even more now to put in place a construct which will help us to guarantee that [military] missions are indeed missions against al-Nusra or missions against [IS],"" he said. Mr Kerry added that he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had agreed not to ""litigate... in a public fashion"" reports of violations on both sides. He said that the goal should be making sure that the cessation, brokered by the US and Russia, would stick, not finding ways to undermine it. Mr Kerry added that although both sides may have violated the truce, no breaches had been significant enough to shatter it. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier told reporters in Geneva that ""by and large the cessation of hostilities is holding, even though we have experienced some incidents"". Riad Hijab, general co-ordinator for the main opposition umbrella group the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), meanwhile warned that continued violations would jeopardise the resumption of UN-brokered talks aimed at finding a political solution to the five-year conflict. The UN and its partners have been stepping up deliveries of food, water and medicine, and plan to reach more than 150,000 people over the next five days. They hope to help 1.7 million in hard-to-reach areas by the end of March. The relative calm around the capital Damascus allowed 20 aid lorries carrying blankets and hygiene supplies to enter the besieged rebel-held suburb of Muadhamiya on Monday afternoon, Syrian Arab Red Crescent officials said. A spokesman said a further 21 truckloads were also due to arrive. The UN and other groups plan to deliver aid to the rebel-held towns of Madaya and Zabadani, in the mountains north-west of Damascus, and the government-controlled towns of Foah and Kefraya, in the northern province of Idlib on Wednesday. They are also expected to attempt another air-drop over the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, where 200,000 people in government-held areas are under siege by IS. High winds and parachute failures meant that pallets carrying 21 tonnes of food dropped last week either missed their target, went missing or were damaged. The UN says more than 450,000 Syrians are trapped in 15 besieged towns and villages, while 4.1 million others are living in hard-to-reach areas. Why is there a war in Syria? Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory. What's the human cost? More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe. How has the world reacted? Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are supporting the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran have pro-Assad forces on the ground, while Russia and a Western-led coalition are carrying out air strikes. Syria's civil war explained",US Secretary of State John Kerry says all alleged violations of the partial truce in Syria will be @placeholder .,forgiven,lifted,scrapped,investigated,launched,3
"Milford Haven Coastguards said a rescue team and a helicopter were called to Rest Bay, Porthcawl, at 15:30 BST on Tuesday. A coastguard rescue helicopter from St Athan flew the casualty to Morriston Hospital in Swansea. The condition of the casualty is not yet known.",A person has been airlifted to hospital after being pulled from the @placeholder by RNLI lifeguards in Bridgend county .,cliffs,water,beach,estuary,ground,1
"More than 2,000 people registered interest in the 228 off-plan flats in Staines Road, Hounslow, offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Developer Galliard Homes said it expected more than half of the flats would be sold outright tonight. The rest would be reserved and paid for upon completion in 2017, it said. It is converting the former European headquarters of American Airlines into 204 studio apartments and 24 one-bed flats and purchases are being limited to one per person. The homes are located three miles away from Heathrow Airport and have not been marketed abroad nor pre-sold, sales director David Galman said. The sale opened at 17:00 GMT. Based on the experience of selling 40 other similar developments in London, he said he expected about 50% of the flats to be bought as buy-to-let investments and the rest to be owner occupied. He said there was nothing to prevent cash buyers selling the property on at an inflated price before completion. The build-time scale falls outside of the government's Help to Buy lending limit. Generation Rent, an organisation that campaigns for the rights of private tenants, said it welcomed Galliard Homes' ""fairer pricing scheme"" that was ""more affordable"" for people in rented accommodation saving towards a deposit. A spokesman said: ""It's good if they are selling to first time buyers and people who have patiently been saving up while renting. ""We are concerned however they may be sold on again for a profit even before anyone moves in, which will push the prices up again for people who want to live there."" In comparison, one-bedroom flats further along Staines Road are being offered for sale in Bellevue Court with a number of different estate agents starting from £225,000.","People have been queuing overnight to reserve and buy a studio apartment or one - bed flat in west London for a @placeholder price from £ 199,000 up to £ 355,000 .",message,fixed,growing,reported,protected,1
"Here lies the confusion: the Kouachis said they were sent by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the al-Qaeda franchise in Yemen known by its acronym AQAP. Coulibaly said in a video that his allegiance was to Islamic State (IS), headquartered in Syria. Despite sharing a violent, West-hating jihadist ideology, the two organisations have largely been in competition. In Syria this has sometimes erupted into open warfare as their respective followers jockey for territory while their leaders jockey for global influence. So is it possible that leaders of the two most dangerous jihadist organisations have agreed to bury their differences and co-operate in a joint attack on France? It is not inconceivable but it is unlikely. Far more plausible is the idea that with or without the tacit blessings of both al-Qaeda and IS, the three attackers decided to pool their resources and form a plan on their own. Not exactly self-starters, as they were all connected to jihadist networks. But that is not the same as a formal plan, conceived and directed from overseas like the 9/11 attacks of 2001. So what exactly are their links to al-Qaeda and IS? There does not appear to be a common denominator here, but one of the most influential links on the Kouachi brothers appears to be the convicted al-Qaeda terrorist Djemal Beghal, arrested in Dubai ahead of the 9/11 attacks and seen associating with Cherif Kouachi in 2010. Beghal, a French citizen of Algerian origin, is believed to have further radicalised Kouachi in prison after his conviction for helping send French jihadists to fight in Iraq. The Yemen connection concerns the other Kouachi brother, Said. He spent enough time in Yemen during 2011-12 to meet a number of AQAP operatives, including the influential Anwar al-Awlaki and, it is presumed, receive rudimentary military training. The Yemeni journalist and researcher Muhammad al-Kibsi says that while in Yemen, Kouachi lived with the so-called Detroit ""underpants bomber"" who was convicted of trying to blow up an airliner in 2009. Did AQAP ""send"" Said Kouachi to carry out the Paris attack as he and his brother claim? If so, then more than two years after his departure from Yemen seems rather a long time for the plan to be hatched. It would also be strange that an organisation with a track record of uploading slick, highly produced videos on to the internet, would have nothing prepared in advance. The same goes for IS, whose technically high quality but sickeningly voyeuristic videos are believed to be the work of a Tunisian graphic designer trained in Sweden. No such video has come from them. Instead there is a crude, homemade testimony from Amedy Coulibaly, the third gunman, speaking in faltering Arabic with an IS flag and machine gun behind him. Investigators believe that one of the Kouachi brothers spent some time in Syria, possibly with IS. Of the estimated 1,000 French nationals who have gone there to join extremist groups, around 200 have returned. In September 2014 the official IS spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, exhorted his group's members to carry out attacks in their own countries, so it is possible the Paris attacks were a spontaneous reaction to this. While it is still too early to reach a definitive conclusion on which organisation, if any, was behind the Paris attacks, the most likely explanation at this stage is that despite the connections with global jihadist networks this was primarily the work of the three individuals themselves, helped by accomplices still being sought, all done with the encouragement, possibly funding, but little direction from al-Qaeda and IS leaderships in Pakistan, Yemen or Syria.","There is no mystery about who carried out the Paris attacks last week . The two Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly boasted publicly about their murderous actions before being shot dead by police on Friday . But the question of who was really behind them , if anyone , is @placeholder a lot of head - scratching from Washington to Paris to Yemen .",offering,facilitating,triggering,nearing,taking,2
"The 72-hour walkout is due to go on until Friday, despite the RMT advising members to sign new contracts. Passenger group Transport Focus said commuters were fed up and wanted services to get back to normal. The RMT said the strike was ""rock solid"", while Southern said it was running 61% of its normal timetable. Fresh talks are to be held on Wednesday in a bid to end the dispute. The RMT has held a series of walkouts since April over the role of conductors on Southern services. But, Transport Focus spokesman Anthony Smith said passengers had ""lost the plot as to what the original rights and wrongs of the dispute actually were"". ""It has become so bitter and protracted,"" he said. In a letter to RMT general secretary Mick Cash, Southern CEO Charles Horton said: ""I'm prepared to free my diary from tomorrow morning onwards to meet and to show your serious intent, I would like the RMT to call off the rest of the strike action planned for this week."" Mr Cash said talks were a golden opportunity to break the deadlock. ""The RMT will be at the talks,"" he said. The RMT thinks having new on-board supervisors on the trains instead of conductors will lower safety standards. Southern says they will be ""safety trained"", rather than ""safety critical"" and there is a grey area over the difference. The two sides don't seem to be coming any closer together. The row is getting increasingly bitter and it doesn't look as if there is any quick resolution to this. Passengers have been venting their frustration on social media. Martin Still tweeted: ""I've forgotten what they are arguing about and bored with it all now - perhaps just sack everyone, managers and strikers and start again."" Liam Mustapha posted: ""Cant get to school today because of @SouthernRailUK strike today. I don't think I or other commuters can take this any longer. #southernfail."" Earlier train services between Brighton and Gatwick Airport via Balcombe were disrupted because of over-running engineering work by Network Rail as a result of a broken down engineers' train. Russell Woollen said: ""@SouthernRailUK why risk doing engineering works before a day like this?? You can't make it up. Appalling."" Southern, which runs trains linking parts of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire with London, is introducing driver-only operation and wants conductors to accept new on-board supervisor positions. The RMT revealed it had received a legal challenge to the strike hours before the start of the walkout, but said it would go ahead while it examined the details. The union previously advised conductors to accept new contracts to ""protect their position"" - but said it would seek to overturn them. Mick Lynch, the assistant secretary general of the RMT, told the BBC: ""We're sorry that people in London and the South East have got to put up with this. ""If the company gets round the table and we can hammer out a deal which we think is reasonable, then we can call off these strikes and get everyone back to work."" Mayor of Seaford Lindsay Freeman said the south coast town's summer tourist trade had dropped and some commuters had given up jobs in London because of the strikes. Ms Freeman said she was very concerned about the impact of a strike planned for 5 November, when up to 40,000 people travel to bonfire celebrations in the East Sussex town of Lewes.","Passengers are enduring overcrowding , delays and chaos on Southern trains as a strike by RMT union members @placeholder .",title,continues,ground,unfolded,revealed,1
"Kirsty Williams said the Lib Dem vision for May's assembly election would be to ""provide good schools, good hospitals and a vibrant economy"". Ms Williams will accuse Labour Welsh ministers of failing ""to get even the basics right"" after 17 years in power. The conference takes place on Saturday and Sunday. ""In the forthcoming election, the Welsh Liberal Democrats will show that we have listened to people's concerns,"" Ms Williams said. ""Our vision for a future Welsh parliament is one that finally gives people what they want - good schools, good hospitals and a vibrant economy. ""We will be relentlessly focused on getting public services right."" The party's key pledges include: The Lib Dems are facing an uphill struggle in the assembly poll, after their collapse at the 2015 general election which left them with just one MP in Wales. They currently have five assembly members. Before Ms Williams' main speech on Saturday, party members will hear from UK Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron. It's almost a cliche these days to describe an election as being a ""make or break"" one for the Liberal Democrats, but with the party facing a possible wipe-out in May's assembly election it's clear a bad result could cause long-lasting damage. Having seen its Westminster representation reduced to a single seat and its local government base severely eroded, the Welsh party has come to depend more on the assembly group to maintain its profile. The last assembly election in 2011 saw a plunge in support for the party following the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition at Westminster. But despite a near-collapse in its vote, the party succeeded in dodging the bullet in terms of seats, retaining seats by narrow margins in four of the assembly's five electoral regions. The emergence of UKIP as a major electoral force in Wales will make retaining those seats far harder in 2016 and the party probably needs a substantial increase in its support just to stand still. Quite where those extra votes might come from is anyone's guess.","The Welsh Liberal Democrats ' leader has pledged to be "" relentlessly focused on getting public services right "" , ahead of their @placeholder conference in Cardiff .",properties,commitments,spring,pace,teeth,2
"Young adults aged 18 to 35 are often described as the Yolo (you only live once) generation. But the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association said that label was unfair, claiming that as many got satisfaction from saving as did from spending. The cost of living and low salaries were the biggest barriers to saving. Fewer thought that their lifestyle scuppered any attempts to save. The association's research with a relatively small group of 18 to 35-year-olds suggested that the majority were not racking up debts, outside of student loans. About a third were saving for a rainy day and a third were saving for a one-off such as a car, holiday or television. Joanne Segars, chief executive of the association, which represents pension providers, said: ""The 18-35 year olds are no different to many people - they want to save for a secure future, but short-term financial pressures get in the way. ""It is not surprising that without help, this group prioritises short-term over long-term saving, given the current rock-bottom interest rates and low wage increases."" Brothers Alex and Joe Penney are at different stages of their financial journey - and they have different priorities as a result. Joe, 19, is soon to leave for university in Edinburgh to study philosophy and economics and is expecting to start building up a student debt. He is hoping to get a part-time job to help pay for some of the day-to-day costs of student life. ""It might take a while in terms of properly saving for the big things, but I will try to save a little bit of it,"" he said. Alex, 23, is just about to start work in a graduate programme in a new city, having completed his studies - and has the debts to show for it. He has already mapped out a savings and investment strategy. ""I am hoping to start saving from my first pay cheque. The only thing stopping me is the deposit, rent and fees when I move,"" he said. ""Most people [my age] are scared of the stock market, but I'm interested in it all."" Joe said he expected to ask his brother for advice in the future. ""He has it pretty well sorted,"" he said. One pensions provider said that rising rental costs were eating up more and more of young people's funds as they strived to own a property. ""The gap between wages and property prices continues to widen. Faced with these property pressures, it is understandable that the need to save for retirement can feel like a luxury few can afford,"" said Alistair McQueen, savings and retirement manager at Aviva. ""It is to the millennials' credit that more than half see saving for their retirement as a financial priority. It is also to their credit that more prioritise long-term saving than short-term spending.""","The under-35s are not a spendthrift generation , but are @placeholder to save owing to daily financial pressures and low wages , a trade body has said .",linked,struggling,set,continuing,preparing,1
"With a new Prime Minister and new cabinet, the Government may have wanted to re-assess the £18bn cost. At that price, it would be the most expensive nuclear power plant ever built. Some say the cost could ultimately be much higher. It may also want to reassess the price it's agreed to pay to EDF for the electricity the power station would produce. It's currently guaranteed a price of £92.50 per megawatt hour. That's about double the current price and could mean higher energy bills for consumers. But wholesale prices are volatile and will fluctuate. So it's an educated guess as to where prices could be by the time the new power station opens. If they are higher, we'll be getting a bargain, but if they're lower we'll have to make up the difference through higher bills and pay more than we would otherwise. Is China the issue? The Chinese have a 30.5% stake in the project and there may be questions for the new government about their involvement in Britain's energy future. The contracts were due to be signed today but the government says it ""will carefully consider"" the plan before backing it and there'll be a decision in ""early autumn"". At Hinkley Point today they're quietly dismantling the VIP facilities that were set up to welcome EDF's bosses and members of the Chinese consortium that was financing a third of the cost. They will now return home. EDF is still committed to building Hinkley Point C. The diggers and other heavy machinery on the site at Hinkley are still operating as normal, preparing the ground and foundations. EDF also has the backing of the French government which holds a significant stake in it. But questions over the company's financial stability remain and two senior executives have now resigned from EDF over the escalating cost that some fear could bankrupt it if there were to be complications or delays. It's thought the project would provide work for up to 25,000 people both in the construction and operation of the power station and also in the surrounding area and supply chain. I spoke to one B&B owner who had hoped the project would mean a big influx of visitors to the area for the next ten years. He's now struggling to make ends meet after a series of delays and setbacks. That's a familiar tale right around this area. 25,000 jobs over 10 years linked to the construction project 5,600 working on site at the peak phase of construction 1,000 apprenticeships 900 positions once the power station is built and operational Hinkley Point C would have provided 7% of the UK's electricity by 2025 replacing the existing Hinkley Point B reactor that will be decommissioned in 2023. If the government decides not to go proceed with the plans it will need to look at alternative sources of energy to secure the UK's energy supply in future. Critics of nuclear power say the falling cost of renewable technology such as wind and solar makes them much better solutions to our energy needs.",The @placeholder to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset was on the verge of being signed when the UK government announced it wanted to review the details . So where does this delay leave the project ?,proposals,lease,deal,chance,application,2
"11 March 2017 Last updated at 02:42 GMT Caddie is a specially trained autism assistance Labrador from the ""Dogs for Good"" charity and helps calm anxiety. He was given to 13-year-old Joel Sayer from Newquay and has helped him carry out everyday tasks like brushing his teeth and walking to the shops. Joel said: ""Caddie is my special friend, my super dog. This world we live in I find hard, I find everything hard, but Caddie keeps me calm and keeps me safe."" The pair are finalists in the Crufts Friends for Life hero dog competition which celebrates dogs providing a ""lifetime service, support, love and devotion"".","A "" guardian angel "" dog has reached the finals of Crufts for helping @placeholder the life of a boy with autism .",following,transform,praised,extended,including,1
"Dozens more were wounded in the explosion at a packed market in the southern city of Davao. A presidential spokesman said investigators had found shrapnel from a mortar-based improvised explosive device (IED) at the scene. Police in the capital Manila are on high alert following the deadly blast. At least 60 people were injured and 30 were taken to hospital. The explosion took place outside the Marco Polo hotel in an area frequently visited by Mr Duterte, who was in Davao at the time but was not hurt. Pictures released show broken glass and plastic chairs scattered at the scene, which has since been cordoned off by police bomb experts and investigators. Mr Duterte has declared a ""state of lawlessness"" following the incident, which he said would allow troops to be deployed in cities and assist police with checkpoints. He said: ""These are extraordinary times and I supposed that I'm authorised to allow the security forces of this country to do searches."" A spokesman for the militant group Abu Sayyaf has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the president said authorities are considering the possibility that drug syndicates were behind it. The region has been under a heightened security alert in recent weeks because of a military offensive against Abu Sayyaf. Regional police chief Manuel Guerlan said a ring of checkpoints had been placed around the city's exit points. ""A thorough investigation is being conducted to determine the cause of the explosion,"" he said. ""We call on all the people to be vigilant at all times."" On Monday at least 12 soldiers from the Philippines were killed during heavy fighting with militants in what was the deadliest day for Philippine troops since President Duterte was elected in May. His election has prompted a spike in drug-related killings, with more than 2,000 deaths since he took office on 30 June, nearly half of them in police operations.",At least 14 people have been killed in a bomb attack in the @placeholder city of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte .,space,chest,home,former,port,2
"Peter Sanchez-Iglesias, who was last week named the UK's best chef in the Good Food Guide 2018, believes that people being confronted with the reality of where their meat comes from can be challenging. ""I guess it did sound a bit weird for the firemen to eat the piglets, but then this is life, this is what happens - slaughtering of farm animals happens,"" says the Michelin-starred chef. ""It's a case of out of sight, out of mind. If people don't see the pigs they don't mind eating them, but if they see a piglet that reminds them of Babe then there's a chance they will change their mind."" End of Twitter post  by @I_am_bmxchick A survey by the Vegan Society last year found that 3.25% of the UK population are now vegetarians, and that the number of vegans is growing rapidly. Siobhan Dolan from Viva!, which promotes veganism, believes the tale of the rescued piglets has helped to encourage consumers to consider where their food comes from. ""It takes issues like this to get people to take a step back and really think about what they are eating,"" she says. She believes the information easily available online now allows consumers to ""delve deeper into where their food comes from"". ""A few years ago this would not have been newsworthy, but there has been a massive shift in consumer opinion."" While the firefighters' barbecue was leapt upon as a chance by some to discuss the morality - or lack thereof - of meat eating, for meat and dairy farmers around the country, there was a collective placing of heads in hands. Farming journalist Chris Rundle certainly shares this sense of exasperation. ""My first reaction was 'what a ridiculous state of affairs this country has got itself into',"" he says. ""You would have thought these firemen had been indulging in some form of cannibalism."" He accepts there has been a shift in public opinion in recent years, and believes this is because of a failure to promote the health benefits of eating meat and dairy - an ""information vacuum"" he argues has been filled by the ""big money"" spent by vegan groups. He also rejects the assertion that people are more aware of where their food comes from. ""I've seen parents put their hands over their children's eyes when they have walked past a butcher's shop where carcasses are hanging. ""People don't want to see that, they don't want to handle meat, and these people are more susceptible to vegan ideology."" But for Siobhan Dolan, arguments that vegan groups are benefiting from a failure to better promote the virtues of eating meat are wide of the mark. ""The food market has been dominated for a long time by the meat industry, which now feels threatened by our campaign,"" she says. ""We are not forcing our opinions on people, we are just giving them the facts and showing them the reality of the meat industry."" Minette Batters, deputy president of the NFU, agrees with Mr Rundle that consumers ""don't want to know about the end-of-life stage"" of how meat is produced, and says the distance between consumers and their food is greater than it has ever been. ""Farmers are upset about the reaction stories like this produce and are angry about how certain groups seek to impose their views on other people,"" she says. ""They feel threatened by the reaction on social media, which makes it look like there is a tide of opinion against them."" Mr Sanchez-Iglesias, the chef-patron of Casamia in Bristol, agrees with the argument that consumers are too ""disconnected"" from their food. ""People don't want to think about where their food comes from; they don't want to eat pigs they can 'see',"" he says. ""Meat used to be a luxury, and while it's nice that people can enjoy it more, we can't keep producing it in the intensive way it often is. ""The more we educate kids to find out where their food comes from, the more they will respect meat and its real value. ""They will likely grow up to eat less of it and see it as a luxury, and we'll see a less emotional reaction to stories like this."" As for Rachel Rivers, the Wiltshire farmer whose donation of the sausages sparked the controversy, all she wants to do is make a living. ""It's very difficult. Farming is what we do here: it's not an animal sanctuary and we don't have the animals for the fun of it. ""I do understand that some people don't eat meat, but some do, and farming is our life.""","Some firefighters save a group of piglets from a barn fire - and are later rewarded with a gift of sausages made from the animals . It was a story that provoked strong emotion , from discomfort , through to disgust and exasperation . But what does this bizarre tale tell us about our @placeholder to the consumption of meat ?",exposure,clues,resistance,attitudes,stability,3
"Football club owners across Europe still have time to spend big sums before the transfer window closes on Thursday. The total spent by the Premier League this summer has already surpassed last year's record of £1.165bn. In 2001, when Sol Campbell left Tottenham for London rivals Arsenal, his £100,000-a-week contract made him Britain's first footballer to earn a six-figure weekly sum. Sixteen years later, Manchester City's Sergio Aguero and Manchester United's Paul Pogba both pick up in excess of £200,000 per week. The average wage for Premier League players last season was £2.4m, according to a report from Sporting Intelligence. That equates to £46,000 a week, more than the average UK worker earns in a year. Methodology:  Player salary figures used are reported by or understood to be accurate by BBC Sport. The figures are pre-tax and do not include additional player income from sponsorship or other commercial deals. Country and global average wage statistics have been produced by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and are for the latest available year, in most cases 2015. The ILO's data only counts wage earners, not the self-employed or people on benefits. To compare wages across countries, the calculator adjusts all figures by using the World Bank's Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) conversion rate, which reflects variations in the cost of living from one country to another. Football shirt data has been collected from official club websites in August 2017. Where clubs had more than one type of official jersey on sale, the 'authentic' or 'match' version was selected. Produced by Nassos Stylianou, Nathan Mercer, Paul Fletcher, Chris Osborne and John Stanton. Player illustrations by Zoe Bartholomew and Laura Cantadori. Design by Laura Cantadori and James Offer. Development by Aidan Fewster, Rosie Gollancz and Becky Rush.","The football transfer window means big - money moves and big - money contracts . Neymar 's 222 m euro ( £ 198 m ) world record transfer from Barcelona to PSG will earn the Brazilian 865,000 euros ( £ 775,477 ) a week . How much do you get @placeholder compared with a top footballer ? Use our calculator to find out .",restricted,stunned,paid,sports,extended,2
"A member of the public saw the injured bird ""struggling"" at Lakeside Holiday Village in Burnham-on-Sea on Friday. A wildlife expert was taken by BARB Search and Rescue's inshore boat and was able to ""safely retrieve the bird"". The swan is being cared for at the Secret World Wildlife Rescue centre in East Huntspill. Secret World said the bird was ""recovering well, having had the fishing line and lead weights removed"".",A swan that @placeholder a fishing hook has been rescued from a lake in Somerset .,swallowed,struck,mounted,stolen,rescued,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device Two of their co-owners, former Manchester United stars Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville, spoke at a two-hour planning meeting at Salford Council. ""The hard work starts here,"" said Neville afterwards. ""We have heard the local community issues and now we must deliver on the promises we have made."" The former Manchester United players heard numerous objections, including that they were turning Salford, who play in National League North, into a ""commercial monster"". At one point Neville was presented with a black bin bag of rubbish by an objector as an example of the additional litter Salford's proposal would create. He promised that, if needed, he and the Salford first team would go outside to clear litter after matches. Neville also said any instances of anti-Semitism in an area where 40% of the local population is Jewish would be dealt with in the strongest available manner. The planning permission was granted subject to a number of conditions, particularly with relation to traffic. David Mintz, spokesman for the local Kersal Moor residents association, said: ""The council has been wowed by celebrity. A thousand residents were consulted. The vast majority objected and this has been ignored."" Mintz said the objectors would now consider asking for a judicial review. Salford have been promoted in successive seasons since a high-profile takeover involving Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Gary and Phil Neville in 2014 and last year reached the FA Cup second round for the first time. Take part in our new Premier League Predictor game, which allows you to create leagues with friends.","Non-league Salford City have been granted planning permission for a 5,000 - capacity @placeholder stadium at Moor Lane .",scheme,redeveloped,drugs,crowd,sports,1
"The draft legislation sought to ensure people were paid the minimum wage for workplace internships. The bill's sponsor, Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke, said he wanted to ""level the playing field"" for youngsters. But the government said it could ""undermine existing employment laws"". The proposed National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill would require companies to pay interns at least the minimum wage for their work. The MP for Elmet and Rothwell, Mr Shelbrooke, said not paying interns had become the ""acceptable face of unpaid labour in modern Britain"" and should be banned. He warned that the use of unpaid interns by MPs, more than 20 of whom were advertising such roles, sent a message to UK business that ""exploiting"" young workers was acceptable. But the debate on Friday was forced to end after four-and-a-half hours of speeches, with Tory MPs David Nuttall and Philip Davies each speaking for more than an hour. Also expressing his concerns was Bob Stewart, Tory MP for Beckenham, who said: ""If they [the employers] have to pay internships then that comes off the bottom line, it's a cost to the business, and undoubtedly there will be fewer internships."" Business minister Margot James said the bill was legally ""unnecessary"". She said: ""While it's extremely well-intentioned, I do have concerns that it could have unintended consequences that might even undermine existing employment laws and protections. ""Legally the bill is unnecessary because... interns are eligible for the National Minimum Wage if they meet the definition of 'worker'. ""It doesn't matter what the individual or employer calls the arrangement, or whether or not the individual agreed not to be paid, only the reality of the employment arrangement matters and if interns are workers they are entitled to be paid."" Shadow business minister Gill Furniss said Labour supported the bill. She added: ""This is a system rigged in favour of those who can afford it, or perhaps better said, whose parents can afford it."" The Labour MP said these unpaid internships were ""monopolised by the children of the wealthy"" while poorer people were ""shut out"". Ben Lyons, co-director of the Intern Aware campaign, said: ""The government flunked an opportunity to tackle the problem of long-term unpaid internships, which leads to good jobs going to those who can afford to work for free, rather than the brightest and most hard-working."" Mr Shelbrooke asked for the debate on his bill to resume on 24 February, although it is unlikely to secure further parliamentary time.",Reforms aimed at banning unpaid internships have been @placeholder after Tory backbenchers and the government spoke against the proposals in the Commons .,passed,raised,restored,defended,blocked,4
"It comes after the sea wall at Cwm Ivy, which is thought to have been built in medieval times, became damaged. It was originally there to keep the sea from the land so that it could be farmed with livestock. Natural Resources Wales and the National Trust hope the new saltmarsh will attract birds of prey to roost. Coastal manager for the National Trust in Gower, Alan Kearsley Evans, said the work would see about 39 hectares (96 acres) of land near Whiteford returned to its natural state, and become a rare habitat for wildlife. He said: ""It's still in the really early stages. The plants in the freshwater marsh have died back and silt is building up. ""It looks very different but it's a temporary phase until the salt water plants move in.""",A new saltmarsh will be @placeholder on the north Gower coast over 2015 as part of a project to provide a new habitat for wildlife .,called,spent,erected,grown,found,3
"St John's Primary, in Sussex, is holding a non-school uniform day but instead of donating to charity, pupils were asked to bring in essential items. The chair of the Crowborough school's governors, said it wanted to highlight the ""massive financial crisis"" all schools face under budget cuts. The Department for Education (DoE) has admitted funding models are ""unfair"". At a meeting later, parents will be told how cuts would affect the school. Live: More news from Sussex Head teacher Laura Cooper said it was important parents were aware of ""the real financial pressures facing the school"". In a letter on the non-uniform day, she said ""we would like the children to bring in various 'essential' items such as stationery (e.g. glue sticks, pencils, Blu Tack, boxes of tissues, sellotape, etc) and of course loo rolls"". The Parents' Forum meeting later would focus on ""safeguarding the future of our school"", she added. Rosie Wegeland, who has four children at the school, said the letter had ""really surprised"" her. ""This is the first time in seven years that they are asking for something else to be given to the school,"" she said. In a separate letter earlier this month, head teachers from across East Sussex urged parents to lobby their local MPs and the education secretary ""to protest about the effects of funding cuts in schools"". ""The government claims that funding for schools has remained the same, but they do not mention that all schools face rising costs due to inflation and other extra charges recently introduced by the government,"" they said. ""According to the National Audit Office, this will equate to £3 billion less between 2019 and 2020."" In a statement, the DoE agreed the current system for distributing funding across the country was ""unfair, opaque and outdated"". It had been consulting schools, governors, local authorities and parents ""on the need for a fairer funding formula"", it added.",A cash - strapped primary school has felt @placeholder to ask pupils ' parents to donate toilet rolls and stationery .,forced,offer,powers,entitled,voted,0
"At 05:00 The Scotsman's front page declared a ""historic victory for SNP"". The Herald also published a 5am edition. The paper said: ""Sturgeon triumphant as Labour humiliated."" ""Victory's at hand"" was the earlier headline in The National, with a full page picture of Nicola Sturgeon with her husband and SNP chief executive Peter Murrell. The paper said she was ""on course to win her mandate"". ""Just Like Nat"" was the headline on the front page of the Scottish Sun. Earlier, shortly after the polls closed, the newspaper tweeted that the Tories would ""comfortably"" seal second place. The Daily Record published its first edition with the caption ""01:30 election latest"". The headline was ""Five more years"" and the paper said Nicola Sturgeon was set to be returned as first minister. The Scottish Daily Express said Nicola Sturgeon had been warned that there would be ""no more excuses"" for failing to deliver for Scotland as the SNP ""swept to an historic third term"" in the Holyrood election. The Daily Star headline was ""Five more years"". It also predicted the SNP was poised to ""hold Holyrood"". The Scottish Daily Mail had published three editions by 03:00. Its most recent said ""SNP set for victory, Tory vote surges in push for second and Labour disaster as seats tumble"". The Daily Telegraph said Nicola Sturgeon ""could be denied"" a new independence referendum.",As the counts got under way in the Holyrood election the Scottish papers were predicting an SNP victory and there was little change as @placeholder editions were published through the night .,updated,hosts,conditions,engineers,fashion,0
"Torn-up sick notes were found in the homes of Andreas Lubitz, they say, including one for the day of the crash, which killed 150 passengers and crew. A German hospital confirmed he had been a patient recently but denied reports he had been treated for depression. The EU's aviation regulator has urged airlines to adopt new safety rules. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said in future two crew members should be present in the cockpit at all times. Data from the voice recorder suggests Mr Lubitz purposely started an eight-minute descent into the mountains after locking the pilot out of the flight deck. There were no survivors when Flight 4U 9525 crashed in a remote mountain valley on Tuesday while en route from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf in Germany. Prosecutors say there was no evidence of a political or religious motive for his actions and no suicide note has been found. French police say the search for passenger remains and debris on the mountain slopes could take another two weeks. A memorial service is being held at a church in central Duesseldorf, attended by the mayor, Tomas Geisel. Two officers stand watch at the end of a neat, suburban cul-de-sac. International TV crews focus their cameras on Andreas Lubitz's family home. The blinds are down. A candle has been placed on his parents manicured lawn, with an image of hands clasped in prayer. Neighbours describe him as a ""quiet, affable man"". They are struggling to accept that the 27-year-old they once knew could be capable of committing mass murder. Investigators carrying boxes of evidence and a computer have come and gone. With the discovery of a  discarded sick note in his Duesseldorf apartment and confirmation that he attended a medical clinic just days before the crash, the suggestion is that this quiet man was hiding something. That secret may eventually reveal why he took not just his own life but the lives of 149 others. In a statement (in German), prosecutors said they had seized medical documents from Mr Lubitz's two residences - his Duesseldorf flat and his parents' home north of Frankfurt - which indicated an ""existing illness and appropriate medical treatment"". The ""fact that, among the documents found, there were sick notes - torn-up, current and for the day of the crash - leads to the provisional assessment that the deceased was hiding his illness from his employer"", the report states. Germanwings confirmed it had not been given a sick note for the day of the crash. Duesseldorf's University Hospital issued a statement (in German) saying Mr Lubitz had attended the hospital on 10 March and last month. Adding that it had handed his medical records over to prosecutors, it said reports the co-pilot had been treated there for depression were incorrect. Germany's Rheinischer Post newspaper, which spoke to the hospital, quoted its own unnamed sources as saying Mr Lubitz had been suffering from a physical, rather than a mental, illness. Unanswered questions Who was Andreas Lubitz? 'Nice, funny, sometimes quiet' German media examine 'depression' reports Depression headlines add to stigma for sufferers The theory that a mental illness such as depression had affected the co-pilot was suggested by German media, quoting internal aviation authority documents. They said he had suffered a serious depressive episode while training in 2009. He reportedly went on to receive treatment for a year and a half and was recommended regular psychological assessment. Mr Lubitz's employers insisted that he had only been allowed to resume training after his suitability was ""re-established"". Speaking just before the EASA issued its advice, Lufthansa announced it would adopt the ""rule of two"" as soon as possible. Family members of some of the passengers and crew who died have visited Seyne-les-Alpes, near the crash site. DNA samples are being provided to allow for identification of victims' remains. The plane's second ""black box"", which records flight data, has yet to be found. ""There's not much plane debris left,"" police spokesman Xavier Vialenc was quoted by AFP news agency as saying. ""There's mainly a lot of body parts to pick up."" Source: Aviation Safety Network","The co-pilot @placeholder of deliberately crashing a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps hid details of an illness , German prosecutors say .",number,suspected,state,confessed,batch,1
"BBC Wales, 1XTRA, Radio 2 and News Online are collaborating all week with documentaries, news reports, features, comedy, spoken word and music. Haifa Shamsan, who lives in the tower blocks, is part of the rapidly growing Muslim fashion industry and has set her sights on the big time. Haifa Shamsan is a proud ""hijabi""- a Muslim woman who chooses to wear the hijab, or head scarf, as a symbol of modesty and faith. She is also a fashion designer who believes passionately that religious beliefs do not have to cramp a woman's style. ""I love to wear colours and I feel like being a hijabi and being modest doesn't just mean wearing black,"" she says. ""Being modest really just means not showing any flesh. You can show your hands, your feet and your face but you can't show your body. Your clothes should be loose-fitting so if you're wearing trousers they can't be too tight and it's better if you have a longer top. ""Basically you need to make sure you are covering everything that might be appealing to a guy."" But within those parameters, anything goes. Patterns, textures, shapes, it is all up for grabs in Haifa's designs. ""I love to mix vintage and I love to mix heritage pieces,"" she adds. ""I was brought up in Wales but my family are from Yemen so when I go there, I get fabrics that are really different and that are known to the Yemeni culture. I like to make western styles with them and in that way really mix the two cultures."" Haifa, 27, runs her business - Maysmode - from her flat on the top floor of a tower block in Butetown, Cardiff. ""I started off making clothes for myself because I wanted to be unique in what I wear. People loved my clothes, I started taking part in fashion shows and it went from there. ""Maysmode is known for its single bespoke outfits. Every piece is unique and every piece makes its own statement. Right now, the label is small but Haifa is thinking big: ""I would love to have my own boutique and see my clothes on the high street. I want it to be a massive fashion house - in ten years time, maybe."" The Muslim fashion market is booming. According to the 2015-16 State of the Global Islamic Economy Report, it will be worth £226 billion by 2020 - a projection duly noted by both the big fashion houses and the high street. In January, Dolce & Gabanna joined the likes of Oscar de la Renta and Tommy Hilfiger in launching a modest-wear range. House of Fraser has started selling sports hijabs, Uniqlo stocks a range by Muslim designer Hana Tajima and last year H&M released an advert featuring a Muslim model in a hijab. A growing number of hijabi fashionistas also showcase their personal style on Instagram and YouTube, often racking up hundreds of thousands of followers and views - a far cry from the stereotype of Muslim women as repressed figures, unable to express themselves through the way they look. ""I think it's great because they are spreading positivity to non-Muslims,"" says Haifa. ""They show how we are and how we do things and that we like to be fashionable and take care of how we look. ""This generation has not only had it difficult with being pre-judged but also having to prove to others what we are really like and I guess it's why so many of us have taken on a big role in modest fashion. ""To us hijabis, I feel we make more of an effort to be well-dressed and trendy, so that we aren't stereotyped.""","#towerlives is a week - long festival of storytelling and music , on air and on the @placeholder , around the council estate tower blocks of Butetown in Cardiff .",ground,issue,field,peninsula,pavement,0
"Various factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) have been negotiating with the Indian government since 1997, pushing for a greater Naga state for all ethnic Nagas. But, a new group is now seeking a break up of Nagaland to provide for a new state called ""Frontier Nagaland"" to fulfil the aspirations of smaller Naga tribes. The NSCN, formed in 1980, is now split in three factions - each with its own vision of a future Naga homeland. Its leaders broke away from the Naga National Council (NNC) - that had led the armed separatist movement from 1956 - after the NNC signed an accord with India in 1975. But the NSCN split into two in 1988 with Indian Naga leaders Issac Swu and Th Muivah breaking off with the Burmese Naga leader SS Khaplang and triggering a bloody faction feud in which hundreds of Nagas, guerrillas and civilians have died. In 1997, the Issac-Muivah faction started negotiations with India and so far more than 60 rounds of talks have been held. The group wants a ""Nagalim"" (greater Naga state), created by integrating the Naga-dominated areas of the three states of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh which border Nagaland. Its leaders are mostly from the Tangkhul Naga tribe of Manipur. The Issac-Muivah faction has been told that India cannot afford territorial reorganisation to create a ""Nagalim"" because of the huge opposition from Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Instead, the group was offered ""a supra-state body"" covering Naga areas in these states - a body that could ensure cultural and emotional integration of the Nagas and provide them greater financial autonomy but not powers like law and order. Even this offer has met with fierce resistance in these three states as it is seen as undermining their control on the Naga areas. The Khaplang faction, however, wants a ""Naga homeland"" that would include the Naga-inhabited areas of Burma's Sagaing Division with Indian Naga areas. The group has maintained a ceasefire with India for 14 years and it was renewed in April after the Khaplang faction agreed to three conditions set by Delhi. The conditions included: India also asked 45 of its senior leaders and commanders to carry GPS-fitted identity cards. Despite the long ceasefire with the Khaplang group, India is yet to start negotiations with them. ""We want to be included in the negotiations because we have waited long enough. It is no use imposing conditions if Delhi does not talk. We signed the ceasefire with both India and Burma's governments because our Naga people live in both countries like the Kurds live in Iran, Iraq and Turkey and their rebels have to deal with all three governments,"" said Khaplang's India representative DT Lincoln. ""But Khaplang is a Burmese national and the group is based in that country. They also provide shelter to most other north-eastern rebel groups that are fighting us, among them the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) and Manipuri rebel groups. There are obvious difficulty starting talks with this group,"" said an Indian home ministry official who was unwilling to be named. Also, the Issac-Muivah faction has opposed Khaplang's inclusion in the talks. Now there is a third NSCN faction, led by Khole Konyak and Khitovi Zhimomi, both hailing from Nagaland state, who say they are prepared to solve the ""Naga problem within the present boundaries of Nagaland"". These leaders broke away from Khaplang over personality clashes and conflicting perspectives on the Naga problem. ""Delhi is preparing to invite us for talks after we signed a ceasefire recently and we have already discussed the issues with our community leaders in Nagaland,"" Mr Zhimomi said. ""We want a solution within the boundaries of Nagaland because India cannot change territorial configurations,"" he said. ""This is the group that will make Indian officials very happy because they don't demand territorial changes and would perhaps settle for greater financial autonomy and a federal largesse in the shape of development funds,"" says Sujit Chakraborty, who has closely followed the India-NSCN negotiations. And then to make matters more complex, a new group, Eastern Naga Peoples Organisation (ENPO), is demanding a division of Nagaland to create a separate state they call the ""Frontier Nagaland"". ""About 45% of the total Naga population lives in eastern Nagaland's four districts of Mon, Tuensang, Longleng and Kiphire. These four districts will be included in the proposed new state and we have the support of all the six Naga tribes - Konyak, Chang, Sangtam, Phom, Yimchunger and Khiamniungan - living in these four districts,"" says ENPO chief Toshi Wongtung. ""We also want to incorporate the two Naga-inhabited districts of Arunachal Pradesh - Changlang and Tirap - into the proposed Frontier Nagaland,"" he said. ""They are our brothers and sisters and we want to live together and we have not got our due in Nagaland,"" he added. NSCN factions allege that ENPO is a ""creation of Indian intelligence to arm-twist"" them into accepting a solution within Nagaland. But, they admit the development and security concerns of the ""eastern Nagas"". Indian negotiators have said Delhi is prepared to extend greater powers to Nagaland through a ""special federal relationship"" that has been largely worked out. But, it is the differing territorial perceptions of a future Naga homeland amongst the rebel factions that is complicating the negotiations and delaying a settlement to India's longest running ethnic insurrection which is almost as old as the Indian republic.","India 's 55 - year - old Naga insurgency has been contained by a slew of ceasefires . But chances of a settlement @placeholder dim after 15 years of negotiations because the rebel factions can not agree on the territorial limits of a future Naga homeland or state , writes Subir Bhaumik from Kohima , the capital of Nagaland .",group,organised,containing,advantage,appear,4
"The coloured bands were given to asylum seekers staying at Lynx House. But some said it was dehumanising and made people targets for abuse. The Clearsprings Group, which runs the service, said wristbands were seen as a ""reliable and effective way"" to guarantee service delivery but, as of Monday, they would no longer be used. First Minister Carwyn Jones said he was ""appalled"" by the wristbands. The news came after asylum seekers in Middlesbrough said they were abused after their doors were painted red. A company housing the asylum seekers later said it would repaint the doors after concerns people were being singled out as immigrants. Officials for the Home Office told the BBC on Monday the Clearsprings Group would be scrapping the wristband scheme. A spokesman said the ""highest standards"" were expected from contractors, including not endangering the safety of anyone in their care. ""If there is any evidence to suggest this is not the case, it will be treated with the utmost seriousness and dealt with accordingly,"" he added. The first minister tweeted: ""I am appalled some asylum seekers in Cardiff have been asked to wear wristbands in order to access food. ""This is completely unacceptable and goes against everything we stand for as a nation."" Mr Jones said he would contact the Home Office to register ""serious concerns"". Refugee Eric Ngalle, 36, told BBC Wales he spent nearly two months at Lynx House and challenged the need to wear the wrist bands, but was unable to change the policy. He said he was told it was a Home Office directive, but none of the asylum seekers believed this, and felt having to wear the wristbands was ""labelling"" and ""stressful"". The wristbands cannot be removed without destroying or damaging them. Chloe Marong, who works at the Trinity Centre in Cardiff which provides support for asylum seekers, said she thought the treatment was dehumanising and left people vulnerable to abuse. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said the Home Office should face ""serious questions"" about the situation. The leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies, added: ""I find it very hard to understand how a system like this could ever be deemed appropriate and frankly I'm shocked and appalled."" However, Conservative MP for Monmouth, David Davies, described some comments as ""OTT"" (over the top) especially those suggesting the practice was like Jewish people being forced to wear yellow stars under the Nazi regime. Clearsprings Ready Homes said asylum seekers who spent their initial few weeks in its full-board accommodation in Cardiff had been provided with bands since May 2015. This was to ""ensure they receive the services they are entitled to and to make sure those more vulnerable asylum seekers have access to their specific requirements"". ""As in numerous such establishments where large numbers of people are being provided with services, wristbands are considered to be one of the most reliable and effective ways of guaranteeing delivery,"" a spokesman said. ""We are always reviewing the way we supply our services and have decided to cease the use of wristbands as of 25 January and will look for an alternative way of managing the fair provision of support.""",A firm providing meals for asylum seekers in Cardiff has dropped demands they wear wristbands as a @placeholder for receiving food .,condition,bid,way,location,scheme,0
"It nestles in a narrow, steep Alpine valley, where they have squeezed in a motorway and a railway line. That infrastructure makes this one of the most important transit routes in Europe - for trade, tourism and now, possibly, for migrants. There are fears that the Brenner Pass could become one of the next hotspots in Europe's migrant crisis. When Austria announced plans for tighter border controls, Italy reacted angrily at first but has since increased measures to keep migrants from travelling north. In return, Austria says it will not put its scheme into action, for now. Clashes at Brenner frontier protest Austria tightens controls amid Italian criticism Europe's migrant story enters new phase Over the past couple of years, small groups of migrants have become a common sight in Brenner. Arriving at the station, I saw two North African women and a young boy trying to work out the time of the next train to the Austrian town of Innsbruck. Around the corner, a Nigerian man glanced furtively over his shoulder as a police car drove by. Local authorities say the number of migrants crossing here at the moment is very low, around 20 to 40 a day. But, with the closure of the Western Balkan route from Turkey, it is feared many more migrants may now try to make their way across the Mediterranean, and up through Italy towards Austria and Germany. Austria's contingency plans for more migrant arrivals included building three short fences at Brenner, measuring a total of 370m (1,200ft). ""There are 200,000 to a million people in Libya, who will perhaps make their way north,"" said Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka. ""Then we will be in the situation where we have to manage this border efficiently and in accordance with the rule of law."" Mr Sobotka said it was about ensuring order at the border, which runs through the northern end of the village. But the suggestion was hugely controversial. Italy said any move to close the border would be a blatant breach of European rules. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said he was ""totally opposed"" to the plans, which he said were mistaken, anachronistic and unjustified. In recent weeks, left-wing and anarchist protesters have held three violent demonstrations in Brenner against border closures. Stones were thrown and clouds of tear gas enveloped the railway station. The European Commission, which has allowed Austria to extend controls on its borders with Hungary and Slovenia, has not given the green light to its plans at Brenner. The Brenner Pass is a hugely important transit route for trade between northern Europe and Italy, and any delays at the border would make costs go up for lorry firms. The mayor of Brenner, Franz Kompatscher, says traffic jams at Brenner would have ""big economic consequences throughout Europe"". There are also concerns that the village, of around 350 people, would be unprepared to deal with hundreds of stranded migrants. ""Half the year we have snow, we have bad weather, so it's not the kind of place where you can imagine having tents here for a long time,"" says volunteer Monika Weissensteiner. So far the Austrians have not done much at Brenner, apart from constructing a shelter in a motorway lay-by. For now, the two countries appear to have patched up their quarrel. The Italian and Austrian interior ministers, Angelino Alfano, and Wolfgang Sobotka, met at the Brenner Pass last week. Mr Alfano said 110 extra guards would patrol trains and roads around Brenner to prevent migrants crossing into Austria. Mr Sobotka said that, as the number of migrants had dropped to almost zero, it was not necessary to carry out border controls at Brenner, at least for now. But many locals here fear the threat of a fence has not gone away for good. More than 31,000 migrants have landed in Italy by boat this year. There are concerns that a fence, however short, would symbolise the end of open borders in Europe, and risk awakening old historical resentments. Brenner, on the Italian side, is in South Tyrol, Italy's mainly German-speaking province. Once part of the Austrian Empire, South Tyrol was annexed by Italy after World War One. ""This isn't like any other border,"" one man told me. ""It would be very painful if Austria, our former Fatherland, put up a fence between us."" An Austrian woman agreed. ""It would be a very sad thing, a bad thing,"" she said. ""Fences divide people. It's not the solution.""","The Alps around Brenner are still @placeholder with snow . This village , the last in Italy before the Austrian border , consists of little more than a few houses , cafes and an outlet shopping centre .",capped,buzzing,interfered,black,slick,0
"Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward were the biggest girl band of the 80s, scoring hits including Venus, Shy Boy and Love In The First Degree. Although they scored 10 top 10 hits, the trio never toured before Fahey quit to form Shakespears Sister in 1988. The split was acrimonious, but the members recently reconciled and have announced a 15-date UK tour for winter. ""This is the first time we've performed live together - with the exception of getting onstage with a cassette when we were 18!"" Woodward told BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Breakfast Show. Speaking about their reconciliation, Fahey said: ""I was really touched because it wasn't for any other reason than we love each other and really loved what we did. ""These were my formative years. I never thought it would happen again."" The band's website crashed shortly after the tour was announced on Monday morning. Formed in 1979, the band took their name from two of their biggest inspirations: the Roxy Music song Pyjamarama and kids TV show The Banana Splits. They got their first taste of chart success by providing backing vocals for the Fun Boy Three on the single It Ain't What You Do, It's the Way You Do It. A couple of months later, Fun Boy Three returned the favour for Really Sayin' Somethin, a cover of the 1965 Velvelettes song that was the first of Bananarama's 26 UK chart smashes. They went on to sell more than 40 million records, with their biggest-sellers including Robert De Niro's Waiting, Cruel Summer and I Heard A Rumour. After establishing themselves as a self-made band, they hitched their wagon to Stock Aitken Waterman's ""hit factory"" for the 1987 album, Wow. Fahey, who was a huge fan of The Smiths, was not keen on the group's new direction and, after marrying Eurythmics star Dave Stewart and moving to LA, she left the band. Dallin and Woodward found a replacement, Jacquie O'Sullivan, who re-recorded some of Fahey's vocals, and the band played their first ever live shows. O'Sullivan lasted three years, since when the band has continued as a duo, recording new material while touring the nostalgia circuit. ""The worst thing was that, after Siobhan left, Sara and I then did the world tour without her,"" Woodward told Chris Evans. ""We had tried to do it while we were together all as a threesome, then I got pregnant while we were rehearsing. ""And Siobhan got pregnant the second time we were planning on going on the road, so for some reason it never happened."" The UK tour kicks off at Glasgow's SEC on 12 November, with tickets on sale today for fan club members, and Wednesday for the general public. According to a press release, it will be a one-off - but Woodward hinted there may be other plans afoot. ""The tour is the main thing,"" she said. ""But we have talked about doing a single together, which would be good."" Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","We heard a rumour - and , for once , it turned out to be true : the original line - up of Bananarama have @placeholder .",signed,changed,emerged,reunited,vanished,3
"The East Lancashire Railway, which operates as a charity, is working to restore Bury Bolton Street Station, in Greater Manchester. The money was paid in advance to Paperlinx, which was supplying roof glazing for a Victorian-style canopy. However, the firm is now under the control of administrators Deloitte. Deloitte said in a statement: ""The administrators are looking into this payment and will report directly to the charity when they are able to provide an update."" The railway's general manager Andy Morris said ""We're absolutely devastated by what's happened and we're still struggling to come to terms with what this will ultimately mean for the future of the canopy project. ""The sum of money involved is very substantial for a charity such as ours and it is particularly upsetting bearing in mind the funds were raised through donations and other benefaction. ""We shall be taking legal advice about what rights we have in circumstances such as this but at the moment it doesn't look very encouraging."" The East Lancashire Railway operated from 1844 to 1859 across the county. A section of the original line between Bury and Rawtenstall, Lancashire, is now operated as a heritage railway, supported by a network of volunteers.","A heritage railway may have @placeholder £ 18,000 after a glass firm helping with the renovation of a railway station went into administration .",reached,generated,lost,seized,signed,2
"Three more parks than last year received the award from environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful. Edinburgh has the highest number of green flags, with 30 parks achieving the honour. They include Princes Street Gardens, Corstorphine Hill and Portobello Community Garden. The award recognises ""that well maintained parks build healthy and stable communities and bring health benefits such as encouraging exercise, improving mental wellbeing and inspiring children to play"". First-time awards went to Johnston Gardens in Aberdeen, Silver Sands and Hawkcraig Point in Fife, Haugh Park in Fife and Dundee Law in Dundee. Seven parks in Glasgow received the award, including Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow Botanic Gardens and Pollok Country Park. Dock Park in Dumfries and Galloway also received a green flag. Derek Robertson, chief executive of Keep Scotland Beautiful, said: ""I would like to congratulate all 73 parks from across Scotland for achieving this prestigious benchmark. It is pleasing to see the number of Green Flag Awards in Scotland increasing year on year. ""Good quality green open spaces are vital to the health and wellbeing of local communities, families and individuals. Parks and open spaces are a fantastic asset - they are free to use and provide opportunities to exercise and socialise. ""With more Scottish parks flying the Green Flag Award than ever before, this record-breaking number is a testament to the determination of park managers, local authorities and volunteers - whose hard work in turn brings about a raft of wider impacts on the community as a whole."" The winning parks are run by local authorities, universities and community groups. Matt Lowther, head of place and equity at NHS Health Scotland, said: ""It is important that the places and spaces in which we live, work and play are designed to promote good health and reduce health inequalities. Having access to good-quality green space is an essential part of this. ""It means people are more likely to be physically active and socially connected. In many cases, the health-promoting effect is even greater for those on lower incomes. ""Good quality parks can help to reduce health inequalities and so if we want a fairer, healthier Scotland, we need good-quality parks. ""Evidence shows that if people think a park is well maintained and easy to reach, they will use it.""",A record 73 parks in Scotland have been given a prestigious Green Flag Award in recognition of their high @placeholder and quality .,standards,accident,number,affairs,health,0
"The former Wales fly-half believes Howley has key selection issues if Wales continue the expansive style employed against New Zealand in June. Wales face Australia, Argentina, Japan and South Africa in November. ""I do think it's a bit of a grenade for him because expectations will be high,"" Davies said on BBC Wales' Scrum V. ""Australia are not going well, Wales will expect to beat Argentina and Japan so maybe three out of four, or four from four - that's the expectation aspect of it."" On demand: Watch Scrum V Sunday Wales lost all three Tests against New Zealand in the summer, but impressed ex-All Blacks scrum-half Justin Marshall who said their tactics were a revelation. Davies believes Wales will only continue the style change if they believe it can win Test matches. And he thinks established players like Dan Biggar and Jamie Roberts will be at the heart of selection issues facing Howley if that is the case. ""Will they change their style?"" he asked. ""If they think they can win playing the style they have, then I'm sure they'll go with the same combinations and same style of football with a little bit of tweaking. ""If they are going to change it drastically they are going to have to change personnel. ""The way that Sam Davies plays - he plays on the front foot - Dan hasn't played enough yet so we'll have to see how Dan's form comes. ""The Blues are going well with [fly-half Gareth] Anscombe. Do you put Scott Williams in or do you ask Jamie Roberts to play a little bit differently? ""The two crucial areas of selection will be 10 and 12, those are the ones who will orchestrate how Wales want to play. ""Liam Williams will have to be nailed on full-back and Leigh Halfpenny on the wing so those are the changes that are going to be crucial to this autumn."" Howley is deputising for Gatland for the second time, having been in charge during the New Zealander's first stint as Lions coach in 2013. Gatland coached Wales for autumn 2012 defeats by the All Blacks and Wallabies with Howley in charge for wins over Argentina and Samoa and the successful 2013 Six Nations campaign. Davies contends Howley is now solely in charge of Wales for this season. ""And now his stamp is going to be on it. In 2013 Gatland was overseeing it. Now it's up to Rob and I wish him well. ""And I hope that he does make a few changes and we do evolve a little bit and we play a little bit differently.""","Rob Howley faces a tough job as interim Wales coach during Warren Gatland 's @placeholder with the British and Irish Lions , says Jonathan Davies .",absence,career,stint,contract,ties,0
"About 1,000 people attended the rave at Twyford Wood near Bourne in Lincolnshire on 23 May. Dozens of people were arrested and litter, broken glass and other items were left on the site. A car rally planned for last weekend was postponed while contractors worked to complete a £4,000 clean-up. Lincolnshire Police said a number of officers were injured after coming under attack from missiles, including bottles, thrown by about 200 people attending the event. A police dog was also injured by a glass bottle thrown from the crowd. A spokesman for the Forestry Commission said contractors had removed a large amount of broken glass, which was hazardous to visitors. He said he was hopeful the site, a former Second World War airfield, would reopen early this week. Signs warning people not to enter the site will be removed after a final inspection, he added. The Mid-Derbyshire Motor Club said a rally planned for 6-7 June will now take place at a later date. A total of 48 people were arrested by police at the illegal rave. Of those arrested, 13 were charged, with 26 released on bail, while the rest were released without charge or cautioned.",A Forestry Commission woodland is set to reopen after a three - week operation to clear debris @placeholder after an illegal rave .,caused,abandoned,control,injured,traffic,1
"The council earlier admitted a ""serious failing"" after repairs worth £200,000 were ordered without proper approval. An ""urgent review"" was launched. The council has since accepted that Councillor Willie Young was not the registered title holder of the land in question. An email seen by BBC Scotland said Mr Young had ""confirmed he was in ownership of the affected works"" at Wellington Brae. Council finance convener Mr Young had said on Wednesday evening that he and his family had owned the land in the past, but not currently. The email, sent by Kevin Pert, of the authority's communities, housing and infrastructure department on 29 March, said that while title deeds were not available from the Land Registry, Mr Young had confirmed ownership. However, on Thursday night, a spokesman for Aberdeen City Council said: ""Further to earlier statements in relation to the repairs of the cycleway at Wellington Brae, we can confirm that the records we have seen in respect of land ownership show that the registered title holder of the land in question is not Councillor Willie Young. ""We are not in a position to confirm who the owner is due to data protection requirements. ""The fact that Councillor Young was contacted by council officers as landowner forms part of the ongoing review into the circumstances of the project. Until that review is concluded it would not be appropriate to comment further."" Mr Young, a Labour councillor, said: ""My solicitor Keith Allan, Raeburn Christie Clark and Wallace, yesterday confirmed that I did not own the land at Wellington Brae. I have now been notified by the council that they too are satisfied I do not own title in respect of Wellington Brae."" In a separate Freedom of Information response to a local resident, Aberdeen City Council said ""the landowner has given consent for these works"". BBC Scotland has also seen an email from October last year when Mr Pert suggested Mr Young gave verbal instruction to proceed with the works on Wellington Brae. It stated: ""Following your conversation with our Ken Neil yesterday (27th October) re your verbal instruction to proceed with the works at Wellington Brae, please accept this email as written confirmation of the instruction. ""Once funding has been confirmed (hopefully in the next week or two) we will be in a position to put this scheme out to tender with a view to completion by the end of March 2017."" The project was to be fully funded by cycling charity Sustrans, which awarded just over £21,000 for preliminary work, with the full funding to be paid when the work was completed.",A senior @placeholder at Aberdeen City Council said in an email as recently as last month that a councillor owned land affected by work to repair a cycle path wall now at the centre of a probe .,wounded,adviser,group,forest,engineer,4
"Craig Williams questioned the £3m S4C has agreed to pay University of Wales Trinity St David in upfront rent, equivalent to £150,000 a year. He said there is a disparity with £26,000 paid in annual rent by Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol to the university. S4C and the university said it was not possible to compare the two deals. The Welsh-language TV channel plans to relocate to the Yr Egin project next year, moving 55 staff members from Cardiff to Carmarthen. Figures released following a freedom on information request show that Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol pays the university £26,000 in rent annually. It has 20 members of staff in an older building adjacent to the Yr Egin development. The Welsh Government will decide this month if it will contribute up to £6m to the project. Speaking to BBC Wales' Newyddion 9, Cardiff North MP Craig Williams said: ""It is a question of transparency, there is a bit of a fog around this development. ""We have seen it regarding the application to the Welsh Government for a grant, at the same time an assurance to S4C that they don't need the grant to be able to go ahead. ""We have seen it with the way rent is being paid with a single upfront payment of £3m."" He said the ""most objective person"" looking at the payment ""would see this as questionable"". ""You've also got the disparity between the rent for the college next door which admittedly is half the size [than S4C] but certainly not half the payment"", he said. Both S4C and the university said it wasn't possible to make the comparison with Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, with the university stating both buildings differ in nature and age. In a statement S4C said: ""The sum the coleg are paying for their 12-year-old offices is for the present period. ""What S4C are intending to pay is for the future 20 years and for high quality offices that will give certainty and be risk-free for S4C. ""S4C have a 20 year business plan, which is cost neutral, but also gives the option of extending to a 25 year lease at no further cost. ""There will not be any rent reviews over the period under this arrangement. The prices agreed were in line with the District Valuer's opinion on market rental values in Carmarthen.""","There are "" transparency "" questions and a "" fog "" around the relationship between S4C and the university providing it s new @placeholder , a Tory MP has said .",deals,home,facilities,university,powers,1
"Police were called to the Thickthorn roundabout on the A11 near Norwich shortly after 12:30 BST after reports the 30-tonne truck was missing. Six squad cars and a helicopter were involved amid reports the vehicle was being driven dangerously. The truck was stopped in Brandon, Suffolk and a man in his 30s arrested at about 14:30 BST. The dumper was driven along the A11 to Thetford before turning north on the A134 towards Mundford. Police said the two-hour pursuit continued in the Santon Downham area until the truck was stopped in Brandon on Bury Road. Police said the man had been taken into custody for questioning. The helicopter was from the National Police Air Service.",A man has been arrested after police pursued a @placeholder dumper truck more than 30 miles across Norfolk and Suffolk .,truck,fuel,stolen,dump,crash,2
"Locals say this is a proudly multicultural area where the biggest rivalry is whether you support Arsenal or their north London rivals Tottenham. Now the mood here is one of shock as residents stand by the police cordon seeing the aftermath of yet another attack in London. They fear the capital is changing. Mum of four Nicola Senior, 43, is walking back from taking her children to school when she stops to take in the scene. She said: ""I'm frightened. Is there going to be retaliation? ""I am fearful for my kids. Can we go to the park? Can we go to the church? ""It feels like this is happening all the time. ""For me, people want to live here quietly whatever their religion. ""This is such a mixed area. There are so many nationalities. People get on. They accept and respect each other. ""People are in shock. It affects everybody. I'm worried for the safety of all of us."" Jordon Russell, 27, says he was not completely surprised when he heard of the attack. ""It seems like this is never ending. Every week there's something now. ""I know lots of the Muslim community here. They are friendly and integrated. Everybody gets along. ""They're getting persecuted for the actions of a few small-minded people. You can't judge a whole faith on the actions of a few. ""It feels like the old London vibe is changing. Everyone is on edge. I hope things can get back to normal."" There is a sense among some of the community that an attack like this was inevitable. Nasser Alyarimi, 18, knows people who worship at the mosque close to where the tragedy took place. He said: ""There's been lots of incidents taking place. Someone I know was thrown down the stairs and had beer poured over her headscarf just because she is Muslim. ""So I'm not surprised that Muslims have been targeted like this. When I'm on a train in my traditional clothes I get lots of looks. ""Islamophobia has definitely increased"". One of those injured in the attack has returned to the scene on crutches and sits alongside friends at one of the cafes open along the high street. They talk about reaction to the incident and question why it was not widely reported as a terror attack much earlier. One friend, who asked not to be named, said: ""I'm really upset. I feel let down by the government that we are being portrayed as savages that we are not. ""They've portrayed us as if we walk around killing infidels. Just because one or two people believe that it doesn't mean the whole Muslim community does."" Many locals point to the streets and the various ethnicities of people walking around as an indication of the diverse make-up of this area. ""I feel horror and sympathy that this has happened,"" Professor Paul Gilroy tells me. ""This is the heart of London. The only word you can use is it's a convivial area. People come together. People have suffered here, we've had it all. ""There's a loving, joyful community here that will keep people safe."" Locals stand in the shade close to the police cordon as they take in the aftermath of the attack. The sweltering heat does not deter leaders from various faiths gathering round to show their solidarity with the Muslim community. Mendy Korer, Rabbi of Islington, says: ""This is a great community to live in. There's so many different types of nationalities and faith groups. We all understand each other. ""Locally here over the past few years there's been a lot of effort to ensure cohesion. There's been a lot of effort with the council and faith groups to open our doors to really tackle the possibility of people dwindling into misunderstanding. ""An event like this shakes us up. For me this is now about showing solidarity and support. ""We mourn together."" The Bishop of Stepney, Rt Rev Adrian Newman, adds: ""When something like this happens there's the human tragedy and also the broader story of a community that feels it is under attack. ""A few faith leaders have come here today to stand shoulder to shoulder and say an attack on one faith is an attack on all faiths."" In some ways it is business as usual in Finsbury Park. The high street shops are open, mums walk along pushing their babies in prams and large swathes of traffic pass by a busy junction. Joss Bruce, 44, is on her way to work when she stops to take in this scene. She says: ""I keep wondering when it will all end?"" ""It's the unpredictability that's become predictable. We can all be vigilant but you can't protect against damaged people that want to take their hatred out on the community. ""I feel like we've got this glorious weather and then there's this dark cloud of terrorism. ""These terror atrocities will bring us all together. It's not just one community that's under attack. We all are. ""I think public shame and condemnation will help stop these attacks."" At the Finsbury Park mosque, a large crowd gathers as worshippers head inside for their daily prayer. A spontaneous round of applause breaks out as Jeremy Corbyn walks through to visit. ""A man for the people"", one man shouts as onlookers scramble to take photos. One police officer says the mosque is full. People crowd around the windows and can see the prime minister Theresa May sitting around with leaders from various faith communities. There are shouts from the crowd when she leaves the mosque and heads into her car. Kimaai Barker, 32, is standing by the flowers left in tribute outside the building paying tribute to those who have been injured. ""It's ridiculous. I have so many friends from different walks of life. I've been in this mosque and it's beautiful. I felt so much warmth. ""I imagine there's a lot of anger and feeling. I just hope it doesn't come to light. ""I hope everyone comes together."" When asked about the visit from the prime minister and Jeremy Corbyn, she said: ""Theresa May has got nothing for us. She doesn't care about the general public. ""Mr Corbyn, through everything he has been here. You see him walking around and every incident that happens he has been very present.""",Two large police vans are parked just metres away from a large @placeholder emblazoned with some of Arsenal 's most famous stars which stands by the club 's shop .,poster,building,screen,plaque,growing,0
"Under the deals, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will deliver technical services and expertise to an unnamed international oil company. They include detailed engineering, project management and commissioning support for a ""significant onshore asset"" in southern Iraq. Wood said the two three-year contracts would lead to more than 100 jobs. The contracts will be delivered from southern Iraq and Dubai, where WGPSN established an office in 2015. The Iraq deals are the latest in a series of recent major contract wins by Wood Group. Last week, WGPSN said 500 jobs had been secured after it won a contract extension for Shell's North Sea assets. And late last month, it won a new $500m (£342.5m) contract to provide services for BP-operated offshore projects in Azerbaijan. Commenting on the latest contract wins, David Buchan from WGPSN said: ""These two significant contract wins demonstrate Wood Group's commitment to working closely with key clients to extend our operations in Iraq, where we see a growth market that complements our broad service capabilities, international knowledge and strong expertise."" In a separate development, Aberdeen-based subsea specialist Bibby Offshore announced that it had secured a multi-million pound contract in the southern North Sea. Under the deal, it will provide construction services for assets owned by an unnamed ""global energy player"". Bibby's construction support ship Olympic Ares and diving support vessel Bibby Polaris will perform subsea engineering work 150km (93 miles) off the coast of Lincolnshire. The work is due to be carried out towards the end of this year. Bibby Offshore chief executive Howard Woodcock said: ""This is a significant win for Bibby Offshore - not only is it a strong representation of our technical engineering capabilities, but it further underlines our commitment to the North Sea market.""",Aberdeen - based energy services giant Wood Group has won two new contracts in Iraq worth a @placeholder $ 140 m ( £ 97.2 m ) .,estimated,awarded,scheme,sold,combined,4
"But the country's complex tax system seems to be one of its biggest hindrances. The former head of Greece's tax collection agency, raising taxes in the midst of the financial crisis, told the BBC ""it was not an easy job to do"". Probably a masterful understatement, given Greece's recent past. Harry Theocharis is now an MP, but used to be the most wanted man in Greece - and not in a good way. It was his job to try to raise taxes in the middle of the financial crisis and try to reform the notoriously inefficient tax system itself. ""You make everybody's life difficult... it doesn't make you popular at all,"" he said. To give just one example of the complexities Mr Theocharis wrestled with: in Greece there are six different rates of VAT. The normal rate is 23% - there are two reduced ones for items such as food, fuel and medicine. But the Greek Islands enjoy reduced rates of VAT to encourage people to stay in remote parts of the country and to help the vital tourism industry there. That makes six rates in all, and creates plenty of opportunities for dodging tax. A recent surge in tourism on the island of Mykonos  for instance seems to have led to lower payments of VAT to the Greek government. Greece also has a pension system that is amazingly complex, with numerous exceptions for different jobs allowing for early retirement. The pensions are not very generous on average, but overall the Greek government is spending 30% more on pensions than the British government does. The whole system is in desperate need of simplification in order to make it cheaper to run. Then there are the privatisations. At the start of the crisis, the Greek government committed itself to bringing in €50bn from the sale of state assets. According to Mr Theocharis, that target was soon reduced to €30bn and then €20bn. In total, the government has managed to raise about €2-3bn so far. Things like the privatisation of the port of Piraeus are supposed to be bringing in more, but they have been delayed, cancelled and then relaunched. Then there are the cuts that have been reversed, such as the reopening after two years of the state broadcasting company ERT, which started programmes again this year. The problem therefore is not so much that Greece is incapable of reform or does not know what needs doing, but that it has wasted five years of the bailout without making serious attempts to fix the structural problems that beset the economy - and in many cases it is actually going backwards. If it had started five years ago, it might have been seeing the results by now as countries like Ireland and Spain have done, but one of the reasons that the Greek bailout has reached another crisis point is that it has hardly started. It is not the kind of record that is likely to make the countries that are lending Greece all that money trust them with some more.","Five years into its austerity regime , the Greek government has once again had to go cap in @placeholder to its creditors and ask for more money .",relation,force,power,debts,hand,4
"The duo, brothers Matt and Luke Goss, were due to play a full UK tour this summer, after a break of 24 years. But now dates in Newcastle, Glasgow, Nottingham and Birmingham have been scrapped. A statement said the dates had been cancelled ""due to unforeseen logistical circumstances"", with the brothers offering ""sincere apologies"" to fans. Two shows at London's O2 arena will go ahead, as will a date at the Manchester arena on 22 August. The first London date, on 19 August, marks the anniversary of their farewell show at Wembley Stadium in 1989. It sold out in seven seconds. However, there are several hundred tickets available for the remaining shows. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",Re-formed pop @placeholder Bros have cancelled all their concerts outside London and Manchester .,hire,head,people,group,side,3
"Laura Thomson and Sam Sciortino, from Woking, planned a Sunday ceremony in Santorini but will now marry on Monday. The bride-to-be's brother and family - including three bridesmaids - waited at Heathrow for 13 hours on Saturday before leaving without their luggage. They have now booked flights with a different airline. Ms Thomson said: ""We have had to contact suppliers, and change all the arrangements we had planned."" ""We've been planning our big day for two years only to be forced to rush around and change everything to take place a day later."" The couple flew to Santorini earlier in the week, ahead of their guests. They said an aunt and uncle were also caught up in the BA disruption. Ms Thomson said: ""My brother is one of the groomsmen, and my nieces and sister-in-law are my bridesmaids, so naturally I wanted them to share the day with us. ""They booked with British Airways because they thought it was a reliable company. ""We feel so let down."" Ms Thomson's sister-in-law Marcia Thomson said: ""We are devastated that this has happened. ""Our luggage had already been checked in and after waiting for 13 hours at the airport we were forced to leave without it. ""Luckily we have managed to get flights to Crete this evening with a different airline. ""We will have to get a ferry from there to Santorini on Monday morning just in time for the wedding, but without our bridesmaids dresses."" Posting on Facebook Ms Thomson shared her disappointment with family and friends. ""I am just a shell of myself right now. We are absolutely shattered,"" she said. ""I have been in tears with our dream of how it should of been slowly fading away, knowing I can't share the day with my family the way I imagined."" She added: ""The hotel have been very accommodating but we've incurred extra costs as all the food has had to be paid for again."" ""We had a family cruise booked which also had to be cancelled and we have lost money on that as well."" Mr Sciortino said: ""It's one of those things you don't think will happen to you but we've been so lucky that we have managed to rearrange it even though there are certain things that we will be missing."" By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News Team",A Surrey couple have postponed their Greek @placeholder wedding after guests were stranded at Heathrow Airport amid the British Airways IT crash .,revival,greek,holiday,island,symptoms,3
"Swansea took 12 points from their first 19 games last season and were bottom of the table at the turn of the year. But four wins in the final five games secured Swansea's survival. ""We need to make sure we have a good pre-season and start the season strong to get some points on the board early,"" Britton said. Swansea begin their 2017-18 season at Southampton on Saturday, 12 August. The Welsh club then hosts Manchester United a week later, before a trip to Crystal Palace follows. Britton, 34, has signed an improved one-year contract with the Swans, with an option of another year if he plays enough games next season. His return to the Swansea side towards the tail end of the 2016-17 campaign coincided with a five-match unbeaten run which ultimately secured safety. Paul Clement became Swansea's third manager of the season in January after replacing Bob Bradley, who had been in charge after Francesco Guidolin was sacked in October. ""Last season was very difficult for the football club, we all know that,"" Britton added. ""We had a good finish to the season, so confidence when we come back together will be good. ""The main thing is we don't have a repeat of last season... in a relegation fight and being in the bottom three was difficult. ""We can look to have a good season, one where we don't have all the pressure and all the other stuff that goes with a relegation battle.""",Midfielder Leon Britton says Swansea need a better start to the Premier League campaign if they are to @placeholder the struggles of last season .,maintain,avoid,enter,repeat,improve,1
"The building was to be pulled down as part of a redevelopment of the Lawn complex in Lincoln. Woodside Wildlife Park stepped in to save it and moved it to their site near Langworth. It will be used as an attraction to house exotic animals, crocodiles and coral reef aquariums. The conservatory is named after the Lincolnshire botanist who travelled with Captain James Cook on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. More on this and other local stories from across Lincolnshire Park officials said it will tell the story of the voyage and ""highlight changes in our planet"". Ben Pascoe, head keeper at the park, said: ""We are currently working with London Zoo and Chester Zoo to discuss what will work best inside. ""We are hoping to have some kind of crocodilian and red panda species inside."" The park was home to the oldest tiger in the UK, which died in September aged 22. Tango moved to Lincolnshire in 2014 after being rescued from a German circus, along with his partner Julia. The park is also home to white wolves, lemurs, sloths and birds of prey. The conservatory is due to open at Easter. It's original home, the Grade II listed Lawn complex, was sold by City of Lincoln Council last year to the Stokes coffee company which plans to open a cafe and museum on the site. The council has donated a parcel of land at the Lawn to the Sir Joseph Banks Society to build a new conservatory.",A glasshouse built in honour of British explorer Sir Joseph Banks has been @placeholder at a wildlife park after being saved from demolition .,closed,scrapped,rebuilt,launched,revealed,2
"Teresa Dennett, 58, needed surgery after a stroke and the coroner concluded ""it is likely she would have survived"" if the operation went ahead. Nottingham University Hospitals said its intensive care unit was full and suggested she should go to Sheffield. But NHS England said a lack of beds was not a reason for refusing admission. Live updates and more from Nottinghamshire. The death was highlighted by Heidi Connor, assistant coroner for Nottinghamshire, who has written what is known as a Regulation 28 report, which sets out aims to prevent future deaths. She has sent the report to the chief executives of NHS England and two of the hospital trusts involved, following the inquest in Nottingham that ended on 6 January. She wrote: ""In my opinion there is a risk that future deaths will occur unless action is taken. ""Crucially, it was clear there was no written protocol in place to set out a clear pathway for referral for emergency neurosurgery."" Meanwhile, the Royal College of Surgeons said it was ""saddened"" by the death and has called for NHS England to review bed capacity in the face of cuts. In response to the Regulation 28 report Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's National Medical Director, has written to medical directors reminding them of national guidelines. He referred to the Society of British Neurological Surgeons care quality statement (2015), which states: ""The lack of critical care beds must not be a reason for refusing admission for patients requiring urgent surgery."" However in evidence, the inquest heard adopting the society's statement was voluntary, many of the neurosurgeons involved in the case had not heard of this statement before, and some described it as ""aspirational"". NHS England must formally respond to the coroner by 30 June. The coroner sent her report to the chief executives of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STH), which must respond by 31 March. NUH said: ""We extend our condolences to Mrs Dennett's family and apologise that we were unable to transfer her to our specialist unit immediately to consider surgery. ""We are working with partner hospitals to ensure more effective emergency care and transfers to specialist units in this diagnosis."" STH said: ""If Nottingham had confirmed with us that they could not undertake the surgery, as per the clinical guidelines, we would have operated on Mrs Dennett in Sheffield regardless of bed availability. ""We will be discussing with Nottingham and King's Mill Hospitals the lessons which need to be learned in respect of the use of the clinical guidelines, so that the chances of this happening again are limited."" King's Mill Hospital is run by Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, whose medical director Dr Andy Haynes said: ""The coroner rightly praised our medical registrar for doing all he could to facilitate a very difficult situation."" The inquest heard about a proposed new way of working whereby a patient who needs life-saving surgery would be transported immediately to their local unit. This may mean a critical care bed would have to be found for the patient after the operation, even if that requires extensive ""bed-juggling"", as the coroner termed it. In extreme cases, post-operative treatment could be provided elsewhere.","A woman died after a hospital did not accept her for neurosurgery @placeholder an intensive care bed shortage , an inquest heard .",threatening,following,citing,prompted,overturned,2
"John Eric Lloyd was checking an oil leak at his family's plant hire business in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, in August 2015. The arm of a hook loader - used to load and unload skips - fell on him, killing him instantly, the inquest heard. His father, Alun Lloyd, said he ""cannot fathom"" why he did not prop it up. The hearing in Caernarfon continues. Mr Lloyd's sister, Sharon, who witnessed the incident, described her brother as a ""competent and confident"" heavy plant operator and said she had told him to ""get out of there"" before it happened.","A 23 - year - old man was crushed to death after a piece of heavy @placeholder fell on him , an inquest has heard .",mph,timber,machinery,sex,debris,2
"Fassbender, who stars in the lead role, described the island as ""cold, wet and beautiful"". Considine said some of the other members of the cast succumbed to hypothermia during the filming early last year. He told the BBC at the film's Edinburgh premiere: ""It got pretty bad there."" ""A few people got hypothermia. We got hit by horizontal rain. It came and hit you sideways,"" added the actor who plays Banquo. Fassebender said the production encountered ""rain, sleet and snow - all the wetness of the elements"". Marion Cotillard, who plays Lady Macbeth, fell down a hole in a bog during filming. Fassbender said: ""One minute she was there, the next she was gone."" But the actor also said Skye was one of the most beautiful places he had been lucky enough to visit. Other actors have told of encounters with Scotland's weather. Actress Scarlett Johansson described shooting scenes for Under the Skin in Scotland as ""brutal, cold and wet"". Some of the filming for the science fiction movie was done in Glencoe in November 2011. Based on a novel of the same name by Highlands-based author Michel Faber, scenes were also shot in Glasgow. And Noel Clarke said he suffered frostbite while filming for Centurion, which also starred Fassbender, in the Cairngorms. He said was checked by a member of the shoot's medical team and was found to have the early stages of the condition.",Actors Michael Fassbender and Paddy Considine have told of @placeholder the elements on Skye while shooting the new film Macbeth .,completing,battling,control,finding,putting,1
"The 23-year-old woman was discovered at an address in Nechells Park Road at about 10:15 GMT. A post-mortem examination would take place in due course, West Midlands Police said. A 30-year-old man was arrested on Thursday morning. The force said it was not looking for anyone else in connection with the woman's death.",A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman 's body was found in a @placeholder in Birmingham .,crash,field,pool,disturbance,property,4
"More than 100 protesters were arrested as tens of thousands gathered on the streets of major cities. Some burned tyres and threw bottles and stones at police. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said protest organisers should ""condemn these excesses by a handful of hooligans"". One of the police officers is in a critical condition, he said. The demonstrations took place in several cities, including Paris, Rennes and Marseille. Some of the fiercest clashes were in capital. The proposed law, which will be debated in parliament next week, would remove some of the protection workers enjoy against being laid off, in a bid to encourage businesses to hire more people. It is billed as a measure to combat chronic unemployment but opponents say it will let employers bypass workers' rights on pay, rest time and overtime rates. There have been repeated protests against the proposed changes over the past two months. Further protests are planned for 1 May. Analysis: French economic malaise","Twenty - four police officers have been @placeholder , three of them seriously , during protests against a proposed labour law change in France .",launched,suspended,injured,scrapped,sacked,2
"Dan Gosling, Jack Wilshere, Andrew Surman, Callum Wilson, Adam Federici and Rhoys Wiggins remain injured. Stoke will assess forwards Saido Berahino and Jonathan Walters before naming their starting line-up. Walters has missed the last two games with a knee problem, while Berahino has been suffering from illness in the build-up to Saturday's game. John Roder: ""This week I have had several people suggest to me that this is a meaningless end-of-season fixture. ""I would disagree vehemently. Both Bournemouth and Stoke are chasing a top-10 finish. ""Mark Hughes will be desperate to halt Stoke's poor run as they try to record a fourth successive top-half position. ""As for Bournemouth, it must be remembered that it was only eight years ago that they overcame a 17-point penalty to avoid relegation from the Football League. ""After last week's victory at Sunderland they are almost mathematically assured of a third season in the Premier League - a magnificent achievement."" Twitter:@johnrodercomm Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: ""There is very little between teams in the league. We nicked a big win [last weekend] and I think the target has to be to finish as high as possible. ""We are not mathematically safe yet but we are going to enjoy our last three games and look to get as high up the table as possible. ""There is no magic formula to success. It is down to hard work and graft on the training ground and having a good attitude. I think they are the hallmarks of our success."" Stoke manager Mark Hughes: ""We've just not been able, for whatever reason, to convert the chances we have created in recent weeks. ""Obviously if we had scored against West Ham United last weekend it would have been easier for us because it would have made them come out rather than playing on the counter attack. ""There would be more concern if we weren't creating chances, but clearly we are, we just need to have a run of luck and something fly in off someone's shin to let the goals flow."" Both teams are safe but I wouldn't say they have nothing to play for - they could finish as high as eighth, or as low as 16th. The Potters are still short of a bit of firepower but, while Wilfried Bony's loan deal did not work out, I think Saido Berahino will come good. Prediction: 1-1 Lawro's full predictions v indie rock band Kasabian Head-to-head Bournemouth Stoke City SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) is a super-computer created by @ProfIanMcHale at the University of Salford that is used to predict the outcome of football matches.","Bournemouth are without striker Benik Afobe , who is @placeholder out with a hamstring problem .",ruled,stepping,working,singled,carrying,0
"That isn't an assertion about today's politics. It was the verdict of the US Central Intelligence Agency on Labour back in 1985, in a memo for the agency's director on the early phase of Neil Kinnock's leadership. This memo is one of millions of the CIA's historical records which have just been made available online. Previously researchers had to actually visit the US National Archives in Maryland in order to access this database of declassified documents. The records reveal the deep level of concern inside the CIA about the strength of the Left within Labour in the early 1980s, a political force which the agency regarded as anti-American. A report written in the run-up to the 1983 general election states that ""a Labor majority government would represent the greatest threat to US interests"". The agency was particularly worried by Labour's then policy of opposition to nuclear weapons, which included cancelling plans for the Trident submarine programme. This report was especially scathing about leading figures on the traditionally pro-nuclear Labour right who had compromised with this stance. It said that ""most disheartening from the viewpoint of US interests"" was the position of the party's deputy leader, Denis Healey. It reported that he still had ambitions to lead the party and as a result ""he apparently has decided to appease the left by attacking US arms control policy, denouncing Trident, and denying he ever supported the NATO INF [Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces] program"". The report added that the growing power of the Left meant that ""even moderates like Healey have been forced to ape anti-American rhetoric"". Entitled ""The British Labor Party: Caught between Ideology and Reality"", the document is a detailed account of the balance of power between left and right in the party and trade unions, as seen by the CIA. It also records that leading Labour politicians had told US officials they did not take all of the party's policy programme seriously. The CIA was also concerned by what it saw as Europe's large centre-left and socialist parties (including Labour) being too sympathetic to the Soviet Union. One 1982 report concluded ""We have long contended that Moscow's most effective allies in Western Europe are not the Communist Parties, but self-styled Social Democrats who have betrayed the original tenets of social democracy."" Another newly accessible document is a record of a 1981 meeting between delegations led by the US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Margaret Thatcher, who was on a prime ministerial visit to Washington. The meeting discussed the controversial American plans for an Enhanced Radiation Weapon (ERW), more commonly known as the ""neutron bomb"", a weapon which was said to be able to kill very large numbers of people while leaving buildings standing. Also present at the meeting was Mrs Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, who told the Americans that ""it is considered unsporting in Europe for a weapon to kill people only"". The database contains just two references to the current Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. One noted his support in 1986 for an El Salvadoran trade union federation, Fenastras, which was linked to Marxist guerrillas during the country's civil war, while the Americans backed the military government. This is just a small immediate selection from millions of pages covering a wide range of American and international issues which reveal the CIA's analyses and preoccupations in the past. Records relating to more recent events have not yet been declassified. The CIA's decision to make all these documents searchable and accessible followed a legal case brought by MuckRock, a US organisation that promotes access to public records.","The Labour Party is "" in the hands of urban leftists given to ideological extremes with only @placeholder appeal "" .",one,effect,fringe,health,token,2
"More than a million people have now signed a petition calling for the visit to be cancelled. But what happens during an official state visit, who decides who gets an invitation, and which other controversial world figures has the Queen hosted during her long reign? There has been no date set for Mr Trump's proposed visit, announced during PM Theresa May's visit to the US, last week. When asked why Mr Trump was invited so soon after taking office, Mrs May's spokesman said: ""There is no set timing that a president needs to be in office before they receive, or don't receive, an invitation for a state visit."" But public discontent around controversial guests is nothing new. Recent protests have focused on heads of state from countries known for poor human rights records, such as China and Saudi Arabia. Despite the outcry, those visits went ahead. When: October 2015 Why was visit controversial: The country's human rights records and Chinese rule in Tibet. Campaigners said authorities targeted activists and their family members with harassment, imprisonment and torture. Rights groups also cited persecution of people for their religious beliefs, discrimination against ethnic minorities, torture, tight restrictions on media and limited access to foreign TV and publications and death penalty. Critics also pointed out job losses in the UK steel sector which had been partially blamed on China selling steel in the global market at a much cheaper price. Who is President Xi Jinping? Human rights: What is China accused of? When: October 2007 Why: The country's human rights records. There were also calls for the reopening of a corruption inquiry into a massive arms deal. Protesters shouted ""shame on you"" as the royal procession passed along The Mall in central London. Red carpet welcome for Saudi king When: November 2005 Why: The country's human rights records, Taiwan and Chinese rule in Tibet. President Hu booed at Guildhall When: November 2003 Why: The US-led war in Iraq. Some 100,000 demonstrators, according to police, culminated in London's Trafalgar Square, where an effigy of Mr Bush was toppled, echoing scenes from the fall of a statue of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. Thousands protest against Bush When: October 1971 Why: He was Japan's emperor during World War II. Veterans and former prisoners of war, angry at Japan's brutal militaristic past, protested by standing in silence as his carriage drove past. Some wore red gloves to symbolise war deaths while others whistled the popular World War II march, Colonel Bogey. 1978: Romanian President Nicolae CeauÅŸescu 1994: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe 1991: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak",The proposed state visit by new US President Donald Trump to the UK later this year has sparked anger after his administration banned @placeholder for nationals of seven Muslim - majority countries and suspended the US 's refugee programme .,records,criticism,entry,visa,form,2
"Her fans may have noticed a sci-fi inspired theme in her recent performances and music, but now she wants to go a step further. The performer has no interest in giving up singing - which she describes as her ""lifeblood"" - but said it was important to ""keep educating yourself"". She was speaking to BBC Wales at the launch of its new music talent scheme. ""I want to go and do a degree in physics - I will have to do an A-level in physics and maths first though,"" she said. ""I just think it's important to keep the brain active and keep educating yourself. ""I have an interest in it and I should try to follow it. It's something I've been interested in for the last year or two."" She said much of her interest had been sparked by sound engineer and producer Gethin John. ""He was always explaining different theories and I became interested in it through him and started buying New Scientist and geeking out about it all!"" she said. ""Why not?"" Her performance in school before her musical career took over certainly bodes well. She had a string of top grade GCSEs from Howell's School in Cardiff - including an A* in music, French and history, and As in geography, maths, English literature and English language. And an interest in science is not unknown in the music industry with Professor Brian Cox swapping life in the band D:Ream to further pursue his love of physics. He is not only an academic but is well known as a presenter of several science programmes for the BBC. For now, Church is pressing ahead with her new music. She has just released the fourth of a series of five EPs, and sported a sci-fi-inspired look when performing the new tracks at a colourful show earlier this month. The show was called Entanglement, after the EP's main track and the scientific theory that inspired it. Church has no plans of giving up her singing career despite the work a degree would entail. ""Music is in my veins so I'm going to have to carry on - it's my lifeblood which is brilliant,"" she said. She spoke of her interest in physics while backing the Horizons music talent scheme which looks for 12 new artists in Wales to support over the next year. BBC Wales and the Arts Council of Wales aim to ""showcase the most exciting unsigned acts with the potential to make a real breakthrough in Wales and beyond"". The acts will be picked by a panel of music industry and radio music experts.",Singer Charlotte Church might make a surprising change of @placeholder - by studying for a degree in physics .,treats,career,responsibility,direction,life,3
"However, five men and one woman, were arrested for minor public order offences. There was also an attempted petrol bomb attack earlier in the afternoon. It smashed a car window but failed to ignite. In north Belfast, three others were charged following small disturbances in the Ardoyne. About 30 Protestant Apprentice Boys walked past shops in the nationalist Ardoyne ahead of the main Relief of Derry celebrations. Two separate nationalist residents' groups held peaceful protests. Police said following this, there was ""limited disorder"" in the Brompton Park area of Ardoyne. A 32-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were charged with two counts of assaulting police, disorderly behaviour, obstructing and resisting police. A 44-year-old man was also charged with disorderly behaviour and resisting police. All three are due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday. About 15,000 people lined the streets of Londonderry for the main parade which got underway at 12:30 BST. A suspicious object found on the route at 07:00 BST was declared a hoax. Politicians and church leaders had appealed for a peaceful day and for tolerance and respect on all sides. Apprentice Boys accompanied by several bands marched around the city's historic walls. After that, they attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph in the Diamond to remember the war dead. A religious ceremony in St Columb's Church of Ireland Cathedral was held before a pageant re-enacting the Siege of Derry took place. About 140 bands took part in the main parade, which marks the 323nd anniversary of the ending of the Siege of Derry after 105 days. Thirteen young Apprentices who were supporters of the Protestant King William III, closed the gates of the walled city to stop the advancing forces of the Catholic King James II's army.",The annual Apprentice Boys of Derry parade has @placeholder off peacefully .,held,passed,started,risen,drowned,1
"Twenty-two people were killed and 64 injured when suspected suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, attacked concert-goers in Manchester on Monday night. Police said they were investigating a ""network"" over the attack. Meanwhile, the husband of a woman from Gwynedd, who was injured in the bombing, believes her phone saved her. Lisa Bridgett, who manages the Bluewater Marine Boatyard in Pwllheli, had been at the Manchester Arena with her daughter and her daughter's friend when she was hit by shrapnel. Her husband Steve said she had lost the middle finger of her left hand after it was hit by a steel nut. It then went through her mobile phone, which she had been using at the time, and it entered her cheek and came to rest within her nose. She is recovering in a Manchester hospital after surgery on Tuesday and is preparing for another operation on Thursday. ""The fact that she was on the phone at the time probably saved her life,"" he said. ""The nut has hit her phone which has more than likely not only diverted it, but also slowed it down considerably."" A minute's silence will be held at 11:00 BST on Thursday in remembrance of those who lost their lives or were affected by the attack, the UK government has announced. The threat level means a further attack anywhere in the UK ""may be imminent"" and police can call on the military. But Dyfed-Powys, south and north Wales police forces have no plans to do so, although they are stepping up patrols. South Wales Police said there would be an increase in armed officers at ""key locations"". Assistant Chief Constable Richard Lewis added: ""There are a number of key events in south Wales in the coming weeks which will attract large crowds. ""We will continue to review our response to these events depending on the intelligence and information which we receive."" North Wales Police said it would increase patrols, particularly of armed officers. Assistant Chief Constable Richard Debicki said: ""It appears a number of young people and families from the region will have been present and witnessed the events unfold. ""We are meeting with our health service partners and others to identify those individuals to ensure they received the appropriate support and counselling."" Dyfed-Powys Police said it would ""tailor our policing resources accordingly"". Gwent Police have urged the public to ""remain alert but not alarmed"". Emma Ackland, Assistant Chief Constable of Gwent Police, said ""We have reviewed our local patrol strategies and resourcing levels and these will be enhanced, especially around crowded places and within communities that may feel vulnerable.  There are no current plans to deploy military assets into our communities, however this is a fluid situation which we are monitoring continuously."" The team based at Cardiff Airport has increased visible patrols to reassure passengers. First Minister Carwyn Jones warned people to ""remain vigilant"" and tweeted, saying ""everything is being done to keep the country safe"". Home Secretary Amber Rudd said it ""seems likely"" Abedi was not acting alone and his 23-year-old brother was arrested on Tuesday, followed by further people on Wednesday. Ms Rudd said up to 3,800 troops would be deployed on the streets around the UK. The threat level decided by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - a group of experts from the police, government departments and agencies - has reached critical twice before. ACC Lewis also said plans for policing the Champions League final in Cardiff on 3 June had not changed. He said there would be ""no knee-jerk reaction"" and its approach, when 170,000 football fans descend on the city, would be intelligence-led and risk-based. Although there was ""no specific threat"", he asked people to be ""extra vigilant"". Promoter LHG, which is hosting UB40's concert at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground on Friday, said it would re-examine security measures and make adjustments where necessary. Security consultant Dai Davies, a former head of royal protection, said: ""Everybody thinks that once an event is over we can relax - the truth is you can't relax until the fat lady stops singing, as they say."" Hundreds of people have attended vigils across Wales to remember the victims and show solidarity with the people of Manchester. Further services were held in Bridgend, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire and Porthmadog in Gwynedd on Wednesday evening.","It is "" unlikely "" soldiers will be deployed in Wales despite the terror threat level being @placeholder to critical , police have said .",low,widened,raised,near,flown,2
"Beijing-based Lenovo made $144m (£92m) in the quarter to June, up 30% from the same period last year. But the pace of profits growth was the slowest in more than a year amid signs that China's economy is cooling. However, Lenovo, maker of the ThinkPad, said that it remains ""optimistic"" on its growth prospects. ""Although challenges to worldwide PC demand remain largely due to weakening economic condition, Lenovo remains both optimistic about the future of the PC market and committed to innovation,"" it said in a statement. The firm's sales were boosted by fast-growing developing countries. Shipments of PCs jumped 59% in the Asia Pacific and Latin America.","Lenovo , the world 's second - largest PC maker , has reported a rise in profits due to its still - growing @placeholder market and from sales abroad .",goods,home,spots,price,chinese,1
"But with floods hitting several other parts of the UK in that most unseasonal of summers, the perception soon arose that the people of East Yorkshire were being denied the attention their plight merited and the support they needed. Coining Hull ""the forgotten city"", the council's then leader Carl Minns pointed out that ""if this was Chelsea or Fulham, this would have been plastered over the front pages for weeks"". Paul Tempest, who would not be able to return to his Cottingham home for a year, recalls there was a stark contrast in the way the floods that affected more affluent parts of Britain were reported. ""When there was flooding down south - we never had that level of news exposure - we saw people on the news in six inches deep of water and it made headlines,"" he said. ""We thought, 'wait a minute, we've had it to the waist'."" The floods that hit Hull and parts of East Yorkshire were caused by rainwater overwhelming drainage systems, in one instance with fatal consequences. Michael Barnett, 28, became trapped in a storm drain and died from hypothermia during an unsuccessful four-hour operation to free him from neck-high floodwater, which witnesses described as raging ""like Niagara Falls"". His father, also called Michael, went to the scene, in Hessle, five miles west of Hull, when he heard his son was in difficulty, but was turned away by the emergency services. ""[My son] said to the firemen, 'are you going to get me out of here?' He then passed out - it was too much for him,"" Mr Barnett said. ""He had gone under the water and six or seven of the firemen jumped in to try to save him with no thought for themselves - they all could have been sucked to the gate because it was quite fierce. ""He had a good life, he always enjoyed himself, but he has now lost 10 years - would he have married, had children? ""He used to say to me, 'I will look after you in your old age' - I couldn't look after him in his young age."" What happened in June 2007 - the damage caused was put at more than £40m and affected over 10,000 properties - prompted an independent review of the region's flood defences and led to millions being spent on improvements. However, despite the passing of a decade, some residents and businesses are still dealing with knock-on effects of the deluge. Former Hedon resident Sally Johnson said: ""A friend is still finding problems with her home, she goes out and monitors the rain as she likes to make sure it's not flooding. ""It impacts you for the rest of your life."" Martin Voase, based in the village of Brandesburton, 12 miles north of Hull, said the flood had changed the way he operates his farm. ""Potatoes were one of our main crops. That got completely annihilated and flooded out - we've not grown potatoes since,"" he said. ""We lost £200,000 of crops that year. We couldn't afford to take the risk of growing potatoes again, that was a big change."" Mrs Johnson's daughter took to a dinghy to complete her daily paper round as her mother watched children being evacuated from Inmans Primary School opposite their home. ""There were rats on the street afterwards, it was horrible - I felt so sorry for the children,"" she said. Every classroom of the school ended up underwater - 95 of the 98 schools in Hull suffered flood damage. Sally Morgan, head teacher of Inmans Primary School, said: ""Before the last 20 pupils left, we were gathered in the main hall and water was bubbling up through the floor. The children were standing on chairs. ""A year later we had some heavy rain and one or two of our children got upset and were panicking it was going to happen again; teachers were anxious too. ""We used to take some of the kids with us to check the drains to reassure them."" Clinical psychologists were appointed in the region to help support those children who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder  after having to abandon their homes. Paul Tempest recalls there being a ""mad rush"" for rental housing while repairs were being carried out. ""At the estate agents, they had queues and a sign to a desk saying 'flood victims here'. It was like a warzone and you were almost a second-class citizen,"" he said. ""Eventually you couldn't get dehumidifiers, you were in a queue for four months just to get one. They became as rare as rocking horse dung."" His memories include carrying an elderly neighbour to safety and seeing piles of ruined furniture and broken TVs appearing on driveways. His wife Leslie Tempest said: ""I know now how people die in cold water; it was bitter, cold. I would not wish it on my worst enemy. ""There was never the recognition that it was a massive disaster, really."" Down the road from their home, seven lagoons capable of holding four million gallons of water were later created to store run-off from the Raywell Valley during storms. Following the Pitt Review, which looked into the overall impact of the June and July floods that killed 13 people nationwide, increased funding was provided to help deal with surface water flooding. More than £50m has been spent on defences in Hull and East Yorkshire since 2007, with a further £120m to be spent in the next four years, the Environment Agency said. But shoring up defences and renovating homes is only part of the process of moving on, points out Prof Maggie Mort, a Lancaster University academic who researched Hull's recovery from the floods. She said the mental struggle of having to rebound from such an occurrence ""affects people very deeply"". ""It's not the flood itself that causes the trauma, it's how you are treated afterwards and how your community, your family and agencies around you help you rebuild the social and personal fabric of your lives. ""The emergency phase of a flood gets the most attention [in the media], but the long slog of recovery is overlooked."" This effort to rebound from the despair caused by flooding is something that resonates with Jennifer and Michael Fox, whose home on Corona Drive near the city centre was in one of the areas worst hit by the deluge. The couple said what happened made them reassess what was important in their lives and caused them to try to keep a positive attitude, despite their plight. Mrs Fox said: ""Your doors, your walls, your sandbags: nothing can stop the water, nothing at all. By the next morning all of the water had gone, but everything was just absolutely ruined."" They cooked upstairs on a camping stove and washed their clothes in the bathroom while repairs were carried out. ""The men [working on] the house accidentally cut through the water pipe and flooded it again,"" Mr Fox said. ""We just fell about laughing, because it couldn't have got any wetter than it already was.""","On 25 June 2007 , Hull was pummelled by rain for hours . Nearly every one of the city 's 98 schools was damaged , thousands of people were forced from their @placeholder homes , and a young man lost his life in the most horrific circumstances .",favoured,hands,school,wrecked,comfort,3
"Up to 1,000 people dressed in Harris Tweed jackets set off from Clerkenwell to take part in the annual London Tweed Run. The event, which took in the major landmarks, is described as a ""bicycle ride with a bit of style"". Cyclists stopped for tea in Tavistock Square and lunch in Kensington Gardens. Crowds took photos as the well-dressed riders, some on vintage bikes including penny-farthings, toured the capital's streets at a fairly leisurely pace. The riders, who also finished in Clerkenwell, were warned that ""proper attire"" was expected but bowler hats were a ""spot more aerodynamic than top hats"". ""We take to the streets in our well-pressed best, and cycle through the city's iconic landmarks,"" a spokeswoman said. ""Along the way, we stop for a tea break and a picnic stop, and we usually end with a bit of a jolly knees-up.""","Hundreds of cyclists @placeholder lycra for flat caps , trilbies , berets and their sartorial best during a 12 - mile ride .",called,swapped,reached,including,searching,1
"Fifa fined the national associations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales for displaying poppies at World Cup qualifiers around Armistice Day. World football's governing body prohibits political, religious or commercial messages on shirts. Scotland lost 3-0 to England on 11 November and the SFA was fined 20,000 Sfr (£15,694). In a statement on Thursday, the SFA said: ""We have received written reasons from Fifa's Disciplinary Committee relating to the sanction imposed for commemorating Remembrance Day during the England v Scotland World Cup Qualifier on November 11, 2016. ""Having considered those reasons in full, we have informed Fifa of our intention to appeal the decision.""",The Scottish FA is appealing against Fifa sanctions that @placeholder Scotland players wearing poppies at Wembley .,keep,closed,forbid,followed,side,3
"The county has more than 250 specials with ranks from constable to superintendent. Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Adam Simmonds had said he wanted a paid reserve force but now accepts the specials can fulfil this role. The Police Federation is expected to comment on the arrangement later. In his first annual report to the Northamptonshire Police and Crime Panel, Mr Simmonds said his objective was to put more emphasis on preventing crime. This meant devoting resources to fighting social problems, such as drug and alcohol abuse - behaviour which leads to a lot of crime, he said. More ""boots on pavements"" was his objective, the report said, but this had to be seen in the context of budget constraints and paying ""specials"" as a reservist force was to achieve this. Money from the £123m annual budget had been set aside to pay specials willing to put in more hours. The report said budgets were ""still a thorny issue"" and Mr Simmonds said he saw pooling ""back room"" functions such as finance, human relations, procurement and IT as a way to cut costs. In Northamptonshire, he suggested there was not reason why police and fire stations should not be in the same building. ""The real opportunity imposed by tightening finances is to find new and innovative ways to deliver partnering fit for the 21st century,"" said Mr Simmonds. ""We are already integrating our police and fire services. ""This will help to reduce duplication, deliver cost savings but also enable greater reinforcement of our frontline.""","Members of the "" specials "" police force in Northamptonshire , normally made up of volunteers , are to be paid for working more hours than @placeholder for .",charged,contracted,expected,pay,searched,1
"Balotelli was left out of Saturday's FA Cup fourth round goalless draw with Bolton, prompting speculation the 24-year-old's career at Anfield was over. But Rodgers said on Monday that was ""not the case at all"". ""It's been a difficult period for him but he's a good boy,"" added Rodgers. Media playback is not supported on this device Balotelli has started just eight league matches this season, his last in a 2-1 home defeat by Chelsea on 8 November, and has been linked with a move to Lazio. The Italy forward has yet to score a Premier League goal since arriving from AC Milan for £16m last summer. But Rodgers added: ""I've seen some bits this morning suggesting that's him done here. That's not the case at all. ""I've shown in my time here that if players who have been out the fold for various reasons work hard every day in training, and show intensity and focus, then they have every chance of getting back in the side and staying there."" Striker Daniel Sturridge, 25, could make his first club appearance since 31 August in Tuesday's League Cup semi-final second leg against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Sturridge, who has suffered thigh and calf injuries and underwent a rehabilitation programme in the United States, emerged unscathed from a first training session back with the first team on Sunday. ""He trained very, very well,"" said Rodgers. ""I don't think he'll be 100% when he comes back, that will only come when he's got his game time."" Liverpool travel to Stamford Bridge with the tie evenly poised at 1-1 after the first leg at Anfield on 20 January.","Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli will not be @placeholder in the January transfer window and will be given every chance to fight his way back into the team , according to manager Brendan Rodgers .",retained,played,featured,distracted,sold,4
"Alexandra North, 25, a zoology graduate from Swindon, beat about 150 applicants to land the £24,000-a-year role with Suffolk Wildlife Trust. She will start work as Ipswich's dedicated hedgehog officer next month. The trust chose to focus on the town after receiving a large number of sightings by members of the public. Almost 12,000 hedgehogs, dead and alive, have been recorded in Suffolk over the past two years, with about 2,500 of these around Ipswich. The trust previously said there was a ""rich natural network"" for hedgehogs across Ipswich, ""including its beautiful parks as well as the cemetery, allotments and churches"". Ms North, who currently works as a researcher at Cambridge-based conservation group Birdlife International, saw off competitors from countries including France, Spain, Germany, South Korea, China, the US and Nepal. The job advert for the two-year role was shared around the world and mistakenly touted as a £2.4m post in the Taiwanese press. However, in the end the wildlife trust interviewed just four candidates, all of whom were from the UK, ""because they matched the criteria most closely, not because they were based in the UK"", a trust spokeswoman said. ""The competition was tough. We had applications from around the world and some really strong candidates,"" the trust said. Ms North said she was ""really excited by the prospect of a great project with the overall aim to make Ipswich a really hedgehog-friendly town"". Her work will involve building a network of volunteers who in turn will help build a network of hedgehog-friendly routes around Ipswich's urban landscape. Ms North, who boasts a postgraduate degree in biodiversity and conservation, said: ""Everyone loves hedgehogs and they are so important to the biodiversity of our landscape and our wildlife. ""I really hope I can engage with people and encourage everyone to see how making small changes really can make a difference to these little creatures.""",A hedgehog officer is set to start work to improve animal numbers after an advert for the job @placeholder worldwide interest .,race,listed,words,sparked,gains,3
"Lock Charteris, 32, who has won 62 caps for Wales, arrives at the Rec from Racing 92 at the end of the season. Thomas said he was happy to see head coach Mike Ford strengthen Bath. ""Signing players like Luke (Charteris) and Dave Denton is like the little bit extra on top,"" Thomas told BBC Radio Bristol. ""I think we just like to improve every week but it is almost the frosting."" Denton signed from Edinburgh on 10 November following the departure of Sam Burgess who went back to play rugby league for South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL. Bath travel to Leicester on Sunday for the first time since they thumped the Tigers 47-10 in May. ""They will want to atone for that but going there is always a tough place to go so we will have to be right on it,"" added 24-year-old Thomas. ""I am not sure I have ever won there in my career so it is a big milestone for me to try and win there. ""They pride themselves on the set-piece, there will be some big scrums and big mauls.""",Bath tighthead @placeholder Henry Thomas believes the club 's signing of Luke Charteris will be the icing on the cake of their strong squad .,manager,group,team,food,prop,4
"Company leaders said the gains are a sign that investment in new shows and movies is paying off as online television becomes more popular. The firm is behind shows such as 13 Reasons Why, about teen suicide, and the political drama House of Cards. Boss Reed Hastings said it was ""the rewards of doing great content"". Netflix shares rose more than 10% in after-hours trading following the announcement of its second quarter earnings. Company leaders said new content creation was critical to competing against other online rivals such as Amazon and YouTube, as well as traditional television. They said generating new content also meant streaming services were expanding the size of the overall market. ""The largely exclusive nature of each service's content means that we are not direct substitutes for each other, but rather complements,"" company leaders wrote in a letter to shareholders. ""The shift from linear TV to on-demand viewing is so big and there is so much leisure time, many internet TV services will be successful."" Netflix said it added about 5.2 million members during the quarter, most from overseas. International members now account for about half of Netflix subscribers, the firm said. The firm has cultivated those audiences with movies such as Okja, a film made by one of South Korea's top directors about a young girl's quest to recover a giant companion from a multi-national corporation. The firm also said it expects international members to help boost profits for the year - a first for that part of the business. The growth helped produce $2.8bn in quarterly revenue, up more than 32% from the same period in 2016. Netflix said it expects revenue to reach nearly $3bn in the third quarter. Profits for the three months that ended in June were $65.6m, up about 60% year-on-year. Company leaders also told investors they plan to continue to invest more in content as the firm grows.","Netflix shares @placeholder on Monday after the firm said it now has about 104 million subscribers , a larger - than - expected number that boosted revenues .",announced,surged,closed,based,people,1
"Markit's latest Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for manufacturing fell to 51.9 in April from 54 in March. The pound slid 1.5% against the dollar to $1.5126 and dropped 1.1% against the euro to €1.352. The FTSE 100 closed 25.32 points higher at 6,985.95. After four months of 2015 the blue-chip index is up 6.3%. Lloyds Banking Group was the top riser, jumping 7.1% to 82.87p after investors welcomed its first-quarter results. Underlying profits at Lloyds rose 21% to £2.2bn, at the top end of forecasts, although the bank said it had taken a £660m loss on the sale of TSB to Spain's Banco Sabadell. Mining stocks also bolstered the market, with Anglo American up 5.4% and BHP Billiton 3% higher. The top faller on the FTSE was Aberdeen Asset Management, down 2.5% at 463.1p. Outside the FTSE 100, shares in Hornby rose 1.7% after the model train maker said it was set to report an underlying full-year profit of £1.5m. The company - which also owns the Scalextric and Airfix brands - said this would be the first time for three years that it had reported a pre-tax profit.",( Close ) : The FTSE 100 ended the week slightly higher despite a closely watched survey @placeholder weaker - than - expected manufacturing growth .,helped,showing,mixed,centre,lost,1
"The 26-year-old, who spent the final two months of the 2015-16 season on loan at Plymouth, will join Gary Bowyer's men later this month. Jamaican-born Matt scored seven goals in 14 games for Argyle as they reached the League Two play-off final. ""Jamille fits the profile for the type of striker I wanted to bring to the club,"" Bowyer told the club website. ""He's strong, powerful, determined and, most importantly, knows where the goal is,"" Bowyer added. Matt is Bowyer's first signing since he became Blackpool boss on 1 June. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",Blackpool have signed striker Jamille Matt from @placeholder League One side Fleetwood Town on a two - year deal .,neighbouring,beat,promoted,centre,relegated,0
"""They've got a big summer ahead,"" Sport England director Phil Smith told BBC Sport. ""The track record of participation in tennis has been pretty poor. The crunch time is December."" ""We need to start again, no matter how long it takes. Spending money on players at the top has not worked. The important thing is to create a base from the bottom up."" Former British number one and ex-Davis Cup captain John Lloyd Read more Sport England, the government body that distributes taxpayer money to sports, will discuss the situation with the LTA on Tuesday. Smith says he has been ""encouraged"" with the changes already implemented by the LTA, which has a turnover of £60.2m, but insists participation remains a key concern. In response, the LTA insisted it is ""fully focused"" on using the summer to inspire more people to play the game, with Wimbledon, one of the key drivers of participation in Britain, due to get under way in less than a week's time. ""Over the next few months, we are delivering a series of promotional events around the country to encourage people to play tennis,"" said the Simon Long, the LTA's chief commercial officer. ""At the centre of this activity is a marketing campaign which focuses on personal experiences by imagining what tennis means to different people. ""We are also working with a range of partners from the commercial sector, public sector and through our club network to deliver the right offers to people interested in playing tennis to encourage them to get involved in our sport."" Read the full story here In December 2012, Sport England decided to  from £24.5m to £17.4m for the next four-year cycle up to 2017, amid concerns the LTA was not making best use of the cash. The LTA was still given £3.75m for talent development, but only received a one-year award of £3.35m for participation. The remaining £10.3m has been withheld while Sport England decides whether the LTA is doing its job well enough. ""We invest in the talent system of tennis through the LTA and we find that largely to be going really well,"" Smith said. ""Participation is where we have more concern. The track record of participation in tennis was pretty poor in the last four-year cycle. ""The LTA presented a plan to us in December that we didn't feel was appropriate to fix the problem. It was weak in a number of areas."" Sport England's  showed 424,300 people aged 16 and over played tennis once a week from April 2012 to April 2013, up 0.95% on the 420,300 from April 2011 to April 2012 but down 4.7% on the 445,100 recorded from October 2011 to October 2012. The LTA is contracted to raise the figure to 450,000 by December, while also achieving three other key milestones: Smith: ""That wasn't very evident in their original plan last year. I know they're working very hard at fixing that now."" Smith: ""There's never been any doubt about the endeavour at the LTA, but there was doubt about their level of focus and whether they were working in the right places and on the right things."" Smith: ""Whether in parks, clubs etc the LTA must know whether what its doing is having the desired effect before it's too late."" Tuesday's meeting will provide Sport England with its first opportunity to assess the LTA's progress in depth. ""They've got to prove themselves this summer and our attention is firmly fixed on the results we'll get in December,"" said Smith. ""We've put in place some pretty tough conditions, but there's not going to be any knee-jerk reaction on Tuesday because we've deliberately given them a year to review the situation. You can't fix these things over night and we'll stick with that original plan."" Long is confident the LTA is on the right track. ""Our goal is to get more people playing tennis, more often,"" he said. ""It is encouraging to see that tennis participation is up year on year from the latest Active People Survey Results out this week. ""However, we are not complacent and know much more needs to be done and have been working very closely with Sport England to develop our plans around participation to achieve this goal. ""Sport England has stated that they will make a decision on future funding in December, so that will be a significant milestone for us."" The LTA's task is complicated by the  of chief executive Roger Draper, with a successor yet to be appointed. But the LTA's new independent chairman, David Gregson, has made a strong impression since joining the governing body in January. Singles rankings only ""The mission they've recently created and the level of engagement from David Gregson and the board is very impressive,"" said Smith. ""It is certainly more impressive than I've ever seen before in tennis. What I've seen since December has been a dedicated and concerted effort to fix the problem."" Although the number of people playing tennis is 0.95% up on April 2012 - many other sports were down - that is still a drop of 7% compared to the inaugural figures from 2006 and 23% below 2009. ""They're not the only sport in this position,"" Smith added. ""Growing participation in sport is not as simple as money in, people out. ""I don't dismiss the LTA's efforts as missing an open goal, but what they've done hasn't worked thus far, which is why we're building a new plan. If they can't, I'll find somebody who will."" Former British number one Tim Henman agrees with Smith that the LTA has so far failed to deliver when it comes to developing the game at grassroots level. Despite the success of Andy Murray, the rise of Laura Robson and Heather Watson, plus various doubles and junior triumphs, Britain has only one man and two women ranked in the world's top 100. ""If you look at Spain and France, their base of the pyramid is vast compared to the British system,"" Henman told the Mail on Sunday. ""They have so many kids playing, ""You need massive investment at the bottom and strong leadership from the top. I left the junior game in 1992 and if you think about the hundreds of millions invested since then, it's frightening."" Should the LTA satisfy Sport England's requests, the ring-fenced £10.3m will arrive. ""We've used what we've learned from other sports about how to grow participation and we're trying to help the LTA learn how that might be done,"" said Smith. ""We're hopeful they can get there. ""The alternative - and one that is not our preferred solution - is we find a different way of investing in tennis. ""Our priority is to look after, nurture, develop and grow the number of people playing the sport. If we think we can't do that through the national governing body, we will find another way of doing it.""",Sport England has warned the Lawn Tennis Association it faces a critical summer that will dictate whether or not it is @placeholder of valuable funding .,out,set,top,stripped,parts,3
"The system for handling patient calls has been beset with problems and last month it was temporarily withdrawn. But a 2013 internal review described it as a ""particularly strong exemplar of good practice"". The Scottish government said the review was held before a significant testing phase of the project had taken place. The project is more than two years behind schedule. It is also currently running 55% over budget with an estimated cost of £117.4m, £41.6m higher than planned. NHS 24 has already borrowed £20m from the Scottish government in order to cover the escalating costs. Since the August 2013 Programme and Project Management Centre of Expertise review it has emerged that nobody read through the contract before it was put out to tender. This meant that vital performance measures were left out. On 2 December, MSPs on the Scottish Parliament's Public Audit Committee gasped as they were told that ""human error"" was to blame for a poorly worded contract. Key parts were not copied over to the final version, which meant that contractors were not obliged to meet important performance measures. Committee members described the mistakes as ""incredible"". The following week the Scottish government's most senior policy advisor, Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans, told the Public Audit Committee: ""I would expect team in charge to be clear about what they were signing up to and that the document was fit for purpose."" Committee convener Paul Martin MSP put it to Mrs Evans that he had signed loan agreements for much less than £75m and they always contained the phrase ""please read carefully"". Mrs Evans said: ""Common sense, apart from anything else, would emphasise the importance of reading the document that one signs."" It has now emerged that the project was recommended in an internal report as something which could be ""transferable to other programmes"". A Scottish government spokesman said: ""This is a dated review, carried out at a specific point in the project on behalf of NHS 24. ""It was held before a significant testing phase of the project had taken place. ""Since that point, in February 2014, the Scottish government and NHS 24 jointly commissioned Ernst & Young to undertake a review and report of the situation with the Future Programme."" In October, call-handlers had to resort to pen and paper when the new computer system, designed by BT and CapGemini, ran into ""technical difficulties"". NHS 24 is using its old system until the problems have been resolved. The new IT system is not expected to be ready for use until next summer. Every month the new system is not in place, NHS 24 incurs additional costs of £450,000. In a statement NHS 24 said: ""This was a complex contract process, which took several years to develop and resulted in very substantial 600-page documents. ""The board had a range of governance measures in place, but this was not sufficient and the risk to the organisation was underestimated at the time. ""While the ultimate responsibility for spending public money lies with the accountable officer, the contractual flaws were part of a systemic failing involving a variety of people."" It added: ""Once the new system is re-launched in 2016, it will bring significant benefits to the way we can serve the needs of patients for many years to come."" CapGemini and BT declined to comment.",A computer project for the NHS 24 telephone helpline which is currently running £ 41 m over budget was @placeholder in a Scottish government report .,exposed,praised,introduced,engulfed,buried,1
Media playback is unsupported on your device 2 May 2014 Last updated at 11:42 BST Elizabeth and Ann grew up in different countries after their mum gave Ann up for adoption and moved to America. Ann didn't even know she had a sister until recently. Now after all this time the two have finally met. Check out the moment the sisters saw each other for the first time.,"Twin sisters have been @placeholder 78 years after being separated , the longest gap on record according to Guinness World Records .",named,reunited,diagnosed,killed,buried,1
"Swedish firm Minesto wants to harness power under the sea off the coast of Holyhead. It will set up its UK offices there and hopes to become a manufacturing centre, creating more jobs there. The so-called Deep Green technology works on the principle that underwater ""kites"" can reach speeds 10 times faster than the current. This works in the same way a kite flies faster than the wind, and the firm says 10 times higher speed gives 1,000 times more power. Off the coast, the Deep Green device will operate at least 15m below the surface and can still create enough power to make it worthwhile, even though the current is of a low velocity. Minesto has secured £9.5m of EU funding and will create 30 jobs. The rest of the money will be privately raised. Development rights were granted a year ago. It will be two years before the first seven tonne device will be installed. The Welsh government said it has been working with Minesto ""over a number of years"" on feasibility studies for the development. ANALYSIS by Sarah Dickins, BBC Wales economics correspondent It's another example of a company wanting to generate energy and money from our seas. But this is a different technology and doesn't involve building a lagoon. There are some similarities to the planned £850m Swansea tidal lagoon project in that this is not just about generating energy but also creating jobs in manufacturing and project development, as the technologies will be made here. It could lead to a new industry in its own right. This project once again produces the dilemma: does it make economic sense in the long term to pay much more for our electricity as a new technology develops with the promise of jobs and investment, or is that too much of a risk? This latest project hopes to be paid £250 per megawatt hour for its electricity initially while the new industry develops. The company says it expects to in time be cheaper than nuclear, which is less than £100 per Mwh, without the risk or waste. The tidal lagoon project for Swansea Bay hopes to get £168 per Mwh. Both the proposals for tidal kites on Anglesey and the tidal lagoons are about more than energy generation. Both promise to develop new design and manufacturing in Wales which could be exported. There has been criticism in the past that Wales missed out on the development of onshore wind projects and now turbines and blades are largely imported into the UK. This could make the proposals more valuable to the Welsh economy than purely the money generated by the power of the tides. Minesto's plans are to set up headquarters in Holyhead this year, where design, marketing and sales will take place followed by manufacturing in 2016. It hopes that by 2019 it will be employing 120 people in a wide range of jobs from engineering, sales, and research and development as a new industry forms around Holyhead. Anglesey is being developed under the banner Energy Island, with plans for the Wylfa Newydd nuclear investment and a range of renewable projects at its centre. The island's council says the programme could contribute nearly £12 billion to the wider economy of north Wales over the next 15 years and describes it as a ""once in a generation"" opportunity to boost the economy. First Minister Carwyn Jones, said: ""This investment will not only help create greener and more efficient sources of energy, but will also create jobs and vital opportunities for growth in north Wales."" Anders Jansson, chief executive of Minesto, said: ""Establishing Minesto UK Headquarters in north Wales is a strategic decision that can make Wales a global leader within marine energy."" A public exhibition is being held on Thursday 21 May at Holyhead Town Hall from 10:00-20:00 BST. The latest proposal comes eight months after a £70m tidal energy project off Anglesey was suspended. But last month there was new hope of reviving the scheme off The Skerries.  to the north-west of the the island.","A £ 25 m tidal energy project which works through moving "" kites "" underwater is being @placeholder on Anglesey .",planned,drawn,completed,implemented,launched,4
"""Sorry I didn't get back to you,"" he told me when I interviewed him after he announced his defection to the UKIP. The night before he abandoned the Conservative Party - choosing to announce the news at the world at the UKIP conference - I had texted him asking about rumours that he was off. There was no reply. Inevitably, plenty of other journalists will now be contacting plenty of other MPs to ask the same question. Carefully crafted messages at the Conservative conference will go ignored by hacks trying to find the next rebel. Pledges of loyalty will be sought, received and not always believed. With three by-elections now in play, this could go on for some time. Was Reckless's move a surprise? Up to a point. The last defector, Douglas Carswell, had been seen chatting with him during Tory rebellions past. But victory won't come easy for UKIP in Rochester and Strood, when Mark Reckless - winner with a 9,953 Conservative majority last time out - attempts to win re-election with a different party. And an optimistic Conservative might see an opportunity here. A Reckless defeat would cool the heels of Tories tempted to rush to UKIP, for a while at least. Political careers can end in Nigel Farage's company just as surely as they can in David Cameron's. Should Reckless win though, Conservatives will wonder whether they are more likely to survive in politics in UKIP purple than Tory blue. Some may keep quiet in the short term. The precedent set by both Carswell and Reckless means if they want to defect, they have to go to the voters. Those uncertain whether their voters would want them back will think twice. As the general election nears though, caution may be thrown to the wind. For Tory MPs with little hope of promotion, and every chance of losing their seats, UKIP is a tempting lure. Farage hopes it would prove just as attractive to a Labour MP. If he got his way, Westminster's favourite guessing could become even more intriguing.",Mark Reckless @placeholder with an apology .,deal,struggled,dominated,content,began,4
"Marital coercion - which was used by Huhne's wife Vicky Pryce - is an old defence with an interesting history rooted, many believe, in a chauvinist past. In modern times the defence has been used on just a handful of occasions, most notably by Anne Darwin, the wife of the canoeist John Darwin who faked his own death in order that the couple could claim life insurance and pension money and start a new life in Panama. The defence was not successful in that case, and Anne Darwin was convicted in July 2008 for her part in the fraud. However, it succeeded in the 2000 case of Ashley Fitton, who escaped a a drinking and driving offence after telling a court her irate husband had ordered her to get behind the wheel following a boozy meal at a restaurant. She told the court she had refused repeatedly but had been scared of what her husband would have done if she had continued to refuse to drive. When stopped by the police she was three times over the limit. It used to be the case in English common law that if a wife committed an offence (other than murder or treason) in the presence of her husband, she was presumed to have been coerced by him into doing it, and so she should be acquitted. The presumption was abolished by Section 47 of the Criminal Justice Act of 1925, but in its place the defence of marital coercion was established. It too applies to all offences bar murder or treason. For it to operate two things have to be proved by the wife. Firstly that the offence was committed in the presence of her husband, and secondly that it was committed under his coercion. It is for the wife to prove these things to the civil standard, the balance of probabilities - in other words to prove that is it more likely than not the two things happened. The burden is then on the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that either the husband was not present at the time the offence was committed, or that he failed to coerce her into committing the offence. But there is much debate and not a lot of case law on what amounts to coercion. Marital coercion has something in common with the defence of duress. However, that defence would require any threats made by the husband to be threats to kill or cause serious injury. Marital coercion is therefore a broader defence than duress in that it is enough that the wife acted because of the dominating will of her husband, her own will being overpowered by his so that she had no choice but to unwillingly take part in the offence. That is the really critical element.  The jury will be asked to consider if the wife's will had been so overpowered that she had been impelled to commit the offence because she had truly believed she had had no real choice in the matter. Some see the defence of marital coercion as a legal hangover from a bygone era. In 1977 the Law Commission the body that keeps the law in England and Wales under review, recommended its abolition. Many feel that it is absurd to have a defence that is only available to women, and then only to women who are married. The defence is not available to women who are co-habiting with a man. It is not available to husbands, and it was not extended to those in civil partnerships. Some feel it is no longer relevant in a world where many women are financially independent of their husbands and so less susceptible to coercion. But there are others who feel that the unique relationship of marriage and the pressures it can impose on a wife, justify the retention of the defence of marital coercion.","The former wife of ex-cabinet minister Chris Huhne has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice by taking speeding @placeholder on his behalf , in a case that brought a rarely used defence into the spotlight .",steps,decisions,points,payments,information,2
"The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) doubled its investigation to cover 856,000 Jeeps, but has not requested a recall. The investigation focuses on the cars' electronic gear shift, which lights up when moved from one gear to another, rather than making a physical click. Some say this means drivers cannot tell whether or not it is in drive mode. A Fiat Chrysler spokesman said the company ""is cooperating fully"". The investigation covers 2014 and 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokees and 2012 through 2014 Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 sedans. According to the NHTSA, drivers' inability to tell whether the car is in drive mode or not has allegedly led to 117 crashes. The NHTSA is assessing ""the scope, frequency, and safety-related consequences of the alleged defect"". In July, Fiat Chrysler was forced to recall 1.4  million Jeeps after it was revealed that the car's computer systems could be hacked. The company faced a record $105m (£72m) fine for failing to recall those cars from the road sooner. The current investigation is not related to those issues, but has rattled investors. Fiat Chrylser is also facing a lawsuit from US dealers alleging it inflated sales.",Shares of Fiat Chrysler fell more than 7 % on Monday as an investigation into its vehicles @placeholder .,widened,surfaced,commenced,scheme,starts,0
"A public sale of the items will be held at the venue on Saturday and Sunday. Aberdeen Performing Arts, the organisation that manages the hall, held the last performances there earlier this month. The building is due to be fully closed to the public for 20-months of building work. A new performance studio and new creative learning space will be created. The box office and reception will also be moved and ramped entrance added to the main doors from Union Street, as well as improved access to the balcony.","Aberdeen Music Hall is selling off @placeholder , clothing , mirrors and other furniture ahead of a £ 7 m revamp of the 155 - year - old building .",props,erosion,food,group,jewelry,0
"Police said the consequences of the incident on the A74(M) near Lockerbie at around 14:30 on Sunday could have been ""catastrophic"". A passing Audi A6 was hit and its windscreen extensively damaged by the impact. Police said nobody had been hurt but it had been ""very lucky"" that the incident had not resulted in ""serious injury"". PC Jordan Kerr said: ""This was and act of utter recklessness and the consequences could have been catastrophic."" Anyone with any information about the incident has been asked to contact police. The cost of repairing the damage to the car has been estimated at about £350.",An object @placeholder from a motorway bridge in southern Scotland has smashed into a car passing underneath .,thrown,escaped,recovering,body,descending,0
"It topped the poll with 806,959 votes, while the Conservatives won two seats with 495,639 votes. UKIP and the Green Party each retained one seat with 371,133 and 196,419 votes respectively. The Liberal Democrats, who came fifth overall, lost their MEP in London, with the Tories also down one. Before the results were out and the sitting Lib Dem MEP Baroness Sarah Ludford lost her seat, she seemed to sense the party may not do well. She said: ""It's nobody's fault, I don't think. I am certainly not blaming anybody, I am not going around asking for anybody's head. By Karl MercerPolitical Correspondent, BBC London So, for the first time in 15 years, the Lib Dems have no London representative at the European Parliament. Baroness Ludford bowing out at City Hall last night capped a miserable couple of days for the party here in the capital, with Londoners turning against the party in both the town hall and European elections. The scale of their demise is hard to exaggerate. The Lib Dems now have no local councillors on 18 of London's 32 boroughs. On half a dozen more, they have just one councillor. In total across the capital, they lost half of their local representatives and now have just over 120 councillors. They run just one London council, Sutton. This of course, on the back of their disastrous mayoral election campaign in 2012, when their candidate Brian Paddick polled less than 5% of the vote and lost his deposit. Coalition it seems, has not served the Lib Dems well when it comes to getting votes in the capital. If that's bad enough news now, there will be several Lib Dem MPs looking nervously at the results ahead of next year's general election. International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone will have noted that the Lib Dems lost 14 councillors in Haringey, Justice Minister Simon Hughes saw a dozen go from his local authority Southwark, and former Education Minister Sarah Teather (who is standing down next year) saw the party down to just one councillor in Brent. Energy Secretary Ed Davey will no doubt ponder the fact that the Lib Dems lost control of Kingston, in his backyard. The capital's Lib Dems won't have long to reflect on the past few days - they will have to start preparing for equally tough battles ahead. ""I am proud of the campaign we fought, I am proud of Nick Clegg taking on Nigel Farage and his divisive fear-mongering, whipping up prejudiced attitudes, I am proud that we have fought a pro-European campaign."" Later she added: ""I think it's a great shame that Europe's premier city does not have an MEP now from the pro-European party the Liberal Democrats."" Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell said: ""Deeply disappointed, for me and the party, but particularly for people like Sarah Ludford, who has been a tower of strength in the European Parliament, highly regarded, taken a particular interest in human rights, and represented the people of London in a wholly effective and well-judged way."" Labour candidates Claude Moraes, Mary Honeyball, Lucy Anderson and Seb Dance all took seats. Mr Moraes said Labour's performance was an ""extraordinary result"" which ""bucked"" the national trend. He said: ""It's our best result in London in the European elections since the PR system began. ""Labour is generally a pro-European party but sees London's future as an internationally outward-looking city, at ease with itself and at ease with the kind of issues UKIP's scaring everyone about... but also bread and butter issues that we were not afraid to talk about on the doorstep, like the cost of living."" They will be joined by Charles Tannock and Dr Syed Kamall for the Conservatives, Gerard Batten for UKIP and Jean Lambert for the Green party. After his win Mr Batten said: ""In London my only regret is that we didn't get our second candidate elected, Paul Oakley, but we did double our share of the vote and in a number of boroughs I believe we either came second or first, in one at least. That's been a fantastic achievement."" Dr Kamall said: ""Over the next few years we will continue as Conservative MEPs to stand up for London, its financial sector, its creative industries, its wonderful diversity. ""In Britain we have a long-term plan to fix the economic mess that we inherited and in Europe we will continue to build the coalitions across parties... to make sure we deliver the reform that we need."" Prof Tony Travers, the director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics said: ""There is some evidence from opinion polls that Londoners have a different view, more optimistic and more positive about the EU than the country as a whole. ""In some polls, interestingly, London and Scotland have a similar view about Europe and it is more positive than the other parts of the UK. ""It's the proximity to Europe on one hand and the particular make up of London's population I think [which] makes it more positive about Europe and less likely to vote UKIP."" Seats in the European Parliament are allocated according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.",Labour has doubled its number of MEPs in London after winning half of the @placeholder 's eight seats in the European election .,night,party,women,parliament,region,4
"The man has been named by family members as Ryan Baird, who was originally from Northern Ireland. His cousin, Louise Evanne Baird, said he was ""amazing"" and would be ""sadly missed"". Police Scotland said a further 18 people were taken to hospital, and three were seriously hurt. The crash happened at about 13:15 BST on Saturday on the A76 by the Crossroads Roundabout near Kilmarnock. The coach was taking the Nith Valley Loyal Rangers Supporters' Club to Ibrox Stadium, where Rangers were due to play Partick Thistle in the Scottish Premiership. Mr Baird's partner Sarah Hughes, paid tribute to him, saying he had loved the club. The Nith Valley Loyal Rangers Supporters Club posted on its Facebook page: ""The club would like to thank everyone for their good wishes & concern at this sad time."" RangersLinfieldFC tweeted: ""We have been informed that the man who sadly passed away was a Rangers and Linfield fan named Ryan Baird from Larne, Northern Ireland, RIP."" In a club statement, Rangers said it was ""deeply saddened"" by the crash, adding: ""Our profound condolences go to the gentleman who has died and our thoughts are with his family. ""We are also thinking of those who have been injured and taken to hospital."" Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson said: ""Everyone at the football club and every member of our Rangers family is thinking of all of those caught up in this terrible accident. ""Clearly this is a deeply distressing time and the board extend our deepest sympathies and concerns."" Rangers assistant manager David Weir said he was sure the club ""will be very supportive in regards to anything they can do to help the situation"". Celtic also passed on their condolences in a club statement, saying: ""In relation to news of today's accident involving Rangers supporters on their way to the match, everyone at Celtic sends our sincere condolences following the death of a supporter."" One passenger said the bus, which had 37 people on board including the driver, had ""swerved"" before landing on its side on a grass verge. Police Scotland said: ""We can confirm a 39-year-old man has died following a serious coach crash on the A76 near Crossroads Roundabout. ""A report will be prepared for the Procurator Fiscal. ""Eighteen people are receiving treatment in hospital, three of whom are in a serious condition. ""This includes seven men under 20 years of age.  Three men and three women aged between 30 and 59 and five men over 60.""",Tributes have been paid to a 39 - year - old man who died after a coach carrying Rangers fans @placeholder in East Ayrshire .,overturned,erupted,arrived,died,collapsed,0
"They were unearthed in a field in Llanover in August 2014 by Peter Shephard while he was metal detecting. It is believed they were buried in a ritual ceremony up to 3,750 years ago. National Museum Wales expert Adam Gwilt said one appeared to be more advanced with a stop across the middle which would have improved the way a wooden handle was attached. ""These axes provide important new information about the development and use of bronze tools,"" he said. The museum hopes to acquire the hoard.",Three early Bronze Age axe heads found in Monmouthshire have been declared @placeholder .,advice,following,treasure,antiquities,birth,2
"Just 36 years old when the cancer struck, Alison, from Sydney, knew that, along with a good portion of her hair, she would lose her nipple and suffer extensive breast scarring in a lumpectomy. But the idea of recreating a nipple through plastic surgery didn't appeal to her. ""I didn't want a fake nipple made from some other piece of flesh. I thought I'm just going to get a tattoo,"" she says. ""During the year I was sick I had the idea of me with the blonde crop and the tattoo. The whole time I was sick I would trawl tattoo artists over the internet,"" she says. After extensive deliberation, she settled on a New Zealand-based artist named Makkala Rose, a 24-year-old with a bold and colourful illustrative style. The tattoo was applied in Melbourne during a gruelling 13-hour session on 1 July this year. Alison, happy with the result, posted a photo of her design to Instagram and Facebook. It would be an overstatement to say that the picture ""went viral"" - it's not a meme like grumpy cat or doge - but something about it is making people respond. To date more than 23,000 people have liked Alison's Instagram photo, which has been reposted on multiple tattoo-focused Instagram accounts. Comments are overwhelmingly positive and when someone - usually a man - pipes up to ask where Alison's nipple is, complete strangers step in to let them know the full story behind the tattoo. ""Because there's no nipple, I can blast it everywhere all over Facebook and Instagram, and they can't censor it, which I think is really funny,"" Alison says. Post-mastectomy and lumpectomy tattoos have been gaining popularity in recent years. Although women of all ages are choosing tattoos over breast reconstructions, they are particularly popular among younger women. But something about Alison's tattoo is generating more reaction than many other post-mastectomy tattoos. She thinks it's a combination of the tattoo's execution and the fact that she's smiling in the photo, adding a layer or emotion missing from breast-only shots. ""There are pages of collections, but mine tends to get more likes. Even on the one that went up yesterday, the page is full of hot models, and even to be on that page is an honour,"" she says. Makkala Rose, the Hamilton-based tattooist, said Alison was an ""absolute champion"" for sitting through 13 hours of intense work on painful, sensitive areas - an experience her client called ""blood-curdlingly horrific"". ""Alison was pretty clear about the idea that she had and what she wanted it to look like, but she also gave me a bit of freedom,"" Ms Rose, 24, said. ""Tattooing a breast is quite different to tattooing a leg or a back or something. It's a bit challenging to design something that would fit and work around it. ""It's quite humbling and it puts a lot of things in to perspective. That made it really cool to be able to do for her."" Alison, who is married and has a seven-year-old daughter, says she wasn't particularly bothered when she saw the results of her lumpectomy. ""The lump had been there for a while and it was hurting. I'd had visions of removing it myself, wanting to cut it out,"" she says. ""When I got it removed, I was so happy. I've never been so happy in my life. It probably wasn't the normal reaction - I didn't mind the scar."" What bothered her more was a lack of resources for breast cancer survivors under the age of 40. ""There's not a lot of networking for younger women. I've had women contacting me through Instagram to ask me about what drugs I was on,"" she says. ""When you meet younger people they tend to latch on to you. There are very few to meet people if you're under 40.""","During her year of breast cancer , Alison Habbal @placeholder hours of nausea and exhaustion by planning for her post-sickness rebirth .",reflects,called,holds,occupied,conducted,3
"Nottinghamshire County Council first discussed the proposals to bar its 9,000 staff from smoking during work time in September. The council said tobacco was ""one of the great scourges of modern society"". But campaigners called the ban - which also applies to cigarette breaks - ""barking mad"". Updates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire The authority rubber-stamped the proposals on Wednesday following a meeting with the ban expected to come into force from May. Dr Chris Kenny, director of public health at the council, said he hoped the authority would be seen as a ""beacon of health"". ""Tobacco is one of the great scourges of modern society,"" he said. ""It causes huge amounts of ill health, it causes heart disease, it causes 30% of all cancers. ""It's not about a punitive policy, this is about a supportive policy to help all county council employees not smoke during work time."" In Nottinghamshire, 17.5% of adults smoke and about 1,300 people die each year from a smoking-related illness. Treating these illnesses costs the NHS in the county £30.2m per year, the council said. Elsewhere in the East Midlands, Leicester City Council introduced a ban on staff smoking in working time, excluding lunch breaks, in 2007. Smoking breaks are not allowed at Derby City Council either. Simon Clark, from smoking campaign group Forest, said the council was ""going beyond its remit"" and should not dictate whether staff drink, smoke or eat fatty foods. ""The council says this is all about improving public health, but it's clearly not because we've seen that they're also banning the use of e-cigarettes during working hours,"" he said. He added: ""A lot of smokers are using e-cigarettes to help them cut down or quit, so it's barking mad for the council to ban the use of e-cigarettes along with combustible cigarettes."" One county council worker said he stopped smoking in February, partly in anticipation of the council's proposals. ""I think it's going to be very difficult for some people,"" he said. ""I've been smoking since I was a teenager but I thought I might as well take this opportunity seeing as it's coming in."" More than 80 councils, including the county council, have signed a declaration on tobacco control, which outlines their commitment to tackling smoking and its harmful effects. A Public Health England spokeswoman said the organisation was not aware of any other local authority in the country which has taken such a stance on smoking.","A council has approved plans to ban its thousands of employees from smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes in its buildings , land and in its @placeholder .",office,vehicles,future,lives,gardens,1
"Standing over her, scalpel in hand, is Professor Nagashima. He carefully cuts open her abdomen and pulls out her uterus. To me, it looks more like intestines - but he assures me this is what a pig's uterus looks like. Then with a syringe and a catheter, he begins to inject 40 embryos into the uterus. The unconscious pig is about to become a surrogate mother - and the embryos she is now carrying are very special. They are chimeric, that is, they carry genetic material from two different species. In a nearby shed Prof Nagashima takes me to see his most prized possessions. For this I have to change into full smock, hat, boots and mask. It is not to protect me, it is to protect the occupants - fully grown chimeric pigs. Halfway down the long white shed, I am introduced to pig number 29 - a large, hairy male with jutting tusks. Number 29 is a white pig, but he is covered in coarse, black hair. More importantly, inside, he has the pancreas of a black pig. How is that possible? It starts off by making what Prof Nagashima calls ""a-pancreatic"" embryos.  Inside the white pig embryo, the gene that carries the instructions for developing the animal's pancreas has been ""switched off"". The Japanese team then introduce stem cells from a black pig into the embryo. What they have discovered is that as the pig develops, it will be normal except for its pancreas, which will be genetically a black pig's. But this is just the first step. In a lab at Tokyo University Professor Hiro Nakauchi is taking the next one, and this is even more astonishing. Prof Nakauchi takes skin cells from an adult brown rat. He then uses gene manipulation to change these adult skin cells into what are called ""iPS"" cells. The amazing thing about induced pluripotent stem cells is that they have many of the same characteristics as embryonic stem cells. In other words, they can develop into any part of the animal's body. IPS cells were first created in 2006 by Japanese medical researcher Dr Shinya Yamanaka. In 2012, he won the Nobel Prize for his discovery. In his lab, Prof Nakauchi has succeeded in using these iPS cells to grow a brown rat pancreas inside a white mouse. So why is all of this so important? The ultimate objective of this research is to get human organs to grow inside pigs. By itself, that would be a massive breakthrough for science. But what Prof Nakauchi is trying to achieve goes further. He is hoping to develop a technique to take skin cells from a human adult and change them in to iPS cells. Those iPS cells can then be injected into a pig embryo. The result, he hopes, will be a pig with a human pancreas or kidney or liver, or maybe even a human heart. Not only that, the organ would be genetically identical to the human from which the skin cells were taken. This is one of the holy grails of medical research: the ability to reproduce a human organ that is genetically identical to the person who needs it. It could mean an end to donor waiting lists, and an end to problems of organ rejection. But there are many potential obstacles ahead. The first is that pigs and humans are only distantly related. It is one thing to get a black pig pancreas to grow inside a white pig, quite another to get a human pancreas to do the same. Prof Nakauchi is confident it can be done. He thinks it will take at least five years, but admits it could take much longer. The other problem is getting approval. In Japan, it is illegal to make human-animal hybrids. Prof Nakauchi is pushing for a change in the law. But if that does not happen, he may have to move his research to America. There are many here in Japan who oppose the idea of human-animal hybrids. Animal rights activists object to the idea of pigs, sheep or goats being used as human organ factories. Many more feel uncomfortable about the idea of pig-human hybrids. It brings to mind HG Wells' sci-fi classic, The Island of Dr Moreau. Prof Nakauchi said his research is completely different. The pigs would still be pigs; they would just be carrying some human tissue inside them. He said there has always been resistance to new scientific breakthroughs. He points to widespread objections to In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) when it was invented in Britain the 1970s. Today, IVF is used across the world, and no one thinks it is strange or unethical. Whatever the ethical debate, for the hundreds of thousands of people around the world waiting for a new kidney or liver, the prospect of being able to make one to order is an astonishing thought.",I am standing in a fully @placeholder operating theatre . A surgeon and team of specialists in green smocks are preparing to operate . But I 'm not in a hospital . I am on a farm deep in the Japanese countryside . On the gurney about to undergo the knife is a six - month - old female pig .,nicknamed,church,automated,functioning,divided,3
"The converted Volkswagen Passat left Land's End on Thursday last week and has been touring the country on its way to the Scottish coast. Owner Kevin Nicks, from Oxfordshire, transformed the car, dubbed the ""world's fastest shed"", in 2015. He said the vehicle was ""faultless"" on the trip and he had made many friends along the way. ""It's a great way to meet people, you walk into a café and immediately everyone wants to talk to you,"" he said. Mr Nicks, a 52-year-old gardener from Great Rollright, near Chipping Norton, made the journey with his 14-year-old daughter Sophie. They took an indirect route from Land's End to John O'Groats, travelling 1,398 miles (2,250km), in order to meet supporters and stop at Elvington Airfield Circuit near York to attempt a new speed record. It was hoped the shed would break the 100mph (160km/h) barrier but it fell just short at 96.8mph (155km/h). The challenge was taken on to raise £10,000 for Katharine House Hospice in Adderbury, which provided care for Mr Nicks' mother.",A shed on wheels has @placeholder John O'Groats after a six - day trip to raise money for a hospice .,left,landed,taken,reached,reappeared,3
"Home Secretary Theresa May has accused Education Secretary Michael Gove of failing to deal with an alleged Islamist plot to take over schools. It is understood Mr Gove believes Mrs May's department does not react strongly enough to extremism. But a spokesman said they were working ""energetically"" together on the issue. In a letter, Mrs May said: ""The allegations relating to schools in Birmingham raise serious questions about the quality of school governance and oversight arrangements."" She added: ""Is it true that Birmingham City Council was warned about these allegations in 2008? Is it true that the Department for Education was warned in 2010? If so, why did nobody act?"" Mr Gove believes there has been a plot by extremist Muslims to take over schools in Birmingham, according to The Times. He thinks there is reluctance to tackle the issue in government departments, especially Home Office. But a Home Office source told the BBC ""he was trying to make it someone else's problem"". Those around Mr Gove pointed out it was his view that for over a generation there had been a reluctance in Whitehall to confront extremism unless it developed into terrorism - and his criticism did not relate specifically to the current home secretary. But a Home Office source was blunt, telling the BBC: ""The Department for Education is responsible for schools, the Home Office is not."" ""They have got a problem and they are trying to make it someone else's problem,"" the source added. A source close to Mr Gove said the education secretary thought ""Theresa May was an excellent home secretary"". The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, said the row amounted to ""an old-fashioned Whitehall turf war"", with two senior ministers differing over how to combat Islamic extremism. ""I understand that Michael Gove and Theresa May clashed at a recent meeting of what's called the Extremism Task Force - a committee of cabinet ministers set up by David Cameron. ""They argued about how to define extremism. Mr Gove has long argued that Whitehall is too soft on extremism; that it only confronts people once they've turned to violence; that you should 'drain the swamp' and not wait for 'the crocodiles to reach the boat'. ""At the meeting he argued for a broader definition. Mrs May, for a narrower one. She won."" Nevertheless, the pair have  insisted they are united. In a statement, they said: ""The Department for Education and the Home Office take the problems in Birmingham schools and all issues relating to extremism very seriously. ""Michael Gove and Theresa May are working together to ensure we get to the bottom of what has happened in Birmingham and take the necessary steps to fix it."" A government spokesman added: ""There is no difference between the education secretary and the home secretary who are both working energetically together to tackle the challenge posed by any form of extremism."" But Tristram Hunt, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary,  said now was not the time for a Whitehall turf war. ""Michael Gove has failed to act on the early warning signs to prevent the sort of situation we are seeing in schools in Birmingham. ""But by refusing to act, Michael Gove is paving the way for more fragile schools to run into trouble."" Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: ""For two such senior ministers to launch a vitriolic public blame game in this way is appalling and irresponsible when they should be working together to sort out such serious problems. ""Preventing extremism is immensely important - in communities and in schools. The truth is that Michael Gove's reforms have made it easier, not harder, for schools to be run inappropriately. ""This is bad government and David Cameron should sort it out."" Three of the Birmingham schools inspected in the wake of the so-called Trojan Horse allegations have published the findings of their Ofsted reports. They are rated ""outstanding"" or ""good"", although one urges governors to prepare students for ""multicultural Britain"". The inspection of 21 schools in Birmingham was a response to claims of a takeover strategy by a hardline Muslim group. Although there have been plans for all the inspection findings to be published together, this has been pre-empted by repeated reports that five or more of the schools have been found inadequate. Individual schools, with positive outcomes, have also begun to publish their own report findings. These include Ninestiles School - an academy in Acocks Green - Small Heath School, and Washwood Heath Academy. A spokeswoman for the Department for Education spokeswoman said it investigating all evidence put to it  in conjunction with Ofsted, Birmingham City Council and the police.",Two senior members of the Cabinet have become embroiled in a bitter row over allegations of extremism in @placeholder schools in Birmingham .,south,state,labour,two,space,1
"The Dutch-owned firm suspended deliveries last month after losing funding. It had been delivering about 3m letters every week in the three cities, in direct competition with Royal Mail. The private equity arm of Lloyds bank decided not to invest, triggering a review. Parent group PostNL said the firm had begun a consultation with affected staff ""to minimise the impact of the decision"". The company also pointed out it would continue to collect 80m items a week to be fed into the Royal Mail system for final delivery. A statement released by PostNL said: ""Following the termination of the discussions on the proposed investment in Whistl UK to fund the further rollout of its current end-to-end (E2E) activities, we have assessed alternative scenarios for Whistl's E2E operations. ""Further to this assessment, it has been decided to end Whistl's E2E operations. ""Whistl remains committed to further developing its successful activities in the UK, including downstream access (DSA) service, door-drop media, packets and parcels and logistics."" About 1,800 workers were employed by Whistl, with many on zero-hours contracts. Whistl is the second largest postal operator in the UK.","Postal business Whistl has confirmed it is ending its @placeholder delivery service in London , Liverpool and Manchester , putting up to 1,800 jobs at risk .",activities,post,regular,home,pace,3
"Laura Try plans to set off from Burnham on Crouch on 3 June on her 1,800 mile (2,900 km) voyage. The events manager will be part of a five-strong crew who will be taking it in turns to sleep or row. Speaking ahead of the trip, Ms Try, from Brentwood, said: ""I will take it one day at a time."" Ms Try, who runs event for an obstacle course company, has had three bouts of serious depression and spent three months homeless last year amid financial problems. As a result, Ms Try, who is a keen runner and endurance athlete, will be rowing to raise money for the homeless charity Centrepoint. Her rowing training has been carried out entirely on a rowing machine in her 3m (15ft) by 4m (18ft) shed in order to get her used to some of the tedium of rowing up to 10miles (16km) from land. ""I could have gone to the gym,"" she said. ""But my shed is boring and its cold. I have been training twice a day with rowing and weightlifting (in a gym) but in the past two or three months I have tapered down the training to focus on fundraising. ""With just a few days to go I am now primarily exercising for my mental health."" Asked why she took on the challenge in the first place, Ms Try, who will eat her way through 224 packets of dry food during the tour, said: ""I just felt I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and I thought the time was right to try something I had not done before."" During the sea voyage, Ms Try will be keeping a video diary to document her experiences living aboard a rowing boat.",A woman who has tackled homelessness and mental health issues is now @placeholder to row for 60 days straight around the British Isles .,poised,set,willing,used,helping,0
"She was 19 years old and studying medicine in Aberdeen when too much partying saw her fall behind in her studies. Feeling alone and unsure of her future, she started regulating her food to regain a sense of control. She says her eating-disorder thoughts literally appeared on one date: 5 November 2002. ""From that day until now, I have counted every calorie I've eaten,"" she says. ""It was like on that day in November, everything suddenly changed."" What developed was an all-consuming obsession that has since ruled her life. It has been a ""full time, seven day a week, constant battle,"" she says. As part of her condition, she hoards food until its way past its use-by date. In her kitchen, there are cupboards full of spoiled food. ""There's food that's been in here for years.,"" she says. ""I've probably got enough if there's ever a nuclear explosion."" She hoards food out of fear of being hungry. But she would never actually consume any of it, as she only ever eats white fish and vegetables. And, without fail, she weighs everything she eats. She has three sets of scales. Two are precise and electronic, which she uses to compare measurements. And the third, which does not require batteries, is there to provide back-up - but only in the most desperate of circumstances. ""It makes me absolutely terrified,"" Ms Lalor says. ""Even if it means going on a bus to the 24-hour Tesco to get a battery, I'm going to get a battery."" She says the condition has left her isolated and made it almost impossible to maintain friendships. ""At times it's been very difficult to be social because every social situation has food - even a coffee,"" she says. This cycle of food obsession and social isolation was something she struggled to break, but new research from King's College London is providing a sense of hope. Conducted by Maria Kekic for her doctorate, it involves using electricity to stimulate a part of the brain known as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Located toward the front of the brain, it is associated with impulsivity or self-control. Participants, including Ms Lalor, were shown videos of food, and their urge to binge eat was measured. Electrical impulses were then applied to their brains, via small electrodes placed on their foreheads. Those who received the signals to the brain area, rather than the placebo, then demonstrated less urge to binge and greater self-control in subsequent tests. But it is a long way from being prescribed as a treatment. ""It is important to remember that this trial is very early days in the research,"" says Ms Kekic. ""It was just a single session, so we're only looking at the temporary effects of brain stimulation ""The next step would be to carry out, over the course of several weeks, daily sessions to see if this has long-lasting effects on symptoms."" What is encouraging is that the stimulation has already proven effective in treating related conditions such as depression, schizophrenia and substance abuse disorders. And Ms Lalor found it worked for her, even if only for a few hours. ""I just came out and my brain felt completely differently,"" she says. ""It was like something had switched and it was back into being how I remember it, when I was an early teenager."" And perhaps most importantly, taking part in the programme has alleviated some of her shame about having a mental illness. ""This treatment was the one time, the only time, that I've been genuinely able to believe that this was part of my brain,"" she says, ""that it is not just me being lazy. ""And even that is enough to change my whole perception of myself, my self-confidence and my self-esteem.""",Philippa Lalor says bulimia has @placeholder the past 15 years of her life .,wasted,stolen,lived,enjoyed,changed,1
"The man, dressed as a priest, stormed the stage of the Rose of Tralee International Festival in County Kerry on Monday night. He held up a placard and shouted: ""Fathers for justice!"" Television cameras cut away from the stage while the protester was removed by security. The Rose of Tralee International Festival is a week-long pageant in which women of Irish descent from around the world vie to be named the Rose of Tralee. The festival's organisers confirmed the man had purchased a ticket and was removed by Irish police after being taken from the stage. They were satisfied adequate security measures were in place, they said in a statement. The man took to the stage while the Cavan Rose, Lisa Reilly, was speaking to presenter Dáithí Ó Sé. Irish Independent journalist Andrea Smith described the stage invasion as ""very shocking"". ""It was like something out of Father Ted, as suddenly a man dressed as a priest runs onto the stage, nobody knows what to do and he's shouting about Fathers 4 Justice,"" Ms Smith, who was live-blogging the event, told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme. ""It probably gave the organisers such a fright, but it's also probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened in the history of the Rose of Tralee,"" she said. It is understood the man was Matt O'Connor, a founder of Fathers 4 Justice, who is originally from County Kerry but now lives in England. The group are best known for a series of high-profile stunts. In 2004, a campaigner dressed as Batman held a protest on a balcony of Buckingham Palace. Earlier that same year, two men threw packages of flour dyed purple at the then prime minister Tony Blair.",A Fathers 4 Justice protester has been removed from the stage after @placeholder a live - televised festival in the Republic of Ireland .,serving,witnessing,carrying,headlining,interrupting,4
"The Meta headset shows digital content superimposed over the user's view that they can manipulate with their hands. They can also use it to make a phone call and ""see"" the person in 3D. However, there remains questions about how willing people will be to wear headsets for such tasks. Augmented reality layers a digital world on top of the physical one. Some experts believe it has more real-world uses than virtual reality, which separates the user from their real-world surroundings. The demonstration at TED showcased the capabilities of the Meta 2 development kit. Meta founder Meron Gribetz said: ""We are creating an experience that merges the art of user interface design with the science of the brain, creating 'natural machines' that feel like extensions of ourselves rather than the other way around. ""For example, our natural hand motion doesn't rely on clicks or buttons, thereby maintaining the flow and connecting people to each other and the moment."" It has had an enthusiastic reaction from those who have tried it. Robert Scoble, an influential futurist at data hosting firm Rackspace, has described it as ""the most important new product since the original Macintosh."" Mr Gribetz said he was inspired to create the machine while watching people on their mobile devices in a New York bar. He said he thought that tools that allowed people to see and share content would be preferable to users ""hunched over a small rectangle"". ""I was thinking about how holograms can replace computers,"" he explained. ""If we can put a digital layer into the real world imagine what that could mean for storytellers and brain surgeons."" The firm was founded in 2012 and the first Meta prototype was a home-made affair, built with an oven-heated knife, a hot glue gun, and the best components Mr Gribetz could get his hands on. In five years time he predicts that the headset will have shrunk to the size of a thin piece of glass. The visor on the headset is see-through, to allow holograms to appear properly anchored to the physical surroundings using positioning tracking, so people using the technology always feel oriented. The firm has told developers they will be able to obtain units by mid-2016. Trying Meta feels a bit like being in Minority Report. 10 screens appeared in the either in front of my eyes and I was move them around by poking on screen and lifting it to another place. Being a policeman of the future is all very well, but more visceral to me was the ability to go onto an Amazon webpage and literally remove a pair of trainers, walk around them, look inside them and even attempt to try them on. I could see the huge potential of this technology for schools - the human body can be lifted out of a page and turned into a 3D model which you can then pull apart to separate skin from skeleton. Perhaps the most impressive part of the demo was when I was asked to call one of Meta's employees via a button on the virtual screen. On answering, he appeared before me as if he was sitting next to me. Pretending for a moment to be architects redesigning the Sydney Opera House, the building popped up in front of me. It offers huge potential for collaborative working. But one of the biggest downsides for me was how you handle content. Currently, you have to almost punch it, which doesn't seem all that natural and, on several occasions, I lost control of the objects I was manipulating. I was told that this will improve over time but it reminds me that, however Iron Man it may seem, the technology is still very much in its infancy.","An augmented reality headset has been shown off at the TED ( Technology , Entertainment and Design ) conference whose makers say could transform computing and @placeholder .",humour,amenities,dignity,sympathy,communication,4
"Resuming on 192-6, Ben Brown added just six to be out for 55 before Ollie Robinson hit an unbeaten 51 as Sussex totalled 278 in their first innings. Trailing by 213 runs and put back in by the hosts, Sussex closed on 137-3. Ed Barnard followed up three Sussex first-innings scalps with Joyce's prized wicket to leave Sussex in peril. Joyce, now 37, maintained the form which brought him a career-best 250 in last week's Championship match against Derbyshire. The visitors now go into the final day of the match needing a further 76 runs to make their hosts bat again. But weather-hit Worcestershire's hopes for a first victory of the season could still be denied if the overnight forecast proves correct. More heavy rain is forecast during the next 24 hours. Worcestershire paceman Ed Barnard told BBC Hereford & Worcester: ""It is a very flat pitch and we've done very well today to take seven wickets. It was hard going but everyone stuck at it. ""The cracks have started to open up and, if you hit the edge, the ball will go up and down. ""I'm not sure the forecast is great. We've played good cricket this season and not got what we deserved from games but hopefully it can stay fine."" Sussex vice-captain Ben Brown: ""We spoke about showing fight and character. We have done it already this season and we have fought hard again here. ""We didn't want to be in this position but Ollie Robinson this morning took some time out of the game. ""He batted well and Ed Joyce and Luke Wells did really well with their partnership in the second innings.""",Sussex 's former captain Ed Joyce hit 74 at New Road to hold up Worcestershire 's hopes of an innings victory after the visitors were @placeholder to follow - on .,slow,eliminated,ranked,forced,introduced,3
"Machetes, a knuckle duster and axes were recovered as part of a probe into the rival gangs, known as ""Moorclose"" and ""Mandem"" in west Cumbria. Cumbria Police said it had ""nipped the problem in the bud"" but still needed help to arrest more suspects. It set up Operation Rodeo to tackle the disorder in Workington and Whitehaven. Forty-three people have been arrested, aged between 13 and 40, who are all going through the court system, police said. Det Insp Dan St Quintin said: ""The criminality our communities have experienced is totally unacceptable and police have nipped this in the bud. ""I would like to reassure the public that we have a team of dedicated detectives working full time to detect and prosecute anyone found committing criminal behaviour.""","More than 40 suspected gang members have been arrested on suspicion of a string of offences including @placeholder weapons and assault , police said .",possessing,group,drugs,fleeing,aged,0
"Rejoice, Remainians! Out of a fairly shattering trip around Wales and the West last week came a hefty chunk of good news for the Remain camp: the economic message being pushed day in, day out by the government and nearly everybody else in the Remain campaign is sinking in. From 'Don't knows' in particular I heard a lot of talk about the economic damage that withdrawal might bring.  There is the same staggering confusion as before about what might happen if Britain did leave the EU, but into that has been injected real concern about the economic impact of withdrawal. Those of us that had the good fortune to follow the prime minister for the five and a half week election campaign last year recognise the playbook; get one big message about what might be lost through a course of action (voting Labour, leaving the EU) and hammer it home at every possible opportunity. Campaign strategists reckon most people  spend around six minutes a week thinking about politics. Right now, some of that six minutes is spent thinking about what might be lost if Britain leaves the EU. For Remain, that's Mission Accomplished. What do people mean when they talk about their concerns over immigration? It has been noted by people cleverer than your correspondent that support for UKIP, the group that most explicitly pushes an anti-immigration platform, is highest where there is the least immigration - the very-white, still-very-English seaside towns of south eastern England. In Liverpool the other night, where I was the guest of the Walton Social Club - (it was Open Mic Night, and a lot of fun) one interviewee told me she wanted Britain to withdraw from the EU because of immigration. She then talked with great passion and concern of the risk of unaccompanied children coming into the country, a reference to the talk of taking in Syrian refugee minors. This is of course entirely unconnected to the EU. In the toilets, that male confessional, I was told by patrons in no uncertain terms of their deep concerns over the number of Muslims in the country, about the burning to death of a Jordanian pilot by IS and the threat of Sharia law in the UK. What the large numbers of Poles, Romanians Spanish and Italians who have made the UK their home have to do with this is anyone's guess. The EU vote: All you need to know EU referendum issues guide How EU aid could affect the Cornish vote In Lancaster a  fair number of interviewees talked with great passion and concern  about the problems of housing and the strain on the NHS and schools, brought about by large scale immigration.  When pressed they admitted that neither they nor their friends or relatives had experienced any such problems. There is no doubt that large scale immigration has strained services, that jobs at the bottom of the wage scale have been snapped up by immigrants, that housing costs more as a result of incomers. But I get the sense that a lot of the concern is cultural. Those most affected by the difficulties listed above are the young; but those most vocal about immigration are older voters. ""I want Britain to be for the British,"" said one retiree in Lancaster when I asked him why immigration was such a problem. At national level there may be little more to the debate than 'Remain' banging on about the economy and 'Leave' stirring it up over immigration. And for many weeks that was all you heard on the streets.  But a trip to leafy Hampshire this week revealed the green shoots of a slightly more nuanced debate. For many Conservative voters (and there are many, many of them in Hampshire) the question of sovereignty was important well before 'control of our laws' became code for 'controlling immigration'. The sovereignty argument became rather buried in amongst the back and forth of the past few months.  But it is still in many minds. In Hampshire there was an acknowledgment of a trade-off; you might call it cooperation versus independence. And there was an understanding that taking control back might mean some economic hardship. But it would be, for some at least, a price worth paying for restoring, in theory at least, the sovereignty of parliament. There's been much moaning about the vacuity of the campaign. But it is becoming more nuanced at local level, as voters start thinking about which way to jump.","With less than three weeks to go before the UK votes in the EU referendum , how is the debate playing out on the @placeholder . Jonny Dymond has been touring the country for Radio 4 News and the PM programme .",radio,ground,banks,agenda,word,1
"The theatre was evacuated after the 18-year-old fell into the stalls at about 21:30 BST on Thursday, Lancashire police said. He was treated by paramedics at the scene and was conscious when he was taken to Royal Preston Hospital. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. As the 18-year-old landed, he caught the shoulder of a woman on the end of one of the rows in the stalls, police said. She was not injured. Eyewitness Robert Simmill said it was ""probably the worst thing"" he had ever seen.  He tweeted: ""Terrible scenes at Blackpool Grand theatre tonight!"" He told the BBC: ""I just saw the body fall... then there was a loud thud. Everyone around got up and started screaming and shouting. Meanwhile, the show carried on with the song as they didn't know anything had happened. ""People from the audience were shouting at the actors to stop. I looked up to the third tier as I was in the stalls, and saw people crying. Everyone was shocked and scared, it seemed. ""We were all told to evacuate through the exits. There were stories about him fainting and falling but others were saying he jumped. I saw people shaking around me; even I was shaking from the shock."" Joanne Brookes tweeted: ""Shocking scenes. I was there with my 12 yr old. Something I can't believe she had to witness."" The Grand Theatre released a statement on Twitter, saying: ""We can confirm an incident @Grand_Theatre this evening. Police/Ambulance service attended, performance was abandoned."" It also said that a decision would be made on Friday on future Grease performances at the theatre. Blackpool and Fylde Light Opera Company confirmed it would resume the musical production later and that Saturday's matinee and evening performances would also go ahead.",A teenager has been seriously injured after jumping from an upper @placeholder balcony during a performance of Grease at Blackpool 's Grand Theatre .,circle,night,stage,river,degree,0
"There were accusations on both sides yesterday. The first minister accused the prime minister of ""intransigence"", of being a ""brick wall"". The PM accused the Scottish government of ""playing politics"" (yes that old chestnut) and Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell said Ms Sturgeon was ""obsessed"". The first minister has turned up the attacks today, questioning the prime minister's mandate for governing, in this tweet. Forget about the political verbiage between the two for a second though. What might Theresa May's options actually be? Is there actually going to be a second independence referendum vote, when it is the last thing that Number 10 wants to happen? 1. She could say 'No' immediately: This is extremely unlikely. Both sides know this would likely give the SNP a big bump in the polls and wouldn't remotely take the issue off the table. 2. Say 'Yes' immediately: This is also extremely unlikely. Number 10 doesn't want this vote to take place and backing down now is almost unthinkable for a prime minister whose first visit was to Scotland, making it clear preserving the union is near the top of her list 3. Say 'Not now, but not never': This is basically the position the government has taken so far, as David Mundell suggested yesterday. Westminster does not want to make it easy for the Scottish government. And what they won't agree to is the SNP's timetable of holding a vote before the Brexit negotiations are done. 4. Play it long: This seems to be the second part of the strategy. Don't allow Nicola Sturgeon to set the terms of the narrative. She did yesterday, but with Theresa May holding off from triggering Article 50, the next fortnight could leave Nicola Sturgeon twisting in the wind, looking as if she moved too fast. While trying to avoid accepting a referendum, the Tories will try to keep the arguments focused on why they believe a vote should not take place. The SNP, however, may equally try to make this look as if Westminster is ignoring their demands, which of course, strengthens their case still further. 5. Do a deal behind closed doors: This isn't the official position and no one on either side would acknowledge such a thing. But there are whispers that this has already happened. The theory goes that the UK government has accepted the inevitable and will allow the referendum to go ahead, but only on the basis that the agreement to do so includes a ""sunrise clause"" - so Nicola Sturgeon wins the right to hold the vote but in law, can't do so until the UK has left the EU. There's even a suggestion Westminster may stipulate that the second vote can't take place until after the next Holyrood election. That would be fiercely resisted by the SNP who could argue their victory in 2016 gave them a clear mandate for a second vote. 6. Call Ms Sturgeon's bluff: Theresa May could suddenly suggest that despite the frustrations of their talks so far, that there could be a different deal for Scotland, and she will appeal to the EU Commission on Scotland's behalf to pursue that path. If Number 10 explored this publicly, it would be much harder for the Scottish Government to make its case. One SNP insider said it would ""shoot our fox"". But a UK government source downplayed the possibility of doing so. It would be a significant change in the UK approach and could open the door to complicated concessions and demands on many different fronts. Let's be clear, Theresa May really doesn't want to have a referendum. Senior SNP figures insist that Nicola Sturgeon, as she said yesterday, is completely serious about still being open to compromises if they can be made. But with the political temperature already at boiling point, it's hard to see how they can find a solution that works for both sides.",If it was @placeholder to grab headlines it certainly did that . Nicola Sturgeon slammed the ball into Theresa May 's court on the question of another independence referendum .,delivered,designed,confined,overheard,supposed,1
"Mr Bannon, formerly the head of the populist right-wing, Breitbart News website, will join high-level discussions about national security. The order was signed on Saturday. The director of national intelligence and the joint chiefs will attend when discussions pertain to their areas. Under previous administrations, the director and joint chiefs attended all meetings of the NSC's inner circle, the principals' committee. The National Security Council (NSC) is the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. It is led by retired lieutenant-general Mike Flynn, who was one of Mr Trump's closest advisers and most ardent supporters during the campaign. ""The security threats facing the United States in the 21st century transcend international boundaries,"" Mr Trump's executive order said. ""Accordingly, the United States Government's decision-making structures and processes to address these challenges must remain equally adaptive and transformative."" Last week, Mr Bannon described the US mainstream media as ""the opposition party"", saying it should ""keep its mouth shut"". The site he once managed, Breitbart News, serves up an anti-establishment agenda that critics accuse of xenophobia and misogyny. Under Mr Bannon, it became one of the most-read conservative news and opinion sites in the US. Mr Trump also ordered a restructuring of the Homeland Security Council. In two separate measures, the president ordered:","President Donald Trump is reshuffling the US National Security Council ( NSC ) , downgrading the military chiefs of staff and giving a regular @placeholder to his chief strategist Steve Bannon .",message,response,seat,update,lecture,2
"Delphi Diesel Systems employs 771 people in Sudbury and said it would concentrate on higher-skilled work and innovation at its plant there. The losses are made up of 91 full-time and 85 agency jobs. Neil Evans, regional officer for the union Unite, called the decision short-sighted. ""We're very concerned about the decision managers have made,"" he said. ""We believe it's very short-sighted. Ultimately they are putting the entire operation in Sudbury in jeopardy. ""There are workers in Sudbury with more than 20 years' experience and we are putting forward alternative strategies and doing our level best to reverse the decision."" Richard Gotch, from the company, said: ""Delphi has entered into discussions with employee representatives on the uncompetitive nature of its Sudbury plant. ""The company is proposing a change in manufacturing to focus on high-tech manufacturing and is discussing the possibility to outsource non-core manufacturing components. The management is committed to the long-term best interests of the site and will work to minimize the impact by looking for ways to support the affected employees. ""The UK is Delphi's centre of excellence for diesel research as well as manufacturing.""",A @placeholder industry components maker is to axe 176 jobs in Suffolk and move them abroad .,large,heavy,community,deal,motor,4
"The fact that Samoa could not qualify for the quarter-finals, whatever the result, meant that they were going to want to play more expansively and give their supporters something to cheer about, despite it being a disappointing World Cup campaign. This made them dangerous - but also vulnerable. To combat this, Scotland wanted to play a slightly more set-piece orientated game and hold possession, which they initially struggled to do. The story of the first half was mainly about Samoa. They looked excited and enthused in attack, playing with width and subtlety and were throwing caution to the wind. The width they were playing with often created mismatches - backs attacking forwards - on the edges of the defensive line. Tim Nanai-Williams and Reynold Lee-lo were exceptional and regularly beat the first man. They were playing in a traditional Pacific Island style, not worrying too much about structure or exits - and this suited them. The plus side for Scotland was that they looked dangerous when they had the ball too. Samoa's defence wasn't particularly structured. They were there to put a show on in attack, but they were very keen to put the individual big hits in which can be very destructive when it comes off - but it can also create dog legs to exploit. A noticeable tactical call from Scotland was to turn down kicks at goal and kick to the corner instead. My theory on this was that they were trying to starve Samoa of the ball, to make them defend and not give the ball back until they had an extra five or seven points. It also showed a real confidence in their line-out maul and ball retention. The ironic thing was that they failed to score from the first set of drives and it was only once Scotland had Ryan Wilson sin-binned that they converted the maul into points. One of Scotland's first-half issues, and a problem area for the whole World Cup, was kick-off receipt. Samoa won back their first three kick-offs, kicking short and up the middle. Even when Scotland put a 'pod' in that target area, Samoa regained the ball. It is an area that needs to be addressed because, as I've mentioned before, it's a real momentum killer. Scotland decided to kick long with their kick-offs, pincering the Samoans deep in their 22m. I think this tactical decision was made as they knew Samoa were going to want to throw the ball around and was an area where they could build pressure. The Scots had very good numbers in their front-line chase where normally there would be a more passive chase on the edges. This suggests it was a deliberate ploy and the pressure resulted in the Tommy Seymour try. Scotland were probably fortunate to still be in the game at half-time, but they deserve credit for this and were clinical with their opportunities. Samoa seemed to self-combust just after half-time, giving away seven penalties in 15 minutes. It gave Scotland a foothold in the game, allowing them territory and possession. The match slowed down and, with that, the sting went out of the Samoan attack. Scotland continued with turning down kickable penalties into the second half, but after a few efforts, they bore no fruit. Greig Laidlaw decided enough was enough and kicked the points. There was a fairly crucial moment at 52 minutes, one that showed how important the rub of the green is. The momentum was all with Scotland and, with the score at 26-26, Samoa kicked off. Finn Russell had his kick charged down deep in his own 22m. It could have ricocheted anywhere but in this instance dropped nicely into Wilson's hands and, after a 30m break, Scotland were awarded a penalty and it was 29-26. Critical to the victory was the decision to take the scrum in front of the posts at 73 minutes, a brave call that resulted in Laidlaw's try. It's the process of the decision and previous decisions that was impressive. There were discussions, and decisions were made with clear heads, with a rationale behind them. This is the sign of a strong leadership group. The game could have slipped away, but when Scotland needed to step it up, that's what they did.",There were plenty of tactical @placeholder to Scotland 's pulsating 36 - 33 World Cup win over Samoa in Newcastle on Saturday .,parallels,elements,exceptions,response,solutions,1
"Taken together, they show that opinions vary widely on what Britain's best relation with the European Union should be. The first by the British Chambers of Commerce suggests that half of the business leaders it polled want to wait until David Cameron reveals the strength of the government's European Union reform package before deciding how to vote. If there was a ""leave-remain"" referendum held tomorrow, the survey suggests that 63% of business people would opt to remain in the EU and 27% would vote to leave. A much more negative view on the EU is revealed in a second poll also published this morning, funded by Howard Shore, the executive chairman of the investment firm, Shore Capital. Mr Shore is a prominent Conservative Party donor, sponsoring the Carlton Club Dinner and the Black and White Ball, important events for Mr Cameron to tell a few jokes and replenish the party coffers. Mr Shore is known to have the ear of the Prime Minister. His poll of 600 small business leaders was undertaken and published by Business for Britain, a group rather more sceptical about the advantages of the UK's continuing membership of an unreformed EU. The findings suggest that a majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (also known as SMEs) believe the EU hinders their business and would like to see Britain repatriate regulatory powers over issues such as employment law and health and safety legislation. Mr Shore told me that he expected Mr Cameron to demand substantial reforms in negotiations with other EU members. ""I'm convinced that we're in an enormously strong position within Europe today to dictate the way things move forward,"" he told me. And Britain's strength - Mr Shore argues - comes just as Germany, usually considered the political powerhouse of EU negotiations, finds itself in a ""weak"" position. ""I'd like to see the EU climate, regulation and modus operandi change for the better for everybody in Europe,"" Mr Shore said. ""Because I believe the way to solve the debt crisis, to provide better public services within Europe, to get people back to work, is to deregulate, particularly within employment and health and safety legislation. ""We're in a wonderful position to renegotiate. ""Germany is weak politically. ""It's suffering a refugee crisis. It's suffering a potentially very large write-off from the Greek debt. ""It has a slowdown in Chinese exports to deal with. It has sanctions against Russia, which is having a big impact on German business. ""Angela Merkel is not in a position today to resist our demands."" And, of course, Germany's largest car manufacturer, VW, is in the middle of a major corporate scandal. ""Let's put ourselves in the eyes of the people we are negotiating with,"" Mr Shore said. ""It [would be] an economic disaster for Angela Merkel to walk in to a new election and say 'I lost the UK, we're going to have to pay the £12bn-a-year fiscal transfer, and by the way, we had a £30bn a year trade surplus with the UK. But now we're going to have to renegotiate our trade agreement'. ""What do you think the export lobby within Germany would think of that? So, she might say she doesn't want to cross red lines, but I believe she'll have to."" Although certainly no Europhile, Mr Shore insists that he is not instinctively against Europe - he wants a different kind of European Union. I asked him if he agreed with those - like the Business Secretary Sajid Javid - who have said in the past that Britain has nothing to fear from an EU exit. ""Yes, I do absolutely,"" he said. ""The reason being that it's inconceivable in my mind that if we did leave, we wouldn't be able to renegotiate a new trade agreement that looked very similar to the old one. ""But we wouldn't be subject to all these regulations. ""I'm not saying that we should just leave Europe for purely economic reasons. All I'm saying is on pure economic grounds at the moment, I think the downside outweighs the upside. ""I think that's possible to change so it's more balanced. And then people can make a decision based on other factors as well."" And is he optimistic that Mr Cameron can push through substantial EU reforms of the type he would like to see? ""I'm a born optimist,"" he replied with a laugh. ""I think Britain is in a great position, our economy is the most dynamic of the major economies in Europe today.""",This morning two polls have been published on the knotty issue of business 's @placeholder to the European Union and the referendum that is now expected by many to be held next year .,ties,powers,attitude,head,election,2
"The former Ireland number nine turns 39 on 13 December and if he did earn a new deal with Sale, he would be playing Premiership rugby at 40 next season. Stringer, who won 98 caps for his country, joined the Sharks last season after spells at Munster, Saracens, Newcastle and Bath. ""It is a landmark, but it is only next year,"" Stringer told Rugby Union Extra. ""I genuinely feel as I did 10 years ago. I still enjoy the training and playing so as long as the body and mind are in sync I shall keep going as long as I can."" Stringer puts his longevity down to never drinking alcohol, his lifestyle and enjoying keeping fit. ""It's diet, it's sleep, it's everything,"" he added. ""It's is probably since moving to the UK and getting that shock at Munster of not being involved in the matchday squad and I suppose people writing you off. ""Coming over here and getting a new lease of life and realising that whatever number of years I do have left in the game, I want to give myself every opportunity to be at the top."" Stringer also spoke to BBC Radio Manchester for the first time since the sudden death of his Munster captain and friend Anthony Foley last month. Five days after he passed, Stringer started in Sale's 15-5 loss to the Champions Cup loss to Toulon on a personally emotional night at AJ Bell Stadium. ""Anthony is a guy who would not have wanted me to sit at home and keep my head down - it was a matter of getting on the field,"" he said ""I'm glad I played against Toulon and it then it hit me when the final whistle went and I was sat in the changing room. ""On the field this guy was just a sensational player, one of the brightest I've ever come across on a rugby field.""",Sale Sharks scrum - half Peter Stringer has @placeholder playing at the top level past the age of 40 .,revealed,denied,targeted,honoured,fallen,2
"18 June 2016 Last updated at 12:04 BST A portable machine has been sending high-frequency radio waves into the earth to map out the building's ""footprint"" concealed beneath. The survey is the first comprehensive archaeological investigation at Reading Abbey for more than 150 years. Experts say the Hidden Abbey Project could even uncover the high altar where King Henry I and Queen Adeliza are buried.",Engineers are using radar technology to discover the long - hidden @placeholder of Reading Abbey .,advantage,parts,remains,secret,size,2
"""It was good because he scored twice, including a fantastic free-kick, and he worked so hard,"" the Foxes boss said. ""Maybe he is tired of hearing dilly ding dilly dong all the time,"" the Italian added of Mahrez, who scored Leicester's third with a penalty. ""Now we have to stay calm and put our mind to the next match on Saturday."" Mahrez had scored once in four Premier League appearances before Wednesday's European tie. Analysis: Why we need Leicester to shake up the Champions League too ""Dilly ding dilly dong"" is how Ranieri described the imaginary bell he would shake when he thought players were ""sleeping"" last season - before they stunned the football world by claiming the Premier League title. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live after his side's first Group C match, the Italian added: ""With Rostov [of Russia] we are the only two teams who have never played in the Champions League before. ""For us it is very tough to play against teams with very good experience, like Brugge, FC Porto and FC Copenhagen. ""It's not easy but it's OK. We started well, and that gives us confidence."" Foxes winger Marc Albrighton got the opener against Belgian champions Brugge on Wednesday and said scoring his club's first ever Champions League goal was ""just how I'd seen it in my dreams"". ""To score the goal was an unbelievable feeling,"" the 26-year-old added on BT Sport. Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola described his side's dominant 4-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach as ""the most important game of the season to now"". City - who have seven wins from seven this season - had 23 shots at goal against the Bundesliga side. ""Considering the opponent, the pressure that we had, we played really, really good,"" added Guardiola, who watched on as Sergio Aguero scored the second-hat-trick of this campaign. Guardiola, who has worked with strikers such as Lionel Messi, Samuel Eto'o, David Villa and Robert Lewandowski, said Aguero was ""one of the best"" when asked how the Argentine ranked out of those he has coached. ""He has a special quality in the box,"" added the Spaniard. ""He's a special player."" City, second in Group C behind Barcelona - who beat Celtic 7-0 on Tuesday - on goal difference, also handed a debut to Ilkay Gundogan following his recovery from injury. ""After three or four months out injured, he played with such intelligence,"" said Guardiola. ""He is an amazing player. He was dribbling, he arrived in the box at the right moment at the right tempo, we are so happy to have him here."" Media playback is not supported on this device Tottenham's Champions League campaign began disappointingly as they slumped to a 2-1 defeat against AS Monaco before an English record for a home crowd of 85,011 at Wembley. Manager Mauricio Pochettino blamed his team's defensive frailties for the loss, with their first-half sloppiness allowing Bernardo Silva and Thomas Lemar to score the goals which put the Ligue 1 side in control. ""We conceded a goal after 16 minutes that, at this level, you cannot concede,"" said the Argentine. ""We conceded the second in the same circumstances as the first. We improved in the second half and had chances to win the game but after conceding the first they started to play comfortably with the ball and with calmness. ""They had only two shots on target and scored twice. We feel very disappointed with the result. ""It is true that we had more chances. We were better than Monaco but they were more effective. It is not new. We need to win games, we need to be more aggressive with the ball.""","Claudio Ranieri said "" the Champions League music @placeholder up "" Riyad Mahrez , who scored twice as Leicester beat Club Brugge 3 - 0 on their competition debut .",lights,called,opened,woke,picked,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device The 21-year-old ran 9.97 secs in Birmingham to become the first Briton to go under both 10 seconds in the 100m and 20 seconds in the 200m. He clutched his leg after crossing the line in second place behind American Marvin Bracy (9.93) and was taken from the track in a wheelchair. Dina Asher-Smith, 19, ran the second quickest 200m by a British woman. Media playback is not supported on this device On a successful day for Britain's sprinters, Asher-Smith finished third in a personal best 22.30 secs. The British 100m record holder was just a hundredth of a second adrift of winner Jeneba Tarmoh and Allyson Felix in second, who both clocked 22.29 secs. ""I'm really happy,"" Asher-Smith told BBC Sport. ""I was looking to get somewhere around my personal best so to run 22.30 is just out of this world."" The pair's performances sated athletics fans in the absence of double Olympic champion Mo Farah, who withdrew from men's 1500m on the morning of the competition. Farah said he was ""emotionally and physically drained"" after a ""stressful week"" that saw a BBC investigation allege his coach Alberto Salazar had been involved in doping. European 200m champion Gemili's form in the week leading up to the race had promised a special performance in Birmingham. He recorded a wind-assisted 9.97secs last Sunday and, on a cloudless day at the Alexander Stadium, set a personal best 10.00secs in the heats, which he went on to better in the final. ""I felt my hamstring go as I dipped, but I'm in good spirits,"" Gemili said. ""British sprinting is really stepping up and I'm glad to be a part of it."" Richard Kilty also set a personal best time of 10.05secs in finishing fifth, while fellow Briton Chijindu Ujah was sixth in 10.11secs. Five Britons had previously dipped under the 10-second mark: Linford Christie (9.87), James Dasaolu (9.91) Chijindu Ujah (9.96), Dwain Chambers (9.97) and Jason Gardener (9.98). He recorded the second quickest 200m by a Briton when he won gold in Zurich last year in a time of 19.98 secs. Elsewhere at the Diamond League event, Olympic champion Greg Rutherford won the men's long jump by equalling his second longest jump ever, a season's best 8.35m leap. Laura Muir set a personal best 2:00.42 to finish second in the women's 800m. It was a race comfortably won by Kenya's Eunice Jepkoech Sum, unbeaten over the distance this season, in 1:59.85. British record holder Tiffany Porter (12.65) came third in the women's 100m hurdles, as did compatriot Laura Weightman (4:06.42) in the women's 1500m. Finally, having initially had what was an African-record throw deemed a foul, Julius Yego's 91.39m effort in the javelin was later declared legal - winning the Kenyan the competition and putting him ninth on the all-time list.",Adam Gemili ran his first sub - 10 seconds 100 m but then fell to the ground with a suspected @placeholder hamstring .,torn,causing,gripping,left,team,0
"The Ranafast Gaeltacht in west Donegal is home to hundreds of visiting Irish-language students from Northern Ireland each summer. The latest generation of students have come to the college this summer against the backdrop of an official report earlier this year, that suggested Irish will no longer be the primary language in any Gaeltacht community in 10 years. The report was commissioned by Údarás na Gaeltachta, the body that oversees economic development in Irish-speaking areas of the Republic of Ireland. It found that spoken Irish in the Gaeltacht - areas where the bulk of the population speak the language - is becoming confined to academic settings. The research was based on Irish census figures for 2006 and 2011. It said that social use of Irish in the Gaeltacht is declining at an even more rapid rate than predicted in their last report in 2007. Of the 155 electoral divisions in the Gaeltacht, only 21 are communities where Irish is spoken on a daily basis by 67% or more of the population. The families who host the visiting students in the area have vowed to defend the language against any future threat. Homeowner (Bean an Tí) Caitlín Ní Dhubhchaín said: ""There are people that will not let that happen, we won't let it happen. ""The Irish language will never stop here in Gaeltacht areas and as kids are growing up, they're now being passionate. So, what we love, they love, and their kids will love. ""At the end of the day, it's not a hard language to carry and we won't let the Irish language die."" The threat to the language in Gaeltacht areas comes at a time when there is growing interest in Irish speaking elsewhere, including Northern Ireland. Christina Ni Géidigh, who is a young Irish language teacher from the area, is passionate about her native language and said: ""It's a shame that it's actually coming to that, that people elsewhere are so enthusiastic. ""They're buzzing to learn Irish, and then here there is such a blasé approach to the language."" At the Irish language college, Coláiste Bhríde in Ranafast (Rann na Feirste) Gearóid Ó Murchu said government cuts are partly to blame. ""We've had successive governments, and this is going back to the time when we lost our sovereignty, for want of a better term, with the economic process,"" he said. ""They began to pull what they described as the low-hanging fruit - language was placed in that category. ""They withdrew grants to colleges such as this to develop the languages. ""I'm now appealing to government, I'm appealing to whoever will be in our next government, to support the people who live in the Gaeltacht, those people who have remained loyal not just to Gaelic games but to the Gaelic culture, to the Gaelic tradition and more importantly to the Irish language."" BBC Radio Ulster Irish language programme Blas has been reporting from the summer colleges.",One of the foremost Irish - speaking ( Gaeltacht ) communities in Ireland is vowing to @placeholder the future of the Irish language .,determine,handle,follow,change,protect,4
"The US economy created 287,000 jobs in June, rebounding strongly from disappointing growth in May. London's FTSE 100 closed 56.85 points, or 0.9% higher, at 6,590.64, while US stocks opened higher with the Dow Jones also up 0.8%. In London, property shares were doing well after Swiss bank UBS said the sell-off in the sector was ""overdone"". Shares in property-related firms fell sharply after the UK voted to leave the EU, and the sector was hit again earlier this week as a succession of fund managers suspended trading in their property funds. However, on Friday, shares in Taylor Wimpey shares rose 7.7% while Barratt Developments added 6.9%. In the FTSE 250, Bovis Homes was up 12% and Bellway was 9% higher. Overall, the more UK-focused FTSE 250 was up 278.9 points, or 1.8%, at 17,781.42. On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.4% against the dollar to $1.2958 and was 0.6% higher against the euro at €1.1736. The pound touched a 31-year low against the dollar earlier this week, and has remained under pressure following the UK's vote to leave the EU. ""It looks like the pound has found its level for now but could pitch lower on more weak data or fresh worries about the UK economy. All the bad news is priced in - for now,"" said Andrew Edwards of ETX Capital.",( Close ) : UK shares rose as stronger - than - expected US jobs figures @placeholder to lift financial markets .,continuing,sought,returned,linked,helped,4
"The New Zealander scored eight points as the Italians enjoyed their first victory for a year - and that was against the Blues in February 2015. Blaine Scully had scored in the corner to give the Blues a half-time lead after two Treviso penalties by Hayward. But the hosts won it with a penalty try as Blues were penalised for pulling down a scrum just after half-time. The Blues' second defeat in Italy this season - following their loss at Zebre in October - ended their four-match winning run in the Pro12. Treviso, meanwhile, celebrated their first win in 14 games this season with a commanding display against a Welsh side without a host of their international players. After two early Hayward penalties, the visitors' United States international Scully gave the visitors hope of a fifth win in a row. The American skipper broke through on the overlap to score, but a second-half Treviso penalty try earned the Italians a first victory following 20 successive defeats. Blues number eight Manoa Vosawai had two good chances to score, but the defeat leaves Danny Wilson's side ninth and 16 points off the play-off places. Cardiff Blues: Rhys Patchell; Blaine Scully, Cory Allen, Rey Lee-Lo, Dan Fish; Jarrod Evans (Aled Summerhill, 61), Tavis Knoyle (Tomos Williams, 53); Thomas Davies (Bradley Thyer, 65), Kristian Dacey (Ethan Lewis, 65), Salesi Ma'afu (Taufa'ao Filise, 49); Jarrad Hoeata (Lou Reed, 65), James Down; Josh Navidi (Macauley Cook, 73), Ellis Jenkins (c), Manoa Vosawai. Replacement not used: Garyn Smith, Benetton Rugby: Jayden Hayward; Ludovico Nitoglia, Luca Morisi, Alberto Sgarbi (c), Tommaso Iannone; Sam Christie, Alberto Lucchese; Dean Budd, Marco Lazzaroni, Andrea De Marchi; Tom Palmer, Filo Paulo; Simone Ferrari, Luca Bigi, Alberto De Marchi. Replacements: Federico Zani, Matteo Muccignat, Filippo Filippetto,  Jeff Montauriol, Marco Barbini, Chris Smylie, Enrico Bacchin, Angelo Esposito. Referee: Dudley Phillips (IRFU) Assistant referees: Filippo Bertelli, Stefano Bolzonella (both FIR) Citing commissioner: Stefano Marrama (FIR) TMO: Stefano Roscini (FIR)",Jayden Hayward helped Benetton Treviso to their first Pro12 win this season as the bottom club @placeholder Cardiff Blues .,shocked,was,table,reached,title,0
"The Museum of Fashion has picked the ""star"" outfits showing how fashion has evolved from the 1600s to the present. Manager Rosemary Harden said the collection ""showcases the best of the museum's huge collection of outfits"". Here she picks out the key outfits from the exhibition which runs until January 2018. The exhibition at the Museum of Fashion in Bath runs until January 2018.","From bustles to @placeholder - con dresses , an exhibition telling the history of fashion in 100 outfits has opened in Bath .",auto,play,body,life,pro,2
"Singer Michelle John left from the competition, after she came last in the public vote on Saturday night's show. Her exit means that either Mo Adeniran, Into The Ark or Jamie Miller will be crowned the winner on Sunday night's show. Find out more about them here. It also means that either Jennifer Hudson, or Tom Jones will be this year's winning coach. Before leaving Michelle said she was proud of her achievements on the show, and said: ""I might not have won but I'm a winner"".","The final @placeholder has been eliminated from The Voice , and the final three contestants have been confirmed .",act,date,period,two,health,0
"Officers were called to Rowley Healthcare on Hawes Lane in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, on Monday afternoon. The woman, who was in her 50s, was treated by medical staff and taken to hospital but died a short time later. A 54-year-old man was arrested at the surgery and is in police custody. The area has been cordoned off while forensic experts examine the scene.",A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who @placeholder at a doctor 's surgery with stab wounds and died shortly after .,admitted,worked,collapsed,arrived,stabbed,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device The 30-year-old, who has played mainly as a forward, operated in a deeper role for much of the 1-0 win in Trnava. Rooney revealed that Allardyce, who lost his job last week, admitted to him that his comments had been a mistake. ""I played exactly to instructions,"" said the Manchester United player. ""He knew he had made a mistake. He said that to me on the plane home. ""That's part of being involved at this level. He understood that quite early and unfortunately he doesn't have the chance to rectify that now."" Rooney, England's all-time leading scorer with 53 goals, also thought he had given ""a decent performance"" against Slovakia. England won their opening World Cup 2018 qualifier 1-0 thanks to an injury-time winner from Liverpool's Adam Lallana. ""I actually thought I'd done quite well, especially in the second half,"" said Rooney. ""It has all been blown up."" Allardyce left his post as England manager by mutual agreement with the Football Association last week after only one match and 67 days in charge. It followed a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to ""get around"" rules on player transfers. ""It's a shame,"" said Rooney. ""Everyone could see how excited Sam was for the job and he came in and showed that enthusiasm to the players. ""It's a shame it's happened and I'm sure he deeply regrets it. For the FA, I'm sure it has been a tough couple of weeks."" Gareth Southgate will take charge of England for the next four games. Media playback is not supported on this device Rooney thinks it's an opportunity for the England Under-21 boss to ""show what he can do at senior level"". ""We have to buy into his ways and take his ideas on board,"" said Rooney. Rooney's place in the England side has been under scrutiny since the country's failure at Euro 2016, where he played in midfield. Asked where he thought he would play for England under Southgate, Rooney said: ""It is getting tiring, that question. I have answered it many times. ""It is the same answer. I will play where the manager wants me to play. I have never picked myself."" On Monday, Southgate confirmed that Rooney will remain as captain, describing the forward as ""the outstanding leader in the group"". Rooney welcomed the backing of the interim boss, saying: ""With Sam, there was a lot of talk over whether I would be captain. It was good Gareth put that to bed early and there was no unnecessary speculation."" Media playback is not supported on this device Gary Cahill is expected to start in the centre of defence against Malta. The 30-year-old has made some high-profile mistakes for Chelsea in recent weeks, including against Swansea when he allowed Leroy Fer to rob him of possession and score the equaliser. ""Up to Swansea, my form was good, I was playing well and I was happy,"" Cahill told BBC Sport. ""But since then I have made a few big errors, basic errors. As ridiculously bad as they were, they are easy to correct.""","Wayne Rooney feels he got "" @placeholder "" for his display in last month 's win in Slovakia after former England boss Sam Allardyce stated that his captain "" played wherever he wanted "" .",called,team,deserves,experience,slaughtered,4
"Briefly: An independent regulatory body for the press should be established. It should take an active role in promoting high standards, including having the power to investigate serious breaches and sanction newspapers. The new body should be backed by legislation designed to assess whether it is doing its job properly. The legislation would enshrine, for the first time, a legal duty on the government to protect the freedom of the press. An arbitration system should be created through which people who say they have been victims of the press can seek redress without having to go through the courts. Newspapers that refuse to join the new body could face direct regulation by media watchdog Ofcom. The body should be independent of current journalists, the government and commercial concerns, and not include any serving editors, government members or MPs. The body should consider encouraging the press to be as transparent as possible in relation to sources for its stories, if the information is in the public domain. A whistle-blowing hotline should be established for journalists who feel under pressure to do unethical things. No evidence of widespread police corruption. Former Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates's relationship with media publisher News International, where he had friends working at the News of the World, including the deputy editor, was criticised. Politicians of all parties had developed ""too close a relationship with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest"". The relationship between politicians and press over the last three decades has damaged the perception of public affairs. But former Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and PM David Cameron were cleared of being too close to the Murdoch media empire. When chasing stories, journalists have caused ""real hardship and, on occasion, wreaked havoc with the lives of innocent people"". This happened to both famous people and members of the public. Press behaviour, at times, ""can only be described as outrageous"". At the News of the World, quite apart from phone hacking, there was a failure of systems of management and compliance. There was a general lack of respect for individual privacy and dignity at the paper. Read commentary from BBC Media Correspondent Torin Douglas on key parts of the Leveson Report's executive summary:","The Leveson Inquiry into the culture , practice and ethics of the press has published its report . Here are the key @placeholder .",examples,points,issue,pace,island,1
"David Sell, from East Kilbride, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court, charged with abduction, assault to severe injury and danger of life. He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody. The victim, 45, was attacked at his home in Barnsley, shot in the legs and abandoned in East Kilbride on 13 March. Emergency services found him on a grass verge in the South Lanarkshire town, near the junction of Stewartfield Way and Stewartfield Crescent. He was taken to Hairmyres Hospital for extensive treatment and has since been released. Police in Scotland and England launched a large-scale investigation named Operation Draken to trace those responsible.","A man has appeared in court charged with the abduction and assault of a man who was @placeholder in Scotland , more than 250 miles from his home in Yorkshire .",born,caught,raped,dumped,kidnapped,3
"Mr Mosley wants Google to block photos of him at a sex party first printed in the now-defunct News of the World, which he successfully sued in 2008. He is suing the internet firm for breaches of the Data Protection Act and misusing private information. Google's barrister argued that Mr Mosley no longer has a ""reasonable expectation of privacy"". Mr Mosley won damages from the News of the World after it published a story alleging he had organised a Nazi-themed orgy. Photographs and a video which show his private sexual activity were originally obtained by News Group Newspapers Limited (NGN) in a clandestine ""sting"" operation. Mr Mosley - the son of 1930s fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley - won £60,000 after a judge ruled there was no substance to the allegation that there had been a Nazi theme to the sex party and found that his privacy had been breached. In that ruling, the High Court also said the article was not in the public interest. Mr Mosley has said the role-play at a rented Chelsea basement flat was harmless, consensual and private. On launching his legal action last year, Mr Mosley urged: ""Google should operate within the law rather than according to rules it makes itself. It cannot be allowed to ignore judgements in our courts."" Google has said it will remove URLs that it is alerted to, but is not prepared to remove the images entirely from its search engines. In court on Wednesday, Google's barrister Antony White QC for Google conceded that it was technically possible to remove the images and was ""not burdensome"" to do so. However, he argued that Google was not the publisher of the private information, and that Mr Mosley no longer had a reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to the images. On that basis, Google will seek to show that Mr Mosley's claim is unfounded. The hearing is due to conclude on Thursday.",Google has asked the High Court to throw out legal action being @placeholder by ex-Formula 1 boss Max Mosley .,backed,helped,sought,taken,filed,3
"The fourth and fifth nuclear tests this year generated a swirl of fearsome rhetoric - both Seoul and Pyongyang said they would turn the other into a heap of ashes. But can we see clearly what the actual scientific situation is? Stripping away the chest-thumping, what could Kim Jong-un's military actually do? And when might it be able to do do it? There are different components to a nuclear arsenal: it needs a warhead small enough to go on a missile, and to remain intact until it hits the target. And, of course, the missiles themselves, ideally small and mobile enough to avoid being destroyed pre-emptively if preparations for launch are spotted - hence the importance of submarines. Prof Siegfried S Hecker of Stanford University in California is a former head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US and has visited North Korea's nuclear facilities frequently. He says, following the fifth nuclear test on Friday: ""With the two successful nuclear tests this year, we must assume that the DPRK [North Korea] has designed and demonstrated nuclear warheads that can be mounted on some of its short-range and perhaps medium-range missiles. ""Its ability to field an ICBM (inter-continental ballistic missile) fitted with a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the United States is still a long way off - perhaps five to 10 years, but likely doable if the programme is unconstrained."" This means that there is already a real danger in his view. Miscalculations in the region become much more likely as South Korea, Japan and the United States fear that nuclear attack in the region is possible - pre-emptive strikes become much more likely. Prof Hecker also worries that North Korea's technological ability increases the likelihood of the spread of nuclear weapons [technology and material] to ""non-state actors"" - or ""terrorists"" to you and me. He said: ""Much more troubling for now is that its recent nuclear and missile successes may give Pyongyang a false sense of confidence and dramatically change regional security dynamics. The likely ability of the DPRK to put nuclear weapons on target anywhere in South Korea and Japan and even on some US assets in the Pacific greatly complicates the regional military picture."" He continues that we can't ""rule out that a financially desperate leadership may risk the sale of fissile materials or other nuclear assets, perhaps to non-state actors"". Prof Hecker visited the Yongbyon centrifuge facility (where material is produced) in November, 2010. Based on the equipment he saw and his assessment of stocks of uranium and plutonium, he thinks it plausible that North Korea has ""a stockpile of sufficient fissile material for approximately 20 bombs by the end of this year and a capacity of adding approximately seven per year"". One of the essential components of an effective nuclear arsenal is the ability to hide the missiles so they can't be destroyed before launch. Accordingly, the testing of submarine-launched missiles has particularly worried North Korea's enemies. According to the aerospace engineer John Schilling, who specialises in missile technology: ""The success of North Korea's latest submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test suggests the programme may be progressing faster than originally expected. ""However, this does not mean it will be ready next week, next month, or even next year. Rather, the pace and method of the North's SLBM testing would suggest possible deployment in an initial operational capability by the second half of 2018 at the earliest."" North Korea is also making progress on missiles fired from land. Testing has been frequent this year and distances have been increased. In June, for example, it fired a missile that reached an altitude of 1,000km (620 miles). It probably fired high rather than long to avoid Japan (an action which would have been too provocative) but the distance travelled impressed Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California. ""That suggests the missile worked perfectly. Had it been fired at its normal angle, it would have flown to its full range,"" he said. There are other bits of the jigsaw, like being able to make heat-tolerant materials for warheads which would allow them to re-enter the atmosphere on the tops of missiles and explode on target. North Korea claims to have done this. The upshot of the most convincing scientific analysis is that North Korea may have the ability to launch nuclear attacks in the region at the moment but not to strike targets further afield, like the United States. But it's getting there and may have that ability from 2020, perhaps a few years later, although the scientists reckon it's no longer a remote prospect. Prof Hecker, widely viewed as the most authoritative expert, also has views on the politics of it all. ""The latest nuclear test demonstrates conclusively that attempting to sanction the DPRK into submission and waiting for China to exert leverage over Pyongyang's nuclear programme do not work,"" he said. ""Increasing sanctions and adding missile defences in South Korea to that mix will also not suffice and make China even less likely to co-operate. ""What's missing is diplomacy, as much as Washington may find it repugnant to deal with the Kim regime.""","Amid all the bluster and sabre - rattling , how do scientists assess North Korea 's ability to launch a nuclear attack on its neighbours or on the @placeholder of the United States ?",side,impact,mainland,future,demise,2
"John ""Jack"" Harrison, who played for Hull FC, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Battle of Oppy Wood. The 2nd Lt died during an attack on a German machine gun position on 3 May 1917. Members of his family gathered for a dedication ceremony of a flagstone next to Sutton war memorial in Hull. His nephew Peter Straughan said the player and soldier was a ""great example"" for others. ""[He was] such a hero for what he did, at such a young age,"" he said. ""What a good leader and it's great for every human to admire what he has done."" Mr Harrison was born on 12 November 1890 in Hull. He became a teacher and joined Hull FC, where he scored 106 tries in 116 matches, including one in the 1914 Challenge Cup Final, which the team won. He played his final game for the side on 26 December 1916, having joined the 11th East Yorkshire Regiment. In February 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross after leading a patrol in an attack on German trenches on the Western Front.",A memorial has been @placeholder for a rugby league star who was killed in France during World War One .,named,unveiled,described,tipped,shortlisted,1
"Female IN or Fin is a ""secret"" Facebook group that has recently clocked up over a million members, largely from Nigeria. But it's a secret that founder Lola Omolola wants you to know all about - if you're a woman that is. Though it has a vaguely romantic air, secret is just Facebook terminology, Ms Omolala says. It means invitation-only - you need to know a member to get in. ""It's a safe place, for a woman who has something to say,"" Ms Omolola explains. ""You don't have to agree but it is her story, she can say it."" The group is a sort of confessional space, where women share stories that they might be uncomfortable - or even afraid - to tell in person. It doesn't offer anonymity - members have to post under their real names. And the stories are stunning, although they remain strictly confidential. In the few days that I've been a Finster, I've read testimonies on domestic abuse, physical and emotional violence, child abuse and rape. One woman speaks about the moment she told her parents she was about to have a child as a single girl of 17, another about finally being accepted as a lesbian by her mother after many years. They are brave and intimate, telling of failed relationships or unconventional sexual preferences. The posts are brutally honest but many of them are laced with self-deprecating humour. Like the woman who mortified herself on a first date in front of a banquet hall of people or the lady who stole the keys of a bus driver after he bumped her car and refused to apologise. Many of the stories speak of a distinctly Nigerian experience. Until recently the group was called Female In Nigeria, so it's not a surprise that most of its members are just that. ""The Nigerian woman has been the core of this process, because I am a Nigerian woman,"" says Ms Omolala. A former journalist, she moved from Nigeria to the US in the early 2000s at the age of 24 and started the group in 2015. She had had an idea to start something for some time - a forum where Nigerian women could talk openly about the issues that affected them. But it was the kidnap of the Chibok girls that drove her to do it. ""I knew the cause of it,"" she says. ""When you grow up in a place where a woman's voice is not even valid, everything reinforces that idea that we're not good enough."" It didn't surprise her that a group of men could kidnap and enslave these girls, because they didn't see them as equals. ""Between the ages of three and six I noticed that whenever a girl shows any sign of self-awareness she gets silenced. When I said anything I got a pinch - a real, live pinch."" Those pinches came from aunties, uncles, even her mother but never from her father. And it's him that Ms Omolola traces her early feminism to. Her father was a part-time businessman and was often at home with the children while her mum worked as full-time haematologist. ""We never felt any gender disparity,"" she says. ""I realise now how much effort it must have taken. It was not something he was just stumbling into. It was an active choice."" Fin started out as a group where women could discuss women's issues - one of the first blogs was on domestic violence - and Ms Omolola expected it to be an abstract conversation. But women responded with their own stories. Almost instantly it became a place where people could share things they had never shared before. ""When we started I used to cry. I stopped sleeping, I stopped eating,"" she says. ""I was not ready for the stories that were coming out."" ""There were women who had been abused for 40 years and hadn't told anyone. No-one should live like that."" Now the group gets hundreds of applications for posts every day but they are managed and approved by a group of 28 volunteers. About 40-100 make it on the page. Fin has strict rules. Above anything else, Finsters are not allowed to judge each other.  Any negative comments are removed, as is the member who posts them. ""I noticed that those people who try to shut women up in real life, they came there,"" says Ms Omolola. ""They are so deeply conditioned to work against their own interest. ""It's the online version of the pinch and the shush."" But the pinchers and shushers were persistent. In a religiously conservative society like Nigeria, expressions of female sexual freedom were never going to go unchallenged. Some members tried to get around the ban by commenting with passages from the bible which condemned the woman's actions. That inspired a second rule - no preaching. ""We prohibit religious-themed advice,"" it says in the rules. ""Fin is not a place of worship."" People have likened Fin and its founder to the devil, they've called the group evil, a corrupter of young women. Ms Omolola says she has been the subject of concerted attacks by church groups. But she's not worried. ""Most people think that the controversy would kill me,"" she says. ""They don't realise that it's actually empowering me."" After amassing a million-strong membership and a high-profile meeting with Mr Zuckerberg, what is next for Fin? Ms Omolola has dreams of expanding the group into bricks and mortar, providing centres where women can go to talk about their experiences in a safe space. But that may be a long way off. ""It needs money and right now I have none,"" she says. ""I can't even pay my rent."" It's something that she discussed with Zuckerberg and though Facebook haven't offered funding yet, she's still in conversation with it on how to move the group forward. From day one, she says, she had offers from companies who want to advertise on Fin but she has refused to monetise women's stories. On Mr Zuckerberg's prompt she is now focusing on promoting the message of the site - female empowerment and tolerance. And she's doing interviews for the first time.","It is one of Facebook 's fastest growing communities and has become such a @placeholder that last week , Mark Zuckerberg asked to meet its founder . But what is Fin ?",phenomenon,message,boom,toy,favorite,0
"Each winter, the smell of Glühwein and sizzling Bratwurst fills the city centre air. Rows of wooden huts selling festive trinkets, sweets and gifts snake the route from the Bullring towards Victoria Square, where large crowds can be found tucking into pretzels, cakes and countless sausages. The Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market, to use its proper title, has become, for many, the city's premier yearly tradition since it began in 1997. Its popularity slows shopping streets to a crawl throughout its six-week residence, as locals and tourists alike browse stalls and gulp Glühwein. Organisers claim it is the ""largest authentic German market outside of Germany and Austria"". It has grown from a humble 10-stall pilot project into a mile-long trail of about 200 huts. But is it German? Not particularly, some may argue, given that many of the workers are not German and often cannot speak the language. Dr Ruth Whittle, a German national who teaches at the University of Birmingham, sends her students to the market to interview stallholders. ""They would come back and say 'there wasn't anybody there who could speak German',"" she said. The lack of native workers has detracted from the atmosphere of the market, she added. ""They don't need to be German, but it would be nice if they could speak German,"" she said. ""You could ask them about the product or where they come from."" However, there is still a German presence in Birmingham. Astrid Raadschelders, from Cologne, has run a stall selling Frankfurt Würstchen since 2001. She said Birmingham had become like a ""second home"" for her and her family. ""We like coming back every year,"" she said. Kurt Stroscher, from Frankfurt's tourist board, organises both cities' markets, and has been in charge of the West Midlands version since its trial run almost 20 years ago. When it first came to the UK, all stalls were manned by staff from the city, but in recent years the number of non-German workers has increased. He admitted Birmingham was now staffed by many workers from ""Eastern Europe, Romania and Poland"". While the majority of stalls seem to be German-owned, most of the staff are not. One worker, Ludovic Gaultier, from France, has been working at Birmingham's market for the past four winters selling candles and chocolates. Another, Cristian Lus, hails from Romania but lives in Frankfurt. He said he did not normally work on market stalls but had travelled to Birmingham with his wife, who did. Journalist Sebastian Kisters, from Frankfurt, has visited Birmingham's market and said there was ""no difference"" in the items being sold, It is a sentiment echoed by Dr Whittle. ""I know a lot of my German friends come and buy quite a lot of things from the market if they can't get to Germany that year,"" she said. ""The products and the brands you get there are the same ones you would get in Germany."" She said stallholders had told her stories of German ex-pats buying vast supplies of bread and other imported food it is difficult to find in the UK. There is another important difference between the Birmingham and German markets - namely, the relative importance of drinking beer. Oliver Barnes, a fourth-year German studies student who spent a year in Munich, said he found customers in the city's market opted for Glühwein or non-alcoholic drinks. ""I would say they were quite similar, but one thing I noticed in Munich was that it tended to be more food-orientated,"" he said. Mr Stroscher, who also organises markets in Manchester and Leeds, said Brits tend to be more interested in drink. He said the Leeds version in particular, with its centrepiece of a lively beer tent, was a concession to more English tastes. ""The English tradition is more of a celebration, to have a Christmas party,"" he said. ""In Germany we tend to be much quieter."" Mr Stroscher said the Birmingham market, with crowds packed around a network of stalls, was more like what would be found in Germany. Perhaps the most German aspect of the market, some said, was the mere fact of its existence. Mr Kisters said Weihnachtsmarkt, as they are known, are an integral part of the country's festive season. Even small, remote villages will stage their own versions, he said, if only for a weekend. ""It's where people can come together, drink a Glühwein or hot orange juice and have fun,"" he said. ""It's a romantic side of the Germans."" Birmingham's Lord Mayor, Shafique Shah, has described the city's Christmas market as its ""flagship"" annual event. And Mr Stroscher said it had become as much of a tradition for Brummies as the people of Frankfurt and other German towns. ""Nowadays the market is so great and important for Birmingham and makes it into one of the most important towns in the UK for Christmas shopping,"" he said. ""For me it's not possible to think about Birmingham without the market anymore.""","Birmingham 's annual German Market has @placeholder for its 14th successive year . With almost five million visitors in 2013 it has been described as "" bigger than Berlin 's "" . But how German is it ?",grown,been,opened,called,praised,2
"Chelsea's offer was below Everton's original £50m price tag - although it is likely this will be reduced as he has only one year left on his contract. The 23-year-old has turned down a new deal at his boyhood club. His situation is further complicated by a serious hamstring injury which could keep him out for three months. Chelsea are expected to return for further discussions and Tottenham, long-time admirers of Barkley, could enter discussions. Everton must also weigh up whether to take an offer lower than their original price or risk losing Barkley on a free transfer in 12 months.","Everton have rejected a £ 25 m offer from Chelsea for Ross Barkley , but the England midfielder could still leave the club before Thursday 's @placeholder .",power,end,night,kickoff,deadline,4
"Could Reddit offer a solution? At 280 million active monthly users, the link-sharing site is already a phenomenally influential force on the internet. The site allows you to post links that are then either up or down voted by other users. Upvoted content is given more visibility - and potentially millions of hits - and the downvoted stuff falls away and barely gets seen by anyone. As well as the ""front page"" that shows the most popular content, adjusted slightly according to your own tastes, the site also has ""subreddits"", smaller sections devoted to a particular topic. This system makes it the ideal place to discover views different to your own, said co-founder Alexis Ohanian in an interview with the BBC. ""It's a community that's not defined by social connection,"" he said following a talk at the South by SouthWest (SXSW) Interactive festival in Austin, Texas. ""What we hope we can do, because these communities are all there, is expose people to those different Zeitgeists. ""This is the first time you can actually go and see how these disparate groups are feeling and thinking about anything, any time of day."" There's perhaps no better example of this than r/The_Donald. The subreddit has become the leading online hub for President Trump's supporters - the man himself held a Q+A session there last year. It's a noisy collection of insider-jargon, conspiracy theories and cries of ""fake news"" - but it's also the best place to assess what makes Trump's fans tick. ""I think it illustrates well that there are communities on Reddit that maybe I personally don't really agree with,"" said Mr Ohanian. ""But they're perspectives that, as long as they're within the lines of our content policy, are worth having."" Many Reddit users - not just Trump fans - were outraged last year when it emerged Steve Huffman, the other Reddit co-founder and its current chief executive, had personally edited comments made on the site by Trump supporters. While apologising, Mr Huffman also announced new measures to curb some of the tactics used by members of r/The_Donald to ""game"" Reddit - that is, artificially make posts appear more prominently to other users. Mr Ohanian said such actions were frustrating, but were ultimately helping the site develop. ""A lot of this ends up pressure-testing a lot of the things we're going to need to have built anyway in the years to come as we keep growing. We have a user base that's really keen on pressure testing a lot of this."" He added that he felt the influence of r/The_Donald had been overblown. ""It is not nearly as big as people perceive it to be. Statistically it's actually pretty small, relative to other communities on Reddit."" Looking to the future, Mr Ohanian told the BBC it plans to move into more ""traditional"" platforms in order to attract the new audiences it needs to grow. ""People are consuming content on one big screen in their home,"" he said. ""If we can work with partners who reach those big audiences on those big screens, and bringing people back to Reddit, and we on Reddit are pushing people to that content, we want to create this virtuous cycle that brings awareness of Reddit and the rich conversations that happen there to the audience that's just watching the big screens, not paying attention."" He wouldn't say it directly, but the company will soon be announcing partnerships with TV companies - ""high-quality"" and ""traditional"" ""content partners"" - to integrate Reddit chatter into top shows. This will undoubtedly bring new users to the platform, but for a site that has managed to maintain its distinct tone and sense of humour, some users will be concerned that a flood people could spoil things. ""I hear where you're coming from,"" he said. ""Reddit has this amazing ability to still feel small. And that's great. But it's really, really big. Sure there maybe concerns - but Reddit has been absorbing tens of millions of new users all the time, and these communities still proliferate, and still feel small."" Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook. You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370","After the referendums and elections of 2016 , concern over online echo chambers grew - the idea that we were getting shielded from a wide range of views because of who we @placeholder to be friends with online .",set,agrees,chose,deserve,had,2
"Kris Wade, 36, was accused of killing Christine James, who was 65, at Hansen Court, Century Wharf, some time between February 25 and March 3. He appeared at Cardiff Crown Court via video link from Long Lartin prison. Wade's barrister said his client had ""no recollection of the incident"". Sentencing was adjourned until 22 September Barrister John Charles Rees QC told the court: ""There is no doubt he used a knife. It is not accepted he took a knife there. He continued: ""The prosecution will allege there is a sexual motive - that is not accepted."" Police were alerted after Mrs James failed to arrive at London's Gatwick Airport for a flight to Florida. The Independent Police Complaints Commission confirmed it was continuing to investigate contact between Mrs James and South Wales Police before her death. Mrs James was the mother-in-law of former Wales rugby captain Jonathan Humphreys.",A Cardiff man has pleaded guilty to murdering his @placeholder at her Cardiff Bay flat .,depth,behaviour,actions,difficulties,neighbour,4
"""They kept us in detention for three days and took our fingerprints. Then they released us, so we tried again."" Iman and her family had just disembarked from a Greek coastguard vessel, en route (they hope) from Syria to Germany. As winter turns into spring, the coastguard has begun picking up hundreds of refugees and migrants every day, as soon as their flimsy rubber boats enter Greek territorial waters. It marks a change in policy. Previously the coastguard would intervene only if migrants were clearly in danger, or boats were about to sink. It is one sign that the management of the migration crisis in the Greek islands is, gradually, becoming more organised. Have EU promises been kept? Why is EU struggling with migrants and asylum? Desperate migrants plead to escape But as EU leaders prepare to hold a summit meeting with Turkey, there is no evidence on Lesbos that the number of arrivals is about to fall. ""We haven't seen any significant changes in the attitude of the Turkish coastguard - we haven't seen more boats patrolling the area from their side,"" said Lt Comm Antonis Sofiadellis. ""It's a big concern for us,"" he added, ""and if nothing changes, I think the flows will increase again."" That is one of the reasons why the political focus is beginning to shift, from a policy of prevention to a policy of swift return. Asked on Friday if the plan was to send back all non-Syrians to Turkey in a systematic fashion, the EU's Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopolous said: ""This is one of the main goals we have to achieve. ""The ones who come over to Europe and are in need of international protection will have it. The others will have to be returned,"" he said. If that means Iraqis and Afghans are to be included, roughly half the arrivals so far this year would no longer be eligible to stay in Greece at all. That would represent a much tougher European policy, as governments across the continent struggle to come to terms with the scale of the migration crisis. But agreeing such an ambitious repatriation policy may be a lot easier than implementing it. At every step, Turkey's full co-operation will be essential. The Turkish authorities say they have already prevented some 24,000 migrants from leaving the country illegally in the first six weeks of this year. But even if they are taken into custody, as Iman and her family were, most will simply try to cross the Aegean again as soon as they are released. So in order to ease the mounting strains on the system, a large-scale readmissions policy needs to be part of a much broader package. In particular, EU leaders are being urged to speed up the relocation to other parts of the Union of refugees who have already arrived in Greece. Such a policy is already in place on paper. But it has barely got off the ground. Countries like Hungary and Slovakia are in open revolt against a mandatory measure that was agreed last year under EU voting rules. It is not the only issue that could make this summit a fractious affair. The bottleneck in Greece, caused by border restrictions further north in the Balkans, has already provoked some sharp public exchanges. Thousands of refugees and migrants are stranded. EU leaders will also have to wrestle with one chicken-and-egg conundrum in particular. If the number of arrivals on the Greek islands were to fall significantly, Germany and others may be prepared over time to resettle hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees directly from camps in Turkey. But the Turkish authorities appear to want to see evidence that the resettlement programme really will happen, before they commit extra resources to take on the smugglers in remote areas of the Aegean coast. It is a time for hard bargains. But that time is running short.",""" The first time we tried to cross the sea , our @placeholder failed , "" Iman said , "" and the Turkish authorities took us back to Turkey .",way,word,engine,freedom,power,2
"After a first-half in which Widnes were dominated by Catalans, who scored tries from Brayden Wiliame and Richie Myler, they fought back in the second period. Patrick Ah Van's try at the end of the first 40 was followed by Tom Olbison and Hanbury scores to level things up. Luke Walsh went for a late drop-goal in the mud for Catalans, but missed. Hanbury proved the hero for Widnes and surpassed 500 career points with his haul, but could have secured a first win for his side had he slotted one of the two conversion attempts that were missed. Perpignan's climate usually suits the home side, with high temperatures and hard, running-friendly surfaces, but neither side found their rhythm on rain-soaked turf that cut up throughout. Widnes are used to a synthetic field at their home ground and initially found the going difficult, as Catalans opened up a 14-0 lead when Wiliame went in on the left and then forced an error which Myler capitalised on to score. However, the French club's grip on the game, and 100% record, was ended by a spirited Vikings display, typified by playmaker Chris Bridge who created Olbison's try and held up a number of Catalans raids on the goal-line. Catalans head coach Laurent Frayssinous: ""In the second half, both offensively and defensively, we weren't good enough. We didn't play like we did in the first 35 minutes and that is disappointing. ""Credit to Widnes, they put themselves in a position where they were able to win the game and that is a credit to them, but we should never have been in a position to not win that game. ""That is what we shared in the dressing room after the game, we have to be consistent throughout the whole game and not just for 35 minutes."" Widnes head coach Denis Betts: ""It's remarkable really, we've come over to the south of France for a game of rugby and we're heading home to get away from the rain. ""We came here with good intent and we really thought we could do something here today and looking at building on our performance last week [a two-point loss to Wigan] which I felt we did, but only in the sense of our effort. ""We had 35 per cent of the ball in the first half at a 50 per cent completion rate and to be only 14-6 down, I thought we were very fortunate."" Catalans: Bosc; Broughton, Inu, Wiliame, Thornley; Walsh, Myler; Bird, Garcia, Horo, Burgess, Casty, Aiton. Replacements: Anderson, Simon, Da Costa, Margalet. Widnes: Hanbury; Thompson, Armstrong, Runciman, Ah Van; Bridge, Craven; Dudson, White, Buchanan, Whitley, Houston, Cahill. Replacements: Heremaia, Leuluai, Olbison, J. Chapelhow. Referee: Chris Kendall (RFL)",Rhys Hanbury 's late try earned Widnes Vikings a first point of 2017 in atrocious @placeholder against Catalans Dragons at the Stade Gilbert Brutus .,area,fashion,clash,conditions,action,3
"The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) recorded its highest ever number of young whales in its latest survey of marine life. The surveys began in 2003. Twenty-eight juveniles were counted this year, three times the average compared with previous years. Whales coming in from other areas has also been suggested as a reason. Survey team members documented 28 juvenile minke whales and 30 adults. HWDT said it was an ""unusually high proportion"" of young compared to adults. The survey had an encounter rate of one juvenile minke per 177 miles (286 km). It also recorded the highest annual number of common dolphin sightings since the charity's expeditions began, with 723 individuals observed over 63 encounters. The species was once uncommon in the Hebrides, but the trust's encounter rate with the species has more than doubled over the past 12 years. Kerry Froud, HWDT biodiversity officer, said: ""These intriguing changes in Scotland's marine life highlight the importance of long-term monitoring of cetaceans - so that we can better understand what is happening in our waters, and then make management recommendations to better protect this world-class area of marine biodiversity."" The surveys are carried out between May to October by scientists and volunteers on board Silurian, the trust's dedicated research yacht.","Conservationists have suggested a "" baby boom "" as a possible reason behind @placeholder sightings of juvenile minke whales off western Scotland this year .",shows,containing,treasure,increased,reported,3
"Dylann Roof, 21, appeared in court in Charleston to face nine murder charges. He showed no emotion as relatives of the victims addressed him directly. ""I forgive you"" said one victim's daughter, fighting back tears. Police are treating the killings at the African-American church on Wednesday night as a hate crime. And the Justice Department says it is investigating whether it might have been an act of domestic terrorism. It said in a statement, the shooting was ""designed to strike fear and terror into this community"", and the department was considering all possibilities. At a Charleston sports arena, thousands gathered on Friday evening to remember the victims with prayers and songs. Also on Friday, the Roof family released a statement through their lawyer. ""Words cannot express our shock, grief and disbelief as to what happened that night. We are devastated and saddened by what occurred,"" the family wrote. ""We have all been touched by the moving words from the victims' families offering God's forgiveness and love in the face of such horrible suffering."" In court in Charleston on Friday afternoon, Mr Roof spoke to confirm his name, age and address and said he was unemployed. Then relatives were invited by the judge to come forward and speak. A woman who identified herself as the daughter of Ethel Lance said: ""You took something very precious from me. I will never talk to her ever again. ""I will never be able to hold her again, but I forgive you. And [may God] have mercy on your soul."" Anthony Thompson, a relative of Myra Thompson, told Mr Roof to repent and to turn to Jesus Christ. ""I forgive you and my family forgives you,"" he said. Also speaking in court was Felecia Sanders, who survived the attack on Wednesday night by playing dead. Her son, Tywanza, was fatally wounded. ""We welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bible study with open arms. You have killed some of the most beautifulest people that I know. Every fibre in my body hurts ... and I'll never be the same,"" she said to Mr Roof, who appeared via a video feed. The victims of the Charleston shooting Meanwhile, one of Mr Roof's friends, Christon Scriven, told the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan that Mr Roof had considered a university as a potential target. Mr Scriven said Mr Roof ""wanted to shoot that school up, UCA University of Charleston. It's 3 miles up the street from that church"". But Mr Scriven, who is black, did not think Mr Roof would actually follow through. ""So how do you take it serious?"" he said. ""How many friends do you have in your lifetime that's killed somebody?"" Court documents have revealed new details about the shooting. Mr Roof entered the church just after 20:00 local time (01:00 BST) on Wednesday night and remained with the worshippers for nearly an hour before launching his attack. All of the victims were hit multiple times, the documents said. Before leaving, Mr Roof stood over one person who was not shot and ""uttered a racially inflammatory statement"". That person has not been named, and has only been described as a ""witness"" in the court documents. The judge set Mr Roof's bond at $1m (£630,000) for the weapons possession charge but could not place a bond on the murder charges due to a legal technicality and Mr Roof will remain in jail. ""Racist shooting stirs up America's worst ghosts,"" writes Spain's El Pais. The US events are ""so shocking that they are unspeakable,"" writes Italy's La Stampa. ""Pain, fear and anger have engulfed America after the shooting, exacerbating the racial demons of a deeply fractured society,"" says Frederic Autran, the New York correspondent for France's Liberation. Writing in Russia's popular Moskovskiy Komsomolets daily, Melor Sturua accuses Mr Obama of ducking the real issue by opting to describe the killings as ""senseless"" rather than ""racist"". In Iran, the conservative Fars News Agency says that ""racism is a dark phenomenon which has its roots in the heart of the American society"". The official Xinhua agency in China said the violence ""mirrors the US government's inaction on rampant gun violence as well as the growing racial hatred in the country"". Sources: BBC Monitoring, AP",Relatives of some of the nine churchgoers shot dead in South Carolina have addressed the @placeholder gunman in court and said they forgive him .,horrified,repeated,suspected,strides,labour,2
"The NHS and University of Cambridge team have discovered how to grow the body's platelet factories in the laboratory. It could provide a new source of platelets to stop heavy bleeding, for example after a car crash. But the researchers need to make the process more efficient before starting trials. If you donate blood, then it is separated out into red blood cells, plasma and platelets so patients are given only the component they need. Platelets are needed after trauma, surgery, leukaemia therapy and in some blood disorders like haemophilia. ""We're totally dependent on blood donation to produce those platelets,"" said Dr Cedric Ghevaert, a consultant haematologist. His team has been trying to grow megakaryocytes - the platelet mother cells that live in your bone marrow and manufacture the clotting platelets. Their breakthrough, reported in the journal Nature Communications, was the discovery of a set of chemical switches needed to create megakaryocytes in the lab. Dr Ghevaert described their results as a ""major step forward"" and told the BBC News website that ""the next big step is to get enough platelets out of each megakaryocyte"". The lab-made cells produce around 10 platelets each. But each one functioning normally in the bone marrow would produce up to 2,000. It is hoped that recreating the same conditions as in the bone marrow could make the cells more effective. If the researchers are successful, then lab-grown platelets could be more useful than ones collected in a blood donation. Dr Ghevaert added: ""We can modify the platelets so they can trigger the clotting even better which would have huge advantages indeed for patients who have had a crash or a bleed or even in soldiers who have been injured."" It could also allow doctors to have stockpiles customised to different patients. Platelets come in different forms just as red blood cells come in A, B, O and AB. And some platelet types, particularly those common in black and Asian ethnic groups, are relatively rare. Follow James on Twitter.",Scientists have made a significant leap towards @placeholder producing platelets - the part of the blood that forms clots .,offering,group,mass,hints,folk,2
"My last conversation with my husband was at 23:18 on 7 March 2014. We had a video call and he told me that he was already through the security check and waiting for boarding. He asked me to rest early, and said if I felt scared of sleeping alone then I should leave the lights on. I was supposed to wait for him for four days in Malaysia, but now I have waited for one year. One week after plane vanished 14 March: I want to appeal to the whole world to help us find our families. This is the cry of my two children, this is the cry of a desperate mother. We are asking Malaysian Airlines to return our families, and the Malaysian government to give us an answer. Plane relatives: 'Embracing the finality' I started being afraid of the nights. There was all sorts of news and information coming from all sources. I feel like I'm on a rollercoaster. I have no appetite and find it hard to sleep. It feels like living in hell, I can't see the world outside. Every thought is taken over by where the plane went. By April, relatives' grief turns to anger 25 April: The plane has been missing for 49 days... The Chinese government has blocked the traffic around the Malaysian embassy for the entire day. Finally someone from the embassy came out to accept our protest letter. I don't know if I can sleep tonight. We don't know if our families are alive, we are suffering so much. I am asking the world to help. April 27: .... Every day we are crying because we are helpless. Now even the media is not allowed to report any more. We feel more scared, helpless. We are hoping that everybody can help us to find our families. Will China tolerate families' Malaysia plane protest? At first I didn't believe in the conspiracy theories. But it is such a big plane, it should be able to show on the radar in Indonesian and Australian areas. But no country dared to admit that they had seen this plane. Why are they hiding statistics and why are they hiding the truth? Why can't they publish the real statistics from the beginning? What they have done made me start to believe the conspiracy theories. Flight MH370: Could it have been pilot suicide? The persistence of conspiracy theories In May, Malaysia Airlines asks relatives to leave the Beijing hotels they provided. The land and air search is called off. Helpless families were dismissed to go home. The only hope we had, they have to break it. Please, husband, please come home safely, let my heart feel comforted and not lonely any more. Please come back. How do relatives move on after the missing Malaysia plane? 7 May: A lot of people think that we've taken Malaysian Airlines money to go home. But I want to tell you that we didn't... Malaysia is hiding things, that's why they don't want to publish the original statistics. Even the records they showed were edited. Why did they do that? We don't want their money, we only want our family. Malaysian Airlines offered no help other than telling us that they don't know what happened. I really hope the authorities can make the information transparent, so more people can be involved in the case. I also hope that the people who know the truth will make a public announcement as soon as they can. The most responsible party is Malaysian Airlines. The Malaysian government chose to hide the truth from the very beginning. I find it difficult now to believe the Malaysian government. June - a brief burst of hope Every day is a new start, I am hoping every day is beautiful and there will be miracles. Thanks to all my friends who have cared about me and thank you for your comments and retweets...  I firmly believe that the miracle will come! Refined analysis drives new search area In January, Malaysia officially declares an accident with no survivors Announcing the crash is not a relief for us. It has hurt us more. Simply telling them that the plane has crashed by analysis and guessing is inhumane, irresponsible and unfair. They've hurt the families over and over again. We feel we are treated unjustly. We have the right to know what has happened to the plane. I hope the airline will take back all announcements that they have no supporting evidence for, including announcing that our families have already died. Malaysia declares flight disappearance an accident I started asking myself how I made it to today. I still can't work. I spend most of time in bed. I try to make myself sleep a lot, first so I can dream about my husband, secondly so I won't think too much. Every day, I am suffering. 14 January: Lying here on our bed and looking back at our photos, the only question on my mind is when you'll come back. Our sons and I miss you so much. How do you mourn a missing person? Chen Liping was speaking to a BBC Beijing bureau staff member","Chen Liping 's husband , Ju Kun , was on flight MH370 travelling home to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur a few days ahead of her . She told the BBC about her year waiting for news , and @placeholder some of her posts from the Weibo microblog .",shared,bodies,attracted,used,leaving,0
"However, goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg is out of Friday's game because of a groin problem. Watford's Jose Holebas and Ben Watson are available after recovering from respective foot and groin injuries. Tom Cleverley is ineligible to face the Toffees under the terms of his loan deal, while Miguel Britos and Craig Cathcart are still out. Steve Bower: ""Only Liverpool and Chelsea have won at Goodison Park in the Premier League since Ronald Koeman arrived, and the Everton boss will want that record in tact after their final home game of the season. ""A win would see Everton record their highest points tally at home in 27 years and end a run of one point from nine before they embark on their summer recruitment drive. ""Having lost five consecutive away games without scoring a single goal, Watford don't look one of their more problematic opponents. ""The season has faded away for Walter Mazzarri's side and, with Chelsea and Manchester City still to play, they will be thankful that their points are already on the board."" Twitter: @SteveBowercomm Everton manager Ronald Koeman on Ross Barkley's future: ""The board is already working for a while to persuade him to stay but it's up to the player. ""We need an answer before the end of next week or we will sell the player. ""If you need so much time then you have doubts. ""I like to work with players who like to stay. We're already trying to get players who want to play in the front positions for next season."" Watford head coach Walter Mazzarri on his side's recent poor form: ""West Ham lost five in a row, West Bromwich Albion lost four; these periods can happen. Of course, I hope for it to not happen, and I don't like it. ""Let's not forget, when we had a complete squad, we reached seventh in the Premier League. We were 10th for the majority with a fully-fit side. ""In some seasons unexpected things can happen. We reached 40 points with six games left, and now we will see how well we finish."" Head-to-head Everton Watford SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) is a super-computer created by @ProfIanMcHale at the University of Salford that is used to predict the outcome of football matches.",Everton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin is fit to face Watford after a two - match @placeholder with a thigh strain .,spell,clash,absence,preparation,partnership,2
"The Malagasy dethroned long-term Caf president Issa Hayatou on Thursday, winning the Ethiopia-based elections by 34 votes to 20. ""I will go to Caf headquarters and look inside this house - after that, I audit,"" Ahmad told BBC Sport. ""It's not a suspicion but it's management now - an obligation."" He added: ""When (we) finish the managerial and financial audit, I will call the press to talk about the guide that we can follow. Step-by-step, that is our obligation."" Ahmad, who was little known prior to announcing his candidacy in January, was elected on a campaign of wide-ranging reforms. Chief among them were pledges to bring greater governance and transparency to Caf while also promising to work on the African game from the grassroots up. Ahmad was so emotional after his victory that he struggled to speak when interviewed by BBC Sport minutes after his win. Dennis Idrissa, a member of the Malagasy's campaign manager, said the 57-year-old was so nervous about the result that he wasn't in the room at the African Union headquarters when the winner was revealed. ""Ahmad asked me to listen and come back to tell him what happened,"" Idrissa told BBC Sport. ""He was outside the auditorium - he was so stressed, so nervous. When I heard the result - I came out quickly and told him 'Ahmad, you are the new president of Caf.' ""He said: 'Seriously? Dennis, are you sure?  I went back into the auditorium to check. I then had the honour of bringing him into the auditorium. ""And then we lifted him along with the Djibouti President on our shoulders. It was the best moment of my life. We worked so hard for this day."" Ahmad says he has still to recover from what many are calling a seismic change in the leadership of Caf, following Hayatou's 29-year reign. ""The shock is leaving but my body is tired,"" Ahmad said after what was a gruelling campaign. The former footballer and coach - and current political senator in Madagascar - is scheduled to rule Caf until 2021.",Newly - elected Confederation of African Football ( Caf ) president Ahmad says his first @placeholder will be to conduct an audit of the body .,skills,act,taste,duty,experience,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device Winning two Grand Slams and an Olympic gold medal in the space of 12 months, as he did during the summers of 2012 and 2013, will be an exceptionally difficult trick to reproduce. But he appears to have time on his side. Murray will turn 30 next May. Bjorn Borg, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg did not win a single Grand Slam between them after entering their fourth decade, but players like Murray and Novak Djokovic - who is just seven days younger than the Briton - seem to have the attributes required to extend their winning years. Fitness is one major element, and the back surgery Murray had in September 2013 has enabled him to expand his game on all surfaces. Another is desire, which cannot be taken for granted. ""Before I won Wimbledon in 2013, I was unbelievably motivated to win it,"" Murray told BBC Sport as he reflected on his second All England Club title. ""But then after I won there, I didn't quite know where to go or what I was trying to do. It felt like this was all I was meant to do, really."" The extreme motivation required has now returned - thanks to his daughter Sophia, and his lifelong rival. Losing three Grand Slam finals to world number one Djokovic in 18 months, and becoming a father who really would like his daughter to remember him playing at the highest level, has stoked his inner fire. Media playback is not supported on this device It is not fair to assume Murray will win more Grand Slam titles. Who, after Wimbledon 2013, thought he would have to wait three more years to add a third? And don't read too much into Djokovic's third-round exit at Wimbledon. He has, after all, featured in six of the past seven Grand Slam finals - winning five of them. He is likely to arrive refreshed at the Rio Olympics and ready to do battle once more. Between them, though, Murray and Djokovic could win the lion's share of Grand Slam titles over the next three years. It will be very tough for developing talents such as Dominic Thiem, Nick Kyrgios and Alex Zverev to match them consistently over that timeframe - and other than beaten Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic it is hard to identify a player in his mid-twenties who has serious potential to become a multiple Grand Slam winner. Murray's next goal is to defend his Olympic singles title and to win a medal with brother Jamie in the doubles. He will talk to coach Ivan Lendl this week about the best way to prepare for Rio and the US Open, which follows on just two weeks later. After losing five finals in Melbourne, Murray will feel he has a score to settle with the Australian Open - and given his performance on clay over the past two years, the French Open should also be on his bucket list. Murray enjoys setting himself new targets as his career progresses. For most of his 11 years as a professional, he has prioritised Grand Slams over rankings, but a tilt at the world number one spot is now becoming more enticing - and more realistic. ""I'd rather set the bar as high as possible and not quite achieve it than say I'd be happy finishing at five in the world, and finishing at three,"" the Wimbledon champion explained. ""I'd love to get to number one, obviously, but I think a lot of people are forgetting what Novak's done because he lost in the third round here. The last 18 months have been unbelievable - he's hardly lost any matches at all - so I know that if I'm going to get there, I'm going to have to win more matches against him."" There are currently almost 5,000 ranking points between Djokovic and Murray - which is a vast margin. However, the ATP rankings are calculated over a 12-month period, and if you look only at the points amassed since the start of the year, Djokovic's lead shrinks to 815 points. Were Murray able to continue his rich vein of form - and go on to beat Djokovic in the final of the US Open in September - then that advantage would be cancelled out. Game on.","As a triple Grand Slam champion who says he feels "" more motivated than ever "" , Andy Murray may just have @placeholder the second golden period of his career .",announced,triggered,begun,joined,welcomed,1
"Khaled el-Anani told a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC. Experts had thought the statue was Ramses, who ruled 600 years earlier, because it was close to a temple dedicated to the ruler. But one of Psamtek's five names was found engraved on the huge statue. Even so, the find is still significant, Mr Anani said. ""If it belongs to this king, then it is the largest statue of the Late Period that was ever discovered in Egypt,"" Ahram Online reported him as saying. The discovery was made after they moved the statue - which was nine metres (29ft) tall originally - from a wasteland in between apartment blocks on the site of the ancient capital, Heliopolis, to the Egyptian museum in central Cairo. It was found by an Egyptian-German archaeological team, and was partially submerged in water, and had split into a number of parts. Its torso alone weighed three tonnes. The Ministry of Antiquities said it hoped the two parts could be put back together again.","An ancient statue which was @placeholder from the mud in Cairo is not the Pharaoh Ramses II , but could be another king , Egypt 's antiquities minister has said .",pulled,evacuated,recovering,stolen,carved,0
"Richard Walsh, 43, was awaiting trial accused of attempting to murder two schoolboys in Hampshire when he was found hanged in his cell. An inquest jury found he should have been detained in hospital rather than held in Belmarsh Prison. Southern Health NHS Trust said it would ensure better ""sharing of information"". On 27 September a verdict of suicide, contributed to by neglect, was recorded at the inquest into Mr Walsh's death. Mr Walsh was held at Waterlooville police station following the stabbing of two boys, aged 12 and 13, in Southleigh Road in Havant on 26 June last year. Southwark Coroner's Court heard he was ""saying strange things"", became ""delusional"", was ""obsessed with a woman police officer"", and hid under a blanket when questioned. He was assessed by two independent psychiatrists and a mental health professional approved by Hampshire County Council, but was not sectioned. The inquest jury said there had been ""gross failures of medical care"" as they failed to interrogate the custody record and the custody officer and did not speak to Mr Walsh's family or GP. ""Had they done, then Mr Walsh would have been detained in a hospital. ""It is more likely than not... that if Mr Walsh had been detained in a hospital... he would not have killed himself,"" the jury found. Mr Walsh was found hanged on 19 July 2015, the day before he was due to appear at Portsmouth Crown Court. Following the ruling, Southern Health's medical director Dr Lesley Stevens said: ""We fully accept the jury's findings and are acting quickly to improve assessments and communication between health organisations and the criminal justice system."" The trust said it would delay assessments of detainees if custody logs were not available and would implement ""clear and robust processes"" for sharing information between clinical teams in the custody and prison services. A Prison Service spokesman said it had already taken action following a Prisons and Probation Ombudsman investigation. ""We will now carefully consider the inquest findings to help ensure such incidents are not repeated,"" he said. Hampshire County Council said it would ""carefully consider the full findings"".","A mental health trust has pledged to improve after it was @placeholder at an inquest over "" gross failures "" before a prisoner killed himself in prison .",thrown,criticised,challenged,voiced,revealed,1
"It is the latest prison recording by Tanveer Ahmed, 32, who stabbed Asad Shah to death at his shop in the south of the city in March last year. He claimed Mr Shah was a ""false prophet"" who had ""disrespected Islam."" In the message, he urges listeners to attend a conference in Karachi. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said it could not comment on individuals. Ahmed, a taxi driver from Bradford, says in the recording: ""I have great restrictions imposed on me in prison but I am not failing to extend this invitation to you."" He also suggests that he has been asked to end his religious connections with Pakistan and talks of being warned by what he calls ""agents of infidels"". He adds: ""They threatened me and asked me to sever all contacts with these people"", before alleging that he has been asked to persuade preachers in Pakistan to stop making provocative speeches about his crime. His previous prison recordings have contained statements of defiance at his life sentence for the murder and derogatory and sectarian references to the minority Ahmadi Muslim community, of which Mr Shah was a member. In one he suggested he had no remorse over his killing of the 40-year-old, saying: ""I stood guard on the honour of Prophet Muhammad and I shall do it again if I shall get a chance."" In another he says: ""The penalty for those who insult the prophet: cut their heads from their bodies."" Youtube removed one recording after it violated the video sharing site's policy on hate speech. Ahmed killed Mr Shah after seeing videos the shopkeeper posted online discussing his faith, believing he was falsely claiming to be a prophet. He pleaded guilty to the murder last year and is currently appealing to reduce his minimum 27-year jail term. His messages from prison have been posted on social media platforms and websites based in Pakistan, where many people have expressed support for his killing of Mr Shah, whom they believed to be a blasphemer. The new audio emerged after an unnamed prison source told the Daily Record that the religious murderer had ""turned over a new leaf"" and converted to a more peaceful brand of Islam. The same source said that any new messages from Ahmed were likely to be old. But the latest recording is an invitation to a rally attended by thousands of people at the weekend, where large crowds were addressed by the hardline preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi. Rizvi paid glowing tribute to Tanveer Ahmed, saying he ""has surprised the whole of Europe."" He went on to say: ""They are still at loss to understand why he did it. They were worried to see him totally unmoved about life imprisonment."" Ahmed's new audio message - posted on 27 January 2017 as a video on a Facebook page for Khadim Hussain Rizvi, whom he describes as his ""mentor"" - has been viewed 53,000 times and shared more than 4,000. Video of the weekend's rally in Karachi shows large crowds chanting ""Labaik Ya Rasool Ullah"" or ""Here I am present, O Prophet"". The same words were shouted by Ahmed and his supporters at the High Court in Glasgow as he was sentenced to life for the murder of Mr Shah. And they have become a slogan for the extremist anti-blasphemy movement in Pakistan, where being judged to have insulted the majority religion of Islam or the Prophet Muhammad can receive the death penalty. Also addressing the rally in Karachi were family members of Mumtaz Qadri, an Islamist extremist who was hanged last year for the 2011 murder of Punjab governor Salman Taseer. Qadri shot Taseer dead after judging his support for Christians and other minority religious groups in Pakistan to be blasphemous and against Islam. Thousands attended Qadri's funeral, and many in Pakistan seek to draw parallels between his actions and Ahmed's killing of Mr Shah. The SPS said it could not comment on individuals but the BBC understands it is collaborating with other agencies to establish exactly what Tanveer Ahmed has been saying from prison and to whom. Ahmed Owusu Konadu, external affairs secretary of the Ahmadi Muslim Community, questioned why Ahmed was able to get his messages out of the prison. ""We wouldn't expect such a thing to be happening in the United Kingdom,"" he said. ""If it's been done a few times it's quite bizarre that the authorities haven't taken steps in stopping the messages from coming from the prison. ""Any hate preachers or provocations should be stopped. If it's definitely Tanveer Ahmed and it's definitely from the prison, the prison needs to do more.""",An extremist who murdered a Glasgow shopkeeper has released an audio message from jail publicising a controversial religious @placeholder in Pakistan .,rise,property,life,facility,event,4
"Whether it will silence his critics in the Parliamentary Labour Party is another question. But Labour's retention of the seat by a comfortable margin, and a collapse in the Tory vote, does give its leader some grounds for optimism that his brand of socialism is not electoral poison, as some in his party fear - and that he can win votes in traditional Northern working class heartlands, far from his own London powerbase. Corbyn-sceptic Labour MPs acknowledge it will bolster his position but some fear it will do nothing to resolve the fundamental differences in the party. Some sources go further, saying it will embolden Corbynistas trying to isolate and destroy ""moderate"" voices in the party. Labour was not expected to lose the seat, that had been held by Mr Corbyn's friend and political ally Michael Meacher for more than 40 years, before his death. Having a strong local candidate, in Jim McMahon, who fought a campaign on bread and butter issues such as tax credits and regeneration, rather than the big international issues that have dominated the week at Westminster, also helped. Some, including one of Jeremy Corbyn's fiercest internal critics, John Mann, have already identified Mr McMahon as a future Labour leader. Reports from the campaign trail in Oldham had suggested Labour was haemorrhaging votes among its traditional white working class supporters, horrified by what one commentator called the party's transformation into a ""poncified"" party of middle class Metropolitan liberals. This fed directly into Labour fears that their vote in their traditional English strongholds is as brittle as it proved to be in Scotland. And that UKIP, with its tough line on immigration and appeal to patriotic values, was poised to replace it. The London-based away-day pundits have been proved wrong, however. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn: ""It shows the way we've driven the Tories back on tax credits, on police cuts, on their whole austerity agenda and narrative. It shows just how strong, how deep-rooted and how broad our party, the Labour Party, is for the whole of Britain."" Newly-elected Labour MP Jim McMahon: ""This is a truly overwhelming thing for a local lad to represent the town he loves in Westminster is a big, big issue. And I'm very clear I'm sick to death of what the Tories are doing to towns like Oldham. The whole Northern Powerhouse rhetoric is nothing more than write-off of the North to create a poor house. And I'm sick of it. And I think it's about time we showed the Tories that people have had enough."" Labour Deputy leader Tom Watson: ""If this was a referendum on Jeremy Corbyn, then he has won. It was a decisive victory with our share of the vote going up. I hope our MPs look at this result."" UKIP leader Nigel Farage: ""As a veteran of over 30 by-elections I have never seen such a perverse result. Serious questions need to be asked."" Anti-war Labour MP Paul Flynn: ""Real votes by real Oldham people is first public expression of doubt against Cameron's dodgy dossier with his invented bogus battalions."" UKIP sought to make the by-election a referendum on Mr Corbyn, portraying him as an unpatriotic security risk, capitalising on headlines about his alleged equivocation over ""shoot-to-kill"" in particular. But the party played down expectations that it could snatch a famous victory - those days appear to be over for now. It still has strong support in many parts of the North of England but it is in rebuilding mode after a bruising general election result, which saw it gain four million votes but just one MP, and - as leader Nigel Farage conceded - Oldham's large, Labour-voting Asian population was never going to be a happy hunting ground for his party. Mr Farage's decision to cry foul after the result was announced - claiming the ballot was rigged - is a brave one. Oldham is among the areas in the country identified by the Electoral Commission at ""greater risk"" of electoral fraud. But complaining about the process after the election could sound like sour grapes. The first by-election test is a nerve wracking moment for any new party leader. Doubly so for one attempting to take his party in a new, uncharted direction as Jeremy Corbyn is doing. He will be mightily relieved to have passed it.",Jeremy Corbyn needed a boost after the week he has had and the Oldham West and Royton by-election has @placeholder it .,confirmed,died,entered,warned,delivered,4
"The Conwy man signed the Organ Donor Register in the 1980s after a friend died in a motoring accident. When he died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in 2012, his wife Glenys said this decision made a very traumatic time slightly easier. In December, Wales will be the first UK country to introduce a soft opt-out system for organ and tissue donation. This system of deemed consent means that if you have not opted out, you will be regarded as having no objection to being an organ donor. Mrs Price, 71, said that even though her husband's death at the age of 74 was ""a complete shock"", they had discussed organ donation and it was something that was important to them. She said that knowing Harry's life was giving life to others made things slightly more bearable, adding: ""The person who received his liver was able to give their daughter away at her wedding."" Mrs Price said she was ""touched"" to receive an Order of St John Award on her husband's behalf, which recognised the gift of life he had given. Ahead of deemed consent becoming law, the Organ Donation Wales Time to Talk public awareness campaign has been launched, encouraging people to discuss their organ donation wishes with their loved ones.","While it is now three years since Harry Price died , his organs have since @placeholder five lives .",lost,lived,had,ended,saved,4
"The funds raised between 22 April and 12 May, published by the Electoral Commission, were more than twice that declared by their Remain rivals. Britain Stronger In Europe, which raised £1,044,476, said this exposed Vote Leave's ""hypocrisy"" in ""their claims about 'the establishment'"". Vote Leave said: ""The financial support for 'Project Fear' is collapsing."" Campaigners on both sides must publish any donations and loans received worth more than £7,500 in four pre-referendum reports from 1 February to the eve of the vote - 22 June 2016. In the latest report, for the three weeks to 12 May, the bulk declared was in donations - with just one loan, of £10,000, received from the EU Referendum Campaign Ltd. Campaigners for the UK to leave the EU declared £3,781,343, of which £3,355,000 was for the designated lead campaign, Vote Leave. The biggest single donation was £850,000 from International Motors Ltd. The various campaigns for the UK to remain in the EU collectively declared £1,573,402 over the same period, the bulk of which was raised by Britain Stronger In Europe. Its largest donations were both for £250,000, one from the Bet365 group and one from Mark Coombs. The group said it had received an ""excellent response from across the UK"", with more than 13,000 donations of £50 or less. But it said the difference in amounts raised ""highlights the hypocrisy of the deep-pocketed Leave campaigns and their claims about 'the establishment', which will ring increasingly hollow as it becomes apparent how well-funded they are"". Vote Leave has said it is in a ""David and Goliath"" fight against the Remain camp - pointing to banks such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan that have funded the campaign. It has also accused Ryanair of breaking electoral law in its pro-EU campaign. On Thursday, a spokesman for Vote Leave said the Remain campaign could ""still rely on the big banks to fill their coffers"" but the public were being ""turned off by a campaign to do down the British economy"". ""The fact that funding is drying up for the In campaign shows that the financial support for 'Project Fear' is collapsing,"" the Vote Leave spokesman said.",Leave groups have declared more than £ 3.7 m in donations raised in three weeks for the campaign to @placeholder the EU .,expand,protect,quit,improve,promote,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device The former British athlete, 41, says she has been implicated by a parliamentary hearing on blood doping, following a Sunday Times investigation. Radcliffe's 'abnormal scores' have been seen by Sky News despite her earlier telling the BBC she would not be ""forced"" into releasing them. She claims the results are ""not even suspicious"". The marathon world record holder scored 114.86, 109.86 and 109.3 in three blood test results, which were followed up and cleared by the IAAF at the time they were given. Any score above 103 recorded by a female athlete can trigger further action, but Radcliffe, who set her world best time in 2003, said those three tests analysed by experts employed by the Sunday Times lacked context. Guidelines from world athletics governing body IAAF say readings should not be taken within two hours of exercising. Radcliffe added: ""Two of those are invalid because they were taken immediately post-race and they would not be looked at for that reason. ""But if they are looked at by qualified experts with the full context, they would say that is totally explainable, that's not even suspicious."" Radcliffe says all three samples were taken after periods of altitude training. Earlier on Thursday, when asked by the BBC whether freeing blood data would clear her, Radcliffe said: ""I don't need to. I'm clean."" Her stance was in accordance with the advice of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), which maintains that released data for athletes can be misinterpreted. But fellow British athletes Mo Farah and Jo Pavey are among those to have published their personal information to prove they are clean. Radcliffe had said she would not release her data because she wanted to ""protect a lot of other innocent athletes"". She told the BBC: ""I do not want to see another innocent athlete put through what I've been through in the last few months."" After believing she was linked with the Sunday Times investigation during a Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing on Tuesday, Radcliffe said she did not want to ""enter into a huge battle"" with Jesse Norman MP, who suggested London Marathon winners and medallists and ""potentially British athletes"" were under suspicion. Norman did not mention Radcliffe by name but she responded: ""Maybe he didn't understand that to all intents and purposes he may as well have mentioned my name. ""My bigger concern is not with that committee. I don't really care what a committee of MPs thinks about a situation that they don't fully understand. ""I do believe they should have had representatives from the IAAF there if they were going to attack and besmirch the good work they have carried out and have done in being at the forefront of the anti-doping movement. ""If they were going to launch accusations against athletes, they should have invited them."" Meanwhile, five-time Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave has criticised the treatment of Radcliffe. Redgrave told BBC Sport: ""The way Paula is being looked at is wrong. Rumours going around for days and weeks is not the way to handle it."" Former 1500m world champion Steve Cram called for parliament to provide funds to aid the fight against cheating in sport. He told BBC Two's Newsnight: ""MPs are questioning it and rightly so. But the anti-doping organisations need more funding. ""If they are that concerned it would be wonderful if the government in this country set an example and made money available to catch cheats instead of chasing Paula Radcliffe. ""It is very hard for her to prove her innocence. We are almost left with trial by public opinion. She hasn't done anything wrong."" Cram also told BBC Radio 5 live: ""Paula's come out on the front foot and done what any of us would do. ""If we spend too much of our time focussing on a sensational story like this, it only benefits one group of people and that's the people who are still cheating.""","Paula Radcliffe feels like she has been "" almost @placeholder "" by calls for her to release her blood data .",imprisoned,appalled,abused,begged,destroyed,2
"Victorino Chua, 49, denies murdering three patients and poisoning 18 others at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. One alleged victim, Tracey Arden, died after arriving at the hospital in July 2011, Manchester Crown Court heard. Her mother June Arden described the 44-year-old's deterioration. Family members in the public gallery wiped away tears as her statement was read to the court by a barrister. ""It was the first time we hadn't been able to make her smile,"" the statement read. ""Tracey was definitely aware of her surroundings. She'd communicate by making noises,"" Ms Arden, who had suffered from multiple sclerosis since 1999, ""had such a happy personality"". At the time of her death she could not speak, could not hold her head up and had to be fed through a tube in her stomach, the court heard. Mr Chua, of Churchill Street, Heaton Norris, Stockport, is alleged to have killed his victims by secretly injecting insulin into saline bags. The bags were used by ""unsuspecting"" nurses while treating patients on wards A1 and A3 at the hospital, the jury was previously told. Jacqueline Martin, a sister on ward A3, also described Ms Arden's deterioration . The nurse said she noticed that a cannula inserted into the patient's arm was not functioning properly, which meant she was not receiving dextrose solution or antibiotics through a saline drip. She called a doctor because Ms Arden was ""looking very poorly and was having difficulty breathing"" and her chest sounded ""rattly"". The nurse tried to use suction to clear Ms Arden's lungs without success, although a physiotherapist managed to ""clear a lot of secretions."" Peter Griffiths QC, defending, told the jury that it was disputed whether insulin was a ""causative factor"" in Mrs Arden's death. Father-of-two Mr Chua is also accused of killing Arnold Lancaster, 71, and Derek Weaver, 83, at Stepping Hill. The nurse has pleaded not guilty to 37 charges in all, including 25 counts of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent, eight counts of attempting to administer poison and one count of administering poison. The alleged offences happened between June 2011 and January 2012. The trial is expected to last up to four months.",The family of a woman allegedly murdered by a nurse at a Greater Manchester hospital @placeholder in tears as a jury heard how she died a day after she was admitted with a chest infection .,dressed,culminated,stood,described,dumped,2
"The hearing is considering plans by Third Energy to frack for shale gas at its existing site near Kirby Misperton in Ryedale. More than 80 people opposed to the plan addressed the council meeting in Northallerton. A decision on the proposals is expected on Monday. Third Energy said it had been producing gas ""safely and discreetly"" for over 20 years and had a ""responsible approach"". North Yorkshire county councillors were greeted by placard-waving protesters as they arrived for the planning committee meeting at County Hall. Opening the meeting, committee chairman Peter Sowray said: ""It's plainly obvious from the attendance today and by the amount of correspondence received by members, and the press coverage both locally and nationally, that this is by far the most controversial application that we have had to deal with."" Ryedale councillor Lyndsay Burr, who was the first scheduled speaker, told committee members: ""Ryedale residents do not want to be the first in the UK to allow fracking"". She said she feared giving it the go-ahead would ""devastate the area"" and ruin its reputation as a tourist destination. Baroness McIntosh, the former Conservative MP for the area, told councillors: ""There are too many unknowns and there are too many answered questions. ""I believe you are being asked to take too much on trust today."" Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Last week, officers at North Yorkshire County Council recommended the granting of permission for Third Energy's application. Thousands have since contacted the authority with representations, with the vast majority against the proposal. The government has said it is going ""all out for shale"" to boost energy security and the economy. Opponents fear it could cause problems including water contamination, earthquakes, noise and traffic pollution. Environmentalists have also warned pursuing new sources of gas is not compatible with efforts to tackle climate change. No fracking has taken place in the UK since 2011, when tests on the Fylde coast were found to have been the probable cause of minor earthquakes in the area. Since then, two high-profile applications to frack in Lancashire have been rejected by councillors and are now the subject of appeals. Those speaking in favour of the application will be heard by councillors on Monday. If approved, fracking could start by the end of the year. Third Energy has licences to produce gas in North Yorkshire and offshore in the North Sea. In 2013 it drilled an exploratory well near the village of Kirby Misperton, close to the North York Moors National Park. Rasik Valand, chief executive of Third Energy, said: ""The planning officer's positive recommendation comes after very detailed scrutiny of the application by the Planning Officer and statutory consultees and taking into account representations by members of the public and other groups. ""Third Energy has been drilling wells, producing gas and generating electricity safely and discreetly in North Yorkshire for over 20 years and we will continue to maintain the same responsible approach in the future.""",Hundreds of protesters demonstrated as councillors began to decide whether to approve fracking for the first time in England since a ban was @placeholder in 2012 .,destroyed,engulfed,published,lifted,announced,3
"But the little Italian plumber from Brooklyn is set to be the highlight of his Japanese parent's press conference at the world's biggest video games trade show this week. Nintendo is expected to announce a new Super Mario game for its upcoming Wii U console, as well as provide more details about at least two titles featuring the character for its 3DS handheld games machine. The revelations at the E3 event in Los Angeles will mark the latest evolution of the company's 31-year-old mascot. Mario originally started life as Jumpman, a carpenter with a blue shirt and red overalls whose girlfriend was kidnapped in the game Donkey Kong. He was renamed Mario by his creator Shigeru Miyamoto ahead of the sequel Donkey Kong Jr's launch in the US - a rare instance in which he portrayed the villain. Legend has it he was named after Mario Segale, landlord of a US warehouse rented by the firm. He has since appeared in more than 200 games, including educational titles, sports simulations and, most famously, in a series of side-scrolling platformers alongside his brother Luigi. But Mario's influence extends far beyond his video game cartridges, making him an unlikely cultural icon. Tim Augst, a 24-year-old living in Melbourne, set up a website in 2006 to document all things Mario. Mario Mayhem currently receives about 100,000 unique visits a month, with a cross-section of individuals contacting him to pay homage. ""I get a lot of younger kids sending in their Mario drawings and other kinds of art, and then I get the older kids, and even 30-year-old adults,   sending in everything from videos to pictures of their tattoos,"" Mr Augst says. ""There are probably a few more guys contacting me than girls, but not by much."" The Australian curator and his visitors aren't the only ones with a Mario obsession. Some take it to a deeper level. '""Except for cartoons, Mario was my only escape from the problems at home,"" Mario Brotha, a New York-based contemporary artist, tells the BBC. Mr Brotha says changing his name to echo Nintendo's protagonist has helped attract attention, giving him a competitive advantage when it comes to winning commissions for magazine fashion shoots and advertising campaigns. ""I remember racing home from school everyday just to be Mario for a couple hours. Mario Bros was my first experience with the digital-electronic world. So I chose Mario Brotha as a name to represent how far technology has come in the last 20 years."" The character also proved influential to one of the men behind another hit video game series. ""Mario is a great character,"" says Peter Vesterbacka, the chief marketing officer - or ""mighty eagle"" - at Angry Birds' developer Rovio. ""But it's not just about him - it's the whole world that Nintendo has built, with the other great characters and the stories told through its games. ""Like Angry Birds, it's a game that both kids and parents can enjoy, and a great example of how games can connect generations."" Mario's original design was the result of technological limitations. He was given a big nose and moustache because early video games' graphics were limited to blocky pixels. He has a hat as Mr Miyamoto was not a fan of drawing hair, and the colours red and blue were selected to help him stand out from the background. Since then, little details have been added, such as buttons and the logo on his cap. ""As far as things go, there isn't a lot of depth to him,"" says Professor Jose Zagal, a game designer and academic at DePaul University, Chicago. ""He's defined by a few traits and characteristics: Italian-American, a bit tubby, sports a moustache, and is cheerful and brave. That's about it really."" Despite his appearance it would be foolish to underestimate Mario's power, says Ed Barton, director of digital media at Strategy Analytics. ""He is the most iconic video games character - Super Mario is to games what Mickey Mouse is to cartoons,"" he says. ""Nintendo has been very careful with the intellectual property he represents, keeping the quality of his games not just high but industry-defining. ""Super Mario games are a benchmark for all platforming games."" So how much is the little guy worth? ""A quick back of the envelope calculation comes to around 250 million unit sales, which even with a conservative average sales price comes out at around $10bn (£6.5bn) in new games sales,"" says Mr Barton. ""Obviously the series has generated more through second-hand games sales and licensing."" Mario shouldn't need to worry that he will ever have to go back to unblocking drains. But there are some clouds over his future. Nintendo posted a net loss of 43.2bn yen ($553m, £360m) over its last financial year, and some question the firm's refusal to release Mario games on iPhones and Android handsets. ""Smartphones are already the biggest device category, but gaming will be on all connected screens,"" says Mr Vesterbacka. Prof Zagal suggests the character's fate may depend on the success of Nintendo's hardware. ""While Nintendo's 3DS sales have picked up, it got off to a rocky start and the upcoming Wii U console seems to have created more confusion than excitement,"" he says. ""On the other hand, Nintendo's Wii was met with great derision when it first launched but ended up soundly trouncing everyone else in terms of sales numbers."" But one thing the experts and fans are resolute about is that Mario should keep at his most lucrative activity. ""Princess saving is what he seems to do most often and most successfully,"" states Prof Zagal. But Mr Augst says he wishes he could ask his hero one question: ""Is Princess Peach really worth it?""","Mario is n't your typical type of hero . He clearly does n't pump iron , he wears overalls rather than a tight - fitting @placeholder suit , and is still rocking a 1980s - style thick moustache .",grey,community,style,body,speed,3
"American world number one Spieth, who defends his Masters title in two weeks, beat Frenchman Victor Dubuisson 5&4. Northern Ireland's McIlroy beat Smylie Kaufman, of the United States, 3&1. Mickelson won 1 up dramatically against US compatriot Daniel Berger, who pulled out with an injured wrist after striking a rock while trying to play his second shot at the 18th. Australian Jason Day showed no sign of the back injury which troubled him in his opening match against Graeme McDowell on Wednesday with a 5&3 win over  Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee. Also recording a second wins in the competition was England's Andy Sullivan, who defeated Matt Jones of Australia 3&1. McDowell and Paul Casey can now not progress to the last-16 knockout stage after they halved their match on Thursday. Every player in the 64-strong field contests three matches in his group in a round-robin format, with 16 players advancing to the knockout phase which starts on Saturday.","Jordan Spieth , Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson @placeholder unbeaten after day two of the WGC - Dell Match Play in Texas .",continued,title,beat,remain,side,3
"As part of Gad Weil's artistic project ""Climate Noah's Ark"", two boats travelling along the River Seine carried the art project into Paris, as France prepares for a climate summit. Leaders and important people from around the world will meet in the French capital in November to discuss the issues surrounding climate change.","An installation of 140 animal @placeholder sculptures is set on the deck of a barge , in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris .",body,goods,heritage,company,shape,4
"Kyles completed their 2-0 defeat of Oban Camanachd in the first quarter of the game while it was well into extra-time before Newtonmore first found the net in their 3-0 victory over Lovat. Kinlochshiel went top of the Marine Harvest Premiership with a 3-0 win at Kilmallie and Kingussie also leapfrogged previous leaders Kyles with victory by the same score at home to Glasgow Mid Argyll. Lochaber cashed in on the defeats of Mid Argyll and Kilmallie to overtake them both from the bottom with a 3-1 home success over Glenurquhart. In the MacAulay Cup South semi-final in Oban, Colin MacDonald opened the scoring after just three minutes and on 23 added a second to effectively seal the tie. It was totally different in the North tie at Beauly where 90 minutes came and went goalless and it was midway through the first period of extra-time before Jamie Robinson eventually got the breakthrough for Newtonmore. Robinson then broke Lovat's hearts with a second just before the turnaround and Michael Russell put the tie to bed with 10 minutes of play remaining. Newtonmore now go into the final at Oban's Mossfield Park on 19 August having recorded comfortable back-to-back league and Camanachd Cup wins over their opponents from Tighnabruaich. In the Premiership, Scott MacLean opened for Kinlochshiel late in the first half and Duncan MacRae made it 2-0 early in the second. A Keith MacRae penalty then confirmed the victory that put Shiel top of the table with 19 points from 11 games, with Kyles on 17 from 10. Splitting these two on 18 points but from 14 outings are Kingussie. Ruaridh Anderson sent them well on their way to victory at the Dell over Glasgow Mid Argyll with a quick-fire double early in the second half and Lee Bain netted late on. Meanwhile, Shaun Nicholson sent Lochaber on their way to victory. James MacPherson equalised for Glenurquhart just after the hour but Stuart Callison responded instantly before Ryan Johnstone confirmed Lochaber's winning cushion. These results leave Kilmallie, who have a slightly inferior goal difference, and Mid Argyll still on five points at the bottom, now two behind Lochaber but with two and three games in hand respectively. The bottom side is relegated while second bottom play off against the National Division runners-up. In the second tier, Caberfeidh and Skye put themselves in pole position for those promotion places. Cabers gained revenge for the previous Saturday's Balliemore Cup final defeat by Fort William with a 1-0 home win over the same opponents. Meanwhile, Skye are also undefeated - a point adrift but with a game in hand - after their 4-0 win at Inveraray. Oban Celtic beat Strathglass 2-1 at Cannich in the other National Division game.",Newtonmore and Kyles Athletic will meet in the Artemis MacAulay Cup final next month following @placeholder semi-final victories .,contrasting,contest,promoted,struggling,further,0
"Theresa May is to publish a new counter-terrorism bill, which includes a requirement for schools, universities and councils to counter radicalisation. But plans to stop some UK fighters returning have been questioned by the independent reviewer of terror laws. Campaigners have also warned the bill threatens civil liberties. It comes as a week-long counter-terrorism awareness campaign enters its third day. The UK's terror threat level remains ""severe"" after it was upped from ""substantial"" earlier this year in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria. Forty terror plots have been foiled in the UK since the 7 July bombings in London in 2005. Speaking ahead of the bill's publication, David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terror laws, told parliament the proposal to stop British fighters returning from Syria and Iraq was an ""announcement awaiting a policy"". The new Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill includes: Speaking ahead of the bill's publication, Mrs May said: ""We are in the middle of a generational struggle against a deadly terrorist ideology. These powers are essential to keep up with the very serious and rapidly changing threats we face. ""In an open and free society, we can never entirely eliminate the threat from terrorism. ""But we must do everything possible in line with our shared values to reduce the risks posed by our enemies. ""This bill includes a considered, targeted set of proposals that will help to keep us safe at a time of very significant danger by ensuring we have the powers we need to defend ourselves."" But Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty, said:  ""Yet again, politicians resort to high talk and rushed legislation in an attempt to look tough in the face of terrorism. Another chilling recipe for injustice and resentment by closing down the open society you seek to promote."" Amnesty International called the powers ""draconian"", adding none of the measures seemed ""properly thought through"". But Mrs May has warned that even the new powers will not fully address the threat, reiterating the need for the Communications Data Bill of more wide-ranging web monitoring powers to be enacted. That bill - labelled a snooper's charter by critics - was scrapped following Lib Dem opposition. On Tuesday a report into the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby concluded the security agencies could not have prevented his death. There were errors in the security operation but they were not ""significant enough to have made a difference"", the Intelligence and Security Committee report said. Fusilier Rigby was killed on 22 May last year, near Woolwich Barracks in London, at the hands of Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale. David Cameron said internet companies had a ""social responsibility"" to act on terrorist material posted online after the report detailed how Adebowale spoke on Facebook about wanting to murder a soldier. The social networking site said it did not allow terrorist content and takes steps to prevent it. The report also said the government's Prevent programme, designed to divert individuals from radicalisation, had not been given sufficient priority. The national policing lead for the programme, Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy, said: ""The police cannot be in every mosque, college or other community venue monitoring what is discussed and the doctrines which are promoted. Nor would we want Britain to be such a society. ""We need parents, schools, partners, friends and colleagues to be aware of the signs that someone is being influenced by extremist messages and have the confidence to report any concerns to the police."" This week's national campaign will see more than 6,000 people receive briefings at 80 venues across the country.","New measures to tackle terrorism are to be @placeholder by the home secretary , days after she said the UK faces a "" greater "" terror threat than ever before .",affected,discussed,unveiled,targeted,funded,2
"A win for the visitors would have taken them above Ayr United into second but Joe Cardle's strike condemned them to a sixth straight loss. Cardle netted the winner when he converted from Ryan Wallace's pass. The Pars go up to the Championship having finished 18 points clear, while Peterhead will take on Ayr in the promotion play-off semi-final.",Champions Dunfermline Athletic beat Peterhead before being @placeholder with the Scottish League One trophy .,rescued,promoted,honoured,presented,relegated,3
"But the Tories and Labour are today behaving as if the risk of another such shock in the current parliament is nil, because in different ways they've both limited their room to offset the impact of one. And history would teach us that the economy tends to go pop when we least expect it. So what have they announced? Well the Tories have said they would legislate within 100 days of forming a government to make it illegal for a chancellor during the life of the next parliament to raise income tax rates, VAT or National Insurance. There are a couple of things to say about this. First some will see it as a blatant admission that what politicians say, in their manifestos and elsewhere during an election campaign, isn't to be trusted. If we need a new law to convince us Tories won't put up taxes, that implies everything else they've promised during the election campaign is in the category of good intentions, which could be abandoned the moment the going gets tough. Which is hardly likely to reinforce our confidence in the political class. David Cameron would probably say he's prepared to take that risk, because he wants to reinforce the so-called brand of the Conservative Party that it will take as little money as necessary from us to maintain the public services we see as essential - and wants to imply that Labour is less responsible with our precious income. But it is odd, perhaps, that he won't make the same legislated commitment not to put up business taxes or rates, given that he has been frantically positioning the Tories as the pro-business party, in contrast to Ed Miliband's putative anti-business stance. But if businesses aren't to get legislated protection for the corporation tax and rates they pay, they might begin to fear they are the thin end of the Conservatives' no-tax-rises wedge. And then there are a couple of points to make about the conventional view of how best to run an economy. First is that orthodoxy in the Treasury for donkey's years has been that no chancellor should have his or her hands bound (one golden day there'll be a ""her"") in respect of what taxes can be increased or cut - because no chancellor can possibly have the gift of perfect foresight in regard to what economic circumstances may demand. So it is striking that George Osborne - who would presumably remain chancellor if the Tories are re-elected - has agreed that raising more money from income tax, NI and Vat is off limits - it deprives him of revenue-raising flexibility in respect of the three big taxes, which collectively are forecast to raise 65% of all taxation next year. In other words, he has restricted his fiscal room for manoeuvre by two thirds. Now that may or may not reassure voters, but it may not reassure credit rating agencies. How so? Well the UK still has one of the top-notch ratings for its debt, which helps the government to borrow at interest rates which are less than zero (adjusting for inflation). But the AAA and almost-AAA ratings given to us by assorted agencies are based in part on the idea that we have a robust economy able to raise whatever taxes are required to fill a hole, as and when the economy is knocked off track. So it is a bit odd perhaps that the Tories are sending out a signal that there are certain taxes that cannot be adjusted in an upward direction. That said I imagine any no-tax-rises law would contain some kind of force majeure clause, allowing it to be over-ridden in a fully-fledged fiscal crisis. But if that's the case, why bother with the law in the first place. So to get back to where I started, the law is only compelling at all if you believe there can't possibly be a serious economic setback in the next parliament. And that would seem an eccentric assumption to make, after looking around the world - in that the potential for accidents to occur everywhere from Beijing, to Frankfurt to Moscow is not de minimis. To be clear, a similar point can be made about Ed Miliband's pledge today that he would increase tax credits at least in line with inflation every year - in that there may be circumstances when saving a bit of money by being a bit meaner with them would be in the national interest. But in his case he is not planning a law to guarantee these increases. Or at least he hasn't spoken of such a law yet, although there are eight days left of this intriguing election campaign.","In most British people 's minds , the Great Crash and Recession of 2008 probably feels like yesterday - the defining economic shock of our age , we continue to live with its noxious @placeholder .",pledge,effects,counterparts,experience,mood,1
"Fiona Anderson, 23, was found dead on 15 April last year next to a multi-storey car park in Lowestoft, Suffolk. Police later discovered the bodies of Levina, 3, Addy, 2, and 11-month-old Kyden, in their mother's bed at their home in London Road South in the town. The inquest heard there was evidence they had been drowned in the bath. When police officers visited Miss Anderson's home, they found she had written on the walls using a green marker pen, the coroner's court in Bury St Edmunds was told. One of the messages read: ""I put them to bed with their bear bears - they loved their bears."" Another read: ""I love them and I'm going to keep them safe."" One more said: ""They're cuddled up together sleeping. They look so peaceful."" Each of the children had a heart drawn on their torso in green ink to create the message ""I love you x"", Ch Insp Andy Smith told the inquest. Police also found evidence of a lipstick kiss mark on each of their foreheads. The heavily pregnant Miss Anderson had written the names of each child on her own body, along with the name Eve, which she intended to name her unborn daughter, the inquest heard. Ch Insp Smith said the day before the killings, she had argued with the children's father, Craig McClelland, after he began a new relationship. She stabbed him during this confrontation but he initially lied to police and said he had been stabbed in the street by a stranger. Ch Insp Smith said: ""He later told us he lied to protect Fiona and stop the children being taken into care. ""It is clear that Fiona Anderson loved her children but that she was extremely emotionally disturbed on April 13, 14 and 15."" He added a torn-up letter recovered after her death provided ""a harrowing insight into her life"". ""She felt unable to cope with the situation and apologetically outlined her intention to take her children with her,"" Mr Smith said. ""In her words: a mother never abandons her children."" The family had been known to a variety of care agencies since she first became pregnant in 2009, coroner Peter Dean said. Child protection plans were in place after concerns over possible physical and emotional neglect were raised. A serious case review by independent expert Ron Lock for Suffolk Local Safeguarding Children Board was read to the hearing. It found the family had been considered ""hard to reach"" as Miss Anderson had refused to engage with children's services since her first pregnancy. Because of her refusal to co-operate, no mental health assessment could be carried out. ""If the children had been placed into care this could have avoided this tragic outcome,"" Mr Lock said in the report. A post-mortem examination found no evidence the children had been restrained or assaulted. The coroner recorded Miss Anderson took her own life and the three children were unlawfully killed. Mr Dean said he was satisfied Suffolk County Council had done everything it could since the deaths to improve procedures.","A pregnant woman killed her three children before writing "" I love you "" on their bodies , kissing them and @placeholder them up in bed , an inquest heard .",caught,controlling,tying,locking,tucking,4
"Police, paramedics, the fire service and air ambulance were called to an area off Duke Street in Hadleigh on Saturday morning. As reported in the Ipswich Star, he was pulled from the water and attempts were made to resuscitate him. He was taken by ambulance to Ipswich Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Police are not treating the incident as suspicious.",A man died after he was @placeholder falling into the River Brett in Suffolk .,engulfed,introduced,seen,knocked,attacked,2
"The symbols were originally thought to be graffiti, but experts now believe they were carved to ward off evil spirits at Wookey Hole, Somerset. Four new ritual protection marks were found by staff creating a new caving experience at the site. Experts from Bristol University who have studied the markings said they dated from about 1550 to 1750. Chris Binding from the university's speleological society, who helped carry out the survey, said about 50 carvings, which were originally thought to be mason's marks, were identified as being ritual protection marks in 2007. He said the newly discovered markings, which were found in a more inaccessible part of the cave, had ""all the characteristics of age"". ""This is the largest known concentration of ritual protection marks in any cave in Britain,"" he said. ""It was a good luck charm in the medieval era and carried on through to the late 18th Century."" He added that most of the marks were in a vertical shaft - known as an aven - leading upward from a cave passage, which would have felt unnaturally cold to people below due to a convection draught. The caves' owner, Daniel Medley, said the find ""proved that the route our adventure cavers use is the same one used in the 15th Century, mentioned by William of Worcester in 1470"". He added: ""It is quite chilling to think that people hundreds of years ago were deep underground carrying flaming torches for light and scratching these symbols on the rocks because they believed it would protect them from the witch and her evil."" Many of the symbols appear to be the letter W or the letter M, but it is thought they are double Vs, in reference to the Virgin Mary. The marks will now feature in guided adventure tours at the attraction.",A series of witch markings have been discovered carved into @placeholder at an underground tourist attraction .,wood,difficulty,walls,effect,bodies,2
"The private member's bill would have pardoned all men living with UK convictions for same-sex offences committed before the law was changed. There were emotional scenes with one MP fighting back tears during his speech. The government, which has its own plans for posthumous pardons, ""talked out"" the bill, which will not now go ahead. Minister Sam Gyimah spoke for 25 minutes, reaching the time limit allotted for the debate. There were shouts of ""shame"" and ""shameful"" from angry MPs as the seconds ticked down and proceedings came to an end. SNP MP John Nicolson said he had secured government support for his bill, which was withdrawn when the Ministry of Justice published its own commitment to a ""Turing's law"" on Thursday. During Friday's debate Mr Nicolson accused the government of trying to ""hijack"" his plans. The government's rival measure, an amendment to the Policing and Crimes Bill announced on Thursday, would grant pardons for those convicted who have since died. Ministers say those who are still alive can go through a ""disregard process"" to clear their names. The government said it would not support Mr Nicolson's Sexual Offences (Pardons) Bill - which proposes a blanket pardon for the living - because it could lead to some people being cleared of offences that are still crimes. ""I understand and support the intentions behind Mr Nicolson's Bill, however I worry that he has not fully thought through the consequences,"" said justice minister Sam Gyimah. ""Our way forward will be both faster and fairer."" Speaking during the debate, Mr Nicolson said: ""I have to ask the House, should we not prioritise the living over the dead?"" His bill would have ""set aside"" nearly 50,000 convictions, about 15,000 of which apply to men who are still alive today. Mr Nicolson says he was motivated by his work as a BBC journalist in the 1990s: ""I made a documentary in the 1990s looking at the discriminatory laws which criminalised gay men. ""There were some shocking injustices. Men were arrested aged 21 for having 'under-age sex' with their 20-year-old boyfriends,"" he said. The bill is intended to set aside only convictions made under: And it would do so only under the conditions that: The debate saw MPs from both government and opposition parties speaking in favour of moving the bill through Parliament. Labour Rhondda MP Chris Bryant made an emotional speech in favour of the bill, recalling gay and bisexual MPs who demanded the right to fight in World War Two, insisting they and others should receive ""something that feels like an apology"". Conservative MP Iain Stewart said that while he would support the government amendment, he believed it wouldn't go far enough. Mr Stewart said: ""We can move forward in a much more symbolic way... a way which will really make a difference to many people in this country."" A 2015 petition calling for pardons for the estimated 49,000 men affected by convictions for consensual gay sex was signed by over half a million people, including the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Turing in the 2014 film The Imitation Game. Another signatory was Turing's great-niece Rachel Barnes. Speaking to BBC News in 2015, Ms Barnes said: ""We've always considered that it is totally unjust that only Alan was given a pardon. ""There were 50,000 other homosexuals who were convicted and not given a pardon. We would really like this to be put right now.""",A bill that would have @placeholder clean the criminal records of thousands of gay men has fallen at its first parliamentary hurdle .,help,wiped,been,criticised,raised,1
"This is a response to the accusation that the corporation is ""imperial in its ambitions"" made by Chancellor George Osborne (along with several newspapers). Partnerships with cultural bodies, sharing news with local newspapers, opening up the iPlayer to third party content - the mood music is all about co-operation rather than competition. And with £650m being cut from the BBC's income by shifting the cost of free TV licences for the over-75s on to the corporation, there is little scope for any expansion. However, one of the first pieces of information to emerge from this review is the plan to increase broadcasting to North Korea, the Middle East and Russian-speaking populations. The global broadcasting landscape is changing fast. Russia and China have been rapidly expanding their international services. The corporation has also seen its services jammed and blocked in a number of countries.  The BBC says it needs to respond especially in countries without a free press and in places that are in turmoil. The World Service has a global reputation - but what does that mean to the next generation? The speed of change in technology and competition could quickly erode any broadcaster's audience. The problem is the BBC is going to have to change and that is going to cost money. The technological tidal wave of the digital revolution is impossible to predict. Ten years ago as the BBC bid for its current charter, there were no smartphones or tablets, YouTube was only a few months old, Amazon was essentially a bookseller. Quite what any media organisation needs to do to stay relevant in such a shifting landscape is anyone's guess.  As Armando Iannucci said in his recent speech in Edinburgh about media experts: ""Their guess is as good as yours, only more expensive."" Apple is challenging Radio One, Amazon has Top Gear's team, Netflix is outbidding the BBC in drama. In the BBC's ""Blue Room"" - a store of technology about to be released on to the marketplace - you can play with Amazon's voice-activated media player, Facebook's virtual reality system, Oculus Rift and Apple's carplay radio stations. The BBC's prediction is that over the next 10 years its income will shrink from 20% of UK TV revenues to 12%. The plans for bigger and bolder drama and giving people the chance to ""binge"" watch is a recognition of the new competitive environment. The BBC's problem is looking after its core audience and responding to a technological transformation. ""Having to ride two horses"" is the phrase used in Tony Hall's speech. Take news for example. Around five million people a night still watch the Six O'Clock News, but for a growing part of the audience the news is a phone-only service. The future, Tony Hall says, is to move from ""rolling"" to ""streaming"" - the question is how long you keep the ""rolling"" part going when you need to fund new ""streaming"" services. Older audiences still want services such as the News Channel and they are heavy consumers of the BBC and a growing part of the population.  Younger, digital first consumers  expect something different. Serving two such radically different audiences will take money and the BBC has just taken a £650m cut.  Those ""tough choices"" mentioned in the speech is the theme that has not yet been announced. ""We will inevitably have to either close or reduce some services,"" said Lord Hall. This speech was the BBC showing its friendly co-operative forward-facing persona. The question of which services it has to close or change radically is the topic that was left hanging in the air. The language of the speech about the BBC being a ""curator"" or a ""platform"" for British content was aimed at organisations and politicians who see the broadcasting landscape being utterly transformed by largely American technology companies. This, however, is far from the end of the debate about the future of the BBC. Expect more announcements in the weeks to come. Today was the good news, trying to make the positive case for the BBC - the consequences of cuts and technological change will come later.",""" This is not an expansionist BBC "" is perhaps the key political line in Monday 's announcements from director general Tony Hall , as he @placeholder out the corporation 's plans ahead of the BBC 's charter renewal in 2016 .",carried,set,points,undergoes,blew,1
"I love chocolate and once I start on a bar I can't stop until it's all gone. One square, or even a few, are never enough. My family know that if they bring chocolate into our house they will have to hide it. So what is it about the food that so many of us find irresistible? And what characteristics does chocolate share with other foods that we simply can't say, ""no"" to? As part of a new series on the science of food, botanist James Wong and I went looking for answers. Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, which have been grown and consumed in the Americas for thousands of years. The Maya and the Aztecs made a drink out of cocoa beans called xocolatl, which means ""bitter water."" Can people learn to curb their chocolate cravings? That's because in its raw form cocoa beans are intensely bitter. To get at the beans you first have to crack open the thick husk of the cocoa pod, releasing a pulp that has an intense tropical flavour that's halfway between lemonade and a custard apple. Known as baba de cacao, it's sweet, acidic and very sticky. The beans and pulp are then sweated and allowed to ferment for several days before being dried and roasted. Roasting releases a range of chemical compounds including 3-methylbutanoic acid, which on its own has a sweaty rancid odour, and dimethyl trisulfide, the smell of over-cooked cabbage. The combination of these and other aroma molecules creates a unique chemical signature that our brains love. But the rich, chocolaty smells and the happy memories of youth that those smells provoke, are just part of chocolate's attraction. Chocolate contains a number of interesting psychoactive chemicals. These include anandamide, a neurotransmitter whose name comes from the Sanskrit - ""ananda"", meaning ""joy, bliss, delight"". Anandamides stimulate the brain in much the same way that cannabis does. It also contains tyramine and phenylethylamine, both of which have similar effects to amphetamines. Finally, if you look hard enough, you will find small traces of theobromine and caffeine, both of which are well-known stimulants. For a while, some food scientists got very excited about the discovery but to be honest, although chocolate contains these substances, we now know they are only there in trace amounts. Your brain is not going to get much of a chemical rush from eating a few squares. None the less, they may play a small part in seducing our senses. So what else does chocolate have going for it? Well, it also has a creamy viscosity. When you take it out of its wrapper and put a bit in your mouth without biting, you will notice that it rapidly melts on your tongue, leaving a lingering sensation of smoothness. Special touch receptors on our tongues detect this textural change, which then stimulates feelings of pleasure. But the thing that really transformed the cocoa from a bitter and watery drink into the snack we adore today was the addition of sugar and fat. The addition of just the right amount of each is crucial to our enjoyment of chocolate. Look at the side of a packet of milk chocolate and you will see that it is normally contains around 20-25% fat and 40-50% sugar. In nature such high levels of sugar and fat are rarely found, or at least not together. You can get lots of natural sugars from fruits and roots, and there is plenty of fat to be found in nuts or a tasty chunk of salmon, but one of the few places where you will find both together is in milk. Human breast milk is particularly rich in natural sugars, mainly lactose. Roughly 4% of human breast milk is fat, while about 8% is made up of sugars. Formula milk, which is fed to babies, contains a similar ratio of fats to sugars. This ratio, 1g of fat to 2g of sugars, is the same ratio of fats to sugars that you find in milk chocolate. And in biscuits, doughnuts, ice cream. In fact this particular ratio is reflected in many of the foods that we find hard to resist. So why do I love chocolate? For a whole host of reasons. But it may also be that I, and chocoholics like me, are trying to recapture the taste and sense of closeness we got from the first food we ever sampled; human breast milk. The Secrets of Your Food begins on BBC2 at 2100GMT on Friday February 24th. Join the conversation on our Facebook page.",It may seem simple - we like chocolate because it tastes nice . But there 's more to it than that - and it relates to a fat / carbohydrates @placeholder that is set right from the very beginning of our lives .,balance,fields,news,laboratory,scheme,0
"Mark Carney, the Bank's governor, averred there could be a ""technical recession"" - that is six months of economic contraction with all that could mean for job losses and real incomes. Sterling could fall sharply, investment dry up and confidence slump. Today, a different tone - nuanced, maybe, but still significant. Although Mr Carney made it clear that the economic risks were still very visible - and indeed some, such as sterling's slump, were beginning to ""materialise"" - preparation ahead of the referendum was now paying off. And, yes, he actually used the word ""positive"" for some of the effects seen post the Big Vote. Financial markets had remained stable, government and business borrowing costs - even for the battered banks - had fallen and the decline in the pound had provided a boost for exporters and businesses that earned revenues overseas. Investors may be concerned with profitability and economic growth, Mr Carney said. What they didn't seem so worried about was the resilience of the whole system, which can be a much more toxic issue - as anyone who went through the 2008 crisis will attest. That is not to suggest that the governor thinks anything much different from what he and members of both the Financial Policy Committee and the Monetary Policy Committee believed before the referendum. It is to suggest that the governor is well aware of his new role post the leave vote to provide reassurance, a one-man stability mechanism during this remarkable episode of political and economic volatility. The governor has not only been very visible since the vote on 23 June - today is his third appearance before the cameras - but he has also been keen to say that the Bank is working as it should to provide all the monetary and financial stability support it can during such uncertain times. That has gone a considerable way to calming market jitters. Of course there are significant risks ahead, the Bank says. It has raised fresh concerns about the debt levels being carried by ""vulnerable"" consumers who might be affected by job losses or a fall in incomes. It says foreign investment in commercial property developments has declined significantly. And, given that 75% of all lending to smaller businesses uses commercial property as collateral, any fall in prices could have worrying knock-on effects for access to credit. Today's announcement that Aviva has followed Standard Life in stopping people removing their money from its property investment fund for fear of a disorderly ""rush for the exit"" shows that uncertainty in the commercial office and shops market is having a tangible impact on retail investors. Which could have an impact on broader consumer confidence. Housing transactions have also slowed and the share prices of the major home builders have slumped, raising fears about the government's targets for house building. Which were pretty heroic in the first place. Mr Carney also warned that the UK's large current account deficit meant that foreign investors' confidence in the country's economy had to be maintained. The UK relies on the ""kindness of strangers"" to service that deficit, as the governor memorably put it earlier this year. Mr Carney's tone has softened. No, he doesn't believe there are necessarily sunny uplands ahead. It's just that his job in a world where there is such little visibility politically or economically on the path ahead has changed. From warning mode. To reassurance.","At the last Inflation Report , published in May , you could hunt high and low with little success for the word "" positive "" when it came to the Bank of England 's @placeholder of the possible fallout from any vote to leave the European Union .",warnings,head,reminder,analysis,version,3
"They quote a person familiar with SNL's plans as saying Katie Rich was suspended indefinitely. The programme's network, NBC, is yet to comment. On Friday, Ms Rich posted a now-deleted tweet, saying ""Barron will be this country's first home-school shooter"". An avalanche of criticism on social media followed. Ms Rich later deleted her tweet, suspending her Twitter account. However, on Monday she was back online to issue an apology. One Facebook post in reaction to her previous tweet has been shared nearly three million times. The post read: ""NO child deserves to be talked to in such a manner... He is a child, he is to be respected and he is off limits"". Chelsea Clinton, a former first child, joined the support for Barron. SNL has made a number of shows in recent months, parodying President Trump. Mr Trump, who took office on 20 January, has described the programme as ""not funny"" and with ""terrible"" cast.","A Saturday Night Live writer has been suspended after posting a tweet @placeholder US President Donald Trump 's son Barron , US media reports say .",inspired,hire,mocking,involving,showing,2
"The posts are at Tech Mahindra, a firm that provides business support to its client companies. The company, which has its headquarters in India, set up in Northern Ireland in 2007 with the help of Invest NI. The posts are at risk because it has lost a major contract with EE, the mobile and internet provider. The BBC understands its workforce was informed of developments on Monday. The work with EE is due to finish in early January. A spokesman for Tech Mahindra told the BBC the EE contract was the ""primary source"" of its work in Belfast. He added it was not yet clear how many jobs could be retained. The company has its offices in Lanyon Place. EE announced last month it was no longer going to subcontract work related to its broadband services. That is what is currently done in Belfast by Tech Mahindra staff.",Up to 200 jobs are under @placeholder at an IT company operating in Belfast city centre .,contract,production,way,staff,threat,4
"The raid happened at the Murco garage in Bowhouse, Maddiston, at about 21:45 on Friday. The man, who was wearing a balaclava, threatened staff with a weapon and demanded money. He made off with a number of items. Officers have appealed for witnesses to come forward. The suspect was described as 5ft 8in to 5ft 10in tall and of stocky build. He spoke with a Falkirk accent. He was wearing a grey camouflage jacket, dark trousers, dark trainers with white soles and black gloves. Det Sgt John Burgoyne said: ""Although no-one was harmed during this robbery, it was still upsetting for those who witnessed it. ""It is essential that we trace this man as soon as possible. Anyone who has information, or recognises the description of the man, is asked to contact Police Scotland immediately.""",Police are hunting a @placeholder armed robber who held up staff at a petrol station near Falkirk .,reward,single,disabled,masked,stolen,3
"Michelle Logue said Gerard Mulligan did not see a psychiatrist for weeks after he killed his father, despite being on suicide watch for some of that time. She said Mr Mulligan's solicitor phoned the prison regularly to try to arrange a psychiatric appointment. His first visit with a psychiatrist was on 2 November, Ms Logue said. Mr Mulligan took his own life at the high security jail on Saturday evening. The Prison Service said the PSNI, coroner and prisoner ombudsman have launched investigations into the death. The 44-year-old had been on remand charged with murdering his father, Gerald Mulligan, at his home in Limehurst Way, Lisburn, on 25 September. Ms Logue said in a letter to her from prison, Mr Mulligan said ""he had never felt as alone in his entire life"". ""His solicitor told me he had been ringing... to try and get him an appointment with a psychiatrist, but he only saw the psychiatrist last Wednesday,"" she told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme. ""So he hadn't seen or spoken to anybody about these mental health issues for all those weeks."" Prison authorities and staff must show more understanding for inmates, said Ms Logue. ""The people in there have done wrong but they have to be treated as human beings,"" she said. ""They have to be more caring and sympathetic. To me they do what they have to do, but no more."" Ms Logue said Mr Mulligan had tried to phone her several times on the day he took his life. ""I was working on the Saturday morning and he tried to phone me twice,"" she said. ""He tried to phone me four times in two minutes on the Saturday afternoon at 15:30 and I had laid down for a sleep and missed his calls  - the same day that he killed himself. ""I feel terrible guilt, because I was the love of his life and he told me I was the only thing that was keeping him going. ""So I believe maybe if I'd have spoken to him I could have stopped him on that day. But I believe it was inevitable [that he would eventually take his own life]. ""I think he thought when he couldn't get through to me that I had fell out with him and that's a very haunting thought for me."" Listen again to the interview on Radio Ulster's Talkback programme.",The partner of a man who took his own life in Maghaberry Prison while on remand for the murder of his father has @placeholder the care he received .,dismissed,described,revealed,praised,criticised,4
"Both Dumfries and Galloway Council (DGC) and National Museums Scotland (NMS) hope to secure the artefacts. The Scottish government has been asked to intervene to resolve the situation. However, a spokesman said the decision lay with the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and urged both sides to continue discussions. The council hopes to secure the hoard to go on display at a new gallery being built in Kirkcudbright. A campaign has also been launched locally to ensure the treasure - discovered in Galloway - returns to the region. For its part, NMS has said it believed it had put forward a ""mutually-beneficial and positive proposal"". It would allow part of the hoard to go on display in Kirkcudbright and, on occasion, the whole collection to be hosted by the gallery. It had been hoped a joint bid could be agreed, but so far that has proved impossible. A Scottish government spokesman urged the two groups to hold further talks to try to resolve the situation. ""NMS has proposed a collaborative approach with DGC which guarantees the long-term display of a significant portion and, for specific periods of time, all of the Galloway hoard in Kirkcudbright Art Gallery,"" he said. ""The Scottish government would encourage continued discussions to ensure the best outcome for the long-term conservation of the hoard and public access to it across Scotland. ""The decision on allocation is made by the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and the advice of the Scottish Archaeological Finds Allocation Panel, not by ministers."" The panel is due to discuss the hoard's future later this month.","The Scottish government has said talks should continue between @placeholder bidding to host a Viking treasure hoard to ensure the "" best outcome "" .",sides,organisations,bids,companies,nations,1
"More than 80,000 people are expected to attend the event over the weekend, with many camping. The festival is being held at the Perthshire estate after moving from Balado. Acts set to perform include the Libertines, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and David Guetta. The festival moved from its traditional Balado home after fears were raised about an oil pipeline running under the site. But the move sparked some local controversy around Strathallan. After a lengthy planning battle over issues including wildlife and transport, DF Concerts won permission to hold the festival at Strathallan for the next three summers. Coaches are running to the festival grounds near Auchterarder from around Scotland, and provisions have been put in place on the local road network. Police and festival organisers have issued extensive advice to revellers ahead of the event, with strict rules in place including bans on selfie sticks, flagpoles, flares, nitrous oxide and so-called legal highs. The festival arena opens to fans on Friday, although many opt to also camp over on the Thursday night. Weather forecasts predict a mix of rain and sunshine through the weekend. Festival director Geoff Ellis said: ""We're starting a new chapter for the festival at Strathallan and creating brand new memories for thousands of music fans. ""We have the UK's best line-up and there's no doubt it will be the weekend of the summer. ""My message to fans when they get here is to respect the site, look after yourself, your friends and your camping neighbours - and most of all, have a fantastic time.""","Music fans have started @placeholder for the T in the Park festival , which is being held for the first time at Strathallan Castle .",fundraising,crowds,water,organizing,arriving,4
"The Huer's Hut on Towan Head, Newquay, was built in the 19th Century as a shelter for fish-spotters called huers. The huer would shout ""heva heva"" (""here they are"") to alert the fishermen in Newquay Harbour. The Grade 2* listed building has been restored after residents set up a campaign group to help raise funds for its repair. Peter Hicks, from The Old Cornwall Society, said: ""The huers were watching for signs of pilchards in the bay. They would notice a change in the colour of the water to a dark reddish brown. ""They would see seagulls diving in, catching fish. ""It was important job because pilchards came through the bay quite quickly."" The huer would use a trumpet-type instrument and wave gorse or heather to alert the fishermen. At its height, millions of pilchards were exported from Cornwall before a decline in numbers. Mr Hicks said: ""Huer comes from the same derivation as hue and cry when the people of a town or village would see a thief and raise a hue and cry and chase that person."" All the repairs have been carried out using original materials such as lime mortar. Local councillor Geoff Brown said: ""It is an iconic building and means a lot to people of Newquay. I'm really delighted they've done such a fantastic job of refurbishing it.""","A Cornish landmark that is part of fishing @placeholder in the West Country has been restored at a cost of £ 30,000 .",history,goods,industry,houses,communities,0
"Jay Shelby, engineer with the 3D printing company Stratasys, presses a button on a machine which is roughly twice the size of a microwave oven. A pale blue light glows inside and a nozzle starts sliding back and forth, spitting out a thin stream of molten plastic. Very slowly, a shape starts to build up. It is an interior strut for a jet-powered drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle, which Stratasys is building entirely out of 3D-printed components, in conjunction with Aurora Flight Sciences. Mr Shelby says: ""With the molten plastic, it squirts it out similar to frosting a cake - layer by layer, building up the shape. And as the plastic cools, it starts to solidify, and then you can see the shape form."" However quickly the nozzle in the printer darts around, 3D printing is a slow process. Every new layer adds only another quarter of a millimetre to the height. The largest single component on the drone is one metre across, but it takes no fewer than nine days to print. However, 3D printing is a technology that is set to transform aerospace manufacturing, cutting costs and improving the speed and efficiency with which products are made. Traditional methods of plastics-moulding and metal-casting look to be on their way out. Working with metal can take a heavy toll on machines that need constant repair and replacement. 3D printing, or additive layer manufacturing as it is sometimes called, offers the possibility of a far cheaper manufacturing model. That's why a whole section of the Dubai Airshow is taken up with companies and products extolling the benefits of this new technology. Just a few years ago, you'd be lucky to find a single 3D company at airshows trying to persuade the aerospace industry that a manufacturing revolution was underway. And yet, mini 3D machines are now even available to the hobbyist. Several machines were on display at the airshow, with the cheapest costing about $1,000 (£660). Planemakers Boeing and Airbus already use 3D-printed components extensively, as does defence company Lockheed Martin. Airbus' new A350 XWB aircraft is thought to use more 3D-made components than any other passenger jet, at about 1,000. Lockheed and Boeing use them on a joint venture, United Launch Alliance, that sends rockets into space. Drone manufacturers also now use 3D-printed metal components because they are often 25% lighter than ones cast in the traditional way. For the same reason, NASA is using 3D-printed components for its new Space Launch System, which will take astronauts and cargo into space. And Boeing has 300 varieties of 3D-printed components across 10 different types of aircraft. The company says that in the planes it is now building and delivering to customers, there are more than 20,000 3D-printed parts In theory, new components and replacement parts could be produced in printing machines anywhere in the world. Say, for example, a British Airways aircraft on the tarmac in Dubai needed a new component. Someone, be they in Dubai or BA's engineering headquarters in the UK, would transmit the necessary computer instructions to print a part. Mr Shelby says: ""You don't have to have a big manufacturing facility. You don't have to have skilled labourers to run these machines. ""You just need space to put the machine and a few men to start the jobs. It saves time for aircraft firms in the production cycle because they can build these parts on site, rather than waiting to have them shipped in."" Components printed by 3D often prove to be more robust than ones made with the old technology, and more simple to make. ""You are able to make more complex parts all in one piece,"" says Mr. Shelby. ""You can make a part which used to be made of 10 separate components and make it as a single component."" Stratasys and Aurora Flight Sciences built their jet-powered drone to prove to the aviation industry it is possible to build an entire aircraft out of 3D-printed components. Until a few years ago, the aircraft manufacturers were reluctant to buy 3D-printed components for their planes, because they were untested. Stringent aviation safety regulations means parts have to be particularly robust, able to withstand extremes of speed, temperature and vibration. The 3D aerospace components being used today are generally non-critical parts, although some companies, including GE Aviation, are experimenting with more safety-important parts such as aero-engine components. But the technology is still evolving, and there are currently limitations regarding size, strength and the complexity of products. A report from consultants PwC said that 3D printing could certainly be a game-changer, but that the biggest impediment to mass production was processing speed. Other sceptics have highlighted quality control problems and the need to overcome safety regulation hurdles. Nevertheless, there is clearly an excitement in the industry about 3D printing's potential, including to change the design of aircraft and military equipment by creating more complex shapes. Earlier this year, an executive at French defence firm Dassault, Pierre Marchadier, told his engineers that the arrival of 3D printing meant that a new era had arrived. ""Be creative,"" he said. ""There are no limits to your dreams.""","Thirty years ago , it was a pipe dream for scientists . How could one make a machine to @placeholder three - dimensional objects ? Here , in the exhibition hall at Dubai Airshow , it happens before your very eyes .",replicate,introduce,replace,make,enjoy,0
"To secure more rights for people with disabilities, she makes frequent visits to courtrooms where the world of beauty contests is but a dream. But the first Miss Wheelchair India contest in Mumbai in late November changed much of that. She found herself amid the humdrum of the green room, glitter of the stage and the usual chatter one associates with a beauty pageant. But there were some marked differences - the stage was much smaller than the ones set up for Miss India pageant and the contestants were treated as winners even before the event started. Ms Kewlani's reply is an emphatic ""no"" when asked if the smaller stage and venue dimmed the importance of India's first Miss Wheelchair contest. ""Nobody really cared about how many people attended the event or how big the stage was. It was a night to celebrate the courage and fighting spirit of the contestants. We all won that night."" She says that her ""rich and challenging"" life has taken another positive turn after winning the contest. ""Polio made me wheelchair-bound early on in life but I never saw it as a disability and worked hard to be trained as a media professional like other normal people in the country. ""And winning the pageant is just another way of showing that disability cannot stop you from feeling and looking beautiful,"" the 41-year-old says. Divya Arora feels her first runner-up crown has strengthened her belief that ""beauty is boundless"". Ms Arora, who earlier worked for a leading newspaper, says her faith that ""disability can never overshadow her beauty and abilities"" helped her do well in the pageant. The contest is the idea of tax consultant Sounak Banerjee whose life changed in 2006 when muscular dystrophy forced him to use a wheelchair to get around in the bustling city of Mumbai. Mr Banerjee liked watching Bollywood films and TV shows but often found the absence of people with disabilities in the entertainment industry ""disturbing"". ""Disabled people are also consumers of the entertainment industry but they are seldom represented,"" he says. He then came up with the idea of the Miss Wheelchair India contest to fill the gap and provide a platform they could call their own. Planning the event was tough due to a lack of funding and human resources, he says but adds that the struggles were forgotten when the final day approached. ""I felt satisfied and happy when I saw these women wearing their best costumes and a winning smile. It all came together nicely in the end - I had done something for these courageous contestants,"" he says. ""I found the contest very unique because it honoured beauty irrespective of contestants' physical disabilities,"" says scientist Gopika Anand, 31, who won the second runner-up crown. Ms Anand met with a road accident while studying engineering and was soon confined to a wheelchair. But she persevered, completed her course and found work as a scientist at a leading consumer manufacturing firm. Shelly Bhutani, another contestant, hopes that the corporate world will take notice of the event in the future. ""I feel we too deserve to be in front of the camera and get brand endorsements like Miss India winners,"" she says. Ms Arora, however, felt the organisers were not well prepared for the event and did not provide the kind of support she had hoped for. Mr Banerjee accepts that a lack of sponsorship made the job of organising the event tough. ""I agree that there were problems at the event. We will work harder and hope that more people will support the event next year,"" he says. But other contestants want to see change at a more basic level. India is not known to be a disabled-friendly country as most public places, monuments and buildings do not have facilities catering to their specific needs. Bhavna Sharma, who won the contest in a category that honoured people who are disabled but not necessarily confined to a wheelchair, says citizens with disabilities do not feel inferior and have achieved success in almost every field. ""But it's the country's poor infrastructure for disabled people that lets us down,"" the 27-year-old says. Some years ago Neenu Kewlani travelled all over India in a chauffer-driven car to highlight the problems faced by those with physical challenges while commuting. She says the problem is even more severe in rural areas and smaller towns where people with disabilities are virtually confined to their homes. Nearly every contestant expressed concern over a lack of sensitivity about disability rights. But not one of them is willing to give up hope. Ms Kewlani says there is a long way to go in making India a disabled-friendly country but ""we are not ready to give up as we are fighters"". ""Facilities are improving in cities but we will continue to put pressure on governments to ensure they provide better opportunities and infrastructure for the disabled,"" she adds. Calcutta-based Sarmistha Sinha says disability rights activists will have to continue fighting like other marginalised sections of the society. An accident in 2006 confined the 41-year-old doctor to a wheelchair, but she says her ""thoughts and ability to stay positive remained free"". Ms Sinha won in a category which honoured married women in a wheelchair. But winning was not everything for her as she wanted to use the platform to showcase her talent. The wheelchair dancer saw the contest as an opportunity to present her skills and meet people like herself from all over the country. ""I only wanted to dance as such opportunities are rare but the feeling that I have won a beauty pageant is slowly sinking in,"" she adds. For Gopika Anand the real winning moment came when she saw her father's moist eyes as the results were announced. ""I was overwhelmed to see her with the crown. I am very proud today to be recognised as Gopika Anand's father,"" says Anand Mohan. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.",Neenu Kewlani is a @placeholder professional and works for disability rights in India .,paradise,communications,lifetime,serving,name,1
"On the drive into Novi Sad you can pick up a ghost on the airwaves. Radio Krajina is a taste of their lost home for the Croatian Serbs who now live in Serbia's third-largest city. There are requests, phone-ins and plenty of turbo-folk, the mash-up of traditional Balkan music and electronic beats that reached its peak popularity during the conflict of the 1990s. It was the soundtrack to the end for the long-standing Serb community in Croatia's Krajina region. In August 1995, more than 200,000 people fled before, during and after Operation Storm - a massive military push by Croatian forces. They came over the border in a ragged convoy of cars, lorries and tractors, carrying whatever possessions and livestock they could. Many ended up settling in Novi Sad and the surrounding region of Vojvodina. Almost two decades later the refugees still come through the doors of the Humanitarian Centre for Integration and Toleration in the city centre. Some clutch plans and land titles for their former homes. A few dream of returning - most just hope to sell up so they can improve their lives in Serbia. Dusan Starcevic is one of them. He says he walked for 11 days with his pregnant wife and infant son after their car broke down as they left Croatia in 1995. Once a judge, he now practises law in Novi Sad - though his jacket and shirt suggest that either he does not care for expensive clothes, or he simply cannot afford them. ""Everything has gone,"" he says, holding back tears, before insisting that he no longer wants to talk about the past. But he is keen to discuss recent events at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. In particular, the decision of the appeal court to acquit two Croatian generals previously convicted of conspiring to drive Serbs out of Krajina. ""This verdict is very disappointing and inexplicable,"" says Mr Starcevic. ""As a human being, I'm convinced that relations between people, states and groups are based on ethics and logic. This verdict is a severe attack on both of those."" But he admits the decision was not a complete surprise. Like many Serbs, Mr Starcevic is not convinced of the impartiality of the ICTY. The acquittal of the generals means that no Croatians have been convicted of crimes against Serbs during the conflict. The 1995 offensive followed years of conflict between ethnic Serb nationalists and the newly-independent state of Croatia. In 1990-1991 Serbs in Krajina declared their loyalty to the Serbian government led by Slobodan Milosevic and got help from elements in the Yugoslav federal army. Croatia is set to join the European Union next year, and the cynical view here is that the Hague verdict ensures a clean slate. But it leaves Croatian Serbs who suffered during the conflict without justice - or much hope of it ever coming. The founder of the Humanitarian Centre is another Croatian Serb - though Ratko Bubalo left a year before Operation Storm. He offers smiles and a glass of home-made schnapps, before explaining the plight of the refugees. His organisation has dealt with 130,000 of them since 1995.   This does not just have local significance - it might shake Europe in the long term. ""This does not just have local significance - it might shake Europe in the long term."" ""They are a very vulnerable part of the population. Sixty-five percent of them don't have resolved housing and there are still some people in refugee centres."" Mr Bubalo is still trying to help the refugees recover their former properties - not just in Croatia but Kosovo and Bosnia as well. The proceeds of a sale could make a big difference to the lives of the displaced families. But he says they are no longer expecting much in the way of satisfaction from the ICTY. ""Today it is difficult to talk about the tribunal. All hope for international justice faded away. This does not just have local significance - it might shake Europe in the long term."" Skourta Redjepi and her daughter Djila admit they no longer follow the tribunal at all. Members of a Roma family, they lived in Jablanica, where the Kosovo Liberation Army established a notorious base. One day in 1998 a masked man came to the family's door and told them they had five minutes to leave. Djila says she hasn't seen her father since. ""We could never return to Kosovo - how could we?"" she asks, rubbing her face. ""We are afraid to go back. There is no justice."" In its latest decision, the tribunal cleared Kosovo's former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj of any involvement in atrocities at the Jablanica camp. This prompted celebrations in Pristina - but anger in Belgrade. ""Another slap in the face"" was the pithy analysis of local media outlet B92. The recent verdicts have left Serbs with little faith in the tribunal's ability to find justice for their suffering in the conflicts of the nineties. Under the Milosevic administration, Serbian forces committed serious crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo - and many of its former leaders have gone on trial in The Hague. But thousands of Serb civilians were also killed, and the ICTY has been rather less successful in holding to account those responsible. As founder of Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Centre, Natasa Kandic campaigned to bring the perpetrators of the atrocities of the Balkans conflict to justice. She handed evidence to the ICTY which helped to convict the Serb perpetrators of the Srebrenica massacres in Bosnia. But now she says the tribunal has failed to help victims come to terms with what happened - and that a new approach is needed for there to be any hope of reconciliation in the region. ""We need new thinking - we have to forget hostility and see all victims as equal. It is true that more Muslims, Croats and Albanians were killed than Serbs. But the Serbs who were killed also deserve justice."" It now seems unlikely that this will come through the ICTY. But Natasa Kandic believes that moving beyond a judicial process is the best answer to preventing future conflicts. ""We need a non-judicial body which will deal with victims, organise public testimony and show respect for all victims. That would change the current culture in our relations to victims. Today all societies in the region only have respect for their own victims."" ""Without empathy for others, it is impossible to build a future, rule of law and reconciliation.""","The acquittal of former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj of war crimes , @placeholder with the recent acquittal of two Croatian generals , has revived suspicions in Serbia that the international court in The Hague is biased against them .",writes,including,coupled,credited,compared,2
"Surrey Police are investigating an alleged transfer of about £1m to a charitable account in August last year. One of those arrested is understood to be Will Riches, who quit as federation vice-chairman earlier this week. Scotland Yard has said two of the men are Met police officers on secondment. Two of the men are in their 40s and two are in their 50s. The Police Federation, which represents thousands of officers of constable, sergeant and inspector rank,  says it is co-operating with the inquiry. ""We are carrying out a detailed and thorough investigation into allegations of fraudulent activity involving significant amounts of money,"" said Detective Superintendent Karen Mizzi from Surrey police. The federation's chairman, Steve White, general secretary, Andy Fittes, and treasurer, Martyn Mordecai, are understood not to be among those arrested, the BBC's Danny Shaw says. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has also been notified. The Police Federation of England and Wales first raised concerns with Surrey police - the federation's local force - on Tuesday. The federation then made a formal allegation relating to accounts held by the Federation's Constables' Central Committee on Wednesday. Det Supt Mizzi said Surrey police had contacted the relevant police forces to inform them of the arrest of their officers. The force would also be contacting the Charities Commission, she said.",Three serving policemen and a @placeholder police officer have been released on bail after being arrested in connection with alleged fraud involving the Police Federation of England and Wales .,sacked,house,retired,suspected,head,2
"Five detainees took control of a residential unit at Oberstown Youth Detention Centre after keys were taken from a member of staff. The detainees were joined by three others, and gained access to the roof. A fire began on the roof at 20:00 BST causing extensive damage to the building. Six fire engines were used as rescue workers battled the flames, said the Dublin Fire Brigade. A Garda (Irish police) emergency response unit and ambulances also attended the scene. A Garda police investigation is under way into the cause of the fire. The detention centre had been operating with minimum staff coverage due to strike action, said its director, Pat Bergin. A number of staff had came to the assistance of colleagues from the picket line, but the strike action continued, added Mr Bergin. Irish Minister for Children Katherine Zappone has ordered a report following the fire, called on the facility's staff, management and the unions to resume discussions to resolve their industrial relations dispute as soon as possible. Bats and golf clubs Earlier this month, five detainees escaped overnight from the campus armed with bats and golf clubs. The boys, aged between 15 and 17, were returned to the centre following a police search involving air and dog units. The campus caters for residents under the age of 18, including young offenders and criminals with multiple convictions for serious offences.",A fire has broken out after a staff member was @placeholder as detainees rioted at a youth detention centre in County Dublin .,billed,attacked,murdered,destroyed,injured,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device Tamsin Greenway and Pamela Cookey, two of the biggest names in English netball, are spearheading two of Britain's three new top-flight clubs. But, while their job titles are the same, their circumstances, approach and recipes for success are somewhat different. Greenway left Surrey Storm after coaching them to a second-successive Grand Final triumph and moved to Coventry to join the Wasps family - or brand, depending on which way you look at it - as one of the country's top rugby union clubs decided to expand into netball. Cookey, the former England captain who played in Greenway's Grand Final-winning Storm side, retired as a player only for her business career to unexpectedly return her to the sport within months as director of netball at Severn Stars - a club formed as a collaboration between the University of Worcester and University of Gloucestershire. ""It's exciting and I do love a challenge,"" Cookey, 32, told BBC Sport. ""I want to put my mark on something. And this is something new, something I could bring my ideas to."" The task? To help build an elite squad of 12 players, establish three development sides, build community support, a fan base and club identity from scratch in six months. Sat in her first meeting with Wasps powerbrokers, Greenway admits she completely failed to ""play it cool"" as figures around the table discussed their plans to throw their Premiership-rugby-sized resources - including an exhibition centre - behind one of the Superleague's new clubs. ""I couldn't contain myself and think I said, 'oh my God, this is my dream job',"" said 34-year-old Greenway. ""When I was sat there and they were telling me all these ideas of what they wanted to do, that is what I was thinking - this is what I've worked towards for 10 or 12 years and I can't believe I'm sat here."" Greenway, capped 67 times by England between 2004 and 2015, left Surrey after seven years to join Wasps, who identified her as the cornerstone figure of their audacious expansion project. ""She was one of the most talented players to play for England, but she's also got the business brain and sporting brain to go with it,"" said Wasps group chief executive David Armstrong. ""The world is her oyster in terms of netball. As the sport grows in popularity and in participation she is bound to be at the forefront of it, so recruiting her as director of netball was probably my best decision of the year. ""As a newcomer into the sport, the most important decision was always going to be the recruitment of director of netball or head coach because that is what was going to bring the idea to life and help recruit players. ""In Tamsin, we have got that."" Likewise, the Stars made sure their first appointment would be one that resonated in the netball world. Even before seven-time Superleague winner Cookey arrived with her 114 England caps, Severn Stars were already being moulded by a former international playing great and new head coach, Mo'onia Gerrard - a two-time World Cup winner with the Australian Diamonds. The pair, once fierce rivals on court, are now the closest of colleagues. ""Oh, I had plenty of battles with her on court. She was a pain,"" said Cookey. ""It was weird, the first conversation we had, because it was like we had known each other for years."" The Australian's arrival was a ""major coup"" for the fledgling franchise, says founding director Anita Navin. ""She was a massive brand straight away that said we mean business,"" said Navin. ""I'd got an idea early on in terms of what we needed to do to be seen, as I was worried that we would be a new franchise and wouldn't be seen as a critical part of it and we wouldn't recruit players. That became a big issue early on, plenty of sleepless nights about how you build a brand in two weeks. ""You can't recruit players without a coach because they want to know the style of the coach. ""A lot of our athletes in this country have their own preference of style, they don't like the real authoritarian type of coaching, they want to be empowered, have ownership, so I knew the coach was a real critical appointment for us. ""And it couldn't just be someone that has a tiny element of experience at international level, we needed to get someone that had been there and lived it."" When Cookey walked off the Copper Box court after helping Surrey Storm defend their title in May 2016, did she expect to start retirement as a senior lecturer at the University of Gloucester and director of netball at the then, yet-to-be identified new franchise? No. ""It came at the right time,"" said Cookey, a figure that Navin had long tried to get involved with the game in Gloucestershire. ""I wasn't thinking about any netball jobs at all when I retired. It wasn't on the radar. ""This is a nice opportunity to stay in the sport and I could create something with netball and could develop my career on the other side."" While Severn Stars might lack Wasps' established professional sporting pedigree, they have the pooled resources of two universities. They will play at the 2,000-seater Worcester Arena, calling on the netball nous of Navin - one of the country's foremost coaching advisors - while utilising communication, marketing, strength and conditioning, performance analysis and sports therapy expertise at the schools. Media playback is not supported on this device As an athlete, Cookey was used to being busy as she effectively lived a double life, juggling an international playing career and club ambitions with business management jobs, which at a time also included commutes from Bristol to France. Unlike Greenway's post at Wasps, Cookey is less focused on what happens on court as she only contributes as a specialist coach, with former Hertfordshire Mavericks head coach Sam Bird coming in as assistant coach. Cookey's job is one that ranges from ensuring the complex partnership between the two universities works to helping sign players, establishing links with grassroots netball clubs, generating corporate support, working on events and helping to make sure that everything adheres to Superleague regulations. She has even had an influence on the creation of Twitter accounts and merchandise. Asked if she could have chosen a tougher job in netball after retiring from the game, she laughed: ""Probably not. I tend to do that to myself, I'm never one to do things by half. ""This job brings together my talents. It's the right fit for me. I can still be in netball but not be playing or coaching."" With franchise bids won and bosses in place, both Wasps and Stars mounted bold recruitment drives. Last season's top scorer Rachel Dunn is among several Surrey players to follow their boss to the Ricoh Arena, while fellow England international Natalie Haythornthwaite moved to Wasps from Manchester and South Africa captain Bongiwe Msomi returns to the English league to reunite with Greenway. ""It was nice to get my dream team and honestly this is the pick of who I wanted,"" said Greenway. ""I took a lot of stick for bringing so many players in from different clubs, but I've had relationships with these players, we have worked together a long time. ""We brought in big names, we knew we had to get people talking. I think we have become a target, of course we have. ""I had to work hard to convince some of them. There are some unknowns, we've still got George Fisher to make her mark, Fran Williams, Lucy Harris, Lucy Parize - these are important players because this is not about a one hit wonder, it's a building process."" From the sleepless nights thinking about how to approach and convince players to suit up for the Stars, the club has gone from zero to 100 players - across four teams and development squads and training partners - wearing the Severn colours in six months. Jodie Gibson was the first player to sign and she was one of three England internationals to leave last season's losing finalists Manchester Thunder to join the new franchise. ""We needed quick wins before we could market who we were,"" said Navin. ""We wanted the right people to share the identity, and that is the conversation we had with those three."" From there, the squad was built, taking in emerging England talent and those with Superleague experience, before looking at players in local trials. ""It feels like the jigsaw has come into place,"" she said.","Mix a legend of the game with lofty ambitions , throw in a dollop of endless hard work and add a pinch of star @placeholder , and voila - a new Superleague netball club is formed .",flowers,crowd,accident,sunshine,power,4
"Sentinel-2a will take pictures of the planet's surface in visible and infrared light. Its data will track everything from the growth of megacities to the variable yields of the world's most important food crops. The satellite will ship to the Kourou spaceport in the next month. Its launch on a Vega rocket has been scheduled for 12 June. The spacecraft will be the mainstay in a fleet of EU Earth observers that are planned to go into operation by the decade's end. ""Sentinel-2 is the workhorse of the system,"" said Volker Liebig, the European Space Agency's EO director. ""It gives us the optical component. Optical imagery is the backbone for most applications in Earth observation."" Prof Liebig was speaking at the IABG consultancy in Munich where the platform has been undergoing final testing. Sentinel-2a is essentially Europe's version of the American Landsat mission. The US satellite series - its current flier is named Landsat-8 - pioneered the science of monitoring the planet from orbit. It has assembled a continuous record of the world's fluctuating features that stretches back more than 40 years. In satellite terms, it is the gold standard. Everyone will know Landsat's worth, if only through the use of mapping apps on the web and on smartphones, which all incorporate the data. Now, the US effort is to be bolstered by the new European observer, which has been calibrated in such a way that its pictures will be an excellent match with the American ones. But the European endeavour is far from being a ""me too"" project. Its imaging instrument will be sensitive across more bands of light (13 multispectral versus eight), allowing it to discern more information about the Earth's surface; and it will ""carpet map"" a much wider strip of ground (290km versus 185km). Its colour images have a best resolution of 10m, versus Landsat's 30m. Moreover, the whole Sentinel concept envisages paired operation, meaning a second satellite, Sentinel-2b, will follow its sister into orbit in 2016. Tracing the same path but separated by 180 degrees - half the planet - the duo will come back over the same patch of land in rapid fashion. It is a powerful capability that will significantly reduce the time taken to acquire a cloud-free look at a particular location. At the moment, it can take Landsat, on its own, months or even years to get a completely clear view of some places. Important changes at the Earth's surface can be missed as a consequence. ""With two satellites we have a re-visit over the equator every five days, and at mid latitudes - like over France and the UK - it is every three days,"" said Esa's Sentinel-2 project manager Francois Spoto. ""This is an extremely frequent re-visit time compared with any sensor currently in orbit. And in our spectral bands, we also have one that allows us to remove light clouds like cirrus."" Another good parallel with the American cousin is the data policy. It will be open and free to all users. When the first spacecraft in the new European series was launched last year - a radar satellite called Sentinel-1a - the demand for its more specialised imagery was immense. The interest in Sentinel-2 data is expected to be just as keen, if not more so. And it will be available in large volumes. Roughly 600GB per day of raw data will be downlinked, using a high-speed laser link if required. Once processed into the various useable data products, this translates into about 1.7TB - the equivalent of perhaps a few hundred DVD movies. Heinz Sontag is a project manager with Airbus Defence and Space, which assembled the new satellite: ""What Sentinel-2 offers that other optical imagers up there cannot is the continuous ability to image all the surfaces and provide a continuous flow of data, whereas previous missions were only able to take isolated images here and there and you had to mosaic them back together to get a complete picture."" Four further Sentinel missions - to monitor the oceans and the composition of the atmosphere - should be in orbit by 2020. European nations have so far committed 7.5bn euros (£5.5bn; $8.5bn) to the constellation and its wider operation, with more promised in the future. The intention is that every Sentinel satellite is replaced at the demise of its mission, ensuring there is continuity of information deep into this century. ""In the past, we've had data for only four or five years in the case of some one-off satellites,"" explained Markus Probeck, whose GAF company in Munich will be developing applications from Sentinel-2 images. ""This is a programme that is sure to be there for the very long term. This allows users to move to remote sensing-based services because there is the security of knowing that the data will be sustained and available."" The EU's Copernicus programme will launch a range of satellite sensors this decade to monitor the state of Planet Earth",The lead spacecraft in Europe 's new multi-billion - euro Earth observation ( EO ) programme is @placeholder and ready to go into orbit .,fueled,upgrading,built,dissolved,ready,2
"But midfielder Gary Fraser has signed a new contract until January. Manager Alan Archibald said of the 22-year-old, who has not played this season: ""Gary has had a horrendous time with injuries over the last two years. ""And we want to give him the chance to prove his fitness and fight for his place in the team."" Fraser, who signed from Bolton Wanderers in 2014, has not played since April last year. ""He has plenty of football ahead of him and we are hopeful he can put the last 18 months behind him and hit the ground running when we return for pre-season,"" Archibald told his club website. The manager pointed out that Thistle handed Welsh a similar short-term deal two years ago before the midfielder returned to the first team. Archibald paid special tribute to Welsh despite deciding against offering a new contract to the 27-year-old, who signed from Hibernian in 2012. ""Sean has been at the club for more than five years and has been a vital part of the squad throughout that time,"" he said. ""He was instrumental in our promotion bid and was my captain for the first two seasons in the Premiership, playing a massive part in us securing top-six last month. ""We are in a much better position than in previous years as we have the majority of this year's squad under contract for next season and, with a number of those players in Sean's position, it means that there isn't the opportunity to offer Sean the contract he would want."" Welsh has made 28 appearances this season, scoring four goals, as Thistle finished sixth in the Scottish top flight. Englishman Amoo joined Thistle in 2015 after leaving Carlisle United and the 26-year-old has played 31 times this season. Ridgers has made only one start and one substitute appearance since the 26-year-old signed from Kilmarnock last summer. Wilson made four appearances for Thistle at the start of the season, but the 22-year-old ended the campaign helping Stranraer avoid relegation from League One while on loan. Meanwhile, central defender Niall Keown has returned to parent club Reading after playing 16 times while on loan from the English Championship club.","Former captain Sean Welsh , fellow midfielders David Amoo and David Wilson , plus goalkeeper Mark Ridgers , are being @placeholder by Partick Thistle .",struck,offered,released,joined,extended,2
"Just 61% of Scots have broadband, compared with 74% of people across the whole of the UK. Broadband connection is particularly low in Greater Glasgow, where the figure is just 50%. One reason why take-up is so low may be that a relatively high proportion of Scots never use the internet. Ofcom's Scottish director Vicki Nash warned that with so many public services now available online, Scots were at risk of being left behind. About 30% of adults in Scotland say they do not use the internet in any location, compared with 20% across the UK as a whole. Just under two-thirds of Scots have a computer in their home but across the UK the figure is 77%. Take-up of broadband was particularly low amongst those aged between 16 and 34, people aged 55 and people on a low income or lower down the social scale. 'No need' Although there is some concern about the speed of broadband connections in some parts of the country, this is probably not the reason why such a high proportion of Scots have neither broadband nor a home computer. Ofcom's research also found that the bulk of people who do not have the internet at home did not intend to get it within the next year. Most of them said this was because they did not know how to use a computer, felt there was no need for broadband or even that they were too old to use the internet. However, not all the findings were negative. People in Scotland aged between 35 and 54 were actually slightly more likely to have broadband at home than people across the UK. The internet's increasing importance for both businesses and public services was also highlighted. For instance, many councils are now placing public notices on a website and some observers believe fresh moves to try to remove the legal obligation to place them in the press are likely within the next few years. Ms Nash said: ""Despite increasingly sophisticated broadband packages available to more and more Scots, we are less likely than the rest of the UK to take up broadband. ""With an ever-increasing range of public services available online and the importance of the digital economy, there is a risk of Scotland being left behind.""","Scots are still the least likely in the UK to have a broadband internet connection , according to a report from the @placeholder regulator Ofcom .",sea,county,organisation,national,communications,4
"A scar, half an inch wide, stretched from just above the elbow and up over his shoulder. ""Our company paid for full medical expenses, so he had an operation,"" explained his coach, Kang Doh Kyung. ""[He] is the best player in StarCraft and has won everything in this field and is still going strong."" Repetitive strain had injured Mr Lee's muscles, deforming them and making surgery the only option to save his illustrious career. Holding his arm out so I could have a proper gawp, Mr Lee paused. ""It's like a badge of honour,"" he said. It seemed like the confirmation I'd been expecting - that gaming in South Korea had reached a dangerous place, where professionals and amateurs alike were destroying their lives and their bodies. But Mr Kang sees it very differently. They're athletes, he argues, and injuries happen. One of his colleagues later suggested that if I'd been interviewing the world's most-decorated marathon champion, I wouldn't be surprised if they had damaged knees. Nor would I suggest a footballer needing surgery was ""too far"", the phrase I'd used to describe Mr Lee's arm. He had a point. Professional gaming - e-sport - is a huge deal in South Korea. There's a government department dedicated to its development. These gamers are like professional footballers, their matches broadcast - on TV and online - in English as well as Korean. The best earn hundreds of thousands of pounds every year: a mixture of salaries, prize money and sponsorship deals. Mr Lee is a Starcraft player for KT Rolster, one of South Korea's bigger teams. The scar is a result of being at the top of his game for 10 years. Read more stories from the South Korea Direct season: Whatever happened to Psy and K-pop's bid to conquer the world? The woman who liberated Korean housewives In Pictures: Fish, fruit and veg in South Korea's markets How good are Kim Jong-un's hackers? On the day I visited, KT Rolster's Starcraft players were training hard to be just like Mr Lee. The noise of their practice produced an almost hypnotic tap-tap-tap-tap backing track in a room which resembled the kind of place you'd be subjected to when sitting a computer-based exam. Each PC in its own cubicle, gamers with their headphones on, the room screamed ""do not disturb"". The difference here is that these cubicles feel lived in. Family pictures, the remains of snacks, and the odd toothbrush. And then there's the gifts. A lot of gifts. The professional gamers are overwhelmingly male, but their most-obsessive fans are female, lavishing the boys with the kind of attention otherwise reserved for the singing K-Pop stars, the country's other booming entertainment export. But unlike the fad of Gangnam Style, e-sports is something South Korea feels it can bring to the world. ""I believe that e-sport has plenty of potential [to be regarded as a proper sport], although perhaps not as much as physical games,"" Mr Kang said. ""E-sports is in the process of becoming a mental sport like chess."" Down the hallway - and past a room filled with bottles of ""sports"" drink Pocari Sweat, another sponsor - I found the training room for KT Rolster's League of Legends team. League of Legends - LoL - is arguably the biggest of the e-sports titles and is all about teamwork and group strategy. The team here joked about going out and drinking beer - and teased about who got the most, and the least, gifts. As well as training together, the teams live together in some digs a short walk from the training office. I'd expected a room full of gadgets and other technology. These are big gamers, after all. But no - aside from a TV, there was very little in the way of gaming entertainment. Here, their charming housekeeper holds fort, and does what she can to keep the team healthy. ""They spend most of their time sitting with little exercise,"" she said, while washing up, ""so I wanted to avoid cooking high-calorie foods, but they love naughty foods like that."" She loves them, she told me. ""They're adorable."" At the top-end of gaming, the players are undeniably well looked after, healthy and happy - even if the gruelling routine means they clearly don't enjoy playing anymore. It's work. But for the non-professional, the impact heavy gaming is having on the health and social lives of young Koreans is of great concern to many. After visiting KT Rolster, I went to another part of Seoul to visit what is known as a PC Bang. They're all over South Korea - internet cafes, essentially, but with high-end gaming PCs. Hundreds of them, in a big room kitted out like a club - with its own bar. It's open 24 hours a day. There have been a number of instances where gamers have died in these PC Bangs. They are rare, but make global headlines. South Korea has made numerous attempts to curb the amount of online gaming its young are playing. In 2011, it passed the Shutdown Law - dubbed the Cinderella Law - which prevented children aged 16 or below from playing online games between 10:30pm and 6:00am. The rules were later amended to allow parents to make their own choice about when gaming access should be curtailed in the home. The country is the world leader in treatment for all sorts of technology dependency, but gaming is, by far, the most common issue. It's one that has parents literally dragging their children to addiction centres set up all over South Korea. At KT Rolster, coach Mr Kang is responsible for looking after his team's wellbeing - but he also recognised the negativity around hardcore gaming. ""When people immerse themselves in something and become addicted to it, then they can cross the line. ""Our bodies might be very tired or in poor condition. These things happen not only while playing games. Even when people work out, some people can have a heart attack."" He stopped, keen to move on from what he saw as a predictable, perhaps tedious, line of questioning. During my time with KT Rolster my point of view flip-flopped between seeing gaming as either serious business, or a serious problem. With the relentless tap-tap-tap of keyboards still echoing in my ears, I came to the only reasonable conclusion I could: it's both. Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC","In a quiet room full of the glistening trophies he 's won , Lee Young - ho @placeholder up the right sleeve on his grey jumper .",influence,blown,rolled,picking,set,2
"In July, two hackers revealed they had been able to take control of a Jeep Cherokee via its internet-connected entertainment system. The car firm has been criticised by security experts who say posting a USB stick is ""not a good idea"". Fiat Chrysler has not yet commented to the BBC. ""This is not a good idea. Now they're out there, letters like this will be easy to imitate,"" said Pete Bassill, chief executive of UK firm Hedgehog Security. ""Attackers could send out fake USB sticks and go fishing for victims. It's the equivalent of email users clicking a malicious link or opening a bad attachment. ""There should be a method for validating the authenticity of the USB stick to verify it has really come from Fiat Chrysler before it is plugged in."" He said that using a device like this had wider implications. ""Hackers will be able to pull the data off the USB stick and reverse-engineer it. They'll get an insight into how these cars receive their software updates and may even find new vulnerabilities they can exploit,"" he told the BBC. In July, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated that it was possible for hackers to control a Jeep Cherokee remotely, using the car's entertainment system which connected to the mobile data network. The flaw affected up to 1.4 million vehicles sold in the US. At the time, Fiat Chrysler issued a voluntary recall so that customers could visit a dealership to have the software updated in affected vehicles. It also made a software update available to download from its website for tech-savvy users. Fiat Chrysler told technology magazine Wired: ""Consumer safety and security is our highest priority. We are committed to improving from this experience and working with the industry and with suppliers to develop best practices to address these risks.""","Fiat Chrysler has @placeholder distributing a software patch for millions of vehicles , via a USB stick sent in the post .",revealed,started,voiced,denied,issued,1
"The emergency services were called to the blaze near Glencorse Reservoir, at Flotterstone off the A702, just before noon. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said wind was causing the fire to spread through trees and grass. Crews are using beaters and hoses to fight the fire, which is still well alight. A Scottish Fire and Rescue service spokeswoman said: ""Edinburgh operations control received a call just before midday and mobilised two appliances from Penicuik and Sighthill fire stations. ""Due to the fire being fanned by the wind, further appliances from Dalkieth, Liberton and West Linton have been mobilised to the scene. ""The incident is ongoing and will be for some considerable time. ""The area is popular with hill walkers and we would ask if you can avoid the area until fire operations are concluded.""",Firefighters are tackling a wildfire @placeholder 500 metres in the Pentland Hills in Midlothian .,spanning,containing,group,beach,coal,0
"Stella Kambi, 17, died after going into the water at Thorpe Marshes nature reserve near Norwich to try to save Bonheur Musungay, 14, on 12 August. An inquest, which was opened and adjourned in Norwich, heard that a number of people tried to find them without success. Post-mortem examinations confirmed the teenagers both drowned. At the brief hearing, Norfolk assistant coroner Johanna Thompson said both Stella and Bonheur were in a group of adults and children at the former quarry. She said at about 16:40 BST Bonheur was in the water when he began to get into difficulties. Stella jumped into the water to try and help him but then got into trouble herself, the inquest heard. Onlookers said they saw the pair disappear under the water. Their bodies were eventually found by fire crews at about 19:40 BST. A full inquest will be held in March next year.","Members of the public went into a @placeholder to try and find two teenagers who drowned , an inquest has heard .",lake,race,hospital,scheme,woman,0
"Portraits are central to what makes photography so compelling, offering us a glimpse of our own past, drawing up long-forgotten moments or a glance at the lives of others. Whatever the limits of the camera are, for the most part, you can say that a picture shows something that once was. Mix that with our need to interpret the faces and poses we see in pictures, and good portraits come alive. That's the magic of photography, whereby a still and silent image can evoke far more than any moving pictures with sound ever will. A competition that focuses on this is, as the name suggests, the Portrait Salon and on Thursday, 29 November 2012, it is holding simultaneous projections at four venues across the country. The judges, Karen Newman from Open Eye Gallery, Hat Margolies from Lucid Rep, and photographer Dan Burn-Forti, selected the pictures to be shown from 1,110 entries. As you would expect, there are some cracking pictures on show. Portrait Salon was formed last year and describes itself as a form of Salon des Refuses - an exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show - that aims to showcase the best of the rejected images from the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, which is organised annually by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). As the founders of Portrait Salon, Carole Evans and James O Jenkins write in the newspaper-style catalogue that accompanies the show, the idea began as an experiment and was not intended to upset or disrupt the Taylor Wessing, but to allow those whose work did not make the walls of the NPG another outlet. They write: ""We want to give exposure to those great images that for one reason or another don't make the cut but still deserve recognition."" Add to this judge Karen Newman's remarks about the subjective process the act of judging is, and you get a truly delightful mix of pictures on show. You can see a few of them below and if you'd like to see the projection, details can be found on the Portrait Salon website or follow them on Twitter.","A photographic portrait is what draws many of us to photography , be it a family snapshot or a heavily @placeholder picture taken in a studio with all the trimmings .",distorted,rate,crashed,district,constructed,4
"Ms Tiffney was last seen leaving her home in Edinburgh's Dean Village in May 2002. A murder charge against her son Sean Flynn was found not proven by a jury at the High Court in Perth in 2005. The remains were found in an area off the A198, near the entrance to Gosford House in Longniddry. A cyclist called the emergency services when they made the discovery at about 18:30 on Sunday. There are 40 police officers working on the find. It is thought Ms Tiffney was murdered and her body disposed of in the Gosford House area. The bones are still in situ and it is understood it will take a few days to recover them. Det Supt Pat Campbell, of Police Scotland, said: ""The recovery will be a painstaking process. ""We are consulting with a number of experts to ensure that the remains are recovered in a sensitive and careful manner and no evidence that helps us to establish what happened is damaged or missed. ""I understand the anxiety of those who may be waiting for news of a missing loved one, but whilst the identity of the remains is unknown we cannot speculate."" He added: ""The death is being treated as unexplained and once the remains are recovered, there will be significant, detailed forensic analysis required to establish the cause of death and whether any crime has been committed.""",Police investigating the discovery of human remains in East Lothian have @placeholder to the family of missing woman Louise Tiffney .,spoken,turned,responded,appealed,confessed,0
"Yet it's a separate wing of the company, offering something altogether more intangible, that could prove more important to both its long-term future and yours. Amazon Web Services has a lower public profile than the firm's online stores, but it already touches many lives. From young tech titans, including Spotify, Dropbox, Netflix, Pinterest and Airbnb, to more established brands, such as General Electric, Samsung, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the BBC itself, a long list of organisations are turning to the US firm to provide some or all of their net-based services. It's proving popular too with governments seeking to cut their IT bills. Even the CIA recently became a customer. AWS's products range all the way from storage and data crunching tools to providing the code and computing power needed to offer ""cloud-run"" products. Many of the functions you might think as belonging to your smartphone apps - including the abilities to stream video, synchronise data between devices and get notification alerts - are frequently carried out by AWS's data centres. If centralising all this work with one company sounds a radical step, Amazon suggests there is precedent. ""About 150 years ago lots of companies had their own electricity grids on premises, and that didn't seem like such a strange thing to do,"" Andy Jassy, chief of the AWS division, tells the BBC. ""But then with the advent of the [national] grid, the economies were such that it didn't really make any sense. ""The same is happening for computing, where traditionally most companies have had their own data centres. ""We believe in the fullness of time, just like what happened with the electricity grid, relatively few companies will own their own data centres. All that computing is going to move to the cloud."" Many outsiders agree that the pitch is compelling. ""Any new class of application that is built to efficiently use resources only when it needs them is going to move - the economics are just too compelling,"" says James Staten, an analyst at the Forrester tech consultancy. ""It's also incredibly empowering to a developer that so many of the services they want are just sitting there. You don't have to write them, you can simply connect to them and your application is finished."" Source: Amazon, unless otherwise stated Amazon pioneered the idea of offering cloud computing as a service after discovering its own staff kept ""reinventing the wheel"" as they worked on different internal projects. It then figured out it could both use the tools to both streamline its own work and make money by charging others to access them. ""There were a lot of pundits and people from larger companies that said, 'Well, nobody will ever use these services for anything real,'"" says Mr Jassy. While it's true that many of AWS's first customers initially signed up only to test products behind the scenes, the success of various start-ups that dared employ it to provide public-facing services meant it didn't take long to gain mainstream appeal. ""There is a very real chance that in the fullness of time that AWS will be the largest business in Amazon,"" says Mr Jassy. ""It will take time, but it's a pretty significant statement if you think about our retail business being roughly a $70bn [sales a year] business."" But the division faces headwinds. AWS no longer has the market to itself. Microsoft, IBM, and Google's rival crowd-computing platforms are smaller but reported to be growing at faster rates. Investors may become impatient. Amazon as a whole posted a $563m (£358m) loss for the last half of the year. That was in part because of all the resources poured into AWS and the fact that the unit keeps cutting its prices. Mr Jassy says the intention is for AWS to be a ""high volume, low margin"" member of the Amazon family, but several experts advocate its spin-off. Data sovereignty has also become a hot topic - the idea that people's information should be kept in the same country they live in to make sure the companies involved are subject to local privacy laws. AWS is somewhat protected, however, by the fact it has data centres in Germany, Brazil, China and Australia -  four of the countries making the most noise about the issue. In fact, the greatest drag on AWS's growth may be lingering doubts about its tech's maturity, particularly for critical services. Amazon and other leading cloud-computing providers suggest that because they operate many data centres, even if there's a problem at one, customers should not experience disruption. But that didn't stop services run on Microsoft's Azure platform dropping offline across the world last month after an update to its software proved problematic. And previously, AWS has faced failures of its own. ""At this scale, small errors in operational procedures can have outsized impacts,"" says Mr Staten. ""But each time that happens, the firms learn from those activities and the next time something happens, the likelihood of there being as broad an outage diminishes. ""As a customer you have to expect that some of the services will go down periodically, but that also happens in corporate data centres today."" And Mr Jassy indicates such worries could, in fact, play to Amazon's advantage. ""There's no compression algorithm for experience,"" he says. ""You can't learn the lessons that we've learned until you get to various levels of scale running cloud computing platforms, and none of the other providers have gotten to those levels of scale yet."" Being entrusted with others' corporate secrets involves a high level of trust. Amazon stresses that the use of encryption means it can't peer into the files saved to its computers. But it doesn't stop there. No member of staff - not even Mr Jassy - is allowed access to both a physical data centre and the software used to operate it. Moreover, the exact location of the data centres themselves are kept secret and only provided on a need-to-know basis. And special machines are kept on site so that when hard disks fall out of use they can be de-magnetised and ground up to avoid the risk of anyone else retrieving information from the storage when it's disposed of off-site.","The seemingly endless - yet still ever growing - range of products you can lay your @placeholder on via Amazon has seen the internet company dubbed the "" everything store "" .",hands,focus,finger,change,feet,0
"It has raised issues for the six countries, including the Republic of Ireland, which offer US immigration screenings, known as pre-clearance, at their airports. The others are the United Arab Emirates, Bermuda, Canada, Aruba and the Bahamas. The Irish government has ordered a ""complete review"" of the system in the wake of President Trump's new rules, which temporarily restrict the movement of people from seven mostly Muslim countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - to the US. Some Irish politicians and human rights organisations are concerned the implementation of the ban on Irish soil could amount to discrimination. More than 600 US law enforcement officers are stationed at 15 locations around the world checking travel documents, passports, visas and making sure travellers abide by strict customs and agriculture importation rules. In total 18m people went through the pre-clearance system around the world last year - 15% of all commercial air travellers flying into the US. Ireland is the only European country with pre-clearance facilities. Its pre-clearance operations take place in Dublin and Shannon airports - a deal between the US and Ireland dates back to 1986, with the County Clare airport offering only immigration checks initially. Last year, border officials processed about 1.18m people in Dublin and 204,000 people in Shannon. These outposts are a little bit of America in Ireland - the staff are all American, there are stars and stripes everywhere and even the vending machines are distinctly American. After filling in security and customs forms, scanning passports and fingerprints, passengers can gleefully skip past the long immigration queues upon arrival, pick up their bags and go. They are effectively treated as domestic arrivals and Dublin Airport says the whole process can save passengers at least two hours. Dublin-based travel writer Mark Evans can remember the days when you needed to prove you had money in the bank and a job to come back to when flying to the US. ""Now there's no grilling, no stopping, you just take your cab to Manhattan,"" he said. He said pre-clearance was all about ease of access for travellers and businesses, both north and south of the border, and other airports in Europe would love to have it. ""Dublin Airport was the fifth largest airport in Europe for North American connectivity last year after Heathrow, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam,"" he said. ""Stockholm is likely to get a pre-clearance facility and Manchester is pushing very hard for one. ""The Trump ban is nuts but it's not going to last. Removing pre-clearance would be burning our bridges. Let the politicians do the politics and travellers do the travelling."" On Tuesday, Kevin Toland, chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority, said the pre-clearance facility was a ""critical point of competitive advantage for Ireland and Dublin Airport"". ""US pre-clearance is critically important for this country, critically important for the government, critically important for our airport, and critically important for the US,"" he said. On its website, the Department of Homeland Security, which operates pre-clearance through its Customs and Border Protection, says operating the system in ""strategic locations"" enhances security, improves passenger experience and increases economic opportunities for airports and airlines. On Monday, a man was refused pre-clearance into the US from Dublin Airport. The Irish government has said he was lawfully working and resident in Ireland and was entitled to leave Dublin Airport. No information has been released on what passport the passenger was travelling on. The US embassy in Dublin said that decisions on pre-clearance were a matter for the Department of Homeland Security. While Taoiseach Enda Kenny ""disagrees"" with President Trump's ban, he said the Irish cabinet was very much in favour of retaining US pre-clearance facilities. Ireland's Children's Minister Katherine Zappone has suggested applying the ban on Irish soil ""may be unlawful"" and said Ireland had a moral obligation to ""stand with our fellow human beings against discrimination of this kind"". Before the clampdown was made, US authorities had been in talks with several other countries interested in establishing pre-clearance operations. Agreements had been reached late last year for new facilities in Stockholm in Sweden and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. On Tuesday, the Dutch government said it had ended pre-clearance talks with the US.","US President Donald Trump 's controversial travel ban has had far - reaching consequences , and not just for the black - @placeholder countries .",torn,sharing,backed,listed,based,3
"All six places in the section voted for by constituency parties went to members of a pro-Corbyn group, giving the Labour leader a majority on the ruling body. A spokesman for Mr Corbyn's leadership campaign said it showed ""a desire for real and genuine change in our party"". Prominent Labour supporter Eddie Izzard missed out on getting a place. Meanwhile, in an interview with the Guardian, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has said Labour is facing infiltration from ""Trotsky entryists"" who are ""twisting young arms"" in to supporting Mr Corbyn. The NEC consists of the Labour leader, deputy leader, frontbenchers, trade union representatives, constituency party representatives, councillors and members of the Parliamentary Labour Party. It is the body that governs the Labour Party, but its relationship with the leadership has been under strain in recent months. The NEC's Procedures Committee is to appeal against a High Court ruling giving recent members a vote in its leadership contest between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith - a decision which has been attacked by shadow chancellor John McDonnell and other allies of Mr Corbyn. On Monday, six NEC seats were up for grabs for representatives from constituency Labour parties - all of which were won by members of the Grassroots Alliance, which is backed by Momentum, Mr Corbyn's network of supporters. Ann Black, chair of the Oxford East Labour Party, topped the ballot, with 100,999 votes, amid a high turnout. Ms Black, Christine Shawcroft, Claudia Webbe, Darren Williams, Rhea Wolfson and Peter Willsman will take up their places on the NEC in October. Blairite group Progress and Labour First, which represents ""moderate"" Labour members, failed to get their candidates elected in the constituency section but Labour First got two of its candidates elected in the local government section. It is being seen as a boost for the Labour leader, who is fighting a challenge from former shadow work and pensions secretary Mr Smith for the leadership. But these NEC elections have no bearing on the leadership contest itself. A spokesman for the Jeremy for Labour campaign said: ""This result clearly shows that there is a desire for real and genuine change in our party under the continued leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, but we are not going to take anything for granted and we will be campaigning for every vote in the leadership contest."" Momentum, the Corbyn-supporting grassroots campaign group, also welcomed the results, tweeting: ""Well done to the 6 left-wing candidates elected on to Labour's NEC! Thank you to everyone who voted for them."" Eddie Izzard, who failed to get a seat on the committee despite receiving 71,000 votes, said he was ""obviously disappointed"" not to be elected to the NEC but added that: ""I'm in this for the long haul. I will carry on being an activist!"" Ellie Reeves - sister of former Labour shadow cabinet member Rachel Reeves - lost her seat after 10 years on the NEC, coming seventh in the ballot with 72,514 votes. She told the BBC Radio 4's World at One that having the support of Mr Corbyn and Momentum ""seemed to have been a pre-requisite for getting on"". She said she was worried that ""the voices of some members aren't going to get heard"" now and said her defeat showed there had been a ""shift in membership"". ""I've always had broad support and I think the make up of our membership has changed significantly in the past few months,"" she told the programme. But Rhea Wolfson, one of the six new members to be appointed to the NEC, said they were not a ""homogenous group"". Asked whether Labour MPs could face mandatory reselection, she told the World at One it is ""a conversation that we're going to have to have"". There was a ""disconnect"" between the Parliamentary party, Labour members and unions, she said, and added: ""We have to have a much more healthier conversation around reselection if not mandatory reselection."" Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham - who has just won Labour's nomination to run for Manchester mayor - said talk of mandatory reselection was ""unhelpful"". ""To pull the rug from under our MPs or other elected representatives I don't think is helpful at this time - it fuels a climate of distrust,"" he said. Meanwhile, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has said Labour should scrap its ""one member one vote"" system for electing a leader, and reinstate the electoral college system - which gave equal weight to the votes of MPs, trade unionists and party members - abolished by Mr Corbyn's predecessor as leader, Ed Miliband. He also wants MPs - not the party leader - to choose who to sit in the shadow cabinet, saying it would help to ""reshape and rebuild"" the Parliamentary party. In a further signs of the deepening rift in the party, Mr Watson revealed that he now has little contact or communication with Mr Corbyn, bar the ""odd text"" - mainly about ""family stuff"".",Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn have @placeholder the board in elections to Labour 's ruling National Executive Committee .,delivered,marked,supported,swept,represented,3
"Devil populations have been decimated by a highly contagious facial cancer that is transferred when these aggressive animals bite each other. The findings will help researchers select the best individuals to be kept in captivity for eventual re-release. The research is outlined in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii, gets its name from its high-pitch, blood-curdling squeal, and is renowned for fighting over access to animal carcases, which it grinds with the bone-crushing force of its jaws. In 1996, a wildlife photographer snapped an image of an animal in the far north-east of Tasmania with a peculiar growth on its face. The growth, it turned out, was neither benign, nor isolated to this one individual, but was a highly contagious, fatal cancer that seemed to be spreading through the population at lightning speed. By 2007, conservationists reported that Devil Facial Tumour Disease, DFTD, had wiped out more than 90% of devil populations in the north-east of Tasmania, and was spreading west. A strategy to save the devil from extinction was begun. Now, an international team of genomicists is offering a helping hand. The researchers took advantage of the latest technology to read the genetic sequence of two devils - an uninfected male called Cedric, and an infected female called Spirit -  along with smaller segments of DNA from 175 other individuals. The team hopes to use the genomes to pinpoint which individuals should be placed into ""protective custody"" to wait out the cancerous epidemic before being reintroduced. From their analysis, the scientists predicted how best to capture as much genetic diversity among the individuals put aside for captive breeding, explained lead author Webb Miller, a genomicist from Pennsylvania State University, US. He said that choosing individuals who were very genetically dissimilar should take priority over whether they were resistant to the cancer. ""It is a big step forward to actually get the genome sequence from this animal... the [world's largest] remaining carnivorous marsupial,"" said zoologist David Rollinson from the Natural History Museum, UK. Getting two complete genomes was very valuable, said Dr Rollinson, but getting as many samples as they did, from as many different animals was ""just the icing on the cake"". Dr Rollinson thinks that a similar approach could be used to study and save other endangered animals. The researchers also sequenced one of the five tumours from Spirit's head for clues to why the Tasmanian devils fail to recognise the cancer as ""non-self"", and destroy it before it takes hold. Understanding what it is about the devil's immune system that makes it so ineffectual at picking up the facial cancer will not only help treat those already infected, but will hold clues about whether the cancer can jump species. ""The greatest worry is that it will jump into another marsupial,"" said cancer geneticist Elizabeth Murchison from the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK.",Scientists have sequenced the complete genomes of two Tasmanian devils in the hope of finding clues to @placeholder this highly endangered marsupial .,predict,treat,investigate,avoid,preserving,4
"A penalty try and scores from Alex Goode and Chris Wyles gave Sarries a 24-3 lead at half-time. The bonus point was wrapped up four minutes after the break as Maro Itoje crossed, shortly before Richard Wigglesworth touched down. Arthur Aziza went over for Oyonnax but Schalk Brits was awarded a late effort to complete the rout for Saracens. Aziza's try was a deserved consolation for the French side, who were committed and spirited in their first ever home game in the Champions Cup, but were outclassed by a Saracens team that sits nine points clear at the top of Pool One. The Premiership leaders dominated the scrum, until the introduction of a series of replacements in the second half upset their rhythm, and attacked with speed and purpose to signal their credentials as title candidates. New England head coach Eddie Jones will name his first squad next month, and there were plenty of performances from Saracens' English contingent that would have caught the attention of the Australian. But it was Farrell who stood out with creativity and quickness that belied his reputation as a defensive, pragmatic fly-half. The England number 10 crashed through a gap in the Oyonnax rearguard before swinging a looping pass out wide to Wyles, who slipped in Goode for the visitors' second try. And Farrell was central to the next score, popping up an offload from the ground to allow Will Fraser to find the on-rushing Wyles on his way to touching down under the posts. In fact, it may be 26-year-old Fraser who gave Jones the most to think about after this display. The uncapped open-side flanker was impressive with the ball in hand and could provide competition for the England number seven shirt, particularly with the future of England captain Chris Robshaw under scrutiny. Saracens can take a step closer to progressing when they host Oyonnax in the reverse fixture next weekend. Saracens full-back Alex Goode said: ""We are really coming alive when we get the ball in good positions at the moment. ""We are using our strike runners very well. We are getting them in the game and we are picking them out. ""Guys like Chris Ashton are doing brilliantly in terms of the support lines they are running. ""We have had a young team over the last few years and we have grown together and added layers to our game. ""We have been close in this tournament before, we have our foundations, we are in a good place but we know there is a long journey ahead yet."" TEAMS Oyonnax: Etienne; Tian, Bousses, Taufa, Codjo; Clegg, Cibray; Tonga'uiha, Maurouard, Pungea; Power, Fabbri; Ursache, Missoup, Wannenburg. Replacements: Lespinas for Clegg (51), Aziza for Cibray (51), M. Clerc for Pungea (53), Guillamon for Fabbri (63), Faure for Wannenburg (60). Not Used: Bordes, Rapant, Gunther. Saracens: Goode; Ashton, Bosch, Barritt, Wyles; Farrell, Wigglesworth; M. Vunipola, George, Figallo; J. Hamilton, Itoje; Rhodes, Fraser, B. Vunipola. Replacements: Ellery for Wyles (55), Hodgson for Farrell (59), Gill for M. Vunipola (52), Brits for George (52), Du Plessis for Figallo (50), Brown for Itoje (63). Not Used: Wray, De Kock. Attendance: 11,400 Referee: Marius Mitrea (Italy).",Saracens ran in six tries to thrash Oyonnax and take control of their European Champions Cup @placeholder .,group,status,competition,show,deficit,0
"The biennial event is where the world's aerospace and defence (A&D) companies come to talk - and do - business. And, in an industry where cross-border co-operation is vital, much of that talk was forecast to focus on the dire consequences for British A&D in a post-referendum world. Yet, this being Britain, it's the weather that seems to be the main topic on everyone's lips. Evidence of serious concern about Brexit at this international gathering of executives and military top brass was thin on the ground (publicly, at least). Take comments from the Pentagon's chief buyer of weapons, US Defense Under Secretary Frank Kendall. ""I don't see any reason why it should fundamentally affect our relationship with the UK or our business deals with the UK,"" he said. UK and US defence interests are inextricably linked. BAE Systems, the UK's largest arms manufacturer, has a big presence in the US and is a key contractor on the world's most expensive defence programme, the US-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project. BAE is also lead contractor on the Eurofighter Typhoon programme, a pan-European project involving defence giants across the continent. Does Brexit put these in doubt? ""I personally don't think it does,"" Ian King, BAE System's chief executive, told the BBC. ""We don't trade with the EU as a defence entity, it's with individual nations."" He says that the quality of UK technology and capabilities will always be in demand internationally, especially given that defence and security have risen rapidly up the political agenda. BAE had backed continued EU membership. ""It was right for the UK to stay part of a coherent trading bloc,"" he said. And he still wants to see a trade deal done that involves the free movement of capital and people. But now that the British people have spoken, the strategy is to see what can be done ""to maintain that continuity in a different form"". That's the view among British A&D companies generally. The overwhelming majority of firms wanted to Remain, according to a survey conducted before the referendum by ADS Group, the industry's trade body. They cited access to the European supply chain, skills, and R&D funding among the key benefits. All that is history, though. The challenge now, according to ADS chief executive Paul Everitt, is to achieve continuity - and ram home the message that the UK is open for business. ""We are the largest aerospace and defence market in Europe,"" he said. ""The government needs to send a strong signal about the attractiveness of the business environment here."" Prime Minister David Cameron tried to do exactly that at the start of the show, in what looked like a carefully choreographed announcement about Boeing's commitment to the UK. The UK government is buying nine Boeing maritime patrol aircraft as part of a £3bn, 10-year partnership that involves generating 2,000 jobs. Boeing will also deliver 50 Apache attack helicopters to the British Army. ""Whatever uncertainties our country faces, I want the message to go out loud and clear: the UK will continue to lead the world in both civil and defence aerospace,"" Mr Cameron said. ""We aren't just open for investment, we are a place the global aerospace industry wants to do business - as Boeing's long-term partnership with the UK proves."" Boeing's chairman Dennis Muilenburg duly reciprocated. ""Boeing is committed to the UK government's prosperity agenda and we share the goals of enhanced economic growth that the prime minister has set,"" he said. Boeing has doubled its presence in the UK over the past five years, and ""we don't really see our plans changing,"" Mr Muilenburg added. There was a similar message from Raytheon International, the US missiles and electronics company which has a big UK presence. Its chief executive, John Harris, called Brexit a ""long play"". He told the BBC: ""We do not see any immediate impact... The process will take years once Article 50 is filed."" Raytheon would adapt to market changes, he said. But the critical issue ""is to ensure we remain a trusted partner of the UK government"". Among major European companies, too, pre-referendum worries are giving way to post-referendum pragmatism. ""We are where we are,"" said one executive, who had previously privately warned that a Leave vote would be ""economic stupidity"". ""Aerospace is a long-term game. If - and I stress 'if' - there are strategic changes, they will be a long way down the road,"" he said. Mauro Moretti, chief executive of Italy's Leonardo - formerly Finmeccanica - was especially upbeat about his company's UK operations, which include AgustaWestland helicopters. He said: ""We would like to invest [in the UK]. We have in the UK very important facilities. We have a very highly-skilled workforce. ""We would like to maintain our presence - to increase our presence,"" he added. Yet, as the marketing manager of one small UK aerospace supplier pointed out: ""It's easier to maintain trade if you are a big defence contractor dealing with governments. It's going to be more difficult if you are further down the supply chain."" He didn't want to be named - ""it's not in my commercial interest"" - but his company supplies equipment that ends up on both Airbus and Boeing aircraft. ""I think the uncertainty that is created by leaving the EU is magnified if you are a smaller player in this industry,"" he said. The message from the Brexiteers is that business will soon be unshackled from EU regulations that hindered the pursuit of more opportunities in the wider world. At Farnborough, with its 1,500 exhibitors and 100,000 trade visitors, companies from all corners of the world are touting for business and doing deals. Among these is China, which has its biggest ever presence at the air show. With its huge aerospace and airline ambitions, China wants to do more business with Britain, says Xu Jin, a minister at the Chinese embassy in London. ""The British should not worry about China not being your friend after Brexit,"" he told a conference on aerospace opportunities in his country. So, China won't desert Britain when it leaves the EU? ""Never. This is never going to happen. China is always going to be your friend."" Another international perspective came from Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of one of aviation's major players, Qatar Airways. As a big purchaser of Airbus aircraft (whose wings are made in the UK) and a 15% shareholder in IAG, owner of British Airways and Iberia (whose shares tanked after the Brexit vote), Qatar Airways is no mere outside observer. But Mr Al Baker says that the ""caution"" around Brexit can be overdone. ""I'm sure that stable minds in the political arena will prevail. And they will realise that regardless of whether Britain stays in the EU, they will still need each other."" He can't understand why such a momentous move was decided on a simple majority at the ballot box, rather than, say, 75%. But in the end, common sense will prevail, he believes. ""Trade both ways is massive. They both need each other. At the end of the day, you are all Europeans.""","Brexit was supposed to cast storm clouds over this week 's Farnborough Airshow . Instead , it 's been two days of torrential rain that has cast the real @placeholder over proceedings .",shadow,period,fog,contest,trust,0
"The 23-year-old former West Ham forward has had loan spells with Portsmouth and Hearts, among others, and will officially join Eastleigh on 1 July. He was Orient's top scorer in League Two this season with 12 goals in 33 appearances in all competitions. However McCallum could not stop the O's from being relegated, and he could play against his old side next term. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",National League side Eastleigh have @placeholder to sign Leyton Orient striker Paul McCallum on a two - year contract .,extended,attempted,agreed,returned,loaned,2
"Thousands of men then climbed on to what was known as no man's land. This was the first day of the Somme -  one of the deadliest battles of World War One. Thousands of soldiers died in a very short amount of time. In total, more than one million soldiers were killed or wounded on both sides of the fight. The people in charge said that the battle had to happen to win the war, but even now people can't agree on whether it was the right decision or a huge mistake. On 4 August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. It became known as ""The Great War"" because it affected people all over the world and was the biggest war anyone had ever known. The war was fought between two powerful groups - the Allied Powers, which Britain and France were part of, and the Central Powers, led by Germany with Austria-Hungary. Guide: World War One A lot of the fighting took place along the Western Front where the soldiers had dug out special ditches called trenches. The two sets of trenches faced each other across an area called no man's land. The soldiers lived in the trenches and mounted attacks using things like rifles, machine guns and poison gas. The aim of the Allied attacks were to break through the enemy's trenches and push the German Army back towards the centre of Europe. Breaking through the trenches wasn't easy. So the British and French planned a really big attack that became known as the Battle of the Somme. To weaken the German defences, the Allied forces fired shells from artillery guns. The shelling, called a bombardment, went on for a whole week. When it had finished, the British and French soldiers came out of their trenches and headed towards the German lines. They weren't expecting much of a fight because everyone thought that the shells would have killed the German soldiers. But there was a problem. When the shelling started the Germans hid in special shelters called dug-outs. They waited underground for a week and when the shelling finished they came out and fired machine guns at the advancing Allied troops. The British troops were caught in no man's land and couldn't hide from the German bullets. Many soldiers lost their lives. The fighting started on 1 July 1916. Because it's called a battle you might imagine that it all happened in a few days, but it actually went on for months and finally finished in November 1916. The battle was between the German Army on one side and the British and French on the other. The German Army was thought to be a better fighting force because more of its soldiers had been given full training. They were mostly professional soldiers and trained reservists. The British Army also had professional soldiers but it was mostly made up of volunteers. It was the start of the war so the soldiers who died were those who had been first to volunteer. The British often fought in groups nicknamed Pals Battalions, where everyone in the battalion came from the same towns and villages. More than one million soldiers were killed or wounded in the Battle of the Somme. On the first day of the battle, nearly 20,000 British soldiers were killed, another 40,000 were injured. This was the biggest single loss of life in the history of the British Army. The fighting continued over the next five months and by the end of the battle about 420,000 British soldiers had died. The British and French troops made only a small advance into the German-held areas. Because of this, many people saw it as a failure and thought that General Haig, who was in charge of the British Army, had not done a good job. Most people who study this part of history do agree that the Battle of the Somme drained the German Army and this was an important first step towards the Allied victory in 1918. The Somme is a river in northern France and the fighting was along a 40km line north and south of the river, between Serre and Curlu.","At 7.30 am on 1 July 1916 , whistles were @placeholder along a line of British soldiers .",woken,rescued,denied,blown,spotted,3
"The Chang'e 4 mission is planned for sometime before 2020, Zou Yongliao from the Chinese Academy of Sciences told state broadcaster CCTV. Mr Zou said the mission's objective would be to study geological conditions on the moon's far side. This could eventually lead to the placement of a radio telescope for use by astronomers. The Moon's far side would be shielded from radio transmissions from Earth, making it an excellent location for sensitive instruments. China's next lunar mission is scheduled for 2017, when it will attempt return samples of lunar soil and rock to Earth. If successful, China would become only the third country after the US and Russia to have successfully carried out such a mission.","China is planning the first ever landing of a lunar probe on the far side of the Moon , an @placeholder has said .",event,aide,group,organisation,engineer,4
"Regenerus - formerly South Sefton Development Trust - is staging the Ten Years of Another Place event at Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre on Monday. The exhibition, which runs until 1 November, is one of several events. The 100 statues should have gone to New York in 2006 but the council allowed them to remain as a tourist attraction. Regenerus chief executive Cate Murphy said the Another Place exhibition would tell the story of why Antony Gormley - who also created The Angel Of The North - chose Crosby as the location for his artwork, and include many little-known facts about the installation. It will also feature atmospheric images of the iron men taken by acclaimed Crosby-based photographer Ron Davies. The naked cast iron statues, which are more than 6ft high (189cm) and weigh 1,400lbs (650kg), are on a two-mile (3.2km) stretch of beach between Waterloo and Blundellsands. At one time Sefton Council wanted the statues removed due to safety concerns as the coastguard reported people getting cut off by the tide when they visited. The council changed its mind after some of the ones in a more dangerous location were relocated.",The @placeholder that brought Antony Gormley 's Iron Men to Crosby beach is to open a special exhibition marking the installation 's 10th anniversary .,scheme,word,body,deadline,group,4
"The news comes less than a week after he terminated his contract as Uganda coach over unpaid wages. He has been welcomed back to the club by chairman Irvin Khoza. ""When he left, he left graciously. Now, he comes back with a great record and experiences throughout the continent,"" he said at Sredojevic's unveiling. ""We also welcome back Milutin Sredejovic, coach Micho. A man who's integrity I respect"" The 47-year-old Sredojevic, who lead to Uganda to the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time since 1978, spent eight months in charge of Pirates from June 2006. Sredojevic replace's Sweden's Kjell Jonevret who resigned on Wednesday. Jonevret only took over the struggling side in February and was unable to change their fortunes as they finished 11th in the Premier Soccer League. ""I'd like to thank the Club for the opportunity. It didn't work out as planned. I wish the Club & its supporters all the best,"" the 54-year-old posted on social media.",Serbian coach Milutin ' Micho' Sredojevic has @placeholder as the coach of South African club Orlando Pirates .,revealed,returned,quit,named,retired,1
"The Scottish Local Government Partnership (SLGP) comprises of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire councils. They broke away from umbrella group Cosla last year. Ms Constance said the government ""will only negotiate with one body"". Cosla remains the only forum for official government funding negotiations, so the breakaway SLGP lodged papers at the Court of Session on Friday to take legal action to assert their right to be formally consulted. Ms Constance has now written to the SLGP offering a meeting. The group has hailed the move as a ""huge breakthrough"" in their relations with the Scottish government. Convener Jenny Laing said: ""They were never going to give us equal negotiating rights with Cosla straight away but the fact that they have both recognised their statutory duty to talk to all local authorities, combined with the offer of bilaterals with ministers and the SLGP, clearly shows that a process is now under way and that will be welcomed by the 1.3 million people we represent across Scotland."" She added: ""The members in the SLGP represent 47% of Scotland's economy. We have the ideas, passion and drive to grow Scotland's wealth. All we need now are the powers to do it."" ""The reason we left Cosla was because we felt powerless to fight the cuts being handed down. ""The political landscape is shifting rapidly and we all must work closer together in a new era of collaboration in order to get the best possible deal for ordinary, hard-working families."" Responding last week to the SLGP's threat of legal action, a Scottish government spokesman said: ""We will only negotiate on the final settlement with Cosla, the representative body for Scotland's local authorities. ""However, we have a statutory responsibility to consult all 32 councils on the terms of the local government finance settlement.""","Communities Secretary Angela Constance is to meet leaders of a Labour - led council splinter group to hear their concerns about being "" @placeholder out "" of funding talks .",watered,phased,frozen,ruled,thrown,2
"Officer Aml Elsokary, a New York native, was with her son in a Brooklyn neighbourhood when she was allegedly threatened with violence. A man began pushing and shouting at her 16-year-son before telling her to ""go back to your country"", officials say. On Monday, the mayor of New York praised her service to the city. ""In 2014, she ran into a burning building and helped to save a young girl and her grandmother,"" Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference. ""And, then, on Saturday, she had to experience a man allegedly yelling at her and her son, 'Go back to your country,'"" said Mr de Blasio. ""Well this is Officer Elsokary's country. She is an American. She is a New Yorker. She's already at home."" On Monday, Christopher Nelson, 36, was charged with menacing as a hate crime. During the attack, he allegedly used an expletive to call the officer a member of the Islamic State group, and threatened to ""cut"" Mrs Elsokary's throat. Officer Elsokary said she joined the police force after the attacks of 11 September: ""I became a police officer to show the positive side of a New Yorker, a Muslim woman, that can do the job. ""I help everybody, no matter what your religion, what's your faith, what you do in New York. I'm born and raised here."" Hate crimes have risen in New York by 35%, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD). The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force has deemed 43 incidents possible hate crimes since Donald Trump was elected a month ago - more than double the number cases reported during the same period last year. Mayor de Blasio said that he believes that Mr Trump is partly responsible for the increase in hate attacks, due to his ""hate speech"" and the ""horrible things"" he has said about Muslims. On Monday, a city transit worker wearing a Muslim headscarf was pushed down steps by a man that called her a ""terrorist"". Over the weekend, racist graffiti was scrawled on subway trains and white supremacist materials were distributed at a rail station, the New York mayor said.",A man who New York officials say @placeholder a woman wearing a Muslim headscarf may have picked the wrong target - an off - duty police officer .,attended,surrounding,manipulated,married,harassed,4
"In the week before Christmas, the GP out of hours service had 20% more calls than in the same period in 2013. There were also more calls on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the following weekend for the entire week last year. Dr. Sharon Hopkins, of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, asked patients to only use the service in emergencies.",People in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan are being urged to @placeholder the right service if ill to ease winter pressure on services .,improve,retain,evacuate,choose,join,3
"The DeirEzzor24 website reported that an unidentified jet had dropped cluster bombs on Dablan, about 20km (13 miles) south-east of the town of Mayadin. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 30. It comes only two days after a US-led coalition strike reportedly killed 42 detainees at an IS prison near Mayadin. The coalition confirmed it had targeted ""IS command-and-control elements"" in the area on Monday, but said the raid had been ""meticulously planned"" to avoid harming civilians. There was no immediate comment from the coalition on Wednesday's reported attack. The Russian and Syrian air forces also fly sorties in the region. At the start of June, the coalition said its 21,035 air strikes in Syria and Iraq since 2014 had unintentionally killed at least 484 civilians. However, human rights groups believe the true figure is far higher. Airwars, an organisation that tracks allegations of civilian deaths, said that as of 8 June, the coalition had killed at least 4,118 civilians and perhaps more than 16,000. DeirEzzor24 said the house of a person not connected to IS appeared to have been targeted, and that several nearby buildings had also been destroyed. Women and children were among those killed, it added, warning that the death toll was likely to rise because of the serious condition of some of the injured. Mayadin, which lies in the Euphrates river valley about 45km (28 miles) south-east of the city of Deir al-Zour, has been targeted frequently by coalition aircraft. US intelligence officials believe IS moved most of its leaders to the town in recent months as Iraqi government forces advanced into the Iraqi city of Mosul and a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters encircled the Syrian city of Raqqa. Meanwhile at least 173 civilians and possibly many more have been killed in air and ground operations against IS this month in Raqqa itself, the UN's human rights chief said. As many as 100,000 civilians were trapped in Raqqa and were being prevented from leaving by IS, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said. ""Civilians must not be sacrificed for the sake of rapid military victories,"" he said. The intense bombardment of the city had reportedly left them ""terrified and confused about where they can seek refuge"", he added.","At least 15 civilians have been killed and dozens injured in an air strike on a village in eastern Syria @placeholder by so - called Islamic State , activists say .",questioned,linked,run,held,imposed,3
"It is a well-thumbed copy of Catch 22, Joseph Heller's classic satirical novel on the absurdities of war; not an inappropriate choice for somebody who's spent her entire life amid one of the Middle East's most intractable conflicts. But Rawan's life is about to take a different direction. Currently a student at Gaza's Islamic University, she has just won a scholarship to Oxford University to study linguistics and Italian. She is looking forward to moving from the minarets of Gaza to the city of ""dreaming spires"". ""I'm very excited. I can't wait,"" she smiles. ""It's going to be different but it's going to be fun."" Few have made such a journey. But what is even more unusual is that all the other students at Oxford's Jesus College will pay some of the cost of Rawan's studies. As part of the recently established Jesus College Junior Members Scholarship most of the other students have each agreed to pay £3.90 ($5.90) per term towards Rawan's fees. The scholarship was set up by Oxford graduate Emily Dreyfus after she realised that few Gazans had ever had the chance to study at one of Britain's most prestigious universities. She says most other students at Jesus were happy to contribute. ""They voted for this from the outset. They recognise that this is a very small contribution to make which has a disproportionately positive benefit."" The student contributions will raise around £6,300 a year towards Rawan's living costs. This is only a fraction of the estimated £30,000 annual costs needed to complete the four-year course. But the university has agreed to waive around 60% of the tuition fees. The rest of the costs are being paid for by three charities: The Hani Qaddumi Scholarship Foundation, the AM Qattan Foundation and the Hoping Foundation which supports Palestinian refugees around the world. Rawan still had to apply for and win the place against fierce competition, but she knows the other students at Jesus have given her a rare opportunity. ""I really appreciate that Emily believed in people here and she gave somebody like me a life changing chance,"" she says. Rawan has only once before left the tiny Palestinian territory, when she went on a study trip to the United States. Israel's blockade of Gaza and the ongoing conflict with Hamas which governs here make it difficult for Palestinians to leave through Israel. In the past, Israel has refused permission for Palestinian students to leave Gaza in order to carry out studies abroad. It is likely Rawan will leave Gaza through Egypt in order to travel to Oxford. She is currently completing a degree in English literature studying, among other books, George Orwell's Animal Farm and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. She says her favourite book is Mornings In Jenin by the Palestinian American writer Susan AbulHawa. The novel follows the story of three generations of a Palestinian family who became refugees after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Rawan is also a fan of JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. ""Her style of writing is very subtle. There are little things in her stories that grab your attention."" Education is highly valued in Gaza. There are no fewer than seven universities in the territory for a population of 1.7 million people. But Rawan is expecting a different study experience at Oxford. ""The education system is completely different. I'm going to have my own tutors not like in Gaza where I am among hundreds of students who have the same teacher."" She will also have to get used to mixed education. At the Islamic University, where she studies now, men and women are taught separately. ""I don't think it's going to be a problem. The culture there is obviously very different but I'm open to that."" Rawan also accepts that she is going to miss home. ""Of course I will be homesick. But I have to go through that and get used to it because I have something more important to achieve."" Emily Dreyfus expects the young Palestinian will be given a warm welcome. ""I'm confident that she's going to have a wonderful time and I know that there are a lot of people at the college eager to meet her and to welcome her to their community."" And Rawan is looking forward to telling people about a different side of life in Gaza. ""Most people think it's like a war zone here and that everyone here is really depressed and involved in politics,"" she says. ""But it's not always about war. It's also about families, friends and love. It's not only about the conflict with Israel."" And despite the chance to broaden her horizons, she is adamant that once she has finished her four years in Oxford, she will return to Gaza. ""I still haven't thought about what I'll do after university but I'll definitely come back here. Although it may seem difficult to live here, it's still interesting and adventurous at times,"" she says with a wry smile. ""There is ugliness in Gaza but you can't leave it and turn your back on it.""","Rawan Yaghi is a bookish 19 year old who , appropriately for a student of literature , arrives to meet me in Gaza with a text @placeholder under her arm .",spanning,celebrating,tucked,condition,puzzled,2
"The 3,500 capacity venue was to have been built on derelict land in the city centre and was expected to open in 2018. Hull City Council's planning committee rejected the proposal, despite council officers recommending approval. The Labour leader of the authority, Councillor Stephen Brady said he was ""incredibly disappointed"" at the decision. The council has not yet given a reason for rejecting the application. Mr Brady said the planning application would be resubmitted in the new year, but acknowledged that the committee's decision would ""at the very least, mean a delay in commencing the development."" ""The plans for the Hull Venue have received considerable public support, are hugely important for the development of the city and will put us on the map as a location for major events,"" he said. ""The development is absolutely essential to making Hull a top visitor destination and is an integral component of our legacy planning following on from our year as UK City of Culture in 2017. Documents supporting the planning application claimed the venue would attract 240,000 visitors a year and bring an extra £21m of tourist money into the local economy.",Plans for a £ 36 m music and @placeholder centre in Hull have been rejected .,body,communications,culture,coal,exhibition,4
"The assault took place at North High Street, Musselburgh, between 19:15 and 19:40 on Saturday. The victims were taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where they were treated for minor injuries. Police Scotland described the attack as ""vicious"" and appealed to anyone who may have information about the incident to come forward. The injured men are described as being white and about 35 years old. One man was of medium build, 5ft 9in tall with short brown hair. He was wearing a dark blue and white top with grey trousers. The second man was 5ft 8in tall and was wearing a black top. There is no description of their attacker.",Two men were taken to hospital after a @placeholder was sprayed in their faces next to a cash machine in East Lothian .,body,substance,woman,vehicle,fire,1
"A celebrity jumping into a car and singing with James Corden has been a staple of The Late Late Show since he took over as host in March 2015. But now it's becoming a TV series in its own right, with new episodes released every week on Apple Music. The first proper trailer gives us a little taste of what to expect from the 16-episode run. 1. Carpool Karaoke no longer needs to be in a car. Or even on the ground Carpool Karaoke is no longer confined by silly little details like, you know, actually being in a car. ""This is the next level,"" says Will Smith, as he guides James Corden towards a waiting helicopter at one point in the trailer. Gravity schmavity. Appropriately, the first song they sing once they are in said aircraft is, of course, R Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly. Reports that they also belted out a rendition of Westlife's Flying Without Wings could not be immediately confirmed. 2. Ariana Grande and Seth MacFarlane have zero time for parking restrictions At one point, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and singer and all-round awesome person Ariana Grande are shown standing by the parked car. Earlier in the trailer, they had been seen beautifully singing a song from The Little Shop of Horrors. All sweet and innocent and lovely. But look a little closer - and the plot takes a much darker turn. They appear to have pulled up across TWO disabled parking spaces. Ariana is going to have to give us at least six new masterpieces of Side To Side-level quality to redeem herself. 3. It's strange not having James Corden in the driver's seat Since the dawn of time, James Corden has been a ubiquitous presence in the driver's seat of the Carpool Karaoke automobile. Which is fair enough, since he basically came up with the idea when he first climbed into a car with George Michael for Comic Relief in 2011. But he's now allowed someone else to get behind the wheel, which gives us the extremely exciting prospect of episodes with five-piece bands. Or in this case, four-piece bands, plus a guest. The previous application form was limited to a maximum of four people, which gave us the gift of Carpools featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers and One Direction 2.0. But behold, now we have comedian Billy Eichner hitching a ride with Metallica. We're trying not to get our hopes up but this could technically pave the way for Little Mix giving Ozzy Osbourne a lift to the supermarket. 4. They may need a bigger car ""You're going to need a bigger boat,"" said someone once, in some famous movie or other. In this case, the production team are perhaps going to need a bigger car for two of their more well-built guests. Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal and wrestler John Cena just about managed to squeeze in. We're just relieved it wasn't a Mini. 5. A lot of people mistake John Legend for Pharrell Williams John Legend takes Alicia Keys and Hidden Figures actress Taraji P. Henson on a little spin in the new Carpool series, with the two singers seen belting out Alicia's Fallin'. (Tune). But they also have a nice little chat, during which John Legend reveals that despite being an Actual Legend, people often mistake him for somebody else. ""Old white women think I'm Pharrell [Williams] sometimes,"" he explains. He even briefly belts out the hook of Happy so as not to disappoint this particular fanbase. 6. Blake Shelton and Chelsea Handler are keen to get their five a day A slice of orange, a chunk of pineapple, a quarter of lime - it's fair to say country singer Blake Shelton and comic Chelsea Handler are fans of fruit. Alternatively, it's possible that they're fans of alcohol, which is very often served with fruit. Or they could be auditioning to become the faces of a new fruit and veg campaign, judging by this segment in the trailer. What do you mean a slice of lemon in your drink doesn't count towards your five a day? Why would you ruin this perfectly nice afternoon? 7. Wait. Go back a sec. Is that... a BRASS BAND? Yep. That's a 90-piece brass band. Being conducted from a sun roof by Will Smith. Who is leading them in a rendition of his 1997 treasure Gettin' Jiggy Wit It. I need to lie down. 8. Heavy metal sounds better in the dairy aisle First Blake and Chelsea hit the pub, and look, there's John Legend and Alicia Keys in a laundrette. Straight in at number one in the Look We Can Be Normal chart, however, is Metallica in a supermarket. If you haven't experienced Enter Sandman being performed next to the free range eggs, you've not heard Mozart the way it was meant to be played. Carpool Karaoke is ""coming soon"" to Apple Music, according to the trailer. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","The first trailer for Carpool Karaoke has been released and , not gon na lie , the cast @placeholder is pretty impressive .",list,event,tension,words,region,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device When Liverpool host Wolves in the FA Cup fourth round, it will be over two years since boyhood Reds fan Coady, now 23, was allowed to leave the club. And he is intent only on helping his side become the third in a week to win at Anfield. ""We're going there to win and hopefully take the game to them,"" he told BBC WM. Coady never got to play a home game in his three years at Anfield, with both his first-team appearances coming on the road, the second as a late sub for Philippe Coutinho in a 3-1 win at Fulham, his only one in the Premier League. After a season-long loan with Sheffield United, he eventually moved on to Huddersfield Town in August 2014 and then Wolves a year later. But Coady knows, from his experience watching the Reds as a boy, that Liverpool do not have many slumps of the current magnitude and Wolves might have timed their trip to Anfield just right. ""We've got a great chance the way Liverpool are playing,"" he said. ""They're a top team but they've had quite a lot of games."" Since Wolves won 2-0 in the third round at Stoke on 7 January, Paul Lambert's men have only played twice, while Liverpool have been in action six times. Of those six games, they have won only once - the FA Cup third-round replay at League Two side Plymouth - have failed to score in three of them and have lost their last two at home. Following the shock home defeat by Swansea City which damaged their Premier League title hopes, Wednesday's League Cup semi-final exit to Southampton has cast a cloud over Anfield. ""We've got to take that into account,"" said Coady. ""We've got go there on the front foot, try to stop them playing, hopefully nick the ball and see if we can get something out of it."" And what if Coady himself were to find the net? ""It would be what dreams are made of,"" he grinned. ""I'm not one of those who wouldn't celebrate. I'd go ballistic to score for this club. It doesn't happen very often."" Wolves boss Lambert knows what it takes to win at Anfield. His Aston Villa side did so in December 2012, and Wolves loan signing Andreas Weimann was one of the Villa scorers that day in a 3-1 victory. So can he do it again? Fourth in the Premier League v 18th in the Championship? ""We're up against an iconic club, and we're going to have to handle the atmosphere and the crowd, but I'd be disappointed if we couldn't handle the occasion,"" Lambert told BBC WM. ""If we can do that, we can win the game. And I believe in them. Mentally, they're ready for it. They'll handle it."" Lambert is keenly awaiting his reunion with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, who he first met when they did the Pro Licence coaching course together in Germany in 2004. He was playing for Celtic by then, long after he had helped Borussia Dortmund win the European Cup in 1997 and four years before Klopp took over as Dortmund boss in 2008. ""He was also at a club I was fortunate to play for,"" said Lambert. ""There were connections between us and he went on to bring Dortmund back to where they should have been - two league titles, two cups and a kick away from winning the Champions League. ""He is a big character and a really top guy. Some interviews at the minute make me laugh.""",Wolves midfielder Conor Coady will be @placeholder a boyhood dream when he finally gets to play a first - team game at Anfield on Saturday .,fulfilling,produced,dreaming,completed,chasing,0
"The incident happened between 16:30 and 16:45 on Wednesday as the woman was walking home on a path in Silverknowes. The man approached her from behind on the path linking Silverknowes Hill with Silverknowes Road. He was carrying a knife and demanded she hand over her purse, but she refused and then ""deterred the attacker"" by waving her mobility stick. The man walked away empty handed - heading back towards Silverknowes Hill before being lost from sight. An extensive inquiry is now under way and witnesses are being urged to come forward. The man was described as white, about 6ft tall, with a thin face. He was wearing a dark hooded top with the hood up. Det Insp John Kavanagh, of Police Scotland, said: ""Thankfully, the woman was unhurt but it goes without saying that we take a zero tolerance approach towards such despicable crimes. ""The incident was carried out during daylight hours and I would hope that someone may have seen the suspect in the area and can provide us with important information.""",An 87 - year - old woman saw off a robber who @placeholder her up with a knife by waving her walking stick at him in Edinburgh .,rammed,held,interrupted,beaten,spent,1
"There are special effects and stunt doubles all right. But the ageing hero fishes a gun quicker than you can say Kabali; smashes furniture and sends villains flying across the air with lethal kicks, gives chase and hunts down the baddies with characteristic flair. The thalaivar (the boss, as his fans call him) shows no signs of slowing down. The 150-film veteran even gives chase to the villain, played by Taiwanese actor Winston Chao, against the Petronas Towers, one of the world's tallest buildings, in Malaysia. Kabali has all the ingredients of a Rajinikanth entertainer: heroics, smoking guns, bloody fight sequences, Malay and Tamil hip hop and rap music, lots of Tamil regional pride and romance. It also has the angry superstar delivering truisms in his trademark mocking style. How Rajinikanth and Kabali mania swept India Sporting a grey beard, Rajinikanth plays Kabali, a rubber plantation worker who walks out of prison in Malaysia after a 25-year term. He then turns against a group of gangsters who framed him to put him in prison in the first place. Kabali battles the group, led by Chao, who plays a drug lord, and Tamil gangsters who run drug and prostitution rackets in the country. He speaks for the rights of the Tamil migrants in Malaysia. He sets up a foundation to offer education and livelihood for the Tamil youth. His love interest is his strong and independent wife, played by the talented Bollywood actress Radhika Apte. Director Pa Ranjith gets Rajinikanth to address issues of caste, class and race: the superstar is shown reading an English book written by a Dalit (formerly known as untouchables) writer; and he is attired in tuxedos and suits, a nod to the western sartorial style of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar. ""Black is power"", states Kabali with characteristic swag in the film. ""The dark-skinned Tamil is equal to all races; he is no longer a slave in the plantations of Malaysia but one who asks for equal opportunities with education and hard work."" But all critics are not impressed. There is very little in Kabali, says one, which sets it apart in tone and tenor from the star's recent outings. And the pace does slacken a little, and sometimes the actor actually looks tired. ""Rajinikanth's achievement, as always, is that he manages to hold the audience in thrall even when the film threatens to flag - this despite the fact that he is only peddling time-worn tricks,"" writes Saibal Chatterjee. But fans are flocking to the film, and Kabali appears to be on its way to becoming another box office hit for the superstar. Even before its release - the film has been dubbed in Telugu, Hindi, Malay and Mandarin - it had mopped up $30m (£20m) in rights sales. Because, in the end, Rajinikanth remains a larger-than-life superstar and a one-man cult. ""A lot of fans refer to him as God, or as someone who is beyond human desires. So many fans treat the star in ways that are not unlike how people in India treat gurus or spiritual leaders,"" says Rinku Kalsy, who made a documentary on his fans.","At 65 , Tamil cinema superstar and a grandfather in real life , Rajinikanth , packs a mean punch in his new film Kabali , an action - packed gangster drama , which @placeholder on Friday .",group,overturned,opened,rely,debuts,2
"The 29-year-old Briton has not played since his surprise second-round defeat at the BNP Paribas Open in early March because of an elbow injury. Swiss Australian Open champion Federer, 35, won 6-3 7-6 (7-5) on Monday. Murray is set for a competitive return at next week's Monte Carlo Masters. ""I'm hoping, if I keep progressing as I have with the elbow, to play Monte Carlo,"" said the Scot. ""If not, then I just need to stay patient and I'll try the following week. I'm getting there, I just have to go slowly.""","World number one Andy Murray returned to the court for the first time in over a month when he played a charity @placeholder match against Roger Federer in Zurich , Switzerland .",match,deal,doubles,exhibition,group,3
"The shot was fired at the property on Nacton Crescent at 01:35 GMT. The shooting happened after what police described as a ""firearms incident"" on Fuchsia Lane at on Monday evening and a fire at a flat on Dandalan Close 30 minutes later. Three people have been arrested and police remain on Nacton Crescent. LIVE: Updates on this story and other Suffolk news Suffolk Police said no-one was hurt and they believe those involved know each other. Insp Phil Enderby said: ""We do believe that the suspects and the victims in these incidents all know each other and that there is no threat to the general public."" The three people in custody were arrested after the Fuchsia Lane incident. Police stopped a Mini Cooper at 20:35 GMT at Alnesbourn Crescent and a handgun was recovered. The vehicle has been seized by police. Police said accelerant was thrown through a window and furniture was set alight at the flat at Dandalan Close. They said the family in the property at Nacton Crescent were safe.",A gunshot was fired into a family home in Ipswich after an arson attack and another firearms incident which police believe are all @placeholder .,images,linked,searching,mounted,reopened,1
"Britain's Johanna Konta will play, along with Garbine Muguruza, Karolina Pliskova and Angelique Kerber, who will return to world number one on Monday. BBC Sport understands Sharapova will be offered a wildcard for Birmingham. The Russian, who returned from a 15-month doping ban last month, lost to Eugenie Bouchard in Madrid on Monday. Her involvement in Spain, courtesy of another wildcard, ended in the second round courtesy of a 7-5 2-6 6-4 defeat to the Canadian, who had been critical of the Russian, calling her a ""cheat"" and saying she should never have been allowed to play again. She also received a wildcard for Stuttgart in April, where she reached the last four. The line-up for Birmingham is the strongest ever seen at the grass-court event. Of the current top 10, only Svetlana Kuznetsova and Serena Williams, who recently announced her pregnancy, are missing. The event runs from 17-25 June and is one of three tournaments - along with the Aegon Open in Nottingham and the Aegon International in Eastbourne - in the lead up to Wimbledon in July. Sharapova, who has not played a Wimbledon warm-up event since she reached the final in Birmingham in 2010, remains some way adrift of direct entry into the Wimbledon main draw. She will need to reach the semi-finals in Rome next week to make sure. A first-round defeat could cost her a place in qualifying unless the All England Club offers her a wildcard.",Maria Sharapova will feature alongside eight of the world 's top 10 if she @placeholder a wildcard for next month 's Aegon Classic in Birmingham .,struck,accepts,deserves,lived,earn,1
"At the Democrats Abroad watch party in downtown Toronto, the faces were glum. Eric Mintz, a statistician, realised earlier than some that pollsters missed the significance of Donald Trump support, and that the Republican looked likely to clinch the win. He described the atmosphere as ""slowly descending into gloom"". ""It's an extinction moment - he's an extinction candidate,"" Mr Mintz said, saying he feared that America as it exists now will come to an end. ""I think he's extraordinarily dangerous in policy and personality."" Canada's immigration website crashes A few blocks away at the swanky Albany Club, a well-heeled crowd of politicians, diplomats and businesspeople were watching with disbelief as the results rolled in. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne had backed Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, but her concern was rooted in more than just politics. ""Our fate is absolutely inextricably linked to the United States,"" the premier of Canada's most populous province told the BBC. ""If we have a partner south of the border that isn't interested in getting a softwood lumber deal or making sure we continue our relationship with the auto sector, that's very, very bad for the province and it's bad for the country."" Her number one issue in the Canada-US relationship? ""Trade."" Canada and the US share the longest peaceful border on Earth. Canada's economy, based largely on foreign trade, is tied to that of the US. America is by far the country's largest trading partner, with some CA$2.3bn ($1.7 bn/£1.4bn)  in goods and services crossing the Canada-US border daily. So how Mr Trump handles trade, especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), matters to Canada.  He has called the agreement  a ""disaster"" and has vowed to either renegotiate it or axe it completely. Mr Trump has also said he would pressure allies to pay their fair share into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato). Nato guidelines say member states should spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defence. Most countries in the military alliance, including Canada, lag behind on that figure. Canada also shares close ties with the US when it comes to tackling shared national security concerns, climate change, and the war against so-called Islamic State. But Mr Trump is a possible ally on one file: the Keystone XL pipeline, which the Obama administration rejected in 2015. The company behind the controversial Alberta-to-Texas pipeline says it is still committed to the project. Canada had lined up largely behind Clinton. Not everyone though. David Woolley, 26, a communications professional, was proudly sporting a Make America Great Again baseball cap. Once a supporter of Mrs Clinton's primary rival Bernie Sanders, Mr Woolley gravitated towards Trump. He said the real estate mogul held positions similar to Mr Sanders, such as curbing free trade and limiting American interventions abroad. ""We're flipping the coin with [Mr Trump], whereas we know Hillary will continue to represent the banksters and represent the neoconservatives,"" he said. On the other side of the border, Americans were looking northward for hope. Canada's immigration website crashed as Trump wins continued to mount. Can they make it work? Jessica Murphy, Canada editor, BBC News Canadian prime ministers and their US counterparts have not always got along. And from policy to temperament,  it can be hard to imagine two men who have less in common than Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump. Mr Trudeau, 44,  is young, optimistic, a self-declared feminist. Mr Trump, 70, will be the oldest man ever elected US president. He painted a pessimistic view of America throughout the campaign, and has been forced to defend his treatment of women. Mr Trudeau has made tackling climate change one of his key policy issues. Mr Trump has said he would cut all US federal climate change spending and wants to dismantle the Paris climate agreement. Mr Trudeau has made openness to refugees part of his brand. Mr Trump has warned admitting refugees from certain regions presents a serious threat to US national security. But the two nations are close allies. From national security to the economy, to ensuring goods and people can move across the border, they tend to work in tandem on issues of mutual interest. So while Mr Trudeau's relationship with Mr Trump not be the immediate ""bromance"" Mr Trudeau formed with Barack Obama, both will have to find a way to make it work.",America 's @placeholder to the north fear how trade and diplomacy will fare in a Trump presidency .,ability,reaction,changes,relations,neighbours,4
"He's set to make a cameo appearance in the seventh season of Game of Thrones. What role he'll be playing is still under wraps, but let's hope it won't be as prominent as his album is in the charts or no other actors will get a look in. It's not even Ed's first cameo appearance in a TV show - he previously appeared (and sang) in a 2015 episode of Home and Away. Sheeran is far from the first to make a brief appearance in a film or TV show - here's some other pop star cameos you may not have spotted. Cheryl in What to Expect When You're Expecting Cheryl's experience as a judge on a talent show came in handy when she made a cameo appearance as a judge on a talent show. The currently un-surnamed singer traded in The X Factor for the fictional Celebrity Dance Factor where she judged the performance of Cameron Diaz's character in 2012. Cheryl may well have revisited the movie's subject matter more recently for research purposes. Rihanna in Bring It On: All or Nothing The Bring it On series of films has brought us many stone cold classics - such as Bring it On: In It to Win It and Bring it On: Fight to the Finish. But it was the 2006 masterpiece Bring it On: All or Nothing, starring Hayden Panettiere and Solange Knowles, that gave us a delightful cameo appearance from Rihanna. Four years before she turned to S&M, a younger and more innocent RiRi was in the film offering a prize to budding cheerleading squads. Her cameo saw her announcing that the winners of a high school competition would win an appearance in her new music video. Boy George in The A-Team Boy George appeared in a 1986 episode of The A-Team called Cowboy George playing, you guessed it, the title role. In the episode, Face comes up with a money-making scheme that involves booking bands for gigs, but not actually paying them to perform. The star becomes furious Face is pocketing the profits from a Culture Club gig and turns up demanding what they're due. Highlights of the episode include Boy George kicking down a door and Mr T dancing to Karma Chameleon. Drake in Anchorman 2 To be honest, we could do an entire feature on all the cameo appearances in Anchorman 2. Kanye West, Will Smith, Harrison Ford, Sacha Baron Cohen, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey all crop up in the 2012 film. Many of them appear in the star-studded battle of the news crews at the end of the Will Ferrell movie. But Drake's guest appearance is actually right at the beginning - when his character err... expresses his approval, shall we say, of Christina Applegate's looks. Ian Brown and Jarvis Cocker in the Harry Potter films Hidden deep inside the 19 hours and 40 minutes of Harry Potter films are cameo appearances from some of UK music's biggest stars. Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker both appear in the big screen adaptations of the JK Rowling franchise. Sadly not together. Brown is briefly seen stirring a cup of tea in The Prisoner of Azkaban while Cocker portrayed Myron Wagtail, the lead singer of The Weird Sisters, in The Goblet of Fire. Ariana Grande in Scream Queens As a rule, cameos are generally short. Ariana Grande's appearance in comedy-horror show Scream Queens certainly fell into this category, as she was so cruelly killed off at the end of her scene. The singer appeared Side to Side with the likes of Lea Michele and Emma Roberts when she starred in the show's 2015 pilot episode. But her foray into acting was short lived as she was murdered by a scary, masked knife-wielding devil. However, Ariana brilliantly came back to life just long enough to send out a tweet to her followers to let them know she was being murdered. Snoop Dogg in basically everything This feature simply wouldn't be complete without Snoop Dogg. If there was an outstanding contribution to cameos award, he should win it. He made a wonderful appearance as himself in 2015's Pitch Perfect 2 and has also cropped up in Bruno, Entourage, Bones and 2004's Starsky & Hutch. His undisputed peak, however, is surely still to come. The rapper has repeatedly said he'd love to appear in Coronation Street. He first mentioned it during a trip to Manchester in 2010. We will simply not rest until we've seen him ordering a pint in The Rovers. Get to work, ITV. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Not @placeholder with breaking every existing chart record over the weekend , Ed Sheeran is adding yet another bullet point to his CV .",head,content,prop,activity,conversations,1
"The victim is thought to have been saved from serious injury by his glasses in the attack in Great Barr, Birmingham. Up to six youths reportedly restrained the schoolboy during a confrontation in the street. West Midlands Police said the boy was not seriously hurt in last Friday's attack in Birdbrook Road at 15:50 BST. Officers, who appealed for witnesses, are checking CCTV from the area.","A 12 - year - old boy had bleach @placeholder at his eyes by bullies as he walked home from school , it has been alleged .",stabbed,swiped,thrown,drowned,collapsed,2
"Demonstrators sealed off the port town of Damietta, in a series of protests that have lasted six days. The protests were sparked by concern over pollution from the existing plant and plans to build two more locally. Egypt's ruling military council has announced that the fertiliser plant is to be closed. The BBC Cairo correspondent, Jon Leyne, says the protest is an example of the kind of activism that would probably not have been tolerated under Egypt's former ruler, Hosni Mubarak, but is now happening more and more frequently. The fertiliser plant is jointly owned by state-owned Misr Oil Processing Company and Canada's Agrium. Residents first took to the streets on Tuesday demanding the relocation of the plant. On subsequent days, the city's port on the Mediterranean coast and roads next to it were sealed off. A witness told the Reuters news agency that protesters had taken over an ambulance carrying the corpse of a 21-year-old man killed in the clashes on Sunday, and driven it to the governor's office, chanting anti-government slogans.  A medical source said the dead man had been shot. The Egyptian news agency said the port had been reopened on Monday.",Clashes in northern Egypt between army and protesters against pollution from a fertiliser plant have left one man dead and at least 11 @placeholder injured .,windows,people,state,immigration,security,1
"Mr Farron was one of the few who held onto his seat in last week's election, while the rest of his party lost almost 50 seats. He said he felt a sense of anger the election had been fought ""on the politics of fear"". He is seen as one of the frontrunners to become the next party leader. The Liberal Democrats have set in motion a two-month contest to succeed Nick Clegg after they said a new leader would be elected in July. Mr Clegg is stepping down after a slew of Lib Dems lost their seats including top figures Vince Cable, Simon Hughes and David Laws. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Farron added: ""You always feel anger when you see dozens of mates basically and colleagues lose their seats having had an outstanding record locally and nationally. ""And I guess a sense of anger - if that is the right word -  against an election that was fought and indeed sadly won on the basis of the politics of fear. ""When one looks back at the election and you realise that the best asset David Cameron has is the SNP and the best asset the SNP has is David Cameron. ""This was an election fought basis of people terrified of the other. Fear is hugely motivating factor in elections, I'm sad to report."" Mr Farron and his colleague Norman Lamb are seen as the frontrunners to take Mr Clegg's place. Greg Mulholland, one of the party's remaining eight MPs, said a new leader must be chosen quickly. ""We must not - and will not - wait till July to have a new leader in place. We need strong leadership now,"" he said. Several senior party figures, including former Liberal leader Lord Steel, have warned it could take decades for the party to recover from its worst election result in its history. The party has been left with a handful of MPs, including one in Scotland, one in Wales and one in London, following a series of defeats which some activists have blamed on Mr Clegg's decision to take the Lib Dems into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010. Nominations for leader will open on 13 May and close on 3 June. Ballot papers will be sent out on 24 June and must be returned by 15 July. The winner will be declared on 16 July. Neither Mr Farron, a former party president, nor Mr Lamb, a former health minister, have declared themselves as candidates. However, they are regarded as the leading contenders and both are expected to stand. Tom Brake, who served as a minister in the last government, has ruled himself out of the running and said the contest must act as a catalyst for debating the future direction of the party. ""What will happen during that contest will be that there will be an opportunity to talk about what went wrong and what sort of strategy do we put in place,"" he told the BBC's Sunday Politics. He said he was not backing anyone at this stage but that either Mr Farron or Mr Lamb would be ""fantastic leaders"". He added: ""We have had 5,000 people join our party in the last 48 hours. They will want to be part of the process."" Mr Brake, the party's last remaining MP in London, said the capital needed a ""liberal voice"" to speak up on behalf of civil liberties and the importance of the UK remaining in the European Union. He said he had been ""lucky"" to survive the cull of Lib Dem MPs in London, suggesting the Conservatives had redeployed resources from his Carshalton and Wallington seat to higher-profile constituencies in the capital. The Liberal Democrat peer, Lady Williams, said both the Conservatives and Labour had used a ""decapitation strategy"" against Liberal Democrat MPs including Mr Cable and Mr Hughes. She suggested her party's opponents had poured vast sums of money into the election before official limits on campaign spending came into force and called for a ""much longer period"" of controls on election campaign expenditure. ""All these men and women were targeted in order to be destroyed,"" she told BBC Radio 4's World This Weekend. ""What one's looking at is not just the normal swings and balances of politics. We're looking at something much worse... namely the selling of democracy. ""The sums that were poured into this election exceed by a very long mark any of the amounts spent in recent elections.""","The Liberal Democrat Tim Farron says his party must "" turn our anger into action "" and @placeholder from the bottom upwards .",rebuild,stemming,campaign,vanished,answers,0
"Ashya was being treated in hospital in Southampton when his parents took him abroad without telling staff last year. They ignored medical advice and took him to Prague for proton beam therapy. It was later revealed Ashya did not receive subsequent chemotherapy in Prague, a move the team in Southampton say could jeopardise his recovery. Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Dr Peter Wilson, paediatric intensive care consultant at Southampton General Hospital, said: ""We are unsure as to exactly what treatment he is receiving but what we do know is... every month that goes by that he's not getting chemotherapy, his outcome worsens. ""There are experts in the country that have already quoted figures of halving survival - so survival going from 80% to 40% or 50%, which is quite dramatic."" The Kings' version of events last year sparked a public outcry and staff members in Southampton said they received angry emails, letters and phone calls which, at one stage, forced the hospital to shut its switchboard. The King family, who in March said five-year-old Ashya was now cancer free, declined to be interviewed as part of the BBC programme. In March, four months after the proton treatment ended, Brett King told a national newspaper a recent scan showed ""no evidence"" of the tumour. But cancer experts have told the BBC although it appears Ashya is in remission it is far too early to say he has been completely cured. Oncology specialist Professor Karol Sikora said: ""Ashya is not completely out of the woods yet, but 78% of children with this type of rare cancer actually survive and are cured. ""The fact he is disease free at this point is great, but it doesn't mean he is cured yet."" The breakdown in the relationship between Brett King and the hospital stemmed from his belief that Ashya should not receive radiotherapy and chemotherapy following surgery to remove a brain tumour. Mr King claimed in a YouTube video that staff threatened him with a court order if he refused Ashya's treatment, something the hospital has denied. He told journalists in Spain after his arrest: ""They were going to kill him in England or turn him into a vegetable."" Through the media, the King family raised tens of thousands of pounds for Ashya's treatment before the NHS agreed to pay for proton therapy in Prague. Dr Nicky Thorp, of the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group of paediatricians, said: ""We were dismayed, but on reflection I can see why NHS England agreed to fund that child's case. The child was there, the child needed radiotherapy. ""The use of protons does not improve cure rates of tumours... and it saddens me to see the way the truth can be twisted and misunderstood."" In Prague, Ashya's parents refused the chemotherapy, which had been recommended by doctors and ordered by the High Court. But in March, four months after the proton treatment ended, Mr King said his son was cancer free. Paediatric oncology consultant Dr Ramya Ramanujachar, who was involved in Ashya's treatment, warned the case could set a worrying precedent. She said: ""I don't think the parents can look after their own child with a brain tumour and be not only the carers but also the professionals directing, managing and dictating their child's treatment."" Dr Wilson said the case had led to an ""impossible situation"" for clinicians faced with families in the same situation. ""That is deeply unfair when the NHS is always supposed to be about equal healthcare for all,"" he added. Ashya: The Untold Story is to be broadcast on BBC1 in the South region on Friday at 19:30 BST.",Doctors and nurses who treated cancer patient Ashya King have @placeholder his parents while speaking out for the first time in a BBC documentary .,praised,criticised,addressed,marked,assisted,1
"Rail, Maritime and Transport union members will vote in the coming weeks amid claims that industrial relations have ""comprehensively broken down"". The union is also seeking a four-hour cut in the working week to 35 hours. A Southern spokesman said the rail operator was aware of the issues and ""dialogue with the union is ongoing"". He added that it had received no formal notification from the RMT union that it intended to ballot its members. RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the union would not stand by while ""agreed policies, procedures and agreements are unilaterally ripped up by Southern"". ""Southern is a company intensively under the spotlight over its performance at the moment and RMT will not have our members scapegoated for failures at the top by outrageous and intimidatory demands to meet impossible work targets and through attacks on working conditions. ""The union is in no doubt that the pressure on these staff to deliver impossible targets compromises safety in what is clearly a safety-critical environment,"" he said. Southern runs services between London, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Kent.","More than 200 @placeholder at Southern rail are to be balloted for industrial action over issues including new rosters and "" impossible work targets "" .",engineers,staff,measures,locomotives,people,0
"Allison Heathcote, 50, survived five gunshot wounds but her husband Philip, 53, died in the attack near Sousse. The pair, from Suffolk, were on their 30th wedding anniversary holiday when Islamist Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire. Mrs Heathcote said she had only realised her husband ""had not made it"" when he did not answer her. The Heathcoates, who have a son, were on the beach at the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel when Rezgui launched his attack on 26 June. The couple ""dived into the sand between the sun beds"", but were found by the gunman, Mrs Heathcote said in a statement read at the inquest into the deaths of 30 Britons at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. She described feeling ""pure fear"" as Rezgui wounded her, killed her husband, then walked away to murder others. After being wounded, she said: ""I stayed laying on the sand, trying not to move and draw attention to the fact that I was still alive."" Once the sound of gunshots faded, Mrs Heathcote said, she asked her husband if he was OK. ""At the first opportunity I was asking Philip if he was alright. ""There was no response from Philip and I realised he had not made it."" Mrs Heathcote was shot in the arm and abdomen and spent a month in an induced coma, the inquest heard. The inquest is set to hear evidence about each of the 30 Britons killed in the attack. Also on the beach was Jim Windass, 66, who had tried in vain to pull his wife Claire, 54, to safety. ""It was difficult to walk on the sand, let alone run,"" he told the inquest. The gunman fired shots as Mr Windass, who was celebrating his 65th birthday, dragged his wife from a sun bed. He described being ""on my hands and knees over Claire"", a mother-of-two from Hull, to protect her. ""But it was clear that something had happened,"" Mr Windass told  the inquest. ""There was no pulse. I closed her eyes."" Asked what information he had received about the security situation in Tunisia or the Foreign Office travel advice when booking the holiday at a Thomson shop, he said ""none whatsoever"". Howard Stevens QC, representing Thomson's owner TUI, showed Mr Windass pages from documents sent to the couple after they booked, which contained links to travel advice pages on the Foreign Office website. Mr Windass told the lawyer: ""Because we had already been twice before and no-one had mentioned anything untoward, we booked it again."" Who were the British victims? Ex-police officer Michael Perry, who went to Tunisia with wife Angela, also spoke to the court in person. The pair were on the beach when Mr Perry saw a ""man in black"" - the gunman Rezgui - whom he mistook for a policeman. ""My initial thought was that this was a police officer and he was dealing with a terrorist,"" he said. ""Then I realised this was the terrorist."" Mr Perry, who retired as a Leicestershire police chief superintendent in 1998, told the inquest that the gunman fired in an ""uncontrolled manner"", suggesting he had the gun in automatic mode - where pulling the trigger results in a hail of bullets. ""He was facing in our direction and aiming downwards at people who were in the sun beds,"" he said. He added that there were no armed guards at the hotel. ""The staff were mainly female, [there was a] lot of hysteria and panic and running around,"" he said. Mr Perry and his wife hid in the basement of the spa building before creeping up to the third floor, where they saw Rezgui shoot three people by the poolside. Another survivor, Keith Hawkes, said he escaped being shot because the gunman was on his mobile phone. Mr Hawkes, a former Gurkha from Highbridge in Somerset, said in a statement that he walked past Rezgui holding an AK-47 assault rifle but assumed he was security. He ""ran past the gunman on his left-hand side, two feet from him"", but Rezgui did not notice because he was using his phone. Donna Bradley, whose parents Ray and Angie Fisher were shot dead, was the first relative to speak to the court in person. The couple, from Leicester, had been on their third trip to Tunisia, she told the inquest. They had planned to relax and organise their 50th golden wedding anniversary and Mrs Fisher's 70th birthday the following year. ""These celebrations were never to be,"" Ms Bradley said. An eyewitness saw Mr Fisher, a former engineer, as he faced his killer from a few metres away and was shot twice. Onlooker Alan Foster told the hearing in a statement: ""He was holding the gun [at] hip level when he shot.""","A holidaymaker "" @placeholder dead "" next to her husband 's body while a gunman killed 38 people at a Tunisian beach resort in 2015 , an inquest has heard .",worn,is,begged,played,dubbed,3
"London's first Lumiere festival will feature illuminations and animations projected at 20 locations in the West End and Kings Cross over four nights. Julian Opie will be among more than two dozen artists taking part. The Durham version has been running since 2009 and attracted 175,000 people in 2013. Almost 180,000 turned out when producers Artichoke staged a Lumiere in Londonderry when it was UK City of Culture the same year. The London event will take place from 14-17 January. Mayor Boris Johnson said it would be ""a dazzling new festival for the capital"" that would ""expel the post-Christmas blues"". The first artists to be confirmed for London are: Artichoke director Helen Marriage said: ""Lumiere was born in Durham and its incredible success has been recognised across the world. Lumiere London will be a very different event with its own artistic programme, but the principles remain the same."" This year's Lumiere will take place in Durham from 12-15 November.",A major festival of light art is to be staged in London next year by the people who @placeholder the biennial Lumiere festival in Durham .,attended,organise,including,reached,attend,1
1 March 2017 Last updated at 08:46 GMT The snowy owl and husky puppy have formed an unusual friendship. They love to hang out together and even give each other kisses. Watch this incredibly cute video! Video from Igor Belyaev,"You might have @placeholder of Timon and Pumbaa or Bambi and Thumper , but now there 's N'usha and Ilona .",released,heard,dreamed,signing,think,1
"At a press conference, the company's president Tetsuro Aikawa said there may have been more car models that incorrectly measured fuel efficiency data than initially thought. Meanwhile, US safety authorities have asked the company for more information. Shares in the company have lost 40% of their value since the scandal emerged. On Friday the stock closed at a record low of 504 yen. So far, at least 600,000 Japanese vehicles have been affected in four models: Mitsubishi's ek Wagon and eK Space, as well as Nissan's Dayz and Dayz Roox, which Mitsubishi produces for Nissan. ""We believe there were four car models where we saw improper data breaches and we believe there were other car models that were not properly measured,"" said President Tesuro Aikawa. ""We are trying to sort this out."" When saying sorry is the only thing to do What did Mitsubishi Motors do wrong? The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told Reuters that it had asked the company for more information on vehicles sold in the US, but did not give details of the models. Japanese authorities raided one of Mitsubishi's offices on Thursday and has demanded a full report by 27 April. On Friday the transport minister, Keiichi Ishii, raised the possibility of buying back the cars in question, as Volkswagen has agreed to do in the US. ""We would like encourage Mitsubishi Motors to conduct some serious soul searching for having tarnished the 'Japan Brand' that we have built up over these years,"" he added.",The emissions scandal surrounding Mitsubishi Motors has @placeholder as the firm said further models may be involved .,revealed,subsided,widened,criticised,emerged,2
"I met Starnes, along with Ruth Dewton and Jeanne Moran Gourley, both Vietnam vets, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, known simply as The Wall. They are among more than 1,000 women, non-combatants, who served as line and staff officers and enlisted personnel in the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Starnes, wearer of a Vietnam veterans' vest, has spent 17 years tracking down those women who served in non-nursing roles for her book, Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories. After half a century of silence, these forgotten women are remembered in this monumental anthology. It is long, heavy, etched with their names, but necessary. It is the women's Wall. Starnes served as a translator before becoming a photojournalist and overseeing the publications section at Military Assistance Command Vietnam Office of Information (MACV Observer). ''I went there to see what was going on,"" says Starnes. ""I had to go and look for myself. I saw it was not the military running the war, it was politicians running the war.'' Starnes carried an army-issued Nikon camera and her own Petri camera, shooting on both Kodak colour slide film and black and white. Riding in helicopters to all parts of Vietnam, she soon learned to sit on her flak jacket to protect against the bullets and shrapnel that might hit the undercarriage. Her photos are extreme: firefights in fields of mud and bodies, children at orphanages, tall buildings blasted apart, Bob Hope entertaining the troops and WACs at downtime, their hair in rollers. ''I had no idea how bad it would be. When I took the pictures, I never let myself feel anything,"" says Starnes. ""You had to tune out emotionally. It was only when I got home that I started to realise what I'd seen.'' The photo that sticks in her mind is a picture of a little girl playing inside a roll of barbed wire. ''She could have been ripped apart. She seemed so happy at that moment and yet there were craters around. Overall the kids were so resilient, or maybe they didn't understand the seriousness of it.'' By March 1973 and the withdrawal of US troops and the remaining WACs, an estimated four million people had died in the Vietnam War. For most returning veterans there was no welcome home. Being heckled and spat on at the airport was the beginning of their private aftermath. Women especially learned to keep silent about being in 'Nam. Many just tried to get on with life, careers and families, burying their inward and outwards scars, shame or pride, horror or honour, all mixed up with memories of friendships forged and loves found. Many have died without daring to reveal they served in Vietnam. All believe it changed their lives, for better or worse, but certainly forever. Starnes returned to the US after five tours, and is decorated with the Vietnam Service Medal with Silver Star, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal and Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross. She too tried to bury her memories in work, career and children, but eventually sought help in a group therapy session for Vietnam veterans. She was the only female in the room and was verbally abused by male veterans. She tried to explain that in Vietnam there was no safe area, everybody who served was in combat, but they didn't want to hear. She left feeling ashamed and never again sought help. In 1997, along with fellow veteran Pricilla Landry Wilkewitz she attended the dedication of the Women in Military Service for America memorial (WIMSA). They each wore a blue vest with the dates of their service written on the back, in the hope of being spotted by other women who had served in Vietnam. One thing led to another and in 1999 they formed the non-profit Vietnam Women Veterans (VWV) Inc. So began the long road tracking down others, the aim being to bring recognition for non-nursing women who served in Vietnam. That same year the group held its first Women Vietnam Veterans Conference in Olympia, Washington. For the first time, the women were recognised as Vietnam veterans and were officially told ""thank you"" and ""welcome home"". ''When I give my talks to help promote the book I begin with, 'Hi I'm Claire Brisebois Starnes and I'm a Vietnam War veteran'. I have only been able to say that since 1997. I didn't dare say it because no-one really understood. No-one cared, no-one was interested and it hurt too much.'' As I walk through the National Mall, away from the glare of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, people see Claire's vest and drift towards us. One woman, in tears, reaches out to her. Another asks, ""Can I hug a vet?"" A male veteran selling leaflets for sustenance strokes his throat where shrapnel hit and tells her: ''When I came home they called me a baby killer.''",Claire Brisebois Starnes enlisted in the Signal Corps of the US Army in 1963 as a skinny 17 - year - old who was ordered to eat more bananas to increase her weight . Six years later she @placeholder to travel halfway around the world for a tour of duty in Vietnam .,according,dared,prepared,volunteered,helped,3
"The son of a banker, Mr Krasnoff, 23, said that all changed when he was home for the summer after his freshman year at Hamilton College. That's when his childhood friend - and eventual business partner, Daniel Rudyak, 23 - pointed out an industry that was ripe for a shake-up. No, it wasn't taxis or food delivery or home cleaning - the current disruption darlings of Silicon Valley - but something a little more concrete. Well, actually - it was concrete, at least in the form of a cement truck that was trundling in front of Mr Rudyak in 2011 while he was driving in Los Angeles' notorious traffic. That's when inspiration struck. ""We realised it's so expensive to use cement trucks,"" says Mr Krasnoff. So the two began experimenting in Mr Krasnoff's backyard, mixing various types of cement and webbing, trying to figure out if there was a way to make cheap but sturdy rollable cement. The idea was that it could replace expensive mixing trucks in places that need just thin layers of cement. Drainage ditches, canal beds - mostly in developing countries in Africa - were the theoretical target. Four years and a few mishaps later (his parents' driveway still has the odd concrete splotch of a test gone awry), the geosynthetic manufacturing company that the two co-founded after dropping out of college, Cortex Composites, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in investor funding, and just accepted its first million-dollar contracts. They're part of a growing trend of young entrepreneurs who have found themselves in an unlikely place: at the helm of firms operating in the most traditional of industries - manufacturing. Mr Krasnoff is honest about his parents' dismayed reaction when he told them that it wasn't banking - or even a traditional tech start-up - that was luring him away from university and a stable career. ""They thought it was really crazy because manufacturing is a very intense industry - it's not an app where you can go and put it on the internet and people can download it a thousand times,"" he says. But for Mr Krasnoff the appeal of actually making something tangible was irresistible. He's part of what's been called the ""hardware renaissance"" of companies looking to move beyond traditional software and into markets like wearable technologies and internet-connected devices. ""The barriers to entry for people looking to build a product are coming down - it's faster to build a prototype, social media is making it easier to market your product, and crowdfunding is making it easier to raise that first lump of money,"" says Noramay Cadena, the co-founder of Make in LA, Los Angeles' first hardware-focused incubator space. Ms Cadena worked for 10 years at traditional manufacturing firms including Boeing before founding Make in LA, which has partnered with a manufacturer, NeoTech, to help its first class of firms get their products made. She says changes in the industry - in which big firms such as Boeing and General Electric have consolidated their businesses to focus on core competencies - have opened the door a bit for quirky, smaller firms looking to enter the manufacturing space. The problem now is finding factories that will manufacture their products, as smaller firms often only place orders in the hundreds or thousands - typically far less than the normal hardware order of millions of iPhones, for example. There are three basic ways that hardware firms have solved this problem. There is the incubator model, like Made in LA, which partners with big manufacturing firms like NeoTech or Flextronics, who agree to take on some of the smaller orders as a long-term growth strategy. Some other firms first raise money via investors or crowdfunding and then use companies like Dragon Innovation, which works as a middle-man connecting firms like watch maker Pebble with contract manufacturers in China. Dragon's Scott Miller says the company primarily focuses on orders of 5,000 or more, when it becomes cost-effective to manufacture abroad. However, he says he has noticed that firms have come to him with smaller orders as of late - which is actually a boon for US manufacturing, because it is often more cost-effective to fulfill those orders here. Then there is the third option - which has also captured younger builders - of building smaller, microfactories that can contract manufacture quickly and cheaply. Jeremy Herrman, 28, and Nick Pinkston, 31, met in 2008 when they bonded of a shared love of tinkering and a mutual fascination with the still-nascent 3D printing industry. After years of hosting hardware meet-ups in cities around the globe, including their hometown of Pittsburgh and new base in San Francisco, the two realised that they were hearing the same complaint over and over again: it was difficult for hardware entrepreneurs to find manufacturers willing to take on their projects. So at the beginning of 2014, the two launched Plethora - a fully vertically integrated factory in the Dogpatch neighbourhood of San Francisco, which they filled with advanced 3D printers, robots and traditional milling machines. They currently have 20 employees and have raised more than $5m (£3.2m) in funding. Crucial to their effort is, of all things, software which the two custom built to allow hardware firms to upload their designs and get feedback on whether or not the object they were hoping to prototype could be built according to their specifications. Mr Hermann says that he thinks there are a lot of young software engineers like him who have turned back to manufacturing, an industry he says ""hasn't changed much in 100 years"". ""I feel like that visceral sense of holding what you build in your hand is a very strong emotion,"" he says. Something concrete, some might say.",""" I really , really wanted to be in finance , "" confesses Curren Krasnoff from the head of a table in a @placeholder conference room with a panoramic view of the Los Angeles skyline .",growing,corner,series,tradition,war,1
"Theresa May met all the right people, the language differences did not trouble her and she refused to allow the big boys to bully her behind the bike sheds. The prime minister held her own. At the end of the two days, she had managed to speak to almost all the world leaders at the summit. They were interested because she was an unknown quantity and that rare beast, a European leader who is likely to be around for a while. They were also keen to hear what she said about Brexit. She assured them that Britain was open for business and said she had had ""pleasing and useful"" discussions about future trade deals, in particular with India, Mexico, South Korea, Singapore and Australia. She floated a few ideas of her own: the need for G20 countries to do more to stop foreign fighters dispersing to new failed states once they were squeezed out of Libya, Iraq and Syria; and the need for G20 countries to ensure that the global economy spreads wealth more fairly, an issue the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, called ""civilising capitalism"". She also banged the drum for free trade, an increasingly lonely message as electorates around the world urge their leaders to greater protectionism. The prime minister also made it abundantly clear to her fellow leaders that she won't be rushed on Brexit or Hinkley Point, the delayed nuclear plant in Somerset that China wants to invest in as an entree into the UK energy market. She dodged a row over this here by reassuring the Chinese there will be a decision by the end of this month. The message in Hangzhou was clear: Theresa May is her own woman, the Cameron era is over. And yet this summit was in truth not dominated by Brexit and the first signs emerged that Britain is not quite as prominent as it perhaps once was. The real debate was about the changing balance of power between China and the US, as evidenced by the spat over protocol and the media when President Obama arrived at the airport; the continuing uncertainty over how to fix the sluggish global economy; the fruitless talks between the Russians and the Americans over a possible cessation of hostilities in Syria; and even the regional tensions sparked by yet another missile test firing by North Korea. Brexit was a cloud on the G20 horizon, not a current storm. And what interest there was in Mrs May was focused on people's fears about the risks of Brexit. Leaders wanted to know what it would mean for them and Mrs May had few answers. The Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, in particular, made it very clear to her that his country's firms in Britain wanted more certainty. One Italian minister effectively threatened a trade war if EU nationals were stopped entirely from working in the UK. And President Obama was blunt in telling her that Britain would indeed be at the back of the queue when it came to trade deals, behind the EU and countries around the Pacific. The one moment of comfort for Mrs May came when she spotted her old university friend, Malcolm Turnbull, who was gushing in his promise of Australian trade deals and negotiating expertise. And there are signs that the US and the EU are beginning to caucus without the UK round the table: President Obama and his Secretary of State, John Kerry, chose to meet Chancellor Merkel of Germany and President Hollande of France together without inviting Mrs May. And in the official summit ""family photo"" Mrs May was placed at the distant far left, as befitted either her status as a newcomer or perhaps Britain's status post Brexit. Mrs May insisted that Britain was still playing a ""full role"" in global politics. It is a role that is certainly changing.","As first days go at an international school , the G20 @placeholder off alright for the new pupil .",passed,sets,tip,start,begins,0
"It started with a strange blue smudge on a computer screen. Now that mysterious blob, spotted by a Dutch primary school teacher during a few idle hours one evening, has become one of the most remarkable recent discoveries in astronomy. Hanny's Voorwerp, named after its discoverer Hanny van Arkel, is providing scientists with a striking new window on the universe. They have found these distant clouds of glowing gas provide a kind of time capsule that can reveal what their neighbouring galaxies have been doing in the previous few thousand years. For Miss van Arkel, it is fitting for the object that now bears her name to be providing such insights - it marks 10 years since she first encountered it during her summer break from teaching. She had been taking part in a citizen science project called Galaxy Zoo, which asked members of the public to classify different types of galaxies from images taken by robotic telescopes. Launched in July 2007, Galaxy Zoo has resulted in 125 million galaxies of a wide variety of shapes and size being identified and produced 60 peer reviewed academic papers. It is an output far beyond any computer or expert, but by harnessing the power of the general public, researchers have gained an unprecedented insight into the Universe around us. ""What started as a small project has been completely transformed by the enthusiasm and efforts of the volunteers,"" said Prof Chris Lintott, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo project. ""It has had a real impact on our understanding of galaxy evolution."" Miss van Arkel's own contribution started on a whim. A huge Queen fan, she had been browsing the website of guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May one evening while tinkering on her own guitar. There she saw some images of some distant galaxies May had posted along with a comment urging people to sign up to the project. ""He said nobody has seen these galaxies before and that everyone could discover their own,"" explained Miss van Arkel. ""That got me interested and as I was on my summer break I signed up."" She had only been taking part for a week when she spotted the bizarre blue blob. ""I had no idea what it was,"" she said. ""I thought it could have been a smudge on the camera maybe. There was this tutorial that showed us what we might expect to see but it didn't look anything like those on there so I sent an email to the team to ask about it."" She also posted the image on the project's forum, which is where the object earned its name from other members who christened it Hanny's Voorwerp, or Hanny's thing. It turned out to be an entirely new object in space - one that was completely unknown to science at the time. It took almost a year of analysis and research before scientists began to unravel what it was she had found - the blue smudge was an extremely hot gas cloud with no stars in it. They believe the huge cloud of gas, which is 16,000 light-years across, had been excited by material dropping towards the supermassive black hole at the centre of a nearby galaxy, creating a kind of ""light echo"" that reverberates around inside. When the news broke, it turned Miss van Arkel into a minor celebrity in the astronomy world. ""The first time someone asked me for my autograph I thought they were joking,"" the 34-year-old explained. A decade later, another 20 of these rare intergalactic objects are thought to have been found - although many remain ""candidate"" voorwerpen until they can be examined more closely. Astronomers have turned some of the most powerful telescopes at their disposal - including the Hubble Space Telescope - towards them in an attempt to find out more. In a new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists who led the Galaxy Zoo project at the University of Alabama and University of Oxford, have examined eight of these voorwerpen, including the one originally found by van Arkel. They found they could detect variations in luminosity of the gas clouds that appear to correlate with changes in the activity of the neighbouring galaxy. In the voorwerp the researchers could detect distinct bands of brightening and fading in the light echo, which appears correlate to changes that occurred in the galaxy in the past. In the voorwerp next to the distinctive Teacup galaxy, which is 1.1 billion light years from Earth, the researchers saw a brightening and then two periods of fading, which indicate a rise and then drop in activity, all within a period of 55,000 years. They saw similar patterns in the other voorwerp they looked at, including Hanny's Voorwerp, which lies next to a galaxy called IC 2497. ""It suggests parts of the Universe where we have active galaxies can change very rapidly,"" explained Professor Lintott. ""When we talk about activity at the centre of galaxies, we're talking about material dropping toward the black hole. This can lead to material being ejected from the centre in the form of jets of material moving close to the speed of light. These jets are what we think excite the gas in the voorwerpen. ""If things can change so rapidly in active galaxies, it may cause us to change how we think about our own galaxy, which is thought to be not active. These findings suggest it might have been in the recent past. Those systems close to the galactic centre would not have been pleasant places to be."" Peering at galaxies millions of light years away means we are also seeing them millions of years in the past. The voorwerp light echos, however, provide a record of what has happened in a galaxy's recent past - something that would be otherwise impossible to see. ""It is fantastic, as we don't have anything else that lets us see what is going on in the Universe on this sort of timescale,"" said Professor Lintott. ""We can see what is going on during a human lifetime and we can look back millions of years at a population of galaxies far away, so this could be really useful as we find more of them."" For Miss van Arkel, however, it the beauty of the object she discovered that is still most striking. ""The Hubble images have been amazing,"" said Miss van Arkel. ""Some images it is green and kind of looks like a tree frog. You can see these orange spots where the eyes would be and apparently this is where new stars are forming."" But the voorwerpen are not the only discovery to have emerged from the Galaxy Zoo project. Strange green balls - which became known as Green Peas by the affable ""zooites"" involved in the project - were a completely new type of galaxy that was spotted by participants. The eagle-eyed Ms van Arkel was also among the first to notice these too. Galaxy Zoo was so successful it has also spawned a whole family of other citizen science projects that are now conducted under the umbrella of the Zooniverse project. Members of the public can log on to classify everything from snapshots of animals in the Serengeti and count seals in the Weddell Sea to helping computers recognise animal faces and transcribing handwritten documents from the time of Shakespeare. It became so vast it quickly outgrew its old servers at Johns Hopkins University in the US, and now runs off the virtual servers hosted by Amazon Web Services. One offspring project to identify objects in our own galaxy has resulted in another recent discovery - small, round yellow objects scattered throughout the Milky Way. These ""Yellow Balls"" were found to be extremely massive stars cocooned inside dust. The project has found thousands in our galaxy. But the legacy of Galaxy Zoo could be something even more significant than a handful of new objects - it has changed the way science is done. Dr Karen Masters, an astrophysicist at Portsmouth University and project scientist for Galaxy Zoo said: ""We're genuinely asking for help with something we cannot do ourselves and the results have made a big contribution to the field.""","Galaxy Zoo began with a call for volunteers to help classify distant galaxies in space telescope images . The collaborative project made spectacular discoveries , spawning a family of similar projects - collectively known as the Zooniverse . We look back on 10 years of a citizen science @placeholder .",ground,community,phenomenon,group,hillside,2
"Onetime rival Jeb Bush was fond of saying that the presumptive Republican nominee relied on ""the shows"" to inform his campaign. While Bush meant it as a putdown, the former Florida governor may have been on to something. Trump is no stranger to ""the shows"".  He's been a frequent guest on talk shows for decades and hosted NBC's Apprentice and its spin-off Celebrity Apprentice for 14 seasons. So have any reality TV techniques crept onto the campaign trail? As seen on TV: (The Real Housewives series) If you're a Real Housewife of wherever, the cocktail party is your battlefield. And America's wealthy socialites always bring back-up - the feistier, the better. Housewives have been known to add a wildcard guest into the mix to throw their rivals off their game (and create plausibility deniability). In season one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Camille Grammer famously invited psychic medium Allison Dubois to a supposedly staid dinner party. ""Your husband will never emotionally fulfil you. Ever,"" she told one of Grammer's flummoxed frenemies. As seen on the campaign trail: Trailing in the polls to Ben Carson and Ted Cruz before the Iowa caucus, Trump needed to shake things up. Enter Sarah Palin. The onetime vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska emerged from the political wilderness to give the Trump campaign a shot in the arm. She endorsed Trump with a mystifying speech. ""They didn't want to talk about these issues until he brought 'em up. In fact, they've been wearing a, this, political correctness kind of like a suicide vest,"" she said among other things. For a whole day the focus was off his rivals. (See also: Knight, Bobby; Arpaio, Joe) As seen on TV: (Survivor) Survivor -  where castaways compete in a remote locale with nothing but their wits and a few tools - is credited with ushering in a wave of reality TV in the US. The show became a national phenomenon in the summer of 2000 not because of challenges of the island but because of its politics. Winner Richard Hatch, a pudgy corporate trainer, entered into a pact with three fellow, fitter contestants, keeping him in the game long enough to betray them. As seen on the campaign trail: Although their relationship eventually soured, Trump and Cruz enjoyed a whirlwind ""bromance"" in the summer of 2015. The two hosted a rally protesting against President Barack Obama's Iran deal in front of the US Capitol and were positively chummy at several of the debates. ""I like Donald Trump. He's bold; he's brash... I'm not interested in Republican-on-Republican violence,"" Cruz said in July. The Texas senator helped Trump clear the crowded field of candidates, only to find himself the victim of Republican-on-Republican violence. As seen on TV:  (Project Runway, Top Chef, etc) The phrase ""throwing someone under the bus"" doesn't involve public transport, but rather stabbing a friend in the back on national television.  The phrase is a mainstay in competition shows like Project Runway, Top Chef and America Next Top Model.  When contestants are about to be judged, they often target the weakest link to survive. As seen on the campaign trail: Like Cruz, Trump started out as a friend of Carson, the kindly retired neurosurgeon who also ran as an outsider candidate. But Trump changed his tone once Carson crept ahead of him in the polls as the Iowa caucus drew closer. Trump went for the jugular calling him ""pathological"" and comparing him to child molester. Ouch. As seen on TV: (The Real World)  ""Find out what happens, when people stop being polite, and start getting real,"" is how the granddaddy of all American reality TV shows opened on MTV in 1992. The housemates would encamp in ""the confessional"" - a spare room where they could look directly into the camera and tell the producers exactly how they felt. The behind-the-scenes look help give the impression of a raw unvarnished show. As seen on the campaign trail: While other candidates play to the crowd, Trump's number one priority is the camera and while on camera he leaves little unsaid.  Also, no one another candidate in the modern political history has been so enamoured with the process of politics. Trump talks about polls (endlessly), reporters and other candidates' strategies - things that until the 2016 race were the realm of political blogs not stump speeches.  But all the while his supporters feel like they're in the loop. As seen on TV: (Almost every reality show produced) It's a poorly kept-secret that reality TV producers love drama. And every reality TV contestant knows, the more drama you create the longer you stay on television. Many a combative star has been saved from the chopping block because of their potential for more bad behaviour. As seen on the campaign trail:  Now that Trump knocked out 16 other Republican candidates you'd think he'd take well-deserved break from feuding before tackling Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. But there's no rest for the cantankerous. In the past few days, Trump has tussled with the New York Times, Senator Elizabeth Warren, CNN, House Speaker Paul Ryan, British Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, just to name a few. Follow Tim Swift on Twitter @tim_swift","Could all those years of Donald Trump saying "" you 're @placeholder "" on reality TV actually get him hired - as president ?",change,back,welcome,fired,control,3
"Ian Milner, from Driffield, died in the crash on the B1253 near a crossroads in Cowlam on Friday afternoon. The 55-year-old cyclist and Iveco tipper lorry were headed towards Sledmere when the accident occurred. His son Owen was killed about 11 miles away on the B1248 near Wansford in May 2014, Humberside Police said. Officers continue to investigate the circumstances of Friday's crash. The 29-year-old driver of the lorry, from Bridlington, was treated for shock at the scene. Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the collision or saw either the cyclist or the lorry prior to the crash to make contact.",A cyclist who died in a collision with a lorry in East Yorkshire @placeholder his son in a nearby motorbike accident two years ago .,lost,expects,killed,leaving,injured,0
"The government will now face the challenge of negotiating the terms of the post-exit relationship between the UK and the EU. Many of the issues that will have to be resolved are economic. They will include the kind of trade relationship the UK will have with the remainder of the EU, as well as what access will be available to Europeans wanting to work in the UK. For trade issues there are two groups of countries that the UK will need to think about in the exit negotiations - the other 27 EU members themselves, and the nations that have some sort of trade agreement with the union. For the EU, British exporters currently have access to their markets without tariffs (taxes on traded goods) or other barriers.  They in turn have access to the UK. Will that arrangement continue after Britain has left? That is a matter for negotiation and some EU figures have raised serious doubts.  Their inclination to take a tough position in the negotiations is to discourage Eurosceptic movements in other countries from believing the grass is greener outside. Leave campaigners argue that another incentive will dominate - the need for their exporters to have access to the UK market. They often mention German cars and French cheese and wine in this context. We have already had a strong hint of this. The German industry association told the BBC that trade barriers would be ""very, very foolish"". Access for services companies would need to be negotiated.  Financial services such as insurance and banking are especially important to the UK economy. Similar questions arise in relation to the non-EU countries with which the bloc has trade agreements that involve various degrees of openness. The countries concerned include Turkey, South Korea and Chile.  If Britain is to continue with the benefits of these agreements, negotiations will be necessary. There is also an agreement with Canada awaiting implementation, and one with the US - the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP - under discussion. If the talks - with the EU and third countries - don't reach a deal before the EU exit takes effect, then under World Trade Organisation rules both the UK and the EU would be obliged to apply to each other the tariffs and other trade restrictions they apply to the rest of the world. That is because the WTO rules only allow countries to discriminate in favour of a trade partner in a limited number of circumstances - including a full bilateral trade deal. There will be decisions to be taken about immigration, especially access to jobs in the UK for workers from the EU. That is required under the trade agreement that Norway, for example, has with the EU. It is certainly possible the EU would seek a similar deal with the UK in return for other concessions, but it would be politically difficult for a British government aware that immigration concerns were such an important factor in the referendum result. There may also be negotiations about the EU budget. Norway contributes to some EU spending programmes, and again, the EU could seek something similar from the UK. That too would be politically challenging as one key theme in the Leave campaign was the financial savings they sought by ending Britain's EU Budget contribution.",Britain has @placeholder and is heading for the European Union 's exit door .,fallen,grown,voted,announced,attacked,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device The fighters sat with promoters and coaches between them on a long table when Chisora picked it up and threw it, prompting security to intervene. During the event, Whyte told Chisora: ""If I see you anywhere, I'm going to attack you - even after the fight."" Chisora, 32, said he reacted to what he felt was a threat against his life. ""Why should this guy threaten my life right now?"" said Chisora, who has six defeats from 32 fights. ""Fight talk is fight talk. You can say anything you want about me. But one thing you cannot do is threaten a man's life. Saying you will see me after the fight. Then I get upset. I don't mind the trash talk."" Chisora has previously been involved in a controversial news conference when he brawled with David Haye in the aftermath of his 2012 defeat by Vitali Klitschko. Both he and Whyte were initially scheduled to appear at separate news conferences because of the animosity between the two at previous media commitments. During the news conference the fighters repeatedly exchanged insults and after the table was thrown, Whyte's trainer Mark Tibbs appeared to throw an object at Chisora. Whyte, 28, is preparing to defend his British title for the first time and has suffered just one loss in 20 fights as a professional. That defeat came against IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, who headlines the card at Manchester Arena as the Briton makes his second defence against American Eric Molina.",Dereck Chisora threw a table at Dillian Whyte during a @placeholder news conference before their British heavyweight title bout in Manchester on Saturday .,team,heated,race,level,boxing,1
"While thousands of people across Britain were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV through NHS blood products, the inquiry was focused on victims in Scotland. It has been described as the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. The report looked at people in Scotland who were infected with blood-borne viruses - HIV and Hepatitis C - in the course of medical treatment on the NHS. The period scrutinised by the inquiry began on 1 January 1974 and ended on 1 September 1991, when screening of donated blood for the Hepatitis C virus was introduced throughout the UK. The infections came from blood which had been donated by people who had the viruses. Some were infected during blood transfusions for illness, injury or during childbirth or surgery. In the case of haemophilia therapy it occurred as a result of transfusions of blood products made from large pools of donations and given to remedy the deficiency of clotting factor in a patient's blood. About 2,500 people are thought to have been infected with Hepatitis C by blood transfusion on the NHS in Scotland. At least 18 were infected with HIV. The report said a further 478 bleeding disorder patients (haemophiliacs) are thought to have been infected with hepatitis C, and 60 with HIV, from blood products. A statement from Lord Penrose read out at the publication of the report said: ""The state of knowledge of each virus informed the inquiry's assessments of the acting of doctors."" HIV was first identified in 1983 but international acceptance did not ""crystalise"" until 1984. The report said testing for HIV in blood products was not possible before the virus was identified. The Lord Penrose's statement said: ""Some commentators believe that more could have been done to prevent infection in particular groups of patients. ""Careful consideration of the evidence has however revealed few aspects in which matters should or, more importantly, could have been handled differently. ""In relation to HIV/Aids it appeared to the inquiry that when actions in Scotland were subjected to international comparison they held up well. ""Once the risk had emerged all that could reasonably be done was done in the areas of donor selection, heat treatment of products and screening of donated blood. ""Other than by a general cessation of therapy with concentrates, the infection of haemophilia patients with HIV over the period 1980-1984 could not have been prevented."" It said the science of the hepatitis C virus was not understood in the 1970s and identification of the ""causative virus"" did not take place until 1988. Lord Penrose's statement said: ""As with HIV it was not possible to test the native blood for the virus until the virus had been discovered, although alternatives including testing for other indicators of infection were adopted in some countries."" The first test kits for hepatitis C virus only became available in November 1989. The inquiry did point to a delay in the introduction of the screening of donated blood for the hepatitis C virus. It said a decision on screening should have been taken by middle of May 1990 rather than in November 1990. It then took 10 months to implement. Issues in England and Wales led to a delay in Scotland, despite it being ready to implement the screening. The last year that blood donations were collected from prisoners in Scotland was 1984. By this time only a small proportion of blood was coming from prisons. The report said the Home Office in the 1970s liked blood donations from prisoners as it was thought they were making ""restitution"" for their crimes. But there was little information on how many prisoners were drug users and thus a risk of having infections. The inquiry heard from Scottish National Blood Transfusion experts that ""with the benefit of hindsight"" taking blood from prisoners was ""inadvisable and should have stopped earlier"". Heat treatment ended the transmission of HIV by NHS blood products in Scotland by October 1985, and from commercial products by about the same time. The report said there may subsequently have been ""isolated"" infections from donors who had the virus but had not created antibodies. Further developments in heat treatments also made blood products safe against the hepatitis C virus by 1987. The inquiry's single recommendation is that the Scottish government takes all reasonable steps to offer a hepatitis C test to everyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before September 1991 and who has not been tested for the disease.",The long - awaited report by Lord Penrose into patients being infected by @placeholder blood supplies in the 1970s and 1980s has been published .,wearing,contaminated,suspected,failing,limited,1
"On a late Sunday afternoon in the Netherlands, Dina Asher-Smith felt like she always does on a start line. ""I love to race,"" she says. ""I'm not an adrenaline junkie but I like feeling nervous. I like the thrill. A lot of the coaches laugh at me and tell me I'm crazy."" Having finished her first-year exams at King's College London six days earlier, the world junior sprint champion felt free. And as she knelt on the track to prepare for the starter's gun, her coach's words were still reverberating in her ears. John Blackie had used his favourite phrase. ""Don't hold the horses,"" he told his pupil, before sending her into battle. The 19-year-old had no expectations of that summery May day in Hengelo. She isn't one for predictions. All the European indoor 60m silver medallist wanted to do was eradicate some of the inconsistencies which had been bothering her in training. ""I wanted to make sure I didn't tighten up, didn't panic, and went through some technical points successfully,"" says the athlete who only took sprinting seriously after winning world relay bronze in 2013. Bang. The Briton catapults out of the blocks. But, as she rises, she is not at ease. ""The start wasn't good, I popped out of my drive. I was thinking 'this is a mess',"" she remembers. The Londoner covers 20m, eats up another 30m, but by the time she is halfway down the track European 100m and 200m champion Dafne Schippers is preparing to overtake and Asher-Smith is annoyed: ""I was thinking 'this isn't how I wanted it to go'. From that point on, I was just trying to tidy it up."" The benefit of being a sprinter is that by the time they wish a race over, it usually is.  ""I saw the line coming and I really wasn't happy,"" says the usually sanguine student. Fortunately for the history undergraduate, her team-mate CJ Ujah - the man who last year, on the same track, became the fifth Briton to break the 10-second barrier - was waiting near the finish line. ""If he hadn't been there I probably would have left the track,"" says the Briton. ""It wasn't awful, it wasn't abysmal, but it wasn't the race plan I intended to run and I was quite sad."" In assuming she had finished third, Asher-Smith looked at the scoreboard and noticed four digits - 11.02 - appear alongside the name of the second-placed athlete. Gloom and regret lingered until Ujah told his friend that it was she who had come second, that it was she who had become the fastest British woman in history, bettering her personal best by 0.12 seconds and breaking the previous national record of 11.05 secs, set by Montell Douglas in 2008. ""I started jumping around,"" Asher-Smith remembers, laughing with ease. ""I saw my mum and dad and bounced over to them. I was so so happy. I thought mum was going to cry, and she probably did knowing her. For them both to be there and see me break the British record meant a lot."" How does a teenager celebrate running quicker than any British female before her? By sitting in a nondescript room for 90 minutes, drinking, drinking, drinking, until her bladder filled up. ""I had to go straight to anti-doping and I couldn't pee,"" she says, giggling before apologising for being ""disgusting"", which sparks more laughter. Did the other athletes being tested congratulate her? Was there a fist pump or a high-five, perhaps? No, but she would not have expected them to. ""They're from different countries and wouldn't have known it was a national record,"" she explains. ""But my manager was there with me, bouncing up and down. When I got back to the hotel I had some dinner before the restaurant closed, saw a few people, and had to do a warm-down session in the pool. By the time that was finished it was 11pm. I had to be out of the hotel by 4am so I just packed, slept and left."" On her return to England there were hundreds of congratulatory messages, from athletes, friends and fans, on Twitter, Facebook and her phone. ""It all went crazy,"" is Asher-Smith's take on the week that followed. For an athlete who likes to respond to every message she receives, the reaction to her record-breaking feat was overwhelming, and there was one message, from a school friend, which made her tearful. ""She said I'd made Newstead Wood School proud and so many of my school friends either liked or commented on that message,"" Asher-Smith says, her voice still disbelieving. ""It made me grateful and I realised there are far more people wanting me to do well than I realised."" There were those who criticised the media coverage of the sprinter's achievement, saying she did not get the recognition she deserved. But Asher-Smith argues with equanimity on behalf of both sides, referencing the sports she had to compete with that day: the climax of the Premier League season, Test cricket, the Monaco Grand Prix, to name but a few. ""I didn't notice and I really don't know what my opinion on it is,"" she says. ""But athletics, and female athletes, do have to battle for headlines."" Three years ago, when the nation was giddy on Olympic sports, Asher-Smith was entering and leaving the Olympic stadium as an unknown charged with carrying boxes of kit for those she hoped, one day, to emulate. She accepts she has come a long way in a short time. ""I definitely wouldn't have imagined I'd be a British record holder back then, but I don't want to reflect on it too much because you get caught up in the moment,"" she says, before discussing the difficulties of juggling studying with training. School is out for the summer, allowing Asher-Smith to concentrate on her sport without the distraction of revising, for example, for a module on medieval Europe, which gave her a headache. The intensity of her training will remain the same because the fastest teenager in the world has an elite athlete's regime: usually a two-hour session at Norman Park track in Bromley between 7pm and 9pm after a day of lectures and study. ""The training and University schedules have both been challenging, but if I want to do well in both I can't let either slip,"" she says, hinting at the work ethic which allowed her to achieve straight As in her A-levels last year, whilst also training to become world junior 100m champion and a European 200m finalist. Asked what her targets are for the rest of the season, the fastest woman in Britain does not set her sights on conquering the world but on a place in the national team at this summer's World Championships. Fighting with her for a place in Beijing are a number of high-class sprinters: Jodie Williams, the 200m Commonwealth Games silver medallist, Bianca Williams - a Commonwealth 200m bronze medallist - and European 100m bronze medallist Ashleigh Nelson. Asha Philip, the third quickest British female in history, is also a contender. ""It might sound underwhelming but, with how sprinting is now in the UK, it's definitely a challenge to make the team,"" says Asher-Smith, who will take on Allyson Felix and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 200m this Sunday at the Birmingham Grand Prix. ""Maybe if I was in a different country, a different environment, maybe I could look beyond qualification but I definitely can't take my place on the team for granted."" Watch live coverage of the Birmingham Grand Prix online and on BBC Two from 13:30 BST (15:55 in Northern Ireland) on Sunday, 7 June.","History is not always achieved through @placeholder . Not everyone who becomes the first , the best or the greatest does so with a faultless performance . But then it is the history - makers who tell us this and they are the sort who are never satisfied .",experience,series,practice,life,perfection,4
"27 August 2016 Last updated at 11:37 BST Although jetpacks aren't anything new, Scott, also known as the Rocketman, was performing the stunt to highlight how the gadget's technology has changed over the years. He also holds the record for the fastest jetpack flight, at 75 miles per hour. Have a look at him in action.",This is the moment jetpack pilot Eric Scott shot out of the water and flew above a remote lake in America while @placeholder to a jetpack .,talking,strapped,forced,added,linked,1
"Glasgow's Queen Street Station handles 20 million passengers a year but this is predicted to grow to 28 million passengers by 2030. The work will see the main entrance at George Square replaced by a huge glass facade. Platforms will also be extended to accommodate longer trains. The redevelopment is expected to be completed by 2019. Although the tender is being issued by Network Rail, the project will be overseen by ScotRail Alliance - a management team created from senior Abellio ScotRail and Network Rail staff for the purposes over overseeing major projects in Scotland. Phil Verster, managing director of ScotRail Alliance, said: ""Today we are confirming that one of our busiest and most important stations will also be transformed, making it larger and with much better facilities for our growing number of customers. ""The changes we are making in the coming years will make sure that we have a modern fleet, running on improved infrastructure to and from world-class stations. That is a rail network we can all be proud of."" Network Rail confirmed that the £112m Queen Street Station development would include: The project is part of the Scottish government's £742m Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP), which aims to reduce journey times and increase capacity on Scotland's main rail routes. EGIP programme director, Rodger Querns, said the issuing of the tender was ""further good progress in the delivery of EGIP"". ""We have already successfully completed a number of key elements of EGIP,"" he said. ""We look forward to delivering this challenging, but exciting project that will realise huge improvements for passengers.""",Network Rail has invited tenders for the £ 112 m contract to @placeholder Scotland 's third busiest rail station .,serve,attend,rebuild,stop,be,2
"William Mack, 39, waited for more than 16 hours before killing Leanne Wall, 36, at her home in Bury, Greater Manchester on 12 February. The 36-year-old, of Conway Avenue, died due to compression to the neck. Mack, of no fixed address, must serve a minimum of 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder at Manchester Crown Court. Mack, who regularly smoked cannabis, was paranoid that she had cheated on him at a party and murdered her in ""a callous pre-meditated and planned killing"", the court heard. He threatened to kill Miss Wall the day before and also made clear his intentions to a friend in ""chilling"" text messages. Relatives and friends of her partner of three years raised concerns over her safety, police said. Miss Wall suspected Mack had been in her house as the kettle was still warm and some of her clothes were missing. The mother of one rang a friend to say she had heard noises in the house but thought it was her dog, the court heard. Mack later surprised Miss Wall when she woke up and killed her. Judge Patrick Field QC said: ""You convinced yourself quite wrongly that she had had sex with another man. ""You were told on numerous occasions that this was not true. You chose to ignore that advice. ""You continued to be driven by jealousy and possessiveness."" Senior Investigating Officer Duncan Thorpe said: ""Leanne has left behind a one-year-old daughter who will have to grow up without her mum. ""","A "" jealous "" man who @placeholder overnight in his ex-partner 's loft before murdering her has been jailed for life .",caught,shouted,punched,sleeps,hid,4
"Tiote, who was 30, died earlier this month after collapsing as he trained with Chinese club Beijing Enterprises. Kanu, who battled heart problems during his career, says it is time to address heart-related problems. ""I'm talking to friends so we can do something to create awareness to try to help children in Africa,"" Kanu said. ""Tiote's death was not good news. It's not the first time it is happening. He's been like a father to me, like a mother, he's just been great to me. I am really grateful. ""We lost Marc-Vivien Foe. He died and nothing was done. Tiote is gone and nothing is being done."" Kanu was sidelined for nine months just after winning Olympic gold in 1996 when doctors at his Italian club Inter Milan found a heart defect. He was allowed to resume his career after a successful operation in Ohio in the United States. The former Arsenal striker had further heart surgery in 2014. The 40-year-old, who also played for Ajax Amsterdam and Portsmouth, is planning to build a $17 million dollar cardiac hospital in Abuja, Nigeria. He also wants to build similar hospitals in east, north and southern Africa. ""One man can not do everything. What happened to Tiote is a lesson to us all. We can't let it go on like this,"" Kanu told BBC Sport. ""We should talk more about it, information needs to get out there because the problem is huge. ""Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa. ""The funds have been the issue but if we can make it happen it's going to help a lot because right now we are taking the kids to India and it cost a lot."" So far the Kanu Heart Foundation has facilitated 538 successful operations in England, India, Nigeria and Israel. The foundation office in Lagos, Nigeria, receives eight to ten calls everyday from people seeking help to treat heart-related problems. Lagos University student, Enitan Adesola is one of the very first beneficiaries of the help offered by Kanu. ""I have to thank him very much for taking a big decision to help me because you can't just not know someone and try to help that person,"" she said. ""He's been like a father to me, like a mother, he's just been great to me. I am really grateful."" To raise the funds for the hospital project Kanu is bringing together his team-mates at Ajax, Inter Milan, Arsenal and Portsmouth for two charity matches to be played in Lagos and Johannesburg later this year.",Former Nigeria captain Nwankwo Kanu says the recent death of Ivory Coast 's Cheick Tiote should be a wake - up call to @placeholder over heart problems in Africa .,act,rest,control,achieve,provide,0
"The driver suffered relatively minor injuries to his face and neck when the car came to rest on top of the 7ft (2.1m) high fence in Dudley. The man, thought to be in his 50s, was lying across the front seats of the car when found. Fire crews had to stabilize it before he could be freed. Ambulance staff said it was ""remarkable"" he was not more seriously hurt in the crash at about 08:30 GMT. ""Remarkably, the man, who remained conscious throughout, had escaped serious injuries but was treated for minor injuries to his face, neck pain and a suspected fractured collarbone,"" an ambulance spokesman said. The fence was close to a scaffolding yard, so fire crews used equipment from there to get the car stable, a fire spokesman said.",A pick - up @placeholder on top of a fence after crashing in the West Midlands .,effect,called,home,display,landed,4
"It was released by China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team and Coordination Centre, state-run media said on Monday. It said cyber attacks affected 8.9m computers in 2011, up from 5m in 2010. China is often accused of cyber attacks on foreign government agencies and firms. Beijing routinely denies this. A recent report from a US congressional panel said that China's cyber warfare skills could pose a threat to the United States military. According to Monday's report from the CNCERT, 11,851 foreign internet protocol (IP) addresses had controlled 10,593 Chinese websites in 2011. It said Japan was the top source of attacks, followed by the US and South Korea. Wang Minghua, deputy director of CNCERT's operations department, was quoted by the state-run China Daily as saying that foreign hackers changed the content of 1,116 Chinese websites, including 404 that were run by government agencies. ""This shows that Chinese websites still face a serious problem from being maliciously attacked by foreign hackers or IP addresses,"" he said. He added that there could have been more instances of hacking, but it was difficult to trace. The report also claims that the cyber attacks were aimed at online banking users. Zhou Yonglin, a CNCERT director, added that in some cases, the hackers ""had intended to access state networks and steal confidential information"".","A report from a government - run online security @placeholder in China claims that there has been a "" massive increase "" in cyber attacks from "" foreign hackers "" .",group,unit,rate,evidence,network,0
"The bodies of Sian Blake, 43, Zachary, eight, and Amon, four, were found at their London home on Tuesday. Police are hunting for the children's father, Arthur Simpson-Kent, who travelled to Ghana days after they were reported missing. The Ghanaian Police said their help was requested two days ago. Detectives have been sent to the Cape Coast in the south of the country - where the extended Simpson family is from - as well as to other parts of the Atlantic shoreline. In addition, police checks are in place on all of Ghana's official borders. The authorities said while there is no official immigration record of Mr Simpson-Kent leaving the country, the delay in alerting them means he may have left via the borders into Togo, Burkino Faso or the Ivory Coast. BBC correspondent Alistair Leithead who is in Ghana said while there have been some reported sightings of him, the investigation was low-key and had not been reported in newspapers nor on television. No appeal has been made for his arrest. Ms Blake and the couple's sons were not seen after 13 December but a missing persons inquiry was not launched until 16 December, when the NSPCC raised concerns about their welfare. Police attended the family's home in south-east London and spoke to Mr Simpson-Kent, but that is the last time he was seen. A search at the home uncovered three bodies in the garden on 5 January and police said significant attempts had been made to conceal them. They all died from head and neck injuries, police said. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating how the Metropolitan Police handled the case. Sian Blake, who had motor neurone disease, played Frankie Pierre in the BBC One soap between 1996 and 1997.",Authorities in Ghana have widened their search for the partner of a former EastEnders actress who was @placeholder alongside her two young sons .,caught,abandoned,carrying,murdered,found,3
"In a pilot project, South East Coast Ambulance delayed sending help for certain 111 calls and transferred them to the 999 system, thus gaining an additional 10 minutes to respond. Health regulator Monitor said it had not fully considered patient safety. The trust has defended the project but acknowledged the ""serious findings"". South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Seacamb) covers Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Brighton and North East Hampshire. As part of the pilot from December 2014 to February, the trust transferred some calls between systems to re-assess what type of advice or treatment patients needed and whether an ambulance was really required. How call handling was changed Secamb provides NHS 111 services across the region and responds to 999 calls. Some NHS 111 calls were transferred to the 999 system to give Secamb more time for more urgent calls. The calls affected were in the second most serious category - Category A Red 2 - which covers conditions like strokes or fits but which are less critical than where people are non responsive. Under NHS rules, calls designated as life-threatening are supposed to receive an ambulance response within eight minutes. The trust allowed itself an extra 10 minutes to deal with some calls by ""re-triaging"" patients in the 999 system. Monitor said the project was ""poorly handled"" and there were ""reasonable grounds to suspect that the trust is in breach of its licence."" It has added a condition to Secamb's licence, so that if insufficient progress is made the leadership team could be changed. Paul Streat, regional director at Monitor, said: ""It is understandable that trusts want to explore better ways of delivering the best possible care but this was poorly-managed and done without the proper authorisation and without enough thought given to how it might affect patients."" The trust said it had faced ""unprecedented call volumes"" and ""serious hospital handover delays"" last winter. Chief Executive Paul Sutton said it had wanted to make sure the most ill patients were responded to promptly, but acknowledged that it had not acted in the right way. ""These are serious findings,"" he said. ""We have already begun to take steps to address Monitor's concerns and as part of this process, independent reviews will assess how decisions are made within the trust, governance processes and our approach to patient safety.""",An NHS ambulance trust is being @placeholder after it dodged national response targets to gain more time to assess some seriously ill patients .,alerted,targeted,investigated,urged,evacuated,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device City - without needing to be anywhere near their best against the team that took the title race to its final day last season - were already cruising with a two-goal lead when Aguero made his 69th-minute entrance as a substitute for the limping Edin Dzeko. In the space of those few seconds the Argentina forward strolled onto the pitch at Etihad Stadium and right onto the end of Jesus Navas's perfect pass to put the home side out of sight of Liverpool and maintain their 100% start to the season. It was a symbolic, highly impressive demonstration of the power City manager Manuel Pellegrini has at his disposal, made even more emphatic as it was produced against a Liverpool side that had the title in their grasp in late April only to stumble near the finishing line. Watching it all, impassively for the most part, was the man who has been consigned to City's past but who is now entrusted with ensuring Liverpool have a bright future after the departure to Barcelona of last season's 31-goal top scorer Luis Suarez. Mario Balotelli's face was cheered when it appeared on the big screens as he remains a popular figure with City's supporters, but just hours after the 24-year-old was officially confirmed as a Liverpool player he had the size of the task awaiting him laid out by his former employers. Many have predicted the title will be a two-horse race this season - and even though the campaign is only two games old it already looks like City and Chelsea will be the teams best equipped to last the course. Adding to that impression was the fact that the real architect of City's win was another talented individual they were barely able to call upon when they reclaimed the Premier League. Stevan Jovetic came to Liverpool's attention as a teenager when he scored both goals in Fiorentina's shock Champions League win against them in 2009, but injuries have meant a wait to see him look at his best for City after they paid £22m for the Montenegro forward in July 2013. Two goals here - the second a magnificent team creation which he started and finished - hinted that this could be his season if he remains in good health. Jovetic started with Dzeko, allowing Pellegrini to ease Aguero back after his own injury difficulties. If all three stay fit and Alvaro Negredo comes back as he did in the early part of last season, City will be the benchmark for attacking threat. City eventually won with ease after an awkward first 40 minutes. The three points were earned with a comfort they never enjoyed in the 2-1 victory against Liverpool at home last season, remembering they also lost a 3-2 thriller at Anfield. This was routine once Liverpool's poor defending allowed Jovetic to give City the lead. The gap between the sides looked wider than at any point last season, although this must also be placed in context by the early stage of the campaign. For Liverpool and manager Brendan Rodgers, the dilemma has been an obvious one. How can he reassemble his squad to compensate for the loss of Suarez, not just his goals but also the psychological impact and pressure he applied to opposing players and supporters? There will be a sense of relief among opponents that he is not around to torment them, while it will also take his former Anfield team-mates time to get used to not having such a lethal weapon in their armoury. There is rarely any good news in selling your best player but Rodgers is determined not to let this be an issue that overshadows the new arrivals. Of course Suarez would have been banned here anyway, and it is absolutely right that Rodgers is allowed time to see how reinforcements such as Balotelli, Lazar Markovic and, when fit, Adam Lallana fare. He has the nucleus of the squad that did so brilliantly in vain last season, including the attacking gifts of Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling, who will presumably need to dovetail with Balotelli. Rodgers admits he has taken ""a calculated risk"" on Balotelli. He is banking on the Italian showing hitherto undetected maturity while also accepting the reality that if he fails at Liverpool his career will be regarded as one in decline. Ironically, given the focus on Liverpool's attacking resources and how Suarez can be replaced, it was familiar troubles further back that were actually at the root of their downfall. Rodgers was right to contend that Liverpool were the better team for 40 minutes, but once Jovetic took advantage of Dejan Lovren's poor header and debutant Alberto Moreno's switch-off the game was up. Lovren, the £20m signing from Southampton, had an uncomfortable night, while Moreno - a £12m arrival from Sevilla - was swiftly acquainted with the need for maximum concentration in the Premier League. Liverpool's performances and finishing position last season put Rodgers way ahead of schedule. A top four place - even if it means finishing lower than second - should be regarded as satisfactory. For City, expectation will be the retention of the title and further progress in the Champions League. And what better way to show they mean business by dispensing comfortably with last season's league runners-up without getting anywhere near their top gear. The marker has been placed by City, and placed early.","If Manchester City wanted to send an ominous message that it will take something special to remove their status as Premier League champions , Sergio Aguero took 23 seconds to @placeholder it .",write,announce,approve,deliver,prove,3
"Charrissa Loren Brown-Wellington, 31, is accused of killing Philip Carter, 30, who died at the station on Sunday. Ms Brown-Wellington, who wore a red jumper and grey tracksuit bottoms, was remanded in custody at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court. She is due to appear at the city's crown court on Wednesday.",A woman @placeholder as she appeared in court charged with the murder of a man who was hit by a tram at Manchester 's Victoria station .,appeared,died,wept,injured,described,2
"Authorities say the plane crashed just short of the runway at Tuscaloosa airport, shortly after sending a distress signal. Reports say the couples had been returning to Oxford, Mississippi, after a dental conference in Florida. The Eagle newspaper in Oxford said 11 children were orphaned by the crash. None of the children were on board. The plane sent a distress call at about 11:10 (16:10 GMT) on Sunday, Bobby Herndon, the mayor of the community of Northport near Tuscaloosa, said. It came down in trees close to the airport and rescue crews were on the scene within three minutes, but no-one survived, he said. The Alabama broadcaster WBRC quoted a relative as saying that Jason and Lea Farese, two dentists from Oxford, were among those killed. The Oxford Eagle said they had three children, aged 10, seven and five. The youngest started kindergarten this week, the newspaper said. One other couple on board had five children, it added.","Six people who died in a plane crash in Alabama on Sunday were three married couples , @placeholder in the US state say .",media,following,activity,as,living,0
"Cardiff North MP Craig Williams, a member of Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee, said it would give ministers ""time to look at the system"". George Osborne is due to set out plans to lessen the impact of the cuts in his Autumn Statement on 25 November. His original proposals were rejected by the House of Lords in October. The committee wants the reforms postponed for a year. Mr Williams said the tax credit system was ""not sustainable"", but added: ""We thought the way it's going through now it needed a lot more mitigation in terms of the next financial year especially."" ""The committee have said there is no easy way to change the tax credit system. ""So [the chancellor] is going to have to look more holistically."" The committee's report criticised the Treasury for being ""unacceptably evasive"" during its investigation. Mr Williams told the BBC: ""There was a frustration in the committee during these two weeks that we simply don't have all the evidence to hand."" On Wednesday, the Treasury said the MPs' report was out of date as the new plans were due. Mr Osborne announced plans to cut £4.4bn from the tax credits system in his summer Budget, as part of plans to save £12bn from the welfare bill. Opponents of the changes, due to come into effect in April, say more than 1m existing recipients - many of whom work but are on low incomes - could be £1,300 a year worse off as a result. In October, Welsh Conservatives leader Andrew RT Davies said he agreed with the principle behind the changes but called for them to be ""phased in"".","The chancellor should "" @placeholder "" plans to cut tax credits if he can not soften the impact of the changes immediately , a Welsh Conservative MP has said .",pause,describe,recommend,implement,announce,0
"Despite that, Victorian explorer Joseph Thomson is almost unknown in his native Scotland. Thomson was born in Penpont, Dumfriesshire, in 1858, the son of a stonemason and quarry owner. He developed a love for botany and geology and studied at the University of Edinburgh. But he also had the explorer's bug, leading several expeditions to Africa in the 1870s and 1880s, including one for the Royal Geographical Society to identify a trade route through the territory of the feared Maasai warriors. ""He could have been in mortal danger,"" said John Hastings-Thomson, the explorer's great grand-nephew, who believes he might easily have been mistaken for a white slaver and killed. I am making history as the first ever Maasai elder to visit his birthplace...It really means a lot to me as it is something that has been in my mind since I was a child. Instead, however, Thomson managed to befriend the Maasai and earn their trust, respect and protection. Warriors escorted him along the way, keeping him safe from the dangers of wild animals and other hostile tribes. Thomson had a motto:  ""He who goes gently goes safely; he who goes safely goes far."" ""I think this encapsulates his way of doing things and ensured his survival,"" said Mr Hastings-Thomson.  ""He didn't go blundering in, all-guns-blazing.  He was willing to be patient and negotiate his way through."" That is certainly how Thomson is remembered in Maasai-land, now part of modern Kenya. ""One of the things that stands out about Joseph Thomson is his humbleness,"" said Ezekiel Katato, a village elder in one of the Maasai communities Thomson visited. ""He went through the land and avoided at all cost confrontation with anyone along the way. ""He was also very brave because he was going through a land unknown to him and to the world.  He really didn't know what would happen to him the next day, or the next minute."" Mr Katato relates how Thomson endeared himself to Maasai women with gifts of beads, and intrigued the warriors with his dentures! ""They thought he was a magician because he had these teeth that he could remove at will and put back to his mouth,"" he said. ""It's a story that has been passed on from generation to generation!"" Mr Katato learned about, and was inspired by, Thomson as a schoolboy.  So much so that he has now travelled to Scotland to trace the explorer's footsteps. Striding through the sleepy village of Penpont, the tall imposing black man in bright purple robes does look quite incongruous.  But no more so than a young white Scotsman would have looked in Africa 130 years ago. ""Today I am making history as the first ever Maasai elder to visit his birthplace here in Penpont,"" declared Mr Katato with pride. ""It really means a lot to me as it is something that has been in my mind since I was a child."" The main reason for his visit is to join family members and supporters to launch the Joseph Thomson Maasai Trust in Penpont on Saturday. It is being established to promote Thomson's life and legacy in Scotland and further afield and also a Thomson trail that Mr Kakato has developed along 65 miles of the 1,500-mile route the explorer followed. Mr Hastings-Thomson has already tackled it twice and said it was ""an amazing experience"". The aim now is to interest people, especially young people, from Scotland and elsewhere to travel to Kenya to take part in the next walk in June 2017. ""I think it is very important to get young people from all over the world to join the young people of Maasai-land to walk in the footsteps of Joseph Thomson, to bring different cultures together and to use their talents and energies to work for peace and make beautiful memories,"" said Mr Katato. ""I particularly wanted to organise this walk because of the respect I have for him (Thomson) and to promote his legacy because he is a man worth remembering in our community."" He shares Mr Hastings-Thomson's sadness that Joseph Thomson is today largely forgotten in Scotland. There is a monument to him in Thornhill where he went to school and he is buried in the town's churchyard. Thomson died in 1895 at the young age of 37. His life was short, but his legacy long-lasting - at least in Africa.",An African @placeholder and a species of gazelle are named after him and his exploits inspired H Rider Haggard to write the classic adventure story King Solomon 's Mines .,root,waterfall,river,crocodile,cast,1
"His wife Claire went into labour several hours before kick-off, but Cushing chose to be on the sidelines as Man City won 1-0 after extra time. After the win he said he did not know if his daughter had been born yet. But Cushing had time to collect the silverware and get back for the birth. Victory completed a domestic double for City, seven days after the club claimed its first Women's Super League title.",Manchester City Women boss Nick Cushing made it back in time for the birth of his third child on Sunday after @placeholder his side 's Continental Cup final win over Birmingham .,announcing,retaining,overseeing,securing,watching,2
"Second-from-bottom Bluebirds travel to Burton in the Championship on Saturday having won just twice in the league. Trollope accepts responsibility, but vowed: ""It's easy for things to fall apart, that's not going to happen."" Striker Rickie Lambert is in contention for selection despite suffering an injury early in the 2-0 home defeat by Derby County. Trollope could also give a debut to former Aston Villa defender Joe Bennett. Cardiff came from behind to clinch a 2-1 win at Rotherham on Saturday, but Tuesday's set-back against Derby saw them drop back into the Championship relegation zone. But former Wales assistant coach Trollope believes the spirit in his squad is still good and his own experience will help them. He said tough spells as Bristol Rovers manager and as an assistant to Chris Hughton at Norwich and Birmingham have prepared him to deal with adversity. ""You are made up of all your experiences, what you have seen and what you have done and certainly I have been in similar situations through my career,"" he said. ""You learn and you evolve and learn how to act and how to turn things around in this situation, because it's easy to go the other way."" The Cardiff City boss admitted the international break, which follows the game at Burton, adds to the pressure, but said he remains confident. ""It is disappointing and there are some feelings you don't want to be feeling. But we are where we are, I take responsibility for that, I'm the head coach,"" he said. ""It's my programme I have set, I have that responsibility and I also have a belief that although things have not gone our way things will turn."" Lambert limped off with a hamstring injury in the first half against Derby, but could feature at Burton. Defender Joe Bennett, signed from Aston Villa during the summer transfer window, is travelling, while Lee Peltier and Freddie Gounongbe could return from injury. But there are injury doubts over Wales defender Jazz Richards and Iceland midfielder Arron Gunnarsson, while  Anthony Pilkington will be assessed on Friday.",Head coach Paul Trollope says he will use past experiences to turn around the @placeholder of Cardiff City .,fortunes,form,number,history,future,0
"In English, you either say ""sorry"" or ""apologies"". In Japanese, there are at least 20 different ways. One of the most casual and most frequently used words is ""gomen"" ごめん. You can make it more formal by saying ""gomen-nasai"" ごめんなさい or more friendly with ""gomen-ne"" ごめんね.  ""Warui warui"" 悪い悪い or ""my bad"" is also a very casual way to say sorry. ""Sumimasen"" すみません, which can be translated as ""excuse me"", also works as an apology depending on how it is used. ""Yurushite"" 許して is to ask for forgiveness and ""kanben"" 勘弁 can be used to plead for mercy and both terms are used much more casually than in English. Viewpoint: Why do Japan’s apologies get disregarded? More formal ways to apologise include ""moushiwake nai"" 申し訳ない and ""shazai"" 謝罪. But I use both terms quite often in business emails not because I really feel bad but just to be polite. For example, I may begin my correspondence with ""I am sorry for the delay in getting back to you"" and end it with ""I apologise for creating extra work for you"" even if it only took me a few days to respond and even if I was merely asking them to do what's already in their job description. If I genuinely want to apologise, at least three or four different phrases would appear in one short email. I may be ""too embarrassed to face you"" 合わせる顔がない and ""I have no excuse"" 弁解の余地がない for whatever I did. For the post-war apologies, Japanese leaders have used the word ""hansei"" 反省 much more frequently. In the English transcript, it reads ""remorse"" but I would translate it as ""regret"" and use it, for example, for failing to be more productive on my day off. A student would be told to ""hansei"" for forgetting to do one's homework. Its Chinese or Korean equivalents - ""fǎnshè"" or ""banseong"" respectively - also mean ""reflection on"" or ""reconsideration of"" the past. The 1995 statement by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama was considered landmark because it included the word ""owabi"" お詫び which is one of the most formal ways of apologising. He said his country had caused ""tremendous damage and suffering"" through its ""colonial rule and aggression"" and expressed ""deep remorse"" and stated his ""heartfelt apology"". Ten years later to mark 60 years since the end of the World War Two, the then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi also used the term ""owabi"". Mr Koizumi's apology, however, was overshadowed by his repeated visits to the controversial Yasukuni shrine where all the war dead - including Class A war criminals - are enshrined. The current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also included the word ""owabi"" in his war anniversary statement but he had indicated that he would not visit the Yasukuni shrine on Saturday.","Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has issued a much - @placeholder statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two . He gave a "" heartfelt apology "" , but as the BBC 's Mariko Oi explains , that is only one of the many ways you can express remorse in Japanese .",style,discussed,deal,anticipated,called,3
"Graphene, one-atom-thick sheets of carbon, can carry electric charges far faster than currently used materials. But it has proven difficult to make it behave as a semiconductor like silicon, or to attach ""contacts"" to the sheets. A study in Nature Communications  solves those problems by cooking up graphene from a material called silicon carbide. Graphene was discovered in 2004 by two University of Manchester scientists - winning them             the 2010 Nobel prize  in physics. It has been the focus of intense research efforts to exploit its phenomenal mechanical strength and favourable electronic properties. Because sheets of it are so thin and it conducts electric charges so well, it is already being used as a crystal-clear ""electrode"" for solar cells, and will soon find its way into consumer products including smartphones and televisions. The greatest hope, however, is that it can be used in semiconductor applications, working with or replacing the industry's standard material of silicon. To make faster computer chips, the industry has been working relentlessly to shrink the individual transistors - and is heading for a physical limit to just how small they can go. Since charges zip through graphene hundreds of times faster than in silicon, a jump in speed could be made with no decrease in size - but efforts to integrate graphene into chips have been difficult. One problem is that while pure graphene is a particularly good conductor, it is a terrible semiconductor - the kind of material needed to make transistors. While a number of different transistors have been produced using graphene, they have required modifications to it that degrade its electrical performance. Another issue is the fact that adding metal contacts to graphene - to shuttle electric charges into and out of it - is tricky, and often results in damage. To tackle both issues, researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany have enlisted the help of a somewhat lesser-known material called silicon carbide - a simple crystal made of silicon and carbon. In 2009, several members of the same team             reported in Nature Materials  that when wafers of the material were baked, silicon atoms were driven out of the crystal's topmost layer, leaving behind just carbon in the form of graphene. In the new work, the team joined Swedish research institute Acreo AB, using a high-energy beam of charged atoms to etch ""channels"" into thin silicon carbide wafers defining where different transistor parts would be. The team's crucial step was to allow a bit of hydrogen gas in during this process. This affected how the top graphene layer was chemically joined to the underlying silicon carbide: either making a given region conducting or semiconducting, depending on the etched channels. The way the hydrogen atoms fit themselves into the interface changes the nature of the chemical bonds between the two layers. Quentin Ramasse, a researcher at the SuperStem Laboratory in Daresbury, UK - whose work recently             showed that holes in graphene ""heal themselves""  - called the work ""really impressive"". ""That's really what they've nailed: controlling that last little bit of bonding to make one type of contact or another,"" Dr Ramasse told BBC News. ""That's what the hold-up has been, being able to tailor that contact to suit whatever you want to use it for, and have it all in the one chip."" ""You read everywhere that graphene is magical for this reason and that, and it's good to be reminded that you can put it in real devices and make it scalable and actually use it for technological applications,"" he said. ""That's a very good step forward.""","The hope for the "" @placeholder material "" graphene to fulfil its promise in electronics has received a boost - by changing the recipe when cooking it .",deadline,living,raw,fuel,miracle,4
"The team will present its findings at the National Cancer Research Institute conference next week. They plan to use liposomes - tiny bubbles of fat which carry materials round the body - to release toxic drugs when their temperature is raised. The ""grenades"" are intended to avoid side-effects by ensuring the drugs target only the tumour. Experts said such technology, which has been effective in animal experiments, was the ""holy grail of nanomedicine"". Cancer scientists are trying to harness the transporting abilities of these fatty spheres by getting them to carry toxic drugs to tumours. ""The difficulty is, how do you release them when they reach their target?"" Prof Kostas Kostarelos, from the University of Manchester, told the BBC News website. The Nanomedicine Lab in Manchester has designed liposomes that are water-tight at normal body temperature. But when the temperature increases to 42C they become leaky. ""The challenge for us is to try to develop liposomes in such a way that they will be very stable at 37C and not leak any cancer drug molecules and then abruptly release them at 42C,"" Prof Kostarelos added. He suggests heat pads could be used to warm tumours on the body surface such as skin, head or neck cancers. Probes can heat tumours inside the body, and there is also discussion about using ultra sound to warm tumours. In early tests on mice with melanoma there was ""greater uptake"" of drugs in tumours using the thermal grenades. And that resulted in a ""moderate improvement"" in survival rates. Prof Kostarelos said similar techniques were being trialled in patients and this ""is not a fantasy."" Prof Charles Swanton, the chairman of the conference, said targeted liposomes were a ""holy grail of nanomedicine"". He added: ""These studies demonstrate for the first time how they can be built to include a temperature control, which could open up a range of new treatment avenues. ""This is still early work but these liposomes could be an effective way of targeting treatment towards cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed."" Follow James on Twitter.","Scientists have designed microscopic "" grenades "" that can @placeholder their cancer - killing payload in tumours .",enjoy,replicate,put,explode,overcome,3
"It is Butetown but could be Tottenham or Easterhouse - areas that are often talked about but rarely heard from. The aim is to give a platform to voices within the community. BBC Wales, 1XTRA, Radio 2 and News Online are collaborating all week with documentaries, news reports, features, comedy, spoken word and music. To catch up on any of the coverage you may miss, we will be posting updates as and when they are published and broadcast across the BBC. You can also get involved on social media #towerlives. Betty Campbell MBE, who grew up in Tiger Bay and went on to become Wales' first black head teacher. As a young black girl in post-war Britain, the road to realising a childhood dream and inspire self belief in a disinherited community was far from easy. To listen to Mrs Campbell on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show click here and move the time bar to 01:34:00 Tony Paris was living in the tower blocks in 1988 when he was arrested for the brutal murder of Lynette White which led to one of the UK's most infamous miscarriages of justice An interview with Mr Paris was broadcast on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show. To hear the full interview broadcast on his show on BBC Radio 2 on Monday, click here and move the time bar to 01:31:12 A shorter clip can be found here where Mr Paris describes hearing his father had died while still in jail #towerlives: Butetown storytelling week Dilemmas of a Hijabi girl Haifa Shamsan is a fashion designer and blogger from Butetown in Wales. She also happens to be a proud Muslim, and wears a hijab. No big deal, right? Or is it? Her headwear still seems to confuse some people, and she has to negotiate a few personal dilemmas like double chins and postmen along the way too. BBC 1Xtra: Charlie Sloth live from Butetown BBC 1Xtra: DJ Target live from Butetown on Sunday BBC 1Xtra: Mim Shaik explores Butetown through the eyes of Tiger Bay FC on Sunday Former shot putter and wheelchair sprinter, Julie Hamzah from Butetown, Cardiff, has faced setback after setback; mishap after misfortune; bad news and bad luck. But she is still going, still fighting - she never gives up. Here the full interview on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show here and go to 01:37:00 Rugby players from Butetown, Cardiff, are few and far between in today's game amid claims the colour of people's skin prevented them from being picked to play for Wales in the 1950s and 60s. Some in the area believe the talent is out there and more needs to be done to take advantage of it For many people in Butetown one of the most pressing issues is finding work as unemployment is double the Welsh average. Is Butetown's postcode a 'barrier to work' as some suggest? Theatre maker Gavin Porter looks to the future and discusses what could happen to tower block estates like Butetown where he was born and raised. #towerlives: 'Beauty among the concrete' High fashion Hijabi: Haifa Shamsan is part of the rapidly growing Muslim fashion industry and has set her sights on the big time Is it? Cardiff comedian Leroy Brito explores a curious dialect widely spoken in the streets of Butetown Tiger in the tower: The extraordinary events that led to their construction, a history of fortunes - both financial and social - made and lost After Tiger Bay was razed the council estate tower blocks and low-rise flats were built in its place. Here Miriam Salah (left) and Antonia Correa (right) both of whom lived on the original Loudoun Square, react to their new homes. The singer is Clara (Mingo) Graham of Sophia Street. Her father was well known as the 'Bengal Tiger' who featured in the 1930s film Sanders of the River. A look back at the Butetown Carnival which was first staged in the 1960s. It stopped in 1998 but made a come back in 2014","#towerlives is a week - long festival of storytelling and music , on air and on the @placeholder , around the council estate tower blocks of Butetown in Cardiff .",mainland,sea,ground,river,internet,2
"The horsemeat scandal has shown how complex the UK's meat supply chain has become, and it also highlights how little retailers and customers alike know what is actually going into the food that we eat. Meat represents 14% of a household's weekly food purchases on average, according to a 2012 report from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). While data from Defra's Family Food report shows there has been little change in the proportion of meat people have been buying in the UK for decades, there is a marked difference in the type of meat being purchased. The quantity of ready meals and convenience meat products - including kebabs and chicken kievs - the British public bought increased by 480% from 1974 through to 2011. That stands in stark contrast to weekly household purchases of fresh cuts of meat, such as lamb, mutton, pork, beef and veal, which have all experienced noticeable drops. The Family Food report figures show chicken became a more popular meat than beef for the first time in 1988 during the BSE crisis - when the public boycotted British beef after a link was established between BSE carried by infected cattle and the human form of the disease, CJD. Purchases of ready-made burgers - which were the original focus of the horsemeat scandal - have been relatively consistent over time. Italian food passed English to become the biggest selling ready meal cuisine in 2011, with sales of £406m. The UK market for chilled and frozen ready meals is valued at £1.85bn and grew 6.6% in 2011, according to market research company Key Note. But the market was rocked after horsemeat was found in some frozen lasagne and spaghetti Bolognese products this month, including some Findus beef lasagne products which were found to contain 100% horsemeat. Price is the most important factor for shoppers when they are deciding which foods to buy, according to Defra's 2012 Food Statistics Pocketbook. More than 40% of customers said it is the most important factor, with 90% listing it in their top five. Food prices have risen by 12% in real terms since 2007 and, after years of price falls, are now back up to 1997 levels. That has resulted in those in low income households cutting back on fruit, vegetables and meat like beef, pork and lamb, Defra says. Food writer Rose Prince compared the horsemeat revelations to the BSE crisis of the 1980s and thinks the current crisis will lead to a lack of trust from the public in convenience food. ""We've come to believe religiously in convenience food without thinking too much about where it comes from because we trust suppliers and retailers,"" she said. ""What we're seeing now is as a result of the constant drive to keep food prices low.""","Walk through any big supermarket or corner shop in the @placeholder and convenience foods , from microwaveable meals to pre-cooked meat , are ubiquitous .",world,country,water,river,town,1
"Over cucumber sandwiches at The Ritz with David Frost he had been offered a starring role in his new satirical TV programme, The Frost Report. Suddenly freed from his duties as Will Scarlett, it was Corbett's big break in TV and paired him up with another performer, Ronnie Barker. And why had Frost chosen Corbett?  He had seen him in a show in a London nightclub with Danny La Rue. There, in one story, is one of the main reasons Ronnie Corbett was such a popular performer - acting, revue, the 1960s satire boom, music hall - he brought it all together at the right time and the right place in one five-foot-one performer. The Two Ronnies survived on the BBC because it had a breadth of comedy that gave it a startling breadth of appeal.  Those '60s connections also helped - a number of those cocktail party sketches were written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin.  The show's place at the heart of the Saturday night schedule meant it attracted the best writers. There's also another factor - I once met Ronnie Corbett in a lift in BBC Television Centre.  He was a bit lost (something that happened to everyone at one time or another) and we went up and down more than once trying to work out where he had just come from. Meeting a childhood hero in a lift is always going to be a bit surreal, but what struck me was that he was entirely like the person I had seen on the television - he was good natured, self-deprecating and great company. Watching him in public you noticed how he seemed to arrive with a little aura of good cheer.  Perhaps the height helped, but he didn't have to say much to lighten the mood and that ability to be charming and affable was perhaps a key reason why his comic partnership lasted so long. In 16 years of The Two Ronnies, Corbett could only remember one argument.  Given that Ronnie Barker was a man of high standards and strong views that is an extraordinary achievement as the history of double acts is peppered with stories of partnerships that are less than friendly off-stage. It might have been different if Corbett had been fighting to get his material on the show, but they avoided that bear trap. Barker contributed his sketches under the pseudonym of Gerald Wiley to ensure it was used on merit - indeed Corbett once set about trying to find Wiley because he wanted to use one of his sketches in his stage show. Even the famous armchair monologues which just sound like Corbett's own stream of consciousness were written by Spike Mullins and One Foot in the Grave writer, David Renwick. What Ronnie Corbett brought was the skill of a great performer - utterly convincing, always funny and likeable.",It was one of the West End 's great disasters . Lionel Bart 's Robin Hood musical Twang @placeholder after just 43 performances but it was a stroke of good luck for a young Ronnie Corbett .,erupted,died,investigates,evolved,closed,4
"There are many things about it that have attracted comment from US columnists to the blogosphere: that he oversaw such controversial and costly wars but should ultimately fall on a matter of personal behaviour; that President Barack Obama was not apparently informed until election day that Gen Petraeus was under investigation by the FBI; and that the issue is now drawing in more people, including General John Allen, who replaced Gen Petraeus as the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan. The inquiry resulted from complaints by a woman that she had received threatening e-mails from Paula Broadwell, Gen Petraeus' biographer and for several months apparently also his lover. The FBI investigation is now moving on to issues such as whether the author had unauthorised access to classified material. Some have written of the general's vanity, suggesting he liked to be surrounded by admiring staffers, academics and indeed journalists. Having met and interviewed him several times, I can certainly confirm that he took particular care of his image (for example preferring to be filmed favouring the patch on his right shoulder - the combat one of the 101st Airborne Division, which he commanded during the 2003 invasion of Iraq), and that lately his staff tried hard to discourage challenging lines of questioning, whereas during our earlier meetings he had proven more than happy to tackle whatever we threw at him. It was during one of these later meetings with Gen Petraeus that he introduced me to Mrs Broadwell, who at that time was working on her book about him and with whom, it emerged last week, he was having an affair. I will not pretend that I had any great presentiment or intuition about what was going on, but did note that during our off-camera conversations, he and I reflected in a humorous way on the ageing process and how it played out in men. Gen Petraeus had gone through cancer treatment in 2009 and it is in this context that a friend of his, a fellow general, sought to explain to me today what had happened: ""Almost everyone considered him to be immortal, but he had been shaken by the cancer business and continually deployed for five-and-a-half years."" The same officer concluded that while his friend was right to offer his resignation once the extramarital affair with Ms Broadwell had come to light, that ""the president shouldn't have accepted it"". Some reports today suggest that the CIA director did not even himself feel it was a resigning matter, but was persuaded to write the letter by the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. The head of the wider US intelligence community apparently felt it would not be possible for Gen Petraeus to discipline CIA staff accused of marital indiscretions, if he had shown himself fallible in the same regard. General Stan McChrystal, Gen Petraeus' predecessor as Nato commander in Kabul, also suffered a public fall from grace in 2010, stepping down after staff members were quoted by Rolling Stone magazine being critical about the Obama administration. Some used a similar formula at the time, about the president not needing to accept a tendered resignation. Both generals had been lionised in the US press and in Congress, particularly for reversing the slide to civil war in Iraq. It is also true to say that many of the commanders, including British as well as American, whom I have spoken to in Iraq and Afghanistan were completely in awe of these two men and their abilities. As for what they achieved in their attempt to replicate the success of the Iraq surge in Afghanistan, that is a different matter, for many now consider it to have failed. That two commanders who wielded power of life and death over so many, and were widely praised as soldier-scholars, should fall on issues of PR and an affair is itself a stark measure of the degree to which personal failings that might once have been kept private can now be the decisive factors in professional ruin. And how serious are the charges that led to their fall? The FBI cleared the CIA boss of any involvement with sending threatening emails, even if he still has serious issues to address with his wife Holly Petraeus. And an inquiry into Gen McChrystal's conduct towards the Rolling Stone reporter exonerated him of any misconduct. Some once talked of Gen Petraeus - his physical fitness, charging intellect, and devotion to duty in almost super-human terms. Ultimately though he has proven himself all too fallible.","The fall of David Petraeus , director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) and the general who successfully commanded America 's troop surge in Iraq during 2007 - 8 is a modern @placeholder tale , even if it did arise from one of the most ancient human failings , marital infidelity .",greek,beach,morality,horror,group,2
"I doubt, for example, that any of Scotland's fine panto producers are this very moment picking up the phone to Phillip Hammond to offer him a comic role. Perhaps it was Mr Hammond's pre-existing reputation for dry delivery - but he appeared to feel the need to deploy a few gags. Some, including the one satirising Boris Johnson, were not at all bad. But, more generally, the presentation was relatively straitlaced. So much so, indeed, that the Chancellor was obliged to ad lib to tell Tory backbenchers that he had just announced good, if complex, news. It was time, he plainly felt, for them to cheer. So the tone was relatively straightforward, even sombre - despite the gags. And understandably so. For if Mr Hammond isn't Abanazar - hiss, boo - he isn't Wishee Washee either. He told it as it is. Or, more precisely, he told it as the OBR forecasts suggest, independently, that it will be. Higher borrowing, lower tax revenues. And above all a growth potential that is some 2.4% lower than it might have been, according to the selfsame OBR, without the Brexit vote. A referendum outcome which means that the forecasts are described as uncertain - that is, compared to the shot in the dark to which we have become accustomed of late. In summary, the outlook is for an economy which will be some £122bn worse off by 2020 than previously forecast. In the face of that, the Chancellor talked of ""resilience"". A capacity to cope. An ability to rise to the challenge. He was keen to stress the underlying strength of the UK economy. But he did not duck those challenges lying ahead. In essence, he was trying to pre-empt the prospect of any further weakening in the economic outlook by adding a degree of stimulus while trying, he said, to address a longer-term problem. The stimulus will come from capital investment, funded by borrowing and by tax changes. That longer-term question is the issue of relatively low UK productivity. An innovation fund will be deployed in an effort to find solutions to what Mr Hammond depicted as a systemic problem in the UK. Capital investment and, even more so, any attempt to transform the integral nature of the UK economic structure will take time to produce results in terms of growth and jobs. Perhaps, perhaps, handily coinciding with the forward uncertainty forecast by the OBR. For Scotland, ministers had been privately anxious that the entire revenue settlement for the year ahead, 2017/18, might be unpicked, with adverse consequences. That has not happened - and there will be a degree of relief at Holyrood, albeit the spending constraints remain in place. Then there is the extra money for capital investment as a Barnett consequential of the spending south of the border. It adds up to £800m - and, when announced, Tory backbenchers joined in a panto-style vocal challenge to the SNP benches. Rejoice, they appeared to be shouting, rejoice. To be clear, the capital spending allocated to the Scottish government will be welcomed by ministers. However, they note that it is spread over four years, from the current 2016/17. They argue further that, taking all the figures into account, there remains a cut of about 8% in capital spending in real terms over the extended period from the Conservatives first entering Downing Street in 2010. According to Mr Hammond, the UK has embarked upon a new chapter. But will it have a happy ending - or turn out a horror story?","Michael McIntyre , I feel certain , can rest easy - @placeholder that his droll role remains unchallenged by the chancellor .",sentiment,baritone,sharing,term,content,4
"Platini, 60, was banned for eight years by the world governing body's ethics committee in December, as was 79-year-old president Sepp Blatter. Both were found guilty of breaches surrounding a £1.3m ($2m) ""disloyal payment"" to Platini. ""I've done nothing and I'm not afraid of anything,"" said the Frenchman. ""If I had anything to reproach myself for, I would be hiding in Siberia in shame."" Blatter's appeal against his ban was heard on Tuesday. Like Platini, the Swiss denies any wrongdoing. According to news agency Reuters, Blatter arrived at 07:30 local time in order to avoid cameramen and photographers who had expected him to arrive later. The verdict could arrive later this week. ""Is it Blatter who put me in this situation? Not at all, he is in the same situation as me,"" added Platini. ""Someone pushed the button and I will try to find out who."" Uefa said last month that it will not hold an election for its presidency until Platini's appeals process has been concluded. The Fifa appeals committee, which is chaired by Bermuda Football Association president Larry Mussenden, has the power to reduce, increase or overturn the ban. Media playback is not supported on this device Meanwhile, Greg Dyke has denied that the Football Association has agreed to vote for Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino in the forthcoming election for Fifa president, to be held on 26 February. Infantino, who joined Uefa in 2000 and has been general secretary since 2009, entered the presidential race in October last year. FA chairman Dyke, speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, said that the organisation had come under significant pressure to vote for Infantino at a recent Uefa meeting, but added that no decision has been taken. ""We're going to discuss this at the FA board this week and the board will decide,"" he said. ""I went to the meeting at Uefa and we refused. We said: 'We are not telling you.' We came under a lot of pressure. There was a lot of pressure.  There were half-a-dozen European nations who said: 'We're not deciding today.'"" Media playback is not supported on this device Richard Conway, the BBC's sports news correspondent, says that Infantino is confident of victory. Conway said: ""I understand Infantino believes he has secured over the half of the votes from the potentially crucial Concacaf region - 35 votes in total, drawn from North America, Central America and the Caribbean. ""Infantino's camp are growing in confidence and believe he has real momentum entering last two weeks of the Fifa campaign. ""It is understood that he has secured support from every Fifa region to the extent he now believes he is the frontrunner.""","Suspended Uefa president Michel Platini arrived at his appeal hearing on Monday saying he is fighting not for his @placeholder but "" against injustice "" .",future,recovery,life,nation,team,0
"Rachel Webb is among 100 relatives of knife crime victims backing a campaign to have a Knife Angel sculpture on the square's Fourth Plinth. The Mayor of London's office said the Shropshire-made statue would not feature there and works had been selected up to 2022. Mrs Webb, from Derbyshire, said she was ""shaken"" by the decision. See more stories from across Shropshire here The 26ft (8m) sculpture made from 100,000 confiscated blades was intended as a tribute to knife crime victims and a campaign was started to install it in the central London square. However, a City Hall spokesperson said the Fourth Plinth was ""the site of a rolling programme of contemporary art"" and works had been chosen ""by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group on behalf of the Mayor of London"". The sculpture is currently at the British Ironwork Centre in Oswestry, Shropshire. Clive Knowles, the centre's chairman who is behind the campaign, said the petition had been signed more than 35,000 times. Mrs Webb, of Belper, whose son, Tom, 22, was killed over a comment about a woman being ""fit"", has said the statue could inspire young people to ""de-tool"". She said: ""This is an epidemic and we need help and support from the mayor. ""This amazing sculpture has been declined because it doesn't fit some criteria. It's bizarre."" City Hall said the only way for a piece of art to be displayed was through being selected by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group on behalf of the mayor. It added the mayor recently launched his knife crime strategy, which ""included an additional £625,000 for knife and gang crime projects"".",The mother of a fatal stab victim has criticised a move not to allow a knife victims ' @placeholder in Trafalgar Square .,unit,trial,roots,memorial,deaths,3
"North Wales Police responded to a report of the incident close to the Jade Jones Pavilion at about 14:00 BST on Sunday. Det Ch Insp Arwyn Jones said members of the public detained the man until police arrived. A 50-year-old man was arrested. The child was not hurt and is ""safe"". ""I would like to reassure the public that the child is safe with her family, and the male remains in police custody,"" said Det Ch Insp Jones.","A man has been arrested after a suspected @placeholder abduction of a three - year - old girl in Flint , police have said .",alien,released,stolen,second,attempted,4
"Local taxi driver unions and politicians have complained that Uber poses unfair competition by not meeting legal standards required for established taxi firms. According to Uber, 300,000 riders use its app in Denmark and it has around 2,000 drivers. The service will shut down on 18 April. In a statement the firm said: ""For us to operate in Denmark again the proposed regulations need to change. We will continue to work with the government in the hope that they will update their proposed regulations and enable Danes to enjoy the benefits of modern technologies like Uber."" Uber has been operating in Denmark for less than three years. The firm said it would ""allocate resources"" to help Uber drivers during the shutdown process. It will maintain its software division in Aarhus in northern Denmark where it employs 40 people. The firm has faced opposition from traditional taxi drivers in cities around the world. In the UK, a 2015 High Court challenge arguing that Uber should be regulated in the same way as other London taxi businesses was dismissed by a judge. But in 2016, Uber drivers won the right to be classed as workers rather than as self-employed. Earlier this month, it suspended its self-driving cars after an accident in Arizona when one of the autonomous vehicles - a Volvo SUV - ended up on its side. It has also faced negative stories about its workplace practices and a number of executives have quit, including the president Jeff Jones.",Cab hire firm Uber will @placeholder from Denmark in April because of new taxi laws that require drivers to have fare meters and seat sensors .,stop,face,withdraw,move,avoid,2
"Billboards and posters will highlight the ban, intended to protect under 18-year olds from second-hand smoke. Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the law was needed because ""smoking in cars poisons children"". People breaking the ban, coming into force in England on the same day, will face a £50 on-the-spot fine. Almost one child in 10 in Wales says smoking is allowed in their family car, according to recent research, although that proportion has halved since 2008. ""Children are particularly at risk from second-hand smoke, which has been linked to a range of health issues, from sudden infant death syndrome, lung and ear infections and asthma,"" Mr Drakeford said. ""This danger is heightened when they are in the confined space of a car and can't escape the fumes. ""There is evidence that even with windows open, the level of toxic chemicals remains high."" Jamie Matthews from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Wales said the ban was popular with the public. ""Together with the forthcoming regulations on standardised packaging these regulations will help to denormalise smoking and discourage children from taking up the deadly habit,"" he said. The law does not apply to e-cigarettes or when an under-18-year old is the only person in the car. It will be enforced by police and local authorities.","A campaign to raise awareness of a ban on smoking in cars @placeholder children has begun , in advance of the law coming into force in Wales on 1 October .",remaining,show,carrying,following,delivering,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device Former Accies players Chris Swailes and Guillaume Beuzelin will be assistant manager and head coach respectively. Scottish defender Canning had been made interim player-coach after Neil exited. And it has now been revealed that the 33-year-old knew he already had the job on a permanent basis despite a number of high-profile applications. ""I had an indication that was the way it was going to go,"" Canning told BBC Scotland. ""The best way to do it was to do it the way it was done. Now that it's resolved we can go back to concentrating on football. Media playback is not supported on this device ""Going into management was something I always wanted to do. Who knows if it's too soon or the right time or the wrong time - you'll never know until you actually go ahead and do it. ""For me, it was a no-brainer to take it and we'll just see how things go."" Canning, who was club captain, has overseen three consecutive defeats, with Accies losing 5-0 away to Partick Thistle on Wednesday - but it has not deterred the Hamilton board from again appointing from within. Neil was elevated from his role as captain to player-manager when Billy Reid moved on in April 2013. Frank McAvoy, who was Neil's assistant at New Douglas Park, had remained behind to assist Canning but will now also head to Carrow Road following Saturday's home game with Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Canning, who described it as ""a big opportunity"", will continue as a player and have some input into training, but that will be the main responsibility of Swailes and Beuzelin. Englishman Swailes played for Hamilton for two seasons after leaving Oldham Athletic in 2007 during a long playing career that included spells with Boston United, Doncaster Rovers, Ipswich Town, Bury and Rotherham United. The 44-year-old former defender ended his playing career after joining Northern Football League club Dunston UTS in 2011. Former Le Havre, Hibernian, Coventry City and Olympiakos Nicosia midfielder Beuzelin will move from Scottish Championship club Dumbarton, where he was appointed assistant manager in July. The 35-year-old Frenchman, who had a short spell with Accies in 2009, previously had coaching roles with Falkirk, Stirling University and Hibs, as well as a continuing one with South of Scotland League side Edusport Academy. Hamilton sit fifth in the Scottish Premiership - nine points behind leaders Celtic - following promotion via the play-offs in the summer.","Martin Canning has been officially appointed Hamilton player - manager , but the decision was made the same night Alex Neil was @placeholder by Norwich .",injured,cancelled,approached,crushed,signed,2
"It ought to be. After all, this is the first Conservative budget in almost 20 years. The last was delivered by Ken Clarke in 1996. It has to deliver promises repeated for so long but yet to be delivered, like the cut to inheritance tax. It has to fulfil the Tories' stated goals of cutting spending, cutting welfare and cutting tax whilst still claiming to be the ""workers' party"" pursuing a One Nation ""we're all in it together"" philosophy. And it comes at a time when what politicians love to call ""difficult decisions"" will never be easier to take. After all, George Osborne no longer has to haggle with coalition partners, he faces a Labour Party which is still struggling to absorb its defeat and he is once again able to raise the spectre of Greece - ""if a country's not in control of its borrowing the borrowing takes control of the country"". Nevertheless, the chancellor is expected to slow the pace of planned welfare cuts so that he will take three years instead of two to reach his promised target of £12bn. I understand he will unveil proposals for £8bn of cuts by 2017/8 and a further £4bn by 2018/9. Sources are stressing that this is very unlikely to make the cuts less controversial or to stop what Mr Osborne has called the ""depressingly predictable howls of protest"" which he expects to greet his Budget. In the last Parliament the deepest welfare cuts the government achieved amounted to £8bn over two years and experts have pointed out that the easy routes to saving money have already been taken - for example, ending the link between benefit rises and the higher RPI rate of inflation. The main targets for welfare cuts are expected to be tax credits - in particular child tax credit - housing benefit and the elements of Employment Support Allowance which are paid to those deemed capable of work related activity (my colleagues Allegra Stratton and Michael Buchanan have examined these in depth). The chancellor may also choose to slow the pace of overall spending cuts, although the Treasury is refusing to confirm this. This would be seen as a response to criticism from the Office for Budget Responsibility after the last Budget of what they described as a ""roller coaster"" ride in public spending - sharp cuts for two years followed by steep rises. The OECD has also called on the government to reconsider plans to front-load spending cuts at the beginning of this Parliament. Some forecasters have suggested that the deficit could be as much as £15bn lower than it was forecast to be just three months ago when George Osborne last delivered a Budget. This would allow him a little bit of wriggle room to slow his spending cuts at the same time as pursuing tax cuts, particularly if he can also raise significant sums by increasing the tax paid by non-doms and by top-rate taxpayers on their pension contributions. Mr Osborne will, as expected, reject calls for him to cut the top rate of income tax from 45p to 40p and will instead make further progress towards the Tories' target of increasing the personal income tax allowance to £12,500 and the threshold for higher rate tax to £50,000. If he does all this and more the Budget will certainly live up to the pre-billing. Which word you add after ""big"" will, of course, depend on your political persuasion.",""" Big. Very Big "" . That 's how one well - placed insider @placeholder when asked to describe the Budget .",responded,lost,change,says,launched,0
"Bavuma, 25, became the first black African to score a Test hundred for South Africa as he hit an unbeaten 102 against England in Cape Town. Hashim Amla scored a double century as the hosts declared on 627-7, with England ending day four 18 runs ahead. ""I'm full of emotion, relief and I'm very satisfied,"" said Bavuma. Speaking to BBC Test Match Special, he added: ""Luckily with the team environment we have it wasn't all about the runs I scored that enabled me to have a sense of belonging. ""But I think for myself it really gives me that boost of confidence to say that I can truly play at this level."" England all-rounder Ben Stokes appeared to be caught on television coverage sledging Bavuma early in the South African's innings. Bavuma told a post-match news conference that he respected ""tough competitor"" Stokes for congratulating him after the game on reaching his milestone. ""He did come hard, but everything was in the spirit of the game,"" he said. ""Some of things he said I couldn't really hear him, but the more he kept on speaking, it fired me a bit more to knuckle down and focus on the task in hand."" Prior to this match, Bavuma had amassed just 145 runs at an average of 20.71 in six Tests since making his debut against West Indies in December 2014. Arriving at the crease under pressure as the Proteas lost three wickets for 10 runs after lunch, the diminutive batsman played with impressive fluency, driving through the covers and pulling anything short to the boundary. Bavuma, born in the Langa township in Cape Town, raced to his half century off just 52 balls before reaching three figures late in the day in front of an elated home crowd. ""There was a lot of noise and I think people were probably just as jubilated or as satisfied as I was,"" he added. ""My parents were watching and I'm sure it was also a special moment for them. I had a couple of friends that kept making noise, so I think the moment was greatly shared by the people as well as myself. ""Our mindset was just to bat time, try to occupy most of the day and luckily we got into a position where we were able to shift pressure on to England. ""Unfortunately we didn't get that wicket that we wanted late on but on Wednesday we hope to get a couple of wickets and get the English guys scrambling out there."" The tourists dropped eight catches of varying difficulty across South Africa's marathon 211-over innings, including Bavuma on 77 when wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow failed to claim an edge behind low to his right. England assistant coach Paul Farbrace admits those mistakes have probably cost his side victory on a flat wicket but hopes they can ""send out a statement"" for the rest of the series on the final day on Wednesday. ""We didn't expect to be in this position on day four and honestly if we'd taken our chances through the two days then we wouldn't be in this position,"" he added. ""Our bowlers have created great opportunities, which on a flat pitch is all you can do - one or two were half-chances and that's tough but one or two others we should've caught and we're disappointed we haven't. ""You don't want to highlight it to the extent you're saying 'don't drop catches' to them because obviously any tension in the body makes it harder so it's a case of lots of repetitive catching and working incredibly hard. ""I'm sure our bowlers in the ice bath after the day will say it's a flat wicket but it's not it's not a terrible pitch for Test match cricket by any means because chances have been created - we've shown that if you get the ball in the right place there has been a little bit there.""",South Africa batsman Temba Bavuma says his historic maiden Test century has @placeholder his place at international level after a tough year .,taken,proved,booked,justified,died,3
"BBC Sport takes a look at the stories you may have missed from Saturday's action. Forty years ago this week a raw, no-nonsense 18-year-old centre-back by the name of Mick McCarthy was making his debut for Barnsley in a 4-0 win over Rochdale. The Ipswich Town manager had been marking that football landmark in fine style, until Saturday's 2-0 home defeat against Fulham put an end to his side's 100% start to the league season. Following an impressive playing career at club and international level with the Republic of Ireland, the Yorkshireman has been in charge for almost 900 matches in the top two tiers of English football, as well as leading his adopted country to the last 16 of the 2002 World Cup. But it is the man whose boots he used to clean who now boasts the only perfect record in the Championship. Can you spot McCarthy's fellow Championship manager below? McCarthy, 58, was a certain Neil Warnock's apprentice during his early years at the Tykes and, incredibly, between them they have managed more than one-third of the teams currently in England's second tier. Warnock's Cardiff City lead the way on their own now, with five wins from five thanks to a 2-1 success against QPR. And here's a quiz question bonus for you. Can you name the nine second-tier sides the pair have managed? Answers at the bottom of the page. After a total of 439 minutes* spanning more than four and a half league and cup games this season, Gillingham finally scored a goal on Saturday. In fact they got three. Well, Tom Eaves did to be precise, netting a hat-trick - and his first goals for the club - inside 24 second-half minutes. Eaves' efforts saw the Gills twice come from behind to earn a 3-3 draw against Southend United. Not to be outdone by Eaves, Newport County's Frank Nouble also grabbed a hat-trick - marking his home debut in style as his side beat Chesterfield 4-1. Coming through the ranks at Chelsea, the Exiles are Nouble's 13th British club, with a brief spell in China sandwiched in between. The South Wales air certainly seems to agree with him. Maybe his treble will help the much-travelled 25-year-old forward settle? *Not counting Gillingham's 0-0 draw on the final day of last season, or the 25 goalless minutes in the game before that. Every new signing dreams of scoring on their debut, but Burton Albion loanee Joe Mason took that to the next level in his side's 1-1 draw with Sheffield Wednesday. Not only did the striker equalise for the Brewers, he did so only 31 seconds after being brought on at the Pirelli Stadium. Seconds after jogging on, Mason was allowed space in the area to shoot on the turn, converting after Gary Hooper had put the visitors ahead with a close-range backheel. Mason had not scored since January. How is he going to follow up that first impression? Grimsby Town's players are either very unlucky or need to brush up on the laws of the game following their fifth red card in five matches this season. Danny Collins was guilty of two bookable offences in the Mariners' 3-2 home defeat against Wycombe after a handball in the penalty area and a bad foul on Matt Bloomfield. Early baths for Ben Davies, Sam Jones, James Berrett and Zak Mills in the four previous league and cup matches mean Collins' dismissal kept up the unwanted 100% record. Grimsby now find themselves third from bottom in League Two and will hope to move themselves back up the table before they run out of available players. Northampton Town's start to a season seemingly so full of promise has been miserable to say the least. With Matt Crooks and Matt Grimes headlining a host of summer signings, hopes were high for a positive campaign in League One. Four games in and Justin Edinburgh's side are one of only two teams in the EFL yet to register a single point. Saturday's 4-1 home loss against high-flying Peterborough United means the rock-bottom Cobblers have now lost all four league matches, conceding 10 goals and scoring two. Under-pressure boss Edinburgh told BBC Radio Northampton: ""We are in this together. We will never isolate anybody. We have let ourselves down, we have let the fans down and the football club. I accept all the responsibility. ""I have had to work hard in my career as a player and a manager and I am not going to give it up lightly. ""If we are going to get the result that we need we certainly have to defend better than we have. We were so, so poor in the goals we gave away. I understand the frustration but the only way you get through it is by sticking together."" At least the Cobblers are not alone at the foot of the third tier. Oldham Athletic's 2-1 loss to Blackpool means they also have no points but remain above Northampton on goal difference. Did you get the nine Championship clubs managed by either Mick McCarthy or Neil Warnock? They are: Cardiff, Ipswich, Wolves, Leeds, QPR, Sheffield United, Sunderland, Millwall and Burton. Neither has managed Barnsley... yet.","The master and his boot - cleaning apprentice , ending goal droughts and making the instant impact to beat all instant impacts - it 's been another incident - @placeholder English Football League programme .",produced,deal,record,term,packed,4
"Christine McGuire, 67, from Stranraer, died when her car, which was on the hard shoulder near Penrith, was struck by another vehicle on 7 January 2015. Colin McLachlan, 74, pleaded not guilty to causing her death by dangerous driving at Carlisle Crown Court. Mr McLachlan, from Kilmarnock, was granted unconditional bail ahead of a trial on 15 November.",A man has @placeholder causing the death of a retired nurse who was killed in a crash on the M6 in Cumbria .,suffered,escaped,pleaded,described,denied,4
Surrey Heath Museum will reopen in February for its 2015 events and exhibition programme. Curator Gillian Barnes-Riding said staff had audited the collection but now wanted all the stores to be catalogued electronically. A team of 20 or so volunteers will be helping staff to complete the work at the museum in Camberley. Ms Barnes-Riding said the electronic catalogue would enable staff to find items more easily.,A museum will close for the @placeholder of January while staff go behind the scenes to organise its collection .,whole,remainder,sale,future,amount,0
"He grew up there with a family so poor, they often went to bed having only drunk warm water for dinner. To earn money, he dropped out of school as a teenager to fight at local fiestas for a winning purse of 100 pesos, or less than $4 (£2.60). In a sign of how far he's come, this weekend he earned at least $100m in the ""fight of the century"" against American rival Floyd ""Money"" Mayweather Jr. The highly anticipated bout took about half a decade to organise and is the richest event in the history of boxing. Pacquiao wasn't able to defeat Mayweather. Despite his loss, the 36-year-old remains a hero in locals' eyes and there is speculation he may turn to politics and possibly run for president in the coming years. Following his sporting success, he's become so influential in the Philippines it can be said that he single-handedly boosts the economy each time he fights. Some analysts have gone so far as to claim the Philippines' currency the peso rises ahead of his matches. One media report said the peso strengthened against the US dollar in six out of 10 of his last critical fights. Whenever Pacquiao enters the ring, the South East Asian nation is famously said to come to a virtual standstill. This past weekend was no different. The normally gridlocked streets of its capital, Manila, stood mostly empty in the hours leading up to and during his match against Mayweather. Across the country, millions gathered in private homes, town halls, schools, cinemas and stadiums to watch him fight across the Pacific, cheering loudly each time he managed to land a blow on his arch rival. It is estimated that seven out of 10 people in the Philippines watched the match on Sunday. And that level of viewership translates into a lot of money. Tickets to the match at the MGM Grand Garden in Vegas officially ranged from $1,500 to $10,000. They were sold out in minutes. In the Philippines, most people would never be able to afford that. It is estimated that more than a quarter of its population live under the poverty line, or with less than $2 a day. However, many paid out of pocket to watch the Pacquiao-Mayweather match at home, a bar, hotel or casino, and a variety of businesses have cashed in. Sky Cable charged a pay-per-view rate of 2,500 pesos. Others paid 800 pesos per head to watch Sunday's fight in a cinema. Operator SM Prime Holdings said it sold 100,000 tickets for showings in 200 of its 300 cinemas. Even the Philippines' biggest power distributor Manila Electric (Meralco) benefited. It said electricity usage is about 10% higher during Pacquiao fights. On the islands of Palawan and Mindanao, residents were advised to turn off their refrigerators to save electricity ahead of the match due to intermittent power outages. Then there are the lucrative sponsorship deals. When Pacquiao first went professional, he only had one advertiser willing to pay for their logo to feature on his trunks. In Las Vegas on Sunday, they generated about $2.5m after at least six companies paid for a space on his shorts, including Philippines telecoms giant Smart Communications. It's also impossible to escape his mug in the sprawling capital of Manila; its plastered on flyers in shopping malls and in multiple sections of the daily newspapers. Brands such as Nike, Rexona and Nestle's Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cups also hawk merchandise with his name or likeness on them. Small businesses have benefited from the ""Pac Man effect"" as well. In a small shopping mall in Quezon City, a suburb of Manila, the Bunny Baker café has seen an increase in traffic after its owners created a life-sized cake of the boxer. ""I think Pacquiao is phenomenal for the economy,"" co-owner Zach Yonzon said. ""Whenever there is a fight, everybody goes out. If you're not watching at home, you're going outside to eat at a restaurant. ""When Filipinos are happy, they spend money,"" he added with a smile. The biggest and simplest way Pacquiao contributes to the local economy is through taxes. As one of the world's most highly-paid athletes, Pacquiao is the Philippines' top individual taxpayer despite having been accused of under-declaring his income. He drew $42m in earnings last year, according to Forbes, a figure that will exponentially increase following his fight with Mayweather. Their bout was the richest in boxing history having generated as much as half-a-billion dollars. Pacquiao, who dropped out of high school aged 14, has also demonstrated business savvy over the years. In General Santos, known as the country's tuna capital because of its fishing industry, Pacquiao has set up a gym and hotel, where you can buy an ""8 World Title"" or ""Pound for Pound"" Pacquiao burger at its Roadhaus restaurant. The poverty that Pacquiao famously grew up in is long gone. Now he lives in large mansions and will never go hungry again. And that's why he has captured the Philippines' consciousness. His is the true Cinderella story, and millions of Filipinos still aspire to emulate his escape from grinding poverty and make their own mark on the world stage.","In the southern Philippines city of General Santos , there is a dusty little barangay , or village , where boxer Manny "" Pac Man "" Pacquiao recalls having @placeholder in the streets , starving and hungry .",rooted,names,slept,spots,fallen,2
"The boiled and peeled eggs were mainly sold to cafeterias, cafes and catering firms, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration said in a statement. Denmark is the latest European country to discover eggs contaminated with fipronil in its food chain. The insecticide can damage people's kidneys, liver and thyroid glands if eaten in large quantities. However, the Danish food administration urged calm, saying the eggs bought by Danæg Products posed no risk to human consumption. ""Samples analysed in the Netherlands show traces of fipronil in the eggs, but not as a health hazard,"" the agency said [in Danish]. ""Because the content is illegal, Danæg Products must withdraw the eggs from their customers."" Twenty tonnes is the equivalent weight of two-and-a-half African elephants. Denmark is believed to be the tenth country affected by the widening scandal, with Romania and Luxembourg among the latest to report finding contaminated products. The majority of the eggs have originated from the Netherlands, but also from Belgium and Germany. Romanian authorities said on Thursday that one tonne of liquid egg yolk contaminated with fipronil had been found in a warehouse in the west of the country. The product was imported from Germany but had not been sold to consumers, food safety officials said. It also emerged on Thursday that two managers at a Dutch company had been arrested during joint raids by Dutch and Belgian authorities. The company - named as Chickfriend by local media - allegedly used fipronil at poultry farms, prosecutors in the Netherlands said. Fipronil is banned from use in the food industry under EU rules. In a statement, the prosecutors said investigators were also focused on a Belgian supplier, and another Dutch company ""that colluded with the Belgian supplier"". They added: ""They are suspected of putting public health in danger by supplying and using fipronil in pens containing egg-laying chickens."" Chickfriend, a poultry farm cleaning company, is yet to comment. Investigators in Belgium have also carried out several raids and identified 26 people or companies as suspects, AFP news agency reports. Some 6,000 litres of ""prohibited products"" were seized in Belgium. In the UK, the Food Standards Agency now says about 700,000 eggs have been imported from potentially contaminated Dutch farms, up from an early estimate of 21,000, But it said it was very unlikely that there was a risk to public health. However, 11 products containing egg - including sandwiches and salads - have been withdrawn from supermarkets. The Netherlands is Europe's biggest egg producer - and one of the largest exporters of eggs and egg products in the world. Some 180 farms - which produce millions of eggs a week - have been temporarily shut down while further tests are carried out. It is thought that fipronil was added to an allowable treatment for red mites. The problem first surfaced earlier in August, when Aldi withdrew all its eggs from sale in Germany. It has since emerged Belgian officials knew about the contamination in June, but did not make the information public because of a fraud investigation. But Belgium has in turn accused the Dutch of knowing about the problem as far back as November 2016, which they deny.","Twenty tonnes of insecticide - @placeholder eggs have been sold in Denmark , the country 's food safety authority says .",tainted,monitored,free,levels,based,0
"Mark Woods encouraged people on social media under #walkwithwalnut to share the last outing on a beach in Cornwall. Walnut the whippet, who was 18-years-old, has now been put down because of his ill health. Mr Woods said the reaction from people around the world who had heard about Walnut on social media had been ""incredible"". Writing on Facebook, Mr Woods confirmed Walnut had died. He said: ""Walnut passed away this morning at 11.56am. The family and our three whippets, Monty, Nelson and Charlie were also in the room. ""He went very quickly and in my arms. I am writing this post because I owe it to everyone who has supported myself, my family and most importantly Walnut. ""Thank you to the hundreds of people that attended the walk this morning and to all those that had their own walks with their beloved pets at 9.30am all around the world. ""I also want to thank the wonderful people of Newquay for their support which I will never forget as long as I live. God bless you all."" Mr Woods said the pair been through an ""awful lot together"", including two marriages, three engagements and a move from London to Cornwall. He said Porth Beach, which is closed to dogs during the summer months, was Walnut's favourite beach. A Kennel Club spokesman said whippets tended to live until they were thirteen to fourteen years old, so Walnut's age was ""impressive"" and ""certainly unusual for the breed"". ""The walk for Walnut is a lovely idea and will no doubt give him the send-off he deserves.""",Hundreds of people @placeholder a dog owner when he took his beloved but poorly whippet Walnut on a final walk .,surprised,injuring,joined,saw,including,2
"Jack Lew was speaking at a meeting of the G20 group, which includes several of the world's largest economies. Earlier this month, the European Central Bank introduced new measures to stimulate the area's flagging economy. However it has stopped short of adopting the policies favoured by its US counterpart, the Federal Reserve. As well as launching an asset purchase programme, through which it will buy debt products from banks, the ECB cut its benchmark interest rate to 0.05%. The bank has been under pressure to kick-start the eurozone economy, as manufacturing output has slowed and inflation has fallen to just 0.3%. ""Europe is going to need to solve its problems and resolve differences it has internally,"" Mr Lew told reporters at the meeting in Australia, ""but what's clear from the US experience is that the combination of taking action to boost demand in the short run and make structural changes for the long run is an important combination, and it shouldn't become a choice between the two. ""You really need to pursue both."" Mr Lew also expressed concern about the political tensions between European countries, and the effect this may have on pushing through urgent policies. ""The concern that I have is that if the efforts to boost demand are deferred for too long, there is a risk that the headwinds get stronger, and what I think Europe needs is more tailwinds in the economy,"" he cautioned.","The US Treasury Secretary has urged eurozone countries to "" boost demand "" in order to reduce @placeholder and avoid deflation .",communities,stability,control,unemployment,debt,3
"Clerk of the course Gary Thompson confirmed the opening four-lap Supersport race will start at 13:00 BST. However, police said part of the course between Ballacraine and Ballig is currently closed after a tree fell on top of a car. It is not believed anyone in the car was injured. The day's schedule also includes the first Sidecar race at 14:50 BST and practice sessions for TT Zero, Superstock and Lightweight machines. Most roads around the course will close to traffic at midday. The Mountain Road from Barrule Park, Ramsey to Bungalow will close at 11.15 and Bungalow to Creg Ny Baa at 11:30. The event's opening Superbike race was won by Yorkshire racer Ian Hutchinson on Sunday.",The second day of racing at the Isle of Man TT has been @placeholder because of poor weather on the island .,delayed,declared,abandoned,launched,closed,0
"Speaking at a preview of the first episode of his final series on the BBC show, he admitted he'd be ""very sad"" to say goodbye to the programme. The story - titled The Pilot - introduces the Doctor's new companion Bill Potts, played by Pearl Mackie. It sees the Doctor, Bill, and Nardole, played by Matt Lucas, battling a shape-shifting alien across time and space. Capaldi, 58, who took over the Time Lord role in 2013, announced in January that he would leave the show in the 2017 Christmas special. Speaking to an invited audience at the screening in London on Tuesday, Capaldi said: ""It's an incredible thing to wake up in the morning and go 'Oh, I'm still Doctor Who!' and go and blow up some monsters - and that's how you spend your day. ""When you walk around, people don't see Peter anymore - it's Doctor Who they see  - and he gets many more smiles than I do. It'll be sad to say goodbye to him."" Asked about who might take over his role, the Scottish actor chose his words carefully. ""I'm sure whoever that person is will be wonderful,"" he said. ""Doctor Who is a wonderful part, and they are going to make - if they haven't already done so - a wonderful choice, whether that's a man or a woman."" Speculation has been  mounting over who will take over the role, with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge among the bookies' favourites. Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat said after the screening that he was surprised at the ""fuss"" over Bill's sexuality. Last week it was revealed that Mackie's character would be the Time Lord's first openly gay companion. ""We are not expecting any kind of round of applause or pat on the back for that,"" Moffat said. ""That is the minimum of representation you should have on television. The correct response would be: 'What took you so long?'"" ""It is important we don't make a big fuss of this in a children's show that communicates directly with children. ""You don't want young kids who regard themselves as boring and normal and happen to fancy their own gender, we don't want them to feel as if they are some kind of special case."" Addressing journalists in the audience, he added jokingly: ""It is not your job to frighten children - it is my job!"" Capaldi said he enjoyed the fact that the Doctor was seen ""grounded"" on Earth as a university lecturer in the opening episode. ""I loved being at university,"" he said. ""I love it when Doctor Who roots itself in something recognisable and normal."" Doctor Who returns on BBC One on Saturday 15 April. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Peter Capaldi has said whoever @placeholder him in Doctor Who - whether a man or woman - will be "" wonderful "" .",expects,portrayed,joins,adopting,replaces,4
"Five households in Dawlish have complained of the ""stench of fetid sewage"" and debris being flung into gardens by passing traffic. Roger Anderson said they were ""fed-up"" with the lack of action by South West Water, despite constant complaints. South West Water said it was working to resolve the issues ""urgently"". Resident Margaret Cloke said she arrived home to a pool of sewage in her garden and the smell made her feel ""very nauseous"". She said: ""We've had a lot of problems with sewerage. We've had sewage in the lane coming out of manholes, and people are walking through it and then obviously going back indoors, or going into the shops, and the stench is absolutely awful."" However, the company said there was no ""quick fix"" because the problems at Secmaton Lane and Secmaton Rise were complex and the site had seen ""considerable new development"".","Sewage floods have affected @placeholder in Devon more than 50 times in the past three years , according to residents .",properties,interest,gains,goods,areas,0
"You'd be forgiven for missing the tiny dirt track that veers off toward the Westgate farm in Chisamba, which grows moringa trees. There is a humble entrance to a modest plot of land, but it houses a project with huge aspirations. ""I personally think we can wipe out malnutrition in Zambia, in sub-Saharan Africa or anywhere else there is a malnutrition problem"" says Steven Putter, executive director of the Imagine Rural Development Initiative, which has been planting moringa trees on this site in Zambia since 2013. Moringa has been used for centuries in Asia and Africa for its nutritional and healing properties, and in some reports it has been called ""the miracle tree"" and ""the tree of life"". The delicate green leaves and even the stems of the plant are packed with vitamins, amino acids, anti-oxidants and protein. A chance encounter introduced Steven Putter to this unassuming shrub. He was so taken with the plant's potential that he abandoned a corporate career in South Africa and moved to Zambia. He set up the project with $250,000 (£170,000) of his own funds, the help of another investor, and a $20,000 grant from the Swedish government. Putter's vision is that moringa supplements could have a revolutionary effect in Zambia where malnutrition rates are some of the worst in Africa. About 45% of Zambian children under five suffer stunted growth, says the World Health Organisation - while the children's charity, Unicef, says that thousands of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition, including low birth weight, stunting and multiple vitamin deficiencies. ""I'm not saying moringa is the only plant, but it's a very good cornerstone to relieve the problems that exist now very quickly,"" says Steven. ""Imagine if we plant 1,000 trees at every school in Zambia, that would probably cost $2m - but what is that in relation to being able to wipe out malnutrition?"" Lewis Chikoti's bright green overall stands out amongst the knee-high moringa crops he is tending. He joined the project as farm foreman a year ago and now feeds his children moringa three times a day: ""I have noticed such a difference in my family's health; my children are not getting sick and they just seem brighter with more energy."" Most people in Zambia rely on a diet of the maize staple nshima, which is easy to grow, but is of little nutritional value. ""With maize you get food security, which is good because it puts a plate of food in front of people"" says Steven Putter, ""but the language needs to change from 'food security' to 'nutritional security'."" Moringa oil was prized in perfume manufacture in ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and the Roman empire. The drought-resistant plant is also known by names including drumstick tree and horseradish tree. It's mainly grown for its leaves in Africa, and its pods in Asia. As a food, its leaves are rich in protein, minerals and vitamins A, B and C. Moringa flowers are used to make tea, and mature seeds can be roasted and eaten like peanuts. The plant can also be used as an animal feed. Moringa seed powder has anti-bacterial properties, and can be used during water purification. Source: Feedipedia Zambia is also in desperate need of re-structuring its economy and lessening its dependence on mining. Copper mining accounts for over 70% of the country's exports, yet the lion's share of copper mines are foreign-owned and many ordinary Zambians say they are not feeling the benefits. Austen Ngwani looks after the moringa project's accounts. Originally from the Copperbelt region in the north west of the country, he feels strongly about Zambia's need to diversify. ""For Zambia to develop, we need to move away from the mining sector and look to agriculture,"" he says. ""It's the only way we can export on our own terms and strengthen our currency."" Steven Putter says the numbers add up for Zambia. Moringa plants can be harvested once a month. In peak season and on the Zambian site, it requires no fertilizer. This contributes to a very high return on investment, says Mr Putter, of up to ""$60,000 per hectare per year"". So far the project employs 60 people tending six million plants. Moringa products such as tea or food supplements are sold within Zambia and exported to other countries including the UK, China and South Africa. Putter wants to expand the site to include animal husbandry and aquaponics - using water tanks to grow plants and breed fish. He says the results of giving moringa to animals is quite amazing. ""We have seen a 15% increase in cattle growth since introducing moringa to their diet"". Steven Putter's path to the ""miracle tree"" has not been without obstacles. It has cost him a marriage and many thousands of dead trees along the way. But his resolve is fixed. ""Moringa can become a multi-million dollar export product for Zambia: it's got the water, it's got the soil, it's got the people - why not? Now it's just will and perseverance.""","If you take the only road north out of Zambia 's capital Lusaka , the bustle of roadside street vendors and concrete bungalows soon fades into fields of turmeric - @placeholder bush land , dotted with the occasional mango tree .",smelling,funded,flung,tinted,threatening,3
"American chief executive Henry Engelhardt will hand over the keys in a year's time. Started in 1991, the company now employs 7,000 people, most of them in south Wales. Admiral's idea was to target motorists who found it hard to get cheaper insurance, including younger drivers, those with higher performance cars and those living in cities. Engelhardt initially looked at setting the business up in Brighton, as he wanted somewhere within two hours of London. ""Cardiff - we had to get the map out to find where it was,"" he said. But he was impressed by the ""sell"" of the old South Glamorgan County Council and a £1m set-up grant by the then Welsh Development Agency to settle on the Welsh capital for his headquarters. Admiral has seen record profits every year since it became a public company. Although 2014 was an exception, it still made a £357 million profit. Engelhardt has a taste for food analogies - following on from describing the company's performance as ""jacket potato"" (comforting - but not exciting like a steak) in 2013, 2014 was ""Baked Alaska"" (hot and cold in a single bite). In reality, Admiral is facing challenging times as competition in the insurance market drives down prices and makes it tougher to make a profit. It also operates price comparison site confused.com but the UK market has become ""saturated,"" in the words of Engelhardt, with few new customers. That is why Admiral is become increasingly focused on foreign markets such as the USA, Spain and France. The way the company does business has also attracted attention. ""People who like what they do, do it better"" is the company's philosophy. With that in mind, the firm has a Ministry of Fun, which organises events for staff including fancy dress days and pantomimes, while a community chest distributed £114,000 last year to charities and good causes staff were involved in outside work. The group also sponsors the Wales rugby team's shirts. Senior managers sit in open-plan offices with staff and they can email Engelhardt directly through the ""Ask Henry"" company intranet. Neither Engelhardt or his senior team have company cars. More seriously there is the share scheme for workers, with some long-serving staff receiving the equivalent of £30,000 in shares. In February, Admiral was placed number five in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work. FACTFILE - HENRY ENGELHARDT Mr Engelhardt, who owns 11.7% of the company, said he was leaving to make way for a younger management team to take the group forward. ""It's a transition - I'm probably starting a downward slope and we've a lot of managers on the upward slope."" ""Don't bury me yet, Guys! I still have 12 months on the job and lots to accomplish in that time."" His successor, co-founder David Stevens, 51, said he was ready to build on Mr Engelhardt's ""formidable legacy"" but is also talking with him about how he might continue to make his ""unique skills"" available. Engelhardt added: ""I can't go cold turkey, I'll help David as best I can.""","With one careful owner from new and nearly 25 years on the clock , Admiral is to say farewell to the man who has driven it to the @placeholder of being one of Britain 's most valuable companies .",level,position,brink,chance,heights,1
"The £2 coin, made by The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff, was released into circulation in Hampshire on Tuesday. It will be released into wider UK circulation later in 2017. Dominique Evans' design, her first for a circulating coin, features the author's silhouette and signature. She said: ""I imagined the framed silhouette in one of the houses featured in Jane Austen's books, on the wall of a corridor as guests pass by to attend a dance, perhaps in Pride and Prejudice or on the wall in the home of Emma.""",A graphic designer from Newport has had her @placeholder selected to appear on a coin to mark the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen 's death .,face,constituency,artwork,neighbours,likeness,2
"English is one of the advantages India has which are said to be propelling it to economic superpower status. There are all those Indians who speak excellent English. It's the mother tongue of the elite and effectively the official language of the central government. Then there is the growing number of parents who now aspire to give their children an education through the medium of that language. But is the craze for English an unmixed blessing? Back in the sixties the British regarded Indian English as something of a joke. The comic actor Peter Sellers had mocked it so comprehensively that I found it well nigh impossible to get the BBC to allow anyone with even the faintest Indian accent on the air. In India, we native English speakers laughed at quaint phrases like ""please do the necessary and oblige"", or more simply ""please do the needful"", and ""it is suggested that the meeting be preponed"", which appeared regularly in Indian official correspondence. A senior British diplomat once suggested that his PA should find some less geographically specific way of answering the telephone when he couldn't take the call than saying, ""Sahib is not on his seat"". Much to the diplomat's dismay a colleague told him that his PA had misunderstood the instruction and been even more specific. He'd told the colleague, ""Sahib is in the lavatory."" Now with Indian writers carrying off the major literary awards, and Westerners in the IT and BPO industries talking of being ""bangalored"" when they are replaced by English-speaking Indians, Indian English is anything but a joke. But could the very success of English in India ""bangalore"" India's own languages? The linguist Professor David Crystal speaking in Delhi said: ""A language is dying every two weeks somewhere in the world today. Half the world's languages will no longer be spoken in another century. This is an extremely serious concern, and English has to share the blame."" Others put it less politely, describing English as a killer language. But should India worry if English kills off some of its 22 officially recognised and hundreds of its not-so-official languages? Perhaps the answer is no. In his book comparing the future of India, China, and Japan, the former editor of The Economist, Bill Emmott, said India fell short of China in almost every measure except the ability to speak English. So why shouldn't India build on its one advantage? One practical reason is because, looking back over the history of India since it became independent in 1947, it is clear that any threat to Indian languages has the potential to provoke a violent backlash. Mark Tully is a writer and former BBC India correspondent. This is an edited extract from his new book,  Non Stop India, published by Penguin Books, India","Whether the government , the private sector or NGOs should @placeholder development is a question which will not have much relevance unless India 's wealth continues to grow to pay for that development .",reveal,influence,deliver,lauded,body,2
"Women in Football said its language expert is certain Mourinho used abusive language towards a woman, contrary to the verdict of the FA's chosen expert. ""It's another example of the FA failing to tackle discrimination,"" it said. ""We are concerned by the serious flaws in the process of such investigations."" The FA studied footage from the 2-2 draw with Swansea on 8 August after a member of the public made a complaint. It said it was ""satisfied the words used do not constitute discriminatory language under FA rules"". Carneiro and head physio Jon Fearn were criticised by Mourinho for treating Eden Hazard with the side a man down. The club doctor, 42, had her role downgraded before she decided to leave the club. The Women in Football statement said: ""Our own language expert made it abundantly clear that the abusive words used by Mr Mourinho on the touchline that day were specifically directed towards a woman, as indicated by the grammar of his sentence. ""Other Portuguese speakers we contacted in gathering evidence also emphasised this point. We therefore find it extraordinary that any expert or Portuguese speaker would report otherwise."" The FA said it had appointed an independent academic expert in Portuguese linguistics to analyse the footage of the incident, which included the audio recording. It said in its statement: ""Both the words used, as translated and analysed by the independent expert, and the video evidence, do not support the conclusion that the words were directed at any person in particular.""","The Football Association 's decision to clear Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho of making discriminatory comments to former club doctor Eva Carneiro has "" appalled "" a campaign @placeholder .",statement,scheme,goal,leader,group,4
"Sorry, the pop songs tell us, is the hardest word - but is it ever enough? Libyan television showed Saadi Gaddafi in his blue prison uniform the other day, clean-shaven and looking well. The authorities were keen to dispel rumours that the 40-year-old - who led a colourful life as a son of the great dictator - had been abused in prison. He told the camera: ""I apologise to the Libyan people, and I apologise to the dear brothers in the Libyan government for all the harm I've caused and for disturbing the security and stability of Libya."" There was no immediate indication that the ""dear brothers in the Libyan government"" would consider this adequate redress for the millions allegedly taken away by the former commander of Libya's Special Forces and former head of the Libyan Football Federation - but chances are they would not. What Zuma should say about Nkandla As we venture into April with all its anniversaries of history's gruesome moments - Rwanda 1994 or South Africa's removal of her apartheid yoke - how are we to understand the word ""sorry"" these days and more importantly does it count for anything at all? The steady stream of Africans appearing at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ignores the central theme of our African atrocities - that it is the little people, the men and women on the streets and in the hills of our villages who take the business of killing very personally. The events in the Central African Republic (CAR) have thrown up disturbing images of Christians targeting Muslims in revenge attacks. Young men have filled our news screens to happily declare that they want to kill, have killed and will kill again. African Union peacekeepers have been keeping a kind of peace where the Christians have refused to turn the other cheek and the UN has warned of the prospect of serious long-lasting conflict in the CAR. As we remember Rwanda's genocide, CAR reminds us that we have been here before - that the early warning alarms are ringing loud and clear and that sooner or later we shall hear the politicians convening truth and reconciliation commissions and the murdering Christians may have to say sorry not just in the confession box. But will it help? Collectively we all expect to hear the word sorry. A sorry from the great war-mongers of our times would not erase the wars, but it is expected. And so, as we remember the 1994 genocide, we are reminded about who has and has not apologised over the world's failure to stop the killings. In an interview over the weekend, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame mentioned ""the direct role of Belgium and France"" in the ""political preparation for genocide"" and repeated his claim that France did more than just ""not having done enough to save lives during the genocide"". France rejected such complicity, with a former prime minister saying the country took ""the initiative to organise a humanitarian operation to prevent widespread massacres"". The fall-out has been such that the French presidency at first suggested a boycott of Rwanda's 20th genocide memorial, then suggested they would be represented by their ambassador, only for that ambassador to say he had been barred from the ceremony. Apologies though, belong to the victims not to the victor - and there is a silent chapter in Rwanda's history that claims President Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) troops killed thousands, including peacekeepers, in their pursuit of power and peace and that group of souls is too easily erased from his own narrative - accusations denied by Mr Kagame. All figures in 2013 financial terms Source: Public protector report How Zuma's home has grown Over in South Africa, where the country marks 20 years of democratic rule this month, President Jacob Zuma is about to go back to his country and ask for another term in office. And like all second-term presidents, the gloss has well and truly dimmed from his presidency and scandal after scandal hounds him. South Africans, though, always seem to be expecting Mr Zuma to apologise - for his past, his friends, his lovers, his money, his way of governance. Perhaps they have a taste for apologies following their Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated human rights abuses carried out during the apartheid era and granted amnesty to those who showed remorse. Just the other week Mr Zuma was told that the millions of public money spent on security upgrades to his rural homestead in Nkandla could not be entirely justified and that he had to pay back some of the money spent on the swimming pool, the chicken enclosure and the amphitheatre. Public Protector Thuli Madonsela went further in her report on Nkandla: ""The manner in which the Nkandla Project was administered and implemented gave me the impression of a toxic concoction of a lack of leadership, a lack of control and focused self-interest."" But those expecting an apology from the South African president may have a long wait - he has referred the whole matter to the Special Investigation Unit, leaving the nation to tuck into his latest dilemma as they prepare to go to the polls. Apologies are very personal pleas for forgiveness between individuals. When they are expressed we expect them to be wholesome and sincere - otherwise they never really stick. If you would like to comment on Farai Sevenzo's column, please do so below.","In our series of letters from African journalists , filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers the @placeholder of apologies , as Africa marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide and the end of white minority rule in South Africa .",nature,lack,level,hearts,process,0
"So says Rafa from Brazil, as he and his friends dance lazily on the hill overlooking the huge main stage, where superstar DJ Avicii performs live. He is among thousands of Brazilians who made the 9,417km (5,000-mile) journey to Belgium for the Tomorrowland festival - a feast of electronic music. It's a very diverse crowd, with many people waving their national flags from all over the world: India, Australia, Russia, Germany, Chile, Canada, Spain, South Korea - pretty much anywhere. Despite being a relatively new festival Tomorrowland - staged in countryside between Brussels and Antwerp - has emerged as one of the biggest and most popular music events in the world. To mark its tenth anniversary the festival has added an extra weekend, doubling its usual capacity of 180,000 visitors. Despite the extension the 360,000 tickets were all sold out within an hour. Debby Wilmsen is a press agent for the festival, and she told me that although Tomorrowland started in 2005 with only 9,000 people attending, the festival's popularity continued to grow until they began selling out after five years. ""Now we have a new festival in the US called TomorrowWorld. It's all gone very fast for us."" She says the secret to their success was a word-of-mouth reputation which all began on the internet. ""We do not make television or radio adverts, we don't print posters, we only use social media - so that we can have direct contact with our fans,"" she said. Tomorrowland's main stage has become an icon in itself, and its ambitious designs each year help to make the festival venue instantly recognisable around the world. In 2012 the stage was a huge volcano, erupting in fireworks. This year the stage is shaped like a giant water mill 140m (462ft) long and 40m high, surrounded by massive wheels and a huge round screen. Fire, smoke and confetti are blasted out from the stage, settling on the artistic ""valley"". The deep thumping bass follows you around the small town of Boom and the park hosting the event. The alleyways are full of happy festival-goers walking and dancing. There are 16 stages and 400 DJs, blasting out music non-stop. Whether you like electronic music or not, it is hard not to be swept up in the atmosphere. Along its eclectic, eccentric stages you'll find several lakes, a river running under a newly built bridge designed by a Belgian artist and a huge, slowly revolving wheel.  As night falls the lights from the stage and the colourful street artists create a magical atmosphere. Promoting local artists and products is an important part of the festival's ambitions. ""We have a lot of international guests coming here and we want to give them a touch of Belgian spirit. So we have Belgian fries, Belgian chefs cook meals in our restaurants and we have a Belgian beer cafe. We want to give visitors a holiday feeling with a real Belgian atmosphere,"" said Debby Wilmsen. The presence of drugs is a hard reality that all festivals must deal with, and Tomorrowland's policy is clear. ""Of course we cannot control everyone,  but we have police on site and we have a zero-tolerance policy. When someone is caught with drugs they are immediately expelled from the festival,"" she said. On the main stage the DJ asks the crowd to put their hands in the air and in seconds countless thousands of arms reach for the sky. Ronnie and Shani, two friends from Israel, can't stop smiling as they dance together. ""We are so happy to be here, we almost didn't make it. Our flight got cancelled because of the war [between Israel and Hamas] and we had to buy new tickets at the last minute. The only flights we could get on were to Paris, so we rented a car and here we are,"" says Shani. Ronnie says ""everybody is so friendly - it's nice to break away from the tense situation in our country at the moment"". As the sun sets on the fields of Boom, DJ Avicii finishes his set with his best-selling hit Wake Me Up. Rafa and his Brazilian friends sip beers as the festival reaches its finale. ""I would like to tell my children that I was here. It's something very unique, and I hope that in the future I'll be able send my son to Tomorrowland,"" Rafa says.",""" This is a dream come true , I feel like I 've jumped inside my television because in Brazil my friends and I would always watch Tomorrowland 's @placeholder and we always wanted to come here . I 'm living a dream right now . """,wealth,videos,goal,food,team,1
"Eight-month-old Marley from Hitcham chewed through the tube of glue his owner was using for home improvements. At first he showed no signs of illness, but within a week needed emergency surgery to remove a solid lump of adhesive from his stomach. His owner Beverley King said her pet made a full recovery and was now ""bouncing around"" again. Read this and more stories from Suffolk Mrs King said her husband had been working upstairs when Marley came down with his paws covered in glue. He was taken to the vet to have the glue removed and seemed fine, she said. However he later became ill and had to be referred to a specialist veterinary centre near Newmarket, where the full extent of Marley's mishap was revealed. He underwent a one-hour operation to have the ball of glue removed by a surgical specialist. Mrs King, who slept by his side every night ""just to be on the safe side"", said her pet was due to have a final check up later.",A cocker spaniel has been saved from a sticky end after eating a tube of @placeholder glue .,possessing,carrying,white,expanding,dog,3
"And even in an era before the collapse of trust in politicians, the word ""non-political"" carried a lot of weight. A similar dynamic has been at play during the European Union referendum campaign. Both sides have been keen to roll out business leaders to support their cause, believing that voters are willing to listen to people who actually make decisions on employing people and investing in the UK economy. For Remain, a series of business big-hitters have backed the UK staying in the EU, saying leaving would risk job losses and threaten economic growth. How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU. They include Sir Roger Carr, chairman of the aerospace giant BAE, Dame Carolyn McCall, chief executive of easyJet, Bob Dudley, chief executive of BP, and Douglas Flint, the chairman of HSBC. Remain supporters insist that the weight of business opinion is on their side. And certainly nearly all the reputable polls on the issue have put business support for Remain ahead of support for Leave. Today's by the British Chambers of Commerce, one of the largest, puts ""Remain"" leading ""Leave"" among its members 54% to 37%. Leave supporters respond by saying that larger businesses tend to be more pro-EU and speak for the ""establishment"", smaller businesses and those that do not export to other parts of the EU are more negative and that they have some significant business voices on their side. They include Tim Martin, chairman of pub chain JD Wetherspoons, Luke Johnson, chairman of Patisserie Valerie and the man behind the success of Pizza Express, and Rocco Forte, chief executive of Rocco Forte Hotels. And one ray of sunshine for the Leave campaign from the BCC survey is that the poll lead for remain among businesses has fallen from 30% to 17%. Though it is also worth noting that 90% of those that responded to the poll said that their mind was now settled, which suggests there is not much chance of a substantial further shift before the referendum on 23rd June. The BCC survey, and today's study by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research - which is expected to claim a high economic cost if Britain leaves the EU - kicks off another week where the economy will dominate much of the EU debate. On Wednesday George Osborne appears before the Treasury Select Committee to be questioned on the Treasury report which said that the UK economy could be 6% smaller by 2030 if Britain left the EU. On Thursday the Governor of the Bank of England will appear in public for one of the last major economic reports from the Bank on the state of the UK economy before the referendum. Mark Carney is likely to strike a gloomy note after manufacturing and service growth data suggested that economic growth had fallen to as low as 0.1% in April, down from 0.4% for the first three months of the year. How much he attributes that to Brexit risk or just general economic gloom will be fascinating. The week will be rounded off by the International Monetary Fund's annual study of the British economy which is set to say that leaving the EU will carry a significant bill for Britain. Mr Osborne wants to keep the focus on the economic argument that leaving the EU is bad for Britain. For those who support Brexit, Project Fear, as they describe it, is in full voice.","In his memoirs , Tony Blair wrote that one of the reasons business support for New Labour in the 1990s was important was for the message it sent voters - if businesses agree with us , then that is a powerful , non-political endorsement of our @placeholder to you .",offer,allegiance,bid,relationship,principles,0
"The work is a portrait of Van Dyck's close friend Olivia Porter and was painted around 1637. The tax bill covered was for £2.8m but the full value of the painting has not been disclosed. Owned by the same family since the 17th Century, the portrait will now go to the Bowes Museum in County Durham. Adrian Jenkins, director of the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, said: ""We are delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate the gift of this wonderful portrait. ""It will also of course enhance the museum's permanent collection."" Born in Antwerp, Van Dyck  is thought of as one of the most important Flemish painters, in particular portraitists, of the 17th Century. He was heavily influenced by Rubens and the Italian artists, especially Titian, and is best remembered for his elegant representations of Charles I and his court after he settled at the English court in 1632. Olivia Porter was a lady-in-waiting at the court, who married Van Dyck's friend Endymion Porter, the king's picture agent and diplomat. The portrait of Olivia - who became the subject of more than one of the artist's portraits - is thought to have been commissioned by her husband. Its quality and vibrancy reflect the close friendship of the couple with the artist. Van Dyck chose to paint Olivia in a timeless classical costume - red with golden highlights - reminiscent of Venetian painters such as Titian. Edward Harley, chairman of the panel which advises the government on offers in lieu of tax said: ""The acceptance-in-lieu scheme continues to enrich our public collections. ""I am delighted that this exceptional portrait, which is one of the great Van Dycks, has been allocated to the Bowes Museum in County Durham."" The painting will form part of a major exhibition, The English Rose - Feminine Beauty from Van Dyck to Sargent, which opens at the Bowes Museum in May 2016.",A painting by the artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck has been saved for the nation after being @placeholder to cover UK inheritance tax .,awarded,opened,ordered,reduced,donated,4
"Idris Elba will once again don his tweed coat for the four-part season, which has been described as ""utterly heart-stopping and unmissable"". The crime drama was last on screens in December 2015, although Elba reprised the role for a Sport Relief sketch last March. Filming will begin on the new series early next year. After the fourth series there had been hopes it would live on as a big screen version, but a film never materialised. Co-creator and writer Neil Cross said: ""It's a question Idris and I get asked a lot. What happened to John Luther after we last saw him striding unbowed through the streets of his city, his blood red London? ""It can't be over, can it? There's so much we don't know. So much unfinished business. The thing is, we've been asking ourselves the same question. ""In the end, we picked up the phone to some old friends and asked if they'd like to find out what happens next. It turns out, they would. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to find out what happens next."" Elba added: ""Neil, the BBC and I have been talking about a further season and I am thrilled that we have been able to bring it all together. ""I look forward to putting the coat back on."" Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Luther fans , your prayers have been answered - the husky - @placeholder detective is returning for a fifth series .",based,voiced,line,sharing,known,1
"Hello raised more than $2.4m (£1.9m) for its Sense bedroom monitor via the crowdfunding site in 2014, and went on to attract a further $40.5m. Private backers included Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek and Facebook Messenger chief David Marcus. Hello confirmed it would ""soon be shutting down"", via Medium's news site. ""The past few months have been incredibly tough, especially on the team of Hello. For that I'm incredibly sorry,"" wrote its chief executive, James Proud. ""Hello has been my whole life for five years, and I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to have travelled with."" The product had been on sale for $149. Customers have been told that the company is ""unsure"" whether the online service that supports the hardware will continue to operate - it would need to be acquired by a third-party. But they can export their existing data. Owners have also been advised to request refunds from shops they bought the devices from. However, if they purchased the kit directly from Hello itself, they have been told there will be no way to get their money back. According to the news site Axios, Hello had held ""fire-sale talks"" with the fitness tracker specialist Fitbit, but failed to reach a deal. A source close to Hello said that the firm - along with some other hardware developers - had found it more difficult to raise funds in recent months. Sense comprised: The equipment produced a unique score for the previous night's sleep and aimed to wake the owner up at the best point in their sleep cycle. It had gained voice controls in November, in its last major update. Mr Proud - who was born in London - gave up plans to go to university to create the gadget and moved to California after receiving a grant from Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who co-created PayPal and now acts as an adviser to President Trump. The Briton had originally planned to create a wearable sleep-tracking gadget. But he switched focus to create a table-top device after deciding that this would make customers more likely to keep using it. ""We spend a third of our day [asleep],"" he told the BBC in 2014, ""It's the most critical part of the day."" He managed to attract money from other big name backers, including ex-Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo, Facebook's virtual reality vice-president Hugo Barra and Spotify's head of special projects, Shakil Khan. But Sense struggled against competition from bigger brands, including Withing's Aura sleep-tracking alarm clock and Fitbit's sleep-tracking wristwear. In addition, Apple acquired another rival, Beddit. ""Kickstarter can give you a good basis to get your product off the ground and an awful lot of PR, but translating that into a successful commercial product is difficult,"" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight tech consultancy. ""Going to the next level, finding more funding and getting backing - or a takeover offer - from a big company is often the lifeline that these companies need to keep going."" The failure has not deterred another British entrepreneur currently using Kickstarter to raise funds for a new sleep-tracking device. Fares Siddiqui has already secured more than $100,000 for Circadia, and hopes to distinguish his product by selling an add-on Smart Therapy Lamp designed to ""tune"" users' body clocks. ""The market is too saturated now with products that just do tracking, and people want to be able to do something about how they sleep,"" he told the BBC. ""Treatment is important and [Hello] missed that key part of the loop.""","A sleep - tracking tech start - up founded by a Briton , which was one of Kickstarter 's biggest success stories , has @placeholder .",concluded,warned,collapsed,opened,begun,2
"Police discovered the ""laughing gas"" during a raid at an address on Longley Road, Fallowfield on Friday  as part of a crackdown on psychoactive substances. Insp John Picton said police seized the haul ""thanks to intelligence"". A woman, 51, and three men aged 58, 30 and 25 were arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply. They were all bailed pending further inquiries, Greater Manchester Police said.","Four people have been arrested after police discovered 50,000 canisters of nitrous oxide at a Manchester @placeholder .",drugs,hotel,food,factory,property,4
Media playback is unsupported on your device 25 July 2014 Last updated at 20:04 BST A company based in Solva has developed new mobile phone technology to record the animal's position. The app is free and can be used in remote areas without wi-fi. Its inventor told Abigail Neal how mapping these sightings could help protect the birds.,Technology @placeholder in Pembrokeshire is being used to track endangered birds of prey in Africa .,people,engineers,pioneered,schools,beaches,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device During these Olympic Games, for example, we will witness champion gymnasts jumping with immaculate grace, distance runners sustaining a tempo that seems barely believable, badminton players who can find the line with unerring accuracy, archers who can thread an arrow into a tiny target. This is magnificent and inspirational. It will keep us captivated for the next few weeks. And yet when it comes to world-class performance, there is something that we don't see: the sacrifice that turned these people into champions in the first place. The sweat, the dedication, the waking up at 5am when your body was crying out for more sleep, the failures, the good habits, the discipline, the drive, the persistence. It is when you get to the competition venue, and face the best of the world, that you discover who has given it more behind the scenes. Who has woken up earlier? Who has trained with their heart and soul? Who has given it their all, not for the last four days, or four weeks, but the last four years? This is the hidden story of success. The true story. The problem is that the X Factor culture we live in today insinuates that success happens instantly for the super-talented. It is about overnight stardom, instant gratification. It deludes us into thinking that if we are blessed with genius, we need only step up to the line to become a superstar. In other words, the entire focus is upon the tip of the iceberg. But that is not how success really happens. Not in the real world, and certainly not in the Olympics. We need to focus more upon what is beneath the water line because only then will we have the resilience to journey towards our own potential, whether we are Olympians or anything else. If success is a sprint, then why bother to carry on when we haven't reached the top in the first few weeks? Might as well give up and try something else. If we recognise that success is a marathon, however, we are able to draw upon deeper reserves of energy and inspiration, and we have a much greater capacity to deal with the setbacks, challenges and failures that are an inevitable part of life and learning, and can sustain our motivation for far longer. This is sometimes called growth mindset - the idea that what we get out is ultimately about what we put in. Talent may be important, but it is never enough without application. Growth mindset recognises that the deepest question we face is: what are we doing beneath the waterline? That mindset has propelled many of our greatest Olympians, and has kept them going when others fell by the wayside. It is the questing spirit that is so central not just to the modern Games, but to its ancient incarnation, too. It is the spirit that keeps us watching. So, you have put the work in, you have arrived in tip-top shape, you are in the form of your life. And yet you arrive on the line, or in the call room, or on the mat, and your heart is beating faster than normal, your hands are perspiring, your vision is suddenly playing games. At this moment, there is one last quality that defines a champion. Can you deliver your best when it really matters, with the eyes of the world upon you? The pressure at the Olympic Games is unique. Mess this up and you have four more years to wait for another chance - if you get another chance. The Olympics is a test of preparation, and technique, and durability, then, but it is also - pre-eminently - a test of nerve. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, I choked. I failed to progress beyond the group stage in the men's table tennis event. The pressure was too intense, I was too worried about losing, and my fine motor skills seemed to evaporate in the metaphorical heat. It was a huge, numbing disappointment. But it taught me something else. Dealing with pressure is another aspect of performance that can be worked upon. It is not just a matter of turning up and hoping for the best, but building a set of tools and techniques that can absolutely help you to nail it when it really counts. In other words, growth mindset is not just about preparing the body, but also preparing the mind. The Olympics is the ultimate test of both. Matthew Syed is a former Olympian and author of Black Box Thinking, a book about high performance","There is a powerful image called "" The Iceberg Illusion "" . At the top , peeping out of the surface of the water , is the tip . It is @placeholder "" Success "" . This is the aspect of the story of champions that we get to see .",attracting,named,labelled,proving,dubbed,2
"30 April 2015 Last updated at 17:05 BST Last year the town, which is in the Wirral, finished seventh in an online list of 13 Worst Christmas Trees in Britain. So this year local businessman Danny McLeod put up a new tree and switched on their Christmas lights eight months early. He thought he'd show the locals what Christmas could be like if the whole area helped out with the cost. Check out what some of the local residents had to say...","The sun is shining and the blossom blooming , but in a town @placeholder Liscard ... it 's Christmas ! Well , sort of .",show,celebrating,divided,called,shows,3
"Most were unaware that it was exactly one year since the Glasgow bin lorry tragedy, but there were many who had remembered. They gathered around the fair in George Square, in darkness as a mark of respect, and the floral tributes outside the Gallery of Modern Art. They stood in silence to remember those who had been affected by the tragedy. A woman stood beside the road on Queen Street sobbing heavily, comforted by a companion. Another quietly sobbed as she looked at the floral tributes outside the Gallery of Modern Art. Many more stopped for a minute as they walked past the flowers to read the messages left with them. Some of the flowers had been left by friends and relatives who were affected by the tragedy but most were placed anonymously by members of the public. They served as a reminder for many of the shoppers and and city-centre workers who may otherwise have forgotten the tragedy's first anniversary. Several times today, passers-by questioned their companions about why the flowers had been laid. Some did not know, but when the bin lorry crash was referenced usually it was followed by a respectful silence. It was an overcast day in George Square, but the scene was brightened by a big bunch of yellow flowers. They were laid by two young colleagues of Erin McQuade, who was 18 when she died in the tragedy. The pair worked with her at Cameron House. As they laid the bunch of yellow flowers outside of the Gallery of Modern Art, one said: ""We picked these flowers because they were so bright and we thought it was a nice way to remember her on what is obviously a sad day. ""It has really affected all of her colleagues. Although we went to her funeral, we also had a night out to our local pub as a way of remembering her. ""She was genuinely the nicest person I have ever met - she was so funny."" Another mourner, Jane McIntyre, said she did not know any of the victims, but she felt it was important to remember them and their families, especially because of the time of year. As she laid a bunch of roses, she said: ""I came last year with my daughter to lay flowers on Boxing Day, because all I could think about on Christmas Day when I was standing cutting my sprouts was that poor woman who lost her daughter and both of her parents. ""I've brought my daughter back today because I'll never, ever forget this day. It's just so sad. If that was me I don't think I'd ever be able to celebrate Christmas again."" She laid her flowers next to those left by Glasgow's Lord Provost Sadie Docherty. Ms Docherty's message said: ""Always in our thoughts and prayers. The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Sadie Docherty.""","For many in George Square at 14:29 on Tuesday , the @placeholder was one of Christmas cheer .",ceremony,county,atmosphere,scene,body,2
"Not one for fax machines and agents' fees, Slovenian club NK Domzale had a novel way of avoiding the madness of the January transfer window - using LinkedIn. The online networking service is best known for telling you an old colleague has a better job than yours and is mainly used in the UK by professionals such as lawyers and accountants. But after Domzale head coach Luka Elsner, 33, posted a message asking for an ""offensive right-back"" who ""must have an EU passport"", the top-flight club received 150 applications and signed Spanish defender Alvaro Brachi, 30, just before transfer deadline day. Jorge Mendes and his fellow agents must be quaking in their loafers. The advert, posted on 7 January, had got 232 views, 10 likes and eight comments by 2 February and had professional footballers sending in their highlights reels for Elsner to select the best man to fit into his ""very offensive 3-4-3 system"". NK Domzale are third in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, eight points behind leaders Olimpija while the league takes a winter break. But they lost captain Nejc Skubic to Turkish side Konyaspor at the start of the January transfer window. The club's PR officer Grega Krmavnar told BBC Sport: ""NK Domzale only has a small budget, we do not have the money to buy the biggest player. ""We needed a replacement and could not find one in Slovenia and had no other choice of players. LinkedIn was just an idea from our head coach Luka Elsner, so we decided it would be a good way, so Elsner decided to post it on the site on his profile."" Brachi's CV includes spells with Spanish sides Real Betis and Espanyol's second teams, Anorthosis in Cyprus and then Videoton in Hungary. He has not played regularly for two seasons. ""We watched footage of the best candidates and analysed them,"" Krmavnar said. ""Brachi was the best candidate and we decided to invite him to Slovenia to train with us on a one-week trial and then signed him. ""We needed a player who was out of contract or wanted a change of environment and we think have found a very quality player. ""I believe we are the first club to find a player in this way."" Some of the unsuccessful responses from LinkedIn",Attacking right - back Alvaro Brachi is waiting to @placeholder ...,score,show,punch,play,connect,4
"Since 2014, the government has said key nursery workers must have at least a grade C in GCSE English and maths. But campaign group Save our Early Years said there was now evidence that this requirement was blocking staff career paths and deterring new starters. The Department for Education said it was working with the profession on a future staffing strategy. Figures from qualifications body Ofqual show about 12,500 students completed the Level 3 Early Years Educator course between July and September 2015, compared with 18,000 in the same period in the previous year - a fall of about 30%. The course, which takes between one and two years to obtain, enables students to obtain their first jobs in nurseries and work with children aged under five. But industry leaders warn the drop in the number of those completing it is evidence of an impending recruitment crisis, which is already damaging the quality of childcare on offer to parents. It also puts in jeopardy government plans to introduce 30 hours of free childcare to all three and four-year-olds from 2017, they say. Under current rules, staff are only allowed to look after a specified number of children: The government requires that there must always be at least one member of staff qualified to Level 3 on duty, which means these staff are essential to all nurseries. Julie Hyde, executive director at the childcare qualifications awarding body Cache, said if the government did not reverse its decision, there would be ""no nursery staff and therefore parents would have no childcare"". Liz Bayram, chief executive of the charity Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years, said nursery chains were able to move staff around to cover gaps, but sole nurseries would be hardest hit by the crisis, she added. In the association's survey of 75 Further Education college leaders, almost three quarters (72%) reported that enrolments on Level 3 courses had decreased in the latest academic year (2015-16), compared with the previous year. A separate survey of 278 private nursery owners and managers across England suggested the main reasons for nursery staff leaving their jobs were low pay and a lack of progression due mainly to the GCSE requirements. Purnima Tanuku, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association, which conducted the poll, said: ""The serious staffing problems caused largely by these GCSE requirements can make these businesses unsustainable and force them to turn away children."" June O'Sullivan provides care for 4,500 children at 38 nurseries across London. As chief executive of London Early Years Foundation, she is currently grappling with her business's recruitment and retention policy to try to fill 90 vacancies (of her 650 staff) for Level 3 nursery workers. She fears that unless the government changes the requirements, the industry will end up with more unqualified staff and nurseries will see a high turnover of staff. ""People just don't understand the importance of the harmonious relationship you have to build with the children, their parents and the staff,"" she says. If parents can't be sure their children are in safe hands, in a place where they are loved, hugged and taught, this may affect their confidence in going out to work every day, she adds. Ultimately, there may be fewer nurseries, especially in London, if funds are eaten up paying agency costs. ""Nurseries are not great profit makers. There is very little margin,"" she says. Former childcare minister Liz Truss introduced the GCSE requirement in 2014 in an effort to raise the quality of care. But campaigners want the new childcare minister, Caroline Dinenage, to accept equivalent or similar qualifications, such as Functional Skills, which also tests numeracy and literacy. Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance, said: ""It seems completely counterproductive to persist with a policy that is actively blocking qualified, passionate and able early years practitioners from entering the sector. ""To say that the GCSE requirement is causing a recruitment crisis is not an exaggeration,"" he added. Writing in Nursery World earlier this month, Caroline Dinenage hinted at a possible shift in government thinking, saying: ""Our Workforce Strategy is in development and I am looking at ways of getting the best individuals into the profession, while recognising that excellence can be measured by qualities other than exam results."" A Department for Education spokeswoman said: ""We want to make sure we get the best staff into the early years sector. ""We are working with the profession to look at how we can develop people's talents and keep our most experienced staff. This is backed up by record investment in childcare - £6bn per year by the end of this parliament.""","Nurseries in England are @placeholder to recruit qualified staff putting them at risk of closure , campaigners have said .",set,struggling,slow,threatening,preparing,1
"When director Naji Abu Nowar and producer Rupert Lloyd collected their shared Bafta in London this month for outstanding debut, Nowar said on stage they'd been working together since they were five.  In their mid-30s, they're about to head off to Hollywood with their first full-length film and clasping an Academy Award nomination. Nowar, half-Jordanian, says that at Grey Coates School back in 1980s Oxford they weren't actually working on a film.  ""But our love of film did become evident very quickly.  I went back to Jordan when I was 10 but whenever I was back in Oxford we'd be in and out of the cinemas.  Theeb is the culmination of a long process: we made our first short in 2009, called Death of a Boxer."" Theeb is in Arabic with a few scenes in English.  It's the first film from Jordan to be nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar.  It's set during World War One.  The title character, aged 12, becomes disastrously involved in a British attempt to blow up a railway line constructed through the desert by the Ottoman Empire.  The story takes place in what was then the Hijaz province and the film was shot in Jordan's Wadi Rum valley. Reviews have commented on how impressive the film is on screen, which is remarkable given the budget was just under £500,000.  Putting together the finance was Lloyd's job. ""Initially we got seed money from the Abu Dhabi Sanad fund, which supports development.  It wasn't huge but it allowed us to live in the desert for a year.  We did workshops and we learnt a lot about the Bedouin way of life, which is a big part of the story,"" says Lloyd. ""But for production funds we turned to private investors - mainly in Jordan but also from the Gulf and a little in the UK. ""Things change once you have a cut of the film to show people.  We went looking for post-production money and secured it from the Doha Film Institute, the Sanad fund again, Visions Sud Est in Switzerland and the King Abdullah Fund for Development in Jordan.  The hardest thing was probably getting the first couple of investors."" Despite the strong British connection, Theeb was nominated by Jordan as its submission to this year's Oscars.  Rupert calls that a huge honour.  ""And to get from the 80 nominees to the final five was an incredible moment."" While Lloyd was putting together the patchwork of funding, Nowar was developing the script.  ""We originally had our own concept - and then a screenplay for a short film, written by Bassel Khandour. But what really made the film come alive was sitting with the Bedouin in Wadi Rum and listening to their story-telling. ""The Bedouin elders talked a lot of the catastrophe that befell their culture around World War One.  Partly it was the coming of the railway which took away their livelihood but also they were trapped in the conflict between the great powers more generally and the drawing of new national borders.  The allies, including Britain, wanted to incite an Arab revolt to undermine the Ottoman Empire. ""A lot of this still relates to politics today.  But we deliberately don't put up a card at the beginning of the film to tell people exactly where and when it's all taking place.  Because above all Theeb is an adventure film."" Critics expressed surprise at how a film set in the Middle East a century ago so strongly evokes the feel of a Hollywood western.  Nowar says it was no accident. ""Rupert and I decided we wanted to make a Bedouin western as long ago as 2003.  It's like what Akira Kurosawa did with his samurai films: he took on the aesthetic of John Ford's cowboy films.  I love the Kurosawa's work. ""But the truth is if you have a concept you need to keep it a loose one.  Because the choices you make during filming- and just the realities of filming somewhere like the Jordanian desert - always change things along the way."" Theeb is filled with tense and gripping sequences but there's one in particular which feels like a dramatic shoot-out in a western.  The director says he was aware of the parallel: ""But that kind of deadly ambush is also absolutely how it would work in Bedouin culture and we held true to that."" Many are assuming that the powerful Hungarian drama about the Holocaust, Son of Saul, is bound to take the foreign language Oscar. But whether Nowar and Lloyd win or not, Theeb has boosted their careers.  Lloyd says the big moment was making it to the shortlist. ""It helps a lot in picking up more sales in new territories.  But also it's the point where suddenly people know who you are and are interested in talking to you.  The incredible Bafta win has pretty much changed our lives too."" Yet Nowar also admits he's ready to work on a new project.  ""I love Theeb massively but whatever happens in LA it will be time to move on.  Rupert and I are working on English-language projects but we have another idea for Jordan as well.  We want to return to the story of Theeb but 10 years later. ""So we're looking to work with new partners and new companies and it's very exciting.  But the one thing I know is I would never make a film without Rupert."" Theeb was released in the UK last year but is now out on DVD.",Few film - makers secure an Oscar nomination with their first feature . But director Naji Abu Nowar and producer Rupert Lloyd have hit the big time with their @placeholder drama Theeb . It 's one of five films nominated at next Sunday 's Oscars for best foreign language Film . It may appear an overnight success but it comes after almost 30 years of friendship .,luck,action,name,treats,period,4
"""My wife grew up in Belfast during the Troubles and I started coming to Northern Ireland in 1981,"" he said. ""We were at university together when we started dating, and her mother, two brothers and sister are all here, so we come to Northern Ireland quite a lot."" As a result, he regularly visits Belfast, often giving readings at a bookshop on the city's Botanic Avenue. And those connections meant that when he began to write about the brilliant maverick Edinburgh detective John Rebus, he gave him a past in Northern Ireland before he joined the Scottish police. ""It was picked up in one or two books that Rebus served time in the Parachute Regiment and served time in Northern Ireland,"" he said. ""That gave me a wee bit of a plot in one of the earlier books, but in the first couple of books I was still getting to know him, so having created that back story for him, I've got to remember 20 or 30 years on that that is his story."" The latest of more than 20 Rebus novels has just been released and Rankin is in Belfast to introduce Even Dogs in the Wild to his many Northern Ireland fans. John Rebus is nearly 70 in the book, but, though retired, he cannot let his career fighting crime go. His life has also become increasingly intertwined with his long-time nemesis, gangster 'Big' Ger Cafferty, as he investigates a threat to Cafferty's life. ""They're like Cain and Abel - you never know if they'll become best friends or kill each other,"" he said. ""Cafferty's always had a moral code, although he's a gangster, but he now sees himself as dinosaur or an old boxer who has one fight left in him and Rebus feels the same. ""These guys are being sidelined by life, but they keep wanting to punch back."" Readers of the series will know that the obsessive Rebus rarely takes a break, but when he does one of the few pastimes he has is listening to music, often alone late at night in his flat. And when he puts a record on, it is likely to be by a very famous Northern Ireland musician, which has led to a relationship away from the page. ""Van Morrison got to know that I was a fan of his music, so he asked me to pen the introduction to his lyrics when he was bringing a book of them out last year,"" he said. ""To promote that, he then asked if I would interview him on stage at three concerts - we did London, Dublin and then Belfast. ""I interviewed him for half-an-hour on stage in Belfast - people were crying in the audience, they'd never heard Van speak for half-an-hour before,"" he laughs. ""That was terrific, and then he invited me across for his 70th anniversary concert on Cyprus Avenue."" ""I got to sit and watch him in the sun at the end of August, so it was a memorable occasion."" Rankin said he also enjoys reading Northern Ireland crime writers like Adrian McKinty and Colin Bateman. Rebus may now be picking up his pension, but the character still has plenty of life. ""I can see one or two books in which I can write him almost like a private eye,"" the author said. ""He can't chase crooks or stand up to the hard men anymore, so he's got to use his wit and his guile. ""I quite enjoy that, the fact he has to live on his wits rather than by his physical presence.""","Ian Rankin may @placeholder almost all of his novels in his home city of Edinburgh , but the crime writer has plenty of connections to Northern Ireland .",spend,set,finish,change,wrote,1
"In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Islam Karimov Junior denied recent reports suggesting his mother had died, and accused the Uzbek security services of keeping her in isolation. Ms Karimova was once seen as a potential successor to her father. But she disappeared from public view in 2014 amid a damaging family feud. The name of Ms Karimova, whose ambitions ranged from business and politics to fashion and pop music, has also been linked to corruption allegations surrounding her sizeable commercial interests. Her son, who lives in London, told BBC Uzbek that Ms Karimova was being held in a ""two-to-three room annexe"" to her main property in central Tashkent. He said being held incommunicado for such a long time had affected her health. ""To be isolated for two or three years without any even basic human rights that every person deserves on this earth, I'm sure that any person will need some kind of medical attention. But mentally she is sane. The reports she was in a mental hospital are false."" Gulnara Karimova became the international face of Uzbekistan, running a fashion label, jewellery collection and recording pop videos. She held diplomatic posts and controlled significant business interests. The secret recordings of Gulnara Karimova How do you solve a problem like Googoosha? Uzbek leader's daughter wages Twitter war But three years ago her name became embroiled in bribery and money-laundering investigations in Switzerland and Sweden which have since widened to the United States. Not long after, a deepening rift within the presidential family burst into public view. Ms Karimova's activities were soon reined in, including her outspoken social media accounts, where she began to openly attack the Uzbek security apparatus. Her son says the powerful security service, the SNB, is responsible for locking her up and for refusing access and information about what will happen next. ""I don't understand how in the 21st Century they cannot answer a simple question: Where is Gulnara?"" he says. ""House arrest, for what? For how long? Under whose supervision? These simple questions have to be answered."" Mr Karimov Junior says he wants his mother's status to be officially recognised. ""Right now there is a rumour that she is dead. But is she? Without it being official, no one can even check these things."" Islam Karimov Junior says he has no direct contact with his mother, but manages to stay in touch via his sister Iman, who still is in Uzbekistan. When their grandfather, the country's long serving president - whose name Islam Karimov Junior shares - died in September, neither of the siblings or their mother attended the funeral. Their absence was unusual in a country where family bonds are of great importance. But Islam Karimov Junior says his sister and mother were prevented from going and he himself could not risk the trip back home. ""I wanted to go, but I knew that if I go to the funeral I would not come back. They need all three of us there to limit our activity and our voices,"" he says. However, he hopes the country's next leader - presidential elections are being held on 4 December - might bring change. ""The current temporary president and prime minister has a unique chance to stop this madness, to end what was caused by the SNB and to legitimise himself, because everyone is watching him, everyone is thinking 'what will he do?' ""I don't think we have done anything bad towards him for him to hate my mother."" So far there are few indications that things in Uzbekistan are going to change after the election which current acting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is likely to win. The late Islam Karimov was accused of presiding over an authoritarian state, locking up political opponents and dissident Muslims in jails where torture is rife. Child and forced labour during the annual cotton harvest also drew strong international criticism. They are practices the young Karimov says must change for the country to modernise. His mother too had begun to speak out against rights abuses in Uzbekistan. But her critics say she only raised her voice when her own star was fading and she became a victim herself. Her son acknowledges the privileges he enjoyed growing up as part of the presidential family. But he says the last few years have been ""hell"" as well as ""a huge life lesson"" that has left him craving normality. ""I just want to see my family, I just want to see my mother, my sister. I want to go to the movies, walk down the street, just want the simplest things.""","The son of Gulnara Karimova , the once powerful daughter of the late Uzbek president Islam Karimov , has called for her @placeholder to be made public .",marriage,information,passing,story,whereabouts,4
"Places on many school sixth form or college courses depend on achieving minimum grades at GCSE - so if your marks did not meet expectations, getting good advice is crucial. Catherine Sezen of the Association of Colleges is on hand to give advice on what to do following unexpected results. YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED My son only got three C grades and all the rest  of his GCSEs were Ds. The school he has been attending for the last five years have said that, as he only got three good GCSE's and they require at least five for sixth form, they cannot offer him a place to stay on. Where do we stand as he really wanted to stay there for sixth form? Catherine Hi Catherine I am sorry to hear that your son didn't quite achieve the grades that he wanted, but I am sure with there will be a course for him, perhaps at a different school or college. All schools and colleges have entry requirements which ‎they need to apply consistently to all applicants. If your son wants to stay at the same school it is worth asking if they have another option for him there. I would also suggest contacting your local FE college to discuss what they might be able to offer. College based vocational or technical courses have good career progression opportunities - or they might suggest an apprenticeship. If your son is worried about moving to a different school or college it would be good to find out why. All schools and colleges will have induction programmes to help students settle in and make friends. Catherine I've missed a large amount of my secondary education (almost 3 years) due to mental health issues and although it was a struggle, I managed to achieve 4 A*s, 1 A, 2 Bs, 1 C and a D. Unfortunately this D was in drama, the subject I want to focus on in college, and although the college didn't need any specific drama grade on entry (only an English grade at C or above and I achieved A*s in both literature and language) I can't help but feel this might affect my chances. Any advice? Kat Hi Kat, Well done on your GCSE results. You have done really well to achieve such good grades. The college would be best placed to advise on your drama grade though, if the entry requirements specified English grades (which you have exceeded), I don't think there will be a problem. Catherine I've just got my results, I got 3A*s and 8As. I thought I could have done better but they are OK. Do you think I can still get into medicine? Thanks, Musa Hi Musa First of all congratulations on an excellent set of results - well done! Each university will have its own entry requirements for medicine as for all subjects. I would suggest that your GCSE results would indicate that you have a very realistic opportunity to go on and be successful in your chosen field, but if you have a particular course or university in mind you could look at their entry requirements online to check what they would be looking for. Good luck with your further studies, Catherine I am disappointed with my results. I think exams are unfair because some people are unlucky when they take exams. I received an A for media studies - but because I only got a C in English language I am told I'm not allowed to take it at A-level. I was also told I could not take psychology, a totally new subject to me, because I have not got Bs in English and maths. Shouldn't people's work ethic be taken into account more when it comes to what courses they can apply for next and shouldn't coursework be a large part of the courses to make it fairer? Danny Hi Danny Well done on getting the A grade for media studies.  I would see this as an opportunity to think hard about your next steps. Why don't you contact your school and local further education college to see what options are available to you with the grades that you have achieved? BTEC courses for example include more coursework and still provide excellent opportunities for progression into work or to higher education. I am sure you will find a course which suits you and your career aspirations. Catherine My son received GCSE D grades English and maths but has already started working on an apprenticeship scheme which is full time, five days a week. I understand that if grade A-C is not achieved in English and maths then it is the law that the child must continue in education until they are 18 to try and achieve grade A*-C. Is this true in all cases such as if they are on an apprenticeship which isn't offering day release? I am delighted to hear that your son has secured an apprenticeship. If he has achieved Ds in English and maths I think that he will need to continue studying these subjects as part of his apprenticeship. I would suggest that you contact his apprenticeship provider to check whether this will mean retaking GCSE or taking Functional Skills qualifications in English and maths which are more work related. Catherine My son is normally an A student bordering on A*. He just received his GCSE results and is heartbroken. He spent many hours studying and he got just one A in maths and Bs in every other subject. His lowest percentage was 72 so why did he fail to get As across the broad? Hi Leon First of all congratulations to your son that he has done so well in passing all his GCSEs. I appreciate, however, that he may feel disappointed if he was anticipating higher grades in many of his subjects. I would suggest in the first instance that you contact his school to get their view on his grades. It may be that they will suggest a re-marking for some of his papers. However, with the grades that he has got, your son should be able to get on to the course of his choice at school or college. I wish him well in his future studies. Catherine My son did not get the required grade A in his AQA biology - he got a B. What are his options with this result? I am not sure what to do really. Lynd Hi Lynd, It sounds as if your son may well have achieved the grades he needed in his other subjects, which is great and congratulations to him. I would suggest contacting the school to discuss his biology grade. If he was close to the required A grade you could ask for a review of marking for that subject. The school may also consider allowing him to take the A-level and monitor his progress over the first few weeks. However, do bear in mind that there may be other young people in the same situation and the school will need to be consistent in their approach. Catherine My son has achieved grade C in GCSE science. His mark equivalent is 273. He got 87A in practical and in the papers he got 98C and 88C. I want to know please where a grade B will start from as he was predicted a B and I'm wondering whether to appeal this result if it's really close to a B grade. Nasima Hi Nasima I would suggest contacting his school to ask whether they think a review of results would be a good idea.  They will have an overview of his results and his work throughout the year and would be best placed to advise on a re-mark. Good luck to your son in his future plans. Catherine","GCSE results day has finally arrived and many teenagers will be @placeholder success , but others will have very different emotions if they do not receive the results they were expecting .",forgiven,expecting,celebrating,nearing,experiencing,2
"Father of two Adam Fenton, 32, from Newquay, Cornwall was found on Towan beach on 28 July. He was celebrating initial reports of his recovery after six months of chemotherapy to treat blood cancer. Family friend Tracey Sinkevicius, speaking on behalf of the family, said relatives were left ""numb"" and in ""total shock"". For more stories from across Devon and Cornwall. She said concern for Mr Fenton's partner Carly Blackman and his two daughters and step daughter prompted her to set up a fundraising page, which has raised more than £1,000. Mr Fenton, described as an ""amazing, loving, man"", was with his partner Carly for eight years and due to be married next year. Police said the death is being treated as unexplained, and their inquiries continue.","A man is thought to have @placeholder to his death on his first night out to celebrate being "" clear "" from cancer .",continued,jumped,returned,rushed,fallen,4
"They are the masters of the fearful day. I have met them in the Balkans and Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Their habitat is the failed or failing state where the most cunning and violent carve out fiefdoms. There, they remain free to terrorise and extort from defenceless civilians. They thrive best in places about which the world cares little, or at least does not care enough for the most powerful nations to send their troops to enforce a long-term peace. Welcome to the world of the warlords. We may be seeing a lot more of them if President Trump keeps his promise to scale back American support for UN peacekeeping. Currently the US supplies 28.57% of the total budget for UN deployments. There are very influential figures in the Trump administration with a visceral ideological dislike of the UN. At the very least, the new UN Secretary General, Anthony Gutteres, faces an uphill fight to persuade the US to keep paying its current share of the peacekeeping budget. It was a debate much on my mind travelling in the Central African Republic (CAR). At the moment, the UN's deeply-flawed mission (Minusca) is the only thing standing between that country and genocidal anarchy. In fighting last weekend, UN attack helicopters engaged militia who were attempting to advance on the town of Bambari. This very dilapidated, dusty town on the banks of the Ouaku River has become the first big test for UN peacekeeping in the age of Gutteres. In an arc to the north, several militias are threatening to advance on Bambari. The UN has drawn red lines, pledging to fight if the militias advance. There are thousands of frightened displaced people in and around Bambari who are depending on the international community to keep its word. But matters are complicated by the presence in Bambari of warlords like Gaetan Boade, known as ""General Boade"" a leader of the Christian ""anti-Balaka"" militia. Gen Boade has never had much faith in the blue helmets of the UN. Nor does his more genial aide de camp, ""General"" Tarzan, a nickname given to him by his troops. Their stronghold is on the Christian side of Bambari, across the Ouaku River among the narrow lanes of mud houses, a place whose poverty is indistinguishable from the dismal circumstances of their Muslim enemies. Gen Boade wears a crumpled, mustard-coloured cotton suit and brown, buckled shoes. He looks more like an out-of-work musician than a feared militia leader. But he is admirably frank when I ask if he is a warlord:  ""Yes. I have 28,000 men who are ready to protect the people."" This is a substantial exaggeration but his men are regarded as a danger to the peace should they decide to fight. The young toughs who make up his militia hid their guns during our visit. But they are well armed and their leader is openly dismissive of the UN's ability to protect Christians. ""If the Minusca were able to protect us they would stop the guy who commits exactions, who takes people as hostages, who kills in front of their eyes. Has Minusca really come to protect us?"" Bambari is filled with weapons despite the UN declaring it a non-militarised town. Nothing displays the limits of UN power quite like the swagger of Gen Boade's enemy, the Muslim leader of the Union for Peace in Central Africa (UPC) militia, ""General"" Ali Darassa, and his gun-toting army. Gen Darassa lives directly opposite the UN headquarters in Bambari. Like his enemy, he stands accused of sending his men on killing sprees in the surrounding countryside. But he has no fear of arrest by the blue helmets. Nor are they about to ask his militia to hand over the weapons they brandish during our interview. Like Gen Boade, Gen Darassa describes himself as a protector of the people. I put to him that there is another view, and that is that he is a ruthless killer. I caught a faint smirk as the question was translated. His reply was delivered in a calm monotone: ""If I were a ruthless killer, people could not live peacefully near me. ""I know that people are fleeing the other side to settle next to me.  It is because here, there is peace; there is free circulation; there is social cohesion."" The latest fighting north of Bambari has come about because of an alliance between Muslim and Christian militias who want to dislodge Gen Darassa. The clashes illustrate the growing complexity of the crisis. Gen Darassa is an ethnic Peul, nomadic pastoralists who are being targeted by both Christian and Muslim militias on the basis of their ethnicity. Competition over resources, including gold, diamonds and cattle has created murderous momentum. The UN has drawn red lines in the past and failed to enforce its will. There is nobody more alert to weakness or disarray in the international community than the 21st Century warlord. He has studied the UN failures in Rwanda and Bosnia and other ruined places. He has seen the resurgence of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the struggles of the UN-backed government in Somalia. He has concluded that until such time, if ever, that the UN uses force to stop him, he will continue to act like the real power in the land. That means being free to kill his enemies, and the civilians who belong to that religious or ethnic group, and to plunder and extort along the roads. The deputy chief of the UN mission is a former British diplomat, Diane Corner. She came to Bambari to tell Gen Boade and Gen Darassa what would happen if they started fighting. For weeks now, UN intelligence has been tracking the movement of convoys of armed men moving towards Bambari. The fear is of an outbreak of fighting in the town which would cause chaos for civilians. The warlords were summoned to a prefabricated office in the UN headquarters. They would not meet with Ms Corner together, so Gen Boade waited while Gen Darassa was told of the will of the international community. There were no photo opportunities. Ms Corner is a realist who understands the limits of a UN mission which must deal with complex regional politics, limited resources, uneven quality of troops, and a new occupant of the White House who believes in the mantra of ""America First"". The first thing she makes clear is that the UN had not come to negotiate with the warlords - rather to remind them that the red lines would be defended. ""I reminded them that the international community was watching, and of their responsibilities towards the civilian population whose rights must be respected,"" she said. Ms Corner is a relatively recent recruit to the UN. She seems anxious to confront the bureaucratic and political challenges that routinely dog peacekeeping missions. The fact that UN attack helicopters were deployed at the weekend proves this. Not only in the CAR, but in trouble spots across the globe there will be warlords and beleaguered civilians watching what happens next.","A change of @placeholder towards peacekeeping under US President Donald Trump could spell disaster for places like the Central African Republic , where the presence of a UN mission is trying to keep notorious warlords in check , writes the BBC 's Fergal Keane .",emergency,teeth,attitude,strategy,events,2
"The fountain, in Victoria Square, has not been working since 2013. Installed in 1993, it was given a £300,000 refurbishment in 2010, £70,000 was spent on repairs in 2009, and about £40,000 in 2006. Birmingham City Council said it wants to make the square ""as attractive as possible"" until it is fixed. Planting is due to be completed in mid-July. A full feasibility study is due to begin in January 2016, to work out what is wrong with the fountain and how much repairs will cost.","The "" Floozy in the Jacuzzi "" in Birmingham city centre is to be @placeholder with plants and flowers .",fitted,dismantled,flooded,associated,filled,4
"Woodman, 33, impressed in a depleted Exeter defence as City beat Cheltenham 3-1 to register their seventh away win of the season, joint best in League Two, and move up to 17th in the table. ""Craig Woodman's playing like Beckenbauer, he's just unbelievable at the moment,"" Tisdale told BBC Devon. ""I think he could have played with a broken arm he was that good."" Beckenbauer famously played part of a 1970 World Cup semi-final for West Germany against Italy with his arm strapped up after dislocating his shoulder. Exeter are unbeaten in their last three games, although they have still to win at home since April and have been in the relegation places for much of the season. But Tisdale said his players' attitude has impressed him even when the going has been tough. ""We've played well at home recently, we've been playing generally very well and I'm very positive about the things that could happen in the next couple of months,"" he added. ""I've never had a group of players so committed and receptive as this group, never. ""There's been no dissent, there's been no ego, they're selfless and they're committed and they'll get there in the end.""",Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale has @placeholder full - back Craig Woodman with German great Franz Beckenbauer .,beaten,exchanged,reached,revealed,compared,4
"The agreement was signed in Ottawa during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Canada. The $280m (£188m) deal is for the supply of uranium concentrate over the next five years. Canada banned the trade of nuclear materials with India in 1976. The uranium is to be sourced from the northern Saskatchewan mines of Cameco, the world's third-largest uranium producer, reports say. ""Canada is providing uranium to India as a mark of its trust and confidence in India,"" Mr Modi told reporters. Mr Modi, who arrived in Canada on Tuesday, is the first Indian leader to visit the country in more than four decades. Canada banned the sale of uranium and nuclear hardware to India after India used Canadian technology to make its nuclear bomb. The two countries then finalised a nuclear co-operation agreement in 2012, paving the way for Canadian firms to export uranium to India. But differences over the supervision of the use of uranium in India delayed ratification of the deal. ""[That agreement] really allowed us to turn the page on what had been in our judgement an unnecessarily frosty relationship for far too long,"" Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. India's economy has seen rapid expansion, resulting in a surge in demand for energy. As a result, India is looking to increase its dependence on nuclear energy. It plans to generate 63,000 MW of nuclear power by 2032 - an almost 14-fold increase on current levels. It has 22 nuclear reactors and plans to build some 40 more in the next two decades.","Canada has announced that it will supply uranium to India , boosting India 's plan to increase its nuclear capacity to meet @placeholder energy demand .",restore,traffic,growing,fuel,reduce,2
"Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, who is 76, will take the defence post, state television al-Ekhbariya announced. He is currently governor of Riyadh and is the half-brother of King Abdullah. Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz had already been named as crown prince and Prince Sutam bin Abdul Aziz will become Riyadh's new governor. Saudi Arabia is one of the world's biggest arms spenders, and Prince Salman is expected to continue building strong ties with Western allies. One former diplomat has described him as ""intelligent, political, in touch with the conservative base, but also quite modern-minded,"" Reuters news agency reported. Another ex-diplomat said Prince Salman had always been ""very helpful"" in resolving difficulties facing Westerners in the kingdom.","Saudi Arabia has named a new defence minister after the @placeholder of Crown Prince Sultan , who had held the defence position for some 50 years .",death,body,crowd,name,daughter,0
"Band Aid organiser Bob Geldof had said that section was the ""hardest"" to sing because being the first, it's the most recognisable. He was impressed with how ""sad"" the 1D lads made the opening, almost ""whispering in"" the first few words. Some of the Band Aid 30 artists including Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding and Emeli Sande recorded solo versions of the entire track, allowing producers Paul Epworth and Midge Ure to then cherry pick who sang which line best. Bob Geldof mentioned how each full performance he'd witnessed was great on its own, making him want to release multiple takes of the song. It's an option for the CD single, which is expected at the beginning of December, although the current plan for that is to include the three previous Band Aid recordings (from 1984, 1989 and 2004) alongside some remixes of the new version. Clean Bandit had the task of scoring some new string parts for the track. That meant Neil and Grace from the band got to play violin and cello on the song, but they also sing on the big chorus at the end as well. Grace Chatto admitted she was smiling and dancing for that but as a group, all the acts had been told off for looking too serious as they sang the famous ""feed the world"" phrases (which now includes ""feel the world"" and ""heal the world"") so they all had to re-do it. As if it was ever in doubt, Bono gets to do 'his' line again (even though the lyrics have changed from ""well tonight thank god it's them instead of you"" to ""well tonight we're reaching out and touching you""). Bob Geldof did say he'd asked Chris Martin if he wanted to have a go at that line. Chris didn't want to. Sinead O'Connor stayed over at Bob Geldof's house the night before the recording and had specifically requested the phrases she wanted to sing as they meant the most to her (""why is comfort to be feared, why is touch to be scared""). Jessie Ware appears in the group chorus but doesn't get a solo line to sing in the version that was shown on The X Factor on Sunday night. Rita Ora was only at the recording for 90 minutes on Saturday, as she had to race in and out to complete filming commitments on The Voice. Most of the other acts arrived first thing in the morning and hung out for the best part of the day. The end chorus which required everyone to be together, was due to be recorded mid-morning, but got pushed back as Bono was late. He said he was ""embarrassed"" to keep everyone waiting but his plane had been delayed due to fog. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube","One Direction @placeholder the opening , an honour that previously went to Chris Martin , Kylie and originally Paul Young .",surrounding,celebrating,struck,is,landed,4
"The report, which was compiled by Birmingham City Council's licensing team, contains police allegations that up to £93,042 was taken from customers of Legs 11 on Broad Street. The council has suspended the club's alcohol licence, pending a full review. Legs 11 has not responded to a request for a comment. In the council report Supt Andy Parsons said two men had claimed they were drugged, with one testing positive for methadone with a home testing kit. The force is also investigating claims large amounts of money was taken from people's bank accounts without their knowledge. Some customers had paid for dances ""in a private area"" but additional transactions were taking place that they had not authorised, he said. One victim claimed he had lost as much as £19,417. ""In this year alone, four fraud offences have been reported totalling £23,965 with two of the victims reporting they had been drugged,"" he said. ""One of the victims went as far as getting a home drug test kit which indicated he was under the influence of methadone. This victim had £9,000 taken from his credit card."" The club was being investigated over 17 fraud-related allegations since 2013, West Midlands Police said. Supt Parsons added ""intelligence checks"" suggested the club was linked to ""organised crime groups from Albania"". ""These premises are involved in serious criminality and serious offences are being committed at the premises,"" he said. The report also contained details of an undercover trading standards investigation, during which officers were offered sexual services in a locked room for a fee of £1,000 and were ""rubbed"" by naked dancers, contravening the club's licence.","A lap dancing club allegedly drugged customers and @placeholder thousands of pounds of unauthorised transactions to their credit cards , a report claims .",charged,bodies,targeted,sent,suspected,0
"Symbols of every event feature on the design, while the London skyline is included with Tower Bridge, the London Eye, the Shard and Big Ben. The reverse features London Stadium, the championships' venue. The event takes place from 4-13 August and there will be live coverage across the BBC. Medals at July's World Para Athletics Championships, taking place from 14-23 July, will be similar, but feature distinctive disability sport equipment such as a prosthetic running leg and throwing chair. Rather than engraving, the reverse will be inscribed with braille. For the first time at the World Championships, 'coaches medals' will also be handed out to recognise those who prepare athletes.","The World Championships medals that will be won in London this summer have been revealed , with a @placeholder based on the curves of an athletics track .",map,pattern,model,shape,track,3
"The speech, as delivered in town halls around England, generally went like this. ""We are the party of low taxation"". Polite applause. ""We intend to be in Europe but not run by Europe"". Polite applause with some notable abstentions. ""We are the party of English votes for English laws."" Loud applause, roof in danger. Said leader tried this repeatedly, with the same result. But said leader also slowly concluded that, at the time, EVEL was perhaps a little too hazardous, too inclined to sow disquiet within the very United Kingdom the Tories were aiming to protect. Every Conservative leader since John Major has entered office, determined to answer the West Lothian question. Every Conservative leader since John Major has subsequently shelved the idea. Until now. David Cameron, at first, was no different. Early zeal for reform ended up, not long after he became leader, with a speech in Edinburgh in which he argued: ""Better an imperfect Union than a perfect divorce."" To be fair, things have changed substantially. In two ways. Firstly, the constitutional arrangements of the UK are different and are about to alter still further. Secondly, the political challenge confronting the Conservatives has shifted materially with the emergence of UKIP. In days gone by, the answer generally given to the West Lothian questions by senior politicians - from Labour and other parties - was: ""Would you please stop asking such an irritating question?"" Given that this was, in the first instance, aimed at the estimable Tam Dalyell, the erstwhile MP for West Lothian, the chances of success were minimal. Tam, to his enormous and enduring credit, made a career out of asking irritating questions with admirable persistence. Like a dripping tap or a remote drain with a faint, but pungent, aroma, the West Lothian q. has hung around Scottish politics ever since Tam first drew attention to it in the 1970s. It has now been fully revived by the prime minister with a pledge to introduce English Votes for English Laws within 100 days, should he be returned to power. The change would be enforced in time for the 2016 Budget. Is David Cameron motivated by electoral reasons? You bet he is. But, then, this is an election. Politicians of every hue are seeking issues which will attract voters to their side - and cause them to shun the other lot. Mr Cameron makes two calculations. One, that an emphasis upon English voting rights may undermine the appeal of UKIP south of the Border. And, two, that spotlighting the constitution might tend to bolster the SNP in Scotland to the disadvantage of the Labour Party. For a Tory leader, what's not to like? Mr Cameron's rivals provide a range of responses. The SNP says that it will still tend to abstain at Westminster on issues which are, genuinely, of relevance to England only. However, it notes the practical difference thereby attached. This is that even a health bill covering England may have an impact upon Scotland - either because it will bring about Barnett spending consequentials or because, by deploying the private sector, it may reduce such associated cash transfers. Plus, of course, the small point that, if the SNP are to play a role in the governance of the UK, then they must be prepared to vote fairly regularly. They would not be much use as partners in the Commons if they constantly abstained. In addition, the SNP accused Mr Cameron of breaching the spirit and the terms of the Smith Commission agreement to the effect that Scottish MPs would continue to vote on UK tax matters. The Tories say MPs from Scotland still will - but at Third Reading, after English scrutiny. The Liberal Democrats, through the person of Danny Alexander, launched a particularly vituperative attack upon Mr Cameron, accusing him of breaching Smith, of seeking Tory advantage in England and of, thereby, jeopardising the UK. And Labour? They face a conundrum. They know that there is an elemental appeal in Mr Cameron's argument that EVEL involves basic fairness for the good and sensible people of England. They know this is seductive. Equally, however, they are reluctant to give ground on a principle which might make it much more difficult for a future Labour Prime Minister to legislate for England, given the division of seats. (The Tories, remember, start this election contest defending but one seat in Scotland.) They deploy two arguments in response. One, that the Tory plan risks creating two categories of MP, potentially damaging the Union. And, two, that this issue should be settled, sensibly, via mature consideration after the election - not as a partisan question during the contest. In my droll moments (yes, they do exist), I was wont to say that the more pressing West Lothian question was:  at what point in West Lothian, moving from Glasgow to Edinburgh, do the chip shops stop serving salt and vinegar and start offering salt and sauce? That question, critical though it is, may now have to await further detailed research, perhaps by a team of hungry interns. The real West Lothian question is back. What are the top issues for each political party at the 2015 general election? Policy guide: Where the parties stand","A previous Conservative leader once told me a story . The @placeholder concerned the stump speech which said leader was deploying at the time . This was , I emphasise , a wee while back .",case,practice,mood,narrative,article,3
"IAG shares added 3.7% after it said it was targeting average annual earnings per share growth of more than 12% between 2016 and 2020. It also said the head of Vueling, Alex Cruz, would replace Keith Williams as chairman and chief executive of BA. Mr Cruz will take over the role next year when Mr Williams retires. The FTSE 100 index opened higher, but then lost ground. At the close, the index was down 11.07 points at 6,353.83. The biggest faller in the FTSE 100 was mining firm BHP Billiton, down 5.7%. BHP is one of the owners of an iron ore mine in Brazil where on Thursday a dam holding back waste water burst. More than a dozen people are feared dead as a result of the flooding. AstraZeneca shares fell 0.5% after the company announced it had bought US biotech company ZS Pharma for $2.7bn (£1.8bn). In the FTSE 250, shares in TalkTalk rose 2.4% after the telecoms company released more details on the extent of the cyber-attack it suffered last month. The company said that only 4% of TalkTalk customers had any sensitive personal data at risk. Retirement housing firm McCarthy & Stone announced it had priced its shares at 180p for its flotation, valuing the company at £967m. On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.94% against the dollar to $1.5065, but gained 0.26% against the euro to €1.4017.","( Close ) : The FTSE 100 fell , but shares in British Airways owner IAG rose after the airline @placeholder increased it s target for earnings growth .",team,group,title,performance,has,1
"It was a sign of the hold that the charismatic German has on his Liverpool squad after eight months in charge - and how they have come to believe that every word he tells them carries weight. After the League Cup final defeat by Manchester City on penalties in February, Klopp assured his disappointed players that there would be other finals. And so it has proved, as Liverpool face Sevilla in the Europa League final in Basel on Wednesday. This is not simply a quick win for Klopp. With Champions League qualification the prize, this is the game that will shape his summer strategy and Liverpool's immediate future. BBC Radio 5 live In Short: Sevilla are favourites - Phil Neville Media playback is not supported on this device The Europa League has almost been treated as an unwanted intrusion into the calendar, Uefa's second-class citizen behind the riches and glory of the Champions League. This all changed when a Champions League place was awarded to the winners - leaving Klopp and Liverpool with the opportunity to compensate for a pedestrian eighth-place finish in the Premier League with a seat at European football's top table. Klopp wants to win silverware swiftly after losing out on the League Cup, which came on the back of three successive final defeats with previous club Borussia Dortmund - in the Champions League in 2013 and the German Cup in 2014 and 2015. ""I have too many silver medals, it's true,"" Klopp said in his pre-match news conference in Switzerland. ""But better that than no medals at all. The longer and longer it is without a win, the harder you try and the more likely it is you will win."" It is not simply the success itself that will mean so much to Klopp and Liverpool, even though it would give them their first trophy since the 2012 League Cup. It would give huge momentum to their plans to challenge at the top of the Premier League and in Europe. Media playback is not supported on this device Liverpool's name and history alone are guaranteed to attract top players, while Klopp's record of success, his personality and his natural bond with players are other qualities they will be able to exploit. A move to Anfield is not quite such an enticing prospect without European football. For any potential signing, the extra burnish will be added by a Champions League place. Put together, an offer of Liverpool, Klopp and Champions League football would tick most of the boxes for top players in a summer when competition for targets will intensify with the arrival of Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, Antonio Conte at Chelsea and, potentially, Jose Mourinho at Manchester United. Those inside Anfield will need to be able to play every card at their disposal - and that is the difference between victory and defeat on Wednesday. Win and Liverpool are right back in the elite. Lose and a big chunk of their summer bargaining power disappears at a stroke. Media playback is not supported on this device When Klopp walked into Anfield in October, he said his first task was to turn ""doubters into believers"". It was hard to find any Liverpool fans in Basel who are not convinced by Klopp, but any remaining doubts will be blown away if he wins the Europa League so soon after his appointment. And watching the German in action in a small media room at St Jakob-Park, barely throwing a glance at the huge silver trophy to his right, it was easy to see why he is already so revered. Liverpool fans like to feel their manager represents them, feels like them, in the technical area. Klopp's all-consuming passion and animated demeanour does the job. In Basel, he was talking their language once more as he said: ""We already know about the desire of our supporters. We know how much they want to win this cup. They showed us in an impressive way at home and away travelling with us. ""It was great to see some people who didn't even travel away, Liverpool supporters who lived in Russia. We would really love to be the team that can make their dreams come true."" Klopp does not just get his players involved - when it was needed against Borussia Dortmund in the quarter-finals and Villarreal in the last four, he got Liverpool's fans involved. He has not simply revitalised a group of players, he has revitalised the club's support. As Liverpool's players went through an hour-long open training session in front of the world's media beneath the steepling stands in Basel, Klopp circled as they took one last chance to impress before he names his line-up. They were in high spirits and Klopp was all smiles as he shook hands with the winners of a game between his squad before players such as James Milner, Jordan Henderson and Daniel Sturridge broke off to practise penalties. Klopp has been in charge of Liverpool for 51 games, winning 23, drawing 17 and losing 11. It is a mixed record but one that would look so much better with a trophy at the end of it. And the bonus has been Klopp's ability to rejuvenate players who will play key roles for Liverpool in Basel. Dejan Lovren will be the centrepiece of Liverpool's defence. The Croatia international had a shocking first season at Anfield following a £20m move from Southampton but has been commanding in this campaign, while Adam Lallana, who also struggled since arriving from St Mary's for £25m, has thrived under the German. Milner has been one of Liverpool's most important players in recent weeks, while young Belgium striker Divock Origi, criticised for his early efforts under previous manager Brendan Rodgers, now looks a potent force and a star of the future. All may have very big parts to play on Wednesday. There is nothing better than a trophy to send managers, players and fans off happy into the summer break - but failure in Basel may just concentrate Klopp's mind even further on what needs to be done in the summer. Christian Benteke says he wants to stay and fight for his place after a mixed first season following his £32.5m summer move from Aston Villa. Will he get a chance to prove his worth on Wednesday? Sturridge has the opportunity to show just how much talent he possesses and how he can make a difference on the big occasion. Klopp will need to strengthen in some areas and the win that would bring Champions League football would enable him and Liverpool to attract bigger and better. Liverpool have already secured Schalke defender Joel Matip on a free transfer for next season, while they are being heavily linked with Mainz's 22-year-old goalkeeper Loris Karius in a £5m deal designed to increase pressure on first choice Simon Mignolet. A new left-back appears to be a priority given Alberto Moreno's struggles, while Liverpool have also been linked with Bayern Munich's Mario Gotze and Udinese's emerging young Poland midfielder Piotr Zielinski, rated at £10m. Places in the team and in the Champions League are up for grabs on Wednesday. The stakes could not be higher as Liverpool prepare to take on Sevilla.","Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp stood in the @placeholder in Basel 's St Jakob - Park Stadium as his players huddled around him , hanging on his every word .",sunshine,country,shadows,fallout,middle,0
"A concerned man submitted the ""bagged and tagged circular object"" to officers in Maroochydore, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast late last week. He feared it might have indicated a drowning or possibly a murder. The police station said in a statement that they had soon confirmed the find was not sinister. ""Officers at Maroochydore Station were all hands on deck when, much to their initial alarm, a concerned citizen attended the counter to report a possible homicide,"" said the statement. ""Investigations revealed what police suspected… the item was indeed a jellyfish."" Colin Sparkes, from Surf Life Saving Queensland, said the discovery was most likely a blubber jellyfish. He said the species was commonly found in Queensland waters and its sting was irritating, but not dangerous. ""[The] tentacles have been knocked off by wave action or eaten by fish,"" he said of the one handed to police.",A jellyfish was handed to police in Australia under the mistaken belief it was a breast implant and possible @placeholder of a crime .,control,victims,bottom,evidence,target,3
"One of the waitresses, 24-year-old Yilin, is working a late shift. She moved to the capital from the nearby province of Hebei three years ago. Yilin tells me she is in Beijing, like the other seven million migrant workers here, to earn money and improve her life. ""As an ordinary Chinese girl, I want a comfortable home - an apartment big enough for three people,"" she says. That may be beyond her reach, as it is for many of China's migrant workers, the people who have driven this nation's impressive economic growth story. On her break, Yilin says she'd love to buy an apartment, but there's no way she can afford one on her salary. ""As everybody knows in China now, property prices are so high. I can't afford to buy it on my own."" ""I think probably in the future I could just about afford to buy one with my future boyfriend or husband. I don't know how long it's going to take. I don't know if we'll have the money for a deposit. ""If I can find a man with more money, I won't have to struggle for too many years to save up too hard for a deposit."" In the year to September, the average property price rose 11% in China's 70 biggest cities, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. But that's the average: in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province in eastern China, prices shot up by 47%; in Beijing, they rose by 28%. Estate agents in the capital say that in some of Beijing's most desirable developments, prices have doubled. Ma Jun, chief economist at the People's Bank of China, has used the word ""bubble"" to describe this, according to a Bloomberg translation of comments in Chinese. The property situation is of such concern, it has become the unlikely theme of a song doing the rounds on social media. The melody of TV entertainer Chen He's number is sad-sounding. But my favourite line has to be this: ""On my salary I can only afford a mortgage to buy half a toilet."" The song is funny and really catchy, and critical of an aspect of life in China. The government is attempting to help wannabe home owners, and has introduced a load of new restrictions. In Beijing, first-time buyers must now put down at least a 30% deposit. Second-home buyers have to make a down payment of 50%. Other cities have introduced similar rules. Indeed, data suggests price growth cooled in October. But an economic adviser to the government, Xu Hongcai, has some sobering news for hopeful house hunters. ""Ordinary Chinese people need to be more realistic when they decide to buy a property to live in,"" says the deputy chief economist at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges. ""The government provides a variety of choices for low-income families. They could rent in public housing or in special flats for low-income families."" When I ask him if owning a nice apartment in a big city is beyond the means of migrant workers, Mr Xu replies ""yes"". In a newly built apartment complex on the southern edge of Beijing, decorators are applying the finishing touches. The lobby has grand crystal chandeliers on the ceiling, the door handles are golden. One of the recent buyers, Mr Ren, says he has paid way over the odds for his apartment, and thinks he knows who is to blame. ""Prices are unreasonably high now. At this development, the average price should be 2,000 yuan ($289; £228) a square metre but it's actually 10 times that. ""There are about 16 or 17 buyers here who've bought as an investment, not to live here. There are just too many speculators."" A few minutes drive away, there's an open-air canteen on a building site. It is lunchtime, so work on the half a dozen partly constructed apartment blocks has paused. A man is cooking noodles in a wok, serving them to hungry men and women sitting on blue and yellow upturned buckets. News of the government's housing intervention is making people here nervous. ""We came as migrant workers in the summer. We're farmers back home in our province,"" one of the men says. ""We mainly do decorating inside. Now it's a very hard time for construction. For the builders, the bricklayers, it's difficult. We're hoping we won't be affected as much as them. ""It pays to know lots of bosses. The more bosses you know, the better chance you have of getting a job."" The social cost of the property frenzy may occupy the minds of most Chinese. But policymakers and economists are also worried about the financial implications. The property market is built on debt - developers have borrowed money to build; purchasers have taken on loans to buy. Some are alarmed about the size of the debt. ""We saw this in the US leading up to 2008,"" says Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of a Beijing-based multinational and a regular financial commentator on state TV. ""The government is really trying to make it easy for anybody to get loans in order to purchase new houses, new cars, whatever it may be."" China's outstanding debt stands at 250% of GDP - two and a half times the size of its annual economic output - a level that is worrying some. ""I'm certainly concerned with where debt levels are right now. GDP numbers haven't been looking great, so new loans have been issued a lot over the past six to nine months,"" says Mr Schmidt. Loans may help prop up growth. But they could also be storing up trouble. The government is letting banks swap loans to companies for a stake in the businesses in order to ease the debt burden. Research notes from various international banks suggest 2017 could be the year China's debt-fuelled boom turns to bust. But Eric Schmidt says people should not underestimate the ability of China's Communist Party to manage the economy. ""At the same time, the government has a pretty good understanding of where they are and the risk it implies.""","In an international restaurant in the centre of Beijing , diners are @placeholder into the self - service buffet of fish , noodles and dim sum .",continuing,tucking,inducted,emerging,ushered,1
"Northamptonshire County Council was inspected in February 2013 and arrangements for protecting children were found to be ""inadequate"". The council has restructured children's services and pledged an extra £12m. Director Alex Hopkins said he wanted to replace more than 60 agency staff with professionals employed directly. Of 260 social worker posts in children's services 25% are agency workers and half of these are in senior qualified positions. Mr Hopkins said it was relatively easy to recruit newly-qualified social workers but they required intensive training and heavy supervision until their skills were built up. ""I am looking for staff that can hit the ground running,"" he said. ""Last year, the county's arrangements for the protection of children were judged by Ofsted to be inadequate."" The council then restructured its social care services and changed working procedures. Mr Hopkins described it as a period of ""significant change"" when the council used agency staff to fulfil safeguarding duties. ""Currently one in every four posts in children's social care is filled by an agency worker,"" he said. ""We have laid the groundwork for a new working culture. ""The council is focusing on recruiting experienced permanent staff so that new practices can be fully embedded consistently across the county's child protection and safeguarding teams. ""This is a great opportunity for experienced staff to contribute.""",A children 's services department @placeholder by Ofsted has launched a recruitment drive for experienced social workers .,vacated,supported,pioneered,sparked,criticised,4
"Mr Koinange apologised Thursday night for the 17 November incident, saying it was the show's last episode on KTN. He was hosting Miguna Miguna and Esther Passaris, aspirants for the Nairobi governor seat, when the off-air personal attack was made. Mr Miguna said ""Esther is so beautiful everybody wants to rape her"". ""You are chasing men all over, nobody wants you,"" he continued. ""You think you're beautiful, you are not. Esther is just colour. Without colour you are nothing."" Ms Passaris, a politician and businesswoman, then accused him of being a racist. The footage of the incident was shared online with many people criticising Koinange for failing to intervene. Kenya's Gender Affairs minister Sicily Kariuki accused KTN of allowing guests on its show to engage in personal attacks and for the ""trivialisation"" of rape. Mr Koinange said that he was prepared to ""man up"" over the incident and said he was apologising to those who had been ""aggrieved"". ""It was regrettable in most parts but again it was one show out of 300 we've done here at KTN for the last three years."" he added. A former aide of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga, Mr Miguna has filed a complaint with the Media Council of Kenya saying that he was filmed ""secretly"" and portrayed as unfit for the position of governor in next year's elections, reports say. Ms Passaris tweeted after the show saying ""men like Miguna have no place or role to play in our empowerment. He is part of the problem."" Koinange is an award-winning journalist who has worked for top broadcasters in the US including CNN where he was the Africa correspondent until 2007. He started working for K24, a local TV station in 2009, before moving his popular show to KTN. He said the show would be making a return on another station in the coming weeks: ""JKL is not going anywhere it is just changing homes"", he said.",Kenya 's top political TV show hosted by former CNN journalist Jeff Koinange has been @placeholder after a male guest made a rape remark about a female guest .,raised,closed,dropped,launched,criticised,2
"Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has found that 400 billion calories worth of food was purchased by Scots households in 2014/15, the equivalent of just over 2,000 calories per person, per day. The report also discovered that there was 115g of sugar in the food the average Scot purchased daily last year - well above the World Health Organisation's recommended intake of 25g a day. However, its statistics should be treated with some caution. The report relates to how many calories are purchased, rather than consumed and takeaways, restaurant meals and working lunches are also excluded. Soft drinks, biscuits, confectionary, table sugar, cakes and pastries contained more than 45% of the sugar purchased by Scots last year. Although fruit topped the list of ""total sugar purchases"" in Scotland in 2014/15, many less health foods made it into Food Standards Scotland's top 10 list. The amount of regular soft drinks bought by households in Scotland dropped by 21% in 2014/15 - but sales of diet drinks remained static. A total of 173 million litres of drinks with added sugar were sold to Scots homes last year. About one billion individual servings of cakes and pastries are purchased by Scottish households annually. However the FSS has found that the amount of sugar and fats found in the products has risen steadily since 2011. The numbers of puddings and desserts bought into homes in Scotland has dropped by 7% since 2010. Despite that, the amount of fat the Scottish population receives from puddings and desserts has remained static and sugar levels have increased. FSS researchers believe their evidence suggests that products have changed their recipes to include more sugar or fat products. The volume of pies and pastries purchased in Scotland dropped by almost 17% since 2010; sausage sales fell by 8%. It has led to a drop in the amount of saturated fat and salt people in Scotland have derived from the products. Scottish households are buying slightly fewer crisps and savoury snacks than they did in 2010. The FSS believe a ""reformulation"" of the products may have led to a marked reduction in saturated fats and a small reduction in salt. People in Scotland bought 10% more oil-rich fish last year than they did in 2010. The volume of plain bread purchased in Scotland has declined by 12% in the past five years, according to the FSS research And the number of potatoes bought by the nation's households has fallen by 28% since 2010.",The latest report by Scotland 's new food @placeholder offers an intriguing glimpse into the eating habits of the nation .,council,republic,service,body,data,3
"UKube-1 is a cubesat, packing six payloads into a space not much bigger than a shoebox. Its experiments include a study of space weather and a project to let school pupils interact with the satellite. It was commissioned by the UK Space Agency and built by Glasgow company Clyde Space. The firm has a big share of the market for cubesat components and already has orders for another two complete satellites. It says it is planning to mass-manufacture hundreds or even thousands more. Strictly speaking it is not Mission Control Maryhill but it is not far from it. The headquarters of Clyde Space is up a flight of stairs in a neat but unassuming building at Kelvin Science Park in Glasgow's West End. They will not be running the mission from here but this is where they built the first Scottish satellite. The basic cubesat concept is a cube ten by ten by ten centimetres. That's a litre into which, thanks to microelectronics, you can squeeze a lot of science. The design of UKube-1 is based on three such boxes. It is what they call a 3U cubesat. Three litres of payload. Clyde Space say this is the most advanced small satellite of its kind in the world and - they hope - the first of many. Because the economics of spaceflight are in their favour. A cubesat could cost you around $250,000. Not the sort of thing you could buy out of the housekeeping money but in the satellite business it is close to peanuts. The low weight means launch costs are also relatively low. Universities, research institutes and - increasingly - businesses are seeing them as affordable options for getting experiments and services into Earth orbit. A low orbit means some other cubesats will burn up on re-entry after just a few years. But it should not cost too much to replace - and that is where Clyde Space foresee a huge growth area. They think cubesats will become a mass market, with some companies ordering hundreds at a time. Clyde Space think they could become the first mass manufacturer of small satellites with thousands of orders on their books. But they are walking before they run. The publicity surrounding UKube-1 has helped them win orders for two more complete satellites. The business of building components and subsystems for cubesats has also continued to grow. Turnover has doubled in a year. Staff numbers have increased by 50%. This is just part of a burgeoning Scottish space industry which many Scots don't yet realise exists. A successful launch and deployment could change all that. UKube-1 was launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It was the Soyuz which lifted many Soviet space pioneers to orbit when Baikonur was still part of the USSR. Its 21st century incarnation continues to combine reliability with relatively low cost. UKube-1 is one of eight large and small satellites aboard for this launch, further underlining the economic arguments for both the cubesat concept and Soyuz. Baikonur occupies a hallowed place in the history of spaceflight. Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite, lifted off from there. So did Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The launch of Scotland's first satellite is admittedly a smaller milestone. But in Maryhill they'll be watching just as intently as those first satellite builders.",Scotland 's first satellite has been launched successfully in Kazakhstan @placeholder to the team who built it .,changes,relating,credited,head,according,4
"The masked man fled with an undisclosed sum of cash after threatening staff with a firearm at the office on Main Street, Frizington, at 06:20 GMT. Armed officers have been deployed to the scene. Main Street, which was temporarily closed to motorists and pedestrians, has now reopened. The raider is described as about 5ft 9ins tall, of slim build, and wearing black jogging pants and sweatshirt.",An armed man who @placeholder a post office in Cumbria is being sought by police .,works,underwent,operates,lost,robbed,4
"First Minister Carwyn Jones and Welsh Language Commissioner Meri Huws will also join the ""Making Welsh Work"" conference at Bangor University. Mr Jones called the event ""timely"" and said having more chances to use the language were key to learning it. Gwynedd council and Natural Resources Wales are among those taking part.",The best ways to encourage people to @placeholder Welsh at work will be discussed on Friday by more than 100 delegates from organisations across Wales .,practice,enjoy,speak,watch,replace,2
"The England Under-18 international has been a regular for the Wolves Under-23 side and has also been part of the first-team squad during pre-season. Ennis, 18, is likely to make his first Shrewsbury appearance in a pre-season friendly against Burton on Saturday. Meanwhile, young goalkeeper Callum Burton has joined Championship side Hull City for an undisclosed fee. Burton, 20, who played for England at Under-16, 17 and 18 level, had been offered a new deal by Shrewsbury. But he will now become part of the Tigers' Under-23 development squad, having signed a one-year deal, with the option for a further 12 months. Shrewsbury boss Paul Hurst has now made 11 close-season signings, five of them loan players, while 13 players (including last season's six loan men) have now left the League One club. Goalkeepers: Craig MacGillivray (Walsall), Dean Henderson (Manchester United - loan) Defenders: Zak Jules (Reading), James Bolton (Gateshead) Midfield: Jon Nolan (Chesterfield), Ebou Adams (Norwich City - loan), Daniel James (Swansea City - loan) Strikers: Lenell John-Lewis (Newport), Arthur Gnahoua (Kidderminster Harriers), Carlton Morris (Norwich City - loan), Niall Ennis (Wolves - loan) Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",Shrewsbury Town have signed teenage striker Niall Ennis from @placeholder Wolves on a season - long loan .,neighbours,side,leaving,sheffield,training,0
"They are being presented Ushakov medals for their part in delivering supplies to the Eastern front. Eleven veterans are receiving medals at a ceremony at Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire, on Tuesday. And 67 medals will be awarded at an event in Cardiff on Wednesday attended by First Minister Carwyn Jones. Campaigners long believed veterans should have been able to receive the Russian accolade and in 2013 the UK government made an exception to its rules. Referring to the veterans, Mr Jones said: ""They not only fought enemy ships, U-Boats and airplanes, but also battled extreme weather, sailing with ship decks covered in ice in ferocious conditions of towering seas and hurricane force winds.""",Welsh navy veterans who served with the Arctic Convoys in World War Two are being @placeholder by the Russian government .,honoured,discussed,detained,passed,welcomed,0
"It happened sometime between 23:00 GMT on Friday and 07:00 GMT on Saturday. The PSNI is appealing for information. The owner of the dealership, Malcolm Beattie, said he was ""devastated"". ""It's a lot of money's worth that has disappeared. It is going to be very hard to get that money back in again to buy more stock. ""They picked the best of my stock,"" he added.",Seven @placeholder have been stolen from a car dealership in Woodside Park in Ballymena .,head,crowds,vehicles,people,women,2
"Topley, 22, sustained the injury while batting on his Hampshire debut against Warwickshire on Sunday. The left-armer saw a specialist on Tuesday after x-rays revealed at least one break below the knuckles. ""It's a little unknown still,"" Hampshire director of cricket Giles White told BBC Radio Solent. ""In a week's time we'll see how it's healed."" Topley, who moved to Hampshire from Essex in the winter, has made 10 one-day international and six T20 appearances for England. ""Once we know the full extent, that will shape his recovery,"" he added. ""It's one of those things that happens. ""Reece is bitterly disappointed as are we, but that's the game. We've just got to take the consequences and make sure we get it right for when he returns."" Hampshire survived being without Topley's batting and bowling for the remainder of their opening County Championship Division One match against Warwickshire. A second-innings half-century from all-rounder Liam Dawson secured a draw in the rain-affected match at The Ageas Bowl.",Hampshire and England seam bowler Reece Topley could be out for up to eight weeks after fracturing his right @placeholder .,country,hand,elbow,shoulder,show,1
"Antiretroviral drugs were reportedly administered to the baby in California just four hours after birth. The unidentified nine-month-old child is now said to be HIV negative. It is the second such case after an HIV-positive Mississippi infant brought into remission following early treatment was reported in 2013. ""This is a call to action for us to mobilize and be able to learn from these cases,"" Johns Hopkins University paediatrics specialist Dr Deborah Persaud said at a Boston medical conference. No trace of the virus can now be found in the infant's blood or tissues, the doctor revealed. Dr Persaud said the nine-month-old child is still receiving a three-drug anti-Aids cocktail, while the three-year-old Mississippi child stopped receiving antiretroviral treatments two years ago. ""Really the only way we can prove that we have accomplished remission in these kids is by taking them off treatment and that's not without risk,"" Dr Persaud added. Both children are reported to have been born to mothers infected with HIV, which weakens the body's immune system. The human immunodeficiency virus has infected more than 34 million people worldwide, researchers estimate.","US researchers have revealed another baby carrying the HIV virus , which leads to Aids , may have been @placeholder through early treatment .",cured,released,rescued,raised,destroyed,0
"One of them - Stewart Ford - has been given a fine of £75m, the largest such penalty ever imposed on an individual. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the way the bonds were sold - by a company called Keydata - was ""unclear, incorrect and misleading"". Some 37,000 people bought the bonds. Investors, who bought the investments between 2005 and 2009, were incorrectly told that they were eligible for Isas. Between them, those investors lost at least £330m, an amount which is being refunded by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). By buying the bonds, purchasers were investing in unwanted life insurance policies, which would pay out when the original owner died. But the FCA said the bonds were not suitable for ordinary private investors, because of the risk involved. The FCA said the three men had also misled the previous City regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), in relation to the performance of the investments. Stewart Ford was the former chief executive of Keydata, which was dissolved in 2014. The FCA said he had received £72.4m in fees and commissions on sales. Mark Owen, the former sales director, was fined £4m. He received commissions worth £2.5m. Peter Johnson, the former compliance officer, was fined £200,000. All three have been banned from working in financial services ever again. The men have appealed against their fines, and their case will be heard at a tribunal.","Three men are facing fines of nearly £ 80 m from the City regulator for misleading investors into buying so - called "" death bonds "" , @placeholder to unwanted life insurance policies .",linked,helped,believed,forced,including,0
"The National Association of Head Teachers says it fears an extended time of volatility, with students unsure which exams and subjects to take. The government hopes to make A-levels and GCSEs in England more rigorous. It wants pupils to achieve the levels met in high-performing countries such as Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong. In an attempt to achieve this, ministers have ordered the biggest shake-up of the exams system in three decades. This includes phasing in new, tougher GCSEs and A-levels with new content and examinations at the end. The biggest change introduced in the autumn term will be at AS-level. Currently taught in the first year of sixth form, the qualification will no longer count towards the final A-level result in many, but initially not all, subjects. NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby said: ""We face an extended period of volatility. ""The cause of this volatility is the sheer scale and speed of changes to the examination system - changes to both the scoring of the exams themselves, and to the way these scores are used to judge the performance of schools."" He said that on top of this, a new way of measuring both secondary and primary school performance was being introduced. ""Not all of these changes are bad,"" Mr Hobby said. ""The concern is that the scale and pace of them will make it very hard indeed to know what will happen and how the changes will interact."" Association of School and College Leaders general secretary Brian Lightman said: ""School and college leaders are deeply unhappy about the way in which a large number of changes to exams have been introduced in a short space of time in a piecemeal manner. ""This has resulted in them having to manage an extremely difficult situation, with changes to many different qualifications happening at different times. ""This process has also put teachers under a great deal of unnecessary pressure, and the confusing nature of the changes has caused students and their parents anxiety. ""These problems could have been avoided if changes had been introduced in a more manageable and coordinated way."" At 1,300-pupil comprehensive Hampstead High School, in north London, assistant head Adam Hedley said: ""The entire school is going to be affected in some way by the first of the exam reforms. ""The problem has been making sure we are able to cover all the stuff we need to cover in Years 7, 8 and 9 to prepare them to start the new GCSE curriculum."" Head of sixth form at the school, Zoe Fisher, says she is trying to decide whether to continue to run a stand-alone AS-level course for pupils who only want to study for one year. If she does, she will also have to run a separate new A-level course for those who want to complete two years of study. At GCSE, English and maths will become more challenging. Topics such as calculus, differentiation and kinematics, previously taught to 17-year-olds will now be introduced to 15-year-olds. Teachers have dubbed the new course ""big maths"" because there is so much more content.  Some schools have estimated they will need an extra hour each week to teach it. The government says it is making the changes to raise standards - so England's schools can compete with some of the top ranking education systems in the world like those in Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. Other GCSE subject changes will be phased in over the next few years. Last week at a speech in Coventry, exams regulator, Ofqual, warned the system could not tolerate any further reform under a future government until these changes have been completed and allowed to settle. A Department for Education spokesperson said: ""As part of our plan for education we have made important reforms to our exam system to ensure young people leave school ready to succeed in life in modern Britain. ""Our crucial reforms are ensuring pupils take qualifications that are on a par with the best in the world. We recognise that these vital reforms have led to changes in the system but they can be implemented, which is a testament to the dedication of our schools and teachers. ""We are replacing the system which rewarded schools to push pupils to scrape a C and moving to a new system which encourages high-achievers and recognises schools for the progress made by all pupils.""","Changes to the exam system , which come into force in six months , @placeholder causing significant problems for schools , head teachers are warning .",causing,risk,show,paving,leaving,1
"Actor Brian Cox appears in two of the films, a comedy, The Carer, and a western, Forsaken, which also stars Donald and Kiefer Sutherland. Braveheart actor Angus Macfadyean will bring his first film as a director, Macbeth Unhinged, to the festival. The film is a modern, black and white retelling of the Shakespearean tragedy. Scot Dougray Scott will be starring in the apocalyptic thriller The Rezort. The 70th edition of the film festival runs from 15-26 June. It will include feature films, shorts, documentaries and animations. The opening night gala will feature the world premiere of Jason Connery's drama Tommy's Honour, about Scottish golfing pioneer Old Tom Morris and starring Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden. It is based on a true story and focuses on Morris's turbulent relationship with his son, Tommy. The festival will close with the world premiere of Gillies Mackinnon's Whisky Galore, featuring Gregor Fisher, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthrie, Sean Biggerstaff and Eddie Izzard. Mark Adams, artistic director said: ""We are delighted to once again cast the spotlight on great Scottish talent at this year's festival. It speaks so much about the breadth and variety of filmmakers, craftspeople and performers that our selection of projects featuring local talent shines so brightly."" Natalie Usher, director of screen at Creative Scotland, said: ""EIFF is a key event in Scotland's cultural calendar, offering audiences inspirational, world-class cinema. ""EIFF is recognising and celebrating the wealth and depth of home-grown filmmaking talent supported by Creative Scotland."" The festival will also have a special screening to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and a world premiere screening of the newly 4K restored Highlander, attended by the film's star Clancy Brown.",The Scottish films to be screened at this year 's Edinburgh International Film Festival have been @placeholder in Cannes .,introduced,published,released,announced,named,3
"Writing in the Times Educational Supplement, Ofqual chief executive Isabel Nisbet said the current reliance on handwritten papers ""cannot go on"". Only a few sections of existing exams can be taken on computers. Two exam boards welcomed her comments, but head teachers said resources would be a problem for a computerised system. Pupils are becoming increasingly ""techno savvy"", Ms Nisbet wrote. ""They use IT as their natural medium for identifying and exploring new issues and deepening their knowledge. ""Yet we are even now accrediting new GCSEs, due to run for several years, which are still taken largely on paper,"" she said. ""This cannot go on. Our school exams are running the risk of becoming invalid, as their medium of pen and ink increasingly differs from the way in which youngsters learn,"" she added. Currently, the three exam boards offering exams in England - Edexcel, AQA and OCR - offer only a small number of papers that can be done online. Handwritten scripts are, however, widely scanned onto computers and marked on-screen. Edexcel managing director Ziggy Liaquat said: ""Technology has the potential to transform education by making its delivery more personalised, efficient and effective and more transparent and secure."" AQA chief executive Andrew Hall welcomed Ms Nisbet's comments and said it was ""really important"" that students be ""assessed in the same way that they learn and using the technologies that are commonplace in the world outside the classroom"". ""The real prize here is to have assessment, online, on-demand, when the student is ready,"" he said, suggesting a future where students did not all take their exams at the same time. However, a spokesman for OCR said the board's focus ""was not to make existing paper-and-pen tests electronic but to explore ways that computers can add real value to assessment"". John Hand, BBC News Last year, I took an A-level - partly out of journalistic curiosity about how much exams have changed in the 20 years since I last did so. I found that one thing had remained resolutely the same. The ultimate test of knowledge in any subject comes down to a two-and-a-half hour writing marathon on good old-fashioned pen and paper - and your arm aches for hours afterwards. In common with many teenage students, I rarely used pen and paper during my course. Assignments were completed on computer - and I even got into the habit of entering key grammar reminders into my mobile. But with the exam approaching, I worried about how my handwritten scrawl - badly affected by 20 years of using journalistic shorthand - would be deciphered by an examiner. When the results eventually came out, I performed noticeably better in the oral and listening exams than in the papers which demanded long bursts of wielding a pen. Is taking an A-level easier 20 years on? Send your comments The board's chief executive, Mark Dawe, said that moving to a computer-based system posed ""real challenges"" in terms of providing fair, secure computer access in schools. Sion Humphreys, a policy adviser for the NAHT headteachers' union, echoed his concerns, adding that resources were a ""thorny"" issue at a time of cuts to technology investment in schools. ""You might have a large comprehensive where there are 240 young people in a year group - it's just not conceivable to think of 240 computers being available at the same time, all in working order, at the same time under, the same conditions,"" he said. Mr Humphreys also disagreed that pen and paper could make exams become ""invalid"". ""Yes, they are using technology increasingly in schools as a medium of learning, but they're still also using pen and paper as well and there's a place for that,"" he said. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own exam regulators. GCSEs and A-levels offered by the three exam boards can be taken all over the UK, although most Scottish students sit Scottish highers instead.","Computerised exams should replace pen and paper tests for a @placeholder used to digital learning , the head of England 's exams watchdog has said .",generation,method,lifetime,product,gain,0
"Sean O'Halloran, 30, from Northland Road in Derry is accused of raping a woman in May 2014. The defendant who is a journalist with BBC Radio Foyle faces two additional charges of sexual assault on the same date. Mr O'Halloran, who denies all the charges, is on trial at Londonderry Crown Court. The court was played a recorded interview from 21 May 2014, in which the woman, who cannot be named, told a detective that she had been having a normal Saturday night and had been to a bar with friends before she and her boyfriend invited a number of people, including Mr O'Halloran, back to their house. She said she had been watching a film but went to bed because she was tired and that her boyfriend and two male friends were left downstairs. She told the detective she got into bed fully clothed and that a short time later she had felt someone getting into bed beside her and putting an arm around her. The woman told the detective she had assumed it was her boyfriend but that a minute later she felt this person pulling off her trousers and underwear. When she turned around she said she could see who it was. She described him as being completely naked, that he ripped her top off and that he then sexually assaulted and raped her. The woman went on to say that she tried to shove Mr O'Halloran off her and that she started screaming and asking him 'what he was doing?' She said he initially said nothing before asking her: ""What are you doing?"", ""what are you talking about?"" The woman said she ran downstairs and told her boyfriend what had happened before calling the police. She further told the detective that she had known Mr O'Halloran for a couple of years and had disliked him because he had made previous advances towards her, which she had resisted. She said on one occasion he had grabbed her legs and tried to kiss her. Under cross-examination by a defence lawyer, the woman denied that sexual contact had been consensual or that she had made her claims up for money. The trial, which is expected to last for five days, continues.","A woman has claimed that a BBC journalist raped her as her boyfriend @placeholder downstairs , a court has heard .",denied,slept,head,breached,targeted,1
"But the overall national picture for GCSE grades is very similar to last year. The proportion getting A* to C grades has nudged up from 68.8% to 69%. That represents an improvement for more than 10,000 exam entries. But the overall message - and the even smaller decline in the proportion of top A* and A grades - is that there is ""stability"". This isn't an accident. The annual exam results are not like going outside and measuring the temperature as a natural phenomenon which might fluctuate. It's more like setting the central heating to an agreed level and then holding up a thermometer to see if the temperature is where it should be. Well, perhaps that's not a complete analogy, but the national exam statistics, with their neat similarity to last year, are a work of design rather than nature. The huge annual challenge for the exam system is to balance a number of competing demands. There has to be room for some slight ups and downs, but there mustn't be grade inflation, standards have to be maintained over time and - at the very heart of the process - it has to be a fair reward for the hard work of individual pupils. Add to this complex equation the need to adjust grades between different exam boards. Head teachers' leader Brian Lightman has complained that below the smooth surface of the national statistics, there can be doubts about the reliability of individual results. He has warned of ""volatility"", with heads unable to explain sudden dips and spikes, problems that remain unnoticed from a national perspective. ""It is devastating for a student who has been on course for a certain grade to miss what they were expected to achieve and it is mystifying to their teachers,"" said Mr Lightman. The lingering question is if one year's results are reverse engineered to be very similar to the year before, does this mean distorting some of the results to make sure that they fit? Are there winners and losers in some subjects and at some grades? Ofqual has always argued that fairness for individual students is not compromised by the demands of the wider results system. But it's a massively complicated challenge for exam boards and regulator - made even more difficult by the conflicting legacies of previous grading systems. Once there was a system of fixed quotas which prevented any rise in grades and then a system which allowed grades to rise every single year. Now there is a system which holds out the possibility of change, but which manages to keep things the same. Another factor that gets overlooked in the headlines, is that the results can be changed by who is taking the exam. This year's nudge upwards in the pass rate has come alongside an older cohort. There are fewer 14 and 15 year olds taking the GCSEs early, because the league tables now only recognise the first attempt. And another change in government policy means that pupils who missed out on GCSE maths and English last year are having to re-sit the exam this year. This means that more than 300,000 exam entries were from 17 year olds. But if the changes at the overall level are measured in fractions of a percentage point, there are some very striking differences between England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Northern Ireland's pupils are stretching their lead over everyone else, jumping by 0.7% to 78.7%. It raises the question how such results can be achieved when only 66% make the grade in Wales. Not only is the Northern Ireland figure far ahead of England, it is ahead of the highest-achieving part of England, which was London with 72%. England's education system has been in a state of almost constant reform since the late 1980s, but the latest results show it is Northern Ireland that is stretching further ahead. When these regional differences are overlaid with the gender gap, it means that young women in Northern Ireland are doing much better than anyone else. The scores from the GCSE top grades show the gap. Among entries from female pupils in Northern Ireland, 11.4% achieve A* grades. Among male pupils in Wales, the figure is 4.5%. In England, 5.2% of entries from male pupils and 7.9% of female achieve these highest A* grades. This sets a pattern for A-levels and university entry, with Northern Irish women the most likely in the UK to get university places. Whether or not it is going to be consolation for England's school leaders, such comparisons are soon going to be impossible. Because in a couple of years England's GCSEs will begin to be graded from 9 to 1 rather than A to G, ending a common system with Wales and Northern Ireland. Another curious aside is that many of the pupils taking GCSEs this year in England did not take their Sats tests five years ago, because of a primary school teachers' boycott. What difference did it make in the long term? It would take another exam to answer that one.","The results have been @placeholder for more than five million GCSE entries - which will be five million different stories of exam dreams , dramas and disasters .",sacked,published,detained,recorded,cited,1
"The Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) also says it is coming up with new ways to try to tackle piracy. It says it is now targeting people who host links which allow other internet users to access illegal copyrighted content online. Fact is warning users of similar sites that they should ""watch out"" too. Britain's television and film industries say copyright theft costs them hundreds of millions of pounds a year. The director general of Fact, Kieron Sharp, says: ""We're not after the ones who download a few films or watch something from a streaming website, we're after the people behind that."" One tactic Fact says is working well is ""a domain sign over"". Investigators go to the home of the person hosting a website which is making protected content available to everyone for free. The host is then given a cease and desist order, asking them to take down the website and to hand over the domain rights to Fact. That means when a user goes to that site they are redirected to other places which show material legally. If a website host refuses to hand over the rights, Fact says it has other options to explore and will take action. Investigators say they will take the evidence they have gathered to the police to start criminal proceedings. Fact says Tom's website, featured in the video above, provided access to a certain type of file, called NZBs. It claims those files are used to find and download data easily from the internet. Once all the bits of data are downloaded they can then be used to play a film, TV show or piece of music. The investigators have told Tom the studios they work for do not release their content using the NZB file format. Tom says that he doesn't feel he has done anything wrong. Fact says it has successfully taken action against other websites who've used NZBs for copyright infringement. In 2011, piracy cost the television and film industry in the UK £511 million, according to Fact. Kieron Sharp says a lot of ""criminal money"" is being made. ""It's harming the industry which produces those films and TV programmes in the first place,"" he adds. The broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom, released a report by Kantar Media in September about trends in online copyright. The study found almost a quarter of downloads in the UK infringed copyright. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter",The @placeholder which fights copyright theft on behalf of film and television studios says it is playing catch - up with people who break the law .,pair,hosts,public,body,head,3
"Most Scottish universities have maintained or improved their standing in the league table. Overall Edinburgh University came out in 4th place while Glasgow University was 13th. More than 85% of university research in Scotland was judged to have an outstanding or very significant impact in wider society and economy. This figure was higher than the UK average. The analysis, produced by Research Fortnight, was based on the results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014). This was a large-scale exercise which reviewed the quality of research in different subjects at universities across the UK. Panels of experts scored the work of more than 52,000 academics from 154 UK universities. Both Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities moved up one place in the table compared to the last one in 2008. St Andrews, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, Dundee, Heriot-Watt and Stirling also made the top 50. Strathclyde's physics department was named as the best in the UK - ahead of Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College. Aberdeen and Dundee both slipped back slightly in the overall rankings, while the others moved up. Broadly speaking, the data suggested Scottish universities have maintained or even improved their research rankings since tuition fees for Scottish students were abolished. International rankings also suggest the broad position of Scottish universities is being maintained. Every one of Scotland's 18 higher education institutions undertakes research judged to be of ""world-leading"" quality while Scotland performs more highly than the UK average when assessed on the impact of its research. For the first time, REF 2014 also assessed the impact the research has had on the economy, society, public policy, culture and the quality of life. Laurence Howells, chief executive of the Scottish Funding Council, said: ""Today we have had confirmation that our universities' research is world-leading and impacts on almost every aspect of daily life, from the way we treat patients in hospital, to the way we communicate with smartphones. ""By making the most of our investments in research, Scotland's universities are rightly on the podium with the best in the world. It is particularly satisfying that Scotland's pioneering approach to collaboration through research pooling has helped to bring this success in the REF."" Each of the University of Edinburgh's three colleges had at least one research area ranked top in the UK. Edinburgh research in Sociology, in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences and in Computer Science and Informatics was rated the best in the UK, based on breadth and quality of research. The principal, Prof Sir Timothy O'Shea, said: ""Research at the University of Edinburgh is constantly expanding the depth of human knowledge and making an impact on the wider world - whether it be improving the effectiveness of youth justice policy and practice, or shaping the technologies used to manage the world's data. ""Our outstanding researchers enable us to forge links with charities, businesses, policy makers and other universities, so that together we can tackle long-standing challenges at home and overseas."" The University of Glasgow said its achievements included pioneering research in medicine with new drugs and treatments; software revolutionising the design of electric motors; new ways of controlling animal diseases including TB in cattle and rabies; a positive impact on knife crime policy; and assisting the transformation of Stirling Castle into one of the UK's leading heritage sites. Principal and vice-chancellor Prof Anton Muscatelli said: ""It is particularly pleasing that, in line with the aspirations of the university set out in the university's 2020 Global Vision, 31% of our output was judged to be of 'world-leading' quality.  This success lies at the very heart of our contribution to the UK's economy and, in particular, Scotland's economy."" The report was welcomed by Education Secretary Angela Constance, who said Scotland was ""globally recognised for pioneering research"", with four universities in the world's top 200. This was more per head of population than any other country except Switzerland, she said. Ms Constance added: ""The 2014 Research Excellence Framework has now shown that all of our institutions are producing world-class research in a variety of areas. ""Research is also key to our economic growth and prosperity. Figures published earlier this year showed that our £124m investment in eight innovation centres has the potential to generate up to £1.5bn and around 5,000 jobs for the economy, through sectors such as energy, aquaculture and construction."" However, the University and College Union warned that world-leading research was too often being conducted by people on zero-hours contracts. It also warned institutions against using any perceived low scores as an excuse to consider reducing staff numbers. The union added that lots of research not included or rated highly in the REF still made a hugely important contribution. UCU Scotland official Mary Senior said: ""Our universities must be free to continue pushing the boundaries in their cutting-edge work. We must also recognise that a lot of research not included or rated highly in the REF is still incredibly important. ""Too often our world-leading research is being conducted by people with little or no job security. Universities must avoid any knee-jerk reactions to the results or use perceived low scores to try and make unnecessary cuts. ""We are not alone in criticising what we see as a flawed process when it comes to the REF and have outlined the need for a fundamental overhaul of the research system. We want to see better funding that expands our research base, covering more institutions and more diverse areas of research.""",The range and quality of research at Scotland 's universities has been @placeholder in a new UK - wide survey .,reflected,defeated,injured,praised,held,3
"This happened in the 1960s in Cessnock, a former mining town in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, but only now has this and other decades-old stories of sexual violence and degradation been heard, catalogued and, crucially for many victims, believed. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is an unprecedented investigation into an epidemic of depravity across Australia. The far-reaching inquiry began in 2013 and has heard from thousands of survivors of paedophiles who worked, or volunteered, in sporting clubs, schools, churches, charities, childcare centres and the military. It has the power to look at any private, public or non-government body that is, or was, involved with children. The Commission's task is to make recommendations on how to improve laws, policies and practices to protect the young. To date, it has held more than 6,000 private sessions, along with several high-profile public hearings. Paul Gray told investigators that between the ages of 10 and 14, he was sexually assaulted by Father Peter Rushton in Cessnock every one or two weeks. Sometimes, his attacker had an accomplice. ""I was chased by two men to the edge of the cliff and I hid in the bushes. ""After a while they dragged me from the bushes and I was raped by the two men, and while I was being raped I could hear another boy screaming,"" said Mr Gray, fighting back tears as he recounted memories that have burned inside him for half a century. Too ill to travel from the Vatican to Sydney to give evidence, Australia's most prominent churchman, Cardinal George Pell, was questioned via video link by the Royal Commission over what he knew about alleged abuse and cover-ups within the Catholic Church. For four days earlier this year, the senior Vatican official was quizzed, denying any personal wrongdoing but conceding the organisation had made grave errors. ""I am not here to defend the indefensible,"" said Cardinal Pell. ""The Church has made enormous mistakes, is working to remedy those, but the Church has in many places - certainly in Australia - mucked things up."" When he was 13, John Ellis, a former altar boy, was molested by an Australian monk who was also implicated in a suspected paedophile ring at a former Catholic boarding school in the Scottish Highlands. Now a solicitor, Mr Ellis works with other victims, and we meet at a public hearing held by the commission on the 17th floor of Governor Macquarie Tower that stands over central Sydney. Presiding over the session is the chief royal commissioner, Justice Peter McClellan, a judge of appeal in New South Wales. He is one of six commissioners; two women and four men, and they include a former Queensland police chief, a consultant child psychiatrist and a retired federal politician. They have fanned out across Australia to document a nation's shame. ""The most important thing for people in being invited to give their own stories and having their stories valued is that somebody cares,"" Mr Ellis told the BBC news website. ""For many, many years people have been silenced, people have been fearful of what reaction they will get if they were to tell their truth. The overwhelming emotion people have when they have had that opportunity is empowerment."" When it hands down its final report at the end of 2017, this painstaking inquiry will have lasted for almost five years.  Already, more than 1,700 cases have been referred to the authorities, including the police. More prosecutions will almost certainly follow, but many victims will never savour justice. Dr Wayne Chamley, from Broken Rites, a group that gives a voice to the abused, said decades of brutality had left a terrible legacy. ""When you look at the rate of suicide for men who had these experiences and compared it with age-matched data from the coroners' courts, their risk factor is 20 to 40 times higher for suicide,"" he explained to the BBC. ""There are townships where there have been waves of suicide with hundreds of men. [In] Ballarat [in Victoria state], at least 50 or 60 suicides across just three classes in the primary school - just three classes of boys who became men. Bang. Devastating."" Gerard McDonald, 52, is a survivor of abuse, and one of thousands of people who have told their stories to the commission. His attacker, a Catholic priest, has spent 14 years in prison for attacking 35 boys. ""After every other altar boy practice in 1975, before dropping me home Father (Vincent) Ryan would sexually abuse me. All I could do was think about running to my mate's place and getting the biggest two knives he had and killing him,"" he said. While this harrowing process is undoubtedly cathartic for Australia - and it's inevitable that legislation and procedures will eventually change to make children safer - campaigners insist many youngsters today still remain at risk from predators in institutions, while paedophiles stalking the internet continue to groom the vulnerable.","In Australia , a boy of 10 is raped by an Anglican clergyman , who cuts his victim with a small knife and smears blood over his back in a @placeholder ritual to symbolise the suffering of Christ .",bid,gripping,healing,twisted,phone,3
"Fingers are increasingly pointing to a piece of Ukrainian tax-filing software, MEDoc, as the source of the infection, although the company denies it. Malware generally infiltrates networks via email attachments that users click on in error. Microsoft described the method as ""a recent dangerous trend"". The cyber-attack has caused disruption around the world and infected companies in 64 countries, including banks in Ukraine, Russian oil giant Rosneft, British advertising company WPP and US law firm DLA Piper. Shipping giant Maersk said it was unable to process new orders and was expecting delays to consignments, while one of Europe's largest port operators in Rotterdam said that it had to use manual processes, and Dutch global parcel service TNT said it was operating with restrictions. A Cadbury's factory on the island state of Tasmania ground to a halt when computer systems went down, according to Australian Manufacturing and Workers Union state secretary John Short. Ukraine was hit hardest, suggesting the attack might be politically motivated. According to anti-virus vendor ESET, 80% of all infections were in Ukraine, with Germany second hardest hit with about 9%. A growing number of security experts, including the British malware expert Marcus Hutchins - credited with ending the WannaCry ransomware outbreak - claim to have logs that reveal MEDoc as the source. In email correspondence with the BBC, Mr Hutchins said: ""It looks like the software's automatic update system was compromised and used to download and run malware rather than updates for the software."" It was not yet clear how it had been compromised, he added. MEDoc has denied the claims, in a Facebook post - but in a blog post analysing how the infection had taken hold on Windows machines, Microsoft also points the finger at the accounting software. ""Active infections of the ransomware initially started from the legitimate MEDoc update process,"" it writes. Alan Woodward, a computer scientist from the University of Surrey, said: The ironic thing about this situation (if it proves to be the case) is that we always advise users to keep their software up to date, ideally using automated updates. ""However, it assumes hackers can't take over the update process and misuse it. ""This process is normally a very tightly controlled process, so this is unusual. ""I can imagine many vendors are now triple-checking to make sure they don't end up being an attack vector."" He said that it showed ""hackers will probe every possible channel"" to find a route into systems. ""As users there isn't a lot we can do as we are in the hands of the software vendors."" As to how the infection spread beyond Ukraine, he added: ""I wouldn't mind betting that a lot of these multinationals such as Maersk and Merck had this software installed."" Mikko Hypponen, a security expert at F-Secure, has studied the recruitment pages of many of the companies affected and found that some did indeed use the MeDoc software. ""If you do business in Ukraine, the software appears to be de facto,"" he said. There were other anomalies in the attack that pointed to it having been targeted, said Prof Woodward. ""The software was sophisticated, but the attackers only provided one single email address and that was closed down very quickly so it is difficult not to conclude that this wasn't about money but targeted at Ukraine or those doing business with it,"" he said. A Kremlin spokesman said that the malware attack had caused no serious damage in Russia. ""Protection systems have been quite effective both at state and corporate levels,"" said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He added that the origin of the attack remained unclear. Most security experts agree that the virus, thought to be a new variant of the Petya ransomware, was spread using a Windows vulnerability known as Eternal Blue, discovered by the National Security Agency and leaked online. Mr Hypponen told the BBC that it was ""completely clear"" that hackers in both WannaCry and Petya outbreaks had used the NSA exploit. The fact that it had now been leaked and was being used by criminal or political hackers was ""a nightmare scenario"" for the intelligence agency, he said. ""It chose to use the exploit, not tell Microsoft about it and weaponise it, and now it has been leaked, made public and used in an attack,"" he said. The NSA has not publicly acknowledged that its tools have been used in any hacking attacks, but it has not denied it either. Typically ransomware spreads via email, with the aim of fooling recipients into clicking on malware-laden files that cause a PC's data to become scrambled before making a blackmail demand. But other ransomware, including Wannacry, has also spread via ""worms"" - self-replicating programs that spread from computer to computer hunting for vulnerabilities they can exploit. The current attack is thought to have worm-like properties. Several experts believe that one way it breaches companies' cyber-defences is by hijacking an automatic software updating tool used to upgrade an tax accountancy program. Once it has breached an organisation, it uses a variety of means to spread internally to other computers on the same network. One of these is via the so-called EternalBlue hack - an exploit thought to have been developed by US cyberspies, which takes advantage of a weakness in a protocol used to let computers and other equipment talk to each other, known as the Server Message Block (SMB). Another is to steal IT staffs' credentials and then make use of two administrative tools: PsExec, a program that allows software installations and other tasks to be carried out remotely; and WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line) a program that allows PCs to be controlled by typing in commands rather than via a graphical-interface. Once a PC is infected, the malware targets a part of its operating system called the Master Table File (MFT). It is essential for the system to know where to find files on the computer. The advantage of doing this rather than trying to encrypt everything on the PC is the task can be achieved much more quickly. Then between 10 to 60 minutes later, the malware forces a reboot of the computer, which then informs the user it is locked and requires a payment for them to get a decryption key.",A global cyber - attack that affected companies around the world may have started via @placeholder updates on a piece of accountancy software .,corrupted,increasing,fuel,running,spurred,0
"Home Secretary Amber Rudd said PC Keith Palmer will be commemorated by the UK Police Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. Khalid Masood killed the unarmed officer who was guarding Parliament, minutes after Masood drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge. ""He gave his life, in the line of duty, to keep others safe,"" said Ms Rudd. Ms Rudd said the Charlton Athletic season ticket-holder's sacrifice has ""touched the lives of millions of people in this country and around the world"" as she thanked the police for their ""phenomenal"" bravery and professionalism after the attack, on Wednesday. Writing for Police Oracle, she said: ""So much has been said and written in tribute to Pc Palmer - a husband and father who went to work on Wednesday morning and will never go home. ""His sacrifice, the tragedy of his death, has touched the lives of millions of people in this country and around the world."" The UK Police Memorial ""provides a lasting tribute to the sacrifices that all too many police officers have made"". The MP also praised the two officers who remain in hospital after being injured in the attack. At the arboretum there is an avenue of trees called The Beat in memory of fallen officers, and a police memorial garden. Plans are in place for a new police memorial at the arboretum, with organisers hoping it will be in place by 2019.",The policeman stabbed to death in the Westminster terror attack will be @placeholder on a permanent memorial .,called,staged,inscribed,launched,honoured,4
"Police found the unconscious man in Miller Road in the Ribbleton area of Preston at about 03:00 BST. After regaining consciousness, he then allegedly punched one of the paramedics who had come to his aid. Lancashire Police said the man, from Ribbleton, has been bailed and is due to appear before magistrates in Preston on 7 July.",A man has been charged with assault after a paramedic @placeholder him was attacked in Lancashire .,treating,believed,attacked,carrying,injured,0
"The man had ignored park warnings and rolled down his car window to feed bears at Badaling Wildlife World near Beijing. He escaped with minor injuries, according to local reports. Local authorities have since ordered the park to tighten safety procedures, including limiting visitor numbers. Last year a woman and her mother got out of their car at the park and were mauled by tigers. The mother later died. In the latest incident which took place last Friday, the man, surnamed Chen, was touring the wildlife park with a friend in a car. Despite park warnings, the two men decided to try their luck after seeing other visitors feeding the bears through their car windows without incident, he said in an interview with the Beijing Evening News. A bear went up to their window and Mr Chen tried to roll it up, but the window malfunctioned and rolled down instead. The bear then lunged in and bit Mr Chen's left shoulder. The men sped away and sought medical treatment for Mr Chen. Pictures of the incident, snapped by Mr Chen's friend, have circulated widely online and in Chinese media. Mr Chen told the newspaper: ""I admit that I was definitely at fault by opening the window, but at that time I was in a lot of pain and fear, and asked staff what to do. They just told me to go to the hospital by myself, and I was shocked when I heard that."" A park spokesman told the newspaper that the incident was due to visitors not observing park rules forbidding the feeding of ""wild beasts"", which he said were clearly displayed throughout the park. It also released a CCTV video of the incident, which officials said showed park rangers warning Mr Chen to shut his window before the bear attack. Local authorities have since ordered ""immediate rectifications"" in Badaling Wildlife World, reported the China News portal. This includes improving visitor safety awareness, limiting the number of visitors who drive through the park, and increasing park surveillance.",A bear has @placeholder a visitor at a Chinese drive - through wildlife park where a woman was fatally attacked by tigers last year .,bitten,become,opened,infected,sparked,0
"Best live action short winner Mat Kirkby was promised doughnuts ""for good"" after namechecking Orford's Pump Street Bakery at last month's ceremony. He took his statue into the bakery to receive his first offering. ""I've had nine doughnuts this weekend and am having second thoughts,"" he said. Kirkby, who is from Shottisham in Suffolk, won the award for The Phone Call, which stars Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent. The 20-minute film is about a volunteer who works for a helpline call centre in London. Kirkby said the Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles was like a ""dream"". ""If you've got a little bumpkin brain you can only take so much,"" he said. ""I got a lot of high fives and selfies and things. When I came off stage Gwyneth Paltrow was in the wings and she gave me a high five. ""I said 'at least I didn't cry', and then she punched me."" Kirkby said he stayed in LA after the ceremony for meetings at ""big studios"". ""You take your gold statue in and their eyes light up,"" he said. ""You realise that some of these famous people haven't got one of these things that you've got - it was pretty special."" He is now going to concentrate on pitching scripts he has written for feature films. ""I'm just trying to make the most of it before the drawbridge goes up,"" he said.",An Oscar - winning director has returned to the bakery he mentioned during his acceptance speech to claim the first of his lifetime @placeholder of doughnuts .,list,supply,knowledge,series,team,1
"The fires, which happen every year, are caused by slash-and-burn clearances on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Paper and palm oil companies have been widely blamed for the practice. Indonesia, which has repeatedly promised to stop the illegal fires, has sent hundreds of military personnel to try to put them out. It has declared a state of emergency in Riau province, where the haze has been building for several weeks and pollution levels are hazardous to health. In Malaysia, schools have been closed in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, and several other areas, while Singaporeans are being advised to avoid strenuous activity outdoors.","Smoke from huge forest fires in Indonesian has created a cloud of smog over the country , which has spread over @placeholder Malaysia and Singapore .",promoted,neighbouring,sides,relegated,water,1
"The court also heard school caretaker Sean McKenna had to drink from the animal's dish. He was slammed into concrete posts and made to go barefoot after being taken from his Newry home in August 1971, it was claimed. Lawyers for his daughter argued the interrogation techniques ""ruined"" him. It was claimed the experiences worsened a heart condition that led to his death four years later at the age of 45. Mary McKenna is taking legal action along with other surviving members of the so-called Hooded Men in a bid to secure an independent and human rights-compliant investigation into their treatment. Proceedings have been issued against the chief constable, secretary of state and the Department of Justice over alleged failures to properly probe and order a full inquiry. Five techniques were said to have been used against the men while they were held without trial: Counsel for the group claim they were tortured using methods sanctioned by the British state. Former prime minister Edward Heath was allegedly involved in the decision making process, while Stormont's prime minister at the time, Brian Faulkner, was said to have been personally briefed on the deployment of the methods. Ms McKenna's legal representatives argued that her case also raises a potential breach of Article 2 right to life under European law. Ms McKenna stressed that no one should have been subjected to the alleged torture, but described her father as particularly vulnerable due to his heart condition. His internment ended in May 1972, when he was released on medical grounds to enter a psychiatric hospital. But the impact of being subjected to the five techniques caused his psychiatric breakdown, according to his daughter. ""My father had been a great man before he had been interned, but that man never returned to us,"" she stated. ""He had been ruined by his experiences."" The court heard that a doctor who examined Mr McKenna two and a half years after he was subjected to the interrogation techniques described him as tense, anxious and sobbing. He complained of serious psychiatric symptoms, including contemplation of suicide. In a further report following a second examination in June 1975, the medical expert concluded that Mr McKenna's health had gone downhill. He was by then suffering from severe chest pains and hypertension. With Mr McKenna assessed as already having angina before his internment, the doctor said it would be hard to show it was wise to proceed with the techniques, or that the treatment did not worsen his condition. His other psychiatric symptoms were also linked to the deep interrogation procedures. Mr McKenna died of a fatal heart attack in June 1975. The medical evidence, Ms McKenna's barrister submitted, backs allegations that the alleged torture was responsible for death as well as psychiatric injuries. However the barrister for the government and chief constable, countered that the 1998 Human Rights Act has no retrospective powers. ""The obstacle that poses for the applicants is profound,"" he told Mr Justice Maguire. Allegedly misleading medical evidence and the disclosure of a memo from Home Secretary Merlyn Rees in 1977 giving his view that the decision to deploy torture methods was taken at ministerial level, is not enough get over that hurdle, the barrister argued. The court also heard civil actions brought against the state by all 14 men were settled in the 1970s, with compensation paid out. The case continues.","One of 14 men allegedly tortured during internment in Northern Ireland was @placeholder by a soldier 's dog , the High Court heard today .",overshadowed,triggered,bitten,strangled,stabbed,2
"Two years ago, American film maker Jeremy Saulnier took his revenge film Blue Ruin to Cannes to screen as part of the Directors' Fortnight - a strand of the film festival which has screened early works from Martin Scorsese and Ken Loach to more recent films by the likes of Clio Bernard. His new film Green Room casts British acting royalty Patrick Stewart as the leader of a gang of white supremacists in a Portland backwater bar. They lay siege to a dressing room where a young band are cowering, having witnessed the aftermath of a brutal murder. And it's all set to a thrashing punk soundtrack. ""I grew up in the punk rock hardcore scene in Washington DC and had always been attracted to the aesthetic of that world,"" he explains. ""It's also very kinetic and physical and I loved that world. My high school years were spent with my friends making movies and playing in punk rock bands so the idea's been gestating for quite some time."" The film also features Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin, as the band's bass player, with Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat as the guitarist. British actor Joe Cole, seen recently in Peaky Blinders, and Callum Turner play the other band members. British actress Imogen Poots is also stuck in the room with them, sporting plenty of attitude and a rather marvellous Chelsea fringe haircut [a punk style long at the front and short or shaved at the back]. The decision to cast a renowned stage actor against type as a backwater racist is the one of which Saulnier is most proud. ""We were about two weeks out of shooting and we still didn't have Darcy [Stewart's character] and I thought the film would implode,"" he admits. ""But Patrick swooped in. He got the script, he saw Blue Ruin and he was up for an adventure."" The British actor arrived on set pre-prepared, having worked on a detailed back story with the director. ""You hear horror stories of big name actors being a nightmare and not knowing their lines but he came in, he knew everything he had to do and discussed everything,"" he says. Saulnier also cast his best friend Macon Blair, who starred in Blue Ruin, as another member of the skinhead gang. ""He got his hair cut short and bought fake tattoos from the internet and auditioned for the role,"" says Saulnier. ""I thought, 'not only is he going to get this role, he's the only person who can do it'."" Another key character is the music, which plays a major role in the film. ""We have Slayer, we have Bad Brains, we have CCR [Creedence Clearwater Revival]. All of these crazy awesome bands. ""But also in the background of some of the scenes, and in one of the live performances, are [songs] from my high school bands. ""Hearing these songs that I used to hear in 1994 in Virginia being played live by Anton and Alia was a dream come true. The film is incredibly violent with various characters dispatched with shotguns, machetes and even a vicious dog. But the director insists ""ideally there is an emotional impact to everything. The visceral blowback of seeing these acts on screen is not easy to digest - it's never supposed to rest easy."" The press screening at Cannes over the weekend was punctuated with gasps and squeals, which delighted Saulnier. ""This is a straight up genre film, it's for my 19-year-old self and the kids I grew up with. It's a movie for fans, if you're a horror nerd. ""But I also wanted to make sure that the violence is not celebrated. It's grounded and brutal and it has to serve the intensity of the story. If it's just violence for violence's sake, you lose the value of it."" For all the horror, Green Room is not without lighter moments of comedy, which often serve as a release valve for some of the more intense moments. A neat running gag involves the band all choosing a band which they would take with them on to a desert island. They all go for the most obscure, credible bands until they face genuine danger and the truth comes spilling out. Without ruining the joke too much, it seems the hardest punks have a weakness for pop music. And it has a great payoff in the film's closing scenes. ""I always find humour in dark places, it also seems natural. I really let it evolve and I find a little irony here or a moment for a character. I like the fact when the characters are not experts and [there is] lots of confusion and miscommunication, that is a good environment for dark comedy."" So, what is Saulnier's one desert island band? ""Definitely (Black) Sabbath,"" he says. Credibility intact Mr S.","Director Jeremy Saulnier returns to the Cannes Film Festival with a blood - soaked siege movie , starring Patrick Stewart as the leader of a white @placeholder gang of skinheads .",exhibition,power,nationalist,defining,series,1
"The frontrunner: La La Land Surely, with a record-equalling 14 nominations, this will waltz off with the top award. It's classic yet contemporary. It feels unlike any other modern film, yet feels so right. And it's about the agony and ecstasy of ""making it"" in Hollywood. What could be more Oscar-friendly? The challenger: Moonlight A beautifully-crafted film and a beautifully-told story, Moonlight gives screen time to the type of central character that Hollywood doesn't normally dwell on, or does so only as a stereotype - a poor, young, gay, black, marginalised man. The outsider: Hidden Figures This real-life story of three black, female mathematicians in a white, male world at Nasa in the 1960s has exceeded expectations at the US box office, and is the highest-grossing of the nine best picture nominees. The frontrunner: Emma Stone (La La Land) If La La Land is to sweep the board, then it will sweep Emma Stone along with it. She's also at the age, and the stage of her career, at which the Academy likes to admit female stars to its A list. The challenger: Isabelle Huppert (Elle) The French actress won a Golden Globe for her role in rape revenge thriller Elle, and there's a strong contingent that thinks the Oscars should give her the credit she deserves for her 40-year career. The outsider: Natalie Portman (Jackie) At one stage, Portman and Stone were neck-and-neck. The Academy loves stars who transform themselves into real-life legends, as Portman has with former US first lady Jackie Kennedy. But Jackie has underperformed at the box office and elsewhere in the Oscar nominations. The frontrunner: Denzel Washington (Fences) Denzel is probably the marginal favourite in this race. If he wins, he will become only the fourth man to have won three acting Oscars, and will be the oldest best actor winner for 25 years. Or maybe the frontrunner is: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) It's a close call, and Casey is still in very much contention for his depiction of pent-up grief. But he has slipped back, partly because he's hardly charmed the campaign circuit, and partly because of a shadow cast by sexual harassment claims dating back to 2010. The outsider: Ryan Gosling (La La Land) If Ryan Gosling wins best actor, then La La Land really will be sweeping everything before it. The frontrunner: Viola Davis (Fences) Playing the same role that earned her a Tony Award on Broadway, Viola is, according to the bookies and the pundits, the surest thing in this year's Oscars. The challengers: Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Nicole Kidman (Lion), Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures) and Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea) all gave fine performances. But they needn't bother rehearsing an acceptance speech. The frontrunner: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) Ali was the standout performer in Moonlight's ensemble. And with a role in Hidden Figures also among his credits, he is another actor the Academy is ready to anoint as a major star. The challenger: Dev Patel (Lion) There's a lot of love and a late surge of support for Patel, who has come of age as an actor eight years after his breakthrough film Slumdog Millionaire won eight Oscars. The outsider: Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water) He may be supporting, but Bridges steals the show as a wizened, maverick Texas Ranger. The frontrunner: Damian Chazelle (La La Land) La La Land is so beloved by the Academy that they're likely to reward Chazelle's vision and audacity - and the fact he's made a film like this at the age of 32. He would be the youngest best director winner in Oscars history. The challenger: Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) But Moonlight also shows rare directorial acumen and marks the arrival of another major film-making talent in Jenkins, who would be the first African-American winner of this award. The outsider: Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) It would be a big statement to give the award to the Australian after his exile from Hollywood following notorious anti-Semitic, racist and misogynist outbursts. But then again, the Oscars did give this award to Roman Polanski in 2003, despite his own Hollywood exile after admitting unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. The magical musical has a record-equalling 14 nominations. That includes two for best song - meaning it can win a maximum of 13 statuettes. The record number of wins in Oscar history is 11 (Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Ben-Hur). The record for a musical is 10 (West Side Story). The hype has cooled a little, so La La Land will do well if it gets into double digits. It's the favourite in 10 of the 13 categories in which it has nominations - the only ones in which it isn't frontrunner are best actor, original screenplay and sound editing. After two years of #OscarsSoWhite, in which there were no non-white acting nominees, three of the four acting trophies could go to black actors this year. If Denzel, Viola and Mahershala all triumph, it will be the first time that black performers will be in the majority when the four acting winners get together for that post-Oscars photo hug. A lot of people, probably, directly or indirectly. There's a whole separate article on this. There is a select group of 12 people who have got what is known as an EGOT - the set of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. There's an even more select group of just two people (composers Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch) who have got a PEGOT - all the above plus a Pulitzer Prize. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who created the Broadway smash Hamilton, currently has a PEGT - he's just missing an O. He's nominated for best song for How Far I'll Go from Moana. La La Land is hot favourite for that prize, of course. But could the fact it has two nominations in that category split the La La vote and let Lin-Manuel sneak in to complete the set? Sound recording engineer Kevin O'Connell notched up his 21st Oscar nomination this year for his sound mixing work on Hacksaw Ridge. That's a great achievement - the shine only coming off it slightly when you consider the fact he's never won. This could be his year. It could. Except La La Land is standing in his way. So it won't. At the nominees' luncheon group photo this year, the Academy placed him in the middle, next to the giant Oscars statuette - and the face he made shows he's past caring. Two British brothers are nominated for best visual effects this year, for different films. Paul Corbould is nominated for Doctor Strange, while Neil Corbould is shortlisted for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Neil has won twice before - for Gladiator and Gravity - while Paul, previously nominated for Guardians of the Galaxy, has never won. It's a talented family. There's another visual effects wizard brother, Chris, who won an Oscar for Inception. Fortunately for the sake of preventing further family rivalry, he's not nominated this year. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","It 's the biggest @placeholder of the year in Hollywood - the Oscars begin at 17:30 PST on Sunday ( 01:30 GMT on Monday ) . As the final preparations take place , here 's what to look out for in the main battles .",stage,weekend,phase,night,steps,3
"It shows Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, 27, in declining health but gives his family renewed hope for his eventual return. Sgt Bergdahl, missing since June 2009, is believed to be held in Pakistan by a group affiliated with the Taliban. The video refers to current events, indicating the only American held prisoner in the conflict remains alive. ""As we have done so many times over the past four and a half years, we request his captors to release him safely,"" Sgt Bergdahl's parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, said in a statement on Wednesday. US officials have confirmed the existence of the video to US media but have declined to discuss its contents. A proposal offered by the Taliban in June to exchange Sgt Bergdahl for several top senior operatives detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stalled only weeks later when the militants vowed to fight Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government. Meanwhile, the soldier's hometown of Hailey, Idaho, has continued to remember him through special events and yellow ribbons pinned to the town's utility poles and trees.","The US military has obtained a new video of a US soldier @placeholder in Afghanistan more than four years ago , US officials have confirmed .",captured,serving,living,total,held,0
"With its half-year results, the new chairman said the move would be complex as it affects the pension scheme. The Edinburgh-based company is under pressure from a German shareholder which has just bought a 7% stake. It wants to split the ground handling operations from the distribution division. The latter has suffered from the downturn in newspaper circulations, down 3.7% in the first half of the year, and magazine sales, down 4.7%. That was partly offset in its six-month results by collectable stickers linked to the UEFA European football championship, and by the expansion into online shopping deliveries. John Menzies is using its overnight newspaper delivery vans for daytime work. It says that efficiency has helped it win a three-year national distribution contract supplying retailer WH Smith. Boardroom tensions led to four members of the board departing earlier this year, including the former chief executive and former finance director. One of the four newly appointed directors is Dr Dermot F Smurfit, who became chairman last month, who told shareholders: ""One of my tasks will be to review the structure of the group in order that we can maximise shareholder value. ""This will include looking at whether our two operating businesses are best placed to prosper while they are part of one group. ""The situation is complex, particularly with regard to our pension schemes. Management have already engaged with specialist advisers and our pension trustees, and work is underway to structure the pension scheme in such a way as to give the board the maximum amount of flexibility in future. I expect this work to take up to 12 months."" In its results for January to June, John Menzies reported revenue flat at just over £1 bn. Profits fell by nearly half to £3m. The aviation division moved out of loss, while distribution made a £12m profit. The company said the Brexit vote leaves uncertainty, but it hopes to gain from earning 80% of its aviation income in currencies other than sterling, which convert into sterling at rates that help boost results. The company's aviation business operates at 149 airports in 32 countries. Its distribution division employs 3,500 people from 43 different sites across Britain and Ireland, delivering around six million newspapers and magazines each day. Also affected by the downturn in the newspaper industry, Johnston Press was given a ""negative"" rating Moody's the credit rating agency, down from ""stable"". This follows weak half year figures published earlier this month by the owner of The Scotsman, The Yorkshire Post and around 200 local titles. The rating said the results highlighted the risk to liquidity, despite the company's ability to generate cash through newspaper cover sales. It said there is concern that the publisher could break the covenant conditions on one of its loans.","John Menzies , the aviation and @placeholder distribution business , has said it could take up to a year to prepare for a split of its two divisions .",gas,food,cargo,print,body,3
"Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) walked out at midnight on Sunday as part of dispute over the introduction of new trains. RMT leader Mick Cash said the strike action was being ""solidly supported"" by members. FGW listed changes to its scheduled services, saying it was running 70% of its regular Sunday timetable. A company statement said: ""Trains may be busy and there will be limited food and drink services onboard. Last trains of the day are likely to leave significantly earlier than usual."" The dispute centres on staffing and on-board catering facilities on FGW's new fleet of Hitachi Inter City Express trains, with the union fearing guards and buffet cars will be disposed of. Mr Cash said: ""The union salutes the unity and determination of our members in this long-running dispute. ""Although we have held many hours of talks with First Great Western we have not been able to make enough significant progress over the core issues at the heart of the dispute."" Union members held a 48-hour strike over the same dispute in July and are also due to strike over the Bank Holiday weekend. Both the union and company said they were available for talks before the next planned strike. FGW has said the new Super Express Trains would deliver ""more seats, faster journey times and more frequent journeys for our passengers"". ""Our plans mean more train managers and customer hosts on board our trains, not less,"" it added. The company's revised timetable for the strike cancelled at least half of the inter city services with one train an hour between Paddington and Bristol, south Wales and the south west of England. Trains on the Portsmouth to Cardiff line only ran between Salisbury and Swindon and there was no FGW trains to or from Weymouth. In the Thames Valley nearly all the suburban services were scheduled to run as normal. The operator runs train services between London Paddington, south Wales, the Cotswolds, the Thames Valley region and the West of England. The first Hitachi trains will run on the Great Western main line from 2017 and the East Coast main line from 2018.",Rail services were @placeholder as workers at First Great Western ( FGW ) staged a 24 - hour strike .,described,sold,disrupted,quoted,withdrawn,2
"The predicted decline is being blamed on schools entering more pupils for the exams a year earlier than intended. Education Secretary Kirsty Williams warned pupils capable of high grades could be missing out by sitting the exams early and not being re-entered. She told BBC Wales she may stop schools entering pupils for exams a year early. Speaking on the Sunday Politics Wales programme, Ms Williams said she would consider the matter after an investigation reports back to her in the autumn. For GCSE English Language, entry data shows a substantial number of pupils taking the qualification this summer while still in year 10. There are slightly more than 21,000 year 10 entries - approximately 65% of all year 10 students in Wales. Exam regulator Qualifications Wales said that as a result ""we expect that this will mean that the overall results this summer will be lower than in previous years"". Ms Williams said: ""What I'm concerned about is that children that, perhaps had the potential to get an A* and A or a B at the end of a two year course end up having to settle for a C because they do it early and they're not re-entered again. ""I want children to fulfil their potential in school. I want early entry to be only for the children who will benefit from it. ""When I see such large numbers as are being reported as being entered, that's something I am concerned about."" This year, for the first time, pupils have sat GCSE English and Welsh exams which are unique to Wales. Ms Williams said the new qualifications were more rigorous and this could also account for the expected drop in results. However, last October, Qualifications Wales wrote to schools about the new qualifications and insisted: ""There is a well-established approach to maintaining stability in outcomes when a new GCSE or an A level is introduced, known as 'comparable outcomes'. It said the aim was to ensure pupils taking new qualifications were ""neither advantaged nor disadvantaged"" compared to those who took the previous exam, and that the approach ""works well in situations where one specification is replaced with another"". In May, Welsh Government Director of Education Steve Davies told AMs some schools were ""gaming"" the exam system, that officials were ""concerned"" about the volume of early entry and the government wanted to take action this autumn. Earlier in the month, Ms Williams expressed concerns the focus on raising GCSE attainment to C grade had led to ""unintended consequences"", with some children put in for early entry to bank a lower qualification instead of potentially reaching higher. This is an issue which has been on the Welsh Government's radar for a number of years. In 2013, the then Education Minister, Huw Lewis, warned he would intervene to prevent schools ""gaming the system"" in the future if they did not stop voluntarily. In England, the number of pupils being entered early for their Maths GCSEs fell sharply in 2014 when the UK government made changes to how school league tables were calculated so that only the first entry counted.","English , Welsh and Maths GCSE results are expected to be lower in Wales this year than previously , the @placeholder overseeing qualifications has said .",youth,minister,body,county,officer,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device North, 22, appeared to be knocked out after clashing heads with team-mate Richard Hibbard in Cardiff. Mathema said Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) medics will have access to video replays at future matches. Media playback is not supported on this device ""Having seen it since, he should definitely have been removed,"" he said. ""At that moment it was clear to see that he had a momentary loss of consciousness and, because of that, irrespective of him having no signs or symptoms, we've been dealing with George North as a concussion. ""We've seen where our protocols need to improve."" North has passed all tests for concussion and could play against Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday. The Northampton player left the field for eight minutes during the first half after receiving an accidental kick to the head, but was allowed to resume playing after showing no sign of concussion. The incident with Hibbard was picked up by television cameras but was not seen by the Welsh Rugby Union medical staff, who did not have access to a video feed. Media playback is not supported on this device ""All I saw was George North getting up off his knees when I arrived at the scene,"" said Mathema, who was pitch-side at the time. ""He was completely lucid and conversing spontaneously with me. At that time I deemed him fit to play."" Mathema said the WRU has responded to a request from World Rugby, the sport's governing body, for an explanation of North's treatment. A decision on whether North will be available against Scotland, who lost their opening game 15-8 in France, will be made by Wales this weekend. Mathema added: ""Today he has been evaluated and he has shown no signs of any concussion and, because of that, he's started his return-to-play protocol already and there's been no issues. ""He has to go through that process for the rest of the week, having a step-by-step increase in his activity.""","Wales wing George North should have been @placeholder because of suspected concussion in the Six Nations defeat by England , according to Wales medical manager Prav Mathema .",replaced,hospitalized,suspended,postponed,criticised,0
"They could be at any one of the summer's music festivals. But this is the young farmers' area at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show, in Powys, Mid-Wales. Despite the huge numbers of enthusiastic young people here, the average age of a farmer is 58. More than 60,000 new farmers will be needed over the next decade in order to provide enough food for the rest of us. Despite unemployment among 16-24-year-olds standing at just over one million, few consider a career in farming where a good one might earn up to £60,000 a year. This is partly because farming has an image problem. A survey of young children carried out by Careers in Farming and Food Supply showed the industry was perceived as ""boring, repetitive and low-paid"". In just one row of stands here at the Royal Welsh, fluttering banners advertise animal micro-nutrients and heavy machinery and offer a multitude of financial plans. This tiny area of the show demonstrates that agriculture has become an increasingly technical, complex and challenging industry. ""You can use all sorts of skills as a farmer these days,"" says Christine Tacon, Chairman of UK Farming plc. Beyond an obvious passion for the outdoors, farmers also need to excel at logistics and planning as well nurturing ""softer"" skills, like people management. ""Imagine you've hired 2,000 workers from various countries in eastern Europe. Getting them to work harmoniously together is going to be a challenge,"" explains Ms Tacon. The shortage of young farmers is also starting to worry big businesses. Fast-food chain McDonalds has also just launched a programme aiming to help young people into the industry. With an initial first-year investment of £1m, Farm Forward offers agricultural students a placement year working in every part of the supply chain. Source: Royal Agricultural Society of England report, 2009 ""We will help them develop the blend of skills and experience that progressive, modern farmers want and need,"" says Brian Mullens, senior vice president of McDonalds UK. Many young people are also put off farming because they think you have to come from an agricultural family to succeed. ""This absolutely isn't true,"" says Rachel Jones, from Farmers Weekly magazine. ""People don't realise how much of a business farming is, you have to have an eye on margins and costs every step of the way. If you have really acute business and entrepreneurial skills there are opportunities out there. "" In a bid to tempt some fresh meat into the industry, Farmers Weekly has launched Farmers Apprentice - a competition in which 10 people aged between 18 and 25 will battle it out in a farming ""boot camp"" for a week, carrying out some of the toughest tasks. Gareth Barlow grew up in Reading, and when his non-farming friends and family found out that his dream was to become a farmer, they tried to put him off. ""They said there was no future in it and I'd never make any money. I guess I wanted to prove them wrong,"" he said. He has continued to add to the small flock of sheep he bought as a 17-year-old, and now has more than 500. Gareth also trained as butcher and has sold his meat to Michelin-starred chefs, like Marcus Wareing. ""Farming has to be a business,"" he says. ""You're a businessman first, then a farmer"". He acknowledges that farming is not always the most glamorous of jobs, and can be very hard work. ""You're working with and against nature,"" he says. ""You have to be prepared to do anything, so if a ewe's having trouble birthing, you do have to get stuck in."" The recent dairy protests highlight the challenges faced by small farmers in today's volatile markets. They also show how necessary it is to display good business acumen when negotiating prices with supermarkets. The National Farmers Union says cuts in the price paid to suppliers, combined with rising feed costs, could force hundreds of farmers out of business. However, Christine Tacon does not think that should put anyone off the industry. She says in the bigger agricultural companies, graduate trainees are paid upwards of £20,000, are given a vehicle and often a house. Alongside schemes like the Farmers Apprentice and Farm Forward, the industry is trying to do more to change the public perception of farming. Kevin Thomas, national director of Lantra, the sector-skills council for land-based and environmental industries, says: ""A lot of career information is gained online, but we need to increase the opportunity for 13-14-year-olds to get a taster of working on the land. ""It's about informing careers advisers and individuals to show that there is a career opportunity at all levels."" If that does not persuade young people to think about career in farming, perhaps the industry could point to             a new ONS survey  which shows those who live and work in the countryside are happier than the rest of us.","Noisy groups of teenagers wearing a strict uniform of hot pants , aviator sunglasses and wellies stream past security into a music @placeholder .",tent,group,threshold,studio,network,0
"Robinson's side trailed 19-0 at half-time on Saturday but scored 14 points without reply after the break. It was not enough to avoid a sixth loss from six games since returning to the top flight, but gave Robinson hope. ""In that second half, you saw us really get into the fight. We attacked really well,"" he told BBC Radio Bristol. ""What it highlights is that we do have the ability to compete. ""We need to really get in the fight straight away in games, and then stay in the fight. ""It looks like we're sitting back first, waiting to see what the opposition are going to do, and then it's too late."" Bristol - who won promotion back to the Premiership last season - are the only side still yet to win this term, but have played four of the teams currently in the top six. Their losing bonus point at Falcons took their tally for the season up to two points but they remain bottom of the table. ""That is quite pleasing, that we got something out of it,"" former England and Scotland coach Robinson added. ""This tournament is about points accumulation.""",Bristol director of rugby Andy Robinson felt their second - half fight - back in a 19 - 14 loss at Newcastle Falcons @placeholder they can compete in the Premiership .,claiming,maintains,showed,ensured,chasing,2
"""Just a couple of days ago, I was like, 'I've changed one thing,' and they were like, 'You can't'. And I was like, 'Can you please make this happen because I need it,' and they said, 'OK'. The ""they"" in this anecdote are his record label Sony and the ""thing"" he changed was a track on the band's new album For Crying Out Loud. ""I'm terrible,"" he admits. And the source of his frustration? ""I sped up a track by 1 bpm (beat per minute) because it was doing my head in and I couldn't figure out why. Maybe it's just madness, I can't even decide for myself. ""I get pretty obsessed making albums. I think a lot of people I respect are probably the same, I think it's what binds us."" While for many, this kind of attention to detail could reek of some kind of music megalomania, or even a bit of rock star posturing designed to prove his self-importance, it's this kind of attention to detail which, to the consternation of hipster tastemakers and serious muso critics, have made the lad-rockers one of the biggest bands in the UK. Fewer than 10 years after playing second fiddle to Razorlight (where are they now?) on the Other Stage at Glastonbury, Kasabian joined Arcade Fire and Metallica as the top billing artists on the Pyramid Stage. That was three years ago and for many British bands, could be considered the peak of their career. ""It was like completing Mario,"" says Pizzorno. ""I didn't get a lull afterwards, I  just thought, 'What does this mean, getting from rehearsing in a shed to headlining Glasto?' It was a long old journey."" For anyone who has ever witnessed the raucous, sing-a-long atmosphere of a Kasabian gig - midway between a rock show and a football terrace - it would come as a surprise that it's only recently the 36-year-old has begun enjoying their live shows. ""Performing, for me, well I've always been a studio man but I got into the performing thing. Now, I  feel excited about performing which is a new thing."" Which is just as well as the band are currently in the middle of a UK and European tour which will also see them headline this summer's Reading and Leeds festivals. It also sees them on the verge of releasing their sixth album since 2004's self-titled debut album. In the band's Wikipedia page (""It's all rubbish, I don't know how they get away with it,"" says the musician), one fact which Serge says is correct is that they have now been together for more than two decades. ""Twenty years is a long time,"" he admits. ""What keeps me going, is I'm obsessed with tunes and you can see it in the eye of other people with the same addiction. Even though you've got a bag of new songs that are ok - you always want one more."" The new songs, which the band have already played live, at a three-night residency in London's Kentish Town Forum include Comeback Kid, God Bless This Acid House and the already controversial You're in Love with a Psycho with its nonsensical lyrics - ""The doctors say I'm crazy, that I'm eight miles thick / I'm like the taste of macaroni on a seafood stick."" ""It's not the shower scene from Hitchcock,"" explains Serge. ""I think in any relationship there are moments when one of you will do something and the other will think, 'Whoa... that was a bit weird, I only forgot to put the bins out, come on, is it that bad?' ""It made me laugh and originally it was, 'I'm in love...' but I looked at my wife and thought I can't do that. It could be about anyone but I have had a few texts from my mates asking is that about my missus?"" So, in that spirit, what do the new song titles from For Crying Out Loud tell us about Serge, we decided to have a gentle probe... You know what, I'd abdicate and I'd go to a desert island with all the money that I'd stashed away and I'd go with a record player and a case of rum and sit there with no one else. That would be my day. I'd take a crate and have my favourite albums but then I'd have a mystery crate so I could dig away at that. Paddy Considine in Dead Man's Shoes, that is the epitome. He's the best. The longest would have been going out Friday and going to bed Sunday night, which is not bad, two and a half days. Actually,  it did go into Monday so three days-ish but I would never do it again. The Friday was great and it carried on and the Saturday was okay but the Sunday was not good and it wasn't for want of trying to go to bed. In a fight, it would be horrendous. Tom would win, well it depends. I think if Tom got in early, he'd get the knockout but if it went past eight rounds, I think I've got the stamina. But if he went in early, I think he'd do it. I'd probably do him on points. One year, it was the Champions League when Arsenal played Barcelona and I went round the corner to watch it with Noel Gallagher and I had to catch a train and I was with Tom and so we got there before the game and I think we had maybe five or six pints of [generic beer brand] over the period, I mean it was ridiculous because we had to catch a train and I have never been so out of mind mind trying to catch a train and when we arrived in Leicester, there were a couple of coppers waiting for us. We weren't in trouble but it was just bad. I was so drunk but then an hour later, I wasn't too bad, it was this weird concentrated period. And hangover cure? I wish I knew, I don't have one. There isn't one is there? It's your punishment for having such a good time. There's the obvious one of course (we think he means Oasis) but I'm going to go for something else. It would be nice for the Floyd to get back together. So, Pink Floyd. The best one, just because of the ridiculous situation, not because it was the best party but on the first album when we were kids, we got invited to Philip Green's yacht in Monte Carlo and it was just full of what you would imagine. Like, Bon Jovi were there.  It was the oddest group ever and, as you can imagine, we were like 20, 23 so were trying to get into his helicopter and turn it on. It was just mad. The worst? I can't remember. I've never had a bad party, I'd have a great party in here with just me and you. Us (Leicester City) winning the Premier League. We were playing two shows in the stadium in the summer and I remember leaving a game against Swansea and spoke to our manager and said, 'We've got to move those gigs'. It was impossible because we had six weeks to turn it around but we did. Every day, just taking the kids to school, it was just everywhere and it's one of those things in 20 years you'll be on a programme as one of these talking heads, talking about it. It's still too soon to understand what happened. Yeah quite a lot actually and I figured it out. I used to really struggle but audio books are my thing. It's annoying because you fall asleep and can't remember where you got to, so you listen to the same chapter over and over but that's the thing. I need not to think, silence doesn't work and music is terrible because I start writing notes. I'm on podcasts right now. Adam Buxton, he's so good. Oh man.  Do you know what, I'm gonna say Seven Nation Army because it's the first thing that came into my head. How he's managed to write the sporting anthem of the world is hilarious because he had no idea that it would be. When Italy won the world cup I think, and I could be wrong, but I think it started with the Italian fans because that was their song and they won the cup, which was amazing. If I hadn't said Leicester winning the league, I would have said that, so that song brings back happy memories. Man, I could write a soundtrack but I don't know if I have the answers for that. I don't really have anything worth much, I don't really go in for that. Probably my synthesizer collection and I had no idea. Apparently I made a good investment and, at the time, people asked, 'Why are you buying all this old gear that doesn't work?'. But over the years, it's better than buying red wine, I was told. For Crying Out Loud is out now. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.","Former Chelsea and , for the purposes of this interview , Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri 's constant experimentation with his starting 11 , earned him the nickname ' The Tinkerman ' . Now , Sergio Pizzorno - guitarist , professional Leicester City fan and creative @placeholder behind Kasabian could stake a claim to the moniker .",force,pace,sound,genius,collaborator,0
"At the moment costs can vary wildly from just a few pence per call to more than £2 per minute. From 1 July charges will be made up of an access charge - decided by your phone company - and a service charge, so callers can check before they dial. UK Calling will affect 175 million phone numbers starting 084, 087 and 09. Phone companies - both landline and mobile - will have to give customers their access charge for any calls made to those premium numbers. It will have to be stated clearly on bills and when a customer takes out a new phone contract. The service charge is set by the broadcaster. Viewers should then be able to work out the cost before they phone shows such as Strictly Come Dancing or I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! to vote, or enter a competition on a programme such as This Morning or Good Morning Britain. Instead of hearing a message such as: ""Calls cost Xp from a BT landline. Other landlines may vary and calls from mobiles may cost considerably more"", viewers will be told, ""Calls cost Xp plus your phone company's access charge."" Calls to freephone numbers starting 0800 and 0808 will also become free from mobile phones, in what Ofcom has said is ""the biggest overhaul of phone calls in more than a decade."" UK Calling will also see the cost of calling 118 directory enquiries and any other businesses and organisations using premium services being made up of both access and service charges from 1 July. Customers who receive paper bills from either landline or mobile phone providers will be sent leaflets explaining the changes.","Watchdog Ofcom is changing how charges for phone - in competitions and votes on TV and radio shows are @placeholder , to try to make them easier to understand .",paid,reduced,advertised,growing,handled,2
"Sophie Lindsay, 15, was reported missing after being last seen at about 13:15 in the city's Sherbrooke Avenue at the weekend. At the time, police said she had been missing before but not for a prolonged period of time. However, officers said on Wednesday that the teenager had been found safe and well.",Police say a teenage girl who disappeared from the south @placeholder of Glasgow on Sunday has been traced .,coast,impact,group,side,state,3
"Deputy presidential spokesman Manolo Quezon said the Philippines ""has to do its part to enforce the sanctions"". The Jin Teng is one of 31 ships operated by North Korean firm Ocean Maritime Management, which is subject to an asset freeze and sanctions. It is currently docked in Subic Bay and is unloading palm kernels. New UN sanctions were imposed after North Korea's recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests. They include mandatory inspections of all cargo going to or from the DPRK. What impact will sanctions have? Will carrots or sticks change North Korea? The Philippines government says it will impound the Jin Teng and eventually deport the crew. Safety issues were reportedly found during an inspection of the vessel by the Philippine coast guard on Friday. A second inspection took place on Saturday, coastguard spokesman Commander Armand Balilo told AFP news agency. He said the crew of 21 had been ""very cooperative"". Ocean Maritime Management was blacklisted by the UN Security Council in 2014 after one of its ships was seized in July 2013 near the Panama Canal with Cuban weapons hidden under sugar sacks. It was accused last year of renaming and reflagging its vessels to evade asset freezes. The Jin Teng was sailing under a Sierra Leone flag. Pyongyang reacted to Wednesday's sanctions by firing six short-range missiles into the sea. Leader Kim Jong-Un later ordered that the country's nuclear weapons should be ""ready for use"" at any time.",The Philippines says it has seized a North Korean ship in line with @placeholder UN sanctions targeting the country 's nuclear programme .,blaming,tightened,creating,encouraging,delaying,1
"Not long before they died, convicted drug traffickers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran expressed a wish for a global campaign to abolish the death penalty. They had spent 10 long years in Indonesian prisons after being convicted in 2006 of playing a major role in the so-called Bali Nine drug ring that attempted to smuggle more than 18lb (8.2kg) of heroin from Indonesia to Australia. By all accounts, they had worked hard to rehabilitate themselves: Chan had qualified as a pastor and ministered to fellow inmates. Sukumaran found solace in art. His talent for painting earned him an associate degree in fine arts from Western Australia's Curtin University two months before his execution. Those changes slowly won them the sympathy of many Australians. Now, their desire to see more action on the death penalty is being taken up by some of the country's top politicians. Devastated by the failure of frantic diplomatic and legal bids to save their lives, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop last week said ""it is time for us to have a significant discussion about the application of the death penalty for drug offences in our region"". Former Attorney General Philip Ruddock has taken the campaign a step further. He has written to the local diplomats of countries such as Brazil, France and Nigeria, whose nationals were executed this year by Indonesia or are on death row there. Co-chair of Australian Parliamentarians against the Death Penalty, Mr Ruddock wants them to work with Australia on abolishing the death penalty in and beyond the region, including in the United States. ""I think it is timely that Australia indicates it has a principled position on this matter and that we're prepared to be on the front foot in advocating change,"" Mr Ruddock told the BBC. But Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, who is charged with managing sensitive trade issues with Indonesia, says Australia might have to look into its own backyard as well as trying to influence others. ""I have to be honest, I do get approached by people saying, 'Well, that might be your view, Barnaby, that you don't support the death penalty, but it's not our view',"" he told ABC television. ""And I find that rather startling at times and I think that the discussion that we're having about others, we should also be carrying out domestically."" Australia has a long-standing bipartisan opposition to capital punishment and has not executed anyone since 1967. But the nation's leaders at times send mixed messages about the death penalty. Comments by former Prime Minister John Howard in 2007 about the ringleaders of the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, are a prime example. ""The idea that we would plead for the deferral of executions of people who murdered 88 Australians is distasteful to the entire community,"" he said. However, Australians' acceptance of the use of the death penalty by other countries has fallen in recent years. A  1986 poll found more than 70% believed it should be carried out if Australians were sentenced to death in another country, says Lowy Institute for International Policy polling director Alex Oliver. But a Lowy poll conducted in February this year showed nearly a complete reversal:  62% of people did not want Chan and Sukumaran to be executed, and nearly 70% believed the death penalty should not be used to punish drug traffickers. Another poll, in 2010, found that nearly 60% of people wanted Australia to push for abolition of the death penalty in South East Asia.  Ms Oliver expects to see similar sentiments in a poll conducted at the weekend about the latest executions, to be published later this week. ""The last 35 years have seen a strengthening opposition to the death penalty generally,"" she says. However, she says views can change depending on who is facing capital punishment and what their crime is. Most people hold inconsistent views on the death penalty, says Patrick Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Melbourne's Deakin University. ""Most people don't like the death penalty but think maybe certain people should be put to death, or they don't want the death penalty here but are less concerned about overseas, or they don't like the thought of Australians being executed, say, in China or Malaysia or Indonesia but are not concerned about it being applied in places like the US, or Iran or Japan or Saudi Arabia,"" he says. ""It's an area where most people don't have a clear, principled position but a fragmented reaction to cases as they arrive."" Working harder to abolish the death penalty rather than just winning a reprieve for sentenced Australians would shield Australia from accusations of hypocrisy or ""special pleading"", says Lowy executive director Dr Michael Fullilove. Asia is the obvious place for Australia to begin - it is home to ""the world's worst offenders"" on capital punishment, like China.  Mr Fullilove says Australia should forge a regional alliance with countries in the region that have abolished the death penalty: Cambodia, Nepal, East Timor, Bhutan and the Philippines. It should also make the issue not just a principle, but a priority. ""We should aim to become a leader in the international movement against the death penalty,"" he says.",Momentum is gathering in Australia to push for the elimination of the death penalty around the world but some say Australians should address @placeholder in their own backyard first .,rise,attitudes,rule,violence,evidence,1
"The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) analysed footage from the non-fatal shooting of Nathaniel Brophy, 34, in Clapham on 21 August. It said the positioning of the cameras on officers' bodies obscured and impacted the quality of the footage. The Met said it was testing different locations as part of an ongoing trial. Officers across 10 London boroughs are currently involved in the trial using about 1,000 devices, to boost transparency and speed up convictions, with aims for a further 20,000 to be used by March next year. Often placed just below the shoulder the camera can be obscured if the officer raises their arm to aim a weapon. Jennifer Izekor from the IPCC said: ""They will be good tools but they're not fit for purpose for firearms incidents at the moment."" The introduction of body cameras followed criticism of the Met over the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot by armed officers in August 2011, sparking riots across England. The cameras enable officers to store material from each incident for a month which can then be used for evidential purposes. But Andrew Dismore from the Labour London Assembly group said: ""I'm surprised that it's taken the IPCC to point out this particular problem to the Met. ""I would have thought it was pretty obvious that if a firearms officer points a rifle at something that the camera ought to be able to follow what the officer is doing. At the moment they can't do."" The Met said: ""The cameras issued to armed MPS officers are capable of a variety of mounting options and these are being tested as part of this pilot...helping to inform any future roll-out. ""No decisions have yet been taken as the pilot is still ongoing and there are still lessons to be learned.""","Body cameras worn by armed Met Police officers are "" unfit - for - purpose "" and should be @placeholder , the police watchdog has said .",dropped,replaced,outlawed,reviewed,revealed,1
"The claim: Regional governments in Belgium have held up the EU's trade deal with Canada and would be likely to do the same to the UK. Reality check verdict: Not all EU trade deals need to be approved by individual member states, but bigger ones do. If the UK were to agree a wide-ranging deal, including provisions on things like services, transport or investor protection, it would need to be ratified by every member state. In the case of Belgium, that would mean any of the five local parliaments could scupper it. A Brussels signing ceremony was scheduled for Thursday, with Canadian ministers invited to attend. Now it looks unlikely. The hitch is that Ceta requires ratification by all the 28 member states' national parliaments and 10 regional parliaments. Under Belgian rules, the national government cannot sign the deal unless all five local governments agree to it. The parliament of Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, rejected the deal, as did the Brussels city parliament and that of the wider French-speaking community. The federal government and those representing the German community and Dutch-speaking Flanders approved the deal. As a result, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has said the Belgian government cannot sign the deal off. Walloon leaders have asked for more time to study Ceta, suggesting a possible compromise may be found further down the line. So what does this tell us about the Brexit negotiations? EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said: ""If we can't make it with Canada, I don't think we can make it with the UK."" Not all EU agreements need to be ratified by all member states. If agreements only cover areas that are the responsibility of the EU, such as tariffs, then they do not need to be ratified in this way. Senior EU politicians have suggested that setting out the terms of the UK's withdrawal and a new trade relationship between the UK and the EU would require two separate agreements. The first agreement, the divorce settlement under Article 50, could well be done without needing ratification by all the individual member states. That's because they would be agreed by qualified majority voting, which means having the support of 20 out of 27 countries representing at least 65% of the EU's population. But the second deal, covering the UK's future trade relationship with the EU, would be more difficult to conclude without the approval of all the members. The more complex the trade deal is, the more likely it is that it would be a ""mixed"" trade deal. A ""mixed deal"" is an EU deal that includes areas that the individual EU states take decisions on, for example services, transport or investor protection. The list of areas that the member states themselves have a say on can be found here. ""Far from having taken back control, we will have left ourselves at the whim of the internal politics of 27 other countries,"" said Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesperson Tom Brake. Ceta is a mixed deal, as was the EU's deal with South Korea. The customs union with Turkey was not a mixed deal, so did not need to be ratified by all member states. It is important to stress that we know very little so far about what the UK's deal or deals to leave the EU will look like. We do not know what the UK's or the EU's starting positions are, let alone what the two sides would eventually agree on. And if the trade deal is conducted outside the legal framework of Article 50, which envisages a two-year deadline, extendable only by a unanimous agreement of the other 27 EU countries, then we will not know any details of the deal for many years to come.",The European Union has been negotiating a trade deal with Canada @placeholder Ceta for the past seven years .,relegated,gathering,preferred,called,rules,3
"Residents and correspondents in the second city, Bouake, described calm on the streets - a day after troops briefly seized the defence minister. The rebellion had spread from there to other cities, including the commercial hub, Abidjan, but that city, too, is now quiet. A deal was struck between the mutinous soldiers and the government on Saturday, though details are scant. A correspondent for AFP news agency in Bouake said on Sunday that there had been no firing there since Saturday evening. ""Traffic has resumed this morning and the shops have reopened."" Ivory Coast profile The mutiny began in Bouake early on Friday with soldiers firing rocket-launchers.  On Saturday soldiers took over the army headquarters in Abidjan. Protests also took place in the cities of Man, Daloa, Daoukro, Odienne and Korhogo. President Alassane Ouattara went on national TV on Saturday night to announce a deal. ""I confirm that I have agreed to take into account the demands of the soldiers over bonuses and better working conditions,"" he said. At the same time he criticised the rebellion. Aside from better pay, the agreement is reported to include an amnesty for the mutineers. Defence Minister Alain-Richard Donwahi - who had gone to Bouake to negotiate with the protesters - was held for two hours there late on Saturday. The mutiny raised fears of a resurgence of the violence seen during Ivory Coast's 10-year civil war, which ended in 2011. Some of the mutineers were thought to be former rebels who joined the army after the conflict. The rebels swept into Abidjan from Bouake in 2011, helping Mr Ouattara take power after his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo - now on trial at the International Criminal Court - refused to accept defeat in elections the previous year.",A rebellion in Ivory Coast over soldiers ' pay appears to have @placeholder .,signed,warned,show,passed,fled,3
"It follows a stand-off between the GMB union and another security company, Showsec, over union recognition, which threatened to derail the event. Labour's General Secretary Iain McNicol announced the party had signed a deal with OCS Group. The firm is the existing supplier of security at the Liverpool ACC venue. Mr McNicol added: ""We look forward to working together on what will be an excellent event."" A question mark had been hanging over Labour's annual gathering, which gets under way in just over four weeks' time, after G4S said it was now too late for it to step in and organise protection arrangements. Labour's ruling National Executive Committee voted last year to ditch G4S over claims the firm was linked to Israeli prisons. The GMB objected to the only firm to bid for the contract to provide security at this year's conference, Showsec, saying the company had refused to sign a union recognition agreement before the event. In an effort to avoid the conference being picketed by GMB members, Labour approached G4S only to be told by the firm it could not step in and provide security. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had earlier insisted the conference would go ahead. Asked if he accepted the situation looked ""messy"", Mr Corbyn said: ""Many things are complicated in life. We'll sort this out. Don't worry about it, the conference will take place."" The result of Mr Corbyn's leadership battle with Owen Smith will be announced on the eve of the formal start of the conference. In a statement issued after the party's announcement it had secured a security provider, Showsec said it withdrawn from its bid for the contract. A spokesman said: ""As a company which puts the welfare of our staff ahead of commercial gain, we no longer consider the operating environment for our security delivery to be conducive to a positive experience for our staff, especially given the tone of some of the comments made by the GMB union.""",The Labour Party has signed up a company to provide security at its annual conference @placeholder the event will go ahead as planned .,following,described,claiming,dominates,meaning,4
"The Portuguese coach appeared to gouge the eye of Barca assistant Tito Vilanova near the end of the match. Madrid duo Marcelo and Mezut Ozil and Barca's David Villa were sent off in the game, which the Catalan side won 3-2 to go through 5-4 on aggregate. All three players have been given suspensions by the federation. All three red cards came at the end of the game; the first to Marcelo, whose tackle on Cesc Fabregas sparked a melee that saw the other two players dismissed and Mourinho clash with Vilanova. Barcelona said on Monday that they would not be reporting Mourinho, but the Spanish Federation (RFEF) have intervened. A statement on their official website read: ""We will examine the images of the behaviour of Jose Mourinho and Franciso Vilanova that could be in violation of Article 98 and/or Article 100 of the disciplinary code of the RFEF."" The flashpoint was the latest in a string of unsavoury incidents between the two clubs since Mourinho took over as Madrid coach last summer. The 48-year-old double Champions League winner was constantly outspoken about Barca last season, while his side were reduced to 10 men in all but one of their five meetings throughout the campaign. He was also sent to the stands during the first leg of the two teams' Champions League semi-final, which Barca won before going on to lift the European Cup.",Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho is to be @placeholder by the Spanish Football Federation following last week 's bad - tempered Supercopa loss to Barcelona .,released,scrapped,held,investigated,replaced,3
"There are conveyor belts and fast moving robots, but this isn't a car factory. Instead this is the modern face of blood testing. Tiny phials of blood are whizzing around the room being tested by a variety of automated machines. All around people in lab coats are bustling to keep everything running smoothly. Thousands of blood and urine samples whizz though facilities like this in many of our major hospitals. It is an extremely efficient service; nevertheless from a GP taking a sample to getting a result can still take a couple of days. Now a new invention from scientists at the University of Birmingham aims to move some of that testing out of the lab and into your GP's surgery or High Street chemist and to cut that testing time from days to just a minute. Although this new test can be retooled to look for many different things, the team from Birmingham are focusing their initial efforts on to urinary tract infections (UTIs). This will create a simple test that can detect infection in a patient's urine and also further check to see if the infection is resistant to common antibiotics. Currently if you go to your doctor with a UTI, he or she will send a sample off to the local lab for testing and, in the meantime, start you on a course of antibiotics. Of course when the result comes back in a couple of days it may show that particular infection is resistant to the antibiotic the doctor gave you. That means you need to start over with a different antibiotic and it will take longer to clear things up. But there's a bigger problem. Although the initial medicine won't have had any impact on your infection, the antibiotic it contains could come into contact with other bugs in your body and they may go on to develop a resistance to it, fuelling the more general problem of antibiotic resistance. But with this test you can avoid all this and instead discover in a minute if you are infected and which antibiotics will work against the infection. So how does it work? Well, long straight molecules called bacteriophage M13 are mixed with the urine sample from the patient. Usually they sit in nice straight lines like dried spaghetti in a packet. But they are designed to ""lock on"" to any infection and, when they do, they go from nice straight lines to big clumps. This change is detected and that gives the result. This research started at the University of Birmingham and has now been spun-out into a new company called Linear Diagnostics based on campus at the Biohub. You can read more about the research here. Excitingly, you can tweak the molecules so they lock on to all sorts. In this new test that means they can detect infection and also antibiotic resistance. But the hope is this simple idea could be expanded to test for many other diseases. For now though the focus is on UTIs and clinical trials start in hospitals soon, with the aim of having a test on the market by the end of the year. It means patients should get better, more targeted treatment, clearing up the infection faster. But it's also a useful new tool in a the bigger battle against the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.",I 'm standing next to what looks like a highly automated @placeholder line .,group,production,telephone,heart,health,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device The world champion was 0.408 seconds up on Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg third. Media playback is not supported on this device Rosberg was a substantial 0.764secs off Hamilton's pace and 0.164secs ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen. Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat was fifth ahead of Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen and the improved McLaren of Jenson Button. The Englishman was 0.229secs and four places ahead of team-mate Fernando Alonso, who made an error in the final sector of his fastest lap and ended up 11th. Their positions hinted that the improved performance McLaren promised may be delivered this weekend. McLaren and engine partner Honda have brought upgrades to both car and engine this weekend and were expecting a step forward in performance, as they have made at every race since a very disappointing start to the season. If they were able to repeat those positions and qualify in the top 10 on Saturday afternoon it would be a dramatic advance, although they are likely to be overtaken by other teams who can turn up their engine performance for qualifying. Among them will be Williams, whose driver Valtteri Bottas was edged out by 0.031secs by Button as Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz took eighth ahead of Bottas's team-mate Felipe Massa. Mercedes look to have a significant edge on single-lap pace and are again strong favourites for qualifying but Ferrari appear as usual much closer on race pace. Media playback is not supported on this device The relative positions of the Mercedes drivers swapped on the race-simulation runs late in the session. Rosberg had a slight advantage but only small - about 0.07secs on average lap time. Vettel was a second slower on average lap time than the Mercedes drivers over his race run and afterwards admitted that the gap between the two teams was ""still there"". ""It's been OK,"" said Hamilton. ""A fairly decent day. It is quite windy so the car is affected by that but otherwise it's been quite good. Our pace feels good."" Raikkonen did run the medium tyre at the same time as the Mercedes, albeit briefly, and appeared to lack the world champions' pace. Red Bull hit more reliability trouble with the Renault engine, Daniel Ricciardo needing a power-unit change and only getting out for the final five minutes of the session, setting the 13th fastest time behind the Lotus cars of Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado.",Lewis Hamilton was in a league of his own as the Mercedes driver set the fastest time in second @placeholder at the Spanish Grand Prix .,event,row,circumstances,practice,fashion,3
"Junead Khan, 25, of Marlow Avenue in Luton, downloaded a bomb-making recipe and browsed the internet for a knife used by British militant ""Jihadi John"". He was jailed for life in May for preparing a terror act. This has now been replaced with a 20-year jail term with five years on licence. The Appeal Court heard Khan opened the bomb pack computer file ""only once"" and, although he looked for a knife, he never placed an order. Although he went close to US military bases in East Anglia, including RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, he never deviated from his planned route. ""There is no doubt about the heinous nature of the crime, which Junead Khan formed an intention to commit,"" the judge said. ""In terms of steps actually taken, he did not carry his intention far."" He had committed a serious crime but not one that needed a life sentence, the panel of judges including Lord Justice Treacy and Mr Justice Leggatt, concluded. The judges also dismissed an appeal by Khan and his uncle Shazib Khan, 24, also of Marlow Avenue in Luton, against their sentences of seven-years jail, with five years of extended licence, for preparing terrorism offences. The pair had planned throughout 2014 and 2015 to travel to Syria to live under the so-called Islamic State regime, but failed to raise enough money for the fare and to buy all the kit their IS contacts had asked them to bring.",A delivery driver jailed for life for plotting to kill US personnel outside an air base has had a new sentence @placeholder by the Appeal Court .,inspired,opened,approved,imposed,announced,3
"The French Jewish Students Union (UEJF), SOS Racisme and SOS Homophobie say they found 586 offensive posts between 31 March and 10 May. But they claim only a small percentage was taken down. French law states that racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic content must be removed from websites. ""In light of YouTube, Twitter and Facebook's profits and how little taxes they pay, their refusal to invest in the fight against hate is unacceptable,"" said UEJF president Sacha Reingewirtz. The three social networks have all been contacted by the BBC. YouTube's community policy states that the platform does not support content which ""promotes or condones violence against individuals or groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status or sexual orientation/gender identity, or whose primary purpose is inciting hatred on the basis of these core characteristics"". Facebook has a similar guideline but adds that it does allow ""clear attempts at humour or satire that might otherwise be considered a possible threat or attack"". Twitter's rules state: ""We believe in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power, but that means little as an underlying philosophy if voices are silenced because people are afraid to speak up."" For that reason, it continues, it does not tolerate behaviour that ""crosses the line into abuse"".","Three @placeholder in France say they are planning legal action against Facebook , Twitter and YouTube for failing to remove hate speech .",lawyers,attitudes,websites,camps,organisations,4
"Most of them offer the same variety of food, including the famous Damascene shawarma or popular oriental pastries. The smell of grilled meat and crispy bread mixes in the early spring breeze. These shops coexist uneasily with the neighbouring Lebanese businesses. ""Look around you. It feels like the Hamidieh market,"" laments Fouad Araji, a Lebanese restaurant owner. Hamidieh is the famous Syrian souk at the heart of the old city in Damascus, over 50km (30 miles) away from Barelias. Mr Araji says his profits are down by about 40%. He blames the new Syrian shops in the area for his losses. Barelias is a mainly Sunni town of around 35,000 residents. Its proximity to the Masnaa crossing, one of the main points into and out of Syria, makes it an attractive destination for Syrians fleeing the violence across the border. According to the mayor of the town, Naji al-Mays, 15,000 Syrians are currently living in Barelias. ""Discontent at the impact of the Syrian presence is growing,"" says Mr Mays in a worried tone. These complaints are echoed at the highest levels. Wael Abu Faour, the minister of social affairs, describes the refugee crisis as ""the biggest challenge facing Lebanon"". ""It's becoming a huge burden on the political, demographic, security and social levels"", he said. Source: UNHCR Mr Abu Faour speaks of rising tension between the Syrian refugees and the local communities. ""Even in areas highly supportive of the Syrian revolution, people are complaining. In some cases there have been some clashes and unfortunately, we're hearing about attacks against Syrians in the country"". In some areas, negative attitudes towards the Syrians have surfaced. At the entrance to Botchay, a small Christian town on Mount Lebanon, visitors are greeted by an unusual message. A large banner reads: ""The municipality of Botchay announces a daily curfew on foreigners from 8.30 PM to 5.30 AM."" ""By foreigners I mean Syrians. But I've worded it such that I wouldn't be branded a racist,"" says Michel Khoury, the mayor of Botchay and the man behind the decision. ""I've imposed the curfew as a pre-emptive measure. Every day, we hear about security incidents, crimes, burglaries, intimidation and so on in areas all over the country. So I've taken this initiative to protect my town,"" he said proudly. There are no camps for refugees in Lebanon. Instead, they stay in rented apartments or with relations. The UNHCR says as of the end of March, about 400,000 Syrian refugees had been registered, or were awaiting registration, in Lebanon. But the Lebanese Minister of Interior, Marwan Charbel, says that the real number of Syrians in Lebanon is almost a million. Lebanon's entire population is estimated at four million. According to Mr Charbel, the crime rate in Lebanon has increased by about 50%, an increase he says is related to the influx of Syrians. These statements are undoubtedly feeding social anxiety in the small country with overstretched resources. Lebanon already hosts more than 450,000 Palestinian refugees. The country suffered a 15-year civil war, ending in 1990. Demographic changes or tensions are a hugely sensitive issue. Yara Shhayed from the Anti-Racism Movement, argues that the attitudes towards Syrian refugees are akin to racism. She says that they are being blamed ""only because they're the weakest link"". ""People here have always looked down on Syrian workers. But since the start of the conflict in Syria and the influx that ensued, the Lebanese have been wanting to make Syrians pay for their own political failures,"" she said. ""So if the crime rate is high because of loose security or if dire economic conditions drive people to steal, they say that the thieves are Syrians and the rapists are Syrians and so on."" The Lebanese government has been slow dealing with the refugee crisis. While it has facilitated the entrance of Syrian refugees, it was late to conceive a plan to deal with their needs. With no end in sight to the conflict in Syria, and a continuous flow of refugees, fear of what lies ahead is not likely to fade.","On one of the main highways in Barelias , in the Bekaa valley in east Lebanon , about a dozen shops and restaurants display Syrian @placeholder .",culture,signs,experiences,origin,devices,1
"What the PM described yesterday as ""Brussels gossip"", now this morning has been more firmly dismissed by Number 10, claiming ""we really, really don't recognise these reports"" (Not precisely the same rebuttal). Of course, no politician would wanted to be branded ""delusional"", or indeed, ""ignorant"" or ""misunderstanding"", or to have a blow-by-blow account of just how awkward and unproductive a vital private dinner about the future of your country was. Not least Theresa May who is someone who does her homework, makes careful plans, and takes ""getting on with the job"", one of her favourite phrases, extremely seriously. The proactive and critical briefing against Number 10 after the meeting between the PM and some of the EU's top officials, Jean Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier, last week, has, unsurprisingly, spilled into the election campaign and onto some of this morning's front pages. Overnight, my BBC colleagues in Brussels have been told the UK was on a ""different wavelength"" and ""misunderstanding"" of how the EU works. The message from the EU is not really very different from what has been said in Brussels for many months. The UK has been told repeatedly that the EU will stick together, that nothing can be agreed until everything is agreed, and also that parallel talks on trade and the exit deal are extremely unlikely. Indeed, the prospect that the talks could fail has also been a distinct possibility. And it can't be said too many times, there will be spin on both sides of this negotiation, right up until, and including the end of the process. Neither side right now wants be seen as willing to give ground. And like it or not, spin is part of the armoury on both sides. But the briefings have extra charge during the febrile atmosphere of the election campaign. Privately in March, ministers in the UK believed the EU was softening its approach, hoping that some countries could come alongside, against what they consider the rigid approach of the EU institutions. The accusations being hurled around now, even the public statement from the EU's most powerful politician, Angela Merkel, that some in the UK have ""illusions"" don't augur well for the negotiations. And the comments will be used again and again by Theresa May's political opponents to claim she is out of her depth and has no realistic plan for Brexit. Stand by, however, to watch Number 10 try to flip it on its head, to use the very obvious challenges ahead as ammunition in her central election argument  - precisely because the talks will be tricky, it's vital that she has her own strong, negotiating mandate they claim. Although diplomats like to (mis)quote the 19th century general, Helmuth Von Moltke, that no plan, however good, survives its first contact with the enemy, and the chances of the EU agreeing all of Downing Street's approach are as skinny as a skelf, since the trigger of Article 50, the signs are not rosy. These leaks from last week's dinner a sign that parts of the EU are willing to play rough. The question is, whether over time, if she ends up back in Number 10, Theresa May's determination can shift them. Or whether up against 27 in talks, she is brutally outnumbered from the start.","Conservative sources have @placeholder to enter into a "" briefing war "" with Brussels .",voted,launched,agreed,forced,declined,4
"It delivers 2.5 volts and can power a desktop calculator for 15 minutes. It could be used to keep military secrets confidential, and in environmental monitoring devices . Iowa State University mechanical engineering professor Reza Montazami said it was the first practical transient battery. While this particular battery could not be used in the human body as it contain lithium, researchers have been examining how batteries could dissolve harmlessly within the human body, and prevent the pain of removal, for several years. Prof Montazami developed the lithium-ion battery with a team of scientists who recently published details of their discovery in the Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. It measures 5mm in length, is 1mm thick and 6mm wide, and is similar to commercial batteries in terms of its components, structure and electrochemical reactions. It contains an anode, cathode and an electrolyte separator within two layers of polyvinyl alcohol-based polymer. When dropped in water, the battery's polymer casing swells and the electrodes are broken apart, causing it to dissolve. However, it contains nanoparticles which do not degrade, meaning it does not dissolve entirely. The entire process takes around half an hour. ""Unlike conventional electronics that are designed to last for extensive periods of time, a key and unique attribute of transient electronics is to operate over a typically short and well-defined period, and undergo fast and, ideally, complete self-deconstruction and vanish when transiency is triggered,"" the scientific paper stated. While it would be possible to create a more powerful battery, it would take longer to break down. Dissolvable batteries could play a part in helping to reduce the waste caused by discarded electronics. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are working on electronic circuit boards capable of dissolving in water. Once in a landfill site, the boards could break down within three to six months, according to the University's prof John Rogers.",Scientists have developed a self - destructing battery capable of dissolving when exposed to heat or @placeholder .,fun,supplies,cold,liquid,oceans,3
"The Public Accounts Committee said the NHS was struggling to meet waiting time standards and had reduced resources. UK cancer survival rates, while improving, were poor compared with the rest of Europe, the report said. NHS England said it was already working on a new five-year strategy. The report, published following evidence from a number of cancer charities and experts, looked at what progress had been made in improving cancer services and outcomes in England. Margaret Hodge, who chairs the committee, said: ""With more than one in three people developing cancer in their lifetime, cancer touches the lives of all of us at some point, and the Department of Health spends over £6.7bn on cancer services a year. ""That is why it is so concerning that the Department of Health and NHS England have lost momentum in the drive to improve cancer services in the last two years. ""More and more people are getting cancer but the resources available to support improvement have gone down."" The report said that despite a good record in improving cancer services, progress had dipped recently. Cancer waiting time targets, for example, had been missed. The NHS target that 85% of cancer patients should be treated within 62 days of being urgently referred by their GP was missed for the first three-quarters of 2014. As a result, 5,500 patients had to wait longer than 62 days for treatment between July and September last year. Two other cancer waiting time targets were also missed at times during 2014, the report said. It also said it was not good enough that in the UK nearly a third of people died within a year of a cancer diagnosis and about half did not survive for five years. The committee also had issues with ""poor"" survival rates and access to treatment for people over 65. Sean Duffy, national clinical director for cancer at NHS England, said the NHS was helping more people than ever survive cancer. But he acknowledged it was time to take ""a fresh look at how we can do even better across the whole patient journey"". ""This is why we have already established an independent taskforce to develop a new cancer strategy for the next five years."" The taskforce, announced by NHS England in January, will focus on better prevention, faster diagnosis and better treatment, care and aftercare. Sarah Woolnough, executive director of policy at Cancer Research UK, said: ""It is depressing that too many patients are waiting longer than they should for their diagnosis and effective treatment. ""We hope the report will urgently catalyse NHS England, the Department of Health and others charged with providing cancer care to deliver the best for all patients, no matter their age, the cancer they suffer from or where they live. ""All patients deserve the best treatment and care and many are not currently receiving it."" She said more people were surviving cancer thanks to the ability to diagnose patients earlier and treat them effectively. But with an ageing population, more people would inevitably develop cancer. To continue to improve cancer services, the right leadership, more investment and better planning was needed now, she said. Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham said: ""This report makes devastating reading for David Cameron and is damning proof of his mismanagement of the NHS. Under the Tories, cancer care has gone backwards and patients are missing out on the treatment they need."" A Department of Health spokesperson said an estimated 12,000 extra people would survive cancer by the end of 2015. ""We have invested an extra £750m on cancer services, including early diagnosis and innovative radiotherapy.""","The push to improve cancer services in England has "" lost momentum "" in the past two years and the NHS must @placeholder to cope with demand , says a report by a group of MPs .",continue,try,deal,adapt,race,3
"Mrs May said the convention, which is separate from the EU, ""can bind the hands of Parliament"". David Cameron has previously refused to rule out leaving the convention. Ex-cabinet minister and Leave campaigner Iain Duncan Smith said her ""remarkable intervention"" had ""utterly undermined"" the government's position. In her first major speech of the referendum campaign, Mrs May said the UK had to ""stand tall and lead in Europe"" rather than leaving the EU, and that membership made the UK  ""more secure from crime and terrorism"". She also raised concerns about more countries joining the EU. The ECHR, which is separate from the EU institutions, was incorporated into UK law by the Human Rights Act. The Conservatives have pledged to replace the Human Rights Act with a ""British Bill of Rights"" but have not proposed leaving the convention altogether. BBC political editor The home secretary is one of the most senior politicians in the country. Of course, her backing of the Remain campaign is important. And it's certainly better for the prime minister and the Remain campaign to have her In, rather than Out. But her qualified support suggests there are three, rather than two, positions at the top of the Conservative party - 'Remain', 'Leave', and perhaps now, 'Reluctant Remain'. It was the Out campaign struggling to contain their internal differences. Tonight, it feels like cracks might appear on the other side too. Read more from Laura A Downing Street spokeswoman urged journalists not to ""overdo the differences"" between the prime minister and the home secretary on withdrawal from the ECHR. She said Mr Cameron ""rules nothing out"" as he seeks reform of the convention, saying the home secretary had been ""setting out a clear distinction between the ECHR and the EU"". Regardless of the outcome of the 23 June EU referendum, Mrs May said she still believed the UK should leave the ECHR which she said ""adds nothing to our prosperity"". It was the ECHR, not the EU, that was responsible for controversial human rights decision affecting the UK, she said. Earlier pro-Leave Justice Secretary Michael Gove  warned that five potential new members of the EU - Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Turkey - would result in millions more people having the right to move to the UK. Mrs May said Albania, Serbia and Turkey had ""poor populations and serious problems with organised crime, corruption, and sometimes even terrorism"". She added: ""We have to ask ourselves, is it really right that the EU should just continue to expand, conferring upon all new member states all the rights of membership?"" She said the UK had ""forgotten how to lead"" in Europe and must re-assert itself to force change from within, adding that it could veto Turkey joining the EU. In her speech - and during a question and answer session - Mrs May admitted that being in the EU made it harder to control the ""volume of immigration"". But she said the UK was able to control its border by blocking entry to terrorists. She praised David Cameron's leadership in trying to seek a better deal for the UK, but said the UK's collective posture was too often to ""blame Europe"" for its problems and the UK ""has to have more confidence to get things done"" rather than ""shouting from the sidelines"". Mrs May said the issue the British public faced on 23 June was how the UK ""maximised"" its ""prosperity, security, influence and sovereignty"". In what she said was an analysis of ""the risks and opportunities"" of EU membership rather than an attack on Leave campaigners, she said the post-war order had seen the UK and other countries ""cede sovereignty in a controlled way"" by co-operating to prevent a greater loss of sovereignty through military conflict or economic decline. Mrs May said the question was not whether the UK could ""survive"" outside the EU given that it was the world's fifth largest economy which had ""friendships and alliances across the world"" - but whether the UK was ""better off in or out"". While ""the sky would not fall"" in the event of Brexit, she said she had concluded it was a matter of ""hard-headed national interest"" to remain in, based on security, trade and prosperity. On security, she said EU membership enabled the UK to access EU-wide information, such as criminal records, to allow the UK to turn away serious criminals and terrorists at the border, fast-track the extradition of offenders and simplify the deportation of prisoners. The UK had extensive intelligence-sharing with the US and other allies outside the EU, she said but being excluded from the EU-wide information sharing would make the UK ""less safe"". However, she called for major changes to the way the UK did business in the EU, including reducing the power of the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice. Mr Duncan Smith told the BBC the home secretary's comments on the ECHR and EU expansion had ""thrown the gauntlet down"" to the government. On EU expansion, he claimed, the prime minister is ""in favour of extending our borders to Syria"" by allowing Turkey to join the EU. ""She actually basically questions the very campaign she says that she supports,"" he said. ""This is a remarkable intervention. She has really thrown the gauntlet down and undermines the whole of the 'vote stay in' campaign."" Mr Duncan Smith said immigration was ""out of control"" and free movement of people rules meant the UK had to accept criminals coming into the country. ""An elected government in the UK elected on a platform to reduce immigration right now cannot deliver that because the EU is an open border,"" he told Radio 4's Today. ""You cannot reject anyone unless you can demonstrate categorically that they pose an immediate threat to the life and livelihood of the UK.""",Home Secretary Theresa May has said the UK should @placeholder the European Convention on Human Rights while remaining in the European Union .,impose,limit,quit,hold,observe,2
"The 19-year-old student from Cherrywood, South Dublin, has what her specialist doctor calls the ""Arsenal of epilepsy"" and contends with up to 15 convulsions a day which render her unconscious. ""Your whole body is shaking, you can feel your muscles jumping, it feels like everything has been sucked out of you, you can't breathe,"" she says. ""Every single day you lose control."" Despite having to cope with multiple seizures when she runs, Cooke has won prestigious events including her age group in the Dublin City Marathon and she runs 5km in under 17 minutes. She can often be seen pounding the streets with her running partner, Dr Colin Doherty, who also happens to be her consultant neurologist. But she wasn't always so athletic. Diagnosed at the age of nine with frontal lobe epilepsy, she managed her condition with medication until it deteriorated when puberty hit and her hormones started ""kicking up"". ""I wasn't able to get out of bed. I wasn't able to do anything for myself and couldn't really speak. My Mum was dressing me and showering me,"" she says. Cooke was admitted to Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin where she remained for 10 months. Despite being involved in numerous medical trials she regressed, lost control of her back and hips, and by the time she was discharged she wasn't able to walk. ""I couldn't hold myself up and was in a wheelchair for about seven months but being a very stubborn person I wanted to prove to people what I could do. ""After a lot of physio I started jogging every day and I started to absolutely love the freedom."" Cooke now runs every day and says a missed session sees the tiredness and dizziness of her earlier condition return. But running only alleviates her symptoms, it hasn't been a cure. The raised heart rate brought on by running triggers more seizures than if she didn't run, but Cooke says it improves her general well-being which is a negative worth accepting. Her neurologist, Dr Doherty, has also weighed up the pros and cons from a medical perspective. ""There are particular challenges with having epilepsy and long-distance running, but if you're walking you have those challenges too and I think the general benefits outweigh these risks,"" he says. ""If you took the average long-distance runner and measured all their health parameters against somebody who doesn't run you would find, no matter what disease or disorder they carried with them, they're better off."" If you have a health condition and are thinking about starting to exercise it is always important to consult your doctor first. The brain consists of about three billion cells and all of these cells are active, but they don't fire together - the brain is a de-synchronised machine. The signature of epilepsy is that the cells fire together in a synchronised way. If a million cells fire together that causes a change in behaviour but when all three billion cells fire together you've got a convulsion or a fit. There are about 40 distinct types of epilepsy. In some cases people will just stare blankly, others will wander around in a confused state and there are those who fall to the ground with convulsions. Competitive running was initially a non-starter for Cooke. As soon as she had a convulsion during a race paramedics would withdraw her from the event, but a chance comment at one of her consultations led Doherty to offer himself up as her running partner and he has kept her on track ever since. He says: ""I'm a specialist in epilepsy but my sole role when running with Katie is to stop people from taking her off in an ambulance. I just stand there and say 'Katie's fine, I'm her doctor, she's going to recover'."" Despite Cooke having so many seizures, the nature of her epilepsy means her body doesn't require any recovery time and she is able to immediately get up and run again. Doherty suspects it is her fitness levels which help with that recovery. Listen to the BBC Ouch talk-show to find out more about Katie Cooke, Dr Colin Doherty and their running partnership. ""Katie is a very serious runner, she trains properly. I'm very confident that this is a really positive experience for her,"" he says. As well as sport and college, Cooke also has to navigate a social life and a relationship with boyfriend Jack, a role most daunting at night when Cooke's seizure's make her scream, thrash around and cause the bed to shake and shudder. Cooke says: ""He's one of the most chilled people I know and he sleeps through my seizures which is a bit weird. He wakes up for the odd one because some are quite violent, and I've slapped him in the face before, but he just falls asleep again."" In terms of intimacy Cooke says sex doesn't trigger seizures, although a fit can occur at such times, and women often report an increase in convulsions around the time of ovulation and their period. Her night-time seizures can also be accompanied by hallucinations of a shadowy man who she says ""comes for me"" and it is these which leave her most exhausted. ""I don't sleep at all,"" she says. Her education suffered and she missed the majority of secondary school. Despite that, she managed to cram three years worth of curriculum for the Irish Leaving Certificate into one year and secured a place at college to study sports management. Doherty calls her a ""remarkable young woman"" for all she has achieved while handling so many severe convulsions on a daily basis. While for most people, watching Katie drop to the floor mid-run would be alarming Doherty believes being so public about it will help others with the condition. ""We need to facilitate people to live as normal life as possible and they need to be encouraged to do everything,"" he says. ""The biggest barrier is not the safety issue but the perceptions of other people."" For more Disability News, follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.","Among the pack of runners one moment , @placeholder on the ground and frothing at the mouth the next . For a short time she is lost to the convulsion and then she scrambles to her feet and sprints away . Katie Cooke will not let epilepsy get in the way of a race .",bleeding,collapsed,tables,reflects,lying,1
"The Zika forest is not well known in Uganda, and most people will be hard-pushed to tell you where it is. The word itself means overgrown in the local Luganda language. There is dense vegetation, a wide range of trees and lots of small animals. The only people you are likely to meet here are the forest-keeper and his family. They live in a small house made of corrugated iron sheets. The virus was discovered in the forest - then a hub of scientific research in East Africa - in 1947 by accident by Ugandan, American and European scientists working on another viral disease, Yellow Fever. While testing monkeys in the forest the scientists, whose research had been funded for a decade by the Rockefeller Foundation, came across a new microorganism, which they named Zika. Zika: What you need to know 'The worst day of my life' Only two cases of the virus have been confirmed in Uganda in the past seven decades. This is because the types of mosquitoes that would transmit the virus to humans don't often come into contact with the general population, says Dr Julius Lutwama, a leading virologist at the Uganda Virus Research Institute. ""The Aedes we have, Aedes aegypti formosus, normally does not bite humans. And then we have other [mosquitoes] which live in the forests and prefer to bite at dusk and dawn,"" Dr Lutwama adds. This is in contrast to Latin America, where a different sub species, Aedes aegypti aegypti, is spreading the Zika virus. Much of the Zika forest, which is along the highway between the capital Kampala and Entebbe International Airport, has been lost to development projects, as Uganda's population grows. All around it new big houses with freshly tiled roofs are springing up. What's left of it is gazetted for scientific research. Several kilometres up the main road is the Uganda Virus Research Institute. It's a massive campus on a hill overlooking Lake Victoria. Security is tight here because samples of dangerous organisms like Ebola, Yellow Fever and Zika are stored there. This is also the only place in Uganda where you can test for Zika. But as Dr John Kayuma, one of the laboratory managers told me, one of the reasons why there are few recorded cases in Uganda could be because not many people have been tested for it. ""It is possible that there could be several people, or so many people out there with the Zika virus infection, but because many people do not seek treatment in the hospitals, we could be missing out. ""And also the surveillance has probably not picked them out. There's a possibility that there are more cases out there."" In a few months the government will be starting a study to find out how widespread the Zika virus and other flaviviruses like Yellow Fever, Dengue and West Nile are amongst the population. In the meantime, Dr Lutwama and his team say they are keeping an eye on the type of mosquitoes in the country in case any of the ones that are good at spreading the disease enter Uganda.","The Zika virus , which has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped @placeholder in Brazil , was discovered in a forest in the East African state of Uganda seven decades ago . BBC Africa 's Catherine Byaruhanga visited the forest .",crowd,difficulties,brains,life,clashes,2
"Signings confirmed in May,June,July and August can be found on the relevant pages, while you can see who each club has released on our dedicated page. For all the latest rumours check out the gossip page and, for all the manager ins and outs, see our list of current bosses. Junior Morias [St Albans - Peterborough] Undisclosed* Oscar [Chelsea - Shanghai SIPG] About £60m* *Deals to go through once January transfer window opens Jermaine Grandison [Unattached - Colchester] Dan Sweeney [Maidstone - Barnet] Undisclosed* *Deal to go through on 1 January Zavon Hines [Unattached - Southend] Lukas Jutkiewicz [Burnley - Birmingham] £1m* *Deal to go through on 3 January Andy Boyle [Dundalk - Preston] Free* Daryl Horgan [Dundalk - Preston] Free* *Deals will go through on 1 January. Rhys Sharpe [Unattached - Swindon] Alexander McQueen [Unattached - Carlisle] Kevin Wright [Unattached - Carlisle] Abdoulaye Meite [Unattached - Newport] Tom Barkhuizen [Morecambe - Preston] Compensation* *Deals will go through on 1 January. Jack Jebb [Unattached - Newport] Josh O'Hanlon [Unattached - Newport] Godswill Ekpolo [Unattached - Fleetwood] Michael Collins [Unattached - Leyton Orient] Jamal Lowe [Hampton & Richmond - Portsmouth] Undisclosed* *Deal will go through in January. Peter Odemwingie [Unattached - Rotherham] Ryan Taylor [Unattached - Port Vale] Derek Asamoah [Unattached - Carlisle] Ishmael Miller [Unattached - Bury] Kieran Richardson [Unattached - Cardiff] Sol Bamba [Unattached - Cardiff] Marouane Chamakh [Unattached - Cardiff] Junior Hoilett [Unattached - Cardiff] Alex Cooper [Unattached - Cheltenham] Lloyd Doyley [Unattached - Colchester] Chris Herd [Unattached - Gillingham] Frank Nouble [Unattached - Gillingham] Gary Taylor-Fletcher [Unattached - Accrington] Marc-Antoine Fortune [Unattached - Southend] Stephane Sessegnon [Unattached - Montpellier] Reece Brown [Unattached - Sheffield United] Omari Patrick [Unattached - Barnsley] Wes Brown [Unattached - Blackburn] Jens Janse [Unattached - Leyton Orient] Zan Benedicic [Unattached - Leyton Orient] Oscar Gobern [Unattached - Mansfield] Thorsten Stuckmann [Unattached - Partick Thistle] Lee Lucas [Unattached - Motherwell] Reuben Reid [Unattached - Exeter] Dean Cox [Unattached - Crawley] Free* *Cannot play for Crawley until 2 January 2017 Nathan Tyson [Unattached - Kilmarnock] Mathieu Flamini [Unattached - Crystal Palace] Nicklas Bendtner [Unattached - Nottingham Forest] Mika [Boavista - Sunderland] Undisclosed Joel Ekstrand [Unattached - Bristol City] Urby Emanuelson [Unattached - Sheffield Wednesday] Dexter Blackstock [Unattached - Rotherham] Victor Anichebe [Unattached - Sunderland] Brian Murphy [Unattached - Cardiff] Chris Robertson [Unattached - AFC Wimbledon] The page covers signings by Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership clubs, along with selected deals from overseas and the Scottish Championship.","The summer transfer window has closed in England and Scotland , but clubs can sign free agents , so long as they were without a club at the transfer @placeholder .",mountain,election,market,team,deadline,4
"On the day he agreed to meet us in a shisha bar in Paris, Mokobe comes late. He has gone to support families in Montreuil, an eastern suburb of the capital where reports of paedophilia at a pre-school have caused alarm among African migrants. Moboke uses his celebrity status to raise awareness of issues that are often overlooked. ""It's silly to denounce injustice from a studio without talking to people,"" he says. The 40-year-old calls himself ""100% banlieue"". One of 15 children of a Malian-Mauritanian mother and Malian-Senegalese father, he was born as Mokobe Traore on a housing estate in Vitry-sur-Seine, south-east of Paris. Go-getters in the ghetto His fond memories of growing up there belie the common image of the banlieues as a high-rise wasteland. ""At first there were four of us in two bunk-beds in the bedroom,"" he says.  ""Then we were five, then six.   That meant we could no longer shut the window.""  When more children came they had to sleep in the living room. ""We used to tell each other stories at night,"" Mokobe recalls. ""We had very little but learned to share and were happy,"" he says. ""You get certain principles and certain values from living in that estate."" Mokobe has not always highlighted the bright side of living in a banlieue. When he burst onto the rap scene in the 1990s, as part of the hip-hop trio 113, he expressed the frustration aspects of life there: ""We were rebels. We made music to speak about our daily lives, about people like us, and to defend their cause."" The main problem with immigrant suburbs, he says, is a feeling of marginalisation. ""Isolation can be stifling and lead to eruption. It's like a volcano full of lava. It gets very hot."" His lyrics have become less angry with age. As success led tours in France and abroad, the sense of being confined faded, and Mokobe's main themes became inclusiveness and openness to the world. Mokobe's first solo album, Mon Afrique (My Africa) released in 2007, explored the complex, but ultimately enriching, cultural heritage of French children of African parents. The main message behind his forthcoming album, On Est Ensemble (We Are Together), is all in the title, he says: ""Regardless of your origins, your culture, your social class, whatever happens, we all live on the same planet. We don't have a choice."" This simple idea, Mokobe believes, has been undermined by social media. Nowadays people are all too aware of faraway events that divide us, he says. He contrasts this with the small world of his old housing estate, where isolation had at least the virtue of breeding togetherness. ""Blacks, Arabs, Chinese - we were all in it together,"" he says. Brotherhood is one of the values the rapper promotes on his regular visits to banlieues. In schools also lectures children on the need to pay attention in class - particularly in English lessons which he himself neglected as a boy. Even after travelling 20 times to the US over the years and playing in San Francisco, New York and many places in between, he says he is ""hopeless"" at English. ""When I performed at the BET [Black Entertainment Television] Awards in Los Angeles in 2011 I was completely lost,"" he smiles. But his main message to banlieue children is one of hope: ""It's important not to give up, and to have faith in the future.  Childhood friends of mine have become lawyers and doctors.  Living in a housing estate does not seal your fate.""","French Rapper Mokobe has @placeholder venues from Dunkirk to Dakar , but he has never forgotten his roots in the banlieue - the multi-ethnic hinterland of France 's cities .",moved,headlined,banned,suspended,filled,4
"A consultation into measures aimed at combating vandalism and anti-social behaviour in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park closed on Monday. The Mountaineering Council of Scotland said it had ""serious concerns"" over a proposal to ban camping in some areas. Park bosses said ""atrocious damage"" was being caused by anti-social campers. A 12-week consultation, ""Your Park"", was launched in October in a bid to crack down on damage being caused to the park. Bylaws prohibiting camping without a permit at certain badly affected sites are part of the proposals, along with investment in new facilities and education initiatives. Park bosses say similar measures introduced previously at East Loch Lomond resulted in a marked reduction in problems including littering, fire-raising and vandalism. The two proposed ""management zones"", combined with the existing one at East Loch Lomond, would amount to less than 5% of the 720 square miles the park covers. However, the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and Ramblers Scotland together expressed ""serious concerns"" over the matter, and called on the Scottish government to intervene. Helen Todd, campaigns and policy manager with Ramblers Scotland, said existing laws should be enforced more strictly without introducing new bylaws. She said: ""By criminalising camping and other activities which are perfectly acceptable under Scotland's right to roam legislation, the Park Authority would create immense public confusion over what is acceptable when taking access to our countryside."" Andrea Partridge, access officer with the Moutaineering Council, added: ""It is truly disgraceful that Scotland's first national park, with a primary purpose to promote public enjoyment of the countryside, is now proposing to remove a right to camp for the responsible majority. ""We acknowledge there is a problem with damage and overuse at certain key locations at busy times of the year, but there has been inadequate provision of camping and associated facilities by the Park Authority to help address this problem."" Gordon Watson, who this week became the park's chief executive having formerly served as director of operations, said such complaints did not take ""the real situation on the ground"" into account. He said: ""We understand that there is strong feeling on the part of outdoors enthusiasts about their right to roam. ""However, some of the arguments presented seem intent on downplaying the atrocious damage that is being caused to the environment of a national park, as well as the impact on residents and visitors. ""Enforcement of existing law already happens, but this is not deterring the problems as bylaws have done on East Loch Lomond. ""The many residents and visitors affected by these problems are impatient for action and rightly expect us to come up with effective solutions. ""The National Park Act gives us bylaw-making powers for a reason - we are expected to protect the environment from damaging overuse and abuse."" With the consultation now closed, Mr Watson said the park board would consider responses ""fully and carefully"" before making an proposal to the Scottish government.",Hillwalking and mountaineering groups have joined together to hit out at a @placeholder camping ban in parts of a Scottish national park .,scrap,deal,planned,level,growing,2
"Its annual report singles out President Donald Trump as an example of an ""angrier and more divisive politics"". But it criticises other leaders, including those of Turkey, Hungary and the Philippines, who it says have used narratives of fear, blame and division. The group also says governments are exploiting refugees for political ends. The report, which covers 159 countries, cited a rise in hate speech across the US and Europe targeting refugees and said the reverberations would see more attacks on people on the basis of race, gender, nationality and religion. It criticised countries that, it said, once claimed to champion rights abroad and that were now rolling back human rights at home. ""Instead of fighting for people's rights, too many leaders have adopted a dehumanizing agenda for political expediency,"" Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International, said in a statement. ""The limits of what is acceptable have shifted. Politicians are shamelessly and actively legitimizing all sorts of hateful rhetoric and policies based on people's identity: misogyny, racism and homophobia."" The group made special reference to Mr Trump's executive order last month that banned refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries from entering the US. It said Mr Trump put ""his hateful xenophobic pre-election rhetoric"" into action by signing the measure. The US president, who recently said he was the ""least racist"" and ""least anti-Semitic person"", is expected to unveil an updated order this week. But Amnesty also mentioned Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as leaders who were using the ""us versus them"" rhetoric. ""2016 was the year when the cynical use of 'us vs them' narratives of blame, hate and fear took on a global prominence to a level not seen since the 1930s,"" Mr Shetty added, citing the year when Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany. ""A new world order where human rights are portrayed as a barrier to national interests makes the ability to tackle mass atrocities dangerously low, leaving the door open to abuses reminiscent of the darkest times of human history."" Kate Allen, director of Amnesty UK, criticised as ""shameful"" the recent decision by the British government to halt the scheme which allowed the entry of unaccompanied refugee children already in Europe, estimated to be 90,000. The group also cited in its report: The London-based group exceptionally launched its report in Paris, saying that France has seen an erosion of its rights in the name of security. The French government says its measures, which followed a series of attacks in 2015, are necessary to protect the country.","Politicians who have used a divisive and dehumanised rhetoric are creating a more @placeholder and dangerous world , says rights group Amnesty International .",divided,fish,culture,isolated,body,0
"Mr Gibb will say he makes ""no apology for expecting every child"" to have a ""high-quality education"". The Conservative manifesto pledged that all pupils would take GCSEs in English, maths, science, a language and either history or geography. Heads' leader Brian Lightman says it will be ""challenging"" for schools. The schools minister will also warn that ""textbooks are now a rare sight in English classrooms"", with only 10% of primary maths teachers using them. He says he will challenge ""textbook publishers to do better"" in producing good quality resources for classrooms. Mr Gibb, in a speech later, will argue that ""knowledge is power"" and that it is the most disadvantaged who are in greatest need of a rigorous academic education. The schools minister will argue that there has been a dishonest pattern of poorer students being encouraged to take ""less demanding qualifications"", which allowed the ""powers that be"" to say that overall standards were rising. The Conservatives' election manifesto said that pupils would have to study GCSEs in the so-called EBacc subjects - English, maths, science, a language and history or geography. And that if schools did not offer them, they would not be eligible for a top Ofsted rating. This would not apply to pupils with special needs. Mr Gibb will acknowledge that this will be a ""significant challenge"" for schools, with 39% of pupils currently entering all these subjects and 24% getting a good grade in all of them. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan had spoken during the election campaign of the need for schools to have more stability and less constant change. And her schools minister is expected to say that he will listen to school leaders before introducing the requirement - with the details of how this will be implemented still to be announced. ""We will ensure that schools have adequate lead-in time to prepare for any major changes,"" Mr Gibb is expected to say. ""We will support these schools to raise standards but make no apology for expecting every child to receive a high-quality core academic education."" Mr Gibb will argue that access to a strong academic education is the key to social mobility and his proposals will ""provide the foundations of an education system with social justice at its heart"". He said it was ""pernicious"" to suggest that ""a core academic curriculum represents a kind of elitism"". But he will also acknowledge the temptation to keep adding extra requirements to the school timetable - and that this will always mean that something else will be reduced. As a minister, he says, he has been lobbied to add subjects from Esperanto to den building. Brian Lightman, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said that the key question would be how the changes were implemented and he welcomed the commitment to talks about how this would work in practice. ""It's enormously challenging, but we recognise the importance of a broad academic education for all young people,"" said Mr Lightman.","All secondary school pupils in England will have to take GCSEs in core academic subjects , under plans to be @placeholder out by Schools Minister Nick Gibb .",wiped,handed,phased,thrown,set,4
"Media playback is unsupported on your device 28 October 2014 Last updated at 14:21 GMT The deaths of Jimmy and Kathleen Cuddihy, who were in their 70s, have traumatised their community in Carndonagh, the parish priest has said. The couple's son, Julian, has been charged with their murder. The County Donegal town came to a standstill for the funeral, as Keiron Tourish reports.","More than 1,000 mourners have attended the funeral of a @placeholder couple murdered in their home in County Donegal .",stranded,man,couple,pioneering,retired,4
"Transport Minister Humza Yousaf said the Scottish government would hold a consultation on changes to the national concession travel scheme. He wants to extend it to Modern Apprentices and those on Job Grants and said people who already had passes would retain them. But he said ministers had to look at the ""long-term sustainability"" of offering all those over 60 free travel. The Scotland-wide free bus pass entitlement scheme was introduced in 2006. The card allows passengers, aged over 60 or disabled, to travel free on local, registered or scheduled long-distance services. The transport minister has said a public consultation on changes to the current system will be held. However, he insisted that current holders of the passes would be unaffected. Mr Yousaf told BBC Scotland: ""If you've got a free bus pass you will continue to have that free bus pass and continue to be able to use that pass in the way that you currently are. ""What we have said is that we want to extend the national travel scheme to Modern Apprentices, to those on a Job Grant, so that some young people, that are in the most need, can also benefit. ""But clearly people are living longer, they are staying in work longer - which are all good things - but it does add a pressure. ""So we will consult on the long-term sustainability of the national concession travel scheme and we look forward to hearing people's views."" Asked if the consultation was likely to result in a rise in the age at which people will qualify for free travel, the transport minister said: ""I don't want to pre-empt any consultation. ""We are getting continued cuts from the Westminster government and we have to make sure our budgets go further. ""So if you have a pass you will absolutely continue to have that pass. I would urge everyone to get involved in the consultation.""",The age at which Scots qualify for a free bus pass could be @placeholder to rise .,linked,lost,left,set,reduced,3
"Jonathan Martin, 20, was charged with wearing a mask in a public place and disorderly conduct in Middlesboro. He was found at about 0100 EST (0600 GMT) on Friday in ""full clown costume"" and mask crouching among trees by an apartment complex, according to police. Recent reports of clowns trying to lure children into woods have sparked alarm. Police have warned individuals against dressing up in clown costumes, adding it could lead to criminal charges. ""Dressing as a clown and driving, walking or standing in public can create a dangerous situation for you and others,"" police in nearby Barbourville, Kentucky, said in a statement online. ""While dressing up is not, in and of itself against the law, doing so in public and thereby creating an unnecessary sense of alarm is illegal."" Why are clowns scary? Alleged clown encounters have been reported in recent weeks in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky. But the recent wave of creepy clown sightings has also led to a string of false reports to both police and on social media. Police in Annapolis, Maryland, recently found reports of students being scared by clowns on the way to school to be untrue. A 24-year-old man was charged with making false reports in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after he told police a clown knocked on his window. Meanwhile, an 11-year-old girl was arrested in Athens, Georgia, for bringing a knife to school because she was scared by social media reports that clowns were attacking children. Mr Martin's arrest comes as Kentucky residents have reported sightings of a clown matching the description of his costume. A photo posted on Facebook on Wednesday showed a clown in Waco, Kentucky, dressed in a similar black-and-white costume.",Kentucky police have arrested a man dressed as a clown @placeholder in a wooded area amid a wave of clown reports in at least six US states .,stumbled,lurking,body,resulted,sighting,1
"Philipp Kirkorov was once referred to as Russia's Michael Jackson. The man who called him that was America's Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. ""Oh, Donald Trump, oh my God,"" exclaims Kirkorov, when I mention the tycoon's name. ""First time we met, we had a feeling we know each other many, many years!"" The two men have indeed known each other for more than two decades. In 1994, Kirkorov and his ex-wife Alla Pugacheva performed at Trump's Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. ""After the show Donald Trump came to our dressing room. We got a big, fantastic gold trophy from him and his organisation for being the first Russian artists to play the Taj Mahal. When Alla and I divorced, I kept the trophy!"" In 2013, when Donald Trump brought the Miss Universe Contest to Moscow, Kirkorov was one of the judges. He has been a guest in the Republican candidate's home. A President Trump, he believes, would be Russia's friend. ""He was very often a guest of Russia, he loves Russia and Russians,"" Kirkorov tells me. ""If Trump will be President, the relationship between our countries will be much closer. And I pray for that. Because we are two big countries, two big nations. We must be friends."" Kirkorov's famous friend is singing from the same hymnbook. Wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with people? Wouldn't it be nice if we got along with Russia?"" ""If we could get along with Russia, wouldn't that be a good thing, not a bad thing?"" Donald Trump suggested on the campaign trail. He has also hinted he would consider recognising Crimea as part of Russia, he has criticised Nato and suggested lifting sanctions against Russia. So, how unusual is it for a US presidential candidate to be so pro-Moscow? ""It's never happened - it never happened in the last 70 years or so,"" believes Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Moscow, currently director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. ""Trump says things about Russia, about Putin personally, that are way beyond convention for a Democrat or Republican candidate, or for a politician in either party."" But why? Is Donald Trump, as some of his critics claim, a Putin plant? A Russian agent? That may be giving President Vladimir Putin rather too much credit. He is powerful but perhaps not so powerful that he can fix a US election. Still, there is a suspicion that a recent cyber attack on the Democratic Party and the subsequent leak of embarrassing emails were a Russian operation. ""I think we know pretty definitively that Russian organisations hacked those emails and were on those systems,"" concludes Michael McFaul. ""Our intelligence folks have said that and senior people have said that off the record. Second, we know that WikiLeaks dumped those emails to purposely influence the course of the Democratic Convention and damage Secretary Clinton as a candidate. ""What we don't know definitively: did the Russians give the emails to WikiLeaks or did they obtain them through a different source? I fear we'll never know that. The Russians could have made that transfer without WikiLeaks ever knowing it was them. But, of course, if it were true - and the circumstantial evidence is pretty strong - that's a very direct attempt to influence the course of the elections in America."" Moscow denies scheming in US politics. ""We're not involved. We're not supporting Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or others in any sort of domestic elections,"" says Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. ""It's not our business. It's up to the American people to decide. I think it's a very clear, honest and respectful position."" And those hacking allegations? ""It was people from the Democratic Party who accused Russia of doing this,"" Ms Zakharova tells me. ""Don't you think it's part of the game? We're treating this as part of the game. Their game: the domestic US political game."" And yet, with Hillary Clinton adopting a hard line on Moscow, and Donald Trump praising President Putin, is the Kremlin really sitting on the fence? ""Obviously, Russia would prefer Trump,"" says Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs. ""It's quite understandable that Russia would prefer the candidate who is making statements. I wouldn't call them pro-Russian, but they correspond pretty well to the Russian picture of how the world should be. ""Personalities who reject dogmas of political correctness - like the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi - have enjoyed a much better understanding with Putin than those who stick to political correctness. In this regard, psychologically, I can imagine Putin and Trump understand each other."" Back at the pop concert, the Russian Michael Jackson cannot see what all the fuss is about. ""I think it's good that Donald Trump loves Russia so much,"" Philipp Kirkorov tells me. And if Trump does become President of the United States, I ask. ""I will congratulate him personally,"" replies Kirkorov. ""I will write him a letter! Go, Donald!""","On stage in Sochi , Russia 's most famous pop star whips off his sequin - encrusted angel @placeholder and launches into a love song .",bow,hair,socks,wings,show,3
"James John Boyle failed to return to the open prison in Longforgan, near Dundee, on 9 February. Police had warned the public not to approach the 24-year-old. A Police Scotland spokeswoman said Boyle was arrested in the Glasgow area on Tuesday and will appear in court in due course.",A prisoner who absconded from HMP Castle Huntly has been @placeholder by police two weeks after he was reported missing .,cleared,traced,found,questioned,wounded,1
"It declared a major incident because the back log of patients was so high. But what is worrying was that this was no major trauma. There had been no major car accident or fire; there was no flu epidemic or winter vomiting bug. All of this happened against a relatively quiet backdrop. So why? There is no real explanation for the huge surge in patients and the ""chaotic"" scenes that followed. The Royal Victoria Hospital is Northern Ireland's regional trauma centre housing its biggest accident and emergency unit. It has an international reputation for its pioneering work dealing with the victims of 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles. However, it is understood that problems had been simmering since last weekend when patients had been diverted from other hospitals to the RVH. By Wednesday, the RVH was still not back on its feet and it had to start diverting ambulances to other hospitals. But how did Wednesday's crisis happen? The lack of middle-grade doctors across the United Kingdom is partly to blame. There is a 50% shortage affecting emergency departments nationwide. The lack of medical staff is a real problem that is being felt across Northern Ireland. It has also been suggested that the majority of medical students are women. Five to seven years down their career paths, they may marry and have children. Given the hours and the stress, some of them may not choose a career in the emergency department and may decide to leave. Men, too, want a work/life balance and it is difficult to recruit them to a career in an emergency department. Staff burn-out in A&E is another issue. In November 2012, almost all of the emergency medicine consultants in the Belfast Health Trust raised concerns about the safety of A&E. The clinical director of the RVH at that time, Dr Russell McLaughlin, also decided to step aside. It is understood he felt strongly about the running of the A&E. Another problem for emergency departments is the four-hour target for patient waiting times.  There is tremendous pressure on staff and on individual health trusts to tick that four-hour box. What must also be addressed is the provision of minor injuries units and out-of-hours services that the community feels confident about. What role are GPs playing to support that and to prevent Accident and Emergency being used for anything other than genuine accidents and real emergencies? Questions about what happened at the RVH on Wednesday night must now be put to the trust, senior managers, the health and social care board and its chief executive John Compton. But ultimately one question must be put to Health Minister Edwin Poots. Is the current policy on accident and emergency working in Northern Ireland?","For several hours on Wednesday night , Belfast 's Royal Victoria Hospital was "" at breaking point "" , some members of staff @placeholder .",resigned,slept,complaining,said,team,3
"The UK was synonymous with free trade for centuries and must be so again, the international trade secretary said. But he said British firms need to raise their game when it came to selling their goods and services abroad. Mr Fox was criticised last month for suggesting that British companies had become ""fat and complacent"". Mr Fox, a key Leave campaigner who was brought back into government by Prime Minister Theresa May, is hoping to set up trade agreements after the UK leaves the EU. In his speech to Tory activists, Mr Fox said free trade was ""the building block of who we are"" as a country and the UK had a ""tremendous opportunity to shape the world for the benefit of all"" in the wake of the vote to leave the EU. Suggesting that the UK had ""outsourced"" trade policy when it joined the EU Common Market in 1973, he said Brexit would bring it back ""to the heart"" of government. While there were huge opportunities to negotiate free trade deals after Brexit, Mr Fox said the UK and other ""passionate champions of free trade"" had to ""drown out"" the voices of protectionism. He also warned that the UK's trade balance had deteriorated since 2011, compared with countries such as the US and France - with exports accounting for 27% of the UK's GDP, compared with levels of more than 45% elsewhere. The international trade secretary said just 11% of British firms traded overseas and that ""we know from the performance of the best that we can do much better overall"". He also attacked those who tried to portray the referendum result as a sign of the UK ""turning inwards"" - saying the UK would ""harness all our natural advantages as we seek to carve a new role outside the European Union"". ""The British people presented us with a shining opportunity to make history. We will not ignore it or fritter it away. ""We are not afraid to lead or take our place on the world stage...No we are not afraid, we are inspired, we are emboldened and we are ready. Let us rise to the challenge of our golden opportunity as never before.""","Britain must @placeholder the "" golden opportunity "" provided by Brexit and not "" fritter it away "" , Liam Fox has told the Conservative conference .",seize,reveal,blamed,enjoy,raise,0
"Here are the winners and nominees in full: Argo Django Unchained Life of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Les Miserables The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Moonrise Kingdom Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Silver Linings Playbook Ben Affleck, Argo Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty Ang Lee, Life of Pi Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln Joaquin Phoenix, The Master Richard Gere, Arbitrage Denzel Washington, Flight John Hawkes, The Sessions Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook Ewan McGregor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson Jack Black, Bernie Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone Helen Mirren, Hitchcock Naomi Watts, The Impossible Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Maggie Smith, Quartet Meryl Steep, Hope Springs Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained Alan Arkin, Argo Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master Tommy Lee Jones, Hope Springs Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables Amy Adams, The Master Sally Field, Lincoln Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy Helen Hunt, The Sessions Django Unchained Zero Dark Thirty Argo Silver Linings Playbook Lincoln Life of Pi Anna Karenina Argo Cloud Atlas Lincoln Skyfall, Skyfall Safe and Sound, The Hunger Games, Suddenly, Les Miserables Not Running Anymore, Stand Up Guys For You, Act of Valor Amour Rust and Bone The Untouchables A Royal Affair Kon-Tiki Brave Frankenweenie Rise of the Guardians Wreck-It Ralph Hotel Transylvania Jodie Foster Homeland Breaking Bad Downton Abbey The Newsroom Boardwalk Empire Girls The Big Bang Theory Episodes Modern Family Smash Game Change The Girl The Hour Hatfields & McCoys Political Animals Damian Lewis, Homeland Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom Jon Hamm, Mad Men Claire Danes, Homeland Connie Britton, Nashville Glenn Close, Damages Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey Don Cheadle, House of Lies Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock Louis CK, Louie Matt LeBlanc, Episodes Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory Lena Dunham, Girls Zooey Deschanel, New Girl Tina Fey, 30 Rock Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock Toby Jones, The Girl Woody Harrelson, Game Change Clive Owen, Hemingway & Gelhorn Julianne Moore, Game Change Nicole Kidman, Hemingway & Gelhorn Sienna Miller, The Girl Jessica Lange, American Horror Story Sigourney Weaver, Political Animals Ed Harris, Game Change Max Greenfield, New Girl Danny Huston, Magic City Mandy Patinkin, Homeland Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey Sofia Vergara, Modern Family Sarah Paulson, Game Change Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife Hayden Panettiere, Nashville","The winners of this year 's Golden Globes Awards , @placeholder the best in film and television as voted for by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association , have been revealed at a glittering ceremony in Los Angeles hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey .",hosted,rediscovered,celebrating,ridden,including,2
"""People are in chaos, people are leaving"" as they don't know what is going to happen, he said. The Gambia's Chief Justice has declined to rule on an application by President Yahya Jammeh to ban the inauguration of Adama Barrow as his successor. Mr Barrow won the election and an inauguration is planned for Thursday. But Mr Jammeh rejected the result and is refusing to step down until the Supreme Court hears his challenge, in May. His legal team had asked for an injunction to block Mr Barrow's inauguration. The BBC's Umaru Fofana reports from Banjul that Chief Justice Emmanuel Fagbenle said he could not rule on the issues as he is a subject of it. The motion sought to stop him from swearing in Mr Barrow. Parliament has also reconvened for an emergency session. While the reasons for the meeting are unclear, our correspondent says that parliament may be asked to extend Mr Jammeh's term of office. Mr Barrow will stay in Senegal until his inauguration, state media in Senegal say. The Gambia, a tiny country of less than two million people, is surrounded on three sides by Senegal and regional bloc Ecowas has said it is considering military intervention to force Mr Jammeh to relinquish power. One woman boarding the boat with her three children told our correspondent that the political uncertainty made it hard to ensure she could look after her children. ""We don't know what to expect with electricity outage, water shortage, food supplies,"" she said. Another said she was going ""because things are not safe"". ""I'm going because I am afraid. I'm going until we have peace and then we can come back."" The UN refugee agency said last week that several thousand people, mainly children, have crossed into Senegal from The Gambia since 3 January. ""UNHCR teams report seeing buses filled with children, accompanied by women, cross the border,"" said Liz Ahua, the regional representative for UNHCR. Mr Jammeh's attempt to overturn the election result has been delayed because of a shortage of judges. The African Union has said it will no longer recognise Mr Jammeh's authority after his term ends. The 51-year-old leader seized power in the country in 1994 and has been accused of human rights abuses, although he has held regular elections.","A worker at The Gambia 's main ferry crossing has told the BBC that thousands of people are @placeholder every day as they are "" afraid of war "" .",causing,feared,starving,fleeing,leaving,3
"On the face of it, the slogan ""Girls do not need a prince"" doesn't seem that controversial. In many parts of the world, it would pass as the kind of thing any young woman might wear without prompting a second look. But when the actress, Kim Jayeon, tweeted a photograph of herself wearing the garment, she generated a storm and lost herself a job. She was the voice of one of the characters in a South Korean online game called ""Closers"". Gaming is very big in South Korea, as much a part of the culture as football. Fans of ""Closers"" inundated Nexon, the company which produced the game, with complaints. Many of the complaints, according to female activists, were offensive and anti-women. Nexon quickly bowed to the protesters and sacked the actress.  It told the BBC that she would be paid in full for her work but her voice would not be used on the game. It issued a statement saying it had ""recognised the voices of concern amongst the Closers community"", adding that ""we have suddenly decided to seek a replacement in the role"". The company later told the BBC it had decided not to use the actress's voice because it didn't approve of the T-shirt and why it was being sold. The problem was that the slogan is associated with a feminist group in South Korea called Megalia, which campaigns against the misogyny which its (usually anonymous) members say pervades Korean life. The T-shirt was being sold by Megalia to finance lawsuits brought by women against men they alleged had ill-treated them. There's no doubt Megalia is controversial and confrontational.  Its logo includes an image of a hand with a first finger and thumb close together - the common sign for smallness. The logo is taken by some men and Megalians as a derogatory and deliberately provocative reference to the size of Korean penises. Many men do not like Megalia.  Some retaliate with online abuse - with ""bitches"" being one of the mildest words used. It was in this toxic atmosphere that the actress tweeted the T-shirt. with its slogan ""Girls do not need a prince"". She is not giving interviews and it's not known if she wore the shirt in the tweet without being aware of the context. Megalians say the slogan was meant to decry a male idea that women need men to protect and support them. They argue that what Korean women really need is respect and equality - things they say are in short supply. One Megalia activist involved, Alex Song, told the BBC that a demonstration was organised against the sacking of the actress. A protest initially of 100 women quickly grew to 300. But some men held a counter-demonstration.  She said she felt heavily intimidated.  Some men took pictures of the protesters.  Some feminists were called ""pigs"". South Korean feminists say it illustrates a wider problem. South Korea is a very traditional society which is changing rapidly.  It has moved from a dirt poor, agricultural country to one of the world's most prosperous industrial societies in a few decades, a process which took Europe more than a century. Hence, there are contradictions:  South Korean women are highly groomed and made-up.  They meet conventional male expectations.  Plastic surgery is routine. Old attitudes and expectations clash with new ones. And as they clash, there is anger. A blogger who writes under the pseudonym Emily Singh told the BBC she had taken her picture down from her own blog because she feared reprisals. She said that many Korean women were in such despair that they considered emigrating. One Megalian said she had direct experience of a recruitment company insisting that a translator for a conference be pretty.  The recruiter had insisted on a full-body photograph, with weight and dimensions detailed. In another incident, a Korean version of Maxim magazine featured a staged picture on the cover of a man smoking coolly, leaning against his flash car with a lifeless woman, her heels bound, in the boot behind him like a victim of sexual crime. Earlier this year, a woman was murdered in a random attack in a public toilet. The male attacker had been lying in wait in the toilet, waiting for a woman to come along. After the murder, feminists demonstrated at the scene against anti-female violence - but some men also counter-demonstrated. Within the feminist movement, there is debate - often fierce debate - about tactics. Megalia is radical but even within its ranks there is a feeling that it may go too far, over, for example, whether to out gay men who marry women as a cover for their homosexuality. On other matters, there is less disagreement.  South Korean feminist groups are unanimous in criticising the entertainment industry for what they say is the over-sexualisation of young girls (lolitafication), particularly in K-Pop groups. Megalia is one of the feminist groups confronting what its members say is hypocrisy. For example, the group highlights, very publicly, the practice of some Korean men having affairs with prostitutes while on business trips abroad. This controversy is given added zing in the online gaming industry which, in many parts of the world, has been accused of being dominated by males who sometimes seem anti-women. In the United States, there have been allegations that gaming is played sometimes by men who exhibit a deep and aggressive sexism. That sexism, Megalia activist Alex Song says, feeds off images of ""sexually exaggerated"" women on screen. The thought that one of the characters in the Korean game ""Closers"" should be voiced (out-of-vision) by someone who might wear a T-shirt with a feminist slogan was just too much for some. The company agreed. The actress' voice will not be heard in the game. In the real world, though, silencing feminist voices is harder. Update 13 September 2016: This story has been updated to include a later comment from Nexon.","The "" Gamergate "" controversy which roiled the world of video gaming has hit a new level . The name was coined as a row over whether Western gamers were mostly male and anti-women . Now , a similar row is @placeholder South Korea , arguably the country with the strongest culture of gaming in the world . As the BBC 's Steve Evans reports from Seoul , it all started with a slogan on a T-shirt .",attracting,proving,rocking,targeting,involving,2
"Protective hoardings were removed and holes made at the four corners of the artwork ""Spy Booth"". Businessman Hekmat Kaveh, who has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to keep the artwork in place, said he had arranged for a restorer to look at the artwork, to see if it could be saved. Two weeks ago, a Perspex cover was put up to protect the artwork, after it was daubed with silver writing. The piece, depicting men ""snooping"" on a phone box, appeared in April, three miles from government listening post GCHQ. Mr Kaveh said: ""There are four very large holes on the four corners, which I've measured, and one is 10cm. ""It looks as if it was being prepared to be taken away, despite the fact I'm in the process of purchasing it to make sure it stays. ""There's been damage to the plaster and the painting. ""It's been reported to the police and the council. It's on a listed building, it's criminal damage."" In a statement, Gloucestershire Police said it was called at about 13:00 BST on Monday ""to investigate a reported offence at the Banksy site in Fairview Road Cheltenham"". It continued: ""Unknown offenders removed a piece of wood surrounding the Banksy artwork on the side of the building and a number of holes were drilled around the image. ""The artwork was not damaged and there is no sign of forced entry to the property. "" Campaigners have been trying to keep the artwork in situ on the corner of Fairview Road and Hewlett Road, after the owners of the house claimed it had been sold and workmen arrived to remove it. Last month, Cheltenham Borough Council issued a temporary stop notice preventing further removal work from taking place on the Grade II* listed building. Mike Redman, the council's director of environmental and regulatory services, said: ''As the property is listed, the removal of the wall, or a section of the wall, requires listed building consent (LBC).""",The Banksy mural on the wall of a house in Cheltenham has been @placeholder again .,restored,attacked,released,launched,suspended,1
"Alec Bedford later showed a video of the incident to colleagues at Daventry Police Station. A misconduct hearing in Northamptonshire concluded Special Sgt Bedford had been guilty of misconduct but not gross misconduct. The officer, aged 26, did not attend the hearing. For more on this and other stories, visit BBC Local Live: Northamptonshire Sgt Bedford had been called to a house in Daventry in July 2015. A 90-year-old man had refused to go to the police station after being arrested. The man, referred to at the hearing as JA, had been accused of threatening behaviour towards a neighbour and of pulling his wife - JMA - by the hair two weeks previously. The hearing heard Sgt Bedford had adopted a ""confrontational approach"". At one stage he had bodily moved JMA across the room and had then pushed her in to a chair. JMA had scratched his arm and he decided to arrest her. David Ring, a solicitor acting for the police force, said Sgt Bedford had acted unprofessionally by shouting at and ""roughly handling"" JMA. JA was eventually taken to Daventry Police Station. His wife was given bail. Sgt Bedford later showed video of the arrest to colleagues at Daventry Police Station. Mr Ring said the officer had ""behaved unprofessionally by laughing"" and his actions constituted ""a very complacent attitude to confidentiality."" Sgt Bedford pleaded guilty to charges relating to the use of excessive force, failing to act with courtesy and deliberately breaching confidentiality. The misconduct panel's independent chairman, Geoffrey Payne, said: ""This was a deeply disturbing and entirely unacceptable matter.""",A part - time volunteer police sergeant who pushed an 87 - year - old woman and shouted in her face has been given a final @placeholder warning .,transporting,stolen,written,suspended,sex,2
"Bright spots within a 90km-wide crater have baffled scientists since the probe spied them on its approach. Now in orbit around Ceres, Dawn is gathering detailed data about the world's geology and its composition. Mission researchers described the latest images at the European Planetary Science Congress in Nantes, France. Currently, their best guess to account for the spots is an expanse of some type of salt - but this is speculation. ""We haven't solved the source of the white material,"" said the mission's principal investigator Chris Russell from the University of California Los Angeles. ""We think that it's salt that has somehow made its way to the surface. We're measuring the contours, trying to understand what the surface variations in that crater are telling us."" Ceres is a 950km-wide dwarf planet sitting in the Solar System's asteroid belt. Dawn is currently orbiting it at a distance of 1,470km and imaging the entire surface every 11 days. It was eight years ago this week that Dawn blasted off on its mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Before arriving at Ceres six months ago, the spacecraft dropped in on the asteroid Vesta for just over a year in 2011 and 2012. The latest release of data includes a new topographic map, showing the shape of Ceres' entire surface in the most detail yet. ""The irregular shapes of craters on Ceres are especially interesting, resembling craters we see on Saturn's icy moon Rhea,"" said deputy mission chief Carol Raymond from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. ""They are very different from the bowl-shaped craters on Vesta."" There is also a colour-enhanced mosaic image that offers clues about what the dwarf planet is made of - arguably asking more questions than it answers. ""There's an interesting blue ring here,"" Prof Russell told a media briefing at the conference. ""We have absolutely no idea what that blue ring is due to. ""And there are streaks across the surface that point back to the Occator Crater with its bright spots. We are poking at this, and we're looking for ideas, but we haven't solved the problem yet."" An oddly shaped mountain that towers 6km above relatively flat surrounding terrain is also puzzling the team, Prof Russell added, because it does not look like the result of known geological processes. ""We're having difficulty understanding what made that mountain,"" he told reporters. In October, Dawn will start dropping to its final target altitude of 375km for an even closer look at Ceres. This will be its final home. Even after it ceases operations in mid-to-late 2016, the probe is expected to stay in this stable orbit and become a permanent fixture in the dwarf world's sky. ""We're not going to leave Ceres. We're going to stay in Ceres orbit forever,"" Prof Russell said. Follow Jonathan on Twitter","The team behind Nasa 's Dawn mission to Ceres has released striking new images , but @placeholder unable to explain the dwarf planet 's most intriguing mystery .",gathering,enable,were,remains,declared,3
"The 43-year-old made the decision following his semi-final defeat at Lakeside to Christian Kist. ""I'll miss this place but it's time to move on,"" he said. BDO world number three Dean Winstanley also heads 160 entries for the 2012 PDC Pro Tour qualifying school. The second qualifying school will be held from 19 January to 22 January, offering any darts player the chance to win a tour card to compete on the PDC's £5m circuit. Other entries include former World Masters winner Tony West and his brother Steve, who both competed alongside Winstanley in the Lakeside Championship last week. PDC tour cards will be awarded to the four semi-finalists from each one-day tournament staged from 19-22 January. Ranking points will also be allocated for finishing positions in each event, this then forms a ranking list from which further players will receive a tour card. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live earlier Hearn said: ""Darts is an exploding sport, there's huge amounts of opportunity, huge amounts of money and there's no surprise these players are making the move."" Fifteen-time world champion Phil Taylor recently urged Hankey to join him on the PDC circuit, saying: ""Ted should show some bottle, come over and have a go. We're both Stokies and I want him to come over."" The PDC was first formed in 1992 with just 16 players, there are now over 400. Hankey is the latest big name player to make the switch, the last one being Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld in 2006, after 15 years on the tour. The Stoke born player made his debut in the BDO World Championships in 1998, reaching the quarter finals. His first title came two years later beating Ronnie Baxter 6-0 in the final. He reached the final again 12 months later, losing to John Walton before winning a second title in 2009 beating Tony O'Shea 7-6. Hearn predicts that ""The Count"" will be a big hit. ""He's a big character and he's going to be a big success in the PDC circuit,"" he said. ""He's got something about him. ""That's the thing about sport these days is that the characters who play the game make it more exciting for the punters to go and watch and of course if they play at the highest level then they're a valuable addition.""",Ted Hankey could be the first of many players to make the switch from BDO to PDC @placeholder to darts supremo Barry Hearn .,end,according,snooker,darts,struggling,1
"Tom Owen, 21, from Efail Isaf near Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taff, was working in Clevedon Road in the Llanrumney area of the city for Western Power when the incident happened. He was taken to the University Hospital of Wales but was pronounced dead. South Wales Police and the Health and Safety Executive have launched a joint investigation into his death. His family said in a statement: ""We are absolutely devastated by the tragic death of our son. ""He is our world. We are incredibly proud of the young man that he had become and can't imagine life without him. ""He had so much of life ahead of him which he looked forward to sharing with his friends from Beddau Rugby Club, work mates and his girlfriend Grace. He will be sorely missed by everyone that knew him."" Mal O'Sullivan from Beddau Rugby Club said Mr Owen had represented the club at all age levels. ""Known for his wicked sense of humour and commitment to his fellow players and friends, Tom will be sorely missed,"" Mr O'Sullivan said on Beddau's website. ""Tom Owen is one of us, one of our own, who was green and gold to the core and taken from us too early. ""There is a feeling of devastating emptiness amongst us following this tragedy and all at the club offer their deepest condolences to his parents Martin and Kim, sister Katie and the rest of the family. ""Tom cannot be replaced.""",An @placeholder believed to have been electrocuted while carrying out utility works in Cardiff on Monday has died .,inmate,orphanage,aged,engineer,emergency,3
"The 27-year-old came home 32 minutes ahead of nearest competitor Matthias Walkner of Austria after the final stage in Argentina. The KTM rider, who is based in Dubai, took the lead after stage five of 12. The 38th edition of the rally began in Asuncion, Paraguay and ran through Bolivia and Argentina. In 2014, Sunderland became the first British rider to win a stage of Dakar since John Deacon in 1998. This was his third attempt at winning the rally, having been forced to retire in 2012 and 2014 with mechanical problems. The 2016 winner, Toby Price of Australia, pulled out of this year's race during the fourth stage. ""When I crossed the line I felt all the emotion hit me. The weight on my shoulders of the race over the last week, leading the rally, has been really heavy,"" said Sunderland. ""It's been difficult, especially in some of the moments with navigation mistakes or when things get stressful, to stay calm. But we're here, we did it, and I couldn't be any happier.'' Sunderland secured victory after safely navigating the final special stage, a 40-mile race into the Argentine town of Rio Cuarto. It is the 16th year in a row that KTM have won the motorbike title. French driver Stephane Peterhansel held off the challenge of compatriot Sebastien Loeb to win his seventh cars title. He has also won the bikes title six times.",Sam Sunderland became the first British competitor to win the Dakar Rally when he took victory in the motorbikes @placeholder on Saturday .,classification,competition,table,title,category,0
"Thomas Mair, 53, from Birstall, remained silent when asked to plead at the Old Bailey on four charges relating to Mrs Cox's death. Mrs Cox, 41, who was a married mother-of-two, was shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire, in June. In the light of Mr Mair's silence, the judge ordered that not guilty pleas should be entered on his behalf. The defendant is accused of murder, grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon - a dagger. Read more about this and other stories from across West Yorkshire He appeared via video-link from Belmarsh prison and spoke only to confirm his name. Members of Mrs Cox's family were in court to witness proceedings. The judge, Mr Justice Wilkie, adjourned the case for a further hearing on 28 October and a provisional date for a  four-week trial has been fixed for 14 November. Mrs Cox, who was elected MP for Batley and Spen at the 2015 General Election, was about to attend a constituency surgery when she was killed on June 16. Her death prompted what her family described as an ""outpouring of genuine grief and sympathy"". The then Prime Minister David Cameron said Mrs Cox was a ""bright star"" and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described her as ""a much loved colleague"". She had grown up in the area, attending Heckmondwike Grammar School, before attending Cambridge University. Prior to entering Parliament Mrs Cox had worked for a number of charities including Oxfam, Save the Children and the NSPCC.",A man accused of killing the Labour MP Jo Cox @placeholder to enter pleas as he appeared in court .,attempted,refused,relating,returning,known,1
"Hector the donkey was dumped outside an animal welfare centre in Luxor, Egypt, and had not walked for four months. His new foot was made using spare parts of a prosthetic leg donated to Legs4Africa, a Leicestershire-based charity. It usually donates prosthetics to human amputees in Africa, but Hector is the first animal to be helped. Tom Williams, the charity's founder, said it was ""fantastic to see Hector walking for Christmas"". A donkey in Hector's condition would usually be left to die, or killed humanely. However, Hector appeared to be happy despite being lame, so Animal Welfare of Luxor (AWOL) decided to help him. Georgie Hollis, a wound specialist with a background in biomechanics, built the new foot after AWOL contacted equine medicine expert Prof Derek Knottenbelt OBE. ""He's a friend of mine and he's a bit of a legend really, or a leg-end,"" said Miss Hollis. ""He sent me an email saying 'Georgie, we must be able to do something for this donkey'."" Miss Hollis suspects Hector lost his foot after being tethered by his leg, cutting off the circulation. ""We are trying to save him from being a wonky donkey, which would be the end of it for him really,"" said Miss Hollis. ""Hector is just one of a lot of donkeys that need lots of help. There are more donkeys used around the world for transport than there are cars."" AWOL fitted the new foot, but Miss Hollis will visit Hector herself in a month or so to fit him with a permanent foot. ""I will cast his leg and make him one that's more permanent, breathable, lightweight and sporty,"" she said. Watch a video showing more than 500 legs being driven from Leicester to The Gambia",An @placeholder donkey missing one of his feet is walking again thanks to a human prosthetic leg donated from the UK .,injured,abandoned,amended,acclaimed,inflated,1
"The animal, which was suffering from a rare condition in its belly called balloon syndrome, had swollen to twice its normal size. Vets in Bude, Cornwall, think the animal swelled up after picking up an infection and gas was produced by bacteria. The hedgehog is now being fed worms before being released. Adam Revitt, of Locke and Preston Vets, who looked after the hedgehog when it was brought to them in early May, said: ""If it had continued to blow up it could have ruptured. ""More concern to me was that the air was putting pressure on the hedgehog's chest so it couldn't breath or move, therefore there was a danger of it suffocating or starving to death. ""I used a needle and syringe to drain the air. It took about five minutes to drain all the air out.""","An @placeholder hedgehog has been saved from "" rupturing "" by vets who pricked it with a needle .",aggravated,improvised,inflated,engineer,infected,2
"Berlin had been genuinely shocked when David Cameron and senior Conservatives had spoken of imposing ""emergency brakes"", ""caps"" or quotas on the numbers of EU migrants moving to Britain. Such restrictions would have completely undermined the principle of freedom of movement in the German view. Angela Merkel feared that British plans contained risks for the European project and she was determined to stop them. Two weeks ago the former Prime Minister Sir John Major came to Berlin to make a speech about Britain and Europe. In it he said: ""I do recognise - reluctantly - that our small island simply cannot absorb the present and projected numbers at the current speed: it is not physically or politically possible without huge public disquiet."" Afterwards during questions, Sir John underlined his point by saying that at the very heart of the problem was ""numbers, numbers, numbers"". Listening to him was one of Angela Merkel's closest aides. Over dinner he explained the German red line - they would reject any plan that was seen to weaken freedom of movement. The Chancellery wanted that message passed to Downing Street. So began a search for a policy which might dissuade some EU migrants from coming to Britain without impinging on their right to move anywhere in the EU. Downing Street believed the key lay in reducing incentives to move to the UK. The answer, in their view, lay in restricting benefits for those who had recently begun working in the UK. For the first four years they would be unable to receive tax credits or child benefits, or be considered for social housing. Without such benefits, it was argued, some migrants might be deterred from coming to the UK because the money they earned would not be much greater than back in their home country. The German chancellor was briefed in detail by David Cameron yesterday. Her response is said to have been ""warm"". The Cameron plan involved ""rule changes"" certainly, but it did not challenge the core principles of the EU as contained in the treaties. In the writing of the plan there had been wide consultation between London and Berlin. One official said you could ""see the German influence"" on the speech. The German Chancellery later on Friday put out a statement pointing out that David Cameron ""has acknowledged in his speech""  the importance of free movement as a central pillar of the European Union and the Common Market. The German government ""is prepared to work closely with Great Britain....to address all the problems"". The British saw this as a positive reaction. Some allies of Angela Merkel, however, were expressing concern at EU migrants being denied benefits received by others for a period of four years. One German MP said he felt it was discriminatory and there were bound to be legal challenges. Downing Street, too, expects legal problems, which is why today David Cameron said ""these changes, taken together, will require some treaty changes"". The idea of treaty change divides the German establishment. One MP said to me today: ""Re-negotiating the treaties is an illusion."" But others like German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble believe treaty change will be necessary to enforce discipline within the eurozone. In the end there are degrees of treaty change. It should also be pointed out that many German MPs share some of the British concerns. This year Germany has taken in nearly 400,000 migrants and refugees, more than any other EU country. Already the mayors of 24 towns have expressed concern at the pressures on local resources in dealing with migrants. So some German MPs agree that there needs to be some flexibility in interpreting freedom of movement. There was today a frequently asked question among politicians in Berlin. Is this the centre-piece of any future British re-negotiation? If Germany backs a compromise, would that be enough for David Cameron to say to the British people that he had won a major concession or would there be a long list of further requests? Almost certainly the list of  priorities  will be refined. The prime minister said his demands were not ""outlandish"" or ""unreasonable"", ""...and they deserve to be heard"". Nobody doubts the negotiations will be difficult but Berlin looks prepared to hear David Cameron out, without any firm commitments.",David Cameron was speaking to different @placeholder today . Of course there was the British electorate and his own restive backbenchers but he was also addressing the Europeans and in particular the Germans .,finish,school,health,audiences,address,3
"The Perseid meteor shower appears in our skies every August and peaked overnight. For once the weather played ball, with clouds clearing at just the right time. That led to a spectacular show for those prepared to stay out to the early hours of the morning. ""I thought it was great because in previous years we've had moonlight or we've had totally overcast skies. So for me it was one of the best ones,"" Prof Mark Bailey of Armagh Observatory said. ""For me it really demonstrated two things - firstly the importance of going for it at the time of the maximum of the shower, because then you see two or three times more meteors than you would a day or two before or a day or two after and then choosing the year when the moon is well out of the way. ""So take those two things together and then the only thing is the weather and as it happened it cleared overnight."" The Perseids are pieces of Comet Swift-Tuttle; each August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet's debris. The display was widely anticipated this year as the shower coincided with a new moon for the first time since 2007, creating a darkened sky. ""By the time I got to my home in the country it was very dark and clear and within about 10 or 15 minutes I saw another four or five fairly bright meteors,"" Prof Bailey said. ""So that was actually rather good - the shower had developed more or less as expected. Four or five meteors in 10 or 15 minutes - bright ones - is quite good going. ""That suggests it was the peak of the shower by about half past one in the morning."" He said a group of about 35 people including some children visited Armagh Observatory on Wednesday night to view the meteors. ""They loved it, they all enjoyed it. It had been so frustrating to see this low, thin cloud practically blocking everything out,"" Prof Bailey said. ""So, in a way, everyone was prepared to be disappointed and then right at the end, just before the time they would have had to leave, we decided to have one more look because we could see the skies were beginning to clear. ""They stayed for another half an hour until everybody had seen a meteor."" And what of that strangely co-operative weather? ""Clouds cleared across much of NI at some stage last night and as a result a lot of people were treated to an amazing display of meteor showers,"" BBC weather presenter Cecila Daly said. ""The International Space Station was also visible late on Wednesday evening and in some places the Aurora was on view. An exceptional night for stargazers. ""As a result of the clear night it also got pretty cold and so for anyone who stayed up all night with eyes peeled skyward it would have a been a chilly night and there may be some sore necks today."" The good news for anyone who missed Wednesday night's show is that the meteors will be visible again on Thursday night. Weather permitting of course.",Wednesday night was @placeholder as the perfect chance for sky watchers to catch sight of some meteors over Northern Ireland and it seems it did not disappoint .,revealed,identified,taken,billed,regarded,3
"A Futurelearn online course will provide credits towards a University of Leeds undergraduate degree. It will mean reducing the time and cost of tuition fees for a full degree. Futurelearn chairman Peter Horrocks says this will provide the flexibility needed by many students. The online learning platform, which offers courses from more than 50 universities, was set up in 2013 by the Open University, as a UK provider for so-called Moocs (massive, open, online courses). There are 3.7 million students registered for Futurelearn's online courses, but Mr Horrocks says that this latest development represents a ""really significant step"". It will allow students to take a University of Leeds online course in Environmental Challenges and, if they pass an exam, to gain credits towards a geography degree at Leeds. Students wanting to take an exam and gain credits this way will have to pay £545, but it will lead to a discount of £750 on tuition fees for a full degree. The course will be taught from September and will represent 10 credits, with a full year being 120 credits. Mr Horrocks, who is the Open University's vice chancellor, says this is an important move towards a more flexible degree system, making university courses more ""cost effective and time effective"". He says it provides an answer to the government's recent White Paper on higher education, which called for more flexible and competitive ways of delivering degree courses. The partnership with Leeds is expected to be followed by a number of other universities. Mr Horrocks says that it creates an alternative path with ""real quality and credibility"" which could help more part-time students to improve their qualifications. The traditional three-year, residential university system would not disappear, he said, but for many people that remained ""too conventional, too inflexible, too locked down"". But he said that cost remained a barrier to part-time learning. In England, he said, there is ""still a fall out from the tuition fees increase"". Universities should see online learning as a way to extend the reach of their research and scholarship. ""A digital platform is the purest form of an ideas marketplace. If you've got the greatest ideas, why wouldn't you want to be on an open platform where your learning can create great social, cultural and economic benefits?"" Simon Nelson, Futurelearn's chief executive, says the technology and quality of online learning has been rapidly improving and that the impact of digital technology on education was accelerating. ""Universities are looking at a world that is going more digital, more quickly than they are comfortable with - and they are having to think about their digital strategy,"" said Mr Nelson. Neil Morris, director of digital learning at the University of Leeds, said this was a step towards a more ""pick and mix"" style of higher education, in which students could have a much more customised approach to learning. Prof Morris said that it could lead to students putting together their own degree courses, studying different units from different universities and mixing online learning with residential courses.","A UK online university @placeholder is claiming a "" breakthrough moment "" with a project which will allow students to cut the cost of a Russell Group degree by studying part of it online .",network,group,college,project,trusts,0
"The 27-year-old came in at number 10 and finished 114 not out at New Road. The South African's only previous first-class experience came in 2014 for Northants against the Sri Lankans. ""Two years waiting to play a second first-class game is a long time and you think to yourself 'are you going to play another one?'"" he said. ""When I got the nod, I thought when I have a bat or a bowl I've just got to show what I can do."" Barrett has played for a number of county Second XIs trying to earn another first-class chance, including Leicestershire, Middlesex and Somerset. But his opportunity has come at Northants, and his innings was the highest score by a number 10 for the county in first-class cricket. He told BBC Radio Northampton: ""I'm a coach on the side and I've got very supportive parents, especially my mum, who kept on telling me 'keep going, you're good enough to be playing'. ""It's tough to go round and play seconds cricket, but that's the life of a professional sportsman, you've got to go round and prove yourself. To finally get a gig here is a big plus.""",Chad Barrett @placeholder if he would play first - class cricket again before his century on his Championship debut for Northants against Worcestershire .,described,people,prop,body,questioned,4
"Labour topped the list with £1.89m of donations between 30 March and 5 April, the Electoral Commission said. The Conservatives received £501,850, UKIP was given £35,416 and the Lib Dems £20,000, figures show. All parties standing candidates at the election are required by law to report any donations or loans over £7,500. The Co-operative Party was given £8,400 and the Green Party received £13,792. The biggest donation came from the Unite union, which gave Labour £1,005,000. Unison gave the party £506,240. The biggest donation to the Conservatives came from individual donor Michael Tory, who gave the party £75,000.","Almost £ 2.5 m of donations to political parties were @placeholder in the first week of the official election campaign , new figures have revealed .",raised,captured,registered,received,wiped,2
"Ozzy's problems came to light when handler PC Paul Huggett noticed a ""blue tinge"" in his eyes. Cataracts were diagnosed by a vet but police decided to ""give him a chance"" and sanctioned the expensive treatment. PC Huggett said without the operation, Ozzy would have had to retire from his job tracking down contraband drugs, weapons and cash. Read more on this and other stories from Cambridgeshire The dog has now returned to work and on his first assignment found ""50 rocks of crack cocaine in Peterborough"". Ozzy, who is eight, is part of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire dog unit and is based in Alconbury, Cambridgeshire. Cataracts are cloudy patches that develop in the lens of the eye and can cause blurred or misty vision. If untreated the condition is likely to deteriorate. PC Huggett, who has had Ozzy since the dog was six months old, said: ""[Police dogs] use their nose to search, but Ozzy still needs to see where he's going. ""We had a meeting with the bosses and it was decided we would give him a chance. ""He's a very good dog, he's a natural searcher."" The cost of the procedure was in excess of £3,000. Specialist Newmarket-based vets Dick White Referrals carried out the operation and nursed Ozzy back to health. ""We did a lot of research about where he should go to get the best care and aftercare,"" PC Huggett said.","A police dog 's career has been @placeholder after his bosses agreed to pay more than £ 3,000 for a cataract operation .",named,ordered,suspended,halted,saved,4
"Dubliner John Edwards volunteered to lie in a coffin which was then sealed and buried in the grounds of an east Belfast church. But he's not alone down there - the coffin has been specially adapted so he can broadcast live on social media. His aim is to reach out to those in despair. Mr Edwards, 61, is former drug addict and alcoholic who has been sober for more than two decades. After experiencing what he described as an ""incredible encounter with God 27 years ago"", he set up a number of Christian rehabilitation centre and homeless shelters. Having lost more than 20 of his friends to addiction and suicide, Mr Edwards now counsels and prays with people in distress or despair. For the next three days, his message of ""hope"" is coming from beyond the grave in the grounds of Willowfield church in east Belfast. He has been taking calls, texts and emails from members of the public who are seeking help. ""My plan is to speak to them from the grave before they get there and show them hope,"" he told the Belfast Telegraph. Mr Edwards said he is not claustrophobic but was still a little apprehensive about being buried alive. ""When the lid is closed and you're underground, and you hear the soil getting thrown on top of the coffin... it is freaky,"" he admitted. The wooden structure is more spacious than the average coffin, being 8ft long, 3.5ft high and 4ft wide (2.4m x 1m x 1.3m). It is equipped with a caravan toilet and access to air, food and water supplies are maintained through pipes. It is not the first time Mr Edwards has been early for his own funeral. He spent three days buried underground in his adopted town of Halifax in England last year. The Dubliner has also been physically close to death on several occasions. Having experienced sexual abuse, mental illness and homelessness, the former drug addict said he overdosed a number of times. He also underwent a liver transplant after developing Hepatitis C from a dirty needle, and has survived cancer twice. He admitted his habit of being buried alive is a ""bit of a gimmick"" but said it was one with a serious message. ""I'm desperate to reach as many people as possible.""","For many people , the thought of being buried alive is the stuff of nightmares but one Irishman is going three feet under for three days - and @placeholder .",body,spaces,nationality,worse,nights,4
"The film, made by Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper, features an all-star cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson and Kevin Bacon but it's Depp who is a frontrunner for the upcoming awards season as critics, including industry magazine Variety, hail his interpretation of Bulger as a ""career-best work"". The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw adds that the actor is ""horribly watchable"" as the Boston crime boss, who was jailed for life in 2013 for the murders of 19 people. Depp says he took on the role of Bulger simply ""for the joy of the part, I was fascinated by him for years. He ended up on the FBI's Most Wanted list after informing for them. How did he evade justice for so long? ""You do things for the fans too, though I don't like that word,"" he continues. ""I like to call them my bosses, because they're the ones who employ me. So you turn up to work for them."" Based on the book published in 2001, Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance between the FBI and the Irish Mob, the film details one of the greatest scandals in FBI history: that from 1975 the bureau largely ignored the crimes of Bulger and his associates in return for informing on a rival mob in Boston. When the cover-up was made public in 1994, Bulger went on the run for more than 16 years. He was eventually caught and tried, at the age of 82. Depp says his challenge was to find ""the essential humanity of the man - not to play him like a bad guy or a killer. It would have been too easy but that wasn't the way. He was still a human being who loved his mother, and his brother, and who took care of the people who lived around him. ""I think violence was his business and he didn't understand anything else. I call it the light switch going on and off - that he could make those violent decisions and then just carry on with his family."" The actor absorbed the few video and audio recordings that exist of Bulger, but reveals he did ask Bulger, now an 86-year-old inmate of a Florida jail, if they could meet. ""I did ask Mr Bulger if he would grant me some time, but he respectfully declined. Those were the exact words he used and I understood that very well. It was a very long shot anyway, because the idea of some guy playing him in a film was just weird. ""He was very gentlemanly about it - he just said he didn't like the book about him, and I can understand that he wouldn't be much of a fan."" Depp's trademark over a 30-year career has been to transform himself physically for his roles, including for Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd and Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. The last two roles earned him two of his Oscar nominations, but director Cooper says his star has beaten his past form and his resemblance to the real Bulger is ""uncanny"", thanks to prosthetics used to recreate the mobster's unusually light skin and eyes. Cooper recalls that Bulger's attorney was on set one day and ""was spooked by Johnny's appearance"". ""The lawyer said that the way Johnny looked, moved, and sounded - that it was Whitey Bulger."" ""The physicality of the man was hugely important,"" Depp confirms. ""I beefed up for it because he was a tough guy. I have some brilliant make-up artists who worked with me on Pirates of the Caribbean and we devised the look several times until one day I looked in the mirror and saw him. ""I had some letters from Mr Bulger's former associates saying I'd freaked them out. It's good to hear it."" Depp calls Cumberbatch, who plays Bulger's brother Billy, a Massachusetts Senator, ""a beautiful man of exceptional talent. He became like a real life brother"". ""The set-up we were playing was an unusual one - one brother becomes a politician, the other is king of the underworld. They still meet up for family dinners and church, just from opposing sides. It takes an actor with a lot of ability, like Benedict, to make that credible."" Cooper adds that while he expected Depp's fans to be showing up on filming locations, that instead it was Cumberbatch's followers ""that were unlike anything I have ever seen in my life before"". ""They were on every street corner. I don't think Benedict can understand it either."" At this year's Toronto Film Festival, Depp issued a tongue-in-cheek thank-you to Cooper ""for reviving my career"".  The actor has had some critical and box office flops recently, most notably The Lone Ranger and Mortdecai. On the subject of Oscars, last month Depp told BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat that he ""didn't want to win one of those things ever,"" adding, ""I don't want to have to talk. A nomination is plenty. I'm not in competition with anybody"". Previously he has said of his film choices: ""I just stick to my guns and do what I want to do - sometimes people don't like it and that's alright."" But Cooper says: ""Johnny is thrilled with the reaction (to Black Mass) and can't wait for people to see the film. He takes risks that most movie stars will not. ""He has had a career that is enviable by any actor's standards but he has privately said thank-you to me for the movie. I feel the more people see this the better."" Black Mass opens in the UK on 25 November.","It 's a role that 's @placeholder to gain the three - time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp a fourth nod from the Academy yet the actor says an Oscar is "" not the priority "" when it comes to playing notorious gangster James "" Whitey "" Bulger in Black Mass .",experience,tipped,hopes,supposed,bound,1
"US employers added 222,000 jobs in June, the US Labor Department said. The figure was higher than expected, following a separate survey that had suggested weaker hiring. The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 1.04% to 6,153.08. The Dow Jones hit 21,414.34, up 0.4% and the S&P 500 climbed 0.6% to 2,425.18. All three indexes closed higher than they had a week prior. Technology stocks, which had been under pressure after a surge earlier in the year, led the gains. Amazon shares increased 1.4% on Friday after a report that its Prime subscriber service had attracted 85 million members in the US - more than a quarter of the country's population. Apple, Microsoft, Apple and Netflix also all gained more than 1%. Credit card companies - which stand to benefit if interest rates rise - were also among the winners, as the jobs gain boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve would maintain its plan to raise interest rates further. Visa and American Express shares both climbed 0.7%.","US markets closed higher on Friday , as strong jobs @placeholder helped stocks bounce back from losses earlier in the week .",have,points,there,data,energy,3
"The first-half strike was typical Keane, an audacious flick and volley to move level with German legend Gerd Muller's record 68 international goals. Keane received a rousing ovation when he was substituted after 56 minutes on his 146th and last Republic appearance. Robbie Brady and Jonathan Walters (2) also scored in the warm-up before the World Cup qualifier against Serbia. Walters was named man-of-the-match but the night belonged to skipper Keane as he retired after 18 years in international football. Media playback is not supported on this device The LA Galaxy striker had an early shot blocked and then saw his lob land on top of the net before his low finish on 29 minutes. That made it 2-0 after Brady's curling free-kick for the opener and the impressive Walters headed in before slotting home the fourth in the second half. Keane told Eir Sport: ""It was very tough - it was an emotional night for me. ""I just want to thank everyone who came along to support me and tell them that I've enjoyed every minute of my 18 years with the team. ""Everyone wanted me to score and I'm delighted to finish off in this way. ""I look forward to now sitting back and watching the team as a fan."" Keane's goal tally leaves him joint fourth with Muller as Europe's best marksman in international football and behind Ferenc Puskas, Sandor Kocsis and Miroslav Klose. Who impressed O'Neill? Despite being a friendly against an limited Oman side ranked 107th in world, it as an energetic and flowing Irish display for boss Martin O'Neill to digest. Serbia will offer tougher opposition on Monday in the Group D opener but Walters stood out in a central striker role, hitting the woodwork to go along with his two goals. Marc Wilson and Harry Arter missed out on the Euro 2016 finals and they put in solid displays while Wes Hoolihan was creative as Keane's replacement. Callum O'Dowda shone as a second-half substitute, his power and pace evident as he won just his second cap. Match ends, Republic of Ireland 4, Oman 0. Second Half ends, Republic of Ireland 4, Oman 0. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Ahmed Salim (Oman) because of an injury. Corner,  Republic of Ireland. Conceded by Nadir Awadh Bashir Bait Mabrook. Substitution, Oman. Saeed Abdulsalam replaces Abdulaziz Al Muqbali. Attempt missed. Jonathan Walters (Republic of Ireland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan with a cross following a corner. Corner,  Republic of Ireland. Conceded by Faiz Al-Rushaidi. Attempt saved. Wes Hoolahan (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Marc Wilson. Foul by Marc Wilson (Republic of Ireland). Abdulaziz Al Muqbali (Oman) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Oman. Conceded by Ciaran Clark. Foul by Jeff Hendrick (Republic of Ireland). Raed Ibrahim (Oman) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. James McClean (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ciaran Clark. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Raed Ibrahim (Oman) because of an injury. Foul by Stephen Ward (Republic of Ireland). Husam Al Shuabi (Oman) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. James McClean (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. James McClean (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Wes Hoolahan (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Husam Al Shuabi (Oman). Attempt saved. Harry Arter (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Corner,  Republic of Ireland. Conceded by Faiz Al-Rushaidi. Attempt saved. Jeff Hendrick (Republic of Ireland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by James McClean. Foul by James McClean (Republic of Ireland). Salaah Al-Yahyaei (Oman) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Oman. Husam Al Shuabi replaces Hussain Al-Hadhri. Ciaran Clark (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Abdulaziz Al Muqbali (Oman). Marc Wilson (Republic of Ireland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Marc Wilson (Republic of Ireland). Mataz Saleh Abd Raboh Bait (Oman) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Republic of Ireland. Conceded by Abdulaziz Al Muqbali. Corner,  Republic of Ireland. Conceded by Abdul Salam Amer. Substitution, Republic of Ireland. Callum O'Dowda replaces Stephen Quinn. Corner,  Republic of Ireland. Conceded by Raed Ibrahim. Goal!  Republic of Ireland 4, Oman 0. Jonathan Walters (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Harry Arter. Attempt saved. Jonathan Walters (Republic of Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stephen Ward with a headed pass.",Robbie Keane ended his Republic of Ireland career in @placeholder by scoring in a 4 - 0 friendly win over Oman .,style,home,form,hand,reply,0
"The distribution centre in Shirebrook has been under scrutiny over its ""Victorian"" working practices. Unite said the payments, back-dated to May 2012, could be worth up to £1,000 for some workers. Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley admitted workers were paid below the minimum wage when he faced MPs in June. More on this story and other news in Derbyshire The billionaire owner of Newcastle United made the admission during a hearing before the Business, Innovation and Skills select committee. Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said it was a ""significant victory"" but warned that it did not mean everything was ""rosy"" at the warehouse. The union said about 1,700 Transline agency workers at the Derbyshire site may only initially receive half the back-pay they are owed because of the firm's refusal to honour its commitments from when it took over from Blue Arrow in 2014. A Transline spokesman said: ""We are making all payments required in full compliance with HMRC [HM Revenue and Customs]."" Workers directly employed by Sports Direct and the Best Connection agency are expected to start receiving back-pay in full towards the end of August, Unite officials said. Sports Direct has been approached for comment.","Workers at Sports Direct 's Derbyshire @placeholder will receive back - pay of about £ 1 m for non-payment of the minimum wage , according to the Unite union .",activities,body,base,factories,chain,2
"Tony Charlery, 59, was stabbed in the neck as he tried to ""run away from his attackers"" on Portobello Road in Notting Hill. The emergency services were called late on Friday to reports of a stabbing but the grandfather died at the scene in the early hours of Saturday. A murder investigation has been launched. No arrests have been made. Det Ch Insp Nicola Wall said: ""On Friday 29 August, Tony went alone to the Mau Mau bar in Portobello Road W11. ""He was only inside the venue for a short while and was stabbed as he left. Tony received the fatal wound as he tried to run away from his attackers. ""Tony was a local man and a much loved grandfather. His family are devastated by his death in such a brutal way."" The officer believes two local men were involved in the killing and appealed to the community to come forward with information. Post-mortem tests revealed Mr Charlery was killed by a stab wound to the neck.","A man who was found dead on a west London street was stabbed as he tried to @placeholder from a bar , police have said .",poison,flee,object,rob,distance,1
"Dame Sally Davies said the action by the British Medical Association (BMA) would ""lead to patients suffering"". The strike begins across England at 08:00 GMT, from when junior doctors will only provide emergency care. The BMA said the strikes ""demonstrated the strength of feeling amongst the profession"". It announced three spells of strike action in England in November, after negotiations with the government ended without resolution. Issues being disputed by the BMA and NHS include weekend pay. ""As a doctor, I can understand the anger and frustration felt by many junior doctors at this time,"" Dame Sally said. ""In part, this dispute is a symptom of frustration and low morale that has been building for decades and the strain that a career in medicine can place on your work-life balance. ""Junior doctors are the backbone of the NHS, working long and anti-social hours... It is vital that, as senior medical leaders, we ask ourselves whether we are doing everything we can to ensure our junior colleagues feel valued."" The planned strikes are set to take place from: Conciliation service Acas has confirmed that talks between the BMA and NHS bosses will continue next week. Junior doctors' leaders are objecting to the prospect of a new contract. The government has described the current arrangements as ""outdated"" and ""unfair"", pointing out they were introduced in the 1990s. Ministers drew up plans to change the contract in 2012, but talks broke down last year. The government has indicated it will impose the new contract next year in England. The BMA has responded by initiating the industrial action process. Junior doctors row: What you need to know What exactly do junior doctors do?","Junior doctors should @placeholder Tuesday 's strike action over pay and conditions while talks continue , the chief medical officer for England has urged .",suspend,support,attend,beat,affect,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device The pair were sidelined in October, Nowell tearing a quad muscle and Jess with an injured toe. While England international Nowell came back in December, Jess only returned in Exeter's Anglo-Welsh win on Saturday. His comeback meant hair had to go, but Nowell opted to part with his signature rat-tail rather than his beard. ""It actually wasn't my idea, it was Jack's idea - people have been tweeting me saying 'hurry up and get fit because Jack's looking a bit scruffy,"" Jess told BBC Radio Devon. ""To be fair it's just a little thing that got us through the rehab - because it's a long old injury you need something like that to perk you up a little bit, and as a goal as well.""","Exeter Chiefs wing Matt Jess says a pact with team - mate Jack Nowell , not to shave until they both returned from injury , @placeholder him through his rehab .",ensuring,including,denying,crashing,helped,4
"Emergency services were called to River View Maltings, Grantham, at about 11:30 GMT, on Thursday. The 42-year-old man was airlifted to the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham. Details of his condition are yet to be released. The scene has been cordoned off while officers carry out a forensic investigation.",A 41 - year - old woman has been @placeholder after a man was stabbed at a house in a Lincolnshire market town .,raped,wounded,arrested,released,stabbed,2
"Jordan Cunliffe's application for permission to appeal was thrown out at the Court of Appeal. The 18-year-old, who attended the proceedings, was one of three teenagers jailed for the murder of Garry Newlove. He was told that no arguable grounds had been raised which could affect the safety of the verdict. Mr Newlove, a 47-year-old salesman who had overcome stomach cancer, was beaten to death after confronting vandals outside his home in 2007. He suffered massive head injuries in the attack, which was witnessed by his daughters, and died two days later in hospital. Cunliffe, formerly of Warrington, was found guilty of murder by a jury at Chester Crown Court in January 2008. He was 16 at the time of conviction and is serving a minimum term of 12 years. Mr Newlove had left his home to remonstrate with the teenagers about vandalism to vehicles where he lived when he was set upon. Ringleader Adam Swellings, of Crewe, Cheshire, lost an appeal in November 2008 against his conviction and his 17-year sentence. Co-accused Stephen Sorton, of Warrington, appealed at the same time against his 15-year minimum term, which was reduced to 13 years. Mr Newlove's murder sparked outrage and a national debate about Britain's yob culture. His wife, Helen Newlove, has just recently been made a Conservative peer in the House of Lords for her campaigning to stop alcohol-fuelled violence.",A teenager who @placeholder to death a father - of - three outside his Warrington home has lost a bid to challenge his conviction .,helped,appeared,kicked,shoots,lost,2
"The machine was seen flying over to HMP Risley in Warrington at about 23:20 BST on Wednesday, Cheshire Police said. Following a search of the area, officers arrested four people. The men, aged 31 and 41, and the 17-year-old, all from Merseyside, are charged with attempting to smuggle phones and Class B drugs into the jail. The 41-year-old has also been charged with driving without a valid licence or insurance. They are due to appear before North Cheshire Magistrates' Court. An 18-year-old Kirkby man who was also arrested has been released pending further investigation.",Two men and a boy have been charged with attempting to smuggle cannabis and mobile phones into a prison after a drone was spotted @placeholder above .,buried,damaged,hovering,drugs,targeted,2
"Donald Trump's running mate, a long-time opponent of Planned Parenthood, will be sent a gift certificate for every donation. The campaign began in 2011 when as an Indiana congressman he introduced several anti-abortion measures. They included the first bill to strip the provider of all federal funding. Tears as a soldier from Iraq's Mosul finds his mum on a bus Close encounter with the moon The tricks on Trump Joe Biden might be planning - in memes In March this year, as Indiana governor, Mr Pence signed an anti-abortion bill that is seen as one of the most restrictive in the US, barring abortion in Indiana on the basis of disability, gender or race of the foetus. Parts of that law were blocked by the courts, but not until after a social media backlash which saw women phoning or tweeting Mr Pence details about their menstrual cycles under the hash tag #periodsforpence. There had already been a significant rise in gifts to the country's biggest abortion provider in the wake of Mr Trump's election last week. But then over the weekend, many women went on social media to say they had made a donation in Mike Pence's name. Mike Pence's anti-abortion stance mirrors that of President-elect Trump, who wants to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, and who has in the past said women should be punished for undergoing an abortion if it were made illegal, though he later withdrew the statement. What is Planned Parenthood? Who is Indiana Governor Mike Pence? What Donald Trump is planning on abortion 'Hello governor, I have my period' Planned Parenthood hasn't commented in detail on the post-election trend of donating in Mr Pence's honour. But the organisation said on social media they had been ""blown away by the support"" and acknowledged that many people are donating in both Mike Pence's and Hillary Clinton's names. The vice president-elect has so far not commented on being the nominal donor of thousands of dollars to the organisation.",Donations to US family planning organisation Planned Parenthood in the name of Vice President - elect Mike Pence have @placeholder .,surged,claimed,occurred,revealed,begun,0
"The Scottish Sun pledged the cash to Gorgie City Farm after holding a competition to name the miniature pair. The Edinburgh venue was the scene of a campaign howler in which Mr Rennie was speaking on camera with amorous pigs in the background. The Sun's winner was Agnes Martin who picked the names Kama and Sutra. She told the newspaper: ""I don't think anyone will forget those pigs. I won't, as I'll be keeping them on my mantelpiece."" At last week's Holyrood election, Mr Rennie won the Fife North East seat, beating SNP candidate Roderick Campbell by 3,465 votes. Ahead of taking to the stage at the count in Glenrothes, the politician was handed the two pigs by BBC reporter Ken Macdonald. Mr Rennie later thanked the journalist for the gift which ended up raising money for the city farm which is under threat of closure.",Two plastic pigs which Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie was seen @placeholder on the night of his election win have helped raise £ 250 for charity .,captured,stranded,clutching,overturned,side,2
"We spend billions sending craft and people into space, but we do not really know what happens under the waves. One man who finds that more than curious is Graham Hawkes, a beneath-the-sea maverick who has been working on underwater craft for most of his life. It is a lonely, driven quest, relying rather dangerously on the engagement and backing of a few wealthy enthusiasts. Born in London, Mr Hawkes learnt his engineering expertise in the defence industry, working initially on torpedoes in Norfolk, England. In the 1980s he went to the US, working on oil and gas exploration before setting up on his own, with the aim of bringing a new clarity and purpose to manned exploration of the deep ocean. In his harbourside workshop just across the Bay from San Francisco, Mr Hawkes shows me some of the results of his years of work: submersible craft looking much more like planes than conventional submarines. There are various versions, all called DeepFlight. One of those I look at has a 12-foot (4 metre) wingspan. It is beautiful, quiet and light enough to load and unload from relatively small support vessels. It is designed to explore the deepest part of the sea, the Mariana Trench in the Western Pacific somewhere between Japan and Papua New Guinea. The Trench is much deeper than Mount Everest is high - almost 7,000 feet (2,100m) deeper. The water pressure down there is a thousand times the atmospheric pressure at sea level. That is where Mr Hawkes wants his underwater flying machine to go. So did the late Steve Fossett, the American multimillionaire adventurer with 115 world records or world firsts to his name. He died in an air crash in the Californian mountains in 2008, just as Mr Hawkes was within four weeks of putting the DeepFlight Challenger through its first tests. It was being built for Mr Fossett to claim another record - the first solo exploration of the Mariana Trench. The US Navy two-man bathyscaphe, The Trieste, got to the bottom of the Trench in 1960. Two unmanned vessels have since been down there, but a one-man flying machine would be a very different proposition. Steve Fossett's untimely death was a big blow to Mr Hawkes and the DeepFlight team. Now they need another multimillionaire with similar ambitions to take on the challenge. The submersibles are beautiful machines, breathtakingly simple to operate. They treat water like air, says Mr Hawkes. From early on, he has had the reputation of making things happen. But being a deep sea pioneer is not easy. And if we are properly to survey the two-thirds of the world that is scarcely known to us, clever robots will do most of the work down at the ocean bottom. It is much safer, and cheaper, than sending humans. And there may be great mineral and other riches to be found, to say nothing of a host of unknown life forms. But submarines and bathyspheres and robots do not catch the imagination in the way that DeepFlight does. For one thing, they do not fly.","Two - thirds of the @placeholder is underwater . We glide over the surface of the oceans , but we still have very little idea what is going on even a few metres down .",city,country,earth,words,race,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device Britain's Murray and Swiss Hingis, who only announced their partnership last week, won 6-3 6-4 against Czech pair Roman Jebavy and Lucie Hradecka. The match was twice stopped by rain before Murray, 31, and Hingis, 36, won in one hour and 11 minutes. Next they could face British pair Ken Skupski and Jocelyn Rae. Skupski and Rae meet 12th seeds Max Mirnyi and Ekaterina Makarova in their third-round match. Both Murray and Hingis have a rich pedigree in doubles competitions and linked up when she approached the Scot after ending her partnership with India's Leander Paes. Find out how to get into tennis in our special guide. The pair have instantly struck up an understanding and looked at ease - smiling after virtually every point - as they cruised past 16th seeds Jebavy and Hradecka. Murray won the mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 2007 alongside Serbia's Jelena Jankovic, then went on to claim the men's doubles titles at the Australian Open and US Open last year with Brazil's Bruno Soares. Hingis has won five Grand Slam singles titles - including at Wimbledon in 1997 - 12 Grand Slam women's doubles and a further five Grand Slam mixed doubles competitions.",Top seeds Jamie Murray and Martina Hingis reached the quarter - finals of the Wimbledon mixed doubles with a rain - @placeholder straight - set win .,shortened,interrupted,affected,biting,battling,1
"31 March 2016 Last updated at 17:31 BST The 60-second trailer features the team around the world in locations from Morocco to the United Arab Emirates, as well as a huge collection of cars. There is also a glimpse of host Chris Evans feeling a bit sick trackside in California, and co-host Matt LeBlanc driving a Reliant 3-wheeler from London to Blackpool in England. They will be joined on the show by racing driver Sabine Schmitz, YouTube star Chris Harris, Formula 1 expert Eddie Jordan, motoring journalist Rory Reid and of course, The Stig. Top Gear will return to screens on BBC Two in May.",Top Gear fans have been given their first look at the new BBC @placeholder .,stations,website,shows,competition,series,4
"If you're in the market for a fighter jet, passenger plane, satellite, or drone, the biennial show - the 51st since 1909 - is the place to be. There'll be plenty to choose from. As with previous shows, the news flow will be dominated by the big beasts of aerospace, Airbus and Boeing. Planemakers like, if possible, to time their multi-billion-dollar orders to coincide with air shows. But such stage-management tends to be a decision for the customers, not the suppliers. There has, though, been an uncharacteristic lack of pre-show hype this time. Cowen & Co analyst Cai von Rumohr says the combined Boeing and Airbus order tally for civil aircraft by the end of the week could be below the average 387 seen in the past few years. It's possible that airlines are pausing for breath. A rush to buy aircraft after the financial crisis means that Airbus and Boeing have record backlogs of almost 12,000 aircraft. Delivery slots for new planes are years in the future. Boeing published its closely watched annual market forecast on Thursday, and expects airlines and freight firms to take delivery of 38,050 aircraft worth $5.6 trillion (£3.6tn) by 2034. Two out of every five newly built aircraft will feed Asia's booming travel market, Boeing said. So, if Paris produces fewer orders than usual, it's a blip not a trend. It being a French air show, Airbus products will feature prominently. The centrepiece will be the long-range A350, which will fly displays daily. Expect Airbus to unveil orders for the aircraft, and its short-to-medium range products. But what it really wants is more sales of the A380 super-jumbo. There have been just 317 sales since its launch 10 years ago, and questions have been asked about its future. A big theme of this year's event is the environment. The schedule of press conferences and briefings include a lot about innovations to do with efficiency, rather than building the big new products of the future. Top industry officials, government ministers and environmental experts will be there to discuss air travel's impact on climate change. Attendees will include Nobel peace prize co-laureate Philippe Ciais, of France's Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory, and France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. On the ""green"" theme, Airbus will be flying its E-Fan 2.0 electric prototype, which can achieve a speed of 136mph and fly for about an hour. Weighing less than half a ton, the aircraft has lithium-ion polymer batteries in its 31ft wings. A final assembly line is being built in south west France, and the plan is for an all-electric two-seater to enter service around the end of 2017 or early 2018. Air shows can sometimes look like corporate virility symbols, a chance to outdo rivals. And Qatar Airways has opted to underline its huge success in recent years by bringing five aircraft to Paris, including an A380 and a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Below the Airbus-Boeing duopoly are smaller planemakers, such Bombardier, Embraer, ATR and Sukhoi Civil Aircraft. Shows are important for them, as they get fewer opportunities to present their products to such a global audience. Bombardier, which debuts two variants of its C-Series aircraft, needs orders. Shareholders are uneasy about the C-Series investment, and hoped Paris would be a turning point. Yet, last week, Bombardier seemed to be playing down the likelihood of big deals. New chief executive Alain Bellemare, speaking at an aviation meeting in Miami, said: ""Paris, to be honest with you, it's one milestone, but it's not that critical. It's a few days in a year. It's a few days in the life of a 20-25-year programme."" Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at Teal Group, said the old Bombardier management was ""in complete denial"" about the C-Series' problems. He expects the new management to take a more aggressive approach to sales, offering more deals and incentives. On the military side, the return of the US, the world's biggest defence customer by far, is being seen as a coup. The US military and diplomatic presence was largely absent in 2013 because of the sequestration budget crisis. The official US presence may be discreet, however, following a warning by the US State Department. According to a report in the Washington Times the Department has told private companies and delegates to be on guard for economic espionage and terrorism. ""Transnational terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda have a presence in Paris and elsewhere in France, and continue to pose a threat to American interests,"" the State Department said. No US aircraft will be taking part in the 20-plus daily flying displays, although there will be aircraft on static display. And although some big US contractors, including Northrop Grumman, will not be attending, the US will still have about 220 exhibitors in Paris, which is second only to France. Amongst the multi-billion-dollar US hardware on show, it's a cut-price fighter jet that may receive a lot of attention. The Scorpion, made by Textron AirLand, part of the group behind Bell Helicopters and Cessna Aircraft, uses off-the-shelf parts to keep costs down. It has yet to receive an order, though. Another ""affordable"" combat aircraft likely to be received with a mixture of interest and curiosity is the JF-17 Thunder, a joint project between China's Chengdu and Pakistan Aeronautical Complex. It, too, has no export orders, although there is speculation that Bulgaria may do a deal. France, bolstered by April's $7bn order from Qatar for Rafale fighters, will have a big military presence. This includes two variants of Dassault's Rafale jets, and Eurocopter's Tiger attack helicopter. Arguably the most important display will be the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft. Plagued by delays and costly overruns, the €28bn (£20bn; $31bn) project suffered a major setback in May when an aircraft crashed in Spain, killing four crew. The assumption was that the A400M would be grounded for the show. But Airbus said last Wednesday that it would perform displays every day this week. Most of the time, Le Bourget Airport is a drab, tired-looking place, home to an aerospace museum and a few business jets. Then the air show rolls in. So what's it actually like? For starters, you can barely move for VIPs. Chief executives and statesmen are out in force. The US contingent is considered low-key this year - yet it still includes the Air Force Secretary and a clutch of senators. The Alphas, of course, always come with their entourages - legions of PRs, minders, fixers and hangers-on. This invariably leads to a degree of one-upmanship, particularly in the rows of luxury ""chalets"", where the major players wine and dine their clients. Boeing always has a spectacular building in a prime spot next to the runway. But it's usually dwarfed by home favourite Airbus's colossal base for the week, often with a giant A380 superjumbo conveniently parked outside the door. Air show fashion is always entertaining. Dark suits and dark glasses dominate, especially among arms industry executives. Some delegations, notably those from minor powers, favour full military dress with acres of medals and gold braid. Whatever you're wearing, though, the chances are it won't be appropriate for the conditions. The summer weather in Paris is highly unpredictable. The last show was marked by torrential downpours. And I remember one year, it was so windy, people were hanging on to light aircraft on a static display to prevent them blowing over. And what of the air displays, that breathtaking parade of super-sophisticated machinery engaged in aerobatics that seem to defy the laws of physics? Well, it's fine to watch over lunch, but for many of us, frankly, it's an inconvenience. When you're trying to work, or hold important meetings, it's just too darned noisy.","It has a reputation for disorganisation , maddening congestion , and being @placeholder by monsoon - like downpours . And yet the Paris Air Show remains the signature event for the aerospace and defence industry .",disrupted,unveiled,boosted,beaten,questioned,0
"They talked about what had attracted them to London and ""how we can continue to build on that for the future,"" Mrs May told the BBC's economics editor Kamal Ahmed, in Davos. Her remarks came as several big banks said they may move staff out of London. Both HSBC and UBS have said they could relocate about 1,000 jobs. Mrs May was asked if she was disappointed that it was becoming clear that there was a price to Brexit. ""I want to negotiate a free trade agreement with the European Union which will give us the maximum access, the right deal for Britain, maximum access to the single European market for trading with and operating within that market for both goods and services,"" she said. ""I think that's not just in the interests of the UK, I think that's in the interests of the European Union as well,"" she added. May: UK will lead world on free trade Bank exodus? What did Davos make of May's speech? Mrs May said she had had a ""very good positive discussion with banks about the benefits of the City of London, about what it is that has brought them to the City of London and how we can continue to build on that for the future"". There were ""huge benefits"" for investment in the UK, Mrs May added, which she said had a ""fundamentally very strong economy"". She said the service sector was very important to the UK and that she believed that ""truly global Britain can bring jobs and prosperity to the UK across the board, including in financial services"". Mrs May was asked if the government might be prepared to give preferential treatment to EU immigrants coming to the UK in exchange for privileged access to the single market. People who voted for Brexit were voting for ""us to take control of our immigration laws for people coming from the EU into the UK"", she said. ""We're looking at the various systems that are possible at the moment. The key issue for people in the UK is that we have control, that's it's the government that is deciding our immigration rules,"" she added. Earlier, Mrs May told leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the UK will be a ""world leader"" on trade. But the prime minister also warned that inequality blamed on globalisation was aiding the ""politics of division"". Her speech to business leaders and politicians in Switzerland came after EU leaders said a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK would be ""difficult"". The prime minister promised that the UK after Brexit would take on a ""leadership role as the strongest and most forceful advocate for free markets and free trade anywhere in the world"". She argued for reforms so the global economy created wealth for all, rather than a ""privileged few"", and ""centre-ground mainstream politics"" could ""work for everyone"". Mrs May said the world was enjoying an ""unprecedented level of wealth"", but many people felt this was ""not working for them"". Global elites needed to tackle the backlash against globalisation, liberalism, and free trade because leaders who ""embrace the politics of division and despair"" were working to exploit the situation. Mrs May said: ""Talk of greater globalisation can make people fearful. For many it means their jobs outsourced and their wages undercut. It means having to sit back as they watch their communities change around them. ""And in their minds, it means watching as those who prosper seem to play by a different set of rules, while for many life remains a struggle as they get by, but don't necessarily get on.""","Prime Minister Theresa May has had "" positive discussion "" with big banks about how they might be @placeholder to keep jobs in the City of London .",encouraged,offered,willing,linked,flown,0
"Officers said the incident, said to have occurred in the town's Grade-II listed Valley Gardens on 16 February, was not as first reported. Two men who were arrested in connection with the report have been released without charge. North Yorkshire Police said the girl involved continued to receive support from specialist agencies.",Police investigating a reported @placeholder sex attack on a teenager in a Harrogate park have said no attack took place .,group,gang,shotgun,phone,question,0
"Froome, 30, has already said he had urine thrown at him during stage 14, following media accusations of doping. The British Team Sky rider said he was unaware of the latest incident but was told about it by journalists. ""We're human beings, and then we're sportsmen. People need to remember that,"" he said. ""You can't come to a bike race to spit at people or to punch people or to throw urine at them - that's not acceptable at any level."" Froome will carry a lead of two minutes 38 seconds into the final competitive stage on Saturday. The Kenya-born rider, and Team Sky, have had to defend themselves against accusations of using performance-enhancing drugs throughout this year's competition. Team Sky released some of Froome's performance data in an effort to end the speculation and prove the rider's innocence. Team-mate Richie Porte has also said he had been punched during stage 10.","Tour de France leader Chris Froome has hit out at the "" appalling @placeholder "" of some spectators , after he was allegedly spat at during stage 19 on Friday .",reaction,branch,behaviour,number,period,2
"Police and crime commissioner (PCC) Ian Johnston said the Home Office cuts may affect the ability of his force to deal with a Paris-style attack. Gwent Police said it will be expected to save £65m by 2021, and was likely to lose 300 officers by 2018. Senior figures at the North Wales and Dyfed-Powys forces gave warnings about cuts in September. In an email to staff, North Wales Chief Constable Mark Polin said cuts of 25-40% had been suggested to his force. Dyfed-Powys PCC Christopher Salmon raised concerns about a change in the funding formula which he claimed would favour urban forces over those serving largely rural areas. Earlier in November, South Wales PCC Alun Michael invited public comments on his policing plan for the region, warning that ""further deep cuts"" in Home Office funding seemed ""inevitable"".",Gwent Police has said it has been told to @placeholder for cuts of 25 - 40 % ahead of the UK government 's spending review .,prepare,resign,offer,sign,conduct,0
"Sir Ian Cheshire, the former chief executive of B&Q, Britain's largest DIY chain, called today for a review of the new National Living Wage to ensure that the costs to business are not too onerous. Although Sir Ian made it clear that he supported the increase in the minimum wage, he told me that the impact on employment rates and the wage costs of many businesses was as yet unclear. In the Budget in July, the Chancellor said that he wanted to see the minimum wage increase to £9 an hour by 2020. Sir Ian said that could see wage bills increase by up to 60% for some businesses such as hotels, restaurants and care homes. ""We actually have been calling for a real increase in the minimum wage anyway, so in that sense the direction of travel is fine and we think it's broadly a good move, particularly if it helps to continue to boost the economy,"" Sir Ian, Whitehall's leading non-executive director, told the BBC. ""It will force businesses to focus on productivity and skills which are really big issues. ""I think most businesses over time can adapt. ""The problem is always when you get given a very short period in which to make a lot of change and that's where I think we should come back in two years, have a look at how we're doing and then work out whether that trajectory still makes sense. ""I think the real challenge is in the outer years - when you start to get to £9 and that starts to be a very significant increase. ""You're talking, in some models I've seen inside businesses, of - if you go from here to 2020, wage bills going up maybe 50% or 60%. ""And that is a very big issue, particularly obviously for people in retail and hospitality."" The increase in the minimum wage to the new ""National Living Wage"" was announced in July's Budget. George Osborne said that he wanted to see the minimum wage rise rapidly. Starting next April, for people over 24 the present minimum wage of £6.70 an hour will rise to £7.20 and then up in pretty substantial steps to £9 an hour by 2020. The announcement came as a surprise - the rate is traditionally set by the Low Pay Commission but they seem not to have been involved in this announcement. It was also of course controversial, because in that same budget Mr Osborne announced that benefits, and particularly tax credits, would be cut for those in work. Organisations such as the Institute of Fiscal Studies said that the increases would not make up for the cuts in benefits. Now, today is significant as it sees the last increase in the old minimum wage. After today, the Chancellor has to all intents and purposes taken control of the rate. Business reaction has been mixed. Some sectors like care homes, pub chains and more broadly the hospitality industry said that the increases could mean laying off staff or increasing prices. Some, though, such as Costa Coffee, Morrison's and Ikea, have seen it as an opportunity, saying that they will increase wages. Whatever the outcome, Sir Ian says that the government and the UK will only understand the impact once the new rates - starting next year - start to bed in. That is why he is calling for the review in 2017, which he wants to see involve the Low Pay Commission.",He is one of Britain 's best known retailers and the head of Whitehall 's @placeholder of business advisors .,association,group,departure,hopes,body,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device The 17-year-old had just dropped serve to trail Kyle Edmund 6-3 6-4 2-1 when he angrily hit the ball out of court. It struck French umpire Arnaud Gabas in the eye and a default followed. ""Luckily he was OK but obviously it's unacceptable behaviour from me,"" said Wimbledon junior champion Shapovalov. ""I just feel awful for letting my team down, for letting my country down, for acting in a way that I would never want to act. ""I can promise that's the last time I will do anything like that. I'm going to learn from this and try to move past it."" The World Group first-round tie was poised at 2-2 after Vasek Pospisil beat Dan Evans to set up a decider, but Canada's hopes ended when Shapovalov let frustration get the better of him. He later apologised to Gabas in the referee's office before the Frenchman headed to Ottawa General Hospital for a precautionary evaluation on bruising and swelling to his left eye. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) said in a statement it was ""clear that Mr Shapovalov did not intend to hit Mr Gabas"". Referee Brian Earley has the power to impose a fine of up to $12,000 (£9,600) and the ITF might significantly increase that fine, and suspend Shapovalov from future ties. GB captain Leon Smith said: ""Unfortunately for the young lad this is going to get an awful lot of attention. ""This will be looked at closely and it should be as it is dangerous. Whether it's an umpire or a young kid who's at the side of the court, that really could be a serious injury, so I'm sure it will be dealt with swiftly and pretty firmly."" Britain go on to face an away tie in France from 7-9 April - a repeat of the 2015 quarter-final in London that Britain won on their way to regaining the title for the first time in 79 years. John Lloyd, former Great Britain Davis Cup captain and player We don't know yet how the umpire's eye is but we could see it was already closing. You don't know about permanent damage until he sees the doctor. It's devastating for Shapovalov. He let himself down, he let his country down. He could have caused serious damage to the umpire. He will realise that he can't do that sort of thing again and he's going to get a lot of trouble in the press for this, quite rightly so because he deserves it, but he will rebound. If you look to the brighter side we've seen some undoubted talent in him, if he can just control it a little bit. There's nothing wrong with getting emotional - we've seen great champions like John McEnroe get emotional - but you can't go to that extent and he'll have to curb it a little bit. Media playback is not supported on this device Media playback is not supported on this device","Canada 's Denis Shapovalov said he was "" incredibly ashamed and embarrassed "" after he was defaulted for hitting the umpire with a ball - @placeholder Great Britain Davis Cup victory in Ottawa .",handing,threatening,celebrating,propelled,winning,0
"Chris Hill went over to give Warrington the lead while Ashton Sims extended the hosts' lead with half an hour gone. Morgan Smith helped make it 18-0 while Joe Philbin crossed after the break. Joe Mellor finally got Widnes off the mark but Matty Russell continued the rout before Corey Thompson ran in a late consolation try for the visitors. The result means Warrington remain at the top of the Super League table with two games of the regular season left while Widnes remain in seventh place. It was the second time in less than a week that Warrington had taken a comfortable half-time lead, having led Catalans Dragons 18-0 the break in their 26-22 win in Perpignan on Saturday. Warrington, who had both Rhys Evans and Kurt Gidley back after they were ruled out for the trip to France with a hamstring injury and eye injury respectively, dominated much of the game but Thompson's late try cut the hosts' lead. Victory for the Wire means they have now won their last six derby matches against Cheshire rivals Widnes at the Halliwell Jones Stadium. Warrington Wolves head coach Tony Smith told BBC Radio Merseyside: ""We did some good things in the first half but second half I can't say we did. ""Throughout the game we were good defensively, but the first half we had some electrifying pieces of play. ""Matty Russell probably caught the eye tonight, Stefan Ratchford did well. Most of them were pretty good in the first-half but the second half a few went off the boil."" Widnes Vikings head coach Denis Betts told BBC Radio Merseyside: ""We were 20-0 down at half-time, we looked a bit flat, we got rolled. They scored some good tries and it wasn't a good second-half. ""We showed a bit more desire but they'd put the cue on the rack by then. We knew what was coming from Warrington. ""We want to be aside that competes every week - last week we go to Wigan and compete and survive, and week in week out that what you need."" Warrington Wolves: Ratchford, Russell, King, Atkins, Evans, Gidley, Patton, Hill, Dwyer, Sims, Currie, Hughes, King. Replacements: Wilde, Smith, Bailey, Philbin. Widnes Vikings: Hanbury, Thompson, Dean, Runciman, Ah Van, Mellor, Brown, Burke, White, Buchanan, Whitley, Houston, Cahill. Replacements: J Chapelhow, Dudson, Heremaia, Farrell. Referee: Gareth Hewer. Attendance: 10,488.",Warrington Wolves comfortably beat local rivals Widnes Vikings to give themselves a @placeholder cushion at the top of Super League .,points,group,date,small,aggregate,0
"Kris Sale, from Sale Appliances in Westcliff-on-Sea, came up with the idea because he had a soft ""baby Henry"" toy and said he enjoyed making ""quirky"" window displays. The five cleaners represent the kings, Mary and Joseph. ""Kids love it,"" said Mr Sale who has also built a stable, topped with a star, to house the vacuum cleaners. Mr Sale has a reputation for his window displays. In the past he has turned a washing machine into a fish tank, and put a dummy repair man inside a cooker to make it look as though the appliance was being mended. He said: ""We're planning to change the nativity for New Year's Eve. The Henrys are going to have a party. It'll be one heck of a bash.""",A nativity scene using Henry vacuum cleaners has been created in the window of an electrical @placeholder shop in Essex .,goods,home,growing,field,power,0
"But was the episode concocted to generate maximum publicity for the group's controversial views? Did a master troll take the media and politicians for a ride? Daryush ""Roosh V"" Valizadeh, the founder of Return of Kings (ROK), openly and unashamedly courts outrage. ""There is nothing the media can do anymore to hurt me, and even if they paint me as a baby murderer, I will still gain readers because of it,"" he wrote after a BBC documentary was critical of his ideas. ""As long as my name exits the mouth of my enemies, I win, and I will continue to win."" Roosh V cancels 'Return of Kings' events By that criterion, Roosh V was well and truly a winner this week. Opposition to ROK's proposal to hold a men's ""social happy hour"" in cities around the world on Saturday started with a petition in Australia that quickly gathered thousands of signatures. Valizadeh's reaction was to announce on Twitter that he had booked a trip to Australia. A storm of media outrage followed, prompting Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to request an urgent briefing and foreshadow denying the 36-year-old American blogger a visa. ""I will sneak into your country, hold my meetings, laugh, and then slip out. Your gay authorities won't stop me,"" Valizadeh wrote in response. He baited female journalists with sexual requests and claimed he would enter Australia by boat. But he had never applied for a visa and the ""ticket"" he posted to Twitter of his planned trip was an itinerary screen grab that could be generated without booking a trip. In fact, Return of Kings' anti-feminist position is so extreme that some commentators believe it is a ""troll"" group that exists solely for the purpose of upsetting people. The site feature such headlines as ""The myth of date rape drink spiking"", ""How to turn a feminist into your sex slave"" and ""How to convince a girl to get an abortion"". The group's community beliefs state that ""a woman's value significantly depends on her fertility and beauty"", whereas ""a man's value significantly depends on his resources, intellect and character"". Return of Kings' leaders say their campaign is sincere, but they don't deny setting out to provoke strong reactions from the feminists, gay rights campaigners and their other perceived enemies. ""We write our ideas in a way that draws attention to our work and entertains our audience, because we believe our perspective has value and is worth spreading. Do not confuse provocative art with trolling,"" writes one contributor to the site. Australian cybercrime expert and former police officer Susan McLean agreed that the group's actions did not constitute trolling in the ""classic"" sense. ""Trolling usually involves groups or individuals that would concentrate on one person and hammer them online, as opposed to threatening to stick it to them at the local pub,"" Ms McLean said. ""But it certainly is a misuse of technology, [using] threats and harassment to cause upset among us here in Australia."" Ms McLean said she believed Valizadeh's targeting of Australia was considered, given the climate of increased awareness towards abuse against women and the debate on free speech. Domestic violence and women's issues have been hot-button topics in Australia, driven by 2015 Australian of the Year Rosie Batty's advocacy on the issue. ""His views grate against those that are held by Australian civilised society and he's using that as a springboard, knowing full well he'll create a media frenzy, angst and anger,"" she said. Australia has in recent years refused to issue visas to a number of people whose views were considered out of step with community standards. Rapper Tyler the Creator and pick-up artist Julien Blanc were both refused entry to the country after campaigns accused them of promoting misogyny. Simon Breheny, director of the Legal Rights Project at the Institute of Public Affairs, said this had prompted strong debate about the limits of free speech and whether Australia's laws went too far in restricting that right. ""These cases have given the individuals concerned a very high degree of prominence in the media and so it's seen as a bit of a tactic they can use to get a lot of free exposure,"" Mr Breheny said. As outrage spread from Australia to the UK, US, Canada and elsewhere, Roosh and ROK remained defiant, attempting to move their meet-ups to private forums. ""Since this meetup was never intended as a confrontation with unattractive women and their enablers, I'm moving to save as many of these meetups as I can before Saturday,"" he wrote on the ROK website on Wednesday. In the UK, a Scottish National Party MP urged the home secretary to block Roosh from attending events in Scotland or England, although there was no indication that he was planning to do so. Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson also weighed in, tweeting that ""your pro-rape, misogynistic, homophobic garbage is not welcome"". Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and a host of other politicians voiced similar sentiments. On Thursday Valizadeh announced he was cancelling the meet-ups because he could not ""guarantee the safety or privacy of men who want to attend"". It was a victory of sorts for ROK's opponents. But the name Roosh V is far better known than it was at the start of the week. The ROK website doubled its usual traffic to 82,000 unique users on 1 February. On Thursday, Valizadeh tweeted: ""I'm currently more popular than Jeb Bush … lol.""  It seems likely that Valizadeh got exactly what he was looking for.","A "" neo-masculinist "" group with extreme views on women 's rights has been forced to shut down a series of proposed global meet - ups , but not before a wave of outrage fuelled by petitions , media and governments swept its @placeholder around the world .",message,activities,frequency,ranks,weight,0
"As we approach the island, the first thing that stands out is the Ugandan flag on an improvised pole high above the greenery. Resident Labatin Mwiima says the flag pole acts as a reference point, by which to judge how far the 20-acre island has moved. ""You wake up in the morning and see different scenery. One evening we went to sleep at Port-bell Landing site, and we woke up in Ggaba,"" he says. The two landing sites are about 20 minutes apart by boat. While this has not been independently verified, the island is said to have been seen from at least three landing sites near the capital, Kampala. Mr Mwiima says a friend lured him to come to the island. He is a reggae musician and finds the environment relaxing and good for creativity. It is not clear whether by coincidence or design, but all 10 of the island's occupants are artists. Ali Katongole, a painter, says he was drawn to the island because of its simple lifestyle, away from the hustle and bustle of a big city like Kampala. Fittingly, it is called Mirembe, which means peace in Luganda. The residents are all men, living in grass-thatched huts. Some live there permanently, while others paddle local canoes every few days to go back to their homes in Kampala. It remains a long way from the other countries that share Lake Victoria - Tanzania and Kenya. The residents say the idea that the island might get submerged doesn't occur to them, because you cannot actually feel it moving. But Geoffrey Kamese from the Uganda Association of Professional Environmentalists, who has visited it, expresses caution. ""People should be careful and not continue farming on it, because the soil could become even weaker and sink in,"" he warns. Neat gardens of cassava, maize, beans and even bananas share space with the natural vegetation. The ground is soggy, and most of the crops are planted on mounds of soil, with ditches full of water running in between. Wild birds and chickens thrive on the bounty provided by the swamp vegetation. Mr Kamese has a theory as to how it came to be floating: There could have been water beneath the land before, and due to heavy rains, the roots of plants gave way and the patch of land floated away. ""It is possible that due to the changes happening in our weather, the amount of water in the lake increased and the soil became loose,"" he says. The National Environment Management Authority say people are risking their lives and has warned people to stay off the island And the islanders say they are ready to go wherever the waves carry them.",A piece of land has broken off Uganda 's @placeholder and has been floating around Lake Victoria for close to four months . The BBC 's Patience Atuhaire met the artists who have set up home there .,culture,mainland,barrier,coastline,conscience,1
"The 20-year-old forward received the accolade 24 hours after it emerged that he will ask to leave to club. But while some fans jeered, others shouted: ""Stay, Raheem."" The England international is expected to tell manager Brendan Rodgers and chief executive Ian Ayre on Friday that he wants to leave Anfield this summer. Speaking at the event, Rodgers said it had been a ""difficult, trying season"". Liverpool will finish outside the top four in the Premier League and therefore miss out on a place in next season's Champions League, while Rodgers is first Reds boss to fail to win a trophy in his first three seasons since the 1950s. He added: ""A number of distractions that we couldn't have planned for have made it difficult, but the players have given everything."" Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho, 22, was voted Player of the Season. Sterling rejected a new £100,000-a-week contract in April but denied being a ""money-grabber"" in an exclusive interview with BBC Sport which was not authorised by his club. Media playback is not supported on this device He said: ""I talk about winning trophies throughout my career. That's all I talk about."" The forward told Rodgers before Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Chelsea on 10 May that he wanted to leave, but it is understood the Reds want to keep the player, whose deal ends in 2017. Should Sterling be made available, Manchester City are the frontrunners for his signature, while a number of leading European clubs have also expressed an interest. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger refused to be drawn on whether he would make a bid. Several former Liverpool players have criticised Sterling and his representatives. Former Reds striker Emile Heskey said Sterling would be ""denying himself the opportunity to grow and develop into a top player"" if he left, and that Liverpool should ""try as hard as they can"" to persuade him to stay. John Aldridge, who played for Liverpool between 1987 and 1989, said Sterling had been given ""woeful advice from his agent"" and that ""everyone in the game"" felt it would be best for his development to stay. Former Liverpool winger John Barnes said Sterling should stay at Anfield, claiming he would not be guaranteed regular first-team football elsewhere as he has still ""not achieved anything"".","Liverpool 's Raheem Sterling has been named as the club 's Young Player of the Year , but was booed by a small number of fans as he @placeholder his award .",feared,collected,addressed,lost,prepares,1
"Jai Reason squandered an early opportunity for Maidstone, while at the other end James Kellermann flashed an effort over the bar. Maidstone goalkeeper Lee Worgan then pulled off an excellent save to keep out a powerful Matt McClure header. The visitors' pressure eventually told in the second half, with Jake Gallagher scoring Aldershot's goal in the 76th minute after some neat footwork earned him a yard of space in the penalty area. However, Josh Hare headed an equaliser in off the post in the fifth minute of stoppage time. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Maidstone United 1, Aldershot Town 1. Second Half ends, Maidstone United 1, Aldershot Town 1. Goal!  Maidstone United 1, Aldershot Town 1. Josh Hare (Maidstone United). Substitution, Aldershot Town. Chris Arthur replaces Bobby-Joe Taylor. Substitution, Maidstone United. Jack Richards replaces Tom Wraight. Goal!  Maidstone United 0, Aldershot Town 1. Jake Gallagher (Aldershot Town). Substitution, Aldershot Town. Shaun Okojie replaces Matt McClure. Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jake Gallagher replaces Jim Kellerman. Jim Kellerman (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card. Cheye Alexander (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card. Delano Sam-Yorke (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card. Second Half begins Maidstone United 0, Aldershot Town 0. First Half ends, Maidstone United 0, Aldershot Town 0. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",National League leaders Aldershot dropped @placeholder for the first time this season as Maidstone grabbed a late equaliser .,title,points,record,beat,goals,1
"Media playback is not supported on this device Cheika said Cole had been ""infringing the law since his career started probably, if not all of this year"". But hooker Hartley told BBC Radio 5 live: ""You don't stumble across 60-odd caps scrummaging illegally. ""The directives we get back from the refs always say that England have a good, clean scrummage."" Hartley added: ""I play against Cole a couple of times a year and it's always very difficult against him. He's a rock, like every tight-head should be. ""There's plenty for us to work on and we're looking for that complete scrummaging performance this weekend because this team is underpinned by a dominant set-piece and that's what we want to provide."" Media playback is not supported on this device England's victory over Argentina last weekend was their 13th in a row and their 12th under head coach Eddie Jones - and a win over Australia in the final autumn international would equal their longest winning run, set across 2002 and 2003. Cheika and his former Randwick team-mate Jones have exchanged frank views this week. Jones, who led his native Australia to the 2003 World Cup final defeat by England has accused the Wallabies of ""illegalities"" in the set-piece, and said they ""can't scrummage"". Cheika claimed Jones has ""always operated with a chip on his shoulder"" and tarnished his legacy with comments made in the summer when England completed a 3-0 series win in Australia in June, becoming the first touring side to secure a whitewash down under since South Africa in 1971.",England captain Dylan Hartley has defended team - mate Dan Cole after Australia coach Michael Cheika accused the @placeholder of scrummaging illegally .,retirement,prop,centre,side,pair,1
"The Ferrari man is on a final warning from governing body the FIA after two 'road rage' incidents in seven months. Vettel, 30, banged wheels with Lewis Hamilton in Azerbaijan last month and swore at race director Charlie Whiting over the radio in Mexico last October. ""Sebastian wears his heart on his sleeve,"" said Red Bull boss Horner. ""He is involved in a very intense battle. He sees an opportunity to be champion again this year and he knows he's going to need everything going his way against Mercedes to achieve that. ""He has zero filter between what he thinks and what he says or does sometimes. That's the great side of him. But sometimes it gets him in hot water as well."" Horner was Vettel's boss at Red Bull for six seasons between 2009 and 2014, and had to deal with some difficult moments in that time. Vettel and team-mate Mark Webber crashed together in Turkey in 2010, while the German refused to obey team orders in Malaysia in 2013. Horner likened Vettel's uncompromising attitude to that of his hero Michael Schumacher, whose controversial driving tactics clouded his reputation throughout his career. ""Sebastian has this huge desire within him,"" Horner said. ""The records mean a lot to him. Michael Schumacher was very much his idol and I think what you see that bubbles over sometimes is that killer instinct of, 'I want to win'. Sometimes at all costs. ""It comes across as spoilt but I think you've got to put yourself in his scenario, in his shoes. He has lifted Ferrari from where it was to where it is now and he has been a big driver in that."" Horner said that the environment at Ferrari might be contributing to the increased number of such incidents involving Vettel. ""Ferrari are an emotional team - Latin origins - it probably fuels that emotion,"" Horner said. ""That's not to say it's a bad thing. It shows he's human at the end of the day and shows how hungry he is to achieve that ultimate goal. ""[Ferrari president Sergio] Marchionne has his own style of management. He's quite a full-on character, quite outspoken. And the demeanour of a team comes from the top. The people who lead the team set the tempo. ""You can feel Ferrari is a high-pressure place, particularly at this period of time."" Horner said he felt Vettel could have been more severely punished for driving into Hamilton in Baku, an act motivated by the German's incorrect belief that the Mercedes driver had 'brake-tested' him. Vettel was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty but Horner said officials could have disqualified him for the incident. ""It's a difficult one, isn't it?"" Horner said. ""That's for the stewards to judge the penalties that were available to them. On the day it could well have been [a black flag]. Other drivers in other formulas have been and there's the precedent it sets. ""But they chose the penalty they had. I think what was wrong was then to drag it on. I think it's important that everybody knows on the day what is the result, what is the punishment for that action."" And he said that, away from the pressure of competition, Vettel was ""a great character"". ""You don't see as much of his character perhaps in his current environment,"" Horner said. ""He is a fun guy, he loves British humour, he's very good with the mechanics, the team. ""He'd turn up here with chocolates for the receptionists and girls around the factory, he was always very generous in terms of not just gifting something to the race team, but to the whole factory. He'd spend hours signing stuff and really investing into the team."" Horner said the title battle between Vettel and Hamilton had ""a fascinating dynamic between two very different personalities and drivers"". ""Lewis is a bit more of a free spirit,"" Horner said. ""He has a huge amount of natural talent. He probably doesn't think about his talent… or his application is probably different to Sebastian. ""I have never worked with Lewis so I don't know but he relies on that natural instinct. ""He jumps in and delivers and he is a bit like an artist. You can see he has mood swings as well. ""Lewis is very out there, you know, lives the lifestyle that he does, whereas Sebastian is hugely protective and private, he almost enjoys a student-like existence. He is happy with his backpack and wants to keep family life very private and not let anyone know what he's doing away from the race track.""","Sebastian Vettel 's red-mist moments are caused by a killer instinct that means he is occasionally @placeholder to "" win at all costs "" , says Christian Horner .",trying,prepared,committed,aiming,subjected,1
"With polls in the UK indicating growing support for Brexit, the mood in Brussels is darkening. Attitudes are hardening among officials I speak to here. I'm often asked if the EU is preparing some ""gift"", a last-minute sweetener to beat the creeping sense of inevitability that Britain could be about to vote Leave in its referendum on the EU. Until recently, leaders of the other 27 EU members were aching for the UK to stay. But while Central and Eastern European nations are still keen to be accommodating, France has turned hardline. ""Let them go if they insist and punish them if they do,"" sums up the sentiment du jour. This has less to do with Britain, and far more to do with French domestic politics. France and Germany, the EU's biggest powers, go to the polls next year with resurgent Eurosceptic parties breathing down the necks of the political establishment. Latest updates EU referendum poll tracker Reality check: The EU referendum Should EU citizens consider becoming British? The British nationals barred from voting on their own future The penny has dropped among EU leaders that voters want less Brussels in their lives. Just today, European Council President Donald Tusk said many of the British ideas about the EU were gaining support all over Europe. But he didn't mean the Leaving idea. The Out sentiment is one Europe's leaders do not want to encourage. So a gesture pre-referendum or a quick 'n generous new deal for a post-Brexit UK seem unlikely. But would the EU really cut off its nose to spite its face? Surely outside the EU, the UK would be an attractive trading partner? ""Absolutely,"" admitted a high level Brussels source grudgingly. ""And Britain probably would get a good deal in the end but no-one here wants to hand it over easily. ""Negotiations will likely take years. And the chances of it getting messy? I'd say they were extremely high."" The Leave campaign insists it will not sign up to a trade deal that would include having to keep the British labour market open to EU workers - the kind of arrangement Switzerland, Norway and Iceland accepted because they wanted to take part in or be close to the European single market. But, despite the fighting talk, I have also heard back-room whisperings of possibly, maybe, eventually finding some kind of accommodation for the UK, whereby it could pay a financial ""penalty"" to be part of the single market without being open to EU migration. But such scenarios are light years away from where we are now. If the British public votes Leave next Thursday, all current EU agreements would stay in place for at least two years while the UK disentangled itself from the bloc and embarked on a negotiated settlement with the EU. But this is uncharted territory and presupposes no unilateral moves from either side. ""If a post-Brexit UK government suddenly of its own accord stopped access for European workers to the British labour market for example,"" my source told me, ""EU countries would likely retaliate. A date could be chosen to simply cut Britain loose. ""If that happened, good luck."" Rambunctious pronouncements aside, the hope in the rest of the EU remains that British voters hold their nose, accept the EU is imperfect, and decide to stay. As dark as the mood is in Brussels and beyond, it's also fervently felt in many circles that the UK referendum is a clear message that the EU must reform. Thing is, do you believe it will?",""" It 's uncharted territory . That means @placeholder . Years of it . And that 's if negotiations go well . """,change,war,ambitions,control,uncertainty,4
"Motorists pay £1.50 for a one-way car journey across the bridge or £1.35 for drivers using an electronic tag. The Humber Bridge Board said there would be no increase until 2021 despite plans to install a glass lift at the bridge and create a visitor centre. Chairman Rob Waltham said the toll had been ""significant in growing the Humber economy"". A planning application for the proposed tourist development at the site was submitted in June. Project costs have not been released by the board but Bridge Master Peter Hill said it would be financed by the bridge board and ""not be funded from bridge tolls"". The tolls were halved in April 2012 after the government cut £150m from the bridge's outstanding debt. Source: Humber Bridge Board","Tolls for the Humber Bridge are to be @placeholder for the next five years , officials have announced .",increased,frozen,introduced,collected,forgiven,1
"Kieron Williamson, from Norfolk, who has so far earned about £2m, painted the 5ft-tall (1.5m) statue for the GoGo Dragons event in Norwich. It is set to be unveiled ahead of the trail which will be open from June until September. Kieron said it had been ""challenging"" painting on a statue instead of canvas. Local children's charity Break asked the child prodigy to customise one of its 84 blank dragons for its second public art trail. Inspiration for the landscape artist's design came from the Norfolk folk tale of the Ludham dragon. ""The scenes on the dragon are of Ludham and...of the Broads as they are my favourite places to paint,"" said Kieron. ""The dragon links into the Broads because of the Ludham dragon story."" He said the project had been ""absolutely brilliant,"" but said he painted over his first two designs. ""It's quite hard because it's never-ending and all the different lumps and bumps made it quite hard to plan it out."" His mother Michelle said the family were initially wary when they saw the sculpture's size. ""We were excited but we didn't have any idea of the scale of the beast though, so when we first caught sight of the dragon it was a bit of a surprise,"" she said. ""With the dragon theme being so popular for young children, he's really been able to get his teeth into it and enjoy it."" Break fundraising manager Michael Rooney said the charity had been ""eagerly awaiting"" the finished result and felt people would be ""amazed"" by the work. The Ludham dragon will be auctioned once the trail ends on 5 September.","A 12 - year - old artist , @placeholder Mini - Monet , is to unveil a sculpture of a dragon he has painted for a children 's charity art trail .",nicknamed,based,group,serving,built,0
"PC Neil Doyle, 36, died after being struck by a ""pile driver"" punch in the early hours of 19 December 2014. At Liverpool Crown Court, Andrew Taylor, 29, was jailed for seven years and six months and Timmy Donovan, 30, of Huyton, for six years and 10 months. A third man, Christopher Spendlove, was cleared of manslaughter in July. The trial judge, Mr Justice Turner, told the pair, who were convicted under joint enterprise law: ""There is no such thing as a death-proof punch."" The judge rejected any suggestion the men acted in ""excessive self-defence."" Andrew Taylor's barrister, Lord Carlile, said the family may never know who struck the fatal blow and had the punch landed slightly to the left or right ""the consequences would have been entirely different."" PC Doyle suffered an injury to an artery in his neck, which led to bleeding over the surface of the brain. It was the same injury that killed Australian cricketer Philip Hughes, the trial heard. Two of his colleagues, Merseyside officers Michael Steventon and Robert Marshall, were also injured in the confrontation. In a victim impact statement read in court, PC Doyle's widow Sarah said her world had been ""torn apart"". She said they had been ""inseparable"" and ""soul mates"" and ""I still hold the belief my husband was targeted because he was a police officer."" ""I feel numb, emotionless, lost, like I am among the outside of the situation looking in."" As the statement was read to the court, she sobbed in the public gallery. ""Seeing him lying in the gutter like a dying cat, not one person going over to help, I will never get the image out of my head,"" the statement said. Less than six months after their July 2014 wedding, she was ""standing at the bottom of the aisle with Neil in a coffin"" and felt it was a ""life sentence."" Taylor's barrister, Lord Carlile, said PC Neil Doyle was a ""victim of a terrible set of circumstances."" CCTV of the build-up to the incident shows the two groups of men outside a club. The footage was released by Merseyside Police following sentencing in court. In a letter read to the court, Taylor, a former Forest Green Rovers footballer, said: ""I offer my most sincere apologies to the family. ""I will regret walking up Seel Street every day."" He said he had brought great shame upon his family and accepted full responsibility. The trial heard Donovan, a sports events manager, had travelled to Germany on the day of PC Doyle's killing. He was also sentenced for causing wounding with intent. His legal representative Howard Godfrey said: ""I do not accept that it is fair to conclude that it was Mr Donovan who struck the fatal blow."" The judge replied: ""Well he shouldn't have gone to Germany, should he? ""Instead of staying behind and facing the music, he decided he'd skip the jurisdiction."" Det Supt Mike Shaw, of Merseyside Police, said: ""We hope the prison sentences that Andrew Taylor and Timmy Donovan are now starting will serve as a stark reminder about the devastating consequences of alcohol-fuelled violence that can have on so many people. ""Neil Doyle lost his life because of this moment of aggression and PCs Robert Marshall and Michael Steventon suffered serious injuries, too."" He said Taylor and Donovan had also ruined their lives and the incident could have been avoided ""had the defendants not chose to inflict violence on three men enjoying an innocent Christmas night out"". ""No-one's night out should end like this.""","Two men who killed an off - duty policeman in a "" joint and @placeholder attack "" during a night out in Liverpool have been jailed for manslaughter .",single,reduce,repeated,style,branded,2
"After all, his offending comment, branding the actions of two whistleblowers within his force ""disgusting"", was made three months ago. It had created tension with the ruling Fine Gael party, putting the Irish justice and transport ministers at loggerheads. But the fact that Mr Callinan had stubbornly refused to retract the comments suggested that he was going nowhere. What could not be ignored was the fact that as commissioner, if he did not know about the secret recording of phone calls into and out of police stations, he should have known. The practice stopped last year, which suggests that some senior people knew about it and brought it to a halt. The potential repercussions are huge. Calls from prisoners to solicitors may have been monitored, and it is conceivable that the courts may view that as an abuse of process in cases where subsequent convictions resulted from recorded information. There have been countless commissions and tribunals looking at alleged corruption or malpractice in public life. Some have focused on the Garda Síochána (the police service in the Republic of Ireland). The words ""bugging"" and Garda have been mentioned together in recent months. The body set up to scrutinise the police force recently found some evidence that its offices had been monitored by a sophisticated surveillance operation. It is widely accepted that there needs to be reform both within the Irish police force, and in how it is held accountable. The penalty points saga is just one example of that. The whistleblowers who exposed the fact that some officers were wiping driving offences from the records of some apparently well-connected public figures were disciplined. An investigation was then launched into abuse of the internal police database. It found that officers were using it almost as a window on the lives of famous people. Martin Callinan is the first casualty of the Garda Síochána mess. There may yet be more to come. Already calls have been made for the country's justice minister to follow suit.","From the moment the head of police in the Republic of Ireland , Martin Callinan , @placeholder down , it seemed there was more to his resignation .",watered,stood,show,broken,shut,1
"27 December 2015 Last updated at 10:34 GMT No-one was in the pub at the time it collapsed. Record rainfall has caused flooding in parts of northern England, Wales and Scotland. Severe weather warnings have been issued meaning that conditions could be dangerous for people. Take a look at this.",A 200 year - old pub in Greater Manchester has collapsed due to flood @placeholder and some of it has been washed away by the River Irwell .,waters,safety,evidence,conditions,people,0
"The currency initially slipped against the dollar and euro, only to start recovering in mid-afternoon trading before falling again. Meanwhile, the ""volatility index"" - a measure of investors' uncertainty - has hit levels last seen in the 2008 financial crisis. The Leave campaign argued that the pound simply retreated to March levels. The pound was down 0.2% against the dollar at $1.4226. Against the euro, sterling was down 0.6% at €1.2605 and weakened by 1% against the Japanese yen to just over 151. Investors have been spooked by data showing the chances of a Remain vote have fallen, although markets have also been rattled by global economic worries. With 10 days to go before the referendum vote, two polls at the weekend put the Leave camp ahead, while betting firm Betfair said the implied probability of a vote to Remain had now fallen to 68.5% from almost 80% a week earlier. How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU. ""We expect incoming polls to move the pound more aggressively than before,"" said Charalambos Pissouros, senior analyst at IronFX Global. ""If new polls continue to show a tight race between the two campaigns as we approach the voting day, the outcome is likely to become even more uncertain and hence, volatility in sterling is likely to heighten further."" BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed said hedge funds had been placing bets - short-selling - on expectations that the value of sterling will sink further. ""The bears are in town,"" he said. Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital, said the markets were now on full Brexit alert. ""Polls show it's now too close to call and markets are responding with some very twitchy activity. Sterling has shed more than 2% in two sessions to retrace its April lows."" Worries about the economic impact of leaving the EU were also blamed for a big fall in Asian stock markets. Japan's Nikkei index closed 3.5% down, while Hong Kong's main index slid 2.5%. The reaction on London's FTSE 100 was muted initially, with the index down 0.3% in morning trading. However, the FTSE 100 ended the day down 1.1% at 6,044.9 points, with Lloyds Banking Group the biggest faller, down 4.2%. On Sunday, Leave campaigner Nigel Farage told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show that sterling had recently been strengthening. ""Sterling is up since March. Since Brexit became a possibility, sterling is up and FTSE is exactly the same level it was in March,"" he said. He also pointed out that a weaker pound was good for UK exporters. Last week, official figures showed that the UK trade deficit narrowed in April on the back of a jump in exports.",Sterling see-sawed as investors reacted to @placeholder uncertainty over the outcome of the UK 's EU referendum .,reassure,growing,account,lead,ease,1
"Kumar Lama, 49, from St Leonards, East Sussex, had faced an Old Bailey retrial after being cleared by a jury earlier this year of one charge of torture. The Crown told the court it believed there was no realistic prospect of conviction on a second charge. Mr Justice Sweeney formally acquitted Col Lama. The decision not to go ahead with the retrial was made because of inconsistencies in evidence, the court heard. It had been alleged Col Lama ordered the torture of two detainees held at the Nepalese Army barracks. He was arrested in January 2013 while on leave in the UK from his posting as a UN peacekeeper in South Sudan. Charges were brought under section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, which allows suspects to face trial before a British court even if their alleged offences are committed abroad and they are not UK citizens. The original trial last year had to be abandoned because of difficulty finding Nepalese interpreters. Col Lama's solicitor Jonathan Grimes, said his client had always maintained he never ordered or was complicit in torture. ""The past three-and-a-half years has been an extremely frustrating and stressful period for Colonel Lama and his family,"" he said. ""There have been unacceptable delays in bringing this case to a conclusion. ""I hope that the CPS will reflect carefully on its selection and management of this case and will learn lessons for the future."" A CPS spokesman said: ""This was an unusual and challenging case and we respect the decision of the jury. ""We will not be seeking a retrial having considered the developments at the trial.""",The case of a UK - based Nepalese colonel accused of torture in his home country 11 years ago has @placeholder after costing an estimated £ 1 m .,retired,died,collapsed,drowned,concluded,2
"Storms uncovered the 1.5m (5ft) fossil at the base of Black Ven near Charmouth on Boxing Day. The giant marine reptile fossil was painstakingly removed over eight hours, shortly before another storm was due. Professional fossil hunter Paul Crossley, who helped excavate it, said it was ""a beautiful find"". ""There was a very difficult, short window before another storm blew in so we were limited for time before it got ploughed out,"" he said. With only part of the snout missing, but with most vertebrae and its rib cage in place, Mr Crossley said it was one of only a few ichthyosaur fossils found in such a complete condition on the Jurassic Coast in the past decade. Ichthyosaurs (literally 'fish-lizards') were predatory dolphin-like reptiles that swam the world's oceans 200 million years ago at the time of the dinosaurs. The fossilised remains were spotted by hobby collector Alan Saxon, from Chippenham in Wiltshire, who was on a post-Christmas visit to the Jurassic Coast. ""It was actually easy to spot - I just saw a long black snout against the grey shale. I had a closer look and could see jaws, teeth and backbones,"" he added. Mr Saxon, 59, said he was considering the best approach to ensure the fossil was conserved. ""In the long term I'd like it to be available for people to see, especially in the Lyme Regis locality,"" he said. Recent storm-force south-westerly winds hitting the crumbling cliffs have produced some of the most conducive conditions for fossil hunting on the beaches around Lyme Regis in several years. Mr Crossley said: ""The word is already out that Lyme Regis is the capital of fossil hunting at the moment, we've seen more people than normal on the beaches. ""We always advise going when the tide is falling and always stay well away from the cliffs and mudslides. Use common sense.""","A near - complete ichthyosaur skeleton discovered on the Dorset coast after Christmas storms was hours away from @placeholder , fossil hunters have said .",it,destruction,food,life,sea,1
"The week-long contest, which takes place every two years, showcases new classical singers and has launched the careers of stars such as Bryn Terfel. Swansea soprano Celine Forrest will go up against singers from Belarus, USA, South Korea and other countries. The main event at St David's Hall will be broadcast on BBC TV and radio. After winning through from the 300 singers who applied from 55 countries, the finalists arrived in Cardiff on Friday. Malta, Mongolia and Democratic Republic of Congo will be represented for the first time. The victor of the competition, created in 1983, will win the coveted trophy. They will also receive a £15,000 prize and the opportunity to perform a newly commissioned piece by composer John Lunn at the BBC Proms 2016. Alongside the main competition, a separate song prize is awarded, as well as the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize, which is voted for by the public. Song prize recitals started proceedings at 14:30 BST on Sunday at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, with the grand final for the main prize on 21 June.",The 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World contest began on Sunday - with 20 finalists from across the @placeholder set to perform in the Welsh capital .,team,world,nation,region,continent,1
"The prohibition of alcohol on the Easter holiday has been in place for 90 years. The Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill was introduced by independent Senator Billy Lawless. He said the passage of legislation was ""a progressive step"" towards ""a separation of church and state"". According to Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, Senator Lawless said the move showed that ""Ireland is a pluralist, globalist, forward-thinking country"". ""In my mind the passage of today's bill is another progressive step in Ireland's long journey in the separation of church and state,"" he added. ""It is understandable when lawmakers try to introduce legislation that changes a practice that has been in place for almost 100 years, people pause to reflect, yet this is what lawmaking is about. ""There is an affinity to the closed day but that affinity is in fact leading to alcohol abuse in many cases."" The bill will now progress on to the Dáil (Irish parliament).",A ban on the sale of alcohol in Ireland on Good Friday may be @placeholder after legislation passed all stages in the Seanad Éireann ( Irish senate ) .,reversed,blocked,enacted,delayed,extended,0
"The single-player version is about a lone individual surviving in a harsh world with only their ingenuity to keep them safe. Their very survival depends on them building a home and battling monsters employing only tools and weapons they make with their hands. If computer games were subject to the same analysis applied to novels it would be easy to read this as a metaphor for the life of Markus ""Notch"" Persson, the game's creator. He's talked in the past about growing up ""relatively poor"", about making his own entertainment, and about whether he will have to conquer the same ""demons"" that troubled his father. Family, friends and the success of the things Notch made with his hands helped him prosper in this harsh world, but that success has led to other challenges. And ones that are much harder to conquer. Just what had changed was evident at Minecon in 2012 where it was impossible for Notch to walk more than a few feet before he was grabbed by yet another fan keen to shake his hand, slap him on the back, take a photo or get him to sign their foam sword. This transformation from humble programmer responsible only for his own code to the leader of a global movement was one he was never happy with. His heartfelt explanation of why he is leaving Mojang - ""it's about my sanity"" - underscores that. He knows that Minecraft is now about overseeing a community - much, much more than it is about maintaining and developing a codebase. And therein lies the potential problem for Microsoft. With Xbox Live and its other cloud services there is no doubt that it has solid experience of running a massive computer infrastructure that serves millions of paying customers. That will be vital when it starts running the behind-the-scenes systems that keep Minecraft going. But Microsoft will alienate that community if it does not realise how personal the game is, not just for Notch, but for many of the people who play it. It's where they meet their friends and make new ones, where they express themselves, where they show off their technical and creative prowess, where they find themselves. I have seen that with my own children who play it in very different ways. One is a big fan of modified versions that involve arena battles or capture-the-flag-type competitions. The other spends hours crafting intricate homes built around swooping minecart tracks. Sometimes he builds treehouses that span forests. They also regularly go adventuring with their friends seeking treasure, avoiding creepers, and battling spiders, zombies and skeletons. They, and millions like them, can only do this because of the freedom and openness of Minecraft. The malleability of the game lets them change it to suit their mood. It does this by giving people a degree of access that Microsoft, in its business software, has never embraced. And that is what has got the millions who play Minecraft worried. Those fans do not want Microsoft to mess with their freedom to tinker with it as they please. They have a deep-rooted sense of ownership about the things they create in the game. There's no doubt that will be a tricky job for Microsoft to achieve given how critical that community can be. It will have to work hard to battle those sworn enemies of every online gamer - downtime and lag (aka delay).  It is likely that any problem with the game's availability in the future will be blamed on Microsoft - whether it is the company's fault or not. Making more drastic changes to the running of the game such as limiting how people can modify it, charging them for things that are currently free or imposing restrictions on how they can tell the world about what they have done, might, if handled poorly, turn a big chunk of that community against Microsoft. That would be bad, given that many of its players are now children who will grow up to be the gamers of the future. No doubt Microsoft is hoping to impress them with the way it handles Minecraft. If it gets it wrong, it could end up being one of the monsters that people want to take on and slay.","If you want to understand why Minecraft - maker Mojang is being @placeholder by Microsoft , just play the game .",dominated,explored,compiled,bought,built,3
"NHS Western Isles said the move would modernise the service. It also faces high costs bringing the surgeries in Lochmaddy, Liniclate and Lochboisdale up to modern standards. Local councillor Ronald Mackinnon has criticised the plan saying that for some people going to the dentist would involve a 70-mile (112km) round trip. He described the proposal as ""unacceptable"". NHS Western Isles said communities would be consulted before any decisions were taken. It said relocating the dental services to the hospital had advantages. In a statement, it said: ""This could reduce professional isolation, improve recruitment and retention, reduce multiple running costs and the costs of instruments, and provide enhanced opportunities for staff development and training. ""Within the current dental clinics, renovation would be required to meet current standards - in particular Lochboisdale Dental Clinic, which requires significant renovation. ""All current clinics offer little scope for any increase in size of clinical accommodation to meet standards. Centralising the service would enable NHS Western Isles to provide high quality services from one location, with scope for future improvements.""",Three dental surgeries on the Uists could be @placeholder and the services relocated to Uist and Barra Hospital on Benbecula .,scrapped,introduced,conducted,closed,accessed,3
"After bowling out Somerset for 211, the Bears looked set for a two-day defeat on 61-8, chasing 184 to win, with spinner Jack Leach taking 5-33. But ninth-wicket pair Rikki Clarke (42 not out) and Chris Wright (38 not out) then more than doubled the score. Putting on 70 so far, the highest stand of the match, they closed on 131-8. Having survived the extra half hour with growing confidence, it leaves the Bears needing 53 more runs to win on day three, although Somerset will start favourites to take the two wickets they need. In a match of twists, turns and fine individual performances on a wearing, used pitch, Leach's 'five-for' was not the only one of the day. Bears spinner Jeetan Patel, the Championship's leading wicket-taker, had earlier claimed the 24th five-wicket haul of his long career, taking 5-86 to boost his tally to 64 for the season. First-innings hero Dom Bess also weighed in with two more scalps for figures of 8-59 so far on his Championship debut. And 40-year-old former England opener Marcus Trescothick got in on the act, taking three more catches. His six in the match is just one short of Chris Tavare's 27-year-old Somerset outfielders' record, but he did equal the county's career record total of 393, set 79 years ago by former England all-rounder Jack White. But a game in which Somerset were bowled out for just 95 on the first morning might already be over if home skipper Chris Rogers had not been crucially missed at long leg on six on day one. The former Australia Test opener went on to post the game's only half-century, making what could yet prove a match-winning 58 as he shared in stands of 39 with Trescothick and 55 with Peter Trego. ECB Cricket Liaison Officer Phil Whitticase was sent to view the second day's play, but it was batting errors, rather than the pitch misbehaving, which accounted for the majority of wickets. Somerset spinner Jack Leach told BBC Radio Somerset: ""It was a great day for me because first I went past 50 first-class wickets for the season, then 50 Championship wickets, before ending up with a five-for. ""It has been a crazy two days of cricket and Rikki Clarke and Chris Wright have batted really well to set up the prospect of an exciting finish. ""We still feel in a good position because they have to play themselves in again tomorrow and the ball has tended to do more for the bowlers in the morning sessions."" Warwickshire director of cricket Dougie Brown told BBC WM: ""Rikki Clarke and Chris Wright have shown what is possible on this pitch if batsmen are prepared to apply themselves. ""Again there were too many soft dismissals in our innings and we still have a lot of work to do. But we are in with a chance and it will be a big day for us. ""The wicket has been tricky to bat on but by no means unplayable. If we can add a further 20 or 30 without losing a wicket it could put the Somerset bowlers under pressure.""",Somerset 's County Championship game with Warwickshire hangs in the @placeholder at Taunton after another remarkable twist in an already dramatic game .,race,crowd,balance,country,public,2
"Rosco, a nine-month-old Border Terrier, was taken from outside 82-year-old owner Leonard Ormond's Napier Drive home. Almost two million people visited a Facebook page appealing for the pet's safe return. Mr Ormond's son Gordon said his father was ""ecstatic"" at the news. He said: ""I'm going to pick him up tomorrow, but we don't want to give out his location because we don't want someone else getting him. ""But it's confirmed. We got his microchip checked and it is Rosco. ""Obviously, it's been a pretty traumatic month."" Police issued an appeal to trace two men in a grey Ford Transit van after Rosco was taken from the pensioner's garden on 15 August. Mr Ormond said the response on social media to help find Rosco had been ""incredible"". He said: ""It's amazing really, two million people reached. ""We always hoped we would get him back. ""Social media has been an active power for good in this case.""",A dog stolen from a Dundee pensioner 's garden in August has been handed in to an animal rescue centre in the @placeholder of England .,west,east,area,wake,south,4
"Goth Girl author Chris Riddell says in a letter to Justine Greening that many lack investment and need funding via a central government grant. Supported by eight former children's laureates, Riddell is asking Ms Greening to set out required standards. The government said it was up to schools to spend as they saw fit. In his letter, Riddell, supported by authors such as Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Quentin Blake, said: "" I have seen personally, in my school visits up and down the country, how they promote reading for pleasure and in doing so, turn pupils into avid readers. ""I am deeply concerned that this role is not fully appreciated and, worse, is being undermined through lack of economic and intellectual investment. ""In recent months two major school library services closed in Dorset and Berkshire, and year after year the School Library Association loses members as school library provision shrinks through lack of funding."" He said he had seen how library provision was ""wildly inconsistent"", with great examples of well-funded and staffed libraries. He said the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Libraries had asked the DfE to gather statistics on school library provision so that the extent of this problem could be understood, but this had not yet happened. Riddell also said: ""While schools face insidious pressure on budgets and staff, things cannot change. ""That is why, with the backing of my fellow laureates, I am now calling on Justine Greening and the Department of Education to act on the all-party group's request and then set out clear standards of library provision, and put into place the necessary funding."" This way, every school would have a library service it could be proud of, with books to borrow and, wherever possible, a school librarian to help children choose, he said. A Department for Education official said reading was a key part of a child's education and ultimately helped them to reach their full potential. ""That's why we've strengthened the curriculum to focus on developing their reading and writing skills, and teaching phonics helps children acquire the basic building blocks of reading,"" the official said. ""We want all children to have the opportunity to read widely - school libraries play a role in this, and schools are responsible for deciding how to provide this service for their pupils. ""This is backed up by a record £40bn schools budget this year, and it is up schools to spend their funding as they see fit.""",The children 's laureate and eight well - known children 's authors are calling on the education secretary to ensure school libraries are @placeholder .,published,preserved,explains,set,battling,1
"For 60 years scientists have known that there was a bright mass on Pluto, but it was only through the increased resolution provided by the cameras on board New Horizons that detailed its distinctive heart shape. The shape, instantly beloved on social media, is believed to have been caused by an impact at some point in history. One side of the heart is smoother than the other. Researchers believe the crater is filled with frozen gases from the atmosphere - namely nitrogen, methane and carbon dioxide. However a false coloured photo from Pluto released by Nasa indicates that the heart is actually broken in two. The colours show different chemical signatures in the image. On the left it is a type of beige while on the right is a mosaic of blue, these indicate that the two parts had different geologic or tectonic origins. The initial image released by Nasa had a reddish hue, something that scientists have long known. It's very different from the other red planet, Mars, in that the colour of the more distant, tiny world is likely caused by hydrocarbon molecules called tholins, that are formed when solar ultraviolet light and cosmic rays interact with methane in Pluto's atmosphere and on its surface. ""Pluto's reddening process occurs even on the night side where there's no sunlight, and in the depths of winter when the sun remains below the horizon for decades at a time,"" according to New Horizons co-investigator Michael Summers. New Horizons has provided more accurate information on the size and scope of Pluto. It's a little bigger than expected, about 80km wider than previous predictions, making it around two thirds the size of our moon. The increased dimensions mean that Pluto is likely to be made of less rock and more ice beneath its surface according to members of the mission team. The reclassification means that Pluto is now officially bigger than Eris, one of hundreds of thousands of mini-planets and comet-like objects circling beyond Neptune in a region called the Kuiper Belt. The relative lack of impact craters on Pluto suggested by the first image could be an indication that the surface of the dwarf planet is renewing, either by geological or atmospheric activity, such as erosion. Mission chief Alan Stern says there is evidence of ""surface activity"" on Pluto, a tantalising hint of earth-like tectonics ""in its past or even its present"". Nasa have dubbed one of the strange, darker regions of Pluto the ""whale"". Researchers say it is unusual to have contrasting bright and dark surfaces on objects in our Solar System, reflecting the fact that Pluto is far more complex than previously thought. Surface temperatures on Pluto are extremely cold, ranging from -172 to -238 degrees C depending on where it is on its 248 year orbit of the Sun. Since it passed the closest point to our star back in 1989, experts assumed that after that the dwarf planet started cooling. Some computer models even predicted that the atmosphere would have fallen as snow and disappeared. That hasn't happened. But the New Horizons Principal Investigator agrees that snow does likely fall on the distant body. ""Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles, it snows on the surface, the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit,"" said Alan Stern. Little light has so far been shed on the moons of Pluto but the coloured image released yesterday indicates that Charon, the biggest, is covered with red material around its pole. Scientists believe that this stuff may be tholins that have escaped from Pluto's atmosphere. Experts believe that the mottled colours at lower latitudes point to a diversity of terrains on Charon. So far little detail has emerged about the other moons of Pluto except more accurate measurements of their size. Very slowly indeed. At a distance of 5bn kilometres from Earth and with a radio transmitter that can only output 12 watts, that means New Horizons is signalling across the Solar System with the equivalent power of a small LED bulb. The transfer rate is achingly slow, around 1kb per second - if things go really well it can reach a dizzying 4kb. That's slow even by 1980s standards. All this means that a black and white picture of Pluto would take over three hours to transmit. Even if massively compressed it would still take around 20 minutes. As Nasa is handling communications to several other missions at one time, it means that New Horizons has to wait in the queue for access to the Deep Space Network, the radio telescopes that communicate with distant probes. Getting all the data from the brief flypast of Pluto will take almost 16 months.","Now that the New Horizons probe has successfully flown past Pluto and confirmed to Nasa that it is all in one piece , researchers can look forward to a "" @placeholder "" of images and data from the strange , distant world over the next 16 months . But even though just a couple of pictures from the dwarf planet have been released so far , scientists are learning more from these than they have in years of attempted observations by telescope .",waterfall,boom,barrage,mess,series,0
"Sixty-nine workers at Main Port Engineering Ltd (MPE) in Pembroke Dock  were made redundant in October, with a further 88 jobs at risk. Administrators have now announced that 83 staff working at Valero oil refinery as MPE contractors will have their employment continued. Their contracts will be taken over by Cape Engineering Services. The transfer will take place on 14 November, and this includes the contracts of apprentices at the refinery. Roger Hale, joint administrator and director at PwC, said: ""MPE has had a long tradition of employing people in the local area, and I am delighted that 83 jobs have been safeguarded following the transfer of the Valero site contract to Cape."" Main Port Engineering provided services to the petrochemical industry but struggled to find customers after Milford Haven's Murco Oil Refinery closed.",More than 80 jobs have been @placeholder at a Pembrokeshire engineering company that went into administration .,saved,filled,held,lodged,thrown,0
"It happened at about 05:00 BST on Saturday at Oxford Street's junction with Berwick Street. Two males in the car and a woman passenger on the N55 bus were injured and taken to hospital. Police said they had arrested three occupants of the car - the two injured males and another who was unharmed. The Metropolitan Police said the car had been seen by officers on duty in a marked police car shortly before the collision. The vehicle ""did not stop and made off"" before crashing, police said.",Three people were hurt when a car collided with a @placeholder bus before crashing into a shop on Oxford Street in London 's West End .,city,meat,beach,school,night,4
"Simon Brown is travelling to Illinois with the Blind Veterans UK charity to share best practice methods with their American counterparts. The travelling group will meet with 11 veterans of the US Operation Iraqi Freedom injured during the Iraq war. Mr Brown, from Morley, was blinded in 2006 during a rescue mission in Basra. Mr Brown, 37, was a corporal in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers when he was shot in the face by a sniper, the bullet destroying his left eye and damaging his right eye. Back in the UK his cheekbones and nose had to be reconstructed using titanium, his jaw broken and remoulded and a prosthetic eye fitted. He is one of six members of Blind Veterans UK  taking part in the week-long trip to the Department of Veterans Affairs' Central Blind Rehabilitation Center, near Chicago. Speaking about his American counterparts, he said: ""We've been fighting together since World War One and if we can fight together we can get better together."" He added: ""We will be sitting through a normal week of their rehabilitation programme and our role will be about giving feedback about any changes that could be made and things that we thought were good. ""In the UK we are very strong on the emotional side of support and they are very much more about practical support in America. ""That's what we're taking out there, that more personal touch."" The trip is the sixth organised between Blind Veterans UK  and the Blinded Veterans Association. Mr Brown, who works as a communication and engagement officer for Blind Veterans UK , said the support the organisations offer is vital to helping service men and women recover. ""It's given me my life back,"" he said. ""They took me from a coma to full-time work in the space of six years. For people like me the support they offer is a lifeline.""",An Iraq - war veteran who lost his eyesight when he was shot by a sniper has @placeholder to the US to meet blind and visually - impaired service personnel .,flown,vowed,enlisted,added,spoken,0
"Mr Baker had been leader of the council for three years. Miss Haitham Taylor, who represents Shinfield South, secured two more votes to beat him to the top job. She is expected to be voted in as leader on 18 May at Wokingham's annual council meeting.","The Conservative leader of Wokingham Council , Keith Baker , has been @placeholder by his colleague , Charlotte Haitham Taylor .",unveiled,assisted,ousted,launched,announced,2
"Cockle beds on the Burry Inlet, near Llanelli, have been dying off every summer for the past 10 years. The exact cause is unknown and a previous study proved ""inconclusive"". Natural Resources Wales (NRW) will work with Bangor University experts and other UK research centres as part of the Europe-wide investigation into the unexplained cockle deaths. The three million euro (£2.6m) programme will look at fisheries in the UK and other European countries including Ireland, Spain, Portugal and France where cockle deaths have been harming their industries. But the owner of one of Wales' biggest cockle processors said he had lost confidence in NRW to get to the bottom of the problem. Ashley Jones, of Selwyn's Seafood, said: ""After 12 years I would like to think that investigation works would have progressed and we would be getting closer to to finding out what the cause of the problem is. ""Natural Resources Wales and the Welsh Government have done a small survey or research into the project in 2012 which identified 11 possible causes, all of which are still inconclusive, and I think that is unacceptable 12 years on. ""We have an industry here that goes back hundreds of years and is worth a lot of money every year."" Cockle fisher Neal Page said he has lost about £50,000 a year since a sewerage plant was moved inland. ""Natural Resources Wales can count 10 million cockles here in May or June, but by the end of July there will be a couple of hundred,"" he said. Huwel Manley, operations manager for NRW, said the new investigation aims to address ""unanswered questions"" from the 2012 study. ""Our aim is to manage a sustainable cockle fishery in the Burry Inlet that provides a regular income to licence holders, while leaving enough for stocks to replenish and to feed migratory birds,"" he said. ""We'll benefit from having full access to data collected across Europe. And we'll consider any new evidence, as well as evidence from our cockle surveys, to help us better manage the fishery in the future."" There will be more on this story on BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme at 12.30 BST on Sunday, 25 June.",A multi-million pound project will try and establish the cause of cockle deaths in a Carmarthenshire @placeholder .,town,room,condition,estuary,area,3
"So said Ed Miliband. The role to be filled - prime minister. The decision to be taken - by you next May. The big theme of his speech was not the threats the country faces - he didn't mention the deficit once and he didn't say whether he would back RAF strikes on IS forces in Iraq or Syria - but his repeated insistence that together the country could build a better future It was a speech built on a single word - together - repeated over 50 times and a single theme - the claim that Labour, unlike the Tories, would not allow people to struggle on their own. There was also a single new policy announcement to capture it all. Extra funding for the NHS paid for, he claimed, not by extra borrowing or extra taxes on ordinary people but by taxing expensive houses, taxing the tobacco firms and hitting tax avoiding hedge funds. There was, of course, much more than that. He spelt out Labour's six 10-year goals over more than an hour. Some in the audience struggled to stay awake but Ed Miliband won't worry about that. He believes that what will win him the next election is not detailed policy but a different philosophy about how Britain ought to be governed.",Today 's conference speech @placeholder the start of an eight - month job application .,control,marked,discussing,marks,described,1
"""The fall upon the bloom, will always flower in spring,"" he wistfully recites, like William Wordsworth via David Attenborough. ""But, he doesn't need your number one."" It sounds like a crazed fever dream or maybe something out of a Terry Gilliam movie, but it's comes from the wonderful world of online campaign videos for the Republic of Ireland's general election. The election has produced a bumper crop of bizarre clips aimed at pushing candidates all the way into the Irish parliament by way of a screaming viral hit. Irish people will go to the polls this week after a whirlwind campaign period following Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny's announcement of the election at the beginning of February. Since then the internet has been flooded with videos featuring everything from musical numbers to Hollywood spoofs, with candidates keen to fight the election battle online as much as on the doorsteps. The clip described above stars Father Joe McGrath, who cryptically urges the people of County Longford to vote for independent candidate James Morgan. The video is an quirky slice of viral-ready electioneering: Fr McGrath dances, he references Ancient Greeks and that's all before he's presented amongst the bushes. Another example is from Fine Gael parliamentary member Martin Heydon, whose special effects extravaganza makes Father Joe's effort look like something out of the silent era. The County Kildare candidate's three-minute promo is a full-blown Back to the Future parody, with Mr Heydon getting accosted by 'Doc Brown' who arrives in a DeLorean. ""Quick Marty, you've got to come with me,"" he cries. ""The future of Kildare South and the country depends on it."" In this alternative timeline, it isn't Biff Tannen and his sports almanac threatening the future but the possibility Mr Heydon won't be re-elected. Meanwhile, Doc Brown is less concerned with getting plutonium to fuel the DeLorean's flux capacitor than getting a ring road built so he can get up to 88mph. Mr Heydon's blockbuster style clip isn't the only cinematic effort filmed for the election. Social Democrat candidate Gary Gannon's video, for example, flexes some directorial muscle by featuring an unbroken long take through the streets of Dublin. Other efforts, however, are considerably more rough and ready though no less creative. Some TDs, such as independent candidates Richard O'Donoghue and Michael Healy-Rae, have looked to hit the right notes with musical numbers. This glut of social media electioneering is a ""new phenomenon that has emerged in the digital age"", said Dr Jane Suiter, a senior lecturer on politics and media at Dublin City University. ""Looking at the last election in 2011, that was expected to be the social media election,"" she said. ""But, it was still very much about knocking on doors. ""By-elections since then have seen much more social media being used, and more again now."" According to Dr Suiter, Ireland has been heavily influenced by the political advertisements freely shown on US television - but there are elements that makes these clips unique to the Republic. ""These videos make more sense here than in the UK because of the single transferable vote election system. ""There are candidates from the same party campaigning for seats, whereas in the UK it's only a few candidates and there are more safe seats. ""Here, it's different because there's a much more crowded field of candidates, who have to stand out more to be noticed. ""These videos tend to focus on the achievements of candidates rather than the party, and what they've delivered or will deliver locally."" Another factor, said Dr Suiter, is last year's marriage referendum in the Republic of Ireland that saw both sides heavily use online campaigning and social media to promote their message. Even the weather has played its part in the rise of the wacky political video. ""It's harder to get people to go out canvassing in February,"" said Dr Suiter. ""People have to be more creative to get their message out there."" This is a reality that looks certain to intensify in future elections. ""Research shows that it's coming up to 40% to 50% of young people getting most of their news from their phone and social media,"" she said. ""Millennials are digital natives. The kids who are 12, 13, 14 will be the candidates soon enough and that's where they live, online. ""So it's hard to escape the fact that this will become more common,"" she said. ""There's no going back to the place where it was all about feet on the ground."" Regardless of how people vote on 27 February, the Father Joes, County Kildare 'Doc Browns' and politically themed country tunes look set to be a permanent feature of Ireland's political landscape.","Imagine the scene - a man is @placeholder , almost hidden , from among the heavy thicket of branches .",celebrating,peering,watching,emerge,standing,1
"""We had a beautiful terrace. Now I have nothing."" Up until a few weeks ago Ramzi was the proud owner of the Palestinian Al Mukhrur restaurant just outside Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Now he presides over what looks like a bomb site, a grey scar in a beautiful, small valley, still lush from the winter's rains. At the beginning of May, Israeli forces flattened the restaurant. Ramzi shows me a mobile phone video of huge yellow diggers smashing through the roof, as he and his staff looked on helplessly ""12 years' work was gone in 5 minutes,"" he says. His adjacent house where he lives with his wife and children is still standing. He says the Israelis told him they would be back to demolish that within the month. Israeli officials say Ramzi did not have the correct building permits. ""In other countries too, people build restaurants in nice pastoral places without proper authorisations. They get a warning and then after a few years they are being demolished if they don't regulate their business,"" says Yigal Palmor, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman. But this is what Palestinians have called ethnic cleansing. The demolition of Palestinians' homes and businesses carried out by Israel in the West Bank. The United Nations here says there has been a huge rise in such activity in recent years. In 2011 it says more than 1100 Palestinians living in the West Bank were displaced, an 80% rise compared to 2010. It says in 2012 the numbers have continued to grow, with close to 600 Palestinians losing their homes so far this year. The West Bank has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967 after it was captured in the Six-Day War, a conflict that the Arab nations lost. Under the 1993 Oslo peace accords, the West Bank was divided into three zones in what was supposedly a temporary measure meant to lead eventually to a full Palestinian state. In Area C, where most of the demolitions and evictions take place, it is extremely difficult for Palestinians to get permits to build. Much of the area is defined as a closed military zone by Israel. ""Demolitions cause enormous human suffering [for Palestinians]. More than half the number of displaced people are children,"" says Ramesh Rajasingham of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.. ""They consequently lose access to schools, they lose access to education."" One school under threat lies in Jenba, a small Palestinian community of more than 200 people that lies in the Hebron Hills at the very southern end of the West Bank. It is remote: half an hour off the main road and for us involves a challenging ride in a four-wheel drive. Jenba lies in Area C. When we arrive, the children in the tiny two-classroom school are midway through English lessons. ""He is tall,"" stutters a small boy as I duck my head through the doorway. Life is pretty basic in Jenba with many of the families living in caves cut into the hillside. But the village is threatened with demolition. The Israeli army wants the area for a firing zone. There has been a legal battle over the land's status running for more than a decade. The Israeli Defence Ministry is due to issue a ruling soon but a final decision could end up in Israel's Supreme Court. The United Nations estimates that more than 1,600 Palestinians could be evicted from villages in the area if the Israeli Defence Ministry wins the case. Sitting in his cave, I meet 72-year-old Hamid Jabareen, half blind and unsteady on his feet. ""If the Israeli bulldozers come here they'll have to bury me alive,"" he says. ""Where else are we supposed to go?"" His grandchildren offer me a cup of hot sweet tea, very much welcome on what is a cold, wet day. Hamid says he was born in these caves and that his family lived in Jenba for generations before him. Outside, the farmers tend to their flocks around the village well. The water facilities and toilet blocks in the area were partly paid for by the British taxpayer under a UK government aid programme. Those facilities now face demolition. The British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt says the government has ""serious concern"" about the sharp rise in demolitions carried out by Israel. He said it caused ""unnecessary suffering to ordinary Palestinians"" and was harmful to the Middle East peace process. He said in nearly all cases the demolitions were ""contrary to international humanitarian law"". Israel insists that it also demolishes illegal structures put up by Jewish people. But what infuriates Palestinians is that while it's extremely difficult for them to build in much of the West Bank, construction on large Jewish settlements continues. Just about every country, apart from Israel, says that settlements are illegal under international law. And the settlement expansion, coupled with the demolition of Palestinian homes, is happening on land where the Palestinian and Israeli leadership have said they want to build a future state of Palestine. But it is a state that many believe is becoming increasingly unlikely. The European Union would seem to agree. It issued a statement  earlier this month, saying that Israel's settlement policies alongside the eviction of Palestinians was threatening ""to make a two-state solution"" impossible. Israel dismissed that statement as biased. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor blamed the United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs here for briefing EU officials with misrepresentative data. But privately some Israeli officials admit they are increasingly concerned about criticism from the European Union. Back with Ramzi Kasiyah, standing amid the rubble of his former restaurant, he points to a hillside a few kilometres away. You can hear the dull rumble of construction. It is the Jewish settlement of Har Gilo. ""I am lost for words,"" he replies, raising his hands despondently. Ramzi has erected a sign that reads ""We'll be Back"". I ask him, somewhat incredulously, if he plans to rebuild. ""Yes,"" he smiles. ""This is my life, my land. I'll be back."" Land remains the key issue at the heart of the Middle East's most intractable conflict.",""" Wood - fired barbecue was our speciality . Delicious , "" says Ramzi Kasiyah as he picks his way gingerly over a pile of rubble and @placeholder metal . Broken glass crackles under his feet .",twisted,barbed,neighbouring,affects,accomplished,0
"Major Peake is currently on a six-month tour in space as a crewman on the ISS. The spaceman said the Scottish capital looked like it was enjoying some good weather - but some people replied that it was a bit cold on the ground. Major Peake's wife Rebecca grew up in Comrie, Perthshire. His shot of Edinburgh comes the day after he ran a space marathon. Major Peake ran the distance of the London race on a treadmill on the ISS - in three hours and 35 minutes.",UK astronaut Tim Peake has tweeted a picture of Edinburgh @placeholder from the International Space Station .,recovering,expelled,station,taken,ejected,3
"Carayol, 26, is back to full fitness after suffering a cruciate knee ligament injury which had kept him out for 13 months. Last month he signed a two-year extension to his contract at Middlesbrough, having been on loan at Brighton, and he says he is now focused on establishing himself as an international with the Gambia. I've got quite a lot of support there already and I've not even played so hopefully I can live up to the hype when I do play and make a lot of people happy ""I think it's been a long time coming,  I've had a few times when they've invited me but it wasn't the right time for myself and my family,"" Carayol told BBC Africa Sport. ""A few of the times I've had a little injury. So I didn't really want to come and perform half heartedly. I feel like it's the right time in my career now,""  Carayol explained. Carayol, who was born in Banjul, is targeting an appearance for The Scorpions in the forthcoming qualifiers for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. ""Obviously I've spoken to them. I'm looking forward to the official invite and look forward to representing the Gambia in the Africa Nations Cup qualifiers. ""All my family's Gambian, so everyone's excited and I'm going to have a lot of pressure when I do get the chance to play. ""But for me, it's the experience of a professional footballer to go and represent your country. I've got quite a lot of support there already and I've not even played so hopefully I can live up to the hype when I do play and make a lot of people happy."" The Gambia have been drawn in Group M of the 2017 Nations Cup qualifiers, along with South Africa, Cameroon and Mauritania. Despite facing formidable opposition, Carayol believes his country can cause an upset by qualifying for the 2017 finals to be held in Gabon in two years' time. ""I always see challenges as something you can overcome and that's why they put challenges in front of you. ""At least even if we don't qualify, everyone can be proud of us and say that we gave it a right go. ""But for me personally, I'm looking more forward to the challenge of playing international football."" The Gambia's first 2017 Nations Cup qualifier is against South Africa next month. Before that, Carayol is concentrating on helping Middlesbrough's bid for promotion to the Premier League. The club have a 2-1 advantage over Brentford going into the home leg of their Championship play-off semi-final. ""The boys are really confident. Keep my fingers crossed and hopefully we can get over the line and I can be a Premier League player next year."" If Carayol does reach the Premier League with Middlesbrough, he may well come up against other African icons such as Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba - players who have made their name in England's top flight. ""They're massive role-models because as a young African player, you always look towards the people that you can actually relate to. ""Oviously I've not had the chance to play internationals yet, but I've spoken to a few close friends of mine. ""Albert Adomah who's at Middlesbrough - who represented Ghana at the World Cup - and Yannick Bolasie who's a really close friend of mine who represented DR Congo in the Africa Nations Cup just gone. ""And they've all told me good things about playing African football, so I'm excited. I can't wait to get the chance to go and kick a ball out there and show everyone what I can do.""","Middlesbrough winger Mustapha Carayol says it is the "" right time "" in his career to commit his international @placeholder to the Gambia .",response,future,commitment,ambitions,hands,1
"The robot, built by Renishaw in Rhondda Cynon Taff, implanted probes into Denise Casey's brain. Mrs Casey, of Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was diagnosed at 31 and has suffered up to six fits a day for the past 20 years. She said the preliminary success of the operation, previously not possible, ""offered hope"" to others. The robotic arm allows surgeons to operate on epilepsy sufferers who were previously untreatable. It is far more accurate at placing probes into a patient's brain and reduces the operating time significantly. Mrs Casey has not suffered any fits since her operation in March and said her life had ""improved 100%"". Before, she could not go out alone as a seizure would leave her not knowing where she was. ""It's been remarkable, they said it was a robot and you think of something like that in the films. I know it's only been a couple of weeks, but so far it has been wonderful,"" she said. The surgeon who operated on Mrs Casey, William Gray, a professor of functional neurosciences at Cardiff University, said the robotic arm had ""phenomenal accuracy"". He said the operation would normally take more than four hours, but with the robotic arm it took 55 minutes. ""I think it's a major step forward, this robot puts the instrument in the right place,"" he added. Renishaw also makes 3D printed body parts which are used in operations in Welsh hospitals.",A woman with epilepsy has become the first person in Wales to undergo @placeholder robotic surgery .,pioneering,soil,undergo,points,group,0
"27 September 2016 Last updated at 17:13 BST The music festival began in New York several years ago and was held in London over the weekend. There are also plans for the festival to go to South Africa next year. BBC Africa's Mayeni Jones joined the London revellers, who felt the Afropunk gathering was also a chance to raise questions about black British identity.","Afropunk , a celebration of alternative black culture and @placeholder , is going global .",fertility,events,art,health,fashion,4
"The Spaniard, who plays Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals on Friday, is just two wins from a record 10th French Open - 'La Decima' - and his first since 2014. ""It's starting to be the way it was,"" Carlos Moya, who joined Nadal's coaching team in December, told BBC Sport. ""That was one of the things that we wanted back, that the opponent feels he's playing Nadal again and if they want to beat him, they're going to have to work really hard."" They might have to work hard but thus far Nadal's opponents haven't had to spend much time on court. The Spaniard, 31, has been getting them out of there in close to 90 minutes per match, reaching the semi-finals for the loss of just 22 games in five matches - the fewest games lost to this stage of a Grand Slam since best-of-five matches were introduced. Twelve months ago, Nadal was forced out of the tournament through injury, and two years ago he was brushed aside by Novak Djokovic. In 2017, he has looked unstoppable. There is no question Nadal has rediscovered his mojo on the clay, but opinion is divided over whether he is back to his very best. His new coach believes he's not far away. ""I think he's really close to 100%,"" said Moya. ""He's played some matches this year when his level was really good. ""It's hard to compare with the old Rafa, but I think if he's not at the same level, he's close to that."" Nadal might be the king of clay but his game looks increasingly like hard-court tennis on the red dirt. Successful in a stunning 76% of points behind second serves, and 69% of first serves, Nadal is then winning 62% of his points in under four shots, as opposed to just 15% in rallies of more than nine strokes. And it is his most famous shot that once again dominates Roland Garros. ""The wheelhouse of the Nadal renaissance has been his forehand,"" says Craig O'Shannessy, strategy expert for Wimbledon, the Australian Open and the ATP World Tour. ""He has hit 61 forehand groundstroke winners to the semi-final, with the majority hit straight down the line."" The image of Nadal might be of long, grinding rallies from deep behind the baseline, but the reality in 2017 is that plan A is stepping in, opening up the court early, running around his backhand and cracking a forehand winner. Nadal has missed five Grand Slams through injury, and was forced out of last year's French Open with a wrist problem which saw him also miss Wimbledon and curtail his season after the US Open. The punishing nature of his baseline game led many to speculate from the early years that his would be a much shorter career than those of his rivals. However, rested and rehabilitated, he returned at the start of 2017 to reach his first Grand Slam final since 2014 in Australia, before once again dominating the clay-court season. ""I think everybody is a little bit surprised by his performances again, but when he recovers physically 100%, he gets the confidence to fight,"" said former French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero. ""I think being physically fit is the key to his performances right now. ""He had no injuries in the last six months and I think it's very important for him to feel like this. ""He's also recovering balls the same as before, impossible points that in the last year maybe we didn't see from him, because he couldn't move as well."" One of the great coach-athlete relationships in sporting history will end this year when Toni Nadal - 'Uncle Toni' - steps away from life on the tour. The 56-year-old, who made the decision to change a natural right-hander to play left-handed, will return to the family's home of Majorca to concentrate on running his nephew's tennis academy. His departure lends an extra dimension to Nadal's quest for another title at Roland Garros, the place where he and Toni began an extraordinary story 12 years ago. ""He always says one of the biggest things for him is to have his family very close,"" said Ferrero. ""So to have his uncle as somebody who is there all the time in important moments, bad times, injuries, everything - of course Toni is one of the important people he'll always have in his life."" The succession plan is well under way, however, with former French Open champion Moya brought on board in December. ""It makes me very proud,"" said Moya. ""I know who I am with, how big in the history of this sport he is, so I try to make the most of every day I have with him. ""It's been a learning experience for me."" There were widespread calls for a change in the Nadal team when he went through his prolonged slump, and Ferrero believes Moya's introduction will bring a new dimension to the coaching set-up. ""To have someone on the team like Carlos, who knows all the time what is going on in the match because he played on the tour, I think it's very important to have someone who can then go to the locker room and talk about the match,"" added Ferrero. ""Rafa can talk with Toni as well but Carlos went through all the matches like he did, so it's something Rafa didn't have before."" You might think that nine titles and a 77-2 career record would make Nadal stride through the gates of Roland Garros with at least a hint of a swagger. ""I won here nine times,"" said the Spaniard, ""and every year that I won I was unbelievably happy, but every year that I came back, I was unbelievably nervous."" If Nadal carries that feeling with him as a matter of course, the looming prospect of making almost unfathomable tennis history must be an added burden. Victory in Sunday's final would make him the first player to win any of the Grand Slam titles 10 times in the open era, and only the second ever after Margaret Court's 11 Australian Open wins. ""La Decima? No, no, no,"" said Moya, when asked if it was a subject of discussion in Team Nadal. ""You know that it's there but it's coming more from the press and the people and the fans, than from Rafa and his team. ""We know it's there but we believe also it can add some extra pressure, so we don't talk about that. ""He probably does feel more pressure at this time of year, especially here. ""Every year he's coming, he's defending champion most of the time, or if not he knows it's the tournament he has the biggest chances to win, so there's always some extra pressure here."" There have been plenty of people keen to re-anoint Nadal as the king of clay based on his resurgence this season, but the real tests still lie ahead. The average rank of his opponents so far at Roland Garros has been 39, with Roberto Bautista Agut the highest at 18 in the world. Now comes a step up against Thiem, the young Austrian who inflicted Nadal's only clay-court defeat of 2017 with a stunning performance in Rome. Get through that, and he faces a final against world number one Andy Murray or former champion Stan Wawrinka. So is a Nadal victory inevitable? ""It's difficult to say,"" said seven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe. ""That's why I wanted to see him and Novak play in the semis - we could see is he really playing better than ever? ""Certainly he's intimidating, there's no doubt, and he's the guy to beat. But I don't think it means it's over quite yet.""","Rafael Nadal has rediscovered his game and his @placeholder , and now he looks ready to take his title back .",aura,counterpart,sights,emotions,heart,0
"Ashley Young's arrival from Aston Villa comes swiftly after the signing of Phil Jones from Blackburn Rovers, with Atletico Madrid goalkeeper David de Gea and a high-class midfield player also expected to make the move to Old Trafford. The loss to Barcelona in the Champions League final at Wembley did not exactly do United a favour but it would have confirmed in Ferguson's mind that his side was obviously on the wane. Some may have been fooled into thinking everything was OK given United's success in the Premier League but they were the best of a bad bunch last season and Ferguson is brutally realistic. I stand by my belief that he dragged those players to the title and would have claimed the crown with any of the other top sides had he been in charge of them. United were awful for long spells last season and really suffered against Barcelona - the fact they won the league was a work of art in itself How United won the title playing as badly as they did away from home, where they were abysmal on so many occasions, was almost beyond belief. Ferguson will have been well aware that they might not have been so lucky next season. Ferguson had two factors to address. First, the team was awful for long spells last season and really suffered against Barcelona. Secondly, the natural passage of time has resulted in the retirements of Edwin van der Sar, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes, while Ryan Giggs is edging ever nearer towards the end of his career. Giggs was magnificent last season but can you see him having another season like that at the age of 37? I can't. Ferguson has bought defender Jones, who is only a youngster and is clearly a signing for the future. Young, a winger, is a proven, fabulous player with great delivery who will add much. If you watched United last season, they were weak all over. The fact that they won the league was a work of art in itself, the sign of a great club and a great manager, with Ferguson as the key component. If I was Ferguson I would break the bank to land Luka Modric -he is a class act The loss of Scholes and the fact that Giggs is another year closer to the end of his career means Ferguson is almost certain to strengthen in midfield. He has been linked with Tottenham's Luka Modric and Wesley Sneijder from Inter Milan, both fabulous players. I do not know where Modric is going, or even if he is going because Spurs chairman Daniel Levy gave Chelsea very short shrift last week, but if I was Ferguson I would break the bank to land the Croatian. He fits the bill perfectly. Modric is a class act and his performance when Spurs won at Liverpool on the final day of last season was as good as it gets. When the ball comes to him, he doesn't just instinctively know his three options, he knows the best one to take. He also always has time and space in abundance - the hallmark of the great player. Ferguson will obviously recruit a goalkeeper to replace Van der Sar, who was a major reason for their success last season and has been for the last five years. De Gea appears to be the chosen one but the hardest person to replace in your team is always the goalkeeper, as proved by United's struggles to find a quality successor to Peter Schmeichel. Bringing a foreign keeper into the English game is always hit and miss because a big part of the game here is the ball into the box. We have seen the likes of Heurelho Gomes struggle to cope with that aspect of the game whereas Van der Sar was consummate and his communication skills were wonderful. De Gea is only a young boy, so it will be very intriguing to see how he goes if he does sign for United. Retirement and age have taken some of Ferguson's best players out of the equation but he is a master when faced with this sort of situation. He will also be aware of the challenges coming from elsewhere. United and Chelsea undoubtedly came back towards the pack last season, while Manchester City may feel they will never have a better chance of winning the Premier League than next time around. They will spend, Roman Abramovich will back new Chelsea boss Andre Villlas-Boas, while over at Anfield, where not much escapes Ferguson's attention, they now have the Kenny Dalglish factor. Liverpool will clearly strengthen their squad this summer and there is still the feel-good factor following Dalglish's arrival, which galvanised the whole club. Luis Suarez will also be ready for his first full season in the Premier League. The striker was sensational after coming to Anfield in January. But history tells us there is nobody better at coming out on top in a pressurised position than Ferguson. He clearly means business after taking stock of the current condition of his squad. And you would never back against him - you can't back against him - because if he can take his team to the title playing the way they did last season then they would have to start as favourites next season as he begins the process of building his latest Old Trafford model. Alan Hansen was talking to BBC Sport's Phil McNulty",Sir Alex Ferguson knew major work was needed to @placeholder his Manchester United team - and he has responded in style with his dealings in the transfer market so far .,prove,ignore,join,secure,rebuild,4
"London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it believed the faulty Indesit appliance was the cause of the blaze in Shepherd's Bush in August. The LFB said parent company Whirlpool should change its advice to customers so that any dryers waiting to be modified are not used. Whirlpool said the safety of consumers ""is our number one priority"". The blaze engulfed part of the 18-storey high rise block and took 120 firefighters to bring under control. No on was injured. Dave Brown, director of operations at LFB, said: ""This fire has highlighted just how dangerous faulty white goods can be. ""Disappointingly though, Whirlpool have still not changed their advice to consumers."" A Whirlpool spokesman said: ""While we understand that LFB has concluded its investigation into the incident, Whirlpool's independent forensic investigations are still ongoing and in the circumstances, it would be inappropriate to comment further."" ""The safety of consumers is our number one priority and we are committed to doing everything we can to ensure that the tumble dryer modification programme is carried out in a safe and timely manner."" Consumer Minister Margot James said: ""Customer safety must be the number one priority for manufacturers. ""I acknowledge that Whirlpool are making great efforts to modify and replace at-risk machines, but I believe additional action is required to reassure customers and the public. ""I will be writing to the company to set out my concerns and expectations.""","A faulty tumble dryer subject to a safety notice was the cause of a @placeholder block fire , an investigation has found .",group,lost,growing,fuel,tower,4
"Police, three coastguard teams, a search and rescue helicopter and Mid Wales Fire and Rescue Service were called to Cardigan Bridge, Cardigan, at 13:15 GMT on Sunday. Teams searching the River Teifi were stood down at about 16:30. The Coastguard said the search would continue at 09:00 on Monday.",Emergency services searching a Ceredigion river after reports of a person in the water have suspended the search for the @placeholder .,night,region,event,body,country,0
"Investors holding Argentine bonds and lawyers for the government attended a hearing in New York for the first time since Argentina defied an order to pay. ""Nothing that has happened this week has removed the necessity of working out a settlement,"" the judge said. The bond-holders, which Argentina calls ""vulture funds,"" are demanding a full payout of $1.3bn (£766m). The bonds were bought by hedge funds NML and Aurelius Capital Management for a fraction of their face value in the aftermath of Argentina's economic collapse in 2001. The South American nation defaulted on its debts at the time. It has since renegotiated its debts with 92% of the creditors who agreed to settle for one-third of they were originally owed. However, the hedge funds bought up a large chunk of the remaining distressed debt at low prices, and demand to be paid the full face value of their holding. On Wednesday Argentina refused to pay. The government had expected their dispute to go all the way to the US Supreme Court, which would have bought the country more time. In June, the Supreme Court declined to hear Argentina's appeal against the decision of a lower court that made it liable for the money. Mr Griesa ordered Argentina to pay the hedge funds and blocked any payments to other creditors. ""The only sensible way"" to solve the crisis, Mr Griesa said, ""is to go forward on the path that has been started"". Argentina has accused Mr Griesa and the court-appointed mediator, Daniel Pollack, of being biased in favour of the funds. Argentina denies it is in default. It says it has the money to pay the vast majority of its creditors and has not done so only due to the court's ruling. ""To say we are in default is a huge stupidity,"" said Economy Minister Axel Kicillof on Thursday. ""Judge Griesa took the side of the vulture funds throughout the negotiations. As I mentioned before, the negotiating table was tilted towards them,"" he told journalists. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner addressed the nation on Thursday night to defend its decision not to sign an agreement that would harm her country's interests. She later addressed supporters at the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada. ""It would have been easier for me to sign it, but I wouldn't be able to sleep and I wouldn't like to go down in history like that,"" said Ms Fernandez. She is in the final year of her second term in office and is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term. Mr Griesa urged Argentina to focus on a solution for the problem. ""Let's cool down with ideas of mistrust. What can be trusted are facts. What can be trusted are proposals. This is not a personality contest,"" he said. Argentina fears that a deal with the investment funds would have an impact on the deals signed between 2005 and 2010. The bond-holders who agreed to settle for a third of what they were owed might be entitled to be paid in full. In that case Argentina would not be able to honour its commitments.","Negotiations between Argentina and its creditors should be @placeholder urgently , US judge Thomas Griesa has said .",postponed,resumed,held,lost,needed,1
"The car was filmed driving on the Barton Bridge section of the M60 earlier this week by another motorist's camera. Greater Manchester Police said it was ""incredibly reckless driving"" and it was investigating the footage. It is thought the driver was travelling at 50mph (80km/h) at the time. A police spokesman said: ""Not only is this motorist a risk to themselves and a risk to others, the driver is committing a criminal offence by driving with an impaired windscreen. ""It takes just ten minutes to defrost a windscreen but a split second to cause a serious accident.""","A "" reckless "" driver has been @placeholder travelling along a motorway in Manchester with the car windscreen almost entirely covered by snow .",captured,stolen,launched,threatened,spotted,0
"5 January 2017 Last updated at 17:26 GMT In 2014, China's government said they were working hard to reduce the amount of pollution in the air. But for big cities like Beijing, air pollution levels can still be high for most of the year. People have been saying this week's smog is the worst case ever, and it's been causing all sorts of problems. Find out what it's like for one child, Sophie, living in Beijing.",The Chinese capital of Beijing is on red alert because a thick blanket of pollution - @placeholder smog - has been covering the city for the last week .,called,class,black,like,mouthed,0
"For the first time in 23 years, the country will be home to a Formula 1 race and this time, the drivers won't be the ones who have most at stake. The return of Mexico's Grand Prix is part of a bid to boost the standing of the country that has long had a reputation for being somewhat sleepy and economically impoverished. An F1 race puts it on the global sporting map alongside developed nations and trading partners like the United States and Britain. Tavo Hellmund, the American entrepreneur who was the mastermind behind the US GP in Austin and its track, the Circuit of the Americas, is one of the driving forces behind the Mexican race. He believes it is on track to attract a 120,000-strong crowd and beat all previous attendance records. But he admits that its reappearance on the F1 calendar is down to luck as much as desire. ""All of the stars have aligned to bring F1 back to Mexico as we have two hugely talented athletes flying the flag in the form of Ferrari's test driver Esteban Gutiérrez and Sergio Perez at the wheel for Force India. ""We also have Enrique Pena Nieto, a dynamic young president who is passionate about motorsport and has provided the support needed to give the race a green light."" The Mexican GP first raced onto the F1 calendar in 1963 and became a fan-favourite thanks to memorable on-track action, including victories by British world champion Nigel Mansell. He famously passed Austrian driver Gerhard Berger on the outside of the sweeping Peraltada corner in 1990 and won the country's final grand prix two years later. The race dropped off the F1 calendar because the city centre track, Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, fell into disrepair. At the same time that upgrades were needed, Mexico was being priced out of F1. An increasing number of emerging markets were attracted to the sport and their governments were prepared to pay top dollar to host an F1 race, promoting themselves to the sport's global television audience that hit 425 million people last year. This drove up the F1 race-hosting fee, with Mexico understood to be paying $25m (£16m) annually to regain its place at the F1 table. It is a price that President Nieto thinks is worth paying. The 48 year-old took office in December 2012, precisely the time at which the exciting new breed of Mexican F1 drivers were emerging. Esteban Gutiérrez joined Sauber in 2013, but Ferrari's talent spotters snapped him up this year. Sergio Perez started in 2011 and also began at Sauber. Two years later, he switched to McLaren before moving to Force India for 2014. He soon proved his worth by finishing third at the Bahrain GP in April last year, repeating the trick at the Russian GP earlier this month before finishing fifth in last weekend's US grand prix. This has helped rev up home support for F1 in the run up to this weekend's Mexican race. ""Projected attendance in Mexico is probably around 110,000, and when you count personnel, teams, cleaners, security you're probably looking about 120,000,"" says Mr Hellmund. It dwarves the race's peak attendance of 100,000 in 1992, according to motorsport statistics database Forix. ""They could have sold 300,000 on race day this year, but the price is a lot for Mexico, if not for Formula 1,"" says Mr Hellmund. Tickets start at $91, rising up to $1,132, which is just shy of the $1,300 peak for the US GP - the race's closest competitor geographically. The difference is that Mexico is one of the poorest nations on earth. In July, government social development agency Coneval reported that the poverty rate increased last year to 46.2%, equivalent to 55.3 million people in the nation of nearly 120 million. The population is concentrated in Greater Mexico City, which is home to 21.2 million people, making it the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. It is the city's ardent fan-base that caught Mr Hellmund's attention. This weekend's race is a homecoming for him as his late father, Gustavo Hellmund-Rosas, was responsible for the Mexican GP returning in 1986 after a 15-year absence. Mr Hellmund was a born promoter and seized the moment a decade ago when the US GP was in the middle of a turbulent eight years at Indianapolis. In 2007, the city finally severed its ties with F1 and this was the catalyst for Mr Hellmund's bid to bring the US GP to Austin, where he now lives. ""It was always the plan to get Austin up and running then get a second grand prix in Mexico,"" he says. ""It has history and a personal attachment because of my father's relationship with it."" The plan was driven by Mr Hellmund and his counterpart in Mexico, Alejandro Soberon, chief executive of the world's third largest live entertainment company, Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento (CIE), which is promoting the race and leases the track. ""I had to convince Bernie [Ecclestone] that I had found the right location for the race and that I had found the right partners in CIE,"" says Mr Hellmund. F1 has raised Austin's profile internationally and Mr Hellmund is confident Mexico will share the same glow. ""I think they will sustain it for at least five years. A lot of the ticket deals sold to the public in Mexico are tied up for that long - more than 20%. There's enough of a following and a passion for motorsport in Latin America that having local drivers is not an absolute necessity, but I think it certainly helps."" On Sunday, all eyes in Mexico will be on them.",The residents of Mexico City will be @placeholder by an unusual alarm clock this weekend .,woken,boosted,marked,greeted,dominated,0
"In 2008 and again in 2012 a liberal coalition of minorities, college-educated whites and single women gave Barack Obama more than enough votes to comfortably win the presidency. Can it hold fast after he exits the stage next year? A two-term presidency can paper over a host of fissures within a political movement. The longer a party stays in power, the more competing interests are liable to grow dissatisfied with their share of the governing pie. Sometimes the centre holds. In 1988, for instance, George HW Bush rode to power on the strength of the Ronald Reagan governing coalition. By 1992, however, the foundation had given way, as fiscal and social conservatives revolted, ushering in eight years of Democratic rule and pushing the Republican Party farther to the right. At the Netroots Nation conference of left-wing activists in Phoenix, Arizona, last week, the fault lines within today's Democratic Party were on full display. And while Mrs Clinton was more than a thousand miles away, honouring ""prior commitments"" in Iowa and Arkansas, the events that transpired in the desert this weekend should give her pause. There's no question, for instance, that the enthusiasm and support for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' insurgent presidential campaign is real. He's climbed in polls over the past few weeks, and on Saturday night 11,000 turned out to hear the firebrand socialist give one of his 60-minute stem-winders. On the menu was a heavy dose of liberal red meat - including condemnation of the ""billionaire class"" and calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, expanding government-run healthcare programmes, raising the minimum wage and tuition-free college education. ""Bernie Sanders stands up for what's just and right,"" says conference attendee Jean Devine of Phoenix. ""He's for the Democratic ideals of equality for all people and for the rich not being able to buy elections."" While in Arizona, campaign supporters hoisted banners and toasted their man at a local nightclub with cleverly named cocktails like ""Weekend at Bernie's"" and ""Vermont Treehugger"" (with maple syrup-infused whiskey). There was a point in time when Mrs Clinton was the cool Democrat. She had her own internet meme. She was near universally beloved by party faithful. Now, however - at least among the rank and file at Netroots Nation - Mr Sanders is the candidate of the hour. The Vermont senator has given voice to the frustration and anger that some on the left feel over the current state of US politics. They helped elect Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but their goal of enacting a full progressive agenda seems to them far from realised. ""Bernie's looking pretty good,"" says Hanna Roditi of Connecticut. ""He's the only one who doesn't cater to corporations. The policies that he supports have more to do with people's needs."" The most common adjectives used to describe Mrs Clinton in Phoenix, on the other hand, were ""calculating,"" ""cautious"" and ""corporate"". ""I won't vote for her,"" Roditi says, adding that if Mr Sanders doesn't win the Democratic nomination she'll write in his name on the general election ballot. The establishment - whether in the government or the Democratic Party - was a source of anger time and again at the conference. During a Thursday afternoon panel discussion, EJ Juarez, director of Progress Majority Washington - singled out Democratic campaign managers in particular for betraying their party's progressive ideals. ""We ceded a lot of the soul of our values off to contractors who don't often adopt the equity principles we talk about,"" he said. ""They aren't talking the same language."" On Friday morning Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, a champion of the left, used her keynote address to rail against an ""insider Washington"" that ignores the liberal priorities of the nation at large - on issues like gun control, income inequality and tighter Wall Street controls. ""The American people are progressive, and our day is coming,"" she said. After calling out the financial behemoth Citigroup by name, she said the US government - even during the Obama administration - has been dominated by Wall Street insiders. She then offered some advice for candidates seeking the presidency. ""I think that anyone running for that job - anyone who wants the power to make every key economic appointment and every key nomination - should say loud and clear we don't run this country for Wall Street and mega-corporations, we run it for people,"" she said to cheers. It was likely a barb aimed at Mrs Clinton - who has been criticised by some on the left for being in the thrall of big-money donors - and set the stage for the Saturday's presidential town hall forum featuring Mr Sanders and fellow candidate Martin O'Malley. A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, however - evidence of yet another frayed fibre in the Democratic electoral quilt. Mr O'Malley took the stage first, and about 20 minutes into his question-and-answer session a group of several dozen protesters from the group Black Lives Matter interrupted the proceedings with chants, songs and shouts. Tia Oso, leader of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, commandeered a microphone and asked the former Baltimore mayor what he would do to ""begin to dismantle structural racism in the United States"". Mr O'Malley was met by boos when he said: ""Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter."" (He would later apologise, saying he did not want to ""disrespect"" the passion and commitment of the protesters.) The demonstrations continued for Mr Sanders. At one point the senator snapped: ""If you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to outscream people"". He would later cancel previously scheduled afternoon meetings with conference attendees, including one with the Black Lives Matter group. By evening, however, the Bernie show was back. The Phoenix conference centre was packed with the campaign loyalists in a display of grass-roots support outpacing even the 10,000 who turned out just weeks earlier in Madison, Wisconsin. Unlike that Mid-west liberal bastion, however, Arizona is decidedly conservative - an indication that the senator is drawing power across the country. The true-believing left does have a history of rallying behind unvarnished candidates like Mr Sanders, however, and they have met with limited success. Paul Tsongas in 1992, Bill Bradley in 2000 and Howard Dean in 2004 are but a few of the men who failed to translate big crowds and energetic support into primary victories. Mrs Clinton must hope that the Sanders campaign meets with a similar fate - and when it does, that progressive loyalists like conference attendee Pam Miles of Huntsville, Alabama return to the fold. ""Bernie Sanders says everything that I feel,"" Miles says. ""He's a dynamo, he is a truth-teller, he speaks truth to power. I love Bernie."" She adds, however, that she'll be happy to back Mrs Clinton if she gets the nomination. She says she's keen to avoid the kind of intra-party discord that marred the Clinton-Obama battles of 2008. ""In '08 it was absolutely horrible,"" she says. ""It broke friendships, it hurt feelings. I'm not going to do that this time."" As for the Black Lives Matters activists who became the surprise story of Phoenix, Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post asked Mrs Clinton how she would have responded to the protesters during a Facebook question-and-answer session on Monday. ""Black lives matter. Everyone in this country should stand firmly behind that,"" she replied. ""We need to acknowledge some hard truths about race and justice in this country, and one of those hard truths is that that racial inequality is not merely a symptom of economic inequality. Black people across America still experience racism every day."" She went on to recommend body cameras for US police officers, sentencing reform, voting rights and early childhood education. Unlike her Democratic competitors, Mrs Clinton had the luxury of time to respond to this latest challenge. Whether it will be enough to weather what could be a coming storm, however, remains to be seen.","Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may be the prohibitive favourite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 , but that does n't mean the political @placeholder beneath her feet is solid .",body,name,seat,culture,ground,4
"Greenbank (IOM) wanted permission in principle to build up to 200 houses and a 100-bed care unit on the site. It claimed more than 60 permanent jobs would be created and about £500,000-a-year generated for the local economy. The committee moved to reject the plans but a full council meeting will now decide on whether they can progress. The developers have offered more than £250,000 towards upgrading water and drainage infrastructure in the area. They have also said they would construct a ""fully equipped"" youth centre on the site. However, planning officers remained unconvinced by the proposals. They said the development was outside the ""settlement boundary"" for Gretna and there were not sufficient grounds to allocate the land for development.",A planning committee has recommended @placeholder for a residential development and nursing home on a former golf course in Gretna .,responsibility,sites,refusal,options,bid,2
"Courts such as Stirling, Kilmarnock and Dundee were jailing nearly 20% of women appearing before them, compared to 7% in Edinburgh and 5% in Airdrie. The judiciary said it was not appropriate for an active sheriff to be interviewed for the programme, but retired sheriff Peter Gillam gave the view from the bench. He served as a sheriff from 1991 until 2013, and said the variations reflected the independence of the judiciary. He said: ""Obviously there is now, as I understand it, a board set up for advising on sentence to the judiciary. ""But every judge is his own person or her own person, and they all have different ways of dealing with things, they all have different views and they are all independent. ""There has to be a certain degree of uniformity and that is undoubtedly enforced by the existence of an Appeal Court so anyone who does something which is particularly outrageous, as far as what is perceived to be the appropriate way of dealing with people, that can be corrected. ""But variety is the spice of life and I think that it would be wrong to try to dragoon the judiciary into dealing with things which they believe to be the correct way of dealing with things. ""They have local knowledge, they know the person, they have full information and they deal with it to the best of their ability and you have to trust that person to deal with it in that particular way.""",Statistics released under Freedom of Information legislation have shown significant variations in the @placeholder of jail sentences handed down in sheriff courts across Scotland .,grounds,middle,proportion,extent,aftermath,2
"But the Tories and Labour are today behaving as if the risk of another such shock in the current parliament is nil, because in different ways they've both limited their room to offset the impact of one. And history would teach us that the economy tends to go pop when we least expect it. So what have they announced? Well the Tories have said they would legislate within 100 days of forming a government to make it illegal for a chancellor during the life of the next parliament to raise income tax rates, VAT or National Insurance. There are a couple of things to say about this. First some will see it as a blatant admission that what politicians say, in their manifestos and elsewhere during an election campaign, isn't to be trusted. If we need a new law to convince us Tories won't put up taxes, that implies everything else they've promised during the election campaign is in the category of good intentions, which could be abandoned the moment the going gets tough. Which is hardly likely to reinforce our confidence in the political class. David Cameron would probably say he's prepared to take that risk, because he wants to reinforce the so-called brand of the Conservative Party that it will take as little money as necessary from us to maintain the public services we see as essential - and wants to imply that Labour is less responsible with our precious income. But it is odd, perhaps, that he won't make the same legislated commitment not to put up business taxes or rates, given that he has been frantically positioning the Tories as the pro-business party, in contrast to Ed Miliband's putative anti-business stance. But if businesses aren't to get legislated protection for the corporation tax and rates they pay, they might begin to fear they are the thin end of the Conservatives' no-tax-rises wedge. And then there are a couple of points to make about the conventional view of how best to run an economy. First is that orthodoxy in the Treasury for donkey's years has been that no chancellor should have his or her hands bound (one golden day there'll be a ""her"") in respect of what taxes can be increased or cut - because no chancellor can possibly have the gift of perfect foresight in regard to what economic circumstances may demand. So it is striking that George Osborne - who would presumably remain chancellor if the Tories are re-elected - has agreed that raising more money from income tax, NI and Vat is off limits - it deprives him of revenue-raising flexibility in respect of the three big taxes, which collectively are forecast to raise 65% of all taxation next year. In other words, he has restricted his fiscal room for manoeuvre by two thirds. Now that may or may not reassure voters, but it may not reassure credit rating agencies. How so? Well the UK still has one of the top-notch ratings for its debt, which helps the government to borrow at interest rates which are less than zero (adjusting for inflation). But the AAA and almost-AAA ratings given to us by assorted agencies are based in part on the idea that we have a robust economy able to raise whatever taxes are required to fill a hole, as and when the economy is knocked off track. So it is a bit odd perhaps that the Tories are sending out a signal that there are certain taxes that cannot be adjusted in an upward direction. That said I imagine any no-tax-rises law would contain some kind of force majeure clause, allowing it to be over-ridden in a fully-fledged fiscal crisis. But if that's the case, why bother with the law in the first place. So to get back to where I started, the law is only compelling at all if you believe there can't possibly be a serious economic setback in the next parliament. And that would seem an eccentric assumption to make, after looking around the world - in that the potential for accidents to occur everywhere from Beijing, to Frankfurt to Moscow is not de minimis. To be clear, a similar point can be made about Ed Miliband's pledge today that he would increase tax credits at least in line with inflation every year - in that there may be circumstances when saving a bit of money by being a bit meaner with them would be in the national interest. But in his case he is not planning a law to guarantee these increases. Or at least he hasn't spoken of such a law yet, although there are eight days left of this intriguing election campaign.","In most British people 's minds , the Great Crash and Recession of 2008 probably feels like yesterday - the @placeholder economic shock of our age , we continue to live with its noxious effects .",size,lead,worst,defining,decline,3
"The pets are all thought to have been poisoned on the Hambleton estate in Thirsk between February and April. North Yorkshire Police is jointly investigating the deaths with the RSPCA. Cat owners in the area are being urged to be vigilant to any changes in their pets' behaviour and to check garages and gardens for any spillages. PC Clare Mayes said: ""If your cat appears to be lethargic or unsteady on their feet, you need to seek urgent veterinary assistance. ""The sooner your pet receives treatment, the better their chances of survival.""",Five cats have died in a spate of @placeholder anti-freeze attacks in a North Yorkshire town .,devastating,carrying,leaving,suspected,causing,3
"All three and four-year-olds in England are entitled to 570 hours of free early education or childcare per year, which works out as 15 hours each week for 38 weeks of the year. The coalition government expanded this to the most deprived two year olds. From September, three and four-year-olds in England will be entitled to 30 free hours of care per week in term time. The government has also introduced a new scheme for tax-free childcare, aimed at working parents earning less than £100,000 a year each. And parents can claim back up to 85% of childcare costs if they are eligible for universal credit. In Scotland, three and four-year-old children are eligible for 600 hours of free early learning and childcare per year - about 16 hours every week during term time. In Wales, all three and four-year-olds are entitled to a minimum of 10 hours of free foundation phase early education. The Welsh government is running a pilot scheme that is offering 30 hours a week for 48 weeks a year. In Northern Ireland, under the pre-school education programme, there is an allocation of funded places for children in the year before they start school.",Political parties are @placeholder to attract the votes of working parents with pre-school children . What are their manifesto pledges on childcare ?,threatening,attempting,voted,encouraged,known,1
"""Well, I suppose Jeremy will need a Chief of Staff, won't he?"" joked John McTernan, a former adviser to Tony Blair, on his way into seeing his old boss set out his diagnosis of Labour's problems. Hours earlier, Mr McTernan had described Labour MPs who offered left winger Jeremy Corbyn their support just to ensure he made the shortlist of Labour candidates, rather than because they supported him, as ""morons"". Other occasions, when talking to Labour MPs, resemble a wake: lots of animated talk about the past, just don't mention the future. Sometimes as a political correspondent, the most telling remarks, the best quotes, are muttered in private conversations you have with politicians. It is what we call being off the record - we offer the politician anonymity, in exchange for complete candour from them. But who needs off the record with lines like this: Tony Blair was asked about Jeremy Corbyn's outlook: ""People say, my heart says I really should be with that politics. Well get a transplant, because that's just daft."" ""We are in danger of becoming the political equivalent of Millwall Football Club. Their chant? `No one likes us, we don't care.' So said shadow cabinet minister Mary Creagh in the New Statesman. The message has even crossed the Atlantic: ""My party is suffering a relapse,"" the Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has told an audience in Washington. So what is going on? This is about so, so much more than a single YouGov poll - suggesting Jeremy Corbyn might win the Labour leadership - which may turn out to be drivel. It is, instead, about something much, much deeper. The other day on Radio 4's Today Programme, I described what was happening to Labour as ""the cries of pain of a party still deeply wounded after its heavy election defeat"". One or two Labour activists accused me of indulging in a spot of journalistic hyperbole. And let's be honest, that kind of accusation levelled at a reporter is often a fair cop. It was nothing more than a difference of opinion, some listeners told me. Well, it was definitely a difference of opinion. But here are ten reasons why it might be a symptom of much more than that: 1) Labour's defeat was, to many, unexpected. 2) The scale of Labour's defeat was, to many, more unexpected still. Net result: gloomy activists wonder what the future holds. 3) Those on the right of the party say the reason is obvious: Labour was too left wing. Net result: They argue the party has to move to the right, and point passionately and in no uncertain terms to Tony Blair as proof of it. 4) Those on the left of the party say the reason is obvious: Labour was too right wing. Net result: They argue the party has to move to the left, and point passionately and in no uncertain terms to the SNP's success as proof of it. 5) So who's the enemy for Labour? It depends who you ask. 6) A chunk of the Labour movement, its left, has, for years, felt sidelined, belittled, scorned and ignored. Suddenly, in Jeremy Corbyn, they have a standard bearer with a platform, offering a clear, socialist platform. Net result: He can give straight answers to straight questions, his supporters are upbeat and in the spotlight, his three rivals do rather more caveating, triangulating and not answering questions so clearly. Or even, whisper their critics, are being boring and saying nothing. 7) Two of the Labour leadership candidates, Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham, served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury when Labour was in government, at a time when Labour faces questions about its economic credibility because of its time in government. One, Andy Burnham, was also Health Secretary - meaning questions about the deaths at Stafford Hospital would keep coming too. Net result: Some Labour activists fret these are hostages to fortune. 8) Supporters of Ed Miliband said one of his greatest achievements was keeping the party united. Net result: this internal combustion has been a long time coming 9) Conservatives are gleeful - and quickly nicking as many Labour policies they think are worth nicking as they can Net result: when Tories are cranking up the minimum wage and talking about 'one nation,' where is the turf for Labour, mutter some. 10) Throw one to nine into the pot, shake, stir, throw in an added dose of 1 and 2 and you arrive at... the current situation.",The only smiles you see on the faces of Labour types at the moment is when there 's a spot of gallows @placeholder .,phenomenon,activity,outside,humour,overhead,3
"Taylor was the most popular member of the most popular pop band in Britain. They epitomised the glamour and excess of the 1980s and Taylor has detailed his exploits in his autobiography In The Pleasure Groove. Magazines like Smash Hits and No 1 could not get enough of them - so I dug into the National Pop Magazine Archive (otherwise known as my wife's collection in our cellar) to find questions from old interviews to put to Taylor again now, to see how his answers have changed. ""When I look at some of the interviews I can't believe how arrogant I was,"" he says. Q: Do you still consider yourself a young man? If not when did you stop thinking you were? (No 1 magazine, December 1985) John's answer now: ""No, I made a very definite decision a couple of years ago [when he was 50 - ed] that I was now middle aged. And it was actually a really good decision to make, because I'd been feeling like a very tired young man for quite a few years, and making that acknowledgement, suddenly I felt like a very sprightly and hip middle aged guy."" Back in 1985, John said he ceased thinking of himself as in the first flush of youth that year. ""That's not to say I consider myself old though. I just feel a more responsible human being,"" he told the magazine. Q: Looking back, is there anything you regret doing? (No 1, around late 1985/early '86) JT: ""Not really. Maybe I wished I'd played on Come Undone. I'd gone back to LA. We'd put that album to bed and I said: 'I'm not coming back for one more song.' Maybe it would have been a different song if I'd been there, maybe it wouldn't have been such a great song. But I'm not one for regrets."" Back in the '80s, he said he did not like a couple of videos ""where we're mincing about"" and the title of their third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger. Q: What would you be if you weren't a pop star? (Look-In magazine, 1984) JT: ""A graphic artist."" Wrong. The answer he gave to Look-In (the junior TV Times) was: ""An idiot!"" Q: Favourite item of clothing? (Look-In again) JT: ""Right now it's a black Balmain jacket."" The 1984 answer was leather trousers. ""I almost said leather trousers,"" he says. ""I've got some nice leather trousers. I was looking at some this morning actually. Except now they're not really very appropriate very often."" Q: If you were a domestic appliance, what would it be? (Look-In) JT: ""Oh God… [he groans in agony] A domestic appliance? A toaster."" His original answer was: ""A fridge so I could stay cool."" He roars with delight at this reminder of his wit: ""All right! See, you had to come up with hip one-liners like that all the time."" How do you react to being voted most fanciable person? (Smash Hits, December 1985) JT: ""That's a lot of pressure isn't it?"" His answer to the magazine was: ""God! What do I have to do to be taken seriously?"" adding, with singer Simon Le Bon in second: ""How much did I win by?"" ""Yeah, I hated all that popularity contest stuff actually,"" he says now. ""Looking back, that wasn't such a good thing. We all got into that a little bit. Popular for what? I didn't take it seriously… my ego maybe did... In the naivety of the moment it probably did mess me up a bit. It's so meaningless and it will make you lazy and complacent when you should be working to prove your bass playing and your songwriting."" Q: What do you think of the new crop of pop stars? (Smash Hits, April 1989) JT: ""Not a lot. It's so dangerous when you get into 'in my day you had David Bowie and Queen in the pop charts'. Who's like that today? Who's written a song like Bohemian Rhapsody lately, played it themselves and put it at the top of the pop charts? It just doesn't happen any more. ""It's singers with producers, overly simplistic, lacking in soul, because it's all computer driven music that your ears will tire of very quickly. Adele is the exception I suppose."" At the time, Taylor's answer was: ""Bros would never have been around if we hadn't been there first. I know that for a fact. They started off playing our songs."" On hearing this, the present-day Taylor says of his younger self: ""What an idiot."" Q: What makes you cynical? (No 1, December 1985) JT: ""Hypocrisy. People with a God complex who think they know what's best for others. I suppose people who try to control. I'm not terribly cynical actually."" In 1985, Taylor said he disliked lawyers but was not a very cynical person, adding: ""I hate hypocrites and I hate it when anything that is artistic is controlled by non-artistic people."" Not much change here. Q: Why are you a tax exile? (Smash Hits Book of Personal Files, November 1986) JT: ""I didn't know I was. The only time we took a year out was '83 and I don't remember planning it in advance. It was just served up for us - this is what we're going to do. We were recording the difficult third album. We did it in the south of France, the Caribbean and  finished it off in Sydney. These days I go backwards and forwards between the States and here and it's all the same tax wise."" In the Smash Hits grilling, he was quoted as saying he did not see why, ""with a career that may at best last five years"", he should give 70% of his earnings to the government. He says now: ""I don't have a problem with tax."" The tax aspect aside, did he only expect his career to last for five years? ""Back then, definitely,"" he says. ""You couldn't take anything for granted. I still don't, although now I know we've got a legacy that will feed us. I don't think anybody believes they're going to be around for a long time. There's footage of John Lennon saying: 'We're hoping to get 12 months out of it.'"" Q: Are Duran Duran down the dumper? (headline from Smash Hits, 1987) JT: ""Well clearly not."" The original headline was completed by the word: ""No!"" Q: Is there a lot of pressure now to become The Biggest again? (No 1, March 1986) JT: ""There was definitely a lot of pressure then. But I stopped thinking in terms of hits a long time ago. ""I've stopped thinking in terms of an end result because I realised I kept comparing [ourselves to] the sales and chart positions we had when we were young. And it seemed like for a long time: 'Oh God we're never gonna top that. It's going to be downhill.'"" Back in 1986, as the band were losing their grip at the top of the charts, the younger Taylor admitted: ""Oh yeah. There's so much pressure."" Q: Would you give up being in Duran? (not a pop magazine but the Los Angeles Times, March 1985) JT: ""I did leave actually about 15 years ago. I thought I'd gone for good but it was the friendship that bought me back. I could [leave now] but I love what we get to do together. That stage time is precious and I love putting on stage shows. It's my favourite thing."" In March 1985, Taylor had just released an album with side-project The Power Station. ""I'm a star because of Duran,"" he told the LA Times. ""I love being a star. The whole circus aspect of being in Duran is a pain after a while, but it's great being a star, with the girls screaming and the money rolling in. I know it sounds greedy and awful and people will think I'm an egomaniac, but I don't care."" On hearing this answer read back to him, he says: ""When I look at some of the interviews, I can't believe how arrogant I was. We all were. You can't help it.""","In 1985 , Duran Duran were the best @placeholder in the world and their bassist John Taylor was most fanciable person and the second most wonderful human being alive ( behind Bob Geldof ) . At least , that was according to that year 's Smash Hits readers ' poll .",group,reversal,race,decline,performers,0
"But his fans should prepare for a change as the 42-year-old propels himself in a grittier, edgier direction, starting with Killer Joe. The movie, which opens the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Wednesday, sees McConaughey playing a twisted Texan detective who hires himself out as a contract killer. Directed by William Friedkin and co-starring Emile Hirsch and Britain's Juno Temple, the plot centres around a young man who wants to murder his mother for her insurance money. He hires ""Killer"" Joe. But when he can't pay, Joe demands the man's young sister as a ""retainer"" for the job. The film, which has an 18 certificate in the UK, depicts the detective's sexual relationship with an underage girl. It also includes one graphic and violent scene involving a piece of fried chicken that is already the subject of debate from those who have seen the film. ""Hey, this is just another light, breezy romantic comedy with chicken,"" jokes McConaughey. ""Seriously, this film is a different cat for sure. ""It's a really, really wild movie with a wild character. He is dangerous at every turn."" The script was originally written as a stage play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts, whose writing has been described by fans as ""the love child of Tennessee Williams and Quentin Tarantino"". Friedkin shot the movie over a number of weeks in New Orleans, which became the substitute for Texas. The 76-year-old says he wanted to make the film because ""it's about innocence, victimhood, vengeance and tenderness"". ""I've experienced all those emotions in life and I like to put them in all my films,"" he explains. McConaughey says he was drawn to the moral duality of Joe as a character. ""Joe's charming and a gentleman on one hand - he certainly becomes Prince Charming to the daughter in that family - and yet he's a killer. ""I couldn't quite see him clearly as a character until I met with Billy Friedkin. It was Billy's affection for the story and the blasphemous humour within it which helped me understand him. ""Partly though, I took on the part for the thrill of it. You know, he's a bit scary. ""It turned me on in the right way when I was reading the script, and that hadn't happened in a while. I really looked forward to getting under his skin. ""This guy is bound by nothing and no one - not the law, religion, relationships, anything. But I still get to play Joe as a human being."" Asked how he coped with filming the sometimes distressingly graphic scenes, McConaughey says: ""I just let it fly. ""And I was greeted by bursts of hearty laughter at the end of the scenes, so that reassured me."" But how will McConaughey's audience react to their clean-cut hero heading down a darker path? McConaughey points out that he first came to Hollywood's attention with the thriller A Time to Kill in 1996 - a much edgier movie than the ones which followed. ""I've really enjoyed the films I've done up until now, and in the future I will do more romantic comedies. ""But right now these are the kind of characters that I've been drawn to, and they've been drawn to me too. This is what's giving me a buzz."" All in all, McConaughey has four more films to be released over the next few months that are all departures from the rom-com stereotype. He plays the owner of a male strip club in Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, which is out next month. Then he stars as a journalist in The Paperboy, starring opposite Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron. He plays a fugitive in indie thriller Mud and will be seen as a cynical district attorney in black comedy Bernie with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. Both Mud and The Paperboy were selected for competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival - a fact that, according to McConaughey, shows he is heading down the right road. ""It is a deliberate shift for me,"" he says. ""I wanted to shake things up, do some new things, and play some roles that scared me - characters that would make me excited to go to work in the morning. ""For about 18 months though, I was still receiving offers of comedies, and some of them were very good, but I had to keep turning them down. ""I felt like I'd done them before. Then after a long period of saying no to everything, all these new scripts came and found me."" McConaughey's gamble seems to have paid off. Reviews of Killer Joe have generally been positive with The Guardian raving that he ""freezes blood [in] a game-changer of a part"". The Hollywood Reporter notes that the ""likeably unpleasant slice of adults-only Texas noir aims at the funny bone as much as the jugular"". Will the other releases bring such plaudits?  ""If the work translates and people like it, which I hope they will, I'm happy,"" says McConaughey. ""I gave my heart and soul to this, and I also worked my butt off too."" Killer Joe is out in the UK on 29 June.","Matthew McConaughey has become known as an actor with an impressive physique , @placeholder in romantic comedies like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days , Sahara and Fool 's Gold .",displayed,lurking,robbed,seconds,arrives,0
"Bath and North East Somerset Council (Banes) also wants healthy eating and local food promoted. Traders will be required to use more uniform stalls with a ""pastel coloured canopy"" by January 2017 to ""fit in"" with the city's World Heritage status. Some have already expressed concern at the changes. Under the proposals, buskers who play on the street and sell CDs of their own music will need street trading consent. Ed Collacott, who has been selling fine art photographs on a stall for 25 years, said street sellers were ""one of the delights"" of Bath. ""There are some amazing street traders here selling very different things and each one of us is an individual,"" he added. ""To have everything under the same canopy might not look great and it certainly wouldn't be good for my photos."" However, Liberal Democrat deputy leader of the council, David Dixon said the changes were designed to make things look better and ensure everyone was working to the same objective. ""Our street trading scene in Bath is one of the most varied you'll find in any city,"" he added. ""We're not making a huge overhaul of the street trading policy whatsoever. It's time for our renewal [and] we did an excellent consultation. ""We had a trial over the past year for the new style canopies, which actually went down very well."" Mr Dixon said the council would be prepared to help stall holders with the changes but added they would be expected to stick to the rules. The council also intends to purchase a number of units, for both existing and new traders, which could be rented if necessary. Sark Kenny, who runs a stall selling leather goods, said the changes to his canopy would cost him about £400, but he thought it might cost some traders up to £800.","New regulations covering the size , structure and @placeholder of street traders ' pitches in Bath have been voted through .",appearance,resolution,versions,colour,number,0
"Find out who has been let go with our collation of club released/retained lists. Confirmed signings can be found on our transfers page. You can also catch up with what the papers are saying in today's gossip column. 9 June: Man Utd release Ibrahimovic 9 June: D'Acol and Skodras reject Hamilton stay 8 June: Watford release Gilmartin and Ranegie 5 June: Olejnik among three released by Exeter 31 May: Taylor joins players leaving Aberdeen 31 May: Blackpool release 10 players after promotion Arsenal Yaya Sanogo, Stefan O'Connor, Kristopher da Graca, Kostas Pileas Bournemouth Callum Buckley, Jake McCarthy, Matthew Neale Burnley Joey Barton, Michael Kightly Chelsea John Terry, Alex Davey Crystal Palace Corie Andrews, Kwesi Appiah, Jonathan Benteke, Frazier Campbell, Luke Croll, Mathieu Flamini, David Fryers, Ryan King-Elliott, Joe Ledley, Randell Wiliams, Ben Wynter​ Everton Arouna Kone, Conor McAleny, Jack Bainbridge, Delial Brewster, Michael Donohue, Tyrone Duffus, Russell Griffiths, Connor Hunt, Josef Yarney, James Yates Hull Alex Bruce, Luke Lofts, Brad Maslen-Jones, Johan Ter Horst, Stephen Akbas, Marc Kelledy Leicester City Marcin Wasilewski, Michael Cain, David Domej, Brandon Fox, Cedric Kipre, Matty Miles, Kairo Mitchell Liverpool Alex Manninger (retired), Tom Brewitt, Jake Brimmer, Jack Dunn, Madger Gomes, Kane Lewis, Adam Phillips Manchester City Willy Caballero, Jesus Navas, Gael Clichy, Bacary Sagna, Pablo Zabaleta, Callum Bullock, Thomas O'Brien, Kane Plummer, Manchester Utd Zlatan Ibrahimovic Middlesbrough Victor Valdes, Fewster William Fewster, Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, Lewis Maloney, Junior Mondal, Josef Wheatley Southampton Cuco Martina, Lloyd Isgrove, Harley Willard, Martin Caceres Stoke Shay Given, Daniel Bachmann, Liam Edwards, Harvey Isted, Joel Taylor, George Waring Swansea Gerhard Tremmel, Marvin Emnes, Liam Shephard, Josh Vickers, Owain Jones, Tom Dyson, Tom Holland, Alex Samuel Sunderland Victor Anichebe, Jan Kirchhoff, Joleon Lescott, John O'Shea, Sebastian Larsson, Steven Pienaar, George Brady, Will Buckley, Dan Casey, Carl Lawson, Oliver Pain Tottenham Filip Lesniak, Tom McDermott, Joe Muscatt, Charlie Owens, Zenon Stylianides Watford Rene Gilmartin, Mathias Ranegie, Ola Adeyemo, Charlie Bannister, Ogo Obi, Rhyle Ovenden West Brom Daniel Barbir, Zachary Elbouzedi, Darren Fletcher, Callam Jones, Sebastien Pocognoli, Jack Rose, Andre Wright West Ham Alvaro Arbeloa, Sam Howes, Sam Ford, Kyle Knoyle, Sam Westley Aberdeen Hamilton Academical Hearts Hibernian Motherwell Partick Thistle Rangers Ross County Aston Villa Barnsley Birmingham City Blackburn Brighton Bristol City Burton Derby Fulham Huddersfield Ipswich Leeds Newcastle Norwich Preston QPR Rotherham Sheffield Wednesday Wigan Wolves Bolton Bradford Bristol Rovers Bury Charlton Chesterfield Coventry Fleetwood Gillingham Millwall MK Dons Northampton Oldham Oxford Peterborough Port Vale Rochdale Scunthorpe Sheffield United Shrewsbury Southend Swindon Walsall Wimbledon Accrington Barnet Blackpool Cambridge Carlisle Cheltenham Colchester Crawley Crewe Doncaster Exeter Grimsby Hartlepool Luton Mansfield Morecambe Newport Notts County Plymouth Portsmouth Stevenage Wycombe Yeovil The page covers players released by Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership clubs. Players who reject contract offers subsequent to a retained list being announced are not included.",The 2016 - 17 season is over with many players @placeholder to be available on free transfers at the end of their contracts .,struggling,set,line,proved,names,1
"And crop yields must rise by 40-60%. These are just two predictions for 2050 of an online tool developed by the government to consider options for cutting carbon emissions. The Global Calculator uses data reviewed by international experts to look at scenarios for meeting the 2C target, which scientists say is needed to avoid dangerous climate change. Led by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), the model of the world's energy, land and food systems suggests living standards can be maintained, but only by making sweeping changes to agriculture, transport, food and fuel. There would need be hundreds of million electric cars on the road by 2050, and the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of electricity would need to fall by at least 90%. Consumers would also need to think about switching to diets high in vegetables or eat meat from animals raised through intensive farming. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said: ""For the first time this Global Calculator shows that everyone in the world can prosper while limiting global temperature rises to 2C, preventing the most serious impacts of climate change. ""Yet the calculator is also very clear that we must act now to change how we use and generate energy and how we use our land if we are going to achieve this green growth."" Dr Mike Cherrett of Climate-KIC, the EU climate initiative that co-led the project, added: ""The calculator clearly highlights that we can meet our 2C target while maintaining good lifestyles - but we need to set ambitious targets on all fronts and use innovation to address climate change."" The global calculator builds on Decc's UK calculator, published in 2010. It is being offered to other governments for use in the run-up to crucial climate negotiations in Paris at the end of the year.",Forests around the world will need to be @placeholder by 5 - 15 % to limit global temperature rises to 2 C .,held,expanded,warmed,passed,affected,1
"Ioane Teitiota, 39, has argued that rising sea levels in his homeland meant his family would not be safe there. His lawyer, Michael Kidd, told the BBC: ""He's very disappointed obviously, he wants to be back in New Zealand."" Kiribati is among several low-lying Pacific nations threatened by climate change-linked problems. These include storm surges, flooding and water contamination. Mr Teitiota's wife and their three New Zealand-born children also face deportation and are likely to leave next week, reported local media. ""They said we are overstayers but we are not. We are trying to find a better life for the kids,"" his wife Angua Erika told Radio New Zealand. Mr Teitiota's children are not entitled to New Zealand citizenship. Mr Teitiota had been in New Zealand since 2007 but overstayed his visa and was caught in 2011. His deportation on Wednesday night follows a failed appeal against a New Zealand high court decision that he could not be a refugee as he was not being persecuted. The United Nations describes a refugee as someone who faces persecution at home. Mr Teitiota's appeal was dismissed in July. He was taken into police custody last week ahead of his deportation. Mr Kidd said that Mr Teitiota was planning to appeal for help from the United Nations's refugee agency. His lawyers have argued in court that he and his family would suffer harm if forced to return to Kiribati because of the combined pressures of over-population and rising sea levels, and that he would be ""persecuted passively"" by the circumstances there. Prime Minister John Key said this week that Mr Teitiota had overstayed and that his argument lacked credibility.",New Zealand has deported a Kiribati man who @placeholder a legal battle to be the first person granted refugee status on the grounds of climate change alone .,ordered,held,survived,lost,has,3
"Like elsewhere in Nepal, most people had left the makeshift camps of ragged tents and flapping tarpaulins they had taken shelter in after the first giant quake. They had been patching their houses up and dusting things down. Building little shacks if their homes had been destroyed. Anything to keep off the coming monsoon rains. Then on Monday, another huge earthquake hit and changed everything. The magnitude scale used to measure earthquakes is deceptive; it doesn't show a steady, linear progression but a logarithmic one. Each point in the scale represents 32 times the energy released. So the first quake, at 7.8, had far more force than this week's 7.3 tremor. And, compared with that first major quake, the death toll is expected to be tiny, less than a hundred. That is in part because Nepal was far better prepared this time around.  There is no shortage of emergency aid, no shortage of willing hands to help. Nevertheless this latest earthquake has done terrible damage. Anjun Bista had driven into town on his motorbike to pick up some emergency relief for his family, a tent and some food. His mother died in the first earthquake and the family home was completely destroyed. Mr Bista was on the main road through town when the great tremor rocked Chautara, rocked Nepal.  He was crushed when a building collapsed. His wife Bely was wearing the white robes of mourning when I met her in the lean-to that her husband had been building before he died.  Her face was slack with misery. ""My world has been destroyed,"" she told me. ""He was such a hardworking happy man, such a good man."" Her two sons were crouching in the family's corrugated iron cabin.  They were also wearing white and had shaved their heads to leave one sprout of hair on the crown - another mark of grief here in Nepal. ""I am like a house without a foundation,"" she said and sighed heavily.  ""I don't think I'll ever feel safe again."" That awful sense of insecurity is very common here in Nepal, and not just among those who have lost loved ones. In some ways Chautara was lucky when this second earthquake struck. Relief supplies were already in the town. Since the first earthquake, a neat tented village has grown up on a dusty field near the centre of town.  It is a distribution centre for aid to the district and contains a large Red Cross field hospital. Ranveig Tveitnes works with the Norwegian Red Cross and is in charge of the hospital. She says the most shocking thing about the latest earthquake wasn't the terrible injuries that some people had suffered: ""We're used to those, we know how to deal with them."" It was the fear in people's eyes as they rushed out of their houses to the safety of the open space. ""It had been two weeks before the previous big one,"" she explained, ""and things had just started to settle down. The kids are laughing again and people are smiling and seeing that there could be a better future and then this comes and everything falls apart again in people's minds"". She says her team is bringing in trauma counsellors to help local people come to terms with their fear. It is, she acknowledges, a bigger challenge than fixing a broken leg, amputating an infected finger or even performing a skin graft - just some of the 1,000 operations the Red Cross hospital in Chautara has performed in the 10 days since it opened. Tackling this terrible legacy of fear is a bigger challenge than treating physical injuries, in part because Nepalese people are right to feel frightened. According to seismologists the pressure in the great plates that are driving together beneath the country has not yet been released. There will be more earthquakes in Nepal.",Life had been returning to normal in Chautara ; a pretty little town @placeholder on top of a steep hill some 50 km ( 31 miles ) east of Kathmandu .,shared,dumped,perched,caught,printed,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device A year on from an awful World Cup, Morgan's men have won series against New Zealand and Pakistan, and lost to Australia and South Africa. England play the first of five ODIs against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. ""We went 2-0 up in South Africa, but lost 3-2. That wasn't through a lack of opportunities,"" Morgan told BBC Sport. ""We're ranked sixth in the world and that's a reflection of how unpredictable we've been in the last few years."" Sri Lanka, a place higher in the ODI rankings, are likely to be more at home in the limited-overs format after a Test series in which they were beaten 2-0. ""They have found it tough work since they came here,"" added Morgan before the day-nighter at Trent Bridge. ""ODI cricket comes more naturally to them, so we won't take them for granted and we are looking to ourselves to build and put performances in."" England will be without all-rounder Ben Stokes, who is out of action after knee surgery. His absence leaves a gap at number five and will alter the balance of the England side, with the hosts considering whether to select an extra batsman or promote Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali up the order and bring in an extra bowler. Conditions in Nottingham will influence that decision - rain on Monday forced England to train indoors, though dry weather later led to the covers being removed. ""It does affect us because Ben bats at five, filling the role of batsman and bowler very well,"" added batsman Morgan. ""We don't have an answer to back-up at the moment, but it does create an opportunity for someone else. ""The wicket may have a little more moisture in it than we think, so that might sway the decision."" Left-hander Morgan is himself in need of runs, having failed to pass 50 in his past eight ODIs. ""There's no doubt that I struggled in the winter,"" said the 29-year-old. ""The Indian Premier League gave me time to work on my game and since I've come back I feel better than I did in the winter."" If Jonny Bairstow, England's Test wicketkeeper, returns to the one-day side, he will do so as a specialist batsman, as limited-overs regular Buttler will retain the gloves. Bairstow, so prolific with the bat in Test cricket, has struggled behind the stumps. ""Jonny has been incredible form over the past year or so,"" said Morgan. ""We've every confidence in him should he play. ""But I can see how the casual fan would be confused by the Test wicketkeeper not keeping in the one-day side. ""I spoke to someone the other day and he used the comparison of selecting a football team, saying how ridiculous it would be to change from format to format. I said if the game was only 20 minutes long, would he pick a different team? He agreed the answer is yes."" In the inaugural Super Series, England hold a 10-2 lead after two wins and a draw in the three Tests. Two points will be on offer to the winners of each of the five ODIs and one Twenty20, meaning England need two further wins for overall victory. ""The Test boys have been exceptional and made it incredibly difficult for Sri Lanka,"" said Morgan. ""It's an unbelievable start. Now Alastair Cook hands the baton over to me and hopefully I don't let him down."" Sri Lanka fast bowler Shaminda Eranga remains in hospital in Dublin after feeling discomfort in his chest while batting in the second one-day international victory against Ireland on Saturday. That came hours after he was banned from bowling in international cricket because of an illegal action. ""We still don't know his exact condition until he has all the tests,"" said Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews. ""I spoke to him on Sunday and he was feeling fine. ""It has been a tough 48 hours for him and we all feel for him. It was a shocking incident for all of us."" Despite the loss of Eranga, Sri Lanka secured 2-0 series win over Ireland with a 136-run success. ""The England games won't be the same because it will be a tougher challenge,"" Mathews said. ""We have to be more skilful. ""We have been a forceful team in ODIs. The Test series was disappointing but this is a different format. We can come good here."" England ODI squad: Morgan (Middlesex, c), Bairstow (Yorkshire), Buttler (Lancashire), Finn (Middlesex), Hales (Nottinghamshire), Jordan (Sussex), Moeen (Worcestershire), Plunkett (Yorkshire), Rashid (Yorkshire), Root (Yorkshire), Roy (Surrey), Vince (Hampshire), Willey (Yorkshire), Woakes (Warwickshire). Sri Lanka ODI squad: Mathews (c), Thirimanne, Chandimal, Perera, Gunathilaka, Tharanga, De Silva, Pradeep, Lakmal, Mendis, Shanaka, Maharoof, Randiv, Prasanna.","England 's players need to show greater @placeholder if they are to continue their improvement in one - day cricket , captain Eoin Morgan says .",speculation,momentum,restraint,life,consistency,4
"Let's face it, we all like a good grumble. So get a few hundred people together who do the same job and it's pretty much inevitable those grumbles will be thoroughly aired. But what did the Education Secretary have to offer teachers in England? Not more money. George Osborne is holding fast to his limit of an average 1% pay increase across the public sector. Instead in her speech at the NASUWT teachers' union she brandished copies of not one, not two, but three workload reviews. One particular bone of contention is marking - or rather deep marking.  That could mean the teacher marking with written remarks, the pupil responding, then the teacher commenting in writing again. The first time I read a thread on social media about whether the watchdog, Ofsted, really cared about what colours a dialogue of this kind was written in I thought it was a joke. The bit about glittery pens was most definitely satire. Ofsted says it's all a myth and took to social media with coloured pens to point that out in in a pithy fashion over the weekend. But if you speak to teachers, these myths have somehow become part of the fabric of expectations. The marking workload review suggested that instead there should be a clear understanding of what is meaningful and what is manageable. On lesson planning there was a message for ministers too. In future changes should be brought in with enough of a lead in time to allow proper planning. A challenge to say the least with all the curriculum changes in England. And on data the report advocates a minimal approach to gathering only what can definitely be useful. All three reviews are short and couched in very sensible language. The test for weary teachers will be whether they do actually help common sense prevail. So back to pay. It's around now the reports from the independent public pay review bodies are usually published.  These expert panels pronounce after hearing evidence from the government, employers and trade unions. They keep a profile lower than a pancake. That means shunning the company of journalists. The School Teachers Review body report this year will make interesting reading. With little room to suggest an actual pay increase, it is the story the panel weaves around the data which will matter. Within the careful paragraphs there are likely to be some more pointed sections on recruitment to teacher training, and the retention of teachers. Who knows, they might even say something about workload.",Over the weekend Nicky Morgan told teachers to stop @placeholder about their profession and start singing its praises .,comments,chunks,evidence,details,complaining,4
"Emily Gardner, 14, from Gloucester, was on board the boat when it was overturned by a large wave in waters off Brixham, Devon, in May 2015. Her ""ill-fitting"" buoyancy aid snagged on a cleat, trapping her underwater. A jury recorded a narrative conclusion at an inquest in Torquay. The coroner said it was ""the most tragic incident"". In a statement, Emily's family said they planned to campaign for new legislation to ensure power boat drivers required a licence or training. Latest updates on this story and more They said they wanted it to be known as ""Emily's Law"" to prevent others having ""to endure what we have been through"". After the hearing, they also called for all buoyancy aids to be ""fitted safely and correctly"". The two-day hearing heard the boat was driven by co-owner Paul Pritchard, who said he did not see the large wave or he would have taken evasive action. Emily was taken to hospital but pronounced dead after 80 minutes of resuscitation attempts, the hearing was told. Following the hearing, her father, Clive Gardner, said: ""My family and I miss Emily so, so much, and time will never heal. Our lives are ruined. Our hearts are truly broken and will never mend."" In a statement, the family also said that ""if we had known that power boat drivers do not have to have a licence or training we would never have let her go"". They added: ""We need people to become aware of the absence of legislation to ensure the safety of passengers on leisure craft, and will campaign for laws to be brought in to close this legal loophole.""","A teenager on holiday in Devon @placeholder after her buoyancy aid caught on a sinking speedboat , an inquest has concluded .",drowned,caught,waters,hanged,saved,0
"For a formerly wild horse that barely reaches shoulder-height on an adult man, Luna is an unlikely figure to help improve literacy rates in Indonesia. Luna is looked after by Ridwan Sururi, 42, in the village of Serang, in the Purbalingga region of Java island. It is a rural, tropical area, lying on the edge of one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, Mount Slamet. In a region dotted by villages, Mr Sururi - and Luna - have become essential links between communities in recent months. In January, Mr Sururi started a mobile library called Kudapustaka - meaning 'horse library' in Indonesian. He travels between villages with books stored in boxes balanced on Luna's back. He visits schools three times a week - every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Sometimes he brings along his daughter, Indriani Fatmawati. Children and villagers do not have to pay anything to borrow the books and Mr Sururi has not looked to make money from the scheme. ""I love horses, and I want this hobby to bring benefit to people,"" he told BBC Indonesia. The idea for Kudapustaka came from Nirwan Arsuka a fellow horse enthusiast and friend of Mr Sururi's. ""He asked me: Can we help society through our hobby? I said I was interested, but I didn't know how."" ""Then, he had this idea to create a mobile library using horses. I liked the idea, but sadly I didn't have any books. So, he sent me boxes of books."" According to Unesco, Indonesia has made great strides in reducing adult illiteracy in recent years, bringing the number of illiterate adults down from 15.4m in 2004 to 6.7m in 2011. However, Unesco says there are more than 977,000 illiterate adults in central Java, Ridwan's region. As a professional horse caretaker, Mr Sururi does not own any of his own animals. So did he ask permission to use the horse as a mobile library? ""I haven't,"" he said, laughing. ""The owner lives far away from this village and hasn't visited the horses for a long time. I am a bit sad about that."" Of the three horses he is paid to look after, Mr Sururi picked Luna as his companion. ""It was a wild horse, but I tamed it. Luna has never kicked or bitten anybody, and is very friendly when surrounded by children."" He said he wished more people would donate books to his scheme. ""Children here love comics and story books. ""Adults, on the other hand, need inspirational and how-to books, like how to farm, that kind of thing."" Mr Sururi dreams of one day owning his own Kudapustaka horse - and a real library too. ""I hope I can have a small library in front of my house,"" he says. ""But I know it is only a dream.""","Adult illiteracy in Indonesia is @placeholder , but one region has almost a million adults who can not read . In central Java , the BBC meets one man and his horse who are helping improve access to books .",staying,happening,abuse,drawing,dropping,4
"The investment aims to tackle congestion on the A494 and A55 around Queensferry and Deeside. Flintshire cabinet backed the recommendation of its scrutiny committee which preferred the red route, but with blue route elements. The final plan ""should be a hybrid of the two options"", the report said. The red route involves upgrading the A548 over Flintshire Bridge between Connah's Quay and the Wirral and constructing a new link to the A55 at Northop - which was approved as the preferred option by Flintshire's cabinet members on Tuesday. But councillors agreed a ""crawler lane"" should be added along the incline westbound section of the A55 towards Halkyn and some changes made to the Ewloe interchange, from the blue route. ""The study concluded that this wider approach to the improvements... are essential if this 'once in a generation' improvement is to provide full benefit for the residents and road users within Flintshire and provide a resilient gateway to Wales for many decades to come,"" the report added. Flintshire council has until 7 July to present its formal response to the Welsh Government. The Welsh Government said the upgrade was needed as the road was ""below modern standards"". It will make the final decision, with an announcement expected in the summer.","Two proposals for a new £ 200 m road in Flintshire should be @placeholder to maximise improvement to the North Wales Expressway , the council has said .",set,merged,forced,built,extended,1
"The incident happened at about 06:10 on Friday at the BP station in Eastwoodmains Road, Clarkston. He demanded that a member of staff hand over money from the till. The assistant refused and the suspect then fled the scene, heading in the direction of Clarkston Toll. The 57-year-old staff member was uninjured and no-one else was inside the store at the time of the incident. The suspect is described as being about 6ft tall with a skinny build. He was dressed entirely in dark clothing and wearing a balaclava. Det Con David Henry said: ""Our inquiries are under way to trace this man and hold him to account for his actions. ""No-one should be placed in a state of fear or alarm as they go about their daily lives."" Officers have been conducting door-to-door inquiries and continue to assess CCTV. They would like to speak to a man in a silver BMW car who entered the petrol station shortly after the incident. Officers said it was possible he may have information which could help with their inquiries.","Police are hunting a robber who tried to hold up a petrol station in East Renfrewshire , armed with what @placeholder to be a gun .",attempting,appeared,claims,claiming,linked,1
"In the final entry in his blog, dated the day of his death, he wrote about the failure of peaceful mass protests to prevent the passage of the marriage law and talked of ""new, spectacular and symbolic gestures to wake up the sleep walkers and shake the anaesthetised consciousness"". ""We are entering a time when words must be backed up by actions,"" he said. Venner, 78, was a former soldier who willingly served with the French army in Algeria during the war for independence. On his return, he engaged in far-right politics, taking part in an attack on Communist Party headquarters in Paris in 1956. He joined the outlawed OAS paramilitary group, which campaigned against Algerian independence and tried to assassinate Charles De Gaulle. His OAS activities earned him 18 months in La Sante prison in Paris. In the 1970s, he turned his back on party politics and made a career writing about military history. Numerous published works include Pistols And Revolvers and a history of the Russian Civil War. In the age of the internet, he kept a blog on which he fulminated against what he perceived as threats to French identity. In his final blog post, he quoted an Algerian blogger predicting Islamists would rule France within 15 years, overturning the new law on same-sex marriage. For Venner, the prospect of Islamist rule and the reality of same-sex marriage were equally ""disastrous"". He closed his entry with lines reminiscent of French existentialist authors of the left, active during the war in Algeria. ""It is here and now that our destiny is played out to the very last second,"" he wrote. ""And this final second has as much importance as the rest of a life."" Later on the same day, he entered the country's most celebrated cathedral, where he pulled out a pistol and shot himself through the mouth. Police said he had made no statement though a note was found next to his body. The cathedral's rector, Monsignor Patrick Jacquin, said Venner had not been known as a worshipper at Notre Dame. The dead man's editor, Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, suggested it would be wrong to link his suicide to the same-sex marriage affair because it went ""far beyond"". The essayists had been preparing a new work called A Samurai Of The West, The Breviary Of The Unsubued, he said. Venner's death, de Roux told AFP news agency, might be compared to that of the far-right Japanese writer Kimitake Hiraoka, known better as Mishima, who performed ritual suicide in 1970 after a failed coup attempt.","Dominique Venner , the far - right French essayist who shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Tuesday , was a bitter opponent of same - sex marriage and @placeholder of Islam in France .",condemnation,comprehension,instances,parts,influence,4
"That's about as far as it's safe for an obvious foreigner to go. Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is keeping a low profile and ruling Mosul, Iraq's second city, with a relatively light hand at the moment.  It is sharing control with an array of other rebel forces - dissident Sunni tribes, disgruntled former army officers, adherents of Saddam Hussein's old Baath Party, and others. But Isis is Isis, and it has a proven track record of abducting foreigners - most recently, 49 Turkish citizens from the consulate in Mosul, who are the focus of intense negotiations to obtain their freedom. But for those of Mosul's two million or so inhabitants who didn't flee as the rebels moved in - and for the few who have come back since - life has ironically in some ways improved, at least for the moment. Residents say the many checkpoints, blast-walls and barriers which hampered movement round the city when government forces were there, have been taken down, making moving around much easier. Also gone are the frequent bomb attacks and shootings - not surprising perhaps, since the rebels behind them are now in charge. The flow of traffic going in and out of the city on the main road indicated that, superficially at least, things are back to normal. More vehicles seemed to be heading in to Mosul than coming out, and those that were coming out certainly weren't crammed with desperate refugees. ""We're just off for a family visit,"" said one man at the wheel of a car full of smiling women and children. ""Apart from services, things are fine. It's safe. But people are worried, they don't know what will become of Mosul,"" he added. ""They're frightened that the army may try to fight its way back in. We're afraid of shelling, and bombardment from the air."" Most of those coming out of the city complained about severe shortages of water, electricity and petrol. Supplies of the latter have shot up to seven or eight times the price in nearby Iraqi Kurdistan. Women said they were not being obliged to wear the veil, although many were doing so. All said that Isis was not bothering them. But Isis militants are reported to have destroyed some of the symbols of the city's rich cultural heritage. Statues to the 19th-Century composer and musician Othman al-Mosuli and the Abbasid-era poet Abu Tammam are said to have been smashed, and the tomb of Ibn al-Athir, a 12th-Century historian who travelled with Saladin, has been razed. The tomb of the prophet Noah has apparently survived so far, despite government predictions that it would be destroyed. Has the leopard changed its spots, or is Isis just biding its time, deferring for the moment to other rebel groups it may end up clashing with, and pragmatically courting public support to make it more difficult for it to be isolated and uprooted? ""Unlike the old al-Qaeda in Iraq under [Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi, who went after the local population, these guys are posing as the protectors of the people against a tyrannical Shia regime in Baghdad,"" said a senior Kurdish politician. ""They're handling it much better, and that makes them more dangerous. It will be harder to turn the tribes against them."" When the provincial capital of Raqqa in Syria fell to Isis and other rebel groups last year, militant rule was at first relatively moderate. But later, Isis fought with the other factions and drove them out, including the official al-Qaeda franchise, the Nusra Front. Isis then imposed its own extremely harsh brand of Islamic rule, banning music, imposing strict dress code on women, implementing severe punishments such as beheadings and amputations, and destroying churches and monuments of any kind, which it regards as idolatry. No wonder that beneath the surface, many people in Mosul are anxious about their future. The current calm may not last for long. And it's hard to envisage almost any future scenario that does not involve further turmoil.","As the main road from the east passes into the outskirts of Mosul , you can see @placeholder in the heat - haze a black banner hanging over the first checkpoint manned by fighters from Isis a few hundred metres away from the front - line positions held by the Kurdish peshmerga forces .",intervene,reveal,stay,shimmering,change,3
"Media playback is not supported on this device After sweeping changes to the Nations Cup this week, the Central African nation will now have to prepare for eight more teams than expected. ""I spoke this morning with our country's hierarchy and the decision is that Cameroon is ready to host,"" Tombi A Roko Sidiki told BBC Sport. After reports of slow progress in Cameroon, Morocco is keen to step in. There are some countries who would like to host this competition but they should keep quiet ""Morocco will not hesitate for a second to respond favourably to any invitation to host this Nations Cup,"" said the country's FA president Faouzi Lekjaa. Caf has announced that its inspection team will visit Cameroon in September with the country having had to deny reports its preparations were behind schedule. Morocco was set to host the 2015 Nations Cup until it lost the finals following concerns over the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Moroccan capital Rabat hosted this week's symposium on African football, where decisions such as moving the Nations Cup from January-February to June-July were taken. This was among a raft of changes overseen by Ahmad, the Malagasy who was elected president of the Confederation of African Football (Caf) in March. However, Sidiki is not impressed by the Moroccan manoeuvres with regard to the next Nations Cup. ""There are some countries who would like to host this competition but they should keep quiet and think about other editions and not 2019 because Cameroon will be ready,"" he rallied. Moving the Nations Cup to June allows Cameroon an extra five months to prepare for the finals. Sidiki said he backed the expansion to 24 teams, a decision which Caf executive committee member Amaju Pinnick says will triple the African body's income. Despite the presence of debutants Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau in recent years, Sidiki believes the expansion will open up the finals to more teams that have never qualified. ""Cameroon has always been participating but in life, you don't need to see only your position as you should think about those who are dreaming each year to be part of this famous competition. ""This is why we think this is a right and good decision."" The country's national team are the reigning African champions.","The next Africa Cup of Nations hosts can @placeholder for an expanded 24 - team finals , says the head of Cameroon 's FA .",called,prepare,shape,cater,side,3
"Joe Fortemose Chinakwe walked Buhari in an area where support for the president was high, police said. Officers said they were worried the moved could antagonise people, though he insisted it was meant as a compliment. He has been granted bail but remains in jail as funds are sought, reports said. Mr Chinakwe, 30, said that he named the dog Buhari because he had admired Mr Buhari for many years. ""I named my beloved pet dog Buhari, who is my hero,"" Mr Chinakwe said. ""My admiration for Buhari started far back when he was a military head of state."" He was inspired to give his dog the name after reading about Mr Buhari's fight against corruption, he added. He later told local media he had received death threats over the perceived slight. Twitters users reacted to the arrest with a mixture of amusement and concern. ""If we keep quiet when they arrest the man who named his dog Buhari who will talk for us when they arrest us for criticizing the real Buhari?"" said Reno Omokri. Mr Chinakwe's case was adjourned until 19 September.",A Nigerian man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari and @placeholder the name on both sides of the dog was arrested for breach of the peace .,painted,registered,joined,spent,shared,0
"The Bristow Group was awarded the 10-year contract by the Department of Transport in 2013 to operate from 10 UK bases on behalf of HM Coastguard. The £1.6bn deal ends 70 years of search and rescue by the RAF and Royal Navy. The RAF service is based at Wattisham Airfield. The new service will fly from London Ashford Airport near Dungeness. Modern AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters in red and white Coastguard livery will replace the aging Sea King helicopters, which are due to be retired from RAF service in March 2016. A spokeswoman for the Maritime & Coastguard Agency said they were ""already a familiar sight, with training operations from the base having commenced some weeks ago"". The government said the contract with the Bristow Group meant helicopters ""will be able reach a larger area of the UK search and rescue region within one hour of take off than is currently possible"". It also estimated there will be an overall improvement in flying times to incidents of about 20% - from 23 to 19 minutes. Each of Bristow's search and rescue bases will be staffed by about 30 people including nine pilots, 10 technical crew and nine engineers, as well as support staff. The RAF stood down at 13:00 BST.",The RAF 's search and rescue services in the @placeholder of England has been taken over by a private company flying from Kent.,region,west,southeast,east,space,3
"Catherine O'Brien, 37, from Salford, Greater Manchester said she is having surgery to remove one of her kidneys and become a living donor next month. She said her husband Shaun found a cancerous lump on his neck in 2015. He was given the all-clear following surgery and treatment in March. ""I'm sharing a spare rather than losing one,"" said truck driver Catherine. She said she heard of another woman becoming a living donor and turned to her husband and said: ""I could do that."" Catherine contacted Salford Royal Hospital and ""it went from there"". Although she has never had surgery before, she said: ""I'm sort of excited as I know the impact it will have on someone and their family."" She said her husband was ""100% behind me"". ""I suppose he's worried... it is a major operation but it is a very safe and highly successful."" Catherine said she was not concerned about problems which may occur as a result of having only one remaining kidney in future. ""I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. I'm just providing the organ; the NHS are doing the hard work."" Source: NHS NHS Blood and Transplant said more than 500 people have helped save the life of stranger by becoming a living kidney donor since changes to the law made it possible a decade ago. Lead nurse for Living Donation at NHS Blood and Transplant Lisa Burnapp said: ""Nearly 300 people died waiting for a kidney transplant last year. ""Hundreds of people have had their lives saved and transformed in reaching this milestone over the past decade, thanks to the incredible generosity of these donors.""",A woman says she is donating a kidney to a stranger in order to @placeholder the NHS for saving her husband 's life .,raise,petition,revive,confront,repay,4
"Wright is filmed apparently being given an envelope of money in return for allegedly helping persuade Barnsley to sign players from a fake Far East firm. The newspaper claims he accepted £5,000 at a meeting in Leeds in August. The Championship club say he has been suspended ""pending an internal investigation into these allegations"". The Daily Telegraph's investigation involved Wright being introduced to members of the Far East firm, who were undercover reporters, by two football agents. ""I can just recommend players to you that I've gone and seen, and you will have to do your spicy dealing, whatever you do,"" Wright is filmed saying during one of a number of meetings. Wright says ""you know where I live"" when the subject of giving him money is raised. He tells a member of the firm ""cheers, just put it there,"" when a person hands him the envelope before the newspaper claims he left with it in his pocket. The article makes it clear that there is no suggestion Barnsley were aware of Wright's actions. Meanwhile, a spokesman for Mr Wright is quoted as saying: ""Any suggested acts contrary to criminal law or those of the FA and Fifa are categorically denied."" The latest allegations come a day after the Telegraph claimed eight current or former Premier League managers had taken bribes for player transfers. Sam Allardyce left his post as England manager on Tuesday after claims in the newspaper that he offered advice on how to ""get around"" rules on player transfers. In a separate meeting, QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is filmed apparently negotiating a fee to travel to Singapore to speak to the Far East firm. The Dutchman also allegedly discusses the possibility of signing players from them. He has not been suspended by the Championship club who say ""there will be a thorough internal investigation regarding this matter"". QPR's statement added: ""However, we have every confidence in our manager and the robust systems and processes the club has in place."" Former Chelsea striker Hasselbaink also issued a statement in which he denied ""any accusations of wrongdoing on my part"". ""I was approached by Mr McGarvey and Ms Newell of The Telegraph purporting to be players' agents. They offered me a fee to make a speech in Singapore. ""I do not see anything unusual in being offered to be paid to make a speech. ""I did not make any promises in return. I did not ask QPR to purchase any of the players who were said to be managed by Mr McGarvey and Ms Newell and did not and would not recommend the purchase of a player for my personal gain."" Controversial Leeds owner Massimo Cellino was also filmed by the Telegraph offering undercover reporters posing as an investment firm a way to get around FA and Fifa third-party ownership rules. In a meeting at Leeds' ground, arranged by football agent Pino Pagliara, Cellino apparently offered to sell shares in the Championship club as a means of funding the purchase of players. The Italian proposed the fictitious firm buy 20% of the club, in return for which it would receive the same percentage of future player sell-on fees. In the video, Cellino says: ""I tell you, I spend eight million this year... on new players. ""You want to finance that? You want to come 20% in that? You got 20% of the player - it's the only way. ""As a shareholder you can finance the club, asking everything you want - percentage - you are allowed to do it in England."" Leeds claimed the footage of their owner amounted to a ""non-story"" as Cellino ""made a perfectly proper suggestion which is entirely consistent with the FA's regulations"". The statement added: ""If a company commits money to a club by way of investment, taking on the potential for profit but also the risk for loss, then that is a normal, everyday corporate process. ""This is plainly not a suggestion as to how to circumvent the rules, but rather, an accurate albeit concise explanation of how to operate within the confines of the rules and effectively become 'the club'.""",Barnsley have suspended assistant manager Tommy Wright after he was @placeholder in a Daily Telegraph investigation alleging corruption in football .,struck,caught,named,found,held,2
"Dumfries and Galloway Council turned down the scheme because of seismic and radar concerns. Developer RES said both those objections had now been withdrawn. A Scottish government reporter has upheld their appeal and ruled the wind farm, near Langholm, can proceed. Ruth Elder, development project manager, said: ""RES is delighted that consent has been granted for Solwaybank wind farm which will be capable of generating enough renewable electricity to power the equivalent average demand of more than 19,000 households. ""As well as providing homegrown, secure and affordable energy, onshore wind farms like Solwaybank contribute cleaner, greener energy - particularly important when the world's eyes are focusing on international efforts to urgently tackle the long-term threat of global climate change.""",A renewable energy firm has won its appeal against the @placeholder of plans for a 15 - turbine wind farm at Solwaybank near the border with England .,development,refusal,abandonment,fleet,rate,1
"What is more, these peaks are all at least 1.5km high. The reason they have gone unrecognised until now is because they are at the bottom of the ocean. Dave Sandwell and colleagues used radar satellites to discern the mountains' presence under water and report their findings in Science Magazine. ""In the previous radar dataset we could see everything taller than 2km, and there were 5,000 seamounts,"" Prof Sandwell told BBC News. ""With our new dataset - and we haven't fully done the work yet - I'm guessing we can see things that are 1.5km tall. ""That might not sound like a huge improvement but the number of seamounts goes up exponentially with decreasing size. ""So, we may be able to detect another 25,000 on top of the 5,000 already known,"" the Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher explained. Knowing where the seamounts are is important for fisheries management and conservation, because it is around these topographic highs that wildlife tends to congregate. The roughness of the seafloor is important also as it steers currents and promotes mixing - behaviours that are critical to understanding how the oceans transport heat and influence the climate. But our knowledge of the seafloor is poor; witness the problems they have had searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370, which is believed to have crashed west of Australia. The problem is that saltwater is opaque to all the standard techniques that are used to map mountains on land. Ship-borne echosounders can gather very high-resolution information by bouncing sound off bottom structures, but less than 10% of the global oceans have been properly surveyed in this way because of the effort it involves. Dietmar Müller from the University of Sydney said: ""You may generally think that the great age of exploration is truly over; we've been to all the remotest corners of continents, and perhaps one might think also of the ocean basins. But sadly this is not true - we know much more about the topography of Mars than we know about the seafloor."" The alternative is an indirect method that uses satellites fitted with radar altimeters. These spacecraft can infer the shape of the ocean bottom from the shape of the water surface above. Because water follows gravity, it is pulled into highs above the mass of tall seamounts, and slumps into depressions over deep trenches. Most of our maps of the gross outlines of mountains on the seafloor have relied on this approach. Key advances were made using US Navy and European Space Agency satellites in the 80s and 90s. Now, Sandwell and his team have gathered new, improved datasets from more recent spacecraft - Jason 1, which was recently taken out of service, and CryoSat, which continues to orbit the Earth today. Their denser coverage and better radar technologies have brought a two-fold improvement in the gravity model used to describe the ocean floor. This richer information trove has barely been investigated yet, but already new discoveries are jumping out. These include an extinct ridge where the seafloor spread apart to help open up the Gulf of Mexico about 180 million years ago. And in the South Atlantic, the team sees the two halves of a different type of ridge feature that became separated roughly 85 million years ago when Africa rifted away from South America. The striking thing is that many such structures are often covered by deep sediments and only become visible in the new gravity data. Seeing all the major fracture zones in greater detail is sure to be a boon to those who study the history of Earth's shifting continents. The team hopes to improve still the resolution of its model. This will come as Cryosat continues to take more measurements in the years ahead. The irony here is that the European Space Agency mission is really dedicated to tracing the shape and thickness of polar ice fields - not the shape of the seafloor. ""CryoSat's orbit and payload were designed to meet its primary ice mission goals, and extending its coverage to the ocean was on a 'let's see what we get' basis,"" said principal investigator Duncan Wingham. ""As it has turned out, we now have a marvellous new view of the ocean floor."" For its ice work, CryoSat works in a specific high-resolution mode, which could be extended to more areas of the ocean to garner improved seafloor data - if mission time allows. Ultimately, though, researchers would like to see a dedicated mapper that was specifically tuned to the task. Walter Smith, a co-author on Thursday's Science paper, proposed just such a mission in 2001 called ABySS. It was not accepted then, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist believes the case is still a compelling one. ""The miniaturization of computer chips and the increase in CPU processing speed and data storage in the last 13 years has made it easy and cheap to do amazing things with radar,"" he told BBC News. ""There is still a lot we could do with a dedicated mission. It could be done - everything, 'soup to nuts' - for 100 million Euros (£80m), and the necessary technological innovations are well known to radar engineers in England, France and elsewhere. It is just a question of political will to find the budget."" Interpolation of ocean-floor shape by satellite Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos","It is not every day you can @placeholder the discovery of thousands of new mountains on Earth , but that is what a US - European research team has done .",evaluate,expect,preview,generate,announce,4
"The early exchanges between Owen Smith and Stephen Crabb summed up the central question: are people feeling the economic recovery? Owen Smith's claim was that there was an ""epidemic"" of insecurity in the jobs market and growing inequality as reflected in the rise in the use of food banks under the Conservative-led coalition. The counter claim from Stephen Crabb was to accuse Labour of portraying the Welsh economy as being ""Victorian"" when most of the new jobs are full time and permanent. Whoever wins on Thursday will have done so by persuading people to trust them on the economy. Another feisty exchange related to the formation of a government in the event of a hung parliament. Owen Smith openly floated the idea of a Labour minority administration, and dared Leanne Wood to ensure Plaid Cymru didn't oppose it in a way that would allow a Conservative government in. This is Labour's strategy. A formal coalition and an informal deal with the SNP have been ruled out.  Labour leader Ed Miliband pressed the nuclear button on Thursday when he even went as far as to say that, in effect, he would prefer to be in opposition than do a deal with the SNP. It was a clear indication that Labour is preparing for a minority government and it will dare the nationalist parties to bring its legislative programme down. But Plaid says it'll only fail to support a programme of government from Labour if it fails to address its concerns, so if the minority government falls then Labour has no-one to blame but itself. The prospect of a blame game between Labour and the nationalist parties falls into the hands of the Conservatives who are trying to make political capital out of it at every opportunity. I expect we'll hear plenty about moral legitimacy over the next few days. A senior Welsh Conservative suggested to me that he felt Labour would be able to form a government even if it had up to 15 fewer seats than the Conservatives but if that figure rose to between 30 or 40 then Labour would struggle to carry the moral legitimacy argument. Of course it's not a question about being the largest party but about being able to form a government. The former Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy told Radio Wales on Sunday morning that Labour could justify governing without being the biggest party if most of the MPs in the Commons were from the left. The big winner from last week's debates was the audience. The campaign so far has been stage managed with little exposure of the political leaders to the public, or the group that are referred to in newsrooms as ""real people"". Like elsewhere, this has happened in Wales. David Cameron has been in a brewery, a timber mill and the Royal Welsh showground where he addressed party members. Ed Miliband has come closer to being exposed to the public with his people's question time sessions in Cardiff and Barry in recent weeks. A quick word on Plaid's involvement in the UK-wide debates. Senior figures tell me they were expecting plenty of coverage in the media that traditionally covers politics as a result of Leanne Wood's participation in the UK leaders' debate - but the extent of the interest in her has caught them by surprise. The challenge for them is turning that media attention into votes.",The final Welsh leaders ' debate on Friday threw a clear spotlight on some of the major @placeholder that have arisen so far in the campaign .,trade,region,substance,news,themes,4
"Tinder leads the market in the UK, boasting 26 million ""matches"" per day globally. The company says it broke its own records last Valentine's Day as people flocked to the app looking for love. Behind the app is dating giant Match, which also owns other big names including match.com, OKCupid and Plenty of Fish - but there are plenty of start-ups hoping to charm singles and top the app store charts. ""Whatever competitors do, they will need to be cash rich and able to support the business to stand a chance of success,"" says Paolo Pescatore, director of Multiplay and Media at CCS Insight. ""But there is scope for new players to emerge that focus on a specific niche."" Combining match-making with games and quizzes, DatePlay is designed to generate ""more meaningful matches"" than its rivals. Behind the app is entrepreneur Vana Koutsomitis, who first pitched her idea on the BBC television series The Apprentice. She did not win Lord Sugar's investment - he judged the project too risky - but she has continued work on her app, which she hopes will make online dating more fun. ""If you sign up for any of the online dating sites that focus on meaningful relationships, you'll be asked to fill out tonnes of questions about yourself,"" she says. ""What we're doing is making an interface that is a game instead of these self reports."" Singles hoping to challenge strangers to a round of battleships or gin rummy will have to look elsewhere, for now. The app will be launched with its first game this summer, with more added later. ""Our first game is a Buzzfeed-style game where you will be answering questions about your preferences in terms of photos. You'll work through it in a fun and interactive way."" One concern raised on The Apprentice was that people might spend all day playing a game, only to be matched with somebody they did not find attractive. But Koutsomitis says playing for longer improves your chances of finding the perfect date. ""As you continue to play the game we continue to get more data about you... that allows us to match you with better people,"" she explains. ""We think it's more important to have a few meaningful matches."" In a bid to cut out ""creeps and timewasters"", Hanky lets existing members decide whether new joiners should be allowed in. The app, for men only, launched in January. At the time, founder Jonas Cronfield boasted: ""Our users are nicer and more sexy."" But critics say Hanky fosters superficiality and superiority, by providing an environment where people are judged on their appearance. And while it is not the first dating service that lets people judge others on their looks, critics say the app divides a community that has fought discrimination. The company insists it has good intentions. ""The vetting system is there just because we are trying to narrow it down a little bit, it's trying to help people not waste so much time on these apps,"" says Johan Andersson, the firm's chief evangelist. ""The process of joining is harder than normal. You can't just go on there, upload a photo and start chatting to people. By the time you're approved, if you're still just looking to waste people's time, you've gone through a lot of trouble to do that."" The app has attracted 85,000 members since its launch - although many more have tried to join. Andersson says eight out of 10 applicants are rejected by existing members. A system that can validate members' identities has an obvious appeal to a community of men that has been targeted by criminals through rival apps. But critics say Hanky's self-regulating process falls short, letting members judge whether new joiners are ""creeps"" or ""timewasters"" just by looking at their photographs. ""The point was never to stop crime,"" says Andersson. ""We can take no responsibility for what happens between two people when they communicate online."" While other apps focus on providing you with a wide choice of singles, Once strives to provide quality over quantity. The app allows you just one match a day, hand-picked by a human curator and delivered to your phone at noon. Daters have 24 hours to initiate a conversation and move things forward, before their ""match"" disappears and is replaced with a new one to consider over lunch. ""You have 24 hours of full, undivided attention,"" says the app's creator Jean Meyer. ""There's nobody else, no noise. It's a special moment for 24 hours."" A special moment, or perhaps 24 hours of awkward silence. While rival apps such as Tinder give you plenty of people to scroll through, with Once there is no skipping ahead, and your first ""match"" is chosen by a stranger. ""Anybody can pick someone who is very good-looking and smart, that's easy. But you need this person also to like you,"" explains Meyer. ""When we have a matchmaker forcing you into a match, you have a lot of chances that the person you're being matched with is also going to like you."" Rejection is easy to accept on Tinder, where a new match is only a swipe away. Does Once risk upsetting people who could go a week without anybody saying hello? ""It's a dating app, not a self-esteem app. It's not about boosting your ego, you have Instagram for that,"" says Meyer. One in three matches turns into a conversation, he reassures me. And those unhappy with today's match can take control and choose somebody they would like to speak to from a list of 10. But they won't be offered up for conversation until at least noon the following day - and with a maximum of seven introductions a week, finding ""the one"" could be a lengthy process. ""If you pass, your next match is going to come the next day, so you can do something else,"" says Meyer. ""Go take a hike, or walk, or go to the movie theatre with your friends... don't spend three hours swiping, because technology should help you gain time not waste it. ""When you're done with your match of the day, do something else - please! Live your life.""",Valentine 's Day is not just a big day for @placeholder - millions of singles are expected to fire up dating apps today in search of romance .,teens,me,couples,colour,millions,2
"Media playback is not supported on this device Rooney was set to leave United before signing a deal worth £250,000 a week. ""I told them I did not think it fair that Rooney should earn twice what I made,"" Ferguson says in a new book. ""[United co-chairman] Joel Glazer said: 'I totally agree but what should we do?' It was simple. We just agreed no player should be paid more than me."" In his new book on the art of management, Leading, Ferguson also describes the transition following his 2013 departure from Manchester United after 26 years in charge, saying: ""We should have handled it better."" The Scot, who won two Champions Leagues, 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups and four League Cups at the club, was replaced by David Moyes, who was sacked after 10 months and failed to lead the club into Europe's premier club competition. But the 73-year-old says he also wished to speak to former Barcelona and now Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola before he appointed the former Everton manager. He also details how Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, former Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti, Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp and then Netherlands boss Louis van Gaal, now at United, were all considered as potential replacements. ""I admired [Pep] greatly,"" Ferguson said after meeting him in New York in 2012. ""I asked Pep to phone me before he accepted an offer from another club but he didn't and wound up joining Bayern Munich in July 2013. ""When we started the process of looking for my replacement, we established that several very desirable candidates were unavailable."" In his book, he also speaks about: Ferguson, now a United director and lecturer at the Harvard Business School, has also discussed a number of other subjects in a wide-ranging Football Focus interview. The most successful Manchester United manager of all time says he only worked with four players he considered to be world class during his time at the club. From those successful teams, he says midfielder Paul Scholes and attacking trio Eric Cantona, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs were his best players. ""They made the difference and the evidence is there,"" he told the BBC's Dan Walker for Football Focus. Ferguson described Cantona, who United signed from Leeds in November 1992, as ""the catalyst"", for winning his first Premier League title. He added: ""The younger breed like Ryan and Scholes were just fantastic players and the thing about those two was longevity. ""Are there players who have played right through the whole of the Premier League and performed at the level they have? There are none, absolutely none. ""Of course Ronaldo was just a complete genius of a player."" England captains Wayne Rooney and David Beckham, Roy Keane, Carlos Tevez, Rio Ferdinand and Peter Schmeichel were all ""great players"" according to Ferguson. ""But these players elevated themselves above all that."" Ferguson believes current United manager Van Gaal pulled off a masterstroke by appointing Giggs as his assistant at Manchester United. Giggs, 41, won 34 trophies under Ferguson, making him the most decorated player in English football history, before retiring in 2014. Ferguson told BBC Sport: ""Louis made a great choice because of Ryan's knowledge, his time at the club and his ability."" After Moyes was sacked before the end of the 2013-14 season, Giggs took charge for the final four games. And when Van Gaal was appointed at the start of the 2014-15 season, one of his first decisions was to make Giggs assistant manager. Ferguson added: ""I think Ryan seems to enjoy that he is learning off a man with great experience. It's working.  There is good communication, Ryan's working very hard and picking up things from a foreign coach which is different from the way I operated so it looks as if it's going OK."" Ferguson revealed how he likes watching the pre-match news conferences and how he sometimes gives advice to managers facing the cameras, including to Leicester manager Nigel Pearson when City were struggling to avoid relegation from the Premier League last season. ""I felt he was a little bit too casual,"" said Ferguson. ""I said 'Your team is bottom of the league and you have to show your anger a little bit. The fans want to see you care.' ""He improved after that and so did his team. He did a great job."" Leicester avoided relegation but Pearson was sacked in the close season. Ferguson was twice approached about the England job but said he never considered it because he's a Scot.  He was ""never close to it"" even though former United chairman Martin Edwards twice gave the Football Association permission to speak to him about it. ""One it's an impossible job. The pressure on the England manager is huge,"" he said. ""Every competition, for some reason the press make them favourites, or one of the favourites, and to my mind they have never been favourites. ""The fans also get lit up by the press observations. The huge army of fans they take to the World Cup or the European Championships is fantastic but brings pressure."" Ferguson is still heavily involved in football, working for European football's governing body Uefa and as a Manchester United director, but he does not hanker for his old job. ""You miss the staff at Carrington and the players in the dressing room but the only time I really felt I missed it was at the 2014 European Cup final between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid,"" he said. ""It's all about European finals. I was involved in four but I wish it was more. I lost three other semi-finals where we should have done better and on other occasions we were a bit unlucky. ""At the end of the day it's a wonderful tournament, the best in world football."" Ferguson was famous for giving players the ""hairdryer treatment"" but admitted he got calmer as he got older. ""I didn't need to lose my temper as much,"" he said. ""When I was young I was ferocious. I just wanted to rule the world so my anger would be obvious. ""As I got older you choose your moments and sometimes I would manufacture that anger with no reason at all and at other times you just have to keep quiet."" Ferguson also talks about the importance of having the courage of your convictions and cites American president John F Kennedy's reaction to the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. ""JFK had his own convictions about the state of affairs regarding the Cuban crisis,"" said Ferguson. ""All his generals wanted him to bomb Cuba out of existence. ""He wouldn't take that advice and stood by his conviction there was a solution to the problem. It was a bit like Russian roulette and who was going to blink first. ""He continued down that path and it certainly worked."" Watch the full interview on Football Focus, Saturday 26 September, 12:10 BST on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.",Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson demanded that his salary was @placeholder in the aftermath of Wayne Rooney 's big pay increase in 2010 .,justified,overwhelmed,doubled,cradled,inspired,2
"England resumed in Barbados 107 ahead at 39-5 but, despite an unbeaten 35 from Jos Buttler, were all out for 123. It left the hosts with a target of 192 and they were 80-4 before Darren Bravo and Jermaine Blackwood shared 108. Left-hander Bravo struck three sixes in a magnificent 82 and Blackwood was 47 not out as the hosts beat England for only the second time in 29 Tests. The match had fluctuated for much of the three days but the Windies were able to regain a share of the Wisden Trophy with relative ease as the England side tired. A key moment proved to be a fumbled stumping by Buttler with 105 needed, the wicketkeeper unable to gather a sharply turning ball down the leg-side when Blackwood was way out of his ground having danced down the pitch to Joe Root. After a wretched World Cup campaign, when failed to progress beyond the initial group stages, defeat at the Kensington Oval is likely to leave the England coaching staff with some difficult questions to answer from the hierarchy at the England and Wales Cricket Board. Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves said before the start of the series that there would be ""some enquiries"" if they failed to win in the Caribbean, and he takes up his post on 15 May. Yet having scrambled for runs in frantic style at the end of a remarkable second day on which 18 wickets fell, England calmly added 23 on the third morning. The introduction of slow left-armer Veerasammy Permaul soon saw Gary Ballance caught at slip, but Ben Stokes played in positive fashion, unleashing some effective reverse sweeps to add 33 with Buttler, who got off the mark in fine style with a six off Permaul. However, Stokes skewed the spinner to cover and tall seamer Jason Holder struck with successive balls. The destructive Buttler blazed four fours and a six from the next seven balls he faced but the number eight was again left not out at the other end when last man James Anderson was lbw after a review. The home team's reply began one over before lunch and the afternoon soon appeared ominous for England when, for once, Anderson was unable to trouble the batsmen. Debutant Shai Hope was dropped by Root at third slip off Stuart Broad, with star catcher Chris Jordan inexplicably positioned in the outfield, and both reviews were wasted within the opening 11 overs. But Jordan trapped Hope lbw with a full delivery angling in, upheld after a review, and then produced another astonishing reflex catch at slip in the next over to snaffle Kraigg Brathwaite off the spin of Moeen Ali. The Windies added 35 and appeared to be in command again, but England restricted the scoring and Broad nipped one back to rattle through the defence of Marlon Samuels. Things changed once again after tea, as Bravo launched the first ball of the session from Root for six. But in the next over the veteran Shivnarine Chanderpaul chopped Anderson on to his stumps, ending a disappointing series for the 40-year-old, who averaged only 15 from his six innings. With all results still possible, a fourth day seemed likely but Bravo and Blackwood mixed defence and attack with great assurance. Bravo edged Anderson through a vacant second slip area and, though he was well caught by Broad at mid-off with only four needed, the acceleration had been decisive and the Windies, who had lost their previous two series in England, soon completed a famous victory under the floodlights. Listen to Geoffrey Boycott's review of the third Test on the Test Match Special podcast",England fell to a five - wicket defeat in an @placeholder final Test as West Indies tied the three - match series at 1-1 .,contest,embarrassing,adjusted,absorbing,exciting,3
"Tests at Guanabara Bay have revealed high levels of bacteria and viruses coming from human sewage. Two sailors contracted infections at a test event in August, which they claim were caused by the waters. Rio Olympic organisers said earlier this month that the health and safety of athletes is ""always a top priority"". Seven of the 10 sailing events in the Brazilian city will launch into the Marina de Gloria, where the new pipeline is due to open this month. ""The Marina area is our biggest challenge; it's critical it's completed and we start seeing a difference,"" World Sailing's head of events Alastair Fox told BBC Sport. ""It's essential that it improves radically - from a health point of view and also for showcasing the sport."" Nearly 70% of sewage in Rio is spilled raw into its surrounding waters. Sailors have also reported seeing pollution, including furniture and floating animal carcasses, while drug-resistant ""super-bacteria"" were found in the area last December. A statement from the Rio 2016 organising committee earlier this month said: ""There is no doubt water within the field of play meets the relevant standards."" The Games begin on 5 August. Following the test event at Guanabara Bay in August, German sailor Erik Heil and South Korean windsurfer Wonwoo Cho both attributed their illnesses to the water quality. However, World Sailing says the 8% illness rate at the event was lower than average for regattas. It also says doctors feel those illnesses could have been prevented, and believes athletes can minimise the risks by following hygiene guidelines, such as taking showers after exiting the water. British two-time Olympic champion Sarah Gosling, now the athletes' representative on the World Sailing council, believes the pursuit of Olympic gold will outweigh any risks involved in the minds of competitors. ""Winning a gold medal will make up for anything - it's really not that relevant,"" Gosling told the Associated Press on Tuesday. ""There are plenty and plenty of reports out there about athletes who their whole life is about winning medals, and anything that happens on the way is kind of irrelevant. ""For sailing to be in the centre of the Olympics right there, for athletes to be able to stay in the village, to be able to go to the opening and closing ceremony, it's a massive deal."" World Sailing has had reports the rubbish in the water at Guanabara Bay, where Marina de Gloria opens into, is higher than usual because of rainy season deluges washing items into it. Fox will conduct the latest site visit in late January to assess progress. ""We're doing as much as we can to work with the Rio authorities,"" he said, adding World Sailing also had back-up plans to treat the water should the work not be completed. ""When racing near a big city, water quality is always an issue. We've no intention of not holding the competition there. The reality is that sailors want to be racing in Rio. ""We need to start seeing data from all the course areas in the dry season to see that water quality is at an acceptable level - as they were in August at the test event in the Guanabara Bay.""","World Sailing says the water quality at the Rio 2016 sailing venue needs major improvement , as organisers @placeholder to open a new pipe belt to divert sewage .",continue,linked,prepare,managed,planned,2
"The job numbers could be worse, with unemployment on a downward trend, most recently at 5.1%. But the most recent figures, for autumn, are worse than summer, when they could be a lot better. Across the whole of the UK, they are. The British economy has been a job-creating dynamo as it clambered out of the Great Recession trench. But much less so in Scotland. In the year leading up to the September-to-November survey, published this week, unemployment fell by 12,000. That's good. But of those aged 16 to 64, the number of people in work fell by 49,000, and the number inactive and not making themselves available for work was up by 59,000. That's not so good at all. There have been some more promising numbers recently. For instance, a Bank of Scotland survey found the number of new business start-ups was down in Scotland, but by far less than the UK. Relatively good. The Purchasing Managers Index for December, from the Bank of Scotland and Markit, edged above the point at which it returns from contraction of output to very modest growth. Good, but only just. That's while the quarterly survey out today from the Scottish Chambers of Commerce is ""finely balanced"". Firms were more likely to be positive about the fourth quarter of 2016, except in the (very large) finance and business services sector. So yes, there are signs of resilience about the Scottish economy that were not evident this time last year. But it is precarious. For two years, there has been a clear divergence in growth between Scotland and the rest of the UK. That's growth, as in Gross Domestic Product, and as measured by Scottish government statisticians. Remember that gap matters far more when it translates into income tax revenue. If Scotland can't keep up growth, receipts will, over time, fall behind the amount that would otherwise have come from the Treasury. And the weakness of the growth has begun to look quite sustained. Over the past six quarters, two have seen no growth, and three have seen a paltry 0.2% (the more positive figures for April to June last year have been revised downwards). In the most recent quarter, and over the past two years, Scotland's economy has been growing at about a third of the rate of the UK as a whole. The business view of this is becoming increasingly concerned and impatient. That is particularly as it watches Holyrood budget negotiations focus on options for increasing tax and shifting priorities across public sector spending. Nurturing economic growth, which can be helped by decisions taken through the tax system, as well as training and infrastructure, does not seem to be getting the highest priority across the Scottish Parliament. And amid the febrile atmosphere of Brexit, the UK government has less headspace or political capital available for the economy. Indeed, this week's speech from the prime minister explicitly chose the curtailment of immigration over the optimisation of economic growth and prosperity (that's in the eyes of the vast majority of economists - other opinions are available from a smaller band of Brexiteer economists). The other response is to question whether Gross Domestic Product matters as much as economists say it should. The Scottish government has a project running to find other good targets at which it can aim. The Office for National Statistics is trying to develop a wellbeing index, much of which seems to be aimed at subjective responses to surveys about sentiment. Meanwhile, from Scots economist John McLaren comes a refinement of GDP, to ""active growth"". An alumnus of the civil service and Labour government, he says we can better understand the underlying trends in the Scottish economy if the noise is stripped out of the statistics. So no more ""administration and defence"".  Although health, schooling and justice are highly important to the economy, their output is notoriously hard to measure meaningfully. Gone too is finance, for which it has proven difficult to measure output with much accuracy. And construction is seen, by this reckoning, as investment. It has also been a very important part of keeping Scotland out of recession over the past two years. What's left? ""The private sector, day-to-day activity, including manufacturing and non-finance services,"" says McLaren - ""the active elements of the economy rather than the 'passive' public services."" By that reckoning, the active economy grew at 6.6% between 2008 and 2015, slightly faster than the Scottish economy as a whole, but while the UK ""active economy""' grew 12%. Since the start of 2015, Prof McLaren says that active economy has contracted slightly, whereas for the UK, it has grown by more than 4%. And adapting the most recent Scottish government figures for July to September, the active economy contracted slightly over the preceding quarter and by slightly more over the previous year. The main explanation is that private sector services have been sluggish in Scotland - much less so south of the border. The notion of measuring the ""active economy"" is not officially approved, or statistically road-tested. It isn't so easily comparable as straight-forward GDP. It dodges the challenge of trying to measure output from public services. But it is another way of seeing that Scotland's economy is at best precarious, and seems to have deep-seated problems.",Grim : the most common word used by those @placeholder on the latest Scottish economic data .,gathered,reflecting,caught,arriving,relying,1
"The 32-year-old falsely claimed he was robbed at gunpoint during the Games and was banned for 10 months in September. ""After Rio, I was probably the most hated person in the world,"" the six-time Olympic gold medallist told ESPN. ""There were a couple of points where I was crying, thinking, 'If I go to bed and never wake up, fine.'"" Asked whether that meant he considered suicide, Lochte nodded, adding: ""I was about to hang up my entire life."" Lochte, who has won 12 Olympic medals, is one of the most successful swimmers in history. He won gold at Rio 2016 in the 4x200m freestyle relay alongside team-mates Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas, and Michael Phelps. But his actions following the final races in the pool provoked harsh criticism. ""You can be at the all-time high and then the next second the all-time low,"" he said. ""I love being at the Olympics, but I'm the opposite of what you'd expect. ""It's been that way my whole life. I don't fit in."" Media playback is not supported on this device While in Rio, Lochte said he and three team-mates were held up at a petrol station during a night out. Police questioned the account after CCTV footage showed the group had vandalised the petrol station and Lochte later admitted he had ""over-exaggerated"" his story. Lochte - who is expecting a baby with his fiancee - said he is now positive about the future and has shifted his focus to qualifying for the 2020 Games in Tokyo. ""Everything happens for a reason,"" said Lochte, whose ban expires after next month's World Championships in Hungary. ""I was done with swimming back in 2013. I was drained, wiped out. Now I've found a new purpose with my son. This fire has been ignited, and it's bigger than ever. ""I'm just so excited because I know what's going to happen in Tokyo. Everyone is going to have to watch out.""",American Swimmer Ryan Lochte says he had suicidal thoughts amid the fallout from his @placeholder at the Rio 2016 Olympics .,behaviour,retirement,defeat,post,success,0
"Dominic Chappell headed up a group called Retail Acquisitions, which bought BHS from Sir Philip Green for a nominal £1 in 2015. He told the BBC's Newsnight: ""We could have saved BHS"". Mr Chappell said he was ""upset and devastated"" about the company going into administration, but that he had no regrets about doing the deal. Mr Chappell blames two things, though, for the failure of his plan. Firstly, Christmas trading, which is the mainstay of any big retailer, was well below expectation. Secondly, he says he was badly affected by the decision of the pensions regulator to launch an inquiry into the takeover of BHS, known as an anti-avoidance case. Mr Chappell maintains that the effect of that case was to make it almost impossible for him to get credit from frontline banks, pushing him to take on high-cost loans in order to cover costs. He borrowed at an interest rate of 15% and says ""the impact of the regulator is one of the main things that knocked us over"". Mr Chappell has faced criticism ever since his deal to buy BHS was announced. A man with no retail experience, he has been declared bankrupt three times - although Mr Chappell told me that he expected one of those bankruptcies to be annulled within weeks. His lack of experience has raised questions over whether he was an appropriate man to buy such a large business. However, those close to the deal insist that Mr Chappell came across as a perfectly legitimate businessman, with colleagues who were experienced in corporate turnarounds. He also had advisors from two of the City's best known firms - accountants Grant Thornton and law firm Olswang. ""My portrayal has been too harsh,"" said Mr Chappell. ""Yes I've had two bankruptcies, but the long and the short is that I had a strong board, internationally renowned companies representing me, and I was prepared to spend a lot of money on BHS. ""We were faced with some serious problems. We reduced the overheads of the company and I am confident that, if we could have kept trading, we would have been breaking even in September of next year. We had made huge progress."" As for regrets, he said he should have been quicker with introducing the Company Voluntary Arrangement, which was eventually voted through in March and saw rents fall at many stores. When it came, he said, it received ""overwhelming support"". As for now, Mr Chappell remains hopeful that BHS can still live on. He is involved in one of the bids presently being considered by the administrator, Duff and Phelps. ""The company has a future - it doesn't need to be the PanAm of the High Street,"" he said.","The man behind the takeover of BHS has said his plan to revitalise the retailer "" could have @placeholder "" .",committed,worked,admitted,changed,survived,1
"Police were called to Cherry Tree Lodge Farm, Crow Tree Bank, Doncaster, after several were shot overnight. Six lambs were found dead, with a further six having to be put down due to the extent of their injuries. At Stoupers Gate farm, near Hatfield, six lambs were shot dead overnight between 21 and 22 March, while a further two had to be put down. Police described the attacks as ""sickening"". Insp Mark Payling, from South Yorkshire Police, said the ""thoughtless act of violence... had caused outrage amongst the farming community across the region and beyond"". He added: ""Both incidents have caused distress and outrage not only in our local communities, but across South Yorkshire.""",Twenty lambs have been killed in shootings at @placeholder farms .,beach,following,neighbouring,risk,home,2
"Changes include the treatment of research and development and pensions. The ONS has calculated that the changes mean GDP for 2009 will be revised up by 4.6%, or £65bn. The changes will apply retrospectively, but 2009 is the most recent year that has had its figures updated so far. How the changes to the absolute level of GDP will affect the figures for GDP growth, which is the most closely-watched figure on the UK economy, will be announced on 30 June. Most of these changes have been made by statistical bodies across the world to help make their data comparable. Of the £65bn increase to GDP for 2009, £22bn comes from the decision that spending on research and development should be treated as an investment by companies, not just as normal spending. A contribution of £23.6bn comes from changes to the way the ONS treats non-profit institutions that provide services to households. These include organisations such as charities and religious institutions, which often provide their services for free, but the cost of providing the services is still included in the national accounts. Another £3.5bn comes from the reclassification of government spending on ""military weapons of destruction and the equipment needed to deliver them"", which also now count as a capital investment. There will be £9.7bn added due to the inclusion of illegal drugs and prostitution, as discussed in a previous article on calculating the sex and drugs economy. The level of GDP will be raised £5.1bn by new treatment of defined benefit pension schemes (the ones where you know how much money you will end up receiving), which will also have the effect of doubling the country's savings ratio. There will also be small effects from removing the minimum price at which buying small tools can be considered to be an investment, as well as changes to assumptions about how much will have to be spent decommissioning oil, gas and nuclear infrastructure. The ONS will reveal more details of all of the changes to the calculation of GDP, leading up to the publication of the Blue Book on 30 September, which will contain the most up to date figures calculated in the new way.",The UK 's economic @placeholder will be revised up as a result of changes to the way gross domestic product ( GDP ) is measured by the Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) .,organisation,process,line,output,profile,3
"After several years working away from the UK, Catalan director Calixto Bieito is back with a radical reinterpretation of Shakespeare. In his new work Forests, Bieito has combed the Bard's complete works for mentions of trees, heaths and woodland. The result is, he admits, a work where even Shakespeare scholars will struggle to identify all of the references. But audiences at The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham, can expect scenes influenced by As You Like It's forest of Arden and the moving trees of Macbeth's Great Birnam Wood. ""There are so many forests and trees in Shakespeare,"" says Bieito, talking ahead of Tuesday's opening night. ""I wanted to make an open show with a new plot using the words of Shakespeare like a symphonic poem. I'm much more interested in this than the plot."" Forests marks the Catalan director's first work in the UK since 2004. His previous UK theatre productions include Hamlet and Celestina, both for Edinburgh Festival and Birmingham Rep, and Macbeth at the Barbican, while his opera productions have included Un Ballo in Maschera and Don Giovanni for English National Opera and Die Fledermaus for Welsh National Opera. Bieito's interpretations have often stirred up controversy. His raunchy production of Die Fledermaus in 2002 shocked audiences with an orgy, violence and strong language. He also ruffled feathers with his ENO productions of Don Giovanni and Verdi's A Masked Ball. The latter opened with a dozen men sat on lavatories and featured homosexual rape, satanic sex rituals and masturbation. The BBC's home of 2012: Latest Olympic news, sport, culture, torch relay, video and audio In 2004, Bieito caused a scandal in Berlin when his Abduction from the Seraglio shifted Mozart's opera to a modern-day brothel. The hero was a cross-dressing pimp who slaughtered the prostitutes at the end of the night. ""You say all the time I'm a bad boy,"" says Bieito, ""but I'm more interested in philosophical things."" He originally wasn't keen to take on the latest project when he was approached about a commission for the World Shakespeare Festival. ""When they asked me to do Shakespeare I decided I would not do more. In two years I'd already done Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear in five different languages . At the end of King Lear I was exhausted."" But Bieito re-read the complete works of Shakespeare, including the Sonnets, in under three months. ""I've done 12 Shakespeares in different languages,"" he says  modestly. ""I'm a fast reader."" It was a chance remark from his wife that planted the seed of an idea. ""We were talking about our children, and she said she would like to see them growing up like trees. Maybe it was this sentence that made me think about forests."" Bieito has no qualms about chopping up Shakespeare's prose for his arboreal venture. He cites film director Luis Bunuel as an inspiration. ""You don't need the story, the show is full of pictures. You'd have to be a Shakespeare specialist to recognise everything."" Presented by Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Barcelona Internacional Teatre, Forests features a cast of English and Catalan actors. So what can audiences expect? ""They will identify with what the show says about childhood and the violence that exists in the world,"" Bieito says. ""It's like going to a concert and you feel emotions but you don't know where they're coming from. ""Shakespeare's words are out of context, but they are much more free. They are not a slave to the plot - they get a new dimension."" Forests is at the Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham, until 15 September, and the Barbican in London from 6 to 10 November. It was commissioned for the World Shakespeare Festival and is part of the closing week of the London 2012 Festival.",Calixto Bieito 's sex and violence - @placeholder productions have made him one of Europe 's most controversial directors . Now he is mashing up Shakespeare for the final week of the London 2012 Festival .,priced,free,hardened,related,filled,4
"The hosts made an encouraging start at the EBB Stadium as Matt McClure set up a chance for Jake Gallagher, but his shot comfortably cleared the crossbar. Chester responded with a quick counter-attack, Elliott Durrell pulling his shot wide, before they had a goal chalked off when Kane Richards was penalised for a foul in the 13th minute. The visitors pushed forward again and Ryan Lloyd was unfortunate to see his long-range effort hit the woodwork, while Aldershot went close early in the second period when Scott Rendell was denied by Liam Roberts. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Aldershot Town 0, Chester FC 0. Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Chester FC 0. Tom Shaw (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Aldershot Town. Anthony Straker replaces Nick Arnold. Jordan Chapell (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Chester FC. Jordan Chapell replaces Elliott Durrell. Substitution, Aldershot Town. Iffy Allen replaces Shamir Fenelon. Substitution, Chester FC. Wade Joyce replaces Kane Richards. Substitution, Chester FC. Matty Waters replaces Theo Vassell. Josh Wakefield (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card. Bernard Mensah (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Aldershot Town. Josh Wakefield replaces Liam Bellamy. Second Half begins Aldershot Town 0, Chester FC 0. First Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Chester FC 0. Liam Bellamy (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",Chester had a goal ruled out and also @placeholder the woodwork in a goalless draw with Aldershot in the National League .,lost,eased,shared,secured,struck,4
"They held it two days before the anniversary, on a Sunday, in the hope that it would attract more people. But the crowds were thin, and it was only the enthusiastic participation of T-shirt sellers, face-painters and assorted performers that really kept the event alive. And of course the extraordinary, decent forbearance of the NOKs, as they call themselves, the next-of-kin, as they once again recounted memories of lost loved ones, quite literally lost somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean. But you could not escape the weariness in their voices as they appealed not to be forgotten. Another year has passed, and, notwithstanding the discovery of a barnacle-encrusted flaperon last year, which more or less confirmed that MH370 did indeed end up in the Indian Ocean, the NOKs know nothing else about the fate of the passengers. One clear theme of this year's memorial was for the search to go on, even after the current 120,000 sq km zone has been fully surveyed, probably by the end of June. At the moment there are no plans to continue the operation being run out of western Australia by the Dutch company Fugro, using state-of-the-art deep-sea sonar vehicles. The zone was chosen in 2014 based on modelling from the seven ""handshakes"" MH370 made automatically with a satellite every hour - the only contact with the plane after all other communications were shut down. It was based on the assumption that the Boeing 777 ran out of fuel, and plunged into the sea. One alternative interpretation is that the pilot managed to glide the plane down gradually into the sea, taking it much further. But that would expand the search zone to three times the size of the existing one, which has already taken almost two years to survey. The families, though, believe that should not stop them from trying. ""I definitely don't want the search to end"", says Grace Nathan, whose mother Anne Daisy was on the flight. ""It's a very harrowing thought for me and the next-of-kin. ""I understand from a logical standpoint what they are saying, that the funds are dwindling, that they've looked very thoroughly in this space, but for me it is very important to find the plane - not just for our own emotional reasons and our need for closure, but I believe the flying public also needs to know what happened."" MH370 relatives prepare for long fights This month, the families have had to deal with a more immediate task - meeting the deadline imposed by international aviation regulations to file lawsuits against Malaysia Airlines and other parties. Those who have not filed suits by the two-year anniversary lose the right to do so, and must accept whatever compensation the airline offers. This has been another emotional ordeal for them, says lawyer Arunan Selvaraj, who is representing 15 families. ""The whole thing is very traumatic. They are not sure whether they should have a funeral, whether they should move on. And now, because of the limitation period, everyone is under pressure to file their suits. But they find it very difficult to accept that they are claiming money when they don't even have answers to whether the person is alive or dead."" There has been a flurry of lawsuits filed in the past few days at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur, not just against the airline, but also against the government, the Malaysian aviation authority and the air force. Anyone, in fact, who might have played a role in allowing MH370 to vanish. It is hard to keep track of all the lawsuits, as some are filed on behalf of several relatives of a single passenger. The administrator in charge of the airline's old parent company, Malaysia Airline Systems, who left after it was restructured, says a total of 119 suits filed in Malaysia have been approved. Some may since have been dropped as plaintiffs accepted out-of-court settlements. Relatives have also filed lawsuits in Australia, the US and China. There are some complex variables in all these cases. The 1999 Montreal Convention, which governs liabilities for international aviation, requires an airline to pay out around $160,000 per passenger after a fatal accident regardless of fault. It also places the burden of proof on the airline, which must show in court it was not negligent. In the absence of any evidence of what happened to flight MH370, lawyers say it is all but certain that Malaysia Airlines will be found liable. But the Montreal Convention restricts claimants to filing lawsuits either in the country they are resident, the home country of the airline, or the final destination on their ticket. So very few are eligible to file in this case in the USA, where awards of damages are likely to be much higher than in Malaysia or China. The claimants can file in the US against the aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, and some have tried to do that. But unlike the airline, here the burden of proof lies with the plaintiffs. Again, without any evidence, proving the plane was at fault is next to impossible. There are other uncertainties. The newly restructured Malaysia Airlines insists it has no liability for compensation. And a law passed after the company was renamed last year places limits on claims related to MH370, against it or the old parent company. The airline has repeatedly promised it can and will meet all its legal obligations, but this may be restricted to what its insurance policy covers. After two years of often poor and insensitive communication, there is a widely-felt lack of confidence in how the Malaysian authorities have been dealing with the next-of-kin. ""Sadly the authorities have completely lost the trust of not just the families, but the public at large,"" says KS Narendran, whose wife Chandrika was on board flight MH370. ""I don't know if they have done enough to restore a modicum of trust.""","The memorial the families of those on board flight MH370 organised in Kuala Lumpur for the second anniversary of the plane 's disappearance was held in the same place as the first : an open square , with a concert stage , @placeholder in the middle of one of the dozens of featureless shopping malls which act as public spaces in so much of South East Asia .",writes,sitting,resulting,culminated,built,4
"Indeed, Willie Rennie apologised for being insufficiently expansive when encountering Nicola Sturgeon a day or so ago in Glasgow.  Apparently, they exchanged relatively cheery waves (think Brief Encounter, Govan style). But not, at that point, the customary January salutations. This Mr Rennie swiftly remedied. As did the FM. For a moment, it was like a rerun of BBC Scotland's splendid Hogmanay show. But without the Bay City Rollers, or Jackie Bird. Equally, however, there are limits. The seasonal bonhomie is evaporating and that right speedily. As well as being New, this year is electoral. Scotland goes to the polls in May (and also perhaps later in the year for the EU Referendum). So rival policies and competing strategies were to the fore in the exchanges during the debate which dominated today's proceedings in the chamber. The ostensible topic was how Scotland might reasonably go on Supporting Public Services, Tackling Inequality and Growing the Economy.  The real topic, of course, was that election in May. Welcome to the Holyrood Hustings. The individual policy offers were intriguing in themselves. For example, Labour promised to top up the bonus payable to potential first time home buyers by chucking an extra ??3000 into the pot already established by the UK Government. However, it is the strategy - the positioning - which is perhaps most interesting. Instead of defaulting to the proletarian Left, as some might expect in these Corbynite days, Labour's first big offer in Scotland is to back house purchases for those who are already saving. This policy replaces the offer to compensate those in Scotland who were set to lose cash from the early abolition of tax credits by the Chancellor. On the face of it, a recalibration - from supporting the poorest to backing those seeking to rise up the property ladder. But caveats.  Firstly, the tax credit offer spread far more widely than the lowest income decile. That, indeed, was one reason advanced by the Chancellor for reviewing the credits system in the first place. Secondly, Kezia Dugdale insists that helping young families to get their own home is fully in keeping with Labour values. It was, she argued, both anti-austerity and aspirational. Still, the offer attracted attention and derision in equal measure from both the SNP and the Tories. The SNP noted other endeavours to help first time buyers - and jibed that Labour were simply pinching a Conservative plan. For their part, the Tories queried the source of funding. Labour say they'd forego a planned SNP cut in Air passenger duty and a planned Tory hike in the starting level for upper rate tax which would also reduce revenue; no new money, say the Tories. Labour, I suspect, will be entertained by the degree of political contumely which their plan has drawn. As Alex Salmond is fond of saying, ""the mair they talk, I'm kent the better."" Further, despite the individual policy, Ms Dugdale's wider strategy in her two speeches today (one at Edinburgh University, one in the chamber) was to suggest that the SNP talk Left but walk Right. Indeed, she even borrowed the phrase ""Tartan Tories"". I expect Nicola Sturgeon experienced a warm glow on seeing that one resurrected. Her essential argument was that the SNP simply sought to manage the status quo - without generating the radical change which she said was essential. Ms Sturgeon's party, of course, start this election period with an apparently commanding lead in the polls.  She stressed however that she would not take a single vote for granted. Sensible - and in keeping with her generally cautious demeanour. The SNP's pitch, she said, would be based upon ""record, ideas and vision."" After a litany of proclaimed successes for her government, she promised further reform: integrating health and social care, doubling childcare, building economic growth through enterprise and exports. Stand by also for announcements on tax plans: not for the immediate future. John Swinney has already said he won't use the Calman tax plans which take effect from April (with no capacity to distinguish between standard and upper rates). No, Ms Sturgeon is talking about the potential use of the Smith tax plans as set out in the current Scotland Bill.  It will be intriguing to see the various parties deal with that dose of forward thinking: to witness how they balance equity with protecting services and with fostering business and personal reward. She is talking too about local taxation. I expect that the Scottish Government will publish plans for a fairly substantial reform of council taxation, allied to partial assignment of income tax receipts to local authorities. She is talking too about welfare.  Again, all parties will have to set out their thoughts as to how they might use pending new powers over benefits. The Conservative policy offer today was on education:  primarily new powers for head teachers over budgets, recruitment and attainment. But, again, it is their wider strategy which is intriguing.  They say they want to offer a credible alternative to the SNP. Does that mean that Ruth Davidson hopes to enter Bute House, as First Minister? Well, if the voters so will??? In practice, though, the Tory aim for May is not to replace the existing Scottish Government but to supplant Labour as the principal Opposition party at Holyrood.  Ms Davidson said she was positing an option to the SNP - then proceeded to devote most of her time to attacking Labour as feckless. Willie Rennie said he wanted to offer a ""bright, liberal, green"" programme for Scotland.  I expect Mr Rennie had hoped to occupy the centre ground, should Labour and the Tories be prepared to desert it, to Left and Right. That seems, in Scotland at least, rather less than likely.  Still, Mr Rennie is adamant that his band of five Holyrood Parliamentarians have achieved far more in terms of effective scrutiny than might be thought numerically proportionate. How much more, he mused, could they do with greater representation after May? And the Greens? They want to overtake the Lib Dems by promoting environmental concerns and querying GDP growth as the quintessential target. Patrick Harvie made an interesting point (actually, he made several, but one will do for now). Yes, he said, the new system of local taxation had to be fair and progressive. Politicians favour words like those because they tend not to frighten the voters. But, he said, the system also had to raise sufficient revenue to fund the improved services promised by various political leaders at Holyrood.  That means, bluntly, some folk paying more in tax. Not sure even a Hogmanay hug will dull the pain of that moment for those who are affected. Folk tend to welcome taxes being levied upon their neighbours. But then that's politics. And those are the choices which will soon be set before us.","They mean it , you know . Our political leaders are sincere when they offer each other - and the wider community - a guid New Year ( or the happy @placeholder ) . Those Hogmanay hugs are for real .",ending,estuary,equivalent,body,era,2
"Hundreds of fans had queued outside London's Prince of Wales theatre on Monday to see the first UK performance. The Book of Mormon, which lampoons religion and musicals, has already been a huge Broadway hit. To deafening cheers, Parker said: ""It's very cool to be here for the fan performance."" He added: ""We heard that a lot of you lined up overnight for tickets... and we want to say from the bottom of our hearts, you're... crazy. We don't know that any show can live up to that."" By Will GompertzArts editor The Book of Mormon's reputation is built on its biting satire, crude humour and the mocking of Mormonism. There is plenty of all three. But having now seen the show twice, I suspect that at least some of its success is down to its rather conservative nature. Strip away all the vulgarities and what you are left with is a traditionally structured, feel-good musical, which is chock-full of catchy show tunes. The Book of Mormon follows the story of two missionaries who are sent from Salt Lake City to preach in a remote Ugandan village. Written by Stone, Parker and Avenue Q's co-creator Robert Lopez, the show is directed by Parker and Casey Nicholaw. The Broadway show won nine Tony awards last year. It recouped its $11.4m (£7.3m) investment in nine months, making its money back in part by charging up to $477 (£304) for tickets. The West End show is sold out until the end of July, with a small number of daily tickets available via a lottery system. The show's content is not for the faint-hearted, with strong language and jokes about religion, Aids and female circumcision. ""We never sit down and say how can we shock,"" Parker told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme.  ""It is unconventional material for a musical. That's the sort of stuff that we love."" Stone added: ""It's about two white Mormon boys who grew up in Utah and are sent to a place with Old Testament problems - and nothing they've been taught helps them at all with these problems."" Elder Clifford Herbertson, a senior spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the official name of the Mormon Church), said he thought the musical would raise awareness of the church in the UK. ""I think the important point is that it's entertainment, it's not education, so it will raise awareness but I don't think it will necessarily help people's understanding or appreciation of the church,"" he told the BBC. Scott Brown, New York Magazine's theatre critic, described The Book of Mormon as a ""wacky, irreverent tale"". ""It's one of those revitalising successes,"" he told BBC 5 live Breakfast. ""Broadway is like the pharmaceutical business - they crank out all these drugs, but there is just one that carries the rest of the market for a huge amount of time, and this was Broadway's Viagra for a while."" Londoner Christina Tencheva was among those who queued for hours on Monday for a reduced-price ticket to the first performance. ""It was outrageous in the best way possible,"" she said after the show. ""I knew it was going to be rude in places but I came in with an open mind. I think anyone can enjoy it as long as you leave any prejudice at the door."" Anna Koscheck, a regular West End theatre-goer, noted the show's youthful audience.  ""I pointed out to my friend when we went in that everyone is so young.  I don't think I've ever seen that before."" Matt Stone and Trey Parker met at the University of Colorado and as students created the indie film Cannibal! The Musical.  Their cartoon series South Park made its TV debut in 1997. The big screen version South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut earned Parker an Oscar nomination for best song in 2000.  In 2004, the pair returned to cinemas with Team America: World Police, an adult satire with a cast of marionettes. Stone and Parker then spent seven years working on The Book of Mormon, which opened on Broadway in March 2011.",South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have @placeholder to the West End stage to introduce their satirical musical The Book of Mormon .,reacted,contributed,taken,added,returned,2
"The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) said they had spent three months living in deteriorating conditions near the town of Sinjar. Since 4 February, they have been unable to access food and drinking water. Two children and two women are believed to have died due to the cold weather, and IS has shelled them three times. UNHCR spokesman Rupert Colville said the so-called IS had apparently threatened them with further attacks unless they agreed to relocate to territory controlled by the jihadist group. He urged the Kurdistan Regional Government to ""act as quickly as possible to ensure the safety, protection and access to basic humanitarian assistance for this group of extremely vulnerable people"". If the Kurdish authorities had security concerns about the group, they should vet people ""on an individual basis in a safe location, in full transparency and in accordance with the law"", Mr Colville added. He did not say where the stranded people were from, but Kurdish forces are reported to have expelled dozens of families whose male relatives were suspected of having fought for or aided IS fighters. The Kurds, backed by US-led coalition air strikes, recaptured Sinjar in November, 15 months after IS militants overran the north-western town and killed or enslaved thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority who lived there. Last month, the UNHCR said it had received reports of increasing human rights violations and abuses committed against Sunni Arab communities in parts of Iraq reclaimed from IS fighters, including looting and destruction of property, forced evictions, abductions, illegal detention and extrajudicial killings. Sunni Arabs had also faced increasing discrimination, harassment and violence from other ethnic and religious groups who accuse them of supporting IS militants, it added.",The UN is increasingly concerned about 559 Sunni Arab Iraqis @placeholder in no-man 's land between Islamic State ( IS ) militants and Kurdish forces .,groups,stuck,drowned,murdered,erupted,1
"The Local Government Association (LGA) says some UK outlets already do so, but the industry must do more. A mandatory scheme in the US has given large restaurant chains until the end of 2016 to put calorie counts on menus. The LGA, which represents councils in England and Wales, has called for voluntary action. Izzi Seccombe, chairman of the LGA's community well-being board, said: ""We are calling on cinema, restaurant and pub chains to step up and show leadership in tackling the obesity crisis, by providing clear and graphic signs at counters and on menus. ""In many cases, people are unaware of how many calories they are consuming. ""Food and drink outlets should be doing more to provide clear and prominent labelling which spells this out clearly."" More than 3.5 million children in Britain are classed as overweight or obese, the LGA said. It said research showed that soft drinks were the biggest contributor to children's sugar intake. A report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition has advised the government to halve the current recommended intake of free sugars from 10% to 5%.","Every restaurant , pub and cinema chain should be displaying the calorie @placeholder of their food and drink , council leaders have said .",nature,end,phase,flavour,content,4
"Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny's language sounded more diplomatic than that of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Mr Ahern told the BBC any British exit from the EU would be ""senseless"" and set Northern Ireland back ""light years"". But given the close trading, social and cultural relations between Britain and Ireland, it is obvious any taoiseach will be worried about what would be a far reaching change to the status quo. This week, a report from an Irish parliamentary committee spelled out Dublin's concerns in more detail. The Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) Joint Committee on European Union Affairs wants the Irish government to be ""involved from the outset in all negotiations on the UK relationship with the EU, as UK's membership of the EU is an issue of vital national interest to Ireland"". When it comes to Northern Ireland the committee argues that - in the context of the Good Friday Agreement - ""the Irish Government has a voice in relation to the future of Northern Ireland and must feature in EU negotiations with the UK"". In the event of a British withdrawal from the EU, the committee wants London and Dublin to make arrangements to replace any lost EU funding. Perhaps even more difficult to achieve, the committee wants the Irish and UK Governments to negotiate ""to have Northern Ireland recognised (in an EU context) as having 'a special position' in the UK, in view of the Good Friday Agreement"".  It also recommends that ""special arrangements be negotiated at EU level in that context, to maintain North-South relations and Northern Irish EU citizenship rights"". Boiling that down, I assume the idea is that if someone is living in Northern Ireland, but carrying an Irish passport, they should continue to enjoy the benefits of EU membership, even if the UK has pulled out. Some unionists are not impressed by the Irish Parliamentary Committee's intervention. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MEP Diane Dodds regards the committee's view that Dublin must play a role in Mr Cameron's renegotiation as ""unwelcome interference in the affairs of the UK"". Should Britain leave the EU, there is no doubt there will be practical consequences so far as the UK's only land border is concerned. But will it, as the Irish committee fears, ""result in issues around freedom of movement in border areas, border controls and customs checking""? On security grounds alone, it seems unlikely that a new network of fixed customs posts and immigration offices will be erected between Newry and Dundalk or Londonderry and Donegal. Indeed, as the Irish Parliamentary Committee itself points out, arrangements like the British Irish ""Common Travel Area"" which allows the free movement of people pre-date UK or Irish membership of the EU, as does the special status of Irish people living in the UK as ""non-foreign aliens"" (a term I hadn't been aware of until reading the committee's report). However, it is hard to argue with the committee's contention that ""should the UK leave the EU, then the Northern Ireland border would become significant as it would become an external EU border"". ""This would raise considerable challenges for the open borders policy between the UK and Ireland,"" the committee's report added. If a UK outside the EU sought to tighten immigration controls at Dover and Heathrow, could it completely ignore a porous land border with a neighbouring EU state? Back in the days of Tony Blair's ill fated ""e-borders"" initiative, unionists objected to the idea they might be asked to show passports when travelling on flights or ferries between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. The ""e-borders"" initiative was scrapped, but if the UK pulled out of the EU, would it ask Irish officials to carry out UK immigration checks, introduce more extensive mobile checks on the Northern Ireland border or flirt once again with the idea that operating checks on travel across the Irish Sea makes geographical, if not political sense?","Covering the talks between David Cameron and Enda Kenny in Downing Street last week , it was obvious that Irish concerns about any potential British withdrawal from the European Union @placeholder more of the two prime ministers ' time than their discussion of what might happen next in Stormont 's budgetary saga .",were,enjoy,occupied,wasted,gang,2
"Jordan Hill, Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, all 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24, appeared in a Chicago court on Friday. The four have been charged with hate crimes and aggravated kidnapping and battery, among other things. An online fundraiser for their victim has collected $51,000 (£42,500) so far. Denying the four suspects bail, Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil asked: ""Where was your sense of decency?"" Prosecutors told the court the beating started in a van and continued at a house, where the suspects allegedly forced the 18-year-old white victim, who suffers from schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder, to drink toilet water and kiss the floor. Police allege the van was earlier stolen by Mr Hill, who is also accused of demanding $300 from the victim's mother while they held him captive, according to the Chicago Tribune. The court was also told the suspects stuffed a sock into his mouth, taped his mouth shut and bound his hands with a belt. In a video made for Facebook Live which was watched millions of times, the assailants can be heard making derogatory statements against white people and Donald Trump. The victim had been dropped off at a McDonalds to meet Mr Hill - who was one of his friends - on 31 December. He was found by a police officer on Tuesday, 3 January, a day after he was reported missing by his parents. Prosecutors say the suspects each face two hate crimes counts, one because of the victim's race and the other because of his disabilities.","Four people accused of kidnapping and torturing a mentally disabled man in a "" racially motivated "" attack @placeholder on Facebook have been denied bail .",disappeared,group,streamed,focus,made,2
"Former Chilean Football Association president Harold Mayne-Nicholls, 56, was one of five senior officials Fifa said were being investigated. Mayne-Nicholls has served the suspension because the initial seven-year ban was issued in 2015. He admitted speaking to officials from Qatar's bid about work placements for relatives at the Aspire youth academy. Fifa's ethics committee felt those conversations provided ""cause enough to doubt the integrity of the inspection process"", according to leaked emails between a committee member and Mayne-Nicholls. The Chilean's ban was initially reduced on appeal to three years, but on Friday it was further cut to two by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Mayne-Nicholls chaired Fifa's bid evaluation group for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which were awarded to Russia and Qatar respectively. In his 2010 report to Fifa, Mayne-Nicholls expressed serious concerns about conditions in Qatar, where summer temperatures can reach 50C. Mayne-Nicholls was one of several senior Fifa officials to call for an independent report into the award process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to be published in full.",A Fifa official who @placeholder bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups has had his ban from football cut to two years .,drowned,swapped,assessed,criticised,commuted,2
"As perhaps Donald Trump's closest political adviser, he was accused by Senator Ted Cruz during the primary campaign of having half a century of trickery behind him, and being the master of the smear. Mr Stone responded by calling the senator a liar and comparing him to Richard Nixon, always a low blow. And he should know. He learned his trade as a political fixer in the Nixon White House, where, he's happy to admit, he was part of the rough political generation of the Watergate era. He is smooth, soft spoken and funny, and relaxed in a white suit and the kind of brown and white shoes that a Gatsby might have worn. But he's as tough as they come. We spoke in Cleveland about Mr Trump, his friend for nearly 40 years. He acknowledges the candidate's penchant for shooting from the hip, his egocentricity, and his unpredictability. So why was he fit to be president? ""He's smart - don't forget that - and he listens, probably more than you think."" I asked him how we might picture him, as president, sitting down in Russian President Vladimir Putin's office. ""Putin will respect him more than he respects Obama. I'll tell you that. They have a lot in common."" Then, we talk about the Republican Party. The party of the Bushes - no-one from that clan has come to this convention - is, to Mr Stone, a thing of the past that is gone for ever. ""Trump is the outsider who has changed everything. This is like nothing we have seen before. The times have changed completely."" He's too long in the tooth to predict the course of the campaign - which he thinks lies 50/50 as things stand - but he will admit something that the grizzled veterans of the circuit know for a fact but sometimes try to put out of their minds: this will be the ""dirtiest, most bruising"" campaign of them all. So I asked whether he, and the others who brought us campaigns dominated by attack ads, felt regret. Hadn't the public discourse been poisoned by all this? Not at all, says Mr Stone. Remember that when Abraham Lincoln was running for election in 1860, there was a leaflet campaign against him in Illinois based on the rumour that he'd fathered a mixed-race child. Take from that what you will. It's clear that this will be a brutal piece of hand-to-hand combat. The Republican message, hammered out every evening at the convention this week like a drum beat, is that Hillary Clinton - the secretary of state who set up her own email server - should be made to pay. ""Hillary - prison 2016,"" say the placards. Mr Stone hardly needs to be tempted to launch into vitriolic attacks on the Clintons, for whom he has a special loathing. Their charitable foundation, for example, is to him ""organised crime"". This is politics in the raw. And with Mr Stone at the heart of the Trump campaign, it's obvious that although the candidate's tone may change a a little - Mr Stone reminds me never to forget that Mr Trump has never done this before, at any level - he will end as he began, as a street-fighter. We'll see that, especially, in the three debates scheduled for later September and October. But I put it to Mr Stone that Mrs Clinton is a lawyer with a razor-sharp mind who will be ready for anything Mr Trump throws at her. His response is that she'll find it hard to deal with someone who is as happy to break the rules as Mr Trump. ""He'll say things that no-one else would say."" And he makes a surprising observation about the woman for whom so many Republicans have developed a dislike that sometimes feels like an obsession. ""I think she has a glass jaw."" In the boxing ring - it's Mr Trump's favourite sport - that's fatal for a fighter. Mr Stone thinks she will find it hard to match the most unorthodox bruiser she has ever had to tangle with. On the other side, they disagree. For the Clinton team, the debates are a happy prospect. They think it will be Mr Trump who ends up on the floor. We shall see. But with Roger Stone in his corner, we can say one thing. This campaign, noisy and even raucous as it has already become, is going to be bloody. For the man who will prepare Mr Trump for the ring, there's no other way.",No - one in America knows more about the political dark arts than Roger Stone . His friends would say he can deal with any dirty trick ; his enemies would reply that he @placeholder most of them .,attracts,did,divided,invented,deserves,3
"Boron nitride, or ""white graphene"", is similar to its namesake: sheets of atoms laid out like a chain-link fence. A report in Nature Communications shows the material can preferentially soak up organic pollutants such as industrial chemicals or engine oil. However, it is easier to clean and re-use than other such ""nanomaterials"". The family of these materials includes much-touted, carbon-based members such as graphene and nanotubes, and are notable in part for their surface area-to-weight ratio. That allows them to take up an incredible amount for their size, making them attractive for the clean-up of pollutants. The new work suggests that a preparation of boron nitride could outperform many nanomaterials and more traditional approaches. A team from the Institute for Frontier Materials at Deakin University in Australia and the Pierre and Marie Curie University in France started by making porous boron nitride ""nanosheets"" - wavy, single-atom layers of the material with holes in them. These porous sheets, which together form a coarse white powder, vastly outperformed sheets that did not have the pores, and commercially available chunks of boron nitride that is not made up of the tiny sheets. The porous version exhibited high ""selective absorption and adsorption"" - preferentially picking up organic pollutants and dyes out of water. The powder soaked up as much as 33 times its own weight in the chemical ethylene glycol and 29 times its own weight of engine oil. Even still, the saturated powder floats on water. The pollutants could then be driven out of the nooks and crannies of the material by heating it in a commercial furnace, or by simply igniting it - a trick that other, more established materials could only survive a few times before becoming completely clogged up. ""All these features make these porous nanosheets suitable for a wide range of applications in water purification and treatment,"" the authors wrote. Francesco Stellacci of EPFL in Switzerland called the work ""an excellent paper in a booming field"". ""The data reported are indeed excellent and impressive,"" he told BBC News. ""The key question is if this is the material that at the end will be used for remediation."" Prof Stellacci said that a market for such materials does not yet exist, and boron nitride's striking clean-up powers may or may not be enough to establish it as a leading contender, even among nanomaterials. ""I think that at the end it will not be performance that will determine the final material used, but more costs and scalability. I really hope that one of these materials, and maybe this one, will make it,"" he said.",A next- generation material first earmarked for use in electronics has proven itself a capable clean - up @placeholder for polluted waters .,heritage,display,solution,proposals,agent,4
"The building in Manor Road, Wallasey, was targeted between 17:00 BST on Monday and 09:00 BST. No-one was thought to be at the property at the time. Merseyside Police is investigating. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was ""extremely concerning that Angela Eagle has been the victim of a threatening act."" Ms Eagle announced her intention to challenge Mr Corbyn after resigning from the shadow cabinet. Mr Corbyn said other MPs ""are receiving abuse and threats"". He said: ""As someone who has also received death threats this week and previously, I am calling on all Labour Party members and supporters to act with calm and treat each other with respect and dignity, even where there is disagreement. ""I utterly condemn any violence or threats, which undermine the democracy within our party and have no place in our politics."" Liscard Councillor Bernie Mooney said staff came into the office on Tuesday morning and ""found a brick had been put through the window"". She said the manager found glass ""up and down the stairs"". It was the first physical attack on the building, but she said Ms Eagle had been subjected to ""hundreds of vile, horrid emails and messages on the phone"". She described her as ""a very popular MP in Wallasey"" and people in the area are ""absolutely mortified"" by the incident. Another member of staff who had spoken to Ms Eagle was told by the MP she was ""disgusted"" by what had happened and ""worried for her staff"", she added. Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Jane Kennedy has visited the constituency office to speak to staff following the brick attack, describing those who did it as ""cowards"". She said: ""It is an absolutely disgraceful situation that you cannot take part in a democracy without having this kind of threat. ""The violence of it, the vile nature of the abuse that is being given to Angela Eagle and to the other members of her staff and to those who support her is completely unacceptable.""",A window has been @placeholder at the constituency office of Labour leadership challenger Angela Eagle .,unveiled,criticised,smashed,handed,set,2
"The singer and TV star died in August aged 72 following a stroke. Lady Colin Campbell was the second most popular term in the UK after the socialite appeared on ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here. For the world as a whole, basketball player Lamar Odom topped the list followed by Charlie Hebdo. Mr Odom, the estranged husband of Khloe Kardashian, rose to prominence in October after he fell unconscious during a visit to a brothel, resulting in him being taken to hospital. He later emerged from his coma. Charlie Hebdo is the French satirical magazine attacked by gunmen in January. Google's list of top-trending terms refers to queries that experienced the highest level of traffic over a sustained period of time during 2015 and were not nearly as popular the previous year. The firm publishes the details as an alternative to simply listing the most requested phrases - such as ""Facebook"", ""internet banking"" and ""weather forecast"". It does not disclose the number of searches involved. The top 10 terms searched for by UK-based users were: The search firm also provides topic-specific breakdowns, which reveal: Some of the terms that appear within the global top 10 might still be unfamiliar to many people. For example, Ronda Rousey was the eighth most popular search. The 28-year-old American is a martial arts star in the Ultimate Fighting Championships who suffered her first defeat in November. And Agar.io came in third place. It refers to a popular video game in which players control a blob that has to consume other blobs to survive.","Cilla Black was the UK 's top - trending search term on Google in 2015 , according to the tech firm 's annual review of its users ' @placeholder .",preferences,activity,accounts,data,rankings,1
"In two of the EU's biggest countries - France and the UK - anti-EU, anti-immigration parties came top. And in struggling Greece it was a Eurosceptic party of the left - Syriza - which won. Yet overall the pro-EU parties remained the dominant players. Here are 10 highlights of the elections, in which millions of Europe's voters protested against their leaders - or simply did not bother to vote. For the first time the far-right National Front (FN) won a French national election. It will send 24 MEPs to Brussels - compared with just three elected in 2009. A triumphant Marine Le Pen said she would fight ""crazy measures like votes for immigrants"". Her party trounced the ruling Socialists of President Francois Hollande, beaten into third place. It was a painful blow for the unpopular president, as France has always been at the heart of the European project. Mr Hollande said it was a ""problem"" not only for France but for Europe as a whole - a problem which had ""tarnished the image of France"". German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble deplored the result, labelling the FN ""fascist"". In the UK, Nigel Farage's anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) pulled off a similar triumph. ""The UKIP fox is in the Westminster henhouse,"" Mr Farage said, after making political history by breaking the Conservative-Labour duopoly in a national election. Like the FN, UKIP boosted its tally of MEPs to 24. But it is not yet clear who its new allies will be in the European Parliament - Mr Farage has ruled out any deal with Ms Le Pen. UKIP now has its sights on Westminster - though the British ""first-past-the-post"" electoral system makes it a lot harder for small parties to win seats. UKIP is campaigning for a British exit from the EU, and calls for tough curbs on immigration. The anti-EU trend was not repeated in the Netherlands, despite predictions that the Freedom Party (PVV) of Geert Wilders was poised to do well. The anti-immigration, anti-Islam PVV won just three seats and fell to fourth place - well behind liberal and centre-left, pro-EU parties. Before the election the PVV and Ms Le Pen's FN vowed to team up in a new Eurosceptic bloc, but such an alliance has been much weakened by the Dutch result. In solidly pro-EU Germany a new anti-euro party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), made its mark, winning seven seats. It is now in the 67-strong non-aligned bloc called ""Others"" in the new parliament - independent parties which campaigned on a host of different issues. AfD is not anti-EU but believes the euro is fundamentally flawed and says German taxpayers must not pay the bills for reckless governments or banks in other EU countries. Another surprise in the German election was that a neo-Nazi politician, Udo Voigt, was elected, for the National Democratic Party (NPD). For years there has been heated debate in Germany about banning the NPD, but many fear that a ban would only drive the membership underground. In Greece the new ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party - often described as ""neo-Nazis"" too - won three seats. The party, whose leaders are under criminal investigation, came third. Uniforms and fascist-era emblems are also a feature of Jobbik in Hungary, which won three seats. A common feature of the parties is their hostility towards immigrants. In some cases party activists have been involved in racist attacks. Italy had a relatively high turnout - 60% - and voters gave strong backing to the new prime minister Matteo Renzi, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD). Many were surprised by the scale of his win. His rise in national politics has been meteoric - not long ago he was mayor of Florence, and did not even have a seat in parliament. Mr Renzi's PD came well ahead of the anti-establishment, Eurosceptic Five Star Movement of Beppe Grillo, and the right-wing Forza Italia party of former PM Silvio Berlusconi. It was an encouraging sign for pro-EU leaders who hope that Mr Renzi's reforms can revive the ailing Italian economy. In Greece and Spain there were impressive results for new radical left Eurosceptic parties. The Syriza party led by Alexis Tsipras won in Greece with 26.6%. He also led the European Left bloc, condemning the EU/IMF bailout conditions for Greece as ""catastrophic"". He wants new national elections and a full renegotiation of the Greek bailout. The rise of radical left parties in Spain also disrupted the traditional political order there. Spain's two dominant parties - of centre-left and centre-right - dropped below 50% of the vote, in a historic result. The new Podemos party, born of the indignados protest movement, surged into fourth place,  just behind the former communists. On results night at the European Parliament there was a solemn announcement before the official results came in: the ""inevitable"" decline in turnout had been reversed. By how much? Well, 0.1%. So this time overall turnout was 43.1%. But as the dust settled the overall picture was not encouraging. Yes, turnout was very high in countries where voting is compulsory, such as Belgium, Luxembourg and Malta. But turnout was very low in much of Eastern Europe - Slovakia was lowest, with just 13%. And in Poland, where EU membership is very popular, it was just 23%. East European countries are net recipients from the EU budget - yet their people appear disengaged from EU politics. A new German word entered the EU vocabulary in this election: ""Spitzenkandidaten"". It refers to the lead candidates of the party blocs in the parliament, vying to become the next EU Commission president. For the first time in a European election these party rivals held live TV debates about EU policy, presenting their platforms to millions of voters across Europe. It was an effort to bring the EU closer to ordinary people - but also an exercise in power politics. European Parliament leaders were showing that they would not let EU governments impose a Commission president on them. Under the Lisbon Treaty, the governments have to ""take account"" of the election result when they choose the EU's most powerful bureaucrat. In theory that gives the voters some influence, albeit indirectly. The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) won overall, despite losing more than 60 seats. But it is not clear whether the EPP 's candidate Jean-Claude Juncker, a veteran of EU politics, will succeed in his bid to become next Commission president. An EU leaders' summit on 27 May marked the start of hard bargaining over the top Commission job and his or her new team, who will draft EU laws in Brussels. A name should be finalised by the end of June - but then the whole Commission still has to get approval from the new parliament. That process will not be complete until October at the earliest. Some EU leaders - notably the UK's David Cameron and Hungary's Viktor Orban - are likely to oppose Mr Juncker's bid. And Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has not given him firm backing.","The European elections will be @placeholder as an "" earthquake "" which rocked the EU 's political establishment .",regarded,condemned,remembered,describes,known,2
"The German online newspaper Spiegel described it as ""the most honest government statement"", because Mrs Merkel's frustration was obvious. ""We are in an extraordinary situation,"" she said. The chancellor has been under pressure for weeks after her decision to temporarily suspend the Dublin protocol to allow thousands of migrants to travel from Budapest into Germany. Since then a record number of people have arrived here; government figures reveal at least 164,000 refugees and migrants entered Germany in September alone. ""I didn't create this,"" Mrs Merkel said. ""I had to react and change an extraordinary situation into a controlled situation but we have to deal with it now."" It's tempting to wonder whether the chancellor is losing control. She continues to defiantly defend her open-door refugee policy. It has won her international plaudits but it's causing consternation at home. Her approval ratings are sliding, a growing number of Germans are turning out to anti-refugee demonstrations (last night 8,000 people supported a demonstration organised by the populist party Alternative for Germany, AfD) and political pressure is growing. Thirty-four of her own conservative local party leaders have written to her, accusing her of pursuing a policy that is nether part of her party's programme or in line with German and European law. It's time, they say, for Germany to start turning people away at the border. They've provoked a rather irritable response. ""We can't close the borders,"" Mrs Merkel said. ""We carry out checks there but there are 3,000 kilometres of border - do you want to erect a fence all the way along it? People will still find ways to come; there is no stop to the influx. ""I think about it all day, I think what are the possibilities. We can protect the outer European border better but even that won't stop people from coming."" If anything, Mrs Merkel is pursuing her policy more single-mindedly than ever before. In fact - in a move which effectively sidelines her Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere - she has just brought day-to-day control of the refugee crisis under her own roof. The chancellery and her chief-of-staff, Peter Altmaier, will now manage the situation. Increasingly, it seems like a personal crusade. She claims she's simply exemplifying the Christian values of the CDU. But her language is emotional: ""I'm proud that we are receiving refugees in a friendly and open manner. I don't want to compete to be the country which does best at scaring off refugees."" The chancellor had of course hoped for more support from her European neighbours. Nevertheless, she's pledged to keep chipping away at reluctant EU member states to create longer-term solutions. She's taken flak for her willingness to work with Turkey. ""It's my damned duty,"" she snapped in response. But while it's tempting to see the chancellor as an isolated figure, hell-bent on an unpopular policy which will bring down her chancellorship, it's worth noting that (perhaps now with the exception of Mr de Maiziere), her cabinet is solidly behind her. Only a handful of senior MPs have broken rank to publicly criticise her. There is no serious pretender to her crown. In every affected German town and city, thousands of people are volunteering their time, money and possessions to help the refugees. And the next general election is still two years away.","German chancellor Angela Merkel has made a rare appearance on a German television talk show , to defend her refugee policy . She is famed for her deadpan delivery . Yet , as she was repeatedly questioned over her open - door refugee policy , the mask @placeholder .",crowd,reveals,body,slipped,remained,3
"Arran has been put in fourth place, Skye fifth, mainland Orkney sixth and Lewis and Harris joint eighth. Jersey, a British Crown Dependency, was rated by TripAdvisor as the UK's top island followed by the Isle of Wight and St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. No Scottish island made it on to a top 10 list of best European isles. The top European island was Santorini in Greece. Jersey is part of the British Isles but not the UK. However, it and other Channel Islands featured in TripAdvisor's search for tourists' favourite UK islands. Last year, Lewis and Harris were jointly named as the best islands in Europe by the international travel website. The isles also beat rivals in Thailand, Chile and Madagascar to be included in the site's top five islands in the world in 2014. Orkney and Mull were also named in the European top 10 last year.",Scottish isles have made it on to a TripAdvisor list of the UK 's best islands for travellers @placeholder from tourists ' reviews .,saved,compiled,drawn,team,action,1
"The two candidates clashed over a claim that hackers tied to the Russian state were trying to influence the election. Two days earlier, on Friday, the US director of national intelligence had pointed the finger at the highest levels of the Russian state for intrusions. Critics of Russia have argued that any role would be part of a growing trend of not just stealing information but also weaponising it. The story begins in May, when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) became concerned about suspicious behaviour on its computer network. It called in the security firm CrowdStrike to take a look. Two hacker groups were found on the system, one that had just entered and another that had been there for nearly a year. ""We recognised that there was an adversary in their environment that had targeted that network and was looking at communications…. and research on opposition candidates,"" Shawn Henry, chief security officer at Crowdstrike and a former executive assistant director of the FBI, tells the BBC. ""We did attribution back to the Russian government. ""In this particular case we believed it was the Russian government involved in an espionage campaign - essentially collecting intelligence against candidates for the US presidency."" But after the DNC and Crowdstrike went public in pointing the finger, material was released into the public domain, shifting the focus from traditional espionage - theft of data - to something more like an influence operation designed to have an impact in the real world. This is part of a wider trend of Russian activity that Western officials have been watching with alarm for some time. ""We are seeing a more open and aggressive use of cyber, so that the information becomes a weapon and a weapon of influence,"" Sir David Omand, a former director of Britain's GCHQ, tells the BBC. On Friday, the US director of national intelligence went public over these concerns. ""These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process,"" James Clapper said in a joint statement with the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. ""Such activity is not new to Moscow - the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. ""We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's most senior officials could have authorised these activities."" The Kremlin has rejected the accusations, describing them as ""nonsense"". One additional concern is that information might be manipulated before it is leaked. In other words, false information could be planted amongst a dump of real data which will be picked up and reported on before people have a chance to verify it. A number of US states have also reported scanning and probing of election related systems - such as voter databases. US intelligence said this may have originated from servers operated by a Russian company but it said it was not in a position to attribute this activity to the Russian government. It also said that it would be difficult for anyone to actually alter ballot counts because of the decentralised nature of the system and protections in place. But even the attempt and the possibility of intrusion may be enough to cause problems when it comes to public perception around election time. ""The only reason I can see why you would want to do that is to sow doubt about the outcome of the election,"" Sir David Omand says of the activity. ""Because if you are in a district where you have to rely on the voting machines and you know the voting machines [and] the database has been penetrated can you really trust the result? ""You will very quickly get rumours after the election that the result in some areas could be in doubt. ""I can see plausible reasons why - at the moment - Russia would be quite happy to see the United States inconvenienced in that way."" Russia has pioneered techniques of hybrid warfare and information operations in recent years including in conflicts in Ukraine and Georgia. Russian intelligence also has a long history of ""active measures"" and ""influence operations"" going back to the Cold War. But cyberspace offers a new means for pursuing this agenda and on a transformative scale. With discussion about how the US should respond, the trend worries some experts. ""At the nation state level there needs to be diplomatic discussion about what is acceptable and what is not,"" argues Mr Henry. ""Or we will see an increasing arms race in this space. ""And that doesn't work out for anybody.""","Amidst all the heat of the presidential debate on Sunday night , hackers @placeholder for a brief moment .",called,thought,surfaced,disappeared,following,2
"Carter was part of the Jamaican quartet that won the 4x100m in Beijing in 2008. His was one of 454 selected doping samples retested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year, and has been found to contain the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine. Bolt, 30, completed an unprecedented 'triple triple' in Rio last summer. He won gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay to add to his successes in the same events in 2008 and 2012. Carter, 31, was also part of the squad that won the event in London five years ago and helped Jamaica win at the World Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2015. He ran the first leg for Jamaica's 4x100m relay team in Beijing, which also included Michael Frater, Asafa Powell and Bolt. The team won in a then-world record of 37.10 seconds, ahead of Trinidad and Tobago and Japan, who could have their medals upgraded. Brazil would then receive bronze. Russia's Tatiana Lebedeva has also been stripped of her Beijing long jump and triple jump silver medals after dehydrochlormethyltestosterone was found in one of her samples. Carter was tested on the evening of the Beijing final in 2008 but that was found at the time to contain no ""adverse analytical finding"". More than 4,500 tests were carried out at those Games, with nine athletes caught cheating. An anomaly was discovered in Carter's submission following the IOC's decision to retest 454 samples from Beijing using the latest scientific analysis methods. Carter and the Jamaican National Olympic Committee were told of the adverse finding in May - before the Rio Games - and told his B sample would be tested. It was reported by Reuters in June that Carter's A sample had been found to contain methylhexanamine, which has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) prohibited list since 2004. It was reclassified in 2011 as a ""specified substance"", meaning one that is more susceptible to a ""credible, non-doping explanation"". Sold as a nasal decongestant in the United States until 1983, methylhexanamine has been used more recently as an ingredient in dietary supplements. Speaking in June, Bolt said the prospect of having to return the gold was ""heartbreaking"". He told the Jamaica Gleaner: ""For years you've worked hard to accumulate gold medals and you work hard to be a champion, but it's one of those things. ""I'm more concerned about the athlete and I hope he gets through it."" Britain's two-time Olympic silver medallist Roger Black on BBC Radio 5 live It takes the shine off Bolt's achievement. Eight doesn't have the same ring - 'double treble, plus two'. It will be really frustrating for him. You can only account for yourself, you cannot account for your team-mates. We know it has nothing to do with Usain Bolt - it will not damage his reputation - but it will affect it, take shine off it and he won't be a happy man. When I hear stories like this, a part of me does celebrate. If athletes think they have got away with it, then with retrospective testing they can never sleep peacefully. It has to be the strongest deterrent the sport now has. Even when athletes retire they can still have their medals taken away. Marlon Devonish, 40, was part of the British 4x100m relay team which lost the silver medal at the World Championships in 2003 following Dwain Chambers' failed drugs test. He went on to win Olympic relay gold with Britain at Athens 2004. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, he said: ""With relays you work together, you build a relationship, but you never know what goes on behind closed doors and clearly Carter was taking drugs. ""Carter has tarnished the team. It's a massively selfish act and I'm sure Bolt and the rest of the team are bitterly disappointed. ""The relationship between me and Dwain, we get on, we are cool. He apologised to me I and accepted it. Dwain has to live with it for the rest of his life, it was a sincere apology. ""I was devastated when I found out, but you have to move on.""",Usain Bolt will have to @placeholder back one of his nine Olympic gold medals after Jamaican team - mate Nesta Carter tested positive for a banned substance .,rotate,earn,reclaim,hand,rebuild,3
"Pakistan is increasingly finding itself friendless in the region as Iran, Afghanistan and India all find fault with Pakistan's inability to end terrorism on its soil and in particular to bring the Afghan Taliban to the table for peace talks, as Islamabad promised to do nearly two years ago. The 48-nation NSG, which sets global rules for international trade in nuclear energy technology, has become the latest diplomatic battleground between India and Pakistan. It is due to hold a crucial meeting this month. The Pakistani military is angry that after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent trip to Washington, the US has been furiously lobbying all member countries to give India a seat at the NSG table. Pakistan then asked for the same, but its proliferation record is not as good as India's and it clearly would not succeed. Instead, it has asked China to veto the Indian bid which it is likely to do. However, smaller countries are angry with the US, who they accuse of browbeating them, and complain that neither India nor Pakistan can become members until they sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) which is an essential requirement. President Obama backs Indian entry to nuclear technology Pariah to friend: Narendra Modi and the US come full circle President Obama is going against his own policy of nuclear restraint and disarmament by offering to make India - but not Pakistan - a member of the NSG, when the US has also tied up plans to sell India six nuclear power plants. At the same time the US has shown in several dramatic steps that it is deeply unsatisfied with Pakistan's efforts to stop the Afghan Taliban operating out of Pakistan. Last month it used a drone in Balochistan province to kill Mullah Akthar Mansour, the Taliban leader, which led to Pakistan accusing the US of violating its sovereignty. The US then publicly accused Pakistan of not doing enough to stop the Taliban and the Haqqani militant group - and in a clear signal of support to the beleaguered Afghan government, President Obama has allowed remaining US forces in Afghanistan to fight alongside Afghan forces. Finally, during Mr Modi's trip the US publicly condemned those extremist groups operating out of Pakistani Punjab and Kashmir whose activities Islamabad has not stopped. In what was seen as a clear snub and a signal of defiance to the US and India, the military allowed Hafiz Saeed, the leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba who is wanted for the Mumbai bombings in 2008, to lead prayers last Friday in Islamabad. The military's fear is that it believes the US is withdrawing from South Asia and will leave behind its rival India as the regional policeman - something it cannot tolerate. The military has already accused Iran and Afghanistan of hosting Indian spies which are working to undermine Pakistan and in particular sabotage the One Road One Belt route and transportation network that China has promised to build from the Gulf port of Gwadar to China. Pakistan's relations with Afghanistan are as bad as they have been for years, and not much better with Iran. After waiting for more than a year Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has now washed his hands of trying to persuade Pakistan to get the Taliban to hold talks with Kabul. His frustration has clearly been supported now by the Americans. Meanwhile, with sanctions against Iran having ended, civilian politicians and the public were looking forward to the quick building of an Iranian oil and gas pipeline that would give Pakistan desperately needed energy and electricity. However after Islamabad accused Iran of hosting Indians trying to sabotage Pakistan's economy, Iran is now nursing its pride. China remains Pakistan's closest ally but China, too, is becoming frustrated. It plans to build a $45bn transportation and energy link up to its grand Silk Route project through Central Asia, but it wants the military to use its political influence to first end the Taliban-led war in Afghanistan and the insurgency in Balochistan province. The chronic state of Pakistan's foreign policy has affected domestic politics. Part of the problem is that there is little input from the civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif or the foreign ministry or parliament into making policy - that has become the domain of the military. Mr Sharif has wanted to improve ties with India, Iran and the US but he has been unable to do so. Meanwhile, opposition politicians have accused Mr Sharif of surrendering all foreign policy decisions to the military. The military in turn are deeply frustrated - and here they have considerable public support - that Mr Sharif has not appointed a foreign minister or improved governance. He has not even given up the portfolio for foreign affairs even as he recovers from open heart surgery in London. The region is changing rapidly and Pakistan needs urgently to address its security and improve relations with its neighbours.",India 's American - backed bid to join the prestigious Nuclear Suppliers Group ( NSG ) has once again @placeholder Pakistan in South Asia .,targeted,isolated,defeated,represent,sparked,1
"Gerry Cannings, 63, and Lisa Cannings, 48, from Peterborough, won the jackpot in a draw on 13 February. ""It did mean that Gerry had to carry round the winning ticket in his wallet all week. It was very nerve-racking,"" said Mrs Cannings. Retired teacher Mr Cannings bought the ticket while collecting fish and chips during a visit to his father in Slough. Live: Latest updates on lottery winners £32,534,188 Second biggest prize in Lotto history 45 million-to-one odds on winning the jackpot 9 consecutive rollovers resulted in huge prize 15, 16, 23, 39, 48, 59 were the lucky numbers Mrs Cannings, who still works as a languages teacher, said: ""I know it sounds mad, but we had a guy in to paint the whole house. ""We'd been planning it for ages and had packed everything into boxes. ""We just thought it would be easier to wait."" The couple, who have been married for 13 years and have three children and five grandchildren, appeared at a news conference at Orton Hall in Peterborough. Former history teacher Mr Cannings said ""it just didn't seem real"" when he realised they had won and his father ""didn't believe"" him at first. ""It was only when our 11-year-old son read out the winning numbers on TV and they matched did Dad finally believe me. ""Our son asked what it meant. I just said 'Daddy's won an awful lot of money'."" The couple hope to buy a new house, a holiday to New Zealand and a spitfire trip, while Mr Cannings said he wants to upgrade his Skoda Octavia to a Volvo or a Skoda Superb, because he cannot currently fit his golf clubs in his boot. They matched all six numbers - 15, 16, 23, 39, 48, and 59 - beating odds of 45 million-to-one to win the jackpot, which was the result of nine consecutive rollovers. The £32,534,188 prize is the second biggest in Lotto's history. Last month, a Scottish couple shared a record £66m jackpot with another winner, who asked to remain anonymous. David and Carol Martin, from Hawick in the Scottish Borders, won £33,035,323 in the draw on 9 January following 14 rollovers.",A couple waited a week to claim a £ 32.5 m National Lottery win because they were having their house @placeholder .,form,built,sold,decorated,record,3
"Maniac has been restricted to festival film screenings and academic viewing by government officials and will not be eligible for mainstream cinema or DVD release in the country. The film, directed by Frank Khalfoun, stars Wood as serial killer Frank. Neil Foley of distributor Monster Pictures said he was ""flabbergasted"". The director of the Australia-based company said the ban was an ""insult to the intelligence"" of adults in New Zealand. The film, which received a limited UK release in March, is due to screen at the New Zealand International Film Festival in Auckland and Wellington at the end of July. Ant Timpson, a programmer for the festival, said the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) was concerned that the movie was ""injurious to the public good"". ""It's saying that the POV [point of view] nature of the film mixed with the psychopathic behaviour of actor Elijah Wood is more than disturbing, that it's potentially dangerous in the hands of the wrong person,"" Timpson suggested. The original version of Maniac, by slasher director William Lustig, was a cult hit when it was first released in 1980. The remake received mixed reviews in the UK press, with The Observer's Philipp French calling it ""unwelcome"". The Hollywood Reporter's Megan Lehmann said the film was a ""sadistic art-house bloodbath"" when it screened at Cannes in 2012. Monster Pictures said on its website that it would ""explore every option"" to have the ban revoked, though admitted ""at this stage it ain't looking good"".","A horror remake starring Hobbit actor Elijah Wood has been banned in New Zealand due to its "" graphic violence "" and "" @placeholder that may disturb "" .",content,evidence,sounds,elements,images,0
"Officers on patrol in the Drylaw area observed a green light coming from Marine Drive just before midnight. Edinburgh Airport later confirmed that a pilot had reported a laser pen incident during the plane's descent. A 16-year-old boy and four females, aged 16, 17, 19 and 22, who were in two vehicles in Marine Drive, were arrested. They will all appear in court at a later date. Ch Insp Mark Rennie, of Police Scotland, said: ""The use of laser pens to distract or obscure the vision of a pilot is an extremely serious offence, which can have very serious consequences. ""We regularly patrol roads below approach routes to deter offenders and respond quickly to any notifications from pilots. ""Anyone found committing this offence will be arrested and charged'.",Five people have been charged after a laser pen was @placeholder at an aircraft in Edinburgh on Friday .,shone,stolen,thrown,struck,shot,0
"The world's second largest economy has never been a football powerhouse, qualifying for just one World Cup. Meanwhile, the population seems more interested in NBA basketball than the sport known in the UK as ""the people's game"". But over the past couple of years Chinese investors and firms have quietly been acquiring stakes in football clubs in England, Spain, France, Netherlands and the Czech Republic, while President Xi Jinping has professed a love of the game. So why are the Chinese now snapping up stakes in European clubs? Reasons include a national desire to look good on the world stage, developing China's club football and national team, creating Chinese football fan bases, and firms using clubs to build their commercial presence in Europe. ""China likes to be omnipotent and successful in everything it does,"" Simon Chadwick, chair in sport business at Coventry University Business School, tells me. ""One thing they currently don't do particularly well at is football, the global game.  China wants to ascend to a position where it is respected globally as part of the international football community."" He says President Xi has come out as a big football fan, and that by 2025 China wants to have a domestic sports industry worth $850bn (£564bn).  Optimistic estimates put the current entire global sports economy at $400bn. Slavia Prague, one of the most historic names in Czech football, was heavily in debt, and near financial collapse before the start of this season. In September, China Energy Company Limited (CEFC) bought roughly 60% of the club for an undisclosed sum, with Czech businessman Jiri Simane buying around 40%. The CEFC football purchase was part of a bigger investment move by the firm into the Czech Republic. In 2014 it had decided to establish a major European base in Prague, buying two historic properties in the city, and also a number of businesses. Following Slavia's previous woes, CEFC has managed to keep top players like Czech national forward Milan Skoda at the club, and there are plans to buy other top domestic players, much to the approval of fans. Slavia just avoided relegation last season. Now it sits fifth in the table and there is talk of qualifying for next season's Europa League. ""This would be market-making on an unprecedented scale in sport,"" says Prof Chadwick. ""China would then be able to bid for the football World Cup, and the ultimate aim would then be to win it. ""But they need to learn more about football - that is crucial.  With these club purchases, they have been going about acquiring competence."" Chinese parents traditionally prefer their children to enter a profession rather than sport, says Prof Chadwick, so in order to improve playing standards the country has been building US-style soccer campuses. These enable talented youngsters to improve their football skills, while at the same time also learning and potentially preparing to enter university. Prof Chadwick says in establishing a domestic football league, China has been influenced by Japan's J-League. Before its creation, in 1993, the Japanese national team did not qualify for World Cups, but since 1998 has been in five in a row. CMC/Citic Capital - 13% stake in City Football Group (Man City parent firm) Rastar Group - 56% stake in Spanish club Espanyol Dalian Wanda Group -  20% stake in Spanish club Atletico Madrid CEFC China Energy Company - 60% stake in Czech club Slavia Prague Ledus - complete ownership of French club Sochaux United Vansen International Sports Company - majority shareholder in Dutch club ADO Den Haag This combination of US and Japanese influences, has now been joined by acquiring knowledge from European football clubs. ""Man City is not a random buy,"" says Prof Chadwick. ""They have got the Etihad Campus, which is the model the Chinese want to follow."" Ownership of European clubs also provides a voice at European confederation Uefa, which can be useful when decisions are made about where to stage future World Cups, he says. Meanwhile, Gu Xin, from Beijing-based sports marketing firm Yutang Sports, says that Chinese investors can also see potentially rich economic returns from European football. He says owning stakes in the likes of Atletico Madrid could potentially open the doors to Chinese players appearing in club first teams in Europe. ""As a result, there could be more Chinese fans of the clubs, which means larger commercial values for the clubs in the Chinese market. ""The companies could [also] then earn money by transferring international players [from the European teams] to Chinese teams. This is another very profitable revenue stream."" Fans in France were surprised - and rather sceptical - when Hong Kong-listed Ledus bought second division Sochaux from Peugeot for €7m (£5m) in July. Ledus is an electrical components manufacturer specialising in the production of LED-based lighting systems. Sochaux is one of the oldest professional clubs in France, and had always been owned by Peugeot, which founded the team in 1928. For local residents, the club and the firm were a family. French media observers say it is unlikely that Ledus will be able to build a fan base in China around the club, rather that the new owners are using Sochaux as a vehicle to develop the Ledus brand in France and Europe. After a poor start to the season, the club currently sits third from bottom of the second tier, and fans are starting to ask questions about what the Chinese strategy for Sochaux actually is. The Chinese ownership says that Ledus is in Sochaux for the long term, and that the club will achieve its goal of getting back into Ligue 1. Prof Chadwick also says those Chinese businesses that follow the wishes of their national president and support football may be looked upon favourably by the authorities. And there are signs that investment by firms in the Chinese domestic football market is creating progress there. He points to club Guangzhou Evergrande - 60% owned by Evergrande Real Estate and 40% by Jack Ma's Alibaba - which has won the Asian Champions league two times in past three years. ""I think China can win a World Cup,"" he says. ""It has the resources, scale, and and state backing to fast forward 150 years of football development into 10 years.""","When Chinese investors recently decided to acquire a 13 % stake in Manchester City 's parent firm , it put the country 's @placeholder interest in football firmly in the spotlight .",major,fleet,renewed,humiliating,race,2
"The base will be home to HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, the largest ships ever built for the navy. Work on Portsmouth's jetty, built in the 1920s and last upgraded in the 1970s, has begun, with upgrades expected to be completed next autumn. It forms part of a £100m infrastructure package to prepare the base for the arrival of the first carrier. HMS Queen Elizabeth measures 280m (300 yards) long and can travel up to 500 miles (800km) a day. The ship's systems are being tested and it will conduct sea trials next year before being handed over to the Royal Navy. It is expected to come into service in 2020. HMS Prince of Wales is being constructed at shipyards around the UK before it is assembled at Rosyth. Once completed, the revamped naval base is expected to create hundreds of jobs in Portsmouth. In November 2013, BAE Systems announced it was ending shipbuilding in Portsmouth, leading to 585 voluntary redundancies, 160 compulsory redundancies, and the redeployment of 175 members of staff.",The Royal Navy has released an image of @placeholder improvements to a jetty at Portsmouth Naval Base .,planned,attempting,motor,helping,plotting,0
"Frazer, 26, sustained serious knee ligament damage in a training session with German club Mannheimer. She will undergone surgery next week and will definitely miss the opening qualifiers in Kuala Lumpur in January. Frazer could also be a doubt for the final qualifiers next July. Ireland should be capable of progressing from the Malaysian tournament in January when they will be up against lower-ranked opposition and require only a top-three finish. However the next stage of the process in either Belgium or South Africa will be much more taxing as Ireland will need to beat higher-ranked nations to qualify. The Londonderry woman was distraught after suffering the injury in seemingly innocuous circumstances. She said: ""I have completely ruptured my anterior cruciate and partially torn my medial cruciate ligament and I am having surgery on 3 November and it will take six to nine months recovery from then."" ""I am completely devastated that I am missing the tournament in Malaysia for definite and also unable to finish my first season with Mannheimer. ""I was running fast with the ball unopposed in training and went to pass it off my right foot but it just gave way and I fell and it was extremely painful."" Mannheimer's Director of Sport, Peter Leemen added: ""She will be operated on by a specialist, who has already performed this type of surgery on other players in the team."" ""The cartilage in the knee is completely in order which is important for a good healing process but it´s is such a pity as Megan was settling in so well with the club and her team-mates."" Frazer was able to travel with the Ireland squad for two international defeats in Belgium earlier this week and found the experience at least went some way towards cushioning the blow. She added: ""It was great to be around the team again and it really lifted my mood. Luckily I don't have too much pain and have started to work on my pre-surgery exercises.""",Ireland women 's hopes of reaching the 2018 World Cup finals have been dealt a blow with the news that skipper Megan Frazer could be ruled out of the entire qualifying @placeholder by injury .,race,period,table,competition,round,1
"League bosses have shut the north stand of their Olympic Stadium for Sunday's visit of Udinese after Juventus players were abused in the Supercoppa final. Paul Pogba, Angelo Ogbonna and Kwadwo Asamoah were all targeted during Lazio's 4-0 loss at the weekend. Lazio fans were found guilty of racist behaviour by Uefa four times last term. ""We heard it, they're ignorant,"" said former Manchester United midfielder Pogba. ""What can I do? I'm alone against 30,000 fans. They do that even though there are black players in their team. ""It's also a lack of respect towards their own players. It's really not nice to come to a football match and hear those sorts of things, but I'm a player, I concentrate on my job."" In February, the Rome club were ordered to play their next two home European games behind closed doors following crowd trouble. They were also fined £120,000 by Uefa following racist chanting in a Europa League game against Tottenham Hotspur. ""(Lazio) are obliged to play one game with the 'Curva Nord' closed to spectators,"" said a statement published on Serie A's official website. ""Fans from the nominated stand directed racially discriminatory chants to three opposition players between the 16th and 28th minutes of the first half and the 20th to 43rd minutes of the second half."" Lazio's city rivals Roma, who also play in the Olympic Stadium, have already been punished with a partial stadium closure after fans racially abused AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli in May. The heavier sanctions have been made possible by new anti-racism legislation passed by the Italian Football Federation on 4 June. Referees can now stop matches to allow fans to be warned about their behaviour, while clubs and individuals face increased fines and longer suspensions. AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng walked off the pitch after being racially abused by Pro Patria fans in January, while team-mate Kevin Constant did the same during a pre-season tournament last month. Both Lazio and Juventus were also handed additional 5,000 euro (£4,300) fines after supporters from both clubs were seen throwing smoke grenades and lighters on to the pitch during Sunday's traditional season opener between the previous campaign's league and Coppa Italia winners.",Italian side Lazio have been ordered to close part of their home @placeholder for the opening Serie A weekend as punishment for alleged racist chanting by fans .,group,ground,title,ambitions,matches,1
"But what if the child can't get a place because he or she has not been baptised? That is the situation that faces one family in the Republic of Ireland, where the Catholic church controls 90% of schools. Nikki Murphy is sitting in the front-room of her house in Terenure in south Dublin playing with her four-year-old son Reuben. His toy helicopter and trucks are scattered on the floor. She said she has applied without success to 15 local schools - Catholic, Church of Ireland, Methodist and Jewish - for a place for Reuben. Why? Because he is not baptised and not a member of any religion in a state where the churches control 96% of all schools and give preference to their members rather than to local children. She said: ""Parents shouldn't really have to work this hard to get a school place for their child. ""These are state-funded schools, so, we're frustrated and very angry. ""There's a lot of stress, anxiety and sleepless nights.  We're desperate at the moment."" Nikki knows that the state must offer Reuben a school place, but it could be several miles away. She said that might mean him having to stay overnight with her parents from Monday to Friday, given her and her husband's work commitments and Dublin's traffic. Paddy Monahan's seven-month old son, Cormac, is also unbaptised. And he is also at risk of not getting a local school place. Paddy, a barrister, says it is unconstitutional to discriminate against children like his, and he has 16,000 signatures seeking a change in the law. ""I just want my kid to go to the local school around the corner,"" he said. ""It's 200 metres away and it's a really good school. ""It's paid for by taxpayers.  It doesn't bother me that it's owned by the Catholic Church.  It's paid for by us.  I just think it's good for kids to mix in their local school."" The Balbriggan Educate Together primary school in north county Dublin does not believe in separating children on the basis of beliefs. Its pupils are of all religions and none. There is a growing demand for places in such schools, which are still relatively small in number, reflecting both a more racially diverse and less religious population. Mary McGrath and her husband, Richard Long, who are both atheists, currently have three children at school there. Richard said: ""From a personal point of view, the less religion they are taught, the happier I am."" Mary added that they ""liked the multi-denominational ethos where they learn about all religions but where there is no faith formation and the family values of our home are still respected in the school day"". Aoife Leahy, another parent, said that in the Educate Together model ""nobody is made to feel an outsider"". ""Everyone is valued,"" she added. ""I don't think people set out to discriminate. ""But sometimes schools are using policies that are quite old that maybe need to be updated, and society here has changed a lot."" Society has, indeed, changed. The numbers attending church have fallen sharply, partly as a result of modernisation and partly as a result of the child sex-abuse scandals by priests that were covered-up for decades by the Catholic hierarchy. This year, the Republic of Ireland became the first country in the world to vote for same-sex marriage in a referendum - and by an overwhelming margin. The Balbriggan Educate Together's principal, Dr Fintan McCutcheon, said he wished ""that we didn't have a situation whereby over 95% of our schools represent the sectoral interests of an undemocratic body without any electoral mandate to run those schools"". He said he wished the Irish government ""would address that issue with considerable urgency and expediency"". To meet the growing demand for more non-religious education, the Catholic Church has said it will divest itself of schools but it is not doing so fast enough, according to both its critics and the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin. The Department of Education says schools should, in future, be obliged to take pupils based on proximity or how close they lived to the school, rather than membership of a particular religion. But that will require a change in the law which may not be enacted before the general election expected early next year. In the meantime, parents like Nikki Murphy are still anxiously seeking primary school places for their un-baptised children.",Many parents take getting a school place for their child for @placeholder .,remarks,change,conduct,free,granted,4
"It is Monday night and the club is jam-packed. It is clear who the crowd is waiting for: drag queen and stand-up comedian Kumar. The audience cheer as he appears in an emerald-green evening gown and a blonde wig. Kumar wastes no time before cracking his trademark sexually-explicit jokes. ""Girls, you don't need to have sex with Ang mo [Caucasian] men any more. Local boys are good enough in bed. I've tried them out for you,"" he laughs. But strictly speaking he could be jailed for admitting this, because sex between men is a criminal act in Singapore. Under the law, a man caught committing an act of ""gross indecency"" with another man could be jailed for up to two years. It was introduced by British colonial authorities as part of broader legislation which also banned sexual acts such as anal and oral sex. Similar prohibitions also remain in section 377 of the Penal Codes of Malaysia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Singapore's parliament repealed most of them in 2007, except for one. ""It left behind section 377A so today only same-sex relations between men are singled out for criminalisation,"" says assistant professor Lynette Chua from the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore. The speech made in 2007 by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong sums up the reason. ""Singapore is basically a conservative society,"" he said. ""The family is the basic building block of this society. And by family in Singapore we mean one man, one woman, marrying, having children and bringing up children within that framework of a stable family unit."" The Ministry of Home Affairs said that in 2007 the ""majority of Singaporeans still took a conservative approach to this issue"". ""On issues of moral values with consequences to the wider society... the policies of the government must reflect the mainstream values and social norms of Singapore society, while recognising that these may shift over time,"" it said in an emailed statement. Authorities ""would not take a proactive approach towards enforcing section 377A"", the ministry said, but did not confirm when the last such prosecution took place. A man was charged under 377A in 2010 for engaging in oral sex with another man in a public restroom, but he later pleaded guilty to a different charge of committing an obscene act in public. Nonetheless, there are calls for change. Couple Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee have been seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional. The High Court recently ruled against them but they have decided to appeal. Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years. It is in this climate that a new gay magazine has been launched this month by Hiro Mizuhara and Noel Ng. ""We are nervous but Element Magazine is not a gay rights magazine. It is a lifestyle magazine that takes care of Asian gay men,"" they say. ""What we want to do is for the magazine to be out there for the community, especially young gay men who may think that being gay is wrong because of what they read in mainstream media,"" says Hiro. ""We also try to balance entertainment and education in Element Magazine, so instead of just fashion and grooming, we cover issues like HIV or how to come out."" But not only is sex between men illegal, there are also censorship guidelines in Singapore which ban media outlets from promoting homosexual acts. ""Exactly what is prohibited is grey but the familiar line is that you are not supposed to portray homosexuality in a positive or normal way,"" says Ms Chua from the National University of Singapore. ""So is an interview of a celebrity who is in a same-sex relationship considered the promotion of homosexuality? Apparently yes, because the broadcaster has been fined before."" Hiro and Noel consulted lawyers and were told that the rule only applies to broadcast and print media, not online. So Element Magazine is published in digital form. But for Hiro, who holds a Chinese passport with permanent residency in Japan, and Noel, who is not gay himself, why choose Singapore to launch the magazine? ""It is more for human rights and we are doing it for the freedom to love,"" Noel explains. Drag queen Kumar, who has been pushing boundaries for more than 20 years, said things were very hard when he started performing in 1992. ""I had to go on stage and be heckled and be called names, but I wanted to show that there are drag queens who wanted to be respected."" Today, he is enormously popular and his audience are truly from across the board. Even the law against homosexuality, he says, gives him an extra kick. ""I like this undercurrent lifestyle. We secretly go out for a gay night at a bar and we have a sign saying 'private function',"" he laughs. ""Our government never said we cannot be gay. They are just worried about conservatives."" Senior pastor Lawrence Khong of the Faith Community Baptist Church is one vocal advocate against any change in the law. In his statement when former prime minister Goh Chok Tong was at his church in January, he said that ""the repeal of similar laws have led to negative social changes, especially the breakdown of the family as a basic building block and foundation of the society"". ""It takes away the rights of parents over what their children are taught in schools, especially sex education. ""It attacks religious freedom and eventually denies free speech to those who, because of their moral convictions, uphold a different view from that championed by increasingly aggressive homosexual activists,"" he added. The Faith Community Baptist Church said it could not comment to the BBC, citing an order by the Attorney-General's Chambers. In recent years, Singapore's gay community has gained a greater voice in society while the government has continued to turn a blind eye. But while people's views on homosexuality may have softened, getting the law to follow suit is proven to be much tougher.","Section 377 of the Penal Code may not mean much to people in the UK today , but the law which criminalises homosexual acts is a British legacy still found in many former colonies in the Far East . However , it is now being @placeholder in Singapore .",covered,used,implemented,challenged,launched,3
"What I See is his first book, and features photographs taken by the 18-year-old son of ex-footballer David and fashion designer Victoria Beckham. Some of them offer glimpses in to the home lifestyle of the Beckham clan - like this one of his sister Harper drawing. Others are taken from his own travels around the world. This one of a set designer was taken during the shooting of Guy Ritchie's movie King Arthur - which his father David appeared in. But while his photographs have helped him build up more than 10 million Instagram followers - not everybody has been positive. One picture of an elephant received particular ire on social media. Brooklyn had added to his dimly-lit shot with a caption explaining elephants were ""so hard to photograph"". Some Twitter users who did a quick search on Google Images disagreed with that. One critic - the arts editor of the i paper, Alice Jones - also poked fun at a couple of the photos and their somewhat minimalistic captions, in a comment which received more than 11,000 retweets. But writing in GQ, Eleanor Davies said many critics were just ""being snide"". ""At just 18 Brooklyn Beckham is very young for a published photographer and he should be proud of this book,"" she wrote. ""Critics should give Brooklyn Beckham a break and encourage this budding photographer. After all, David Bailey didn't even get his first photography job as an assistant until he was 21."" Elle's Katie O'Malley described him as a ""star on the rise"", while Heat World's Aimee Jakes said the book as ""bloody brilliant"", adding: ""It's definitely something you'll want on your coffee table bbz."" Writing in Dazed, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff said some of the images were ""poorly planned"" but added: ""Not all of the pictures in the book are arguably as worthy of criticism."" In an open letter, the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz told Brooklyn: ""The snide remarks being made about your work are cheap and self-serving. Ignore them."" Writing in The Guardian, Marina Hyde took a more analytical approach, debating the pros and cons of celebrity children being given more opportunities than other people their own age. ""Fittingly, the fuss over Brooklyn Beckham's debut book of photography is a little out of focus,"" she wrote. Publisher Penguin Random House defended the book, with managing director Francesca Dow commenting: ""What I See is a book for teenagers, by a teenager, which gives Brooklyn's fans broader insight into his world seen through his unique and creative perspective."" Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",Brooklyn Beckham 's debut photography book has been @placeholder on social media - but many critics have been kinder .,released,named,honoured,documented,mocked,4
"Initially the only proof was the occasional funeral for a Hezbollah fighter killed in Syria and it was impossible to ascertain how many Shia fighters from Lebanon were in Syria or exactly what their role was. Now for the first time, the BBC has seen direct evidence of Hezbollah's role in some of the key battles as the Assad regime claims to be regaining the upper hand. And the clearest indication of Hezbollah's involvement has come from the group itself. In a relatively rare televised speech on Tuesday, the group's head, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, declared: ""Syria has real friends who will not let it fall to the US, Israel or Islamic radicals"". Saying that the armed opposition groups were too weak to bring down President Assad's regime, Sheikh Nasrallah mused that when rebels were threatening to capture villages under (Syrian) government control, it was ""normal to offer every possible and necessary aid to help the Syrian army"". Hezbollah has long provided medical, logistical and practical help for Syrian refugees fleeing the fighting. But in the last week we saw first-hand how, in some areas, Hezbollah fighters were openly and freely crossing the border between Lebanon and Syria - giving training and military support to their allies in Syria. Here, in the northern Bekaa Valley, the official ""border"" between Lebanon and Syria means very little to many villages and communities. Locals have traded, inter-married and moved freely across the valleys and mountains for much longer than the infamous Anglo-French (Sykes-Picot) agreement which, less than 100 years ago, carved up the Middle East along lines that barely recognised realities and relationships on the ground. It is just across the border, in the pivotal Syrian town of Quseir, that some of the heaviest fighting is taking place. Not far from Homs, images and testimony from Quseir suggest that Hezbollah fighters are increasingly involved in the fighting itself and in directing inexperienced, irregular pro-government troops. The Syrian army, large and as well-equipped as it is, is undoubtedly overstretched - trying to contain a two-year-old rebellion across such a large country. So whatever Hezbollah is able to do in Quseir, Homs and the suburbs of Damascus is an increasingly vital part of the regime's military strategy. Things on the ground are visibly changing. Here, in some parts of Lebanon's north-eastern corner, both sides of the border are now, in effect, controlled by Hezbollah and its Syrian allies. They claim to be gaining advantage. Under the watchful eye of the ""popular local committees"" we were able to get right up to and across the Syrian border. On their side of the small stream that officially divides the two countries, Syrian conscripts looked on as we jumped across the gap to meet a contact on the other side. Abu Mohammed, a fighter with a pro-government Syrian militia unit, would only speak to us on the condition that we were inside Syria. It was a nervy, brief encounter. The frontline of Quseir is only a few kilometres to the east and the sound of heavy shelling punctuated our interview. In the cover of a small orchard, and surrounded by uniformed men armed with AK-47 rifles, it was apparent that in this area at least, Hezbollah, the Syrian army and pro-government militias are operating as one. Despite evidence to the contrary, Abu Mohammed insisted that Hezbollah was not directly involved in the fighting. ""They give us logistical and medical help and they're helping us regain territory but they're not fighting,"" said the militia leader, his face almost completely covered by a green and white scarf or keffiyeh. ""We're defending our land from the rebels who bomb our villages. But we'll stand up to them and they'll get what's coming to them,"" he replied when I asked him about fears that the involvement of Lebanese groups like Hezbollah in the fighting would destabilise relations in the fractious border area. I crossed a small wooden bridge back across the stream into Lebanon as, 170ft (50m) along the road, a small unit of regular Syrian soldiers kept watch at a junction in the road. In this area at least, the Assad regime is holding ground, even pushing back against previous rebel advances. But the real fear is that the involvement of Hezbollah, and other Lebanese factions, means the fighting will spill over into Lebanon itself. It is already happening. Well inside Lebanon, the Shia town of Hermel has been repeatedly and deliberately targeted by anti-regime rebels in Syria because it supports the Assad regime and is accused of sending fighters across the border. Locals took me up to the roof of a three-storey house through which a considerably large rocket had crashed just days before. Luckily no-one was hurt on that occasion but there have been civilian casualties on this side of the border, in addition to the estimated 70,000 killed by the civil war inside Syria itself. Not everyone here is supportive of Hezbollah's visibly active role inside Syria. Abu Alawa is a village elder who talks fondly about the cross-border, inter-communal relationships before the fighting began. ""There are more moderate voices within the Shia community who should play a role in resolving the conflict,"" Abu Alawa says. But his is almost a lone voice in an increasingly sectarian and tense region. Not only in Syria itself, but in neighbouring Lebanon, the longer the fighting continues then fault lines between Sunni and Shia Muslims are being dangerously exposed. At Sunni mosques in Lebanon, young men are being radicalised. Particularly in cities like Tripoli, where the sectarian divisions in Syria are mirrored in the city's own tense communities and districts, clerics fire up their followers with calls for Jihad, or holy war. In recent weeks, several imams have publicly called on young men to sign up and head east to fight. Critics mock the gesture as a publicity stunt but when I travelled to Tripoli to meet Sheikh Salem Rafii, he said it was a necessary response to Hezbollah's role in the fighting. ""This is a legitimate fatwa - a ruling from God, from the Koran,"" said the sheikh as we sat in his garden within sight of the mountain range that divided this part of Lebanon from Syria. ""There are oppressed people there [in Syria]. Women and children are being raped, killed and expelled. So any just Lebanese person should go and help them - and will be rewarded by God,"" he said. Lebanon's own future is threatened by the turmoil in Syria. The longer it continues, the more nervous the army and the interested parties on the Lebanese side of the border will get. Geographically surrounded and historically dominated by its larger neighbour, it was perhaps too much to expect that Lebanon and its own sectarian divided factions, could ever realistically remain immune to events next door.","The militant Lebanese Shia @placeholder , Hezbollah , has long been suspected of sending fighters across the border to help the Syrian regime of Bashar al - Assad .",harmony,organisation,community,winds,phenomenon,1
"Enthusiasts in Wales will be encouraged to share their finds and stories with museums and local communities. The five-year Saving Treasures, Telling Stories project is backed by £349,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Peter Wakelin, director of collections and research at National Museum Wales, said the aim was to save treasures and make them more accessible. ""Each year hundreds of objects of archaeological significance are found by metal detectorists in Wales and there are some 20-30 discoveries of treasure,"" said Mr Wakelin. ""This is a crucial resource for understanding the past."" The lottery funding will pay for: Mark Lodwick, finds co-ordinator in Wales for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, added: ""We'll celebrate all the good news of people's discoveries, working with communities and finders, and make sure every find is reported for the benefit of archaeologists."" Delwyn Samuel, from the Gwent Metal Detecting Club, said the scheme would enhance the ""very good relationship"" detectorists already had with the authorities. He added: ""I would love to see more young people involved - they're all sitting behind their screens but we need them on the ground.""",Metal detecting enthusiasts hunting @placeholder treasure are to be encouraged to showcase their discoveries .,groups,buried,aged,power,staff,1
"She is a Harvard educated doctor who, unlike in the film portrayal of Facebook's beginnings, has been by Mark's side for much of the last nine years. Now, Mark Zuckerberg and Dr Priscilla Chan are Silicon Valley's most influential power couple. And that's because, over the past year, Mark Zuckerberg has grown up. He's no longer the nerdy, dorky techie in a hoodie who cut a nervous, awkward figure when speaking in public. He's now a man that wears - gasp - a suit when welcoming, and being welcomed in by, heads of state. He's a man who learned Mandarin in what seemed like just a few months, using his new language to impress a room full of Chinese students - oh, and Xi Jinping, the Chinese president. And he's Dad to a baby girl now too, let's not forget. Max was born during Thanksgiving week, the couple announced on Tuesday. Zuckerberg to take two months' paternity leave Facebook hits one billion users in a day Facebook paid £4,327 UK corporation tax in 2014 Meanwhile, his site's valuation continues to soar. In business matters, he's made several shrewd acquisitions. Instagram, WhatsApp, and virtual reality firm Oculus Rift - all purchases that cemented Facebook's longevity, even if the site itself isn't cool with the kids anymore. All this while embodying something quite rare in Silicon Valley - a healthy work-life balance. Following Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook is like watching a friend on a gap year. Barely a day passes without Zuckerberg reflecting on the meaning of life while taking pictures of the Taj Mahal. And with the birth of his daughter, Max, Zuckerberg will be taking the unusual step (in the US at least) of taking two months paternity leave. He joins a recent trend of US tech companies taking the family needs of staff seriously. It might just kick-start a change in mood across the entire country - paid paternity and maternity leave is a given in much of the development world, but not in the USA. Yet the big announcement today - for the rest of us, at least - is about the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Following in the footsteps of Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation has backed various charitable efforts for more than 15 years, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative says it seeks to back programs that promote ""equality, education and advancing human capability"". It will be funded by Zuckerberg's shares. He says he plans to give away 99% of his stock over the course of his lifetime, at a rate of around $1bn-worth each year. What will it do? That's to be seen, although in making the announcement Facebook was keen to point out that Zuckerberg's previous charitable endeavours included multi-million dollar donations to schools and hospitals, and money towards preventing the spread of Ebola. But it's not a flawless record, by any means. Many will question Zuckerberg's sincerity when, while donating to schools on one hand, his company is paying miniscule taxes in some of its biggest markets. Take the UK, for example, where in its last financial year the company paid just £4,327 ($6,643) in corporation tax. And then there's the political influence. In the information pack about the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, it notes that the money will be used for ""funding non-profit organizations, making private investments and participating in policy debates, in each case with the goal of generating positive impact in areas of great need"". Silicon Valley's definition of ""great need"" may differ greatly to what the rest of the world thinks needs to be done, while ""participating in policy debates"" is another way of saying ""lobbying"", of course. And we may never be told what those ""private investments"" are. Mark Zuckerberg's internet.org project, which is about bringing internet connectivity to the next billion people, has been caught up in controversy. Small businesses in the developing world say internet.org is little more than a thinly-veiled way for Facebook to rapidly grow their user base. Still, Mark Zuckerberg is 31. Priscilla Chan is 30. Max is merely days old. The Chan Zuckerberg story still has decades in which to shape itself. Some will take a dim view of a data collection company expanding its influence into new, highly-political territories. Others will applaud a very rich, young couple for taking some of technology's billions out from the Valley and into needy causes. Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC","He founded the world 's biggest and most powerful social network , a site that has shaped the way more than a billion of us @placeholder every day - every hour , even .",war,people,organised,class,communicate,4
"Paul Wickerson, 32, was taken from the Brownstock festival in Essex before he died in a road accident in August 2013. Chelmsford Crown Court heard he was taken four miles (6km) from the festival by the guards to see if he could make his way back. Gregory Maxwell, 32, of Romford, and Brian Atkins, 49, of Ilford, deny false imprisonment and kidnap. The trial jury heard how Mr Wickerson, from Sydney, Australia, had been at the festival in Stow Maries when he was handcuffed, bundled into a Land Rover by Mr Maxwell and Mr Atkins, and driven to a remote spot. Andrew Jackson, prosecuting, said Mr Wickerson, who had taken cocaine, ketamine and LSD, was then released to see if he could make it back to the festival. Mr Jackson said one of the guards was overheard describing it as ""four-mile bush tucker trial"" - a term used to describe challenges in the reality TV show ""I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out for Here"". He said Mr Wickerson was seen wandering in a circle ""clearly the worse for drugs"" in a field behind the main stage, wearing just a shirt and shorts. ""One of the defendants took him to the ground, and together they handcuffed his wrists behind his back and his ankles were handcuffed as well,"" said Mr Jackson. ""It was done for sport; to see if he could make his own way back. Because of the drugs, he was completely disorientated on a road with a 60mph speed limit. ""Fifteen minutes afterwards he was killed by a car: a tragic, needless accident."" The trial continues.","A music fan was killed minutes after he was @placeholder beside a road "" for sport "" by two security guards , a jury has heard .",found,killed,dumped,caught,held,2
"Each year, 1,691 children in the UK are diagnosed with cancer. In England and Wales, 82% of those diagnosed survive for five years or more. If you Google ""How do I tell my child they have cancer"" you get 201 million results - a whole host of organisations, charities and people wanting to help. But experts say it's important to keep things simple. On those sites, you will discover the many different terms used to describe cancer ranging from ""tumour"" to ""poorly blood"". But these different terms can confuse children, according to Helen Lythgoe, a children's lead Macmillan nurse, and she advises that it is better to stick with one term you feel comfortable with. It is often better to use the word cancer and be clear about what it means, as children may hear the word used in a different context and worry about it. Michael Buble ""devastated"" by son's diagnosis Ms Lythgoe warns parents not to be scared to talk to their child about what is happening and, because of the emotions surrounding the diagnosis, to plan what you're going to say. She says: ""Children are very matter-of-fact about things. Once they know what is going on they will generally carry on as normal. ""It is often better to explain what's happening bit by bit, or when there is a change, this helps to build up their understanding so is not overwhelming."" Talking about cancer and the diagnosis can be reassuring, according to the NHS Live Well website, but the approach of parents may differ depending on the age of their child and what they may understand. For example, Cancer.net says that very young children will not understand much about cancer; their primary fear is that they will be taken away from their parents and this is what they need reassurance about. As children get older they are less likely to think their condition was caused by something they did or thought, says cancer.net. They start understanding more that they will need to undergo other treatment. All children need reassurance that: Older children may hear about cancer from other sources including the TV, and the internet, so parents should encourage them to share what they have learned. Teenagers may have lots of questions and be interested in learning more about their diagnosis, often thinking about the disease in terms of the effect on daily life, such as school, sports, and friends. Side effects relating to their physical appearance can be a priority for them and some may want to play a role in making decisions about their treatment. Whatever the age of the child, the most important way any parent can help is simply to talk.",Singer Michael Buble and his actress wife Luisana Lopilato have revealed their three - year - old son has cancer . The couple said they were @placeholder all work commitments . But how do other parents facing this devastating news go about telling their child ?,labelled,dropping,anticipating,judged,launched,1
"""I'm going to spend it on Oliver,"" she says. Chloe is a single parent who is juggling work as a carer at a nursing home in Sheffield and looking after Oliver, aged three. She currently earns £6.81 an hour and works eighteen hours a week. ""It's tough having childcare and bills to pay for and making sure that he's fed and warm. Every penny is accounted for."" She reckons she'll earn an extra £30 a month when her pay rises to £7.20 an hour on 1 April. ""It'll make a big difference to me and to Oliver, It can't come soon enough"", she tells me. Chloe says she couldn't work without her local nursery. She's able to drop Oliver off at 7:30am, enabling her to get to work on time. The Firth Park Little Treasures Nursery is a small but busy facility, tucked away on the site of a local church. When we visit, Oliver runs off to give his care worker, Carly Fox, a cuddle. She too is about to get a pay rise. Aged 31, Carly works full time on £6.70 an hour, the current national minimum wage. She could be £900 better off over the next year. ""It will make quite a big difference. I'm still going to struggle but it will be a lot better than what it is,"" she says. ""Financially it means I'll be able to sort myself out with my debts and hopefully be able to start treating myself to a few things extra"" Chloe and Carly are just two of the estimated 1.3 million workers over 25 who will directly benefit from the new legal wage floor, dubbed the national living wage (NLW) when Chancellor George Osborne made his surprise announcement last summer. It's the biggest shift to the legal minimum wage in years. The NLW will rise, year-on-year until 2020 when it is projected to be more than £9 an hour. By then, some six million employees are likely to have received some increase in their pay as a result. But nursery owner, Anita Bingham, is worrying how to pay for it. Five of her staff, including Carly, will qualify for the new rate. ""It's a lot of money to a small business like mine that's just set up. I am going to struggle,"" she says. Anita says she can't put up fees because most of her parents are entitled to 15 hours of free childcare which is paid by the government. ""I can't get rid of staff either because I need the ratios for the amount of children that we've got - so it's go to the toys and all the equipment we use."" These will have to be cut back on. I ask her about the prospect of paying out more than £9 an hour by 2020. ""I'm dreading that, it's going to be a big stretch. I will close, it's as simple as that unless the government decides to put up the fees and I can rethink it,"" she says. She wants to pay her staff more, but how to make the sums add up? That's the dilemma facing thousands of other businesses, especially small ones. Anita only earns the minimum wage herself. No one can say for sure how this big policy change will play out. The Resolution Foundation reckons almost a third of Sheffield's workers will benefit from the new living wage over the next four years, a higher proportion of employees than any other major UK city. But Sheffield wants to go even further. Its council is already paying workers £8.25 an hour, the level set by the Living Wage Foundation. In an eye catching move, it recently announced business rate relief for other employers who do the same. Professor of regional studies at Sheffield University, Gordon Dabinett, says £7.20 an hour is too low to survive. ""Our studies have shown that it's not enough to live on. And therefore if they're not earning enough money, that leads to crisis in the household in a family and that leads to further problems such as debt and other associated problems,"" he says. ""There are always unintended consequences. If jobs are lost immediately in some sectors or in some companies then I'm quite confident they'll be regained later. ""Obviously it doesn't help individuals faced with those hard decisions and businesses faced with those particular circumstances but all the evidence from studies in America at the moment show that the introduction of a living wage has long term economic benefits,"" says Prof Dabinett. ""We think for a fair city, people should be given a fair wage."" Few would disagree with that but its clear there is no easy route to lifting millions of workers out of low pay.",Chloe Brown does n't have to think when asked what she will do when she gets her pay rise to @placeholder the new so - called living wage .,attend,treat,control,reflect,make,3
"The vehicle came off the road and fell 20 feet (6m) into Hooe Lake in Plymouth, Devon, just before 14:00 BST, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Police officers and members of the public entered the water in an effort to rescue the pair. A man, 75, was taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and a woman was also recovered from the vehicle. More on this story, and others from Devon Officers carried out resuscitation on the man after they pulled him from the Peugeot estate car which had turned on its roof. A woman was also recovered from the vehicle by Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service. John Wheeler, an eyewitness, said: ""I saw what I believe was a policeman jump in the water and swim and wade out to the submerged vehicle."" Emergency services including the air ambulance, the coastguard and the lifeboat service attended.",Two people who were pulled from a submerged car after it plunged into an @placeholder have died .,era,event,accident,island,estuary,4
"Michael Danaher, 50, from Peterborough, denies murdering Adrian Greenwood, claiming he killed him in self-defence. The 42-year-old was found dead at his Oxford home in April and was allegedly on a list of rich people entitled ""Enterprises"" on Mr Danaher's computer. But he told Oxford Crown Court a visitor had used his laptop. He claimed the ""unknown man"" searched the internet for information on the addresses of high-profile people, including Gary Lineker and Louise Redknapp. The prosecution alleges the motive for the killing was the theft of the valuable book, which was found in the defendant's home. Oliver Saxby QC said Mr Danaher had a spreadsheet that listed ""people of means"" such as Kate Moss and Jeffrey Archer, who he intended to steal from or kidnap. It had details of valuables, weapons and family members of his planned victims, with a stun gun listed in many cases. A stun gun was found in Mr Danaher's flat by police. The trial continues.","A man accused of stabbing a book dealer to death over a £ 50,000 first edition of Wind in the Willows has denied @placeholder celebrities .",attempted,targeting,helping,throwing,becoming,1
"Details of the crash are unclear, but it seems Nasr hit the back of Wolff's car on the entry to Turn Five at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya. On Hamilton, a Mercedes spokesman said he had a ""high fever"" in the morning and ""didn't feel comfortable."" The 30-year-old world champion stopped after completing just 11 laps. Mercedes reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein replaced Hamilton as the Briton's team-mate Nico Rosberg is nursing a sore nerve in his neck, which doctors have told him to rest. Rosberg is scheduled to drive the car on Friday, but his participation is in doubt because of his condition. Mercedes initially said they chose Wehrlein rather than Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg because they had a heavy programme and that if Hamilton did not recover it would be unrealistic to expect one driver to do all four days of the test. However, the team has now confirmed that Rosberg has inflamed a nerve in his neck which needs resting and his own participation on Friday is also in doubt. Hamilton had been fifth fastest up to that point as the teams continue their preparations for the start of the season in Melbourne, Australia, next month. Sauber's Brazilian rookie Nasr set the pace during the morning, with a lap of one minute 27.307, 0.056 seconds quicker than Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo. McLaren-Honda, who had a troubled first test in Jerez, again hit problems, despite a promising start. Jenson Button completed 21 laps - nearly a third of the entire running the team managed at the first pre-season test earlier this month - and ended the morning sixth fastest, just 0.875 secs off the pace. Button had been second fastest to Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen after two and a half hours. However, his running was then brought to an end after Honda discovered a faulty seal on the motor-generator unit recovering energy from the rear axle. Honda said it would need to redesign the component to prevent the problem recurring and that the new part would not be ready until Saturday. So although Fernando Alonso will have an engine for Friday, the same problem as affected Button may well recur then. All the teams confirmed for entry in this year's championship are in Barcelona. Force India - for whom Mercedes' Wehrlein had been invited to drive for the two days of testing - are running a 2014 car. Force India race driver Sergio Perez will take over the car for the afternoon, although they were awaiting final confirmation. The team's 2015 car is not ready to take part in this test, but they say it will be completed in time to run in at least some of the final test next week. Marussia failed to take part in the last three races of 2014 after collapsing with financial problems, but are still planning to come out of administration in the near future. 1 Felipe Nasr (Brz) Sauber-Ferrari one minute 27.307 seconds 2 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Red Bull-Renault 1:27.363 3 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Lotus-Mercedes 1:27.510 4 Max Verstappen (Ned) Toro Rosso-Renault 1:27.951 5 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:28.064 6 Jenson Button (GB) McLaren-Honda 1:28.182 7 Pascal Wehrlein (Ger) Force India-Mercedes 1:28.329 8 Wehrlein Mercedes 1:29.286 9 Susie Wolff (GB) Williams-Mercedes 1:29.400 10 Lewis Hamilton (GB) Mercedes 1:30.429","Williams test driver Susie Wolff and Sauber 's Felipe Nasr have collided at the second pre-season test , while Lewis Hamilton has @placeholder due to illness .",withdrawn,revealed,reacted,returned,urged,0
"Strong winds and heavy rain have created sand drifts on Margate's Main Sands, near the clock tower. Thanet District Council has put out signs to notify the public of the possible dangers. Mike Humber, technical services manager, said the sand was much softer than usual and people out walking should be aware of a ""potential issue"". He said the affected area had been filled in to stabilise the sand.",People are being warned not to venture on to parts of a Kent @placeholder after some people got stuck in sinking sand .,scheme,disabled,facility,show,beach,4
"The individual, who does not want to be named, said: ""G4S have been appalling."" He claims those in charge of Locog's security were ""amateurish"" and it was a mistake using one company to supply staff. Newsnight put these allegations to Locog and they have not responded. The insider says Locog's event services division used a number of contractors to supply thousands of stewards and that has worked well but the security division put all its eggs in one basket. ""It was the wrong strategy, to use only one company."" He also says that there was inadequate scrutiny. ""They couldn't spot when contractors were cutting corners."" The insider who has worked in security for many years asserts that ""at the top level"" the management of security at Locog was ""thoroughly amateurish and incompetent"". Watch the full report on             Newsnight  on Monday 16 July 2012 at 2230 BST on BBC Two. Or afterwards on BBC iPlayer and the Newsnight website.",An insider from the committee @placeholder the Olympics ( Locog ) has told Newsnight that they failed to deal with the problems at G4S despite warnings over the last 18 months .,organising,breached,including,dubbed,concerning,0
"The Grade I listed Harnham Gate was hit by a white van that smashed into the structure at about 02:00 BST. A 51-year-old man, from West Dean, has been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop, criminal damage and driving with excess alcohol, police said. Wiltshire Police said the man remains in police custody and they have asked for witnesses to contact them.",A seven - hundred - year old oak gate at Salisbury Cathedral has been @placeholder by a drink driver .,demolished,targeted,struck,launched,criticised,0
"To get to Utoeya, we board the MS Thorbjorn - the same passenger ferry that took Anders Breivik to the island on 22 July. Dressed as a policeman, and heavily armed, he'd set off with one aim: to commit mass murder. As the MS Thorbjorn nears Utoeya, I find it hard to imagine the horrors which unfolded there. Even under the cover of  thick cloud, this tiny island looks so beautiful. It's like a jewel in the middle of Lake Tyrifjorden. Its forests of pine and silver birch are an explosion of autumn colour. Within minutes, we reach the island. I leave the ferry and pass the white administration building. It is here that Breivik shot his first victims. The island looks strangely normal. It's almost as if the Young Labour summer camp has been frozen in time. At the storehouse, the entertainment schedule for the day of the attack is still pinned to the wall. It lists what the campers should have been doing that evening: football at 18:00, then a disco at 22:30. The summer camp refreshment tent 'Utoeya Waffles' is still standing. There are neat rows of picnic tables. The island kiosk still has supplies in the shop window: toothpaste, shampoo and hot chocolate. The poster behind the glass declares: 'Utoeya: Welcome to the island. The Nordic Paradise.' Anders Breivik's shooting spree on Utoeya had lasted more than seventy minutes. He killed 69 people. As I walk around the island I see hints of the carnage: boarded-up windows and some bullet holes. I find a nature trail known as the 'Love Path'. It leads through the forest to cliffs. During the attack, some of the campers had climbed down here and taken cover in the rocks. Breivik had shot at them from the fence above. Others tried to swim to safety through the icy waters of the lake. The gunman targeted them, too. I move on to the 'School Hut'. During the shooting, 47 people had barricaded themselves in here. Among them was Jorid Nordmelan. I met Jorid in Oslo before my trip to Utoeya. She told me her dramatic story. ""I picked up my mattress and put it in front of the window,"" Jorid recalls. ""Then I crawled under the bed. Right at that moment someone was shooting at the door in the living room."" ""We were so scared because we knew we had lost control of our lives. We couldn't run anywhere. ""I actually thought through my own funeral. I planned what kind of tunes to be played and which priest I wanted. I was certain this was my final hour,"" she said. ""Then we got our mobile phones working and started checking the news. I saw that the BBC was covering the story. I thought, 'What? The BBC covering Norway? Something enormous must be happening'."" Even after Anders Breivik was arrested, Jorid's ordeal was not over. ""Then I saw him. The person who did this. He was standing there with handcuffs on in front of the main house. ""He looked kind of evil. But he was laughing. So I thought this couldn't be him. ""It had to be some mistake. Because I didn't think that anyone who shot so many people could be laughing afterwards"". Jorid was among the last group of survivors to leave Utoeya. Only on reaching the mainland did she realise the scale of the tragedy. ""There were body bags lying everywhere. We could see feet sticking out and white plastic covering heads. ""I couldn't believe it. I cracked and fell down. I couldn't stand on my feet any more,"" she said. ""I think about what happened every day. I hope I will think about this every single day for the rest of my life. ""I hope it will fill me up in a good way, so that I have perspective. And make me remember how lucky I am to be alive.""","Norway has opened the island of Utoeya to the media for the first time since @placeholder killer Anders Behring Breivik massacred 69 people at a youth camp in July . Our correspondent , Steve Rosenberg , was among 150 journalists taken to the island where holiday camps are to reopen .",inspired,showing,confessed,war,class,2
"Police say they are trying to find a man in his 30s who they would like to to speak to about the serious assault. Officers were called to Ramsey Road in Barry at 04:00 GMT on Tuesday after the assault left the victim with face and head injuries. He was taken to the University Hospital of Wales. Anybody who has information is asked to contact South Wales Police via 101 quoting reference *397845, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.",A man in his 60s is in a critical condition in hospital after being @placeholder at a block of flats in the Vale of Glamorgan .,held,bitten,attacked,punched,struck,2
"Mormons from across the country have been preparing for the start of a religious pageant marking the 175th anniversary of the church in Britain. It's a hive of activity as over 1,000 volunteers work behind the scenes at a temple close to the town of Chorley. The idea to organise a British Pageant started four years ago. Pageants take place annually in the United States, but the organisers said this is the first to be held in Europe. The Preston Temple site was chosen for its connections to the faith. The first Mormon missionaries were sent from New York to Liverpool in 1837, led by the Apostle Heber C Kimball. They first preached in Preston in July of that year, and baptised their first nine converts the same month in the River Ribble. The pageant tells their story, with an original script that includes extracts from their journals. Comprised of reâ€","There are 190,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints in the UK , and it feels like most of them have @placeholder on a Lancashire town .",captured,shown,announced,gathered,descended,4
"By December 1961, a small team of Cambridge graduates, squashed into a Series 2 model, had travelled for 15 months along the Pan-American Highway. Starting at the southern tip of Argentina, the group travelled through 17 different countries until they finally reached the most northerly US state. But just 500 miles short of the Arctic Circle, the road came to an end at Fairbanks, Alaska, and they were beaten back by the harsh winter. Mike Andrews, Ben Mackworth-Praed and Martin Hugh-Jones had to admit defeat and sold their Land Rover to a car dealer in Anchorage to cover their fares home. Mr Mackworth-Praed chronicled the moment in his book, Year with Three Summers: ""Even for $1,850, we were sorry to part with it; we knew every bolt in the frame, every rattle, and could interpret its noises like an oracle. But we had to get home, and there was a heavy bill coming for air tickets."" The vehicle had certainly been put through its paces on the route, which would have been largely off-road at the time. The ""Cambridge TransAmerican Expedition"" set out from Buenos Aires in September 1960, travelled throughout Argentina down to Tierra Del Fuego, then up through South America, the US and Canada up to Alaska. Mr Andrews and Mr Mackworth-Praed were engineering graduates, invited to help with car maintenance, while vets Andy Bacon and Martin Hugh-Jones carried out epidemiological studies of cattle and sheep throughout Latin America. Their adventures included crossing the Andes 15 times, searching out new animal populations and archaeological sites, a week with the Welsh colony in Patagonia and negotiating treacherous conditions during an Alaskan ice storm. The Land Rover was pulled by oxen through a river in Costa Rica, driven along railway tracks to stop it sinking on salt flats between Chile and Bolivia and had the paint sand-blasted off it by strong winds as they drove into Patagonia. It had carried them across mountains, deserts, forests, rivers and salt flats, ""The sheer difficulty of travel was considerable. The Land Rover basically disintegrated en route - we broke practically every part of it. We got to Alaska and it had to have major rebuilds because the roads were appalling,"" Mr Andrews said. ""The roads were so bad that our heads were constantly banging on the roof."" While the vehicle had been put through its paces - springs, shock absorbers and other parts were constantly replaced on the trip - its aluminium bodywork did not rust. On the 50th anniversary of the trip, Mr Andrews wrote a piece for Land Rover Owner International magazine. To his astonishment, the vehicle's current owner, based in Anchorage, Alaska, recognised the expedition's logo, which had survived on its side since. ""It was pretty derelict at the time,"" Mr Andrews said, ""but in the five years since the vehicle has been renovated by [Land Rover enthusiast] Eddie Angel and, amazingly, all three of us who drove it to Alaska in 1961 are all going out there again."" Mr Andrews, 76, from Bristol, a retired executive producer with the BBC's Natural History Unit, and his fellow adventurers Mr Mackworth-Praed, 79, and Prof Martin Hugh-Jones, 79, will join a small convoy of vintage Land Rovers for the journey from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Prudhoe Bay, on the Arctic Coast in August. Sadly, their teammate Mr Bacon has since died. The trip has been organised by Mr Angel and photo-journalist Michael Rudd, who will be documenting the journey. They have been documenting the Land Rover's repair  on Facebook and say it will ""retain all its battle scars and bruises"". They say the vehicle, despite its vast mileage, is ""very solid and will need just basic maintenance to drive the rest of the voyage"". While road conditions have generally improved, Mr Andrews is not expecting a smooth ride. The Dalton Highway is essentially a huge dirt track, which featured in the first episode of the BBC series ""World's Most Dangerous Roads"". They will have to dodge oil tankers and mosquitoes, and avoid skidding on the gravel road in a 55-year-old Land Rover that has not had an easy life. Mr Andrews said he was a bit anxious he might get to Alaska and find the 4x4 ""won't move."" But he said its owner, Mr Angel, is a Land Rover enthusiast, so they are in ""good hands"". ""I think it will be brilliant,"" he said. ""You could call it the trip of a lifetime. ""I was the baby of the team - I'm 76 now, the other two are 79 - the challenge I think will be to stay awake on those endless gravel roads,"" he said.","More than 50 years after they came agonisingly close to completing "" the ultimate road trip "" , three adventurers are set to return to Alaska in a bid to finish the last leg of the 40,000 - mile journey in the same @placeholder Land Rover which almost took them across the Americas .",group,zone,state,space,battered,4
"Media playback is not supported on this device Phaedra Al Majid, a former international media officer for Qatar 2022, said she wanted to exact revenge after losing her campaign job. She decided to go public after she said her ""lies had gone too far"". Al Majid has now signed a legal affidavit retracting the allegations. Fifa has also confirmed that it has received an email from Al Majid withdrawing the allegations. ""Fifa can confirm receipt of an email from a person claiming to have made allegations related to the Qatar 2022 bid process and now retracting these allegations,"" said a statement. My intentions were to make a few headlines, I never expected that my lies would be carried on and discussed in parliament Originally made anonymously to journalists, Al Majid's claims became the subject of an inquiry by the parliamentary select committee for culture, media and sport. She says she is deeply sorry for the trouble she has caused World Cup officials in Qatar and the three Fifa executive committee members she accused of accepting bribes. ""I was very upset after I left the bid and wanted to basically hurt the bid back,"" she said. ""My intentions were to make a few headlines, I never expected that my lies would be carried on and discussed in parliament. ""It just went too far. I never expected it to come to this point. There was never anything suspicious or any wrongdoing on Qatar's part. ""I cannot tell you how sorry I am. I have hurt reputations of three members of the Fifa exco, I have hurt their reputation, and more importantly I have hurt my colleagues on the Qatar bid."" Al Majid originally said African Football Confederation president Issa Hayatou, Ivory Coast Fifa member Jacques Anomua and Nigeria's suspended exco official Amos Adamu were paid $1.5m to vote for Qatar. The allegations were denied by all three men but were made public under parliamentary privilege when the Sunday Times submitted evidence from their investigation into Fifa to the select committee in May. She was then invited to back up her claims in a meeting with Fifa president Sepp Blatter. But no meeting ever took place. Al Majid also says she ""tampered"" with a Qatar 2022 bid strategy document which she then leaked to journalists. She insists she was placed under no pressure or paid any money by Qatar 2022 to change her story. Officials on a new supreme committee for the World Cup, now overseeing preparations for the tournament, have told the BBC Al Majid first made contact with them on 5 June and that they didn't place her under any pressure or pay her to retract her story. However, it must be stated that the BBC only interviewed Al Majid after being put in touch with her by Qatar bid officials, during research for a special report on the Qatar 2022 World Cup due to be broadcast on BBC2's Newsnight on Monday. Her decision to retract her story could be embarrassing for the select committee who last week published a report on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids in which the MPs accused Fifa of treating corruption allegations with an ""approach bordering on contempt"".","The "" whistleblower "" behind a series of corruption allegations involving Fifa executive committee members and Qatar 's 2022 World Cup bid has told the BBC she @placeholder the claims .",investigates,fabricated,surrounding,dominates,learned,1
"Romain Saiss has returned from the African Cup of Nations, but striker Joe Mason (hamstring) remains out. Newcastle are not expected to risk the Championship's top scorer Dwight Gayle with his hamstring issue. Chancel Mbemba and Christian Atsu are back from international duty and Jack Colback (illness) should be available.",January @placeholder Ben Marshall could make his full Wolves debut against Newcastle after coming on in last week 's late 2 - 1 defeat at Burton Albion .,escaped,team,signing,pair,drugs,2
"The UK Foreign Office has confirmed the detention of two British nationals. The three men, who received terms ranging from four to seven years, were alleged to have had links with local jihadists, the Fana Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) said. Ethiopia has extremely strict anti-terror laws. It has long waged a campaign against Islamist militancy in East Africa - and has been involved in fighting against al-Qaeda linked militants in neighbouring Somalia. The country has also faced criticism from donors for jailing its critics, including some of the country's leading bloggers who are facing trail on terrorism charges and have been in detention since April 2014. According to FBC, Ali Adros Mohammad and Mohammad Sharif Ahmed had lived in London while Mohammad Ahmed was from Hargeisa in the self-declared republic of Somaliland. The trio had been in communication with local members of a jihadist group since December 2012 and had travelled to the Ethiopian city of Adama, capital of the Oromia region, where they were conspiring to carry out terror attacks, it reported. The Federal High Court in the capital, Addis Ababa, heard that Ali Adros had travelled to Kenya for military training and had also made a deal with a local rebel group, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), to carry out joint attacks, it said.","Two British citizens and a Somali man have been jailed in Ethiopia for trying to establish an Islamic state , a radio @placeholder to the government reports .",dedicated,leaked,report,according,affiliated,4
"Bins were set on fire and a prison officer was injured after trouble broke out at HMP Stocken in Rutland on 14 June. A total of ten men have been collectively charged with prison mutiny, Leicestershire Police said. One, Steven Walker, 36, of HMP Nottingham, is due in court on Tuesday. Seven of the accused nine who appeared at Leicester Magistrates' Court are serving prisoners. They are: Two ex-inmates - Brendan Carey, 39, of Cathwaite, Paston, Peterborough, and Jamie Hill, 35, of Westwick Drive, Lincoln - were given unconditional bail following their appearance. All are due before Leicester Crown Court on 6 June. At the time, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said about 60 prisoners were involved in a ""serious incident of indiscipline"" at the jail. All 120 prisoners on a wing had to be moved to other parts of the jail or other prisons. Specially-trained prison officers were called in at about 23:00 BST before the situation was brought under control in the early hours of the following day.",Nine men have appeared in court charged in connection with @placeholder that led to riot squads being called in to a prison last year .,cases,messages,offences,events,disorder,4
"The proposal was tabled at the league's annual general meeting, with 18 of 24 National League clubs backing the move. It means teams finishing between second and seventh place in all three National League's divisions will be involved. Games will be one-legged, with teams in fourth and fifth hosting the seventh and sixth clubs in a qualifying round. The winners of those matches will then move into the semi-finals before a final - at Wembley for the National League and a club ground for the North and South divisions. Teams that finish second and third will progress straight to a semi-final at their home ground, in theory giving them an advantage as they will play one match fewer and have a home tie. Previously in non-league's top flight, the four clubs finishing directly below the automatically promoted champions played two-legged semi-finals before a one-off final. Four National League clubs rejected the proposal, with two more not voting. Speaking when the plans were initially put forward, the league's chief executive Michael Tattersall said: ""The format involves the same amount of matches as now. With six clubs competing, it will increase the interest levels."" Forest Green won this season's National League promotion final, beating Tranmere Rovers 3-1. at Wembley. FC Halifax Town and Ebbsfleet United won the National League North and South finals respectively, after one-match semi-final victories.",National League member clubs have voted in favour of @placeholder six - team play - offs to the fifth and sixth tiers of English football from next season .,losing,struggling,securing,introducing,completing,3
"Elliott Johnson, 21, was later killed by a train after lying across railway tracks in Sandy, Bedfordshire. Coroner Tom Osborne concluded Mr Johnson, of London, took his own life last September. ""Elliott Johnson... suffered severe injuries and died instantly,"" he said. Senior Bedfordshire and Luton coroner Mr Osborne said: ""I find that in letters his state of mind confirmed that he believed himself to have failed with money, with politics, his parents and with life. ""And he believed at the time of his death that he had been bullied and had been betrayed."" The inquest in Ampthill, focused on the fact Mr Johnson believed he was being bullied and on his being made redundant by pressure group Conservative Way Forward (CWF), shortly after making the allegation. In a detailed complaint, he had accused former Conservative activist Mark Clarke of bullying, following an altercation in a central London pub during a friend's birthday party on 12 August. During the exchange, Mr Clarke was alleged to have threatened to ""squash"" him ""like an ant"". Paul Abbott, former chief executive of the CWF, told the inquest Mr Clarke harboured a ""vendetta"" against CWF, and there had been other complaints by the group's volunteers against him. However, Mr Osborne said he found ""no connection"" between Mr Johnson's complaint and CWF's decision to make him redundant. Mr Johnson's father Ray said he believed Mr Clarke, who denied the bullying allegations, had ""ruined"" his son's career. ""We were unaware of, at the time, a victimisation campaign by Mr Clarke towards Elliott and other members of the Conservative Way Forward, which was getting steadily worse,"" he said. Mr Johnson's allegations eventually sparked an investigation and the resignation of former party chairman Grant Shapps.","A Conservative activist who said he was victimised by fellow Tories wrote to his "" bullies "" saying "" I could @placeholder a hate message but actions speak louder than words "" , an inquest heard .",carry,get,marry,achieve,write,4
"Mourinho is expected to replace sacked Louis van Gaal, with talks ongoing between his agent Jorge Mendes and United officials. But it has emerged that Chelsea still own the 'Jose Mourinho' name as a trademark - meaning United may need to pay a six-figure sum for the rights. However, the issue will not scupper any deal, which is expected this week. Discussions will now enter a third day, despite the deal to bring the 53-year-old former Chelsea boss to Old Trafford being largely complete. On Wednesday, Mourinho told waiting reporters at his home in London that he was going to Portugal. Chelsea registered both the name Jose Mourinho and his signature as a European trademark in 2005, meaning they can use it to sell merchandise such as toiletries, technology, clothing and jewellery. Sports lawyer Carol Couse told BBC Sport it was ""really unusual"" for an individual not to own the trademark to their own name. ""Chelsea could be earning revenue every time someone uses Mourinho's name. It could prevent United from exploiting his signature,"" said Couse, of law firm Mills & Reeve. ""One of the things United will be looking to acquire is not only Mourinho's image but also his name. ""If United had a brand of Mourinho clothing it would be in breach of the trademark Chelsea currently own."" What are the possible solutions? Mourinho cannot override the trademark, so the options are: ""That would be pretty costly,"" said Couse, who estimated the fee for a licence as ""hundreds of thousands of pounds"". ""Look at the value of the deals that have been done for Mourinho to date. What would be the value of a Jose Mourinho watch? ""He has managed Inter and Real since then. They have either acquired the rights from Chelsea or managed the use of his name. ""If Chelsea didn't grant a licence, every time United used Jose Mourinho's name in a commercial capacity against those products, Chelsea could sue Manchester United. I would suspect United would rather just pay a licence fee."" There is also potential conflict between Mourinho's personal deals - such as his one with car manufacturer Jaguar - and United's shirt sponsor agreement with Chevrolet. ""I don't think that in itself would hold up any negotiation,"" Couse explained. ""A lot of world-class players go to Manchester United with their own personal deals. Mourinho's deals will be in a personal capacity."" Couse said United cannot force Mourinho to drive a Chevrolet car, for example, or wear Chevrolet clothes outside of club capacity, but they could pay him an incentive to buy out the Jaguar deal early. Chelsea declined to comment when contacted by BBC Sport. Will Mourinho splash the cash? Will he give youth a chance? Or will there be a full-scale clearout? Choose your fantasy Man Utd starting XI. Who will be in the team for the start of the season? We've included the current squad plus a selection of players linked with United.",Negotiations over Jose Mourinho 's image rights are @placeholder him becoming the new Manchester United manager .,introducing,demanding,growing,delaying,regarding,3
"China's central bank has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Bank of Korea. The signing took place during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to South Korea. The timescale for the establishment of the clearing system has not been disclosed. A clearing system, also known as a clearing house, essentially acts as the middleman between two different parties, and is also the agent through which financial instruments such as shares, bonds and currencies are often traded. The move comes days after the French central bank also signed an MOU with its Chinese counterpart to set up a renminbi payment system in Paris. Banque de France said in a statement: ""This MoU is the first step towards the creation of a renminbi clearing and settlement infrastructure in Paris."" Earlier this year, China's central bank signed similar MOUs with its counterparts in Germany and the United Kingdom. Last month, the British pound became the fifth major currency to be exchangeable directly for yuan in Shanghai, joining the Australian and New Zealand dollars, as well as the Japanese yen and the US dollar. The Chinese currency ranks as the seventh most used payment currency globally.","South Korea will get a yuan clearing system in the capital Seoul , @placeholder the list of states with direct access to trade in the Chinese currency .",indicating,writes,according,including,expanding,4
"Troon is the only club on the Open rota to have a male-only membership policy. A majority is needed to remove the ban, with the club reporting in June that ""over three quarters of the members"" supported admitting female members. Muirfield still has a ban on female members and has been told by the governing body they cannot stage another Open until it is removed. That left Troon as the only club on the Open that has men-only membership after Royal St George's, which hosted the Open in 2011, voted last year to end its 128-year ban on female members. The club consulted members in May over the its men-only policy but brought forward a vote on the issue following Muirfield's ban. Muirfield said in June it wanted to hold a fresh ballot on admitting female members before the end of the year. The 145th Open Championship will begin on 14 July.","Royal Troon , the host of the 2016 Open Championship , will vote on @placeholder women members on Friday .",allowing,track,points,side,leaving,0
"Mr Letwin was putting in an appearance before the Commons public administration committee which left MPs a little baffled. He said he believed that the charity was ""grossly"" mismanaged, misstated its statistics and needed a leadership clearout. Yet he did not think he made any errors in disbursing £7.3m of public funds to Kids Company since April. This led him into rather odd territory. For example, Bernard Jenkin, the chair, was incredulous when Mr Letwin said that he always believed ""a distinct gap between the claims for the numbers going on in public and what was really happening"". He thought that the charity was not helping as many people it was claiming. But, Mr Letwin explained, those published figures were not the basis on which the charity was supported by the government. His argument was, at times, also rather peculiar. For example, Mr Letwin attempted to knock back the idea that he was in thrall to Camila Batmanghelidjh, its chief executive. He revealed the details of how he handled what would prove to be Kids Company's last request for more money from the government - a request that came in mid-May from Alan Yentob, its chair of trustees and the BBC's creative director. The request came just six weeks after receiving what was supposed to be a final grant of £4.265m. He told MPs: ""I was sitting in a car in my constituency on the carphone. I took the call from Alan [Yentob] which my office had arranged... He said: 'If you don't give us some extra money now, we will go bust almost immediately.' I said, as I say, 'So be it'. I had made it clear that the £4.265m was the last such grant and I didn't find it hard to make that objective assessment."" But it was not ""So be it"" to the closure. A few weeks later, Mr Letwin overruled officials to order a further payment of £3m to the charity. When pressed on this point, Mr Letwin said that he only did this on the condition that the charity changed its management and closed some of its services, so he was being tough. Not so. Other charities do not get impromptu £3m bailouts. Mr Letwin was also pressed on the question of why the charity was given the money when the Cabinet Office was in possession of what someone in the department called a ""gobsmacking"" interim report, written by PWC. This contained details of bizarre spending - it showed one client was being paid almost £1,000 a week. The minister knew the charity spent more than £50,000 funding someone described as the child of an Iranian diplomat, including their PhD study. He knew that two young people who have a relative working for a charity received support worth more than £130,000. His answer was that he could only cut off Kids Company if a Charity Commission statutory inquiry were launched. It is not clear why. Mr Letwin's argument was, at root, that he thought Kids Company did excellent work despite shambolic management. So, he argued, the core of what it did needed to preserved, even if the management did not. But he did not give a good explanation of why he thought it was so valuable. For example, when pressed on why he was convinced Kids Company deserved such generosity, Mr Letwin said he had visited it in 2001 to 2003 - more than a decade ago. He also brought up work by Methods Consulting, research which had been conducted at the behest of the Department for Education to assess the charity. But Methods' work seems to have been weak. As the NAO wrote, the ""scope of its work did not include looking at the quality of the charity's services"".  Methods only measured the volume of work - and it got whacky results. For example, the charity was set a target of 1,347 ""interventions"" in 2013 to 14. According to the NAO, they delivered 30,217. This does not suggest a well-calibrated measure. Mr Letwin's view about its safeguarding practice was also debatable. He was wrong to claim Kids Company was not unusual, for a charity of its size, in not being inspected, regulated or overseen by either Ofsted or a local authority. And Mr Letwin's retort that the staff had been vetted for prior criminal convictions is to miss the point. As Newsnight and BuzzFeed News reported, there are serious questions about whether it was effective at keeping young people safe. So how to judge Mr Letwin's performance? The select committee will report in the New Year. The minister did not win them over. He rather confirmed the sense that Kids Company was a well connected charity which threatened ministers with the consequences of its own closure - and Mr Letwin could not make a convincing, positive case for the funding he gave it. Still, he did manage one thing. The hearing was about him, not his boss, the Prime Minister. Tim Loughton, a former children's minister, told the committee earlier that David Cameron was ""mesmerised"" by Ms Batmanghelidjh. If that was - as expected - the end of the public administration committee's process, the Prime Minister may have got away with not being dragged into this row.","The minister who overruled civil service objections to pay a £ 3 m grant to the now - @placeholder charity Kids Company just days before it collapsed has said that he does not regret his decision . Oliver Letwin says the charity might well have been an "" abundant success "" , but for the fact that it folded suddenly in early August amid a police investigation .",backed,nominated,dissolved,shut,scale,3
"Homes and businesses in the town were affected by waters overflowing from the Skiprunning Burn in August. Local councillor Jim Brown said a study by engineering consultants Halcrow had produced some important findings. He urged members of the public to turn out to the meeting in the town hall at 19:00 to hear the outcome. About 50 homes and businesses were affected in the summer incident, prompted by a spell of thundery rain. Mitigation measures being suggested include new arrangements for reducing a build-up of debris as well as alterations to kerbs and other street features to channel flows away from properties.",A meeting in Jedburgh is to hear about the cause of major flooding in the town - and the @placeholder which is being recommended to avoid any repeat .,region,procedure,air,aerospace,action,4
"George King's try was awarded by the video referee with three minutes to go, before Chris Sandow completed the win with his late effort. Rhys Evans' double and Ben Currie's effort added to the Wolves' total. Catalans, already beaten by Hull on home soil, scored through Todd Carney, Pat Richards and Vincent Duport. The victory was Warrington's fifth in succession, with themselves and Wigan the only two sides to retain 100% records so far this season. It was a disappointing reunion with his former club for Catalans half-back Richie Myler, who saw his new side beaten and was involved in a heavy tackle by Chris Hill that saw the Wolves skipper placed on report. Dragons head coach Laurent Frayssinous was visibly frustrated by the late video referee call for King's try. However, there was little debate about Sandow's try that finished the game, which made it three defeats for the hosts in the opening five fixtures. Catalans Dragons head coach Laurent Frayssinous: ""I think that there are rules in rugby league, you cannot move forward until the foot touches the ball at the play the ball. It's hard to kick, it's hard to play, it's hard to run, win the ground and get a quick play the ball when you have the opposition straight in your face. ""I think the guys had a dig defensively, but offensively we couldn't play tonight. ""I would be happy at some stage to have some feedback from the referee about some decisions he made tonight, but there is no point in me telling my players to work on combinations and create space when there is a game played like that."" Warrington Wolves head coach Tony Smith: ""We're oozing with character at the moment. We're probably not oozing with execution or smarts (smart play) at times, and we're coming up with a few too many errors. ""But we were pretty confident that we could get ahead in the game, but we needed to control the ball and use the wind in the second half and we didn't do that in the early stages of the second half. ""But about 20 minutes into the second half we felt like we were going to come home even stronger. ""Some of that was down to good defence, some good fitness and good execution. I thought our kicking game for the last 20 minutes was very good."" Catalans: Gigot; Broughton, Inu, Duport, Richards; Carney, Myler; Taylor, Pelissier, Mason, Stewart, Horo, Anderson. Replacements: Casty, Baitieri, Bousquet, Bosc. Warrington: Russell; Penny, R. Evans, Atkins, Lineham; Gidley; Sandow, Hill, Dwyer, Sims, Currie, Hughes, Westerman. Replacements: Dodds, G. King, Cox, Ratchford. Referee: James Child",Warrington shrugged off the loss of @placeholder Mitchell Dodds to a potentially serious leg injury with a hard - earned Super League win at Catalans Dragons .,spirit,touch,prop,action,captain,2
"Nick D'Aloisio told the BBC he was currently deciding between working full-time for the California-based company or going to university. The 18-year-old has just released an iPad edition of Yahoo's News Digest, for which he acts as project manager. He is also developing an Apple Watch version, among other projects. ""For the lightweight news consumption that we have, [News] Digest is absolutely suited for this device,"" he said. ""Because of the summarisation element to this app, it just inherently makes sense when you have a constrained screen. ""We've been thinking about designing the concept of taking Digest to wearables for a while now, and we're going to jump at the opportunity."" The app's icon briefly features during the Watch promotional video on Apple's site. Mr D'Aloisio said his team had already begun work on the software before the launch event, but had been kept ""in the dark"" about how the device functioned. He added that he also intended to bring the app to Android Wear smartwatches. News Digest has already been downloaded to about 1.3 million iPhones and 623,000 Android handsets, according to analytics provider Xyo. Yahoo would not confirm those numbers, but said that it believed: Mr D'Aloisio was only 16 years old when he secured a $250,000 (£154,000) investment in his software from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing. He subsequently launched the app Summly as a standalone news-summarisation product, but it was only a few months before Yahoo acquired the technology and his services, in a deal reported to be worth £20m. Since then he has headed up a team of about a dozen software engineers and designers to create and run News Digest, at the same time as sitting his A-level exams. Yahoo's app delivers two daily briefings of eight to nine stories, which are assembled by algorithms using text, images and videos sourced from online providers including: Once the user has clicked through all the material, a graphic tells them they are ""done"". ""It's been very intense because I'm accountable and in charge of this product,"" Mr D'Aloisio told the BBC. ""So, for the last year-and-a-half I've been flying back and forth between London and California."" Having achieved high enough grades to qualify for his university offers, he now faces a choice as to whether to start a degree in October or not. ""I'm still undecided - I'm weighing up university and Yahoo,"" he explained. ""But I think there could be a nice middle ground here, where I think I could potentially... be doing some higher study as well as continuing on with Digest. ""I am still very passionate about continuing my education, that's precisely why I made sure I finished school with everyone else in my age group, But at the same time this is a great product and we're working on some really exciting things."" For the moment, Mr D'Aloisio is promoting the iPad edition of Yahoo's app, which introduces new features. These include: The app can be downloaded globally and configured to run in a UK, US, Canadian or World edition. The software will compete against a growing number of other news briefing services including Flipboard, Circa and Feedly. Not everyone is enamoured with the idea of such services piggybacking the work of  journalists. ""The big question is, are these apps providing added value for readers and publishers, or are they just another parasitical kind of aggregator,"" asked Dominic Ponsford, editor of the Press Gazette site. ""There's so much aggregation going on online - just listing and lifting other people's stories and content isn't what you need."" But Mr D'Aloisio defends News Digest's model, saying it acts as a ""trusted curator"", providing bite-sized chunks of news to busy readers, and offering links to the original sources for those with more time. Time is something he is now short of himself, and while he may be famous for being the ""teenage coder who made millions"", he acknowledges he does not do much programming himself anymore. ""I do dabble in the iPhone coding for the application, but by and large my role has moved from doing a lot of the coding to becoming more of a product manager - so, I'm in charge of the design, the branding, the strategy, the development of it,"" he said. ""That is by and large what I spend my time on. ""But I have also been helping out with a few other efforts that have yet to be announced.""",The British teenager who @placeholder his news summary app to Yahoo for millions is facing a major life choice as he weighs education and business opportunities .,spent,launches,brings,sold,represents,3
"Ten people, including five children, died in a fire at a travellers' site on Saturday. The victims were Willie Lynch and Tara Gilbert, their daughters Kelsey and Jodie, as well as Thomas and Sylvia Connors and their children Jim, Christy and five-month-old Mary. Jimmy Lynch also died in the blaze. Willie Lynch and Sylvia Connors were his siblings. The Connors family lived on the site in Carrickmines, however the Lynch family and Tara Gilbert lived in Fassaroe, Bray. RTÉ reports that funeral arrangements are being made for the two families in Bray, County Wicklow and in Wexford. A candlelight vigil is due to be held in Fassaroe later on Friday. Elsewhere, a number of residents from a Carrickmines estate met with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to discuss the temporary relocation of families made homeless by the fire to a site in their cul-de-sac.","The @placeholder of the victims of the fire in Carrickmines , County Dublin , have been released to their families .",birth,ashes,bodies,life,letters,2
"Proposals by four artists for the Parker's Piece statue can be seen in the Grand Arcade on Monday. An idea to create a Subbuteo-type referee was scrapped before the public consultation stage last year. City councillor Carina O'Reilly said the statue could become a ""significant landmark"" for the city. It has been claimed the original rules of football were developed by students playing on Parker's Piece in 1848 and that the city centre green is the birthplace of football. A plaque at the city centre park already celebrates how the ""Cambridge Rules"" became the ""defining influence on the 1863 Football Association rules"". The Football Association, however, said although ""elements"" of the Cambridge Rules were in its own version, there were ""a number of differences"". Artists Neville Gabie together with Alan Ward, Kenny Hunter, Nayan Kulkarni and Mark Titchner have submitted proposals. They include a granite slab inscribed with the rules in different languages, a mirror-like design and bench, a life-size bronze of a female referee and a word sculpture. People are now being asked for their opinions on the designs until 5 December. One sculpture will be chosen by city councillors on 15 January. The work, which could cost up to £115,000, will be paid for by ring-fenced public art money from developers.",Sculpture designs to mark Cambridge 's contribution to the rules of football are to go on display after a Subbuteo - style statue was @placeholder .,rejected,discovered,claimed,constructed,abandoned,0
"""The war did not finish in 2008 - it continues every day, because the Russian occupiers are on our land,"" said protest organiser David Katsarava. Young and old held hands and stood in silence under the scorching sun. Many held Georgian flags and banners condemning Russia's occupation, which gave firepower to pro-Russian rebels. ""Our aim is to unite people and to give them the feeling that it's possible to change something in this war,"" says Mr Katsarava. In early August 2008, Georgia attempted to recapture breakaway South Ossetia, which had fought a separatist war with Georgia in the 1990s. The fighting in 2008 escalated after cross-border skirmishes. Russia responded with a massive invasion. It also seized control of Abkhazia, in support of separatists there. Both regions are internationally recognised as Georgian territory. The five-day war ended in humiliation for Georgia - several towns, a Black Sea port and military airfields were bombed by the Russian air force. Several hundred people were killed and thousands of ethnic Georgians displaced by the conflict. Georgian villages in South Ossetia were razed to the ground. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is conducting an investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the war. What is South Ossetia? Georgia timeline South Ossetia, officially part of Georgia, is separated from the North Ossetia region of Russia by an international border. It is inhabited mostly by Ossetians, who are ethnically and linguistically distinct from other peoples in the region. Most ethnic Georgians have been displaced from South Ossetia by conflict. Georgia, including South Ossetia, was part of the Russian empire in the 19th Century. After the 1917 communist revolution, Georgia became independent but it was declared part of the Soviet Union in 1921. After the 2008 war, Moscow recognised South Ossetia as an independent state and began a process of closer ties that Georgia views as effective annexation. South Ossetia and Abkhazia depend on Russia militarily and financially. Thousands of Russian troops are stationed in the two regions. Moscow has signed strategic agreements with both regions, bringing them firmly into its sphere of influence. While the Georgian protest was taking place Russian President Vladimir Putin was visiting Abkhazia. Just last week US Vice President Mike Pence visited Georgia. He voiced strong US support for Georgia's territorial integrity, and the two countries launched their biggest ever joint military exercises.",Several hundred Georgians have @placeholder a human chain on a main road near the country 's Russian - controlled South Ossetia region .,captured,spent,reached,formed,published,3
"Back in the 1920s a handful of beer-makers shared a fear: what would happen if we lost our brewing yeast? They not only agreed such an occurrence would be very bad news, they also agreed on a solution - to deposit a sample of their all important yeast in a shared collection for safety. Today that collection - the National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) - is home to 4,000 different yeasts. They include all types of yeasts, including brewing, baking and industrial yeasts, from across the globe. Even yeasts found at the north and south poles have been collected and added to the collection. ""We are the Kew Gardens of the yeast world,"" says Dr Ian Roberts, curator at the NCYC. ""Yeasts are literally everywhere and are very important not just in brewing and baking but in areas like cancer research because yeasts are a model organism for research."" Using different yeasts can change the taste of a beer dramatically, says Dr Roberts. ""Brewers tend to play it safe and they like to keep the yeasts they like to use,"" he says. But when a brewery's production yeast is destroyed - as happened in 2009 to a flooded brewery in the Lake District - the NCYC was able to get the operation ""back up and running"" with the very same yeast strain. Some brewers, however, are willing to take the plunge and explore the myriad taste-scape offered by yeast. One is micro-brewer Martin Warren, who owns the Poppyland Brewery in Cromer. ""I'm too small to compete head to head with the regional brewers and I don't brew beer that you would buy in pubs,"" says Mr Warren, a former museum curator. ""I am looking to have adventures with beer, I'm really just a grown-up home brewer who now has a full-scale brewery. ""It means that I can make the beers that other brewers dare not do, or cannot do."" One of his latest beers is made using a yeast strain originally from Norwich unused since 1958. Presented with his yeast by the NCYC's Steve James, Mr Warren said: ""That must be the smell of beers from the 1950s. ""It is fruity, it is delicious. It is going to be great to brew with this. As my wife says if you put ingredients in, how can it go wrong?"" The end result is a beer called Hawkey Frolic, which was debuted - and feted as ""really lovely"" and ""really malty"" - at the Norwich Beer Festival. But where next for the nation's beer adventurers? Brewers, says Dr Roberts, are most likely to explore further into the past to the yeasts of the 1930s and 1920s. They might also soon have access to new yeasts created as a result of the NCYC's project to sequence the genomes of all of its strains. The idea, he says, was to find out the genetic basis for each yeast's special characteristics. This, in turn, could lead to new yeast strains with even better properties and flavours. And the chances of seeing a north or south pole beer any time soon? Very low sadly, says Dr Roberts, because these yeasts are not brewing yeasts. Inside Out will be broadcast on BBC One in the east of England at 19:30 BST on Monday and available on iPlayer afterwards.","The treasure chest of the nation 's brewing industry sits on an unassuming @placeholder complex on the outskirts of Norwich . It houses thousands of different types of yeast . Some , unused for generations , are now being given a new lease of life to offer a taste of times past .",nature,network,office,article,beach,2
"He is a director of football whose heart is still out on the pitch, and he casts his mind back almost three decades to the opportunity he was given when he first set foot in the club as a new boy plucked from non-league. He chuckles as he recalls telling the QPR manager in 1987, Jim Smith, that he couldn't join straight away as he had to work his month's notice as a van driver. ""I remember there were some guys who were just about to be released,"" Ferdinand, 48, recalls. ""They were saying, 'do you know, I might go and play non-league football. Two nights' work and still get paid £150 a week for playing'. ""I said: 'Are you guys mad? Are you seriously saying that? You have got to try your nuts off to stay in football! You don't believe what you have got'."" The former England striker is a man with a stock of stories to tell about the precarious business of opportunities in the game: how they come about, how they can so easily slip through a player's fingers, how they can be nurtured - and seized. Reflecting on his own playing career and coaching experience, his is a voice worth listening to carefully at a time when Football Association chairman Greg Dyke is trumpeting ideas to find a host of English players like Harry Kane. Ah, Harry Kane. Having watched Kane and his Tottenham team-mates Ryan Mason and Andros Townsend celebrating together for England in Turin during the week, Ferdinand argues that the line between that happy picture and talent drifting unharnessed in the modern game could not be thinner. Kane, Mason and Townsend came through the development squad together at Spurs under the tutelage of Ferdinand, current QPR manager Chris Ramsey and Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood. ""But I guarantee you now, had Tim, Chris and myself not taken over the first team, nobody would be talking about Kane, Mason and Townsend. Because we gave them the opportunity to play,"" stresses Ferdinand. ""They would not be playing at Tottenham otherwise. Andros went out on nine loans. Harry had four loans. Mason had five loans. They were no nearer the first team when they came back than when they went out on loan. It was only that we had been working with them and we knew we could put them in the first team and trust them. ""The average lifespan at any club for managers now is 11-12 months maximum. They haven't got time to think about player development."" For all the talk of quotas to clear the pathway for youngsters, as far as Ferdinand is concerned there is a much more immediate problem for players getting stuck in the system. It's that critical age between 16 and 21 that Arsene Wenger pinpointed this week. ""That's the heart of the problem,"" said the Arsenal manager. ""Let's get better at that level, then if there is a problem integrating those players in the top teams, we have to do something about it. Today you have to be very brave to integrate the young players because the pressure is very high."" That sentiment strikes a chord with Ferdinand. He understands why managers are loath to take a risk on a young player. But the system, he reckons, makes it extra difficult to take those risks. Why? Because youngsters at the top clubs are starved of competitive football at the highest level. The under-21 league, introduced by the Premier League as part of their Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) in place of old-style reserve-team football, is far too sterile for his liking. Ferdinand would scrap it in a heartbeat. ""It's not competitive enough,"" he says. ""Look at our squad. For the previous manager here [Harry Redknapp] if there was a problem in the first team he wasn't looking at the under 21s. He would rather go and take someone on loan who he knows has played competitive football against seasoned pros. ""That's what 99% of managers in the Premier League would do. They don't see the under-21 squad as being competitive enough, which is why these boys are not coming through."" Ferdinand recalls his early days as a QPR player whisked out of non-league football. ""My first reserve game we had Clive Walker, Sammy Lee... all these experienced professional players. We played Southampton and they had Jimmy Case playing."" His expression reveals that was an early lesson to the physical demands required. ""I am not going to get better experience than that. I am certainly not going to get it in the under-21s. ""These people helped you, they guided you through your football. In the under-21s if you have another kid telling you to push in here or there, they are not quite sure what they are doing. ""The other thing that happened is if you didn't play on Saturday you knew you were playing on Tuesday in the reserves, it didn't matter how big a player you were. And they didn't have the hump because it wasn't seen as a punishment. It was about keeping yourself fit to play football. ""Nowadays the senior players in the under-21 development games see it is a punishment. They don't want to play. So they end up not running around as they should do. ""Because I worked in under-21 football I understand that these players need to be given an opportunity. Otherwise you just have a creche. It is a bit messed up. They have to look at the whole picture."" Given the complicated mix of stifled opportunity plus a generous salary - and all that at a sensitive age in between the teens and being a young adult - it doesn't seem to be the most productive environment. Intriguingly, when Ferdinand looks at his own chance as a young player, he admits he found it difficult to get his head around what was happening - and that was without agents in his ear and megabucks in his pocket. One day he was at Southall and Hayes, training twice a week after work and playing on the weekend. The next he was in the professional game. ""Instead of doing it for fun, suddenly it was my job. I struggled with that for a while,"" Ferdinand says. ""I needed to change my lifestyle and I didn't. I was a young kid from a council estate and was still running around with the guys I had been running around with before I joined QPR. It all happened very quickly. ""It took a while to adjust to the life of being a professional footballer. The truth is I probably didn't adjust to it until I went to Turkey, to Besiktas on loan in 1988. ""It was amazing not only as a football lesson but as a life lesson. I was on my own, the first British player to go to Turkey, in this environment I totally didn't know about. But I needed to do it. ""I realised I did want to be a professional footballer and I needed to get away from distractions and concentrate 100% on football. That's what Turkey allowed me to do. It was the making of me as a footballer. I feel that was me serving my apprenticeship."" Ferdinand is a big believer in loans as long as the player himself is in the right mindset. ""People often go on loan and think, 'I'm here for a month. If it doesn't go that well it doesn't matter I'll go back to QPR or Arsenal or Tottenham or wherever. I don't really want to be here anyway…'"" But players need to believe that loan will actually lead somewhere, rather than feeling they are just farmed out. The 22-year-old Ferdinand returned to QPR from Besiktas in 1989 - having scored 19 goals in 30 games - and never looked back. He was one of a generation that also included Ian Wright and Stuart Pearce that made the full journey from non-league to an England shirt. The current crop of Premier League players who have their their roots in non-league - the likes of QPR's Charlie Austin, Burnley's Danny Ings, Dwight Gayle of Crystal Palace, Liverpool's Rickie Lambert and Jamie Vardy of Leicester - prove that the EPPP is not the only way to mould top level players. ""Coming in here to work every day is much better than getting up at 6am, working all day, having to jump on two trains and two buses to get to training,"" Ferdinand adds. ""The boys that come out of non-league appreciate what they have."" That's another big part of the development issue - today's youngsters in the academy system are so well looked after their hunger can be eroded. ""That's a conversation that has been going on for many, many years,"" says Ferdinand. ""How do we change the mindset of boys that have been brought up in the system because they believe this is life? It is their life. It is what they have got used to. So it's very difficult to tell them about another way when that is all they have seen. ""I know at all clubs education has become a major part of what they do. But it doesn't really give you the life experience. Maybe sending them out to work for a few months, to get up at six in the morning or maybe even earlier to go and do a day's work, might help them to appreciate what they have got."" Ferdinand laughs at such old-fashioned idealism in the middle of modern, £5bn industry. But it is an interesting idea. Anything and everything needs to be taken into consideration in the hunt for the next batch of Harry Kanes.","Les Ferdinand is sitting in his office at QPR 's Harlington training @placeholder in his club tracksuit , straight from a stint with the players .",advantage,gathering,center,ground,camp,3
"Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh she visited the charity's new operating base at the Egerton-Smith Centre at Cambridge Airport. The royal couple were given a tour by the Duke of Cambridge who has been based in the city for more than a year. They viewed one of two operational H145 helicopters before unveiling a plaque. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh also met some of the charity's medics, support staff and pilots. Live: Latest on this story and others from Cambridgeshire Launched as a charity in 2000 the organisation's pilots fly an average of five missions per day from bases in Cambridge and Norwich and cover a wider geographical area spanning Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. The monarch was at the base for about 40 minutes before heading to Buckingham Palace, where she is due to meet outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron.",The Queen has @placeholder the new base of the East Anglian Air Ambulance ( EAAA ) where her grandson works as a helicopter pilot .,unveiled,marked,acquired,opened,revealed,3
"Lilian Johnstone was commissioned to make the cake as a prank by friends of Rangers fan Iain Orr. The outside is decorated in the red, white and blue livery and the crest of the Ibrox club. Inside, the sponge is dyed with green food colouring and layered to match the hoops pattern of their Old Firm rivals. Lilian, who works from home in Ruchill, Glasgow, posted a picture of her creation on her Cupcakes by Lilian Facebook page. She has now been inundated with orders after it was shared thousands of times on social media. She said: ""I've made a cake like this before and it ended up on quite a few Celtic forums, but it never got as much coverage as this one. ""I honestly didn't expect it. I'm totally overwhelmed, it's amazing.""","A Rangers birthday cake , which reveals Celtic 's green and white colours , when @placeholder , has become an online hit for a Glasgow baker .",full,sliced,school,fire,opened,1
"His suspicious death on 6 June, just days after he vowed to press ahead the fight for universal suffrage, has caused an uproar in Hong Kong, where public opinion has forced the Chinese government to promise to re-open a criminal investigation into his final moments. Mr Li's death at a hospital in the central province of Hunan was initially ruled a suicide, before it was re-classified as an accident. He was reportedly found hanging from the hospital window with a strip of cloth around his neck. But the public, as well as Mr Li's friends and supporters in China, believes the disabled activist, who was in his 60s, may have been murdered because of his politics. His death has special resonance in Hong Kong, where the 1989 Tiananmen Square killings highlighted the former British colony's fears about Chinese rule, and because one of his last interviews was with a Cantonese-language cable television station. ""Each ordinary man has a responsibility for democracy, for the well-being of the nation. For China to enter a democratic society sooner, for China to realise a multi-party political system sooner, I will not look back even if I have to risk my head,"" he was quoted as telling Hong Kong's iCable. Mr Li's supporters doubt whether a fair, objective assessment will be made. That is why volunteers gathered in Hong Kong on Sunday to urge passers-by in the busy commercial district of Mongkok to sign a petition demanding a proper, transparent investigation. A steady stream of people stopped to sign the petition, which has garnered 50,000 signatures. The youngest signatory was five-year-old Christopher, who scribbled his name alongside his mother Coris Leung. ""We are from Hong Kong, but we are also Chinese. I want him to understand our culture, our history and what really happened to this man,"" she said. Don Mak, who describes himself as largely apolitical, said he felt angered and frustrated by Mr Li's death. ""One of the fundamental rights of a human being is the right to live and the right to free speech. He was deprived of both,"" said the 22-year-old university graduate. Volunteers plan to gather 100,000 signatures before presenting the petition to Chinese President Hu Jintao, who is expected to visit Hong Kong at the end of June to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the city's return to China - again highlighting the case's potential sensitivities. Hong Kong is a city split between two political camps: the pan-democrats who are generally critical of the authoritarian rule of the Communist Party in Beijing, and the pro-establishment lawmakers who generally support the central government. But in the Li Wangyang case, the two sides have largely come together to demand accountability. Lee Cheuk-yan, chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China and head of the pan-democratic Labour Party, believes anger from all strata of Hong Kong society has put pressure on the pro-establishment lawmakers. In September, the members of Hong Kong's parliament, called the Legislative Council, will face re-election. All eligible voters are allowed to participate. On 10 June, Mr Lee led 25,000 people on a protest march that culminated in a gathering at Beijing's Liaison Office in western Hong Kong. He said it was the biggest-ever protest at the central government's representative office. Police, who fired tear gas to keep the protesters at bay, said 5,000 people attended the march. ""We protested over the jailing of Ai Weiwei and Chen Guangcheng,"" said Mr Lee, referring to two of China's best-known dissidents. ""But this case is different. This time somebody died. Li Wangyang is obviously a victim of Tiananmen. He was maimed, blinded and made deaf during his imprisonment. His death is a very clear case of the high-handed, tyrannical way the government dealt with a citizen. We are demanding justice."" Rita Fan, Hong Kong's delegate to the elite Standing Committee in China's parliament, has written to the National People's Congress to express the people's doubts. And over the past week, senior civil servants in the Hong Kong government, from Food and Health Secretary York Chow to Chief Executive Donald Tsang, have made rare public statements saying Mr Li's death was indeed suspicious. Civil servants are meant to be above the political fray, so their comments demonstrate the amount of official support for a thorough investigation. A report last week from the Beijing-backed Hong Kong China News Agency quoted a public security official in Hunan province as saying forensic experts from outside the province had been commissioned to carry out an autopsy. Experienced criminal investigators were also now involved, the spokesman said. But Mr Lee, the pan-democrat lawmaker, said there was widespread doubt on the mainland and in Hong Kong whether the investigation would be effective. Most of the evidence seems to be gone. Mr Li's body was taken away by police just hours after it was found, according to his family and friends. The body was reportedly cremated a few days later on 9 June, against the wishes of the family. It is unclear how, without the body, a new autopsy can be conducted. But even with little evidence left, Mr Li's supporters in Hong Kong demand an investigation. They fear democratic rights in their own city may someday be curtailed if they do not make a stand now. Even though this city is part of China, it is guaranteed the right to free speech and free assembly, both of which are unknown on the mainland. ""In Hong Kong, we have a saying, 'Today's mainland is tomorrow's Hong Kong',"" said Claudia Mo, a politician for the pan-democratic Civic Party, who helped to gather signatures on Sunday. ""Some people ask us, 'What's the point? He is already dead!' Well, we may or may not win this fight. But we are here to answer to history. We are here to answer to the next generation.""","Blind and deaf after two decades of imprisonment as a Tiananmen Square activist , Li Wangyang was a defiant @placeholder of the unrealised promises of democracy in China .",wake,assessment,portion,symbol,head,3
"These geological wonders adorn the Colorado Plateau in the southwestern US - not to mention the desktop wallpapers of countless computers worldwide. By attaching seismometers to the sandstone structures, researchers can measure their modes of resonance. Tracking changes through time could highlight any new weaknesses in the rock that might herald a collapse. There is nothing anyone can do about this - the arches are created and destroyed by erosion. It's the natural order. But an alert to potential danger might be useful to the National Park Service as it manages the many visitors who come to marvel at these imposing forms. ""They're very impressive - global icons that are super-rare, delicate and of course very beautiful,"" says Dr Jeff Moore. The University of Utah researcher is presenting his team's work at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco this week. The group has been attaching a clutch of sensors - not just seismometers, but tiltmeters and temperature probes - to some of the state's most spectacular arches. These include the Landscape, Double-O and Mesa structures. Dr Moore and colleagues are ""listening"" to them ring. The arches are excited by the wind and by natural Earth noise, such as distant ocean waves. What the scientists have found is that each structure has its own characteristic resonance, or modes of resonance. These modes are a function of an arch's material properties - its rock mass and bulk stiffness. ""If something were to change in an arch - like a developing crack - this would be reflected in a change in the vibrational characteristics,"" Dr Moore explained. ""So for Landscape Arch, which is the longest arch in North America at 88m long - we seem to have a fundamental resonant frequency at about 1.8Hz. ""Let's say there was damage on some side of it or internally that we couldn't see - that resonant frequency is expected to drop,"" he told BBC News. Rock falls in 1991 and 1993 mean that Landscape Arch is now out of bounds. Certainly, no-one is allowed to walk on it anymore. What the Utah team has done is develop a non-invasive diagnostic tool to monitor its ongoing status. Its sensors are small and mobile, with the seismometer being just a bit bigger than a coffee mug.  The instruments are placed simply on the surface of the arch for a few hours to allow the vibrations and a few other parameters to be recorded, before the whole suite is then removed. ""The idea is similar to 'wheel-tapping' in old-time train stations, if you like,"" said Dr Moore. ""These guys would tap the steel wheel and if there was a crack, they'd hear that change. ""The field is very well established in civil engineering; it's called structural health monitoring. We're just the first to extend that to natural rock arches."" There are more than 2,000 arches in Utah's Arches National Park. It has the perfect conditions for their creation. These include a porous sandstone unit that has been juxtaposed atop a very dense one. A salt dome also pushes up from below, which has had the effect of introducing weakness in the overlying rock. This combination of factors initiates a process of erosion that favours undermining and the growth of an arch structure. All it takes are the elements and time. ""We see all stages of arch development, from incipient new formation to collapse,"" Dr Moore told BBC News. ""We had Wall Arch famously collapse in 2008, and Landscape Arch we think is really near the end of its life. ""Double-O, on the other hand, although it is very well formed, it seems to have pretty thick abutments and strong spans. So that looks OK."" Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos",Scientists are listening to the hum of America 's great rock arches to keep a check on their @placeholder .,future,minds,ignorance,ground,integrity,4
"Sri Lanka Cricket president Thilanga Sumathipala also said that the spinner - who took a Test record  800 wickets - ""bullied"" ground staff into letting Australia practise on the Kandy pitch. The hosts were bowled out for 117 on day one of the first Test on Tuesday. ""They have no right to accuse me of being a traitor,"" said Muralitharan. ""Have they done one hundredth of what I have contributed to cricket in Sri Lanka? ""This is a political game to cover their shortcomings. I am being used as a pawn to cover their failings."" Muralitharan, 44, added that Sri Lanka's cricket board had asked for his help only once since his international retirement in 2011. Sri Lanka v Australia first Test scorecard Australian umpires reported Muralitharan for a suspect action during his first tour to Australia in 1995 and again in 1999 - but he was cleared by the International Cricket Council after tests. But he has since worked as a consultant for Australia's spinners and batsmen. Sumathipala added: ""Professionally it is OK for Murali to coach any foreign team, but the irony is that he is supporting Australia which tried to get him out of cricket. ""He is creating long-term damage for himself among his fans. I feel sad."" However, former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara defended his former team-mate and said the country should be ""proud"" of their ""great son"". ""If any Sri Lankan spinner walks up to Muri and asks him about bowling he will be the first to spend as much time as needed to help,"" he added.",Sri Lanka 's Muttiah Muralitharan has defended his right to coach Australia 's bowlers during a Test @placeholder between the sides after being called a traitor .,change,contest,lead,series,condition,3
"Speaking after Saturday's derby, Stubbs said ""one or two more will leave"" before deadline day on Wednesday. ""I want winners here, it's as simple as that,"" he told BBC Radio Sheffield. ""I want people who are prepared to give 100%, people it means something to. If they're not showing that, then they're not going to be in my team."" Former Bolton and Celtic defender Stubbs took charge at the New York Stadium in June and has already brought in 12 new players. ""There will be players coming in and there will be players going,"" he added. ""There might be one or two more going after that performance today. ""We always knew it was going to take a bit of time, but it will take a bit longer when you have such a rebuilding job to do. ""I know the frustration from today from the fans as it was disappointing, but I know the fans will stick behind the team and it's up to us to put it right on the pitch.""",Rotherham manager Alan Stubbs says more players will leave the club than originally planned following their 4 - 0 thrashing at @placeholder Barnsley .,prop,hands,home,risk,neighbours,4
"I've often wondered if its tag line, ""we can rebuild him, better than before, stronger...."" was the inspiration for a number of projects on the Labour benches of the Commons in the last Parliament, where teams of MPs toiled to retrofit potential leadership challengers with such qualities as people skills, a sense of humour, policy grasp, or a political cutting edge. With Jeremy Corbyn now secure in the Leader of the Opposition's office, their dreams have come to nothing....but over on the Tory benches I suspect a number of like-minded political engineers are seeking a suitable case for treatment. The Conservative troops expect a Boris vs Amber leadership battle, when the moment comes for Theresa May to make way for the leader who will take them into the next election, but there might well be a wild card....a Macron, if you like. To be sure, the British political system stacks the deck against a Macron-style pop-up political party, but the sight of a leader coming from nowhere to score a stunning electoral triumph attracts political romantics, and fascinates hard boiled professionals. And fresh from their duffing-up in June, the Tory search is on for a middle-ranking minister with perfect teeth, a floppy fringe and a photogenic spouse, who can be moulded into a cyborg warrior capable of doing battle with Jezza. After all, it's not as if this most protean of political parties has not pulled the trick before - John Major was virtually unknown outside Westminster a year before he became prime minister; David Cameron leapt to the Tory leadership on the basis of a good conference speech and a couple of femtoseconds as shadow education secretary after the 2005 election... As Steve Richards writes in his new book, The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way, political outsiders can be a potent force in politics, as Jeremy Corbyn has demonstrated; the Conservative Party does not easily produce such figures, but the manoeuvre pulled off by President Macron to run as an outsider, despite being a quintessential product of the French political establishment, suggests that a gleaming new figure, untainted by years of infighting, can cut through - especially if they are not over-encumbered by ideology and faction. Another key design requirement for the new Tory Terminator will be emotional intelligence - an ability to connect and empathise as effectively as Jeremy Corbyn did, and Theresa May didn't. In the process, some traditional requirements may be watered down; beyond a minimal level of competence, ability as a Commons performer probably matters less these days - and the public may find mastery of its traditional debating style rather suspect and inauthentic. If there is a lesson to take from the last couple of years in politics, it is that what pleases the troops on the green benches of the Chamber seems to leave the country cold. Maverick or mainstream? So who might be in the frame? There are few obvious challengers within the Cabinet, although Priti Patel has her fans. Beyond that there are several middle-ranking figures who might emerge like (and this is all my speculation) Graham Brady, the formidable chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, or slightly maverick ministers like Rory Stewart, or Jesse Norman. Then, there are current ""outs"" like Grant Shapps or the former chief whip Mark Harper, and a little further down the pecking order there are figures like Tom Tugendhat or Johnny Mercer, who have a sparkle of stardust about them. But they need to be fairly non-factional figures and, I suspect, the winner will be the one who hits upon a position on Brexit that both fits the circumstances as they will be in 2019, or whenever (and who knows what those circumstance will be, it may be more a matter of luck than judgement) and does not alienate a critical mass of MPs. The early symptoms of an embryonic Tory Macron are an interest in refining the party's ""offer"" for the next election, and an attempt to find ways of reaching parts of the electorate who have succumbed to the blandishments of Jeremy Corbyn. They will strike up conversations in the Tea Room or the coffee queue at the Portcullis House. They will be found in earnest conversations with colleagues and be remarkably receptive to invitations to speak on any subject, anytime, anywhere.  Of course, they will be available for media appearances at the drop of a hat. And they're in no hurry. The Tory succession race is going to be a marathon, not a sprint, allowing candidates to hone their offer to MPs and demonstrate their political skills in Commons speeches and questions, in the select committees, at party conference in the TV studios and (but, of course) on social media. And as they pound through the course ahead, factional credentials and Brexit positions will count for a lot, but above all, a bruised and traumatised Conservative Party wants a winner. If you are an MP nursing a fragile majority, nothing matters more than that. BOOKtalk with Steve Richards will be on BBC Parliament on Saturday 8 July at 20:45 BST.","Remember the Six Million Dollar Man , the 1970s TV series in which an @placeholder astronaut was equipped with super - strong mechanical limbs and ultra-acute senses ?",acclaimed,inspired,outraged,essay,injured,4
"It was a routine evening for my wife and son at our new home in the Delhi suburb of Noida. My son was finishing his homework at the dining table, which overlooks the drawing room and the kitchen. At around 21:30, my wife first heard a gentle knock on the door of the kitchen balcony, which became increasingly frantic. When she went to investigate, she saw to her astonishment that a young girl, barely 13, had managed to climb down into my 12th-floor balcony from the flat above with the aid of a cotton sari. Afraid to open the door and let her in, my wife asked her what was wrong. She said she was trying to escape her abusive employers. My wife was reluctant to open the door. She tried unsuccessfully to call the building security. Meanwhile, the girl kept banging on the glass door hysterically, threatening to jump off if she was not let in. My wife told our son to call our neighbours and the building security, while she kept the girl engaged in conversation. Once the neighbours and the guard arrived, the door was opened and the girl was allowed inside the house. She tried to escape, pleading that she be allowed to run away because of the way her employers treated her. My wife did not want to let her go, given the time of night and how unsafe the area could be for a young girl.  By this time the girl's employers had arrived - they told everyone that she was a ""perpetual eloper"", dragged her out of our house and took her away. My family narrated the entire incident to me when I got home soon after. I alerted the other residents though our WhatsApp group. It was soon discovered that the girl was a minor and must have been in great distress to attempt such a dramatic - and dangerous - escape. We sent the security supervisor to the house and the girl was escorted to the building office along with her employers. They said the girl had come to work for them of her own free will. But we were not convinced and called the police. The girl told the police that she had been treated horrifically and alleged that she was not allowed to speak to her family. Arrangements were made for the girl to stay the night with a family in the building. The next morning, police handed her over to an NGO who are in touch with her family. The incident has traumatised my 10-year-old son who cannot stop looking towards the kitchen balcony at least once every five minutes. Of course, the girl is now safe and we feel relieved. But there are countless other girls - and boys - who are in similar exploitative situations in India who need to be rescued. The authorities and the citizens must join hands to end child labour and exploitation of children on an urgent basis.",Rakesh Sinha of the BBC Delhi office recently found himself at the centre of a late - night drama when a young girl employed as a domestic help in the flat above his climbed down into his balcony with the aid of a sari . The girl alleged that she was being harassed by her employers and was later found to be a minor . Mr Sinha gives his account of how the @placeholder unfolded .,breaks,public,clouds,events,county,3
"He described it as somebody doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. There are boffins out there who dispute the providence of the quote, ascribing it instead to Benjamin Franklin or Mark Twain or assorted other brain-boxes, but what is unarguable is that the thrust of it is applicable to St Mirren as they meekly make their exit from the top flight of Scottish football. Doing the same thing over and over again means making one dreadful signing after another and expecting things to come right. It means picking the same players and putting them in the same positions where they have failed multiple times before and hoping that things come good. It means replacing one failed manager (Danny Lennon) with his failed assistant (Tommy Craig) and replacing another failed manager (Craig) with his assistant (Gary Teale) and expecting some sort of footballing enlightenment to occur. And it means ignoring the lessons of the past. In seven of the last eight seasons, St Mirren have got to early April - the 32-game stage of the league campaign - in 10th or 11th place in the table - usually 11th. In five of those eight seasons, they had only one club below them at this point of the season. They survived in different ways. They played their way out of trouble on a few occasions, but on others they hung on to their status because there was at least one other club in a worse state - Dunfermline Athletic, Gretna, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Falkirk, Hamilton Accies, Dundee, Hearts. Any team that continues to flirt with danger is likely to be caught out in the end. St Mirren have had as many lives as a cat in the past decade, but they've run out of time now and it's entirely their own fault. In the last two seasons alone, their business in the transfer market has been largely hopeless. Last season, they brought in Christopher Dilo, a goalkeeper who played 13 matches and then vanished, and Danny Grainger, who played 15 times and was then sent away to Dunfermline. They brought in Greg Wylde, who has been a bit-part player for them - and not a particularly effective bit-part player - and Eric Djemba-Djemba, a colossal embarrassment before disappearing out of Glasgow with his reputation as flat as those caps he used to wear. The names Jake Caprice and Stephane Bahoken are two more that bombed. Of the business done, only Mark Ridgers, the goalkeeper, is still contributing regularly. And this season's incoming list has again been awful. James Marwood was signed and was quickly sent away again, to Forest Green in the English Conference. Ross Caldwell failed and is now with Morton. Isaac Osbourne hasn't played since February. Callum Ball, a striker who got two in 24 games, has been out since January. Yoann Arquin has played nine matches and has two red cards and no goals. Of the summer influx, only Jeroen Tesselaar has appeared in the team on a consistent basis. That's more than a dozen signings - the list is not exhaustive - and only two of them are playing regularly in the team. With a hit-rate like that, no wonder St Mirren are in the state they're in. Look at the teams closest to them at the foot of the table - or, to put it correctly, the teams that are motoring away from them. Motherwell bought wisely in January, bringing in Stephen Pearson to bolster a previously soft-touch midfield, and Scott McDonald who, apart from scoring three goals in six games, offers the type of exuberance in his personality that is like a shot of adrenaline to a one-time beaten dressing-room. Pearson and McDonald have not only elevated Motherwell on the pitch, they have done it off the pitch as well. Their experience and leadership has been a big factor in Motherwell's recovery from apparent doom. Ross County are an even more stark example of a club bringing the right guys in at the right time. Raffaele De Vita has scored three times in eight games, including what turned out to be the winner in their games against Motherwell and Dundee United. Craig Curran has scored five goals in his 13 appearances, including the goal that won a point against Dundee and the decisive goal in their victories over Partick Thistle and Kilmarnock. Where are St Mirren's Pearsons and McDonalds, Da Vitas and Currans? Where are the replacements for the good players they have lost? Conor Newton, Paul Dummett, Paul McGowan and Darren McGregor all exited and those gaps were never filled. It seems like the club's survival policy amounted to hoping against hope that one of their rivals would stumble more often than they did. Motherwell and Ross County went out and improved their lot. St Mirren sat there and waited for one or both of them to mess up. Teale gets the blame, just as Craig got the blame before him, but the real problem here is with Stewart Gilmour and his board and their awful decision-making both in the appointment of two managers who had been part of administrations that had already been deemed not good enough and also by their hapless work in the transfer market. The powers-that-be at St Mirren saw the warning lights flashing a long time ago - or ought to have - and continued doing what they'd always done - the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome. It's not nice to see a club relegated - as St Mirren surely will be - but that's what happens when those at the top fall asleep at the wheel. Tony McCoy is nearing the end of his racing career and, although all of us who have marvelled at his genius in the saddle these past two decades will feel flat when he goes, surely the greater emotion will be joy at having been around to witness a maestro in his pomp. I wish I could have appreciated Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier and George Foreman when they were at their best, but I was too young. I wish I'd seen a young Pele play. Or an imperious George Best. What joy it would have been to be able to witness Bobby Jones create history. What a delight it would have been to be of an age to see Barry John or Gareth Edwards up close, week after week. McCoy stands proudly in that pantheon - and it's been a privilege to watch him, interview him and try to understand him and what drove him to those stratospheric heights. Now that his career is turning for home and he's becoming more reflective as opposed to his previous self who only had eyes for Towcester next Tuesday, we're hearing so much from him that is fascinating. ""For me, it's just my own stubbornness and my own peace of mind that drove me to do what I'm doing, retiring,"" he told the Limerick Leader last week. ""I'm not happy about doing it. It is probably the right thing, but what I'm hoping is that people will never be able to say I didn't retire at the top. ""I think you live in fear every day of being not as good as you were. Sometimes the fear totally overrides the enjoyment, you know? ""I don't feel it when I am riding the horses - it's the in-between. It's when it's over. And it's not something that I developed six months or a year ago, it's been there all my life. All my life. Sometimes it has been the ruination of my life."" McCoy spoke about what was expected of him and how difficult it has been to match those expectations, though, remarkably, he has managed it year after year. He said the biggest problem he has is that he's Tony McCoy and there's a burden that comes with that, a standard he has set for himself that's hard to repeat. ""I'm not bigging myself up for one moment, but I think, if I changed my name, I could carry on riding for another two or three years, no problem,"" he said. He could change his name, but AN Other would be rumbled soon enough. No name change or clever disguise could camouflage his greatness in the saddle. As soon as he won on something that had no right to win, he'd out himself in an instant. ""The sad reality of sport is that, at some point, if you carry on too long, there will be a dip,"" he added. ""And you don't want to be one of the people who had that dip, who carried on too long. That was always my fear."" McCoy versus his inner-demons? A great battle, no question. And one that can be added to his list of unforgettable victories.","You do n't need to be Albert Einstein to figure out what has gone wrong at St Mirren , but the great man @placeholder it when he talked of the definition of insanity .",nailed,wearing,announced,mentioned,knew,0
"The UK government is consulting on plans to close 91 courts and tribunals in England and Wales. It said if the plans go ahead, 95% of people could drive to court in an hour. But the Law Society's map suggests it would take longer for people who rely on public transport. It shows no users of Dolgellau crown and magistrates courts or Holyhead Magistrates' Court could reach their new court within one hour by public transport. The government consultation on the closures is due to end on the 8 October 2015. Work would be transferred to Caernarfon Criminal Justice Centre. No users would be able to reach it within an hour. Work would be transferred to Caernarfon Criminal Justice Centre, with 30% able to get there within one hour. Users would have to go to Llandudno Magistrates' Court. The society claims 33% of users could reach it within one hour. Services would be moved to Wrexham Law Courts and to Mold Law Courts, with 21% able to get there within 60 minutes. Work would move to Swansea Crown Court. The society said 31% of crown, 6% of magistrates' and 32% of family court users could reach it within one hour. Users would move to Llanelli Civil and Family Court and Haverfordwest Law Courts and Aberystwyth Justice Centre, with 7% able to reach their new court within 60 minutes. Work would be sent to Caernarfon Criminal Justice Centre. No users could get there within one hour. Cases would be sent to Llandrindod Wells Law Court, Merthyr Tydfil Combined Court and, for residents in the Ystradgynlais area, Swansea Magistrates' Court. Civil, family and tribunal hearings would move to Merthyr Tydfil Combined Court. The society said 34% of magistrates', 33% of civil and 24% of family court users could reach their new court within one hour. Work would move to Merthyr Tydfil Combined Court, with 56% of magistrates' and 80% of family court users able to reach their new court within 60 minutes. Civil, family and tribunal work be transferred to Port Talbot Justice Centre, criminal work would move to Cardiff Magistrates' Court. The society claims 65% of magistrates', 67% of civil and 64% of family users could reach their new court within an hour. Work would be transferred to Port Talbot Justice Centre, where 73% are said to be able to get there within one hour.",An interactive online map showing how plans to close 11 courts in Wales could impact people who rely on public transport has been @placeholder by the Law Society .,released,approved,dropped,blocked,backed,0
"Media playback is not supported on this device The Dons almost took a first-half lead when Graeme Shinnie crashed a shot against a post, with Adam Rooney unable to turn in the rebound. The breakthrough came after the break though, Johnny Hayes dispatching Niall McGinn's measured cross. Jamie Walker drew a fine save from Dons keeper Joe Lewis late on as the visitors held on for a deserved win. The win takes Aberdeen within two points of second-placed Rangers in the Premiership, with both sides having played 20 matches. The Ibrox side face rivals Celtic on Saturday. Aberdeen prospered by being assertive and more certain in their attacking play. They set out to isolate Hayes and McGinn on the Hearts full-backs, particularly Liam Smith on the right, and this was a constant source of threat for the visitors in the opening 45 minutes. Hearts' minds seemed scrambled, as much by the effort of the Aberdeen players in pushing up and closing opponents down but also their own lack of composure. There was no spell of Hearts possession, as their midfield three saw the game pass them by. Most of the Aberdeen chances came from their flank, with McGinn's cross reaching Kenny McLean, whose header was pushed away by Hearts goalkeeper Jack Hamilton. The goalkeeper had already been relieved when Mark Reynolds headed wide from close range, and he later had to clear frantically when the ball spun off his teammate Faycal Rherras inside the six yard box. Hearts head coach Ian Cathro tried to alter the flow of the game, bringing Arnaud Djoum deeper and wide, but Aberdeen's central midfielders also imposed themselves and Shinnie rattled a shot off the upright from 20 yards. The play was more even-handed after the break, with Krystian Nowak essentially playing as a third centre-back for Hearts instead of a holding midfielder, and so encouraging Smith and Rherras to push further forward on the flanks, when they could afford to. It was a measure of the game's dynamic that Hearts' first corner came two minutes into the second half, when Aberdeen had already registered five. Aberdeen still carried the greater threat, and Shay Logan saw an effort from the edge of the area deflected wide. Hearts' reorganisation stemmed some of Aberdeen's dominance, but not their edge. McGinn and Hayes continued to seek every channel of space to breach the Hearts defence, and when the former surged down the right and whipped the ball across the six yard box, the latter charged in to convert at the back post. The sense was of one side being sure of its strengths and its game plan, and the other still being a work in progress. That will not offer much relief for Cathro, even if he will hope to build a team that better represents his values during the winter break and January transfer window. It will be no surprise, for instance, if two new full-backs are sought. His key players were mostly marginal, and Djoum was replaced during the second half. Walker remained the most effective, and a spin and shot inside the area drew a good save from Aberdeen goalkeeper Lewis. Even so, it was the visitors who were the more assertive, more imposing side. With some more composure and sharper instincts inside the area from Rooney, they would have won the game more comfortably. The display, and the result, emphasised that, for now, it is Aberdeen who are the more fully-formed and capable team, and the likelier to challenge for second place in the Premiership. Hearts manager Ian Cathro: ""Initially, we lost the fight to make the game the way that we wanted it to be. It was difficult for us to get started and the game became closer to what Aberdeen wanted. ""In the second half, with a couple of adjustments, we became a little bit stronger, a better structure and we were able to play more often. A combination of not generating enough chances and some mistakes defensively resulted in us losing the game. ""We wanted the game to be more open with more possession and more control than direct, wide, foul, free-kick, those sorts of things. I don't have any question about the willingness of the players to fight and they deserve credit for getting through the first-half, which was difficult. ""My Hearts team will always play in a way which I think the players here can play. Will we look to add players of a different type to the squad? Yes, but that will be work through the January transfer window."" Media playback is not supported on this device Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes: ""We were guilty of missing chances. It was fiercely contested, but there were good moments of play from us. Once we did play in the final third, we created more than one or two opportunities. ""Everybody talks about the Tynecastle atmosphere but when the Hearts team goes off to boos at half time, you say that's part of the job done but we need to crank it up more. ""I'm delighted that Johnny Hayes was on the end of that and scored. There's no doubt in my mind that we were the better team, we were tidy, making good decisions when to play and when to hold things on, and recognising the strengths of the Hearts team. ""Maybe some sort of criticism on me is being over reliant on the same team and that fatigue and demands on them, so hopefully with people pushing and one or two things happening in January, we can look forward to a strong finish to the season."" Match ends, Heart of Midlothian 0, Aberdeen 1. Second Half ends, Heart of Midlothian 0, Aberdeen 1. Attempt missed. Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is too high. Corner,  Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Ryan Jack. Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian). Substitution, Aberdeen. Anthony O'Connor replaces Niall McGinn. Corner,  Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Joe Lewis. Attempt saved. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Corner,  Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Graeme Shinnie. Attempt blocked. Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Foul by Ryan Jack (Aberdeen). Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Robbie Muirhead replaces Igor Rossi. Attempt saved. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Corner,  Aberdeen. Conceded by Krystian Nowak. Foul by Mark Reynolds (Aberdeen). Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian). Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Rory Currie replaces Arnaud Djoum. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) because of an injury. Bjorn Johnsen (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card. Goal!  Heart of Midlothian 0, Aberdeen 1. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Attempt missed. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Attempt missed. Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is too high following a corner. Corner,  Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Kenny McLean. Foul by Andrew Considine (Aberdeen). Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Niall McGinn (Aberdeen). Igor Rossi (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) with an attempt from the centre of the box misses to the right. Foul by Andrew Considine (Aberdeen). Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the left wing. Corner,  Aberdeen. Conceded by Liam Smith. Attempt missed. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner. Corner,  Aberdeen. Conceded by Perry Kitchen. Attempt blocked. Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.",Jonny Hayes ' goal proved the @placeholder as Aberdeen left Tynecastle with all three points .,status,difference,spot,reverse,table,1
"Ms Rudd said the British had wanted to control the flow of information to ""keep the element of surprise"". She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she had been very clear with Washington ""that it should not happen again"". Ms Rudd said the Manchester-born bomber Salman Abedi had already been on the radar of the British security services. She claimed the 22-year-old, born to parents of Libyan origin, ""was known up to a point"" in the UK. Ms Rudd spoke out as the government raised the terrorism threat level to ""critical"" - the highest possible rating - on Tuesday amid fears another attack was imminent. She said this meant the police would have 3,800 soldiers to call on and equipment for ""as long as we need them"". The measures follow Monday night's attack at Manchester Arena, which killed 22 and injured 59. Counter-terrorism detectives have spoken in the past about how important it sometimes is for them that names of suspects do not make it into the media. They say a delay of around 36 hours, before the public know who they are investigating can allow them to arrest known associates of the suspect before they know police are looking for them. Information about the bomber's identity first emerged in the US - with American TV networks CBS and NBC naming Abedi as the suspect. Ms Rudd was asked whether she would be looking at how information sharing may have resulted in the premature release of details the British police and security services had not wanted in the public domain. The home secretary told Today: ""Yes, quite frankly. ""The British police have been very clear they want to control the flow of information in order to protect operational integrity - the element of surprise - so it is irritating if it gets released from other sources, and I've been very clear with our friends that that should not happen again."" Pressed on whether the Americans had compromised the investigation, she said: ""I wouldn't go that far, but I can say they are perfectly clear about the situation and that it shouldn't happen again."" BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Ms Rudd's irritation stemmed from the fact ""crucial information about the investigation"" had been ""leaked to the media in the US"". She had been concerned that this ""might have compromised aspects of the investigation"", namely that it may have ""alerted associates"" of the bomber ""that the security forces here knew who they were looking for"". He added: ""Ms Rudd, I'm told, got on the blower to US officials and gave them a piece of her mind. Officials say they are in no doubt about our views on that.""",Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said she is irritated with the US for releasing information about the Manchester bomber before UK police would have @placeholder .,arrived,responded,continue,liked,released,3
"Mr Osborne, now editor of the London Evening Standard, stood by headlines in the paper critical of Tory pledges on social care and immigration. He also said Theresa May had moved away from the international liberalism and globalisation pursued by David Cameron. He was speaking on BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking. BBC Election Live: Rolling text and video updates Theresa May denies social care U-turn Conservative manifesto: At-a-glance Conservative manifesto Mr Osborne was critical of the Tory plan, originally included in the party's election manifesto, to pay for social care by taking funds from the recipient's estate after death, down to a cut-off point of £100,000. The party has since promised to cap the amount taken from an estate, after facing a barrage of criticism. Mr Osborne said the plans were ""were clearly badly thought through, because the prime minister herself decided to rethink them."" He also defended an Evening Standard headline denouncing Mrs May's pledge to get annual net migration below 100,000 as ""politically rash and economically illiterate"". ""The Evening Standard is saying `You have got a promise to reduce immigration so tell us how you are going to do it. ""Which section of industry is not going to have the labour it currently needs? Which families are not going to be able to be reunited with members of their families abroad? Which universities are not going to have overseas students? ""If the Conservative government can answer those questions, all well and good. If they can't, the Evening Standard is going to go on asking the question."" Mr Osborne, who has stood down as a Conservative MP after being sacked as a chancellor by Mrs May last July, denied he was exacting his revenge on the prime minister. But he said the paper would not pull its punches. ""What the paper is doing is standing up for a set of values that the paper has long espoused and by a happy coincidence are also the values I applied as chancellor."" He said Mrs May had taken the party in a sharply different direction since taking over from Mr Cameron, who resigned after losing the EU referendum last year. ""Both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are offering, in very different ways, a retreat from international liberalism and globalisation. ""That is quite a development in British politics, and I think there are quite a lot of people who are uncertain whether that is the right development and I want to make sure that the Evening Standard is asking on their behalf questions about that."" Mr Osborne told presenter Nick Robinson he was not missing front line politics. ""I'm really enjoying covering the campaign as an editor. It's a very different perspective and it's good fun.""",Former Chancellor George Osborne has said the Conservatives have failed to think through @placeholder made in their election manifesto .,showing,comments,lost,show,commitments,4
"Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said by law warnings in pictures and text would need to cover 85% of the surface of packs - just 15% would be for branding. The new rules will be in force within months, he said, adding: ""Tobacco means nothing else except death."" India has about 110 million smokers and the government says smoking kills nearly a million people a year. Government orders on new pictorial warnings have faced stiff resistance from tobacco manufacturers and the deadline for implementing them have been postponed a couple of times in the past. The new rules take effect from 1 April next year and the health ministry said printed warnings will need to be carried on the front and back of cigarette packs, with highly visible pictorial warnings as well as the information that ""tobacco causes mouth cancer"". In 2010, two top tobacco manufacturers in India halted production in a row over new health warnings they were required to put on their packaging. In recent years, India has come up with stringent rules to curb the use of tobacco. Tobacco-related advertisements are banned and the sale of tobacco products to minors is also an offence. A countrywide ban on smoking in public places came into effect in 2008 - although correspondents say it is blatantly flouted and poorly enforced.",India says tobacco firms will soon have to reserve almost all the @placeholder on cigarette packs for health warnings .,space,advertising,impact,notes,content,0
"Tests at Guanabara Bay have revealed high levels of bacteria and viruses coming from human sewage. Two sailors contracted infections at a test event in August, which they claim were caused by the waters. Rio Olympic organisers said earlier this month that the health and safety of athletes is ""always a top priority"". Seven of the 10 sailing events in the Brazilian city will launch into the Marina de Gloria, where the new pipeline is due to open this month. ""The Marina area is our biggest challenge; it's critical it's completed and we start seeing a difference,"" World Sailing's head of events Alastair Fox told BBC Sport. ""It's essential that it improves radically - from a health point of view and also for showcasing the sport."" Nearly 70% of sewage in Rio is spilled raw into its surrounding waters. Sailors have also reported seeing pollution, including furniture and floating animal carcasses, while drug-resistant ""super-bacteria"" were found in the area last December. A statement from the Rio 2016 organising committee earlier this month said: ""There is no doubt water within the field of play meets the relevant standards."" The Games begin on 5 August. Following the test event at Guanabara Bay in August, German sailor Erik Heil and South Korean windsurfer Wonwoo Cho both attributed their illnesses to the water quality. However, World Sailing says the 8% illness rate at the event was lower than average for regattas. It also says doctors feel those illnesses could have been prevented, and believes athletes can minimise the risks by following hygiene guidelines, such as taking showers after exiting the water. British two-time Olympic champion Sarah Gosling, now the athletes' representative on the World Sailing council, believes the pursuit of Olympic gold will outweigh any risks involved in the minds of competitors. ""Winning a gold medal will make up for anything - it's really not that relevant,"" Gosling told the Associated Press on Tuesday. ""There are plenty and plenty of reports out there about athletes who their whole life is about winning medals, and anything that happens on the way is kind of irrelevant. ""For sailing to be in the centre of the Olympics right there, for athletes to be able to stay in the village, to be able to go to the opening and closing ceremony, it's a massive deal."" World Sailing has had reports the rubbish in the water at Guanabara Bay, where Marina de Gloria opens into, is higher than usual because of rainy season deluges washing items into it. Fox will conduct the latest site visit in late January to assess progress. ""We're doing as much as we can to work with the Rio authorities,"" he said, adding World Sailing also had back-up plans to treat the water should the work not be completed. ""When racing near a big city, water quality is always an issue. We've no intention of not holding the competition there. The reality is that sailors want to be racing in Rio. ""We need to start seeing data from all the course areas in the dry season to see that water quality is at an acceptable level - as they were in August at the test event in the Guanabara Bay.""","World Sailing says the water quality at the Rio 2016 sailing venue needs major improvement , as organisers prepare to open a new pipe belt to @placeholder sewage .",improve,replace,divert,promote,deter,2
"Despite being newly elected, Jeane Freeman has more political experience than many of her fellow MSPs. She served as a senior advisor to First Minister Jack McConnell, and has also served on the Scottish Police Services Authority Board and the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland and chaired the the National waiting Times Centre board. Ms Freeman helped found the Women for Independence movement during the 2014 referendum campaign, and has now won the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley seat with a majority of over 6,000. She said: ""I'm excited and a bit nervous. It's one thing to have worked in the parliament before, it's quite another to be here as an MSP. Not so much finding my way around, more getting my head around all the arrangements and getting my feet under the table. ""I'm delighted to be here, it's a huge privilege, and I'm looking forward to beginning the work to represent the people of Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley."" Oliver Mundell's may be a fresh face at Holyrood, but it's a rather familiar one - given the family resemblance with his father David Mundell, once a Tory MSP and now the Scottish Secretary. Mr Mundell Jr took the hotly-contested constituency of Dumfriesshire, which had been Labour's safest seat in 2011 but developed into a close fight between the Tories and the SNP. He said: ""I walked into the count thinking we had a chance, because we'd fought a really effective local campaign and a lot of voters were coming over to support us in the final days of the campaign, but it wasn't ballots were all bundled up on the table that we knew we'd got over the line."" Mr Mundell said his father had advised him to enjoy his first days at Holyrood, but to ""take stock before throwing myself too much into things on day one"". He added: ""I'm feeling quite confident, but its a mix of excitement and nerves on the first day."" Daniel Johnson was one of Scottish Labour's few success stories on election night, having taken Edinburgh Southern from SNP incumbent Jim Eadie. Labour had targeted the seat as a key battleground, with leader Kezia Dugdale out on the streets alongside Mr Johnson on the first and last days of the campaign. He said arriving at Holyrood was like ""the first day at school"". Mr Johnson said: ""What I'm keen to do is build a link between people and politics - we need to put people right at the heart of politics. ""Over the last few years politics has got very noisy, it's all been about the big constitutional things. It needs to get back to real people. ""The Scottish Parliament was founded on the principle that it was about bringing politics closer to people, and that's what I want to focus on."" Ross Greer has become Scotland's youngest-ever MSP at the age of 21. The West of Scotland list MSP had just started a psychology degree at university when he landed a full-time job with the Yes Scotland campaign during the 2014 independence referendum. He said: ""I put uni on pause for that, and I'm obviously having to put it on pause a wee bit longer. I'll probably go back eventually, but I've had a fair bit of political experience already and an opportunity I couldn't pass up."" Mr Greer said there was an ""overwhelming sense of relief"" when he was elected, and says he and his Green MSPs now ""hold the balance of power"" at Holyrood. He said: ""No-one was really expecting the plot twist of the SNP to have a minority and the Greens to end up with the balance of power, so it's looking like a pretty exciting start to a pretty great five years. ""The opportunity I've got is proving that young people aren't just 'the future', as part of some silly cliche, that we're here now and we're an important part of the decision making process. I hope I can prove to other young people that they should get involved in politics as early as possible."" Alex Cole-Hamilton has been seeking election for the Lib Dems for over a decade - he was even featured on the front cover of the party's 2003 Holyrood manifesto. Having triumphed in Edinburgh Western, a seat taken from the SNP, Mr Cole-Hamilton said he was looking forward to ""getting stuck in"". He said: ""This is a place that I've wanted to be for a long time. It's great to be here. ""Without an overall majority, the SNP can beheld to account, we can meaningfully scrutinise legislation, which arguably we didn't have in the last parliament. ""I think that means the role of opposition politicians is going to be far more important in this session."" Holyrood also has a new father-daughter team - albeit on different sides of the chamber. John Finnie's daughter Ruth Maguire has won a seat in Cunninghame South for the SNP - the party Mr Finnie quit last term for the Greens. Mr Finnie said: ""We'll never fall out - we'll have differences. We'll probably just never talk about politics in great detail. ""The public expect parliamentarians to work together, we hope that there'll be joint working not just in the committees but also in the chamber."" Ms Maguire added: ""I have asked him not to embarrass me, or do any embarrassing dad stuff. I was horrified to find out he's only a few doors down from me in the corridor. Last term's parliament had another father-daughter duo in Michael and Siobhan McMahon - but both lost their seats in the election. Scotland's new MSPs in full - those who have previously served at Westminster or Holyrood are marked with a star. Tom Arthur (Renfewshire South) Ash Denham (Edinburgh Eastern) Mairi Evans (Angus North and Mearns) Kate Forbes (Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) Jeane Freeman (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) Emma Harper (South Scotland) Claure Haughey (Rutherglen) Fulton MacGregor (Coatbridge and Chryston) Rona Mackay (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) Ben Macpherson (Edinburgh Northern and Leith) Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) Gillian Martin (Aberdeenshire East) Ivan McKee (Glasgow Provan) Gail Ross (Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) Shirley-Anne Somerville* (Dunfermline) Maree Todd (Highlands and Islands) Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) Miles Briggs (Lothian) Alexander Burnett (Aberdeenshire West) Donald Cameron (Highlands and Islands) Finlay Carson (Galloway and West Dumfries) Maurice Corry (West Scotland) Maurice Golden (West Scotland) Jamie Greene (West Scotland) Alison Harris (Central Scotland) Liam Kerr (North East Scotland) Gordon Lindhurst (Lothian) Dean Lockhart (Mid Scotland and Fife) Edward Mountain (Highlands and Islands) Oliver Mundell (Dumfriesshire) Douglas Ross (Highlands and Islands) Graham Simpson (Central Scotland) Alexander Stewart (Mid Scotland and Fife) Adam Tomkins (Glasgow) Annie Wells (Glasgow) Brian Whittle (South Scotland) Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) Monica Lennon (Central Scotland) Richard Leonard (Central Scotland) Pauline McNeill* (Glasgow) Anas Sarwar* (Glasgow) Colin Smyth (South Scotland) Ross Greer (West Scotland) Mark Ruskell* (Mid Scotland and Fife) Andy Wightman (Lothian) Alex Cole-Hamilton (Edinburgh Western) Mike Rumbles* (North East)","Scotland 's new @placeholder of MSPs have begun arriving at Holyrood . In total there are 51 new representatives arriving at the Scottish Parliament , and BBC Scotland met some of them as they checked in for their first day of work .",slate,generation,era,collection,class,4
"Across the 18 satellites now in orbit, nine clocks have stopped operating. Three are traditional rubidium devices; six are the more precise hydrogen maser instruments that were designed to give Galileo superior performance to the American GPS network. Galileo was declared up and running in December. However, it is still short of the number of satellites considered to represent a fully functioning constellation, and a decision must now be made about whether to suspend the launch of further spacecraft while the issue is investigated. Prof Jan Woerner, the director general of the European Space Agency (Esa), told a meeting with reporters: ""Everybody is raising this question: should we postpone the next launch until we find the root cause, or should we launch? ""You can give both answers at the same time. You can say we wait until we find the solution but that means if more clocks fail we will reduce the capability of Galileo. But if we launch we will at least maintain if not increase the [capability], but we may then take the risk that a systematic problem is not considered. We are right now in this discussion about what to do."" Each Galileo satellite carries two rubidium and two hydrogen maser clocks. The multiple installation enables a satellite to keep working after an initial failure. All 18 spacecraft currently in space continue to operate, but one of them is now down to just two clocks. Most of the maser failures (5) have occurred on the satellites that were originally sent into orbit to validate the system, whereas all three rubidium stoppages are on the spacecraft that were subsequently launched to fill out the network. Esa staff at its technical centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands are trying to isolate the cause the of failures - with the assistance of the clock (Spectratime of Switzerland) and satellite manufacturers (Airbus and Thales Alenia Space; OHB and SSTL). It is understood engineers have managed to restart another hydrogen clock that had stopped. Esa is also in contact with the Indian space agency which is using the same clocks in its sat-nav system. So far, the Indians have not experienced the same failures. A statement issued by the agency late on Wednesday gave additional details. It appears the rubidium failures ""all seem to have a consistent signature, linked to probable short circuits, and possibly a particular test procedure performed on the ground"". The maser clock failures are said to be better understood, with two likely causes, the second of which has caused most grief. The Esa statement said this second scenario was ""related to the fact that when some healthy [hydrogen maser] clocks are turned off for long periods, they do not restart due to a change in clock characteristics"". Actions are being taken to try to prevent further problems. These involve changing the way clocks are operated in orbit. Clocks about to fly are also likely to be refurbished, and future devices yet to be made will have design changes, the agency says. Esa is hopeful it can still launch the next four satellites in the constellation before the end of the year. Precise timing is at the core of all satellite-navigation systems. Atomic clocks generate the time code that is continuously transmitted to users on the ground to help them fix a position. The passive hydrogen maser clocks in Galileo are determined to be accurate to one billionth of a second per day, or one second in three million years. This performance ought to contribute to giving users fixes that have errors of a metre or less - significantly better than the standard open service from GPS. A fully operational Galileo system is regarded as a constellation of 24, split across three orbital planes in the sky. But spares are required also, and with one very early satellite in the constellation already considered very close to complete failure - for different reasons - there needs to be near-continuous production of spacecraft. The four latest satellites went up as a quartet in November; more are set to follow later this year. Galileo is a project of the European Commission, the EU's executive branch. The EC employs Esa as its technical and procurement agent. The development path to a ""European GPS"" has been a tortuous one. The project is years late, and the completion cost - expected to be some 7bn euros by 2020 - is substantially higher than that originally foreseen by EU member states. Galileo's atomic clocks by the numbers Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos",The onboard atomic clocks that drive the satellite - navigation @placeholder on Europe 's Galileo network have been failing at an alarming rate .,signals,ground,beacon,equipment,satellites,0
"Having secured their Premier League survival with a match to spare, Swansea City appear to have embraced that notion in quite a literal sense this week. Their reprieve from relegation was confirmed when Hull were thrashed by Crystal Palace on Sunday and, after toasting the occasion at home, the Swans' players decided to take their celebrations further afield by spontaneously booking a two-night trip to Ibiza. Head coach Paul Clement then received a text message from an unnamed player, who said he was acting on behalf of the squad when he asked for permission to visit the Balearic island famous for its nightlife. Clement was happy to oblige but, with their final Premier League game at home to West Brom on Sunday, there were certain conditions. ""They would have tried to have come back on Saturday if they could, but I told them to be back on Wednesday,"" says Clement. ""I think they had a good time, almost the whole squad went. They were alright. They've already had one session and we have got three more."" Was the 45-year-old former Bayern Munich assistant manager tempted to join them? ""No, not at all,"" he laughs. ""Well, I couldn't keep up with those young guys at all. ""I just said they had to be back on time, 1.30 on Wednesday and they were coming in the door right on 1.30."" Clement believes the fact the vast majority of the Swansea squad chose to go on the trip to Ibiza was evidence of their team spirit, one of the ""standout features"" of their escape from relegation. When Clement succeeded Bob Bradley in January, the Swans were bottom of the Premier League table with just 12 points from 19 games. But since appointing Carlo Ancelotti's former assistant at Real Madrid and Paris St-Germain, Swansea have turned their season around with 26 points from their subsequent 18 fixtures. It is a remarkable transformation, and not the first time a member of the Clement family has helped a team retain their top-flight status in dramatic fashion. Clement's brother Neil was a part of the West Brom side who survived at the end of the 2004-05 season despite being bottom of the table at Christmas and at the start of the final day of the campaign. ""The big difference is they were bottom on the last day of the season. They had to close the gap, but got that result and stayed up,"" the Swans boss says. ""There were parallels. Someone asked me the other day that if there is ever a team bottom of the Premier League at Christmas then you need to hire a Clement. ""Either coach or player, then you have got half a chance."" As proud as Clement is of Swansea's survival, he is equally eager they avoid such a stressful battle to avoid the drop next season. If they continue to languish in the lower reaches of the Premier League table, Clement is concerned they may eventually drop back down to the Championship. ""Exactly, Sunderland flirted with it too many years and paid the price,"" he says. ""We have to be much stronger, to do that we need a good pre-season to evaluate the squad, where we need to strengthen. ""I don't think we necessarily need as much as we did in January. We want key players who can come in and make a difference. Like the players we had. ""We need to start strongly and get as many points as possible in the first half of the season, like West Brom have done this season. ""If you can then finish like we have done, we will find ourselves in a strong position.""","It is a well - worn trope that teams with little to play for at the end of the season are ' on the @placeholder ' , coasting through their last few games with their thoughts already turning to upcoming holidays .",earth,verge,island,beach,word,3
"He was born William Jefferson Blythe in Hope, Arkansas, on 19 August 1946. His father had died in a car accident three months earlier. When he was four, his mother married a used car dealer called Roger Clinton. His stepfather was an alcoholic who beat his wife. At the age of 14, the young Bill Clinton warned him to stop. In the early 1960s, he met his political hero, former President John F Kennedy, in the White House Rose Garden. Parallels between the two men would be drawn many times during the following years. After studying at Georgetown University, Bill Clinton spent two years at Oxford University. It was here that he admitted smoking - but not inhaling - marijuana. A supporter of civil rights and a campaigner against the Vietnam war, he took steps to ensure that he would not have to serve in it. Later, his critics would use the episode to question Mr Clinton's patriotism and character. After graduating in law from Yale in 1973, he returned to Arkansas to teach law and enter politics. Defeated for Congress in 1974, a year later he married Hillary Rodham, an ambitious young lawyer whom he had met while at Yale. Their daughter Chelsea was born in 1980. Elected Arkansas' attorney general in 1976, Mr Clinton won the governorship of the state two years later. The astute scholar had become a political high-flyer at the tender age of 32. Losing the governorship in 1982, he regained it in 1986 and held it until his election to the White House in 1992. Mr Clinton's campaign against the incumbent President George H W Bush was almost derailed before it started. A nightclub singer named Gennifer Flowers alleged he was her former lover. With the evasive manner which was to become a hallmark of his presidency, the Clintons went on national television and professed their love for one another while not directly denying Gennifer Flowers' claims. A popular mood for change swept Mr Clinton and his running mate, Al Gore, into the White House. He committed the government to reduce the deficit and reform the US healthcare system. The latter was entrusted to the First Lady, but her recommendations were so unwieldy and unpopular that they had to be scrapped. The Clinton presidency was stumbling, amidst the stirrings of a scandal. Whitewater, an Arkansas property company partly owned by the Clintons, was investigated for financial malpractice while the Clintons were in the Arkansas governor's mansion. There was also the apparent suicide of a deputy White House counsel and close friend of the Clintons from Arkansas, Vince Foster. In July 1993, Foster was found dead in his car in a Washington park. A gun was at his side. The Clintons mourned their friend, but suspicion about the manner of his death and the Whitewater affair would never be far from the presidency. In September 1993, in a remarkable ceremony on the White House lawn, Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Yasser Arafat, shook hands after signing a peace deal. Mr Clinton, who had nurtured and engineered the treaty, basked in the glow of a diplomatic coup. Rabin's death, two years later, was a shocking blow. At home, he presided over an economic boom, with cuts in the deficit accompanied by reductions in unemployment. In November 1995, Mr Clinton became the first US president to visit Northern Ireland. Throughout his tenure, he committed himself to bringing peace to the province. He sponsored the process which culminated in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, brokered by his nominee and political colleague, George Mitchell. A crushing defeat of the Democrats at the 1994 congressional elections, for which he took the blame, was not enough to prevent Mr Clinton from being elected again in 1996. He was, simply, the slickest political operator in town. But Mr Clinton's second term was tarnished by scandal. Another woman, Paula Jones, pursued a claim for sexual harassment against the president. During the case, a former White House intern was called to give evidence. Her name: Monica Lewinsky. Both she and the president testified that they had not had a sexual relationship. Further examination revealed that they had both lied under oath. The way was clear for Mr Clinton's opponents in Congress to impeach him. Though they were unsuccessful, the sight of the president having his private life raked over for weeks in the full glare of the Congressional spotlight was demeaning to both the man and the office he held. His final two years in office saw Mr Clinton struggling with his reputation as a womaniser. His wife, Hillary, now entered public life in her own right, winning a US Senate seat in New York state in November 2000. His Vice-President, Al Gore, controversially lost the closest presidential election in living memory at the same time. But Mr Clinton's popularity was still such that, barring the legal impossibility of standing for president for a third time in 2000, he would probably have beaten off the challenge of George W Bush. Since leaving office, Mr Clinton has travelled the world, effortlessly charming crowds wherever he goes. He stopped traffic in London's Piccadilly and drew vast numbers of admirers in Belfast. He also set up the William J Clinton Foundation to promote and address international humanitarian causes such as treatment and prevention of HIV/Aids and global warming. In 2005 he founded the Clinton Global Initiative, engaging world leaders in development initiatives of global concern. In 2004, his much-vaunted memoirs were published. The huge volume, more than 950 pages long, was panned by many critics as being overwritten yet lacking depth. Even so, the revelations about the Lewinsky affair, after which he said he was ""in the doghouse"", and when his wife considered leaving him, made My Life, as the book was called, a worldwide best-seller. Known for his love of fast-food during his time in the White House, Mr Clinton underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in September 2004 after experiencing chest pains. And in February 2010, he underwent a minor heart procedure in New York, after complaining of discomfort in his chest. But he has not let any worries about his health slacken his work rate. In August 2009, Mr Clinton made a dramatic flight to North Korea, in a bid to release two US journalists who had been arrested the previous March after allegedly entering the secretive country illegally. After his talks with North Korea's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il, it was announced that the reporters had been pardoned and they were allowed to fly back to the US with the former President. At the same time, Mr Clinton took up the role of UN special envoy to Haiti. Since an earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation in January 2010, he has worked tirelessly to help the relief effort. Mr Clinton was asked to speak at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, and formally re-nominate Barack Obama as the party's presidential candidate in the November election.","Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States . During eight years at the White House , his reputation as a peacemaker who brought economic prosperity to America was tarnished by his personal @placeholder .",conduct,fortune,influence,group,body,0
"It is a scheme that officials in Canada's second largest city say is necessary as they replace old infrastructure in the sewage treatment system. They say the waste will be quickly diluted, but have advised people not to touch the water while the dump takes place. The people of Montreal are also being asked not to flush medication, condoms or tampons down the toilet while the operation goes on. In all, some 8bn litres (2.1bn gallons) will be released. For context, that is roughly the equivalent to 14bn of these: Or to 3,200 Olympic swimming pools: And if the St Lawrence river flowed over Niagara Falls, which it definitely doesn't, it would take all the sewage 47 minutes to travel over - more than 2.8m litres of water pass over all the falls in Niagara every second. As we said, that is a lot of sewage. Officials in Montreal say the dump will have little effect on the fish population and will not affect the quality of drinking water for citizens. And, so far, there are no reports of questionable smells. But it's fair to say the city's residents are not especially happy. The term #flushgate has been trending in Montreal for the past day, alongside subjects as diverse as Justin Bieber's new album and Condon (nothing to do with items in the river, he's a Montreal Canadiens ice hockey player). This being Quebec province, the French term - #EauxUsées (wastewater) - is also proving popular. And, like any good scandal, it's given people a chance to practice their photo editing skills: The French-language Journal de Montreal had some fun too: And it wouldn't be a real scandal if people did not respond by writing passive-aggressive graffiti: While the city says the sewage dump will not affect drinking water, there are concerns among the city's residents. But one user pointed out that such worries about drinking water are not new to some people in Canada:","On Wednesday , Montreal @placeholder dumping billions of litres of raw sewage into the city 's main river , the St Lawrence .",state,group,sources,based,started,4
"In two famous - and famously lengthy - experiments, scientists wait for pitch to drip from a funnel. It happens about once a decade, because pitch is a substance so viscous that it is, to all intents and purposes, a solid. Lives have come and gone while the drops went undripped, or fell unwitnessed. Recently, a student project in London picked up the pace, using slightly runnier pitch in a similar set-up. The invisible, inevitable progress of these inky half-fluids has captured the public's attention; the drops have acquired meaning and drama. But alongside the storytelling, Dr Kostya Trachenko is adamant there are important measurements to be made. He and his undergraduate students at Queen Mary University of London put their pitch into five different funnels, with different sized openings. Pitch, or bitumen, is the black muck left over from distilling crude oil, and can also be produced by heating wood. It is a liquid at high temperatures but becomes very hard when it cools down, which makes it useful in waterproofing and road surfacing. At normal room temperature, in fact, a lump of pitch can be shattered with a hammer. ""We convincingly saw that it behaves like a liquid,"" Dr Trachenko says as he shows me the set-up, clearly proud of his students' work. ""And we were also able to quantify it - because in physics it's important to attach a number to the process."" As you would predict for a liquid, the bigger openings let more pitch through: almost 53g over the course of a year for the widest (6mm), compared to 5g for the narrowest (2.5mm). This rate is positively heart-stopping by comparison with the best-known experiment of this kind, which began in Brisbane, Australia, in 1927. There, at the University of Queensland, Prof Thomas Parnell let some pitch solidify in the top of a funnel - and waited. Prof Parnell, a Cambridge graduate and veteran of World War One, wanted to show his students that if you watched it for long enough, it would still flow like a liquid. It was a long wait. The funnel dripped its first drop in 1938 and only eight more have fallen since. In 1961, just three drops later, a new lecturer called John Mainstone adopted the experiment after a colleague pointed it out, gathering dust in a cupboard. He eventually persuaded the university to put it on display and the drops became talking points. Prof Mainstone, however, never saw the pitch in motion. In 1979, the sixth drop went on a weekend. In 1988, with the experiment proudly displayed at Brisbane's World Expo, Prof Mainstone was fetching a drink when the seventh drop fell. By 2000, a video camera had been set up to capture drop number eight, but it malfunctioned at the crucial moment. When the ninth drop fell in April this year it was watched by three webcams and thousands of online enthusiasts - but not by Prof Mainstone, who died eight months earlier at the age of 78. The Queensland experiment itself was pipped to the post of posterity in July 2013, when another long-standing funnel of pitch became the first to drip a drop in public. At Trinity College Dublin, a very similar set-up dating from 1944 was filmed as it shed a black blob into its own beaker, offering the first ever glimpse of such an event taking place. Dr Shane Bergin, a physicist and senior research fellow at Trinity, explains that it was the feeling of suspense in the Brisbane story that rekindled interest in the Dublin drop. ""Eventually, when our one was caught on camera, it provided the world with a kind of scientific 'Aaaah' moment,"" he says. ""As in, finally, we see it! ""In a world where we expect to expect things to happen very quickly, and stuff is demanded of us instantaneously, it's a little quirky to think that a lot of stuff just happens on a time scale that's much slower than we can normally appreciate."" All this drawn-out drama could be accelerated, of course, if the pitch was warmed up. Pitch is one of a group of substances called ""glasses"" which, when cooled, become hard and solid-seeming, despite maintaining the jumbled molecular structure of a liquid. There is no obvious shift to a more rigid, crystalline organisation of molecules, which happens when water and other liquids freeze. Glasses just get steadily slower and stiffer as the temperature drops. So the famous experiments, Dr Trachenko insists, could be made even drearier. ""If you put it in the fridge, it would take thousands of years,""  he points out, with a dry smile. ""For a theorist like myself, 70 years is actually not that long."" Window glass belongs in the same category, but debate has raged for years among physicists as to whether solid glass in fact represents a different ""phase"" of matter. Dr Trachenko believes that all of the pitch drop results, including those of his students' project, are important evidence to the contrary. ""Even though glass is a familiar system, explaining how it forms is a big deal in modern physics research,"" he says. ""Once we assume that the behaviour is essentially liquid-like... we can come up with equations to predict how long it would take for solid glass to flow, even though we would never ever see it."" Dr Trachenko is firmly in the camp that sees glass as ""merely a very viscous liquid"" and has published calculations and models in support of that view, based on the way it absorbs heat and behaves under pressure. The popular myth, however, that ancient windows are thicker at the bottom because the glass has sagged with the centuries, is wide of the mark. They have thicker edges because they were made that way, Dr Trachenko is quick to explain. To see glass flow would take an almost unimaginably long time, he says - but it would happen. ""If you wait longer than the age of the universe, you'll see this as a liquid."" Dr Trachenko taps the glass cabinet that houses his students' pitch funnels. ""It would flow. And that would be the end of it."" That is a long wait to win an argument. In the meantime, he relies on maths. ""For physicists, one billion years is not much different from one second. It's just a number. It's an extremely long number, but I can quantify the process."" And to go with the numbers, he now has observations from the dribbles of bitumen inside the cabinet. Their comparatively speedy flow, with multiple drips from multiple funnels, allowed Dr Trachenko's students to calculate - and publish - the average ""viscosity"" of their pitch, measured in units called pascal-seconds. (About eight million pascal-seconds, to be precise.) By that measure, they estimate it is thirty times runnier than the pitch used in Queensland, a million times runnier than glass, and a hundred billion times thicker than water. Relative runniness can be important. A recently rediscovered pitch drop experiment at Aberystwyth University in Wales actually predates the famous Queensland funnel by 13 years - but its pitch is stiffer and has never yielded a single drop. In fact, it has barely entered the stem of the funnel and is unlikely to bear fruit for at least 1,300 years. The Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow, meanwhile, contains two remarkable demonstrations set up in the 1800s by renowned physicist Lord Kelvin. Intrigued by some of the same questions as Drs Parnell, Mainstone and Trachenko, Kelvin placed bullets on top of a dish of hard, black pitch, and corks at the bottom: over time, the bullets sank and the corks floated. Lord Kelvin also showed that the flow of pitch is genuinely glacial, with a mahogany ramp that allowed it to slide imperceptibly downward and form similar shapes and patterns to rivers of ice in the Alps. The inexorable intrigue of these experiments exerts an obvious pull on our imagination. ""People are genuinely curious,"" says Dr Bergin from Dublin, where the Trinity College pitch drop is slated to be moved into a public exhibition space.  ""We want to use it as a hook to show that physics tries to understand the universe, from the nitty gritty to the super duper, and all of the wacky stuff that's in there as well. ""We're going to start a new, bigger pitch drop here in Trinity as well. We figured, why not?"" Back in London, Dr Trachenko similarly loves the idea of challenging the intuitions of his students - and the public. ""It reminds people that the physical world is not about us,"" he says. ""We are just passers-by."" But he also maintains that there are real findings to be made. Modelling how materials like glass behave in the longest of long terms, Dr Trachenko says, could help plan for the safe disposal of nuclear waste that takes millions of years to decay. ""That's not an experiment you can check in the lab."" He is clearly not finished with pitch - nor with his students. ""There are two jars on my shelf,"" he says with a hint of mischief. ""The second one is more viscous."" As soon as the fastest flowing funnel in his current set-up is empty, Dr Trachenko is obviously itching to test out the even stickier stuff. He guesses that the next crop of students might need the entire length of their degree to get results. ""If they measure the viscosity of that one, then maybe they can hope for an extra grade."" And if they learn from history as well as physics, his students will be checking their camera twice.","Life is speeding up . News travels fast , data is everywhere and @placeholder gadgets keep our schedules ticking over . What can we learn from the physics of the very , very slow ?",estimated,fuel,produced,anticipated,buzzing,4